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ton. The score was S to in favor of the
Camp boys. There was large delegation in
attendance from this place.. Mrs. Fred Mes
ser of Somerville, Mass, is visiting her moth
er, Mrs. Dunton and sisters, Mrs. Frank Berry
and Mrs. E. R. g.
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The Boston Globe says it is to be feared
that the new tariff will cover multitude
of ''skins.'
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sEARsMONr.

sEARSMONT.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene H. Sweetland and child
of Boston are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Sweetland .. Miss Alice Simmons called on
her old friends in town, August 21st. Miss
Simmons has situation as supervisor of read
ing and teacher of literature in the city schools
of Uhrichs, Ohio, and has vacation of two
weeks .. Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Tibbetts are
in town for month. -. Mrs. R. H. Stearns of
Dorchester, Mass, is visiting her sister, Mrs
Sadie jackson. =. Miss vanilla Trower of Rox-
bury and Vira Tibbetts of Medfeld, Mass, are
guests of Mrs Ora Bryant. Mrs. H. E. Brown
and Mrs A. D. Macleod of Newport, R. l.,
were guests of Mrs. Emma Taylor last week.
Mr., and Mrs Charles Matthews of New
York city and Mrs. Sarah Haskell and Mrs. G.
H. Hobbs of Camden dined at the Townsend
House and called friends in town August
22nd. .... The arrivals last week were Mrs. G
Roger of Maiden, Mass, at Mrs. W. U. Marri-
ner's; Mrs. Frank J. Jordan of Hyde Park,
Mass, at Mrs. L. Townsend's; and Mr.. A. L..
Ordway of Medford, Mass, and Mr.. C. Ripley
of Boston. :. Mrs. G. B. Dyer and Miss Sabra
Dyer and brother Raymond of Belfast; Mrs.
Edmund Bicknell, Miss Ruth and Master
Winthrop Sargent of Lawrence, Mass, passed
last week at camp Minnie-wa-wa, Quantaba-
cook. -. Mrs G. B. Dyer of Belfast and Mrs.
Edmund Bcknell of Lawrence, Mass, called on
friends in the village August 18th. ..., Miss
Emily F. Miller of Belfast was at home over
Sunday. :. Rev. and Mrs. Bryant gave the Ep-
worth League straw ride to Georges pond,
Liberty, August 18th, and all report good
time . The remains of Mrs. Martha Muzzy
Allen were brought here for burial August
goth, accompanied by the following nieces and
nephews: Mr.. and Mrs. John Alden, Miss Mat
tie F. Robinson of Andover; Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Robinson of Maiden; Miss Maud E.
Muzzy of Somerville, Mass; Mrs. Fannie and
Miss Sally Cross of Maiden; Miss Mary Plais-
ted of Bangor; also Mrs. George W. Stoddard
of Belfast.
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County Correspondence.
LINCOLNXILLE BEACH.

LINCOLNyILLE BEACH.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Victor Goulding of Worcester,
Mass. are stopping at the Elmwood. =. Mrs.
Rose Cleveland of Boston is spending her va
cation with Mrs. Worcester :. Miss Florence
Hallett of the Fir Wigwam is visiting friends
in Rockland :. Mr.. Fritz Manners of Boston is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hallett Glberte at the
Melody Manse. Mr.. and Mrs. John Haskell
of Cambridge, Mass, are stopping at the Elm
wood. Mrs. Merton Burrill of Vermont is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Wellington Hallett of
the Fir Wigwam. Miss Louise McCobb is
stopping with her grandmother, Mrs. Charles
Warren
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The National Prohibitionist, after ga
careful study of conditions in the Pine
Tree State, has begun publication of a
series Of articles on prohibition in
Maine" The first instalment closes as
follows: " The present chapter may be
summed up in word: The man who tells
you that Maine is wide open and selling
liquor like any other State is, in the Ian
guage Of the forceful West, A liar and a
horse thief. -
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Republican Journal Publishing Go.

CHARLES A. plLsBuRY, Ru Edt9T Manager sna
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WALDO STATION.

