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NUMBER SIX
ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS INTER
ESTING FACTS AND FIGURES.
Manual Laborers Are More Subject to
Insanity Than Those Who Fol
jow Mental Work.
The annual report of the state sani
grium shows that the institution com
genced the year with an overdraft of
£,156.56, and completed the year with
g surplus on hand of $384.48. Ex
penditures for all purposes for the
jear were $337,191.52, and the daily
srerage of patients under treatment
diring the year was 2,939. The board
pcommends that future appropria
tons be made uvon the basis of 35
gats per diem per capita, owing to
the increased cost of living.
Fight hundred and seventy-five pa
tients were received during the year,
of whom 549 were whites and 326 were
megroes: 328 patients recovered; 480
died: 8 improved, and 37 were remov
el during the year, leaving the total
mumber of patients in the sanitarium
2,939,
The percentage of recoveries, based
upon the number of admissions, was
424 per cent.
The board recommends the coloni
ation of the 322 epileptic patients,
many of whom are not insane and
should not be confined with the insane
tlasses. The board also recommends
the establishment of a school, sepa
rate and apart from the sanitarium,
for gefectives under the age of 16
Jears in order that they may be train
. There are sixty of these patients
nthe asylum.
The board urges that $lO,OOO be ap-
Propriated for the establishment of
10“? wards for the various classes of
Patients atfected with tuberculosis,
Whe.re they may be isolated and given
byzienic treatment, thus removing a
fource of danger to other patients not
saffected. One hundred and twenty
¢of the 430 deaths during the year
We.re due to tuberculosis, 45 of them
be‘x'fl! whites and 76 negroes.
Superintendent Powell’s tables pre
¥t some interesting facts. Manual
laborers seem more subject to insani
fr.‘ than those pursuing mental work.
“2‘:"’l3;'3 .1:-'»‘.' farmers in : the institu
labr; - with no 0(-(,:upam?n and 108
33\';:::;;"- ' ‘ff the 2,939 patients in the
k. m‘-pkt” _Lhe e?d of the year 13438
b u:,“:‘“.)d 1,501 fema.les_,. ; It l.lke
k. Y pt“m, that those living in a
Ofsingzle blessedness are less lia
ble to fmacy than those who marry
Be records showi r
B 8 mwmg.that of the 875
R ' ~>‘;&-.‘i”med dux'-mg the year 520
Bir, o e
heiy c‘ R C().u.ld give no account of
vii condition.
PREACHER FIRED FROM NAVY.
s :"i“““l“"\' Fortner Dishonorably
E ‘arged for Desertion.
I,l{)'\: ~OFle the preacher-sail
onorghn R Carolina, has been dis-
F*’l:-tfi @kx-‘ :st harged from th.e navy.
8 x?'-; ]“ f‘.dvls.efl to enlist in the
id higg , :1\ (?ndltxons which might
e .4.:”“‘_,:) n“ o]rk when he entered
Forsas: ;:i-;dbtl,): d.vzlorkers'.
T Suited 1o g v(;u not fi.ud the na-
Orals, and he de;n ng i
}’l‘E‘s‘&:;.r‘t }{oo~° '“lit'e . % §
B stioe l?,.ve't, ?t the instiga-
N n.lted States senators
Tread 1o 1 iatives I 8 COBETNS,
he :”“":."['z {ook into the case. Whether
mu“j‘ {)f‘de:‘ed his dishonora
we, SIS a matter of conjec-
Fo .
i i thas be wil eturn o
or the Winistry, O-PuNe. e Tt
3,000 HOMING PIGEON’'S.
Will Fly from Spartanburg, S. C., to
Philadelphia.
Three thousand homing pigeons
were liberated early Tuesday by As
sistant Postmaster Young of Spartan
burg, S. C. It was a novel sight to
watch the pigeons as they left their
coops, and soared upward, and after
cireling about overhead, took a north
easterly direction and were soon liost
to sight.
The birds were received by Mr.
Young Saturday, twelve coops having
been shiped him by well known clubs
in Philadelphia. Out of the 3,000
pigeons, 1,500 belonged to one club,
the remainder belonging to several
clubs.
The first lot of pigeons, 1,500 in
number, were liberated shortly after
4 o’clock. When the cover of the
baskets had been opened the birds
lost no time in getting out of their
cages. With a mighty flapping of
wings they started on their long jour
ney. The others were released in lots of
500 each at intervals of five minutes.
Mr. Young kept a record of the
time of leaving of the pigeons and he
will notify the several sporting: clubs
in Philadelphia that shipped the birds
to Spartanburg to be released. With
good weather the pigeons should ar
rive in Philadelphia Tuesday.
