The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, May 03, 1905, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 UNCLE SAM'S CANAL BUILDER Parents Tell in Homely Words of Incidents in His Childhood Years. Why They Are Sad at Their Boy’s Success. Among the oak and Dbeech groves, where the hazel bushes line the wind ing roadside and where in sumnmer the cows stand in the meadows, in the sub arb of Bever!y Hills stands a row of four cottages. Each of the four cot tages is occupied by a branch of the Shonts family, says the Chicago Trib upe. In the gray one and a half story bouse where the June roses climb up on the porch and try to look in at the window a venerable couple, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D). Shonts, live. Their son, Theodore Perry Shonts of Chicago, is the newly appointed chairman of the Panama canal commission. Instead of being the proudest mother in Illinois at the honor that has been conferred upon her son Mrs. Shouts at the announcement ‘“wept Dbitter tears.” “‘They were as big as that 'ar table,” explaiped her husband, with a chuckle. “No; we don't think much of the boy’s new job. Too many skzeters and yellow fever germs in Panama.” The good couple, both of whom have completed wore than fourscore years, still regard Theds as the boy who in his Sunday school days ‘“remembered 200 verses of {scripture in a week.” Proud of that record, no future con quests ot the new commissioner quite can equal that prodigious feat. Theds himself stands six feet in his stockings and, from appearances at least, should de both yellow fever and mosquito proof. Nevertheless the old folks are un reconciled. They do not share the en thusiasm that prompted Miss Eva Shonts of the Young People's Christian Temperance union to send a telegram to her big brother congratulating him upon the patriotic imission that he fis about {9 undertake, - - % “Theds was a good boy when he was young,” said Mrs. Shonts, with a depre catory shake of her head. *“He never avent out nights then or went chasing “~awa? {0 forcign parts. I don't know where Lie got those ideas in his head. e diqy'y teach them to him. Theds was a fine hoy once. “He was brought up a TUnited Pres byterian, and when he was six years old we took him with.us from Pennsyl vania, where we were raised, across the mountains into the wilderness of Jowa. There wasn't any I'resbyterian Sunday school in Crawford county, so we sent him to the Methodist school. Every morning he would learn thirty verses from the Bible, and when Suin day came, with the 200 verses in his mind, he would recite them in his ciass at Sunday school. They used to give him cards and banners for his good be havior. But I'm afraid he doesn’'t get many cards and banners now. “Only once he went to sleep in church. It was at the end of a long sermon. We went home without him, and we couldn’t imagine where he was. We knew he never went out nights. Finally we found him curied up on the cushions of the family pew and sound asleep in the dark church.” The religious strain in the Shonts family dates back toshe sixteenth cen tury. The great-great-great-and-niore great-grandparents of the Panama commissioner were pagans, They had captured a pretty golden haired maiden fp the wars. This little maid, they dis covered, always was reading. They found the book one day under a stone, where she had hidden it. It was the gospel of St John. The great-great great-and-more-great-grandparentsread this book and became converted. They were locked up in a castle by the sea. The jailer also came under the religious influence and assisted them to drop down from a window into a boat that tossed in the dark waves. Theodore’s earliest heroine was the golden haired maid who read the gos pel of St. John out in the meadows while she watched the sheep. As he beard his father tell the story by the open fireside of the country home he often imagined her to have been a stolen princess, the daughter of a bat tle king. Later, when Lie was sixteen “Fears old, acgording to his father, like many other boys of Eiu‘ game nge, he lm% lovg with an “old mald# -~ - ZQphy, she was ten yedfs older than he was” declared Mrs. Shonts. He pad begun to tehch school out in the country where the pupils, both the ho;\'g and girls, were older anid b'i'ﬁffvr than be was. Theds got along fine. e al ways did with anything he undertook. “We sent him to college when he was quite young. I'm afraid he didn’t e Oel s Gl €. nA iW S s PR £ '{'“‘- T e 3";« TREY Lo e o SN e e i i e OEP (s gk Tet e oy R N T N Es G TR T e KB e S Ry CREFG L e ML SRS e £ s v e _'»" Rt g e L NS fﬁ._,;,_n.;l/»; Sl LT iy PS e Cea TA g R e N S Sl s P SIR (- e 7 e R R N s B R L sSR O - Lhd Bis : e Z A 1 s GOOD POTATOES % BRING FANCY PRICES = To grow a large crop of good potatoes, the soil must contain plenty of Potash. 