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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-01-09
Ashton Items

No complaint of the weather
being hot now
Wiley Walker was visiting Har-
mon Griffin Sunday.
Regular services to be held at
Sturgeon Creek Sunday.
The weather still continues to be
dissagreeable at this place.
We regret to learn that Mrs Bry-
on Dykes is slightly indisposed.
Mr.. E. E. Robitzsch left Saturday
for business trip to Milledgeville
We are having some fine hog
killing weather now since the rains.
Mr.. O. S. Middlebrooks and fami-
ly, of Ocilla, has moved into our
peaceful district.
Mr. W. H. Robitzsch was the
guest of her sister Mrs. E. E. Ro.
bitzsch Saturday.
Miss Fife MiddIebrooks spent
Saturday with her former teacher
Mrs. F. C. Hunter.
Our ancestors got rid of bears
aad Catamounts instead OF fl3as
and mosquitoes.
Miss Nellie Wi!banis spent Sun
day with her scbooI-mate, Miss
Florence Peterson.
Miss Lyde Pate, of Osierfeld,
spent a few days recently with
Miss BIondinc Wiibanks.
Mr.. 7. J. Livingston from town
spent Sunday at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. L. E. Ashurst.
Quite a crowd attended the sing
given by Misses Lula and Emma
Dykes Saturday evening.
Mr.. VIM. A. Lynn from the city
spent Saturday and Sunday with
Mr. Theo Middlebrooks.
A Massachusetts man who got a
deer license when he wished to
marry was a bad speller.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Troupe spent
Sunday with the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Roibtzsch.
Miss Carrie Troupe Of Appling
county is the charming guest Of
Miss Lula Dykes this week.
Miss Hilda Stone, of Ocilla, has
been the charming guest of Miss
Ethel Griffin for the past week.
The statue Of Liberty needs a
new gown, but we hope they will
not go so far as to dress the lady in
hObble skirt
The French lady who has chaI-
lenGed an editor for a duel will
probably insist on fighting with a
fatal hat pin.
The sing given by Mr.. and Mrs.
L. E. Ashurst Monday night in
honor of their nephews, Messrs
Lewis Porterfeld and Oscar Bost, Of
Macon, was we'll attended.
Two wise birds were talking once,
and one asked, DO you suppose
there will ever be woman presi-
dent?' No, no, the other one re-
piled quickly, a president has to
be 45 years old, and the women
never get to be that Old"
Mi6nOn
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-01-09
For Tax Receiver

| announce myself a 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, 1912-01-09

We have a large assortment OF
Blanks for Justice Courts and other
county officials. The Enterprise
keeps the assortment complete
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-01-09

We will club the Enterprise with
the Progressive Farmer, (new sub
scription onIy) The National Poultry
Journal, Every Woman's Magazine
for $3.50. This is the best offer we
have ever made our subscribers.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13

in their incomes and to do it comfort
ably. Denmark is as obviously happy
as she is poor.
1.-THE Danes are wise enough not to
demand perfection; If it comes they
can take instant pleasure therein.
When it does not come they still are
placid. Conformity to rule, even
though 1t be in so small a matter as
fixed meal times, does entail some
coercion upon the natural man. So
punctuality is not a Danish virtue.
I'm few Danish households are there
fixed and unalterable hours for meals.
Pay call when you will, and the Gus.
tom of the country will uphold you,
but it will not insure you against find
ing your friends at table. The hotels
follow the very reverse of the Ameri-
can method, and while you can get
snacks all the time, you cannot be
certain that at any time you will find
a dinner ready cooked and waiting.
Even the national food lends itself
admirably both to simplicity and to
unpunctuality. Its staple is bread and
butter-in well-to-do houses immense
thicknesses of excellent butter and
fairly thin slices of several varieties
of bread. The staple food of our work
ing class is also bread and butter, but
their butter is bad and scraped and
their bread is uniformly nutritious. -
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Kings Commit Suicide.

London.-Some curious customs of
a pastoral people of Uganda, known as
the Banyoro. were related at the Roy
al institution by the Rev. John Ros-
coe. He said that kings person
was sacred and his food was restrict
ed to milk and beef from a sacred
herd of COWS which We're kept apart
from other cows.
The king did not wash with water,
but vas rubbed with butter. The Ban
yoro monarch never allowed himself
to grow old nor his faculties to be-
come impaired. He must die in full
vigor, with his mental and physical
faculties unimpaired. When the king
thought he was going to be seriously
i'll he arranged the state affairs, then
summoned his chief wife and ordered
her to bring him cup of poison.
For as long as possible the death
was kept secret. When the news
leaked out, the sons OF the dead king
fought among themselves, brother kill.
ing brother. The survivor became
king.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
McMILLIN IS
in THE RACE

