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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06

The children all were gone, but there
The old brick school-house stood;
The little bridge; the crooked path;
Forget them? All, who could!
The trees, the everlasting hills,
The brook, the sky for frame,
All these were there, and to my eyes y
The old home was the same
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
ed when tl,e bloom.

and blush
OF summer was in prime
'Tis true. my girlhood friends were gone,
But every stick and stone
Was full Of them-with memory
You know, we're not alone.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
BACK HOME.
ner I made np !,

u 4 { ~
Asst summer I made up
my mind,
I'd take q holiday.
And go back to the home
j had
Not seen for many a day.
But people said: YOU'RE
foolish, Jane,
It's such q wild-g goose
chase.
Your family and friends
are dead.
Why, you won't know
the placed" &,
But ali the same, / went,
and my!
! had a splendid time!
I dfa psfa1 vrr1, - 49, i.I-H
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06
Only Suspect Il.

tx Only Suspects Il.
We have noticed that when q man ID
!henpecked everybody knows It but the
man himself. Topeka Capital.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
GEORGIA NOT IN 1T AT ALL
Connecticut Now Proposes to Feed
Taft WOOdchuCk, Black Lynx
and Skunk Also.

A Winsted, Conn, dispatch says:
IF Mr.. Taft invaded our part of the
country l would set him up to wild
cat soup, one of the best tasting
meat delicacies there is when prop
erly seasoned" said John Hall, who
runs a stage coach from the southern
Berkshire hills to Winsted. I've
got 'pOssum skinned to death. The
wildcats subsist on wild game, such
as rabbits, and l have known them
to kill young stock and deer up my
way and eat them"
George w. Eaton, a lumberman,
who owns many acres on the shores
of Lake WunsOnkmOnk, is eager to
feed Mr.. Taft woOdchuck as soon as
the ground hog gets through hiber-
mating and tender garden vegetables
are out of the ground. The chuck
is better than either chicken or
swine, according to Eaton.
Charles Dolphin of Norfolk killed
a black lynx last week, and another
epicurean dish is expected to be add
ed to menus ere long.
James Maddrah, a veteran hunter,
wants to wager that he can prepare
dish of skunk that Mr.. Taft cannot
tell from squirrel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
JUDGE RUSSELL CALLED AT
GOVERNOR SMITHS OFFICE
her First Meeting in Three Pleasant
ings Were Exchanged Office Administered the
Iurist Admired the Pictures. Glanced Hopefully
at the GubernatOria Chair and Retired

AILANTA.-Judge Richard B.
Russell of the state court of appeals
appeared in the governors Office Sat-
urday for the first time since the
memorable campaign for the occu-
pancy of that office in 1906, in which
campaign the judge was one of the
most interesting contestants.
In that historic contest MANY
acrld flashes of oratory passed be-
tween the present governor, Hoke
smith, and Judge Russell. The lat
Ter was soon after elevated to the
Oench OF the APPELLATE court, but this
relations with the chief executive has
not, it might be said, reflected the
most perfect christian spirit on the
part of either. Silence has been the
word between them.
Recently it became necessary for
the Judge to be sworn into office, and
THIS junction is usually performed by
the governor in his private office. It
can be done by justice of the SUI
preme court, and, as in the case of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
BUG CAUSES BIG STIR J|MS MOONSH|NE BILL
Brown Tail Moth Is Headed d.
rect to Georgia From France.
ALARM .!SEIZES upon STATE

And Invader Will Be Met at Savan-
nah by the State EntomOlogist and
Given Warm Reception. As
Dangerous to Orchards as An
archists Are to Society.
ATLANTA.-If a bloody crew of
buccaneers were headed straight for
the shores of Georgia no deeper
alarm could be aroused than that
which has seized upon the state en-
tomological department.
Dispatches received here by that
department announces that the
brown tail moth is en- route to
Savannah; that some time soon a
shlplOad of trees infested with this
terrible worm will steam into Chat
hams port from New York. Ento-
mOlog1st WOrsham has laid his plans
to meet the emergency.
On the day of the arrival he will
be at the port in company with an
adequate force of assistants and see
that the infested trees are either
fumigated within an inch of their
lives or deported back to France,
whence they originally came.
The brown tail moth halls from
France. They are as dangerous to
orchards as anarchists are to society
They are the scum of the old world S
worm population. These particular
trees, it seems, were ordered from
France through a New York dealer.
That is how they happen to be
bound for Georgia. New England, it
is said, has to spend thousands of
dollars annually on the brown tail
moth. Prof. Worshams prompt ac-
ton, however, will insure this state
against danger.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
GriggS Wants the Government to
Destroy All of the Stuff.
HE HAS INTRODUCED A BILL

