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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-08-05
Hotel Columbia Announcement

The Hotel Columbia has opened as
a first class cafeteria and restaurant
and is prepared to cater to the best
patrons of the trade. The best meals
served in the city are to be found
there. Everything in season. Lunches,
pastries and salads served at all hours.
Give us a trial. Our CUISINE is unex-
celled. Meals served on either the
American or European plan.
One way to relieve habitual consti-
patton is to take regularly a mild
laxative. Doan's Regulets are recon-
mended for this purpose. 25c a box
at all drug stores.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

The January American Magazine
publishes in it's Interesting People
department a sketch and picture of
Sarah Rector, a little ten-y ear-old
negro girl, living in Oklahoma, who
has an income of at least $4,000
a month. The discovery of oil raised
her from poverty to riches. Follow
ing is an extract from the article:
"Only through a coIorful length of
history has Sarah's fortune been
made possible to Sarah. 1t is really
a story centuries long. Away back in
mystery-shrouded years a dark
skinned tribe fed from invaders on
our eastern shores. Southwark they
journeyed and finally entrenched
themselves in Florida. 'Seminoles
they were called then, the runa-
ways, because they had separated
from their own tribes of Creeks and
Muskogees. AS years went on they
dominated the people about them;
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
THE ENDLESS TALE.

Harry Thaw's Case Again in Balance of Jus
tice.-New York World HeadlineD
The graybeard bowed by many years
Talks on, though few attend;
He tells his tale to tired ears
The tale that has no end.
A little pause, the man so fratl
Bites off another "chaw"
And then resumes the endless tale
The Case of Harry Thaw.
Twas years and years and years ago,
According to reports,
This famous case lunatico
First got into the courts;
New judges came, old judges went, ,
And each laid down the law,
Then to another court was sent
The Case Of Harry Thaw.
Disasters came by land and sea
To sadden many lives;
They all passed into history
AS part of their archives.
Year after year the Giants won
The pennant for MCGraw,
And still from court to court It's run,
The Case of Harry Thaw.
New York has paid its bonded debt
And was the largest town
Long years before the arsonettes
Had burned old London down.
Each day folks heard newsies shout
"They's found another faw!"
Then they'd sit down and read about
The Case of Harry Thaw.
The grafters were all put IN jail.
The horse was long extinct,
Old Halley's comet lost its tail
Bit off, to be succinct,
BY savage Dog Star, left united
1t swished him in the jaw;
But after that again they tried
The Case of Harry Thaw.
Judge after Judge reviewed each dim
And musty record page,
Till Lillian R, youths synonym,
Began to show her age;
But lawyers still without dismay
Petitions long would draw
For habeas corpus writs in re
The Case of Harry Thaw.
Appeal upon appeal they took
And tried them one by one,
TIL Tennyson's once famous brook
Forever ceased to run;
Though brook and old-tims scenes
be gone
Into Times gaping NAV
One thing goes on and on and on
The Case Of Harry Thaw.
Richard Lfnthfeum.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
ROT OF
SENTIMENTAL GALOOTS''

From Montgomery County Monitor.
Some of our exchanges have noted
the fact that the weekly press Of the
state is not clamoring for Belgians
to be brought over to develop this
country. The weekly editor stands
next to the farmers of Georgia and
has common sense enough to see
what stupendous piece of senti-
mental rot this Belgian immigration
business is. Having utterly failed to
afford any measure of relief to the
thousands of farmers now crowded
to the wall by existing conditions, un-
der their very noses, these sentiment
al galoots are casting about for some
thing else to exercise their supposed
philanthropy upon. There are thous-
ands of poor farmers in Georgia to-
day who need the help of little lot
of land to make their bread on, and
would add quite as much to the gem
eral wealth of the country, per cap
tia, as any class Of foreigners. But
your simon pure sentimentalist is not
offering them anything but advice,
much of which is not worth pinch
of guano.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Abuse of Well Intended Law,

