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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22
THAW SEEMS TO BE NERVOUS AND HACKED
A SKETCH FAMOUS TRIAL IN YORK HOW TIKI
YOUNG MILLIONAIRE PRISONER REGARDS

portfolio and box of papers, which,
as the mood seizes him, he consults,
reading and reading letters and legal
data.
He was insistent on the challenge
of a juror, and rose in his chair to
look another full in the face before
he gave his nod of consent. When
his counsel, Mr.. Littleton, Mr.. O'Reil-
ly and Mr.. Peabody, were called into
consultation with Mr.. Jerome and
Mr.. Caravan, while operations were
suspended, Thaw's anxiety was pain
full He stood to let his lawyers pass
and made as if to join the group.
His face worked; his hands trembled.
He quickly regained the mastery of
himself, however, and waited, with
such steadiness as he could muster,
until it was over and he could ques-
ton Peabody, whom he seems to
dread to let out of his sight.
Finally this nerve-racking gave
way to exhaustion and he sat like
man of stone till the end of the day.
Even the gain of the last two jurors,
for whom he had been so eager,
made no impress sensibility was
dead
Evelyn came late and, with Jo-
siah Thaw, represented the family
during the morning. In the after
noon Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie
dared the drenching rain to attend
the session. Evelyn had not left the
court house, but had been provided
with a luncheon in the jury room.
AS before, the three occupied the
same seat in court, but sat in silence.
Evelyn Sees Friend of Whites.
The young wife wore an air of
languor, but she did not for a mo-
ment forget her part in the picture.
Her glance never travelled far from
her husbands face, unless in that
brief instant that startled her out
of her composure when Talesman
William Bailey Faxon, on the verge
of acceptance, said that he had
known white for upward of twenty
years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22
: GROWTH OF THE Y. M. c. A. IN |!
vrvF -FOUR NEW BUILDINGS WE'RE OCCUPIED AND NEARLY
spvENTEEN MILLION DOLLARS WERE FOR OTHERS

more than three miles. The aggre-
gate attendance at all the associa-
lions for this year is equal to one
half of the population of North
America.
S1xty-four new buildings were oc-
cupied by the associations in the last
year, the cost of which exceeded $4,-
100000. The associations have $751;
700, 900 in hand and pledged for new
buildings largest sum they have
ever reported for such purpose.
These structures will be erected and
opened in the coming two years in
more than one hundred cities, col
leges and railroad points, army posts
and naval stations. Nearly a mil
lion dollars has also been pledged by
American associations and members
for headquarters for associations in
the great capitals and commercial
centers of the Far East. The net
property of the association now ag
gregates more than $4,000, 1000. The
buildings, if placed side by side,
would fill one hundred city blocks,
and the dormitories of the associa-
lions if brought together would make
four hotels with as many rooms as
the Waldorf-Astoria. The associa
ton summer recreation camps would,
if assembled, make great camp
equal to ten national guard state en-
campments of one thousand men
each.
The associations spent for it's work
in the last year $5,900,000 and for
their international, state and provin-
cial committees work of supervision
and extension $4,000 more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22

The New York World prints this
sketch of the Thaw trial;
When Evelyn Nesbit, as she told
with such girlish simplicity at the
first trial of Harry X. Thaw, lay on
her little white bed, spent and wan
with the illness that followed the OPP
Grafton at Mrs. De Miles fashiona-
BILE school, she was visited by the
man who afterward made her his
wife, She could not speak-she was
too weak for that-she could only
stretch out her fingers to him; and,
in a paroxysm of feeling, he fell on
his knees and covered the frail hand
with kisses.
Now, in the court room, as she sits
behind him, the sidewise pose or her
head in it's wide blue hat with pur-
Pile flowers just visible above the rail-
ing that divides the floor from the
dais, where he is stationed with his
lawyer, she may not speak, either
But it is doubtful if Evelyn's white
hand, stretched across the legal gulf
that divides them, could arouse any
passionate chivalry in the husband
now awaiting the verdict of a jury
as the slayer, for her sake, of Stand
ford White.
Thaw, indeed, appears all but OBJ
livious of her presence. The look
he gives her when their eyes meet
in the rare moments that he turns
his head is as devoid of any poignan-
cy of grief or gladness as that ne
might level upon stranger. The
creature in him seems numb; only
his nerves are awake. His preoccu-
patton with the preparations for this
second trial is wholly concerned with
the maddening preliminaries that re-
hearse for each putative juror the
same round of charges, under the
law, anent insanity and murder in
the first degree.
Thaw's self-control appeared TO
falter. During the earlier hours he
has been presistently occupied. He
carries always with him III court
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22

