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Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25

HEN I was a young man 1
" was a reporter. One morn
w ing 1 was sent TO interview
a United States senator. He
was very kind to me. and during my
call it came out that we We're gradu-
ates from the same college. He asked
me If l had been a good student
Blushing to the roots of my hair.
confessed that had been u very poor
student
Don't break your heart over it," he
said sympathetically. THE best schol-
ars don't always turn out the best
men" Then after piedging me to Sc
crecy. so far as using the real names
was concerned. he told me the follow
ing story:
In our class there was man. Clar-
ence Emmons, who led il from start to
finish. He had the most astonishing
| mind for absorbing knowledge l ever
came in contact with His recitations
We're simply perfect Often the pro-
fessors used to start him at different
points in the days lesson in order to
show him Off | was q gracelesS
scamp. l am sorry to admit. whose
only strong point was in making our
instructors think l knew more than 1
did. 1t turned out. however, that l
didn't fool them very much. for when
we were graduated / stood 1T the foot
of the class, Emmons standing first
l did not meet EInmons for five
Yeas after leaving college had gone
into journalism and was doing the
work you are doing now. Emmons
was teaching school. Neither had ad-
vanced beyond the ordinary and. so
far as | was considered. had not given
any promise | still looked up to him.
however, and. remembering that some
of our greatest men had put in few
years of early life at teaching, fully
expected that he would make his mark.
When ten years had rolled round
was part owner of Il small country pa
per. and. an important election coming
OH. we happened to support the right
man. After his election he came to the
office acknowledged his indebtedness
and asked what he could do for US. My
partner was unambitiouS and referred
him to me- | told him | would like to
represent my party at its next presi-
Dental convention. He easily arranged
the matter for me, and | became a dele
gate The faculty for appearing to be
a better man than L was stood by me,
and l was chosen to make the nominat-
ing speech presenting one of the prin-
cipal candidates / had not mastered
his available points, but substituted
points desirable in candidate and en-
dowed him with them 1 sat down
amid thunders of applause.
That speech AID the influence of our
paper gained me several years later
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25

day could be set apart for formal and
solemn decoration OF all graves OF Tn
ion soldiers in every part Of the coun-
try.
Mr. Wilson exclaimed that it was a
splendid idea and that the general was
the person above all others to make it
a success The matter was further
discussed, and the general and 1 talked
it over at much length that night. The
result was the general consulted with
General N P. Chapman of California.
adjutant general ON his staff in the
Grand Army, then just organized. and
from that time the idea was taken
hold of with enthusiasm, and the ma
tional day of mourning as it was
first designated. was an assured fact.
The first observance was on May 80,
1865. at Arlington
NATIONAL SOLiCITUDE
When the war was over the govern
ment began the task of removing the
dead of the Union armies from the
battiefields where they perished. Sew
enty-SiX cemeteries were established
in various parts of the United States.
with one in Mexico for the interment
of the dead in the Mexican war. This
work has been continued until the only
Union dead not in national! cemeteries
are those inferred in private burying
grounds or those among the missing
from 1861 to 1865 and whose places
of repose under the sod of the south
land are unknown and therefore can
not be marked. Congressional appro-
priations for the maintenance and i'm
provement of national cemeteries have
invariably been expended with care
During the administration of PreSi-
dent Mckinley the Confederate sol
dierS buried in Washington and its
vicinity We're removed to the national
cemetery at Arlington, Va. which was
the old home of Genera! Robert L.
Lee. the famous Confederate leader
during the war. where they We're re-
inferred in a plot which was designat-
ed as The Confederate Section The
president in Il message TO the south
had said:
The time has now come in the evo-
luton of sentiment and feeling. under
the providence of God. when in the
spirit of fraternity we should share
With YOU in the care of the graves OF
the Confederate soldiers
1t is fifty-one years since grim vi
sa-ed men gently loosed themselves
from the fearful embraces of wives
children and sweethearts and followed
where duty beckoned. to plunge into
the midst of four years sickening car
mage. While back home good women
suffered mental tortures it would be
sacrilege to endeavor TO depict Fifty
one years since the first of the boys
went away, y long time indeed. But
the lapse means no less TO those who
understand"
Memorial dayi What does Memorial
day mean? Let none who do not know
essay weakling answer. Rather
leave that question to the boys in
blue" and the boys in gray"
They alone knowi
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
Cause For COMPLAINT.

when [ was shipwrecked in South
America" said Captain Bowsprit. 81
came across a tribe of wild women
who had no tongues" "Mercyr' cried
one of his listeners of the fair sex.
How could they talk?'' They could
not" snapped the old salt. That's
what made em wild"-Judge.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
THE ENDOWMENT

Then as more years come and so the
civil war and its heroes who live TO-
day will become mere memories. rs
are the heroes of the Revoiut.olar
war. Time will have drawn its cur
tain over the greatest war in history.
so far as living reminders are CON
cerned.
But that time has not come yet 1t
will not come for n number of years
While Memorial day. 1912. will mad
the veterans .sreatly diminished IN
numbers. there are some 509.0G0 Union
survivors alive today and upward of
2O0.0nO Confederate survivors But the
average age OF these men is more than
seventy years
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
About Ideals.

