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DAWSON, GA.. Dc. I, 1914!
Mercy and Pardons.
On Thanksgiving Day Governor
Blease pardoned and paroled 101 per
sons who were serving sentences for
wrong-doing in South Carolina, run
ning the total who have received ex
ecutive clemency at his hands up to
1,500. Christmas will soon be here,
and the pententary may be entrely
depopulated then. Governor Blease
is the object of criticism, of course,
for the wholesale release of those
convicted of crime, but he might re
tort, as did Governor Bob Taylor,
of Tennessee, who had a pardoning
record himself, to Sam Jones when
the evangelist was holding a big tent
meeting in Nashville. In reply to
an excoriation for giving so many
criminals their freedom Taylor
merely sald that if it had not been‘
for the mercy and exercise of the
pardoning power of Jesus Christ
Jones, by his own confession, would
have been in hell long ago. The
evangelist acknowledged that he had
been fully and effectually answered,
and the incident closed. ‘
Who Is to Blame?
It is the unexpected that happens,
as a rule. Cotton was selling at 6%
to 716 cents, and everybody was feel
ing cheerful, expecting the price to
advance. The ‘“cotton relief fund,”
that $135,000,000 fund, raised to
take a big part of the crop off the
market, was pledged. Finally, the
word had gone out that the two great
cotton exchanges of the land—New
York and New Orleans—were to open
for transactions in cotton. All over
the South the friends of cotton felt
renewed courage and hope that the
future held relief—an assured mar
ket for cotton.
Observe what has happened., The
cotton relief fund is raised, and in
due time will be available. The cot
ton exchanges re-opened, too. But
have their operations or influence
brought the relief hoped for? Cotton
commenced declining, and up to date
it has sold at an average of one cent
a pound lower.
What connection, if any, is there
between the resumption of operations
on the exchanges and the decline in
price? Is that fact justly charge
able to the exchanges? Cotton men
and bankers seem to think so, and
we who are not on the inside, who
are not familiar with the methods of
the exchanges, are not competent to
pass on the justice of the allegation.
Cotton men have always contended
that the exchanges are the life of the
cotton trade; that speculation, espe
cially on the ‘“bull” side, is promoted
by the facilities the exchanges afford;
that ‘““hedging,” as the cotton men
call it, is absolutely necessary in the
cotton business. And, now, to hear
the cotton men declare that the two
big exchanges of the land have throt
tled instead of strengthened the cot
ton market is a development we did
not anticipate. It confuses, and we
are wondering what will happen
next.
There is something *vrong some
where, a screw loose. Why should
cotton, in the face of the situation
that already existed, start on the
downward grade again? We cannot
imagine any reason for such a devel
opment. This is a grave matter for
the South and the whole country, and
it is important to know where the
trouble really is.
Newspaper Changes.
Announcement has been made that
Mr. W. T. Anderson, who has hereto
fore been vice-president and general
manager of the Macon Telegraph,
has, with his brother, Mr. P. T. An
derson, purchased the interest of the
family of the late Colonel C. R. Pen
dleton and will hereafter publish and
control that paper. The Andersons
have for years been connected with
the Telegraph, and their ability and
experience as newspaper men is a
guarantee that the high standard that
has characterized it in the past will
be maintained.
The Telegraph has long occupied a |
position all its own in Georgia jour-t
nalism as a leader of thought
and fearless and able champion otl
certain principles, and the announce-1
ment that there will be no change in |
its policy must be gratifying to its
large clientile.
One result of the change in the
ownership of the Telegraph is that
Mr. C. C. Brantley, who has done able
work in the editorial department§
since the death of Colonel Pendleton, '
will return to South Georgia and
agzain take the editorship of the Val
dosta Times. Mr. Brantley belongs
o South Georgia, and it is cause for
Congratulation that his talents and
energy will again be given to news-
Paper work in this section.
Why This Partiality?
