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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
KEPT SOBER; GOT 5, 100000
'HTGH ROLLER" MADE MILLION
A YEAR BY QUITTING BOOZE.
Man Who Won Greatest Temperance
Prize in History of the World
Has Just Died.


Prize in History of the World
Has Just Died.
There died the other day in New
York a man who won the greatest
temperance prize ever offered in the
history of the world, in all probable
My. George Croker, son of the null
ti-millionaire Croker, of California,
secured to himself an estate of five
million dollars by the simple expe-
dent of remaining sober for fl We
years. One million dollars a year
for staying sober is a pretty good
payment, even for the man who likes
his eye opener in the morning, a few
cocktails during the day, and some
highballs after the lights have been
turned on.
AS a young man Croker rolled
high. He was a fast sport. Drink
threatened to be his everlasting ruin
His father lost confidence in his abili-
ty to handle money to any advant-
age, and on his death it was found
that he had left five million dollars
to the boy conditioned on his alb
staining from liquor for five years.
Otherwise he received a comparative
1y small allowance.
Young Croker was equal to the
occasion. Realizing that the Great
White Way" or it's predecessor of
that time, was too alluring for him
to hope to meet the terms of the
will if he dilly-dallied with the pleas
ures there afforded the young man
betook himself to a ranch in Utah
and there for five years stuck man
fully to the water wagon. Then he
claimed and received the five mil
lions. In addition to the wealth he
had stored up a vast reserve force
of health and energy, and in addition
had learned the lesson of self con-
troll. Presumably he held himself
well in hand after that, as he APP
pears to have been connected with
many business enterprises of magni-
tude.
Other fathers might do well to
initiate the example of old man
Crocker if they have sons whose in
clinations are toward a life in which
wine, women and song are the prin-
cipal features. A few years of en-
forced sobriety, with handsome
prize as a reward, coming at a time
when the inclination to throw aside
the conventional restraints of life
is at its strongest, might be the saw
ing and the making of many young
men into whose hands fortunes so
often fall with disastrous results.
The young man who has withstood
temptations for several years at such
a critical period of life is apt to
have had his backbone sufficiently
strengthened to carry him safely
through temptations after the mon
ey has fallen into his hands. The
Croker expedient certainly COM
mends itself for its directness and
simple effectiveness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
DOUBLE SUNSET.
Curious Spectacle Seen at Times in
One Spot in England.

one spot i'll England.
A very curious astronomical phe-
nOmenOn occurs in the heavens at
certain time OF the year which can
be witnessed only by standing in the
parish churchyard of Lee in Stafford
shire, England.
From that position the top of
mountain known as the Cloud breaks
the line of sight and fully intercepts
your view of the setting of the sun.
This mountain is six miles distant,
as the crow flies, from the town of
Leek, and owing to its peculiar for
nation causes the sun when it has
entered that sign of the zodiac known
as Cancer, which happens when we
are about halfway through the year,
to produce the strange effect of set
ting twice daily.
The first time that it sets the town
sinks into darkness, and the inhab-
itants light up their houses and
shops in the usual way. Presently
dawn suffuses over the town, clear
daylight follows, and artificial lights
are put out.
At the second setting of the sun
darkness sets in for good. This phe-
nOmenOn continues for some days.
The head and shoulders of the dis
tant mountain intervene just at the
juncture when the sun at the first
setting drops behind the top or head
of the mountain. There he hides for
some time and energies again from
behind just below the head and
throws daylight out upon the locali-
ty once more, when he again sinks
behind the mountains shoulders and
finally sets behind the horizon
Stray Stories.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
100 YEARS Old.
GyDd5ua Sandsl.-... Of Dejj;;',.....', lie.
Has LtVed a Long o,:1 UseJis! Life.

