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MONTE WINS SERIES

Montezuma won the series Sat
urday in six inning set to which
resulted in the score of three to
one III Montezuma's favor. Fitz-
gerald would have had a great
deal better chance to win if the
full nine innings had been played.
but old Jupiter Pluvius stuck his
nose into it and the game was
called by Umpire Barber in the
sixth.
The feature was in the fourth.
Cochran's catch of Rowc's fly and
doubling Clements on second, to
Milligan. Also Cochran spoiled a
pretty hit by Morrison, catching
the fly in right left field. Milligan
also pulled a sort of "farce-fea-
ture" by catching Dewbcrry's
pop up in the third. thinner
man was under the ball waiting
for it with upstretched arm and
Milligan stepped over and caught
the ball about one foot above
Zim's hngertips.
Score by innings: Il H F
Montezuma ...002 0lO-3 5 0
Fitzgerald ...010 0O0-1 5 ,
Battcrics-IIunt and Morrison.
Pickett and Monahan. Umpire,
Barber.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-07-03

Mr.. Marcus Miltigan mastered
many more means of making mo-
ney than playing second base
when he started out. He is not
only able to play that position and
every other position on a baseball
team, but he is a good soda Jerk
or, and claims he can set type in
a newspaper office He is also a
butcher, coW-punchcr and can
split wood.
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w A N T E D

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Every Ford owner will want one.
For full particulars, address Ches-
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OFF FOR THE STATE FARM

Deputies Gordon Roberts and
Nose Frigden leave tonight with
Fort Land, Joe Drew and Math-
eW Holden who have been SEN
fenced to three months on the
state farm.
Sol Barheld, who has been SEN
fenced to twelve months in the
state prison, will also begin his
term tonight having failed to Sc
cure a pardon.
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years At per cent. Address
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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-07-03

One Of the best folders we have
had ON our team is w. T. Barber,
formerly right-feldcr for the
Colonists. In the out-held Tar
Baby is a cross between chain
tightening and large sized tar
bucket lie is sure death on ali
fly balls. In his prep school DAYS
he was also a terror with the
mace. His batting average in
1914 was AS But since he came
to Fitzgerald he has been unfor-
tunate in his hitting and led the
league in strike outs. However
1t may be that with another club
his batting will again pick up We
certainly have hopes for Mr.. Bar
Der, as he IS mighty good out
fielder.
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CLASSIFIED ADS.
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FOR RENT-/-rooms and
large premises. Good pasture for
COW and fine place to raise chick
ems. Apply O. D. Lee, at Post
office. If
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If you need some clean old
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around the house we will supply
YOU at one nickel per large bun
die. Leader Enterprise.
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LOST-French Collie Puppy,
S. reward for the one who finds
and returns to H. CARRIER. Sur
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I LEND FARMERS MONEY
5 and 10 years bes t
terms. j. E. TURNER,
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ESTRAYED-From by place
this week, one red sow with crop
and two Sits in each ear, and one
yearling. Finder please notify
Martin Fletcher, Irwinville, Ga,
and receive pay for expense. IF
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ficiency. however. is in reality only
means to an end-an end which is the
true reason why the schools want
craftsmanship for girls included IN
the curriculum. Prof. Dewitt explained
the entire idea in very few words:
1T isn't the mere ability of a girl TO
hit certain spot at certain distance
that we're after he said. 1T is the
character developed along with that
ability that we are after. 1t is the
self-control. the constant having of a
grip on ones self, the ability to meet
any and every emergency as coolly as
one answers call to dinner.
rifle shooting is about the best
character builder | know, especially in
the case of girls. Take our experience
right here in school. for instance. A
very large percentage of the girls who
joined the association had never seen
a rifle except in the window of some
sporting goods establishment. or pos
sibly one that belonged to a brother.
In the latter case. it is reasonably GER
tain that the brother. not wishing TO
have any one. especially girl. mon
keying' with his gun, was very careful
to impress them with the terrific dan
ger attendant upon even touching il.
