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MRS. LEWIS
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A Noble Dalton Lady Is Dead.
Mrs. Susan Lewis, mother of Mrs.
Doßie Detter and Mrs. W. C. Martin,
died at the home of her son-in-law,
Col. W. C. Martin, last night about
7 o’clock.
Mrs. Lewis was the relict of the
late Mr. J. Q. A. Lewis, and had she
lived until her next birthday, in the
coming February, she would have been
82 years old.
She was one of the good mothers in
Israel. There never lived a more char
itable woman than her. No one, rich
or poor, black or white, ever went
away from her door hungry. She was
active all of her life until the past few
years. During the Civil war she aided
the Southern soldiers in many ways,
while her home was in East Tennessee,
which made her kindly acts the more
hazardous. There are thousands of
traveling men who have been guests at
her table and there is not one living
but would speak in the highest praise
of her finer sensibilities and personal
characteristics, and when they learn
of her taking away will shed a tear
and breathe a prayer that she will rest
in peace. She needs no monument, for
her godly life is enshrined in the
hearts of all who knew her. The fu
neral will probably occur sometime to
morrow.
The pallbearers are: Messrs. Wil
liam Denton, F. T. Hardwick, G. M.
Cannon, Sr., G. W.Orr, E. P. Davis,
Julian McCamey. T. S. Shope, Den
nis Barrett, and F. T. Reynolds.
The Turkeys.
“The 01-fashioned business man
was tricky, but it is fashionable to
day for a business man to be as chiv
alrous to his business asociates as
he would be to a lady.”
The speaker, says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, was Miss Mary Gar
den. Seated in her drawing-room at
the Ritz-Carlton, she resumed.
“There’s a Thanksgiving story £at
illustrates the methods of the old
fashioned, the extinct business man.
“A business man, a poulterer, was
in the habit of making ‘claims’ on all
hills. Sometimes these claims were
just; usually they were unjust; at any
rate, by his generous use of them he
got a discount on every purchase of
4 or 5 per cent.
“Well, one Thanksgiving season
this tricky business man received a
dozen barrels of dressed turkeys from
a Western dealer. Heretofore he had
bought live turkeys from the dealer.
Hence, now he made the grievous er
ror of writing and claiming for six
birds that had sickened in transit,
and had reached his storehouse dead.
“The Western dealer replied to
that claim as follows:
“ ‘Dear Sir —We regret to say that
we find it impossible to allow claim
put forward in yours of 24th inst.
We have established a rule that all
customers desiring live dressed tur
keys must notify us of same in ad
vance, so that we may ship birds in
ears specially steam heated.
“ ‘Turkeys without their feathers
and insides are liable to contract
pneumonia if shipped in the ordinarny
way in refrigerator ears. The mor
tality among dressed turkeys was
very pronounced this year. Yours
sadly.”
Reading Gaol.
In Reading jail, by Reading town,
There is a pit of shame.
And in it lies a wretched man,
Eaten by teeth of flame.
In a burning winding sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
And there, till Christ call forth the
dead,
Tn silence let him lie;
No need to waste the foolish tear,
Or heave the windy sigh;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
And all men kill the thing they love;
By all let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a altering word.
The coward does it with a kiss.
The brave man with a sword,
h Oscar Wilde.
RED CRi;SS
Stamps for Sale at the Drug Stores
The good women of D: Iton have
placed on sale Red Cross stamps at
the drug stores of Fincher & Nichols
and Gregory’s. ■
These stamps are sold to help stop
the spread of consumption a id to help
the sufferers from that dreed disease
who are not able to buy me icines or
I get medical attention. The stamps
cost one cent each and can l,e placed
on letters, but the regular United
States postage stamp must also be
put on the letter. Every penny you
spend for a Red Cross stamp goes to
help the great cause. Be sure and
buy as many as you can afford.
Taft anxious not to offend Russia.
He may act without authority from
the house senate.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt marries Mrs.
Smith Hollins McKim.
(From The Daily Argus, Dec. 15.)
