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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.
TH£ WOMAN’S SHAKESPEAREAN CLUB TO LOOSE
ITSELF IN THE WOMAN'S CLUB—LIBRARY
TO BE ESTABLISHED.
The third anniversary of the Wom
an’s Shakesperean club, was celebra
ted Monday afternoon at the home
of Mayor and Mrs. Walter B. Smith.
The parlors were handsomely deco
rated with bunting red, white and
blue, chrysanthemums and roses and
the home was quite attractive, the
occasion being a very happy one
throughout.
The club had extended invitations
to quite a nauilxer of the ladies of the
<tity and as a result there was a very
large attendance. Besides celebra
ting their anniversary, the other prin
cipal objects of the meeting were to
form “A Woman’s Club” and to be
gin an effort to establish a public
library.
Tbe following was the program
carried cruts
Music—Miss Atfley Murphey.
Paper —Mrs. A. M. Lambdin.
Music—Miss Nannie Howard.
Mrs. Otley’s article on clubs—Read
by Miss W illie Reynolds.
Music—Miss Mary W. Lovelace.
F.legant refreshments were served,
Misses Arley Murphey, Meta Mur
phhy, and Mrs. C H. Perdue acting
as hostesses.
MRS. LAMBDW’S l-APER.
Mrs. A. M. Lambdir.’s paper was
much enjoyed. It reviewed briefly
the work of the Shakesperean Club.
It dealt with the future plans of the
women. She said in part:
We have gone through with the
pioneer experiences, have rounded
off the rough corners, and feel that
we are well repaid for our indorse
ment of Women's Clubs. It has
been good work and we feel that our
time has been well spent. But along
with our congratulatory feelings there
comes a conjunction that we have not
been wholly unselfish. With this
prompting we come this afternoon to
ask you to unite with us in a broader
work. Our club work has l>een of
great improvement to our individual
members. We wish to expand it so
that this advantage will not only reach
more members but materially give
both pleasure and profit to the entire
community. I had thought ot ap
pealing to your public spirit—and
compare the Barnesville of twenty
five years ago with its quiet, primitive
customs, with our vigorous, enter
prising, growing city of these closing
years of the century.
But when I look into your faces, I
know that is unneccessary. You are
Barnesville women and the Barnes
ville spirit is not confined alone to
her men. The same ability, the same
determination, the same enthusiasm
that inspired Barnesvilie’s sons to or
ganize and carry out with such signal
success our glorious Chautauqua, can
make her daughters if they w ill, in
stitute that great need of the hour—a
public library. This is not anew
theme to some of this assembly.
3HK) POraLAR^YOUNG
Hnriuy married.
On Wednesday last there were a number fashionable weddings in differ
ent Georgia cities; one of the most brilliant of these wa* that of the handsome
ocuple shown above. Both are weilthy and accomplished and have the good
wishes of a host of friends.
By the way, atl these weddings ordered their engraved invitations from
Messrs. J. P. Stevens & Bro., Jewelers of Atlanta, Ga.; this firm operates a
Urge engraving plant, they do high grade work at low prices. Wedding cards
made by J. P. Stevens & Bra are always of the most fashionable shape and
artistic engraving.
They supply sample free ol charge and work is done promptly; no disap
pointment when ordering from this house.
Five years ago one public spirited
woman, [Mrs. A. O. Murphey] es
poused this cause and by her own
efforts raised a fund for this purpose,
which she holds to-day, and thougn
she received little encouragement
then her interest remains and she is
ready to help forward the good work.
It is not neccessary for me to con
sume your time by arguments in fa
vor of the establishment of a public
library. We need it for ourselves,
for our children, for the entire pop
ulation. You have on your center
tables, perhaps, many of the latest
periodicals and interesting books
crowd your shelves, but there are
homes within the limits of this town to
whose inmates even a newspaper is
almost unknown. Other towns all
over Georgia are waking up to the
fact of the great moral, educative,
and religious influence of such an
institution and our town with its rep
utation for culture and learning can
not afford to lag behind.
You may ask why should the
women undertake this work ? It
might be said because they are al
ways interested and active in every
! good cause, but the special answer
now will be because this is one of the
objects of the “Woman s Clubs, and
that brings us to the most important
feature of the present undertaking.
