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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
A PIRATES WIFE
Who Dined Her Buccaneering Husbands
Early Flames and Poisoned Them.
when the sun has shot down into the S

When the sun has shot down into the sea
and the heavy iron shutters have been put up
the inhabitants of st. Thomas crouch in the
darkness of their huts, grooming songs and
weaving tales of the days when Bluebeard
and Blackboard made merry on the isle.
st. Thomas, St. Croix and st. John
are three Danish West Indies which the
United States may own soon. These mere
specks in the sea are only three of about
SO wee dots of land which make the Lesser
Antilles, the nest about which pirates swarm
ed like hornets in the golden years of treas
ure chests.
The natives avoid the vine-covered ruins
of Bluebeard's stronghold. And there were
others of these swarthy, bewhiskered, mus
tached pirates who, tradition says, murdered
the beautiful women captives they had i'm
prisoned in their castles when they grew
weary of them or needed room for new IA
Vorites.
But Blackboard is more of popular hero.
He was quite a ladies' man, and diverted
himself while ashore with fiirtations with
out number. Finally he married the pretti-
est senorta on the island. He installed her
in his tower, and before departing on buc-
caneering tour gave her all the keys to the
palace, including one to a secret cabinet.
He told her not to open this chamber if she
valued her happiness.
Curiosity became too strong during her
lords absence. Mrs Blackboard opened the
cabinet. Instead of grinning skeletons she
found dozen letters from the prettiest
girls of the town to her husband before she
married him. She was a pirates wife, so
she invited the writers of the letters to din
ner and poisoned them.
The inhabitants proclaimed her a witch
and were about to burn her alive when
Blackbeard's ship appeared unexpectedly in
the harbor. With band of his fercest fol-
lowers he rowed ashore, fought his way to
the spot where the execution was about to
take place and carried his wife back to the
ship in his arms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
Activities of Women.

There are over 1000 women florists in
the United States.
Native girls of New Britain are kept in
cages until they marry.
The National Girl Scouts organization
now has over 10000 members.
Women are now employed in the British
customs service as inspectors.
Long Island is to have a school where
women will be taught to be contractors, SUI
perintendents and inspectors.
Mrs. Mary Haberman of Portland Ore,
employed nine lawyers to recover an old
hen and eleven chickens from neighbor.
Through the efforts of Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart moonlight schools are held on moon
light autumn nights in the mountains of
eastern Kentucky.
W. G. Currell, president of the University
of South Carolina, claims that women should
not teach boys in the schools, as women
teachers are best for girls only.
Because of the scarcity of men to serve
on the jury at trial in Morgantown, w.
Va, the justice of the peace ordered the con-
stable to summon two women.
Miss Mary Kingsley was the first British
woman to enter the terrible gorilla country
in the Cameroons and to explore the land
of the Fangwes, the most blood-thirsty can
nibals in the world.
The first organized effort to establish wo-
men on a solid foundation in the trapshoot-
ing game came with the formation of the
Nemours Trapshooting Club, in July, 1918,
in Wilmington Del
Mrs D'Arline Holcomb, of Bowling Green,
Mo, who has made a success of most every
thing from hauling trunks to staging plays,
has now purchased a newspaper, of which
she will become the editor
Miss Kuhne Beverage, the American
sculptures in Munich, has been aptly termed
the problem sculptures. Her conception of
marriage, as illustrated by her work under
that title, will hardly meet with the approval
of her countrywomen. It is a statue of a
man and woman bound together hand and
foot, every action hampered, utter boredom
and unhappiness depicted on their faces
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
COntraband i'm the Home.
From the Macon Telegraph.

