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gy E. L. Rainey.
Good peurl buttons, worth 10 ect.
for 2 1-2 cents a dozen. :
508 yards best yard wide Percales
7} cents per yard.
Beautiful colored piques, worth
20 cents, for 10 cents.
Pretty white piques, worth 25
cents, for 124 cents.
- ning B ht Such T d Responses from the Publi we W ai verw 4 mbe ad to i e ice oW
clf’r“s’h?)ffpersgwiileien'g"r?tgedf Competition stood agbast. With renewed seal we begin the Now dviomar 0 Y g oi g ot 4i g g b
these sales exceéd in every vital essential th ose of the past. .
popular Prices. Dawn of New Methods in New Century Merchandising. For This Spring Most Amaz
ing of All Cut Price Sales. Positively the Greatest Bargain Carnival in Dawson’s History.
mmc*‘%%vmw MWW RS
Fine long cloth, worth 15 cents,
for 71 cents.
Large lot assorted waist silks, 50
sents to $1 quality, for 29(5\y ard.
Large lot colored lawns and chal
lies, worth 8 cts, for 5 cis a vard.
y 500 yards I»euutifu} crash skirting,
% worth 19 and 20¢, for 84¢ a yard.
nargy ¥ \
(RuiT NILE DAM
0y 1 v :7
jEs HORE COTTON.
TER RESERVOIR COMPLETED AT
A COST OF MILLIONS.
1s the Rich Delta Country of Egypt
o Cotton Culture. Was Built
With British Money.
construction of the great Nile
which has been eompleted after
than two years of work and the
diture of seven millions of dollars,
Iy tohave an important influence
cotton merket 3 especiatly vhe
ot forlong staple cotton. Egypt
ealy 4 cotton producer of mo
raising, according to the New
Commercial, about one-tenth of
orld's supply. And the texture
Egyptian cotton is of excellent
,being inferior only to the long
orsea island cotvon of the United
,with which it comes into com
on.
Egytian crop has heretofore
rather uncertain quufibity, ow
‘thc frequency offdroughts, Lack
sture in the growing season has
nted any considerable expansion
Egyptian cotton area. This, how
ias been discounted in the Nile
Some few years ago-engineers
ted to the government that if a
Fere constructed a little way
{Cairo across the Nile, so as to
sorage reservoir, then all the
il .cmlm,.\v conld rely upon ir
-0 with absolute certainty, and
ould be ]”'”(hl(‘t‘d as re,q;ulu.r'ly
,‘i"nf‘“ns come and went. The
dals very fertile, needing only
:‘1 111'1«11 cultivation, and com
1y little of the i ; :
e
F o : pro
lm;‘lw(‘i"l:*““l{l‘t: necessary for
Judred square miles of terri
-I’U‘nh willat once be put under
g
“‘u:“\],:’il.t;‘);iu(i,.]:.]:::-m,nd. wlill be
il oo 1o :},. l.}n's{- ..m( .th‘e
crease of ) el l.sh Wil
e Fgyptian crop,
lxDecvted Results of Boer War.
Y S down 1o count the costs
U Atrieqy, war, still dragg
| Yowarg iy close, the English
“U% Ibe cheerful. The
e treasure and the
F live iong the lofty as
® lowly gy ‘-l‘vL alone to be
e cost, Another and more
'8 relt s the probable
P O the freq trade poliey
ch the Uniteq Kingdom has
J€yond the dreams of aver
the Past fifyy years.
lt of thq war a defi¢it of
000, 000 is thl‘eatened, and
MEe it the Bpitish minis-
WSidering gome radical de
nciuding the doubling of the
K, the Putting of g duty on
the restoration of the regis
) Wheat, The sugar du
he lagt t 0 be taken off wh
THE DAWSON NEWS.
ONLY WOMEN ON TICKET.
Prohibitionists of Denver Have a
Petticoat Ticket.
The prohibitionists of Denver, Col.,
have nominated a ticket composed en
tirely of women for the city offices to
be filled atv the election on April 2,
aext. Their candidate for mayor is
Mrs. A. A. Hawley, president of the
state women’s christian temperance
union.
AN UNUSUAL SIGHT.
The Many Graves of the Wives
of One Man in the Ceme
tery at Griffin.
