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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21
MICHIGAN WOMAN lNouisEs
 FOR HER LOST BRoTHs

Mrs. L Bral. of MarQuette, has writ ten the Governors office for informa tlon concerning her brother James Burton, last heard from at Fairbanks where he was engaged In the foundry business. He is described as being 5 feet and one.hali inch In helghth slender, and weighing i75 pounds He has dark hair and is light of com plexion.
 Any one knowing anything of his whereabouts are requested to commun. icate with the Governors office or with Mrs. l.. Bral at Marquette, Mich, tother Alaska papers please copy)
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21
YOUNG co BASEBALL TEAM
 WILL NOT GO TO WHlTEHoRss

The C. ". Young company baseball team, and. so far as is known at pres. ent. no other team on Gastineau chan nel will so to Whitehorse for the cele' bratlon of the Kings birthday on the 29th.
 The date occurs at such a time that two days would be lost, which, for bus mess reasons, the Young Go. do not feel that they can spare.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21
'. A. MARoUAM Rg.gLgcTgp

The Fairbanks city council recent. ly reelected Thomas A. MarQuam well kown in Southeastern Alaska. to be elty attorney Tor another term.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21

B. P. Moore, who was collector of customs under the Cleveland adminis- tration 20 years ago at Sitl1a, arrived recently from New York City and is staying at the New Cain.
 Mir. Moore made a visit to Southeast ern Alaska 12 years SEQ to renew old acQuaintances. He does not take kind ly to the notion of prohibition, stat ing that tits only effect would be to change tho quality of the whiskey.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21

You saw t arst In Tho EmDlEe.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21

At St. Louis-Bufalo, n; St. Louis, l. Other games postponed; rain.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21
SENIORS HAVE CLASS
 DAY EXERCISES YEsTERoA'

Class Day exercises were held by the Senior Class of the high school in the Council Chamber at the City Hall yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. Both the underclassmen and the friends of the seniors were great ly entertained by the various numbers on the program. which was as fol- lows:
 One Hundred Years of Peace.-~.-.- ............ ...............--...... Burdett Vim Idols and Ideals .......... Helmi Aalto Vocational Guidance for the High
 School Students --...-....-................
 .......-.-.....~.~... Cyril Kashevaroff The Pursuit of Wild Animals With
 a Kodak ..--....-.... Paul Thompson The Alaska Boundary ........-....-...~.
 ......................,...-.... Anne Mclaughlin The Class VIII . Almond Richards
 The High School boys Quartette fur nished the music as the last number on the program.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21

FORMER REVENUE COLLECTOR
 IS VISITING IN JUNEAU
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21

At Brooldyn-St, Louis, 8; Brooklyn ] At Philadelpbia-Cincinnati, 6; Phila-
 delphia, 2.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21
Federal League

M Boston-ChIcago. 2 BoaLon, ?.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21
NatIonaI Leaaus

Other games postponed; rain
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-21

one Hundred Years ot Peace--------
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-17

Society matrons in search of a
REPRESENTATIVES, missing.
BIushing maidens, anxious to dis
card the pet name of ''toothpick" by
acquiring few athletic curves.
Queenly cIubites earnestly seeking
to exchange wisdom and WEAKNESS
for trim ankles and smooth brows,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
EASTER ISLAND.
To Archaeologists 1t Is One of Those UnsOlved
Problems With Which They Grappe.

