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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1906,
MAGAZINE SECTION.
tempted to speak at a temperance con
vention recalls to mind the old story
of Lucy Stone, of Massachusetts, a
pioneer suffragist, who, after her grad
uation at Oberlln, Ohio (the only col
lege admitting women at that time),
made his climbing skill pay. Though
married live years his wife has never
seen him at his work of scaling the
outside of tall buildings until he un
dertook the removal of awnings from
the windows of the towering Flatiron
building. “Until that time," Bald the
lady to a reporter, "I never saw him
at the work. I know ho was removing
awnings front the Flatiron building,
so I went over to Manhattan to meet
him yesterday afternoon, and I tool-
our two children, Lawrence, two and
half years old, and Hazel, four yea,,,
old, and waited tor John In front of
the Bartholdi Hotel. Of course '
never thought John would climb tka,
frightfully tall building. I was stand
ing there when one of tho workmen,
who knows me, came over and said:
‘Your husband will be with you soon,
he's Just coming from the ninth story
now.’ I thought he meant John would
be coming by the elevator, so I didn't
look up to the windows.
“The workman told me to look up. I
did, and I nearly fainted, for thoro
was my husband with his hands on the
sill of a window on the ninth story
and his toes In the groves between the
stones. I grew dizzy and wanted to
turn away.
“Something held me fascinated,
though, and I watched him coming
down In a sort of criss-cross fashion
as quickly as a man would run down
a ladde.. ; said to Lawrence, ‘There's
your papa,’ and the baby laughed and
clapped his hands with Joy. He didn’t
understand the danger, but Hazel did,
and she began to'cry. I couldn’t look
any longer and I turned my- head
away, but I could hear the noise of
the great crowd that was watching
him. I looked again, thinking he
must be on the sidewalk by this time.
Imagine my horror when I saw he had
started climbing upward after I had
turned away, and was then Just up to
the cornice. He looked like a little
black fly against the white stone. He-
waved one hand and then began to
move down. I watched hlnf, but some
times dosed my eyes' when It seemed
that he had made a misstep. - Tho
crowd was so great that when ho
swung down to one of the store awn
ings I could only see him drop off and
disappear Into the maze of men gath
ered about’’
DAUGHTER OF VANDERBILTS
SEES IMPROVED CONDITIONS
INFIELD OF LABOR.
REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF AWN-
. ING HANGER WHO CLIMBS
TALL BUILDINGS.
desired to speak In one of the Mass
achusetts churches. The announcement
of the address was mado by the min-
Mlners Will Then Demand Eight
Hour Day and Recognition of Union.
Owners Will Vigorously Oppose.
Witnessed by Gaping Multitude. He
Ascended and Descended the Tow
ering “Flatiron.”—Wife and Child-
ren Among Nervotii Spectators.
An ex-PresIdent of the United States
thinks If not beneath his dignity to
talk to.the women of the country
through the pages of a popular wom
an's msgazlne, warning them of the
dangerous and undermining effects
upon their character of active partic
ipation In public affairs. The feminine
club life of to-day he especially con-
Followlng this comes tho announce^
ment of an interview with a represen
tative of the new and charming wom
anhood of America In the person of
Consuela Duchess of Marlborough. A
daughter of .the Vanderbilts, married
Into one of the oldest and proudest
families of England, surrounded by
every luxury and crowned with beauty,
vouth and grace, yet Is she democratic
enough to be Interested In her sisters
of the working world.
Women’s Work Commended.
Concerning woman's work the
Duchesi saya:
“It is gratifying to see the Improve-
Charles E. Kera.
With the coming of winter many a
householder has calculated upon the
probability of a strike In tho anthra
cite coal regions and wondered wheth
er he should take tho precaution to lay
In a full supply of fuel. The day
when the provident man laid up great
stores for the frozen period of tho
year, filled his larder with good things
to eat and bis bins with fuel, against
the Inclement weather, has departed
so far as the cities of this country are
codfcerned. Now rich and poor alike,
the provident and the Improvident,
look to tho merchant to keep their lar
ders Ailed. Their only providence Is
In laying up the money with which to
. There lsw man who climbs the outer
walls of the highest buildings and
who uses neither rope, tackle nor scal
ing ladder. This man does not tell of
his daring feats, nor has he a press
agent to exploit his dizzy achieve
ments. He performs this work In view
of gaping multitudes who cheer and
supposed to be the emit end and aim
of her existence. This state she sought,
sometimes as a refuge from greater
Ills. A girl single at 11 or IS was con
sidered an "old- maid.” r*
shudder as this man goes up sheer
walls, digging bis tough and nimble
toes Into the Interstices of the stone,
catching a cornice or a window sill
and “chinning" himself up and doing
other most venturesome acrobatic
No woman,
of Friends,
could be ordained to preach the gospel.
The woman physician or lawyer was
an unknown quantity.
The Women Held Aside Their Skirts.
When Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
the first woman to graduate In medi
cine In this country, appeared on the
streets the women she met held aside
their skirts for fear of contamination
from so unwomanly a creature. The
purchase supplies when needed.
It Is this change In the method of
providing for the home,.that has made
the strike In recent years so terrible
to the bumble consumer, Who may
live a thousand miles from the scene
of the Industrial discontent and know
nothing of Its causes except that
which he reads In bis dally paper, and
yet be the principal sufferer from the
shortage of supplies that follows.
