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Gost of Lliving Has Increased
Much in last Decade.
EVERYTHING CONSUMED HIGHER
Government Figures Show an In
creased Price in Two Hundred
and Fifty-Eight Commodities That
Enter Into the Living of People
of All Classes.
The cost of living, anywhere in
the United States, has increased
greatly during the last ten years.
For instance, coal is higher by 100
per cent. than ten years ago. But
if you have no coal, and catch cold
thronsh lack of it weun can bny
quinine to cure your cold much
¢heaper than you could in 1898. On
the other hand, coffee is cheaper on
the retail market thon it was a de
cade ago, but the drugs most in fa
vor for curing indigestion, which
coffee sometimes causes, are costlier
than they were then.
Meat has gone up scandalously—
in fact, 50 per cent. in three years.
Oh, very well. Vegetables and
canned goods are about as cheap as
ever, and the logic of the household
expense account is making more
vegetarians than appeals to senti
ment ever did. |
But the law of compensation does
not apply so well all along the line.§
The government figures show a high
er price on the whole in 258§ (w)m-?
modities that enter largely into the
living of all the people. In 1907
the precentage over 1906 was 5.7 1)01‘}
cent., and 44.4 per cent. higher than|
1897, the year of lowest nrices d:u-f
ing the 18-year pcriod, and 29.5 ]wl‘;
cent. higher than the average I’m'i
"h"v ten years, 1890, to 1900. 5
For farm products, taken as a |
whole, the increase was grvutust-—-!
Ramely, 10.9 per -cent.; for food,]
4.6 per cent.; for cloths and cloth-|
ing, 5.6 per cent.; for fuel and light-’
ing, 2.4 per cent.; for metals and |
implements, 6.1 per cent.; for lum‘|
ber and building materials, 4.9 I“”'i
ecnt.; for drugs and chemicals, 8.3 !
ger cent.; for housefurnishing goods.,
6.8 per cent., and miscellaneous, 5 |
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Lumbermen say the government's |
estimate is about right for the in-!
crease in prices for their wares. In-|
creasing depletion of the forests, they |
Ob, No That W
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Only a Joke.
We have not gone out of the
Real Estate business; we like
it too well for that. We are
here to stay, and prepared to
sell your property in this or
any other city, town, county
or state. We want to handle
anything you have for sale,
both large and small. Now
~ don't think for a moment that
we can not sell your property
t and refuse to list it with us.
You know we can't sell it if
you don’t list it with us; and
we know we stand a good
' chance to sell it if you give us
I a trial. 1f you have anything
I for sale list it with wus at once
= and we will advertise it at our
l expense. Should we fail to sell
= it we are the loosers and not
{ you.
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say, has kept the price ascending
gradually, and the average increase
in cost which enters into ordinary
living expenses is around 5 per cent.
Furniture and house furnishings
have soared, and experts declare this
is due to scarcity. of material, espe
cially oak, to higher cost of the ma
terials for iron and brass furniture,
and to higher prices of labor.
Tht higher prices of many drugs
and chemicals were caused by the
scarcity of root diggers and herb col
lectors, and the lower prices by the
financial panie.
As to canned goods, peaches sold
in 1897 for the same they did in
1907, while some canned products
were much cheaper ten vears ago.
The cause for this was that fruits
and vegetables were plentiful last
yvear, while the production was much
larger. Last vear beans were scarce
and higher. Up to the time of the
panic buying did not drop off, but
since then prices have been dropping
until they are about as low as they
were in 1896,
The cost of preparing food prod
ucts is much higher now on account
of the increased cost of labor, also
the increase in the farm products
that go into them. Sugar is higher
this year than in 1907, while coffee
is cheaper. Tea is as cheap as it
has been in several yvears. Staple
commodities are not high this year
in the grocery line. In many com
modities the prices are 10 per cent.
lower than they were in 1907.
A leading clothier savs that clothes
are higher than in the last two years,
and that this should not be. This is
partly due to the scarcity of wool,
but is in part due to existence of
clothing combinations to keep prices
up. Cotton is no higher, yet the
manufacturers are in combination to
maintain high prices. Ten years ago
good wool suits were 100 per cent,
lower than they are now, and were
made of as good material and as
well made, but without the same de
gree of care as to style. Higher
labor cost, higher wool, prosperity,
and combinations among manufac
turers are the reasons he gives for
the higher prices of clothing.
