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The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
HIS HOUR.

Constance" Sutton said, with a glance at the great clock beside the mantel, "in aonther hour your hus- band will be. here. When l have re- ceived the papers l am to carry to Smithson, the physician at our mines in Venezuela, l shall go directly to my train. In another week l am leaving this country, and it will be several years before l can hope to re- turn. You and 1 know that we may never meet again after We say good bye tonight. Knowing this, will you not give me, for my very own, this one last hour, the only gift l shall probably ever ask or you?"
 She leaned forward impulsively, her smile almost motherly sweet; then with woman's sudden perversity she hesitated and drew back. But again he caught her hands and this time he held them fast.
 Let me sit beside you holding your hands so," he said gently. Sixty minutes is a small space into which to crowd a lifetime of joy. My love for you, Constance, has never chang ed. believe that such a love as mine is not granted to be eXtinguished at will. It is a fire which, must i've through eternity. Will you not, just because you have given me this hour, answer me one question without re- serve?"
 He read her reply in her eyes, and bending over her, pressed her fingers to his lips. Tell me honestly, dear, was there ever the slightest chance of my winning you? used to dream that in time you might learn to care. Was there ever a chance for me ?"- From The Peoples Home Journal for July.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
PERSPECTIVE.

I stood by the far-famed bells
 In lofty minister's tower. As they rang to the verger's touch
 With the chimes of the vesper hour. And my startled ears were stunned
 By a jangle of warning sorid, Till the beautiful hymn was lost
 In the deafening clangor drowned. But afar in the market place,
 The throngs in the crowded street Were hushed to holy calm
 By melody strangely sweet. And so in the after years,
 As | list to my life's refrain, The grief that came as jarring chock
 And the hammer strokes of pain Will sound as the major chords
 Of a symphony sublime, And Sorrow will seem deeper joy
 As it blends in the perfect chime. F. C. Wellman, in The Peoples Home Journal for July,
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
PROHIBITION PROHIBITS.

You cannot convince the manage ment of the Polk Hospital for Inebri- ates at Knoxville. la, that prohibition does not prohibit. They have the best possible proof that it does. According to the report of the county auditor since January the number of pa tients sent to the hospital has been dwindling until at present there are just half as many patients as there were year ago Even before the state prohibitory law went into effect, the fact that Des Moines was without saloons tended to cut down the alco- holic patients.
 There were 2S patients during the last quarter O: 1915 as compared with 53 in the same period of 1914, and since the first of this year the number has decreased still more.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
CULTURED.

A talkative young lady was once taken in to dinner by wealthy and taciturn manufacturer whom she was anxious to prpitiate. Her attempts at conversation, however, met with little response. Having exhausted nearly every conceivable subject, she broached that of music.
 Do you like Beethoven's works ." she inquired brightly.
 Never visited them," he replied, shortly. What does he manufac- ture ?"-Los Angeles Times.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
ECONOMIC EFFECT.

On top of the great moral results we have these economic facts In the first three weeks of January the say ings deposits in the banks of Seattle increased 15 per cent. There was not a grocery store in Seattle that did not show an increase of business in January greater than ever known in any month before in all the history of the city, except fin holiday time In all the large grocery stores the in crease was immense. Every dry goods store. except one. and that have no figures from, had wonderful increase in business.
 And prohibition has not lowered rents. I know of one big dry goods store that has had it's rent increased since prohibition went into effect.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
STORM BULGARIAN COAST.
Allied Warships Drive Population
 Away in Panic

Paris, June 13.-A Salosiki dis patch to the Radio agency says that allied fleets are bombarding the southern Bulgarian coast from Port Lagos to Dedeaghatch. The popua- tion is fleeing inland, the dispatch says.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
LOOK GOOD-FEEL GOOD.

No one can either feel good nor look good while suffering from con- stipation. Get rid of that tired, drag gy, llfeless feeling by treatment of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. Buy a box today take one or two pills to- night. In the morning that stuffed, dull feeling is gone and you feel bet, ter at once. 25c at your druggist.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
Thirty-first Annual Communication. Royal Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Pine Bluff, Ark, July 3rd to 7th. 1916.

