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GIVES ALL HE HAS.
"A Beggar Bequeaths $1,000 to People
.fN Who Befriended Him.

sunbury. Pa, May 5.-For their
kindness and self sacrifice, Mr.. and
Mrs George Smith were beQueathed
nearly $4,000 by the will Of John Fell,
a beggar at Northumberland. The
will was probated shortly before rela-
tives of Fell arrived at Northumber-
land to contest the document.
Fell, who was believed to be almost
penniless, went to the home of the
Smiths several days age and asked for
shelter. He said he was friendless,
that he felt Ill and believed he was
going to die. Although the Smiths
had only one bed they gave 1t to the
old man and themselves slept on the
floor.
The next day Mrs. Smith said Fell
gave her q check for $5O7 on q North
cumberland bank and $55 in cash. Be
/ fore he died Sunday night he made a
will leaving his entire estate, said to
consist Of $1,000 in Wilkesbarre
bank and stocks valued at $500 to the
Smiths.
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As BOY and MAN.
Two Pictures Of VandegTift Presented
to Historical Society.

A double photograph of Fred L.
Vandegrift. showing him as he ap-
peared IN 1887 and as he appears in
1914, has been mounted at the in
stance OF State Librarian James L.
King and by him presented to the
State Historical society for preserva-
ton in its fine collection Of Kansas
portraits. Accompanying the picture
was letter from the librarian in
which he says:
1T happens that I have known Mr..
VANDERBILT all the way from 1887 to
1914. Hence my Interest in these two
pictures, which have named Proph-
ecy and Retrospection. I wanted to
see the years and the subject brought
together in this. opposite way. and 1
feel sure that there are many whose
interest will be as keen as my own.
Boy and man-that is the meaning
of the dual picture. The two faces
can readily be detected as belonging
to the same person, and yet they re-
veal differences that constitute a story
well worth studying. In one is the
eliminating thrill of youth. and in the
other can be traced the maturity that
follows q Quarter-century's dance
with plastic circumstance In the
first he lived in clouds. In the second
he is back upon the footstool, with
broader vision and wider tasks before
him."
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TOM C0RDRY BURIED"
Newspaper Men and Lodge Members
Confer Last Rites.

Parsons, Kan, May 5.-The last
rites for Thomas Asbury Cordry, late
Kansas editor and orator. were per-
formed here this afternoon. News
paper men from many cities Of this
section Of the state where the deceas-
ed had labOred with pen and voice for
ten years. paid a final tribute to his
memory by their presence. Officials
OF the Kansas A. o. u. W., the Off
cfAl paper Of which Mr.. Cordry had
edited and published for the past
year. were in attendance. BY procla-
nation of the mayor. the business
houses were closed for an hour dur
ing the funeral service which were
held At the Methodist church con-
Quoted by Rev. Alexander Hawke,
rector Of st. Johns Episcopal church,
assisted by DIR. j. A. Stavely. the Meth
-0qist pastor. The burial was in Oak
wood cemetery. The active pallbear-
ers were members Of fraternal orders
and the honorary pail bearers were
members Of the Chamber Of Com
merce and IIAbette county bar. These
were: +. n. Flynn. L. A. Walker, J.sF
steele. Judge Elmer Clark, w. d. At
kinson and E. L. Burton. The body
was escorted from the residence to
the church by the Ch4knber of Com
merce, the Elks. Knights of Pythias
!. o. o. F.. Degree Of. Honor and A.
a. IT. W.
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Topeka NURSES ASSN
They Have Program Out for the Years
Meetings.

