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Middletown transcript., 1922-04-15

GSduiH9 " VIC Shdhty.
in bed and Wee Jerry, having cried
himself to sleep. was in Jeremiah's
room, rolled up in n blanket.
For the first time in her life Polly
had seen her father weep. How inn
petuously she had kissed away his
tears How she had hung to his neck
When they had been forced to leave
him, Jerry had shrieked his misery all
the way through the streets Of Ithaca.
To make the matter worse, it began
to rain, to thunder and tighten. And
now, a forlorn, lonely little creature,
she sat listening to the tempest out
side with no company but the billy
goat.
How li5tless and hopeless she felt !.
, Only when the thunder rolled over the
lake, and the lightning flashed across
the sky, did she lift her head. When
she was happy, Polly loved the
storms, but now, with Daddy in Au-
burn, how could she bear the thrash
ing rain and the moan of the willow
trees as they swung to and fro over
the shanty roof?
She found herself wishing fearfully
that the storm would sweep Off to the
south and down behind the hills. Over
and over in her mind went the thought
that perhaps she could have helped
Daddy If she had done what Evelyn
wanted her to. Why hadn't she con-
sented to marry Oscar two weeks ago?
She knew why, and. blushing blamed
herself. She could not keep the image
of Robert Percival from smiling at
her.
All of a sudden frightful flash Of
lightning made dim the flicker from
the small candle. and was followed in
stantly by thunderous roar that
shook the very earth. Mingled with 1t
came n woman's scream. Polly strug-
gled to her feet. Some one was In
trouble! Some sQuatter-woman was
calling her. She dashed toward the
door just as 1t flung wide open, and
Evelyn Robertson rushed in.
"Polly Hopkins" she cried, grasping
the squatter girls arm, "Pollyop.
something struck Oscar, and he's dead
in the road"
Frantically she drew the dazed Pol
ly over the threshold. The darkness
was dense, and the torrents of rain
pelted their faces. Another zigzag
, streak of fire ran across the sky, max
ing vivid picture as it blazed Cor
nell university into plain view. In the
white light of 1t, Polly saw II man ly-
ing face down in the path leading to
the shanty. He made no effort to get
up as the two girls bent over him.
"Mebbe he amt dead" muttered
Polly shuddering. Lets lug him In
the hut"
Between them they dragged the
heavy, inert body into the shanty and
shut the door. Oscar looked dead
when they turned him over. His face
was livid, and his eyes tightly shut.
"The thunder hit him, huh?" ques.
toned Polly, awestruck.
Shudder after shudder ran over Ev.
elyn.
81 don't know" she moaned. "Yes
l suppose so. Oh, it was dreadful -
She began to cry, wringlng her hands
desperately.
Don't do that" begged Pollyop. will
shiver. "Come on an help me ger in
up on my bunk"
Weak from the shock, Evelyn was
of little service in lifting Oscar But
the bed was low, and finally after mucl
tugging, he was rolled lifelessly ovel
on his back, stretched to his full lengtl
on the rickety cot.
Stunuing side by side, the girl
looked anxlously down upon him.
81 guess mebbe he's dead, amt hep
queried Polly woefully.
Middletown transcript., 1922-04-15

Daddy Hopkins, and to keep her peo-
pie in the Silent City. She only real
ized that she was in Roberts arms,
and that he was telling her over and
over and over that he adored her.
Hadn't you best go now?" she
asked. "Some one might catch you
here. No! Please, please don't kiss
me no more"
Without the slightest regard for her
Middletown transcript., 1922-04-15

IGNORANCE is HARD TO CREDIT

and after the process had been con-
tinued long enough to prove effective
they ran away, believing the devil
would run out of the woman after
them. She, however, continued to
shrek. Her cries were heard by Il
man who came to the rescue and un-
bound her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
LAYING TRAPS FOR
TIGERS IS ILLEGAL
u. S. JUDGE SAYS ACTUAL VIO-
LOTION WAS CAUSED BY
OFFICERS OF LAW.

