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HORSEMAN'S EXPLOIT
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G alloped a Hundred Miles In
Less Than Ten Hours.
garry K. vingut Won §l,OOO Wager
- Belmont Park In Half the Time
He Said He Could—Rode Six Ponies
=i Barely Escaped Lightning,
Bolt shattering Pole as He FPassed.
To decide a wager of $l,OOO made
with pdward L. Norton, a broker,
garry K. vingut of the New York
Racket and Tennis club, a horse own
er, Tode 100 miles on horseback in 9
hours and 9 minutes at Belmont
park the other afternoon, says the
ew York Herald. Under the terms
of the bet he had twenty-four hours in
which to complete the journey. Vin
gut used six ponies, mostly quarter and
palf breeds, and galloped his mounts
all of the way. The performance of
the young man is considered by horse
men as & demonstration of much en
durance.
yMembers of several New York clubs,
themselves with money wagered on the
feat, were pot only treated to the spec
tacle of a man giving his best efforts
to win a bet, but were witnesses of a
storm which came mnear turning the
contest into a tragedy.
vingut was riding past the three
quarter pole, galloping freely on a fresh
jorse, when a bolt of lightning struck
the pole and shattered it. He was only
ten feet away. He clapped his knees
to the gides of the plunging horse,
caught him Defore the animal could
etart into a run, wiped his hand across
his face as though dazed and then con
tinued to the point where his anxious
triends were waliting for him. He
gwept by them with a wave of his hand
to indieate that he was unharmed and
then passed around the curve.
Mr. Norton, who watched after Vin
gut at the conclusion of the feat, de
clared:
I lost $l,OOO, but I am mighty glad
rW/zen the
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Vingut beat me. Tt was a galie sirug
gle. 1 am as tickled over the result as
though he had paid me the money.”
Vingut entered the saddle at 4:42
o'clock In the morning. His timers
were Edward L. Norton, E. A. Thomp
son and L. E. Larocque. Others who
witnessed the feat were August Bel
mont, Philip Brown, W. G. Street, E.
Livingsten, Jr.; E. La Montagne and
Mr. Gorman, the superintendent of the
track. .
One of the ponies covered thirty
miles at intervals. Mr, Vingut rode
continuously for forty-three and one
half miles on one relay. It took the
rider 13 hours 89 minutes from the
time he took his first mount to comn
plete the hundred miles. He was on
the ground three times. While at
breakfast he took time to shave him
self. When he dropped to the ground
upon completing the sixty-ninth ecir
cuit of the mile and a half course he
said:
“I'm glad that last mile is over.
Let’'s see, it's a hundred miles and a
half over. I have done no riding in six
years. Figure to yourself the mood I
am going to be in when I come out of
bed tomorrow morning.”
Vingut was dined by Mr. Morton
and his friends at the Racket and
Tennis club at night. He had had a
rub down, plenty of arnica and witch
hazel and appeared as fresh as any of
the four men who returned with him
from the park in an automobile.
There was plenty of light in the sky
when Vingut and the timers stepped
from the clubhouse and went out on
the track. Vingut wore riding breech
es and a flannel shirt. His head was
bared. A half dozen ponies, some of
them saddled, were waiting at the
start. Vingut selected one, vaulted
into the saddle and waited for the
word. The pony felt a touch of steel
and bounded away like the wind. He
was full of run, and Vingut had to
restrain him for a circuit or two.
There was more or less monotony in
the first quarter of the century. Vingut
changed his mounts frequently. If he
was tired when he had ridden twenty
five and a half miles he did not look it.
He said that he was going to eat a
cow, he felt so hungry, and the manner
in which he made a steak, chops and
eggs disappear indicated his hearty ap
petite. He had stopped at 6:50 o’clock
and when he concluded breakfast de
cided that he needed a shave. This
operation he performed quickly and
then stood around to talk to his
friends.
It was 8:10 o’clock when Vingut was
agaiu in the saddle. He covered forty
three and one-half miles before he took
another rest, at 12:35 o'ciock, when he
had luncheon, and he was hungry
again.
Vingut figured on three hours to
¢over the thirty-one miles remaining,
and he d4i€ i¢ in less than that. He
started on his last ride at 2:45 o’clock,
in a heavy storm and over a sloppy
track. His clothing was wet through
when he finished, at 5:21 o’clock, com
pleting 13 hours and 39 minutes from
the time the start was made, including
the rests. Vingut lost fourteen pounds.
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The Dawson News. Wednesday, August 15, 1906.
OIL KING'S NEW FAME
John D. Rockefeller’s Defense
of Our Girls’ Feet.
Dr. Biggar Tells Hovw Their Feet
Distressed the Multimillionaire, but
d FKFrench Consul ¢eneral Says:
“Ma foi! What Does ze Mere Money
Maker Know of Such Things?"’
John D. Rockefeller has put his
foot in it, or, to be more accurate, he
has put the American woman’s foot
into the white light of temporary fame,
says the New York American. He in
sists that it is about the only thing that
gets smaller by comparison with things
on the other side.
