Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-04-17

John Ellis, England's hangman, re-
tires from business giving no reason
He hanged Roger Easement and Ed
18th Thompson, the last woman hang
ed in England. Ellis was paid fiftv
shillings, about $3.50 each time he
hanged a human being. That was for
the hanging. They paid him fifty shil-
lings more for good conduct"
A good conduct meant that he must
stay out of drinking saloons at the
place of execution before and after
the hanging. This made him lose mon
ey; in the old days public houses
would pay the hangman to stand at
their bar.
The more he drank the more the.
hangman talked, the more terrible be-
came his stories of the grooming, beg
ging, pleading or game indifference
Of the men around whose necks he
fastened the rope.
If you think hanging or other cap
ltal punishment necessary ito fright
en- criminals" devote moments
thought to Ellis, the British hangman.
If crowd rushed to see him, buy
him free drinks, and listened to- his
tales OF horror do you think hanging
really prevents crime?
1t does not on the contrary it slim
ulates crime by stimulating admiration
tor the criminal
The J. Pierpont Morgan collection
OF valuable mss. exhibited to the prb-
lie include a poem THE Bear Hunt"
by Abraham Lincoln and this is how
it begins:
A wild bear chase didst never see?
Then hast thou lived in vain
Thy richest bump of glorious glee
Lies desert in thy brain.
Here you learn that it is possible ia,
be a great man and very bad poet.
his is prosperous country, worth
defending. Last week 100000 stock
holders received little envelopes con-
tanning dividends amounting to more
than $250,000,000. If you didn't get
any of the dividend envelopes don't
waste time envying or hating those
that got them. Save your money, in
vest 1t, and you can get dividends al
SO. Except tor the very unfortunate
there is no need to stay really poor in
this country.
Mr.. Albee, who collects strange
things and shows them, brings from
Italy the strongest woman in the
world. She can sustain the weight of
a two-ton elephant and allow men
on horseback to ride over a bridge
of which the weight rests upon her.
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In old days such lady would have
been courted by many.
She might have been that Amazon
queen who told Alexander the Great
that she would like to be the mother
of his children a message followed
by an interesting meeting
having sent the only reply that DO
lite man could send-being bachelor
at the time.
What became of the result of that
meeting? Who knows but that this
powerful Italian woman may be the
descendant of Alexander the Great?
Now however a child moving an
electric switch could raise a thousand
times the weight of that two-ton ell
ephant. Mere muscle doesn't count
any more. But strong women not able
to lift elephants but with good strong
bodies free from nicotine, alcohol, late
hours and general foolishness are as
important as ever they were.
Upon them depends the brain OF
the NEXT o,d -. d,
ilization.
Nature is wonderful. There are
birds like animals animals like birds.
The strangeness of creation is mex
haustible. The University of Pennsyl-
vania sends and expedition to catch
hoazin bird that breaks stones with
its beak swims like a duck; flies like
a bat. The same expedition will look
also for a "Bellbird" Instead of sing
ing it tinkles like bell.
There are snakes that swallow their
young to protect them, then let them
out again There is lady toad that
lays her eggs on the back of her hus-
band, who hops around cheerfull$ in
the sunlight, Matching the load. Nature
really is wonderful.
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What we actually SEE we FEEL.
One. State in March reports 124 kill
ed by automobiles. Everybody says
that is TERRIBLE, we must do
something about it."
In year 100000 mothers die in
childbirth, because they are neglected.
Nobody gets much excited about that.
Cancer and tuberculosis kill their
tens of thousands. All that we talte
for granted.