The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-11-28

school to the college, if you
can. Get a business education
nv all means. You will never
learn too much If you desire
to become a mechanic instead or
an engineer or farmer an edu-
cation will not unfit you to be-
come either. 1t will always be
capital bearing a large income
of interest.
when home and lands are
gone and spent,
"Then learning is most excel
lent"
The Atlanta Journal seems to
think that Senator Plat will prob
ably pair off with Senator Bob Tay-
Tor as to the Smoot case. You know
| that Senator Bob, whose rhetorical
efforts have more than once put
Dawson people under a spell, is quite
fond of the girls himself, and is pre-
pared to yield but little to Elder
Smoot. He has experienced the con-
iugal state often enough to be in
good standing in New York society.
1t is said in Atlanta that Editor
Graves has turned his corkscrew in
| to a fountain pen and is filling it
up for the prohibition fight, remarks
the Savannah Press. According to
his old friend, Mike O'Grady, of
Southern Cotton Association inves-
tigation fame, Editor Graves cork
screw has penetrated delights the
like of which his fountain pen can
never hope to reach.
Ben Russell, in the cambridge
Search Light, recalls that Colonel
w. D. Mann of Town Topics and
Watson's Magazine is no SLOUGH.
He edited the Mobile Register in re-
construction days, and was elected
a congressman from Alabama. He
was also the inventor of the boudoir
car and the vestibule car.
Over in the Third district Sumter
county, our close neighbor, got the
district agricultural school. If it is
really intended for farming to be
taught it would be profitable
for some of the professors to come
to Terrell and take lessons from our
crack soil ticklers, who know how.
The Alpharetta Free Press says
Clark Howell is talking like dem
ocrat, and the Savannah Press re-
marks that he has always made a
noise like the good, stout democrat
he is. Clark is all right as man
and as a democrat Breath was new
err put in a nobler or more generous
soul.
jim Griggs keeps up his gait as
swift runner. He got more votes
than any of the other congressional
candidates in the recent election.
viii Covington, Bill Spence, Andy
Roddenberry and other perspiring
patriots will take notice, and hold
on to what they have got.
Editor Stovall boots at the idea
of Senator Plat being gay Lo-
thario, and thinks the old gentleman
could prove an alibi. AS a member
of the Georgia legislature Stovall
/ snent a season or two in Atlanta, and
is qualified to give an opinion of
some weight.
All of the eleven congressman in
Georgia did not get more than 49,
| Geo votes. Uncle Joe Cannon and
the rest of the high-cock-a-lorums at
Washington may want to know of
them when they go up to be sworn
in and strut around if they were
really elected.
President Roosevelt told them
over in Panama that he would like
to see his son working on the canal.
Well, there is nothing to keep him
from furnishing the young man with
overalls, a hoe and a shovel and put
ting him at it. Wages are said to be
! good, too.
The prohibition movement in At
! lanta has struck a snag. Preachers
and papers unite in saying the time
is not ripe for an anti-whiskey
fight. Really, would Atlanta be At
/ lanta without her dram?
VIM. R. Hearst says he is for Mr..
] Rrvan for nresident. This makes it