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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15

At the end of the fiscal year this
department was operating the Tivoi
Hotel, 19 lin hotels, night restau-
rants, Is European laborers' messes,
and IA common laborers kitchens,
an increase of one hotel and a de-
crease of three messes and four
kitchens. The supplies are procured
from the commissary belonging to
the Panama railroad company,
which is operated by the subsistence
officer, who is also cOmmissary for
the railroad. The total number of
meals served by the hotels was q
216, 740, which was an increase of
0,289 over the previous fiscal year
The cost of supplies per meal was
%. A cents, or 0.57 cent more than
during the previous fiscal year, and
the expense in preparing and serY-
ing meals was 0.62 cent less, or 5.61
cents, resulting in a decrease of the
total cost per meal of 005 cent The
total number of rations served in
European laborers' messes was l.
054,545, or 1892 less than last
year. The cost of supplies per ra-
ton increased 0.16 cent, but the cost
of service decreased or cent, MAX
ing a decrease in the total cost of
ration Of O.56 cent, or a cost for the
year of 1922 cents The total num-
Der of rations served in the laborers'
kitchens was 444,503, a falling off
of 337,243 over the previous year.
The cost of supplies per ration de-
creased O.63 cent and the cost of
service decreased 0.60 cent, making
the total cost of the ration 26.06
cents
The total revenue for the year
from the hotels, restaurants, messes
and kitchens was $1,254,262.40.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
LIFTS BAN ON SANTA'S MAIL
POSTMASTER GENERAL HITCH.
COCK RESCINDS HIS ORDER.

Thousands Upon Thousands of Let
-ters Addressed to-Santa Claus Are
Placed in Mail Every Christmas.
Letters addressed to Santa Claus
this Christmas will not find their
way to the dead letter office after
all
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
rescinded his order that all Santa
Claus letters placed in the mail this
Christmas shall not be delivered to
charitable institutions as has been
the custom for some time.
Some time ago the postmaster
general decided that Uncle Sam
would not be Santa Claus any more.
For several years it has been the
custom for letters addressed to Santa
Claus to be delivered to charitable
institutions that asked for them. 1t
appears from the first announcement
of Mr.. Hitchcock that the public has
abused the privilege, and it was de-
cided that Uncle Sam as Santa Claus
would no longer take this abuse.
So Mr.. Hitchcock, much to the
regret of Young America, issued the
order to that effect. Now, it appears,
there has been another view taken of
the matter by the postmaster gen
eral. He thinks that the practice of
delivering Santa Claus mail does not
lead to abuses, as was at first fear
ed. The many poor children who can
be blessed with a happy Christmas
in this way, he has declared, make
the departments handling of Santa
Claus mail worth while.
The general public has no idea
how much Santa Claus mail is deliv-
cred every year. Thousands and
thousands of letters are placed in
the mail by children who really be-
lieve this is the proper way to send
mail to the jolly st. Nicholas. Then
a great many grown people, just to
satisfy the youngsters, put the let
ters addressed to Santa Claus in the
mails. Many of the letters are APP
peals from the poor children for
Christmas gifts, while others are
from children in families of means
who mail the letters just for the
novelty of the thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
A FANILY'S CHASTITY SUICIDE
MOTHER, SON STARVE
AS PROTEST TO CHURCH.
EmaCiated Bodies Found in a Silent
Chicago Home, With Black
Shroud and q Note.

CHICAGO.-Details of a CHASTITY
suicide pact involving a whole family
were brought out by the police to-
night after the discovery of the ema-
ciated forms of Herman Letsch, his
wife, Anna, and their 12-year-old
son. All had been dead several
days.
Followers of religious creed,
self-promulgated, the parents had
forced themselves and their son to
do without food to purge their sin
full souls of lust" until starvation
wiped out the whole family. From
physicians examinations it was evil
dent the boy had been the first to
die.
On a bed was a black shroud bear
ing a note reading:
This gown is for our son Her.
man when he is dressed for the cof-
fin"
Apparently the parents had been
tOO weak 10 put the gown Oh JuS
starved form of the boy when death
came, but weakened by hunger had
lain on the floor near each other
waiting for death, which came sew
efal days later for the mother, and
week later, apparently, for the
father.
A long and rambling letter in Ger
man criticised churches and church
people, and named a Chicago church
and pastor. This pastor told the
police that until about four months
ago the family attended church each
Sunday, always contributing ST. They
ceased coming, and when the pastor
asked Letsch about it Letsch, he
said, shouted:
All right; I'll get out Of the
church, but a new appearance of
God will blast you for it"
The rambling letter said no min
lister was to appear at their funerals.
The determination to die, it said,
ran back for three years and March
II last was the day first selected
for their taking off An illness of
the boy, neighbors say must have
delayed the suicides.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
A Father,s Vengeance

