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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

Cruel Of postmaster general 10
suggest that congress DO away with
all franks Congress will need all
its franks with which 10 do its Ions
distance explaining
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

Judge Lurton was out when
President Taft called at bis hotel
The president should have tried
hts private car.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

Good resolutions that are begin.
ming 70 feel chesty should rsmem.
Der that there are atili 3s2 days
70 go
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

canada woods reported 10 be fail
Of sold lying around loose. Just 81
this time. however. placer mining
would have 10 be conducted with
q snow shovel
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

Banker Morse now has the distlnc.
ton o. being the one malefactor Of
great wealth In captivity
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

Oh. the aoFrows Of the RICH
John Ds golf links are frozen and
he cant play except IN his sun
parlor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

4 want 10 look az some dresses
suitable for auiomobilinE. said the
lady.
Yea. ma'am." replied the polite
clerk. those walking skirts are the
thing "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

Caller How pleased you must be
TO find that your new cook IL a
slayer
Hostess Ny dear. don't mention
a. She's a slayer All right. but an
fortunately she's not cook -~ Bos
ton Transcript
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

"Town Cut or From the World
By a Blizzard These headlines
sxRggcr8to The operation ia never
that successful.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03
Compounded
Semi Annually.
The Oriental Pool Rooms

i6-pool Tahlcs-41
25-solo Tables~-as =
Bar. restaurant cigar stana
scvun chair harho~ shon. lAis
place OF tho KIND m th0 world
cash given away daily ltss 49,.
Third aw between Pike ana YET
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

"6ew@ women
watch their neigh.
bore moVin' vana
80 " they we're
~aitln' fer IN
family skciston
ter be luoaed cut
an leader en-"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03
POINTING A DISTINCTION

"Can you afford any luxaFies7~
enc Anything ! can afford isn't luxury"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03
REFINED WIFI
GOODS; that will convince you

all, take elevator to our SECOND
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-01-03

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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-13

The GIGANTIC TENT erected by Lewis
Bros. & Co. for the purpose Of sales room
for the Colfax flood stocks was damned
from 900 o'clock yesterday morning until
1900 o'clock last night. $50 sales-people
were busily engaged serving the bargain
seekers. The large TENT will accommo-
date about 1900 people at one time Lewis
Bros. & Co. thought it possible to handle the
crowd with the great amount of floor space
they had acquired but found it necessary
to draw the curtains every ten or fifteen
minutes to keep the eager crowds back in
order to give elbow room to those on the in
side. This has been by far the greatest sale
ever held in the city of Spokane In the
next ten days Lewis Bros. & Co. expect to
sell between $4,000 and $4,000 worth of
merchandise and if business keeps up as it
did the opening day, they will do between
$4,000 and $4,000 worth of business. AL
though the Colfax flood merchants are los
ing thousands Of dollars, they are satisfied
to take what they can get for their badly
damaged, Water-soaked stocks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
TwENTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD.

With this issue The Dawson News
completes the twenty-eighth year of
its existence For twenty-one years
The News has been under its pres
ent management, and we venture to
hope that week in and week out it
is doing something for the progress
and prestige, the welfare of Dawson.
Its successive issues tell the tale.
The paper is too busy, too hard at
work, to brag much about itself.
When The News came into the hands
of the present owner it was printed
with a few fonts of old, WORKOUT
type on a Washington hand press,
and had less than 500 paying sub
scFibers, 1t has steadily grown un-
til today it is issued from one of the
best equipped printing offices in South
Georgia, and has a circulation that
goes into practically all the homes
of it's territory. We contemplate still
further improvements, the announce
ment of which our patrons and
friends may expect at an early date.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
MEXICO,S CENTENARY.

The MeXicans are celebrating the
one hundredth anniversary Of the
birth of their nation. They date it
from the first outbreak against Spain
September 10, 1910, under the lead
of priest, Miguel Hidalgo, who was
captured in battle and killed the
next year. He lived only long
enough to kindle a flame of romance
now famed into fresh brilliance.
Mexico, our nearest neighbor on the
south, was later framed after doubt
and strife into a federal republic on
the model of the United States. On
its area of 756, $50 square miles
dwell 1855, 1852 people. The coun-
try is divided into 81 states and three
territories, and the capital city Mex
leo stands in a federal district.
The forms of free institutions have
been observed; however, elections
have been manipulated and violence
has asserted mastery. In 1876
President Lerdo was overthrown by
the act of General Diaz, who the next
year became chief magistrate until
1880. He was not elected for the
succeeding term, but in 1884 he was
again chosen president, and every
four years since the elections have
confirmed his title He has ruled
with bold, strong hand, and with
ever increasing arrogance and des-
potism. He is a living example of
the dangers and evils of repeated
terms for a president.
Mexico rejoices that it has lived
hundred years. 1t has kept it's in
dependence in spite of two emperors
and dictator. This republic greets
its neighbor at it's jubilee with sim
cere wishes for it's real liberty, for
rulers responsive to the popular will,
and ready at the close of their terms
to settle down as obedient and faith
full citizens.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
The Ladies' Aid.

