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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

woman has actually a right superior
to the right of man in choosing a
mate. DR.. Cooke points out that far
more women than men are being
graduated from the high schools.
He takes that as a measure of their
relative mental training. If the av-
erage woman is better educated than
the average man, says DR.. Cooke,
then 1t must follow that she is the
best qualified to plan for the future.
Shyness, he says. is not a natural
attribute, but is the result of ages
OF teaching and suppression. 1t is
not immodest, to his mind, that the
woman should take the initiative
when she finds her ideal.
Without knowing anything about
DR.. Cooke it may be Judged that he
is a bachelor with only a limited
knowledge of the ways of women.
why, from a time beyond which
memory runneth not to the contrary
women have been making the choice
IN marriage, but doing it so deity
that the men i'm the case foolishIy i'm
agine that they were the whole thing.
1t has fiattered the vanity of the
men to let them think they were run
ming the courtship in their own way,
while as matter of fact the women
have known all along who it was
that was doing the directing.
The Boston lecturer does not need
to tell the girls of the period any
thing of their privileges as relates to
the preliminaries of matrimony. They
know them well enough.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
MYSTERY BATTLES COPS
STRANGE MESSAGE BY TELE-
PHONE TO LOOK FOR BODY,
BEHIND HEDGE.

Atlanta Business Man Remains I'm
conscious, and There Is No Clue
as to the Cause of the Assault or
Who Did 1t.
ATLANTA, GA deep mystery
is battling the police, physicians and
detectives here in connection with
the supposed robbery of Neal Nc
Guire, who was picked up for dead
behind a hedge near the Sacred
Heart church week or two ago. and
who lies in critical condition in
local hospital.
1t has turned out that Mcclure
wasn't robbed at all. The fact has
been made public that S65 was
found in the pockets of McGuires
coat, that nothing had been taken.
and that the robbery theory has been
abandoned by the police from the
first. The whole affair has been SO
strange and so complicated that the
police have been loath to let all they
KNOW become public.
Not only has the robbery theory
been abandoned, but it is stated by
the physicians at the hospital that
while Mcclure has all the symptoms
OF conclusion of the brain there is
no external evidence of a blow suffi-
GENTLY hard to have caused such con-
cussion.
Along with the rest of the mystery
comes the manner in which the I'M
conscious boy was found. 1t was
supposed that some one stumbled
on him by accident But the police
admit that at IL o'clock on the night
of the affair a strange voice called
over the telephone to police head
quarters, asked for the desk sergeant
and said:
Send two men to the hedge by
the Sacred Heart church. Let them
look behind it and they will find
what they will find
Before the sergeant could utter
single word the phone at the other
end of the line was hung up and it
hasn't yet been discovered whose the
voice was.
Mcclure continues so delirious
that nothing definite can be learned
from him. The doctors find 1t inn
possible to distinguish what halluci-
nations he has and what is real
record of his experiences that night.
Sometimes he begs somebody in his
delirium not to shoot; at other times
he speaks Of directing somebody to
the Sacred Heart church
1t has never been learned what
Mcguire was doing at all in that
part Of town at the hour he must
have gone there. He had an import
ant business engagement in another
part of the city, which he couldn't
have reached from his home by go
ing down Ivy street, where the sup
posed knockout occurred. Mcclure
is popular in social and business cir
cles. So far as is known he has no
enemies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
FIFTY DEAD; OTHERS DYING.

Many Persons Poisoned as Result of
Eating Spoiled Smoked Herring.
Berlin.-F'ifty inmates of the Ber-
lin municipal shelter for the home
less died last night from poisoning.
Others ale dying from the same
cause today. Over 1000 men took
refuge in the institution yesternight.
Some brought scraps of extra food
in many cases of spoiled
smoked herring. This is assigned as
the reason for the numerous fataf-
ties.
Many of those who have been
stricken, it is said, have been vic
TINS of suggestion. They display the
critical symptoms but on examina-
ton prove not to have been poison
ed. The police Investigating the
thus far have developed
little.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
1000 FED BY BIG TIM !"
WAS NO WHITE CHRISTMAS RITZ
CHARITY MADE GOOD.
In New York Dinners Were Provided
For the Poor, and Great Army
of Hungry Were Filled.

