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The log cabin Democrat., 1913-07-17
Personals

J. s. L. Wright is in Atkins
 A phunny comedy at the Grand to- night
 Mrs. Ed Erbacher is visiting in Lit tie Rock.
 Attorney R. W. Robins is in Little Rock today.
 J. H. Pence is in Little Rock today on business.
 B. T. Ingram went to Little Rock this morning.
 ., Y MiIiiam Ca ady, baeeaeen,an,
 The music at the Grand is fine Hear 1t tonight.
 No advance in prices at the Conway Steam Laundry.-d2t
 5. B. Barker, transfer and baggage. man. Phone 401.-d5t William Thomson returned vester-
  day afternoon from Little Rock.
 For Rent-Small house on College avenue. Apply to J. ". Holt.-dtf Arthur Johnson and Lottie Briscoe :, In thrilling drama tonight at the Grand.
 Several good farms for sale al very low prices. See J. A. Lea. at the court uouse.-oH' (adv.)
 Mrs. Edward McCarley has gone to Guthrie, Okla, where she will pass the summer.
 A bargain in secondhand bicycles Prices ranging from S7.5O to SIS. Bolls Bros.-d1t
 Inc Conway troup of Boy Scouts will meet tonight at o'clock at James Business College.
 Miss Mary Galloway of Pontotoc. Miss, Is the guest of the Misses Hart iey on COllege avenue.
 Grayson and Phillips call for and deliver laundry every day in the week. Try us. Phone 74.-d2t
 Miss Hattie Gibbon returned yes terday afternoon from visit with Miss Evelyn Baird at Morrilton.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Terry, G. W. Adklsson and C. w. Jones left yester- day for short stay at Denver, Colo.
 A soda ticket, good for s1 in drinks and 300 votes in the auto and pony ontest, for $1, White Drug Co.-d6t
 Animated Weekly at the Arkway to- night. This is one of the most popular reels that comes to Conway. Don't miss it.
 Miss Mildred Matthews returned to her home at Blytheville this morning. after months visit with Miss Hattie Gibbon.
 Miss Lillian McCarley, who has been the guest of relatives in Conway returned to her home at Guthrie, Okla, today
 What about that Suit? We clean and press in a sanitary way, at the Conway Steam Laundry Phone "A and will call-2t
 Mrs. Joseph Crossett of McCrory. who has been visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. D. o. Harton, left this morning for Lamar, where she will spend few days the guest of friends
 Miss Mabel Vann, who has been tOurin gthe southern states with Miss Hettie Dunaway, assisting in the pre- sentation of "The Lady of the Decora- tion," is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. w. J. Gardner, en route to her home at Fort Smith.
The log cabin Democrat., 1913-07-17
LAST WEEK
Of The Big Clearance Sale

ms IS positively the last week of the Big Clean up Sale ana you want to buy summer goods at prices come tn's week as Saturday July roth, will be the last day We have had good rain and everybody feels eoodcone to th1s sale and you will go away feeling better.
The log cabin Democrat., 1913-07-17
WEATHER FORECAST.

Tonight and Friday, general ly fair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
A Change of Faces,

1t is reported that the face of Will
liam Mckinley, one of the martyr
presidents, is to disappear from the
one-cent postal cards, where it has
had place during the past decade. We
are further told that the face of
Thomas Jefferson will thereafter en-
bellish the postal cards of the one
cent denominations further re-
hinder to the American people that
the democratic party is in power at
Washington. 1t has not developed
as yet what use, if any, will be made
of President McKinley's face as a
feature of our postal system, but it
is past belief that any American de-
sires to see it entirely disappear.
This is a matter of sentiment, not Of
patriotism or politics. Mckinley was
a good man, and as one of the trinity
of murdered presidents has place
in the history and in the hearts OF
his people that will be secure and
enduring whether his face does or
does not appear as a feature of our
postal system.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
Guilty, But Free,

