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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
MISS MOLLIE PICKETT.
Philathea Glass Pay Tribute to Re-
Gently Deceased Member.

HmLaJnea OIaSS ray Tribute 10 he-
Gently Deceased Member.
zone by one they are crossing
Ger"
AS az class we have been much be
reaved. Another one of our most
conseerated, devoted Philatheas has
entered that rest, that Sabbath keep
ing that remaineth to the people of
IGod After a lingering illness on
the night of february 23rd the pure
spirit of Miss Mollie Pickett, freed
from the letters of earth, returned
to the God who gave it. Though
delicate in health hers was life
of loving, unselfish ministry in her
with wisdom, and in her tongue is
the law of kindness" How the home
circle will miss the pale sweet face
and gentle words! Feebleness kept
her much from the class she loved
so WELL but when strong enough to
fill her place all felt the interest and
sympathy that filed her life for the
Masters great work. Her teacher
once expressed it thus: Miss Mol
lie Pickett always reminds me of
spring violets. She is unconsciously
clothed with modesty; l feel rather
than see her presence; / know she
is there by the warmth and glow of
a sympathetic responsiveness, just as
the violets half hidden away breathe
forth the warmth and glow of the
sunshine, and tell us that spring has
come again"
The floral offering from the class,
when the tired body was laid to rest
in Goods acre." was in keeping with
this thought. The Philathea en-
blem was done in violets and white
hyacinths, while here and there
graceful fronds of asparagus ferns
gave an exquisite daintiness to the
entire piece.
The funeral service, conducted by
Rev. n. B. O'Kelley, was impressive
and full of comfort. At the age of
fifteen years our sister gave her
heart to the Christ and her life to
His service. She united with the
Macedonia Baptist church in Web
ster county. That veteran soldier
of the cross, Rev. NJ. B. L. Binion,
baptized her. She arose from the
watery grave and ever after lived
on the resurrection side of life. 81
am the resurrection and the life"
Three sisters and three brothers
remain-Mrs. W. H. Cobb, Mrs. A. e.
McCarty and Miss Fannie Pickett,
all of Dawson; Drs. Reuben and
Frank Pickett of Ty Ty and Mr. Sam
Pickett of this city. We point these
sorrowing ones to the sympathizing
risen Christ. Gle hath borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows"
CLASS REPORTER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
FOR DYSPEPSIA.
You Risk Nothing by Trying This
Remedy.

You Risk Nothing by Trying This
Remedy.
We want every one troubled with
Indigestion and dyspepsia to come to
our store and obtain a box of Rexall
Dyspepsia Tablets. They contain
Bismuth-Subnitrate and Pepsin pre-
pared by a process which develops
their greatest power to overcome di-
gestive disturbance.
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are very
pleasant to take. They soothe the
irritable, weak stomach, strengthen
and invigorate the digestive organs,
relieve nausea and Indigestion, pro-
mote nutrition and bring about a
feeling of comfort
If you give Rexall Dyspepsia Tab
lets a reasonable trial we will re-
turn your money if you are not salts
fed with the result. Three sizes
25 cents, so cents and $1.00. Re-
member you can obtain Rexall Rem
edies in Dawson only at our store
The Rexall Store. Horsley Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
HUSBANDS TO Be TAGGED
NEW ORDER OF THINGS AMONG
PITTSBURG SOCIETY WOMEN.
The Zulu and Korea Badges of Con-
nubiaI Felicity Would Be
More Effective.