NEW YORK.-There was no snow
to make it a white Christmas in New
York this year, but bright sun and
clear sky with air almost autumn
like made the holiday cheerful. If
There were dark places which the
bright weather failed to reach the
hand of charity did and with more
thoroughness, it is said, than ever
before. Both the Salvation Army
and Volunteers of America provided
dinners for thousands.
1t was estimated that 1000 men
shared in the annual feast which
State Senator Big Tim" Sullivan
gives. The Bowery Mission also
gave breakfast to more than thous-
and hungry men in the borough of
Brooklyn. "a Red Stocking Conn
mitttee, organized ito see that every
child received well-defined Christ
mas stocking, practically realized
itsideal by the distribution of 5000
red stockings estimated to be worth
about 1915 apiece.
The churches began with Christ
mas services in the early morning
hours and kept up their carols and
masses all day At all of the masses
in st. Patrick's Cathedral a cable
gram was read bestowing the bless
ings of Cardinal Farley upon his con-
gregation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

Expenditure of 81 ,OOO,OOO CauseS
Uncle Joe Cannon to Want to
Know Cost Per Capita of Catching
These Plague Distributors.
WASHINGTON.-Up at the Unit
ed States treasury there is short,
stout young man who is rapidly los
ing the little hair he has left in an
effort to make certain calculations
which are demanded of him by "Un-
.ele Joe" Cannon. This embryo
statesman is none other than the
once jovial Robert o. Bailey, as
ssistant secretary of the treasury,
who is no kin to the senator from
Texas, by the way.
With the guilelessness of youth
.Mr. Bailey recently appeared before
Ia committee of congress to enlighten
Hts members on the methods and cost
1 of eradicating the bubonic plague.
Bailey confidently asserted that, fol-
lowing Rupert Blues discovery that
Squirrels carry the plague and were
aided and abetted in their diabolical
Undertaking by fleas, which infeGt
SQUIRRELS, dogs and men with equal
Simpartiality, it was costing the gov
eminent something like $4,000 a
month to track the squirrel to his
lair and the flea to his burrow and
exterminate them. How much is it
hosting you per squirrel and per
sffea?" demanded "Uncle joe" Mr.
Bailey looked perplexed and finally
responded that million dollars had
ss9en expended and that over 1000
Nsluirrels infected with the feas had
( ben discovered.
4 Mr.. Cannon wanted to know if
vid Harum's comment that "some
as are good for a dog because it
Reps him from brooding on being
I Elog" did not apply equally to the
irrel. Mr.. Bailey thought that
yht be true of healthy feas, but he
kKubted it in the case of feas whose
lie insides were torn with the ago
IS of bubonic plague. Mr.. Cannon
wanted to know on what authority
Mr.. Bailey averred such things of
the little insides of the feas found
son these 10 900 squirrels, and Mr..
alley promptly answered that it
Twas on the authority of the Marine
/ Hospital Service Then "Unc1e Joe"
declared that congress could not be
Expected to appropriate money in
this haphazard way, and instructed
Mr. Bailey to return to his depart
3ment and prepare careful calcula-
ition showing the per capita cost to
the government of catching the
squirrels and identifying and incar-
Icerating the guilty fieas. And poor
Bailey is at it still
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
SLEEPER SERVICE EXTENDED.

CentraI's Pullman Goes to Montgom-
cry Instead of Stopping at EufauIa.
Beginning Thursday the Central s
Pullman sleeping car on the morn
ing train from Atlanta, which is due
at Eufaula at 500, will be taken on
through to Montgomery instead of
being taken off here, as has been the
custom since this service was INSTALL
ed several months ago. The sleeper
will be brought through from Mont
gomery also instead of being attach
ed here to the evening train arriving
from Montgomery Eufaula Times
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
JUST -FOUR SHORT YEARS B0Dy NJ ,IOYN PAIT ,IoVFs
REMAINS OF NAVAL HERO DISIN-
TERED AFTER 100 YEARS.
Doubt Has Arisen as to Authenticity
OF Body DisinterPed at Paris and
Brought to America.