ALBANY FOLK ARE HAPPY!
Appropriation of $125,000 for New‘
Postoffice Building Causes
Much Rejoicing.
The news has teen sent out fl'oml
W ashington to the effect that Albany
was included in the omnibus publie
building appropriation of $125,000 for
a public building.
Judge Griggs, the popular con
gressman from the Second district, 1
has done a great deal for this section
of the state, and he is all the more the
toast of the hour in Albany since he’
has secured this handsome approm'ia-'
tion.
The Albany postoffice has outgrown
its present quarters and as the gov
ernment has no place of meeting for the
southwestern division of the United |
States court for the southern district
of Georgia a public building was
badly needed at that point.
Albanians are all delighted over the
prospect of such a handsome govern-i
ment building so early in the future
and they are extremely grateful to!
Judge Griggs, feeling that it was
largely through his efforts that the
appropriation was secured.
TO DRESS OUR SOLDIERS.
English Military Tailor Has Arrived
in New York. ‘
George B. Winter, of London, thel
Englishman who is to suggest changes
in the United States army uniforms,’,
arrived in New York last week. His|
son, G. B. Winter, came with him. |
1 do not care to discuss my plans |
at the present time,’’ said Mr. Winter, l
smiling. '
¢sCan’t you tell us what you will do
for our army ?’’ some one insisted.
«Well,” said Mr. Winter, humor
ously, ‘I am going to make your
privates look like officers and your
officers all like generals.”’ !
To some one On board it was re
ported that Mr. Winter said that the
new uniforms would cost each officer
from $3OO to $l,OOO for his entire outfit,
He was also said to have told a pas
senger that the American soldier, as
to quality of his clothing. was better
‘dressed than any other soldier in the
world.
THE CITY PHARMACY.
Come to the store and make personkl selection when possible.
If not use the telephone. We serve you either way satisfactorily.
THE CITY PHARMACY.
DAWSON, GA.,, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1906.
So Declares State Entomologist Sx%aith. Considers It Cer
tain That Pest Will Reach This State Unless
Means Are Found to Check Its Advance.
State Entomologist R. I. Smith, who
has just returned to Atlanta from an
extended trip through the states of
Texas and Louisiana, where he inves
tigated the ravages made upon cotton
by the boll weevil and the methods
employed for its extermination, has
sounded a note of warning to the cot
ton planters of Georgia.
So certain does it seem that this
pest wiil reach the fields of Georgia,
unless some unforeseen barrier pre-
DESIRABILITY OF FARM LIFE.
A Campaign to Be Inauguarded in
Georgia by Farmers' Union,
For the purpose of demonstrating to
the young men that the life of a farm
er is desirable the Georgia division
of the Farmers’ Educational & Co-op
erative Union has planned an educa
tional campaign. The union has
about 45,000 members in Georgia.
The campaign is to begin July 12 and
there will be at least three picnics
and rallies each day(except Sunday)
during the remainder of the summer.
Able speakers have been secured and
these will deliver addresses in various
sections of the state at gatherings in
the agricultural centers Politics is
to be forbidden at all meetings.
THE MODEL SCHOOL GIRL. '
Never Wrote or Received Notes frem
Members of Her Class.
The model public school pupil has
been discovered. Sheis Miss Jennie
Charlotte Anderson, who was grad
uated the other day from the highl
school at Evanston, Ind., with first
honors. The following is given on
authority as Miss Anderson’s record
during her twelve years’ attendance
upon the publie schools: "Neverf
missed a day. Never was late at roll |
call. Never failed to prepare her}
‘home work.’ Never had trouble with
teacher. Never wrote or received.
potes from other members of the class.
Was never ‘kept in’ for any cause.
Never failed to pass an examination
with honors. Never had to make an
excuse for failing in her duty.”” The
record is little if anything short of
marvelous, and it may be doubted that
it has ever been equaled in this coun
try. G :
LIGHTNING SHAVES A MAN.
C. H. Drage and his three sons,
Vivian, Leonard and Ralph, of Love
land. Col., were struck by lightning
during a thunderstorm on their ranch
Monday. The lightning struck Mr.
Drage on the head, singeing the hair
from the right side and taking oft. '»
portion of his mustache, severely
burning his right side, melting the
stem of his watch and tearing his shoes
{to pieces. He was unconscious for
about fifteen minutes, but revived.
AN AUSTRIAN THE FATHER OF 52 CHILDREN
All of Them Triplets Except Five, Which Were Born at Once.
papa Szekely's Four Marriages Constitute the Offsprings.
