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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
CAUSES OF STORMS
The Reason Why We See the Lightning Befor.
We Hear he Thunder

Lightning is the result of electric discbo-
from the clouds. Every cloud, like every other OH
ject, contains electricity. This makes no disturb
ance so long as the quantity contained is nnrn3
When the quantity becomes greater than nornoi
the object is positively charged; when it becomo
less than normal the object is negatively charGad
The equilibrium of the electric force in ~
clouds is disturbed by evaporations from the s,
face of the earth, by changes of temperature in b
atmospheric Vapor, by chemical action on ~
earth's surface and by the friction of volumes 40
air of different densities against each other
When the clouds charged with the opposite aIo
tricties approach the forces rush toward each obo
and combine to restore the state of equilibrium
for all bodies charged with opposite electricitiosS
attract each other. Between the clouds is air on
excellent non-conductor, through which the cleo
tricity has to force passage. The violence with
which it does this produces the lightning and the
accompanying crash of thunder.
Clouds are good conductors, while the air abou+
them is a non-cOnductor, therefore the eloctri,ftv
accumulates in clouds.
Sometimes when the clouds are charged with
an opposite electricity TO that of the earth a dis
charge takes place from clouds to earth or from
earth to clouds.
The flash and the thunder peal are simultaneous
and see the one before we hear the other be-
cause light waves move far more swiftly than sound
waves. The peal of thunder is instantaneous, but
comes to us roll through being echoed from
clouds or mountains. The noise is caused by the
vibrations of the air rushing to fill up the spaces
where electrical discharge has rarefed it and con-
dense its VapOrS.
Lightning is zagzag when it travels through long
distance because IL congresses Cne air which inter-
feres with its direct 1t is straight when if
passes through only a short distance 1t is forked
when, being resisted by the air, it divides into two
or three points. 1t is sheet when the flash is too
distant to be visible and it's reflection alone is seen
By remembering that sound travels quarter
of mile in a second while light travels so swiftly
that We see it instantaneously we tell how far
off thunderclap is. If we hear thunderclap four
seconds after seeing the flash we know it is a mile
away. For such calculations own pulse is a
sufficiently accurate measure of time, for the pulse
oJ,11& hoofa o6o,v+
under 40 should count five beats to the mile; per-
under 20 should count six beats to the mile
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
POWER OF LOVE.
Woman With Infant Braves the Firing Line In
~, Order to Visit Husband.

Il have been on duty at - for five months and
woman has passed me- said French soldier
in telling of his experiences a sentinel the
outskirts of a village within stones throw of the
trenches. He described attempts made by wives
to visit their soldier husbands in the trenches.
The only woman who ever outWitted the senti-
nels along the line was one who had come all the
way from Lyons to her tante, " the sentinel
said. She was only mite of a creature. She
carried infant in her arms, and appeared and
spoke well to the commissare militaire at the
station that he let her pass. We on picket duty
spotted her Immediately, and knew it was some
woman who had brought the baby for its father to
see. We hated to forbid her passing, but it had
to be done She coaxed, she pleaded, she sobbed,
her not to tarry. In tears she did turn back but
she did not mean to give up her hope after taking
18-hour journey with crying baby.
'1Sentines are stationed at every crossroads and
bypath, but it would be impossible to have fringe
of them through the forest That little woman
thought of this She picked her way through the
trees, avoiding clear spots. She hid when she saw
soldiers in the distance and for hours she sneaked
along, guided by the nearness of the guns.
1T the crying of the baby that gave her
away. Soldiers preparing meals at night heard
the cries and and fetched the two. They gave
her nourishment; they hid her under canvas from
officer and others, and just after daylight she
had a short interview with her husband.
The soldiers who had helped her in helped
her out and she made her way back through the
woods just as she had reached the camp. 1t all
leaked out, but then it too late to investi-
gate
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
fhe Country Editorial.

