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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
The CentraPs Test Farms,

If the results achieved by the Cen
trail of Georgia railroads test farms,
one of which is located in Terrell
county, do not draw a good class OF
farmers to the South the Savannah
News thinks it isn't easy to find out
why. The Central operated eleven
farms last year with the most graft
fving results. A net profit of 60 per
cent on the value of the land was
made and of &c per cent the year
before. There are very few farms
in any part of the country that made
for their owners so good a showing.
Commenting on what has been done
on these test farms our Savannah
contemporary says:
what the Central of Georgia
railway is doing in test farming
any intelligent and up-to-date-
farmer can do. We venture to say
that in the West comparatively
few farmers get from their farms
as satisfactory results. The sto-
ry of it's results ought to be
sent broadcast over those parts of
the East and West from which we
are hoping for immigrants. 1t is
a far better immigration getter
than any of the stories that land
sale promoters distribute, for the
reason that it tells of actual
achievements.
"a detailed statement of the
methods that were employed and
the crops cultivated, together with
the facts relating to the church
and school facilities of the COM
munities in which the farms are
situated, would be interesting and
helpful. Homeseekers want to
know something of the people and
their attitude towards immigrants
of the localities to which they are
invited"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
WAS NEVER IN 1T.
From the Brunswick News.

From the Brunswick News.
The other day in Evansville, Ind,
drummer committed suicide and
had no better reason for his rash act
than that given in a note he left on
the table, in which he CURLY stated
that he was tired Of the game" He
was bachelor in good circumstances
and good health, and his accounts
with his house were all right.
Tired of the game? Why, he was
not in the game at all. Living for
oneself, enjoying oneself, wandering
about by oneself aren't the game.
Forty-five years old, and only him
self to work for. No wonder he was
tired, but that is no more being in
the game than buying a bag Of pea
nuts at the tent entrance is seeing
the circus. The game is doing things
for others, not caring for self only
The game is having d home, not a
chair in some club room. The game
is having a wife and children in ones
heart, not in having safety of travel
and high living in ones heart. The
poor devil was simply looking over
the shoulders of players at the chess
board of life, without knowing what
pawn" could do to a king or
castle" to a knight" without hay
ing a cent or a heart throb of his
own at stake,
Tired? OF course he was tired.
He was tired because he was out of
the game. He whose sole care is self
must be a loser finally. 1t is the
law of the game of life. ut is not
we'll that man should live alone"
For man to live alone, for himself,
within himself, is fatal Such one
has had no mission worth while.
Such a one is dead before he uses
the pistol. Such a one has not got
into the game.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
The Growth of PeIIagra.

Except in localities in which pei
lagra exists to an alarming extent
the people do not seem to realize how
great a menace to health and life
the disease has become. So rapidly
is it spreading that the public health
service is daily in receipt of letters
requesting that something be done to
fight it's advancement, and so alarm
ing are the reports of its expansion
that congress will be urged during
the present month to make a special
appropriation to purchase or rent a
hospital in the South, establish labor
atories and make a study of the
maIady in all its phases.
Although pellagra is far more
prevalent in the southeastern states
the disease has been discovered in
forty-four states and the District of
Columbia. 1t is estimated there
have been more than 10000 cases in
the entire country since its discovery
here six years ago.
In those sections where it is preva-
lent the local hospitals are filled with
cases of it, and the asylums for the
insane are crowded with sufferers
from it.
While pellagra has been recogniz-
ed for several hundred years it is
still one of the most battling diseases
with which the medical profession
deals. The public health service has
been struggling with an investigation
of pellagra since it's discovery in this
country, but so far has met with lit
tie or no success.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
Are You a Soil Builder or a Soil Robber?
From tho Progr essivo Farmer.

general result in any particular year
that is a good crop year; whatever
tends to make the crop on hand larg-
er is good farming; whatever does
not effect this crop is scarcely worth
bothering with.
When-and not until-we realize
that farming is a continuous work,
that one years labor and crops are
bound up with those of the years be-
fore and after, and that the farmer
instead of looking only to the sea
sons end must look ahead two, five
twenty years and consider the final
results as well as the immediate re
turns from his farming-not until
we do this will our agriculture be on
a firm and enduring basis.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
Recommended for Chronic Indlges-
ton and Stomach, Liver ana
Intestinal Ailments

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properties and its effects are quite natural as :
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Remedy has been taken by the most prominent
people, and those in all walks of life, among
them Members of Congress- Justice Of the
Supreme Court, Educators, Lawyers Mer
chants, Bankers, Doctors, Druggists, Nurses
Manufacturers, Priests, Ministers Farmers
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
Failures Last Year.

