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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12


with glance at the fancy pasteboard box
beside her, "nstead of on steel billets and
oak timber and hard cash, why I'd quit
quick it would make your head swim.
know you re charming as well as anybody
Else does. l know you're beautiful and
generous" he went on, with a tight,
savage little nod ruthlessly ignoring her
pink face. But I've raped your
knuckles raw every time you've tried to
stick finger in the works because sent-
inent don't go here for a two-cent postage
stamp. I'll put on cotton nght-gown
and get me a Tyre and trot out in the street
and sing for crackers when sentiment
does go. And if l won't let sentiment go
for you, do you think will for that block
headed, thieving little wart Pershing?
Do you suppose that grasshopper can
steal me blind for eight years, and then
get away with it by telling me a sentiment
tai story about his domestic difficulties?
He cant bump me over with yarn.
He's thief, and he'll take the thief's
medicine!'
Turning to the detective, Sara cried:
"You see! He is heartless brute!"
But, instead of any sympathetic re-
Spouse, the detectives heavy-lidded eyes
and he replied coolly:
at would make no difference at all
whether he was heartless or not. This is
a case of counterfeiting exactly as much
as if Pershing had passed the money any
where else. The United States Govern
ment takes charge of all eases of counter
feting, and permits nobody on earth to
interfere. You couldn't stopit you know,
to save your life
FLASHING and dilating with indigna-
ton, and trembling a little, she re-
torted:
Il see! You deceived me, then! You
just wanted to lead me on to TALK
"Of course | wanted to find my man."
he admitted impassively. "Your CONVEX
saton convinces me MIR. Green's idea was
right
Looking at the president he inquired:
rs the man you spoke of ready?"
Mr.. Green pushed button on his
desk, and, when the young man reap
peared at the door, asked, as the police
man there?'
Eyes, SIR" said the young man. "Your
ear is waiting
The Government agent rose, put on his
/
who had been watching breathessly with
= vide eyes, keyed tense with alarmed I'M
5 ertainty, sprang to her feet, her lips
&c part in an unuttered cry.
"Be sensible, now," the man adj
Used her. "You can't possibly do any
! good"
And Jacob Green impatiently admon-
ished her:
Don't be foolish. You can't stop the
overnment. You can only make spec
cle of yourself. OF course, Pershing ran
right to you last night. | was sure of it.
Your talk shows it. How else could he
have told you his story? Every train has
been watched. He hasn't left town.
you've got him hidden in your house.
This Government agent is going to get
him. You can't stop it,
Whereupon Sara went quite wild. She
70 little cry and ran toward the door;
n whirled about and ran back toward
Q table. And the treasurer sprang for
ard and blocked her way.
at will do you no good to make fuss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12

told me. 1t took courage to do that
with you, Jacob Green, as ruthless as you
are! His mind worked like lightning, too.
There was poor little Pershing in Joe's
office, and there you were, all ready to
gobble him up. And, just on the spur of
the moment, to tell Pershng to lock you
and him in the vault and run to me-do
you think | wouldn't be speaking to
man capable of doing that?'
Upon that, the paralyzed treasurer be
gan stammering foolishly:
"Of course-of course-why, you see,
| didn't expect her to let out like
this"
He gave hollow, idiotic sort of laugh
and stammered on:
"Of course, you see-of course, hated
to throw you down, Mr.. Green. But, you
see-well she had quarreed with me- you
see. OF course, you see, that cut me all
up You see, knew if let Pershing be
sent to Jail she never would forgive me,
you see. But-well, on the other hand
you see-you see, on the other hand, if |
saved Pershing she'd give me credit for
1T. You see, it was choice between
Sara and you. Of course, nobody but
lunatic could hesitate, you see.'
SARA shamelessly patted his hand and
laughed again, so the room rang
with it.
"But l had him frightened to death
last night" she declared with triumph.
Il told him I'd get three thousand dollars
in good money to put in place of the coun-
terfeits, and he'd either got to fix way
FOR To hold net h.,
just grab them himself Worried you
some, didn't it, Joe?' she demanded
laughing.
Jacob Green swung swiftly in his chair
and looked down the long table.
"Oh, yes, we fooled you that time,
Jacob Green!" Sara trumphed. 4Of
course, when he telephoned there was
something in the Office | wanted to see,
knew what he meant. Then he reminded
me | could get money from the bank at
ten o'clock and have it sent up here. He
can think faster than you can, Jacob
Green! And | was just on the point of
spelling it all by grabbing the notes in
front of your eyes-I was that indignant
and confused when you said you We're GO
ing to my house. But he headed me off,
you know. Hasn't he been splendid all
through? And you misled them at the
house so they couldn't find Pershing,
didn't you, Joe?'
eyes, | did, said the treasurer help
lessly.
"And now it doesn't make any differ
ence," Sara added radantly. "They can
get him whenever they like, for they
haven't that much evidence against
him.
To show how much that much" was,
she measured off hair's breadth of pink
fingerna.
JACOB GREEN had been looking down
the long table. Six bundles OF bank
notes lay there, as before; also there was
Sara's candy box, uncovered and empty.
But, even at that distance. he knew the
bank-notes that lay there were perfectly
genuine ones, and that Saras chauffeur
had brought them up to her from the
bank in the candy box. He had no need
to examine the CRATE where Sara had stood
for some time, occasionally poking the
fire.
mot that much evidenced Sara
,Lay, go
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24
RuSSia'S DepraVity
Well Pictured

