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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
A CITY UP IN THE SKY
IN MANHATTAN MANY LIVE IN
VERITABLE CASTLES
IN THE AIR"
Flower Beds, the Family Cat and the
Weekly Wash Flying to Breezes
Are Seen Hundreds of Feet
Above the PavamantS
Above the PaVements.

Above the PaVements.
NEW YORK.-The announcement
that New York's latest thirty-story
'skyscraper" will have a roof gar
den has drawn attention to a phase
of city life which is to be found no.
where else in the world but on Man
haitian Island. This is a "oity in the
sky'-dozens of little homes with
Hover beds, and family cats, and
clothes drying in the sun, hundreds
of feet above the crowded Placement.
With the exception of the Singer
and Metropolis Life towers, most of
New Yorks towering structures have
nat roofs. On them have been con-
structed innumerable roof houses.
where the janitors, and often the
busy superintendent of these build
lngs are wont to dwell. Their homes
are as quiet and secluded as if they
were far out in the country.
The roof house is usually built of
the same terra Gotta hollow tile that
is used in the floors and partitions of
the 'skyscraper" itself Just as this
material makes the body of the build
ing safe from fire, so it provides Sc
cur1ty for the janitor's family against
stray sparks that may be blown from
surrounding chimneys.
These up-in-the-air homes were
really the first examples of the use
OF terra Gotta in dwelling construc-
ton. Now, in the neighborhood of
New York fireproOf dwellings have
become more or less familiar, and
several terra Gotta colonies have
sprung up. Not only the element of
safety, but the saving on repairs and
insurance premiums, is responsible
for this.
In many cases little garden plots
of shallow earth are cultivated
around the tiny castles-in-the-air of
the modern cliff dwellers," and on
Mondays the family wash is to be
seen waving in the breeze three hun
dred feet above the sidewalk. This
is true, for instance, of both the New
York Stock Exchange and the New
York Produce Exchange buildings.
| When the janitor has children he
surrounds the roof with a high fence
and provides them with a safe play
ground, where there are swings and
parallel bars, and formal board walks
for the rainy weather. The cliff
jewellers are a healthy race, and have
no fear of the dread city scourge,
tuberculosis, lurking many stories be-
low near the sidewalks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
SEVENTH TINE WANTS DIVORCE.
Many RecOnciliatiOns Prevent a Few
Trials and Save Courts Work.

Many Reconciliations Prevent a Few
Trials and Save Courts Work.
Thrice married to and twice di-
vorced from the same man Mrs. Ma
linda Fronefeld has again brought
suit in Adams county, Indiana, cir
cult court for divorce from her hus-
band, William c. Fronfield. 1t is
the seventh time she has sought Ie-
gal separation from her spouse.
Twice she had her desire, and then
IN the sequels to the suits she and
her husband made up and were mar
ried again. Five times, after bring
ing suit, the cases were withdrawn
before coming to trial, the recurring
reconciliation being effected in time
to save the time of the court.
Mr.. Fronefield is complacent over
the latest suit, while his lady says
she will push it to the end, and that
no more will she consent to resup-
ton of the connubial relation with
him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
20 CENTS A DAY FOR FOOD.
Harvard Professor Says 1t Is Enough
For Working Man.

Arguing that man who works can
easily live on 20 cents a day and
avoid meat Dr. Franklin White, Har-
wards expert on dietetics, said:
1T is not only possible to live on
20 cents a day, but to do it would
result in better health. People are
complaining of the high cost of food,
but it seems as if most of us forget
the really cheap food. Take corn
meal, for example, which costs 8
cents a pound. A third of a pound,
or cents worth of corn meal, will
make a large quantity of mush,
probably more than the average ap-
petite demands. With oleomargarine
and some cheap syrup it makes a
satisfying, nOuTishing meal. Two
cents worth of syrup would give the
sugar element A man could do
hard labor on such a meal, the en-
tire cost Of which would be about
cents.
Another cheap basis for a full
meal is the potato. To be sure, the
potato by itself is not appetizing
enough, but a man can use boiled
potatoes and get his flavor from
smoked herring. 1t is not generally
appreciated, I fear, that herring
is better value for ones money in
flavor and food value than is more
expensive fish, such as cod, A her
ring can be purchased for a cent, and
in some places herrings are sold at
two for a cent. AS for the flavor,
a couple of behring's with boiled po-
tatoes, Olemargarine and salt will
make the meal really appetizing"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
IT'S A NATIONAL DISGRACE
UNITED STATES LEADS ALI, TuE
WORLD IN MURDERS.
129 FeloniOus Homici6es a Year Per
100000 Population. Canada
Has Only Three.

