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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25

For SALE: A 80 horse power
locomotive boiler and a Is horse
power Corliss engine. Will sell
for $3.50. cash or $500. on credit.
Apply to J. E. MERCER.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25
For Sale,

A saw mill outfit complete in
good running order. Capacity
10000 feet per day. Address,
the Enterprise. If
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25

Terra Gotta we'll curb, sewer
pipe, drain pipe etc.
Fitzgerald Pottery Co.
At the Enterprise Office.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25
Berkshire Pigs.

For Sale! = Thorough bred
berkshire pigs. Apply to G. W,
Rodgers, Wray Ga. 1t
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25
Martin and Hendley.

Represent the largest Fertili-
ger Concerns in the country, and
if you want the best goods, buy
from them.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25

Co. M has thus far been I'M
able to arrange the schedule for
the Albany trip. AS the sched-
ules now stand, it will be neces-
sary to leave here the evening
before to be in Albany by noon
of the next day. We hope the
railroad will be able to arrange d
schedule between Fitzgerald and
Cordele to connect with the A,
& N: schedule to arrive in Albany
at 9 a. M
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25

The ladies of the Central
Methodist church are holding
prayermeeting every afternoon
this week at the homes of diff
ferent members. Ladies of the
different denominations are es'
pecially invited.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25
Jewe1er and O
Easter Party.

The home of Col. and Mrs. D..
B. Jay just outside the city
limits was the scene of a pretty
gathering Saturday afternoon
when twenty little boys and
girls, chaperoned by Mrs. Jas.
L. McCarty assem- bled to partici-
pate with Misses Crystal Sparks,
Jean and Blossom Turner in an
Easter Egg hunt, given them by
their aunt, Mrs. Jay. The en-
tire lower floor of the Jay home
was beautifully decorated and
thrown open to the little folks,
who after they had played vari-
Gus games suited to their pleas
ure and found the different
colored eggs hid everywhere on
the outside, enjoyed a delicious
course of ice cream and cake.
Prizes we're given those who
found the largest and smallest
number of eggs and each guest
was presented with a miniature
basket filled with candy eggs as
souvenir of the occasion.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25
Free--DeBeIl's Kidney Pills

Gut this out and get full size box
of DeBell's Kidney Pills will cure
you. Send at once to @. w. BeggsY
Sons & Co., Station g. Chicago, ILL.,
This offer is good for 80 days Only
Sold by J. q. Goodman, druggist.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
is COLOR A PROTECTION?
This Theory Has Been the Same Up
on Which Darwin Based All
His Accepted Ideas.

This theory of the protective colora.
ton of animals has been one of the gen.
orally accepted ideas in all works upon
natural history since Darwin's time,
says John Burroughs, in Atlantic.
1t regards the color of an animal as
much the result of natural selection as
any part of it's structure-natural Sc.
lection picking out and preserving those
tints that were the most useful to the
animal in concealing it from its enc
mits or from its prey. If in this world no
animal had ever preyed upon another,
it is thought that their colors might
have been very different, probably
much more bizarre and ;nharmonious
than they are at present.
Now | am not going to run amuck
upon this generally accepted theory of
modern naturalists, but l do feel dis
posed to shake it up little, and see, IL
can, what measure of truth there Is
In it. That there is measure Of truth
in 1t | am convinced, but that it has
been greatly overworked in our time,
and more put upon 1t than 1t can bear,
of this l am also convinced.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
ERASED INDIANS SIN.
Legislature Declares Temperance Or
ator's Drink of Whisky,
Null and Void.

