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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
The KnOcker Us. The Booster

Ebert Hubbard, editor of the Phil
istine, when not engaged telling the
retail merchant, Edison, Rockefeller,
the U. S. government and the Lord
Almighty where they are all making
grievous and inexcusable blunders,
sometimes hits upon an idea or real
practical worth. In a recent editor1-
al he stated that God made the
country, man the city, and the devil
the small town" This statement
summed up a description Of the alto
gether too characteristic condition of
the American town of from five hun
dred to two thousand population, in
which mention was made of the pull
hauling, the political, religious and
social cliques, merchants fighting
each other tooth and nail, interim
nable gossip reeking with SANDER
and falsehood. public spirit dead,
seIfishness, jealousy and envy ram
pant. Each individual or division of
the population belittling, discourag-
ing if not actually knitting the enter
prise of everyone else. Right here,
perhaps, we have stumbled upon one
of the causes of the decline of the
small town. Look up any dead town
and nine times out of ten you will
find it is largely a community of
knockers.
Now, knocking signifies to injure
or destroy, and doesn't it stand to
reason that where two-thirds of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
THE GEORGIA. DELEGATION

Georgia stood as firm as Gibraltar
TO Underwood through forty-hve Dal-
lots" says a Baltimore disptach. YER
ily. the Georgia delegation seemed
to try to see how many unaccounta-
HE things it could do, not the least
of which was to sit stubbornly Dy
and vote for Underwood ballot after
ballot when it could, with good grace
have gone to Speaker Clark when ne
had a majority of the convention ana
insured his nomination. The adop-
tion of the resolution that none but
a progressive democrat (Which
meant the ultra kind should be
nominated eliminated Mr.. Under
wood even as a possibility, ana II
was worse than folly for the Geor-
gia delegation to sit there and con-
Time to vote for him when they
could have welded some influence IN
naming the candidate.
Another inexplicable thing is that
they got their consent to vote against
the resolution of Mr.. Bryan putting
the convention on record as opposed
to the domination and control of that
body by representatives of special
interests, proposition that every
good democrat could and should en-
dOrse.
The Georgia delegation covered 1t
self with something, but it was not
exactly glory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
HALL is ON THE JOB.
From the Columbus Ledger.

From the Columbus Ledger.
The Honorable Joe Hill Hall, mem
Der of the legislature from Bibb
county, candidate for gubernatorial
honors, who has won the sobriquet
of Watch Dog of the Treasury" is
again on the job. Before the law
makers begin to delve in the state
Golfers Mr.. Hall wants to know how
much there is in the treasury to ap-
propriate. He introduced resolu-
ton, which the house adopted, ask
ing the governor to make a report.
This is a business-like way to go
about the making of appropriations.
Uncle Joe Hill is all right at times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
THE SCRAMBLE rs on.

With the treasury of Georgia emp
tv. and the good OLD state, as some
folks would have us believe, on the
verge of bankruptcy; with only $l6,-
900 in the Golfers, the legislators haV-
ing to do without their mileage ana
Der diem; with employees OF the COM
monwealth without their pay, and
thousand and one other dilemmas
confronting Georgia, it seems to the
Augusta Chronicle that the scramble
for the leavings in the treasury IS d
little bit previous. According to the
watch dogs of the treasury only the
amount named above reposes in ma
terial enhancement during the next
month or two, while the expenses go
merrily on, taking easily couple OF
hundred thousand dollars per month,
even in the dull summer. At the
nresent time the legislature has be-
fore it appropriation bills varying
anywhere from a half million dollars
on down the line to just a meager
fye-thousand dollar appropriation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

Even Ormsby McHarg and Bill
Ward of New York refuse now to fol-
low the Third Termer in his move
for a new party. Appears as though
he was correct in saying if anybody
wanted the boilers nomination he
could have it." The News predicts
that before the campaign is over
Roosevelt will be actively on the
stump supporting President Taft or
giving out interviews urging his re-
election.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

population of a place are engaged in
this delectable occupation they just
naturally are not doing a thing to
the prosperity of the town.
1t is claimed that knocking never
starts until after a town begins to
go bad, but supposing this is true,
when barrel begins to leak we do
not proceed to stave it in or sit
around and hOller because our profit
is running away, but we get busy
and plug the leak.
Just so with the small town, the
effect of knocking is destructive; on
the other hand, patriotic faith in a
place has exactly the opposite effect
its influence is creative and in a
thousand ways it helps to build a
place up. 1t sinks all petty differ
ences and promotes united action for
the common good.-National Hard
ware Bulletin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
Notice of Sale.

