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By E. L. Rainey.
FPUBLICA RUE
it A
pHILIPPINE BARGAIN.
LEADERS BEGINNING TO REALIZE DAN
GER OF IMPERIALISM.
stated That president McKinley May Let
the Islands Go. Sentiment of the
Country Causes the Change.
The Washington correspondent of
jqe Atlanta Constitution writes :
There are strong indications that the
sepublicans are getting gick of their
pargain in the Philippines. A feeling
qat there 18 danger in their hold, the
ppilippine policy has taken a particu
jarly firm hold on some of the leading
“m‘vs('ntlfl,ives of the administration
. congress since the enormous appro
igl-;;itions pilling up at this session of
congress have been exposed to the
country by Senators Hales, Lodge and
others. The expose has served to em-
Jhasize in the public mind the great
sonual cost involved in the retention
of a large army in the Philippine is
jands, and there is no longer any at
tempt tO conceal the fact that the con
{itions in the islands are such as to in
are the presence there of a heayy
pilitary force SO long as the United
Srates atternpts to exercise sovereign-
" JEARING FROM THE COUNTRY.
The republicans in congress are be
signing to hear from the coantry on
tis Philippine question, and there is
an apparent weakness of the jingo hold
_everything-in sicht sentiment in
consequence. During the past few days
democratic leaders have heen surpris
ed by statements from republicans
chowing this weakness. On three dif
ferent occasions recently a prominent
democratic senator has been told by
leading republicans that there is a
strong probability of the administra
tion letting go of the islands.
4] pave been greatly surprised,”
«aid this senator to me tonight, ‘“‘at
having prominent republicans say to
me that in their opinion the Philip
pine question would be solved by giv
ing up the islands. 'L'hese are men who
vave always voted with their party,
and who have shown no inclination to
break away from the party on this
question of imperialism at any time,
They are almost the last men you
would expect to take this position in
view of their record in the past.”’
SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCES.
“To my mind their utterances are
signiicant. They talk as it it is their
conviction that there is to be a change
iuthe republican policy, and that the
islands ought to be given up. Wheth
er this is based on the idea that the
supreme court will decide againt the
governmentin the question invoiving
the territorial problem I do not know,
but [ do believe from what they say,
and from their way in saying it, that
they expect the Philippines islands
will, in the not very far future, be
given upto the people of those islands
in some way or other.”
SHOWMAN HARRIS DEAD.
Had Exhibited in Dawson. Made
a Fortune Merchandising.
W. H. Harris, for the last nineteen
ears owner and mang ger of the Harris
Nickel Plate Show and widely known
dmong [circus and theatrical people
throughout the country, died suddenly
4this home, 223 Robey street, Chicago,
several days ago from heart failure.
Mr. Harris had lived in Chicago since
189 and previous to entering the show
business aceumulated a small fortune
'l mercantile enterprises. He was a
thirty-second degree Mason, and a
““‘“’l}f"l' of the Mystic Shrine, as well
t‘ 4 life member of the Garfield lodge.
‘1"';:‘“”111“«‘1\'. had frequently visited
“WSOU and other cities and towns
l‘“l'\"-".-fhn tthis section with his show,
‘]‘l‘.“‘\‘n"\l'l?lku;u‘n will be regretted by the
n‘l““i:»hu haye enjoyed his entertain-
B isMoney That Makes the Mare Go
E W hreeding count for little
coner o Money is what the world
7+ lhe man who has it is
.;L.«. Uurted, although his merit
o, . o C4ew York papers contain
i iisofa dinner and a dance
L. dmes Henry Smith, a resi
o hatcity, It was given at Sher-
E r'“ "' Known and fashionable res
bnow e guests were the best
cone . L2OPle of the metropolis—the
i ..\:“;Aiiu'luil'cs and the members of
i“ “¢t. It is said that the en
o, TEDL cost $15,000 and the num
., €St wag not large.
ety good joimes Henry Smith? A
u;an‘inm::verl-o DUtk St .l
*om 4] aceounts, hevz respect. But,
00 3 year or so ¢ as not a social
-do bache] Soago. He was a well
elor and lived very quietly.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
RAW MEAT CRUSADE IS ON.
A Chicago Enthusiast Opens a
Restaurant for Perfect Food.
Professor Byron T'yler, who discov
ered that raw food is the only perfect
food, has put over his room atthe
Grand Central Hotel in Chicago a
sign bearing the legend: ‘‘Chicago
Raw Food Society, Restaurant No. 1.
Meals at all hours. Service a spec
ialty.”
Prof. Tyler says he intends to estab
lish similar restaurants in different
sections of Chicagoand in other cities.
