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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
A RUNNING BIRD BUTCHER.
Man in Texas Orders 500 of Their
Tiny Bodies for a Banquet.

Man in Texas Orders 500 of Their
Tiny Bodies for a Banquet.
Possibly neither the law nor the
efforts of the Audubon societies can
reach the man in San Antonio who
has ordered 500 humming birds for
a banquet he is about to give, since
he has ordered his supply from Next
co, but none the less he deserves
public disapproval for setting a bad
example. Doubtless he does this for
dramatic effect or mere OstentatiOn,
for humming bird is a poor apollo
gy for human food. The bodies of
some of them when stripped of their
feathers are not larger than a bum
blebee. They are like flecks of sun
shine among the flowers, their rapid
and almost ceaseless motion and
their frequently brilliant plumage
making them delightful little visit
Ors.
We have eighteen species in the
United States, but only one east of
the Mississippi and north of Florida.
No matter how plentiful they may be
they are a benefit to vegetation.
They live on honey and on insects
that menace the flowers that cOnsti-
tute their dainty haunts and the
sources of their food supply. Like
the bee, they also render a service
in the cross fertilization of flowers.
Their beauty, innocence and good
offices should be ample protection
against milliners and gourmets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
CENTRAL DEAL A BIG PICK UP.
Hartman Bought the Georgia Road
at $50 and Sold 1t at 500.

hartman bought the Georgia Road
at $50 and Sold 1t at 500.
A San Francisco dispatch says
Edward H. Hartman, according to
his Southern Pacific officials, cleaned
up $2,000,000 by selling the Central
of Georgia railroad to his Illinois
Central system.
In June, 1907, William Nelson
Cromwell and John w. Castles, as
agents for Hartman, purchased So
600 shares of Central of Georgia
stock at $50 share. The Illinois
Central has bought them at par,
800 each.
By the transfer of the Central of
Georgia to the Illinois Central which
runs through the Mississippi valley,
the latter system acquires two steam
ship lines from Savannah.
One runs to New York and the
other to Boston. The Central of
Georgia operates nearly 1000 miles
of railroad.
The possession of the Savannah
terminal by the Illinois Central en-
ables the Southern Pacific to divide
it's steamship business and send
more of its western freight traffic
through to the Atlantic seaboard and
vice versa. 1t also affords the Hi
nois Central another water outlet be-
sides New Orleans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
SLAVES OF THE PETTICOAT.
4 Fact Which Has Been Fully Proven
Against American Men.

We all are here and shaving to
make money to spend it on women
first on the girl, afterwards on the
wife, writes a handwriting and
somewhat gloomy newspaper man.
If most men had their way they
would dress as Apache Indians-one
small garment only. They would
live like Apaches, too, hunting, fish
ing and taking sun baths, but they
cannot oppose society and civiliza-
ton. You must fall in line, catch
step and keep up with the procession.
You may say that you don't care
for money or for riches, or for
houses; that you are satisfied with
health, competence, a nice family.
etc. But they'll just make you fall
in line and work like the rest of
them for fine houses and autOmo-
biles and all the vainglOriOus things
that follow in the way of wealth.
In Rome you must be a Roman. In
America you must keep up with the
procession. If you don't you'd better
go abroad to Turkey or some sopOrif-
ic country where thought breeds
habits of sleep and work begets dis
taste.
Why do we build fine homes?
For ourselves? Surely not. We
could camp out along the Mississippi
PTS banks and be perfectly and de-
lirously happy. We build fine homes
for women and the natural addenda
of women, children. Why do we
erect great Office buildings? Be-
cause we like them and because they
are ornamental? Surely not. They
are mere subsidiaries to the home,
places where men use to make money
to keep the home. From beginning
to end, from cradle to grave, the
American man lives and works and
strives only to please American wo-
men, Acute foreign observers all IN
stantly remark this and comment
upon it. We are slaves of the pet
ticoat That has been thoroughly
and fully proven against us.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
MCLendOn's Reasons Same as
Browns.

