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_ There is more glory in being bornin Virginia, the mother of
Prosidents than to have lived in New Jersey the mother of Trusts.
Of course Mr. Wilsoa will be eatered in the offizial guide as a Vir
ginian.
D 5 your Christmas shopping now. A great many of vou, have
ma le up your minds what to buy anl have the means to buy now
as well as later. The sclection is better and you will beaefit your
‘self as well as the dealer by avoiding the rush. Dot Now and do
it at Home.
In France and Germanv orgzanized Labor has declared itsel!
against War. If the working po wle won’t do the firhting there
will be little chance for a gen=ral war in Europe or anywhere else,
it takes men and {ots of (e 1 tu firht great battles.
The Night Riders of Decatur
Crimes Commiited in the interest of a mistaken public policy are
crimes neverthelcss, and will not only bring disrepute on the community
which toleratés it, but will inavitahly re-act upon its perpetrators. ¢The
burning of the tobacco barnsia Decatur county is a plaia case of anarchy
aad the law's duty is to find ald pinish the criminals.
The spirit of retaliation in such cases is fraught with danger to the
fives and property of the innocent citizzn as well as those inter sted in
the calturz of this product in that county, lawlessness *of fthis kind
breeds contempt for all law and will father further actsof violence unless
the rigor of the law will be thoroughly aad certainly applied. The mis
taken idea of the perpetrators that they are serving a public cause should
nat deter the officers from doing their duty, the experiences of Kentucky
are sufficient to cause Georgia to take a strong stand against the repe
tition of simil ir oceir e ic2s Tie price is too high for Georgia to pay
its reputation is at stake.
The Supreme Court and Mr. Taft,
The fulsom2 advice to President-elect Wilsonlreaches its
zenith when the press gives favorable expression to the suggestion
to have Mr. Taft appointed to the Suprene bench. President
Taft bas already appointed a majority of the Supreme Court during
his one term as president, more than has fallen to any of his pre
decessors and has virtually Splaced in contr.il of the adjudication
of constitutional questions men in entire accord with his views and
interpretations of constitutional questions. Toadd Mr. Taft to the
Supreme Court would ind finttely place the final disposition of acts
of Congress in the sole control of the class represented in the Na
tion by Mr. Taft and his advisers. Thce great danger to the Re
public has been pointed out to be in the vsurpation of powers by
the Supreme Court not intended by the Constitution, ani to ap
point Mr. Taft to that important place would more firmly fix this
theory of the Judiciary being higher than the legisiative branch of
the Government. The people of this country by their votes retired
My Taft, it would be unwise for the corporations, through their
attorneys, the politicians, to reinstate him.
The Shrinking Glaciers,
1t appears that, save over a small
area, the glaciers of the world are
retreating to the mountains. The
Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has
been melting at a rapid rate for sev
eral years. The glacier on Mount
Sarmientq, in South America, which
descended into the sea during the
last century, is now scparated from
the shore by a vigorous growth of
timber. The Jacobshaven glacicr,
in Greenland, has retreated four
wiles since the year 1860, and the
Ilast glacier, in Spitzbergen, is more
than a mile away from its old ter
minal moraine. 1n Seandinavia the
snow line is farther up the moun
tains, and the glaciers have with
drawn 3,000 feet from the lowlands
in a century. In the eastern Alps
and one or two other small districts
the glaciers are growing.—Harper’s
Weekly.
Where Divorce Is Easy.
As to easy divorce neither Aus
tralia nor America leads the way, if
we admit uncivilized tribes into the
competition. Among some Siberian
tribes, for instance, a man need
only uncover his wife’s head and
walk away; and the Eskimo has
enly to leave his house and stop
away in pretended anger for a day
or two.
In Nepal a woman can divorce
her husband at any time by simply
plnci:fia betel nut under his pillow
and taking her departure. Aund two
chopsticks broken in the presence
of a witpess are sufficient to divorce
a couple in Cochin China.—London
Chronicle.
Kiss Salutations.
Kisalug as a form of salutation
smoag Englishmen was abandoved in
¢he einghteenth century. The nose kiss
atil! exists in races so far apart as the
Fskimos of the arctic regions and the
Maoris of New Zealand.
Unique Advertising.
A tale is told of Robert Bouner
and of his belief in advertising. One
day he cnguged a whole page of a
newspaper and repeated a two line
advertisemment upon it over and over
ngain, It must have been repeated
5,000 times upon the page in the
smullest type.
