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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-21
Fire Loss is Four Thousand
Dollars a Day
AFTER RAZOR BACK HOGS
First Importance 10 Farmers and
Others Using Labor and Forest
Products to Protect Them

Attention TO the forests in North
Carolina is matter of the highest
Importance. II was taken up and dis
cussed intelligently at meeting or
the State Forestry association which
met in Raleigh last week The State
is losing tremendously by tn too rapid
cutting down OF the tres It will be
q God-send to the state if the timber
was not sold SO rapidly. but the high
price is causing tr~ mendous denuding
of our forests, and, instead Of having
a policy OF conservation for the future
in North Carolina as is being carried
on in other countries, we are unWisely
cutting our timber at such a rate a.
would impoverish the next generation.
The chief cause of destruction to
| our forests are the forest fires and ii
, is serious problem. 1t is impossible
/ to estimate how much money is lost
| in North Carolina every year by forest
| fires and some means ought to be
found to prevent these fires. At TIE
meeting of the North Carolina FOres-
try association in Raleigh last week
President +. g. Wright made some
recommendations and some practical
| observations that are of interest. Ia
part he said:
-
'"The cause of forestry is the cause
Of the "eople. and l find ample justi-
fication for rejoicing in North Caro-
lima today O er tn crystaliZation Of
healthy public sentiment by all claSse.
Of people in favor of a more intelli-
gent and business-like application of
the principles and practices OF modern
forestry
"Of late years the masses have
q L no
thing must be done for the protection
and perpetuatiOn of our forest re
sources along the lines Of practical
conservation.
1.-The principle obstacles in the way
of this are forest fires and razor K
hogs. In the territory where hogs are
J permitted to run at large there can
, be no reproduction of the longleaf
, yellow pine tO~speak of. for where the
: Seeding gets a foothOld in spite OF
, the hog, fire usually comes along and
gets in its work. Any one can tell
5 at a glance in travelling over the State
: the difference between the stock-law
, territory and the no-stock- law terri
2 tory. In the case Of the one you find
5 thousands and hundreds of thousand
of young seedlings coming up every
r year whereas in the matter of thn
r other YOU will find practically none
2 at all. In other words. in the cas-
t Of one there is progress and in the
t other there is stagnation.
s The fire loss in North Carolina
r during 1911. based upon reports re
t ceived by the State geological and
r economic survey from one-third O.
: the townships in the State, which fs
, the loss from this source a $3.50, 900
e is reckoned a s1.4+0.00o. or approx
V mately $4,000 per day
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-21
WHAT NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS
EXPECT OF THE LEGISLATURE

lrst OF ALL Six Months School Term for All Country
Boys and Girls With Compulsory Attendance
Feature-Next Better System of Taxation and
the Torrens System Then Public Health Progress.
Good Roads Legislation, ETC.. ETC.
BY CLARENCE POE Editor of "The Progressive Farmer
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-21

Hirst. Of All. Six-MOnths School
Term for All Country Boys and
Girls With Compulsory Attend
ance Feature-Next, a Better Sys-
tenn of Taxation and the TOrrenS
system, Then Public Health Pro-
Sress, Good Roads Legislation.
Etc. Etc.
(By CLARENCE POE, Editor Pro-
SreSSiye Earmer)
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
EVERY CITIZENS DUTY.

Here is some sound sense from
the GAINESVILLE News-Gazette. 1t is
applicable to Dawson, and The News
reproduces and commends it to those
men and women who have become
forgetful of their duty to their home
merchants and Others in business
here:
1T is the duty of every citizen to
stand by his local interests, which
include his fellow citizens of every
class. If this plan could be fully
carried out it would result in great
benefit and would inevitably in
crease the local prosperity. Spend
every dollar you possibly can with
your home merchant, the neighbor-
hood farmer, the local business en-
terprise of whatever nature, and
thus keep the money which you
have to spend circulating among
your own home folks. This would
certainly bring about better con-
dition and it ought to be done"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
THE FEAR OF RABIES.

