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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
Fourteen on One Ticket.
From the Chicago Record-HeraId.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott who dwelt South
Whitley, have gone West to establish new home
Their hope is to find in Kansas or Oklahoma enough
tillable land to provide employment and sustenance
for the whole-Scott-fam and it is some fam
lily; in fact a record breaker
Althoug married only ten years Mr.. and Mrs
Scott are the parents of nineteen children, thirteen
of whom are living, all sons and all under the age
of five years.
AS explained by Frank M. Prugh the Scots hoa
the record for triplets five sets having been 0orH
to them There are also two sets of twins.
When en- route to the West Mrs. Scott 0oardea
the train with her brood and nonplussed the con-
ductor by presenting one first-class ticket.
eve can't carry a Sunday school class on OnSl
ticket, madam" said the railroad man.
'But they are all my children" declared MIS-
Scott.
1t was necessary for her to show the record u
the family Bible to convince the conductor.
In naming the children Mr.. and Mrs. Scott snow,
ed a partially for the letter GA" Following aF
the names and ages:
AshbeI Archer and Austin, tripets, Y years
Arthur and Arnold, u years old. u
Allen, AlmOn and Albin, trpets, 2 u years ou
Alfred, Albion and Adolph triplets, Is months
Abel and Abner, twins months old.
The reason for this partially has never Deen ~
veaed, but humorist has suggested that the 20
rents contemplated going through the aIphdVV'
later Mrs. Scott is 80 and her husband 81
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
Three More Years of War?

William E. Corey, former president of the United
States Steel Corporation, has returned from four
months tour of France with the information that
the allies are preparing for a long war, for three
more years of fighting if necessary Evidently they
do not expect to win quickly, and they do not ex-
pect to lose at all. Hence they are bending every
effort to get and munitions in sufficient quanti-
ties to fight long they have to, and are not set
ting any maximum limit upon the wars duration
The chief impression of the received by Mr.
Corey that it is war of chemistry and me-
chanics" and there is doubt that he has accu-
rately described it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
The Stork,
From the London Chronicle.


When a new baby comes to family IN ho
country it is customary to say, in Holland 20
stork has arrived" though as matter OF la' =
have no true stork. so,k
We have the ibis, which belongs to the 9TH sVir
family This bird, which breeds in the tar oga a,
states, often comes as far north as Inu I'M
for it is a bird of long and easy flight, stahu[.
thirty thirty-one inches high with about M
eight inches in its length of body. It's piuluaSs
white, but wings and tail black 1t IS ConJt
cred bird of gentleness and good nature @ \.
ing with ducks, geese and other water lo"4
pleasant terms .sJa
in winter 1t comes and goes in great nocA nt h
turning year after year to occupy its Ola I09 ohg
Belgium, Holland Denmark, Germany anu anu. wst
parts of central Europe, where the birds are /.
coined and protected on account of their 80 tvei
scavengers. The war in Belgium mas ue' him.
many of their old nesting places on mouse s he
neys and cathedrals. The common name ~ ;, and
stork in Holland means the ''bringer OF goou aoDs
believe that good luck win attend the house e
which the stork has built its nest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
Boosting Your Town.

the proper way to boost your home town
is subject which has interested many a willing
citizen who has learned from observation that the
real booster is not the man who throws his hat
up in the air, and runs up and down the street
calling attention to himself while shouting "'Hur-
ran for Bingville,' or whatever the name of his
place happens to be-
Boosting is actively doing the things that will
make for prosperity in your locality The most
practical form of all is patronizing your home
stores and your home industries, buying at home
and Keeping money at home A dollar spent in
your home town runs the rounds in your home
Town, and does local good all along the line. When
you send your dollar out of town it's goodbye dol
lar"
Mutual helpfulness in commercial way is the
way to put pep" and ginger into any community,
large or small.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

First the bankers of the state, then the weekly
press men, and now the police chiefs have decided
to forbid the serving of alcoholic beverages at the
entertainments at their annual meetings says the
Savannah News. Pretty soon it will be a rare ban
quet in Georgia that is graced, disgraced as
the may be, by the Old-fashioned trimmings
that in other days caused banqueters to slip under
the table or go weaving homeward in the wee sma"
hours declaring vociferously, 1--WE won't go home
till morning
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
In Olden Times.

