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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12
FEED YOUR HOGS SIX WEEKS
EARLIER

In every lot OF hogs on feed two
or three weeks quickly and actually
eat less than others. 1t all would fat
ten like these, the entire drove would
be ready of the market six weeks
earlier and to save six weeks feed is
an item that you fully understand
The hog that fattens easily must
be in prime physical condition. The
b. A. Thomas Hog Powder is a con-
ditioner for hogs. 1t keeps their
system clean and healthy and enables
them to fatten quickly without fall
ing a prey to the usual diseases of
hogs. The B. A. Thomas Hog Pow
der is not stock food. It's straight
medicine and we took the agency be-
cause it enables you to feed out your
hogs much earlier. Watt & Holmes
HARDWARE 20. dedt
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12
TRUNK OF WHI5KEY
AS EVIDENCE STOLEN

McRac. October l1-McRae's city
marshal discovered leaking trunk at
the station yesterday and in a few
rnlpte, i 4 dozen quarts OF whisky
as Wei as tie tr,tnk in the council
chambers for safe keeping, He was
unable to locate the owner OF the
trunk, Which was shipped here on one
OF the trains from wet point
The Evidence Stolen
All was we'll until this morning or
that is what the marshal thought. He
was still keeping con the lookout,
thinking perhaps the owner OF the
missing trunk might make some in
quirles. He happened to so to the
council chamber and found that the
trunk had been opened during the
night and every bottle stolen. The
trunk is all the officer has, and so far
the owner has failed to call for it.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Stephen J. Baker, Pastor.

Allow me first OF all to thank all
our citizens for the very well-attended
welcome given me at the union SER
vice last Sunday evening. If there had
been many more present it would
have been quite impossible to have
taken care of them. | thank you all
too, for the very marked attention
paid to the message by every one
present. What death is, what we arc
made up of, and whether death is the
end of the man, are questions which
| hope, are now little clearer to ev-
cry one of my hearers. To my breth-
rem in the ministry of the other chur-
ches | also render my thanks. ! ask
the prayers of all praying people that
l may be worthy of the hopes and
good wishes expressed May the
coming Lords day be great day in
all the churches.
Our program for the day is as fol.
lows:
$50 A. M.--Sunday School, Supt
T. J. Griffin, Associate Supt ]. E
Ricketson. Topic, Returning from
Captivity" Ezra, Chap. /.
HOO A. M--Morning worship with
special sermon by the pastor and
special offering for the spread of the
gospel in our own state.
800 p. M-Sunbeam Band under
the leadership of Miss Hattie Lee
Walker.
$50 7. M.-Junior Baptist Young
Peoples Union with Robert Ricketson
as president.
$50 P. M.-Scnior Baptist Young
Peoples Union. Mrs. +. A. Russell,
Superintendent
1880 P. M.-Evcning preaching of
the gospel by the pastor. Special
subject: do Not All Go to One
Placer"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12
MASONIC ORDERS DISPLAYS
PATRIOTISM; BUYS BONDS

Atlanta, Ga, October 9.-The Ma
sons Annuity, benefit order for Ma
sons only, having its supreme lodge
in Atlanta, has bought $4,000 worth
of the second Libert y Loan bonds,
following a meeting of the board of
directors.
The same order purchased $4,000
of the first Liberty Loan bonds, max
ing its present contribution to the
loan amount to $4,000. 1t has had
100000 invested in municipal bonds,
principally those of Georgia munich
palities, for number of years.
Hundreds of widows, and orphans
of deceased Masons throughout the
country are receiving annuities from
the order which has $l,oO0,0O0 in as
sets for their protection, being the
Oldest order of it's kind in America.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12
PHILADELPHIA MAYOR HELD
UNDER $4,000 BOND

Philadelphia, October 1.-THE first
stage of the Fifth Ward political MIR
der trial ended today when Mayor
Thomas B. Smith, of this city, was
held by Judge Brown, of the MUM
cipal Court, in $4,000 bail for the
grand jury
Three other principal defendants,
William E. Finley, Isaac Deutsch and
David Bennett, were also held in $l0,-
600 bail. Five policemen accused of
thuggery in the Fifth Ward on pri-
mary election day were held in $1,000
bail each
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12
CITATION
Georgia, Ben Hill County.

