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THE DALTON ARGUS
Official Organ of Whitfield County
Entered at the Postoffice in Dalton,
Ga., as second-class matter and issued
every Thursday by R. A. Johnstone.
R. A. JOHNSTONE,
Editor and Proprietor.
Boost, brother, boost.
o
The weather man won’t stay bought.
New Orleans may lose the mint, but
Kentucky never.
_o
There has never been a heat pros
tration in Dalton.
Let us have fire proof construc
tion from now on.
o
It’s impossible to keep a good town
down. Watch us grow.
Taft is worried about reciprocity.
So is the Atlanta team.
Reno has received an earthquake
shock. Fancy shocking Reno.
B
Tennessee has much to be thank
ful for. Her legislature has adjourn
ed.
Silk hose cost several dollars now.
They are gradually going out of sight.
—Shellman Sun.
o
Admiral Toga is visiting in this
country. We trust Capt. Hobson will
rally from the shock.
There is talk now of a seventy-story
building. About thirty of these sto
ries are probably lies.
i
It is very much like the question:
“How old is Ann,” in the Georgia
senatorial race at present.
o
The Chattanooga Times asks: Which
is the most undesirable, the hookworm,
the plague, a tail end team or a legis
lature.
o
Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying that
newspapers are losing their influence.
Anyhow, this doesn’t affect the Com
moner.
o
Now that people may fly across the
English channel with impunity, more
people may be induced to take that
awful trip.
o
Some women are awful touchy. A
widow has brought an action against
a paper which said her husband had
gone to a happier home. —Gray News.
0
A Washington woman says she can
not live on SI,OOO a month. Neither
could we. Any editor would eat him
self to death if he had that much
money.
o
The most sensible gathering of
law makers is the Connecticut legis
lature, which, by resolution, has de
cided to carry on its sessions minus
coats.
o
Think of the lady with the harem
skirt taking a rural stroll and asking
some unsophisticated farmer, “Is this
the way to Warem?”—Cartersville
News.
o
Women have lost the art of blush
ing, says a Paris expert. Probably
because they find so much to blush
at that they can’t go the rounds. —
Thomasville Enterprise.
o
An Illinois girl is said to have
stood four hours in a spelling bee,
spelling down all but one competi
tor, and finally tripped on the word
divorce. —Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
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Frank Reynolds is expected back
from North Georgia Saturday. He
helped inaugurate Gov. Smith some
lays ago, and later several other
things in prohibition-stricken Atlan
ta. —Chattanooga Times.
With the price of cotton soaring
skyward, frying chickens at 40 cents
to 50 cents we see no reason why
the farmer and the mockingbird
should not sing, “Home, Sweert
Home.” As for us, we’re too hoarse
to try.—Bremen Gateway.
In the dull season is the time that
advertising is most needed.
Poor old Dr. Cook. Even the plate
matter jokers have ceased to mention
him.
The courts in this country ought to
open up a school for the blind —
tigers.
o
The only way out of the Atlanta
difficulty is to order enough togas to
go around.
o
A Los Angeles man is advertising
for a homely bride. That ad will
never be answered.
o
Fish scales were found defective by
a New York inspector. A weigh with
them. —Florida Times-Herald.
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The Chattanooga Times refers to
rohibition stricken Georgia. The par
agrapher should visit Atlanta.
o
The man who thinks baseball has
not “come back” should go over so
Fairfield almost any afternoon.
Dalton welcomes the county teach
ers and also Prof. Earnest, of the
State Normal, who will be with us for
a week.
Someone would confer a favor on
the Tennessee politicians if he would
invent a few fresh names for them
to hurl at each other.
o
A tree specialist tells of chestnuts
several hundred years old. We have
seen them in all probability older.
Seen them and heard them too.
o
There was said to be no “ten com
mandments” in the Island of Guam
until civilized people discovered it.
There was also no Scotch whiskey.
0
One Daltonian claims that in ten
years this city will be the size of
Chattanooga. That’s the right kind
of dope, ''mile and be optimistic.
o
63,000.000 barrels of beer were
consumed in this country’ last year.
This is over half a barrel per person
and lots of us failed to get our share.
