The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, February 12, 1908, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN HOT SODA! "CHOCOLATE TOMATO BULLION | COFFEE | CLAM BULLION : People’s Drug Store | GRIGGS' BILL OF GREAT BENEFIT WILL BE MORE HELPFUL TO TH 1 INDIVIDUAL CITIZENRY THAN ANY OTHER MEASURE TO BE CONSIDERED BY CONGRESS. Washington, February 10.—Judge Jas. M. Griggs of the Second district, who this session was honored by the appointment to the committee on ways and means, and to whom we may refer as the Peerless Leader of the Georgia Delegation, has fathered a bill which will be of more material; benefit to the individual citizem'y‘ and the general welfare of the entire country than any bill which will like ly be considered this session. He proposes to lend his most valiant ser vices in establishing a limited par(:elsi post according to a bill introduced by him, which reads as follows: “Section 1. That beginning July 1, 1908, there shall be a parcels post limited to twelve pounds on every rural route in the United States. Said parcels post shall be confined exclusively to the route upon which the parcel originates and its rural‘ route connections, and shall not ex tend beyond said route upon which it originates and routes with which said route connects directly without the intervention of railway mail ser vice, star route, messenger, or any other form of mail service. I v “Sec. 2. The rate of postage on such packages shall be five cents for! HUSBAND SUBMITTED TO TRANS FUSION, THOUGH PAINFUL. Remarkable Operation Is Successfully Performed .in the Hospital at Brooklyn. Although still weak from an or deal through which her hushand passed with her in order to save her life Mrs. Inga Yensen of I\'o.‘ 4719 Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, haai been told by physiciansg that her com plete recovery is assured, says a New York dispatch. Christopher Yeusen volunteered to submit to blood trans fusion when informed by the sur geons in Seney Hospital, Brooklyn. that the life of his wife depended upon it. He is a stalwart yvoung fisherman engaged with the Fulton Market fleet. On December 4 last one of his children died, and another child, “a baby, and his wife nearly died from gas that escaped from a stove while they slept. The baby was revived at the hospital, but Mrs. Yensen's life was despaired of. Yensen was summoned to the hospital and told that his wife was dying. | Consents Eagerly. “There is still one chance,” he was told. “If vou will give sufficient of yvour healthy blood we may restore your wife to you.” Yensen consented eagerly. Anaes thetics could not be administered to‘ him because of their depressing ef fect on the heart action. It was nec essary that his circulation be main tained at a normal pressure. Yensen entered the operating room shortly after Bp. m. He was placed on an operating table adjoining one occu pied by his wife, who was uncon scious. An incision was made in his left wrist by Dr. R. M. Green, who was in charge of the operation, and an artery was joined with one which had been freed through an incision in Mrs. Yensen’'s arm near the shoulder. Blood transfusion was quickly under way and the beneficial effects were almost immediate upon Mrs. Yenson. Yensen said he suffered excruci ating pain, but he sought to divert his thoughts by watching the prog ress of his wife. He was keenly dis appointed when the surgeons decided shortly before eleven o'clock that sufficient pure blood had been in fused into his wife s veins, although she had not recovered conscious ness. Heroism Rewarded. “I had hoped to see her open her eves while 1 was at her side,” Yen sen said. He was rewarded the following ~ morning, however, when he was per mitted to sit by his wite’'s cot for a few minutes and converse with her. The blood transfusion had accom plished all that the surgeons had hoped for. Mrs. Yensen's recovery was comparatively rapid and she re ceived permission to leave the hos pital the day -before Christmas, in order to celebrate the holiday with her husband. Yensen's arm was helpless for sev eral days, but is now completely re stored. Mrs. Yensen has regained the partial use of her arm and its normai strength will return within a few weeks, the physicians say. CASTORIA. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought R AT Z e packages weighing not more than !three (3) pounds, seven cents for | packages weighing not more than five (5) pounds, ten cents for packages weighing more than five (5) and not more than eight (8) pounds, and fif teen cents for all packages weighing more than eight (8) and not more than twelve (12) pounds.” The idea Judge Griggs has in pringing this subject up for consid eration is that by this proposed ac tion of congress the accommodations of the farmers will be enormously in creased, and the merchants of the small towns and the country store keeper will realize an immense ad vantage. It will effect a direct, sat istactory and safe communication be tween the farmers along the