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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
WHISKY FOR 3OCENTS AND
OIL $40 A GALLON IN 1919
Price of Cotton as Low Cents. Fayetteville, N. c.
Paper of 90 Years Ago Gives Interesting Contrasts

For San Francisco direct. The
new A. L. copper fastened and cop
pered. live oak and red cedar built
barque John A. Taylor, Martin, mas
ter, will sail as above, early in April
She can take the bulk of 200 tons OF
freight and 100 passengers.
This is from a copy of the Fayette-
Vile, North Carolinian of Feb. 18th,
1849, now in the possession of F. F.
Goddard of Savannah.
The editor and proprietor, William
H. Bayne, seems to have been a pep
perry sort of fellow very much inclin-
ed to call a spade by its rightful
name with no beating about the bush.
In one instance, when speaking OF
The Hon. Mr.. Stephens of Georgia,
he ends an article thus; I'VE look
upon Mr.. Stephens and his coadjutors
in this business as exceedingly small
political hucksters, attempting to put
off upon their customers rotten eggs
for sound ones, or dog meat sausages
for the real pork" The business re-
ferred to was the treaty with Mexico.
Hard on Small Merchants.
In another place he comments up
on an interesting phase of the bust
ness life of Savannah at that time,
saving: I'VE understand that in Sa-
yannah, Ga, merchant commencing
business has to deposit with the au-
thorities of the city the sum of 500.
ShouId he fail in his merchandising
he forfeits the $500" Rather differ
ent from the present method OF DO
In those days it was evidently
cheaper to burn whisky than oil, Tor
in the market quotations oil is quoted
at from 81 cents to $1.40 a gallon,
while whisky was selling at from 20
cents to 80 cents. Shades OF John
RarleycOrn.
Probably the cotton dealers OF
those days would open their eyes at
the prices being obtained for that sta
ME even in these war times, for COT
TON in 40 was quoted at from 10
81 cents. the price varying IN diner
emf narts of the country, and appar-
emily no cutlery at the 'Dare1aeeu IoO-
berry being made.
Days of the '49ers.
Those we're the days of the
'49ers. the Panama route and the
overland stage, but the ''barque John
A Taylor" referred to above, evl-
IDENTITY contemplated making the trip
around the Horn, a thing still rare
enough in those days to excite consld-
cradle comment. The gold fever eV-
identity was not confined to the young
and adventurous. for here is recorded
and adventurous, for here Is TINS oIe
gentleman recording instances o.
'49ers returning to their homes WIN
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
PUT HIS WAGES INTO COWS
AND DIED A MILLIONAIRE
At His Death Vert Love Couldn't
Have Counted His Cattle.

When other cowboys were draw
ing their wages in gold back in the
SOS and riding to Ell Paso or San An
tonic to spend the money in riotous
living or over the gaming table Vert
Love was putting his earnings into
cows. His start was seven COWS.
At his death the other day he could
not have counted all the cattle in
his herd if he had ridden hard for
a month at the task.
In 1889 he had $50 head. After
the start it seemed easy to those who
watched Vert Love, but they knew
he was working hard all the time.
The result was that when he died
200 men were on his payroll and his
estate was worth more than $1,000
900. A son years old will get most
of it, and will probably be the richest
boy in Texas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
INCREASED EXPENSES
CALL FOR 100000
LARGE APPROPRIATIONS IN AD-
DITION TO GENERAL BILL
WILL BE ASKED FOR.
THE STATE Is HEAVILY IN DEBT

