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The City, the cecond ward and the street commissioner, Mr.
Duckwortli, are to be congratulated upon the progress made in cpening
Sherman street across the railroad. After all, everything comes to
him who waits, so this street has finally been put in good conditioa.
The City’s part is practically completed; the A, B. & A. is expected
to do its part this week, after which the street will be opea for gen
(;sral traffic, :
¢ The Fire’Départment is all right, The Boys do fine work when
duty calls them,” We believe in them very strongly. The city has
provided them with every necessary apparratus to fight fire and when
ever occasion has demanded it, the boys have proved themsetves com
petent to meet the emergency. But we are not ready, the size of the
city does not warrant the purchase of an automobile extinguisher
truck. We have two splendid teams, and it has often been remarked
that the bovs don’t let a fire get a good start before they are on the
spot. Gasoline engines do act mulish sometimes—every automobile
owaer can testify to that, and we would be almost forced to keep a
team on hand to make certain of getting the department out. If the
City council has any money to invest for the benefit of the Fire De
partment at this time, we would advise them to put in an electric
alarm system—that is almost a necessity. An auto is an expensive
luxury.
A movement recently started by the mayor and council of Rochelle is]
of especial interest to the business men of Fitzgerald, and deserves our’
hearty co-coperation. Our neighbors realize the importance of frequent
intercourse with Fitzgerald and her facilities, and have consequently i
petitioned the traffic department of the Seaboard Air Line to arrange for
a daily special train to run from Cerdele to Ocilla, extending the presentl
schedule of the morning and evening train of the Abbeville and Ocilla
railroad. This arrangement would give Pitts, Seville, Penia and Rochcllel
daily trains to and from Fitzgerald, arriving here at 9 a. in. and leaving at
6 p. m. {
Every business man can see the importance of this arrangement
to our clty, and we should make every effort to co-operate with Rochellei
in getting this change of schedule. Petitions should be circulated amongi
our people and presented t) the Seaboard Air Line to urge them to put |
on this train service that will mean so much to Fitzgerald: }
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“On to Rochelle.”
The extension of the Ocilla Southern north is taking en real di
mensions, and is beginning te look like a railrcad. The greding of the
road is completed within ten miles of Rochelle, and the iails are laid and
the road completed for six miles from Fitzgerald. The road bed is in
excellent condition and the laying of the ties and rails is being done as
rapidly as men and money can do it.
Mr. Wilson, the chief engineer, has made the statement that trairs
will run into Rochelle by the last of August. Fitzgerald is opening a spler.-
did territory for the retail and wholesale merchants, as well as for our
cotton warehouses. Several thousand bales of cotton that heretofore
found its market in Rochelle will reach Fitzgerald directly through the
producer.
The stockholders of the Ocilla Southern will have a paying invest
ment; the merchants will declare a dividend through: their additional
trade opportunities and the banks through the certainty of increased
deposits. Everybedy is a winner. The outlogk for the extension of the
road to Macon is very prcmising, as sufficient money has already been
subscribed for it from Rochelle to Undilla.
Girls Not Wanted.
We regret to see the backward step of the trustees of the Third
Congressional Agricultural District College. The tendency of th> times
is to enlarge the educational opportunities for our girls to give them as
good a chance to secure knowledge and culture as we do the boys—to
teach them the practical things to make HOMES. Domestic science
as taught in these schools, is of as great an importance and productive of
as great a good as are the new methods of cultivating corn or seed selec
tion.
Dairying on the farm is largely dependent on the women. Poultry
raising, gardening and cannng and preserving are important branches
that the farmer's daughters are taught. The closing of the doors upon the
farmer’s girls is an injustice to the girls and a decided reflection on the
progressiveness of the board of trustees of the Tnird Congressional Agri
cuitural College, ard we trust the new board, soon to be appointed, will
rescind this idiotic action.
The State has but one school for girls—the Industrial College at
Milledgeville, where the daughters of our rich planters have been educa
ted at public expense. The District Colleges are convenient to the smaller
farmers, and the expense of sending their boys and girls to these institu
tions is within the reach practically of all of them, and the opportunity
to s tha ¢'rle a chanee choeld be kept apen for them,
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, TUESDAY, MAY 23. 1912
DEATHS SHOW- AN INCREASE
Last Year the Rate of 14.2 of 1909
Was Raised ta 14.7—Colorado
Has Decrease.
Washington.—The death rate in the
United States last year showed an
increase of one-half of one per cent
over the previous year, according to
the census bureau figures. The rate
in 1910 was 14.7 a thousand against
14.2 in 1909,
The returns relate to the census bu
reau’'s death registration area, which
included for the year 1910 an esti
mated midyear population of 52,843,
§96 persons, or 58.3 per cent of the
total population of continental United
States. This area comprises ecertain
entire states and also certain cities
in other sitates. From this area the
census bureau received transcripts of
805,412 deaths, exclusive of still
births, corresponding to a death rate
of 15 per 1,000 population. This rate,
although slightly higher than that for
the preceding year, 14.4, is a low one,
and represents a very favorable con
dition of the public health. The year
1909 was one of remarkably low mor
tality.
