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The Washington herald., 1909-06-19
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The Washington herald., 1909-06-19
DIPLOMAS ARE GIVEN
Washington College of Music
Holds Closing Exercises.
MUSICAL PROGRAMME CLEVER

Miss Ethel TOzier, Miss Roberta Hope
Amies, Pianists, and Richard Back
ing, Tenor, Win Applause for Exhf-
bitiOn of Marked Talent and Guilt
vation-DiPIomas Presented.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

Nine. WI, wife Of the Chinese Minister
VIII spend her summer at Atlantic City.
accompanied by her daughter-in-law
Nine. Cha-chu. and her little son. The
Minister viii not return TO Washinqtor
from Peru until August.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

Mr. and Mrs Joseph Letter. who re-
Gently lost their infant son. will spend
their summer IN Europe. instead OF toip-
ing Mrs. Letters mother al Beverly,
Mass. where Mrs. Joseph Letters sister
Miss Dorothy Williams. is a guest Of Mrs.
Letter.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

Mrs. suEmerlin. wife Of Capt. Summer
lin. has gone to the Thousand Islands fo-
the remainder Of the summer. CAM
Summerlin will join her there later.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

The performances OF Preston GIbson's
new play Success" this afternoon and
tonight will be given for the benefit OF
the Washington Fairgrounds Association.
when the boxes and seats win be filed
with people n official, diplomats. and
smart resident circles
The arrangements are in the hands OF
a committee composed OF Mrs. Dickinson.
wife Of the Secretary OF War. Mrs. Long
worth. and number OF prominent worn-
en- The seats are for sale by Miss Ruth
Halford. president OF the Junior League
OF the National Junior Republic.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

Mrs. Taft. who has been quite III at the
White House for several weeks. went
downstairs on Wednesday for the first
time. although she has been about on the
second floor Of the mansion for some
time
1t Is expected she may get away 10
Beverly, where the President and family
will spend the summer. late IN this month.
Prof. Lewis More. Of Cincinnati. accom-
panied by his son. John More. arrived
yesterday at the White E5use 10 Join
Mrs More. who has been there for some
weeks. having been detained here longer
than she expected, owing to the illness
OF her sister. Mrs. Taft.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Gibson, who are
In New York. win accompany Mrs. Glib
sons grandmother, Mrs. Mcmillan who
viii arrive from England to-day. to her
summer home at Manchester-by-the-Se
Later in the summer Mr. and Mrs. Glib
son will take motor trip through New
England.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19
The Programme.

The programme was as follows:
Iarantele from -Fenezia e NauoIiD % --.--... Ltszt
Mss johnson.
Sercnade sing. smile. Slumber''l 4 .. Cyo1lnod
4 Would Lngcr' Romeo et Julette Alss7l ...
The Washington herald., 1909-06-19

Mrs. Mary II. Seymour announces the
marriage OF her daughter. Inez Seymour
Mcconnell. to Mr.. Samuel B. Milton. The
ceremony was performed at Frederick
town, Nd, Tuesday. June l5
The bride and bridegroom went az once
10 their cottage. SeytOn-by-the-B Bav. ar
Chesapeake Beach. Nd
Their Washington home is at 175s Eight
eenth street The bride is well known as
a singer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
.ETNA GAVE QUAKE WARNING
VOLCANO BEEN RUMBLING FOR
A YEAR. MORE POWERFUL
THAN VESUVIUS.

Earthquakes fall under two class
es: Cd Those which occur in the
neighborhood of active volcanoes,
and CD those which happen where
there are no volcanoes. The present
earthquake, unlike that of San Fran
cisco, is of the former class. It's
origin is undoubtedly to be sought
in the great volcano, Mt. Etna, which
towers almost directly over the de-
Vastated city of Messina. There have
been warnings of impending activity
in Etna for at least a year past. 1t
is incomparably more powerful than
Vesuvius, and earthquakes around it's
feet, or within its sphere of influence,
have caused greater destruction than
has occurred anywhere else in
Europe; only it has not had an i'm
mense city like Naples to terrify, or
centers Of art and culture, like Her
culaneum and Pompeii, to over
whelm.
Under a great volcano the cOndi-
lions are such that the everything
rocks must, from time to time, be
shaken. The gathering of volcanic
forces is a gradual process, and the
upshot is not always an eruption of
the volcano. More frequently the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
THE COWARD'S DEFENSE.

