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Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
SELLER OF CHAMELEONS
ARRESTED FOR CRUELTY

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Because of sew
eral recent convictions in New York
for selling Louisiana chameleons, HUI
name officer Brayne arrested Alex
Toutousis yesterday for selling the
reptiles at street corner. A charge
of cruelty to animals was placed
against him. If a conviction is OBJ
tanned several other men will be ar
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
DYNAMITE RENDS STREET;
NINE FATALLY INJURED

NEW YORK, lug. 11.-Twenty per
sons were injured, nine fatally, today
by the explosion of a charge of dyna-
mite in an excavation on East Thirty
second street, which threw the entire
neighborhood into a panic and did
heavy damage to property in the VI
cinity.
Hundreds of windows were broken
and roofs of houses nearby were
crushed under the weight of rock and
sand which were hurled high by the
blast.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
WELL KNOWN WRITER DIES

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 11.-Robert
TIhyden, a we'll known newspaper man,
died here yesterday after an illness ex-
tending over a period of nearly four
months. He was editor of several
papers in his younger days, including
the Macon, Ca, Telegram. The Phila-
delphia Press some years ago sent him
to ireland to investigate and write d
series of letters on conditions there.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
GERMAN SHIPBUILDING
STRIKE is SPREADING

BREMEN, Aug. 1.-THE strike and
counter lockout in the shipbuilding in.
dustry are spreading. The Vulken and
other yards locked out $500 men today.
The Wehr Shipbuilding works have
dismissed 60 per cent of the employees
and 1000. others have given legal no.
ti.e of their intention to quit work.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
PoCAHoNTAS LODGES ARE
- GUESTS OF HEALDSBURG
City Entertains Woman Dele
gates with Boating Trip

HEALDsBURG; Aug. 11.-One thou
sand members of the Pocahontas lodges
of the Improved order of Red Men,
now in convention at Santa Rosa, were
the guests of this city today,
come to the delegates, and Henry c.
Gessford, grand sachem Of the Red
Men, responded.
Following an automobile tour of the
CITY and the adjacept country, the Wis
itors were taken boating on the Rus-
sian river
The city was lighted with thousands
of incandescent bulbs in the evening
After the banquet in Red Men hall, a
grand ball was given and promenade
concert in the plaza was enjoyed.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
MILLION BANANA TREES
DESTROYED BY HURRICANE

PANAMA, Aug. 11.--Advices from
Costa Rica say there was, severe
hurricane last week on the Atlantic
coast, destroying 100000 banana trees
worth more than $1,0O0,OOO belonging
principally to the United Fruit COM
pany.
The telephone and telegraph wires
from .Limon to San Jose are down and
traffic was suspended for several days.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
WANTED AT FRESNO

SEATTLE, Aug. I'LL. A. Stanslain
was arrested by detectives last night
on telegraphic advices from Fresno,
which said that he was wanted there
on a forgery charge. The man admits
his identity, but denies the charge. He
is being held for the arrival of an Of
ficer from Fresno.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
OFFICER KILLS YOUNG THUG

ST. LOUIS Aug. 11.-Peter Boyd of
St Louis was killed by a st. Charles,
Mo-. policeman last night while he and
Cecil Herzog were making their third
holdup in the suburban town. Herzog,
after his arrest, confessed. Boyd was
10 years old and Herzog is II.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
MAN KILLED IN CAR CRASH

COLUMBUS, Ohio Aug lin a
head-on collision late this afternoon
between two cars on the Lancaster
division of the Scioto Valley Traction
company Charles Grabaugh of Win
chester, a passenger, was killed and
several others were severely injured.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
RUN OVER BY TRAIN

WEED, Cal, Aug. 11.-Hans Hoeger-
man, a Southern Pacific car repairer,
was killed yesterday while attempting
to run ahead of string of cars to
throw a switch. He fell and was
caught by the, train.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
DISCUSS ORCHARD CULTURE

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.--The second and
last days session of the American
Apple Growers convention here was
devoted to technical discussion Of the
culture of orchards.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12
FIREMAN TAKES HIS LIFE

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 11.-Freder-
lex j. Hebring, a Newark fireman, COM
mitted suicide at the home of an aunt
here last night. Failure to win more
rapid promotion in the fire department
is said to have been responsible for
his act
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
SPRING is NEARING.

