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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-08
FIRESHING OF CUCUMBERS
EARNING PROCESS CAME
,,,,ru IRRIGATION IN WEST.
100 tbe "CoIic Tubes" For Seed
w. :. Very Profitable. 500 to
e,-o an Acre Is Melted.

GAOO
v,NsAS CITY.-In western Kan
and eastern Colorado, says the
where most vine crops grow to
lotion on the irrigated lands
.drads of acres of cucumbers, can
LIMOS and watermelons are re-
rrod for seed by seed companies
Nv farmers who grow them for
seed houses. 1t is a common
A. from October to December LIST
coo seed threshers in threshing
pm for their seed.
rao growing of cucumbers for seed
considered very profitable, and
4 IAN the owner clears from 800 to
"A an acre, as the seed brings 81
wa mound. While the cucumbers
sbt be sold to canning factories
nv farmers prefer to let them re-
in for the seed, as the expense of
,boring is not so great, the income
acrp being about as much. The
psbing cost is a reasonable
Ount.
Growing the Cucumber.
Np cucumbers are grown in rows
fe4t apart both ways, and the seed
nanted the last of April or the
of MAY. After the plants come
NIGH the ground they are hoed
irrigated, the burrows for the
Ter running lengthwise with the
IS and close to the hill. A cult
sr is used to stir the soil and
h it mellow until the vines are
ming we'll between the rows, then
cultivation ceases. The cucum-
are left to grow until the latter
of September, when they are
hered an piled for threshing.
BUT five rows of cucumbers are
d together.
he cucumber thresher is built on
Fagon-like frame, supported by
st wide wheels and drawn by two
les. At the rear of the machine
ktationed a little two-horse gasO-
engine which operates the ma
ery of the thresher. Just in
BIT of the engine is the crusher
looks like a common cider mill.
Ontains two iron rollers, moving
Pther and crushing the cucumbers
they pass between. Against the
sher sits the framework contain
the seeder.
The Process of Threshing.
be cucumbers pass from the
her into this large cylindrical
er which sits horizontally. The
b surface of the seeder is a wire
ing with meshes large enough to
pit the seed to drop through into
vat below, but retaining the
hed cucumbers. The front end
be cylinder being lower than the
the cucumbers are rolled slowly
aFd by its revolution until they
out at the horses heels
hen the vat beneath the cylinder
led with seed seed box is drawn
low sled to the opening at the
OF the machine, and the seeds
allowed to run out a spout into
The threshing proceeds, and the
Is hauled away to a place where
thoroughly washed from all for
matter and spread out on screen
wire enclosed in frame to dry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-08
p''e at Bridgeboro, in Worth
'y' Has Unusual Result.
Made Escape.

! Sa"mill of Corbett and Tay-
n 'useboro a fight between two
m, resulted in one of the pair
INJURIES which have de-
L ui OF both his hands.
D'll and Ben Parker, the
ham, ola man, became involved
N p al Parker seized a sharp
n ~~uyaneed upon Hall with the
praised. Hall raised both
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-08
CARLIsLE's HOME ATTACHED.

Former Secretary of the Treasury
Owes $1,000 For JeweIry.
A Washington dispatch says: The
fashionable residence of John G. Car
Isle, former secretary of the treas
ury, was attached today by a United
States marshal to satisfy New York
jewelry firms claim for about $2,-
900, the claim being for diamonds
and other jewelry bought by Car
Isle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-08
WILL PAY TEACHERS SOON
"ov. Brown Is Going to Give Them q
big Bunch of Christmas NInnau

NAoHcy.
governor Brown states after in
curry as to the status of the state
treasury that a payment of $3.50 600
o %iii oe maze to the school teachers
Vi georgia about December 18th,
ana certainly not later than the Goth
IN order to give them their money
for the holidays. MONEY
notwithstanding recent loud and
long assertions from certain sources
mat the treasury was overfowing
with money it is necessary to wait
until sufficient funds have been COL
lected from taxes to meet the nav
ment to the teachers, the greater
part OF whose salaries have been due
since last spring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-10