I hope the novelty of the meals,”’ he
said, ‘‘will «attract people, who after
they have learned the virtue of food as
it is prepared by nature will eat none
but raw food.”
The menu the first day wasas fol
lows: Oysters on the nshell, celery,
radishes, olives, clam juice, raw steak,
cold slaw, waldorf salad, cheese, nuts
and raisins, pressed wheat, crackers,
figs and oranges. Nothing is cooked.
The steak is chopped and mixed with
celery and onions.
Prof. Tyler discoyered the 'benefits
of raw food while he was working as a
telegraph operator. He was a physical
wreck at the time and claims that his
present good health is due to the fact
that none of the life germs of his food
are killed by being cooked.
His novel crusade for reform in eat
ing will be watched with much inter
est everywhere.
MRS. NATION.
Merely ¢<Abated a Nuisance” in
Destroying Saloon, and Has
Been Acquitted.
Judge McCabe of Vopeka, Kan., has
handed down a decision in the case of
Mrs. Nation for smashing the ‘‘Sen
ate’’ saloon in that city, discharging
her.
The case was submitted inan agreed
statement of facts.
Judge MeCabe held that since Mrs.
Nation had no malice toward the pro
prietor’s place and destroyed the place
in abating a nuisauce she was not guil
ty of malicious destruction of property.
This does not affect the cases pend
ing against Mrs. Nation for the Sunday
raid for which she is now in jail,
KLINE A SMOOTH ARTICLE.
Handles His Own Case and Shows Famil
iarity With Law.
Albert Kline, the erstwhile drum
mer who cashed worthless drafts upon
the Baltimore Manufactory at an Am
ericus bank has been given a prelimi
nary examination and bound over tothe
city court .of eAmericus. Kline failed
to make bond and was again incarcer
ated. He astonished the audience in
the court room by appearing as his
own lawyer, and his familiarity with
law fand ability in cross-questioning
state's witnesses stamped +himas any
thing but a novice in the business.
The Americus bank will make a de
tenmined effort to secure his convic
tion on final trial. [tis desired to make
an example of Kline, who, in other in
stances, has escaped. ¥
Severe Punishment for the Girls.
Ten young women of Binghamton,
N. Y., have imposed upon themselves
the hardest Lenten penance that they
could think of. They have signed an
agreement pledging themselves not to
utter a word diring the entire forty
days. A code of signals has been ar
ranged, and the use of tablets and pen
cils will be permitted, but no word or
gsound is to escape their lips during
Lent. The girls must have broken a
mirror or doune scmething else equally
as bad.
You Know What You Are Taking
when you take Grove's Tasieless
Chill Tonic, because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle, show
-Ing that is simply Iron and Quinine in
a tasteless form. No cure. no nay. sCec.
~ His uncle, a close-fisted old Scoteh
}man who had made his money in the
‘western states, diedand left him $30,-
iOOO,OOO. At once he became a man o
importance in the eyes of those who
have the reputation of leading societ
He was overwhelmed with invita
‘tions to this and that function and so
ciety was unwilling to be satisfied un
’t.il it had this quiet bachelor in its
grasp. Now he is in the swim for cer
‘tain—not probably with his entire con
sent—but because he could not help
himself. His money made him so at
tractive that a nearer view of him was
insisted upon. If his old uncle had not
made him his heir it is probable that
he would still be unknown.
Now he has his picture in the public
prints and columns are written about
him and his dincer and dance. Money
makes the mare go. %
Dawson, Ga.. Wednesday, February 27, 1901.
GARDEN OF EDEN, U. S. A,
Dr. Becker of the United States Geological Survey Claims to Have
Made an Interesting Discovery.
Havye we annexed the Garden of Eden
among our Philippine possessions? Dr.
Becker of the United States geological
survey, who went with our army to the
islands, is rather inc'ined to that opin*
ion. Indeed Le advances many argu
ments calculated to show that the first
abode of mankind upon the earth was
a spot in what is now the island of Lu
zon, over which floats the glorious
stars and stripes as a consequence of
our war with Spain. It would be dull
and interesting, if not incomprehensi
ble to the average reader, to follow the
course of Dr. Becker's argument
through its whole course. It covers
the ground to say that he has found
from his investigations and explora
tions that at some time inthe Tertiary
period of the earth’s existence what is
now the Philippine Islands was a part
of the mainland of Asia. Then came
certain convulsions of nature which
broke up the great continent and left
the Philippines a group of dots of land
surrounded by water. Previous to this
momentous change in topography,
however, had occurred the creation of
mankind and the beasts of the field,
which permitted of the scattering of
the progeny of the first-created over
the continent before the cataclysm.
