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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
A FLOOD OLE IMMIGRANTS.

Europe has begun to augment our
population with a vigor never before
manifested. In the month of April
that country sent us 1864 new
corners, or three times as many as
came here in April a year ago. If
this proportion is continued for a
twelvemonth the total will be 2,24S,-
610, or nearly a million in excess of
the greatest immigration to the
United States in a single year. The
highest so far was in 1907, when the
arrivals stood at 1,285,349. The de-
pressed conditions which pevailed in
1908 cut down the numbers over half
a million, the total being 782,870.
In the incoming this year Italy has
first place, with about one-fourth of
the whole, or 10000. Austria-Hun-
gary was the greatest contributor in
recent years, sending over nearly
100000 in 1907 Italys contribu-
ton was some $4,000 less than this.
But with the showing so far made
this year the peninsular kingdom will
overtake the hyphenated empire if
the ratio of increase so far is con-
tinued The British isles send us
about $4,000; England's share be-
ing about $500, Ireland's 34,5O0,
Scotland's 10000, Wales 5000.
Comparing the number of English
speaking immigrants to that of the
Austria-Italian the ratio is over five
to one in favor of the latter. Germa-
ny's quota was nearly $4,000.
1t is to be demonstrated whether
the United States can furnish en-
ployment for the great number COM
ing to us this year. The big in
dustrial enterprises of the north and
east have for sometime been supply
ing work for only about seventy-five
per cent of those who depend upon
them for a livelihood, leaving thou
sands with nothing to do. This en-
forced idleness has it's counterpart
pretty much everywhere, and makes
the outlook for the newly arrived
toilers from Europe none too prom
Using.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
THE TARIFF MIX-UP.

The tariff debate goes on in con-
gress. When it is all over we will
have the same old protective tariff,
only dressed in new garb. And after
all it is a question whether the
American people or the Georgia peo-
pie want a tariff for revenue only.
of 172 democrats in congress 102
have spoken or voted for protection
in the interest of some class in their
home districts, and our own two SEN
ators and a majority of our con-
gressmen are among those who have
gone on record as favoring a tariff
on some particular commodity in
which their constituents are inter-
ested. This action is manifestly out
of tune with the spirit of our party
doctrines and party platforms, but
they know full well that deep down
in their hearts a plenty of the people
they represent are fully content to
keep a duty on lumber and iron ore
and put duty on raw cotton.
We democrats may deny that, but it
is true just the same We ought to
be candid and consistent, and quit
pointing with pride" to our record
as tariff reformers. Every commu-
nifty, if it has anything to protect,
wants that thing protected. If any
of these gentlemen are ever retired
from service in Washington it will
not be because of their votes on the
tariff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
PLEASANT HILL POINTS.

Rev. Roberts of Parrot filled his
appointment at Enterprise church
Sunday and Sunday night. A large
crowd attended both services.
Mrs. R. E. Foster and children
have returned home after two weeks
visit to her mother, Mrs. Clifford
Dean, of cambridge.
Miss Isreil and Miss Virgins of
Sumter county spent a few days as
the guests of Miss Susie Waller.
Mr.. Will Kenney and Mr.. Joe
Christie spent a few hours among
the younger set Sunday afternoon
Miss Breedlove of Graves spent
Saturday and Sunday with her cousin,
Mrs. Lunford Mathis.
Miss Genie Terrell left for her
home Saturday. She was elected
teacher for another term.
Mr.. and Mrs Will McCarty of Daw-
son were with homefolks Sunday
Mrs. Tigner of Brentwood is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. J.. T. Waller.
Mr.. Josie Smith of Sumter county
was in Terrell Sunday afternoon
Mr.. Hardwick of PARROT was
among the fair sex Sunday.
Miss Helen Cannon has returned
to her home in Dawson.
Everyone enjoyed the concert. 1t
was certainly fine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
THE SAME IN OTHER TOWNS.
From the Marietta Journal.

