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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
TO PREVENT HAIL.
Instruments Are Being Tried Out in
France to Sion Fierce Storms.

Instruments Are Being Tried Out in
France to Stop Fierce Storms.
Because the amount of damage to
vineyards and other property in
France by hail and lightning is from
$20,OO0,OOO to $30.00O.00O per an
nun the government, through spe-
cial commission of senators and dep
uties, is studying the process of 2
new invention for the prevention of
hail.
The French savants have long held
the belief that electricity is largely
responsible for the formation and
precipitation of hail, so the new de-
vice is in line with this opinion. II
is in general a rod of copper, about
100 feet high, terminating at the top
in a crown or aigrette of copper
blades. The base ends in a large pool
of water, preferably flowing water
Church steeples, factory chimneys or
specially built structures may be util-
lied to obtain sufficient elevation, but
great care is necessary in fulfilling
all requirements for conductivity.
The present plan is to erect rods at
intervals of about six miles along a
line transverse to the usual path OF
hailstorms, and encouraging results
have already been obtained.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
WOMEN IRE SUPERIOR TO MEN?
well, Rather" Says Vienna High
Brow, Who Knows What He SAYS.

After 20 years spent in expert
menting on the relative capacity of
males and females DR.. Jonas Misch-
Ter, scientist of Vienna and the au-
thor of many works on anthropology,
has come to the conclusion that ma
ture intended woman to be superior
to man.
Mischlers experiments with ami
mails show that the female is superior
to the male in acuteness of observa-
lions, in memory, in quick reaction
to stimuli and in acuteness and deli
cacy of most of the senses. These are
the things which count as mind, ;"
brain" and capacity in any COM
parison of merit.
Without observation and memory
there could be no progress says the
Viennese. 1T is the superiority here
which raises man above the animals
Also real physical superiority does
not lie in strength-a lion is strong
er than a man-but in the sharpness
of the senses. Woman is better
equipped with senses than man, and
therefore she is physically superior. ;"
Dr. Mischler reports that he made
many experiments to test the relative
powers of observation and concentra-
ton and the quickness of response of
males and females, both human and
animal, and in all the male is infe-
rior. The male is less ingenious and
resourceful.
"Womans emotionalism also proves
her superiority, not her inferiority.
The higher the animal the more emo
tional it is" he says.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
MIGHTY ARMADA ASSEMBLIES
Great Fleet of One Hundred and .Twenty-Three Yes
sells Is Modified at New York During This Week.

NEW YORK.-New York city has
donned it's gala attire in honor OF the
mighty armada of fighting vessels
which will be modified at this port
from October to Is. There are l23
vessels anchored in the Hudson from
Twenty-third street up as far as they
go. which is well beyond Spuyten
Duyvil. The total tonnage of the
feet is enormous. Including all the
vessels it comes to 741,59 tons
There are 81 first-class battleshlps,
armored cruisers, 4 cruisers, ~
special type vessels, 6 naval militia
vessels. s fuel ships, "a destroyers,
16 torpedo boats and 10 submarines
A foretaste of the event was pro-
yided last Sunday by the arrival OF
the historic. battle-scarred Baltimore,
followed shortly afterward by the
battelships Wisconsin and Illinois,
and a fleet of mosquito craft. the
old cruiser Baltimore was in the
thickest of the fight on that memora-
battleships Wisconsin and illinois,
Rear Admiral Osterhaus, COM
mander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet,
reached here on Sunday, on board
his flagship, the Connecticut, and ac-
companied by 10 battleships. The
reserve feet with auxiliaries will ar
rive on Thursday, october 10. The
number of men who will come to New
York with the fleets amounts to near
10000, of which about 1000 are
commissioned officers, 300 warrant
officers and $4,000 enlisted men in
the regular army.
New York city has made great
preparations to entertain the visiting
crews of the greatest feet ever mo-
bilized. Shore leave will be granted
to more than 1900 men Thursday
and to the remainder on the follow
ing day. Receptions, official calls
dinners and smokers. will mark the
whole period of the stay. Presiden
Taft will reach New York on Monday
october IA, and on the following da!
he and the Secretary of the Navy vii
take a position off the Statute 0
Liberty and review the powerful anC
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
bundle amounting to $4,000 arrears.
The Empty Sleeve.

