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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-09-21
L heard her say"

"I-- | heard her say"
II think | know what happened,
now" Mary's breath came fast and
her voice shook, but she spoke rapidly.
You heard her say more than that.
You heard her say that we were bit
terly poor, and on that account l tried
first to marry your brother--and
then" But now sue faltered, and 1t
was only after a conyUlsiye effort that
she was able to go on. "And then
that tried to marry-you! You heard
her say that-and you believe that l
don't care for you and that no girl
could care for you-but you think |
am in such an extremity as Sibyl was
that you And so, not wanting me,
and believing that l could not want
you-except for my 'extremity'-you
took your fathers offer and then came
TO ask me-to mrrry you! What had /
shown you of myself that could make
you"
Suddenly she sank down, kneellng.
with her face buried In her arms upon
the lap OF chair, tears overwhelming
her.
MARY, Mary" he cried. helplessly.
"oh no-you-you don't understand"
81 do, thought she sobbed. 81 do"
He came and stood beside her you
kill mep' he said. ~ can't make II
plain. From the first of your lowell
ness to me. | was all self. II was al
ways you that gave and that took.
was the dependent-I did nothing but
lean on you. We always talked OF me
not OF you. II was all about my idiotiC
distresses and troubles. | thought OF
you as kind of wonderful being that
had no mortal or human suffering ex'
cept by sympathy. You seemed to lean
dOwn-out of a rosy cloud-to be kind
to me. l never dreamed could dc
anything for you! never dreamed
you could need anything to be done
for you by anybody. And today hearC
that-that you"
"You heard that needed TO marry
-someone-any nybody--wlth money,
she sobbed. And you thought We
were $3.50 desperate-you believed
that | had"
NOT he said. quickly. II didn't be
lieve you'd done, one kind thing for .m'
for that. No. no, no! knew you'C
never thought of me except generously
to give. said | couldn't make 1
plaing he cried, despairingly.
"waitw She lifted her head and ex
tended her hands to him unconscious
ly, like child. Help me up, Blbbs.
Then, when she was once more upoI
her feet, she wiped her eyes and
smiled upon him ruefully and family
but Teassuringly, as II to tell him, II
that way, that she knew he had no
: meant to hurt her. And that smile o
hers, so lamentable put so faithful.
friendly. mlsted his own eyes, for hi
, shamefacedness lowered them no more
Let me tell you what you want t
{ tell me-" she said. "You can't. becaus
r you can't put 1t into words-they ar
2 too humlllating for me and you're TO
{ gentle to say them. Tell me, though
isn't 1t true2 You didn't believe tina
I'd tried to make you fall in love wit
3 me-"
{ "Neverl Never for an instant"
. "You didn't believe I'd tried to max
!. you want to marry me-"
mo, no, nor
. 81 believe It, Blbbs. You though
y that I was fond of you; you knew
I cared for you-but you didn't think
4 might be-in love with you. But yo
{ thought that l might marry you Ttl
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The Turmoil
BOOTH HARRINGTON
SoopJhsS, VIA ~ Harper ) sro,SsnS

