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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
is BETTER THAN WARSHIPS
COTTON THE STRONGEST DE-
TENSE OF THE COUNTRY.
Declared Railroad President in an
Address to the Farmers I'm
ion in Oklahoma.

SHAWNEE, Okla.-Deprecating
the growing expenditures which the
United States is mourning in connec-
ton with the maintenance of the
army and navy and declaring that
grain and cotton fields are stronger
military defenses than warships, B.
f. 4oakum, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Rock Island
Company, delivered an address Tues
day before the Farmers Union of
Oklahoma.
Mr.. Yoakum in his speech de-
clared that the farmers and the
railroads are natural partners" the
hrst thing inquired about by an in
Vestor in new railroad securities be-
ing the character of the country
winch the road will serve.
If it can be shown" he said, THAT
the territory to be served by the new
railroad is a good farming country
the greatest trouble in finding the
money to build has been overcome.
On the other hand, the first question
farmer seeking a location in a new
country asks is What are it's railroad
facilities?'
Il do not come here to tell you
how you should run your farms, nor
to discuss uplift theories of country
life, but to exchange views and to
promote intelligent cooperation.
The things most needed by the
farmer and the railroad, but which
are neglected to the detriment of
both, are better acquaintance and
closer working relations.
I'VE should not depend upon the
professional politician, whose inter-
est too often is to create prejudice
against corporations and against all
commercial and financial enterprises.
regardless of whether they are hon
estly or dishonesty conducted
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
4O,9 RURAL MAIL ROUTES
GEORGIA WAS JOHNNY ON THE
SPOT" AT THE DISTRIBUTION.
Has Taken Advantage of the Service
TO a Greater Extent Than Any
Other Southern State.

WASHINGTON.-In a statement
issued today by the Postoffice Depart
ment 1t is shown that on August 2,
1909, there were in operation 4O,919
rural postal routes in the United
States served by 40,S04 carriers.
While some of the southern states
were slow to recognize the advant-
ages of rural delivery this can not
be SAID of Georgia, for it is a matter
or record that long before there were
as many as half dozen applications
Tor the service presented from some
OF the neighboring states there were
IN operation in Georgia several hun
dfed routes, and petitions pending
for as many more.
The first rural route in that state
was established out of the postoffice
at Quitman December, 1896.
On August /, 1909, there were
IN operation in Georgia 1854 rural
routes, and there are pending, un-
acted upon, SO petitions for addition
al service.
Service has been organized on a
county basis in 80 counties, and 9TH
er counties will be taken up for re-
organization as rapidly as conditions
will permit. The reason that so
many We're put into operation in
Georgia and other states was the
foresight of the people in promptly
presenting their petitions.
Rural carriers in Georgia travel
daily except Sundays and holidays
nearly 10000 miles of highway, and
serve about 100000 rural residents.
Since the establishment of the first
route IN the state extension and
maintenance of the service in Geor-
gia it has cost the government about
$1,000, 1000, the present annual rate
of cost being little more than ST.
100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
THE NEW PROHIBITION LAW
ITS EFFECT ON THE LARGE AND
SMALL TOWNS OF THE STATE.
VIII Likely Play a Part in the Next
Campaign for Members of
the Legislature.