A most unual sight is to be seen in
Oak Hill cemetery at Griffin. [t is
fourteen headstones all standing in a
row in one lot. There are seven large
headstones and seven small head
stones, ;
Each of these headstones represent
a wife and child of an old citizen of
Griffin, but who has since moved away.
A peculiar feature about the graves is
that by the grave of the first wife is
the grave of a girl child, and by that
of the second is a boy child, and it is
th > same manuer all the way dowa the
line of graves.
This lot attracts the attention of all
visitors to the cemetery and it is con
sidered to be one of the most remarka
ble instances of the kind ever known.
The husband and father of all these
wives and children is still living, and
is in good health and is living peace
fully and happy with his eighth wife.
therefore, will make England less de
pendent upon the United - States for
her long staple cotton. It is quite
likely that England is looking to Egypt
for material aid in her struggle to
maintain her surpremacy in the manu
factured eotton goods trade. And that
is why she was so willing to take up
and finance the Nile dam scheme for
it was British money that builtthe
mounster reservoir.
the British government abandoned the |
protective policy about the middle of
the last century. * * ¥ People who |
have enjoyel cheap untaxed sugar for
half a century will naturally object to
the indirect tax of the rise in price,
and but that it seems necessary in or
der to meet the government’s financial
embarrassment a protest would likely
follow which no government would feel |
strong enough to disregard. |
The war has alsocaused industry and
trade to suffer, it is said. Investments
have fallen off and dividends have been
cut down.
Even a temporary change in a few
particulars in England’s free trade pol
icy, however, 1s evidence enough of
the damage that has been done and
shows that there is no telling to what
departures from precedent a war may
lead.—Macon Telegraph.
OUR OPENING.-
A Wonderful Success.
Every Previous Effort Totally Eclipsed.
Host of Powerful Values; atchless Savings for Customers; Matchless Selling for the Store. Every price a
sensation. Every item an irresistable bargain. Every purchase backed by our guarantee. Our past record is
one of marvelous expansion; of aggressive accomplishment. Today the store itself is the best possible proof of
its remarkable growth and development. For this season we have planned on a still more colossal scale. Our
store now presents a solid array of imposing. attention compelling values that will thrill every prospective custo
mer; it practically overflows with grand bargains that will create a furore; itis abloom with magnetic attrac
tions. You must come here to rcalize-—you must sce to appreciate. Each visitor at our store will receive a pret
ty souvenir. But the keynote of the whole vast occasion is splendidly worthy goods presented without exaggera
tion after the most careful inspection and offered at the lowest possible prices such merchandise was ever sold at.
W/. H. DAVIS & CO.
: : DAWSON, GEORGIA.
Dawson, Ga.,, Wednesday, March 27, 1901.
RAILROAD IS CIRCULATING SIRES.
A Real Cock and lell Story fron_l th‘e Se-aboard Air Line Railway.
Is Assisting the Farmers Along Its Line in Raising
Aristocratic Cattle and Chickens.
The Seaboard Air Line, whose rail
roads extend over 2,600 miles of coun
try south and southwest from Rich-
mond, Va., is about to engage in the
landable enterprise of promoting the
raising of fine cattle and fine chickens
along the lines of its roads. The com:
pany has purchased a choice lot of
aristocratic bulls apd_fashiovable
coelks, which 1t proposes to lend to the
farmecrs along the lines of the road for
the elevation of the race of beeves and
the race of poultry.
The road has issued circulars offer
ing to loan to the farmers along its
line blcoded bulls and roosters. The
roosters are Light Bramas, Black
Langshans and Biack Minorcas, and
will be allowed to remain on one farm
ninety days, when they will be trans
ferred to other farmers who ap
plies for them. It 1s expected that
parties who have the use of said roost
ers, for which there will be no charge,
will see that they are well taken care
of and not allowed to be disturbed by
any other roosters that they may have
on their place.
The information as to the particnlar
kinds of bovine aristoeracy which the
company proposes to have visit around
among the yokel cows of the southland
15 somewhat meagre. All that is defi
pitely known is that the bulls have
been purchased and are ready to lend
to whosoever may apply.
The company does not insist, howev
er, that the bulls shall be as carefully
looked after as the roosters, so that
they may be in fine fettle and of good
appearance when they continue on
their circuit. It is well known among
stock raisers that the home-bred south
ern bull is a hot-blooded beast and,
like the southern men, quick to resent
insult, slight or any encroachment on ‘
BALDWIN BUYS HIS POLAR GRUB.