A comprehensive program will be
carried out this year at the meetings
Of the Topeka City Association Of
Graduate Nurses which are held the
first Wednesday of each month at the
Y. W. c. A. building.
An address VIII be made at the meet
ing Wednesday by local school Off
cial who will speak on Public School
Nurse" Miss Rosilla Ross will read
a paper on Representation at State
Association and Afiliation With Ma
tional Organizations
June DIR. w. F. Bowen will deliver
an address. July 1 DR.. c. L. Williams
and Miss Helen Winter are on the pro-
gram. August 5 DR.. w. A. Coston will
deliver an address and Miss Laura
Nciswanger will read a paper. Sep
TENDER DR.. C. A. Biddle will be the
main speaker. DR.. C. A. Mcclure will
deliver an address and Miss W. Pearl
Martin will read a paper at the meet
ing October g. November DR.. w. E..
McVey is down for a paper and Miss
Edith Rasmussen for a paper. DR.. F..
d. Freeman will give an address, and
Miss Bessie Baldwin will read a paper.
December 2 There will be an informal
reception and annual election Febru-
ary &
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At S. S. CONVENTION.
Hutchinson Entertains Many Visitor,
First Session Today.

Hutchinson, KAN, May 6.-The Kan
sas state Sunday school convention is
holding its first session this afternoon.
The meetings will continue tomorrow
and Thursday. the sessions to be held
in Convention hall, with departmental
meetings in down town churches. The
delegates began to come in last night
and today every train brings swarms
to town. Three thousand Sunday
school workers are expected.
DR.. Wilbur r. Crafts OF Washington,
D. c.; DR.. c. r.. Scoville OF Chicago:
c. L. Brokaway. a Kansas City bank
er;aJ. HI. Engle, state secretary OF Abb
1ene, and other well known Sunday
school workers are on the program. DR..
Crafts makes the first address this aft
ernoon. A chorus of two hundred
voices from Hutchinson churches UNI
der direction of Carol Marty Of In
diana will sing at tall sessions.
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.SILER FAMILY ON TRIAL
william Shot SisteF-in-I.aw-Othe
Charged with Aiding.

Fort. Smith, May 5.-Sensational
testimony was expected at today's SEES
sion Of the trial of William Siler at
Mountain Home in Baxter county,
Arkansas. Siler IL charged with the
murder of his sister-fn-law. Mrs. Nc
FAdden H. Silers who was shot to
death on the Siler farm en- the morn
inslof JAnuary-aO. last after exchang-
ing. shots with men of the Siler family
through the night. Hays. Siler. father
OF the man onetrial and, another SON
are charged with being accessories to
the killing.
The shooting came az . sequel to :
suit for divorce instituted against the
woman by GIL Siler. On the night In
question 1t il said she went to the
home of a neighbor, made q will. be-
| 4ueathing her property TO her son and
FIT midnight ibarricadedy hersolf ~ the
ehickeph0use on the Siler farm. From
that hour until daybreak steady fusi1-
lade of bullets passed between the
woman's fort and the dwelling which
sheltered the men.
At daylight Mrs. Siler ventured
ffrom her shelter and was struck ~ Z
IA re Tcmss forasrk iivsd q Jdnc.
] tion City.
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SCHOOL FOR MERCHAN1
Three-Day Course 1t X. q. Opened
for Country Storekeeper.

Lawrence. Kan. May 5.-A school
for storekeepers, consisting Of a
three-day course Of lectures and DEM
onstrations, was opened at the Uni
versity of Kansas here today with sew
eral hundred country merchants from
over the state attending class. The
course was arranged by Prof D. c.
Croissant for the purpose Of giving
the small town and country store
keepers new ideas in business, adver-
Using and store management Ac-
cording to Professor Croissant a SIM
liar plan has been tried in Wisconsin
and has proved successful. The
courses are under the auspices of the
extension department Of the univer-
sity. Invitations to attend were sent
to five thousand merchants a month
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WAsABURN T0P'LAY.
F7zst Game wednesday, ou' tz,e Home
Grounds With Axgaess

The Washburns college, baseball
49, uuEB SNAKE ftestHitial Appeakance
on tn hnune grounds this season in q
9ane N1th thu KAnsAe eAEgies
Wodnsaaa5 AFTERNOON. Tho SAo6deo
II to o lat week but the .Id6Al club
has been Dracticing hard and expects
10 regain ID lost laurels on this occa-
Uton. H6Ey win probably pitch this
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You don't remember much that hap
pened after you reached the Mexican
borderF NO." replied the Texas Rang
er: :hgt ne knev what WaA gotnG -
happen before we started s'-Was6j&8tp hon
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Topeka Fruit and Produce Market.
[Selling prices by Saml E. *, whole
sale Fruit and PRODUCED

