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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
VALUE OF AN OLD "BLUE BACK
from the Atlanta Georgian

From the Atlanta Georgian.
The Enterprise of Cornelia, Ca.
recently contained the following
item:
"An old-fashioned blue back spell
er was knocked off to Mr.. r. E. Ram
sey for S11 at the Smith sale here.
Uncle Dock Grant ran it up to
$1,000 solely on account of the old
abe days of childhood"
Reading this somehow gives one
a glow of pleasure and compels an
expression Of thanks to Mr.. Ramsey
and Mr. Grant 1t is like hearing
the news of an old friends being
honored-hOnored for long and mer-
itOrious services.
And in reality this is the way in
which the blue back spelling book is
regarded by all those generations
of school children who toiled over it's
pages in days past.
1t stood at the threshold of their
intellectual life, homely and stern,
saying: Master what l have to Of
fer before you pass on" There was
no alternative. The mandate had
to be obeyed, and obeyed it was
'AAOoO "hO pdSSSu Oh IOun.0
themselves well equipped for the
journey.
1t has been said that the best way
to resume is to resume, and it may
also be said that the best way to
learn to spell is to set to spelling.
This was the old blue back meth
cd. Modern pedagogy has found
many aids to it, but it has never
been supplanted and can never be.
The value of the old blue back
speller was f1ttingly typifed in the
result of the auction sale at Cor
nelia. A battered veteran, repre-
sentative of the legions that in for
mer times did valiant service in the
cause OF enlightenment, was sold
for many times it's intrinsic worth
1t was valuable not for what il
was, but for what it had been, for
what it had done, and for the a ssoci-
atoms that clustered around it and
It's services.
Sentiment served thus to accord
honor where honor was richly de-
served.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
THE BAREFOOT BOY.

Blessings on thee, little man,
barefoot boy with cheeks of tan!
with thy turned up pantaloons
And thy merry whistled tunes:
With thy red lips, redder still.
Kissed by strawberries on the hill.
with the sunshine on thy face.
through thy torn brims jaunty
grace;
From my heart l give thee joy,
was once a barefoot boy.
Oh, for boyhood's painless plav.
sleep that wakes in laughing day.
HeaIth that mocks the doctors rules.
hnoWIedge never learned in schools,
Or the wild bees morning chase.
VI the wild flowers time and place
HOW the tortoise bears his shell.
HOW the Woodchuck digs his cell.
How the robin feeds her young,
How the orioles nest is hung.
Where the whitest lilies blow,
where the freshest berries grow:
Where the ground-nut trails it's vine
Where the Wood-grape's clusters
shine,
VI the black wasps cunning wav.
Masons of his walls of clay.
oh, for boyhood's time of June.
CroWdlng years in one brief moon.
When all things | heard or saw
Me. their master, waited for
was rich in flowers and trees
Hummingbirds and honey-bees.
For my sport the squirrel played
Piled the shouted mole his spade
Laughed the brook for my delight
through the day and through the
night,
whispering at the garden wall
Talked with me from fall to fall
NINE the Standardized pickerel pond,
Mine the walnut slopes beyond.
Mine on bending orchard trees,
Apple of Hesperides.
| was monarch; pomp and 10Y
Waited on the barefoot bow
john Greenleaf Whittier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
MIR. BRYAN's RECENT ACTIVITY