Brought to America.
Doubt was sure ito creep out in
some quarter as to the authenticity
of the body disinterred in an old
Paris cemetery as that of John Paul
Jones and subsequently brought
across the ocean and reinterred at
Annapolis with naval honors. The
question is now formally raised by
a Philadelphia authority on Ameri-
can portraiture.
The greater show of sceptical zeal
than of convincing facts in the argu-
ment will doubtless not disturb the
general conviction that the remains
in question are those of the coun-
try's old-time sea hero. Gouverneur
Norris, who was American minister
to France when John Paul Jones
died, wrote in his diary that he had
buried him in a private and eco
nomical manner" AS events proved
he was buried so securely as we'll
that after a century it required
search of am extraordinarily careful
and persistent nature by General
Horace Porter to locate the grave in
the old Protestant cemetery in Paris
which had long before been given
over to building sites. That the body
found there we'll nresprved in alcO-
hol in a Ieaden coffin may not be the
body of Jones is possible. But the
strongest circumstantial evidence
supports the opinion that it is, and
the measurements of the skull and
of the Houdon busts show a cores
pondence that lends scientific confir-
NATION to the belief
The verdict of the French anthro-
biological experts on which the identi-
fication of the body was based will
be accepted by most people as con-
elusive. But the controversy now
begun will probably never be entire
ly stilled. Like the question of what
really became of CromweH's head
and what was the ultimate fate of
Thomas Paine's bones after Corbett
dug them up and removed them to
England it will continue to be re-
vived in the centuries to come
New York World.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
CANNED BY CUPID
HE DIED WEALTHY

CHICAGo,-George Bonnet,
Chicago's oldest 'newsboy," died
wealthy because the one ro-
nance of his life ended So years
ago, when he was poor.
Bonnett's death came a few
days ago at the age of 70 years,
and after he had accumulated a
fortune of more than 100000 by
selling newspapers.
A love affair at Wooster. Ohio.
three and a half decades ago,
caused him to abandon that town
the day after his sweetheart's
father had told her she could not
marry poor man like Bennett
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
IN TEN YEARS WILL BE NO CHRIST
MAS TURKEYS IN UNITED STATES

Observation-Disclosures some
thing is done to rehabilitate turkey
growing there will be no such thing
as Christmas or Thanksgiving tur-
keys in the United States within ten
years.
The census bureau has issued a
bulletin showing that in 1910 there
were only 3,668,7O8 turkeys on the
farms in this country, while in 1909
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
NEW WARDEN IN CALHOUN.

Commissioners Elect j. p. Reeves to
Succeed w. II. c. Cunningham.
At a meeting of the county COM
missioners in Morgan Saturday a
lew convict warden was elected to
look after the work Of making good
sjads in Calhoun county.
Several applications for the posi-
ON were before the body, but they
scided upon the election Of j. P.
lteeves of Williamsburg to succeed
sN. H. G. Cunningham, the present
warden. Edison News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

ABEL, Ga.-When the three sons
d three daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
, w. Parrish raised their napkins at
Christmas dinner here yesterday
we're surprised at the glistening
iow gold that was revealed. One
4. sand dollars lay under the plate
seh. and the message expressed
Rcy John S. Lindsey was
e. hoed because Of the gifts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

there were 6,594,O95. At this rate
the turkeys will be in the dodo class
by 1920. There was also a reduc-
tion of about so per cent in ducks
during the ten years, and the num-
Der of geese dropped considerably.
Chickens increased, however. the to-
tai for the country going from 233-
566,O21 in 1900 to 28O,345,132
1910.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
6OOO nv GOLD UNDER PLATES HELPED
TO MAKE HAPPY CHRISTMAS DINNER

Mr.. Parrish is a prosperous plant
er and real estate dealer of this Sec
ton, and his gifts were merely fol-
lowing out his idea of giving to his
children while he and his wife can
have their appreciation while alive
Their children are S. A, w. D. and
P. M. Parrish, Mrs j. G. Bennett,
Mrs ]. Fl. May and Miss Mary Par
IRISH.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
SOCIALISTS IN COLLEGES.

Their Number Is Increasing as Shown
at Convention in New York.
Thirty-seven colleges and universi-
ties all over the country now have
fourishing chapters of the Tntercol-
legiate Socialist Society and sent del
egates to the third annual national
convention, held in New York last
week. New chapters have been
formed during the last three months
at Princeton, Ohio State, Amherst,
Wesleyan, Colgate, Oberlin and the
University of Missouri.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
FORCED ACREAGE REDUCTION.

1t seems that the cotton acreage
in this county will be reduced next
year, whether or not the farmers
agree to do so. A number of them
are unable to secure the necessary
labor and viii SOW grain more lib
orally than ever before Cuthbert
Leader.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
MORE SUNDAYS THAN WEEKS.
That Had Not Happened
Before in Twenty-Eight Years.

