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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
Masons VIII Entertain.

Pine Level Lodge 353, F. and
A. M. will celebrate Washington's
birthday at the hall Monday even
ing by rendering a program. Ad-
dresses by several prominent
Masons from abroad and home.
The Royal Arch Masons and
Order of Eastern Star and all
visiting members of the fraterni.
ty are cordial invited. Light re.
freshments will be served. Elk
erclSeS TO commence at 8:3(
sharp.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
Ultirnatun.
Written for the Enterprise.

Written for the Enterprise.
This is the ultimatum. If this
does not settle this serious ques-
ton, then we must have war.
Yes, it is sic semper tyrann1s,
sic semper gloria mundi, ct sic
'em Tige, or any other man.
Facilis descensus averui, ct
nihil est celerius Fama. Fiat
justitia, ruat coelum. Mill fdes
punica. Et malls avibus; nil anna
popularis.
On the Grampian hills where
Norval fed his goats. Mirabile
visu. Fortuna favet fatuis, ct
foenum habet in corner, ct palida
Mars. And ia the mix Charles
II lost his head.
0, tempore! o, mores!! Hinc
illa 'lachryme. Dunn vivimus,
vivamus, Quid nunc?
Ichabod lies prone with arms
across his crutches. Eft id genus
omne. 0, caput NOR :eurim. O.
caveat actor. Tempus omnis
revelat. Dunn spiro, spero. Haee
olim meminisse juvabit durante
vita. Dunn fugit omnes ante 1u'
Gem, except the dead, who never
kick. Fata DISTANT hoe loco, hoe
tempore.
Hic facet Bellum Sepu1ters.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
A KISS,

Kiss is peculiar proposition,
of use to no one, yet absolute
bliss to two. The small boy
gets it for nothing, the young
man has to steal it, and the old
man has to buy it. The baby's
right, the lovers privilege, the
mask of the hypocrite. To a
young girl faith; to a married
woman hope, and to an old maid
cEtaF9tys--Ex.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
To the People.
Fitzgerald, Ga,
Feb. 18, 1904,
NV Dear Friends

Ny Dear Friends;-
Will you permit me again to
call upon you in this way and
invite you to enlist in personal
service for humanity.
Time forbids our talking long
this time, but we mean to ad.
dress you again next Sunday al
3:00p. m. Subject, Skilled Work
men," Good music; kindly at
mosphere; an opportunity to de
good. Come.
Your Brother.
EAkk WAeD PsiAReE.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
JAPANESE ARE PUTTING q
MANY TROOPS ON LAM
Over Sixty Thousand Landed to Fight the Russians on H.
Banks OF the YaluMany Atrocities Are Perpetrated o
Foegners and Natives by Soldiers Of the Czar-Japa
Agrees to the Limitation Of Field Of Action.

refugees, all of whom the
administrator assured Mr.. MilIeX
would be protected.
The administration admits III
gravity of the situation, but dea
clares that Viceroy A1exiff alors
can remedy it. It is belived here
however, that the maintenancs a
order at this treaty port and thS
prevention of these violations b
international rights can be insufl
ed only by an instant information
al proclamation, supported by.
armed force.
Mines had been constructs
and preparations made for a.
posting them at the mouth o
the river here, where the forf
have been occupied by a fielS
battery of artillery and guns from
the Russian gunboat Svoutsch.
London, Feb. 1s.-The coa
respondent at Chez Foo of
Paris edition of the New Yo
Herald, in a dispatch in whick
reports the arriyalof junks &
ing Japanese wounded iron
Port Arthur engagement
ruary II, considers this
that something more tn
pedo attack took place n
The correspondents i
the Standard reports
battleships were de
this attack, while
pondent at Tier
Standard says ufi
February IL, that
patch from Port
the statement thai
squadron has aga
Che Foo, Feb.
Arthur-Che Foo
yesterday.
Sasebo. Feb
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18

Mrs. Oma Mccall is havs
her eyes treated by DR..
Powell this week. She win
turn to her home at Pitts pr
ly this week.
Read the Enterprise,
you good although u
times make ye4 -
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
SUICIDE OF BREWER LEMp.

