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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
SENSATIONAL
NUMEROUS CORRUPT PRACTICES
ALLEGED IN PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST JUDGE SPEER.
UNANIMOUS FOR INVESTIGATION
On Statement of Judge Speer's Physi-
clan That 1t Would BE Dangerous
for Him to Visit Washington Will
Not Be Examined Till Autumn.

WASHINGTON.-In response to
the repeated demands by Republican
Leader Mann Chairman Clayton of
the judiciary committee today gave
the house the substance of the
charges made against Judge Speer in
the report from Attorney General
McReynolds.
1t is charged that contrary to the
law Speer employed his son-in-law
about his court, violated the bank
ruptcy laws, violated the laws rela-
tive to the selection of juries, violated
the supreme court mandates, decided
in favor of his son-in-law in matters
relating to fees, used court officials
as private servants, allowed dissipa-
ton of assets of estates in the GUS
tody of the court, established receiv-
erships without notice to owners, re-
fused to allow the dismissal of litiga
ton giving relatives generous fees,
took money from the court funds for
private purposes, allowed money to
remain without interest in banks in
which relatives were interested, un-
lawfully seized and ordered property
to be sold in litigation, attempted
bribery and used drugs.
Not a Dissenting Vote.
The house passed unanimously the
Clayton resolution authorizing the
judiciary committee to investigate
the official conduct of Judge Emory
Speer.
Judge Speer has forwarded to the
house judiciary committee a state
ment from his physician stating that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
.KNUTE NELSON AND JOHN
SHARP WILLIAMS SUSTAIN
REGULATIONS.

WASHINGTON.-One of the most
brilliant sustained efforts in running
fire debate the senate has ever seen
is that now being exhibited by Sen
ator John Sharp Williams of Missis-
sippi, who is acting as one OF the
managers of the tariff bill. Senator
Williams is the most erudite man
now in the senate, not excluding
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts.
Some of Senator Williams recent
short speeches have been classics. He
seems to have restored to the upper
house the brflliancy of uttrance that
was common in the stirring years
which led up to the civil war. Re
Gently Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania charged that the democrats had
been coerced by the caucus into sup
port of the tariff bill. This was part
of Senator Williams reply;
Satan Rebuking Sin.
Mr.. President, l hope we may go
ahead with the consideration of these
paragraphs, although l. think 1t
would be we'll to have the chaplain
recalled for a moment in order to
render thanks to Almighty God for
the conversion of the senator from
PENNSYLVANIA (Mr. Penrose). In an
old German story early in my life
| read a rebuke which was entitled,
Satan Rebuking Sin I never eX-
pected to see that reproduced, even in
dim innuendo, but 1 have seen it this
morning. To hear the senator from
PENNSYLVANIA rebuking secrecy and
partisanship is almost equal to the
devil rebuking sin.
ut is pretty hard for the senator
from Pennsylvania to recognize the
fact that he is a minority, and. so far
as his particular stripe OF republic
canism is concerned, that he is a
woefully infinitesimal insignificant
minority. 1t is mighty hard to be
tumbled down from precipice OF
arrogant dominion thousand feet
high to an abyss of oblivion a thous-
and feet deep politically, and stand
it without growing in self-defense
more or less progressive himself.
Is Idle Verbiage.
But when the senator talks about
the caucus 'coercing' US, or the presl-
dent 'coercing us, that is idle YER
biage cast upon the circunambient
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29

NEW York; Pittsburg dis
patch to the Herald quotes the direc-
tor of the Pittsburg health depart
ment as saying: In looking over
my statistics I find that there has
been a slight increase in nervous dis
eases among young men this sum
mer, and 1 strongly suspect that the
slashed skirt has had something to
do with it. But : believe that by
restricting the length of the slash all
will be well.
Personally, have taken little no
tice of the new skirt, for l am a
home-loving man and careful about
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
GROWING COTTON IN INDIA
IS FAST REPLACING THE OTHER
CROPS IN THAT COUNTRY.
Government Seed Farms Are Vastly
Improving Product. Two Million
Acres Under Cultivation.

