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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
How About the Quality?

This country seems to be suffering
from growing pains. A recent report
of the Census Bureau estimates that
the population under the American
flag has increased 100000 in four
years. The population of continental
United States is estimated to be 49,,
7S1,324.
Much of the increase is due, of
course, to the stream of immigration
pouring in from every other country
on the globe, and in this connection
the Savannah News says: THE
United States is constantly getting
new people who will have to be made
into good citizens if the country is to
enjoy the rate of progress that it
should. That is not going to be an
easy task. 1t is said that it doesn't
take long to take a raw foreigner
and make a first-class American out
of him. But that doesn't apply to
all foreigners. Some of them could
never be assimilated. 1t is to be
hoped that the American population
is not losing in quality to make up
for it's increase in quantity"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
FaIIacies In Figures,

Congressman J. Hampton Moore,
of Pennsylvania, has some hard
things to say of ''mOney-spending-
mad" Americans. He believes with
James ]. Hill that the cost of high
living is the main reason of the high
cost of living. Mr.. Moore is Mortified
to find that the people of the United
States spend 25,O0O,000 a year for
chewing gum and $3.50, 100000 for
tobacco. "The diamonds, rings, gold
chains and other articles of jewelry
we bought for our sweethearts, wives
and daughters during the last five
years foot up a total that is more
than twice the sum spent by the
United States to construct the Pan
anna canal"
Mr.. Moore adopts the fallacy
which waits ever on the juggler of
figures. If he adds to the portentiOus
totals the money spent in the British
isles for similar luxuries the results
will seem much more alarming, and
If thereto he adds the total for Eu-
rope the sum will be hOrrifying.
Should he continue his mathematical
calculations around the world the
grand total, could it be put within
the compass of ordinary Typography,
would not only stagger humanity but
might be used as an excellent argu-
ment by calamitous prophets of the
imminence of judgment day.
On the other hand, if Mr.. Moore
will dissemble his totals for the
United States into individual eXpend-
itures he will find that, outside of a
few abnormal spendthrifts and sense
1ess devotees of useless extravaganza,
the proportion of such luxuries is not
so very deplorable and by no means
symptom of depravity.
Undoubtedly there are too many
extravagant and useless Injuries, and
the capital and labor now wastefuiiy
devoted to their production should
be directed into more rational chan
nels. But the luxuries of one age fire.
Quently become the necessities of the
next.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
THE FARMERS AND THE CHURCH
From the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
The Telegraph is glad that DR..
Ainsworth wrote his card throwing
more light on the work which DR.. T.
D. Ellis, presiding elder of the Amer
icus district, is doing among the
farmers of his district. Much has
been said about the work, though we
had not seen it explained so fully as
was set forth in the card which DR..
Ainsworth wrote in reply to a criti-
based upon misleading statement in
the Atlanta Constitution.
A great many people have proba-
bly, taken the same view of the mat
ter which The Telegraph took and,
for that reason, we were pleased to
print a statement which would make
the matter clear and which would do
full justice to Dr.. Ellis.
The impression was created that
DR.. Ellis was converting his church
services, in the rural districts, at Ger
tain intervals, into rallies for the
study of the problems of the farmer
and his family. AS a matter of fact,
the farmers meetings have little or
no relation to the church services, eX-
cept in a social way. The addresses
on agricultural subjects are given on
Saturday and the religious services
are held on Sunday.
1T is probable that many people at
tend one meeting without being able
to attend the other. Whether that
is the case or not we are inclined to
believe that it was very happy con-
ception on the part of DR.. Ellis in
arranging these programs for every
fifth Sunday and Saturday before.
There is no possible infringement
upon the sanctity OF the Sabbath and
there is no room for criticism Of the
most orthodox christian.
We believe that meetings among
the country people, in social or relig-
ious gatherings, where they talk over
their problems and see more Of each
other, will contribute great deal to
the happiness and comforts of rural
life. 1t will make them take more
pride in themselves, their churches,
their schools and their homes, and
with improvement of these there will
be general uplift and improvement.
With the light which DR.. Aims
worth has thrown upon the work
which DR.. Ellis is doing the Tele-
graph joins in heartily commencing
it and in hoping that other ministers
will follow his example. 1t is not
changing the Farmers Sunday, " but
it is improving his weekday and
with it his Sabbath.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
Church Bells.