Commercial failures in the United
States during the year 1913 show {
decided increase over 1912 and pre-.
ceding years in both number of sus-
pensions and in amount oi indebted
ness.
According to the usual compilation
of r. G. Dun & Co. there were 16,
037 failures last year involving a to-
tai of $272.672,28S as against 49,
452 in 1912, with liabilities of $685.
1881. The most notable increase
was in manufacturing, the returns
for which show 400 more failures in
1913 than in 1912 with liabilities
larger by $50, 100000. The number
of trading suspensions did not vary
much, but the amounts involved
show an increase Of % per cent. In
manufacturing lines there were also
several insolvencies Of exceptional
size. The comparatively bad snow
ing for 1913 is to a large extent ex-
planned by the great increase in new
enterprises AS the number of ad-
ditions 10 business increase an ex-
pansion of failures is naturally to be
expected. The number in business
increased by $1,000 per year, or 50
per cent, in the ten years from 1904
to 1913 inclusive, although the in
crease in population was not much
over half this rate.
The year 1913 was exceptional in
many ways. Much injudicious cap
italization of industries led to de-
preston in trade and industrial con-
ditions. Numerous strikes and sew
eral banking suspensions occurred;
in fact, unsafe banking was response
BILE for good percentage OF the
years failures. 1t was inevitable
that tariff revision, the surrender OF
various trusts and their voluntary
dissolution in face of the govern
ment's determination to prosecute
under the Sherman law, and later
currency reform should result in a
slowing down in business in many
lines. But it is evident that the in
fuence of the new tariff on business
was discounted, and that trade and
industry are rapidly adjusting them
selves to the new conditions.
A comparatively quick revival
from the quiet observable in many
lines of business is confidently pre-
dicted in 1914.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
For Leave to Sell.

State of Georgia, Terrell County
Notice is hereby given to all concern
ed that L. c. Hoyl, administrator of
the estate of William Kaigler, de-
ceased, has this day appl ed t. me, as
Ordinary of Terrell county, Georgia,
for leave to sell the remainder Of the
lands belonging to the estate of Will
liam Kaigler, deceased, and that
same will be heard at court of Ordl-
nary in and for said county OF Ter
reIl. at the regular February term OF
said court, on February End, 1914.
This January 9Th, 1914.
w. B. CHEATHAM5 Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
GEORGIA EGGS AND POULTRY.
From the Macon News.

From the Macon News.
If some one told you there were
nearly six million fowls in Georgia
scratching in the backwards of the
cities and ranging the farms of the
rural districts you could hardly be-
lieye it.
But it is a fact.
And three-fourths of these fowls
are egg producers, according to the
latest census reports, although the
recent scarcity of eggs and the mar
ket price of them would not indicate
aa much.
The annual production exceeds
twenty million dozen eggs-nearly
eighty eggs apiece each year for ev-
cry person-man, woman and child
in Georgia.
The market value of these eggs
reaches about four million dollars.
The annual poultry production is
little below two million, valued at
about four million dollars.
So each year Georgia sells eight
million dollars worth of eggs and
fowls.
And still we sent to Tennessee for
turkeys and chickens and to the
Northern cold storage firms for eggs.
Is it because Georgia products are
not sold in Georgia? Who can give
the answer?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

Harry Thaw, who has been the
center of many fierce legal battles,
may soon be free A commission ap-
pointed by United States judge in
New Hampshire to inquire into
Thaw's mental condition reports that
he is both sane and physically sound.
The slayer of Stanford White had the
sympathy of almost the entire public
in his efforts to gain freedom.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
GEORGIA's COTTON CROP.

From the Conyers Times.
Georgias cotton crop this year is
a half million bales more than last
year, and brought an average of SO
per bale more.
In 1911 the average value of cot
ton was $50 bale. In 1912 the av-
erage value was $3.50 a bale. Last
year the average value was $3.50,
or $3.50 per bale more than two
years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

1t is a misdemeanor to steal an
$4,000 limousine and a felony to
steal a $40 horse in Georgia-aIl of
which goes to show that the horse
still holds high place, says the
Rockmart News. But the old horse
will be plodding along doing service
long after the automobile has gone
to the junk pile.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

If you have not already planted a
tree hasten and set out one before it
is too late, says the Macon News. 1t
is advice just as good for Dawson as
for Macon. In after years." says
our contemporary, you will not re-
greet it. When you see happy chill
dren at play beneath its shading foil
age, or perhaps a tired horse resting
for a minute under its refreshing
shade, you will not be sorry for hav-
ing planted this tree with your own
hands"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

Editor J. E. Pound has disposed
of the Cordele Dispatch to Mr.. Max
E. Land, a brother of Professor F. E.
Land, formerly of Dawson, and has
gone to Florida to take charge of a
paper. The News extends fraternal
greeting to Editor Land, and wishes
both he and Editor Pound well in
their new undertakings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
An Ideal woman's Laxative.

