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-pi TUB BANNER-1 ,W. ATHENS, CEOnCK EDWIN DOZIER WINS FIRST PRIZE IN ,U. D. C. CONTEST . Edwin Dozier, son of T. H. Do zier. Jr., a student at the Athens High School, has won the prize of tjlSin offered by the Laura Ruth erford Chapter of the U. D C ’s for the best essay on ‘‘The Life of Xfferson Davis.” J*The essay by young Dozier is ns JPTJ EFFERSON DAVIS ^Be sure the eye of time behold* S’ no name So blest as thine ip all the rolls of * f * me " J .Jefferson Davis, the son of Sam- *“ Davis, originally from Augus- 1 g Revolution, and complished daughter of a promi nent planter of South Carolina, short time, and tame home and Alaba ! finished his elementary t education' at the County Academy. At afl these places he was known us the bravest and handsomest boy in 8C Having finished at the County!There was no doubt as to who it Academy, he entered Transylvania | would be—Jefferson Davis stood College, Kentucky, where he - 1 ’"-' ” h " v " mained until, in loil3 he was given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Very little is known of his stay there save that was bom in Christian County, (now Todd County) Kentucky, on June 3rd, 1808- Before he was old enough to ly moveu iui-. .— , .. .. Mississippi, with which his name is I ?™ kn * s h 8 n " r ' always asosciated. There his fath-1 tnat "hile expel lnicnt er settled »lown and became a ! some ammunition one day. P,anter and 1 Professor S iTcMo tS Young schools WrrJitended the iora, I £»$££ .uHed te£ jgSS StMte" school T‘ blazing f.re-oill and Georgia^*and' a"galign t v"eUrT„ tucky. He etayed there oniy »| ‘’^^0^ H» 1 oz. or 1 ton? One ounce of Royal Baking. Powder is worth a ton of cheaper baking powders when you consider the su periority in the quality, healthfulness and taste of food prepared with it JMoch from Cream of Tartar derived from grape* No Leaves No Bitter Taste closest friend while there was Al bert Sidney Johnston, afterward cne of his greatest generals. Davis graduated in 1828, and while his average was not enviable, it was lair. after* paving elected | In a speech made some time after fjfoweil Cobb of Georgia fo be;his release he said: President of the Congress, they setj “It has been said that I should apply to the United States for a pardon, but repentance must pre- ceed the right of pardon—and i de liberately say, if it were to be done again—I would follow exactly the same course as I took in 1861.” He lived in retirement the rest of his life- He wrote the “Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov ernment.” He died December 6. 1889, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, in which rest many more of Amer ica’s most distinguished statesmen and scholars. head and shoulders above anyone else. He was unanimously eject ed. Then they set about to elect a Vice-President. For this office they chose Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, a tremendously able man who had fought to the utmost of his ability to keep Georgia in the Union but once identified with the Confederacy gave his heart and. soul to the betterment, of its interests. President Da via was inaugurated February 18. 1801, in front of the Confederate Capitol at Montgom ery, Alabama. As no Chief Jus tice had been elected. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, administered the oath of office. Then President Davis delivered the inaugural address nd having sealed his oath by kiss ing the Bible, h« raised his tear- J filled eyes to heaven and said, "" In 1832 he made the acquain-jhelp me God!" The flag was rals- nrn nf Cftlonpl V.achnrv lavior ea over the capitol and a cannon SNOWDRIFT is made entirely of vegetable oil refined in the Wesson way to a purity which we do not believe is attained by any other cooking fat that you could use. ‘ It is pure, rich, wholesome ./af—that not only makes things good to eat, but is itself the most nourishing part of the foods you make i with it. V ■ Snowdrift in a /Sg^Ee^airtight