The church bells used TO ring when
we were boys in the long ago. Some
of the sweetest and gentlest recollec-
lions of those unreturning days are
attuned to the melody of the bells.
The bells had many voices. They
called us to Sunday school in the
morning, when the gentle-voiced
teacher in the early years told US of
the Savior's love and His sacrifice;
of Gods love for us and our duty to
Him and to our fellow man.
And then the bells seemed to
sound a more solemn tone as they
sent forth the sonorous summons to
the people to come and hear the
preaching of the Word There was
something devotional in their very
vibration, and the vivid imagination
of childhood could almost hear the
words that they uttered as the sounds
throbbed out upon the stiffness of
the Sabbath air.
And then in the twilight of the
afterglow at the end of the day of
rest and worship the last call would
pulsate upon the peaceful air, and
the evening service of the Sabbath
would round out the devotion of the
day.
They don't ring the church bells
as they used to. Modern customs
have relegated them to the storehouse
of memory, where they are put away
with so many of those things that
our hearts hallow but are called old
fashioned now and are smiled at by
those that are thrusting the old TO-
gies aside with the things that they
loved, like the church bells.
They say that the church bells
are unnecessary" now, that our
watches will tell us when it is time
to go to church. Maybe so, but the
ticking of a timepiece does not lift
the mind to God and attune the
thoughts to the devotion of the sanct-
uary as the sweetly solemn pulsations
of the sounds sent forth by the bells
used to in those years gone so long.
When the eternal Sabbath COM
mences for us we hope that its first
sound will be the sweetly solemn toll
of the church bell. If any earthly
echo can penetrate the silent halls
of the hereafter we believe that it
will be the church bells chime
Tampa Times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
New Method of Culture.

The Moultrie Observer notes that
a new system of cotton culture, which
lessons the danger of injury from the
boil weeyil, has been developed in
the office of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, which is in charge of cotton
breeding. By this system it has been
made possible to control the forma-
ton of the branches and shorten the
season required for the setting Of
the crop.
The formation of the branches is
controlled by an improved method
of thinning. By leaving the plants
closer together during the early
stages the production of vegetativa
branches is avoided and larger num-
bers of bolls are developed on the
lower fruiting branches of the main
stalk of the plant
This method of later and more
gradual thinning makes it possible
TO leave more plants in the rows than
is now customary, and yet injurious
crowding is avoided because the veg
etative branches are suppressed in
stead of being allowed to grow VI
and smother the lower fruitine
branches where the early flowers and
bolls are produced.
Earlier planting is a means of Sc
curing larger Yields in regions where
the period of crop production is lin
Iea either by short seasons or by tn
presence Of the boil weevil. Greatl
increased yields have been secured il
TINS way, even as high as fifty pc
cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
Not Raising Enough Food

TbeITnited States is facing serious
nroblem according to the Ohio State
journal which says that this big
country is not raising food enough
for itself today. 1t is getting wheat
from Canada and beef from Aus
troIia A land that can easily sup
mort 500. 100000 people is not now
supporting 100, 100000; and unless
If bestirs itself serious consequences
will follow, for the number of food
nroducing states is declining. This
country is putting industrialism be-
fore agriculture, and there will come
a day when it will feel the burden
of its conduct.
OF course, we do not feel the dis
comfort of our Partially to indus
+riaIism, but we will one of these
DAYS and then we will hurry to plant
orr waste places and adopt better
methods of culture. But it is going
+o take almost a catastrophe to get
the people away from the blandish-
ments of the city back to the corn
fields and potato patches, but they
will have to come to it or this dear
old country will have trouble and be-
fore many decades pass by.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
The Woy of Love.
m the Courier-Iournal.

