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MILSTADT, Ill., Jan. 6.—While the three Misses Wilson are making their debut in Washington, D. C., society from the White House at one end of Pennsylvania avenue, three farmer girls will enter the same existence of gayety, dances, receptions and all that from the other end of the same well known thoroughfare. Tl}ey are Katie, Frieda and Ottilia, daughters of Congressman-elect Wil liam Baltz, who came through via the landslide last November. Congressmamto-be Baltz is a farm er; besides which he runs a bank and a mill and a few other things in and around Milstadt. And Katie, Frieda ana Ottilia are real farmers! Katie is twenty-three; Frieda, twenty; Ottilia, eighteen. During the farming season they ask no oclds of any hired man on their father’s big place. For them it’s 3 a. m. every morning, and work in the lields until the cows come heme in the dewy eve. 4 , Tijey harness their teams, as quickly as' the men folks can, and drive as well. Tliey -plant the corn and other seed, riding the planter up and down the field as jauntily as the society girl guides her electric along the city streets. sowing ..is done, KaTie, Lire a a and Otilia take to' the cultivator as ducks do to water. When the wheat is to be put, Katie, Frieda and Ottilia “follow the* binder,” gathering and stacking the sheaves. When the corn is ripe, Katie, Frieda rnd Ottilia cut stalks, stack them, and later qn husk the ears. Between times all they do is to help Teed and care for the live stock, at tend to the milking, butter-churning and poultry, and haul the farm produce to the mill or elevator. And Katie, Frieda and Ottilia have found time to learn to play the family piano well, sing, and read whole shelves of good literature! Now they are going on to Washing ton with their dad. They are set on making a “showing” in the society down there. In the parlor of the big farm home they sat discussing their chances. “I know the square dances,” ex plained Miss Frieda, “and I am going to a dancing school when we get to Washington and learn oiner dances, too.” “Well, as for me, I wouldn't learn se dances, the newspapers speak so ^ully about,” said Miss Katie, “and can’t find enough nice folks there society I will come back home.” So, while their dad is making laws for the nation, Katie, Frieda and Ot tilia, garbed in the latest Mnstadt cre ations, will venture upon their social campaign. —. Of course the girls can’t do the “bun ny-hug,” They don’t know the A C of bridge, and never saw an opera. A male butterfly of society garbed in a full dress suit will be stranger to them than a dodo. They never saw a taxi, or a bottle of champagne; and of all things! a low-necked gown won't be in their collection of trunks. They’ve never saw the interior of a Pullman car. Now, maybe you begin to realize the size of their undertaking—breaking in to exclusive society where it is of no earthly benefit to possess a record of stacking wheat, shucking corn or plowing. t Tall, broad shouldered Congressman Baltz and the girls’ mother, who tells with a deal of pride that she once walked between the plow handles, will back the girls to the limit. BANK OP MAYSVILLE INCREASES CAPITAL MAYSVILLE, Ga., Jan. 4.—The an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Maysville was held here yesterday. More tj»an three-fourths * of the stock was Represented either by the owners or others h©lding # their .proxy. A sepaL-annual dividend of 4 per cent was declared and the rest of * • • earnings passed up to undivided profits. By unanimous vote the captial stock was increased from $15,000 to $25,000. The new stock was all taken by the stockholders present. The following directors were elected for another year: C. T. Bacon, D. J. Brock, J. O. Bryan, E. C. Jackson, A. M. Chandler, M. C. Sanders, H. P. Camp, W. H. T. Gillespie and J. A. Sasser. J. A. Sasser was elected president; Dr. E. C. Jackson and H. P. Camp, vice presidents, and M. C. Sanders, cashier. DIAMOND BROOCH FOUND; STORY EXAGGERATED (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 —The diamond broach, which Miss Lucy Hoke Smith, daufchter of Senator Hoke Smith, lost at /the navyi yard dance last Saturday night has been returned to Miss Smith by a youn;r lady friend, who found the ornament. It had caught in the friend’s dress. Senator Smith stated today that, the reports sent out as to the value of the brooch were greatly exaggerated— that it only cost $300 and was pur chased by his daughter with a gift left to her by her grandmother and on that account it was prized very highly. «?*S WG&SZM Gi DoYou Feel This Way? Backache or Headache Dragging Down Sensations Nervous—Drains— Tenderness Low Down, ] It is because of some derangement or disease distinctly feminine. Write Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Faculty at Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y. Consultation is free and advice is strictly confidence. Dr. Fierce’s f^avorife prescription restores the health and spirits and removes those ' painful symptoms mentioned above. It has been sold by druggists for over 40 years, in fluid form, at 51.00 per pottle, giving general satisfaction. It can now be had in tablet form, as modified by R.V. Pierce, M.D. B (Sold by Medicine Dealers or trial box! . > mail on receipt of SQo in stamps j In New York there has been or ganized a “Society for the Prevention cf Useless Giving”. Its president is Mrs. August Belmont, (ind among its members is Col. Theodore Koosevelt, a gentleman who is somewhat addicted to the habit of joining new things. Doubtless there is need for concerted action to arrest