The Sunset Magazine tells a story OF
the rehabilitation of the character of
Johnson Sides, noted Indian temper
ance orator of bygone days: One day
he was caught in the act of drinking a
glass of whisky and was fined Neither
Indians nor whites would listen then
to his temperance speeches. Poor
johnson was in despair. One day, how
ever, he had en- inspiration He asked
Senator Doolin of the Nevada legisla-
ture to absolye his sin by act of legis-
lature. Senator Doolin was agreeable
and introduced and carried through
senate joint concurrent resolution No.
H." which is as follows: Resolved, by
the senate, the people of,the state of
Nevada concurring, that the drink Of
whisky taken by johnson Sides on the
seventeenth day of September, in the
city of Virginia, county of Story, be
and is hereby declared null and void. y
Thus was Johnson Sides made q good
man again. He became at once pow
er among his own people, resumed his
advocacy of water and was listened to
with great respect.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19

have been trying to figure out q
general condition of happiness, and
reach the conclusion that it consists
mainly in the ability to march with
ones own generation, neither deplor-
ing the progress the generation makes
nor grnmbling because it doesn't make
more. says Frank Putnam, in the Ma.
tional Magazine. We can understand
best the men and women of our own
age. or near it. DR.. Osler spoke truth
when he said that most men cease to
be receptive to new ideas after 40;
hence ourselders in the sos and Cos
and 70s say, who have ably guided
the affairs of the world during the
decades Immediately ahead of US, will
often seem to us to move less rapidly
than we think they should. toward
new industrial conditions. And the
generation Immediately behind us
the restless chaps in their EOS, are
putting more pressure upon us from
the rear than we are able to believe is
wholly justified.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
Rapid Steel Saving.

Friction saws for the cutting Of struc
tural steel has been in use in the larger
steel mills for several years, but the rap
idity with which a recent Chicago in
stallation goes through its task is little
short of marvellous. To the accompani-
ment of q deafening shrek the largest
size beams rolled are severed In 16 Sec
onds, a speed far ahead of any precious
records on cold steel. The material to
be cut is brought before the saw at right
angles on power driven rollers in two
sections, one moving it forward and the
other taking 1t away, says the Chicago
Tribune. The machine has two beds,
one stationary and the other moving
back and forth on the first to meet the
work. On one end of the movable bed
is 100-horsepower motor and "a feet
away is the saw on the other end. The
saw disk is of soft fiange steel, three
Fights of an inch thick and 81 inches
In diameter. Travelling at almost 1000
revolutions per minute, the saw has a
cutting speed of something over 1000
feet minute. The operator, standing
In front of the saw, is protected from fly
ing bits by glass shield, while sheet
steel shield prevents pieces from being
thrown above and back of the saw.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19

Cnder His Window. voice was fea-
ture of the community long before his
yellow body and pink eyes were seen.
Brigand started out as a Romeo,
and it is thought that his career
might have been different II his
"Comeout Marian" had been needed
by the felines that belonged around
the block. But by some instinct they
avoided Brigand and crept closer into
their corners at his call, and 1t is GER
tain that lack of attention to his dulcet
tones brought on the villainous change
in his nature. One night he started
out determined to kill, and as he ap-
preached a certain mansion where
dwelt two new and confiding kittens
his spurs jingled as he walked and
his sword clanked at his side. His
very knock on the cellar door pro-
claimed him swashbuckler and the
little ones within could see in their
minds eye the saucy feather waving
in his broad hat and the CLINT of steel
as he barred his sword. AS he sharp
ened hi- claws on the cellar door 1t
shifted ajar enough to admit him.
The family asleep above was awakened
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
nome with the yes
hanging there on

pie at the same i've Got Him"
time. There is, however, law of ma
ture that makes so people responsive at
the same instant to hideous noises,
and it was this cause that assembled
the neighborhood again at Smiths
front porch two hours later the oame
night.
THAT was the Brigand's shrek"
one remarked
ut seemed like 1t was right under
my pillow" said another.
There's no mistaking that cats
language. 1 know it, well" said an
other.
"Well, here is the dead Brigand
hanging here" Smith interposed, and
he is quite stiff"
Funny how we should all dream
the same thing" said still another.
And the neighborhood went back to
bed.
Smith arose early the next morning
and cut the cat down and buried it.
The men folks on the car that morn.
ing exchanged experiences and it
proved that few of them had got any
sleep after the incidents of the night.
Smith had telephone call that after
noon.
John, did you really bury that
cat?" came in excited tones from his
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
Eating No Joke.

