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A MONEY-SAVING STOCK REDUCING SALE
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VEMBER AND CEMB
NOVE! R AND DECE! ER BARGAINS.
For our mutual benefit,.and at the same time reduce our stock to make room for our Spring Merchandise, we are going to maugurate an unparalleled Bargain
event throughout the dlfierent‘hnes. During this sale we will offer some of the most attractive bargains ever offered to the trading public.
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Great Sale of Ladies’ Children’s and Misses Cloaks. Great Sale of Ladies’, Misses’ and Junior Tailor Suits.
We have on hand about $l,OOO worth of these goods that we are going to offer exactly one- We have on hand about $1,500 worth of these suits straight from
third off regular price. These goods are all of the popular length and style. Fine all wool Kerseys, the leading manufacturers of America, and we are going to offer the
(overts, Meltons and light weight Broadcloth; saiin lined, silk braid and velvet trimmed. entire line at greatly reduced prices.
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KID GLOVES, KNIT UNDERWEAR SPECIALS., | BIG ASSORTMENT
A complete line of both long and We have on hand one of the largest and most complete lines of Men’'s, Ladies,” Children's and In- Ladies’ and Misses’ Skirts to go in
sll(;l‘t Kid Gloves. Prices interesting. fant’s Underwear ever shown here, to go at greatly reduced prices. this sale at 25 per cent. reduction.
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Special Reduction 1n Clothing, Specials in Ladies’ Waists.
| : S b Sacrifice in cotton, wool and silk Waists. Ladies’ white fancy mercerized, tucked front, with
W“,}“}Vf’ on hand about $lO,OOO worth of Pl“n > Ol}_thb g cufts. Ladies’ white poplin Waists. fancy embroidered fronts with tucked sleeves. Ladies’ white
children’s Suits, Overcoats and Pan.ts from the leading ma,nufact.‘ur(.ers, all linen Waists, mannish effect, with laundered cufls and collars. Sizes 34 to 42. -
new and styhgh weaves, that alre going to be ofl“er.ed regardless of price. $lO.OO Waista to goat --. . . . $6.98 VoWt . L $1.79
We sell America’s very best Clothes. .()ur store is the house of great 7.50 Waiststa@oht - =3« .. . 0., "B LOO Walsta to Borst <. o' o 1.19
values. Your opportunity for a bargain. Grasp it now. 9.00 Waiststogoat --- . . . 349 IOV Waisls tagoat .- -0 oil .89
Stock Reducing Sale in Dress Goods. Staple Cotton Goods.
We are going to offer our entire line of Dress Goods at reduced prices. This line consists of all We give this department particular attention, watch every market
the new andbstylish wooleus, stripes, plaids and novelties; all of the new shades in broadcloths, movement closel..y, take 'advantage of every opportunity to buy right,
erges, cheviots, mohairs, sicillians, wool taffetas, panama, silk finished henriettas, French and do- and thereforg are 1n a position to serve you in an unusually satisfactory
;“:m suitings, and an Linequaled line of black Dress Goods. way. You will always find here merchandise at and below market price.
Our lineis entirely too varied to mention here. All goods in the various departments will be offered at greatly reduced prices. We invite yourinspection. Yours to please
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DAWSON’S POPULAR PRICED DEPARTMENT STORE.
REVISION OF COTTON RATES
MATTER UNDER CONSIDERATION
. BY RMLMA»WK
' AFTER A HEARING.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The railroad com
mssion has under consideration, fol
lowing a hearing just held, the ques
ton of a revision of the rates on
«wtton from interior points to the
ports of the state, the question of
differential rates on compressed and
“foft” cotton, the question of privi
leges extended by the railroads op
frating in the state to certain com-
Dresses and certain compressing com
anies and finally that of a general
revision of rates on cotton.
All of these questions came up
cllaterally in connection with a com-
Plaint filed by the Milledgeville Com
bress Company against the Central
of Georgia and the Georgia Railroad,
I which the commission was asked
10 revise rates on soft cotton from
‘“rtain points to Milledgeville and on
‘“mpressed cotton from Milledgeville
e Savannah,
The questions at issue and into
¥lhich the mission is now making in
fuiry affect not only rates within the
fate, but indirectly cotton rates
from distant points in other states.