useless giving. The holiday season witneses to good deal of foolish giving of needless things to the well-to-do and the rich. There are also not <*% few gifts made to the poor which are something worse than useless, which are absolutely injurious. There is a pernicious form of careless charity which breeds the iiicst demor- lizing and degrading types of mendi cancy. There are also certain popular “hold-ups” carried on by young women on yyhat are called “tag days” which should be frowned upon by good people; for they engender evils worse than the ills which they are designed to remedy. But W'hile all this is true, there is much more urgent need for some effort to discourage useless getting in our country than there is necessity for a society to prevent useless giving. The acquisitive powers of the American people are developed out of all propor tion to their faculties of benevolence, and a mania for getting money pos sesses the whole nation. It. affects all classes and inflames social antagonisms of the most dangerous sort. The poor are affected by it, or per haps we should say the classes which account themselves poor because they do not possess as much as they desire, although having comfortable homes and all their real wants abundantly sup plied. They live under intense strain and indulge a hurtful discontentment which robs their hearts of peace and their homes of happiness. They do not suffer themselves to enjoy what they have because they are so bent upon getting more. The rich are affected by this wretch ed distemper. They have the means to cultivate their minds py reading and their hearts by active benevolence, but most of them do neither the one nor the' Other. They are so absorbed in useless getting that they lose interest in the things which make for Intel lectual culture and destroy their capaci ty for reading and reflecting upon higher themes than money-making. Outside the limits of money-getting and money spending the rich among us are as a general thing a very stupid .and ignor ant lot.' Just the other day an Ameri can millionaire, who was once a senator of the United ^States by the power of his money-bags, made himself the laughing-stock of two continents by his foolish expenditures in purchasing pic tures in London. ' He has spent a life time in useless getting, and does not know what to do with the needless hoards** which he has accumulated. Nevertheless he continues to get more, although he is now an old man and evidently lacks the ability to use wisely 'what he has already' gathered together. There are men, more thoughtful than this (lull ex-senator, who nevertheless are as foolish as he in the matter of useless getting. They allow ^themselves little or no leisure in which to enjoy the pleasures of home-life and to se cure its spiritual benefits. They are too hurried in the morning to hold fam ily prayers and too tired at night to give thanks to God for the mercies of thie day. They can not take time enough to go home for luncheon at mid-d'ay. Arid all their hurrying and scurrying they practice In order to get money* they do not need and which they can not turn to good account when they get it. This insatiable desire to get gain is the quintescence of that covet ousness which the Scriptures denounce asf idolatry. Tne Greek word in the New Testament which we translate “covetousness” simply means grasping for more. Why should any man seek to acquire more than is needed for the mainte nance of himself and those dependent upon him, unless he proposes some benevolent work which cap not be done without money? John Wesley’s rule was “make all you can, save all you can, and give all you can”; and that is a very good rule if it is observed as Wesley obeyed it. Early in life he found he could live decently and comfortably on twenty- eight pounds a year, and he resolved never to spend more than that upon himself 'annually. In later years his an nual. income from his books and other sources greatly exceeded the modest sum of twenty-eight pounds, and he re ligiously gave away what he made. When he died, although he had been a poor man all his days. It was discoyer- < ed th'at he had expended for the bless- i ing of others above $250,000 and had bestowed less than $20,000 upon him self. Let a man of that sort get 'as • much as he can, will never fall | into the foolish habit Of useless get- I ting; but one who accumulates simply to have and to hold property falls into a temptation and a snare and pierces himself through with many sorrqws. Nothing is less admirable than a man who turns himself into a coagulating basin for storing stagnant stuff. Of course, men absorbed in useless getting offer many specious defenses for their mistaken course. One of their common pleas in extenuation of their fault is the claim that they are trying to make provision for their children after # they have gone the way of all the earth. Yet in moments of sober thought, they will admit that their money is the ruin of their children and that it would be better for their off spring to inherit less property and ac\ quire higher character. It is not for their children that men who are addicted to useless getting toil/and strive; it is for their own gratification. They go hunting for money as some men go hunting f6r birds; they take all in sight, although the game may spoil in their hands. Our laws limit the number of birds that greedy sportsmen may kill in a day; but there seems to be no limit to the useless getting of dollars. Yet many an over-grown for tune smells to heaven with the moral putrefaction which it has wrought in the children who inherit it. The gain ful father took too much game in the fields of mammon, and the children die of moral ptomaine from feeding on it. It is of the last importance that a man who has a gift for getting money should study also how to use it well; for otherwise he will do a great deal of getting that will be worse than use less. It is at this point our civiliza tion is decidedly*lop-sided. As a nation we have developed enormous powers of getting wealth; but we show ridiculous ly small ability to expend it wisely. 