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National Medical Association Holds Inter- Meeting Over Three Hundred Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists and Pharmacists Listen to Excellent Papers on Their Professions—Several Difficult Operations Were Performed and Officers Elected—Next Meeting At New York. Special Correspondence. Baltimore, Md., August 31. The ninth annual session of the National Medical association, held here this week presented an inspiring photogravure of the marvelous advancement of the Negro American in the world of medicine, surgery, dentistry and pharmacy. Upwards of three hundred representatives of these masterly sciences were in attendance, halling from thirty states and territories and the District of Columbia, the latter sending the largest delegation. Practically every medical school of consequence in the country was represented, Howard University leading and Meharry, Yale, Shaw and other notable institutions making a very creditable showing. The business sessions were held in Metropolitan hall, Orchard street, near Drulid Hill avenue, and the spacious auditorium was filled each day by audiences of the most substantial people of Baltimore and of the country at large. For the larger occasions, St. John's A. M. E. and the Zion Baptist churches were utilized. The delegate body was made up of prosperous, thrifty and intelligent looking men and women of the race and the expressions of the press and public were of the most complimentary character. The morning session of the opening day, August 27, was taken up in registering the delegates, arranging the body in sections, according to the professions represented, in listening to the admirable annual address of President N. F. Mossell, of Philadelphia, and to a consideration of the report of the executive board, presented through Dr. A. R. Collins, of Washington, D. C. secretary, of the board. In the afternoon, papers were read as follows: "The Treatment of the Puerperium," by Dr. W. W. Johnson, of Covington, Va.; "Syphilis Innocently Acquired, with a Plea for Legal Control of the Disease." Dr. W. H. Johnson, of New York; "Syphilis in a Casual Relation to Certain Diseases of the Eye," Dr. M. D. Dumbs, of Washington, D. C. Then came dental papers as follows: "Somniform as a general anesthetic." W. N. Beekman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; "The Needs of the Dental Profession, C. C. Fry, Washington, D. C.; "Clinical Paper on Several Unique Cases of Bridge Work," W. S. Lofton, of Washington. Dr. Lofton's paper was of unusual excellence, and he illustrated it in graphic manper by showing two complete pieces of bridge work in which natural teeth were used and set in so artistically that their artificiality could not be detected. Dr. S. Cox also showed specimens and Dr. John D. Ballard, of Orange, N. J. spoke on "Abscess of Teeth." Interesting reports were heard from local organizations, indicating increased membership everywhere and the establishment of colored hospitals in nearly every city of considerable Negro population in the country. The evening session at Union Baptist church was largely attended. After the invocation by Rev. Harvay Johnson, the pastor, a cordial address of welcome was delivered by the Hon. J. Barry Mahee, mayor of Baltimore, who said there was no group of constructive workers who had so much to with human happiness as the good doctor, the good dentist and the good pharmacist—their mission was of the utmost importance to civilization and he was proud to welcome to the largest commercial city of the South and the sixth largest municipality in the nation, so splendid a body of men and women as are embraced in the National Medical association. Mayor Mahool bespoke for the association an increasing degree of usefulness as the years go by, and bade all Godspeed. An appropriate response was made by Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, of Chicago, Dr. H. Stanton McCard welcomed the association on behalf of the local physicians, and Dr. C. H. Shephard, of Durham, N. C., responded. In happy vein, Dr. Shephard, in the course of his able address, referred to several noted physicians and surgeons whose achievements, have attracted the attention of both hemispheres, mentioning particularly the unprecedented fact of Dr. A. M. Curtis, former surgeon-chief of Freemen's hospital at Washington, in performing successfully two operations for the Caesarian sections upon the same individual; the treatment of a lacerated heart by Dr. D. H. Williams of Chicago, and the rescue of a man by Dr. George C. Hall, of Chicago, whose intestines had been perforated five times and his liver in two places by gunshot wounds and who had been pronounced fatally wounded by a coroner's verdict. Dr. Shepard also spoke of Dr. M. F. Wheatland, of Newport, R. I., who has an