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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-02
E. F. Hutton & Co.'S Stock Letter

Furnished by C. F. Avery's private wife
 New York, December 1.-Another' ir- regular and variable market with wide fluctuations. Stocks were offered and quite a bit of short selling due to stiff fering of call money to around 6 per cent. There was a noticeable change toward the close after statement of a withdrawal of exchequer bills. This lat ter should tend toward an easing of the money market and resulted in consider able covering by shorts. Rails were well bought and well held their advance. De- creases in certain earning reports are accounted for in a surplus provision against the Adamson act. while in creased earnings of such roads as c. and o. and New York Central were reflected in the market of these two stocks The technical position of the market has im- proved, though the market future of the incustrials is dependent on the attitude toward brokers loans. Rails look higher
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-02
Dry Goods Market

New York. December 1.--Cotton goods were quiet and very firm today. Yarns were higher. Wool markets were firm and higher. Ready to wear lines were moderately active. Silks were quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-02
Bonds

U S. 2s registered ..... ssIA U. S. 2s coupon .............. 991a U. S. 3s registered .............. 100 94 U. $. 3s coupon .............. 100 E. U. s. As registered ............ 110
 U. s. As coupon ............. 11O E Panama 3s coupon ............ 102
 Central of Georgia Con. 5s .... 1O2A III. Cen. ref. As ......,...... S9 $ L. & N. un. As .....!......... 95ss Sou. Bell 5s ................ 1O1 A Seaboard Air Line adj. 5s ...... STA Southern Railway 5s .......... 101 1s Southern Railway gen. As .... 76
 U. S. Steel 5s ........... 1O1 Ts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-02
Hester's Weekly Cotton Statement

Comparisons are to actual dates not to close of corresponding weeks: In sight for week, 531 1,000; same seven days last year, 46S,C0O; save seven days year before, 5S7000; for the month, 55,00O; same date last year, 5000; same date year before, 134000; for season, 7.153,0O0; same date last year, 5.733,O00; same date year before. 5414,000. Port receipts for season, 4065,- coo; same date last year, 3,2S5,000: same date year before last, S.O31 900. Overland to mills and Canada for season. 6S1.000; same date last year. 426. 900; same date year before, 3290G0. Southern mill takings for sea son, 1,600,0O0; same date last year, 1,273,000: same date year before, 1,0S3,0oo. Interior stocks in excess of August |, S07,000; last year, 799,000; year before, 1,021, 900. Foreign exports for week, 227,- 900; same seven days last year. 94000; same seven days year before, 177,00o; for season, 2,4s1, 900; same date last year. H. s11 900; same date year before, 1,350,0O0. Northern spinners' takings and Canada for week, SS,0O0; same seven days last year, 122.OOo; for season, 1,2370o0; same date last year, 1,062,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-02
Chas. Fairchilds & Co.'S Letter

New York, December 1.-(SpeciaI. (-The cotton market today went through it's customary gyrations. Opened higher
 looked like climbing and after,s remain ing fairly steady for the greater part of the day, declined sharply in the clos ing hour. on general local and southern selling. Just before the closing a feeble rally took place on short covering. While We are bullish on the market, and be- lieve higher prices than those now pre- vailing will be seen sometime before or after the government crop estimate on December II, We must admit that the action of the market momentarily fa- vors lower prices. A decline of 50 points O. more from present levels would doubt less attract strong speculative and trade buying and establish a basis for a sub stantial advance should the government estimate be as bullish as generally ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-02
Spinners' Takings

Statement of spinners tallings of Amer ican cotton throughout the world: This week, 40S,000; same seven days last year. 365, 900; same seven days year before. 432 000 total since August 1, 5,03S,- 600: same date last year, 4,799,000; same date Near hefnre 2 2nn Of0
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
Mr.. Ford Has a New Plan.

