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" Twenty-Second Year.
ARDAMAN'S STRONG VIEWS
TARDAMAN'S STRY!
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NEW GOVERNOR 0F MISSISSIPPI
MAKES SENSATIONAL ADDRESS.
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says Blacks Get Worse Instead of Better,
and Assault Upon wemen Is Caueed
gv Desire for Sacial Equality.
In his inaugural address, delivered
wefore & joint gession of the two heuses
o the Mississippi legislature, Governor
Jemes £ vardaman deelared that the
growing tendency of the negro to ¢om
mit criminal assault ‘on white women
is pothing more nor less than the man
ifegtations of the racial desire for-so
cial equality. In strong terms ke de
clared that educatiou is vthe curse of
the regro rece, and urged an amead
ment to the state constituvion that
will place thejdistribution of the com
mon school fund solely within the pow
er of tne jegislature. Continuing hie
discussion of the negre guestion, Gov
ernor Vardamaun said:
Agarace he is deteriorating mor
ally every day. Time has demonsirat
ed that be is.Btill more eriminal as a
free man than as a slaye, that he is
increasing in criminality with fright
ful rapidity, veing one-third more
criminal in 1890 tkan he was in ABBO.
EDUCATED ,MORE CRIMINAL.
“The startling faets revealed by the
census show that .&hose who can read
and write are more criminal than the
illiterates, which is true of the other
slement of our population. I am &d
-vised that the minknum illiteraey
among the negroes is found in New
fpgland, where it is 21.7 per cent.
The maximum is found in the black
belt—Louisiana, Mississippi and South
Carolina—where it is 6£.7 per eent.
Ané vet the negre in New England is
four and one-half times mere ceimiaal,
hundred for hundred, than he is in the
black belt. In the south, Mississippi
particularly, I know he i growing
worse every year. You can scarcely
pick up a newspaper whose pages are
not blackened with the accounts of an
unmenticnable crime eommitted by a
negro brute, and this erime I want to
impress upon you is but the magifes
tation of the negro’s aspiration for
social equality, encouraged largely by
the character of free education lni
vogue in the state by levying Lribuwi
upon the white people o maintain it.
{CHANGE PLAN OF EDUCATION. ]
“The older classes of negroes are
not responsible tor this terrible condi
tion or for the eriminal tendernecy of
their race. Nor do I wish to be under
stood as censuring them forit. lam
not censuring anybody, nor am I in
spired by ill will for the negro, but I
am simply calling attention to a most
unfortunate and undeniable conaition
of affairs, What shall be done about
it Simply something must be done.
My own idea is that uhe character of
education for the negro ought to be
changed. If, after years of earnest
effort and the expenditure of fabulous
suws of money to educate his head we
have only succeeded in making & crim
inal out of him ana imperiling his
usefulness and efficiency as & laborer,
wisdom would suggest that we make
another experiment and see if we can
not improve him by education of his
hand and his heart. There must be a
moral sub-stratum upon which to build
Or you cannot make a desirable citi
-7-80.”
This is the essence of the platform
0n which Governor Vardaman was el-
Z;lted in the state campaign last sum
er,
1,000,000 ACRES FOR CATTLE
Western Packing Houses Buy
Great Tracks.
Aland sale, said to involve nearly
1,000,000 acres, has just been consum
mated between Southern States Lum
ber Company, on the one hand, and
the Armours, Swifts and other Chica-
R 0 packers on the other. The latter
have bought the land for grazing pur-
Poses and will make it an immense
cattle farm,
The land is located in Escambis
tounty Florida, yßaldwin county Ala
bama, and in Georgia.
JAIL BABY HAS A HAPPY HOLIDAY
A Denver paper says Alma Edwards,
W 0 and half years old, who was born
inthe Berks county jail and who has
lived there all of her life, has had &
happier holiday than many childrea
in outside homes. She is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Kate Edwards, convicted of
the murder of her husband, John Ed-
Wards, at Stouchburg several years
#2O. The little girl has become a gen
tral favorite 'with the prison inspect
ors, officials ad visitors and the insti
‘tion. During'ghe past week she has
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST WEEVIL.