Shoes are 5 per cent. cheaper than
at their highest point, in 1907. They
have, however, gone up in price 15
per cent. in the last 18 years, but to
compensate for that they are better
made. The increase in cost of shoes
is due to the high price of hides,
which have increased in 18 yvears 150
per cent. Shoes are relatively cheap
er than the hides from which they
are made, this seeming paradox be
ing due to improved methods of
manufacture.
The price of meat has been soaring
for the last 18 years, and it is gen
erally conceded that this has been
due to the going out of the range
cattle and the consequent scarcity of
beef cattle, and the combinations
among the packers, who have vir
tually a monopoly of the business,
having driven the small country and
town butchers out of business. The
average for the year is fully 25 per
cent. higher than last year, “which
was 25 per cent. more than the year
before.
Prosperity and high wages, as
well as the scarcity of cattle, are
given by the packers as being re
sponsible for the rise in prices in the
last ten years.
PRESIDENTIAL OCCUPATIONS.
What to Do With Great Men Is No
Problem in New York.
The question of what to do with
our great men after they have
ceased to hold high office is effect
ively answered in the New York city
directory, says Lippincott's for Au
gust. According to that unimpeach
able authority George Washington
is pursuing the humble but very use
ful occupation of a barber in Har
lem-—and, according to his custo
mers, he is a good one. Andrew
Jackson, whose name has heretofore
been associated with notable mili
tary achievements, follows the peace
ful calling of a nurse. apraham Lin
coln is put down as a secretary,
William McKinley as a publisher, and
James Madison as the secretary of an
important corporation. James Mon
roe is a machinist; Benjamin Harri
son, a printer; William Henry Harri
son a fireman, and Andrew Johnson
a sailmaker. Thomas Jefferson is
‘appropriately in charge of a Tam
'many Club House; John Adams is
'a policeman, and John Tyler proud
ly figures as a gentleman.
i('lllNESl-] ARE TAKING TO BEER.
[ American Company to Open Brewery
in Hong Kong.
Fred Hauswirth, formerly manager
of the Brazil (Ind.) Brewing, Ice
and Power Co., but recently manacer
of the Virginia City (minn.) Brewing
Co., is arranging to leave in a few
days for Hong-khong, China, where
|ho will become manager of a $300,~
000 brewery, to be erected there by
American and Hawaiian capital.
He will take a number of brewers
from this country with him, but he
says that the chief work will be done
by Chinese. The company is at
tracted to China by the rapidly in
creasing demand for beer in the Chi
nese Empire, the importation of
American beer growing rapidly since
the Americans took control of the
Philippines.
The little attacks of stomach
trouble and stomach disorders will
undoubtedly lead to chronic dyspep
sia unless you take something for a
sufficient time to strengthen the
stomach and give it a chance to get
well. If you take Kodol in the be
ginning the bad attacks of Dyspep
sia will be avoided, but if you allow
these little attacks 1o go unheeded
it will take Kodol a longer time to
put your stomach in good condition
jagain. Get a bottle of Kodol today.
[Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
GOOK WANTED AT $1,200
IF YOU WANT THE JOB SEE YOUR
UNCLE SAM RIGHT AWAY.
You Will Be Worth the Pay, Too,
If You Know and Do All the
Things He Will Require.
It is the government that wants
the cook, and the civil service com
mision is going to try to find him
(or her). Ordinarily one would
think that there was little connec
tion between the ability to cook and
‘the ability to bound the Plain of
Timbuctu, to spell in the old-fash
ioned way such words as President
Roosevelt uses in his message to
congress, and to find the third term,
two terms being given. But this
government cook will have to under
go a regular civil service examination
of the kind provided for the clerks
who sell postage stamps and the car
riers who deliver letters. In addi
tion to this each applicant for the
job must write an original thesis on
the subject of the relative nutritive
value of foods, and be competent to
instruct nurses with respect to the
preparation of foods for certain class
es of patients—for the cook is want
ed for a government hospital, the
St. Elizabeth Hospital for the In
sane at Washington.
The thesis requirement will in
volve a knowledge of the chemistry
of foodstuffs; and it will give us a
new idea respecting cooks. Hereto
fore we have thought of the thesis
in connection with the thin-shanked
and high browed young chap with
the spectacles, who gets a “Ph. D.”
upon being graduated, and of ideal
cooks in connection with rotund
black ‘“‘mammies,” of the south., who
knew more about muffins and fried
chicken in a minute than a doctor
of philosophy could possibly know
in a month of Sundays. The black
“mammy’ doesn't know a proteid
from an alkaloid, nor whether there
is sugar or starch in a beet or po
tao, all of which, and more, must be
known by the author of the thesis
demanded of the government cook.