Gets 200 Tons of Stuff That He Expects
Wil Last His Party 27 Months.
Armonr & Co. of Chicago closed the
largest contract for supplies.for a polar
expedition ever taken by an Artic ex
plorer. The contract was awarded by
Eyelyn D. Baldwin, who will head the
expedition to the North Pole which
will start about June 1. and will con
sist of 200 tons, ten carloads, of especi
ally prepared foodstuffs, which itis ex
pected will last Baldwin and his party
twenty-seven months. The value of
the supplies is between $50,000 and
$60,000. The supplies are to be deliv
ered in New York by April 1, and wili
be shipped thence to Dundee, Scot
lar.d : to Tromsoe, Norway: and Sandi
ford, Norway. :
Tabler's Buckeye Pile 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. ‘
| his prerogatives., It would seem to be
necessary, therefore, if the corpora
’ tion bulls are to continue on their mis
sion of improving their species, pre
cautions should be taken to segregate
them from the native progenitors,
Onee the horns of a blue blooded bull
’fig\éome locked with the horns of a ple
‘bian bull it is just possible that the
son.of the sgH uight wis. a {
It is said, althougeh this could not be
verified, that the company has insisted
for the protection of its chickens that
special pains shall be taken to guard
the henroosts, where the birds may be
visiting at night. Tt is said that this
precaution was made necessary by the
‘the fact that certain citizens of the
!oout,h still have a predilection for
‘oalli alieni, as Cicero would say. Once
it becomes well known that high class
chickens are traveling about the coun
‘try stopping here and there to do mis
sionary work, as it were, the chicken
thieves will take new hope and cour
age.
This enterprise, odd as it may seem
for a railroad to engage in, will un
doubtedly prove of great benefit to the
southern farmers. It is quite in line
with the spirit which prompted the
Seaboard Air Line people to stock a
car with books and run it over its en
tire system, stopping at the varicus
stationg to lend out the books to who
ever cared for them. There is really
no reason, it would seem, why a rail
road which has a circulating library
shouldn't have circulating bulls and
circulating roosters.
Farmers who would like to borrow a
bull or a rooster should write to Mr. J.,
Strang, assistant chief of the indus
trial department of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, Portsmouth, Va. Appli
cations will be recorded and served as
they come in turn.
THE SINGING CONVENTION.
Association Which Has Held Several Ses
sions in Terrell to Meet in Arlington.
"~ The Chattahoochee Singing Conven
tion will be held in Arlington on Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday, March 29,
30 and 31. In most probability the
railroads will give reduced rates to
Arlington on account of this occasion,
and will bring a great many people.
Our citizens are making preparations
to entertain the crowd, and it will be a
grand success. Arlington has never
failed in anything of this character so
far and will, as usual, do her part in
this. Everybody is invited.—Calhoun
County Courier.
~ Warning !
Teunderness, aching in the small of
the back is a serious symptom. The
»kidne&s are suffering. Take Smith’s
?Qfi ki;:lney Cure est, oneem . It is are
e ney remedy ‘system regu
lator, and will cure the trouble before
iv devzlog-mto its W %
Price 50 cents. r sale by Farrar,
Harris & Marshall. -
50,000 DISFRANCHISED.
Maryland Deprives the Negro of
the Ballot.
Maryland’s new election bill, having
for its object the practical disfran
chisement of most of the 50,000 illiter
ate voters of the state, has been passed
by both houses of the legislature and
signed by the governor. The republi
cans of the state made a stubborn fight
against the measure, but lost. :
FRESH FEVER FOOD.
| e e i e
To Keep McArthur’s Army to 60,-
000 Men Will Require 20,000
Fresh Troops by July 1.
The officers of the adjutant general’s
and quartermaster’s depirtments in
Washington are devoting their atten
tention to the sending of regular troops
to the Philippines to take the places of
the volunteers, who are being brought
home as rapidly as the transportation
facilities of the government will per
mit. The main object of the officials
is to prevent any material decrease in
General MacArthur’s army of 60,000
men. There are about 40,000 regular
troops in the Orient, including those
now ip China. In order to keep, the
strength up to 60,000 it will be neces
sary to provide 20,000 fresh troops from
the United States before July 1.