Another month and Spring will
begin to pave the way for Summer.
We have had a severe tussle with
Jack Frost. He has done his worst
and his best as well, and now we
sigh for the breath of summer and
the glories of the sky, the green
earth, and the melody of the birds
everywhere proclaiming the great
ness and goodness of our Creator.
The long and severe winter has
enriched the hidden earth and prom
Uses big for the crop yield of 1910.
If ever the land has reason to give
it is now, when heartless
spectators aided by natural causes
have made it extremely difficult for
the large family to live as human
beings were intended to and have
for the rainy day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
REMEDY FOR PISTOL TOTING.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
The entire country has heard of
Col Jack Chinn. He is a famous
citizen of Kentucky who knows how
to handle the bowie knife when he
thinks his life is in danger. He is
now member of the Kentucky leg
islature, and proposes to introduce
a bill which provides that pistol
toters shall be sent to the insane
asylum His theory is that all those
who carry concealed pistols or carry
pistols in a belt around their waists
are more or less insane. He thinks,
however, that their insanity is of a
kind that can be cured, and hence
he wants them sent to an insane
asylum, where they can see the re-
suits of encouraging a mean and re-
vengeful temper. His idea is that
seeing these horrible examples of
bad temper and murderous inclina-
tions they will be cured of the pistol
toting habit.
That these pistol toters are mild
ly insane he assumes from the fact
that very nearly all who are indicted
for murder plead temporary insanity
as a defense. If they are so insane
as to commit murder they must be
insane in a lesser degree when they
adopt the pistol-toting practice.
We are not sure that the remedy
proposed by Col. Chinn for the evil
isn't a good one. 1t is pretty certain
that if the pistol toters were really
in danger of being confined in an in
sane asylum unless they gave up the
pistol-toting habit they would aban-
don it. 1t is much better to be a
free man with reputation for sanity
than a pistol toter threatened with
term in an insane asylum.
Col. Chinn says one reason for the
introduction of his bill is that he has
been compelled to go armed the
greater part of his life to safeguard
himself against these pistol toters.
He is tired of being always on guard
against them. Believing them in
sane he wants them either cured or
kept where they will not be able to
harm anybody.
1t is curious how this pistol-toting
habit still clings to certain sections
of the country. Nearly all of the
tragedies in which human life is sac
rificed are due to it. II the pistol
were not so handy men would settle
their quarrels much more satisfac-
torily. SO many of them wouldn't
be criminals, refugees from the law,
or financial wrecks, due to expensive
trials, or mental wrecks because of
an accusing conscience. 1t isn't the
brave man who is the habitual pistol
toter. 1t is generally the cowardly
man who hopes to take an undue ad-
vantage of an adversary. 1t is a pity
that every state cannot be induced to
follow Col. Chinn's lead and have its
legislature adopt Col Chinn's plan.
The insane asylum would undoubted-
ly prove to be an effective remedy
for the pistol-toting evil if the pis-
toll toters could be sent there.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
,sEN. BACON AND POSTAL BANKS.

Senator Bacon is of the opinion
that postal savings banks mean CEN
trail banks, and a central bank means
more power in the hands of the Pres
ident.
The Senator is against the central
ization of power in Washington. 1t
means the changing, ultimately, Of
our present system Of government.
The Presidents bill providing for
federal incorporation, if it should be-
come a law, would be a big step in
the direction of Capitalization. If
we should have both federal incor-
poration and a central bank the CEN
trail government would virtually con-
troll the country, because it would
dominate the banks and the transpor-
tation lines.
The banks have the money and the
railroads the men.
With two such agencies an I'M
scrupulous administration could
come pretty near controlling nation
al election.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
PLANTATIONS THEORY