u,o Young Mems Christian Asso-
l,an made the largest growth in
no- that it has recorded in any
~ wear of it's history, according to
Eanorts Just made from its head
.tors The organizations in North
sorica have increased to over q
90 With nearly half million mem
- one hundred thousand of whom
hovs in their teens; $4,000 are
nroad men; $1,000 are college
ltndonts;; 10000 are in country
inches and as many more in the
.,orod departments. More than one
&Hird of the members are engaged
: industrial pursuits, and in some
Il the organizations there are thirty
Rationalities represented in the mem
bership. t ho
80 enlisted directly in forwarding
,rnoses of the organization is now
oual to the enlisted force of the
rnitpd States army. One out of ev-
Wv four college students is on it's
Enils and the railroad department is
thin a few thousand members of
bo largest railroad brotherhood in
he world. It's educational classes
born eight times as many students
Il the largest university in North
h merica. and it's gymnasiums have
sbroe times as many members as the
bovt largest gymnastic organization.
Ets 565 physical departments II as
kembled would cover more than fifty
ores It's 1875 swimming pools
CIaced end to end would extend more
HAN mile, and it's bowling alleys
Inns placed would stretch out for
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22
This Woman Captains a
River Boat.

Mrs. Mary B. Green has a record
unique even among women who do
original things, says the December
Delineator A dark haired, dark
eyed, gentle little woman, eminently
feminine in her manner, it would not
occur to most people that she follows
a remarkable career. None the less
she is the only woman boat COM
mander on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, perhaps the only riverboat
woman captain in the world. This
river captain comes honestly by her
taste for the water Born and
brought up in Marietta, Ohio, she
watched the river day after day from
her fathers house and came to love
it. Then she married a river cap
tain, Gordon G. Greene, and went to
live on his BOAT. That was fifteen
years ago, and she has been on the
water almost without interruption
ever since Her husband is now the
general manager of the company for
which he worked, while she has sue
ceeded to the commander of the boat
over which he was once master.
Here she spends her life, with her
three children running her vessel be-
tween Pittsburg and Charleston,
West Virginia. She secured a river
captains license in 1896. When she
took charge of her boat she was the
first woman to hold such position
in the United States, and presumably
in the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22

