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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
POLITICS CAN WAIT.

From the Savannah News.
Governor Brown interpreted the
sentiment of the people correctly in
the statement that he doesn't believe
the people want the next guberna-
torial campaign to be long one. He
mas refused to say whether or not
he will be a candidate for reelection,
and has denied an interview in which
he was placed in the position of saw
ing that he would be a candidate.
Governor Brown has the genius of
common sense. Being one of the peo-
pie he is able to give a pretty correct
Interpretation of their feelings. He
says he believes that too much time
is given to politics-that the people
would much prefer to give more time
to their business affairs and less to
active politics. BY that he doesn't
mean that the people should neglect
their duties as citizens or that they
shouldn't keep themselves informed
on all questions which affect their
respective communities, the state and
the nation, but he is against begin
ming another political campaign al
most as soon as one is ended. 1t is
his view that the people should be
given rest from disturbing politics.
Therefore, it is that he believes that
the end of next spring will be soon
enough to engage in the next guber-
material contest.
There is no doubt that nine-tenths
of the people agree with him in this
view. Just now they are thinking
of the ways in which they can utilize
10 Ix-o
which they receive for their croDs.
The amount is unusually large, and
If they are to get the best results
for it they shouldn't have their minds
drawn away from their business af-
fairs by the harangues of either am
bilious or disappointed politicians.
Governor Browns idea seems to be
that a campaign of a month. or at
most six weeks, will be long enough
for the people to determine whom
they want for their next governor.
Unless some very new and highly i'm
portant issues crop out that will be
long enough to discuss fully all the
questions that will demand particular
attention. AS far as we are informed
the people are not anxious for uues-
lions to be brought forward that
would have a tendency to jeopardize
the prosperity they are at present en-
joying. They want the prosperity to
continue. 1t has more attraction for
them than the aspirations of this or
that politician or office seeker can
possibly have. We Shall not be in
the least surprised, therefore, if a
sentiment against making the next
state campaign long one manifests
itself so strongly that the politicians
will be compelled to heed it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Confession of the Sinner Who
DOctOred the Mincemeat.

day, when, before the pie was baked,
she added a generous amount of the
strong stuff
With hearts as high as the flaky
pie crust itself we all watched moth
er carve that pie and serve it.
The Rev. Jermiah Scroggins, be-
cause of an expressed fondness for
pie, was given big portion.
No sooner had we tasted of the
fine dish than we discovered that that
pie was nothing short of a small
sized distillery. 1t was branded as
no other pie had been since the birth
of time. You can imagine the cold
chills which went round that festal
board as we watched the Rev. Jere-
miah begin to eat. | believe | act
ually shivered as the first forkful
went mOuthward.
The first mouthful was followed
by a second and the second by a
third. Finally he had finished the
whole portion, and he settled back in
his chair. We saw he was bit en-
barrassed, and expected a real old
fashioned temperance lecture right
then and there.
The Rev. Jeremiah Scroggings
cleared his throat, and, turning to
mother, said "Ah-er-my good sister,
permit me to compliment you upon
the excellence of this pie. 1t has a
most delicious flavor. l confess l
never tasted anything like it, Would
you think me overbold if l asked for
another piece?"-New York Mail and
Express.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
THAT CHRISTMAS PIE.

1t had been our family custom to
put brandy in all the mince pies and
to put in at Christmas time a suffi-
Gent amount to enable the partakers
thereof to detect that there was really
something in it. 1t often went so
far as to deserve the remarks of my
grandfather that we put mince pie
in our brandy. With this as the FAM
lily precedent imagine the consterna-
ton when it was learned that Rev.
Jeremiah Scroggins, our new minis
ter, and an avowed teetotaler, had
accepted mothers invitation to
Christmas diner. A vote was taken
at the family table Eve were demo-
cratic household) and it was decided
that out of respect to our guest the
brandy would be omitted from the
big mince pie.
Now, each of us in his heart of
hearts felt that the pie would be i'm
proved if just wee bit of brandy
were added. So l. for one, resolved
to do the deed. Accordingly l sought
out the big stone crock in which re-
posed the mincemeat and poured in
what thought was a moderate guam
tity of brandy
It's wonderful how true is the
adage about great minds running in
similar channels, for every other
member of the family, including my
father, surreptitiously did the same
thing. Later We figured that the
mincement must have been treated
to nigh unto quart. Mother re-
served her brandy until Christmas
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
APPENDLCETOMY CRITICISED.