Prof. W. Blanchard Moore,
under the auspices of the Epworth
League of the First M. e.. Church
gave an instructive and entertain.
ing illustrated lecture on Russia,
Count Tolstoi and Siberia at the
church last evening. The audi
forum was comfortable filed
when Prof. Moore made his ap-
pearance on the rostrum, CARRIED
in the uniform of Siberian pris-
oner, chained and handcuffed in
the regulation style. Prof. Moore
has a fount of information about
the economic and political condi-
ton of that semi-civilized country
and his two tours of investigation
have given him the opportunity to
bring back with him great number
of tell tale pictures, taken from
scenes in the penal colonies of 81
IBERIA. The lecture was particular
ly instructive in its deposition Of
the cruelty of Russian officialdom
and the total absence of humane
instincts in their rigid enforcement
of most cruel sentences for the
most frivolous offences. The lee.
ture should be heard by every
American so that he may learn the
nature of the forces with which
the western civilization is threaten
Ell to be overrun. TIE yellow
peril" of which so much is said in
the press has never been accused
with the mate depravity of which
the Russian stands convicted.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24
The Camp Fire Girls

The Muskogee Camp Fire Girls
have finished the course pre-
scribed by the National organiza-
ton qualifying them for the
second or five maken's' degree.
During the winter months they
need books to prepare them for
the work to be done in the
Spring. The question of making
money with which to buy books
has been perplexing the girls.
Mr.. Harris the popular man.
ager of the Amusu, opened the
way last week by offering them
the proceeds of the Pecan. Sugar
Cane and Potato Jubilee. The
girls made a nice little sum and
gave their friends an opportunity
of seeing an extraordinarily
Paramount picture Scenario at
our popular little theater for the
very small admission of a hand
full of potatoes, pecans or Sugar
Cane.
The entire proceeds were given
to the girls, the expense of runn-
ing lights, pictures, etc. being
borne by the management.
The girls are very grateful to
Mr.. Harris for this courtesy and
hope to repay HIM in a way by
boosting his business, that of
giving to our town the best stag
ed censored moving pictures.
They also wish to thank our
grocerymen, Messrs. Tisdel and
Wilson, for purchasing the pota.
toes and cane. They shall show
their appreciation by patronizinq
these stores when they buy the
food to be used on their camp
next summer.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24
SENSES OF TREES.
Something Almost Human In Some Of
the Plants Actions.

Something Almost Human In Some Of
the Plants Actions.
Mr.. James Roadway, who is the cura.
tor of the British Guiana museum and
an eminent botanist, declares that.
plants have at least three of our five
senses-feeling, taste and shetland
that certain tropical trees smell water
from a distance and will move straight
toward it.
But trees not in the tropics can do as
well. A resident of an old Scotch
mansion, says a writer in the Scots.
man, found the waste pipe from the
house repeatedly choked. Lifting the
slabs in the basement paving, he dis
covered that the pipe was completely
encircled by poplar roots. They be-
longed to tree that grew some thirty
yards away on the opposite side of the
house.
Thus the roots had moved steadily
toward the house and had penetrated
below the foundation and across the
basement until they reached their goal,
the waste pipe, $50 feet away. Then
they had pierced a cement joining and
had worked their way in long, taper
ing lengths inside the pipe for a con-
siderable distance beyond the house.
There seems something almost hu-
man in such unerring instinct and per-
severance in surrounding obstacles.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24
Baby Elephant Admitted To
Membership

