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The Dawson Tlews
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT $l.OO PER YEAR
BY E. L. RAINEY.
Entered at the Postoffice at Dawson,
Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter.
DAWSON, GA., Seer. 9, 1908,
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CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.
On this page The News prints a
blank for campaign contributions.
Any person desiring to advance the
election of Mr. Bryan should clip the
coupon, sign his name and address
and enclose one dollar with it, and
The News will forward it to the cam
paign chairman. This idea of rais
ing the campaign fund originated
with Mr. Bryan. He wishes, if elect
ed, to owe his election to the people
and not to any corporation interest.
A campaign fund is necessary, and
this method places it where it be
longs. J
Mr. Bryan is our candidate. We|
pay the freight. |
¢ If the corporations paid it they
would expect to collect it back from
us.
So it is both patriotic and econo
my to elect our own candidate with
our own money.
Send in your dollar to The News,
and help the campaign along. We
will print the names of all who sub
scribe to this fund, to the end that
Mr. Bryan may have a record of the
patriots of the country.
MR. TAFT'S REIIGION.
The Boston Transcript, which is
publishad at the center of Unitarian
ism, thus discusses what is becom
mg an interesting feature of the
present campaign for the presidency:
“In the presidential campaign Mr.
Taft's Unitarianism is not proving
an asset, so far as numerical support
is concerned. One Indiana man re
contly remarked: ‘Out here we look
at Unitarianism as a sort of infidel
ity, and we are a little suspicious of
Mr. Taft on that account.” The In
dex, published at Valley Center,
Kan., in a recent issue describes
a series of chautauqua lectures given
by Dr. George L. Robinson, includ
ing such themes as ‘lsaiah’s Undis
puted Prophecies’ and the like, in
which it says that the speaker cre
ated no little surprise in one half of
his morning discourse by declaring
that while he had always been a re
publican he would prefer to place
at the head of the country a chris
tian gentleman like Mr. Brvan rath
er than a man who had never aco
cepted christianity and who, when
he attended services of any kind,
‘went where the divinity of Christ
was denied.” The hearty applause
which followed this utterance,'in the
reporter’s opinion, left no doubt that
the chautauqua atmésphere presents
a serious obstacle to Mr. Taft's suec
cess.”’
It is something unusual for one's
religion to figure in a campaign for
president; but possibly this is due
to the fact that not in many years
has there been a candidate of either
of the big parties who was not suffi
clently orthodox as to recognize the
divinity of Christ—who believed in
the trinity.
As a matter of fact, however, our
constitution guarantees to every
man the right to worship God ac
cording to the dictates of his own
conscience.
The Birmingham Age-Herald
thinks it i{s pretty late in the develop
ment of the republic and in an age
of great liberality to bring objec
tions to a candidate because of his
religious views. Beyond all doubt,
however, the republican party Is
troubled by this feature of the cam
paign.
WOULDN'T HAVE IIT.
Editor Mclntosh of The Albany
Herald enters a disclaimer to the
insinuation of a contemporary that
he has designs on congress in the
event the present incumbent does
not offer for re-clection. He says:
The editor of The Herald has
been more or less actively ‘“‘in
polities’” for something like thir
ty years past, but never in his
own interest. He doesn’t want
to go to congress. He wouldn't
go to congress if he could.
' There isn't a political Job in
' Georgia or out of it that he
would leave home to annex.
He is perfectly satisfied with ‘his
present profession and environ
ment.
Editor Mclntosh is right. The
editor of a newspaper like The Her
ald holds a more important position
and has a wider field and greater op
portunity for real usefulness than
any man who sits in congress.
The editor who attends to his busi
ness and discharges his duty to the
public has but little time to devote
to office-holding.
As Ex-Senator: Wolcott once said,
“It is a waste of lather to shave
‘an ass !
l TUBERCULOSIS CONVENTION.
The coming tuberculosis coiven
tion to be held in Washington will
bring together not only the leading
medical men and scientists of this
'country, but thinkers and experi
menters from different parts of the
world. Civilization has at last come
to a realization of the awful annual
harvest of human lives reaped by the
white plague, and also to a knowl
edge of how easily its spread may be
prevented, and what a large percent
age of those already afflicted may be
cured. Means of preventing and
methods of cure are now well un
derstood by those who have given
the matter study. The work now
most pressing is to disseminate this
knowledge among the masses. The
tuberculosis convention will result
in an exchange of ideas and much
will be learned, and it is a source
of gratification to know that Daw
son will have a part in this import
ant gathering. Among the more
than two hundred Georgians who
have been named to represent the
state there are four from this city—
Br; J, W. Patterson, Dr. J. G Dean,
Hon. John R. Mercer and Dr. H. W.
