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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
CASH YET IN GOLD BRICK
Two Men Clean Up 100000 in Less
Than a Year Dealing in
Mythical Mines.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-George w.
Post and E. A. StarkIoff, said to be
two of the most notorious confidence
men in the country, were given a pre-
liminary hearing today before United
States Commissioner Craig on charges
of using the mails to defraud. From
the mass of evidence which the post
office inspectors are said to have
gathered against the pair the green
goods" game and the gold brick
swindler have not by any means out
lived their usefulness as a get-rich-
quick medium.
According to the government Of
ticers, who testified at the hearing,
Post and Starkloff reaped a harvest
of over 100000 in less than a year
by selling mythical gold mines to
their victims after showing them
bricks of the precious metal" which
later turned out to be worthless
junk.
The pair are alleged to have been
associated with Red" Adams, the
notorious green goods" swindler
who was recently sent to Sing Sing
prison from Brooklyn, where he has
resided with his family for several
years, and had been known among
his ne!ghbOrs as a respectable and
prosperous business man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
Wife Carries Out Last Wish of Man
Who Wanted to Be Free
as the Winds"

NEW YORK.-Flinging his ashes
to the winds that sweep the head
of the Statue of Liberty Mrs. Anna
Neihardt of 1876 Utica avenue, Brook
Ign, carried out the dying injunction
of her husband, Oscar Neihardt. The
body of Neihardt was cremated at
Fresh Pond, and Mrs. Neihardt took
the urn to Bedloe's Island. Her son,
Lother, and her daughters, Mrs.
John Tallarico and Erna Neihardt,
accompanied her on the mission.
Neihardt, who came to the United
States from Germany more than
twenty years ago, was an advocate
of cremation for many years. When
he owned a drug store in Williams
burg, and later, when he moved to
Utica avenue, he liked to discuss the
question. He knew much about it,
and he had a great fund Of argu-
ments in it's favor. Every discussion
in which he took part was ended with
this declaTation
when l die I want to be free as
the winds. If they obey my wishes
they'll see that l am. "
Neihardt had been in i'll health for
some years. He seemed to know
that he was dying, and called his wife
to him. He made her promise that
his body would be cremated, and that
she would take his ashes to the high
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
HONORs TO PRISON MARTYRS.
Americans Who Perished in British
JaiIs Are Remembered.

JaiIs Are Remembered.
There was a large gathering of
Americans in the obscure little
church of ST Michaels at Dartmouth,
England, Thursday, when Mrs Will
liam Gerry Slade of New York, ma
tional president of the National So
ciety of the United States Daughters
of 1912, unveiled the beautiful
stained glass window recently placed
in that church in memory of the
American prisoners Of the war of
1912, who were detained in the Dart
mouth prison and helped to build st.
Michaels church.
During the war of 1912 about
three thousand Americans were held
as prisoners of war at Dartmoor, and
hundreds of them died from cold and
hardships during their Imprisonment.
There are more than 200 American
seamen buried in the churchyard of
st. MichaePs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
HERE'S THE AVIATION DANCE"
Not So Hopful As the Ordinary
Dance, However.

Members of the Professional
Teachers of Dancing, who opened
their annual convention in Chicago
Thursday, are demonstrating the
aviation dance" or "airship glide, -
which they say will become more
popular than the waltz or two-step.
In dancing now" said lecturer
before the convention, people hop
too much; they ought to glide. They
wiggle too frequently; they ought to
float. They work themselves into a
sweat; they should take it coolly and
aviate.
There's no skipping in the 'avia-
ton dance, no hopping, no gallop-
ing. The idea is to seem to not touch
the floor. You glide over, swoop
over or 'aviate over the floor. 1t
will take some little time for one
to learn the aviation dance, but it
is vastly more pleasing than waltz
orvtwo-step.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
MANKIND WILL BE BUG-HoUsE
In 256 Years There'H Be Not Sane
Man Among Us, Says AIienist.