ISelI10R prices OY S0Hn'l T., x. whole.
sale Fruit and PRODUCED
Topeka, Kan. May s.
APPLES-Ganos. extra fancy. per box
e2.S; Fancy, per box. Sis: Ben Davis
5 Est rsnsy Pen 0 Fsns ~ sos
PINEAPPLEs-Per crate. H.I@aso.
FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT-Per box.
BANANAs-Extra fancy, Per H.. SC.
ORANGESEPer box. $2&@3.6 3.
CALIFORNIA LEMoNs--Per box. N7s
srRAwBERRIEs-Pe crate. $2H..
GoL9RADo H0NET cy case. az
crate, $400@4.2 IS: choice. per crate $sD
HOME GROWN LETTUCE-Per bas-
RADisHEsLPer dos.. sc; in lot. of s
'G sP;RiNG oN1oNs-Per do. bunchss.
"a XSsPARAGusLPer dox.. 5oasoc.
PIE PLAINTIFF h.. e.
NEW CABBAGE-Per h.. nc.
SPINACH-Per bu.. &c.
WASHINGTON RURAL POTATOES
New PoTAroEs-Per hamper. s,.7s:
PEI IDAHO All RURAL PorAroEs-Per bu..
ONIONs-Yellow Bermudas. per crate.
go; Gry;ss n Vol HniR sT sIn5s; e do.
CABBAGE PLANTS = Early Jersey
wakefieid per 100, &c: Per Loo. 800.
Early %snasa.5 per pe e u.s. Ser e ss
100 500. large wakefield per 100. &c:
PEI To M es PLANTS EARLY Tree. per c.
sc. per N, &e1: Dwarf Champion. Per c.
per. a. as; Kan..s Standard. Per G. e,
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THE WEATHER RECORD

Following are observations Of the United
States weather bureau for the. twenty.
four hours ending at o'clock this morn
D>I
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Kansas City. May 5.
Liverpool Grain Market.

Liverpool Grain Market.
Liverpool, May 6s--WHEAT-Spot,f firm;
No. 2 red western winter, 70 I'D: No.
Manitoba. 7s SID; No. 2. % nd; No. 3.
not quoted.
CORN-spot. firm; American mixed.
ss S51d. =
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hogs or pigs AZ We cannot use them for
stock hog prices and low enough 70 co.
4ble N to reship to the River market, %
u to your advantage a. well a. ouf4 q
keep them beck. until finished.
Cannot use grAao cattle unless strictly
good.
Market price paid for dry lot cattle.
II you will favor NJ with your inouif4ea
advising number OF head. qualify, age
ana length OF time on feed. We win make
you an offer Or arrange for our bugorp
to call ON you. &aT0
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Chjcaeo Groin Market.

Chicago. May 6.-WHEATLClose: May,
933kc; July. 66kc: September. sic.
CORN-May. 6eAc; July. 6s.tc; septem-
Der, 65Nc. s.
OATS-May. 37xc; July, 37asc.
PORK-May. $19k6; July. $19.S5.
LARD-May, $956: July, 1910
RIBSEMay $685. July S111O.
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over lbs.. 12c: broilers lbs an under.
lie: turkey hens to young toms, Ice: ola
tom turkeys. Lie; ducks. lie: geese, &c.
BUTTER-Pacling stock. Ia,
Butter and Eego.
FURNISHED By The Continental crear..>
Co. Topeka. Kan.l
Topeka. Kan, May s.
NEW YORK E00S-21c
CREAMERY BUTTER-ch,r.~ *.
n. r., I02ss4c; Elsin. SC; Topeka whole.
sale, &c. ""o'e-
Topeka .Hay Ifarkct.
FURNISHED ~ 7. h. Beck. 511-1ll = a.. !.
Topeka, Kan Ma n
II sAIR1E -HAr-So. :. sl1ss: Ns.
NEW A{sEAI.IA-caoaes. sus.e,: Ne :
Esta1kn HBde. 1larket. :, 81
touotat,seess84 rurniseSq by JeMse 6: BanitA
ASoe Co., N4s049t xh1e0 I'll
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Kansas CITY Live Stock Sales.
rThe following sales were made this
morning at the Stock Yards. Kansas
City, and reported over long distance
telephone direct to the State Journal BY
Clay, Robinson 4 Co.. live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at all
markets1
Kansas City, May 6-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 1000 head Market steady.
HOGSLReceipts 10000. Market steady.
Bulk OF sales, s. 2008.40 top. $a46.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Market strong.
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chicago Grain Market.

