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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old STANDARD Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
we'll known tonic properties ofQUININE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Puilds I'D the Whole System. SO cents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
FREED union PACIFIC
OF TRAIN BANDITS
tanner" BILL CANADA
FOUGHT THEM 80 YEARS IN
TRANS-MISSOURI REGION.
WAS A CONFEDERATE VETERAN
Had Served in Third Kentucky In
fantry and Was Promoted For
Bravery. Was Not HamPered by
Instructions in Bandit Hunts.

Instructions IN DdhuII huhIS'
OMAHA, Neb.-The death of Bill
Canada here recently removed a pro-
fessional outlaw hunter, a man VINO
cleared the country between the MIS-
souri, river and the Salt Lake valley
of train robbers and road agents and
Installed such fear in their hearts
that the only two outlaw leaders re-
naming alive have for ten years been
in Chilli afraid to come back.
For thirty years Canada was en-
gagged in fighting the battles OF civil
ization on the Western plains and
with his death one Of the most pict-
uresoue characters of frontier days
is removed. To him and his organi-
cation the deaths of probably half
hundred desperadoes are laid, and
the few old time bad men" who re-
main along the central route across
the country would just as soon think
of tackling a modern battleship with
a popgun as of holding up a railroad
train between Omaha and Salt Lake.
Civil War Veteran.
Canada came West Immediately
after the war, when he was but Is
years old. He had served in the Third
Kentucky Confederate infantry, and
had been promoted for bravery on
the field of battle. When he got into
the trans-Missouri country in 1866 he
found a chaotic condition. The gold
fever was at its height and bands OF
outlaws and cut-throats infested the
land.
A Personal Challenge.
The first transcontinental railroad
was in course of construction, and
when it was completed a few years
later thousands of rough characters
found themselves out of work and
ready for any venture that promised
excitement and big pay. From their
ranks were recruited the train rob-
bers.
Nobody knows just how the Union
Pacific officials happended to pick out
the quiet Bill Canada as the man to
"clean up the vast stretch of mount
aims, plains and deserts between
Omaha and Salt Lake-but they did.
After his arrival in the West Canada
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
THE TAX EQUALIZATION
LAW WILL REMAIN IN TACT
VIII Not Be Interfered With by the
Present legislature.

ATLANTA-The tax equalization
law. which has been in operation for
some time. will not be interfered
with by the present legislature.
The fight to repeal it came to a
head yesterday afternoon and met
with complete disaster. 1t was killed
in the senate, and in all probability
will not come up any more this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
The Hill of nlium."

Behold the ruins at last! A long,
low ridge, some four or five miles in
length, ends abruptly like a promon-
tory projecting into the sea, above
which it rises about thirty feet. The
ridge is the so-called Hill of Illium, >
the sea is the flood plain of the ST.
mois and the Scamander, historically
known as the plain of Troy, and the
promontory, with its crown of ruins,
is Troy itself You walk around the
ruins and make the surprising dis
coyery that if the walking were good
you could easily do it in ten minutes.
Astonishing! Is this all there was OF
Troy. and did this little stronghold
withstand nine-years' siege and still
remain unconquered by force? I'M
possible! The whole hill if Illium
may have been fortified and to some
extent populated, otherwise how was
the garrison provisioned? Unpoetic
details like these never troubled Ho-
mer, so why bother about them"
Within sight, almost of Tenendos,
the island base of the attacking al
lied armies, and within sound and
reach of the big guns, the old ruins
are watching over the present fight
ing, a greeting from the days of the
first great western siege to the great
est siege of modern times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13
Where the Gods Assembled.

'Yonder the summit of Mt Ida,
where the gods in solemn conclave so
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

often sat, where 'cloud-compelling
Zeus' sometimes thought two ways
in his mind at once or else ended
all debate with nod that shook high
Olympus and caused the heavens to
reverberate and glow with the flash
of his thunderbolt.
Away over yonder, skirting the
ridge of Illium, is Simois stream, or
should be; but the bridge across it
shows upon our approach that mod
ern Simois is no more than a creek.
Worse than that; following its at
tenuated course less than a mile
downstream, we discover that it ends
in a morass instead of Joining the
Scamander as of yore. And the lat
ter stream is scarcely less disappoint-
ing. for it is no more dignified in
size or appearance In fact, their
currents united can scarcely
boast of banks, except at occasional
intervals, for both streams are now
only broad swales merging with the
adjacent plain, with no continuous
current toward the sea, except in
seasons of high water, if such was
ever known.
And such beautiful plains! They
we're well worth fighting for, gently
undulating as they retreat from the
former river courses, and nost home
like. cultivable places for peaceful
abode. Little rounded oak trees are
studded about the plain in solitary
independent fashion-oak trees re-
sembling apple trees in size and peri
Dhery.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
RUSSIA Is LEARNING.