The decision of the United States SUI
preme court which is, in effect that not even
the national government has the right to say
how much opium a citizen not engaged in
the sale of the product shall have in his pos
session sets up a principle that comes di-
rectly into conflict with the principle on
which the Anti-Saloon League state laws are
based. The decision just handed down
would seem to the layman to set up the con-
tention that while the lawmaking body has
the right to lay its hand across the place of
business, or on the individual who sells or
makes business of handling the contraband
article under treatment it has not the right
to say how much or how little of the con-
traband the individual as an individual may
have on hand or keep on hand for his pri-
vate use. In other words, either actual sale
or intent to sell must be set up before I'm
Gle Sam can take hand in the affairs of the
individual in respect to narcotics
This raises the natural conjecture as to
what the august tribunal would say as to
the Georgia prohibition law with it's limit
of the Individual to two quarts of liquor in
his home, regulating with fine nicely his ev-
cry relation toward anything with alcohol
in it. The police powers of the states, how
ever, have been pretty generally held to be
almost inviolate at the hands of federal ad-
justment In other words, the federal courts
may restrain the official of the nation from
doing certain thing because contrary to
the constitution of the United States, but
cannot so intervene against similar action
by state official. This does not sound be-
levable but the fact is that the supreme
court has generally found way to let the
states go as far as they like in all those
matters which have been construed as COM
ing under the general head of "police reg
ulations."
The decision of the Harrison act, however,
may be depended on to set the feet of Geor-
gians, Alabamians and South Carolinians on
the path to Washington to see what the
court of last resort may have to say about
state law that operates in exactly the same
way as the to an extent set aside Harrison
act, although with much milder and less
dangerous product. The same principle ex-
actly is involved before the American con-
stitution in the cases of the Chinaman with a
Pennsylvania home and the white man with
a half dozen quarts of bourbon in his Geor-
gia domicile. They both stand outside the
law as it is written but is such a law en-
forceable under the federal constitution?
1t would seem that what is sauce for the
Chinese goose in Pennsylvania is sauce for
the Caucasian gander in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
Biennial Legislative Sessions.

The legislators of Georgia, when they
foregather for their next annual session in
June might do much worse than to take cog
nizance of the rapidly growing public senti-
ment in favor of biennial sessions of the
body of which they are members.
1t is patent to every close observer of
political thought in Georgia that the people
of the state are heartily opposed to further
annual sessions of the legislature, and
would welcome a change to biennial meet
ings.
Editor Dick Grub, of the Darien Gazette,
pioneered in the propaganda favoring a
frightening of interim between sessions. OF
late he has been ably seconded by the Savan-
nah Morning News and other papers of the
state, and the demand along this line is now
quite extensive.
The idea proposed has everything in its
favor and nothing which can logically be
urged against it. When it is adopted the
state will have taken a long, progressive
step.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
A Vision of Peace.

The recent speech of President Wilson, in
Washington, seems to have inspired hope
that it may be harbinger of peace-peace
for the warning peoples of the old world.
The president realizes better, perhaps, than
any one what measure of responsibility rests
on him, and we may be sure he would not
speak indiscreetly or carelessly about sub
iect so grave. One can only infer what he
meant, and hope that in his mind and heart
is a vision of peace. We hope that if he
sees his way toward movement that will
spell peace he will not be 10th to promote
that movement. 1t will be grand thing if,
in the providence of God, our president shall
be the man. our country the country to move
after a manner that will call truce in the
world war and bring peace, mutually hon
orable and satisfactory peace, to the weary
peoples, the blood-stained countries now
blighted by war.
1t is to the credit of the Teutonic allies
that Germany has led in a statement of will
ingness to consider terms of peace Let u
hope that the vision that may be in the mina
of the patient and earnest man in the white
house is to become reality.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
Not as Bad as That.