Many the tales they tell of the wonderful things
he made when he was but little boy. Precocious he
must have been and early he became indispensable
his foster father, Joseph.
Joseph, learn, from these legends, too
good carpenter-that is judged by the modern stand
ards of carpenterng Often he would pieces of wood
that too long too short, for his
urement faulty What then, did Jesus do but take
the wood and stretch it shorten it to the desired
length.
. People told
Strange tales of those hid days-now, at his toll.
Touching a plank, stretched to rightfu length.
Or shortened at his will-the wood quick
To live again and serve him.
In those days, it is related Joseph awarded
commission to make throne for king at Jerusalem
1t to be elaborate affair, all thrones with
great and twisted legs and grotesque
of those things only kings like to sit in.
Jesus spent much time watching Joseph hewing and
carving the wood. Joseph worked patiently from
ing until night and the work required two whole years.
And then imagine the carpenters disappointment
when to Jerusalem he discovered that
it was too small for its place.
Alas! he had made grave Yes, they had
given him the right dimensions but often happened
and carpenters do still, he made the mistake Two
tire of labor wasted! The poor discon-
sOate
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all things Fac
cheus, amazed,
declared he could teach the child nothing.
Some of the legends, unworthy as the minds that
created them tell that the child
Others tell of his nfictng playmates with death and
blindness. In the world of legendary lore where
finds stories ingenuousy simple and charming it is to
be expected ALSO that there crude and cruel ira
ditions
According to some stories, the children of Nazareth
must have found Jesus wonderful playmate There
hardly any wish of theirs which he did not fulfill
One day, it is told, of the little wished
fruit
"Oh how would like an applet" said one
"And some fgs!" rejoned another.
"How would love some citron and grapes" quoth
u third.
Jesus looked upon them and they all seemed so hum
CRY and anxious that he made sign in the air and
spoke mystic word And 10!
sprout cured from the ground. Pale green
leaves burst forth The plant up and up and up
"Oh!" gasped all the children with great wonder as
before their gaze the plant higher and higher
spreading out limbs-growing larger and stronger and
blooming with flowers. Then the tree, as they looked
bore fruitappes and ctrons, and grapes figs and
whatever their hearts wished.
Here is another story of those childhood days:
house being built the small and modest
home of the holy family. One day great uproar arose
and Joseph stepping from his carpenter shop saw that
a had walen from the roof and had been killed
"Alas! Mary" he said entering the shop where Jesus
was playing, "a has fallen and broken his limbs;
methinks he is dead"
sprngng from the floor the child with an expression
of great solicude his face rushed the street
The little crowd parted before him.
He peered into the white face of the dead man. Then
his voice rang clear and sweet
81 say unto thee, arise and do thy work"
The dead mans eyes opened, the blood disappeared
from his face and his injuries healed he arose and
went back to his task.
At another time Jesus was playing with some chill.
dren roof-one Of those simple childish games like
tag" to-day The children very happy until
falling at full length went umbling para
pet cry arose. Peering over the stone WALL face
of Jesus turned white-his little playmate was dead
Imagine his distress when the parents of child ap
peared and accused Jesus of having pushed little
playmate the WALL Imagine the anguish Joseph
and Mary at the accusation! Then Jesus turning
to the dead child, called:
"zeno! Zeno Arise! Arise, Zeno, and tell them if
I cast thee down."
And Zeno arose, laughing, claspng and kissing the
hand of Jesus, murmurng tenderly, gratefully:
"No, no! Thou didst not cast down."
Until his manhood, when he began his mission, it is
believed he piled the trade of carpenter Many indeed
the stories of his life in the carpenter shop
aretE.
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q NE bright, sunny morning
g in the month of Adar, at
y the end of winter, short
& ly after the little town of
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10 the amazement of the behoders who sank on
.her knees, the serpent obeyed Then drawing away
to death. ~ ~
Arise" said the child, laying his soft hand on the
face OF the who seemed dead
A moment passed. Those nearby looked On breath
iessiy. Ihen the face of the dead boy broke into
he opened his eyes, ' '
1t is related in the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy that
aiterward the boy Simon zeotes, became one of the
disciples of Jesus - ~
OF the days and doings of the boy Jesus in Nazareth
the four gospels tell us comparatively little II was
natural therefore, that about this unknown existence
Of the Adorable Child the Christians of the early church
deeply pondered and that the imagnatons of Iu.
airy lore.
The holy family returned Egypt when Jesus was
old enough to walk In many of the old pictures we
the Divine Child leading mule or clinging close
to bis mother OF that early life in the land of Pyr
amids. too early tradition has pleasing fabric
of legends
Among the oldest of these is the ancient belief that
whenever the blessed Mary placed clothing of the
holy babe upon trees to dry the barren limbs
bloom.
Another is that when wandered into the for
est where lions and panthers all manner Of wild
beasts lived, they forth to do him homage.
Still another that, during the flight from Bethlehem
when Herod pursued them mountains opened to receive
Joseph and Mary and the holy babe into secure ref
that hot days. they reposed trees the
boughs bent over to shield them from the that
as they passed along flowers sprang up in their path
from the arid sand, and that the barren desert
bloomed where they passed it.
1t is told that when they journeyed through forest
all the trees bowed low in worship of the Holy One that
passed by and that only tree-the aspen-held
aloof proud and scornfu 1t is also related that the
babe gazed upon the tree and that, with
ror began to tremble. and has trembed since
Only the stood
Scorning to join the voicelesS worship
to the hea sSe
It is also told that when the holy family came in
sight of the sphinx the beast the eternal Sc
cre and they passed the temples the old gods fell
from their thrones.
And coming nigh to On,
Where stands the house of Ra, its mighty god,
Cut in black porphyry, prodigious. feared,
Fell from his
Some writer's of old say that the holy child never
went to school. They love to write of his wandering
alone into the forests and talking to the birds in
sects. And they tell how dumb beasts endowed
with speech when he with them.
Many old legends concern the early schooling of the
boy Christ 1t is related that when child he
to Zaccheus who began to try to teach him the alphabet
"My teacher" the marvellous boy is said to have
uttered. thou wouldst teach but shall teach thee"
And then, while the old listened, thunderstruck
he repeated alphabet which the other had never
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-10
MUCH TREASURE IN TURKEY