OCpi Sld, DCN I1lIl \Ounly.
To All Whom 1t May Concern:
D. E. Griffin, as County Administra-
tor, having in proper form applied to
me for Permanent Letters of Admin
istration on the estate of Jesse Gaff,
late of said county, this is to cite all
and singular the creditors and next
of kin of said Jesse Calf to be and
appear at my Office within the time
allowed by law. and show cause, if any
they can, why permanent administra-
ton should not be granted to D. E.
Griffin as County Administrator on
said Jesse Calf estate.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this the 18th day of October,
l9lI. J. R. Horton,
l1-l'llo-2 Ordinary.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-12

Nh Farmer It's direct TO you for
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Expert advice is to destroy cotton
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Martin Mfg. Co.,
Gentlemen: am pleased with the
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is all one could desire.
]. B. BROWN, MYSTIC, GA.
Martin Mfg. Co.
Gentlemen: The Stalk Cutter
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ne me the best OF satisfaction and
I regard it as among the best on
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they are both cheap and eff
cient
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MARTIN MFG CO., Fitzgerald Ga.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
WONDERFUL FEAT OF NELSON
How a Writer Got Things Mixed on
Incident in Life of Great
Admiral.

IT is, of course, necessary that writ
ers Of historical eminiscences be mas
tiers of certain amount of accurate
information about their heroes If they
are to avoid mistakes. There Is an
amusing instance of how one writer,
lacking such information, got things
mixed with reference to an incident in
the life of the great Nelson.
Not so long ago reviewer in Lon
don paper criticiZing a book on Mel
SON. related on his own account the
following episode of the eminent Brit
ish naval commander:
"While in chase of Villeneuve's
French feet he was informed Of the
enemy heaving in sight at which in
formation Nelson evinced the highe st
satisfaction and gleefGlly rubbed his
hands"
Whereupon some one Immediately
pointed ont that this incident bad oc-
CURED in 1905, and that Nelson had
lost his right arm in the attack on
Santa Cruz. Teneriffe. in 1797-elght
years prior to his pursuit Of Vile
neuve's feet.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

musician. The steel missed its mark,
but it tore a ragged cash in Withers'
left shoulder.
''The dagger fell to the floor" said
Mr.. Withers, in telling the story of
that historic night. 81 remember look
ing at it in q dazed way and wonder
ing why Booth should have attacked
me.''
Mr.. Withers is an invalid now, but
his mind is wonderfully clear. He can
tell in detail everything that happened
to him, from the time he took his place
and led the orchestra in playing Hail
to the Chief" as Lincoln entered, until
his thrilling meeting with Booth imme-
diately after the assassination.
He says: Suddenly 1 heard the re-
port of pistol and a second later a
great thud upon the stage. 1 stepped
back into the wing to see what had
happened. A woman screamed, there
was a stumbling rush. and a mans
voice broke into bitter curses. / hur-
ried through the wing to the stage, and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
FIRST STARTED PUNCTUATION
Venetian Printers Were the First to
Develop Rational and Compre-
hensiVe System.

The first to develop rational and
comprehensive system Of Punctuation
were the famous Venetian printers,
Aldus Manutius, his son, Paulus, and
the latter's son, Aldus, Jr. Aldus Ma
nutius, also known as Teobaldo Ma
nucci and Aluo ManuZio was not only
the founder of the famous Aldine
Press and one of the greatest scholars
Of his time. but he was the father of
punctuation in modern times.
Aristophanes. the ancient gramma-
rian, invented system of punctuation,
but it was wholly lost during the Dark
Ages, and no attempt was made to re-
yive it until the reign of Char emagne.
Under the latter'S direction. Warnes-
fried and Alouin formulated pGnctu-
alton system. hut there were few rules
governing the use of their signs, and
they were practically worthless. Al
dus Manutius ard his successors OF
the Aldine Press increased the num-
Der Of punctuation marks and estab-
lished fixed rules for their use. Later
grammarianS have introduced some
improvements, and the rules of punctu-
alton have been changed somewhat
and new ones added, but the punctua-
ton system of the Manutus formed
the foundation for that now in use.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
.RAYARD TAYLOR.