LAS a result most of the girls when
they paid their first visit to the range
were naturally scared to death. They
were afraid to pull the trigger. 1t was
still worse after the shot had actually
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ANCIENT ROME CELEBRA TED
FIRST ST. VALENTINES DAY

pagans of northern Europe. Toward
the approach of spring marriage
fair, or something like lottery Of
wives. was held by the northern tribes.
The ceremonies of st. Valentines day
are a greatly diluted survival of this
very old human custom of choosing
sweethearts and wives, but in what
way the observance of these rites came
to be confused with the celebration of
day holy to a saint has stumped all
who have essayed to solve the riddle.
Although st. Valentines day is Still!
one of the picturesque and impor-
tant festival days in the calendar
of moderns. it has fallen from the high
estate it held from two hundred 20
five hundred years ago.
Centuries ago the day was observed
I'm religious way in Great Britain,
and with especial solemnity in Scot
land. OutgroWing much of its reli
gious Significance it came to be the day
which sWeethearts should plight
their troth, for love matches made on
ST. Valentines day carried the augury
of happiness long life and prosperity.
In the home of the English gentry at
about the beginning of the sixteenth
century the day had taken on the
lightful and delightful tone and air of
a "merrie day., and numerous of the
customs employed then in the observ
ance of the day survive among U.s.
One of the old English pastimes of
st. Valentines day was that equal
number of men and maids should meet.
write their names on pieces of paper
and draw for partners. Here was
very clear suggestion of the descent
of the customs of the day from the
Lupercalia. The youth or man drawn
was the valentine" and he made
gift gave ball in honor of the lady
who had drawn his name. Often this
was virtually an announcement of the
engagement of the pair, for in these
drawings of names a great deal of
sharp practice of benevolent kind
was practiced. If a girl entertained a
strong predisposition toward a certain
gentleman, a gentleman toward a
certain lady, the kindly natured man
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n r this season of the year the
"A holly tree is one of the conspicu-
q Gus trees in number of the old
err gardens of Washington and the sur
rounding country. 1t is especially con-
spicuous in the woods. because, being
an evergreen. it shines among the leaf
less trees, for holly generally grows in
company, not with the pines and the
>cedars, but with the oaks. gums. syca-
mores and the other trees which cast
off their foliage in winter.
Many legends and romances are asso-
ciated with the holly. and Americans of
the present time generally esteem 1t for
it's decorative effect and seem to have
forgotten that once il was held in high
esteem for it's medicinal properties. No
doubt in some other parts of the world
st. is SO esteemed today 1t is recorded
that the holly berry once played an i'm
portant part as an English household
remedy. 1t was not more than two
centuries ago that English people of
all classes swallowed the red berries
to secure relief from Spleen "hu-
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INDIANS KNEW OF MEDICINAL
PROPER lES OF HOLLY TREE

mors" and other maladies which today
are described by other names
1t is written that the berries are vio-
lently emetic and pursative, and the
early English customary dose was ten
berries taken before breakfast. Be-
cause of this characteristic of holly
berries few birds will eat them unless
pressed to do it by hunger. In severe
weather. when birds find it difficult to
procure other food. they may turn to
holly berries. 1t is said. however. that
the misseI-thrush of England will eat
the berries with relish. but an author
ity on that bird says it fears no kind of
food.
Among the various species of holly
growing in the woods of the District of
Columbia and the adjacent country is
one variety which is called the .emetic
holly" or the lick vomitoria.'' 1t is a
small holly which prefers to live in low
and moist woodland. All the hollies are
emetic to a greater or less degree but
the Hex vomitoria is more vigorously SO
than any of the others. The virtues or
the peculiar properties Of this member
of the holly family Were known to the
coming of EuropeanSi and no doubt they
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team are Misses Gertrude Bonest.
