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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09
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with friends ii IN Wesf virginia Virginia Weeks
Miss Myra Welsh has returned from
q visit to friends in Richmond and
M, Mr.. ". Z: Payne. Of Richmond, pres;
Point Railway and Electric Company,
f h,,stnes several tn, days in this city on
Miss Essye Mcpherson Is visiting
friends in Richmond.
MISS Helen Gilmore. who Is attend
TUNED to the capital e. resu "s her
studies after visit to her parents
here.
Miss 1ney lawson has returned home
after visit to friends in Norfolk
and Portsmouth.
Miss Marian shoener has returned
from q visit to friends in King and
Queen county.
Mr. Matius Meyers has returned from
n trip to Winston Salem, N. c.
Miss Mildred Stennett, of Lynchburg.
Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Philip o.
on Huntington Avenue.
the High School class Of February,
,oS. this week ut her home in East
bo MISS ,t tnez snsnSn vd has ]
relatives, in Washington.
Mrs. G. G. Hmmelright is visiting
friends + and relatives in Mathews coun-
Miss Helen Keyser has returned
home after spending several weeks
with friends in Charlottesville,
Miss Gertrude Allison has returned
from a visit to her grandparents in
hing and Queen county.
Miss Katherine Perry, OF Richmond.
is visiting relatives in this city.
Miss Irma Palmley has returned from
a visit to relatives in Nelson county.
Mrs. w. r. Jenkins, Of Philadelphia,
Is the guest of ralo twas n otf
Mr.. G.. L. Faison. OF Dendron, is Wis
iting friends In this CITY
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Richmond. arc the quests Of Mrs. D. G.

Richmond. are the guests of Mrs. d. C.
Jackson, in the city.
Miss Fannie Clark, who visited Mrs.
w. A. Woodroof during the week, has
returned to her home in South Bos-
ton.
Miss Margaret Wholey. of Stanton.
Mrs W n McNamara Jr on Fillmore
Street.
Miss lula McNeer. who had been
under treatment at the st. Andrews
Home for some weeks, has recovered
sufficiently to return to her home at
Greensboro. N. c.
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Lynchburg Social News.

Especial to The Times Dspatch.l
LfNCHBuRG, VA. February S.
Mrs. D. s. Farrer is visiting her father
Mr. H. III. Rush, at Brooltneal.
Mrs. w. j. Almond and little son have
gone on visit to relatives in New
Orleans.
Mr.. Clinton B. Humphries. of Free
dom, Pa, who has been the guest of
his father, Mr.. John a. HUMPHREYS dur
ing the week. has returned home
Rev. j. II. Dickinson, chancellor COM
mander of the Grand Lodge of Virginia
Knights Of Pythias, Of Richmond, paid
the local lodge an official visit Fri
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Errett Miley. who
were married in Washington, returned
to the city Thursday afternoon, after
Mrs. George w. Miley, a short visit in
Woodstock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Watts are stop
ping at the Mecklenburg, at Chase
Mr.. Charles e, Head left Wednesday
night for visit to Asheville. N. c.
Mrs. Davis and Miss Wright. of
South Boston. are the guests of Mrs.
Hill.
Misses Melse. Hcssburs and Florence
Mayer. of Richmond, who have been
the guests of Mrs. Harry S. Hirsch.
IN Rivermont, have returned to their
Miss Gcmima Hopkins. of tho Ran-
dolph- Macon Woman's College, has re-
turned to the college after spending a
few days with her friend, Miss Sara
Royal. at Forest Depot.
Mrs. NJ A. Spencer has returned
from Glen Wilton, where she was call
ed by the serious illness of her mother,
Mrs. Rogers.
Mr.. f. H. Landrum has returned
from business trip to Boston and
other New England shoe centres
Misses Annie and Leila Gray, of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09

Catarrh is not only dangerous. but
1t causes bad breath. liberation, death
and decay of bones. loss OF thinking
and energy. often causes loss of appe-
lite. indlgestion.l dyspepsia raw throat
and reaches to general debility. idiocy
land insanity.
In order to prove to all who are snf-
ferinE from this dangerous and loat-
some disease that Gauss Catarrhl Cure
will actually cure any case of catarrh
quickly, no matter how long standing
or how bad ] will send a trial pack
age by mail free of all cost. Try e!
1t will positively cure so. that you, VIII
be welcomed instead OF summed ny
your friends. C. e. GAUSS, 1895 Main
Street, Marshall. Mich. FIJI out cou-
pom below.
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Brian Social News.