bucket. as easy to open • _ as winding # the clock f S }«i No Waits and No Substitutions When* your plan* cali for .a certain kind of material, you 11- get it if you order from us. Our atock i* always complete and of ample quantity to meet any de mand. Instruct your contractor to get. the lumber he needs from us. When he Orders oak, he’ll get oak, and when he orders cypres? he’ll get cypress, and without delay. We have what you want in stock. CARTER-MOSS LUMBER COMPANY BUILDING MATERIALS tance of Colonel Zachary iayior *nd hi« daughter, Miss Sarah Knox Taylor, whom he afterwarua married- In the latter part of that year, while sitting on a court- martial case, he voted contrary to i the wishes of Colonel Taylor, I knowing that his sweetheart’s ! father waB opposed to his views on 1 the case—but Jefferson Duvls wus I never the man to turn aside from I duty. This affair caused an cs- : trangement between Davis and 1 Taylor which was not settled until : after Mrs. Davis' death. , He resigned from the army in 11836 and married Miss Taylor. In ■ September of the same year there i was an epidemic of yellow fever, j Mrs. Davis died and Mr. Davis be- i ing broken in health went to Ha vana to recuperate. Upon being restored to health he returned to Mississippi, where as a farmer he 1 accumulated a neat fortune- j When the Black Hawk war broke out, Davis enlisted and was made a (first lieutenant One day he was 1 administering the oath of alleg- I lance to a body of recruits, ami I among those who took the oath was Abraham Lincoln. When Black Hawk was captured, it fell to the lot of Lieutenant Davis to take him in charge. Black Hawk afterwards wrote of the kindness of heart of Davis. In 1843 he first entered politics as a candidate for the legislature. His opponent was Mr. Prentiss, said to have been the greatest ora tor in the country. Mr. Davis was defeated by a narrow margin, but the next year he was victorious as an elector on the Polk-Dallas pres idential ticket. In 1845 he went to Congress from the state of Missis sippi, but in the next year resign- to go to the Mexican War. Market G&ssip Received Over F. J. Linnell & Company’s Private Wire ed over th<j capitol and a cannon was fired by the daughter of Pres ident Tyler. Throughout the whole war he conducted himself with a spirit of dignity, iand of self-sacrifice imd love for his soldiers arid his ad- visors. He trusted in God and when Lee had been driven back from Petersburg and he knew that the capital of the Confederacy must /all, he was found on his knees in Saint Paul's Church in Richmond. When General Lee finally sur rendered. President Davis and his cabinet left Richmond, pursued by Federal troops. He was overtaken at Irwinville, Georgia, and calml; submitted to the inevitably. A* more infamous lie was never told/ and a more ungrounded falsehood was never circulated than that he was captured in feminine attire. For two reasons this could not be true; the first f» that Jefferson Davis was much too brave and much too noble to be guilty of such conduct. The second reason is that we have the testimony of his body guard that he was nothing but brave, honorable, and submissive. t He was taken back to Virginia and indicted for Treason by n biased, partial, South-hating, and dishonest Federal grand jury. (Much as they hated him and re viled him, they did not have the courage to bring him to trial, be cause, just as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, asid. ‘‘The trial of Jefferson Davis will convict the North, and exonerate the South.” He begged for a trial but it was never grant ed him. Why? Because they knew his character was such that a trial would be superfluous. They knew that at West Point he Jiad been taught from ft&wle’s ‘‘View 1 of ‘‘And when the mists are blown from ’round the height On which he lived, perchance some nobler mind Born in that newer day and clearer light Up to its peak shall point out to mankind The long white road he trod alone at night ” EDWIN L. DOZIER. ^ Athens High School, Athens, Georgia- Written under supervision of Miss Mamie Turnbull, Teacher of His tory, Athens High School, Ath ens, Georgia. MRS. J. C. CADLE In tnis war he won everlasting }£? en /. ro ”J ' ^ ew , fame and glory. He was the hero l‘>>® Constitution ’which expressly - — • -■■■ - says that a soldier’s first alleg iance is due to his state then HONE -701- of Monterey, and at the battle of Beuna Vista the battle was practi- tally lost when “a regiment by Jefferson Davis appeared on the scene.” He introduced the wedge movement, and saved the day. Through all the ages will ring hia famous command given in the thickest of the fray, "Steady Mis- ■issipiansi Steady!" He was wounded in the foot but did not •top fighting until the battle was won.. At the battle of Mexico City, he was the first to scale the wall of the city. At the end of the war ha returned home syith the Inten tion of settling down, but his country called and like the patriot that he was, ho answered tho call without a murmur of dissent. In 1847 he was appointed to the United States Senate by the Gov- emor of Mississippi. Here he re mained for some years and distin guished himself as an orator and debater. He resigned the senatorial toga in 1853 to become Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Franklin Pierce. America never thank Jefferson Davis for his services In that office. He pro posed the construction of "Cabin John” Bridge, which now stands as a monument to his administration. He urged the building of the new Senate Hall and the new House of Kepresentatives, and the Treasury Building. He appointed the most efficient Commander at West Point that waa ever, there—Robert E. Lee. He fortified the Western frontier and often drew on the Southern arsenals to do it. He sent General George D. McClellan to Crimea to atudy the tactics of the British and Russian armies, then engaged in the Crimean War. And it waa he who ordered the survey of the vast unknown West- era frontier. At the close of hia term as Sec retary of War, ho went to the United States Senate again, where he waa a worthy successor to John C. Calhoun. He championed the States' Rights Question and also the Slavery Question. No more eloquent orator or more able statesman could have been found to champion the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, as the clouds were gathering for the War Between the States. He remained in the Senate four years, then Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. The South seceded and when Mississippi left Davis believ ed it his duty to go with her. Ac cordingly he delivered his “Fare well Address,” and when it was known that he was to deliver it the House of Representatives came in a body to hear him. It was said to have been one of the finest ora torical efforts of the age. He closed it by saying: “Then, Senators we recur to the compact which binds us together; we recur to the principles on which our government was founded; and when you deny them, and when you deny us the right to withdraw from a government, which, thus perverted threatens to be destruc tive to our rights, we but tread in the noth* of our forefathers when we declare our independence and take the hazard. We do this, not in hostility to others nor even for our own pecuniary benefit, but from the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the righta which w» inherited, and, which we feel, it our sacred duty to transmit unshorn to our chil dren.” — —— — - ' — When the Confederate Provision- si Congress met at Montgomery, the Union. At the end of three years im prisonment in Fortress Monroe he was released and returned home to the people for whom, he had been willing to suffer shame and em barrassment. Did he ever regret the step he had taken in regard to secession? Gassy Stomach Bloating, Botching, Soup Risings Heartburns, Pressuro—Be Sure To Uuss Stuart’s Dyspspsim Tablets Chew one or two after meals or nny time und not* how the stomach settles down feels fine, stdps