SUlLIUE UF BREWER LEMP.
Is liquor money good money!
We believe it is not.
Money that is made from the
liquor traffic, in our opinion, is
not as good as money made in
pursuit of more useful and lie.
gltlmate avocation.
We have respect for the theory
that the we'll earned dollar is the
most valuable dollar.
We believe in the religion that
teaches that all happiness and
contentment is based on merit
and we'll grounded in meritorious
effort.
Every American dollar Gin
spite of Bryan-Coin-Harv ct al)
is a hundred cents dollar it is
true, but it's value to the holder
depends, we think, to some ex-
tent, on the appreciation of the
man who happens to possess it
and his capacity to enjoy the ad-
vantage it's possession gives.
The following news item
taken from Sundays paper, in
part bears out our contention:
st. Louis, Feb. 13.-William
J. Lemp, president of the Lemp
Brewing Company, committed
suicide today at his residence,
1882 South Thirteenth street,
by shooting himself in the right
temple with a revolver. He died
an hour after firing the fatal shot.
Growing depression over the
death of his favorite son, Fred
Lemp, three years ago, and the
loss of Frederick Pabst, of Mil
'waukee, a lifelong friend, is be-
lieved to have been the cause of
the rash act.
Mr.. Lemp who was 68 years
old, and a native of Germany,
has lived in St. Louis for forty
eight years. He stood high in
business and social circles and
was reputed to be a millionaire.
Mr.. Lemp was alone in his
room when the shot was fired.
Complaining of not feeling we'll,
he had not risen with the other
members of the family. Break
fast had been served and his
sons had gone to their duties at
the Office and Mrs. Lemp had
gone up town. The servants
were busying themselves about
their daily tasks when a shot
was heard from the direction of
Mr.. Lemp's room. The servants
who hurried to the apartment
found Mr.. Lemp lying on the
floor, a revolver c1utched in his
right hand and bullet wound in
his temple.
Mr.. Lemp lost interest in life
three years ago when his son
Frederick died. He was the
brewers favorite son, the SUI
perlntendent of the brewery and
the chief reliance of his father.
He died suddenly of heart failure
and the blow to the father was
so severe that he never recover
ed from it.
Without having any disease
which could be diagnosed he be-
came feeble and gradually be-
came Respondent. When Fred
Pabst, the Milwaukee brewer
died on January 1, Mr.. Lemp
was affected almost as much as
be had been by the death of his
son. He attended the funeral
and on his return was more
respondent than ever.
Besides the two sons and his
widow, one daughter, who marri-
ed a son of Captain Pabst,
survive Villa I Iennn,,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
LANDING AT WIFI.

OhlO, + co. 1(.-E1ght trans.
ports with Japanese troops from
Nagasaki and several additional
vessels carrying arms are on
their way to the west coast OF
Korea. Detachments of Ja-
panese cavalry have been landed
at Win on the Yalu river.
SIXTY THOUSAND JAPs.
Port Arthur, Feb. 17.-The
report that the Japanese have
concentrated about 10000 troops
at Wonson Con the east coast of
Korea), with the object of enter
ing Manchuria, are confirmed.
New Chwang, FEBRUARY 10
Viceroy Alexieff left Port Arthur
today, proceeding to Hardin with
General Plug, the chief of staff,
and the general staff.
1t is said that the Russian
army and navy commands will
be reorganized and that General
KerpaitskY will command the
Yalu division, which is expecting
to be attacked by the Japanese
forces.
Atrocities are daily perpetrat-
ed on foreigners and natives,
both by the organized police and
incoming troops, which makes it
impossible for the civil admins
traitor of New Chwang to control
the situation. 1t is feared that a
reign of terror will be precipitat-
ed if the neutral powers remain
inactive. A captain of police,
with TIM soldiers, without any
provocation, destroyed the con-
tents of a hotel owned by a
German, whose three Japanese
guests had registered under the
protection of the civil admins
traitor. These Japanese we're
bound, stabbed and robbed of
food, money and jewe1ry. They
were rescued with difficulty by
United States Consul Miller,
together with three women
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18
Or Visitors \

Among the nuns
who are enioyin
hospitality this
Netherton, n. Y.,
Savannah, J. K. PA
S. Alexander, Charl
John R. Levesay, Rich
N. H. Camady, Oxfof
E. P. Olson, Pennsyl
B. Roberts, N. Y, M.
man, Cincinnati, O., T.
N. Y, w. K. Partridge.
John W. Ste1nager, III
phia, Pa, B. S. Mathew
Louis, Mo-, Emil Frank,
natl, O., c. T. Moxley, Baltin
Nd, Max Wright, Cincinl
o., w. H. hatcher, Baltiua
Md, Samuel e. Yoder, N. @
.Schuffenmaker, Baltimore.
R. N. Cobb, St. Louis, Mo-,
J. Turpin, Virginia, H. Il.
ertson, Savannah, T. Rosen'
Cincinnati, o., VIM. Matl
Chattanooga, Tenn, w. X. /
son, Savannah, and J. C. CT
Richmond, Va.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-18

