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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-31

quest Of Kentuckians and said that he
had every reason to believe majority
Of the people of the state were in favor
Of their retention. Therefore he would
not withdraw them. Mr.. Davis re-
piled In general terms that his govern
ment had respected the neutrality Of
Kentucky and would do so Yet 1t
was ut about this time that General
Leonidas Polk was planning his invn-
sion of the state, move that Davis
almost Immediately approved as a
military necessity"
Confederates Invade Kentucky.
General Polk occupied Hickman and
Chalk bluffs, near Columbus, on Sept.
4. His excuse for the action wns that
Union troops had been recruited In
Kentucky and dcpots established. that
Federal Notifications had been erected
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30

Everything in our New Store at
Bargain prices, DODD's 5 & 10 Cent
Store.
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I Punished White Men And
Let Negroes Have Freedom

Atlanta, Nov. rs. - Noah's Ark
is a vital issue in petition just re-
ceived by Governor Slaton from a
certain citizen Of a Georgia county,
the name of which has been with
held, charging that the superior
court judge and solicitor have dis
eliminated in favor of negros and
against white men in blind tiger cas-
es, treating the white men with.
unreasonable severity and letting
the negros 60.
The name of the county. which
would identify the judge and solic-
itor, is not made public, because
there is interior evidence in the pc
tition which strongly indicates per-
sonal animus on the part of the
writer, himself a white man who
had been tried for selling Whiskey.
The most striking part of the let
ter occurs in the following words:
Eight white human souls were
saved in Noah'S Ark, The negro
must have gone in the ark as an
Orangoutang. The writer argues
that according to the bible there
was no darkey aboard the ark, and
therefore, that the negroes
must be descendants of animals
His theory is not entirely DarWinian
however, as he claims that only the
negroes, and not tie white, are de-
scendants of monkeys.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30
The Public Schools
Thanksgiving Exercises

The Thanksgiving exercises of the
FITZGERALD Public Schools were held
in the different rooms November %.
They consisted Of Recitations, Dec
Iamations, Songs, Debates, Etc,
things tending to impress the chill
den with the significance of the
day.
AS a whole, the exercises were
very good indeed, and all deserve
special mention. The High School
program was rendered jointly by
the two Literary Societies and
showed the higest quality of work
being done by them. The children
of the First and Third Wards made
a Thanksgiving offering to tn e
poor in their respective Wards.
They took great deal of interest
in it and did much good.
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exhorted to be of good cheer and to
count up their mercieS." PauIS
words are not only hortatory, but
also mandatory. 1t is the duty OF
the Christian, amid all vicissitudes,
to be thankful. A believer is never
justified in forgetting Gods benefits
to him. He is expected to figure out
every now and then the sum of the
divine favors that have been shown
to him, or what might be called the
statistics of salvation. 1t is true that
divine mercies have been innumer-
able, and cannot be tabulated with
anything like completeness; yet the
Christian believer is exhorted to
dwell upon these mercies in thought
and to render vivid to his mind, by
frequent reflection, so many of the
discern providentially unfolded in
his past life.
There is, then, duty of thanks
giving. Praise is the expected thing,
gratitude is demanded. God is dis
appointed, and even angered, when
men receive his gifts without return
ing thanks. The Lord is gracious,
but that is no reason why the chill
dren of men should be ungraciously
thankless. Thanksgiving is part
of the code of duty of a Christian, it
is an integral portion of the deca-
logue of moral action. 1t is not
kind of extra service, or superfluous
activity added on to the body of duty
otherwise complete, but is of the
warp and wool Of the Christians OBJ
legation. "Be thankful was not the
idle, chance remark of a sentimental
apostle, but is the New Testament in
depreciation OF the Old Testament
burden OF blessing.
Bat if thaRkfulness is q duty, it is
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none the less on that account a grace.
If it is not optional, it may certainly
be ornamental. The fact that q
thing or a trait is demanded by the
moral law does not render the sacri-
fee of that thing or the exhibition
of that trait any the less noble or
lovely. The grace Of gratitude in
particular is a peculiarly lovely viz
tue There is even, we may say, an
aesthetic quality to thankfulness.
praise is comely for the upright"
said the Psalmist, who was an au
thOrity on the beauty of holiness.
Even the world appreciates the aes-
thetic value of gratitude-as well as
its earning power, acquisitive Of flu
ture favors, as a practical asset of
Iife-and poets in all ages have sung
of the charm Of a grateful spirit, the
nobility of responsive nature. Even
the birds look up when they drink, rs
if in mute recognition of the heav-
emily source of the bits of blessing
which fall to them, and certainly man,
much more richly endowed and
blessed, should do at least as much,
and express his THANK you!" both
by the testimony of the lips and the
generous actions of the life.
Thanksgiving day is a proper and
convenient occasion for considering
both the duty and the grace of graft
tude to the great Giver of all good.
But Thanksgiving day is not simply
for the abstract discussion of general
ideas present in thought or stirring
the emotions. This day does-or
should-have a direct governing re-
lation to the ministries of the hand
and the unfolding of the wallet.
When it is celebrated in the spirit C5
the scriptural eXhortation to thank
fulness, it becomes a time of rejoic-
ing in the truest, fullest sense, be-
cause it joins praise to God with prac-
teal ministry to the poor and unfor-
tunate. Thanksgiving should issue
in Thanksgiving. Praise should be-
come practice. Gratitude must be-
come a temper and tendency of the
life. So will God be glorified and
gratified, and men, by their cordial
and constant recognition of his good
ness, be lifted in the scale of being
and be the better fitted to receive
from heaven more fayors still.-Rev.
c.. A S. Dwight.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30
To Regulate Length
OF Ladies Hat Pins

