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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Let's Have Another Fair.

Dawson and Terrell county should go
right ahead with the promotion OF another
county fair for next fall to follow it's sue
cessfuI predecessors. Beginning rather tent
atiyely, and proving to he not exactly flow
cry paths of ease, they have been undoubt-
ed assets to both the town and county in
MANY ways This is but another instance of
where a good thing should be pushed along,
and this is too particularly and indisputably
q good thing to be allowed to die, or even
to drag.
County fairs, even where unsuccessful
from a financial viewpoint, are events by
which the communities which foster them
are material gamers. These fairs constitute
one of the most valuable mediums of pub
lfcity known. They stimulate keen though
friendly rivalry which spells progress. They
mean a getting together and better under
standing of each other and of each others
problems They mean increased crowds on
the streets of Dawson, which signifies in
creased sales and a beneficial commingling
of town folk with rural folk.
We all know these and many scores of
other good and sufficient reasons why we
should hold another fair. None of us can
picture a reason why it should not be pro-
NOTED. Let's have it; and let's get busy on
the idea while the time is psychological.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Remarkable Experiences
Of Detective Kneu

Probably no crime expert has graa+o,
knowledge of coiners and their tricks e.
Divisional Detective Inspector Knoll ~
after thirty years service, has lately ratino3
from Scotland Yard. In his early DAVIS s aou
"Tit-Bits,'' Inspector Knell had a great da .1
to do with cOiners, and he relates how 49,
of the most extraordinary experiences of he
first days was the running to earth NJ
criminal who was the only member of Ia q
fraternity ever known who endeavored ~
make a livelihood by producing bad pennioo
His methods were curious His favorit
dodge was to steal pewter pots from nnb1o
houses and by an ingenious process of bio
own shape them to resemble old pennies Nh"
worst feature of his nefarious practices W."
that he enlisted the services of his It'll
daughter, six years of age, who during on
evening, would make dozens and somatimna
a hundred purchases of sweets or other ~
ticleS worth a farthing with the bad nennio,
and receive three farthingS of good monoT
in exchange.
Equally remarkable were the methods n
two men whom Mr.. Knell trapped about ION
years ago who made very good living by
sweating soVereigns. 1t was the COMPLAINS
of the Bank of England which first aronsnd
suspicion, and ultimately after lengthy in.
designations Inspector Knell tracked two
men to certain premises, where one of tho
biggest coming factories in the metronoIiC
was discovered with large dynamos, electric
batteries and enough cyanide of potassium
to poison the whole of London. There were
over one hundred sovereigns in pickle, to-
gether with large nuggets of fine gold ready
to be sent to goldsmiths in Birmingham.
The method was as simple as it was in
genous. The men advertised for old gold
and would get good sovereigns, put them in
bath, sweat two shillings worth of gold
from the face, carefully preserving the mill
ing Of the edge by means of rubber bands
then with the light coins they would cycle
around the suburbs purchasing postal Or
ders, and then afterWard rechanged the lat
ter for sovereigns again, which were then
sweated in a similar manner.
Inspector Knell, however, came into con-
tact with all kinds of criminaIs-murderers
garroters, thieves and swindlers of all sorts.
The nefariOus practices of two of these
sWindlerS were of the most extraordinary
character. One of them was man who I'M
der the name of Davenport perpetrated dar-
ing fraud on ship owners and brokers by
which he defrauded the public of over CO.
600 pounds. Buying three old and useless
boats he started a steam-traWling and fish
ing syndicate to develop a special expert
ment of treating fish to make food for pigs.
and at the same time mortgaged the vessels
some sixty times
The second of these sWindlers was a man
who obtained money by watching obituary
notices of notable personages and then send
ing an account to the dead man at his club.
1t was never for a large amount-always
under 10 pounds and the account on which
the nature Of the goods was specified would
usually be paid without question.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
War At Twenty Miles.