office equipment worth $10,000, and whose services in electrical therapeutics and nervous diseases are eagerly sought after by the wealthiest people of the land, and of Dr. John R. Francis, whose sanitarium at Washington is unassured anywhere as a retreat for special cases where the psychological aspect of diseases is thoughtfully worked out. The splendid sanitarium of Dr. W. E. Sterrs at Decatur, Ala., was given as an evidence of the progress of the up-to-date Negro physicians down in Dixie. During the evening papers were presented by Dr. W. H. Wright, of Baltimore, on "Tuberculosis with Special Reference to Maryland," by Dr. J. W. Walker, Asheville, N. C. on "Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis," and by Dr. W. P. Dickerson, of Newport Newa, Vá., on "Early Manifestations of Tuberculosis," Mrs. J. C. Costen rendered a charming solo. Wednesday morning's session drew another large crowd which listened attentively to papers by Dr. W. S. Harris, of Baltimore, on "Intestinal Anastomosis;" Dr. John E. Hunter, of Lexington, Ky., on "Liver Lesions as Sequelae of Acute Intestinal Diseases;" "Peritonitis," an exhaustive study by Dr. W. E. Sterrs, of Decatur, Ala.; and "Appendicitis," by Dr. J. C. Anderson, of Plainfield, N. J. The discussion on all of these subjects was unusually spirited and entertaining. In the afternoon, Dr. W. E. Conner, of Brookhaven, Miss., discussed "Abdominal Tumors in the Pregnant State," Dr. E. P. Roberts, of New York, "The proper Care of Children," Dr. William T. Carr, of Baltimore, "Arthritis Deformans;" and Dr. A. T. Boyer, of Philadelphia, "Reflex Headaches." The particular feature of the evening session, which was held in St. John's church, was the address of Dr. John R. Francis, of Washington, D.C., on "A Plea-for a More Extended Use of the Modern Therapies," in which he argued that the practice of medicine to be effective as it should be, ought to comprehend a more thorough study of the mind in relation to disease—that psychology had a relation to the lills of the body that should be more strongly emphasized. The paper covered so much new ground that is the concensus of opinion that it should be reproduced in pamphlet form and distributed as a text book for the general profession. "Mental Hygiene," was the subject of a paper by Dr. Albert S. Reed, of New York; Dr. M. F. Wheatland spoke on "Nervous diseases." Musical selection were rendered by Mrs. Roberta Credit, of Philadelphia, and Miss Mae Jenkings. During the day some interesting scenes were being enacted at Providence hospital, where a clinic was held and several important surgical operations were performed, under the direction of Dr. A. M. Curtis, of Washington, D. C., formerly surgeon-in-chief of Freedman's hospital, but who is now connected with the surgical department as a special lecturer and advisor. Dr. Curtis, who is perfectly at home with the surgeon's knife, defily removed an enormous fibroid tumor, weighing between 25 and 30 pounds, from a female patient, the operation being successful in every detail. On amusing incident connected with the case of Robert Bennett, an aged colored man, enlivened the clinic and produced no end of innocent merriment at the old man's expense. Bennett was brought to the enclosure and claimed to be suffering with frogs in his stomach, writhing in agony while awaiting his turn on the table. Dr. Curtis looked him over, and with the trained eye of the expert, remarked to the consulting staff and reporters: "Frogs in his stomach. ch? Frogs in his head, if anywhere," he added, jocularly. Bennett was examined, and his case diagnosed as one of nearsathemia, with some slight intestinal indigestion by which gases were generated, causing the sharp pain and aches which Bennett ascribed to the presence of live frogs in his interior. Dr. Curtis fixed up some medicine for the old man and dismissed him as not eligible for a demonstration in surgery. The frogs were "all in his head." Dr. George C. Hall, one of the founders of Provident hospital, Chicago, rendered valuable assistance in the diagnosis of the cases brought forward for clinical analysis. Other operations were performed by Dr. J. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER, 5 1907 E. Hunter, of Kentucky and Dr. W. S. Harris, of Baltimore. Thursday's session drew the banner audience, as many new arrivals were on the scene and the city had more thoroughly awakened to the fact that "something was doing" in its midst. The beautifully gowned ladies in attendance added materially to the interest and enthusiasm of the occasion, and the doctors had on their best "togs" to match. The papers of the day were: "The Management of Typhoid Fever," Dr. J. W. Jones, Winston-Salem, N. C.; "Pueripheral Fever" Dr. G. R. Alexander, Petersburg, Va.; "Treatment of Lobar Pneumonia," Dr. Milton N. White, Philadelphia, with discussion by leading physicians present. The report of Mrs. Amanda V. Gray, pharmacist of Washington, D. C., a graduate of Howard and one of the most successful business women of the race, evoked much favorable comment. Mrs. Gray explained that the exactions of their business had kept many of the members of the pharmaceutical section at home, yet eight had put in an appearance in response to the energetic correspondence that had been carried on during the year. Over 150 of the registered pharmacists had been reached by letter, and that the fruit of this agitation would be shown in future conventions of the association. Washington alone had 14 drug stores, a goodly proportion of which were directly traceable to the influence of the organization now in session. At the next meeting she hoped to report that a corporation of colored chemists had been formed for the manufacture and sale of drugs at reasonable rates, breaking down the present killing monopoly, to the advantage of the druggist selling the preparations and of the customer who must use them. Mrs. Fray is a delightful speaker and her remarks were frequently interrupted by applause. She easily carried off the honors of the convention, on the floor and off, and her magnetic earnestness was an inspiration to all. Dr. W. S. Lofton, of Washington, made an encouraging report from the dental section. Finding a roster of 15 members when he took hold as dental secretary, he had been able by vigorous and persistent methods to increase the roll to 159, covering 28 state and territories. Of 140 he was absolutely sure as useful members, 1,609 letters had been sent out since January 4th of this year, and as a result, he could present and voting 22 dentists. After all expenses of his office had been paid, he had on hand ready to turn over to the treasurer, the sum of $35—an unprecedented achievement. Fifteen firms had been secured as exhibitors for this convention and next year there would be exhibits from Negro manufacturing chemists and producers of medical supplies. Dr. Lofton proved himself to be a most remarkable worker for the development of the dental section of the organization. Dr. E. E. Hunter reported the surgical section to be in process of organization and that he would be able to make a very encouraging report of the work later. Dr. J. R. Francis president of this section and Dr. E. E. Green, of Macon, Ga., is secretary Dr. L. H. Singleton, of Washington is president of the dental section. In this section, the work of Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, of Washington, is deserving of especial mention. At the afternoon session Thursday the decks were cleared for a battle royal in the election of officers for the ensuing year. Dr. W. C. Alexander, of New Jersey, presented the name of Dr. H. Floyd Gamble, of Charleston, W. Va., for the presidency; Dr. H. Staunton McCard, in an elequent speech, named Dr. W. H. Wright, of Baltimore; Dr. W. M. Sinclair, of Philadelphia, placed in nomination Dr. W. E. Sterrs, of Decatur, Ala. The seconding address of Dra. C. W. Childs R. F. Boyd, J. R. Francis, J. A. Johnson and others aroused the enthusiasm to a high pitch for the respective candidates and Dr. Sterrs capped the climax by withdrawing his name and seconding the nomination of Dr. Wright. When the smoke of the battle had cleared away, Gamble was found to have received 58 votes to 62 for Wright. The enthusiastic supporters of Wright thereupon gathered their favorite upon their shoulders and rushed him to the platform. This scene was repeated a little later when Dr. Charles Roberts was elected vice-president, after a hard fight by Dr. Childs. The list of officers was filled out as follows: Secretary, Dr. J. A. Keeney, Tuskegee, Ala.; assistant secretary, Dr. I. A. Lawrence, Elizabeth, N. J.; treasurer, Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Chicago, Ill.; corresponding dental secretary, Dr. L. H. Fenderson, Baltimore; corresponding pharmaceutical secretary, Dr. Philip D. Lee, Milledgeville, Ga. New York was selected as the next place of meeting, last week in August, 1908. The announcement made by Dr. P. A. Roberts, of New York, was greeted by loud cheers. A telegram of congratulation from Secretary A. B. Humphries, of the Constitutional League, was read by Dr. Sinclair. The reception at Lyric ball Thursday night closed the festivities of the By His Own Blood Parkersburg, Sept. 3.