Cotton is the chief Industrial crop
of Southern India and the expansion
in it's cultivation has been one of the
most noteworthy features of recent
years, exports havig more than
doubled in quantity and more than
trebled in value within the last de-
cade, says a recent report by United
States Consul Henry D. Baker, on
special commercial service. This has
been due chiefly to the introduction
of Cambodia cotton, the cultivation
of which seems much better suited
to the country than the kind known
as Tinnevelly, which had previously
been almost the only kind grown.
CambOdia Cotton.
Cambodia cotton closely resem bles
the American upland variety and
fiourishes as a heavily MANFRED and
irrigated crop. The first attempt to
grow it as an ordinary dry crop
failed, but its success under irriga-
ton has been so great that during
the last five years of the decade end
ed in 1912 it's output has expanded
from 40 bales of 500 pounds each to
an estimate of $4,000 bales. This
cotton gives high percentage of lint
to seed and a good length and quality
of fiber. In money value it is esti-
mated that one acre will produce lint
valued at SIS, as against a value of
only about $3.50 from ordinary
Tinnevelly cotton on dry land.
Cambodia cotton cultivation in
southern India is now sufficiently
profitable to be replacing such valu-
able crops as tobacco and chillies.
By the establishment of the gov
eminent seed farms the quality and
quantity of cotton grown per acre
are showing considerable increase. In
1911 the area under cotton cultiva-
ton in the Madras presidency was
|2.317.O45 acres as against 2,02S, 53S
acres in 1910 and 1851 zoo acres in
1902. In the native state of Mysore.
where cotton is also an important
crop, the acreage under cultivation
in 1911 was 1O1, 591, as against ST.
l484 for the previous year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
PAINTING ON GRAIN OF CORN
Remarkable Landscape Exhibited as
a Curio Just Recovered After Be-
ing Lost Forty Years.

NEW YORK.-Samuel T. Schultz
Of Camden, N. j., whose scenic and
mural painting studio is at Whining
ton Del. has, despite lifetime spent
IN painting subjects in heroic size,
the unique distinction of having
made the smallest landscape painting
IN the world, according to the World.
1t was executed on a grain of corn,
and the painter has only now recoV-
cred it after having lost possession
OF the picture for more than forty
years, in which it has Travelled
from art center to art center through
Europe attracting wide attention as
The tiniest painting on earth.
Charles A. Wise, dead many years
ago, but who had a wide reputation
as painter in his day, declared the
grain of corn landscape to be a mas
teFpiece of miniature painting. HaV-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29

ing lost track of the picture, which he
made in 1869, when he was only 10
years old, Schultz decided recently to
try to recover it.
He advertised in several foreign
newspapers, with the result that the
wee landscape came to him in it's orig
inal frame a few days ago, the paint
ing in color and line being as sharp
and clear as on the day of it's execu-
ton.
The grain of corn used cme
from an ear that Schultz as a lad
plucked on the estate of James Buch-
anan, fifteenth president of the Unit
ed States, at Wheatland, Pa. He
had gone there to attend the express
ident's funeral and plucked the ear
of corn as a souvenir.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
HOW FRANK RECEIVED NEWS
OF HIS CONVICTION. CON-
LEY HAD NO COMMENT.