Hon. Luther z. Rosser, of Atlanta, is quot
ed as having said in speech delivered be-
fore the Georgia Bar Association at its re-
recent meeting:
"Lynching now disgraces, and has
long disgraced the state of Georgia
more than any other state IN the union,
except Mississippi and Louisiana. At
first negroes furnished the majority of
the lynchings; now white men are llber-
ally included. In 1915 forty-two of
those lynched were negroes, and twen-
ty-one whites. For 1914 twenty-fOur
were negroes and ten whites"
Lord knows it is bad enough at its best
but we believe Brother Rosser has over
shot the mark as to the number of lynch
ings in this state. Correct statistics will
reveal that not half that number met death
by mob violence in the two years mentioned.
That the state has disgraceful record in
this respect, though, no one can deny and ev-
cry effort should be made to crush the mob
spirit and stamp out the evil.
Mr.. Rosser is quoted as further saying
in the course of his remarks.
"The demagogue who excuses lynch
ing or condones it under the pretense
of defects III our legal system, or the
misuse of the pardoning power, is
traitor to the state And he is the arch
traitor of them all who, as the purchase
price of its votes, corruptly deifies the
mob as the szvior of the state from the
courts which he claims are inefficient
and from governors he charges are
faithless."
That is strong, pointed, truthful state
ment, and one which all good citizens will
endorse. At all times there are few more
dangerous individuals than the political dem
agogue, and that wart on the body polite
is especially reprehensible when he excuses
or condones lynching. The News heartily
agrees with Colonel Rosser in his sentiments
anent this particular species of individuals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
The Flags Birthday.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the
adoption of the flag by the American con-
gress on June 18th, 1777. This year that
notable event is brought to our attention
with renewed vividness and patriotic appeal
We are at a crisis in our history, cross
roads of destiny, when hestancy to choose
our path is perilous weakness and the wrong
choice spells disaster.
Under magnolia or maple, beneath palm
or pine, from the sunny skies of the south
land to the mingled smiles and tears of the
northern heavens, our people today will gath
err around the glorious symbol of the divine
right of liberty, and will determine that,
come what may, its folds will ever float over
a land dedicated to the cause of justice,
freedom and law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
SherlH's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Win be
sold before the court house door in
said county on the first Tuesday in
July, 1916, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest and best bidder
for cash, the following property to-
wit: All of the life interest Of Mrs.
Ida Moran Coker to three hundred
seventy-six (376) acres of land, more
or less, known as the Moran home
place, consisting of lot 266, contain.
ing 2021a acres, more or less, and
the east half of lot 229, containing
101 Il acres, more or less, and 76A
acres, more or less, off of lot 265, all
of said land being in the 4th district
of Terrell county, Georgia. Said
land levied on as the property of Mrs.
Ida Moran Coker to satisfy an exc
cution issued from the City Court Of
Dawson on the 18th day of April,
1915, in favor Of Brown Guano Co.,
against Mrs. Ida Moran Cocker This
the 3rd day of June, 1916. J. z.
TURNER, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
LOUin' You.

Jes' to love, that's enough,
Wonderin' if ways is rough
For you-or if happy seeml
Wshin' I could plant a rose
Bloomin' pretty on your way,
Softenin' the breeze that blows
Where your wanderin' footsteps stray.
Jes' to kneel at night alone
Looking up there at the stars,
Like captive walled in stone
Peekin' through the prison bars
Do the Angels listen now
When you don't know what to say
And the thought of you-somehow
Blurs up Heaven-anyway.
Jes' to hear little song
Softly hummin' in the air,
Loungin' lovin' all day long
Music goin' everywhere.
Sweet as honey in hive,
Life is like a dream come true
Good enough to be alive
Lovin' in the world with you.
FRANK STANTON.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
Sherif's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Will be
sold at the court house in said coun-
ty on the first Tuesday in July, 1916,
within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
described property to-wit: One acre
of land off of lot No., in square
and bounded as follows: On north
by road, east by Nathan Russell, on
south by Ransom Smith and on west
by Hannah Wade, located in Dawson.
Ca, and in the northeast section Of
said town known as Sardis. Sad
land levied on as the property of o.
car Johnson to satisfy a mortgage d
ia issued on the 26th day of May
1916, from the Superior Court Of
Terrell county in favor of Andrew
Davis for use of First State Bank
against Oscar Johnson; tenant in pos
session notified as required by law
This 5th day of June, 1916. j. D.
TURNER, Sheriff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
Sherif's Saln

Georgia, Terrell County-Wnt
sold at the court house in said cnr" uV
ty on the first Tuesday in Julv love- lais
within the legal hours of sale 70 ~,
highest bidder for cash, the followi In
property to-wit: One four-roo%S
wooden dwelling house covered with II,
shingles and lot on which it is situ -
ated, located in the City of Dawson
Terrell county, Ga, in what is known
as Sardis and bounded as follows,
On west by property of Charley Nor
row, on south by 18th avenue, on esr
by property of George Ford, and On
north by vacant lot. Said house and
lot levied on as the property of Char.
lie Williams to satisfy mortgage {
ia issued on the 26th day Of Nav
1916, from the Superior Court d
Terrell county in favor of Dawson
Variety Works Co., against Charlie
Williams. Charlie Williams, owner
and the person in possession, notified
as required by law. This 9Th day d
June, 1916. ]. 2. TURNER, Sheriff
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
JUST WILL DO 1T.