The criticism of the New York
World Of the Mann white Slave
Law" which is reproduced in The
News today, is well worthy of care
full reading and consideration. The
view of the World is forceful. One is
somewhat impelled to wonder if the
author of that measure and the con-
gress which passed it intended or
expected that it would be productive
of the results that are so often appar-
ent. The purpose was good no doubt
1t was in the interest of morality
and meant to protect unfortunate
women-the innocent and friendless
girl marked as victim by a scoun-
drel. Yet, how often is it seen that
conscfenceless women (and pity it is
that there are such women) utilize
the statute in spirit of greed for mon
ey, and not for the protection of wo-
manly virtue. In due time we may ex-
pect this law to be amended so as to
eliminate its manifest defects.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

Somewhere in the pages OF Don
Quixote" there is described VISIT OF
the Knight of the SOrrOwful Counte-
nance and his faithful squire to the
estate of a nobleman of the country.
1t was a heyday occasion, and less
important issue being in view than
a wedding. Old Cervantes made the
most of his opportunity, blending ro-
nance and tragedy, in which the
doughty knight figured conspicuous
Iy, with the most detailed account OF
the marriage preparations, and San
scho PanZa, standing close to the
splits and stewpans, stroking sym
pathetic stomach as he saw the meats
Drowned to turn.
If the feast of 400 years ago could
be this day transported to Columbia,
Mo. the elements of romance and
plenty would again be combined. For
the present is the eve of grand prepa-
ration for Farmers Ham and Ba-
con Show" to be held on January II
to IA, by the Missouri state board OF
agriculture. The wife of the speaker
of congress will act as judge. Her
tribute to the supremacy Of the Mis-
souri, milkmaid in the past is second
only to her knowledge of ham and
bacon in the present. High thinking
and the best of living will be the test
from which only the elect may hope
to emerge with glory.
Ham and bacon! These be words
to coniure with, more effective than
the abracadabra of forgotten mystics,
or the mysterious formulas of medic
val searchers after the law for the
transmutation of the baser metals
into gold. And of all the favored
sections of most favored land, bar
ring not the acorn-fed product OF Vlr-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
A Question For The States.

There has been a wide range of
comment and divergent views on the
result of the vote on the Hobson pro-
hibition measure in the lower house
of congress. 1t did not come as a
surprise to the country. Few people
anticipated a two-thirds majority for
the resolution. 1t is no secret that
Mr.. Hobson himself did not hope for
such a victory. 1t is not a significant
circumstance, either, that it did re-
ceive a majority of those present. In
that preponderating vote party lines
were obliterated, although a feature
of interest is found in the fact that it
was not democratic votes that made
the preponderance possible. On a
per cent basis the measure received
the most votes among the members
of the progressive party in the house.
The vote given the measure was
probably of greater volume than this
particular issue can hope to receive
again, SuOuIu lLo u OpShChLo SuNoSSN
In getting it before congress for a
second verdict by that body. There
are those who voted for it, it may be
believed, who were willing to do so
in order to secure judgment on it
and get it out of the way.
The outcome may be summed up
thus: The American people are
again reminded that the question is
one for each state to pass on and
adjust as may seem to them wise and
desirable. And the logical sequence
in all likelihood will be an indus
trious renewal of prohibition activi-
ties in the states where the field for
such work is attractive
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Lawyers,

In a recent address to young limbs
of the law who we're being admitted
to the bar Judge Ellis, of Fulton
superior court, divided lawyers, like
Caesars Gaul, into three classes.
There are little porcupines, court
DULLES and honest, heightened law
yers," declared the court. ''The little
porcupine of the bar runs around
shooting quilts at everybody and irri-
tating everybody, but accomplishing
nothing. The court DULLES, feeling
safe behind the protection of the bail
ifs, bulldoze witnesses, insult fellow
attorneys, and are disrespectful to
the Judge. The third class, the hon
est, high-class attorneys, are the lead
ers of men,
We all know each of the class of
lawyers Judge Ellis has so well de-
scribed. He has painted them true
to life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Congratulations To ALL