cousin. You bet 1 was tickled to
death. Babies wasn't as common as
blackberries in the woods of Kentucky.
Il rolled up and slept in bearskin
that night by the fireplace, so l could
see the little fellow when he cried, and
Tom had to get up and tend to him.
Nancy let me hold him pretty soon.
Folks often ask me If Abe was a
good-looking baby. Well. now, he
looked just like any other baby at first
like red cherry pulp squeezed Try.
And he didn't improve as he grew old
err. Abe never was much for looks. ]
recollect how Tom joked about Abe's
long legs when he was toddling about
the cabin. He grew out of his clothes
faster than Nancy could make them.
after he could walk Abe never gave
Nancy any trouble, except to keep him
in clothes. Most of the time we went
barefoot. Did you ever wear a wet
buckskin glove? Well, moccaSins
weren't any protection against the wet.
For snow, birch bark with hickory bark
soles, strapped over yarn socks, beat
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
STABBED BY BOOTH
theatrical Man Recalls Struggle
With Lincoln'S Murderer on
Stage of Ford'S.

~ EATED before a cracking log
fire in sturdy little bungalow
at Rye Beach, overlooking Long
Island Sound, an old man told
me of his regret that he does not hold
q greater place in history, writes Pearl
Louise Beck in the Illustrated Sunday
Magazine. He has had this feeling of
regret ever since a certain fateful hour
on the evening of April Ia, 1865, when
ne found himself fiat on his back in
the wings of Ford's theater in Wash
ington, and sat up to hear the stcm-
bling footsteps of John Wilkes Booth
dying away in the distance.
William Withers was leader of the
orchestra in Ford's theater on the
night of Lincoln's assassination. He
was acquainted with the martyred
president, and with Booth, who killed
him, having spent an hour with the
latter before the fatal performance.
A few seconds after Booth had
jumped from the presidents box to
the stage, he found Withers blocking
his way. With the fury of mailman,
he drew dagger and rushed at the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
WooDPEcKER is THE BIRD AR
cHITECT.

Builders of artificial birdhouses
generally go TO the wOodpecker for de-
signs, and by varying styles to suit
the tastes of different kinds of birds.
have been rewarded by such tenants
as chickadees, tufted titmice, white
breasted nuthatches. Bewick and Car
olina wrens. violet-green swallows,
crested fiycatchers. screech owls.
sparrow hawks, and even some of the
wOodpeckers, the master builders
themselves. Flickers readily accept
houses built according to their stand.
ards. Red-headed and golden-fronted
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
Nancy Let Me Hold Him Pretty Soon"

buckskin all hollow. Abe and me got
pretty handy contriving things that
way. And Abe, about as soon as he
was weaned, was right out in the
woods, fishing in the creek, setting
traps for rabbits and muskrats, going
on coon-hunts with Tom and me and
the dogs, following up bees to find the
bee trees and dropping corn for his
pappy. 1t was a mighty interesting
life for a boy, but there was a good
many chances that he wouldn't live
to grow up"
So, taken all in all, even admitting
the dignity conferred on Tom Lin
coins bride by the possession of a
guardian, it was a lowly chronicle
this of the backwoods wedding and the
children's log-cabin birth. But it has
been the story of the origins of hun
dreds of other Americans, who, Ike
their most famous exemplar, have ris-
en- by the sheer force of their energy
and brains to positions commanding
the respect of those born to the earth's
richest comforts and most lavish lux
uries.
And there is this to be said OF 1t I:
That Lincoln's emancipation of the
poor blacks was not the only freedom
he gained for humanity through his ca
reer. He had the cabin of his birth
flung in his teeth many a time before
his home was the nations most coyet-
eel place of residence. After that, no
son of poverty need take shame for
the humble roof that sheltered him in
infancy, -
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
"CASCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
Fer sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 1O.cent box ne~.