It has been proposed to organize
“The Barnesville Woman’s Club,
the chief object of which shall be the
establishment of a public library.
In order to secure the interest and
assistance of every woman in Barnes
ville it has been deemed best to have
this club consist of different depart
ments, each under its own manager
or chairman, so that every woman
can find study, work, or amusement
in whatever or as many departments
as she may prefer. The Art- needle -
work Club is already a flourishing
body and it is hoped to have that as
one department- “A social and dra
matic section,” will be organized un
der a capable leadfer and this will be
perhaps the most useful feature as far
as the library is concerned, besides
being the means of many pleasant
occasions to both young and old.
“A Physical Culture and Health De
partment” may be included and the
Shakesperean Club wishes to lose it
self in the “Literary Section." By way
of parenthesis let it be known that
the works of Shakespeare will no
longer be the subject of exclusive
study. Our club is already a mem
ber of the State Federation and the
prestige as well as material aid to be
derived trom this connection will ex
tend to the new organization. There
can be other departments added as
occasion demands the identity of each
being preserved as far as its own
workings are concerned.
The President of Gordon Insti
sute—ever ready to assist in any good
—
work, has offered the ladies a com
fortable, commodious club room and
as a nucleus for the library gives
the collection of books left from the
old library of the Institute. Our
generous fellow citizen Mr. Otis A.
Murphey, has also tendered a contri
bution of twenty volumes, and al
though we do not propose to beg
there may be other liberal citizens
who will follow their example.
In bringing this matter of club
work before the ladies of our town,
there is no intention or desire to
make such new demands upon their
time that will interfere with home or
church relations. We all need to
cultivate the mental and social sides
of our natures as well as the domes
tic and spiritual. There is not a
branch oi study recommended by the
Federation of clubs that will not
make us better able to fill our places
as true, home-loving women. In the
ever increasing demands upon us in
this age of hurry and activity we need
help from each other. There was a
day when women could mold and
shape their thoughts and lives from
the years of their experiences,
but we live in a different age. There
is not lime now to wait to learn for
ourselves things that we can gain in
an immeasurably shorter period by
communion and contact with each
other. It is not the desire a of Club
women to change the order of nature,
to be home makers and house keep
ers, but to be infelligent house keep
ers, and greater than all, wise and
tender mothers are all the great ob
ject of a woman’s life.
By a hearty co-operation in this
cause you will be not only aided on
all these lines but your own intellect
ual and social pleasures will be in
creased and you will have the
proud consciousness some day when
Barnesvilie’s Public Library shall
have become a flourishing institution
that your brain and hands helped to
make it a reality.”
The work has been undertaken
and we doubt not that it will be ac
complished.
On Wednesday afternoon, Nov.
30th, at 2:30 o’clock, all the women
of the city interested are invited to
meet at Gordon Institute to further
consider the organization and work
outlined in Mrs. Lambdin’s paper.
THE OFFICERS.
The present officers of the Shake
spearean club are as follows:
Mrs. A. M. Lambdin, President;
Mrs. L. K. Rogers, and Mrs. J. P.
Thurman, Vice-Presidents; Miss
Willie Reynolds, Corresponding Sec
retary; Mrs. J. W. Reeves, Record
ing Secretary; Mrs. J. C. Collier,
Treasurer.
Barnesville Still Grows-
FOR WHICH WE ARE THANKFUL.
It should be a source of thanks
giving that Barnesville continues to
make progress. Of course people are
talking high taxes and low cotton,
and this is not the season for new
industries and new buildings, hut
Barnesville has abundant evidence to
show that it is still growing. The
cit-zens have reason to be thank
ful over the situation as it exists here.
While business here is quiet along
certain lines, our business men are
hopeful and fairly prosperous. The
manufacturing interests, which have
become quite important during the
last few years, continue to advance.
More capital has been invested in
manufacturing plants this year than
for the same period in a long time.