But it would be safe to wager a dol
lar against a doughnut (of the pro
fessor’s cooking) that the old south
ern cook knows more about making
biscuits and coffee and cakes than
the thesis-man could ever learn from
book formulas and food charts.
The government’'s $1,200 cook for
the insane hospital, in addition to
the foregoing, will have to know
how to apportion food for 3,000 pa
tients and 700 attendants: how to
superintend a corps of under-cooks;
how to utilize foods that might oth
erwise be wasted (in other words,
be an expert on hash); how to in
struct a cooking class of nurses, etc.,
and he must not be less than twenty
or more than forty years of age. The
more the proposition is examined the
less does it appear that the $1,200
is big pay for the position.
LET’'S HAVE A CLEANING UP.
Unsightly and Dangerous Garbage
Should Not Be Allowed.
The News has always stood for
cleanliness, order and beauty of this
excellent little city. Now let us all
pull together to make our streets
beautiful by keeping out of our
driveways tin cans, old bottles,
soiled rags, papers, rubbish and
trash. Keep a box or barrel conven
ient and have such placed in it.
Watermelon rinds and refuse of all
kinds are unsightly and dangerous,
proving a menace to health when left
lying around.
Let the ladies as well as oth
ers consider this question, and let
everybody work together to have a
clean and. healthy city. We quote
to our citizens the ‘‘cleaning up”
song of some of the northern chil
dren:
*Neighbor Mine.”
There are barrels in the hallways,
Neighbor mine:
Pray be mindful of them always,
Neighbor mine.
If you're not devoid of feeling,
Quickly to those barrels stealing
Throw in each banana peeling,
Neighbor mine!
Do not drop the fruit you're eating,
Neighbor mine,
On the sidewalks, sewer or grating,
Neighbor mine,
But lest you and I should quarrel
Listen to my little carol;
Go and toss it in the barrel,
Neighbor mine!
Look when'er vou drop ga paper,
Neighbor mine:
In the wind it cuts a caper,
Neighbor mine.
Down the street it madly courses,
And should fill vou with remorses
When you see it scare the horses,
Neighbor mine!
Paper cans were made for papers,
Neighbor mine:
Let's not have this fact escape us,
Neighbor mine:
And if you will lend a hand
Soon our city dear ghall stand
As the cleanest in the land.
Neighbor mine!
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Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case of kidney or bladder trouble
that is not beyond the reach of medi
cine. No medicine can do more.
Dawson Drug Co. and People's Drug
Store.
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CASTORNTITA.
Boass the Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
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J. M. R AUCH.
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Prompt Delivery, Pure Foods for Particular People,
We invite a comparison of prices, quality considered. Our store conducts
a ‘“‘continuous performance” Demonstration of good groceries, low prices
and best of service. There’s good reason for our growing trade. Giye
us the opportunity of showing you.
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Let us supply your wants in the line of Groceries and Table Delicacies.
Once a customer always a customer. Ask your neighbor about our store.
We pledge our best service and the best quality. We want you for g
customer. Remember we sell everything that’s fit to eat.
J. M. RAUCH.
Telephone No. 13 . B Dawson, Georgia.
BY USE OF TEASING NEEDLEi
New Method of Removing the \'(‘l'm-,
iform Appendix Successfully Prac
ticed by Rome, N. Y., Physician,
A Utiea, N.. Y., - digpatch® says:
Rome is rapidly becoming a com
munity of apendixless people as the
result of a new bloodless method of
removing appendixes divised by Dr.
William B. Reid. l
By the new method, described in
detail by Dr. Reid, it is possible forl
a person to enter Dr. Reid’'s office,
take a few inhalations of an anes
thetic and emerge within half an|
hour with his appendix in a hermiti
cally sealed bottle as a sou\'enir.l
Within the last four months 163
residents of Rome, some sufforing'
from appendicitis, but the majority
in perfect health, have undergone!
the new-fangled operation and not;
a case has been lost.
The elasticity of the human skin
plays an important part in the op
eration. By inserting an instrument
through the skin similar to an old
style ‘‘teasing needle,” used in knit-l
ting, the pore is gradually enlarged
and the skin stretched until there is
an opening the size of a half dollar
piece.
The muscles over the abdomen are
pulled away from on top of the ap
pendix, and the sack, usually about
the size_of a goose quill, and from
an inch to an inch and a half below
the surface of the skin, is pulled out,
cut off and the end tied with a linen
thread.
The muscles are then replaced and
the skin contracts quickly to its nat
ural condition. It is stated that less
than a teaspoonful of blood is spilled
in the operation.
