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AUGU ST 12, 1908.
$10.50 :: $10.50
is the price on 3 burner
oil stoves with round oven
for the next ten days.
Phone 60 and 147 for one.
Dawson Hardware
Company.
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of the Samoan Group
Largest :
Faces Desolation.
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6 SHEET OF MELTED ROCK
e
wonderful Volcano Which Came In
to Existence Three Years Ago }s
Again Active. Until Then It Had
Been Quict a Hundred and Fifty
Y ears.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—The
wonderful volcano that came into ex
istence on the Island of Savaii, in
the Samoan group, three years ago
has burst again into tremendous ac
tivity, surpassing all its earlier per
formances. Reports say that the in
cessant flow of lava is one of the
oreatest on record and amounts to
between 2,000 and 3,uvv tons a min-
Spreading out in an almost con
tinuous sheet about eight miles wide
and with a depth of six inches to
<ix feet it is flowing to the sea, drop
ping over the cliffs into the water
with many incidental explosions and
great clouds of steam. Attacking
parts of the mnortheast coast, not
reached by the earlier eruptions it
is destroying many houses, and an
other exodus of the natives to the
southern part of the island has oc
curred.
Largest of the Samoan Group.
All the Samoan islands together
are about as large as the state of
Rhode Island. Savaii, the most west
€rn, except for a little rock or two,
is the largest of them, having more
than half the total area. All the
islands are volcanic, but for many
senerations the natives had seen no
j“”‘"‘ volcanic phenomena. Only a
leW years ago Reclus said the vol
tanoes of Savaii were probably the
latest to become extinct.
' 'J‘h.(lm;:h the largest of the islands
navall is far less important than
polu, where Apia is a port of call
f’*if Pacific steamers. On Upolu the
‘-!"”’i‘r‘{"}.'iill'l. of the population and in
l\,h'\_“}} .\1";:\»\-(.l.‘;.“t;)qui Most of t'hc
2 y D » 1s still covered with
de ' forest and there are very few
:;_‘z.“("")"*l'\‘i”-* excepting along parts of
Had Been Quiet 150 Years.
[t is supposed to have been about
150 yvears ago that the last signs of
Volcanie activity were seen in Savaii.
The natives of today believed them
‘elves perfectly secure and many of
‘*m had never heard of such a
ing as volcanic action, though a
1€ of lava cones extends from end
10 end of this island. But in 1902
4l old crater about ten' miles west
Ol the present scene of activity Sll_d‘
denly burst inte violence. The ris
g lava had forced out the plug that
losed the cratep vent and there was
4l exudation of molten rock. It was
10t a very large eruption, for the
Stream was |egs than half a mile
Wide ang two miles long. Then all
Vas quiet agaip. Only sulphurous
vapors were emitted from the erater,
and the €xcitement among the na-
Uves subsided ti]] it was rekindled
" a remarkable occurrence in a
Wholly Unexpected quarter.
The valley hag been obliterated.
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HUMAN MACHINERY.
‘.Th*"r farvelous mechanical invention:
% today are pyt mere toys compared t
the human body. This is one machin
that must pe given constant and intelli
&Nt care, QOpee permitted to run to
M Without skillfyl repair, the wreck is
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It is heaping full of lava, so that a‘
rounded ridge rises 1,000 feet above
the level of the former valley floor.
The interest in the whole proceedings
of the volcano has been intensified}
by peculiarities of its own, for it
has shown some originality. |
Rained Fire for Miles. “
In the early stagé of the eruption
liquid lava shot out of the crater to
an enormous height, and owing to its
intense heat it did not cool in the
upper air and solidify into bombs, as
ejected lava often does, but seemed
to form great round masses, many
hundrdes of pounds in weight. These
fell in splashes on the rocks for half
a mile around. Of course every tree
within range of this rain of fire was
burned to ashes.