Although the astronomers at the
Harvard observatory in Boston have
not yet made Photographic spectrum
Of Halley's comet, which is rapidly
approaching the earth, a telegram
from the Yerkes observatory states
that spectra of the comet obtained
by the director and his assistants
show very prominent cyanogen
bands.
Cyanogen is perhaps the deadliest
poison known, a grain of it's potas-
SUM salt touched to the tongue be-
ing sufficient to cause instant death.
In the uncOmbined state it is a blush
gas, very similar in it's chemical be-
havior to chlorine and extremely
poisonous. 1t is characterized by an
odor similar to that of almonds. The
fact that cyanogen is present in the
comet has been communicated to
Camille Flammarion, the distinguish
ed scientist, and many other astrono-
mers, and is causing a great deal of
discussion as to the probable effect
on the earth should it pass through
the comets tail. Professor Flam-
marion is of the opinion that the
cyanogen gas would impregnate the
and probably snuff out
all life on the planet
Only once, so far as is known, has
the earth passed directly through the
tail of comet, and at that time no
phenomena were noticed ex-
cept that there were abundant show
ers of meteors. Most astronomers
do not agree with Flammarion. mas
much as the tail of the comet is of
almost inconceivable ratification, and
believe that it would be repealed by
the mass of the earth as it is by the
light of the sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
Darn a Newspaper Man, Anyhow.

New Richmond (Ind) Record.
A school superintendent of a
neighboring county asked every
teacher at the county institute who
took their local paper to hold up
their hands, and only six responded.
The superintendent expressed great
surprise, and said You don't
spend dollar year with those pa
pers; yet you expect them to print,
free of charge, notices of all insti-
tutes and insert long programmes;
expect them to advertise you, thus as
sisting you to climb the ladder to
better positions and better salaries,
without a cent in return.
Here is another: A Judge was
stepping high and talking loud.
What do you think that little short
legged printer did just now? Why,
he dunned me for eight years sub
scription! And I just took his paper
because he was poor man and
felt sorry for him"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
MIR. BRYAN AND THE SALOON.

William J. Bryan has never shown
the liquor business; nor has he mani
tested any dislike for them or the
cause which has afforded them a live
lihood But he does not like the
way the liquor men have been act
ing in Nebraska in controlling legis-
lation. By combining interests they
succeeded in overcoming the Demo-
cratic majority in both branches of
the legislature, and defeated the bill
to allow the voters at large to decide
whether or not the business should
be carried on in the State.
Mr.. Bryan is indignant over what
he terms a wantOn betrayal Of the
peoples interests. He bears hard
upon the traffic charged with such
deception. He does not hesitate to
say the saloon in most cases is in al
lance with vice; is used to debauch
politics; that the Democratic party
cannot afford to act as it's mouth
piece; that it can have nothing in
common with the selfish and con-
scienceless crusade that liquor men
have organized against the home and
the state; against private virtue and
public morals and that it is time
for all political parties to declare
themselves Independent of the men
carrying on the alcoholic trade.
This is about as severe an indict-
ment against this interest as has been
promulgated in long time from one
not allied with the prohibition move
ment. Coming from a great leader
of a great party it is little less than
surprising. There is no other man
of national fame in either of the
great parties who would dare speak
out as Mr.. Bryan has done. The
liquor element is mighty power,
and in some of our states by acting
together it holds the balance of pow
er. 1t took much stamina to talk
as he has done, but the statesman
from Nebraska is nothing if not cour-
ageous. 1t was a big risk from a
political standpoint, and the country
awaits the answer of the assailed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
Investigate the Investigators.

From the Macon Telegraph.
The New York Sun thinks some
day%S statesman in congress banker
ing for publicity will rise up and
move for committee to investigate
the investigating committees. 1t
claims that so far the result of the
expenditure of money to probe and
Investigate is not visible people
prate about extravaganza in the mat
ter of rivers and harbors, of public
buildings, of junketing excursions,
even OF congress funerals; but does
anybody so much as dream of the
millions that have been frankly
squandered in the employment of at
torneys and the prosecution of cap
rices demagogic or Pickwickian?"
Some time ago when an attempt was
made to find out where one appro-
priation had gone the Big Stick
was brought into action and the mat
ter was dropped
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
Nine and FOur-Tenths Cents Per
Pound For Live Hogs.
.lhanY Herald

