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A few years ago the sparsely settled
community of the Devil's river region,
Texas. was thrown into wild excite
ment by the discovery that George
Judy, a wealthy old bachelor, had been
murdered at nizht while lying asleep
in his own house.
Judy had lived almost alone in a
<mall house of two rooms on his
ranch. About a year before his death
a nephew by the name of Jules Rogers
had come out to Texas from one of the
older states and established himself in
the house of his uncle.
Mr. Judy owned a large ranch and
coveral thousand head of cattle. He
was not a cattle king, but he was re
carded as one of the wealthiest ranch-
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FORCED TO CONFESS. ‘
ers in the Devil river region. His
nearest neighbor was Sam Stone, :a‘
young rancher. A dozen or more fami
lies had settled in the valley along the
river, and with these people Sam was
a great favorite. Of course there was
a belle in the community, and it was
but natural that sparkling, black eyed
Consuelo Scroggins should win the |
heart of the most promising and eligi
ble young man in the settlement.
But Consuelo was something of a co
quette and took mischievous delight in
tormenting poor Sam. She often gal
loped across the prairies with other
young men, and upon several occasions
she accepted invitations to ride with
the confirmed old bachelor, Mr. George
Judy.
Sam was not pleased with the con
duct of Consuelo, and when they met
they quarreled.
Meantime Jules Rogers grew uneasy,
for it eccurred to him that perhaps his
old uncle might marry the young girl,
thus ruining his prospects of falling
heir to his property.
Sorely puzzled and considerably dis
tressed, he concluded to pay a visit to
Sam Stone. Sam invited him to stay
overnight, and when they were seated |
before the fire the subject that was up- |
permost in both young men’s minds‘
was soon under discussion.
Early the next morning a man on a
panting horse galloped along the road
shouting: *“Go over to Judy’'s quick!
He is dead. Murdered!”
A glove had been found near the door
of Judy’s house. Sam Stone recognized
the glove at a glance, and he hurriedly
began to search his coat pockets.
“One of mine is missing,” he said.
“Missing!” exclaimed one of the;
erowd. “Why, Sam, here is your name
worked with red silk on the gauntlet.”
While they were examining the glove
some one noticed spots of blood on
Sam’s coat. Other amateur detectives
found footprints which fitted Sam’s
boots and also discovered that the as
sassin had ridden a horse wearing a
vroken shoe on his right forefoot.
These tracks were traced to Sam’s
barn, and there they found a horse
with a broken shoe on his right fore
foot. Sam’s friends hoped that be
,eould prove an alibi by Rogers. To
the amazement of every one Rogers.
with some hesitation, stated that Stone
was absent from his house an hour or
more on the previous night. At the
final trial Sam Stone was found guilty
and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Consuelo has a brother, a bright, en
ergetic young fellow, who is perfectly
devoted to his sister. This aspiring
genius, whose name is Don Carlos, has
been dreaming of starting a show com
posed of Mexican curlos and Texas
animals. One of his most interesting
exhibits is a full grown jaguar, a beast
that is just as ferocious and dangerous
as a tiger of the jungle. Master Don
Carlos keeps Dagmuir, as he calls the
vicious jaguar, in a great iron cage.
This den is about eight feet long, five
feet high and four feet in width. There
is a partition in the cage composed of
iron bars, which can be opened or
closed iy a lever extending outside.
. Jules Rogers had become & freqyeat
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vigitor at Consuelo’s home, and the
young girl invited Jules to go with her
to Dagmar's den.
“1 promised brother to give the beast
a drink today, and I will have to ask
you to Lelp me.”
“Certainly,” replied Rogers. Con
suelo seized the bar and closed the par
tition, confining the jaguar to one of
the compartments. “Now he is se
cure,” she said. “If yeu will kindly
step inside and hand me the empty
water jar, I will fill it.”
Rogers, eacer to please one of the
prettiest girls in the country, sprang
into the ecage, saluted by an angry
growl. Tlearing something click, he
quickly turned his head, and to his
surprise he saw that the iron door had
closed behind him.
Turning his colorless face toward the
girl, Rogers said: “Please don't joke.
This is serious. Look at the beast.
