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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-07
MANY THANKS TO YOU

Now, Mr.. buyer, here is
partial list of investments I
have which will help you put
some of that money that has
been lying up rusting, or only
drawing you 4 per cent. inter-
est, to work and make you four
or 1--WE times that much; so look
1t over and if you see what you
want come to see me. If you
Iall to see what you want come
anyway, and If / haven't it
Will try to get it for you.
b. One S-rOOm residence on Col
leege street, large lot, fine loca-
ton.
One Broom residence on
Church street, something nice.
Look at it.
One siX-rOOm residence on
FOurth avenue, good and cheap.
One Groom residence on
Fourth avenue, and very large
lot.
One 4-rOOm residence ON
crawford street, extra large
lot, and very cheap.
One Groom residence on
crawford street, extra large
lot and very cheap.
Ohe nice vacant lot ON John
son street, must be sold.
-, Ohe l6-rOOm hotel, in q nice
"'Le town; pays good interest.
one farm of $50 acres of
land' very cheap, and must be
SOL oS'u IN sixty days; three miles
OF Parrott.
Vhe farm of 1 z acres, three
miles of Graves.
one farm of 12114 acres,
"alt mile of Sasser.
pne farm of ISL acres, three
"'ilcS southwest of PARROT.
one farm of so acres, four
"ileS southeast of PARROT.
,o ohe farm of 2O2 y acres,
'%r miles south of PARROT.
one farm of 1914 acres,
wood. VI
o., One farm of 400 acres two
am1 ohe-half miles of Herod
'l'u five miles of sasser.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30

Baseball is a chronic complaint
of Senator Crane When he was
Governor of Massachusetts he took
his entire staff out for a drive and
surprised them by having the rigs
pull up at an open field and an
nounCing there was TO be a baseball
game Two mines were chosen and
the game began. Pretty soon some
body came along the road.
What teams are they?" he asked
of one OF the drivers
why. that man pitching is the
Governor of Massachusetts" the driv-
eT replied. The one catching is
the lieutenant governor. the first
baseman is a Congressman; the sec
ond baseman is the judge advocate
general"
Say" interrupted the passer-by.
perhaps you would like to know
who am. I'm Napoleon Bona
parte!"-Boston Herald.
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To Cripple The Ghost.

This curious bit of Dalmatian SUI
oerstitiOn turned up in a recent trial
ut Trieste: Antonio Iago. a widow,
was accused of mutilating a corpse,
and also with disturbing the repose
of the dead. by severing the sinews
in the foot of Mathe Duda, a deceas-
ed landowner, at Salona, near Spala-
to. In that locality exists a deeply
rooted superstition that any evil-doer
will, after death, be compelled to
wander round eternally in the shape
of a greatly distended spirit, to the
terror and discomfort of himself and
all beholders.
AS Duda's daughter-in-law had
reasons for fearing that he might
become a "Bukodlak," as the Dali
matian vernacular has it, she employ
ed the widow to cut the ligaments
in one foot, and thus prevent any
ghostiy ramblings later. Antonio,
the widow. believed absolutely in the
superstition and conscientiously earn
ed her pay.
The lower court discharged the
prisoner, because she had acted from
motives of piety: but the court of
appeal reversed the decision and SEN
fenced her to three days imprison-
ment for mistreatment of corpse
Chicago News.
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The Expert Shoemaker.

The expert shoemaker is in his
way a sort of Sherlock Holmes; he
can tell by looking at a customers
shoes something about where the
customer lives. and this not by mud
on the shoes or the absence of it,
or any such commonplace evidence
as that, but by the manner in which
the shoes show wear. But he Is not
infallible.
Here. for instance, is a woman who
wears the sOIes of her shoes very thin
up at their forward end, at their
very tips, there. at the toe; and to
her:
You live in the country" says
the shoe expert.
No" says the woman, 81 live in
the city. Why did you think l lived
in the country?"
Because your shoes are worn so
at the toes. | thought you walked
on macadam roads"
So here the expert slipped, mis-
led in this case by not making due
allowance for a habit of these shoes
wearer; but usually he can tell
New York Sun.
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TrawIers and Cables.