Nearly every day the newspapers
tell of some one being bitten by a
dog that was declared to have the
rabies. The common belief that ev-
cry dog that bites anyone is mad and
should be killed, and that the person
bitten will eventually suffer from ra-
bies, is combatted by the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. In proof that bites by
dogs are rarely followed by any inju-
rious results it says that "for eigh-
teen years the employees of this soci-
ETY. have been taking up homeless
dogs from the streets of New York
city. During that time they have
handled more than half a million
dogs, among them, of course, many
thousands of those most likely, in
their promiscuous mingling with 9th
ers, to become infected. The men
performing this duty have been bitten
in the aggregate hundreds of times
but we have yet to know of one case
of hydrophobia or suspected hydro
phobia among them"
This fact is particularly pertinent
because nervous fear is a factor OF
great Importance in such cases, and
is always a dangerous element. Even
where the patient is not affected D!
the virus the fear of posion lying dor
mant in the system often casts
shadow of apprehension over TIT
years of life remaining.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
The Lamented Griggs.

From the Atlanta Georgian.
A handsome memorial of bronze
and marble is to be erected in Daw-
son to the memory of the late Con-
gresham James M. Griggs, whose
sudden death some two years ago so
greatly shocked and grieved his
friends throughout the nation.
Judge Griggs was not only one of
the most efficient and effective repre-
sentatives ever sent to Washington
by the state of Georgia, but he was
one of the most lovable of men. He
was companiOnable and engaging
acquaintance and the truest and sim
Cerest of friends.
The judge died at the very zenith
of his career, a member of the Ways
and Means Committee of the house
and a trusted and valued lieutenant
of Underwood. Had he lived until
today he would be one of the COM
handing influences in congress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
THE GETTYSBURG OF PEACE.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Secretary of War Stimson has APP
proved the final plans for the celebra-
ton next July by the veterans in blue
and gray, of the fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg on the
historic field itself. The nation has
appropriated $15O,OOO, the state of
Pennsylvania $150,000, and various
Southern and Northern states other
sums to defray the expense of trans
portation and of the great joint en-
campment. 1t is expected that be-
tween sixty and seventy thousand
survivors of both flags will be in at
tendance.
Gettysburg may be said to have
been the Armageddon of the civil
war. In and around the tiny town
was fought the ferocious and bloodS
battle that proved the turning point
in that momentous struggle. 1t is
peculiarly appropriate that reunion
of blue and gray should there be
held, since the battle bequeathes to
each side almost equal legacies OF
valor and brilIiance. To the exchange
of the last shot, almost, the outcome
was in doubt, so evenly matched was
American bravery with American
bravery. If the confederates suffer
ed defeat it was only after a strug-
gle in which their prowess, their mil
itary efficiency and their logged de-
termination reached zenith.
Today the rancor of the strife is
forgotten. Sectional animosity is
buried The only traditions that sur
vive are such as neither side would
relinquish. 1t is an unusually happy
coincidence that the celebration
should fall in year which marks
the political reproachment of NORTH
and South in a degree unparalleled
since Appomattox.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
IGNOMINY
BY DIR. Frank Crane.

No mans character is complete
until he has passed through the val
ley of ignominy.
The contempt of his fellow men is
whip that stings when laid on a
mans back, and the way he acts I'M
der that lash shows whether he is
a thoroughbred or not.
The knowledge that you are hated
is bitter medicine, but wholesome.
Defeat, failure, shame, and desp1s-
ings are supposed to crush men. They
do crush small men. They are the
making of great men.
There never was a man who
reached the age of forty with a strong
character but that had most of his
excellencies driven into his soul by
hard blows.
Neither goodness nor greatness
land in accurate analysis they are
the same thing) is hot house plant
maturing under careful protection
Rather they are metals that become
perfect only by much pounding be-
tween hammer and anvil.
used to often wonder why the
old mystics laid so much stress upon
the need of having the contempt OF
men in order to grow sanity. Re-
Election and experience have convinc-
ed me that they were psychologically
correct.
For it is under ignominy that a
man is forced to examine himself and
see if his principles are sound, his
motives honest, and his cause wor-
thy.
So long as we are favored and fort
innate we may be rotting in our souls
and never know it.
Our greatest friend is our enemy
who tells us unpleasant truths and
tramples our pretentions under foot
1t is then we are thrown back upon
ourselves, and must needs convince
ourselves that we are worthy to live
when men shall revile upon and
prosecute you and say all manner Of
lies about you, rejoice and be ex-
ceedingly glad" for so have they
done to every honest and brave soul
since the world began.
1t is good for us. We are never
powerful until we learn humility. All
vanity is weakness, and there is
nothing like a swarm of spiteful,
vigorous enemies to clear our souls
of those magic mists of vain glory"
of which Thomas A. Kemphis speaks
There's never a nobler moment in
a mans life than when he finds him
self alone and at bay, backed up
against God, the world snarling and
barking at him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
PLANTING FOOD CROPS.

