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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25

If you can't visit China yourself
do the next best thing; get a peep
into the notebook of one who has.
1 recently got such glimpse at
one little corner of the land of Con-
fucius. I talked with Mrs. Irwin,
wife of DR.. Henry w. Irwin, who is
Methodist medical missionary at
KuIing, China, formerly stationed at
Wuhu. Mrs. Irwin kindly gave me
the facts herein set forth.
The country surrounding Wuhu,
which is on the Yang Use Kiang, sew
eral hundred miles inland, is part
of the country so recently visited by
flood and famine The wide stretch
ing valley lands are low and in con-
sequence very much at the mercy OF
the great river in time of flood. the
climate is cold in winter with con-
siderable snow even in the lowlands,
and with an extremely enervating
heat in midsummer Rice is the
principal crop and the little, irregu-
lar Chinese farms, resembling truck
patches. each with its rice paddy and
wretched, mud-walled, straW-rooted
howell. meet the eye for miles in ev-
cry direction.
The typical dwelling of the chi
nese farmer of the very poor class
which is the most numerous class
is an unsightly hut or howell with a
dirt floor, four walls Of mud brick
and a roof matched with bamboo
and straw. There is little furniture
and that of the crudest make, the
most elaborate fixture being the cot
fin of the master of the house. This
coffin, made of thick slabs OF lacquer
wood rudely adorned, is part OF
every household Pending its ulti-
mate use it serves general utility
purposes; it may do duty as ward
robe or baby cradle, house brood OF
chickens or even shelter a pig.
The Chinese housewife does her
cooking on a stove clumsily con-
structed of adobe bricks Usually as
+be mother stirs the rice which is
boiling in a kettle a small girls pokes
fuel into the stove to keep the lire
going. The poking must be constant
for the fuel is such unsubstantial
stuff as straw, paper or other refuse
that will burn, and even this fuel is
very expensive and is used for moth
ing but cooking, even in mid-winter.
The cook stove has no pipe nor
has the matched roof any hole Tor
the escape of smoke. This being so
one can imagine the condition OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
MONUMENT TO THE INDIAN
A UNIQUE Ceremony VIII Mark the
Breaking of Ground in the
New York HarbOr.

NEW YORK,-At Fort Tompkins,
near the narrows, the highest spot in
New York harbol, ground will be
broken next Saturday, Washington S
birthday, for the erection of me-
mortal to the North American In
dian. according to the announcement
tonight.
President Taft, attended by mem
bers of his cabinet, the announce
ment states, will come here to inau-
gurate the movement for the erection
of the monument, which congress
has authorized, and landing from a
warship which will convey him
down the narrows, he will turn the
first shovelful of earth and make an
address.
Participants in the unique ce7emo-
nv will be the governor of New
York. the mayor of the city and thir-
tv war chiefs of the Western Indian
tribes.
To one of these chiefs will be al
lotted the task of digging earth with
the thigh-bone of the buffalo, after
Indian fashion.
The guns of the fort will then fire
salute, and the Indians, as repre-
sentatives of the first Americans, will
hoist the Stars and Stripes to the
rythm of Indian music, composed for
the occasion.
AS the flag is mastheaded the band
will play the Star Spangled Banner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
CALLEDDOWN WHILE PRAYING
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Said
Minister Was Making a Politi-
cal Speech,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Lieutenant
Governor O'Neill caused a sensation
in the senate today when he stopped
Rev. E. R. Henry of the Emanuel
Baptist church of this city, who was
making the opening prayer, and said:
stop making a political speech. )"
The Minister had prayed for the
separation of the rum traffic from
the state and for the day when In
diana would refuse to sell to men
the right to make other men drunk
ards, murderers, filling prisons and
benevolent institutions.
The lieutenant governor pounded
the marble slab with his gavel and
commanded the minister to stop.
Then he ordered the journal to be
read and Rev. Mr.. Henry immediate
ly left the chamber.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
FARM HOMES OF CHINA.
The Utter Wretchedness Squalor and Poverty OF Agrcu
tural Life Among the Teeming Millions OF Far Cathay

things at meal times. Two unfortu-
nate but inevitable results grow out
of this seemingly inexcusable smoke
nuisance. One is the prevalence OF
sore eyes and blindness among the
country folk The dense smoke OF
| the cook stove makes the eyes smart
This invites rubbing, which causes
in turn, weakened eyesight, infiamed
lids, elongated and ingrowing lashes
and other disorders of the eye. A
large percentage of the cases treated
at the missionary clinics are cases OF
eye trouble.
The other result of this childish
neglect is, very naturally, frequent
fires. The poor Chinese farmer does
not burn his house for the insurance.
And electric wires to get crossed and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
INDIANS SEE TAFT DIG
IN PRESENCE OF 26 CHIEFS HE
BREAKS LAND FOR MEMO
RIAL TO RED MAN.
SPENDS AN EVENTFUL DAY