In connection with the damage
which is repeatedly being caused to
the cables of the Commercial Cable
Company OF the Irish coast by Brit
ish trawlers, letter written by Mr..
Clarence H. Mackay to the United
States Secretary of State shows the
cost and trouble to which the COM
pany is put in order to maintain it's
service unimpaired. During the
past three months" he says, "our
cables have been injured and broken
two and three at a time by these
fishing trawlers at a distance Of about
fifty miles from the Irish coast. We
have expended over 100000 already
this year in making repairs to our
cables off the Irish coast. and each
and every one of the Interruptions
has been due to these fishing trawl-
ers. The injury to US is not
only the enormous expense Of repairs,
but also the necessity OF refusing to
accept business from the public for
transmission. = The trouble
is that it is impossible in most in
stances to find out who the guilty
party is, and even after that is found
out. it is almost impossible to obtain
proof that the injury was wilrul. -
Engineer.
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An Autograph Fan.

One OF our young society women
has a very good-looking husband. of
whom she Is most proud. Having
noticed that this gentleman was pay
ing marked attention to a lady In
her own set she kept careful watch
and was fortunate enough to dlscov-
er among her husbands papers I
number of letters written by the said
lady.
She then reflected as to what
course she should pursue. She
thought long and at last hit upon a
strange plan.
From among the correspondence
the lady selected four letters. pasted
them on the back OF her fan, and
then accompanied her husband to a
dinner where she knew she would
meet her rival. 1t was not long be-
fore the fan attracted the attention
of the guests, who asked to be al
lowed to look at il.
The fan then passed from hand
to hand. and when it reached the
rival she turned crimson and under
the pretext of a sudden indisposition
withdrew hastily.-From the Gentle
woman.
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Millions of Germs in Cracks of Dishes
Dr. Wiley Experiments ChnaWare Taken From the Qu Lunch Rooms and
HOtelSCu Of Appendicitis Chemist Bam0S UnCln Condition For
Many nammatOy DSeaSeSUFseS Better Household Sanitation

Washington, d. C.-To those who
leave their offices each noon to snatch
4 hasty lunch, the Government has a
word of advice to offer. 1t is this:
Whenever a restaurateur offers you a
cracked mug and a Clipped. seamy
plate on which food is served, fee it
as you would the pestilence. In the
recesseS of those cracks Turk thou
sands Of bacteria, and they draw no
distinction between the millionaire
employer and his $40 a week steno-
grapher.
The Bureau of Chemistry, at the
head of which is DR.. Harvey w. WI
ley, has just concluded experiments
On cracked china utensils taken from
the lunch rooms of Washington. The
conditions they find to exist I'm the
restaurants here are duplicated in
every big city. In New York and Chi
cago, where trade at quick lunch"
establishments is much greater, a far
larger population of germs is be-
iieved to have taken up its abode in
the cracks and crevices of the table
service.
The examination of the chinaware
by the Government came about as
result of a crusade being waged
against unhealthful kitchens and
serving rooms in the District OF Col
umbia. With the approval of Secre-
tary Wilson and DR.. Wiley the Gov
eminent chemists were turned loose
on the trail. They discovered mill
Ions of germs in the cracks.
DR.. George w. Stiles, bacteriologi-
cal chemist of the department, had
charge of the tests. Several dozen
cracked mugs, plates and saucers TAX
en- at random from the counters of
lunch rooms and from the cafes of
hotels were examined The result
was that DR.. Stiles discovered twenty
three distinct species of organisms
lurking in the cracks and seams. In
the final test it was found that these
organisms ranged in number from
4S6 to 14,5SO.0O0 to every square
inch
Nearly all of the bacteria belonged
to the family of bacillus coli.
The bacillus coli is blamed as the
cause of many inflammatory diseases,
among which is appendicitis.
Many of the other bacilli found in
the cracked chinaware are due to un-
clean conditions. These may not be
noticeable. and the kitchens of the
lunch rooms may be clean and spot
less, but the impossibility of cleans
ing the utensils thoroughly when they
are cracked leaves the bacilli to in
crease and multiply.
The presence of the breeders of
disease is just as much a menace to
the girl who has left her typewriter
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to snatch q substantial meal of cocoa
and chocolate eclairs as it is to the
man with the dropping mustache who
regales himself each noon on coffee
and sinkers." The bacilli are no re-
spector Of persons. DR.. Stiles, In
discussing the result of his tests,
says:
This is a question which must
necessarily appeal to every RESPONSE
BILE individual who seriously considers
the matter of eating clean and whole
great number and variety of organ
isms studied in relation to these
cracked mugs the question of house
hold sanitation becomes more i'm
perative than ever, and a study of
the sanitary conditions in private and
public life would In many instances
furnish startling results.
Many of our hotels, public res
taurants and cafes are particular to
see that splendid serving rooms are
provided and deliberately furnished,
which from exterior appearances
seem to be all that could be desired
for the welfare and comfort of their
guests, but let one go behind the
scenes in many places and note the
changed conditions. The picture may
NC SuIlASly OlnSISHI AIOLn ludl eA-
pected.
The sanitary aspect OF refrigera-
tors and iceboKes during hot weather
may develop conditions beyond hui
man liberation. Why people do not
take better care OF these places of
storage is difficult to say. However.
it is a regrettable factthat many such
places often contain highly objection
able material, and If not intended for
immediate use It often communicates
and ruins the entire contents of the
icebox.
I'm concluding it seems highly de-
sirable to eliminate theuse of cracked
dishes for the reception of food mate
rails, and to make an appeal for a
more careful observance of the
known hygienic measures to protect
our food from unnecessary and IN
desirable contamination"
DR.. Pesquale Grillo takes sharp is
sue with DR.. Wiley. "Of course there
are germs in cracked china" he said,
as there are in everything else in the
universe. And it may be that some
of these are bad instead of good. The
proportion of bad germs to good ones
is as 6 to 00,0O0,00O. The bad
germ may kill you; the good ones
may be eaten by the spoonful without
harmful results. A healthy person
will eat many billions a day, or at a
single meal, without getting so much
as a suggestion of the stomach
ache"
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Writes Upside Down"

