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| SHE COMPUTES FOR SAILORS
To know Mrs, Elizabeth Brown
Davis and her work should be suffi
cient to dissolve the last shred of
doubt concerning the ability of a bril
liantly intellectual woman to advance
year after year in the course of her
chosen profession, and at the same
time to carry, with obvious success,
the full responsibilities of marriage,
which in her case comprise over 25
years of wifehood, motherhood and
homemaking.
Mrs. Davis is said to be the great
est woman authority upon astronom
ical mathematics in this country, prob
ably in the world, and has been mak
ing computations for the Nautical Al
manac, published annually by the
United States naval observatory at
Washington, for the last 29 years.
Mrs. Davis began this work soon
after her graduation from the George
Washington University, under Prof.
Simon Newcomb, the distinguished as-
tronomer, who had charge of the Nautical Almanac for many years. During
the early years of assisting Professor Newcomb she took a post-graduate course
in astronomy and mathematics at J.ohns Hopkins university, whose doors
opened to her before they were regularly opened to women, upon the recom
mendation of Professor Newcomb. From that time to this Mrs. Davis has made
the computations for the Nautical Almanac.
Mrs. Davis finds her greatest relaxation and her favorite recreation in
different branches of mathematics. She keeps in touch with the latest current
mathematical literature and is ever seeking new problems on which to try her
strength.
Although devoted to her own scientific work, Mrs. Davis takes the keenest
interest in that of’her husband, Mr. Arthur Powell Davis, director of the United
States reclamation service.
CANADA’S GOVERNOR GENERAL
termination of his connection with his majesty’s household, the duke was
appointed financial secretary to the treasury and served for two years. He is
lord lieutenant of Derbyshire and chancellor of Leeds university.
The duke, who is said to be very democratic, owns an estate of about 18G
acres, on which are valuable mineral deposits, in addition to owning the
famous Devonshire house in London, he has five estates, at which there are
three picture galleries, a statue gallery, and an immense library.
HETTY BREEN'S HEIR
Col. Edward H. K. Green quit
Texas a few years ago and went to
New York at the request of his mother,
Mrs. Hetty Green, to prepare, under
her able guidance, to assume the finan
cial responsibilities so long borne by
herself. Mrs. Green’s recent death, at
the age of eighty-two, found him still
a student of the management of the
reputed fortune of $100,000,000 which
gave his mother the- title of “world’s
riohe&t woman.” He is joint heir with
his sister, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks,
of the hulk of this great estate.
Colonel Green is forty-eight years
oldumMe.fr was born- in London, Eng
land; On Asgust 22,1868, while his par
ents were touring Europe. He attend
ed-public school in New York city, and
later was graduated from Fordham
college. He also studied law in Chi
cago, and was admitted to the bar
after passing his' examinations with
high honors. In 1903 he took charge
of the Texas Midland railroad, and is now president and general manager of
that line.
lie is unmarried. “When it comes to women, I find it best to give all of
them a wide berth,” he says. “I think I’ve got along easier by doing that. I’ve
seen so many of my friends get bumped because they didn’t sidestep soon
enough.”
GARDNER AND THE TRAMP
fully. “No; I gave him a quarter towards his splendid national prepared nesf
^campaign.”
The appointment of the duke of
Devonshire as governor general of
Canada in succession to the duke of
Connaught has given a good deal of
gratification in official circles in the
Dominion.
Known as one of the richest peers
in England, the duke of Devonshire is
an intimate friend of King George,
while the duchess, who was Lady Eve
lyn Emily Fitzmaurice, daughter of
the fifth marquis' of Landsdowne, is
also said to be Queen Mary’s closest
friend. She received the appointment
of mistress of the robes in 1910, while
the duke, during 1900-3, was treasurer
ofjhis majesty’s household. -
The duke, who is the ninth duke
of Devonshire, is in his forty-ninth
year and succeeded his uncle, the
eighth duke, in 1908. He was educated
at Eton and Cambridge university and
during 1891-08, was member of parlia
ment from West Derbyshire. At the
They were telling a story about
Representative Gardner and his fer
vent preparedness campaign.
