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rooms for housekeeping. Stats Local
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handle and appoint agents for the
O-at-ka Tire Remover. This tool
makes 1t possible for any women
to take off and put on any tire. a
big seller, with big profit One sale
makes live new ones. Write for
proposition ). w. GRUMIAuX,
Sales Agent, LIE Roy. y. Y.
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ROOMS ANYWHERE IN THE Cry.
any street, for anybody; UNIQUE
plan. ORIGINAL ROOM RENTING
AGENCY. 21t f-2 n. Sixth. {tsss M III M
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4 STRONG FINANCIAL INSTITUTION,
Fl years old, has an opening for q
man who can influence investments
in high-class security. paying regu-
lar and Increasing cash dividend.
Address "PERMANENT." S35 South
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hOUsEkEEPER WANTED FOR FAM
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recommended: duties. cook, clea Il
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FOR SALE. ONE PACK FOX DOGS,
thoroughly broke. c. c. MILLNER,
4l2 North Second Street
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cialty line with esta blished trade
wants experienced travelling sales
men. Salary position and expenses
adyancsd Reply with references.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
SHOOT AVIATORS! IS ORDER
MEXICAN INSURRECTOS PLAN
TO FIRE ON BIRD MEN.
Hoping to Drag United States In

Tax Is Levied on Americans by In
surrecto Band of 500. death
to JingOes!" Shouts Rebel at Ve-
ladiana, and Is Slain.
MEXICO ClTY.-Aviators who
may attempt to fly acros the frontier
are to be made the target for rebel
bullets for the purpose of bringing
about complications between the
governments of Mexico and the Unit
ed States according to information
that has reached officials from
sources they consider trustworthy.
To Alfonso Madero, brother of
the rebel leader, was attributed the
declaration that revolutionists along
the frontier have been given orders
by directors of the movement to fire
upon any American aviator in such
manner that it would appear to
be the attack of federaIs. The revo-
lutionary leaders are said to believe
that such a course would result in
complications which would benefit
their cause.
Levy ON Americans.
A special to the Herald from Tor
reOn stated that rebels yesterday
looted the mining camp at Velar-
dena, coniscated horses and arms,
and marched to Asarco. A demand
was made on G. S. Kaufman, gen.
eral manager of the Guggenheim
mining interests at Velardena, fo1
money, but for some reason this was
not given.
At Asarco they demanded $4,000
from Assistant Manager T. M. Eos
ter, and received $1,000.
At Velardena they confscated all
horses and provisions. One man
| shouted, Death to the Gringoes'
(Americans), and was Immediately
shot by the band. Americans were
not molested.
This band, numbering 300 men on
foot and 200 mounted, are encamp.
ed at Hacienda P. Dricena, near the
station. This latest depreciation is
regarded as most important, since
it is the first American property tc
| be levied upon. American Vice Con
sui Barrothers is gathering data up.
on the affairs for transmission t.
Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
KISSING COST HIM HIS JOB
Subsection Chief in United States
Census Bureau Fired for Oscu-
Iation With Pretty Clerk.

WASHINGTON.-If a chief kiss
a clerk need the chief resign? If
the clerk likes the kiss need any,
body mind?
That is the momentous question
now stirring the employees of the
census bureau. 1t has driven dry
calculations about the center of pop
ulation of Washington and the num-
Der Of farms of Iowa from their
minds, and threatens to start troub-
lie unless it is satisfactorily answer
ed.
For rumor has started among the
operators of tabulating machines at
the bureau that the resignation of
a subsection chief in the division of
population was caused by his kiss
ing proclivities. Officials of the bu-
reau from Director Durand to Chief
Clerk " V, Viles frown on the ru-
NOR, and gravely brand it as a ca
nard. No chief in the bureau ever
so far forgot himself as to kiss a
young woman clerk, they assert.
What time has a subchief in the
census bureau to kiss a clerk?" thew
inquire. Their minds are fixed on
sterner things than pretty dimpIes
and puckered lips. Weighty statis-
tics showing the number of women
in the United States over 25 wears
of age take up their thoughts and
drive personalities from the consid-
Grafton"
But let the denials b, what they
may, still the pretty girls at the bu-
reau' for there are some pretty girls,
are bordering the query of the chief
and the clerk. Mayhap their chief
has cast lingering glances in their
direction Were he to give way to
temptation and commit the blunder
of planting a hearty smack on their
demure lips would he have to re-
sign? Perish the thought, they crv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
COLLEGE BOYS BAD CONDUCT
A PHASE OF MODERN COLLEGE
LIFE NOT VERY INSPIRING.
Police Called Out to Quell the Annu-
al Scrap of State University
Students at Athens.


