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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07

nays his share of the $2,700, 1000, zoe.
A moderate man who smokes three
fye-centers a day and drinks half
dozen glasses of beer of an evening
when he goes out with his friends
lust to be sociable and to keep CONVEX
sation agoing spends 1854 a year
A nickel here and nickel there
he does not mind the expenditure
But that same $164 is about one
quarter of the yearly earnings OF the
average American workman.
What 1t Costs a Man.
A man of a little more wealth VINO
rolls down to the club of an evening
and has a good time with half doz-
en- fellows may get away with hall
dozen perfectos, a box of cigarettes
a few WHISTLES, cocktails and high
balls and perhaps has wine with his
dinner each day or occasionally. He
spends perhaps $4,000 year for the
luxury. From the frugal working
man, spending possibly $50 year,
to the Lucullus whose wine and to-
bacco bill amounts to nice $4,000,
all contribute their golden share to
the cea useless flow that makes this
the most expensive of our habits.
What this bulks up to in the act
ual amount of matter consumed is
shown graphically in pictures in
recent magazine. The 64,0OO,OOO
barrels of beer we drink, costing us
$1,170, 100000, would make barrel
that would swallow the Flatiron
building in New York. The Flatiron
is 286 feet high; the barrel would be
$50 feet high and go feet in dame
ter. Our national whiskey bottle,
costing 100000 a year, is high
er than the WOlworth building,
which is $50 feet high. We are not
much on wine; we spend only $780,
600, 900 a year for the big bottle $50
feet high and 10 feet in diameter,
almost as high as the Wolworth
structure.
Of the tobacco trade it is only
necessary to say that one days re-
cepits of a single store in New York
last Christmas were said to have
been $4,000, and the same concern
runs a chain of stores in which $780,
GOO, 900 went up in smoke last year.
Saturday Globe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Libel for Divorce.

Benjamine D. Petty VS.. Mrs. Mag
gle May Petty.-Libel for Divorce
Terrell Superior Court November
Term, 1913. Georgia, Terrell Coun-
ty. To Mrs. Maggie May Petty, de-
PENDANT: You are hereby command
ed to be and appear at the next term
of the Superior Court of Terrell
county, said state, which convenes on
the oath day of November, 1913, at
the hour of 9 O'Clock a m, the same
being the next November term Of
said court, to answer the complaint
of Benjamine d. Petty, plaintiff,
against Mrs. Maggie May Petty, de-
PENDANT, the same being an action
for divorce. In default thereof the
court will proceed as to justice shall
appertain Witness the Honorable
VIM. c. Worrill, Judge of the Supe-
rior Court of Terrell county. This
oath day of September, 1913.
w. S. DOZIER, Clerk S. G. T. c..
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
is QUITE A CONTRACT.
If You Live to Be 75 You Will Have
Eaten 1 300 Times Your Weight.

Eaten 1 300 Times Your Weight.
If you are of average weight, hight
and appetite and live to be IS you
will have eaten 50 tons of solid food
and SO tons of liquid. That is about
300 times your own weight.
If you were to stack the bread you
will have consumed in this number of
years the pile would equal fair
sized building. The amount of but
ter you will have used on this bread
would come to ton and a quarter
If you are a lover of bacon and were
to stretch that which you have eaten
out in single slices four miles would
be the length. Five tons of fish and
1900 eggs would stand to your
credit, while the normal cheese eater
would easily have consumed 400
pounds.
The vegetables you will have eaten
would fill a train three miles long.
You will have consumed some 10000
pounds of sugar and 1900 pounds of
salt. If you are a smoker you will
have used about half ton of tobacco
in pipes and will have smoked 1,00O,-
600 cigarettes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
MASTODON WAS YOUNGSTER
ACCORDING TO NEW FIND OF
MUSEUM PRESIDENT.
Aoe of Skeleton of EctOcOnus Is Set
at 5000, 900 Years. Specimen
Discovered in New Mexico.

