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Election of Officers.

At the regular meeting of the
Ladies of the G. A. R., on last
Friday the following officers
were elected:
Mrs. Julia French, President.
Mrs. S. L. Brown, V. Prest.
Mrs. Lucretia Crowel1, J. V. Pr.
Mrs. Laura McCrary, Treas.
Mrs. Sarah Talbot, Con.
Mrs. Myra Wells, Guard,
After the order of business a
delicate lunch was served and
participated in by several of the
comrades.
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MEMBER SCHOOL BOARD.

To the Voters of the Fourth Ward
At the request of my friends, here
by announce my candidacy as a
member of the Board of Education
from the 4th Ward, subject to the
White Primary to be held on We'd
nesday, Dec. IL, 1906,
LANES T. SAUNDERS.
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FOR MEMBER OF SCHOOL BOARD.

FOR MEMBER OF SCHOOL BOARD.
Having been elected by the school
board, in October, to fill the unex-
pired term of Mr.. Gill, hereby an
nounce myself candidate for re-
election as member of the Board Of
Education from the second ward,
subject to the white primary to be
held December 18th.
j. E. LEvERETT.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11

At the urgent request of my
friends / announce my candidacy
for alderman from the fourth
ward subject to the white pri-
mary Dec. 18th.
]. H. GOODMAN.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11

We are authorized to announce
the name of Mr.. G. A. Jo1ley as
candidate for alderman from
the third ward subjuct to the
white primary.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11
ALDERMAN.

+ I hereby announce my candidacy
as alderman from the second ward
subject to the primary Dec. 18th.
J. M. BARRENTINE.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11
FOR ALDERMAN

hereby announce my candidacy
| for alderman of First Ward,S subject
to the action of the white primary.
Respectfully,
G. W. HAYES.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11
ALDERMAN.

I hereby announce myself candi-
date for alderman from the 3rd
ward subject to the white primary.
W. L, Julian. i.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS,
FOR MAYOR

FOR MAYOR
1 hereby announce myself .candi.
date for reelection to the Office OF
mayor.
DREW W, PAULK.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11
FOR MAYOR.