It seems that a begging tramp ap
proached a group of congressmen, and
one of them pointed out Mr. Gardner
and said:
“Nothing doing here, Weary, but
that gentleman there is very charit
able, and if you tackle him you'll ba
apt to make a haul.” \
“T’anks, boss,” said the tramp,
huskily, and he hurried to Mr. Gard
ner, while the others looked on with
interest.
The tramp and the statesmen
were seen to talk earnestly together
for some time. Then their hands met,
a piece of money plainly passed be
tween them, and' the tramp stepped
jauntily away.
“Well, did you land him?” a con
gressman aske'd the tramp.
“No,” the tramp answered, cheer
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
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VICE AND VIRTUE.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
To be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with its face,
We first ensure, then pity, then embrace.
There is always sorrow in my heart,
never scorn, when I hear of a girl,
young in years,
who has erred
and never been
enabled to find
her way back
from the primrose
path she entered
to the rugged,
straight and nar
row way the good
are treading.
Those who do not
know the hjstory
of that one poor
heart that sinned
and suffered, the
struggles and
temptations she
passed through,
the pressure of
want, the falsity
of those whom she trusted, the ship
wreck of her affections, should not
judge her unheard. The problem of
the working girl whose path is beset
by dangers little dreamed of by the
majority of women offers a grave situ
ation for readjustment. The women
who employ young, innocent, inexpe
rienced girls in their households should
have their attention called to the grave
error on their part of leaving such
girls in their homes unprotected while
they go off summering. “We are keep
ing the house open for my son,” one
woman will complacently tell another,
adding: “Annie will have scarcely any
thing to do except cook for him and
keep his room in order. He may bring
home a young man friend to pass a
few days with him now and then, but
young men are scarcely any trouble.
Annie may thank her stars that I do
not close up the house, which would
oblige her to secure another place
during the summer.”
It would be a thousand times better
for many an Annie if they sought new
places rather than remain under such
conditions, especially if she has beauty
combined with innocence and an all
too-trustful nature. Many a youth Is
an angel for all that his folks know
concerning him, a model young man in
the home under parental eyes, but
quite a different person among those
of his kind, with all restraint removed.
Left to his own devices, many a son
of a good family commences the dig
ging of a pit for his own feet quite
as soon as mother and father have
turned their backs on home. With
hilarious companions, he starts in to
have a good time. His comrades
comment on the good looks of Annie—
the redness of her cheeks, the bright
ness of her eye and the trimness of
her figure.
If young master and his guests
choose to have midnight lunches, An
nie must be there to prepare it for
them. Annie is praised for her cake,
flattered by attention. An intimacy
hitherto unthought of springs up.
There are no fellow workers about
with whom Annie may take counsel,
no older women to warn her to be
ware, take care.
The mother is the last one to whom
Annie can tell the story of misadven
ture when she returns. The son sug
gests to his mother that he would ad
vise Annie’s being turned off —he is
sure she has formed the drink habit.
The girl is promptly discharged. She
goes from bad to worse. Whose fault
is it? The mother would not have
left one of her own daughters in)
peril from close association with wild
young men, alone, unprotected, yet
she took no pains to safeguard an
other girl just as young and innocent.
All young men are not wolves in
sheep’s clothing, seeking whom they
may devour; probably not one in five
hundred is not all that he should be,
but it is difficult to select that one
from the many. Therefore all inno
cent girls should be safeguarded from
dangers that menace them even at
home.
JOLLYING WOMEN.
Oh, if the world were mine, love,
I’d give the world for thee!
Alas! There is no sign, love,
Os that contingency.
So, being poor.^we part, dear,
And love, sweet love, must die.
Thou wilt not break thy heart, dear.
No more, I think, shall I.
