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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17

Acquire the gambling habit If you
would learn the art Of not saving
money.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17
HARTMAN GOES SOUTH.

Magnate on Health Tour and Journey
of Inspection.
New York. Feb. 13.-Chiefy for
rest and recreation, put incidentally
with the purpose of examining some
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17
MEMORIAL ACROSS THE SEA.

Parisians Join With Resident AmerI-
cans in Celebration.
Paris Feb. 13.-Exercises comment
orative OF the centenary of Abraham
Lincoln's birth were held at the ly-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17

ldieness makes the hours YEARLY
long and the days woefully short
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
The .sYellows" Scored Again.

From the Shellman Sun.
We too often form conclusions
about things we know nothing about.
About two weeks ago people in GeOr
gia became aroused over the discov-
cry that a white woman was wearing
shackles at the state penitentiary
farm. A protest went up from the
people and the press, with the result
that the prison commission instruct
ed that the woman be not required
to wear shackles again. 1t did look
bad. However, few people knew
anything about the case, did not
know the character of the woman,
what she had done, or why the
guards forced her to wear shackles.
Last Saturday she escaped. Then
we got the history" of the woman,
and with it an awakening to the
fact that not only were the guards
justified in making her wear shack
les, but they should have been COM
mended for it. She was Kate Dryer,
murderess, Hbertine, tyrant, who
bOastfully defied interference. She
was well known around Athens and
in the courts, and the good people
of that city are very patient or they
would have lynched her years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
A DANGEROUS DOCTRINE.

BY his ill-advised, though not al
together ill-founded, words to a
youthful culprit arraigned before
him Magistrate Crane of New York
city added nothing to the total of
respect for the law and morality,
already too small, now entertained
by the average man.
The boy had been arrested for
stealing a small amount of coal from
a railroad yard, and in discharging
him the Magistrate said:
IF you want to steal wait
until you are president of rail
road. Then you can steal any
thing you want and have no fear
of punishment. Until then you
must never look at railroad car
or you might be arrested
Though there may be a germ of
truth in the words they are pessi-
mistic, and they preach a dangerous
doctrine. Already the suspicion is
too widely entertained that great for
tunes are based upon dishonesty,
that crime and it's punishment are
matter of social standing, that men
in places ofSgreat commercial, indus
trial and financial Importance are
unhampered by the ethics which are
supposed to control less fortunate
men. We cannot too often disabuse
our young people of this mistaken
notion-for mistaken it is. Just as
a majority of the poor men are hon
est and dependable, so the majority
of men holding positions of respOn-
sibility are worthy of trust. There
are exceptions, but these exceptions
prove the rule.
1t is true that under the business
is business" doctrine there have been
many examples of selfishness and I'M
fairness, and that there took root a
system of ethics which would not
bear the test of the golden rule
But the pendulum is swinging the
other way, and no man or set of men |
can do today without censure and !
perhaps arrest those things which |
only lately were done with more or
less impunity.
Doubtless Magistrate Crane did .
we'll to discharge the coal-stealing .
boy, but he would have done much .
more for the lads undeveloped sense
of morality had he pointed to the
success and honor which attend rec
titude than he did by telling him
that unpublished crime is an attribute
peculiar to the rich.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
TAX PROSPERITY.

They are feeling better up at the
state house, and the announcement
comes that better business condi-
tons exist throughout the state. -
They know this, the dispatches say,
because 100000 in special taxes has
been received since January list. This
is the first time we have ever heard
that the collection of big taxes in
dictate better business conditions.
Taxes have to be paid, whether bust
ness is good or bad. OF course a lot
of tax money makes better condi-
lions" in official circles, but that is
no evidence that it is not tough on
the fellows who pay it. That it is
tough, with the burden rapidly grow
ing in this state, most people have
reason to know.
That the collection of a big amount
of taxes marks an era of prosperity
is a new idea in Georgia. Let us
hope that it will not spread.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
The Ne7U York Sun Remarks On
ROOseUeh's Wonderful Self Control When
tie KIng and Queer Of LtaLy Sac Hin