From the Augusta Chronicle.
The tragic and disgraceful affair
in Ocilla, Ga, in which three lives,
and probably a fourth, were ruth
lessly destroyed, can affect the right
thinking citizens of Georgia only
with horror and shame. The spirit
of southern chivalry receives a Sc
we're shock from this affair and a
hard awakening to the fact that I'M
til war of public opinion is waged
relentlessly against the indiscrimi-
nate carrying of concealed weapons
we may not hope to protect the fair
name and reputation of our state
from the imputatiOn of barbarous
lawlessness. The habit of carrying
concealed weapons is the first step
in the direction of might riding and
other forms of shameful lawlessness.
| The concealed weapon is the most
potent enemy of civilization, and
should be accepted as the badge of
cOwardice and treachery. 1t under
mines manhood and prompts youths
and men to a reversiOn to savagery.
The hip-pocket armament is vir-
/ tual acknowledgment of weakness
and a want of courage. The man
who gets his own consent to go about
secretly armed must acknowledge "a
his own heart that he is preparing
not for a fight, but for a treach-
J erous and cowardly advantage, which
is the purpose only of the bully OF
the weakling.
Had the young men in Ocilla not
been armed the suffering and sorrow
of their death and the disgrace Of
their lawless, undisciplined character
would not now rest upon their fam
lilies, their community and theil
state
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
Other Editors Opinions.
THE WHITE CONVICT PROBLEM.

THE WHITE CONVICT PROBLEM.
From the Savannah News.
When the legislature decided to
break up the convict lease system it
didn't take into consideration the
fact that there might be difficulty in
providing for the white convicts.
Under the new convict law the con-
Victs are to be distributed among
the counties that apply for them, but
none of the counties want the
white cOnvicts. The reason they
don't is apparent. White convicts are
more difficult to manage, and white
and black cOpvicts cannot be handled
together without additional expense,
since two sets of quarters would be
necessary. Public opinion wouldn't
tolerate feeding and sheltering white
and black cOnvicts together
1t is stated that the authorities
think it will be necessary to pur-
chase a farm and put the three hun
dred white cOnvicts on it. We
haven't investigated the question,
but would the law permit the black
convicts to be put to work on the
roads, under the supervision of the
counties applying for them, while the
white conVicts were cared for on a
farm? This discrimination in favor
of white convicts might present a
question for investigation. If it
wouldn't be legal to make this dis
elimination there should be legisla-
ton that would make it so.
There will in all probability be
other questions raised before the new
convict system works smoothly. If
legal objections to it can be raised
there will undoubtedly be such OBJ
jectiOns. There are those to whom
the change in the method of caring
for the cOnvicts is not satisfactory,
and they will miss no opportunity to
pick flaws in the law. If a white
man and negro are convicted of like
Offenses can the court sentence one
to state farm and the other to work
on the public roads? If both are
sentenced to the penitentiary is there
authority lodged anywhere for dis
eliminating in favor of the white con-
Wet?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
HE is ALL IN"
From the Savannah Press.


