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THE DAWSON NEWS.
v E. L. RAINEY.
A GREAT SACRIFICE SAIE
FASHIONABLE, SEASONABLE GOODS TO BE SOLD REGARDLESS
‘ (g THE PRICE THYY BRING At
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THE /BEE HIVE, - DAWSON &BEURGIA
The cause of this ale is not a desire to retire from business, but our store house is soon to be remodeled, and we had rather sacrifice the goods at less than
i than have them riined by the workmen or soiled and tumbled up in moving. The work of remodeling our store begins about July 10, and we must get rid
+#our coods quick #0 keep them from being ruined. If prices will move them they will go fast, for we are slashing prices right and left, everywhere and on every
thino. Nothing veserved. Below are a few eye-openers to give you an idea of what we are doing. If you miss this sale you will do your pocketbook and yo;n'
.¢ an iniustice. The material for remodeling the building will soon be placed on the ground, but the contractor has granted us a short extension of time, so
fdalll a ~ e . l : O
Table No.-1.
Ven's Negligee Shirts, cheap at
75 cents, to gO at
47 cents.
Table No. 2.
T most beautiful line of Embroid
ery ever shown in Dawson, worth
p to 50c per yard, to go during
17V cents.
10 -nd 15 cent quality at
5 and 715 cents.
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We Have Been Given More Time and This Sale Will Last a Few Days Longer.
And the above gives you but a faint idea of the great sacrifice we are making. Come and feast your eyes upon the innumerable money saving and purse
pleasing bargains we are oiving on everything. There are some things that you may price yourself and take. Remember that when The Bee Hhivo cuts the
price it cuts to the quick. Look for the big Bee Hive sign.
THE BEE HIVE D Georgi
. awson, Georgia.
SOUTH'S MATERIAL GROWTH
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IS NOW RICHER THAN E‘.\’Tllih‘i
UNITED STATES 45 YEARS AGO. i
Assessed Valuations Have Increased
Nearly One Billion Dollars in
the Past Four Years.
A writer in the New York Sun otfersl
4 startling comparison between the in
dustrial condition of the south today |
and the industrial condition of the'
United States forty-five years ago, {
showing that in all material respects
the south is now richer than the whole
United States was at the beginning of
the war between the states. This is
the more remarkable a situation in
view of the fact that the south began
this forty-five year period with a war.
that devastated her fields, pavalyzed
herindustey and killed off thousands
ofher ablest men. Actually in forty
Years’ time the recuperation and ad
ance to the present status was ac
omplished. These are the figures:
UNITED STATES IN 1860.
P("'t,u;:1tfn.'x.............$ 31.000,000
Bank dep05it5.......... 253,000,000
Railroad mileage. . ..., 30,592
('f)il\i‘ WONS, .. .0 15,173,000
12 iron, tons. ..., .05 884,474
Cotton spindles. . . ...... 5,035,798
sBorts ...........o0 . 0 308 SYe o 0
Valuation of property .. 16,159,000,000
THE SOUTH IN 1904.
Population. ...,........8. 25,000,000
Bank denosits, ......... 745,000,000
Ralll'nzvi mileage...... 62,300
O, tons, ... Lk, ki 0T 0 000
Iflgi""!-‘\ tons.ini. B, 2,748,000
;“)Ilfi:‘ spindles........ 8,615,000
PDOTS L eiveen 59,240,000
’Y ' of property .. 15,500,000,000
bw ‘iraest rate of advance has
_ ‘A the past four years, when as
::L il :“uinns in the south have
I'}l‘:'-:“‘ from %5,260,000,000 to sQ)'.,
B e gain of $931.000,000 in
c o or $233,000,000 a year.
shl-?\ ‘calth grows with wealth we
ar - before this decade is dver
re:-‘.. °t Increage that shall appear as
e hen compared with pres
gl the _present figures are
E . tviipared with those of the ear-
B 1 VEGROS STENOGRAPHER.
h' v collector of the second in
a ‘ ‘vvenue district of New York is
e lht'_nume of Anderson. His
E ‘er is a white woman, Miss
w . Oheis the daughter of Geo.
b . _¥» the New York corres
andg _”‘r}u"“' London Times, and the
M., . ~ater of Wendell Phillips.
v acCounts for it.
