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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
$2.OO Places Any Rug On Your Floor

As an added inducement to the specially low price we will grant the unusual low credit terms of $200 cash and $l00 weekly on any of these. which is nearly as remarkable as the special sale price You can read fly understand that if these Rugs were not of the very highest quality would not be foohardy enough to sell them at this low price and under low credit terms
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23

renowned all over the United
States"
Some of these days there will be
many thousands of just such farms
throughout the Southeast.
The big meat packers of Chicago
have had representative investigat-
ing the Southeast the past year with
a view to establishing packing houses
in some of the principal cities of this
section. The report made, however,
is the time is not yet ripe for this in
novation. They realize that when the
Southern farmers wake up to a COM
plete realization of their natural ad-
vantage the Southeast will become
the greatest stock raising section in
the country, but they will not estab-
lish the packing houses until the
farmers begin to raise stock for
slaughter on a large scale.
Clearly the course of the farmers
of the Southeast is marked out for
them. If cotton boil weevils will not
allow them to raise cotton profitably
they must abandon cotton as their
principal crop and begin raising
stock and fOOdstuffs. If the Northern
farmer, with his short growing season
and long cold winter can get rich on
that basis surely the Southern farm
er with the long growing season and
open winter can do just as well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
ESCAPED IS YEARS
AGO; is RETURNED
Termer, Did % Year Prison
Sentence in Georgia.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Primus Adams,
well known in Savannah as a convict,
has been returned to Columbia, S. c.,
to serve out a life sentence for bur
glary. He escaped the changing
there thirty-one years ago. coming to
Chatham county Several times since
then he has done time here, including
a % year sentence given in 1886 for
burglary.
Last April Adams was arrested on
a charge of burglary, but the case
against him was dismissed. At that
time the officials of Columbia said
they did not want him About ten
days ago Adams was again arrested
for lettering. Columbia officials were
notified. They wired to deliver the
prisoner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
WOMEN AND BABIES ARE STILL FED
TO SNAKES BY AMERICAN INDIANS
The Ratesnake Is Regarded God, and Its Appetite
Must Be Appeased With Human Flesh.

When Mrs. Stevenson had squeezed
the whole story from one of the lead
ing men of the tribe she diplomatic
ally replaced him with another whom
she might engage to perform some
lengthy task, such as planting gar
den. Deliberately, step by step, was
the second man led along the path
that had been trOd by his predeces-
sor.
Eventually the second cacique had
told his whole story to the investigat-
or. Then was begun the tedious task
of going over the same ground again
with another man. Each journey re-
quired months of patience and con-
centration of purpose. With some
men there was an absence of results.
The Call For Sacrifice.
According to the stories of these
caciques there is today but one god
to whom human sacrifice is made.
This is the rattlesnake god, who must
be appeased. Once in four years there
must be made, and still is made, an
Offering of the flesh of a woman of
each village or of a newborn babe
Otherwise would destruction descend
upon his offending children.
When the occasion for sacrifice
arrives the sun cacique issues his or
ders for the observance. He organ
ICES his staff that is to participate in
the ceremonial. The ice cacique is
given a place of equal Importance.
There may be six men and two wo-
men on the stats of each of these
chiefs.
New Born Babe Sacrificed.
The cacique of the sun people des-
ignates the individual who is to be
sacrificed. This individual may be a
newborn babe, for the rattlesnake
gods are particularly fond of the flesh
of such as these. Yet the person to
be sacrificed is not always a babe.
More likely than not it is a woman.
1t is not known what are the consid-
erations that guide the cacique in
selecting the individual to be offer
ed up.
When the choice is made the sacri-
fetal staff of the sun cacique files
forth in a ceremonial manner at dead
of night. 1t approaches the house
where it knows the person to be sac
rificed may be found. The leader
beats noisily upon the door until he
gets response, usually in the person
of the man of the dwelling. When
that Indian looks forth and sees the
sacrificial procession he knows what
to expect. The representative of the
sun chief utters but two words. He
says 1.-The babe" or 'the woman" as
the case may be.
The man who is thus called upon
to give up his child or his wife says
never a word. Yet these Indians are
as fond of members of their families
as are the best of their white neigh
bors. So fond are they of their chill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
BRIDAL TOUR HALTED BY
CRASH OF AUTOMOBILES
Mr.. and Mrs. Evans Robson in Acct
dent at Columbus.