suited in the payment of about one
third of the public debt. The law for
the protection of our girls under eigh-
teen years of age was passed. The
child labor law was enacted. The fac
tory inspection law was passed. The
uniform textbook law, which has
improved the schools and saved mil
lions Of dollars TO parents, was passed.
The good roads movement, which
then advocated, and still favor, was
given an impetus that has resulted in
great highway improvement. The
taxes were collected with certainty
and economy, without unnecessary
friction.
81 propose TO make the campaign on
my own merits and without entang-
ling.aliances.
"Belore the primary shall visit as
much of the state as | can, to meet the
people and discuss public questions
before them.
(Signed) BENTON MCMILLIN.n
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
THREE PEOPLE
DIE SUDDENLY

salesman, turned to walk home for
lunch and moment later lay dead
upon the pavement. He was sixty
five years of age, a Confederate Veter-
an, member of the First Baptist
Church, and prominent in local bust
ness circles. He leaves a wife and
tour daughters, Mrs. +. f. PIess, Mrs.
j. J.. Drnnon, Mrs. w. \. Grigsby
and Mrs. r. NJ. Carmichael.
Thos. Lilly, an old and we'll known
citizen of Morfistown, was suddenly
stricken with heart failure about three
O'Clock this morning and died within
a few moments. He is survived by a
wife and one daughter.
Robert Etter, the l2-year-old son of
VIM. Etter, fell from the old water
wheel of an abandoned mill just north
of the city about noon today, a broken
neck and instant death resulting. The
boy and two playmates had been
climbing over the ole wheel, when
young Etter lost his balance and fell
to the rocks below.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
TREATER IN CHINA
Playhouse Is the Great National
Amusement.
English Writer Attends Performance
and Tells of His Experience With
Celestials-Pay Lasts Sew
eral Days.

Pekin, China.-The theater in
China is the great national amuse-
ment, and the Chinese will attend a
play that lasts for several days with
out getting the least tired of it, says
an English writer.
Figure to yourself huge, dingy
barn crammed full of Chinese, mostly
of the coolie class, the men all on
one side and the women on the other;
attendants go round selling saucers of
fruit, melon seeds, sweetmeats and
cups of green unstewed tea. Up
above is huge gallery, also crammed
with tier upon tier of men, women
and children, smoking, eating and ges-
ticulating but, as rule, perfectly
well behaved. In the last respect they
could give many of our own music
hall audiences points, and they never
applaud.
Some have taken their shoes off and
sit with their bare feet up on the
edge in front of them, where also is
placed the program lin Chinese and
written from the bottom Of the page
up to the top, and the saucers of
fruit and other Chow" purchased
from the half-naked attendants. The
odor from this unwashed mass of hui
mainly is appalling.
AS you push your way through the
crowd to your reserved pew, because
that is exactly what it is like, you
hear the beating of tomtoms and the
striGent squeak of fiddles completely
out of tune, mingled with a sound as
though all the fireirons in Christen-
dom were being thrown downstairs.
This is the orchestra, and it plays
throughout the performance; there is
no escape from it, even for moment,
and the crash Of cymbals and bang
ings Of gongs never give you one mo-
ment's respite.
Through the dim, cloudy atmos-
phere you catch sight of what Is hap
Dening on the. stage. There is no
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
LONG ACTIVE LIFE
Veteran of Editorial Ranks Is Or.
George Brown.
Founder of the First Free State News.
paper Published in kansas-Re-
members the Exciting Days
of Border Warfare.

There is living today in Illinois a
man who played large part in the
making of Kansas history. He is Dr..
George Brown, who came to Lawrence
In 1854 and there established the Her.
aid of Freedom, the first free state
newspaper ever published in Kansas.
Today DR.. Brown is almost the last
OF the men who fought for Kansas in
that bloody time before the war, risk
ing their lives to uphold a principle
they believed sacred-the principle OF
human freedom, says the Kansas City
Star.
DR.. Brown is ninety-two years old
in the late evening of his life-but he
still remembers wildly the exciting
events of the border warfare days,
when he published the Herald of Free.
dom from a log cabin in Lawrence
writing against slavery with fear
lessnesS that made him the object oil
deep hatred from the southerners
who were equally determined to make
Kansas slave state. So it happened
when Lawrence was raided in 1856
that one of the first buildings tc
which the torch was applied was the
Office of the Herald of Freedom.
In the fall of 1854 he removed tc
Lawrence, Kan, and erected house
the timber of which was cut and
: hewed by his printers and sawed by
the New England Emigrant Aid com
pany's mill. 1t was the first lumber
sawed by the company's mill, and
when he had finished his building al
once he began to publish the Herald
of Freedom, which helped to make
Kansas a free state. This paper, D
w. Wilder said, was "the most per
feet in character, Typography and gen
eral makeup of any paper ever saw
Governor Geary was present upon ar
occasion when the stars and stripes
were raised to the summit of the stat
over the Herald building and made Z
brief speech to the assembled multi
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Biq Price for Arm.