ATLANTA, Cat was exactly
$50 o'clock before Frank knew of
the jury's verdict.
Seated in his quarters in the Tow
er the prisoner and his wife chatt9d
of things to come in the future. They
both smiled and appeared happy at
the apparent thought that the setting
sun would bring him freedom.
In the office of Sheriff Mangum,
located on the first floor Of the Tow
er, Rabbi Marx and group Of
staunch friends of the accused debat-
ed as to whom would bring the mes
sage and shatter the one remaining
ray of hope they had buoyed up in
the prisoner. Several close friends Of
Frank. including DR.. Rosenberg, the
family physician, were summoned on
the telephone and asked to hasten to
the prison and convey the news to the
prisoner.
DIR. Rosenberg Arrives.
Just a few minutes after $50 Dr.
Rosenberg, the Frank family physi-
clan, arrived at the jail. He was
persuaded to convey the news to the
prisoner and his wife.
Frank was seated at the right side
of his wife. They were both smiling.
Around them grouped male friends.
Intuition probably told Them that bad
news was coming, for on the face OF
each one disappointment and sorrow
could be read. AS Rabbi Marx fol-
lowed closely by Dr. Rosenberg en-
tered the cell. Frank left his seat
to greet them.
81 am glad you came up" Frank
assured his family physician.
Rabbi Marx, solemn and detected,
moved to where DR.. B. Wildauer and
other friends were seated. There
were traces of tears in his eyes.
Leo, the jury has found you gull
ty," DIR. Rosenberg said.
luIiuChtCu ny -hOD GN"s
The silence was dreadful. Mrs.
Frank cudd1ed closer to her boyish
looking husband. There was a wild
stare in her eyes. No one in the cell
seemed to grasp the meaning of the
fearful news Only Frank seemed to
be composed.
my God! Even the jury was influ-
enced by mob law!' he exclaimed.
Mrs. Frank threw her arms about
the neck of her husband and sobbed
bitterly Frank smiled at her. He
stroked her head and pleaded with
her to be brave He spoke hurriedly
to DR.. Rosenberg and Rabbit Marx
and Mrs. Frank was persuaded to
leave the jail. She was weeping as
she came through the main corridor
which was thronged with newspaper
reporters. DR.. Rosenberg on one side
and Rabbi Marx on the other, Mrs
Frank was hurried to an auto and
driven away. She would not answer
the queries of a half dozen reporters
who gathered about the car.
Rabbi Marx returned to the prison
er in his cell. When he came down
stairs he told the reporters thai
Frank had no statement to make, ant
/ had offered no comment.
Frank Asserts Innocence.
Shortly afterward DR.. Wndauel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
Silt Skirts Make Young Men
Nervous, Declares This Physician

matters of this kind. And I do not
know why young men should be so
closely observant of ankles have
always judged women by their eyes.
1 have found it much better way.
Ankles are deceiving.
The Ladies Like EN-.
THE ladies seem to like slit skirts.
And I am for anything that pleases
the ladies'. In that way think that
the slit skirt may do some good, be-
cause people are never sick when
they are we'll pleased And if the
good ladies want it, why. my good
ness! why not let them have it,"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
AeroHte Drops From SKY and
Vines out To1Dn of Several Hundred

but blackened masses of smouldering
cinders remained of farm houses, hay
lofts. trees and gathered crops of
hay, wheat and olives.
The whole population of Aleover
was at the moment attending a re-
ouiem service in the church, some
two miles distant. But for that cir
eumstance the loss of life would have
been terrible.
The ground was covered in places
to a depth of five inches by stones. A
pungent odor of sulphur pervaded
the locality for hours after the phe-
nomenon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29

The village of AIcoer, near Valen-
VA SPAN, has been wiped out ana
I1e surrounding country ravaged by
an aerolite of great size. From
cioudless sky there suddenly dropped
d great lurid ball of fire. A deafen-
ing series of detonations like thous-
and rifle shots resounded through
the still atmosphere and, scattering
tongues of flames in all directions
the heavy mass buried itself in the
earth.
Surrounding Country Burned.
The surrounding country was set
On ire and within an hour nothing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
BRILLIANT RUNNING DEBATE IN SENATE

atmosphere for self-amusement.
When a dozen men with a common
purpose meet and determine upon
methods by which they shall accom-
plish a common purpose, and eight of
them advocate a certain method of
accomplishing the common end and
two more another, and one another,
and one still another, and they final
ly arrive at a given result, nobody is
'coerced;' everybody has merely
shown common sense-the common
sense which results in concert of &C
ton.
''It was only General Hancock who
called the tariff local issue and was
heartily laughed at by the statesmen
of his time. Succeeding statesmen,
however, have again and again al
legged the truth of his statement, but
never was it demonstrated more
forcibly than on the recent occasion
when Senator Nelson of Minnesota
attacked the tobacco clause of the
tariff bill.
Laboring Mans Burden.
81 believe it is Just and proper to
put a high tax on cigars, because
they are a luxury not consumed by
the ordinary workingman," quoth
Senator Knute; "and as to cigarettes,
I believe their use is deleterious, and
for that reason the higher the tax the
better. 1t would be we'll if they could
be taxed out of use. But when it
comes to plain, old-fasbioned smok-
ing tobacco, and good, old-fashioned
plug tobacco, to tax them is a burden
upon the laboring man."
Whereupon Uncle Knute sat down.
bit off a generous Chew" and pres
emily squirted copious brown stream
into the cuspidor that stands always
by his desk for that purpose. Old
General Hancock wasn't so far
wrong.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
WILL WOODARD RUM
70 QUESTION THAT is UP IN
ATLANTA, AND is ANSWERED
AS EASILY AS
Will A HORSE EAT HAY ?
Has Accomplished a Great Deal To-
ward Strengthening City's Financial
condition Despite Hostility of the
r,unciI. Influential Following.

