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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
A TRIUMPH FOR LAW.

Eight of the night riders who
murdered Captain Rankin at Reel
foot Lake have been convicted at
Union City, Tenn, and the sentence
of death imposed upon six of them.
while two of them escaped with SEN
fences of twenty years in the peni-
Tertiary. The result of the trial is
a distinct triumph OF the law.
A civilized people can take no
pleasure in seeing the sentence
of death inflicted, but matters
have reached such a stage that
drastic steps must be taken if
the reign of terror and bloodshed is
not to continue longer. The night
riding spirit had spread from it's
Observation-Disclosures in
to Tennessee, and with its spread it
gathered evil strength. More than
that, there had been sporadic out
bursts of it in other sections-even
here in our own Southwest Georgia
until almost every southern state
has had a taste of this peculiar form
of lawlessness.
To Governor Patterson's prompt
and decisive action when the Reel
foot Lake outrage occurred is due
much for bringing these midnight
murderers to justice, and he has set
the governors of other states an ex-
ample of how to stamp out lawless-
ness of this character Going out
after the participants in mob law is
much surer of results than sitting
back in comfortable office and de-
nouncing them and their crime and
Offering a paltry reward for their
caDturp
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
OUR OLD HOME PAPER.

The News joins in congratulating
Editor Hodges of the Perry Home
Journal that his paper has weathered
the storms of thirty-eight years, and
entered its thirty-ninth volume on a
sounder basis and with a brighter
outlook than ever before. All of
these long years the Home Journal
has been loyal to the people of HOus-
ton county. 1t has been a part o.
their very lives-has shared with
them their joys and sorrows, and
contributed as much, or more, per-
haps, to their pleasure and enter
tainment and general advancement
than any other one thing. 1t is
something less than thirty years ago
that the editor of The News did his
first newspaper work as devil" in
the Home Journal office, and we
have an abiding affection for the old
paper May it celebrate as many
more anniversaries, and every one of
hem bring increased usefulness and
prosperity to it and it's able and de-
serving editor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
MORE UPLIFTING.
the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
We still hear of the Governments
Country Life Commission and the
great work of rural uplift it has
generously undertaken. DR.. L. H.
Knapp, chief of the department of
agriculture's cooperative farm
demonstrative work" in the south. is
thus quoted:
One of the most important
steps in this uplift work is to
help the southern farmer get
out of debt, and l might say
that he is less in (ebt than he
was five years ago. Secondly,
L would revoIutionize their
homes, and third, | would take
over their schools and readiust
them"
Why not also take over their
children so that the Iatter's bodies
may be fed only on baked beans and
their minds nOurished chiefly on
Emerson, and thus the genuine model
New England product be evolved?
1t seems that the Mothers Con-
gress is to back up the government
and lend a hand. Mrs. Schoff of
Philadelphia pledges that benignant
ORGANIZATIONS active cooperation
IN the movement to better the condi-
lions of the average country woman
in the south, and to teach modern
methods of cooking"
Once we took a pride-a foolish
pride, no doubt-in southern cook
ing, in the delicious things the
trained black culinary artists of the
Old plantation knew how to serve.
But now everything, even memories
must be given up, for we are going
TO be uplifted-to the elysian level
OF baked beans, Goldfish and mashed
potatoes. 1t makes one giddy-aI-
most sea-sick-tO think of so swift
an uplift to so vast a height of
progress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
DoVEREL SCHOOL WON PRIZE.

At the beginning of last year the
ladies of the Library Association
offered to the country school which
should make the greatest progress
in civic improvement and in library
work a reward of ten new books
for its library. 1t was found at the
close of the year that the Doverel
school, under the management of
Prof. T. E. Morton, had done most
to beautify its grounds and add to
its library. 1t was with great pleas
ure that the prize was gwen to them,
not only as reward for their past
work, but as an encouragement for
the ensuing year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
WILL THEY GET UP A WAR?

Every once in awhile the countr!
hears something from Hero" Hob
son about a war with Japan. He i.
now in the north on a lecturing tour
and is preaching the probability OF
war and the need of a larger and
better navy.
If he and Mr.. Roosevelt and 9th
ers should get up a war with ia
pan there is no reason to doubt
the United States could win, and it
seems hardly probable that England
or any other European country
would join Japan in such a war.
Still complications might arise. This
country has no need and is certainly
devoid of fear for any other nation,
but it has much to fear from the
brutalizing influence that war eXer-
cises on her citizenship. Our Philip
pine army with their barbarous water
cure and our soldiers in many in
stances have shown that the call of
the wild" of the barbarous appeals
to them.
Mr.. Roosevelt's idea that the way to
avoid war is to go around with big
navy and a chip on our shoulders is
not the correct idea. In early days
it was commonly stated that no man
ever became involved in deadly diff
culties except the men who went
around prepared for it. The same
applies to countries. No war would
be probable did the United States at
tend to her own affairs, and refuse
to parade her strength and invite a
contest.
Still the jingoes are, in our best
judgment, likely to precipitate a war,
and there are many who would Justify
it. 1t is now about ten years since
we occupied the Philippines, and con-
sentative statesmen then predicted
that it would in less than ten years
cause war. The war between Rus
STA and Japan may have delayed a
sound prophecy. In any event was is
the desire of the men who follow the
army and the navy and many who do
not.
1t seems safe to believe if we hold
the Philippines and build a big navy
We will be in a war in less than five
years. However, this country should
avoid war. We could gain no glory
from even a victorious war with ia
pan, and war lacking decisive re-
suits would be most humiliating.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
More Corn and Less Cotton.
From the Macon Evening News.