To Break Up Sale of Captured
Liquors by the Government at It's
Custom Houses. Looks Upon 1t
in Dry States as Directly Opposed
to Expressed Will of People.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS whis-
ky, liquor, wines and intoxicating
drinks of all kinds which are distilled
or manufactured in violation of the
laws of the United States will here
after be destroyed when seized by
revenue officers, if a bill introduced
in the house today by Judge Griggs
of Georgia becomes a law.
Taking Georgia as an example the
real purpose of the bill of Judge
Griggs is to prevent the illicit prod
uct of north Georgia stills, or any
other unlawful distilleries or brew
cries, being taken to Atlanta and
sold at the custom house. He looks
upon such sales in dry states as an
evil, and an indirect opposition to
the expressed will of the people. He
thinks the only way to deal with the
problem is to destroy the liquor when
captured. The bill, which is, of
course, general in it's application,
provides:
From and after the passage of
this act whenever the officers of the
United States seize whisky, brandy,
wines, beers or other liquors manu-
featured in violation of the laws of
the United States the same shall be
destroyed.
THE procedure in every case shall
be as at present, except that instead
of offering said liquors for sale the
proper officers shall publicly destroy
them"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27

Warner Hill, hint was conveyed to
the judge that he might seize that
horn of the dilemma without danger
OF giving offense.
However, the judge expressed not
the least objection to taking the oath
before his old opponent, and he called
on the governor for that purpose late
Saturday afternoon. The way had
been smoothed on the day before
through the judge having appeared
at a reception in honor of a visiting
dignitary in the reception room of
the governors office, on which occa-
sion he and Governor Smith clasped
hands in the manner of old friends.
The meeting of Saturday took
place in the governors office proper.
Pleasant greetings were exchanged,
the oath administered and it was
over. The judge admired the pict-
ures, glanced hopefully at the guber-
material chair, surveyed the carpet
and retired.
1t was all as it should have been
between two high officials of the
state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
METHUSELAH GOES COURTING
Thousand Toad Turns I'm
Again After Disappearing for
TWenty-FOur Hours.

The World prints the following
about the acknowledgements frog
that is an honored member of the
New York Zoo:
After twenty-four hours of most
mysterious absence, so far as he was
concerned, marked by extreme anx-
iety on the part of the Bronz Zoo
Methuselah, the l ,000-year-
old toad that was dug out of the
bottom of a Montana copper mine,
reappeared very early yesterday in
his cracked glass cage there.
Everybody on the reservation hav-
ing searched everywhere in vain had
given up for lost the precious and
unique old toad; but there he was
once more, as large as life, slightly
up, but with an unmistaka-
BILE grin of satisfaction on his an
cient cOuntenance that seemed to say
to the astOnished keeper:
A frog he would a-wooing go
Whether the Zoo would let him or no.
"You ought to be ashamed of
at your venerable age" said
the keeper as he poked an extra fly
in through the aperture.
Methuselah had no remarks to
make concerning his 1909 escapade.
He merely ate greedily.
This is the second time the old
toad has gone out counting since he
was found 500 feet down in the
earth and revived in the Zoo. On
the first occasion he encountered a
jealous rival, the scientists say, and
was minus one eye when he sneaked
back into his cage.
Methuselah is supposed to have
had a wife and family back in the
time of Alfred the Great.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
LITTLE JOE WILL Be A TOOL
BUT 1T WILL BIZ OF THE PEOPLE
OF GEORGIA, AND NOT OF A
POLITICAL FACTION.

