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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
Football Thanksgiving
High School Again Meets the
Scrubs on the Gridiron

0SA 0Oo VA SAeS 49, A~~NA ~~N
On Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 3Oth
the High School boys again meet
the volunteers, or Scrubs, in a
battle for football honors.
The game will be played on the
secondly school reserve at 23O
P. M.
There is a great deal of rivalry
between the two teams and, as they
are about equally matched, the
game promises to be hard fought
one.
Everyone turn out and cheer for
the teams as it will be an inspira-
ton to both sides. No admission
will be charged and no collection
taken up.
A. E. Adams,
Captain of Volunteers.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
NOTICE
Notice to the public:

Notice to the pubic:
The Board of County Commits
sioners will, on the 5th day of De-
cember 1911, receive Bids for a
Janitor for Ben Hill County Court
House for the year 1912. Bids must
state price per month. The Board
reserves the right to reject any and
all Bills if not made satisfactorily.
J. G. MINsHEW
H. M. WARREN
w. r. WALKER
County Commissioners.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
For Tax Receiver

l announce myself candidate
for receiver of tax returns of Ben
Hill County, subject to the ruling of
the white primary and if elected
will fill the office to the best of my
ability. your support will be appre-
ciated. Yours very resptfully,
EARLY GIBBS.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
The Pecan Industry

Messrs. Seanor and Wise, Mr.. j.
B. Seanor and Judge C. M. Wise, are
planning to 60 into the pecan nurs-
cry industry, and will plant quite
quantity of seed this winter.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
County Commissioners Meeting
Fitzgerald, Ga. NOV. 20 1911.
Georgia Ben Hill County
Office of County Commissioners

~
Office of County Commissioners
County Commissioners the above date in adjourned Session.
MnseW Warren and Walker being The said
arrange have the Nuabnas Collected for the
Nulabonas having former Tax Collect
other business On motion NJ Warren seconded
Nsew that advertise for bids for Janor for County
1912 said bids be submitted this
day December 1911 All bids price per
Board reservng the right and all bids On
seconded by M Warren that
Deputy Sheriff Board
adjourned. Wesley R. Walker Clerk.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
Notice

There were 430 persons registered
for the regular City Election; said
Election to be held December 18th
1911.
This notice is in conformity with
Section 80 of the city Charter.
Geo. w. Brown, Clerk.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

The Enterprise three times per
week at $500 is cheaper than one
time per week at $1.OO or six times
per week at $500. Either is cheap
enough
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
Notice to Voters.

The registration books will close
ten days before the primary on the
9TH day of December, for the pur-
pose of preparing a registration list.
Register before the 9th, Nov.
F. M. GRAHAM.
Tax Collector.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
The Rival Editors

An Iowa editor who attended a
party was smitten with the charms
of a fair damsel who wore a rose on
her forehead, and thus gushed a.
bout it:
Above her nose
There is rose
Below the rose
There is a nose
Rose, nose.
Rose, nose.
Sweet rose,
Dear nose.
Below her chin
There is pin:
Above the pin
There is a chin;
Pin. chin,
Chin, pin,
Sweet pin,
Dear chin.
Where upon a rival editor thus
apostrophizes the iowa ctap
Above the stool
There is fool;
Below the fool
There is a stool;
Stool, fool,
Fool, stool,
Old stool.
Damphool.
Below his seat
There are two feet
Above those feet
There is a seat;
Seat, feet,
Feet, seat,
Soft seat,
Big feet.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

We keep a large assortment of
blanks and sell them at retail, Csc
and up. We will not sell less than
o5c worth. Do not ask us to do so.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

Hon J. NJ Brown by of peculiar reasoning says that
the paronn record of the Governor the issue the present cam
apn although the only candidate the who ever held t
sce However Sade of Columbus accepts the invitation 10
review the records of and Mr. Smith and shows from the
Brown padoned ia more people IN TWO years ue a
did Mr. Smith Twenyht voaors of the prohibition law went Tree
hv vtue of Mr. Browns siGnaure--The Abel News.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

