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WeERSOLL DID NOT RECANT
WIDOW oF THE FAMOUS AGNOS
TIC DENOUNCES REPORT.
g Is 2 pase Perversion of Truth,
she bDeclares. Ingersoll Died
Ten Years Ago.
NEW vORK.—Ten years ago to
fay, OB July 21, 1899, the newspa
pél.'?' of the world announced the
jeath of the greatest foe of christian
iy, Robert G. Ingersoll. Although
tfie end of the famous agnostic ora
jor came suddenly and silently, and
A expired without a word this fact
gas lOt prevented the circulation of
pany reports alleging that Inger
goll recanted on his deathbed.
These statements are denounced
py Mrs. ingersoll, widow of the ag
gostic, s base perversions of truth
and absolutely without foundation.
yrs. Ingersoll remains firm in her
adherence to the views on religion
atertained by her late husbhand.
gpe indignantly denies the widely
publi-h"d report that she has become
g spiritualist. Rumors to the effect
fat she has accepted the Baptist or
any other faith she dismisses as un
gorthy of attention.
what is denounced by friends of
fe Ingersoll family as one of the
most harefaced falsehoods regarding
the death of the great orator is in
¢uded in what purports to be an af
fdavit signed by an Oregon man.
which is now he'mg given wide pub
licity by evangelists and the religious
eca This sworn statement is as
folloWS:
101-1-1 do hereby declare that Robert
Ingersoll confessed to my father,
joehiel S. Berry, on his dying bed,
that he did not believe the doctrine
he preached. ,
“He said these words: ‘Joehiel,
1 wish I had my life to live over
arain.” When asked why he said:
‘pecause 1 do not believe what I have
preached and never have. I only did
it for the money that was in it.’
“His daughter then asked: ‘Whose
life shall I live after, yours or moth
er's?” Mrs. Ingersoll was a strict
Baptist and a sister to my father.’
“Signed ARCHIE E. BERRY, St.
John, Oregon.”
Mrs. Ingersoll denies any relation
ship to or knowledge of the Berry
family, says that no such person as
Berry was present at her husband’s
death, and that she is not and never
has been a Baptist, strict or other
wise. Another story which meets
with as firm a denial is to the effect
that before his death Colonel Inger
soll sent for a priest, who was intro
duced into the Dobb’s Ferry house by
the back way. Several other reports
concerning Ingersoll’s alleged recant
ation, published by religious and
Sunday school papers during the last
decade, are alleged to be but new
versions of fables about Voltaire,
Paine and other /Freethinkers. It is
also stated that an almost identical
affidavit to the one signed by Berry
was once circulated about Ethan
Allen, the Ticonderoga hero, who
was an atheist, and his daughter.
Another recent story, acdtredited to a
famous evangelist who is now touring
the west, alleges that Ingersoll’s son
committed suicide, but it is invali
dated by the fact that the agnostic
had no son.
In an attempt to put an end to
these deathbed recantation fables
Mrs. Ingersoll, her sister, Mrs. Sue
M. Farrell, and Susan Sharkey, an
other member of the family, pre
vared an affidavit setting forth the
lacts regarding Colonel Ingersoll’s
DOCTOR SUES FOR BIG FEE.
Wants $lO,OOO For Relieving Moth
cer-in-Law of Her Appendix.
Ur. S, E. Milliken has filed suit in
Dallas, Tex., for a $lO,OOO debt
against Mrs. S. A. Gibbs for an op
fration performed on her for appen
dicitis. Mrs. Gibbs is the widow of
Barnett Gibbs, former lieutenant
governor of Texas. Dr. Milliken was
!",""“ erly a son-in-law of Mrs. Gibbs.
He was recently divorced from his
Wite, Sallie Gibbs.
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00 the hardware store and freely spent
H-'\ advertised bargains the very bill
w° 9ot from the furniture dealer’s till,
Nere it went when the dry goods
A merchant bought
"d paid with the bill that the butcher
got
From the grocer who had settlement
. made
With the money the honest workman
paid.
o S.~The local dealer who's up tasnuff
Wil atways advertise his st:s.
In Our New Quarters
See us next door to Dawson National
Bank building, formerly occupied by J. C.
