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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
WHERE GEORGE DOESN'T.
From Saturday Globe.

From saturday GLOBE.
In the whole of Haiti there are
only two streets and they are monop-
olized by the capital. Except in Port
au-Prince you rarely see anyone or
anything being transported in a
wheeled vehicle. In the interior the
various communities are connected
by wonderfully picturesque winding
trails, which seem to follow the orig
inal whim of the first wayfarers.
They are worn to their present dis
tinctness by the unwearying feet OF
the women and the four-Iegged
beasts Of burden.
In what passes in Haiti for CEN
sus the women outnumber the meE
by about three to one, but If you
made your own estimate after 1nspec-
ton of markets and dusty highways
leading to market towns you would
say there were in Haiti at least 100
women to every man. By contrast
with them the Haitien gentry seem
rank amateurs; they fritter away
their time with cock-fghting and
concern themselves all the time with
the serious DuSluSSS VI 4ILC' hfOAJ
mountain trail is alive at daybreak
with their hurrying feet, and the
dust rises up in Iowlands over their
professions on mule or burro-back,
but mostly on foot, each having her
burden on her head as she hastens
to market. And in the evenings, un-
fatigued, the ebb tide flows back,
even more picturesquely than the
flood came, through a panoply OF
dust shot through and made golden
by the sunset.
A Haitien woman will, and does,
walk daily 10 miles to market and
out again to sell produce that brings
less than an equivalent of so cents
in gold At every river ford you see
the white stones up and down the
stream alive with the sisterhood per-
petually washing. And they find
time to harvest and cook food, to
keep their lords dwellings, and with
great regularity to bear and nurse
their children. On Sundays in clean
and rustling starched dresses, they
fill the cathedrals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
We Said SO, Too,

Governor O'Neil, of Alabama, and
the attorney general of that state are
in hearty support of the position tax
en- by Governor Slaton, of Georgia, as
to laws to regulate the cotton acre
age. The attorney general has hand
ed down an opinion that such re-
duction law as was proposed would
be unconstitutional.
The Alabama executive in a letter
to Governor Slaton praises the latter
highly on his recent address to the
people setting forth reasons why he
would not call an extra session to
force such a law on the farmers.
ct was the most logical and states
manlike presentation of the issue
that has been made" said Governor
O'Nen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
Cart Get Cotton?

Now it is a pretty kettle Of fish the
Triton Gazette tells us of this week.
That paper says: "The mayor of a
cotton manufacturing town in Massa-
chusetts visited a friend in Savannah
last week. While there he said the
cotton mills in his town were only
running on half time because they
could not get the cotton. And down
here in the South we have millions
of bales of cotton, which we can
neither. eat nor wear, that we are
just begging somebody to take off
our hands at even little less than
the cost of production"
What the Gazette says is true. If
the mills are running half time for
the lack of raw material, as the New
Highlander said, there is no rea-
son why the spinners, who are SELL
ing their products at an advanced
price, and the farmers of Southwest
Georgia should not get together and
the latter be relieved of some of their
cotton at something like a decent
nrice
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
THE COLONEL'S BIRTHDAY
RESPECTED BY THE ENEMY

From the Savannah News.
A few days ago a French colonel
had a birthday. His men wig-wagged
the news to their German enemies
only a few rods away. The Germans
signaled back: I'VE won't shoot
much today. Let the colonel enjoy
the day." The men who signaled to
each other had been and have been
since endeavoring to kill each other.
Some of them have succeeded in their
efforts, but they are not personal
enemies when they can exchange
such messages because of colonel S
birthday. In the war between the
states opposing soldiers frequently
cracked jokes with each other and
snapped tobacco and quinine and
newspapers and bread. The private
soldier may kill with great gusto but
he has no grudge against the man he
kills.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
AN ACCIDENT OF BIRTH.