From the Albany Herald.
According to an Associated Press
dispatch which was published in The
Herald live hogs at the Chicago yards
sold yesterday at $40 a hundred
pounds, the highest price recorded
since 1870, or during a period of
forty years.
With hogs commanding prices like
that what possible excuses can the
South Georgia farmer offer for not
making hog-raising one of the mat
tiers of his chief concern? In his
scheme of crop diversification how
can he justify his neglect of golden
opportunity if he fails to provide am
pie field room for hogs, and plant
peanuts and corn for fattening and
hardening? The peanut and corn
crops grow to perfection in this sec
ton, and there is no finer hog coun-
try on the face of the earth
There was time when hog-raising
in Southern, and particularly South
west, Georgia claimed large part OF
the attention of every substantial
planter. The hog was a fixed institu-
ton, and no one dreamed that the
time would come when ham and ba-
con shipped from the West would
burden the board in the farmhouse
diningroom.
That so few hogs have been raised
in this section during the last quar-
ter of a century has long been re-
Election upon the business judgment
Of our farmers. With a pound of
live hog now worth a fraction less
than ten cents such neglect becomes
a positive crime.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
Hot Shot For Graves and Ship
Subsidy.
From the Macon News.

From the Macon News.
The Florida Times-Union says the
Gulf States Merchant Marine conven-
ton that endorsed ship subsidy was
worse than packed-that it was got
ten up in the interest of ship sub
sidy, and that no one not interested
in ship subsidy was expected there.
John Temple Graves part in the
performance the Times-Union desig-
mates as that of "a decoy duck"
The Times-Union pours this hot
shot into the convention" and into
Colonel Graves:
Neither the convention nor it's
declaration represents the south any
more than Senator Hepburn repre-
sented it a few years ago in his
opposition to the loan of tents to the
confederate veterans. John Temple
Graves, who is conserving to play
the role of decoy duck for men gum
ming for the south, advocated the res
olutions adopted. Just how much
Mr.. Graves represents the south may
be judged by the fact that in the
last presidential election he received
but eighty-seven votes in the state
he was born in, and to which he pro-
fesses allegiance, though that state
has 100000 people. In 1908 Mr..
Graves was a failure as a decoy
duck"
But the New Orleans States, which
was on the spot and is qualified to
Judge OF the character of the Con
Vent1On" at short range, is still more
to the point The States says in part:
mo observing person ever for an
instant doubted what the purpose of
the convention was, for it was evil
dent that the speakers had been
carefully selected with a view to
leading up to that result. 1t is per-
tinent in this connection to direct at
tent1on to the fact that the conven
ton was a very small affair, nor was
IL IN any sense representative of pop
ular opinion in Louisiana or in the
southwest.
Evidently the idea was to get
some sort of a gathering here to
give 1t name that would sOund
well and then to present it's conclu-
SONS to congress as the voice of New
orleans and the southwest. We have
no hesitancy in asserting that the
convention did not represent the sem
timent of any appreciate portion of
the people and that, in fact. the
principal part of the convention was
It's name and few imported sneak
ers brought here to declare the bean
tles OF this scheme which has been so
oLten repudiated by ongress, and
winch is now being opposed by a vast
majority of the leading newspapers of
both political parties"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
TURNED DOWN HARD.

The Savannah Press has discovered
a feeling that Secretary Knox has
not been very happy in his recent
diplomacy. His position in Nicara-
qua has come to naught. Mexico out
witted us in the escape of Zelaya,
and the Central American republics
are not impressed with the prestige
of the United States.
Another great effort to advance
American diplomacy, says The Press,
was made in Manchuria. A demand
was presented on the part of this
country to guarantee the neutrality
of the Manchurian railroad. This
was supposed to be a big stroke for
the open door" AS a matter of
fact, Russia and Japan have both de-
clined the offer. Japan says that this
railroad may become a military line,
and would be needed in the case of
further trouble with China or with
Russia. Russia is equally unfavora-
Bile to such a project because of her
connections and because of the pos
sible necessity of moving troops and
supplies in time of war This, Of
course, could not be done in case
the railroad were a neutral line. So
Mr.. Knox has been turned down hard
in Manchuria just as he was in Mica
ragua.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
HUMAN LIFE TOO CHEAP.