0
There is much discussion in the news
papers about what constitutes the
“absolute life.” We know the ans
wer. It is being in the Tennessee leg
islature.
o
The only Americus woman owning
a harem skirt, but who never dared
wear it, will swap it now for a lat
ticed shirt waist or silk hose. —
Americus Times-Recorder
• o
Castro is back in Venzuela and al
though the people are not worrying
over what Castro will do, they are a
little disturbed to know what he is
going to refrain from doing.
o —
The percapita of money in cireula
on in the United States is now $31.25.
' 1 the party who has ours will come
xrward with it he can have the 24
*nts and no questions asked.
0
Note the record of deaths from
htat and you will find that nearly all
of them occur in northern latitudes.
Georgia may have longer summers,
but this is the most delightful climate
on earth.
—B
Bathing is a dangerous pastime. A
Maine man who hadn’t taken one for
25 years died from the effects of a
tub. An Illinois woman got a divorce
from her husband because he did not
take baths.
o
A two year-old boy in Indiana has
climbed a 14 foot cherry tree and
stolen all the luscious fruit therefrom.
Ohio bad best look to her presidential
laurels in about thirty years. The
lad did not deny it.
Speaking of the ability and enter
prise ,of the northeast Georgia hen,
it was declared a few days ago that
when poultry is shipped from this
end of the state to the eastern mar
kets, the biddies in the car lay
enough eggs enroute to pay the
freight on the whole consignment and
that an extra box car is carried
along to haul the eggs.—Toccoa
Herald.
TRF. DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1911.
A WORD OF THANKS.
With this issue The Daily and
Weekly Argus together with the en
tire plant, pass into the hands of Mr.
R. A. Johnstone.
The retiring proprietor desires to
extend his thanks to the people of
Dalton as well as to his former con
stituents in this and other counties,
for the support they have given him
during the past ten years or more.
This fall The Daily Argus will cel
ebrate its third birthday and alt ’j ’g'.i
the launching of the Daily was largeiv
experimental in the beginning, it took
only a few months to show that the
Daily was wanted by the people. It
caught on from the first and its
publication has been both a plcasur
to the proprietor and a financial suc
cess.
The new* owner comes to Dalton
from larger fields, has had metropoli
tan experience, and will continue to
furnish the people the very best in the
way of up-to-date newspaper en
deavor. B. L. HEARTS ILL.
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OPENING BROAD STREET.
It strikes The Daily Argus that the
Georgia legislative committee which
visits Chattanooga this week, should
o carefully over the matter of opening
Broad street through the state pro
perty up there.
From all the Argus knows of the pro
position it appears as if it would be
advisable to do so. It is known that
a Chattanooga capitalist offers $160.-
000 per annum for the ground rental
of the lots to be opened under his of
fer. We also learn that an Atlanta
gentleman offers $200,000 for the
same. No doubt more could be secur-
>
ed when the street is opened. Before
this street should be permitted to be
developed sufficient terminals for
switching purposes should be bought
out near the city limits and they
should he bought now while land is
comparatively cheap, even if Broad
street should never be opened. It
is a positive fact that the present
terminals are totally insufficient for
switching purposes and in fact have
been abandoned by the present lessees
for economic reasons. The treatment
of Atlanta terminals of the Western
and Atlantic railroad in a similiar
manner. as pointed out by
Governor Smith in his inaugural ad
dress, would he also profitable to
Georgia and it must not be forgotten
that all of the revenue accrueing from
the road goes to the educational fund
of the state.
The Rome Tribune-Herald has
emerged fresh and clean after its
“Moving Day.”
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HAPPY RESULTS.
Have Made Many Dalton Residents
Enthusiastic.
No wonder scores of Dalton citizens
grow enthusiastic. It is enough, to
make anyone happy to find relief af
ter years of suffering. Public state
ments like the „ following are but
truthful representations of the daily
work done in Dalton by Doan’s Kid
ney Pills.
J. H. Bartenfield. 74 E. Morris
street. Dalton. Ga., says: “I have been
free from kidney trouble ever since
Doan's Kidney Pills cured me-three
years ago. I publicly endorsed them
at that time and today I am glad to
confirm my former statement. After
straining myself. I began to suffer
from disordered kidneys and the con
stant jarring I received at my work
aggravated my trouble. A chronic
case of lumbago developed and I could
not stoop or exert myself without
having pains in my back. Nothing
helped me until I got Doan’s Kidney
Pills at Fincher & Nichols’ drug store.
The contents of six or seven boxes
restored my kidneys to a normal con
dition and since then I have enjoyed
good health.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50c.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name —Doan's and
take no other.