Harris.
IT'S HIM. :
It has been announced from
republican headquarters that W.
. N, Mitehell: of Atlanta will
stump Georgia for Taft. Who
in the dickens is W. N. Mitch
ell?—Dawson News.
Heavens, man, what, igno
rance! Don’t know the man who
went to Chicago with a Roose
velt third-term up his sleeve
and ripe for pulling, only to
have a weak-kneed south Geor
gia postmaster fall down on him
at the crucial moment? Don't
know the man who started the
Bulloch Hall movement for the
Georgia building at Jamestown?
Don’'t know the man who can
give Senator Beveridge, John
Wesley Gaines or Jeff Davis of
Arkansas a week’s start and
overhaul ’em in half a day at
the talk-talk game, and could
almost run LaFollette a dead
heat in a gabfest? Don’t know
the man who lis everybody's
friend and whom everybody is a
friend of?
Oh, yes. It is beginning to dawn
faintly upon us who this important
man i{s. The distinguished citizen,
we belleve, who got mighty miffed
because he didn't have a chance to
touch shanks under the mahogany
with President Roosevelt at James
town when the latter was dined there
on Georgia day. The same great per
son, too, if we are not mistaken,
who had many thousands of post
cards printed with the picture of
Bulloch Hall on them, and being un
able to sell them and settle with
the printer there was talk of an ef
fort to hold the state responsible for
the bill. We think we have now got
& line on the identity of Mr. W. N.
Mitchell, thanks to The Georgian.
Can there be doubt that he will make
oodles of votes for Mr. Taft' when
he takes the stump for him?
Although his term of office will
not begin until nearly a year hence
the newspapers are already begin
ning to talk about who will succeed
Governor Joe Brown. It is the opin
ion of The News that he will take
the job himself. With no axe to
grind and no ambition to advance he
will give the state a qulet, dignified
and business-like administration free
from buncombe and spectacular dis
play, and so much impressed will the
masses of the people be by his horse
sense, ability and independence that
they will give him another term
without opposition.
Had the south been able and will
ing to speculate it might have gotten
in so as to let Mr. Livermore un
load on them, and have saved him his
million dollar losses and have borne
them for him. That would have
been the extent to which they could
have held prices on a bear raid—just
ilong enough to get in and let the
other fellow out.
The republican party in 1896 ap
pointed a bimetallic commission to
visit Europe and arrive at inter
national bimetallism. It worked
well with the voters that year, and
they have another commission this
year junketing in Europe.
It is said the New York democrats
favor the nomination of Judge Par
ker for governor. If they do, Judge,
cut out the ‘“‘icy Hudson’’ and run
more and swim less.
Cuthbert is going to have an au
tomobile hose wagon for her fire de
partment. Who was it that said
Cuthbert was slow?
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MMAM’
{A:OUT CLASSES THEM ALL.:A?
From the Blakely Reporter.
E. L. Rainey's Dawson News
is a credit to the profession of
journalism. It most decidedly
é out classes any weekly The Re-;
( porter ever saw north or w)uth.;
{fist or west. J
WWM\MMMA
Dawson still leads the state in cot
ton receipts. The warehouses here
received 1,021 bales Saturday. The
Herald says Albany received 1,000
bales, and the Times-Recorder re
ports the receipts of Americus for
that day at 947 bales. Dawson’s
total receipts at noon vesterday were
6,778 bales. The Albany and Amer
icus papers do not print the total re
ceipts of their towns. ,
The Atlanta Journal wants to
know if Joe Brown is going to
vote for Big Bill. Which Big
Bill?—Savannah Press.
Nobody knows better than The Sa
vannah Press that The Journal
knows for whom the democratic can
didate for governor of Georgia is gO
- to vote for president.” The At
lanta paper is merely nagging.
Atlanta recelved and paid nine
cents for her first bale of new cotton
last Tuesday, and was as proud of
it as a small boy is of a stick of
striped eandy. Dawson’s first bale
was recelved early in August, and
brought 1712 cents a pound. Atlan
ta should spur up, and try to get
somewhere near Dawson’s class.