From the Commerce Observer.
Every day we see instances or the ev-
idence of the people of this county send
ing their money out of the county for
merchandise. There is no surer or
quicker way to kill town, and you may
boost your town with lip service till
you are black in the face-then patron
ize out of town enterprises will
continue to be an enemy of your COM
munity. Washington Reporter.
Newspapers may harp on this failing from
now until Gabriel blows his horn and ole
human nature will still be just the same
People are going to do like they want to dc
regardless of the inconsistency, the indi-
rect injury resulting therefrom or of any
other consideration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
LEGAL NOTICES
SheriH's Sale

Georgia, Terrell County W.,
sold at the court house door WIN be
county on the first TUESDAY il In said
1916, within the legal hours N ~ IuFg,
to the highest and best bidJ a. sale
cash, the following PROPERTY ' e. fa.
One house and lot No. 2 y or "iIvlt,I
street, in the city of Dawson VI n JUNE
county, Georgia, in that part Of fG III
son known as the PaschaI od ID Jaw
said to contain 35 feet bv f %SI1Il s
This lot is the lot formerly or WI !eet
Charles Morrow, and the bow wneG 0y
four-room house, said Lot 'g a
bounded as follows: South h., Dfelng
street, east by lands of Geoross S Sune
west by lands of Chas. MorrooUU, ron
on north by lands of ]. G q St ana
Said land with Improvements tb bssles
levied on as the property of IC't61 atGa
Williams to satisfy an executio rS'!e
sued from the City Court Of 1 DAVIS Is
on the 26th day of April, 19G GSSG !?
favor of G. w. Dozier {, O. ~, u
against Charlie Williams. This ana al
day of June, 1915. ]. z. TUPNFSpTG
Sheriff. ''AA,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
CRISP SHOWS EN- A NEW WRINKLE

From the Savannah Press.
Congressman Crisp, of the Third district,
has settled the question of the postmaster
ship in Fort Gaines, Clay county, through
the means of the ballot. The Savannah
Press has referred before to the unique plan
adopted by the people to be served by the
postoffce as to who they wanted as post
master. He took poll of the patrons of
the office Mrs Susie McAllster has won
in this contest. She was opposed by Mr.. S.
T. Craps, and the contest seems to have
been very close one. The poll by mail re-
suited in Mrs. McAlhster getting 1873 votes
and Mr.. Craps 1874. SO the gallant patrons
of the office have voted the woman into the
postoffice, and the congressman is relieved
of responsibility in the matter. 1t was a
very direct way to get the sentiment of the
folks at home. Congressman Crisp has
shown his fellow congressman a new wrinkle
in solving knotty problems.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
War. Women and Shoes.

War and women have played the very
dickens with the shoe trade, according to
the manufacturers Raw leather is increas-
ingly difficult to get and the present fashion
of short skirts necessitating shoes with a
foot more of leather than was required a
couple of years ago, is using up more and
more of the available supplies.
The result is that shoes are higher in price
as we'll as in fact, and will be much higher
still. In the last year the prices of shoes
have jumped 10 to 35 per cent. Many re-
tailers have advanced the prices from so
cents to 81 pair. The allied shoe inter
ests of the country in conference last week
in Philadelphia foreshadowed a further gen.
eral revision upward of prices after Sep
TENDER LIST, and they see a strong possibil-
ity of their reaching attitudes never dream
ed possible"
In less than a year, manufacturers say,
calf leather has gone up from 20 to AZ cents
a pound; glazed kid from II to % cents;
sheep leather from to 10 cents; union sole
leather from AZ to so cents Other nom
leather parts of the shoe have kept pace,
buttons advancing SO per cent, and eye
lets 80 per cent. Even shoe laces that were
40 cents a gross last July are now $1.10.
Duck, used for Innings, has advanced from
IL to 16 cents yard and over.
Under normal conditions the United
States produced SO per cent of the raw calf
skin used here. The balance was imported
from Europe, good deal of it from Rus
sia The Russian market has been shut off
ever since the war began and allies have
prohibited the export to America of raw
leather from the countries controlled by
them.
Our manufacturers now need considera-
bly, more than the SO per cent foreign i'm
ports in normal times. America has be-
come the producing nation for all kinds of
boots, shoes and leather goods for the world
and especially for the allied warning coun-
tries of Europe. The heavy European de-
mand caused an abnormal rise in prices,
which is beginning to be reflected in the
home market. The domestic consumer will
have to contribute heavily to the war profits.
But the shoe manufacturers and retail
ers are not altogether in love with certain
aspects and implications of their present
prosperity. They recognize that the higher
prices go the further they will have to drop
and the greater the damage to the legiti-
mate business man. They want steadiness
both in price of shoes and business, and
consider it only right and equitable that the
allies, largely dependent on us for finished
supplies, should permit the raw leather from
which the goods are made to reach our
shores without hindrance or delay. A COM
promise of great benefit to the country
would probably result if congress displayed
readiness to adopt the suggestion of the shoe
and leather people.
1t is weary waiting for the end of the
war to restore relations; and, meanwhile,
Americans suffer from endless varieties of
high prices, many of which might be pre-
vented or removed by the establishment of
such reciprocal trade arrangements with the
allies
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
THAT GEORGIA PEACH.