The News extends congratulations
TO Mayor Bell and his board of coun-
cilmen, and we feel sure their efforts
will be directed towards giving the
city an administration characterized
by progressive activity, good Judg-
ment and sound principles.
The mayor has had experience in
the office he has just assumed, and
the councilmanic board is also com
posed largely of men to whom the
duties and responsibilities of their po-
asition are not new. All are awake to
7the city's best interest, and we con-
sgratulate every one Of them, and
wish for them a very pleasant and
successful term of office.
Mayor McNulty and the retiring
scouncilmen quit official life with the
esteem and good wishes of the peo-
7ple of the city. Mr. McNulty was al
ways active in the discharge of his
official duties, and loyal to Dawson.
His administration was marked by
"a vigor that accomplished much in
the enforcement of law and keeping
che streets in neat and sanitary con-
~dition, and he merits commentator.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
he PeSSir7liSt.
BY Ray /. HOppman.

1t gets my nanny when | meet a
pessimist upon the street, who swings
his tongue in plaintiVe bleat-that's
why l write this poem. He sulks
along in deep distress, and ever
flashes IS. o. S." he's dead sore on
the world, 1 guess-there' cobwebs
in his dome. He's foreign to the
sunny. smile and thinks that life is
not worth while; he's like a cross
grained, grating f1le-with soul de-
void of song. He chills the very at
mosphere; he puts the jody sign on
cheer, and wears an everlasting IeerI
upon his Visage long. He sees n
beauty in the flower, his countenanceI
is ever sour-a mirthless soul is he.
Say, on the level, do you know, ia
like to slam the cuss a blow and jar
him hard from knob to toe-I sure
would, huIIy gee! Why should a man
of knowing years go round and ped
die gloom and tears and add a chap
ter to our fears, when everything S
0. X? Why should we tolerate the
guy who never has an optic dry and
does his best to paint the sky dark
aud gloomy gray? We ought to send
him to some isle and teach him how
to laugh and smile and make his JOY
less life worth while, or chase him off
the earth. Our life time is so gol-
darned short we haven't time to howl
and snort-we've got to delve in
healthy sport and happiness and
mirth. I'd like to get my freckled
fists tattooing on the pessimists and
knock 'em on the smiling lists-and
knock 'em there to stay. The man
who doesn't smile, by heck! is like a
boil upon your neck, as worthless as
a phony check-away with him,
away!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
$4,000 a Month for Negro Girl

they conquered many enslaved more.
Still later other Indians and negroes,
slaves and tribal brothers, Joined
them from Alabama and Georgia,
and presently they owned track of
towns on streams. Near Tallahassee
was their capital Today, in Okla
homa, we know them as one of the
Five Civilized Nations.
by the treaty of 1865 former
slaves were adopted into the tribe as
citizens. And so when the govern
ment allotment of lands was made
few years ago Sarah Rector, child of
a Greek freedman, was entitled to her
one hundred and sixty acres. In Au-
gust, 1913, oil was discovered in
Creek county and well was drilled
on Sarah's farm, then another and
another, and now her story becomes
a series of amazing statistics, Today
Sarah is one of the richest persons in
Oklah 0ma''
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

The latest sensational prosecution
under the federal white slave act
Involves directly man 81 years OF
age and a woman thirty years MS
Junior, or, in other words, 81,
The appeal to the law seems to
rave been made after the immoral
relation charged had existed two or
more years and had been brought to
an end by the man. The i onic para
dox is presented that the offender
really is being punished not because
he is maintaining an immoral rela-
ton, but because he has ended 1t, al
though in legal fact he is being prose-
cuted for the past relation.
No one will expend sympathy on
the indicted man if he is guilty, as
seems probable, of the relation OF
which he is accused. But the con-
Germ of the public is by no means lin
tied to his punishment. 1t does not
make for social health to pervert
the chivalric American respect for
womanhood into protection for Wo-
men who are willing unscrupulously
to trade both on the weakness OF men
and the strength of the law If re-
port is correct in the case under
comment a woman of maturity enters
deliberately into an illegal alliance
with a man who she knows is bound
legally to another woman. While
this illegal alliance pleases and prof
it's her she naturally makes no COM
plant. When it is broken Wlthout
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
The Mann Act and Morals
From the New York World.