A-O II elonIOuS HOmlClGeS q Year Per
100000 Population. Canada
Has Only Three.
That the number of criminal homi-
cldes in the United States each year
is practically 43 times greater than
IN Canada and eight times greater
than in Belgium, which has the great
est number of any European country;
that in the United States the average
criminal serves but seven years of a
life sentence, and that at the pres.
ent time only about one murderer in
every "A is punished, were state
ments in an address delivered by DR..
Andrew D. White, former president
of Cornell University and former am
bassador to Germany and Russia.
He said:
Leads All the World.
THE number of felonious homi-
cides per year per million population
for various countries follows: Can
ada, 8; Germany, 4 to 5; England
and Wales, 10 to Il; France, IA to
10; Belgium, 16; United States, more
than 129. These figures are based on
an average taken for eight years.
1t seems impossible that on one
side of an imaginary line homicide
could be so much more prevalent
than on the other, as in the case of
Canada and the United States. But
the reason is that on one side law
prevails and not chicanery, and that
! on the other side has taken place
a breakup in the administration of
criminal law.
By far the greatest of all causes
is the fact that the administration of
criminal law has become simply a
game. A trial is a game between
two or three lawyers; the whole
thing has become very much farce. =
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
TRAILED FISH TO NEW YORK
FINDS DIAMOND TROUT SNAPPED
FROM HIS WIFE'S FINGER.
ihls May Sound "Fishy," But That's
Quite Natural, as 1t Is
About q Fish.

NEW YORK; came east on the
trail Of fish," remarked Jean De-
yereaux, business man of Omaha.
at the Grand Central.
1T was like this. Last summer 7
went fishing in Cutoff Lake. north
OF Omaha, at one time a part of the
Missouri river. l hauled up a big
trout. How that trout got in Gut
OF Lake is a mystery, because trout
are scarce in that whole section of
the country l knew the only way
to make my friends believe me when
| told them l caught the trout in the
lake was 10 take 1t home alive.
Il tied j string to the trout's tail
and fastened it to a seat in the boat.
Then with my hat | dipped up
enough water to half fill the boat,
and, taking off my clothes, jumped
overheard and pushed the boat
ashore.
Just as l had finished dressing
milk wagon came by, and for a
couple of dollars the driver consent
ed to help me. We filled the cans
with water and then stood the trout
on his tail in one of them As we
drove home | changed the trout from
can to can to keep him in fresh wa
ter.
"At home my wife had the bath
tub filled with water, and we dumped
the trout into the tub. We kept that
fish in our bathtub until a week ago,
when the neighbors began to kick
because we had to go to their houses
every time either one of us wanted
a bath. So we decided to ship the
fish to friend of mine in New York
Would you believe it; my wife
cried when I sent that trout away.
You see it had become so tame it
was on account of this habit of his
that all our subsequent trouble came
about, and | had to come east.
Just half an hour before | put
the fish in the tank to ship it away
my wife went to the bathroom to
bid the fish gOOd-by. In her grief
she forgot to take it any bread, and
when she put her hand in the tub
to pat it on the head the trout
snapped at her hand. Later she
found that one of the diamonds in
her ring was missing. She didn't
tell me about the trout stealing the
stone until the fish was on its way
to New York.
81 telegraphed to my New York
friend not to dispose of the fish I'M
til l arrived. I got here yesterday
just in time for the autopsy There
in the trout's mouth, caught in its
gills, was the diamond from my
wife's ring"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
Cold and La Grippe.

