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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Morality and Fashion.

1t may be argued with considerable
force that as much harm as good
has been done by the illumination OF
moralists against the slit skirt and
diaphanous gown. What the phil
ippics have done in chief is to en-
phasize the comparatively few cases
of extereme styles and to keep the
prurient aspect of the subject con-
stantly before the public.
The mind that is stirred to evil
by the slight revealment of the aver
age slit skirt Cat least those that
have been seen in this part of the
country needs no special excitant
1t is unwholesomely prurient, and
4 will find evil anywhere. Purists are
constantly exaggerating the import
ance of stimuli and attacking symp-
toms instead of causes.
If there were more preachment
against impure thoughts and less
against objects, often of themselves
quite innocent, more progress would
be made. If our minds are so I'M
clean that we cannot see the lines OF
a woman's body without impure sug-
gestion the cure should be applied
to us, not TO her. eff thine eye Of
fend thee pluck it out" has mean
ing as valid now as ever.
Any style can be made suggestive
by the wearer or by the imagination
of the observer. We cannot adopt z
style that would be proof agains
either,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Administrators Sale.

By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Terrell county,
Georgia, l will sell on Tuesday, De-
cember End, 1913, before the court
house door in the city of Dawson,
Terrell county, Ga, during the le-
gal hours of sale to the highest bid
der for cash, the following described
lands, to-wit: The northwest quar-
ter or One-fourth of lot of land num-
Der two hundred and eighteen (218)
in the Eleventh (11th) district of
Terrell county, Georgia, containing
fifty and five-eighths acres, more or
less. Also at the same time and
place, and under same conditions and
terms, the equity, right and title of
A. Helton to or in a certain bond for
title executed by J. R. Mercer to said
A. Helton to the northeast quarter
or one-fourth of lot of land number
two hundred and eighteen (218) in
the Eleventh (11th) district of Ter
rell county, Georgia, and containing
fifty and five-eighths acres, more or
less All sold as the property of A.
Helton, deceased for the purpose of
paying debts and distribution. This
Nov 3rd, 1913. j. S. HELTON,
Administrator Estate A. Helton, de-
ceased
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
SAVING DOG-TAIL COTTON.
from the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
The farmers of the South can add
thousands of dollars to their profits
from the current crop if they con-
serve the cotton hollis that are ma
tured but not yet opened.
If these bolls are left to open under
November rains the cotton will be
soiled @and the quality of the fiber
impaired. The product is what is
known in the country as dog tall
1t brings on the market anywhere
from one-quarter to two cents a
pound less than would be its value if
picked under normal conditions.
Bolls now in the fields, and matur-
ed, can be gathered, put in barn. or
in any other place sheltered from the
weather. In such environment they
will open as readily as though they
had the benefit of the sun and the
free air. The cotton taken from them
will be clean and uninjured in fiber.
1t will fetch the top market price for
its grading.
Throughout the Southern states
are many fields, and scattered bolls
in nearly all fields, comprising an ag-
gregate of many thousand bales.
Proper care of these matured bolls
means a total of many thousands of
dollars. Considering the small labor
and expense involved in gathering
and storing them the big money re-
turn is a compensation out of all pro-
portion
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
LAFOLLETTE, ANTI-DEMOCRAT.
rom the Macon Telegraph.

| From the Macon Telegraph.
Senator LaFolette says that he
started the railroad regulation move
ment in Wisconsin fifteen years ago;
that the South is unplowed ground
on this railroad question" and that
he is going to spend several years
down here in helping educate the
people to these reforms
The obliging and engaging senator
evidently does not know that the
very birth of the railroad regulation
idea occurred in this state at Ameri-
Gus forty years ago, and that the con-
stitutional convention of Georgia
thirty-seven years ago enacted a pro-
vision for a railroad commission, the
first in the history of the world.
In that constitutional convention
of 1877 there was famous debate
led by Robert Toombs on the one
hand and John Screven on the other,
in which this question was threshed
out and precedent for the world set.
1t was in that debate that Screven
furnished an array of figures which
he thought were conclusive against
the regulation idea, and to clinch his
climax he cited the old maxim that
figures do not lie Toombs' crush
ing reply was that they lie like HI
when you set them down wrong.
This latter saying lives in Georgia
to this day.
LaFollette's starter in Wisconsin
was just twenty-five years behind
Georgia. Georgia's railroad commits
sion law is the oldest in history.
We are accustomed, however, in
the South to be told that we are pos
sessed with hookworms, are lazy and
slow-"behind the times'-but we
are generous, long-suffering and
kind; and we pay our money freely
for the privilege of sitting and listen
ing to the smirk suggestions of our
inferiority. And to emphasize our
Southern hospitality and courtesy we
applaud. But truth is truth and his
tory is history.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Administrators Sale.

