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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Give the Boy a Chance.

The worlds record for corn raising De-
longs to Walter L. Deenson, an AlaDam"
boy. yet in his early teens. Last year tnls
nov raised 232 bushels OF corn on a single
acre of land. which is the largest yleld per
AGRA ever recorded. This remarkable rec
ord was made by an ordinary boy and on
ordinary land. He became interested IN
corn raising and studied into the matter OF
the kind and proper use of fertilizers ana
nroner cultivation AS a result of putting
his knowledge to practical use he has raised
239 bushels of corn on one acre o. lana,
thereby winning the championship OF the
world What Walter L. Deenson has done
serves to show what a common everyday,
out-and-out boy can do if he is given the
chance. There are thousands of ambitious
boys on the rich farms of this state who
never know what it is to be encouraged to
take an interest in agriculture or stock-rais-
ing. If these boys were given small plot
of ground and some seed-corn, for exam
ple-to plant and cultivate a circus would
not be able to turn their thoughts very far
away from the enchanted" spot, where
wonderful harvest will be theirs to reap. A
boy may not be able to raise 232 bushels
of corn on an acre of his fathers land, but
he can do we'll enough to make his efforts
worth while. What boy in this county is 60
ing after that worlds championship record
this year?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
THE KILLING OF OLIVER.

Editor Dawson News: l am ready to in
form you that l heartily endorse every WORD
that Mr. Andrew P. Rives had to say in his
article on the killing at the town OF Lees
burg of A. D. Oliver and in the way that II
was done. l am as bitterly opposed to peo-
ple coming among us and doing their dirty
and uncaled-for business as any one in the
state, but at the same time it is the duty
of the governor to put out reward that
will induce the officers and citizens OF the
different counties to investigate the matter
very closely. l think like thousands OF 9TH
ers. that the grand jury Of Lee county at the
next term Of the court should sift the thing
to the very bottom, and if those cowardly
scoudrels can be located they should be ar
rested and tried, and if found guilty they
ought to be punished to the very extent OF
the law. and the good people all over this
country believe that Judge Littlejohn will
do his duty in this line. Very respectfully
PARROT, Ga. j. r. WRIGHT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Home.
BY Ray 1. HOppman.

I've got an idea in my dome that there
no place like home, sweet home; be it
shanty old, gilded palace or shack-you
are always glad to saunter back, venture
to make bold. Though, like the prodigal,
you may decide to wander far away and live
a life of glee you'll be glad to turn your
track, reverse your Prov and sail right back
(this tip, pal, take from mel. Where can
you find such snow white spreads, such soft
and downy feather beds-where else, friend,
as at home? You'll never get such grub to
eat such turnips, corn and we'll cooked
meat, no matter where you roam. You do
about just as you please; you lay around in
happy ease and pay a meager board. II
you're little shy on dough it's not case
of pay or go'-to this you will accord
When you consider how they sting you for
a half-done chicken wing, outlet or a steak
when you begin to realize that you're not
eating homemade pies, the kind that
mother used to make, then you'll begin to
love your home; you'll never want to stray
or roam-you'll want to stick like glue.
There's nothing that you can compare with
good grub and that honey air-Im handing
it to you. And then the freedom you enjoy;
the little things that bringeth joy; that easy
rocking chair. It's soup to nuts you can't
produce a place that equals home-no use!
What can with home compare?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Georgia Bonds.

Bids will be opened next Monday, March
18th, at the state capitol for the purchase
of all or any part of $3,525,O00 worth of
state refunding bonds, and Governor Sla-
ton has expressed the hope that all or most
of the issues will be taken by Georgia in
vestors. For this reason the bonds have
been issued in denominations of $500 and
$1,000 so that even a small investment may
be made. Georgia bears the enviable dis
tinction of having its securities safeguarded
by perhaps the most stringent state law
in the country. and its bonds are looked
upon in financial centers as being as good
as government bonds themselves. There
will be bids submitted by several great
financial syndicates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
WILL HOLD ROAD INSTITUTE.

From the Triton Gazette.
The Georgia prison commission will hold
eight institutes in various parts of the state
during the spring for the purpose of in
structing county authorities in road build
ing. The institutes will be conducted by T.
P. Stanley the commissions road expert
There will be lectures by members of the
faculty of the state university and by repre-
sentatives of the good roads bureaus al
Washington on road work materials, ma
chinery, etc. The commission could not en-
gage in an enterprise better calculated to
benefit the whole state. Perhaps in no one
thing in Georgia has as much money been
wasted as in the construction of roads I'M
der the direction of men who dii not know
how to have the work done properly, and
through failure to keep in repair roads built
al considerable expense.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Deep Sea Fishing.