SOmeUnlnS mat Ha0 MOI Happened
Before in Twenty Eight Years.
The first and last days of 1910
fell on Sunday, making SO Sabbath
days in the christian religion. There
Jefng SO weeks and one day in each
4 ,rdinary year there is room for SO
l'undays when the first and last days
II e Sabbaths. In 1899 it will hap
zen again, and the same thing oc-
II Irred % years ago. A calendar
which is % years old will answer
II lany of the purposes of one which
7 s up to date, as % years is a solar
cycle and in years a cycle apart the
hays of the week and month con-
/ IN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
CATS AND DOGS AS
CORRESPONDENTS.

KANSAS CITY.-Naming as
correspondents not another man,
but thirty-five cats and two dogs,
Samuel Pomeroy of Bethel, Kan,
filed suit for divorce. He as
serts in his petition that after his
ma .ge, four years ago, his
wife led the pets TO the house
hold IL gave them more care
than Z gave him. Pomeroy is
IA yes ND and a civil war vet
eran.
In ly experience of four
years as soldier" he said, 81
never ha \ contend with such
conditions those cats and dogs
create ait w home"
-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
TOLL AND SUFFERING WILL END
AT CLOSE OF THAT PERIOD.
And Then This Old World of Ours
Will Drop Into Space, Says PrOph-
ct j. Lee SpangIer.

YORK, Pa.-Four more years of
toll and suffering is the limit placed
by Lee ]. Spangler, a local prophet,
on the continuance of this mundane
sphere. It's work will will then be
completed, and some time after 1915
it will drop from it's orbit and will
be known no more. Where it will be
dumped he does not know, but it will
be smashed and will pass away in a
dreadful condition.
Spangler's prophecies concerning
the world coming to an end have not
all come true, but he has made other
prophecies which seemingly have
been fulfilled, namely, the death of
Queen Victoria, the assassination of
President Mckinley, the San Fran
cisco earthquakes, the Japanese Rus
sian war and other disasters of vari-
Gus kinds, and he has recently been
hitting it up some ON the passing of
the world.
A Little Disappointment.
A few years ago he took trip to
Nyack, N. Y, and with other enthusi-
astics climbed a hill and awaited the
end of things, 1t didn't come, be-
cause a few righteous persons by
their prayers induced the Lord to
nOstnOna the event After dOdpine a
few over-ripe eggs collected by those
who had tickets, as it were, to front
seats but who were denied a look-in,
he returned to York and remained
quiet for time. But now the spirit
of prophecy is moving him again,
and he says there will be no post
ponement of the end of the world
this time. He predicts wonderful
signs in the heavens next year and
will be on hand to interpret them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

Some people would rather steal
poor living than earn a good one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

Set 'em UP and the crowd ia with
you. Go broke and you go 1t alone
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03
COR BAILEY STILL At IT
ABLY WORRIED GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYE is CHASING SOUR
RELS AND FLEAS.

of 100000 Causes
Uncle Joe Cannon to Want to
Know Cost Per Capita of Catching
These Plague Distributors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-01-03

Atlanta Business Man Remains I'm
conscious, and There Is No Clue
as to the Cause of the Assault or
Who Did 1t.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-10

GEORGlA-Sumter County.
Notice is hereby given that l will
apply to the Honorable Walter George,
Judge of the Superior Court of Ben
Hill County, Georgia, at the Court
House in Vienna, Ga, on the 25th day
of January, 1912, for leave to sell, 1T
private sale, the one-twelfth undivided
interest in Seven Hundred and Sixty
Five acres of land belonging to my
ward, situated in the old Sixteenth Dis
trict of Sumter, County, Ga, and
known as the Wilson home place.
l will make this application as guar
dian of the person and property of W.
W. Wilson, for the purpose of selling
property and re-investing the pro-
ceeds My reason for wanting to sell
are, that l cannot successfully manage
a one-twelfth interest in land so far
away, it being about eighty miles from
my home, and believe the price offer
ed at private sale is fair and reason
able, and that l can re-invest the pro-
ceeds in lots Nos. 958 and $50, near
Fitzgerald, Ga, the home of myself
and ward, to good advantage, which is
my purpose to do.
MRS. CORA B. WILSON,
Guardian, w w. Wilson
4 IL IS 25-ch
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-10