Mr.. G. Happy, Hardin, Ray Co., Mo-,
writes: az can safely recommend PEI
runa as a remedy that will cure all ca
tarrhal troubles.
at was of Sreat benefit to me, as il
cured me of catarrh of the throat, and
I took a very bad cold and had Ia
grippe last February. 1t settled in my
throat and lungs. I took three bottles
of Peruna and it cured me.
II highly recommend it to all who
are sick, and am glad to add my en-
dorsement to that of Others"
Pe-ru-na for Colds.
Mr.. L. Clifford Figg, Jr., 2929 East
Marshall ST., Richmond, Va, writes
that when he gets cold he takes PERU
ma, and itsoon vesitoutof hissy SYSTEM,
For several years he was not entirely
well, but Peruna completely cured him
People who object to liquid medicines
can now secure Peruna tablets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
DR.. COOK IN BAD SHAPE
EXPLORER LIVING IN BELGIUM
UNDER ASSUMED NAME.
Effort Being Made to Organize Expe-
ditiOn to Go to Greenland For His
Records and Instruments,

Effort Being Made to Organize Expe-
ditiOn to Go to Greenland For His
Records and Instruments.
NEW YORK.-Broken in health
and spirit DR.. Frederick A. Cook,
who failed to produce sufficient proof
to satisfy the Danish scientists that
he had been to the north pole, is in
Belgium.
This was learned through a private
letter received by a friend of DR..
Cook, trying to organize an expedi-
ton to go to Greenland to recover
the instruments and polar records
which Harry Whitney of New Haven,
Conn, left in a cache at Etah, and
to search for the two Eskimos who
accompanied him on his polar trip.
He has the support, it is said, of
Captain George Lecomte, who was
navigating officer of the Belgian An
tartic expedition in 1897, of which
DIR, Cook was surgeon and anthropOl-
Ogist.
DR.. Cook has been in weakened
condition, both mentally and physi-
cally, according to the advices from
Berlin, since he left New York the
latter part of November. Much of
the time, it is said, he has spent in
sanItarium. Mrs. Cook is with
him, and they are reported to be
soJourning at a quiet hotel in the
vicinity of Brussels. There DR.. Cook
is living under an assumed name.
Although crushed by the unfor-
tunate decision" writes his friend,
DR.. Cook realizes that the verdict
OF Copenhagen disposes of his claim
OF having been the first to reach the
north pole until he can produce proof
more convincing than that which has
been submitted to and rejected by
the jury which he himself chose, the
University of Copenhagen.
His expulsion from the Attic Club
OF America and the Explorers Club,
as reported by American newspapers;
mas not been reported to him by Mrs.
COOK and his physician"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, no
rrnIra EnIrNrN "

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior
partner of the firm of f. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the city of Toledo, county and state
aforesaid and said firm will pay the sum Of one
hundred dollars for each and every case OF ca
tarrh that cannot be cured by the use OF Halls
Catarrh Cure. FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres
ence. this 9th day OF Decemoer, A. D., 1886.
GSRAL.l A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood aud mucous surfaces
OF the system. Send for testimonials free
F. j. CHENEY q Co, Toledo, 0.
Sold by all druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family pills for constipation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
Horse VS.. Beef.

The talk of some would-be trust
about eating horses instead
of beef, as they do in Germany, is
all vain. The price of horses has
advanced hundred per cent. in the
past few years. Besides we have al
ways heard that most corn beef
hash was close akin to Dobbin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
HOBOES JOIN THE MEAT STRIKE.
Polite Requests at Back Door Are
Now For Beans.

Although they have not been read
ing the papers with much regularity
a half-score of hoboes staying in a
deserted shed near the railroad
bridge at Hazleton, Pa, are "onto"
the fact that there is an anti-meat
eating crusade in progress.
In making their frequent rounds
10 the back doors of local homes
they automatically avoid making re-
quests for such high-priced things
as steak or eggs. 1t is now: Lady,
would you please aid a hungry and
unfortunate traveller by giving me-
some OF the leftover beans or a
sWeet-pickled peach?"
The hobo camp is fairly reveliGG
IN meat, however. The weary Will
hes have rugged up a boat and are
capturing many rabbits on the few
unhooded knobs in the flood dis
trict.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
They Served the Sentence.

Ihey SeFVtu Ine StnItnCt.
Mayor Shank of Indianapolis the
other day had a number of saloon
keepers before him on a charge of
violating the Sunday law. Each of
the accused was found guilty, and
the mayor sentenced the whole bunch
to attend church the next Sunday.
The convicted men obeyed the man
date to the letter, and having thus
satisfied the law opened their places
for business bright and early Monday
morning.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
Florida Has an Alcohol Exhibit.

