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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
Receipts Today.

The total ordinary treasury re-
ceipts today were $13,300,0O0; total
for month $76,271,O0O, and for the
fiscal year just closed 5000, O64, 900.
The corporation tax receipts,
which are included in the last named
figures, aggregate $17,362, 900.
The total ordinary receipts for the
past year stand against $603,589, 900
for last year. The custom receipts
during the past fiscal year reached
1892, 900 against $30O,711, 900
last year; the internal revenue $751;
$4,000 against $246,212, 200 last
year, miscellaneous $51,OO3,000
against $56,664,0OO last year.
The aggregate expenditures for the
past fiscal year reached 1858, 662,-
600 against 1862 $4,000 last year.
Among the ordinary expenditures
were grants from the treasury of
$S,495, 900 on account of postal de-
ficiency against similar grants last
year of $19,501, 900.
The grants thus made during the
past year are a cut of almost one
half from what Postmaster General
Hitchcock originally estimated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
THE GREAT CURSE OF DRUGS
NEARLY HALF OF OUR CRIMINAL
POPULATION ARE VICTIMS.
Startling Facts Given by the United
States Member of International
Opium Conference.

PHILADELPHIA a.-Nearly one
half of the criminals of the United
States are drug fiends, according to
statement of DR.. Hamilton Wright
made before the State Pharmaceuti-
cal Association here. Wr. Wright is
attached to the department of state
and is the United States member of
the International Opium Conference,
He has prepared a mass of statis-
tics that show an appalling increase
in the use of such drugs as opium,
morphine and cocaine in the United
States. According to the figures, the
importations of opium in the ten
years from 1860 to 1869, inclusive,
amounted to 1,425,169 pounds. In
the decade from 1900 to 1909, inclu-
sive, the importation had increased
to 6,435,622 pounds, or 351 per
cent, while the population increased
only 1873 per cent.
Of this 168,000 pounds are smoked
annually-100,000 by the Chinese
and the balance by Americans. There
are 10000 Chinese in the United
States, and 38 per cent. of them are
addicted to the habit. Each smoke
represents about one grain of opium.
Heavy Use of Opium.
These are not the least startling
figures given out by DR.. Wright. At
this tin1n "a 10
portation of opium amounts to AGO.
600 pounds, of which three-fourths
is used illegitimately. From 70 to
80 per cent. of the Importation is
made up into morphine, and IS per
cent. of the morphine is consumed
by ''fiends.'
OF all persons arrested, for what
ever cause, 6 per cent. have been
found to be users of drugs and near
ly 90 per cent. of all criminals use
drugs. More than 81 per cent. of
the women of the street are victims,
and more than 2 Y per cent. of physi-
clans are addicted to the habit.
Nurses have fallen victims to the
extent of 1872 per cent.
Bad as morphine is, it is said by
physicians to be far outdone by CO.
catne. The legitimate demand for
this drug amounts to about 200
OUNCES annually in the United States,
while the actual output is 10000
ounces. Cocaine is considered one
of the principal stimulants to crime.
There are 100000 cocaine victims
in the country DR.. Wright, as a
remedy for the drug evil, would
place the importation and sale of
drugs under the jurisdiction of the
federal government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
MAY PLOW UP AND PLANT AGAIN
Grass on Account of Rain Is Smooth
ering and Choking the Cotton.

Grass on Account of Rain Is Smooth
ering and Choking the Cotton.
A Juliette, Ca, dispatch says: The
continued rains of the past several
days have caused great deterioration
in the condition of all crops through
out this section. Up until about a
week ago prospects for the harvest
ing of bountiful crops all over the
county were brighter than in a num-
Der of years, but too much wet
weather has proven disastrous to the
crops, and unless weather conditions
become more favorable within the
next few days only about half crop
Of cotton will be harvested all over
the county.
From all sections of the county
come reports as to the great damage
that has been done to all kinds of
crops by the continued rains. Farm
ers say that their crops are full of
grass, and that it will require a great
deal of time and hard work to ex-
terminate it. 1t is said that if it
rains much more throughout this
section the farmers will pillow up
their cotton and replant.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
OLD FASHIONED KISSING 0. K.
WILEY, GOVERNMENT WISE MAN.
SAYS THERE'S NO DANGER.
Official Germ-Killer Retires From
Spooning, But Taste Lingers.
What He SAYS.