An interesting feature of the de-
cision and past history connected with
1T has almost been overlooked.
Chairman S. G. McLendon, who voted
against the port rate petitions, gave
almost the same reason for his atti-
tude as that given by Joseph NJ
Brown four years ago, when he was
a railroad commissioner, and who
had little notion then that he was
ever to become governor of the state
AS railroad commissioner the pres
ent gOvernOr-elect voted against port
rates. Among the reasons he gave
for his position was that the estab-
lishment of the principle involved
would upset the whole rate fabric
throughout eastern territory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30

When he made his campaign in
1906 Gov. Hoke Smith stated fire.
quentIy in his speeches that if he
were governor and a railroad COM
missioner gave such a reason as that
for refusing to grant these rates he
would suspend him from office i'm
mediately.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
TREE PICTURED ON CHILDREN.
The Strange Work of a Flash Of
lightning at Sparta.

At a Sunday school picnic near
Sparta, Ga, Thursday a thunder
storm came up suddenly and light
mng struck a tree under which six
teen children had gathered for pro-
lection from the rain, shocking each
severely.
Many were strangely affected. the
outlines of the tree appearing as if
photographed on the bodies of sew
eral of the children. No fatalities
have resulted, but several of the
children are in a serious condition
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
LAMPS LIMB GRATED ON MAN.
A Rare Operation in Surgery Has
Been Performed.

A rare surgical operation, the out
come of which will be watched with
interest by the medical profession of
the world, was performed at Frances
Willard Hospital, in Chicago, when
section of bone from the leg of a
lamb was grated into the right leg
of Docerearl Towsend to replace a
section of shattered limb. Surgeons
of Chicago asserted that this was the
first time this operation ever was at
tempted in America, and that it
never had been attempted more than
five times before in the history of
surgery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30

Stops earache in two minutes;
toothache or pain or burn or scald
in five minutes; hoarseness, one
hour; muscleache, two hours; sore
throat, twelve hOurs-Dr. Thomas
Electric Oil, monarch over pain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
Colds that hang OH weaken +ho

Colds that hang OH weaken the
constitution and develop into con-
sumption. Foley's Honey and Tar
cures persistent coughs that refuse
to yield to other treatment. Do nor
experiment with untried remedies, as
delay may result in your cold SET
ting on your lungs. Dawson Drug
Go. and Peoples Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
WELCOME WORDS TO WOMEN

Women who suffer with disorders peculiar to their
sex should write to DIR. Pierce and receive free the
advce of a physician of 40 years experience
"a skilled and successful specialist in the diseases
of women. Every letter of this sort has the most
careful consideration and is regarded sacredly
confidential Many sensitively modest women write
fully to DIR. Pierce what they would shrink from
telling to their local physician The local physician
is pretty sure to say that he cannot do anything
without an examination" DIR. Pierce holds that
these distasteful examinations are generally need
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30

woman should submit them.
Pierce right in privacy of
home. Favorite Prescr hascu
O o them the o.
1t regularly graduated
Don't the
your to Dspenary Association,
V. N. advice be WE'LL
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
List Your Property With Me 2

IL you want to sell it quick. Offering some very at+
and good paying investments stocks and
propositions. "AU business
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-30
PORT RATE ISSUE DEAD FOR AWHILE


Stevens voting against them and
Commissioners Hillyer and Gambler
for them, is precisely the result
which was predicted in these dis
patches early in May shortly follow
ing the hearing at which the testi-
mony was taken. 1t could not have
worked out with more eXactness if
the different commissioners had been
elected solely on platforms for and
against port rates.
Atlanta JObbers' Plans Unknown.
Just what move the Atlanta job
bers and others interested in port
rates will make is problematic.
They could not be convinced that the
commission was going to decide
against them. OF course the commits
sion's decision favorable to port rates
would have been only the beginning
in that direction. 1t would have been
followed by court injunction and long
litigation, which would have lasted
perhaps for two or three years.
That they will go into the political
arena again is not to be doubted, but
it is questioned whether they can
again bring the voters of Georgia to
their support on that proposition
alone.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
FIFTY CONVICTS
BEATEN TO DEATH
CrueItles In Texas Prison Worse
Than Those In Siberia.