corn % cent cotton ndueg many farmers to devote
raising and fewer to
VII! be freely planted
S
The the Cotton of
gram nay chickens other
VINO at all times independent of the
NOBODY ever heard the creditor
VINO full
o o"eu win deDts due to the
% men 40 not feel the depressing influences
PRICES Ahcs lhey sleep we'll nights
a OF peaceful ontentment and are always ready with hearty
feel the powerful and fascinating perfect
pendent husbandment. 'p1' ~ 1"Ne
man VINO depends wholly
travel mere hundreds
me anu i've at nome instead the
out the independent
country their
houses and ' 'N'' SnloAe
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
THE RECENT HORROR.

The horrors Of the Johnstown
flood, of Galveston and st. Pierre
at least as to loss of life and human
suffering seem to be surpassed by
the earthquake disaster in Italy.
Careful investigation does not reveal
less loss of life than was at first
reported. 1t is appalling beyond de-
scriptiOn-the thought of the sudden
unheaval of land and sea and the de-
struction of so many human beings,
as we'll as the fact that so many seem
to have died in agony, helpless vic
TINS of the flames that swept the
wrecked cities Immediately follow
ing the cataclysm. That it is a mon
umental disaster, century disaster,
cannot be doubted, and it is a check
to human pride and arrogance to re-
fleet that with all his genius, prog
ress and power man cannot guard
against experiences of this charac-
ter, the awful and supreme manifes-
tatiOn of Natures latent forces.
1t is needless to say that the SYM
pathy and generous aid of all lands
has gone out to stricken Italy, and
such mitigation of need and suffer-
ing as could be rendered has been
prompt and generous. Fifty years
ago weeks would have been required
to carry the tidings of the catastro-
phe to the notice of the world. Now
it is flashed around the globe in an
instant, as it were, and all nations
apprised Of the need of human SYM
pathy and aid. And the world has
not been slow in it's offers of service
to Italy, even if here in Dawson we
have not needed the cry of afflicted
brotherhood and have failed to con-
tribute a mite toward assuaging
the suffering of some poor man, wo-
man or child. 1t should be a great
comfort to everyone everywhere who
has contributed, no matter how
small, to these people.
There is no lesson to draw from
the cataclysm save fresh realization
of human helplessness against certain
manifestations of Natures forces.
No human foresight could have
warded off the disaster 1t is not a
judgment" either God does not
wrong or burden his innocent Great
ures in such manner. 1t was nat
ural, and all there is to do is to help
those who, because of the horror,
need help.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
OPERA HOUSE THURSDAY NIGHT

Peck and His Mother-in-Law will
give another entertainment on
Thursday night, January 18th, ow-
ing to the opera house at cambridge
being closed. They Will again pro
duce the play with new specialties
and scenery, and give the laughable
farce, "A Dollar for a Kiss" with
out extra charge. The company
played Monday night to a good
house, and from the amount of
laughter and appreciation by the au-
dience showed that all were well
pleased. Don't forget the date,
Thursday night, January 18th. Seats
will be on sale Thursday at Lavelys
candy stand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

There are a number of bright
newspaper women in Georgia, but
one of the most successful of these
is Miss Nora Lawrence, who has just
succeeded her father as editor of the
Wiregrass Farmer at Ashburn, and
has associated with her as business
manager Mr.. L. H. Jenkins. We ex-
tend to the charming young editress
the compliments of the season, and
wish for her and the Wiregrass
Farmer all of the prosperity her tai
ented work deserves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

We see it stated that in Atlanta
last year there were nine thousand
fewer arrests than during the year
before. This means that there were
many times more than nine thousand
fewer heartaches, fewer pangs of re-
morse, and a great deal more happi-
ness in many homes If prohibition
has done this no one can dispute that
it is a good thing, and has been
worth while.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Savannah News wants to know
if it will finally become necessary to
divide the states penal establish
ment into eight sections, one for
white men, one for white women,
one for black men, one for black
women, one for white boys, one for
white girls, one for negro boys and
one for negro girls. The demand
seems to be for the absolute segre-
cation of the races and the sexes,
both adult and juvenile.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
THE WAY OF THEM AL.

