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tically an unknown story.

- HE is interested in the mass con-
dition of the world. fits desires.
- its necessities. its social inequan-
ties. To the condition Of the laborer.
the advancement Of women and the pro-
lection of children she is devoting much
of her thought. Her leisure time is de-
voted TO working up such historical, BIZ
ographical and literary material as will
best serve to influence the world in the
direction which she thinks will be most
beneficial.
Although born Of parents who were
thoroughly able 70 support her and who
were opposed TO her working. she was
nevertheless convinced that personal
freedom and individuality were 10 be
obtained by her own efforts, and con-
sequently early set herself the task Of
earning her own living.
From a farm IN Erie county. Pa. she
went TO Thtusville. where her father was
engaged in the oil Industry, and she
decided that she wished 70 fit herself to
be a teacher. She graduated from the
Titusville High School with that in
tention
Thus the historian OF the Standard
OIL Company was a youthful witness Of
its operations. Titusville was in the
very heart Of the oil region. Great
strikes made great fortunes there in
amazingly short time. All the hardships
Of the prospectors. all the struggles Of
the producers, the troubles with the re-
hners. and the dealings OF the Rookie
Teller interests with the railroads were
here spread dramatically before her.
AS a young girl she dreamed Of some
day producing either a story or a play
which in some way should set forth
that which she then saw.
Her Teaching Career.
But it was not 20 be in exactly the
way she fancied. Her father, who had
watched her school career with interest,
announced at the conclusion that IL she
insisted on teaching she must prepare
herself further, 10 which she readily
agreed. Accordingly. she spent four
years at Allegheny College, a co-educa-
tional institution at Meadville, Pa, and
then went TO act as preceptress In a
young ladies' seminary at Poland, Ohio.
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them favors from the government-was
she not one Of themselves Was not her
first husband a viscount and a victim OF
the guillotine2
She really wanted everybody 10 be
pleased, and by her mere amiability she
came as near as a human being can TO
pleasing everybody.
A LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE WITH
A SKETCH OF JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS OF
TIE FRENCH. illustrated from tie Col
lection Of Napoleon EnEravings Made BY the
Late Hon. G. C. Hubbard and Now Owned
by the Congr6 ssional Library. Washington,
j. G., Supplemented by Pictures from the
Best French Collections, by Ida ~ Tarben.
Now York: Mcclure. Phillips & %.
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ACOrneIo i'm Miss TzrbelL:S Library.

which 1 earned my living a great deal
more. Between these and my researches
into the career Of Madame Roland,
was employed night and day. I wrote
an article a week for the papers. and
did a good many other things which
meant hard work
1T was during the three years spent
in Paris that I made my first aCquaint-
ance with McClure's syndicate. They
We're supplying articles OF various kinds
TO the papers throughout the country,
and l naturally sent some OF my things
to IL
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MY career in that city, as look back
on it now, was decidedly beneficial to
me. 1 took a room and secured adnis-
sion to the Sorbonnes where the lectures
on history were to be heard. Then 1
began TO write articles for the American
papers about things OF interest that I
saw. and also study upon my life OF
Madame Roland, which I decided should
be my first historical work.
1T was a trying time Tor me. NV
work at the university required a great
deal of attention, and the articles by
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No doubt but that with Josephine her
perfect goodness OF heart was at the
bottom OF her tact. She had no malice:
she much preferred 10 see ever her enc
mics happy rather than miserable, and
though she might weep and complain
Of their unkindness, If she had an op-
portunity she would do them a favor.
Her goodness impressed everybody. The
most disgruntled, after passing a few
moments with the wife of the First
Consul, went away Modified. IL not sat
isfied, and a second visit usually salts
fed them.
She fiattered the rough soldiers when
Napoleon, always eager to show atten-
ton 10 the army, presented them TO her.
by her knowledge of their deeds. She
softened The suspicious of the radical
republicans by her affectatiOns OF sans
culottism, and her familiarity with the
members of the Girondin and Terrorist
governments. She reused hope among
the aristocrats that she would secure
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4 fanny Olu not Gaze 10 nave
mn me teach at Poland and in
L ' 4 sisted that I should return
home.
"As matter of fact I was dissatis-
fed. 1 wanted at this time to special
lie in some branch of natural science
which would involve the use Of the
microscope. 1t seemed TO me that was
the most wonderful instrument in TIE
world, and developed a passion for it.
I saw myself becoming master in the
use Of it, and eventually holding
chair in some college for women.
This idea helped me TO resign my
work at Poland and TO return home,
where I was asked by one of my friends,
the editor Of the 'Chautauquan.' then
published at Meadvine, Pa. 10 do some
department work. / accepted and even
tually became managing editor Of the
'Chautauquan'
In connection with my editorial de-
partment I had TO indulge in more or
less comment on current events, a thing
which interested me greatly. I became
tremendously absorbed in the questions
Of the hour, and wished to handle them
in the broadcast and most intelligent way.
To do this I discovered that 1 would
have to know more OF history. and this
started me reading along that line-a
habit which l have never abandoned.
81 was engaged in editorial work for
six years. At the end Of this period !
became tired Of the work and sought
for a new field.
After much mental debate I deter
mined upon course of history reading
which would afford a basis for maya
zine articles.
There should be a field for such
things. so I began.
Interested in Women.
Before / go any further. however. |
want to say that I had become interest
ed in one public question more than any
Other-that OF women. You perhaps re-
call how this question ragged twenty
years ago. Well. when 1 had made VI
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potism that he gave liberal and bene-
ficent laws.
No man was more gentle. none more
cruel. Never was there a more chival-
roIs lover until he was disillusiOned: a
more affectonate husband. even when
faith had left him; yet no man ever
trampled more rudely on womanly deli
cacy and reserve
He was valorous as god in danger,
loved IT, played with It; yet he would
turn pale at n broken mirror cross
himself If he stumbled, fancy the cof-
fee poisoned at which an enemy looked.
He was the greatest genius Of his
time. perhaps Of all time. yet he lacked
the crown OF greatness-that high wis
dom born of reflection and introspection
which knows it's own powers and limi-
tations, and never abuses them; that
fine sense Of proportion which holds
the rights Of others in the same solemn
reverence it demands for its own.
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NAPOLEON B0NAPARTE.