—Seized by a hemorrhage of the lungs, Andrew Burton, one of the best known and most highly respected colored men of this city, was stranded to death at his home in Belpre at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Physicians were summoned and efforts were made to revive the man, but in vain. For several years Mr. Burton had suffered almost constantly from consumption, but he showed remarkable fortitude and worked nearly every day, having performed hard labor on the day before his death Arlington early yesterday morning to prepare for attending divine services, Mr. Burton went to the bath room and while making his toilet one of the many hemorrhages which he had experienced in recent years came upon him and he fell forward to the floor. Mrs. Burton heard him fall and rush to his side. She found her husband in the throes of death, several quarts of blood flowing from his throat. The stream finally choked the helpless man and he expired in a short time. Mr. Burton was 40 years old and was a contracting bricklayer, coming here from Charleston 15 years ago. He bought a home in Belpre, where he resided at the time of his death. Mr. Burton engaged extensively in his business in Parkersburg, having built the Savage flats and also the Graham-Bumgarner building on Jullana street. He was strictly honest and there never was a time that he was unable to get all the financial assistance he needed from local banks. His word was as good as his bond. He was an excellent citizen and honored by all who knew him. Mrs. Burton and one son, Burnett Burton, survive. It was stated last night the body would be shipped to Charleston today for burial, that being the home of Mrs. Burton's mother and other relatives. The remains arrived here Monday night accompanied by the widow and son and was interred in Spring Hill cemetery Tuesday the funeral services having been held at the First Baptist church, the pastor, Rev. S. R. Bullock, officiating. Columbus,Miss., Aug. 30.—As a result of further trouble between the whites and blacks, caused by the lynching of John Gibson, a Negro, who was identified by Mrs. Ed. Winbourne, as her assailant in an outrage committed early in the week, the whole Gibson family, including the father and other relatives, have received warning to move out of the country just across the Alabama border. Three Negroes have been shot, one a preacher. Will Harris, uncle of the Negro, was lynched this morning. The others were killed Thursday. The lynching took place Wednesday. "Chased" From One Neighborhood, Meet Trouble in Another. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 29.—Moses Davis and wife, colored teachers, who sold their new home on Tuxedo place a fashionable part, of this city, because white citizens objected to their living there, and who yesterday purchaed a home on Chestnut street, another fashionable part of the city may not be able to occupy the new home. Chestnut street residents are up in arms and declare they will not have the Davis family in the neighborhood. Davis and wife will be asked to move. If they insist upon living on Chestnut street the white people say trouble is sure to follow. That He Will Resign from Congress to Enter Mayoralty Race. Associated Press. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 4.—Congressman Burton, who has announced he would accept the republican nomination for mayor of Cleveland, left here today for Urbana where he will make an address. Burton declined to add anything to his statement regarding the mayoralty race and refused to say whether or not he would resign from congress. ENEMY'S LOSSES ENORMOUS. Casabanca, Sept. 4.—Eight Frenchmen were killed and seventeen were wounded in an engagement outside the camp Monday. The enemy's losses were enormous Bluefield, W. Va., August. 31. Thirsting for the blood of an unknown colored man, who had shot to death Sidney Boulton, a well known and very popular freight train conductor on the Norfolk and Western, a mob comprised of railroaders and other friends of the dead trainman, forced an entrance into the miners' hospital et Welch, McDowell county, at an early hour this morning, and after overpowering the nurses and other attendants ruthlessly jerked the Negro from a bed of pain and hurrying to the nearest tree, hanged him. It was the first lynching for many years in West Virginia. Just as soon as it became known that Conductor Bouton had been shot by a Negro, the citizens of Welch threatened the life of the unknown, but they decided to await developments, and see how seriously the conductor had been wounded. When the word was sent from his home that he had expired, a mob was organized in less than thirty minutes and nothing less than a regiment of soldiers could have stopped the frenzied crowd. They knew that extra precaution had been taken by the hospital and county authorities to guard the Negro against violence, but that made no difference, and boldly they rushed to the door of the institution, demanding admittance. Resistance was at first mown, but the mob was determined, and waded through the guards nurses and physicians to the room of the dark-skinned murderer, who had already been quite seriously wounded by Boulton in his effort to defend himself. There was no parleying at the Negro's bedside. He was