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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-29
IDENTIFY NEGRO
Women Accuse Christian OF Brcnkinr
Into Homes and Assembling Them.

Peter Christian, colored, was identi-
fled yesterday morning by two women
rs the man who attempted to assault
them last week in their homes. Tho
testimony of the women, given before
Justice cratchfield. in Police Court, re-
suited in the negro being held for tho
grand jury
CHRISTIAN. 1t Is claimed. forced an
entry into the home of Mrs. Ida Wool
bridge. 2307 East Franklin Street,
and choked her. The man is accused
of similar offcnsc by Mrs NJ NJ
Moses. 23ol East Franklin Street. on
the same night.
TIL arrest was only made early yes
tcraay morning, although the alleged
crimes were attempted on the night OF
May -: Sergeant Sherry and Patrol
man Warriner succeeded in locating
the man in the basement of n house
in the vicinity of the homes which ho
Is accused of breaking into.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-29
stnbic Owners Summoned.

Health Officers yesterday issued sum-
monscs for twelve owners OF stables
al! OF whom are charged with viola
the Richmond Health Department gov
SrhinS the maintenance Of stables with
IN The city limits. The principal Charge
premises each day, as provided in The
ordinance.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-29
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Held M Cocaine I'eddIcrS.

Two negroes. man and woman.
were held for the grand jury ycster-
day. in Police Court for being alleged
utalcrs i'm cocaine The woman, Us
tcle Huttlc, was arrested by Patrol
men Duffy and Eertucci ut her home in
the rear Of 1923 Brown Street while
the man, Waverly Bates. was arrested
by Bertucci.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
Must Register Now.

The News would again remind
those who would vote in the elections
this year that the books for the regis
tration of voters will close on April
1st.
Under the provisions of law en-
acted at the last session Of the gen
eral assembly those who qualify are
permanently registered unless dis
qualified by the failure to pay taxes
or for other constitutional reasons.
With the date on which the books
will close less than five weeks hence
it ia important that voters attend to
the duty of registering without delay.
Failure to do so will prohibit one
from participating in the elections
this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
Administrator Sale.

State Of Georgia, Terrell County.
By virtue of an order from the Court
of Ordinary of Terrell county, Geor-
gia, l will sell before the court house
door in the city of Dawson, Ca, dur
ing the legal hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday, March 3rd, 1914, to
the highest bidder, for cash, the fol-
lowing described lands, towit: One
hundred and twenty-five (l25)
acres, more or less, being parts OF
lots of land numbers two hundred
and thirty-nine $3.50 and two hun
dred and forty (24O), in the Elev-
enth C11th) district of Terrell coun-
ty Georgia, and known as the Will
liam Kaigler place and later as the
Oliver Marshall farm. Sold as the
property of William Kaigler, deceas-
ed, for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution. This Feb. 2, 1914.
J.. C. HOYL, administrator estate of
William Kaigler, deceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
A NOTE SIGNED BY
WEBSTER AND CLAY

From the National Magazine.
What always charms me about
Washington is to realize that, after
all, men are human, and that no dig
nifty or distinction can eliminate the
spirit of democracy On.Which the re-
public is founded. To walk along
and have a chat with Chief Justice
White and find that the man who has
written decisions of historic moment
from which there is no appeal retains
an interest in everyday affairs and
wears a fuzzy hat, and about the
same sort of clothes, shoes and neck
ties as any other man, only serves to
emphasize his real dignity. The chief
justice is as simple as he is digniied.
He loves to spend his vacation days
at the old home in Louisiana, where
neighbors and friends still hail him
with the affectionate greetings of the
days when he was forging his way to
the front as a promising young law
yer.
The men in official Washington
seem to have less Of halo about
them than in the good old days, when
the towering form of Webster or
Henry Clay would attract more at
tention on Pennsylvania avenue than
a brass band or a tango dancer in
1914. In bank the other day saw
the note endorsed jointly by Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster. The story
is told that Clay asked Webster to
endorse a note with him for $500.
ct battles me, Daniel responded
Clay. Perhaps he desired some me-
mento to hand down to posterity, for
l cannot at this moment conceive
how it is going to be paid by the pres
ent generation"
The Cancelled note is today a valued
souvenir, worth many times its face,
because of the illustrious signers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
Will Georgia Get Any?

