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WOMEN SHIRKING
Denial of High Vocation
Bearing Bitter Fruit.
San Francisco, July 19.—Mrs.
Catharine Booth-Clibborn, daugh
ter of the Salvation Army found
er, the late General William
Booth, who is an evangelistic
worker in London, spoke before
the International Purity Congress
here today on motherhood, which
she declared ‘‘is the finest of
arts—but a lost art.”’
She said: ‘“‘Society has develop
ed, especially within the last
thirty years, a vast army of wo
men who will not be women;
married women who avoid chil
dren; incapable mothers who!
shirk the obligations and respon
sibilities of motherhood. We
have women who admirable flirts
coquetts and talkers, splendidly
efficient in all domain—business,
science and art. All professions
are now open to her. She can
act, dance, paint, sing, type
write, keep books, defend a case
at the bar, or be a policewoman.
She can back horses, drink, gam
ble and smoke; and, now be as
capable a soldier as any man un
der Miss Colonel Charlesworth,
who is training troups of women
for Lord Kitchener. In fact, she
can do anything and everything
except fulfil the highest of all
destinies, the brirnging forth of
beautiful children and the mak
ing of them into men and women
who will bless humanity.
““Women’s neglect and denial
of her highest vocation is bear
ing bitter fruit. We see it in the
white slave traffic more than any
where else. We see the fruits
in the hospitals. We see it in
the reformatories. Some of the
finest material for the making of
useful lives is to be found there,
run to seed—all through the lack
of mothers.
““Woman is not altogether to
blame for her failure to fulfil her
destiny. The world has made
and worships this false woman.
““Motherhood was the first
thing to go in Greece and Rome.
The Emperor Augustus saw his
empire expire through the white
slave traffic; France and Belgium
are going in the same way. TheJ
same canker is also eating at the
core of the national life of Ameri
ca. Since coming to the States
I have been struck by the fright
ful tragedies in young lives,—all
for the want of a mother who
has won the confidence and
friendship of her children.”’
lowa Would Beautify Her
Roads With Trees
Clinton lowa, July 19.—Varieties
of trees, instead of painted signs,are
to warn motorists of railroad cross
ings, bridges and dangerous turns
in the Lincoln Highway, according
to announcement today by Elmer
C. Jasen, chariman of the American
Institute of Architects’ general com
mittee on the highway. Mr. Jansen
said the tree feature was part of a
comprehensive plan for restoration
and preservation of nature's beauties
along the trans-Continental road.
Plles Cured in 6 10 14 Days
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Sunday Qutings
At The
SEASHORE
During the period May 30th to
September 12th, 1915, the jA. B &
A., Railroad will sell Sunday Excur
sion tickets to Brunswick and return
at fares shown below:
Schedule Round Trip Rates
Leave Brunswick
Rebecca 510a.m $2.00
Fitzgerald 550 a. m. 150
Osierfield gitam 1560
Wray getam 160
NEVER SAW HIS FAMOUS FOE.|
Wellington at No Time Caught Even
a Glimpse of Napoleon.
In an article on Waterloo in the
Newfoundland Quarterly the Right
Hon. Sir Edward Morris, prime min
ister of Newfoundland, tells the fol
lowing story:
King Edward VII. as a 2 boy wor
sliiped Wellington, who lived for
eleven years after the birth of the
future king. One morning the
young Prince of Wales displayed
with pride a drawing wwich he had
made representing Napolgon on
horseback leveling a pistol "at the
head of the duke, who was advanc
ing with sword drawn to cut down
his enemy. Just at this moment
the Duke of Wellington entered the
prince’s room.
“You are just the man I want to
see,” cried the boy, holding up his
picture in delight.
“How 1s that ?”” asked the veteran
duke.
“Why, because you can best criti
cise my drawing,” said the prince.
“Now, can you tell me who is on
the left?” he went on, showing the
picture to the duke.
“Well,” said the latter, “from the
waistcoat and the hat I can sce it is
meant for Napoleon.”
“Right,” said the prince. “And
who is the other?”
“By the cut of the features 1
shoild say it was myself.”
“Right again,” answered the
prince. “Now, what 1 want to
know is—is the drawing accurate ?”
The old duke put down the draw
ing and impressively answered: “My
boy, I am going to tell you some
thing that the Linglish people don’t
know. I never in my life set eyes
upon Napoleon! Once, in the midst
of a battle, some one ecried, ‘Look,
there is Napoleon!" Before 1 could
get the fieldglass to my eves the
smoke from a field gun had envelop
ed him.”
| Self Respect and Water.
