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THE DAWSON NEWS.
3y E. L. RAINEY.
THE AN WHO GONTROLS
Struggle Is on Between Gotton’
Bears and BM Wall Street. |
057 REVARKABLE SITUATION
Jesse Livermore Is Master of the
v .
<ituation and Prices May Go Much
Higher in a Short Time. Bears
Have Sold One Million Bales for
October Delivery.
\ fair-haired, beardless man of
21 says The World, younger looking
py ten years than the age which he
acknowledges, who sits in the back
room of a Wall street brokerage
house and issues orders to a score of
pusy clerks in a gently modulated
voice. has possessed himself of every
pale of cotton not under contract in
the warehouses of Greater New
york, and is smilingly watching the
painful contortions of a group of
orizzled bears on the New York cot
ton exchange. These bears have sold
{ 100,000 bales of cotton for October
delivery, while the entire visible sup
olv in the vicinity of this town is
onlv 29,000 bales, the warehouse re
ceipts for all of which repose safely
in the strong box of this newest Na
poleon: of speculation.
Such a situation has never before
heen known in the history of the
Jocal cotton market, but that it ex
ists Theodore H. Price and all the
veteran operators in the cotton trade
admitted. In many respects it is the
most remarkable corner ever at
tempted, existing as it does in the
face of glowing prospects for an
apundant cotton crop. This unique
condition is the handiwork of Jesse
1. Livermore, a Wall street lamb,
who first saw the light of day in
Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1877, and who
has built up a fortune of millions
from an original ‘‘bank roll” of
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The Time for Action. :
.1 had been on a vacation down
south and when I came back I found
everybody extremely bearish. The
mills were running on half time;
there was very little demand for cot
ton in Europe; the textile trade was
stagnant, and business generally was
depressed. There had been, how
ever, a long period of liquidation.
+ | found that the trade was practically
soold out of cotton. Supplies were
exhausted and every business man
was afraid to buy anything because
of the general gloom in financial af
fairs. The pendulum had swung to
its lowest point.
“Suddenly one firm began to buy
moderately; the other houses, know
ing that, in order to compete, they
must acquire their raw material at
equal levels, began putting in their
orders. Demand suddenly sprang up
everywhere. Copper has been ad
vancing an eighth of a cent a pound
a day, the market is flooded with
orders and the copper stocks are
soaring. The textile trade has be
gun to improve. The mills must
soon begin to lay in their supplies.
bye and bye one fellow will begin
buving just a little, then others will
follow. A tremendous revival in the
industry is inevitable.
_‘.\lwumim«- the cotton shorts have
sold thousands of bales which they
0 not own and cannot deliver. They
- Dave reckoned on the new planter in
GIVEN A NEW SCALP BY
THE GRAFTING OF SKIN
\““."g.“.“""m Who Was Relieved
'ft Nearly All of Her Hair Will
“00111 Leave New York Hospital
Entirely Recovered.
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F‘\\ YORK, Aug. 18.—Believed
’ the physicians to have been the
;nAiw-t of one of the most remark
hle ceriac . s
v ¢ series of skin grafting opera
-1018 9 av,
l’rogk[mt have been performed in
: inO Iyn in several years Miss Cath
erine @ P
pmb( b(xorman. 23 years old, has
‘)perat‘h undergone the last of the
a o
She w;?ll7 which have saved her life.
ot l-“mJured while at work in a
oy e?*{? May, when her hair be
fhe m«l tl{lgled in the machinery of
ot ’)]nv‘\—(-z'u‘rying device, and al
hfléd \d”lyf the hair om top. or her
With i: a 5 torn off, carrying the scalp
pital \.\'l h%\(f was rushed to the hos
i ltln l"l".' the physicians quickly
z-s;;{r\-d skin-grafting would be nec
-BiX weeks ¢ :
Was w*:-\r‘ ks ago the first operation
offereq t{”“ff‘d. Two of her relatives
Wera \11\“““"““1"“5 as subjects. They
cousty \] Margaret Gorman, and a
They v I“_-)lf)se name is withheld.
Severa] L\lt chosen in preference to
teereq foung women who volun-
B wouc friends of Miss Gorman.
