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PAGE SIX
TOOK "EM WHOLE WEEK
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How Convention of Two Nomi
nated Carter for Governor.
FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FARCE
Both Willie and John Temple May
Stump the State for the Chosen,
and Howard of “If Christ Came to
Congress” Fame May Spellbind
sSome, Too.
The state chairman of the Inde
pendence party gave one loud gavel
rap on his roller-top desk in a room
in an Atlanta office building at a late
hour at night and in stentorian tones
announced that the state convention
was at an end. National Secretary
Walsh stuffed a lot of telegrams in
his pocket, and Bernard Suttler dis-i
tributed a handful of Radicals among
the delegates. Then they all sang.
something like this:
1t matters not that few we be,
Or that inspiration seems hard to get;
We're in the fight, hip-hip-hooray!—
Our Willie'll come across, you bet.”
The convention then transferred
itself to the sodawater fountain on'
the first floor where its parchedl
throats were cooled with lemon phos- |
phates. Then it adjourned to tbel
local newspaper offices where the
Hon. William Yancy Carter of Hart
county was duly announced a candi
date for governor of Georgia.
And thus one more contribution
was made to the gaiety of current
politics in Georgia. .
Convention Lasted a Week.
The convention, which lasted for
nearly a week, was held in room 706
Austell building. It was something
of a star-chamber affair, as inquiring
reporters were usually met by an
affable gentleman asking them to call
later for the great surprise. Wheth
er the meeting was lengthened by
diversity of opinion among its con
stituent parts no one knows, but it
is generally believed to have been
due to the difficulty in finding a suit
able candidate.
Only One Candidate Named.
Only one candidate was named,
that for governor. All other state
offices are filled satisfactorily evi
dently, unless the party leaders de
cided to retain the remainder of its
strength for voters. It was intimated
that the party might put out a few
candidates for congress. This threat
was reduced to a mere intimation
because of its startling import. The
party leaders are humane, if noth
ing else, and their policy seems to
be to frighten the democratic nomi
nees one at the time. They pooh
pooh the suggestion that in some of
the districts it may be difficult to find
a candidate, and aver most solemnly
that they have at least one follower
in every district in Georgia. There
fore, if it is held to be advisable they
will be able to have congressiona’
candidates; that is, if the estimate of
their strength is a correct one.
Hearst May Speak.
No details of convention organi
zation were given out while the
meeting was on. In fact, the identi
ty of only a few of those in attend
ance was made known. In addition
to Mr. Walsh, whose position seems
to be that of chief warden of the par
ty, there were ex-Congressman W.
M. Howard of Alabama, he of *if-
Christ-came-to-congress” fame. Mr.
Howard announced that he will make
a speaking tour of Georgia, his na
tive state. It is also probable that
Mr. Hearst will come down soutn
and tell the people in a few Bris
banesque speeches the many reasons
why his newspaper-adjunct party
should be supported.
The Hon. John Temple Graves, it
is said, will be given a leave of ab
sence from his 912,500 job on
Hearst’s New. York American to come
down and mingle with the home
AND BUGGIES.
T i P R VS T R R e R I e
We have just received a large shipment
ot high-grade Runabouts and Buggies,
and extend to you a cordial invitation to
visit our Repository in the building for
merly occupied by the First State Bank.
A line of well-satished customers will
warrant the statement that our styles
and prices will please you.
We also have a complete line of Harness
B. B. PERRY & CO.
Dawson, -~ Georgia.
folks and ineidentally expatiate on
‘his claims to he vice-presidency.
The Man Carter.
’ The gubernatorial nominee, Mr.
Carter, will also do a bit of eam
' paigning. He has had much political
|oxpcrion(‘e. A farmer by occupation
| he has been soldier, office-holder and
,nfl‘xce-seoker. He was for many years
la United States deputy .marshal.