The Savannah News calls the near
beer amendment to the general tax
bill the new prohibition bill" and
proceeds to discuss the measure and
its probable effect as follows:
The change in the prohibition law
which has been made in the general
tax act amounts practically to a new
prohibition lava more stringent
prohibition law. 1t shuts out near
beer in the rural districts and all
towns under twenty-five hundred in
habitants and greatly increases the
tax for the privilege of selling near
beer in the towns in which it is per-
mitted to be sold.
What is the effect of the new law
going to be? 1t will increase the
travel of the country people to the
towns in which near beer can be
had, and consequently the trade of
these towns. Therefore, it will be
popular, rather than otherwise, with
the retail merchants of the larger
towns, but how about the smaller
towns? viii it not be unpopular
with them? 1t looks that way. And
if unpopular with them will not they
begin an agitation either to extend
the privilege of selling near beer to
all parts of the state or to withdraw
it from the towns which have it?
I'VE shall not be surprised to see
such an agitation for change in the
law begun in the very near future,
certainly Defore the next meeting of
the Legislature. If anybody thinks
the near beer legislation is going to
be permitted to stand as it is he will
find he is mistaken.
And yet, the law is a compromise
that is based upon reason. Blind
tigers can be easily discovered and
suppressed in the rural districts and
smaller cities. 1t would be difficult,
if not impossible, to prevent the sale
of beer in the larger cities. Blind
tigers would flourish, however vigi-
liant the officials might be. We base
this statement upon the experiences
of other states where prohibition has
| been tried and abandoned or is still
in force. If officials are vigilanr and
untiring in their efforts to discover
blind l.gers the sale can be greatly
lessened, but it is extremely difficult
to elect omcers of that kind. If such
officers are elected one year they are
likely to be defeated another. That
is the way it has been heretofore.
Will it be different in future? Only
to the extent that people are edu-
Gated against strong drink.
''The workings of the new prohibi-
ton law will be watched with great
interest. If the legislature doesn't
change it at its next session it will
certainly play a part in the next gu
bernatorial campaign"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
AUTOMOBILES IN KANSAS.
Farmers Buying Them as Fast as
They Can Be Manufactured.

Farmers Buying Them as Fast as
They Can Be Manufactured.
One would never guess it, but it
is fact that, population considered,
more automobiles are owned in Kan
sas than in any other state. Tha
prosperity of the state is simply phe-
nomenal. The deposits in the Kan
sas banks today exceed by 100000
900 those of a year ago, despite the
fact that they have been reduced
$40, 100000 since March. Much of
this money has gone for the purchase
of automobiles. No prosperous farm
er believes in driving to town these
days with team-time is too valua-
BILE. On the farms and for carrying
products to market great self-pro-
PEELED wagons are being used as fast
as they can be procured. Pawnee
county, out in the bread belt, though
with a comparatively light popula-
ton, has over 200 autos, mostly
owned by farmers. One agent in a
small town in Barton county has sold
more than 100 cars to farmers this
season, while an agent in Brown
county has sold SIS.
1--WE used to send our mnoey east
to pay interest on our mortgages,
said Kansas farmer the other day.
Now we send it to pay for automo-
biles. The east gets our money any
way"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
GIANT MOSQUITOES IN TEXAS,
work in Coast Counties Abandoned
on Account of Them.

OA
A Galveston dispatch says a
scourge of a new species of giant
mosquitoes never before equaled as
10 size has swept the Gulf coast sec
uon OF Texas. Work in rice fields
IN southeast and southwest coast
counties has been abandoned because
OF the myriads of big mosquitoes at
lacking the laborers. Owing to the
neat the workmen cannot wear thick
clothes. The cattle stand in water
neck deep and refuse to come out to
eat.
Several coast line railroads are
operating trains without passengers
because the big mosquitoes in dense
clouds literally forced passengers to
stay home. The Gulf and Interstate
road has been the greatest sufferer.
Even on Galveston Island, with a
stltf gulf breeze blowing, it has been
found necessary to use tons of oil to
drive away the large mosquitoes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25

ed with 20,287,742, and the Roman
Catholics with 12,079,142. Of the
Protestant bodies the Methodists
numbered 5,749,838; the Baptists,
1862, 234; the Lutherans, 2,112,494;
the Presbyterians, 1,830,555, and the
Disciples or Christians, 1,142,359.
Of the total of 32,936,445 church
members GIG per cent. were Pro-
testants, 36.7 per cent. Roman Cath
Ollie, and IL per cent. members of
other religious organizations. The
rate of increase shown for the Ro-
man Catholic church is 93.5 per cent,
which is more than twice that for all
the Protestant bodies combined. The
Methodist reported 17.5 per cent. Of
all Protestant church members; the
Baptists 17.2 per cent.
Increase in Number of Organization.
The total number of local religious
organizations in 1906 is given as
212,230, an increase since 1890 Of
47,079, or 28.5 per cent. The Pro-
! testants are credited with an increase
in this particular amounting to 27.8
per cent; the Roman Catholic
church 21.9 per cent; the Jewish
congregations 231.9 per cent, and
the Latter-day Saints 1873 per cent.
The Methodists reported the
largest number of local organiza-
tions, 64,701; the Baptists reported
54,880; the Presbyterians 1896;
the Lutherans 12,7O3, and the Ro-
man Catholics 12,482.
Other interesting features of the
bulletin are those showing that the
total seating capacity of churches
was 5S,536,830, an increase over the
1890 United States census figures of
34.4 per cent; that the rate of in
crease was practically the same for
both Protestants and Roman Catho-
lies, and kept pace with the increase
in pop lation; and that $1,257, 575,-
867 was invested in church edifices
in 1906.
The total amount of debt was
sos, ,946, or SO per cent. OF
the total value; of this total the Pro-
testant bodies owed $53,3U1,254,
and the roman Catholics $40, 488,-
055. In 16 states a majority of the
church members were Roman Cath
Ollie; in 20 states Protestant, and in
one, Utah, Latter-day Saints.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
TO INSURE ONLY TEETOTALERS.