He prides himself on his American
ism, and while abroad he studied every
thing in sight with a view to compar
ing it with the same product in his own
native land.
Whether he began with the foot or
the hat of the French woman in draw
ing his comparisons is not known, but
that he observed both is quite beyond
discussion, for this is what he has to
say on the subject, or at least what
Dr. H. F. Biggar, who accompanied
him on his recent trip to France, to
Compiegne, states that Mr. Rockefeller
said regarding my lady’s foot:
“The upper classes Mr. Rockefeller
found charming,” says Dr. Biggar.
“We were agreed that the French wo
men are not beautiful, but they have a
vivacity not found in women here.
They know the art of dress, the exact
angle of a hat for the most becoming
tilt, the proper blending of colors in
everything they wear,
“But their feet! Oh, dear, their feet
distressed us. Their shoes are too
large and they do not fit. If they dress
ed their feet as well as they do their
heads they would be the most charm
ing women in the world.”
Now' American women take that as a
fine piece of gallantry, of loyalty, on
Mr. Rockefeller's part. It indirectly
states that. the American woman has
a small, well formed foot and a well
fitted shoe.
‘“He must mean to compare our feet
with those of the French women,” said
a woman in discussing the matter the
other day, “for what other women can
John D. Rockefeller draw comparisons
with? That means we have pretty,
well formed feet, doesn’t it?” she ar
gued.
On the other hand, the acting French
consul general at New York, M. Lucien
Bonzom, laughed heartily at Mr. Rocke
feller’s opinion of the French woman’'s
foot.
“Ma foi,” said he, ‘“what, to begin
wiz, does Mr. Rockefeller know of ze
American woman'’s foot? He has been
all of his life only wiz ze American
money, what you call it, and zat ees
all. Ze American woman’s foot we
Frenchmen perhaps can pass an opin
ion, for in France zose sings are very
much more obsairved.
“Our women pride themselves upon
ze hand, ze foot. When I say our wo
men I mean ze Parisian woman, for
zey stand for ze chic, ze smartness of
France. And what does Mr. Rocke
feller know of ze Parisienne?
“He was in Compiegne, a delightful.
historic city, to be sure, wiz ze fine
castles. But ze women! Zey do not
stand for ze French woman any more
zan ze women of—what you say—
Squeedunk stand for ze American wo
man.
“Perhaps he obsairved ze peasants
wiz zeir sabots. I do not know any
way, not ze Parisienne—nevaire!
“Zey have very much smaller feet
zan ze Americaine. Pourquoi? Well,
because zey are not so large as your
own women. In America everything
is larger—your harbors, your cities,
your fruits. your ideas—what shall 1
say—everything, including ze ladies’
slippers. It is no misfortune, not at
all, but ze feet must be larger to be
in proportion to what zey carry—com
prenez vous?
“But our women, zey are petite, zey
wear ze small shoe, zey luff ze small
foot, and zey dress it in ze charmont
boot.
“Mr. Rockefeller is wrong. He knows
not his own women's foot, neizer does
he see ze real French foot—ze Parisian
foot. Non, non; I say Mr. Rockefeller
may know about ze Standard Oil, but
he does not know about ze standard
foot—at least of ze French woman.”
“Make Hay While the Sun Shines’
There is a lesson in the work of the
thrifty farmer. He knows that the
bright sunshine may last but a day
and he prepares for the showers which
are so liable to follow. So it should
be with every household. Dysentery,
diarrhoea and cholera morbus may
attack some member of the home with
out warning. Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
which is the best known medicine for
these diseases, should always be kept
at hand, as immediate treatment is
necessary, and delay may prove fa
tal. For sale by Dawson Drug Co.,
Dawson, Ga. .
Cow Raising Motherless Colt.
A tenant living on the James Beeson
farm, southwest of Cambridge City,
Ind., has a Jersey cow which is nursing
a young colt with as much affection
as if it were her own, says a Peru (Ind.)
dispatch. The mother of the colt died
and the colt was turned loose in the
barn with the cow, which immediately
took it under her care.
Why does the sun burn? Why does
a mosquito sting? Why do we feel
unhappy in the Good Old Summer
Time? Answer: we don’t. We use
DeWitt's Witch Haxel Salve, and
these little ills don’t bother 1 us.
Learn to look for the name on the box
to get the genuine. Sold by Dawson
Drug Co.
ANECDOTES ABOUT TOOLE.
Amusing Incident When the Come
dian Was Playing For a Benefit,
A curious incident occurred during
one of the visits to Birmingham, Eng
land, of the late John Lawrence Toole,
the English comedian. On that occa
slon there were some fifty seats ar
ranged “behind the scenes” for eager
spectators. Toole, coming from his
dressing room to the stage, had to
pass some of these seats. The fore
most occupants were a would be aris
tocratic old lady and her daughters.