"Say-y-y, what are you doing?"
a travelling salesman asked Louis
Kleeberger, a clerk at the Hotel Bal
timore this morning. Kleeberger
was scribbling aimlessly on a piece
of paper Presently the clerk turned
the paper around. He had been
writing upside down." and every
letter was perfect.
You see" he exclaimed, when a
guest registers the book is always
turned the wrong way for me. So
| just learned this system of writing
to facilitate the putting down of
room numbers.--Kansas City Star.
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HEALTH AND INCOME.
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one a loi
to make money.
with the loss of health ones in
ome is liable to shrink. II not en-
irely dwindle away
When a young lady has to make
>her own living. good health is hei
best asset.
I am alone in the world" writes 6
Chicago girl, dependent on my OWL
efforts for my living. am clerk. and
about two years ago through close ap
plication to work and boarding
house diet. ] became a nervous In
valid, and got so bad OF 1t was almost
impossible for me to stay insthe Office
half day at a time. ~
"A friend suggested to me- the idea
of trying Grape-Nuts. which / did
making this food large part OF a.
least two meals a day.
To-day i am free from brain-tire
dyspepsia and all the Ills of an over
worked and improperly nourishec
wrain ~and body To Grape-Nuts
tlwe tho recovery of my health. and
Hhe ability to Tetain my position and
sacome." There's Reason
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Greek. Mich. Read the Road to
MELVILLE" ia pkgs.
Eycr read the above letter. A new
>AE8ears from airse to time. They
ninc. frre and full OF human
*..
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Wholesale Markets

New York. - Wheat - Receipts.
$4,000. Spot irregular; No. 2 red,
99B "a 1.001s; elevator No. 2 red,
Loo f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern
Duluth, 1873 f. o. b. afioat; No. 2
hard winter, 1.02h f. o. b. ahoat
Corn = Receipts. 1925. Spot
firm. No. 2. S4 nominal elevator,
and 81 Y nominal {. o. b. afoat.
Oats - Receipts. 31,SO0; exports.
1853. Spot firmer; mixed, 26632
BIS, SO a. 81 u; natural white. 26 %
81 lbs, 63065: clipped white. 326
40 lbs, 65@73.
Poultry - Alive, steady; spring
chickens. 16; fowls, 10; turkeys, II;
dressed irregular; Western spring
chickens, Ia "a 20; fowls, 14@14h.
Butter-Steady; receipts, 7,449;
creamery specials. 23h; creamery
extras, 22% @23.
Cheese - Firm; receipts, 1857:
State full cream, large, colored OF
white, fancy, 11A; do, good to
prime. 1O% @11A; do, common,
90101s.
delphia.-Wheat - Firm and
&c. higher; contract grade, July.
95 @95hc
CONFIRM and 1c. higher; No.
2 for local trade. 81 0S5hc.
Oats-Firm and SC. higher; No. 2
white, natural. ga 67hc.
Butter-Firm and u a 1c. higher;
extra Western creamery, Csc; do,
nearby prints, 81.
Eggs-Firm; firsts 1c. higher;
Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts,
free cases, 21c., at mark.
Cheese - Firm and Nc. higher;
New York full creams. choice, 800
nc. do, fair to good, 11@11%.
Poultry-Alive, firm and in good
demand; fowls, 14@14hc.; old
ROSTERS, 100 1Oh; spring chickens.
5000.
Observation-Disclosures and I'm.
changed; receipts. 3.755; exports.
Wheat-Easier; spot, contract,
SO Il 0961R; No. 2 red Western,
9SH @9S1z; July, 961k @96H; Au.
gust, 50 q @96; September. $500
SO; steamer No. red, 92H @9215;
receipts, S6,SS4; exports, $4,000;
Southern, by sample. IS 094; South
ern. on grade, 92% @96%.
Corn-Steady; spot mixed, 1919;
September, so; asked; receipts, g.
1872; exports, 500.
Oats--Strong and higher; No. 2
white. 6614 @67h; No. white
SO q 60 A; No. mixed, 58@59; re.
ceipts, 6.439.
Rye-Firmer; No. 2 Western do
nestle, 7S@S 80.
Butter--Firm and unchanged;
fancy imitation, 2O@21; fancy
creamery, 25; fancy ladle, 1000;
store packed. 1914 OF.
Eggs - Steady and unchanged,
l8@1SK.
Cheese-Firm and unchanged;
new large. 1919; new fats, 12h;
new small. 12%.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30
Old English Slaves.