'Many of our rich men who show in the counting house the ability of princes of commerce, reveal positive babyish ness in the use to which they put their money. They use their wealth as a child would use a toy. They bore them selves and each other with inane en tertainments of a costly sort, and when the vapid occasions have passed they confess that they have victimized them selves. To a thoughtful man, who has an eye for discerning the ridiculous, nothing is more laughable than a com pany of serious business men inflicting on themselves a conventional “func tion.” The comedy would me a “roaring farce,” if it 'did not involve so much of moral tragedy. Moreover, not a few men of wealth «how themselves to poor advantage when they honestly try to be benevolent The history of philanthropy in our coun try is filled with the annals of freakish gifts. Stephen Girard, for example, knew how. to make a fortune, and when he died he bequeathed a very large sum for the v founding of Girard college;^ but he coupled' with the legacy such con ditions as have made his memory a dis honor and his gift far less fruitful of good than it might have been, if he had possessed as much sense about giv ing money as he had ability for get ting it. Very few men who have devel oped and displayed large powers for get ting money have shown anything like equal ability ip disposing of it. It is a high art to know how to give gifts unto the world. The world has produced an oversupply of great military com manders; most of the Alexanders, Cae sars and Napoleons might have beer, spared without the race suffering any very material loss. There have sprung from Adam’s race a .great number of great philosophers and statesmen, very many of whom mankind could have dis pensed with er.i3ily and incurred thereby no serious diminution of its real good But the stock of truly wise philan thropists has always been very small. Midas and Croesus have been followed with an innumerable company of mis guided men wfiro have waited their lives in useless getting of money; but the number of those who hive known how to give wisely, as well as get abun dantly, would not make a list too long for even a feeble mind to “learn by heart” and carry without taxing the memory. Mrs. Belmont’s society for the pre vention .of useless giving is rather too negative in its character. It were bet ter to have a society for the promotion of useful giving. It is «3afe to say that such a society, if conducted in a sane way, would severely exclude “monkey- dinners” and such like from the list of things which exemplify the right use of money. It would doubtless “cut out’ some of the habitual expenditures of the leading members of the ,4 Spugs So ciety” (the “Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving”). And it would prob ably condemn a great deal of the use less getting which many of the “Spugs’ indulge. COL DEL FUNG0 GIERA IS SHOT FOR HIGH TREASON » Wealthy Californian Who Join ed Madero Is Executed for being Friendly to Diaz (By Associated Rresl) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4<—‘Word was received here yesterday of the execu tion in Mexico City, December 23, of P. L. E. Del Fungo Giera, who had a me teoric career in San Francisco financial circles ten years ago. The information received in a private letter was to the effect that Giera, after accepting a colonelcy in one of Madero’s regiments, became friendly with Felix Diaz and was captured in the latter’s ranks when the revolution dissolved at Vera Cruz. A courtmartial convicted Giera of high treason, the let ter says, and he was shot. Giera came here from Germany twelve years ago, bringing his bride, the daughter of a noble German family. He made a fortune in the operation of a tannery, which he sold and invested the proceeds in San Francisco real es tate after the great fire. About a year ago his wife r«t ’ Germany and he enlisted under Madero, who twice complimented him for bravery. BETTER THAN SPANKING bed-wetting-. There is a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum mers, Box 327, South Bend, Ind., will Send free to any mother her successful home treatment* with full instructions. Send no money, but write her today if your children trouble you Ip this way. Don’t blame the child: the Chances are it can’t help it. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine difficulties bv day or night. Health is the foundation of all good looks. The wise woman realizes this and takes precautions to preserve her health and strength through the pe riod of child bearing. She remains a pretty mother by avoiding as far as possible the suffering and dangers of such occasions. This every woman i may do through tbe use of Mother’s Friend. This is a medicine for external application and so penetrating in its nature as to thoroughly lubricate every muscle, nerve and tendon .in volved during the period before baby comes. It aids nature by expanding the skin and tissues, relieves tender ness and soreness, and perfectly pre pares th§ system . for nattiiral and CfWryffVl/ZA safe motherhood. “te Mother’s Friend is sold at drug stores. 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