He might Dreak through. FPlease open
the door,” pleaded the trembling man.
“Never!” ecalmly replied the thor
oughly self possessed girl as she push
ed her hat back from her brow so she
could look fairly into the face of her
vietim. “Never,” she said, “until you
tell me who murdered George Judy.
Speak, wretch!”
She raised the bar that controlled the
partition until the howling bLeast could
thrust his long paws under the parti
tion.
Rogers threw himself against the
door. “Let me out, and I will tell you.
It was not Sam.”
She put both hands on the bar.
“Ready, Dagmar!” she shrieked.
“Oh, don't!” whined the trembling
coward. “Will you let me out? 1
killed him. Now let me out.”
“I thought as much,” said Consuelo
as she turned to assist her brothef and
a neighbor, who were crawling out
from under the cage.
A pen and ink had already been pro
vided, and the guilty assassin wrote
out a full confession while seated in
the den.
While the people of the neighborhood
were collecting at the house of a jus
tice of the peace, where Rogers had
been taken, the frightened prisoner
succeeded in getting possession of a
knife. Taking a step backward he
said, “Gentlemen, I will save you fur
ther trouble.”
He made a slash at his throat and
severed one of the great arteries. Con
suelo lost no time in taking the proper
steps to secure the release of her lover,
and her efforts were soon crowned
with success.
Female Weakness Cured,
I was troubled with severe female
weakness for over six months. I was
treated by six very prominent physi
cians without any marked benefit. My
last doctor was a skilled specialist,
and he told me the only hope lay in an
operation. 1 heard of Smith's Sure
Kidney Cure and after veing it for one
month I find myself cured, and even
the doctor who last treated me now
pronounces me well,
MRs. J. R. FAVER, Atlanta, Ga.
Price 50 cents. Forsale by Dawson
Drug Co. and Main Street Pharmacy.
consumption
is destruction of lung by a
growing germ, precisely as
moldy cheese is destruction
of cheese by a growing germ.
If you kill the germ, you
stop the consumption. You
can or can’t, according to
when you begin.
Take Scott’s Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil: take a little
at first.
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this picture onit, er, Takc more:
take no other. ’
not too much ; enough is as
‘much as you like and agrees
‘with you. Satisfy hunger
!with usual food; whatever
‘you like and agrees with you.
! When you are strong
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‘again, have recovered your
strength---the germs are
dead ; you have killed them.
If {you have not tried it, send
for free sample, its agreeable
taste will surprise you.
SCOTT & BOWNE,
Chemists,
409 Pearl St., New York.
50c. and $1.00; all druggists.
INTERESTING STATINTICS.
MINUTES OF LATE SESSION OF SOUTH
GEORGIA CONFERENCE ISSUED.
Record of South Georgia Methodism the
pPast Year. Own Million Dollars
Worth of Property.
The minutes of the South Georgia
Conference of the M. E. Chux‘ch,South"
which was held in Cuthbert in Decem
ber, have been issued.
They show the following statistics,
which are very interesting :
The total number of local preachers
in the South Geopgia Conference is
163.
The total number of adults baptized
during the year was 1,096.
The total rumber of minors baptized
during the year was 1,559.
The total number -of Epworth
Leagues are 150.
The total numover of Epworth League
members are 5,548.
The total number of Sunday schools
is 561.
The total number of Sunday school
teachers is 3,716.
The total number of Sunday school
scholars is 30,929,
The total number of societies is 658,
The total number of houses of wor
ship is 617.
The total value of these houses is
$888,682.
The total number of pastoral charges
is 179, !
The total number of parsonages is
121.
The total value of these parsonages
is $139,800.
The total number of churches dam
aged by fire or storm during the year
was one church and the amount of
damage was $5.
The next a :nual'session of the con
ference will be held in Macon.
The total number of deaths of preach
ers for the year was four. .
The total value of buildings owned
by the Methodist church of the south
Georgia conference is $1,039,482.
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| DEMON DANCE.
)Orgies in Rochester in Which Ne
-1 groes Flourish Razors
i and Fight.