mt 5000, 900 Years. Specimen
Discovered in New Mexico.
NEW YORK.-Prof. Henry Fair
field Osborn, president of the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History, told
the Tribune of a most important
discovery in northeastern New Mex
leo bv members of the staff OF the
institution of a mammal that will
round out a period in the world S
history about which little has hereto
fore been known. Prof. Osborn said:
THE mastodon is like thing of yes
terday when compared with it."
The mammal in question is known
as an ectoconus, an herbivorous
creature that lived three million
years ago. In fact, in geological
time it is thousands of years older
than any other mammal skeleton dis
covered up to now. Only in northern
France and in Belgium have any
fragmentary evidences of mammals
nearly that old been found. The two
hundred specimens collected by the
museums party in New Mexico in
clude a complete skeleton of the &C.
toconus, which will take its place in
the mammalian hall as one of the
museums most treasured possess
sions.
Prof. Osborn, who has just return
ed from two months visit to three
regions in the West where museum
expeditions are at work, was greatly
gratified by the find. He said that
DR.. Walter Granger, who had found
the complete skeleton of the four
toed horse some years ago, had also
been at the head of this expedition
in New Mexico.
THE ectoconus," said Prof. Os-
born, dates from the very beginning
of the age of mammals. The skele-
ton was discovered in a stratum not
far removed from that in which the
remains of the dinosaur of the rep
lillian period were found. 1t showed
that the ectoconus followed shortly
after the reptilian period came to
close. The discovery rounds out
very little known period in the
worlds history. 1t is of great sig
nificance, and high praise should be
given the men who discovered it.
Prof. Osborn said the ectoconus,
Judging by its skeleton, somewhat
resembled the wolf in size and con-
tour and was peculiar to the North
American continent and was OF a
type no longer existing.
The skeleton was discovered 1000
feet below the surface of the earth.
It was found on the side of bluff.
Remains of the nearest existing
mammals have in the past been
found at 1 200 feet
The present arid region where the
important discovery was made at the
time of the ectoconus was traversed
by a stream somewhat in size and
shape like the Orinoco river of South
America. The ectoconus lived in
large numbers in this land of plenty
at that time.
Prof. j. H. Sinclair of Princeton
University was one of Dr. Changers
expedition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
1T COSTS TO "COME OUT"

much talked of ball at the Plaza, cost
in the neighborhood of $25, 900. The
floral decorations, which included
10000 lilies of the valley, 5000
roses and several hundred orchids,
cost alone very nearly $4,000. The
cost in flowers sent to debutantee
at her afternoon presentation to So
ciety at home frequently averages
between $500 and $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-07
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that A. P.
Jackson has withdrawn from and is
no longer a member of the firm OF
Tyler & Lockett, dealers in naval
stores. ]. B. Tyler and G. E. Lockett
will continue the business under the
firm name of Tyler & Loekett. This
September 18th, 1913. ]. B. TYLER,
C. E. LOCKETT and A. P. JACKSON.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
Telescopes
BY GEORGE FITCH.
Author of cat Good Old Siwash.7
TELESCOPE is an invention vi

TELESCOPE Is an invention which
Il enables a man to see as far as he
L n could with an eye as big as a
wash tub.
In fact, the telescope is an enormous
glass eye. 1t is worn by the astronomer
while Deering into the star spangled uni
verse in search Of newly organized solar
systems and comets which are proceed
ing without train orders.
The telescope consists of a long muzzle
loading brass tube with lens in one end
and an eye piece at the other. When
the astronomer has screwed the small
end into his eye like a monocle he can
roam at will through the depths of the
sky, counting asteroids, measuring sun
dogs and plotting corn lot on Mars.
A planet is only a speck of light when
viewed by the casual citizen going home
at midnight. But when the astronomer
trains his telescope on a neighboring
planet he cannot only discover its to-
biography and complexion but can pub
Iish the bulletins regarding the rate Of
excavation in its canal prism. Many an
astronomer has watched two stars try
to pass on single track several billion
miles away and has wept tears over a
tragedy which isn't as important to the
rest of the world as the swat-the-fly
OrOhlem
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

