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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03

foolish man who would doubt Off
hand it's power to energize the soil,
thereby fastening and increasing the
growth of the things that spring
from it. If an electric current can
stimulate and strengthen the vitality
of the human body why should it not
nourish and nurture plant life with
equal success? This is question
that Mr.. Stahl asked himself when he
started out to electrify his farm
and incidentally his neighbors.
Kills Fungus Growth.
A measure of the success he has
gained in one season may be found
not only in the farm itself, but also
in the fact that agricultural experts
all over the country are writing to
Mr.. Stahl for information. Some of
them are even coming from distant
points to see for themselves, and Mr..
Stahl is fortunately able to give them
ocular evidences of what he is ac-
complishing even in the late fall
months, for he has applied his the
DRY to hot house cultivation with a
success equal to that gained out of
doors. AS matter of fact, he says
that from present indications he will
secure even better results indoors
than out. The electrical treatment
appears to prevent all fungus disease,
and the color of foliage of the plants
and flowers is extremely vivid and
healthy looking.
The electrical farm does not differ
in appearance from other farms save
in the distinguishing poles which
stand in the midst of the fields and
which might be mistaken for climb
ing poles for vines were it not for
their unusual hight and the multi
tude of wires connecting them. There
is also network of wires running
underground, these being placed at
a depth of about foot and half be-
meath the surface, and from 10 to
to 20 feet apart, while the overhead
wires are strung about foot apart.
1t is along these wires that twice a
day, morning and evening, the cleo
trical current is turned on from the
main switchboard, energiZing the
soil and making it especially pro-
ductive.
The power is supplied by the city
electric lighting plant, and Mr.. Stahl
figures that the cost per acre for this
power is from $3.50 to 81 for the
period required to bring crop to
maturity. The electrical treatment
is started just when the plants begin
to come out of the ground, and is
continued until the crops are about
ready to be harvested.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03

gress made in the methods of work.
Within the last few decades, how
ever, the Introduction of various
kinds of farming machinery has rev.
olutionized the life of the farmer.
More than this, agricultural science
has filtered down through every
grade and walk of life in this great
country of ours, and you cannot tell
where you may find it suddenly
springing up and on your daily path
way.
You will find men sticking blue lit
mus paper down into the ground, or
knocking half the apples off their
trees, sprinkling raw phosphate
through their cow stables or scatter
ing soil from one clover field over an
other where they have not been able
to make clover thrive, or exploding
dynamite in their land, and doing
countless other things that to their
fathers would have been unequivocal
evidences of insanity. But they are
simply following out the plain teach
ings of modern agricultural science.
The litmus paper tells whether the
soil is sour; the thing of the apples
insures finer crop from what are
left; the raw phosphate imprisons the
elements of plant food that must be
saved; the soil from the one field will
inoculate the other so that legumes
will grow there; the dynamite sub
soils with its mighty thrust and the
grasping rootlets of succeeding crops
find their way easily to the stores of
fertility that otherwise would forever
have been locked from them.
Now We see threatening an even
greater revolution than any THAT has
yet taken place in the history of
American farming revolution car
rying with it an insurance against the
climatic conditions that have made
the principal risk of agricultural in
vestment. The sun and the winds and
the rains are no longer the vital facts
of farming they used to be, for the
day of farming by electricity is at
hand.
So many wonders have already
been accomplished by the aid of the
force of electricity that he would be
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
PROF. HOLDEN LEAVES IOWA COLLEGE

