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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
Pen Picture Of Judge Emory Speer

gether in their courses, not to sing
too loud, while he was in his vase,
whether sitting as court in chan
Gerry or just sitting.
This would be accompanied by a
yelled threat to move his vase to
some other part of heavens, if his re-
quest was not Immediately complied
with.
Your custodian, in support of this
apparently extreme statement, re-
spectfully refers you to the records
of the supervising architects office
for the long months of 1905, during
which it appeared that the treasury
would be forced to call upon the war
department for assistance before it
could expend the already appropri-
ated 100000 on its own property in
this city, the presiding judge referred
to having conceived the idea that his
removal to temporary quarters with
out the precaution of casting his hor-
oscope would be attended with dire
portents and public distress through
out the union.
The records do not reveal the
final argument on which peaceful
acQuiesence was obtained. 1t is suf-
ficient to say that the judge was sue
cessfully delivered into the new and
commodious Grand building, assign
ed to rooms, selected by himself, with
accessories approved in advance and
would have been deprived of any ex-
terror excuse for unhappiness had he
not seen the sunset from the quar-
ters of the assistant district attorney,
three doors away. The superior view
of the spectacle presented at this
point was construed into an affrOnt
as serious as les majestic, and the no.
bic orb of day having d:screetlJ
dropped out of sight and jurisdiction
nothing remained for the courts self
respect but to dispossess the amiable
assistant district attorney and enter
with robes, chattels, halos and other
things.
Wrapped in the atmosphere here
tofore described, his robes of office
drawn about him, as gloomy as Mar
JUS among the ruins Of Carthage, he
has gone into a state of perpetual
chancery."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
A Public Defender.

An experiment which will be re-
garded with wide interest is the crea-
ton of a new official in Los Angeles
with the title of public defender. he
will take the place of the generally
young and inexperienced attorney
assigned by the court for the defense
of a penniless prisoner, and in that
capacity will be more of a match for
the public prosecutor, familiar with
his case and relying for his prestige
and power on his success in securing
convictions.
There has been some discussion OF
creating such an office in Georgia,
growing out of the fact that former
Governor Brown committed the death
sentence of negro who was defend
ed by a young and inexperienced at
torney appointed by the court. The
governor took occasion at that time
to say that a man who was on tria
for his life should have the bench
of able and experienced counsel, ant
his position was generally approved
The California experiment is al
interesting one, and, if successful
will no doubt be incorporated in tn
judiciary of many other states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

One of the most interesting feat
ures Of the investigation of Judge
Emory Speer, and one which illum-
ines one of the we'll known charac-
teristics of that jurist, was an official
letter OF Harry Stilwell Edwards.
The letter was written in 1907, when
Judge Speer protested to the treas
ury department that the Macon lodge
of Elks, under whose room the
judges office was located, made too
much noise and annoyed the court.
The treasury department took the
matter up with Mr.. Edwards. who
was at the time custodian Of the
United States building, and who re-
piled in part as follows:
Your custodian feels that his
duty to the people of the great and
prosperous city of Macon, struggling
as they are for commercial and social
advancement, demands that Judge
Speer's statement that no satisfact-
DRY quarters for the presiding judge
of a peripatetic district court can be
supplied by them should not go on
record without qualification and eX-
PLANTATION. This city is most excel
lently we'll equipped with office
buildings and could, doubtless, make
comfortable the secretary OF the
treasury, the supreme court OF the
United States, or even the president
imself should a sudden eXigency re-
quire a change of residence.
But the presiding judge of the
district court is law unto himself
and a class complete in one. He has
surrounded himself with an atmos-
phere Of self-appreciation so dense
that all things viewed through it are
distorted, the laws of proportion sus-
pended and the passage Of simple
everyday truths effectually barred.
Nothing less than a peachblow vase,
large enough to include an ivory
throne, with an assorted dozen Of
non-corrosive halOes, foated in the
depths of space a thousand leagues
beyond the moon, would appeal to
him. And in thirty days, standing
on the arm of his chair, he would
lean over the edge and request of the
stars, if indeed they must sing to-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

Citizens of Houghton, Mich, who
who raised a relief fund Of $4,000
for the stricken families whose chill
dren were killed in the Christmas
tree disaster at Calumet, Mich, will
distribute that fund among the con-
tributors, as the labor leaders would
not permit the suffering families to
accept aid from that source. That
seems heartless on the part of the
labor leaders when it is considered
women and children are furnishing.
1t is hardly conceivable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
SHAVED SENATOR'S
AND SAVED HOGS.
Freq the Savannah News.