~ In a few weeks the volcano was
2,000 feet high and the great press
ure of the deep lava lake in the cra
iter forceds two openings in the wall,
through which the lava began to
pour down the mountain and start
on its journey to the sea. The dis
‘tance to the northeast coast was
‘about eight miles, but the winding
‘flow of lava streams made their
journey about ten miles. The sur
face lava cooled and hardened very
quickly, so that two days after the
crust began to form venturesome
men walked on it. ‘the molten lava
under the crust kept moving along,
and through these tunnels the lava
from all the eruptions up to the
present year has flowed into the sea.
This is unusual, for the later lavas
generally cover the preceding flows.
At present, however, the volume is
lso enormous that the tunnels will
not carry it off and the mass has
:spread over the earlier crust and far
| bevond.
WILL GIVE TURKEY BATTLESHIP
Movement Has Been Begun by Syr
ians in United States.
Leading members of the Syrian
colony in New York ecity have started
a movement to present Turkey with
a modern battleship. The money to
build the vessel is to be raised among
all the Syrians in the new world,
their number being estimated at up
ward of 200,000, and the gift not
only is to commemorate the granting
of a constitution to the people of
Turkey, but also to express the con
fidence felt by the Syrians and young
Turks in this hemisphere in the gen
uineness of the reforms.
The plan was broached at a din
ner of Syrian merchants, and Salim
Elias, with whom it originated, em
phasized his advocacy of it by head
ing the subscription list with a con
tribution of $l,OOO.
-~ Committees now will be appointed
and appeals sent out to the Syrians
iof North, South and Central America,
the West Indies and Mexico. It is
planned that the warship shall be
‘built in the United States and named
the Svria.
FLYING FISH.
Queer Denizens of the Sea That Do
Marvelous Stunts.
Interesting are the habits of the
flying fish, that queer denizen of the
sea, found principally in the region
of the trade winds, says St. Nicholas
for August. Does it rise from the
804 lMke a bird? you ask: . NO; 1v
shoots out of the water like an ar
row, and with outspreading wings
sails on tne wind in graceful curves,
rising sometimes, one might say, to
the height of fifteen feet, but not
often so high, and then lowering, it
again touches the crest of a wave
and renews its flight. This opera
tion may be repeated till it covers
a distance, say, of 500 yards, in the
case, of the stoutest on the wing,
though very often not half that dis
tance is covered. A ship salling
through the trade winds will often
be visited on dark nights by flying
fish which hit the sails or rigging
and fall on deck, where, of course,
they soon give up life.
Wonderful Irish Potato Vine.
The Irish potato vine growing in
front of the fruit store of John
George, the Syrian, on Hill avenue,
is a wonder to all who see it. Men
tion was made of it in The Times
a few weeks ago. It was then 10
feet high. Tt is now 14 feet high
and is still growing.—Valdosta
Times. .
“Doan’s Ointment cured me of ec
zema that had annoyed me a long
time. The cure was permanent.”’—
Hon. 8. W. Matthews, Commissioner
Labor Statistics, Augusta, Me.
GET BUSY WITH REFORM
Said Governor in a Special Mes
sage to the legislature.
LET CONVIGT QUESTION WAIT
Until an Extra Session He Will in
All Probability Call. Smith Men
tioned Several Measures He Was
Especially Anxious to Have Passed
at Present Session.
Last Wednesday Governor Smith
sent a special message to the legis
lature urging that it get busy on
some of his reform measures, and
strongly intimating that it was his
purpose to call an extra session for
the settlement of the convict ques
tion. The governor's message was
as follows::
To the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives: As your session is
limited by the constitution of the
state to 50 days 1 feel that it is my
duty to communicate with vou with
reference to the important legisla
tion now pending before your bodies.
The necessity for wisely handling
the convict question is so great that
it is entitled to the fullest time for
thorough consideration.
I fear it will be impossible for youl
to give to this subject the full con
sideration which you many desire!
between now and the close of the
session without displacing many oth
er important bills which are almost
ready to be enacted into laws.