Mr.. Bryan convened with the
new congress, and has since been in
washington in the role of dictator.
with the result that he has already
about divided the democratic
members into two hostile factions.
We have always been an admirer
OF and Loyalty followed the Ne
braskan, and therefore 1t is in all
Kindness that The News says, Go
nome, Mr.. Bryan. You have thrice
been nominated by the party for
president, and as many times led
II 10 disaster, and a little more
modesty than you are now dispIav-
ing would be becoming. At any
rate, the democratic party has a
rlgnc to get together and stay to-
gether, if it can, without your in
terterence.-Dawson News.
inc Dawson News is extremely
fortunate in its choice Of words in
this article. When we write ~
Bryan and remember what his
leadership has meant to the dem
ocFatlc party we are intemperate
perhaps, but sincere. No one
can object to what The Dawson
News says, and everyone knows if
IS true. Go home, Mr.. Bryan, and
give US a rest.-Griffin n ews and
Sun. anu
The Columbus Ledger in com.
menting also on the above. saws:
This is timely advice, and tha
Ledger fully concurs with The
lawson News. A division in the
the democratic party at this time
would be disastrous. We cannot
anord it. Mr.. Bryan should taEe
a back seat, and the sooner the
better. 'ne
The Dublin Courier-Dispatch add,
us endorsement, and SAYS:
The above from The Dawson
news is mighty good advice. bnt
Mr. Bryan will not take if II
appears to us that the democrats
IN both houses of congress shoniJ
get together and present Bryan
with an invitation to be quiet for
the space OF few years, and Let
the party have real chance ~
win W
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
WHERE WEALTH IS USELESS.

With the recent departure of a
certain aged man and his wife on a
ship bound from New York to Ger
many the curtain falls on a little
tragedy about as pathetic as any to
be found in fiction. The story can be
told without naming persons and
places. The man possesses a large
fortune, and until a few months ago
was a prominent banker, hOnored
and trusted by everybody, in lead
ing city of the United States.
When official investigation disclos-
ed wholesale bribery and other forms
of corruption in the city government
this old man, overwhelmed either
with remorse or with fear of prison
sentence, appeared in court, confess
ed himself guilty of completely in
sOrdid crimes of bribe-giving and was
fined $500.
But that was the smallest of the
penalties that fell upon him. He
realized that his reputation was
gone, that the community no longer
respected him, and that mere wealth
was not recognized as an atonement
for crime committed by it's possessor.
And SO, with the winter of age upon
him, this forlorn man has gone back
with his faithful wife and his money
to spend his last days in seclusiOn in
the fatherland whence he came a
poor boy nearly half a century ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
STANDING REWARDS.

The commissioners of Mcintosh
county keep a standing advertise
ment in the Darien Gazette Offering
the following rewards:
The new law of the State of
Georgia requires everyone carry
ing a pistol to have a license from
the Ordinary. The county commits
Sioners of Mcintosh offer a reward
of fifty dollars for evidence to con-
Wet any one of carrying a pistol.
contrary to law.
Fifty dollars reward is also Of
fered by said commissioners for
evidence to convict anyone of
butChering any stock without reg
istering the marks with the regis
trars of marks and brands, as is
required by law.
Fifty dollars reward is offered
by said commissioners for evidence
to convict anyone of peddling in
Mcintosh county without license
That is not bad idea, and is one,
we venture to say, that is having a
5alutary effect in preventing viola
lions of the three laws in question. 1t
would be interesting to know, if the
Gazette can furnish the information,
whether the court records of its
county show fewer pistol-toting cases
since the reward was offered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
THE OFFICE IS NOT AS
BIG AS 1T SOUNDS
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
The trouble over the selection OF
minority leader in the senate
reached the proportions of good
sized tempest in a teapot. 1t ap-
pears that either Senator Culberson
or Senator Bacon could have had the
place, but that neither wanted it.
That is not very surprising. The
only thing clearly established con-
corning the post Of democratic lead
er in the senate as at present con-
stituted seems to be that he doesn t
lead. Money didn't, nor did Culber-
son before him. We fancy that if
things were different, and the lead
ership carried with 1t any consider
able amount of real authority, Mr.
Martin would hardly have got it.
He is an Industrious and discreet
senator, but not an orator, not well
known to the country, and not con-
spicuously representative of any
particular set of views or policies.
His election would have attracted
very little attention if Brother Bry-
an hadn't come along and opposed
it. Even that didn't make the event
80 very important, but we fancy
Brother Bryan will get more credit
from helping the president make
peace than from stirring up strife
among his party's senators.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
The indication Complete,