Deficiency and Emergency Bills May
Bear Brunt Next Month. Military
Wants More Money. What Some
of Other Requests Will Be.
ATLANTA.-A cast-up of deficits
and emergencies which confront the
state in its financial operation, in the
several departments, shows that the
legislature will be asked to appropri-
ate, in addition to the general bill,
upwards of 100000 in November.
Information is that there will again
be a strong disposition to cut slices
out of the general bill, as was the
case in the house during the regular
session, and that, for the same rea-
son, some of the deficiency and emer-
gency bills will be made to suffer.
Among the requests for money to be
made in November are the following:
The military department, which
has unpaid bills for riot duty amount
ing to $500, will ask for a special
appropriation of $15,075 to cover the
riot bills and other deficiencies in the
office.
Increased to $4,000.
The office of keeper of public
buildings and grounds asked for
special appropriation of $4,000 be-
fore. On account of the recent short
age investigated in that office and the
discovery that the state is in debt
through that department considera-
bly, more than was expected that re-
quest will probably be increased to
$14, 1000.
The Girls Training School near
Atlanta will renew its request for a
special appropriation of $4,000.
Request will be made for a special
appropriation to cover an insurance
fund for the Eleventh District Agri-
cultural School and the Industrial
school at Savannah, a negro institu-
ton, to the amount of $4,000.
Other Requests.
A deficiency in the printing fund
exists on account of reprinting Geor-
gia laws from old electrotype plates,
which ultimately will be sold, and
an appropriation will be asked for to
cover that $4,000.
The movement to provide fund
for the payment of ordinaries for dis
bursing the pension fund will be re-
newed, and to cover that a special
appropriation will be asked of $15,-
900.
For building a new dormitory at
the state institution at Valdosta a
special appropriation of $4,000 will
be renewed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
TWO MILLION MEN HAVE
LOST THEIR LIMBS IN WAR
Methods viii BE Studied for Giving
EMPLOYMENT to Cripples.

NEW YORK.-There are two mil
lion men in Europe who have suffer-
ed the loss of limbs, faculties, or
both, as result Of injury in war,
according to Frank B. Gilbreath of
Providence, R. l., who has just re-
turned from Germany, where he had
been studying methods for giving
employment to cripples. Mr. Gil
breath has been requested by Ger
many to instruct a corps of teachers
how to enable crippled fighting men
to become productive members of So
ciety after the war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
THE HEART
: Il Acts In Every Day Life

Re human heart, in healthy mar
|lS but eleven ounces. 1t beats
long before birth until death, in
Nerage lifetime, about seven mil
limes, allowing seventy beats to
minute. Every twenty-four hours
fISht organ performs labor equiv
10 lifting ton of material
n Ieet into the air. If the blood
PeS poor, and filled with pOisons
diseased kidneys. the heart is not
starved, but poisoned as well. 1t
becomes exhausted and unable
seeC any extraordinary demand
i may be made upon it. Supply
soIood; get the kidneys to work.
stoAe up the feeble stomach! DR..
j Golden Medical Discovery
y the blood, relieves the kid
ana tones up the alimentary
8 owe the heart the food it
anu 1t will continue to work
= natural end of life.
ID PASS, Na.-"Before l commenced
~ Iierce's medicines / suffered
,al4 IN my shoulders. head and
anu had palpitation of the heart.
hardly get up. Was in bed
1lI the time. | took DR.. Pierce's
=. discovery and FavOrite Pre-
oI' 1 soon began to feel much
anu could visit around in the
q mood. l owe it all to DR..
remedies. Would advise any
uo afflicted to use Golden Medi-
Io'ery' and 'Favorite Prescrip-
aISo took the Pleasant Pei
nm good results.
nd 't-N pr. Pierce for his medicines
nv advice and am glad to hear
r' Mas. SEBIE L. Ems, r. F.
npass, Va.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26


fabulous sums of gold dust obtained
with a few days work in the pleasant
climate of California. 1t is evident
that that was not before the day Of
the "con" man, for the old fellow re-
cords several instances of 80 fool and
his money are soon parted
He had no very favorable opinion
of the farming qualities of the lands
of the Middle West, evidently pre-
ferring to stick by his own Preside,
for he speaks of a letter from a
friend as an extract of a letter from
a sucker friend of ours who has set
tied in John Davis county, Illinois. -
Among the advertisements is this:
For sale. A likely young negro fell
low. For particulars apply to this
office"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
WAS FOND OF VTCTUALS
j. BONONUS' DINNER PAIL KEPT
o ENTONIBED MINERS ALIVE.
His Ration for One Meal Fed Impris-
oned Men Six Days. Were Res
cued After Week.