An Atlanta dispatch says the re
publicans of this state are trying to
get too or three ‘“democrats” to run
on their electoral ticket. Now, that's
good. We would like to see what
kind of looking ‘‘critter’’ the fellow
is who would run on the Taft ticket
in Georgia and have the brass to
pose as a democrat.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania re
fuses to have a telephone in his
home, saying it causes more bother
than anything else in life. This in
formation may be some satisfaction
to those in Dawson who have had
their 'phones cut out because of an
increase in charges.
They are going to have a free bal
lot in' BEarly county im faet. The
commissioners there, acting on the
advice of their attorney, announce
that they will pay for holding no
more elections. Such payments out
of public funds, they hold, is un
constitutional.
Twenty women kissed Tom Hisgen
when he was notified of his nomina
tion for president by Mr. Hearst's
party. That's all he will get out of
it, and not having seen the women
The News is not prepared to say
whether his campaign has been
worth while. "
The next president will be in Geor
gia soon, and will be given a hearty
welcome. Mr. Bryan writes that he
will visit this state soon after the
election, and will give Macon, At
lanta and Savannah a call. |
By cultivating a miserly disposi—i
tlon a person may so cramp .hisi
senses that he will "be unfitted for
the enjoyment of a great deal ot{
anything, though given him with a
lavish hand.
A contemporary comes to the de
fense of Savannah, and as evidence
that she is not as bad as painted
points out that her blind tigers have
been ordered to close on Sundays.
This extra session of the legisla
ture lis the first specific @ .extra
ordinary session to convene under the
present state constitution, which was
adopted in 1877.
It is impossible to finance a presi
dential campaign by the absent treat
ment. Chip your dollar into the hat
of democracy. Keep it moving along
the line.
Prayers are good things, but when
a fellow has hit the bottom of the
toboggan he needs an arm around
him to help him rise.
It will be no trouble for Repre
sentative Onion of lexas to raise a
stink whenever he wants to.
The legislature has paused occa
sionally long enough to give a mem
ber a vote of confidence.
A Columbus policeman arrested a
woman who threw kisses at him.
The ungallant scamp!
This country has fostered infant
industries until they think it is a
legitimate graft.
They are now referring to it as
“Hearst's vest pocket party.” An
apt name.
The business men should help the
farmers get fair returns for their
cotton.
Temple and Yancey.
From the Bainbridge Search Light.
Candidate Graves is said to be a
book-worm, and his admirers delight
to call him a glow-worm, while
Yance Carter thinks he's a hook
worm. Ye Gods! .
Most advocates of peace at any
price are married men.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
| ““Go and Sin No More.” I
From the Macon Telegraph.
| The other day, after fining a young
woman brought before him from a
disorderly resort, a Chicago judge
told her to go and jump into the
lake, and added that all the women
of her kind ought to follow her ex
ample. ‘I think the judge is right,”
said the woman, weeping. ‘The lake
is the only place for me. I and all
my kind would be better off dead.
And yet I never stole or ill treated
a young child or injured any one
very badly. I've been my own worst
enemy.”’
Was there no one in all Chicago,
not even a Salvation Army lass, to
tell this wretched woman that Judge
Going was wrong, and to remind her
of the words of hope addressed to
another scarlet woman by the Judge
of all the world nineteen hundred
vears ago? When the scribes and
Pharisees brought her before him
and asked if she should be stoned,
according to the law, the answer
was: “He that 18 without® siti
among you let him first cast a stone
at her.”” And when the accusers,
struck dumb, stole away one after
the other He said to the woman:
“Neither do I condemn thee; go and
sin no more.”
Forgetful of the Divine mercy
which opens the door of hope even
to the worst, the judge at Chicago
shut that door in the face of the
human soul that might have listened
to and obeyed the injunction: ‘“Go
and sin no more.” That injunction
may well be taken to heart by Judge
Going himself and by us all, for
there is no man or woman living
who has not sinned in one way or
another, who has not repeatedly
broken a vow of amendment, and
who does not know the power of a
bad habit once formed.
HERE ARE SOME GOOD ONES.
Jim Thunder married Molly Cloud
in Oklahoma the other day. One
possible outcome—llittle Thunder
clouds.
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Taking note of that Gosh-Durn
wedding—John Gosh marrying Nel
lie Durn—the Brunswick (Ga.) Jour
anl is inclined to believe that all the
children will be regular little cusses.