From the Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
Two years ago the democrats and
republican insurgents were concern
ed in the efforts to revise the rules
of the house. Champ Clark, the dem
ocratic leader, now speaker, prepar-
ed a set of rules which were agreed
to by majority of the democrats.
A substitute was offered in the house
by Representative Fitzgerald of New
York. This substitute was supported
by twenty-three democrats. The re-
publican majority voted for the sub
Stitute, and it was adopted
A great hue and cry went up from
some sections regarding the alleged
bolt of the "23." Various charges
were made. Practically everyone
was reelected, and on the important
committees were given high places
| by fellow democrats, three-includ-
ing Representative Brantley of the
Eleventh district-being placed on
the all-pOwerful Ways and Means
Committee, and the author OF the
resolution, Mr.. Fitzgerald, being
named chairman of the Appropria-
tions Committee.
If the "23" needed any further
vindicatiOn it came a few days ago
| The democrats organized the house
and were preparing to adopt some
new rules. A set of rules were pre-
sented. Representative Mann, the
republican floor leader, introduced
as substitute the Clark rules of two
years ago, word for word All OF
the democrats, including those of the
'23," present voted against the
Clark rules.
The Macon Telegraph remarked
the other day, Let us hear no more
of the traitorous '23.'" There will
probably be nothing more forthcom-
ing. The vindication of the con-
gressmen was too complete.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
GEORGIA,S SENATORS.

1t is gratifying to know of the
high regard in which the Georgia
senators are held by their confreres
and the country at large. Senator
Bacon, whose reputation as an able
statesman and a safe leader is ma
tion-wide, has been honored by re-
eeiying the first position of the mi
nority side on the foreign relations,
judiciary and rules committees.
There are no committees that are
more likely to handle as much import
ant business during the present con-
gress as these three. He has also
been assigned to committees on ex-
penditures of the postOffice depart
ment, private land claims, and
weights and measures.
Senator Terrell was assigned to
the important committees of post
Offices and post roads, agriculture
and forestry, manufactures, coast
defenSes and university OF the
United States, and will have splendid
opportunity to render his constitu.
ents and the country at large much
valuable service.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
CLEAN UP, EVERYBODY!

The ladies of the Wednesday At
ternoon Club, which has taken an
active interest in civic improvement
since its organization, have set apart
next Friday, May 9Th, as cleanup
! day in Dawson. Each housekeeper
is asked to take an active part in
this movement for health and beau
ty, and against dirt and disease.
1t means the cleaning of lots, raking
under buildings and using lime,
burning all trash and keeping paper
of the streets.
1t seems that this necessary work
is left to the women, as the men
have shown no dispotion to do it,,
and such being the case every citi-
zen of the town should give the wo-
men earnest support.
Dawson is a fine town in may re-
spects, but there is much room for
civic improvement. There is lots of
trash that should be carted away,
dirty streets that should be kept
clean, places that are almost unmen-
tionable in their filth, and some pri-
vate premises, perhaps, that are
worse than all the rest.
1t should not be necessary to en-
phasize the Importance of such work,
and it is to be hoped that as many
persons as possible will take an in
terest. in this movement to make the
health conditions as nearly perfect
as human effort can make them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
RARIEs ARE WANTED.

Out in Texas the demand for ba-
bies seems to be unlimited, and the
little ones have become regular
import from New York, where,
to use a commercial term, they are
a drug on the market. Several car
loads have already been distributed
in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
The other day when carload Of six
ty-two passed through Fort Worth
on the way to Houston young mar
ried couples in the former city fair
ly besieged those in charge to let
them have at least part of the con-
signment, but every baby in the lot
had already been bargained for and
was ticketed with the names of its
foster parents Then the Fort Worth
women got busy, made out a list of
those who wanted babies and wrote
to New York for a carload for them
selves.
The babies are orphans, and while
in the metropolis are in charge OF the
United Charities Association. This
organization sends agents to the
Southwest to look up couples whose
hearts are hungry for baby love.
These agents carefully inquire into
the character and circumstances of
the would-be foster parents, learn
whether girl or boy babies are de-
sired, and whether blondes or bru-
nettes. and then send the applica-
tons with regular adoption papers
to New York The babies are guar
anteed to be in sound health and of
American parentage.
Homes have been found for hun
dreds of little ones, and the demand
seems to exceed the supply.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
WORKING THE NEWSPAPER.