Dry Goods.
Our line of Brilliantines, Worsted,
Silk, White and Colored Lawn,
Ginghams, Calico, Bleaching, Table
Damask all will be sold for few days
At Cost Price.
Table No. 3.
Men's and Boys’ Straw Hats, 50
and T3¢ quality. to go at
19 cents.
A better grade to be slaughtered
the same way.
THE MOURNING COLOR.
White Would Be More Expressive
Healthful and Comfortabie.
Governor Hoch of Kansas probably
voiced the opinion of the average man
the other day when he made a strong
argument against the wearing of black
as a mouruning color. Black he said,
is an emblem of despair, entirely out
of keeping with the christian belief in
immortality and a -life beyond the
grave. Ifit is true that there is a
heaven, then there should be rejoicing
that the departed have gone to it; de
spair should be evidenced only where
there are reasons for believing that
the spirits of the dead have gone to
another place. Yet in most if not all
christian countries black is the mourn
ing color. Governor Hoch _thinks
white would be much more expressive,
healthful and comfortable.
“BEATS” ON NEWS ITEMS.
In Gatherers and Disseminators This
Country Beats the World.
The Century for July contains the
most interesting article from the pen
of Melville E. Stone of the Associated
Press. The general manager tells how
the great events of the world have
been ‘‘flashed’’ by the great news ser
vice. The death of General Grant was
signaled from Mt. McGregor, N. Y.,
by the physician who walked out on
the piazza and passed his handker
chief over his hands. The death of
the late Pope Leo XIIL. was wired in
cipher. The department at Rome
would not allow any message to go
out for three hours about the dead
pontiff. The Associated Press mes
senger, who in some way gained ac
cess to the Vatican, telegraphed to
New York that ‘““The missing bond
was No. 404.’* The New York man
ager of course knew that His Holiness
had expired at 4:04 p. m. London and
Paris heard of Pope Leo’s death from
New York. The election of the new
pontiff was sent out from the walled
chapel on the laundry list of a cardi
nal and New York, as usual scored a
‘ipeat’’ on the world.
The Associated Press spent thirty
thousand dollars in reporting the
‘eruption of Mont Pelee. By special
request the United States counsul at
‘Guadaloupe was given leave of ab
sence and sent to the scene. His 'storyf
iof the volecano rankes with Pliny’s de
seription of Pompeii, which has lived
5 for centuries.
~ The public will recall the scoop
whieh the United States consul at
’Yokohama gave this country in the
{great naval battle of the' Koz‘:ean
straits. In gatherers and dissemina
tors of news this country leads the
world.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1905.
HON. 0. B. STEVENS APPOINTED RAILROAD COMMISSIONER
The Appointment, Long Predicted, Was Made by Governor Terrell
Hon. O. B. Stevens, commissioner
of agriculture for the past six years,
has been appointed railroad commis
sioner of Georgia for the next six
vears by Governor Terrell. The ap
pointment was made Wednesday
morning, and was at the same time
sent to the senate for confirmation.
Announcement of the appointment
created no surprise in politicalcircles,
as it has been current gossip for some
time that Colonel Stevens would suc
ceed Chairman J. Pope Brown of
‘the railroad commission, when Mr.
Brown's term expires in October.
Hon. T. G. Hudson of Americus,
one of the best known men in this sec
tion, will be appointed agricultural
commissionePto succeed Mr. Stevens.
Mr. Hudson was an applicant for
railroad commissioner, but as the
governor had promised the place o
Mr. Stevens he will give him the office
vacated by Mr. Stevens. Mr. Hudson
is an experienced farmer, and lis
thoroughly competent for the office. If
Mr. Stevens resigns at once Mr. Hud
son will begin the duties of agricult
ural commissioner at once.
While Mr. Stevens’ appointment
will not become effective until October
15, the date of the expiration of the
term of Chairman Pope Brown, it is
said that he will probably resign as
DEATH MATTER OF CHOICE.
Chicago Professor Declares One May
Live as Long as One Likes.