His Excellency, President Roose-
welt, seems to be in a perpetual state
of irritation. To use the phrase of
the New York Herald, the president
is tired of his Office, Disguised with
congress and reckless of conse-
QUences."
Developments show that the presi-
dent is not in good humor. And yet
he is too young and strong to be
broken down by the ordeal of the
white house. Older men have left
the executive chair wrecks in ply
sique, with good humor torn to tat
tiers. Grover Cleveland had a rest
between his two terms and took
plenty of exercise. He stood the
strain better than any man since the
war unless it was General Grant.
President Roosevelt is feeling the
nervous effects of a strenuous life.
He has tried to be the whole thing
during the seven years in the white
house. AS assistant secretary of the
navy he used to sink the Spanish
fleet every morning, even before war
was declared, and had a report on
the presidents table for the cabinet
by IL a. m. During his occupancy of
the presidential chair he has with his
own hands helped to dig the Panama
canal, led the army in practice
marches and cannoned into the Ger
man ambassador at polo. He attend
ed the nominating convention in his
khaki suit and has been more or less
spectacular ever since.
In fact, Colonel Roosevelt has
probably been burning the candle at
both ends. He has drawn heavily
upon his nervous energy and finds
himself, in the language of the
sports, at the end of his seven years
! term="all in
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

mastering of energies ends in quak-
ings of the rocks, by which the forces
are dissipated before they have been
sufficiently concentrated to drive out
the plug which always forms in a
volcanic vent after a great eruption.
Some of the dispatches from
Sicily intimate a fear that an erup-
ton of Etna is about to occur. This
may happen, but if it comes it is
likely to come days later. The earth
quake indicates that the forces have,
for the present, expended themselves
outside the mountains. A readjust-
ment of pressure has taken place, and
as the disturbed strata settle more
quakes are to be feared rather than
an immediate outbreak of the vOlca-
no. 1t is rare that a great earth
quake occurs without minor shocks
succeeding it. This is particularly
true of the volcanic type of earth
quakes. But if an eruption of the
volcano follows the earthquakes gen
orally cease.
1t has often been suggested that
Vesuvius and Etna, being situated on
the same great line of fractures of
the earth's crust respond to each
other with alternate outbreaks. If,
in the present instance, an eruption
of Etna should follow the resem-
blance to the great Outburst of Vest
vius in 1906 would be very striking.
That eruption was preceded by dis
astrous earthquakes which ceased
about the time that the volcano was
ready to come into play.
This disaster shows again the I'M
satisfactory state of seismolOgy, as
far as the prediction of great disturb
ances is concerned. 1t is the con-
fessed aim of that science to arrive
at the possibility of such prediction,
but the cOnsummatiOn is still far off
Preliminary tremOrs can always be
detected, but the observers are I'M
able to tell whether the warning i'm
plies a serious sequel or not.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
ABUSE OF TIE JURY BOX.

ABUSE OF TIE JURY BOX.
From the Macon Telegraph.
The Telegraph does not know all
the merits of the matter for which
Judge Spence excoriated the Baker
county jury that acquitted a deputy
sheriff and another citizen of offense
in visiting the house of an aged ne
gro and maltreating him and mem
bers of his family, but the case must
have been a glaring miscarriage Of
justice to provoke a judge to utter
such sentiments from the bench or
to Justify him in dong so.
That glazing miscarnages of JUS
tice through the failure of juries TO
observe the obligation of their oath
are nelUher unknown nor uncommon
the Telegraph is aware, and We con-
graduate society and the state on
the evidence cropping out from time
to time that there are judges on our
bench who will not sit dumb and see
these things done without indignant
and righteous protest.
1t is the province of the jury to
deal with the facts in a case. In
finding these the jury is supreme,
within the restriction of the jurors
oath to find in accordance with the
law as given them by the judge and
the evidence.
There is no one better situated or
qualified to judge of the facts in a
case before him than the trained Oc-
cupant Of the bench, and where there
can be no mistake-Where no mis-
take is even pretended-in the cir
cumstances of an outrage, but only
a bare assertion of innocence re-
turned by the jury as the result of
refusing to apply the law to the facts,
as appears to have occurred in the
Baker county case, a judge must be
either more or less than a man to
SIT silent and not rebuke the reckless
blow thus dealt to society itself.
There is no more fruitful source
of crime than the jury box itself
where juries deliberately disregard
the law and evidence in cases and
find verdicts as their sympathies or
inclinatiOns may dictate. There is
no longer any certainty or even rule
for furnishing crime, and the man
with a wicked and depraved heart
quickly realizes he is free to pursue
his vicious prOpensities so long as he
keeps on the good side of the ele-
ment from which the juries are
drawn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
MAY PROVE FATAL.
When Will Dawson People Learn the
Importance of 1t?