Miriam, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Cooper, is very i'll
with pnee muaia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
A ResourccfuI Woman,

81 think it is a foolish fashion that
so many women indulge, that of tell
ing their age wrongly" said the wo-
man with the prematurely gray hair.
81 can honestly say that 1 never prac-
tice it myself"
MOP" said her friend, with many
meanings in the monosyllable.
WELL" said the first speaker, with a
smile-she was woman with a sense
of humor-"the fact is l don't have to.
I have a way of making myself out
younger than am if l wish to without
telling fib at ALL
Really" inquired the other Curl
ously. I'm what way?"
81 put the burden of the fib all upon
the questioner You see, when one of
my dear women friends-it is always
women who are curious on this point
asks me how old am l say: oh, I'm
a year or two older than you, you
know, my dear-at least a year older
Let me see, now, how old are you?
And then she always knocks mere off
my age than l should ever have the
nerve to do myself"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04

sketching went on the Widow Ray had
her own work cut out She had lived
among the daisies and buttercups all
her life and cared 10 more for them
than she did for Candelions, but on this
summer morning she started out to Gull
bouquet
In due time she appeared in Deacon
whites meadow. Both the deacon and
the artist had their backs toward her
as she approached them and were
therefore ignorant of her presence
The widow looked to the right for
daisies and TO the left for buttercups
and ahead and behind for rattlesnakes
All of sudden the farmer was jump
id foot high and the artist off his
camp stool by long. shrill scream.
They turned to find the woman in a
heap on the grass with her hands over
her face. She heard the rush of foot
steps. and as some one seized her hands
she gasppd out:
THE snake. The snake! Oh. have
been Bitten
''By gum. but is that 500" she heard
a voice eXclaim, and next moment she
was picked up and thrown over a
manly shoulder and was being borne
toward her own house.
She didn't recognize the voice, but
as the man bearing her reached the
first fence and tried to climb it she
identified the deacons asthmatic
wheeze. She at once wriggIed out Of
his arms and pushed him away. Then
she looked beyond him and saw the
artist rolling on the ground with laugh
ter. He hadn't rushed TO the rescue.
He hadn't declared his love.
"How dare you?" she exclaimed as
she thought of the picture she must
have presented as she lay across the
deacon's shoulder like a bag of pota-
toes.
"Why, hain't you bin bitten by a
snake?' he asked in reply.
mo. sir, of course not"
But l thought you said you had?"
II said had twisted my ankle. What
is that idiot laughing at over there?"
That evening the deacon showed up
after his days work to say that the
artist was going away next morning.
Much to his surprise. the widow turn
ed on him with:
well, deacon, as you will keep on
FOSTERING me for the next five years
if l don't say yes. I'm going to say it.
But you just remember we amt never
to take no sapheaded artist to hang
around and make fools of US"
/ Il don't understand" replied the
deacon, with a puzzled look.
/ But she did, and that was enough.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
Extreme Observation-Disclosures.

"The queerest case of absentminded-
ness that l have ever known Of" re-
marked the night clerk of a certain no.
tel, was that which happened at this
hotel early yesterday morning. Two
fellow boarders, one Jones by name and
the other whose name is Brown, occu-
pied a room on the third floor.
"Well, Brown requested me to have
him Weakened at O'clock so as to al
low him to catch the o'clock train.
He was awakened at the requested
time, and in his hurry TO dress himself
he put on Jones' clothes by mistake.
He did not discover his mistake until
he reached the depot, and would you
believe THERE the speaker paused
when he found out that he was wear
ing some ore else's clothes he imme-
diately returned to the hotel and went
right to bed
81 don't see any Observation-Disclosures
about that" broke in one of the listen.
ers.
"You don't? Why. he thought that ]
had awakened the wrong man."-Phil.
adelphia Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
DOWN IN TIL
HAYFIELD
Copyright. 1898, By I. c. Mcclure
By JAMES EORFLEEI