said anything. sibyl know you
meant II for the best and all. but
don't believe It would been 30 much
harm If"
Mother Sheridan, you don't mean
you want that kind of a girl In the
famlly1 Why she"
IL don't know. l don't know" the
troubled woman quavered. "If he liked
her II seems kind OF a pity to spoil It.
He's so queer, and he hasn't ever taken
much enjoyment. And besides, be
lieye the way II was. there was more
chance OF him beln' willin' to do what
papa wants him to. II she wants to
marry him"
Sheridan interrupted her with hoot-
ing laugh. "She don't" he said.
You're barkin' up the wrong tree,
Sibyl. She amt that kind OF girl"
But, father Sheridan, didn't she"
He cut her short. That's enough.
You may mem all right. but you guess
wrong. So do you, mamma"
Slbyl cried out, "Ohl But Just look
how she ran after Jim"
"She did not" he said, curtly. "She
wouldn't take Jim. She turned him
down cold"
But that's lmpossi-"
ITS not. I know she did"
Sibyl looked fatty incredulous.
"And you needn't worry" he said
turning to his wife. This won't have
any effect on your idea. because ther,
wasn't any sense to 1t, anyhow. ID
you think she'd be very likely to take
Bibbs-after she wouldn't take jim
She's a good-hearted girl, and she LETT
Bibbs come to see her, but IL she'd eve
given him one sign Of encouragement
the way you women think, he wouldn'
of acted the stubborn fool he has-he't
IA been at me long ago, beggln' me 70
some kind Of job he could support ;
wife on. There's nothin' in it-an,
I've got the same old fight with him oil
my hands I've had all his life-an,
the Lord knows what he won't do L
balk me! what's happened now y
probably only make him twice as stub
born, but"
"'Shw Mrs. Sheridan, still in tn
doorway. lifted her hand. THAT'S hi
step-he's comm downstairs" Sh
shrank away from the door as IL sh
feared to have Bibbs see her. 'I-
wonder" she said, almost in a whit
peri wonder what he's goin'-t
DOR
Her timorousness had its effect upo
the others. Sheridan rose, frowninl
but remained standing beside his chali
and Roscoe moved toward Sibyl, VIII
stared uneagily at the open doOrwa.
They listened as the slow steps d,
scended the stairs and came towar
the library.
Bibbs stepped upon the threshol'
and with sick and haggard eyes locke
. slowly from one to the other until 4
last his gaze rested upon his fathe
Then he came and stood before him.
I'm sorry you've had so much trol
; BILE with me-" he said, gently. "Yo
won't, any more. III take the job yo
offered me-"
, Sheridan did not speak-he stare
astounded and incredulous; and Bibl
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had left the room before any of its oc-
cupants uttered a sound, though he
went as slowly as he came. Mrs. Sheri-
dan was the first TO move. She went
nervously back to the doorway, and
then out into the hall Bibbs had gone
from the house.
Bibbs' mother had a feeling about
him then that she had never known
before; 1t was indefinite and vague,
but very Notwithstanding In her
mourned for him uncomprehendingly
She felt that an awful thing had been
done TO him. though she did not know
what It was. She went up to his room
The Are George had built for him
was. almost smothered under thick.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-09-21
"You Don't Know What Work is. Yet"

way to get ahead is TO do ten times
the work OF the lardest worker that
works for you. But you don't know
what work Is. yet. All you've ever
done was just stand around and feed
machine child could handle. and
then come home and take a bath and
go callin'. tell you you're up against
a mighty different proposition now, and
IL you're worth your salt-and you
rever showed any signs OF 1t yet-not
any signs that stuck out enough to
bang sorebody on the head and make
'em sit up and take notice-well, l
wsnt to say, right here and now-and
ia petter listen, because Z want TO
sus Just what a. say. cay"
lie meandered TO full stop. His
mouth hung open, and his mind was .
hopeless blank.
yTo BE coNTrUErQ
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CHAPTER xxvill-contlnued.

eybii, the ioud-rnouthed dauahter-In-
osw. 10 engaged In poisoning Mrs.
eheridsn's mind against the vertrees
family and Many vertrees, whom
BIbbs loves. Tho two women arc
standing Just outside the door Of
nlbbs' room. He hears Il all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
ONLY So For 1t.

The death few days ago of Eben E..
Rexford, author of "Silver Threads Among
the Cold" has brought to the attention of
the public the fact that he received only
SO for the song that has been sung through
out the world and retained its popularity
for years.
Rexford according to an account of his
life, was a poor boy who paid his way
through college, his alma mater being Law
renee University, Wisconsin, by writing sto-
ries and songs FOR eastern magazines. A
song publisher, hearing of his gifts, made
him an offer of three dollars piece for all
songs sent in by him that should be found
acceptable. In the first collection of nine
was "Silver Threads Among the Gold,'
which within a few weeks after its publlca-
ton was sung on every stage and IN every
parlor in America and whistled on the
streets of London and Paris. 1t is proba-
bly one of the folk songs of the world that
will never die. Eben E. Rexford is one of
the names that lovers of good music should
reverently recall whenever it is mentioned.
Rexford wrote many religious songs,
among them being so Where Are the
Reapers?" He was also the author of "Only
a Pansy Blossom" There was much senti-
ment expressed in many of his compositions.
In these days of great sums being paid for
ragtime compositions and splendid incomes
being established from the "hotstuff" sort
Of music it seems hardly possible, as the
Savannah Press says, that one could write
songs of such tender pathos and delightful
melody as those given US by Rexford and
receive such little compensation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
Has Boil WeevH Whipped
From the Dublin Courier-Herald.