There has been much said recent
ly and with good reason, Of the I'M
certainty of punishment in Georgia
for the crime of murder. Often the
person with blood on his hands goes
free, or if convicted serves but
few years in the penitentiary. Judge
Gilbert while charging the grand
jury of MuscOgee county a few days
ago referred to this matter in strong
terms. He said: Human life is
cheaper than that of a horse Men
who compose juries will convict a
man, but afterwards be governed by
sentiment and sign a petition to the
governor or pardoning board to re-
lease the man that they found guilty
while acting under oath, simply be-
cause they were asked. When a man
Is first killed there is always a feel
ing of Indignation for a while, but
after the man has been laid away
upon his grave a sickly sentiment
begins to spring up in favor of the
man that has poured out the blood
Of the dead one"
Judge Gilbert quoted from an emf
nent authority the startling state
ment that but one murderer out of
"a is punished by death. The fact
that so many murderers escape the
gallows was deplored in strong
terms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
Man Travels a Rocky Road.

A mans life is fun of crosses and
temptations. He comes into this
world without his consent, and goes
out against his will, and the trip
between the two is exceedingly rocky
The rule of contraries is one of the
features of the trip.
When he is little the big girls kiss
MN; when he is grown the little
girls kiss him.
If he is poor he is a bad manager,
II he is rich he is dishonest.
II he needs credit he can't get if.
II he is prosperous everyone wants
to do him a favor.
If he is in politics it's for the ME.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
Mother o. Mine.

If l were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother O. mine, o mother O. mine;
l know whose love would follow me
still,
Mother O. mine, o mother O. mine.
If were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother O. mine, o mother O. mine;
l know whose tears would come down
Mother O. mine, o mother O. mine.
If l were damned of body and soul,
Mother O. mine, o mother O. mine;
| know whose prayers would make
me whole,
Mother O. mine, o mother O. mine.
-Kipling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23

A primary for county officers has
been called in Epson county for April
18th, and departure has been
taken by the executive committee in
paying themselves So each for every
meeting they attend. The Griffin
News and Sun informs us that the
price the voters shall get for voting
is not fixed by the regulations laid
down by the committee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23

Chairman Hewlett A. Hall, of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, has issued an address pointing
out the importance of voters register
ing without delay if they would par
ticipate in the coming elections. To
vote even in an election as far dis
tant as the state election next Octo-
Der it is necessary for the voter 20
set his name on the book by April
9Th. Get busy, Mr.. Voter, and don't
be among the disfranchised.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23

II ne is out of politics you can't find
a place for him-and he is no good
for his country.
If he doesn't give to charity he is
a stingy cuss; if he does it's all for
show.
If he is actively religious he is a
hypocrite; If he takes no interest in
religion he a hardened sinner
If he gives affection he is a soft
specimen; if he seems to care for no
one he is cold blooded.
Ii he dies young there was a great
future before him. if he lives to an
OLD age he has missed his calling.
The road is rocky, but man Iikac
to travel i.t-Exchange.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23
PEARY is NOT so RIG

Just what Congress is going to do
with the pending bills showing thu
country's appreciation of the services
OF Commander Peary for discovering
the north pole isn't yet apparent. 1t
is clear what the subcommittee of
the Naval Committee of the House
thinks Of the bills. 1t has reported
TO the full committee against giving
him any promotion, and it is expect
ed that the full committee will in
dorse this action. Should it do so
Peary will get no promotion or any,
thing else from this Congress.
One of the pending bills provides
for making him a rear admiral and
retiring him as a civil engineer, and
the other provides for making him
a rear admiral of the line and keep
ing him in active service. The action
of the subcommittee, being unani-
nous indicates that there isn't as
high appreciation of Commander
Peary's discovery among congress
men as there is among the scientific
societies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-23

Senator Benz. R. Tillman of South
Carolina was stricken with paralysis
while standing on the capitol steps
in Washington a few days ago, and
is now in a critical condition with but
little hope for his recovery. His
death will remove from public life
one of the most virile and picturesque
characters of the age. He is of the
type of Americans to which Andrew
Jackson belonged, and through all
mutations and vicissitudes he has
been faithful to his people. The set
ting of his sun will find as many and
as warm friends to his credit among
his colleagues in the United States
senate and in the country at large
as any man in the chamber can
boast