Freq the Savannah News.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa has found
that it costs as much to shave a sen
ator in the senate's free barbershOl
as to inoculate a healthy hog with
anti-cholera serum. And he asked the
other day, why not have more say
ed hogs and fewer shaved senator's?
He was talking in favor Of the apprO-
priation of 100000 by the federal
government to fight hog cholera. II
the expense Of operating the barber
shop prevents the appropriation most
everybody would be in favor of max
ing senators pay for their shayes.
Whatever may be said about the bar
bershop the fact remains that hog
cholera puts a very heavy tax on the
country every year.
And that tax is collected not only
from the farmer but also the meat
consumer. The loss from the disease
last year was estimated at $50, 000,-
600. Georgia lost many hogs through
its ravages and in many counties
where the outlook is good for fine
hog-raising year predictions as to
the amount Of pork and lard that will
be harvested during the cold snaps Of
next winter always allow something
for loss from cholera.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
THE HUNT FOR TAX MONEY.

From Wesleyan Christian-Advocate.
1t is said the Inheritance tax law,
passed by the last legislature, will
be tested in the courts. Good lawyers
have expressed their opinion that it
is unconstitutional. Just why an
heir of an estate should pay money
into the treasury of the state Just
because somebody has given him
some property, when the property
given paid the taxes required of the
owner before his death, is one of the
things the average layman can not
understand as fair. The state taxes
our land, our houses, our household
furniture, our books and pictures,
our knives and forks, if they are
silver; our watches and jewelry, our
notes and money if we have any, etc
And now the state demands a tax
on the gifts that come to us. All OF
which is just little too much.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
Matrimonial Want" in Verse.
rom the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
James o. Baldwin, husky lad
wants to marry very bad. He is so,
six feet, strong-lived at Caldwell
Jersey, long. Couldn't find wife
at home, so he sings this little pOme:
"Wanted-Wife to clean and scrub
mend my socks and cook the grub
Must be handsome, bright and gay
81 if she's a day. Widow woman not
deterred-one kid, maybe, none pre-
ferred. She must have some cash to
spend: an intellect with learned
trend. She must be a music lover;
fond of me and nary other. That is
what my wife must be-lum-te-dum-
te-deedledee.'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

the expulsion of FIVE or six hundred Gail
Stones. Now she is able to eat anything s5a
wants and her appetite is good and before
taking your medicine she had no appetite ana
when she ate anything she would suffer deatL
for SO doing and could not sleep al night
since taking your treatment she sleeps we'll al
night long. T. a. NEALL, Roanoke, Texas "
The above letter should convince you more
than anything we could say in behalf Of
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DAWSON DRUG COMPANY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

The News is in receipt from Com
missioner Chas. L. Davis Of pam
phlet in which he has compiled the
laws for the protection of game,
birds and fish in Georgia, and giving
instructions to wardens and sugges-
tons to the public. 1t is both an in
teresting and valuable publication.
Mr.. Davis is making very active and
efficient game commissioner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
They Won't STAY Dead.

From the Valdosta Times.
The North Georgia peach crop is
safe so far and the prospects that
the cotton crop will escape an early
freeze is very good, but even if it
does not escape it is some satisfac-
ton to know that the early cotton
crop has to be killed out nine times
bv freezes before it will stay dead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

A Mitchell county farmer living
near Baconton has seen the light,
and is raising beef cattle for market.
A few days ago he drove thirty head
of fattened Hereford beeyes into AL
bany and sold them to market man
there for between $1,000 and $l,l0O,
or about $50 a head. The price was
way above that usually paid for scrub
cattle: the beeves were fattened on
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

President Wilson may come to
Georgia in the spring. He has told
Senator Smith that he hopes to visit
Savannah late in April in response
to two invitations. He had been ask
ed to attend the dedication of the old
Presbyterian church, where the pres
ident's father preached, and also at
tend the National Irrigation Con-
grpSS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
Let the Good Work Go On.
From the Triton Gazette.

less than it usually takes to fatten
a scrub and besides were heavier
than a scrub would have been after
it was fattened. They were not stall
fed, but had grazed on velvet beans
and field peas. This progressive
farmer estimates that the additional
fertility to his land from the legume
crops and the valuable fertilizer plac-
ed there will be worth enough to pay
him for their feed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

Now that congress has gotten its
clutches on him the public is learn
ing much about Judge Speer that his
critics were afraid to tell before. The
exposures haven't changed our opin-
ion of him in the least.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

Senators Cummins and Bristow,
progressives, have severely criticised
President Wilson'S plan to deal with
the trusts. Having gotten to the
senate these gentlemen no doubt feel
that they have progressed far enough
for the present.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

Professor II. S. Bowden has an an
nouncement in The News of his can
didacy for state school commissioner
His platform is school books printed
by the state and sold at cost" Mr..
Bowden is superintendent of the
BlakeIy public schools, and is one of
the best known and most highly es-
teemed educators Of Southwest
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