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An Indiana paper says that Sun
day and Day are the names of two
farmers near Martinton. Sunday has
five sons and Day five daughters.
Three of the Sunday boys have al
ready married Day girls. With the
other two brothers courting the re
maining sisters it looks as though
every day would be Sunday by and
by.
A Funny Situation.
From the Dublin Times.
The whole state is laughing at
the funny situation that has devel
oped among some of our politicians
and newspapers. Those who a few
months ago were as close as two
peas in a pod are now slashing at one
another, and others who no longer
than a year ago were not on speak
ing terms politically are now as lov
ing as cooing doves. The Atlanta
Journal and Tom Watson, who to
gether mgde life miserable for Clark
Howell two years ago, are now trying
to pull each other’s hair out, and
Col. Pendleton, who not many moons
ago said some pretty hard things
about the Sage of McDuffie, speaks
of him very gently and pleasantly
when he speaks at all. The Atlanta
Journal now calls the Constitution
Tom Watson's press agent, and Tom
Watson says Hoke Smith is trying to
bury him. Altogether ‘it is to
laugh’”—to wonder what the next
change will be, ‘
He Runs a Paper in Georgia, Too.
From the Quitman Advertiser.
“Li Sum is the name of the editor
of a Chinese paper,” says the Buffalo
Times. If Li Sum lives up to his
name he ought to get out a pretty
readable sheet.
¢ Did You Ever See u Chicken Scratching
for Worms With a Wooden Leg ?
Such a performance would be amusing to some and pathetic to
others. But, somehow, it always makes us sad to see a store try
ing to do business without advertising. If you are in this class,
Mr. Merchant, hadn’t you better "phone a hurry call to Tue Daw
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Editor of The Dawson News:
Inclosed you should find $l, my contribution to' the Den.
ocratic National Ca.mpaign Fund, to be expended in the cause
of Democracy, and for the election of William J. Bryan to the
office of President of the United States.
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AdAPEsY - o s S aha a
~ PROMISCUOUS REFLECTIONS.
~ The real stingy man will talk
through his nose, and save wear and
tear cn his gold teeth.
- Truth crushed to earth will rise
again, and it is kept busy with its
ups and downs.
~ All the things that come to a man
who waits are not the things he has
been waiting for.
The enemy soon would be on the
run if saints were not so strong on
the rest. ;
Make your own mark if you don’t
want some other fellow to make a
mark of you.
But for our sorrows we should be
unable to appreciate our joys.
GRIGGS' LEAD.
Frm the Macon Telegraph.
Congressman Griggs has set a good
example, one we have no doubt will
be followed by other democratic can
didates for congress, in announcing
that he will stump his district, speak
ing in every county for Bryan and
Brown.
The Telegraph does not believe
that Yaney Carter will get a- cor
poral’'s guard vote in his race against
Joe Brown; nor do we-fear the re
sult in the state for Bryan; but let
it be remembered that there will be
five if not seven electoral tickets in
Georgia. The law requires that a
majority of the whole vote cast must
elect. The Bryan electors must get
more votes than all the others in the
race. Debs will get a few votes.
The prohibition candidate will get
a few thousand. The Hearst party
will get some. Then there are Taft
and Watson. On account of the un
necessary agitation about alleged ne
gro disfranchisement more negroes
are going to vote this year than us
ual. Remember that! Taft will get
white votes that never went republi
can before. Watson is very active
and is drawing large crowds wher
ever he goes. It is said that 5,000
people greeted him at Idylwind on
Friday. He is going to get a larger
vote in Georgia than he did in 1904.
It behooves the democrats, therefore,
to be on the move. Griggs is setting
the pace. We presume that Bartlett,
Brantley, Hughes and others will
soon take the stump. |
The Atlanta Journal is trying to
add to the discord, and widen the
differences between democrats by
daily sneering at Joe Brown and pre
tending to believe that ‘‘the salva-‘
tion of the state democracy” dp-}
pends on his taking the stump in
answer to the challenge of Y:m(g\'i
Carter, when it knows that it was|
not necessary for him to take the!
stump against Hoke Smith-—when it |
knows that Joe Brown, although zmi
able and patriotic man, is not gifted
with tongue performances on the!
stage, but he is gifted with “parts[
of speech” which he can write down |
and make it scintillate tln'oughmltl
the state. This he has done. Be
sides, there is not a particle of dan
ger in the case of his candidacy. It’
is in the national field where activityl
is needed. Our congressmen and onr“
senators are the workers in that
field. Why doesn’'t the Journal call’
on them to come to the fore if it
believes there is danger? Where is
your Uncle Lon?