portance of service. It has spent mil
lions of dollars in the perfection of Ia
bor-saving machines, and now the
company Is going in for direct service
direct to the farmers, and direct to
the farmers children, that the men
and women of tomorrow may be more
capable and so more prosperous than
the men and women of today.
1t is no longer a theory that if we
are to get the most out of life we
must raise more per acre. "Inten-
sive farming" is in the air. 1t is the
battle cry of peace and plenty. But
raising more is the result of mind,
nor muscle. We must know. And
not only that, we must know we
know, and know why we know. We
must know good seed from bad, right
cultivation from wrong, and the why's
and wherefors of climates, soils,
fruits, cattle, horses, poultry, and SO
forth.
For these things the bureau was
established But the bureau and
Professor Holden see more than an
average increase of a few bushels.
They see time coming when farmers
will raise twice as many bushels of
corn, wheat and oats to the acre,
and like yields of all other kinds OF
farm products. They see time when
farmers and farmers wives and their
children will think more and work
less. Every bushel raised means just
that much profit, and the profits of
the farm promote commerce and in
dustry.
After a period of good work in Mich
tgan agricultural college, better work
at Illinois, and a great work at Iowa,
Professor Holden now enters upon a
worlds work. While in future Pro-
lessor Holden will designate Chicago
as home, he says he is not leaving Iowa
he is merely carrying Iowa to the
rest Of the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
The "COrn Man" Joins | H C
+ w. Service Bureau.
TO HELP PUSH WORK FORWARD
Cooperation Movement for Larger
Crops, Better Roads, More Pros
porous People and
Better Nation.

This marks the beginning OF new
and greater business service. 1t is a
cooperative movement for larger
crops, better roads, happier homes,
more prosperous people, and richer
and better nation. That is to say,
the l H c Service Bureau proposes to
help do for all the states and for Can
ada what Holden has done for Iowa.
After considering many offers, and
after an investigation of the company
and it's works, Professor Perry C..
Holden has entered the service of the
III C Service Bureau at Chicago.
Professor Holden is known wher-
ever real agriculture is known. His
whole life is one of service. He orig
mated the idea of carrying informa-
ton direct to farmers. He is the IA
Their of the demonstration train, short
school courses, the corn show, county
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
BURDENS LIFTED.
From Dawson Backs. Relief Proved
BY Lapse of Time.


BY Lapse of Time.
Backache is a heavy burden;
Nervousness, dizziness, headache,
Rheumatic pains, urinary ills,
All wear one out.
Often effects of kidney weakness.
No use to cure the symptoms.
Relief is but temporary if the
cause remains.
If it's the kidneys cure the cause.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for kidney
ills.
Here is proof of their merit from
this vicinity.
w. t. Meyers, 1875 Forest street
Americas. Ca, says: you may
continue to use my endorsement for
Doan's Kidney Pills. Willingly
confirm all I previously said in their
praise. This remedy relieved me OF
main through the small of my back
and also regulated the passages OF
the kidney secretions.
For sale by all dealers. Price Of
cents Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
and take no other.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03

For the thrifty housewife an
O-cedar mop and polish is the best
see them. Mrs. G. L. Mize.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
FACE SINGULAR SITUATION
THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND POST
MASTERS ON CLASSIFIED LIST.
May Lose Their Jobs, as President
Wilson VIII Have Power to Re
woke Recently Issued Order.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Thirty-five
thousand fourth class postmasters
scattered throughout the country,
who were placed under civil service
rules by President Taft on October
18th, 1912, are wondering whether
they will remain this way or whether
President-elect Wilson will nullify
the order when he goes into the
white house.
With this situation pending tre-
mendous pressure will be brought to
bear on the new president by demo-
Gratis who want these offices to re-
woke the Taft order. From all parts
of the country are coming demands
that democrats in small towns be
given a chance at the political pie
they have closely watched for nearly
thirty years.
Interest in the Country.
This sweeping order of President
Taft did not create much interest in
the large centers of population, but
in many hamlets and villages it gave
rise to violent expressions of opposi-
ton.
AS the news gradually reached the
smaller towns that President Taft
had cut 95, 900 jobs out of the dem
ocratic list with one blow those who
looked upon the postofices as their
future property Immediately indulg-
ed in the strongest kind of opposi-
ton, and the result is that every re-
turning congressman is being be-
sieged with letters from his constit-
uents asking him to use his influence
with President-elect Wilson to re-
woke this unusual order when he en-
tiers the white house.
Wilson Can Revoke Order.
1t is possible for the new presi-
dent to revoke the order. Just be-
fore the close of Cleveland's first
term he issued an order placing a
large number of offices in the CLASH
fed service. President Harrison sue
ceeded him and amended it. AS a
result many republicans obtained Of
fees from which, under the Cleve-
land order, they would have been
barred.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN AIR.
International Congress ODDITIES Laws
Regulating Them.