The New York Sun never tires of
taking a pot-shot at Mr. Theodore
Roosevelt, and it's latest oyalty's
Privileged View of the Contributing
Editor rs being received as one of
its most severe. The Sun jabs the
former president for his makeup
when he put in appearance before
the king and queen of Italy Ex-
tracts are:
1T is a great relief to know that
the king and queen of Italy saw the
Contributing Editor in Rough Rider
costume instead of in the tame and
unmeaning conventional attire usual
ly assumed by American citizens of
great distinction when travelling
abroad. 1t was in such attire that
he became famous. In tan cOlored
garments and rawhide leggings, with
the frontier red handkerchief around
his neck and every tooth displayed
to its utmost advantage, he charged
What-d'y ecallem Hill, hilariously
shot in the back the solitary Span
lard fleeing before his onset, and be-
came at once the hero of Santiago.
Naturally it gratitied all good Ital-
lans to see the real thing at its best.
| We can imagine the awe with which
! they beheld the incarnated tragedy
of 1898 and measured the stupend-
Gus forces that were then set in mo-
ton against the Latin race. OF
course it was no part of Mr.. Roose-
Velts personal design to concentrate
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
THE LYNCHINGS THAT HAVE OC.
CURED IN TERRELL COUNTY.

FROM the Augusta Chronicle.
The Dawson News protests against
the publication of the news stories
of a recent lynching in Terrell coun-
ty. The News asserts that not since
Terrell county was created and or
gained tifty-three years ago has
there been within its borders a death
by mob violence in which the people
Of the county participated or for
which they were in any way RESPONSE
BILE
There have been two lynchings in
the county in the past few years.
but both the victims and the lynch
ers were from adjoining counties
The first of these was two or three
years ago, when a Lee county mob
carried a negro just over the line of
the eastern boundary of Terrell and
hung him from the limb of a tree,
and the other was the occurrence last
Friday night, when a number of Ran
dolph county might riders" murder
ed an old negro who had recently
moved from that county to a house
just across the western boundary
line of Terrell, and who was in the
employ OF a citizen of the former
county. The News says:
But few other counties are
free from the stain of Judge
Lynchs bloody hands, and our
record n this respect speaks
much for the high order of Ter
rell county's enlightened and
law-abiding citizenship"
Lynching is lawbreaking-de
of law a ch91lpnon tn low oDd Or5o,
The law is strong enough and power
full enough to handle criminals. If
it is not the people have it in their
hands to make it so. In some COM
munities there is not the proper re-
spect for the laW-because of lynch
ings.
Nor is lynching always a crime
only against the law. There are in
tances when it is a crime against
the victim. We have in mind
planned lynching of a few days ago,
an instance where the accused, a ne
gre had to be hurried away to be
safe from threatening unlawful
mob. The facts in the case, it would
seem, were that the negro shot and
killed white man in a fight follow
ing three white mems invasion of the
Negroes home, attempted violence to
the women OF the Negroes family and
an attack on the life of the negro
himself in his own domicile. Ger
tainly to contemplate Iynching in a
case like this shows the great evil
of lynch law-and the great injustice
to victims of which lynch law is
capable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
HEROD HAPPENINGS,