Warren.
WALDO STATION.
Farmers are beginning to harvest their
grain. Mr.. Augustus Cummings of West
Somerville, Mass, is visiting his parents. He
came through by auto, accompanied by a rela-
tive, Mr.. Frank Cummings. Leon Hussey
and Will Patterson attended the musicale in
Belfast last week.. The young son of Mr..
Charles French was operated upon for removal
of adenoids recently. The work was done oy
Drs. Tapley and Stevens of Belfast with good
success. Miss Grace Atwood of Bucksport is
spending part of her vacation with friends in
town. Rev. Frank E. Jones of China preach
ed an excellent sermon in South Brooks Sum-
day August 22nd. A permanent resident ar
rived at the home of Wesley Peavey not long
ago-a baby boy. Mrs. Horace Marden has
returned to Massachusetts after visiting her
parents. =. Mr.. Harry Forbes of Bangor spent
few days with friends in town recently.
APPLETON.
Mr.. Leroy Page of Brownville has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Gushee and
family the past week. Joseph Scherme-
shorn and family are here with the intention
of remaining. They will move into the house
recently vacated by Joseph Ames. :. Mrs. U.
S. Gushee of Pennington left Thursday for
her home, accompanied by Mr.. Gushee, who
has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Eme-
line Gushee. .... Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Pease
have had as guests the past week Mr.. Leslie
Heminway and sister, Miss Mertie, and friend
Mr.. Arthur Walters of New York, Misses Mil
dred and Edith McAlmon and Master Harri-
son McAlmon of Thomaston, and Mr.. George
A. Pease of Union. >. William Gushee and sis
ter, Miss Edith Gushee of Dorchester, Mass,
were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Linsley M.
Gushee.. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Gushee, son
and daughter of Ludlow, Mass, have been
guests the past week of Mrs. Frances Gushee
and daughters Fannie and Edith. Walter is
superintendent of schools of Ludlow and Aga
wam.. The Sunday school picnic held Friday
at Sunnebeck Lake was very largely attended
and much enjoyed. "A ball game was played
Thursday by the Appletons with the Medo-
mac Camp boys on their grounds in Washing
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Probably some of our readers may re-
member hearing of 1.-The Wizard of Had
lev's Lake. otherwise known as James
H. Duffey, who startled the scientific
world a few years ago by announcing
that he had re-discovered the lost art of
tempering copper. To the many visitors
this announcement brought to his door
he exhibited specimens of razors, chisels,
and other edge tools made by him, but
absolutely refused to part with his Sc
cret. Since then he has invented a
trolley wheel, which is said to have set
the whole electric railway people of the
country "a hankerin" and which he has
let to a New York manufacturer on
royalty His latest and what he claims
to be his most valuable discovery, is
process for improving gasoline, so that
it will become Just as safe to handle as is
kerosene oil: and then, too, when used in
engines, automobiles and for such pur-
poses there will be no noise from its use
whatever. If this dream comes true
THE Wizard of Hadley's Lake" will
be acclaimed a public benefactor the
world over. His invention will both
save and prolorg life.
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the State in 1910 found in this town an
abundance ct white quartz rock, which
makes the finest glass. Heat it and put
it in water and it becomes granulated
like sugar We have investigated the
matter and find that its value in the Bos-
ton and New Y DIRK markets is 500 per ton
not enough TO make it paying bust
ness without railroad. Capt. John O.
johnson Of Liberty in The Journal of
August 18th.
We reprint this paragraph as since it
appeared we have received a bulletin
from the U. S. Geological Survey, giving
many uses to which quartz may be put
The bulletin says:
Quartz is the most abundant of all min
erals, occurs in a great variety of forms,
and has many different uses, the principal
ones being in the manufacture of wood
filler, pottery, paints, and securing soaps.
Massive quartz, crushed and graded to
various degrees of fneness,s is used in
making sandpaper, sand belts, with sand
blast apparatus, etc. Within recent years
crystalline quartz has been used as a
source of silicon and in the manufacture
of alloys of silicon with iron and copper
The great affinity of silicon for oxygen
renders it useful as a deoxidizer in many
of the metal industries.
Some of the older readers of The Jour
nal, and perhaps younger ones as well,
will enjoy the article on another page on
the Hiliard school readers. In the sketch
given of their compiler no mention is
made Of his journalistic work. When
George Lunt was editing the Boston
Daily Courier, a Wing paper of marked
ability in its day, Hillard was an editor
ial contributor. In July, 1859, he sailed
from Boston for Liverpool in Cunard
steamer with Rufus Choate, who started
for Europe but became so ill before the
steamer reached Halifax that he was
landed there and died few days later.
In letter to the Courier Mr.. Hillard
gave the particulars of this sad ending
of brilliant career We notice that the
writer of this article on Hillard's Read
ers speaks Of the poem ''Al! Quiet Along
the Potomac Tonight" as anonymous.
That poem has been the subject of con-
troversy for more than thirty years. 1t
has been claimed by Lamar Fontaine, a
southern writer, and is included in vol
ume of his poems; but the weight of
evidence is against his claim and in favor
of northern woman, whose name for the
moment has escaped us, and the poem is
believed to have first appeared in Har-
lper's Weekly.
The make-believe war in Massachu-
sets is over, and at last advices Boston
town did not know whether it had been
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
BUSY WITH WHAT THE PEOPLE EAT AND DRINK
but the Tariff Makers Are Taking Mighty Thought of What
They Eat and Wear Extravagances Taken Care Of
Rv ZachM e1bea
BY Zach MeGhee.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The G. o.
T. tariff makers in getting up a bill
which will save their own faces and
at the same time raise enough reve-
nue. to support the extravagances of
the government, which is another
way OF saving their faces, are just
now taking thought of what we eat
and what we drink, but very little
OF what We put on.
There is no thought of taking the
tariff off of wool, although the tax
on wool and woolens is practically
prohlbitory; but it is now considered
very likely that coffee is to be taxed
nVe or seven cents a pound. Not a
gram OF coffee is grown for the mar
Ket IN this country, that is in the
united States proper, although we
use about a million and a half
pounds of coffee grown in what
CHAMP Clark calls "the United States
improper" meaning Porto Rico and
Hawaii. We import about 100000
600 pounds of coffee from foreign
countries, about 600,00O,O0O of it
from Brazil and other South Ameri-
can countries. At five cents a pound
this would bring in $45,000,000 to
the government.
The tariff on steel brings nothing,
the tariff on wool brings nothing, and
the tariff on a large number of other
trust controlled articles brings moth
ing, except to the Golfers of the
trusts, which the people pay. Now
it is proposed to raise the price of
coffee, which is already about as dear
an article of necessity we use in or
der to supply the revenue which the
protected trusts are in effect robbing
the people of by diverting it to their
own pockets instead of to the treas
ury of the government.
The coffee which most of us use
costs from % to 35 cents a pound
With a tariff of 5 cents it will cost
from 30 to 40 cents, unless it is pos
sible to get Porto Rican or Hawaiian
coffee a cent or two cheaper, in which
case the coffee growers of those two
provinces, or rather the trusts which
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