Atlanta, Nov. 21-Apropos of
the election of Con KennedY's
baby elephant to honorary mem
bership in all the Rotary clubs of
Georgia, there is a pretty rich
joke out on Lee M. Jordan, presi-
dent of the Atlanta Rotary club.
The election of the baby elephant
to Rotary occurred in a momeet of
excited enthusiasm when Call the
clubs were assembled in Macon.
The baby elephant danced before
the gathering, like Salome before
Herod; and the Rotarians. like the
king of old, told the elephant she
could have anything she wanted
but that is neither here nor there.
The election of the elephant
didn't set we'll on President Jor-
dams chest. He thought 1t was a
rather undlgnified thing and with
out any acrimony or unkindly'
feeling toward the elephant, he
expressed his opinions.
He was still feeling deeply on
the subject after his return to At
lanta when Henry Grady disguised
his voice and called President Jor-.
dan over the telephone.
''Is this President. Jordan of the
Rotary club - inquired the Strange
voice, and Mr.. Jordan responded
in his pleasantest manner.
eyes, what can l do for you!"
"Well. this is Mr.. Boyd, speak
ing. i am the keeper of the Grant
Park zoo and l understand you are
now admitting animals to member
ship in thetRotary club. l have
very. intelligent baboon.- named
Charlie, and l wish to propose his
name-."
The voice never got any further,
for at this juncture Mr.. Jordan
threw the telephone out the win
low. ID
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24
Tax Collectors Notice
LAST ROUND.

| will be at the following places
for the purpose of collecting
state and county taxes for the
year 1915:
Ashton Wednesday November
Oath. from 8 to Ga. m.
Dicksons Mill Wednesday
November oath. from 10 to IL
a. m.
Mobleys Bluff Wednesday Mo-
vember oath. from II to l p. m.
Bowens..Mill Thursday Novem-
Der 25th. from Q to 10 a. m.
Vaughn Thursday November
25th. from IL to l p. m.
Williamsons Mill Friday No
vember 18th. from II to IL noon.
My Office will be open every
day with exception of the dates
mentionedsabove.
F. M. Graham, T. c. Ben Hill
Go. Ga.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24

'sDo you know" said the particularly
wen groomed and deliberately Viva
cious lady in the fun bloom Of her sec
ond youth, that have the most won
deTfu gardener in the world-the ten
derest hearted not only of gardeners,
but Of men? lie has always made me
up very special bouquet On my birth
day and presented It to me IN person.
But ever since was thfrty-well, he's
cry ae~sA mo HtakA@y hsnquut ox-
cry uAAcd yaar."-New York Post.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24

HEREAFTER shall deposit my
money in The Exchange National
Bank. I see in recent sworn state
ments published in Fitzgerald papers
that it BEARS MARKS of
GREAT STRENGTH. understand,
also, it is an HONOR ROLL BANK.
| don't know exactly what that
means, but evidently it has done
something EXTRAORDINARY for
the benefit and protection of the pub
lie, or else it would not have AT
TANNED THIS HONOR-Mr.
Reasoning Mind.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24

Call or phone The Leader-Enter-
prise Office the local news of Fitz-
gerald and Ben Hill county; the COM
ing or departure of friends or rela-
tives; weddings. deaths, births, ETC.
Such favors will be appreciated by
the Editor IF
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24

WANTED Work by COM
petent stenographer for all or
half day. References furnished.
Address-Box 1903,
If Fitzgerald, Georgia.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24
Special Bargain

A Good family mare, a
mare colt and buggy for
sale at a rare bargain. w.
j. Jewell. 7O8 w. Alapaha
l38-2w.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-24

The voice never got any further,
for at this juncture Mr.. Jordan
threw the telephone out the win
dow.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25
A WILD FLOWER CRANK.