A Cerps on the Way to Ravaged
Texas Fields.
Secretary Wilson is arranging the
details of the campaign authorized by
congress to be waged against the cot
ton boll weevil. A rmumber of govern
ment entomologists and scientists are
already en route to the ravaged Texas
fields, and to the Sabine river valley
in Lowisiana, the pest havingsbeen
reported from three plahes in that
section. There will be thirty or forty
scientists at work against the pest be
fore long. They will organize the far
mers to fight the weewil and will edu
cate them in the best methods of at
tack. Becretary Wilson expects to
make another trip to the districts in
volved while the fight is on, and Drs.
Galloway-and Howard of the entomol
ogical division will keep in close touch
with the situation.
AFTER PENSION GRABBERS
Fulton County Body Discloses
Startling Facts.
, When the general presentments of
’the grand jury of Fulten county are
'v.-ma.de to the judge of the superior
court on the last day of January they
wrill contain a ;sumber of sensatiomal
[drisclosures relative to the alleged
abuse of the pension system of Geor
[e‘ia, and will mage several importans
recommendations &s to the best way
for remedying the existing ewils.
Tbe pension eommittee.of the grand
jury has made an exhaustive investi
gation of the peasion eystem &s it op
eratea in Fulton county, and the mem
i’bers are of the opinion that the legis
lature should take immediate aetion to
eurtail the abuee, which is increasing
.t an alanmingly rapid rate.
The grand jury committee has dis
elased the following faets, whiech are
of interest: In Fulton county last year
there were 5,030 pensioners, in Bibb
315, in Walton 290, in Cobb 300, ia
Spalding 170, In Richmond 250, in
Muscogee 1,390, in Coweta 295, in
Troup 140, in Floyd 235, in Clarke 160,
and in Chatham, which furnished more
soldiers than any other, there areonly
85 pensioners. [n Camden county
there are only five names on the pea
sion list, and in Glynn, where is situ
ated Brunswick, there are only 15.
NO KICK COMING NOW.
A Romantic Love Story With a
Moral.
First love, if it be true and deep, is
hard to eradicate. Eighteen years
ago Joe Garcia, a farm hand, was
kicked off a farm at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
because he dared to love his employ
er's daughter and tell her so. But
the kicking did not cool Joe's passion.
He went west and grew up with the
country. Now he is an important off -
cialj of the Santa Fe railroad, with
headquarters Albuquerque, N. M.
When fortune smiled on him and bhe
became firmly fixed in his railroad po
sition he returned to Pennsylvania to
look up his sweetheart, and after some
weeks found her in Philadelphia still
single. She had remembered the farm
hand lover and was true to him, and so
they were married. Papa-in-law is
now perhaps proud ‘of the son-in-law
he once kicked.
THE MILITARY BURDEN.
That of the United States Is
Larger Than Russia’s.
Russia’s budget for the current year
places the estimate for the army av a
little more than $189,000,000. Tbat is
a prodigious sum, and we peace-loving
Americans may be moved to wonder
why the Russianos permit themselves
to be burdened with such a heavy load.
Does not Russia see that militarism is
a grievous kardship to her people?
But, when we come to think of it, bow
does our own military burden compare
with that of Russia? We pay $140,-
000,000 a year for pensions alone. Add
to this $90,000,000 for the support of
the army, and it will be seen that our
military burden is much greater than
that of Russia.
been deluged with toys, including a
talking doll, hobby horse and a sheep
that bleats. These toys she carried
around the jail and showed to the pris
oners. In all her jail liberty she has
never been allowed to eee Samuel
Greason, ber mother’s lover, who is
under sentence of death for killing
John Edwards. Frequently she calls
to her mother to come out of her cell
and accompany her to the warden’s
room, and is greatly dispapointed when
Mrs. Edwarde tells her thatshe cao
not go. o
Dawson, Ga., Wednesday, January 27th, 1904.