From the Courier-Iournal.
THE course of true love never did
run smooth" according to Lysander,
and if it is the real thing only when
it hangs on until the edge of doom,
and the going is rough all the way,
those who have the actual germ i'm
planted in them need attention.
You may shake off spring fever or
get a hypnotist to rid you of hypo-
chrondia, but Sir Walter Scott, who
wrote a good many books in which
love was as ''unconquerable in the
fight" as Sophocles declared it to be
in "Antigone," says that stemming
a stream with sand or lettering fame
with fiaxen band is cinch compared
with tryins. to cure lovesickness by
firm resolve"
Buckingham, in an Ode to Love,
declares that it is the salt of life,
and that it gives a higher taste to
pleasure and makes it last. But per-
haps the poet was in love when he
wrote the lines and, therefore, in no
state to be dispassionately informing,
and in a normal state he didn't give
hang for verities.
Cynics are inclined to trust Spen-
Ger more than Buckingham, and
Spencer says that for every drachm
of honey found in love "a pound of
gall doth over it rebound
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
Ever Hear of Such a Thing 4?

State Treasurer Speer has the
unique distinction of being the one
man in Georgia who has money to
pay out and can't do it.
That section of the state motor
vehicle registration law which re-
quires the funds derived from the
registration fee of $500 per vehicle
to be apportioned among the coun-
ties according to their rural free de-
livery mileage has placed Mr.. Speer
in a peculiar situation.
There has been collected from the
registration of motor vehicles be-
tween 100000 and 100000, and
this sum is in the state treasury, but
it cannot be apportioned among the
counties on the basis above stated
because Treasurer Speer doesn't
know and cannot ascertain the rela-
tive mileage of each county.
The law provides that the appor-
tionment shall be made according to
statistics. Treasurer
Speer applied for these statistics and
was informed that the government
goes no further than a record of the
total free delivery mileage in each
state. Treasurer Speer then under
took to get the information from the
postmasters over the state, but fail
ed because the rural routes cross and
recross county lines and because the
postmasters themselves have no way
of arriving at an accurate compila-
ton of the figures. Apparently the
only way out Of the situation is for
the legislature at its forthcoming ses-
sion either to repeal the law and
pass some other motor vehicle taxa
ton, or to readjust the basis of ap-
portioning the funds derived from
the present registration system.
1t is safe to say that when the law
makers convene in June Treasurer
Speer will be quickly relieved of his
predicament. Unspent money in the
treasury is something that will not
be permitted for a moment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
THE DRUNKARD's HORSE.

All day | stand in the norther's blast,
The snow or the Whistling sleet,
For my cruel master ties me fast
To the rack by the village street.
He leaves me here from morn till
night
There's low rum shop near by.
Then wonder not at my cruel plight,
For q drunkard's horse am l.
All day | stand in the scorching heat,
Do you wonder which is worse,
The winter time with its snow and
sleet,
Or the summer and torturing
thirst?
All, often a day and night stand,
And the new days sun is high
Ere he quits the drunken ribald
band,
For a drunkard's horse am l.
When he mounts, at last, 1 feel the
weight
The frenzied slaves OF a seething
hate
That revels with lash and steel.
Then mile on mile at my utmost
speed,
because III uSL 0PSCu VI ulC'
Oh. hard is my way of life, indeed,
For a drunkard's horse am l.
Yes, shaggy, gaunt and bony I am,
Half famed by my broken knees;
Ny ruptured lungs bring many
qualm
And my breath is a strident
wheeZe.
I'm hungry and thirsty both night
and day,
And my shelters the pitiless sky;
For liquor were bartered my corn
and hay,
For a drunkard's horse am [.
With few to pity and none to save
l am chained to life OF woe,
Albeit the brutes that curse and rave
The pleasures of freedom know.
All, yes, my heart will break some
time.
Then death. But l wonder why
l must suffer thus for a Nations
crime,
Though a drunkard's horse am l.
W. P. Lockhart in Dumb Animals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
ANNOUNCEMENT S
FOR sTATE SENATOR.