Eighteen society women of Pitts
burg, headed by Mrs. Edward Cav
anaugh, have organized a unique
protective and conservation associa-
ton. Members of the association
are all married, and each declares
for publication that she has the best
husband in the world, in whom she
has the most perfect and abiding CON
tidence. The ladies of the new order
know quite we'll that their husbands
do not need to be guarded, since
they wouldn't for all the world think
of flirting. But there are married
men who are inclined to f1irt, the
eighteen society wives say, and their
plan is to set badge on every hus-
band so that all girls and all women
may know that he is a married man.
Mrs. President Cavanaugh ex-
planning the beneficent organization,
said: I'VE believe that young girls
will not flirt with married men if the
| girls know the men to be married
| Eighteen of us have agreed to ask
our husbands to wear a plain gold
married, and we hope the custom will
become universal Of course, my
husband is no f1irt, and neither are
the husbands of the other seventeen;
but an ounce of prevention '-you
know the rest"
! OF course the husbands will con-
sent to wear the ring. They would
be mighty sorry sorts of sticks of
husbands if they didn't. A ring is so
conveniently worn, and may be
slipped on or off so easily, to suit
the exigencies of the occasion. Why,
if ring-wearing will cinch and cement
confidence back at home the hus-
bands will put one on each finger.
Pittsburg husbands may need tag
ging. There are lots of funny stories
about them that get into the courts
and the newspapers from time to
time, But it may be doubted that
the ring-tag will be sufficient and
quite satisfactory, because it will be
so easy for the frivolous hubby to
hide his badge. If the husbands in
Pittsburg must be marked men why
wouldn't it be better to adopt the
Korean or the Zulu practice? In
Korea all married men must wear
hats of certain shape and color,
and their hair and clothes must be
Icut in a permanent standard style.
In Zululand when a man marries he
pierces his upper lip and sticks a
/, knuckle-bone through it, so that he
may never again kiss anybody. Now,
there is no getting behind those
badges of connubial felicity, so that
. Korean and Zulu bellies are never al
, loss to tell precisely the standing
of the man in the case.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
STUDY OF POTATO RAISING.
American Department of Agriculture
Will Send Expert Abroad.

Potato raising in Europe is to be
Investigated by the United States de-
partment of agriculture. A special
agent of the department, Eugene
Grub of Carbonate, Colo, is to be
sent abroad to study the European
potato in all its aspects. The de-
partment has been interested in Eu-
ropean potato raising for some time,
and wanted to know why so much
larger crops could be raised abroad
than were raised in the United States.
The average for the United States
| is only about eighty bushels per acre,
while abroad they average over 100
bushels. In fact, on one Of Lord
Rosebery's farms in England they
are reported to raise 200 bushels per
acre.
There is a very large annual i'm
portation of potatoes to the United
States
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27

yves as grace my train. Tanner
lanes marches of devastation were
as naught beside my steady advance
over the conquered millions. The
Caesars and the Attilas come and
go-comets whose advent mean
death and destruction, for a season:
put go on forever, and take my
CHASTITY toll from all that come to
mill
OF civilizations ocean I am the
builder of the coral reef on which
the ship goes down; of it's citadel
I'm the traitor who let's the enemy
IN; of its progress I'm the fetter
and the clog; of its heaven I'm the
ell.-Jeffersonian.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27

quished? What statesmen have T
laid low? How many a Burns and
zoe have [ not dragged down from
therial heights? How many a Sgd
ney Carton have I not made to weep
for a wasted life? How many times
nave | caused the ermine to be drawn
through the mud?
strong am I-irresistibly strong.
Sampsonlike, strain at the foun-
datlon of character; and they come
topping down in irremediable ruin
While | escape. I am the cancer,
beautiful to behold, and eating my
remOrseless way into the yitals of
the world. | am the pestilence,
stalking my victims to the cottage
door and to the palace gate. No re-
spector of persons; I gloat over rich
ly garbed victims no more than over
the man of the blouse.
The church, empty it; the Jail, I
fill it; the gallows, I feed it. From
me and my blazing lights run
straight the dark roads of the slums,
to the prisons, to the bread-lines, to
the mad-house, to the potter's field.
u1luO CIlG WOIh vi JuG SCnOOI.
cut the ground from under law and
order. I'm the seed-bed of poverty
vice and crime. I'm the leper who
buys liberation and who has not to
cry 'unclean!" I'm the licensed
ally-of-sin. I buy from the state the
right to lay dynamite under it's foun-
dalton. For price they give me
IpOwer to nullify the work of law
makers, magistrates and rulers. For
handful of gold l am granted let
ters of marque to sail every human
sea and prey, upon its life-boats.
Huge battleships they build, cas-
| ing them triply with hardened steel
and huge guns they mount on these
floating ramparts, until a mile OF
dreadnoughts line the coasts-foI
what? To be ready for perils that
may never come. But I give them
pitiful little purse; and in return
they issue to me the lawful right to
/ unmask my batteries on every
square; and my guns play upon hui
manity every day and every night
of every year. And were my de-
stroyers spread out upon the sea they
would cover the face thereof.
Around that grief-bowed woman
threw the weeds of widowhood-but
| paid for the chance to do it; and
they who took my money knew thai
would do it.
To the lips of that desolate child
brought the wall of the orphan
but I bought the right to do it; ant
they who sold me the right knew
what would come of it.
Yes I in1amed the murderer;
made diabolical bag out of the
once beautiful girl; I made a crimi
nal out of the once promising boy
1 replaced sobriety and comfort b!
drunkenness and pauperism-bu
don't blame me; blame those from
whom I purchased the legal right Il
do it.
No Roman emperor ever dragge'
at his chariot wheels on the day o
his triumph such multitudes of cap
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
The Song of the Bar Room!
Dunn Vivamus! Vivamus +!