Atlanta. Nov. 28-Dr. George
Brown, of the Fulton County dele
cation in the general assembly, will
probably introduce q measure at
the next session to regulate the
length Of ladies' hat pins.
Several more or less serious acct
dents have occurred in Atlanta
street-cars and elevators already,
as in any other large cities, and
the hat pins worn by fashionable
women here sometimes measures
20 inches or more in length, and
protrude beyond the wide hat bands.
The hat pins were brought forci-
bly, to DR.. Browns attention by a
personal experience. DR.. Brown
is an eye, ear and throat specialist,
and was treating a young ladies eyes
when she suddenly turned her
head, and drove a long hat pin
clear through one of the doctors
fingers. DR.. Brown is in no sense
contemplating the introduction
of the bill to get even" with the
young lady who jabbed his finger
He knows that was mere accident
but it brought the general PROPOSE
ton to his attention in a striking
way, and he feels he owes d duty
to the public
A number of states in the union
already have legislature regulating
the length Of hat pins, so the con-
tempIated bill cannot be classed
in the category of freak legislation.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30
PROGRAM

For sale at right prices, Pitts
burgh Perfect Wire Fencing, DODD
SUPPLY co.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30

the earnest of returning opportunity
to labor. With what new eyes did
the people look upon that common
place material! They met the wagon
in an eXultant procession. They
Rugged the bales. At last, moved by
a common impulse, they broke out in
the noble hymn, praise God, from
whom all blessings flow" There are
in every life thousand. blessings,
now little noticed at all, of which if
We were deprived, their return would
be welcomed with equal transports.
But the going does not excuse us
from the sending any more than send
ing excuses US from going. If giving
still went by the rule of the tenth, as
in the scriptural days, then ten av-
erage Christians could anywhere con-
stitute themselves into a church and
support a pastor; and twenty could
support both a pastor and a mission
airy.
No work is done at it's best until it
is done in an atmosphere of thanks
giving. Beethoven understood this
He had his piano placed in the mid
die Of field, and there, under the
smiling sky, with birds singing around
him, flowers shining and grain glisten-
ing in the sun, the musician com
posed some Of his great oratories.
Few of us can take our work into the
fields, though all of US would carry
lighter hearts if we would live more
out of doors; but We can all of us sur
round our work with CHEEKY atmos-
phere which our Father has breathed
into all his works.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30
Small Blaze In The Early
Morning

The fire early this morning burn
ed out the butcher shop of Hutto &
Carter in the F. M. Graham building
. Corner Sherman & East Pine.
The fire originated in the inside
of the building near the refrigerator
and about destroyed the contents
of the building, but the Fire Depart
ment saved the building with slight
damage.
We are informed they had no in
srrsnce on the stock:
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30
Home Made Candy