GOvernOr-Elect Joseph M. Brown
has been the guest of the people of
Barlow county at Gainesville, and
was greeted by a big crowd who
heard him speak and cheered him.
In an address at the court house
he declared that it had been predict
ed that he was being made a tool
when he ran against Gov. Hoke
Smith, and that he was a tool" but
the tool of the whole people Of
Georgia." He said:
when / announced for governor,
which 1 had no notion of doing sew
enty-two days before the primary,
and not to get even with some one,
as has been charged against me, it
was charged that l was to be a
tool
CAS- l thought the matter over I
decided that it was Enthusiastically my
duty to become a tool, but not a
tool of the corporations, nor of any
one particular element of the states
citizenry, but a tool of the whole
people. 1t is a mistaken idea that
the people need a governor. That
might have done for 100 years ago,
but today the people need an execu-
tive, an officer to occupy the execu-
tive office of the state and see that
the laws are enforced.
Il am going to be the tool of the
people, and the people will be the
Wi hn he hsv
you will be the hand, but l am not
going to be yours to smash the hearts
and the fortunes of others. l will
be the tool that with your hand will
drive the nails to strengthen the in
dustrial structure of Georgia's great
ness"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
WE'LL, DID YOU EVER.
What Use Did Mr.. Taft Have for a
Pint Pocket Flask in AtIantao

what Use Did Mr.. Taft Have for a
Pint Pocket Flask in Atlanta?
At Atlanta President-elect Taft
was made the recipient of "silver
lor IT water flask, bearing the coat
o. Sourt Georgia, the gift of Mrs.
James LIZ IT." who is the post
master at Gainesville. We would es-
pecially call attention to the fact
that this is a water flask, of silver
ana IS OF pocket size-presumably of
the capacity of about half a pint It
IS possibly true that the flask might
be persuaded to contain and retain
something else than water, tempo
rarily, say 'simmon beer for instance.
But 1t is a water flask, nevertheless.
1t couldn't be anything else, neces-
sarily, considering that it was pre-
scented by lady, and in the dry"
state of Georgia. But how in the
name of common sense does it come
about that a man of Judge Taft's
prominence and Importance should
lind it necessary to carry half a pint
OF water around in his pocket?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
AID FARMER OR PRESIDENT
QUESTION RAISED IN THE HOUSE
WHETHER TO BUY AUTOMO-
BILES OR BUY SEEDS.

WASHINGTON.-The urgent de-
fciency appropriation bill was called
up in the house today by Represent
alive Tawney, chairman of the ap-
preparation committee. The item of
$4,000 for purchase and mainte-
nance of automobiles for the use of
the president caused some discus
sion, but little opposition was evil
denced and it was allowed to stand
Representative Heflin of Alabama
proposed adding an appropriation of
100000 for the distribution Of seeds
by the agricultural department. A
point of order raised against this
amendment was sustained.
This resulted in a debate in which
Representative Mann of Illinois and
Tawney of Minnesota argued against
the amendment. Representative Can
der of Mississippi claimed that there
was a deficiency in the funds for the
purchase of the seeds available for
distribution, while Mr.. Mann de-
clared that the deficiency was in
seeds and not money. Mr. Gambler
said congress should appropriate
money for seeds for the farmers rath-
er than $4,000 for automobiles for,
the president.
Mr.. Tawney moved that the bill be
voted upon, and those favoring Rep
resentative Hefin's bill made every
effort to block the effort to bring the
bill up for final passage. The vote
on Mr.. Tawney's motion resulted in
a tie, and Representative Forester of
Vermont, who was in the chair, cast
his vote for the motion, carrying it
by 80 for and 70 against. The Dill
was then passed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
TO TELL THE HORRID TRUTH
No More French" Numbers on
Milady's Boots. Some Feet
Will Grow.

There will be a rise in the size Of
WOmen's feet if the shoe men have
their way. No more will milady be
able to squeeze her No. 7 pedal ex-
tremities into No. Is, no matter how
willing she may be to stand the pain
of the squeeze. The shoe men-oth-
erwise the National Boot and Shoe
Manufacturers ssociation-have
decided in the altruistic fashion COM
mon to tradesmen that such things
shall not be.
At a session of the association in
the Hotel Astoria in New York last
week it was decided in the future
to mark the real sizes on shoes in
plain figures.
Most of the shoe dealers have a
code system in the marking of wo-
mems shoes by which a customer of
that sex may fiutter into a store, sit
down on the bench and sWeetIy re-
mark to the man in charge Il think
No. Al will about fit" and then
be threatened with commissions while
the obliging salesman squeezes, or
tries to squeeze, the same onto "a
what's the use?
It's just vanity" said John Ha-
men, the shoe man who introduced
the measure, "and ought to be
stopped. 1t enables the clerk to sub
stitute one size for another in sell
ing to a customer. 1t is a form of
deception that is obviously unfair
and unnecessary"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
BURGLAR is CAUGHT.
He Had Been Doing a Big Business
in Springvale.