When Will Dawson People Learn the
Importance of 1t?
Backache is only a simple thing
at first;
But when you know tbs from the
kidneys;
That serious kidney troubles fol-
low;
That diabetes, Bright's disease
may be the fatal end,
You will gladly profit by the fol-
lowing experience.
S. H. Gurr, living at w. Twelfth
street, COrdele, Ga, says: Il suf-
fered from pains across the small
part of my back for weeks and the
action of my kidneys became very
irregular. Learning of Doan's Kid
ney Pills I procured a box, and they
cured me of the attack. [ am
pleased to recommend them to 9TH
ers, as I fee! very grateful for the
benefits derived"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Judge was the center of inter
est, and the center of dramatic mo-
ment for a while.
There's a time to be insulted, he
said to the newspaper men with en-
phasis, and a time to fight" He
was not the only one, for the house
is hotter by far than it was before
Christmas, but he is the only one
that made an open effort to resent
the presidents charges. The general
feeling here is that the president has
sent a strong document to the house.
and that whatever the members may
think of the injury to their honor
and dignity, it is decidedly their
move.
Griggs' Motion to BE Garrett Out in
Effect.
Drastic measures are being cOnsid-
cred by the Perkins special commit
tee of the house, appointed to rec
ommend to the house action in de-
Tense of the body in reply to the
criticism made by the president in
his annual message in referring to
the secret service legislation of last
year.
After a meeting of that committee
a report spread that the committee
would recommend to the house that
that portion of the annual message
referring to the secret service be ex-
plunged from the record.
Another report was that the re-
cent message in reply to the request
of the house for more information
on the subject would be returned to
the chief executive. Neither report
could be confirmed, as members of
the committee refused to discuss the
probable action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
EAT KANGAROO STEAK.
faded Palates of MiIlionaires Ar,
Enjoying Something New.

Enjoying Something New.
Millionaires yearning for rare deli
cacies, gourments with jaded palates
can enjoy kangaroo now. At the
smart hotels and swagger restaurants
never before was kangaroo served to
the New York public. A Silz of New
York city deals in game and poultry.
lie received twenty-nine kangaroos
from Melbourne, Australia, last
week; they were frozen in cold
storage during the voyage, and are
now. Also came the information
from the dealer who sent them that
he is about to ship 200 more kanga-
roos; he says he is certain kangaroo
VIII Jump into favor in New York. as
1t has in the best restaurants in Lon
don and Paris.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
CAROLINA CONGRESS CONTESTS.
Three Defeated Negro Candidates
Have Been TIs%ned Down

Three congressional election con-
tests from South Carolina were prac-
tically decided Monday, when cleo
ton committee No. 1 reported to the
house in favor of the permanent seat
ing of Representative James O. Pat
terson, democrat, of the Second dis
trlct, over Isaac Myers, republican;
Representative Asbury F. Lever,
democrat, of the Seventh, over Alex
ander Dantzler, republican, and Rep
resentative Geo, S. Legare, demo-
crat, of the First district, over A. P.
Prloleau, republican. All the defeat
ed candidates are negroes. The vic
tors are now sitting IN the house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Q r. S r O RIA
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' "a &HIZItzMx
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
KANSAS PLANTS MANY TREES.
Many Thousand Distributed Through
the Treeless Section of the State.

the Treeless Section of the State.
In the last year 1877, 500 trees from
the Kansas forestry station at Dodge
City have been distributed through
out treeless western Kansas.
These include osages, honey locust,
catalpa, Russian mulberry, box elder,
and ailanthus trees. The distribu-
ton took in all of the districts west
of line drawn north and south
through Hutchinson.
II. c. Cooper, commissioner of for
estry at the station, has just made
his annual report to the governor.
Heretofore the forestry station has
done little or nothing toward investi-
eating the values of the different
trees in the western part of the
state
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
HEALTH AND VITALITY.
Motifs NerVine Pills.