At the urgent request of my friends
| take this means of announcing my
self as candidate for the Office OF
Mayor at the coming primary to be
held December 18th 1906. Your vote
is earnestly solicited. j. G KNAPP.
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'Where her temples were bald I had
stuck in little pin curls which made her
forehead look wide and handsome. At
her ears 1 had made wide, fat girlish puffs.
At the back of her neck there was a very
youthful braid fastened with a handsome
comb, and on top Of her head I laid a fiat
twist something like an old fashioned S.
1T was a lesson in couture building,
and she was so pleased that she paid me
enough to buy a new lingerie waist. 1
afterward lectured on coiffures to a party
of her friends whom she gathered to hear
me.
"The trouble with all women is sameness.
One woman old me that she had dressed
her hair in the same way, without variation,
for five years; another confessed to ten
years Of sameness; one to even longer.
or course they always looked the same,
and it was no wonder that their friends had
stopped admiring them.
Il gave a lecture once upon evening Golf
fures, and called n woman from the audi
enoe to sit upon the platform. As talked
l dressed her hair.
"She was one of the plain. fat featured
type, with nothing specially to interest
you. She did her hair up in q twist on the
DUCK OF ntT H6dc uIld SIuCh q blb' hlucOuS
comb into it. The comb was always
crooked.
II took this woman in hand, and with
a double waver l threw her hair into deep
fluctuations, moistening them with per-
fume as I worked, n holding each one
until it had a natural looking wave. Then
/ carried the whole thing up to the top Of
her head, making a big, soft topltnot, into
which I stuck picture sqle little curls.
"-Around this l arranged three small
combs, pressing them tightly into the hair,
and then l hooked some pin ourls in the
temples, pulling out the hair into some
thing like a %pompadour. The woman
looked so pretty hat she refused to have
her ctiTure taken down for the Deyt de
monstrution.
Il am making u speciality Of the London
knot, falsely named, however, as it is not a
knot ct all. II is an elaborate couture,
but its position is upon the back Of tho
head, rather low, 10 as to dress up tho neck
and shoulders. 1t is trimmed with a hand
some ribbon ornament, and IT is finished
with some small roses TO match the color
scheme Of the gown.
"To build the London ooiNrre you rake
q front ~pomradour, cor stIGoiil : it as high
az you can. IL is a waved chi acCur II
the hair very soft and !In.
At the zach of the orisdCrr you at n
small comb, If so phase you, c:holw!ae a
spray Of button roses. Tho Fair is rcw
! twisted low in n vide iirIe s ard is
pulled o Vn on the EoCk. here il Is inned
very fast with doz erS OF Pins, ard tlC1c are
some clrls stuck into one side Of it. ihe
other side is trcntei to a ii hhnn ornament.
"1'o make the ornamcn- for the London
knot you take enough baby li'jhon to form
a great many loops and enus, and iaio those
You lie spra W Of roses, the smalle" and the
pinker the better. Tne whole ornament
resembles a brides shower bouquet, though
it Is much smaller, of course. This Is placed
upon the side OF the hair, rather high, and
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Edwards president, Harold Cross vice~
president and Helen Cross secretary. Pun
ishment for disorderly conduct is fixed by
Il vote Of the students. On only one occa-
sion since the inauguration of the plan last
fall has it heen necessary 70 apply 1t.
A question of veracity arose between
two of the youngest boys, and one struck
the other in the presence of the school. "A
vote was taken and the offenders were
punished by being transferred to the rnhl1-
taught end of the school for one week.
II has never been found necessary tore
peat the lesson.
When school is opened the president Of the
clss &C goes to the phonograph and sets 1t in
motion. The pupils rapidly jot down the
problems and go to work solving them. 81
A particularly difficult question is dis
cnssed around the table, just as engineers
discuss an obstacle in railroad con structions
and each helps the other in reaching the
answer. The officers of the room attend TO
the grading of the work and report to the
principal.
The self governing department has been
in operation during the second and the third
quarters OF the present school year, and
It's average of work has been . per cent.
above wlat it was during the first quarters
when the principal taught the two grades
himself.
The parents of the pupil students are
now thoroughly convinced that the idea is
a .pra ctical one. Not only have the self
governing pupils done better but the plan
has Inspired such enthusiasm among !otner
children that they are bending every energy
to win their way into the department OK
liberty. -
In dealing with people, whether young
or old, | have observed that they are in
c'ined to do better work just in proportion
as YOU reposa confidence in Them said
Mr.. Mack enzie. The students in the self
governing department would consider 10
almost a crime to fall behind in their
work, aud not one has been returned TO
my room 80 far from failure to keep up with
the studies. ~
In this department every student is on
honor. Each member of the class forms a
part of the faculty. AS a consequence
he has a peculiar interest In the success OF
the school.
an other rooms the children lean upon
their teachers and look to them for examples
az to department n industry. In the
self-governing department these supports
are removed and the student stands alone,
to win or fell, according to the energy and
fai.hfulness he puts in his work
81 have endeavored to make the depart
ment as nearly self governing as possible
by keeping out OF the room at all times
during study and recitation hours. !of
course. ocCasi onally the officers advise
with mo regarding certain methods and
plans which originate in their Department.
but ! never give them orders or tell them
that things must be so and SO.
"Thv understand the importance OF
discipf1e. and the maintenance Of 1t is the
ambi ion of every sIudent In their room.
At first tho idea was bitterly opposed by
some Of the natrons, but now | think almost
without exception it meets their warm
IN. class motto of the s~ef-govening
department ia He can conquer who
hi ks he can"
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treading on air and gives such an animated
performance altogether that he is called
and recalled. This special manife station
is shown as well in the star roles, and even
the Soldier Of Love forgets to look at the
girl he is holding in his arms, seeking in
stead the. applause Of the many.
The applause at a women's matinee has
nothing hearty and unrestrained about 1t
1t is f~urtive, tepid and really marks what
De Wolf Hopper later speaks of as a frappe
audience. When he jokes, for instance,
about the time he came home and hung
his shoes on the bureau "amid n sneering
silence" you would swear that he had pre-
pared the silence spoken Of to emphasize
his story.
When he refers to "matrimony as a cure
for happiness" there is a hesitation hat
can almost be felt before the audience
breaks into what might be termed a slight
token of appreciation, and when he cavils
at the of the incorporating princess,
saying, as? she's s1!-why, he got the age
upside down there liz none Of that wild
abandon tina greets the same joke in the
evening performance.
He refers feelingly to the "ruder sex
who are away earning money for you to
come here II he doesn't get the same
brand Of applause that he gets later on, be
that is vouchsafed to the prize winner at a
bridge party.
And with this he has to be content, for
the fashion that makes elbow gloves no
longer a luxury but r. necessary has done
away with applause at the wornen's Matinee
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Tor him to adjust to excuse his presence,
The ticket woman was all right up to a GER
tain point, but when half a dozen frilled and
furbelowed beings bore down upon her
and insisted or knowing how she liked it,
and II she didn't feel strange to be taking
tickets, and If it wasn't too sweet for any
thing to think that women could take
tickets just as we'll as men could, then
truth to tell, she lost her head. and with an
appealing glance over her shoulder betrayed
her latent belief in the secondary importance
OF her sex.
Somstimes an Interested relative or
friend would appear and talk, and then
the file of women would increase until it
reached the edge of the sidewalk, while
the ticket women asked after the health
of each member of her friends family by
name, sent her love to all, explained that
the reason she did not come over Saturday
was that the gas stove failed to work and
that she got the samples all right. At
these trying moments, the gray arm with
its chevrons would undulate in a Marcel
wave of a command and the injured women
who were calculating, We'll, did you everl"
were released from their durance vile.
Parenthetically, it may be related that
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TAUGHT BY A PH0NOGRAPH.
THE CLURROON IDEA TRIED IN 4
VILLAGE SCHOOL,.
Desks Put Out and Replaced With Ordinary
Furniture Instruction Given by n
monograph Pupils Allowed to Gov
ern Themsel, es-The Plan a Success.