control the products of the growers.
VIII divide the revenue with the gov
eminent and of course take the lions
share
But revenue would be raised, and
one of the very ideas of putting this
tax on coffee, which is a tax for rev
enue only, is as kind of thrust at
the democrats who have been con-
tending for tariff for revenue only.
or course there will be kicking about
1t, and naturally so; not, however.
because tax is levied for revenue.
put because the highest tariffs and
the ones which the people are pay
ing ana must pay never raise any
revenue except for the trusts.
Now coffee is not a necessity. not
any more than tobacco is, except, of
course, to satisfy peoples magma
tlons. 1t is necessary for that, but
SO is tobacco, for that matter.
Mighty few households in this coun-
try, though, are without it unless
they are also without flour, meal
meat and salt. Imaginations must
be satisfied just as thirsts must be
satlsfled. Poor man, rich man, beg
gar man, thief, may therefore. get
ready to contribute to the support
and the waste of the government at
Washington. Every sip of coffee you
take, after this tax is put on. lust
think of your beneficence in provid-
ing $40, 100000 toys in the shape OF
battleships for the president and his
children to play with and nice little
Junkets down to Panama by congress
men and president's-elect,a and for the
thousands of futile, not to say alb
surd, things done in the name of the
government and with the money Won
Will pay every time you buy a pound
of coffee.
But don't kick and make a row
about the tax on coffee. That's all
right, or would be if you just did not
have to pay $40 for every SO suit of
clothes you buy, 80 cents for every
2O-cent pocket knife, 40 cents for
every fifteen cents plow, not one pen
ny of which goes to the government
treasury.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
MEETING OF ROAD TO SEA MEN.
MIR. Hillyer Suggests the Purchase of
the A. Il +. Railroad.