Florida Has an Alcohol Exhibit.
Following the lead of one of the
European methods of fighting alco-
holism the Florida w. C. 7. u. is
sending from city to city an alcohol
exhibit, consisting of charts and in
structive data. 1t is in charge of
Miss Elizabeth Woodruff, a we'll
known religious worker. During a
recent visit to Tampa Miss Wood
rufus exhibit was visited by several
hundred people, and things were
made pleasant for her by number
of friends. The exhibits shown in
Europe are, of course, more elabor-
ate with various devices for giving
object lessons in the verdict of
science against alcohol, but that of
the Florida workers is complete in
it's way and highly educative.
The Automobile Versus Alcohol.
The automobile number of Col
lier's Weekly teaches by cartoons and
pointed paragraphs the pungent
that alcohol and gasoline make bad
combination when one is in the ma
chine and the other in the man VINO
is running it.
The first picture shows party OF
autoists at their wayside luncheon,
in which beer bottles are quite prom
inent, and the legend under it is;
This is the sort of thing man who
drives his own car should avoid.
Immediately following is a picture
of a wrecked automobile with
crowd gathering to the rescue if any
are left alive, and the legend says,
cor he is quite likely to have THIS
sort of thing happen to him and MS
car"
Further on are enumerated the
qualifications necessary for the driver
of a racing car, Like other ath-
letes, he must always be in condl-
ton. His endurance must always
be adequate. His nerves must al
ways be steady, his eyes clear, his
mind sharp and active. His control
must never miss fire an infiniteslmal
part of a second; such might mean
death at any time.
1.-THE automobile, the airshlp, ana
all other delicately constructed ad-
iuncts of our highly complicated
twentieth century life, says the I'm
ion Signal, demand clear eyes,
steady nerves, faultless self-control.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09

Sick people may now be cured by
This would be a good
plan where haste was not an essen
tial in the treatment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09

} Peruna Drug Co., Columbus, OHIO.
{ Gentlemen: 1 have used Peruna
) and find that it cannot be equaled as
tonic, as well as cure for coughs,
colds and catarrh.
{ You are authorized to use my
photo with testimonial il any pub
( lication.
Joseph H. Chase,
Z 804 Tenth ST., Washington, D. G.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09

Itching, bleeding, protruding or
blind piles yield to Doan's Ointment.
Chronic cases soon relieved, finally
cured. Druggists all sell it.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12

sill reptiles of the division of verte-
brae palsotology, who is directing five
workmen in dsmembering the fos-
silized skeleton of an antedlluvlan
monster, the three-horned dinosaur,
or tricaratops, said he hoped to have
the exhibit set up in the new build
ing by August /.
I'VE have been having good deal
of trouble with him." said Mr.. Gil.
more. ut is the most trying PROPOSE
tion imaginable in the line of NOV
ing. This is the only original mounted
specimen of II in the world. 1t is the
combination of tremendous weight
and extreme brittleness that makes
the task so difficult. All these bones
have become petrified in course of mil
lions of years, which accounts for the
weight. His head alone weight 1000
pounds"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12
WHAT EFFNgFlll2I
Do fines HAVE
On Bail Players?. .Philadel
phia's Experience Seems
to Be a Pointer.
BY United Press Wire.

Philadelphia, p, July 12--Quaker
City baseball rooters are wondering
whether the imposition of big fines
doesn't really improve the playing
of their team. Early in the season
Horace Fogel the new president of
the team, didn't like the way the
Phillies were playing so he plastered
enormous fines and long suspension
upon "a number OF them. Yesterday
the Phillies beat Pittsburg by the
biggest score made in the National
league this year, eighteen to nothing.
The worlds champions used five pit
chers ineffectively, while McQuillen
held the Pirates so safely that not
man reached third base. Brans-
field was the particular star of the
occasion, getting five hits in six
times up, making three runs and
batting in eight Thirteen Phillies
went to bat in the ninth inning,
scoring nine runs.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12
She Was So Literary,

