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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWELVE Tom Watson Sums Up The Hoke Smith-Mclendon Row In his Jeffersonian of last week Editor Thomas E. Watson reviews at length the suspension of Chairman McLendon of the railroad commission by Governor Hoke Smith, and sums up the case as it is presented and .must be decided by the legislature as follows: “What, then, is the exact truth? “Governor Smith suspended Mec- Lendon from office because he re fused to give Atlanta those special privileges which had been denied her, by formal decisions, three times before. And the feature of the in cident which deserves particular no tice is that Mr. Hoke Smith, the hired attorney, had failed to get the former commission to do the veryl thing that Mr. Hoke Smith, the gov ernor of all the people, tried to get his packed commission to do. l “McLendon’s ruling in the case which caused his suspension is that} the commission cannot grant special BATTLE BETWEEN MAN'S SKILL AND THE ELEMENTS. Galveston Struck by Gulf Hurricane That Resembled Disaster of Nine Years Ago. GALVESTON, Tex.—Man's strength and skill were pitted against the fury of the elements today and man won, when the city of Galveston safely in trenched behind her impregnablel seventeen-foot seawall withstood with comparatively trifling loss a lidal wave and hurricane equal in Intensity and destructive force to the one which destroyed the city on Sep tember 8, 1900. In Galveston and vicinity not a single life is believed to have been sacrificed. The hurricane swept the entire gulf coast with an intensity and vi ciousness that has seldom been equaled in a country where destruct ive storms are not unusual. It had its origin on the Atlantic coast, and swinging westward and southward, devastating the entire gulf coast even as far south as Mattagorda Bay. That some lives were lost and that much property was destroyed is the general belief tonight. With wires down and railroad communica tion destroyed the exact loss is im possible to estimate. Wind 70 Miles an Hour. The hurricane struck Galveston about 11 o'clock this morning. The wind, attaining a velocity of nearly 70 miles an hour, whipped the treacherous waters of the Mexican gulf into a fury of destruction. With the pent up anger of ten years of hate the waves blindly assaulted the grim parapets of stone which man had builded to restrain its attacks. In vain it hurled thousands of tons of water upon the splendid breast works. Only a feeble burst of spray and a little water reached its object ive and the beleaguered city lay calm and safe behind the wall. Outside the limits of the city, where tge,walls had not been reared ind where the city had not been ele rated the waters had their way, but they wrecked only deserted huts and abandoned territory. In this section of the city, which is low and sparsely settled, the water rose to a height of seven feet, but the warnings of the weather bureau had been heeded, and the inhabitants had removed their possessions out of the danger zone. - : Narrow KEscapes. ~ From other e¢ities in the affected area come tales of narrow escapes and much destruction of property. ‘The only anxiety expressed now is for the smaller towns, villages and summer resorts with which the gulf coast is so thickly settled. In the history of other gulf storms it is this type of villages which suffered most from the waters. The entire gulf coast is very low, and offers absolutely no protection from the storm of waves. Beautiful summer hotels and handsome cottages dot the shore and shelter thousands of care free and happy pleasute seekers. What their fate has been or what it will be as the storm sweeps on no one can tell—yet. There is no communication by A IS RELIABLE and satisfactory. It speaks kind. fy in praise of the quality of our drugs and chemicals, as well as of the skill which these prescrip tions are compounded. If you wish the best sexvice in prescriptions come to us; if you wish the best and purest of drugs come to as. g PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE favors to the Atlanta jobbers with 'out doing an injustice to other towns land cities. The dissenting opinion 'was delivered by Commissioner Can dler. We have read it, and we do ‘not find anything which puts in ques ' «dion the position taken by McLen ‘don. “Consequently, as it seems to us, ,the issue which the legislature is to 'try is this: “PDid McLendon forfeit his office by refusing to grant special privi leges to Atlanta? “Mr. Smith, handsomely "paid as a lawyer, goes before the railroad ’commission and demands special fa vors for his own town, Atlanta. He meets a determined opponent in Joseph M. Brown. He runs for gov ernor and says in his speeches that if elected he will remove