ATLANTA, Cain granting a
new trial to Pete Cefalu, Atlanta taxi
cab man, recently convicted for SELL
ing whisky, Judge w. l. Grub, pre-
siding for Judge Samuel H. Sibley in
the United States district court, made
a ruling which is expected to have a
far-reaching effect on the future meth
DDS of the government in enforcing
the prohibition act.
Judge Grub sustained the conten-
ton of w. Paul Carpenter, attorney
for Cefalu, who argued that viola
ton of a law must originate with the
accused. Attorney Carpenter showed
that Cefalu had been entrapped into
selling two quarts of whisky to Harry
SAPPHIRE, a federal prohibition agent.
The intent to violate the law was
not original with Cefalu. it was con-
tended, and the actual violation was
suggested by the government officer
suggested by officer setting the trap.
Inasmuch as it has been the prac-
tice of the federal courts for months
to convict violators of the prohibition
and narcotic laws on evidence gath
cred by trapping the accused persons,
the ruling OF Judge Grub was taken
as blow to the so-called trap" meth
DDS of enforcing the Volstead and
Harrison acts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
Society Woman Became
Bride While Lying on
Hosipal Cot Motionless
Pretty Widow, Injured in Fall From
Horse, Carried to Registry
Office on a Stretcher.

Lying motionless on a stretcher
with cluster of gorgeous purple or
chids in her corsage, Mrs. May Dulcie
Weddell, beautiful society widow OF
London, England, became the bride
recently of Capt Cyril Louis Newell
deputy director of personnel of the air
ministry, at a London registry Office.
The unique wedding was the culmi-
nation of an equally unusual romance.
About a year ago Mrs. Weddeil, while
in Italy, was thrown from her horse
and badly injured. The most distin-
guished specialists in Europe have
been unable to help her, and few
weeks ago she returned to London,
travelling in a special car Since then
she has been i'll in private hospital
with septic poisoning.
Capt. Newell met her and fell in
love shortly before the accident, and
since her return to London he has
been spending several hours daily at
her bedside. Despite her illness the
bride took an active interest in the
preparations for her wedding, and her
wedding gown was beautiful. crea-
ton of a leading dressmaker's art.
After the ceremony the bride did
not return to the hospital, but went
directly to her husbands apartments,
where ne had installed a corps OF
nurses to care for her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
CALL RESERVE BOARD
DOWN FOR EMBEDDING"
COTTON EXCHANGE, WATSON,
HEFLIN AND WANNAMAKER
IN ACCORD IN MATTER.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Politics
continues its favorite pastime in max.
ing strange bedfellows.
The cotton exchange of New Or
LEANS has joined hands with Senator
lHeflin of Alabama, Senator Watson
LOT Georgia and ]. S. Wannamaker OF
South Carolina, president of the Amer
lean Cotton Association, in their Of
fensive against the federal reserve sys-
tenn.
Senator Watson, of Georgia, deliv-
cred an address in the senate highly
critical of the federal reserve. board
and its governor, Senator Hefin, after
lapplauding Senator Watson's speech,
added fuel to the fire by reading a
telegram from w. B. Thompson, OF
/ New Orleans, in which the federal re-
serve board was criticised for med
ding" with market forecast, price
dope" and business generally" Mr.
Thompson was until recently president
of the New Orleans cotton exchange
He is still the principal factor oper-
ating on that exchange.
The telegram from Mr.. Thompson
was addressed to Mr.. Wannamaker
T.,
ator Hehin. Senator Heflin read it to
the senate and approved it. 1t appear
ed that Mr.. Thompson thinks the ted
eral reserve board is unnecessarily IN
terfering with business.
Said Senator Heflin after Senator
Watson's speech: Following the able
speech of the senator from Georgia
II desire to read telegram from a
prominent citizen and business man
OF New Orleans. The telegram came
last night to Mr.. Wannamaker, pres
ident OF the American Cotton Asso-
citation, and he gave it to me today.
NEEDLES in Various Subjects.
In the following language Senator
Heflin agreed with the former presi-
dent of the New Orleans cotton ex-
change: 81 am reminded that a little
while back the federal reserve board
gave out forecast as to what the cot
ton crop would be. 1t NEEDLES IN
various subjects. 1t frequently sug-
gests that legislation on various lines
should be had UP here. 1t gets out a
propaganda that would injuriously Ell
feet farm product prices. This est1-
mate which the federal reserve board
gave out little while back broke the
price of cotton in the neighborhood
of SIS a bale that day or the day tol-
lowing; so Mr.. Thompson is right in
the suggestion that he makes in his
telegram to the president OF the Amer
lean Cotton Association.
Right in keeping with the very
timely speech of the able senator from
Georgia, ! desire to state that the de
t1ation policy OF this board, carried
on for months and months, has
wrought havoc in the south and west.
And l wanted this telegram to come
at this time, following the speech OF
the senator from Georgia"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
CAMILLA AND NEWTON
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
NEW POWER COMPANY MAY
SUPPLY CURRENT. BAKER
HAS NO RAILROAD.