dent at Columbus.
COLUMBUS.-The bridal tour of
Mr.. and Mrs. Evans Robson was in
terrupted by an automobile collision
in which the bride was severely in
jured as they we're rushing to train
tonight. The chauffeur of the car
belonging to the bride had been told
to run fast, as but a few minutes
remained in which to catch the train.
AS he approached the corner of
Fifteenth street and Second avenue
another car came up the right side of
the street and without warning made
a wide sweep at the corner, cutting
in front of the car of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robson, and the collision resulted.
The bride was thrown from the car
and the groom was knocked against
the windshield. Mrs. Robson, who
was Miss Bessie Perkins, was cut
about the head. The bridal tour will
be continued in a few days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
GIRL LOOKING FOR WORK
FINDS A SO, 800 BRACELET
Took 1t to Police Station and Was
Rewarded by Owner.


NEW YORK.-Miss Schmitz, %
years old, a seamstress who has been
out of work several weeks, when
trudging, weary and footsore, along
Forty-second street today, espied
something sparkling on the side
walk.
She picked it up and was startled
to see it was a bracelet set with thir-
ty-five bluish-white diamonds.
Miss Schmitz ran to a police sta
ton and throwing the bracelet on the
desk gasped Look"
Lieutenant Walsh examined the
bracelet and found that each some
bracelet and found that each stone
carat
The bracelet was identified by
Thomas A. Burke as the property of
Mrs. F. c. Hotaling of San Francisco.
Mrs. Hotaling values it at $500.
Miss Schmitz will be given a re-
ward of 500.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
FOR $1.O0
AFTER FOUR TRIALS
And Attorney Fees in Suit Against
Southern Railway Aggregate
One Thousand Dollars

One Thousand Dollars.
MACON.-A legal battle that has
extended over the last four years was
brought to a close yesterday after
noon, when the jury in the case of
J. T. Fenelon VS.. the Southern Raj
way company brought in verdict of
81 for the plaintiff, after being out
for over twenty hours.
The verdict merely obligates the
railway company to pay the court
costs, which will amount to probably
$500. The attorneys fees and other
expenses of trying the case will prob
ably run the expenditures for secur-
ing a 81 verdict to over $1,000.
The case has been in court since
1911, when Fenelon filed suit against
the railway company, alleging that
on account of the negligence of the
defendant company he had his right
arm broken and was incapacitated for
work. The case was non-suited by
Judge Hodges.
1t was then transferred to the SUI
perior court and Judge Mathews non
suited it there. 1t was appealed to
the supreme court, where the judges
ruled that the plaintiff was entitled
to a trial by jury. The case was
then brought back to superior court
and tried, a mistriaI resulting. This
last trial was the fourth time it has
been in the courts.
1t is said that the jury stood ten
to two for the defendant until the
last ballot, when the verdict was
agreed upon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
WHAT THE WOMEN
OF KANSAS MAY DO
Law Gives Them Right to About All
of the Privileges Allowed Men.
A List OF Their Liberties.

Law Gives Them ItlgnG 10 ABOUT All
of the Privileges Allowed Men.
A List OF Their Liberties.
Women who feel that
their spheres of activity are circum'
scribed should come to Kansas. The
law in Kansas prohibits women few
liberties that men enjoy. Because
of many requests for information
about the Kansas laws for women
S. NJ. Brewster, attorney general has
prepared the following list of things
women can do in Kansas:
Can take her maiden name after
her husband is dead without any le-
gal process or legislative act.
Can persuade her husband to take
her name and give up his family
name if she doesn't like it,
Can retain her maiden name FOR
business transactions, and use her
husbands name for social affairs.
If wife does not like either her
own or her husbands family name
they can change to a name that does
suit
A woman can wear mems clothing
without any restriction except she
mus not pose as a man.
She can vote at every election.
She can hold any office in the state
and run for congress.
She can hold property of her own,
and give her share of the family
property by will, but cannot deed her
share away.
She can take up homestead or
school lands as her own property.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23