Before the Conquest. and for long
after. at least two-thirds OF the
~ Ne Of England were denuded Of
the substantial attributes of free
=. The lords had the absolute dis
J ~ssl Of them; they might be attached
- the soil, or transferred by deed.
.,srle or conveyance. from one lord to
another; they could not change their
place or hold property; in short. they
were slaves under their obligation of
perpetual servitude, which the con-
sent Of the master alone could dis
solve. The system was not fairly
abolished until the reign Of Charles
Al. and so late as 1875 men were
bought and sold in Scotland with the
Estates to which they were bound.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30
Abont Noted People.

Senator Plat, who is seventy-five
years old, said he thought he might
live to be ninety.
Baron Schlippenbach, Russian Con-
sui at Chicago, returned to New York
City, to become imperial Consul-Gen-
eral at that port.
Professor Frederic Louis Otto
Roehrig, Ogientalist, philologist. odu-
Gator and composer, died at Pasadena.
Cal. aged eighty-nine years
Governor Buchtel has killed horse
racing IN COLORADO. He has am
nounced that the RI rs can be run.
but there zaust fc ~ k2t ttiRs.m~.-~..
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New observation-disclosures l.
445. Feeling steady. Dressed beef
slow at II to Il u for native sides.
Calves-Recejpts, 303. Feeling
weak; veals. to S.25; buttermilks.
$50 to AIS; city dressed veals
steady at 8 to 13c.; country dressed,
to II nc.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts g.
147. Sheep steady; lambs, Is to
zoe. higher Sheep, 3.25 OATS; fair
to choice lambs, 5.4O@7; culls, 4.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 1,147. Feeling
nominally steady.
Chicago. - Cattle - Receipts esti-
mated about $500; market steady;
steers, 5.25 q Sis; cows, 3.4O@5.5O;
heifers, 3.5O06 .15; bulls, 5000
5.25; calves. 2 50@6.75; stockers
and feeders, 3.0O@4.S0.
Hogs - Receipts estimated about
$4,000; market steady to &C. higher;
choice heavy shipping, 6.75@ 6.S5;
butchers, 6.7O@6.85; light mixed
6.35 @6.55; choice light, 5000 $50;
packing, SIS $40; pigs, 4.50@
6.1O; bulk of sales, Gas 06.7O.
Sheep-Receipts estimated about
10000: market steady; sheep, $50
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30
Sensational Murders of
F1Ot Summer; Their Motives

