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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Notice to Teachers.

On the last Saturday of this month,
August 30th, a special examination
on the high school curriculum will
be held for the benefit of those teach
ers who have failed to take the high
school examination. You cannot
teach the 9Th, 9th or 10th grades in
our schools unless you secure Ii
cense.
A teachers institute will be held
beginning on Monday, Sept. LIST, at 8
o'clock a. m, and continuing until
Saturday of that week. All teachers
are required to attend that institute
and heavy penalties will be inflicted
upon those who fail to come. Make
it your pleasure to come and let US
secure all the god possible from this
meeting. Our white schools are con-
sidered as opened on the first Monday
in September, but the first week will
be devoted to institute work, and the
work of teaching will begin on Mon
day, September 8th.
The colored schools will be opened
on Monday, October 9th. All schools
will be continued till December 18th,
Then they will be suspended until
the first Monday in January. On that
day all Our schools will be resumed,
and the white schools will continue
in operation for five months and the
colored schools for three months.
BY order of the Board.
J. W. F. LOWREY, G. S. E.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Sheriff Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in Septem-
Der, 1913, at the court house in said
county, within the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described property: Two
city or town lots, Nos. eighteen (18)
and nineteen (19), of the B. M. Will
son addition to Dawson, Ca, each
fronting on the east side of Paschal
street fifty 600 feet and extending
east los feet, and situated south of
the colored public school in the city
of Dawson. One city lot, No. twenty
seven (27) Of the B. NJ. Wilson addi-
ton to Dawson, Ga, fronting fifty
500 feet on the west side of Dean
street and running back west one
hundred and five (105) feet and be-
ing south of the public school build
ing in the city of Dawson. Said prop
erty being levied on as the property
of G. c. Crowell to satisfy a mort
gage fl ia issued from the Superior
Court of Terrell county in favor of
Lowrey & Davidson against G. G.
Crowell. defendant in fl ia, and ten
ants in possession notified as requir-
ed by law. This August 5th, 1913.
M. G. HILL, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
PLUM HUNGER UNAPPEAsED.

From the Macon Telegraph.
Plum hunger in Washington, fore
ed to appease itself with hope long
deferred, is said to have reached the
desperate stage, but still the presi-
dent stands firm Evidently the
method of dispensing patronage as
advance payment for votes to come
does not appeal to him while the
tariff and currency bills are still
pending. Apparently he is minded
to give his attention to the distribu-
ton of the rewards only after the
legislative goods have been delivered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Some Startling Figures,

Taking the population at 0,00O,-
900 Ito be very liberaD, and esti-
mating the number of men at one
fifth the sum, or 2O,OO0,000, we find
from the interesting figures furnish
ed by the commissioner of internal
revenue that for the year ending
June 3Oth the men of this country on
an average:
Drank a little over seven gallons
of whiskey and brandy Drank over
three and half barrels of beer, ale
and porter Smoked 713 cigarettes.
Smoked 1884 cigars. Smoked or
chewed % pounds of tobacco. Used
over l Y pounds of snuff. Purchas-
ed l Y packs of playing cards.
OF course the figures are based on
the supposition that the men did all
the drinking, smoking, chewing and
snuff-taking and card-playing. Ger
tainly the women and children did
contribute something to this enor-
nous consumption, but not enough
to interfere greatly with the average
presented above, except in the matter
of the consumption of snuff and
cards.
The amount of revenue collected by
Uncle Sam on the vices or pleasures
enumerated above was greater than
in any previous year, despite the
fact that the number of saloons de-
creased by 21,554 and the number
of wholesale liquor dealers by 600.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Hon. John C, Hart,

Whatever differences of opinion
there may be in regard TO the new
tax equalization law-and The News
is frank to confess that it is skepti-
cal as to the benefit that will be de-
rived under THERE can be no ques-
ton that Governor Slaton made a
happy appointment when he named
Judge John c. Hart to the Office Of
state tax commissioner, which
was created by the act, Judge
Hart has served the people we'll in
high stations in the past. His in
tegrity, his ability, and his desire to
do justice to all men at all times is
conceded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Brief Sketch of the Great Civil War
From Home and Farmstead.