No odds how bad your liver stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable and uneomfort-
able you are from constipation, indiges-
ton, b;liousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to thu
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nSrv-
BUSINESS, sick. sour. gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A Decent box means health, happi-
ness and clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
II you will take Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets Don't
forget the children-their little In
sides need cleansing, too. Adv.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
"His Face Was Ashen."

came face to face with John Wilkes
Booth. His face was ashen. his eyes
bulged, and his hair seemed to stand
on end.
1.-THE memory of that face will re-
main with me until I die. 1t was the
face of a maniac.
Before / could move he was upon
me with his dagger, which he tried to
plunge into my heart. l caught his
arm, and the blade went into my left
shoulder. That wound left me with
six-inch scar. which carry to this day.
] call it the Booth barometer because
every time the weather begins to fix
itself for a northeast storm that old
wound starts to ache. | was taken be-
fore the police authorities Immediately
after the assassination, and gave the
first evidence that led to the positive
identification of Booth as the murder
er."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
INVITE the bids
10 oNEIGf1BORS
I E1LfARED ~ IK L1N7ZD 5Z47ZJ NZAG7zV0FAG0(lXZJRE

pleasing r the eye. Branches contain
ing real woodpeeker holes. when Oh
tainable. are perhaps the best attrac-
ton that can be offered most house
birds in the breeding season. according
to the United States biological survey.
BY carefully fitting such a branch to
a fruit or shade tree. its origin will
scarcely be noticed The house shown
here is suitable fer use in trees.
1t is made from log or large branch,
followed by decay, and fitted with a
top and bottom as illustrated in the
figure. The cover is to go on after the
log is fastened in place. Either the
top or bottom should be removable so
as to permit cleansing. Another way
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

of making a log house is to split a
straight-grained log two feet or more
in length through the middle aud then
TO cut out a cavity with gouge. The
excavations in the two halves can be
made to match exactly by means of "a
pattern or template having the size
and shape desired for the FsopoSed
cavity through the plane of cleavage.
Figure shows the appearance OF such
house and how to place the template
symmetrically on each half of the
stick. The top OF this house should
he covered with tin or zine TO keep out
moisture The halves should be fas-
tened together with screws to allow
the house to be taken apart aud
cleaned.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
KNEW LINCOLN
FROM HIS BIRTH
Dennis Hanks, Cousin of the
Emancipation, Has Left Record
of the Early Days in the Hum
Bile Little Kentucky Log Cabin.

w EDDINGS and births al
M ways attract attention, so it
" " is interesting to note that
the marriage of Thomas
Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, the parents
of Abraham Lincoln, and the advent
into the world of the Great Emanci-
pator were not without exception.
1t was always the proud boast of
Rev. Edward Head, Methodist
minister, and likewise a carpenter, that
he performed The ceremony that united
Abraham Lincoln's parents in mar
riage. In telling of the bridal couple
and the feast, he said:
"Nancv Hanks was a fresh-looking
girl, should say past twenty. Tom
was respe ctable mechanic, who could
take his choice; and she was to be
treated with respect. was at the in
fare given by John III. Parrott, her
guardian-and it was only girls with
money who had had guardians appoint
ed by the court. Our table was of
puncheons cut from the solid logs, and
they were the cabins floor next day.
We had bear meat, veniSOn, wild tur-
key, ducks eggs, wild and tame-so
common that you could buy them at
two bits bushel-maple sugar, swung
on string to bite off for coffee or
whisky; sirup in big gourds, peach and
honey; a sheep that the two families
barbecued whole over Goals of wood
burned in a pit, and covered with
green boughs to keep in the juices !;
and a race for the whisky bottle"
Another guest at the wedding was
Christopher Columbus Graham, who
lived to be more than one hundred
years old. In explaining his presence
at the festivities, Graham said:
"You see, 1 was out hunting roots
for medicines, and just went to the
wedding to get good supper-and 1
got it. Tom Lincoln was a carpenter,
and good one for those days, when a
cabin was built mostly with an ak.
1t didn't have a nail or a bolt or a
hinge In it--only feathers and pins to
the door. There wasn't any glass,
either, except what you might find in
bottles or watches and spectacles, il
they owned them. But Tom Lincoln
had the best set of tools in the whole
county"
Dennis Hanks, Lincoln's cousin and
playmate, takes up the story:
when Nancy married Tom he was
working in a carpenter shop. 1t wasn't
Toms fault he couldn't make a living
by his trade; there was scarcely any
money in the country. So Tom took
up some land-mighty poor land, but
the best he could get when he hadn't
much to trade for it.
atom and Nancy lived on a farm
about two miles from us when Abe
was born" Dennis Hanks recalled. 81
recollect Tom coming over to our
house one cold morning in February
and saying kind of slow:
"'Nancys got a boy baby
Mother got fustered and hurried
up her work to go over and look after
the little fellow; but / didn't have
nothing to wait for, so 1 cut and run
the whole two miles to see my new
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