Fifty-two children have been born
to Farmer Szekely of Ilenozfalva, |
Hungary, his present wife having just
presented him with quadruplets. This
prolific lady has never given birth to
fewer than three children at a time,
and once it was five. _
sents itself, that Professor Smith
urges that the legislature should make
some provision, should the pest ap
pear ode hundred miles or more ahead
of its matura! spread, for destroying
cott.on?ver a limited area and reim
bursingi the planter, in part at least,
for thea%oss.
In Lopisiana the experiment is be
ing mafle of exterminating the pest
with pafis green, the drawback being
that it foccasions more injury to the
cotton than does the boll weevil.
TOM ?’HARA STOPS FUNERAL.
Chief of the Clan Objected to Black
Hearse for Nephew's Obsequies.
In Atlanta on Tuesday, Tom O’Hara
the leader of the famous O’Hara clan
of wanderers, delayed the funeral of
his young nephew, Pat O'Hara, for
some time in order that a black bearse
which was about to be used to convey
the body of his'nephew to the last rest
ing place, could be changed for white
one.
The father of the deceased, Edward
(O'Hara, had ordered the black hearse,
but when the chief came to the funeral
he offered strenuous objections to the
vehicle and he and the rest of his fol
lowers refused to allow the funeral to
go on until a white hearse was produc
ed from the undertaker. This was
done and the funeral services were
finished without other interference.
WORLD'S FIRST NEWSPAPER.
Was Published in Germany in the
Year 1609. |
A newspaper exposition is being
held at Frankfort-on- Main, Germany,
which contains examples of the earliest
journals published in the world. The
precision of the modern newspaper
may be seen in the ‘‘accounts’’ of the‘
Frankfort fairs. Two of these werel
held annually, and during the events
these ‘‘accounts’’ were issued, narrat«-}
ing the political events of the time.
They began in 1590 and lasted until
1806. |
The first newspaper in Germany, and
probably in the wo.:ld, was published
in 1609 in Strasburg. A whole year’s
issues are still extant. Shortly after
its appearance, in 1615, was founded
the Frankfort Journal, which lived 257
years, and was then sold to another
newspaper of that city.
| Germany led the nations in the news
paper enterprise. But Vienna had a
newspaper in 1610, England in 1622,
Italy in 1930, France in 1631, Spain in
1661 and Russia in 1703.
Of the old German newspapers
there exist to-day four dating back to
It,he seventeenth century—one at Koe
nigsburg, founded in 1640; one at
Magdeburg, founded in 1527; one at
Sena, founded in 1646, and the oldest
of all at Hellibrunn, founded in 1620.
The aggregate of fifty-two are the
offsprings of Szekely’s four mar
riages. Forty-four children of va
rious ages are living at home, and
the latest quartette have overflowed
into a foundling home, as there is not
a corner of the homestead where they
‘can be accommodated.
NITRO-GLYCERINE RUNAWAY.
Hundreds Terrified When Team Ran
off with Deadly Fluid.
Charles Bess, driver of a nitro
glycerine wagon, narrowly escaped
being blown to atoms at Knigtstown,
Ind.. one’'day last week, and hun
dreds of farmers were terrorized when
his team run off with a wagon loaded
with deadly fluid.
Bess had started out to make a
‘‘shot.’”’ Four miles north of Kings
town his horses became frightened at
some fighting dogs and ran away.
Bess jumped and ran for his life as
they dashed at an embankment, but
the horses swerved just in time and
kept the road, dashing seven miles
through a thickly-populated country.
Terrified farmers ‘seeing the nitro
glyveerine danger sign on the wagon,
fled into fields and woods. One
thoughtful farmer warned his neigh
bors down the big road by telephone.
Scores of teams on the road were
turned about and driven at break
neck speed in the opporsite direction
to keep out of the radius of danger.
Rural swains out with their sweet
hearts in buggies had the rides of
their liyes, making for farm lands in
to which they might turn. Children
playing in the highways scampered to
cover; loose horses in the fields took
the chase.
Finally Wallace Apple, a farmer,
ran into the roadway and stopped the
almost exhausted team. Apple had
not the faintest idea how big a hero
he was until it was all over. He was
the only one in hundreds who had not
been advised of the danger.
TO SEE SPOT WHERE HE HUNG
Fitzgerald Man Goes to Pensacola,
Fla. Wants to Find the Man
Who Befriended Him.