lie had audaeity. He dared do
r. what he would. He had no con-
1 veDtional notions TO tie him, no
master 20 dictate 70 him, The Revolt
ton had swept out Of his way the ac-
cumulated experience OF centuries-aT
the habits, the prejudices, the ways Of
doing things.
He commenced nearer the 4 7m
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DA TARBELL-te most conspicuous figure in American letters
Bogpher and Napoleon of Nine de Stae and Nine.
Roland Historian of the Standard Oil Company
The detail Froud the accuracy of Lecky, the of Carlyle
hers; qualities and accntlate her work
AS reads the product of this master worker one convinced
exhausvenes evereny impressed with the
importance of what reads.
be enthud by her Lincoln The elaborate nspec
ton subjected greatest hero confirmed him for all time.
Her Napoleon His ambitions character his Dreams
his methods disclosed for the first time century after his passing the
truth of this greatest of world characters
Standard Oil story Step by step she has followed
its creator His very conscience exposed by her relentless search for
truth Rockefeller method of longer secret
The the cheating the vy of the Octopus apparent
the light of day
story told truth evident, remains American peo-
pie acknowledge this debt to Ida TarbelL
Her life accomplishments the posi-
bes open in the present day But though her work has
of greatest interest the nation though her
English spoken the woman her life and methods prac-
ically unknown story.
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This was practically the beginning OF
Miss Tarbell's career, and she describes
her literary work best.
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KE family did not Gaze to have
mn me teach at Poland and in
L 4 sisted that I should return
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-14
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY LAW

The Wage-WorkerS are peculiarly entitled
to the protection and the announcement of
the law. From the very nature of their
occupation railroad men, for instance, are
liable to be MANNED In doing the legitima tie
work Of their profession, unless the rail-
road companies are required by law to
make ample provision for their safety. The
administration has been Jealous in enforc.
ing the existing law for this purpose. That
law should be amended and strengthened
Wherever the national government has pow
er there should be a stringent employer
liability law, which should apply to the
government itself where the government il
an employer Of labor.
In my message to the 1fty-seventh con-
gress, at its second session, l urged the
passage of an employers liability law for
the District of Columbia. / now renew that
recommendation, and further recommend
that the Congress appoint commission TO
liability with the view of extending the
provisions Of great and constitutional law
to all employments within the scope of fed
eral power.
REBATES.
Above all else we must strive to keep the
highways of commerce open to all on equal
terms; and to do this it is necessary to put
a complete stop to all rebates. Whether
the shipper or the railroad Is to blame
makes no difference; the rebate must be
private terminal track and sidetrack sys-
TENS must be stopped, and the legislation
of the Fifty-eighth Congress which declares
it to be unlawful for any person or corpora
ton to offer, grant, give, solicit, accept or
receive any rebate, concession or diScrima
inati0n in respect of the transportation of
any property. in interstate or foreign com
merce whereby such property shall by any
device whatever be transported at a less
rate than that named in the tariffs pub
lished by the carrier must be enforced.
For some time after the enactment of the
act to regulate commerce it remained a
mooted question whether that act conferred
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-14
BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS.