By virtue of an order from the
Court Of Ordinary of Terrell county,
Georgia, will sell on Tuesday, De-
cember End, 1913, before the court
house door in the city of Dawson,
Terrell county, Ga, during the le-
gal hours of sale to the highest bid
der for cash, the following described
property, to-wit: One undivided half
interest in thirty 500 acres off of
and in the southeast corner of lot of
land number 100, sixty 600 acres
of land in the southeast corner of lot
of land number ISL, north half of
lot of land number 1873, containing
101 a acres, more or less, the south
half of lot of land number 1872, con-
tanning 101A acres, more or less,
and all of lot of land number 146,
containing POP u acres, more or less;
and containing in all 495 acres, more
or less; all lying and being in the
Fourth district of Terrell county,
Georgia. Sold only as an undivided
half interest, as described above. AL
so at the same time and place I will
sell the following items of personal
property: Five mules, two horses,
top buggy and harness, two 2-horse
wagons, pillow tools, etc. All sold as
the property of J. P. Lee, deceased,
for the purpose of paying debts and
distribution. This Nov. 3rd, 1918.
C. B. WEAVER, Administrator
Estate of J. P. Lee, Deceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Thousand Dollars a Day.

A thousand dollars a day will be
the income of Mrs. Adolphus Busch,
widow of the noted st. Louis brewer,
whose estate of 100000 has just
been probated. Each of the five
daughters will have an equal income.
August A. Busch, the eldest son of
the deceased millionaire, receives
the largest share in the estate.
He gets two of the eight divisions of
the property because of his valued
aid to his father in helping him man
age his business interests.
A thousand dollars day is pref
ty fair income for a woman to re-
ceive. 1t denotes the extent to which
a willing public paid tribute to the
product of her noted husbands brew
cry. The fact that the famous brew
er used a great part of his income in
charity distinguished him from many
who extract all they can from the
public and give nothing back. 1t
will doubtless be the policy of those
at the head of the house, of Busch
to continue his practice of philan-
thrODv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Legal Notice to Heirs at Law
of |. M. Lennard, Deceased.

State of Georgia, Terrell County.
To Mrs. J. E. Moreland, nee Len
nard, J. c. Lennard, l.. NJ. Lennard,
Jr., B. E. Lennard, Theo Fillingame,
Charlie Fred Fillingame, Ruby Fill
lingame and Lizzie May Fillingame,
minor children of Mrs. Ruby Len
naTd Fillingame. deceased. Dixie
Lennard, L. NJ. Lennard and Louise
Lennard, minor children of T. c.
Lennard, deceased, and NJ. S. Muir
ray, administrator of the estate of
Mrs. Sarah Lennard, deceased, heirs
at law of L. NJ. Lennard, deceased,
greeting: This is to notify you and
each of you that B. E. Lennard has
made petition, in proper form, to the
Ordinary of Terrell county, Georgia,
to have title executed for a certain
bond for title that was executed by
the said L. NJ. Lennard, deceased, TO
said B. E. Lennard, and that same
will be heard by the Ordinary of said
county of Terrell at the December
term of the Court of Ordinary at ten
O'Clock on Monday, December LIST,
1913, at office of Ordinary in Daw-
son, Terrell county. Georgia. This
November LIST, 1913.
W. B. CHEATHAM, Ordinary Ter
rell County, Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
CATACLYSNIC ORATORY.