lie Had Been Doing a Big Business
in Springvale.
Jasper Price, colored, was brought
to Cuthbert last Thursday and lodged
in Jail in default of a $4,000 bond
or three bonds in the sum of $1,000
each.
Recently several burglaries have
been committed at and near Spring
vale. Mr.. F. M. Lyle lost meat, Mr..
Crozier's harness was swiped, the
blacksmith shop and the wood shop
We're robbed of tools and material
and, last, Gamers store was broken
into and touched" for perhaps $3.50
worth of goods.
Jasper Price is not like Caesars
wife. Suspicion rested on him so
strongly that a search warrant was
sworn out and his house visited by
officers. A quantity of merchandise,
identified by Mr.. Garner as his, the
missing harness and other things
We're found concealed in and near
his house.
1t is suspected that Jasper had
accomplices.- Cuthbert Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
A SOULFUL POEM RECALLED.

The Macon branch of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails no doubt wishes Theodore
Roosevelt god speed and good luck on
his African hunting trip. But at the
same time it is going to beg him
please not to kill any animals. This
attitude of the Macon organization
recalls that famous and soulful little
poem:
Mother, may I go out to swim?"
Yes, my darling daughter;
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb
But don't go near the water"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
THIS CHAP WON A BET.
But in Doing So Made Himself the
Blue Ribbon Fool.

On a wager John Robbins of
Fruitvale, Cal, forced a billiard ball
into his mouth at a poolroom. 1t
required three hours effort on the
part of DR.. J. H. Callan and Con-
stable Tom Carroll to remove the
sphere from Robbins mouth, and in
the operation it was found necessary
to extract several of the mans teeth
before the ball could be taken out.
Robbins almost choked to death
before he was relieved. Oil and a
small pinch bar were used in prying
the ivory ball out, and Robbins suf-
fered agony during the ordeal.
Robbins bears the reputation of
being a game sport" and when a
friend bet him $3.50 that he could
not pocket a billiard ball in his
mouth Robbins took the bet. He
won the wager, but probably he will
be out of pocket on the whole trans
action when the doctors bill comes
in.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
ALBANIAN BRANDED AS HERO
He and Twenty-Five Other Brave
Persons Decorated With Medals
and Cash by Hero Commission.

OSe1AA W AACAO NO4AIlH1ASS1OIks
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion, at its annual meeting in Pitts
burg last week, awarded 26 medals,
$14,750 in cash and pensions aggre-
eating 1855 a month for deeds of
valor investigated since the last
meeting of the commission last Oc-
tober.
Joseph A. Forsyth, aged 40 years,
of Atlanta, Ca. received a bronze
medal and $500 with which to
liquidate a mortgage on his property.
Forsyth on Feb. 10, 1907, pulled
John c. Reed, aged II, from the rail-
road tracks just as a train reached
the spot.
For rescuing Carl V. Chalk, aged
IS, and his father, Walter V. Chalk,
aged 80, from drowning on July 4,
1907, James H. Archibald, aged "a,
OF Gates, Tenn, was awarded a
bronze medal and $1,000 to be ap-
piled toward the purchase of a farm.
The younger Chalk had become ex-
hausted while swimming, and ham
pered his father so much when the
latter tried to save him that both
men would have drowned but for
Archibald's assistance.
A silver medal and $1,000 were
awarded to James B. Goldman of
Cambridge, S. c., who risked his
life to save Warren Finley, negro
section hand, from being run over
by train near Waterloo June 30,
1907. Finley's legs were cut off but
his life was saved.
A silver medal and $50 a month
with s. for each dependent child I'M
der 10, was awarded to Rosa n. ON
ner of New Orleans, La, widow of
Frank Dinner, who lost his life res
cuing John Bevin, colored, who was
overcome by sewer gas Oct. %, 1907,
in a city sewer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
BURIED TWENTY THREE DAYS IN
RUINS ITALIAN IS TAKEN OUT ALIVE