Kansas City Grain Market.
tThe range Of prices for grain futures ON
the Kansas City Board OF Trade az re-
ported by Thos. !. Myers. Broker. Co.
lumbar Bldg.l s.-4ss,s-
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T0pelka Market.
lE'urnaonoG by IAo ChAs. Wol0 PAckS18
~ Yarfaa chose ~ noon saturday. We
ea1not uo& pGga, thln 0oW0 or hogs
Weixhing Ioso than 10 lba. Do not mar.
~ h09a unless same are wen finished
~ 9e cannot upo half tat stun. We Give
6eloW pricee effective at once. until fur
Shes nottca1
Topeka. Kan. May S.
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New York onenr AGar1oG
New York. May k-0UGAH-RAw, firm:
mclasses. 23s: centrifugal. 40l: refined.
dFm.
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Chicago Produce Market
NeW YORK Prbducc Nfarket.
New York Stoclra,

[Close of prices for the leading stocks
on the New York Stock Exchange as re-
ported by Thos. J. Myers. broker. Column
bian Bldg.J
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PORK-May. Ns6t; July. $is.ss.
LARD.May. $s.@: July. 1910;
Kansas City 1pduce Market.
Kansas City. May k-WaEAT1Cash
Market unchanged. No. 2 hard. S7690c;
No: ss@ssc: No. red. Uh@ss11c: No.
&c coSN5M SO St lesslsEed Il %e higher sn'
whitsss7sc: No. &Ip@MA =,
10@4O1lc; No. z mixed. SC.
RYE-Market unchanged.
~-HAY-Manket unchanged.
BUTTER-Creamery, &c; firsts, 21c;
seconds, 18c; packing, 161hc.
EGGE-Firsts. 18c: seconds. 16c.
POUDTRY-Hensn. 14c: springs. 15c.
WHEAT-Recetpts cars.
CLOSE: WHEAT-May. s5Ac: July,
coRN-May. exc; July. ssx@ssxc.
Chicago Produce Markes.
Chicago, May 5.-BUTTER - Market
higher. Creameries. 1s0Shc.
EGGSLMarket lower. At mark. cases
included. 17Na1sc: ordinary firsts. 17k0
'S H1GiE nsss.. aszSsss unchanged.
POTATOEScMarket unchanged.
POULTRY-Alive. lower; fowls. 1514c.
New York Produce Market.
New York. May 5.-BUTTER-Market
firm. Creamery seconds. z2@2shc.
CHEESE-Marxet steady. State whole
milk, fresh colored. average fancy, 13xc.
EGGS-Market steady. Fresh gathered
firsts, 2015@21c.
POULTRY-Dressed, dull and weak;
western chickens frozen, 15@20c; fowls,
14@19c; turkeys. 3@26c.
New York Stocks.
[Close Of prices for the leading stocks
on the New York Stock Exchange as re-
ported by Thos. J. Myers. broker. Column
bian Bldg.J
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SC. Joseph 1--we Stock Market.
st. Joseph. May 6.-HO0S-Rocelpts
1900 Market steady. Top, $e.l6; bulk of
sales, $S.306eA
Steers. $7.60oe. 8: cows ana heifers, SlGoe
SO: calves, &6.0O08.e6.
SHEEPReceIpts 2000 Market 10c to
lie higher. Lambs, $7.5@s.ss.
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wichita 1--we STOCK .Aaarlkes.