Most remarkable in it's way, how
alleged to have taken place 80 or 40
years ago.
Not long after the close of the civil
war three brothers named McGind-
ley built up a large and profitable
business in supplying bogus widows
ever, was the case of a man who,
fraudulently personating a soldier,
got a pension of S36 month for
lost arm. He bribed the surgeon who
examined him and wore an empty
sleeve. Later on he got Senator
Blair to procure for him q clerkship
in the pension bureau, where he
served 10 years up to the time of his
death. When his body lay in its
coffin TWO arms were crossed over
his breast-the undertaken had
found one arm tied behind him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

The following deliverance was
made in Sundays Constitution in ref
erence to liquor-drinking policemen.
The friends of law and order will be
gratified at these outspoken words in
the editorial columns of a paper
which has opposed prohibition since
the death of Henry Grady The Con-
stitution is largely supported by men
who are opposed to liquor drinking,
and yet the paper has fought all leg
isIation looking to the deliverance or
Georgia from the legal sale of liquor.
If 1.-The time has come now to cut
every liquor drinker off the force
will not the Constitution help to rid
the state of the near beer saloon and
every other place where policemen
and others can buy liquor? We quote
the editorial, which reads as though
Henry Grady were again in the edl-
torial chair:
"a Human Temperance Sermon.
Zone Atlanta policeman killed an
other yesterday-the two, room
mates and close friends, being Off
duty at the time.
"Whiskey was at the bottom of the
trouble!
(Which leads the Constitution to
say that no man addicted to the use
of whiskey has any business on the
police force, and the police commits
sioners can do no better thing than
to make this a strict regulation and
then strictly enforce it.
THE man who officially handles
gun has no right to mix liquor with
it, and if there are those on the force
who cannot separate the two then
others who can do so should be put
in their places.
This killing, with whiskey no
doubt as the cause, will give the
newspapers the country over a sup
elemental text to the sermons they
have been preaching on the death
of Bugs" Raymond, the one-time
idol of the baseball world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
10000 VOICES.
And Many Are the Voices of Dawson
People.

And Many Are the Voices of Dawson
People.
Thirty thousand voices! What a
grand chorus And that's what the
number of American men and women
who are publicly pralsing Doan's
Kidney Pills for relief from back
ache, kidney and bladder ills. They
say it to their friends. They tell 1t
in the home paper. Dawson people
are in this chorus Here's Dawson
case.
Miss Lilly Allen, $50 College Ave,
Dawson. Ca, says: Judging from
my experience with Doan's Kidney
Pills and knowing their beneficial ef-
feet on another member of our
household who used them / am glad
to give this statement. They did
me world of good when ! was sut-
fering from lameness and soreness
through my back and best of all the
trouble has not returned. We con-
slider Doan's Kidney Pills by far the
best kidney medicine to be had"
For ale by all dealers. Price ou
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
For Year s Support.

Georgia, Terrell County.-To All
Whom 1t May Concern: Notice is
hereby given that the appraisers ap-
pointed to set apart and assign a
years support to Mrs Sarah A.
Campbell, the widow of A. B. Camp
bell deceased, have filed their award,
and unless good and sufficient cause
is shown the same will be made the
Judgment of the court at November
term, 1912, of the Court of Ordinary.
This September %, 1912.
w. B. CHEATHAM, Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
For Administration.

Georgia, Terrell County-To All
Whom 1t May Concern: G. c,
Anthony having in proper form ap-
piled to me for letters of administra-
ton on the estate of j A. Joiner, late
of said county, this is to cite all and
singular the creditors and next of kin
of J. A. Joiner to be and appear at
my Office within the time allowed by
law and show cause, if any they can,
why permanent administration
should not be granted to G. c. An
thony on J. A. Joiners estate. Wit
ness my hand and official signature
this End day of September, 1912.
w. B. CHEATHAM, Ordinary
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
TAX DAY FOR MILLIONAIRES
Personal Assessments of Some of
New Works Wealthy Personages.