"If the increase in insanity con-
tinues at it's present rate we shall
all be insane 265 years from now"
said DR.. ]. H. kellogg, a professor of
surgical pathology, addressing the
graduating class of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Boston.
physical degeneracy and chronic
diseases are increasing" continued
DR.. kellogg. Heart disease has in
creased 1875 per cent. in thirty years.
Kidney disease has increased 1877 per
cent in Massachusetts alone.
Insanity has increased 100 per
cent. in the last fifty years. There
are $4,000 idiots and Iunatics to
every million people in the world.
1t is due largely to the physical de-
generacy originating from our man
ner of living"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
PARLOR CAR RATES INCREASED,
Railroad Commission Grants PERMITS
sion to Central Railway,

Railroad Commission Grants Permis-
sion to Central Railway.
The railroad commission has voted
to allow the Central of Georgia rail-
road to increase its parlor ear rates
from Atlanta to Macon from % to As
cents.
The railroad showed that on the
existing rate it was losing money,
and that its competitor, the South
ern, charged a higher rate, although
the distance via that road was short
er.
The commission also fixed a par
Tor car rate from Atlanta to Albany
and from Macon to Albany, approx
mating One-half a cent per mile.
The Central will, at an early date,
put on parlor car service between
Atlanta and Albany and Macon and
Albany.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
WHITE HAIR TURNS BLACK.
Aged Woman Invalid Had Snow
White Head For a Decade.

Mrs. Jarrett Pittman of near Nc
Connelsburg, Md, so years of age,
whose head has been covered for a
decade with snow-white hair. is ere
ating no end of surprise for her
neighbors and friends of the vicinity
by growing very dark hair.
In little sections the white hair is
being replaced by strands of a dark
color. Mrs. Pittman has been con-
fined to her room several years on
account of illness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
What a Summer Cold May Do.

A summer cold, if neglected. is
Just as apt to develop into bronchitis
or pneumonia as at any other sea-
son. DO not neglect it. Take Fo~
ley's Honey and Tar promptly. 1t
loosens the cough, soothes and heals
the inflamed air passages, and expels
the cold from the system. Dawson
Drug Co. and Peoples Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
HAS SHEEP BONE IN HER LEG.
Two-Year-Oid Girl Receivers After a
Unique Operation.

Leona Bentley, the 2-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Bentley of Clarksfork, Idaho, who
underwent an operation last Febru-
airy in which a portion of her femur
was removed and the bone of sheep
substituted, is recovered so that she
can walk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15

Lame shoulder is almost invariably
caused by rheumatism of the mus
cles, and yields quickly to the free
application of Chamberlain's Lini-
ment. This liniment is not only
prompt and effectual, but i'll no way
disagreeable to use. Sold by all
dealers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
LAWED II YEARS OVER CHAIR.
Friends Call to Congratulate Him
and to See Object of Litigation.

Fred F. Green of Quincy, Mass,
held ain informal reception at his
home, where many called to see the
chair which he recovered in court
after it had been IA years in an
others possession.
Warren T. Arnold took the chair to
upholster it, and it was not returned,
Green alleged in his complaint.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
FILINGS HUSBANDS ASHES
FROM LIBERTY STATUE

est point she could reach on the
Statue of Liberty and fling them as
far out as they would go.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

you fairly count the chews until some
thing carries you on to victim whose
disease has reached a more advanced
stage. He is an anemic youth with lit
tie will power. and his Jaw moves
faster and faster until yours begins TO
move in unison
You go on to the next. and gauge the
rapidity there. II Is working over
time; and the one beyond IS IN tune
with the snore of his neighbor. who is
doing 1t occasionally himself IN his
sleep. Only. such advanced cases pro-
ceed in their dreams. His is a night
mare and there's a lapse when he falls
against an adjacent reader and knocks
her book out of her hand
She gets the book back. because he
fails to. and its fall has disturbed her
think" and lost her place; but never
for one brief second has the trip ham
mer movement Of her teeth relaxed.
She looks nervous. and your own jaws
take on a contraction while you watch;
the very contemplation of her weary
muscles has reacted upon your own.
The chewing habit makes all men
equal; nobody can stop; they are alike
moving mechanically. faster and faster
as the car whizzes on
The muscles of the jaw and it's whole
structure are bound to respond sooner
or later to this violent action. and you
see in the distance a coming race with
an exaggerated lower maxiliary.
You've heard more than one dire pre-
diction as to the coming cOuntenance-
We are fast becoming hairless, and
toothless we will surely be If we do
not resume the practice OF bone gnaw-
ing; but you now know that the Jaw is
least in process of reconstruction and
that the race is to be regenerated in
facial contour. even although this un-
expected development had its lowly
origin in a cents worth OF gum
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