Slimmer Coats
going fast in the
Dissolution Sale
w. lee McWilliams
AND SHADOW J
By James Wells.
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If I Were a Millionaire.
I wish I were a millionaire
For just about a day.
I’d try to blow myself for fair
And see what folks would say.
I’d buy a jaunty little yacht—
The speediest afloat —
And then perhaps, as like as not,
I’d buy a summer coat.
If I was just a millionaire
And had the Midas touch,
I hardly think I’d ever care
For building schools and such.
If I were bent on spending dough
To show how rich I am,
The way I’d let the people know
Would be to buy a ham.
A Summer Evening.
The sun is sinking in the west
(As the sun is apt to do).
The skeeters (what an awful pest),
Are all around me too.
The evening bells are pealing,
(As bells are apt to do).
But the one for which I’m feeling
Is a supper bell or two.
—Kray Z. Mutt.
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Sentiment and Substance.
When we see a hungry mortal
Looking like he’d lost all hope,
Oh how we like to feed him —
On some sentimental dope.
We prate to him of courage,
And “cheer up” stuff we’ve read;
But not a thing we tell him
Will buy a loaf of bread.
Some Heroes —And Others.
They call a man a hero
And load him down with laurels
When he stands before a gun,
For the battles he has won.
All honor to the victor,
As he marches home from war,
But the really, truly, hero
Smoke the Christmas-gift cigar.
They say a man’s a hero
When he plunges ’neath the wave,
And risks a thousand perils
Some human life to save.
They say he is a hero,
And he is without a doubt,
But the man that shows true courage
Wears the tie his wife picks out.
Reformers.
Once on a time, or so they tell us,
A few reformers, over zealous,
Essayed to wash the black man white,
Needless to say, a failure quite.
But still you see some would-be leader
Whose eloquence is his chief feeder,
Engaged in some such senseless creed
With people flocking to his creed.
Oh, would that people had the power
To know things don’t come in an hour.
Reformers are not made in a day,
And most reformers out for pay.
• •••
Sambo’s Choice.
De lily lubs de sunlight,
De violet de shade,
De rounder lubs de giddy gals,
Some boys de quiet maid.
Young folks likes deir courtin’ —
Black as well as white,
But me—l loves de million patch,
On a quiet summer night.
♦***
It's a long line that leads nowhere,
but some people’s conversation seems
to follow it.
***♦
I Wonder.
I wonder who does Lester Love?
Whoever James T. Wills?
Or does, perchance, he look above
The Rich and Hardy Hills?
I wonder what made Ada White?
Did little Arthur Painter?
What would it take to make Paul Fite
Would N. A. Parsons saiiit ’er?
I wonder when will Nellie Wright?
And what has John C. Dunn?
And who Will Black my shoes tonight
And if A. Pool will run?
And now I’d better quit I “Speck”
For something to me tells
Someone might take me by the neck
And throw me in
JAMES WELLS.
Vest Pocket Essays
A college is a factory for turning
raw material into case-hardened ath
letes, kid-flnished society leaders, and
future members of “Who’s Who.”
Its work is marvelous. It can take
an eighteen-year-old youth with pre
mature trousers, hay stack hair, and
an Adam’s apple like a plum, and
in four years can work him over into
a football champion who looks as if
be had just stepped out of a ready
made clothing advertisment. It can
transforms a basheful boy who turns
his toes in so they will not be too
prominent, into a loud noise in a
flat hat and a sore throat necktie, who
is only happy when he is stealing the
wheels from under a trolley car. It
makes statesmen out of cow herders,
society leaders out of plow boys, half
backs out of mothers’ darlings, and
wise men out of high school seniors.
And it accomplishes all this without
taking the material apart or using an
axe on it.
Colleges were invented a great many
centuries ago. but have only become
virulent during the last fifty years.
Formerly a college was only a place
in which to learn things out of books
and was as dull as a monastery. Now
it is a place in which to learn all about
Science, Politics. Lawn-tennis, History
of Art, Blocking Off With the Elbow.
Evidence of Christianity, How to Keep
a Dance Program Straight. Histrion
ics. Frat House Construction. Trig
onometry, Sign Stealing, French. Ad
vanced United States, Physiology.