gas acidity, sour risings, belching anc’ such troubles due to Indigestion They neutralize the sour nclds give ttio stomach an alkaline effee* and you need have no fenr to eat whatever you like. Get n 60 cen' box tod<ty of nny druggist. Nc more drowsiness or heavy feelini after a hearty meal. And" you gel the benefit of your food in mor< solid flesh. Most peole have r tendency to add, gassy stomach Just after eating or. drinking cof. fee, etc. If a Stuart’s Dyspepsli Tablet Is chewed at this time It neutralizes the acids, your stom ach Is sweetened, the gas is pre vented and you feel good all over Try It. Remember you can get Stunrt’s Dyspepsia Tablets any where In U. S. and Canada.—Ad tertlsement. Georgia Snap Beans. Bell Peppers. Fresh English Peas. Spring Cabbage. New Irish Potatoes Iceberg Lettuce. Celery. Fancy Strawberries. Fancy Grape Fruit. Apples. Indian River Oranges. PIGGLY -WIGGLY COTON OPINIONS „ Hubbard: Believe tnat a further recovery will take place and mar ket has had its liquidation. Weld: Definitely advise against short sales and prefer to make pur chases on setback. Bacbe: Believe constructive side market is only logically. Lltt: Liverpool Is well liquidat ed and with the statistical posi tion more bullish than ever believe prices have been reached, market may be scalping affair for a day or two prefer buying on all weak spots now. Hentz: Expect a material im provement in market ' Logan and Bryan; May be dif- §.:? If* GEORGIA—Pretty - good progress in north district* planting over southern half of states stands fair chopping progressing actively growth poor. ALABAMA—Fairly good pro gress waa made in planting cotton especially in south where coming up generally to good stand and chrpping progressing. MISSISSIPPI—Plaating cotton about completed in some delta and extreme southern localities bu elsewhere hindered by w#t ARKANSA—roo^ proAye* , fajad in planting cotton'hi (and central sections ‘ mostly? ty&ry 'goed Progress. where nearly chopped lo calities. Cotton coming well.’ SOpTH CAROLINA—8Uinds and ih-ogress of cotton fairly..good con siderable replanting account pre vious cold nights planting ;pnict~ cnlly finished on coastal plains. NORTH CAROLINA—Poor WEDNESDAY, MAY tc flcult to stimulate broad buying gretm Wade panting *nd freplant-' power Ju3t now. , | ing cotton crop late, *lrst planted M (germination progressing s ovrly ia- WEEKLY CROP REPORT nor shortage still considerable TEXAS—Condition of cotton plantIng to be done. fairly good growth slow account cool nights ver good progress in planting, replanting, cultivation and chopping and planting about com pleted except in northwest and r few wet areas, OKLAHOMA—Cotton planting delayed by rains many localities but made fairly good progress early Have You a Daughter? . Is She Nervous? Then You Cannot Afford to Over look One WorJ of This Augusta, On.—“For some time my daughter was in real poor health. She suffered with her head and back and was also very ner vous. After trying several reme dies which did her no good. I got Dr. Pierce’s Faforite Prescription and when she had taken a.few bot tles she. did not Complain any more, but was feeling better than she had for a long time. I think the 'Favorite Prescription' is the best woman’s tonic that cari be had.’’—Mrs. J. C. Cadle, 1460 Silcox St. A beautiful woman Is always n well woman. Get this Prescription of Dr. fPierce’e for your daughter In liquid or tablets at any drug store, and see how quickly she will have sparkling eyes, a clear skin and vitality. • Write Dr. Plerce’e Invalid’s Ho tel In Buffalo N. T., for free con fidential medical adv/ce. TENNESSEE—planting contin ued without serious int irruption early cotton germinating well, some chopped. Florida cotton made very good progress and fairly good condition chopping has continued. LOUISIANA—Too cool and cloudy for best development of cotton which made only fair progress stands generally very good . but plants small, planting contlhues. MARKETS f Good to the last drop