A cOngenial party went down to
Cordray Friday on a picnic. They
dlned at Hotel de Cobb, and had fish
galore, also ham and eggs and "other
ct ceteras." Mrs. J. E. Brim, our
noted fisherman, landed several fine
Dream. FOrty-two and other games
were played. In the party were Col
and Mrs. j. L. Hass, Judge and Mrs.
}. P. Hanna, his honor, Mayor ]. E.
Brim and wife, Miss Claude Harris.
Capt. d. j. Dennis, MI j. T. Brim,
Mr.. w. E. Brim, Mr.. Ed Brim, Mr..
j. NJ McLendon and Mr. Will Mount.
The occasion. was one of the most
delightful of the weeks social events.
Little Derbe Brim had painful
accident last week with an axe, by
which one of his toes was almost
severed from his foot. 1t has been
sewed back and the little. fellow is
doing remarkably we'll.
Mr.. w. o. Cocker, Miss Lucille Hass
and Mesdames Collum and Cocker
Joined a crowd of Dawson friends
at Clark's mill on Saturday at a
near picnic, and report a very enjoy
able occasion.
Mr.. J. H. Brim, chairman of the
board of trustees of Herod High
School, requests us to say that they
will receive and consider all appli-
cations made to them within the next
two weeks.
Frying sized chickens are ripening
fast, and chicken frys are more num-
erous than fish frys, as the fish seem
to be slow about biting.
Mr.. G. M. Harris went down to
Cuthbert and spent last Sabbath
with Col. and Mrs. J. w. Harris and
Miss Cleo Harris.
Mr.. H. F. Melton and Miss Helen
Melton spent Sunday with relatives
in Dawson and heard Rev. S. j. Par
IRISH preach.
Misses Claude and Yetta Harris
spent the weekend in Dawson as
guests of Miss Elizabeth Worsham.
We regret that Mrs. w. H. Gar
rett has been on the sick list and
hope she will soon be well again.
Mr.. A. L. Brim of Pelham made
/ a pleasant visit here last week. He
has many friends at Herod.
MT. ii. +. melton led the pray ser
vice Sunday evening in an interest
ing and edifying manner
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Lee of DovereI
visited Mr.. and Mrs. James McLen-
don inc first Of this week
Rev. and Mrs. D. S. Dennard have
returned from a pleasant visit to
| Weston relatives.
Capt. D. j. Dennis has been a re-
cent visitor to Mr.. jim Fulford OF
Randolph.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. E. Brim visited
relatives at Sasser Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
HAsKELLs CHARGE SEEMS TRUE

Official announcement is made
that the United States court
in Oklahoma has been directed
from Washington to abandon any
further prosecution of Governor
Haskell and six other prominent citi-
zens of that state alleged to have
been conspirators in schemes to de-
fraud Indians of lands. The indict-
ments have been quashed in the fed
eral court. All along the Oklahoma
executive and his friends have main
tanned that the indictments were OBJ
tanned through a complete misuse
of governmental power and mainly
for political purposes, and the re-
cent developments make it look as
though this were true and throw a
great cloud of doubt on Roosevelt's
connection with the case-that he err
gineered the prosecution from Wash
ington for the reason charged by
Haskell. That such things can take
place is a sad commentary on our
boosted freedom of the courts from
political influence and outside inter-
ference. An investigation along this
line would certainly do no harm and
might prove wholesome.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
THE OLD GUARD.

They sleep in the valleys of silence,
They camp on the hills of dream;
They're at rest in the old Gods acre,
They slumber by vale and stream;
With the shattered banner around
them,
In the mold and the dust and
gloom,
They are food for the roots that scat
tered
Their ash on the. winds of bloom!
The stage of the world is changing,
And the old is fading away
The Old Guard sleeps in the valleys.
And we live in a newer day!
But they shall not be forgotten,
And ever their names shall ring
From the threats that swell when
the liberty bell
In the shadow of time shall swing!
The Old Guard-out of the darkness.
Out of the tombs they come,
10 the call of a ghostly bugle,
The roll of the phantom drum;
And we lift our hat to the shadows,
And watt them a kiss of love,
AS they move in stately measure
To the great White Throne above.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
WOULD TAX FUTURES.

SeantOr Clay wants the govern
ment to put a tax on all future con-
tracts, and his proposition has an
ardent champion in the Americas
Times-RecOrder, which makes these
strong points in favor of it:
The great mass of future con-
tracts are purely speculative in
their nature and intent. They
are a species of legalized gamb-
ling. Where there is one con-
tract made for purely business
purposes there are a hundred in
which legitimate business has no
part at all. Where one manu-
facturer is buying futures to
cover his coming needs a hun
dred spectators are taking
chance on the market with the
hope of taking down good profits
at somebody else's expense.
There is no use in Disgusting
this fact The vast mass of the
dealings in futures are gamb-
ling pure and simple.
We heartily agree with our con-
i'm its further statement
that while the people are carrying
heavy burdens for the benefit of the
government the gamblers of the stock
and cotton and wheat pits of the land
can we'll afford to pay a little more
than they have so far contributed to
that end.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
Releasing MuPdererS.
umbus Ledger.

