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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
GINSENG IN WISCONSIN.
Valuable Asiatic Medicinal Plant Ts
Cultivated Successfully.

The cultivation of ginseng. the
plant once worth its weight in cola
and still exceedingly valuable 70 u
hourishing industry in the vicini+p
or Amigo, Wash. The plant is os
Aslatic origin, and highly egfeanod
as a medicine, being universaI IVlI ~ u
s sS as an extraordinary remedy
f fo many diseases, but particularly
TOT exhaustion of mind and BODY
-, me plant, which is a native of
Chlnese Tartary, has a stem from
one to two feet high, long five fin-
gered leaves which are quite smon nt
ana SC1 umbels on long terminal stoci
Inc. Inc frult is succulent, with one or
three leathery one-seeded cells u
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
HE'S A REAL ''ONION KIM"
OHIO MAN GREW 10000 BUSH
ELS OF THE GLORIOUS BULBS.
Talks of His Onion Exploits in Whis-
pers, But 1t Is Believed His Prof
it's Are More Than So, 900.

COLUMBUS, O.-TO John STAN
baugh, farmer and member of the
legislature, onions spell all that is
good and wholesome. Only last sea-
son he raised $4,000 bushels of
them, enough to set whole city to
weeping. Way down in Texas,
where they pride themselves on the
size of their onion crops, John STAN
baugh and his onions are known.
Likewise in the recesses of Maine
are the Stambaugh onions thing
Of note. Stambausn stands for on
ions in al the big Ohio cities, for
his products flood al the markets
Ever since 1888 and long hef0re
he thought OF being a legislator Mr..
Suamhaugh has been raising onions.
There is a marsh in Hardin county
which the Scioto river used to food.
When the Stambaughs moved there
twenty-three years ago muck cover
ed the marsh in some places six feet
deep. Horses used to sink in it and
would have to priced out. Wagons
also went down, oftentimes without
warning.
A system of drainage was put in
and the water eventually seeped
away, but the marsh is still soft and
;oggy, and there is where John
'jtambaugh and others raise their
onions. In the soft yielding earth
onions will grow almost without
provocatiOn. Their roots dive down
into the marshy ground.
Representative Stambaugh has
one hundred acres of such land, and
every season he devotes seventy
acres of it to onions. There is no
type Of onion in the category that
he has not raised at one time or an
other. Even with the natural en-
yirOnment favorable he coaxes his
product to grow through artificial
means. The seventy acres have
been scientifically drained so that
too much dampness will not inter
fere, and all through the season he
nurses his crop.
Last season everything was ia
yorable to growing the best crop the
seventy acres ever produced. Even
Mr.. Stambaugh was surprised when
his onions began to grow recklessly.
When the crop was finally harvested
CAC IC0u1C cO fOJOUU UuSu0lS.
1T is just natural onion land "
says Mr.. Stambaugn in explaining
his onion prodigy. Onions cannot
help growing there when you plant
them"
The "onion king" smiles in relat-
ing how he inyadus even the Texas
market. Down in Texas they irri-
gate to raise onions. Sometimes
they have to spend thousands of
dollars to irrigate a few acres. 1t
is this cost of irrigation that permits
the Ohio onion to compete with the
Texas onion on the Iatter's own
ground. Up in Hardin county the
Scioto river gratuitOusly does what
the Texans spend tens of thousands
in cOaxing the Rio Grande and arte-
sian wells to do.
Mr.. Stambaugh talks of his on
ion exploits only in whispers. He
will not tell just how much he made
on that bumper crop last season. but
some estimate that the profits
amounted to more than $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
INNOCENT, SERVED 20 YEARS,
broken i'm Health and Spirit, and
Has No Redress.