I hereby announce myself as can
didate for the State Senate from the
Eleventh Senatorial district, subject
to the Democratic primary. l have
endeavored to profit by my opportu-
mites to learn to become useful dur
ing my experience in the General AS
sembly, and believe that my expert
snce in a law maxim body has bet
Ter equipped me to serve the people
whom 1 represent. If elected, |
promise faithful and conscientious
discharge of the duties of the office
to the best of my ability. l solicit
your support. D. c. PICKETT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
THE JERUSALEM OF TODAY.
I'M the Christian Herald.

From the Christian Herald.
Probably no modern city is more
disappointing to the expectant trav-
eler than is Jerusalem. We think
of it in it's ancient glory; we picture
to our imagination the magnificent
temple with it's golden room and the
other great buildings Of the hill OF
Zion. We read of it's being the rem
devious IN Passover times of a mill
lion pilgrims, and we naturally think
of it as an enormous city, comparable
to London or New York of the pres
ent day. We think of it in its ORR
entail setting of two thousand years
ago, but as we approach in a modern
railway train and climb the steep as
cent which leads to the city behind
an American engine our illusion dis
appears.
At last the guard calls out ''Jeru-
salem!' and we disembark a mile
from the city, get into rickety mod
ern hack, which has evidently done
duty in some more civilized COM
munity, and are bounced over the
rough roads and the intolerable cob
blestones within the gates until at
last we are landed at our modern
uOI6l, 81 ulncIeuL LIOlu INC hhelh VI
ancient times. And here our dis
illusionment has only begun.
The city of which we read as ac-
commodating a million guests on the
feast days could hardly today enter
tain thousand strangers within its
walls, and, since a multitude of pill
grims come every year from Russia
and Italy, France and Germany these
nations have erected great hotels out
side the walls for the accommodation
of pilgrims. But these, fine and even
magnificent as they are, take US not
back to the Jerusalem of two thous-
and years ago, 5ut tell US only of the
modern city where half dozen great
nations are building these hotels and
hospitals in order to gain political
and commercial advantage and pa
tiently awaiting the time when they
can Dust from his possession the
Turk who has so long held sway
within the sacred city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
Unfeminine Feminist Movement For
Suffrage Scored by Dupont Query

of his Memorial Hon
of men nd who
in last dnly
which
feminist movement
in their constitution and the
dot
Old
their
altogether
the
of
mannih but manly Ideal sex
equals
and by who
is
will be but
Southern rebellion
andm mora crushed or queled
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

1t is our suspicion that Pancho
Villa has a smooth press agent down
there on the border. Villas talk
has all of a sudden grown wise and
conservative. He actually coins cpl
grams when discussing the situation.
He may have learned sense and he
may want to be good, but we always
did mistrust the Greeks when they
came bearing gifts-which applies to
Pancho Villa. We suspect him, and
suggest further waiting and testing
before confiding in him. We may do
him injustice, but it must be admit
ted that he has laid himself open to
suspicion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
A TEXAS WONDER.

The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and bladder troubles, dissolves gray
ell. cures diabetes, weak and lame
backs, rheumatism, and all irregu-
larities of the kidneys and bladder in
both men and women. Regulates
bladder troubles in children. If not
sold by your druggist will be sent by
mail on receipt of $1.O0. One small
bottle is two months treatemnt, and
seldom fails to perfect cure. Send
for testimonials from this and other
states. DR.. E. W. HALL. 1926 Olive
street, st. Louis, Mo. Sold by drug
gists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

When the Federation of Women $
Clubs of the Third district meets here
in annual convention this week Daw-
son will have the pleasure and honor
of entertaining a gathering of charm
ing and brilliant women. The wo-
men are leaders today in various
movements for moral and mate
rial progress, and in their efforts
The News has always given them aid
and encouragement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