For long time it has been known
that in the Irene church in Constan-
tinople, the only sacred edifice that
was not converted into a mosque,
there is stored away a large collec-
ton of arms, mostly consisting of
Saracenic armor and. helmets, dating
from the thirteenth and fifteenth CEN
turtles, as well as large collection of
Gothic weapons, which are extremely
valuable. When I was sent by the
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Swedish government to gather infor-
nation concerning the sojourn of
Charles XII. in Turkey I received per-
mission, after a great deal of trou-
BILE, to make a search among the
treasures of the Irene church. The
most interesting objects came across
during this search I photographed. I
had, in the meantime, unfortunately,
only chance of investigating a few
of the baskets and sacks which con-
tanned European arms. Among these
there were many objects shat are not
| to be found in any European collec-
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weapons, in consequence of the new
and valuable material existing in the
Turkish collections.
FIashIiohts on Pistols.

In Colorado an inventor got pat
ent or a flashlight put on smaller
arms. even pocket pistols, so that
wherever the searchlight strikes
there the bullet bits, making the TAX
ing of aim unnecessary. This pistol
methad was devised by the inventor
for policemen to use on burglars am
other night felcrs.
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ton. The Saracenic antiquities, which
are hung on the walls of the church,
are museum in themselves, and Of
their kind larger than all the collec-
lions of Europe together.
II was also informed that in the
subterranean chambers of the Yildiz
kiosk there are several thousand
splendid helmets. But this room was
sealed up during the old regime be-
cause it was feared that one could
get into the old palace by means of a
tunnel leading from the town. I am
unaware swhether this chamber has
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us clouds All great souls live alone ana are lonely III
the midst of men, About beautiful life humanity loves
to build legends and the simple life which leads TO spir
final greatness must to men be made unusual with halo
of miracles
Many stories told of the child Jesus having raised
people from the dead in the little known days Oh MS
childhood It is related too that when his parents took
him to Jerusalem-on the same journey when he mad
the famous discussion with the learned doctors in the
emple-he paused at the sight OF Jerusalem and spr
It of prophecy revealed to him its doom.
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now been opened, but it is certainly
not empty, and it is possible that
these objects will perish through
damp and other causes"
The aforementioned ex-dragoman
states that, according to an officers
statement, there are many hundreds
of chests in the Turkish collections
that have never been opened. The
idea has been suggested of forming
museum. Should this project be
carried out, Dr. Martin is of the opin-
ion that we shall be obliged to re-
write the history of the, art of Gothic
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-10
Prophetic Beethoven.

