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FEBRUARY 3, 1909.
THE PITY OF IT
imagine yourself ill or old—at the
¢age where the human machine has
ased to support you—without
poney, with no friend or relative to
iqde you over the stream of distress.
perhaps, too, there are helpless ones
dependent upon you.
yiark what occurs. In Germany,
e a sympathetic burgher run his
pand down into his great pocket, pull
“sorth a coin and place it in a bank
to your credit; in Holland a fisher
man nalts at a ‘‘stab” long enough
to add his mite; the gay Parisian
ceases lis revelry- to make a contri
pution; a Brittany peasant pauses in
response to a new Angelus, the toc
«n of mutual aid.
in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy,
men and women, too, give from their
qvings to help the afflicted and aged
_a touch of nature has made the
\\'Ill‘;" world kin!
plans are under way to establish
an international society to make uni
versal the motto, ‘‘One for all, all for
one.” France already has such a s¢-
coty, with 4,000,000 members. |
In Germany there is already a
compulsory .workingman’s pension
fund, to provide against illness or
superannuation; Australia has a pen
sion system. In the United States!
there are many excellent fraternal
organizations, but no cohesive frater
nity backed by national protection.
Wwill this be changed? France has
a most wonderful system which may
serve as a model.
“What will happen to me in my
old age?” No more pathetic queS-l
tion, or more often repeated, does
one hear nowadays. Perhaps no oth-'
¢r sociological problem causes more
uneasiness in this country. Even the‘
rich shudder sometimes at thought
of the time when they can no longer‘
wrest maintenance from the grudg-l
ing god of competition. Are banks
YOUNG WOMAN'’'S INTERESTING
EXPLANATION OF HER (COL
LAPSE IN THE EFFORT.
The News has little time for fa
natics who are so pat and pert in
allusions to what the Savior would
do under existing conditions on this
earth. ‘
As a matter of fact none of these
people have any idea of what Christ
would do. He might upset condi
tions, start a moral revolution and
strike in the highest, and sometimes
considered the holiest places, just as
He did when He came here before.
In this connection a late and in
teresting story comes from Cleveland,
0., .to the effect that following a
series of revival meetings there a
number of young people in the or
dinary walks of life entered into an
agreement to live for two weeks as
nearly as possible like Jesus Christ
would have lived under their -cir
cumstances. From all accounts the
experiences of these well-meaning
young persons were discouraging if
not positively distressing. One of
them, a girl employed as a type-
Writer in a wholesale house, tried to
keep the pledge she had made for
WWo weeks, but realized on the first
day that either the pledge or her job
Wwould have to be cast to the chilly
winds,
This young lady has favored the
bublic with a statement explaining
tie collapse of her effort to “live like
Christ” even for so short a period as
(ne day. In a pathetic but perfectly
ruthtul way sHe declares that the
business morality of the present day
and the morality of Christ are in vio
lent and hopeless conflict. She says,
I her statement, that on the first
d'a?;' of her trial she was required to
Write letters containing dishonorable
fvasions, half-truth and lies of the
Dlain and unvarnished breed. There
fore .\h(_x Says:
"No doubt it is necessary to tell
Such lies in business, but Jesus
Would not have done so; and when
I type the letter I must tell the lie,
100. Jesus would not have allowed
nselt to be implicated in the lie.
He would refuse to write it. If I
(I,l' that I should lose my position.”
it is evident that this young girl
Was perfectly honest and sincere in
her desire to live up to a higher ideal
then the sordid world is willing to
accept, but we think she is to be
‘Uliplimented on the wisdom she dis-
Vleved in tearfully abandoning the
“llort to live like the Great Redeem-
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A Thought That Distresses
the Poor and Makes the Rich
Shudder,
always secure? Do employe: never
abscond? Are business reverses al
ways combatable? May war and
panic be stayed?
How much more perturbed, then,
must be the man or woman whose
earning capacity permits nothing bet
ter than hand-to-mouth existence.
Into the minds of such there stalks,
sleeping and waking, that gaunt
wolf of grinning, taunting visage,
coming closer, ever closer, as if anx
lous to grasp his meal—the wolf of
old age. Two "Women were over
heard conversing in a railroad coach.
“I don’t know what I'll do when
I get old,” said one. “Not a single
relative or friend have I who thinks
enough of me, or is financially able,
to care for me when I have to quit
washing and scrubbing for a living.
One thing I know—Tl’ll never go to
the poorhouse!”