In the past few weeks there have
been several necktie parties under
the auspices of Georgia sheriffs. In
diyiduals who had previously filled
up on r. G. liquor and converted
themselves into walking arsenals
were the guests of honor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

Five members OF the Maryland leg
islature who were convicted of &C
cepting brides will soon don the
stripes and begin serving their SEN
fences. In a D1mber of Northern
states it seems the distance between
the legislative hail and the peniten-
tiarv is not great.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

A Macon preacher was killed
Thursday by the accidental discharge
of a pistol in his pocket. Of all peo-
pie a minister of the gospel should
be the last to go about with deadly
weanon concealed on his person.
Strange things are happening these
DAYS. strange things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

The Adrian Index, by Editor A. B.
Carlyle, has reached our desk. 1t is
a neat and newsy paper. May it have
smooth and pleasant sailing on the
troublous journalistic sea.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

The Madisonian spreads the good
news that one blue bird can devOur
500 boil weevils in a day, and gives
this good advice: Don't swat the
boil weevil."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
Words of Praise
For Mayr's Wonderful
Stomach Remedy

"How thankful we are -
you for getting a hold ~
your wonderful Remed,,
Ny wife could not hay.
had but a short time to Tvs
if she had not taken vow
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she did. One more of tbos !.
paro0ysm pains she wss
having would have k;lIsd
her without a doubt. Non
she is free from all main
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free from that disturbin9
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

The farmers have their work well
advanced, and we will soon be plant
ing corn and cotton down here in
Gods country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

Every loyal citizen is expected to
lose no time in having his name en-
rolled as a member of the Terrell
County Chamber of Commerce.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
Kentucky Poetry.

Waiter the angry patron cried.
DO you think that I'm dupe?
l find not here q single pea;
| ordered, sir, pea soup!
BE calm, good sir" the waiter said
"And be not so erratic.
The pea is silent in pea soup
As in the word pneumatic
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

We've invented safety pins;
We've invented safety matches;
We've invented safety raZOrs
To prevent the cuts and scratches.
We've invented many, many things,
But no one has, so far,
Ever yet invented
A safety motor car.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
Total

We believe this showing is about
typical for institutions of this class.
1t shows parents some of the oppor~
tunities for their sons, also the prob
ability Of having them return to th':
home farm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03
WHERE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE GRADUATES GO
From the Farm and Fireside.

From the Farm and Fireside.
Here are some figures which SHOW
what has become of the young men
of the past years graduating class
from the Wisconsin College of Agri-
culture. Since June the twenty-five
men accounted for have settled down
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

I called him William Shakespeare
That little pig of mine
For | knew he'd be a Hamlet
He was no common swine.
But when they butchered the pig
couldn't help but dread it
although he brought a mighty price
Bacon got the credit.
Louisville COurier-JOurnal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

The peanut politician will do we
to look to his laurels. An "apost!
of buttermilk" is running for co
gress in Texas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-03

For Sale i'm Dawson by
DAWSON DRUG COMPANY.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23
New Board

The May Valley Drainage District
was carried at the recent election fav-
orably and board consisting of Ray
McGrath, ]. o. Stream and E. p.
Thurston was elected. Only eleven
votes were cast, all in favor of the
district and Messrs. McGrath and
Stream received the full eleven votes.
For the third place on the board E.
P. Thurston received and Ray Strain
4 votes. The plans have already been
prepared by the engineer, H. C.
Byrnes, and it is believed that the nee
essary preliminaries to bond the dis
trict and receive bids and get things
in running order can be rapidly COM
pleted SO the work can be pushed.
This is some Of the most valuable land
in Colorado and the bonds will be cas-
lily disposed Of, and the work when
completed will furnish homes for quite
few additional families in the La
mar territory.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23

for the four counties without author
ity of proxies or even representation
they completed their share of the deal
and notified the folks to come through
and complete the transaction. The en-
tire local ticket of the progressives by
this deal is to be sacrificed to the
one idea of electing Jones for repre-
sentative. Wherever possible the pro-
gressive county candidates are to be
forced off and the democratic candi-
dates put on, and where the candidate
cannot be forced off the word will
be passed down to scratch him and
vote for the democratic candidate.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23
Bucking the Hoodoo

The death Of SO many aviators in
Colorado instead of Encouraging the
game here is going to result in more
attempts of flights than has ever be-
fore been seen here. Lincoln Beachey
is to try out on his way across the
continent, and Orville Wright is send
ing one of his most experienced men
with a specially constructed machine
for trial, and announces if necessary
he will come himself. Several others
also announce their determination to
prove they can conquer Colorado air.
The air is not talking any just now
but is mobilizing for the encounter.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23