The policy Of the bureau Is to accomplish
the purposes Of It's creation by cooperation,
not antagonfsm; by making constructive leg
lsiatlon, not destructive prosecution, the i'm
mediate object Of its inquiries; by con-
serVative investigation Of law and fact, and
by refusal to issue incomplete and hence
necessarily inaccurate reports It's policy
being thus one Of open inquiry into. and
not attack upon, business, the bureau has
been able to gain not only the confidence.
out, better STILL the cooperation of men
engaged in legitimate business.
The bureau offers to the Congress the
means OF getting at the cost of production
or our various great staples of commerce.
Or necessity the careful Investigation of
special corporations will afford the commits
sioner knoWledge of certain business facts,
the puDl1cation of which might be an i'm
proper infringement of private rights The
method or making public the results of
these Investigations affords, under the law.
q means Tor the protection Of private rights
Inc Congress will have all facts except such
as would give to another corporation in,
formation which would inJure the legitimate
business OF a competitor and destroy the
thrift. ~
The bureau has also made exhaustive ex-
aminatlons into the legal condition under
which corporate business is carried on in
the various states; into all judicial decisions
on the subject, and into the various sys-
TENS of corporate taxation in USE T call
special attention to the report of the chief
or the bureau; and | earnestly ask that
the Congress carefully consider the report
and recommendations OF the commissioner
on this subject
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-14

Statistics show that the birth rate
in the largest German towns is steadily
decreasing. notably in Berlin, Charlotten-
burg, Hamburg and Crefeld
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-14
CURRENCY.

The attention OF the Congress should be
especially given to the currency question,
and that the standing committees on the
matter In the two houses charged with the
duty, take up the matter Of our currency
and see whether it Is not possible to secure
an agreement In the business world for bet
tering the system; the committees should
consider the question of the retirement of
the greenbacks and the problem of secur-
ing in our currency such elasticity as is
consistent with safety. Every silver dol
lar should be made by law redeemable In
gold at the option of the holder.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-14

upon which naturalization may he conferred
should be definitely prescribed; publication
OF impending naturalization applications
should be required In advance of their
hearing in court; the form and wording Of
all certificates issued should be uniform
throughout the country, and the courts
should be required to make returns to the
secretary Of state at stated periods Of all
naturalizatiOns conferred.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-14

we are In every way endeavoring to helm
Oh, With cordial good will, every movement
e Mnlcn VIII tend to bring us into more
friendly relations with the rest of maniind
IN pursuance of this policy l shall shortly
-ay before the Senate treaties of arbitration
with all powers which are willing TO enter
into these treaties with US. 1t is not possf-
Die at this period of the worlds deVeion-
inent to agree to arbitrate all matters. bnt
tnere are many matters of possible differ,
can be thus arhitrated A
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-06-11
John Temple Graves Tribute to Turner.

The death of Hon. Henry G. Turner which occurred today
removes from the of all earthly activity of the most dis
measured out the Psamss of three and there
many years lay
him. While his health has not been robust his friends by
means prepared for his DEATH
distinct shock.
During the period practically years he served
sequenty Of the eleventh. he regarded without doubt
the ablest member of the Georgia delegation.
lie profound student, nearly up
the ideal of statesman than Georgian times He look
ed upon public questions from the lofty emnence judicial
poe The passions of faction the wrangs of the passing
ment could him hairs deliberate
vctions and all the honors the could
have suborned his mind and heart
He would fatter Neptune his trident nor Jupiter for
the power thunder"
It was his devotion to principle which induced him resign
his seat IN His district of splendid
talents and trusted too implicitly the honesty convictions
have willingly accepted his resignation. But
siverism the ascendant Georgia. was ali over the
south and west nothing could induce him continue his
ure of Office
lie retired to the tranquility of private life quietly resum-
ed the practice of law There he content itch
for oceholdng had possessed him. Time again he
was mentioned for high political honors Not south
but in other sections the country as
the most available the country for president vice
dent and if he had cared himself that direction he
might have received the nomination.
1t with sincere reluctance that he the APPOINT
ent as member OF the supreme court and then
the distinct understanding that he might resign within short
time.
After few months occupancy the bench on which he cast
uster worthy of the best traditions of the sent in his
resignation and once more retired to private life.
His entire has been worthy the emulation of the
youth OF the land In the admirable dmxure character
would be difficult to whether his integrity his ability his
modesty his unfang moral shone
He who will be remembered GEORGIA as ono che
reveres usrous founded the bedrock honest
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-06-11
Democratic Congressional Con.
yentiOn, June 18th, 1904.

