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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28
the EFFECT OF VAR ON SOUTHERN
FARMERS.

Under the above heading the Macon
| Telegraph makes some timely sugges-
tiOns to the Georgia farmers.
The farmers of the south, says til
Telegraph, should not shut their eyes
| to the eastern situation. War has at
last been declared, and the booming of
cannon is echoing today over the hills
and plains of Thesalay and the regions
round about. Every nation in Europe
is strengthening her armament, for all
fear a general war-a clash of arms
which will appall mankind. At last
the torch has been applied which may
kindle the greatest flame known in
annals Of tine. No one knows where
it will end.
If the half of the fears are realized
if a tenth part of it befalls Europe
cotton will sell next fall at 3 cents a
pound, and breadstutfs will be very
high. In the face of these threatening
conditions is itnot the part of wisdom
for each farmer in the south to cut
down his cotton acreage, even at
this Ilate day and increase his food
crops?
If general war breaks out in En-
rope the next cotton crop will be a
drug on the market at any price.
IL it be true that Sir Julian Paunce-
fOte, ambassador for Great Britain to
the United States, has declined to take
part in the ceremonies attending the
dedication of the Grant mausOleum UNI
less he shall be given precedence of all
save the president it is to be hoped
that Sir Julian Pauncefote's presence
will be dispensed with. The occasion
will be primarily an American one, and
all foreigners of good sense and taste
who participate will naturally do so in
an accessory way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

Bob BERNER, the gentleman who
Colonel Bill Huff says went through a
campaign for the state senate with a
glass Of water on one shoulder and a
schooner Of beer on the other, is report
ed to be projecting with a gubernato-
rial bee. 1t is all right for Bob to have
little innocent amusement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has appointed
Harold Sewall, of Bath, Me-, to be min
lister to Hawaii. This is the young
man who gained notoriety during the
last campaign by announcing opposi-
ton to his father who was on the dem
Ocratic ticket for vice-president.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

DR.. Wallis Face Bleach for sale "
9. l.. Mize.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

The average man is not inclined tC
fish long without a stimulant.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

The Turks seem to have the Greek :
on the run, and it looks as if the wal
was almost over.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

THE governor is not suffering his in
terest in the cOnyicts to lag, and has
been down to Florida to take peep at
those of that state. The governor
rightly regards the convict question as
one of the most important which the
people Of this state will soon have to
settle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-28

AS BROTHER SAM JONES will in al
probability take hell with him TO Fort
Gaines, we admOnish Josh Jones to be
careful with himself. Josh can't well
be spared while the education of those
6,5OO,OOO ignoramuses who voted the
democratic ticket last year is going on.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
FOR GREECE AND CRETE.

Storm and shame ana fraud and darkness
fl the nations fun with night;
Hope and fear whose eyes yearn cast
ward have bat fire and sword in
sight
one alone, whose name is one with glory,
sees and seeks the light.
Hellas, mother Of the spirit, soul supreme
in war and peace,
Land Of light, whose word remembered
BIDS all fear ana sorrow cease,
Lives again, while freedom lghtens east
ward yet for sons of Greece,
Greece where only men whose monhCod
was as gOdhead ever trod,
Bears the blind world witness yet of
light wherewith her feet are snol;
Freedom, armed of Greece, was always
very man and very God.
Now the winds of old that filled her
sails with triumph, when the fleet
Bound for death from Asia fled before
them stricken, wake TO greet
Ships full-wnged again for freedom tC-
ward the sacred shores of Crete.
There was God born man. the song that
spoke of old time said; ana there
Man, made even as God by trust that
shows him naught too dire to dare,
Now may light again the beacon lit when
those We worship We're,
-Algernon Charles Swinburne in the
Nineteenth Century.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
GUBERNATORIAL PROSPECTS.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Five members of the Pennsylvania dele
cation in congress will contest for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination next
summer. They are Messrs. Arnold, of Du-
bOis Hicks. Of Altoona; w. \. Stone, of
Allegheny; c. w. Stone, of Warren, and
Mahon, of Chambersburg. All five be-
long to the Quay faction, but Mr.. Quay $
closest friends declare that he will not
lift his hand to nominate any one of the
five and that he will occupy an entirely
impartial ground, SO far as they alone
are concerned. William A. Stone will
unquestionably show up with more votes
than any other candidate on the first bal
lot, but his opponents in the house and
the five or six other candidates in the
state do not believe he VIII receive the
nomination. Lightning, they declare, is
likely to strike any one of them. Con-
gressman Connell, of Scranton, is re-
ported to be nursing a little boomlet, but
his candidacy has not yet been formally
announced.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
The Press and the Prize Ring.