Also Dedicates Light House" for
Blind and Then Speaks on Peace,
Following at Night With an Adj
dress to Sons of the Revolution.
NEW YORK.-President Taft,
making what is probably his final
public appearance outside of Wash
ington before retiring from the white
house, spent one of the most eventful
days he has ever passed in this city
Saturday.
Arriving here from Washington in
| time for breakfast the president was
taken here and there about the city
! by an automobile and tug boat, at
! tending several functions as guest of
| honor
During the day he broke ground
| for an Indian monument overlooking
the harbor, dedicated a lighthouse"
settlement for the blind after watch
ing sightless children drill, attended
a private reception of the Sons of the
Revolution at the tavern where
Washington read his farewell address
and tonight spoke at dinner of the
American Peace and Arbitration
League, which presented him with a
gold medal in recognition of his eff
forts in behalf of universal peace.
Watch Great White Father"
A band of Indian chiefs from West
ern reservations watched the Great
White Father" overturn patch of
earth with a spade at the spot where
a sixty-foot statue of an Indian war
rior, the national American Indian
memorial, will arise at Fort Wads-
worth. The Red Man also signed an
oath of allegiance to the United
States after President Taft, in a brief
speech, referred to the North Amer
lean Indian as "a force with great
and immediate influence upon the
settlement and development to this
country by the white races"
The lighthouse" which the pres
ident dedicated is the new club build |
ing of the New York Association for
the Blind in East Fifty-ninth street, |
of which he laid the cornerstone a
year ago. Miss Helen Keliar sat at
the presidents right. Joseph II.
Choate, former ambassador to Eng
land, presided at the ceremonies.
Blind boy scouts saluted the presi-
dent as he entered the lighthouse"
an acted as his guard of honor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25

| nu6S TO get out OF OrueT are luHoFa-
tions of western civilization which
have not yet reached the districts
around Wuhu. The Oriental explain
alton is that the fire god sometimes
allows the smoke and sparks in es-
Gaping through the roof to ignite it..
| And to Dropitiate this sudden anger
of the fire god the neighbors must
not aid a family thus burned out for
the space of three days. For just the
same reason one must not try to save
drowning person for fear of anger
ing the water god.
The water supply of the Chinese
farm home is even more Wretched
than the cooking arrangements, and
apparently as inexcusable. There
are no wells, but water both for
drinking and cooking is obtained
from pond or pool of standing wa
ter which forms a part of most Chi
nese farm yards. The water of these
pools in summer becomes stagnant
and tends to gather a green scum
except as it is kept stirred by the
water buffalo and the pigs and ducks.
Yet out of the same puddle comes
the family water supply. And the
only safeguard against epidemic is
the universal practice of boiling the
water.
This close connection of the fam
lily with the domestic animals does
not stop with the water. The pigs
and the poultry have free access to
the house at all hours. At meal
times the swine run under the table,
catching what falls, like mamma from
above. and at night the whole COM
munity. parents, children, pigs, dogs
and chickens, all sleep together IN
the house: the domestic animals in
natures covering, the family each
wrapped in a ''puga" or heavy blank
ct. This simple arrangement seems
to serve two purposes. 1t helps TO
keep everybody warm in winter when
fuel for heating purposes is too ex-
pensive a luxury, and it safeguards
against robbers. who infest the coun-
try districts.
Heavy clothing is in the absence OF
fuel for heating in winter the only
protection against cold. AS the cold
weather comes on thick, blanket-like
garments are put on, one at time
These garments are never removed,
day or night. until spring and warm
weather again appear, when, as the
warmth increases, the garments are
discarded. one by one, until, some
where under the walking bundle, ap-
pears the form OF the wearer him
self. The effect of this mode of life,
generation after generation, on pub
lie health is hard to imagine.
The pride of every Chinese family
is the first born son, who is to in
herit the ancestral home and become
the support of his parents in their
old age. Happy is that family with
many boys and corresp pndingly mis-
cradle are those parents whose Off
spring run to girls, who are not near
ly so valuable as the water buffalo,
nv whose help the loads are drawn
and and the rice paddles cultivated,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25