Some years ago | was ingpecting
a railroad roundhouse in southern
Texas, and noticed men going to
the master mechanic’s clerk and
getting keys. Inquiries brought out
the information that these men
were engineers and firemen coming
in from their runs, who desired to
bathe before going home. A record
of the baths has been kept and
showed that practically every crew
availed itself of the privilege of
bathing. There was no way of
measuring the benefit to the rail
road, but it was surely far in ex
cess of the cost of the baths. Even
where it is not practicable to fur
nish regular baths, sanitary wash
bowls should be provided, so that
the men can at least clean their
hands and faces before going home.
A man who will walk the streets
with a dirty face soon loses his self
respect and ambition.—C. J. Morri
son in Engineering Magazine.
A R A
Working Overtime.
Mr. Griflin had spent an anxious
afternoon at the office and hurried
home at an unusually early hour.
“How do you feel, dear? What
did the doctor say?” 1 - questioned
his wife as she lay on a couch, her
eyes half closed.
“Oh, he asked me to pu out my
tongue!” she murmured.
(LYeS?”
“And after looking at it he said,
‘Overworked.” ” |
Mr. Griffin heaved an audible
sigh of relief. “I have perfect faith
in that doctor, Mabel,” said he firm
ly. “You will have to give it a
rest.”—Buffalo Express.
Dressed For the Part.
“What subject have you taken for
your address at the Civie clup?”
“Woman’s moral obligations as a
citizen.”
“What a lovely subject! And
what are you going to wear ?”
“That new gown I brought home
with me from Paris. And just
think! I had it so cleverly packed
in with my old clothes that the cus
toms house inspector never discov
ered it was there.” Baltimore
American.
A Queen’s Critical Brother.
Marie Antoinette’s brother Jo
seph could not bear the rouge pot,
and one evening when the queen
was going out, being very heavily
rouged, the emperor was looking
on. Pointing to a lady present who
was excessively bedaubed with paint,
Joseph remarked facetiously: “A
little more under the eyes! Lay on
the rouge like fury, as that lady
does!”—Hassard’s “Louis XVI.”
Geology and Biology.
Geology is the complement of bi
ology. As soon as one has mastered
the rudiments of botany and zoology
and of the distribution of life forms
in space the range of his thoughts
should be extended to take in the
orderly succession of life in past
ages and the evolution of modern
specialized plants ard animals from
the earlier generalized types.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1915
Pretty Expensive Steak.
The highest known price ever paid
for beefsteak was at Circle City, Alas
ka, a town that sprang up almost in
the night during the Klondike gold ex
citement. The first steak to reach
there sold for $4B a pound. It was a
ten pound steak and was sent from a
poiut fifty miles away. It was placed
on exhibition and was such a curiosity
that all the miners turned out in a
body to see it.
Of course ¢very one wanted a plece
of the precious meat, and the prices
offered might have resulted in a gen
eral mining camp quarrel had not some
one thought of raffling the steak for
the benefit of a bospital which a bish
op was trying to establish for the min
ers at Circle City. Bids started at $
a pound and rose quickly to $35. At
last, in order to avoid possible troubld,
it was decided to sell tickets at prices
ranging from 50 cents to $2.50 for the
privilege of drawing a slice. After
$4BO worth of tickets had been sold
the drawing began. and to the relief ot
those in charge of the enterprise no
serious consequences resulted.—Detroit
Free Press.
Read Your Books Again.
Let me implore any reader who has
a fairly large library of his own and is
honestly anxious to know what his
books contain to devote some period ot
leisure to go through these volumes,
shelf by shelf, as they stand. to learn
which of them he can remember well,
which are half read or unread. What
pleasure and profit he would find in
recalling the poetry he once so enjoyed
or in turning to such essays as he had
hitherto overlooked: He would find, I
am sure, that the very things he long
wanted to know, the poetry that had
almost faded from his memory, the
bursts of elcquence and prophecy that
had stirred his youth, now grown dim
in his mind as "an ancient tale. al
though the words were strong.” Al
this bad stood silent and unnoticed on
his walls for years and years, while
e had beer stutling himselt with the
last short story, the lives of royai
lanndry women or it may be an article
in a magazine rederic Harrison.
Cerms and All.
A Louisville woman who is some
what of » “rank on hygiene and who
brings up her small duughter aceord
gz to the Intest methods took the ehild
on a day train to a nearby little town.
The mother sighed as she glanced at
the dusty velvet seat and cloudy win
dows. The youngster, however, folded
her manicnred fingers in her white
pique lap and apparently tried to ab
sorb as little dirt as possible. Looking
up from her magsazine, the immaculate
parent was horrified to find the smal!
daunghter’'s iaws working violently.