route and the merchants in their own lo cality, which gives the country store keeper an incalculable advantage, and means a great saving to the farmer, resulting in increased con sumption and consequent larger trade. It will give to the country the pleasant situation of allowing the rural free delivery carrier to form the connecting link of business be tween the towns, country store and farmer. DAWSON'S POISON FACTORIES You Will Be Surprised to Learn How Many There Are. Did vou ever feel stupid and dnl? alter eating a hearty dinner? When food is retained too long in the stomach, because of stomach weakness, the poison factory works overtime and there is giddiness, con fusion of thought, despondency, heart-burn, sleeplessness, nervous trouble and other forms of indiges tion. The general use of Mi-o-na stom ach tablets puts within the reach of everyone a reliable and positive cure for all stomach weakness. Mi-o-na quickly cures the worst case of indi gestion, and the pain and distress which is often felt after meals will soon disappear, such is the wonderful curative power of this lit:t_le _tab}(.e_t_. Mi-o-na acts upon entirely differ ent principles from any of the other remedies that have been used in stomach trouble. It is taken before meals, and has a specific strengthen ing action upon the muscles of the stomach, increasing the flow of diges tive' juices and making the stomach get to work and digest easily and naturally the food which is eaten. ~ The Dawson Drug Co. and Peo ple’s Drug Store have seen so many cures made by Mi-o-na that they give a guarantee with every 50-cent box that the remedy costs nothing unless lit cures, CAPITALISTS TO SHINE SHOES. : Pay $124,000 for Stand in New York Tunnel Terminal. An indication of the important part that the nickels and dimes of the public play in the everyday life of New York is the leasing of the bootblacking privileges in the new twin McAdoo terminal buildings on Cortland street for twelve years at a rental aggregating $124,000. This jis at the rate of $10,333 a year. To handle the apparently insignifi cant job of shining the shoes of the permanent and transient population of this immense building a corpora tion called the Hudson Terminal Bootblacking Company has been formed. The names of the men who are putting up the money have not been made publie, but they are cap italists who have figured in deals in volving millions. TIES UP ESTATE FOR 100 YEARS. The Will of the Millionaire Windmill Manufacturer. The will of Daniel C. Stover, mil lionaire manufacturer of windmills, who died in Freeport, 111., last week, has been filed. It provides that the estate be held in trust during the lives of Mr. Stover's two children, Porter S. Stover of Fgeeport and Mrs. May Winger of Ravenwood, during the lives of their children, and twen tv-one years after the death of the last survivor, a period which will approximate 100 years. Porter Sto ver and Mrs. Winger are to receive $2,500 annually. The estate will ex ~eed $1,000,600. Suffering and Dollars Saved. ¥ 8 Loper, of Marilla. N ¥ . savs: ‘I am a carpenter and have had many severe cuts healed by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It has saved me suffering and dollars. It is by far the best healing salve I have ever found.” Heals burns, sores, ulcers, fever sores, eczema and piles. 25¢ at Dawson Drug Co. THE DAWSON NKEWs. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1908. MATTEAWAN ASYLUM, “THE GREATRED HEN,” AND ITS INMATES Routine of Life in New York’s Asylum for Criminal Insan;. The Institution Where Harry Thaw Is Confined. l Matteawan Asylum for the Crimi 'nal Insane is about fifty miles above New York city on the banks of the Hudson river. It is a great red brick building with numerous wings. An iunfortunate approaching Mattaewan in a carriage from Fishkill landing was silent as the carriage drove slow ly up the broad yellovg road that wound about the mnatural terrace .made by successive hills, mounting to the .cedar fringed grounds of the institution, “Ah! We are here!" he said, as ths c¢arriage rounded with a ﬂom‘ish‘ through the drive to the foot of the wide steps at the grand entrance. “Here at the sign of the red hen, and I am to be one of her chicks.” Though coming from a mind de ranged the figure was apt. Mattea wan, in the brilliancy of her often renewed erimson paint, with multi-i tude of wings, looks like a giant red hen sunning herself and ruffling ber‘ red feathers in sheer enjoyment of the wealth of sunshine that ﬂoodsi the highest hill on the lower Hudson, when the sun chooses to shine at all. ‘ Thus it was that Matteawan earned its nickname, the Red Hen, and itsi inmates their title of the Red Hen’s Chicks. Down in the hollow south of the building the sward is dotted by shafts of gleaming white or dull brown. They are the tombstones of the asylum cemetery, and the inmate who christened Matteawan by its more popular name lies beneath onej of them. It is pointed out to vis-. itors: ‘“‘There lies the godfather of the institution,” say the