A professor of the University of
Chicago says—(now don’t stop and
laugh because it was a professor of
the University of Chicago)—that he
has devised a plan whereby death may
be made a matter of choice; that one
may continue to live as long asone
likes, years of age to the contrary
nowithstanding. With respeet to his
theory the professor says: ‘““What
happens in the body at death? In the
first place there is no definite moment
of death. We are gradually dying for
vears. The moment which is ordinar
txl_v ascribed to deaih is when breath
ing stops, but this is purely arbitrary
and the survival of an old belief that
life was drawn in in the breath and the
soul passed out with the breath.”” Al
causes of natural death, he urges, will
be removed by the new system of
dietetics now being worked out, where
in the exact chemical needs of the
body will be supplied in due propor
wions. R
Ladies’ Skirts.
We have them in Brilliantines and
Broadcloths, all the latest shades
and makes. We are going to
slaughter them regardless of price.
Table No. 4.
Men's and Youth’s Suits, regular
price $6 to $B.
Your choice $3.24.
Table No. 5.
About 25 suits worth up to %12 to
be sold at only
$5.98.
‘commissioner of agriculture and spend
several months in the mountains for a
‘much needed rest. This course will
‘give Mr. Hudson an opportunity to
familiarize himself during the summer
‘months with the affairs of the de
‘dartment of agriculture.
| Colonel Stevens has been >ommis
'sioner of agriculture for the last seven
lyears. He has made an able, an
‘earnest and a conscientious official,
‘and farmers all over the state will re
gret to see him sever his connection
iwith the department, even though they
‘will know that with him on the rail
road commission the interests of the
people will be carefully guarded.
Mr. Hudson served in the late state
senate. He has many friends all over
the state. Besides being a practical
tarmer, he has a wide knowledge of
men and affairs. He will, undoubted
ly, make an able head of the agricul
tural department.
- The many friends of Captain R. F.
Wright, the able and efficient assist
ant commissioner of agriculture, were
greatly disappointed when it was
learned that he could not be given
Mr. Stevens' place. Captain Wright
had strong endorsements for the place,
but it is understood that Governor
Terrell said he could not name two
men from the same department.
WIPED OUT OLD SCORES.
$lOO,OOO Worth of Back Taxes Are
Remitted at Macon.
The Macon eity council has relieved
all charitable institutions and a large
number of the leading manufacturing
industries of that city of nearly $lOO,-
000 in back taxes after a long dis
cussion. In some instances this }_{avd
concerns taxes as far back as HSH,!
which, if ecollected, would have
wrought disaster. l
All aceounts are now cleaned up and |
council expects to start anew with the
charitable institutions and factories.
The back tax matter has engaged the
attention of the ecouncil for six months,
and there are still indications that the
question of disposing of such large
accounts by a sweeping vote is not a
a settled one.
DESERVE BRONZE MEDALS. |
Two New York crooks are under in
dictment for having worked a bunco
game on a Wall street broker. They
ought to be fimw
medals,” S et et
We have just 18 Suits
of the famous Miller & Co’s. make,
of Philadelphia, worth from #lsto $lB
to fly at $8.24.
Table No. 6.
Men’s and Youths’ Pants, worth
up to $2, to go on sale at
89 cents.
About 75 pairs worth up to $2.50 at
$1.24.
Table No. 7.
150 men’s pants, bought this
spring, some of them worth $3.50.
We can’t carry themover, soyou get
Your choice for $1.98.
I SEA SERPENT NO MYTH.
FOne of the Genuine a 3 Criginal Hind
Washed Ashore in Maine.
It will do no longer to contend that
the sea serpent is a myth. On Satnr
day last there floated onto the golden
sands of Old Orchard, Me., a serpen’
whose sinuous body stretched in a
long wave of sand more than forty
five feet. More than 2,000 people have
l flocked to the shore to convince them
|selves that the long mystical, half
legandary leviathian had proved a‘
reality.” The tail and the upper jaw
are missing, but the lower jaw runs
back fifteen feet, the tongue itself is
more like a snake’s than of an ani
mal’s, is ten feet long and as big as a
man’s leg, incased in a peculiar kind‘
of hone. Dr. Henry Reynolds, who is
considered an expert on sea life, says“
the monster was without doubt over
100 feet long alive and that it had
‘evidently been dead several weeks.