dren, for instance, that one is never
punished. The man upon whom the
supreme demand is made disappears
for a moment into his dwelling and
returns with the individual demand
ed. He gives the sacrifice over to the
representative of the authority that
is not to be denied, says no word, but
returns to his bed and his bereaVe-
ment.
The Sacrificial Chamber.
In the kiva the caciques and the
dignitaries of the tribe await. When
the sacrifice arrives the women who
take part in the ceremony prepare it
for the great event. A part of this
preparation is the administration of
the brew from the native weed which
is an effective anaesthetic uncon-
scious to pain.
There is a special knife with a
broad, two-edged blade that is used
in Remembering the body With
this knife the flesh is stripped from
the muscular portions of the body,
from the legs and arms and back. 1t
is cut into long, narrow pieces.
In the end all is ready. The word
is given and certain attendants dis
appear. They have gone into the
rattlesnake chamber, a secret room
the existence of which is known only
to the members of the inner circle.
There is a dramatic wait and even
tuallly these attendants reappear
bearing great earthen jars.
The present is the dramatic mo-
ment of the entire sacrifice. The at
tendants put down their jars near
the remains of the sacrifice. The
open-mouthed jars are turned on
their sides and there emerges a
squirming, wriggling mass of SER
pents. They are diamond-backed
rattlers of the most poisonous type.
They are ravenous from having been
kept for months without food.
The snakes hiss and coil and strike
out into the light that blinds them.
They are not dangerous, for their
fangs have been removed. The Te-
was are not charmers of rattlesnakes
as are their cousins, the Hopis, so
they remove the fangs. But the in
stinct to fight still remains and the
rattlers set their tails to buZzing and
strike right and left. There are
scores of them and their clamor fills
the closely suffered kiva,
When the Snakes Eat Human Flesh.
But in the end they find the food
that has been prepared for them. In
their extreme hunger they fall upon
it. The snake is a creature that bolts
it's food whole. 1t may not gnaw a
bone nor may it chew that which it
would swallow. 1t covers a mouthful
with saliva and gulps it. The Indians
know these habits of eating and have
prepared the flesh of the sacrifice ac-
cordingly.
Eventually all have gorged them
selves. The witnesses of the sacrifice
sit blinking in the dim light until the
spectacle has run it's course. Then
the attendants with their little wands,
to the tip of which are attached eagle
feathers, drive the reptiles back into
the jars from which they came and
they are carried again into the secret
chamber Of the snakes. The god of
the rattlers has been appeased.
The bones of the sacrifice are con-
signed to a receptacle beneath the
stone floor of the ceremonial cham
Der, there to mingle with those who
have gone before as victims of a sim
| liar fate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
Ravages of Boil Weevil Will Force
Farmers Into Raising More Cattle
From the Atlanta Constitution.

Georgia and many other Southern
states are doing a lot of worrying
this fall about the cotton boil weevil.
The pest has finally crossed into
Georgia territory, and the crossing of
the state line has revived the talk
that has accompanied each advance
made by the destroyer for the past
ten or fifteen years.
Judging by letters received by the
Constitution there are plenty farmers
who think that the end of the world
is at hand-they can't make cotton,
so they might just as we'll yield up
the ghost.
Well, let's see about it.
Up on the other side of the Ohio
and Missouri rivers the farmers are
cutting vast fields of corn, threshing
great stacks of wheat and oats, get
ting ready to feed large herds of cat
tie, hogs and sheep through the Win
ter months, or to prepare them for
market
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
The Colds of Mankind Cured by Pines

The Colds of Mankind Cured by Pines
Have you ever gone through a typ
ical pine forest when you had a cold?
What a vigorous impulse it sent!
How you opened wide your lungs to
take in those invigorating and mys-
FERROUS qualities. Yes, DR.. Bells Pine
Tar-Honey possesses those stimulat-
ing qualities and overcomes hacking
coughs. The inner lining of the throat
is strengthened in its attack against
cold germs. Every family needs a
bottle constantly at hand. Csc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
Glass of Advertising.