From the Chicago Journal.
When the late P. T. Barnum was
exhibiting his famous Siamese twins
they were, as is well known, won
derful sensation.
A certain divine, accompanied by
his daughter, who was much inter
ested, went to see them. The young
woman asked where the twins were
born. Mr.. Barnum told them that
they were born in Siam.
and are they brothers?" asked
the clerical gentleman.
"Oh. yes" said the worlds great
est press agent.
well, WE'LL" said the visitor.
Think of that, Mary! How good and
kind of a gracious Providence to al
low them to be brothers and not have
linked a pair of strangers together
for lifet"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
Mr.. Rives' View of the Situation

Editor Dawson News: The verdict
of the national election has been
written, and now is a good time to
say some plain things about some
things that have been said in the
face of the enemy by men assuming
to be loyal to the democratic party,
but under the guise of friendship for
the South have played the Joab and
stabbed the party. Some years since
the West had a bumper wheat, oat,
corn and hog crop. Wheat sold in
the Middle West, at Cincinnati, at so
cents, corn at II cents and oats at
10 cents. Hogs were almost a drug
on the market at 3 cents. Did any
body hear any of these patriotic citi-
zens (save the mark say anything
about the general government issu-
ing scrip, buying up these Western
money crops and retiring from the
market until such time as the con-
sumption of them would. bring about
a living price for the Western farm
ers? On the contrary did not these
same patriots jump on the railroads
for not lowering freight rates so
IudL VIC Ol IuG OOuLu ul1SAL lame du-
vantage of these famine prices? But
with a democratic administration
stretching its powers to the breaking
point to take care of the money of
the South these, worse than Joab and
more damnable than Judas-fOr the
Christ was not of Judas family and
Wilson is of the SOuth's-have raised
the roof because Hoke Smith assum-
ed autocratiC powers and had the
Macon convention to nominate his
me too" for the senate. And if the
administration suffered in Georgia or
elsewhere his party associates,
the disgruntled ones, and their ilk
over the South, are primarily to
blame. The circulating medium can
not circulate unless the debtor ele-
ment sell their products. Overpro-
duction is the cause of low prices for
cotton. Demagogism in the form of
damnation of the government for
failure to violate the constitution and
this buy a bale at 10 cents" move
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
BOYS IN OLD NEW YORK.

From the New York Herald.
In view of the repeated orders OF
the school authorities and other dig
nitaries the boys of Manhattan may
as we'll understand that one of their
old-time liberties has been lost for
ever. There are to be no more bon
fires, no matter what the occasion.
Pavements must not be destroyed
Property must not be endangered.
Insurance rates must be kept down.
The police will have the law on all
who fail herein.
Some of the greatest statesmen
and patriots had their initiation into
public affairs at electiOn-night bon
fires, and in the rural districts the
instruction still goes on. By doing
scout duty a fortnight or so in ad-
vance of the occasion the boy uncon-
sciousIy acquired knowledge of ways
and means. The same instinct that
fixed his eyes unerringly on barrels,
dry goods boxes and other infamma-
.bles careIessly exposed was later de-
veloped no doubt into an ability to
devise new methods of supply for
people at peace or at war. The boy
at the bonfire was always non-par-
tisan, which is more than can be said
of the man.
We are sorry for the Manhattan
boy. No watermelon patch entices
him. He has no neighbors with
tempting apple trees in their yards.
He never swiped a pumpkin in his
life, and he knows no more of the
simple delights of an old swimming
hole than he does of spelling match
es, sleigh rides and candy pulls. They
put a tyrant officer with club on
his trail some time ago and now cleo
tion-night bonfres are felony.
What is the use of being boy in
old New York?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