The Athens Banner prints the fol-
lowing account of a clash between
the Freshmen and Sophomore class
es of the State University:
"The annual college scraps came
to a close yesterday afternoon when
the Freshmen succeeded in pulling
off their banquet, but not until after
a general breakup had occurred.
The Freshmen undertook to hold
their banquet in the auditorium
building, and all preparations had
been made for the occasion when the
Sophs appeared on the field and
made a ferocious attempt to prevent
/ them from enjoying the fruits of
their labors for the past weeks. In
order to gain access to the building
bottles, eggs and other missiles were
thrown through the windows crush
ing the glass and scattering it freely
/ to the sidewalk below.
1t is stated that some of the
! boys received more or less injuries.
but none of them were hurt too bad
| to bar them from participation in
the mix-up.
When the final rush came and
was being made the police were call
ed in by citizens to queIl the crowd,
but unfortunate for the department
only two men were on duty that
could be reached, it being the regu-
lar schedule hour for scout duty, and
some of the men had not returned
from dinner. However, it did not
1 require but short time for the Off
GERS to quiet the crowd after they
arrived, and several cases resulted
from the scrimmage. Such conduct
is uncalled for, and will not be toler-
ated in the future"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
TWO MILLION ARE STARVING
Famine Is Terrible in China. Dying
Parents Give Their Suffering
Children Away,

Observation-Disclosures relieved
100000 people in China will die
of starvation. This calamity is pre-
dicted by American Consul General
Wilder at Shanghai in cablegram
received from him today by the
American National Red Cross Soci-
ETY..
In describing the pitiful conditions
Mr.. Wilder says the scenes in the
famine district are horrifying. Chill
dren are being driven away by the
afflicted people as they lie dying by
the roadside.
The Red Cross today cabled to
China $4,000 which was contributed
by John D. Rockefeller.
In a mail report to the state de-
partment dated Dec. 80 from Amer
lean Minister Calhoun at Pekin it is
stated that the number of sufferers
in two provinces, Kiangau and An
hui, is not less than 100000. The
minister estimated that 100000
gold will be required to provide re-
lief.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
OF THE GOVERNOR

To heed half of them would spell
bankruptcy to a millionaire. and as
rule Georgia's governors have not
been men of extravagant means.
Many men, under clever pretentions
of other affairs, get money direct
from the governor. 1t is a sad COM
mentary on human nature to relate
that 80 per cent of such loans is
sheer loss, for it is never repaid.
Cranks, with all kinds of wild and
visionary schemes, write ream upon
ream of letters to the governor.
These are unheeded, because it
would only add to the fuel of their
eccentrics to give them heed. What
an interesting book a governors
mail, carefully edited, would make.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
SHOULD Be SOUTH GEORGIA'S
THIS SECTION ENTITLED TO NEW
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
This Is the Logical Place For It

The Politicians Must Look to the
Rate of Growth. North Georgia
Keeping Up Her Reputation for
Wanting Everything.
VALDOSTA, Gait is very prob
able that an organized fight will be
made in this section of the state for
the new congressional district. 1t
has been observed here and through
out this section that every PROPOSE
ton looking to a new district, ac-
cording to north Georgia politicians,
puts the new district in the upper
part of the state. Several reports
have been made of the PROPOSE
tons presented, but nearly all of
them leave South Georgia out of the
reckoning.
1t has been proposed for the peo-
pie of this section to get together
and make a fight for the new district
in South Georgia, this section hav-
ing grown more in the last ten years
than any other section in the state,
while the growth for the next ten
years undoubtedly will be in South
Georgia.
Many of the business men in the
Eleventh and Second congressional
districts believe that the new dis
trict should be so located as to take
in a part of each of these They
have no definite plans in shape as
yet, but it is quite certain that there
will be an organization in this Sec
ton to see to it that South Georgia
is not entirely ignored when "the
man who controls" goes to reds.
trict the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
TABLET AT ALBANY WILL
HONOR GRIGGS' MEMORY

ALBANY, Ga.-Notice has been
received by the city and county au-
thorities that the Griggs memorial
tablet, ordered several months ago
and to be placed in the government
building here, has been shipped and
should arrive some time this week.
The tablet will be placed in one
of the walls of the lobby of the post
office. The building, which will cost
$125,0O0 and is now 20 per cent
complete, was obtained for Albany
as the result of Congressman Griggs'
efforts, and is the first federal build
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
SOME STRANGE GRIST THAT
COMES IN HIS DAILY MAIL.
Within One Week the Gamut of HUI
man Emotion Is Run. Intending
Stream of Begging Letters.