The great iron and tonic restora-
tive for men and women produces
strength and vitality, builds up the
system and reDews the normal yigor.
For sale by druggists or by mail.
$1.0O per box, boxes for $500.
Williams Mfg. Co, Props. Cleve-
land, o. For sale by 7. d. Lee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
FORTUNATE MAN

From the Griffin News and Sun.
The editor Of the Columbus Ledger
reports having seen a July grasshop-
per in that city last Saturday. If
that's all he saw the day after Christ
mas he was a fortunate man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Itch! Itch! Itch! - Scratch
Scratch! Scratch! The more Won
scratch the worse the itch. Trv
Doan's Ointment. 1t cures piles.
eczema, any skin itching. All drug.
gists sell it,
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
PIONEER PHYSICIAN
 DIES IN DOUGLAS

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 2O.-An- other of the pioneers of the southwest has passed into the beyond. This time it is Dr. G. K,6Gatliff, one of the early settlers of Douglas and a pioneer physician of the frontier. He died at the county hospital on Fri day, suecumbing to the virulent can cer of the face with which he has been afflicted for several years past and which caused him to give up the practice of his profession some four years ago.
 Dr. Gatlif came originally from southeastern Texas and followed the tide of frontier life to the westward in its flow. He was familiar with Indian warfare, dressed many an ar row and spear wound and many and interesting were the tales which he could tell of his many and varied ex- perienees. He came to Douglas soon after the city was founded, but soon afterward the cancer which ultimate ly caused his death forced him to give up practice and he became a familiar sight about Douglas and the city streets. He was taken to the hospital several months ago and there patiently awaited the expected end. He was 7S years old
 Dr. Gatliff had two sons, one of whom is dead, and two daughters, and it was during his life here that he lost his wife.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
THE SUGAR TRUST.

There is every reason to believe that when congress assemblies it will order a searching investigation of the organization, methods and practices of the sugar trust. A congressional com mittee is not bound by the statute of limitations, but can delve into the entire history and all the ramifica- tiOns of the sugar trust and the sugar industry. It does not try and cannot prosecute, but it can expose, and in this case exposure is what is needed.
 Just now references to the investi- gatiOn seem to contemplate only the probing of the villainy transacted in the custom houses in New York and elsewhere, with the exception that a congressional committee can get from those concerned useful information which under the rules of legal pro- cedure could not be got out of them in court. But there is a good deal more than that to be inquired into. It is time that the people learned whether the so-called federal anti trust law was enacted for the pur- pose of adorning the statute book and relieving the public mind or with the intent to enforce it. No other of the sO-ealled great trusts is by com mon report accused of such persistent and fragrant violations of the anti trust act as the sugar trust. No other is supposed to be so reckless and coarse in its corruption of the pub
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-11-24
INVESTIGATION OF -a
 BISBEE MINE PLEASING

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 20.-Trippe, Thompson & Co.,, have issued the fol- lowing statement of a recent investi- gation of the properties of the Super for & Pittsburg Mining company, with properties at Bisbee:
 Authorized capitalization, 2,OO0,OOO shares, par $1O, $2O,OOO,OOO; outstand- ing, 100000 shares, par $1O, $15,OOO,- 900; in treasury, 5OO,OOO shares, par $1O, $5,OOO,OOO.
 The Superior & Pittsburg Copper company was formed June 30, 1906, and is a merger of the Calumet 6 Pittsburg Mining company, the Pitts burg & Duluth Mining company and the Lake Superior & Pittsburg Mining company.
 The company's holdings consist of 1854 acres of well located ground at Bisbee, Ariz., south of the town and adjoining the Copper Queen and Calu- met & Arizona properties.
 The property developed by three principal shafts-the Hoatson, 1875 feet deep; the Junction, 1,555 feet, and the Cole, 1,45O feet. The two shafts are located on the company's s territory, namely, the Briggs and the Congdon, whose ores are worked from