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Brief Reviews

Boys and Girls at Home" Is the
Christmas annual from H. NJ. Caldwell
company, New York and Boston. 1t
contains stories and verses by Eviyn
Sharp, Theodore Wilson. Alice Talwin
Morris, Jessie Pope, Helen Broadbent,
w. Gurney Benham, A G. Herbertson.
Florence Dugdale and many other
equally we'll known among contributors
to childrens books. The illustrations
are also contributed by well known
artists, and many are in color. Til,
binding and printing are of excellent
quality and artistically colored. The
book is one of the best of its kind to
appear this year.
"The Boy who Won,' by Fannie E.
Ostrander. tells all about the further
adventures os The Little White In
dian," that charming book of playing
make-b believe. This book continues the
adventures of the various tribes with
whom we became acquainted in the
earlier volume. Not only are these
tales q pleasure to play loving chill
dren, but they really learn number of
things about Indians In an unconscious
way. The book is illustrated in color
by r. harrington Elwell. (L. c. Page
& Co, Boston; S1.25,)
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"A Daughter off Today"

BY Mildred Corning Cream. published BY the
G. 81. Clark company. Boston. Mass.)
"A Daughter of Today" is the title
OF what is evidently the first work of
new American writer. Mildred Corn
ing Cream. 1t tells an interesting little
tale of a girl who knew her own mind
and could not be tempted to give up
her ideals for any consideration Of
riches and position. Hope Wyndham
is the girl in this tale, and ii seems
at first as IL she were going to have a
hard time to escape from Norman Sib-
ley. He Ia SO plainly a black hearted
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B O Ks REG WE'D

"A Book Of Verses" Press club. Oakland,
Cal.
The Souls Ru6alyat" By Amelia Woodward
Truesden. A NJ. Robertson. San Francisco.
The Master Singer" by Frank r. Rix.
American book company. New York.
Common Sense in Politics." by Joe E.
Hedges. Nonatt. Yard Co.. New York.
''Mazzini and other Essays" by Henry Dem
erast Lloyd. G. P. Putnams Sons. New York.
''The Doctors Christmas Eve" by James Lane
Allen. Macmillan company. New York.
The Aeroplane Express" by Ashton Lamar.
Reilly & BrittOn company, Chicago.
The Airship Bows in the Barren Land BY
Fl. L. Sayler. Reilly & Britton company. Chi
cago
The Dawn Builder" BY John G.. Neihardt-
Mitchell Kennerley. New York.
''El EstranierO." BY Russell Juds0n Waters
RandMcNally company Chicago.
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interesting. The publishers quote the
London Daily Mail on their paper wrap
per, saying that he ranks first among
the few men who possess the knowl-
edge and fortitude to write on the sub
ject of woman. and they further say
He knows u.s. is admitted by women
throughout Europe"
OF course. there may be more than
one point. of view on a book of this
character, but it is too dull to interest
American women.
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"Simply Women"

BY Marcel Provost. DIMINISHED by the Ma
cauley company, New York Price SD
Simply Women" is the title of a
collection of short stories by Marcel
Provost. They have been translated
by r. 1. Brandon -Vauvillez and whether
to blame him for the bad stories or NJ.
Provost one does not know. For bad
they are in every sense. They may be
typically French; they are not Ameri-
can nor English. Perhaps when M.
Provost was learning to write, these
were his first attempts. They are
rough and unpublished and not even
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he has fashioned for his characters:
"Demas Dayre," the hero; Boyd Len
root and Mace Forbush, friend of
the hero; ''Vashti Ganvood" the lady
villain. and several others. The story
has a certain interest, but the weak
and foolishly melodramatic climax in
jures il greatly.
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villain that the only wonder is he does
not do more damage than he does.
If this writer turns her attention
more to descriptive work she is sure to
make a name for herself. Some of the
descriptions in this tale are full of
poetry and feeling and show marked
ability. The tale itself is slightly hur-
ried, the story rushing too swiftly upon
it's tragic climax. The work is con-
scienuous throughout and shows great
promise.
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CONDUCTED B
BOOKS VIE w ED