woodpeckerS are willing occupants of
artificial houses, and even the dOwny
woodpecker, that sturdy little carpen-
ter, has. in one instance at least,
deemed such a home satisfactory
abode in which to raise a family. Shell
tiers having one or more sides open are
used by birds which would never ven
ture into dark houses suited to wood
peckerS. They would have been occu-
pied by robins and brown thrashers,
and in one instance, by song spar
row.
Ordinary wooden boxes. if clean,
can be made into birdhouses by mere
ly mailing on cover and cutting out
an entrance hole Such makeShfts
are rarely weatherproof and are never
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

for themselves. the diameter of the
entrance and the depth and diameter
of the cavity must be in accord with
their specific standards.
The following table. furnished by
the United States bureau of biological
survey, gives the sizes of nesting
boxes for various species of birds, to-
gether with the height above the
ground they should be located.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
Piles Dissolved In Ten Minutes

Mild, safe treatment. No pain or dam
ger; positive relief assured in all cases lex
cept cancer) no matter how many other
salves, ointments or doctors have failed.
Particulars free in plain. sealed envelope.
Just clip this out and mail to DIR. +. L.
Riley, 42o NJ. & NJ, Bank Bldg, Milwau-
kee Adv.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
How Women judge.

Mrs. Flatbush-Does she judge peo-
pie by their clOthes2
Mrs. BensOnhurst-She does IL
they're hanging out on the line with
the wash in the backyard.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
All That Proves.

Flows he getting alongY'
every well. He says he's had his
pay raised three times in the last six
months
"That proves only one thing"
"What?"
"That his ability to brag about him
self has improved remarkably. DE
troit Free Press.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
SIZES OF NESTING BOXES.

Birds differ decidedly in their re-
quirements for nesting. In building
birdhouses or providing nesting fla
ciIities, the. xequirements of the par
ticular species which it is desired to
attract should be considered. For
those which usually excavate homes
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

forced to use 8
cane. For these
disorders / am
glad to say I used
ID o d d $ Kidney
Pills, which proved
to be the proper
remedy. / am GO
years young, feel
II n @ an d once
again stand as
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
Not reachinn Polly

Mamma-Tommy. is it possible that
l heard you teaching the parrot to
swear?
Little Tommy--No. mamma; was
lust telling her what she must not say.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

straight as an arrow. Dodd's Kid
ney PHls deserve great credit" Get
6Oc box ut your dealers to-day.
A generous free trial box will be
mailed il you send the coupon.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
81 YEARS YOUNG!

Mr.. S. p. Benton, Kerrville, Texas,
writes: For several years prior to
1906 l suffered from kidney and rheu-
matte troubles. Was bent over and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
Mismated.

Are they well mated?'
"No. She can spend the money
much faster than he can make it.
Detroit Free Press.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
Suggestive Signs.

Suggestive Signs.
81 presume this gardener of yours
is Carranza sympathizer."
''What makes YOU think that?"
Because he has Mexican roses for
the border"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09

Log Split and Halves Marked to Be
Gouged out TO Form a Cavity. Halves
TO Be Screwed Together. Top Should
BE Covered With Tin or Zine.