Ten of the railroads doing busi
s in (leqorgia were represented at
te hearing. Others present and in
“rested were the Atlantic Compress
(»‘%flll’all}‘, which is controlled by the
fiilroads, the Augusta and Savannah
Cotton Exchanges, representatives
m a number of independent com
gzessos‘ and one or two cotton ship-
Ders,
, Considerable evidence was taken,
It the most of it seemed to favor
e railroad side of the argument.
Strangely enough, although the com-
Mission realizing the importance to
Wany interests of the question in-
Volved, gave nearly two months’ no-
Uee of the hearing, there was scant
"resentation of those who might be,
I fee] that they might be, benefited
b reductions in or revision of the
Tates on cotton,
Each of the railroads answered by
P“ef the points made in the commis-
Slon’s circular letter calling the hear
g, and some of them presented evi
giiz('e and verbal statements in addi-
Thers exists no good reason, they
“itend, for any differential in the
‘4es as hetween compressed and soft
“lton, holding that compression is
“Sentially g part of the transporta-
Uon service, and that the railroads,
gf 4 right, should be permitted to
b:;ltdle this feature as they deem
As to their contractual relations
:em\ compresses and special privi
-85 granted to certain compress
2mpanies they presented copies of
We contracts, showing the relation
! compress to railroad, and urged
"at it is an essential and practically
"Bparable relation to transportation
sBrvice, b
Both the Savannah and the Augus
ta cotton exchange’appeared and op
,M any change in the presént
methods of handling cotton or any
revision of the existing rates. The
commission was given a copy of a
resolution recently passed by the
Augusta Cotton Exchange in which
it took the stand that there should
be no interference with the existing
rates on cotton, and that the present
‘method of handling cotton, which has
obtained for many years, should not
be disturbed.
- Another collateral question before
the commission at the same time was
that contained in the complaint of
the C. Horace McCall Company of
Atlanta against the use of spliced or
riveted cotton ties. But as the re
sult of a misunderstanding the inde
pendent compress men, who seemed
to be interested only in this phase
of the hearing, went off to the auto
mobile races. At the suggestion of
S. F. Parrott, representing the At
lantic Compress Company, this phase
of the hearing was therefore carried
over until December 2nd.
~ The commission took all of the
‘questions at issue under advisement,
and it will probably be a week or
two before a decision is rendered.
A peculiar feature of the hearing
‘appears to be that although there has
been considerable agitation in cer
‘tain quarters for reduced rates on
cotton none of those who have taken
part in it were present to urge such
action on the commission's part.
AS IMPORTANT AS THE POLE.
Guni Indians Have Corralled the Cen
ter of the Earth.
Surely the center of the earth is
as important as either extremity;
then why all this fuss and contro
versy as to whether it was Cook or
Peary or both that discovered the
North Pole? The Zuni Indians have
the center of the earth safely cor
ralled and appropriately marked up
on their reservation. They feel very
sure of it, says the Kansas City Star,
and that ought to be proof enough
for anyone. |
In the Zuni cosmogony the earth
is conceived of as flat, and shaped
like a pancake. Being a chosen peo
ple of the gods they were command
ed early in their tribal career to
go to the exact center of the world
and there build their homes; and
one of the most interesting legends
of the people relates the story of
their wanderings in search of the
middle place, and tells how they
knew it when they reached it.
The earth’s center is located just
about 200 yards south of the Zuni
village in western New Mexico, 35
miles south of Gallup, on the Santg
Fe route. It is marked by a crude
ghrine, built like a bake oven, out
of flat stones. Two large removable
flagstones close the entrance, which
faces the rising sun. On the top are
a number of concreationary forma
tions, known to the Indians as thun-
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1909.
der stones. In the interior are large
numbers of feather-tufted prayer
sticks, and several earthenware ves
sels .fil!s'sly%g sacred meal. Numer
ous ceremonial dances, in the nature
of rainmaking rites, are performed
around this holy place.
WANTS NEW COMMANDMENT.
Professor Would Put “Thou Shalt
Not' Get Drunk” Into Decalogue.
Some changes in the Ten Com
mandments to make them apply to
modern conditions are advocated by
Thomas N. Carver, professor of eco
nomics at Harvard University.
Professor Carver in particular
wants an entirely new commandment
dealing with the liquor habit. He
would have it take the place of the
commandment which reads: ‘“Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain.”