yanked from the bed and carried out of the building with all possible haste. Appeals for mercy coming from the colored man, fell on deaf ears, and while he was yet begging, a rope was tied around his neck, and he was jerked high into the air where he hung until life was extinct. The Negro had been stealing a ride on Conductor Boulton's train, when the latter discovered him. Ordered to get off, the colored man pulled a revolver and fired, the bullet taking effect in Boulton's abdomen. Though injured so badly that he fell to his knees Boulton brought his gun into play and shot the Negro in the side. Neither men could walk and both were taken to Welch, where Boulton was removed to his home and the Negro was sent to the hospital. It has been a long time since the last lynching bee in this state, and the Welch incident has created a great sensation. While the officials of Mc Dowell county have an idea who formed the mob, they have no definite information, and it will be difficult for them to establish the identity of any of the participants. The Negro was of the blackest type and having no marks of identification about his body his name may never be learned. FIRE IN PUT-IN-BAY HOUSE Guests Leave Hurriedly, Lose Belongings, None Injured. Associated Press. Put-In-Bay, Ohio, Sept. 4.—The Put-In-Bay house, one of the leading hotels on this island, was damaged to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars by a fire last night. The guests were compelled to leave the burning building hastily. A few of them saved their belongings. No one was injured. session, and the next morning a party numbering nearly 200 left by steamer for the Jamestown exposition, to witness the exercises in connection with "Physician's Day" Saturday, and to take part in special services at Hampton, arranged for Sunday, with a side trip to Buckroe Beach. The party was in charge of Dr. A. M. Curtis chairman of the committee on exhibit in medicine and surgery and manager of the emergency hospital on the Negro reservation at Jamestown. The local committee at Baltimore, headed by Dr. W. H. Wright, merits unstinted praise for the lavish manner in which the proverbial hospitality of Maryland's metropolis was dispensed, and his election to the presidency was a fitting recognition of his energetic and faithful labors. The National Medical Association shows a substantial growth in number and influence year by year, and its annual meetings are luminous landmarks in the history of the Negro people in the tripartite sciences which it so capably represents. Dr. W. H. Wright, the newly-elected president of the National Medical association, is a graduate of the Medical department of Yale college, class 1900, and is a native of West Virginia. He has practised in Baltimore for seven years and is highly respected by all classes in the Monumental City. He is thirty-two years of age. LYNCHERS NEGRO TEACHERS. BURTON WON'T SAY Fremont, Neb. Sept. 4 — Mayor Wolz, with a revolver, backed up by the Fire Department with a ha dozen swift streams of water, Su day, put to flight a gang of Union Pacific workmen who were tempting to lay a trunk through business section of the city wil permission from the City Coun The work was begun by the railroad at daylight. No injunction could be secured on Sunday. Mayor Wolz, with his revolver, appeared on the scene, and held the workmen at bay until the Fire Department arrived, and for hours turned the hose on any workman who approached the uncompleted track. The railroad finally abandoned the attempt to lay the track. FRENCH PHYSIQUE INFERIOR. Bloodless Surgeon Says It Is Not Equal to That of the Americans. Paris, Sept. 2.—Henry A. Barker, the English bloodless surgeon, who demonstrated his methods in New York, has come to Paris with the intention of placing his services gratuitously at the disposal of the poor during the final week of his honeymoon. He said today that the French struck him as physically inferior to pearance of the inhabitants of Paris and New York. He added that he had noticed a remarkably large proportion of the flat-footed persons among the Parisians, and many cripples and cases of lameness incapable of treatment by manipulation PRESIDENT DISAPPEARS Cincinnati, Sept. 4. Because of the mysterious disappearance in New York of Seward Heidel-Bach, president of the Fabian Mfg. Co., in this city, M. E. Mock was appointed receiver of that concern. The petition for a receiver sent forth the fact of the disappearance of Heidel-Bach one week ago, and steps the business of the concern is prosperous. The action was taken with the consent of the creditors. The Fabian Mfg. Co. is known over the entire country in clothing circles. TRAIN WRECKED IN GERMANY. Thought to Have Been the Work of Russian Revolutionists. Associated Press. Berlin, Sept. 4.