For this occasion the St. L. I. M. & s. Ky. will sell tickets Prescott to Pine Bluff and return for $480, tick cts on sale July 2nd and 3rd, going passage to commence on date of sale and bear final return limit to reach original starting point prior to mid night of July 8th.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14
PROMINENT
 GROCERYMAN
 TELLS WOk- DERFUL STORY
Feels Grateful for Benefits Received.

Time was when the unfortunate victim of blood impurities must sub init to the use of the lance, then min erals were resorted to and this usage resulted disastrously to the entire system. Then science returned to the good old days of herbs and barks Then came Hays Specific" the great remedy for all blood disorders, or which Mir, R. M Wilburn, of Aik- en, H., writes as follows:
 take pleasure in saying a good word for your medicine, Hays Spe- cifc.
 had been suqering with boils, my blood was in very bad condition. I was unable to stay ac my store. had tried other remedies but they had failed to relieve me. I took Hays Specific and it entirely cured me. I am glad to recommend your medicine as one of the best blood remedies that have ever used.
 This great remedy is now being sold in Prescott by Guthrie Drug Co.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14

The Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman will be on sale Thursday morning. Both issues are up to the standard and you may secure one by phoning PAP or PA. 5 cents each the copy.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-14

Money to loan on improved farms.-R. l.. Blakely. Advt. If.
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Send the News that order for print ng.
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Call PAP and get this weeks Satur' day Evening Post and the Countr! Gentieman-5 cents the copy.
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
The Passing of Mrs. Perry.

| One by one the pioneer settlers of Daw-
son go to join the silent majority OF those
who came earliest but few remain, and thus
the list of revered dead grows larger. To
this list there is to be added the name of
welI-beloved Christian woman, Mrs. Mar
tina Perry, the details of whose death are
presented elsewhere. She was the wife of
John B. Perry, an upright and useful man,
who had preceded her to the life hereafter.
For many years she and he had dwelt here,
and many there are who can recall how good
it was to know them, how pleasant was in
tercourse with them.
Fullness and richness of years, more than
four score, came to this Mother in Israel.
The last few months were marked by phys
zeal burdens, sometimes of pain, that were
borne with fortitude and patience that gave
example to all around her-no murmurs,
but cheerful resignation to Gods will. The
end came, as it often does to old people
with but a suggestion of the supreme mo-
ment, for she was weary and laid down to
rest And while she slept the death angel
touched her eyes and she awol1e in the bet
ter life of the beyond 1t was a serene and
beautiful end. She was ready for it, for
she had lived in the faith she had kept the
faith, and she knew the crown awaited her.
Separation from one so beloved, so use
full to her church and community, so help
full to the needy and distressed, involves
trial, truly, but it need not involve sorrow,
because it holds no element of doubt for
those who were nearest and dearest to her.
Her life was full and we'll rounded. The
time had come when it should end, as it did,
in supreme peace. The memory of her long
life here her good deeds and her virtues as
wife, as mother, as friend are a cherished
heritage to those who were within the inner
circle of her love.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
The Laws Delay.

An Atlanta dispatch says well-informed
members of the Georgia bar are not accept
ing the laws delay as an excuse for lynch
ing. as recent cards and articles in the news
papers make it appear Statistics, they
claim. show that criminal cases are eXpe-
dited in Georgia as in few other common
wealths, and that the average length of time
between the commission of crime and the
execution of the law is shorter than in most
other states. All observant persons must
agree with this view. The truth of it can
not be questioned
The lawyers also truthfully say much of
the laws so-called delay in Georgia is due to
the easy method of appeal, made so to pro-
tect defendants who have no money. Amy
person, no matter how poor, may appeal his
case to the higher courts and authorities.
To make conditions for appealing harder,
would be unjust to persons unable to go to
great expense.
Then too it is pointed out that of the
eighteen persons lynched in Georgia last
had been none of the so-called laws delay
in any one of these negro cases.
They point to the Lee county lynching as
demonstrating that delay sometimes is de-
sirable. In that case four or five negroes
who had not fired the shots which killed
Sheriff Moreland were lynched. In week
or two thereafter the one who fired the
shots was tried and given a life sentence.
And no effort has been made to lynch him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
A Pathetic End.