“I'm as badly off,” said the other.
“Although younger than you I have
my paralytic mother to keep, and
can’t lay by a cent. sMany a night
;I cry myself to sleep.”
| ONh, the pity of it!
| Were one to spend a little time
looking up such cases he would be
astounded at their number. Indeed,
Were one to ask every acquaintance
‘he meets: “Are you confident of
'maintenance for You and yours in
your old age?” one would find com
paratively few affirmative answers.
~ What a cloud of gloom would be
lifted from every community, from
‘the nation, were this different. . How
‘much more cheerfully would one toil
toward that now-dreaded threshold,
‘the age of incapacity, if assured that
once over it he could lie back and
laugh at his gaunt pursuer, the wolf
of old age!
~ Ah, yes, indeed. In the light of
‘what has been said let each of us in
all seriousness ask himself the ques
tion: “Am Imy brother’s keeper?”’
The answer rings true—“Do unto
others as you would have others do
unto you.”
er and holding onto her job. No
body, we are sure, will think any the
less of her for doing sO, because
that is quite impossible. Such a feat
will never be successfully performed
until that exceedingly remote and
doubtful period known as the millen
nium comes to raise the standard of
business morality and also chase the
sins of the wicked world away.—Ma
con Evening News.
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A “SUFFRAGETTE” WEDDING.
All the Principals in the Ceremony
Except Groom Will Be Women.
Details of an important wedding
have been announced.
The ceremony will probably be re
corded as a ‘‘suffragette” marriage,
for the bride will be Miss Mary Cole
man, the woman lawyer and promi
nent figure in the Women's National
Progressive Suffrage Union. The
bridegroom will be Frederick Lamp
ton Hardenbrook, and the knot will
be tied some time during the latter
part of Easter week. But here are
the arrangements which will give the
affair its “suffrage’” atmosphere:
All the ushers will be women,
while the Rev. Lydia K. Commander,
formerly pastor of a Unitarian church
at Baraboo, Wis., will officiate. News
of the coming ceremony came out
during a meeting of suffragists at
Calvary Baptist church. Some of
Miss Coleman’s radical friends even
objected to her being ‘‘given away’”’
by her father, but she decided that
this time-honored custom at least
should be carried out. Mr. Harden
brook will be allowed a best man,
but aside from this departure the
wedding will be strictly one where
women predominate. At the wed
ding reception it is planned to dis
tribute the wedding cake in minia
ture ballot boxes, inscribed ‘votes
for women."”
| ALIENS QUIT UNITED STATES.
The Net Loss to This Country in One
Year Is 46,576.
For the year ended Oct. 31st last
| the number of aliens arriving in this
!country was 655,263, while the de
'parting aliens in the same period
| numbered 701,839, a net loss to the
!comltry of 46,5676, according to a
| statement made by Secretary Straus
}upon leaving the cabinet meeting a
i few days ago. Another interesting
| fact to Secretary Straus, who spoke
{to the president regarding it, was
‘that in the month of October, 1908,
the immigration to this country was
larger from Great Britain than from
{any other country of the world,
'amounting to 8,334. From British
| North America there came the sec
'ond largest number, 6,501.
THIS IS “NO MAN'S LAND.”
Court’s Decision Affects Million Dol
lar Bridge and Homes.
By a decision of the circuit court
at Forth Smith, Ark., a strip of land
twelve miles long and two miles
wide, adjoining Fort Smith, becomes
‘“‘no man’s land.” The strip was
originally a part of the Indian Ter
ritory, and was allotted to the Choc
taw Nation, but was ceded by con
gress to Arkansas in order to allow
local authorities to have police juris
diction over it, as it had become a
refuge for outlaws. The failure of
Arkansas to accept the land by an|
amendment to its constitution is;
given by the court as a reason for its |
ruling which holds that the boun-“
dary line of 1880 is still in effect.l
The Constitutional Convention ofl
Oklahoma declared the strip a part
of that state. ‘
For twenty years the local courts
here have tried ecrimes committed inl
the strip, and there are now more
than fifty men serving sentence on |
convictions in Arkansas courts for]
crimes committed in the disputed]
territory. In border days eighty
eight men were hanged in the strip
after being sentenced by Federal
Judge Parker at Ft. Smith,
The property fronts on the Arkan
sas and Poteau rivers, and is valued
at $2,000,000. Many factories, a
million-dollar bridge, a water plant‘
and a number of homes will be af
fected by the court’s decision, which
holds that all taxes paid for the past
twenty years were illegally levied.