Here is little antidote for the
"reminiscences that comes from battle
iews. 1t concerns a pleasant country
ide unscarred by trenches and sown
With fragrant flowers instead of the
hell fragments and camp leavings-
lits of landscape where the only
plashes of red are the wild rose.
Frank c. Pellet, of Iowa used to
1e a lawyer, with a good practice.
lie got tired of the law and started
for conservation. He gave up his
profession, as the Countryside Maga-
Inc relates, "to devote himself to
preventing the larkspur, the wild
ioneysuckle, the sweet William and
he Johnny-jump-up from following in
he wake of the wild pigeon and the
buffalo"
Mr.. Pellet became state been in
spector. Not that he care particular
y for anything so practical as in
ereasing the honey output of Iowa but
he knew that improved bee culture
would help to preserve and propagate
the wild flowers.
He has little farm of IL acres.
IN section where farm land is worth
$500 an acre, and the thrifty resi-
tents are grudging the 60-foot roads
hat might be planted in wheat, corn
md oats, this incomprehensible Iowan
las IL acres given over to tangle
If wild flowers. On his official bee
lours over the state he carries trow-
ii and wherever he glimpses bit Of
floral color he leaps out and garners
ipeciman or two-larkspur, golden
rod, trillum, Virginia Waterleaf, May
apple, Solomon's seal. starry cam
pion and hundreds of other varieties
treasure for the flower farm.
Mr.. Pellets neighbors to whom
the daily corn quotations in Des
Moines and Chicago are more vital
than the name and color of flower
are much amused. But some day
they'll appreciate him.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25

ton by the president member Of
the money trust firm of Kuhn, Leob
& Company.
He may have rememberer that
Warburg was a director in the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad company, the
National Railways of Mexico, the
United States Mortgage and rurst
company and the National bank of
Commerce of New York and held
stock in the Western Union Tele-
graph company and other corporatins;
that he had been resident of the
United States but twelve years and
spent that time in Wall street as
member of the firm that looted the
Chicago & Alton and figured in a
number of high finance deals.
These facts brought out behind
the closed doors of the committee on
banking and scurrency were put be-
fore the senate by Senator Joseph L.
Bristow in a four-hour speech, in
which he fought the confirmation of
w dTDuTS. DuU lne senate was Stlll
in the state where the presidents nod
was sacred rule for action and
Warburg was confirmed.
He was given a dominent place
at the head of the credit system of
the nation in spite of the fact that
his testimony before the banking and
currency committee showed that he
had the Wall street idea that those
who can control the money have an
| absolute right to control credit. He
defended Wall street finance before
the committee and refused to be
| placed in an attitude of criticising
anything his own firm or that of any
other Wall street firm had done.
Another significant fact in the Sc
lection of the reserve board was that
one of the presidents nominees was
at the time of his nomination de-
'endant in an action brought by the
government under the Sherman anti
rust law.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25
THOUSANDS HAVE DIED
MANY ITALIAN QUAK e.

Ayezano, the town from which the
greatest number of casualties have
cen reported as the result of the
'arthquake lies in the province OF
Aguila, in the Abruzzi department
iXty-thre miles east Of Rome. Il
8 an ancient town and had a popula
ion Of some ten thousand. One of the
yell-proserved building there WIS the
owered castle built by Gentle Vir
ginio Orsino in 1490.
This district has been called the
Italian Switzerland.
Most of the towns in which dam.
age has been done are situated viz
tually in the heart of Italy, in a line
running northeast and southeast from
kuine eastward toward the Adriatic
sei This country in the province Of
Abruzzi is mostly mountainous but
thickly populated. Numerous village
and towns dot the territory Monte
Rotondo has a population Of about
't"Vp. ~ was itiS III loui lndA Ahilr
BALD defeated the papal forces At
liyoli, where one person is said to
aave been killed, there is popule
ion of some $4,000. Il lies eighteen
miles northeast Of Rome and rctoins
many Of the antiquities of the old
CONAN days, among them the teinplo
If Tlberous and the villa D'Este, eee-
brated for the beauty OF It's architoc-
iure. Pofi is village Of some 1000
Have Perished.
Italy in past years has had numer-
,us visitations from earthquakes in
which thousands Of persons have been
killed and from which millions Of
lollars worth of property damage
ias resulted.
II fell to the lot of Italy to suf-
'er what probably was the creates
disaster from an earthquake chat tn
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25
A CREDIT TRUST.