Pendleton, Ore-Attorney Dan P.
Smythe, president of the Commercial
association and secretary of the Ore
gon Wool Growers association, is in
Portland to prosecute damage suit
against the Northern Pacific COM
pany for 100000. While accompany
ing a train load of sheep to Tacoma
eighteen months ago he received in
juries which resulted in the loss of an
arm and caused him to spend several
months in the hospital.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
SENATOR LEAFS
FATHER DEAD

Belle Meade, now owned by Judge
Jacob Dickinson, former secretary of
war.
Mr.. Lea was known and beloved for
those gracious and gentlemanly quail
ties, which distinguish the best and
MODEST type of manhood. Although
extremely modest and transformations
the circle of his influence was wide and
within it was embraced manifold acts
of kindness and charity. 1t was said
of Overton Lea, that no man in Ten
nessee ever extended more practical aid
to the distressed than he, and in every
circumstance his beneiicence was I'M
accompanied by word of self eXtolla-
ton. His fortune was large, as for
tunes 60 in the average southern COM
munily, and out Of it he gave freely
and abundantly. He leaves a wife,
three children, two daughters and a
son. The funeral probably will take
place in Nashville Wednesday.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13

scenery, no drop curtain, no wings
and no footlights. The actors make
their entrance from doors at the back
of the stage, one of which is to the
left and the other on the right.
No actresses appear. Although
not actually forbidden, it is consid-
cred extremely bad form for & woman
to appear on the stage in China. All
the women's parts have to be taken
by men, and the impersonation is
absolutely perfect as to department,
gesture, dress and figure, and, above
all, voice. The shrill falsetto twitter-
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Or. George Brown, Who Established
the Herald of Freedom at Law
renee, Kan, In 1854. He Still Is
Living at the Age of Nnety-Two.

tude Mrs. Sara 7. D. Robinson, the
widow of Ex-Governor Robinson, says
that DR.. Brown wrote its editorials,
carefully reviewed whatever appeared
in its columns, excluded from its ad-
lyertising pages every offensive mat
ter, declined, even for double com.
pensation, to advertise the sale of in
toxicants, ever warred upon the
wrong in all it's forms and that his
principal enemies were awbreakers. y
During the turbulent days on the
border he was imprisoned for cham
pioning the cause of human freedom.
He wasnot disturbed, but lived to see
the principles he advocated triumph.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13

the same maiden's hand, fought long
and most realistic duel, first with dag
gers, then with long swords, and
eventually they INDUCED in a spirit
ed wrestling match, quite acrobatic
in it's movements, until one poor fell
low whirled madly in the air, turned
trick somersault and expired doing
a cartwheel. 1t was really funny, but
the audience took it all quite serious
ly. Many of the women broke down
and wept at the woes the heroine had
to go through, while to the European
eye the whole thing was simply ludi-
crOus,
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
COUNTRY LIFE IN DENMARK
Country Where Everyone Is Poor but
Happy-Minister of State Receives
$3.50 a Year.

Copenhagen, Denmark.-'In Den
mark everybody is poor" declares q
writer. There are no coal or, min
eral deposits in the country. Conse-
quently there can be no manufac-
lures; and a nation of farmers, even
of Danish farmers, is never rich &C.
cording to the standards of CONNER
cial countries.
Incomes are small. Where the sal
airy of minister of state is only 3d.
751 year humber individuals must
get along on much smaller incomes.
But the Danes know how to live with
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
AEROPLANE USED BY THIEVES
Modern Yegsmen Adopt Air Machine
to Assist Them in Looting
Game Preserve.

Paris, France.-lt was only to be
expected that law-breakers would
speedily recognize the possibilities of
the aeroplane in annexiag small ar
ticles and making good their escape.
This photograph shows game steal
ers in aeroplane near Paris, France.
The top picture shows the thieves
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
See Wedding for IS Cents.

The Dalles, Ore.-Capt. Bernhard
Anderson of The Dalles corps of the
Salvation Army and Capt. Nellie E.
wilkins of North Yakima, Wash, were
married at the Congregational church
in this city by Brigadier R. Dublin of
Seattle. Many The Dalles folk paid
the admission fee of rs cents and wit
messed the ceremony.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13

A crowd of thirty young people
gathered at Sulphur Springs on last
Friday evening for picnic supper.
The young people were on the ground
for couple of hours, and a most en-
joyable time was reported.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13

A Theater in China.
ing is perfectly produced, and the lit
tie half shuttle, half run, the express
sion, ETC., are all faithfully portrayed.
l was lucky in seeing two distinct
plays with fresh set Of actors in
each. Some of the dresses are really
gorgeous, and the makeup is particu-
larly good. In the first play we were
shown a reproduction of real Chi
nese criminal court, in which, at any
trial, in true Oriental fashion, they
torture and punish the prisoner long
before they decide whether or not he
Is guilty, and in the second play two
mighty warriors. twins and rivals for
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
"Rau-Timev RELIGION.