The man not long married was look
ing quite detected.
whats the matter with you?" in
0uired one long married
We'll. my wife doesn't resemble my
ideal at ALL
"Um-er." hesitated the old one. rub
bing his chin thoughtfully. docs your
ideal live anywhere in your neighbor-
hood od?''-Lippincott's
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
RecolIections.

Visitor - Eou remember me, don't
you, little man?
Bobby - Course I do. You're the
same man pa brought home last sum-
mer an ma got so mad about it she
didn't speak to pa for 4 whole week
Boston Transcript.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
Maternal Indifference.

Hostess And does your mother al
low you to have two pieces of pie
when you are at home. Willie?
Willie-No, ma am.
Hostess-Well. do you think she
would like you to have two pieces
here?
Willie (confidentially)-Oh. she would
not care. This isn't her pie.-Christian
Register.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
A Problem sc;ved.

Little Hazel-We've invited too many
children to our tea party There isn't
enough for them to get more'n bite
each.
we'll have to call it reception-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
DepIorable Oversight,

'fWas that fair down to your church
a success T'
Almost, but not quite
"Why, how's that?''
1.-TWO men managed to escape with
their car fare."-EXchange.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
The Height of the Ridiculous
As if Everybody Didn't Know That,

May-Girls. what do the papers
mean when they talk about the seat
of war?
Ella-I don't know any more than L
do what standing army is for
Bell-How ignorant you are, dears.
The seat of war is for the standing
army to sit on when it gets tired
Tit-BitS.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
Such In1pudencei

My husband considered a very long
time before he proposed to me- He
was very careful
''Ah. it's always those careful peo-
pie who get taken inr'-St. Louis Dis
patch
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE.

How sleep the brave. who sink to
rest
BY all their country's wishes blest,
When spring. with dewy fingers
cold.
Returns to deck their hallowed
mold
She there shall dress sweeter sod
. Than Fancy's feet have ever trod-
BY fairy hands their knell is rung:
BY forms unseen their dirge is sung:
There Honor comes. pilgrim gray.
} To bless the turf that wraps their
clay.
And Freedom shall awhile repair
, To dwell a weeping hermit there.
William Collins.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
Talkina shoo.

THAT old sinanyier-s .;st words were
characteristic of him.
What Were theyE
He died at tie age of eighty and
said he hated to 80 at so far below
par.--Judge-
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25

And yet Major General Frederick G.
AinswOrth, u well known military stat
istician in Washington, has estimated
that the last survivor of the civil war
may live until 1913. The last survivor
of the Revolutionary war lived to be
101 years old. Approximately there We're
100000 participants in the civil war
on both sides. Thus strength of num-
hers and the fact that the span of hu-
man life has heightened bid fair to
bear out General Ainsworths happy
calculation.
There are almost 5000 posts Of the
Grand Army of the Republic. The
first of these was organized at Deca-
tur. ILL.,. April 6. 1866. and the first ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
was held in Indianapolis. Ind. Nov
90 1866. Judge Harvey NJ Trimble
of Princeton. ILL.,. is commander in
chief of the Grand Army. The United
Confederate Veterans association was
organized June 10. 1889. and I.ieuten-
ant General c. Irvine Walker of
Charleston, S. c., is commander.
@ @
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
Mind and Body.

He-I thin,- her Ei.1d is made up.
She-Weil. know the rest of her is.
Boston Transcript
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
Eexti

Ba-5cr-IIave Il little tonic. sir?
Doing CuStomer-Not another dropi
Gimme c;gar.-Satire.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25
A Mean D:spos:tion.

Ties awfully good to his Wife,
-.Out with it. What is it he has
bought for her that you want nowY'-
Detroit Free Press.
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25

FIRST MEMORIAL DAY
While General John A Logan. first
commander in chief of the Grand Ar
Western Kansas world., 1912-05-25

nee a year flowers are placed
on the graves of the silent ma
jority of the veterans who took
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
NEW BETHEL NEWS NOTES
Happenings of the Week in and
Around That Community.