Everybody who likes homemade
candy should come out to the w. R.
C. Hall on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, December 9TH, 9Th, and
9th, and get some of the delicious
candies made by the girls. The
Plus Ultra class will have charge of
the candy booth. and there you will
find good candy.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30
HOke Smiths Public
Career Up To Date

Atlanta, Nov. 22-From Georgia
politics to national politics; back to
Georgia politics, and then back to
national politics again, such is cycle
of Hoke Smiths public career up to-
date.
In all natural probability Hoke
Smiths active connection with state
politics strictly speaking, is done
forever, and, henceforh he will be
judged by the figure he makes not
in Georgia but in national life.
The bitter factional fights which
are made against Hoke Smith when
he first ran for governor, and which
have been the predomineting influ-
ence in Georgia politics ever since,
will probably never be renewed along
the same lines. While Roke Smith
was never the aggreSSor in stirring
up the bitterness, he was in a wav
the center of it, because no man
before him had ever stood so vigor-
ously for the reforms which he adj
vocated or fought so hard for them.
The reforms have been accomplish
ed and with them ends his mission
in Georgia. What further services he
performs for Georgia will be in the
national congress at Washington.
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la2e the missionary, passing through,
had left a few pages Of the gospel in
the Indian tongue. Our Indian read
and reiOiced. Measuring the mission
ary's footprint, he fitted it with mag
nifcent moccasins, and Travelled 200
miles to give them to the missionary
as an expression Of his gratitude.
Thus the missionary was enriched by
the present, but the Indian was en-
riched by the thanksgiving.
The best thanksgiving is a happy
heart. Blossoms mean nothing on a
dead stick. Once when the cZar Wis
tied Paris the ingenious French, it
being winter, fastened to the bare
boughs of the trees innumerable paper
flowers, very pretty as a spectacle, but
very unworthy as a symbol, since they
were false. Our praise will be quite
valueless unless it is rooted in the
daily life
Train yourself to be grateful for the
common blessings. There had been a
great cotton famine in Lancashire,
England. For lack Of material to
work upon, the mills had been idle
for months, and there was great dis
tress among the operatives At last
came the first wagon-load Of cotton,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30

3 We thankful. "
said an inspired
apostle, writing.
to a company of
early Christians,
W ho ev en- in
stormy times Of
possible or actual
persecution were
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30

F YOU are grateful,
say so. Thanks
giving is only half
thanksg giving till it
blossoms into ex-
preston. Learn a
lesson from the
noble-hearted Indi-
l III
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Washinqton's Proclamation.

The first Thanksgiving day procla-
nation ever issued by president was
signed by George Washington in 1883.
The original is said to be in the pos
session of Rev. J. w. Wellman, who
inherited it from his grandfather, Will
liam Ripley of Cornish, N. H. This
both houses Of congress threush their
Joint committee.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30

The Presbyterian Ladies Aid So
ciety will have Silver Tea at the
home of Mrs R. A. Majors on We'd
nesday afternoon. December 9th.
Come and have good time
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Thanksgiving Exercises

The following interesting program
was very successfully rendered by
the pupils of the sixth grade A class
at the High School yesterday.
PROGRAM
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-30

o turk, yoU VITO strrffed fFe summer atyGy.
Abundant attention yoH' re getting today
We p1Cise you beyond all the bird or fowl kind:
Orr feelings TO you ,vth favor inclined
We thanks, 700, give for you, creature OF PRIDE
L1,@ e. ITO fruits Of the season beside
Though sighted yoN fvere in the days f'5at past
Attention Tong dsSe yo~ getting al lost
Arthur J. B1rdIca, Magazine
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-28