Mr.. Henry Ford, characterized by Mr.. Fin
lev Peter Dunno as the man who manutact-
ures the greatest mechanical grasshopper
ever known is to the fore with an announce
ment that he has a new peace plan as sue
cessor to the one which has so miserably
failed of tangible results. Evidently, the
new plan is still in process of evolution, as
Mr.. Ford declines to reveal its details at
this time incidentally, the Detroiter grows
epigrammatic, and remarks that the next
expedition will consist of personalities, not
personages.''
Advice is traditonally cheap. 1t is to be
had universally, for the asking and without
it. And yet, The News cheerfully proffers
a modicum to the Michigan automobile man
ufacturer which is valuable Lone the less.
It is this: If Mr.. Ford will proceed to the
prosecution of that vocation which has met
amorphosed him from a humble workman
to a multi-millionaire and leave to the gov
eminent of the United States whatever pro-
cedure may seem indicated in view of exist
ing eventualities in Europe We believe he
will evince degree of common sense which
his fellow citizens of the country at large
will heartily applaud.
Mr.. Ford knows how to make automobiles.
That fact he has managed to demonstrate.
He does not know how to negotiate peace in
Europe That fact he has also managed to
demonstrate.
1t is futile to the point of utter foolish
ness that Mr.. Ford should now attempt
further step in bringing the hostile nations
to peace Thus far it is undeniable that he
has gone no further than to make himself
the laughing stock of all observers, and he
is preparing to travel much further in the
same direction.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
Saturday Night.
From the Triton Gazette.

Memory turns the curtain back and we
live again the Saturday night of long ago.
The weeks work is done and the chores
of the farm are over; the stock has been
fed, the wood boxes in the kitchen and big
house filled, the plow gear and stocks under
the she'd and the farm has put on its Sun
day dress
The soil of toll has been removed by Wig
orous applications of homemade soap and
the Sunday clothes dOnned. A clean shirt,
home-laundered Eve were Independent OF
the Chink and the steam laundrymen those
days) a tie of gorgeous colOrs fastened with
a glistening pin of the mail order kind
there were no jewelry stores TO supply US;
brogan shoes of serviceable cOw-hide which
took on renewed youth from coat of suet
and SCOT carefully administered.
Solomon in his glad raiment perhaps
made more glittering show, but he did
not feel any more dressed up than the boy
of long ago as he left the home domlclle
to quickly foot the intervening miles to
where she lived.
She had brothers-they always had-and
these gave the visitor a hearty welcome
Having done his own chores he turned in
to help the others, and these were over by
the time the call to supper came. She was
not in sight, but she knew he was there, ana
he knew that she knew.
After that the substantial supper-tender
colIards on a great fiat dish fanked with
and buttermilk; perhaps biscuits, but not al
ways; and sweet potatoes; but to the long
table with its benches on either side and
her father and mother sitting at the ENDS,
keen appetities were brought and the Joy
of youth and good FELLOWSHIP lent a zest to
the viands that those of many costly Dan
DUETS since have lacked
And after supper, when the dishes were
cleared away and the house made ready for
the night, and she came out on the piazza,
the soft rustic of her skirts, the faint per-
fume peculiar to her telling of her pres
ence before his head was urned; and after
awhile the brothers somehow disappeared
and on the broad piazza he and she were
alone, except for the man in the moon, who
smiled with the knowledge OF centuries ana
the cricket that chirped by the steps. Inc
scent of the jessamines in the white clean
swept yard filled the air and their Dlooihs
gIistened like snow in the moonlight.
Youth and maid alone with God and love.
And down from the ages the spirit OF mil
lions of lovers looked on and smiled, the
kindly stars winked in friendly appreciation,
and the twilight world was their friend, for
all normal existence loves youth and lovers.
What mattered it to her that his clothes
were coarse, his speech embarrassed and
broken-they did not need the spoken word.
What mattered to him that her best dress
was Calico for was not the ribbon at ner
throat a thing of beauty SURPRISING, that in
her hair an aureOle? What mattered to
them that the week past had been six days
of toll? Was not the night Saturday night,
and the morrow Sunday, with Sunday school
and church, and many hours OF priceless
companonship ahead?
This must have been what Saturday night
was made for.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
Proof of Our Democracy.