The variation in the general rates
among the several states is not very
great, ranging from 10 per 1,000 for
Washington, the lowest, ,to 17.3 for
New Hampshire, the highest. In 1909
the death rate for Washington was
9.8 and for New Hampshire it was
16.9, there being thus a slight in
crease in 1910 over the previous
year. While the death rate per 1,000
population in North Carolina, 18.7,
was actually greater than for New
Hampshire, this figure includes only
municipalities having a population of
1,000 or over in 1900. In 1903 North
Carolina was a nonregistration state.
Colorado is the only registration
state reporting a decrease in the
death rate per 1,000 population. In
1909 the figures for this state were
14.2, as against 13.8 in 1910.
STOP KILLING TURTLE DOVES
State to End Great Slaughter of Birds
of Inestimable Vaiue to |
Farmers.
New York.—Backed by alinost every
agricultural organization in the coun
try, special efforts to check the slaugh
ter of turtle doves, which destroy thou
sands of weed seeds at one meal, are
being made by the National Associa
tion of Audubon Societies in this city.
Before the birds fly south, after a sum
mer of eating weeds that menace
crops, it is planned to avert the mur
derous fusillade that butechers millions
of them annually in the southern and
southwestern states. A's one step in
this direction, the Audubon workers
have succeeded in causing the estab
lishment of a state game commission
in Georgia.
That each wild dove can destroy
more weeds in a day than the most
vigorous farm hand eguipped with &
hoe, has been demonsir&ted to farm
ers in various sections by investiga
tions of the government bioiogical sur
vey. In the stomachs of three doves.
23,100 seeds of hawkweed, foxtail,
wood-sorrel, paspalum, and other dam
aging growths were discovered. They
had been plucked from the fields as
one dinner by each feathered weeder.
Every day in the year the doves take
64 per cent. of their food in weed seeds
from farm land.
Much of the $500,000,000 that the
farmers of America pay each year for
labor might be saved by the natural
increase of the dove weed-killers, it is
argued. Yet in peanut and wheat
fields of the south as many as 4,000 of
the birds are known to have been
butchered at a single shoofing. Some
times they are lured by illegal haiting.
In Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma a
fight is being made by the farmers to
have them protected, while the people
of California have defeated an attempt
to abolish the close season on shoot
ing them.
DISCUSSES WOMEN AND LOGIC
Henri Robert of Paris Shocks Audience
at Lecture by Curious
. Assertion.
Paris.—Maitre Henri Robert, who is
delivering a course of lectures on
femininity, in speaking of women
criminals said that there was no dif
ference between them and other wom
en. This shocked his audience, which
was made up mostly of women, and so
he explained.
When driven to defend themselves,
he said, female culprits showed far
more vivacity and spirit than male
prisoners. Man had invented logic.
which, as we all know, turns out to be
sheer nonsense in practical life. Wom
en do not care for logic. They defend
themselves better without it. Man is
hampered by a terrible quality, that
of sequence. He cannot get the se
quence of ideas and things out of his
head. Women can do very well with
out it, and succeed much better. Their
ideas take to flisht when necessary,
and that is a more radical solution.
Girl‘!s Boss Breadmaker.
Lawrence, Kan. A beautiful
browned loaf won for Lucille Ster
ling, thirteen years old, of Barnett
district, the title of champion schooi
girl bread baker of Douglas county
in a contest in which nearly 500 girls
competed. Miss Sterling’s bread
scored 961 points, which is only a
half point in advance of the loaf en
tered by Miss Helen MecClintock,
aged sixteen, of Fairview district
school, who took second prize.
The success of the two girls will
entitle them to enter the state bread
baking contest to be held at the state
agrieultural collaca
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Steamer McArthur Completes |
Successful Survey. |
Staff of Ship Locates Big Submerged ‘
Rock at North End of Douglas l
Island That Caused Many i
Wrecks. }
Seattle, Wash.—Completing a suc
cesaful season in Alaska waters, tlml
United States steamer McArthur of
the coast and geodetic survey service
has arrived in Seattle. The McArthur, !
in command of Capt, C. G. Quilian, did |
valuable work in triangulation, hy
drography and topography on the west
side of Cook inlet, at the entrance {0
Fritz cove, and obtained data for the '
government on the position of ,Lui
Perousse glacier on Icy bay. J
The great mass of ice has be@n!
shifting its position and the Wash
ington (D. C.) officers of the survey '
service ordered a new survey of the
glacier. The data obtained by me!