From the Utica Saturday Globe.
The Congressional Record is oblig-
ing; accuracy is not its passion and
it is not shackled slavishly to the
verities. Why, then, do congressman
permit themselves to be so unimagi-
native? The Record would oblige
any statesman who dressed his copy
thus:
By Mr.. Hefin, of Alabama:
I'VE have trusts of every char
acter. (AppIause.) They say they
have a chicken food trust and they
whitewash sawdust and iced it to
the chickens. Laughter.) 1t is
said that out in Oklahoma a gen
tleman fed his hens this white
washed sawdust and he put a set
ting of 10 eggs under a hen and
when she Matched them II were
woodpeckers and the 18th had a
wooden leg. (Uproarious APP
plause, two stenOgraphers fall in a
fit, three congressman sustain
strokes of apoplexy and are car
ried out, the speaker loses all the
buttons off his waistcoat, % mem
bers suffer acutely, unable to re-
gain their breath.) There are
trusts and monopolies of all kinds.
(Clap of thunder and two flashes
of lightning.) And these little fem
mime fellows are walking around
here talking about woman suf-
frage. (Violent rain and wind.)
/ have seen them here in this cap
ital-the suffragette and a little
hen-pecked fellow crawling along
beside her. Capital rocks percep-
tibly, 10 columns crack, section
of roof falls i'm That is her hus-
band. (Total eclipse of the sum-
She is a suffragette and he is
mortal suffering yet. Garth shud-
ders and a chasm opens at the cap
ital steps, I believe that is about
all I have time to say tonight"
(Sun shines brightly again and the
little birds resume their song.)
If the Record does not care VIII!
should the congressman hesitate?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
NEGRO FARM OWNERSHIP.

From the Home and. Farmstead
Nearly one-fourth of all the negro
farmers in the South own the farms
they cultivate; in Georgia one-eighth
OF them; in Florida nearly one-half
of them; in Kentucky and Oklahoma
more than one-half of them; in Mary
land and Virginia more than three
fifths of them, and in West Virginia
more than four-fifths of them.
In less than fifty years the negro
has acquired possession of twenty
million acres of farm land. In the
aggregate the holdings of negro land
owners make an area "a little larger
than the state of South Carolina.
During the last census period
farms of the South cultivated by
white owners increased II per cent:
but the farms cultivated by negro
owners increased II per cent.
In Mississippi, Alabama and North
Carolina the farms cultivated by
white owners increased only 9 per
cent; but the farms cultivated by
negro owners increased 10 per cent,
p per cent and % per cent in these
three states.
In Arkansas white farm owners in
creased s per cent, but negro farm
owners increased nearly % per cent.
In Louisiana, where there was an
actual loss of negro farm population,
there was nevertheless an increase of
"A Per cent in the number of farm
owners.
Negro Farm Ownership in Georgia.
In Georgia the farms cultivated By
white owners increased only Z per
cent, but the farms cultivated by ne
gro owners increased So per cent.
In 1880 Georgia negroes owned
5S0,664 acres of farm land, but in
1912 they owned 1,215,7S9 acres.
They gain steadily in the number
of farms owned in Georgia. In the
last census period 4,323 negroes rose
out of tenancy into farm-ownership
But since 1910 the total amount
of land owned by negroes in Georgia
| decreased 392,172 acres,
No habitual drinkers can secure
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Administrators Sale.

By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Terrell county,
Georgia, l will sell on Tuesday, De-
cember End, 1913, before the court
house door in the city of Dawson,
Terrell County, Georgia, during le-
gal hours of sale to the highest bid
der for cash, the following described
house and lot: One house and lot
in the city of Dawson, Ca, on the
south side of Eighth avenue, known
as lot No. 260 in map of Dawson,
Ga, and described in deed from d.
w. Brown to N. A. Stevens, COM
mencing at the northwest corner of
said lot and running south 200 feet
to lot of B. F. Melton, thence turn
ing and running east rs feet, thence
turning and running north 200 feet
to Eighth avenue, then turning and
running west along south side of said
! Eighth avenue IS feet to starting
point. Sold as the property of Mrs.
N. A. Stevens for the purpose of
paying debts and distribution. This
November 3rd, 1913.
NJ. E. JENNINGS, Administrator
Mrs. N. A. Stevens, Deceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
The DoingS at Dawson.