We've put up a fine addition
TO the good old church at home.
It's just the latest kilter,
With a gallery and dome;
1t seats a thousand people
Finest church in all the town
And when twas dedicated.
Why, we planked ten thousand
down;
That is, we paid five thousand
Every deacon did his best
And the Ladies Aid Society.
1t promised all the rest.
We've got an organ in our church.
The finest in the land;
It's got a thousand pipes, or more,
It's melody is grand.
And when we sit on cushioned pews
And hear the master play
1t carries us to realms of bliss
Uncumbered miles away.
1t cost a cool three thousand.
And it stood the hardest test;
We pay a thousand on it
The Ladies' Aid the rest
They'll give hundred sociables,
Cantatas, too and teas;
They'll bake thousand angel cakes.
And tons of cream they'll freeze
They'll beg and scrape and toll and
sweat
For seven years or more,
And then they'll start all DER again
For carpet for the floor.
No, it isn't just like digging out
The money from your vest
When the Ladies Aid gets busy
And says: we'll pay the rest f"
Of course we're proud of our big
church
From pulpit up to spire:
1t is the darling of our eyes,
The crown of our desire;
But when l see the sisters work
To raise the cash that lacks
| somehow think the church is bui1+
On women's tired backs.
And sometimes l can't help but
think,
When we reach the regions blest
That men will get the toll and sweat
And the Ladies Aid the rest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28

manifested all the time and the lux
ury of life was enjoyed to the full
in all directions.
There were four sons, well edu-
Gated, with gentlemanly manners,
and boys who knew all the rules of
etiquette to the end of the CHAPTER.
Inc father was often heard to saw
that no gentleman would ever go
across to the line of sensual de-
bauchery, and he was not afraid to
place wine on his table and encour-
age his sons to drink like gentle
men. He was a brilliant and re-
markably model man in his town.
have lived long enough to know
that all four died in their man
hoods prime and very one filled a
drunkard's grave but one, and he
died with that terrible and loath-
some disease, scrofula.
They drank at the sumptuous ia
bic until they required intoxicants
at other times, and the thirst for
the table liquors increased until the
strongest booze was demanded to
keep up the excitement.
This terrible reptile will go in
where there is crack in the floor
or hole in the wall.
Who hath woe?" "Who hath oo,,
tention?" says Holy Writ. When
ever the appetite for intoxicants l.
given free rein the path to death and
destruction is made easy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28

Macon Telegraph: There is 60
ing to be no bolt from the action of
the state primary.
There never was any thought of
such thing. 1t was never discussed
or even talked about by the leaders
of the Brown forces. No Yancey
Carter is forthcoming, or could be
found if sought for.
The contest is over. 1t is ended.
Then let it end, as matter of real
fact. Let us get at something else.
Good roads, good crops, good bust
ness-let these claim our attention.
Greater Macon and Greater Georgia
"a united people for our industrial
upIift.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28

The new census gives Savannah a
population of g., )64, an increase of
something more than 10000 in the
past ten years. All incorporated
towns and cities are like some indi-
viduals-not as large as they think
they are-alo Savannah's count of
noses in ali probability gives her ali
that she is entitled to. And, besides,
the census gives Savannah more p9o-
pie than Dawson has, and there
ought to be satisfaction for the sea-
coaster in that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
ANOTHER FARCE.

One of the most conspicuous
farces in the statutes of the state
is the law providing for county
game wardens. 1t is doubtful if
there is warden in Georgia who is
doing his duty; if there is and he
persists in it he may expect to soon
be without a job.
Game Warden Wescott of Chat
ham county has just lost his official
head because he had a mistaken idea
that it was intended for him to en-
force the game law. 1t is stated with
refreshing candor that he was re-
moved and a successor to him APP
pointed because of his persistence in
gathering evidence against violators
of the law, and especially his pred
Election for obtaining Photographic
evidence. Wescott would take pict-
ures of fishermen he caught violat-
ing the law and present them as evil
dence in court. 1t is said to be the
photography that got on the nerves
of Savannah Fishermen, and led to
their complaints against the game
warden.
In recent years the game law of
Georgia has been tempered with
more than any other one law, and
it is a well-known fact all legisla-
ton of the kind has been in the inter
est of the men who hunt and fish
for sport and not for the benefit of
the general public.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28

The Peace Savants find cold cheer
in Corea. Corea is no more. No
longer is there a nation, and Coreans
are under the yoke of stronger
race, the Japanese. The Coreans
builded their national safety upon
the foundations of paper treaties
with the great powers, treaties
providing for independence. Corea
had all the solemn pledges that any
peace society could frame up, but
after the showdown all these fine
treaties went into the waste basket.
1t was not the paper treaties that
caused the trouble; it was lack of
the men behind the guns. The navy
of Korea was one little ship and 27
admirals
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
Law Officers Law Breakers.