If it hadn't been for John Bononus
and his enormous appetite the nine
miners who were entombed alive up
to their armpits in water in Lehigh
colliery at Tamapua, Pa, would new
er have survived the six days they
were imprisoned while the rescue par
ty burrowed through 800 feet of sol
Id coal and got them out.
For years John had the reputation
of being fond of victuals; it has been
the standing joke, the amount of
provender he can stow away and the
supply he requires in his dinner pail.
But this very fondness for food was
the salvation of the gang. When the
crash came and the coal and water
broke the roof where the nine men
were at work John grabbed his din
ner pail before he ran, and he kept
firm grip on it, until the men reach
ed a place of comparative safety.
Chances of Rescue Slim.
Then, as the water crept in and be-
gan 10 CllllD up do IhOJ oIOOu hhOS
deep and knew that their chances of
being rescued were slim, they did
what sensible men would do-pooled
their supply of nutrition, calculated
how long it would last them, ate
sparingly and prayed for deliverance.
Besides the contents of Johns pail
they had three cakes of wax, which
the miners use in their lamps. They
stopped burning their lamps to save
both wax and air.
Day after day the water crawled
up on them. 1t was brackish water,
impregnated with sulphur, and it was
of small use to quench thirst. Day
after day they wondered and pray
ed, until Saturday, when they heard
the picks of the rescue party and
knew that if the water did not rise
above their shoulders they would be
saved. They lighted a lamp and
waited.
Pretty soon they were rescued and
able to walk out unassisted, although
weak from standing in water six
days. But, thanks to Johns dinner
pail, they are none the worse for be-
ing entombed a week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
SIMS WILL GO TO HIS DEATH
IN LEE COUNTY ON OCTOBER 26
First Hanging There in Ten Years Is
Scheduled for Today.

LEESBURG, Ga.-Clifford Sims, a
negro, is held in the county Jail I'M
til 26th, when he will pay the pen
atty of death imposed upon him by
Judge u. A. Littlejohn, for the MUIR
der of a woman.
This will be the first hanging in
Lee county in ten years.
Sheriff D. r. Moreland will spring
the trap that will hurl Sims soul
into eternity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
babble subsidies and the octoroon
steps down to her new owner.
In Slavery Days.

babble subsidies and the octoroon
steps down to her new owner.
In Slavery Days.
AS by no volition of your own
your mind slips back to the cells and
to buxom, kind-faced nanny. Gre
ated and endowed to nurse the off
spring of white mothers. She will
bring but modest price in the mart.
for there are many of her kind. Here
IS a young quadroon, there a gray
old Creole darby, somewhere else a
very black and strapping half-grown
negres~. You sense their speaking
voices, deep and melodious. a Jar
gon of French and spanish inlaid
with many little English words. Sud
denly, in the cells occupied by the
men, the coarser blacks break out
in burst of wild, weird song, cut
through by the tam-tam of a drum
made of a gourd covered with sheep
skin.
A tall and sinewy negro rises and
bows, then you take a bracing
breath and go on. But you halt alb
ruptly at the sound of an opening
door and the echo of slow and drag
ging feet coming nearer and nearer.
In a moment a woman short and
heavy of build, with the mingled
air of graciousness and reserve, is
before you.
Scenes of Vanishing SplendOr.
She is the chatelaine. You know
it before she says "Entrez!" in her
charming thrOaty French. She has
on a skirt of faded crimson and blue
with a basque-like bodice of lumi-
nous green. She wears a cap OF
soiled D'Alencon lace, and a fine old
brooch of jet as sparkling black as
her deep-set eyes. Instinctively you
drop silver piece into the bag which
bangles with a bunch of keys from
her ample waist, and follow her
shutting lead.
70 the accompaniment of her eX-
planatOry and also rapid French you
are shown salons with cracked and
sunken marble fireplaces, salons
with vanished onyx floors, once press
ed by the satin-clad feet of many
beautiful women, widowed mirrors
made in the days of the first en-
pire, crystal chandeliers with bro
ken pear-shaped prisms, and walls
from which priceless frescoes and
friezes and medallions have been re-
moved, bits of bronze from an old
balustrade, the battered fragments OF
a fountain.
An Unfading Memory.
You retrace your steps, halting
now and then to be certain of your
direction, and come att last to the
landing where you first stopped to
view the ruin of a fine old tapestry.
On you go to the great ground floor
and linger a moment for one last
look at the slave mart. Then your
feet find the quiet street and a cool,
mist-driven wind smites your face re-
freshingly.
You swing back easily to the pres
ent and everyday realities, but the
old Hotel st. Louis is craven upon
your heart. 1t will slip into your
thoughts again and again no. matter
where you may be. At the theatre
perhaps, at the dance, in the busy
noisy rounds of life rather than in
the silences, you will remember, you
will resee it. And you will hear the
sound of rain seeping in; drip, drop
drip, the plaintive chirr of crick'
ct and the scutter of rat in the
broken wainscoting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Get Rid of Those POisOns in Your
SYsfemi