Temperance Insurance Company of
America Applies For Charter.
A life insurance company that will
accept risks on total abstainers only
has been organized with Atlanta as
headquarters under the name of 1.-The
Temperance Life Insurance Company
of America" 1t is the only organi-
cation of its kind in the United
States.
Application for charter was filed
Tuesday with Secretary of State
Cook, the incorporators being w. A.
Covington of Moultrie, joint author
of the Observation-Disclosures prohibi-
ton bill; J. H. Andrews, DR.. Marion
McH. Hull, James K. Hines, all of
Atlanta, and j. F. Fender of Lowndes
county. The initial capital stock is
100000 with privilege of increas-
ing this amount as the need arises.
Numbers of the leading prohibi-
tionists throughout the country are
said to be behind the company with
the intention of making it OF national
Ii iisf fsteeenee and Importance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
GIRLS SPANKED MINISTER.
He Was Not Able to Conduct the
Tent Meeting Afterwards.

rent Meeting Afterwards.
Rev. Howard w. Benedict. a nonu-
lar young divine of East Norwalk
Conn.,, was in bed and in pain one
evening last week when he should
have been conducting the Union Con-
gregational and Methodist tent meet
ing in Westport, all because some
young lady friends spanked him too
nara Saturday night in celebration
of his birthday.
Mr.. Howard is able to get I'D and
be out, but it will be some DAYS be-
fore he eats his meals elsewhere than
from the mantelpiece. 1t was no
gentle birthday taps that were adj
ministered to Mr.. Benedict. They
were gooo, sound cracks from barrel
slaves.
The young minister had too much
respect for the sex to use force to
bring about suspension of the
birthday remembrance, and he was
too dignlfied to run, so he took it
for the most part where his mother
supplied it in his childhood days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
UNCLE SANS ARMY OF CATS
MANY OF THEM USED IN ARMY
AND CIVIL SERVICE.
Each Pussy Draws From the Treas.
ury $1S.25 a Year, For Which
Official Allowance Is Made.

If all the cats regularly in tba
service of the United States could be
assembled in one place they would
approach the proportions of full
brigade, and display sufficient varie-
ty and attractions for highly inter
esting cat show.
There would not, perhaps. be anv
pampered and pedigreed Persians
among them, plumy tailed, Ianguor-
Gus and naughty; they are of neces-
sity plain business cats. with their
work cut out for them, more intent
on capturing mice than prizes. Rur
they include handsome cats, homeIy
cats and odd cats; the pert and bob
tailed Manx, the gentle and Ouak-
erly Maltese, the tigerish brindIe.
the trlcolored tortOise-shell, and the
modern 'cold-storage" cat-that en-.
rlous breed, originating among this
great cold-storage warehouses Of
Plttsburg, and since then exported
TO guard the great cold commissarv
stores in Manila. Ranging the great
chilled rooms, their artifciallv de-
Veloplng arctic qualities-their fat,
chunky bodies, heavy fur, short
sails, long and strong eyebrows and
whiskers-make them comfortable.
as outside in the tropic tempera-
ture they would be miserable. Trick
cats there are in the list, too. and
numerous pets, whose nonfeline fell
low employees have adorned them
with gay ribbons, silver bells, or mo
rocco collars, or other forms of their
interest and affection.
Cats are maintained in many post
offlces, and the postOffice cats of New
YORK cost the government $50
year. Many other government build
lngs also maintain cats. The army
has its regular corps of them en-
pIoyed chiefly in the commissary de-
pots of large cities. Each pussy, ac-
cording to the figures given out a
few years ago, draws equal to S18.25
a year; for it has been found that
no cat, no matter how faithful and
triumphant a mouser, will thrive ON
a diet of mice alone. Neither will
cat of proper spirit and ability re-
lax its campaign against the enemy
through being properly fed. On the
contrary, IL becomes an even more
formidable foe.
So the officer in charge of each
department forwards to the war de-
partment an official request for an
allowance for so many cats. Bids
are then posted calling for fresh
beef, suitable for feeding cats. bone
excluded" at a price not over five
cents a pound. And this ration, for
the better preservation of pussy's
health, is occasionally varied with
canned milk or fish.
In fact, although dogs, widely
reckoned the more useful animals,
are, as assistants to the police, en-
ployed experimentally in only very
few cities the humble and unob-
strusive cat has long made good her
place in national employment, both
in the civil service and in the army.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
THE YOUNG CHAP NO LONGER AT A
PREMIUM IN MR.. NAGEL,S OFFICE
Department Commerce and Labor It's
the Young Men Who Are Being Dropped Froms Service.
The Old Having His Day.