Editor Furlow, of the Madisonian,
one of our most valued Midd.le Geor
gia contemporareis, has recently re
turned from a trip through the
Northwest, and in a late issue of his
paper gives a review of the things
that interested him the most. He
was in Chicago at the outbreak of
the ‘“foot and mouth” cattle disease,
and The News reproduces below
from Editor Furlow’s article two
short paragraphs that are significant:
i ‘“Cattle condemned by govern
} n.lent authority, beca_use of infec
| tious diseases, are paid for by said
. government—out in the West. [n
Georgia the owner loses the price
of all cattle condemned to be kill
l ed. See the difference?
| “The government spent over
$300,000 trying to keep the Mis
- souri river from washing away a
section of the Burlington railway.
But when the South asks for any
thing it gets it—‘in the neck’—
usually.”
Many people have asked and are
asking why the South has always
been discriminated against by the
national government. Various in
dustries and enterprises and at times
individuals—for instance, wealthy
globe trotters who happened to be in
Europe when the war broke out—
have been given assistance and relief
out of public funds, but when the
South is in distress and business of
every kind paralyzed no help is ex
tended.
As our Elberton contemporary, the
Star, says, the two items from the
Madisonian indicate the awakening
of a healthy sentiment that will mean
that public officials will be regarded
as public servants, and will be held
in such esteem as the results of their
official efforts warrant.
As soon as our high officials, both
in state and nation, read aright such
weather cocks as the above, which
gshow the trend of public sentiment,
just so soon will their records be
found in deeds rather than in words
buried in the congressional record.
Other Calamities.
The great war has withdrawn pub
lic attention from serious calamities
in other parts of the world. In South
ern China, for example, millions of
people are literally starving, in con
sequence of summer floods that ruin
ed the crops. The floods covered ten
thousand square miles of densely
populated farming country, wiped out
whole villages and caused an appall
ing loss of life and property. The
United States consul general at Can
ton has sent word of the pressing
needs of the situation; and since the
National Red Cross is devoting its
energies to relief work in the war
zone the Christian Herald, of New
York, long the loyal friend of China,
is raising a relief fund.
Noting the statement in a recent
issue of The News that an agricult
ural publication had warned against
harsh and profane language in the
presence of the cow lest the milk sup
ply be diminished, our brother of the
Bainbridge Searchlight up and asks
what should a man say if this same
cow, so tender of feeling, suddenly
swishes her tail in your eye or
plunges her foot to the bottom of the
pail. Well, that is a leading ques
tion, and is entirely out of order.
We decline to answer, and our
neighbor must draw on his own im
agination for language that would do
anything like justice to the cow in
the event of such a thing.
The modern method of solving ag
ricultura! problems by investigating
them, not only in the laboratory bhut
also on the farm in co-operation with
the farmer, has given such admirahle
results that it is to be applied to the
anti-cholera crusade. Congress has
appropriated a half million dollars
to carry on the work, and experi
ments will be made in all parts of
the United States. The investigation
should be of great value to Georgia,
as the disease costs the farmers of
this state many thousands of dollars
every year.
Many hunters are in field and
meadow these days shooting the
beautiful and harmless quail, and un
less these birds, so valuable to farm
ing interests, are given further pro
tection it will be a matter of only a
few years until they disappear entire
ly. The News has often expressed
the belief that the killing of birds
in Georgia should be prohibited for
five years, and it is a matter of regret
that a bill by Representative Adams,
with that end in view, failed to be
come a law at the last session of the
Jegislature.
A Eulogy on Bob White.
By Wm. T. Hornady in Our Dumb Animals. |
To my good friend, the epicure:
The next time you regale a good ap
petite with bluepoints, terrapin stew,
filet of sole and saddle of mutton,
' torched up here and there with the
ihigh lights of rare old sherry, rich
!claret and dry monopole, pause as the
| dead quail is laid before you on a
' funeral pyre of toast and consider
| this: ‘““Here lies the charred remains
lot the farmer’s ally and friend, poor
Bob White. In life he devoured 125
Among the distinguished visitors
in Dawson during the session of the
South Georgia Conference was Hon.
N. E. Harris, of Macon, Georgia’s
governor-elect. Judge Harris al
ready had numerous friends and ad
mirers here, and made others of all
whom he met. That he will worthily
illustrate the state in the highest of
fice in the gift of the people there is
no doubt.
