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DAWSON NE WS. PUBLISTED WEEKLY AT $l.OO FER YERR T BYE L RANEY. DAWSON, GA. Mav 24, 1005, " TWELVE PAGES. CAPTAIN WILLIAM KAIGLER. The approaching reunion of the eonfederate veterans in Louisville will possibly number among Its at s¢endants a Dawson citizen whose retiring modesty is in inverse pro portion to the courage which distin guished him in the south’s last rally at Appomattox. This is Cap tain William Kaigler. While it is not gencraily known it % a fact that Captain Kaigler led the last charge at Appomattox —led an assault that proved victorious for the already fallen confederacy and cast a glamor of glory over the van quished stars and bars. Tgnorant of the fact that a truce had been declared Captain Kaigler, commanding a body of skirmishers sent by General Clement A. Kvans, attacked a detached command of the left wing of Grant’s army with such daring force as to snatch out of the overwhelming defeat that engulfed the army of Lee one last small victo ry, which was acknowledged by the opposing force just as a courier an nounced to the combatants the news of Lee’s surrender. | Thus, though comparatively small it was, the last charge of the c.on-' flict was a victory for the confeder ate forces. Yet the man who made it so has never received but from one historian, so far as we know, the full credit for his brilliant achievement. Theincidentis worthy to be recorded among the triumphs of the south in its memorable strug gle. Tt is an historical fact which should be handed down to southern posterity with a pride that is just and reasonable. SOME TROUBLED TOWNS. | Dalton, Milledgeville, Dublin, Tifton and 2 number of other Geor gia towns, judging from their news papers, are having a time of it with blind tigers and the jug trade, and various plans of getting rid of these evils have been or are heing propos ed. In some of these towns our contemporaries have, as The News happens to know, always been loyal and able advocates of prohibition and are largely responsible for the prohibition law being in operation in their communities, but they now seem to believe that the open saloon would be preferable to the present state of atfairs. The News is unal terably opposed to saloons under any circumstances, and, in our opinion, wherever they have been closed the good people will make a mistake in again permitting them to be opened. It is a well known fact that blind tigers do not, by a great deal, sup ply all of the whiskey consumed in dry counties. Much of it is obtain ed from the wet counties by ex press, and in view of the constant and persistent violation and evasion of the prohibition law this statute seems toalarge extent to be a farce, and only helps to give dealers in the wet counties a monopoly of the liguor trade. The question of how to prohibit the sale of intoxicants has puzzled the true and earnest prohibitionist for years. It has not yet been solved, and will not be as long as the United States government al lows the manufacture of whiskey and issues license for its sale in prohibition counties: nor as long as transportation companies are allow ed to carry it into these counties. Really, it seems that the only way to stop its use will be to stop its manufacture. ' A PLBASANT entertainment in Co lumbus, 0., the other evening was a dinnergiven by Mr. Jno. G. Desh ler, a bank president, in honor of the one hundredth birthday of a negro ‘‘mammy’’ who had been a nurse in the family of his wife for a great many years. The old “‘mam my’’ had the seat of honor, and was showered with congratulations and presents. We do not know it to be a fact, but we feel quite sure that Mr. Deshler or his wife, or both of them, are southern people, says the Savannah News. It is not the least uncommon for southerners to hon or their faithful old negro friends with banquets or ‘‘parties’”’ on special occasions. ~ IMPORTANT TO DAWSON. The call published elsewhere over the signatures of a number of citi zens for a mass meeting of the peo ple of Dawson may be far-reach ing, ultimately, in its effect, and ;‘f(n' that reason is ot interest to everyone who has the welfare of ltlw town at heart. The questions that are to be considered are of i;_mn'«- importance, and every man who is interested in Dawson and its nt?’uirs should be present at the hour named. The action of that meeting shouid represent the whole people, and not a few. It you love Dawson attend this meeting, and let what is done be only for the best interests of the town and its people. ’ WHAT INTEREST CAN DO. An unaccounted treasury bill for £lOO. dated 1745, was presented to the Bank of England the other day. It isgenuine, and it is believed that it was issued at 3 per cent com | pound interest. That makes its present value £26,000, or $130,000. ; The treasury has not y@ paid it, but the general opinion seem to be that it will have to do so. The above extract from a contem porary shows strikingly the power of interest. The improvident who borrow and pay interest