Zratted ~‘i'l|‘l‘.lll'on which the skin was
ference ll: twelve inches in circum
€s squape ches of skin three inch
legs of | Vere removed from the
after gy, . 'sons giving their skin,
istereq 'lll‘l“'Qt‘lt‘ti<: had been admin-
Wpon (e M the skin was placed
I,l].\“(_&;‘”,'\\onnd, forming what the
From (1, . croed “skin-island.”
skin rl.,i(k“‘}ges of the “island’’ new
RIEFY ”\v;m]“mfol'med and spread un
;)rperations th;‘e'selg- In two of the
Om ¢ new Was o
he leg of Miss GoPmmfimoved
the south. He has finally learned
his lesson. He is in a position to
demand his own price. The Farm
ers’ Union has taken an oath not to
sell a bale of cotton .for less than
ten cents a pound at the primary
market. The spinners must buy the
New York options to hedge against
their purchase in the south.
A Remarkable Situation.
“The speculators must go south to
buy their cotton for New York deliv
ery at a cost of $7 to $8 a bale more
than the prevailing New York price.
That is the situation today, and it
is one of the most remarkable that
ever existed. Cotton is bound to
soar, and the rise has already begun.
This explaing my position in the mar
ket at the present time. Just how
high the price will go I don’t know.
Nobody does.”
FUN AT NEWPORT.
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Nickels and Dimes as Favors Caused
a Hilarious Time.
The fun of Newport is positively
killing. The jokes of Newport are
of the kind that cause apoplexy and
the loss of buttons. Joe Miller,
Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Bill
Nye, George Ade and Mr. Dooley
pale into in significance as humor
ists when compared with the: New
port society humorist. Here is a
clipping from the Newport corres
pondence of a New York paper that
proves it: “Birdie Goelet is always
ready for a joke. Certainly he per
petrated one last Saturday evening,
when his mother, Mrs. Robert Goe
let, gave a dance for nim. ‘The fa.
vors were beautiful, but in the Un
cle Sam figure Birdie awarded the
prizes personally, and gave out
brand new five and ten cent pieces.
These are being kept as souvenirs,
and their owners are awaiting his
next joke.”
DREAM OR JOKE, S;\II)iI«‘ELDER.
Was the Politicians’ Movement to Ex
tend the State Road.
The senate on the last night of its
session put a stop to the talk of
extending the state road to the sea
by Kkilling the Alexander bill and
the Wright substitute providing a
commission to investigate the sub
ject. Senator Felder made a humor
ous speech against the commission
idea. He said the whole proposition
to extend the state road was a dream
or a joke, and if carried out as sug
gested would mean the extension be
ing made by politicians. ‘“And it
would be twisted around so as to
include every town in the state,”
said Mr. Felder. ‘The state ought
to go out of the railroad business
anyhow.” The plan was voted down
almost unanimously.
WANTS THE MONUMENT.
Americus Hasn't Yet Given Up Hope
of Getting Wirz Shaft.
Americus hasn’t entirely given up
hope of the getting of the Wirz
monument from Andersonville.
The Americus board of trade will
make one more effort towards hav
ing the Wirz monument erected at
Americus, and has appointed a com
mittee to appear before the conven
tion of Daughters of the Confedera
cy at Savannah in October.
The monument is nearing comple
tion in an Americus marble yard.
Of course Andersonville is the
place for the monument.
A TREASURER 1S IN TROUBLE.
Lee (‘oun‘ty Official Central Figure
in a Hot Legal Fight.
An interesting case originating in
Lee county has been heard by Judge
Littlejohn at chambers in Ameri
cus.
The case involved charges against
Dan Hall, the treasurer of Lee coun
ty, certain citizens seeking to secure
his deposition from office. The
charges preferred include the alleged
mutilation of records, such as re
moving pages from the treasurer’s
books and failure to make report to
the grand jury of all money received.
Another allegation is that of having
charged certain commissions not al
lowed by law.
It is understood that Mr. Hall in
his statement asserted that other
officials of the county had acted in
somewhat similar manner as charged
to himself by the excessive collection
of commissioners, and denied any in
tentional wrong doing.
Judge Littlejohn reserved his de
cision.
DOVES HAVE EVEN LESS CHANCE
Forty-five Days Tacked on to the
Open Season.