rive let us live. Where is yes
,.ro Lost forever. Where's to-
rrov2 1t may never come. To-
is here. Within its fieeting
mrs runs the only certainty that
IN ever know. Come, eat, drink
Nd he merry, for tomorrow you die!
Tbo chains of self-restraint are
\ ring-throw them off. The bur-
of duty is grievous-fing it
Gu omr The cross of responsibility is
Oun~obing-let another bear it.
T 1--WE for yourself; live for the now;
I'D for the lust of living.
mink and forget dull care. Drink,
- case the heartache. Drink, and
w the passion for the unattaina-
Coo how men are drawn to me.
+, lights blaze q brilliant welcome;
4 am never too hot or too cold. Mir
orod vanity smirks in my gilded re-
Hoctors. and no one is i'll at. ease in
NV Free-for-All Club. No shrewdish
IT. can tOngue-lash you here; no
&,oovish child annOys you with it's
&rios Leave to them the ugliness
e vonr haggard home, and come un-
= mo for comfort. Theirs, the cold
I'D tbe gloom and the squalor-
ronrs the warmth and glow and So
bal joy.
cain Here's hoping" 'Tis we'll
p toast her here, where begins the
rail to the grave of Hope. Be jolly;
4 IF the place ring with laughter; re-
late the newest story-the story that
matches the nude picture on the wall.
What's that? dispute, angry
Mathis violent quarrel, the crash of
overturned chairs, the CLEAN of steel,
he fash of guns, the stream of life
blood. the groans of dying men.
Oh, we'll, it might have happened
hnvwhere. The hearts of mothers
bnd fathers, | wrench with pain; the
asouls of wives l darken in woe. ]
kmite the mansion, and there are
wounds that gold cannot salve; the
hut l invade, and poverty sinks into
deeper pits.
SOW and I till and I reap where
u SOW, and my harvest-is what?
Men so brutaliZed that all of hui
smanity is lost save the physical shape
men reeking with moral filth,
Stony of heart, bestial in vice-men
swho hear the name of God with a
Ewrathful stare, or a burst of scorn-
ful mirth, men who listen to the
'death-rattle of any victim of their
greed or their lusts without sign
.Of pity.
And women, too! How can I fifty
sing of the woman of my harvest
time? Did you ever hear her laugh ?
DIT must be the favorite music of the
.damned Did you ever hear her
Fibald talk? The very sewers might
Shrink at bearing it away. Have
FOu ever heard her libidinous songs
Did you ever watch her eyes-those
Defiant, mocking, hopeless, shameless
eyes?
What warriors have l not van.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
MRS. PINKHAMs STANDING INVITATION:

Women suferngfrom any form Of female weakness arein-
ted to promptly communicate with Mrs Pnkham at Lynn
Mass All letters received opened read and answered by
women woman freely talk Of her private illness
TO woman; thus has been established this confidence
between Mrs. Pnkham and the of America which
mas never been broken Never has she published test
monial used letter without the written consent of the
writer and never has the company allowed these conf
Genital letters to get out Of their possession the hun
aeds Of thousands of them in their files will attest
Out of the vast volume of experience which Mrs Pink
nam has to draw FROM it is than possible that she
mas gained the very knowledge needed in your case
one asks nothing return except your good WILL and her
advice has helped thousands. Surely any rich or
poor should be glad to take advantage of this generous
Ger Of assistance. Address Mrs Pnkham of Lydia
E Plnkham Medicine Co, Lynn, Mass
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
Worse Than Bullets.