NEWTON, Ga.-An electric rail
way may soon be built between Ca
milla, county seat OF Mitchell county,
and Newton, county seat OF Baker
county. The movement comes coinci-
dent with the early expected compile
ton of large hydro-electric plant on
Nochaway creek by the Baker County
Power Company and the efforts of the
Camilla people to save the Hawkins
Vile and Florida Southern railway
from the scrap heap.
Newton and Baker county both are
without railway lines of any character,
and it is believed an electric line from
Camilla would solve many of the
transportation problems of that coun-
ty. The only public carrier now serv-
ing Newton is a boat line on the Flint
river, with occasional boats from Balm
bridge in fertilizer and cotton seasons.
Men interested in the project declare
the power bill will be low with the
completion of the dam, and that the
electric line could be operated at much
less expense than a steam railroad.
Much enthusiasm for the project is
said to prevail both at Camilla and
Newton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
ORPHAN CHILDREN
TAKE A LONG HIKE
TRAMP THOUGH SNOW OF
FAR NORTH AFTER MOTH
Err AND FATHER DIE.

FORT WILLIAM, Ont.-Six little
Indian children, who left the frozen
bodies of their father and mother in
the northern trapping wilderness, to-
day reached Watcomb, on the Cana
dian government railway, after a fort
night of tramping over snow-covered
ground. The five younger children,
ranging upward from baby of few
months, were brought back by their
.14-year-old brother and a neighbor.
Their father, Atchimo Nan Tuchess,
trapper and their mother both died
of influenza in the family's woodland
hut on Friday, January IS. That day
the father called Atchimo, the oldest
boy, to his bedside, told him the end
was near, gave him 81 200, the fruits
of his trapping, and bade him care
for his brothers and sisters. There
was little food in the home.
Unable to bury the bodies, Atchimo
left them in the shack with the five
other children while he set out on
snow shoes to fetch the nearest neigh
Dor, thirty miles away. Two days later
Atchimo came back with John Hin
.goosh, the neighbor. The five hungry
tots were chewing raw moose flesh for
nourishment. They had burned most
of the furniture to keep from freezing.
The bodies of their parents were froz-
EN- stiff.
The younger children were packed
on the dog sled by Hingoosh and At
chino, who then began the long
"mush" to Watcomb, where they were
fed and given medical aid:
1t is feared the baby will die.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
NEGRO ACTOR WILL
NOT TOUR THE SOUTH
THEATER MANAGERS CANCEL
DATES, AND GILPIN TRIP
IS CALLED OFF.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The tour of
Charles Gilpin, the negro actor, has
been abandoned so far as the south IS
concerned, temporarily at least.
Adolph Klauber, under whose man
agement Gilpin was playing in The
Emperor Jones" sent him into Vir-
ginia and had planned to send him
farther south. In Richmond the show
did we'll and it began to appear the
south would overlook the fact that Gil
pin is a negro. But now Broadway
hears a quick change in plans came
about. A letter with ku klux khan
signature was received by Gilpin while
in Virginia 1t advised him not to
continue in the south with his com.
pany, which contains number OF
white players. The route was changed
and the troupe is now in Ohio.
Managers of theatres in other south
ern cities where the attraction was
booked have Cancelled the Gilpin en-
.gagement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
Stole Huge Amount of
Booty for Qualification
Of Aged Sweetheart
Frenchman Charged With Securing
Two Million Francs in Two Years
From Wealthy Paris Homes.

For months the police OF Paris,
France, have been investigating Sc
ries of robberies in the most fashion,
able quarters of the city. They had no
clew until they arrested a well-dressed
man leaving a home whose occupants
were at the seashore. The man was
Serge de Lenz, who confessed, it is
said, to stealing 100000 francs (S40O,-
000) worth of property in the last two
years merely to satisfy the whims OF
his 6o-year-old sweetheart. De Lenz
is 80.
The police have charged the COM
panion of De Lenz with completely.
She is generally known as the Coun-
tess Tessancourt, but the title is not
rightfully hers, and apparently AYas
taken as justifying the expensive Wife
she was accustomed to live.
Her home was found filled with rare
tapestries, Jewels, paintings and 9TH
err works OF art. estimated to be
worth millions OF francs, much of
which it is now admitted was given
her by her admirer, De Lenz. Appar-
emily. she did not know how he re-
ceived these gifts, believing him to be
the son of a wealthy retired manu-
facturer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
SCIENTISTS WILL
STUDY BONE CAVE
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE
WILL EXPLORE PLACE
FULL OF SKELETONS.