BefSOnal Assessments OF some Oh
New YOrk's Wealthy PersOnages.
There is one day in the year when
ordinary folks are glad they are not
worth millions, and that is the day
they have to go around and pay their
taxes. For instance, what would plain
John Smith say if on his personal
property alone he was assessed on
$40, 100000 as Andrew Carnegie is?
Mr.. Carnegie pays the highest tax
on personal property of any of the
neighborhood millionaires who live
on upper Fifth avenue. John D.
Rockefeller is assessed on $5,O00,-
900 worth of personal belongings,
and Mrs. Russell Sage on $2,500,0O0.
Col Oliver H. Payne, with 100000,
comes ahead of J. Pierpont Morgan,
who is accused of owning only $780,
900 worth of personal property, Mrs.
John Jacob AstOr, whose husband
went down in the Titanic, is assessed
only $250,000, the amount left to
her in the will. None of the Van
derbilts are subject to personal taxa
ton in New York. Mrs Sage is ap-
parently poorer than last year, when
her personal property assessment was
$40, 100000, and so is Morgan, who
last year paid on 100000, but no
fear is expressed that either will be-
come a charge on the poormaster
this year or next incidentally it
may be remarked that the tentative
assessments in the borough of Man
haitian are $117,761,1O9 higher for
1913 than for the current year, the
total now reaching the sizeable fig
ure of $4,S75, 1922, and in Brook
Ign the relative rise is still greater
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
French Market
Coffee Unlike
All Others

The smooth. exhilarating
quality of French Market
Coffee is totally unlike ordi-
nary coffees.
The French Market Mills
have the great advantage of
the first selection of the best
of the Pan-American coffees.
These fine &C fife e S have
never been exposed to the in
furious effects of a cold north
ern climate. The berries are
rich in everything that goes
to make a perfect coffee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
,,qss OF MARRYING OLD
D'9 n,rRS HIGHLY ORGANIZED.
mprcK IN WIDOW TRADE.

,..or1rNGTON.-The new pen
- while adding considerably
SOL lumber of veterans on the roll
" -, ongmenting by a total OF $Sos-
anu ano ooo the annual stipends Of old
WV iorors has markedly stimulated
p'rs r,idow market. The chief attrac-
~ ,s Of the veterans, apparently
, ,.om the viewpoint of the young wo-
w. who are constantly marrying
I l'- Is the widows pension which
~ bo theirs for life after the old
VIZ ,l,ors have departed from this old
world.
..ts mt it may be mentioned that
,0tbor s, Damon died at Plymouth
-,1,or W.. November IL, 1906, aged
40 She was the last surviving wild
~ soldier who fought in the
.,olntion. and she was still drawing
oonsion for her husbands services
IN that conflict a century and a quar-
.ar after it came to an end. 1t is es-
t!a,oted that there will be at least
6O0 civil war widows alive and on
~ t,oV tension roll in 1888, and quite a
.n l.nbor of these will survive the be-
inning of the 21st century. Which
sont will be more easily understood
- uSen if is realized that at least a
soT Of the destined civil war widows
are not yet born.
The government exercises remark
able Iberality in its treatment OF
1idows. For instance, there is one
,roman now on the pension roll who
hos had three husbands, the first of
them soldier in the civil war.
Toitber the second husband nor the
third was soldier. But, having lost
Moth of these, she is enabled under
The law to draw a regular stipend
as the widow of her first husband.
Snotber case is that of half-breed
indian woman in North Dakota, who
killed her husband and who gets a
pension as his relict. He was drunk
and she slew him in self-defense, so
she was held to be JuStined.
Equally remarkable in it's way is
the well-knoWn Roscommon case in
which woman married two old SOL
djers successfully, being divorced
from the first. Having secured a
pension as the widow of the second
she went back to live with the first
husband without the formality of
marriage. He also was pensioner
and consequently this couple draws
two pensions.
Ii is understood, of course, that
when 4 widow marries again she los
es her pension. Nevertheless it is
undoubtedly a fact that thousands
of pensioned widows in this country
are married again secretly, thus per-
petrating a fraud which has to be
backed up by false oath every quar-
ter
Fictitious Widows.
The manufacture of fictitious wild
ows has been for many years a prof
liable industry. Dishonest attorneys
and claim agents have made bust
ness of studying the records of ma
tional cemeteries, finding out the
names and services of the men bur-
lad and annIOviDor yunmoO ia ranrp-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

impressive fleet as it leaves the har-
Dor.
The mayors committee contem-
plates the expenditure Of about $50
900 during the mobilization and if
the men of the fleet do not have a
good time it will be only because
they have lost the knack of enjoying
themselves
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Perfect Process of
Roasting and
Packing