In the Matter of r. A. Sublette. In
Observation-Disclosures and by virtue
of an order of the Honorable Clayton
Jones, Referee in Bankruptcy of the
District Court of the United States
for the Albany Division of the South
ern District Of Georgia, there will be
sold. freed from lien, at public out
cry, on the 9Th day of July, at 10
o'clock a. m, at the Perry Cooke
place, in Lee county, State of Geor-
gia, the following described real es-
tate to wit: Lots of land Nos. 222,
223, 226 and 227, west half of lot
1914, all of fractional lot 224, 134h
acres off south side of lot 1913, 5h
acres off northeast corner of lot 225,
whole of lots 1O1 and 1874, 80 acres
off east half of lot 100, 175 acres off
west side of lot 1926; all in the Sec
Ond district of Lee county, Georgia
Also the whole of lots 225 and 226,
less about 4 acres belonging to Mrs.
Dekle, in the Third district of Ter
rell county, Georgia; entire tract
containing 2,276 acres, more or less.
Also the following personal property
to wit: All that stock of goods of
said bankrupt consisting of grocer
les, hardware, dry goods, shoes. hats.
etc, located in the store house of
said bankrupt on said place. Also one
Mccormick binder, one harrow, one
stalk cutter, one feed cutter. one
Deering mower, one gasoline engine
with shafting and pulleys, one pump
jack, one Chattanooga reversible disc
plow, two 2-horse wagons, one road
scrape, two corn troopers and one
subsoil pillow. This the 29th dav of
June, 1912. w. J. PEED.
Trustee in the above stated matter
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
TO DESTROY PEAR BLIGHT.
From the Progressive Farmer.

From the Progressive Farmer.
What will prevent or destroy the
blight on pear trees? The only thing
that can be done is to watch the
trees and on the first appearance Of
blight cut out ahead of it into sound
wood. Then keep the trees in grass,
and cut the grass frequently and put
it under the trees as a mulch. Trees
growing rapidly in cultivated land
blight far more than trees in grass.
No spraying will have any effect on
it, but the blighted wood should all
be burned
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

In these days of high cost of living
a medicine that gets man up out of
bed and able to work in few days
is valuable and welcome remedy.
John Heath, Michigan Bar, Cal, had
kidney and bladder trouble and was
confined to his bed, unable to turn
without help. 81 commenced using
Foley Kidney Pills, and can truly
say l was relieved at once" His ex-
ample is worth following. Dawson
Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

An increasing number of people
report regularly of the satisfactory
results from taking Foley Kidney
Pills and commend their healing and
curative powers. Foley Kidney Pills
are a carefully prepared medicine,
guaranteed to contain no harmful or
habit-forming drugs. They can have
only beneficial effect when used for
kidney and bladder troubles, for
backache, rheumatism, weak back or
lumbago. Dawson Dr'3 3 Co.
on the fiat of the government; from
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
sun SPOTS md DISASTERS

y U.N OPOLO INV II DLOOLO L1CO
The year 1912 will go down in
history as a year of disasters by land
and sea, and of unprecedented eli
matte conditions everywhere. De-
vastating floods, ship wrecks, violent
storms and extreme temperatures
were characteristic of it's opening
months. The early southern drift OF
icebergs was caused by unusually
high temperatures in the polar re-
gions. When the cold weather was
most severe in the states Alaska was
basking in a spring-like climate.
Then came the disastrous Mississippi
floods, the great bulk of the water
coming from the Ohio river. Excep-
tionally heavy falls of snow and
sudden thaw were the immediate
causes of the high water, but what
caused the heavy sn' W fall? Low air
densities prevailed over the Atlantic
ocean throughout the winter and,
combined with high barometrlc
pressures over Canada and the north
west, brought down to us the chill
ing winds of the Arctic. But what
was the reason for the existence Of
these unusual conditions? The Alas
kan climate was accounted for by a
shifting in the warm japanese cur
rent, but that explanation has been
discarded in favor of great shifting
of the prevailing winds last winter.
But why did they shift?
Scientists have fallen back on the
convenient sun spots for a satisfac-
tory reason for the peculiar weather
of the past year. These spots occur
in cycles of II years, and We're at
their maximum at the beginning OF
1912. 1t is generally admitted that
these sun spots do affect the earth
Theoretically, and in conjunction
with other celestial bodies have in
fluenced the climate of the world.
The sun has a revolutionary and a
rotary movement in space, similar to
those of the earth, and these move
ments produce terrific currents OF
heated matter and cyclonic upheav-
ais. The hot matter is projected an
enormous distance into space and,
/ becoming cooled, falls back upon the
surface of the sun, where it shows up
/ black under the telescope. The di-
ameter of sun spot has been calcu-
lated at about 100000 miles, and it
is conceivable that a dozen or so of
these enormous blemishes might
have some bearing on climatic condi-
| tons here.
The glacial period, from which we
are just emerging, began about $780,
900 years ago, and prior to that the
climate of the world was uniformly
equable, differing very little between
the poles and the equator. The eli
matte extremes that we have been
experiencing lately presage return
to the early condition of equable
| temperatures.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