BRISTOL, Tenn.-Dr. Alex Hard
licka, noted scientist OF the Smithson-
ian Institute, accompanied by PROBES
sor Henry Woodman, OF this city, left
here today for Henhams, Virginia, to
explore the cave near that place, III
which about 800 human skeletons re-
Gently were found.
1t is believed the bones were brown
into the cave by indians who. inhab-
tied that section hundreds OF years
The heap of bones is about thirty
feet high and eighty feet wide at the
base, according to measurements made
by Professor Woodman.
The cave will be carefully inves-
tieated by DR.. Hardlicka and PROBES
sor Woodman, and it is thought that
probably data of scientific value may
be secured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
SAYS TAXING SYSTEM
IS ANT|QUATED ONE
GOVERNOR HARDWICK DE-
CLARES 1T UNJUST AND IN
EQUITABLE METHOD.
FULL OF GLARING INJUSTICES
Hopes to Devise Plan for Reaching
Invisible Values. State Income Tax
Opposed by Former Governor John
M. Slaton. Two Debate.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Gov. Hardwick,
as guest of the Presidents Club OF
Atlanta, at one of its dinner meetings,
declared that the present ad valorem
taxing system in use in Georgia has
broken down completely, is not only
antiquated, but is unjust, negotiable
and worse by far than merely made
quate. 1t is, he said, full OF glazing
iniustices and shameful inequalities"
The governors talk to the members
of the club, composed Of presidents
of Atlanta's several organizations, and
those who have been presidents, num-
boring some of the most successful,
IinfuentiaY and substantial business
men in the state, was made the occa-
sion by him OF very strong advocacy
of immediate Inauguration, "as quick
Ily as the technicalities and require
ments OF law can be met" OF net
income tax system to entirely take the
place, so far as the state IS concerned,
of the ad valorem system.
The burden OF his argument he lays
upon the fact that the present system
rests as an inequitable and unjust bur
den upon all the visible property in
the state, and permits the total escape
from taxation of Intangible, invisible
values"
Illustrative of that he quoted, much
the same as he did in his tour OF the
state figures to show that on the tax
books are foolishly low totals OF GER
tain classes of values which other
available statistics show are owned
and held in Georgia ten and sometimes
twenty times as great as the tax di-
gests carry. The difference in this COM
parison is, OF course, escaping taxa
ton.
The discussion of the subject before
this BODY. in which the governor es-
pecially invited any questions from the
club, is significant in that it may be
taken as revival direct of the cam
paign being conducted of education
along the lines of a state net income
tax law to be passed by the 1922 ses-
sion of the general assembly.
Former Gov. John M. Slaton, who
engineered through the Legislature the
present tax equalization law, admins
tered by the state tax commissioner,
replied to Gov. Hardwick with Wig
orous opposition to the income tax
plan on the ground that it will be
dangerous to put in the hands of the
legislature the power to levy an I'M
limited tax on the incomes OF the
state, in lieu of the present system,
which carries with it a constitutional
limit of mills tax levy.
1t is that particular point on which
there is the widest difference of opin-
ion over the state on the proposed
new plan, some of its rather lukewarm
advocates declaring for fixed limita-
ton. which will put check on the
Legislature, and to which the straight
out advocates of the income plan OBJ
lieCt
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
ARMY OF AMERICAN HEROES
ENDS FINAL TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC

places and many isolated graves along
the front lines. That number has been
gradually reduced. Eventually there
will be one main American burial place
in England, at Brookwood, in Surrey,
about "a miles from London. Six OF
the permanent burial places IN France
will be known as the cemeteries OF
the Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne,
Somme, Oise-Aisne, St. Mihiel and
Suresnes.
A committee of the national fine arts
commission has prepared plans for
land-scaping the construction work on
the American burial plots abroad and
designated a standard headstone to
mark each grave. The stone is of
American white marble, 38 inches long
and 10 inches wide at the top. In a
circle on the face Of the stone is cut
an emblem of the soldiers religious
faith.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
SENATORS GUARD
THEIR SOFT JOBS
SHY AT THE BUDGET SYSTEM,
WHILE HOUSE is USING
NEW PLAN IN WORK.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The men
who sit on the departmental appro-
priations committee of the senate in
Washington are watching with no lit
tie apprehension the smooth and work
manlike manner in which the national
house of representatives is for the first
time attacking the annual grist OF
supply bills under the perfected ma
chinery OF the budget system.
The senate is the last stronghold of
the old haphazard method of drafting
the annual appropriation bills The
house, even before the bill which es-
tablished the finances of the federal
government on a budgetary basis had
become law, had shorn its individual
committees of their treasured control
over expenditures and had centralized
the spending power in single appro-
priations committee.
Senate Must Come to 1t.
The senate, still clinging to the null
tiple committee system, is beginning
to appreciate as the supply bills draft
ed under the new budget classifications
come over from the house that it is
only a question Of time when it will
also have to conform its rules to the
new fiscal regime.
The senate, however, will not fall
into line without a struggle. Amend
ment of the rules of the senate so as
to establish a single committee on APP
preparations similar to that of the
house will face two sources of oppo-
sition; first, the resistance of the mem
bers on existing appropriating conn
mittees to a curtailment of their juris-
diction; and second the opposition Of
the farmer bloc.
Met Animosity in House.
The reform of the appropriating
machinery of the house has been ac-
complished and maintained in the face
lof a relentless animosity toward the
change on the part of large share of
the membership of the various COM
mittees formerly controlling the spend
ing of money.
This resistance from the committees
that must suffer when the spending
power is centralized in a single COM
mittee will be repeated in the senate in
an exaggerated degree, for in the
senate where terms of service are long
and advancement is slow, even great
er importance is attached by members
to the perquisities of their committee
assignments
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
Nearly $4,000 Bodies of Soldiers Have
Been Brought Home, With 1900
Yet to Make the Trip.

The pilgrimage OF American soldier
dead from overseas is ending. Up
wards of $4,000 bodies from European
cemeteries have been brought home,
A few more than 1000 are yet to come;
Approximately 81 500 American dead
will remain permanently in Europe.
From the wars beginning the gov
ernments policy regarding the return
of military dead has been uniform. 1t
expressed the hope that families might
approve Of the burial of soldier rela.-
tives in American cemeteries abroad,
but the option of leaving or returning
the body lay with the nearest OF KIN.
When the armistice came, with
bodies having been buried where they
fell, there were 2,400 American burial
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
STATION MASTERS DECLARE
WAR ON FAREWELL KISSES

CHICAGO, Ill.-Station masters
of Chicago have declared war upon
the farewell kiss in railway stations.
There have been instances where
this farewell oscillation has delayed
trains and otherwise Jared the dig
nifty of the station rules, so no
more kissing either inside or out
side the train shed gates will be
tolerated. Nothing more violent
than we'll regulated chautauqua
salute is to be permitted. Persons
who desire to kiss friends or rela
tives farewell must do SO in the
street. Neither will the station
masters permit any more spooning
in the waiting rooms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
COLD RECORD BROKEN
IN THE CENTENNIAL STATE
Whole Trains Freeze on Moffat Road
Near Continental Divide.

DENVER. Colo. = Reports from
outlying mountain districts indicate
last weeks cold wave, which now
grips the middle states, established
new low records for the state, if not
the entire country, when the thermom-
eter went to ~ below at Tabernash
and 40 at Steamboat Springs, Colo.
So bitter cold has the weather been
along the Moffat road on and near the
continental divide that whole. trains
froze up when they stopped Tor any
length Of time. Engine crews found It
impossible even to keep pipes in the
engine from freezing. With the train
in motion the draft was strong enough
to pull up the FIRE to point where
the boilers could fight off the cold, but
when stopping the pipes would freeze
in a short time. All trains schedules
were badly upset by these difficulties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-07
SWORDFISH KILL WHALES
BY HUNDREDS IN BATTLE

That the monsters of the deep
fight in groups, as we'll as engage
in personal encounters, is testified
to by Capt. G. Evered Poole, a
commissioner in the gold coast sur
vey, who, aboard a steamer be-
tween Sierra Leone and Sekondi,
said they steamed through blood
red sea for over an hour, and saw
hundreds of whales dead or dying
on the surface of the water, after
the whales had been defeated in a
battle with swordfsh.