From the Columbus Ledger.
Ten per cent. of the murderers
sent to the Georgia prisons have re-
Gently been pardOned, according to a
news story published in today's
Ledger We are not familiar with
the conditions or grounds on which
these pardons were granted, but
everyone is aware of the fact that
life is entirely too cheap, not only in
Georgia but throughout the country.
and that the penalty is often lighter
than it should be. The pardon
board should go slow when it comes
to recommending the release of muir
derers, and the governor who signs
these pardons should take into con-
sideration the fact that the release
of this class of criminals might tend
to encourage crime and further en-
danger the lives of innocent people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21

attention on himself. The press bu-
reau in his train has already certi-
fed to the modesty with which he
bears himself abroad, and to his pri-
yate preference for seClusion in it's
most bashful form. Always inspired
he knew what the crowned heads
wanted, and he yielded at the sacri-
flee of his most intimate predilec-
lions. The apparition followed.
SLOUGH hat, flaming khaki, serried
teeth, boots, pistols etc, he present
ed in his single person the bristling
heights of San Juan and the slaught-
er that followed and radiated from
him on that cyclonic day.
Unfortunately for them the Afri-
can wild animals do not take the
newspapers, or they would guess the
fate approaching them and prepare
for it according to their various tenn
peraments and opportunities. The
king and queen of Italy saw him
only in the comparatively innocuous
garb of the Rough Rider at ease, in
plain khaki, with nothing but the
Wild West scowl and the usual side
arms to support the picture. That
was enough for them, no doubt; but
when the African fauna see him in
full panOply there will be another
story.
I'VE pay this passing tribute to
his self-cOntrol at Messina. No Her.
cules without his bludgeon ever cut
so fair figure of restraint.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
THE DEVILS OWN BREW.
n the Newman Herald.

From the Newman Herald
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the
bureau of chemistry of the agricult-
ural department, who has been MAX
ing a crusade against impure foods
and drugs and injurious beverages
throughout the country, has this to
say regarding the reckless sale OF
caffeine drinks at soda fOunts, to-
wit: Parents often forbid their
children the use of coffee and tea at
home, and yet they are allowed to
get caffeine drinks at the soda fOunt-
aims, unmindful that caffine is the in
furious part of coffee and tea These
caffeine products are sold at the soda
fountains without any notice that
they contain caffeine, and caffeine in
its pure form in such drinks is much
more deadly than when combined
naturally with tea and Coffee The
good doctor doubtless had coca-cola
in mind when he gave out the fore
going statement, and he is not alone
in his condemnation of this and 9TH
er caffeine drinks. DR.. G. w. Peddy,
one of Newnan's oldest physicians
and most successful practitioners, has
been for many years preaching
against the cOca-cola habit He re-
CARDS coca-cola as one of the most
insidious poisOns that can be taken
into the system, impoverishing the
blood, lowering the vitality, shrivel-
ing the brain, destroying the nerves,
impairing the digestion and making
of the stomach a veritable purga-
tory. The lining of a coca-cola
fiend's stomach, he says, bears more
resemblance to section of half
tanned bull-hide than anything he
can think of.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
PATHETIC MEMORIES.

The recent death of Admiral Ger
vera brings up some memories of a
pathetic nature. The Spanish ad-
miral was brave and gallant man.
He courted death, but did not find
it, at Santiago He was so brave
and chivalrous that the American
yictors treated him as a brave man
deserves. But the crushing defeat
and what it involved was blow
from which Cervera never recovered,
He declined steadily in health and
spirits
Then there was the Schley-Samp-
son episode that made the American
people feel ashamed. Admiral Samp-
son is believed to have died of a
broken heart, due to the publicity
and criticism. Admiral Schley lives
is out of service, and it may be
doubted if he has peace of mind OF
content, for he knows that whether
Justly or unjustly many of his coun
trymen condemned his course.
A few men, just few, reap thu
glory of war, for most war, as Gen
eral Sherman said, els hell"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
Poor Men for Diplomatic Service.