From the Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
The average man has very little
idea what demands are made upon
the newspapers for free space.
This demand does not come from
any particular person or organiza-
ton, but is very general. If one
must specialize 1t Is probably correct
to say that those who are the most
| insistent are those who contribute
least to the support of the paper.
The demands made upon the col
umns of the Augusta Chronicle have
caused that paper to fix some very
rigid rules regarding the same. The
Chronicle makes comment as fol-
lows:
Unfortunately there are people
who rest under the erroneous impress
sion that a newspaper is supported
by its subscribers, and that a SUBJ
scriber has right to exact almost
any sort OF special service from his
newspaper, forgetting that the ad-
vertising columns pay at least three
fourths the cost of producing the av-
erage newspaper, and that but for
this subscribers would have to pay
thirty or forty dollars a year for a
newspaper that now costs them six
or seven dollars. And yet these same
Well-meaning people would not SIX
merchant to give them a suit OF
clothes merely because they happen
to buy pair of pants occasionally.
Some people accept the work of
an editor as a matter of duty on
his part and never think of thank
ing him for any service that he may
render. We have known instances
where every person connected with
some public movement received
thanks except the editor.
The following rules have been
adopted by the Chronicle:
Il. Communications of reasona-
bic length on pertinent public topics
are welcomed, but the writer's name
must be printed with them.
z. Political communications will
be charged for at the rate of 10
cents per line, and must be duly
signed and marked Communicated, ,
). Notices of benefit perform
ances, excursions, picnics, etc., given
Dy churches, lodges, charitable or
CARNATIONS, etc.-except a prelimi-
nary news item-will be charged for
at the rate Of 10 cents per line.
a. In memOriam' notices, reso-
buttons OF respect, cards of thanks.
etc.-Whether from individuals or
organizations-will be charged for at
the rate of 10 cents per line.
%. Write-ups of new industries,
new business undertakings, ETC., and
Wr1te-ups of any and everything that
means advertising for the party of
the first part and nothing for the
newspaper, 10 cents per line"
All newspapers will have to exer-
else more common sense and more
business judgment or go into bank
ruptcy. Newspapers should be run
on business principles. If they are
not they can never make a perma-
nent success.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The legislature will soon be "in
our midst If the statesmen do
anything besides elect their gavel
wielders and a United States sena-
tor, redistrict the state with a view
of keeping certain members in con-
gress and getting certain wCuld-be
congressman in, scrap over nigh
beer, appropriate more money than
can be paid, and fill the capitol with
hot air their admiring constituencies
will be surprised. Measures that
would be of benefit to the state, such
as biennial sessions of the legisla-
ture, will be lost in the shuttle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

Not bushel of western corn has
been shipped to Dawson this year, a
condition that has not existed in
many years before. 1t tells more elo-
quently than words the great benefit
the corn prizes and contests have
been to this section, which was the
first in Georgia to thus encourage
and stimulate the farmers in the Gull
tiyation of this product so necessary
to their welfare and prosperity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

Today The News reprints from the
Macon Telegraph an intensely inter
ssting story about the coming of the
boil weevil and the Importance of
diversified crops that should be read
by every farmer in Georgia. If Edi-
tor PendletOn, who has always taken
a deep interest in the welfare of the
farmers and their work, succeeds in
arOusing them to proper concep-
ton of their danger and inducing
them to prepare in advance for its
coming the laugh will be on the
peSky Mexican insect when it gets
here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
ANOTHER STRING OF SUCKERS
From the Fitzgerald Leader,

From the Fitzgerald Leader.
Another get-rich-quick concern
has gone a-glimmering. The Georgia
insurance Co., promoted by one John
A. Darwin, and having such names
as Phinizy, White and McWhorter
on the list Of directors to catch suck
ers with, is now in the courts for
liquidation. A good many of it's stock
holders may retain their certificates
as souvenirs. Our people will learn
some day that they can better af-
ford to lose their money where thew
nave made it-at least, they then
would have a chance of making il
back again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

ON the Albany Herald.