Would have fallen on anyone who
attacked the son of Peter Bondy of
South lockwood, Mich, but he was
powerless before attacks of Kidney
trouble. Doctors could not help
him." he wrote, $50 at last we gave
him Electric Bitters and he improved
wonderfully from taking six bottles.
1t is the best kidney medicine I ever
saw" Backache, tired feeling, nerv-
BUSINESS, loss of appetite warn of
kidney trouble that may end in drop
sy, diabetes or Bright's disease. Be
ware. Take Electric Bitters and be
safe. Every bottle guaranteed. so
cents at Dawson Drug Co.'S.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
MAN 100000 YEARS OLD.
Scientist Upsets All Previous Calcu-
latiOns ON That Subject.


DR.. w. Allen Surge, in the first
volume of the Proceedings of the
Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, ~
upsets all previous calculations as to
the age of man by declaring that
''Neolithic man goes back to some
period between 100000 and 500, 900
years ago, and it would seem that we
have not even then reached the be-
ginning of the period.
Drift man was 1ourinshing from a
million years to about 100000 years
ago. Neither figure is a limit; the
latter figure is probably nearer a
limit than the earlier. Between the
end of the Drift and the beginning
of the Neolithic we have the great
Cave periods, which would thus seem
to have occupied anything from 200,-
900 to 100000 years.
Behind Drift man." continues the
doctor, "are vast ages of which we
are only beginning. to get the first
glimpses. But it now seems evident
that man was already on the earth
in early Pliocene times, and we must
not be surprised if proofs are ulti-
brought forward that genus
homo goes back even further than
that"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
100000 MEN WORK ON CANAL
COLONY OF HOTELS AND RES
TAURANTS THEIR HOMES.
81 ,254,0OO Paid For Board by the
Army of Employees in Zone Last
Year. 2,216,7 Meals Served.

htdEs @s&AOs 4O Meals SeEVCus
Observation-Disclosures, if you
can, any one concern employing
nearly 10000 men in its work, oper-
ating nineteen hotels, restaurants
and eating houses without limit, and
paying out from year to year hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and
you may form some idea of what
Uncle Sam is doing in the construc-
ton Of the Panama Canal.
The annual report of the canal
commission has just been made pub
lie. Nearer and nearer is the big
utch coming toward completion.
Millions of tons of earth have been
removed during the past year, work
on the big locks rushed with all due
haste, and otherwise everything done
toward Fastening an end of this great
undertaking.
1t is impossible at this time to
even estimate what the completion
OF the canal must necessarily mean
to the United States, and most espe-
clalIy the port cities along the At
lantic seaboard. That a tremendous
trade must follow upon the compile
tlon of the canal is already recog
Med But there is much which those
clles desiring to participate in this
trade must do to get it before the
canal is open.
The subsistence department is
charged with the operation of the
lSthmian Canal Commission hotels,
meSses and kitchens, and is in charge
Oh Major Eugene~T. Wilson, United
states army, as subsistence officer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
SAY STAKES AT WOMEN.S
POKER PARTIES ARE TOO HIGH

CHICAGO.-A test of strength be-
tween women residents and w. w.
Cudmore, police captain, command
ing a station in the fashionable north
side residence district, over his in
depreciation of the gambling law is
expected today.
In the police activity against gam
bling Capt. Cudmore put a ban on
womens poker parties, in many
cases of which it is said the stakes
ran into large sums.
The women in whose homes the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
GOOD NEWS FOR EDITORS.