had laid down their arms.
During the war there were 2,278,-
304 men mustered into service on
the union side and about 100000 on
the confederate side. The number of
casualties during the war, according
to the adjutant generals report,
were: Killed in battle, 67,05S; died
of wounds, 43,612; died of disease,
9,720; other causes, accidents,
murder, prisons, etc, 40,154; total
deaths. 1924; total assertions
199,1O5.
Number of confederates who died
of wounds or disease partial state
ment), 1881. Number Of union
soldiers captured, 212,6O8; confeder-
ates captured, 476,169; union troops
on the field, 16,431; confederates pa
rolled, 1869; number of union
troops who died in prison, 30,156;
confederates who died in prison, go
l152.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
THE DEMOCRACY OF DEATH.

Nowhere does convention lay it's
paralyzing hand upon poor mortals
so hardly as at the funeral
A man can live as Independently
as he pleases, wear a soft shirt, eat
with his knife and refuse to go to
receptions, and altogether imagine
that he is an individual; but when he
dies custom with iron hand and vel
vet glove invades his house and takes
charge.
The great high priestess of funer-
ais is Mrs. Grundy. The sensitive,
torn hearts Of the family shrink from
any sort of conflict, and so they SUBJ
nit to the absurd, expensive and vul-
gar things that make of the funeral
a horror
Why should people who never ride
in carriages in their lifetime be made
to pay for carriages for all the rela-
tives and friends out of the insurance
money that belongs to the widow and
children?
A decent respect for the dead and
for the opinion of our neighbors de-
mands that there be some ceremony.
as solemn, as reverentiaI as can be
made. But above all things these
rites should be purged of display,
extravaganza and show. They should
be simple, heartfelt and genuine
1t is not the money spent that mat
tiers so much In our grief We care
nothing for that, and only wish we
could squander millions if by doing
so we could show the depth of our
sorrow. But that is precisely the
point of error; for the expenditure of
money does not express grief; it ex-
presses pride. 1t is a disposition to
make a show which is entirely out of
place.
The grief of bereavement is es-
sentfally private and shrinking. A
funeral should be an affair of the ut
most privacy and simplicity. That,
of all places, is no place to parade.
And what a spectacle is the mod
ern graveyard with its distinctions
of rich and poor more sharply mark
ed than among the living. By all
means let a man live in a palace if
he chooses, but why should he wish
to project the class lines of wealth
into that region where riches and
poverty are no more? At least the
realm of death is a democracy AT
least in Gods acre" men ought to
be willing to lie still in bare man
hood, all together in their investure
Of clay, equal at last, prince and pau
per, there where there is no more
The boast of heraldry, the pomp
of power"
II we can have no real democracy
while we are alive at least permit US
to have the democracy of Death
Selected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

The first gun was fired on January
9, 1861, h. batteries in Charleston
1a~bor. The actual outbreak is dated
from April -, when Fort Sumter
was bombarded.
The first blood was shed IN Balti-
more on April 81, in a s,r@c' attack
or the Sixth Massachusetts, regiment.
On July 81, 1851, the first great bat
tie was fought. It resulted in severe
defeat for the union army and en-
Outraged the seth aId ,0:sed a de-
termined spirit in the North, and
served to unity both sections in their
. respective policies.
The vigorous blow in 1864 and the
spring Of 1865 which brought the
war to a close was that dealt by
Grant to Lees army in Virginia. Lee
surrendered at Appomattox court
house on April 9, 1865. Johnston
surrendered on April %, and within
two months all the confederates
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
NEED OF THE REST CURE.

From the Savannah News.
Again has attention been called to
the rapid increase in the percentage
of insane persons the world over. A
at the London Medical Con-
ference expressed the fear that the
world is going mad" Testimony
of alienists in noted criminal trials
in recent years indicate that there
are many varieties of insanity that
were unknown to our forefathers.
Fights among heirs of big estates
have developed some unusual testi
mony to show that the men who built
up the estates were insane.
Not long ago it was said that be-
cause a certain rich man insisted
upon giving a place at his table to a
pet cat he didn't have intelligence
enough to divide properly the mil
lions he accumulated. But if it is
true that the world is on the verge of
being one vast mad house it is well
to direct the best efforts of science
to the task of steadying the mind.
Sir James Browne of England re-
Gently made the rather startling an
nouncement that in fifty years the
increase of insane persons in England
was at a rate three times as rapid as
the increase in population. Appar-
emily England if not the whole world
should take the rest cure occasion
ally.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
BE PATIENT.