From the New York World.
The French estimate of the distance from
which the Germans dropped shells in Dun
kirk is 1914 miles. Fire at such a range
has long been topic of popular interest as
a possibility. 1t is now a fact.
Travelling swifter than a rifle ball shot
on it's way. At As degrees elevation it rises
more than two miles above the Hottest
mountain, higher than man can mount in a
balloon and live, before it begins to de-
Scend.
The fire that wrecked the Antwerp forts
was delivered with much more accurate aim,
almost vertical, at fairly short range. The
great guns of warships cannot be elevated
more than Is degrees. This is one reason
why the allies landed armies at the Dardan-
Giles. Plunging fire from batteries at closer
range should be more effective against Turk
ish forts than the big guns of the Queen
Elizabeth. No Warship could shell New
York from a distance at sea equaling the
range of land artillery.
1t is hard to hit a small mark at half a
mile, and harder to hit a big one at twenty
miles. The Germans are probably satisfied
without having accomplished a military OBJ
ject with the moral effect of their feat-and
there is always a chance that a great shell
may hit a vital spot Our army experts say
that range of thirty miles is possible with
,present-day ordnance. Thus ConstantinOple
might be bombarded from the shore of the
Black sea, Trieste from Italian soil, Cueta
from Gibraltar, Sardinia from Corsica, Dover
from Calais. This is why the German shots
at Dunkirk were heard around the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Everything Included.

The average layman reading legal paper
is struck by the everpresent redundancy IN
volved-the seemingly unnecessary reltera-
tion, the recital of the same facts over and
over again in differing terminology. He
finds himself wondering why the practice
was ever INDUCED in to begin with and why
it still prevails.
This has always seemed to be as much
true. if not more So of resolutions and meas
ures introduced before legislative bodies,
and after reading one Of these wierd docu-
ments the innocent bystander is occasionally
prone to wonder what it is all about
As an acute example of this there is pre-
scented for the mental edifcation and exalta-
ton of a defenseless public this tumble Of
Queens English, the same being the VERDI
age gleefully employed in framing resolu-
ton later passed by the Minnesota house
of representatives, making provisions for the
investigation of certain departments:
And into the work and workings of
each and every office thereof, and into
the relation of each thereof to the other
thereof, and into the relation OF the
work of each thereof to the other there
of or the work or duties thereof, and
into the correlation of the work of the
employees thereof, and into the necessity
or the ACCESSIBILITY of the continuance
of any existing department or commits
sion or board or bureau or office or into
the advisability of the discOntinuance of
any existing department or commission
or board or bureau or office or any en-
ployee thereof, or into the administra-
tion of each or either thereof and into
the ACCESSIBILITY Of a new correlation
thereof, or of each or either thereof,
calculated to insure greater efficiency
and economy.
The mewings, meanderings and nocturnal
peregrinations of the capitol cat are not
specifically listed, but it is taken for grant
ed that such feline activities were intended
as fit and proper subjects to be looked into
among the multiplicity of thereofs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
THE ROTATION OF JUDGES.

From the Laurens County Citizen.
Sentiment is said to be growing all over
Georgia in favor of the plan to rotate the
superior court judges. The plan has work
ed very satisfactorily in North Carolina for
many years, and it would probably work as
well in Georgia. 1t is all right, perhaps, for
the people in each circuit to select their
judges, but after they are elected they
should be compelled to preside in the courts
of the various circuits of the state. The
judges doubtless would prefer this method,
as it would enable them to administer their
offices absolutely without personal or politi-
cal craftsmanship.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
NOTHING TO WEAR.

From Lesies Weekly.
There are women who live to dress, and
the more frequent and radical the changes
are the better they like it. If their pocket
books can stand it no great harm is done.
But the great majority of women can't af-
ford to keep up with this pace. The result
is that some stay at home because their
clothes are not in the latest style, many are
made unhappy, and others keep up with the
procession it matters not what may be the
cost.
If man can wear the same dress suit for
eight or ten years and not look like freak
why is it not possible to design an evening
gown for women that will be in good style
as long as it may be worn? 1t is absurd
to hear woman say, 81 haven't thing to
wear" when she may have half dozen
gowns all in good condition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Crafty, But Fallacious.