Galveston, Tex, Nov. 6.-The legis-
lative committees investigation OF the
state penal institutions and the treat
ment OF convicts on the state farms re-
teals the fact that more than fifty
convicts have been killed by cruelties
and whippings within period OF three
years or less.
The record may be much larger, and
presumably is. but the board OF In.
qulry finds It almost impossible to
wiring the evidence from the convlots
whom they examine. The majority OF
the conyIcts who could give positive
evidence OF specific cases are afraid to
tell because they fear they will incur
the hatred OF the guards at the pehi-
tonuaries and on the convict farms.
The whipping Of convicts until their
bodies were a mass OF bleeding wounds
with leather straps two feet long and
three inches wide numbers more than
400 that the commission has positive
evidence. and the inquiry is not com
pleted. The commission declares the
cruelties inflicted upon the convicts
by the state prison officers and guards
as revealed by the investigation are
worse than those Of Siberia.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
WRIGHT'S PUPILS
SMASH BIPLANE
ueuts. Lahm and Humphreys
Have Narrow Escapes.

College Park, Nd. Nov. g. - The
Wright blplane which the United
States bought. after its record-break-
ing performances at Fort Myer, for
100000, was badly damaged during a
fight here, and the work Of the school
of applied aeronautics win be post
poned necessarily for several days.
Neither Lieutenant Lahm, who was
operating the biplane. nor Lieutenant
Humphreys, his passenger. was injur'
ed. although Lieutenant Lahm had a
skinned nose. which evidently was re-
ceiyed by coming In contact with one
OF the guy wires.
The right end Of the lower main
main plane. several Of the wooden
braces at that end running between
the two main planes, half dozen guy
wires and the right side Of the struc-
ture which runs from the main sur
faces to the elevating plane. were all
put out OF commission. Entirely new
braces for the eleyating plane, a new
right skid and a new right wing tip
will be needed. The canvas on the
lower main plane also was torn and
the frame work for FIVE or six feet will
have 10 be recovered.
The biplane was up only five or six
feet at the time OF the accident, OF
doubtless both It and the officers
would have suffered more. An hour
after the biplane buried her nose In
the earth Lieutenant Lahm had her
back in the shed and was making re-
pairs as fast as possible.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
the METHODIST SERVICES
Rev. Mr.. Dennis, Of Buffalo, breaches
Another Foreible Sermon.

From me text Go thy way for this
time, when have convenient season
| will call for thee," found in Acts "a
Is, Mr.. Dennis preached a forcible aDc
impressive sermon Thursday night at
the Methodist church.
He spoke Of procrastination as the
thief Of time and applied il especially
TO those who had not sought Christ as
their Savior. He said many men come
under the conviction Of sin and strongly
feel the impulses of leading better
life, indeed of fully accepting Christ,
but they put it off for more ''eonyen-
lent season." They procrastinate and
many times the opportunity never
comes again.
He pleaded for the unconyerted to
come 10 Jesus now, the present time
was theirs, the future was Gods.
At the the close Of the sermon Mrs.
A. p. Rowe sang a very beautiful solo.
A large congregation was present.
At the invitation Of the preacher seven
penitents came forward.
Mr.. 7. Z. Thomas, Of Spotsylvania,
occupied seat in the pulpit and par
ticipated in the services.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
MISHAP ON NORTH DAKOTA
Four Men injured In Trial as Boiler
Tube Bursts.

Portsmouth, n. H., Nov. e.--As the
new battleship North Dakota was COM
rleting her four.hour endurance run
at q 21-knct gait OFF the New England
coast with the battleship speed cham
plonshlp of America almost In her
grasp, a boilerroom accident robbed
her of the laurels and sent her scurry-
ing into this port to land four injured
men
The big ship nevertheless exceeded
her contract requirement OF 81 knots
an hour making 2l.71 in the first two
hours. 2164 in the third hour and FL
knots fat as she hurried In on the
fourth hour to this port.
The Injured men are William II.
Grange, water tender; John Souden.
coal passer; A. Petersen, fireman, and
Peter Mcconnell. fireman. Souden was
badly scalded. and when landed was
suffering intensely.
On the frat two hours the engines
Of the North Dakota developed $4,000
horse power and the water rate was
well above the contract. A few min
utes after the battleship had passed
Cape Ann, and while she was entering
the fourth hour Of her test, a seven
inch tube in one of the lower rows Of
boilers blew out and 6lled the room
with steam. The engineers imme-
dlately cut off four Of the fourteen
boilers.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
AN ELECTION INCIDENT
That Window is Still Up.