—The St. Petersburg-Berlin express between Strausburg, and Redfelde, near Berlin, was wrecked last night, resulting in the injury of eleven persons. It is believed the wreck was the work of Russian revolutionists who hoped to kill Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaivitch, a member of the imperial family, who was said to have been on the train. As a matter of fact, the grand duke is not expected to arrive until tomorrow. GREAT FUNERAL CEREMONIES Attend the Burial of a Most Noted Catholic Priest. Associated Press. Boston, Sept. 4.—The body of the Most Reverend John Joseph Williams, Archbishop of Boston and Dean of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the United States today was placed in the crypt beneath the high altar of the cathedral of the Holy Cross which stands as a monument to his labors. The solemn ceremony of transferring the body to the crypt was attended by a host of prelates and priests, and by officers of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and the city of Boston, where he was born. During the burying exercises the bells and fire alarms were rolled. SOUGHT FAME IN BALLOON But Young Girl Nearly Found Death When She Fell 300 Feet. Middletown, N. Y., Sept. 4. Miss Myrtle Rydike, a seventeen-year-old girl of this city, narrowly escaped death in making a balloon ascension at the park this afternoon. With the design of emulating Miss Maggie Dalley, a young woman who became famous by making a balloon ascension on a dare some time ago, Miss Rydike on Sunday made her first ascension. Today when she tried to repeat her performance the balloon caught fire when 200 feet in the air. The hot air quickly escaped, and the balloon and the young woman fell rapidly. She landed in the thick foliage of a large tree, the balloon covering her. She was quickly rescued, and, save for a few scratches, was none the worse. Auditor Arnold G. Scherr Monk made formal announcement of the candidacy for the republican nomination for governor. Recalling the former self-sacrifices of republicans in order to gain supremacy of the state, he calls for the "old spirit, of self-sacrifice that characterized our leaders in the days when it tried men's souls to be republicans in West Virginia." He declares that "it I become the standard bearer all reaction contests and bickerings will be ruled out. There will no longer be any 'Teterites,' 'Dawsonites,' 'insurgents,' or 'machinettes.' From the top of the hips in Hancock county that separate our state from Pennsylvania and Ohio down to the Big Sandy river, that separates us from Kentucky and Virginia—every single, solitary republican will look precisely alike to me, and if elected governor, I will stand for and be in favor of every single man, woman, child, partnership and corporation in it, so long as they obey the laws, and all will be treated exactly alike." Regarding the tax laws, he says, "It will be my aim to execute the tax laws on the statute books and I would not consent to take a step backward, but give every person and every interest a square deal. Our constitution demands that taxation shall be equal and uniform and that no species of property shall be taxed higher than another, and this mandate requires that no property shall escape its just share of taxation. "We have constantly arising in a state like ours, where development and progress are so great, new and grave questions, but they can easily be solved if we stick together, advise with each other, help each other, and act always from no selfish motive, but only from a spirit of devotion and loyalty to our state and its best interests." "we finally consented to be a candidate, leaving it to the wise; earnest, patriotic republican sentiment of the masses to decide if I am the man for the hour; and I wish to say emphatically that if this honor can only come to me at the end of an unseemly strife, wherein the party is to be divided into factions; republicans abusing each other in a struggle to secure delegates, after a scramble of pleading, blowing of horns and trumpets for months and months before the nomination can be made, and when the people, do not care to have the question forced upon them—if, I say, this is the way the nomination is to be won, I do not want it—for it is absolutely sure that if I should get it in this way I would lose my self-respect and could not expect any one else to have any respect for me—governor though I might I might be." Shreveport, La. Aug. 29.—Five well known residents of Clalborne Parish, this state, have been arrested by Deputy State Marshal Lea, and brought to this city for trial on charges of peonage. The indictment alleges that the five men, all of whom are named Gray, held under restraint Tom and Anna H. Jackson, Ida Whelsbone, Frank Glover and others, all Negroes. The five Grays gave bond in the sum of $9,000 and will be tried at the October term of the Federal court. TWO WHITE MEN Accused of Attempting Criminal saults on Evantville, Women. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 11—Returning to her home late last night from a hospital, where she had been to see a sick friend, Mrs. Regina Small, wife of Henry Small, a local merchant, was seized by a white man who wore a mask over his face and choked unmercifully. The assault occurred at the end of an alley. The scream of the woman finally brought assistance and the fend escaped. Another woman was assaulted by a man at the end of an alley in Government street. The man attempted to drag the girl into the alley, but was finally forced to retire after the girl had used her hat pin vigorously. Louis Smith, a white man, is under arrest charged with the last offense. PENSION DAY. Today was quarterly pension and the attaches of the circuit county court clerks' offices were busy the greater portion of the county voters who are partaken of Sam's bounty. P| Dkmemenondanc CEKE ES, a r -- Correspondence -:- 3 Day aw Nea aa aes Re EK RRR KK ERERER PAGE ‘TWO. SEWALL, Misses Maud Carrington and W. A Fregland: spent last week at Duulooy guests of Mrs. S.A. Thompson. GL. Jackson was visiting H.C Nargrove at Dunloop last week. Misses Mary and Vanilia Novl spen several days at Glen Jean, guests 1 thelr aunt, Mrs. M. C, Hutchinson. Mricapd Mrs. Ernest Vanhook and x, and Mrs. Willis Vanhook have re ned from“ Narth Chroliua, “William Cowherd, of Acme, is. vis iting relatives here. Mrs. Nell Vanhook, Mra. Lucy Win ston, Misses Fanny Cary, Belle James and Margurite Buneh spent Monday tn Montgomery. Miss Annie Reed. of Guyandotte. speat Sunday and Monday in Elverton the guests of Mrs, William Carring ton. Mrs. S. A. Thompson and A. C. Pol lard, of Dunloop, are here the guests of friends. H. €. Hargrove was visiting here Sunday, We regret to announce the death of J. F. Hill, who was shot at Dun: Toop and died in McKendree hospital Saturday. Mr. Hill was a citizen of this place for quite a while. While here he won the esteem and respect of all who knew him., He was a ment Der of the Hastern Star Lodge, K. of P. and a member of the Red Men. He leayes a wife and a host of relatives and friends. The remains were laid to rest in Caperton cemetery by the K. of Ps and Red Men. The family hag the sympathy of the community, COVINGTON, VA. Joshua Winston, of Gray's Flat, W. Va,, was visiting friends here. During ‘is stay he was the guest of Mrs, David Brown. Miss [. K. Pollard and Rev. W. J Hackett returned from Glasgow Sat urday where they were in attendance upon the association. Rev. Hackett is now moderator of Burean Valley Baptist church. Mrs. John R. Hunter is thought to be slowly improving. Gordon Reynolds is home from Richmond, where he had a slight op- eration performed. Morris Adams, who has been so ill with fever, is now in a state of con- valeseence. The parents meeting held at First Baptist church Sunday evening was quite interesting. The paper by Miss Mickens was excellent. — Subject: “What we can do to improve our Sun day school.” Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gilliam spent two days visiting the Misses Pegram. ‘They left Monday morning for their home. Mrs. Liza Cosby and two children visited Mrs. Jennie Montgomery two days this week, Mrs. Cosby is of Eagle, W. Va. Miss Sophia Mills and Mrs. Henry Wright left ‘Tuesday morning for West Virginia. Mrs. Wright will visit her son at Gary, W. Va. Miss Pearl Rucker and Ollie Drew left. Sunday night for Washington, where they were married. The baby of Mrs. Mary Carter known as Billy, fell from the upper hack porch of their home Monday, The child is not thought to be in jured. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Watson return ed Monday from a ten days visit t the Jamestown exposition. Mrs. Robt. Reynolds, is confined t her bed again Miss Rosa Anthony, of Natura’ Bridge, was the guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. TT. Anthony. Mis: Authony is a sister of Mr. Anthony Mrs. James Jackson was the gues of her husband Sunday at Hot Spring: Kings Daughters met with Mrs Mary Pegram Monday. Atter busi néss dinner was served by the hos tees, ‘They will meet next with My Celia Mills, MT. CARBON, Mrs. S. E. Williams has returned from the bedside of her brother at Bluefield, Rey. Tropman baptised six persons and accepted them into the church Sunaty. Rev. S, E. Williams filled his rem Jar appointment here Sunday, J. 1. Williams and Mr. Morris Hill have returned from Mt. Hope where they attended the Grand Lode of the Order of Red Men, Mrs. Ida M. Scott, of Charleston. i the pleasant guest of Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Mary J. Bicy this week, Rev. J. J. Turner was seen in ou town last week Your correspondent will leave new Monday for Richmond, Va. to atiene the grand session of the ‘True Re formers. Joseph Branch, of Page, was sect fm our town last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. 