Dr. Becker has discovered in Luzon
many fossils and other evidencesin the
strata of earth which make him almost
certain that the veritable Garden of
Eden was situated on that island. So
impressed is he with what he has
found that he writes eloquently to the
effect that ““in bringing unlder our flag
the original Garden of Eden we shall
secure a treasure beyond financial or
political valuation.”
It has not been possible yet to locate
the identical spot upon which the Tree
of the Forbidden Fruit grew and bore
its burden of evil for the race, nor has
NO THANKS FOR SCHLEY,
Admiral Who Won Victory at
Santiago Will Not Be Praised.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley will neyer be thanked by con
gress for his ereat work in deswroying
the Spauish fleet off Santiago.
The jointresolution to extend thanks
to him cannot be passed at this session
on account of the old Sampson-Schley
feud, and the rear admiral will be re
tired from the navy by the age limit
on October 9, next, before congress
will meet again in regular session.
Schley will haye to be content with
the unofficial thanks of the American
people which have been tendered to
him in such generous ‘spirit. :
This fact has enraged the friends of
the admiral and they declare Sampson
snall never be thanked, and that they
will oppose bitterly any effort to pro
mote or advance the man who was ab
sent from the great naval battle, but
who the republicans are trying to hon
or for Schley’s victory.
IMPALED ON IRON FENCE.
Fearful and Perhaps Fatal Acci
dent to a Macon Tailor.
John Ward, a tailor employed at Me-
Kay's in, Macon feil from the front
stoop of his boarding house on Plum
street and was impaled on aniron spike
fence, where he hung for five minutes
before he could be rescued. It re
guired the strength of three men to
lift him from the prong, which entered
the left side for six inches or more,
entirely severing one of the entrails.
He is at the hospital, where an opera
tion has been performed and the
broken bowel sewed up. Chances are
acainst his recovery.
|
No Accounting for a Woman's Taste.
e love-sick voung man presented
himself before a New Jersey court the
other day and asked for srelief. He
said his name was . John Jorgenson, and
he wished to get married, but the girl
didn't like his name and wouldn’'t mar
ry him unless he changed it. The
name she had picked out was ‘*Vogel
hofer.’”’ Jorgens3on therefore prayed
that he might become Vogelhofer,
and the court granted bhis prayer.
There's no accounting for a woman’s
taste. ‘
Editor's Awful Plight. 1
F. M. Higgins, editor Seneca (Ills.)l
News, was afflicted for years with pilea‘
that no doctor or remedy helped until
he tried Bucklen’s Arnica Salye. He
writes two boxes wholly cured him.
It's the surest Pile cure on earth and
the best salve in the world. |
the location of the den of the serpent
been definitely determined; but these
are details which may Le overlooked
if positive assurance can be had that
we have the real and ‘‘original” gar
den. What a demand there would be
from various corporations for eligible
sites if the discovery were authenticas
ed beyond the peradventure of a
‘donbt,! There would immediately be a
iproposition to convert the garden into
‘a national park--admission free every
day in the week except Tueslays and
Fridays; twenty-five cents charged on
those days; ten per cent. of the admis
'sions to go for a monument to Adam
}a.nd Eve. Then there would come a
trolley line, passing by the gate of the
‘ Flaming Sword and leading to a first
class tourist hotelin the apple orchard.
Among the attractions of the hotel
grounds would be the Lover’s lane
}dowu which Adam and Eve walked,
%haud and hand, anon whispering airy
‘nothings while they inspected the
‘beasts and gave them their names.
'And then there would be the lawn
upon which little Cain and Abel gam
boled with the Megatherium, rode
upon the back of the Scelidotherium
and tickled the Paleoblatvina with a
straw to see it run. The possibilities
of the earden as a place of tourist re
sort would be almost unlimited.
It is to be hoped Dr. Becker will be
able to furnish positive proofs that he
has found the Garden of Eden, and
that it is now within the mixed juris
diction of General MacArthur and the
Taft commission. If he can do so the
American people will never permit the
scene of the early joys and sorrows of
the progenitors of the race to again
suffer neglect or fall into disrepair.
They will make it brilliant with many
electric lights and vibrant with the
clangor of trolley ecars.—Savannah
News.
GERMANY CARES FOR LABOR.
Uncle Sam Bends His Energies to
Promoting <«“Commerce.”’
In Germany there is a government
bureau which publishes monthly sta
tistics of the labor market. Official
figures for December showed 124 men
after every 100 jobs, and the figures
for January show a heavy increase in
the number of unemployed, there be
ing now 166 applicants for every 100
chances 10 wWork.