VATHEN it comes to supply
w fling your wants for lum-
Der, ETC., in the most salts
factory way. No matter
what your requirements are,
we can supply them. We
carry on hand at all times in
our yard a large stock of well
seasoned lumber for all pur-
poses. If our stock is not
large enough to meet your
demands, we are in direct
communication with our
source of supply where we
can secure prompt shipments.
Will be pleased to furnish
estimates on your require
mentS.
BOOKER & BRITT
Phone. $50 Yards in Rear Of City Hall.
Fitzgerald, :: George
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

II M Stanley Of Dublin never be Labor Commissioner ai
though il looks like he beg will have the satisfaction OF know"
ine that the Press is with him.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

time you figuring dear reader on planting out
few trees remind that should be pecan u pore
eyanates scuppe1nones, depending on the location
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

President says hold your cotton and plant corn Wa
we need Georgia plenty and return to fifteen cents cotton
and the pucky leader the Farmers Union points the way
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

Clark Howell afraid that every right people rs going
he crushed under the partzan usupaton Little Joe not
elected We would paragraph longer but we are just Obliged
to stop and take augh-The Dalton Citizen
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

It's long South Georgia has had the opportunity OF
exciting grass boys clean and honest as Pope o"
We do not believe that sleep her rights this time
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

Little another vecoum cyard to the deer pee
pu" He said old thing in the old WaHoke ought TO
be rehuked and Little Joe ought ndcatedEay County News
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

The acres that peepng thru the soil VIII prove
blessing to the wise farmers who planted them next spring
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

Farmer Pope Brown brightest biggest and best OF the cand
dates in the list good enough for any South Georgian
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

One politicians in the State in the city today and
one who has been with State politics 1894 and ne says
looks like Pope Brown.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

Editor Charles Ship of the Cordee Rambler still
writing about vine By way that delightful subject After al
there probably much harm in wine in beer brandy ant
red
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

SATURDAY. NOVEMBER rs. 1911.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25

Perseverance. Dear. Keeps the Honor Bright.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-11-25
BOOKER & BRITT

Phone. $50 Yards in Rear Of City Hall.
Fitzgerald, :: George
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15

race. Geographically. we are told ne
proves reliable TO this day. many Of the
place names he gave having been re-
talned: and the animals and the plants
he describes have been easily Identified.
all but a few that no longer inhablt La
brador.
Cartwright made four trips to Labra-
dor between the years 100 and lIS6'
trading with the Indians and Esqui-
maus." living among them, and even
"a sing crops He was emnently fair in
his dealings with the natives, and quick
and convincing in his disciplinary meas
ures with the members Of his exped
tons. The American privateer Minerva
paid him a visit in August. l1Is, and
relieved him Of his merchant sc. There
can be no mistake about his opinion OF
these villains, nor of the quality OF the
language used toward him by their first
officer Mr.. Carlton. Yet even here he
is fair for he pra SEES the courtesy OF the
villain In command. Benedict Arnold
was his cabin companion on his last trip
home. According TO Cartwright. Arnu'd
stole his ne when drinking water be-
gan to run short and traded 1t with the
sailors for water. which he kept for his
ou, t,sa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15
THE VOL DI GAMBIA
An Amusing Episode in the Life
of Gainsborough.

Tba nainting by Galnsborough which
Wa renroduce. formerly In the collection
., the late Charles Werthe.mer. In Lon
don. and recently sold to the New York
firm Of Scott & Fowles. has an unusually
nersonaI significance In the history OF
Tho great British artist. This beautiful
nor,raIt- described as unknown" by Mr..
p. G. Konody In The illustrated Lon
don News" represents the wife Of Gov
ernor Thicknesse. one Of Gainsborough's
most intimate friends. and In the Utol d.
gambia which may be family made out In
the background we have souvenir If
a famous quarrel. Mrs. Thicknesse. who
before her marriage was Miss Anne
Ford had won some repute as a profess
sional musician and dancer. Gansbor-
ough. whose musical tastes we're pro-
nounced. fell in love with the lady's rt0L
III GAMBIA which he had introduced into
her portrait and tried 10 buy II for a
hundred guineas. Instead. It was ar
ranged that he should have the instru-
ment in payment for a portrait Of Thick
nesse himself. He might better have
paid the money.
Thicknesse. in his biography Of the
master. tells how pleased the latter was
with his bargain when 1t was first made.
and thus describes the situation exist
ing at that time:
A hundred full length pictures bespoke
could not have given my grateful and gen
eIous fiiend half the pleasure-a pleasure
In which | participated highly. because
knew with what delight he would ngg
through the days work to rest his cunning
fingers at night over Abels compositions on
an instrument he so highly valued. Gains
borough was so transported with this
present that he said "heep me hungry
strument until have finished the picture"
The riol III gambG, however. wa sent
next morning. and the same day he
stretched a canvas called upon me to at
tend and he soon finished the head rubbed
I'm the coloring OF the full length, painted
my Newfoundland dog az my feet. and then
Put It by and no more said OF II or done
10 IT,
Come time sfterward, az Mr.. Konody
tells the story, the Thicknesses called on
their friend, and saw, beside the por-
trait for which they were waiting, a
completely finished tull-length Of an
officer. Mrs. Thlcknesse knew" says
the Governor. that this was a picture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15