for the undertaken. You can call up
headquarters SO the newspaper boys
get the story"
While the sergeant went to the tele-
phone to carry out these orders, Capt.
Clinton turned to look at Howard, who
had collapsed, white and trembling, in
to a chair.
what do you want with me-" cried
Howard appealingly. II assure you I
had nothing to do with this. My wife's
expecting me home. Can't l go?"
"Shut up!" Numbered the captain.
His arms folded. his yes sternly
fixed upon him, Capt. Clinton stood
confronting the unfortunate youth.
staring at him without saying a word.
The persistence of his stare made
Howard squirm. 1t was decidedly un-
pleasant. He did not mind the deten-
ton so much as this mans overbear-
ing, bullying manner. He knew he was
innocent, therefore he had nothing to
fear. But why was this police captain
staring at him SO? Whichever way
he sat, whichever way his eyes turned,
he saw this bulldog-faced policeman
staring silently at him. Unknown to
him, Capt. Clinton had already begun
the dreaded police ordeal known as
the third degree"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-28
QUEER TRADES
Unusual Occupations Revealed in
Census Report.
tansas City Man Who Bottles Smoke
Unique Task Performed by Gov
eminent Employees in Washing
ton-Raise Frogs for Profit.

Washington.-As a part of the task
of compiling the thirteenth census Of
the United States, the bureau will pub
lish a report on the various occupa-
lions by which men and women in this
country earn their daily bread. Though
it will be many months before this re-
port will be given to the public, a
conservative estimate places he num-
Der OF c~lassific:tions of industry at
between 1000 and 5000.
1t seems a safe prediction to state
that there will be found but n man
in the entire country making a living
from bottling the smoke of burning
hickory wood. This man, who lives
in Kansas City, contends that his bot
tied smoke, let loose in an air tight
compartment in which meat has been
placed, will produce the same effect
upon the meat as though cured by
hickory smoke in the usual manner.
Nor would the uninitiated expect to
find profit in raising bullfrogs for their
legs. Two New Jersey women, how
ever, are making a good livelihood by
so doing and a certain California wom-
an obtains over 500 an ounce whole
sale for the seeds Of petunias.
In some Of the reports of the census
enumerators in the field are found tab
ulations SO unusual hat they require
no end of labor in properly classify
ing them at the bureau. One man
frankly asserted that he was a booze
fighter and another. who works in a
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-28
Profitable Glass Eve.

Nobody is going to poke out a goo0
eye just for the sake of getting .
glass eye" said the city salesman,
but I know a man who makes money
on his glass eye. He goes to Europe
three times a year on business. While
there he does a little trading in Jew.
els as q side line. 1t is on the home
ward trip that he turns his glass eye
to good account. In the cavity back
of it he carries two or three small but
valuable diamonds. Halt the duty
saved is his commission on these
stones alone. The customs inspectors
have never got on to him. Naturally
they can't 60 around jabbing their
fingers into peoples eyes."-New York
Sun.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-28

to Annie without delay. Summoning
up all his courage, he said boldly:
you are OBTAINING me here without
warrant in law. l know my rights. l
am the son of one Of the most In
fluential men in the city"
whats your name?" growled the
captain.
Howard Jeffries."
"Son of Howard Jeffries. the bank
err"
Howard nodded.
yes"
The captain turned to his sergeant.
"Maloney, this Teller says he's the
son of Howard Jeffries, the banker"
Maloney leaned over and whispered
something in the captains ear. The
captain smiled grimly.
$50 you're a bad character, eh? Fa-
ther turned you out of doors, eh?
Where's that girl you ran away with"
Sharply he added: You see l know
your record"
I've done nothing I'm ashamed Of"
replied Howard calmly. II married
the girl. She's waiting my return now.
Won't you please let me send her a
message?"
The captain eyed Howard sus-
piciOusly for a moment, then be turned
to his sergeant:
"Maloney, telephone this mans wife.
What's the NUMBER"
"Efghty-six Morningside."
Maloney again got busy with the
telephone and the wearying wait be-
gan once more. The clock soon struck
two. ! For a whole hour he had been
subjected to this gruelling process,
and still the %lynx-eyed captain sat
there watching his quarry.
II Capt. Clinton had begun to have
any doubts when Howard told him
who his father was, Maloney's infor-
nation Immediately put him at his
ease. 1t was all clear to him now.
The youth had never been any good.
His own father had kicked him out.
He was In desperate financial straits.
He had come to this mans rooms to
make a demand for money. Under.
wood had refused and there was a
quarrel, and he shot him. There was
probably a dispute over the woman.
All. yes, he remembered now. This
girl he married was formerly a sweet.
heart OF UnderwOod's. jealousy was
behind 1t as we'll. Besides, wasn't he
caught red-handed, with blood on his
hands. trying to escape from the
apartment? Oh. they had him dead
to rights. all right. Any MAGISTRATE
would hold him on such evidence.
Its the Tombs for him, all right
all right" muttered the captain to
himself: 'and maybe promotion fol
me-"
Suddenly there was a commotion
at the door. The coroner entered
followed by the undertaken. The two
men advanced quickly into the room
and took a look at the body. After
making a hasty examination. the cor
oner turned to Capt. Clinton.
well, captain. l guess he's dead
all right"
"Yes. and we've got our man. too"
The o turned to look at the
prisoner.
Caught him red-handed, eh? Who
IL he?"
Howard was about to blurt out a re.
ply, when the captain thundered:
"Silence!"
To the coroner, the captain ex
planned:
Hes the scapegrace son of How
ard Jeffries, the banker. No good
bad egg. His father turned him Out
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-28
SYNOPSIS.