Eating not a pleasant, not an ele
yatipg subject? No subject under the
blue canopy. no subject to be found
between the covers Of the latest en-
cyclopedia, is more worthy OF the
deepest and the highest and most sus-
tanned thoughts of man. And prob
ably no other subject receives half the
attention which Is given to eating.
Nothing has been more important In
the progress of the race than the ad-
ditions to the variety of mans food.
In the primitive state, mere clam
eater, he was hardly superior to the
beasts that perish. When he became
q hunter, seeking the strong meats Of
wild game, he developed new quail
ties. expanded intellectually, and
gained In energy, enterprise and en-
d1rance. Then came the pastoral and
agricultural age, with an acquired
taste for vegetable growths. and the
down of civilization. says the Atlantic.
Every advance has been on the heels
of something rev to eat. To-day the
teeth of man declare him to be ON
nivorous. though vegetable food is still
a heavy tax on his powers of diges-
tion. He lacks those multiple gastric
arrangements by the aid Of which the
COW, for example, is able to srbsist on
vegetable food alone. This lack Senior
Santos will discover and deplore ,ong
before he shall acquire that meditative
cud. the mastication of which gives to
the cow the serenity and repose which
is the object of the Spaniard's grazing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
DEADLY BOMBS.
Nitrogen Is Entirely Harmless Until
It Is Controlled by Man for
Terrible Purposes.

When left alone to it's natural func-
tons nitrogen pursues a perfectly
peaceful course, but when man sue
ceeds in capturing it and combining ii
with other elements it becomes a dire
Potentially for evil, as is obvious IN
the recent events of the war in the far
east and in the crime in the streets of
Moscow. The love of freedom, SO to
speak, characteristic of nitrogen, is
terribly exemplified in the explosion of
the bomb in which it is imprisoned and
bound to other elements. On. the
slightest provocation-a spark. a
shock, a fuse-the nitrogen suddenly
expands from seemingly nothing, as re-
CARDS the space which it occupies, into
infinity. This is, in reality, what hap
pens when dynamite, lyddite or other
unstable nitro-compounds explode
when hurled in shells in warfare and
in bombs in desperate attacks on hui
man life. Nitrogen, against it's natural
disposition, is locked up in an uncon-
genial space in these compounds, from
which it is set free by very simple
means in an enormously expanded
gaseous state with deadly effect, re-
turning, in fact, to its normal peaceful
mission once more 1t is the analogue
of the sword and the ploughshare; IN
the nitro-explosive nitrogen is the
modern engine of warfare and crime;
in the free state in the atmosphere ii
ministers directly to the quiet and
peaceful needs of plaDt and human life
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19

It's the simplest thing on earth. You
mention names very clearly, you pre-
sent the younger person to the older,
the gentleman to the lady, Do II once
or twice and your dread win vanish.
It's the same about Offering refresh
ments. which Almira loathes. From
the earliest antiquity hospitality has
been illustrated by the offered loaf
A man or woman who is your friend
is never wholly yours until he or she
has broken bread beneath your roof.
There is never any dificulty II you
have light refreshments suitable to
the hour, If you proffer them with.
out nervousness, and, IL you contrivs
a table or stand whereon q guest may
rest a glass, tea cup or plate. To
hold these things in the hand Is not
always convenient.
About visiting cards. Remember
that card left at the door always
counts as a call. Don't waste your
visiting cards. 1t is not necessary,
except very occasionally. to leave a
card for every member of house
hold. In the matter of visiting cards,
use common sense. Do not. for in
stance, send cards in to friends with
whom you are on terms of dropping
in without formality.
If you ever do blunder. don't wor-
ry. The sky won't fall. Forget it and
do right next time.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
WEAK CAN BEAR PAIN BEST
Physical Power Not Always Best in
Severe Operations, Declares
Famous Surgeon.