“Why do you waste your money,
Robert #* asked a friend. ‘I notic
ed that same line so often. Would
not hall a page have answered your
purpose
“Half a page would never have
caused von to ask the question.” re
plied Mr. Bonner. “At least five
people will ask that to every line
was the way I figured it.”
The Wrong Kind.
A strapping German, with big
beads of perspiration streaming
down his face, was darting in and
out among the aisles of a depart
ment store,
[is excited actions attracted the
attention of all the salespeople, and
they hardly knew what to make of
it. A hustling young man of the
clothing department walked u}p and
asked:
“Are vou looking for sometding
in men's clothing?”
“No,” he roared, “not men’s
clothing, vimmin’s clothing. 1 can’t
find my wife!” Ladies’ Home
Journal.
Children and Influences.
"t he reason why children so easily
contract the mien, gestures and
habits ot their surroundings is that
they have no power of resistance.
Evervthing ontside them is stronger
than themselves. and ther have to
borrow from all outward influences
for their own growth: hence they
are good, cheerful and contented or
bad. morose and discouraged. just
according to their surroundings.—
Marenhoitz-Bulow.
THE LEADLER-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1912
QUEER MANX LAWS.
And a Jozular Reading of the Coat of
Arms oi tha island.
The Isle of Mau presents many
curivis fcatures, none of which are
more curious than its laws. lor
instance, the legislature is called
the Louse of keys and was in other
times a judicial body charged with
the duiy of interpreting the laws.
Anv person so bold as to slander
thi= house of keys was liable not
only to a fine in the amount of £lO,
but to the loss of both his cars,
Two deeinsters were once appoint
ed to execute the laws which before
the year 1117 were uncodified, and
these were hoown as breast laws,
for the reason that they were im
parted to the deemstgrs in secret,
to be Lept by them within the sec
recy of their own breasts as long as
they chose or during their whole
wrvieo, though thev were authoriz
ed to impart aml explain to the
populace as much of these special
laws as should at any time secm
wise and expedient.
Certain of the Manx laws, as set
down after the codification, arc ex
tremely quaint. Here are a couple
of extracts from the Manx legal
ruling:
“If a man steal a horse or 22 ox
it is no felony, for the offender can
not hide them, but if he stcal a
capon or a pig he shall be hanged.
“In case of theft, if it amount to
the value of sixpence halfpenny, it
shall be felony and death to the
offender, and under that value to
be whipped or set upon a wooden
horse, which shall be provided for
such offenders.”
The arms of the Isle of Man,
which, though it may sound like an
Irish bull to say so, are legs—three
legs bent at the knee and apparent
ly kicking outward from a common
center in the midst of a shield—
have provoked a number of jocular
deseriptions, of which the best de
elares that one leg spurns Ireland,
one kicks at Scotland, and the
third kneels to England.
On July 5 of every year the laws
of the Isle of Mun are still read
aloud to the assembled people from
the top of Tynwald hill. This is
said to be the most interesting and
archaic legal ceremoayv observed to
day in Furope.—Harper’s \Weekly.
Origin of Paper Confetti.
Years ago a firm of printers in
Paris executed an unusnally large
order for almanaca. Lach shect was
punched with a small hole for eye
leting and an immense number of
tiny circles of colored paper ac
cumulated in the workrooms. One
day a workman grabbed a handfui
of these and in u spirit of fun
threw the bits of paper over a girl
worker who was passing. She re
talinted; others followed the ex
ample of the two, and a miniature
snowstorm was in progress when
the head of the firm entered. Be
ing a man of imagination, he saw
“something in it.” Confetti was the
result. Instead of destroying the
punched out circies of paper he or
dered new and special forms of ma
chinery for turning out the little
papers that form so picturesque 2
role in many festivities throughout
the world. It is said that this firmn
alone turns out more than sixty
tons of confetti a week.—Harper’s.
If the Heart Stops Beating.