Delegates to the Democratic
Congressional Convention for the
18th congressional district will
bear in mind that this convention
is to convene in Brunswick, Ca,
on the 18th day of June, 1904, at
10 O'Clock, a. M, and it is desir-
ed that we have full delegation
from each county in the district.
JOHN c. MCDONALD,
Chairman.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-06-11
After The Railroad Some More

There is some talk of opening
up Sherman and Sheridan streets
between Central and Oconee.
The writer owns as much land
along the front of one of these
streets as any other taxpayer
and as we have not been APP
preached on the subject we know
of no great c1amor for the i'm
provement at this time. The
movement probably grows out of
the campaign of cussedness now
being conducted against the A.
& B. R. R. Co. in this city.
The Dorp1iny-Cook Lumber
Co will have to largely remodel
its plant to conform to the street
lines.
We are told that the officials of
the railroad company are consid-
ering the advisability of moving
their yards and division head
quarters to the country on ac-
count of the already cramped
condition of their yards, with
the prospect of being still further
cramped by the opening of these
streets.
The recent harassments to
which the A. &. B. people have
been subjected has done the city
immense injury with one of the
most potent factors in it's pro-
gress.
People are entitled to the use
of the streets the railroads
cross, to pay for the water the
railroads use, to the taxes
the railroads pay, but the rail-
roads have some rights that
ought to be respected, and what
ever else may be done for or
against their interests there can
never be any excuse for down
right meanness in dealing with
them.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-06-11
Or Fool Policy.

The editor of the Enterprise
would be willing to trade one of
our saloons for a college, an
other for Carnegie library, and
the whole lot for car shops; and
every gambling hell that has ever
attracted business" for a rail-
road headquarters. Now listen
at the thugs rave.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-06-11
The Germans and the Swedes.

~
Mr.. EDITOR:
The article by Rev. BLIZZARD in
your last issue is not bad on gen.
eral principle, but it shows lack
OF discrimination and informa-
ton.
He classes the Swedes with
the Chlnaman, and as something
different from the English,
Scotch, Irish and German. The
Swedes, together with the Nor
wegians and Danes, make up the
Scandinavian people; together
with the Dutch and German, thew
constitute the germanic or old
Anglo-Saxon race. The English
and Scotch are an immigrant peo-
pie the same as the American.
They came from across the
North sea, as the Americans
came from across the Atlantic.
They arc Scandinavians and Ger
mans that settled in England and
Scotland after conquering if from
the Celtic race, which race is still
alive in the Irish, Welsh and
Scotch Highlanders. The Eng
lish language is a development of
the Scandinavian and Dutch.
Americans should not wish to
invite any very close comparison
with the Swedes; the record of
crime, lawlessness and illiteracv
would go very much against the
Americans. The Swedes are all
Protestants. In the thirty years
war they saved northern Europe
for the protestant cause. Our
immigration at present, unfortu-
nately, is not from Sweden or
northern Europe, but mostly of
other races, Celtic, Slav, Latin
and Jews. They constitute a
civilization different from that of
the Auglo-Saxon, and their COM
ing by the millions may we'll be
considered a problem.
OBSERVER.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-06-11
Many Taxpayers" Replies
To Editor Of the Citizen,
EDITOR ENTERPRISE:

EDITOR ENTERPRISE:
The organ of the city's NAL
administration, called "The Citi-
zen," in this weeks issue takes
up the cudge1" in behalf of the
squandering of the public funds,
by indulging in lengthy TRADE
against the writer of an article
suggested and virtually dictated
by many taxpayers, which ap-
peared in yours of the 2nd inst.
Said organ of the ring" which
has been dou bling and treb1ing
our taxes for the last few years,
by raising assessments of prop
erty to two and three times it's
actual market value, and squan-
derlng the money thus raised, in
a way God and they themselves
only know.
The organ of this ring" fan
cies it has discovered a vulner-
able point in our position, by a
statement to the effect that the
interest on the bonded indebted
ness, for which we have been
taxed So, annually for several
years, has not been paid, and
challenges" the writer to state
who informed him that such is
the case.
Nothing in the world is easier.
The writer of the article inspired
by many Taxpayers" asked
City Clerk aud Treasurer Roun-
tree the plain question whether
any Of the interest on our bonded
Indebtedness had ever been paid,
and he (Mr. R.) replied 1T has
not" This was said in presence
of DR.. Bucher, and from the as
constituent he expressed in both
looks and gestures he, no doubt,
will rememb Der it.
Now if there is, or was, mis-
understanding on the part of Mr..
Rountrec, it is for him to say so.
Why has he not done so before?
Your columns are open to him.
or to any member of the council.
for any correction they NAV de-
sire to make in regard to the fire.
quent complaints that have been
made about the management of
the citv's affairs.
Then why do not they avail
themselves of these opportuni-
ties to place themselves right in
the estimation of the taxpayers?
We have a moral and legal right
to demand strict accounting of