“What have you in your mouth?"
she demanded at once.
“Gum.” suid the child.
“Where aid you get it?’ gasped the
mother.
The child pointed to a clean, round
spot on the grimy windowsill
“There,” she said.—Louisville Times.
Cost of a Horse.
It costs on an average $104.08 tc
raise a horse to the age of three years
on the farms of Indiana and those of
other states. This price has been care
fully figured by experts of the depart
ment of agriculture, who based their
figures on those furnished by 10,000
correspondents scattered throughout
the country.
New Mexico can raise horses cheap
er than the other states, or at an aver
age price of $69.50. In Massachusetts
the ralsing of colts is more expensive
than in any other state, the average
horse at three years representing an
investment of $141.80,
Not to Be Repeated.
Shakespeare’s contention that “there
was never a philosopher who could en
dure the toothache patiently” was dis
proved by Canon Liddon. After an ex
perifence that would haVe closed the
mouths of laost of us, Liddon found it
possible to write to a friend: “I have
been quite laid up with trouble with
my few remaining teeth, of which ]
had five taken out the day before yes
terday. As only four remain, this par
ticular experience cannot be repeated
in this present life.” This i 3 a classic
instance of the triumph of philosophy
over pain.—~London Globe.
The Atlantio Coast.
The eastern edge of the North Amer
fcan continent {3 overflowed by the
sea, and that {s why the water near
the coast is so shallow. To find the
true edge of the great continental land
mass oge would have to travel some
thing Hke elghty miles due eastward
from New York.
Lincoln’s Rules of Life.
I am not bound to win, but I am
bound to be true; I am not bound to
succeed, but 1 am bound to live up to
the light that I have. 1 must stand
with anybody who stands right—stand
with him while he is right and part
from him when he goes wrong.—A.
Lincoln.
Geranium Oil,
Geranlum ofl is largely used in per
fumery and is known as rose gerani
um, owing to the common practice of
adding rose petals to the plants before
distillation.
Floating Bridge.
Two bridges in a city in India are
supported on Mrge metal tanks, which
float on the water and accommodate
themselves to its rise and €all
A ————————
Some Paradoxes.
The dumb man saw a wheel and
spoke; the deaf man saw a flock and
berd; the blind man bought a plane
and saw,
THE AMBASSADOR.
He Enjoys Many Privileges Nct Ac
corded a Mere Minister.
1t is probable that to most of us
the terms “ambassador™ and “min-‘
ister” mean pretty much the same
thing. There is, however, a great
difference between the functions of
an ambassador and a minister, since
the former possesses many privi
leges abroad that do not at all per
tain to a mere minister.
A curious ambassadorial privilege
is that, when dismissed from an
audience with the sovereign to
whom he is accredited, the ambassa
dor may turn his back to the court.
In this relation it should be added
that the ambassador is the repre
sentative of his ruler, while the
minister is the representative of his
country. -
When the audience is concluded
the ambassador abroad waits to be
dismissed by the sovereign. When
dismissed the ambassador bows, re
tires three paces, bows again, retires
three paces, bows a thizd time,
turns on his heels and walks to the
folding doors. But when the reign
ing sovereign is a woman a more
polite method is employed. Not to
turn his back would be to resign a
privilege. The ambassador there
fore retires sidewise. He keeps one
side on the sovereign and with the
other manages to find the door. By
this unique means he contrives to
show all politeness to a sovereign
and at the same time to retain his
ambassadorial privilege in retiring.
Another privilege of an ambassa
dor abroad is that of being usher
ed into the royal presence through
folding doors, both of which must
be flung wide for him. No envoy
save an ambassador can claim this
privilege, the greatest favor in this
respect that can be shown any non
ambassadorial representative con
sisting in the opening to him of
one door only.
There is one privilege of the am
bassador, a privilege that sometimes
occasions great inconvenience to the
ruler, which consists of his right to
demand admission to the sovereign
by day or by night. New York
Tribune. .
Vacation by Think.
Make a compact with your soul
to take a vacation and the way is
simple. There are portions of your
time over which you have control.
Probably your evenings and your
Sundays are your own. Set apart
a month or go. Eliminate the sclf
assigned tagks for those hours out
of business and give yourself up to
the pursuit of pleasure. Get others
to join you. Form a vacation club.
Adopt a real vacation spirit and go
in for a good time. Resolve never
to speak of work out of business
hours, but to fill to the full that
time which is your own with recrea
tions which most appeal to you. Did
you ever sing? Sing now. Did you
ever paint? Paint now. Remem
ber nature’s gifts to you and find
occasion to praise nature within as
well as without.—Exchange.