If our own government would pay
half as much attention to labor as it
does to ‘‘commerce” the condition of
the masses in this country would be
greatly improved.
DAUGHTERS BURN ; SON IS SAVED.
Mother Thinks Only of Her Blind Son and
Fails to Wake Her Two Daughters.
A Montgomery dispatch says: Bessie
and Al‘ce Wilkes, aged 16and 18, were
cremated in a fire at the home of their
widowed mother, Mrs. Wilkes, at
Prattville early this morning.
The charred remains of one of the
young girls was found in the hall. The
other was found with a spring mattress
over her head, which she placed there
in endeayoring to proteet herself from
the flames.
A blind boy was also in the house,
and it was owing to this thatthe young
girls were not awakened, as the mother
thought only of her boy, and in saving
him forgot her daughters until too
late.
' Mr. Carnegie’s Matrimonial Advice.
. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has lately
| been giving some advice to young men
'on the subject of marriage. He thinks
!Lhut more men should marry women
'who are older than themselves : that if
'a woman is 20 or 30 ~years older than
'hcr husband the union is more likely
10 be good for them both. ‘A man of
25 should marry a woman of 50, if we
properly seize Mr. Carnegie’s idea,”
says the Nashville American. ‘‘Does
Mr. Carnegie recommend chloroform
or the sandbag in effecting such happy
unlons?”’
He Fools the Hens, ;
The Kennebec (Maine) Journal tells 1
of a man who darkens his henhouse for
one hour at noon. His hens go to roost,
thinking it night; at the end of the
hour he opens the blind. The result is
that his hens lay again, and he gets
two eggs a day instead of one.
1 have bought R. J. Anthony’s shop
and solicit your patrcnage in plumb
ing. tin and bicyele work. Work is
guarentosd. ta 46 S Sleek i svery
PRSI
NO SHARE IN PROSPERITY.
Consolidation of Railroads Throws
Thousands Out of Work,
According tothe New York Mailand
Express the great railway* systems
which have recently consolidated have
agreed upon an elaborate scheme for
reducing expenses. Thousands of em
ployes are to be discharged because
there will be no nced for their sery
ices. As there will be no competition ;
there will be nc need of solicitors, and |
at most points there will be but one
agent for all of the roads. Thescheme ‘
also includes the taking off all useless
trains and the operating nof the roa.ds}
according to the “per ton” method.
This will make it possible to do with-!
out the services of thousands of men
who are now absolutely necessary.
The saving that is to be effected by
the economical methods which have
been agreed upon will, it is claimed,
amount to many millions of dollars an
nually. But what is to become of the
men who will be dismissed ? It is ex
pected of course that :they will find
places elsewhere. But if the new
methods are generally adopted there:
will be no places for them, It looks
therefore as if there would soon be
thousands of men without employment
scattered throughout the couatry,
through no fault of their own. Natur
ally they will begin to wonder why it
is, if the country is so prosperous, the
opportunities for earning bread are
less than when the cry of hard times
was heard on every hand.
FIVE TO HANG.
Werz Members of Knights of
Archer’” and Had Sworn Ven
geance Against the Whites.
Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis,
Richard Sanders, William Hudson &nd
Sam Baldwin, five negroes haye been
found guilty of murder in Screven
county and sentenced to be hung
March 29. .
The men were members of an organ
ization known as the Knights of the
Archer. The charter of this order,
which was found by the posse arrest
ing the negroes, is said to contain an
oath of vengeance against the whites,
and the members were obligated to de
fend themselves against the whites un
to death.
THE KING’S ««CHATIPION.”
A Foolish Thing on the Program
for Edward’ Coronation.
A cable from London says: One of
the most interesting features of King
Edward’s coronation will be the proba
ble appearance ot the king’s champion,
who, in the presence of the assemblage,
rides forth, throws down his gauntlet
and challenges all to dispute with him
by personal conflict the right of King
Edward to reizn. The present king’s
champion is a hard working young far
mer who glories in the name of Dymo
kee. He lives in Linconshire, is of a
modest and retiring nature and is much
exercised at the prospect of the great
ness which is likely to be thrust upon
him., Neither in his figure, which is
small, nor in his apparance, which is
thatjof the typical Liconshire farmer,
is he cut out for such martial duty.
Since the times of the Norman kings
the Dymokees haye been champions.
Several rulers, notably Queen Viectoria,
held their coronation without the ap
pearance of the inevitable Dymokee,
but it is thought King Edward is likely
to reviye the duty thatso long devolv
ed onthe anciept family.