ESPECIAL to The Times Dispatch.l
s.9Mrs. p. d. Nixon. who Who has Di been bee
quite sick for some time at her home
with grip. is improving slowly.
Mr.. W. w. Shorter has been right
much indsposed for several days.
Miss Sallie Payne, of Orange. is Wis
ting her brother. Mr. c. w. Payne, OF
this place.
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is CUES. a. the home of Mr.. Oregon

is guest at the home OF Mr.. Gregory
Spencer.
Miss Elizabeth Brook. of Norfolk. IS
visiting Miss Nora Macon.
Misses Elizabeth. Mary Darlington
and Susie Gait. of Norfolk. are guests
of their aunt, Miss Annie Gait.
Miss Julia Tyler Will leave on tho
18th for n two weeks trip TO Cuba.
Mrs. Lyon Tyler and Miss Julia
Tyler spent Friday in Richmond.
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Middlesex Social News.

Especial to The Times-D ispatch.l
SALUDA, VA, February S.-Rev. and
Mrs. j. p. Essex are visiting relatives
In Norfolk.
Miss Mamie Haynes. OF Detroit,
Mich, is visiting her cousin Mrs. Mat
tie Chowning.
Mr.. Walter HARDWOOD, Jr., who holds
n position in Richmond, is home on a
vacation.
Mrs. q. II. Dunaway is visiting rela-
tlves in Baltimore and Charlestown,
II Miss Sue Gwathmey is the guest of
Miss Garrett, at Poplar Grove" in
Mathews.
Miss Lima Bohannon spent last week
with her cousins. the Misses Gray, at
"Oakenham."
Mr.. Paul Preston. of Michigan. is
We are sorry to report Mrs. ]. p.
Crismond extremely Ill at this writing.
Miss Winnie Wiltshire, Of Martins
burg. left for her home Monday after
spending several months with rela-
Mrs. Mamie Mccandlish visited
friends at "Edgewood" this week.
Messrs. j. M. Street and r. C. Ward
are on the sick list.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Smith. who has been critically
III: is much improved.
Richmond after spending several weeks
at his old home near here.
Miss F'lorrie Haynes, of King and
Queen. spent last week with her sister
Mrs. James George.
Mr.. George Dunaway, of Baltimore,
Is spending some time ut his parents
home here.
Mrs. George Hewett entertained the
young folks very pleasantly Tuesday
evening.
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Mr.. w. Thomas Jones. who has been
III for some time at the NJ. w. Hospital
here, is but little improved.
Miss Matte Quinn, of Washington.
Is spending some time here with the
Iy OF her father. Captain s. j.
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Misses Melse Hcssbure. and Florence
Mayer, of Richmond, who have been
the guests of Mrs. Harry S. EIirsch.
In Rivermonr, have returned to their
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Miss Adelaide Gayle. of Norfolk, who
has returned home
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09

Miss Vivian Conway. of this CITY.
leit a rev days ago with party of
friends for an extended trip abroad to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-09

ing her son with her. Thc latter a
itfst-year cadet at the Institute, has
been Ill with pneumonia for several
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
COLLEGES AND ROOZE.

The newspaper telegraph dis
patches have recently carried two
rather astonishing items of news.
From San Francisco came the an
nouncement that the Stanford Uni
versity trustees have decided that
in the future not only in the cam
pus boarding houses but in the col
lege fraternity houses no whiskey,
beer or wine shall be INDUCED in.
This was followed within a day or
two by dispatch from Ann Arbor.
Mich, stating that the faculty of
the University OF Michigan had
adopted resolutions aimed at the
different drinking clubs of the col
lege. The resolutions were aimed
especially at the practice on the part
of students Of meeting in the back
rooms of saloons for carOusals and
more particularly at the practice of
holding what are known as "keg
parties.
We have all along known that
where any considerable number of
young men are gathered there are
generally those in the company
whose conceptions of pleasure and
good cheer include more or less
enthusiastic appeal to booze" but
we did not suppose that there was
university in the United States
where the indulgence in strong drink
on the campus and participation in
"keg parties were not prohibited.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
AN INSPECTION BY NIGHT.

