By E. L.. Rainey.
oPPORTUNE TIME.
We confidently believe that our
store showings this season are the
grcat,est ever exhibited here.and that
the values are better thau can be
found elsewhere. The best time to
make selections is before the rush
begins and while the assortments
are unbroken.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 20, 2| and 22.
MR. W. H. DAVIS has just returned from the great markets of the East, where he spent exactly 3 weeks in buying our immense spring stock. Our showings this season will be grander
fum i superb than ever. We will present to you the greatest feast of high class novelties this season we have ever shewn. A veritable exposition in itself. The most comprehensive and va
apd “?(.)retment of Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Silks, Lawns, White Goods, Dimities, Piques, Welts, Silk and Cotton Chambrays, Swiss Novelties, Satin Raye, Embroideries, Ribbons, Fans, Belts
ried assor : Handkerchiefs, Challies, Albatross, Zephyr Cloths, Laces, Neckwear, Hosiery, Underwear, Waists, Skirts,
WWWWW Petticoats, Tailor Suits, Chiffon and Chenille Collarettes, Drapery, Portieres, Curtains and a thousand Q9OO HOOOOVVOOVOCTIODIOC)
The fact that you can find under various otheritems Come to our opening. There is always hearty welcome here to visitors the welcome We propose to make this a ban-
B of being left free to look around and handle the goods and ask questions to your heart’s content. Surpass all ner season, distancing by great odds
one roof almost every known requi- former efforts is what we are determined to do this spring. Our achievements in collecting, aggregating and G M S '
iy the most complete and re- amassing one of the most inexhaustive stocks of fashionable stuffs ever exhibited here has been beyond what all past records in modern dry goods
gite 1. VA we ever hoped for. The output of this store daily grows in volume and, with the multitude of the popular retailing. Gigantic assortment; @
‘ liable assortment to be tound, and kinds of seasonable merchandise, coupled with your continued patronage, we see before us the ending of the BT i tivhag sibhal
: : or greatest season in our buying and selling career. §OME ASTONISHING PRICES WILL BE MADE DURING OPENING. Sulpencons queniieon, RO WS
the lowest prices 1)05.311)10 i : values. Altogether it will be unap
quality should be good reason for proachable, unmatchable and be
naking your entire purchases of yond cempetition. Meet your friends
B w $ here.
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DL IS SENTENCED
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10 HAVG ON APRIL 30
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£ FORMER DAWSON TAILOR CON
DEMNED TO THE GALLOWS.
¢ Wiry Was Out Only Seven Minutes.
Supreme Court Will Be Appealed
tofor a New Trial.
sador Minder, the former Dawson,
lor who killed Andrew Mahoney, a
low workman, in Macon last Octo
ris under sentence of death.
lis trial was concluded in Bibb su
vior court last Tuesday night, and
wasat once sentenced to hang on
esday, April 30. The jury was out
lyseven minutes before returning a
rdict of ouilty.
The gentlemen who went from Daw
bto testify in behalf of the unfortu
te man report that public sentiment
Macon is strongly against him, and
tthere was some talk of lynchiag
Y the event of a verdict of not
ilty being rendered.
bile in the courtroom during th:
k 1 \1; L 4 o
I Minder did not move in his seat.
kepthis hand on his bowed head
bclosed eyes, not once raising his
Gtolovk atthe jucy or attorneys.
h S &
fi4s grown u beard, which together
El his imprisonment, causes his face
00k pale and wan. No one spoke
I, not even his brother, who was
? ’f"" & witness, but who left at
altgr testifyine for his home in
ens.
lone] .J >
”nel Jno. R, C‘ooper, who con-
E I‘I“’ defense, gave notice of a
on vy ’ : . &
Pora new triul immediately af
entence was passed. 3
fHe Qught to Move. 1
fleac . S, %
m.'.“‘a’“ man is suing the county |
"ities for &
Eic f"- 520,000 because he was
0 lake g b g .
for t} K¢ a bath. Chicago is no
“iat man. He ought t -
hsioo Q ogotO !