Considerable ado has been made be-
cause of the fact that the Philadelphia
Ledger on the morning after the big
prize light at Carson City, refused to
print one word about it, In several
pulpitS the Ledger's course has not
only been approved with much warmth
of eulogy but invidious COMPARISONS
have been drawn to the hurt of other
newspapers which lack the Ledger's
firm business footing and therefore
have in the main, to print such news
as the public wants.
We note with interest, however, that
there is one clergyman in PHILADELPHIA
who takes more rational view of
this subject. Preaching on Sunday to
the congregation of the Olivet Baptist
church, Rev b. f. Liepsner said:
MANY condemn the newspapers for
their extended reports of the great
fight but we must bear in mind that
the newspapers simply give the people
what the people demand. The people,
not the newspapers, are to blame. AS
a matter of business, the public press
gives the public what the public de-
sires and for which it will pay. News
papers are Il mirror of what we are
and love, and from what we have seen
of ourselves thus reflected in the last
few days it is evident that we must
depose worldliness and re-enthrone
Christian decency before we can eX-
pect God to give us better and more
prosperous times"
The Philadelphia Ledger may be able
to eliminate from its columns all re-
ports of indecency and crime without
loss of business patronage, but it is
about the only daily publication in the
United States which can afford the eX-
pertinent. Such a paper as the Led
ger, if printed in Scranton, would
starVe to death in less than six weeks;
and this is said with no disrespect to
the Ledger, which in many ways is a
model journal The very persons who
are the first to eXtoll it's cleanliness are
often the last to pay their subscription
bills and the slowest to contribute to
its advertising revenues. They are
sometimes of the class of persons who
expect all church advertisements and
lecture or concert announcements to
be inserted by newspapers gratuitous-
ly, thereby forcing those newspapers
TO look to the saloons and theaters fol
counterbalanclng cash business with
which to pay their composition and Of
flee expenses,
The average sensible man of the
world knows that it is not in the power
of any editor TO correct by martyrdom
the faults in human nature which es.
cape the corrective discipline of the
home, the school and the church. The
editor should strive to print clear
paper, but he cannot make it angelic
until he has a paying circulation
among angels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
The Dingley Bill is All Right

The Times appears to think that be-
cause the Dingley tariff bin does not
please Hon. Whitelaw Reid and two
or three Mugwump papers it Is ran
llre. OF course the Mugwumps ana
Democrats are such brilliant successes
at drafting tariff bills that their opin-
ions in the premises ought to be final.
As for Mr.. Reds objections, they
appear to rest uuon the belief that
protection should not be co-equal
objective point with revenue; but III
this opinion he is clearly at variance
with the best judgment of the country.
IT is ridiculous to claim that the pOpu-
lar uprising which one year ago forced
William McKinley's nomination for
president and later carried him through
to a triumphal election in spite of the
widespread inclination Of the public at
first blush to experiment with free sill
yer. originated in an ti-protection
sentiment If the masses of the Re
publican party had been Indifferent to
protection and converted to the Grover
Cleveland idea of a tariff for revenue
only. is it to be supposed that they
would have made a bee line for the cam
didacy of Mckinley. the very archie
type of American proteCtionism, when
in the field against him, prior to the
St. Louis convention, We're several eX-
perienCed men whose records inclined
to conservatism on the tariff?
The first draft of a bill is rarely
more than an approximation to its final
form, and to this rule it is not to be
expected that the Dngley bill win pre-
sent an exception. Debate will doubt.
less bring out a number of details re-
quiring modification. The Mckinley
bill had this experience and in places
differed materially at passage from its
initial form. But the general princi-
pie was not changed. nor do we believe
that the present congress win depart
far from the guiding lines laid down
new measure which the sponsors of the
discredted Wilson tariff feel so free
to criticize 1t will aim at increased
revenue, but it will not forget that
quite as important as revenue for the
governments expenses is protection tC
the Country's enterprise and labor
1t is true that some low tariff Demo.
Gratis voted for Mckinley for president
in preference to Bryan and free sill
Yer, hut that fact does not cancel the
St. Louis platform, which declares the
policy of protection to be "the bul
wark of American Industrial independ
enCe and the foundation of American
development and prosperity"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
LONG TERM ENGAGEMENT.