Under these circumstances [ de
sire to assure you of my perfect
readiness to call an extra session of
the legislature immediately after the
close of the present session at which
you can act upon the convict ques
tion.
Without intending to question the
importance of other bills to which 1
do not refer permit me especially to
call your attention to four matters
of legislation pending before vou
upon which I urge the necessity for
action.
First—Each of your bodies has
passed an anti-lobbying bill. It re
mains for them to reach an agree
ment upon which both may approve.
- Second—There is pending before
each of your bodies a primary elec
‘tion law which, among other things,
will fix the time for holding our
state primaries at a date not earlier
than 60 days before the date of the
‘election.
- Third—There is pending before
}ea(-h of your bodies a registration
bill.
The enactment of new laws with
;reference to registration seems to be
a necessity. At present all over the
Istatte tax collectors have been in the
|habit of allowing men to sign the
|voters' list without requiring the
|aflidavit prescribed by law to bhe
sworn before names are signed to
the lists. This custom naturally has
led to illegal registration.
The work of the registrars under
the present law is postponed to such
a date that no benefit is derived
from purging the voters’ books be
fore our primaries. Indeed, the
work of the registrars is almost neg
lected.
After a vote is put into the ballot
box it is almost impossible to get it
out whether it went into the ballot
box legally or illegally. The time for
protecting our elections and preserv
ing to the qualified voters the right
to control the affairs of the state is
before the ballots go into the ballot
boxes, and new registration laws to
prevent illegal voting are absolutely
necessary if the voters of Georgia
are to have a fair opportunity to ex
press their views, esepcially at our
primary elections.
To these three pieces of legislation
I especially call yvour attention and
respectfully urge that the work you
have already done upon them be
brought to completion. To postpone
these subjects to another legislature
would require much of this work to
be done over again.
Fourth—There are pending before
vou bills to appropriate money to
the state college of agriculture and
to the eleven district agricultural
schools.
These institutions are of vast im
portance to the people of the state.
They are in a critical condition. We
must give them support now.
There are other matters before
you upon which I earnestly hope you
may reach favorable action.
But I cannot too strongly express
my commendation of the four meas
ures which T have mentioned.
HOKE SMITH, Governor.
PAYTON AN EARLY BIRD.
He Is Going to Run for Congress in
the Second District If —.
Hon. Claud Payton, representative
from Worth county in the legisla
ture, has announced that he will be
a candidate for congress from the
Second district in 1910 in the event
the incumbent, Hon. James M.
Griggs, does not run for re-election.
Mr. Payton says he will soon be
gin a campaign by writing letters,
and will later on speak in every
county in the district.
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
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OuriNew Concretei Warehouse is again open for business, and we solicit the patronage
of the farmers. We have ample room and convenience to accommodate custemers,
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HOLLAND & HILL : BRONWOOD, GA
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AN AGED COUPLE HAVE FLED
TO MEXICO FOR REFUGE.
General Wardwell, a Retired Yo((‘ran.}
Secretly Toeok His Afflicted Wife
From Hospital at Night.
A Los Angeles, Cal., dispatch says:
Knowing that his wife was suffering
from leprosy Brig.-General David K.
Wardwell (retired), a veteran of two
wars, secretly and in the night took
his wife from the contagion ward
in the county hospital. The couple
‘went to Mexico, where they will
make their home.
[ Effort is being made by the au
thorities to find them, but only to
‘account to lpo government for the
case of leprosy. Both, according to
officials of the c¢ounty hospital,
Ithreatened to commit suicide if they
Iwere not allowed to spend the re
'mainder of their years in each oth
!er's company, even if it were in iso
llation.
Mrs. Wardwell, at one time a
beautiful woman, was removed from
the contagious ward in the county
hospital three nights ago. The next
morning an opened window and a
note upon the window sill told the
story ol her flight. ‘‘We will not
be molested in Mexico,”” the note
said. ‘lt was there where we were
married, and we will be allowed to
die there together.”