HIS FOOTSTEPS ALWAYS DOGGED
Three Detectives Continually Follow a Man Who Stole Fifty Thou
- sand Dollars. Has Served Term in the Penitentiary for the
Crime, and Has His Booty Hidden in the Mountains.
In a little cottage on the outskirts of
San Antonio, Tex., lives a haunted
man. By night or day, whenever he
‘emerges from his home, three human
“shadows” pursue him. They glide
‘around corners, dodge behind trees,
} race ahead of him in trolley cars in or
,der to turn up and meet him face to
face.
If the pursued stops to buy a eigar
one of the “‘sadows’’ will appear a mo
ment later to find out what was said to
the cigar man. Sometimes im the
night the haunted man has awakeued
to hear his mysterious pursuers prowl
ing about the house regardless of wind
sand weather.
The pursved man isCharles Beeler,
.express robber. The three shadows
ere detectives. They want to find out
where Beeler has hidden the $30,000
ke took from the Wells-fargo Express
Co. in 18¢8. But Beeler, having €erved
five years in the penitentiary digging
coal, thinks he has squared ;acceunts
with the law.
e figures it out that dve yearsdig
ging coal at $16,600 a year is not & bad
job. Somewhere in the Mexican
mouatains, acress the Rio Grarde,
Beeler has hidden the money. He
carries a map of it in his mind, but he
dares not make a.move so long as the
three sleuths are at his heels.
“Some day,” said he a few days ago,
«I’]] get rid of these vultures by giv
ing them the slip. Then I’ll hustie
ouv and get the money.”’
But the game of hide and scek goes
lon, and ewveryhody inm the city who 1
acquainted with the facts is wastly in
| terested in the battle of wits. ’
\When he was released from prison;
he laughed as he recogaized the fact
that he was followed, but constant
espionage wears on the streagest
'minds, 20d Beeler begins o show the
strain. The detectives have been
;changed several times tothrow Beeler
off, but without avail. Hissharp eves
‘are always on the alert, |
| “Lay your hands on thet 850,000 and
‘we will make you give it up,”’ say zhe{
detectives.
“The money is now mine; I have
paid for it with five years of my life,”
replies Beeler.
Beeler ‘‘blew into town’ several
days ago, to use his own exvression.
On his way to his San Antonio home
he passed through Austin. It was ap
parent that he was being shadowed by
three men, and he knew it. To a fel
low passenger on the train he said:
“] bave played this hand pat for
CLAY SAYS IT IS A LIE.
Georgia Senator on the Fence in
the Panama Matter.
Aocording to a 8 Washington dispatch
Senator Clay has authorized an em
phatic denial of stories in the New
York and Washington papers to the
effect that he has expressed a dever
mination to yote with the republican
administration to ratify the Panama
canal treaty.
One of the publications says that
Sepator Clay attended a conference
at the white house in company with
geveral other democratic senators.
«] wish to brand all such publica
tions as untrue,” sald the Georgia sen
ator. “I have told no man my inten
tions as to my voteon the canal treaty.
I have not made up my mind on that
subject and shall not until we have all
the facts before us. As tomy going to
the white house to confer with the
president on the eubject, that i 3 an in
famous lie. I have not been to the
white house and do not intend going
there.
#T want the canal built as quickly as
possible, but I am pot sufficiently in
formed as to the facts in the Panama
iaflalr to say now that we shall build it
under the terms of the pending treaty.
I simply have not reached a determi
nation, much less have 1 expressed
one.”’
WwWILL DEED LOT TO STATE.
Americus Ladies Willing to Qive
Up Care of Graves.
At a largely attended meeting of the
Ladies’ Memoriai Association of Amer
fcus the proposition of the state to as
sume cuscody of the cenfederate grayes
in Oak Grove cemetery was favorably
received, and aeeds to the propertv
will be made the state if the city coun
cil concurs. Three hundred confeder
ate soldiers are buried there, and each
grave is marked by a marble head
stone.