If there is one class of men more
abhorrent to their own sex than any
other it is the cad who boasts of his
conquests with women. He considers
himself a lady-killer of, in other
words, a specimen of humanity no
female could help admiring—aye, fall
ing in love with.
To hear him tell the story, one
might imagine young women were
standing In line eager for him to se
lect a sweetheart from among them.
He tells of how he “jollied” this girl
or that one, declaring with gusto that
she actually believed all he said, fool
ish maid. He boasts with glee of how
he took this girl away from her be
trothed lover on a dare as to wheth
er he could do it or not, or cut out
a friend who was deeply in love with
the. prettiest girl In the town. He
does not say much of his conquests
of widows, for he knows he would not
be believed, for jollying does not stand
with them.
The pretty girls in the shops do not
escape his tongue. He boasts of flirt
ing with a new one every day, taking
her to a movie, and not seeing her
when she passes the next time, being
attracted to a prettier face.
Foolish matrons, innocent of wrong
intenf, but who cannot keep the desire ■
of be admired, come in for their share
of his boasting. These he handles
unmercifully, in away which would
mean pistols and coffee for two were
their good husbands to know how
their names were handed about by
the scoundrel who boasts of making
conquests of them.
Such men are dangerous in any com
munity. Os course their bark is worse
than their bite, but still they can
wink a good woman’s reputation down
in less time than it takes to tell it
and do her a w’orld of harm in awak
ening suspicion (which should never
have existed) about her- Men should
take the matter into their own hands.
Instead of applauding the boaster, or
giving his extravagant tales the bene
fit of the doubt, he should be sternly
cried down, scoffed at, put to shame.
Those W’ho listen—who have sisters
at home—can never be sure he will
not select their women folk to mix up
in his cleverly w r oven falsehoods. Men
who boast of their wealth are bad
enough, but the men. who boast bf
the women they jolly are many pegs
lower down. Many of these boasters
are not really so bad as they would
have their chums believe them to be.
They invent tales out of whole cloth
In which they show themselves up as
jolly fellows irresistable to woman
kind. They wed late, if at all. They
have given themselves a bad name
which stacks to them.
MALE FLIRT OF LAST YEAR.
Time is a grief that wastes the heart
Like mildew on a tulip’s eyes,
When hope, deferred hut to depart,
Loses its smiles, hut keeps its sighs.
What has become of the male flirt
of yesteryear, the affable young man
who captured the hearts of all the
marriageable young women at the sea
side or mountain resorts, the hand
some youth who kept all the feminine
hearts guessing as to which one of
them was to be his choice at the end
of the season? He was wont to ac
company one girl for an early stroll
before breakfast, sit with another on
the sands at noon, read poetry to a
prettier maid in a sheltered nook of
the veranda all the cool afternoon,
stroll on the sands in the gleaming
with yet another, take some other girl
for a row on the water In the glorious
moonlight, and dance and flirt with
every other attractive girl in the ball
room—the first one on the floor and
the last to leave it—far into the wee
sma’ hours.
He had away of making each girl
believe that he was in love with her
and her only. But the last week of
the season he had suddenly decamped,
leaving a long trail of sighing women
behind him. In each Instance, he had
begged for the privilege of correspond
ing, and every girl watched long and
eagerly upon her return home for the
letter that never came.
Quite three-fourths of the disap
pointed maids and spinsters resolved
on another season at the same place,
hoping for last year’s beau to return.
These are the women who can never
be made to understand the tactics of
the experienced male flirt. If one
braver than the rest makes bold to
make inquiry as to why he left so sud
denly last year and if he is to be with
them during the present season, they
usually learn things about him which
crush their fond hopes at one fell
blow.
“Oh, yes, Mr. So and So was called
away suddenly by the illness of one of
his children,” answers the hotel pro
prietor, affecting not to notice the ex
pression on his guest’s face. He kept
to himself the fact that the handsome
Beau Brummel had been paid by him
so much per week to make it pleasant
for the young women so that they
might remain the season through.