the A. Il +. Railroad.
The special commission appointed
by act of the legislature to consider
the advisability and feasibility of ex-
tending the Western and Atlantic
railroad to the sea, held it's first for
NAL meeting in Atlanta Wednesday.
The commission perfected it's or
ganization by the election of Hooper
Alexander, representative from De-
Kalb, as chairman and George Dole
Wadley of Bolingbroke as secretary.
The chairman and secretary, to-
together with Joel Hurt of Atlanta,
were appointed a special committee
to investigate and report upon vari-
Gus questions, including the neces-
sity for the extension, it's cost, the
construction of it by the use of CON
Wet labor, the probable revenue to
be derived from it by the state, it's
relation to the industrial develop
ment of the state and other prelimi-
nary matters.
A communication was read from
Railroad Commissioner George Hill
yer suggesting as part of the plan
of extension that the state should
purchase the old Atlanta and Florida
railroad extending from Atlanta to
Fort Valley.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
THE PURE DRUG VAN.
His First Report Says There Is Cen
eral Violation of the law

A"A NAOIdtfOn OF the Law,
An interesting report on his work
for the last few months of 1908
has been made by DR.. T. A. Cheat
man, the new state drug inspector
VINO is serving in the office created
by the last legislature. According to
MS report violations of the drug laws
OF the state are very general.
DR.. Cheatham has visited 349 drug
stores, and found 331 of them up-
to-date and complying with all the
regulations. He found IS working
without licenses, and filling prescrip-
tlons without authority. 1t was
found that SO stores keep no poison
register as is required by law.
Eight wholesale grocers have been
found selling drugs in violation of
the state law, and nine retail gro
GERS and % general merchants com
hitting the same offense.
All those who are not following
or are violating the laws were
warned by the inspector, and unless
they comply in future will be prose
cuted.
At an early date the inspector will
begin looking into the matter of the
purity of drugs, as required under
the law. In this regard the same law
as passed by congress prevails in
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
SPANKING COMMITTEE
Applies the Single Vigorously
to the President.
CAUSTIC REPORT WAS CHEERFD

And Enthusiastically Adopted by am
Overwhelming Majority of Con-
gress. Presidents Insulting Words
in Message Were Expunged From
the Records. Was Taken to Task
on the Floor by Members.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-After hav-
ing made him the target all day for
criticism the house of representatives
tonight, by vote of PIP to 35, re-
buked the president by tabling and
expunging from the record that part
of his message as reflected on mem
bers of congress in connection with
his recommendations regarding the
secret service detectives, and also de-
claring it to be the sense of the house
that they shall decline to consider
any communications from any source
which are not, in its own judgment,
respectful.
Toward the close of the debate
Mr.. Gardner of Massachusetts, vainly
endeavored to secure, first, the adop-
tlon OF substitute for the resolution
IN the shape of an amendment ex-
pressing confidence in the commit
tee on appropriations, and then the
postponement of the whole matter
until Monday, but he was overwhel-
mingly outvoted
When Chairman Perkins of New
York of the special committee arose
to make his report he faced an al
most full membership, while the
galleries were packed with interest
| ed spectators. Messrs. TaWney,
Smith of Iowa, Sherley and Fitz-
gerald were on the floor prepared by
word of mouth to resent what they
! deemed to be the insinuations of
the president upon them as mem
bers OF the committees on appro-
prlatlons. They were not alone in
their Indignation. Indeed, for some
time past the feelings of the mem
bers had been growing more and
more intense, and some of them have
| been giving way to their sentiments
IN language which fully testified to
their wounded pride
The president was taken to task
on the floor of the house of repre-
sentatives in a manner unheard of
since the times of Andrew Jackson.
and members of congress and crowds
IN the galleries sat in utter astonish
ment as representatives delivered
! vtriolic denunciations of the chief
executive. 1t was an oratorical ex-
plosion the like of which has sell
, dom been heard on the floor of the
house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
OIL TRUST IN THE CABINET i?
The AttOrney-Generalship May Be in
the Hands of Good Friend
of the Trusts.

