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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-03-20

Vienna, Aus
tria.-The world
today may be
growing better.
Upon that point
there are differ
ences Of opinion.
The cost Of liv-
ing in the world,
however, is high
er today than
yesterday. Up
on this there are
no differences Of
opinion. The dis
cussion Of this
h | 6 h er cost
which is confined
to no one cOun-
try or continent
but Is world
W | d e--of t b e
causes and OF
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-03-20
AN lNvETERATE HABIT OF READING ALOUD ALI
THE FUNNY PAPERS.

AMI
FUNNY PAPERS,
that the Probabilities of his being Called Do That are very Few
indeed the fact that he very Careless about Brushing his
Clothes will be Daily Apparent to YOU"
Me said the Woman "And Henrs Manners so Per-
fect%
Ihey All could Desire replied the Sister He will
you Anywhere Evenings and he Always Admires Singing
you Sure that Down in the Bottom of his Heart he is
Perfectly Good MANI" asked the Woman.
81 have No Means of Seeing the
Bottom of his Heart But he Always Opens the Door for and Hopes
Slept Well"
GLOW you Know; said the Woman chat Tremendous
Spiritual Crisis he would not Fail Me?"
81 DON'T the Sister replied eve have Never had Any of Those
in the Family should Not Marry with View having Them Think
But you Certain to have Soup"
every WE'LL" said the Woman f that your Advice will take
Henry"
Which she Did and Lived Happily Afeward
This teaches Take Care of the Manners and the Morals will
Take Care Of Themselves
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
JefferSon'S Last DAYS,

1t is an interesting and somewhat
touching story of the latter years OF
Thomas Jefferson that Mrs. Virginia
McNealus has written of Thomas JEFF
ferson and reproduced in The Daw-
son News today. The great statesman
and patriot had occasion to realize
that posterity is more appreciative OF
public service and personal worth
than are contemporaries. Jefferson
met with misfortune in the closing
years of his life, and for awhile had
trying experiences, for he needed
money to pay debts. His trying or
deal and the long delayed recogni-
tion of his needs are told in graphic
words by the author of the article.
If Jefferson had been a military hero
instead of a statesman he might have
Jared better than he did. Our peO-
pie have always been quick to ad-
mire deeds on land and sea. Parti-
san political feeling, too, was far
more intense when Jefferson lived
than now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
THE WARS DURATION.

From the Savannah News.
There isn't so much being said now
about the probable duration of the
European war as there was a few
weeks ago. The reason is that more
uncertainty is felt about it. Soon
after the war started it was freely
predicted that it would end in two
months Even the German Emperor
was quoted as telling his soldiers
that they would be at home by the
time the leaves began to fall. Only
in England was the prediction heard
that the war would be long one.
The statesmen of that country
speak of a twO-years war. But if the
estimates of the number that has al
ready been killed and wounded in
the great battles that have been
fought in the eastern and western
war zones the war cannot last any
where near that long if the fighting
continues to be as destructive of life
as it is reported to be now and to
have been ever since the first shot
was fired.
The war can hardly last two years,
as predicted by English statesmen.
So far as some of the belligerents are
concerned both men and money will
give out long before the expiration Of
that time, if the present fast and flu
rious fighting continues, even if the
estimates of the number already
killed and wounded are much greater
than the facts warrant.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
THE LESSON IS NEEDED.

From the Albany Herald.
The Dawson News, which has
been published as a semi-weekly,
will become a weekly until the
present business conditions are
succeeded by better days. A lot
of newspapers will have to take in
their sails if this disposition on the
part of the merchants to rest from
advertising continues very long
Moultrie Observer.
1t has been a disastrous season
with all manner of new enterprises,
and newspapers have suffered in
common with the merchants, the
builders, the manufacturers, the
farmers and practically every other
class. When things get out of joint
in the business world and we don't
get what we eXpected-when the
eggs fail to hatch and the chickens
we had carefully counted never leave
the nest-we find ourselves in troub-
lie which we had not anticipated and
which we somehow feel we have not
deserved. Many businesses and many
individuals are finding retrenchment
necessary now, and while the expe-
rience is far from pleasant it will be
valuable in the long run. We really
needed the lesson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
The Mail Bag StumpS For
Candidates,