Hind. We are better fitted to serve you
than ever. OQurtwo stores will be connect
ed and convenient for all of our custom
ers. Phone us at No. 60.
Dawson Hardware Co.
MR. FRICKS $750 UNDERWEAR
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The American Millionaire Is Getting
Right Particular About His
Undershirt and Drawers,
. A London cable to the New York
Times says: A London haberdasher
is now exhibiting in a shop window
in a frequented thoroughfare a sam
ple of a dozen suits of underwear
which a notice displayed alongside
says have been specially made for a
wealthy American at a total of $750.
The haberdasher acknowledged
this afternoon that the dozen suits
of silk underwear were made to the
special order of Henry C. Frick of
Pittsburg and New York, and that
four dozen silk-wool suits displayed
in another window of the same shop,
costing £127, were ordered by the
Colorado millionaire, William N.
Wood. The haberdasher further
proudly announces upon a placard
in the front of his shop that he has
more than 10,000 American custo
mers.
When interviewed he said the price
paid by Mr. Frick was more than
twice the highest previously known.
The texture of the garments is heavy
woven silk of the softest, most flexi
ble, and glossiest quality manufact
ured in England. The color is a
very light ecru. The needlework,
binding and buttonholes are as fine
as those of the wedding trousseau
of a princess or the clothes of a
royal baby. Each suit consists of
only two pieces.
The haberdasher spoke of a dozen
other orders for silk underclothes
for wealthy Americans, the prices
ranging from £4O a dozen suits up
ward.
“PICKED ME CLEAN AS A CHICKEN?”
Joe Hall Says Certain Parties Have
Swiped His Political Assets and
Squandered Them.
On Thursday the lower house of
the Georgia legislature defeated the
bill of Mr. Hall of Bibb making rail
road passes in Georgia unlawful by
a vote of 143 noes to 56 ayes.
Messrs. Anderson of Chatham and
Alexander of DeKalb spoke against
the bill, as did Mr. Lovejoy of
Troupe, the latter saying it were bet
ter to let the present order of the
railroad commission stand.
Mr. Macllntyre of Thomas offered
an amendment which was in effect
a substitute, enacting the text of the
Hepburn law, making specific pro
hibition and specific exception. Mr.
Wright of Floyd offered an amend
ment giving the railroad commis
sion the right to make additional
regulations in the matter not con
flicting with the act.
Speaking upon the questign, when
the vote was about to be taken on
Statesmanship in Washington.
The Washington correspondent of
The Chicago News, Mr. Leroy T. Ver
non, in an article of unusual interest
which he wrote for his paper last
week pays generous tribute to the
present day statesmanship of this
section.
From the standpoint of an ob
servant critic, he, of course, notes
the change which post-bellum condi
tions have wrought in the general
character of the south’s representa
tion.
But he is candid to admit that the
velvet manners of the old regime
have not entirely disappeared from
the halls of national legislation.
And, when it comes to dignity of
speech and to courtliness of bearing
in debate, he says that the palm must
be awarded to the statesman of the
south.
In this connection he mentions
two senators who conspicuously em
body the best tradition of the old
school—
John W. Daniel of Virginia amd
Augustus O. Bacon of Georgia.
Both, he says, are full of the old
chivalric dash and fire, but are equal
ly marked by the silken glove and
the polished lance which were char
aceeristic of the old tournaments.
Senator Bacon he calls ‘“‘the mentor
of the senate on the question of
rules,” and Senator Daiel ‘‘the most
dignified senator in the chamber.”’
Generalizing upon the subject of
the south’s representation in Wash
ington the correspondent continues:
““Agricultural communities of the
south are represented in congress by
the purest type of the southern
statesmen. On the other hand, its
manufacturing centers, especially
where northern capital is invested,
are represented by younger men,
more alive to commercial questions,
who speak by means of illustrations,‘
forget their Latin and their classics,
and who approach near to the line
The Wife of a Former Judge and
Populist Candidate for Govern
or Advertises for Work.
“Mrs. T. L. Nugent 'is prepared{
for doing profession work in the
hair business, making switches, puffs
and curls out of hair, no matter how
tangled. Will call at houses of
ladies, giving treatment in facial
massage and shampooing. Patron
age respectfully solicited.”