In olden times-hOw rare the phrase
When George the Third was king,
Cooked hats and wigs in those gay days
Were thought the latest thing;
The ladies went in for the patch,
The bucks they wore the queue.
! wonder-in a hundred years
If we will seem quaint, too.
They Travelled il a coach and four,
Went to the play in chairs;
The farthingales the bellies then wore
Impaired dainty airs;
Swashbucklers with their trusty blades
Ran one another through.
! wonder-in hundred years
If we will seem quaint, too.
They danced the stately minuet-
The fox trot was too naughty
And in the famous pomp room met
Gay beau and grande dame naughty.
Three bOttle-men filled trimming cups
Or played all night at loo.
I wonder-in a hundred years
If we will seem quaint, too.
Today in this distressing age
Reform is all the cry;
Freak legislation is the rage,
A state is wet or dry"
abolish this!"' abolish that"
Each day sees something new.
I wonder-in hundred years
If We Will seem quaint, too.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
About Several Things.
CURIOSITY.

Within the wondrous wilderness,
If you will come with me,
You'll meet an ugly giantess
Called Curiosity.
Her neck is fifty cubits long,
And plant like hose;
A horrible, sharp-pointed prong
Does service as her nose.
Her body's shaped-'twill cause surprise
Just like a question mark,
And with two little gimlet eyes
She sees when it's pitch dark.
She towers above the trees so tall
When upright she doth stand, l.,
Like gentle Alice, you'll recall,
In haunted Wonderland
A lovely child she once was, at
The age of Eta Mae
She poked her nose in matters that
Concerned her in no way;
So mind your own affairs, nor let p'
Your prying self overdo,
Lest curiosity should get
The best, some day, of you.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
Seen in a Cemetery.
From the Kensington Reporter.

Take walk through the cemetery alone and you
will pass the resting place of man who looked into
the muzzle of gun to see if it was loaded. A
little further down the slope is a crank who tried
to show how close he could stand to moving train
while it passed In strolling about you will see
the monument of the hired girl who tried to start
the fire with kerosene and a grass-coVered knoll
that covers the boy who tickled the mules tail
That tall shaft over man who blew out the gas
casts a shadow over the boy who tried to get on
moving train. Side by side by the pretty creature
who always had her corset laced in the last hole
and the intelligent creature who rode bicycle nine
miles in ten minutes sleep unmolested At repose
is doctor who took dose of his own medicine
There with a big marble monument over his head
is rich old man who married young wife. Away
over there reposes a boy who went fishing on Sun
day, and the woman who kept strychnine powders
in the cupboard. The man who stood in front of
the moving machine to oil the knives is quiet now,
and rests beside the careless brakeman who fed
himself to the lotion engine and nearby may be
seen the grave of the who tried to whip the
editor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
LEGIsLATING GOOD INTO US.

From the Triton Gazette
And now comes Senator Tison of the Tenth with
a bill to make all good 1t prohibits 1.-The manu-
facture, sale barter, giving away keeping or fur
nishing at public places for any purpose whatsoever
any drink containing caffeine whether it is known
labeled coca cola, chero COLA rye ola, or any
other name brand"
The Georgian has been slowly but surely sepa-
rated from his toddy; he sees his near beer going,
with thirsty throat and watering eyes; now at one
fell swoop his dope is to be taken from him. Moth
ing will be left but tobacco and ice cream and we
feel it in our bones that their days numbered
Next it may be made capital offense to use Gig
arettes then the old favorites, lemon soda and
strawberry and vanilla, will be taken from and
by that time this world will be such a desert We
won't to stay here, and will have been made so
good by legislative enactment that it will be no
use to go to heaven; all the old bunch will have
the other place already filled, so what will become
OF US?
The last heard of the senator's bill it was still
introduced.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
The Conscience Keeper,

CFrom an address by Percy Andrea, vice-presi
dent American Association of Foreign Language
Newspapers before the International Press Con-
gress Panama Exposition San Francisco
Il believe that the paramount function of the
press is that of keeper of public conscience Thera
was never time when well as women were
so 1ercely intent upon appealing, and assuming to
speak in its name, as they are today. And who
is to distinguish amid this babel of tongues Wag-
ging in the name of public conscience which voice
is truly the voice of the people and which is not?
All kinds of fads and fashions of thought have
had their day in this world of They have
swept occasionally in violent gusts over the multi.
tude, and we have heard men, again and again
as they bent their heads to the storm, pass the
warning word to each other Behold the mighty
whirwind of public opinion, until another such
gust has swept from the opposite direction and
successfully contested the passage of the first
1t is the incessant conflict between these con.
trary winds of alleged public opinion that does
more lasting damage in our day than even these
colossal social upheavals which occasionally result
from the clashing interests of race and Not
because the conflict of human opinions is in itself
when opinions, however honest, masquerade in a
bewilder the public conscience instead of clarity
ing and strengthening it.
who, then is better qualified than the trained
and experienced newspaper editor to point the dis
tnction between the mere passing winds that bend
and twist the public mind for feeting moment
and the real storm-wnd that originates in the
public mind itself, searching it to its utermod
depths and giving it a new and lasting shape?"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
FARMING WITH MACHINERY.