From the CordeIe Rambler.
We are glad to note that our farm
ers are planting so much grain. An
old farmer remarked to the writer a
few days ago that there was more
grain planted in this county than had
ever been before.
All of Georgia has always been
short on food crops. We saw a state
ment in a newspaper some time back
that there was not enough cotton
made in the state to pay for the foed-
stuff that we bought from other
states.
We have our doubts about the truth
these statistics, but as a matter of
fact we are not raising anything like
the amount of provisions that we
should make.
Our agricultural schools are teach
ing their students how to make the
land yield more feed stuff, and it is
probable that this lack of provisions
raised Will be obviated in time.
Georgia will be one of the richest
agricultural states in the union when
ever our farmers learn to make
enough to feed US.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
PESTS COST FIFTY MILLIONS.

Boil weevils cost the state of Mis-
sissippi in 1911 $25,0OO,OOO The
damage direct and indirect caused by
tae pest in the last three years in this
one state is not less tran $50, 1000
according to w. L. Pryor of Laurel,
Miss, the special agent of the de-
partment of agriculture, who travels
in Alabama and Mississippi and re-
ports upon crop conditions for the
bureau of statistics. at almost stag
gers anyone when he begins to figure
on the actual amount of damage this
pest has caused" says Mr.. Pryor.
Last year in the thirty-fve counties
in the south half of the state the Wee
vii was responsible for loss of not
less than $4,000 bales of cotton.
This, figured at only $40 per bale for
the cotton and seed, makes $25, 00O,-
600 and these figures are conserva-
tive. The loss is all the way from
1000 to $4,000 bales per county.
Just think of what it means to some
of these counties in dollars and cents
Who can wonder at the farmers be-
ing almost or quite demCralized?"
Only a few years ago Mississippi
ranked with Georgia as the second
state in cotton production. 1t was
Georgia the first year and Mississippi
the next. Now that state ranks about
ninth. But will Georgia retain much
longer her place as the second larg-
est cotton growing state in the I'M
ion? The boil weevil, which has been
steadily advancing in this direction, |
is said to be due to reach Georgia !
next year, and the distressing thing I
about it is that so few of our farm |
ers will be prepared for its coming
BY beginning now they can do much !
to lessen the menace of the pest be-
fore it gets here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
NEW COUNTIES.

The Savannah News asks if every
Georgia city will have a county OF
its own, and says: eff present indi-
cations count for anything the next
legislature will have a number of
new county bills before it. Meter,
which has a municipal newspaper,
would like to have court house, and
the other attractions that go to a
county seat. Stillmore wants Stone
wall county crtated. Claxton, in the
midst of a fine farming country and
centered among many small towns,
also has the new county fever. Mich
oils wants slices of three counties.
Our Savannah contemporary omits
two of the most important and ag-
gressive new county movements
Doerun, in Colquitt county, wants
Griggs county created, and Abel,
fourishing Berrien county town, as
pires to be the county seat of Cook
county. Both are in prosperous and
populous sections and the people nov
have to travel long distances to th'
court houses. The News is on record
as favoring the creation of new coun
ties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
IT SOUNDS NICE, BUT