An Occasional Nip.
The house of representatives has
gone on record as opposed to a man
getting drunk, but perfectly willing
for him to take a drink every now
and then. This expression came out
in a discussion of one of the features
of the Holder convict bill, the origi
nal section proposing that no guards
for convicts be emploved who did
not totally abstain from the use of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
By amendment this section was made
to read that no guard shall be em
ployed who drinks intoxicating liq
uors to excess. This amendment
was put to a vote and passed 71
to 07
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SEPTEMB.., 9, 1908,
.
ll The Magic Kernel of Corn]
\-
(Charles H. Cochrane in The Circle.)
A grain of corn, found in the
wrappings of an Egyptian mummy
which had lain in the tomb for forty
centuries, was planted and grew int
a great cornstalk with spreading
leaves and heavy golden ears. Dur
ing that period of quiescence more
than one hundred generations of
men had lived and toiled and gone
to their long rest, yet the life-spark
in that kernel of corn survived, as
by a miracle, and burst forth anew
after four thousand years of slumber,
Scarcely less wonderful does it ap
‘pear that the very paper this article
rla printed on may be imbued with
cornstalk fibers, the new material
‘that is shortly to take the place of
‘wood for paper making.
~_Are you going to the woods for
sport? Ten to one the smokeless
powder for your shotgun contains a
cellulose nitrate made from corn.
‘Thus it may happen that the ducks
you blaze away at were fattened
from the same field of corn that
yields the power to drive the shot
into them. If you carr: a camera
your films are probably coated with
collodion that was made from corn
pith. If you are touring in an auto
your lubricating oil is. made from
corn, if you have the kind that does
not gum; and if you have the latest
machine that explodes denatured al
cohol instead of gasoline your alco
hol is practically certain to be made
from corn.
Corn is the most omnipresent
thing in the universe. Go where you
will you can not get away from it.
As the moving-picture machine
flashes its hundreds of thousands of
films on the screen little do we
think that these miles of picture
films would not operate without a
sensitizing material based on cellu
lose, obtained mainly from the hum
ble cornstalk.
The average man, if asked if he
could get along without corn, would
unhesitatingly answer yes. He
would bethink himself only of the
corn in some form as a breakfast
hot johnuny-cake or the corn-muffin
food, or possibly of pop-corn. But
how his mouth would legthen at
the corners if told that he must pay
an extra cent or two for every
starched thing he wears if the laun
dry may not use corn-starch; that
his soap will rise in price without
corn oil from the glucose factory;
that cheap silk ties must be no more
because the cellulose adulteration is
based on corn pith! Tell him that
his mucilage bottle will cost him ten
cents instead of five if gum arabic
is used instead of dextrin, made from
corn. Remind him that he must go
back to molasses for a table syrup,
and that candies will be both more
costly and less palatable if deprived
of the grape-sugar or glucose con
tent.
| Help the Poor Editor.
ime the Dallas New Era.
~ Lives of poor men oft remind us
honest toil don't stand a chance; the
more we work we leave behind us
bigger patches on our pants. On
our pants once new and glossy now
are patches of different hue; all be
cause subscribers linger and won't
pay up what is due. Then let all
be up and doing; send in your mite
be it e’er so small, or when the
blasts of winter strike us we shall
have no pants at all.
“The blood is the life.” Science
has never gone beyond that simple
statement of scripture. But it has
illuminated that statement and given
it a meaning ever broadening with
the increasing breadth of knowledge.
When the blood is ‘‘bad” or impure
it is not alone the body which suf
fers through disease. # The brain is
also clouded, the mind and judgment
are affected, and many an evil deed
or impure thought may be directly
traced to the impurity of the blood.
No one can be well balanced in mind
and body whose blood {is {impure.
No one can have a wholesome and
pure life unless the blood is pure.
Foul blood can be made pure hy the
use of Dr. Pierce’'s Golden Medical
Discovery. When the blood is pure.
body and brain are alike healthy and
life becomes a daily happiness.
Standing out in bold relief, all
alone and a conspicuous example of
open, frank and honest dealing with
the sick and afflicted, Dr. Pierce
prints on the bottle wrapper in plain
English a full list of the ingredients.
Therefore not a “patent medicine
:).ut a medicine of knpwn composi
ion.