man En1OJIOn Is nun OhChuIAS
Stream of Begging Letters.
ATLANTA Strange grist comes
in Gov. Browns mail. Within the
space of one weeks mail the gamut
of human emotion is run. An amaz-
ing number of letters concerning
pardons-always there springs the
hone of the man fettered by the
laws stern mandate, whether the
sentence runs months or nor the
span of a life, the eternal longing to
walk the ways of life free. These
poor souls firing pitiful pleadings at
the head of a chief executive, as 40
also faithful wife, sister, mother'
children-and it takes a man there
with strength of character and able
to balance wisely the scales OF JUS
tice or else he'd open wide the prls-
on doors and bid them all go forth
to breathe the wind-swept reaches
of an earth free and untrammeled.
Begging letters come in unendlng
stream-so many, so insistent, so ur-
gent; many that only the interVen-
ton of a watchful secretary prevents
a states ruler from going bankrupt
for be it known that it is the task
of a private secretary to see that
many of these begging epistles never
get past the barrier of necessary
protection he has built up between
his employer and such things. 1t
would probably amaze the world to
know how a large part of a public
mans constituency looks upon him
as legitimate prey. Once in office
demands, some with ill-concealed
threats of political reprisal, pour in
upon him. Some calls are right and
and just, he knows and senses, and
must heed as would the man of heart
in private life. B it is safe to say
that the vast percentage of those APP
peals for financial help are cunning
ly devised schemes to play on the
officials place and power.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
CENTRAL TO SPEND MILLIONS
WILL DOUBLE TRACK FROM BIR-
MINGHAM TO SAVANNAH.
Mighty Trunk Line Across the Con-
tinent From California Coast to
Atlantic Coast at Savannah.

Mighty Trunk Line Across the Con-
tinent From California Coast to
Atlantic Coast at Savannah.
According to interesting news dis
patches in the Atlanta and Macon
papers, received in Atlanta and Ma
con, it is the intention of the Harri-
man interests to double-track the
Central of Georgia from Birming-
ham to Savannah, connecting the
system in the Alabama metropolis
with the Illinois system and giving
a mighty trunk line across the con-
tinent.
The Misunderstanding of the Cen
trail is part of the general scheme
for making the rans-continental
line one OF the greatest in the world.
That the plan has been agreed upon
seems to be authentic, as the an
nouncement comes direct through
President Lovett, head of the great
Hartman system of roads. More
than SIS, 100000 is to be spent in
improvements from coast to coast,
and big part of this huge sum will
go into double-tracking the Central
of Georgia.
This will give the Hartman sys-
TEN an outlet to the Atlantic sea-
board and open up vast new terri
tory to it. The Hartman interests
control the Southern Pacific into
New Orleans from Los Angeles;
the Union Pacific from Chicago to
San Francisco, both making connec-
tons with the Illinois Central from
Chicago to New Orleans. At Biz
mingham the Central of Georgia taps
the Illinois Central, and there is the
great system from coast to coast
and cobwebbing the central west.
The double-tracking will take
place through Macon to Birmingham
one way, and Savannah the other.
1t is one of the biggest things in
railroad improvement announced for
many years, and its tremendous sig
niticance to Georgia can be instantly
appreciated
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
SOME COURT DECISIONS.
They Partly Explain Why United
States Is Most LawIess Country,

Ahey rarity Explain Why United
States Is Most LawIess Country.
A man was recently freed by the
supreme court of Oregon after be-
ing convicted OF numbering his wife
by beating her to death with a strap
because the court held the strap not
10 be a deadly weapon within the
meaning OF the Oregon law. In
Iexas another one was relieved from
conviction of murder because the
knife with which he did his victim
to death was less than nine inches
in length, nine inches being held to
be the minimum length prescribed
by law for knives that might be
designated as deadly. A convicted
ooodler was released in another
state because the Indictment drawn
against him was held to be defect
i've, inasmuch as it charged him
with an offense against state" in
stead of ''the state"
America, the land of the free and
home of the brave, is the most law
less civilized country in the world
meaning by America the United
States. Crime is INDUCED in more
recklessly and with less regard to
consequence here than anywhere.
The administration of law appears
too frequently to be a mere matter
OF pull, political or otherwise. or
money. Immunity from crime is
largely purchasable by coin on the
one hand, influence upon the other.
Our penitentiaries are filled, in the
main, with aliens, negroes and poor
whites. The impartial administra-
ton of justice, so-called, is too often
a Joke-and every malefactor of
means, pull or power knows it good
and well. 1t does seem, however. as
If we might be able to avoid courts
OF a quality that render such fool
decisions as those cited in the OPEN
ing paragraph of this article. The
woman murdered with strap and
the man stabbed to death with a
snort knife are, undeniably. very
dead indeed. And yet nobody has been
punished for their unlawful killing
The criminals have escaped by rea-
son of two disgraceful bubbles in
law, the which are all too FREQUENT
in this country-and the law must
hold itself satisfied whether or no.
1t is distinctly to be desired that the
courts of this land be respected
but in order that this may come to
pass the courts should, invariably,
respect themselves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
FUNNY THING IN CHICAGO.
Burglar Who Was Robbed of His
Loot Reports 1t to Police.