1T does begin to look as if the
democratic party is sticking up to
Grants estimate when he declared it
could be depended upon to do the
wrong thing at the right time, or
words to that effect" says the Sa-
vannah Press. Since the Press can
didate has been nominated we hope
it is feeling better We are all for
Wilson now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

A bill has been reported favorably
to congress by the committee having
il in charge providing for federal
nrotection OF migratory birds. This
hill. if it passes, and its friends are
very hopeful, will do much to end
the destruction of thousands of game
and song birds that are yearly the
victims of pot-hunters and brutal
men and boys.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06
BANQUO'S GHOST BEATEN.

From the Moultrie Observer.
Cheer up. We are going to have
some more of the same. They have
reopened that ever interesting and
delightful fight between the Hoke
Smith and Joe Brown factions in the
state legislature. Banquo's ghost
would have been counted a rank
gutter if he had been operating in
the days of Hoke Smith-Joe Brown
factionalism.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

The red spider is reported as dam
aging the cotton crop in Clay coun-
ty, but the loss has not been great.
The Southwest Georgian advises the
farmers to destroy poke bushes,
around which the spiders congregate,
and to be careful in blowing not to
carry them from one field to another
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

Acknowledgement Fielder, who is
being urged to announce his candi-
dacy for governor, says he has not
asked Senator Smith about it, and
will not do so. If he runs Tom will
tote his own skillet. He is an able
and popular young man, and would
be a strong factor in the race.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

Speaker Clark made the mistake of
not eating altogether out of Bryan s
hand. But there are some things
really great and Independent men
won't do even to be president. 1t
was a raw deal that was given the
Missourian.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

Baker county is pleased at the
prospect of having railroad facilities.
The Valdosta Fort Gaines and Mont
gomery railroad contemplates an
extension through Newton, the coun-
ty seat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-06

Jack Johnson, the black bruiser,
and a white man named Flynn fought
for the championship at Las Vegas,
n. NJ, Thursday. The negro proved
to be the biggest brute, and knock
ed Flynn out in the ninth round.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
PRAY FOR DIVINE
HELP IN MEXICO
Special Masses Held in Two of Re-
public's Most Famous Churches.
Pope Holds Service.

Mexico, City, Dec. Sin two of Mexi-
cos most famous churches-the Cathedral
and the Church of Guadaloupe-there be-
gan at midnight tonight. in the presence
OF overwhelming crowds, a special mass
for divine intervention in the republic.
In consonance with the unusual service
here ST Peters at Rome was also being
devoted, at the same hours o'clock Mon
day morning-to a similar mass for the
restoration of peace throughout the dis
turbed republic. the Pope himself having
sent word that he, health permitting.
would join in prayers for the tranquility
OF Mexico.
At the Church of Guadaloupe. Mgr
Boggiani. the apostolic Icgate. officat-
ed. the service being solemn and impos-
ing. Numerous priests took part in the
celebration at the cathedral. the services
being almost similar to those under the
direction of Mgr. Boggian.
TO-night's strange event was the result
of an appeal to Mgr. Boggiani by Secre-
tary of the Interior Rafael Hernandez
who asked that the church use its power
to assist in restoring order. The Liberals
have construed the act Of the secretary
as out OF line with the laws respecting
the separation of church and state, and
it is said will interpOlate the government
in the matter tomorrow.
1t Is generally admitted, however, that
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
FIGHT Renewed
ON immortality
Senator ksnyon's "Rsd-Ilght''
Injunction Bill to Be
Heard To-day.