In the March American Magazine CleVe-
land Moffett writes highly entertaining ar
ticle in his Doing the Impossible" series en-
titled, Living Wonders of the Deep Sea"
He describes important discoveries reported
by oceanographers fishing three or four
miles down in the sea. The boat that has
been used for this purpose by scientists for
thirty years is the "Albatross. Following
is an extract from Mr.. Moffett's article:
THE AIbatross fishes with line three
miles long, often four miles long, sometimes
six miles long or over, line of slender ca
ble but wonderfully strong, rolled off deck
winch by a suffering steam engine, that
will bring up from the ocean floor three
or four-ton haul of sponges, crinoids, jelly
fish, sea urchans, giant crabs, long white
worms that break in two if you touch them,
phosphorescent trees Greatly anlmaIs), sea
cucumbers with hideous heads, star fish,
devil fish, pelican fish, lantern fish, sharks
teeth. whales ear bones, sea cOws's ribs,
and scores of other extraordinary things
THE 'Albatross' follows no beaten paths
of commerce. She goes where other vessels
rarely 60 She explores forgotten corners OF
the seven seas, drops her great nets by DAY
and by night, takes hundreds of soundlngs
in uncharted waters and, after cruise OF
months, brings home her trophies for maj
safe-keeping in jars filled with alcohol ana
labeled with Greek and Latin names. TINS
sort of work she has been doing for thirty
odd years, ever since George W. Baird de-
signed her engines for the United states
fisheries service in 1882 1t is worthy OF
note that the 'Albatross' was the first steel
steamer built in America"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
TRESPASSING.

Editor Dawson News: A word of remind
er lust at this season will not be out OF place.
| trust There is an old custom OF letting
our stock and chickens trespass on our
naighbors to make their living. | know a
man. a poor man with a family, hard
working man, who has a large garden spot
and has it well fenced in, but his neighpors,
chickens are high flyers" and he cannot
raise vegetables for himself and family. 1t
would be lots better if they would keep the
chickens off until he could make good
crop and then they go in and get what they
need, for then they would both get better re-
suits. The man who will not keep his stock
on his own premises is not the right kind OF
neighbor, and it is time the people We're
more consderate of their neighbors. Yer!
rnSDectfully, CI11AEN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Brevity.
Dispute OUer Easter Sunday
From the Fitzgerald Press.

Last Thursday we went into ecstacies
over the near approach of Easter Sunday,
declaring that it would dawn on March
twenty-eighth. We are catching our breath
just now, after several days spent in siren
uous effort to hold inviolate the veracity of
The Fitzgerald Press and The Dawson News.
Yes The Dawson News! That's where
the rumOr started, and we hold that any one
is justiiable in taking up whatever eman-
ates from that unquestiOnable source. We
have been knowing Editor E. l.. Rainey a
number of years, and we have never heard
yet of his unconsciously misrepresenting a
thing. He said last week that Easter Sun
day would be March twenty-eighth. We
believe he felt able to back up this statement
ere he made it.
Our lady friends are disposed to adhere
to the almanac, which has Easter Sunday
scheduled for April fourth But they don't
know Editor Rainey, else they would be
slower to accept the almanac's word on such
g. vital question.
Why, Rainey has been a student of Eas-
ter Sunday for years and years. 1t is then
that his magnetic eyes beam warmest and
his noble heart expands until it fills whole
church pew.
Doubt Rainey? Never! If he maintains
that Easter Sunday comes on March twenty
eighth-wel, March twenty-eighth it is
Our lady friends may raise their mellifiuOus
voices in dissent, but we must champion the
right. We know Rainey could not be 9TH
erwise than right, because he is the man
who said "Td rather be right than presi-
dent" He has gone no farther yet then
prison commissioner, therefore we concede
that he still is right.
If Editor Rainey holds to his claim that
March twenty-eighth is Easter Sunday we
shall observe it as Easter Sunday, so far as
fashion goes. On Sunday morning, March
twenty-eighth, we shall strut out in spring
attire. Ladies may faint in horror and
bleak blasts may blow through US like Ruth
cleaned the few frail slips of grain, but we
shall follow Editor Rainey withersoever he
goest.
In the meantime our unimpeachable
friend can decide whether he will recant or
make us an Easter gift of the aforesaid
spring raiment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Let the Pigs Grt4r1f.
From the EARLY County News.
the pigs do the grunting.