Mrs. S. S. s., VanBuren ST., King
ston, N. Y, (full name furnished Oh
application had such decided bene-
fit from using Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound that she shares ner good
fortune with ithers. She writes:
"Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
brought my voice back to me during
a severe case of bronchitis and lar
yngitis. Oh, how many people l have
recommended it to-" Dawson Drug
Company.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
NO NEED TO STOP WORK.

When the octors order you to
stop eating it staggers you. I can't
you say. You know you are weak,
rundown and failing in health day
by day, but you must work as long
as you can stand. What you need is
Electric Biters to give tone, strength
and vigor to your system, to proven
breakdown and build you up. Don
be weak, sickly or ailing when Elec-
trio Bitters will benefit you from the
first dose. Thousands bless them fo'
their glorious health and strength,
Try them. Every bottle is guaran-
teed to satisfy. Only so cents al
Dawson Drug Cos.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
AN EDITOR AT CHURCH.
Tells in His Paper of What He Heard
and Saw.

Says a Kansas editor: eve at
tended church a few days ago, and
listened to a good sermon. We also
enjoyed the singing, and stood up
with the brothers and sisters as they
sang that good old hymn: Shall we
Know each other there?' While it
was being sung we looked about us
ana counted 80 members of the CON
sfegation who did not speak to each
olher On the street and elsewhere.
Ine thought occurred to us why they
should know each other there when
'"ey seemingly didn't know each 9th
er here
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
Parcel Post Trade.

We will make a speciality of the Parcel
Post trade, because we realize the country
peoples difficulty in obtaining Drugs and
Medicines in case of sickness. We will de-
liver all orders received by us by Parcel
Post free of charge. This means that your
order will be delivered at your very door,
charges paid by us. All you have to do
is to telephone or mail US your wants and
they will be filled and sent to you the same
day received.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
4 COnundrum.

From the Greensboro Herald
With the American women too an
gelic and the English women too dew
ilish to vote how in the Sam Hill are
they going to make the thing work?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25

Hives, eczema, itch IT salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
of your clothing. DoaD's Ointment is
fine for skin itching. Ali druggists
sell it, so cents a box
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
Announcement


We have opened Drug business at
the Nasworthy stand next to the
poStoffice, and take pleasure in an
nouncing that our store will strive to
meet the peoples need in all that
they may require in the drug line.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-06-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior

U. S. Land Office at Duluth, Mimi, April
18th, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Frank G. Bass.
whose post-office address is Minneapolis,
Mimi, did on the 10th day of June. 1912, file
in this 0 flee sworn statement and applica-
ton No OIO346. to purchase the E1a SWA of
Section Is, Township So North. Range IL
West 4th Principal Meridian, and the timber
thereon, under the provisions of the act of
June 3. 1873 and acts amendatory, known as
the Timber and Stone Law" at such value
as might be fixed by appraisement. and that,
pursuant to such application, the land and
timber thereon have been estimated. and
valued by applicant the timber estimated,
$50 eds. Tagging board feet at soc per ca. and
the land $1,000; that said applicant will offer
final proof in support Of his application and
sworn statement on the 18th day OF july
1873 before the Register and Receiver. u. S.
Land Office. at Duluth, MINI.
Any person is at liberty to protest this
purchase before entry, or initiate contest
at any time before patent issues. by filing
a corroborated affidavit in this office. alleg-
ing facts which would defeat the entry.
Claimant names as witnesses: Samuel
A. Barsh, Peter o. Lee. Barney Eden, A d.
Mcdonald and G. w. Eden OF Duluth. Mimi,
and Chas. E. Fish of Minneapolis. Mimi.
Charles Il. Hartman, Register.
w. Ii. SMALLwooD. Atty. 5-l6 I'LL
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Notice for Publication.
Department of the Interior.
!. Land Office mt Duluih Mimi.