These are times of precedent
smashing. and our always unique
and delighted Legislature is doing
something along that line itself. 1t
has voted to transport itself bodily
on a free special train to ChattanoO-
ga. the ostensible purpose being to
inspect the state railroad. 1t is pro-
pOsed to leave Atlanta on the night
of July and return on the
night of July 4 spending the ma
tional holiday in the Tennessee city,
AS the trip going and coming will
be made in the night time in sleep
ing cars it can be readily understood
how valuable it VIII be for the pur-
pose of inspecting the road, and the
great amount of information our
solons will obtain as to its condition.
Representative Heard OF Dooly
county, who is plain, practical bus
mess man with primitive notions, OPP
posed what he called this wildcat
Stllt me vi JdhDlS -SV uul ulJ liOh
on the trip, and pointed out the fact,
just as If it had anything to do with
it, that the state will be paying each
member a salary Of $14, a total ex-
pense of $3.500, while they are on
the excursion.
Let the whistle foot and the train
start, They taxpayers can stand 1t.
P. Sit is all off unless the SEN
ate again reconsiders its action.
After joining unanimously with the
house a few days ago to take the
free ride to Atlantas main source
of irrigation the senate on Monday
beat retreat and decided not to
do it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
THE DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

The eleven District Agricultural
/ Colleges which were opened last
Fall are in dire financial straits, and
/ it is said that unless revenue is pro-
vided by the state they will not be
able TO open their doors the coming
session. This is nothing more than
The News expected, but it has come
sooner than we looked for it. With
a splendid system of common edu-
cation and many high schools and
colleges of merit in Georgia we have
never been greatly impressed with
the need for these district schools.
1t is almost impossible for them to
ever be much more than local
schools supported by taxation of the
whole people, and in time they will
go like the branch colleges of the
State University which were estab-
lished throughout Georgia some
years ago. How much better it
would have been to have established
two good agricultural schools, one
in north and the other in south
Georgia, and give them proper equip
ment and support than to have
eleven of these schools scattered
about the state and poorly sup
ported
The Shellman Suns opinion of
these schools is pretty much the
same as that of The News: 1t says
The district agricultural col
lege people are giving their tale
of woe this week-they are pre-
pairing to pull the states leg for
an appropriation to maintain
the collegs. The establishment
of the district schools was an
unWise act of the Terrell admin
istratiOn. We thought so at
the time, for the main reason
that the state was not able to
maintain, adequately, so many
schools. We are for putting all
the resources for this purpose
into one central school, and
thus equip this school with
every necessity and all modern
facilities for the best results
There are schools enough al
ready established in Georgia,
and what is now needed is to
make them better
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01

The greatest if not the only mis-
take the recent state convention
made was its failure to instruct the
delegates to the Denver convention
for Mr.. Bryan. There is no doubt
that Georgia is for Bryan, and if the
delegates from this state desire to
represent their constituency instead
of themselves the Nebraskan will re-
ceive everyone of their twenty-six
votes. Mr., Bryan may not suit all
democrats in everything. Neither
would any other man. But he is
the man with whom most democrats
agree on the most essential points.
and is the strongest possible candi-
date. He will be the nominee, and
can and will be elected without any
question of doubt if all democrats
will do the right thing and unite
in giving him loyal support.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
MIDWAY MENTION.

Misses Annie Clyde and Willye
Lee Smith went up to Smithvlle last
week to attend the Burton-StanfOrd
wedding. They will visit in Ameri-
Gus before returning.
Mrs. E. T. Lockett of near Daw-
son and Mrs J. A. Flemming of
Bethel were welcome visitors here
the first of the week
Messrs. E. T. Woods, Homer Will
and Red McRae represented Daw-
son here Sunday.
Miss frankie Mae Smith has re-
turned home after spending some
time with relatives at Norman Park
and Sylvester.
Mrs. Lunsford Matthews of Pleas
ant Hill visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. E. Jennings, Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. John D. Pope, who has been
visiting friends here, has returned
to her home in Birmingham.
Miss Duckie Smith of Brentwood
is visiting at the home of her broth
er. Mr. G.. F. Smith.
Mrs. Dan Paulk and children of
DELLA visited Mrs Clyde Zimmerman
last week.
Miss Carrie Bell Randall is at
home after an extended visit to Edi-
son.
Mrs. P. H. Spann of Plains is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. J. H. Smith.
Miss Stella Williams is the guest
of Miss Susie PinkstOn, in PARROT.
Mr. Gus Fletcher of Parrot is
visiting relatives and friends here.
Let everybody attend the singings
on the second and fourth Sundays.
Miss Mamie Williams visited in
the Bethel community last week.
A large crowd attended the sing
ing at Midway Sunday.
Mrs. j. l.. Mcleod is visiting her
parents in Clayton, Ala
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Smith spent
Sunday in COttOndale.
Prof A. P Mathis has been visit
ing in Triton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.