From the Walton County News.
Editors Rainey and Mangum, of Dawson
and Swainsboro respectively, have both paid
glowing tribute to the Georgia peach-the
kind you eat and the kind you only bite
the kind that grow on trees and the kind that
have their places in our homes. In this they
have nothing on any true and noble son of
Adams race. We can all say what they have
said, and more.
Of all the peaches we have ever seen
Yellow, red, white, pink and green
! The sweetest peach in all the world
Is the maiden peach, or the "peachy' girl
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14

A bunch of farmers wanted better horses,
and they paid $4,000 for an imported stall
lion and hired an experienced man at $40 a
month to take care of him. A school board
composed mostly of these same farmers hir-
ed an inexperienced girl teacher for their
school at $50 per month, with twenty-five
pupils, as matter of economy Here you
are: Care of one brute, $40 per month;
care of twenty-five human beings, $50 a
month. Is the joke on the teacher or the
horse, or the men who hired both? And yet
we wonder why boys and girls want to leave
the farm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
For DismiSSiOn.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Wheref,
as Robert Fulton, administrator .S o.
John A. Fulton, represents to tn5
Court in his petition, duly filed anu iI,,
entered on record, that he has. 1ulF
administered John A. Fultons e.
tate, this is, therefore, to cite all per
sons concerned, kindred and credl-
ors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said administrator should not De
discharged from his administrator
and receive letters of dismission Oh
the first Monday in July, 1915 L.
c.. HOYL, Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14

There is no room for argument as to the
interest the public has, or the rights of the
public, either, as to cleanliness in the places
where the people gather frequently and in
large numbers. Health is prime consider
alton, and the police power of state or city
to safeguard health is properly large. Re
sultantly, a movement or effort to see that
all public places are clean, wholesome and
healthy must always be regarded as right
and commendable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
For Administration.

Georgia, Terrell County, "A, An
Whom 1t May Concern: M. q. M M
having in proper form applied to m'
for permanent letters of admin,lstia "a
ton on the estate of Miss. Florit ~
Jones, late of said county, this Is u
cite all and singular the creditors anu ~
next of kin of Miss Florice Jones w "
be and appear at my Office within tne
time allowed by law and show caus55'
if any they can, why permanent a od
ministration should not be granleg'
to M. G. Hill on Miss Florice J0nesl
estate. Witness my hand and otfl ONCE
signature this 5th day of June, 1910
L. C. HOYL, Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-14
For Leave to Sell.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Notlce9
is hereby given that the undersigned
has applied to the Ordinary Of SAD
county for leave to sell the land BE-
longing to the estate of Mrs. Name
J. Simmons for the purpose OF dlstrl-
button among the heirs of the estate
Said application will be heard at the
regular July term, 1916, of the Court
of Ordinary in and for said county o. o.
Terrell. This June 5th, 1916. H.
A. WILKINSON, Admr. of Mrs Ma
ME ]. Simmons, deceased.