Department of the Interior.
u, $. Land Office at Duluth. Mimi,
April IL. 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Frederick j.
Burucker whose post-ofiice address is st.
file in this office Sworn Statement and APP
plication. No. Ol0364. to purchase the SWA
NWA VIZ SWA Sec. Is and NWA NWA
Section % Township 81 N. Range II West
4th p. m. and the timber thereon, under the
provisions of the act of June 3, 1878. and acts
amendatory known as the Timber and
Stone Law" al such value as might be fixed
by appraisement, and that. pursuant to such
application, the land and timber thereon
have been estimated and valued by ap-
plicant the timber estimated 100000 board It.
at $500 per NJ, and the land nothing; that
said applicant will offer final proof in sup
port OF his application and sworn statement
on the END day of July, 1913, before the
Register and Receiver of the U. S. Land
Office at Duluth, Mimi.
ANY person is at liberty to protest this
purchase before entry, or initiate a con-
test at any time before patent issues, by fl
ing corroborated affidavit in this office,
alleging facts which would defeat the entry.
Claimant names as witnesses; Samuel
Barsh, Barney Eden, Samuel Hanson, Peter
Lee and G, w. Eden all of Duluth. Mimi.
Charles f. Hartman. Register.
W. II. SMALLwooD, Atty. 5-16 I'll
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
U. S. Land Office at Duluth, Minnesota,

u ,. Land once at Duluth Minnesota,
May. 2, 1873
Notice is hereby given that Lewis III.
Grimsrud, whose post-office address is SUI
perior, Wis, did on the 1st day of July,
1912, file in this office sworn statement
and application, No. Ol039O. to purchase the
SEA Wa Sec. II and lot Sec. 10. Township
63 North, Range IL West, 4th D. M
and the timber thereon. under the provis-
ions of the act of June 3. 1878. and acts amen
datory. known as the Timber and Stone
Law" at such value as might be fixed by
apprasement. and that pursuant to. such
application, the land and timber thereon
plicant the timber estimated, 800 eds lag
ging board feet at SOC per M and the land
$4,000: that said applicant will offer final
proof in support of his application and
sworn statement on the 28th day of July,
1913, before the Register and Receiver of the
U. S, Land Office, at Duluth, Mimi.
Any person is at liberty to protest this
purchase before entry, or initiate contest
at any time before patent issues by filing a
corrobvrated affidavit in this office. alleging
facts which would defeat the entry.
Claimant names as his witnesses: Gustav
Hotf. Oscar Friedrich Lindberg, A. D. Nc
Donald, Superior Wis, and Samuel A
Barsh of Duluth, MINI.
Charles f. Hartman, Register
W. ii, Smallwood, Atty, 5-23 7-18
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of the Interior

DtpdTJu1cub OI bn6 1QUcrlOF
U. S. Land Office at Duluth, Minnesota.
May 2. 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Gustav Hoff,
whose post-office address is Superior, Wis.
did on the LIST day of July, 1912. file In this
Office Sworn Statement and Application No.
Ol03So. to purchase the Lot 3 and NWA SEA,
Section IL Tp 50 N. Range IL West. 4th d.
IN, and the timber thereon. under the pro-
visions OF the act of June 3. 1878. and acts
amendatory, known as the Timber and
Stone Law" at such value as might be fixed
by appraisement. and that, pursuant
TO such application, the land and timber
thereon have been estimated and valued
by the applicant, the timber estimated
$40 cords OF tagging board feet at SOC per cd
and the land $4,000: that said applicant will
offer final proof in support of his application
and sworn statement on the 18th day of July
1913, before the Register and Receiver. of
the U. S. land Office, at Duluth. Minnesota.
Any person is at liberty to protest this
purchase before entry, or initiate contest
at any time before patent issues, by filing
a corroborated affidavit in this Office alleg-
ing facts which would defeat the entry.
Claimant names as his witnesses: Oscar
II. Lindberg. Lewis H, Grimsrud, A. ID. Nc
Donald of, Superior, Wis, and Samuel A i.
Barsh. Duluth. Mimi.
Charles f. Hartman, Register.
w. Ii. SmalIwood, Atty. 5-23 7-l8
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PURE FOOD LAWS
A Warning Issued to Housewives
and Others

