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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
HAS CARRIED BELL FOR 80 YEARS
Old Residents of RusselIville, Tenn,
Remember BuZzard Which APP
peared in North Georgia.

BRISTOL, Tenn.-A "belled buzz
gard" the jingle of whose bell was
recently heard in North Georgia, and
which is said to have been seen by a
number of persons, is believed to be
the same bird that was captured by
three Tennesseeans near Russellville,
Hawkins county, in 1883. These
men wired a bell to the buzzard S
neck. For several years after 1888
the jingle of the bell was heard
around Russellville, but later the
buzzard migrated, returning to its
old haunts occasionally, however. 1t
is several years since the tinkle of
its bell has been heard in Tennessee,
and the residents of Russellville
community are convinced that the
belled buZzard seen in Georgia is the
Tennessee product, and that it has
been one of the active members of it's
species all these years. If this Is the
same buzZard it may now be consid
cred upwards of 40 years old, for it
was grown when captured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
CONFIDENCE QUEEN IS BACK
Sophie Lyons, Worth $500, 900, Com
pletes Twentieth Tour of World.
Has FOresworn CroOkedness.

Completing her twentieth tour
around the globe Sophie Lyons,
whom the officers style the Conf
dence Queen; and who has been
been known as the cleverest woman
crook in the world, arrived the 9TH
er day in New York.
With her acknowledged 65 years,
and credited more, and with respect
for her increasing gray locks, she
has foresworn crookedness and taken
up literature. Her forthcoming
book, she says, will be THE crime
Queen" She has already published
one on ''Why Crime Does Not Pay. "
She claims to be worth half a mill
lion and to have lived on the levei
several years. Nevertheless the GUS
toms men insisted on examining the
interior of her jewel case, which was
fastened with a paddock All that
they found within was Jewish
prayer book, with the following
prayer marked: Thou, o Lord, hast
always been gracious to me, and hast
often sent me joys when | did least
deserve them. For all this aDund-
ance of thy goodness l humbly thank
thee"
Sophie Lyons claims to be the
daughter of a Holland Jew, named
VanElkan, although her name would
not indicate it. Rightfuily, it is
claimed, Burke belongs on the end
of her name. The bearer of that til
tie, Billy is his first name, is now in
a Swedish prison. Sophie came in
good style, first class on the Lor-
raine, wearing Partisan clothes and
bringing a number of trunks. Gus
toms men refused to accept her
statement that she had nothing du-
table and searched until they found
the prayer book.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
A CARNIVAL OF CRIME
CROOKS OF BOTH HIGH AND LOW
DEGREE INFEST ATLANTA.
Inefficiency of Police Department Is
Charged, and People Have Begun
&. Take Notice of Situation.

ATIIANTA.-That Atlanta has be-
come a nationally notorious easy
mark" for crooks of all kinds be-
cause of the utter inefficiency of the
city police department, and that the
only remedy is a complete reorgani-
cation.
The Atlanta newspapers, independ-
ent of political or other considera-
tions, are today admitting the situa-
ton, though no editorial suggestions
have been yet made as to the special
method of applying the remedy.
The present agitation has nothing
to do with the criticisms leveled at
Chief Beavers and the vice squad in
connection with men and religion re-
forms. 1t arises entirely from the
fact that burglars, pickpockets, BAN
dts, sneak thieves and safe-blowers
are continually victimizing Atlanta
tax payers, and that through some
body's fault the tax payers are not
getting their moneys worth in po-
lice protection.
The immediate thing that has
brought the dissatisfaction to a head
is the conjunction of crimes on one
night, when a train was held up and
robbed on the outskirts of Atlanta,
a business man had his pockets pick
ed of $500 in a downtown elevator
and a residence, that of Charles A.
Wickersham, in a suburb, burglar
lied of over $4,000 worth of dia-
monds.
Even the Atlanta Journal, which
never paints Atlanta black unless
for some real reason and with some
real hope of effecting improvement,
has been stirred into the use of such
headlines as Gang of Thieves De-
scends On Atlanta" and Climax of
Crime Carnival"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
The FIRST BLACK VIII. LAVE
The Trial of an Ink-Hued Coupl>, in
Michigan Provided Some Merri-
ment in the Court Room.