You will find Dr. Kings New Life
Pills a most satisfactory laxative in
releasing the poisons from your sys-
TEN. Accumulated waste and pois-
ons cause manifold ailments unless
released. Dizziness, spots before the
eyes, blackness and a miserab Bile feel
ing generally are indications that you
need Dr. Kings New Life Pills. Take
a dose tonight and you will expert
ence grateful relief by morning. 25c.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
FAVOR SINGLE STALK
METHOD OF CULTURE
EXPERTS SAY ONE OF ESSEN
TIALS IN MEETING DISASTERS
OF THE BOIL WEEVIL.
EARLIER AND A BIGGER YIELD
Experiments Made by the Govern
ment Demonstrate Its Advantages.
Bulletin May Be Had at Depart
ment in Washington.

ment in Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Single-
stalk cotton culture is the subject of
an interesting article contained in
the weekly news letter of the United
States department of agriculture, to
which attention is called at this
time for reason of the interest that
will no doubt be felt in it in view of
the plans being formulated to in
augurate a campaign to fight the boil
weevil, which has just made its APP
pearance in Georgia.
The article, which treats at some
length on the subject, and which may
be read with interest and profit by
cotton farmers in Southwest Georgia,
follows:
"Single-stalk cotton culture has
proved more satisfactory than other
systems of culture in various sec
tions of the cotton belt and under
certain conditions because it has been
found that it promotes earliness and
increases the acre yield. In regions
which have short seasons or are in
tested with the boil weevil increased
earliness is a factor of especial i'm
portance.
Some of Advantages.
1.-TWO principles are involved in
single-stalk cotton culture, namely,
late thinning and short spaces be-
tween the plants in the row. The
late thinning suppresses the vegeta-
tive branches and restricts the size
of the plants so that they can be
left from 6 to II inches apart with
out injurious crowding. This enables
the row space to be utilized more
efficiently, and higher yields in con-
sequence are obtained than from the
common system of wide spacing.
THE increased earliness of single
stalk culture is due to the fact that
large, luxuriant plants are later in
setting and maturing the crop than
plants of more restricted growth. In
the region of San Antonio, Texas,
drought and the ravages of the boil
weevil so shorten the season that
ordinarily a cotton crop must be set
in about one month. Under such
circumstances single-stalk culture
possesses advantages that can not be
overlooked.
Results of Experiments.
"In Department Bulletin No. 279
the results of recent experiments con-
Quoted by the department at San
Antonio in single-staIk cotton culture
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
No. Six-SiXty-Six

This is a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER
Five or six doses will break any case. ane
if taken then as tonic the Fever will no
return. It acts on the liver BETTER thar
Calomel and does not grippe or sicken. $50
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
To Drive Out fIalaria
And Build Up The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES
chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron i'll a tasteless form.
The Ouinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. so cents
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
he SLAVE MART
OF new ORLEANS
NOW MOlOY AND DECAYED
ORC OLD BUILDING BRINGS
NC OF VANISHED SPLEN-
30 AND COLORFUL PAST.

u,oe Old Wrinkled Building,
Limo OFF For Its Final Plunge
into oblivion, and Was Historic
lp "a, Ct Louis, Erected in S136.
90, are a lover of the quaint, the
.osoue the old, or you would
' and Yourself in the old slave
Of lie Vieux Care de New Or
IN a glowering day, when the
-, clouds overhanging the east
sending out streaks of lightning.
presently you pass through an or
entrance to the ground floor of
snge old wrinkled building, peel
oF for its final plunge into OBJ
3or II is the historic Hotel St.
,;s erected in 1886. Don Pedro,
.noror of Brazil, and afterward his
.ndson we're its guests. Here ban
j ,+od statesmen, princes and famous
len.
4 ,s YOU stand in the listening 81
mo in the dampness of mold and
0oav YOU unconsciously visualize
life of a long-gone yesterday.
W. suddenly you start, disturbed
an impression of sound down a
no dark dusty passageway. 1t is
" the rain seeping in, drip, drop,
erv splatter echoing hollowly in
emptiness.
Ghosts of COIOrfuI Past.
Again you drift back to your
hams. and again your nerves twang,
time at the scuttle OF a rat in
broken wainscoting behind an old
We block. showing the crumbling,
high quite distinguishable, name
famous auctioneer of ante-bel-
h DAYS. Beyond the block and the
RI about it your searching eyes
a wide expanse of earth and ce-
Rnt floor bordered by rows of cells
host wholly stripped of bars,
ere slaves were held before their
earance upon the block to be sold
the highest bidder.
4 #Nith a swift intake of breath
reach the rusty gratings and
er into the dusky interior. You
ch a Whit of chill, earthly air and
plaintive chirp of a cricket. 1t
snires bUt a slight turn of your
gination to people the prison with
Keyed patient slaves awaiting or
with the stolidity and obedience
was part of their nature. You
the old and the young, the strong
the weak, and all the various
les of, from a coarse Herculean
ican to a slender, clear-eyed octo-
The Sale of an OctorOOn.
she octoroon holds your attention.
is young and strong and will sell
several thousand dollars. In a
a hent she stands on the block and
voice of the auctioneer leaps out
a whip lash: Gentlemen, this
likely wench what am l bid for
There follows a rapid, ing
recital of the girls saleable
4 ITS, ending with scarcely a notice
break in the crisp, persuasive
lenge:
What am | bid?"
prosperous looking planter
des forward and touches her arms
aisingly, then his hands fall un-
Shed to her strong bare ankles.
steps back obviously pleased, call
out with assumed Indifference;
ae thousand dollars!" Higher the
60, higher and higher; voices
and fall, rise and soar and swell,
at last the hammer falls, the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26