AS the unsuccessful candidate
is not obliged under the pecu-
liar rule of the Macon cOnven-
ton, to make any statement as
to his expenses probably nobody
but Hoke Smith will ever know
how much his race cost him
No doubt it was a plenty
Griffin News.
Joe Brown filed his report prompt
ly, and it showed that he spent $21,-
900. The Nashville Herald under
stands that Governor Smith spent
$65, 900 in his recent race, but does
not give the source of it's informa-
ton. Governor Smiths expenses
were no doubt very heavy, but The
News has no idea they were as much
as our Nashville contemporary seems
to think. The Savannah Press.
which warmly espOusei the cause of
the governor in the recent contest,
understands that he spent $4,000
In his two races and lost two
: va" Ia" plaCIlCe. Governor OmlLn
necessarily had to spend a great
deal of money He had to pay
railroad fare, and he went from
one end of Georgia to the other
several times. AS a matter of fact
he carried Decatur and Dade, two
counties in extreme ends of the state
and about four hundred miles apart.
But the rule of the late executive
committee requiring only the sue
cessful candidate to render an ac-
count of his expenses was peculiar.
Why should not every candidate.
whether he wins or loses, be made
to show up?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
LET DIXIE" ALONE.

From the New York World
Women of the Confederate Choir
of America have fitted new words to
Dixie" beginning:
oh Dixie land is the lard Of glory.
The LAND OF cherished song and story"
In thinking that the old words
cinnamon seed and sandy bottom,
and the rest-are not good enough
the ladies are mistaken. What set
Dixie" going, what made Lincoln
call it the best song of the war, what
makes New York's theatre and res
taurant audiences thrill with it,
though they may never have seen
further south than Atlantic City, is
it's spirit. The words have go.
By the memory of the lips that have
sung them they should be protected
from change. Only so can the song
retain its history and it's sentiment.
Old words fit old songs. 'Ameri-
ca" is poor stuff, but no attempt to
fit new words to the tune has sue
ceeded Custom will save it. God
Save the King" is no better. There
Is not much poetry in
Illustrate their knavish tricks.
COnfouud their politics -
But that is the way it goes and
will go. The attempt to suppress
some of the fighting words of The
Star-Spangled Banner" deserves to
fail There are impolite expressions
In "Lillibullero" and "A Health to
King Charles" but they can ill be
spared. Could any new words fit
the "Marsellaise" so well as do
those that de l'Isle dashed off in one
nights feverish excitement? What
German would tamper with 'Koer-
ner's Hymn" or the Watch on the
Rhine?"
If the old songs could speak for
themselves they would all say, Let
us alone!"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
WARNER WAITS.

Henry Shines, cOlored, was killed
by Henry Jackson on the 18th of
June. He was working with j. D.
Lane at the time of his death. He
was a good negro, and liked by both
white and black. He had been in
this community 20 years.
Miss Stella Davis has just re-
Ceived her parlOr set. 1t cost 500,
and is a very pretty one.
The farmers in this community
are needing rain badly. Corn is
dying in the field.
Mr.. J. F. c. Daniel is a hustler.
He is selling goods when you don t
think he is.
Several OF our citizens nave been
fishing lately, but all have had very
poor luck.
Mrs. Trudy Daniel is very feeble,
but We hope she will soon be well
again.
Mrs. Temple Lane spent Wednes-
day with Mrs. Bonnie Davis
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01

This is what Hon. Jake More,
state warden Of Georgia. says of
kodol For Dyspepsia: e. c. De-
Witt & Co, Chicago, Ill.-Dear Sirs:
have suffered more than twenty
years from indigestion. About
eighteen months ago | had grown
so much worse that | could not di-
gest a crust of corn bread and could
not retain anything on my stomach.
| lost % pounds; in fact, | made
up my mind that | could not live but
short time, when a friend of mine
recommended KodOl. | consented to
try it to please him and was better
in one day. | now weigh more than
| ever did in my life and am in bet
ter health than for many years.
Kodol did it. keep a bottle con-
stantly, and write this hoping that
humanity may be benefited. Yours
very truly. Jake " Moore, Atlanta,
Aug. 10, 1904" Sold by Dawson
Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
Honest ANDY.