In fact, when an astronomer has spent
a few years spying on the universe with
a telescope he becomes oblivious to mum
dane affairs and would not leave off
counting the rings of Saturn or the dents
in the moon long enough to watch an
oil refinery burn in the next block.
The telescope has done the world a
great deal of good 1t has enabled man
to produce the fascinating serial en-
titled the almanac, to weigh the sun
regularly with a view to regulating its
diet If necessary and to discover on
rushing comets in time to repair the old
cyclone cellar and get out of range II
it were not for the telescope We would
not know where we were going on this
earth or when we would arrive. But
thanks to the telescope, astronomers are
able to call the stations years in advance
and to calculate the dark of the moon
in time to enable the farmer to buy his
seed potatoes at the lowest price.
In fact the telescope has become so
highly developed that astronomers hope
before long to discover large missing
bodies, such as expresident TAFT, the
Free Trade League Of America and the
Chicago Cub machine. Science halts at
nothing. Copyrighted by George Mat
thew Adams
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
Solid Comfort
By Walt Mason

sit me down in the inglenook with q
loaded pipe and a corBing book of the
rafting Rex Beach kind, and 1 do not
care what the statesmen do, what plans
they form OF what routes pursue, to all
of their tricks I'm blind. At the tariff
grind they may break their backs, they
may strain themselves at the income tax
as often they have before. Pm reading
now of man who goes on carnage bent
through Alaska SHOWS with a gun and a
pail of gore. I'm reading no wthe heroic
tale Of mighty men in the Arctic gale
a-making their fearful trips; Pm all
worked up DER these stalwart chaps and
do not care what the jumping Japs
may do with their shaelll- ships. I'm
tired of facts, though they're Vital
Things, I'm tired of measures that con-
gress springs, I'm tired OF the white
house news; it's good to roam in the
desert place with a husky team and a
pair of willow shoes. It's good to travel
with Rex E. Beach away, away to the
snowy reach of the far Alaska strand.
to leave awhile, by the fiction road the
daily grind and the heavy load. and this
sad fact ridden land.-Copyright 1913.
by George Matthew Adams.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
philadelphia Record)

Mistakes are but the by-products of
experience
a mans best friends are not always
those who know him best
It isn't absolutely necessary for a
man 10 be sharp in order to have his
good points
Don't try to sit on a fellow unless
you are prepared to have him act like
a bent pin
Some of Us seem to have an idea that
the only useful people are those who
can be used
Things are not always what they
seem The fast young man is seldom
selected as a bank runner.
Practice makes perfect. The more
a man makes a fool Of himself, the
more expert he becomes at it
Some people get so dazzIed from
looking on the bright side that they
cant see the other side at all
Hoax-'Tts always q case Of show
down with BjOnes-" Joax-'W hy?"
Hoax-'He's a feather salesman
Neu-''He told me I had teeth like
pearls Belief wonder if that is
what he meant when he told me you
were as dumb as an oyster"
It was just before the accident The
aviator and the professional humorist
were 1000 feet in the air do you
know anything about an aeroplane?'
asked the aviator. Sure" replied the
professional humOrist. q was brought
up in one" Then it happened
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
Ell PASO AUTOISTS
ADRIFT IN RIVER
Bob Moore and Bill HadIOck Atteupt fo
Cross san Carlos and Have Moist
and Muddy Experience.


Bob Moore and Bill HadIock. Of Ell
PasO are in the market for a flock of
hydrO-aeroplanes. They have been
travelling through Arizona selling FL
PasO real estate. When they reached
the San Carlos river, en- route to Globe,
they attempted to ford the San Carlos.
But their car was not a Ford, and they
plunged into the torrent of water, were
ducked, lost their bedding, cushions
and suit cases, and were finally pulled
out by a team of horses and an indian,
after the wagon had been overturned
IN the stream
Frank HadlOck received 4 universal
sign of distress in a letter from Moore
Tuesday, urging him to send on dry
underwear, hOleless hose and whatever
else that could be used by a, drowning
man in distress. The two motorists at
tempted to ford the river, when their
car settled down in the sand and al
most turned over. HadlOck attempted
to get out on the hood, but fell III the
water Moore'S hat and suit case float
ed off down stream and were recovered
bv an indian girl. Everything was
ruined in the suit cases and the water
wind shield being visible. The CUsh-
ions floated off down stream.
Hadlock was in water TO his ears
and Bob was in to his waist The car
was finally dragged out, but was so
filled with mud and sand that It had to
be dismantIed and overhauled. They
are now en- route to Globe to get first
aid for the drowned
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
One-Sentence Philosophy
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lChicago NeWs. }