Easter Island, which belongs to Chile, is about
1000 miles from the mainland of South America
To archaeologists Easter Island is of those
unsolved problems with which they grapple more
or less successfully; and stone images remains OF
terraced structures and other evidences OF a race
that formerly dwelt in the islandscontnue to draw
Investigators to the barren spot in the Paclhc
ocean.
The relics on Easter Island find archaeologists of
opposite opinions regarding the people who occu-
pied the place centuries ago. AS it is at present
the island covers about AZ square miles in area
and it is looked upon as the most easterly OF tne
Polynesian group. 1t derived its name from the
day on which it was discovered by one Jacob Rog-
geveen, Dutch skipper, who in 1872 is supposed
to have been the first to sight the land.
Present inhabitants at Easter Island nave as
tinct Polynesan characteristics, but to these few
hundred people the antiquities, with their curious
signs, mean nothing at all
AS to who were the builders of the truly remark
able remains of a former civilization this is the
great puzzle found by all Investigators Some 0i
the terraces, erected on headands, with a wan
toward the sea- must have been 30 feet hgh "a men
built, and their length is indicated at from wv
to 900 feet The terraces were constructed OF aIs7
cut stone, fitted together with cement, and tn5
large stone pedestals with images evidently seryeu
as deities. No less than $50 of these stone liH
ages have been found.
There are three craters of extinct volcanoes 0n
Easter Island, and one of these is nearly zVVV
feet deep. Inside of these craters are aOUu'
half hundred of the stone images, and the Won
der is what means were employed to get OtuglS
like them out, as at the foot of the slope OF lnS
crater more images, some of them IN various
stages of formation. In hight they range from four
to nearly 80 feet.
These figures clearly are all of the same type;
and general characteristics. The head is long anu
the eyes close under the heavy browS; the hos
large, lOw-bridged and very broad at the nostrl39
the upper lip short and the lips pouting. Ihe heau
is nearly always tilted backward. The forms gen
orally end at the waist and only at the snoul
ders, very little work having been done below tne
points.
Wooden tablets found the island, specimens
of which in the Santiago Museum, are III
csed with hierOglyphics, which show the carve
must have been very skiIful. Figures of men, AM
mails, geometric designs constitute the ALPHABET ~
is easily believed that these tablets contain the NE
tory of the ancient people, but thus far no arch7o
logical expert has been able to decipher them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
The Weevil Menace Is Here.

The boil weevil is in Southwest Georgia, and, ac-
cording to the state department OF entomology
this entire part of the state is now infested just
what the effect will be is only matter of sur
rniea s the first section of the country visited by
the weevil suffered most seriously because the pest
was hardly known, and its habits and propagation
had 70 he experimented with before remedies could
be determined and applied. Since then other parts
of the country have in measure, prepared for the
coming of the weevil, and learned from competent
men employed both by the state and national gov
arnmen+s how to combat it, The state department of
entomology under Mr.. E. L. WOrSham, has done
splendid advance work telling and showing the
farmers what to do to minimize the destructive
work of the pest and if Mr.. Worsham is given the
support and cooperation of the cotton growers
the staple will continue to be produced probably IN
Georgia
The farmers of this section of the state where
the weevl has appeared in fifteen or twenty coun-
ties have been advised and urged to pick all cot
ton as soon as possible and to destroy all stalks
in the field by October 1st. either by burning or
blowing them in deep. This precautionary meas
ure is designed to get rid of the insects and thereby
greatly reduce the number that will attack next
wears crop The scientific advice of these mel
is valuable at this time and if followed by the
farmers will save many a dollar to this section
next year.
There two ways to make the invasion OF
Georgia by this pest less costly than it would be
if no effort made to combat it. One is by
planting early maturing cotton and taking every
precautiOn to prevent the spread of the Weevils,
and the other is by diversfying farming opera
lions so that even if the cotton should be ravaged
by the weevil the farmer would have food for his
family and feed for his stock, and something to
sell in order to have some ready money.
What every farmer should do is to get busy fol-
low the instructions of the state department of
entomology, keep down much as he can the
destructiveness of the weevi in his cotton and
diversity his crops. If he will do that he won't
suffer as farmers in other states have suf-
fered from the pest
Mr. Worsham has called a meeting of the farm
of this section of the state to be held in Thorn
asyile on Friday of Ibis week, the 18th inst, to
discuss plans for a campaign against the weevil,
and The News trusts that Terrell which has long
been the banner cotton county of the state, will
be represented by large delegation. 1t is i'm
pOrtant that it should be-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
Newspaper Asininity.