Uncle Sans mail bag, according to
news dispatches from Washington,
very largely took the place of the
stump speaker in the congressional
campaign which came to close last
night. Where a candidate for the
senate or house formerly delivered
speech in fulsome praise of himself
and his party he rapidly dictated
to a stenographer and mimeograph
machine turned out long letters along
the lines of the speech the candidate
would have made had he gone before
the people.
For three months past the mails
out of Washington have been loaded
down with campaign documents.
Both the democratic and republican
congressional headquarters have
kept at work a force of anywhere
from twenty to fifty men and women,
and senators and members of the
house of representatives have added
TO the bulk of the mail by sending
home thousands of speeches and let
tiers of appeal Senators seeking re-
election have canvassed their entire
states by mail, and members of the
house have written letters to practi-
cally everybody in their districts.
A speech delivered by member OF
either body is presumed to be prop
erly frankable material. as it is la
beled part of Congressional Rec
ord" and hundreds of thousands OF
their Nominations have been carried
in the mails free and the people thus
made to bear a very large part Of the
campaign expenses of the off1ce-hold-
ers. The people are indeed patient
end long suffering.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
The Penitentiary Farm,

Governor John NJ. Slaton has ad
dressed a letter to the state prison
commission asking that body to
cut down the cotton acreage at
the state farm next year, thereby
setting a precedent and a whole
some example to the state. "Tt is
my understanding that if a larger
proportion of fOOdstuff could be
raised it could be utilized and an
expense of the maintenance of the
department thereby lessened,'
said the governOr-News item.
The governors idea that the state
should set an example in the reduc-
ton of the cotton acreage is patriotic
and commendable, and his sugges-
ton will be given thoughtful consid-
GRAFTON by the prison commission.
There is now raised on the prison
farm all of the bread. vegetables and
fresh meat consumed by the several
hundred prisoners confined there
and all of the corn, oats, hay, peas,
eLC.. uCGGSSdl III IiiC OPCI q IAOiA VI III \
farm. If these crops were materi-
ally increased difficulty might be ex-
perienced in finding profitable mar
kets for the surplus, as has been true
in past instances.
Cotton is a surplus crop on the
farm, and is planted to give the pris-
oners employment and reimburse the
state as far as possible for their
keep. The proceeds from its sale
are paid directly into the state treas
ury, the sum thus going into the pub
lie TIL the past three years being
upwards of $4,000 The commits
sion, too, follows closely the trend of
the times in regard to planting and
disposing of cotton, and only three
years ago, when the market was
down and holding was considered
important, the crop was held several
months and far more satisfactory
price secured for it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
Burned Corn in The West;
Stored Cotton in The South
The Souths Present Predicament Is Lkened to That of
the West in the Early 80S.
From the st. Louis Republic.

Louis Republic.
not only survived the corn-burning
period, but came out of it Drawer and
stronger than they went in, SO the
South will weather the depression in
the cotton industry The 'buy-a-
bale" movement is evidence in point
just here. 1t did not begin as an ap-
peal to the outside world to help the
South. 1t began with the purchase
by SOutherners of their own cotton,
the townspeople taking each bale
to help the farmers of the country.
Nowhere in the union is the spirit of
self-heIp stronger than in the cotton
region.
When Patriotism Counts.
The patriotism and public spirit of
the South's neighbOrs will count for
much in the present emergency, but
the greatest resource of the South is
her own will and courage. These
people on whom falls the weight of
the present difficulty in dispOsing of
cotton are not untried. Much of the
best cotton land in the nation lies be-
hind the levees of the Mississippi
alluvial valley. The river in 1912
stock, washed houses away, Destroy
ed crops. And the farmers went back
to their devastated fields when the
waters receded, repaired the damage,
and built the levees higher; then
came the still mightier flood of 1913,
greater than the great high water Of
1874. Ruin trod on the heel of ruin.
Again the farmers went back and la
bored to build the levees higher still.
Through these golden days of early
autumn the St. Frances levee district
alone has had 200 teams at work to
raise the earth rampant so high that
it may keep out the Mississippi as the
dikes of Holland keep out the ocean.
The history of American agricult-
ure is a history of souls. The Ameri-
can spirit triumphed in those dark
days in Kansas and Nebraska thirty
years ago when men burned corn for
coal. 1t is triumphing today where
the cotton grower faces the future
with dauntless face, and, while he
waits for the end of the war to re-
open once more the closed cotton ex-
changes, keeps the wheeled scraper
going on the levee.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03