Dr. Reid is of Scotch-Irish descent.‘
and is a native of Altmar, Oswego!
county, New York. He is a gmduatei
of - Syracuse University and later!
took a post graduate course in Ber- |
lin and Vienna. He is 37 years old. |
THE COLONIAL RECORDS. 'x
Georgia Is Respectable Enough to
Have Them DPreserved. i
From the Savannah Press.
Isn't the state senate making a|
mistake in trying to repeal the law’
to provide for the compiling of the
colonial, revolutionary and confed-l
erate records? It may be that the|
work does cost a little at first and}
that the sale of the records does not |
compensate for the expense, but!
these books are being published;
every year and the series should be |
continued. To halt just in the mid- |
dle would be to forfeit all that has|
been done. When the state takes
up the work again, as it must as-!
suredly do, it will find that a great!
many of the records have been de-!
stroyed; that the thread of the dis-!
course has been missed, and that the!
value of the work has been seriously |
impaired. Governor Candler has!
started upon this interesting labor,
and has published five or six vol-|
umes very creditably. Why not play |
the strings out; why not rescue the!
old manuscripts; why not put in§
enduring form the papers fast fall-!
ing to pieces? Georgia has had bad |
luck in this matter. Many papers
have been lost or burned up. Geor-|
gia records at the Wisconsin library |
are really more valuabie than ours!
in Atlanta. The British records are|
infinit€fly more complete. And vet!
because of the expenditure of two |
thousand dollars a vear the state is|
about to call a halt and the (-ompiler:
will have to lay down his pen and |
bundle away the old records in a|
brush heap again. Georgia is old|
enough and respectable enough to bef
proud of her records, and to want|
to keep them. She cannot afford |
to cease this great labor. Let the
good work go on. l
We take pleasure in directing our|
readers’ attention to the advertise-‘
ment appearing elsewhere in our col-l
umns of the Southern School of
Telegraphy, located at Newnan, Ga.l
There is a great and constantly |
growing demand for telegraph oper-i
ators, and we are glad to see this |
worthy and well-recognized institu-{
tion doing such creditable work in
helping supply that demand. Anyi
young man wishing to learn a good |
profession should investigate the op-!
portunities offered in the telegraph
field by writing at once for the
school’'s free descriptive literature.
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Begins at the Savings Bank. Patiently and regu}ar.l_v a §nlall
portif;m of thelz inc}omc}e isldadded to the Home “ltl”tdt:ggS:f\'l;fig‘%
SO, figuratively, the building process goes on a s
Bank before the brick layers and the carpenters begin their
work.
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as they are added to the fund represent so much of brick,
lumber, plaster and paint, which will eventually take the
material form of a cozy home. A great advantage in ns?ng
the Savings Bank as the depository for the Home Building
Fund is that the savings are drawing interest all the time.
Another is that small amounts—§sl.oo and upward—may be
doposir(‘dr-fwm‘-kl_\', monthly or at any time desired. Interest,
compounded quarterly, paid on all deposits.
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IT'S WHAT YOU SAVE, NOT WHAT YOU EARN, THAT
MAKES WEALTH.
This table shows the result of steady, systematic saving of
small sums for only Five Years.
oDk Satlig x| Tame " Interest Total
: Five Years Deposited Earned Arount
"~ b cents per day..... i :'4’l”.2’s’7‘-’3;“"]”6??;‘6_‘ $ 101.91
10 cents per day.... .| 182.50 ' 21.32 20??3
‘1“; con%s per (}:l.\'. . ! f«”fuj) [ 31.22 232(‘)4
20 cents per day..... 365.( | 2.6 ¥
25 cénts per day.....| 45658 53.30 509.55
o 0 cents per day. ... i b 47.50 63.96 611.3'5
40 cents per ARY. . ... 730.00 85.28 815.28
50 cents per day..... 912.50 106.60 1,019.10
7b cents per day,..... 1,368.75 159.90 1,628.65
$l.OO Jer uny. .. ~ 1,825.00 213.20 2,038.20
1.20 per day... . . 2,281.25 266.50 2,647.76
1.50 per day.....| 2.787.80 319.50 3,057.30
1.75 per duy.....! 816878 |4O | 8 iée st
2.00 per day.....| 3,650.00 | 426.40 | 4.07640
"~ The above is on a basis of 4 per cent. per annum. .
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J. MERCER BELIL, Pres. L. C. HILL, Cashier.
J. E. MORRIS, Asst. Cash.
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