From the Marietta Journal.
This town is growing. Take
The News word for it. 1t would
be worth a great deal more,
however, if the improvements
were along industrial lines in
stead of in buildings. dawson
News.
That's the trouble with other
towns. People put their money in
dwellings and not in industrial
plants, and soon they have a pie
thora of empty buildings. That is
the trouble with Marietta now. Our
people have not consolidated their
capital by forming stock companies
and building factories, but have built
more houses than they have tenants
for. What we want to do is to build
industrial plants and give people en-
ployment; then we will take on
greater business activity. Marietta
is growing all right, but not in fac
tories.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

BY permission of Van Norden Mag
azine the article recently contributed
to that publication by Congressman
Griggs is printed in this issue of The
News AS has been said of it by a
Georgia contemporary; 1T is worth
reading. 1t gives facts in an impair
tial manner" The News has been
authorized by Van Norden Magazine
to say that any Georgia newspaper
that may desire to print the article
is at liberty to do so, giving proper
credit, of course, to the magazine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
THE CALL OF HOME.

A few days ago word came from
New York that Meme, the Esquimaux
boy brought to this country in 1895
by Commander Peary, had disap-
peared, leaving a note saying that
he was going home. He had tried
to accustom himself to our ways and
acquire an education under the fOs-
tering care of well-meaning people
who wanted to send him back to the
bleak shores of his far northern
home to teach his own people the
benefits of civilization and the chris
tian religion, but it was no use. The
call of home was too strong, and
Meme followed the impulses of his
heart and went
In a note which he left Meme said:
"Never mind where | am; | am just
walking north. l am homesick and
disguised, and when Commander
Peary told me he had no room for
me on his ship l lost hope. I have
given up believing that your chris
ton belief, which you taught me,
was meant for a poor Esquimaux
boy. After all, my own people are
more human and kind, and l am go
ing home. Your civilization has done
nothing but harm for me and my peo-
pie. Goodbye"
Meme is going home. Somewhere
along the cold and forbidding coast
of the northern seas this lonely little
boy is plodding painfully in loneli-
ness and tears, upheld by the thought
that each step is bringing him nearer
his own people and taking him fur
Their from our civilization and our in
f1uenceS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
The HeraId'S Article

1t is a common thing these days,
and has been ever since the prohibi-
ton law went into effect in Georgia,
to hear men say they can get all the
liquor they want, and that there is
as much liquor drunk now as there
was before the prohibition era. Men
who are opposed to prohibition and
have always been seem to have an
idea that they can discredit the pro-
hibition law and create a sentiment
against it by telling things which
they think are calculated to argue
that prohibition doesn't prohibit.
And not all of them are particular
about telling the truth and the truth
only when they get warmed up on
the subject.
There is no doubt that some liquor
is sold here in Albany, and in nearly
every other town or city of any con-
siderable size in the state, but when
ever you hear a man saying it is no
trouble to get liquor here, and that
he can get all he wants, Just "call
him. as we saw one called the other
day, by asking him to go with you
to the place where it is to be had
and let you stand treats" and the
chances are that he will renege.
Prohibition may not prohibit
does not wholly prohibit, it must
be admitted, but it has certainly re-
duced liquor drinking in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
Farm Lands

$500 acres, with stock in
Guiding mules and brood mares
hogs, COWS and goats; corn. fod.
der and all farm Implements
including reapers, binders and
other improved machinery
This magnificent farm, togeth-
er with all of the above pron-
erty, can be had for SIS an
acre.
450 acres, four miles south Of
Dawson, at a price that cannot
be met in any similar value.
557 acres of land in i'm
proved state of cultivation, two
and one-half miles north of
Bronwood.
$50 acres of land southwest
of Bronwood, having on it a
large quantity of hardwood
timber.
1000 acres of land in the
Fourth district. This place is
we'll improved.
300 acres of land in the Sixth
district, we'll improved.
665 acres three miles north
of Bronwood, including stock
VIII give you bargain in this
and terms if desired.
100 acres lying in and Just
beyond the limits of Dawson.
100 acres OF land east of
BrOnWOod.
400 acres of well-improved
land a mile and a half from
Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

Shades of Jim Woodward! The
Jeffries-Johnson smuggling match for
Atlanta! Wouldn't that jar you? The
Hon. Carlos Mason, the reform chair
man of Atlanta's police board, is the
one who makes the suggestion. He
thinks Atlanta is no longer viii
lage, and says that while the lid must
stay down on real naughty things
it will be all right to ease up on
things not so naughty-prize fights,
for instance. We await Parson
Broughton's explosion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
KEEPING THE SOUTH POOR.