Wichita 1.-Two stock Market
Wichita, May 5.-HOGSReceipts loo.
Market strong. Top M: bulk Of sales.
11606&.
Native steers. ee.&0&s0: COWS and heifers.
&.0o04OO: stockero and feeders, 9ko0@1.W:
stock cows and heffers, S6O0@7.16; bulls,
%6.O067.O0: calves, $7.00Q975
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Topeka. Kan. May 5.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, five proclamations were
issued on August 3, 1914, submitting
five proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution to the vote of the people at
the next General Election, and
Whereas, after said proclamations
were issued the General Assembly by
Act changed the date of the next
General Election from Wednesday,,
October 7, 1914, to Tuesday, Noyem-
Der 3, 1914, it is therefore
Ordered: That each of the afore-
said Proclamations be amended N
the following manner, to-wit:
That wherever the words at the
General State Election to be held on
Wednesday, October Z, 1914" ap-
pear the words Eat the General State
Election to be held on Tuesday, No
vember 3, 1914" be inserted in lieu
thereof, so as to submit said prOpos-
ed amendments to the people at the
General State Election which will be
held on Tuesday, November 3, 1914.
JOHN NJ. SLATON, Governor.
By the Governor: A. H. Ulm, Sec
rotary Executive Department.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
This Is The Way,

Seven hundred Tattnall county
farmers and business men have given
their approval to a plan which they
hope will cut the acreage planted in
cotton in that county in 1915 to one
third of the 1914 acreage. The Sa-
vannah News, which reports this
noteworthy movement, says they do
not expect that either congress or
the state legislature will do anything
that will have the effect of cutting
the 1915 acreage as it should be cut,
and they evidently realize that the
farmers themselves, with the aid of
the merchants with whom they do
business, must of their own accord
bring about a reduction.
And so they plan to obtain the sig
natures of three-fourths of the farm
ers of Tattnall county to an agree
ment not to plant next year more
than one-third as much cotton as
they planted this year, If the plan
works out as they hope Tattnall
county will do what every other
county in the cotton belt should do
bring about a big curtailment in the
1915 cotton acreage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
The Food Pirates.

A writer in the New York World
goes for the food pirates in plain Ian
guage that the helpless consumer
win endorse and applaud. Paying
his respects to these gougers the
Worlds correspondent says: This
war will cost the New York news
papers hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Yet the newspapers are
not raising prices. They are not
gOuging their readers or their adver-
tisers. They are not trying to pick
the public's pocket to meet their own
increased expenses. The food pi
rates who are robbing the people
even lack the excuse of expenses. 1t
is costing no more to raise and ship
and market food than it did a month
ago, They have no additional
charges to carry by reason of the
war. and are without foreign compe-
tition in the American market. What
they are doing is to take advantage
of an extraordinary economic situa-
ton to plumber their own country
men,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
A Pathetic Case,

The story printed elsewhere IN Inc
News of John Norman, a leper OF
Ui1kes-Barre, Pa, and his devoted
7,-ifa is a pathetic one, and calls re-
newed attention to bill in congress
which asks 100000 for the estab-
1iebment of a national leprosarium.
II is estimated that there are between
3OO and 500 lepers in the United
States doomed where known locally
IN an isolation that is a living death.
Segregation and proper attention in
a leprosarium under the public
health service would offer means OF
combating the disease.
There is need for some such insti-
tuition. largely because of the inhu-
man attitude of the outside world,
due to the panic provoked by the ira
ditional horror of the disease. To
the uniformed leprosy is still the
Ioathesome and terrifying disease
Dictured in the Bible stories. 1t is
believed to be highly. contagious, and
the leper to be stunned as pesti-
lence.
Yet. modern medical science has
found that Ieprosy IS not highly con-
tagious, that it is not carried in the
air, that even close contact for long
period is not infectious. Twenty-one
attendants who had lived with the
Iepers in Molokai, Hawaiian Islands,
from five to ten years did not develop
it. Even husbands and wives of lep-
ers there showed only five per cent
Of infections.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
WHAT THE EDITOR KNOWS.
rom the Milledgeville News.