The state senate passed by a vote
of twenty-seven to ten the amend
ment to the game law by Mr. Reid
of Putnam, which had already passed
the house, changing the time of the
open season for doves from Septem
ber 1, as at present, to July 15, the
closed season beginning as now, on
March 15. Fear was expressed that
the measure would result in exter
mination of the doves.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1908.
BODY TOO BIG FOR ONE GRAVE PLOT
gWoman’s Coffin Measured Seven by Three Feet. A Most
‘ Remarkable Case of Elephantiasis in Brooklyn.
Elephantiasis Arabum was the
cause of the death of Mrs. Georgien
na Evans Martin, whose funeral was
held in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week.
The body of Mrs. Martin, owing
to the development of this rare dis-~
ease, weighed about 650 pounds,
says the Eagle. The casket, said to
be the largest but one ever construct
ed, was seven feet long by three feet
wide. It took two grave plots when
it was buried.
For twelve years Mrs. Martin had
been a great sufferer, and it required
the united strengta of severeal per
sons to move her during life, as she
was helpless. Twenty years ago,
after the birth of a son, she began
to develop the disease. She was
born at Mount Hope, Canada, but
was brought up at her father's resi
dence near Memphis, Tenn. War
troubles brought about her father’s
death, and her mother died of con
sumption.
Elliott, the artist, became her guar
dian. Since her marraige, and dur
It is estimated that five million
people heard Mr. Bryan’s speeches
during the campaign of 1896. He
almost duplicated the feat in 1900.
A writer in Collier’'s Weekly says
that Mr. Bryan has continued close
to the heart of the people by lectur
ing on the lyceum and speaking in
the chautauquas of the midde west.
There are six hundred of these scat
tered throughout the west. Mr.
Bryan is the chautauqua star. His
voice is strong and his personality is
well suited to these crowds. He
talked personally to three hundred
thousand people during-the chautau
qua season of 1907. He has been
delivering from one hundred to
hundred and fifty addresses for a
dozen years. Comparatively few
people know anything about the ex
tent of this movement. The farmers
go into town on Bryan day. He
‘makes about $25,000 in a single sum
‘mer. One day last year his receipts
lwore $1,200.
} The official reporter who accompa
nied Mr. Bryan through his cam
paigns of 1896 and 1900 gives his
recollections of the contest. He says
that Mr. Bryan never touches intoxi
cants in any way, and never uses
tobacco. He made about thirty
speeches of ten minutes to two hours
each day. He did not break down.
He rarely repeated himself. He was
very quick to answer questions and
to meet arguments. He now travels
in a private car, and after each
speech seeks th 2 seclusion of his
stateroom and lies down to sleep un
til the next stop. After each elab
orate effort he is rubbed down with
alcohol like an athlete and fresh
clothes given him. He is a physical
giant and would have made a great
wrestler. He had twenty-eight plat
forms to fall with him during the last
campaign, and sometimes the voters
would squeeze his hands until they
were twice their normal size. One
night in Michigan he made six
speeches and said he felt fit to make
six more. His friends now watch
him very closely and take good care
of him on these campaigns. He
makes most of his speeches without
preparation. Only when he address
es the people on some important oc
casion and desires his speech to be
sent out in advance does he prepare
them. His spontaneous speeches are
always best. He read his notifica
tion speech, and his delivery suffered
when he used manuscript. In 1900
at Indianapolis he memorized the
peroration, and aroused great en
thusiasm. Sometimes an editorial in
a morning paper will bring out a re
ply; perhaps someone in the audi
ence would liven up things by shoot
ing some question at him. When
the correspondents who go with him
find him getting weary or mechani
cal they will send someone out in
the audience and ask him a question.
These never fail to fire him up. In
the two campaigns when he was the
nominee for president he made four
teen hundred speeches, no two alike
——certainly a tax on the resources
of any speaker.