out of Georgia for corn, oats and hay
that might be retained here under
better system of agriculture, but
it runs away up into the millions of
dollars every year, and cuts a broad
sWath into the returns from the cot
ton crop. In fact, the money sent out
of the state unnecessarily may be
said to largely consume the profits
from the cotton crop.
1t is an open secret that even here
in Sumter county the importations
of supplies of this character are enor-
nous. A we'll informed banker tells
the Times-Recorder that probably in
excess of one hundred thousand dol
lars is sent off from Americas alone
for stock feeds. Considerable grains
and hay are raised in this territory.
The quantity is every year increas-
ing, but the total is still away below
what is required between crops to
meet the needs of the planters.
Some farmers have maintained
that it did not pay them to raise
these supplies; that it was more
profitable to them to raise cotton and
buy all supplies. Yet a banker who
has studied the situation for years
tells us that the farmers who have
cash balances to their credit in the
local banks are, as a rule, those who
have raised food supplies on their
places, as we'll as cotton. When
these farmers have sold their cot
ton they have not had big bills await
ing settlement for western grains,
etc. The satisfaction has been theirs
of meeting their obligations and hav-
| ing comfortable amount left to
their credit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
A COMMON MISREPRESENTATION

Editor of The Dawson News; Mr..
Mcintosh of the Albany Herald, in
a half column editorial, pays his re-
spects to a class in Georgia who have
worked overtime since prohibition
went into effect to create sentiment
against the measure. Dawson can
lay claim to few of this kind whose
zeal is worthy of better cause. We
haven't heard of them convincing
anybody that there is more whiskey
sold in Terrell county than before
the dispensary went out of business,
but they are still trying to make
folks see it that way.
The following extracts are so APP
plicable to this community we ask
that you publish, them in this weeks
News. PROHIBITIONIST.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
Them Old Editors.
Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
Georgia editors are rubbing elbows
these days and counting the number
of years since they put on the har-
ness. Allen of Camilla has been at
it for thirty-fve years; Triplett of
Thomasville counts his time a little
more than that. Mcintosh of Albany
runs back forty years, as does Pen
dletOn of Macon. We kids who have
been at it only twenty, twenty-five
or thirty years feel keenly our mi
nority in such company; but we glory
in the stamina of the elders who
graduated from the "hell-box'' and
the old Washington hand press and
are still teaching the natives how to
shoot.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
GRAVES GLEANINGS.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Dismuke at
tended the graduating exercises of
their daughter, Mis- Lille, at Andrew
Female College on Wednesday.
Mr.. J. T. Dismuke spent few
days in Cuthbert last week attending
the commencement of Andrew Col
lege.
Misses Amorette Burge, Lille Dis
nuke and Kathleen Grimes are at
home from Andrew Female College.
Mrs. w o. Chambless and little
daughter, Connie, of Springvale are
the guests of Mrs. j. E. Hamilton.
Miss Douglass Burge and Mrs. G.
W. King spent few days last week
with relatives at Doerun.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Mcneil and
children spent few days last week
with relatives in PARROT.
Mrs. c. M. Davidson has returned
to her home in Dawson after a visit
to relatives here.
Miss Ida Greene and Mrs. w.
Hargrove and children have gone to
Smithville for the summer.
Mr.. Truman Slade went up to Ma
con Thursday to fill an important en-
gagement.
Miss Florence Newman was the
guest of friends in Parrot last week.
Miss Ruth McKie has returned to
her home in Athens.
Miss Kathleen Grimes is visiting
relatives in Dawson.
Miss Eva Waller is the guest of
relatives in Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
Administrators Sale,

Georgia, Terrell County.-By vir-
tue of an order of the Court of Or
binary of DOugherty county, granted
May 3, 1909, there will be sold at
public cutlery on the first Tuesday in
July, 1909, at the court house in
said Terrell county, between the US
ual hours of sale, the following real
property belonging to the estate of
George Finley, late of Dougherty
county, deceased, situate in said Ter
rell county, to-wit:
All of the west half of a certain
tract of land or town lot situate in
the northeast portion of the city linn
its of Dawson, Terrell County, Geor-
gia, in the Twelfth district of said
county; bounded on the south by the
Dawson and Bronwood public road,
and on the west by an alley running
north from the Baptist church, being
the west part of the lot at one time
owned by Simon COnyers and his
wife, and bought by said COnyers
from J. B. Grim, except a small tract
sold to one Britt Cooper; said prop
erty being the same conveyed and
more fully described in a deed from
ohe D. II. LdlHS 10 one william
Wooten, dated March 10, 1885, and
recorded on the record of deeds in
the office of the clerk of the superior
court of Terrell County, Georgia, in
Book M, Pages 613-614.
The sale will continue from day to
day, between the usual hours of sale.
until said property is sold. Terms
cash. This the LIST day of June.
1909. r. P. HALL.
Administrator upon the Estate of
George Finley, Deceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