Our American law presupposes a
mans innocence until he is proved
guilty Therefore it is just and hui
name that an accused person should
be admitted to bail until he is proved
guilty. Once he is proved guilty,
however, the presumption of limo
cence ceases, and it does not seem
just that even under bond he should
be freed from punishment until his
appeal for a new trial is passed upon.
Having been proved guilty he should
be so regarded and so treated until
the verdict of the trial court has
been set aside. Then the presump-
tion of innocence is, of course, re-
stored, and all that the law should
require is that he be on hand for
trial at the proper time.
The case of Jack Johnson, the ne
torious negro brute, prize fighter
and libertine, is a case in point. He
was proved guilty of a serious and
revolving crime, but he appealed for
new trial, and, awaiting the deter
mination of this appeal, he was re-
leased. Now he is on his way to
Europe, accompanied by a pot of
gold, and it is probable that he will
sacrifice the money security rather
than come back again and take his
chances with the law-an example
of a rascal proved to be guilty and
escaping the consequences of his
crime simply because he could com
mand a certain number of dollars,
and an evasion of justice impossible
to a man without money and there
fore unfair and unjust.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
Spying on Public Men.

The spying upon public officials,
as practiced by the federal govern
ment, is being generally condemned
by the press. The case of Judge
Emory Speer, for whom we hold no
brief and in some respects believe to
be open to criticism, is the latest
case in point. On this subject the
Milledgeville News says:
THE address of Judge Emory
Speer of Georgia in Iowa, attacking
the policy of espionage as practiced
by the department of justice, has
attracted wide attention. 1t comes
timely, for we are having too much
of it. We are not particularly
champions of any man or set of
men, consequently do not refer to
it with especial consideration of the
fact that Judge Speer himself is
being investigated, but because
there is much of this nefariOus
practice being reported over the
country. Do away with the spy
system in all departments and the
ship of state will 90 on just as
smooth as ever and the country will
be safe"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
MIR. BRYAN's DINNER PAIL.
rom the Augusta Chronicle.

From the Augusta Chronicle.
Colonel William J. Bryan, the
United States secretary of state
enormously called by some the Amer
lean premier, enormously because in
this county we have no premiers-
carries his dinner to the department
of state in a pail-a dinner bucket.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, in
its usual enterprise, has attempted to
ascertain the daily contents of this
Bryan dinner pail and submits this,
though it admits that it infers and
guesses as to the nature of the ra-
tions: "Smithfield ham, golden jel-
lycake, a big white radish, bottle
of grapejuice, some deviled eggs,
cold cabbage, cold beans, cold car
rots, hoecake, cornbread, some ba-
con and greens, cymlins, fried apples,
cold fried Virginia chicken, a jar
of Brunswick stew, sweet potatoes,
broiled Virginia frogs legs, boiled
Virginia beef, Geld Virginia potatoes,
crisp Virginia waffies au Bla2kstoac,
some delightful Hanover county, Vir-
ginia, tomato sandwiches, some
Goochland county, Virginia, damson
preserves, some Cumberland county,
Virginia, biscuit, some Powhattan
county Virginia, bread pudding,
some Orange county, Virginia, onion
fritters, and some cold James river
catfish, au maitre d'hotel.
1t is believed that this is the menu
because Mrs. Bryan, good, motherly
soul and wifely wife, prepares it,;
she fills it with things that make the
colonel SO happy that he just brims
over with thoughts of a world-peace
movement"
The Tines-Dispatch acclaims the
dinner pail grandly, Colonel Bryan's
and all other dinner pals:
'The best dinner in the uni
verse is in a dinner bucket that a
man carries to his work, and takes
the leisure of noon to eat No
body knows the size or style of the
appetite of the man but his bet
ter-half, and she fills the bucket
with just the things the man
wants. There are bread and bit
ter, a silver of cheese, a pickle,
a segment of pie-never a better
place for pie than the dinner pail
and bottle of coffee. It's roy
al. 1t beats all the other lunches
singly and unitedly."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
Costs S8OO,OOO,OOO a Year.