"Tales of Men and Ghosts" by Edith Wharton
Master of the Vineyard" by Myrtle Reed
Grover Cleveland: Record of Friendship" by
Richard Watson Glider
"The Master Road" by Carlin Eastwood
THE End of Dreams" by Wood Levette Wilson
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Lord Alistairs' Rebellion. by Allen Upward
Jim Hands" by Richard Washburn Child
Simply Women" by Marcel Provost
"A Daughter of Today by Mildred Corning Cream
"The "reminiscences of Rosa Bonhcur," by Theodore
Stanton
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By Allen Upward author Of THE New Ward j"
published by Mitchell kenuerley, New York.
Drc
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02

are no doubt hurtful to the best in
terest of the district. | believe, too,
that you are doing right to stay at
the post of your duty while Congress
is in session and look after the duties
of the office we elected you to. | beg
to say that, UNLESS / HAVE SOME
CAUSE TO CHANGE MY MIND. I
will support you in the approaching
primary election. Yours truly,
Name
X. +. d. No. $685., Box No.
Postoffice Ca
| vote in the. .G. M. Dist.
or 1880. $780,. :. County
Date. -. day of May. 1910.
Tin answering use pen or pencil.
(And he actually enclosed a
stamped envelope, addressed back to
himself! T. E. W.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02
HOW DESERTER EDWARDS TRIES
TO SOFT-SOAP OLD MAN
PEEPUL.

Dear Sir:-Attached is a form of
letter our Congressman (Hon. Mr..
Edwards) is sending to the people.
1t is for us to sign and return to
him. What do you think of it?
Yours truly
ARTIE FLOWERS.
Donald, Ga.
P. S.-Guess he thinks he is repre-
senting a people that does not know
how to write. A. o. f.
Here follows the pledge:
(This reply is personal, confidential,
and not for publications.
Mr.. Chas. G. Edawrds, M c.,
Washington, D. G.
Dear Sir:-Your letter of May
18th has been received and noted.
| approve of your active efforts in
the interest of the people and the
district you represent I believe ex-
perience counts in everything, espe-
cially in Congress. Frequent changes
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02
WANTS HIS CONGRESSMAN TO
STAY ON JOB

Dear Sir:-I am glad you hit those
Congressman who leave their seats
to work the people for another term.
Our member from the 5th district,
Hon. A. M. Byrd, lost two months
trying to get to the United States
Senate during the late glorious Sc
cret caucus. He has an opponent
now that | hope will wipe the earth
up with him. If it is not asking too
much of you, I wish you would give
that rotten robber roost at Jackson a
good write-up
[ am mailing you a list of names
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02
PAGE eferonlan
Letters From Many Sources Which Prove Voters Are
Interested in COngressmen's Records

infamous new tariff law, which has
put up the cost of living, could never
have been passed. the Dingley Bill,
at the worst, would have remained
in power, and while the Dingley Bill
is an utterly indefensible scheme of
legislation, it is not by any means so
wicked as the Payne-Aldrich tariff.
CD You will understand at once
If there is turkey roOSting in the
tree that l want to shoot, and can't
shoot unless somebody hands me my
not get before the turkey flew away,
he enables me to bag that turkey. It
was precisely so in the House on
March 18th, 1909. Without those
old rules, which enabled him to pack
the Committees, Joe Cannon could
not have brought the turkey down
But Bill Howard was one of the
twenty-three Democrats who ran to
Cannon with the shot gun, and thus
he was enabled to bag his game.
60 Mr.. Norris, of Nebraska
CD Because the Republicans were
clearly in a majority, and in the eau
Gus Cannon had a majority of votes.
Inasmuch as the insurgents were
compelled to enter their own caucus,
they were bound by it and conse-
quently had to vote with the ma
jority for Cannon. Bill Towards
vote here, being one of the minority
was not necessary to the Republi-
cans on the vote for Speaker, and,
therefore, he could easily vote
against Cannon, because Cannon al
ready had votes enough to spare.
(10) Had the twenty-three not
deserted, the Democrats could have
either defeated this new tariff law,
and left the Dingley Bill, which is
not as bad, in force, or they could,
by persistent, obstreperous resist
ance have compelled the Republicans
to apply the knife to the Dingley
schedules.
The gist of the matter is that the
insurging Republicans were not re-
Voting from Cannon because of the
tariff, but because of the Rules.
Therefore, if the Democrats had
stood together as to the Rules, they
could have wrested control of the
House from the Republicans This
they could not do on the tariff itself,
because some of the insurgents were
in favor of the same kind of tariff
that Cannon wanted.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02