iPf' ioIeeFn, Improvement in pills
49, ,Tnce 5 Pleasant Pellets. They
III Iie instead of fighting with
4 coe ana nervous headache, bill
ttGGstiIyeness, and all derange-
H. i7 uFer, stomach and bowels
-,0U' prevented, cured.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-19
NOMINATED FRANK
WILDE FOR CAP TAIN
CHIEF OF POLICE SANDERS
SENDS RECOMMENDATION TO
SUCH EFFECT TO THE BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS.

A communication was read to the
city commissioners yesterday from
Chief of Police Frank Sanders
recommending that Officer Frank
Wilde be given a permanent captain
cy in the police department. The
communication was received and re-
ferred to the police and fire commits
sioner, and Mr.. Pou will shortly an
nounce his decision in the matter.
At present there are two men as
captains in the police department.
One month Officer Frank Wilde acts
as captain, and the following month
Officer Gilmore acts. In the present
enforced absence of Gilmore, the
other man is acting captain, but Chief
Sanders did not seem to appreciate
the idea of having a captain and not
having captain, and made the re-
commentator. ....
During their months off, or out of
the captaincy, those officers who act
, alternately, hold the Office of turn
key.
Captain Gilmore is at present out
of the city, enjoying a forced vaca-
ton, which he did not regret, as he
was thinking Of asking for a vaca-
ton of a few days anyway.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-19
TWO TUGS To LEAVE
FOR CUBA WITH TOW
SEA KING AND E. E. SIMPSON
WILL GET AWAY SOME TIME
TODAY IF WEATHER is GOOD
FOR THE ISLAND.

Unless the weather Is unfavorable,
the tugs E. E. Simpson and the Sea
King, towing the undertaken barges
Consul, Douglas and Ernest, will
leave port this morning for Cuba, the
barges to be delivered to each of three
ports. The Simpson, which has been
down at st. Andrews, arrived last
evening with the Ernest in tow, and
the augmented tow will get away
today at some time.
The Sea King reached port from
Mobile yesterday, to which port she
made trip for the purpose of return
ing here the tug Leroy and the smack
Harper, the latter having been in
Mobile since the recent storm.
The Leroy was in dock for several
days at Mobile undergoing certain
repairs and alterations, and it is un-
derstood will be gotten ready for &C
tive work within the shortest time
possible. Once in commission, this
newest addition to the Aiken Com
pany's fleet will probably be put in
the towing business to Cuba.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-19
Most Eminent Medical Authorities Endorse It.
New Remedy for Kidney Bladder and All Uric Acid Troubles

DR.. Eberle and DR.. Braithwaite az
well as DIR. Stmon-all distinguished
Authors-agree that whatever may be
the disease, the urine seldom fails in
furnishing rs with clue to the prin-
ciples upon which it is to be treated,
and accurate knowledge concerning
the nature of disease can thus be OBJ
tanned. If backache, scalding urine or
frequent urination bother or distress
you, or if uric acid in the blood has
caused rheumatism, govt or sciatica
or you suspect kidney or bladder
trouble just write DR.. Pierce at the
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y;
send sample of urine and describe
symptoms. You will receive free
medical advice after DR.. Pierce's
chemist has examined the urine-this
viii be carefully done without charge,