ROME.-In the course of the re-
movaI of the dead at Reggie Tues
day the soldiers discovered sur
vivor whose faint breathing was the
only sign of life displayed. He was
taken to hospital, where the doctors
said such a case of complete exhaus-
ton and resistance was unparalleled.
The observatory here, since De-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
DIAMONDS AS PRIZES.
Mrs. Hope of Kansas zsr S. cof
Them From Her Own Mine. :
SHE'S FROM MISSOURI, TOO

cnarklers Given by Western Society
Woman as FaVOrs at a Bridge
Party. She Owns a Mine in Ar
Kansas That Yields Gems Which
EouaI the African Product. Mil
1innaires in the East Wear Them,
KANSAS CITY.-This city has a
society woman who gives diamonds
tn her guests as party favors. But
she can afford it, because she owns
q diamond mine, not in Africa but
in southwestern Arkansas.
Mrs, George D. Hope, wife of a
wealthy iumberman, is the new "Dia-
mond Queen" At whist party in
Mrs. Hopes home recently she sur
Drised her guests by offering dia-
.mcnds as prizes. She gave away four
gems. One of the women who won a
diamond took it to a Kansas City
jeweler.
What is this?" she inquired. The
ieweler tested the stone.
Its diamond, he said
Where did you get it?"
ITS from Arkansas she replied
Then the jeweler wanted to
hedge" because the jewellers, for
business reasons, Mrs. Hope says,
have refused to recognize Arkansas
diamonds as real gems. But he al
ready had said it was a diamond,
and the woman had it set in a ring
Mrs. Hopes husband owns 10000
acres of Arkansas timber land. Sew
eraI years ago he offered to sell g.
goo acres that had been ''cut over"
to his wife. She bought the land as
a speculation.
After l bought the land from my
husband" she said, Il went down to
look it over. A railroad switch was
being built. l was watching the men
work one day when a little negro
boy, who caned himself a 'watah
totah,' passed. l noticed he held
something in his hand l asked him
what it was He opened his hand
and | saw he held peculiar looking
pebble. He said he found it where
the men were digging.
The boy offered to sell me the
stone for a nickel, but 1 gave him a
dime. He brought me six more
stones. 1 took the pebbles home and
forgot all about them.
Two years ago when John W.
HuddlestOn, a farmer near Murfrees-
bOro, about twenty-five miles from
my land, found diamonds l got out
the pebbles and had them polished.
They looked like diamonds. l sent
them to experts in New York and
they said they were diamonds. Then
l became interested.
Il went back to the railroad cut
on my land and made an investiga-
ton. | found on the crest of hill
what appeared to be the crater of
an extinct volcano. Since then have
picked up 285 diamonds in the vicin-
ity of the old crater. l had 1879 of
the stones cut. They ranged in
weight from One-quarter Of carat
to five carats."
Mrs. Hope has had four solitaires,
cluster ring and two scarfpins
made up" She has about 100 I'M
cut gems.
Several millionaires in the east
are wearing my diamonds" Mrs.
Hope continued, "and they do not
appear to be ashamed of them. |
don't see any difference between the
African diamonds and my Arkansas
diamonds. The diamonds from my
mine are clear white and have the
sparkle of the African gems"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
DON'T ANGER U.s." SAYS JAPAN
AS WARNING TO OUR UNCLE SAM

heated insults will compel Japan to
resort to a determined policy of self
protection.
"The Hochi appeals to the presi-
dent and the people of America. Al
though Japan still believes that the
magnanimity that has prevailed in
the past will continue, the ceaseless
affronts are exhausting our patience. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
LIKE SOME OTHERS.

The author of How to Be Happy
Though Married" stands accused of
having run his wife and children out
of the house with a razor Presum-
ably he knows how, but doesn't prac-
tice what he breaches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27

YOKOHAMA.-The Hochi news
paper, in an editorial addressed to
Thomas J. O'Brien, American ambas-
sador, and entitled Don't Anger
U.s." says:
Japan is grateful to America for
opening the country, and revers her
as the land where virtue is honored,
but fears that sooner or later re-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27

cember %, has registered 227 earth
shocks of the first degree, 20 of ths
second degree, IS of the third. 10
of the fourth, of the fifth and 3
of the sixth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
AMERICUS FEDERAL BUILDING.
Contract Let for Its Erection at a
Cost of $4,000.

Cost of $4,000.
Postmaster Frank Mitchell of
Americas has been officially appraised
by the supervising architect of the
treasury department of the award
ing of the contract for the govern
ment building In Americas.
Inc successful bidder was George
Brocking of Chattanooga, at s51.-
446.
6eventy-five thousand dollars was
appropriated for the Americus build
ing, which includes the cost of the
land. An early beginning of con-
tract work is expected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27

To grow any more Dawson nna
nave manufactures. Remember
that, business man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-01

Regular 241a-lb. Sack 85c
Regular 49-lb. Sack. .S1.70
Full barrel .........S 6.75