DrOAeh HI Health and Spirit, and
Has No Redress.
Andrew 10th was 20 years in the
penitentiary at Pittsburg as a life
convict for murder He was mar
doned and released a few days ago
when it became known that he was
innocent and never even saw his
alleged victim. Another man of the
name of 10th, now in Hungary. was
the murderer but Andrew was ar
rested and convicted because his
name was 10th. And he has no re-
dress. The better part of his life
has BEN blotted out. His health
and spirit have been broken through
miscarriage of justice. But there
is no recompense. He CHANGED to
merely be a fly that got on the wheel
which we call justice, where he was
crushed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

BILE Compound, 1
was sick three
months and could
not walk. | suf-
fered all the time.
The doctors said I
could not get well
without an opera
ton, for | could
hardly stand the
pains in my sides,
especially my right
one, and down my
right leo. 7 hogan
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

"Foley's Honey and Tar is the
best cough remedy I ever used, as
1t quickly stopped a severe cough
that had long troubled me-" says J.
W. Kuhn of Princeton Neb. Just
so quickly and surely it acts in all
cases of coughs, colds, la grippe and
lung troubles. Refuse substitutes
Dawson Drug Co. and PEOPLES Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
WOMAN
ESCAPES
OPERATION
WasCured byLydiaE Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

EiWood, IND" Your remedies have
cured me and I have only taken six
bottles of lydia u. Pinkham'S Nereta-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

2O2 ACRES two miles southeast of
Parrot. AS good as any $50-acre
land you can buy. Cheap.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

Baby won't suffer five Minimize
with Group if you apply DR.. Tbomse9
eclectic Oil at once. 1t acts Iii,o
magic. '' IKE
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

129 ACRES just outside city limits
of Dawson. Just the place for a
dairy, chicken or stock farm. The
cheapest place in four miles of the
city. If you are interested in such
a place see us at once.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

100 ACRES in Chickasawhatchee, 2
miles from school and railroad. A
good community, and place where
you can enjoy good health. A small
investor could not get a better in
Yestment for the money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
[.z 80 z1zzz We Have For Sale L: LEWIS

So ACRES just one-half mile from
Herod, near fine school and two
churches. Nice four-room house
and two tenant houses. Well i'm
proved. Just the place for small
investment It's going to sell at
bargain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

so ACRES land close to school that
is going to sell. Be the first to
ask about this place, and make your
self some money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29
w. z. HICKEY

500 ACRES three miles from Sas-
ser The finest farming land in
Terrell county. Fourteen mule farm
open. 100 acres under wire fence.
Two deep wells. All tenant houses
ceiled. Stockade built for 20 mules.
An investment that will pay 20 per
cent every year and advance 10 per
cent in price. Who's going to be
the lucky buyer?
175 ACRES in white community.
Level land, clos to school; 3 Il
miles from Dawson; fine dwelling,
good stockade and tenant houses.
Something that Is worth while to in
vestigate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

$50 ACRES close to PARROT that
you can buy and make 20 per cent
on your investment by Dec. list.
500 ACRES on Shellman road. A
fine farm and good improvements.
If you are interested call at once.
WE HAVE several dwellings in
Dawson and Parrot. If you want
a house and lot in either place in
quire of us. Get you home and
quit paying rent.
100 ACRES south of Herod. A fine
piece of dirt, and some good tim
Der. You can buy it satisfactorily.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-29

lat ACRES two and a half miles
from Herod. A fine place to raise
stock Nice 5-room house and e
room tenant house. Ask the price of
this place.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
THE WISDOM OF Two-sTRIKE

When General George II. Harries
was out at the Rosebud agency at
the time of the Sioux troubles, part
of his work was to get Indians to
sign some treaties.
One chief, named Two-Strike, one
night agreed to sign, but when it came
time for him to come in next morn
ing, touch the pen and make his mark,
he reneged. 1t was important to get
him, for his signature controlled about
three hundred Indians.
"Me no sign" grunted Two-Strike.
"Why not?" asked Harris persua-
sively. "You promised last night to
sign this morning.
Two-Strike said short sentence in
Sioux and the interpreter turned to
Harries and translated. "The chief
says he has thought it over and will
not sign, for he notices every time he
touches that thing"-pointing to the
pen-"he loses something"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
RAISING SUNKEN TREASURE BY
MACHINE.

On October o, 1893, the English
warship, Lutine, sank off the island of
Terschelling, at the entrance to the
Quidersee, without one million pounds
sterling in money and bullion. Lloyds
had insured the Lutine and her cargo
for 100000 pounds sterling, and nat
urally Lloyds was loath to see her
lie at the bottom of the sea. Moth
ing could be done toward raising this
sunken treasure because England hap
pened to be warning at the time with
both France and Holland. At the in
stigation of France, the Netherlands
laid claim to the Lutine and her cargo
as a prize of war and proceeded to
recover the treasure as best she could.
The Dutch divers were not very sue
cessful, chiefly because II was all but
impossible to cope with the shifting
sands that inundated the Inflated ves-
sci. In 1923 Holland ceded the sunken
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
SPORTING NOTE.