DIR. J. P. Lockart Mummery, the ia
nous British surgeon, says it is often
extremely difficult to estimate the con-
dition of a patient with regard to his
poweK of standing a severe operation.
Often weakly looking individual, who
looks as il he would not stand a severe
operation well, stands it quite well, and
vice versa.
This Is accounted for by the fact
that person of poor physique who
leads a strenuous life has often much
more highly developed nerve centers
than one of robust physique who leads
life of ease and incidence, which
makes but slight calls upon his nerve
centers for great or sudden activity.
The mental condition of a patient
prior to operation has . considerable
influence upon the development Of
shock. Patients who dread an opera
ton and who are In state Of consid-
cradle mental anxiety before the an
aesthetic is administered are more liza
BILE, other things being equal, to devel-
op shock than those whose mental
equilibrium is undisturbed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
JUDGE DEFINES A CYCLONE
Minnesota Jurist Gives Legal Defini-
ton of the Phenomenon-Court
Gives Ruling.

st. Paul, Minn.-Judge Page Nor.
ris, in the United States district court,
told a jury that properly constructed
cyclone should be made according to
the following formula:
"A cyclone is violent and destruc.
tive storm of greater or less extent;
sometimes its path is a narrow strip,
and sometimes wide strip of terri
tory. 1t is characterized by high
winds, rotating around a low pressure
center. which center moves at great
velocity. 1t is generally accompanied
by thunder and lightning"
This statement of what constitutes
a cyclone came after the court and o
jury had been listening to testimony
and argument for several days in the
suit of Young. Finche & McConville
against against the Maryland Casualty
company to recover on an insurance
policy covering the goods in their mer.
camille establishment, which had been
damaged because an automatic fire
sprinkling device had been set into &C.
ton by the storm which hit ST. Paul
August 20 of last year, and which has
been described as a cyclone, a tornado
and heavy windstorm.
The case was given to the jury, and
after short elaboration a verdict was
reached that the storm was not a cy-
clone, and the plaintiff was awarded
damages in the sum of $26.225. A
clause in the policy issued by the Cas-
ualty company exempted 1t from dam
age caused by cyclone.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
-Four Facts For
Sick Women
To Consider
Lpdia E. Pinkham,s Vegetable Compound
Has an UnequaLled Record of Cures
Mrs. Pinkkam's AdUice Is Confsde"'
Gal, Free, and atpoys Helpful

FIRsr.-That almost every operation
in our hospitals performed upon women
becomes necessary through neglect OF
SUCH symptoms as backache, irregular
and painful menstruation, leucorrhua,
displacements of the uter,s, pain In
the side, burning sensation lii Tee stom-
ach, bearing-down pains, nervousness
dizziness and sleeplessness.
SEcoND.-The medicine that holds
the record for the largest number OF
absolute cures of female ills is Lydia
E. Pinlham's Vegetable Compound.
1t regulates, strengthens and cures
diseases of the female organism as
nothing else can.
For thirty years it has be- IN helping
women to be strong, curing backache,
nervousness, kidney troubles, all utter
inc and ovarian Inflammation, weak
ness and displacements, regulating
menstruation perfectly and overcom-
ing its pains. It has also proved itself
invaluable in preparing for childbirth
and the change of life.
TIuRD.-The great volume of unso-
licited and grateful testimonials on file
at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, many of which are from time to
time published by permission, give abb
solute evidence of the value OF Lydia
z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Mrs. Pinkham's advice.
FOURTH Every ailing wo nan in the
United States is asked to accept the
following invitation. 1t II free, will
bring you health and may save your
life.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standins. Invitation
to WOmen.--W Women suffer- az from any
form of female weakness q Y invited to
promptly communicate wit b Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters arc
received, opened, read ard answered
by women only. From sym 2toms given,
your trouble may be locs ted and the
quickest and surest way of recovery
advised. Out of the vast volume OF ex-
perience in treating female ills Mrs.
Pinkham probably has the very knowL
edge that will help your case. Surely.
any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish
If She does not take advantage OF this
generous offer of assistance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
The Policeman's Gun