From the South Georgia Progress.
Henry Ford, says exchange, is going to revo-
lutionize farming He is going to sell farmers a
little engine that will do the work of dozen men
and as many mules-al1 for the cost of one ordi-
nary mule.
All of which may sound peculiar at this time,
but the time is not distant when practically all
the work done farms in this section of the state,
at least will be by machinery Then there will be
better conditions for all, because with the use of
machinery the farmers till more acres better
and cheaper than now, with the result that there
will be more of everything raised and competition
with those sections that using machinery
on the farms will be possible
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Illinois is having difficulty in getting the best re-
suits from it's honor and parole system for convcts
Not long ago the wife of the warden of Joliet peni
Tertiary was killed presumably by a trusty, and
now negro under parole from the state reforma-
tory has confessed that he killed his employer,
woman who had obtained his release and given
him work in her home, because she would not per-
nit the dinner dishes to go unwashed. Some men
respond to efforts to reform them while others take
advantage of persons who show them kindness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Our meek and lowly friend, the great American
cheese, bids fair to come into its royal own. OF
course there are other kinds of cheese, but the
others are higher priced, and at that no whit bet
ter than the genus Americans cheese Eminent
authorities food products have of late modified
in favor of cheese. They claiming that it is not
only satisfactory substitute for meat, but that
among it's ingredients are certain meteorological
formations which of incalcuable benefit to
healthfulness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Politics is not the only condition which causes
strange bedfellows. The English parliament has
passed unanimous vote of thanks to General
Louis Botha for his valorous service in Germany's
part of Africa, which he has succeeded in captur-
ing 1t is within the memory of the youngest of
that not long ago General Botha fought the
English to a standstill in a which they will
not soon forget
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
THIS NAME BUSINESS.
From the Triton Gazette.

From the Triton Gazette. m
There is something in a name. man n4r
ed Whiskey is in a court scrape TOT oTo4 j
up a neighbor,'' says a contemporary -sa
ways; a named Drinkwater was d I19 soa
in Georgia town for being drunk.-DaTS''
News.
The News could have stopped nearer I gnnr 4
man named Drinkwater ran saloon III 49, ~ bu;
many years, and we believe is in the near 0'
ness now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

A contemporary thinks 1.-The real diplomat is the
woman who satisfactorily explain how her
chickens came to be in the other woman's garden -
1t seems to US the real diplomat is the other woman
when she gets the chickens kept out without a
neighborhood row.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

If the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Chi
cago were wiped out completely, with every soul
of their population the loss would just about equal
the human life toll taken thus far in the Euro
pean And at present are inclined to the
belief that New York, Chicago and Philadelphia
are worth more than Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
NOT SURPRISING.

From the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle.
Green is chained to bed post and Franks head
has been put in a wise to keep him from bowling his
thanks to a certain ex-governor and pulling the
stitches out of his wound Otherwise Georgia has
amusements but the legislature that runs on
full time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
CAN'T YOU SEE THROUGH 1T?

From the Pike County Journal
The early announcement from the style
shops to the effect that the style of summer
clothes would eliminate the transparent skirt
has failed to materialize in Georgia.-DawsOn
News.
What yer mean, won't have no skirts at all?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
YOU ARE ALSO CORRECT.

From the Lavonia Times.
Efforts to live a silk life on a mercerized
salary do not usually prove fortunate.-Daw-
News.
Neither does champagne appetite go well with
2 beer income.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
HAS HIS SIGHTS HIGH.

From the Griffin News and Sun.
Many Georgia editors continue to discuss the
question of womens short skirts, which is a mat
ter that they have nothing to do with. AS far
can see they all right
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

A Georgia woman has discovered that her ankles
are immune from mosquitoes when she wears yell
low hose the mosquitoes preferring those of flesh
colored tint. Wise mosquitoes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Georgia is dry state all right, the trouble be-
ing that no has notified Atlanta Sixteen locker
clubs and two hundred and twelve saloons have
just taken out license in the state capital.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

According to the Manufacturers Record every
Southern state except Maryland has good corn
crop. We don't what folks want to live in
Maryland for, anyway, when they could live in
Southwest Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Two young Memphians who convicted of
counterfeitng have confessed that they ordered
metal for the spurious coins from a mail order
house. There now! What lid tell you about
those mail order houses?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Remember what wonderfully resourceful coun-
try you live in. When the peach and watermelon
season is over mint julep is still good.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

While at the movies your arms back of your
head. Your friends if you have any, will be de-
lighted at this exhibition of graceful careessness
on your part.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

The Ohio husband who put bullet through a
portrait of his wife in fit of is forethought-
ed gentleman He got rid of his Crouch and saved
the hangman a job.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

That compressed air hammer which has just been
invented for breaking up paVements might be pow
erful enough to use the town knocker if applied
just back of the left
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

An Iowa editor refused to call it an error when
a compositor set the word deadlock instead of
''wedlock" in a local marriage notice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
AND ALSO POSES OTHERWISE AT TIMES.