Os course, it goes without saying
that all men who are gallant to the
ladies are not flirts, but it is just as
well for women to be careful of their
hearts, keeping them well in leash.
He who makes love to many is not in
love with any particular one —unless
it may be himself. Look out for a new
flirt in last year’s nest.
Beetles and Their Habits.
One of the most amazing things in
natural history is the way in which
beetles have triumphed In the struggle
for existence, says Popular Science
Monthly. Os creatures they are by far
the most numerous, no fewer than
150,000 distinct species having been
identified —three times the number of
backboned animals.
Beetles are wonderfully adaptable.
They are found practically everywhere
—in the frost-bound tracts of Iceland
and in the hot desert sands of Africa;
on the highest. mountains, under the
ground, and as fossil, in the deepest
strata; on land and in water; on
plants, among stones, and in wood
and earth; and even in the very cra
ters of volcanoes.
But there is one place where no
beetle has yet been found—lt is the in
hospitable lend of Spitzbergen, to the
north of Russia. Here are mammals,
birds, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, a
few insects of varied species, and many
spiders, but not a single beetle. While
other insects have succeeded in some
way in migrating from the mainland,
the beetles have apparently been un
able to cross the wide, icy waters,
BEST AVAILABLE BREEDING MATERIAL
— - -- -J - - - - . - -
College Dale, Bred and Exhibited by Kansas Agricultural College.
(By FRANK D. TOMSON.)
There is a growing inclination on
the part of various Oklahoma oil pro
ducers whose daily incomes have
reached large proportions, to invest a
portion of their profits in purebred
beef cattle, for they have proved lib
eral bidders in the various sales where
they have been represented.
It is generally known that the beef
producers of Argentina and other
South American countries are looking
to the United States for their supply
of breeding stock. For many years
they depended almost wholly upon the
British Isles for their seed stock, but
gradually they have turned their at
tention to this country, and the vari
ous breed associations, particularly
the Shorthorn association, have co-op
rated with them and have filled large
orders during the past year.
At a recent lowa Shorthorn sale in
which 48 Shorthorns were sold at an
average of $1,074 per head, the Okla
homa oil men and Francisco V. Maissa,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, competed for
various high class entries with the re
sult that prices gradually mounted up
ward, as indicated by the average of
over SI,OOO. It should be understood
that the representatives of these large
interests are most discriminating in
BEST TIME TO PICK
PIGS FOR BREEDING
To Improve Swine Herd, Select
Stock From Offspring of
Very Best Sows.
The best time to pick out the pigs
that are to be used for future breed
ing is when they are still running with
the sow. To improve yqjir herd choose
stock from the offspring of your best
sows. If you wait until the pigs are
grown and running in one herd you
will have lost track of the different
litters, unless you mark all of the pigs.
When you make the selection while
the litters are still separate you need
to mark only the future breeders.
It is best to select from the largest
litters, other things being equal. The
pigs from such litters are likely to in
herit their mother’s prolificacy. Pick
the strongest and liveliest members of
each litter. The ones that shoulder
their way to the front teats where the
richest milk is are likely to be the
best doers.
It is well to select and mark more
pigs than you are going to need for
breeding. Some are fairly certain to
die, or be injured or fail to make good
the promise of infancy. Make sure
that the rows selected have the full
number of sound teats —at least ten —
for this not only indicates good moth
ering ability, but is considered a sign
that a sow will have large litters.
CHOLERA OUTBREAK
FOLLOWS NEW CORN
Disease May Gain Foothold If
Hog’s Resistance Is Reduced
by Unwise Feeding.
’ (By B. R- SPENCE, Missouri College of
Agriculture.)
Hog cholera is not a direct result of
feeding new corn. It may gain a foot
hold more readily if the hog’s resist
ance is reduced by unwise feeding, but
the disease itself can result only from
infection with a specific, invisible
germ, obtained directly or Indirectly
from other hogs.