1 omatoes, melons, cabbage, turnips, lettuce —in fact, all vegetables remove large quanti ties of Potash from the soil. Supply liberally by the use of fertilizers containing not less than 10 per cent. actual Potasi. Better and more profitable yields are sure to follow, Our pamphlets are not advertising circulars booming special fertilizers, but ‘contain valu able information to farmers. Seat free for the asking, Write now. _ GERMAN KALI WORKS B New York—93 Nassau Street, or = Atlanta, Ga.—222% South Broad St. study as bard as he snould have, He cpuld have got through in three years if he had tried. One of our greatest pleasures was when he used to come home and read his Hebrew testament to us. He doesn't read that Hebrew testamen{ much now. “He was the only one in all his class that didn’'t drink or smoke. He was too young for that. We sent him a violin to keep kim out of mischief. When he was young Le couldn’'t sing or whistle—at least we thought so. But he used to scrape away on that old fiddle Ly the hour. He played in a little orchestra with Professor Hutchinson and the Rev. Waddle. He was a beautiful penman and would spend hours practicing his D’'s 4dnd T's. He wrote with a great flourish. I wish that he could write that well now.” Young Shonts also was a horsemsar Braeaght up on a farm, where his fa ‘her owned several fine bays, e would cide them to water, bareback, and of ten standing up. With his two sisters he woull sweep tlie country on horse mack, leaping ditches and streams. Like most boys, Theds had a weak ness for homemade apple dumplings. He would do all bis sisters’ corre spondence provided thiey would bake dumplings for him—"wrapped in a cheesecloth rag.” “I don't know how he begzan to get {nterested in railroa:ds,” said his fa ther. “We tried him on pigs first. We told him to stand beside the pig rum | on the farm and watch to see that none of the pigs escaped. But he} got tired and went home. ‘That isn't my line of bithineth’' he explained. You se6, he never could prouvdnce his 8 until he grew out of his teens.” Q box of playthings that the Pana ma commissioner cherished when & boy still is preserved In the attic of the Beverly Hills homestead. 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Lately the prison of the department of the Lakes at Chicago became so crowded that many of the western prisoners have been sent here. This accounts for the curious state of affairs noted. In all there are 332 prisoners. The garrison, which consists of one battal ion of the eighth infantry, numbers about 220 men, exclusive of com missioned officers. BIGELOW QWES $3.277.000. BT TGP : Petanliing Bank Piesident Files Pe tition in Bankruptcy. The latest in the career of Frank G. Bigelow, formerly president of the First National Bank of Milwau kee. who defaulted for $£1,450,000, is the filing of a petition in bankruptey. The revised schedules show the total liabilities of Mr. Bigelow to be $3.277,000, of which %1,975,000 is wholly uit in part secured. The assets of the banker are esti mated at $1,849,800, against which a homestead exemption of $5,000 is placed. " ¥quals a jGeorgia Miillet Supper. At a prohibition mass meeting‘h; Hempstead, Texas, four men were kill ed and two others severely wounded. ‘One of the dead men was Congressman Pinckney, and another 4 leading law ver of the town. Thé liguor question has caused trouble there for several years. Ski A A Society Belle Comes to Grief. A colored girl of Albany was given six months in -five different cases in which she was charged with helping herself to the clothing, hats, ete., of the lady for whom she worked as nurse. For a ¥ing time she cut a big swell in colore®l society. Sdine Old Fool. George Shell of Cordele didn™t know a pistol was loaded when he pointed it at Miss Lou Bryan, but it went off just thc same, inflicting a slight wourd. Fools wili never guit fooling with ‘pistols. The Dawson News. Wednesday, May 3, 1905. RIVAL OF GONDOLA. American Motor Boat on Historle | Canals of Venice, The American motor boat has invad ed the romantic canals of Venice, says the New York Tribune. As the gon dolier bends over his swinging ear Lie hears every now and then the *“chug ‘ chug” of a gasoline engine behind him E and the next moment beholds a wasp llsh craft dart past and on in the dis tance. The city of Venice