The first case tried in the United
States district court at The 500,
Mich, was the United States versus
James Newsome on charge of
white slavery" The defendant was
black man. The woman whom he
was accused of bringing from Supe-
rior, Wise, to The 500, Mich, and
consequently across the virtuous
lines of two sovereign states, was an
exceedingly black woman and gave
testimony in the case Defendants
attorney put everybody in good hu-
NOR especially the jurors) when in
his address to the jury he said
Before you can convict in this
case you must find beyond a reason
able doubt that the woman in the
case is white slave. If you say
that upon your, oaths, gentlemen,
suppose we must abide by your YER
dict. But permit me to say to you
after the case is over that I feel sure
you are color blind"
The jury acquitted the defendant.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
BILL HAS PASSED The HOUSE
Under Smith-Lever Measure Farm
Colleges to Get Funds. ApprO-
priation of $3.50. 900 Provided.

WASHINGTON.-The. agricultur-
al extension bill, providing for fed
eral aid in the dissemination of sci
entifc farm information, today was
passed by the house. Under the
measure various agricultural col
leges would receive federal funds to
finance plans for acquainting farm
ers with facts established by the de-
partment Of agriculture.
AS it passed the house the bill
would provide for an immediate APP
preparation of $480,0O0, of which
$4,000 would go to each state COM
plying with the requirements Of the
law. This appropriation would be
increased by 100000 each year for
nine years and after a ten-year peri
Cd would become a permanent annu-
al appropriation of 100000.
The bill was called up by Repre-
sentative Lever of South Carolina
and with less than hours debate was
rushed through.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
METHODIST WOMEN SEEK BALLOT
Want to Participate in Councils OF
Church, and Are Publishing
Paper to Help Their Cause.

ATLANTA.-The Suffrage move
ment has extended itself to the
church, and the Methodist women
are now becoming so ins1stent IN
their demand for the right to vote in
the church councils that they are
publishing a magazine in support OF
their contention. This magazine,
known as the Laity Advocate Is de-
voted almost exclusively to the claim
of the women members of the Meth
odist church to the right to partlcl-
pate by their votes in matters CON
corning the church.
The women aim, however, TO
bring about definite. action upon
their demand at the next meeting OF
the General Assembly of the Metno-
dist Episcopal Church, South, which
will be held in 1915. Many OF the
men of the church have long ADMIT
ted that the right to vote should be
accorded them, but they have never
sought support it in the councils
of the church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
RETURNS TO TRAPPISTS
JESUIT WHO QUIT THE ORDER
A YEAR AGO TO WED.
Father Buell. Was Formerly Presi-
dent of Georgetown University.
Places Wife in Catholic Home.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Father
David Hillhouse Buell., the former
president of Georgetown University,
who left the Jesuits a little more
than year ago and married, has
sent his wife to Catholic home and
he has secluded himself in the Trap
pist monastery at Gethsemane, near
Beardstown, Ky.
The Trappists maintain among
themselves a silence that is broken
only by religious chants and the
morning greeting, ''MeInento Mort, .
meaning remember death Each
day they remove little o. the dirt
from the hole that is to be their
grave.
Father Buell's mother was one Of
the famous Hillhouse family of New
Haven. He was born an Episcopal
ian and is an a1umnus of Yale. At
ter leaving college he became a
Catholic and an ardor for his adopt
ed faith led him to join the Jesuits.
He afterward became the head of
the university.
Met Girl in Hospital.
Father Buell. met Miss Frances
Powers of New York when she was
attending her brother, who was sick
at the university hospital. Powers
was then a scholastic under Father
Buell., and he has since been Ordain-
ed a Jesuit priest. Two of his sis
tiers are nuns in a Catholic convent.
An attachment grew up between
Father Buell. and Miss Powers, and
they correspondent for several years.
He was relieved of the presidency of
the college and after work at St.
Aloysius church in this city was re-
moved to a small parish in eastern
Maryland. He then notified his pro
vencial that he would leave the Jes-
uit order and a few weeks later his
friends were shocked when they
learned he had married Miss Powers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buell. took an apart
ment in New York, and he is suppos-
ed to have received some assistance
from members of his family, who
are wealthy.
A few days ago information came
to Washington of his latest move.
The circumstances under which he
entered the monastery at Gethsem-
ane are not known here. 1t is pre-
sumed that he was received under
probation and if he perseveres in a
determination to reassert his priestly
functions he may be allowed to join
the brotherhood. The monastery
where he will probably spend the re-
mainder of his life was established
INV tho French Monks in 1S4S The
only woman who has been in the
Gethsemane monastery was Mrs.
who went with her hus-
band, the governor of Kentucky. II
this average of women visitors is
maintained Father Buell. will never
see a woman again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
CHEAPER LIVINGISN near
,,cx GOODS POURING IN UN-
F0' LOWER TARIFF RATES.
ooo Bushels of Corn From Ar
SOO'Ot tine Unloaded in New York.
.,,iors Under Contract.