WASHINGTON.-One result of
Secretary Nagel's house cleaning is
of more than passing interest. The
young man has had his day so long
in the United States that it is some
thing of surprise to find that a
majority of the clerks in the depart
ment of Commerce and Labor who
are to go out are the younger men,
bers of the stan. Some of the old men
have lost their usefulness through
approximation, but the boys show
the greater amount of laziness and
general shiftlessness.
The theory that 3 men Sc SO and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
CENSUS OF RELIOUS BODIES.
Roman Catholics Show the Biggest Per Cent Increase
All Denominations Have More Females Than Males

That the church members in the
United States numbered nearly thir-
ty-three millions in 1906; that there
were billion and a quarter dollars
invested in church edifices; that
every day eight new churches sent
their spires skyward; that males
formed considerably less than half
the total church membership; that a
larger percentage of Catholic males
than Protestant males were mem
bers; that in 16 states the majority
of the total church membership were
Roman Catholic; but that of the
grand total of church members re-
ported for the United States els
per cent. were Protestants and 36.7
per. cent. Roman Catholics; these are
the salient and conspicuous facts APP
pearing in the proof sheets of a
United States census bureau bulle-
tin, prepared by Chief Statistician
William G. Hunt of the division of
population, of the United States GEN.
sus bureau, copy of which has been
received by The News.
The bulletin will be issued this
month. 1t is in the nature of an abb
stract of the comprehensive report,
now in press, giving the results of
the fifth census of Religious Bodies
in the United States.
Fewer Male Than Female Members.
1t is stated that United States CEN
sus statistics of church membership
by sex were collected for the first
time in 1906. Of the total number
of members reported by the various
religious bodies and classified by sex
43.1 per cent. were males and 569
per cent. females. Among the Pro-
testants the difference was greater,
only 1913 per cent. being males. In
the Roman Catholic churches there
were relatively more males, the num-
Der forming 49.3 per cent. of the
total membership.
Fewer males than females were
found among the Latter-day Saints,
the Lutherans, Disciples, Methodists,
Baptists, Presbyterians and Protest
ant Episcopalians, the percentages of
male members decreasing in the or
der shown, and there being but 35.5
per cent. male among the Episcopa-
lians. Among the Christian Scent
lists only 27.6 per cent. were males;
and of the Shakers but 21.3 per
cent; but, in the Greek Orthodox
church 93.9 per cent. were male, as
practically all Greek immigrants have
been males.
Proportion of Church Members in
Total Population.
OF the total estimated population
of continental Unied States in 1906
the church members formed 39.1
per cent, and the Protestants with
for 1890, amounting to ga per cent,
more in 1906 than in 1890. OF this
GA per cent. increase the Roman
Catholic church is credited with "A
per cent. and the Protestants with
1S per cent, the remainder being
divided among all other denomina-
tions.
It is stated in the bulletin that
the total number of members report
ed by the various religious bodies
for 1906 was 32,936,445, of which
number the Pf0testaHts we're credit
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25

