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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
MARTIN CALI WINS WHISPERS
HIS HIRSUTE ADORNMENT CAUS-
ED HIM MUCH CIRCULATION.
Started With Wife of one OF the Dis
appointed Exhibitors at the Re
cent State Fair in Macon.


MACON, Ga.-Hon Martin v. Cal
wins whiskers are a great comfort to
him at times and then again they are
a sore trial, but the fact remains that
they are just about the best crop of
whiskers produced in Georgia in
many day, with the possible excep-
/ tion of one other set. And thereby
hangs story.
1t all started with one of the dis
appointed exhibitors at the state fair,
or rather his wife. After it had been
announced that Houston county had
been awarded first prize for the best
county exhibit this lady stated most
emphatically: "No wonder Houston
county got first prize; didn't l see
Martin V. Calvin, secretary of the
Georgia Agricultural Society, stand
right in front of the Houston county
exhibit and tell those judges that
Houston was the county to give the
first prize to. No wonder we didn't
win when officials of the fair and the
agricultural society come right out
and tell the judges who to award the
prizes to"
Her declaration soon reached the
ears of the bewhiskered gentleman,
and having been under charges once
before he knew how to act, and act
he did. He Immediately demanded
that special session of the agricult-
ural society be called to investigate
the charges and give him a chance
to disprove them, agreeing to face
his accuser. There the lady looked
him in the eye and repeated her
charge. Now, if it had been man
there might have been different
story to tell, but Martin V. Calvin
being a Southern gentleman of the
highest type did not care to dispute a
woman's word. So the meeting was
dispersed with the cloud still hang
ing over Mr.. Calvin. His whiskers
dropped despondently and his face
wore a detected look that showed
him to be in the depths of despOnd-
ency But it seems that the truth
will always out, and out it came in
this case.
Today Mr.. Calvin met his old
friend, DR.. Barfield, of Macon, on the
street Now, DR.. Barfield has a set
of mutton chop whiskers that are the
equal in every way of Mr.. Calvin's
hirsute adornments, and he was WISH
bly, shocked when he noticed the
manner in which his friends magnifi-
cent whiskers were dropping. Just
then crafty light appeared in Mr.
CaIvin's eyes and smile on his face,
great light having dawned on him.
A few questions were asked, and MIR.
Calvin drew from Dr.. Barfield that
it was he who had stood in front Of
the Houston county exhibit and de-
elared that Houston should be given
first prize Grabbing DR.. Barfield by
the arm Mr.. Calvin rushed him off
to the fair grounds and another meet
ing was called, at which DR.. Barfield
made his confession of faith" ex-
onerating Mr. CALM. The lady who
| had started the trouble was profuse
in her apologies No longer are Mr.
Calvin's whiskers bedraggled or dis
pirited, but on the contrary they are
| just as assertive as ever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
TO STAMP OUT OPIUM TRAFFIC
THREE BILLS ON SUBJECT ARE
NOW BEFORE THE SENATE.
Measures Have Already Passed the
House. Use of Opium Said to Be
On Increase in America.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Three bills
restricting the importation and sale
Of opium, cocaine and other narcotic
drugs are now before a subcommittee
of the senate finance committee and
will probably be acted upon early in
congress. Senator John Sharp Will
liams is chairman of the subcommit-
tee having them in charge. The
measures passed the house last June.
The three bills cover the traffic in
opium from every angle. One pro-
hibits absolutely the importation of
opium into the United States in other
| than medicinal form. This precludes
opium prepared for smoking pur-
poses. Another bill provides that an
internal revenue tax of 5000 per
pound be levied upon all opium man
ufactured in the United States for
smoking purposes. Manufacturers OF
smoking opium would be under a
heavy bond to the commissioner of
internal revenue, with the penalty for
violating the law fixed at a severe
point.
The third bill is aimed at the re-
taller and provides a complicated
system of registration, taxation and
supervision. Elaborate forms and
requirements are specified, each de-
signed to furnish check on the 9TH
er> The bill carries an appropriation
of $4,000 for carrying the provis-
ions of the act into effect.
Congress has been spurred into ac-
tion by the reports that opium smok-
ing and importation haze increased
aIarmingly within the last few years
The cocaine evil in the South is an
other problem which, though dealt
with only in part by these bills, will
soon demand special legislation and
| federal regulation The evil of CO.
caine "snuffing" among negroes is
steadily increasing with the iocking
of blacks to the cities and towns.
Treasury department officials be-
! lieve that smuggling opium and 9TH
err drugs is carried on more extern
sively in small and out of the way
harbors than anywhere else, and ac-
cordingly instructions have been Civ
en- revenue cutter crews to be on
particularly sharp lookout at small
ports all the way along the Atlantic
coast.
The mouths of small rivers, so nu-
merous in many places a'ong the
coast, offer unusual opportunities for
smuggling. AS opium can be hand
led very profitably in small quaint
ties it is comparatively easy to SNUG
gle it in small boats which are put in
at out of the way places. This sort
! of traffic will be the special mark OF
revenue cutters for several months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
PRETTY GIRLS PICK COTTON
Members of Atlanta Church Went to
the Fields to Raise Money to Pay
Of Debt on the Institution.