The Dawson News tells of one man who
has the boil weevil whipped before he gets
in sight. This is the way the News relates
the story
''Dr. W. r. Terry of Shellman was in the
city Saturday and while here he informed
The News that he planted 800 acres in pea
nuts on his farm this year from which he
gathered 10000 bushels of peanuts and 100
tons of peanut vine hay. The peanuts are
worth on the market 80 cents a bushel,
which will bring him $4,000. He has sold
100 tons of the peanut vine hay and recelv-
ed $4,000 for it. DR.. Terry says that he
runs forty plows and that he did not plant
over four acres of cotton to some of his
plows. The doctor is an enthusiast on the
possibilities of the peanut as money crop,
and says that the boh weevil invasion has
no terrors for him"
This indicates that DR.. Terry has grown
crops on his 800 acres of land aggregating
$1,000. The cost of growing peanut
crop is not as great as that of growing cot
ton by good deal
Now suppose this man had planted his
800 acres of land in cotton. 1t is pretty
good land in this country that will average
bale to every two acres, although in some
sections it will yield more, which is probably
true of the lands around Shellman, which
are above the average in productivity. But
bale to two acres is fair average, eSpe-
cially unless the land be we'll fortified
Say that the 800 acres planted in peanuts
had been planted in cotton and had yielded
$50 bales of cotton. Say he had sold it at
Is cents a pound, his sales would have ag-
gregated only $11, 250.
But the expense of cultivating 500 acres
of cotton is considerably greater than that
of cultivating the same acreage in peanuts,
and it costs great deal more to pick, gin
and bale and prepare $50 bales of cotton
for market than it does to gather peanuts
and peanut vine hay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
Starving A1banians.

The appeal that we print on this page in
behalf of the starving Albanians is but
another reminder of the horrors that have
come to mankind as result of the world
wide war that is now under way. On this
continent we shall never be able to form
adequate conception of the extent and real
nature of the agony of some of the people
in the war zone
The property destruction may have been
greatest in Belgium, but it is obvious that
the people of Belgium have not had to en-
dure the stress known to the inhabitants OF
Poland, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro
and, let us add, Armenia, too.
1t is awful, beyond description or concep-
ton, the horror of this war We print the
plea for starving Albanians, as we have
printed pleas for other sufferers of this
most terrible of all wars, in hope that an ap-
peal may touch some hearts with sympa-
thy-for surely there are people, as the
writer of this article says, who would not
let even a dog starve if they can help avert
such fate for the dog.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
lack Frost's Visit.

Frost little after the middle of October
is early, to be sure, but it did not break
the record There has been sleet in this
latitude as early.
The crisp, cool air was welcome. 1t put
more "pep" into the spirits and movements
of men, women nd children, especially the
latter The kids almost danced their way
to school, so full of life and joy were they.
And the merchants looked kindly at Jack
Frost, too, for he brought message to the
many who have been slow in buying fall
and winter wear. The high price of white
paper and other expenses of producing any
sort of publication compels the newspaper
man to bide bit. He has to be cautious,
you know But the many who have money
galore-well, they need the winter goods,
and ought to be buying, and the cool wave
persuaded many of them. The stores OF
Dawson and all over Southwest Georgia
are thronged with buyers these days, which
is as it should be.
So, all in all, the coming of Jack Frost is
seasonable and good Fires are decidedly
pleasant .early in the morning, and all
around there is the lusty touch of autumn,
than which there is nothing more whole
some
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
Georgia Products Day.