hent are the contributarv o..
business stagnation. and tb U@uSeS Of
ern people, who are won south
ABOUT their chivalry, their bln W Drag
anu anu tnelr aristocratic lineage giood
seneral superiority-to the hm n,elr
VI tIe country, are sitting dow ~'ance
ing ike six-months-oId b oEl cry
mas lost its sugar rag. VIII ;, mat
any man buy bale at ten co., SHOULD
the market shows six? Arc L 40 Wnen
u lI or men wearing pants ~ Tb
merchant, the creditor of anv o.. me
ing who has offered a premir Soa9d-
men to pay their honest dab4 n LOT
GIVING them more than the 49,, Wy
value for cotton has Offered Market
mum for honest men to diSod pre-
thelr paper, and to that extent Mount bOuit
rupt their personal self-rasnao4 O@uk-
ne VINO loses his own respe lo anu
the highest attribute of manb Uses
Inc scoundrel class-the foIIo1-
mat anything is cheap to if soId "" vs.
credlt-won't pay if you offer n IN on
~ cents when the product is x r1oiH
Two cents. But as my friend tbo - "a
David Jacobs, was wont to saw go 80
are three classes-2O per cent '+ TiI y
pay any way; 70 per cent will nav ~ -
1t is convenient; 10 per cent wor,t
pay under any circumstances mics
you knock them down and taka -
And the merchants, guano men ana
supply men who have offered tboso
bonuses have tried to decrease tbo
hrst per cent to reach the second and
with no hopes of reaching the last
have damaged and prepared the sec,
ond class to reach the third class and
have denied the first class.
1t is time for us to assume orr 1ost
and damaged manhood and save onr.
selves from the mendicant's damna-
tion-the learning to depend on tha
public, the government, for our lv-
ing and to depend on ourselves for
nothing. Instead of a moratorium
we need a strict cash system for sew
eral years, where none but men who
have paid their debts or secured
them shall get advances from anv
source. ANDREW P. RIVES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
Some Twilight SIeeperS,

The twilight sleep" idea is beau
tiful one. Anything that tends to re
duce pain and suffering is to be vel
coined. But twilight sleep is nothing
new in this part of the country. Al
exchange says Of it;
1--WE know of some towns that
are in a chronic state of twilight
slumber, and they will never come
to- Some of our citizens, men
tioning no names, go about from
day to day in a never-ending twi-
light slumber. And looking over
our list of delinquent subscribers
makes us rise to inquire what the
doctors use to bring their twilight
sleepers out of the trance? Send
us the formula, for there are a few
subjects whom we would like to
awaken. Did we call them twilight
sleepers? Suffering cats! The
deepest, blacklist midnight could
not begin to equal the darkness
and depth of their slumbers."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
The Verdict.

Although the democrats will con-
troll the next congress by a greatly
reduced majority it could have been
worse. With the great states OF New
York. PENNSYLVANIA, Illinois and Ohio
returning to the republican party
and that party showing increased
strength almost everywhere, the
democratic party is fortunate that it
will have a majority at all.
But the democratic party, which
was on trial at the bar of public
opinion, has, in a measure, been CIV
en- a vote of confidence. The presi-
dent and the congress, too, have
sought to administer the government
wisely and helpfully The party has
kept its platform pledges-save as to
one matter, the canal tolls exemp-
tion-and its legislation has been in
line with popular demands, enacting
tariff legislation and revising the
laws that regulate money and tinan-
ciaI system. It has sought to put a
curb on monopoly and give impetus
and opportunity to individual aspira-
ton and effort. 1t has kept the peace
with Mexico and all the world, and
sought to promote worldwide peace.
All the conditions considered, it has
done much to deserve public conf
dence and favor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
BACK TO BOYLAND.

On the old persimmOn tree.
To Boyland, loved old Boyland,
With its music and its thrall,
When the frost has kist the pumpkin
And the ripened chestnuts fall.
It makes our old limbs tremble
When we think sometimes how far
The road runs back TO Boyland
And its shining morning star;
But the loved abode of memory
Draws so close, so close again,
When the dear old things in nature
Wake the slumbering dreams OF
men.
To Boyland, far-off Boyland,
Why. it's just beyond the wall
When October's in the woodland
And the ripened ehestnuts fall.
Baltimore Sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
BIames the Gold Standard.

There have been multitudinous
reasons advanced for the present con-
ditions, and just as many plans for
remedying the situation. Editor Max
Land, of the Cordele Dispatch, places
the blame largely on the gold stand
ard, and The News is not prepared
to say that he is wrong. In the cur
rent issue of his paper Editor Land
says:
when a country like the United
States cannot help its people by
adjusting the money situation so
that collateral can find its cores
bonding medium of exchange you
NAV rest assured that what We call
the gold standard has largely help
ed to bring about a condition Whlch
makes an excuse or failure to help
sound more plausible. The gold
standard which the Rosthchilds
and other gold kings fastened on
this country makes a dollar worth
above par at all times, and under
extraordinary conditions like the
present makes their gold worth at
least one hundred per cent above
par. There is no telling how much
higher it will go when Sir George
Paish and Sir Brasil Bracket take
most Of the gold money to Eng
land. OF course all the really val
liable things will have to fall in
value. The United States is large
enough to issue money on other
things Of value, such as cotton,
land and grain, but under that sys-
tenn the poor and middle classes OF
the people would be benefited"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
Don't " CuSS The Cow.