Many editors of small papers refuse to give their
readers editorials the ground that editorials are
for the large city papers and the public does not
care for the views of the country editor AS mat
ter of fact the views of the rural population
really reflected by the editorials of the large city
papers. which CLEAN them from the country papers
which run editorials. The sound thought of the
country is to be found in the rural districts Here,
in the more or less quiet of the country, men and
women read and study and gather data which re-
suits in conclusions founded on a solid basis Some
times this thought may be biased by the enthusi-
assn aroused by the impractical reforner or selfish
politician who runs off at a tangent with some new
fad or ism" but generally such fads are short
lived, and the sensible thinker of the country dis
tricts returns to the and solid and cOnseTva-
tive attitude which has always distinguished him.
The editor of the country paper, therefore, has
duty to perform in crystalizing this thought and
sending it out to the world the contribution of
his section of the country to the agitation of the
day. The country editor usually is a comparatively
poor man, but he has sand and independence and
pride of work rarely found in other professions.
Moreover, he is brought into closer personal
tact with constituency than the editor of the big
city paper 1t is safe to say that never before in
the history of journalism have editorials been
more widely or more carefully read, not perhaps,
in the old days, to base opinion on the views
of the editor but for the purpose Of getting all
sides of every question.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
New temperance Campaign.

New York is on the job with a new temperance
campaign, which some newspapers are pronounc-
ing eminently sensible. 1t is the outgrowth of a
plan originated by the Churches of Christ of Amer
ica No religious method will be used in the cam
paign. No effort will be made to secure legisla-
ton prohibiting the sale of liquor. The sponsors
of the movement believe that voluntary abstinence
is the only means by which intemperance may be
abolished, and their purpose will be to demon
strate to the individual the loss in efficiency due
to excessive drinking. committee of 100 prom
inent financial, industrial and labor union men
will conduct the campaign. Albert r. Rogers, an
organizer we'll known for his work in connection
with the ST. Louis Worlds Fair, is the active head
of the movement Regarding the movement COM
mittee member has this to say: THE argument
which has won support among industrial lead
ers is that this is entirely common sense prop
osition carried with the most modern ideas OF
administrative efficiency We shall make no use of
the heart-throb stuff emotonalism of any kind.
What we shall do is to show every one we can
reach that if he drinks to he is reducing his
ability at making living New York newspapers
are welcoming the movement on the grounds
that it is a thankless task to attempt to elevate
social standards by passing radical laws. OHIO
already has taken up the new movement, and a
society along the same lines has been organized in
Cleveland.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
F ooling the Farmer,
From the Macon Telegraph.

1t is a great story sent out from Washington that
Secretary McAdoo intends to place thirty millions
of good American gold in banks without interest
to be loaned to cotton farmers with interest We
went through all the spasms of panic and misery
last year. when this first broke.
But no relief could be obtained. Nobody would
or could do anything.
Now, if Secretary McAdoo puts this money into
Southern banks it will be about as far from the
cotton farmer as if it stayed in Washington. The
warehouses of this state do not issue uniform re-
ceipts for cotton, their receipts acceptable
as collateral except very locally, and frequently not
then The hurrah about helping the farmer is
bosh He can't get help even through his own leg
isature. There are a lot of bombastic politicians
who seek to make capital out o. promised help,
but the sum and substance of it all is that the
farmer helps himself out of whatever difficulties he
gets into. So it will be now He is prepared this
year to take of himself, and the less talk
about him there is the better it will be- He comes
nearer owning his cotton this year than ever be-
fore and it is believed that it is going to require
a fair price to get it from him. Mr.. McAdoo should
be thanked for his generous impulses but it takes
more than thirty million dollars in banks to help
the farmer. Some plan is needed by which to get
1t out OF the banks after it gets in there.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
KING COTTON.
Lancanshire's Vast Forest of Bricks and
Mortar.