The pro-Germanic interests both abroad
and in the United States, are arguing that
the United States is unfair to Germany be-
cause munitions of war are being shipped
from this country to the allies in great guam
titles, while Germany is unable to purchase
similar supplies from American manufact-
ufacturing concerns. This, they say, gives
to the allies an unfair advantage and pro-
longs the war.
True every word of it; but it is not true,
III whole or in part, that this indicates a lack
of neutrality on the part of the United
States. The specious stand of these expo
nents is so puerlely bland as to be almost
ludicrous.
AS a statement of concrete fact nothing
could be more accurate than the assertion
that the allies are purchasing war material
from us and the Germans are not; but the
Germans, who are painfully aware of the
reason which exists for that condition, are
careful not to mention it.
There is a reason, to be sure, and it is not
lack of conscientious neutrality, strictly OBJ
served. 1t is hard to believe that there is a
child of school age in the country who is ig
norant of the reason, which is this:
The allies buy munitions of war from
manufacturers in the United States because,
after they have been bought, they can safely
he transported to the war area.
Germany does not buy in the United
States because she cannot safely transport
the same class of freight-or any freight at
all, for that matter.
1t isn't in the least case of Germany's
inability to buy American manufacturers
will sell her all of anything and everything
she desires to purchase, from ported ham to
howitzers, and Germany knows it.
But there is another thing which she
knows, and that is that after she has made
her purchases she will not be any better
off She can't get the newly purchased sup
plies across the high seas, for the good and
sufficient reason that the supplies and the
ships carrying them will be sent to Davy
Jones locker by warships of the allies.
Which is but another way of saying that
the allies are in control of the seas Of
course that is disconcerting to the Germans,
but the United States has nothing to do with
it. It is simply Germany's misfortune.
If conditions were reversed-if Germany,
instead of the allies, were in control of the
seas-Germany would be today buying heav-
lily from US, and the allies would not. The
markets of the United States are open to
the world. All who will may buy; but this
country does not propose to guarantee safe
conduct of freight across the water
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Corn Also King.

We should get rid of the notion that
wheat is the only proper bread-making
material Corn makes a better and
more nutritious bread. If we were
Obliged to choose between the two we
should be wise to take the maize and
eschew the wheat. A little scarcity of
wheat would be a good thing if it re-
suited in making the American people
acquainted with the food value and de-
lcous flavor of our greatest grain
crop.-Farm and Fireside.
To us of the South it seems inconceiva-
BILE that any one should be ignorant of the
food value of corn. Corn, not wheat, is the
central luxury about which revolve all the
varied gastronomic dainties of a nationwide
reputation for Southern cooking" Who
knows anything toothsomer than corn pone,
hoecake, corn fapjacks, corn dodgers ct
cetera ad in1nitum? We have been almost
neglectful as regards a richly deserved allie
glance to the humble and lowly grain which
is the chief sustenance of life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
Pass a Law.

Are your neighbors very bad?
Pass a law!
Do they smoke? Do they chew?
Are they bothering you?
Don't they do as you would do?
Pass a law!
Are your wages awful low?
Pass a law!
Are the prices much too high?
Do the wife and babies cry
Cause the turkeys all roost high?
Pass a law!
When M. D. finds new diseases
Pass a law!
Got the mumps or infermes,
Measles, mumps or ''expertisis?"
Lest we all fly to pieces,
Pass a law!
Are the lights aburning red?
Pass a law!
Paint 'em green or paint 'em white!
Close up all them places tight!
My! Our town is such a sight!
Pass a law!
No matter what the trouble is,
Pass a law!
Goodness sakes, but amt it awful
My! What are we going to do?
Almost anything amt lawful,
And the judge is human, too!
Pass a law!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
MIR. TAFTs OPINION OF THEM.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
Former President Tafts opinion of the
arnes-Roosevelt trial was expressed freely
the other day in an interview at Chicago.
What he had to say was very interesting, Of
course, and his meaning could not be mistak-
en- The whole country would like to know
what he thinks about the progressive-in-
chief and one of the standpattest republicans
in the country. What Mr.. Taft said was this:
''Ha, ha, ha, ha." And he said it in such
way as to leave no doubt that he meant ev-
cry word of it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