On the 28th of this month Dalton,
Whitfield county, will be 68 years old.
On the 29t)i of this month, 1847,
Cross Plains had her name changed
to that of Dalton. For six years and
one day, Dalton was therefore situated
in Murray county. Whitfield was cut
off from Murray Dec. 28, 1853, by an
act of the legislature and approved
by the governor. Hence, on Dec. 29,
1912 Dalton can and should celebrate
her 75th birthday or her “diamond
anniversary.” Will not someone pre
sent her with a big “Koohinor?” The
Argus would like for someone to pro
pose a celebration for that event.
(From The Daily Argus, Dec. 15.)
For the purpose of extending an
other call to Rev. Hugh K. Walker, of
Los Angeles, a congregational meeting
has been called at the First Presby
terian church for next Sunday morn
ing.
It will be remembered that the
church extended the call to Dr. Walk-
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er some time ago. He accepted, but his
Los Angeles church refused to accept
his resignation, and the presbytery
would not transfer the pastor over
his congregation’s opposition.
The First church, however, is not
discouraged, and will issue another
cail. It believed that Dr. Walker, be
ing a Georgian, would like to return
here, and that his church will not fur
ther refuse to accept his resignation.
A large attendance of the congrega
tion is urged for next Sunday morn ■
ing.—Atlanta Constitution.
(From The Daily Argus, Dec. 15.)
Georgia has been prospering in the
bank line as well as in all other lines.
So far there have been established
this year nearly ninety banks in the
state. The combined capital of these
new banks amounts to the total of
$3,690,000. There has not been a
bank failure in Georgia during the
year 1911. Georgai has, all told, 645
banks.
It was winter, and our clergyman, a
very old friend, was dining with us,
and all -were enjoying the roast tur
key, when the hostess mildly remarked
that she thought it would have to be
the last one of the season. To the
amusement of all at the table, the
small boy piped up:
“Why, auntie, you said that three
l turkeys ago. ’ ’ —The Delineator.
Generous.
“And what were the provisions of
your uncle’s will?”
“That I should have all he left af
ter the payment of his just debts.”
“Ah, very good of the old mar,
wasn’t it? What did he leave?”
“Just debts.”
A Nature Story.
Algy met a bear.
The bear was bulgy.
The bulge was Algy.
His Dillemma.
“Oh, Tommy, you're too old to
cry’. ’ ’
“Yes, and I’m too young to have
what I’m crying for. ’ ’
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911
BOILED
Child Dies in Hot Tub of Syrup.
TIFTON, Ga., Dec. 15.—Elton, the
3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Lightfoot, living near Inaha, met a
horrible death Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Lightfoot was away from Lome
and Mrs. Lightfoot had just taken off
a boiling of syrup and had left it >o
cool while she cleaned bottles to put
it in.
Unnoticed, the little child, who was
bringing the bottles to its mother, fell
into the tub and was scalded so badly
that he died within five hours, despite
the frantic efforts of the family and
the hastily summoned physician to
give relief.
JACKSON. Ga., Dec. 15.—Will Tur
ner, a negro preacher, was hanged in
King’s open bouse here yesterday for
killing Jesse Singley near Indian
Springs, Ga., Aug. 26. The hanging
was to have taken place in the jail
yard, but fear of a large crowd, which
might attempt race trouble, caused the
change in plans. Only a few newspa
per men and officers and relatives of
the man were present.
Singley, a young white man, was am
bushd after trying to settle some toru
ble between hotel bell boys in which
Turner’s two sons were implicated.
Race trouble was narrowly averted at
that time.
The negro confessed to the murder
Wednesday afternoon, saying he fired
al) of the shots and denied his boys
were guilty. In a statement just be
fore being taken from the jail to the
place of execution, Turner warned
the members of his race against whis
key drinking. He was cool and col
lected to the last.
Three sons of Turner are being held
at Atlanta pending trial for partici
pating in the killing.
They Dine on the Floor.