Editor Dawson News: That fifty
millions which the government has
agreed to turn loose in the South
and West has already to large de-
gree had it's desired effect. When
Washington decided on this plan
New York Immediately opened her
purse
When Dawson bankers were asked
what they were doing to obtain some
of that money for this section they
promptly answered they did not need
it. No trouble to get what they need
ed in New York.
Even if only one bank in Georgia
should get what's coming to Georgia
this money would soon pass through
the trade channels to every part of
the state where most needed. But if
il should never leave Washington
just the fact that it is there ready
for use will accomplish the purpose
for which it was issued.
The United States is one CONNER
cial body. Financial circulation is
the life blood. New York is the
head and too much blood has been
rushing to the head The South and
West are the feet, and they have
been cold, financially. The admins
tration doctor is determined to make
the blood flow all through the body,
if possible, so the whole body will
be healthy.
Don't worry. If that fifty millions
comes to Georgia am going to haze
my part of it by offering an induce
ment for it to come my way.
Thanks to the administration for
holding that fifty millions over the
heads of those money powers who
would strangle circulation in order to
create a panic. CITIZEN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
You Rung the Bell.

Speaking of the displeasure of the
New York Journal of Commerce at
Secretary McAdoo's plan to aid the
crop movements of the South and
West by deposits of United States
funds to the extent of $5O,00O,OO0
the Houston (Tex,) Post says;
The banks of New York, Chicago
and St. Louis especially have under
former administrations enjoyed the
use of treasury money free Of
charge and have loaned it to the
country banks at profit or to the
Wall street brokers. Time and
again the treasury has been called
upon to relieve the speculative fur
ries in New York by large deposits
Of government money. AS much OF
this money has been uGed in former
crop movements at profit for the
large banks of New York, why is it
wrong for the treasury to send this
money to the South and West direct
upon the same sort Of collatera!
that the New York banks requir-
ed?"
The Texas paper rung the bell that
time, for a fact. 1t would be like
painting the lily or pertaining the
jassamine to try to add to the above.
This money has been borrowed here
tofore at higher rates of interest from
banks of New York, Chicago and
Boston, and of course the New York
view is that the treasury ought not
to deprive them of the profits of the
business.
There may be sentiment in certain
circles of the east that does not look
with favor on the plan to use gov
arnment funds to help move South |
srn cotton and Western grain, but
t is pretty certain that Mr.. McAdoo
las made a ten-strike with the farm
rs and business men of the South
md West and the effects will be en-
turing, too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Such Is Fame
BY WaIt Mason.

James Simpson stole a million
bones. bunch of stocks and deeds;
and then the press, in thunder tones.
proclaimed his mighty deeds. The
country echoed with the fame of Jim,
who was a bird; in every hut and
hall his name became a household
word. And every day you read of
Jim in papers and in books, and muir
muir, while your eyes grow dim, the
country is full of crooks" Tom Tel
Ter, in the village bank, has worked
for thirty years. all day the moneys
tuneful clank is sounding in his ears,
and never has he sWiped a PUNK
from all that pile of rocks; and new
er has he packed a trunk with stolen
bonds or stocks. AS honest as the
day is long he goes his useful way.
if his accounts were one cent wrong
he'd sweat a half a day No CORES
pOndents him indict in red hot tele-
grams; as copy men who walk Alright
aren't worth Sc many Gams.* And so
the news is full of Jims, and readers
sadly wall, "The land is full of orn-
cry limbs who ought to be in Jail. 4"
But there are fifty Toms on deck for
every Unlike skate; and where you
see one moral wreck a hundred men
are straight. The upright men don't
make a noise in yellow public prints,
nor paint the country, with the boys
in stirring, lurid tints.
DamS-FOrmer conner coins
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
SAVE YOUR CORN AND HAY.