According to newspaper reports the
"buy-a-bale" movement to save the
cotton grower has reached magnifl-
cent proportions. Thousands have
paid ten cents and now own cotton.
This big-hearted impulse to help
Southern planters is most desirable.
1t has been wOrthily recognized by
the newspapers with front page sto-
ries and large head lines.
The whole "buy-a-bale" movement
has been admirably promoted. Nota-
BILE attention has been paid to the
movement by sagacious Southern
business men, who though not grow
ing cotton themselves are awake to
every opportunity for advancing 1t.
In fact it may be said that the lion S
share of credit for ten cents cotton
belongs to these sane, shrewd bust
ness men.
Doubtless only the farmer is to
blame if he did not get some of this
ten-cents money for his cotton. Per-
haps if he had not sold it for less
than ten cents the philanthropic-
minded people who wanted to help
him would finally thought about buy
ing direct from him.
Or was it the fault of the philan-
thropic people that they bought with
out due consideration cotton which
the farmer had received only 7 Y or
8 cents for. the difference between
TX cents and ten cents, of course,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03

etc., every rural carriers numhor
packages would be doubled, ana W VI
talk would be heard of letting ont NJ NJ
rural carriers job by contract ~ "a tle
lowest bidder. To illustrate furtb ene
L work for the Central of Georoia
railway and Southern Express CO.. 9aa
pany. If | am on a visit of busirnn-
or pleasure and an opportunity ms
sents itself in any way for beneftinr
either corporation / take advantaaee
OF 1t. Their business is nv businaso9
at all times. | never forget if ne
rural carriers should do Hkov,;a ue
The building up of the business 70
the country routes of the governnoO ~
postoffice department is in ~
hands. And it must stand or fall ~
their conception of and faithfulnasS
to their duty. Now let them get an
other thing out of their heads. tSat
is, that they are rivals of the eynroSS
companies. They are not, for Will
the postoffice has taken 1orao
amount of smaller packages frnn,
the express companies the Intersto+a
Commerce Commission has enIarooJ
the scope of the express business and
there is room enough for both for
the next congress will increase tba
pay given the railways of the conn.
try for the additional burden nnon
them by the parcel post, and if the
rural carriers and local merchants
do their duty and live up to their
privileges the country will fonrisb
and become more homogeneous and
the large mail order house of the
larger cities will cease to vex the
country merchant. A. P. RIVES,
Cuthbert, Ca, Oceober 81, 1914
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
THE RURAL MAIL SERVICE
Are the People Getting the Benefit They Should From If?

Editor of The Dawson News: The
strongest reason for establishing the
rural delivery and the parcel post
was to place the city mans facilities
at the country mans door. The
weakest point in the system of both
is that the nearby merchants, in the
first zones of this service, have not
used them, and the rural carriers
themselves have only worked for the
narrow view of building up their own
compensation without making their
service useful to the patrons and a
necessity of which they would not be
deprived. Union labor bottoms their
plea for just compensation on full
days work without Sinking or
marking time by each individual
member Our time, our mental as
we'll as our physical powers are util-
lied for building up and enlarging
our employers business so that the
employer can more easily out of his
increased income advance our sti-
pend, for we realize that our inter
ests are mutual Now, the rural car
riers must measure up to this stand
ard in the governments employ, and
their city patrons must measure up
to their opportunities by proving to
the country patrons that their inter
ests are mutual. To illustrate, if the
merchants of Cuthbert, Coleman, Be
nevOlence, Shellman, Dawson and
other places would use these carriers
to disseminate prices on goods deliv-
cred by parcel post in their terrific
ries, together with exchange prices
of the smaller commodities of but
ter, honey, eggs, dressed poultry,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
Let's Have One Here.