L ^gjotlunglwt many years of coffee ex perience could give the housekeeper her calm confidence in die unvarying flavor of Maxwell House. MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE ATHEN8 COTTON The local cotton market waa up from the previous cloae of Tpea- rtny of 2 5 >i. The market cioaed Wednesday at 25* cent a NEW YORK COTTON Open High Low Cloae P.C. May 25.70 20.52 25.70 20.S5 20.00 July 24.05 25.40 24.02 25.17 24.02 Oct. ... ...22.25 22.00 22.15 22.20 22.17 Oct 22.82 2J.05 22.72 22.22 22.72 tl o. m. bide: May 25.25; July 24.707 Oct. 23.19: Dec. 22.72. NEW ORLEANS COTTON Open High Low Cloae P.C. May 25.00 25.22 26.00 25.60 25.02 July 24.05 25.22 24.00 24.00 24.57 Oct 22.07 22.20 22.02 22.24 22.04 Dec 22.40 22.07 21.22 11.47 11.10 11 a. m. bid.: May 25.12: July 24.05: Oct. 22.04: Dec. 22.21. LIBERTY BONDS Open P. C. ... ; ML* ■ ,\ 975.11 .... 97.12 .... 22.09 .... 97.17 100.01 Tailor Makes Valuable Find “After (pending 2900 tor m( d: cine and doctor* In four year, w ii out getting any benefit for itomach trouble and bloating I waa indue, by my drugglat to try Mary's Wo. derful Remedy and must say th,! a tl bottle has done me' 2500 worth of good." It Is a harmless, simni, preparation that removes the ra . tarrhal mucus from the Intestinal tract and allays the Inflammation which causes practically an »to m . ach. liver and Intestinal nlimcnt, including appendlclties. One dou will convince or money refunded - For Baldtby all Druggists.—AdveN Garment. Read " Banner-Herald Want Ads. 3V4’« First 414’s -. Second 4K*s Third 4*4s .. Fourth 4V» Victory 4Vs Boqr peofj* wko have no tase (or i&t sad eawdw, and Mdaamv psopi. who fad them ■ hsidJiim jtccp^tjj^djfree (ran breath and painful gmy domsch trophic., by ming Chafeberlaia • Tablets foe Stom. ack. Lira sad Bowck, Mn. L K fmt Hm lift, Ala., uyt thty art the best Aitgthe het net her tick orftdwUk afar laldtt, mt art to thtnegh im actin', the mitt ha Iff iff fnfffufl fgf hilbatntth assnC^.aalr25c. SddawliN* 66-?hojve-66 Taxi Service Day and Night CHICAGO GRAIN Open WHEAT— Sept HI May 117 V* July . ... U7% CORN— Sept .71% May 71% July *. 71% OAT8— Sept 45% May 41% I July 43% 37.13 37.14 93.11 97.17 100.01 1 43% | NEW YORK STOCKS Open 1 p.m. P.C. | Coca Cola 75 76 Cuban Cane Sugar ..16% 16% 15% Cuban Cane pfd 5473 65% 63% Austin Nichols 21% 35% U. S. Steel 101% 101% 100% Bethlehem Steel 30% <0% 00 Southern Ry ..31% 32% 31% Southern Ry Pfd ...00% 06% 06 Pan American 70% 71% 70% American Kugai* 70% 70% 70 Kenlcott Copper 39 33% 38% Industrial Alcohol ...67 68 67 N. Y. Central 91 93% 92 Amc. Tel. Tel .133% 122% 121% Lowe's Inc 17% 1 17% YellowCabCo. 8TOPS HACKING COUGH “Had a hacking cough for year* and Foley’. Honey and Tar la tha only remedy that reached my cough, t have not been troubled with il since,” writes Mrs. E. M. Doby. A*, bury Park, N. J.' Coughs, Colds, Croup, Throat, Cheat and Bronchial trouble are quickly railrvad with Foley’s .Honey and Tag, Contains no opiate*—Ingredients printed on the wrapper, Largeet setting cough medicine In the World.—Advertise ment. Rotten, Wretched, Feeling, Pyorrhea ‘Panol For Pyorrhea’ bare the bones. PRETTY TEETH SOON FALL. The words ’’False Teeth” are sickening. Receding bleedy jruras warn you of Pyor rhea coming. To eat your gums, poison your system and take your teeth. Obey your warning. Brush your gums with PANOL tonight. It instantly kills the germs, heal* and hardens the gums, save YOUR TEETH. Healthy gums make pretty teeth. Panol Is sold In Athens by rainier A Sons. Pifee 60 cents. If your druggist haigi’t ordered Panol, ssnd this adv. ‘and II. we will send you 3 bottles a month supply prepaid. EDWARDS ^DENTIST 8UPPLT Atlanta, Georgia Mother’s Day SUNDAY, MAY 13 GIFTS hakt hgr hgppy with a ,««•"• chosen frmo our atock. ELECTRIC IRONS TOASTER8 VACUUM CLEANERS ART LAMP8 Phong 711 Athens Engineering Company Smith Bldg. Colltj* The McGregor Ccl Has Anticipated r YOUR NEEDS For the observance of the Great est Day of Days—send her a greeting card.' *