u.sHINGToN.-The free listing
W." w. and other food products un-
Of O0I , new tariff law is causing
DEL rs increases in the importa-
emu n foodstuffs into the United
s no4s ipdging from figures issued
S 0's by the Department OF Com
tOoa' Food importations in No
m'lt Sor showed a marked increase
''I imnorts for the same month a
o easr ago, and a considerable increase
s srs the preceding month OF octo-
wv 1mnortations of fresh beer,
Wei 'ht.b amounted to five and two
WV, WA million pounds in October
'H-- ,roctically doubled in Novem-
Tei0 When 10, 856,516 pounds Oh
9,b beef we're imported. More than
lIeST bo If of the beef imports came
9 9iD@ot from England. There were
a at6 0oo hounds of pork and $1,000
IIv,vd of mutton imported.
po CnttIa importations in November
Zoo ahorod 123,11S head, valued at
e ~ 306T23 against 43,758 head, val
% 1o at $S29,35S in November, l9Iz;
T Tgo f total number of cattle imported
i; INC oc sH and November under the
III nan Tariff tariff law was 253,757 They
a aUs valued at $6,704,79O.
Az INNOVATIONS of wheat in NoVem-
,oI -" Rere $4,000 bushels, against
S 20 ana bushels in November, 1912,
o ooi Of -four 1924 barrels, against
al barrels in November, 1917
Tmnortations of oats in November
I In1ro 5132.3O3 bushels against A.
S S;f OO0 bushels in November, 1912.
lamentations of potatoes were
7eI 26S bushels against 1865
bushels in November, 1912.
Corn From Argentine.
New York.-Nearly 100000 bush
ole Of Argentine corn were being un-
loaded in this port today and mil
ions more from the South American
reDublic are under contract. me
importations are the direct result OF
tbe removal of the duty on the staple
under the recent tariff act.
More than 100000 bushels have
been received in the United States
since the tariff went into effect and
already the competition with Amer1-
can corn has forced a decline in cash
values.
Thirteen ships are either en- route
here or are loading ingun 7re3.ol
here or loading with corn from. the
Argentine, and one American con-
Germ, which uses corn in manufac-
tured products, has 100000 bush
els from that country under contract
for delivery.
The corn already here found the
railroads unprepared to handle it,
and the port without adequate dock
ing facilities.
The fact that hitherto practically
no corn has ever moved here has con-
fronted the railroads with a new
rate problem.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
.DISAGREES WITH COLLEAGUES
A Case Where a Man Grabbed His
Pistol and Protected His Home
Reviewed by Appeals Court.

II must draw distinction be-
tween the man and the judge. AS
man 1 sympathize with the outraged
husband. i wish that the law might
be as announced by the majority. AS
iudgeI have nothing to do with
what the law ought to be, but only
with what it is"
In such language does Judge Pot
tie disagrees with his colleagues
Judges Russell and Roam, in pecul-
lar decision affecting the interpreted
ton of the act requiring all persons
carrying pistol to take out license
before the ordinary.
The majority opinion held that the
legislature did not contemplate that
in sudden, unexpected and extreme
need for a pistol a man should drop
everything, rush off to the county
site an secure a license to carry a
pistol.
This decision was rendered in the
case of a man named Harris, who
had reason to suspect his wife OF in
fidelity, so he grabbed his pistol ana
protected his home. He was indlct-
ed and convicted for carrying a
weapon without a license, but the
majority opinion of the court over
turned this action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
BUILT ROADS AS MODELS
Uncle Sam Constructed 100000
Square Yards of Different Types in
Several States as Object Lessons.