Grandma S2ndeI7oz i. a wonderful
woman. She is III as g3oG health TO-
lay as ever in her life, although sis
is over one hundred years cid.
In letter to tie I'erar& Drug Kfsg'.
Co., she gives the highest c-s3i5t9 Po'
runa for her excellent health AID e1'
treme old age. Read what she says.
Surely the evidence presented By
such cases as these ought not only 10
dispel preirdieo ct Perura, but
inspire confidence IL 1t.
II will send you a picture that ~
taken a few wees before lay hun
dredth birthday.
II an true friend Of the Poruna
Company. have derived great ben
eft from PerUna many times. I eRn
say Iregard Peruna very great med
icine. I found out the merit OF IL 8
good many years ago.
"a little more than two years ago I
contracted very severe cold, which
resulted in la grippe. Owing to the
severity of the disease, and my ex-
IRENE age, my case was considered to
be very critical / employed no doc.
tor, but Peruna was the remedy I
used, and to-day my health is as good
as it ever was in my life.
However, I still continue to take
Peruna, spoonful every night before
retiring"
Peruna is an ideal tonic for oil
people. 1t is a compound of herbal
remedies that has been known to the
medical profession for many years.
Peruna operates as tonic by cleans
ing and invigorating the mucous mem
branes. This explains why Perunt
has become so extensively known as {
catarrh remedy. Catarrh is simply {
condition of depraved mucous mem
branes. Peruna changes this deprav
ity into healthful vigor.
Agreat many old people use Peruna
and would not be deprived of it for an
consideration.
People who object to liquid medi
zines can now secure Peruna tablets.
Ask Your Druggist for a Free PeruT
Almanac for 1910.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
Please Take Notice. The Athens
Business College, Athens, Ga

On January l, 1910, our $45 schol-
arships will be advanced to $50. Our
$85 combined course scholarships
will be advanced to $95 This ad-
vance is to be made from the fact
that we are adding to our course of
study number of new and modern
features of business office training.
Our course has always been thorough
and far more complete than that of
any other commercial school but
business methods are advancing. We
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15

feel safe in saying that each and
every student will be delighted with
the advance in the course of study.
But very, very few commercial
schools are teaching the use of the
modern filing devices, mimeograph
multigraph, adding machine, and sim
liar modern Office appliances, and
those that are teaching them charge
the student extra for each machine.
We make no extra charge. For full
particulars phone or write us at our
expense Athens Business College,
Athens, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
BUILT ON QUICKSAND.
Remarkable Piece of Engineering on
Chinese Railroad.

iAA''A A@tOiN ACCc Vi engineering on
Chinese Railroad.
The most remarkable piece of en-
cheering on the Pekin-Hankow Rail-
road, China's iron backbone, is yell
low river bridge. Outside of America
1t is the largest of it's kind in the
world. 1t measures almost two miles
from end to end, and is constructed
entirely of steel. There is no stream
which shifts it's bed more than yell
low river. 1t is called China's Sor-
row, and is said to have changed it's
course no less than nine times with
IN the past 20 centuries, each time
choosing different mouth by which
it enters the sea. At the last great
flood, when the waters forsook their
bed, many millions were drowned.
The bed of Yellow river is of
quicksand, so deep that it was impos-
slble to use any masonry in construct
ing the bridge. Steel tubes were
sunk in place of the ordinary con-
crete pillars, and these were Joined
together by steel tubes, each of which
goes so feet down into the bed of
the river Other steel tubes extend
down from 33 to As feet. The arches
| of the bridge have a span of SIS feet
where the current is strongest, and
of SO feet in other places. The steel
piles, or tubes, have been filled with
cement to give them strength, and
rock and stones have been sunk
around their bases to solidify their
| foundations,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
GIVES CREDIT TO FARMERS.
Pres. Barrett Says They Are Cause
of Activity Against Exchange.

The credit for the government ac-
tivity against the New York Cotton
Exchange is given to the farmers by
President Charles S. Barrett of the
National Farmers Union. Mr.. Bar
rett points out that the fight started
when the Farmers Union sent a
large delegation of it's most promi-
nent members to Washington last
spring. President Barrett says that
another delegation will go to Wash
ingtOn next month. 1t is understood
that the fight will be kept up with
the hope that the exchange will be
forced to cease its gambling, which
it is stated has begun to effect the
Isouth's big industry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
Looking Ones Best.