Gladys Adams. Emma Hindridge, Helen
Willis and Nette Beuchert. Their
average age is just few weeks over
sixteen. A big picture of them, grouped
about the cup they won from the boys.
holds place of honor on one of the
walls of Miss Baldwin's classroom. and
the whole school. including the boys, is
Unfortunately proud of them.
But during the last few weeks rife
shooting has all but died among the
Business girls-died of sheer inanition.
1t became necessary for Miss Baldwin
to coach the dramatic club, thereby
making her presence on the range
impossible The coach cha peronageship
was passed along to Miss NJ. +. Elan
merry, but unfortunately Miss Flannery
was recently taken seriously ill. She
has not yet returned to the school:
probably will not for several weeks.
So the girls are now hard put to find a
mentor. But. like Tech. they have
hopes. Again. too. Western is the spur.
The Western girls are the latest to
take up the sport. and the most en-
thusias tic. Although they first con-
sidered the matter less than a month
ago. already they have club of sew
enty-five members. are practicing re-
ligiousiy, and are keeping careful ia BIS
on the score of each girl-tabs that will
be invaluable when the time comes for
picking the school team.
The mere perfecting ones self in
craftsmanship. with the acquisition of
self-control which that perfection nat
urally gives, is only small part of the
Western plan. The Tech girls planned
to organize several teams among them
selves and hold private shoots. Bust
ness went them one better by COM
peting against the boys of their own
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6RHERE really was a st. Nalen-
tine, but whether the peculiar
celebration of the day by chill
dren, youths. maids and the mature
has any connection with the saint has
never been proved and by those per-
sons who have given time, thought and
labor to the question is considered
doubtful. Valentinus, who was sane
titled, was Roman bishop or pres
byter. and was martyrcd in go, during
the reign of Emperor Claudius. One
distingui writer. m seeking to es
tablish the proper association between
this saint and the observances and Gus
toms of the day consecrated to his
memory, has said that st Valentine
was a man of most admirable parts
and so famous for his love and charity
that the custom of choosing valentines
upon his festival took it's rise from
thence" The gentle characteristics of
st. Valentine were also the charac-
teristics OF many other saints, and
there would seem to have been discov-
Valentine should have become the es-
pecial saint. patron saint or guardian
of youthful hearts and lovers.
The Romans celebrated the Luperca- :
called February. The Lupercalia were
feasts in honor of Pan the god of
hunters. shepherds and rustic folk, and
OF Juno. the great queen Of nuptial
rites. In the course of these feasts
the celebrants were struck with
thongs which were called "februa."
The object of this striking with thongs
was to ward off sterility from those
on whose flesh the thongs were dashed.
From the use of the thongs for this
very important purpose the feast came
to be called Februalis and the day of
the thong striking process was Dies
hold. has come the name of the second
month. though. of course, there are
those who maintain that February
comes from the febriee month, or the
month of fevers.
One OF the features of Dies Febru-
atus was that young girls were chosen
by lot by young men. Each youth
secured a mate for life. or a part of
life. and because of this mate-drawing
the day came to be closely associated
with matchmaking and marriage
When the pastors of the Christian
Church were trying to root out pagan
ism. and yet leave to the people certain
of their festival days. they brought
about modification of the wife
drawing on Dies Februatus. For the
names of girls they substituted
the names of saints. The authority
for this statement may be read in
Buffers Lives of the Saints" wherein
is written that ITO abolish the
heathens lewd. superstitious custom
of boys drawing the names of girls
in honor of their goddess. Februato
Juno. on the 18th of February, several
Jealous pastors substituted the names
of saints in billets on that day
In spite of the early Christian efforts
to abolish the drawing of girls names
by youths, the custom was observed
in Rome at least late as 1876. There
was SIMILAR custom among the early
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been fired. Our first afternoon of rifle
practice was just one long series of
saueals.
But that's all gone now-and even
that's a big thing. for scream uttered
by frightened woman may serve to
relieve her of feelings. but it usually
succeeds in absolutely unnerving every
body else.
