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THOUSANDS OF THEM FLOCKING
TO THAT COUNTRY.
They Suffer There From But Few of
the Disabilities Attached to Their
Race in the United States,
England is being invaded by Amer
ican negroes, who suddenly have
realized that they suffer in this coun
try from none of the disabilities at
taching to their race and color in
the United States, writes a London
correspondent. Thousands of them
have come here in the last yvear or
two and thousands more are coming.
The invasion began in force about a
vear ago. The first negroes to come
were variety artists and athletes,
who found that they were well treat
ed here. They stayed and wrote t()‘
their friends across the water to fol
low on. A few came last year, but
the rush has begun this year, and
within the last few months there are
almost as many Yiack faces to be
seen on the Strand and in Piccadilly
as on Broadway. .
It is hard to obtain any estimate
of the actual numbers of American
negroes now in England. An official
of the American embassy declares
that last winter the embassy had
hundreds of applications from col
pred citizens of the United States
who were stranded in England to be
sent home. The embassy, of course,
has no funds for this purpose, but
the officials did what they could to
help, and many colored brethren,
who came over to capture the varie-l
ty stage in England worked their
way home in the stokeholds ofl
tramp steamers sailing to Baltimore
or New Orleans.
This year, the same official de
clares, there are at least 5,000 Amer
ican negroes in England and 4,000
of them arrived this year. A trip
to some of the leading watering
places on the English coast will lead
one to think that the estimate is
much smaller than the actual num
ber. The ‘“‘busker’” is an institution
at Margate, Ramsgate. Southend and
other watering places where the
Londoners of the middle and working
classes run down for the week-end
or for a few days’ holiday. The
“busker’ is usually a broken down
actor or music hall man who makes
his living singing and dancing on the
sands, depending on the generosity
of the holiday makers for his re
ward. The native “busker’” has been
almost driven off the sands by the
American negro.
The ‘‘black face” comedian act
long has been a favorite one with
the ‘“‘buskers,” but the ‘“‘comedians’
were white men made black by a
liberal application of burnt cork.
This year the black men are the real
thing and the “entertainment” which
they offer has changed. Instead of
the sentimental ditties of the Lon
don music halls the “buskers’’ are
rendering the ‘“‘coon’ songs of New
York and Chicago and the “‘nigger
melodies” of the plantation days.
The sentimental semi-bilitary songs
80 popular in America about the
time of the Spanish-American war
also are great favorites at present
on the Margate sands.
A negro quarter, although not
very well defined, already is spring
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Cotton Warehousemen
AN TLANTERS OF TERRELL
AND ADJOINING COUNTIES .
Wl'l‘l{ thanks for your past patronage we again tender
you our services in handling your cotton erop during
the coming season. We feel assured tnat by long experience
in the cotton business and being in close touch by wire with
home and foreign markets we can procure for you the highest
market price on the day of sale. Our best eftorts will be given
to your interest. An ample supply of bagging and ties always
on hand at the lowest market price. Mr. J. W. Gurr will be
with us again this season, and will be pleased to serve all
of his friends.
B it ob s it
DAWSON, : : : : GEORGIA
ing up in London. It lies in Soho,
among the tangle of narrow streets
inhabited by men of every nation
ality under the sun except English,
and there are one of two restaurants
where fried chicken, sweet corn and
other delicacies dear to the negro’s
heart can be obtained. Another cen
ter is in the maze of courts and al
levs behind Fleet street. There are
one or two small saloons and res
taurants there where the negroes
congregate at night and discuss the
chances of employment.
SCION OF SOLOMON AND SHEBA
Is Begging a Hand-Out of ‘‘Hot Dog"
in Detroit.