There are few countries in the world which pre-
sent industrial activity than the cotton-spn-
ming district of Lancashire, Eng. As far as the
eye can reach around Bolton and Manchester cot
ton mills rise in every direction, and their tall
chimneys like a vast forest of bricks and mortar
encompass the countryside Cotton is universally
used, and Lancashire seems to be the universal
provider. Other countries weave cotton and weave
it successfully but nowhere else is the climate quite
so suitable as in the district around Manchester,
where the damp atmosphere makes it possible
to spin the yarn of fneness and strength nowhere
else attainable.
In the 18th and early part of the 1Sth centuries
prejudice against cotton that a fne of S25
fine and restrictions cotton cloth removed
and the industry became more general, but the
process was slow and expensive. and not until the
latter half of the 18th century did cotton really
come into general use as a dress material At first
the work confined to the weavers cottages,
the workers buying material and spinning
with the primitive dstaff and loom, which the In
dian peasants use, but in 1850 notable advance
made by John Kay, who invented the flying
shuttle, and this followed by Hargreayes' spin
ming jenny and Arkwright's water frame. Cromp
ton next appeared with his spinning mule"
combination of Hargreaves' and of ArkwrightS
mechanism, and the cotton trade quickly became
fourshing and lucrative concern.
In ten years the imports of cotton sprang from
100000 pounds in 1887 to 31,000,000 pounds
in 1897, and in the latter year of the best
known firms in Lancashire built its first large cot
ton mill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
The Two Verdicts.

She q woman, worn and thin,
Whom the world condemned for a single sin.
They cast her out on the Kings highway
And passed her by they went to pray.
He and more to blame,
But the world spared him a breath of shame;
Beneath his feet he her lie,
But raised his head and passed her by.
They the people who went to pray,
At the Temple of God a holy day.
They scOrned the woman forgaye the man
1t was ever thus since the world began.
Time passed on, and the woman died.
On the Cross of Shame she crucified.
But the world stern and would not yield,
And they buried her in "potter's field
The man died. too, and they buried him
In a casket of cloth with a silver rim.
And said as they turned from his grave away,
I'VE have buried an honest man today"
Two mortals knocking at heavens gate
Stood face to face TO inquire their fate.
He carried passport of earthly sign,
But she had a pardon from Love Divine.
Oh, We. who judge 'twiXt virtue and vice.
Which, think We, entered into Paradise?
Not he who the world had said would win,
For the woman alone was ushered in.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
Why Not Smile?

Are you angry? Is your lip cracked? Are you
afraid of wrinkles? Are you suffering from an in
growing crouch? None of them? Then why don t
you smile? History tells us of men who trained
themselves not to smile, because they wanted
stern expression of countenance. The savages also
prided themselves not showing any sort of emo
ton. Have you noticed in the photographs that the
mothers of the heroes of Europe are not smiI-
ing? Neither are the generals who are doing the
killing. Only the heroes themselves are smiling
A hard and stern expression does not indicate
good heart clear conscience. A thief sell
dom smiles. The woman of the streets smiles with
her lips but her eyes are hard and cold The pow
erty stricken the streets who begs for a
dime sends his plea direct to your heart if his ap-
peal is accompanied by a smile. Only the failures
of life never smile. A smile is the cry of the SEN
try of the soul-"AlIs Well"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
The Great American Dollar.

Now comes another evidence Of the sheer mad
ness of the European nations While they are
killing off the population of each other as rap
idly as their fighting ability and supply of ammuni-
ton will permit their financial status is surely and
rapidly going down and down.
The American dollar rules the world, and
pounds sterling, francs lvres and other mediums
of monetary exchange are retrOgrading in values.
The money of a nation has value equal to the
estimate the world places upon that nations in
tegrty and its resources. The Mexicans, for in
stance, have dollar about the size of our own.
It contains more intrinsic value in the way of sill
yer than dollar; yet it is worth on an average
Of only half as much as our dollar in the money
markets of the world
Get the idea. The world, including the nations
al war is becoming skeptical of the credit of their
nations-of their ability to much longer find the
means with which to meet their immediate oblga-
TONS and in a still greater measure their future
obligations
But the world will still take all American money
al Its face valuation and will be glad get it. The
united States is today the only frst-class world
power whose money is worth par.
War has its human devastation, and its fnan-
cal retributon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
War Threatens Another Calamity.