And now comes criticism of the ad-
vocates of surgery for the relief of
appendicitis. DR.. Page, well-known
and prominent physician of Boston.
has launched crusade against it,
and declares that cutting into the
body to cut off the appendix is I'M
scientific, unnecessary and criminal.
One of the most surprising things
about the contention is the support
given to his views by the medical
profession
DR.. Page sa"s the true scientific
name is not appendicitis, but COLTS,
which is Inflammation of the colon,
and that the disease is as old as the
human race. He maintains that the
appendix performs a useful function,
and that those who have been robbed
of it are thencefOrth subject to in
ternal disturbances and obstinate con-
stipation. He also maintains that the
ailment which the surgical operation
is intended to cure may be promptly
subdued by rational, natural treat
ment by physicians who know how
to treat it curatively.
At the recent session of the Inter
national Medical Congress in Buda-
pest the antisurgical operation con-
tingent contended that by thorough
and careful treatment, watchful nurs-
ing and brief fasting they had been
able to show a lower mortality in APP
pendicitis than the surgeons could
show. But the general sense of the
convention was not against surgical
operation for appendicitis in all cases
though apparently of the opinion that
the knife may be resorted to very
often when an operation is not nee.
essary to effect a cure where the all.
ment has been taken hold of in time
When doctors disagree who shall
decide? We do not claim to know
but we call attention to the matter
because the subject is interesting
and well worthy of the consideration
of the people in general. Meanwhile
the individual patient will be apt t.
be governed by the advice and direc
ton of the attending physician.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
CATCHING SUCKERS.
)m the RingyilIe Bugle

From the Bingville Bugle
1T seems to us that suckers bite
mighty good these days in this town.
Now there's Ben Weatherby, our big
gest merchant, and he up and ses
that Their Bugle amt got no circula-
ton, and he won't advertise in it,.
TOther day a circus fellow was in
town with dern snide, onery, meas
ly progrom and Ben, he went and
tuck hull page in the dodgasted
thing and paid $11 fur it, when he
amt paid the Bugle 81 in eleven
year, and we are a buying groceries
and SIGH like from him every day in
the week, and paying him cash for
the same, as you mite say. Ben is
one of these blame fool suckers who
bites at any old thing a stranger
offers ter him. AS editor and pro-
prietor of the Bugle we pay to help
to keep up the schools and churches,
feed the dam tramp printers and con-
tribute our help both financially and
with our brains, and it makes us mad
as helena Ga. to see our smart alec
merchants like Ben ack the dern fool.
They say the Bugle ai'nt circulating
among the people, and that it doan
pay to advertise in it. Well, you will
hear tank about this talk of Ourn on
green horn merchants who amt got
no more since then er goat about adj
gfGrtising. Ben and more of his sort
WRIl/ cuSS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
A WOMAN WANTS

The home paper. Make her happy
by taking it the year round. Don't
scold your wife if she stands half the
forenoon talking with her neighbOrs
over the back fence She is merely
getting the news. Have the home pa
per snt to her regularly and her hun
ger for news will be satisfied. Then
she'll have dinner ready on time, and
your hunger will be satisfied.
You will never know a tenth of
what is going on in town, state, ma
ton and world if you fail to take
this paper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
a Warm Town.