Plans for the celebration of Georgia
Products Day on November 18th are now
being formulated in many cities and com
munites throughout the state, and it is to
be hoped that the people of Terrell county
will likewise put forth some effort in that
direction. Certainly no county in Georgia
has more to boast of than Terrell in the
matter Of abundant and varied farm prod
ucts, and proper advertisement of that fact
cannot fail of good results.
Georgia Products Day was inaugurated
as an annual event in 1913 by the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce, and the celebration
in most instances has taken the form of
public dinners composed exclusively of
Georgia products followed by addresses of
leading citizens calling attention to the adj
vantages and necessity of the people of the
state in patronizing Georgia products. The
organization this year is requesting that the
leading hotels of the state serve regular
public dinner composed entirely of Georgia
products, and prizes are to be given for the
most attractive bill of fare of this kind. The
usual public dinners are likewise urged. A
new feature has been added to the cele-
bration this year in the request of the Geor-
gia Chamber of Commerce that citizens of
the state have in their private homes Geor-
gia products dinners to which their friends
and neighbors shall be invited, with special
prizes offered in this connection.
great Georgian once said that this
state could erect wall about its borders
and its people live comfortably without any
dependence on the rest of the world. He
may have been somewhat enthusiastic as to
the abilities and possibilities of his state,
but there is no discounting the fact that
the developed and undeveloped resources
of Georgia are hardly excelled by any other
state of the union. Living at home" is a
slogan that could be adopted with profit in
this section just now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
Are Y GU a Good Citizen?

What are you doing for Dawson? What
are you doing to justify your citizenship in
this town?
You cannot sit down, criticise, and let
others do the work that makes town or
community and still call yourself a good cit
izen.
A good citizen keeps in mind that there
are others who have rights, and are entitled
to have those rights respected by others
by you On the same basis you are en-
titled to have your rights equally respected
by them.
That is good citzenship-partially In
addition the good citizen remembers that
his town is entitled to his best efforts in its
behalf, to the end that the interests of the
community may be advanced by all legiti-
mate means. That means, too, that in ad-
vancing the interests of your town you are
advancing your own, which is the ultimate
aim of the human race.
What, then, are you doing to constitute
yourself a good citizen?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
The Man and the Land.

Many of the young men of our smaller
towns, who are constantly bemoaning their
limited opportunities, might derive some
profit in reading of the career of Judge
William Muir Williams, of Bonneville, Mis-
souri,. Boonville is comparatively small
town, and yet it was big enough for Judge
Williams to build up reputation that
extended far beyond the bounds of his state.
He was born, lived all his life and died in
the same house in Bonneville. AS the Ma
con News says, he found Bonneville large
enough for his one ambition-to be a good
lawyer.
Fame came to him, and lawyers from all
parts of Missouri and even from other
states climbed the wooden stairs leading to
his Office door, seeking his advice on import
ant cases. He came to be pre-eminently
LAWYERS lawyer Time after time political
honors were offered him, but he declined.
Finally he accepted place on the supreme
bench of his state, but later resigned and
refused to accept the denomination ten
dered him. He desired only to be a good
lawyer, and he came to be recognized as
such throughout several states
enough. He would have found an even
smaller town big enough, for his ambition
had to do with himself. He knew the great
secret that genuine success does not depend
so much upon circumstance or opportunity
as it does upon the man himself. Many
great men have come from small towns.
Every hamlet in the land is potential
Nazareth But it is only the rare man who
realizes the great truth which was Judge
Williams secret. A young man does not
need to go to the big city to achieve the
highest success. Indeed, if he believes that
his success depends principally upon him
slf he becomes like the foolish child who
sets out to find the prize at the end of the
rainbow. Success eludes him, though he
seek her over the entire world. But she
makes a track to the door of the man who
makes the most of himself, though he hide
away in the depth of a wilderness
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