down side-saddle over tho hill just Ike ne
rat Of he boVsr
We will end with an extract on a
grayer key-the description Of the last
coming OF Phillips Brooks into the
hurch in which he had done 50 noble
work
When the coffin came up the aisle. carried
shouldcr high by those tall young men, the
row Of grave young faces. the white lilies,
and the purlle pal!- II was like some old
Greek festival and the Christian service
/ ircd together. The great hymn as they
went out again-"For All Thy Saints Who
n ON Their Labors Rest: the people begin.
ring IL as II with a burst OF triumph, ana
the voices stopping and stopping until
hardly anybody was left TO sing at ALL
and all the people standing and crying IS
II their hearts woulo break-you can't
imagine what Il wasi But nothing has
ever been such an inspiration-it has been
Ike a great sunset that suddenly turned
itself into dawn
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Literary ,Nese,S and Criticism

order the murder OF its governor, De
Launay; she did not head the women on
the march 10 Versailles she did not per-
suade the Regiment Of Flanders TO
make common cause with the people
nor, later on, was she one Of the blood
thirsty trtcoteuSeS at the foot Of the gull
lotine.
Her part was a different one. She
frequented the sessions Of the National
Assembly and the political clubs: she
organized one of her own, for women.
In fact. she was one Of the early cham
pions of women's equal political rights.
Mr.. Hamel reviews in an excellent chap
ter the work and sufferings Of the
French women Of the Revolution and
their claims to political equality. but,
with an occasional exception like that
Of Condorcet. the men Of their time were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15