The transports Indiana, Meade and
Pennsylvania will leave San Francisco
in a day or two with battalions of the
Tenth infantry, Fifth cavalry, also bat
talions of five new regiments. Ar
rapgemeuts also have been made for
the departure of a number of other
vessels between now and April 15,
Assistant Entomologist Arrives,
Assistant State Entomologist W. F.
Fiske of New Hampshire has arrived
and will at once assume the duties o
his office. This is his first visit to
Georgia. He will leave with State En
tomologist Scott for southwest Georgia
in a few days, when he will commence
work inspecting the orchards of this
section of the state.
The Pacific Roads and the Canal.
A St. Paul, Minn , dispatch says that |
it 1s the understanding that the North- I
ern Pacific R: Jway has sold all of its
lands west of the Missouri river forf
the sum of $40,000,000. f
"'he road received all of these landsi
apd many millions of acres more from
the government— that is, from the peo-i
ple. It is a safe assertion that Lhei
lands received by all of the Pacific
roads from the government have yield-’
ed, or will yield by the time they areg
sold, a sum sufficient to replace the
roads if they were to be destroyed.
And yet these roads, practically built
by thigovernment., are now combined
to prevent the government from build
ing the Nicaragua canal. This is a
o ot e
vern 18 . for the ¢i
Gbetacle to the construction of an isth
Vol. 17.—N0. 29.
Pretty white swiss for curtams,
worth 124 cents, for 6 cents a yard.
1,000 yards fine white lawn for 5
cents a yard.
1,000 yards good white check
fors cents a yard.
3 cakes fine buttermilk soap,
worth 15 cents, for 5 cents.
Good household scissors, worth
worth 25¢, for 10¢ a pair.
Large lot of narrow velvet rib
bon, all colors, worth 6¢, for 3¢ yd.
Large lot black gloria umbrellas,
worth 75 cents, for 35 cents.
Large lot embroideries, 5, 10 and
15¢, less than half price.
700 pairs odds and ends fine shoes
at exactly half price.
Large lot of new spring wool
skirtings 25¢ per yard.
W BV 1
GEN. EVANS CALLS FOR
» 1
300 AIR, YOLUNYERRS.
WANTS GEORGIA BEAUTY AS WELL AS
| VALOR AT MEMPHIS. -
Asks That Every Confederate Camp in
| the State Send Sponsors and
: Maids of Honor
" General Clement A. Evang command
ier of the Georgia division of United
Confederate Veterans, wants Georgia
\well represented at the coming re
upion to be held in® Memphis, and if
the plans of the General carry out,
Georgia girls, five hundred strong, will
invade the Tennessee metropolis.
In addition to wanting the girls on
hand, General Evans wants as many
veterans as possible to attend, Al
ready the General has commenced
work on his plans. In a few days he
will select the official sponsor for the
Georgia division and will issue a re
quest to every camp in the state, and
there are 132 of them, to select a
gsponsor of its own, and to allow the
sponsors to name several maids of
honor.
General Evans likes pretty girls, es
pecially Georgia girls, and he says he
is sure there is no state in the union
that bas as many good looking girls as
Georgia., For the past two years the
Georgia girls have not been so much
in evidence at the reunions, while the
other states had numerous beauties on
hand. General Evans does not want
this to occur again, if it can be helped,
and hence this movement, so early, to
secure the large attendance of young
ladies. The General says that nothing
advertises a state so well as its pretty
women, and in addition to giving the
girls a big time at the reunion he
wants to give Georgia a big ‘‘ad.”
Deaths from Grip.
New York is startled by its grip fig
ures for the year 1900. Deaths from
that disease numbered 11,500 in the
state. In January, 1901, 3,000 were add
ed to the death list from grip.
icy of aiding the building of the Pa
cific roads by generous donations of
lands could have foreseen the attitude
these roads would take when the time
came for the construction of an isth
mian canal they would have doubted
the wisdom of that policy.
It would be interesting to know just
how much the Pacific roads have re
ceived for public lands in actual ecash,
and what the cash value is of public
lands which they still have in their
possession. ~
It is probable that the policy of do
pating lands to the Paecific roads is not
regretted, but there is undoubtedly a
,faefling that the roads by using their
; nfluence to © ‘con
twsmceri:% an iithmlfll_ mmm :!h;: &r
ifesting a very great lack of apprecia
lfiw of the splendid gift v fia