The Thomasville Times-Enterprise never
said anything truer than when it delivered
itself of this: "They blow about home prod
ucts and go right ahead and purchase Ten
nessee hay and Iowa oats and Illinois hogs,
when they could get much better stuff of a
much better kind at home and pay less for
it." No one doubts the logic of this, but it
seems hard for some of us to put into prac-
tice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

There are many and curious Yal1etleS Oh
foolish argument, but as the most ridiculous
of them all we are committed to the pro
German statement that the sinking Of the
Lusitania was justitiable because warning
had been given. On this theory the man
who stabbed you in the back in the darkness
would be hero, provided he had threaten
ed YOU previously.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

The Macon News man can grow poetic
when the occasion is sufficiently inspiring
'They are,' he MARBLES, 'the fairest flower
that grows in the South in the springtime
ranking right along with the magnolia, the
shallot, the pansy and the turnip green. -
It's colards he is singing of.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Germanys emperor endeavored to per-
suade the mother of the king of Italy to
influence her son in favor of Germany. I'm
the house of Savoy we rule one at a time, -
was her reply. The utteTance is a classic,
and will so rank for all time to come.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

The Boston Transcript says the time has
come to show the Kulturbund that interna-
tional law was not written on a scrap of pa
per The time has arrived, too, when Vari-
Gus and suhdry other bunds are on the
verge of being shown various and sundry
other things.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Nobody ever boasts of missing train
or a boat unless the train runs off the
track or the boat sinks.-SaVannah
Morning News.
Don't know so much about the Boosting,
but we've heard considerable plain and fancy
comment of another variety caused by miss
ing train
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

It's all settled now. Great Britain is to
blame for sinking the Lusitania. The Ger
man consul in Atlanta has spoken.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Commenting upon Mothers Day the Sa-
vannah Morning News observes that the first
day of every month is Fathers Day. Yea,
verify.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Wonderful how many greatest battles the
world has ever heard of can be fought in so
many varied places, and on the same day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Thomasville is just launching business
mems club, with plenty of money and moral
support behind it. Good! Respectfully re-
ferred to the business interests of Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25
1T COULD BE WORSE.

From the Cuthbert Leader.
The early bird catches the worm; likewise
it is the early worm that gets caught so
what you gonna do about that?-Hartwell
Sun.-Be the bird.-Dawson News.
And be full of worms?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Florida solons have under consideration a
bill protecting crabs. What variety, please?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

This thing of preserving a state of strict
neutrality grows right onerous sometimes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

didn't know a war is on in Europe. Fortu-
nate man!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

II is safe bet that the Missouri town
which celebrated ''pay-up week toucHeu d
popular chord with the creditors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

The barefoot boy is smiling again and
lodging the hot sands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

European trips will be scarce this sum
m6r.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-25

Every time that Mr.. Taft talks he says
something that the whole country can en-
dorse. He is the most loved and rospect
ed republican living today.-Darien Ga
zette.
South Bend news-times., 1915-01-18
A uthorities A fter LGOlessness
Not Individuals, Says Pastor
In Explaining Recent Raids

"Our city administration is after
lawlessness. not individuals. It's OBJ
ject is not prosecution but preven-
ton" These were the words OF Rev.
H. b. Hostetter. pastor of the West
Minister Presbyterian church Sunday
morning in his sermon on law en-
fOrcement
After referring to the kind of re-
vival needed in the church and the
general moral toning up that IS TAX
ing place throughout the nation he
launched into "a discussion OF local
conditions in general and the results
OF the recent investigation. in partic-
ular.
All sorts Of rumOrs are afloat.' he
said, "and I am encOuntering opin-
ions the most radical and conflicting.
/ want TO counsel my people to hold
themselves steady. Possess your
souls in patience and do not put too
much credence in mere hearsay.
Wait for the evidence that the trials
Will bring out before our courts OF
Justice.
Remember that our city admin
istratiOn was elected on a law en-
forcement platform and must keep its
pledges.
Difficulties Of the most vicious and
vexatious sort are being thrown in
their way SalOOnkeepers. gam blers,
prostitutes and erstwhile recipients of
special privileges, now denied, may be
South Bend news-times., 1915-01-18
DEATHS.
WILLIAM III. OREN.