Bullets have often caused less
suffering to soldiers than the ecze-
ma L. w. Hartman, Burlington
Me-, got in the army and suffered
with forty years. But Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured me when all else
failed" he writes. Greatest healer
for sores, ulcers, boils, burns, cuts,
wounds, bruises and piles. Csc at
Dawson Drug Co.'S.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-27
Children Who Are SiCkIV

Mothers who value Jneir own comfort and the
welfare OF their children. should never be without
a box OF Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chill
dren, for use throughout the season They break
up Colds. Cure Feyerishness. Constipation Teeth
ing Disorders. Headache and Stomach Troubles
THESE POWDERS NEVER FAIL. Sold by ali
Drug Stores, Csc. Don't accept any substitute.
trial package will be sent FREE to any mother
who will address Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N, Y
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-27

derstood by Miss SWANS classmates
Their faces were turned up to me.
each wearing tantalizing smiles and
all expecting my rejoinder. / resolved
to silence the young lady by a coDPli-
ment.
IL am quite sure. Miss Swami" said,
that If you were a widow and pro-
posed to end your earthly existence on
your husbands funeral pyre a mob Of
bachelors would prevent it"
Amid another litter. this time not at
my expense. l siGnified that the dis
cussion was ended by proceeding with
my dictation. Unfortunately there was
a lot more in my lecture on what
called the emotion of love. and feared
that Miss Swami or some other men,
Der of the class would trip me up
again. l would have omitted the rest
were it not that Icould not do so and
preserve the continuity Of my lecture.
1 was not long in striking passage
that brought about more trouble:
That the emotion is human instead of
divine is indicated by the fact that a love
which has existed for years may turn to
hate Again it may be lost Indeed. with
out another mental faculty, memory, II
cannot continue even through life. There
are many instances where. the faculty OF
memory having been destroyed. persons
have not even been cognizant or those
they have loved. AS the brain is a cam
era as we'll as a storehouse of photo
graphic plates, so love
1 stopped. I realized that might as
well fire a canister of ideas antagonis-
tic to weman's nature as finish the
sentence.
$50 orr cried every one in the room.
lis a conglomerate union OF emotions
produced by the perceptive faculties Of an
organic brain.
Smothered groans were mingled with
the sound of scribbling. To escape
from a situation which considered
appalling closed the book from which
had ben debating and. rising. bow
ed a dismissal to the class. Half the
girls had risen TO hurl back my views;
but, the lecture being ended. they were
unable to do so. A dozen came to my
desk with defiance IN their eyes; but,
taking up my hat. said with a smile:
Pardon me. young ladies'; have an
engagement at this hour. and to be on
time must go at once"
That was the last lecture delivered
before that class. I knew that a storm
OF opposition TO the views I had ex-
pressed would meet me on my next en-.
try into the class room. Rather than
ed 10 resign my professorship. I did
so and left by a midnight train, giving
as a reason for my sudden action and
departure that l had discovered on
myself what I presumed to be symp-
toms of leprosy and not for worlds
would communicate the disease to
any one else. The University of B.
never saw me again. Indeed, l never
lectured again. devoting myself 20
original research. learned afterward
that had 1 not resigned voluntarily
would have been invited to do so. my
lectures being considered by the cor
poration altogether too materialistic
for a Christian college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-27
The Voters Problem.

Those republican candidates for
congress who have been such ardent
Cannon men and who are now prom
Using they will not vote for Cannon
for speaker, should be asked whom
they would vote for in the uncertain
event of a republican minority. Dali
zell, Payne, Mckinley, Tawney, Vree-
land, Olmstead, Weeks, Mondell,
Smith of Iowa, Fordney, or any 9TH
er of the Cannon leaders, would be
equally obnoxious and just as much
opposed to real tariff reform and re-
trenchment in appropriations as
Speaker Cannon has been. If the re-
publicans elect a majority of the next
congress, which is very doubtful, will
the, standpatters vote for an insur-
gent for speaker? Otherwise all
the reforms in the rules of the house
of representatives will be worthless
AS they are in the present congress
for the speaker must favor such
reforms to make them effective.
Each congressional district has it's
own problems which the democratic
and progressive republican, voters
must settle as political conditions will
permit; but those who desire reform
and honest government can get it
only by turning down the ''old guard"
and thus help to wipe out-for all
and Aldrichism
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-27