From the Mitchell Banner
When it comes to folks that are
away up in &c" these Mitchellites
are the whole cloth. Let's see, five
preachers, four churches, three teach
ers, two school huts, deacons and
stewards galore, four merchants, one
doc, one bank, one gin, one mill,
one newspaper and 1883 editors to
the thing. No wonder it is the ban
ner paper of Mitchell, Glascock coun-
ty, Georgia, United States of Ameri-
ca, western continent of the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

In all Of the literature of disasters
and rescues it is hard to find a story
as tragic and thrilling as that of the
miners who were brought out of the
Cherry Ull) coal mine alive. The
recital appalls and fascinates as one
reads, and over and above all other
thoughts comes the one that only by
the mercy and power of God, who
hears the pleas of His creatures,
could these entombed human beings,
whose plight was so utterly hopeless,
have been saved
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
G Augusta Herald

From the Augusta Herald.
In answer to the unfavOrable criti-
cism of congress for making billion
dollar appropriations the late Thorn
as B. Reid declared the United States
was a billion dollar country. The
inordinate brag about our billion dol
lar crops justifies a similar reply.
1t takes billion dollar crops to feed
our eighty million people, pay our
trade balances, make the wheels go
round and keep the wolf away from
our doors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
A Georgia Pig.

From the Moultrie Observer. ~,
An attraction which would rival
one of John Robinson's specials is
b fine displayed in front of the post
Office just across the street, and is
possibly the largest hog ever seen
here. DR.. Dan Walker of Triton is
the owner of this monster pig, and
claims that he weighs 1900 pounds,
which is more than the weight of an
average horse, and is four and half
years old. Mr.. Walker has a reputa-
ton in and around Triton as a stock
raiser, and has placed several large
specimens on the market. He takes
the cake wherever he carries his big
hog.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
MIR. TILLEY BUYS FARM.
Adds More Randolph County Land
to His Possessions,

to His Possessions.
Mr.. ]. w. Tilley, the big merchant
and farmer of Parrott, has been in
creasing his landed possessions over
in Randolph county. The last issue
of the Shellman Sun says:
''Messrs. H. r. and r. T. Watson
have sold their large farm near Trim
ity church to Mr. j. w. Tilley of
Parrot. The sale was virtually made
a month ago, but the final matters
were closed last week. The price
paid was $25 per acre. This sale
was made over the telephone, which
is another indication of the high val
ue of Randolph county lands and
the safety OF investment therein. Mr..
Tilley had not been over this plan
tation, seeing a part of it only from
the road, but he knew it was all
right, and then he already had
large farm adjoining it and he
wanted to add to it. Mr.. Tilley will,
we are told, put ten tons of guano
to the plow on the place next year"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Where Farming Paws.

From the Wall Street Journal.
We have become so accustomed to
associating agricultural prosperity
with other sections of the country
that it is something Of a surprise to
learn that in the past year the twelve
southern states produced over ST.
429,00O,O00 worth of agricultural
products, as against sos, 100000 in
1899, an increase of more than 100
per cent, while the average increase
of the other sections was little less
than 65 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
lust Tired.
From the Willacoochee Sun.

From the Willacoochee Sun.
Our old friend, Gus Daniels, grown
a little weary of being editor, bust
ness manager, foreman, printer and
collector combined. has suspended
temporarily his publication, The
Meigs Review, in order to catch a
decent breath. Gus is a faithful fell
low, but he always did have a way
of getting tired for an excuse to go
a-fishing and hunting. You see the
open season for birds is now on.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Turkeys and Hams.

From the Augusta Chronicle
A turkey gobbler sold in AL
bany for five dollars and twenty
five cents. Turkeys are not
easily raised, and they give a
world of trouble about a planta-
ton, but still there seems to be
a good margin of profit in them
at prevailing prices.-Moultrie
Observer.
A Carolina raised ham at the GeOl
gia-CarOlina Fair sold for $9.7;
Cotton insists in hanging around /
cents. The day of the farmer is q
hand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Under the late reform" adminis-
tration in Macon the nigh beer sa-
looms sold the cold suds on Sunday.
Under the present administration,
which does not make any noisy pre-
tentionsN of reform, these joints
are closed on the Sabbath.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
LAND FOR SALE.
Together With Eighteen Mules, Farm
Tools, Wagons and Produce.