Joe Ryan, the Chicago story-teller,
was in Hot Springs, Arkansas, a time
ago, and met coal operator who
told him a story of two dealers at a
gambling g-house there who were in
vited to go out and shoot ducks. They
had never shot anything, these deal
ers, but craps and patrons, and they
were nervous and not exactly up in
what they were to do.
They went to a hunting-hut in the
Illinois river and were told they were
to rise early in the morning and go
out after the ducks. They were so
excited they couldn't sleep, and about
midnight one of them went out in
front of the hut and saw large num-
ber of wooden decoy ducks floating in
the water. He rushed back, got his
gun and began firing at the decoys
His companion, startled by the
sound, came out and took one look
Then he screamed: "Stop it, stop it
you lunaticl You're shooting the
boosters"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
AMATEUR
2'0bb[RS
Hold Upli = ,engsr Train
But Are s. ID Away
by Switch Engine
Western Press.

Western Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. six
masked men held up the west-bound
Rock Island passenger train, known
rs the ADMINISTRATIONS Express,
midway between Memphis and Hurl-
burt, Ark, early today, and ransack
ed the mail pouches. They fired seven
nitroglycerine caps into the local safe
of the express car, which not only tore
away the safe doors but wrecked the
car. The bandits were frightened
away when switch engine, searching
for the overdue train, approached from
Hurlburt.
The robbers boarded the train when
it slowed down near Hurlburt, eleven
miles from Memphis, and intimidating
the engine crew by display of weap-
ons the men forced the engineer to
back the train for several miles. Then
the express and mail cars were cut
from the coaches and hauled ahead
a short distance where the half COM
pleted robbery was executed. They
obtained practically nothing.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
GEORGE HAMS BET.

George Ham of the Canadian Pa
cific railroad is the greatest Canadian
mixer. He usually entertains all the
visiting English journalists and states
men who come to look over Canada
Once party of dignified English
journalists came over, and Ham met
them at the dock at Quebec. One
was particularly dignified represen-
tative of the London Times, much i'm
pressed with his Importance.
George" said friend who was
with him, you'll never be able to
make a dent on that man."
Ham looked him over. an bet you
a dinner" he said, that he'll be call
ing me George before midnight"
Done"
At half-past nine that night Ham
called up his friend. "You lose" Han
said. "He has not only called me
George but he now has his arm
around my neck and is calling me
'Georgie.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
SEEING FROM NEW YORK TO
CHICAGO.

Soon after the telephone established
itself in our daily life inventors be-
gan to wonder whether it would not
be possible to devise way of seeing
the man to whom you are telephon-
ing. Although such an invention is
about as commercially useful at the
present time as a device which would
enable man in Boston to shake hands
electrically with his friend in Wash
ington, more than one serious attempt
at "television," as it is called, has
been made.
All of these attempts are based on
the practical utilization of a remark
able property possessed by the metal
selenium. Like other metals, selenium
is conductor of electricity; but, un-
like other metals, it's conductivity va
ries with the amount of light by which
it happens to be illuminated. Every
television apparatus so far devised in
cludes in its construction one or more
selenium cells.
The latest invention in this undeni-
ably interesting, though commercial
ly promising, field is a well known
German electrical engineer, Ernest
Runner. If some one will Immediate
ly give him one million dollars he
promises to produce an electrical eye
that will see in Berlin what is go
ing on in Paris, and to install his in
vention at the Brussels exhibition next
year. Like his predecessors, he en-
ploys selenium. Realizing that selen-
ium is sluggish in its response to il
Elimination and that single cell can
not be expected to transmit the whole
figure of a man, he employs hundreds
of cells. The light from your collar
falls on perhaps half dozen cells,
and the image of your eye on perhaps
three or four. Thus you are electri-
cally subdivided into fragments and
thus you pulsate over wire from
New York to Chicago. At Chicago
YOU are reconstructed by correspond
ing group of selenium cells and made
to appear to the expectant eye of the
man to whom you are talking. Al
though you are an impalpable electric
ghost, a mere electrical presence, you
smile and nod in Chicago in a very
lifelike way, just as you do in New
York
1t must not be supposed that Run
mer has accomplished as much as this.
He has thus far succeeded in trans
mitting for a short distance the image
on a checkered screen. Although that
is far cry from the II. G. Wells
future of television, it is, neverthe-
less, a notable step in advance.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
GIRL CHARGED WITH MUIR
DER TO KNOW FATE SOON