Efforts of Standard Oil to take a
hand in the selection of the attorney
general of the Taft Cabinet have
thrown this town into ferment, says
a Washington dispatch.
The real reason for President
Roosevelt's announced visit to Geor-
gia is to be found in his desire to
talk with Judge Taft on this topic.
When the president-elect passed
through Washington a few days ago
he told some friends in close conf
dence that he was thinking of APP
pointing as his Encouragement
either Charles Nagel of st. Louis or
George w. Wickersham of the firm
of Strong & Cadwalader of New
York.
Both these men, it is now learned,
have close Standard Oil connections,
and their Endorsements to Judge
Taft are Standard Oil Endorsements.
Mr.. Nagel is a partner of the man
denounced by President Roosevelt re-
Gently for his Standard Oil connec-
tons in the southwest. Mr.. Wicker
sham has been attorney for numer-
Gus corporations in New York which
are closely allied in their business in
terests with Standard Oil.
The campaign of Standard Oil be-
gins with an announcement that
Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota shall
not under any circumstances be ap-
pointed encouragement. 1T will be
remembered that Mr.. Kellogg has
given evidence of his abilities and
purpose to put the Standard Oil trust
where it belongs, and some of it's
members possibly behind the bars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
Fight FOR oCRAPS OF FOOD
HORRIBLE ARE THE STORIES or
STARVING PEOPLE OF THE
EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY.

ROME, Survivors of the
earthquake at Reggie and Messina.
who are without food and shelter.
/ today engaged in riots, and troops
have been sent to quell them. The
men were fighting each other for
scraps of food found in the ruins.
More towns are found to have
been destroyed as investigation pro-
ceeds Many victims are still alive
IN the ruins, but it is impossible to
reach them.
Horrible tales are coming from
Calabria of fighting between the
starving families for crusts, and
there are fearful struggles for food
and life between the men and dogs
Men and women are literally dying
OF starvation in ruined Calabria and
help arrives but slowly.
But a greater danger than starva-
tin hangs over the devastated dis
trlct, that of pestilence, hence his
majesty has wired a peremptory de-
mand for quicklime by ship loads.
Corpses a Prey for Dogs.
Thousands of corpses lie fostering
and immovable beneath the debris of
the wrecked towns and cities. Prowl-
ing dogs and carrion birds would
spread an epidemic.
The distribution of food has been
organized. Bakeries have been OPEN
ed and slaughter houses established.
1t is hoped that by noon today no
one need be without bread.
The road between here and Mes
slna is filled with refugees with all
of their possessions on their backs in
the shape of tattered clothing, and in
many cases even these garments only
partly cover the bodies of the own
ers. Survivors say that undoubtedly
there are still living people wrapped
IN the ruins Of the smaller villages
that have not been carefully exam
ined.
Estimates of the dead still 90 to
100000, and as the investigations
proceed the list of towns DESTROYED
grow
The relief contributions from va
rious American cities amount to
100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
EYEGLASSES ON EXCHANGE
Place Where Millions of Fictitious
Bales of Cotton Are Bought and
Sold Is Under Investigation.

The committee appointed by the
governor OF New York to investigate
Wall street and it's methods has be-
gun work on the New York Cotton
Exchange. 1t is expected from the
character Of the committee that the
investigation will be thorough. AS
to what its recommendation will be
nothing definite is of course known.
1t is predicted that it will recon-
mend that all sales shall be recorded.
together with the names of the pur-
chasers and the prices paid, but it
isn't believed that it will be recon-
mended that future sales be prohib-
tied
For long time southern growers
of cotton have been complaining of
the New York Cotton Exchange,
their belief being that it was mimi
cal to their interests. In charges
preferred by the Southern Cotton
Association it was said that the ex-
change had developed into a purely
speculative and gambling exchange, >
and the commissioner of the bureau
OF corporations, after investigating it.,
stated that New York was no longer
a purely spot market"
1t is a safe prediction that the
committee will go to the bottom of
the methods of the exchange, and
that if there is anything crooked in
them it will be exposed. One of the
statements is that there are wash"
sales on the exchange, and that in
other ways the public is misled. If
these statements are shown to be cor
rect it is not at all improbable that
drastic legislation that would come
close to putting the exchange out of
business will be recommended, and
the recommendation of the commit
tee will in all probability be adopted
by the New York legislature.
For several years the cotton grow
ers have felt that the New York Cot
ton Exchange was injuring them
They do not think that the reforms
reported to have been made in its
methods have been genuine-at least
they still think they have good
ground for complaint. If they have
information that bears out their
opinion they should have it present
ed to the committee. There is no
doubt that the committee is sincere
and means business. Savannah
News.