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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. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. 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 \ “The first woman's rights convention 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 “- Wrafl Ofertf Sepan, “These were the beftira|nts of the activity-of women in nubile movements, Involving social reform, which now are Tho romantic adventures of John Dinwiddle Driicoll (’nicknamed “The Storm Centre at tho Court of Maximilian in Mexico, where his secret mission comes into conflict with that of the beautiful Jacqueline. The best romantic American novel of re* / cent years. / ^ * lieu vhat so few of its clast possess, the element* of reaUtyl wrought / by infinite pain* of detail, verisimilitude, suggestion." / — St. Louis Republic. / "A remarkable first book, of epic breadth, carried through un- / s? ^ A swervingly. A brilliant story."—X. Y. Times Saturday Review. / ^ “There is no more dramatic period in history, and the / story bears every evidence sf careful and painstaking / jPa / Y. Globa, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. *33-137 E “‘ *6U» St., New York^ Ileal campaign, and yet re persevered In their ef- nnot help nelng proud of and perseverance which splendid remits,” tq the woman wno at-