The death of DR.. Theodore Sachs, presi-
dent of the National tuberculosis Associa-
ton and directing head of the Chicago mu-
nicipaI tuberculosis sanitarium, is unusually
dramatic and pathetic. Here was man who
apparently had devoted the best of his life
to help humanity in its fight against the
takes, and the effect of these errors OF Judg-
great white plague. He probably made mis-
ment made him the target of bitter criLl-
cism. As the Savannah News says, history
records the tragic end of many such men in
every line of human endea~or, AMI the story
of many more goes unrecorded. Some
fought to the natural end and died Of broken
hearts, while others, like Dr.. Sachs, be
came weary of fighting and put an end to
it by their own hands. Just criticism helps,
but when the critics tongue is poisoned with
bitterness, personal hatred or politics it
sears and scars and ruins.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
Cheek.

Senator Tillman was cOndemning certain
extortionate armor-plate contracts. accord
ing to the Washington Star.
These people," he said. treat the gov
eminent as the man treated the restaura-
teur-with almost incredible cheek.
"A glass of beer he said. Only one
my friends aren't thirsty-and, say, waiter,
could you oblige Us with three plates?'
THE plates were duly brought and the
man took three sandwiches from his pocket,
and the little party proceeded to enjoy them
selves.
But the outraged waiter hurried off and
told the manager. The manager rushed up
to the unworthy guest and said:
Look here, you what do you take us
for? Ordering one beer and then borrowing
our plates to eat your sandwiches from!
Why, I never
"'Who are your said the guest, taking "a
sip of beer and a nibble of sandwich.
Who am 1? I'm the manager
oh, are your he said, fercely Then
you're just the man I'm looking for. Why
the dickens isn't the orchestra playing?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
Old Friend OF Mine.

Old friend of mine, if you shall cross the
tide
Before my bark lets go
You watch for me upon the other side;
You watch and wait for Him, our Peerless
Guide,
If first you cross the tide.
Old friend of mine, if you shall learn the
way
Before l hear the call.
You whisper through the misty maze some
day
The password that is best for me to say
If first you cross the tide.
Old friend of mine, from battlements on
high,
If yonder first you stand,
Wave back some message you may cheer
us by.
And spur us on the dare to 90 or die,
From the battlements on high.
Old friend of mine, if you shall see the King
Before | kiss His hand
Watt back to me some strain that there
you sing,
Some note to still this longing wondering,
If first you see the King.
Boston Transcript.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
ORDERING. BY PHONE.
One Reason There Is So Much Waste In
American Homes.

The Indifference of the American house
keeper to marketing, may be laid to the fact
that it is much easier to order by phone
than to make a trip to the market.
When about to purchase food supplies
do away with the telephone and just slip
on your hat and coat and see the material
for which you are paying. The butcher, if
he is filing a phone order, is very apt to
leave on an extra ounce of suet or a few
ounces of BONE whereas if the customer is
present he knows that this will bring forth
comment
Personal supervision prevents waste the
housewife herself must be the judge of the
proper amount. The housewife should know
and provide the proper amount of food that
will satisfy, and, at the same, supply nour-
ishment at least possible expense. All this
Indifference, combined with lack of knowl
edges, causes much waste.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
VAST HUMAN ANT HILL
Though Seething With Multifarious Labor,
No Living Thing Is Visible on Battlefield