~ NE of the most remarkable and
effective methods of directing
table service 1 have ever seen is
Aunt Lucinda's piano wireless" said a
man recently.
Aunt Lucinda lives in one of those
delightful old houses in one of those
delightful old streets that have pre-
served parts of Greenwich village in
essence of old New York. She wears
little lace caps, little white curls and
grenadine. And those who know her
are privileged to call her Aunt Lu-
cinda.
Il assure you it is a rare treat and
a signal honor to be invited to dinner
with Aunt Lucinda / was properly
impressed when 1 partook Of her hos
pitality for the first time. After taking
my seat | noticed that just back of my
hostess, where she sat at the head of
the table, hung pair of heavy por-
there's, apparently concealing a super
fiuous window. When the company was
in place 1 saw Aunt Lucinda reach back
and to the side with one hand and part
the curtains. The result was a ripping
c major chord, and 1 could see that
the portieres covered a shallow alcove
in which was an old upright piano.
w dS dltClliPllHS " CONSI MY sur
prise at this eccentricity as politely as
possible when the pantry door opened
and in came a smart little maid
with the soup. | understood then that
Aunt Lucinda had given the signal
by means of the piano. The maid re-
tired silently. When it was time TO re-
move the plates my hostess reached out
her hand again and struck three notes
softly in harmonic progression. In
= i
cleared the table for the next course
so it went throughout the meal 1
could not identify more than a few of
the phrases and chords used by Aunt
Lucinda, but it was very plain that the
whole scheme was most elaborate and
that the maid had been carefully
trained The fish came in response TO
6 minor trill, the roast was ushered in
at the command of mellow rumble in
the bass.
Nor was Aunt Lucinda at a loss for
what l might call the accidentals of
the repast Supposing a guest required
more wine or that the butter was run
ming low, she had a brief combination
of notes or a measure from some mel
ody TO cover it. I thought 1 discovered
the secret of the maids efficient service
when she very nearly made a mistake
More celery was needed. believe. and
the maid started to take the bread
plate away. One flash from Aunt Lu-
cinda's eyes rectified the error and sent
the maid scurrying for that celery in
short order. 1 made chance guess
that my hostess was something of a
Tartar in her domestic rule when saw
the expression on the maids face
After the coffee Aunt Lucinda was
eraciously pleased to accept some few
compliments on her system. She ex-
plained it by saying she detested bells
and that she had never yet allowed an
electric wire to be strung into the
house, regarding it as direct tenpta
tion to providence and lightning. l had
already noticed that the front door
bore a gorgeous brass knocker and
neither bell handle nor button
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06
For Women Of
Thirty