When the heart stops the eircula
tion ceases, the capillaries of the
lungs become gorged with stagnant
blood, while the blood in the brain
no longer carries away the waste
products and brings the oxygenated
fluid to restore the tissues. As the
blood takes about half a minute to
circulate through the whole system,
it may be taken that at the end of
this period after the stoppage of
the heart the arteries would be fill
ed by the last effort of the left ven
tricle, while the veins would be
pouring their contents into the
right auricle. In a few seconds more
the nervous centers would cease to
act, and probably by the end of the
minute the subject would be prac
tically dead from suffocation, al
though reflex muscular action would
probably keep up the appearance of
itfe for some seconds longer.
Evolution of the Needle.
Sewing needles of bone, stone,
glass and bronze antedate all his
toric records, but those of iron,
brass and steel are comparatively
modern. Bone and glass needles
have been found in Egyptian tombs
that are known to be over 4,000
years old, and similar domestie in
struments of bronze and copper
have been found in the mounds and
burial caves of Europe and America
which are believed to be much older
than those found with the Nile
mummies. The need'e first appear
ed in its present form in European
countries in the vear 1110, but the
art of making them was kept a se
cret for upward of 130 vears after
the date last given. In the vear
1680 thev were first made in the
American colonies, but at what
point is a moot=l question among
the historians,
A SENTENCE OF DEATH. '
Tragic and Pathetic Climax That Came
In a Murder Trial.
“QOue of the most tragic scencs
1 ever witnessed,” said an aged law
yer, “occurred in a small town. The
judge was a man of sixty or more,
and in addition to a most venerable
and dignitied appearance and man
per he was the saddest faced man
1 ever saw. e had come to our
town ten or a dozen years before
from the cast, and we knew little
of him except that he was an able
Jawyer and jurist and that his wife,
who was the only other member of
his family, and himself had some
great sorrow,
“One night our town was all torn
up by a robbery and murder and
the capture of the killer and thief
almost in the act. For a wonder
he wasn't lvnched then and there,
but Le was=n't, and as soon as day
light came proceedings were insti
tuted against the prisoner, and 1
was appointed, with another young
ster, to defend him.
“Really there wasn't any defence,
and I vas frank enough to tell Eim
that he might be thankful if we
could save him from a lynching. e
was a stranzer in the town, evident
ly led there Ly some stories he Lad
heard of an old miser we had among
ue, and was a man of perhaps thirty
three or thirty-four, with a most
unpreposzessing appearance, greatly
accentuated by a week’s growth of
rouch whiskers, years of dissipation
and hard living. In those days and
in such cases the law’s delay was
not much in force, and by 6 o’clock
of the second day the prisoner was
standing before the judge to receive
sentence. As he stood there thal
day a harder looking customer I
think | never saw.
““Ilave you anything to say why
sentence of death should not be
pronounced upon you? said the
judge after all the preliminaries
were over,
“‘] have, your honor, if you are
to pronounce that sentence,” replied
the prisoner with an air of almost
impertinence. ‘At least,” he added,
half apologetically, ‘possibly under
the circumsfances you might not
care to prouounce if.
“This was entirely out of the or
dinary, and ] touched my client on
the arm and was about to remind
him of the customs of the court
when the judge requested me to
leave the prisoner to him.
“<WWill vou be kind enough to ex
plain?’ he said in a strangely ex
cited tone.
“‘Well, your honor, responded
the prisoner without a quaver of
voice, ‘as I'm vour only son’—
“But the judge heard no mare.
Tt was evident that he knew the
prisoner was telling the trath, for,
with a groan, he threw up his hands
and fell forward across the desk
in front of him, dead, a little gtream
of blood trickling from his lips. The
excitenient was terrific, and in the
midst of it the prisoner dashed
through a window and would have
escaped, bat a timely shot from a
rifle in the hands of a man ou the
outside settled him forever. And,
best of all, his mother never knew.
Shb lingered a few months after her
hnsband’s death, and the entire
population of the town considered
it to be a sacred obligation to lie to
her about the whole affair.”
“Hoodium.”
In San Francisco some years ago
there was a notorious character
named Muldoon, who was the leader
of a gang of young ruffians. They
were a terror to the community and
about as tough a lot of citizens as
you could find on the coast. A re
porter who had been assigned to a
story in which they had figured un
dertook to coin a word designating
the gang. He reversed the name of
the leader and weferred to them as
“hoodlums.” The compositor mis
took the ‘v’ for an ‘h.” and as hood
lums the words passed the proof
reader. “!loodlum” is a recognized
word.— Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Unit of Heat.
