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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. RAINEY.
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ENSATIONAL SKYWANDERER
STRONOMICAL TRUANT ON ITS'
WAY TOWARD THE EARTH.
alley's Comet Has Looped the Loop
in Its Whirl Through Space, and
Is Headed This Way Again.
WASHINGTON.—HaIIey’s comet,
e most sensational of the sky tru
ts known to astronomers, has
oped-the-loop on its whirl through
000,000,000 miles of space and is
kading this way again on the visit
hich it makes to these parts every
venty-five years.
The comet will not be visible “to
¢ naked eye, however, until well
ong in 1909, and will swoop into
perihellon, the point of its course
oSest to the sun, about May 10,
910,
.\\'lll It strike the earth and smash
s into bits? This has been a
Rpuldr lear ever since this heavenly
~lf(:l Was first observed, along
out 12 B. C,, but the authorities
V¥ assert that we are bound to
U€eze by with several million miles
Spare,
Htl;lt It was not always so. In its
Ur }'i.i;i‘..; S comet, it is said, was
E’, ¢y wild young thing and might
te made 1o end of trouble had it
ghrl,‘d.\h‘('ll too (-lOSP one dayv‘ or
E ‘” the planet Neptune, whose
(:“:1 S 0 huge in comparison that
reised an instantaneous attrac
%“”' the comet
erd::}i-.‘l““” collide, but the comet
e . out of its path and from
meq o CClestial - go-as-you-please,
Perfecs ~ CRASINg its own tail in
b with: ogular eclipse abott the
tare o - CDiune exercising a sa
k ]' ICCK when its flight tends tg
g [t is a harnessed,
o 0 brilliant, thing,
N 0 Other .
Ea ‘,}l",;' fomet has had the infu
e hac 1., lUmMman race which this
irog ;.20 through the dread in
nal <. 'S brilliancy and sensa
& the . TO it, for instance, is
1 gy TeNt practice in the Ro
e HC churches of ringing
?i;u‘..j‘”f,.!'“"\' at noon. This was
liux f“",'“i’.lw‘iul edict of Pope
led oy 436, Who, it may be re
il "-_“4 to the Ave Marias of
US frop, . (AMOus prayer, “Deliv
,-q,,,‘.'l”‘,'“" Devil, the Turks and
More o
mes fap.., € Knglish historian
8 of tn. . Comet: for the weak-
P Anglo-Saxon resistance
rer i“"‘]“”““ of William the Con-
N flaming -, Halley’s comet was
Qal o H
ing, . )t‘; Nightly in the skies,
s A\D"'ll.-»'m €ves of the supersti-
I prests,. 2nd Saxons, supernat
-5¢ for the Norman arms.
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Doan's 1} Somewhat -costive,
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late ¢ , Lhey act mildly and
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dona, pg ause, 306 Walnut Ave.,
SHOCKING ARE CONDITIONS
Fifteen Thousand School Children
Suffer From Hunger. Reg for
Dead Fowls and Decayed Fruit.
According to the report of a com
mittee in Chicago which has been in
vestigating conditions since May
there are 5,000 children in that city
frequently sent to school breakfast
less, while 10,000 others are habit
ually hungry as the result of receiv
ing insufficient food. What to do
with these children is now the prob
lem that confronts the city. The
board of education says that it can
not legally furnish food, but is will
ing to provide rooms and equipment
to enable any philanthropic person,
or organization, to relieve the dis
tress. Many are opposed to the idea
of giving free meals to children at
school, believing that the proper
course is to enter the homes of the
people where destitution exists and
relieve it there. They urge the ar
gument that if the child who attends
school is underfed the same condi
tion, even perhaps to greater extent,
applies to the younger children re
maining at home. The problem is a
serious one and calls for quick solu
tion.
Some of the conditions found by
the investigating committee were
most pitiable. Hundreds of mothers,
the report says, often go to bed hun
gry in order that their children may
have sometning to eat next morning.
This self-denial is habitual heroism
in several districts of the poor.
Children have been found on South
Water street, faint with hunger, beg
ging for dead fowl in the crates or
for decayed fruit. They have been
seen feasting on remnants of food
from garbage boxes in alleys, and in
a few instances clutching at crusts of
bread thrown away by other children
at school.
Several families were found who
were so poor that they went to bed
in the dark because they could not
afford oil. Many children have no
beds to sleep in.
In 949 homes children were found
being ra‘sed in places unfit for hu
man habitation, where the only thing
considered cheaper than rent is the
life of a child.
NO COLLECTIONS IN CHATHAM.
Ordinary Asks If the State Thinks
He Is a Sleuth.