The Farmers Club, recently con-
structed at Seymour, Ind, was ded-
icated last week with elaborate cere-
monies. 1t is entirely for the con-
venience and comfort of the farmers
who go there to do their trading, and
they have taken great interest
in the building There is an assem-
bly, room for farmers meetings, rest
rooms for both men and women and
a room set apart for children in
charge of a woman who will take
care of the little ones while their
mothers do their shopping. There
are lunch rooms and other conven-
fences, and from the hearty endorse
ment so far received from the visit
ing farmers the club is sure to score
great success.
One would be a good thing for
Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
J. YOU KNOCKER, YOU
SOREHEAD, READ THIS

From the. Salt Lake City Times.
After God had finished the rattle
snake, the toad, and the vampire He
had some awful substance" left with
which He made a 'knocker.' A
knocker is a two-legged animal with
a corkscrew soul, a water-sogged
brain and a combination backbone
made of jelly and glue. Where 9TH
er people have their hearts he carries
a tumor of rotten principles. When
the knocker comes down the street
honest men turn their backs, the an
gels weep in heaven and the devil
shuts the gates of hell to keep him
out. No man has the right to knock
as long as there is a pool of water
deep enough to drown his body in or
a rope strong enough to hang his
carcass with. Judas IscariOt was a
gentleman compared with the knock
er, for after betraying his Master he
had character enough to hang him
self, and the knoCker has not.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
TALK BUSINESS.

From the ValdOsta Times.
It is encouraging to hear so many
people these days tell you business
is good and getting better every day.
Don't talk war-talk business-is
the advice given by many a bust
ness man who is busy himself. It's
good advice for all of us. Don't talk
war, talk business, especially to a
business man who is busy and work
ing harder to get buster as the days
go by.
This section has raised magnificent
crops, the country Is n splendid con-
dition. Don't get worried. The prob
lem is to live at home. keep at work,
raise food stuffs and live stock, and
store your cotton until a market
springs up.
If not now, one of these days the
world will want every pound of this
years cotton crop and will pay a
good price for it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
Christmas ArmistiCe Proposed

All of Ms. no matter of what rellg-
ions belief, must pay cordial reVer-
ence and admiration to Judaism as
the oldest of faiths recognizing and
trusting in the One God, a religion
Of Justice and humanity. 1t seems
logical. therefore, that from Jewish
rabbi should emanate the proposal
Preferred to elsewhere in this pa
per) of absolute cessation OF STRIFE
in Furope and the Orient on Christ
mas day of this year. This is the
idaa and appeal of Rabbi Mendes Of
New York. and it does him and his
religion credit, even if realization
doas not come. What day is more MT
ting. the accepted natal day of the
Prince of Peace, for an appeal to
warning men to halt for a moment
from efforts to kill each other and
On that day yield to better thoughts,
TO retrospection and introspect1on,
in hope that perchance the appeal
NAV not be in vain? We fear the
movement may fail, but at least it
is we'll that it is in the minds Of
men.
But if Rabbi Mendes' proposal
can find favor, why, God speed 1t!
It is a movement all sentimental,
truly, but oft-times we do see senti-
ment exert a wonderful influence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
Jefferson's Last Years Were Trying.
Loss of Fortune Brought Ordeal to Sage of Monticello
Appeals to Congress. Pathetic Story.


Dallas (IeXaS) News.
the payment of a security debt
amounting to $4,000. He resolved
to pay his most pressing debts bv
dispOsing of portions of his land. but
there was no one to buy and land at
that time would not bring a third of
its value. AS last resort he peti-
toned the legislature to relax the op-
Grafton Of the law sufficiently to per-
nit him to dispose of his land by lot
terry, as had been done for the pur-
pose of raising public money. Re-
luctantly the Legislature granted the
request, but in the meantime the ru-
NOR had spread throughout the Unit
ed States that the author of the Dec
laratiOn Of Independence was about
to lose his home, which had long
been the shrine of democracy. From
all generous minds there issued a
protest and in the early summer of
1926, the last days of Mr.. JeffersOns
life, subscriptions were made for his
relief. Philip Hone, mayor of New
York, raised, without an effort
$500. Philadelphia sent $4,000
and Baltimore $4,000.
Lottery Plan Abandoned.
The lottery scheme was abandoned
and Mr.. Jefferson was comforted in
his last hours by the belief that
the subscriptions were sufficient in
amount to free his estate from debt
and to secure a home and provision
for his devoted daughter and her
children He did not hesitate to &C
uif nd 1yi6 IL
had refused to accept a loan from the
Legislature of his state. Not one
cent of this shall be Wrung from the
taxpayers" he said. 1T is pure
and unsolicited offering of love-
One should not forget to mention
that Mr.. Jefferson enjoyed the priv
lege of the most loyal and able assist
ance in his business affairs of his
grandson and namesake, Thomas
Jefferson Randolph. But all OF the
efforts of his executor did not save
to him so much as his burial grOunu,
a spot selected by him nearly sew.
enty years before. To quote one OF
the authorities: Thomas Jefferson
died more than solvent, but the eX-
IRENE depression of values in VIZ
ginia in 1926 and the few folloWlng
years compelled the total sacrihce OF
the property" Every debt, however
was paid to the last cent, but Martina
Jefferson Randolph and her children
were left without home ana VIII
out means of providing one lAeSe
circumstances becoming known Tue
legislatures of Louisiana ana oouIn
Carolina, be it said to their idsNns
credit, each voted Mrs. Randolph an
honorary gift of 10000. que
lived only ten years to enjoy TINS re. re-
lief. Her body was placed on sn9
little mountain beside those OF Hei
parents and sister, Maria.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03