MACON, Mo, April 14.-ln a three room
village school Prof. j. Greene Mackenzie
has demonstrated the suoonss of a self
governing department. Prof. Mackenzie
is the principal of the school and has
one assistant, Miss Della Hale. who teaches
the primary classes. There is no teacher
in the other room except a very plain talk
ing photograph.
At the teachers association here last fall
a representative of the State University
presented the idea of letting pupils study
in an unconventional way. He suggested
that tables be used instead of desks and
! that the students l." permitted to enjoy all
the privileges of a social body, unham-
pered by the interference Of Teachers.
The advocate of the plan said the inno-
walton promised greater enthusiasm, better
order and superior work. The teachers
said it was visionary and hobbyish. About
the only instructor who did not turn up
his nose at the idea was Prof Mackenzie.
Mr.. Mackenzie is somewhat Of a crank
When he was pedagogue of a little 2x4 log
| sohoolhouse near old Bloomington he taught
his pupils electricity by means Of machines
he made himself, how to take photographs,
and horticulture by actual experience in
the schoolhouse yard.
He presented the plan of a self governing
department to the patrons Of the Ethel
school, where he teaches. They were not
enthusiastic over it and two of the direc-
tors wers in decided opposition. They
said the children would turn 1t into a club
room and pay little attentionto their books;
that they would do more flirting than study
ing.
Mackenzie said he was going TO try IL!
He resolved to make the experiment with
the eighth and ninth grades,
Those classes took Il the idea aud began
! fitting up the room. They tumbled the
desks out into The barn and brought in
polished tables. Then they hcSged pic
lures from their folks to adorn the walls.
Ore Girl EyouGl; = lace curtain, with n
blue bow to reef il up. FOR the end window.
Az thi, window Prof. Mackenzie installed
the p~hoEog.a9h. whiCh was TO ~ prlant him
cs iracAer. Of cpUrsa he dictated tho
problem into the machin", but there his
jurisdiction ccSNd, and from that tine
on the TUT lis from the eighth and niath
grades were a law unto then selves
IL {, ~livtri, Z T. : commission Of freedom
! TO II, N rrof M&cItu ne told u TN I've would
expect re suits. if tey fell Eelow an aver
age OF 40 In their class grades they would
| Rave 10 return TO his room and do perance
| until they could keep up.
! The-self ruliEg deIartmBnt elected Ban
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1t was a women's matinee.