Can you imagine a lineal descend
ant of King Solomon and the Queen
of Sheba wandering around Detroit
and begging for a ‘‘hand-out” of
t‘thot dog?!’ That. ig what You are
asked to do, in a dispatch from the
Michigan city. The story runs that
a Detroit butcher was cutting sau
sage in his stall when a black man
in ragged clothes and with a foreign
accent asked for a bite and told him
he was very hungry. ‘Go around
the corner to the McGregor mission,”’
said the butcher. (It will be borne
'in mind that in the north things to
leat are not handed out readily to
}l)lack men in ragged clothes; they
are told to go to the m_issions.) At
the McGregor mission the black man
in the ragged clothes declared that
he was Prince Pulawharoo, crown
prince of Abyssinia and destined suc
cessor to Emperor Menelik, his un
cle. His father, said the prince in
rags, was the brother of Menelik,
who, as we all know, traces his an
cestry straight back to the great
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
The prince, it seems, had fallen into
the hands of Philistines in New York,
had wandered to Chicago and tried
his hand at peeling hogs at the stock
vards, and had taken his turn as a
deck hand on one of the lake steam
ers running to Detroit. With it all,
he seems to have taken a pretty big
slump from where his family started.
WONDERFUL KANSAS CORN.
Crop the Best That State Has Seen
in Many Years.
Kansas corn is exceptional in
growth this year: Husking will be
more troublesome than usual because
of the rank growth of the corn. The
stalks are higher than ever, avery«-
ing 12 to 1b feet in aost. of the
fields, and the farmers say this will
cause the stalks to break, as the ears
are usually above the halfway I'ne
on the stalks. The ears are of great
weight and will tend to pull the
stalk down. For the first time in
vears the ears protrude through the
husks, and the grain is well filled
entirely to the end of the cob. It is
the most wonderful corn year central
Kansas has seen in many years,
(learing House Certificates Lost.
In removing the cases of unused
certificates, from the cellar of the
Georgia Railroad Bank in Augusta
quite a number of the certificates
iWero lost, many being found on the
kstreots afterwards. This notice is
. given the public to warn them
!ugainst receiving these certificates
it’rom anyone, as all but ninety-seven
dollars of those issued last year hava
been redeemed.
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| SUPPORT OF CONVICTS.
Constitutional Requirements Prohibit
Such Use of Money Thus Raised.
Tax May Be Resisted.
There is what appears to be a well
founded suspicion that the legisla
ture has slipped a cog in its efforts
to impose a tax upon the sale and
manufacture of near beer for the sup
port and maintenance of the state’s
penitentiary system.
The constitution, it appears, reg
quires that the tax upon ‘‘the sale
of spirituous and malt liquors, which
the general assembly is hereby au
thorized to assess,” shall be ‘set
apart and devoted for the support
of the common schools.”
This provision is found in Article
8,0 Section 2,0 and Paragraph . of
the state constitution, and attention
has been called to the fact that this
law does not specify, in the language
of the state prohibition act, that they
shall be such liquors as ‘‘if. drunk to
excess will produce intoxication.”
May Be Stumbling Block.
While the Ilegislature has not
wholly lost sight of this provision
in its effort to devise a means for
getting money for penitentiary main
tenance, there are those who believe
that this constitutional provision
will prove a stumbling block to any
legislation which may be attempted
along this line.
There can be no question about
the fact that near beer is a malt
liquor. The only question then is
whether the constitution is inexora
ble in the requirement that any tax
levied upon the sale and manufac
ture of malt liquors shall be cov
ered into the state school fund.
It looks very much that way to
those who have looked into the mat
ter, and if the courts should so hold
'then, it is said, the law would be
null and void because the extra ses
sion has no authority to legislate on
any subject but convicts. It cannot,
‘under the governor's call, pass a bill
‘to raise revenue which would be used
DONT WINK AT YOUR ROCE R -
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Just loek 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 I
notch of Flour perfection. It's popularity is based on merit alone, and it is ac.
knowledged to be one flour that never fails in any kind of baking.
The following are the Dawson, Doverel and Herod merchants who wi
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. O. WHITCHARD & CO.,
. KELLEY & MARTIN, Herod, Ga. LEE & THORNTON, Doverel, Ga.,
for any other purpose than main
, tenance of the penitentiary system.
i A bill passed at this session to raise
!money for educational purposes
'would be unconstitutional, and if the
funds to be raised by this measure
"could not legally be applied to the
‘penitentiary system then it is con
!tended the legislation would be ille
| gal.
, Tax Might Be Resisted.
It is pointed out that the measure
)win probably be attacked by the near
beer dealers and manufacturers on
!tlmse grounds, with the chances of
| success attending their efforts.