{ Later he was a populist representa
| tive in the state senate. In 1898 he
served in the Spanish-American war
as a captain in the Third United
States Volunteers. He retired to his
farm, from which a populist nomi
nation for governor failed to allure
lhim. He is a man of splendid ap
pearance, a good speaker and cam
paigner. He is personally popular
and can count friends in all sections
of the state.
Bernard Suttler, Robert H. Pat
terson and 1. F. Vickery were named
as the platform committee. They
will meet in conference with Mr. Car
ter Monday and go over the proposed
‘articles of faith on which the cam
paign will be based.
It was whispered that formal
challenge to debate will be forward
ed Joseph M. Brown, democratic can
didate for governor.
LIGHTNING DESTROYS MILLIONS
Most of Barn Fires Thus Caused,
Say Insurance Men.
Fire insurance men estimate that
40 per cent. of barn fires are due to
lightning, 10 to 15 per cent. to care
lessness, 8 to 12 per cent. to over
heated flues, the balance to other
causes, including incendiarism. Ac
cording to the report of the weather
bureau of the department of agricul
ture for 1900, the total number of
strokes of .ightning in 1899 which
caused damage was 5,527, the num
ber of buildings injured 6,256, value
of property lost $3,016,520, numberl
of deaths by lightning 563, number
of persons injured 820, number ofl
live stock killed in the field 4,251.
Tall chimneys emitting smoke that
carries moisture with it are more
often struck than other objects,
barns containing hay that gives off
moisture by evaporation, and porous
tree barks are frequently struck.
For the same reason ice houses are
more attractive to lightning than oth
er storehouses.
GIRLS AS FARMERS.
English College Which Teaches Fuir
Sex to Till the Soil.
Arlesley College, near IH'tchen
Hert, Eng., teaches girls how to farm.
Its course of instruction in .the sim
ple life has attracted young women
from America, Germany and France,
as well as the maids of England.
One American girl who has just re
turned from Arlesley says she is now
able to do anything on a farm from
milk a cow to digging a ditch.
Among other things she was taught
how to plow, climb trees, cut wood
and make butter.
““Talk about boarding school, there
isn't a boarding school where girls
have such a good time as at Arlesley
College,” she says. ‘“When I went
abroad the doctor sent me there be
cause he thought it would make me
strong. But the fun—O, the fun;
though it was a little hard for me
to get up at 4 o'clock in the morn
ing. At first I was afraid to climb
trees because [ had not climbed one
since a child. When my limbs be
gan to limber there was not a
branch T was afraid to dare. 1 found
the sawing a little awkward at first,
especially in making greenhouses,
but T liked that after awhile. I was
afraid of the bees, too, but after
they had stung me a few times we
became good friends.”
Notwithstanding the college began
in a simple way, it is unable to ac
commodate all the women who would
like to go there for study. Many
enter the school for the express pur
pose of becoming farmers, others to
enjoy the simple life. Some stay
only a year or two, but three years
is the time set for those who would
be graduated as lady farmers.
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Hung Bell in Tree Which Customer Would Ring When
He Wanted to Buy Whiskey. Had Terrorized the
Community Near State Line for Years.
At Borden Springs, Ala., William
Smith, the notorious ‘ ‘Bell Tree”
blind tiger keeper and desperado, is
dead. He died with his boots on, as he
had sworn he would, at the hands of
a man he tried to kill. Will Chand
ler shot and killed the desperado af
ter Smith had forced his intended
victim to kneel and pray, while a
crowd witnessed it. Chandler gave
himself up to the .Cleborne county
officers, and was taken to Heflin, the
county seat.
With the passing of ‘‘Bell Tree”
Smith Alabama loses one of its pic
turesque characters. For many years
SOME WHICH ARE WORKED BY
THIRSTY ONES IN TENNESSEE.
Many Devices Whereby the Wayfar
ing Brother Can Dig Up a Sip
of “Good Cheer.”