guides. | The New York American, a day or two before Thaw’s trial ended, de scribed what his life at Matteawan would be, if he were sent there. All persons committed to the asy lum as they enter are taken by the arm by an attendant, an inevitable incident of arrival at Matteawan. Impulse is the demon that all fear at Matteawan, and impulse shakes a man to his center when, on mounting the long flight of broad. gray stone stairs leading to the grill door, he ‘akes his last backward glimpse of the outside world. One unwilling znest threw off the attendant’s grasp and flung himself headlong down the stairs, nearly ending his life upon the granite steps. | They call this view from the stairs, the vista of broad shining river seen through interlacing “oughs of ever green trees, with the v'inding yellow road piercing it as a crook=d finger of an old man, the Last Glimpse. De spair fills the soul at s'zhi of it. It is that last glimpse that causes the patient’s mental state to be worse for days or weeks after his entrance to Matteawan than ever before. | The big grill doors swing back. A cunning-faced doorkeeper grins at the new patient. That grin of semi understanding is the passport to the house of horrors. It says: ‘Enter. Be one of us. God help you, for this ;is a place that passes pity.” Past the great grill doors, through a wide, 'sunny corridor—for there is a pleni tude of air and sunshine at Mattea wan—the new inmate passes into the superintendent’s office, where the rec-} ord of the commitment is made and the new-comer is turned over to a keeper. If quiet and passive he is taken to the observation ward. Through the broad corridor he goes with a silent, watchful-eyed, brawny muscled nurse. Up another flight of wide stairs, where the nurse walks quietly and closely behind him, and the new-comer stops betore a door. On a level with his eyes, high on the door, he sees what makes him visibly start. It is a peephole. There are three others in the door. If for a second an attendant leaves the ward by one door inevitably at the other doors the light through one of the pair of peepholes is obstructed by the gray or blue or brown of a pair of eyes. Always, no matter how studi ously the attendant avoids seeming to look at him, he is looking, and be sides there are always the peepholes, and always eyes ready to be applied to them. The observation ward is a long, wide, high hall, with snow white walls and large arm-chairs set primly along the walls. These chairs are loaded. It re quires all of a strong man’s strength to drag them about. No man even in the superhuman strength of frenzy could lift one to crush his fellow man with it. Figures that had been shadow-like at first take substance. They crowd about the new inmate, pushing aside the keepers to give him strange greeting. “1 am the King of Dynamite,” cries a shrunken little man with flaming oves, whom the attendants call Quimbo. *“I am glad you have come ] am going to blow up the place at 6 o’clock. The devil has asked me to send him a large consignment.”” It Builds l:‘orcem ‘The old man laughs, disclosing alter nate yellow teeth and dark empti nesses. A tall man with long, pale features ‘and dim, blue eyes, through which ;passed,ﬂtful lights, comes forward ;bowing, and drones strange words. This man had once been a clergy ‘man. “Good evening, brother. How is everybody in heaven?” The other inmates laugh. They al ways laugh at each other. Like their sane brothers, only their own ecen tricitles are sacred from profaning ridicule. A huys man with florid face and merry eves takes hig arm. ‘‘From that window you can see the lady bugs—the fanale ward, you know,” he Bsays. The new one must go to bed on a narrow pallet at 9 o’clock. No mat ter what the mood that has seized him, whether for restless pacing or for long night vigils with a lighted candle, and pen and ink and paper, or only his own morose thoughts, he must go to bed at nine. He must go for the sake of others. They lead a community life at Mattaewan. And always, if he be sleepless, he will hear the soft, ceaseless footfall of the cold-eyed, brawny man on guard. 1f he stir, 'if he groan, if in bis overwhelming sense of helplessness he curses the fate that placed him there, strong arms are laid upon him from ouwt of the darkness. A stern voice says: ‘‘Steady; be quiet, or vou will have to go to the isolation ward.” “Isolation ward,”” he soon learns, is merely Matteawanese for ‘‘solitary confinement.”” It is the dark dun geon, long confinement in which by the alchemy of alienism converts sanity into insanity. Of all the six hundred men and women in Mattea wan only sixteen are confined in the isolation ward. He hears an attend ant whisper to the attendant in the observation ward that to open the door to that corridor is like opening the gates of Inferno. If he tosses restlessly all night and does not sleep until dawn he is nev ertheless awakened with the rest at 5:45. At 6:30 this former exquisite who has been accustomed to two hours’ dawdling over his toilet