l was but twenty eight years old
when 1 was called to the chair of
mental philosophy in the University of
B., a woman's college. 1 was given
to rationalism. rhaterialism and all
that group of isms popular at the time
and was fond OF embodying them in
my lectures TO my classes. / dictated
these lectures. and they were taken
down by the students in blank books.
l was lecturinS one morning, my sub
ject leading me into something at
which the girls pricked up their ears.
This was the passage that attracted
their attention:
Music is an appeal to the fancy. excit-
ing the imaginative faculty, now soothing
the listener into a pleasant languor, as
in the case of lullaby. now stirring the
passions. as in the case of martial strains.
All our emotions are based on such in
duences. Love, though far more durable,
is apt to be excited in the same way. The
imagination is operated on By circum-
stances. When these circumstances are
attractive love is produced: when they
are disagreeable they engender hate.
Love once excited may absorb ones
whole being. But that it is not IN itself
ifest from the fact that 1t may be repeat
ed again or again. Were this not so the
Indian custom of the wife's fmmolation on
the funeral pyre of her husband would be
q necessity.
There was no sound in the room ex-
cept my monotonouS dictation and
during the pauses at the end of every
half dozen words the ripple of hun
dred pen points on as many lecture
books. l was a bit uneasy at this por-
ton of my discourse. fearing the girls
might do or say something that would
embarraSS me. l was about to pro-
coed after the last word, necessity"
when Kate Swami. the chief mischief
maker in the class, laid down her pen
and rose from her seat.
May ask. professor" she said de-
murely. while her eyes snapped vi
ciously, does a sense of Justice per-
tain to the subject we are studying"
Certainly"
Then If love were eternal would
1t not be just that the husband should
immediate himself on the funeral pyre
of his wife as well as the wife on the
funeral pyre of the husbands"
The class Uttered.
Man" said. with an affectation Of
modesty for my sex, "is not supposed
to be endowed with as strong. unchang-
ing love proclivities as woman. This
is because he is not as emotional.
Nevertheless 1 grant that If love were
spiritual. which l consider to be. the
same as eternal, husband who lost
his wife might do well to end his
mourning on the funeral pyre Of bis
wife,"
You mean then, professor. sup
pose." pursued the mink. THAT, while
it would be a necessity on the part OF
a widow to SO end her mourning,
man under similar circumstances
might do we'll to thus immediate him
self"
was in for It, The satire was deli
.cate. but sufficiently biting to be I'M
subject myself to such fire resolv-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-27

forth and
goods they take they hasten and
to n
Andth tolls price they
and food and wne and for damage done beside
will
fair and
the
in land the its strife
of gold would take pay lHe
another land and destroy It's growing
destroyed the timber lands
should
the loss growing
and the march FORTH and the ships beat through
hobns angry
food the books displayed
TOLLS
through table
reckoning the the slaughtered
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-27
Looking to Missouri.

Missouris delegation in the house of
representatives consists of six repub-
iicans and ten democrats. "Unless
there is radical change in sentiment
between now and election day. says
the st. Louis correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune republican,, Missouri
may be represented in congress by one
lone republican.
at would SEEM" the correspondent
continues, that so far as the tariff is
concerned Missouri ought to be salts
fed. The miners of the zinc district
contributed money to a fund to secure
an increase in duty on the product of
the industry in which they were en-
gagged.
But the satisfaction with the tariff
prevails more among the men who
furnish the capital than the men and
women who work with their hands.
In the case of the zinc miners, for ex-
ample, who expected the higher duty
to be followed by raise in wages, they
have found themselves working on half
tion 10 their daily pay to make up even
the loss they have suffered.
'They heard Speaker Cannon during
the last congressional campaign prom
lse higher duty on zinc and listened
to his glowing phrases of the pros
perity that would ensue. They elected
arepublican congressman on the theory
that they would be directly benefited,
and they witnessed with satisfaction
his enhancement of Cannon and his
votes for the tariff BILL"
'The satisfaction with the tariff pre-
walls more among the men who furnish