The ambassador of Brazil and the
ministers of Chile and Argentina had
no definite plan in mind when they
offered their good offices for the ad-
justment of the differences between
this country and Mexico, and they
are now seeking a starting point for
the negotiations. While nothing has
been given out respecting the prog
ress they have made in their confer
ences there is no doubt they are find
ing out that the task they have I'M
dertaken is an extremely difficult
one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
For Representative

To the voters of Terrell county:
announce myself a candidate for Rep
resentative from Terrell county in
the General Assembly subject to the
regular Democratic primary. Your
vote and influence in my behalf Is
earnestly solicited and will be highly
appreciated. Thanking you in ad-
vance for any consideration my can
didacy may receive at your hands,
Respectfully, J. H. WILLIFORD.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
For Representative

To the White Voters of Terrell
County: l am a candidate for the
Legislature, subject to the action of
the Democratic primary August IS.
Your support and influence will be
appreciated, and should you elect me
I will show my appreciation by CIV
ing you the best service in my power.
Yours truly. M. J. YEOMANS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

The raw material of $50 worth Of
popcorn retailed in five-cent pack
ages costs only about 81 and $3.50,
the federal department of agricult-
ure says. So the farmers children
who munich popcorn only when they
go excursioning or come to the cir
Gus, have to pay an extravagant in
tcrest for failing to use their own
raw material.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

We find by looking through the
seed fashion books that there will be
no radical changes in the styles of
vegetables during 1914. Red will be
the fashionable color for tomatoes.
as heretofore, and cucumbers will
wear green on the outside.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

The formal entry of Colonel N. E.
Harris, of Macon, makes three an
nounced candidates for governor, the
other two being DR.. L. G. Hardman,
of Commerce, and Hon. j. Randolph
Anderson, of Savannah. There may
be as many more before the bell taps
and they are off on the political race
course.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

Complete official returns show
that Mr.. Underwood carried every
county in Alabama but three over
Mr.. Hobson for the senate and re-
ceived a majority of the total vote of
34,732. 1t was the most signal vic
tory in a political campaign ever
known in that state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

Congressman T. w. Hardwick came
down from Washington Saturday,
and is making speeches in the south
ern part of the state this week in the
interest of his candidacy for the SEN
ate. Renewed interest in that con-
test may now be expected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

Talk about the beauties of the
Emerald Isle in the springtime-and
there is beauty there-but also look
at the fields and woodland in South
west Georgia and let the heart be
thereby delighted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

1t is kind of Argentina, Brazil and
Chile to offer to mediate between I'm
Gle Sam and General Huerta, and the
good intent merits appreciation. But
the good intent may not bring good
results. 1t is an awfully complicated
and embarrassing position that I'm
Gle Sam is in. 1t looks like he might
have steered clear of such muddle,
but he didn't, and it is now matter
of duty to stay with him until the
finish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

A French scientist attributes the
benefit of sunlight at high attitudes
upon persons to a preponderance Of
ultraviolet rays, which induce
more active circulation of the blood.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

The Herald reports that prepare
tions are we'll advanced for the 26th
annual assembly of the Georgia
Chautauqua, which will open in AL
bany on May 18th and continue
through six days. One of the most
attractive programmes that has yet
been offered is announced for the
approaching assembly, and as usual
thousands of people throughout
Southwest Georgia will share with
the people of Albany its pleasures
and benefits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05

An optimist has been described as
a man who doesn't care what hap
mems so long as it doesn't happen TO
him.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-03-31
Important School Meeting.

The trustees, patrons and friends Of
Garmony, Mt Bethel, and McCary
schools are requested 10 meet at Unity
church Thursday 1920 a. m April Ind.
Mr.. w. K Tate, State Supervisor of
Rural schools will be present. The
matter of building rural graded
school and of consolidating the above
schools will be discussed. Other
speakers will be present.
This will be the last visit Mr.. Tate
will make to Newberry county in the
official capacity Of State supervisor of
rural schools. After May 1 he will be
with Peabody Normal at Nashville,
Tenn. 1t is hoped that friends of Mr..
Tate's last work will be four teacher
graded school. Geo. D. Brown.