A most amusing incident is recorded
of the late election. An ardent sup
porter Of Mr.. G. R. Swift, who was de-
feated on Tuesday for Commonwealth &
Attorney by Mr.. w. w. Butzner, went
home as soon as the polls closed and
stopped at the house of friend, also a
supporter of Mr.. Swift. He was
asked his opinion as TO the
result of the election. His re-
ply was "Swift has majority OF
over twenty fve," and calling TO a
member of the household said, "Raise
that window, so when the returns come
| can jump through and holler
TO my hearts content" The window
was raised. He waited and soon the
report was received from the upper
ward, showing AZ majority for Swift
and exuitingly he.said, That settles it. "
He was not entirely satisfied, how
ever, for he still waited to hear from
the Lower Ward. About midnight
there walked into the house the master
Of the home, who, was judge at the
Upper Ward. He came with almost
noiseless tread, laid his books down
and hung his hat upon the rack.
A look from the new conner to the
patient watcher told the tale. That
window is still up, there was no jump
and there was a sad smile, but no
"holler.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
LONE R0bbER
Gets $4,000
Lock Aged Woman In Room,
Blows Safe and Escapes.
THE POLICE ARE BAFfLED
Schuyler Rainier, a Farmer, OF Flor
ence, N. j., Victim of Desperate
crlme-Kept Money IN Safe at His
Home, as Ne Did Not Trust Banks.

Burlington. N. j.. Nov. Ga masked
bandit. working alone. stole between
$4,000 and $4,000 IN cash and bonds
from the home OF Schuyler Rainier.
seyenty-two years old. wealthy farm
er, residing near Florence.
The crime has bafled the police by
its desperate boldness. Although the
Rainier home stead Is less than half
nile from the Florence postofhce. ana
fronts on . much frequented- public
road. the ruiber. after locking the aged
hOugckeeper OF the farmer In her
room. dynamited the big safe. which
has been Rnnicr's bank for years. the
storehouse at times for as much as
ss5. 900 In gold.
Mrs. Jane Nlckson. nearly seventy
years old. and the sole occupant Of the
farmhouse when the masked robber
entered. Is I'm critical condition from
the shock Of the struggle with the
bandit
Detectives and a posse OF farmers
are on the trail OF the robber The au-
thorlties fear. however, that the rob
her escaped on a freight rain. since
.johL Adams. a farmer. saw a man an
swering to his description running
toward the railroad two hours after
the attack upon the Rainier homestead.
Mrs. Nickson gives the description
OF the bandit. which has been tele-
phoned to the police Of every adjacent
locality in Now Jersey and Pennsylya-
MIA. She says he Is about six feet
tall. Weighing about $50 pounds. and
has a smooth face and wore dark
clothes.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
s25,oo0,0OO FOR
PUBLIC BENEFIT
Amazing BsQuaSts In VIII Of
Johns. Kennedy, OfNeW York.
sa5,oOO,OOO TO RELATIVES
Flfty.five Institutions In All Parts of
the United States and Five Abroad
to Benefit With Large Bequests.

New York, Nov. 6.-John Stewart
Ksnnedy's will. which was filed here,
disposes OF an estate estimated at
500. .0OO, 900 value. OF which about $25.-
900 900 is beQueathed for the public
benefit, being distributed among yari-
Gus religious. education and charitable
institutions.
The executors OF the will are the
testator's wife. Emma B. Kennedy. who
survives him; hls nephews. William
Stewart Todd and Robert Eliot Tod,
and Mr.. De Forest. whom the testator
describes as his friend.
After quoting the estimated value
Of the estate at about $6O,OOO.OOO.'
Mr.. De Forest said; Broadly speak
ing. Mr.. Kennedy leaves little more
than one-quarter of his entire estate
to his wife little more than one
quarter to relatives and friends. and
he gives something less than onehalf
to various religious. charitable. benev-
olent and educational institutions,
about sixty in all, FIVE of which are
abroad"
Cooper Union gets $4,000; the Ma
t!onal Academy of Design. 100000; the
University OF Glasgow. where from
my infancy / resided until came TO
this country" says the tsstator, $780,
600: the Tuskegee institute Booker
T. washington's). 100000. and the
Syrian Protestant college at Beirut
s25.O 900.
Seven OF the country's colleges re-
ceive 100000 each. namely: Yale.
Amherst, Williams. Dartmouth, Bow
6oin. Hamilton and the Hampton Nor
nal school Ten OF the educational In
siitutions receive $4,000 each, these
being Lafayette. Wellesley and Ober-
lin colleges, Barnard college and the
Teachers college In this city. Elmira
college. Mortified seminary. the Mt.
Vernon Boys school at Gill, Mass;
Anatolia college. at Marsovon, Tur-
key, this latter bequest being made for
the college to the American board OF
commissioners for foreign missions.
and Berea college in Kentucky.
The American board OF commission
ers for foreign missions receives also
$4,000 for the American school at
Smyrna. Lake Forest university. Ill,
and Central school. Danvllle. KY. each
receive s25,000.
"Mr. Kennedy's residuary estate,
said Mr.. De Forest. '1s divided into
sixty.four parts. Of which Mrs. Ken
nedy receices 16. Mr. Kennedy's rela-
tives II. and public institutions 3. In
addition to the one-slxty-fourth OF his
residuary estate given to Mrs. Ken
nedy, she receives his city residence,
9 West Fifty-seventr street; his coun-
try residence at Bar Harbor, and $l.-
100000 in cash.
at is estimated that each sixty
fourth part OF the residusry estate will
have a value OF approximately $780,
Oo0."
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
KING GEORGE DEEDS