Who wants to take salts or castor
oil when there is nothing better than
Kings New Life Pills for all bowel
troubles. They act gently and natur-
ally on the stomach and liver,
stimulate and regulate your bowels,
and tone up the entire system. Price
Csc At al druggists. H. E. Buck
len {, Co., Philadelphia or st. Louis.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

A gentleman of Dawson who at
tended a meeting of the oil mill
men of Georgia in Atlanta to con-
slider the boil weevil problem as it
is liable to affect their industry in
forms The News that the state ento-
mologist, Mr.. Worsham, said the pest
is now in Alabama within six miles
of our neighboring county of Clay.
1t is nothing less than foolhardy not
to prepare for the coming of the
weevil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

The Central railroad has made an
offer of $25 to the boy in Terrell
county, or any other county it trav-
erses, who grows the most corn on
an acre of land. This is commenda-
Bile on the part of the railroad, and
shows that it is working for the mu-
tual benefit OF all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

The mayor of cambridge is after
the speed fiends, and gives notice
that if brought before him they will
have to sell their automobiles to pay
the fine. That's one way to slow
them down.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

The loosening of the lid in Dawson
presages some warm municipal poll
tics in this bailiwick this year. When
the campaign opens everybody
should make up their minds to keep
cool and then do it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

1t is reported that Joe Hall will
90 back to the legislature from Bibb
county next time. Good. That body
will seem more like itself then. The
state has missed you, Joe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

Each farmer of Southwest Geor-
gia cannot make a better New Year
resolution than to raise two or three
beef cattle. 1t can be done with
hardly any expense, and would be
profitable in more ways than one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

The Macon bankers have joined in
the effort to secure a regional bank
for Atlanta. That's very commends-
BILE, and should go a long way to-
ward securing results. Now, will
Atlanta reciprocate this neighborly
act and help Macon secure the cap
ital?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13

General Simon B. Buckner, not
ed confederate veteran, has just died
in Louisville, KY, at the age of 81
years. General Buckner was a candi-
date for vice-president on the gold
bug" ticket the first time Bryan ran.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-18
WORKING OUT THE THEoRy.

Fears are. already being expressed about the inability of the income tax assessment to overcome the slump in revenue collections through the tarih slashing and to supply the necessary Income for the operation of the gov ernment With indications that it will fall short of it's estimated yield from twenty to twenty five million dollars. it Is natural to wonder who is get ting the benefit from the great eco homie change which has been put into operation in this country.
 By the government figures and es- inmates the country is already loser. The income taxpayer has made his contribution to the new order of things only to be confronted with the state ment that considerable more is needed, while the ordinary individual, the con- sumner and the workingman, are not realizing any of the attractive prom ises of lower prices because Of the opening of the doors to foreign goods.
 This is an interesting state of af- fairs at what might be termed the opening of the democratic administra- ton, it's first fiscal year under it's own direction. With the plan to wipe out the revenue on sugar to the extent of an additional thirty to forty million it is still more interesting financial situation which the future has in store The theory is gradually being worked out, even though it is costly.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-18
THE INCONSISTENT MALE

grows to be 30 without having that
 Kind of an attack Pretty soon they'll
 vaccinate against it.
 The worst eases moan ana SOD pe cause the modern woman doesn't put
 up preserves and sugar cure the hams
 and recommend camphorated oil n. any one snifles! How long wouid
 you last if you came to call on me and account of how I peeled onions for din- ner and cleaned the top shelves in the pantry and how the juice boiled over on the entrants and burned and, any how, I was afraid the stun was not going to Jell-and that tomorrow if all the woolens to prevent moths 'tSayi" protested the masculine list ener. He got no farther.
 told him. The modern woman does all those things, of course, if she is any kind of a housekeeperlbut she keeps it darki She entertains you with her frivolings! The lady who cured hams and made candles didn't frivoI because she hadn't time, and somehow I think the men those days must have led terribly dull lives. And you do admire the economical girl, the sort who thinks twice before she spends pApa's pennies. She says, Yes. dear father and makes over her year before last best dress instead Nof nagging the poor old gentleman into his grave to buy her something better than any one else has! l don't notice you fiocking in her wake, however! You are right beside little bright-eyes | in the slit skirt about twenty inches wide, and the hat with foot and a | half anaemic feather. on it that is l warranted to tab out every eye within a block! Now, if the harboring of all these contradictory sentiments is not being iffconsistent4
 T am bowed to the ground" said the masculine listener. If you will listen acutely you can hear my dei- icately restrained walls of anguish! like your conversation, but I'll be hanged if I like your topicsi Come on. let's go to the theatre! And I'll dare you to wear a poke bonnet!'
 tT wouldn't be caught dead in oue!" declared the girl who likes to talk. | You're perfectly safe."-Chicago | News
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-18
ENGLAND DESERVES CUP.

