The leader-enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, July 23, 1915, Friday Edition, Image 6
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 Your druggist will refund money if PAZO gfifi‘ém&fl:#&&‘fifi:&f.".‘fn2':o’l‘s3l';s: The firstapplication gives Ease and Rest, So¢. 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,” B 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. i s 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. | i s | 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. e i i 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. et 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. i e bl 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 j 14-Itw-3t