THE man who goes out in the street
and robs somebody at the point Of a re-
volver is a Christian compared with the
man who rents his property for immoral
purposes" declared Senator w. S. Ken
yon Of Iowa, at a mass meeting at First
Conversational Church yesterday after
noon, at which were considered methods
for cleaning up certain districts Of Wash
ington, and for the abolishment of such
districts by means Of injunction laws
based on the general plan of the Iowa
Injunction and abatement law. The
meeting was held under auspices Of the
nterdenominational Mission Union.
Mrs Lewis Munroe discussed the moral
conditions of the District from the stand
point of a missionary and said:
eff mothers could see their daughters
from the school go to + Street to hirt
with idle young men they would know
their children. Silly mothers of poor
girls are fiattered when well-dressed
dudes sweep up to their humble door to
take Jane on a ride in an automobile.
Good women should dress palmer on the
street so that the weaker ones will not
become envious and try to emulate ex-
travagant clothes"
Other speakers were DR.. Wilbur F.
Crafts, who spoke on his personal OBJ
servation of vice conditions in Washing
ton last inauguration day; Rev. DIR. Mac
Ieod, who discussed Washington's ur-
gent need for such a law as the Kenyon
bill and Rev. Henry y. PrinEle. who
spoke on the actual benefits of such a
law TO any large community.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
Peary VIII Meet
Capt. Amundsen
atDinner Here

One Of the most important social events
Of the National Capitals winter season
will be the annual banquet OF the Ma
tionaI Geographic Society, which takes
place at the New Willard on the evening
of Saturday, January II.
The guest of honor will be Capt. Road
Amundsen, gold medalist OF the National
Geographic Society for his negotiation
of the Northwest Passage, and once
again gold medalist of the society for the
discovery Of the south pole. This will be
Capt. Amundsen's first address in Amer
ica, and 1t is but fitting that the gold
medal. which is the highest honor in
the gift of the scientific organization,
awarded for his achievement in the Ant
arctic, be presented to him by the dis
coverer of the north pole, Admiral Rob-
ert S. Peary, likewise gold medalist of
the National Geographic Society, who
will be POSTMASTER of the evening.
Many members OF the National Geo.
graphic Society from distant parts OF
the country will attend this dinner and
a Congressional delegate from every
State in the Union will be present, rep
resenting the society's membership,
which now numbers 10000.
This will be the first time that the dis
coverers Of the north and the south poles
will have met together at any board.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
Cofonel's Trophies
in u. S. Museum
Are Hidden Away

Two months ago Theodore Roosevelt
visited the National Museum to inspect
the faunal exhibit collected by him on
his African hunting trip. and was great
ly pleased to find the stuffed trophies
prominently displayed in the main hall
Of the museum.
, The only occupant Of the hall yester-
day was a lone camel, stilted and stuffed
and too heavy for immediate removal
With the assistance OF a derrick, it will
disappear from the hail to-day. and join
the lighter trophies Of the hunt removed
TO obsCurity by direction Of the regents Of
the Smithsonian Institution.
No explanation is given OF the dis
appearance Of the stuffed exhibit, eG-
cept that the main hall Of the museum
is now TO be n hall OF fame. The statue
OF Robert Emmett will shortly stand in
one corner and rcplicas Of other ia
nous men will replace the former array
Of animals.
Just where the animals have gone
whether they will be resurrected to any
thing like the prominence they have en-
iOyed at the museum. sand by whose or
ders they were relegated to ObsCurity,
are questions causing much interest.
Successful experiments in hop growing
have been made in Italy. Heretofore
hops have been imported. The Consump-
ton OF beer in Italy is said to be almost
", eco 60 gallons a year.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
ALCOHOL AND THE BODY.