From the Americas Times-Recorder.
ut is not very encouraging to see
so much corn, oats, hay and other
feed stuff hauled out of Hawkinsville
this year by the farmers. The supply
merchants say it is almost impOssi-
BILE to keep enough of such things
on hand to supply the demand, and
what makes the situation worse for
the farmers is the fact that they
are having to pay very high prices
for what they buy-cOrn being $1.10
per bushel, hay S1.25 per hundred
pounds, oats IS cents per bushel, and
all other feed stuffs in proportion.
These are cash prices, and the credit
prices of course are much higher.
There is not much chance for the
farmers to prosper under such con-
ditions as these, and unless cotton
brings good price next fall we are
afraid that many of them are going
to be found in a mighty bad fix. -
Hawkinsvllle Dispatch
Pulaski county, like many other
Georgia counties, has its prosperity
and progress impeded by the policy
LOO uduy IdTuSIS pursue VI uuyl uS
Jail, or nearly all, feed supplies from
the west, not only for their stock but
for their hands, and also of purchas-
ing table supplies for themselves
that might just as we'll be produced
on their own farms and at far less
| expense to them.
The most serious phase of this
feature of farming in Georgia is that
connected with the purchase Of sup
plies for stock. 1t is not known ex,
lactly what amount of money is sent
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

Rev. w. n. Ainsworth has been
elected president of Wesleyan Fee
male College to succeed DR.. Dupont
Query, who notified the board of
trustees sometime ago that he would
retire for the purpose of resuming
the practice of law. Mr.. Ainsworth
is one of the most scholarly and
prominent ministers of the Southern
Methodist church, and the fact that
he will go to Wesleyan is gratifying
to the friends of that great institu-
ton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
For Guardianship,

Georgia, Terrell County.-To All
Whom 1t May Concern: Mrs. Mag
gle Marshall Pace having applied
for guardianship of the persons and
property of Lucy Helen Marshall
and Zeb Odum Marshall, minor chill
dren of Mrs. R. j. Marshall, late
of said county, deceased, notice is
given that said application will be
heard at my Office at 10 o'clock a.
m. on the first Monday in July next.
This May 27, 1909.
w. B. CHEATHAM, Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

And after all, those who are most
interested in good roads are the peo-
Pile who drive wagons and carts to
and from the farm to the near sta
ton, town or city-to market. 1t is
all nice enough for people of means
and leisure to have good roads to
drive their pleasure cars over, but
the burden of bad roads presses
harder on the farmer who must reach
his market, his church, his neigh
bors by the means of the old-time
hay burner" in front of the dash
board, which latter will be with us
a long time yet. The whinny of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY.

Raising cattle for market would
seem to be an opportunity for some
of our farmers who are becoming
poorer every year buying western
corn, hay and meat at high prices,
with which to make cotton, to better
their condition. One firm of butch
ers in Dawson bought in Alabama
last year and shipped here $4,000
worth of cattle, besides large guam
titles of western beef they were com
PEELED to buy because of their in
ability to get enough live cattle to
supply their trade. Recently this
firm received shipment of beeves
from Alabama for which they paid
$500. How much better it would be
if this money were kept at home,
which would be the case if some of
our people would turn their atten-
ton to raising cattle and supply the
demand. More cows and less cotton
would mean more prosperity on the
farm
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
JAGIFSS BOOZE.

Professor e. j Voyle, the chem
list of Berkeley College, in Califor-
MIA, claims he has made one of the
greatest discoveries of the age. 1t
is nothing less than removing the
drunk" from whiskey. His recipe
takes the kick" out of whatever
liquid you may imbibe, leaving all the
recuperative powers. He says the
thing in whiskey which causes woe is
not alcohol, but "cynanide." All you
have to do is to carefully extract
the "cynanide" from your whiskey
and you may drink it freely without
fear.
If Professor Voyle's discovery
proves to be a success it will be a
valuable ally of the prohibitionists
and a great help to the temperance
cause. With the jag extracted who
would care to waste time consuming
high balls, mint juleps, cherry tod
dies or plain liquor? The old toperS
would even take to night beer il
preference. Our prohibition friends
should get in touch with the pro
fessor before the agents of the Rum
Devil ''subsidize" his discovery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
HEROD HAPPENINGS.