The Number 4.
There are four cardinal points,
four winds, four quarters of the
moon, four seasons, four rules of
arithmetic, four suits of cards, four
quarters to the hour, four legs for
furniture, most animals go on four
legs, the dead are placed between
four planks, the prisoners between
four walls. We have four incisor
and four canine teeth, and our forks
have four prongs. All animals when
butchered are cut into four quar
ters. The violin, greatest of all
string instruments, has but four
strings. Four of a kind is a pretty
good hand at poker, even if they are
only fours.—Exchange.
Her Proposal.
“You’ve been courting me now
for a number of years, George,” re
marked a girl to a young man, “and
I want to make a little proposal.”
“I—l am not in a position to
m-marry just yet,” stammered the
youth, “but”—
“Who said anything about mar
riage?” interrupted the girl. “I
was going to propose that you stop
coming here and give somebody else
a chance.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Brought Home.
A party of tourists were going
through a small town, having the
time of their lives, laughing and
joking. One of them thought she
would have some fun and called to
a little girl standing near, “Are
there any shows in town?” To
which the little girl answered, “Only
the one you people are making.”—
Minnesota Minnehaha.
Made Him Cross.
“l made my husband cross this
afternoon,” said Mrs. Caller.
“How was that?” queried Mrs.
Homer.
“He was on the opposite side of
the street, and I beckoned to him
to come over,” explained the other.
—Atlanta Constitution, l
" The Time to Break It. ‘
There is an anecdote in some volume
of French theatrical memoirs narrat
ing an experience of Mlle. Clairon, the
great tragic actress, with a pupil of
hers, a girl of strong natural girts for
the histrionic art, but far too frequent
and too exuberant in her gesticulaton.
So when the pupil was once to appear
before the public in a recitation Mlle.
Clairon bound the girl’'s arms to her
side by a stiff thread and seunt ber thus
upon the stuge.
With the first strong feeling she hndl
to express the pupil tried to raise bet |
arms only to be restrained by the
thread. A dozen times in the course of
her recitation she was prevented from
making the gestures she desired until
at the very end she could stand it no
longer, and in the climax of her emo
tion she broke her bonds and swung
ber hands to her head.
When she came off the stage .she
weut humbly to where Mlle. Claiton
was standing in the wings and apolo
gized for having snapped the thread.
“But you did quite right,” said the
teacher. *That was the time to make
the gesture, not before,”
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When Earthquakes Come.
That animals are sensitive to the ap
proach of earthquakes is a fact fre
quently observed, and the more recent
seismic troubles in various countries
give numerous examples of this singu
lar faculty which many anlmals .pos
sess, For Instance, in Japan borses set
up ap unasual agitation whenever a
seismic shock is near at hand. 1n Cen
tral America dogs and cats flee from
houses, and the inhabitants have be
come 80 accustomed to this that they
follow the example of the animals and
leave their dwellings so as to escape
danger.
In Italy it has been observed that
birds left their nests and flew up to a
great height in the air, but this with
out noise before the earthquake took
place. However, at the time when
the earthquake shocks were produced
the birds uttered cries which lasted
for all the duration of the earthquake.
It is asserted that in Sicily cocks
crow and dogs how! just before an
eartbhquake.—Chicago News.
Power of the Supreme Court.
“The supreme court ot the United
States,” writes Christian Bonnet in
Case and Comment, “esercises a pow
er which we think is unique in the
world, to pass upon the constitutional
ity of the statutes enacted by con
gress. It may thus suspend the esecu
tion of the resolutions lawfully adopt
ed by both houses.
“The French courts have the right to
interpret the law. They cannot gefuse
to do so under pretest that the law is
not clear or that it i 8 silent or insut
ficient. By so doing the Judge be
comes guilty of a misdemeanor called
‘denial of justice, and he is punished
by a fine and deprived ot ali civil
rights for a period varying from tive
to twenty years. But no court iln
France, not even the court of cassa
tion, bas the power to decide whether
a law passed by congress is unconstitu
tional or not.”
Two Kettles of Water.
Sir Robert Hart, speaking of mar
riage and death customs in the tar
east, told a storsl' of a great Chinese
scholar and bigh official who said that
the foreign way ot letting the young
people fall in tove and choose and the
Chinese way of first marrying and
then making acquaintance reminded
bim of two kettles of water. The first
—the foreign—was taken at the boiling
point from the tire by marriage and
then grew cooler and cooler, whereas
the second—the Chinese—was a kettle
of cold water put on the fire by wed
lock and ever afterward growing
warmer and warmer, *so that,” said
bis friend, “after fifty or sisty years
we are madly in love with each oth
er!”—Exchange.