not sufficiently emancipated to take
these claims seriously. AS for The
roigne's efforts:
That she was not more successful as a
leader was perhaps the fault OF circum-
stsnces and conditions rather than OF her
self, and yet she was lacking In some
quality which should have brought her into
close contact with other women. She I'M
Gerstood men better, and was perhaps not
tolerant enough Of feminine scruples nor
faithful enough 70 the laws Of social con-
Nention.
Eloquent she was. Nothing is better
evidence Of this than the dread which
Enthusiastically inspired the often obscene
attacks upon her Of the royalist press
Parts became unsafe for her. Why
she fed to Liege in May. 1870. is uncer-
tain She herself averred lack OF means.
as we'll as danger Of arrest for her par
, ticipation In the events Of the march 20
Versailles. Certain II is that a warrant
was issued against her in August Of that
year. And 1t Is also possible. though
far from probable. that she was sent on
d secret revolutionary mission 10 the
Austrian Netherlands. There she was
arrested on March |. 1901 on charge
Of having conspired against the life Of
Marie Antoinotte and taken to Castle
Kufstein, in Tyrol. for trial Set at llb-
enty for lack Of evidence she returned
to Paris early IN 1902. Received as p
martyr. invited TO address the Jacobins'
Club. she threw herself with renewed
ardor into the turmoil Of the period. one
o. her first acts being the attempted or
sanization Of q Paris battalion "
women soldiers. like those already in ex-
istence in other PARTS Of the country. In
how far the spirit Of the Terror seized
her Mr.. Hamel does not know. though
he does not absolve her Of guilt in the
case Of the murder Of Tulean:
II Is impossible to say with certainty
whether Thfroigne restrained herself from
staining her hands with additional crime
during these days Of unbridled license The
best evidence that can be put forward In
tay6T OF ner innocence Is me rae, that she
party n bestow II upon the cause Of the
mCderates.
According TO tradition II was her ad-
herence TO the Girondlsts that settled
neT rate, ttrrlole oedtlhS administered
to her by some Jacob'n women being
held to have been the cause Of her In
sanity. She died on June 8. 1917, at La
salpetriere.
Mr.. Hamel has reconstructed the his
torical figure so far as tNat appears to
be possible at this late date. He has
destroyed an extraordinary tradition
without, as he frankly confesses being
able 10 substitute the truth n all It's
details Much remains obscure in The
roigne's career. thanks. In large part, 10
the palpable disingenuousness OF her
own confessions" 1t is for this reason
also. no doubt. that the woman herself
her personality-has evaded him, and
therefore, evades his readers. She is an
enigma still.
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not TO be paid for, and that IL was be-
gun and completed after mine. She
would have rejoiced to have seen a hun
dred pictures painted before mine that
were 10 be paid for, but she instantly
burst into tears. retired. and wrote Mr..
Gainsborough a note desiring him 10
put my picture up In his garrett. and not
t. let It stand to oe a foil to Mr..
Fischer's. He did so instantly. and as
instantly sent home the rOI di gambia"
A truce was patched UP, but the portrait
was never finished. When II went TO
state. and by and by the owners re-
turnei II TO Gainsborough, with a re-
quest 10 rub out the countenance OF
the tiuest and warmest friend he ever
had: and so done, then blot him forever
from his memory" The huffed patron
was Of the opinion that this communi-
cation was the cause Of the artist trans
terring his home from Bath 10 London.
Thus could teacup tempest upset an
eighteenth century studio
The heroine OF the affair, by the way.
has her place In the minor history OF her
time. She IL was who accused the -.arl
OF Jersey OF betraying his trust toward
her while she was under his guardian
ship. When she turned TO the stage for
living her father was so indignant
that he sought to prevent her debut,
even going so far AZ 20 have her ar
rested She suffered arrest once again
when. after Thlcknesse's death, she
made her home in France The fall or
Robesplerrs Just saved her from the
guillotine. She died IN London. IN ls2f
at the age Of eighty-six. Few OF the
portraits by Gainsborough that have
co.Ae TO this country have brought with
them memories as interesting as those
which envelop this painting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15
ROMAN NATIONS
Their Role and Influence In the
Empire.

THE WOMEN OF THE CHsARs. BY
GugllelmO Ferrero Illustrated svo, pp.
X. 337 The Century Company.
Professor Ferrero's work is not mere
collection OF magazine articles issued In
book form. but a connected historical
study that has had preliminary serial
publication in a magazine. The view
rolnt Is the same throughout-the status
and influence Of the imperial women Of
Rome. their employment as political
pawns and financial aids in the compli
Gated and ever shifting intrigues of
state. and the parts they took when,
turned from ready acqulescence in the
roles assigned to them, they played the
game" actively for their own ends. 1t Is
q long cry from the story Of Livia, the
wife Of the Emperor Augustus, and OF
her rivalry with her stepdaughter Julia,
which was in part the beginning Of
long struggle between the conservative
old patricidte and a liberal movement,
but II Is a long cry from her to the COM
plcated Vaccinations Of Agripplna the
Younger. the daughter, sister and mother
Of emIcrors. whom her son Nero put TO
death. II Is a record Of the women Of
the house Of Augustus, a record Of trag-
edy.
The authors Introductory chapter on
marriage in ancient Rome is an adj
mIrable piece Of historical exposition.
It's Importance to a full understanding
Of the pages that follow can hardly be
overes timated, while the comparisons IL
draws between past and present, be-
tween the status of the women Of that
far OF day and OF our own, suggests
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15
FICTION
Stories of the Law in America
and Crime Abroad.
THE SHADY SIDE OF THE LAW,