II was a women's matinee.
The management had advertised the
hour of beginning as two precisely, and
the performers we're told to be ready at
q nuarter to three. At the latter hour
stragglers from Jersey and Brooklyn, in
the inevitable s~hirtwaists, hurried in, TO
find boxes and chairs just filing up.
Outside the theatre the sidewalk sug-
gested bargain day on Fourteenth street.
The few men who were caught in the rush
worked their way to freedom with cork
screw like movements Of the body and
apprehension expressed on their faces.
The only man who was not afraid was
the press agent, to whose fertile imagina-
tion the MATINEE was due. In a long coat,
with baby lamb collar which hid his chain
srnor completely, he stood and smiled
Al the oncoming rush like the heroes of
old, forgetting his personal danger in the
good Of the cause.
You cant get women together in a bunch
Unless YOU make it worth their while.
They won't pay full price for the privilege
of knocking one another's hats off and
Trading on one another's patent leather
tins. The presence of man may not
mean much to the twentieth century woman,
but she's used to him, and IL you take him
away you've got to supply the deficiency
in some manner say, with a small vanity
nag containing smelling salts and a powder
duff or a copy of the Simple Life" in half
calf. The management in the present
case merely reduces the price Of admission.
The sounds in the theatre before the
curtain went up suggested the first quarter
Of the dining hour at a Harlem boarding
house. or. if you prefer the comparison,
your first experience of Wagner from the
top gallery. Everybody had something
to say, and said it.
It was possible by attentive discrimina-
ton to learn how many trains had gone out
If Jersey City that day, how it feels to be
Oh the Williamsburg Bridge when a car
runs away, how much money you have to
spend in order to get a complete set Of
mission furniture on the instalment plan
and the very latest news in regard to di-
vorce suits.
At the ticket Office bits Of financial dis
cussion float your way. One woman in
auires
DO l get a reduction If I purchase three1
So?" and she explains to the companion
who is apparently her guest that in Kala-
mazoo y is the rule for the purchaser to
get a certain percentage of for every
extra ticket and the right to vote for the
handsomest woman in the house. 1t is
quite easy to read from her expression that
abe believes New York much behind Kala-
mazoo in all that goes toward the refine
ment Of life.
Another woman, whose head, s~urmounted
by a billycock hat and with short hair and
a monocle, shows above the ledge of the
ticket window. is informed that she cannot
be admitted as it is a woman's matinee.
She Indignantly denies the imputation Of
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pinned in place so that it dresses up the ear,
frames the face and makes the ooifure soft
and becoming.
Il am making quite a hit with the Vienna
bun, which is something new, also. 1t is
a low couture with a big chou at each side
Of it,
You take your hair and part it, or POM
padour Ii. or twist it over the ca rs, just as
is most becoming to you. Then you bring
it up to the crown OF the head and tie it,
you ave a big low coil far down at the back
of the neck.
1T is immensely becoming to nearly
all faces. But the finishing touch is what
is needed. And this is afforded by the
big soft chiffon choux which are a part of
the couture.
ITO make the choux for the Vienna bun
you take enough tulle or chiffon to make
two big rosettes which shall stand out full
and free from the head. hen you take
these rosettes and pin them to the hair, one
back of each ear, pressing the choux into
the hair.
4You can use white or shell pink or cloud
blue. just according to your style. And
you may be sure ii will be becoming to
you.
In lecturing upon the couture / always
take particular note of the color OF the hair.
There are certain color that look we'll in
certain ways. Take red hair. .
"No one ever saw red hair that looked
all varieties of hair upon the reddish shade
look best waved and dressed very full
around the ia ce, the fuller the better.
"If | had red hair l would wave it well
and fluff it around my face like an aureole.
II is the prettiest way to dress hair of that
color,
Now, when it comes to black hair. the
situation is reversed. Choose something
simpler and palmer. Don't it,, but
try to build a picture couture of it without
making it kinky.
Il often take black hair and part it,. roll
ing it back upon the side, in 1850 fashion.
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FIRST STAGE INTO DENVER.
Its Enthusiastic Reception by the Ea rIy
Miners.
From the Outing Magazine.