ABERDEEN, S. D., Oct. 31.-The
state completed its cross-examination
of Eva May Kreiter just before ad-
journment for noon today. The at
torneys for both sides rested. Argu-
ments will be heard this afternoon
and Judge McNulty will instruct the
jury either this evening or early to-
morrow morning.
The state did not succeed in bring
ing out any damaging admissions
from the defendant, despite vigor-
Gus cross-questioning. Mrs. Kreiter
stuck to the story she told Sheriff
Shaffer last March. She insisted that
she struck Kreiter with butcher
knife to save her own life.
She told of her girlhood days and
of her forming an acquaintance with
Kreiter, through correspondence, when
he lived at Quincyville, H., his sister,
Mrs. August Klinge, having induced
them to write to each other. Finally
Kreiter went to Topeka and they be-
came engaged. Shortly after Kreiter
became angry because she accepted
attentions from other men on trip
to Carbondale and they quarreled and
the engagement was broken off. After
he returned to Quincyville, she wrote
to him and apologized and the engage
ment was renewed.
She told her story Of the killing OF
kreiter, the same story she told Sher.
| iff Shaffer last March, claiming they
quarreled and Kreiter threw her on tc
the floor, "bloodied' her nose an6
choked her and then started for hi,
revolver. She said she tried to es.
cape, but the door was locked. Ther
she ran to the kitchen cabinet and as
Kreiter, failing to find his revolver
rushed towards here with an oper
jackknife, she seized the butcher knit,
and as he grabbed her thrust it int
his back
The girl maintained the same de
meanor that has characterized her ac
tions even since the death of her hus
band and told her story of the killing
unconcernedly.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
SHOWING UNCLE HOW.

A New England farmer had the
grinding thrift which led him to con-
vert everything into cash, putting all
surplus into sayings-bank at three
or four per cent interest, and to run
into debt for what he bought.
The longer he could let debt run,
the more he considered that he was
ahead, not realizing that this limited
his field of purchase for supplies and
machinery, and that the people who
carried him on long credit had to pro-
tect themselves by charging interest
for the accommodation.
One winter nephew came east to
visit him-a boy who had gone to Ore
gon with little money and developed
fine fruit farm, chiefly on borrowed
capital. This wide-awake boy had also
learned mercantile methods in market
ing fruit for his local association.
The uncle had always been mixed
farmer of the old school, raising a
little of everything, selling without
much study of different markets and
running his place with the least out
lay. By spring, however, his nephew
had converted him into specialist.
He showed the old gentleman that his
soil, coupled with demand in nearby
markets, would make potatoes very
profitable crop. Production had al
most stopped in that locality on ac-
count of potato diseases. By invest
ing some Of his savings in fertilizers,
modern spraying and digging machin-
cry, experimenting with the most suit
able varieties, and combating disease
by the most up-to-date methods Of
soaking seed in fungicides, uncle could
not only earn several times bank in
terest on his hoard, but tighten and
simplify his work and improve his
land. Uncle took this advice, bought
manure -spreader for Christmas
present to himself, and set man
hauling manure from stables in the
nearest town.
His crop the following fall netted
him more than he had ever cleared on
any previous summers work. In three
years he was raising an average Of
more than two hundred bushels Of po-
tatoes to the acre, had built up q
good business selling direct to large
consumers in his own locality, and
today has storage facilities for hold
ing his crop until prices advance, the
difference paying better than bank
interest on his whole farm.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
NO BEAUTY SHOW.

The late humorist OF the house of
representatives, Francis W. Cushman
of Washington, who died last sum-
mer, was in one Of the house elevators
a years or two ago, in company with
man he did not know.
"Where are you from?" Cushman
asked.
"Oh, I'm from Washington state. u
ais that so? Know any of the con-
gressmen from that state? 7"
"Oh, yes, know them all"
"Know Cushman?"
"Sure / do know him well. He's
an old pal of mine"
"Well," said Cushman, "they tell
me Cushman is the homeliest man in
congress. Say, friend, is he any home
lier than I ann"
The stranger took long look
HE'LL" he said "Cushman's got you
skinned mile"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
REALISTIC.