We cannot, of course, measure
heat by yards, pints or pounds, but
the unit of heat, the standard meas
ure of that phenomenon, has been
agreed upon by those whose busi
ness it is to philosophize on that
subject to be that quantity which
can raise a pound of water one de
gree. Now, to turn a pound of wa
ter into a pound of steam requires
967 of these units of heat—that is
to say, if we boil a pound of water
until it all goes away in steam we
shall have used in doing so a quanti
ty of heat which would have raised
967 pounds of water one degree
higher in temperature.
On the Safe Side,
They had been engaged for fully
thirty minutes.
“] have a surprise in store for
vou, Alfred, dear,” she said. “I
can cook as well as | can play the
piano.”
“That being the case, darling,”
he repiied, “it will be well for us to
board.” :
WINDMILLS OF HOLLAND.
Old Fashioned Methods Still Prevaii
tn Operating Them.
1t is said that there are 10,000
windmills in Holland. The number
is said, however, to be less than it
was fifty years ago, for the Dutch
have. in a measure, substituted
stearn and other forms of power for
the <apricious wind.
Or. the eastern end of Long ls
land there may be seen old wind
mille. The curions may observe
that there is a tiny windmill in
muany cases perched on the top op
posite the great arms, a feature
that suggests a pug dog’s curled
tail. Thoese who have investigated
the mechanism of the windmill
know that the little windmill is the
Yankee's method of automatically
Lkeeping the sails on the great arms
alwave in the wind. As soon as the
wind ehanges it puts the snall wheel
in motion, and this quickly rolls
the top of the tower and the big
wheel around until it again faces
the wind, Then, being itself out of
the wind, it stops.
Whenever the wind changes i
Holtand hundreds of mill keepoers
come forth and faboriously turn the
tops aboui Ly hand. They may be
seen pushing and straining on the
galicries surrounding the towers
midway between the ground and the
ton or tugging at the spokes of 2
wheel on the ground.
Faanland is especially the hoime
of t'ie windmill. It lies to the north
aud west of Amsterdam, and every
town or village in this district be
gins or ends in “zaan.”
Zazndijk, according to one travel
er. perpetually reminds one of the
old query, “Do you see anything
green ?” Everything in Zaandijk is
green. Bridges, fences, doors, win
dows, walls, are green, ranging from
the green of peas to that of apples,
olives, grass, malachite, beryl, old
botties and verdigris.
In a little museum of this plaee
there are shown many models of
windmilis, among which is that of
the first windmill erected in Zaan
dam. It stood in the water, and
when it was desired to tarn the
sails toward the wind the miller
was obliged to get into his boat and,
taking a line, tow the whole struc
ture around until it was in a work
ing position again. later on the
mill was set on a post and the whole
turned about this as an axis, in the
same manner that one revolves
bookshelves. Then another method
was devised. The entire edifice was
turned about from the bottom like
a monitor’s turret. Finally thé
comparatively - modern type was
adopted, that of a cap holding the
axle and sails with a cogwheel and
spindle inside and easily moved
from below by a hand wheel or
windlass to secure the proper front
age at will.—Harper’s.
Asking Too Much.
“Is you de S. P. C. A.?” asked
the negro with his arm in a sling.
“] am a member of the society,”
replied the earnest looking young
man.
“Well, ! wants to repo’t my mule
to youn. .1 been arrested twice on
his account, an’ I ain’t g’ine to hab
no mo’ words wif ’im.” °
“Has anybody hurt him ?”
“No, boss. But look at me. 1
has been kicked, tromped on an’
cussed in mule talk. If I’s got to
be kind to dat animal I wants some
understandin’ dat will compel reci
procity or, at de very leas’, arbitra
tron.”—Washington Star.
How the Daisy Was Named.
Of all the flowers of the field the
daisy is the most appropriately nam
ed. Probably not one person in a
hundred understands the signifi
cance of this little flower. Hun
dreds and hundreds of years ago it
got its name, and in all parts of the
world the pame means the same
thing. The nature lover who nam
ed the daisy had in his study of the
wild {lower observed that it opened
it« eve with the opening of the day
and closed it with the setting of the
gun. -So with the simplicity of the
true artist he called it the eye of the
day, the dayseye or, as we spell it
today, the daisy. :
Absentminded,
Benson—l have a literary friend
who is so ebsentminded that when
he went to London recently he tele
graphed himself ahead to wait for
Limself at a certain place. Smith—
Did the telegram have the desired
resuJt? Benson—Noj; he got it all
right, but he had forgotten to sign
his name, and, not knowing who it
was from, he paid no attention to
it.—Pearson’s Weekly.