Second. To circulate or publish,
sell or offer for sale, any newspaper,
periodical or other written or print
ed matter in which an advertisement
in this section specified shall appear,
or for any owner or occupant to per-
nit any sign or bill board containing
such advertisement to remain upon
his premises for fifteen days after the
passage of this act, or to circulate
any price lists, order blanks or other
matter for the purpose of inducing
or securing orders for such liquors
and beverages, or any of them, no
matter where located.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
No. 666

Tkis is prescription prepared especially
or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break CIV case, and
taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
2turn. II 50 on he liver better than
|s,orncl Ices lot grippe Q. sicken. 25c
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The system

Anu buIio up Inc system
Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. so cents
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
CAN'T ADVERTISE BOOZE
ANT1-ADVERTISIN BILL is PASS
ED BY HOUSE 12S TO II.
After May list IntOxicants Cannot Be
Advertised in Newspapers or Else
where in Georgia.

Advertised in Newspapers or Else
where in Georgia.
ATLANTA.-The house of repre-
sentatives yesterday afternoon passed
the anti-advertising bill by vote of
1913 to IA. A number of amendments
were offered and two substitutes, one
by Judge Stark and one by H. j. Full
bright. The substitutes and amend
ments were voted down, and the ma
jority bill went through as though
propelled by we'll oiled machinery.
Main Sections of Measure.
The two main sections of the anti
advertising bill, as passed by the
house are as follows: 1t is hereby
unlawful from and after May /, 1916
First. To advertise upon any We
hicle of transportation, or at any
public place or resort, or upon any
sign or bill board, or upon any cir
culars, posters, price lists, news
papers, periodicals, or otherwise,
within the limits of this state, said
liquors and beverages, or any of
them, or any liquors and beverages
prohibited by the laws Of Georgia
to be manufactured and sold in this
state, or to advertise the manufac-
ure, sale, keeping for sale, or fur
nishing any of them or the person
from whom, or the firm or corpora
ton from which, or place where, or
the price of which, or the method by
which the whole or any of them may
be obtained.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-23
Buying Automobiles.

And they are buying automobiles
and going to county fairs also
large proportion of them are sending
their sons and daughters to colleges.
They don't raise cotton; they could
not raise cotton if they wanted to.
But they do raise wheat, corn, oats,
hay, cattle, hogs, sheep, etc, which
they sell at good prices to the South
ern farmers who raise cotton. If the
Northern farmer can get rich rails
ing stock and foodstuffs why doesn't
the Southern farmer do so? Simply
because the Southern farmer cannot
be pried loose from his determination
to raise more cotton and still more
cotton no matter what it costs him.
1t has been proven time and again
that the South is a better section in
which to raise fOodstuffs of all kinds,
and, as for the sort of stock, the
Southeast is the ideal section of the
United States. There Is not a month
in the year when stock cannot lind
green grazing; there is no necessity
of stabling, hand-feeding and the
other handicaps under which the
Northern farmers labor.
So, maybe the boil weevil will
prove a blessing instead of the curse
It is now regarded.
Just here we wish to relate just
one instance of what farmer in the
North has done in a few years: "Mr.
Cyrus A. Tow is the owner of Fair
view Farm and he started in the
attic business nine years ago. Now
re is one of the foremost cattlemen
n the state of Iowa, and his herd is
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-04

and mouth disease through milk. either
Ia human beings or % animals.
The question Of infected garbage j.
more ,Enirul to handle. for by no means
all of the meat i'll this country j. sub
jcrt 10 federal inspection. In many sec.
tiunS meat animals are slaughtered 10
.cdlly Cooking will dcStroy the foot and
mouth germ 80 that this meat can bc
eaten without bad results. but the trim
ming>- the skin. the fat, and particular
~ the marrow which are thrown away
or fed To- hogs. may be- al the same time
highly infections.
la Philadelphia the disease has 70
Gently appeared ia several herds Of gar
haec fed hogs. and although il i not
absolutely ccuain that the contagion
was convened through this means. il
seems quite possible thai il was. The
sterilization Of garbage intended for
hogs r.. therefore. like the paStcuriza-
tion Of skinned milk and similar prod
uciS. a very desirable prccaINion. IL
break demonstrate the need ~ s;tatc
tate to say iihat experience in this ont
Tact. the federal authorities do no hest.
legislation on this subject. In the NIB.
Srncr "f legislation the farmer who
wishes I" hc sure If his skinned milk
should boil il after ill., return from The
creamery.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-04
HOLD RECIPROCAL INSURANCE
LAW IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL
tBv Associated Press.)