Condition DCSp1tC AACSbhANJ VI OAAS
CoupciI. Influential Following.
ATLANTA.-Unless all signs fail
lanes G. Woodward, stormy petrol
a. Atlanta politics, three times may
~ and holder of many other offices,
i again grooming himself for office,
once again the mayoralty.
His effort at the present time is t
force the members of the council to
obon expenses in every way, and to
boon the income and the outgo of
tho civ even, so that when he leaves
oficA this time, if he should decide to
osk another term, he could tell them
that he found the city in debt and
that he is leaving Office with accounts
all balanced.
He has been greatly handicapped
nv the fact that council has been
hostile to him since the very begin
ming and that of the thirty members
no could seldom count on more than
sfv or seven who would stand by
him.
Time after time he has sent his
veto TO the general body only to have
measures passed over it, although it
REQUIRES a two-thirds vote.
His veto has been over-ridden
more than that of any other mayor
that the present generation can re-
call. but this does not worry the
mayor.
u can't stop you, I know" he said
IN council some time ago, but l
can tell the people of the city where
their money is going, and I can tell
them Just about as loud as any man
that ever held this office"
He has been able, however, to ac-
compIish a great deal despite the hos
tility of those opposing him by viz
tue of the publicity his actions have
caused. He has insisted that every
thing the city does be done in legal
manner, and this has helped to check
up a whole lot of looseness that once
prevailed in keeping accounts in the
city offices here.
His one strong hold has been in the
law which makes it necessary for the
mayor 10 sign all checks. In case he
doesn't sign the money can't be col
lected. and so when all other means
of fighting his opponents have been
exhausted if Woodward feels that
money has been or is being illegally
spent he simply refuses to sign, and
that ends it until the courts have
been appealed to, and that is long
and expensive way of settling diff
culties.
The mayor, however, is not at all
ayerse to appealing to the courts on
his own behalf, as was shown in the
crematory fight, which he carried to
the courts through friends, when he
was beaten in council. This action
was taken because he felt that
$27G,O0O was too much to pay for
crematory and because he said the
city did not have the right to assume
moral obligation; that is, to bind
succeeding councils to pay the debts
of the present one. He won out, and
finally a compromise was agreed to
by which the plant was secured for
immediate payment and some S16,-
600 reduction in price.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
DECLINES
STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCA-
TION INDICATES GREAT PROG
RESS Is BEING MADE.
WHITES ONLY Sc PER CENT

1iINS quarters VI a. 4AAAAOh AZ
of school Age, With Whites Pre-
dominating by $4,000. Other
Facts Shown by Recent Census.
Illiteracy among children of school
age, from to is years, in Georgia
has decreased "a per cent during
the past five years, according to the
1913 school census just compiled and
published by the state department Of
education.
This census shows the number of
children of school age to be 96,2O3
as compared to 1856, All in 1908, the
increase being 6O,732. OF the total
number 429, AGO are white children
and 366,734 colored; the INCREASE in
whites is 1929, while that of the
colored is 17,499; white males of
school age number 21S,337; white
females, 211,123; colored males,
17S,9SS; colored females, 1S7,755.
1t will be seen that the white males
outnumber the white females, but
that the reverse is true of the colored
children.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-29
72,S4O IlIiterates.

The total number of illiterate chill
drel in 1913 is 72,S4O against ST.
400 in 1908. White illiterates total
Is, $40 and colored 57,522. The per
cent of white illiteracy is SO, while
that of colored is 1871. There are 312
blind children of school age, ia
white and 1873 colored. In 1908
there were 1S4 blind children, "a
white and 80 colored.
Total number of deaf and dumb is
331 white and 12S colored, as COM
pared to a total of 3O3 in 1908; III
white and 1872 colored.
Total number of idiots $50; white
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-29
Quicksilver.