From the Rome Tribune
Our old friend Anderson Rodden-
berry followed the example of Joseph
Nj. Brown and rendered an honest
and full account of his campaign ex-
penses. The race against Griggs cost
him about $4,000. Was 1t worth
while? .
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01

There is talk that an eminent
Georgian for whom we have great
respect and some admiration is al
ready laying plans to oppose Sena-
tor Bacon four years hence. Sena-
tor Bacon is the biggest man Geor-
gia has had in Washington in many
years. and the people are going to
Keep him there as long as he will
serve them. Bacon is a credit to
Georgia and to the South.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01

Governor Smith recommends In
his message that the date of the
primary for state house officers he
fixed by statute. The recommended
ton is a good one. Such an i'm
pOrtant matter ought not to be left
to the control of scheming politi-
clans. The primary was held early
this year, and there was much criti-
cism of those who fixed the date of
it. 1t is unnecessary to inquire here
why so early date was decided
upon. The governor now seems to
think the date should be consider
ably later and that it should be made
permanent, and in this we agree with
him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01

Margaret E. Sangster, in her
monthly page in Woman's Home
Companion for July, says that the
American woman and the simple life
are getting too far apart, and she
urges the serious-minded woman to
strive against the luxury-loving ten
denotes of the age
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
THE MYSTERY OF A SOUL.

The recent announcement of the
death of Blind Tom" told of the
departure from life of one of the
worlds celebrities, for such this I'M
deferred, sightless negro was. Many
who will read this notice have lis
tened with pleasure and wonder to
his music, for there are but few
towns in the land. at least of any
size, that Blind Tom had not
visited He was born the slave of
the Bethune family, near Columbus,
Ga, and in all physical aspects was
the typical African, though his Ian
guage grew better as he waXed in
years, by reason of his constant con-
tact with educated white people,
Whence came the genius for music
negro, whose mental phase was akin
to dense stupidity, In all his life,
despite the efforts during the days
of prosperity and fame to lessen
the bondage of his mind, he re-
manned to men but one remove from
the idiot, and so it remained to the
fast But for his marvellous gift
this negro would have lived and died
in direst obscurity, utterly unknown
or unheard of, II was only when he
heard music, or when he seated
himself at the piano and his fingers
souched the keys and swept the
chords, that the living soul, the
spark of the Divine that tenanted
the dark-hued tenement OF clay, as
serted itself and compelled admiTa-
ton and wonder. To this age this
phase of Blind Tom has been, and
may remain, mystery the subject
of earnest speculation. Madame Bla-
vatsky, who saw and heard him in
London, insisted that he was a pO-
tent illustration of the doctrine of
re-incarnation, which she taught.
The soul of a great musician of
centuries agone has been born again
in this Ethiopian" she said
Scientists and physics investigated
and surmised, but Blind Tom" was
riddle to the last. Some day,
perhaps. for those now living the
riddle may be solved To the world
st large he was simply "a freak, -
and yet, in soberest truth, he was
q wonderful example of the subtilty
of mind, the mystery of dual mind
that puzzles and cOnfounds because
we do not know the law that con
trolls its operation. Blind Tom
and Padarewski were kindred types
manifestly from the same source, ye
how unlike, how far apart. And O
each we can only say 'whence?' an(
~whither?" In the next stage o.
soul existence will there be fulles
scope and realization for the sou
darkened and cramped by its early
environments, for the soul of the
idiotic slave?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01

Use DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
pleasant little pills that are easy to
take. Sold by Dawson Drug Co,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
Oh, Spare Us!

From the Dalton Citizen.
Win politics never let up? The
Dublin COurier-Dispatch is now
booming Mr.. G. Brantley for the
next governor of Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-01
A GREAT POLITICAL THOUGHT

Next Saturday will be the Fourth
of July, and the following editOria
paragraph from Mr. Bryan's Com
moner is good for a political though
on that day:
The greatest political
thought in the world is that
embodied in the Declaration OF
independence, namely, that all
men are created equal. This is
the basis of popular govern
ment, and popular government
is spreading. 1t does not mean
that men are, or will be, equal
in physical strength, in intel
lectual ability, in moral charac-
ter, or in wealth-it simply
means that God never gave to
one human being natural
right that He denied to any 9TH
er human being, and that in the
contemplation of government
all must stand equal before the
law. Out of this basic princi-
pie all other political principles
grow, and by it all methods of
government and all policies
must be measured. ,"