I At the same time it is well under
|stood that the dealers in this com
imodity would not object to paying
{a reasonable license tax to the state.
{ The imposition of such a tax would
| give them a firmer standing before
]the law. As things are now they do
| not know where they stand and do
{not know at what moment they may
|be hauled before the court for vio
glation of the prohibition law because
of the discovery that there is an al-
Iloged excess of alcohol in the product
which they are dispensing.
l It is possible they might submit
"to even an illegal tax in order to
acquire that standing, but then there
are always objectors and there is lit
tle doubt that a test case would be
made in some quarter. »
1f the state fails to realize revenue
from this source for the support and
' maintenance of the convicts it is
difficult to figure out just what it
IWIII do to supply the deficiency.
A CITY OF A MILLION HENS.
Ten Million Dozen Eggs Produced in
One County Last Year.
Some fifty miles north of San
Francisco the town of Petaluma lies
on a moor between low mountains.
It is largely built up on the poultry
industry. In the portion of Sonoma
county tributary to the town over
120,000,000 eggs were produced in
1907, more than 10,000,000 dozen.
At least 75 per cent. of the people
of the county ralse -poultry. It i 8
not an occupation relegated to the
grandmothers. It is a man’s occu
pation. In Petaluma men are chick
en raisers as they are elsewhere
bankers, merchants or lawyers. One
of the hatching plants has a capaci-
Iy of 100,000. That is to gay, 1t
can, and does, when the season's
demands are heavy, turn out 100,000
voung chickens every three weeks,
They go east to Kansas City, south
into Old Mexico, north into British
Columbia,
FOUR BABIES IN ONE YEAR. l
An JTowa Couple Have DBroke the
Record. 1
Four babies inside of one year is
the record established by Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Kolthoff, who reside in
the southern part of Chickasaw coun
ty, Towa, and they challenge compe-]
tition. |
In late August, 1907, twin baby!
boys came to their home, and are as
lusty little fellows as ever came into
a home.
Now another span of boys have ar
rived. Mr. and Mrs. Kolthoff are
very proud of the record they have
established.
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Everyone of Them a Bird. |
A current newspaper item is as|
follows: ‘‘The wife of an editor in
northern Texas has been married
three times. Her maiden name was
Partridge; her first husband was
named Robin; her second Sparrow,
and the present one’s name is
‘Quayle. There are now two young
Robins, one Sparrow and three little
Quayles in the family. One grand
father was a Swann, and another
was a Jay; but he’s dead, and now
a bird of Paradise. They live on
Hawk avenue, Eagleville, Canary Is
lands, and the fellow who wrote this
article is a lyre bird and an interest
ing relative of the family.”
Between the ages of fifteen and
forty-five, the time when womanhood
begins and motherhood ends, it is
estimated that the aggregate term
of woman’s suffering is ten years.
Ten years out of thirty! Omne-third
of the best part of a woman’s life
sacrificed! Think of the enormous
loss of time! But time is not all
that is lost. Those years of suffer
ing steal the bloom from the cheeks,
the brightness from the eyes, the
fairness from the form. They write
their record in many a crease and
wrinkle. What a boon then to wo
man is Dr. Pierce’'s Favorite Pre
scription. It promotes perfect regu
larity, dries up debilitating drains,
heals ulceration, cures female weak
ness and establishes the delicate wo
manly organs in vigorous and perma
nent health. No other medicine can
do for woman what is done by Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
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Our Entire Stock Must Be
Sold by January Ist, Next.
As we stated in the beginning of our Closing
Out Sale 1t isn’t a question of profit now. It is a
question of raising a certain amount of money, and
we are making prices that will simply justify you
in buying every dollars worth of your
FALL AND WINTER GGCGODS
at our store. We will sell you any article in Dry
Goods, Notions, Shoes, Furniture, Mattings and
Rugs at 10 per cent less meney than any other
house in Dawson. Taking quality into considera
tion you will find this statement to be true. Your
patronage will materially help us and benefit you.
J. W. F. LOWREY.
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. I 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. 8. P 8 No 3
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in use for over S 0 years, has borne the signature of
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and ¢ Just-as-good?’’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
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Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
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