ATLANTA.-How the pretty girls
of a suburban Atlanta church went
into the cotton fields and picked cot
ton to lift the debt from this institu-
ton was learned with surprise this
morning.
Curious autOists riding through
Oakland City shortly after breakfast
happened to look toward the broad
acres of farmer A. P. Morgan, white
with the fieecy staple, and Their they
rubbed their eyes and looked again.
Instead Of the ordinary negro field
hands the fields were swarming with
rosy-cheeked girls and buxom mat
rons, working industriously, darling
hither and thither like experienced
cotton pickers.
Ii turned out that they were mem
bers of the Ladies Aid Society of the
Oakland City church. 1t occurred to
them that at this season of the year
they could make mere money for the
church debt by picking cotton than
by holding 'sociables' and sewing
circles, so they set to- Not many of
them were accustomed to the hard
work, and some fell by the wayside
as the day progressed, but for the
most part they expressed determi-
nation to stick it out through the day
and return on the morrow. In add
tion to the regular pay of 80 cents a
hundred pounds given to all pickers
prizes we're offered for the lady who
picked the most in g given time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
ORGANIZING PIG CLUB.
Work of Extension Is Being Pushed
in Many Southern States.

The United States department of
agriculture announces that the Boys
Pig Clubs will be extended to every
state in the South. The work has
been in progress for some time in
Louisiana and Alabama, and is be-
ing organized in Georgia. 1t is ex-
pected that the pig clubs will develop
along with the corn clubs, providing
the pigs to eat the corn the young
farmers raise. That is the way to do
1.-THE feed first then the animal to
eat it, and many farmers might well
profit by the example these boys
clubs are setting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
MANY ANCIENT THINGS THOUGHT NEW

gineers. There are those who thus
profess to see in the miracle of caus-
ing a stream to flow from the rock at
the touch, of Moses rod simply a
repetition of Seti's feat of boring an
artesian well.
The Mother Literature.
Egypt was also the mother of liter
ature and the scribe could attain to
greatness second only to the king.
Novels, poems and history have been
deciphered on the imperishable mon
uments of granite and in remains of
papyrus, together with lists of the
authors.
Even the cartoOnist fOurished in
that remote age, as the carvings
known as the album of caricatures
rejecting on Rameses III sttest.
Rawlinson refers to these cartoons
as a ''class of works similar to those
which in modern Europe load with
ridicule each sovereign or each min
istry successfully.
Thebes in the time of Rameses II
established and supported the first
public library, and the records of the
monuments show that its director
au. He appears to have also been a
literary light and correspondent with
Pentaour, who was the popular au-
thor of the best sellers" of his time.
Physical Culture Fad.
That physical culture was fad
with the fashionable ladies of the
courts of the Pharaohs is another
phase of Egyptian life revealed by
the rock of pictures of the Mother
| of Civilization In the third vol
ume of Prof. William Flinders Pc
tries admirable history Of Egypt are
copies from granite pictures at Ably
dos of three of the daughters of RAM
eses II holding aloft fair representa-
tions of tennis bats.
Another picture represents a very
stout lady, Queen Thyimerenast
plainly swinging a brace of Indian
clubs. According to the picture the
Queen, who was the mother of Ram
eses III, was of considerable heft
with an exaggerated waist line, which
she is evidently trying to reduce, just
like her adipose prototype of the
present day.
The more moderns dig into the
buried past of the Pharaohs the more
moderate grows the estimation of the
present wonderful progress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
PROFESSOR SCORE POWERS
Pd Not Know Congressman Was in
his Glass. .tpOlooiZes Publicly
and Privately.