One Who Served Term in Jail Be-
came Inventor andaGot Rich.
Here is good news for editors. A
Connecticut editor running a paper
at Greenwich got into jail How and
why he got there doesn't matter for
the purposes of this story; but he
got there and was locked up for
keeps for certain term of months.
While he was in Jail he had an idea.
Even an editor can have an idea if
he is in jail long enough. This edi-
tors idea was about a patent When
he got out he made a model, secur-
ed a patent and found capitalists
who were willing to back him. Now,
it is said, he is on the road to fort
une. Do the editors know the way
to the jails?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15

games have been played defied the
captain to stop them after he had
sent detectives around warning them
to stop.
"Ill have all the patrol wagons at
the station in service today" he said,
and if / find any games they will
be raided and the players arrested
and hauled to the station.
u intend to break up the games.
In some of them the limit has been
so steep that husbands have been
seriously embarrassed in making
good their wives losses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
GROWTH OF RURAL SCHOOLS.
$40, 600, 900 Spent For School Build.

$40, 100000 Spent For School Build
ings in Southern States in a Year.
During the year ending December
81, 1910, over forty millions were
spent for school buildings in the
Southern states
That the greater part of this sum
was expended in the construction Of
schools, academies and colleges in
the instruction of agriculture and the
mechanic arts is a striking fact, and
brings strongly home the great edu-
cational movement which is today
sweeping through the rural sections
of the Southeast.
The South is abreast of any other
section in this newest development of
the educational scheme. 1t is far
ahead of many in its best applica-
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15

A lazy liver leads to chronic dys-
pepsia and constipa weakens
the whole system. Doan's Regulets
(25 cents per box) correct the liver,
tone the stomach, cure constipation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-11-15
FRESH OYSTERS.

Finest Apalachicola oysters at T.
o. Whitchard & Cos. Shipments re-
ceived every other day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17

Sorry I had to give you the busy
ear, Peaches, but the fact is paddled
away to the Office Of Higginbottoms &
Co., who wanted to put me wise to
some, er-that is, some new stock!"
Railroad stock?" she inquired.
We'll, not exactly Twentieth Gen.
fury Limited or Royal Blue Flyers"
I answered. "but I think some of 1t
could win from slow freight If prop
erly coaxed.
"watered stock. L SUPPOSED"
laughed Clara ].
Eyes, it was watered all right, but
not fed," replied. There wasn't
much doing in oats until led the way
to the barn."
had Peaches in the air by this
time, but she thought I was talking
the broker dialect, so she stayed on
the roof and watched the scenery go
by.
Just then I got flash of Dixie Law.
renee bearing down in our direction
under full head of gasoline.
Dixie was leading three-days' jag
by the hand and talking to it like
child.
A. good old fellow, Dixie, but for
years he permitted disti1lery to use
his thirst as a testing station and it
had put the dear boy away to the
conviv.
Dixie was good lawyer when he
worked at it, rich, unmarried, and the
busiest buyer in the borough.
"H'ar'ye, Mrs. John? Howdy. John?
How do do, little man! Scuze rue for
int'rupting a family party, but l de-
mand 'pology!" he spluttered.
whats wrong, Dike?" inquired.
Demand 'potogy," Dixie continued.
"Old friend life time threw me down
-lesh have drink! Your little son
growing shplendid boy, Mrs. John!"
'''This is Tacks, my little brother,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17

Y ANSAS CITY, Mo.-How to be hap
IL py though married seems to be a
question hard to solve in this city,
for recent statistics show one divorce
for every four marriages. Thic is be-
Ieved to be the highest record for
matrimonial detachments in the Uni
ted States. Taking Missouri and Kansas
there Is one divorce for every eight
marriages, and in the United States
one for every IL. England is at the
other end Of the line, with one d.
Vorce for every 400 marriages..
DR.. Charles A.. Elwood, professor of
sociology in the State University, has
recently compiled the figures upon
which the divorce statements regard
ing Missouri marriages that failed are
based.
He has found that 80 per cent of
the divorces are obtained by women
and in nearly all cases the allegations
made by wives are sufficient. Among
the reasons advanced by DR.. Elwood
for the increase of divorce is the de-
cay of religion, particularly in the
religious theory of marriage and the
family. Another probable reason ad-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17

rHlCAGO.-"Capping" for street ia
~ kers has been founu highly lu-
crative If novel way of earning liv-
ing by at least one young Chicago
an. 1t could hardly be called work,
strol]ing about the streets at such
times as might suit the st7oller's own
sweet will, but If his story is true. the
returns are greater than the salaries
of many men who work long hours in
shops or Offices.
1T is through my ability to draw a
crowd and get 'em interested in the
toys and gimcracks you see peddled
on the streets, the capper said, that
l boom the takers sales. get per-
centage. "The only rule l follow"
he went on, "and the only rule fel-
low in this game can follow consist
emily, Is to change his makeup as fire.
quently as possible. never attempt
disguise of the stage sort, with fake
Whtskers. grease paint or anything
freaky. But do wear several suits.
coats and hats In the course Of the
day and make it rule to dress in
conspicuously, so that cannot easily
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17