The latest feminine craze is to sit
cross-legged on the floor and eac din
ner with the fingers. An Indian phil
osopher has introduced the idea, ex
plaining that the tips of the fingers
contain the soul forces and convey
these directly into the food and thence
into the systems of the diners.
The women are loosely clothed in
white kashmir garments, and they
wear sandals on bare feet Their hair
hangs loose down their back.
The chief meal is taken at midday,
and is suppose to consist of vegetables
only—vegetables which grow aoye the
ground, such as rice and lettuce, being
preferred.
The difficulty of scraping up a suf
ficient meal of rice and pease with the
finger tips does not appear to deter
the enthusiastic spirits, though the
fainter-hearted can always fall back
upon Indian corn, which may be com
fortably grabbed in the hand.
More than one duchess has been
seen eating corn in this primitive fash
ion lately, and even impassive family
servants are showing surpirse at these
newest developments of aristocratic
unconventionality.
Salt.
Salt production is about the oldest
industry in the world. In Italy, the
cradle of the salt industry, it has Imen
manufactured commercially for about
2,500 years.
Salt is so necessary to existence
that in some parts of the world tirbes
will sell the members of their families
in exchange for salt.
Salt has been the cause of wars,
and so important has it always been
considered that in some places the
passing of salt is established as a to
ken of friendhip, and women throw
salt on a visitor as a friendly greet
ing. In some countries salt is so
scarce that it is obtained through
the ashes of grasses, and a species of
palm and other plants.—Good stories.
An Old Acquaintance.
“Hello, Rummel, I hear your watch
was stolen.”
“Yes, but the theif has already
been arrested. Only’ fancy! The stu
pid fellow took it to the pawnshop.
There it was at once recognized as
mine and the this was lockd up.”—
Short Stories.
CORNCLUBS
60,000 Boys to Plant in 1912.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—More
than twenty Southern boys who had
won prizes in corn-growing contests,
today’ heard President Taft talk on the
benefits that would accrue to Dixie
through such work as they were doing.
He daclared that if the lessons these
boys had learned were taught to oth
ers, the South would not have to de
pend on 15-cent cotton.
Representative Gordon Lee, of Geor
gia, told the president that next year
60,000 Southern boys would compete
for the corn prizes.
KNOCKS GRANDSTAND GIVERS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Investi
gation of charges of oppression, neg
ligence indifference to the welfare
and comfort of inmates of the Na
tional Soldier’s home inLos Angeles
county, Cal., was urged, and million
aires who make benefactions condi
tioned on the heralding of their names
were arraigned in the senate today in
speech by Mr. Work, of California.
Mr. Work, in dwelling on the debt
owed to the Civil war veterans, said he
favored ertending to the remnant of
“the gallant Confederate army” the
same care and protection accorded to
Union soldiers. He commented upon
the treatment of Civil war veterans
when they became old, friendless and
diseased, by comparison with prevail
ing “garish and often vulgar display
of wealth and wild and unreasoning
extravagance.”
“It is almost always heralded as a
public benefaction, but it is used as a
neans of personal aggradizement in al
most every instance,” he said of fre
quent donors of gifts. “The library
built with this surplus of wealth or
the institution founded with money
that is worse than useless to the donor,
must bear his name and herald to the
world this seeming act of beneficence.
There are conspicuou and honorable
exceptions to this rule, however.”
Mr. Work then deplored conditions
in the soldiers’ homes of the country,
as he said he had had them pictured
to him in published articles. He said
the matter should be vigorously looked
into. If he had his way, he declared,
the federal government would not only
maintain Union veterons in peace and
comfort, but the old and helpless Con
federate veterans, as well.
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A Draw.
“I found 50 cents this morning,”
confided Jimmy.
“Found a whole half dollar!” ex
claimed his mother. “How fine!
What did you do with it?”
“Pete Jones was along, so I gave
him half.”
“You dear, generous boy! Did you
do that of your own accord?”
“Yessum —well,t we decided tha
would be right.”
“Jimmy! He didn’t whip you and
make you give up half?”
“No, mamma. If he’d licked me,
he’d a had it all. The scrap was a
draw.”
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