Judge-Have you anything to say, prs-
oner?
Prisoner-Yes. I'm engaged to be
married. I've been engaged for the last
ten years
Judge-Why aren't you married?
Prisoner-BeCause we've never been out
of jail together. She comes out tomor-
rOW.--Pick- Me-Up.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
HE FORGOT.

A story is told of a certain committee
meeting in which the proceedings COM
menced with noise, and gradually became
uprOarous. At last one of the disput-
ants, losing all control over his emotions,
exclaimed to his opponent: "Sr, you are,
! think, the biggest ass that | ever had
the misfortune to set eyes upon!' "Or-
der! order"' said the chairman, gravely (;
you seem to forget that | am in che
room. Household Words.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
Stationery That Isn't Stationary

Nothing stands still at our establish
ment. 1t very rarely happens that We
raise the price, but as TO lowering them,
well, Just call around ana We think we
can interst you with our complete lines
of stationery, engraving, blank books ana
general Office supplies, We also carry
a complete line of typeWriters' supplies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
SEEMS SUSPICIOUS.

Gadsby-I suspect they've got a baby
up at Norris house.
Walkins-What makes you think that?
Gladsby--Oh, nothing in particular; only
! haven't heard him brag about his dog
for 4 day or twO.-BOston Transcript.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

with the administration. II they were
to. where would their occupation he?
What fun Grover Cleveland would
have with public opinion If he were
now in Lord Salisbury's shoes.
1t is something to know that the
mayor of Scranton has at last promised
to explain.
Mr.. BalfOur appears to share the
Vanderbilt idea of the public be
id
In the meantime, what has become of
the earl of Rosebery?
Reform, like charity, too often never
reaches home.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

The Superior court, through Judge
Rice, has negatlved the proposition Of
Judge Miller of Mercer county, that
july is the judge Of the law In case,
as we'll as of the facts Considering
how difficult it is to get jury capable
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

And now it is said the owner of the
New York World, Mr.. Pulitzer, has
employed censor, to exclude articles
and cuts too far over the border line
of decency, The World needs one.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

appears to be Just about the same kind
of visionary task as decapitating
quay at Harrisburg. Honors therefore
nIn -pNnn.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
GOLDSMITH'S o. BAZAAR.
e
Scotch DinnitieS

of
of the
to Admire Them.
They all
kind The popularity excellent qualities
well known further
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

Of passing upon facts alone, this limi-
tation of its prerogative Is mani
festly wise.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
Government Seeds.

General protest is arising in the press
at the continuation Of congress by the
appropriation for government seeds for
free popular distribution. When the
government first went into this bust
ness, it gave the excuse that by rea-
son of superior facilities, it could de-
velop a superior quality of seeds and
might therefore confer a decided bene-
fit on agriculture But it is not in evil
dence that the seeds raised under the
direction of the United States depart
ment of agriculture are in any re-
spects better than the seeds raised
for sale by private enterprise, and the
fact that the one kind are given away
simply operates to the disadvantage of
the others.
The member of congress who is en-
titled by law to distribute free seeds
among his constituents naturally
avails himself of this privilege so long
as it lasts; but few of the better in
formed members regard it as any
proper part of the governments busi-
ness to give seeds away. on the same
principle the government might Just as
logically give away miscellaneous
books and food and clothing or usurp
any other form of legitimate private
enterprise. We agree fully with the
opinion that .his free seed privilege
ought to be Cancelled and the money
now spent on it either be saved or
put to a use more clearly in the scope
Of the governments proper functions.
The present congress could not do a
more appropriate thing than to take
Uncle Sam out of the seed business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
Cloth

article that desirable Rubber Cloth, be-
white light weight, washable and
TO andc t quantity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

There is no call to bemoan the mu
in our streets, 1t win soon be dust.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

Military mock heroism appears to
monopolize the European situation.
Little Greece naturally doesn't want
to fight and the clustering Six Powers
"dassen't"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23
Spring Novelties
In Lace Department

aiApplque
in al
r and de
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

Carl Schurz and Harper's Weekly
should not he expected to feel satisfied
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

Was there ever a tariff bill which did
please everybody?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

The line between the reformer and
the scandal monger is often very mar
row, as the Swallow trial proves.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

Perhaps the greatest need of all is a
law to silence this interminable, in
tolerable pugilstic back talk.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

That daily sound in the direction of
Harrisburg Is simply the thud Of an
other investigation.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

1t scarcely needed statistics to es-
tablish that Scranton's new bridges
are wise investments; useful now, they
will in the future be invaluable
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-23