There's far more to rifle practice
than that, though In learning marks
manship the girls are subconsciously
learning self-control. The gripping of
the nerves and the forcing of those
nerves to be quiescent while the girl
draws her bead and pulls the trigger is
going to be of incalculable value to
her in after life. When the time comes
if come it muslin later years when
it will be necessary for her to score a
bulls-e on some target of life she
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Who Have Gone In for Mrn
Has Already Defeated
Question and AmnunThe Observation-Disclosures Of the High Schools

who are teaching the girls to shoot.
The faculty advisers naturally are in
valuable. without them the whole
thing probably would go to smash. But
practice time is limited-only one hour
a week-and where there are more
than half a hundred girls and but one
for the latter to give much individual
attention to any one. His instructions
must. of necessity, be more or less
general.
~, IN rlhe shooting. individual ,ns,rn rue
Shouldered the burden and devote
themselves singly to the beginners who
need their help most. The girls are
not ungratefuf. even if they do expect
to show up these same volunteer
teachers at the very first opportunity
On the contrary. when the Western
girls assembled recently for the cleo
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from this tree, and Sargent the great
dendrologist in describing the yaupon
holly in his work. SILVA of North
America" saws: The Indians of the
southern part of the country formerly
visited the coast in large numbers every
spring for the purpose of drinking an in
fusion of the leaves of the yaupon,
which are emetic and purgative."
Immigrants to the new world in the
seventeenth century also used at times
the infusion of holly leaves, and it is a
question whether they gained their in
formation from the natives or brought
the knowledge with them from Eng
land. 1t is quite likely that, long hav-
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ton of officers of the new association
the girl candidates were ignored. and
all three of the" Offices given to boys.
James Holmes, one of the best student
marksmen in the school, was elected
captain; Prescott Williss. another good
shot. treasurer. and Tom Eagan. a
third boy who can ring the bhlls-eye
with surprising regularity. secretary.
The spirit of rivalry between the
boys and the girls and between the
different schools in. the new sport is
being carefully fosteEed by the faculty.
Needless to say, the rivalry makes for
greater proficiency. and it is also a
as school spirit is almost as ardent
among the instructors as in the case of
the youngest, most hyperbolical fresh
man. -
This rivalry, and consequent pro-
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best, and where. all during the day,
charcoal is blazing. iron is being heat
ed white hot and hammered. aud nu-
merous other activities connected with
metal working is in progress. As a
result the atmosphere is that of Il
thousand blacksmith shops condensed.
Tickling, choking gases are every
where.
The fumes from the discharged
cartridges and the stagnant atmosphere
many girls into very small space
were too much. The girls couldn't
stand it. One by one they dropped
out until only three remained. They
stuck 1t out for a month, and then
they gave up. too.
SO at present Tech has little case
of very modern. light rifles. vast guam
titles of ammunition, and scores OF
eager girl marksmen, but no range.
However. as a result of the activities
of Business and Western, it has hopes.
1t didn't take very long for the news
of the formation of a girls rife range
at Tech to travel across the street and
into the ciassrooms of Business. There
the alumni solved the difficulty anent
the securing of necessary implements
by presenting the school with three
rifles and box upon box of cartridges.
A club numbering 1875 was formed and
promptly got into communication with
the boys. who had crack rife team.
The result was the pooling of funds
raised. no one knows how chat is,
officially), and the purchase of d big
silver loving cup. that, for want of d
better name. might be called an 'intra-
sex trophy
Miss Elizabeth B. Baldwin, who
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had been in possession of that knowl-
edge for long line of generations.
They made decoction from the leaves
of this holly and drank it as a spring
medicine. A number. of the early OBJ
servers of the habits and customs of the
American Indians noted that the natives
took black draught' in the spring and
for certain forms of sickness.