The article in Collier's Weekly con
cludes:
“I have seen five thousand people
at Fredericksburg, Va., the home of
Mary, the mother of Washington,
cry like children while listening to
his eloquent eulogy o¢f the word
‘mother,” and three minutes later,
while the tears were not yet dry on
their cheeks, laugh heartily. In Bos
ton, at the banquet of the New Eng
land Bimetallic League, when the
immense crowds gave Mr. Bryan
hopes for his election, I have heard
him conclude a speech with a prayer
that, in case he was elected, God
would so direct his efforts as to make
him of the greatest benefit to his
fellow-men which caused everyone
in the room to pay tribute to his
BRYAN'S WONDERFUL POWER
ing her sickness, she has made many
friends, . and is most sincerely
mourned by her neighbors.
Elephantiasis is technically de
scribed as being characterized by a
“peculiar overgrowth of the skin and
subjacent textures.’ This condition,
so far as doctors have been able to
determine, arises from ‘‘repeated at
tacks of inflammation of the skin
and concurrent obstruction of the
veins and lymphatic vessels. It is
liable to attack any portion of the
body, but commonly begins with one
of the legs, which becomes swollen
to resemble an elephant's leg, from
which the name of the disease comes.
The pressure on the muscles of the
limb attacked produces atrophy or
degeneration, and the limb becomes
useless.
Often, as in the case of Mrs. Mar
tin, the swelling becomes general,
extending to the whole body. There
are few cases of recovery, though
the patient frequently lingers for
many years. The disease is chronic,
and is rarely accompanied by sharp
pain. Though the germ has been
discovered no antitoxin has been
found to overcome it.
magnetic earnestness with a hearty
‘Amen’ instead of the usual ap
plause. I have seen him in Wauke
sha, Wis., at the conclusion of a hard
day’s work, and after three speeches
in that city during the evening, con
clude with a twenty minutes’ talk
in a crowded hall, taking his text
from the Bible, and become so elo
quent that the local shorthand re
porters, as well as myself, forgot our
business and listened instead of re
porting what was said. Had these
people heard him on such occasions
there would be no doubt with them
of his ability as an orator, and all
would proclaim him as perhaps the
greatest in the country.”
'TWIXT HEAVEN AND EARTH.
Newly Weds From Valdosta Made
Love on Dizzy Brink in Washington.
A Washington dispatch to the
Phijadelphia Record says that on the
outer stone coping of an eight-story
east window in the postoffice depart
ment building sat a blushing bridal
couple, oblivious of surrounding or
tne ri. they were running, calmly
holding hands and looking iove into
each other’s eyes. Assistant Super
intendent Shaw, who discovered
them, had to clinch his teeth tightly
to keep his terrified heart from
jumping out of his mouth.
The bride, a bllrlsliiihé"iéss or 20
with soulful blue eyes and golden
hair, hid her face when she saw the
superintendent. The groom, with a
}faraway look in his eyes, kept on
‘holding hands and sighed heavily.
~ When the couple had been yanked
into the building with the aid of a
six-foot stepladder they admitted her
name was Mary and his name was
John, newly wed, from Valdosta, Ga.
But they declined to tell how or
why they got into their perilous po
sition to make love this late in their
honeymoon of six days.
ONION MILLIONAIRES IN MEXICO
Great Fortunes Are Being Made
Growing Odorous Vegetable,
Not many years ago, says the Mex
ico Record, it was not uncommon to
have one point to this millionaire
and that and say: ‘“He made his
money in o0il.” Up in Texas they are
developing men along the Rio Grande
who may in a short time be referred
to as ‘““onion millionaires.”
So great has been the success of
the men who have ‘been growing on
ions along the boundary line that
experts declare the Bermuda onion
produced there is really superior to
the Bermuda onion produced in its
native soil.
Last summer the agent of the
South Texas Truck Growers’ Asso
ciation visited the Bermuda Islands
and the Canary Islands and secured
a big consignment of seed. These
seed have produced this year’s onion
crop in Texas of a greater size and
of a fine quality. Whereas it was
formerly estimated that the Bermu
da growers shipped 1,000,000 crates
of onions to the United States an
nually it is now estimated that their
shipments this year amounted to
about 380,000 crates.
FOUND COURT MILKING COW.
Lawyer Made Argument While His
Honor Finished the Job.
County Judge Humphrey of the
Queens county (New York) court is
a dairyman, and milks his own cows.
Having a matter of some importance
to arrange before his honor and not
finding the Judge in his chambers
Lawyer Stephen J. Voris went to his
home the other day. He did not
have to go all the way to the. house,
for he heard a well known voice at a
distance coming from the direction
of the barnyard:
‘‘Sooo, Bossy; so 000,” the Judge
was saying soothingly.