"ASHlNGTON.-Law students at
Fgetown University were telling
$uay OF a dramatic scene in 4 class
I'm last night in whicL DIR. Holes
&DIIad, professor Of law, and Caleb
DWers, the Kentucky congressman,
Ne the actors.
III a lecture to a postgraduate
~ Dr.. Conrad was denouncing
foIlc sympathy for criminals and
'lared that some, through mistak-
pubic sentiment, were carried to
&sceS OF power when released from
Fison
VINO was that man in Kentucky
~ Killed another and was sent to
& 4sress?'' asked the professor of the
- TO Illustrate his point.
gurlng the hush that fell immedi-
n! over the room Caleb Powers,
student, sitting in the front row.
70 his feet with perfect compos-
ana in clear voice, said:
slilty." '''0
u Conrad apologized, continued
lecture, and afterward made a
uiaI apology to Powers, saying he
not known the national repre-
.dliVe was amember of his class.
o"ers spent eight years, three
Nuns and three days in Kentucky
sons lighting for his life. He was
'Fsed with completely in the muir
Of Governor Goebel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
ALCOHOL DEATHS BEST ALLY
MORE SALOON KEEPERS SUICIDE
THAN ANY OTHER TRADE.
Principal Causes OF Mortality Are Al
cOholism, Disease of Vital Organs,
Nervousness and Suicide.

/ DR.. Jacques Bertillon, formerl,
chief of the Paris department of sta
/ tistics, has published a study of NOR
tally in the different vocations, di
viding them into five groups accord
ing to their particular causes o
death: Employments exposing the
workman to % alcohol, (2) Lead
poisoning, 90 organic waste, (4)
the weather, and CD confined posi-
tions. These five groups are subdi-
vided into a hundred distinct voca-
tions. The principal causes of NOR
tality prove to be alcoholism, dis
ease of the lung, heart, liver and
nervous system, diabetes, suicide and
accidents.
Most hea'thful are those vocations
carried on in the open air, provided
they permit movement; those re-
strictipg freedom of movement, al
though carried on in the open air, are
harmful. Trades exposing the work
man to alcohol and to lead poisoning
are the most dangerous.
Mortality is lowest among railway
enginemen, wood sawyers, teachers,
attorneys and clergymen. 1t is near
ly as low among physicians, pharma-
cists, architects, lawyers clerks, mail
and telegraph employees, commercial
travellers, grocers, fruiterers, hatters,
booksellers, hardware men, watch
makers, hosiers, tanners, masons,
road laborers and servants.
Mortality is higher than the gen.
eral average among public officers,
office clerks, street railway employees,
gas workers, sellers of fish and poul-
try, jewellers, cloth merchants, sad
dlers, bakers, millers, butchers, cur
riers, rope makers, cabinet makers,
carriers, roustabouts and sailors,
Mortality is highest among day la
borers, stevedores. miners, stonecut-
tiers, tradespeople, coachmen, foot
boys, grooms, jockeys, dealers in no
tions, printers, blacksmiths, Tiers,
glass makers, messengers, cutters,
chimney sweeps, BARRIERS and musi-
clans.
Suicide is encountered in nearly al
vocations, but is rare among clergy
men, officers, railway, mail and tele-
graph employees, shipbUildels saw
yers, employees in gas works and
booksellers. 1t is quite rare among
tanners, masons, farmers, road build
ers, boatmen, fishermen, wheel
wrights and miners. 1t is met com
paratively often among grocers,
hardware men, cloth merchants,
troopers, hosiers, backsmiths, glass
makers, cabinet makers, tobacconists,
notaries and lawyers clerks, teach
ers, architects, sailors and game
keepers.
Suicide is frequent among brewers,
Tiers, dealers in notions, cutters, hat
tiers, BARRIERS, tradespeople, clock
makers, jewelers., domestics, dairy
men, sellers of fish and poultry, gar
deners, commercial travellers, attor-
neys, physicians and pharmacists.
All these vocations show a fire.
quency of suicide above the average,
but the highest suicide rate is found
among saloon keepers, the servants
of retail storekeepers, butchers
chimney sweeps, fruiterers and mu-
sicians.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
TO SAVE TIME IN EDUCATION
EXPERTS SAY TWO YEARS WAIST.
ED UNDER PRESENT PLAN.
Six Years Enough for Elementary
Training. Conclusions Based On
Ten Years of Observation.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The pres
ent plan of American education is a
waste of at least two years, according
to a committee of prominent educa-
tors whose report, Economy of Time
in Education has recently been is
sued by the United States board of
education. This conclusion is reach
ed after observations covering nearly
ten years by committee of experts.
Under the present system the pro-
fessional man who has been educated.
in the best schools OF the country has
to wait until he is II years old before
starting out in his career. The CON-
mittee would have him finish college
at 20, so that he could take four
years of special training and be ready
to begin his life work at "a. In order
to accomplish this saving the COM
mittee recommends that instead of
eight only six years be spent in ele-
mentary training, so that high school
work would be done between II and
IS. This work would be divided into
six and four-year periods.
A student taking the four-year
high school course would enter col
! lege at 16 and finish at 20; in high
schools giving the six-year course the
time of college graduation would be
! the same.
To promote economy in elementary
education the committee urges that
| ~. nrnIr h,
tools of education be mastered. Only
| the most important subjects should
be chosen in that period, so that the
| last two years which are now spent
! in elementary work could be spent in
secondary education. The committee
thinks the study Of foreign Ian
guages, elementary algebra, con-
structive geometry, elementary sci
ence and history should be begun two
years earlier than at present. This
would give ample opportunity for vo-
cational education after the age of
| twelve.
The committee urges concentration
of a few important studies, holding
that education consist of the ability
to do a few things we'll, rather than
in loading UP on quality. The col
leges, it is suggested, are making a
| grievous mistake in continually de-
manding more rather than emphasiz-
ing quality produced under condi-
lions of healthy normal development
The report takes up the problem
of saving time in education from the
point of view of. the college, the
school and society at large as well as
of the individual pupil. 1t contains
opinions on the subject from repre-
sentative school men and the general
| public
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
A SPANISH WAR HERO.
Man Who Helped HobsOn Sink Merri-
mac, But Didn't Get Amy Kisses.