The average wife earns more than
she gets.
Only girls without appetites can af-
ford to marry poets
A poor idea of innocence is not to ad-
nit that one knows.
temperament during courtship de-
velops into temper after marriage.
be IS wise man who declines to
act as judge at a baby show.
Keep cool if you would be in a Do
s1J1oS TO strike while the iron it hot.
There is a great advantage in being
IN love While it lasts your other
troubles seem insignificant
Girls don't be snippy and stuck I'D
because you are young and hand
some It may not take long to out
grow it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
News and Rumors


mediation,
of
demanding recognition all
Tuesday
fort to rehah whit public
Monday today of
going giving currency
o something place
States is
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
Outline Of Elephant Butte Dedication
oR 1916 FL Paso must great preparations, for the
- dam ready that year be dedicated and there VI
of west coast bound traffic that pause

TOR Paso must preparations for the Elephant Butte
F ready dedicated and there will be stream
induced here
The completion irrigation enterprise the
by the capacity of the reservoir Tor ARTIFICIAL storage wiz De
viii suffer interest by comparison VII"
the Panama exposition
bring the preparations valley be made
scale commensurate and the event
S for the celebration Travel to the coast
height probably be the best month for the ce
Above ell things and familiar forms Oh
celebration; something different from anything that was ever
There should be three divisions celebration week
ton Owing transportation VIII be impossible to take
say people itself for this event There should be
some great music participation national figures, and the
creation will adequate handling in
the big newspapers Of country.
take in FL Ps The question
arises take really distinctive and different
impressive attract and hold crowd Of visitors
scale involving the active ParcPa
ton of thousands persons bands of
music all brilliant spectacle It Will necessary to
suitable amPhitheate and that can be easily ana c
any the edge the nearby canyons mere
There is already in preparation by an Ell Pasoan the book pageant
suggested Conquest Desert" and j
5iffe+ f 1tb,g that ever was There viii be the historical
southwest and running
through the the present There VIII be great opportunity %
music a grand
general participation pageant
periods Real indians by the
all the There would be
TalmakeTs the
pony railroad builder the farmer Ten thousand school
children should together for the modern period Caba de Va and
a In "The
Cd
tentative the
undertakings
it
o.
And the pageant besides being given Paso possible
peated wonderful natural aphtheate exactly
o spectacle
addition should be
Hydns
supplemented military
alsu" the Messiah chorus with
Beethoven Wagner; the
pendOus exactly
to a
prOgram-fOu
celebration It years ready
things get from the familiar forms Of public
produce something VIII memorable
undertaking
itself Most of the be
and working hard celebration
1876
matter of
people of FL o decide
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
BISBEE GETS TON
OF SCHOOL BOOKS

B1Sbee, Arlz-. Aug 19--Nearly a ton
OF school books have been received in
the city IN It adiness for the opening
of schools on Sept. l. Work on the
new high school will soon be started
Mason hill residents are incensed
over the wholesale poisoning of pet
dogs Not less than seven have been
killed in the last two days some OF
them valuable animals. As there has
been no one attacked by dogs in that
locality the residents are at a loss to
find a cause for the killing of the
pets
John Desplaines. aged years. was
kicked in the stomach and knocked
over a 1O-fOOt embankment by a burrO-
He was not even bruised by his ex-
periences.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.