In a recent issue of Boston news
paper the following editorial com
ment recently appeared:
"Twice year from the New York
founding asylums there is ship
ment of babies to homes in the
West. And the supply of found
ling babies has never yet been up to
the demand. A consignment Of
sixty from one asylum was sent out
one day recently to farm homes in
Minnesota, Nebraska and North Da-
kota. They are sent to people who
will adopt them, and in every in
stance the asylum authorities have
made a preliminary investigation of
the character and circumstances of
the foster fathers and mothers.
Many of these children, it is said,
will grow up without knowing that
they are not the real offspring of
the people whom they will call
father and mother"
That would make gratifying read
ing but for one thing, comments a
Philadelphia paper. Only a part of
the babies shipped out West are
foundlings. Many of them are the
babies of widows and deserted moth
ers who cannot earn enough to sup
port them. Many of the foundlings
also are babies left in parks and
doorways because their advent in the
family after the father had died make
too many for the mother to support,
and they are taken away and given to
Western farmers, who in many prov
an instances are anxious to get a
growing boy'' to help him till the
soil.
So the news of carloads of babies
being shipped out West must make
is wonder how many heart-broken
mothers are left weeping for them
Jack East.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
POPPING 1T TO PISTOL TOTERs
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
There are other commendable
things besides brevity in the follow
ing bill introduced in the Ohio as
sembly:
Whoever carries a pistol, bowie
knife, dirk or other dangerous
weapon concealed on or about his
person shall be imprisoned in the
penitentiary not more than five
years nor less than one year.
There are probably great many
chances against the bills passage as
it reads. The pistol is not the pocket
ornament of the burglar and desper-
ado only, but often moves in good
society. An invariabIe sentencing of
pistol toters to the penitentiary, it
seems, should go very far towards
creating public sentiment against the
pistol toting practice in any society.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS

No one has ever made collection
of statistics regarding the enormous
number of perfectly sane, kind,
friendly, decent creatures who form
a large portion of any mass of human
beings anywhere and everywhere
people who are not vicious or cruel or
depraved, not as a result of continual
self-control, but simply because they
do not want to be because it is more
natural and agreeable to be exactly
opposite things; people who do not
tell lies because they could not do it
with pleasure, and would, on the con-
trary, find the exertion an annoyance
and a bore; people whose manners
and morals are good because their
natural preference lies in that direc-
ton,
There are millions of them who in
most essays on life and living arG
virtually ignored because they dc
none of these things which call forth
eloquent condemnation or brilliant
cynicism. 1t has not yet become tht
fashion to record them. When one
reads a daily newspaper filed witt
dramatic Celebrations of crimes ant
| unpIeasantness one sometimes wishes
attention might be called to them
to their numbers, to their decencies
] to their normal lack of any desire t
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

The Schley County News suggests
that Hon. Charles R. Crisp, who will
become the representative of this dis,
trict in congress on the fourth of next
month, will follow in the footsteps OF
his illustrious father and become
speaker of the house. Mr.. Crisp is
an able and popular man, and has
twice filled with exceptional credit to
himself and the democratic party the
important and responsible position OF
house parliamentarian-frst when
his father, the late Charles F. Crisp
was speaker, and now under Speaker
Champ Clark. By reason of his abil-
ity and training he will be vel
equipped to make the house an ad-
mirable presiding officer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
Simple, Quiet, Decent Folks Who
Form the Earth's Majority.
BY Frances Hodgson Burnett.

do violence and their equally normal
disposition to lend a hand. One is
inclined to feel that the majority of
persons do not believe in their exist
enca But if an accident occurs in
the street there are always several of
them who seem to spring out of the
earth to give assistance; if a national
calamity, physical or social, takes
place the world suddenly seems full
of them.
They are the thousands of Browns,
Joneses and RObinsons who, massed
together, send food to famine-strick-
en- countries, sustenance to earth
quake-devastated regions, aid to
wounded soldiers or miners or flood
swept homelessness. They are the
ones who have happened naturally to
continue to grow straight and carry
out the first intention. They really
form the majority; if they did not
the people of the earth would have
eaten one another alive centuries ago.
But though this is surely true cyni-
cism totally disbelieves in their ex-
istence. When a combination of cir
cumstances sufficiently dramatic
brings one of them into prominence
he is either called an angel or a
fool. He is neither. He is simply a
human creature who is normal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