The ingenuity of a man with a
thirst in Tennessee is working over
time, says a returned visitor. [
never heard of or saw so many
schemes for getting drinks on the
sly. Even the umbrella mender is
in the business, carrying two or three
short nips in the hollow of each um
brella handle. One of a group of
commercial travelers with whom I
talked told me a story of a big an
gular colored woman who increased
the symmetry of her figure by strap
ping around it certain bulbous re
ceptacles—demijohns, I suspect—
the contents of which she sold on
the quiet, thus reducing her girth
and increasing her wad.
Many arrests for ‘'bootlegging”
are being made in the state and the
blind tiger is everywhere. A mer
chant selling a b.ill of goods always
slips in a bottle as a gift. By many
devices storekeepers manage so they
can dig up a sip of ‘““good cheer wa
ter” when it is urgently sought by
8 waylaring brother. A brand of
“soft stuff’” known as prohibition
beer is on the market. Being non
alcoholic it may be sold within the
law. The merchant in addition to
his stock of prohibition beer will
have stored in his blind tiger depart
ment a stock of sure enough beer.
When a stranger, a man unknown
to the community, and who may be
a spotter, comes into the joint and
calls for prohibition beer he gets it.
But if the caller be a citizen whose
beer thirst is a matter of common
knowledge in the town the store
keeper fishes out a bottle of real
beer.
In the moonshine districts a dollar
placed on a “blind tiger” stump will
turn to a bottle of booze before
morning. An improved scheme in
this same class is to have a blind
drawer in a partition wall. A dollar
placed in this drawer will turn to
whisky when the drawer is again
opened. If one is assigned to a $2
room in a blind tiger hotel he will
find a $1 bottle of whisky in the
room. If he calls for a $3 room he
will find two bottles or a jug of fire
water under the bed.
I went into a shooting gallery in—
Well, T won’t give it away—and was
told that my poor shooting was due
to unsteady nerves. A wink went
with this remark. Some pantomime
followed and then a little ‘‘brown
Bettie” was fished out of a closet.
It was disclosed later that my poor
marksmanship had been due to the
fact that the bell had been pur
posely removed from the target.
The express companies stock up with
dummy packages and when the thirst
victim enters the express office and
inquires if a package has been re
ceived for John Smith he is an
swered in the affirmative and after
receiving the package departs in
peace.
The prohibition laws in the south
are not uniform in their operation,
and as a result some strange busi
ness freaks have come about. In
Chattanooga, for instance, prohibi
tion failed to carry, and as a result
it has beeome the leading wildcat
'distrilmting‘ point in the south. A
saloon man named Rose, exiled from
'dr,\' Atlanta, moved his traps to wet
Chattanooga and started a distribu
tion agency. His business has
reached mammoth proportions. He
operates through the express compa
nies and daily sends out many thou
sand packages to all parts of the
south.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
DON'T WINK AT YOUR R OCER
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Just look him straight in the eye and tell him you want
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[t is conceded by all good judges to be the mills best. It stands at the top
notch of Flour perfection. It's popularity is based on merit alone, and it is gO.
knowledged to be one flour that never fails in any kind of baking.
The following are the Dawson, Doverel and Herod merchants who wi]j
supply you with TEA ROSE FLOUR. A trial is all that is necessary.
J. M. RAUCH, E. T. WOODS & BRO,, D. H. OZIER,
WALL BROTHERS, W. H. COBB, T. 0. WHITCHARD & CO.,
KELLEY & MARTIN, Herod, Ga. LEE & THORNTON, Doverel, Ga.,
Smith had terrorized the community
near Borden Springs and the Georgia
state line. At least four men have
been shot and killed by him, accord
ing to common report.
He gained his soubriquet from his
blind tiger built across the state line
and in front of which hung a bell in
a tree. A customer would ring the
bell when he wished to buy whiskey
and a bottle would appear mysteri
ously a few moments later. Smith
had evaded the officers of both states
by dodging across the line when an
attempt was made to arrest him by
the officers from Alabama or Geor
gia.