The international congress for the
codifcation of laws regulating mar
riages, births and deaths on board
aerial craft, which has recently nm
ished its labors in Geneva, has formu-
lated a definite recommendation only
in the case of death taking place in
the air. 1t recommends that the pilot
in charge shall be legally bound to
declare the fact to the authorities at
his nearest stopping place, or, if traV-
cling in a foreign country, to the
nearest consul. Though it is admit
ted that the question of aerial mar
riages is not of pressing Importance
IT is pointed out that the precedent
for a birth in the air was established
during the Paris exposition in 1878
when a child was born in a captive
balloon / 900 feet up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03

evanston, H., lives William
o..b1 an electrician. Until recently
- c+ahl never made any claims OF
,ug farmer, although for several
oors he conducted a truck farm on
.uo.acre lot adjoining his home. 1t
inst a recreation spot, ne call
:, # not different in any way from
SCORE of other gardens in the same
neighborhood. That is, it was not
NV different until last spring, when
.omething occurred that caused Mr.
stabls fellow townsmen to sit up and
1,o notice, and later to rub their
.ros in amazement.
leaning over the fence one morn
,.a ~ note what progress was being
node in the Stahl garden curious
oigbhor discovered that the fields had
,oon set off into squares by rows OF
coll wooden poles, between which
s,arv lines of ordinary telegraph
wire strung. While he was speculat-
mo &C 70 the reason for this arrange
n mo Mr.. Stahl happened along.
well Stahl," said the neighbor,
oointing to the poles and wires, Il
see YOU are going in strong for beans
.bis year; probably the kind that
lack the giant killer, climbed, eh?"
"No' replied Mr.. Stahl, politely,
ignoring the intended shaft of sar-
oosm this is just little idea OF
nine for invigorating this soil. You
,aa I'm going to farm by electricity
this year" a.,
The startled neighbor emitted a
faw weak gasps and then hung Imply
m the fence, pretty much after the
fashion of a man who has just been
released from the clutches OF live
wire Soon there were other neigh
bors looking over the fence and dis
cussing the news. An electrical farm?
Preposterous!
We'll, why not?" said one of the
least skeptical members of the gap
mo throng. "Ain't there electric
ears and fans and brooms and stoves
and bells and curling irons and such
things? Amt there?"
I'VE don't care" came the answer
inc chorus. "He's got to show us"
Mr.. stahrs method OF showing
them was effectual. 1t consisted OF
q series of crops of beans, tomatoes,
beets. potatoes, corn, melons and 9TH
or garden fruit, each and every one
of which came to maturity several
weeks ahead of those on his neigh
bors' farms. He even gave them an
other free exhibition by planting a
second crop late in the summer ana
bringing it to a successful harvest al
Ter the frost had killed off nearly ev-
ervtbing else on the surrounding
farms Moreover, it had to be ad-
mitted by all who had the good fort
me to partake of vegetables grown
on the Stahl farm that they were OF
a size and favor that no other farm
er had equaled.
Farming is one of the Oldest occu-
nations of the human race. But not
until the last century was much pro-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
Excursion Fares
Cheap Rates Via the Central of GeOr-
0ia Railway,

Cheap Rates Via the Central of Geor-
gia Railway.
TO ATLANTA, GA, and return, &C
count Southern Appalachian Good
Roads Association, to be held Nov.
1921, 1912.
TO ATLANTA, GA. and return, &C
count National Commercial Gas
Association, to be held December
2-6, 1912.
TO AUGUSTA, GA, and return, ac-
count Second Annual Corn Festi-
val, to be held Dec. 2-7, 1912.
Fares apply from points within a
radius of 100 miles.
TO COLUMBIA, S. c., and return, &C
count Fifth National Corn EXPO
sition to be held January 24th,
February 8, 1913.
TO ATLANTA, Ca, and return, ac-
count Sixteenth Grand Chapter
Sigma M Fraternity, to be held
Dc. 80, 1912, to January j, 1913
TO WASHINGTON, D. c., and re-
turn. account National Rivers and
Harbors Congress, to be held Dec.
As, 1912.
TO CHICAGO, ILL, and return, ae-
count International Live Stock Elk
position to be held November 30
December z, 1912.
TO COLUMBUS, GA, and return, ac-
turn, account Georgia-Alabama
Fair, to be held Nov. 27-Dec. Z
1912. Excursion fares will apply
from Macon, Albany, Fort Gaines
ozark, Andalusia, Montgomery
Sylacauga, Newman and intermedi
ate points.
For full information regarding
fares, dates of sale, limits, schedules
etc, apply to nearest ticket agent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03