1t seems to be agreed that Gov
ernor Wilson pursued wise course
when he refused to approve the plans
of some of the so-called progressives
in congress to abolish the rule of SEN
iority. The dispatches from Wash
ington state that the reorganization
fight in the senate which in Deem
Der promised sensational develop
ments isn't ROW given much atten
! ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

The offer of Charles E. Finlay, pres
ident of the Aetna National Bank OF
New York, to pay $1,OOO,OOO for the
establishment in America of the tu-
berculosis cure reported to have been
discovered by DIR. F. F. Friedman OF
Berlin, if ii proves beneficial in 50
out of 100 test cases, could probably
be duplicated in several other coun-
tries. 1t is manifestation of the
intense interest taken Throughout
the civilized world in the search fol
means of overcoming the terrible
white plague"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

Cotton is the great ready money
crop of Southwest Georgia. No doubt
about that. But we are hoping for a
bumper crop of corn in 1913. For it
is the corn yield, after all, that de-
termines the prosperity and content
of the people. Let corn be a
failure or markedly short and note
how everybody is put to inconven-
fence and strain. Plant corn in ade-
quate quantity, by all means. That
is the safe and wise policy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

Speaking of buttons, the big laun-
dries make big mistake when they
darn hose and sew on buttons for
bachelor customers and let fathers
junk go home the way it was receiv-
ed. Bachelors can buy shirts and
socks when they wear out, but when
father has paid for the pound work
and the fiat work and the fancy
work he does lots of darning with
out the aid of a needle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

The election of senators in several
states the past few days insures the
democrats control of the next United
States senate by two majority. The
democratic party will be in complete
control of every branch of the gov
eminent after March 4th next, and
in position to carry out its pledges to
the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

Through an oversight the proper
credit was not given to the Saturday
Globe for the tribute that was recent
ly printed in these columns to Broth
er Joseph, who so nobly sacrificed
his life working among the leper
colony on Molokai island. 1t is al
ways our desire and intention to give
proper credit to other newspapers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

The joke will be on the Balkan al
lies if Turkey now turns the tables
and gives them a good trouncing. 1t
will be noticed that the allies have
not been in a hurry to resume hostil-
tiles since the breaking off of peace
negotiations, and are giving the
Turks plenty of time to think over
the matter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

A man will go into a booze bazaar
to get cent beer, and will meet
a friend who will introduce six of
his friends who are sucking up Is
drinks, and the man will treat and
get nickel change out of a case
note. And the man will grin cheer
fully and believe he is a sport. But
he will go home and raise Cain be-
cause his wife paid % cents for
slice of ham at the corner butcher
shop when she could get it down town
for % cents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

There has been laughter at the sug-
gestion of sending baby from one
place to another by parcel post mail.
But that is just what has been done
on an Ohio rural route. The possiblili-
ties of the new service are fast max
ing impression on the public mind
Watch the evolution of the parcel
most
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
Not All Women,

From the ValdOsta Times.
A New York expert says that wo-
men are happiest at so. But, of
course, this does not refer to those
women who are trying to take
the burden of politics on their shout
ders. That class is hardly ever
happy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

So far as he is personally concern
ed Mr. Taft readily solved the ques-
ton of what We shall do with our
ex-presidents. Immediately upon the
close of his term of office, just one
month from today, he will go to Yale
University as a law professor at a
salary Of s., 900 a year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
Luke M'Luke Says

Lots of fool bachelors imagine that
the girls use up all the safety pins.
Well, they don't. The babies use half
of them, and the rest are copied out
by married men to take the place OF
buttons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04

The framing of the new tariff bill
was begun Monday. Democratic
Leader Underwood, on whom as COM
mittee chairman the tariff-making
burden falls the heaviest, believes the
committee will be able to finish its
work by the middle of March.