The effectiveness of the strike Is Its
power to create such a shortage In
supplies and to bring the country up
on the verge of a famine as bad as
s food famine. fTranapoktation, by
quickly distributing products over tho
world, has routed the famine of old
that sprang from the failure of crops
Now the cessation of labor produces
the same shortage of supply that was
formerly produced by the uncontroll
able' elements.
' The chief protection against the re
currence of strikes has been found In
agreements made between employers
and employes, the present agreement
In the anthracite coal fields being
effective until April 1st next Until
after that dnte.’accordlng to the state
ments of leading labor organisation
officials, there will be no strike, as
they propose to stand for the Inviola
bility of contracts made by any of
their affiliated associations.
• The good offices of the President of
the United States were used with
great advantage In bringing about on
agreement, between the cool opera
tors and the miners three years ago,
so as to make possible tbe production
of coat. Tbe fact Is the President
used only that Indefinite power that
may be regarded as the Influence of
Us great office skillfully employed
bars of prejudice were high and strong.
have declared martial law In tbe
anthracite regions, and not only would
have thrown troops Into that section.
but would have ordered the mining of
the coal and. Its distribution to relieve
tbe distress of tbe country. .
But, according to assurances that
have been given to the public, tbe
country Is safe from a coal famine, at
least until April 1st, 1000. Then there
will bo another meeting between the
miners and the cool operators and tbe
miners will demand both an eight
hour day and the recognition of their
unloa The recognition of tbelr union
will be resisted by the mine owners
THE WEATHER tOECASTS.
la Spite of Retteries the Government
Prophesies Remarkably Accurate.
Fiteen per cent of error, said Chief
Willis L. Moore, in an Interview, Is
the record of the Weather Bureau. Not
only Is this proportion lower than In
any foreign bureaus, but In ten years
not a criticism of Its work, he adds,
bos come from any commercial, mari
time or scientific organization. Cer
tainly, If It does what It sets out to
do, eighty-five times out of a hundred,
the weather service ought to enjoy an
enviable degree of popular esteem.
What praise would bo showered on a
Congress that acted unwisely only 15
per cent, of tho time!
In splto of the constant gibes di
rected at the Weather Bureau, there Is
undoubtedly among farmers and ship
pers an underlying sentiment of friend-
public, in tbe last analysis,
THE FLATIRON BUHJUNO,
man Fly.” His occupation Is hanging
and removing awnings. TO do his work
he simply walks up and down the out
side of buildings while other workmen
go from story to story by means of the
stairway or the elevator.
John Garrick before he took up the
trade of awning hanging was a sailor.
He followed the sea from boyhood to
manhood, and during his service on
deep-sea sailing ships ho learned to
climb and cultivated hla nerve.
A few days ago be was engaged In
removing awnings from the Flatiron
oulldlng. In New York. Broadway was
choked with people watching the Hu
man Fly at work. Incredible as It
may seem, he climbed the sheer wall
of that building from pavement to cor
nice, two hundred and elghty-elx feet
and down again.
Tire Tears ago Garrick married.
Naturally his wife wished him to quit
lea-farlug. He got employment as an
lwnlng hanger and In that capacity he
whimsical articles of faith do not In
the least affect anyono’s practical at
titude toward a forecast, a Bostonian,
or a Philadelphian.
A contributing cause to tbe railing
at the weather bureau Is the activity
of the long-range prophets. The su
perior usefulness of a forecast for next
month over one for to-morrow being
manifest, even sheer guesswork for
the former period Is preferred by thou
sands to a scientific determination for
the latter. Recently a moneyed indi
vidual offered a substantial prize for
the best weather prophecy six months
ahead. It tho Government bureau
should try for that and win It—nnd ir
ought to he able to guess as well ss
anybody—It would become the most
popular Institution In the country.
Every reader of this paper should have this book.
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Lufaby.
, baby, pnahl
Illustrated
by
Ernest
Haskell
Eu&ne P. Lyle, Jr.
Published August 1st
18TH
THOUSAND
ALREADY
Thera’s a wind on the river—
A sleepjnbld wind with a voice like a
And he alngs to the rushes that dream
ily quiver, \ ■
Down where the ripples ran hr;
Hath. baby. hush! . /
Lambs are drowsily bleating1
Down In cool meadows where daisy
buds grow;
And the echo, aweary with all day re-
H)»» P (a!)enl.leep long ago..
Hush, bftbr, htishl 1
And the sweet baby moon has teen
falling and falling;
TUI pow she Is caught in tbe tipea.
Hush, baby, hush! ,
It la time you were winging
Your way to the land that lies—noyne
knows where;
It Is late, baby, late; Mother’s tied
with singing, \
Soon she will follow you there.
Hush, baby, hushl \
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was btld in this country In USO. Throe
years later a -woman attempted to
speak In a world’s temperance conven
tion in New York and It took her three
hours to make s ten-minute speech be
cause of the Jeers and Interruptions of
the men delegates. Florence Night
ingale, Just about fifty yean ago laid
the foundation for the glorious work
of the Red Cron In the hospitals In ths
Pr to “-
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“These were the beftira|nts of the
activity-of women in nubile movements,
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