WASHINGTON.-The proposition
to abolish the gentle practice of os-
culation by anti-kissing crusades and
health societies is scoffed at by those
medical men of Washington who
have the least grain of sentimental
ty left in them, and is regarded as
the hugest kind of joke.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the
bureau of chemistry of the depart
ment of agriculture, probably knows
as much about disease germs OF va
rious kinds as any other man in this
country. DR.. Wiley says he has yet
to see a single instance in which a
life has been wrecked or shortened
as direct result of disease germs
transmitted from diseased person
to healthy one by the kissing route
Out in Cincinnati the women have
formed the Worlds Health Organi-
cation, Or Anti-Kissing League. In
this month of roses and orange bios
SONS, wedding marches, blushing
brides and slightly agitated bride
grooms, the league is doing it's ut
most to abolish the time-honored
custom of kissing. No more spoon
ing in parks or darkened doorways
last before goodnight is said is the
edict of the society. All of which
has caused DR.. Wiley to wonder what
is the matter with the Queen City
women.
"a society for the prevention of
kissing" DR.. Wiley said yesterday,
lis nothing less than society for
the prevention of pleasure"
When told that the society in the
Ohio city is gaining new members
by the hundreds, each of whom is.
pledging himself or herself to abb
stain from OSCILLATION for all time to
come, DR.. Wiley smiled in surprise.
Just imagine a kissless court
ship" he continued. Can you con-
template a more uninteresting pre-
dicament? l certainly would like to
get one peep at the members of an
organization which approves of such
a thing
while l long since have retired
from the spOoning business l still
have a memory, and whenever any
one quotes me as saying that l be-
lieve that the kissing habit should
be abolished you can put it down
that l have been misquoted.
81 have now reached that stage
when l conf1ne my kissing entirely to
relatives and babies, but that is not
because l fear the i'll effects of dis
ease transmission from mouth to
mouth.
"Take darkened nook on moon
light night, with the beams playing
around a couple idly swinging in a
hammock; let the anti-kissing So
ciety get to work in such a case, and
see what happens. 1t wouldn't be
long before the pair would shift their
position and find a more secluded
spot. You can't keep it down, and
there's no use trying, and so long as
good, red blood courses through the
veins of the American youth and
the adults and the aged, too, so far
as that is concerned, that delightful
sensation which is experienced when
lips touch and arms clasp and two
hearts beat as one will continue to
exist"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
MORGAN is ON A BOOM.
The Iron Horse Will Soon Snort
in CalhOun's Capital.

in CalhOun'S Capital.
The Calhoun County Courier re-
ports that in 80 days Morgan will
have scheduled trains smaking daily
connections with the Central of Geor-
gia at Williamsburg, a depot, and a
number of new enterprises, among
them bank.
The information says that Mr.. j..
M. Mcintosh, who recently purchased
half interest in the plant of the
Morgan Lumber Co., has begun prep
arations toward putting on daily
passenger and freight train over the
tram line which his company already
operates from Morgan to Williams
burg. He has purchased from }. NJ.
Newton a five-acre tract ofJand with
in the corporate limits of Morgan on
which he will build, depot for the
road.
Stock for a bank to be established
there with a capital of $25, 900 is
being solicited by Mr. Mcintosh, and
it is said nearly all the stock has
been subscribed. When all the stock
has been taken a charter will be APP
piled for and organization effected.
Mr.. Mcintosh is a former banker,
and only recently resigned the vice
presidency of the Albany bank to
invest in these enterprises at Nor
gan. He was also engaged in the
furniture business in Albany.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
UNCLE SAM HAS S9,4O2, 900
Receipts of the Government for Year
Foot Up 5000, O64 900. Slight
Falling Of in Expenditures.

WASHINGTON.-A surplus of So
100000 in the ordinary receipts and
expenditures against a deficit last
year of $58,734,OOO was announced
by the treasury department today.
The total deficit over all, which in
cludes Panama canal expenditures
and the public debt, is today $685.
$4,000, against $11S,795,OOO last
year
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
LOOKS OVER THOUSAND AND CULLs A WIFE

MILAN, one of the company's impor-
tation of girls from England, and de-
cided she'd do.
Having secured her address he left
the mills, called upon her the next
evening and the following day min
lister performed the ceremony which
made them man and wife. West re-
funded to the company the sixty dol
lars advanced for his brides passage
from England to Paris. Immediately
after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.
West left for Seattle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
DEBTOR MUST CONTINUE TO PAY
Senate Refuses to Relieve Defend
ant in Suit on Note.