The Oxtord Underwear Mill has
been completed and is one of the
largest underwear mills in the state,
doing a magnificent business. The
Hanson—Crawley Cos. has trebled its
capacity this year, and it claims to be
the largest Underwear mill in the
South. The Stafford—Huguley Hos
iery Company has added considerable
machinery, and for a greater part of
the time it has been running day and
night. The Barnesville Manufactur
ing Company, manufacturers of yams,
Jackson G. Smith & Sons, the largest
buggy manufacturers in the South,
and the Summers Buggy Company
have been busy every <lay this year,
notwithstanding the last two named
doubled their capacity some time ago.
Just now, however, all the improve
ment going on is in the direction of
more and better homes, and it is a
fact that workmen cannot be secured
to perform the work as rapidly as in
vestors desire to have it done. "Mrs.
M. F. Middlebrooks is erecting a
handsome eignt-room dwelling on
Thomaston street. This home will
have all the modern improvements,
and when completed will be a de
sirable home. Mr. E. C. Elder on
the same street, is erecting a twelve
room residence, which will be an or
nament to this little city. It will be
equipped with electric lights and
water works, and all the modern con
veniences. Mr. Edward Elder, also
on Thomaston street, is adding a sec
ond story to his home, which will
make it one of the largest dwellings
in Barnesville. Mr. H. Hollis Gray
has just completed and moved into
his elegant home near the end of
Thmaston street. Mr. Edgar L. Rog
ers is completing a pretty five-room
cottage, which he has just sold to Mr.
E. F. Hudson, superintendent of
the Georgia Underwear Mills. Mr.
Rogers will begin next week the
erection of two cottage homes on
Ann street. Both will be completed
in the shortest time possible. The
Misses Parham are having erected a
nice cottage home on Ann street,
which they hope to move into within
the next few weeks. There are sev
eral parties who desire to purchase
and rent houses here, but it is prob
able that they will be compelled to
buy lots and build upon them to be
accommodated. Another evidence
of progress is the important extension
the Central railroad is making to the
pump station. The line is a mile in
length. One or two other manufact
uring plants are being contemplated
on this line.
Barnesville is one of the proudest
and most enterprising little cities in
Georgia, and the citizens have great
faith in its future.
There are some very important
movements on foot for 1899, and we
predict that it will be a prosperous
year for Barnesville.
THE POWER Or ORATORY
(for the gazette.)
The article in the Gazette of Nov.
10th, in reference to the recent ora
torical contest was read with interest
by many who have deplored the ap
parent lack of devotion to this great
art among the students of Gordon In
stitute. The recent organization of
a debating society among the young
men who are willing to devote Satur
day morning of each week to such
study is to be heartily commended as
a step in the right direction. Who
knows hut that from the inspiration
there received there may arise for
Georgia some son as eloquent as
Grady or Hill!
There is no grander gift than ora
tory, and surely no more potent
means of doing good. What power
is in the possession of that man who
can stand before an audience and
sways the multitude as he wills by the
depth of his thought and the beauty
of his language. In the Golden age
of Greece the most eminent and suc
cessful teachers were the orators who
led their pupils along the beautiful
streets and parks and discoursed to
them of the wonders of nature and
the achievements of art.
Cicero defined eloquence as “wis
dofh speaking fluently” and to accom
plish such an end is worthy any stu
dent's ambition. The demand for
gifted speakers will increase as the
years go by. Already in this busy,
money getting age men are finding
that there is no time to read and dis
cover all for themselves that pertains
to any subject of interest. Indeed
they prefer, even with time at their
command to sit at the feet of some
son of eloquence and glean in an
hour what he has required months to
obtain.
It is a never ceasing wonder why
ministers of the gospel are often so
unmindful of the power that might be
theirs by the cultivation of fluent and
graceful speech. It is pot sensation
alism but a duty to put the highest
truths in the most alluring form.
Beautiful language makes religious
thought more attractive, and flowers
of speech were given to be enjoyed
as much as the mes and violets that
fill our gardens.
“What is oratory and who is the
greatest orator you ever heard ? ”
were questions propounded by one of
| Georgia's brainy sons, to a group of
thoughtful men and women. ' .
The answer to the Yatfer querry de
pends altogether on the former. If
rythmic flow of words and graceful
attitudes be the definition there are
many who may be called great. But
it is more than .that. It means the
intense desire for knowledge that will
allow no respite until one delves into
the deepest recesses of learning and
brings to light truths that burn in his
heart and brain until he feels ne must
perforce go forth with a message to
his fellow man —a message so replete
with wisdom and so fluently spoken
that it strikes deep into the minds of
his hearers and molds and shapes hu
man action.