Altogether the collection of only
$4,600 of tax on near beer has been
reported to the controller-general,
besides which theré is a considerable
amount held up by litigation.
A letter has been received from the
Ordinary of Chatham county report
ing that he has collected no near beer
tax money whatever.
And in addition he asks the point
ed question if the state thinks he
is a sleuth to go out and hunt up
blind tigers for the purpose of col
lecting this tax.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1908,
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FALL FESTIVAL AT EUFAULA.
John Sullivan and Jake Kilrain to
Be Among Star Attractions.
The merchants of Eufaula have ar
ranged a Fall Festival Association
and will give fairs and festivals an
nually. They are busily engaged at
this time making preparations for
their festival, which occurs Novem
ber 9th to 14th, inclusive. There
will be a number of first-class free
entertainments on the streets. Au
tomobile, horse, bicycle and other
races for prizes will take place on
the main street.
John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain
are expected to draw immense crowds
in their exposition of the manly art.
A Big Wild West and Ranch Show
will be another fascinating attrac
tion, besides others.
Everything will be clean and up
to-date. Music by Second Regiment
band in full uniform. The railroads
will give special rates to Eufaula
during this week of pleasure and en
tertainment.
HASKELL GETS $3,000 FOR WAR.
People of Oklahoma Give to Fund
B Fight Roosevelt and Hearst.
A special to the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat from Guthrie, Okla., says
that Governor C. N. Haskell of that
state has so far received $3,000 in
response to his appeal to the people
of Oklahoma for funds with which
to fight President Roosevelt, W. R.
Hearst and others.
| The dispatch further says that an
agent of the interior department was
in Guthrie last week looking up the
records of the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company, and also the records in the
libel suit recently brought by Gov
ernor Haskell against Omer K. Ben
edict, editor of the Oklahoma City
Times.
WHAT “BARACA” MEANS.
“A word that has come into famil
iar use recently puzzled me no little
when I first saw it in print,” said a
layman. ‘I refer to ‘Baraca,’” popu
lar in the Sunday school world, to
denote a class composed of young
men who not only study the Bible,
but who form a brotherhood to work
along philanthropic lines.
“Having been a reader of the Eng
lish Bible since boyhood, I be
thought myself but could not re
member having come across the word
in the Old or New Testament. I
looked in the Bible concordance, but
the word was not there. Then I be
gan asking Sunday school workers,
but all I got from them was that the
word was taken from Genesis xii. 2,
‘And I will bless thee, and make thy
name great, and thou shalt be a
blessing.” I know nothing of the He
brew language, but when I referred
the matter to a rabbi he said: ‘That
word stumped me when I saw it in
the newspapers; I could not find it
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IN MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO
CUNGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN.
But One Georgia Member Among
List of Contributors. Need of
Funds Is Pressing.
WASHINGTON.—In the opinion
of the management of the democratic
congressional campaign the members
of congress in the safe districts of
the southern states are not doing
their part in making contributions
to the congressional campaign. So
far only a small number of congress
men from the south have contributed,
and it is rather interesting that on
the list, which is not displayed, but
which is nevertheless kept as a refer
ence in the campaign headquarters’
private drawer, there is the name of
but one Georgia congressman.
Representative’ Finley of South
Carolina, who at present, in the ab
sence of Representative Loyd, has
charge of the headquarters, says that
the committee is sorely in need of
funds; that hundreds of letters are
being received calling for help in
doubtful congressional districts, call
ing for speakers, for literature, for
any possible kind of help which the
committee can render. It is impos
sible to do anything, he said, unless
money is forthcoming.
“Of course,” said Mr. Finley,
‘“‘the money being spent by the na
tional committee for the election of
Bryan will have its effect upon the
congressmen, but it must be borne in
mind that we have a number of dem
ocratic congressmen from states in
which there is no possible chance
in the dictionary, but if it is used in
the sense of the word blessing it
should follow the Hebrew form—
B’'Racka. That is the way it ap
pears in the book of Genesis.’
‘““A minister now tells me that the
work Baraca was adopted by Mar
shall A. Hudson of Syracuse, N. Y.,
about ten years ago, and by him ap
plied to Sunday school ciasses such
as bear the name, and have the scope
of the brotherhood system in vogue
today.
‘““Another minister says that this
Hebrew or Semitic word for blessing
got into the language of the Coptice
church to mean the bread used in
the holy eucharist.
“A word that is so commonly
heard now should find its way into
the dictionary. Its history in Sun
day school life, although young, has
been written about, doubtless, and
explained. At any rate, I was sur
prised when I had difficulty in ‘caten
ing up’ with it.”