1t is unfortunate that a newspaper will some
times forget itself. Some men sink to terribly
low level once in a while, and do some news
papers score of men, perhaps few more
lynched Leo Frank There is defense of their
act which is beyond palaton, but they rank equal
ly with few foos--we know of designation
more accurate-who denounce Georgia and the
South in abusive terms. Apropos of the recent
unfortunate occurrence at MilledgeVile the Chi
cago Tribune which makes the mistake of calling
itself "The Worlds Greatest Newspaper" launches
this diatribe:
The South is backward. 1t shames the
United States by illiteracy and incompetence.
Its hill men and poor whites, its masses of
feared and bullied blacks, its ignorant and VIC
lent politicians it's rotten industrial cond-
lions and it's rotten social ideas exist IN CIR
cumstances which disgrace the United States
in the thought of Americans and in the Oph-
ion of foreigners
The South is half educated. 1t is region
of illiteracy, blatant self-righteousness, cru
eIty and violence. Until it is improved by the
invasion of better blood and better ideas 1t
will remain reproach and danger to the
American republic.
The News is not inclined to match slime with the
Tribune We are perfectly willing to admit that
journals superiority in supply and adeptness n
it's use AS another newspaper has said of the ut
terance of the Chicago paper, 1T should evoke
nothing more than surprise of the kind one might
feel should an acquaintance who had been consld-
cred decent and respectable suddenly show him
self by gross indecency to be unfit for the COM
pany of gentle people,
The Trbune's editorial cannot injure this sec
ton 1t will injure the Tribune among those who
know the South and have heretofore considered the
Tribune respectable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
AS To a Subsidized Press.
From the Dalton Citizen.

To the average reader the subsidized press
consists of those newspapers which print edi-
torias and stories not in accord with his
individual ideas.-Dawson News.
That is as true a statement as was ever uttered.
We have heard so much of late about subsidized
newspapers that we tired of it, and often
wonder what is in the minds of people who go up
and down the highways talking such twaddle. A
newspaper that is in business on bushes principles
could not afford to sell out any more than any
other reputable institution in community. Sup
pose it had the inclination to sell its influence cor
gold anything else of value and the offer
attering it could not do it and stay in business,
because the public would have it down right, and
it's influence would be nil, and without this it would
be stunned even plague. newspaper cannot
sell out without getting caught. Neither can an
individual
And another thing that we have noticed is that
those people who quickest to accuse others of
wrong doing by no means angels of mercy,
justice and truth. If we wanted to buy to
do dirty work the first would approach
would be the we had always heard impugning
the motives of others, with never a good word for
anybody anything Away with such hypocrites
and pharisees!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
Making Jack a Bright Boy.

A very sensible talk that given by Supern-
tendent Dukes at the opening of the Dawson public
schools. More than fifty per cent of the failures
that occur in the high school directly traceable
to social distractions, said the superintendent
Then he stressed the need for cooperation between
teacher and parent.
Boys and girls who are allowed to attend social
functions during the evenings of the school week
can't be up to the mark the next day. 1t is bad
for the pupil and hard on the teacher.
Healthful recreation and diversion for children
are of course essential, but the crowding out OF
study by all play is equally bound to make Jack
dull boy and late hours at night very likely to
make him physically unfit as we'll as mentally so.
The proper balance is what the parent should see
to- the teachers to do their part satisfactorily
it is necessary that the fathers and mothers do
theirs well. Cooperation between the home and
school is absolutely essential.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
Next to Nothing.
From the Cleveland Plan Dealer.

The calendar is irregular. 1t is arbitrary. There
is reason why January should have thrity-one
days and June thirty There is no reason in logic
or in utility why the added leap year day should
go to the second month. And there other feat
ures which are not based pure reason.
Accordingly the devOtees of regularity and uni
fOrmity from time to time evolve fine caen-
dars which will look better than the one we have
been brought up Such has just been
propOunded in New York Every month begins on
Sunday and ends on Saturday and is just four weeks
in duration. And the odd days Jumped to-
gether at the end of the year holidays
There is no reason why such plan would not
be a good one except that it is not a good one.
Harmful traditions should be Outgrown and slough
ed off, but the old calendar is not harmful. 1t is
old friend, and has served very we'll We want
July and Christmas day and Halloween to stay
just where they are. What would become of Hal
lowe en-, anyway, if there thirty-frst of De-
tober?
Reform is good thing, if it aims at anything
really desirable. But it is wasted effort if it is
inspired merely by desire for change. In giving
just value to human endeavOr one might class
the efforts to regulate the calendar as a close next
door to nothing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
The Terrell County Fair.