Oyer-confidence and the failure to make the necessary preparations for the successful defense of any trophy must be given their place in explain ing the loss of the polo cup to the English team. There can be no dis regard for the ability and superior playing of Lord Wimborne's team, but the difficulties which he experienced in securing the players led to the dis position upon this side to look upon the retention of the cup as a fore gone conclusion. This Is a handicap which is bound to cause serious trou- ble in every contest as the first game indicated. There was a different con test at the second meeting when the American team showed up at nearer its true skill
 The English victory was. however. won on it's merits. The visitors play ed around the defenders when horse manship and polo playing were called for and from the opening until the final drive they were on their mettle. They were out to win through their playing and the kind of game which they put up soon convinced the Amer ican players that 1t was not a match of past regulations but a contest of skill, and as the international trophy goes back across the water it is with realization that the better team won This should mean stimulation to this great amateur sport into which professionalism has as yet made no invasion, for having brought the cup to this side of the Atlantic once it can be done again through the presen- tation of the kind of polo in all games of which the American players are capable.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-18
EVERY DAY REFLECTIONS
Relatives.

It is the fashion to speak dispar- asing1y of relatives. but they are a part of the environment of nature, and if you get nothing but annoyance from them something ails you. You might as we'll curse the sun and stars as hate relatives.
 There be hot loves and wayward loves, and they have their place; but blessed is the man. and thrice blessed the woman, that loves the people that ought to be loved. .
 There are grandmother and grand father. for instance. The child that has them not has missed one of the sweetest clements that make memory happy They understand children bet ter than parents for they have learned that so many things that worry par ents do not much matter.
 And plenty of brothers and sisters, A solitary child in a house is lame soul He can never get that sound view of the world that comes to the member of a full family.
 sort of imitation family where there Is none. The very best ingredients oi our character come from dealing with babies.
 What is happier than a houseful oi young folks, courting age? The only wholesome, delightful and cheerine disease in or out of the medicine books is lovesickness. When we grow past its agonizing stages we stil ought to see it in others around us.
 Most cranks and dried up folks ant pessimists and disagreeable people ar, victims of small families They hav, been deprived of that wholesome flow of the humanities that comes from ; full set of relations. .. There is always joy in eating at thu table where there are thirteen chil dren and a small army of grand children. and all about and every where-love.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-18
A BAD RECORD.

In view of it's declarations it is an nnfavorable record which this admin duration has established thus far con- serning civil service reform. After having declared therefor it has pro- needed where opportunity presented kseif and endeavored in many other Instances through legislative act to break down the system which has }een of such value and means so much 3or successful, government.
 The latest instance is to be noted h the action of the senate in the passage of the legislative and judicial bill which contains the provision in connection with the appointment of commercial attaches, new class of officials to be sent abroad under the department of commerce, that they shall be named without examination nnder the civil service rules"
 This means the continuation of a policy which became evident some lime ago of taking every chance of getting back to the spells system. What is wanted in this as in the con- rular service is the highest grade of efficiency, and such is not to be ob- sained through the passing out of such sfnces in payment for political debts regardless of what party is in con- srol- This disposition to play with government should have been given the stern rebuke which it deserved at he start It didn't get it and the re- nlt is . harder task to overpower it low.
 Even the effort to get the railway nall pay on a fair basis is being lampered by provision in the Moon pill, measure of the administration h which all assistant postmasters, bven those which have been for years n the classified service, must take ] civil service examination within ninety days. This is only an effort to make a wholesale opening for office seekers and the continuation of a method of government operation which puts spells ahead of efficiency.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-18

of cases labels are contracted for q long time in advance and ins such number that to enforce a law reduir- ing change at once would entail large loss. Not only would 1t mean throwing away large amount of invested capital. but 1t would make absolutely useless the goods bearing such labels in stock or already upon the market an interruption to business which was not contemplated by the order.
 Tie purpose of the order was to re- move the misunderstanding which is possible under certain labels. that the government guarantees the prepara- tions and in so doing it was com mendable course, but the government had previously required certain state nents upon labels and those in exist ence were in accordance with that order. It was thus but proper that a sufficient time should be allowed for business to adjust itself to the new conditions without entailing need less waste or going contrary to the law