NAlCulSOn OIODe-)
All the sick would be healed if 4
brand new doctor were as wise as he
looks.
As a rule, where the vote is mani
mouse, the office didn't amount to
much
A perfect set of teeth seem the most
important heritage 10 a toOthache sui
ferer.
1t IS hard for a doctor to tell a. man
70 oleI ana retain his popularity with
the patient.
Inquire around and you will discover
that the gent with the bad cold isn't
a fresh air fan.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

it. Pretty soon OF came to the point
where there was body of men on the
other side. Standing on the bank OF
the river OF called to them: Why don't
you go to Juarez and help those fell
lows fiSht% Oh cried: 'VamOOse per Ia
JUarez, prOntO. POr que no vamOOse
por la JuareZ% OF got 'em started with
that They ran up one side of the
river and 1 ran along this side cheering
them on They finally got to JuareZ,
reinforced their men, and JuareZ fell.
If OF hadn't gone after them they
would never have taken Juarez- OF got
my vest and the $500 was in it. OF
gave the woman % cents for moulding
it. Hardly anyone knows the true story
about the fall Of JuareZ."
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

W. E. Dudley will attend the annual
convention of the Association of Deaf
and Dumb, 10 be held in Cleveland. He
left for the east Monday.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

Charles Webster mas gone to Denver,
Colo. to see his father, who was in
jured recently in an automobile acci-
dent He will be away from FL Paso a
month.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

F. NJ Murchison. vice president Of the
Texas Bank & Trust company. left
Monday for Chicago, to be gone week
or more.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

L. B Quicker will visit relatives in
the city for several weeks He arrived
from Lamar, Colo, Monday.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

Superior exclusive features and
200 Special Correspondents.
ingtOn, D. c., and New York
Published by Herald News Co.,
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interest is owned among l.
Stevens, J. A. Smith, J. ].
W. F. Payne. R. c. Candy.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

FRS DANFORTH turned as Mary
NE entered the kitchen, then
w started in surprise when she
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
Zapata's Rifle In Ell PasO
Tony Sierra Has Gun Which Rebel
Chief Used in First Campaign;
Little Interviews.

ERE is a rifle with a record"
II Tony Sierra said Monday aft
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19

On May 10, 1911. on the bulletin
board of the Los Angeles Examiner. in
Los Angeles, Cal. a bulletin announced
that MaderO's forces were being led to
victory under the influence of the pa
trlotic eNhOrtatons of an Irishman by
the name of Cochran. "Oi was thot
Irishman," said Jim Conklin- "Oi don't
see how they ever got thot information
IN Los Angeles but OTu tell yez the
story. Tt was like this. OF had a vest
with $500 in bills in il. The fOight IN
Juarez was on hot. 1t had been raging
Tor eight hours or more, and the men
were pretty near dead. OF was down
on the river and OF saw how the thing
was going and that if those men We're
not reinforced they would niver take
Juarez. Jerking off my vest, OF nahueu
it to a Mexican woman. Sonora SEE OF,
take the vest, POGO soon OF come back.
You see OF learned TO speak Spanish
when that battle was going on Ihen
OF ran down the river. OF had an aW-
full time getting through the line OF
soldiers and guards. but OF managed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
THTRTYTHIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION

iIRD IEAK OF FObLIOEAI ION
complete news report by Associated Press Leased Wire ana
Mexico. west Texas Mexico WASH
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-12
at an altitude of five hundred feet under

at an altitude of five hundred feet under
varying atmospheric conditions"
AS matters stand now, the Smithsonian
has started what it hopes will be renais-
sance in the science American brains Gre
ated; while the army and the navy want
separate plants for the construction or test
ing of the machines. But the first imme-
date step is the appropriation of more
money by Congress for aviation in both
army and navy, and the investigation of
new ideas by means of models.
Congress, the aviators have found, is TAX
ing new interest in the subject, an interest
out of which will spring greater and more
powerful wings of war. 1t is not sufficient
to know that a man five thousand feet in the
air in an aeroplane is safe from hostile fire,
and that at such height he can distinguish
the bulk and movements of troops forty
miles away. 1t is not enough to be told that
German aviators have dropped three-hun-
dred-pound explosives accurately from great
heights; that France has devised a scheme
for directing the fire of field artillery by
means of aeroplanes; that the average life
of an aviator is between five and ten years;
and that France maintains her long list of
volunteers for the work only by offering
them decorations, honors, and money.
Such facts, affecting both the science and
the personnel of aviation, are experts claim,
the merest preliminary information. If this
government wants to get down to a working
knowledge of air tactics, it must have more
volunteers for the dangerous work, and
more machines.