If the herd is thrown off feed by
eating too much green corn, or by eat
ing corn that is immature, the disease
will be more readily contracted, and it
is often noted that a new outbreak of
cholera follows the first use of new
corn for hogs.
Avoid danger by changing the kind
or amount of feed gradually. Feed the
hogs some new corn for a while be
fore turning them into the field.
Young shoats may be turned into
corn that is not down too badly with
less preliminary feeding than the older
hogs that can break down corn more
quickly.
Cow Must Be Contented.
That a dairy cow must be contented
in order to do her best work at the pall
is generally understood amongst milk
ers and dairy owqers, and it is getting
to be understood also in other quar
ters.
their selections and are not offering
liberal bids merely to get rid of their
money, but, on the other hand, are de*
termined to secure the best representa
tives of the breed, considered from
both the standpoint of individual mer
it and the strength of the pedigree.
They draw marked distinction between
seed of a high order and the ordinary
standard. This is a day when good
seed is at a premium because knowl
edge of the reproductive powers of
good seed is more widely disseminat
ed than ever before
The cattle breeder who has bred his
herd along intelligent lines with this
fact clearly in mind Is today reaping
his reward and apparently we are only
at the threshold of a period of dis
crimination and broad expansion. It
is a wholesome fact that in all of the
more important sales, the more dis
criminating breeders are competing
sharply with the Argentine buyers and
the representatives of the oil inter
ests, and it is to their credit that
many of the most desired breeding an
imals retain their home in the old
established breeding ground of the
central West —a source from which
our people may continue to obtain the
best available breeding material.
WEED OUT ALL THE
UNPROFITABLE COWS
Selection on Dairy Records Will
G've Accurate Results—Easy
Matter to Weigh.
The old saying has it “there is no ’
time like the present.” That this ap- '
plies with telling force to the selec
tion of good dairy cows will be ad
mitted by every thoughtful dairyman.
Selection may be made on the evi
dence of certain well-known external
indications of good milkTng qualities,
with special attention paid to the ud
der, loin, skin, barrel, etc. ■
But no matter how skilled the ex- •
pert judge of dairy “quality” in a cow
may be, he is not infallible as to the
amount of hard cash that anyone cow
in the herd will earn in a year. He
may be, as well as the ordinary dairy
farmer, considerably mistaken in his
judgment. One system will give ac
curate results, that of selection on
dairy records. It is easy to weigh
and sample; it is easy to add up a few
figures for each cow; it is easy to
compare such totals, and if is eminent
ly satisfactory to know for certain
which cows are best to keep and breed
from.
Now is the time to act, prepare to
keep records all season. —From bulle
tin of the Canadian Department* of
Agriculture.
GIVE YOUNG HORSES '
BEST OF ATTENTION
Furnish Ample Shelter and Dry
Bed—Clover and Alfalfa Make
Good Roughage.
(By D. J. KAYS, Ohio Experiment Sta
tion.)
With the demand for good draft .
horses advancing, the young colts
should receive the best of care to in- .
' sure rapid and complete development.
. Many colts will be taken from pas*
’ tures with a goodly store of fat, only
to be turned to a strawpile for feed :
and shelter. On the other hand, a few
colts may be ruined by heavy feeding
in the stalls, where they cannot take .
exercise.
The ideal shelter for colts Is a tight- (
ly built shed open to the south, where
the animals may go in or out at their
own pleasure, and where they may
have the run of a lot for exercise. A
dry bed and a protection from cold
winds and rain is all that is needed.
Clover and alfalfa make good rough
age for colts, with a grain ration of
two parts oats and one bran added.
There Is little danger of overfeeding
a colt if room for proper exercise is
given. Growth can be made more
cheaply during the first year than at
any other time, and feed should not
be spared.
Loss by Old Machine*.
The worn-out separator or the ma-'
chine of poor make often causes
enough loss in one season to mote
than pay for a new machine of a rep’”
utable make.