The government of the United States is
one Of the most powerful organizations on
earth. Its degree OF authority is almost in
calculable. and at first thought one would
imagine that the individual or set of individ-
uals who essayed to fight the federation of
states on any ground would be much in the
position of a kitten attacking tiger.
Not so, however. When it enters the sa-
cred precints of a court room the United
States government has just the same rights
and privileges as the humbIest of its ctti-
zens-no more. no Iess-and it often loses
IN its contention despite the magnificent ar
ray of legal talent at its command.
One Of the latest evidences of this is to be
seen in Wyoming and California where the
government undertook to Gust certain con-
Germs operating on oil lands wherein, ac-
cording to the government, they had no
rights and to recover an area worth approx
mately $3OO.0OO,OOO.
The federal court, an institution OF the
government itself, calmly listened to the
governmental contentious, the government
being the plaintiff, and then proceeded, just
as calmly. to boot the government out OF
court.
By the decision the government loses IL
every contention it advanced. Permission
is refused to GUST the operators. to reclaim
the land or to recover damages for past Op'
erations of the defendants.
A small coterie of individuals have in {
fair. hat-footed fight worsted what is per
haps the most powerful government in the
world Perhaps it would be impossible t.
conceive of finer proof of this nations gen
uins democracy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
An Awakening Will Come.
Would you, now?

The Dublin CourierHerald prints this
paragraph:
"A lot of farmers in Laurens county
and elsewhere believe the boil weevil is
largely a myth. The only myth about
it will be the mythical profits from
planting large acreage in cotton
1t hardly seems possible that any Geor-
gia farmer still thinks the devastating lit
tie pest is not a stern reality, but what is
more surprising is that many farmers here
in Southwest Georgia, where the weevil has
already appeared, are Indifferent to its COM
ing and contend that its damage will be neg
ligible. 1t is encouraging to note, however,
that some of our best farmers are awake
to the fact that the weevil is a reality, and
are diyersifying their crops and turning
their attention to raising hogs and cattle.
The doubters will have sad awakening that
it is no ghost, but live and vOracous mon
ey eater.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01

other very prominent principle laid down
in the bill of rights, which is now embod-
led in article l, section 1 and paragraph 1
of the constitution of Georgia, and reads as
follows;
''AIl government, of right, originates with
the people, is founded upon their will only,
and is instituted solely for the good OF the
whole"
During the reconstruction days the peo-
pie of Georgia and of the South were de-
MED the right of having their government
founded upon their will. Our country was
ruled by carpetbaggers sent down from
the North and backed by federal soldiers.
These carpetbaggers proclaimed themselves
the friends of the negroes and melted the
negroes to all manner of heinous crimes and
offenses against society. These conditions
produced the Ku KluX Khan, who succeeded
in restoring the government of the people;
and lynching of our day and time is but a
trail left in the wake of the times and con-
ditions that produced the Ku KluX Khan.
1t is the result of sins committed by the
negro himself, melted by the reprobate car
petbaggers, and reminds us of the promise
that the iniquities of the fathers shall be
visited upon the children to the third and
fourt generations.
1t is a fact known by every one that our
lynching laws are not founded upon the will
of the people 1t usually true that the vic
tim of the mob is a worthless vagabond,
and that society is not hurt on account of
the loss of the victim. Likewise it is usu-
ally true that the members of the mob be-
long to the best families in the community.
The people are not willing to indict and
convict the members of such a mob for the
offense of murder; the members OF the mob
know it. and go at their work with no I'M
easness of being punished by the court
because their offense is either murder or
nothing.
There can be no doubt that if the gov
eminent of this state should be founded up
on the will of the people lynching would be
condemned as unlawful. But the people
have demonstrated that they are not going
to convict the members of these mobs for
murder. Then, why not undertake to rem
edy our lynching laws by founding them up
on the will of the people? If these laws
should be so modified that the members of
the mobs would receive only moderate
punishment there is little doubt but that
indictments and convictions could be OBJ
tanned, as in the case of other offenses
against the law.
Many good people labor under the mis-
taken impression that a great victory is ac-
complished when some pet principle is en-
acted into law. Hence, we often hear
great hue and cry about the failure to en-
force certain classes of laws. Investigation
will teach us that there is no trouble to Sc
cure indictments and convictions for viola
ton of laws founded upon the will OF the
people. w. H. GURR.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
Advertisement Of Sale In
der Power of Sale.