IRON the Savannah News.
II isn't easy 10 see now Georgia
wouI5 be benefited by the Shackle-
ford bill. As il passed the house it
nrovides for the distribution of S25,-
100000 among the states for road
building purposes, on condition that
they raise that amount for the same
rurDoses. II, for instance, Georgia
should be allotted $500, 900 she
would have TO appropriate a like
amount from her own revenues. IN
less she we're to be permitted 10 pay
her half million dollars in work OF
c0ryicts on the roads she would stand
very little chance of getting any part
OF the $4,000, 200.
The bill provides that states must
raise an amount equal TO that con-
rributed by the federal government.
It is pointed out that the cities in the
various states might contribute the
money. but, as a matter OF fact, the
cities, in most of the states, are in
debt TO the limit of their borrowing
CAPACITY and hence are in no position
10 put up money for road building.
So far as this state is concerned
there is no probability of its appro-
priating half a million Of dollars for
good roads within the next ten years.
She has a floating debt approaching
million dollars and her tax rate
cannot be increased. 1t is as great
as her constitution permits. At this
time an effort is being made to equal
ize assess ments and much is expected
from it. It is by no means certain,
however, that the additional revenue
that will be raised will be more than
sufficient this year TO meet the state 5
present needs and pay off part OF
her Indebtedness. In fact, it may
take three or four years to pay her
out OF debt.
Hence We are unable to see that
Georgia has any reason for being
pleased with the good roads bill, I'M
less, as We have said, she is permitted
TO offset the share OF the appropria-
lions that would naturally come to
her, in the event that the bill be-
comes a law, with the labor of her
convicts. And if she were permitted
to do that the money would have to
20 to the counties which have the
states convicts And that would call
forth protests from counties that
have no state cOnVicts and hence
would make complications.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
Has Reached Its Zenith,

The vulgar folly and the criminal
ity OF the English militant sufra-
gettes have obscpred somewhat the
updoubted success achieved by wo-
men who employ peaceful means TO
obtain the franchise. Most Of the
eet-backs to the cause in 1913 can be
attributed to the disgust and resent
ment aroused by the actions Of those
misguided women who made arson
and assault their chief weapons.
This feeling may be ascribed TO
the defeat in the legislatures Of eley-
en- states Of resolutions referring the
question to the voters. On the other
hand seven states voted for a refer
endum, and in four Of them-North
Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and
Nevada-the voters will pronounce
on woman suffrage during the pres
ent year. The women Of Alaska
have been granted the franchise and
Illinois has granted limited vote to
its fair citizens, raising the total Of
suffrage states to ten.
Last winter woman suffrage was
debated in seventeen national parlia-
ments and in thirty-three states and
other legislatures-a sufficient proof
Of its vitality and influence. But in
several OF the leading European ma
tions decided reaction is becoming
apparent.
The suffrage movement on the
whole seems to have reached and
passed its zenith, and a slower rate
OF progress is to be looked for in
the future. In some countries this
condition is due to the apathy and
Indifference Of the women them
selves; in other nations it is the
result Of the discovery that the lack
of vote is but a slight obstacle to
feminine success in the market place.
It is said that American men have
only nine occupations exclusive TO-
themselves. At any rate, the women
have proved their efficiency in many
directions, and the thousands re-
sponsible administrative positions in
their hands today are proof that they
are not Disseminated against to the
extent that the more rabid advocates
Of votes for women would have Us
believe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
I'VE ARE HUNGRY AND
YOU ARE DRUNK

From the Home and Farmstead.
We happened to be in New York
upon New Years night. We had a
chance to see the gaiety, the waste,
and the wickedness of champagne
crazy, dance~crazy city.
And it was a thong ht-proyoking
show for a Georgia crackeTi
The New York papers next morn
ing estimated that three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars worth of cham
payne was drunk, and all told mill
lion dollars were spent in the res
taurants, cafes and cabarets ushering
in the New Year.
1t was a spectacle of sheer, unre-
lieved, unadulterated paganism
The poor and wretched, the I'M
employed and hungry finally organ
lied their own celebration and filled
the middle of the streets with long
line of marchers.
A half-drunken swell in a claw
hammer coat on the sidewalk called
out to them, Hey, buns, what's
up?"
The answer was, 1--WE are hungry
and you are drunk; that's what S
up"
No single expression could better
sum up the tragic social situation.
Read Roy K. Moulton's verses on
THE Bread Line"
There is no more pathetic sight at
the midnight hour in New York city
or in any other city on earth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
Flowing Deep,