The threatened shortage in toyand as direct
result of the war devastating Europe is as serious
a contingency to the youngsters of this and other
sections as an agricultural crop shortage is to us
grown-ups To them the aspects of our relations
to Germany England and Mexico are as naught
compared with the possibility that their hearts
desire may not be gratfed at the approaching yde-
tide
AS told by the dispatches recently this shortage
threatens. Most of the toys, especially the mecAan-
zeal Ones come from Germany. This year young
America may not have many-he and she may not
have any at all except those left over from last
season
You have been a tiny boy or girl in days agone
You know something of their joys and sorrows,
their psychic transitions to seventh heavens of de-
light their descent into the abysses OF childish
woes. Their Qualifications and dsappOintments are
important as ours.
Let US hope that Santa Claus will escape the
broadcast decentralization, and be present at the
proper time with his usual complement of these
things which mean so much to the boys and girls.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
Beer Is No IOke.

Those of us who occasionally inclined 10
Joke at the German and his beer do not stop 10
think how really serious is the part it plays IN the
affairs of the Teutons nationally. The Germans
believe beer is wholesome and beneficial and harn-
less if taken at decent intervals.
The latest evidence of the seriousness with which
any interference with German beer consumption
is regarded in the way of an informal notification
to the brewers of the fatherland that if they neg
lect to set apart twenty per cent of their output
for use of the soldiers the entire supply will be
confscated
eve dislike to do this" chirp the powers that
be- 'fbut-wel you must come across with the
beer"
Reverses on the field of battle are undesirable
features of their daily existence with the soldiers
of Wilhelm but they are little if any so than
reverses in attempts to procure their beer
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
An Optimistic Statement.

That was significant statement made by Con-
trolIer of the Treasury Williams in which he SAID
that the present unemployed loaning capacity OF
national and reserve banks is sufficient to finance at
market value the entire cotton crop and hail. II not
all of the wheat and tobacco crops. me con-
troller processes to see the justhcatlon OF an eA
pansion of credit to startling hgures-$z'oVV'ooV'
600 and possibly SO, 900 100000 Those who read
bis statement cannot fail to be impressed by its
absolute optimism And Mr. Williams is unques-
tionablv in a position to know whereof he speaks
Never in their history he AYERS, have the banks
been in such splendid shape to handle all calls
made upon their resources
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
The "Cow" Etiquette.
From the Shreveport Times.


The whole world is able to classify man by two
things-his table manners and the style OF MS
hand baggage. For instance, if, in your travels
you encounter individual at a hotel who can
cover his knife with mashed potatoes to the nit
and then set them all off without injury TO MS
tOnsils you Immediately have this mans social mum
Der. On the other hand, if he carries canvas TEL
escOpe or knee knocker' reinforced by part Oh
his Wife's Clothesline then you also able u
classify him properly
You may have an inkling of a mans bringing
up by the tools he chooses in eating his pie OF W
the manner in which he muftes his exhaust III
eating his soup. Yet when it comes to green corn
every known rule is violated.
Some ways for eating certain things are planned
for economic reasons. Thus the country hoIsl
keeper serves his olives in a bottle and expects
you to get them out with your fingers. he dSo
furnishes you with possibly grape fruit OF oIdns
in the morning and expects you to keep your ea
clean with g paper napkin. There are recognzeu
ways of taking soup into the system, and IHe'0
ways call for a limit to the noise zone.
But when folks-even the most refined LoiAS.
folks that won't even permit poodle 10 sl7g
with them-start in their broiled corn Pat1 "
the menu past precedence is thrown to the "Ihu|%
The book of rules is consigned with all other eur
quette to a warmer place and every man is cohlen
to get his corn off the cob in the fastest ahu nI0
convenient way in which he is able to operate. ~
No, neighbOr, shall never have to worry aDou
any styles relative to deruding the cob OF us SUI
culent kernels We may have worried Whetues
fork or a napkin, and it may have annoyed u' -
few times to remember whether it is better IOlHi
sneeze under the table, but we snaII n1 1,r
have to tax brain on new rules Tor eaI tb
green corn from the cob 1t is a catch-aS-GIa1d
proposition, and the hair-lipped farm H a.
delectable pursuit the guy who learned MS '"O-'
manners from WOman'S seminary
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
VARIOUS THINGS.
The Office TOWeI--A Rondeau.