The proposed sale of Monticello, the
home of Thomas Jefferson, to the
United States government by its pres
ent owner, T. ]. Levy, for the sum OF
100000 recalls some facts of inter-
est concerning the last days OF the
Father of Democracy.
After spending the greater part OF
his long life of SO years in the SER
vice of his country Mr.. Jefferson
found himself so poor that his fear
was that he would be without
home at the last and would leave no
provision for his only child, Mrs.
Randolph, and her children.
The embargo of 1907, the one dis
tinctly unpopular act of Mr.. Jetfer-
SON S second administration, was the
direct cause of great financial loss to
him and was one of the reasons why
he left Washington in 1909 owing
100000. This was followed by the
depression of commerce caused by
the war of 1912, which rendered cot
ton and tobacco almost worthless
After the war Mr.. Jefferson relieved
himself of his most pressing embar-
easements by selling his most pre-
cious possession and one which was
essentially his own-his library-the
result of sixty years of selection. He
offered it to congress to replace the
library destroyed by the British III
1914. 1t is said that he tried IN eV-
cry way to cut down the price so as
to disarm the animosity Of his enc
mics and to prevent the purchase
from being a burden to his friends.
The committee valued it at $23,Oa
which has been estimated to have
been half its cost and about quarter
of its worth.
Sixteen Wagon Loads.
Mr.. Bacon, his old friend and gen.
eral manager, had the supervision Of
removing the books to Washington.
He stated that there were sixteen
wagon loads. Each wagon was to
carry 5000 pounds for load and to
have $500 a day for delivering them
in Washington. IF they carried more
than 5000 pounds they were to have
extra pay. There were all kinds Of
books-books in a great many Ian
guages that I knew nothing about. y
Mr. Jefferson's collection of books
had been increased in 1907 by Chan
cellOr Wythe, who bequeathed him
his library 1t appears that congress
did not dare to take advantage of its
opportunity to give Mr.. Jefferson sub
stantial relief by simply paying him
the just value of the famous collec-
ton, so the matter went on record III
the minds of some as an evidence of
the ingratitude of republics.
Times grew harder after 1920 with
the family at Monticello, and the eli
max was reached when Mr.. Jefferson,
now old and growing physically in
firm, found himself burdened with
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-03
MY AUTO.

Ny auto, It's Of thee
Short cut TO poverty
OF thee | chant.
I blew a pile of dough
For thee two years ago.
And now you quite refuse to go,
Or won't, or can't.
Through town and countryside
You were my joy and pride
All, happy day.
I loved thy gaudy hue,
Thy nice white tires so new;
Now you're down and out for true
In every way.
To thee, old rattlebox,
Came many bumps and knocks
For thee l grieve.
Prayed are thy seats and worn,
Badly thy top is torn,
Whooping cough affects thy horn,
I do believe.
Thy perfume swells the breeze,
While good folks choke and wheeze
AS we pass by.
| paid for thee a price
'Twould buy a mansion twice,
Now everybody's yelling Ice"
l wonder why.
Thy motor has the grippe.
Thy sparkplug has the pip,
And woe is thine.
I, too, have suffered chills,
Ague and kindred ills,
Endeavoring to pay my bills
Since thou vert mine.
Gone is my bank roll now,
No more 'twould choke the cow,
As once before.
Yet if I had the yen,
So help me, John-amen,
I'd buy myself a car again
And speed some more.
NAL ROSE.