A very sensible suggestion made In
the convention of police chiefs at
Washington is that policemen Should
be able to shoot before they are armed.
A bull on rampage is hardly more
dangerous, declares the Baltimore
American, very truly. than a man
with supposed official authority to use
firearms over which he has no control
in public places. The safety of inno-
cent and law-abiding citizens is of
quite as much, If not more, Importance
than the capture Of escaping criminals.
1t would also be a prudent measure to
have policemen taught their legal
rights in the matter of making escape
subject to death penalty for all classes
tf offenses, and to be made strictly to
observe the limit of those rights before
the law. 1t is as well to make those
charged with the enforcement of the
Law the first to set an example Of
obedience to it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19

n ~ " w D. oClOlO - Sh4heet <aJoi'
anyone could reach the scene he had
eaten one of the kittens and had cor
nered the other one. He was Shaping
this one vigorously when candlelight
appeared at the head of the stairs, and
like the yellow streak that he was he
disappeared.
From then on the neighborhood knew
the Brigand was a yellow cat. The de-
scription sent out that night made him
monstrous tall. with fierce whiskers, a
staggering gait, a cleaning eye and a
desperate purpose. From back fence to
back fence the next morning the de-
scription grew to enormous proportions
until Jumbo, the elephant, could not
have equaled his size or Bengal tiger
his ferocity. Men in the neighborhood
went armed. The women kept the gas
burning day and night to have hot water
on hand
Kill the Brigand at all COSTS" was
the verdict of the neighborhood. and
no household was without its special
remedy for the pest of the vicious cat.
One morning Brigand got up early and
wandered in meek disguise through the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
WESTERN POLITICIAN WON,
Made tn, Secretary a Proposition
Which Was Too Much
for Him.

When Richard Olney was secretary of
state he frequently gave expression to tue
opinion that appointees to the consular
service should speak the languages of the
countries to which they were respectively
accredited, relates the Philadelphia Rec.
ord.
1t is said that when certain breezy and
enterprising western politician who was
tration in the capacity of consul at one OF
the Chinese ports presented his papers to
Mr.. Olney, the secretary remarked:
Are you aware, Mr.. Blank, that never
recommend to the president the appoint.
ment of consul unless he speaks the Ian
guage of the country to which he desires
to .gos Now, l suppose, you do not speak
Chinese"
Whereupon the westerner grinned brtad.
ly. If, Mr.. Secretary" said he, you will
ask me a question in Chinese / shall bs
happy to dnswer it."
He got the appointment.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
ETIQUETTE OF GIFTS.
Not Considered Good Form for Girl to
Accept Handsome and sExpen-
sive Gifts from Men.

1t is always best for q young girl
to accept only flowers and bon-bons
from men. I know that nowadays girls
very frequently accept much handsom-
er presents, but think safe rule for
you to make is to always refuse all
gifts from men but flowers and candy
and perhaps books and music. OF
course, if you have known a young
man for years, or if he is an intimate
friend of the family, a special dis
pensation" might sometimes be
granted. Otherwise I would advise
you to return any very handsome gift
which is sent you by young man.
and with it send gracious and cor
dial note. showing your friend that
you appreciate most sincerely his
kind thought of you, and assuring him
that you return, the. gift only because
you make it rule never to accept
from any man anything beyond the
conventional gift OF flowers. books or
bon-bons.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-08-19
so HE'D KNOW HIS SPOUSE
Wife Tells Husband Over Phone
That She'll Wear Rose, So
He'll Recognize Her.

Simpkins' wife is fully as ambitious
for financial success as he is, relates
the Chicago Chronicle, which accounts
for the fact that she rarely If ever COM
plains Of the many lonesome hours
spent quietly at home while the hus-
band and breadwinner is buffeting with
late engagements at the office
when we have made our fortune"
she has thought. then we can be to-
gether, and why should | complain
when George is striving, oh, SO hard
for huge SUGGEST"
less and less at home, his growing
business interests requiring long trips
to New York, San Francisco and other
outlandish points. and even when in
town he frequently remains over night
at the club rather than miss an early
morning business engagement.
Still the little wife has never COM
planned, but when, on Saturday even
ing, she was called to the phone and
urged to come downtown for a late
supper at popular cafe, she was over
come with surprise and momentary
pique.
Where shall l meet you, George?"
she inquired.
go directly to the cafe. my dear"
he responded, "and l will meet You
there"
''All right, dearest" she replied,
land George"
well, darling?"
81 shall wear red rose so that you
may recognize me-"