Talking Through His Crown,
It should be borne inmind that King
Edward was only talking through his
crown when he put up that jolly about
the hopeful outlook in ‘““his” Trans
vaal.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
take lLaxative Bromo-Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig
nature is on each box, 25¢.
Brakeman Order
Oil strikes in California are making
poor men millionaires as in the old
days in Pennsylvania. One of the
strangest of these freaks of fortune
came to John A. Bunting, a former
freight brakeman on the Southern Pa
cific road, who has just ordered a $30,-
000 private car.
Ten years ago Bunting was keeper
of a railroad water tank on the desert
near Tucson, Ariz. Then he was ad
vanced and finally became a freight
brakeman. He joaned a friend 8170
and took as collateral a watch and a
mortgage on forty acres of land in
Kern county. " The friend did not pay,
so Bunting sold the watch and fore
closed the mortgage on the land. He
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Vol. 17.—N0. 25.
P BY A NEGRO MARSHAL.
BROKE INTO MILLIONAIRE’S BEDROOM
AND READ THE PROCESS.
Texas People Wish to Know if the Title
to Land Owned by the Gould
Railroad Are Valid.
Edwin Gould{will long have oceasio.
to remember the Mardi Gras in New
Orleans in 1901. One morring last
week he ' was placed under arrest in
his rooms in the St. Charles hotel of
that city by a negro [deputy United
State; marshal, Tom Galbreath.
Mr. Gould had not yet risenfrom his
bed.when Galbrzath, who has been in
the United States marshal's office for
the district of Louisiana for the past
ten years, knocked at Mr.} Gould’d
door without first having ssent up his
card.
Mr. Gould's valet came to {the door
and then without further ado the dep
uty stepped inside the door and asked
for Mr. Edwin Gould. The valet wag
so taken®back in amazement that to
put it mildly in the slang of the day he
nearly fell dead.
He stammered and then stammered
again, and before he had quit stam
mering Galbreath explained that he
was a deputy United States marshal.
and that he had come to serve a pro
cess upon Mr. Gould.
“What’s that,” shouted Mr. Gould,
whbo was in an adjoining bedroom, angl
had over heard the conversation be
tween his servant and the officr.
Mr. Gould rushed into the parlor in
his night robe and Galbreath, taking
advantage of the situation, immedi
ately began to read the process ver
bal, which was a summons in chan
cery.
A number of railroad land grant set
tlers throughout the state had taken
advantage of Mr. Gould’s presence in
the city to flle a suit against the rail
roads owned by the Goulds to deter
mine whether or not they had valid
and legal titles to their lands. The
United States district attorney, Wm.
Wirt Howe, filed the suit for them.
Edwin Gould will now have to appear
in court in New Orleans before he
leaves the city,and a date for the hear
ing of the trial will have to be set.
SUGAR FROM CORN STALKS.
Captain Pures of Savannah Has a
New Scheme. ;
Captain Dan G. Purse of Savannah.
says he has a scheme on foot to estab
lish a number of big sugar mills in the
south, and that by a scientific process
of cultivation corn stalks will be ased
six months in the year for the manu
facture of the sugar. ;
He says that the stalks, when grown
according to his process, will yield 2
per cent more of sucrose or crystaliz
able sweet juice than the Louisiana
sugar cane, and that this will be the
means of overcoming thé drawback
that has heretofore prevented the
coming of sugar mills to Georgia—
that is, cane furnishes work for the
milis only three months in the year.
The corn will furnish them with work
for six more months.
HUNTING IN LEE.
Representative Duncan Carries a
Lot of Game to Atlanta
Representative A. B. Duncan of Lee
county was in Atlanta last week ona
visit to Secretary of State Cook. Dr.
Duncan carried with him for some of
his friends there saddles of venison, a
couple of wild turkeys and a corn sack
filled with birds, the proceeds of aday’s
hunt in Lee county. Dr. Duncan says
that a few days ago a party of hunters
killed 3,500 doves on baited lands in
[Lee county. ;
s
)
s a Private Car.
and began to developihis property. He
struck oil and now is rated as g mil
lionaire.
Bunting went into the office of Gen
‘eral Manager Fillmore at San Frap
cisco one day last week and sent in his
card. Fillmore sent back a reply that
he was sorry, but he had no job. Bunt-~
ing sent back word that he was not
looking for jobs, but that he wanted to
buy a priyate car. -
Fillmore congratulated him and adv
vised him to buy a car with all the
latest improvements, whicl; woa
cost him $30,000, and meanwhile to
rent a car from the Southern Pacific.
This he did. Bunting has no m.
sive tastes except a strong desire to
travel in his own car and to_have that.
car as luxurious as it is possible to
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