One thousand acres of land in Ran
dolph county at $40 per acre, with
twenty-horse farm opened, good level
land, good buildings and all out
houses. With the land at this price
is included eighteen good, young
mules, all corn and fodder, wagons,
farming tools and planting seed.
Such an opportunity will not pass
this way again. Bad health the rea-
son for selling. Address.
j. w. SWAMI, Carnegie, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

EX-COngressman Ben E. Russell is
critically i'll with pneumonia at his
home in cambridge. Since early
manhood Mr.. Russell has been one of
the ablest and best known newspaper
editors in Georgia, and regret at his
extreme illness is universal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

There is a glitter of frost on the
ground these mornings, but it is
ideal weather-the kind that makes
grand old Southwest Georgia an ideal
place to live. Just cool enough to
invigorate, and bright enough to
cheer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Tom Watson says the farmer
would have got 121a cents for his
cotton in 1907 had it not been for
&he demagogue The demagogue and
muckraker have much that has trans
pired in the past several years to an
sWer for.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

President Zelaya of Nicarauga is
the real goods when it comes to sup
pressing sympathizers with insur-
rectionists. He had forty men who
applauded the revolutionists lined up
and shot
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Anyhow, Governor Brown has one
punctured gubernatorial aspiration
among mis- trophies. 1t was very
sarge and noisy one, at that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

FTOU LUb LdIUHIUu NEWS.
This hook worm sensation is pre-
meditated effort to injure the south
1t at least appears TO be having that
effect, and may turn many immi-
grants and capitalists in another di-
rection.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Governor Brown disposed of Newt
Norris with his usual neatness and
despatch
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Newt Morris said some real bad
things about his own court. We
thought he was making a better
judge than he says he is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
She's q Beauty, Too.

From the Atlanta Georgian.
1t is said that the only lady in
America who looks good to Mary
Garden, the singer, is the one on the
silver dollar
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Georgians Swell With Pride.

From the Savannah Press.
The Macon Telegraph says that
Hon. Joseph M. Browns speech at
the presidential banquet was nota-
BILE effort, well worthy of the gov
ernor of the Empire State of the
South. 1t was an optimistic note,
which makes a Georgian swell with
pride.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Spank and Turn En- Loose
From the Baltimore News.

From the baltimore News.
When Uncle Sam finishes with
Nicarauga he ought to be sure to
make a good getaway. Every time
he becomes mixed up in a squabble
with semi-civilized people these
days he winds up by having them ON
his hands. Punish 'em if necessary,
but don't try to govern EN-.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Uncle Sam may have to put Mica
ranga through a course of sprouts yet
for killing those two Americans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Oats for Sale,
Three Mule Farm fir Rent.

On my farm five miles southeast
of Bronwood, Ga. Good land and
house. Call on me at Jesse D. Bells
residence, opposite the college, in
Dawson. G.. o. HILL.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

See us before buying building ma
terial. We can save you money. The
Variety Works Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Speaker Cannon has snapped his
gavel for a sledge hammer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Chickens for Sale.

First-class S. C. Rhode Island Red
chickens. DR.. J. T. CLEVELAND.
Weston, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
For Rent.
Lumber for Sale,

If you want good lumber call on
or write me at PARROT, Ga.
G. w. BASS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
For Sale.

Five-room residence on Church
street. Lot 74x210. E. T. JORDAN.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-30
By Ruth NJ. Johnston

self just what Is your frame OF mind, Is your Tr1,
greater or less III proportion to Your exalted
state on reaching home,
The danger of irritation. which Is such common
after effect Of exatatiou would he greatly reduced II
there could only be simultaneous rise and tall OF
spiritual temperature OF all those who must be thrown
together daily Ii \ feeling uplitted at the same
time as b. instead Of two hours later. he would not
insist upon discussing the probable potato crop when
b $ mind Is soaring upward, wish 20 sing In the
Good Old Summer Time when b feels like Jeru-
salem the Golden 80 And Mrs would not describe
in detail her new gown iust Mrs has finished
The ode on IntmatIous OF Immortality This
would save Mr. and Mrs b from CoudemuIug Mr. and
Mrs as utterly lacking in delicate feeling and en-
tircly given to mundane thoughts, when in reality
both worthy couples live on the same plane. taking
ike brief flights higher and sudden plunge downward
Did YOU come out of church in an absolutely
heavenly frame of mind, moved 10y the sermon, en-
chauted by the music feeling entirely soulful, What
a horrible shock when the friend AZ your side eN-
claims. ' What unbecoming hat Mrs Jones has,
How wish the rector would not read his sermons.
Wasn't it stutfv in the church,' And YOU have IN
stantly condemned your friend utterly shallow,
when you have known for years that She Is worth two
Of your exalted self The fact that She has splitting
headache does not eXonerate her III the least
New-York tribune., 1909-05-30