It is announced that Oklahoma’s
title to the strip will be disputed inl
the United States supreme court.
WEDDING CAKE SIX FEVET HIGH.
A Whole Lot of Sweetness at This
Wedding Besides the Bride.
What is claimed to be one of the
largest wedding cakes ever made for
actual use received its finishing dec
orations in the kitchen of the Grand
Pacific Hotel, in Chicago, last week.
It was then sent by express to
Hamilton, Ontario. The cake was
nearly six feet in height, five feet
in diameter at the base and weighs
practically a quarter of a ton.
It was served at the wedding of
Charles P. McColm of Muscatine, la.,
to Miss Alleen Davis, daughter of
William R. Davis, collector of cus
toms at the port of Hamilton, Jan
uary 27th. There were 600 guests
at the wedding reception, and Mr.
McColm gave Frank Cotta, steward
at the Grand Pacific, instructions to
make the largest wedding cake this
country had ever known. There have
probably been larger cakes made for
show purposes, but Mr. Cotta does
not believe that anything really in
tended for a wedding can equay it.
More than a week was required in
mixing, baking and decorating.
The materials he used would stock
a small store. Some of the chief in
gredients are:
Ninety pounds of sugar, nine hun
ldred eggs, sixty pounds of butter,
lninety pounds of currants, sixty
’pounds of raisins, sixty-two pounds
of citron, thirty-seven pounds chopp
ed almonds, one hundred and twen
} 1 almond hundred and t
'ty pounds of flour, one and one-half
pounds of spice, fifteen quarts of
‘cognac, fifteen quarts of sherry wine,
‘three quarters of a pound of baking
'soda.
WOOED THROUGH INTERPRETER
Not Stated Whether the Other Little
Love Doings Were by Proxy.
Although M. Leman, a druggist, of
124 West One Hundred and Thirty
fifth street, does not speak French,
and although Miss Helen Soquet, who
came to this city from Paris less than
two months ago, speaks very little
English, friends of the two learned
Tuesday that they had been married
at the city hall two weeks ago, says
the New York Herald.
Mrs. Leman said that she had first
met the druggist when she went to
his store to telephone to her sister.
He spoke English and she spoke
French, she explained, and each
spoke a little German.
“My sister, who speaks French,
English and German with equal fa
cility, interpreted for us,” Mrs. Le
man continued. ‘‘An hour before the
ceremony was performed I tele
phoned the news to her from Mr. Le
man’s store, and she replied, ‘I give
you my blessing. She joined us and
went with us to the city hall, where
we were married.”
i WOMAN, LOVELY WOMAN.
A Description of Her as Fashion
Makes Her Today.
Her waist begins just below her
neck. Her hips have been planed off
even with the rest of her body. She
is usually buttoned up the back, and
around her neck she wears a section
of barbed wire covered with lace.
She wears on her head a blond hay
stack of hair and on top of this a
central dome with rings about the
same size as those of Saturn. She
is swathed in her gown like an In
dian papoose, and on the end of her
feet are dabs of patent leather. She
walks on stiltlike heels with the ex
pertness of a tight-rope dancer. The
pores of her skin are full of fine
white powder.
This is a woman.
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THE DAWSON NEWS.
BAN ON HOME-MADE WINE
'OLD MAN IN SUMTER COUNTY
’ JAIL FOR SELLING A LITTLE
| BLACKBERRY JUICE.
! AMERICUS.—An old man, a farm
;er, was sent to jail here in Sum
;ter county the other day for selling
la little blackberry wine which he had
‘made from berries gathered on his
fplace. The incident has created no
%small amount of comment over the
state, in view of known violations of
'the prohibition law through the open
'sale of beer and whisky in several
*Georgia cities.
l It is true he committed a violation
~of the prohibition law, which goes to
ithe extent of making it criminal for
the farmer or the farmer’s housewife
’to manufacture domestic wine from
berries or grapes grown at her own
lback door. The seeming injustice in
this becomes apparent when it is re
‘called that before the advent of the
'prohibition law Georgia legally en
courged and recognized the manu
facture and sale of domestic wines by
\relieving this product from all taxa
tion. It'was frequently the case that
farmers brought in bottles of home
‘made blackberry or scuppernong |
‘wine, and peddled it upon the streets
of the cities under protection of thei
‘law. It was often good wine, too. |
~ But the prohibition law has put it
under the ban, and in those countiesi
where the prohibition law is more
highly thought of than it is perhaps
in some of the larger cities the farm-;
er may find himself in jail for sell
ing a quart of scuppernong wine,
although in the latter cases the old
time barkeeper may, without much‘
molestation, pass across the bar a
bottle of well seasoned beer, or now
and then even a mixed drink.