A CCORDING to a well known
u French authoress at 80 a woman
is at her best. Elegance, tact
at 80 blossoms out in her greatest per-
fection, fully conscious of her charms
and her power to please. She has laid
bare life's mysteries and learned every
move in the game of existence. She it
is who needs not to be told that if you
have drab colored hair, a sallow COM
plexion and faded brown eyes, and still
venture on a snuff colored gown, a
fawn coat, a lead colored hat covered
with a fawn veil, you Will present such
a picture of dull depression that no one
will take the trouble to look for beau
ties that might easily be enhanced by
carefully selected pastel tints."'
Advice is also given on choosing col
ors suitable TO different complexions.
The '+tawny type" of woman must wear
deep rich shades of brown. toning from
bright chestnut TO mole color, amber or
deep wine tints shot with red-gold
lights, special shades of purple verging
on deep violet, shades of gold and blue,
green ana certain tones OF SOFT gray Tor
day wear. For evening toilettes, white,
with touches of gold, is most becoming.
The redhaired beauty should choose
rich sable or ermine furs, and some
times chinchilla softened with old lace.
The blonde" woman must robe her
self in pure white of diaphanous tex
ture, relieved by faint shade of color
that emphasizes her fairness and calls
attention to the blue color of her eyes.
If the blonde has pink and white
skin, she can adorn herself with the
faintest blush rose shades. Grays and
all black costumes are becoming to the
blonde, and furs of ermine, rich black
or white fox enhance the beauty of
golden hair.
The brunette is cited as fortunate,
for she may choose from many colors,
from dark blues. greens, shades of
brown, from fawn to deep russet. She
may also wear seailskin, black fox, car
acul, astrakhan and ermine furs
The nut brown" maid never appears
to greater advantage than when she
"a clothed in varying shades Of brown,
with furs Of sable, mink and sealskin
Dark blue, pale gray, fawn and pale
mauve are among the shades which
can be worn by the nut brown type.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

at first realized. When it ia It In too
late.
For food. for clothes. for shelter how
mean and scanti And yet she pays her
all. and why? Because. with narrow
ness of mind, bigotry OF creed and an
unforgivabIe injustice it has been held
for ages that a girl must not labor
outside the four walls within which
man has placed her and where he has
kept her for his own comfort, amuse-
ment and selfish pleasure. IL passes
understanding how any mother can
raise a daughter so defenseless in
world where at any moment she may
be called upon TO fight IL she would live.
We can not afford. as individuals or as
a people. to make woman's mainte-
nance depend on any man, no matter
what his relation to her may be-
Some of these girls have mothers.
fathers. brothers and sisters dependent
upon them. If the situation is des-
perate when the girl has only herself
TO feed, what is it when the burden OF
others is added?
Those who condemn these poor un-
fortunates for their degradation assign
the reason oftener than any other that
they wanted pretty clothes. hnery,
amusements. L doubt not that this is
true at times. A perfectly natural want.
it seems to me; a want not confined to
any one class or color or nationality OF
the sex. At any rate, it is what they
have been taught to expect
If we would not drive girls to lives
OF vice, If we would not make them
choose between slavery and suicide, we
must teach them how to provide for
themselves, how TO earn honestly those
things which il is the nature OF youth
70 desire. What is youth without adorn-
ments. pretty baublss. harmless pleas
ures, cOngenial assOciates2
Each time you reduce the number OF
alternatives you increase the risks.
Give every girl a fair chance to learn
a remunerative business, a strong wea-
pom for her own defense. Crime turks
where poverty and hOpelessness ind
their home. Necessity knows no law.
SARAH CURTIS MOTT.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