Investigation showed that the
couple got aboard a late night train
for Mexico. Down at Sawtelle, in
the neighborhood of the Soldiers’
Home, the story of the couple is well
known. The tender devotion of the
aged veteran to his wife when she
showed signs of the dread disease
endeared the man to those in the
neighborhood. Four weeks ago,
however, Mrs. Waddell resolved to
give herself into the custody of the
health officers. She came to Los
Angeles. The great mental strain
she underwent caused her to faint
when within a block of the police
station.
With tears in his eyes the aged
general pleaded with the health offi
cers to be allowed the privilege of
taking his wife to Mexico, the coun
try where she was born, but they
were obdurate. Wardwell declared
that he was suffering from leprosy,
but an examination showed that he
was not.
Mrs. Wardwell was a Miss Isa
bella Cole. For two years she nursed
a brother afflicted with leprosy in
a futile attempt to save his life. The
general married her with the knowl
edge of that fact, and a short time
later they came to California. Here
they spent the last eight years, and
it was here the first symptoms of the
disease were noted.
AVERAGE LENGTH OF LIFE.
some Vital Statistics That Are of
Interest.
From Cassell's Saturday Journal.
The man who lives until he is
more than a century old and the
child who dies in infancy are alike
included in the law of averages.
They balance each other’s chances,
as it were.
Of 100,000 people living at the
age of ten only 95,614 will live to
the age of twenty-one, only 82,284
will be living at forty, only 49 will
be living at ninety-six, and only 9
at ninety-seven. At thirty the aver
age man may take it that he has
under thirty-five years to live; at
forty under twenty-eight years; at
fifty under twenty-one years; at sixty
under fourteen years.
In each and all of these cases
how he lives will determine whether
he will have a longer life or a short
er life, but the average will unfalli
bly work out within a space of ninety
vears.
Why James Lee Got Well.
Everybody in Zanesville, 0., knows
Mrs. Mary Lee, of rural route 8. She
writes: ‘““My husband, James Lee,
firmly believes he owes his life to
f.hf‘, use of Dr. King's New Discovery.
His lungs were so severely affected
that consumption seemed inevitable,
w}xen a friend recommended New
Discovery. We tried it, and its use
has restored him to perfect health.”
Dr. King’s New Discovery is the king
of throat and lung remedies. For
coughs and colds it has no equal.
The first dose gives relief. Try it!
gold under guarantee at Dawson
pDrug Co. 50c and $l.OO. Trial bot
tle free.
A New Jersey Bankrupt. |
A citizen of Orange, N. J., has
gone into bankruptey, filing a sched
ule of liabilities amounting to $15,-
772 and assets consisting of a $lO
pair of cuff buttons. The creditors |
thould agree to present him with the|
buttons as a testimonial of their ad-'
miration of his nerve.
W. H TEDDER
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New Automobile, Gasoline Engine
and Bicycle Repair Shop.
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I have just opened a shop in the Iron Build
ing near the court house and am in position to do
all kinds of repair work. When in need of work of
this line give me a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop Phone No. 250. Residence Phone No. 251.
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frequently suffer great pain and misery during the
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AT ALL DRUG STORES
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The Planters
Warehouse
E W}\S served the people of Terrell county for
t H 1 half a century, and is now ready for the
E { season of 1908 with better facilities than
~d ever to properly serve the farmers. All
cotton stored with us will receive our personal atten
tention, and our long experience in our particular
line of business insures satisfactory service.
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A full supply of Bagging and Ties always in stock,
and will be sold at prices that will meet all competi
tion. For our customers, we have in yard free ac
commodations for stock, including plenty of water.
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J. B. Jennings and J. T. Coker
Will be with me this season, and will be glad to
see and serve their friends. Mr. Jennings, who has
been at the scales several years and has become
known as the Old Reliable, will do the weighing
again this season, which is sufficient guarantee that
every customer will get correct weights.
A. ]J. Hill, Prop. Main Street. Dawson, Ga.
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