ffoward seffries, bankers son, under
Che evil influence OF Robert Underwood:
. felow.etudent at Yale. leads a lie or
dissipation, msrries the daughter. Of a
gambler who died in prison. and Is dis
owned BY hia father. He tries to get work
and fatis, A former college chum makes
q busineVs proposition to Howard which
requires e. MN cash. and Howard is broke.
Aabert Underwood. who has been re-
pulsed by Towards wife. Annie, in his
p0llege days. M had once been engaged
to Alicia, Towards stepmother. has
apartments, at the Astrur!a. HoW ! "a de- s.
efdes to ask Underwood for the 5000 ne
peeds, underwood. taking advantase OF
eomoa a sort Of social ~highwayman., Dis
covering hts true character she denies
him tho house. Alicia receives q note from
Underwood. threatening suicide. Art
dealers for whom he has been acting as
commissioner. demand an accounting: lie
cannot mako good. Howard Jeffries
c0lls In an intoxicated condition. He asks
Underwood for e 1000 and Is told by the
natter that he Is In debt up to his eyes.
Howard drinks himself into a maudlin
condition. and goes to sleep on a divan:
- callcr Is announced and Underwood
draws a screen around the drunken
sleeper. Alicia enters. She demands a
promise from him that he will not take
would attach to herself. Underwood re-
her patronage. This she refuses to do.
Underwood Kills himself. The report OF
b pistol awakens Howard. He stumbles
Dver the dead body Of Underwood. Realf-
u1ng his predicament he attempts to flee
and = met by UnderwoOd's valet.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-04-28
CHAPTER TX.

Fifteen minutes passed without a
word being spoken. There was deep
silence in the room. 1t was SO quiet
that once could have heard a pin drop.
Had q d~isinterested spectator been
there to witness 1t, he would have
been at once impressed by the dra-
matte tableau presented-the dead
man on the floor, his white shirt front
spattered with blood. the cringing.
frightened boy crouching in the chair,
the towering figure Of the police cap
tain sitting sternly cycling his hapless
prisoner. and at the far end of the
room Detective Sergeant Maloney
busy sending hurried messages
through the telephone.
What did you do it for?" Numbered
the captain suddenly.
Howard's tongue Glove to his palate.
He could scarcely articulate. He was
innocent, of course, but there was
something in this mans manner which
made him fear that he might, after all,
have had something to do with the
tragedy. Yet he was positive that he
vas asleep on the bed all the time.
The question is, would anybody believe
him? He shook his head pathetically.
II didn't do 1t. Really, l didn't"
shut your mouth! You're lying,
and you know you're lying. Wait till
the comes. Wen fix you"
Again there was silence, and now be.
gan a long. tedious wait, both men re-
tanning the same positions. the cap
tain watching his prisoner as q cat
watches a mouse
Towards mental anguish was al
most uncomfortable. He thought OF his
poor wife who must be waiting I'D for
him all this time, wondering what had
become OF him. She would imagine
the worst, and there was no telling
what she might do. II only he could
get word to her. Perhaps she would
be able to explain things. Then he
thought Of his father. They had quar-
relied. It was true, but after ali 1t was
his own flesh and blood. At such a
critical situation as this. one forgets.
His father could hardly refuse to come
to HE assistance. He must get q
lawyer, too. to protect his interests.
This police captain had no right to de.
tain him ike this He must get word