Why He Was Careful.
A man who believed in pedestrian
ism coaxed a friend to accompany him
on a little jaunt. Every time they
crossed the road bis friend looked first
one way and then the other and re
fused to budge if there chanced to be
a motorear in sight,
“It's all well enough to be careful,”
sald the pedestrian, “but you seem to
have let automobiles get on your
nerves.”
*“l've good reason to be careful,” an.
swered his friend. *“The insurance
policy 1 carry is void if 1 get run over
by one."”—Judge.
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The River Indus.
The River Indus In width during the
year may vary by miles. Traffic for
long distances cannot be guaranteed
becanse the ever shifting channel
throws up mud flats and sand banks
here and overwhelmed good land there
in a manner which defeats the wisdom
of the ancient boatmen. |
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Gastronomic Health, ‘
“Pa, what is envy?’ ‘
“Envy. my boy, 18 what your mu-‘
lonaire uncle feels every time he hears
you begging your mother for a second
plece of pie.”—Detroit Free Press.
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The Object.
“Why do you write articles on how
cheaply people can live if they try?'
“In the hope of getting enough mon
ey to avold having to live that way."—
Washington Star.
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Romans and Beards.
The ancient Roinans considered it
effeminate to wear beards. All thelr
busts, representing the famous men ot
olden times, are without beards.
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No weather is ill if the wind be still.
-~Spanish Proverb.
For Farm Ownership
Frost Pleads
Atlanta, Ga., July 19.—Geor
gia has 201,027 farms, of which
100,047 are operated by owners
and managers and 190.980 by
tenants, according to figures pre
sented this week by Jonathan B.
Frost in his magazine, ‘‘The Call
of the South”. Mr. Frost com
ments on the tenant question
after giving a number of statis
tics on Georgia agriculture, and
says:
‘“A country never reaches its
highest possibilities when most
of its land is cultivated by ten
ants. We alljknow it is not in
human nature for men to take
AS MUCH INTEREST IN A
HOME AND in land that is not
their own as they do in their own
home and farm.,
‘““What Georgia needs now
more than anything else in the
way of better business conditions
is more small farms operated by
their owners.”’
Mr. Frost has been making
rather an exhaustive study of
general conditions in Georgia
and has compiled many facts of
unusual interest and value.
“Murdered” Man
‘Returns Home
Milwaukee, July 19.—Frank Klug,
for whose murder”;Nick' Gorgain is
serving a 25-year[sentence’ and
whose “body” was{identified by rel
atives, returned to-day to his family,
Klug supposedly was murderd Aug
22. last, near';here. Gorgain wes
sentenced in December.
According to attorneys and officials'
the fact that it'was not concluded
who was murdered will make no,
difference to ! Gorgain. That a man
was murderded] was [estabished
they say, {and {the circumstantial
evidencej: , positively connected
Gorgain with the crime.
Klug left home because of dis
couraging domestic conditions,
- Misjudged Their Man
~ Atlanta, Ga., July 22—One of
the many political developments
expected to grow out of the com
‘mutation of Leo M. Frank’s sen
‘tence by ;former Governor Slaton
lis expected to be an amusing story
which may be} entitled “The Un.
used Cartoon,”
1t is well known that an Atlan
ta daily paper, once very friendly
but during the last several months
’of his administration not so friend
ly to Governor Slaton, counted
confidently on the governor
I“passing' «up” the Frank case to
‘his successor, Governor Harris.
- Now comes The Dalton Citizen
editorially; narrating an amusing
story to the effect that this Atlan
ta paper, in anticipation, had pre
pared a cartoon to be used im
mediately upon Governor Slaton’s
granting a repreive to Frank, It
was to picture Slaton with feath
ers on his legs, carrying the infer
ence that he passed the case on to
Harris because of cowardice. This
so the story goes, was expected to
put Slaton down and out political
ly for good.
It is significant that the news.
paper 1n question is virtually the
only daily publication in the state
which has not praised Slaton for
at least being courageous. It is
the only one which has made no
comment whatever upon the com
mutation. It has not even denied
the ‘feather-legged” cartoon story
which the Dalton paper called on
it to do.
Farm for Sale
145 acre farm, 100 acres in cul
tivation. Well improved, new 6-
room house, good tenant house.
Will sell growing crop and farm
tools, also stock. Part cash,
balance, terms.
Apply to owner,
G, C. BALL,
Fitzgerald, Ga. Route 3
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