To the Rutherford Shoes

There is joy within our village,
And from all the country round
The people flock together,
For a carnivaPs in town.
Hank! the band is sweetly playing
On this happy opening day;
There's promise in the music,
Driving sorrow far away.
See the tents of snowy whiteness
That have sprung up in the night
See the happy, smiling faces
Beaming on US in delight.
Now there's showers of confetti,
Thrown by carefree boys and girls,
Til your mouth is full of paper
And your brain just fairly whirls.
Ferris wheels got Deacon Jones,
The stingiest man / know;
Bet he's nearer now to Heaven
Than he ever was before.
Flying Jenny's got Sis Jones,
And as it makes its rounds
| prefer to stand and watch it,
Mrs Jones weighs 800 pounds).
Well agree to make you happy
If you'll only come around,
For 'Ole Troubles" gone and left US
While the carnivaPs in town.
Dawson. Ga. JOHN E. RIORDAN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Right heartily and cordially do we con-
graduate our neighbor, the Albany Herald,
on reaching its twenty-ifth anniversary
Saturday it celebrated that occasion, which
is a notable one in the career of any paper,
bv issuing an edition containing nearly a
hundred pages, perhaps the largest edition of
newspaper ever published in town the
size of Albany in the South. 1t is a quarter Of
century of usefulness and achievement up
on which Editor Mcintosh and his co-work-
ers can look back with pardonabl pride. The
Herald is an honor to the craft.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
CANNOT EAT AND
CUSS AT THE SAME TIME

From the Savannah Press.
Macon is going to have great state
fair this year. We are sure OF that
The Macon fair IS of and. for Georgia.
1t is our fair, for all sections of the
state share the benefits. 1t is an edu-
cation to spend few days at this fair,
and we counsel every man and woman
who can attend to do so.-Dawson
News.
We rather expect Macon will have big
time at the fair. We see where President
McAuliffe of the Weekly Press Association
has ordered the boys to assemble there, eat
barbecue and discuss the high cost of paper
We will go if the paper proposition Will be
discussed after the barbecue. We do moi
want to have to eat while we are mad
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Nineteen cents and upward for middling
cotton, paid in Georgia towns. And we are
told to be on the lookout for twenty cents
the pound. The farmer is sure evening up
on the losses of 1914, when he had to let
cotton go at four and five cents the pound,
and couldn't always get that The Good
Lord kept the cotton grower in mind, and in
spirit at that.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Colonel Bland Adkins, former well-known
Terrell countian, is now editor of the Soper-
ton Sentinel, which is the same as saying
that the Sentinel is a sprightly and very
interesting newspaper. The News wishes
Colonel Adkins and his co-worker, Mr.
Overstreet, all the prosperity that can pos
sbly come to publishers of country neWs-
paper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
BY COMPARISON THE
BUZZARD is A GENTLEMAN

From the Washington Reporter.
A buzzard preys upon carcass after 1t
is dead, but the human guttersnipe selects
a living, sensitive, struggling man or woman
upon which to vent his or her depraved APP
petite, and does it with glee that would
shame a buzZard.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

In writing Revelations John spoke of
Death on a pale horse. The motor car,
driven by heartless or reckless driver, was
not known then. If it had been we must
believe that John would have put Death at
the steering wheel of the car.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

The State fair opened at Macon today.
Those who can attend WILL no doubt, have a
profitable and enjoyable experience. 1t is a
pleasure to abide for day or days in the
Central Georgia metropolis-and especially
at fair time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Well founded reports from all sections of
the country indicate that President Wilson
is steadily gaining in strength, and indica-
tions apparently point to his reelection by
a substantial majority.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Isn't it high time for Dawson to be put
ting some campaign money into the demo-
cratic contribution plate? The election is
nearly at hand, just week away, and then
the cause will be lost or won.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Very disquieting reports are coming from
Mexico regarding conditions there, espe-
cially as to the movements of Villa. These
things help to explain why the army is kept
on the border, ready for any emergency, at
least until the conditions assume more
wholesome shape.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

Probably Mr.. Hughes is discovering that
what he is now saying is not nearly so eff
fective as opinions handed down by him in
other days
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

The choicest variety of cotton is the
twenty-cent kind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

There can be no doubt but that the for
mer reports of the killing of Villa were
greatly exaggerated
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

We are almost ready to yield the palm as
a guesser to Editor Sutlive, of Savannah.
Early in the season he predicted 2O-cent
cotton, and it's almost here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

The bachelor girl is still an old maid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01

II is not work that kills men; it. is worry.
Work is healthy; you can hardly put more
upon a man than he can bear. Worry is
rust upon the blade.-Henry Ward Beecher.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
HE'S RUNNING SOME.

From the cambridge Democrat.
Woodrow's jass ack has backed his ears
and struck lively trot.