your hand with perfect sympathy and
power to solace, who had not herself
suffered tribulation worse than DEATH"
realizing not only the force of the
crushing blow but the utter WEAKNESS
Of the way that lay beyond?
The way beyond-that is the difficult
part You have lost a dear one yet in
the days before the loved body is laid
10 rest you can scarcely realize what
has happened. Friends flutter about
your home and fulfill your duties. You
sit by and wonder, like the woman in
the nursery rhyme, Can this be II"
But when all is over and you return to
the house made vacant by death; when
you feel the chill emptiness of the
rooms once blessed by the loved pres
ence; when, day after day, you miss
the gentle word OF approval, the tender
clasp OF the hand, the familiar face
across the table-when you feel this I
say, you begin to know just how bitter
is your loss. Never to see that face
again, never to hear the sweet tones
Of the well known voice! Are you
strong enough TO endure?
Perhaps it is a little child that is
taken-your only son, around whom
every interest in your life has come to
center. It is hard to give him up, hard
not TO cry out, My grief is greater
than I can beari" Yet there is still
the husband to live for, still his love,
strong as in the days before he wooed
and won you. Has the passing of the
childs life dimmed that love- or has it
only made it brighter and more beau
tiful like the green earth when
spring shower has quickened it? Is
your love not enriched by the sense of
mutual loss and mutual sympathy? And
you have suffered. Silently in the hour
Of your supreme struggle has been
welded the knot that binds you to the
world Of human creatures and makes
you of closer kin with Wilhelmina in
her court and the Russian peasant in
her hut. You have suffered, and indis-
solubly you are bound TO those who
suffer yerywhere-bound by the chains
of living sympathy before unknown.
1 do not mean to say that sorrow is
the only way in which we grow To
say that would be to share in some of
the blindness of Sudermann's Magda.
The experience Of a great happiness is
often as potent An absorbing love has
lifted many a mediocre man and woman
TO a higher intellectual or moral plane;
the coming of a child has meant to
many more the opening up of new ave-
nues of expression. But the fact re-
mains that sorrow and suffering are to
still more the fire in which character is
tried-to come out. let us hope, of pur-
est and finest gold.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

there are numerous occasions when she
requires things which may not be pur-
chased where she has a charge account.
II is distinctly unpleasant not to have
money in ones purse. She finds other
wives not so circumstanced. Continued
embarrassment leads to feeling of in
jury. Unless she is wise and puts the
case calmly and clearly before her hus-
band all those things which preface
mutiny and rebellion will result. I'm
wisely handled, this may and often has
spelled a broken home.
Now, most men are reasonable, or can
be made so If judiciously approached
There are so many excellent arguments
in defense OF a separate allowance for
the wife that the question may be ad-
justed with little trouble in the begin
ming. If this time has gone by, the eff
fort may still be made with satisfac-
tory results.
OF course, some women, having no
idea OF the value of money. are waste
full. They do not mean to be, and per-
haps do not believe they are Waste is
the consequence of several causes AS
young girls they have had no allow
ance. or they have had too much, or
their judgment has not been properly
developed. In any case, faithful effort
will largely correct the evil. The girl
who has been self-supporting usually
makes a careful wife Whatever her
station in life the wife's allowance
should be a certain fixed sum weekly
or monthly, in just proportion to the
husbands income and the household
expenses. She should have absolute,
unquestioned control OF it.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

- HERE 3 one side of the question
regarding woman and her train
= ing for a business life which is
seldom touched upon. The Importance
of a trade or profession to the sheltered
girl may not at once appear. but there
can be no difference of opinion when
we consider the homeless and the un-
protected.
Take the case OF a young girl reared
to no occupation. in whose mind has
been instined the idea that she will
never have to support herself. Some
day she finds that the man or men OF
the family can no longer be depended
upon to provide for her. This state OF
things may result from sickness, death.
resertion. incarceration or lack of work
She has been taught dependence,
condition of mind which makes initia-
tive along any line repugnant, and
sometimes wholly impossible. What
shall she do? What can she do? Neither
by mental ability nor the skill or her
hands is she capable of service with
commercial value. Yet she must live.
In ignorance and helplessness she looks
around for aid.
There are four men from whom a
woman expects support: her father, her
brother, her husband and her lover. For
purposes of argument we eliminate the
first two natural protectors by ties or
blood. That brings US to her husband,
but it does not as quickly bring him 10
her. In books frequently, but not often
in real life. does a man happen along
to marry girl in the nick of time
Marriage may not be offered when her
necessity is greatest. Meantime want
stands at her door and despair is Wrlt-
ten large on her wistful face.
So it is that, haunted by hunger,
frightened by loneliness, trained 70 no
service. chilled by the indifference OF a
careless world, wholly incapable OF
gaining labor and weak of Will, the
fourth man finds her. In extremity
there is no choice. 1t is provision. and
that writ large-provision. though
counIed with dishonor The heavy price
she pays, and must continue to pay, for
the poor protection she receives is not