her consent she calls upon the law
to aVenge her.
Neither the man nor the woman in
such a case can claim immunity. But
as matter of fact the woman is on
ly too likely to escape bearing what il
her fair share of the due penalty for
an offense she has willingly and
knowingly shared. The white slave"
act, it seems, does not provide for the
punishment of the white slave" so
the prosecution, impressed by the OBJ
vious inequity and bad policy of the
situation presented here, seeks to
make up for the laws deficiency by
falling back on blackmail charge
which may have nothing to sustain
it, Revenge is not blackmail.
The white slave" act prescribes
the punishment of man when he is
not a white SLAYER and permits the
escape of a woman who is not a white
slave, but willfully has committed the
same offense for which the man is
punished. The result is that preda-
tory women may and do make use
of the law with, impunity. The in
justice and bad policy of such a stu
alton have been obscured by the NOR
al reprobation of masculine license.
This is short-sighted. The Mann act
should be amended so as to limit its
use as an instrument of extortion or
mere revenge and to abolish the de-
moralizing distinction of sex in iden-
tical offenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
THE PATRONAGE ROW.
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News.
The difference between democratic
senators and the president respecting
patronage is assuming considerable
proportions 1t is taking on a pollu-
cal aspect. Senator O'Gorman of New
York was quick to protest against
the disregarding of his wishes in re-
spect to patronage in his state. he
objected to the appointing Of a dis
trict attorney in Western New YORK
against his recommendation. 1t is
reported that since the senate re-
fused to confirm the appointment the
New York democratic members OF the
house have announced their purpose
to stand by Senator O'GOrman. A
Washington dispatch says that Rep
resentative Smith of the Buffalo dis
trict called on the president and told
him that if Secretary McAdoo con-
tinued to NEEDLE with the distribu-
ton of patronage in New York the
administration would encounter
trouble in the state in 1916.
So it seems that Secretary McAdoo
is undertaking to distribute New
York patronage and that democratic
congressman of that state are
making threats to knife the admins
tration in the next national campaign.
And it is said that Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy Roosevelt has inf1u-
ence with the president in the mat
ter of patronage, He has New York
friends whom he wants to provide
for.
If the president permits members
of his official family to have a voice
in the distribution Of patronage
against the wishes of senators and
representa- he will raise up a
host of enemies that will make their
influence felt in the 1916 pregiden-
tial campaign. The New York sena-
tors and representatives are not the
only congressman who are irritated
by the attitude Of the president on
the patronage question. Senator
Reed of Missouri and Senator Mar
tine Of New Jersey have objected to
appointments in their states and the
senate has refused to confirm them.
There are likely to be other cases,
many of them, and if the president
pursues a course showing that he in
tends to have his own way in the
matter he may have hostile senate
to deal with. In view of what has
taken place politicians are very much
interested in the differences that have
cropped out between the president
and a number of the democratic SEN
ators. The outcome of the patronage
row may have an important bearing
upon the 1916 presidential campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Hams and Bacon
From the Washington Post.

ginias mast forests, Missouri can
meet them all in the open field, and
issue a challenge that commands the
consideration of every champion in
the lists.
We have it from rival advertise
ments of rival meat firms that theirs
is the only original and simon-pure
pork product. They accentuate their
hired rhymes with bought portrait
ures of the firm hind quarter of the
prize hog, or the painted tempting
slice from his midriff cut thin with
the edges hanging together. If the
contestants for public favor got their
material from old Missouri the
Waterman of the nations veal may
ring the bells at midnight or any 9TH
er hour, and cry with untroubled
countenance that all is well. Fed on
acorns and buttermilk, feasted on the
green husk of the roastin' ear in its
season, cloyed with the rind of the
yellow pumpkin in it's frosty prime,
given the golden ear of corn toward
the end of fattening time, throat cut
at the apex of it's epicurean career,
plunged in the barrel whose water
has been heated with red-hOt stones,
withdrawn before the hair set,
carved with masterful hand, a red
cob opening the crimson mouth
there you have a hog as is a hog, and
one that can produce ham and bacon
fit for a farmer and most too good
for king.
And if they want an expert sam
pier were ready to attend, free gratis
for nothing, if the trip to Columbia
has to be made under the trucks,
with the expectation of the best of
good things at the end to take the
taste of the gravel out of our mouth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