Rev. J. T. Mann, a Baptist minis
ter of Fitzgerald has gone to Pensa
cola, Fla., to visit again the scene
where over forty years ago he was
hanged by federals for being a con
federate spy, but was rescued after
hanging a few minutes. |
His visit is mainly to see if he can
locate the man who befriended him
while the federals were searching fori
him, and in whose house he was se
creted for three days. He has never
had an opportunity for thanking the
gentleman, and has forgotten his
name. He will go down to the forts,
and believes he can go directly to the
spot where the house was located, and
also to the spot where the federals
swung him up, and where he dangled
at the end of “a rope until a federal
sergeant, who had taken a liking for
him, swore that he was not the man
wanted.
Mr. Mann, acting as a spy during
the war, was sent to Fort Barrancas
with instructions to blow up the pow
der mafv‘azine. He attempted to do so
by hurling a ball of cord: saturated
with oil and set on fire at the maga
zine, but the attempt failed, and the
sentinel who was near saw him in the
light of the blaze, and later he was
;captured.
WASHED A BEATING HEART.
Physicians Took the Organ Out and
Cleaned it of Sand.
To have his heart taken out and the
‘particles of sand washed from it as it
‘beat, and stiil survive, has been the
experience of C. A. McCartney, a Pas
t adena contractor.
While riding a motor cycle he came
in collision with a hay wagon, and a
wooden rake prong penpetrated his
breast. The surgeons found that par
ticles of sand from the road had been
driven into the wound as far as the
heart. They took the organ out, wash
ed it thoro\:fhly. and then replaced it.
The indications are that McCariney
will recover. W
VOL. 24--NO. 41
DAWSON. GA.
MAIN STREET.
DAWSON, GA.
KANSANS TACKLED THE QUES
TION AND ITS HANDS WENT UP.
Jayhawkers Would Use Surplus Crop
to Increase Number of Shirts and
Make Them an Inch Longer.
When Kansas tackles a problem
that problem had as well hold up its
hands and quit fooling, for Kansas
will never stop until it is conquered.
The latest problem to receive the at
tention of the jayhawkers is that of
the cotton market, and the solution of
it that they have evolved is as simple
as falling off a log. Itis embraced
in one word—shirts. The shirts of
the country, according to the Kansans,
are the governor valve of the cotton
market. When there is a surplus
crop let the shirt wearers of Ane ica
lengthen those garments one inch
each, and the surplus will soon be
tucked away out of sight; will disave
pear from the view of the world, and
the cotton market will be sustained
at a high level. And in the event of a
short erop the shirts could be abbre
viated by an inch, or two inches as
occasion might demand, and the short
crop would thus be made to stretch
over and cover the needs of the peo
ple. Should there be an entire failure
of the cotton crop in some year the
consequences to the people’s shirts
might be something terrible to
to contemplate, though that is a
contingency that need not be feared.
That there will always be cotton
enough to bring the shirt at least to
the waist line is as certain as any
thing can be.
The promoters of this Kansas idea
are entirely unselfish. They do not
themselves grow cotton, but they are
willing to organize on the shirt basis
for the benetit of their brother farmers
of the South. And, as lillustrating
their conservation and disinterested
ness, it is to be noted that they donot
ask us to add another biscuit or bat
tercake to our breakfast by way of
increasing the demand for their wheat.
The same result might have been ac
complished had the reformers sugges
ted an Increase in the number of
shirts per month, say from four to
five. An increase of 25 per cept, in
the numbey of shirts worn per month
would absorb a good many yards of
cotton cloth. But the Kansans sug
gest nothing so radical. An extra
inch on the tail they think is enough
to begin with. Just how the organiz
ed shirt wearers are to demonstrate
that they are living up to their obliga
tions in length of shirt is not quite
clear. Manifestly it would be un
pleasant to have a walking delegate
come along with a tape line, extract
the shirt from its cinch and measure
off the standard length. Equally em
barrassing would it be to adopot th 2
Chinese style of wearing ’em outside
so that all observers might note the
fact that they were of the regulation
length. Still that is a sinall mattér
which Kansas will doubtless arrange
later, Having discovered a plan for
automatically adjusting the cotton
markot so that stable prices may be
maintained, the working out of the
details, and possibly the other tails
also, will be only a matter of time.
PHYSICIANS STAND FOR 85.
The physicians of Sumter county
‘will stand pat for the uniform fee of $5
in the inexamination of applicants for
ilife insurance. It is understood that
an agreement to that effect has been
entered upon formally, all physicians
lsubscribin¥ to it. This not only
effects old line companies, but includes
fraternal insurance likewise.