McArthur staff will be sent east und
a comparison with the data made at
the former survey will determine juet
how much the big giacier has moved. |
The staff of tbe MecArthur also}
made a survey of the shoals off Mar
tin island, where the steamship Port- |
land of the Alaska-Pacific Steamstip
company struck, and definitely located
the big submerged rock at the north
end of Douglas island, which has
caused several wrecks and has been
a constant menace to navigation. Che
rock, although nearly 500 feet square,
had never been charted. Officers of
the McArthur assert that the Portland
did not strike on an uncharted rock,
as at first supposed, but stranded on
a sharp ledge of rocks on which the
government had considerable data.
However, a resurvey of the exact spot
where the vessel stranded was made.’
Officers of the McArthur say that
the west side of Cook inlet is a para
dise for hunters. Moose, deer, duck
and grouse are very plentitul a short
distance from the beach, W. 5.
Keyes, mate of the steamer, and Dr.
C. G. Braunlin, the vessel’s surgeon,
each killed a bear after an exciting
experience, and cther members of the
staff killed moose, duck and grouse,
adding variety to the steamer’s menu.
NEW BRANCH OF MEDICINE
Bearing of Dreams in Relation to
Nervous Conditions of Patients
Is Discussed.
New York.—Cures by means of
telling the physician what the pa
tients thinlt of him are among the
possibilities in psychanalysis, says the
Medical Record.
Dr. E. W. Scripture of this city, who
has been working on Dr. Freud’s
method of studying the condition of
patients through their talk and
dreams, recounts some of his experi
ences.
One of his patients, when asked 0
talk impromptu, made such remarks
as “Doctor, you always wear a collar
with turned corners,” or “You part
your hair on the right side.”
“I pointed out to him,” writes the
physician, “that those thoughts were
not about me personally, and that he
was merely putting me off in order
not to express what was really in his
mind. Finaily he reported to me that
it occurred to him that the doctor was
a very timid man. I explained the
principle as in the preceding case,
and he at once told a long tale of
suffering from intense timidity—a suf
fering almost beyond belief—that was
the ruin of his life. After the resist
ance had once been broken down the
thoughts came freely and the eure
successfully proceeded.”
Another patient reported- as im
promptu thoughts that the doctor’s
hair was getting thin and that he was
beginning to be stout. This was the
remark the patient made to Dr. Jung.
The doctor discovered there was noth
ing of the kind das far as he was con
cerned, but that the patient was wor
ried about himself and his own ad
vancing age.
Dr. Scripture is one of the physi
cians in this eountry who has made
a special study of dreams in their re
lations to certain nervous states, and
he finds also that the study of these
visions is helpful in directing the cor
rection of character. One young man
was constantly reporting that in his
dreams he attended receptions and
various public functions and there
met many celgbrated people. Inquiry
developed that this young man was so
bashful that in his waking hours he
ran away from everybody on sight.
The physicians, on learning the na“
ture of this sensitiveness, were en
abled to help the youth overcome his
natural timidity.
Rich Girl Jilt Elopes.
Pittsburgh, Pa—Katherine Holtz
man, daughter of William Holtzman,
and McKeesport’'s wealthiest belle,
jilted a well-to-do Greensburg man
and ran away with a penniless stu
dent who is working in the Braddock
mills. The bride has a million of
her own.
The bridegroom is E. P. Escher,
and the romance dates from Miss
Holtzman’s co-ed days in Notre Dame
university, where both were students.
The engagement of the wealthy young
woman to her Greemsburg suitor was
to have been announced at a Christ
mas celebration in the home of the
bride’s parents, and the bride-to-be
had her trousseau well under way. A
few days later she disappeared. re
turning from Cumberland, Md., as
Mrs KEscher.
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PHONE NO. 25
Communication
We learn from the Atlanta pa
pers that Mr. Geore W. Brown,
one of the delegates from Ben Hill
County to the Roosevelt Conven
tion—was selected as one of the
delegates-at-large to the Chicago
Convention,
The convention seems to have
been very enthusiastic although
small in numbers as compared
witn the regular Republican con
vention held earlier in the year.
The papers state that this con
vention was composed of about
one hundred negroes and twenty
five whites, while the convention
which endorsed President Taft was
composed of nearly one thousand
delegates, atout equally divided
between the whites and negroes.
The predominance of the color
ed brothers must have been rather
galling to the Fitzgerald contin
gent as tbey had rather forcibly
expressed themselves as being op
posed to allowing the colored re
publicans to have anything to say
in the matter.
Old Soldier,
Executive Committee
Appoints Delegates
The Ben Hill County Execut.ve
Committee has appointed the fol
lowing supporters of the Hon,
Osear W. Underwood as a delega
tion to the State Convention which
will be held in Atl'nta May 29th.:
Col. A. J. McDonald, Isidor Gel
ders, W. R. Bowen, Judge L.
Kennedy, J. D. Dorminey and J.
T. Yovre,
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