The long prosecuted Jews at last
are finding tolerance in Russia.
The beginning Of the war was mark
ed by a vague promise of religious
freedom and political recognition for
the Jews. That promise of course,
was intended 10 insure the loyal ser
vice OF Jews in the Russian army, and
To win the financial support OF the
race which holds the purse strings in
Russia, as in most other countries
With the forced removal Of a great
population eastward, as the Germans
invaded Poland, came an event far
more surprising-the abolition of the
Pale 10 which the Hebrews had so
long been confined. and permission for
them 10 settle anywhere in Russia out
side of Petrograd and Moscow And
now comes word that for the first
time Jew has been elected a mem
Der OF the council OF the empire. a
body half elective and half named by
the czar, which has legislative powers
equal TO those of the duma.
All these concessions. Of course,
have been forced by necessity The
Jews. for once, have demonstrated
their power. As if TO drive the lesson
home. Russia was barred from the
big credit loan negotiated by the al
lies in America, and barred solely
through the influence Of Jewish bank
ers in this country by way OF "a re-
buke for past persecution OF their race
in Russia There will be far less oc-
casion for such rebukes hereafter. 1t
should be easy, after this. for the
United States To make a new treaty
with Russia guaranteeing our Jewish
citizens equal rights hitherto denied
them when they visit their father
land
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06

The working day of the $4,000 en-
ployes of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey have just been reduced
10 eight hours. That is an event Of
national Importance. 1t illustrates
what is today the most obvious ten.
dency in American history. We are
making more rapid progress than
ever before in1estoring to labor the
leisure that it has lost in the frenzied
age Of machinery.
Long hours came with the growth
OF factory work in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries. EN-
ployers with costly machinery wanted
to get full use of it, and imagined the
best way was to work their men as
pitilessly as the machines. The work
ing day was from sun 20 sun, and with
the introduo IN of artificial light it
often lasted still logger. In 1910 a
days work for a factory hand was
generally fourteen hours. Ii has taken
rs years to bring it down to an aver
age of ten. From 1891 20 1901 it
shrunk only quarter of an hour. In
the last , years the total gain has
been about one hour Since the war
began, however, the movement TO-
ward more leisure has been greatly
accelerated in this country.
One hundred years ago Robert
owen proved in his factories that the
hours of labor could be reduced two
hours a day without loss in output. He
argued FOR q shorter day both because
it cost the employer no more. and also
because lit is TO the real interest OF
every human being that every other
human being should be healthy. intel
ligent and contented." The world has
been long in coming around to his
view. At last. however. nearly every
body recognizes it, Eventually the
eight-hour day recommended lore
ago by Alfred the Great will be al
most universal.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06

ter OF careers. murder OF human faith
and happiness. 1t is such an awful
catastrophe that laws have been
enacted and officers employed to pre-
vent it. and TO throw around the
careers hopes and happiness Of trust
ing people safeguards
When the bank OF LOrimer. the po-
lltieal crook. whom big business sent
TO the L. S. senate and whom that
body kicked out, came to be inspected
by the bank examiner. it showed
$1.zJ0,OOO cash balance, in accord
with the safeguarding law.
Now comes Charles c.. Dawes, presi-
dent of the Central Trust Co. Chicago.
and one time comptroller of the L. s.
treasury, who says that. "as a courtesy
without compensation to a neighbor-
ing bank" he loaned the Lorimer bank
that S1,25O.OO0 so that the bank ex-
aminer would be convinced that the
Lorimer bank had that much money
with which to do business, as required
by law
Firms have been wrecked, homes
have been ruined, human lives h;,N o
been destroyed by the bank smash
Fraud. robbery and murder nave been
committed. Maybe the laws don't
call it all that. because knife. pistol
or poison haven't been used But it is
all that, and somebody should answer
for it.
OF course, you must not point an
accusing finger at Mr.. Dawes. He was
only courteous, as courtesy in big
business goes. Then he's president of
"a highly reputable bank and has held
a distinguished flduciary position in
the federal service Ahem! Let US
cruelty Lorimer.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
Letters Of the People
south BEND. Ind. Oct. 4, 1915.