Unannounced, save by the cackling
of some startled hens, Mr. Voris ap
proached. To his amazement he
found Judge Humphrey, Panama hat
awry, milking a cow.
“1f it please your honor,” began
the laweyr.
“You are right, it pleases me!” ex
claimed the judge. ‘‘This is part of
the ‘close to the soil’ programme
that keeps people human, Voris. The
hired man is away, you see, but I
can milk as well as he can.”
“I desire to see your honor, when
it is convenient, about’'—
“Fire away right now, only talk
up loud, as the milk makes some
noise in the pail, you notice,” re
sponded the judge. He proceeded
with the milking, while Voris un
limbered his rhetoric. The two fin
ished their tasks about the same
time. i
“Have a drink of milk; you must
be thirsty,” said tne judge, with a
twinkle in his eye.
POSSE OF UNKNOWN WHITE MEN
Dangerously Shot a Negro at Mid
night Near Hatcher Station.
The Eufaula Times reports that
Vince Bridges, a negro who lived
near Hatcher's Station, in Quitman
county, was shot about twelve o'clock
at night by a posse of white men
who were in search of his brother,
Arthur Bridges, who had trouble on
a previous date with a white man.
The shooting occurred on the place
of Mr. Joe Winslett. It is the opin
ion of the doctor who has the case
in charge that the negro will not
live.” The bullet entered the right
side near the breast and came out
near the backbone. The weapon used
was either 38 or 41 calbre. No
arrests have been made, as it is prac
tically impossible to locate the one
who did the shooting.
DEAD MAN ASKS BRYAN VOTES.
Unusual Inscription on the Tomb
stone of a Deceased Missourian.
This epitaph lis inscribed on a
tombstone erected at the grave of
B. H. Norris in the Bethel cemetery
near Montgomery, Mo.:
“Kind friends I've left behind,
Cast your votes for Jennings Bryan.
‘‘Sacred to the memory of B. H.
Norris. Died April 9, 1900, aged 590
years.”
Norris was an admirer of Mr. Bry
an, and said he wanted a monument
with a silver inscription.
Not long after making this state
ment he was taken ill and died. His
friends ‘“‘chipped in’’ and bought the
monument from “Doc¢” Hudson, a
local dealer, who composed the in
scription.
WRIGHT FLEW LIKE BIRD.
Trial Most Successiul of All He Has
Made During the Tests.
Wilbur Wright of Dayton, 0., has
just made the longest and most suc
cessful flight of the series of aero
plane trials which he is conducting
at Lemans, France, remaining in the
air three minutes and forty-four sec
onds. The machine circled the field
three times at the rate of thirty-six
miles an hour.
On passing the grand stand Mr.
Wright gracefully descended until
within speaking distance of the spec-.
tators, who wildly applauded his ex
hibition of mastery over the aero
plane, after which he soared like a
bird to new heights and continued
his flight until reaching the starting
point, where he finally gently landed.
MAKING LONG TRIP TO
MARRY SWEETHEART
FIFTY FARMERS' WAREHOUSES.
Erected and Owned by Union Mem
bers in Georgia.
* There have been erected in Geor
gia some fifty or sixty small cotton
warehouses in the last three or four
years owned and controlled exclu
sively by members of the Farmers’
Union. These warehouses have been
operated with varying degrees of
success, and have in many instances
enabled farmers to hold onto their
cotton, instead of disposing of it at
prices that were unsatisfactory.
In some cases it has been a strug
gle with the farmers to hold onto
these warehouses, but in many cases
they are now out of the woods. An
interesting illustration comes from
Floyd county, where the Union ware
house a year ago scarcely had mon
ey enough to meet its outstanding
obligations. The farmers deter
minedly held on, however, and today
within a period of twelve months,
they have accumulated $6,000 over
and above all outstanding liabilities.
ORR HEARING SOON.
The Motion for New Trial for Former
Bank Cashier,
On Friday of this week, the 21st.,
attorneys interested in the case will
meet, says a Macon dispatch, to com
plete the hearing in the motion of
C. M. Orr for a new trial. The hear
ing was started on August sixth, but
had to be postponed until a later
date.