For high quality and moderate price
Joe Wheeler whiskey stands head.
about five years. I have never laid
down yet and I have called every bluff,
and after what I haye gone through I
am too old a poker player to lay it
down now, and will continue to stand
pat.” Pointing to three seedy looking
persons seated in the same coach he
continued: ‘‘You see chose three fel
lows? Well, they are detectives and
are shadowing me, and have been on
my trail since I was released. They
are following me with the hope tbat(
they will discover where that 850,000‘
is, but they are on a cold chase.” |
As soon as he reached San Antonio!
he was driven in carriage to his home.
. Beeler’s crime was amazing 1n its
nerve and effrontery. The money stol
en by him had been sent to the South
ern Pacific Railway company to San
Antonio for its paymaster to use for
paying its men on the payroll from
San Antonie to El Paso. Itreached
the Wells-Fargo office early on the
‘morning of December 128, 1898, and at
one o’clock in the afternoon was turn
;ed oxer to Beeler to be taken to the
Southern Paeitfic depot.
’ According %o the testimony given at
the trial no one remembered seeing
Beeler going in the direction of the
Southern Pacific depot. .An old negro
| drove the horse and wagon last seen
with Beeler back to the office of the
company about 5 o’clock that after
noon. He said that he fouad the team
about five miles wesc of San Antonio.
The package ‘containing the money
was missing. The officers of the ex
' press company at once realized that a
‘robberv had been committed, and the
police department was notified, with
geveral secret service men in the em
ploy of the company, who left in a
hurry for the place where the wagon
was found by the negro. There the
officers found indications that a horse
’had stood tied to a fence some time.
This showed that the robbery had
‘beea carefully planned.
The tracks were followed to a vil
lage several miles from San Antonio,
but were then lost.
The work ot tracing Beeler was,
however, continued without cessation.
Large rewards were offered by the ex
press company for his arrest, but with
out effect. }
Finally the officers were told that
Beeler had been seen in the mountains
near Monterey. He was found there
by the officers, admitted his Identity
and came back to Texas without a
requisition. To the chagrin of the of
icers Beeler was minus the moneyl
with the exception of abouts3oo.
THAT KENTUCKY VOLCANO. ‘
Moonshiner the Innocent Cause}
of a Sensation.
The secret of that alleged Kentucky
volcano is out. Mort Clark, a noted
moonshiner, had located his still in a
cave from which a crevice ran to the
cone of Sugar Loaf mountain. The
crevice made a first rate chimney, and
Mort kept the firee burning briskly
under his pots of mash for a time, nev
er thinking that the smoke issuing
from the top of the mountain would
alarm his neighbors and cause sensa
tional stories to be printed in the pa
pers. When he found out that volcano
stories were afloat it was such a good
joke that he couldn’t keep the secret.
However, he drew Lis fires and moved
to another spot before telling anybody.
We have no doubt that there ate sev
eral similar ‘‘volcanoes’’ in north
Georgia and North Carolina.
MONUMENT TO PETER EARLY‘
Georgia Ladies to Mark Resting
Place of Pioneer Citizen.
An effort is being made by the wo
men of Georgia to raise a fund to erect
a monument to Governor Peter Early.
He was born in Virginia ia 1773, came
to Georgia when he was 22 years old
and commenced the practice of law in
Wilkes county. He was elected to
coongress and was one of the managers
on the part of the house in the im
peachment of Judge Chase. Later he
‘Was appointed judge of the superior
coart in the Ocmulgee circuit. [n 1813
he was elected governor of Georgia.
He organized the militia of Georgia to
defead the state against the invasion
of England.
- “The nicest and pleasantest medi
cine I have used for indigestion and
constipation is Chantberlain’s Stomach
and Liver Tablets,” says Melard F.
Craig of Middlegrove, N. Y. *“They
work like a charm and do not gripe or
have any unpleasant effect.” For sale
by Dawson Drug Co., Dawson; Willi-
’PREACHER AND HIS SERMON
On Trial Because of Charge That
He Caused a Lynching.