The prosperity Of tse Southern
states, which has been so marked the
past few years as to be the wonder
Of the country, is due almost entirely
TO the Improvement in farm nus
bandry. Only q short time ago the
farmers did not know how TO farm,
or we're indifferent. Now they are
blowing deep and building up the
fertility o. their land. The produc.
ton Of cotton in the South can be
greatly increased by improving the
soil. This was illustrated in Tennes-
see. where a farmer produced bale
of cotton TO each acre with the ex-
penditure Of only 81 for fertilizer.
This meant that he got about $40 an
acre for his crop.
Here in our own county Of Terrell
wonderful progress has been made
in agriculture, and a few years ago
ground which grew "bumblee bee"
cotton and a few nubbins of corn is
now producing a bale of cotton and
fifty to a hundred bushels of corn
per acre.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
Dawson As a Cotton Market,

Dawson ought not 10 be merely As
good market as any other point II
the country to sell spot cotton offer
ed from first hands.
It ought TO be made the best mar
ket. little better than any other
hereabouts.
If the business element Of the city
does not appreciate the importance
OF this matter the time is coming,
and coming very soon, when it viii
be understood.
The season is virtually over. The
cotton has practically all been sold
and the cotton buyers will relax their
activities until next fall. Now, during
the intervening months, the subject
OF making Dawson a better cotton
market Is one that may well engage
the efforts Of the local business COM
munity-merchants, bankers, ware
hougemen and everyone else here
who is interested in the business
status and prestige Of the city.
Farmers keep on coming to Da~-
son and declaring they can sell cot
ton to better advantage in the small
er towns Of the county. Is it desira-
BILE that that condition shall con-
tinue? And how shall it be rene
died?
Surely there is a way to remedy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
St. Peter at the Gate

St. Peter stood guard at the golden
gate
With a solemn mien and an air Sc
date,
When up to the top of the golden
stair
A man and a woman ascened there,
Applied for admission. They came
and stood
Before St. Peter, so great and good,
In hopes the City of Peace to win
And asked st. Peter to let them in.
The woman was tall, and lank, and
thin
With a scraggly beard1et upon her
chin.
The man was short, and thick, and
stout,
His stomach was built so it round
ed out.
His face was pleasant, and all the
while
He wore a kindly and genial smile.
The choirs in the distance echous
woke,
And the man kept still while the
woman spoke.
20 thou who guardest the gate said
she,
eve two come hither, beseeching
thee
To let us enter this heavenly land,
And play our harps with the angel
band.
OF me, st. Peter, there is no doubt,
There's nothing in heaven to bar me
out.
I've been to meetings three times
week,
And almost always I'd rise and
speak.
give told the sinners about the day
When they'd repent of their evil way.
I've told my neighbors-I've told
'em all
Bout Adam and Eve, and the Pri-
NAL Fall;
I've shown 'em what they'd have
to do
If they'd pass in with the chosen
few.
I've marked their path of duty clear,
Laid out the plan for their whole
career.
and long,
For my lungs are good and my voice
is strong;
So, good st. Peter, you'll clearly see
The gate of heaven is open to me,
But my old man, l regret to say,
Hasn't walked in exactly the narrow
way;
He smokes, and he swears, and grave
faults he's got,
And l don't know whether he'll pass
or not.
"He never would pray with an earn
est vim,
Or go to revival or join in a hymn.
So l had to leave him in sorrow
While I, with the chosen, united in
He ate what the pantry CHANGED to
afford,
While I, in my purity, sang to the
Lord;
And if cucumbers were all he got
It's a chance if he merited them or
NOT
But, oh, st. Peter, I love him so!
To the pleasure of heaven please let
him go,
I've done enough saint I've been,
Won't that atone, can't you let him
in?
BY my grim gospel l know it's so,
That the unrepentant must fry be-
low,
But isn't there some way you can see
That he may enter who's dear to me?
IT'S a narrow gospel by which
| pray,
But the chosen expect to find some
! way
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