When Toole passed them, as Tom
Cranky, the bricklayer, in “The Birth
place of Podgers,” the old lady's blue
blood boiled at the indigunity of such
men being near her, a2and she mur
mured audibly that she wondered the
workmen were not kept away. The
young ladies were quicker, and discov
ered their companion’s error and told
her of it. However, in the next piece
a somewhat similar mistake arose in
the old lady’s mind, and, finally in the
last piece, which happened to be *“Oli
ver Twist,” when Toole drew near
her party, again on his way to the
stage as the Artful Dodger, her anger
knew no bounds, and she declared,
looking around her haughtily, that she
had never before been in such low
company, and that the workhouse must
have been let loose into the theater!
Her daughters had some trouble iln
convincing her of her third mistake,
and doubtless to this day she main
tains to her own private friends that
the manager of the Birmingham thea
ter was very careless as to whom he
admitted within his establishment.
Toole told an amusing story as to his
makeup. The incident occurred when
he was playing for a benefit at Sadler’s
Wells, in London. He performed at the
Surrey theater and at the Adelphi, in
London, on the same evening and had
little time to lose lin dressing. How
ever, his performance being over at the
Surrey and the Adelphi he left the lat
ter house, taking a cab in order to be
driven to Sadler’'s Wells. He entered
the cab as Mr. Spriggins, an old man,
the character in “Ici on Parle Fran
cais,” which he had just been playing,
and, to the cabman’s intense surprise,
when he opened the door of his vehicle
for his fare to dismount at the stage
entrance of Sadler's Wells, the popular
attire of Muster Grinidge in ‘“The
Green Bushes,” met his eye. There
was of course no vestige of old Mr.
Spriggins in the cab. “What have you
done with the old man?’ cried the
startled cabman, frightened at his sud
den disappearance. ‘“Where’s the old
man?’ Hereupon Toole explained to
him that he and the old man were
one and the same person, held out a
liberal fare and told him that they were
waiting for him on the stage inside the
theater. But the cabman was obdu
rate and refused to let his fare go, call
ing on him continually to produce the
old man. The disturbance might have
been prolonged had not some of the
theatrical officials come outside to look
for the recreant actor and found him
struggling between the cabman and the
appreciative crowd. A release was ef
fected and Toole taken in triumph to
the stage.
Toole was not only a comic actor. He
had serious pathetic powers, and his
rendering of Caleb Plummer in “The
Cricket on the Hearth” impressed all
who saw it.
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Removing a Kansas War Relie.
The old stone schoolbhouse at Mound
City, Kan., the county seat of, K Linn
‘ county, is to be razed and the materials
in its walls used to improve the public
‘ highways, says the Wilson County Citi
zen. The building was erected about
the beginning of the Rebellion, prob
‘ably in 1861. The only conflict between
‘regular Federal and Confederate troops
%fought' on Kansas soil and called a
battle occurred on Mine creek, near
Mound City, Oct. 25, 1864. The school
house to be dismantled was used as a
hospital at the time of the baftle, am
bulances from Mine creek carrying
both Union and Confederate wounded
soldiers to the shelter of its walls for
care and treatment, a number of them
dying in the building.
Pennsylvania’s Educational Novelty
State Zoologist Surface of Pennsyl
vania is preparing to send to each goun
ty in the state a collection of saakes
found In Pennsylvania, with a chart
showing the food of the various ser
pents, the ramifications of the snake
family and the geographical situation
of the various species, says the Phila
delphia Record. The snakes will be
gsed for educational purposes, so that
the teachers and pupils may be able to
recognize the varieties from their ap
pearanee and know whether they are
poisonous or not.
When you have a cold it is well to
be very careful about using anything
that will cause constipation. Be par-j
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containing opiates. Use Kennedy’s‘
Laxative Honey and Tar. which stops
the cough and moves the bowels.'
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—AND——™—
We want to call your attention to the
Latest Designs in
Traps and Runabouts.
We are now showing in the salesroom of
our Repository styles of Traps and Run
abouts up-to-the-minute in design. In get
ting in and out of our trap you do do not
have to stand on your head or use a step
ladder. But you will find the vehicle very
accessible even for stout ladies. We are
living in a progressive age. Styles were
never known to make such sudden
changes as in the past year. It's a style
that will not be duplicated by others. Of
course it will be imitated, but imitation
and duplication are as widely different as
chromos and oil paintings. There is noth
ing of the “freak” about it. Simply an
exquisite model by an expert designer
who knows how. We have anticipated
your wants, and the- only insignificant
feature in the policy of our business is
the price---too small.
LOWREY X
DAVIDSON.
WE WILL SOON HAVE SEWERAGE
and it will be to your interest to
Let Us Put in Your Closets at Once.
and avoid the rush. We can do it cheaper now than
later, as we will probably have to pay more for labor
when we get to needing it very bad. If you will take
this as we mean it, it will be money for us both, for if
you wait it may not be so that we can get to you when
you want us; and you may have to get some of the
“come and go’’ kind of plumbers to do your work.
That is dangerous, as . : : : ! ’
The Work Has Got to Be Done Right, or
It Means 11l Health.
And you would probably not have him to go back on
if he did you a poor job. PHONE 104 if you are
ready, and J. S. Clay will be there to figure with you.
We have a nice line of closets to select from. ’ :
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