Let the pigs do the grunting.
There is better work ahead for US.
Grunting never lessened the burden OF
load, never pulled a community out OF a
rut never added dollar to any mans panA
account.
Granting makes pessimists, and pesFl-
mists have bad livers and poor digestlonS
and sour countenances, and are general nul-
sances all around.
And pessimists are always grunting about
something.
They grunt if times are bad; they grunt
because they are not better when they are
good they grunt over their meals, and over
politics, and religion, and anything else
that offers a chance to grunt.
Let's not sit on dry goods boxes and van
for the world to come to our feet. We Will
die granting if we do.
There's a great big place for as in the
world. Let's fill it-let's do something
let's let the rest of the world know that we
are alive, that we are producers, that We
are something more than grunters.
Let's be opt'mists-for optimists 40
things, and never grunt.
Let the pigs do the grunting.
There are better times and more congo
NAL work ahead for us.
Let's all get busy and whoop 1t up
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

One billion dollars is a conservative esti-
mate of the value of the trade in arms,
ammunition and war supplies between the
allies of Europe and the manufacturers in
the United States during the first year of
the war, according to the New York World
It has not been possible for American manu-
facturers to furnish war supplies to Ger
many because of the interruption OF trade
relations with that country During the
past six months the allies have bought from
the United States $40O,OOO,00 worth of
war supplies. Many of the manufacturers
in the United States hold contracts with the
British, French and Russian governments
which have at least nine months and in some
instances two years longer to run.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
"Charge 1t.
By Geo. Fitch, Author of Eat Good Qua
SiWash'

SlWdSHs
Charge it, is the slogan of the pro,.
American consumer.
Americans are great on peace, but +bA
are also the most gallant chargers in tbs
world. An American who cannot sleen foo
fear our standing army of $4,000 will on
slave the country will rise early in the morn
ing and charge meat, potatoes, shoes easo.
line. automobile tires and diamond ringo
with an intrepidity which would cause mn
limited awe in Frenchman.
Charge it, is the greatest substitute fo,
money ever invented. 1t enables a man IN
spend his next months salary with ease and
safety, to ride in an automobile because be
hasn't the ready cash for street car fare and
to cash his hopes of wealth into a large halo
of Balance DUE and please Remit state.
ments renewed monthly.
Charge it" is the modern Ali Baba lamn
The worried citizen says Charge it, and
appears five minutes later in joyful raiment
thus transferring the worry to the merchant
Armed with these two precious words an
American citizen with fairly good reputa-
ton can get downtown with an empty peck
etbook and return home reeking with luxury
Later he may find it necessary to liquidae
a large number of bills at 81 per cent plus
attorneys fees. This is what corrugates the
brow of the American merchant whenever
business slackens a minute in its mad pace,
His industrious customers may owe him
100000, but he has no means of knowing
whether or not the $1,000 is worth $25,-
900 in real money.
1t is now possible to buy food, houses,
clothing, steam threshers, seal skin coats
pearl necklaces, theatre tickets, shoe shines,
corner lots, American beauty roses, baths,
hair-cuts, operations, publicity and balloons
on account. 1t is also possible, though not
always easy, to pay cash for Shoes prunes,
coal water, beefsteak and underwear. 1t is
usually easy to tell the difference between
the man who says charge it, and the man
who says How much, please?" The former
is better dressed, but the latter is much
more easily visible on the first of the month.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

The Fitzgerald Press says its lady readers
have taken issue with a recent statement IN
The News that Easter would be on Marcn
28th this year. They contend that it will be
on April 4th. Well, we never engage in con-
troversy with the good women, and yield
the point without further question. Editor
Jones, therefore, has our permission and
advice to wait until April 4th to strut out
in his gladstone spring raiment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

So far one man and two women have been
charged with grating or stealing while en-
ployed at the Panama canal. The number OF
men employees vastly outnumbered the num-
Der of women employees. All of which,
thinks the Savannah News, is sure to cause
somebody to say that here is new evidence
that women are less honest than men. Per-
haps the women were more closely watched
than the men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
WASHINGTON WAS Just q Man
From the Triton Gazette.

1t is not well for man to have too many
birthdays. His fool friends are apt to grow
reminiscent Even our hero, George WASH
ington, does not escape. Champ Clark, N
his Washington day address, while attempt
ing to impress upon the people that WASH
ington was a human instead of an ideal re-
ferred to the fact that he drank juleps, pe'
on horse races and used cuss-words on o.
casions of stress. This causes the New VOTE
World to recollect that on one historic o.
casion General Washington danced for three
hours with Mrs. Nathaniel Greene without
stopping. Perhaps right here we had 'beItei
stop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

Judges James R. Brown, one of the best
known men of North Georgia, and for many
years prominent in business and political
affairs of that section, has just died at his
home in Canton in the eighty-eighth year
of age. Judge Brown was brother OF Gov
ernor and United States Senator Joseph E..
Brown and an uncle of Governor Joseph M.
Brown, and like others of that family who
served in public life was man of high order
of ability
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