Darien Gazette: The difficulty ex-
perienced in enforcing the fish and
game laws was never more forcibly
illustrated than in the Dooly coun-
ty tragedy, in which Deputy Sheriff
Butler had both hands blown off
and the sight of both eyes destroyed
from the premature explosion of a
stick of dynamite which he was pre-
pairing to throw into a fish-hole in
Turkey creek. 1t is said that with
him were number of prominent
citizens, among them the sheriff and
the chairman of the board of county
commissioners. To their officers of
the law more than to any one else
the people have the right to look to
it's enforcement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
The Meat of the Razorback,

From the Macon Telegraph.
Senator Jeffries Davis of Arkan-
sas, in opening his campaign for re-
election, spoke at Hot Springs. In
discussing the meat question he pro-
claimed the meat of an old yaller
razorback Arkansas hog the sweet
est meat he had ever known. Hogs
are so high in my county" said he,
1T costs $16.25 to catch a pig by
the tail Breakfast bacon for my
eight children costs 35 cents a
pound. Why, they put it up in cap
sules in Little Rock and guard it
under heavy arms. The best | can
do is to hang piece up in my din
ingroom and let my eight children
grease their mouths with it."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
A Little Talk on Temperance.
BY Mrs. w. H. FELTON,.

Listen to parable.
"A great and deadly serpent en-
tered into a house and made it's
abode in hole in the wall The
family was greatly alarmed, and the
neighbors came running to know
what was the matter. A snake, a
deadly snake, has come here to live!
Oh, what shall we do?' Said one:
Have the house thoroughly white
washed Said another: Have it
painted, too, and send for a carpenter
to mend all the doors and windows.
Said a third: Send for teacher
who will tell you how to be good
moral people. Well, the house was
whitewashed and painted, and the
teacher told them how to be moral,
and the family, feeling safe, ate,
drank and slept in the house in
peace. About a month afterwards,
one dark night, when all were
asleep, the snake came out Of his
hole and bit the father, and he died.
Two nights after the reptile bit the
son and he died, too"
Plainly interpreted the snake here
alluded to is the craving appetite
and inherited thirst for intoxicants.
You have seen the result and the
deadly effect handed down from
father to son, haven't you?
| once knew an elegant family
where most elegant entertainments
were given, while pride of birth was
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28

If Mr.. Watson has any friends who
have influence over him they should
take him aside and impress upon
him what a spectacle he is making
of himself. The famous Georgian,
who is really a brilliant and an able
man, has right to discuss public
men and issues to his hearts con-
tent, but when he goes about insist
ing that some of the most promi-
nent men in the state are in plot
to assassinate him it is absurd in
the superlative degree. He has
worked himself into a state of mind
that is doing him more harm than
it is any one else.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28

The Atlanta Journal prints state
ments from both Editor GRAY and
Hon. Hoke Smith to the effect that
the latter has no interest in nor con-
troll over that paper There have
been other instances of the kind.
where newspapers have felt called
on to refute insinuations that GER
tain individuals or interests owned
or controlled them. As the ALBANY
Herald says, this thing of imputing
outside ownership or mercenary sub
ordination to newspapers that don't
sneeze in chorus every time some
faction of self-appointed political
boss takes snuff is mighty small bus.
mess anyhow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
The Steam Roller.

From the Darien Gazette.
We have seen the time when a
steam roller in state convention
would have been just the thing.
The steam roller is all right even if
it does fatten out a loved one once
IN while. If we are not in con-
tempt we would like to suggest that
steam roller be introduced in the
legislature with all the trimmings
thereto. We know it would be hard
on some of the statesmen, but we
are sure it would be just.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
A "LAW-sICK" COUNTRY.

A Massachusetts man, Lincoln C.
Cumming by name, in letter to the
New York Tribune, diagnoses the
cOuntry's ailment in this wise:
This country needs a rest
from new and drastic laws. of
bold and untried schemes, and
instead an era of obedience to
the law as written or the repeal
of impossible statutes. 1t is ap-
parent that the country is law
sick, and as an antidOte laws
(and many of theml are disre-
garded and evaded. Evasion of
any law breeds contempt for all
law, and this condition promises
progress backward and spells
chaos.
This country needs to exer-
else itself in repeal instead of
increase, in enforcement of pres
ent laws instead of wholesale
manufacture of new ones, that
the good red cOrpuscles of COM
mon prosperity shall circulate
in the body polite"
There is sane philosophy in this
statement, says the Washington Her
aid. The country is indeed in danger
of becoming "law-sick, if it is not
SO already.
None can gainsay the truth of it,
that evasion of any law breeds CON
tempt for all law" Not only the
nation, but every community of it
is suffering more or less from too
much law, and will suffer more if
the idea grows that all the ills man
kind is heir to are to be cured by
legislation.
The Tribune correspondent I'M
doubtedly strikes a keynote when he
says that the present paramount
need is not more law and new and
untried schemes of legislation, but
respect for and obedience to the
righteous laws we have and repeal
of impossible ones whose evasion
breeds contempt for all law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
DIR. Booker and DIR. Teddy.