William II. Oren, 62 years old, 1925
w. Washington ST., died Sunday night
at S O'Clock Death was due TO
stroke OF paralysis suffered last
Thursday on a train between South
Bend and Chicago when he was en-
route for san Antonio, Texas, for his
health. He was accompanied by his
brother-in-law, a. ID. Baker, who
brought him back TO South Bend inn
mediately
Mr. Oren was a travelling repre-
sentative of the South Bend Chilled
Plow Co. Previous TO taking up those
duties served as county treasurer, his
term expiring in 1894. He first went
into business with A. u. Baker, the
cwO buying the j. c. KnOblock gro
Gerry WHICH they conducted for many
years.
Mr. Oren was born in Pennsylvania
in 1855. He is survived by his wife,
who was the daughter of the late
George w. Baker, and three chill
dren.
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon at o'clock from the
residence, Rev. J. l.. Gardiner Otficiat-
ing
South Bend news-times., 1915-01-18
TELLS STUDENTS HOW
TO FIND THE POLE
Dr.. Cooks Personal Repre-
sentative Explains Details
of News Times Contest.

How TO Find the North Pole was
explained Monday morning To gram
mar school students by G.. w. Baker
personal representative of DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook, claimant To north pole
honors. If any Of the students ever
get within calling distance Of the pole
they ought 10 find il without trouble,
If they take Bakers advice.
Baker said that at the north pole
the sun does not so up or down 10
any noticeable extent in the "A hours
that IL spends in ciTcling about the
horizon. He said il keeps at the saSne
distance above the horizon and if one
were to measure the shadows of a
pole or other object every hour of the
"A he would find the shadows would
all be approximately the same length
and that a line drawn around the
ends OF the shadows would make a
complete circle. In the center of this
circle would be the north pole.
4 wealth of furs. oils Ind ivory
awaits the explorer with commercial
objects. said Mr. Baker. More crea-
lures OF value for their fats, skins
and furs are To be found in the arc
tic waters than perhaps any place
else. Valuable minerals. gold silver.
copper, zinc and an abundance of coal
is also to be found he said.
In closing. Mr.. Baker explained the
details OF The News-Times essay
contest
South Bend news-times., 1915-01-18
EVADEc OFFICERS BY
LEAPING |NTERURBAN
Archie King Arralgned in City
Court Will Face Trial ian.
25-SearCh For Smith.

Pending the location and arrest of
Joseph Smith. who was said to be a
partner OF Archie r. King, 312 FIe-
mont av.. in the robbery Of several
cars in the New York Central yards,
the case Of the latter in city court
Monday morning was continued until
Jan. -. Bond was fixed at $500.
Special officer Shannon Of the rail-
road company alleges that King and
Smith have used an old house in the
vicinity Of the yards for the storage
of goods stolen from cars. He further
declares that the two men had been
guilty of thefts from the yards for
months past. King and Smith, fearing
arrest are said to have removed the
goods from the storage house and to
have taken them 10 the home of King
where "A large part Of them were re-
covered.
King and Smith gave a posse head
ed by Shannon long chase Friday
afternoon, which ended in the cap
tuTe ~ King on a farm seven miles
from the city, and the escape Of Smith
on an interuTban car bound for Michi-
gan City Smith risked his life by
boarding the car while it was travel
ing at "a high rate Of speed.
smith is the man who was impli-
Gated in the murder of Emmanuel
Fink the druggist. last winter, and
for which Floyd Fffer is at present
serving a term in the penitentiary.