I am familiar enough with the BIZ
BILE to know what st. Paul said about
marriage, but | do not agree with
him; neither do / approve OF the
course that Solomon pursued in hav-
ing a thousand wives and then say
ing all was vanity and failing to
speak in kindly manner of woman
kind in general, says Frank 7. Norris
in the New York Press. l believe in
what it says in Proverbs-get a dear
and stay at home and cherish her.
l am 40, and as good-looking as the
next man. My means are ample
enough to keep a wife below the
third floor of fashionable boarding
house.
So you see I have at least one
good trait.
have had lots of proposals, but
they were all from shop-worn rem
nants. / always believed a man
should choose his own wife instead
of being chosen. so l refused them
all.
Still, so far l have found that ev-
cry weman / picked out for MY wife
has not seen fit to choose me.
The first girl | ever proposed to
was II and as sweet as a breath OF
June. She cried when l asked the
question and said she would tell ma
ma.
That was just what I did not want
her to do. Mama was of the pouter
pigeon variety with wide girth, and
was very much afraid of her. So
/ told the girl it was harmless joke
and got out before mama came.
/ met that girl the other day. She
had gone her mother one better in
girth. She told me she was married,
had six children and was perfectly
happy. So was
The next girl was minister's
daughter | was in love with her
and would have proposed had it not
been for her mother. | went to call
on the girl one night for the second
time. Her mother greeted me and
asked my intentions.
1t seemed to me as if she was hur-
rying matters a little, so | told her
had none.
She said cit was not fair to pay
her daughter such marked attention
if / was not in earnest-it kept other
suitors away"
So | stayed away, and the girl ,
married a missionary and went to
India to live.
My next trial was with the daugh-
ter of a lady with whom | boarded. |
| kept this girl in candy, flowers, the
alter tickets and rich food one whole
winter. / don't know why l ever pro-
posed to her, except / thought she
expected it, However, am thankful
to say she refused me-told me she
twas going to marry millionaire,
and liked my presumption.
She married dry goods clerk, and
is still living at home with mama and |
making her own clothes.
Then / fell in love with a childless
widow. She seemed like a sensible !
woman and I thought she would |
make a good wife. She was sensible /
all right-wanted to know my in
come, whether / owned any real es-
tate, how much my life was insured !
for and whether l had family bur
ial plot.
/ babe her a hasty farewell
There was the mother with the /
sunburnt, freckled /
and side-eyed daughter. The mother
said her daughter was perfect jewel
and worthy of any mans love. l
was sorry, but / did not feel as if
7 ware q WorfbV basket
Mrs. c., widow of some sixty full
years, proposed to me. She had two
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22
A Weakness of Women.

, watch things happen. What does
she do?
She diets. With a book on "How
to Get Thin" and box of chocolates
she digests. No meals for her. She
will eat anything except food. Don't
move; there's more coming.
She exercises. With writings and
twistings that cannot be imagined
she strains herself. She leans against
the wall and tries to push it into
the next fat She pants for breath.
She lifts weights without the use of
hooks or tacle She stamps on the
floor. Her arms wave like fails.
'Tis an awesome sight And then?
She takes a Turkish bath. Wrap
ped in the modest but limited folds
of a sheet she boils and stews and
melts. She gasps for air. Help,
some one, or she perishes! But no,
the fire of conquest burns in her
soul. They carry her home on
shutter, but she is undismayed. Stick
to it, son, there's more still.
She messages. She enlists the
services of Mary, who punches and
pounds, wallops and slaps, kneads
and manipulates, twists, dislocates
and in other ways arouses her from
her obmutescent desuetude. Yes she
does. And that is not all.
She takes drugs. Elixirs in bot
ties, powders in blue and white pa
pers, pellets in boxes, prescriptions
in a spoon Lemons, too. Lots of
'em, skins and all; even the seeds.
No half way business. Likes lem
ons, anyhow, and they spoil her APP
petite, which helps some.
Then she takes a cent. Round
copper thing with an Indians head
on it, Goes out and gets on the
scales. Puts in the cent. Glares at
the dial. What do you think?
Inch and a half past $50. Well,
she's losing some, anyhow.
And the thin one who wants more
curves? What does she do? How
does she WOO the bovine mood?
How does she try to grab some pink
and white tissue to hide more deeply
her bony framework? How?
She diets. So did the other one,
but she diets differently. Regular
theory. Stops eating what she likes.
That used to make her thin. Eats
what she doesn't like. If the other
kind didn't work, then this will.
What do you think of that? Can you
beat it?
She exercises. Same theory. If
she was thin when she didn't she'll
get fat now that she does. Or some
thing like that. Grand idea!
And takes Turkish baths. Same
theory. Never took EN- before. And
hence-and hence and hence. All
right.
And messages. Another theory.
Blood makes fat. Massage stirs up
blood. Theory approves massage.
There we are, right back again.
And takes drugs. Different kinds.
Mostly oily things. Some of 'em not.
Begins to need drugs by this time.
Wait minute. No, it'll take
longer. Wait a few months. Say
six. What have we now before us,
children?
Two women. One fat and other
thin. That's easy. Hold on, though.
Fat ones got worried look Bad
stomach. Weak heart, Poor circula-
ton. And liver! Well, let's look at
the other.
She's thin. Always was and al
WAYS will be. Made that way. Used
to be healthy thin woman. But, all,
alas, not now no more.
No, children, she's wreck. what
is she? Answer A wreck. She has
been tinkering with the works.
She has been regulating a watch
with a stove-lifter. And whisper
Her clothes don't fit her any bet
ter than they did before.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22