A Rcchester, N. Y., dispatch says :
Louis Miller and his wife are out of
the penitentiary after serving three
months for disorderly conduct. They
returned to their home and found that
every bit of furniture had.been carried
out of the house by some of their
friends and sold to second-hanl deal
ers. In investigating the complaint
that was immediately made the police
found out that the Miller house has for
some time been the scene of ‘‘demon
dances.”’
The ‘‘demon dance,’’ the officersare
informed, is so named because of the
demoniacal conduct of the people en
gaged in it, and is southern importa
tion. A dozen couples usually attended
at the Caledonia avenue house. They
dressed in the most fantastic costumes
and beer and gin flowed freely. When
the revels reached their height every
man and woman present drew a razor
and the fury of the dancers broke forth.
Around and around the room the dan
cars waltzed, swinging razors and mak
iag vicious passes at each other. If a
person was unfortunate enough to cut
anybody during this dangerous pastime
he or she was immediately set upon by
the others and treated roughly. When
the sport became tOO tame two negroes
jumped into the centre of the roomand
engaged in a personal encounter. Fre
quently these fighters were rivals for
the hand of some dusky damsel who
was present. The Millers learned that
the proceeds from the sale of their
furniture went to pay the expenses of
these orgies.
Hyy to Cur th Grip.
Remain quietly at home and take
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as di
rected and a quick recovery is sure to
follow. That rewmedv counteracts any
tendency of the grip to result in poeu
monia. which is really the only serious
tanger. Among the tens of thousands
who have used it for the grip not one
case has ever been reported that did
aot recover. For sale Farrar, Harris
& Marshall. :
Supply of Dukes Limited.
A countemporary points out that
when Miss Astor shall have been wedd
»d to the Duke of Roxburge ithe sup
ply of English dukes available for
American heiresses will be exhausted.
Chere will remain two unmarried
inkes, it is true, but one of themshows
jecided symptoms of insanity and the
other is a confirmed invalid. In view
)f .this condition of the watrimonial
narket on the other side, Miss Zim
nerrcan and Miss Astor were lucky in
ecuring their dukes in good season.
Recent experiments show that ail
slasses of foods may be completely di
gested by a preparation called Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure, which absolutely di
gests what you eat. As it is the only
¢ mbination of all the natural digest
a its ever devised the demand for it
.as bccome enormous. It has never
ailed to cure the very worst cases of
.ndigestion and it always gives instant
relief. DAwsoON DruG €o.
Hoods Sarsapailly
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America’s Greafest Spring Medicine,
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SHAVED TO SAVE HIS LIFE.
He Vowed Never to Shave if Lin
coln Was Re-elected.
A vow made by Harrison Ingalls of
Senaca, N. Y., in 1864 nearly cost him
his life. At that time Ingalls pledged
himself if Lincoln was elected for a
second term never to shave, and he has
religiously kept his resolve. As a con
sequence he wore long flowing whis
kers, reaching below his waist. He i 3
a millwright by vocation, and while
working about a machine the whiskers
caught in a cog, drawing his head to
ward the wheels. With presence of
mind he severed his beard with a knife
he held in his hand. He is now mourn
ing the loss of a beard of thirty-seven
years growth.
' ABSENT MINDEDNESS,
Absurdities Into Which Victims of
the Habit Have Fallen,
When lapses of memory become
habitual, the person is properly called
absentminded. The Chicago Tribune
relates the following absurdities into
which some victims of this disease
have fallen:
A bridegroom of 2+ hours left bhis
wife, strolled around to his mother-in
law’s house and asked her if ber
daughter was at home. This caine
from force of habit. He had been call
ing there daily for some time, and it
probably occurred to bhim that he bad
not paid his usual visit.
A Chicago bank president is unable
to account for three-quarters of an
hour of his life. He went into a res
taurant as usual and ordered his lunch.
Nearly an hour later he found himself
in his office chair and suddenly re
membered the order.
He went back across the street and
asked if the luncheon was ready. The
l clerk informed him that he had eaten,
’paid the bill and gone away some 15
' minutes before, that he had put his
lhat on as he went out and that he
!(rhe clerky had not noticed anything
peculiar in his actions.
The bank president congratulates
himself that he can be trusted to be
have like an ordinary mortal even
when be doesn’t bappen to have his
mind with him.