The Terrell county fair to be held in Dawson
next month should attract many visitors and prove
a profitable advertisement for this town and
ton Plans are being pushed to make the fair the
best and biggest held here, and all classes Of
business should lend their hearty cooperation to
this end. Especially should the progressive farm
ers of the county get behind the fair and help to
make it success 1t is a great force in inspiring
interest in better products and better livestock and
as an advertisement of our resources will be of
great importance. In proportion to the interest
taken by all the people will we derive benefit from
the movement.
1t is not amiss here to most highly commend
the ladies of the fair association who have worked
SO trelessly and unselishly in inaugurating this
movement, and in working for its success. They
deserve much praise, and all who are interested in
the progress of Dawson and Terrell county should
snow their appreciation of these efforts by giving
their unstnted aid and support to the enterprise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
THIS GEORGIA SUFFRAGETTE POETRY
GETS UNDER THE GEORGIA MALE S

Following the example of D'Annunzio the Ital-
ian poet, who bombarded the Austrians with
bitter sonnets the Georgia suffragettes and anti
sufragettes have begun to include poetry in their
missiles-or missves-of war
One runs something like this based the Did
nursery rhyme:
Ding dong bell,
The womans in the well.
Who put her there?
Ignorance ! swear.
Who'll pull her out?
The vote, without doubt.
Another one which is cheerful and shows
a knowledge of male human nature well as wo-
mans rights, follows:
Little Miss Horner stood on a corner
Making suffrage speech. ss...
Her logic and BRAIN said the women, are plain
But the said, Amt she peach?'"
The prize poem of the anti-suffragettes is a sting
err, and rather gets under the skin of some of the
VOte-seekers:
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How do your arguments grow?
A few facts perverted, old notions asserted,
And little fbs all in a row.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
The News Has a Birthday.

The News has just completed the thirty-thlra
wear of its newspaper life, twenty-six OF when
have been under the same ownership and control
as at present During these years the publisher mas
done his very best to give Dawson and Terrell
comfy a paper worthy of the cordial support that
has been extended the publication the mechanical
nlant of the paper has been added to and improved
from time to time and every effort has been put
for+b for its betterment. The management will
strive in the future as in the past to make Ihe
News as good newspaper as lies in its power.
For the liberal support and the partially shown
us by the people of Dawson and Terrell county we
are grateful.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
WHERE NAMES CAME FROM.

From the Wilkes Barre Times-Leader.
When the human family was small and people
lived close together name was enough to iden-
tify man a woman. Abraham and Sarah Ruth
and Jacob never troubled about family names
In the eleventh century the population of the
world had greatly increased, the people lived in
many different countries and men travelled a great
DEAL and so a means of Identification they took
surnames family names, and these names were
handed down to their children. The son of John
was Johnson the of William was williamson
Men were also named from their work-John the
Smith became John Smith, and locations also gave
names to families-the who lived near water
was Bywater, the man who lived on a hilltop might
be known Hill.
The Normans who came into England in the
twelfth century used the word Fitz, which comes
from the French word fills. meaning son, pre-
the son of Gerald Fitzgerald. The Welsh word
for son is APP, and Ap-Hugh Hugh's son became
Bevan.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
PhantaSnnS.

l saw a chid-a child so like a fay
Chasing a butterfly beside the way;
A butterfly that seemed to take delight
In coaXing him to trail its itful flight.
From budding bush to wind-enchanted rose,
And back to where the honeysuckle grows,
l watched the earnest little tot pursue
His beckOnging witch of variegated hue
And as heard his baby lips impeach
The tantaliZing thing beyond his reach,
And viewed how he was thwartcd in each plan,
Within my heart l said-Behold a man!
| a man-and he was worn and bent,
Not by the weight of years, but by lament
His fevered eyes bespoke the stress of stfife,
His famished lips the ruthlessness of life;
And he seemed weary of the ceaseless quest
For happiness, for peace and promised rest
And as looked there glimmered in the night,
Out in the gloom affair." phantom light
A light that lured him, over bog and fen,
To start his hopeful pilgrimage again,
And as he turned, undaunted STILL | smiled,
And said unto my sOul-Behold, child
RALPH METHVIN THOMSON.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
Breaking With John Barleycorn.