NEW YORK.-William ]. Flynn, dep
~ uty police commissioner of this
city, and the head of the detective
bureau which rounded up the great
Italian kidnapping gang and also piac-
ed about dozen members of two or
three large counterfeiting gangs be-
hind prison bars, is marked man"
The Italian criminals of the metropolis
have declared that he must die. and
for the last two or three weeks have
been working overtime in advising
him Of the fact by sending threaten
ing letters. Death in its most horrible
form~ has been promised him; he has
seen the death sign given him scores
of times In court rooms, and on the
streets, yet he goes calmly about his
business, and the list of law-breaking
Italians in Sing Sing Is constantly
growing.
Probably no man in the United
States Is more bitterly hated by
BLACK Hand" members and Italian
criminals generally than Flynn. Re-
lentless in the running down of these
bands of foreign crooks, he has arous-
ed hatred for himself among them
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17

II brought Tacks with me because
I had to do some shopping, and he's
50 much company" Clara J. explained,
when I joined them at the restaurant
by appointment
'Tacks Is always pleasant COM
pany." said, politely, but I deter
mined to keep a watchful eye on my
youthful brother-in-law, nevertheless.
That kid was born with an abnor-
NAL bump of mischief and by pains
taking endeavor he has won the
worlds championship as an organ
tzer of impromptu riots.
'Oh, joint" said Clara J. when I
began to make faces at the menu
card, 'I didn't notice until now how
pale you look. Have you had a busy
day."
"Busy!" I replied; well, rather.
I've been giving limitations Of a bull
fight. Everybody met was the bull
and was the fight. Nominate your
eats! What'll it be, Tacks?"
"Sponge cake" said Tacks promptly.
what else?" asked Clara J.
more sponge CAKE" the youth re-
piled, and just then the smiling and
sympathetic waiter stopped down to
pick up fork Tscks had dropped.
In his anxiety rot to miss any
thing, Tac&s rubbered alphabetically,
with the result that he upset q glass
Of ice water down the walters neck,
and three seconds later the tray
trotter haG issued an extra aad was
saying things in French thai. Nculd
sound scanda}ous if translated.
It cost me dollar to bring the dish
dragger back to earth, and Tacks said
could break his bank open when we
got home and take all the money If I'd
let him do it again.
Uncle Peter is delighted beyond
measure with YOUR business ability"
Clara ]. informed me after the treaty
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17
Criminals Threaten Police Official

that amounts almost to madness. Yet
it is hatred that is so tempered with
fear that, up to the present time, his
life has never been attempted. He
has been doomed to die, if the Grim
inal element among the Italians ever
find way to accomplish it., yet he is
still at his old post. For years he
has gotten threatening letters-letters
with cross bones and skulls and black
hands and death marked all over
them-but as yet no criminal has had
the courage to put his threat into exc
cution.
Since the roundup of the big Ital.
ian kidnapping band few weeks ago.
Flynn has been an especial target for
these death letters. Distant letters
and friends of the ten people now in
Jail for child stealing, as well as those
of that notorious and expert gang Of
counterfeiters recently handed behind
the bars, have been decorating letters
with death hieroglyphics and sending
them to the deputy commissioner.
Flynn does not see half these death
letters addressed to him. He gave up
paying any attention to them long ago
His private secretary throws them all
in the waste basket, that is all except
the more CHASTITY ones, which he
shows to the chief.
They are so funny" says Flynn.
that I like to read them. l don't
believe a word in them, so they only
afford me amusement"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17
Divorce Record Held by Kansas CT