Farmers who go out in the frosty
mornings to milk the gentle cows are
warned in an agricultural publica-
ton this month to refrain from any
harsh, prOfane or unseemly language
while close to the herd, lest the milk
supply be diminished. 1t remarks
that all the employees on a New Jersey
dairy farm tried swearing off on pro-
family for week and the cows nearly
doubled their output in appreciation.
The fact that a COW was so tender
Of feeling and so susceptible to rude
ness surely never entered the head
of the farmer boy who has gotten the
end of a cows tail in his eye or had
his pet corns stepped upon while urg-
ing the pesky brute to move over.
Verify, modern scientific farming is a
wonderful thing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Will the European war, by causing
an increased demand for agricultural
products, benefit the farmers of this
country? 1t is by no means certain
that it will.
The savings of the world in one
year may amount to 100000, 900
or $6,OO0,0O0, 000 the war will de-
stroy that amount of wealth in three
or four months. Consider the result
ing scarcity of capital throughout the
world, the consequent restriction of
production, the diminished supply Of
labor, the increase in the rate of in
terest. Farmers cannot escape the
effects of such economic disturb
ances.
Suppose that most farm products
do advance; does it follow that there
will be a real increase in profit to the
farmer? VIII farmers as a group
lose more than they gain on account
of the higher prices they must pay
for everything they buy? Farmers
are consumers as well as producers;
they are buyers as we'll as sellers,
even of agricultural products.
Suppose that wheat goes to $3.50
or 50 a bushel. How many farms in
one hundred raise wheat? Only
twenty-three. Consequently seventy
seven farmers must pay exorbitant
prices to twenty-three farmers for
one of the principal articles of food.
Most wheat farmers buy their flour
from the merchant; they will have
to surrender in that way some of the
profit that they may receive for I'M
ground wheat.
No farm produces everything, or
nearly everything. that its owner
needs. Potatoes grow on only eigh-
teen per cent of them. Cotton may go
to fifteen or twenty cents pound,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
Kaiser Beats the WeeviI,

The state bug man says the boil
weeyil will arrive in Georgia next
year. But the Kaiser got on the
ground first, and OF course he is
entitled to the first credit for cut
ting out the all-cotton crop habit.
SO let US all be thankful to the
German Kaiser for starting the
war, and getting ahead Of the boil
weevil-Lyons Progress.
The state entomologist informed
The News last week that the boil
weevil is in Alabama just across the
Georgia line touching Early county
and as this is the season when il
makes it's advance into new territory
the pest may be expected in this
state in small numbers next year
With the Kaiser and the weevi
both menacing the farmer he is doub.
" warned to cut his cotton crop next
year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

It's a long way back to Boyland,
Where the voices sing and call,
But it is not so far in autumn,
When the riDeped chestnuts fall;
When the chinquepins are open,
And the paw-paWs ripe AMI sweet
Then / go back into BOyland
As if wings were on my feet.
To Boyland, dreaming Boyland,
Where the voices sing and call
Through the golden mists of autumn
When the ripened chestnuts fall.
We forget the old road often
And the dust of toll and strife
Hides the valley of its magic
In the later years of life;
But it's not so hard to find it
When again you chance to see
The ripe persimmons hanging
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

"All this hard times talk is bunk.
There aren't any hard times for the
men who will quit talking and get
busy. 1t is true that the cotton rails
ers are up against it for time, but
cotton is going up, the exchanges are
opening, shipments to Europe are be-
ing renewed, and this depression
won't last" an optimist is quoted as
saying in an Atlanta hotel lobby. His
optimism might have been produced
by frequent visits to Atlanta's nigh
berries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