From the Albany Herald.
Another blow given to successful
stock raising in Georgia. Book beer
is said to cure sick cows, and in this
state no such thing can be found
Savannah Press.
We infer from this that there is
no book beer in Savannah these days.
Shades Of Yamacraw and Tomochi-
chi! How the mighty has fallen!
Book beer and plenty of the bever-
age, to be had in every town or city
Of any consequence in Georgia, and
yet mo signs can be found" in Sa-
vannah.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
REDIsTRICTING GEORGIA.

The congressional reapportionment
bill passed the house Thursday, and
is now awaiting action by the senate.
1t provides for a total membership
IN the house of ABB, and gives Geor-
gia one new congressman. This
means that the Second district,
which has more population than any
other in the state, will feel the prun-
ing knife, and it only remains to be
seen whether it will be applied at
the top or somewhere else. In this
connection The News shares freely
the sentiments of the Albany Herald,
which says;
Congressional reapportionment
in Georgia will neCeSSitate dis
memberment of the Second dis.
trict, which the last census showed
to be the most populous of the
eleven which comprise this state
The Herald has more than once
remarked that the prospect is one
! in which we cannot find pleasure.
! There is not a county which we
want to see taken from the old
| Second as it is at present consti-
tuted to be placed in a new dis
trict or another of the old ones.
The fact that Georgia's growth en-
titles her to another congressman
is pleasant to consider; but the
| prospect which confronts this dis
/ trict is one in which we do not find
any pleasure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The Leaders popularity contest
was not a financial success-for
us-but it enabled US to get our
subscription books in better shape
and add to our list several hun
dred new Observation-Disclosures
Leader.
That is usually the case. The pro,
moter gets the velvet and the pub.
Usher the experience.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The rains have come, and let us
be thankful. The moisture that is
in the ground is the earnest of
a bountiful harvest to be real
lied later on. Farm work may have
been delayed some, but suppose it
has? The promise of the future is
generous-and what is more, it is
solvent promise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

In some sections of the state the
woods are already full of candidates
who have announced subject to the
primaries that may be held in the
summer or autumn OF 1912. The
man who begins a political campaign
now is a disturber of the peace and
liable to become a public nuisance.
The voters should see that these ear
ly birds get no worms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

Congressman Berger wants to
abolish the United States senate.
Must have got his cue from Joe Hall,
who has been wanting to abolish
the Georgia senate for some years,
which he says represents nobody,
and is the graveyard of most good
legislation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The ver-officiousness of those
who are clothed with little brief
authority is often in evidence, some
times to the amusement and disgust
and sometimes to the inconvenience
or injury of those against whom it
is directed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The session of the Chautauqua
which has just closed was one of the
most successful that has been held,
and that is saying a great deal, 1t
is not alone an Albany institution,
but is one in which all of Southwest
Georgia has and feels an interest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The oat crop was never more
promising in Terrell county than it
is this spring, and with continued
favorable seasons some phenomenal
yields may be expected. The oats will
come in mighty handy, too, and be
the means of swelling the prosperity
of the farmers next fall.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03
Make a Few for Gao,o;o

FROM the Memphis Commercial
by all means let the government
com z Il cent piece. That's inst
1ne size for the purchase of soma
tennessee politicians. -Chattanno-
ga Times. That's an extravagant
price for them; cut down the new
coin at least 2 cents. D0"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

Those who put money in Terrell
county farm land make no mistake
They do make money, though, when
willing to sell, for the prices of Ter
rell county farms go steadily up
ward.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

Hon. E. R. Orr, who was born and
reared in Dawson, is a candidate for
mayor of Dublin. Wherever they
may be these Dawson people have a
way of making themselves known
and felt as part of the life and
thought of the community.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-05-03

The democratic house has passed
the reciprocity bill and is happy on
the way, while the republican senate
is busy scrapping and trying to or
ganiZe.