Speaker, would have selected the
steering committee, which controls
things. That Committee of Fifteen,
had it been elected, would have taken
command immediately and the ex-
ira session would have been govern
ed by the Committee of Fifteen, free
from the control of Cannonism.
Consequently, Cannon and the regu-
lar Republicans fought this bitterly
On that proposition made by the
Democratic leader to unshackle the
House from the control of Cannon's
Committee of Three Bill Howard,
Lon Livingston, Jim Griggs and w.
G. Brantley voted with the Republi-
cans. Not single other Democrat
from the South did SO, according to
my present recollection.
Next came up this Fitzgerald
amendment, which merely modified
the Rules in one or two immaterial
particulars, and established what was
called calendar Wednesday,, on
which day bills were to be called in
their order upon the document book.
Inasmuch as Cannon was left with
the power to pack all the Commit
tees, including the Rules Committee,
it was easy for him to make calendar
Wednesday Valueless to the House.
This he did, until few months ago,
at the beginning Of the present year.
CD The Fitzgerald amendment
proposed some trivial amendments to
the old Cannon rules.
CD If the Fitzge--ld amendment
had been lost, the proposition would
have still been before the House as
to what kind of modification in the
Cannon Rules would be made, those
Rules themselves having already
been rejected by a decisive vote.
(4) The original resolutions are
simply the old Cannon Rules, which
gave the Speaker absolute authority
over the proceedings of the House.
They are quite lengthy, and would
fill this paper. The nature of the
amendment has already been, I trust,
sufficiently explained
CD The powers of Cannon as he
now enjoys them have been very
much shaken by the election of the
Committee on Rules a couple of
months ago, but those powers were
not at all impaired by the Fitz-
gerald amendment. In other words,
the House did in March, 1910, what
it ought to have done and could have
done in March, 1909, to-wit: 1t
shook off the despotism of a Commit
tee Of Three and elected a Rules
Committee of it's own. The bug in
the buttermilk, however, is the re-
tention of Fitzgerald on the Com
mittee, who is at heart a Republi-
can, and who, when the Republicans
are in the last ditch again. as they
were on March 18th, 1909, may safe
ly rely on him to help pull thep
out.
CO Towards desertion to the
Republicans, in support of the Fitz-
u i
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02

A5nC against MI. I1OWdIu. huC1OSOu
find my check for one dollar. Send
me the weekly Jeffersonian.
The common people do not under
stand things about Howard's deser-
ton.
CD Will you explain what the
Fitzgerald amendment was?
CD What did it propose to
amend?
CD What would have been the
effect on legislation if it had been
lost?
(4) Can you give the original
resolution, and the amendment?
CD What are the powers of Can
non now, and what has shaken his
power over the House and to what
extent?
co In what particular did How
ards desertiOn betray his party or
effect the passage of the tariff bill?
CD They know he bolted the
party caucus, but don't understand
how this has affected legislation gem
orally, or the tariff bill in particular.
go Who proposed the measure
that has shaken Cannons power?
CD Why did Howard see his way
clear to vote against Cannon at last?
(10) What good could have come
to the people had the twenty-three
not deserted?
Quite number of people have
asked me these questions, and [ am
not able to answer them. due to my
inattention to political matters.
think Bill-"Our Bill'-has
been there long enough to retire for
bit, and [ want to see him left out
OF the next ring-up. If you will un-
dertake to answer these questions in
your paper, let me hear when you
will probably do so.
Respectfully,
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Answer.
CD The Fitzgerald amendment
really amounted to nothing so far as
the Speakers power to control the
House was concerned 1t must be
borne in mind that the steering COM
mittee which decides what measures
shall be debated, and what measures
shall be voted on, and what measures
shall have the right of way really
masters the business of the House
The Rules Committee is despotic. It
can smother any measure to which
1T is unfriendly by simply refusing
to report it to the House for action
1t can give unfair precedence to any
measure which the Rules Committee
prefers, by simply exercising the au-
thority to put it before the House at
any time the Rules Committee sees
tit. The House is powerless to call
from the Committee Room a smoth-
cred resolution, and powerless to
throw upon the side track those
measures which the Rules Committee
decide shall have the main track
Matters were in this condition
when the extra session of Congress
met. John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
is the right hand man of Speaker
Cannon, and he promptly presented
brief resolution to perpetuate the
despotism of the Committee of
Three. This was voted down be-
cause some thirty odd Republicans
from the West insurged and refused
to give Cannon a renewal of his
lease of despotic power
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02
20 THOSE INTERESTED in FLORIDA we

80 THOSE INTERESTED IN FLORIDA we
a wish to announce the issuance of pamphlet
entitled Fruit and Vegetable Growing in Manates
County, Florida, consisting of fifty-sx pages hand
somely illustrated, with map of the state in back
Facts and figures concerning the culture of fruits
and vegetables and illustrations of life in that
ideal section. Copy sent free on request to
w. w"IrE. General Industr al Aoe emf,
SEAB0ARD AIR LINE RAILWAY,
Norfolk, Virga,~
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-02
A CATECHISM FROM HOWARD'S
CONSTITUENTS.