You should read Percival Lowelps
description of the satellite Phobos,
attendant on Mars, In the article on
New Heavens and a New Earth, ="
printed in the October 18th issue of
The Youths Companion. Phobos is
only 3,765 miles up in the sky from
the Marian observer, and if he did
not rush with prodigious velocity on
his course he would plunge down and
destroy forever some of the ruddy
planent'S famous canals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Nobody seems to have been very
badly frightened by Col. Roosevelt's
announcement the other day that he
had seen plans drawn by not one
merely but two great empires for the
capture of San Francisco and New
York and for holding them for ran
som. The Colonel will have to try
something else to get in the ltmelight.
Like many other fads, he is petering
out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
THE WOMEN OF 1000 B. G.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
That women painted and powdered
1000 years ago is shown by a COM
plete vanity box. dated 1000 B. c.,
lust received at the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA museum. 1t is a gift of
the British School of Archaeology in
Egypt.
The box, which is Of delicately
carved ivory. contains receptacles for
paints and powders. There is also
a glass container, probably used for
neTfumes. The box is opened by
pressing a concealed spring. Under
the lid is a highly polished stone,
which served as a mirror.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

President Wilson has officially pro-
claimed Thursday, November 26th,
as Thanksgiving Day His proclama-
ton breathes a spirit of reverence,
gratitude and cheerfulness, as well
as appreciation of American oppor-
tunity and responsibility. Of all the
peoples of the earth we of the United
States have the greatest cause to feel
grateful and confident.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10
DAWSON, GA, Nov. 10, 1911

Votes for women is making slow
progress, but it must be admitted
that it is gaining little by little. Two
more states, Montana and Nevada
have now been enrolled among the
states where equal suffrage is grant
ed However, it is significant that
the movement is making no Roadway
in the South. The Macon News notes
that not a Southern estate has yet
submitted the issue to the voters, and
it is not likely that such action will
he taken for many years, if ever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

That able and genial Georgian who
is at the head of the United States
census bureau, Hon. w. j. Harris,
recently sat in a cabinet meeting at
Washington, acting for Secretary of
Commerce Redfield during his alb
sence. Mr.. Harris is worthy to sit
permanently with the presidents ad-
visory board.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Terrell is one of the solid demo-
cratic counties of the state. The bull
moosers received less than fifty votes
here. The democrats of Terrell may
have their differences, but they fight
them out in the primaries and then
stand solidIy by the nominees. Dis
sension is buried with the count Of
the ballots.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Prayers are being offered to pre-
vent destruction of VesuVius just as
they were offered to bring an end to
the war. Yet there is not likely to be
any providential interference with
natural causes that result in erup-
tions Of the old volcano. Anyone
who lives in the danger zone would
do we'll to get out Of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

The bull moosers cut a few capers
in Georgia Tuesday, but The News
does not attach any great significance
to the vote they received. Present
unusual conditions, which will not
likely be seen again, are largely re-
sponsible for it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Your Uncle Joe Cannon has been
reelected to congress by a very large
majority. He is a rare old cuss who
has some traits that everybody adj
mires, and satisfaction at his return
to Washington is not altogether con-
fined to the republican party.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

The Macon Telegraph and the Tiff
ton Gazette contend that this years
cotton crop is overestimated, an
opinion that is shared by The News.
There is no doubt that in this sec
tion-the cotton belt Of Georgia
the crop is short of that of last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

The Georgia State Fair now being
held at Macon will not close until
Friday. 1t is up to the usual high
standard. and the attendance is good.
We congratulate those who have the
conduct of the fair and the people of
Macon as well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Commenting on the birth of an
other royal baby in Spain the Tampa
Times deliberately suggests that the
queen is the one who put the ma"
in Madrid
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Secretary of Treasury McAdoo is
being referred to as the Mark Hanna
of the Wilson administration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Mr.. Rye has been elected governor
of Tennessee. 1t is not stated wheth-
er or not the gentleman lives in Chat
tanOoga. .
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-11-10

Wonder how our neighboring
counties of Colquitt. Crisp and Worth
feel in the bull moose herd?