A glorious spring holiday-such was the
very deceptive appearance of things at noon
! today when I reached a certain vantage point
from which the battlefield was unrolIed in
a crescent of many colored hills before me,
writes a correspondent of Verdun, the
worlds greatest battlefield.
Throughout the vast amphitheatre, twenty
miles wide and ten miles deep, not single
human being was visible aside from the lit
tie group of officers around me.
Over there to the northwest lies the broad
dark bank of Malancourt woods, which we
know to be a busy hive of Bavarian and
Wurttenberg grenadiers, sharpshooters, gun.
ners and 1amesquirters. Beyond them on
the horizon the queer cone of Montfaucon,
long the crown princes headquarters is Wis
IDLE. Passing eastward the two French bull
warks of Hill 304 and Dead Mans hill block
the view northward. Then across the wild
and still flooded valley of the Mouse we scan
a higher and more deeply indented plateau
directly north of Verdun.
Through field glasses we can follow every
rise and fall of the forever famous slopes
of bloody memories, and in the whole piano.
rama there is not visible a single human
being. In the hollow behind us lies the
ancient city of Verdun under cloud of pur
pie smoke.
Overhead several aeroplanes are soaring
and westward / can count five of the anchor
ed observation balloons called sausages. Be
fore us a network of communication
trenches climbs up the open slopes, and al
though invisible we know it continues
through coppices and forest patches toward
the SUBMITS where geyser-like eruptions of
earth mark the main stress of the artillery
duel. The crest of DOuaumont in particu-
lar, is continually shattered into a crown
of cloud, and around it the succession of
gun flashes might be mistaken for hello
graph signals were it not for the accom-
panying mufied roar of explosions.
1t is what they call a calm day on the
'front.' that is to say, the daily toll of death
and wounds and the daily strain of anticipa
ton of these ills are limited to few points
where the pressure is seldom and little re-
Taxed.
But the sunshine deceives us when it gilds
this scene into a semblance of peace. Be
fore and around and behind us, hidden away
underground and in less elaborate cover,
half million men armed with every deadly
device modern science can suggest lie in
wait, each host watching for any sign of
weakness on the part of the other The
preparations for a tomorrow, wrapped in
mystery save to a few chiefs themselves,
never for a moment cease.
Under it's empty and smiling surface the
bastiOn of Verdun is a vast human anthill
seething with multifarious labor. The war
has gone underground again in this sector,
as if it could not bear the light of day
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
THE IMPORTANCE OF MONEY.

From the Chicago Saturday Blade.
Money is a very important thing, judg-
ing by the things that people will do to
get it.
Among late news items it appears that
man starved himself to death to accumulate
paltry $4,000, while two men committed
highway robbery for $3.50. A woman with
$4,000 in cash on her person and $95, 900
in a lock box froze herself to death rather
than give up 25 cents for COAL and some
thieves locked storekeeper in an icebox
for several hours in order to get away with
$3.50 apiece. The more one sees of news
the more impressed one is with the import
ance of money.
People will not only die for it or incrim-
mate themselves and murder other people
for it, and sell their own souls for it, but
they will lie awake and think about it at
night and then work hard for it all day.
There is almost nothing that some people
will not do for money, and a few will even
do nothing for it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN.

From the Savannah News.
Whether Governor Craig served justice
and the law we'll or i'll when he committed
the death sentences of Mrs. Ida Ball War
rem and Samuel Preston Christy to life i'm
prisonment may be open to discussion, but
there is not the slightest doubt that he did
the right thing when he refused to commute
the WOmanS sentence without committing
the mans also. They were convicted of the
same crime, the murder of the woman's hus-
band and they deserved the same punish
ment Strong appeals were made to the
governor on behalf of the woman, merely
because she was woman, and it surprises
nobody that he finally was moved to save
her from the electric chair. And then many
North CarOlinians saw that it would be I'M
lust to save her and fail to save the man,
and so they pressed the governor to save
them both.
If Christy alone had been guilty the
chances are there would have been no great
cutlery in his rbehlf and he would have gone
to the electric chair without attracting much
attention outside of North Carolina He
was lucky to have woman accomplce fac
ing the same fate. When both were con-
demned to death the mans life by that act
was saved because everybody seemed to eX-
pect the governor would not let the woman
die. In this case one of wOmans privileges
has Tapped over, and saved a man from exc
cution.
Governor Craig's decision means only one
thing, and that is that it still is difficult to
give guilty women their fully deserved pun
ishment Seldom are they convicted of
crime and far more seldom does their pun
ishment fit their offense. Why is that?
Why. merely because they are women.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
THE LADY DELEGATE.