In February the woman juror will
begin life in Wyandotte county, Kan
sas. The sheriff, having first dis
creetly sounded the ladies without
creating a scene, has drawn list of
fifty fair juresses CD who, with the
wisdom of Portals, will weigh the
facts while the most honorable court
expounds the law Frivolous para
graphers will now proceed to extract
great wit from the circumstance that
the name of the county is also breed
of chicken, producing particularly
fine hens. However that may be, the
fact remains that Wyandotte will
push itself into the limelight forth
with.
And yet, why not? Women on the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Largest Cotton Crop on Record

The federal department Of agri-
culture estimates the 1914 cotton
crop at Is, $685. 900 bales. This is the
largest production in the history of
the cotton industry The 1911 crop
held the record to the present year,
with a production of 15,69O,00O
bales. 1t is estimated that there are
at least two million bales in the
fields, much of it deserted by discour
aged farmers and which will proba-
bly, never be gathered.
The 1914 crop also ranks among
the largest in production per area,
averaging 2O8 pounds per acre, and
reaches the low water mark in price.
The price officially estimated for the
1914 crop is cents per pound
against an average of u cents per
pound in 1913 and a production of
1872 pounds per acre.
That Georgia is the second state in
the production Of cotton, with Texas
leading, is shown by the report. Geor-
zia's crop was 1914 per cent Of the
total worlds production. The United
States, which means the South in this
instance, produced 6O.9 per cent OF
the total production. This country
also led in the consumption OF cotton
by mills, using 26.6 per cent, with
Great Britain next South Carolina
and Georgia led in the Southern con-
sumption Of cotton. though Massa-
ehusetts and Rhode Island are still
ahead of any Southern state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Ladies Of the Jury
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

d ItmeS-D1SpaGch.
jury will appeal for the first week
or two as a novelty. There will be
certain curiosity, and gentlemen OF
the law will begin to select words
lying within the scope of what they
foolishly imagine to be limited femi-
nine comprehension. For time court
officials will treat the skirted jurors
with Difference and judges will pat
ronize them. But all this will wear
off as business settles down to clear
ing the docket, and it is a safe wager
that before the end of the February
term there will be more evidence of
justice, and perhaps more of COM
mon sense, than WyandOtte county
has seen for a long time.
We're committed to the ladies-in
Wyandotte county, Kansas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

The Ocilla Star, one of the best
and brightest semi-weekly papers of
the state, announces it's return to
weekly publication on account of a
lack of patronage due to the general
business depression. The newspapers
have been hit harder than any other
line of business, and many of our
contemporaries, including the city
daiIies, have reduced their size and
otherwise curtailed expenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

For four consecutive days, includ-
ing two holidays and Sunday, Pc
trograd was cold sober, not one ar
rest having been made for drunken
ness, a record for that city, In the
Russian capital, very evidently, pro-
hibition prohibits, and the Savannah
News wants to know how would
American prohibitionists like for the
Gear to run things awhile.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05
Compensations Of War
Judson c. welliver in Farm and Fireside.

'arm and Fireside.
and understanding that it has inner
tied from the ages, would be reduced
to the common denomination of simple
humanity. How different our insti-
tutions would look then! How much
easier would be the reconstruction,
the reforms, the reorganization, that
are so manifestly needed and inevi-
able
At the end. of course. a long and
exhausting war would have to mean
more than that; it would mean new
institutions of peace and productive
ness; it would open the way to a
wider. truer view of the destiny of
mankind.
Perhaps, then, there may be some
compensation for the horrors of the
struggle. Certainly, so long as our
own country is out of it we seem to
be insured our full share of the
blessings that humanity may gain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-05

There is nothing the matter with
Kansas this year It's wheat crop
measures nearly two hundred mil
lion bushels, which is twice as much
as the state ever before raised in a
single year, and twenty-five per cent
more than any other state raised. The
enormous crop is enough to make
more than forty million barrels Of
-four sufficient to provide hundred
Ioaves of bread for every person in
the United States.