You bid me try, dear friend, to find
A clean towel. What! I'm not unkind;
Reflect! Some skill l have it's true,
But clean towel-to bring one into view
1t can't be done. All, what a plight
Still, there may be hope-for out of sight
Sometimes I've hidden them at still midnight
For my own USE I might find one
You bid me try.
And it's for thee! All, blessed sight!
towel! See! And spOtless white
l never hope to see the day
When traditions thus should pass away.
But if there's will there's always hight
You bid try.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
Practical Religion.

Religion and righteousness are commendable al
ways, but particularly so when they assume prac-
tical turn. In Saint Louis Catholic priest stepped
voluntarily into the breach between 1000 teamsters
and chauffeurs and their employers. He argued
earnestly with the opposing sides until peace APP
peared; then he went back to the routine OF MS
duties as professional man of God the demand
for wage increases amounted to $4,000 annually
whereas the priest secured aggregate raises OF
100000.
His action means an absence Of hungry mouths
or traffic tie-up, of possible riots and heartbreaks
The world honors such religion as this, and It's
material evidence of practical benefits. The world
would be infinitely better off and the cause of re-
lgion would gather to it's banner an increasingly
large army of converts if there were more leaders
like the Saint Louis priest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
WRESTLING RELIGION.

From the Admission (Ala.) Star
''WhistIing religion is something new in Annis-
ton. 1t was introduced at Parker Memorial church
Yesterday evening by the choir leader in the revival
services now under way there. 1t may have been
somewhat of a shock to some of the Journalists in
the congregation, but it made hit with the audi
ence nevertheless.
This is in keeping with the new idea of religion
The old idea was that religion and long face were
nseparable Today men believe in a religion of sun
shine, and that Christian who cultivates smile
and a happy disposition is the best Christian
Hence, why not whistle well as sing the songs
of Zion? 1t helps to nstill the right spirit and 1t
is this that the eVangelists are seeking.
Opinion is much divided to the ultimate bene-
fits of the so-caIed revivals, but one thing is GER
tain they never do any harm, and this paper be-
lieves they usually are good for any community.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
PATS LIVING WONDER.

From the Newman Herald sod
Pensivey Patrick gazed into the pigsty, and tzet
his eye and knitted his brow the little OUJO'
that snugly snorted to itself. so,t
H m - he muttered as, shifting into a dlLeL ,
position, he viewed the pglet from another ahs bo
Along came Betty O'HOyle but not e even ms
pretty face could lure Patrick from his
AN how's the pig, Pat?' she asked sh7A~
piqued by his Indifference. nIv
Hes a Twin wonder came the emphatic TeP 9ty
''Shure, an hows that Patrick" inquired O0'"
drawing nearer the sty. ,ns
BE jabhers" exclaimed the contemplatlVe III
''he's Just guzzled two paisful of milk, and the"
put him in the pail and he didn't half MI IT,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07
Ungrateful High Flyers.

Thousands of Americans were stranded III hu-
rome at the beginning of the war. The otlclals OF
the American government usurped their authority
and loaned from the tax money of the people tunuS
on which the globe trotters returned to the Onlteu
States. Now Mr.. McAdoo, secretary of the treas
urv announces that suits will be necessary in many
instances to recover this money. This is COM
mentary on the character of some of our Amer
lean high-fyers that is anything but comforting
and warning to our government not to mlsdrect
public funds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07

We are not particularly enamored of the plan
suggested by Secretary of Agriculture wilson,
whereby aliens who expected to flock to the
United States at the end of the European war Will
be loaned government money with which to get
start in agricultural pursuits. If the government
has any spare change to put out it would be bet
fer to advance it to our people But it is not within
the province of the government to do either
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-07

That extra session of the Georgia legislature WILL
in all probability be convened about the middle OF
November but just what the legislature Will be
called upon by the governor to egislate upon re-
mains profound mystery. The people OF the state
did not want another session of the legislature this
year. and are speaking their minds about it. 1t
will he an expense that could and should have
been avoided.