From the Milledgeville News.
The federal government has issued
it's estimate of the corn crop for this
year and places it at a little more
than 500, 100000 bushels less than
last year. When we stop to figure
out what this enormous decrease
in production means it becomes quite
apparent that we may expect much
higher prices for Americas greatest
cereal. We have been paying around
a dollar bushel for corn on the
farms of this section for the past
four or five years, and it is exceed
ingly doubtful if a more profitable
crop than this can be raised here
abouts, especially when we consider
that cowpeas can also be grown with
the crop.
The great cron belt of the Middle
West has been hard hit by the drouth
during the past two months, and
while the corn has been damaged
the hay crop also has suffered great
ly, and though it appears as if we
will grow enough corn and hay in
this part of Georgia to supply our To-
cal demands yet it will be well for
every farmer in this section to devote
all possible time and energy to saw
ing hay and corn, together with 9th
er feedstuff this fall.
The evolUtions of the season are
incomprehensible, for last year We
had poor crops and the West was
waxing fat, but now the tables are
turned. It is up to us to display
thrift and industry in times like
these and help to supply the worlds
demands in addition to supplying our
own needs, for it is only by co-opera-
ton and extension in agriculture,
commerce and industry that we can
ever hope to rise above the mediocre
stage Of everyday life. Through
such efforts we will fill a niche in the
worlds great plan of progress and
eventually develop our sections and
add to the happiness of all creation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
The Pure" Advertising Fad.

b 1t was to be expected as a develop
ment of this era, when there is a dis
position to regulate almost every
thing and everybody by statute. If
pure food and pure shoes, why not
pure" advertising in newspapers?
The wave touched Georgia recently
when a legislator-elect announced
that he would introduce and urge a
pure" advertising law in this state,
but the general assembly has met
and adjourned without the promised
measure making its appearance.
This wave has swept over Massa-
chusetts, however. A recent issue
of Editor and Published New York;
tells us of the workings of the stat
ute in the Bay State. We quote;
The first test case to be brought
under the Massachusetts law max
ing it an offense punishable by
maximum fine OF $500 to insert de-
Ceptive advertisements in publica-
tions or on placaTds will be heard
soon in the superior court of Bos-
ton. Mass Two secret indictments
against Michael Cunningham of Re
we're and William McKebbitt of
Chelsea, in connection with the sale
of a horse for $275 to John Melon
aid of Springfield June 18th, were
returned recently. 1t is claimed by
the government that an advertise
ment was inserted in a daily paper
asserting that the Chelsea Dairy
Milk Co., of 761 Broadway, Chel-
sea. was replacing its hOrse-dTawn
vehicles with motor trucks, and
that for this reason horses were to
be sold at unusually low prices.
The contention is that a horse that
Mcdonald purchased after reading
this advertisement cost him $275.
and after a trial it proved to be
other than he anticipated"
The pure advertising" bill as i
has been called, is intended to protec
the public from deceptive and mis-
leading advertisements, which b
false assertion and endorsement ten
to benefit the person who causes thei
insertion or display in certain publ
places or in publications. It's pul
port is to safeguard the averag
reader against beguilement.
1t is TO be noted, though, that r.
gardless Of statutes the reliable pul
Usher long ago decided that he woul
not knowingly print an advetisemeI
open to suspicion or of fraudulent il
tent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Application for Leave to
Sell Lands.