Editor The News-Times:
The continuation of the letter of
Oct. l was purposely delayed TO see II
the authorities read it and corrected
or not the confusiness of the street
names on the corne CoifaX and
Taylor Lasalle and Taylor NanBuren
and Portage and so. TO protect the
people OF such necessary guidance IN
a civilized city, because nearly always
all the goodness and badness depend
on the authorities there.
We have nothing against a neces-
sarv noise OF the street cars, automO-
biles and so on where things are done.
although better street cars and auto
mobiles of the better people do less
noise than those OF trashy owners,
but we are against unnecessary noise,
especially when it is done purposely
to annoy somebody. Such creatures
are the most base-minded towards.
who. through their also base minded
friends, do you all kinds of mis-
chieves; on streets back OF you utter
disparaging remarks, on telephone call
YOU bad names, ask you by wrong
names and numbers. and so on. If
you try to talk with such creatures,
YOU will find that they have less in
telligence in their brains those those,
whom they do mischieves, have in the
hills of their shoes.
All such creatures also have not any
religious education and without any
reason are hostile toward the church.
II you read the religious census, re-
Gently taken by the Westminster
church. you will find among 1000
families. living in only one district OF
this city, 500 families who have no
church connections and 600 youths
who are not attending sunday school
If you take religious census Of the
other districts of this city you will
see how many 'pagans" you have
right here and will in full appreciate
the census. which the Westminster
church initiated. and will try TO spare
Christian missionaries right here in
stead of sending them TO China, Africa
and SO on.
CT Will be ended)
REV. PHI. SREDANONICE.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

| the social injustices and unwhOle-
some conditions resulting from the
maladjustment of our industrial order.
In recent years the social spirit work
ing in the churches has made the re
ligiOus public very sensitive to mod
ern economic wrongs. 1t has been
seen that even when one plays the
game according to the rules there is
an inevitable connection between his
prosperity and all the wretchedness
and evil in society. The church is
seeking TO make itself a leader in
the work for a better industrial and
social order and the question is when
is its worked most hampered--when
it's spiritual leaders are economically
dependent on a few wealthy pewhold-
ers, or, when seeking the freedom
that comes with economic independ-
ence, the clergyman involves himself
in the economic entanglements which
cause the interests of many of his
parishioners to be opposed to the
Golden Rule?
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
ExopUs AFTER TIE WAR.

Agents OF the transatlantic passen-
ger lines. who ought 20 know what
they are talking about, take con
trary view 10 those who say we are
likely 10 be deluged with immigrants
as soon as peace is declared. In fact,
for two years or so after the war
there viii be a more pronounced mi
gratory movement in the other direc-
ton.
Great numbers of immigrant Ameri-
cans. they point out. viii want TO re-
turn to tn, ID country temporarily at
least. 10 see what has become Of their
relatives and help them if they are in
distress. Germans and AusJrians, who
have been prevented from returning
by the enemy's possession OF the sea,
will flock 10 their fatherland by scores
OF thousands. Representatives of the
allied nations who have been deferred
by fear Of submarines viii be eager
10 go back II Poland is made free
the Poles will be attracted by love Of
their native land 10 return and help
restore their nationality. Curiosity to
see the backgrounds and revisit Old
scenes will be "a powerful magnet
Every bit of the war zone will have
new. historic interest.
And particularly in every belligerent
country there viii ctrus. ply he a de-
mand for all the available labor. and
even more. Workmen driven TO
America in former years by lack of
remunerative employment at home
will be needed in their native lands to
help rebuild the ruined cities. to bring
the land again under intensive cultiva-
ton, to reconstruct the railroads and
factories and revive lapsing industries
So great may be the need Of men,
with so much work to do and so many
able-bodied workers killed or crippled
that the belligerent governments may
forbid emigration for a period of
years.
The passenger agents therefore be-
lieve that. far from a sudden increase
Of immigration, the first year of peace
may lessen our population 30 the ex-
tent of half a million, and it may be
three years or more before the tile
turns
The real danger. they say, is such
drainage o. alien-bOrn labor from this
country as will be seriously felt w
railroads and manufacturing indus
tries that need large numbers of un-
skilled men.
II this forecast is accurate. il means
an era Of increased prosperity for
American labor, with American cap
ital in a less enviable position.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
HAVE AN EYE ON HIRAM:

Make a note OF Ct 26th, 1915,
ON that date Gov. Hiram Johnson
of California is going TO get an awful
licking. or make a cleanup that Will
interest everybody concerned in
American politics.
Gov Johnson has pat through the
California legislature measures pro-
posing nonpartisan primaries, non
partisan tickets and nonpartisan pretty
much everything else. and his views
go TO referendum on the date men
toned. Enraged beyond measure by
this threatened loss of power to set up
the pins the old party wheel-horses
have combined.
You may now see republicans. dem
ocrats and socialists sleeping in The
same bed. without their spurs
Ii is the lovingest time politics ever
knew for California politicians who
have hitherto conscientiously cut each
others throats.
Why. with Taft. Wilson and Dehs
running for something at this time,
there'd be "A compromised
Some say that Hiram is an anarch-
ST some that he is trying 10 be a
vicious boss. and some that he is the
very devil himself The repulico-
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
sMAsH AND sNfAsHER-

About a year ago. Lorimer's bank,
ia Illinois. went TO smash.
You know what a bank smash
means. Maybe you've helped some
poor. hard-working, self-denying folks
who got caught in a bank smash. At
any rate. a bank smash ruins honest
business firms. a white-haired man
and wife. who have been working and
saving against the day when they can
no longer work, go into the street.
their final fate the poor house. An
artisan with a large family has shaved
and pinched for years. and the money
for payment on his home is caught
in the bank smash. lie takes 10 drink
or suicide. his home is wrecked. his
daughter quits school and takes 20 the
streets. With ones bank deposits is
also deposited confidence in your fell
lows. and thas's smashed. too. = bank
smash is annihilatiOn OF hope. siaugh-
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
DIPIY DITTIES.

XVU-"Darwinism i'm General
(And dedicated 10 nothing in par
ticular)
My primate friend, chimpanzee feme,
Ny enemy Obtuse,
I've got your number,-haw and hem,
1t won't be any use.
At first 1 thought you only dense.
bit unskilled in rhyme,
gave you credit for some sense,
That might crop out in time.
And when I read your poem" I
smiled,
And calmly thought I then.
Here is some silly Hoosier child,
Just starting with the pen.
Some baby girl who yearns to write,
Her foolish little creed.
(The stun was all too very trite,
For any boyish deed)
But when I read your second verse
(That frightful boorish grind.)
saw the junk was far too worse.
For any schoolgirls mind.
And then 1 thought maniac
Is gushing this for sure,
deemed your brain was off the track,
And you beyond a cure.
And then your evolution pun,
OF jelly-fish and sand
Led me to think you might be one
OF some anthropoid band.
But chimpanZees have 700 much
sense,
And apes are far too wise,
For you to be among them, hence
You must be smaller size.
And from your writing bland and
Grass,
We safely make this bet;
/ You're not within the monkey class
You're just mOnkeyette.
Il. NJ. III.
WHETHER the option election in
Minn SapoIis is annulled or not on the
ground OF fraud the vote cast is
prophetic of some future day wher
the balance will be tipped the other
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
THE MELTING POT
COMET TAKE POTLUcK WITH US.