The celebrated French Mar
ket Coffee process is quite diff
ferent from the ordinary roast.
1t drives out a larger percent
age of gums and oils, while re-
tanning and intensifying all
the aromatic and beneficial
qualities of the coffee bean.
The grinding is done at ex-
aG'y the right time to hold
'ne tull, delicious flavor that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Unique HYGIENE
Roasting Process

and genuine old French Mar
ket Coffee is packed in air
tight, hermetically-sealed tins
and delivered anywhere in
the world in all its freshness
and delicious aroma.
In the South, especially,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

]. w. Copeland of Layton, Ohio,
purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for his boy who had
a cold, and before the bottle was
all used the boys cold was gone. Is
that not better than to pay five
dollar doctors bill? For sale by
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

NVEN when French Mar
ket Coffee could be had
nowhere but at the old
French Market in New Or
leans-a hundred years ago
it was widely known.
Andrew Jackson, Henry
Clay and the ga1lants of the
old South were enthusiastic
lovers of this rare old French
coffee. Today the identical,
historic French blend is per-
petuated by a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Cropping.

"What is Miss Hammerah trying
to play on the pianos"
" In the Shadow.
''T thought she seemed to be hay
ing some difficulty in finding the right
keys"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
U. S. COD FISHERS GO FAR
THEIR SHIPS OBLIGED TO SEEK
WATERS OFF WEST ALASKA.
For Six Months They Work as Long
as There Is Light TO Haul i'm
Their Daily Catch.


Their Daily Catch.
SEATTLE, Wash -Of the. bleak
shores of western Alaska the world is
now drawing on it's last and greatest
store Of Goldfish. Branches of all the
large eastern codfshing packing
plants are now established on Puget
sound. The supplies come from the
shores of Alaska, 1000 miles west
ward from the Strait of Juan de
Fuca.
Over one hundred cod fishing boats
are now on the fishing banks, each
manned with its complement of do
ries, men and appliances for cleaning
and sailing away the catch. OF these
ships some sixty once claimed Glou-
cester, Mass, their home port
For six months the codfishers will
work as long as there is light to haul
into their dories their daily eaten.
The men are paid an average of ten
cents per fish, and a usual days worK
is from $50 to $50 fish, weighing
from three to fifteen pounds. Each
ship carries eight dories with five
men to dory.
Each morning the fish are piled up
on the deck of the ship, where they
are cleaned and then sailed away in
the hold, one pound of salt to four
pounds of fish.
The men earn from $40 to $50 per
day. Prizes are given to the fisher
who makes the largest catch during a
season. Last season the champion
caught 14,300 Goldfish. Anacortes,
Wash, in mid-Puget sound, is the
Pacific home of the worlds largest
codfishing fleet. The codfishing pay
roll is $1,200,000 annually.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Fiench NarkdCoffee

has always been such a fea-
ture of French Market Coffee.
The market-m OF the
French Market think nothing
of drinking 10 to IS cups a day
of this de1iciously aromatic
and refreshing beverage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
9[NsI0N FRAUDS At EXPENSE OF GOVERNMENT