Over four hundred and eighty
thousand square yards of different
types of roads for experimental and
object lesson purposes were con-
structed during the fiscal year 1912
1913 under the supervision Of the
Office of Public Roads, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, according to
Bulletin So of the department, MAX
ing a total of over four million square
yards of road constructed under the
supervision of this office since 1905.
The type of roads built were
brick, concrete, oil-cement con-
crete, bituminous concrete, bitumi-
nous-surfaced concrete, bituminous
macadam, surface treatment, maca-
dam, asphaIt-slag, oil-asphalt-gravel,
oil-coralline, gravel-maca-
dam, gravel, Stag, sand-clay, sand
gumbo, burnt clay, shell and earth.
The object lesson and experimental
work during the past year was done
at a cost to the local communities of
$139, 841.89. This does not include
the salaries and expenses of the de-
partment engineers.
The road work during the year
was done in Arkansas, Florida, Geor-
gia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missis-
sippi, Nebraska, North Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Virg44ia, Wisconsin and the District
of Columbia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
LUNDY TO Be TRIED NEXT WEEK
Was Indicted Jointly With A. #.
Short For the Murder of Doug
las Bass in Worth County.

SYLVESTER, Ga.-Worth supe-
rior court will convene the fourth
Monday in January and will have
probably the largest docket of any
court that has ever convened in this
county. There will be only one week
Of court, all of which will be devoted
to the criminal docket. There are
now about forty prisoners in Jail and
these cases will probably receive the
first attention of the court. Prob
ably the most important case to be
tried will be that of the state against
L. w. Lundy, who was Jointly indict-
ed with his brother-in-law, A. F.
Short for the murder of ]. Douglas
Bass last April. Short was tried dur
ing the May term last year, the jury
returning a verdict of guilty with
recommendation to mercy, and the
outcome of the case against Lundy
is looked to with considerable inter
est.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
DEALING With TRUSTS
WILSON = LINES PROGRAMME
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Says Present Practices of Big BUSH
ness Now Deprecated by Public
Opinion Must Change.

President Wilson personally laid
before joint session of congress
Tuesday the fundamental principles
of the democratic administration
program for dealing with trusts and
"big business" The president pre-
sented the case, he said, "as it lies
in the thought of the country" reft-
Grating that private monopoly is in
defensible and intolerable," and de-
claripg that conscientious business
men throughout the nation would
not be satisfied until practices now
deprecated by public opinion in re-
straint of trade and commerce were
corrected.
eve are now about to write the
additional articles of our constitu-
ton of peace" said the president,
1.-THE peace that is honor and free
dom and prosperity"
Besides suggesting the scope of
legislation the president made per-
sonal appeal for an atmosphere of
friendliness and cooperation in con-
gross while handling the problem.
THE antagonism, he said, 'be-
tween business and government is
over. We are now about to give ex-
preston to the best judgment Of
America, to what we know to be the
business conscience and honor Of
the land. The government and bust
ness men are ready to meet each
other half way in a common effort
to square business methods with
both public opinion and the law"
The chief points which the presi-
dent singled out as a basis for
legislation were:
e /. Effectual prohibition of the in
terlocking directorates Of great cor
porations--banks, railroads, indus
trial, commercial and public SER
vice bodies.
2. A law to confer upon the in
terstate commerce commission the
power to superintend and regulate
the financial operations by which
railroads henceforth are to be sup
piled with the money they need for
their proper development and i'm
proved transportation facilities. The
president made it clear that "the
prosperity of the railroads and the
prosperity of the country are insep-
arably connected in this regard,
3. Definition of ''the many hurt
full restraints of trade" by explicit
legislation supplementary to the
Sherman law.
4. The creation of a commission
to aid the courts and to act as a
clearing house of information in
helping business to conform with the
law.
5. Provision of penalties and pun
ishments to fall upon individuals re-
sponsible for unlawful business prac-
tees.
6. Prohibition of holding compa-
MES and a suggestion that the voting
power of individuals holding shares
in numerous corporations might be
restricted.
7. Giving to private individuals
the right to found suits for redress
on facts and judgments proven in
government suits and providing that
statute of limitations should run
only from the rate of conclusion of
the governments action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
COUPLE MARRY The SECOND TINE
After Getting Divorce and Thinking
Each Other Dead Husband and
Wife ENJOYING Honeymoon.