Georgia, Terrell county.-Under
and by virtue of a power of sale con-
tanned in a security deed executed by
George D. Brim to the Canadian and
American Mortgage & Trust Compa-
ny, limited, on the End day of Janu-
airy, 1911, and recorded in the office
! of the Clerk of the Superior Court Of
Terrell county in Book 'T'' of the
Deed Records, folio 519, the under
signed, City National Bank of Daw-
son, Ca, as Assignee, will sell at pub
lie sale, at the court house in said
county, during the legal hours of sale
to the highest bidder for cash, the fol-
! lowing property toWit: Eighty-three
(S3) acres, more or less, of the south
half of lot of land No. 295, in the 4th
district of Terrell county, Georgia, the
same being the whole of south half OF
said lot with two exceptions; The
first of which is two acres in the
southwest corner described by begin
ming at the southwest corner of said
lot and running north along the west
boundary of said lot 70 yards, thence
due east 40 yards, thence due south
20 yards to the southern boundary
of said lot, thence west along the
south boundary line of said lot l4O
yards, more or less, to the point OF
beginning; and the second exception
being: Sixteen acres out of the south
east corner of said lot lying south OF
the Dover and HerOd public road, and
described by beginning where said
public road interesects the east bOun
Diary line of said lot, and run south
$50 yards, more or less, to the south
east corner of said lot, thence west
along the southern boundary of said
lot 500 yards to the point where said
public road intersectS the southern
boundary of said lot, thence in
nOrtheasterly direction along the
south side of said public road to the
point of beginning. The said above
described property will be sold Oh
the 18th day of March, 1916, for the
purpose of paying a certain prOnlls-
sorry note for the sum of $SOO0V
principal, due January list, 1915, De-
sides the sum of $70.65 as interest
to this date and $500 as attorney
fees and the expense of this adYe-
tisement and sale, said note BENG
fully described in the deed above re-
ferred to, and has been assigned u
the City National Bank of Dawson
Georgia. Said sale will also be mace
for the purpose of paying an indept
edness of $91838 with interest there
on from October LIST, 1915, due oos
the said George D. Brim to the salu
G ityNational Bank, the bank holdlns
as security therefor a transfer from
the said Brim of the bond for TUE
which was given him by the Canadian
and American Mortgage & Irus.
Company, limited. A conveyance
will be executed to the purchaser D.!
the undersigned as is authorized ~
said deed, the undersigned being tLe
assignee. This February 22nd, l9io'
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK, AS
signee. R. R. Jones, Attorney loi
Assignee
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
Legal, Perhaps, But

In Jackson, the capital of Mississippi,
there are at this writing a number OF highly
! indignant citizens, the casus belli being this;
A gentleman @ named Ferguson ingra-
tiated himself into the friendship of Mr.. NJ.
A. Brown the state land commissioner. He
was much in Mr.. Browns office. He was
| taken to Mr.. Browns home, introduced to
his family, and ate at his table He took
drink or two with Mr.. Brown.
Then, one day not long ago, Mr.. Fergu-
son wanted a drink of whiskey. The land
commissioner had none, and there are no
saloons in Mississippi, which has statewide
prohibition; but tie commissioner oblig-
ingly offered to assist Mr.. Ferguson in Sc
curing one He trusted a negro boy with
the errand and the boy came home with
the bacon-alias the booze.
Whereupon Mr.. Ferguson caused Mr..
Brown to be arrested and calmly announced
that he, Ferguson, was a private detective.
The state land commissioner is to be tried
on a charge of selling liquor. The commits
soner and his friends are very angry.
Well would you be angry?
Would you lavish any particularly fond
affection on Mr.. Ferguson if you were Mr.
Brown or Mr.. Browns friend?
Law-breaking is not to be cOuntenanced, |
and it may be the commissioner broke the
law if you care to white the case down to
it's bare technicalites.
Where we grew up as a youngster it was
against the law for an adult to furnish
minor with a cigarette; but more than one
adult openly furnished us with such a smoke
before we were twenty-One, and We believe
our opinion of our own self-respect and de- /
cency would have travelled considerably be-
low the zero mark if We had caused the
detention and prosecution of a friend who
hearkened to a youthful call to gimme one, !
please"
Law enforcement is something which Will |
be appauded by every law-abding citizen,
and if we were law enforcement officer we
would endeavor to do our duty to our mu-
county, state and nation.
But take the case home to yourself. If
a felow-citizen. with his heart working
more smoothly than his sense of caution,
lent ear when you whimpered in distress
and provided you with something for which
you begged
Well, we'll, WE'LL You might be willing
TO be called 1aw-defying, law-breaking, law
evading and a few other hyphenated adject-
ives which do not occur to us at this mo-
ment; but we scarcely believe you would
cause the humiliation of that fellow citi-
zen-not after you had broken bread at his
liable and bowed low over the extended hand
Of his wife in her parlor as he introduced |
ler to you.
Would you, now?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
Setting a Good Example.
From the Savannah News.