This advertisement, which ap
peared recently in a Stephenville
paper, furnishes food for some
thought and a few remarks. Judge
Nugent was a learned lawyer, an
able judge, and one of the state’s
best and purest men. He was a pop
;ulist candidate for governor in 1900,
‘and received about 110,000 votes.
But Judge Nugent made a mistake—
and gave far more attention and
study to correcting the evils of gov
ernment than to providing for his
family. He died very poor, and now
his venerable widow earns her liv
ing as a hair dresser. It is no dis
grace to work; far from it—and all
honor to the widow of the learned
judge, who, instead of shedding tears
over her poverty, advertises for work.
But Judge Negent made a mistake—
the mistake that all men make who
put state before family. It was un
selfish, to be sure, but it was mis
taken patriotism. Judge Nugent
was a reformer; he caught a vision
of a better, fairer government, and
in following this he forgot his own
family.—Honey Grove (Tex.) Sig
nal.
the amendment, Mr. Hall said: a
“We have fallen upon strange
lines. It has turned out that my dis
tinguished friend from Chatham has
become a leader of the reformers.
Whenever I see the gentleman from
Chatham and the gentleman from
DeKalb get together on the same
side of a question like this I begin
to get scared. Several years ago I
got together some political assets
that I considered worth something.
When they began to be of value cer
tain parties here in Georgia decreed
that I was politically dead, and pro
ceeded to administer on those assets
and succeeded in the short space of
two years in squandering all of them
except this (bill), which I am trying
to save. They have picked me as
clean as a chicken. With the excep
tion of my friend from DeKalb every
gentleman that has spoken .against
my bill is connected with a railroad.
I have always fought the railroads
on it, and now by a curious combina
tion I am fighting the railroads and
the reform school together.”
Many members explained their
votes.
which divides the true southern
statesman of the old school from the
northern business man who goes to
congress. Once in a while there is
’a Tillman and a Davis who upset
the tradition of the southern states
!man, but they are rare.”
~ Mr. Vernon is also greatly im
pressed witn the southern senators’
tone of moral earnestness. The
Washington correspondent adds in
conclusion that this is the only sec
tion of the country which is repre
sented in Washington by men whose
exclusive business and whose central
ambition is statesmanship.—Atlanta
Georgian.
TWO ESCAPE IN CALHOUN.
“Life-Timers” Bathe and Then Skee
daddle. Reward Offered.
One night last week two negro
convicts, Spear Simms and Tom
Johnson, serving life sentences for
murder, escaped from the camps of
the road gang of Calhoun county,
and no trace has beerm found of them
since.
With the other convicts they had
just finished taking a bath and gone
into the tent to prepare for supper,
and on their failure to report at the
proper time a search disclosed their
escape, and it being dark efforts to
capture them then were useless.
A reward of $5O for the capture
of each has been offered by the com
missioners, and a strong effort is now
being made to recapture them.—Edi
son News.
Delay in commencing treatment
for a slight irregularity that could
have been cured quickly by Foley’s
Kidney Remedy may result in a seri
ous kidney disease. Foley's Kidney
Remedy builds up the worn out tis
tues and strengthens these organs.
Dawson Drug Co. and People’s Drug
Store. ?
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NEW YORK HAS “A TIME"” WITH |
A VISITING CENTENARIAN.
Alexander Harriett, Old as He Is,
Can’t Stand It to Stay Always
in Yonkers. .
From the New York Herald.
About two weeks ago in all the
police stations a general alarm was
read describing the disappearance
from his home in Yonkers of Alex
ander Harriett, 107 years old. Po
liceman Henry of the East One Hun
dred and Twenty-sixth street station,
on duty yesterday afternoon at Third
avenue and One Hundred and Twen
ty-eighth street, saw a man whose
general appearance resembled that
of the man of the general alarm.
““You seem to be in distress?” said
the policeman.
| *Lm all right® =maid the man;
“‘what are you worrying about?”’ |
““Aren’t you Alexander Harriett of
Yonkers?”
“Suppose I am?”
“Your son-in-law, John Lavatt, is
worrying about you, and he has
asked the police to find you and send
you home.”