It is said that the opponents of the}
prohibition law insisted on the pro-|
vision barring domestic wines, be-“
cause they thought it would tend
more speedily to bring the law into‘
disfavor. In the meantime it is like
ly also to be productive of occa-l
sional injustice.
BABY CRAWLED AMONG DEAD.
It Alone Escaped Murderers. Lynch
ing May Avenge Three Deaths.
An Amite City, La., dispatch says:
Sheriff Sall has returned to Amite
City with Avery Blount as a prison
er and brought the details of the
shooting at Tickfaw in which two
women and a man were killed. The
parish is being searched for Garfield
Kinchen, alleged to be implicated in
the shooting. A lynching is feared.
It is alleged that a few nights ago
as Benjamin Breland, his wife and
Mrs. Joseph Everitt, the latter carry
ing an infant in her arms, were mak
ing their way homeward along one
of the parish roads Blount and Kin
chen fired on them from the side of
the road with shotguns. Mrs. Ever
itt fell with her baby into the road,
her head blown almost off. Mrs.
Breland’s breast was torn off by one
@f the volleys and Breland fell at
the first fire.
Young people driving home from
a party found the baby crawling
among the bodies. Breland was still
living, and was able to murmur the
name of Kinchen before he died.
Blount said that Kinchen killed
Breland, but would not say who
killed the women.
Mrs. Everitt’s husband was killed
by Ben Kinchen, a brother of Gar
field, several days ago and the widow
and her baby were making their
home with the Brelands.
;NO\V EAT PIGS INSTEAD OF MEN.
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Cannibals of Papau Have Changed
| Their Diet.
~ Though cannibalism used to be
practiced to a great extent in Papau
it has now given place to Y Pig
Feasts,” which are extremlely popu
lar. ‘““The preparation for these
feasts,” says a writer, “often takes
days beforehand, for they are noth
ing if not movable. The feast is an
nounced for a certain day, but at
the appointed time all the necessary
pigs may not have been brought in,
or some expected visitors may not
have arrived, or a pig already pres
ent may have struggled free from
its bonds and have to be hunted for
a day or two. But no one ever
seems to mind the delay. With
well-bred calmness they wait until
everything is quite ready and then
the feast begins.
“On one such occasion there were
nearly 1,000 people present, and 50
pigs, 2,000 cocoanuts and huge piles
of taro were distributed. The feast
givers got nothing; that is a uni
versal custom. The recipients like
wise neither cooked nor ate a morsel
until they got home, for it is con
sidered good form in Papau to eat
nothing but to carry away every
thing, thus practically reversing our
notions of hospitality. There was a
great heap of dismembered pigs lying
on the ground, and the presiding
genius of the feast, with his assist
ants, threw these violently toward
the guests. Each important man had
retainers, who ran forward and bore
the joint off, while the less fortunate
ones kept up a running fire of com
ment—identifying a pig'’s head as
having been the contribution of some
particular man, or reproving the hill
folk for their awkward gait, telling
them not to fear precipices on the
coast, and so on.”
Hoarse coughs and stufty colds
that may develop into pneumonia
over night are quickly cured by Fo
ley’s Honey and Tar, and it soothes
inflamed membranes, heals the lungs
and expels the cold from the system.
Dawson Drug Co. and People’s Drug
Store.
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of the above property, can be had
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450 acres, four miles south of
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557 acres of land in improved
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630 acres of land southwest of
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100 acres lying in and just be
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DAWSON, GEORGIA.
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We invite the attention of the farmers of this sec
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City Property
A bargain in a three-story
brick building in Dawson. A fine
piece of property, and a good ine
vestment.
~ Two brick store houses on
Third avenue.
T'wo brick storehouses on Main
street.
~ Four tenant houses and Ilots.
~ Two residences on Third ave
i nue; conveniently located and de
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1 Dwelling house, with store con
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| A Dbeautiful home on Church
street—one of the most modern
and desirable in Dawson.
Ten acres of land, with five
tenant houses, in good location.
Will give you an extra good bar
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Two hundred acres of
well-improved land a mile
and half from Dawson.
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