with a valet must dress and hurry down to the dining room: All who are able to work in Mat taewan are required to work at some thing during the hours of work. At tendants mingle with the groups of inmates, stern, watchful-eyed attend ants, who, with steel-like sinews, men more accustomed to bullying than to being bullied, men who know no dis tinction, to whom millionaire and pauper patients are one, who know but two classes, those who are mad and those who are not mad. The food for the inmates is all alike. No one fares oetter than an other. The daily menu is: Breakfast. Bread, butter, coffee, oatmeal, hash. Dinner. Bread, butter; roast or boiled beef; vegetables. Supper. Bread, butter, fruit, sauce, tea. For recreation there is the lawn, with baseball or croquet, for the in mates. And there is the library with the loaded chairs and a long, loaded table. For punishment, when the inmates merit it, there are manacled hands and the darkness of a dungeon in the dreadful isolation ward. Such is to be the life of Harry Thaw at Matteawan Asylum. BOLL WEEVIL QUARANTINE Removed by the Louisiana Pest Commission, The state crop pest commission of Louisiana has withdrawn the quar antine on cotton shipments from boll weevil territory. The quarantine has been in effect since the weevil was first discovered in this state. The commission finds that the pest is now practically over the cntire state, and a quarantine against the shipment of cotton from infested territory is without effect. Heavy, impure blood makes a muddy, pimply complexion, head aches, mnausea, indigestion. Thin blood makes you weak, pale, sickly. Burdock Blood Bitters: makes the blood rich, red, pure—restores per fect health. MADAMB DEAN s PILLS. A Sirr, Cerraiy RELIEP for SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION, NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL, Safe! Sure! Speedy ! Satis faction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. Sent prepaid for $l.OO per box. Will send them on trial, to be paid for when relieved. Samples Free, If your druggist does not have them send your orders to the UNITED MEDICAL CO., BOX 74, LANCASTER, PA. Sold In Dawson by tke Dawson Drug Co. What is medicine for? To cure you, if sick, you say. i But one medicine will not cure e\trga/ kind of sicgnessj because different medicines act on different parts of the body. One medicine goes.to the liver, another to the spine, Wine of Cardui to the womanlwgans. So that is why Wine of Cardui has proven so efficacious in most cases of womanly disease. Try ity Mrs. Wm. Tumner, of Bartoaville, lIL, writes: “I suffered for years with female diseases, and doctored ’ without relief. My back and head would hurt me, and I suffered agony with bearing-down pains. _ At last I took Wine of Cardui and now I am in good health.” Sold everywhere, in $l.OO bottles. WRITE US A LETTER fetizippasetrmerato s, wmmi?, e oy g @ from the largest Optical Hogse e y in the State, and from the = W ; s, % :,;__. leading Optician in the South, R i LU T Don't let your eye trouble run \\ &% "T N Bk, - on, for there %s danger, ang ’\ o i lots of it, if you do. 740 168\ | JE7O, VA, R REMEMBER, you do not 7% T T L : ?‘/ AN N 3 have to come to Savannah— g ?»;M 1| et we can fit you just as well by /v I 'fV ; ** SR\ mail. Any eye fitted to glasses 7. '/;"‘ 3 e af §\\§\\\\\\ .that responds to light. Write, Wi il NN - %"’/f '’/ S ' . \\\ \N give us your age, and tell us i L‘i"fﬁi) | &‘, e, \ 3 n‘\?“*\)%;\\ your troublés, and we will do B t\‘-\\“\? \"“Lt\\ W/ \'““';" ‘l.’.\“."\';3!“‘;A'}:i.f,..r_'w,,;a the rest. Beware of peddlers, 3.hl\\g:"&\%‘4o;¥f;i§'r;-r R, N 4 as we employ ne ageuts, o o ® i Optical Co ines Op : Dr. Lewis A. Hines, Ex-President of the G‘eor:giav {)ptlcal‘ Assacia~ tion, Refractionist, and in charge, bA\'Al\l\AH, GA. FOR THE LAND SAKE Use Red Cross FERTILIZERS You he.ai;:;)ozltlgt}gerse:t,“ but W . ALABAMA . RN [ ¢ { > BEST.BY TEST "/ SN e SR RA | HIGH GRADE RUAP: ol Pl 58 ; o - Z ‘__2s'-‘ ((UGHE " CRiLiZER SV VSRS ACID |+ T AR ‘L’ﬁ e L'}i"’.*ospﬂc.péf L DA o 5?,“:! L{;’j’a EST BY TES"I“; ¥ M%Gﬁ_M_ERY WV \\(,'/ o ¢ "ALA' ; (; ek - ] g -8 g O S a 0 '-.3 g 8 5 = gu= eS| R _E.mﬁ—' = 3= oS e s W S < : :bﬁ_ci = - = % e O M £ g% § = = ’ o . S u o > R ©% o 2 o - = 3 g o 8 2 @ S 0 g.ﬁn - == X - “Last Year 1 used Alabama Chemical Co’s. Fertil izers, and on 25 acres I made 23 bales of cotton—soo pounds each. T consider this a good crop yield for a season like 1907. I have used these Fertilizers for years, and know they are good. Yours truly, (Signed) J. R. RELFE, Mt. Meigs, Ala.”’ See That Each Bag Is Branded With a RED CROSS Ask Your Dealer to Get Some RED CROSS FERTILIZERS. & J. A Shields. Builders’ Supplies Phone 16 I have just opened the yard formerly occupied by Shields & Cox, next to Southern Grocery Company, and am prepared to furnish the trade brick, lime, cement, coal, rough and dressed lumber, shingles, -etc., of the best quality and at very reasonable prices. Cowme to See Me J. A. Shields READ THIS: : 1 | . i i ( ; ,