A dispatch says: The Newcastle
Presbyterian church decided today to
try Rey. Mr. Elwood of Wilmington,
Del., non charges in connection with
the preaching of a sermon by him last
June, entitled ‘“‘Should the Murderer
of Helen Bishop be Lynched?” The
trial will teke place in the Presbyteri
an church at Newcastle February 2.
The decision to give Mr. Elwood
ecclesiastical trial was not decid
ed upon until after a bitter debate of
seyeral hours. Mr. Elwood demanded
a public trial. The question of trying‘l
him in public has not yet been deter
mined. ‘
The complaint against Mr. Elwood is
that he delivered a sermon at Wil-l
milington, which it is alleged 8o
worked upon .the people that the next
night a mob gathered, stormed the
work house, took out George White,
the colored man who confessed to at
saulting and killing Helen Bishop, and
burned him at the stake.
ROTHSCHILD’S FUNERAL.
Dogs, Horses and Empty Vehicles
in the Procession.
Baron Arthur de Rothschild’s fu
neral at Paris the other day is thus
described: First came a lofty car
riage i which were the rabbis who
‘officiated at the obsequies. Following
}were 15Qybank collectors wearing the
uniforms of their institutions. Then
came the hearse, a magnificens vehicle
richly draped in black and wita tall,
nodding plumes. Behind the hearse
‘tramped some of the richest men in
Europe, who had been business associ
ates of the late baron. It was the next
contingent which drew the rapt atten
tion of the boulevardiers., Rothschild’s
butler, wearing the short breeches
and other habilaments of his service,
‘strode pompously at the head of the
scores of servants composing the reti
nue ¢of the Rothschild house. An
empty coupe drawn by the baron’s fa
vorite horse led the nex% division, in
which the late baron’s hunting service
was represented. Files of retainers,
many of whom held one or more
bounds in leash, which oceasionally
broke the silence of the cortege by
their baying, were kept in line by the
masters of the hunt. Bringing up the
rear of the procession was the favor
ite automobile of the baron. The lan
terns were lighted, but none except
the chaffeur rode in the car. It puffed
fitfully as the chaffeur halted and went
ahead Intermittencly to keep in lioe
with the slow-moving cortege. Ihe
procession passed through the streets
ot Paris to Pere la Chaise, where the
body was buried.
MAY CHANGE BANKING LAWS
Representative Lewis’ Bill Fa
vorably Reported,
The house committee on banking
and currency, it is understood, will re
port fayorably the bill introduced by
Mr. Lewis of Georgia proposing to
amend the national bank act so as to
permit national banks to make loans
on real estate security. The bill as
introdnced proposes to permit such
loans to be made up to 50 per cent. of
the value of the property, exclusive of
improvements, with a provision that
not more than 25 per cent. of the cap
ital stock, surplus and undivided pro
fits of any bank could be so invested.
The sub-committee to which the bill
was referred by the full committee
adopted an amendment limiting real
estate loans to 25 per cent. of the cap
ital only.
WOKE UP BLIND,
Kansas Weman Has an Unusual
Experience.
A woman in Kansas woke up one
morning to find that she was totally
bilnd. She had the use of both eyes
the day before, and the opticians who
examined her were at a loss to ind
the cause. Abhout two weeks ago the
sight of one eye rcturned as suddenly
as 1t went, and now the experts think
vhat she may regain the use of the
other eye.
CARRIES HIS COFFIN ABOUT WITH HIM
According to a New Yeork paper one
of the passengers to sail one day last
week was Max Gibbs of lesdiavapolis,.
better known 1n that city and Texas as
“Texas Jack.” He began his fifty
pinth trip to Europe, and nothwith
standing he looks hale and hearty he
took with bim a coffin for his personal
use. Gibbs created world-wide gossip
four years ago when he appeared
aboard ship with a metal casket bound
for Europe. It was expensively made
Number Nineteen.