Quicksilver or mercury is miner
al used for centuries in many ways
and sought after all over the world.
The people of ancient days got all
their mercury from deposit OF ore
known as cinnabar at a place called
Almaden in Spain. This mine had a
monopoly of the market of the world
for ages. With the discovery of Amer
ica came the uncoveripg OF vein OF
cinnabar of great riches just south OF
San Jose. There were two mines
opened there, one at New Almade and
the other at Guadalupe. These mines
with the old one in Spain, still divide
the market of the world in supplying
it with mercury. After all these
years comes the discovery OF new
ledge near the old one known as the
Guadalupe mine.-Los Angeles Times.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-29

The good priest dropped on his
knees before her and prayed tnat she
would have mercy.
81 have said the words" answered
the queen, and no power under Hea-
ven can make me unsay them"
Then she left the room, and Monal-
deschi was left with the priest and
the three .executioners. He groveled
on his kuees in sickening way: like
Monmouth at the feet of King James,
and implored the priest to make one
more effort. So the priest went to
Cnristiana and begged for the wretch
ed mans life, but she was adamant.
LIE Bel returned to the gallery and
announced that his errand had been
useless.
Prepare yourself to die!" cried the
chief of the executioners, and the
marquis and the priest prayed togetn-
er. Then the butchery began. The
MARQUIS wore suit of mail under
his clothes and this turned the
swords of the executioners, so they
hacked him over the head and neck,
and he dragged himself over the
floor like wounded snake, and call
ed God for mercy. But there was no
mercy for him in heaven or on earth.
One of the butchers finally stabbed
him in the throat and ended his mis-
cry.
At that period murders were not
regarded seriously, but even callous-
ed France was indignant over this
barbarous crime. The Cardinal Maz-
arm, whose conscience wasn't at all
sensitive, wrote officially to Chris
tiana saying "a crime so atrocious
must be considered sufficient excuse
for banishing your majesty from the
court and dominions of the king, who,
with every honest man, felt horrihed
at the lawless outrage just commit
ted on the soil of France.
The reply of Queen Christiana is
one of the finest examples of pure
insolence in all the archives OF his
tory. 1t is too long to be reproduced
here, but the following paragraph in
dicates it's sentiments:
Understand, all of you, servants,
and masters, little people and great,
that it was my sovereign pleasure to
act as 1 did. I neither owe nor rem
der an account Of my actions to any
one-least of all to bully like you.
But she left France in a hurry just
the same Three years later the
cousin in whose favor she had abdi-
Gated died, and she returned to
Sweden with the intention of wearing
the crown again. But the brave and
honest people of Sweden refused to
be governed by a murderess, and she
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-29
REVENGE RUINED QUEENS LIFE.
Became Wanderer After The Brutal
Murder of Her Faithless Lover.

Queen Christiana of Sweden, only
daughter of the great and good Gusta-
vus Adolphus, kept all the gossips OF
Europe in a ferment for many years,
{ After holding down the throne of her
father for four years, she voluntarily
abdicated in favor of her cousin, in
order that she might travel and enjoy
herself. At that, period she was young
and beautiful and the most learned
and accomplished woman of her time,
and it is not strange that the "Wel-
come to Our City" sign was hung out
whenever she deigned to visit a burg
Toward the close of the year 1857
sne honored France with her pres
ence, and the palace of Fontainebleau
was turned over to her with the COM
pliment9 of the season. She was at
tended by royal retinue Of servants,
and also by her grand equerry, the
Marquis Monaldeschi.
This gentleman, as his name sug-
gests, was an Italian, and for con-
siderable time had been the queen
favorite. They we're recognized as
lovers, and, since the queen had abdi-
Gated, it seemed more than possible
that they would be married and to go
Housekeeping. The marquis was ex-
traordinarily handsome and gifted in
I all the graces and polite mannerisms
mof the time. He was charming man,
t entirely unscrIpulous. When
took him away from his royal
ess they wrote love letters, just
mary people do, and the letters
arouis always breathed undy-
Sion. And, while thus con-
he queen that he lived for
he was quietly laying siege
Roman girl Of wealth and
letters to this girl he ridicul-
1een shamefully, applying
Gus names to her; and, not
with this baseness, he sent
the queens love letters to
she might enjoy a good
But Nemesis was on the false
trail.
ERE was a certain cardinal who
hong been jealous OF the marquis,
who was anxious to be the
ems favorite. The cardinal had
spies, and soon learned the de-
5 of Monaldeschi's treachery. By
he means he secured possession of
entire correspondence with the
oman girl and turned the letters
over to the queen. Chris stiana must