Man Who Helped HObsOn Sink Merri-
mac, But Didn't Get Amy Kisses.
The man who helped Hobson sink
the Merrimac, but never got any of
the kisses or congressional honors
out of the job, is in Atlanta His
name is John C. Carlisle. He is a
government diver, and it was he who
cut the wires of the mines in Santa
go harbor that made possible the
bottling up of the Spanish fleet by
sinking the Merrimac.
After the sinking of the Merrimac
Carlisle was attached to General
Egans staff, was Spanish interpreter,
and was considered the most daring
and nervy spy in the service of I'm
Gle Sam during the war, making fif-
teen trips through the Spanish lines.
Another of his spectacular deeds
was the saving of Billy Edison, son
of the famous inventor, from capture
at the hands of the Spaniards.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
SAYS SALOONS BETTER QUIT
MACON'S ANTl-SALOON LEAGUE
SUBMITS A PROPOSITION.
Liquor Dealers, However, Will Fight
to Bitter End, 1t l. Believed.
Every Saloon EnioIned.

MACON, Ga.-The Macon Law En-
forcement League, through Dr.. w. N.
Ainsworth, pastor of the Mulberry
Street Methodist church, has submit
ted a proposition to the saloon men
of Macon, which, il accepted, will
ed by the Law Enforcement League
to put the saloons out of business
through the injunction plan. DR..
Ainsworth says that if the saloon
men will surrender their licenses
city, state and federal-and quit the
business for good the Law Enforce
ment League will desist for good.
Just how the proposition will be
received by the saloon men is not
known yet, as they have made no re-
ply, but it is believed they intend to
fight to the bitter end, and are rely
ing on the state supreme court to re-
verse Judge Mathews of the Bibb
superior court on the ground that the
method he has adopted is contrary
to the constitution of the United
States, which prohibits the confisca-
tion of property without due process
of law.
AS the matter now stands every
saloon in Macon has been enjOined
from operating, fourteen of the pro-
prietors have been cited for contempt
OF court and there is a strong proba-
bility that the evidence used by the
Law Enforcement League will also
be used in prosecuting the saloon
men for violation of the prohibition
law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
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JOINS CRIMINAL "HIGH BROWS.'
DIR. Ernest Muret, COunterfeiter, in
Atlanta Federal Prison.