The preachers have come, got their
appointments and disappointments
and gone their way. They were a body
of fine men—good looking, cheerful
and happy. Dawson enjoyed them,
and it is hoped and believed they en
joyed Dawson. May their lives fall
nn pleasant places another year, and
may success crown their labors in the
Master’'s work.
Editor Jones, of the Fitzgerald
?Press, asks what has become of the
old fashioned grand mammy who
smoked the corn-cob pipe in the
chimney corner, and suggests that
possibly she has transmigrated into
the form of a howling suffragette.
We can’t believe it of so good an old
soul.
The influence of Southern men has
helped to stay the efforts in congress
for the abolition of exchanges and
the “future’” system in handling cot
ton. If the South shall come to be
lieve that the big exchanges are hurt
ful instead of helpful agencies the
end of the future system is in sight.
The trustees have awarded to Cap
tain J. H. Evins of Milledgeville a
contract to furnish the state sanita
rium with 1,500 pounds of fresh beef
daily. It is a recognition of home
enterprise and encouragement of the
cattle industry that is commendable
in the sanitarium board. =
Richard Croker, former l'ammany
chieftain and leader of that band of
braves, has decided to take unto him
self a new helpmeet, and has chosen
for his bride an Indian maiden in
the person of Miss Beulah Benton
Edmondson. How appropriate.
Many of our state exchanges are
carrying on campaigns against blind
tigers. ‘This particular ‘‘varmint”
gseems to infest every section of Geor
gia just now. Down in Thomasville
the police have just rounded up twen
ty of them in one drive.
This from the Cordele Dispatch is
a great truth in a few lines. Read it
and act on it: ‘“You will feel more
manly by being glad. It adds to your
gself-respect and makes you feel that
vou have a place in this old world.”
In noting that 558 bales of cotton
have been ginned there up to date
the Savannah News asserts that
“Chatham c¢ounty's cotton crop lis
large.” More than that is grown on
single farms in Terrell county.
While the provocation may have
been unusual the Cuthbert Leader in
sists that they were mighty mean
thieves who swiped poultry in Daw
son on the eve of the Methodist con
ference and Thanksgiving.
The Telfair Enterprise has enter
ed its twenty-eighth volume. The
Enterprise has shown great improve
ment under the control of Editor J.
Kelley Simmons, and is one of Geor
gia’'s best mewspapers.
As to Mexico, all that is needed is
to take a look as to what is happen
ing in that country. The many
“chiefs” talk glibly enough of peace
and order, but they do not aet in the
spirit of their talk.
December 9th is to be ‘‘Charity
Day’” in Missouri, when money will
be collected for suffering people in
Europe. It will not be complete un
less suffering people in this country
are remembered.
The world war goes on. That is
about as much as can be said. It will
not, cannot end soon. Prepare to
raise food and feedstuffs next year.
vear.
The farmers are still busy sowing
wheat and oats. Southwest Georgia
will have the greatest erops of grain
next summer that were ever known.
The nearly 20,000 bales of cotton
in Dawson shows that Terrell county
farmers have a tight grip and are
in earnest about holding it.
The cool crisp wiuter weather, with
frost on the ground in the morning,
is wholesome and welcome.
different kinds of bad insects and the
seeds of 129 anathema weeds. For
the smaller pests of the farm he was
the most marvelous engine of de
struction that God ever put together
of flesh and blood. He was good,
beautiful and true, and his small life
was blameless. And here he lies
dead, snatched away from his field of
labor, and destroyed, in order that I
may be tempted to dine three min
lutes longer after I have already eaten
to satiety.”
THE DAWSON NEWS
COMMERCIAL DOMINATION
REAL ISSUE OF THE WAR
From the Savannah News.
Those Who are studying the war
situation in Europe are coming to
the conclusion that no mat‘er what
Liay have been the immediate cause
of the war the chief issue of it now
is commereial domination of world
markets under political control. Two
facts justify this conclusion. One is
that Germany had been preparing for
jwar a long time because she knew
ithat eventually she would have to
| have a war with England if she
jcontinued her policy of extending her
'commerce and establishing colonies.
'The other is that England, not being
well prepared for war, but meaning
to fight the foregoing issue to settle
ment, bound Russia and France by an
agreement with her not to accept
peace unless all agreed to do so.