The Widow Ray was tired of br.aG Il
widow. For seven years she had 52.'n
left to run the farm with the help af
red man. The time had come when
S4c longed to shift the burdens Oh tie
shoulders OF a man. Not hat she
couldn't have married within year or
two after the lamented Ray fell off IA
haystack and broke his neck. but she
had ideals. She had turned to poetry
in the first six months of her bPreave
ment, and she felt her soul soaring
above the hickory shirts and stoga
boots of the average farmer. If she
married again the standard must be
higher
In the years that followed men of
higher standard came into her life, but
matrimony did not follow. There was
windmill man who hung about for Il
month and sighed and Dragged by
turns, but just as he was about to pro-
pose marriage the widow discovered
that he had two or three wives else
where. There was a lightning rod man
who wrote poetry and talked of the
whippoorwills and nightingales, but
he was arrested and carted off to Jail
before he could ask her to be his A
plano man with ideals as high as her
own came within an ace of asking
for her heart and hand, but was inter
rupted by case of jumping toothache.
There were two or three others who
might have won her heart, but didn't.
And there was Deacon White. He lived
ON the next farm west and was a wild,
over five years older than herself. He
had been the first in the field. Fifteen
months after her bereavement he had
stood on the steps beside the kitchen
door and said:
'Widder Ray, I'm a plain man and
don't say nothin' but what l mean. If
you'll marry me, I'll do my best to
make you good husband"
The widow was not for the widower,
and she didn't make any bones Of tell
ing him so. He didn't get mad or COM
NIT suicide. He simply hung on and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
He Got the Job.

81 was much amused the other day."
said an uptown hardware dealer, sat
a small boy who came around looking
for a job. One of the clerks had drop
ped a lot of sharp pointed lacks into
a drawer of brass screws and had CIV
en- up the idea of taking them out.
when the youngster turned up look
ing for job we thought we would try
him out by letting him sort the two
articles. He went at it the same way
we had begun, picking out the tacks
with his fingers and getting the point
of every third tack in the ball of his
thumb.
HE had enough in about a minute,
and he Strengthened up. We all began
to smile, expecting him to give up the
job Instead of that he went over to
the show case and picked out horse
shoe magnet Then he came back to
the box. In thirty seconds he had the
lacks out, and the screws were still
in the compartment. He knew that
the magnet would attract iron and not
brass, and IN a jiffy he had accom-
plished what we had been trying to dc
all the morning.
1--WE didn't really need a boy, but
this chaps smartness appealed to US
and We find him so handy to have
around that next Saturday he gets d
raise" New York Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04

repeated his offer every three months.
He had read that all things come to
him who waits, and he waited.
He was waiting when an artist from
the city put up with him for a few
weeks to sketch some of the views in
the neighborhood. The artist met the
widow almost at once as he was sketch
ing the ruins of an old cider MILL and
fifteen minutes later she realized that
her heart was beating at least one
fourth faster than usual. The artist
did not even attempt a Irritation. He
was pleasant and laxative and good
company, but that was all. AS the
days passed he divided bis time be-
tween the two farmhouses, and the
thought that the Widow Ray might fall
in love with him never crossed his
mind. She did that very thing, how
ever, and within fortnight she was
trying to make herself believe that her
love was reciprocated and that every
time he visited the house lie had a pro-
posal on the tip of his tongue.
The windmill and lightning rod and
piano man had betrayed themselves
within fortnight. The widow gave
the artist four weeks, and then she de-
cided that something must be done.
He lacked the cold nerve of the others,
and opportunity must be made for him.
Two girls or two married women will
conspire together. A widow always
conspires with herself alone, although
the law says that it takes two to make
conspiracy. She rejected several
,~plans before she struck the right one.
ID coming over to the house one even
'~@lg to make his usual quarterly pro-
posal of marriage Deacon White men
toned the fact that he had killed a rat
tlesnake in his meadow while moving
the grass in the fence corners. In a
moment the widows plan was formed
and she had said no to the deacon and
was perfecting it.
1t was haying season. The artist
wanted a sketch of a sturdy farmer
swinging his old fashioned scythe in
the meadow, and he set up his easel in
the shade of a tree and the deacon
sharpened his old scythe and bent his
back. AS the one moved the other
sketched, and as the moving and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
The Use and Abuse of Wealth

TT HE fashionable society of cities society of the wealthy
- The rich vie with another in the expensvenes of food
E4 drinks, clothes and decorations THEIR MORAL STAND
ARDS ARE LOW. Divorce does read rich
of fashionable society They the degneraes of the cities But
all the wealthy rush into this silly scramble of vugarty
sensuousness. THERE ARE MANY WHO USE WEALTH
TO SECURE HIGHER VALUES. How otherwise could there
be culture science art music philanthropy colleges schools and
churches2
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04

enumerated IN the law which would damage the
acceptable working of your common school sys-
tenn almost as much as these abhorrent and forbid
den influences.
man can be good citizen without being politician.
But, whatever party he belongs to- it is reasonably
certain that, half the time nearly, more than
half the people having an equal interest with him
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04