vanced is the development of 1ndivt
dualism. self-assertion and self-inter.
est.
This spirit is said to be antagonistic
to the simple life. 1t Is the spirit
fostered by the New Woman, the wo-
man of the clubs and the suffragette
movement A number of avocations
are now open to women in which a
bright girl can earn salary making
her Independent. After few years
of this life she may marry we'll or
she may marry man who cannot pro-
vide the little Injuries of life she was
able to provide for herself before mar
rage.
That a woman should be discomfort
ed after giving up independence and
a life full of diverting incidents, the
daily trip downtown. the work In an
office until noon, the daily gossip ba-
Ear at luncheon and the mingling, with
a busy world, is not considered sur
prising. From this class many domes-
tic discords come to swell the big
grist for the divorce mill.
Men in the professions do not think
of marriage until they are at least 30
years old. They try to become estab-
lished and to attain dependable po-
sition before marrying. This contrib
utes something to domestic discord,
for the man of 80 or over has accumu
lated habits that are not easily adapt
able to those of his wife, particularly
if she is near his own age.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17
)ne Man Booms Street Fakers' Sales

be detected by persons l have induced
to purchase by suggestion instead of
direct appeal, as the ordinary sales
man would do.
Nov, I don't get a divvy on all
sales. The way l work is this: stroll.
along until I find one of my partners
doing nothing in the sales line and
then get busy. He's selling me-
chanical toy, We'll say. l stop, exam
inc it closely, ask for C. demonstration
and comment on the thing until
have six or eight people around me,
then l buy one of the toys and walk
away. I've worked that crowd up to
the proper pitch. One sale follows
another and as the crowd increases
the faker benefits accordingly.
Il never butt into a crowd that is
buying. That would be useless. l wait
until things are slow or stagnant,
and then Jump in and a laugh or
pointed comment does the trick. I
don't sell directly; I merely suggest
and the vender rakes in the coin and
passes over his goods.
my rake-off? Oh, yes. / have from
twenty to thirty takers on nay list,
and they come around to my room
every night and buy back what have
purchased from them during the day,
at Ave times the regular price.
Il seldom visit a man more than
three times day, and frequently not
more than once or twice. TIA worth
from $50 to 800 a week."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17
.SCOR|NS G|| FOR
!. SAVING a 62'NH|7Es
AGED INDIAN WHO Boosted RE-
LATIoNsHIP TO PIERCE, BIT
TER TOWARDS LINCOLN.
LOG CHAIN RED MANS MEDAL
Heroic Old Joe La Framboise, Who
Recently Died, Considered Meager
Reward Given Him for Warning
AGAINST Redskins an Insult.

Pierre, 8. D.-Old Joe La Framboise
is dead, and another link between the
present and past Of terror and massa-
ere in the early days Of Minnesota is
gone.
But for one act Of his life Old Joe
would now be resting in his grave
unmourned and remembered no more
than those of his mixed-breed CON-
panions who preceded, him to the
happy hunting grounds" But that
one act has won him a place in his
tory and in the hearts Of all who
know of his deeds.
August 10. 1862. Old Joe saved his
name from oblivion by saving 81
white persons from death by torture
at the hands of the Sioux.
Fired by the eloquent tongue of Lit
tie Crow, their head war chief, the
savage Sioux and Yanktonais held the
ti-yo-ti-pi, or war dance, and planned
a massacre.
La Framboise knew what it meant,
and, prompted perhaps by the blood
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-17
Delivery of a Letter Long DELAYED

The postman called a. her home
with a postoft1ce department envelope.
Within was the t1me-yellowed sheet of
paper. 1t was not an envelope, for it
was written when envelopes were un.
known. 1t was folded square and the
ends turned in, and a postage stamp
was pasted across to keep them there.
The stamp was Cancelled and the mis-
sive bore the date, Geneva, N. Y.
April 20, 1888. Beneath this STAMP
was another one. which read Syra.
cuse, N. Y, Dec. ~, 1910.
No explanation of the delay appear.
ed upon 1t. There was no mark from
the dead letter Office. It probably
had been mailed by the sender, who
signed himself Whitney, and had been
nislaid in the postofice at Geneva to
be found again just now.
1t was in relation to shipment Of
lumber which Mr.. Paddock was to
make from Yonkers, and contained
the information that $4,000 in nav.
ment would be sent on receipt of tho
consignment.