1t is not surprising that the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail
road has been placed in the hands of
receivers because of it's failure to
meet the January interest on it's
bonds. 1t is the history of all new
railroads, and is merely the first step
towards getting rid of the little fell
lows. The president and vice-presi-
dent of the road are the receivers.
The A. B. & A. is one of the best
equipped railroads in the South, and
its elegant passenger coaches, with
their electric fans, were a wonder in
this section when they were first put
in service. The road has opened a
fine section of country and been of
vast benefit, and The News hopes
nothing serious will result from the
present proceedings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Taft and Foraker have defeated
each other in Ohio, and it is likely
that both are satisfied. Brother
Charlie" who gave $4,000 to his
brother Williams campaign fund in
his race for the presidency and
thought he should be rewarded with
a seat in the United States senate
for it announced his withdrawal from
that contest few days ago, and this
was soon followed with a similar an
nouncement from Senator Foraker.
Congressman Burton will be the next
senator from Ohio.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

We are here to tell the monied
men of Dawson, the men who have
big holdings here, that the mass of
the people in the city are ready and
waiting to follow them and help in
efforts to promote the prestige and
growth OF Dawson-nOt unwise, i'm
practicable measures or movements.
but undertakings needful and entire
ly within the reach of the community
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
Il Remember, 1 Remember. ;,


remember, I remember.
Inc house where | was born
Inc little window where the SIM
came peeping in at morn;
lie never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a dav.
But now | often wish the night
Had borne my breath away,
remember, I remember,
The roses, red and white
Inc flowers and the liIy-cups
Those flowers made of light,
Inc lilacs where the robin bui]t
AND where my brother set
Inc Iaburnum on his birthday
The tree is living yet!
l remember, I remember,
where | once used to swing
AND thought the air must rush os
fresh
AS swallows on the wing.
My spirit flew in feathers +bon
mat is so heavy now.
And summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my browl
l remember, l remember
The fir trees, dark and high;
used to think their slender TONS
Were close against the sky;
II was a childish ignorance.
But now it's little JOY
10 Know IN farther off from heaven
Than when was a boy.
Thomas In0d
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Every dollar so spent helps to
swell the heap in the city that has
no use for us except to get our good
money.
Every dollar mailed away helps to
strangle enterprises and scuttle pros
perity right here at home
When you strangle your neighbor
you strangle yourself.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Uncle Sam has moved promptly
and generously to the aid of stricken
Italy. 1t is Uncle Sans way, and a
good way. And all the world is
moving to the relief of Italy, for the
reports continue to show that the
disaster is the greatest and in all it's
details the most pitiable of the CEN
turtles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
WHAT MAN DO YOU STRANGLE?

Some statistician figures that
$25O,OOO,OOO every year is being di-
verted from the local merchants of
this country to the mail order con-
Germs in the great cities.
How much of that monumental
mound of money goes out of this
community?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Atlanta has decided to quit hum
bugging her country cousins with
so-called fairs. The town council IN
there has voted against having any
more of the fakes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Macon News is right when it
says Billie Osborne had better have
himself remeasured before he finally
decides that Senator Bacon's toga
will fit him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Perry Home Journal utters a
great truth in few words: MA
terial prosperity depends more upon
personal effort than upon legislation
and general conditions" And the
people of Georgia have had it strong
ly impressed upon them in the last
two or three years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Standard Oil Company has
the laugh on Judge Lands in the
wind-up. The $29,O0O,O0O fine will
not have to be paid, which shows
that even the rich can get justice
from the courts in this glorious
country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Augusta Herald wastes nearly
a column of good editorial space dis
cussing mint growing in Georgia.
There is no use for the aromatic
grass in this. state now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
SHOULD HAVE READ THE NEWS.

H. T. Bridges of Terrell coun-
ty made last year 105 bales of
cotton on 100 acres. The pa
pers did not state how much
fertilizer he used.-Shellman
Sun.
The Sun should have read The
News, and not obtained it's informa-
ton second hand from the daily
newspapers, which got the item from
this paper and omitted that part of
the story. For the benefit of The
Sun We will again state that Mr..
Bridges used from 600 to 1000
pounds of commercial fertilizer to
the acre.
Its fine farm lands and intelligent
and progressive farmers we have
over here in Terrell county, Bud.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

All of this gush over Taft and talk
OF his breaking the solid south is
tommyrot. He will do it when eIe-
plants roost in rose bushes. The Ma
con Telegraph took it too seriously
when it devoted two columns of good
editorial space to it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

They are going to charge $40 a
plate to eat with Mr.. Taft when he
visits Atlanta. There are a great
many people who are not hungry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