Oh. lovely, lovely woman! Not
ON in particular, madam. I mean
sEoman in general. Let me say right
low that there is nothing personal
Intended. I'm taking no chances,
says a writer in the New York Sun.
All kinds of womenl Dark thin
bnes, like Cleopatra. Big blondes
like Helen of Troy. Middling in be-
tween like Ninon de L'Enclos. Peev-
lsh, like Mrs. Socrates. unsupported,
Hike Caesars wife. Every old kind
~ woman.
Read the poets. Consult history.
Patronize the burlesque. Same ev-
krywhere. Double pinochle for
heirs. Held $50 with one eye open.
Dne best bet, lovely woman.
Well, how about it? Are they
hep? Are they wise? Have they be-
bone cognizant of their automatic oc-
eupancy of the front seat? Nay, lit
be one. Of a very truth they are
bot.
Ever see a kid with a new watch?
Real kid, I mean. Kind you and l
bsed to be. With a watch. What's
The first thing he does? That is, af-
fer he drops it pair of times?
Easy! He prizes off the back with
stove litter, and gets busy. It's a
good watch. Adjusted to heat, cold
Rnd position.
But not to stove filters. Hence
@here is a disagreement between the
#kid the litter and the works. An
other Christmas present put on the
pink. Still, you can't blame him.
Hes born of woman, and he's got
fhe rage. He wanted to improve that
watch. That's the word. Improve.
He calls it fix.
Did he? He did not He busted
4 Why did he bust it? Answer:
cause he was not satisfied to take
Fhat an expert made without think
ing he could better it.
Now, Here we have it. Lovely,
&oyely woman. Is she satisfied to be
q physical evolutionary climax? Does
Rhe pause to admire herself as ma
4ure's grand superlative? Is she sat-
Shed to be the pinnacle of pulchri-
8ude? No, little one; not so you
gould notice it,
She will beat the expert. Who
er planned and executed her might
ave been all right, but she has a
Nv little alterations she wants to
axe before she is willing to knock
~ and call it a good job. See what
mean? She can regulate watch
Flth stove litter. What seems to
II the particular trouble with the
#eoSebud? Well, one of 'em is too
a. All out of style.
lheyre wearing hips much lower
nIS season. Necks are ranging from
feml-hollOw to almost scrawny.
lump lines are not the thing. So?
AI q, what of you?
ones too thin. Has curves where
&nefe ought to be straight lines and
4.rdlght lines where there ought to
II curves. Frocks going to be very
ISM next year. Can't wear tight
$hes without proper curves. 1t sim
siS Isn t done, you know Well, well,
no a thought it!
ana will the Merry Sunshine over
80 IN the corner also signify in
naC way kind Providence has been
p va5en all four ways by Dame Fash
100 short! That's it. Too short.
E1mpie trouble to have, but appa-
bn'!y complicated to fix. Eth? oh,
~ Is Is she? Well, if she's too tall
nu you are too short you'd better
ra ane yourselves and make new
coarse jest. But, ah, woman was
"a TO be misunderstood. Selah.
put wait a minute. Let's watch
iat one. She has curves. She
pIlioWy. Her figure is complete
most to redundancy. Her cheeks
H.. rosy-like the first line in
H. ootn' She has an appetite and a
o. Now breathe east, con, and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22