It's woman's delight to look her
best, but pimples, skin eruptions
sores and boils rob life of JOY. Lis
ten! Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures
them; makes the skin soft and vel
vety. 1t glorifies the face. Cures
pimples, sore eyes, cold sores,
cracked lips, chapped hands. Try it.
Infallible for Piles, 25c at Dawson
Drug Co.'S.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
FAVORs DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
Mormon Senator Wants the Women
Taught How to Cook and Sew.

There is just as much need that
as there is to teach a man how to
cook and sew, make her own hats
and darn her husbands socks, if she
has a husband, or expects to get one,
as tehre is to teach a man how to
farm" said United States Senator
Smoot of Utah. He announced that
he would introduce a bill making APP
pointments of $4,000 each to 'agri-
cultural colleges, to be used in teach
ing domestic science.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
Bitter Cold.

A New Yorker claims that the
ianitor Of the fat building in which
he lives is the meanest janitor on
earth. He never gives us half
enough steam during the day." said
the complainant, 'and at night the
conditions are simply awful. Why,
I frequently wake up and hear my
wife's teeth chattering on the bu-
reau."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
BIG FIGURES THESE,
Problem of Future VIII Be Providing
. Food For the peonle.

James ]. Hill, the railway mag
nate, says that in 1880 our popula-
ton will be 125.0O0,00O, and that
by 1850 it will have reached the
00,000,000 mark. He believes the
question of providing food to be the
great problem of the somewhat near
future.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-15
AUTOMOBILES

For Sale and Hire by o. w. Lewis,
Dawson, Ga.
Auto supplies and accessories kept
in stock. Prompt attention given to
orders. Day phone 1872; night
phone 140. o. w. LEWIS.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25
The Old Straw Tick

Thousands who were born on, slept
on and died on those old straw ticks
would be greatly interested now to
know that all those skin diseases
from which they suffered, with the
possible exception of the itch. were
due to the bugs in the ticks. And
this too, in the face of the fact that
the thrifty and scrupulously neat
housewife had the old straw removed
washed and summed the tick and re-
filled it with new straw after every
harvest. And she never saw q bug
in it. In fact, she wouldn't have bugs.
and bugs we're wise enough in those
days not to obtrude themselves into
straw tick homes, much less the beds.
That is. the housewife thought she
knew every crack and Granny where
a bug could hide. but it appears she
didn't. The bugs were wiser than she
knew and not having microscopes. she
couldn't find them. But they were
there. and now we know where those
eruptions of the skin came from. They
came from the straw ticks. And the
bugs that made them were formed in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25
Music

The Eternal City scripture ora
torio cantata by Charles H. Gabriel
will be given by the choir of the First
Christian church Wednesday evening
July twenty-eighth at eight o'clock
The program is as follows:
Introduction-Organ. -. -.
Mrs. r. c. Wilson
And There Shall Come Forth-Recit-
alton and chorus. :. :. :. j. ;.
Mr.. Leslie knight and chorus.
Give Ear to My Words-Solo and
Merl Title and choir.
Upon the Mountains-Chcrus. :. Choir
The Midnight Song-Quartet and
chorus
Unto Us. -. Male voices and chorus
Within Thy Courts. Ladies Voices
Gods Name is Love-Solo and chorus
- Mrs. Ada Williams and choir.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25

the ticks. And after the good house
wife had put into them the new straw
and had lain down on them feeling
that cleanliness was the next thing
to Goodness, and in that respect she
was living day by day very near to
heaven.
This mistake of our forebears has
come out through Investigations at
Washington where tests were made
and the truth established for all ages
and generations to come. And what
do you suppose 1t was that caused
this hivelike eruption: 1t was q mite
of bug or mites Of bugs. for they are
many, called "Pediculoides ventrico-
sus." No wonder our foremothers did
Mt discover them. Who could have
done so without unabridged and pro-
nouncing dictionaries: No. they just
stood the skin eruptions and went on
with their work. slept well and grew
old gradually and then died and, to
think of II. died without ever knowing
what pediculoides ventricosus is.
Yes. just died minus this valuable ad-
junct to knowledge.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25
NAMING OF CRANE
PLEASES CHINESE
Appointment of Minister to
China Proves the Presi.
dents Interest.
HAS AROUSED INTEREST
POWERS ARE NOW PREPARED TO
FIND IN THE NEW DIPLOMAT
FROM AMERICA ANOTHER AN
SON RURLINGHAME.