The mad chase for office goes merrily
on. Despite the fact that President Mckln-
ley has notified place seekers that person.
al calls upon him at the white house will
not help their cause the crowds which
daily swarm around the executive man
sion are as large now as they were the
fest week after the Inauguration. The
new president has not yet learned how to
say mo- to the public, ana Just as long
as he keeps "open house" as he has
been doing from the day he became chief
magistrate, just SO long viii he be har-
rassed by office seekers as well as by the
thousands who call out of curiosity or
simply 10 pay their respects. The strain
under which Major Mckinley has gone
since his Inauguration is beginning to
tell upon him. Upon several occasions
last week he was compelled to deny him
self to all callers and unless he refuses
to see everybody for a time he will surely
break down, President Cleveland had a
heart of stone and the nerve of a FltZ-
The herald., 1897-05-10

That they are made of true Amazonian
stuff history demonstrates more than
once. Their detestation of the Turk Is
as great as their love Of Greece. All the
adjectives in the dictionary could not
express their condition more clearly than
this. Every Greek woman ie patriot.
From the instant her babies can under
stand the meaning of words, she pours
into their ears tales of past wars with
the Turks, of the cruel barbarism of the
tyrant and his sickening rapacity; she
tells them of the war of 1923, when the
soldiers of the sultan ravaged the coun-
try, carrying away thousands of Greek
women and children to be sold in Turk
ish slave markets.
The boys grow up hating the Turk
and hoping for a chance to avenge the
wrongs of the country. The girls reach
womanhood fearing the monster above
all else. To them he is the personifcation
of all evil. If one looks for the cause of
the splendid bravery exhibited by the
Greek soldiers in the battles of the pres
ent war; he must look to the Greek wo-
men, the mothers who inspired them in
their infancy with tales of the deeds of
past heroism. European correspondents
have wondered at the bravery of the
Greek peasantry when under fire for
the first time. No fear was exhibited at
the screaming of bullets or the roar Of
exploding shells. Men fresh from the
fields stood 1t all like veterans of hum
dred battles. This marvel can be ex-
planned only by the training given them
from babyhood by Greek mothers
The women are the real superiors Of the
men in all practical purposes One
American observer has said: THE men
are hospitable, democratic, fond of poll
tics and of discussion, divided in fac
tions, eager for information, quick to
adapt themselves to circumstances. pa
tient of suffering, but disinclined to la
bor." Truly, the Greek hates work and
he leaves the bulk of it for the women
Of his household Upon her depends
-fourths of the responsibilities of
raising the family She labors at some
thing every minute in the day, while the
The herald., 1897-05-10
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

General Cadorna, who commanded the
Italian troops when they took possess
sion of Rome in 1870 died recently at the
age of so years.
Rudolph Zieler, the viennese operetta
composer has been found guilty of fraud
and perjury and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment at hard labor
A horse trainer of Breckenridge. KY.
who has been married three times, is the
father Of thirtynine children. OF whom
twenty-seven are alive. His oldest son
and his present wife are of the same age,
Al years.
Max Muller tells that Queen Victoria
once remarked to Tennyson that she
did not mind the stares from strangers
he found so annoying. mo, madam"
the poet replied. land If I could clap a
sentinel wherever I liked I would not
be troubled either"
Count Albert De Nun, the leader of the
Catholic party in the French chamber
OF deputies, who has just been elected to
fiji Jules Simons seat in the French acad-
emy, is a grandson Of Helvetius, the rev.
olutionary philosopher, and a grandson
of Madame De Stael.
The celebration Of the queens diamond
jubilee will bring many veterans to the
front. There can scarcely be one more
interesting than Lord LEICESTER. His
statement that he acted as page to the
duke of Sussex at her majesty's corona
ton can be supplemented by the fact
that he is probably the only man who
having himself lived through the longest
reign in British history, can claim that
his father lived through the next long
est, that of George III.
| Rt. Rev. DR.. Boniface NJ Krug, whose
home was once in Baltimore, has been
appointed archabbot of the ancient mon
astery of Monte Casino, which has been
for nearly 1900 years the center of the
order founded by ST. Benedict. He is
brother of Mother Theresa, abbess Of
convent of Benedictlne nuns in Chi
cago. The celebrated abbey of which
Abbot Krug is the archabbot is on the
mountain of Monte Cassina, about fifty
miles north of Naples in Southern Italy.
The monastery is massive pile Of build
ings more like a palace than church.
The monks are famous for their scholar
ship and their medical skill.