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: THE FEWEST SUICIDES
Occur Among the Poor, According
to London Expert.
““What makes a suicide?’’ was the
interesting topic discussed by Coroner
Dr. Wyn Westcott before the Medico-
Legal Society receutly. Dr. West
cott has had an experience with the
suicides extending over 20 years, and
his knowledge of this subject is con-.
sidered as intimate as that of any“
'man in the world. According to thei
coroner the most usual causes of sui
;cide are disease, poverty, alcoholism,
a fit of passion or an attack of pain
or disappointed love. The higher the
standard of education the greater the
'number of suicides. Nations possess-
Ying the largest number of daily pa
‘pers always produce the greatest
number of suicides. Protestants are
more prone to suicide than Roman
Catholics. The Greek church comes
next, and the Jews produce the fewest
suicides of any.
Men commit suicide three times more
often than women. The heaviest per
centage occurs between 40 and 50
years of age; after 55 the decline is
rapid. Child suicide is increasing:
this is due to the strain of modern ed
ucation. |
Below the age of 20 most of the sui
cides are females. Bachelors commit
suicide more often than married men;
married women more often than sin
gle women: widows more often than
widowers: divorced men more often
than divorced women. Chronic alco
holism is the most general of all the
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VOL. 23--NO. 42.
Table No. 8.
We have some very fine pants,
worth not less than $4, but they
must move for
$2.24.
. Boys’ Clothing.
About 250 suits, some of them are
very fine ones. They must be sold
at some price. Come and be con
vinced.
About 150 pairnew and up to date
pants, worth up to $3, to go at
é1.48.
Table No. 9.
75 pair men’s pants, this lot isthe
cream;we’ll sacrifice them at ;
$2.79.
BETTING ON HIGH DEFICIT.
UNCLE SAM IS SHORT $25,000,000
--RECIPTS ARE $43,000,000.
Month of June Showed a Handsome
Surplus of $13,000,000 for
| Reduced D eficit.
‘ Clerks in the treasury department
at Washington have the annual cus
tom of betting on the year’s reoeipts
} and expenditures. Considerable mon
ey changed hands on July 1, when the
exact amount of the deficit was known.
The expenditures of last year were
jwet-e enlarged by the fifty million dol
lar payment on the Panama canal and
the four millon dollar loan to the St.
Louis exposition. With fifty-four
million deducted from the regular ex
penditures last year would have stood
at about five hundred and twenty-five
million this year. There has been an
increase in expenditures this year
over last, therefore, of about forty
million.
The receipts for the fiscal year have
been about $543,000,000, two million
more than the receipts estimated by
‘the secretary in his last report. The
‘expenditures have been $567,500,000 or
‘about eight and one half million more
than was estimated. sThe month of
June showed a handsome surplus of
nearly $13,000,000 and reduced the de
ficit from $37,000,000 to $24,500,000. A
comparison of the receipts of this fis
.cal year with those of the preceding
year shows remarkably small changes.
Customs receipts for the fiscal year
1904 were approximately £262,000,000
for this year approximately $261,500,-
000. Internal revenue receipts for
1904 were $223,000,000 for 1905 $233,-
500,000. Miscellaneous receipts in
1904 were $46,700,000, in 1905 $48,000,-
000. A comparison of the expendi
tures of the two yvears shows wider va
riations. Civil and miscellaneous
expenditures in 1904 excluding pay
ment for the right of way of the Pana
ma canal and the loan to the Louisia
na purchase expositicn eompany were
$132,400,000, this year. War depart
ment expenditures in 1904 were $115,+
300,000 an increase of $7,000,000. Nga
vy department expenditures in 1904
$102,800,000,an increase of $14,550,000,
Pension payment since 1905 $141,-
700,000, a decrease of one million. In
terest payment were the same for the
two years, twenty-four and one half
millions, & Wapes o« oo e tanu
e e
~ Most ot us account for the lack of