“You'll get to the poorhouse doing
everything you're asked,” .retorted
the other. *‘You'd better run along
and patrol your beat and let people
alone that are minding their own
business.”
“I’'ll have to take you to the sta
tion house,” said the policeman.
“You will, eh?” asked the gen
tleman, bristling with anger. “Well,
you'd better begin now by sending
for the reserves and a patrol wagon
or two. If I want to come to New
York from Yonkers that's my busi
ness. Do you suppose that just be
cause I live in Yonkers I have to stay
there all the time? Try it yourself
awhile and see how you like it. Now,
I don’t want any more monkey busi
ness with you. I want you to g 0
away from me and stay away from
me, or I'll forget you're much strong
er than I am and I'm likely to hurt
you.”
Policeman Henry being thus ad
monished telephoned for a patrol
wagon. When it arrived Mr. Har
riett said:
“You're a bunch of bone heads,
but I suppose you think you are do
ing your duty. I am sorry for the
horses, and I won’t make this a use
less trip for them. Just to oblige
them I'll get in your old patrol
wagon.”’
A policeman stepped forward to
assist Mr. Harriett into the wagon.
*Don’t butt in,” said Mr. Harriett,
“I got into wagons when you were
too young to walk. Let ’er go!”
At the East One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth Street Station the aged
gentleman pre-empted the easy chair
of Lieutenant Loonan and stayed in
it, chatting about topics of the day,
till the arrival of his daughter, Mrs.
John Lavatt of Garden street, Yonk
ers. Complaining that his holiday in
New York had been cut off before
he had had a chance to see the mon
ument of his old friend, General
Worth, who fought in the Mexican
war, Mr. Harriett went, grimbling,
back to Yonkers.
On the way back in an automobile
he served notice that inasmuch as
he is old enough to know what he is
doing he intends to return to the
city to see some of the Broadway
shows in the fall.
Chickens for Sale.
First-class S. C. Rhode Isiand Red
chickens. DR. J. T. CLLELVELNAD,
Weston, Ga.
To City Voters.
The city registration books are
now open for qualification for the
primary election. Books will close
August 6, 1909, at 6 o’clock p. m.
This July 14, 1909.
R. E. BELL, City Clerk.
For Sale.
Bull Terriers, pedigreed stock.
Absolutely dead game. The best
watch dog or companion, and fastest
fighting dog on earth. Correspond
ence solicited.
BURNETT KENNELS,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Ge B S e e
Announcement.
We wish to announce to the pub
lic that we are now in position to
dress lumber, and will give you as
prompt service as possible.
THE VARIETY WOKKS CO.
Business Bargains.
I have for sale in Bronwood a
brick store house and an up-to-date
stock of dry goods. Good town, good
people, good business. A bargain
for somebody. J. A. HORSLEY.
S e T T AR
For Sale.
Second-hand tin and corrogated
iron. Excellent for use on barns,
stables and shelters. J. G. Dean.
Hulls and Shingles,
I have good cotton seed hulls and
No. 1 heart shingles for sale. Sam
ple of shingles can be seen at R. L.
Melton’s store. T J. SLADR,
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For Rent.
A four-room residence with sani
tary connections and water. Close in.
Apply to Horsley Drug Co. or W. B.
Cheatham.
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For Sale.
A six-horse portable boiler and en
gine, mounted. In good condition.
J. A. SHIELDS, Dawson, Ga.
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Has served the farmers of this section for half a century, and
is now ready for the season of 1909 with better facilities than
ever to properly look after their interests. All cotton stored with
us will receive our personal attention, and our long experience in
our particular line of business insures satisfactory service.
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Bagging and Ties.
A full supply of Bagging and Ties always in stock, and will be sold
at prices that will meet all competition. For our customsr we
have in a big yard free accommodations for stock, including plenty
of water.
S e e et
Mr. J. T, Coker
Will be with us this season, and will be glad to see and serve
his friends. Mr. Coker, who has been with us several years and
has become known as the Old Reliable, will do the weighing this
season, which is sufficient guarantee that every customer will get
correct weights.
A. J. HILL, Prop. Main Street, Dawson, Ga.
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