Chicago.-"There is rag-time re-
ligion by the rag-time music. Some
people can only get religion by the
rag-time method. use it when neces-
sary," says Rev. d. M. Tompkins of
Rogers Park M. e. church.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Just as EASY.

81 would rather be happy than be
RICH" he declared.
"Oh, yes, SO would l." she replied,
but one might as well try to be hap
py without being rich as to be an an.
gel without having to die"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Proud of Record,

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Isaac Jones, retired
whaler and Sunday school teacher,
boasts that only six of his Sunday
school pupils have been hanged in
twenty years-his class being that in
the county Jail.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
He Didn't Know,

Heavy Goer TAT dance. at a late
hour)-Havent the least idea what
the time Is, have you?
Long Suffering Partner (seizing her
opportunity)-Oh. just ordinary vaiss
ume.-Punch.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
SQUIRE O'NEIL MOVES OFFICE

Squire Oscar O'Neil has opened up
an office IN the Hooper and Cate
building, and he is now located near
the court house, where he can look
after the magistrate court business of
the town. The Hooper and Cate office
is ideally located for the office of cor
poration magistrate.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Would Eliminate Interpreters.

Chicago.-Rev. Abraham Lazarus
has written Municipal Judge SABBATH
advocating selection of judges who
can speak at least seventy languages
and thus do away with unreliable in
terpreters.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Market Quiet.

"Why are you rushing around SC
today?"
I'm trying to get something for my
wife"
Had any offers?"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13

lowering over the game preserve; the
lower picture shows them after a tri-
umphant raid on small game. They
escaped before the dazed gamekeeper
realized what had happened.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-13
Peruna Secrets
You Should Know

Golden Seal, the root of the above
plant, is q very useful medicine. Many
people gather it in our rich woodlands
during the summer. Few people know
how valuable it is in dyspepsia, catarrh.
and as general tonic.
Many thousandpounds of this root are
used each wear in the famous catarrh
remedy. Peruna. This fact explains why
everybody uses Peruna for catarrh.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-12-06
WILL CARE FOR VETERANS
ConfederateS and Federals Will Be Re.
membered at Gettysburg.

Washington.-The war department is
making plans to care for the feeding and
shelter of the army of veterans, Confed-
crate as well as Federal, who are to at
tend the encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic on the battlefield of
Gettysburg next July, when the fftieth
anniversary of the great battle will be
celebrated.
1t is roughly estimated 10000 vet
Grams must be placed under canva ant
fed next July, so that a great deal Of
work must be done to prepare quarters
and get proper water supply. The presi.
dent of the United States. the governors
of states and other notabIes who attend
the celebration will be quartered lit the
academy buildings ard fraternity houses
of the local colleges, but the bulk of thu
visitors must be sheltered in tents.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-12-06
NATIONS CONGRESS
RESUMES GRIND
NEARLY s., 100, 900, 900 MUST BE AP
PROPRIATED.
WILL Be ROUTINE SESSION
Democrats Prepare for April Session
Taft's Order Putting Postmasters
in the Civil Service May Be
Revoked.

Washington.-The last session Of the
SiNty-sccond congress, which opened at
noon Monday, will be featured more by
matters relating to the ~SiXty-third con-
gress than to questions OF Importance
and direct bearing. In ether words, the
Democratic majority in the house is dis,
posed to conlne the work of the dying
session within the limits of things &C.
tually necessary for the routine of gov
eminent. This means that the passage
Of appropriation bills will be the chief
results of the expiring session.
Should the recent order Of President
Taft, placing 10000 fourth-class post
masters in the classified service, not be
revoked Or suspended by President Will
son, there will be very little in the way
Of federal patronage for Democratic mem,
bcrs to bCstOw. Undoubtedly pressure
to have the Taft order revoked or sus-
pended will be made by Democratic mem
bCI7. ltSluCIlJ-ClccL NllHOliI HDWeNcI, Is
understood to be a hearty subscriber to
the main principles underlying civil serv-
ice.
While there will be little legislation
except to pass appropriation bills, it is a
fact that these bills will be more than
ordinarily important. In the first place,
they will carry much legislation. In the
second place, they will be enormous in
the aggregate.
When the adding machines complete
their work next March 4, they will show
appropriations and authorizations in all
probability of nearly 81, 100, 900 900. In
dications point to the biggest eNpcnd-
itures in the history Of the government.
A rivers and harbors bill, which will
carry about $4,000, 900, and a public
buildings bill, carrying not less than
SIS, OQO, 600, are on the cards.