The war therefore will be contin
ued until a decisive battle is fought
or one side or the other is exhaust
ed. Hence, there is every reason to
beiieve that the war will be a long
one. The fighting thus far shows that
there is no reason to expect a decisive
battle soon and there are no signs yet
on either side of exhaustion.
That President Wilson expects a
long war is evident from his refusal
a day or two ago to join a number
of the neutral powers in an effort to
!bring about peace. He saw no reason
{or thinking that such an offer would
be successful or even appreciated. To
bim it seemed that it might be em
barrassing, and hence rejected. |
And another reason for thinking
that world markets are the real issue
is the fact that Germany is dealing
with Belgium as if she intended to
keep not only Belgium but also to
capture and hold a part of France,l
the part that contains important sea
ports. Germany wants Belgium’s
ports to enable her better to carry
out her policy of acquiring new mar
kets. That this is so is apparent from
the fact that the people of Hamburg
didn’t know whether or not to rejoice
over the capture of Antwerp. They
gloried in the success of the arms of
their country, but they realized that
Ga2rmany meant to keep Antwerp and
that meant the loss of wealth and
importance by the port of Hamburg.
Being a war for dominating infiu
ence in Europe and for world mar
kets it is bound to be fought to a fin
ish. The result of it will greatly
change the map of Europe, no matter
which side wins. If Germany and
Austria-Hungary win Austria will
take territory for which she has long
had a desire and Germany will take
Belgium, perhaps Holland and parts
of France. If the allies win Russia
will extend her borders by annexing
some of the territory of both Ger
many and Austria and England or
France may get the German posses
sions in Africa. However, the ques
tion of what changes will take place
in boundaries or in ownership of col
onies is as yvet a matter of specula
tion. But there is no good reason
to doubt that the war will last for
many months yet, that the issue is
orne of commercial domination and'
that the result of it will be to greatly'
change the world’s map. I
FIND OUT ABOUT THE :
INSECTS ON YOUR FARM
~ Farm and Fireside, a farm paper
\published at Springfield, Ohio, urges
farmers in its current issue to find
out from experts about any insects
on their farms Of the folly at go
ing along in ignorance Farm and
Fireside says in part:
“Dr. F. M. Webster of the depart
ment of agriculture once spent an
hour in a wheat field with its owner.
At the end of the hour the farmer as
serted that he had been raising wheat
for fifty years and had found out dur
ing that hour things were going on
in the way of insect operations in
his wheat of which he had never had
the slightest idea.
‘“All those years he had been losing
money by these things of which he
had no knowledge, but which a train
ed entomologist was able to tell him
about, and actually show him in an
hour. An hour with a man who
knows is better than half a century of
listening to sounds, watching hop
pings and flyings, and accepting an
cient misinformation.
“A millionaire banker and farmer
once took an entomologist to his 18,-
000-acre farm to investigate the rav
ages of a ‘new insect’ which was de
stroyving the corn. The ‘new insect’
was the well known Western corn
root worm, which is easily controlled
by a proper rotation of crops.
“Another corn grower followed in
structions anc got rid of the corn
root worm, but accused the entomol
ogist of not knowing his business
when the next vear his oats were
eaten by the army worm on the same
fields. He regarded the army worm
and the cornroot worm as the same
thing.
“In one county a demonstrator who
was trying to find out what the soil
lacked for tl§p growing of corn found
that the trouble was not in the soil
itself but in a certain insect pest
with which it was infested. The
owners of the soil had never suspect
ed the nature of the trouble.
“And ve. the knowledge we need
is easy to get.”
METHOD IN MADNESS.
Buyv a bale o’ cotton, Bill,
Buy a heavy ham,
Buyv a bar’l of apple sass,
Buy a jar of jam.
Buv a box of oranges,
Buy a car of oats,
Buy yourself a suit of clothes,
Buy some overcoats.
Buy yourself a ton of hay,
Buy a load of bricks,
Buy a pair of rubber boots,
Buy a flock of chicks.
Buy vourself some chewing gum,
Buay it by the box;
Buy yourself an auto,
Buy’'a dozen sox.
Buy a vear’s subsription,
Pay it in advance;
Then your friend, ye editor,
Can buy a pair o’ pants.