The senate has defeated bill
by Senator McCurry to require the
creditor to pay attorneys fees in
stead of the debtor whenever suit is
entered on note
The McCurry measure proposed in
effect to re-enact the old Twitty law,
which was enacted when the Farm
ers' Alliance was in the ascendancy,
and which exempted the borrower
from payment of costs of collection
in case he had to be sued for the
collection of his note. Several strong
speeches were made against the
measure on the ground that the
states honor was at stake, and it re-
ceived only three votes, those of Sem
ators McCurry, Womble and John
son.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
"eht ON Marriage He Worked Half a
Day in a Mill to Find Her. Ger
Pmnnv Soon EnIInNUnd

w oE.ATTLE, Wash.-When George
, vest a civil engineer of Seattle, con-
1 po.d to take a wife he went to
n. ATS Ontario, and applied for a job
WIN wooden company
49,, west worked for half a day, de-
lung lung his attention to the thousand
e otls engaged at the factory. Along
"'ouI noon he saw Miss Florence Nc
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
RENO CARNIVAL OF BADNESS
is HAVING THE LAST OPPORTU-
NIFTY OF LICENSED JOY.
Everything Is Wide Open, and Hum
dreds of Gambling Places Are
Running Full Blast.

RENO, Nevada.-The biggest time
which Reno has had since the bonan-
"a days of the Comstock, 40 years
ago, is now on in full blast, and day
and night are now a mad revel. The
fight between Jeffries and Johnson
brought the largest aggregation of
sports ever assembled in an Ameri-
can city. Everything is wide open.
Saloons are running night and day,
and hundreds upon hundreds of
games of chance are inviting the
man with the wad to get rid of it.
The sporting element Aare taking
advantage of the last opportunity of
licensed joy under Nevadas laws.
This state is the only one left which
countenances prize fights of unlim-
tied length, and it is tacitly under
stood that following the affair of
July 4th the legislature is going to
make Nevada a sweet and good state
by passing the same restrictions on
boxing contests that all of the other
states have on their statute books.
And then on September 30th a law
prohibiting gambling of any kind,
which has already passed the legis-
lature, will be operative. Nevada is
the last of the states to prohibit pub
lie gambling.
Hundreds of Gambling Places.
In the face of this impending
moral sterilization arises the chance
for the final carnival of badness. AS
w
the fight would take place here the
sports began to pour in, ready to be
on the ground for the prosecution of
business and the enjoyment of pleas
ure. The gambling machinery had
to be oiled and made ready for the
golden harvest. In three days PIG
licenses for gambling games had been
taken out, and nearly as many more
licenses were issued the next week.
Under the law the keeper of a gamb-
ling resort must pay 500 initial
license for the year and a toll of
$75 month for each game. poker
excepted, or rather ignored, on each
crap table, wheel or faro layout that
he operates. There was not a back
room that was not cleared of its rub
Dish, painted and furnished and
crowded with layouts. Partitions
were installed and extensions built,
vacant stores were all snatched up
and their floors scrubbed for the
business. There is even flourish
ing gambling place below the rooms
of the Christian Science church.
Harvest Is On.
Now the golden harvest is on.
Money is flowing like water and the
pop of champagne bottles keeps time
to the spinning of the wheels Every
kind of game that can separate a
person from his surplus wealth is
fourishing. Roulette wheels are
busy day and night, and every gamb-
ling emporium is crowded with pict-
uresque throngs drawn from the four
corners to Mondays mill. Reno
doesn't sleep any more.
The pulpit has been laundering it's
anathemas at the whole carnival in
all its phases, but it's words might as
well have been hurled into the teeth
of cyclone. Reno is too much en-
crossed in the present revelry to pay
heed to any moralizing. Later it
may go on diet of sermons and
soda water.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE

IN Memphis a Girl OF Ten Wants
Freedom From Husband.
Memphis has a divorce case that
is out of the ordinary-and it is
pretty hard to find an extraordinary
divorce case, there are so many of
them. The plaintiff is Mrs. Lamar,
aged ten years, who was married
when she was nine to a man aged
thirty-two. She tells the court that
her one year of married life has quite
convinced her that she was too young
to know her own mind when she be-
came bride. Wherefore she begs
to be released.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
CORN GREW FASTER
One Put Cash ON One Inch Over
Night, and Other on Two. 1t
Climbed Four.