Orr stands convicted of embezzle
ment of funds of the Exchange
Bank of Macon, and was sentenced
to a term of seven years.
YOL. 26-—-NO 47
i ——— .
Was the Opinion of the Georgia
~ Legislature as Shown by Vote.
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WOULDN'T REQUEST GONGRESS
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To Stop Liquor Shipments From
Other States. Resolution Was
Up, and Lawmakers Adjourned
Quickly After Voting Two or Three
Different Ways,
The prohibition question broke up
the session of the legislature Tues
day afternoon, causing it to adjourn.
There were many senate bills pend
ing action, and a number of mem
bers were in favor of a night session,
the same as the senate.
It came quickly. The senate reso
lution to memorialize congress in re
gard te the Littlefield idea about
shipping whisky into dry states was
still unacted upon by the house.
How It Happened.
It happened about like this:
The house was droning along quiet
ly, passing, tabling and defeating
senate bills with all the ease and
grace of a body politic when in the
regular order of things Reading
Clerk McClatchey sung out the sen
ate resolution by Senator Hardman
of the thirty-third district (he of
the Hardman prohibition measure),
calling upon the house to memorial
ize congress to pass the Littlefield
idea of preventing the shipment of
whiskies into dry states.
Visions of a ‘‘dry state,” indeed,
flashed over the house, and out of
the house came a motion: “Table
the resolution.”
A count of hands lifted in favor
of tabling the bill showed that this
was the sentiment of the house by
65 to 50.
It came like a bolt out of a sky
to the prohibitionists, while the “un
terrified” jes’ laffed.
As soon as the house quieted down
a motion was made to take it from
the table, and to bring out the prohi
bitionists the aye anu nay vote was
called.
Roll Call Changed Vote.
This pleased the prohibitionists,
for the measure was taken from the
table by a vote of 76 to 51. :
A fervid prohibition speech was
made and the speaker was about to
place the resolution on its passage
when Mr. Blackburn of Fulton said:
“I move that action on this measure
be indefinitely postponed.” Before
this vote could be put Mr. Barrow of
Chatham moved the house adjourn
(immediately), and to the conster
nation of the prouibitionists the mo
tion was carried by a vote of 63 to
57, which meant that the. house
would never pass the legislation.
With this the house went out for
a vacation, while the senators re
turned for a night session.
SHELLMAN’'S COTTON RECEIPTS.
The Shellman Sun of last week
said: ‘“The Dawson News this week
compared Dawson cotton receipts
with Americus and Albany receipts,
Dawson having much more to her
credit up to Tuesday at noon. Daw
son’s receipts up to then were 92
bales. Our big neighbor wasn’t
looking for a scrap and quoted easy
nlaces. Shellman’s receipts up to
Tuesday night were 119 bales.”
Chemist En Route to Holland From
Hawaiian Islands, Where He Will
Marry Girl of His Choice, and Take
Her Back to His Bungalow.
MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 18.—En route
to New York on a 12,000-mile jour
ney to wed a pretty girl of Holland
Wilhelm Gobbins, a sugar chemist
employed on one of the great planta
tions of the Hawaiian Islands, was
here the other day. Mr. Gobbins has
been traveling now for almost a
month, and this was his third stop.
The other stops were San Francisco
and New Orleans. There is consid
erable interest to the marriage of
Mr. Gobbins.
He is a prepossessing man, who
left his home in the Netherlands
eight years ago to practice his pro=
fession. Before starting out to make
his fortune he had won the heart of
a Flemish girl, the daughter of a
beet sugar factory proprietor. It
was agreed between them that as
soon as Mr. Gobbins was able he
would return and claim his bride.
He prospered, and it was finally ar
ranged that he should return to Hol
land, where the marriage was to be
performed. The young woman’s
father balked at the prospect of hav
ing his daughter go so far away from
Holland to make her home, and pro
posed that Lis future son-in-law
settle down in the mother country.
Gobbins did not care to lose a for
tune and declined the offer of a lue
rative position with his fiancee's
father. The old man was finally won
completely over and has consented
to have his daughter make the long
journey. When they return to their
bungalow in Honolulu Gobbins will
have traveled 25,000 miles.