—E. F. Mclntyre.
FABLES FOR THE FRIVOLOUS,
In the Clden, Gotden Days
When Hand Made Com
: plexions Were Rare.
HE sun sank and the last streak of
Tcrimson flooded the white sky. The
medicine man ran up the slippery
steps of the marble palace and was met
by an aproned Duchess who placed her
fingers warningly to her lips. The
medicine man tiptoes past her.
Later, . the same Duchess rustled
through a long corridor, which led tc
the Kihg’s private audience room.
“Henry,” she whispered, rapping on the
door, “it's a girl.”
‘All of this unnerved the King, for he
had been looking forward to an heir,
perhaps a thin and ghastly oue, brutj
just the same, an heir!
The baby bore the name of Snow
White and Rose Red, because of the
prilliant color surmounting her alabas
ter cheeks. Her mother attributed the
child’s complexion to the fact that she
first appeared at sunset and the sky
was now reflected in the baby’s face,
Black hair, dark as night, only offset
the mother’s pretty superstition. . - |
Snow White at eighteen, the ideal of
womanhood, in order to preserve her
uoted skin, indulged in frequent walks,|
strenuous exercises and wbelesome|
THE GERM OF HYDROPHOBIA
HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
From the New York Sun.
Is the cause of hydrophobia a mys
tery no longer? Whatever experts
may ultimately decide with still fur
ther knowledge it is clear that recent
investigations of the disease in this
country and in Europe have never
been exceeded in interest or in brill
iance; never has the almost invisible
germ of rabies been brought so near
the view of mankind. The problem
of the origin of hydrophobia, or ra
bies and in particular of the habitat
and nature of its microbe appeals to
every class of intellect, and there are
few questions that in days gone by
have aroused more curiosity and awe,
or have in recent years been studied
with keener enthusiasm, as every
fresh discovery in Germany, France,
Italy and Russia has gradually lessen
ed the gap betwwen our bacteriologi
cal knowliedge and the mode of
growth of parasite that has hitherto
defied detection.
The germ is probably of the order
of parasites that can be cultivated
artificially and observed with the mi
croscope. There have been found in
close but not intimate association
with the nerve cells of rabid animals
an incalculable number of minute
germs, whose shape is like that orig
inally sketched out by Pasteur and
Metchniokoff. The same cultivations
in which these microbes appear have
vielded others of somewhat larger
size, with varieties of oval shape,
which, injected into animals, have
produced rabies. The first question,
then, is whether the visible germs
are those of rabies or contamina
tions which have found their way
into the cultivations, together with
the real but still undiscovered germs.
Noguchi and Luzzani regard them as
the casual agent of the disease. The
body of the parasite is so remarkably
like the structure of the animal cell
that authorities find a difficulty in as
signing it to the same class as the
bacteria, or vegetable organisms.
SKULL CROP A BUMPER.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The annual fall crop of skulls is
now being harvested on the site of
Fort Pontchartrain.
Souvenir fiends are dashing madly
around carrying skulls, arrow heads,
beads, wampum, bayonets, musket
locks, horseshoes, brass buttons and
other mementoes of a gory but his
toric past.
A workman digging a trench in
Jefferson avenue, near Griswold
street, made the first important find.
His spade struck something hard and
he unearthed a skull of magnificent
proportions. In close proximity he
found two others.
He grew voluble and everybody
quit work. Business men dashed out
of their stores and shops, and people
got off street cars. The old resident
er was among those present. He
said the skulls were resting on the
site of the gateway to old Fort Pont
chartrain. He said no doubt many
more skeletons will be found before
the trenches are completed.
A man in short sleeves said the
skulls probably were those of the Iro
quois tribe of indians. .
“You can tell that by the high
cheek bones, the ingrowing eyes and
the diminishing forehead,” he said.
THE CZAR AND VODKA.
From Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The czar business has its advant
ages. Liquor interfering with my ar
mies? Very well, let there be no
more liguor. And that puts absolute
prohibition all over the map of Rus
sia.
No initiative, referendum or recall,
no election, no crusade, but just an
order and exit every corkscrew in the
empire. One day 150,000,000 people
may drink enough vodka to float the
Black Sea fleet. The next day they
may not buy enough of that trouble
maker to wet the bill of a humming
bird.