WASHINGTON, Ohio.-A wager
was made between two Fayette coua-
ty farmers as to how much stalk
of corn will grow in single day.
One of them said that certain
healthy stalk of corn, about waist
high, would grow one inch, while the
other wagered that it would grow two
inches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
THAN FARMERS BET

Accordingly a stake was driven in
the ground so that it's top came even
with the top of the highest blade on
the stalk. At the same hour the fol-
lowing DAY an examination was made,
and it was discovered that the stalk
of corn had grown Just four inches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
1857 DOGS RETURNED FOR TAX
Walker Seems to Be Greatest Dog
County in the State.

W"NNOE oCCIIIS 10 DE UTtaLGsJ DO8
County in the State.
If Walker county is any criterion
the new dog tax law is going to bring
considerable money into the state
treasury The tax returns from
Walker county have been received by
the controller-general, and in addi-
ton to showing an increase of $780,
600 over last year the citizens Of
that county have returned l ,637 dogs
for taxation at 81 a head. If the
same proportion were kept up
throughout the state, population con-
sidered, the state would get more
than $25O,000 year out of the dog
tax.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-13
Not Until After the Census.

They are going to hang three men
in one day in Atlanta. How extrava-
CANT they get since the census has
been taken.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
yqMERIC4N CROPS TOO 5MALL

Central
much has his
t1on t a IS o vital
Mr. Brown convinced that
of the O believes
a
productive capabilities
wheat while Germany wenegh England thirty
is
tier of the soil believed this
hat did things did
He
activity"
solution problem of city congestion
which The small
higher taxation of uncutivated land
be held Of for speculative
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
is king GEORGE
HUNTING TROUBLE
Indications Are That The New British
Monarchs Haven't the Warmest
Regard For Uncle Sam.
(By Union Associated Press.)

London, July 20.-During the reigr
of King George III. the American col
onies achieved their independence af
u ter administering a thorough whipping
to John Bull.
When George w. became regent
America again took to arms and
proved the supremacy of the new ma
tion on land and sea.
A century later, while Americans
are planning a centennial celebration
of the anniversary of the peace pact
between the two great Anglo-Saxon
nations, another King George has en-
tered upon a program which threatens
to strain the friendly relations now
existing between America and the
motherland.
King George has shown on several
occasions that he dislikes Americans,
and Queen Mary is openly and almost
rabidly antagonistic to the United
States and all that savors of Ameri-
canism
When Theodore Roosevelt, as spe-
cial envoy to King Edwards funeral,
was given a place in the procession
subordinate to the petty Ahkoond of
Swat and the Duke of Dingbat, the
feeling of King George was plainly in
evidence.
Now the most high and mighty
George Is sending envoys to various
nations to acquaint them with the fact
that Edward VII. is dead and that he,
George ", by the grace of God, reigns
in Edwards stead. 1t is rather an
unimportant and trite proceeding, but
it gathers significance from the an
nouncement that the United States is
not to be favored with an envoy.
Servia and Roumania are considered
as having sufficient Importance to
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
BRIBE GIVER To
have new TRIAL
Lee O'Neal Browne, Charged With
Bribing Representative White,
Again Placed on Trial.

Chicago, July 20.-Lee O'Neill
Browne, charged with bribing Rep
Charles A. White to vote for William
Lorimer for United States Senator
was aagin placed on trial today. The
previous trial resulted in a disagree.
ment. Since its conclusion there have
been fresh sensations caused by the
charge that attempts were made to
bribe the jurors to vote for the ac.
quittal of Browne. An indictment
was voted charging John A. Maloy, a
grocer, with attempting TO corrupt Us
car T. Morford, a Juror in the recent
trial of Lee O'Neil Browne.
Morford, his wife and his father,
Thorough Morford, testified before the
grand jury. Mrs. Morford testified
that shortly after the Browne jury
had been sworn she went to Maloy's
grocery store, which is in the neigh
borhood in which the Morfords live.
Maloy. she says, gave her two cigars,
which he asked her to give to her hus-
band, who had been accepted on the
jury. According to State Attorney
Wayman, Mrs. Morford testified that
Maloy asked her to use her influence
to persuade her husband to vote for
the acquittal of Browne, holding out
as reward for so doing that Morford
would not have to work for a rail-
road any more" as he would get a
lump of money" Morford is a switch.
man and his father a railroad gate.
man. He voted consistently for the
conviction of the defendant. Thor
ough Morford is said to have testi-
fed that the grocer made a similar
to him, urging him to in
f1uence the juror to hold out for
Browne. The offer was not communi.
Gated to the juror and he heard Of
1t first after the jury had been dis
charged.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
BUTTER Competition
AT GRAND FORKS, N. D.