DR.. Ernest Muret, who was con-
victed of counterfeiting in connection
with the crimes of Hans Schmidt in
New York, has become a member of
the high brow" criminal colony at
the Atlanta federal prison. A highly
cultured and educated man, he will
probably be put to work in the office
along with the embezzling bankers,
ex-capitalists and caught Walling-
fords generally. He will serve a
sentence of seven and a half years,
having pleaded guilty to the charges.
Dr. Muret was originally arrested
on suspicion that he had helped Hans
Schmidt, the mad priest, dispose of
the body of the murdered girl, but
no evidence was found against him.
Detectives, however, found counter
feiting outfit in his possession and
he admitted he had been making bad
money
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
MAN WITH BROKEN NECK is
AWARDED $25, 900 DAMAGES
Fell Ten Stories While at Work on a
New York Skyscraper.

What is believed to be the largest
verdict awarded under the employers
/ liability act in New York was brought
/ in by a supreme court jury in favor
of Fred C. Neun, who lives with his
neck broken. The jury directed the
Harris H. Urls Iron Works to pay
Neun $4,000.
Neun, an iron worker, dislocated
his neck when he fell ten stories
while at work on skyscraper last
March. Wearing a steel brace around
his head and extending down his
spine to hold his neck in place he
appeared in court as his own witness.
His physician testified that any sud
den shock, even a sneeze, is likely
to result in Nouns death.
Neun is 2S years old and has
wife and three children. He was an
athlete before he was hurt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
THOSE ATLANTA SOCIETY GIRLS.

Have Invented Dance More Daring
Than the Grapevine Wiggle.
Atlanta school girls have invented
a new dance more daring than the
turkey trot, the grapevine wiggle or
any CT the wild-animal steps import
ed from Paris via New York.
The new dance is called the 'futur-
list twirl" There's nothing immoral
about it. but it is the most freakish
of all the new steps. 1t is a sort
of one-stepping, slip-sliding shuttle,
in which the ability to keep ones
balance is a necessary requisite. For
contortionist bends and curves, ac-
cording to those who have seen it.
it is a pippin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
WILL DANCE ON THE ROOF.
Washington Society Woman VIII Not
Stop Because of Cold Weather.

No matter how cold the weather
gets Mrs. Christian Hemmick, Wash
ington society leader, will continue
to take health dances in the open
air roof garden of her Washington
home during the winter, she has an
nounced
While going through these dances
Mrs. Hemmick wears the most dia-
phanous Greek robes, with sandals
on her bare feet She depends en-
tirely upon the stimulated circula-
tion of her blood to keep her warm.
Mrs Hemmick, who is the leader
in all things artistic in Washington
society. has many apostles who are
also using or having fitted up open
air dancing pavilions. Mrs. Hemmicb
and her cult scorn to dance the tango
and modern dances, but take the;l
poses from the Persians and ancient
Greeks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
ONLY S192, 900, 551 TO RUN
NEW YORK THE NEXT YEAR
Gotham's Housekeeping Expenses for
Twelve Months Is Quite a Bit.

The budget committee of the New
York city board of estimate has an
nounced that it has drawn up budg-
ct calling for only 1892, 995,55l for
New York city's housekeeping ex-
penses next year, Although this is
an increase Of $284,110 over the
budget for 1913 it shows the small
est increase of any budget for many
years. AS rule the yearly increase
has been about $40, 100000. The
committee estimated the general
fund of the city at SAP, 100000, in
dicating that the tax rate for Man
haitian might be reduced next year
from 1.S1 to LIT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-07
WE'RE TOO MANY FISH.
Delayed Ship by Fastening Them
selves to Sides and Bottom.


A remarkable story is told by the
crew of the British freightef Ro-
chelle, which has reached port at
Boston four days late from San DO
mingo. According to several of the
men the delay was due principally
to electric fish, otherwise known as
torpedo fish, which were attracted
by the steel plates of the vessel ana
fastened themselves by hundreds
against the bottom and sides.
The steamer was in the gull
stream, north of Cuba, when she be-
gan to slow down. The officers were
at a loss to account for the change
in the progress of the craft. Several
sailors said they felt a tingling SEN
sation about their feet and niger
tips.
As the Rochelle moved north out
of the warm waters of the stream
the fish dropped off and the VesseI
Immediately resumed her speed