BVernment Thefts of a Century.
ount of money stolen from the
EOVernmen, during the century
7 Mdel by dishouest officials
i;r;il‘().\i!llll[t"fl $16,-
f; .” ring that period the money
Ofticia)s ind agents amo int-
ALY 5000,000,000. The per
\ {;;,“” through dishonesty,
45 been comparatively
"OeY stolen from the govern
" 10t always losg 10 it Far from
Tl employes handling funds
‘Il cases where the bonds
"~ ¢ Wortaless a careful memo
‘ KEpt, and it often occurs
, T years an opportunity for
Presents itself, Debts to the
L _"‘!"'l'i:lli\' those arising
‘.L‘lj""”"" are never outlawed
. During the last two
“OVernment has collected
.:."f:l)‘l';'}’ll"”‘; and others that
s L
B s forty ycal‘s.h‘i 1: :::&O:l?:i
THE DAWSON NEWS.
| KLINE WILL SERVE TIME.
‘l The Drummer Taken toa Camp in
' Miller County.
Pl L. Kline, who was convincted in
: the city court at Americus of cheatinr
fand swindling and sentenced to pay a
fine of $375 or serve twelve months at
| hard labor or six months in jail, has
l'decided to do the twelve months work
iund has been tiken to Miller county
to work oa a turpentine farm. Kline
lchose the long sentence in the gang
rather than the short on= in jail. ‘
Kline atteracted a good deal of atten--
tion at the depot while waiting for the [
train. He was neatly dressed, calmlyi
smoked a cigar, and but for the hand- |
cuffs it would have been hard to dis-|
tinguish him as a convict. {
There are several other chargcs;
against Kline of getting worthless |
arafts cashed. ‘
4 . |
IN MORE TROUBLE.
Uncle Sam Is After H. C. Ligonl
About Those Forged Express ’
Money Orders. |
H. C. Ligon, who was recently ar-l
rested here and taken to Columbus for
defrauding the express company, has |
found himself in more trouble.
It seems that Ligon, in the alleged
disposal of his money orders, sent them
through the United States mail, there
by using it, it is claimed, as a vehicle
to defraud, and violating a statue of |
the United States. The case was wm'k-!
ed up by P. l. Burns, a special agent |
of the express company, whoswore ounl
a warrant, and the prosecution is ap-*
proved by 5. D. Peer, a postoffice in-|
spector, who assisted Mr. Burns in |
working up the case. !
A warrant was served on Ligon in ]
‘the Columbus jail Thursday by a Unit- |
}ed States marshal. {
‘ Ligon is reported as saying that |
‘he doesn't much care, but that the
\state of Georgia gets the first crack at
him.
| in a number of instances men who were
lin debt to the government enlisted in
] the volunteer army for the war with
Spain. When pay day came around
instead of receiving their salaries they
got only receipts for the amounts of
their pay applied to their debts. Some
|of the volunteer officers resigned when
; they found how things were going: but
i it is told of one volunteer major that
' he served during the continuance of
' the war without drawing more than
f his subsistence allowance, his éntire
| salary being applied to the extinguish
; ment of a debt he owed the govern
' ment because he had been on the bond
1 of a defaulting official many years ago.
! During the first twenty years of the
Elife of the government, it is noted by
‘the Washington correspondent of the
; New York Tribune, there was not a
' defaleation in the public service. Ev
! ery official was honest. But that sort
of thing was tou ideal to continue.
GRAND SPRING OPENING.
Fashionable : Merchandise.
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, March 20, 1901.
WHERE UNCLE SAW'S MONEY GOES
The Number of Employes at the National ~Capitol, and the Amount
They Draw from the Government Yearly.
} A big item in the appropriations
; which congress makes is for the sala
ries of department employes of the
!govcrnment. And it is astonishing
‘j how rapidly the number of these em
ployes increases. Why so many are
needed no oné is prepared to say. Ev
ery once in a while there comes a de
mand for extra help, and when new
places are created it seems that they
are never abolished, even though the
need for them has ceased.
It is possible that, at a safe calcula
tion, the departments at Washington
could be conducted, just as well as they
are now, by two-thirds of the number
of employes on their pay rolls. No
doubt some of them earn all the money
they get, bat the most of them are
paid much more than they could earn
outside of the government service.