way. and the great northwestern city
viii be found in the dry column. The
ame is likely to be true of other
larger and smaller cities The liquor
traffic is doomed as surely as the day
wakes and wanes. And public senti-
ment will be the terminating cause.
not that wine is no more pleasant TO
the taste or useful within proper linn
itations, out that the people have
wearied Of excess.
NOW that the bishop and the edi-
torial department have exchanged
courtesies and established the entente
cordiale. we may relight our pipe and
resums consideration of the prospects
of peace in Europe.
Cards and Dancing Dancing Dan
gerous Evils. s."-Headline
Yes If you play 'em too close.
The First Known Play on Dumba's S
Name i'm Captivity.
ed. Jernegan in Mishawaka Enter
prise.)
Well, goodbye, Am mbassador Dunn ba,
May Austria never send us another as
dumb a diplomat.
AFTER all, Steve Szilli reminds us
that we need not go abroad in search
of nO-lenclative perpleXities.
WE have never found it in our heart
to condemn a boy for running away
from home. While we deprecate his
imprudence we sympathize with the
usual actuating motive. his desire to
get out into the universal wheatfield
and cut a swath for himself.
Some Combination.
(From the Classified Section.)
TRAP DRUMMER for dance work.
who is q plumber and tinsmith.
Il KNEW said GOtlieb Thumm
to Judge Warner. there was state
! law against speeding in the country,
but I thought you could hit it up as
fast as you want to in town" And,
barring Judge Warner, there is every
thing to indicate you can.
EVERYBODY is doing it.
G. -. T.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
u Will be ended
REV. PHI. SREDANONICH.
THE SUCCESSFUL FAILURE.
CT. ID. Van Amburgh in Silent
Partner


one chisel might carve an epitaph
for all men: Here lies a man who
tried hard, who meant well. but failed
much"
Life after all, ends in failure. so
far as life goes. Health fails. friends
forget. business stops; or. the man 5
life is full OF rewards--Until the end.
When the time comes for a man TO
go. ne need have no illusions about
his success with life: he has failed
much.
Ii IS then that they will tenderly
take his old bones into some quiet
spot. where the violets grow. or the
snow paths are shoveled. and the best
that a chisel can hope 10 carve is.
Here lies a man who tried hard. " no
meant well. but failed much"
This will be the true epitaph that
time will teach for the faithful fail
ure.
Not long ago I stood by the fresh
sod over a faithful failure The sun
was setting. with its beautiful benedic-
tion on a perfect day. Later, the
triumphant night. with all its train OF
stars. ggested--s!eep.
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06
(New York Globe }


The public interest in the financial
difficulties Of DR.. Hills is chiefly due
to the fact that he is a minister. TIE
public attitude toward the minister in
business is an anomaly. In these prac-
tical times the public rather disap-
proves of one who is not a man of
affairs. Often forced to live beyond
his means, whatever his salary, which
is usually ridiculOusly small, the
clergyman has plenty of inducements
to seek to better his fortune by en-
tering the market place. If he sue
ceeds, the public generally suspects
that he is too worldly wise to be a
spiritual leader. If he fails. he is
likely TO bring his profession into dis
repute and hurt his influence because
of his incapacity in practical matters.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
public has the right TO expect special
prOprieties of one in a clergyman's
position, il would be much better for
both the clergy and the public If the
minister were regarded a little more
as a human being. The mere fact
that DR.. Kills has met with business
embar -ssment should not affect his
standing as a clergyman-unless such
reVerses are the result OF practices
that should he reprehensible in a lay
man. In that case he should receive
no more mercy and no more criticism
= than my other business man. The
motives which DR.. Hills says led him
to seek a fortune as a speculator are
exactly the same motives which in
spire other men-desire TO provide
for his family. 10 save something for
old age. and have sufficient means to
I do good" There is no reason why
such motives should be reprehensible
+ in a clergyman If his methods have
/ been straight and not beneath the dig
nifty OF his calling. There is nothing
\ in them 10 make an exception in his
I case if his methods as a business man
\ have not been up to the standard that
others have set for themselves. II a
I clergyman decides TO play the business
game he must obey the rules Of busi-
ness just as others do. II the religious
public approve the very large sums
OF money which Billy Sunday is max
ing ont OF religious propaganda itself
there would seem to be no reason why
IL should disapprove another minis
ter's attempt 10 enrich himself through
business investments unless the whole
| business system is 10 be condemned.
And here is the real moral ques-
| tion in DR.. Hills situation. assum-
Ing that his business methods have
been right. The teaching OF the Chris
tian ethic is an apparent challenge I
South Bend news-times., 1915-10-06

demo-socialist harmony as to Hirams
being something 10 be put down Is
truly beautiful.
Meanwhile. Gov. Johnson is Logging
1t over the state, marshaling his pro-
gressive hosts for another Armaged-
don. swearing that he can lick any OF
Of the time. And it's mighty good ex-
ercise for a fellow who wants TO go to
the L. S. senate and may go upon a
presidential ticket.