State of Georgia, Terrell County
Notice is hereby given to all concern
ed that ! have this day applied to
the Ordinary of Terrell county, Geor-
gia, for leave to sell the lands be-
longing to the estate of B. F. Cham
bless, deceased, and that same will
be heard at the September term of
the Court of Ordinary of Terrell
county, Georgia, to be held on the
firu Monday in September, 1918.
This August 4th, 1913.
FRANKLIN CHAMBLESS, Admins
traitor Estate of B. F. Chambless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Sheriff'S Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in Septem-
Der, 1913, at the court house in said
county, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described property to-
wit: Whole lot of land No. 1856,
in the 18th district of Terrell county,
with improvements thereon, contain
ing 2021a acres of laud, more or less.
Said land being levied on as the prop
erty of J. H. Oxford to satisfy two
executions issued from the City Court
of Dawson in favor of Mayor Bros.
Co. and Harris, Johnson & Co.
against J. H. Oxford. Defendant in
fl ia notified as required by law. This
August 4th, 1913.
NJ. G. HILL, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
II Birds Didn't Breakfast
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
IF the birds did not breakfast
man would not dine"
Into this one crisp sentence Ed
ward B. Clark, writing in '"The COun-
try Gentleman" puts the practical
philosophy of our game protection
laws. The value of birds to agri-
cultural interests has long been ap-
preciated in the worlds older cOun-
tries where the wear and tear of civ
ilization compelled men to avail
themselves of every possible aid in
conserving natural resources. But
in America We are just beginning to
realize the heavy debt we shall have
to pay if the indiscriminate sIaugh-
ter of birds continues unchecked. Mr..
Clark quotes a French scientist as
saying that if all the birds should
suddenly die man would have only
years life left to him. Certain it is
that if field and orchard are deprfT-
ed of the natural protection which
insect-eating birds afford crops will
diminish both in quantity and quail
ty, and in time the farmer will face
problem more serious than any
with which he has ever before been
confronted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
THE VOICE BACK HOME -

From the Augusta Chronicle.
If members of the Georgia gen.
eral assembly were eligible for one
term only they would not feel so
carefully the pulse of the voters be-
fore voting on a matter. 1t is al
legged that the failure to pass the
tax law is due to the fact the rep
resentatives feared the taxpayers
a. iome.-CommeTce News.
This is new suggestion. Making
legislators ineligible to again serve
might result in more dependence on
wisdom and less on the voice back
home"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
For Guardianship.

To All Whom 1t May Concern: J.
Erie Geise having applied for guard
ianship of the persons and property
of Belle Geise, Annie Hill Geise and
Susie Geise, minor children of Jas.
D. Geise and Annie L. Geise, late of
said county, deceased, notice is given
that said application will be heard at
my office at 10 o'clock a. m, on the
first Monday in September next. This
August 7th, 1913.
w. B. CHEATHAM, Ordinary
and Ex-Offlcio Clerk of Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

Governor SIaton has appointed
t!on. n. L. Stapleton solicitor of the
city court of Miller county. Mr.. Sta
pleton is one of the many Terrell
countians who have gone to new
homes and risen to prominence and
usefulness. The News is always glad
to hear of the success of our young
men who go elsewhere to engage in
{, he activities of life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

The Greensboro Herald-Journat
agrees with the Macon Telegraph
that hens should be made to stamp
the date on eggs when they lay. The
News does not understand how this
reform has been overlooked so
long. and hastens to call the atten-
ton of both our state legislature nnG
congress to it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

The presidents envoy, John Lind.
is in Mexico City domiciled at a hotel,
and nobody Chat is as to Mexicans)
paying much attention to him. But
the situation, despite all the quie-
tude, is intense, and there may be
exciting developments at any hour.
The outcome is awaited with keen
interest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
Would Change Their Minds.

From the Macon News
The eastern bankers contend that
there is plenty of money in the South
to care for the crop movement. They
ought make a trip down here and
attempt to borrow some.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

The indications are that the spe
cial session of congress, which was
convened early last spring, will con-
tinue almost until the regular ses-
sion in December. The democrats
are finding it a considerable job to
revise the tariff and reform the cur
rency.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

If the kilograms from New York
depict conditions accurately and
they doubtless do-Governor Sulzer
is in a perilous conditton-impeach-
ed and disgraced 1t looks like a
political and personal tragedy-the
developments menacing Sulzer with
political and personal ruin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19

We think everybody in Georgia
will be glad when the Frank trial is
over. The fate of the poor little girl
who was murdered made strong ap-
peal to just and mercifuI people in
Georgia, but, as the Savannah Press
says, it is an unhappy thing that the
course of justice should stir UP such
and unboly mess and smell so loudly.