Brown. Is elected, and removes Brown. “Then he brings the same question before his packed commission, and loses again. And then he hops on McLendon, as he had jumped on Brown. ‘ ‘“There’s the case, gentlemen of the legislature.” wire with the island city of Galves ton tonight. A schooner torn from her dock oy the wind smashed into the span of the one bridge which con nects Galveston with the mainland, and severed the telegraph and tele phone cables as well as rendered un safe the bridge. Tonight all com munication with the world is by tugs. People Along Shore Safe. Later news reports that between 300 and 500 people who have been [living in hotels, cottages and tents along the gulf shore ‘between High Island and Boliver on tne Gulf and Interstate railroad, are now reported safe at High Island. The relief train which went down today got within‘ five miles of High Island, and there | encountered the sea running across the track to the bay. Boats were sent, but when the train left there, returning at 7 o’'clock, nothing had been heard from the boat. At 9 o’clock, however, a boat was sent back to the point where the train nad stopped and a telegraph wire was rigged up and the message was sent that every person from the gulf resorts was safe. The train sent out from Boliver Point this morning succeeded in get ting through to High Island and re turned to Boliver, picking up on both trips every one between the two points. The water at Boliver and other resorts is from six to eight feet at the highest point. Fitz Smith has laid an egg plant on the desk of the Editor of the Cuth bert Leader that weighed five pounds. Wiulveston Escaped, But at Other 1 Points on the Gulf the Coast Is Strewn With Corpses. NEW ORLEANS, La.—That the hurricane which yesterday swept the gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana levied a far heavier toll in loss of lite and property damage than that at first supposed was indicated late today when points which had been cut off from communication again got in touch with the outside world. That the property loss will run into the millions was made a certain ty tonight, when whole towns which were not at first believed to have suffered were definitely reported to have been wrecked. Over a score of persons are now believed to have lost their lives. Towns Which Suffered. Cities and towns in Texas which suffered from the hurricane and the loss of life and property damage which were occasioned there are as follows, so far as reported: Galveston—Ten lives lost off Tar pon pier. One man killed by col lapse of a building. Property dam age about $175,000. Bay City—Three dead, six serious ly injured and destruction of prop erty to the extent of $150,000. Bay Shore—One dead and consid erable property damage. Velasco—Only three stores left standing, and many homes blown down. Tago—Syrup mills wrecked. Austin—Many buildings unroofed, .telephone and telegraph wires ley eled. Damage about $lOO,OOO Brazoria—Many buildings de stroyed and loss of life feared. ~ Pledger—Heavy property dam age. Syrup mills wrecked. | Allenhurst—Many structures are wrecked. Fifty Houses Destroyed. | Richmond—Fifty residences and stores partially demolished. ‘ Palacios—A number of houses blown down and fear entertained that several people have perished. Definite report of one child killed. Angleton—Every house in the town badly damaged. Blessing—Several lives reported lost and considerable property dam age, ‘ Eagle Lake—One dead, many houses unroofed and two large su gar and rice plants partially wrecked. Some of the towns along or near the Texas coast where it is feared great damage may have been done, ‘but from which nothing has yet been heard, are Lavaca, Indianola, Rock \port, Gollad, Victoria, Columbia, ‘Edna and Matagorda. In Louisiana points in Cameron ‘parish are reported to have suffered (severely from the hurricane. There {was a loss of two lives at Mudd Pass, ‘and much property is reported as having been damaged in the settle ments at Creole, Berry, Grand Cho nior and Johnson’'s Bayou. CHEESE COST HIM Bslso. His Wife Thought Something Was Wrong, and Employed a Plumber. ' Tom Mauger of Hammond, Ind., bought a piece of limburger cheese. It cost him $l5O before he was through with it. Mauger’s wife re fused to tolerate it in the house, s 0 he tied it to a nail outside of his house and the hot weather did the rest. Mauger forgot about the cheese, and his wife told him there was something wrong with the plumbing. He employed a plumber, who searched through the pipes for de fects in sewerage, practically wreck ing the house. Then Mauger remembered the cheese. i HENPECKED MEN MUST RISE. lHere’s a Judge Who Comes to Their Rescue. ‘““A man should be the boss of his own household. I doubt very much whether a woman entertains Vvery much respect