If there could be a thcrough over
hauling of the government employes,
and only those retained who are capa
ble of rendering good service and
whose services are needed, millions of
dollars would be saved to the govern
ment annually. Ther2 is no probabil
iy, however, of any such reform being
“n:u}c. About every one of the em
‘ployes has congressional influence. If
one of them is discharged a congress
man wants to know the reason, and, in
most cast cases, no reason that can be
given is satisfactory. The congress
man will not be satisfied until the dis
charged employe is reinstated. Itis
probable tsat there are dozeus of em
ployes, it may be hundreds, who are
stowed away in the departments some
where and who are practically forgot
ten by all except the man who makeg
out the weekly pay roll. ‘
The following statement contains the l
number of employes in the departments
at the nationa! capitol together with
the amount which they draw from thc?
SHE BOUGHT A TITLE.
Mrs. Leslie Has Sail ed for Rome
Where She Will Try It.
It is Mrs. Frank [Leslie no more.
The lady who bore that name is now
the Baronne de Bazus, which appears
upon her yisitirg cards. No, she has
been married again : she has merely
acquired a title from the French gov
ernment, a notvery difficult matter.
Bazus. it appears, is a hamlet of 222
souls near Toulouse. It couldn’t sup
port a barony, or even a magistracy,
but a thing like that doesn’t count
when an ambitious woman wants a
title and a government is willing to
confer one, for a consideration. It is
understood that the Baronne, formerly
Mrs. Leslie, paid $6,000, the regular
price, for her title. She sailed for
Rome a few days ago, fwhere she will
try it.
Tabler's Buckeve Plle Ointment is
no panacea, but is recommended for
piles only. These it will cure. Price
50c in bottles; tubes, 75¢, at Dawson
Drug Co’s. =
government yearly. It does not con
l tain congressmen and the employes of
congress nor any of the vast army of
| government employes outside of Wash
ington. Nor does it include any of the
retired officers of the army and navy
residiag in Washington :
1 Number Aggregate
employes. pay.
Treasury dep’t....4 881 % 5,030,663 55
Department of the
interior...... ..,4,440 4,909,773 00
Government print
ing 0ffice........3.150 2,993,284 99
District governm’t 3,026 2,168,959 00
War department. .1,787 2,006,547 00
“ Department of ag
. plonlture. .. ... 804 832,946 00
Postoffice dep't... 697 779,580 00
Navy deparment.. 324 382,392 18
Department of jus-
AT e 255,640 00
Department of la
bor ... s Al 134,780 00
Departm’t of state. 95 133,940 00
Totals.... .... 19,446 $19,628,505 72
Many of these employes are now
growing old and there is a movement
to have them put on the pension list.
None of them save anything for old
age or sickness, or, if there are uny,
the number is so small that it is hardly
worth noticing. It would not be at all
surprising if within the next few years
the movement to peusion worn out em
ployes would be successful. The cer
tainty that there would be a Jdemand
for pensions was one of the strongest
arguments in favor of the spoils sys
tem. By that system the changes are
so frequent that few grow c¢ld in the
service. If the demand for pensions
should become so strong that there
would be but little probability of re
sisting it§ public sentiment might fa
vor going back to the spoils system.—
Savannah News, |
MR. STEVENS TESTIFIED.
Went to Washington to Appear
Before Industrial Commission.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
(0. B. Stevens has gone to Washingthl
to appear before the industrial com
mission appointel by congress to se
cure statistics regarding the industrial
condition of the United States.
(‘ommissioner Stevens left armed
with volumes of statistics about the
condition of Georgia and its numerous
industrial qualities. He will be absent
for several days, and will doubtless
throw considerable light upon the
state’s condition that will open the
eyes of the commission.
You Know What You Are Taking
when you take Grove's Tasteless
Chill Tonic, because the formuls is
plainly printed on eyery bottle, show
ing that is simply Iron and Quinine in
!ROOSEVELT’S NEGRO GUEST.
'He Was Given the Best Guest
i
‘ Room in the Mansion.
{ The colored baritone of St. George's
!church, in New York City—named
{ Burleigh—went to Albany one day to
sing at a private musical. After it was
over the baritone went to a nearby
hotel, but was refused admittance be
icause of his color. Four other hotels
were unwilling to receive him. Com
ing back to the house where he had
sung he explained his predicament.
Governor Roosevelt, who had been one
of the guests, heard the conversation.
“What'’s that!”’ he roared. ‘‘Here,
Burleigh, you come with me. I'll see
to it that you get a bed.”” He drove to
his own home, gave the singerthe hest
guest room in the house, and saw to it
before he went to bed that every Al
bany newspaper would announce the
next morning that Burleigh had been
a guest of the executive mansion—
March lLadies Home Journal.