The heavy toll levied on this coun-
try annually by insects has been es-
timated at $S0O,O0O,00 exclusive
of the enormous amounts spent in
labor and insecticides to rid the
country of it's insect incubus, in a
compilation recently made by Ed
ward H. Forbush, state ornithologlst
of Massachusetts. Mr.. Forbush con-
tented himself solely with the esti-
mate of the crop loss due to insect
depredations. That loss in 1904 was
estimated at S795, 900, which
would also be made much greater by
the inclusion of the money loss in la
Dor and insecticides employed.
According to Mr.. Forbush's fig
ures, the average annual loss to each
of the 6,32O,9S7 farms in the coun-
try is $126.56. There are AIS, 40 l.
$50 acres of improved land in the
United States, and it is those i'm
proved acres that suffer the heaviest
losses. Insects destroy at the rate
of $1.67 a year for every acre of i'm
proved land in the country.
In natures scheme there is only
one force powerful enough to prevent
the destruction of the worlds Vege-
tation by insects, according to the
ornithologist, and that is the activity
of insectivorous birds. Without
them man would be pOWerless to
cope with these destructive forms of
life, some of which reproduce at the
rate of ten sextillion to the pair in a
single season. One pair of potato
bugs will reproduce from 50,00O,OOO
to 60,000,000 in a season, and these
are among the less fecund insects.
The natural increase from a pair of
gypsy moths would defoliate the
United States in eight years. The
proportionately heavy death rate !
which nature has decreed in the case
of these multitudinously fecund in
sect pests alone saves the face of the
earth from becoming a bug ridden
waste.
Congress this year enacted a law
providing federal protection for mi
gratory birds. Among the migrants
are many of the most voracious in
sect eaters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
NEW BETHEL NEWS.
Happenings of the Week in and
Around That Community.

Happenings of the Week in and
Around That Community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Stephens en-
tertained Friday night in honor of
Misses Ethel Cannon and Mary Lou
Walker and their guest, Miss lola
McRee of Herod. Everyone who at
tended report a pleasan. time.
Misses Susie Speer of Shellman,
Doris Goss of Albany and May Belle
Cochran of PARROT attended a house
party at Mrs. j. o. Cannon's the past
week.
Miss lola McRee, who has visited
here, returned home Saturday. She
was accompanied by Miss Mary Lou
Walker.
Mr.. Geo. Mask, who has been the
guest of his brother, Mr.. w. Mask,
returned home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Cannon, who
visited relatives here, have returned
to their home in Americas.
Mr.. Andrew Walker of Elmodel is
expected to visit his mother here the
latter part of the week.
The singing Sunday at the home
of Miss Ethel Cannon was greatly
enjoyed by all present.
Miss Leila Bridges, who visited her
sister, Mrs. Harris, at Brooksville,
has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Sem and Mr.
S. ]. Sem spent Tuesday in Ran
dolph county.
Miss Dollie Oxford, who has been
visiting relatives at Oakfield, has re-
turned home.
Miss Eula Walker of Shellman is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Joel
Bridges.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Hasty and Mrs
zula Priest spent Friday at Notcha-
way.
Miss Evie Bridges spent Sunday
with her cousin, Miss Ethel Bridges
Miss Matte Ruth McMahen is the
guest of Mrs. Daniel at Pleasant Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jep Bridges attended
the burial of Mr.. Lay at Shellman.
Mr.. Eben Priest and sons visited
Mr.. Culpepper Wednesday.
Mr.. VIM. Payne attended a barbe-
cue in Randolph county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
A Correction,

From the Commerce Observer.
An exchange says faithful old Joe
Hill Hall wore out a seat during his
long legislative service. This isn't
true. Mr.. Hall stood up most of the
time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Notwithstanding the fact that SUI
gar, grain, meats and other articles
of common consumption are slated
for the free list in the pending tariff
bill, money does not seem to be get
ting any cheaper and the era of the
high cost of living does not seem to
have arrived yet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

1t is developed that President Will
son knew what he was talking
about when he told the senate of the
'insidious lobby" that displays in
dustry at Washington in and out Of
season. The testimony that has been
adduced by the investigations has
opened the eyes of the American peo-
pie to some of the things that have
been and are going on.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

The rural mail carriers, in session
recently in Atlanta, adopted unani-
mously a resolution favorable to the
creation of Griggs county, because
the late Congressman James M.
Griggs was great friend of the rural
mail men, and they think it proper
to honor his memory by creating
and naming a new county after him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
The Difference Between The Summer
Girl and the Summer Woman.