The Savannah Press of recent dat
asked what is the matter with TIN
little city of Dawson?" and thel
continued:
THE town has been holding
fair and some horse races and a
few other things, and everything
seems to have gone wrong during
one day.
The first unlocked for happen
ing was the firing into a crowd of
spectators at a wild west show
with loaded revolvers instead of
those loaded only with blank cart
ridges. There were several peo-
pie wounded because of this miss
take. Loaded cartridges had been
used in an earlier target-breaking
act, and in some way became mix
ed with the blank ones which we're
to be employed in what was to be
representation of an early pio-
neer scene, but instead Developed
into a very realistic fusillade.
Fortunately no one was Killed in
this affair
Yesterday afternoon while 4
large crowd was watching the
horse races at the fair some Of the
entries stumbled and fell among
the spectators. Here several other
people We're injured. 1t was de-
cided that Dawson had had enough
excitement for one day and night
and the other races were called
off.
prison Commissioner Rainey
had better see how these profess
sional visitors are being entertain
ed in his home town, that they act
SO recklessly."
Well, really, we can't say just
what was the matter at Dawson.
There was no evidence of an unusual
amount of Jacksonville juice or Sa
syllabub, two commodities
hat might cause such things to hap
pen. If the two occurrences that
have attracted the attention of the
editor of the Press had been in either
Of those cities a satisfactory explana-
ion would have been at once forth
coming.
Our contemporary will no doubt
welcome the assurance that the re-
suits were not serious, and only
heightened interest in a splendid fair
n the best county in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Women the Bane of Stockholders
From the New York Evening Post.

Nobody loves a stOckbroker, least
of all his customers. This affords a
touching. if somewhat subtle, reason
why he does not want any women
spectators on his books, writes Will
liam Van Antwerp.
There is another~reason. I hate
to mention it, but you wiring it from
me-women are not good losers. At
times, under stress of great specula-
tive losses, I am told they become
lachrymose. The one stockbroker of
my acquaintance who catered to wO-
men spectators is now in a mad
house. They were all long of Steel
at so the time it broke at s, and all
the water squeezed out of it in that
decline was wept back into it by
these women. 1t was an economic
disaster.
Stockholders carry home with
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Prosperous South Georgia

The Industrial Index, a splendid
journal published at Columbus in the
interest of the entire Southeast, OBJ
serves that. as a result of the large
cotton crop grown in this section this
year and the satisfactory prices OBJ
tanned, South Georgia is now in a
normal condition, which is another
way of saying that South Georgia is
prosperous and progressive.
THE development, says the In
dex, 'of that great section of Georgia
is one of the most interesting chap
ters in the industrial history of the
South. What is really going on in
the growing cities and towns and in
the rapidly-developing agricultural
districts of that section is appreciated
to the full extent only by those who
go and see the country with theil
own eyes. A few days ago one Of
the publishers of The Industrial In
dex had occasion to make a rather
extended trip through South Georgia
taking in the entire southern portion
of the state, and he was impressed a
never before with the evidences o
progress and development in that sec
ton.
South Georgia is full of nev
spick-and-span towns and cities
flush with the strength, eagernes
and enthusiasm of youth, and it i
both refreshing and inspiring to visi
them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

them all the troubles of their GUS
toners, and this poor fellow was no
exception. He used to lie awake all
night picking at the counterpart and
grieving over beauty in distress. FL
nally he went crazy. They took him
a set of stockbroker' books up there
in the asylum, and it would break
your heart to see him. Jeanne dare
and Harriet Beecher Stowe are long
of Copper; Catherine de Medici and
Mrs. Browning are short of Rubber;
Mariea Theresa and George Eliot are
pyramiding in Steel. Every now and
then somebody is dropped out, and
then there are dreadful times. Char
lotte Corday's, Cleopatra's, Nine de
Stael's and the mother of the Grac-
chi's margins are exhausted; he calls
to them for more; they weep can
not go on. Women have much to
answer for.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

Judge Hill, the newly appointed
Judge of the superior court of Fulton
county, in his first charge to the
grand jury paid his respects to three
evils, namely, the whiskey bottle, the
pistol and the affinity. In his opinion
the whiskey bottle and the pistol to-
gether are responsible for a big part
of the crimes of violence committed
in the state. The affinity evil must
be a great and increasing one in At
lanta, as the grand jury has decided
upon an immediate and thorough in
vestigation of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