Pekin, July 24.-The appointment
by President Taft of Charles r. Crane
of Chicago, a man unknown to the
Eastern world or in diplomatic circles.
to be minister to China, is recognized
in Pekin official quarters as the break
ing of new ground. as well as the
most striking action with reference to
American representation in China for
the last so years. The appointment
has, therefore. aroused interest among
the Europeans, who say that only the
United States is in a position to make
appointments of this kind and succeed
and they are therefore prepared to
find in Mr.. Crane another Arson Bur-
.inghame (of Massachusetts,, who
was American ambassador to China
from 1851 to 1867. and who negotiat-
ed, as special ambassador from China,
treaties with the United States. Great
Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland
and Prussia
Americans in Pekin express great
d
question Of which it was known here
Secretary of State Knox and Presi-
cent Taft were anxious, and which al
SO gave China some cause for con-
Germ. Members of the Chinese foreign
board say that they could only be
pleased at the selection, knowing Mr..
Taft's interest and anxiety to secure
the right man for the Chinest post.
Powers Are Curious.
The powers are curious regarding
the meaning of Americas new .atti.
| tude toward China as center of Am
erican foreign policy. The Russians
and French in the Chinese capital
have attached special significance to
the transfer of w. W. Rockhill from
Pekin to ST. Petersburg, holding it to
mean Russo-American alignment on
Chinese affairs. Chinese statesmen
are cognizant of the possibilities of
American Intervention and aid, and
| they recognize in the policy recently
enunciated by President Taft, which
Mr.. Crane engages to carry out, q
definite meaning with reference to the
attitude of japan toward China and
the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
High Chinese officials declare that
Japan is China's greatest enemy. Con-
current with the change in Japan's
continental policy, that nation, in the
opinion of Chinese statesmen, having
turned aside from her peace promise
of 1905 to the consideration of post
bellum interests and her position in
Manchuria, Great Britain has unoffic-
tally warned China that the Anglo
Japanese alliance was never more
strong that it is at present and has
urged, on account of the European sit
uation that China devise amicable re-
| lations with Japan.
China, more than ever, recognizes
| Americas neutral influence and the
personnel of the government is keenly
interested in tn arrival of representa-
tives Of a new policy. the political i'm.
portance of which Pekin officials are
| closely scrutiniZing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25
CLUB NOTES

Members Of the Monday afternoon
Thimble club will meet with Mrs. Ella
Dennis at her home on South Elev-
enth street. Mrs. Luther Coppocl1 OF
Topeka, Kansas. and Mrs. Isaac
Barth OF Albuquerque, Iowa, will be
guests Of honor.
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The following young ladies compose
a club which will hold a picnic at the
Glen every two weeks: Misses Mar.
celia Luken, katherine Conroy. Marie
Davis. Esther McKone, Mabel Stein
kamp. Alice Griffen. Maud Flanagan,
Blanch Luken and Anna Harrington.
The next meeting will be on the Goth
of July.
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members of the Criterion club will
picnic Friday at Glen Miller park.
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25