From the Griffin News and Sun.
Man proposes, God disposes and woman poses be-
tween the two, declares the Dawson News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

The statement that three battleships year
could be built with the money spent in the United
States for chewing gum hasn't lessened the gum
habit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
HE WOULD RATHER SEND.

From the Madisonian.
The Dawson News tells to go to Eu-
rope if we want to fight. We amt gwine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Now that Atlanta has reorganized her police de-
partment and suppressed the religious bulletins"
what's the devil doing?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

The man whose dignity is offended at the thought
of honest work hasn't much else except his dignity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

There are no available statistics to show the eff
feet of DR.. Wileys war on kissing We have an
idea, though.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

The time may some when convicts will no
longer be seen in chains. Non-skid rubbers will be
substituted
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Bathing suits Is per cent off," says adver
tisement Wonder what's left?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
CAN'T AFFORD IT.

The other day merchant said he couldn't af-
ford to advertise in his home newspaper. Ii the
mans view were not distorted he would see that
he couldn't afford not to advertise. refusing to
advertise is his most expensive extravagance That
same merchant will spend hours telling OF the
unfair competition of the mail order houses,
who are his most aggressive and dangerous COM
petitors, yet the methods employed by the mall
order houses which succeed the very ones
which the merchant refuses to use. The mail or
der house. first of all, is advertiser Advert1s-
ing is the life of it's business Every magazine that
enters the small town and rural home carries the
ad of The mail order house. Expensive catalogs
are printed showing the illustrations of the act
ual articles. Occasionally sheets are scattered
broadcast the country as special come-on
for the bargain hunter. Instead of doing these
things in a smaller way through the columns of
his local paper the merchant who can't afford to
advertise sits down and "cusses' his tough luck
and wonders why he can't get the business He
never thinks he has better opportunity to reach
the people in his neighborhood than the mall or
der house has. 1t doesn't cost him as much as 1t
does the outsider; he draw the people to his
store and show them the actual article he s adver-
tisng and, when they buy, they can take their
purchase home with them instead of having 20
wait several weeks for it. Advertising is an in
vestment. 1t should be charged to your selling
cost Figure what percentage you have to pay to
advertise, then base ffty-two weeks campaign
on the computation. You can't lose. You can't
afford not to advertise
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
COURAGE VS.. DECENCY.

The other day an excited individual rushed into
a newspaper office with a choice bit of scandal
burning his tongue. 1t made no difference to this
person that the scandal affected the daughter of
his neighbor-that the mother Of the girl was seri-
ousIy ill-that the brother was just entering what
promised to be a successful professional career.
The scandal was rich in flavor, and he wanted to
see it in the paper. He told the editor about it
with every evidence of the keen relish of the seam
dial connoisseur, but impressed upon the news
paper man that the source of his information must
be kept inviolably secret. When the paper came
out the returned to demand why the story
hadn't been printed. Short, sharp words follow
ed, and the visitor called the editor coward and
left VoWing that a who afraid 70 print
the news had right to be editor. TO our
mind, that editor brave man. The 1nformer
who demanded that his be kept secret Vas
the coward. The editor a paper in small
town. So closely related the lives OF the in
habitants that the editor knew every detail OF the
story before his visitor called on him. But he
could see no profit for himself nor glory for LIS
paper in printing item that would bring sor-
row to the gray hairs of a father, disgrace TO a
brother and probably serious consequences to a
sick mother. If the news appetites of his readerS
were so voraciOus he thought as to demand TINS
costly food he would refuse to pay the price Inc
editor was right. Many things he has to print
which he would rather leave unsaid, but the scan
dal which has only it's 'spice" to recommend 1t
should have no place in the columns OF SELF
respecting paper We would rather build than
tear down. We would rather print the things that
help and encourage and uplift than to hold up
the mistakes of some unfortunate to the scorn ana
contempt of his neghbOrs. Decency is not lack
of courage. If it were We would rather be decent
than courageous.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

When the European countries cease to war which
will be the greater the bread line or the dead line?
A diplomat has been described as person VINO
can eat corn off a cob while wearing a plug hat and
a frock coat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10

Forget the weather, but don't forget to smile.
Warsaw seems to be see-saw.