Austin. Texas. May i.-Reciprocal in
~urance associations Of Texas. according
to Representative McA~kil. will disregard
the attorney generals department opinion
holding the McAskill reciprocal insurance
law OF the last regular session uncon>tiiu-
Mr.. McAskill said most of the com
papi"S favored this bill. They intend. he
ad 4. 10 comply with it, provisions and
thus make "A test ease In court of the con
feature. Commissioner of
Insurance and Banking Patterson has con
IN the attorney generals opinion.
saying he believes the law IN many re-
speets invalid.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-04
IN VAIN GULlS
SEARCH FOOD IN
HAMBURG HARB0R
IN NORMAL TIMES HARBOR is SCENE
OF GREAT ACTIVITY, BUT
NOW DESOLATE.
IN PRE-WAR DAYS ALL ROADS LED
TO HARBOR. NOW THEY ARE
UNTRAvELED.

Correspondence of the Associated Press)
Amsterdam. MAY "A vivid picture
Of Hamburg and its fine harhor in war
times il given ~ the Tiglichc RunSchau
In normal times ID j. one of the busiest
>caports ia the world. the mmcr
laden shipping thronging the docks aud
the broad face of the Elbc tunnels smok.
ing. sirens >hricking. machinery creak
ing and life Swarming around the whar-
- and storage houses"
Now. however. SAYS the writer. the
harbor Of Hamburg II dcSolatc. The
gull> search ia vain for their food. the
thickcSt fog calls forth me- warning sig
mails. the old spring sunshine falls on
no smoke or rushing steam. the gates of
the great bonded stores are closed. and
grass grows in the tagged courts.
In the pre- war days all roads led to
the harbOr: nov these roads are desc
iatc. and only a wanderrr here and there
denotes that some isolated individual
still takes an interest ia the vast area
of the harbor. Wherever one looks the
hills If huge vessels and their gaunt
>mokcStaCk~ are seen. thick steel cables
fastening them 10 anchors in the Elbr
mud ar Ia the shore. Not 4 flag or pen
nant fluttcrS from their maSthcadS. not
i solitary sailor gazcS over their sides.
me- call from am officer on the bridge.
Here aud there vou sec an old sailor on
deck ~ carctakcr. Ills Younger com
p~anion> are all away "a the war.
1t L. sad to Juuk ~ those giant bnlkS
with the paint pccling on them. You
look ri their names and are ~sorowful.
Over there j. u magnificent South Amer
lean liner. AN imposing Colossus with
her three tunnels. There was 4 time
when she proudly sailed down the Ellc
To the ocean. her bands PLAYING. thou
sands on shore waving her their adicuS
Now she lies still ~ the grave. fastened
immovably bv her iron chain.
"On the other side Of the river al
Kuhwardcr lies the %>crricl ranks Of the
hamburg American liners. tier on tier
of them. thcii idcS >crancd and insight
IL. We are told that they are all that
managed 10 get home in time. In other
great docks and along stretches Of duav
are the tall graceful maSt> Of the sailing
shipS. dry forests of them. dead forests
without a sign Of lie.
But behind the waterways and in
many other places a thousand macnlne>
and grinding wheels are singing a song
of busy preparation. In the great docks
and Shipbuilding wards there j. a mighty
hammering piercing the Stiffness of the
harmon From countless chimnevs smoke
and compressed steam issue forth dav
and night. Secretclv. mvteriouslv awak-
ening terror. this goes ON. contrasting
cnriouSlv with the deadly stiffness Of
the stream. Ones thoughts gor forth
To the coasts Of England and 10 what
will hapDen there soon as q result Of
the activities behind those hieh bull
warks and in remote corners Of the town.
One looks and listens aud remembers
that curiosity is out Of the place here