From the Savannah Press.
Equal suffrage law or no law the dear
women are coming into their own in
Georgia Miss Ruth Purcell the charm
ing and talented editress of the Carnes-
vile Advance, has been elected by the
Franklin county democrats a delegate
to the state convention at Macon in
May. AS the first woman ever accord
ed this distinction in Georgia Sister
Purcell will be given a seat of honor
and shown marked attention in the
pow-wow of the oliticians.-Dawson
News.
We are quite sure this will give an adde
attraction to the state convention at Macon
Miss Purcell will divide the hOnOrs of tn
occasion with Chairman Reagan. We ar
glad she has been chosen to this importan
position, because we intend attending tina
state convention ourselves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12

The committee which has unde- consider
alton the nomination of Louis d. Brandeis
for the United States supreme court will
make a majority and minority report. A
man whose professional character must I'M
dergo an official Investigation lasting
through weeks, no matter if he should be
finally given a clean bill, should not occupy
a place on the highest tribunal in the land
A supreme court justice should be above
suspicion. Brandeis will always be under d
cloud, and the president should have with
drawn his name from consideration by the
senate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12

We are persuaded that Georgia and the
South will plant a somewhat greater acre
age in cotton than last year, though in a
large part of the cotton belt the seed are
not yet in the ground. If so, and the sea-
sons are propitious, the yield is going to be
larger. In that event let us hope the de-
mand will be good and the opportunities
for marketing the crop of more desirable
nature We have reason to believe that the
world can use a crop of 100000 or H.
10000 bales-if the world can only get
the crop. Here in Southwest Georgia young
cotton is up and doing we'll
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
Arrogance Not Counting Now.

When Herr Hasse, member of the Ger
man Reichstag, arose and expressed his con-
viction that his country cannot win the pres
ent war he precipitated a scene, converting
the session into the stormiest on record.
There were riotous moments in which many
of the members gathered about him and
threats against his personal safety were
made.
The incident is per Sc, comparatively in
significant.
The European war is not to be won by
words of mouth Primarily it will be won
by guns-big guns and little guns; second
arily, by the ability of one side or the other
to outlast its antagonist financially.
Within the past few months change has
come over the combatants. Germany has
lost some of her cocksureness. Great Brit
ain has lost still more of hers An Outstand-
ing feature in the early days of the war was
the almost ludicrous extent of British opti-
mism. This has given place to realization
that Albion has the fight of her life on
hand.
Neither British arrogance nor German ar
rogance Is counting now. The British lone
ago discovered that they could be whipped
and this discovery has come also to the Ger
mans The armies of both have been van
guished more than once.
It has been many years since Napoleon
uttered his truism that God is on the side
of the contestant with the heaviest artillery
The European conflict will end sooner o.
later. It cannot go on Unfortunately; Blu
when it is won it will be by fighting, no
by exaggerated claims of proves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12
A WIDOW AT NINE.

From the Utica Saturday Globe.
Marriage at the age of 13-as in the case
of a woman who has just died at Shore
ditch, Eng.-would not have been regarded
as extraordinary in the 18th century. IN
those days children of noble families, par
ticularly wards in chancery. were frequently
welded at the age of 9, and sometimes even
at 5. Little MOll Villiers, the Duke of Buck
ingham's daughter. was not merely a wife,
but widow. at g. and we read of her romp-
ing in the garden and climbing cherry trees
in her widows veil. In almost every in
stance, however. such marriages were in the
name only, and the little wives were allowed
to reach their teens before taking up the
burdens of welded life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-12

We all want peace bat Senator Suther-
land. of Utah, was eminently correct when
he said: "a nation, when all other means
fail that will not resent fragrant and lille
gal attack upon the lives of its own citizens
is only less detestable than a man who will
not fight for his wife and children"