CREATED A STIR IN COLUMBLUS.
Macon Man Had Indigestion and
Took Charge of a Soda Fount.
A man, whose name is not known,
is in the hospital in Columbus, where
he was taken for treatment. He
says he came from Macon, but did
not give his name. He created a
good deal of excitement on Second
street by declaring that he was very
ill of acute indigestion, and several
ladies were more or less alarmed in
the immediate vicinity.
One of them gave him a cup of
strong mustard water, which had the
effect to burn him considerably. He
rushed into a nearby drug store and
behind the soda fountain, where he
began to turn the faucets in a hurry
in an effort to secure something
cooling. The clerk in the place,
thinking the man was demented,
hurriedly vacated the store, leaving
the man in charge.
When some one later went into
the place he found the soda water
sputtering in every direction. The
man was taken to the hospital.
CHAMPION GHOST CHASER.
Hunts “Hanted” Houses, and Clears
Them of Spooks.
‘‘Got any haunted houses in
town?” asked John Schutt, a spright
ly old man, as he stepped into the
police station at South Bend, Ind.
He addressed his question to Patrol
man Essex, who was on duty at the
geglk. “'lf you have I would like
to spend a night in them,” con
tinued the old man.
“Champion ghost-chaser” lis the
title the old man claims for himself.
In the conversation which fellowed
with the officer he said: ‘I heard
there was a haunted house over on
the FEast Side, and I thought I'd
volunteer to stay there all night, if
everyone else was afarid,”
Mr. Schutt wanted to enter into
an agreement with the city govern
ment to act as a ‘‘ghost-chaser.”
The old man is not regarded as be
ing abnormal in any respect, except
he has long been interested in ghosts.
Do You Want to Know What You|
Swallow?
There is a growing sentiment in
this country in favor of medicines
of known composition. It is but nat
ural that one should have some in
terest in the composition of that!
which he or she is expected to swal-l
low, whether it be food, drink or
medicine.
Recognizing this growing disposi
tion on the part of the publie, and
satisfied that the fullest publicity
can only add to the well-earned repu
tation of his medicines, Dr. R. V.
Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y., has “taken
time by the forelock,” as it were, and
is publishing broadcast a list of all
the ingredients entering into higs
medicines, ‘“‘Golden Medical Discov
ery,” the popular liver invigorator,
stomach tonie, blood purifier and
heart regulator; also of his ‘““Favorite
Prescription” for weak, over-worked,
broken-down, nervous and invalid
women.
This bold and outspoken move
ment on the part of Dr. Pierce, has
by showing exactly what his well
known medicines are composed of,
completely disarmed all harping
critics who have heretofore unjustly
attacked them. A little pamphlet,
has been compiled, from the stand-‘
ard medical authorities of all the |
several schools of practice, showing |
the strongest endorsements by lead- |
ing medical writers of the several |
ingredients which enter into Dy
Pierce's medicines. A copy of this|
little book is mailed free to any one |
desiring to learn more ooncerninfl
the valuable, native, medicinal plants |
which enter into the composition of
Dr. Pierce's medicines, Address Dr.
Pierce as above.
WHEN IN NEED OF
Marble or Toombstones
OF ANY DESCRIPTION
see me or drop me a postal and I will call on
you. I have got good goods and the right
prices. 1 am with the well known firm of
Gober Marble Co., of Marrietta, Ga. Give
your orders to one who will appreciate your
business.
J. O. FUSSELL,
Parrott, Georgia. x P. D No 3
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in use for over 80 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
% sonal supervision sinee its infancy,
il * Allowno one todeceive you in this,
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ¢ J ust-as-good?’’ are but;
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience agaiust Experiment,
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soeothing Syraps. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine mor other Narcotie
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoca and Wind
Colic. 1t relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
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14 BUll @uarts, .0. .... 19 .75 ; : —Dis
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