Of
a No fourth street,
19Nrs
COalburg
still at large; robbery.
July Prickett former Recorder at Meuchen
~ shot and killed by Archibald Heron
Jail;
July 12Haze a pond Troy
N. Y; jealousy supposedly
29Dr H. wilson Philadelphia. poison
bottle of
June 21John Klevenz of MOST
Trinity, Brooklyn shot wife, killed
16John T. Blackmeyer job killed his
his
despair.
SBrooding
Stapeton
humiliation
No
Nnety-hird
killed himself
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COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market Reports
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
OF Trade says:
Industrial plants gradually en-
large the percentage of active ma
chinery, furnishing more work for
wage-earners, which stimulates re-
tail trade. while favorable crop pro-
gresS strengthens confidence in
continuance OF recovery in business.
New contracts for steel products are
being placed with more freedom and
colleries resume that were closed by
the drouth.
Outside representatives of job
bling houses are numerous IN the
primary market for cotton goods,
but operations are restricted. as is
customary at this season.
New England footwear shops are
still well occupied, but wholesalers
have left the Boston market without
placing any large volume of business
and Western jobbers have not con-
tinued to purchase as freely as open
ing sales promised. Prices are not
changed except where increased cost
of raw materials has forced shoe
manufacturers to advance figures,
and little business is done on this
basis, because buyers insist that gen
VAdt COnulllOuS 40 not the
rise that has occurred in hides and
leather"
Bradstreet's says:
Good crop reports. the advance
of the season and growth in con-
hdence as to the trade outlook are
reelected in reports of moderate en-
largement of future buying at a few
large centers. notably in the West
and Southwest. Industrial lines, too.
have been benefited by evidences OF
revival In demand. and the number
OF idle operatives has been reduced
as a whole.
Still the progress-making is of a
conservative kind. curtailment of in
1ustry is still a marked feature and
small orders for immediate shipment
largely make up the volume of bust
oess doing by jobbers.
Best reports come from the Cen
lral West, Northwest and Southwest.
and the excellent outlook for the cot
ION crop makes for a better tone of
advices from the South"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30
$500, 600 in Gold for Leopold
From Private Estate in Uganda

London, England.-A dispatch to
the London Daily Mail from Entebbe,
Uganda, states that two shipments of
gold, valued at 100000, have passed
through Entebbe from the Kilo
mines, in King Leopold's private do
main in the Congo Independent State.
from which foreigners are vigorously
excluded.
1t is surmised that territory COW
ering more than a hundred miles in
Ituri province is enormously rich in
gold
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30
Among the Workers.

Kalamazoo. Mich. has thirty labor
organizations.
Aberdeen IS. d. musicians ha 10
lately been organized.
Stationary firemen recently organ
lied a new union at Tacoma. Wash.
The Fall River (Mass.) SDinners'
Union has reached its fiftieth birth
day
. In Italy the membership OF trade
unions decreased from 24O.6S9 in
1902 to 2O4,271 in 1907.
;. Germany has altogether thirty
hree labor colonies where the unem-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-07-30
LYDIA E. PINKKAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

For PROOF OF this statement reao
the following letters.
Mrs. Barbara Base, of Kingman,
Kansas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
For eight years l suffered from the
most severe form of female troubles and
was told that an operation was my only
hope of recovery. l wrote Mrs. Pinkham
for advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and it has saved
my life and made me well woman"
Mrs. Arthur r. House, of Church
Road, MOorestown. n. j., writes:
81 feel it is my duty to let people
know what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound has done for me. ]
suffered from female troubles, and last
March my physician decided that an
operation was necessary. My husband
objected, and urged me TO try Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and TO-DAY / am we'll and strong"
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Wisdom OF Age.

MA. why don't you keep out OF
the parlor? Things are running
smoothly now"
You amt engaged yet, daughter.
and your ma knows from experience
that young man who finds things
running too thly is apt to get
bored and Quiti"-Kansas City Jour
nal
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CUTICURA CURED FOUR.
Southern Woman Suffered With Itch
ing, Burning Rash-Three Little
Babies Had Skin Troubles-CallS
Cuticurn Her Old Standby.

"My baby had a running sore on his
neck and nothing that l did for it took
effect until used Cuticura. My face was
nearly full of letter or some similar skin
disease. 1t would itch and burn so that
could hardly stand it. Two cakes of Cuti-
cura Soap and box of Cuticura Ointment
cured me. Two years after it broke out on
my hands and wrist. Sometimes / would
60 nearly crazy for it itched so badly.
went back to my old standby, that had
never failed income set of Cuticura Rem.
edies did the work. One set also cured
my uncle's baby, whose head was q cake oil
sores, and another baby who was in the
same fix. Mrs. Lille Wilcher, TO Elev
enth St., Chattanooga, Tenn, Feb. 10. 'O7.
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Proper Enough.

Gracious! children, stop that
noise" cried mamma.
But we're playing war;" replied
the eldset.
What? You mustn't play war
on Sunday"
But. ma, this is a religious war;"
Philadelphia Press
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The largest of all mammals are not
the elephants, but the whales. A
large elephant weighs about six tons,
but the largest whale reaches the i'm
mense weight of $50 tons, and would
furnish four carloads of flesh and
blubber.
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so bad with kidney
trouble that l could
not straighten up af-
ter STOPPING without
sharp pains shooting
through my back. |
had dizzy spells. was
nervous and my eye
sight affected. The
kidney secretions
were irregular and
too frequent. I was