Sam Jones says the finest platform
orator he ever heard was a woman,
Frances E. Willard. She had a mes
sage to the vorld, a message of tem
perance, love and purity. There has
been but one Frances E. Willard and
another is not likely soon to appear.
Let this gift of the gods be rather the
peculiar inheritance of the sons of our
land and may they never under val
ue its importance.
A Loss Irreparable.
Mr. J. M. Roberts writes editor
ially in the High Springs Sentinel, as
follows of the death of his wife, re
cently brought to Barnesville and
buried :
“The Sentinel mourns over the
death of the loving wife of its editor
who passed away on last Friday.
Sudden and unexpected was the
direful calamity, making it all the
more sad and heart-rending. Sick
only a few days, her condition, was
not considered alarming until a few
hours before death when it was plain
that the end was near. All that lov
ing hands and medical skill could do
was unavailing, and at 2 o’clock on
Friday afternoon her sweet spirit took
its flight to the great God that gave
it. In her last hours, fully realizing
that she must soon die, she said with
her countenance all aglow with
Christian felicity, that she was ready
to go, and feared not to pass through
the “Dark Valley of the Shadow 01
Death.” Her consecrated life and
unfaltering faith in Him who rules
over all vouched her safe in the last
trying hour, and she felt not the sting
of death, nor had the grave any vic
tory over her. To the loved ones
who wept around her bedside, she
only requested that they live so as to
meet her beyond the pearly gates
where sickness and suffering are un
known. She leaves to mourn her
loss a husband and an infant daugh
ter, two months old, together with
relatives and friends. Her remains
were taken to Barnesville and in
terred in the family burying ground
on last Sunday. Solitary and alone
she sleeps in the cold dark ground,
but her hallowed memory will never
fade, and our deathless love for her
will only be intensified by the flight
of years.
A Big Opening.
On Tuesday next Messrs. J. H
Bate & Cos., will have a big opening,
to which the people are invited.
They have a beautiful stock of goods
and it is quite a pleasure to look
through their stock. They have
many beautiful things. The fact is
there are very few stores even in cit
ies more creditable for anything like
the capital invested. This store
should be encouraged by the people
of Barnesville aud community. Be
certain to attend the opening and
make your holiday purchases from J.
Bete & Cos.
Perfectly Reliable.
We direct special attention to the
advertisement of Mrs. Dr. Mary A.
Brannon of Atlanta, in which she I
writes an open letter to women. She
is perfectly reliable and correspon
dence and business with her will be
considered absolutely confidential.
Prof. M. L. Brittain and little son
of Atlanta, will spend to-day with
Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Brittain. Prof.
Bnttain is one of the leading educa
tors of the state.
Mrs. W. W. Arnold and son, Mas
ter Julian, returned from Atlanta this
week, where they have been for some
time on a visit.
Mr. Asbury Lambdin passed
through Barnesville yesterday on his
way to join the Third Georgia regi
ment, to which he has been transfer
cd. He will join the regiment in
Savannah and will go at once to
Cuba.
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WILD TURKEY SHOOTING AS IT USED;
TO BE.
A1 wrt* Culled Good Game— A Sly and!
Knowing BirC-T-lcl-* of the Trade,
now Turkey* Are Trapped-Benia-j
I ro m Franklin * Idea of the Turkey.!
The turkey, like Thanksgiving day,|
with which he is inseparably associated)
in the American mind, is, in tbe lan-j
imago of a proud Yankee, “one of the'
institootions. ” It had been domesticat
ed and bred in the old world before the
pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth
Rock, presumably by the Spaniards, who
captured specimens in Mexico and tians-*
ported them to Europe, in every part of !
tbe American continent except the frig
! id regions of the extreme north the
earliest settlers found the turkey in its
wild state. The species of fowl which
was regarded as so toothsome at the first
American Thanksgiving was the bird of
today in his unenlightened condition.