John II. Raftery, now of Helena,
Montana, was star reporter on a Chi
cago paper when the last national en-
campment of the G. A. r. was held
in that city.
"Raftery," said the city editor, al
want you to do column introduction
for the big parade story today II
will be corking parade, but do try
to get away from the old, stereotyped
boys-in-blue, fast-thinning-ranks, fad.
ed-battle-flags stuff. Give us some
thing lively and new. Get a new an.
gle on it and have your copy in al
six"
Raftery went out. He took long
look at the parade. He saw that most
of the veterans wore new shoes and
he came back and wrote his column
which began: Heavens, how theii
feet hurtp
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02

ship to England, and the English gov
ernment in turn restored her to
Lloyds. Since that time the famous
underwriters have made FIVE attempts
to bring the Lutine's gold to the sur
face. All told, one hundred and nine
ty-eight metal bars and some twelve
thousand coins, aggregating about
100000 pounds sterling, have been
painfully recovered by divers.
Digging in the sand which had
drifted into the Lutine's hull has prov
ed so expensive an undertaking that
Lloyds decided to carry on the work
by mechanical means. An American
engineer, Simon Lake, was engaged to
devise a treasure-Gigging machine for
the purpose. His invention consists
Of kind of a tube which swings from
n steamers hull and which carries at
its outer end diving bell. The tube
and the diving-bcll are sunk by water.
and raised by pumping out the water,
and also by means Of special hoist
ing and lowering mechanism. Divers
can step out of this bell and return
again without causing an thrush of
water, simply because the bell is
charged with air at such high pres
sure that the water is always forced
away. The divers are not supposed
to perform any labor beyond explor-
gal pumps will suck up the sand at the
rate of forty thousand tons in TWEEN
ty-four hours, so that, in a short time,
the treasure will probably be uncov-
cred, and Lloyds will have no reason
to regret that the Lutine was in
sure to the last belaying-pin on her
deck.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02

SUFFRAGE

Western Press.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. L.
Woman suffrage was indorsed today
by the national W. c. T. U. convention
in the following language: because
it is just and believing that the best
interests of humanity will be con-
served and advanced by the ballot for
women, we pledge ourselves to work
for their enfranchisement on equal
terms with men,"
Other resolutions which touch upon
total abstinence, prohibition, purity,
peace and legislation were also adopt
Cd.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
THE MANX QUARTET.

Durango is preparing a big enter
tainment to take place under the aus
piccs of the Elks, dated so as to inter-
cept our Manx quartet as they go to
Dover to sing at the auditorium at
the coming apple show next month
This quartet is becoming known over
goodly portion of the state, and are
easily the best Colorado affords. The
Durangoites are to be congratulated
in advance for the genuine pleasure
that awaits them.--Montezuma Jour
nal.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
AS ADV ERTISED.

A Snowman once advertised outside
his tent the following notice:
"Come and see the musical dog.
Admission 3D."
A good many people, attracted by
the title, paid the sum required, and
entered the tent, where big dog,
wearing huge metal collar, was
crouching in corner.
After waiting while the audience
called for the Snowman, and asked
that the performance might begin.
The Snowman simulated surprise at
their request, and exclaimed, as he
edged toward the door: "Why, there's
the musical dog painting toward the
mastiff. Cant you see the brass
band round his neck ?"-Ideas.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-11-02
SOCIALISM
TRUMP
Yesterdays Primaries al
los Angeles Result in
Election Of Hartman
Western Press.

Western Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. Socialism
showed remarkable strength in the
municipal primary held yesterday,
and as a result Job b. Hartman, the
candidate ON the Socialist ticket, will
contest with George Alexander, Re-
publican, backed by the Good Govern
ment league, for the position of mayor
of Los Angeles for the next Two years
Practically complete returns give
Hartman 1900, Alexander, the pres
cnt mayor, 1880, and William c.
Mushet 1000.
With the probable exception of City
Attorney John w. Shenk, the good
government candidate for reelection
who polled an apparent majority
over all opponents, the primary re-
suited in no election.
This is the first non-partisan nomi-
mating election ever held here, and
proved only an elimination contest Ia
reduce the ticket of ninety-nine can
didates to twenty for the final strug-
Gle over the question whether or not
Los Angeles shall have Socialist
city administration during the next
two years.