1t is understood to be the prison commits
sion's desire to make the state prison farm
self-sustaining by producing its own sup
plies as far as that is possible and by rails
ing lust enough cotton to meet additional
necessary expenses. And so it has decided
to plant only so acres, instead of several
hundred as heretofore, in cotton this year.
That is a wise plan. And if it will pay
the state prison farm to diversity its prod
ucts to the extent of feeding everybody de-
pendent upon it surely it would be wise for
individual farmers to diversity their crops
at least in the same proportion; that is, to
raise plenty of food for themselves and their
families and plenty of feed for their stock.
Cotton should be a surplus crop: none of it
should be raised to pay for the food the
farmer eats and feed for horses, mules, cows,
hogs and poultry.
On the state farm $500 acres are Guilt
waited and so only one acre out of every
so will be given over to cotton this year;
of course it is not suggested that farmers
everywhere in Georgia should devote only
one-fftieth of their acreage to this great
staple Not at all. Most of them will put
a greater acreage under cotton than any
thing else but if all of them will at least
raise enough other crops so that cotton can
be sold or held as they see fit and none OF
it need be sacrificed to buy food and feed
that the farmers could easily raise Georgia
will be a far happier and more prosperous
state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-01
VIII of the People.

Editor Dawson News: Again the public
is having many suggestions on the subject
of lynching by the good people who deplore
this evil. Usually suggestions are made
that we have more drastic laws on the SUD
iect. and also complaint is made that We
don't enforce the laws on this subject AS
a matter of fact, our laws against lynching
are very drastic They command the SheriH
to summon the citizens Of the community
and break up the mobs and prevent lynch
ing and make it a misdemeanor for the
sheriff to neglect his duty in this respect,
and make if a misdemeanor for any citizen
to decline to serve the sheriff when called
upOn for this purpose, and the people VINO
take part in the lynching are classed as muir
derers under the laws of Georgia.
Among the several suggestions to make
the laws more drastic some well meaning
people suggest that the government be al
lowed a change of venue. That is to say,
the government shall have a right to select
some Jurisdiction remote from the scene or
the crime where an indictment and convic-
ton will most likely be secured. perhaps
the expenses to the county in such cond1-
tions would be staggering if the county OF
Lee had been required to pay the expenses
of all the witnesses which the government
might have seen fit to have subpOenaed to
some distant county for the purpose OF in
dieting and trying the members OF their
recent mob. and this great burden would be
happen to own property in Lee county,
whether residing there or not But this Is
small part of the objection to allowing
the government to change the venue. The
government of England several centuries
ago assumed the authority to jerk up its cit
liens and carry them to such place as con-
yictions could most readily be secured. AS
a result of this system no persons life, lib
erty or property was secure, and the peo-
pie rebelled against the oppressive manner
in which the laws of their land were admin
istered, and finally settled the revolution
by securing from the king what has ever
since been called the bill of Rights,
whereby, among other things, the govern
ment guaranteed to every citizen the right
to a public and speedy trial by jury of
his peers in the vicinity where the crime
was alleged to have been committed. For
centuries this principle of English and
American Jurisprudence has stood as bull
wark of the liberties of the English speak
| ing race. Thinking people are not apt to
voluntarily surrender such long cherish
ed right when they stop to think of the far
reaching and dangerous consequences Incl
| dent thereto.
| If we would hunt the true remedy for
| suppressing the mob law in our midst we
might do well to take in consideration an