LIN XA they
found companion whose sympathy and comrade-
ship make great forever lost In either
the least the wonans part made
intention of fulfilling its obligations
And the if he be and honorable man. turns
from the altar tells himself hour new life must begin
for him. the old foes forworn the old compan-
ions forgotten the old crooked be made straight clean
OUT OF THIS GREAT MASS OF MANKIND THERE
ARE \ FEW y VERY FEW, MARRIED COUPLES WHO
DO REALLY FULFILL THEIR IDEALS AND FIND LIFE
JUST WHAT THEY HAD HOPED JUST WHAT THEY
HAD PLANNED. They fully satisfied go the
world goatng their happiness and Haunting
Of other people in fashion that would be exasperatng
pathetic
Now this class of persons upon DIVORCE as NEAR
AKIN TO MURDER OR SACRILEGE OR MADNESS They
cannot in the least understand how anybody admitted
paradise of matrmony could wish to drive their
other self out of its dear ncoure They speak with bated
with upted eyebrows and whispers of holy horror dmay
they wonder what strange beings may be-
Returning to that class of married people who just get
after fashion, with good deal of pickering and good many
spoken unpoken doubts marriage worth while or
not find them also opposed divorce but from different stand
point from the little clique of paradns just described They
ough recognize why people wish be divorced They
less frankly conscious of occasionally wishing
selves but they have said their
opposition this mode of relief they
rid themselves of burden which they up
to bear 1T is JUST THE DOG IN THE MANGER OVER
AGAIN.
TO WIVES THIS YOU ARE BE
SATISFIED WITH THE FRYING INTO THE
FIRE. BEAR THE ILLS ALL THAT YOU CAN
TO ALLEVIATE THEM. ALL, HAVE CHILDREN
SACRIFICE WORN AND WEARY LIFE TO THEIR FRESH
YOUNG
BUT THERE is STILL ANOTHER CLASS, AND A
LARGE ONE, TO WHOM WOULD NOT PROFFER THIS
ADVICE TO WHOM WOULD RATHER SAY SAVE YOUR
SELVES WHILE YOU CAN"-wonien without children and
without obligations except the marriage which flung
back them shattered soed him who had
them sacred and nviolate $50 long both shall live When
day wife, the day when ruined
woanhood nsuted her self when finds her
petitions her her and her warnings alike scoed
and dregardd when she that she nothing
the who persseny dgrades himself and her
him. when she fears that blow added cursng
then advice that is, APPEAL TO THE LAW
FOR A RELEASE FROM A UNION WHICH HAS BE-
CONE \ SLAVERY; ANNUL THE CONTRACT BROKEN
AND DESPISED BY THE OTHER CONTRACTING PARTY
BE FREE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04

self in the common schools will be opposed to his party
POLITICS CAN HAVE NO MORE
BUSINESS IN THE scHooLRooM THE SCHOOL DIRECTION
THEY CHURCH.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
Keep Politics Out of the Schools
By WHTELAW REID Editor o
of the of New York

Jet that all educational ESPECIAL
~ LY THE WORK OF THE COMMON SCHOOLS is
eJ done the basis absolute fairness
carefully keep saloon certain number of yards away from school
house church are particular about other
of possible contamination. But there thing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-04
When Divorce Is
Justifiable By Mr. M. ,-.,,.
By Mrs.
FRANK LESLIE

WO persons marry. Perhaps they in the first flush
of youth, with all sorts Of rose colored ideals con-
idently set before their eyes, perhaps they are
older, and, having already known sorrow and disap-
pontment and establishment, fancy they have at last
found q communion whose sy1nnathv and cornrade-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-12-03
Tbe State Press.
Educate the Children.

1t is the heaven imposed duty of
parents to educate their children and
lit and qualify them for the duties
Of citizenship. And those who fail to
do so will never taste of life's sweet
est pleasure which come always from
doing good to others. And more es
pecially to those whose lives are COM
mitted to your care and training. Do
not consider your children as so many
little slaves given to you until grown
into freedom under the law of your
State, but remember that they are
immortal souls committed to you for
training. Around the life and future
hope Of her child centers the moth
er's greatest anxiety At every turn
OF the winding path she listens in
breathless silence to catch the sound
ing of his foot step lest some snare
may entrap him Nothing else swells
the mothers heart with pride like the
success of her child Nothing else
brushes it with grief like his failures.
If you want your child to succeed in
after life you must give him the cor
rect home training and educate him.
Send your children to school five days
in the week.-Southern Sentinel.