Two new food laws, passed by the
legislature of 1918, have been call
ed to public attention in bulletins
issued by Joel G. Winkjer, state
dairy and food commissioner, with
announcement that both will be en-
forced. One absolutely prohibits
the sale of preserving compounds
containing boric acid or other sub
stances injurious to health, and
supplements prior law forbidding
the sale of foods preserved with
such compounds.
l trust the housewives of Mime
sofa, in whose interest this bulletin
is written, will realize that the
health of the family will be best
promoted by refusing to use can
ming compounds, the chief purpose
of whose sale is the financial gain
is the promoters" says Mr.. Wink
jer.
The other act makes it an offence
to prepare or store food in insan-
itary places. This law, in brief,
provides that No person, firm or
corporation shall operate any bak-
cry, confectionery, creamery,
dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, lab
oratory, depot, restaurant, cafe,
dining room or eating house, fruit
box or receptacle, fruit stand or
vehicle of any kind, packing or
slaughter house, ice cream plant,
or any where any fruit or any food
products are manufactured, pack
ed, stored, Deposited, collected
prepared, produced or served for
the purpose of sale or profit, or
sold for any purpose whatever,
where the same is in fifty, unclean
or insaitary condition
The penalty may be a fine of
from SIS to 500 for the first offence
and for subsequent offences not
less than 500 fine and imprison-
ment up to sixty days.
The law is SO plain that no one
can misunderstood it" said Du-
luth official, in discussing the new
law Yesterday.
1t means that food shall be man
ufactured clean, stored, served OF
sold clean, and persons who supply
the public shall themselves be
clean as we'll as all surroundings.
The huckster and sidewalk vender
must protect their wares from dust
and dirt as well as insects. We are
aware that there are many merch-
ants who take pride i'll the cleanly
conditions of both store and stock
On the other hand, we have the
careless merchant who must be
shown his errors and the necessity
of chang ing methods that now OBJ
solete. We expect to spend time
and money to bring about sanitary
conditions, but when it fails to pro-
duce results, we shall of necessity
be compelled to invoke the law fol
the protection of the public health
and in so doing the prosecutions
will be conducted as vigorously as
legal methods will permit.
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Application for liquor
license.
State of Minnesota, =,

State of Minnesota, eo
County of ST. Louis.
Notice is hereby given that applica-
tion has been made in writing to the
city council of the City of Ely and fill
ed in the office of the city clerk pray
ing for license to sell Intoxicating
liquors in the lower front room of the
building situated on lot l, block II, of
the original plat of the City of Ely,
and to the following named person,
tO-wit:
/. WALSH
for the term of one year, beginning
July 3rd, 1913, and ending July End,
1914.
Said application will be heard and
determined by said city council at the
council chambers in the city hall in
said city, county and state on July
lst, 1913,
Witness my hand and the seal of
said city this 10th day of June, 1913.
(seaD L. VISITED, JR., city clerk.
$40 q
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Notice For Publication.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
U. s. Land Office at Duluth, Minnesota

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
U. S. Land Office at Duluth Minnesota,
April IL, 1918
Notice is hereby given that Jake Niemi,
whose post-ofhce address is Kalavala, Mimi
did, on the 14th day of June, 1872 file in
this office Sworn Statement and Application,
No. O10359, to purchase the Lot 1, of Section 22
Township 90 North, Range West 4th Principal
Meridian and the timber thereon, under the
provisions of the act of June 3, 1873, and acts
amendatory. known as the Timber and Stone
Law, at such value as might be fixed by APP
praisement, and that pursuant to such applica-
ton, the land and timber thereon have been
estimated and valued by applicant the timber
estimated 10000 board feet at $3.50 per NJ. and
the land nothing; that said applicant will offer
final proof in support of his application and
sworn statement on the 18th day of July, 1918,
before the Register and Receiver of the U. S.
land office at Duluth Minnesota
ANY person is at liberty to protest this purchase
before entry, or initiate a contest at any time
before patent issues, by filing a corroborated
affidavit i'll this office, alleging facts which would
defeat the entry.
Claimant names as his witnesses: Shakespeare
Cramer Jack Kenney of Cramer, MINI. and
Charley Niemi and George Niemi of KalavaIa,
MINI.
CHARLES F. HARTMAN,
Register.
w. II. SAGALLWOOD, Attorney.
5-23 7-18