An editor of a daily paper has laid
himself open to unkind remarks by
trying to take up a collection in his
office. Happening to want a small
!coin. he turned to his fellow worker
| and asked for a quarter.
“Haven't got it, but here's a dollar,”
the man replied as he tossed it over.
The editor put the dollar in his poclket
and immediately turned to a special
writer at the next desk and said:
“Miss —, could you lend me a quar
ter?”’ Then, seeing the man from
whom he had got the doliar grin, he
added hastily: “Oh, never mind. ‘I just
got a dollar from Brown.”
In analyzing his conduct he said
that Brown's reply that he did not
have a quarter was apparently the
only part of the transaction that made
any impression upon him. But he is
under suspicion in that office and wi
probably never be able to live it dc
| Pneumonia Can Be Prvated,
- This disease always results from a
cold or an attack of the grip and may
‘be prevented by the timely use of
Chamberlain’s Covgh Remedy. That
remedy was extensively used during
the epidemics of la grippe of the past
few years, and not a single case has
’ ever been reported that did not recov
er orthat resulted in pneumania,which
’ shows it to be a certain preventive of
that dangerous disease. This remedy
has gained a world-wide reputation for
its cures of colds and grip. For sale by
) Farrar, Harris & Marshall.
Bryan and Hill Both Decline.
Both Senator David B. Hill, of New
York, and Col. William Jennings Bry
an, of Nebraska, have declined the in
vitation of the Texas legislature to ad
'dress that body. Thus is the opening
of the next national campaign indefl
‘nitely]postponed—fortunately. Neither
‘ot these gentlemen seem disposed to
commit any overt act at thisearly
stage of the game.
A powerful engine cannot be run
with a weak boiler, and we can’t keep
up the strain of an active life with a
weak stomach; neither can we stop the
human machine to make repairs. If the
stomach cannot digest enough food to
keep the body strong such a prepara
tion as Kodol Dyspepsia Cure should
be used. It digests what you eat and
it simply can’t help but do you good.
DawsoN DruG Co. #
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This ligneture is on every bog ql the genuine
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tsbiets
the remedy that cures a coid in ome day
Standard G “
andard Guanog
We wish to say to the public that we are handling t};;
son the celebrated o .
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Patapsco Guano and Acid,
Swift’s Guano and Acid,
Read’s Guano and Agjg :
and we bhave the celebrated Americus Bolted Cottop § :
Meal and Hulls on hand at all times. Come and %Ee f,
prices before buying. oF
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ivery Stables. {
We have opened an up-to-date Livery, Sale arnd Feeq Sta :
ble, and are prepared to furnish prompt attention 2,8
stylish turnouts at reasonable figures. -
W.G., Aven & Sonß
Bronwood, Georgia. }
SAW MILL MACHINERY!
We Wanufacture the : Engines,
Best B T : Boiler
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Sako Latest
MILLS ‘ T : Improved
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MARKET. T e Machinery.
COMPLETE SAW MILL OUTFITS A SPECIALTY,
Let us have your order for Mill Supplies or Shop Work.
MALLORY BROTHERS MACHINERY (0
MACON, GEORGIA.
The largest and best stock of Furniture that has ever been
pucin a town twice the size of Dawson. Brimful from top to
the “‘ground floor,’”” and our prices are as low as theglowest.
We buy direct from first hands and will not be undersold.
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Everybody can't make}.goodiFurniture. Just +as jmuch] art
goes invo the making of our chairs as ever went into jthe, finest
picture. It takes knack, talent and practice. When you are
out prospecting for a satisfactory Furniture Store, don’t pass
us by. We are vain enough tothink there isn’t another store
quite so full of beauty and style as ours. We will be glad to
show visitors through our stock.
Dan Furni St
awson Furniture Store,
J. T. Williams, Manager. ‘
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Blank Notes for Sale.
depends much of your life of success il
business, And on the
HARNESS
on the horse depends much of his US
fulness. Whether he is hitched
pleasure wagon, or delivery waglh
sulky or plows the mode and mesv
hitchiug should be up to Jate and ¥
liable.
Our goods will insure this. Not 0
article in stock but what is of i rad
gnality.
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