Savannah News: DR.. Booker T.
Washington has joined DR.. Theo-
dore Roosevelt on the editorial staff
Of the Outlook. Dr. Washington is
now abroad studying social condi-
lions in the interest of the publica-
ton. His articles will deal especial
ly with The Problem of the Man
Farthest Down." DR.. Roosevelt will
continue to write things from the
standpoint of the Man Highest Tn,
DR.. Abbott, it is to be assumed, will
split the middle. Meanwhile DR.
Roosevelt and DR.. Washington NAV
now lunch together without it's be-
ing anybody else's business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
Running Together Like Brothers.

Pelham Journal: ''They are run
ming together like brothers" But
this time-strange to say-it is
Hoke Smith and Clark Howell striv-
ing neck and neck to secure for
Atlanta the next democratic national
convention. OF course it is desired
incidentally that southern man be
nominated for president, and if he
should happen to be elected there
would be some nice, fat appoint
ments to be handed out in the south,
and especially in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
Has Met With Deserved Failure


From the Savannah Press.
The effort in some quarters to stir
UP candidate to oppose the regular
democratic nominee for governor of
Georgia has met with disastrous
failure. Governor Brown himself
promptly characterized the move
ment as absurd" and would have
nothing to do with it, refusing even
to take it seriously. Governor Brown
is a good democrat as we'll as a sa-
gacious public official, and has once
more shown himself worthy of con-
tidence by the way he acted when
the enemies of his party sought en-
couragement from him to make
trouble for the regular nominee in
Georgia. Every man who went into
the last primary is, of course, bound
by the result, and no matter what
his preference is pledged to support
the party nominee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-28
PISTOLS AND TRAGEDY.

The Savannah News is carrying on
a timely and energetic campaign
against the man with the pistol, and
recently has printed a number of
strong editorials denouncing the evil.
in taking notice of a very regretta-
BILE tragedy that occurred in Mitchell
county a few days ago, in which two
well-known farmers of good families
who had grievances against one an
other met and, having pistols, shot
each other to death, leaving two wild
Ows and several fatherless children,
our contemporary says:
Ought there not to be law that
would make it. impossible, or practi-
cally so, for anybody who wants to
to carry a pistol, especially a con-
cealed pistol. The other day we pub
lished an article showing that crimes
of violence that are due to the prac-
tice of carrying a concealed pistol
are almost unknown in England
And why? Simply because the laws
governing the sale and carrying of
pistols are so strict that very few
people go armed with a pistol
There a dealer in firearms must pro-
cure a license before he can sell pis-
tolls, and the cost of such a license
is so great that comparatively few
one can purchase a pistol without
permit from designated authorities.
These authorities put an applicant
for a permit through a very severe
course of questioning for the purpose
of finding out whether or not it is
advisable to grant the permit Only
rarely is the permit granted, and
then upon conditions that are so OBJ
Jectionable that it is seldom that
permit is insisted upon.
''If there were such law in this
state it is practically certain that the
farmers who slew each other in
Mitchell county wouldn't have been
armed with pistols when they met
that the tragedy would never have
occurred. Because of the indiffer-
ence of public sentiment to this pis-
tol toting evil two homes are DESC
late, two widows and four children
are stricken with grief.
And what has been gained by the
loss of two valuable lives? Has any
question been settled? No But the
tragedy will lead to the commission
of other similar tragedies. 1t will
help to create an impression in Mitch
ell county and other counties, in
fact throughout the state, that when
a man has a grievance he must. if
he wishes to be thought brave, take
a pistol and go after his enemy and
either shoot him down or be shot
down. These tragedies are an al
most every day occurrence in this
state. 1t would be interesting to
know just how many lives of really
valuable citizens are sacrificed in
this way in the course of year.
Surely the Georgia legislature
has duty to perform in this matter
that is far more important than it
seems to think it is. If such law
as England has would work a re-
form we should have it without un-
necessary delay by all means.
I'VE have said many times that
this concealed weapon evil and the
tragedies that result from it are
keeping the state back. They block
the wheels of progress and paralyze
the efforts that are being made for
the states upbuilding. Law abiding
and peace loving people are not
coming to state to settle where
they may be called upon at any time
to settle little grievances and minor
disputes with the pistol"