OF the several great organizations
the present day of what may be call
ed distinctively Of fraternal and
benevolent nature the order known
as Knights of Pythias holds honora-
BILE and important place, with ad-
mfration as one reflects on what the
influence Of such an organization
must mean to society.
The order has completed fully fifty
years of endeavor and achievement,
and last Thursday, February 18th,
was its semi-centennial. Naturally
and properly enough the anniversary
was celebrated by the membership
wherever lodges exist, and there are
twenty thousand Of It's lodges in ex-
istence. There is local interest IN the
event, for high officials in the organ
ization, including Hon. Il. ". Stan
ley, Commissioner of3Commerce and
Labor, will be In Dawson tomorrow
"wednesday 70 institute lodge in
this city.
Men began early in the history Of
our race to combine and cooperate
for purposes Of mutual helpfulness,
for human uplift, and we may add
that It was the movements with NOR
atty and belief and trust in God as
their basis that endured and achiey-
ed. The Masons, the Odd Fellows,
the Knights Of Pythias and kindred
orders Of our time are but the eYolu-
tionary product Of earlier aspiration
and effort, all recognizing supreme
being and all willing TO rest their
right to exist on the fruits of their
work.
The half century Of Pythianism is
rich in achievement. 1t came into
existence in the closing days Of our
great civil war, at the capital Of our
country, and in the providence of
God it seems to have come to be a
means to healing the wounds Of war,
to persuade brothers to peace and
mutual helpfulness. Friendship,
Charity and Beneyolence were and
are it's watchwords. During it's ex-
istence millions of Americans have
taken it's pledges, the vows of Pyth-
ian Knighthood. Today it has mem
bership of full 100000 How many
have worn the golden spurs OF
knighthood and then passed on from
this life to another during the half
century we can only conjecture, but
undoubtedly millions. The influence
of its teachings on those men can be
imagined. OF many Of them 1T sure
~ made better men-better citizens,
better husbands, fathers, sons and
friends. It Is easy to believe, too,
of it's beneficent influence on the lives
and HAPPINESS Of good women-the
wives. mothers and daughters, some
times the widows, of its members. OF
its provision for the needs of widow
and orphans we may speak but brief
" here. but the woman and child left
alone and needing help and friendll-
ness has never lacked Pythian care
There are few, we imagine, even
those who do not owe allegiance &c
the order, who know little of Its
work, can fail to appreciate and pa!
tribute to such influences and efforts
for assuredly in such moments d.
we find one of the means and way
whereby Divine wisdom points GU
TO man the method and example o
brotherly love and human uplift.
And what ideal is more 1nsplflhi
and elevating than the beautiful AM
deathless story of the love of Damol
and Pythias?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

Editor Shope Of the Dalton Citizen
thinks the millennium is drawing
near, and supports his conclusion
with the following: Monday even
ing the Atlanta Journal carried a
picture of Clark Howell on its front
page, and Tuesday morning the Ma
con Telegraph had a cut OF Hoke
Smith on its front page. Cease your
Iabors, good people; the millennium
is near at hand" There are many
who will agree with our contempt
rary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

1t is said that President Wilson,
recognizing the fact that his party IS
still minority party, proposes to re-
cruit it's strength by making non-par-
tisan Appointments and by creating
new issues. Non-partisan appoint
ments might make many new con-
verts, but such methods will be
mighty unpopular with the falthful
who have so long been crowded from
the pie wagon, and would create a
disturbing howl from those who are
now expecting good grazing in the
political pasture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
The Bread Line.

Well, here they are-they stand and
stamp and SILVER
Waiting their food from some kind
stranger hand,
Their weary limbs with eagerness
a-quiver
Hungry and heart-sick in boun-
teous land.
"Beggars and bums?" Perhaps, and
largely worthless,
Shaky with drink, unlOvely, crav-
en-, low,
With obscene tongues and hollow
laughter mirthless,
But who shall give them scorn for
being so?
We boast of vast achievements and
of power,
Of human progress knowing no de-
feat,
OF strange new marvels every day
and hour
And here's the bread line in the
wintry street!
Ten thousand years replete with ev-
cry wonder,
Of empires risen, of empires dead,
Yet still, while MASTERS roll in swol-
len plumber,
The broken men must stand in
line-for bread!
Roy K. MouIton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