Happenings of the Week in and
Around That Community.
Mr. Sam George left Monday for
his new home in Randolph county
He thinks he will move his family
in two weeks. They will be greatly
missed here.
We are glad to say that Rev. S. A.
McMahen has accepted the call as
pastor of the church here and will
be with us next year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Sem and
little son of Dothan were over Sun
day to see their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Sem.
Miss Matte Ruth McMahen, Odes-
ia and Autrie Cannon spent Tues
day with Paul Cannon
Mrs. Callie Kaufman of Yeomans
spent Monday with her daughter,
Mrs. J. D. Chambless.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Gore and moth
er visited relatives near Herod Sat
urday and Sunday.
hSSSIS. JdChSOu L REST anu L uOnp-
son visited Mr.. Eben Priest Saturday
and Sunday.
Several from here attended the
Randolph county fair, and report
nice time.
Mrs. Jep Bridges and little Coley
spent Wednesday with Mrs. Sallie
Bridges.
Mr.. Gordon Stephens is a hustler
on potatoes. He knows how to raise
them.
Mrs. Walker of Graves spent Sat
urday with her daughter, Mrs. E. w.
Hasty.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Sem spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. I. w Mask.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Sem and chill
dren were visitors here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam George visited
relatives at PARROT Sunday
Mrs. c. c. Sem spent Tuesday
with Mrs Dora Bridges.
Miss Pearl Britt is visiting her
brother in Dawson.
Mr. Tom Bishop is a popular Wis
itor here nowadays.
Mr. l. w Mask is on the sick list.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12

stairs at midnight and with heart
breaking cry throw herself into the
darkness fifty feet below.
Another story is that the spirit of
the old mansions departed greatness
returns in the witching hours be-
tween midnight and dawn. There is
low hum of pleasant conversation,
the sound of silver and the clink of
glasses as a splendid company is win
ed and dined, and phantom coaches
with gay liveried men drive up to
take away the departing guests, while
grand danes with powdered wigs and
dearing gorgeous satins and bro
cades, and courtly gentlemen with
short silk hose and gold-laced coats
pass across the silent threshold into
the darkness of night whence they
came.
In a circular room at the head of
the stairway on the second floor one
voluntarily speaks with hushed voice,
for there truly fingers the spirit of
memorable events. Twas here that
| President Madison signed the Treaty
of Client in 1915, and downstairs one
is permitted to see the quaint old
fashioned circular table, with draw
ers all about the edge, which served
him as desk on that historic occa-
sion. By rare good fortune one may
be permitted TO see the room which
was Dolly's bedchamber and the dear
| little spot which was her boudoir.
So one finds Octagon House quaint,
romantic and, but a block from the
treasury, queerly out of step with
the march of progress. A stone wall
ten feet high guards a garden, and a
dear old garden it must have been in
| its heyday, for even now there are
traces of prim walks and trim set
| flower beds, where in fancy blossom
the dear old posies of other days!
Here and there a gnarled and black
ened old tree raises senile arms to
protest against the vigor of storms
which have not dealt gently with it,
and clinging warmly to the time
darkened brick walls of the mansion
are progeny of the same vines that
Haunted golden-throated scarlet
trumpets when Dolly was mistress
there.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
MP MYSTERY HOUSE OF WASHINGTON

that none but quick eye detects the
slightest appearance of an opening,
for there are no keyholes, hinges or
knobs.
The unique arrangement of the
house, which is built in octagon
shape on the outside and with rooms
surrounding the circular hall, with a
spiral stairway running from base
ment to roof, and all the dooms con-
necting-some of them by secret
doors, to be sure-is such that had
an arresting party entered anymore
familiar with the house or even pass
ably clever might have escaped quick
ly and quietly. Quick egress was
also provided for from what was once
the dining room through a secret
door into a closet and out to the
street through a easement window.
Such are the actual facts. The
ghostly personages who gather there
constitute another story.
Way back in the history of the Ty-
loe family, so the romantic tale runs,
there was a beautiful daughter of
the house whose love affair with an
officer to His Majesty, the King of
England, brought her nothing akin to
happiness. Despairing of ever being
able to marry him, and vexed by the
opposition and repeated bitter disap-
pointments, one night as she wended
her way upstairs to the bed chamber,
the Pickering light of the candle she
carried throwing ghostly shadows
across the stairs, melancholy seized
her and she flung herself into the
dark well encircled by the upward
climbing staircase.
Mangled, bleeding, never to utter
another conscious sound, she was
picked up from the stone tagging OF
the basement floor, and died an hour
later in the arms of her heart broken
mother who crooned over her as she
had when she nestled in her arms as
baby. Many times since, so runs
the story, she has been seen with heI
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
Fares
Cheap Rates Via the Central of Geor-
gia Railway.