Poor Men for Diplomatic Service.
From the Savannah News.
A story from Washington in the
New York Times says President Taft
is not much in sympathy with the
notion that only very rich men can
be sent to important diplomatic
posts, on account of the necessity
of maintaining elaborate social es-
adjustments He is inclined to the
opinion that the maintenance of such
establishments tends to make the
diplomats who support them I'M
mindful of their obligations to Amer
lean citizens who happen to be
abroad. He prefers to find men for
the places who will be able to know
an American when they see him, and
believes that men who are not quite
so wealthy are more likely to fill
that requirement. There is a lot
of horse sense in that view; but af-
ter we have set the precedent of
sending over millionaires able and
willing to buy the cake and the wine
and the good segars in unlimited
Europe, for the sheer honor of do
ing the thing, what would Europe
think of us if we were to suddenly
send poor men who couldn't afford
cake and wine and who smoked
stogies and attended to their bust
ness? You see, the larger part of
diplomacy consists in playing a. sort
of ICON game" on the other fellow.
I'm vino veritas'' means a lot in
diplomatic service, hence it is nee
essary sometimes for a diplomat to
pump full the fellow who knows
something that he wants to find out
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
Condemned by Good Citizens.

From the Cuthbert Leader. 50.
The Leader desires to raise a warn
ing voice against such acts of law
lessness as that which resulted in
the death of the negro, Alfred Iver-
son, and Ross Manor. Those white
men presumably committed a
grave offense in entering the negro's
house to whip or kill him. Besides
causing two funerals already, it may
land some of the others in the pen
itentiary. White-cappers and night
riders are menace to the community
where they Operate-to good citizens
as well as to others. Good citizens
ought to condemn lawlessness. Ne
groes have rights that the law will
protect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21

FeeUlDS DOIlafS INTO
Hints and echoes of the yastness
of the mail order business of the
country are frequently heard, but
definite figures are always lacking
For the first time in some years
figures have been disclosed concern
ing the mailings of the largest Chi
cago mail order house. This con-
Germ, which is by no means the only
mail order concern in Chicago, be-
gan to mail its spring catalogues
on March 18th, and that mail was
as much greater than the mailing of
any ordinary concern as a skyscraper
is bigger than a log hut Printers
Ink says:
Six million catalogues weighing
two ounces each were shipped. The
total weight was $50 tons. 1t re-
quired mail sacks alone to the extent
of siXty-fve tons to hold them. If
they had been forwarded in one lot
thirty full length cars would have
been required. However, four-ffths
of the sacks required no handling
except to put them off the train at
their proper place. This mailing
broke not only all Chicago postoffice
records, and they are something to
break, but broke also most other
postoffice records in the country, it
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21

Many County
Feeding Into IT. Insatia Maw?

VSOn and Terrell County VINO Are
It's Unsuitable Nav?
is GAINED. Recently the same firm
mailed in one lot 100000 cata-
logues, or 265 tons
This mailing is that of one Chi
cago mail order house. 1t does not
include the enormous mailings of
the other mail order concerns, which
in the aggregate are much greater
than those of the largest concern S
figures. A prominent advertising
man recently estimated from pretty
accurate knowledge that each year
$110, 100000 worth of merchandise
was bought from Chicago concerns
by mail. On a very conservative es-
innate of the number of people who
buy this merchandise the figures
reach 100000 families.
The amount of business done by
mail order houses can be gagged by
the fact that the greatest of mail Or
der houses alone does about Sc
100000 worth of business per month.
Their catalogue is 1,400 or 1900
pages in size, and each one of the
millions of catalogues mailed costs
about % cents in stamps to send out.
Nearly 5000 people are employed on
a twenty acre plant filing orders,
and seventy-five special catalogues
and fifteen sample books are gotten
out each season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21
Trying to Keep Identity Secret.

From the Shellman Sun.
The murder of Attorney Hill
of Macon at McRae and the
double murder near Shellman
are two mysterious Georgia
crimes that in point of horrible
Wierdness rival the vivid imagi-
nation of some of the blood and
thunder story writers.-Fitzger-
aid News.
The affair near Shellman was on,
murder and one killing in self-de
tense. And none realize these fact
more than those who were witt
young Manor, for they are tryin,
hard to keep their identity a secret
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-21

The Savannah News says there are
counties in Georgia in which the
schools are open only about three
months in the year That is a state
ment that is little less than start
ling. viii our Savannah contem-
porary tell us which they are? Here
in Terrell county majority of the
schools are in session nine months
of the year, and none of them are
open for a less time than six months