His substitute commandment would
read: ‘“T'hou shalt not drink to
drunkenness nor bewilder thyself
with strong drink.”
“The employment of the word God
and like plasphemies as they are ut
tered today have lost their old time
significance,” said Professor Carver.
FULL OF FIGHT AT AGE LIMIT.
A Quantrell Guerilla Is Arrested at
the Age of Seventy Years.
A Portland, Ore., dispatch says:
oOlld “Bill” Walker, a Quantrell guer
illa, an Oregon pioneer with a long
record as an Indian fighter and des
perado, who stole his wife from the
Indians, killed his brother-in-law,
fought and killed a bear single-hand
ed in a hand-to-hand encounter in
the bear's den, and who is the hero
of a hundred adventures on the fron
tier, is in trouble again. This time
he is charged with having burned the
barn of his son-in-law. This is a
tame escapade compared with other
charges against ‘“Bill”’ Walker, and
the matter sits lightly upon his
shoulders.
“I am innocent, but if they can
prove me guilty I will take my medi
cine,” is the defiance of this frontier
character, now nearly seventy years
old, but as full of fight as ever.
LABOR WAR CAUSES STARVATION.
The White Man’s Inhumanity to
Hindu Laborers. |
A hundred or more Hindu labor
ers are in sad straits on the outskirts
of Seattle. Town after town in the
Canadian lumber district forced the
Hindus to leave their confines, and
wherever they go they are being per
secuted by the white people. At
Tacoma the Hindus were refused
shelter at police headquarters, and
a shed obtained on the outskirts of
the city was utilized as sleeping and
eating quarters for a week. Seattle
officials have refused to care for the
'Brmuh subjects, and suburban resi
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BIG PENNSYLVANIA TOWN DROP
PING INTO A COAL MINE.
Blocks of Valuable Property Recently
Sagged and Broke in Wreck.
City Sits on a Shell.
SCRANTON, Pa.—lt seems as if
this city, the foremost of the great
anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania
in point of population, wealth and in
fluence, was doomed to destruction
as the result of coal mining opera
tions. The city is in the throes of
an unabatable fear-—a fear parallel
ing the fear of 'Frisco when shaken
to ruins by its quake—of collapsing
and toppling to pieces at any moment
from end to end. g
The warning of what is coming was
sounded distinctly not long since,
when blocks of property valued at
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
the most thickly populated district
sagged and broke in an utter wreck
which wiped out homes, destroyed
streets, and carried in its wake woe
to hundreds.
The city is at last realizing that it
sits on a shell, an unsupported crust
with an area of 23 square miles.
Undermined of every scrap of coal it
remains only for the shell to crack
to sink the city peace-meal or entire
ly into the waiting grave. For 23
square miles Scranton has been
scooped from under as clean as an
egg from its shell, save hére and
there a stray wood prop which holds
up a few feet of surface, or a more
substantial support of stone or con
crete which has been installed by in
dividuals.
Ruin by Piecemeal.
These conditions have been known
to exist for years, but it was not un
til the recent ‘‘squeeze’” that Scran
ton took notice. In the latest disas
ter a $90,000 public school building,
supposed to have been built on solid
rock, went down. Dozens of resi
dences and tenements in the neigh
borhood of the school broke and top
pled over. More buildings were lift
dents set their dogs on the wander
ers, |
Hunger is fast weakening the Asi
atics, and unless the sentiment of
the white people changes many will
starve. The Hindus will not steal,
but begging seems to be a natural
gift. They eat a sort of black bread
baked by one of their number and
drink tea.
For smoking tobacco they are us
ing hemp rope chopped fine. Many
of them are afflicted with consump
tion, and the damp weather is caus
ing rheumatism. Appeals to the Ca
nadian government for aid and in
structions regarding the disposition
of the ostracized Oriental workmen
‘have failed to bring relief.
ed from the foundations and now
stand balanced on end to fall with
the slightest subterranean jar.
" The . thin crust® above exhausted
coal velns, on which Scranton and
built, is in a constant state of dis
turbance. Infliflfiufifi%flfiififi are
from time to time swallowed up.
City blocks are twisted into danger
ous ruins, with half their foundations
dropped out of sight. Trolley car
tracks take sudden plunges into
chasms created over night. School
children, tumbling out of doors at
the noon recess, find the bottom
dropped out of their play-grounds.l
In a cemetery in the suburbs the bot
toms of graves have dropped out and |
all through the city many of the
wells are dry, their waters having
escaped downward into the deserted
mines.