Thus the first throne to tumble as
a result of the war was that of King
Alcohol. And why did Russia and
rum part company? Because rum
was more of a menace to the Russian
i uniform than Austrian bullets. So,
in order to meet the foe in front, the
czar kicks the foe at home clear out
of his dominions.
| Asa temperance crusader Nicholas
Romanoff has such orators as John
B. Gough backed off the map.
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Efumt. No one could compete wich her
’for delicacy of feature and development!
of form. Fond of sports, she would
ramble through thicket and thorn, were
it necessary, to procure the healthiest
air.
Standing before her cheval glass she
often asked:—*‘Oh, delight of my heart,
reflector of my grace, is there anywhere
a maiden lovelier than I?7’ Strange to
say, the mirror never answered, and,
satisfied, Snow White spent her days in
peace,
She was as good as she was beautiful.
Career of Frederick L. Goss.
Master Builder of Great Printing Presses Passes On. Welsh Boy Came
to America and Achieved Usefulness, Success and Fame.
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Frederick Llewellyn Goss, presi
dent of the Goss Printing Press Co.,
of Chicago, died at his home in that
city November 10th at the age of 67.
Mr. Goss was born in Wales and
when a young man came to the Unit
ed States and became interested in
the printing press business. For a
time he resided in Milwaukee, and
in the 70’s moved to Chicago, where
he organized the Goss Printing Press
Company.
At this time newspaper publishers
had begun to feel the pressure of in
creasing circulations, and the inabil
ity of the presses to turn out newspa
pers fast enough gave them much
concern.
Early in the 70’s R. Hoe & Co. per
fected a rotary press in which a roll
or continuous web of paper could be
used. This answered the purpose
well enough for a while, but it had
many drawbacks, the lack of a quick
lyv drying ink, imperfect paper and
the difficulty of cutting the sheets
after printing causing much trouble.
The demand for something better
became insistent, especially as the
newspapers were reaching forward
and wanting to jump from eight
pages to twelve and sixteen at one
impression. Hoe purchased the pat
ent rights of an English ingention by
which the webs of paper could be
turned over after printing on one
side and the reverse side presented to
the cylinder. This press included a
device for assembling several sheets
into one complete paper, and it suf
ficed for a decade, but it was too cum
bersome to last.
It was the Goss company that de
veloped the press which marked the
final step in the evolution of power
Day of Dwarfs and Pigmies Coming?
Undersized Children ;a——l’roblem Soon to Be Dealt With. |
~ English anthropologists and phy
sicians have noticed for a long time
that the prehistoric, small, .dark
types which were submerged by the
Celtic and Teutonic invasions have
been reasserting themselves numeri
cally and have been also percolating
back to the areas from which they
were driven by these bigger, fiercer,
blonder immigrants, says American
Medicine. / S
The big blondes are not dying out
by any means; indeed, they might be
increasing, and their control of na
tional affairs is stronger every decade
perhaps, but the smaller, darker
types are apparently getting more
numerous in special positions which
kill off the more recent Teutons. The
pigmies, on the other hand, are ap
parently small sizes of all the types
which make up the population,
though no exact observations have
been made of their physical charac
ters.
No one knows what causes such
variations, but we can well imagine
a thousand things which may happen
to check growth, and, as the unfort
unates are largely in the lowest so
cial classes, we are justified in sus
pecting diseases and underfeeding as
the most common.
Very small or dwarf specimens are
found in every species, and in every
litter of pigs there is a “runt.”” In
modern civilzation size has absolute
ly no bearing upon the survival, for
no matter how little or how big a
man is he can find some way of mak
ing a living and some climate which
which will not hurt him.
If the dwarfish types are not gift
ed with enough intelligence for skill
ed labor they are in a pitiable condi
tion, for they cannot do hard labor
ing work. A big imbecile can shovel
dirt, but the little man cannot pros
per without brains. These stupid
dwarfs., clothed in rags and begging
an existence, are the most pitiable
sights in London.