While the decrease of $25. geo. 900 year in the
government revenues from liquor and tobacco may
perhaps be attributed in a appreciabIe measure
70 recent financial depression there is no doubt
lhat increasing temperance in all sections of the
country Is partly responsible for this showing.
IN the past few years there has been something
u revolution in the matter of excessive drinking.
H0ience has shown the harmful effects Of alcohol
II sueh ways as to be strikingly convincing and
BUSINESS as rule has put the taboo on the drink
aug man Efficiency and liquor can't go together
and this is the day of one hundred per cent eff
cheney
Inc public's education along this line has been
-ap,o' and will be even more 50. we believe in the
next decade
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
He's a Liar.

THE north, with its more ordered ways and its
faulty but better civilization, thinks more and talks
less of the sanctty of its than the rhetorical
South says the Chicago Tribune's editorial writer
returning to his attack on the South because OF
recent lynching in Georgia.
This is but an excerpt from editorial replete
with deliberately mendacous falsfcations. The
language of the article instantly reveals the writer
as person socially unfit for the parlor of any
self-respecting negro washwoman.
1t is perfectly proper and entirely accurate to
say he is a liar-which he is.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
JIM GRIGGs' GOOD WORK.

From the Triton Gazette.
Although he has been dead five years the
work Congressman Jim Griggs did for his district,
and in fact for the whole country, continues to bear
fruit. A Georgia boy who is prominently men
toned in the news dispatches is Captain Edward \.
Green, who is officer in the United States marine
corps, and who in command of of the
landing forces that recently went ashore at Port
Prince Haiti, to preserve order Captain
Greene was raised in Fort Gaines in Clay county,
and Congressman Griggs got him a lieutenancy
in the marine corps just after the Spanish, Ameri-
can war He is rejecting credit his state,
the service and on the man who got him his job.
Judge Griggs did more of this good work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
TRACTOR ENGINES ON FARM.

From the Seymour Republican.
The tractor engine promises to become an essen
tia part of the farm equipment. Especially is this
true with the large land owner In few years
the tractor will probably be manufactured cheap
ly that it be sold at a comparatively low cost
1t will have it's advantages the horse and mule
and will be an expense only when it is in 1t
has already been demonstrated that the tractor
be used for many purposes and will obviate the
necessity of farmer keeping a large stable of
horses and mules incidentally if the tractor should
become in general use farmers will doubtless give
attention to stock raising a means of using
up the annual crop of hay, corn and other feed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
City and Country.
BY Walt Mason.

The rush of the crowded city seems fierce 70 ~
rural clown, and he thinks it a beastly pity Ina
granite. hemmed in by the walls of brick, while
Ger this sunlt planet the roses are growing thIo
Gee Whit" cries the rustic stranger, how Iu0Af
danger, confusion and roar and smell! I'll nee
from this blare and rattle, away to that farm -
mine, and firt with the Holstein cattle ana pl ny
with the Berkshire swinei" And when from In
roar and riot the dweller in town repairs to resi-
in the country's quiet and breathe unpoluted alls
he's filed in a day with longing for raeket anu
bare and strife for streets where the crowds any
thronging-he cusses rural life '"The man, says
the city dweller, who travels from towns pooVs
pity the country Teller. pity the hayseed ruDe.,
The town for the man who likes it, the town wiz
its light and song the farm for the man who nlAs'
it with glee down his burrows long.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
An Honored Editor Dies.

Georgia journalism has sustained a very real loss
in the death of Elmer n. Hancock editor of the
Savannah Morning News He was one OF the
pioneer figures in the daily newspaper work OF the
state having filled a responsible position with the
Morning News for more than thirty years. Since
the death of Col. j. H. Estill he had occupied the
place of editor of that paper with recognized ability
He combined conscentiousness force and conserva-
tism in his work and enjoyed the respect and con-
fdence of his fellow workers and the public gen.
orally.