From the Outing Magazine.
On the seventeenth of May. 1850, Denver
turned out to welcome the first through
coach OF what was destined to grow into the
Overland MAIL" an enterprise which, for
sheer American pluck and daring. must he
forever linked with the fame of the Pony
Express"
Rcd shirts drifted to the outskirts of the
hamlet and dotted the hills around, Hard
faced bartenders made ready for the hottest
night that ever tore the camp loose" The
artillery OF holster and saddle-boot was UNI
limbered for an ~ecstatic fusilade. There
was lively betting in dust and nuggets that
the first through stage had been gathered In
by Indians. with takers as eager to stake
their faith that the scalps of driver and
guard would come through intact.
At length a swirl of dust showed far down
the trail. 1t grew into n yellow cloud that
crept toward the eager hamlet Then six
mules, stretched out on the gallop, emerged
from this curtain and behind them was the
numbering, swaying stage. come safely
through. on time. and Denver was In touch
with the world where men wore white shirts
and lived in real houses. The cheers that
roared n welcome to this heroic enterprise
were echoed in every Western o which
hoped and longed for n link of its own with
the home country, way bnck East"
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THE MANLESS MATINEE
Wom:n See the Most Base Thing on Earth. What Is 1t?
A Chorus Girl Playing to a Theatre Full Of Women

being a man and the ticket seller il obliged
to rise and peer over the edge before he il
satisfied.
One of the entrances OF the theatre is
closed with a large placard announcing that
people must use the othsr door. There
is stationed in honor OF the day a woman
who takes the tickets.
The woman who stood as the exponent OF
woman's rights and blocked with a ma
tronly figure the narrow entrance that led
to the auditorium did her duty we'll. If she
isn't pensioned for that one afternoons
work then there is no gratitude in theatre
cal managers.
One thing is certain: She won't get any
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seat and enjoying an afternoon at the
theatre.
The ticket woman discovered him first
and telegraphed the information to her
male assistant, who in turn spoke of 1t to
the press agent. Reproachful eyes were
turned on the invader from the waiting file
of women, and more than one exclamation
of man" was heard. After a long consul
tation between the man at the box, the
press agent and the ticket woman's aide
it was concluded that his intentions we're
honorable and it was explained to him that
his appearance was turning what was in
tended to be a serious affair into a blatant
mockery. He apologized, his ruddy face
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Do you recall in the pictures Of 1850 those
wartime styles. and do you remember
how very becoming they we're to the black
eyed beauties OF those days? Well. | am
dressing hair in wartime style and doing
it with much success.
Il still treat blond hair in q still different
manner. When hair is very light it can be
treated with seeming carelessness. 1t looks
well flying.
Il took a very blond head the 9th n day
and waved it from tip to root. Then ! turned
it back in something like pompadour fashion,
pulling out the stray ringlets.
Il even added a ringlet or two around
the ears TO hide them in artistic fashion.
The back | twisted high, setting a wide
comb below the topknots. The effort was
particularly girlish and good.
Most hair dressing makes the wearer
look old. The trouble is that women never
learn how to do their hair for themselves.
And they work at it III an amateurish sort
Of way, getting it up somehow.
MY rule is never to show the ears. Ears
may be necessary to ones anatomy, but
they are not handsome. | make n practice
Of covering them with a roll of hair or a
loose wave of an escaping curl or two.
Il don't like to bleach the hair and /
never do it,. But | sometimes treat it until
l make it shine.
Il took a very dull drabbish looking
head Of hair the other day and had it sham
pooed in five cents worth Of henna leaves,
prepared after my own method. The re-
suit was that the hair looked very soft and
lustrous. almost golden in certain lights.
At the same time | took a yellow head and
made it shine by wetting it in henna. And,
! am afraid to confess, l used a little
peroxide.
1T is bad taste to bleach the hair, and
women do not do it any more. At one
time it was quite a fad, but now nice
take their own hair and treat it until it
shines. II is in better taste and is much
more satisfactory in the long run, for it
lasts longer"