BIG MORTGAGE.
The Brunswick and Birmingham
Starts Out in True Rail
road Style.
A Brunswick special says that the
Brunswick & Birmingham railroad has
filed a mortgage in favor of the Knick
erbocker Trust Co., of New York. The
bonds are to run for tifty years at )
'per cent, interest, payable semi-annu
!al]y in gold.
The total amourt is six and three
quarter million dollars.
These funds will be sufficient to
build and equip the road all the way to
Birmingham. Work is being vigorous
ly pushed at the Branswick end.
' According to a Birmingham report,'
Ihhc new Brunswick & Birmingham
'road has entered a combination at that
city which will result in forming one
of the shortest routes from Kansas
’(:ity and the west to the seacoast.
Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets
sure a cold in one day. No cure, no
pay. Price 25 cents. l
Some Enormous Salaries Are Paid.
In the last congress there were bills
introduced to raise the salaries of the
justices ot the United States supreme
court, and of all of the other United
States courts, also the salaries of sena
tors and representatives. It is not im
probable that in this congress there
will be bills to increase the salaries of
the president, vice president and cabi
net officers, and if they pass there will
doubtless be a movement to increase
the salaries of pretty nearlyall federal
officeholders.
It is not to be wondered at that
judges and congressmen become dissat
isfied with their comparatively small
salaries in these days of big salaries.
It has not been so very long since a
salary of $50,000 a year was spoken of
wich amazement, and when a life in
surance company paid its president a
salary of $75,000 it was thought by some
. il o i o %
Vol. 17. No. 28.
OUR OPENING SALES
occupy a prominent and flattering
place in the public’s esteem, and we
don’t intend to relax for an il;st:lllt
our efforts to grow in the grace and
favor bestowed only upon worthy
and reliable merchandise selling for
less than others.
'SHE TRIED 0N COFFIN ;
4 ’
THEN CONTENT T 0 DIE
.
NEW HAVEN MAN MADE COFFINS TO
FIT ALL HIS FAMILY.
His Sick Wife Taken from Bed and Placed
! in Hers to See if It Would
Fit Snugly.
A New [{aven,/(.'onn., dispatzh says
that three weeks ago when James
Humphreys decided that his wife would
not recover from a spell of sickness he
concluded to build three coffins in the
house where he lived, one for the dy
ing woman, one for his mother-in-law,
r who is 90 years old, and the third for
himself. He had been a vm-penter'in
lhis day, but of late had been in the
real estate business. The first coffin
made was for his wife. She on her
sick bed watched the work pregressing
on her coffin. Her husband measured
her body for a fit, and when the coftin
‘wuu finished to make sure there was
'no mistake in the measurements he
helped his wife get into it and she lay
'down in the casket just as she would
| recline in death. Mrs. Humphreys, af
ter settling her body down in the cof
) tin, tried to twist her body a bit and
t said to her husband that it was a little
100 snug. Her husband thought other
wise, but it was decided to enlarge it.
Then the coffin was placed in the bed
room near the bed on which Mrs.
Humphreys spent her last days.
Mrs. Humphrevs’ remains were
taken to Fresh Pond, 1.. I, to be
cremated. Her husband has already
placed in position in his parlor an urn
to contain his wife's ashes. Hum
phreys says that his aged moth
er-in-law was placed in her coffin re
cently and it was found to be just the
right size for her. His own coffin, he
declares, will just it him,
be credited the latter amount isa small
salary in comparison with some of the
salaries that are now paid.
[t has been stated several times re
cently, and not contradicted: thai the
salary of the president of the billivn
dollar steel trust is $BOO,OOO a year, and
now it is announced that Mr. G. W,
Perkins has been takeun in as a partner
of J. P. Morgan & Co., andsthat, he is
to have a saiary of $300,000 a year.
It is expected of course that the men
who get these enormous salaries will
earn them. There are opportunities
for big financial enterprises of one
kind and ancther, and if they are util
ized properly it is an easy matter. to
make hundreds of thousands of dollars
in a single deal. It is said that Mr.
Morgan made more than $2,000,000 re
cently in the deal® by which tho an
thracite coal mines were cousolidated,
and there is every reason firfiiflt
that he made many millions - the