because they lack in judgment, or the busi ness man who borrows and pays in terest because he is ambitious to swell the volume of his business, hardly realize the voracity of the monster called interest. If the above statement is a truthful one we have an example of what 3 per cent compound interest will do. It can make $5OO grow to $130,000 in the space of three life-times. TuAT charming gentleman and el ogquent and instructive speaker, Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall, delivered the annual commencement address at the South Atlantic Institute to a large aullience. He pictured the improvement of the south in these last years as most remarkable, and attributed the general activity in all lines to the great strides this country is making in education. Cratriay Sitontz of the Panama canal commission says there will be no interference with trans-continent al railroad rates. Does this mean that the United States is going to pool with the trans-continental rail ways in the matter of freight rates? \\;.l;;n are we paying our millions for, anyway? Eprror Boirevinier of the Macon News is to make an address to the Daughiters of the Confederacy at Hartwell, Editor Boifeuillet can eloguently, if not convincingly, ad dross the daughters both in publie and private. Tig Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise is one of the reliable and conserva tive papers of the state, Our neigh i bor keeps in the middle of the road, and every week gives its readers a ‘choice lot of local and miscellaneous reading. : ! Tug German press is predicting ‘that the next great war will be waged by the United States with Japan. There is little doubt of that if by any chance Japanis success ful in the present fight with Russia. It is announced in bold headlines that “‘Chair makers will locate in tAtlzmta. * (Chair makers are much more desirable as citizens than ‘chair warmers. ' W are still engaged in the work iof benevolently assimilating the Fil ipinos. General Leonard Wood’s soldiers killed 400 of them a few ‘days ago. Doc OsLER is now advocating the taxation of bachelors. Would he make yet shorter poor man’s age limit of usefulness? TuE Santa Fe railroad is to spend $10,000,000 in shortening its main lime. This age will have rapid transit at any cost. Now it is said that the guberna torial bee is buzzing in Editor Jim Gray’s headgear. Well, the more the merrier. It is announced that ‘‘the Amer can national game has made great progress in Japan.’’ Poker or base ball? Teppy will visit the south, includ ing Georgia, in October. The flunk ies will be ready for him. ' THE Dalton Argus notes that ‘‘if tUncle Tobe Stevens is a scapegoat hie is of the butting kind.”’ . THE PRESIDENT AND PASSES. A few days ago the president of one of the railroads in his testimony before the Senate Interstate Com merce Committee that is now inves tigating the question of government regulation of railway rates stated that the president always rode free on the railways, and that congress men and about all other officials did the same thing, and that before the granting of rebates and the making of discriminations by railroadscould be stopped there would have to be an end of favoritism to officials. In view of all this and the well known attitude of the president to ward government regulation of the railroads. the: Savannah News wants to know if Mr. Roosevelt will pay his way when he comes on his trip to the south, and says in sup port of the presumption that he will: “'On the authority of one of the leading newspapersof Washing ton it is stated that on his trip to the south in October the president will not accept courtesies from the railroads over which he travels. but will pay his fare like any other citizen. It is also intimated that he paid the expenses of himself and all his party on his recent trip to Tex as and Colorado, his bill amounting to something like $3,000. 1t is probable that the railroads would be glad if all officials pay their fare. The free pass burden they bear is a pretty heavy one.’”’ Tue National Manufacturers’ As sociation, the annual session of which has just been held in Atlan ta, seems to want the earth and it run for the special benefit of the as sociation’s members. It is opposed to everything in the way of reform, also. Judging by its decrees there need be no special reformof the tar iff, no change in the form of giving subsidies to ships, no need to con fer upon the inter-state commerce commission the rate-makimg power. and no n'ecessity for adopting the child labor bill in the south. Tur Atlanta Constitution says the railroad commission has reduced freight rates all over Georgia, and the Atlanta Journal says they have not. Nobody knows, perhaps, except the railroads. There is one thing, however, there is no doubt about in the mind of the man who pays the freicht bills, and that is that for she past year or two he has been yvield ing up about fifty per cent more to the railroads than he formerly did. Tre Atlanta Jourual, after beating