for a husband who will submit to her constant nagging, not resenting it. She grows to look upon him as a sort of mollycoddle, and the woman never lived who could At Macon, Mo., Judge A. M. Rom jue gave this advice to Thomas Farm er, who admitted having deserted his wife, but who claimed his better half nagged him to such an extent that she made his life miserable. ‘“The whole trouble between these two people seems to be a want of self-assertion on the part of the hus band,” the judge went on. ‘‘He is really the party at fault, because when his wife had made a household nuisance of herself by her continued fault-finding and criticism it was his | duty to shut her up. She got 80 much in the habit of lecturing him that it became a sort of second na ‘ture with ner, and she did it mechani caily, not maliciously, but because it was the customary and natural thing to do. ‘“All the evidence shows the de fendant in this case is an unusually quiet man; you might call him sub dued. I guess he is. But a subdued husband is a mighty unpromising piece of furniture in a happy home. The henpecked hushand gets no sym pathy at home or abroad, and de serves none. I believe the Lord in tended men to govern the house, and when they fail to assume the re sponsibility they do it on the peril of their aomestic happiness.” TREE BROKE HIS NECK. A Brooks County Saw Mill Opera tor Is Killed. H. L. Yates, a Brooks county saw mill operator, was killed by a fall ing tree striking him on the shoulder and breaking his neck. He was superintending the work of felling trees in the woods when the accident occurred, and lived less than half an hour after receiving his injuries. HIGH HEELS HURLED HER OUT | SEeL Mrs. Arthur Teele Falls to Street | From Her New York Apartments. NEW YORK.—High heels nearly cost the life of Mrs. Arthur Teele last night by causing her to plunge headlong from the front window of her apartment on the second floor of No. 422 West End avenue, at Eighteenth street. As it was she re ceived severe contusions of the face and body, and possibly internal in juries, although the attending physi cians said she would recover. Mrs. Teele, who is thirty-five yYears old and the wife of Ar thur W. Teele, a public accountant, was sitting by the window about eight o’clock, when the breeze blew a lace curtain about her. She arose to kick it away, and as she thrust out her foot the high French heel caught in the curtain and she lost her balance. The window sill is only about two feet from the floor, and before any one could reach her side Mrs. Teele fell to the street. Screams of Mrs. Teele’s maid as she ran from the room attracted the attendants of the apartment house, and the woman was found lying un conscious in the front areaway. She was carried up to her apartment and an ambulance was called from the J. Hood Wright hospital, but when it arrived admission was refused to Dr. Smith, as well as to Policeman John F. Bennett of the West Sixty-eighth street station. Physicians were called in and the injured woman was not taken to the hospital. After making an inquiry the physicians agreed that it was a case of accident due to the high heels. PHENOMENAL PRODUCTION. I Bibb County Farmer Has the Banner Yield From Eight Acres. | The following from the Macon Telegraph more than proves that this is one of. the greatest farming coun tries in the world. It shows what can be done by the right man. Mr. H. H. Clarke of Walden plant ed eight acres of land in Irish pota toes that yielded 1,600 bushels, which sold at $1.25 a bushel. On that same eight acres, after the po tatoes had been cleared off, he plant ed watermelons, producing five car loads that will yield him $ll5 to the car. Two cars of these melons came off of three acres, and there are still many more on the vines. Mr. Clarke only planted ten acres of corn, which will produce more than enough to supply his farm needs. He has a hundred-acre farm. ‘ e —————————————— A Night Rider's Raid. The worst night riders are calo mel, croton oil or ales pills. They raid your bed to rob you of rest. ll\'ot so with Dr. King's New Life Pills. They never distress or incon ivenience. but always cleanse the sys tem, curing colds, headache, consti nation, malaria. 