Representative Linderbergh of Min
icsoia has declared on the floor of
.he house Of representatives that the
federal reserve system, which was the
pride Of the Democratic party at the
yima Of It's birth, is ''legalized
money trust" He even. went far
ther than that. To show that he was
sincere in his belief. he asked a con.
sressional investigation to determine
Che influence of Wall street in man
ming the new system.
It may be that Representative
Lindboreh had in mind, when he
made his declaration, the fact that
Paul NJ WarburR, one of the most
fluential members of the reserve
5oard was at the time of his nomina-
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25

Denver school board comes in for a
scathing raking by an auditing COM
mittee appointed by the board, which
it, the board, refused to have printed,
although it voted to do so when it
voted the audit. After waiting some
time for the board to act the adult
ing committee furnished the news
paper copy of their report. If the
things complained of are true, and
most of them undoubtedly are, the law
is very lax that will permit such con-
ditions to exist without punishment
of the offending parties.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25
HIGH COST OF DELIVERY.

A st. Paul grocer, influenced by the
Housewives league campaign for n
lower cost of living, has decided to
discontinue delivery service on small
packages. In communication to the
league he voices his reasons for 50
doing as follows.
Eve find that to satisfy the almost
hourly demand of one-third of our
customers a delivery system must be
maintained at an enormous expense.
This expense must necessarily be ad-
ded to the first cost of merchandise,
and, of souTse, the other two-thirds
who do their own marketing are pay
ing the same ratio of expense as the
one-third who do not. This expense
we have decided to eliminate and
divide the saving with our patrons
The considerate and frugal housewife
who does her own marketing and
pays cash should be favored. Instead
you will find that the charge customer
who seldom or never visits the market
and who, by her exhorbitant demands
forces upon you this large expense, is
the one who receives most considera-
ton from the merchant. This we feel
is not fair to the housewife who pays
cash and is trying to reduce the cost
of living by selecting her own foods
and who knows by actual seeing and
testing before she buys, that she is
buying to the best advantage"
By cutting out unnecessary delivery
the firm finds that it can make 8
per cent discount on all staple articles,
Including butter, eggs cheese. etc.
The grocer calculates that saving of
81 900 month to his patrons is made
possible by this curtailment of de
livery. Delivery of goods is conven-
inece which it would be unwise to
abolish altogether, but it is an added
service for which only those directly
served should pay. Much delivering is
without question unnecessary and ii
might be eurtailed with benefit to the
dealer and customer alike.
The Herald knows Of instances
where women have telephoned to
have spool Of thread delivered. De-
livery wagons are convenient but
someone has TO pay the bill. If free
deliveries were discontinued and the
cash system adopted saving Of ten
to fifteen per cent could be made
every month. Those desiring or in
sisting on delivery should be charged |
20 much per month. 1t isn't fair to
make the farmer who calls and gets
his groceries pay the delivery charg-
rs Of the city consumers. There are
many ways to get whack at Mr..
HI. Cost Of Living. !
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25

Sundays Denver Post will be of in
terest to our many readers, all o
whom trust the recommendation ma,
be carried out.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The
Mesa Verde national park is ex-
pected to come into its own under
plans of promotion being ma
tured by Mark Daniels new gen
superintendent of national parks.
Il am going to do everything
in my power to attract attention
to this park and to start visitors
in that direction" said Mr.. DAN
iels today, 81 want to bring the
Mesa Verde park before the peo-
PIE because, to my mind, it is
the most interesting of all our
national parks.
Americans travel half way
around the world to see the sph-
ink, but the old worlds. store
houses of antiquity can offer
nothing more pregnant with mys-
terry and romance than the cliff
dwellings of the Mesa Verde. To
my mind, the sphinx cannot
stand comparison with the sights
to be witnessed in this splendid
Colorado park.
Mr.. Daniels said one of the
first things to be considered is
good hotel at the park. 1t
will be necessary to find someone
who will agree to build the hotel
and the government will do its
part by granting a very liber al
consession. Advertising the park
by the printing and dissemina-
ton of literature and by articles
in newspapers and magazines is
one of the plans of promotion
proposed.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-01-25

Will the Denver papers please ex
'lain why Colorado apples are quot.
ID at from rs cents to S1.50 per box
Wholesale, while Washington apple.
re quoted at $1.75 to S2.25 per box
s there rs cents difference in the
luality in favor of the Washington
ipples? Our belief is that the Colo
ado apples is equal to any in tho
world and we cannot understand why
hey should not command as big q
price as apples from ether states. L
he price fixed by the Denver com.
mission men?