From the Milledgeville News.
A good many editors are said not
to know much, says an exchange. The
trouble is, they know a lot of stuff
they dare not tell. They know who
drinks the beer and they know the
ladies who deviate from the straight
path of rectitude, and the boys who
smoke in the alleys and dark places,
and the girls who are out auto riding
till the roOsters crow for daylight.
They know the fellows who are good
pay and they know the fellow who
can't be trusted for a tobacco sack
full of salt. They could guess at once
why some fellows are as they are, and
they can guess pretty closely what
they do to make them so. Even in
a town like this they know enough
to make one of the red-hottest, rip
roaring, high-geared, triple-action,
chain-lightning editions you ever
read. But they also know that it is
best for the community and them
selves to let the law take care of
humanity's devilment and publish
only such news as will do to read in
the house. Editors generally pursue
this policy and thereby live longer
and get more enjoyment out of life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
A MILLION HAVE BEEN SLAIN.

From the Macon Evening News.
The most fearful toll of life ever
exacted by a war is already the rec
ord of the present conflict in Europe.
The figures issued from Berlin, Off
cial but approximate, almost stagger
the imagination. The losses as now
computed are as follows:
Germany, 225,OO0; Austria-Hun-
gary, 125, 900; England, France and
Belgium, 5000; Russia, 1000;
Servia and Montenegro, $4,000 This
makes a total of one million one
hundred thousand men who have
died on the field of battle in only
two months of fighting.
The tremendous losses are attribu-
ted chiefly to the fact that so many
men are engaged and to the awful
destructiveness of modern guns and
ammunition.
If Napoleon is censured because in
the wars during his twenty-yeaT pc
riod Europe was drenched with the
blood of five million men what must
be thought of those who are resDOn-
sible for the death of more than one
million in sixty days time?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
In a False Light.

Commenting on data compiled by
the last federal census and just made
public to the effect that more than
1O8,O0O farmers stated they had oc-
cupied their farms only one year or
less, 71,224 from two to four years,
1913 from five to nine years, and
40, 764 ten years and over, the Worth
County Local says: This frequency
of moving from farm to farm, or in
stability of occupancy, very likely
forms one of the chief causes for the
decline of rural prosperity and is a
hindrance to greater progress. FIRE.
quency of removal of farmers results
in general shiftlessness."
TAe above statistics, like many
others that emanate from the gov
eminent bureaus at Washington,
should be taken with a large grain of
salt. They do not represent the real
farmers of Georgia, but include ne
gro tenants and share troopers. And
that makes a big difference.
The figures, standing by them
selves and unexplained, make very
poor showing for the farmers Of
Georgia, and one that is not de-
served.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-13
WINDFALL FOR sUFFRAGIsTs.

From the Savannah Press.
The most successful lift woman
suffrage has had in long time comes
through the gift of something like
$4,000, 1000 in cash from the es-
tate of the late Mrs. Frank Leslie.
The Baroness de Basus Chat is the
name she chose after the death of her
husband) has made several personal
requests in her will, but after all
these are paid the residue of her es-
tate is to go to Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait.
To Mrs. Gait is given absolutely
and without restriction the residuary
estate. valued in excess of $4,000
600, with only the wish" that she
will expend it for the advancement of
the woman suffrage cause and as in
her judgment she deems best"
Mrs. Gait states that she is going
to exercise her authority under the
clause in the will very cautiously. She
is going to call into conference other
leaders in the cause of suffrage for
women and be guided largely by
what they say as to the disposition
of so great a sum.
With more than $2,0O0,000 in the
treasury of the woman suffrage party
that organization will be equipped
with sinews of war that will make it
much more formidable than it has
been in the past.