Caught.
She 1 had an argument with
Alice this morning over the proper
use of “shall™ and “will.” TPerhaps
you can tell me which is correct.
“Will you marry me 2" or “Shall you
marry me?” ;
He—l should say “Will you marry
me "
She Then why in the world
don’, you?—Poston Transcript.
Union Sunde y Schaol
Convention At The
New Baptist Church
Mr. D. W. Sims, field secretary
of the Georgia Sunday Sohool As
sociation, is conducting a Sunday
School Convention at the new Bap
tist chiurch vnder the auspices of
the white schools of the city.
~ M. Sims is a live wire in San
day & -hool w.rk an:l the talks and
discus-:ous at the sessions last
night «nd this morning were o.
such a chkaracter that no person
-ould k- ar them without becomihg
more e Lhusiustic in Sunday Schoot
\‘()rk.
Uri.rtun:tely the people gen
rall / do not seewr to know of the
Co vertien, ‘lhere will bea ses
sicn at 100 o’cleel: this afternoon
a - stother wonigit ap 7:30. Ivis
hpod that rany more will avail
th mselves of the ¢, portunity to
get u li.ger vision and zeal.
Here Are Rates For
The Boy's Corn Chow
Atlanta, Ga., Dee. 3 6th 1912
£5.30 Round Trip, Cordele to
‘tlanta via Georgia Southern &
Florida Ry. Tickets on sale daily
December Ist to sth inclusive.
G. S. & I*. Ry., operates fast
through trains from all statiors
n its line to Atlanta Best of
wweomodations. Should sufficient
wumber uf peorle go, the G. 8. &
@ Ry., will operate a svecial
“Corn Club’’ train to carry the
ccowd.
All who are intersted should
ommunicate (with one of the
undersigned immediately. This
wiil be the greatest gatherirg of
orn club boys ever brought to
cether in the south.
For complete information call
m any ticket agent G. S. & I.
Ry., or address.
J. W. Jamison, T. P. A., .;
Macon, Ga., |
C. A. Dewherry, T. P. A.
Valdosta, Ga.
C. B. Rhodes, G. P. A.
Meacon, Ga.
BRITAIN'S CROWN JEWELS.
There Is Little Danger These Days of
Them Being Stolen,
The British crown jewels are
guarded in the Tower of London.
At great cost the section of the
tower wherein these famous gems
are kept has been made impregnable
against all robbers.
At a given signal all the gates
and doors of the tower would be
instantly closed and that by the
simple pressing of a button. But
tons arc placed in the governor’s
room at Scotland Yard and at other
points known only to a few respon
sible officers. KEven the massive
gates of the middle tower, which
weigh several tons, may be closed.
by elestrical process in order that
no one within the tower may pass
out. At the same time there would
ring an alarm bell to warn the ward
ers, police and soldiers to prepare
themselves for any emergency.
In other days several attempts
were made to steal the crown jewcls.
A Colonel Blood actually succeeded
in getting possession for a time of
the crown and scepter of the Unit
ed Kingdom. This he did by over
powering and binding the keeper.
The latter, however, contrived to,
raise an alarm and, help arriving
from an unexpected quarter, Blood
was pureued and overtaken, hnt not
before he had got clear of thie pre
cincts of the building wiiu s
preciots booty.
It w%fithis attempt that led to
the adoption of an elaborate series
of precautions te guard the treas
ure. There is a special military
guard of picked men, who give and
receive a countersign that is ehang
ed everv four hours. In addition,
aside from the electric alarm sys
tern mentioned above, there 15 a
rizid system of visiting patrols, ete.
The most valuable of the jewels
are secured by a massive iron grat
ing, the keys of which are held by
the lord chamberlain, out of whose
custody they are supposed never to
pass. .Curiously enough, this ap
parent superfluity of cauntion once
nearly resuited in the destraction
of the entire collection by the great
fire that threatened the tower in
18417 The flanes had attacked the
jewel house itself befose the keeper
suceceded, with the aid of a crow
bar, in forcing an admission to the
house, so he might hand out the
jewels to the firemen and police in
vuitinn—New York Press. _