AUGUSTA, Ga.-How is this for
novel romance?
Thinking her husband, whom she
had not heard from in three years or
more, was dead and knowing that he
had gone to the Philippine Islands,
Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Chambers, for
merly Miss Susie Weasman, of this
city, procured adiVorce from her nus
band about a year ago, but when the
latter, Thomas G. Chambers, turned
up in Augusta after thrilling expert
ences in the spicy isles about two
months ago, their old love was re-
sumed, and after second courtship
another marriage license was pro
cured Saturday evening from Ordi-
nary A. R. Walton by the husband
and the couple went through the
rather romantic experience of being
married to one another a second
time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
SUMTER SENDS them UP QUICK
Tramps Who Happen to Stray Into
That County Are Dealt With Right
Now. Twenty in Changing.

AMERICUS, Ga.-Chased by po-
lice with packhounds through the
dense Businesses of Muckalee swamp
two white men beating rides on a
Seaboard freight train were captured
this afternoon, and within an hour
lad been sentenced to the county
Changing. This is the first instance
here of tracking tramps with dogs.
Twenty young white tramps are now
serving sentences upon the Sumter
county changing, all having been
captured here recently for beating
rides upon incoming freight trains
in violation of the state law. None
of the twenty claimed any occupa-
ton and all came from northern
towns and we're bound for Jackson
Vile.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
SAYS THEY ARE SEX ORGIES.
New York Rabbi Sharply Denounces
the Modern Dances.

Following the lead of Cardinal
Farley, of New York, and of various
prominent Protestant divines Rabbi
Wise, one of the foremost Hebrew
ciergymen of the United States, de-
nouhces in vigorous fashion the mod
ern method of dancing. Modern
uS,nclng, he says, is not dancing at
an but rather a prolonged sex orgy
SET to music; and in this view he is
sustained by many clergymen.
Habhi Wise has been prominent in
many New York reforms for years
and his influence for good is not
confined to people of his own race.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
USE CAT TO CURE RHEUMATISM
A German Minister Has Feline With
Him at All Times.

When DR.. Fritz Perl, German min
lister to Hayti and San Domingo since
1911, arrived in New York on his
way to Port Au Prince from Ger
many, where he spent his vacation,
he had a big angora cat, which he
said always sleeps with him.
DIR. Perl is a sufferer from rheu-
matism and his theory is that the
cat, through contact with him, con-
tracts the disease gradually and just
as gradually reduces the pain. The
process eventually will prove fatal to
the cat, said DR.. Perl.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
FROZEN TO AN ENGINE
A TRAMP rs RESCUED

Trenton, N. with his clothes
covered with ice Harry Steele of
Philadelphia was saved from death
when a New YorkWashington ex-
press train was tagged at the main
station here and he was dragged
from the engine tender. He was
stealing a ride to Philadelphia. When
the train passed a watering trough
at Elizabeth his clothing was covered
with water, which Immediately
froZe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
COUNTY MUST FIGHT SNAKES.
state Commission Rules Man Bitten
May Have Damages.

Rattlesnakes infesting a country
where road work is being done con-
Stitute an industrial hazard" and
a workman bitten by snake is en-
Gtled to compensation from the
state Industrial Insurance fund, ac-
Cording to a ruling contained in the
report of the State Industrial Insur-
ance Commission, of Washington
state. The commission granted d
claim for injury benefit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
so YEARS OLD, Bur BAREFOOT
Ohio Farmer Does Not Believe in
Shoes and Stockings.

George Pence, 60 years old, be-
lieves it is healthful to go barefooted
even in cold weather, and he dem
onstrates that he really is in earnest
by going without shoes or stockings,
despite the fact that it is quite Geld.
Pence lives in Concord township,
Ohio.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-23
JOHNNIE ON THE AUTOMOBILE.

Johnnie divided?
Two Automobiles
Teach Correct is a Ford?
scientifically constructed four-wheeled Motor car
travel the least cost
Teach which it intended?
Teacher: What a outing a Ford?
hill and full Oh
pleasure fun Incidents without accidents
take for days outing IN Fod
Johnnie: gasoline the lit
in babies in the
satisfactorily operated than
Autom
from cumbersome
other they simplicity simplhed
Now nat is al
pneumatic tires high
of sef-sare batteries
of wiring oil
volunteers
disorders and other mechan
OF separating the rn
fromthe
fulfill which intended?
Teacher: What you of Automobile?
bogdowns,
necessares take for days outing in an Auto
bbodied pocket full of cash. check book
will need to
equentga stations,
than Fords?
locomotives
with pneumatic Of
(Ford) Of Mr. Auto Man? If So in
much?
Clark Auto Co.
FORD CARS OVERLAND AUTOMOBILES
Dawson, Georgia