List of writings admitted to record
in the Clerks Office of the Circuit court
of King George county, since Septem-
Der term, 1909.
Julian S. Jones and Robert w. Hun
ter, executors Of Richard II. Stuart,
deceased, 10 Rufus Greer, land.
X. l.. Clare and wife TO CIV. Purks,
trustee, trust.
Henry Kenzie and wife to Thomas l..
Hunter, trustee, trust.
ID. l.. Ashton and wife to Stuart A.
Ashton, exchange.
w. w. Brown ct ais, trustee Of Belle
Grove Council No. 1872, J. o. u. A. NJ,
TO w. A. Rose, trustee, trust
J. b. Sullivan and wife to W. Angus
tine Rose, trustee, trust.
Robert c. Grymes and wife ct ais 10
Cora |. Burche, land.
Fannie Jefferson to Mary f. Gaynes,
land.
A. P. Wilkerson and wife to T.. S.
Coates, land.
w. H. Deshazo and wife TO H. L.
Deshazo, land.
L. N. Hoge, Sr.. and wife to Lewis
L. Johnson, land.
J. II. Boggs TO Thomas l.. Hunter,
trustee, trust.
Walter N. Smith and wife to Lewis
j. Billingsley, land.
j. E. Rogers and wife to c. A. Allen,
land.
A. ]. McCarty and wife to R. l..
Henderson, land.
r. L. Henderson to Alvin I. Embrey,
trustee, trust.
+. w. Payne, attorney in fact for E.
L. Payne and Annie G. Payne, to Jas.
o. Holmes, land.
]. 7. Minor, Jr., and wife to Daniel
Wilkins, land.
Daniel Wilkins to F. C. S. Hunter,
trustee, trust
Howard Dunlop and wife to Thos.
Dunlop, land.
Thomas Dunlop and wife to Thomas
l.. Hunter, trustee, trust.
Thomas E. Coakley to Charles Evans,
land.
Thos. E. Coakley and wife to Charles
Evans, land.
Chas. Evans and wife to B. c.
Grymes, trustee, trust.
w. A. Rose and wife to j. T. Minor,
Jr., trustee, trust.
D. Frank Coakley to Addie R. Coax
ley, sale.
j. r. Mifieton to VIM. E. Grigsby,
trustee, trust.
F. w. Payne, Sr., attorney in fact
for E. l.. Payne and Annie G. Payne,
10 Jannette Turner, land.
Fielding Key to Rousby Quesinberry,
sale.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-11-09
Are Regular Wear Resisters

Ivisited the Northern Market for the
sole purpose of having made a good,
strong and substantial line OF men 8
work shoes, shoes that would give good
honest wear, shoes that would be solid
sole leather from strop to tip. l sue
eeeded in securing from two OF the
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North just such shoe. These shoes
are now coming in; we have so far re-
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shoe has, and ] will guarantee them to
have, or give you new pair in ex-
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solid sole leather counters, one piece of
solid sole leather innersoles, the out
soles of the very best of oak tanned
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throughout with yiscol making them as
near waterproof as leather shoe can
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