There is another variety of holly
which, though not so, vigorous in its
emetic and other properties as the lex
vomitoria, is yet sufficiently SO for prac-
teal purposes. 1t is the yaupon or
Dahoon holly. Europeans found that the
American aborigines also made liquor
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this promise impracticable. and how. as
a result. the boys cheerfully sacrificed
their holidays, trudged to the school and
built the target and prone board" tthe
slanting board on which the marksmen
lie to shoot from a reclining position)
during their Christmas vacation
There was also a story about the
necessity of going from house to house
for blocks distant from the school. secur-
ing permission from the residents therein
to establish the range. and. finally. of the
necessity of securing written permits
from the parents of each embryonic
marksman, to forestall the possibility Of
unpleasant charges in case of accident.
And the same story, in lesser degree. is
true of all three of the high schools where
they have taken up the sport. From the
Very beginning it has been decidedly rough
shedding.
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is part of the curriculum. But there
is no military drill for girls. With
them it becomes either sport or a
diversion. The A. \. L.. the highest
amateur authority in the land, says
competitive rifle shooting is a sport.
But those in authority in the District
have ruled otherwise. So far as girls
are concerned. they say. it is merely a
diversion. AS such. school has no
right to use it's funds for rifles and shot.
1t has not even the right to take up a
collection among the girls for their
purchase Western is planning to
make a fight on this. and from both
Tech and Business have come unofficial
assurances of support The matter
must be hashed out with the authori-
ties.
But to get back. This girl cheerfulIy
furnished her own rife and ammuni-
ton, and, day after day, went down
with the boys and shot away. Gradu-
ally her stunt" began to be talked
about in the different sections of the
school, and other girls who had spent
vacations in the woods became inter
ested. They got together" and held A
meeting. To this meeting came yet
other girls, some who had never even
held a rifle in their hands. but who
"
the formation of a girls rife club. with
122 members.
Having organized. they got regular
period" during which they could prac-
tice. The period, of course. had to be
after school hours. rifle shooting being
entirely apart from the present outline
of things educational Prof. Joseph H.
Wilson. himself marksman of con-
siderable ability, consented to sacrifice
his leisure and coach them.
RIrt laS
original girl marksman was perfectly
willing to lend her rifle to the others.
but one rifle was not enough, especially
among 90 girls. The school had no au-
thority to buy more rifles. True, the boys
rifles might have been used. but they
were too heavy. Also. there was the
question of ammunition.
The problem was finally solved by
subterfuEe. 1t was illegal to take up
a subscription among the girls. But
somehow it happened that one day
Prof. Wilson found sum of money on
his desk which no one would claim.
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EMAlNING as dainty and femi-
lO nine as ever. the high school
HIM girls of .he city have usurped
.. another of the male sports.
They have gone in for craftsmanship.
They practice steadily, and they are
planning crack teams. They are all
but certain of an intrascholastic fe-
male shoot. and hope, after bit. to
expect to beat them.
There is three-cornered controversy
as to which school should be given
credit for the incursion of the new
feminine sport. Technical High School
has a very good claim. based on the
fact that she was the first to take it
up. But the Tech girls team never
participated in shoot. Therefore ad-
vance the Business High girls, whose
team not only took part in COM
petitive shoot. but won il. Also, they
won a silver loving cup. Finally. they
won said cup from the boys
But Business. in turn. let the sport
lag. And so comes Western High,
which has revived the whole thing
with a rush. and is now planning to
make it a permanent fixture in high
school things athletic.
Go up to Western any Wednesday
afternoon and you will find from fifty
TO hundred girls. ranging in ages
from fifteen to eighteen years. but
mostly the latter. shooting away at
targets. standing and prone. as earnest
as regular army rookie" And in
time they hope to practice six days a
week instead of only one.
The whole thing began with one girl.
q Tech student. who has now graduated.
Three years ago she spent her summer
vaca ton in the Maine woods and took a
little 2o-caliber rifle with her. She used
the gun and liked it. She became very
proficient. When she came back TO school
In the fall she began to inquire if there
was some way in which she could keep in
form. After considera bic discussion, and
after the girl had produced written per-
mission from her parents. in which they
also agreed to absolve the school of all