Alcohol and its effect on the human
body will be the subject for discussion
at the forty-second annual meeting of
the American Society for the Study OF
Alcohol and Other Narcotics. which will
convene at the Raleigh Tuesday and
Wednesday and will bring to Washington
many of the most noted medical experts
in the United States and several foreign
authorities.
There will be two sessions held on each
day of the convention and during that
time thirty-two papers will be read, most
Of which will deal with the use Of al
cohol. The society was organized in 1870
and was the first medical association in
the world 10 take up the study of al
cohol and the diseases that follow from
it's use.
Dr. Lewis D. Mason, Brooklyn, n. Y.
is president of the society, and the
Washington physician and scientists who
will read papers are DR. G. H. Heald.
Dr. L. F. Kobler. DR.. Tom A. Williams,
DR. J. J. Kindred, and DR.. Reid Hunt.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
ILONEL|NESSCAUsES
GIRLS DOWNFALL
Rev. J. M. M. Gray So Tells Audi
| enee During Sermon at Y. W. C. A.
in Relation to Church.
SHOULD BE COOPERATION

THE relation of the Y. W. C. A. to
, the Church" was the theme of short ad-
dresses made by differeht pastors Of To-
cal churches yesterday afternoon at a
meeting of the association in its new
. home, 936 + Street Northwest. The
broader sphere, which the woman of to-
day occupies, it was pointed out, was due
10 the influence of such associations as
the Y. w. c. A, where women were
fitted to perform tasks in every walk OF
life.
Rev. J. NJ NJ. Gray dwelt upon the
evil OF loneliness which, he claimed, was
one OF the commonest causes for the
: downfall Of strange girls in large cities.
It is often the cause of forming bad
acquaintances and it is to this evil that
the Y. w. c. a. must pay first at
tention.
II notice on your wall" said DR.. Gray,
. Watts Galahad. ! have always felt a
T Slight distastc for the picture since !
learned that it was posed by Miss Ellen
Terry; l would rather have the knight a
man. And yet may it not suggest to us
this afternoon a certain character much
wanted by the world and coveted for its
lyOmanhOod, not SO much the cloying
O. sweetness a former age idOlized, but
rather "A SpirituaIzed suffragettism, a
!. .fSnightlneSs of wOmanhoOd, a sanctify-
ing form of tenderness and strength?
There are two periIs most threaten
ing that type of goodness: the first is
loneliness. Having endured in earlier
days many things of many boarding
houses, 1 speak sympathetically of the
loneliness of life in strange city. II
is a loneliness that eats at the moral
fiber. George MatheSon has said in one
OF his volumes that the sin that besets
YOU is never so beseeching as when you
are alone and in the journal of that
strange genius. AmieI. is recorded the
cry, 1 cannot be good all alone. 1t is
to this that this organization is called
Immediately to minister: to bring to the
lonely womanhood of this periluUs city
the saving ministries OF Christian fellow
ship
Relation to Church.
Rev. Paul Hickok emphasized the
close ties existing between the church
and the Y. w. c. A. He asserted that
the work Of both could be made more ef-
fective by hearty cooperation between
the church and the Y. w. c. a.
There is particular appropriateness in
considering the relation suggested by
this subject" he said, for the closest
possible ties unite this association and
the church. 1t is a daughter of the
church, enjoying all the confidence and
the love of the parent
The association is doing all in its
power 10 build up the entire nature of
Its members, physically, mentally, So
cially, and spiritually. This insures
larger number of women capable Of re-
spending TO the worlds demand for
greater efficiency. Women are no longer
weak, puny, frail. and delicate. They
have their tasks to perform in every
Sphere Of life. The association and the
church together hope to present to the
community a company of women, able
for service, equipped in body, mind, and
heart, devoted TO God and His kingdom"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-09
STILL FIGHTING
BEFORE SCUTARI
Turks Refuse to Recognize Arnis-
tice and Montenegrins
Renew Attack.

London, Dec. S.-According 10 a dis
patch to the London Times from Cettinji
hostilities continue between Turkey and
Montenegro. Ria Pasha, governor OF
Scu.ari, refuses to recognize as official
the news Of the armistice sent him
through the German Minister on behalf
of Turkey and by the hands OF the Mon
tenegTin envoy.
Lieut.. DjurkovitCh went by boat. flying
the white flag for the purpose OF hand
ing the gOveronr the letter informing him
of the conclusion of the armistce Lieut.
DjurkovitCh was detained blindfolded
aboard a Turkish gunbOat while a Turk
ish officer took the letter TO the governor
The latter replied that he could not re-
ceive the envoy or regard the message
as official.
The lieutenant returned to Rieka and
shortly afterward the Turkish artillery
opened fire. The Montenegrin guns re-
piled with vigor
The Montenegrin government is not dis
pleased over the incident, as 1t is hoping
to capture SCutari by force of arms.