Ia Le<AlnNJs
TO ATLANTA, GA, and return, ac-
count Southern Appalachian Good
Roads Association, to be held Nov.
20-21, 1912.
TO ATLANTA, GA. and return, ac-
count National Commercial Gas
Association, to be held December
PC, 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 JACKSONVILLE, FLA, and re-
turn, account Southern Medical
Association, to be held Nov. 1914.
TO LOUISVILLE, ky, and return,
account Southern Educational AS
ISOLATION, to be held Nov. 1880.
TO MACON, GA, and return, account
Colored State Fair to be held Nov.
1928, 1912.
TO MOULTRfE, GA, and return &C
count Georgia Baptist Convention
to be held November 1922, 1912.
TO WASHINGTON, D. c., and re-
turn. account United Daughters of
Confederacy, to be held November
1915, 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 fun information regarding
fares. dates of sale, limits, schedules,
etc apply to nearest ticket agent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
WE'LL DESERVED,
The Praise That Comes From Thank
full Dawson People.

u II
full Dawson People.
One kidney remedy has known
merit.
That remedy Is Doan's Kidney
Pills.
Dawson testimony proves it relia-
Bile.
j. S. Clay, Eighth avenue, Dawson,
Ga, says: "A dull ache across the
small of my back bothered me for
some time My kidneys were also
weak, and the secretions from these
organs became irregular in passage
and unnatural When / heard o.
Doan's Kidney Pills I at once pro-
cured a box and began their use.
They relieved the pain in my back
and strengthened my kidneys so that
the kidney secretions are now regu-
lar in passage. In return for the
benefit | received from Doan's Kid
ney Pills 1 give them my highest en-
dorsement
The above statement was given
March 30, 1908, and on May 9TH,
1911. Mr.. Clay said: Il have had
no reason to change my high opinion
of Doan's Kidney Pills publicly ex-
pressed some years ago. You may
continue to publish my endorse
ment."
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., BuffaIo,
New York, sole agents for The United
States.
Remember the nan-e-Doan s.
and take no otEer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
SidC
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
GAY WINS HOT RACE.

There Were Five Tickets for Mayor
and Aldermen of Fort Gaines.
In heated and spirited contest in
Fort Gaines Friday the following
we'll known citizens were selected as
officers of the city for the next year:
Mayor, NJ. c. Gay; aldermen, J. E.
Paullin, J. E. Peterson, A. J. Holley,
Malilton McRae and R. c. McAllister.
There were five candidates for
each place, and it was the warmest
race that has ever been held in the
city. Messrs. Paullin, Holley and
McAllister are members of the pres
ent aldermanic board.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-11-12
LOON WHERE DOLLY MADI-
soy SET UP COURT, WAS A
SCENE OF TRAGEDY.

mont let anybody tell you the sto-
of the old Ootagon House IN
- Ty,oshington after dark-you'H have
.1oan with the light on all night
rou do. It's the kind of story that
VII send all manner of delirious, in
,.erable little shivers and thrills
rer YOU at 10 a. m. on sunshiny
Adv says the Philadelphia Telegram.
nc+aqon House is where Dolly
addison. the fascinating, set up her
,omocratic court of the republic
1bon the British burned the white
nouse in 1914. And as if that were
mn romance enough for any house
- claim there are ghost stories ga
1ore two more or less authenticat-
Cd underground passageways, a secret
,toirway and secret doors opening
ont of blank walls. Here is a really
old-time mystery house. From it
rms a secret passageway, now wall
Cd I'D, to the white house itself, and
"a, this. the story goes, Dolly was
responsible.
As runs the story, the clever and
delightful Dolly, really the first mis-
tress the white house ever had, with
that queer psychological twist not
uncommon in the feminine mind,
kew in her prophetic soul that in
time the defeated British would want
another test of prowess with the val
liant little republic of the New World.
When such time should come, she
fgured cleveraly again, the white
bouse would be a point of attack and
she wished to be prepared for Sc
.eret fight. She knew the Tyloes,
who owned Octagon House, very in
timately. Hence the secret passage
way.
But when the time for her antici-
pated flight came something inter
fered with the prearranged plan.
The British came with torch in hand
almost to the door of the white
house Dolly fingered long enough
to gather her silver and to cut the
Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washing
ton from it's heavy gold frame be-
fore she fed by the south portico and
sought shelter with friends in Vir-
ginia, whence her husband had pre-
coded her Some months later she
returned to Washington and then it
was that the Octagon House became
the home of the presidential family.
The strange troublous times in
which the house was built-it was a
building while Washington was pres
ident-must have had some share in
determining it's mysterious construc-
ton. The architect was man of re-
nown, Dr.. William Thornton, who
designed the capitol, and aided JEFF
fersOn years later in the plans for
the University of Virginia.
The house is full of secret doors,
and even now, wide open and to be
inspected by anyone who elects, there
is a tunnel leading under Eighteenth
street. Where the destination may
have been none of this generation
can say, for most of the land in that
part of the city has been changed by
filing in. Communicating with this
undergro nd passage is a back stair
way running from the basement to
the third floor, and either the second
Or third door, The baseboards and
chairboards on the blind side run are
past the doors before being cut
through, and after all these years
the joining remains so nearly perfect
Pickering candle light to mount the