While the former is having good
time" the latter is too often drag
ging around nervous, run down, tired
out, with aching back and weary
limbs, sleepless and wretched. Often
it is kidney trouble not female troub-
lie, and Foley Kidney Pills are a direct
and positive help for the condition.
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

DON'T use a cough medicine con-
tanning opium or morphine. They
eonstipate the bowels and do not
cure, only sti1e the cough. Examine
the label and if the medicine con-
tains these harmful opiates refuse it.
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
contains no opiates, is healing and
soothing. Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

1t is not calculable just how much
the newspapers of this state have
contributed to the lawlessness
among us by their advertising OF
liquor business while pleading, as
they often do, TO robedience to law.
Hut it is considerable 1t is time to
stop it. A good many papers and
magazines in this country have OF
their own motion "cut out" all liquor
advertisements, and the record is
that not one of those papers discard
ing them has gone out of business
by reason of the exclusion.-Wesley-
an Advocate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Mr.. Fl. n. Shaver is now in charge
of the Jacson Argus, and has al
ready made a decided improvement
in that paper. He pushes a faeile
faber. and his work viii no doubt
be appreciated by his home people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

1t occurs to the Augusta Chronicle
on the retirement of Joseph NJ.
Brown that, in past stormy times,
he has been the worst scolded and as
sailed public man in Georgia, he has
never retorted in kind TO those who
denounced and endeayored to belittle
him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

This is the age of inquiry. The SEN
ate is now about to start an investi-
cation to investigate the speer inves-
tigation, notes the Savannah Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
1t signed the notable paper refus-

1t signed the notable paper refus-
ing a pardon to STRIPPING.
1t signed the commission that
made Joseph M. Terrell United
States senator, and it signed the re-
markable PRONUNCIATION, THE Su-
premacy of the Law"
And the curious thing about it all
is that not until he had departed
from the governorship did Joseph M.
Brown mention the matter of this
pen to a living souli
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Here is a story of gold pen and
a governor, and incidentally it is of
some of the strenuous requirements
of being a governor governor of
Georgia, anyway.
On December %, thirty-one
years ago, and more-Eugene Spald-
ing, Samuel w. Wilkes and George
H. Hammond presented Joseph M.
Brown, then car accountant in the
service of the Western and Atlantic
railroad, a handsome gold pen.
He has had that pen in his pos
session ever since, and it has been in
daily use.
When on Saturday last he retired
from the governorship of Georgia for
the second time the last official act
he performed as governor was to
sign an order with that pen.
The last thing of any sort he did
just before going into the hall of the
house of representatives to see his
distinguished successor sworn in was
to slip that pen into his vest pocket
1t Is, in many ways, his most treas
ured possession.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

The grand jury of Fulton county
asked in their recommendations that
the present legislature enact a law
forbidding the publication of the de-
tails Of crime.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Following his dismissal as railroad
commissioner Joseph M. Brown be-
gan that which was to go down in
history as the most remarkable polit-
zeal campaign ever waged in Georgia.
He announced for governor against
Governor Hoke Smith, notwithstand-
ing the circumstances of his own
comparative obscurity and Governor
Smiths apparently tremendous pop
ularity, and he defeated the gov
ernor.
The one thing that characterized
this campaign as unique was a Sc
ries of cards issued by Brown.
Never were such political cards
written in-Georgia, and never again
perhaps, will such cards be written!
The people seized upon them ca
gearly and devoured them with evil
dent relish just as fast as he could
pen them.
He never had been a public speak
er, but he certainly proved himself
to be about the most strenuous pub
lie writer that ever happened.
Every one Of those cards were
written with that same gold pen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
GOVERNOR BROWNS GOLD PEN