Dear Sir:-I am with you in the
fight against Mr. Howard. Enclosed
find my check for one dollar. Send
me the weekly Jeffersonian.
The common people do not under
stand things about Towards deser-
ton.
CD Will you explain what the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-10
LIGHTNING'S LATEST PRANK
Some Odd Stunts Performed in a New
Jersey Home.

Lightning has been known to play
queer freaks, but a streak of the Jer-
sey brand which struck the home of
John Alderman in Rochelle Park, n.
j., few days ago seems to have done
more queer things in a moment than
had been done since Ajax defied the
fluid From removing the four cas-
tors of a table to shipping off the
steel stub of a pen with which a
young woman was writing in an adj
Joining house, the zigzagging bolt
managed to disrupt or injure most
everything in its path.
The bolt melted the telephone wire
and hurled the molten metal against
a window with such force as to make
mosaics of several panes, the spatter-
ing hot metal so deeply ENGRAVING
itself in the glass that there has been
no getting it out.
One side of the hall was ripped
out, and from there the lightning
flashed into the parlor, where a
broken lamp and scattered and
broken bric-a-brac told of its passage
through that apartment.
Then it journeyed to the dining
room, where Mr.. Alderman was sit
ting. The walls, blackened, scared
and bulged out on three sides, and
show that the bolt struck the room
in three places, and Alderman is still
marveling how it was that the light
ming flashed all around without ever
touching him.
In the kitchen was an old-fash-
Toned clock, quite heavy and fully
two feet in height. The lightning
removed this from the kitchen and
deposited the wreck in the dining
room. The west side of the kitchen
wall was blown out The kitchen
table was splintered into bits and the
range was shattered into many pieces.
A young woman next door was
writing letter and her pen point
disappeared as the bolt shook the
place.
Yet, strange to say, although there
were four persons in the house at
the time not one of the occupants
suffered any injury from the freak
ish bolt, other than the shocked sur
prise that would be expected on such
an exciting occasion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-10

bolls, but it did not stand over Is
inches high. THAT is a perfect
plant" l remarked, but we will not
take any bolls from it, 1t is too
small. Never select a runt pig for
prize winner at a fair. if l had
an acre of such plants they would
not hold as much cotton as I want. y
In this way we went over the two
acre plat and secured 200 pounds of
seed cotton. This was carefully
stored and ginned.
The next year there were three
times as many perfect stalks in the
field as the previous season. In three
years nearly every plant was model,
and we had a three-bale crop.
In making selections never pick a
boil for seed except from plant
that is just what you want your crop
TO be next year You can not buy
such seed. Raise it.
Select your seed early for next
years crop.
Ginning and Cleaning Seed Cotton.
Store your selected seed in a dry
place and wait until the steam gins
are nearly through then carefully
clean the gin, put down sheet to
catch the seed, and run your selected
lot through Store in a dry place
till it is time for planting.
Before planting run this seed
through tanning mill, blowing out
any seeds that may be light and
screening out any that are too small.
Follow this method just as close as
possible. A peck of such screened
seed will produce more strong plants
than a bushel of the seed commonly
planted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-10
WHISPERS AT $1,000 A HAIR.
bat" MastersOn's Pal Bluffs Two
bad Men" Out in Tucson.