!MR. SEAWELL GETS VERDICT AGAINST
SEABOARD AIR ‘LINE FOR $4,500,
The Termination of a Remarkable Suit
for Damages in Which a Republican
Candidate Was Aggrieved Party.
Forty-five hundred dollars for fifteen
odoriferous eggs is the price the su
preme court of this state has just put
on this article of commerce by a decis
ion in the action of Henry F. Seawell
against the Seaboard ‘Air Line rail
way, says a Raleigh, N, C,, dispatch
tothe New York Press.
In the year 190 C Mr. Seawell was the
republican candidate for lieutenant
governor. During the campaign he
went to the town of Shelby to fill an
|appointment of Senator Marion But
'ler. In the course of his remarks he
excited the anger of the democrats in
his dudience by a scathing denunci
ation of the methods of their party.
The democrats attempted to prevent
Mr. Seawell from finishing his speech
and he denounced them in unmeasured
terms for their rowdyism.
After his speech Mr. |Seawell went
ito the raiiroad station and a crowd of
infuriated democrats followed him.
Mr. Seawell bought his ticket and
proceedad to ;promonade oo the plat
form. He was faultlessly dressed in a
high silk hat, a black |Prince Albert
coat, white vest, doeskin trousers and
patent leather shoes, and carried a
gold headed cane.
The democrats arwed themselves
with eggs which had been in existence
several months under a hot sun, and as
Mr. Seawell appeared on the platform
the eggs were hurled at him. They
burst all around him, :and fifteen by
actual count struck his apparel. In
|addition to the disgusting (appearance
' which the contents of the eggs gave to
his clothes, the intensified odor aris
ing therefrom made , Mr. Seawell de
spise himself for ,the time being and
kept his friends at a distance.
For this indignity and assault and
battery Mr. Seawell brought suit
against the Seaboard Air Line Com
lpany, becavse the agent at the station
and other employes of the company
actively engaged in dashing stale eggs
against him. The case was tried in
the superior court and was decided in
favor of the plaintiff. The supreme
court has just affirmed tbe decision of
the superior court, with an intimation
that the jurv might have increased the
amount of damages without making
the sum excessive or exorbitant.
FRANK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
How a Candidate Met Charge of
an Opponent.
Col. N. N. Cox, fur twentv years a
member of congress from Tennessee,
anpounced in one of his campaigns
that if he was elected that time he
would never run again. But the nextu
time he could not resist the tempta
tion to again become a candidate, acd
had as his opponent Gen. W. J. Whis
thorne.
In a heated joint debate Gemeral
Whitthorne said:
“T charge that my opponent, Colonel
Cox, promised two yvears ago that if he
was elected that time he would never
run again. Idefy him to deny it. Did
you not make that statement, Colonel
Cox?”
“Yes, I did,’”’ replied Cox, promptly,
“and it was the biggest lie I ever told
in my life.”’
MONEY IN SWEET POTATOES
Ocilla Man Nets; Over $5OO on
Two Car Loads.
Within the past two weeks J. A.
Henderson of Ocilla has shipped two
carloads of yellow vam potatoes to At~
lanta, oyer 1,000 bushels, for which hea
received 8503, delivered on board the
cars. The Dispatch says he was guar
anteed 50 cents a bushel of fifty-five
pounds, and the promise held out that
he might receive 60 cents per bushel,
10 cents above the guaraateed prize,
He banked 4,000 bushels from fourteen
acres.
made eight trips abroad with it. *You
see, a fellow never knows what’s going'
to happen,” said Gibbs. ‘I paid my
taxes before starting. ‘‘Yes, sir, the
coffin goes wherever [ go. 1 would
pot be without it. At first my wife
objected to having it in the house, for,
she said, it made her feel sad—made
her think of the day when we must
part. But now she 1s used to it.”
Gibbs imssrucied the crew (o put
him in the casket should he die afloas
hermetically seal it and seod his boay