he won back the governorship by de-
feating Hon. Pope Brown and Judge
Richard B. Russell.
He never gave out in that cam
paign an interview, card or state
ment that was not written by that
old reliable gold pen!
During his two terms as governor
he estimated that he signed treasury
warrants to an amount exceeding
$40, 1000, 000-and every one was
signed with that gold pen.
During the same time he estimates
than 100000 official documents of
one sort and another-and he never
signed one of them with any other
pen than the gold one.
Asked what he considered the most
important documents he ever signed
with that pen the governor said:
ooh, by far the most important
documents 1 signed with that pen
were the love letters 1 wrote Miss
Cora MeCord, before she became
Mrs. Brown-not that l have not
written her many love letters with
it since, for that matter.
81 am not particularly supersti-
tious, and 1 certainly am not a fatal
list, but somehow I thought that pen
might be bringing me good luck, and
with respect to Miss Cora McCord,
| good luck was what I was looking
for. always wrote her with that
pen, and wrote her quite frequent
ly, moreover.
"You think my political cards in
teresting, and perhaps convincing.
Well, you should have read some OF
those love letters. They were pict-
uresque enough and-convincing?
''All I have to say about that is
that the once Miss McCord is now
Mrs. Brown!"
This pen has signed many docu-
ments famous in Georgia history.
1t signed the famous letter ito
Governor Hoe Smith that never was
and never has been opened, and the
contents of which nobody on earth
other than Governor Brown knows.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Among the qualifications required
of fourth class postmasters is
strength of mind to abstain from
liquor. No one, says the Topeka Cap
itol, will be eligible to serve Uncle
Sam in this capacity who is dispos-
ed even occasionally to reduce the
visible supply of strong drink.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

"Prohibitionists need to be wide
awake and at work" thinks Or. w. c.
Lovett, who is one of the most faith
full of those on the watch tower of
our state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
BENZ. Franklin's Lawmaking.

Benz. Franklin'S Lawmak1ng.
When the Colonial Convention had
met in Philadelphia to frame the
constitution of the United States as
the basis of it's rights and laws the
body seemed at sea for days, reach
ing few conclusions and becoming
confused and timid. Franklin rose
in his place and said: 81 move, Mr..
President, that from this day forth
at the hour of assembling we give
ourselves to prayer unto Almighty
God that he shall give our delibera-
lions and give wisdom to our con
clusions." 1t was the beginning Of
great and enduring document.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Two years later the governor was
defeated by his ancient enemy after
another most picturesque campaign
in which more cards figured.
Then, still another two years later,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

The brewers and liquor dealers
keep in close touch with every part
of the globe and they are alarmed
over the growth of temperance senti-
ment that threatens to put them out
of business. These enemies Of law
and order are working as never be-
fore to discredit prohibition and re-
gain some of their lost territory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

To strengthen Georgia's present
prohibition law and not to fight over
new bills in the legislature seems 10
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
For Sale Cheap.

A coed draft or farm horse. MRS
R0WENA JOINER, Sasser, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

That there is less drunkenness now
than formerly and that business is
drawing more arbitrary line
against the man who drinks to ex-
cess than ever before are two pointed
and significant facts bearing upon
the drink habit of the country which
cannot be observation-disclosures Her
aid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

zone Of the surest ways of max
ing people better is to recognize the
good that is already in them. =
Sunday School Times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

In 1881 Joseph M. Brown was a
car accountant in the Western and
Atlantic railroad office.
In 1882 he was general freight
agent for the same road
From 1884 to 1889 he was general
freight and passenger agent. and
from 1889 to 1898 he was general
traffic manager.
In 1904 he was named by Govern
or Terrell to be a member of the
railroad commission of Georgia, and
on August %, few days before the
expiration of that term, he was dis
missed by Governor Hoke Smith.
During all these days Joseph NJ
Brown used that same gold pen tC
sign his every official document.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11

Cincinnati is starting the expert
ment of farming as a cure for drunk
enness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-11
A SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
CONTRIBUTED BY DAWSON CHAPTER W. G. n. o.

be the wise policy of temperate
leaders in the state.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-06

naked eye. often the plunk of the ball
In the catcher's mitt precedes the bats
mans futile swing
The question came up in New York
one day fast season when washington
was playing In the metropolis, and to
settle IL once for all, the big Swede
was hustled 10 Bridgeport. Conn. In
an automobile. and a mathematically
accurate test of his speed-was made In
the trial room Of one of the big arms
factories.
A device used to test the speed OF
bullets was used. The apparatus con-
sists OF screen of fine wires set up
In front OF a steel-faced plate; the dis
tance between the screen and the
plate Is five yards.
An electric connection to a register
gives the exact time consumed by the
projectile travelling between the screen
and plate. As the projectile passes
through the screen II snaps one or
more OF the fine wires, starting the
timer, which registers until the projec-
tile strikes the steel plate.
After Johnson warmed up he took
his stand before the apparatus and
pitched ball after ball. He had diff
Guilty In locating the "plate"-the
screen-at first. A strange lack OF
control for Johnson. But he finally