256 c at Dawson 'Drug Co’s. THE DAWSON NEWS. STATE OFFICIALS OF COLORADO MUST STAY AT THEIR DESKS. Absence for Any Length of Time Means a Lighter Pay Envelope Is Rule of Auditor. Colorado has an auditor who is “strictly on the job,” as the saying lgoes. His name is Kenehan. He 'feels that the people elected him to look out for their public bookkeep ing and to see that nobody got more money than was coming to him. That is what he is doing, and he doesn’t care who objects to his sys tem. A week or two ago Governor Shafroth made a trip to Ann Arbor to receive a degree from the Univer sity of Michigan. Ot course the hon or paid to Governor Shafroth reflect ed its light in part on the state of Colorado, which had chosen so emi nent a man to be its chief executive. But that made no difference what ever to Auditor Kenehan. The only matter that he took under consid eration was that Governor Shafroth had been away from his desk and out of the state, wherefore, to the auditor’s mind, he was not entitled to pay for the days he was off duty. He didn’t say anything to the gov ernor about it, but merely docked him in the amount he thought ought to be taken out of his pay envelope, and sent him the balance. It has been the custom in Colo rado when state officials have been absent for a few days from their duties to pay them their full salaries. Auditor Kenehan says that sort of thing ‘““won’t go’’ while he is in office. He will dock every state ofﬁ-} cial, big or little, for every day’s time, and won't ask anybody’'s ad vice about it, either. Moreover, Kenehan, in looking back over thel state’s books, has found that in the past dozen years officials have drawnf not less than $150,000 in pay for | days when they were not on duty. He says he is going to try to get al] of that back into the treasury for the taxpayers. His predecessors, he says, bad no right to permit thig money to be paid out,’and the offi cials had no right to receive it. It will be interesting to note if a precedent will be established by the stand taken by the Colorado auditor. Junketing by public officials, both state and federal, has become a very common practice. Maybe if they were made to take these trips “in; their own time,” or at least not in| time paid for by the people, therel would be fewer junkets and a Con-] siderable sum saved to public treas- | uries. | The Four D's. Charles Spurgeon once said that there were three great enemies to man—"*"dirt, debt and the devil.” He might have added one more d and included dyspepsia. The evil re sults of this disease could hardly be exaggerated. It's effects are felt in mind and body, and are so far reaching as the effects of the curse that was laid on the Jackdaw of Rheims which was cursed in ‘“‘eating and drinking and sleeping, in stand ing and sitting and lying.” The good effects of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery are most marked in aggra vated and chronic cases of dyspep sia. It enables the stomach glands to secrete the necessary quantity of digestive fluids, and this at once re moves that craving or gnawing sen sation so common to certain forms of indigestion. It tones and regu lates the stomach, invigorates the torpid liver and gives the blood-mak ing glands keen assimilative power. *‘Golden Medical Discovery” cures ninety-eight per cent. of those who use it. Dr. rierce’s Pleasant Pellets are superior to all other laxative medi cines when the bowels are ob structed. EXCURSION RATES. Via Central of Georgia Railway Company. TO BLUE RIDGE, GA., and return, account Georgia Baptist Assem bly, to be held Aaugust 1-31, 1909. Excursion fares will ap ply from points in Georgia. TO LOUISVILLE, KY., and return, account National Association of Retail Druggists, to be held September 6-10, 1909. TO MOBILE, ALA., and return, ac count of National Convention Knights of Columbus, August 3-6, 1909. TO SAVANNAH, GA., and return, account Farmers' Union Sea Is land Cotton Association, to be held July 27-28, 1909. Apply to ticket agent for information as to points from which tickets will be sold, total rates, ete. TO ALBANY, GA., and return, ac count District Grand Lodge No. 18, G U. 0, O: F, 10 bé hald August 10-13, 1909. Tickets on sale from points in Georgia. TO BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C.. and return, account Montreat Chau tauqua and religious assemblies, to be held July 15 to August 01, 1909. TO LOS ANGELES, CAL., PORT LAND, OREGON, SEATTLE, WASH., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., account Alaska-Yukon | Pacific Exposition, and various \ other special occasions. For full information in regard to rates, dates of sale, limits, sched ules, etc., apply to nearest ticket agent. MMMEDBAN 3 PILLS. A Sgve, Certary Reviey for Supprrssxn MeNsTRO ATTON, NZVER KNOWN TU FAIL, Safe! Sure! Speedy | Satis fncuot Guaranteed 51 Money Refunded, Sent prepaiv for §l.OO per box. Will send tiem on tria), v be paid for =hen r_'eved. Samples I'ree. If your druggist does have them send youroid rs 1o the % P UNITED MEDICALCO., a"x 74, LaNcCASTEA, Pa, Sold la Dawsci by ite Dawsou Drug Co. ves not Coior the Hair Does not Ccior the Har i AYER’S HAIR VIGOR Stops Falling Hair An Elegant Dresslng Destroys Dandiruff Makes Hair Grow Composed of Sulphur, Glycerin, Quinin, Sodium Chlorid, Capsicum, Sage, Alcohg] Water, Perfume. 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