Grand Forks, N. D., July 20.-Short
ly after the prize cocks at the fair
grounds had commenced their Char
teclar sunrising act this morning, sew
eral merry milkmen repaired to the
stalls of the meek-faced bossies to
begin contest which will make the
winner the proudest cow in North Da-
kota. 1t is forty-eight hour butter
competition and the COW giving the
highest percentage of butter fat be-
tween o'clock this morning and 6
o'clock tomorrow night will win for
her owner a silver trophy offered by
a Duluth, Mimi, newspaper.
The cows were MIXED dry at last
evening and will be milked twice
daily today and tomorrow. The milk
will be weighed and the standard
tests for butter fat applied.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
SCIENCE SAHy IT'S I'LL RIGHT

Sancnnau winch
lored worlds Health Organization
doing is utmost to abolish the tmehonored kissing
edct Of the society
Just before night
OF chief
caused
society for the prevention
ong society
courtship! Can
certainly would
retired from the poonng business still
quotes saying that believe
faboltshed
Here is who personally acquainted with
world
the stage where he confines his kissing entirely
ill
The
paying amony Wiley
The
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
THE APPROACHING Primary

Tuesday primary
for Commission Government
o
,
factona
the will surely antagonm
depressing business the
Nevertheless The duu
citizen
1t is offer
solving the submitted
All
economical
administration
public
Municipal America dried graft and
tend
all cost hazards city
believe the qualification,
Will that An
VIII dishonest instructed
No sophstF deceiing convincing
light Cy municipal quarters
pqf1r<[ ~ voters into of
surnnary: 10 the pass
sac9& yleidIns primary,
Jones| to any
Ix
a1x endur;ug ~ eqbstantiaI business. tov
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20

Carpenters and laborers are at work
at the Davidson Co. making the nee
essary changes for the increase Of the
second floor and for the receipt of the
new furniture, but the sale goes merri-
ly on and hundreds are taking ad-
vantage of the low prices offered at
this expansion sale. The sale opened
with an unusually good business Mon
day and the selling continues in most
satisfactory measure each day.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
CITY BREVITIEs.

1t would not only be the honest
thing to do, but it would be the safer
thing to do, for those boys who picked
up that IS bill in front of Lillius' store
this forenoon to bring it to The News
office. By doing so they will get a
reward; by not doing so they may get
trouble. In law and in morals, keep
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
GULF G. SHIP ISLAND.
Main Line.

Main Line.
No. 5 No. 3.
Lv. Jackson e. 600 am. 1886 pm.
Lv. Hattiesburg 9:43 am. 1913 pm.
Az. Gdifport. 1880 PIN. 1000 pm.
No. No. 6.
Lv. Gulfport. =. 7:40 am. 4:25 pm.
Lv. Hattiesburg1O:3O am. 7:43 pm.
Ar. Jackson. 1:55 pm. 11:OO pm.
Columbia Division.
(vla Silver Greek and Columbia.)
NO. 10l. No. 1902.
1880 pm. .lv. Mendenhall ar 9:25 pm
lao pm. ar. Gulfport w.. 2:45 pm.
No. 100. No 10
2;30 pm .lv. Jackson ar. 1915 a, m.
6:2O pm. ar. Columbia w., 6:1O am.
Connections at Jackson Hattiesburg
and Gulfport with all lines.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20

Big Auction Sale Town Lots, Wa
nilla, Thursday, July 21st. Round trip
ticket one and one-third fare-either
road. 1921
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20

warrant the sending of an envoy, but
Uncle Sam, it seems, has not yet
reached stature warranting the no.
tice of England's monarch.
1t is evident that republicanism has
nothing to do with Georges decision,
as France is included in the list of ma
tions to which envoys are accredited.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20

Be on hand early and get your
share of the bargains offered at Nc
MILAN G. WILLIAMS Closing Out
Sale.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20

ing money that does not belong to
you, when you know the owner or
know where to find him, is the same
as stealing it.
The Hattiesburg news., 1910-07-20
NEW ORLEANS & NORTHEASTERN
N. o. M. & c. r. R.

N. o. M. & c. R. r.
No. 13 Southbound
Leaves Hsttiesburg .....,7:15 A. M.
No. Is
Leaves Hattiesburg ......4:35 P. NJ.
No. IA Northbound
Arrives at Hattiesburg ..1O:SO A. NJ,
No. 16
Arrives Hattiesburg .... 7:15 P. NJ.