bat" MastersOn's Pal Bluffs Two
bad Men" Out in Tucson.
when we were out to see the
fight at Reno" said Alfred Henry
Lewis at the round table at Shan
ley's the other night, "a bigger fuss
was made over my travelling COM
panion, Bat Masterson, than over
Jeffries, even before the fight. Bat
had come back, if only to the scenes
of his earlier activities-and there
was some doubt about Jeffries.
Among the many friends who
came to see MastersOn, to shake his
hand and talk about the pioneer days
in the west, was old jim Bruce.
Old Jim had no interest in the fight.
but hearing Bat would be there he
made the journey just to see him.
Bruce was the queerest looking
westener you have ever seen. He
rather resembled a down east farm
er, his most conspicuous adjunct be-
ing paint brush chin beard, an or
nament he has worn on his face ever
since he left Missouri for the border
shortly after the war, because Mis-
souri, was getting built UP.
For years Jim Bruce dealt faro
all over the wild west and was
known, by those who stood by and
those who were curious to find out,
as a square and fearless man. ,sl
''One time, when he was dealing
faro in Tucson, Masterson told, me
two tough strangers got into "a dis
pute with the old. man over whether
a bet was made a certain way.
"'You can gamble that the old
man was in the right, Masterson
said, and he pulled the money over.
Zone of the strangers said to his
friend, who was nearest the dealer.
Get the money, Jack, and if you
can't get the money get his whisk-
erst
'The old man thrust out his chin
till the brush was almost in the face
of the nearest stranger, and re-
marked softly: 'Ye can't have the
bet. and as for the whiskers, there's
standing reward of $1,000 a hair
for them!'
And then" concluded Mr. Lewis,
Il learn the game went on the even
tenor of its way"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-10
A BLOOD BALM THAT HEALS.
A MeritOus Specific That Is Manu-.
featured in Dawson.


The News begs to call the read
ing public's attention to Harris
121," a blood remedy manufactured
and sold by the Dawson Drug Com
pany, Dawson, Ga. This medicine
has, proved a specific for all those
who have used it for scrofula, rheu-
matism and syphilitic sores or ulcers.
The manufacturers of this proprie-
tary preparation give you a guaran-
tee that refunds you your money in
the event that a complete course
does not cure your ailment The
News is personally acquainted with
Mr.. Chas. A. Harris, the apothecary
who compounds and manufactures
this preparation, and invites those
who are afflicted with any blood dis
ease to try a course. Price per bot
tie $1.0O, or three bottles for $3.50.
Six bottles will cure any chronic case
of blood disease, it makes no differ
ence of how long standing. Write
the Dawson Drug Company, Dawson,
Ga. This medicine is not a patent
cure for all diseases, but a carefully
prepared physicians prescription
compounded and placed in the reach
Iof suffering humanity. Write the
Dawson Drug Company for trial
order of Harris 121 Blood Remedy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-10
INVITED TO INVESTIGATE.
And Learn If Reports About a Neigh
boring Institution Are True.


Recently representative educators
from Maine, Missouri, Kansas and
Tennessee have visited the Americas
Agricultural and Mechanical School
seeking information that will assist
in organizing schools of the kind of
the Americas school in these states.
Hon. NJ L. Duggan of Sparta, Pa,
and who no doubt represents in one
capacity or another more educational
associations than any other man in
the south, was sent to the school to
make special report of the work be-
ing done in the institution. This
from his report: Il have never seen
an educational institution whose
work had a closer application to the
work of life, that was better calcu-
lated to turn out all-round men and
women, full of ambition and equipped
with exact definite knowledge of a
practical character.
The school is open to pupils from
any county or state. Tuition free,
board 81 per month. The school has
accredited relation with the State
University and its associate colleges.
1t is under military discipline that
is strictly enforced.
Last term many pupils had to be
turned away for want of room. New
buildings are now being compIetedS
and additional equipment is being
supplied. An effort is being made
to admit all who may apply, yet those
who fail to make application may
later find all places taken
Write to the principal, J. NJ. Col
lum, Americas, Ga, for a catalogue,
and then compare the work being
done in other schools as shown by
the respective catalogue and then de-
eide for yourself.
Fall term opens September LIST.
The school is "out of the ruts." 1t
meets the demands of the times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-10
BOLT TRACES FERN ON ARM.
Lightning Also Burns Copy of Leaf
on a Boys Back.

At Anderson, Ind, eight-year-old
Forest Hoppess was permanently
marked on his arms and back when
he was struck by lightning DETECTED
from tree on the lawn of the Madi-
son County Orphans Home.
The boy was playing near the tree
when a sudden storm came. The
tree was struck by lightning, which
seemed to glance in the direction of
the boy. HOppess did not suffer seri-
ously. He screamed with pain, and
on examination it was found that his
arms, back and one hip were slightly
burned by electricity
On one arm was almost a perfect
reproduction of a fern leaf and on
his back was the imprint of a leaf
from the tree. The line of the burns
inflicted was almost the same as that
of branch torn from a tree. The
marks were so plain that the Or
phans' Home physician had a pho
tographer take photograph of them.
The boy was not burned about the
face