The pioneers of all parts of the Unit
ed States where there were extensive
tracts of forest found wild turkeys in
great abundance, and even in the days
when deer were plentiful no hunteri
scorned this bird as unworthy of hisl
prowess. Wild turkey hunting was and!
yet is a royal sport wherever the bird!
exists. Ho is considered noblo gamej
and, like the deer and the buffalo, has;
rapidly disappeared from many of his
former haunts before the march of civi
lization. He is now seldom found in his
native state except in the larger forests
of the great north and northwest, the
brush lands of Arkansas and the Indian
territory and the jungles of semitropical
Florida.
Within the memory of many sports
men turkey Hunting was considered
great sport in southern Indiana and Illi
nois, and the writer, who is “one of the
trade,“has brought down more than
ono of the proud birds by the skillful
use of his father’s ancient, long barreled
riflo. The methods of taking the tnrkey
all require the exercise of ingenuity.
The bird is timid and regards man as
his natural enemy. It is and has been
since the turkeys of the country first
observed that a man with a gun pro
duced great noise and much slaughter
among them impossible to get near
enough to render a shot certain of re
sults without approaching the game un
der cover.
When turkeys were plentiful in the
great wooded tracts cf the Ohio and the(
Mississippi valleys, tbo hunters in thej
daytime sought for their roosts, whioh|
were easily found by means of thei
faces. Then he concealed himself with
in easy range of the place and awaited
sunset, when a large flock would ap
proach the place and one by one fly up
to tho almost horizontal branches on
which tho birds prefer to roost. A shot
at that time would put on end to the
sport. The hunter must wait until the
last of the flock has mounted the perch
and the twilight has so deepened that
he can but just fix by his vision the
muzzle sight of his rifle in the little
nick of tbe one nearer the breech. If he
remains out of sight, he may be able to
secure two or even three birds ere the
darkness puts au end to his sport. Then
he gathers up his game and goes home
to return long before tho cock crows,
for at break of day his turkeys will
leave that roost never to return. If he
is careful, ho may get two more of the
flock as a result of his early morning
visit
Then comes another ruso of the hunt
er, by tho skillful exercise of which he
may be able to inveigle two or three
moro of the turkeys to their death. In
tho wing of each turkey is a hollow
bone that can readily be transformed
into a whistle, the note of which, when
properly blown, very closely resembles
the call of a turkey. Not far away and
well concealed lies the “daylight mur
derer’s accomplice. ’’ As soon after their
flight from the perch as the turkeys dis
cover that all has become quiet and the
gobblers have mustered up a little cour
age, they begin calling for the purpose
of collecting the remnant of the flock
preparatory to a permanent departure
from the scene cf the massacre. The
second hunter softly answers with his
whistle, and the chances are great that
he will by often responding to the in
quiring cry lure the turkey within
range of his gun. A sharp report, re
peated over and again by tbe echoing
hillsides, a flutter of wings in a death
straggle on the ground, and the forest
is again wrapped in silence.
After an hour of waiting the hunter
sounds his call, then listens for a faint
response. If none is heard, he ventures
again. A third effort is likely to elicit
an answer unless the turkeys have be
come so terrified by last shot that
ty common impulse they have fled pre
cipitately alone or in very small groups.
If they have hidden themselves in
clumps cf lushes or the tops of fallen
trees to which the withered foliage is
still clinging, the hunter may get an
other shot.
The third method is to entrap the
birds. A strong pen of logs or rails is
erected in the wood, and a trench with
an easy descent beneath the foundation
piece is dug deep enough to admit the
largest turkey without crowding. In
the trench a little com is strewn, and
the turkeys walk along eating or look
ing for something to eat as they go un
til all of them are within the pan
Then they become alarmed and go tear
ing around the inclosure with their
heads erect and chirping as loudly as
they can. j
They never lower their heads enough
to discover that it is as easy for a sensi
ble bird to get out as for a foolish one
to get in, and as the pen Is securely cov
ered tbe turkeys remain there until the
clever trapper oomes and puts a peremp
tory end to their dire affright. Benja
min Franklin once deplored the faot
that tbe turkey bad not bean sslsotsd as
the bird of freedom, but it is probably
bent that tbe Yankees did not make this
high beaded, foolish creature the em
blem of their liberty Jeweirr- „ _