Eating in All Its Branches, Baseball,
Gymnastics, How to Live On Credit,
Matrimony, the Science of Making the
Hair Stand Up Straight, Political
Economy, Noises —Mechanical and
Vocal—Greek. Human Nature, Girls,
i 4k l£ncleWalt 4
THE POET-PMILOSOPHER
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My garden is sickly and littered with wrecks; the beans wilted
quickly and passed in their checks. The sight, it is saddish; the cab
bage is dead; the onion and radish lie cold in their bed.
IN THE The night zephyrs whistle o’er wreck and decay, and only
GARDEN the thistle is blooming today. My strenuous labors this
garden has known, while indolent neighbors looked on with
a groan. I said: “I’ll be eating fine succulent sass, while those men are
treating their stomachs to grass.” They said: “You sir may hoe and dig
till you’re sore, but we from the grocer will purchase our store.” I slug
ged and lambasted the weeds with a hoe; my work was all wasted and I m
full of woe. My garden is dreary as Sidon or Tyre, and oh, lam weary,
while twanging my lyre- and this is the moral for others who fail to cul
tivate sorrel and onions and kale: A man needs some training his task to
pursue, or he’l l be complaining, disgusted and blue. WALT MASON.
THINKING THEMES
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
Everything depends. What’s one
man’s meat is another man’s poison—
morally as well as physically. As a
dose of Dr. Boneset ’s pink medicine
will set me up and a dose of the same
concoction will make you sick, so the
same commandment, institution, cir
cumstance, person, influence, oppor
tunity, or any other cure-all in the
success-maker’s pack, may help you
but may be the ruin of jne.
Nothing will do you any good if
you’re “in wrong.” (The slang of
the streets is the flower of popular
wisdom. This phrase “in wrong,”
is brimful of philosophy). But if
your attitude to the universe be right
thunders and alarums, mad dogs, and
microbes, will pass you by.
Abraham Lincoln grew up in the
backwoods of Illinois, and was a fel
low of Socrates. Many an endowed
youth is going to the universities now
and getting to be bigger fools every
Boost good roads before and after
meals.
o
The phrase ‘ ‘ political fight ’ ’ in Mis
sissippi doesn’t mean just plain, in
effective words.
By GEORGE FITCH
COL LEGE.
minute. Saints blossom in the slums,
and perverts sometimes grow in mon
asteries. Nero had the best teach
ers in the world, yet learned nothing
but infamy, while Francis of Assisi
issued from among roisterers to be
come a world-prodigy of moral bean
ty.
With everything against him father
fights his way to the top; then he
wants to give his boy a better chance,
so son begins at the top and with
everything in his favor, settles rapid!}
to the bottom. It all depends on two
thing?; first, what’s in you; secon
your relation to the cosmic potencies
We get around so to the script’’
“Because thou hast made the x- or
thy habitation, there shall be no eu
befall thee; for He shall give His
angels charge over thee to keep
in all thy ways. Also “the star
in their courses fought aga”
Sisera. ’ ’
_—-c
What became of Watson ’
senate yesterday? .
°“ ? .- “a
There may he such a thing ■’
Aoly and sinless kiss, but bewat'
them. They lead to Reno, Nevada-
and Policemen. The college student
of today learns all of these thing. in
four years, whereas one hundred years
ago a graduate w as lucky if he coul ,
read Latin and Greek at sight, and
could dodge hearses on the° st’reets
Inventors boast of the great strides
made by science in the last centurv
But science is a canal boat compared
with education.
Colleges are useful because thev
produce teachers, preachers, writers
and statesmen. They are a nuisance
because they produce ’Rah ’Rah boys
in explosive clothes, who have con
fined their studies to a thorough edu
cation in the conquest of thirst. Hap
pily, these are greatly in the minor
ity.
Statistics show that of all men in
the United States, less than one-fifth
are college graduates. On the other
hand, one-fourth of all the famous
men in the United States are college
men. One-half of the members of
congress are college men. Seventeen
out of twenty-six presidents have
been college men. Nine-tenths of the
writers of the country and one-half
of the millionaires are college men—
and only one out of a thousand in
mates of prisons are college men.
This teaches us that the college boy
who minds his teachers, and does not
burn down the buildings during his
course of study stands an exceedingly
good chance of landing at the top.
But it does not teach us that a college
boy is destined to ride to fame. The
world is full of college graduates who
are still waiting for the hand wagon
to come along and haul them to the
White House; and some of them are
having difficulty in paying their board
bills while waiting.