sent themselves as their widows III
is not an easy thing for the govern
ment to disprove a marriage that is
at Quincy III. They manufactured
widows for dead bachelor soldiers,
employed women to personate them,
executed the vouchers themselves
and forged the endorsements on the
pension checks. Even the seal of the
court was forged. The eldest of the
brothers, James H., looked like Hor-
ace Greeley, and his benevolent coun-
tenance was a great help in the en-
terprise.
A curious case illustrating the lax
ity of government methods was that
of Jane Hill, a negress, who in 1898
applied for a pension as the widow
of Edward Hill, formerly of the
Fourteenth Colored Heavy Artillery
The sum of $4,000 was allowed her
in arrears. But at just that time
Edward Hill himself sent i'll an ap-
plication for a pension, being very
much alive, and James money was
held up. Did this little circumstance
prevent her from getting it? 1t did
not Congress at this very juncture
passed a bill forbidding the bureau
to hold up payment in suspected cas-
es, and the cash was handed over to
Jane
A Fateful Pension.
A less successful fraud, where a
real widow of a soldier was the vic
tim, was operated by a man who kept
store in an Indiana town. Learn
ing that a woman in the local aims
house was expecting a check for
81, 200 from the pension bureau he
persuaded her to come and live with
him to take care of his mother. When
the check arrived he intercepted it,
forged the endorsement and put the
money in his pocket. Meanwhile,
however, the pensioner was making
a great TODD about the non-receipt
of the cash to which she was entitled.
Exposure impended, and the man, as
the best means of settling the whole
problem, set fire to his house after
himself swallowing a fatal dose of
paris green, and burned his mother
and the widow up.
In no way very extraordinary was
the case of Francois Delair, French
Canadian, who crossed the border for
the sake of the bounty and enlisted
as private in the Eighteenth Illinois
Volunteers. Most of his after life was
spent in Montreal as a blind beggar.
At 80 years of age, only four days
before his death. he married wo-
man of bad repute. She applied for
pension as his widow and received
$12,648 arrears.
On the pension roll today is a
negress calling herself Hannah Tur-
ner. Before the war, on planta-
ton in Mississippi, she was acquaint-
ed with a colored man named Dave
Turner, who enlisted in the union
army just before the fall of Vicks-
burg. and died a few months later
of pneumonia 1t was not until 30
years had passed by that Hannah,
who had long been known as the
wife of a man named Johnson, sud
denly recalled the fact that she had
been married to Turner. The preach
err alleged to have Joined them in
wedlock was dead, but her sister and
friend swore that they had been
present at the ceremony; and sis
ter, in explanation of the Johnson
marriage, declared that it was Just
Joke The claim was allowed,
and Hannah, pensioned as the wild
ow of Dave, drew down a neat little
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
French Market Coffee
Is the National Drink
of the South

so great is the demand for
French Market Coffee that it
has become THE National
Drink of the South"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
A SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
CONTRIBUTED BY DAWSON CHAPTER w. C. II. U.

Raymond was only a baseball
player. But on the diamond, as in
the more serious aVocations of life,
steady nerves and a clear brain are
today the chief factors commanding
success. A few years ago the base
ball hero could booze to his heart S
content, as the statesmen and mem
bers of perhaps the majority of the
professions were excused II they
drank not wisely but too well.
"a radical change has come over
our national standards, not only as
concerns the athlete, but equally the
man in every walk of life. The
steady drinker is tabooed. The rail-
roads, who first felt the toll he took,
probably led off in the war against
him. Later the embargo extended
into practically every line of business
in America. Our prohibition and
temperance friends helped, it is like
ly, with their fervent appeals and
their white or blue ribbon parades
leading up to the ballot box.
''The time has come now to cut
every whiskey drinker off the police
force" Wesleyan Christian Advo-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Prohibition and Insanity.

Judge John R. Wilkinson, ordinary
of Fulton county, in remarking on
the number of cases of insanity
brought before him says he believes
prohibition is the cause of the mark
ed decrease since 1907 He points
out that in the last year of the open
saloon in this state 104 persons were
adjudged insane by his court. In
1908 the number fell to 81; in 1903
to so. The number this year will
be about so.
The opinion of the ordinary is in
teresting and doubtless correct.
Only the other day DR.. Albert War
rem Ferris, chairman of the New York
Iunacy commission, made the formal
report that 26.9 per cent of all the
lunacy in the hospitals and SANTA
RUINS of his state is due to whiskey
and other alcoholic drinks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

T. H. Henderson of the undertake
ing firm of Henderson Brothers went
to Cobbtown last night and prepared
the body for burial The husband of
the dead woman, John O'Hara, and
his brother came to Savannah and
picked out an expensive shroud and
casket.
Today the body will be shipped to
an Atlanta undertaking firm and will
be placed by them in a receiving
vault. On April 1, 1913, the body
will be removed and be given inter-
ment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Fictitious Widows.

The manufacture of fictitious wild
ows has been for many years a prof
table industry. Dishonest attorneys
and claim agents have made a bust
ness of studying the records of ma
tional cemeteries, finding out the
names and services of the men bur-
led and employing women to repre-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

At Your Grocer's-
in Alright Tins
But you must be sure to
get the genuine with the pic
ture of the French Market on
the can.
Try it once, and you'll
agree There is only one real
old French Market flavor.
French Market Mills
New Orleans Coffee Co., Ltd.
Proprietary
New Orleans