Avery stalk cutters and steel plows
are the best. J. NJ. Clifton Hardware
Co. sells them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
RIISINC CROPS BY MEANS Of ELECTRICITY
p.c,arkable Results Obtained Near Chicago Where Eec-
Future Predicted for This Improved Treatment

Bv Robert MouIton in Utica IN. W Globe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03
is OPPOSED TO RACE SUICIDE
Considerable Interest on the Subject
Manifested at Session of South
Georgia Conference.


SAVANNAH.-At the session OF
the South Georgia Conference here
today considerable interest was in
jected into the proceedings of that
body when the question of admitting
certain young preacher ION trial.
came up.
Pending the vote upon the young
man DR.. Ellis said: Brethren, here
is a young man of meager attain
ments with a wife and four little
children, and necessarily we will
have to place him on charge with
small salary, and am not willing
to make this mans wife and little
children suffer"
DR.. Anthony, speaking along this
line, said: at is not right to
place this young brother where he
will be embarrassed financially. Al
ready in some sections our churches
have been put in disrepute because
preachers have failed to pay their
debts"
"Do I understand" chimed in Mr..
]. S. Shingler of Ashburn, that this
conference is about to put the stamp
of disapproval upon this young man
because he happens to be the father
of four children? Is this conference
going on record as being in favor OF
race suicide?"
His speech brought down the
house, and amid hand clippings OF
approval the conference admitted
the young man into the conference.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-03

If YOU are troubled with chronic
constipation the mild and gentle Ell
feet of Chamberlain Tablets makes
them especially suited to your case.
For sale by Dawson Drug Co.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
Date Fixed For Hearing

The hearing of application OF
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad company against the
corporation commission, the at
torney general and vari lou S
county attorneys and others to
prevent the operation of the three
cent fare law will take place in
United States Court in Phoenix
on December 1.
An order from Judge Morrow
of the ninth circuit court of ap-
peals at San Francisco, designa-
ting the time and place of hear
ing was filed. In the meantime
there has also been issued a tenn
porary restraining order holding
up the law until there has been a
final hearing and determination
of the application.
The hearing will take place be-
fore three United States judges,
one of whom must be circuit
judge. This is a necessary pro-
cedure when a suit has been
brought to attack the constitu-
tionality of state statute.
The complaint attacks the con-
stitutionalty of the three-cent
fare law on various grounds in
the contention that the
power of fixing rates is vested
by the state constitution solely
in the corporation commission,
not in the legislature. The one
object of the suit is to uphold
the commission.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
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The theme is the Italian Malta, and
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an absorbing and fascinating love story.
The story, while tragic in tone. has the
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The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
Government is to Send Out
Good Roads Missionary
December / 6 tn.

AS the result of the joint eff
forts of Solicitor George P. Nc
Cabe of the Department of Agri-
culture, who is at present in AL
buquerque, and Col. R. E. witch
ell, of New Mexico. the Federal
Government will send out good
roads engineer, who will be de-
tailed to deliver good roads lee
lures in this state and New Mex
leo. The good roads engineer
will leave Washington so as to
begin his work here about De-
cember 10th.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
|D5aSFHTGHEN
PoTPIEs.