Inc friends OF Rev. l.. i. Lyons,
pastor of our Baptist church, will
regret to learn that he is quite sick
with fever. He has endeared himself
to all our people, and all wish that
he may be speedily restored to his.
usual health.
We are all glad to see Mr.. Frank
Cocker on the streets again. He has
had a severe spell of rheumatism
that kept him in bed part of the
time. We hope he VIII succeed in
getting a divorce from it.
Capt. and Mrs. D. ]. Dennis enter
tanned at an informal dinner party
on Monday. Those invited were Mr.
and Mrs. c. M. Harris, Judge and
Mrs. j. P. Hanna and Miss Melinda
Harris
When Mr.. H. P. Hass was having
la large load of oats put up at his
barn there was a snake found in
them. His snakeship was soon not
in existence.
Miss Cleo Harris has returned
from Cuthbert, where she was
member of the graduating class. She
received a glad welcome from her
many friends.
Miss Florine Cocker will leave this
week for GrOvania, where she will
spend the summer with Mrs. J. c..
Cocker and Mrs. Frank Riley
Capt. and Mrs D. J. Dennis, Mr..
and Mrs. c. NJ. Harris and Miss Me-
linda Harris spent Sunday with Maj
John McLendOn and family.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. T. Cocker enter
tanned at very pleasant dinner party
this week. The guests of honor were
Judge and Mrs. j. P. Hanna.
Mrs. Culpepper of Pelham, who
has been the popular guest here of
her sister, Mrs. j. H. Brim, returned
to her home last Friday.
The many friends of Mrs. John
Ferguson regret that she is far from
well, and hope she will be better
real soon.
Prof Collins of Pelham has been
elected principal of the school here
The Hopewell pupils will attend our
school
Miss Alma McLain returned home
Saturday. She was the recipient of
many social courtesies during her alb
sence.
Mr.. ]. H. Brim has bought him
a large touring car. Others here
speak of buying automobiles.
Miss Olive McLendon will attend
the commencement exercises at Mil
ledgeville next week.
Mrs. J. B. Hayes of Dawson was
one of Herod's pleasant visitors Fri
day afternoon.
Miss Yetta Harris spent last week
! in Dawson, the guest of Miss Eliza
beth Worsham.
The yield of oats here was varied
some being exceedingly fine and some
| otherwise.
Miss Mary English is attending
the commencement this week in
Buena Vista.
Messrs. Jordan and Bowen of Sas-
User were here Sunday Afternoon.
Messrs. Sem and Mathis were
among our Sabbath visitors.
Dan Cupid is doing some effectual
work around here.
Mr.. Tilden Hayes of Doverel Wis
! tied here Sunday.
Mr.. Frank Melton is at Blakelv
studying law.
Move into the corporate limits Of
Herod.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02
For the People WHO Dr1ve Wagons.
From the Macon Telegraph.

horse and the honk of the son of
the ass will not, in our generation
or the next, pass from the meadow,
the field or the highway. The one
or the other will be carrying the corn
to the mill and the cotton to the
market for our children's children;
and yet we expect soon to see auto
wagons on the farm and auto plows
in the field. There was force in the
suggestion made at the meeting Mon
day night by Mr.. Gray of the At
lanta Journal, and made also in these
columns a few days before, that we
are in the midst of new epoch in
overland transportation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

The differences between the Geor-
gia railroad and the striking firemen
were amicably adjusted and regular
train schedules resumed Saturday
after a total suspension of business
and a reign of mob violence and riot
ing extending over a period of more
than a week The situation was
worse than it would have been but
for the apparent official inactivity
and indifference of the state authori-
ties. 1t is gratifying that the strike
is ended, and it is to be hoped that
there will not be another just like it..
Labor troubles of this kind are some
thing new to the south, especially
here in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-02

Several papers over the state are
discussing the advisability of hav-
ing a Acknowledgement for Geor-
gia. 1t is the opinion of the La
Grange Reporter that the state has
more officials now than are earning
their salaries" Aren't it the truth?