Has anyone remarked the startling resemblance 10
sharp oot of motor fourmes repeated
double notes in Beethovens Second Symphony wnlcn
great imaginative genius may be far
ahead of his contemporaries? The classic example is
Shakespeare telegraph When these familiar notes
heard in the symphony the audience may be seen to
look anxously the shoulder and prepare to cut and
run-London Chronicle
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-10
Saracenic Armor and Helmets o
Priceless Worth in Irene Church,
ConstantinopIe.

DR.. K. f. Martin, formerly drago-
man of the Swedish embassy at Con-
stantinople, has sent home an inter-
esting account of the valuable collec-
lions of ancient armor that are still
to be found in Turkey, according to
tbs nsll Mall Gazette. He says:
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IA w "a the enQ OF WluleT, Suoi Y
ENANSSd ly after the little town OF
Nazareth, in Judea, was astir, there
trooped from the village crowd of
merry children, laughing for sheer
happiness, as II their hearts sang
with the song of dancing sunbeams.
Running and skipping along the
road they went, hlithe and gay, un-
til they came to a great tree by the
roadside, where they stopped, and
clustering about a child in their
midst proceeded to do strange
thing
They cast their mantles and tu-
Eics from them to the ground and
prostrated themselves before the
one in their midst; then left him,
and, running into a field, gathered
flowers. He that sat alone, a pen
sive look upon his youthful face,
had the appearance of an angel.
Soon the little playmates, their
arms laden with blossoms, returned,
and weaving wreath of glory flow.
ers, crowned his head.
Into his hands they placed scep
ter OF burning gladiolus And abou.
him they joyously scattered the
fresh, odorous blooms, and while
he smiled upon them they pro-
claimed the little playmate, Jesus,
the son Of the village carpenter,
their king.
While they delighted in their wor-
ship of their little playmate, along
the road in the distance could be
seen two men coming, with heads
sorrowfully bent, carrying between
them the dead body of a boy.
What has happened?" the chill.
dren cried.
"Alas!" responded one of the men,
the child was playing in the forests
yonder and methinks, like many
boys, robbed the nests of some little
birds.
Presently, climbing a tree, he
did put his hand into the nest. and
10! there was hidden a poisonous
serpent, that sank its fangs into
his flesh. He suffered terrible agony
and, sliding from the tree, lay until
ne died. There we found him."
Come" the boys said, "and tell
our king"
Before the crowned one they
paused and told the story.
Rising, he said: follow me-"
Silently they wendell their wav
pack to the woods. Lead us to the
tree" said the child king. And
there be paused.
"Oh, treacherous serpent, 1 COM
mand thee to come down." he called,
And 10! above the nest appeared a
venomous head, and soon the long
gllstening body of deadly snake
came writing down the trunk.
Go, suck from that child's hand
all the poison thou didst place
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'But why weepest thou?" asked
Jesus, who was with him. This
is readily amended. Be at peace.
Then lie directed Joseph to hold
one end of the throne, while he
took hold of the other Both pulled,
and behold, the throne assumed
the proper size.
One Sabbath morning, with a
half-dozen playmates, the child
Jesus, one old legend runs, went to
play by the banks of the River Jor-
dan. There had been a heavy rain
the night before, and the tall trees
were still dripping and the sand
was wet
Sitting on the sand, the little
ones began to fashion, children
wise, animals Of various kinds.
Jesus, fashioning dogs and cats and
all manner of wild things, raised
his hand and spoke-and, 10, the
animals of sand lived and moved.
The children shouted. Their
laughter of delight rang through
the fresh morning air. Some Of
the animals ran away, others were
changed into sand again.
Then digging his small hands in
to the sand, the child said:
'FI'll make II sparrows."
And he sat them In row be-
fore hj@.
By this time several Pharisees,
who had seen the children playing
happily on the Sabbath, returned
with Joseph, whom they said
should censure Jesus.
Thou are breaking the Sabbath
my child" said the old man.
The child pondered, looked at the
birds of his creation, then rising,
he
Clapped His hands and 10!
They chirruped, spread their wings
and flew away.
In these old legends there Is a
great deal of the fanciful, the leg
end of the boy and the animals of
sand shows the quaint conceits OF
the early Christians, who delighted
in miracles and whose imagination
was excited by this unknown period
of the Saviour's life.
One can we'll imagine him as a
child wandering away from Nazar-
eth, all alone, and sitting by the
Jordan or forest streams and COM
muning of the great things that
came to MIN.
He could not have been like 9TH
er children, for he was wise beyond
his years. One can see him, as
fair as the lilies and roses them
selves, caressing the flowers as he
passed by in. the meadows OF Jul
dea, and of his sitting crowned in
an aureole of sunbeams, listening
to the divine rapture of the birds
singing their morning hymns.
He must often have been alone
for with the petty quarrels OF the
other children of the town, with
the little rivalries of his relatives,
he could have had little sympathy.
Doubtless as child, his poets soul
scared into the skies. and his seer's
vision saw the future in the cumu-
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All Goinu Out.