She was a charming debutante, and
he was somewhat serious chap. Con-
versation was rather fltful. so he de-
cided to guide it into literary channels.
Are you fond Of literature" he asked,
"Passionately," she replied. II love
books dearly" Then you must ad-
mire Sir Walter Scott" he exclaimed,
with sudden animation. "Is not his
Lady of the Lake exquisite in its
flowing grace ard poetic imagery? Is
1t not at Is perfectly lovely" she
assented. clasping her hands in ecsta-
sy. 81 suppose | have read 1t dozen
times" "And Scott's Marmion,'" he
continued, with its rugged simplicity
and marvellous description" ''lt is
perfectly grand" she murmured. "And
Scott's 'Percival of the Peak and his
noble Bride of Lammermoor'-wh
in the English language will you find
anything more heroic? You like them,
l am sure?" II just dote on them"
she replied. "And Scotts Emulsion"
he continued hastily. for faint sus-
picion was beginning to dawn upon
him. 81 think" she interrupted rash
ly. "that it's the best thing he ever
wrote."-Cosmopolitan Magazine.
=
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12

over 100000 objects to be moved,
some weighing many tons.
81 expect to have formal opening
in the new museum building next fail"
said w. c. Ravenel, custodian of the
antiquities, today, in discussing the
plans for the transfer.
II am being asked naively every
day: why not tackle this job in a
business-like manner and be done
with it in three weeks?'
II don't blame folks for putting this
question, which arises of an utter lack
of conception of the actual scope Of
the undertaking. Understand we
have close to lO,OOO.OOO objects, the
result of thirty years of collecting
to be transferred to the new build
ing. There is an infinite variety of
them as regards dimensions, value
weight, structure and state of preser-
vation."
c. w. Gilmore. custodian of the fos-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12
COUNCIL NOT AN
ObSTRUCT|ON|ST
Will Not Oppose Little
Scioto Improvement.
TURNS DOWN THE RESOLUTION
Determines to Pay the Full
Assessment.
Short Meeting Is Held by the City
Fathers, Monday Evening--SeveraI
Matters are StIll I'm the Hopper.

The city Council has decided that
the city shall not be an obstructionst
In the Little Scioto river improve
ment. At the meeting two weeks ago,
City Solicitor Elmer Boyd introduced
a resolution empowering him to en-
join the collection of all assessments
against the city by the county COM
missioners for the Improvement Mon
day evening, the ordinance came up
for its second reading. It was passed
to the third reading and very un-
tremendously executed. Messrs. Ran
dali and Brockett were the only men
voting for the adoption of the reso-
luton. There was some discussion
when the matter came up for final
action and II was very evident from
the first that the oounclmen believ-
ed the city was to benefited and
there was no way of escaping pay
ment. Mr.. Boyd tch council that he
did not believe a single dollar could
be collected from the city, but that
made no difference. Council was of a
different opinion and II was not in
favor of adding court costs to assess
ment.
The city fathers got together
promptly and the business was trans
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12

of politics exchanged by the assis-
tant president ana the pussy footed"
solon AMI spat its noXious breath i'm
the faces Of perspiring newspaper men
as they fought vainly to interview
the occupants.
Four fire alarms and the sudden leav-
taking of grocer made the after
noon of yesterday a staple of conver-
sation, but today everybody was
hushed.
Senator Crane talked politics with
Secretary Norton and coached him on
the soft pedal manner of doing things
He had luncheon with the president
and exchanged views on the tariff and
other subjects of the day.
The Massachusetts, senator thinks
the tariff commission idea will be
great campaign material,
Norton and Crane automobiled and
wr~Ned about town, leaving always
the air of impenetrable mystery be-
hind them. When Crane was finally
run down and cornered into the eXecu-
tive offices he professed his pleasure
at seeing the newspaper men.
Are you going to talk politics with
the president or what?" they asked.
Possibly" he rejoined with a
shrug and relapsed into silence,
The president played golf with John
Hays Hammond at Myopia Hunt club
today while Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen
went shopping and Charlie went over
to the Monserrat Golf club.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-12

During that time he dined at Brod-
way restaurant, viewed the delights
of the roof gardens and of Coney
Island and realized every wild de-
sire of his fondest day dreams The
week had cost him $50, money he
had taken from thee strong-boX of
Frank Stanley, Pennington, Maine,
farmer to whom he had been inden-
tured by the Bosteon society. He
told the police that he was willing to
be punished, that his weeks fun had
been worth 1t all.
Parker was sleeping on lawn
when found by a policeman. He told
of taking $3.50 from his employer and
going to Boston. There he met
youth of his own age and they came
to this city
81 couldn't stand it on the farm" >"
pleaded Parker today. you see they
beat me and made me do all the
chores. l never had anything sine
/ was born so | took the money ten
days ago. | am sorry | took 1t but
it was worth 1t. l never dreamed
there was such things as l saw here