GOULD there be more absolute nonsense than the
~ above title By an exalted frame OF mind Is
meant an uplifting OF the spirit into harmony with
the highest relations OF life What possible danger
there to well regulated mind not given 10 hysterla'
But deserted by its fellow ideas which have long
since fled with a haste that was far from dgnltled
there has chung in my mind with dIscouraglng per
tinacity a sentence in my old psychology which
would fam forget. Any impulse toward good com
ing from the upt OF a sermon or other elevdtIng IN
fuenCe causes positive harm to the moral nature
unless resulting in good deed II II be no more
than speaking pleasantly to ones grandmother.
Could anything be more disc ouraging to those who
love occasionally to soar above the clouds and do
nothing, To be sure, speaking pleasantly TO one $
grandmother would seem comparatively easy
method OF d,schargg ones moral obligation, though
that would obviously depend somewhat upon the
grandmother
Here let me ask YOU to imagine yourself coming
home an afternoon stirred by some heroic deed OF
which YOU have Just heard. Every fiber Of your be
ing IS thrilled and you filled with desire to 90
and do likewise When YOU enter the house, there IS
your grandmother to whom you 10 speak pleas
anty bent upon the hopeless eternal search for her
glasses With suppressed feelings OF rage and an at
tempt at q pleasant exterior, you begin the well
known hunt looking under the same paper every halt
second and wandering aimessly about the room with
q stern sense of duty the remainder OF the time
When fifteen inmates later she finds the glasses her
New-York tribune., 1909-05-30
Corar-s1 oE saFg -

An acquaintance once told me ot specially pitltul
case IN her own family She had been one winter
afternoon TO an unusually beautiful rv>Tvr service
As she walked home the glow OF the rosy sinking sun
on the sparkling and dark cVCrgrccrS All the
peculiar beauty of q winter sunset that We cannot
hud IN summer with all It's charms IN entire
harmony with the She had 1Ust lett DCubly
uItted. She entered the hOu>e-aud found her lam
ilv every member. CrunChIug popcorn Vow, my
acquaintance likes popcorn She crUuchcS It her
self quite frequently But this no time Tor It!
Her family should have realized 1T They knew she
had been to church and glance out ot the window
would have ealed the glory Of the sunset W hat
could do coming into the midst ot such de
rnorlzatiou hut sink into the low level ot their ot-
ctIration possibly without the saving grace II speak
iug pleasantly % anyone,
Was there ever more sensible nonsense than the
following choice stduzat
never stand upon head
And think things sublime.
But that mother interrupts
And KS dIurer
Strange isn't 1t. that even our worthy mothers
should ignore our fights.-aud even more SurpTIS-
ing the resultant wrath that Is poured on their
offending heads
Surely greater SAINT walks this wicked world
than he who come sweetly down from his lofty
retreat among the stars and. after having performed
some trivial duty with quiet mind 20 his be-
loved stars once more
New-York tribune., 1909-05-30

,,,s classy individual SO they were set to music
The music was GOOD too written by Of our best
light composers And the show. opened!
How did the poets lyrics go3 don't knGT,
- +Le niece there were exactly three traCeabe to the
nonnIar m poet as author Two Of these were chorses
where the words don't make any difference anyway
The other was a 1ovesOng that was aDsolutey HtCe'
<,, tn +he plot and had stay in. The other hltte
sonqs in the piece were by almost as many different
writers the manager having rushed about at the ilSI
moment and collected songs from Whatever soul'e
he could get them