THE CONFESSIONS OF ARTEMAs
OUIBBLE. BY Arthur Train. Illus
trated. l2mo, PIP. 227 Charles Serb
ners Sons.
The picturesque novel, that old achieve
ment In Spanish literature. has its mod
ern counterpart Over and over again In
/ the fiction Of the day we meet the vaga-
bond living by his wits. But as rule
he is In undlsguised rebellion against
constituted authority. Mr.. Train has
had the happy thought Of choosing for
his hero q man whose dishonesty finds
it's chance In legal channels. ARENAS
bubble Is himself a lawyer and with
his partner Gottlieb, he fattens on
shady" transactions. This book Is. In
fact, the story Of a "shyster," rich In
impudence and craft, who is thrown
upon his own resources while youth at
Harvard In the early 70s Profligate
habits having got him into financial
difficulties, he begins life by running
away from his debts Thenceforth his
every action is governed by an abso-
iutely INSCRIPTIONS resolution TO get
money. and here in New York he finds
that the criminal courts offer ideal OPP
portunities FOR the exercise Of his dub!-
Gus gifts.
His success is prodigious, and though
one can hardly describe 1t as amusing, it
must be confessed that Mr.. Train makes
out Of It rather grimly entertaining
TaCiIaufatiy Of he n
itiates us into fearful and wonderful
conditions, In the painting Of which.
alas! II is only too evident that he has
not had to draw upon his imagination.
Indeed. the book abounds in local color
Enthusiastically veraclous, some Of the
cases. cited obviously coming straight
from recent history, and, We dare say
most readers will not only recognize
these incidents but easily Identify the
actors in them Through his use OF
more than credible types and episodes
the author naturally heightens the
actually OF his book, but we are not
sure that by so doing he has not missed
the opportunity 10 produce work of art
/ instead OF a bit Of ephemeral fiction.
The story is not sufficiently homogeneous.
| In It's opening chapters, against back
ground not precisely remote, but, on the
other hand, not precisely contemporane-
GUS ARENAS bubble asserts his indi-
viduality and holds his own at the cen
ire OF the stage. But then Mr.. Train
Sc Ems unconsciously to intervene, TO be
telling anecdotes Of his own instead Of
allowing his hero to speak for himself
and by the time we have turned the last
page bubble. as bubble, though NOM
inally 10 the foreground, has become q
mere stalking horse. We feel that his
Confessions" amount 10 nothing more
than series Of articles thrown into the
form Of fiction. We are entertained, as
| has been said. but we reflect a little rue
fully on Mr. Trains failure to follow up
so good q start
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15
A PIONEER OF THE NORTH
The Adventures Of an English
man in Labrador.

CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT AND HIS
LABRADOR JOURNAL. Edited by
Charles Wendell Townsend. NJ -. With
an Introduction by Or. Wilfred T Gren-
fell. Illustrations from old engra wings.
photographs and map $40. PIP. XXXiii
8s5. Boston: Dana Estes Co.
This 10 one Of those simple. straight
forward narratives the secret OF whose
charm seems TO have been lost by
more sophisticated generation. Its
author, a younger son Of an old English
family, refers at it's beginning with en-
gaging candOr 10 h scant educational
equipment, and confesses that what
command Of his mother tongue he pos
sesses has been won gradually in the
course Of the very writing Of this diary
He falls, 50 the editor Informs us. into
many repetitons. here omitted, but not
without occasional notice 20 the reader;
no chronicles the smallest trfles as well
as important happenings and doings. but
from this very ignorance OF the existence
Of literary proportion. from this sturdy
literalness there emerges the hgure Of q
man. all unconsc1ously revealing himself
as he vas With all hls sturdy shortcona-
ings but also With al the virtues that
made The sdrent'rers the pioneers IT his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15

was true lover OF birds and OF faitn-
ful dogs. She had. too. childlike love
Of fun sometimes, as this little winter
scene shows:
This morning | was out taking a drive
about town With John, and ! saw such
coast from way up the long hillside down
10 the tavern garden. and dire ny alttr-
ward down IN the village ] oeheld STUDY
as large as a postage stamp. SO ! b0rrye1
IT, as you say and was driven up TO the
top Of the hill street and down slid over
that pound-cake irosting OF COAST most
- lerd d. az meekly went back 10 the VII.
age and returned the sled. Then, an hour
later. In bursts Stubby. with shining morn.
Ing face: There we're two fellows tina,
said Aunt Sarah was the boss. she went