Funny things happen after mid
night in Chicago. This is one Of
them: A man went blubbering into
one of the police stations and re-
ported that footpads had robbed him
of $1,000. He was put on the grid
iron to ascertain where he had got
it. Finally he confessed that he had
robbed a restaurant, and asserted
that while he was getting away with
his booty he was held up. He had
the money in his possession less than
ten minutes. No wonder the poor
thief felt sore and went to the po-
lice for relief.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22

ing for which. dirt was broken in the
Second district. When it was decided
by the city and county to have a
handsome bronze memorial tablet to
the late congressman placed in the
building some little difficulty was
experienced in securing the necessa-
ry permission from the treasury de-
partmeqt, but in time the inevitable
red tape was unwound, the supervis-
ing architect himself furnishing the
design after which the tablet was
cast.
The tablet is large and handsome,
and cost several hundred dollars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
HORSE TRADER REPENTs.
Distributes Fortune Among Those
He Had Skinned,

A queer sort of David Harum died
near Utica, N. Y, the other day at
the age of seventy. He was Robert
Capel, a horse trader who was rich
nfteen years ago through the
shreWdness of his bargains. Then
he got religion and found his con-
science. 1t occurred to him that he
hadn't acted just right in his horse
trading, and the proper thing for
him to do was to make restitution.
And that is precisely what he did.
He visited every person whom he
had Skinned" in a horse trade and
gave his money back. When he had
gone through his list he had mighty
little left, so he became a hermit
and lived in a shack. But he said
the cleanness of his conscience was
worth giving up the money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
CATHOLICS MEMBER 14,e1s.7ef.
Form Almost One-Sixth of the Total
Population of United States.

HoTh AlHOSC One-SlXth OF the Total
Population of United States.
There are 14,618,761 Roman
Catholics in the United States, ac-
cording to the 1911 Wiltzius official
Catholic directory, now in press. The
hgures given do not include the
Catholics in the Philippines, Porto
Rico or Hawaiian Islands, for if
these were added the number of Ro-
man Catholics under the stars and
stripes would nearly reach $4,000
900.
Although the United States re-
ligious census of 1906 credits the
Roman Catholic faith with only 12.-
O79,1 Jap the Wiltzius figure is not
exaggerated, as the census bureau
deducted Is per cent of rs total
count for children, counting only
communicates.
According~to the directory there
are in the United States 17,OS4
Catholic priests and 13,461 church
es.
Of this number 9,O17 have resi-
dent pastors. Catholics also control
4,972 parishial schools with an
attendance of 1,270,131. In addi-
ton to these there are 225 colleges
for boys and sos academies for girls
and 50 ecclesiastical seminaries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
NO WHISKY OVER BARS, BUT YOU CAN
GET 1T SITTING DOWN IN ATLANTA

ATLANTA.-No more whiskey
over bars in Atlanta. The police
commission has put its foot down
good and hard. What? You thought
the selling of whiskey over bars had
been stopped here long ago? So it
has, except in the forty-leven lock-
er clubs in which the community
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
POUCH RLFLED OF HALF MILLION AT
TRANSFER FROM a. B. g A. TO SEABOARD

tanned in the bags is said to have
been negotiable.
When stolen the pouches were be-
ing transferred from the A. B. & A.
to the Seaboard railroad, being
dropped at Brunswick to be picked
up by the road to which the trans
fer was made. Since then nothing
has been seen or heard of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22

SAVANNAH Two mail pouches,
SAID to contain $500 900 in checks
and valuable bank papers, have been
stolen at Thalman, Ga, near Bruins
WEEK, according to postoffice inspect
oFs' The pouches were sent north
rom Brunswick and were made
away with on the nights of January
~ and 81. Much of the paper con-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22

abounds. And now the commission
has decided that even an honest
locker club which accommodates no.
body but members cannot serve its
drinks over a club bar, but must
serve them at tables. This will me-
cessitate considerable change in the
interior arrangement of several of
the clubs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-22
UNION DEPOT AT RICHLAND.
Reported That Contract Will Be Let
!. For Its Erection.

II Ut us LFtCt1On.
Y is reported that the long-talked
ion passenger station for Rich
Ian soon to be reality. From
what considered a reliable source
comes Information that the contract
will be let this week and work COM
menced soon on modern building
which will cost when completed
about twelve or thirteen thousand
dollars. The station is to be used
by all the roads at Richland, and the
cost divided among them.