Most of our little people are for
eign born, but the native born are
not sizing up as formerly, and some
time ago the manufacturing tailors
reported that the demand was for
smaller sizes of boys’ clothes for age
than formerly. The process of
dwarfing must then have been going
on for some time unnoticed. The
DECEMBER 1, 19,,
‘The Tale of a King’s Daughter
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~ Wondrous Fair, Who Kney
Not Powder or Rouge,
For instance, to prove her honesty, here
is an incident, recited by hersels Wwhen
she reached home:—
During a sprint one day she espled g
small packet and a tiny box in the road,
She bent—bending is good for the
hips—and, picking up her find, pro
ceeded to open it. The words “Tice
powder” on the cover conveyed nothing,
A soft, flaky substance spilled oyt
Remembering the “powder” part, Snoy
White became frightened, and, thinking
it an explosive, tossed it away and
turned her attention to the hox labelled
*Milady Rouge.”
- Inside this she discovered a mound of
red. Blushing, she cried:—“This gcarlet
;signlfleth my shame for having in my
possession that which does not belong
to me!” She dropped the box remorse.
fully and, thankful for her escape from
theft, remained from that day on g
‘ways upright,
This was in the olden, golden days,
‘There’s been a slight change since that
time, and nowadays maldens strive to
be nose white and cheeks red. They are
again fond of sports, and, though rice
powder is called “‘my best friend,” a box
of rouge still creates a blush!
prifiting. Many improvements in de
tail have since been made, but they
have all been along the lines of the
basic principles laid down by Goss.
It was in 1889 that Joseph L. Firm,
the foreman of the composing room
of a New York publishing house, solv
ed the problem of newspaper print
ing in a new way and patented the
straight line press. His first design
was a simple tandem press. Three
sets of cylinders were set in a
straight line, and the printed prod
uct of the first passed over the sec
ond, and the first and second over
the third, thus assembling all three
sheets over a triangular “former” for
folding, cutting and delivering. It
was only a step to secure economy of
construction and space to build the
press in tiers instead of tandem.
Firm had little money to push his
invention, and the first press he con
structed for a New York newspaper
was so crudely put together that it
was condemned. But not long after
ward Frederick L. Goss became inter
ested in the straight line idea and
bought the invention, taking Firm
into the Goss Printing Press Com
pany. After much litigation har
mony was established among the
press makers, and the development
of the giant presses of today follow
ed quickly. It was the principle of
the straight lime, first taken up and
pushed by Goss, that made the great
modern ‘dailies possible.
Mr. Goss had five children by his
first marriage. His wife died in Lon
don in 1907. Two years later he was
secretly married while abroad to Miss
Jennie Foster, an English woman.
He brought his bride home with him
as a surprise to his children.
matter ought to be looked into now,
as it is quite disconcerting to think
that the pouring of hordes into the
"‘melting pot” is the result in under
sized people as in Europe, even pig
mies as in London. Every immigrant
may help to shovel dirt for railroads,
but he brings one more mouth to fill
_while the meat production is dimin
ishing. It is all very well to say We
will give these poor failures of Eu
rope a seat at our table, but what it
our own children go hungry?
Boys cannot grow into good citl
zens without plenty of food, and i,
we cannot increase the food then
we must decrease the immigration
and the birth rate. No matter what
we do our population in the end will
settle into layers as in England,
where stature increases with social
rank from good feeding as well as
good inheritance of stock that has
“made good,” but let us try to keep
up our bigness and physical equality
as long as possible.
Don’t Call Him
| «“ The Old Man”" |
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Boys, when you speak of your fath
er don’'t call him “old man.” of
course you are older now than when
vou were taught to call him “father.
You are much smarter than you were
then, your clothes fit you better,
vour hat has a more modern ghape
and your hair is combed differently;
in short, you are “flyer” than you
were then. Your father has 2 last
year’s coat, a two-year-old hat and ’l
vest of still older pattern. Hoe can't
write such an elegant note a 5 YOU can
and all that, but don’t call him “old
man.” Call him “father.” For Yes%B
he has been hustling around to get
things together; he has beel held 0
the thorny path of uphill industry
and the brightest half of bis life 88"
gone from him forever. He loves yOU
though he goes along without sayingé
much about it, therefore, be not %0
ungrateful.—Franklin pemocrat.
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hammer, a spring forcing the javs
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