Out in the couvntry around cows
and hrsoes frequently tumble into
huge pot holes 40 and 50 feet daap.
Such accidents excite little comment.
Larger things are looked for. Scran-I
ton goes to bed wondering if the
morning will find the city entombed.
A WOMAN FINDS $1,500.
Buys Hat First Thing, and Will Get
Tailor-Made Suit Next.
Fifteen hundred dollars found in
an old feather bed which was all
that was left her by a former hus
band when he was killed in a rail
road accident brought joy to the
heart of Mrs. Mary Goodman of At
lanta,
After stuffing the money into a
pocketbook Mrs. Goodman rushed to
a store, and the first thing she bought
was a $35 hat.
According to Mrs. Goodman her
life has not been a bed or roses, and
before she found the money in the
feather bed all she had in the world
did not amount to $2O. |
She has been twice married, and is
now suing for a divorce. Mrs. Good
man declared the next thing she will
buy will be a tailor-made suit. {
“STUCK"” ON GEORGIA “LAND.”
6,000 Acres Owned By Westerners in
Montgomery County Exists in Air.
Cameron and Dubose, real estate
agents of Los Angeles, Cal., have
written to the secretary of state in
Atlanta that they are the owners with
clear title of 6,000 acres of land in
Montgomery county, originally rent
ed to James Shorter by Governor
Matthews in 1795, and asked for
some information about the land as
to the best crops, timber values and
expense of putting in shape for ag
riculture. |
Examination shows that the land
they have acquired never existed ex
cept on paper; that it is included in
the fraudulent land grants in connec
tion with which four million acres
of land that never existed in Mont
gomery county, appears on the rec
ords to have been granted. The firm
is out of pocket whatever it paid
for the titles. ;
VOL. 28.---NO. 9.
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HIGHBALLS” IN THE Sky
F’IRST-CLASB RESTAURANT TEN
THOUSAND FEET ABOVE SEA.
The Al 1o Atwiie Chewilee
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With Americans, i,@@é
In the heart of the Alps, on the
Jungfrau Funicalur Railway at the
station of Eismer, 10,000 feet above
sea level, is the highest American
bar and restaurant in the world.
The restaurant is always crowded,
especially with American visitors,
who wish to enjoy the novel experi
ence of dining above the clouds, for
it frequently happens in summer
that, while the shoulders and top of
the Jungrau are bathed in sunshine,
a sea of white filmed clouds roll
around the mountain’s waist, shut
ting out the valleys and towns. The
higher peaks alone pierce this sea
of clouds, looking like pointed is
lands washed by the ocean. In the
vast galleries cut into the base rock
of the Jungfrau there is every con
venience of a first-class restaurant.
Of course the view at an altitude
of over 10,000 feet is magnificent
across the snowclad peaks, the blue
lakes and the green valleys. Pow
erful telescopes placed in the gal
leries are at the disposal of the vis
itor to enjoy the panoramas from
different points of view. For those
to whom a thousand feet in altitude
means mountain sickness there is
the Eigerwand station and restau
rant, 9,405 feet high, on the same
line, but the view is necessarily more
limited than that obtained from the
Eismeer station. At the latter res
taurant all wines and champagnes
are cooled in the natural ice of the
glacier which ‘‘passes” close to the
Eismeer.
The railway line is soon to be con
tinued—in fact work is proceeding—
on the Jungfrau Terminus, ‘13,428
feet, where another Alpine restau
rant and resting place will be con
structed. It will be connected with
the summit of the Jungfrau itself
by a lift 242 feet high. The Alpinist
takes the greater part of three days
to ascend the Jungfrau and return
to the valley, and he must be a good
climber. The ordinary tourist will
be whirled up to the top of one
of the most dangerous Swiss moun
tains in a few hours in the near fu
ture—-and in comfort.
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A BIG PIE.
The New York Pie Salesmen’s
Union will present President Taft a
circular formed mince pie, six feet
in diameter, filled with plums, for
Thanksgiving dinner. A week later
the president will have another lm
pie to cut and distribute at Wash
ingten among the office-seekers. L
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Congress will meet next wem\"j]