One North Georgia gold miner has devel-
oped new idea for finding gold and locat-
ing mines. He uses chickens. He killed
hen recently and found $500 nugget in
her crop Then he began to follow his
chickens when they went out to feed. One
old rooster led him to gravel wash half
mile away, and the miner found 1t rich with
gold dust Other chickens located other
fairly rich places and the Georgian began to
believe they had a fondness for gold. Now,
it is said, he is averaging about forty dol
lars day from his three chicken mines"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

Our controversy regarding the Dacia be-
gan with England when that country OBJ
iected to vessels belonging to German people
being taken over by purchase in this coun-
try. The settlement of the question will
probably be left between the United states
and France, since it was French cruiser
which took her in charge and she is to be
taken to Brest for disposition under the
rules of war. We may be able to put up a
good argument to France.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

When you buy anything where does your
money go? If it goes to the out-of-town
merchant you aren't standing by Dawson as
YOU should The business houses here are
owned by home people, whose interests are
here and whose employees and families put
their wages into circulation here-people
who have home pride and Dawson at heart.
Naturally, you look to home people to make
your business a success, both for your own
benefit and for the benefit of the town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

Hon. John T. Boifeuillet sailed for Liver
pool Saturday en- route to London to assume
his duties in connection with the American
embassy. The able and handsome Maconlan
will do credit to the American people at MS
new post He will be perfectly at nome
too among the lords and lordesses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

The sale of fertilizers is increasing as the
planting season approaches. Up to Febru-
airy list this year the sale of tags was only
10 per cent of the sales for the same date
last year, but up to March LIST the sales
climbed to "a per cent of those of the same
period of 1914 But, thinks the Triton Ga
zette, with the very best March can do the
total sales will not amount to half those
of last year, which will mean reduction
of nearly half in the cotton acreage in Geor-
gia. at least a reduction in half of its yield.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

An exchange states that the driver OF an
automobile which struck and killed citizen
was fined $1,000. Evidently we pay for
lives in money toll to the officers. II he was
guilty 81 900 worth ought his punishment
to be measured in gold? If he was not
guilty as demands the punishment for muir
der he ought to have been set free.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
CHARACTERISTIC OF OLIVER.

Speaking of the home life of pirates,
one also remembers that A. D. oliver used
to talk to Sunday schools in Thomas
ville.-MacOn Telegraph.
Not on your yellow canary. He peat =, q
few folks that went to Sunday school, -
Climax, but that's as near as he ever so'
to it.-ThOmasville es-Enterprise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

The president has appointed Hon. w. W..
Lambdin, of Waycross, judge OF the new
federal district court that has been created
for South Georgia. Judge Lambdin is
man of high character and good lawyer
and his appointment has been well received
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

"a little prejudice is very dangerous
thing. 1t makes very sensible people act
awlully foolish at times says the Dalton
Citizen. How true. And it is often the case
that supposedly, the big man is swayed most
by his petty spite.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

You need not worry because there is no
market for anything but cotton" Hogs,
COWS, sheep, corn, oats, hay, poultry eggs
butter, etc, are all selling at prices h1gher
above the cost of production than cotton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

Farmer Jack Horner
Went down to the corner
To put all his dough in the bank.
He left a large sum
And murmured, "By gum!
My widow will not draw blank.
Mrs. o. NJ. Hubbard
She stared and she rubbered
AS Farmer Smiths auto sailed past.
She said with a sigh:
II would willingly die
To go through the country that fast
So she went to her bankers
And drew out some dough.
She then bought car,
And away she did go.
Don Allen
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

Congress adjourned Thursday after con-
tinuous session of two years. Both the snip
purchase and the rural credits bills were
lost in the shuttle during the closing hours
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09
Not a Bed Of Roses.

Romances of farm successes are very prev
alent in print these days-and some of them
are true Occasionally there is to be found
a man who has conquered the lions in the
path of him who suckles at the dugs of
Mother Earth, but these successes are not
SO FREQUENT as some of our writer and pub
lie speaker friends would lead us to think.
AS the Farm and Fireside says on this sub
ject;
Farming is a mans game-and that
means that it is a game in which it is
easy to lose. In the near-farm litera-
ture so popular just now the great mis-
take is made of trying to prove that it
is a mans game, and at the same time
one that can be successfully played by
experimenters, tenderfeet and weak
lings.
And after all, what is success? Is it
to become rich? Not many achieve
riches on the farm. Is it to live Sc
curey wholesomely, sanely, with no
fear of loss of work or of the wolf
shifting at the door?
If the latter is the measure of sue
cess the farm offers opportunity for it
in larger measure than any other life.
But it would be far better If those who
laud the idyllic life of the farm knew
little more about it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-09

Some one has observed that Senator
Hardwick is still standing by the preSF
dent'-with a club.