MANILA, P. 1.-The United States
po'ernment is collecting and segre-
a'lng the lepers throughout the
H'Hppines. More than 1900 have
ecu found so far. All the islands,
1Vept Mindanao and the provinces
Lagayan, Isabella and Nueva Viz
soya' have been gone over by the
tCIaI searchers at least once. From
I'm gathered it is supposed about
Iepers remain to be discovered in
n Various places yet unvisited, as
eHe lungles where these unfortu-
e creatures have been hidden.
"1F cases are encountered where
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25

the feet and hands and even the en-
tire limbs have atrophied, or with
cred away Government scientists
are to study the disease called yaros,
which is said to have produced much
of the leprosy in the Philippines.
More than 700 houses have been re-
moved from the cholera infected dis
tricts around Manila. Most of them
were on stills on land frequently in
undated. Wherever the owners OBJ
jected the government appealed to
the courts, which have sustained the
provincial board of health. The
RACED districts were noted for hiding
places for thieves, owing to the abb
senee Of streets therein.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25

more is out of the race when once
he loses his job is not borne out by
this experience in Washington. The
young chap is more valuable than
the old one If he can show an eouaI
amount of fidelity, steadiness and
uniformity of output. But the dis
fractions of life are more likely 10
cause his mind to wander and to
make him an unreliable cog in the
industrial machinery. For this rea-
son there is still room, even IN
America, for the steady old hama
who makes up for his lack Of celeritv
with other qualities that are iust IL
valuable 70 mis- employer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-25
IF THE JULEP IS UNDER BAN
WHAT USE WILL THERE BE FOR
A CLUB IN ALABAMA?
4 Funeral Is Held, and Members of
Birmingham's Most Famous Or
ganizatiOn Bury Hope.

ganlzatIOn Bury Hope.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Club life in
Alabama, which has been the foun-
dation of the states far-famed hos
nitality since there was any such
fame. as we'll as the whole social
fabric of the state, is revolutionized
rnder the new prohibition laws, in
Guiding the constitutional prohibition
which knocks out the social glass in
every club in Alabama. All the lock-
.er systems of the clubs are abandon
ed and these institutions are as dry
as the desert of Sahara
The Southern Club of Birming-
ham which is the largest in the
state, with a membership of nearly
500 of the leading citizens, held fun
eral services over the demise of the
locker system this week, with exer-
cises marked by both humor and
pathos All the lockers wherein was
stored the liquors and wines of high
and low degree were decked out in
mourning and "Billiken, the god of
ioy and SMILES" which occupies a
conspicuous place in the grand recep-
ton hall, was draped with crepe.
A number of the leading mem
bers, including prominent business
and professional men of high social
standing, delivered funeral orations,
setting forth the virtues of the de-
parted. After this a funeral process
sion was formed and marched
throughout the rooms and halls, in
Guiding the grand ballroom and re-
ception hall, the members stepping
to a regular funeral dirge
Famed for Drinks and Guests.
This club has been noted for it's
hospitality and its art in the prepar-
alton and dispensing of choice drinks.
1t has entertained many of the most
prominent men in financial, social
and public life in this country.
Among its guests have been E. H.
Hartman, w. e. Corey, John w.
Gates, President Finley of the South
ern Railway, former Vice-President
Charles Fairbanks, former Secretary
Shaw, POstmaster-General Hitch
cock, former Secretary of the Navy
Hillary Herbert, former President
Theodore Roosevelt, President Eliot
of Harvard University, Col. Mcclure
of Philadelphia, Joseph Jefferson, E.
H. Sothern, John Drew, Maude
Adams and Julia Marlowe. The
Duke of Manchester has also been
entertained by this club.
All of this has been changed, and
number of the leading members of
the institution are worried as to it's
future prospects. There are even
hints at the possibility of abandoning
the organization. 1t is asserted by
many that with the withdrawal of
the fragrant julep and cocktail inter-
est will be reduced to a minimum
and its social possibilities will be
curtailed.
Every year on the night before
thanksgiving this club has given a
magnificent entertainment, consist
lug OF ball and banquet, and each
member was allowed to invite five
outsiders. An average of $4,000
worth OF champagne was dispensed at
each OF these entertainments, and
tney were regarded as epochs in the
SoclaI life of the state, attracting
sueStS from all over Alabama and
"GJolnlng states. The death knell
Vi the social glass under the siren
uous new prohibition laws abolishes
this function.