Taking advantage of the absence
of Chairman w. E. Fee last Saturday
Jones and Crary held special meet
ing Of the people and Crary had the
satisfaction of temporarily holding
down the chair which Fee had beat
him out of at the meeting of the
county committee. The meeting was
called for all the people Of Baca, Bent,
Kiowa and Prowers counties and the
roll call showed Jones and Crazy pres
ent, Fee absent. Those present being
a quorum they Immediately proceed
ed to business of arranging a COM
mittee of the four counties so as to
carry out jones' deal with the folks
whereby he was to get the democratic
nomination for representative in re-
turn for the endorsement by Jones
and Crazy 1.-THE majority of the peo-
ple) for Simpson for senator. Acting
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23
War and Baseball

More reasonable than some of the
other theories that seek to account
for the madness in Europe, which
seemed to descend on all the peoples
at once, much like the berserkerwuth
described by Tacitus, is one brought
forward by just an average citizen"
with vein of philosophy in his ma
ture.
He writes: 1.-THE real cause Of the
European war is the absence of base
ball. Musket fans and baseball fans
are exactly alike, for the very simple
reason that they are the very same
people headed, by the accident Of the
times, into separate turnstiles. Every
country and every burg is overrun
with overzealous patriots. With pat
riotism gnawing mans vitals he
goes wild, invents religions, incites
race riots, zigzags the mapmakers'
color schemes, throws fits and hollers.
"Whoopee!" Whatever else he does
he is always there with the "whoopee"
The whole trouble with these misguid-
ed old countries is that they have no
premeditated outlet for the 'whoopee'
stuff"
We have always held that athletic
sports are really a safety valve for
that strong, healthy vitality among
men that is too much constrained by
our modern occupations, SO many Of
them sedentary. Baseball in particu-
lar is our greatest blessing. II a
means were developed by which every
body could play baseball as well as
witness it, its beneficence would be
increased a thousandfold.
Who shall say that war does not
come from a nervous reaction through
too close application to things mental
and spiritual, and too little regard for
the free exercise of the physical pow
ers Globe Democrat.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23

Last week was Baca county's big
gala event, and the little city Of
Springfield, the county seat, was
crowded all three days with visitors
to the fair, but on the big day, Thurs
day, when Governor Ammons was in
troduced there was estimated to be
fully three thousand people present
Lamar had contributed fully one hun
dred people to this crowd, and all
through the fair one Of the most
pleasing parts Of the program was the
excellent music furnished by the La
mar band. The boys took down twelve
pieces and furnished both band and or
chestra music as the occasion de-
handed. The governor was delighted
with his visit and was surprised
that the almost unknown county of
Baca could furnish such a crowd and
display such a large and splendid line
Of products.
1t has been a great year for that Sec
ton and crops Of all kinds were bet
ter than ever before, and even the
most enthusiastic boosters were great
ly surprised at the splendid showing.
The races, baseball games and other
sports made up a program of enter
tainment that pleased all the visitors
and everybody from outside the coun-
ty went home loudly praising Spring
field and Baca county and the hospi-
.tality Of their people.
The fair was such a big success that
its permanence is assured and it will
take its place among the fixed annual
events of the state.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23
Agriculture in the Rural Schools

The Colorado Agricultural college
receives frequent inquiries from
teachers asking for books and bulle-
tins containing materials suitable
for teaching agriculture and farm life
subjects in rural schools. A number of
text books on agriculture have been
prepared and can be secured from
most any of the large publishers of
text books, but many teachers are not
yet ready to begin large book which
would take full year, or even long
Ter to complete, who would still like
to do some work of this kind, if suit
able materials could be secured. Most
of our teachers have, as yet, had but
little if any opportunity to prepare
themselves to teach agriculture, while
seventh and eighth grade pupils find
the subjects difficult.
The following paper-bound booklets
containing good materials for these
grades and are inexpensive:
Twelve Studies in Agriculture
Davenport.
Twelve Studies in Farm Animals
Davenport.
Twelve Studies in Animal Hus-
bandry.-Mumford.
Twelve Studies in Farm Crops
Shamel.
Eleven Studies in horticulture
These may be obtained of C. M.
Parker, Taylorville, Illinois, for 20
cents each. Each Twelve lessons are
bound together and make about IS
pages.
The first two were used last year
in some of the Colorado counties in
connection with the Boys and Girls
country life clubs and were found
well adapted for this purpose.
C. G. SARGENT,
Colorado Agricultural College, Fort
Collins. Colorado.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23
Autumn Styles

You will find the latest in autumn
styles at the store of the w. j. John
ston Nero. Co., the leaders in dry
goods and clothing for eastern Colo
RADIO. Read their ad in this issue.
The Lamar register., 1914-09-23

The men of the First Baptist church
will give another of their famous
chicken suppers on October 9. Every
one come.