The high cost of rats is also a
question of moment Uncle Sam has
never attempted a reliable rat CEN
sus, but, taking the country over, it
is estimated that we have a rat popu-
lation of twice or thrice the one hun
dred million mark. Some of our ex-
pert figuring sharps have arrived at
the conclusion by different processes
of reasoning that around 100000
600 worth of grain is destroyed an
nually by rats.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

The result of last weeks elections
was satisfactory to the president. 1t
was practically an endorsement of
the policies OF the administration.
Governors were elected in three
states and all of them are democrats.
Local issues controlled largely in the
municipal elections, but the demo-
Gratis got a fair share of the officials
chosen. The worst loss of the dem
ocrats was that of the New York leg
islature.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

Most of the news" from and
about Mexico should be taken with a
large grain of salt. 1t has turned
out that the United States did not
send an 'ultimatum" to Huerta.
Practically every newspaper in the
United States and England, and else
where in Europe, printed the infOr-
nation that such a course had been
taken.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

The Harvester Company says it is
the farmers friend" and the Moul-
trie Observer wants to know has any
body been heard from who is not the
farmers friend" Not up this way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
Fulton Sells a Sure Corn Cure.

Guaranteed. He has been continu-
ously selling it Corn Ease) since
1892, and if the directions are strict
ly followed and it does not cure the
money (25 cents) will be refunded.
Fulton has a few other first-class
goods. Try him. Phone 247.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

Governor Slaton was much i'm
pressed with the greatness of this
section of Georgia. And it is but
fair to say that the people were i'm
pressed most favorably with the gov.
ernOr.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

The majority faction of the incom-
ing municipal government of Macon
invited the others to a confab at
which the pie was distributed. That
was rubbing it in right smart.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

DR.. Wiley says that four-year-old
whiskey can be made in forty sec
onds. Figure from this how long it
takes to make new whiskey.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

Mr.. Bryan has asked Senior Huerta
to spare the lives of the Madero
brothers, under arrest in Mexico. But
why should Mr.. Bryan make a re-
quest of a man who he has refused to
recognize?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

According to the ThOmasville
Times, Mr.. Luke is thinking of con-
testing the election for congress in
the Second district.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

The governor has appointed Hon.
E. E. Cox of Camilla to succeed Judge
Frank Park, who was elected to con-
gress, on the superior court bench
of the Albany circuit. Judge Cox
is a young man of splendid ability,
and his appointment has given gem
eral satisfaction.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

1t is now said that Mr.. Sulzer has
his eye on the presidency. We are
not surprised Bill has habit of
taking everything in sight.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
eral satisfaction

The Brunswick News has discover
ed one balm in that income tax law.
1t provides about five hundred pieces
of political pie for as many pie-hun-
cry democrats.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

The Terrell County Fair last week
was, from many standpoints, the best
that has yet been held. And the
women deserve the credit. They
have again shown their ability to
project and carry to successful fin
ish enterprises of a helpful charac-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

Many people won't even accept a
favor without looking for the price
mark.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
None ''Just as Good!"
Nothing Just the Same!''

French Market Coffee and the picture of
the old market that package French Market
roasted by the French Market Mills if want the genuine
If you be satisfied with imitation take the brand as
like it the law allows for both in and appearance
of package French Market Coffee has been initiated for
century But won't be goOa and isn't tie a0ey
There is only one FRENCH MARKET COFFEE.
Ask for FRENCH MARKET by name. See that you are
given FRENCH MARKET and ordinary coffee inferior
substitutes sold at the same price.
You'll knowafter you try twhy this rarely delicious old
French and blend has been famous for hundred years.
Why there can be no other like it.
Roasted by our unique hygienc process.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11
LAWYERS.
J1M4to G. PARKS

JiM4to G. PARKS
Attorney and Counsellor at La"
dawson, Georgia
Will practice in all the
courts, both State and Federal.
Prompt and careful attention
given to the interests of every
client who may put business IN
my hands. l make ePeclalty
of preparing all kinds OF legaI
papers, such as wills, ceeas'
bonds and contracts, examin-
ing and abstracting titles; also
commercial law and collections
Office in Dean Building.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-11-11

No habitual drinkers can secure
life insurance.