There are now four southern states
in which statewide prohibition pre-
walls, Alabama, Mississippi and North
Carolina joining Georgia on January
1st And the others are merely damn
in spots.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Since men have deserted the great
outdoors for office life they are
forced to let the brain do the work
And that is nothing to be proud Of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Some of our contemporaries can't
rest at night for worrying about Mr..
Bryan not swearing that he will
never have anything more to do with
politics. The surest way to keen
Mr.. Bryan in politics is for these
papers to continue to nag at him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

10 all Of it's contemporaries or the
Georgia press The News wishes
happy New Year and good fortune
through 1909.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Darien Gazette thinks that
when Atlanta gets through slobber-
ing over Mr.. Taft he will wonder
why he didn't get more votes in that
city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

What does 1909 hold for Dawson .
Progress and prosperity That is the
gospel The News breaches.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The man worth while is the man
who will make two smiles grow
where only one grew before
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The Big Stick has lost its infu-
ence' Even the ohicehoIders are no
longer afraid of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

Governor Smith has called meet
ing of the committee appointed by
the legislature and himself to con-
slider the extension of the states
railroad to the sea. The News has
no. idea that the road will be ex-
tended to the sea-not now, at any
rate. Railroads are having a rather
hard time of it these days, and be-
sides it is no part of a states gov
eminent to engage in such enter
prises. When Judge Dick Russell
ran for governor the chief plank
of his platform was the extension of
the states road, and he had neither
sympathy or encouragement from
Mr., Smith and others who are now
foremost in pushing the project.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

The News Job Rooms
for good printing Of all
kinds. Let US have that
order today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

For the home town first, last and
all the time. And the town is Daw-
son.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13

What Tillman did for Ted Roose-
welt Monday was a plenty.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-19
Seeking Girls Assailant.

Fitzgerald, Ca, August a.
Posses to-day are securing the sur
rounding country for negro who at
tempted criminal assault on white
girl about 2 o'clock this morning. The
negro had entered the girls room
through window. Awakened by the
noise she attempted to rush past him,
but he caught her by the throat and
tried to choke her. The young woman
fought desperately, finally succeeding
in escaping from her assailant. Her
brother-in-law, sleeping in an adjoin-
ing room, was awakened by the noise
and rushed to the girls assistance,
but the negro had escaped. Feeling
is running high and lynching is ex-
pected if the negro is captured.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-19
Machinery on Farms.

Out at Goshen Corners and Fair
aeld Center the boys now growing up
sill not have to leave home to find
much of which your barren boyhood
was denied. For, over the country
that you left, the new rural spirit has
waved this wand Of progress. From
the fragrant fields comes the sound
Of whirring machinery harvesting ten
acres of grain where one was harvest
ed before. Self-binders are reaping
acres of wheat at cost of less than a
cent a bushel. Machines are milking
COWS by the herd. Potatoes are being
planted at furrow rate of five miles
an hour. Within the last two years
more than fifty thousand gasoline en-
gines have gone to work on the
American farm, and now there is an
auto-tractor that hauls to market
loads of produce tandem, like the
cars of a train. Farm life that was
once struggle has become a pleas
ure. Last year a number of houses
sold more automobiles to the farm
ers than to the city trade. Forty
touring cars at $3.50 apiece went to
a single Illinois county.-The De-
lineator for September.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-19
The Lesser of the Two Evils.

On the first Sunday of their visit in
Chicago the successful merchant es-
corted his parents to a fashionable
church. Some of the hymns were IA
miliar, and in their rendition the Wis
iting pair contributed heavily, with
the credit of volume in favor of the
father.
Although not always in correct
time, and sometimes in discord, yet
the Joy of the good couple 1eaped
forth in joyous praise, and they did
not see the glowering looks Of nearby
worshippers or the flushed face of
their devoted son.
Father" observed the merchant
that afternoon, while his mother was
taking her accustomed nap, lin our
churches the congregation does very
little singing; it is left entirely to the
chair"
II know, my boy" said the old
gentleman, as he lovingly placed a
hand on his sons shoulder, that it
was very embarrassing to you this
morning, but if I hadn't sung as loud
" as l did the people would have
heard your mother" r."-Youth's Com
panion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-19
Two Charged with Assault.

Gainesville, Ca, August 1.-two
white men, Dick Worthington and his
nephew, Jack Worthington, were
placed in jail here to-day, charged
with criminal assault upon young
girl. According to the sheriff both
men have confessed. The assault oc-
Cured in the northern part Of Bar
tow county Wednesday. Excitement
in the neighborhcod of the crime is at
fever heat and threats OF lynching
have reached the sheriff.
Both men were captured after an
exciting chase by Sheriff Smith and
his deputies. They are held without
bail and will be tried next month.
Residents of the Euharlee neighbor-
hood make no secret that unless they
are legally executed they will be
lynched.