Under and by virtue of an order OF
the Honorable Ordinary in and for the
County of Sumter, granted at the De-
cember Term, 1911, of said Court, will
be sold on the premises where the late
Mrs. P. A. Hill died, and at her death
belonging to her said estate, to save
expense and deeming it to the best in
terest of the estate, on the premises
aforesaid, on the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary, 1912, between the legal hours of
sale, said sale to continue from day to
day until completed, the following de-
scribed, to-wit:
One piano, 2 sideboards, 1 dining
table, l bookcase, wardrobes, l
chest, 4 beds, bureaus, washstands,
s tables, 2 sofas, 80 chairs, l hat rack
4 carpets, mattings, l stove, kitchen
safe, kitchen tables, stove, chinaWare,
silverware, books, curtains, refrtgera-
tor, cabinet, 1 sewing machine and
of the household and kitchen furni-
ture not specifically mentioned.
Terms of sale cash.
MRS. Bella HILL MORELAND,
Administrative on the Estate of Mrs
Pauline A. Hill, deceased.
4 II IS 25-Ch
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-10
Refuses Old Guns to State.

case where the lesser municipality
. greater than the sovereign state de-
'eIops In the issue of obsolete ord
nance from the war and navy depart
hehts' Recently the war department
received an application from a state
Aor a few such guns to be used for
monumental purpose. 1t declined to
grant the request, however, as it was
-oohd that the law limits donations of
condemned ordnance to soldiers mon
uhents, posts of the Grand Army of
me republic and municipal CORPORA
tons.
Inc sum Of money allotted by con-
Eress TO the states and territories for
me maintenance of militia cannot by
"ypothecated in advance, according
20 recent ruling of the militia di.
VISION Of the war department. The
question arose through an inouiry
from state which desired to incur
an obligation in excess of its aIlot.
ihent Tor the current year and sought
duthority to make it a charge against
appropriations for subsequent years a
practice which has been disapproved
oy the war department.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-10
READY TO turn
The COTTON UNDER
Report From the Anderson
vile Part Of Sumter

Mr. David Aubrey, a well known
planter of the Andersonville district,
and an old time subscriber of The
Times-Recorder, was in the city yes
terday.
Mr.. Aubrey reports that the heavy
rains have badly torn up the roads
in the Andersonville section. The
streams were rising rapidly and bad
washcuts seemed imminent at several
points The fill at Mr.. Cal Carter's
On the road here, he stated, had been
swept away. The cessation in the
rains came none too soon, from Mr..
Autrey's statements, to save the
county gangs from a tremendous lot
more of work than will now be the
case.
Mr.. Aubrey stated that much cotton
had been unpicked in his neighbor-
hood. 1T would be of no use to pick
II now" said he. ut would hardly be
NJ for dog to lie on. 1t will simply
De turned under and do what it can
toward helping make the next crop"
While the planters in his section
we're naturally disappointed over the
prices received for their crops, there
has been little or nothing held back
by them, said he, and they are pre-
pairing to go on with the next years
operations with snap and determine
lion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-10
SYSTEMATIC REPORTS
FROM The CITY CLERK
Clerk and Treasurer Weaver
Originated Plan

Citv Clerk and Treasurer Harvey
Uoaver has originated a neat and
brsiness-like plan for making month
y, raports to all the departments and
,e4cials of the city, and when Council
met Monday night each alderman and
,,tv official present was the recipient
n a CODY of the first report.
The report, which is made on
blank especially prepared for the pur-
rosa shows at a glance the exact
o,atus of the affairs of the city in
q financial way up to the time indicat-
ID nv the report. What the report
embraces is really a quarterly state
rent with the additional figures not
ing the monthly expense. The first
report showed the financial standing
Of the city at the close of the year
1911.
The convenience of the report is
such that one may see at glance
exactly what the financial status VI
The city is. AS the report is to be
furnished regularly to the head of
each department and to each city Off
cial the status of the city in finan-
aial way will be constantly kept be-
fore them. The value of such re-
port is manifest.
This is only one of the many helpful
innovations that have been introduced
into the work of the clerks Office by
Clerk Weaver, who is conducting the
business of the city in systematic
and business-like manner The new
report system meets with the approval
of the city officials generally.