recently es tablished a transportation system of its own and is operating fifty or more ‘motor boats through the canals and la goons, much as New York might op erate its own street cars. Venice be lHeves in municipal ownership. To ride in the motor boats of Venice, however, costs the passenger consid erably less than the New York street car. The fare is only 2 cents. The sprightly little vessels ply up and down the Grand canal, which divides the city like 2 buge 8, and also the smaller waterways which intersect it like so many veins and arteries. Their plain, clean cut hulls, built only for speed and strength, when contrasted with the bright beaked gondolas, with their black leather cushions and gayly col ored curtains fluttering from their win dows, form as much of an antithesis as an American in business dress placed alongside some knight of the middle ages bedecked in gilks and laces. To the average Inhabitant the motor boat is far more welcome than the oth er craft which the modern age of in vention has brought to Venice. Be cause of its low cut stern the motor boat does not kick up waves against the houses as does the steam or gaso line launch. Accordingly it is permit ted to navigate the narrowest canals, where the cumbrous, heavily churning steamer is prohibited. Some of the rich Venetians are also buying motor boats in which to go to and from busi ness or for extended holiday jaunts to suburban pleasure resorts, ~ . NEW MILKY WAY. Found by Means of Professor Bar nard’s Telescope on Wilson’'s Peak. The Bruce telescope, which was re cently erected on Wilson's peak by Professor E. E. Barnard, is already turning out material of the highest in terest and value, says a Los Angeles dispatch. The telescope was made in accordance with the professor's own designs,. Every night from dark until 5 in the morning Professor Barnard is making observations and taking photographs. His investigations are directed to the region of the milky way, near the con stellation of Sagittarius. This area of the heavens has never before been ex plored in this manner. A few days ago, upon developing a plate taken with a long exposure cov ering the region In Sagittarius, there was revealed in the lower left hand corner a whitish appearance, with the edges sharply defined and looking not unlike the gauzy wings of a fly, the dimensions, as projected on the plate, being about half an inch by a third of an inch. : This wkite blur was a picture of a celestial object of inconceivable mag nitude and which until that morning no mortal eye had beheld. It was a hith erto unknown nebula. The nebula is so remote from our sys tem that no accurate estimate of its area can be made. There is little doubt that a thousand solar systems such as ours could be contained in it. JAPANESE AS STUDENTS. Instances of Their Keenness to Ac quire Knowledge. That the Japanese student is indus trious even to the point of overwork is asserted by M. Revon, a Frenchman who was for seven years a professor in the University of Tokyo. Says this au thority, according to the British Med tcal Journal: ' “8o keen is he about his work that he wil] read by the light of a cage full of glowworms if he can get no better gource of {llumination. He haiigs on his paster’s lips, taking notes with fever ish eagerness and asking innumerable questions after the lecture. So far from having to be urged to work he rather needs, as Johnson might have said, to be ‘suffaminated.’” One of M, Revon’s piipils went mad, and several died as the résult of excessive study. Abuh dant provision {s made by the universi: ty authorities for gymnasties and other physical exercises; nevertheless over work is making Japanese students a race of bespectacled, prematurely aged men, foredoonied to consumption. Ovér pressure begins early and lasts fhrough out the whole Tiériod of studentship. Before egtéring the university a young man has to go through the secondary and afterward the higher gchools, where in th¢ space of three or four vears he learng three or four European B@age; bes%des tl;e ‘general princi ples of the scienéé t 6 Which he may 'w.!gh later to devote hiinself. TOwing to the length of the curricu lum Japanese are for the most part older than Kuropean students—many of them, indeed, are married and fa thers of families. Academic discipline is easily maintained, as the students have the greatest veneration for their teachers, who on their part are always ‘cantteous and accessible. Exchanges of hospitality between masters and pupils are frequent, and social inter course is constant and intimate. The Japanese student has from chfldhood been familiar with the ancient max im, ‘Thy father and mother are as the sky and earth, thy lord as the moon, thy teacher as the sun.’ These sentl ments have been crystallized into 2 proverb of three words—‘Oudji yori sodatchi,’ which means, ‘Education is more than birth.’™ i NOT MORMONISM'S FRIEND | WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE UNION STICKS TO STRENUOUS TEDDY. | . says President Is Friend of Home, and Protests Against Claim Made | by Apostle Smith. ~ Nothing in recent years has so stir red the Woman’'s Christian Temper= ance Union and other organizations opposing Mormonism as Apostle Hy rum M. Smith’s public assertion that “‘in President Roosevelt the Mormons have a friend.’”” Mrs. Margaret Dye [Xllis. superintendent of legislation for the National Woman’s Christian Tem perance Union, says: “The National Woman’s Christian Temperance Unionbelieves tie strong est bulwark of our nation’s life is the home, and whatever may mar or de face its sanctity or lower its standard is an enemy to be overcome, to be de stroyed. As women and patriots we have viewed with alarm the encroach ments of the Morman hierarchy, as step by step they have seized point after point until they have gained a foothold in the senate of the United States. Leaders Are Depraved. “‘During the investigation before the senate committee on privileges and elections we were dismayed to learn of the depravity and utter lawlessness of their leaders, from President Joseph H. Smith down: the president and eight of his apostles confessed living with numerous wives at the present time. But their latest and most daring utterance to our mind is that of Apostle Hyrum M. Smith in an ad dress before the great conference held at Salt Lake this month, in which he declared: ‘“ ‘ln President Roosevelt we have a friend, and he has friends among the Latter Day Saints. We will be true to him and true to Old Glory, because we are a true people. President Roose velt has the courage of his convictions and will not be moved by prejudice; he will give us a ‘square deal,” We will do all we ean to sustain President Roosevelt, for we are true to him, and we will demonstrate it in the future as we have proved it in the past.’ Believers in President, ““Any one knowing the heart of President Rogsevelt and his love of home and home life, any one familiar with his patriotic devotion to law and its enforcement, any one who appre ciates his constant admiration for hich and lofty eitizenship, must surely repudiate sentiments such as these, emanating from such a source. Most of Them Spend Less. lldward Atkinson, the noted statisti cian and publieist of Boston, declares that a woman can dress decentiy on $65 a year. And Mr. Atkinson, who is very rich, seems to think that he has delivered himself of an astonishing fact. The truth is that there are more women in this country who dress, and dress decently, on $65 a year than there are women who reguire $5,000 a year for their clothes. And it is the $65 a year woman who is the mother of the backbone and marrow of the re publie. Reclaiming Missouri Marsh Lands. ''wo huge dredge boats and some fifty laborers are employed in Holt county, Mo., to drain about thirty square miles, or 20.000 acres, of marsh land which is at present of no value except for hunting and fishing, being under water most of the year, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. It is ex pected that when drained it will be the richest and most productive agricultur al land in the state. Where the water is shallow the growth of vegetation is rank. The underlying soil is a dense black, mucky loam. The drainage work will be pald for by the landowners along the line of the ditch, the courts having decided that the enterprise is legal. They organized a company and issued $BO,OOO in bonds at 6 per cent. The main ditch will be fifteen miles long, ten feet deep and forty feet wide, with levees five feet high on both sides, making the depth fifteen feet. There will be many smaller lateral ditches. Bilious Bill was getting bloated, 1 And his tongue was muchly coated. Patent *‘tonics’’ wouldn’t cure him, Companies would not insure him. | All his friends were badly frightened, | But theiy spirits soon were ligntenéd, For Bill said—and they believed him— EARLY RISER pills rclieved him. ' The famous little pills, Early Ris ers, cure constipation, sick headache, biliousness, ete., by their tonic effect on the liver. ‘They never gripe or sicken, but {tapartearly rising energy. 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