Mr.. S. w. Traum and choir
The City of Light-Quartet. ......
Miss Ruth Harris. Mr.. J. J. Boggs
Mrs. ]. J. Boggs, Mr.. c. NJ. Wilson
Heard Great Voice-Recitative.
Chorus, Solo, Duet and Chorus. -.
Mrs. S. w. Traum and choir. Mrs.
]. J. Boggs and choir. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. J. Boggs and choir.
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be rendered today by the choir of the
First Christian church.
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The choir OF the First M. E. church
will render a sacred concert Sunday
evening. This will be the last sacred
concert given by the regular choir un-
til after the first of September. Rev.
Wade's remarks will be appropriate to
Tennyson, this being the centennial OF
the English poet. The program fol-
lows:
Organ prelude-Fantasie.. Bartlett
Fear Not, o, Israel. :. Max Spieker
Mrs. Ray Longnecker, Miss Huldah
Henley, Mr.. Leroy Lacey, Mr.. Ray
mond Wehrley. and choir.
Crossing the Bar-Tennyson. .Barnby
Ladies' Quartet
Consider and Hear Me-. ..Pfleuger
Miss Karolyn Karl and choir
Solo,. :. .. >. Dudley Buck
Mr.. Leroy Lacey.
................ ......'' ..laoiiia$
Hymn " . 49,. .TennySOn
O, For the Wings of a Dove. Spence
Mrs. Henley and choir
Just Beyond the Shadows. ........
Miss Karolyn Karl.
Jerusalem. ..ohelicS
Choir.
Postlude-Cortege.. :. :. -. Rogers
Mrs. Grace Gormon, choir conductor
Mrs. L. c. King, organist.
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A musicale will be given Wednes
day evening at the Pythian Temple
| by the patriotic organizations affiliated
with the Grand Army of the Republic
A good attendance is expected. A
small admission fee will be asked:
Vocal solo. . .. Mrs G. Lanker'
Recitation 80. .. -. isabella Crabl
Piano solo. .. Cora Harris
| Voca solo,. .. .. Opal Norris
ReadlnS.. MI. "SAin0h
Orchestra
Vocal solo .. :. Ruby Hug
| Duet-Violin and Piano.
Blanche Bayer and Bertha Taylor
Vocal solo :. Mrs. Clarence Hadle,
Reading. >. :. Mrs. Geo. Christmar
Cornet and piano duet. ..........
Mr.. and Mrs. Mikesell.
| Tenor solo. .. Mr. A. Mot
whistlins solo, Mrs. Jackson
Vocal solo Mrs. DR.. Kreugel
Cornet solo Mr.. Frank Mikesel
Vocal duet.
Ruth White and Alma Get
Reading. :: MY. Matne"i
Orchestra
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25
SOCIAL CALENDAR FOR WEEK

Monday-Miss Ruth Gilchrist will
entertain for Miss Elva Benson, OF
Dayton, Ohio.
Mrs Richard More and Mrs. George
Fox will entertain.
Mary F. Thomas W. c. T. U. meets
in the afternoon in the dome room OF
the Morrison Reeves library.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Knollenberg
will be host and hostess for a meet
ing OF the Olive Branch Bible class at
their home on South Fourth street.
Mrs. Ella Dennis will entertain
members Of thimble club.
Tuesday-A lawn fete will be given
on the Earlham campus by the aid
society OF the West Side Friends
church.
Wednesday, Mr.. Emory Thomas
will give a dance in the pavilion al
Jackson's park.
A musical will be given by the choir
OF the First Christian church.
A musical will be given in the Pyth.
ian temple for the benefit OF the G. A.
r.
Thursday Woman's Relief Corps
will meet.
Mr. Raymond Mendenhall and Miss
Appiarius OF Indianapolis will be
married.
Friday-Mary Hill w. c. T. U. will
meet.
A dance will be given in the pavil
ion at Jackson's Park.
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Mr.. w. H. Smith of Chicago, is the
guest of S. Burton Gaines and family
this week.
Miss Amanda Jones, sister tt
Rev. L. P. Jones Is in the city for q
visit. Miss Jones resides at Syracuse
New York. t..
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Miss Deborah Shute entertained in
North Fourteenth street.
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Miss Annie Wettig left Saturday fol
Toledo, and northern points to spend
the rest OF the summer with friends
and relatives.
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Mrs. Timothy Rady and Mrs. Ed
ward Ramp entertained with a card
company complimentary to Mrs. Knorr
and Mrs Thomas Kelley of Middle
town, Ohio. Euchre was played at. siz
tables. Favors were given. A lunch
con in two courses was served.
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Mr.. John Starr will return to Pitts
burg today after few days visit with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Starr
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l. White Of
North Nineteenth street are guests Of
Mr.. Whites mother today at Indian
apolis.
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Miss Nellie Renk Galyen has re
moved from 404 South Eighth street
to 1916 North H street.
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Miss Bertha Monjar Of Rushville
has returned to her home after an ex
tended visit with friends and relative:
In this city.
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Miss Edna Russell Of Covington,