TT you do not know how to make
potpies before trying wait until you
can see one prepared by COM
petent cook for a spoiled potpie is
about rs tragic a failure as it is pos
sible to make in cooking.
One secret of success is to boil the
dough in as little liquid as possible.
The meat with which it is done should
be>cooked until almost ready to serve.
After it is in. the dough should boil
for about half hour
Some Timely Hints.
Chicken, veal and beef make the best
potpies.
Before laying the dough for the pot
pie in the cooking vessel remove all
but pint of the broth from the meat
Then over the meat. which should be
left in the bottom of the kettle. lay
the dough very loosely.
Cover the vessel and let it boil. then
move farther back on the fire and let
it boil very slowly for half hour.
The broth taken out should be slight
Iy thickened with -four and used to
pour over the potpie when it is served
Chicken Potpie.-The chicken should
first be cooked as for a fricassee.
Thicker the gravy and then drop into
it, spoonful at time. a dough made
as follows:
Sift together a pint of -four. tea
spoonful of baking powder. little salt
and mix with enough milk to make
stiff dough. Boil for twenty minutes
after the dough is in the pot
Do not lift the cover while the pot
is boiling or the crust may be heavy.
A Fine Veal Pie.
Veal Potpie.-Cut into small pieces
two pounds of veal and boil in two
quarts of water for an hour and a
half When the meat begins to get
tender season by putting in tea
spoonful of salt and a bit of red pep
per pod.
Just before taking off the fire half
cupful of cream should be added. to-
gether with tablespoonful of butter
If you Ike onions or potatoes with
the pie they should be cut up and
dropped in when the meat is half done.
Make a biscuit dough. roll and bake
in the oven. Split the biscuit when
baked and put them on platter. Aft
er thickening the gravy pour Il and the
meat over the bicruit.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22

WHAT THE FARMERS OF NORTHERN NEW
JERSEY ACCOMPLISHED BY COOPERATION.
holding meetings and inviting the
oranges and farmers associations to
talk at them.
The following program has been out
lined:
Methods.-Q) Right and wrong grading
season. tools. width of road. etc. % Fair
average cost of grading perfectly one mile
of road. (S Right and wrong methods of
draining road "a Dragging-when. how.
by whom. fair cost. etc (5) Why not con-
tract both grading and dragging? C0 Ad-
vantages of concrete or stone bridges and
culverts dura bilitly. use of home labor.
etc.
Laws and Policies.-Q) Why not separate
office of assessor from that Of road trus-
tee and elect road trustees on score of fit
ness to supervise the building of roads
and keep them busy at least from March
to October? ~ Advantage of classifying
roads into county and township roads.
etc, according to law. 80 Why not build
each year few miles of permanent earth
roads instead of patching" all the roads.
building first the roads with greatest
travel? "a Reports of funds available this
year for township roads. Why not have
county road and bridge engineer?
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
CARPETS FOR ROADS.
An ELASTIC Skin" Recommended by
English Expert.

An ELASTIC Skin" Recommended by
English Expert.
A lecture was recently delivered by
a member of the oad board before the
Royal Institution Of London on THE
Road-Past. Present and Future" The
lecturer said the problem was to find
the best mode by which road should
be constructed so that its surface would
not be broken by traffic, so that the
transit might be easier for both pas
sengers and goods, road which would
form neither puddle holes nor exude
mud from vehicles and create no dust
when the weather was dry.
One thing was universally recogniz-
ed-that the road of the future should
be u truly bound road in which. what
ever kind of stone was used, the stone
should be held together so that it
would form a crust The lecturer sug-
gested that what he called a carpet or
an elastic skin should be adopted as
the covering
The carpet, he thought. should be
made of bituminous material mixed
with sand and placed on the roads in
various thicknesses according to the
nature Of the traffic. 1t should 90 on
in liquid form, solidifying quickly. but
always remaining resilient and COM
pressible and so integrating with the
crust Of the road that there could be
no shifting of the surface below.
The advantage of such a carpet. II
was said. would be to permanently
protect the crust. and just as carpet
on the floor softens the step so would
this carpet for the roads silence the
noise and reduce the shock Of rolling
vehicles. 1t was admitted that the
original cost Of road so laid would
be more than that OF a mud bound
road. but spreading the cost over
series Of years IT would probably not
be so great. since the crust of the road
itself would not have to be renewed.