Judge sternly)-Three times in month! What do you
make of this, sir?
'Rastus (apologeticay)-De doan make muffin You
fellows here be de only dat get any cuni
airy profit out of hauling up.-Puck.
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Envy.

81 envy the good-natured man." said
the philosopher.
$50 do l." answered Mr. Sirius Bar.
ker. "His good nature indicates that
the desirable things of life are coming
his way"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-24
Elnht continues.

The fight Cbr the Preston county
seat stlH continues with unabated In
tere#, Terra Alta citizens Gre max.
ing a strong effort to secure the coun-
ty seat for tnat town and Ktngwood
is malstng a sttenuous fight to RETAIN
the county seat Rowlesburg while
making claims @Sr The court house,
has not as yet made amy strenuous Ell.
forts to secnrs - county seat. Ter
ga Alta has on eTs "a site for the build
ing and a large ppns to the county
court The citizens Of Preston. county
are up On arms over the fight.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-24
To Remove Headquarters.

TIE Offices of Superintendent GTtce
of the Chesapeake and OHIO railroad
located cit Hinton will probably be re.
moved to Huntington as soon as Office
room can be secured in that city. The
removal of the Offices ofsthe supern-
tendent to Huntington would mem
that the general division headquarters
would also he taken to that city.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-24
State .sNevs
WANT eovernnient Bulldfna.

The city OF Buckh IS making
an effort to secure a government
building. An EFFORT will be made to
secure an approx from CONGRESS
at the coming session Hon. Joseph
Holt Gaines Will introduce the hill for
the appropriation He Is member
of the Ways amid Means committee
and the citdzens Of Buckhannon ex-
pect little tifRcultE In securing the ap=
precipitation.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-24
vanallder.Ashcraft.

Mr.. Martin G. Vangilder. of near this
city. and Miss Lily Elsie Ashcraft. OF
Triune, were united in marriage today
1t 1880 o'clock at the residence OF Rev.
WI. Eddy. Rev. T. B. LAWYER. OF the
Palatine Baptist Church, performed
the marriage ceremony.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-24
Want Location Chan eed.

Since the destruction by fire OF the
Lincoln county court house at Ham.
lin last week, an effort has. been mad,
by Griffitnsville and several other
towns to have the seat changed. Gov
ernor Gtasscock has named tempo
rary headquarters In Hamlin for the
court house and for the present at
least Hamlin will remain tiie county
seat Of Lincoln county.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-24
Charter issued.

Secretary, Of state. Reed issued a
charter to She Monntaineer Oil aad
Gas cotupsny, with chld works in
Lewis county. Capital stock, $780,
OOu. 1neorporatorss James H. Field.
Uniontuwn, Pa; b: Post, Jane
EsY; p. w Ppsts ! PllENgn1 .lgt H 3:
enp1e Parlqersbu4gs. iW.9D. VANS
ley, C1arksbasrg.
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Ruild new ToWn.

The Davis Coal anil Coke Company
witch is contro1alf by the Western
maryland rallroa9 win establish a
town thirty miles south Of Piedmont
on Stony river. "A spur will be pu1it
to the coal tr-ct to the mouth OF
stony river, from APPOINT on the West
e1n Maryland, one mile south of
saaeu. w. Va. The company has a
tract Of 1000 acres Of coal to develop.