about the bushes for several days, seems to have at last found its ideal candidate, and has sprung Hon. Hoke Smith for governor. Mr. Smith is an able and influential man and an aggressive fighter, but he cannot be elected governor of Geor gia at this time. CorLoNgL Jim SmitH, who was one of those get-ten-cents-or-bust fel lows. says he sold those two thou sand bales of cotton and bought more. That's an explanation that needs to be explained. SexaTor TliuLvaN having been cured of a nervous trouble in At lanta the Quitman Free Press is moved to remark: “‘After all, that town might seem guiet to one like him. "’ Bl NaNcy PATTERSON is to get a hun dred dollars a week as a stage star. That is nothing more than a pre mium for shady notoriety founded upon sensational crime. S'IALLEST YARN IN THE WORLD A Columbus Mill Makes It. Egyp tian and Sea Island Cotton Used. A Columbus, Ga., special says with in a short time 5,000 more spindles will be installed in the Columbus mill of the Bibb Manufacturing Company, on North Highlands, making a total of 29,000 spindles at that plant. Part of the new machinery comes from England. L The Bibb mill is now manufacturing the finest yarn made by any factory in the southern states. With the in stallation of these new spindles still finer yarn will be spun, as it is plann ed to run as high as No. 150. This is the finest thread in size made in the world. The Bibb mill uses sea is land and Egyptian cotton exclusively. Oddities of the Human Body. From the Indianapohis News. ; The two sides of a person’s face are never alike. The eyes are out of line in two cases out of five, and one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten. The right eye is also, as a rule, higher than the left. Only one person in fifteen has per fect eyes, the largest percentage of defects prevailing among fair-haired people. The smallest interval of sound can be distinguished better with one ear than with both. The nails of two fingers never grow with the same rapidity, that of the middle fin ger growing the fastest, while that of the thumb grows slowest. In fifty-. four cases out of 100 the left legl is shorter than the right. MATTING RUG SPECIALS Here are some bargains. They are special values, and if youneed or expect to buy anything in this line soon it will pay you to see them now. They just arrived last Friday from New York, and will not last long at the prices we make. Japanese Matting, fancy carpet patterns, beautitul et fects in red, blue, etc., worth 28c by the roll, 171/2c. Chinese Matting, heavy weight,” only 19c. Smyrna Rugs, 30x60 inches, beautiful floral and animal patterns, cheap at $2, our price only 98c. We have also received a new lot of ladies’ and children’s White Canvas Oxfords . Also children’s tan oxfords and babies’ tan sandals, and you can depend on it that the prices are right. We have many special bargains in other lines, and if you will come and look through you will see that we will save you money. Respecfully, Jd. 6. HBIND®. RAISED FIGURES ON SEABOARD. Nearly $4,000,000 Is Added to Its Taxabie Valuation. Comptroller General Wright has as sessed the valuation of the property of the Seaboard Air I4ine railroad for taxation by the state at $11,136,000, or nearly $4,000,000 more than the com pany’s returns for last year. The Seaboard returned its property this vear at a decreased valuation of $2,- 500,000 from wwhat it was in 1904. As soon as he had completed the assess ment Comptroller General Wright wrote a letter to the railroad com pany notifying it of his action. As soon as the company officially rejects the returns and names an arbitrator the comptroller general will designate one of the railroad commissioners to act in a similar capacity for the f;ta‘t.e. The Seaboard’s total return for! 1905 was $7,530,541 as compared with $9,- 618,443 for 1904, despite the fact that the road has 66 miles more in the new Birmingham extensiou than it had in 1904, Worse Still. Vincent, relates the Pilgrim, was altogether too garrulous in school to please his teachers. Such punish ments as the institution allowed to be meted out were tried without any ap parent effect upon the boy, until at last the head master decided to men tion the lad’s fault upon his monthly report. So the next report to his fa ther had these words: ‘‘Vincent talks a great deal.”” Back came the report by mail, duly signed, but this written in red ink under the comment: ‘‘You ought to hear his mother.”’ Has an India Rubber Heart. The man with the india rubber heart lives in Ohio. His name is Messang and his postoffice is Cincinnati. Four teen times he laid his heart at the feet of fair women, and thirteen times they spurped it. Some of them kicked it ‘and walked over it. But the heart was always in good working order. On the fourteenth occasion the lady took it up and has promised to cheer ish it forever hereafter; which goes to to show that perseverance in a good cause will eventually be rewarded. Providence Guiding Foolish Men. From the Quitman Free Press. The people as.members of the Cot ton Growers' Association resolved to reduce the cotton acreage, but it is said that as farmers they have not done this. After all, boll weevils, rust, drought and such unpleasan manifestations of nature may be the hand of Providence guiding foolish men. A Pennsylvania Man's Will. A Pennsylvania man who died the other day left this will: “‘I give all I own to my beloved wife, except all my cigars to my friend —; and I hope they get it.”” The late lamented had evidently at some time come in con tact with the delightful system that the law devises for the protection of the widow and the orphans. Mouhtain View Hotel, Clarksville, Georgia. Nestling jamong the mountains of north Georgia, an ideal summer re sort. Under new management. Hotel opens 10th of June and closes October Ist. Reasonable rates. For particu lars address Mountain View Hotel, Clarksville, Ga. N . City Ordinance. Be it ordained, and it is hereby ordained and enucted by authority of the City Council of Daw son. Ga., that from and after the passage of this Ordinance it shall be unlawful for anyone who is not & member of the fire department to get upon or ride upon any wagon, truck, engine or other vehicle while en route to or from any fire, or while passing through the streets or other places, unless said party or parties have been previousiy invited by the chief of the fire department or the driver in charge of the vehicle to do so, which is used by the fire department of the city of Dawson for extinguishing fires. B: it enacted that all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict be and are hereby repealed. Be it enacted that violation of the above ordi= nance shali be punished inthe manner prescribed in section 186 of the code of the city of Dawson. Passed as an emergency ordinance at regular meeting of the City Council of Dawson. This May 2nd, 1905. CHAS DEUBLER. R. E..-BELL. Clerk. Mavor Pro Tem. oy N . . For Guardianship. GEORGTA. TERRELL CoUNTY. Ordinary’s Ofs fice, May 1. 1905. Miss Amanda Brown, of said county, avplies to me for letters of guardianship of the person and property of Mary Brown, of said county. This is, therefore, to notify all per sons concerned to show cause, if any they can, on or before the first Monday in .June next, why letters of guardianship should not be granted said applicant as applied for, i J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary. | dean e BRI s 0 R A R R s 3 . . . \ For Dismission. | GEORGIA, TERRELL CoUNTY, Ordinary’s Ofe fice, Aprii 29, 1905, J. R. Mercer, administratorof the estate of Owen Dodwell, deceased, represents to me that he has fully discharged the duties o his said trust, and prays for letters of dismission. This is, therefore, to notify all persons concern ed to show cause, if any they can, on or before the first Monday in June next, why said adminis= trator should not be discharged from his said trust. J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary, ‘ . - % For Administration. GEORGIA, TeRRELL CounTYy. Ordinary's Of fice, May 1, 1905. Susie Johuson, of said county, applies to me for letters of administration on the estate of J. 8. Johnson, late of said county, de ceased. This is, therefore, to notify all concerned to show cause, if any they can, on or before the first Monday in June next, why tetters should not be granted said applicant as applied for. J. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary. N At 3 i, Notice to Contractors. i Bids wanted for construction of a city and fire hall for Dawson, Ga. Bids will be received un til noon,June 6, 1905. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of City Clerk, Dawson, Ga., or Lockwood Bros,, Architecis, Commbus, Ga. Right reserved to reject any or all bids. \ J. R. MERCER, Mayor. ——— B. F. Amos, Builder. Communicate with B. L. Amos, Dawson post office, if you wish to let a contract for building. Guarantees to do satiz actory building in strict counformity to specifications at lowest possible price. —_—_———— . Money to Loan, The Georgia Loan and Trust Compsn{ loans money at 6 per cent per annum on real estate. Prompt service guaranteed. If you want to bors row money see H. A. WILKINSON. e R LR b U G Farm Loans. Farm Loans made at low rates and on easy terms. Save money by writing us. Large loans preferred. P. O. BOX 244 Americus. Ga. e ————————————————— For Sale. Two mules cheap. J. R. IRWIN, ¢ ICE, COAL, WOOD. DAWSON ICE CO. A Gallon of PURE LINSEED OIL mized with & gallon of T . ; wmakes 2 gallons of the VERY BEST PADT 4 in the WORLD g o P and f?figgffigfifi%fl% BoNOUS. HAMMAR PAINT is madeof the Bmuf: PAINT MATERIALS—such as all good {3&l nwrsl - and is ground THICK, VERY THICK. o troublety iz, any boy can do it. Itis the COMMON s;‘“, | B ODEE PAINT, NO BETTEE paini cad be &t ANY cost, and is ‘ 20T TO ORACK, BLISTER, PEEL 07 CEIP. ¥, HAMMAR PAINTCO., Bt. Louis, M 0 CAPITAL PAID IN 5500.000- mv un. Y SOLD AND GUARANTEED 8 Dawson Drug Co Dawson, Ga. >‘—/ The News guarantees 10 please its job patron®