Baracas are flourishing in Dawson,
and are doing much good.
Fall Millinery
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for the democratic electoral ticket.
In such states the national commit
tee cannot be expected to spend any
money or to do any work. And yet
unless we carry those districts and
a few more which we hope to carry
in the ‘enemy’s country’ we cannot
elect a democratic house. For in
stance, we now have seven districts
in Pennsylvania represented by dem
ocrats, and there are several other
districts in which there is a chance
for the democratic candidates to be
elected, but none of them are so
safely democratic without exerting
every possible legitimate influence.
The candidates from these districts
cannot hope to induce the national
committee to help them, for Penn
sylvania is hopelessly republican; so
they are calling on the congressional
committee for help. We cannot give
them aid without some funds for this
work, and it is disappointing to us
that those congressmen in districts
which are certainly democratic are
not making contributions.” .
It is a little surprising to others
besides 'Representative Finley and
his associates at the campaign head
quarters that the southern congress
men are not making contributions,
for, as it is frequently remarked,
there is scarcely a class of citizens
in the country who would derive
more benefit from a democratic ma
jority in the house than the south
ern congressmen, who, at present,
have a slim chance or accomplishing
anything either for themselves or
their constiuents.
NEW SURVEY FOR CENTRAL.
Line North From Americus May Be
Entirely New One.
From Americus.to Macon the dis
tance via the Central Railway may
be lessened considerably as the re
sult of work now being done by the
company’s engineers to the end of re
ducing grades and taking out the
curves en route. The Americus Times-
Recorder says Engineer Brown, in
charge of the corps located in that
city, has been at work above Ameri
cus for several weeks and much has
been accomplished already. Just
now the engineering corps is engaged
in running an entirely new line be
tween Americus and Oglethorpe, a
distance of nineteen miles, and
which, if adopted, will leave the pres
ent line of the Central altogether.
There are many heavy grades and
dangerous curves between Americus
and Oglethorpe, and to eliminate
these a new line is being run east
of the present route, or to the right
of it in leaving Americus. At no
point, except Andersonville, does the
line now being surveyed touch the
line of the Central road until Ogle
thorpe is reached. It is not yet
known that the new Iline will be
adopted, or recommended in its en
tirety, as the engineers have not
completed the task.
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VOL. 271--NO. 3
RECEIVED GREATEST MAJORITY
GIVEN IN HISTORY OF GEORGIA.
Disfranchisement Was Carried and
Lindsey Won for Pension Com
missipner Over Six Opponents.
Joseph M. Brown of Marietta was
elected governor of Georgia by a ma
jority of more than 100,000 over his
opponent, Yancey Carter, an inde
pendent.
The election ended one of the
most remarkable campaigns in the
political history of this state. When
Mr. Brown announced his candidaey
for the gubernatorial nomination of
his party there were many who
thought he had no chance of winning
it. Against him was a brilliant man
who had only two years before won
the nomination for governor by an
unprecedented majority, and who had
every reason to think that he would
again sweep the state.
Brown won in the primary by a ma
jority of 10,000, and, that, too, with
out making a speech or visiting the
different parts of the state. He sim
ply remained in his campaign head
quarters and directed it. The people
did the rest. :
In the state election last Wednes
day Brown carried every county. It
was first announced that Carter had
carried Chattagoo and Gordon coun
ties, but the official returns placed
them in the democratic column.
Brown carried Carter’s home county
of Hart by 600 majority, and his
home precinct by 50 majority.
Mr. Brown’'s total majority is 101 -
143, the largest ever received by any.
candidate in the history of Georgia.
He received 113,505 votes in the
state, while Carter’'s vote is only
12,412,
The official figures wil not be
formally announced until next sum
mer, when the legislature will con
solidate the vote of each county and
declare the result. .
The disfranchisement amendment
received a majority of 32,000, the
vote being 70,903 for and 37,001
against it. J. W. Lindsey was elected
pension commissioner by 15,000 ma
jority.
WATSON COMING TO ARLINGTON.
Candidate for President Has Appoint
ment There for Oct. 21.
The Calhoun County Courier says
that Mr. J. F. Andrews has received
notice from Hon. Thos. E. Watson,
candidate for president, announcing
that he will speak in Arlington on
Wednesday, October 21st.
t Mr. Watson will, no doubt draw a
large crowd to the Calhoun town on
Ithat date by reason of his promi
nence in political circles of the
whole country and his widely known
ability to entertain any audience,
whether in accord with his political
views or not. The day promises to
ibe a big one for Arlington. :