OF coaxing, or fooling, or bribing you
So that their relations can ambIe
through;
And say, St. Peter, it seems to me,
You ought to stand by that opening
there
And never sit down in the easy chair.
And say, St. Peter, my sight is
dimmed,
But l don't like the way your whis-
kers are trimmed;
They're cut too wide and outward
toss,
They'd look better narrow, cut
straight across
Well, we must be going our crowns
to win,
So, open, St. Peter, and Wen pass
int"
St. Peter sat and stroked his staff.
But, in spite of his office, he had
to laugh;
Then said, with fiery CLEAN in his
eye,
who's tending this gateway-you
or II"
And then he arose in his stature tall,
And pressed a button upon the wall,
And said to the imp who answered
the bell,
Escort this lady around to hell!
The man stood as a piece of stone
Stood sadly, gloomily there alone
A lifelong settled idea he had
That his wife was good and he was
bad.
He thought if the woman went down
below
That he would certainly have to 60
That if she went to the regions dim
There wasn't ghost Of chance for
him.
Slowly he turned, by habit bent,
To follow wherever the woman went.
st. Peter, standing on duty there,
Observed that the top of his head
was bare.
He called the gentleman back and
said:
Friend, how long have you been
wed?" !.
Thirty years" with a weary sign ,
And then he thoughtfully added
Why"
st. Peter was silent. With head bent
He raised his head and scratched his
Then, seeming a different thought
to take,
Slowly, half to himself, he spake:
Thirty years with that woman
there!
No wonder the man hasn't any hair!
T., T1yfoIT
good
He smoked and swore-I should
think he would.
Thirty years with that tongue so
sharp?
Ho, Angel Gabriel, give him a harp!
A teweled harp with a golden string!
Good sir, give him a seat alone
One with a cushion-up near the
throne.
Call up some angels to play their
best,
Let him enjoy the music and rest.
'See that on finest ambrosia he feeds,
He's had about all the hell he needs.
1t isn't just hardly the thing to do
To roast him on earth and the flu
ture, too.
They gave him a harp with golden
strings,
A glittering robe and a pair of wings,
And he said as he entered the realm
OF day,
"WelI, this beats cucumbers, any
way!"
And so the scriptures had come to
pass:
1.-THE last shall be first and the first
shall be last!"
Rocky Mountain News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

Male angels are wingless, says q
woman dreamer who, in trance,
claims 10 have had a vision OF a
beautiful city" and SEA the an
gels" We know some men who al
least would look odd with wings, and
they might be uncomfortable posing
as angels"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

Suppose Thomas E. Watson should
decide to enter the race for the SEN
ate. The hustings would resound
with the clash Of oratorical debate,
and there'd be lively doings in sew
eral different directions, says the Ma
con News. It's the truth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF the United States for the Western Divis
ion of the Northern District of Georgia.
Inre John w. Brown
Terrell County,
RonEYupt-

Terrell County, In Bankruptcy. No 5oo
Bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that the above named
John " Brown who was on the 9th day Of
March. 1913, duly sdjudged a bankrupt, hm
filed his petition praying discharge. and that
the same will be heard before Judge Of said
court at the United States court room, in the
CITY of Atlanta. Ca. on the 18th day Of March,
1qI4 at which time and place any one at interest
may appear and show cause if any there be. why
the PRAYER of said petition should not be granted
This 18th day of Feb. 1914.
0. c. FULLER, Clerk.
BY \. a. Brown, Deputy.
NJ. c. Edwards, NJ. J. Yoemans, Attorneys for
Bankrupt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

About q million demijohns are
made annually in the United States,
but the largest sizes are imported.
And many of them are finding their
way to Georgia from JACKSONVILLE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

They have a corking time in Spain.
About 1000 tons Of cork sawdust are
used in that country annually IN
packing fruits for shipment. Some
1000 persons are employed in some
manner in the cork industry in Spain,
with an average wage Of about 81
cents q day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

Cordele has voted bonds of s74,-
600 TO pave its business streets. In
Dawson we will continue to wade
ankle deep through mud in wet
weather and stifie with dust in dry
weather
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24

Statesmen were never more willing
or plentiful in Georgia. 1t is an in
significant bailiwick, indeed, that
hasn't one or more citizens who
would illustrate his state in the
United States senate.