When you want the best get De-
Wits Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve.
1t is good for little or big cuts, boils
or bruises, and is especially recon-
mended for piles. Sold by Dawson
Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-22

Do you have backache occasional
". or "stitches" in the side, and
sometimes do you feel all tired out,
without ambition and without ener-
gy? If so your kidneys are out of
order. Take DeWitt's Kidney and
Bladder Pills. They promptly re-
Iieve backache, weak back, infam-
nation of the bladder and weak kid
neys. Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15

Memorial Church by the three or four
hundred pupils OF the Sabbath school.
The edifice was artistically adorned. the
chancel being a bower OF daisies. holly
hooks. feather ferns. Gala lilies. phlox
and laurel the central and prominent
figure being a cross four feet high. sur
mounted by n white dove. The exercises
began at 1870 O'Clock am.
The program follows: Opening chorus
by school: responsive reading. NJ. r.
Shelton and school; prayer. Rev T.. III.
Lamar; opening address. Supt James II.
Allen: chorus by school: recitation. "A
Children's Day Vision Virginia Fleming.
chorus. primary department: recitation,
Aiverta Fields: duet. Miss Carrie Bo-
harmon and Miss George Hummer: pas
tors remarks. Rev. +. H. Lamar: exer-
else. primary department: solo. Louise
Padgett: daisy cross. by ten girls: reel
tation. THE Forgotten Son." Irving Bur-
CESS: flower exercise. by ten girls: reci-
tation. Lemuel Pritchard; recitation and
song. Ships in Our Fleet" by seven
boys; chorus by school: recitation and
song, Gifts for Jesus by twelve girls:
recitation. Jene Ayler; chorus by school
benediction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15
CRUISER COLORADO SAFE.
Report That the Vessel Was Ashore
Is Erroneous.

SEATTLE, Wash, June 15.-Capt. Tn
dervood of the cruiser Colorado. which
Saturday night was falsely reported
aground at Dungeness spit. last night re-
ported a rough voyage all the way up
the coast from California. but he de-
cIared that the cruiser was at no time
in danger. He did not lose his reckoning
I'm the Straits OF Fuca. he says. and only
anchored to avoid any possible mishsp
to his ship.
At O'Clock Saturday night. three hours
after the cruiser had entered the straits.
the fog lifted. and the Colorado was seen
close to shore at Dungeness spit. twenty
miles to the east. Immediately the re-
port spread that she had gone ashore.
The Colorado and the Pennsylvania,
both bound for Bremerton. reached Pu-
get sound last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15
BAILEY GREATLY IMPROVED.
Senator Has Had Bronchitis, but
Fears Are Dissipated.

NEW YORK, June 15.-Fear of possible
serious complications in the case of Sen
ator Joseph W. Bailey, who has been i'll
I'm the Waldorf Astoria for several days.
have been dissipated since the physicians
found their patient greatly improved yes
terday. The bulletin promised TO the
public Saturday was not published then.
as it was impossible positively TO deter
mine the future course OF the disease al
fecting the Texas legislator.
In the Office of the hotel last night the
following bulletin was posted:
United States Senator Bailey has had
for ten days severe bronchitis, with mod
crate but continuous fever. Reports or
serious disease OF the throat are not
true.
physicians IN ATTENDANCE"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15
SEE THE PRESIDENT.
Holy Cross Graduates Also Visit
Executive "That Is to Be-

Rev. Father Zahm. provincial of the
Order Of Holy Cross and president of
Notre Dame University. South Bend, Ind,
called at the War Department today with
thirty-flve graduates of the Holy Cross
College Of Brookland D. c.. to see Secre-
tary Taft. and afterward called at the
White House to see President Roosevelt.
Father Zahm stated that the young men
desired to pay their respects in person
ITO the President that is, and also to the
President that will be-" before starting out
for their work in the world. They were
cordially received at both the White
House and War Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15
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