1. Lynch, of Home wood was the plensant visitor of My and Mrs. John Toles. INSTITUTE. Pres. J. McHenry Jones refnrned Monday from Monroe where he spent the past ten days in the interest of the ‘school. Miss Alpha Brooks lef! Monday for Howk's Nest, where she will teach the coming session Misa Fannie M. Turner, who has pean the guest of Mrs. C. BE. Mitchell the past fortnight, left “Tuesday for her home at Richmond, Va. She was Aecompanied as far as Charleston by her hostess. Miss Zanphra Robinson has gone t¢ Longacre to resume her duties in the school room, Miss Besste Morris arrived Sundas trom Homestéad, Pa. where she spent the stammer with friends, Commandant W. 1. Lowry, conduct or of the Pirst Resiment band K. of of Charleston.lett for Loutsvite, Ky, Saturday to attend the Pythtan encampment Miss Mollie and Anna Robinson leave Saturday for Boomer and Gauley Hride. respeetively. to open their schools, Children’s Day was observed by the pupils of the Samaritan Baptist Sun day school last Sunday. An inter: esting program had been prepared and was well rendered ty the little ones Albert Brown, insiructor in mechan jeal drawing, has returned) from a very pleasant month's vacation at Sag anaw. Michigan, GUYANDOTTE. Mis. Maggig Holland was shopping in Huntington Thursday Miss Annie Reed and Gladys Car. rington left Saturday evening for Charleston. Mrs. Charlotte Brooks was shopping in Huntington Wednesday. Mrs. Ona Pleasant was calling on friends here Thursday. Osa Jackson continues ‘about the same. Misses Lonise Smootz and Janet Layne were shopping in Huntington Friday, Mrs, Millie Layne and son Monk, came home Sunday after spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. Chas, Slash. 2 Born—to Mr. and Mrs. Clark a daughter Sunday August 25. QUINNIMONT, Miss Carrie Jones, George Ware and Dallas Norman were the guests of Miss Bradley Sunday. W. E. Bomgardner, of Harvey, was jthe guest of Miss Shetton Saturday. Master Ulysses Shelton spent Labor ‘Day with his sister at Harvey. | Those who attended the Red Men's parade at Mt. Hope, were Mrs. Free aa Mrs. Durette, Misses Mattie Bradley, Lillie Shelton and Eleazer Shelton. Miss Fannie Oliver has returned from Jamestown and reports a nice time. The Golden Circle club gave’ an en arM Ura alas Sardar Bight Tate, een ge Ceandersne spent: day in Montgomery. John Perkins has returned from Vir: ginia. Mr. Dickerson. of Powellton, was ‘the pleasant guest of Miss Tyler Sun: day. Master Robert Murness, Ellis Childs and Aaron Childs spent Labor Day in Montgomery ST ALBANS. Misses Bessie and Ollie Hicks, of Barboursville, are visiting their sis- ter, Mrs. W. W. Seott. Mrs, Virginia Robinson and_child- ren, of Virginia, are visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. R. Green, Mrs, Lee, of Jeffersonville, Ind., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. 0. W. Holloway. Miss Elizabeth Wilson left Satur. day to open her school at Pt. Pleas: ant Miss Eva Wallace, of Columbns spent Setarday with Miss Georgia Banks. Miss KE. V. Willis and sister, ot Huntington, spent Sunday in town. Mrs, Martha Payne, of Munting- ton. spent a few days with her sis ter, Mrs. Green, Misses Rhoda Wilson and sisters, and Miss Georgia Banks returned last week from Jamestown and other bolits in Virginia, Mrs, Erskin and Mrs. Dorses, 0} Piliade! shia, who have been visiting friends for the past six weeks, lett Sunday for their home Those who attended teachers’ in stittite were Misses Rhoda, Lixzic and Virginia Wilson, Geergia Banics Vronla Davis, Gertrude Parrish and Andrew Shields. Mat Washington, of South Ruf her, is # business visitor in town, Rev. N. Ratnett was a pleasant caller to town tis week. Mrs. Mary Crosby spent Monda; in Charleston, Mrs, Sat Hale, of Charleston, whe has been sisiting er mother, return ed to her home Sunday Mrs FW) Waddy entertained: ¢ few friew!< Sunday afternoon it honor of hey son Floyd's 19th birth day. “Those resent were Misses Hes ie Mebs, Martha Washington, Al bert W Carrie Gordon, Ali Hieks. Grotcia Banks and Dana anc Claxton Gorton, BARBOURSVILIE, Charles Tenktey is Indispoxed, Mrs. Sar) Kroger was. shopping in Hantinsion Saturday. Mrs. Geo Martin spent Sunday in Mimtingean, C1. Movin is'working in Hunt- ington Mrs. (1 Martin spent Saturday in Wuntington, Miss Macy SUM is spending a few Weeks” hi "Ure tountry ‘south of Bar boursvilte, * = | Quite a number from here attend ed the showofa Huntington. %: Carley Uapsta, of, Salt Rock, was calling on frjends sunday, — Byank Willilams,cof Branclig, is ‘here confined to his room on account of illness, Mr. and Mr. Metver, of Midkiff, stopped over with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hicks 4 few hours last week enroute to Cabin Greek, Prof. L. R, Jorgon, of Pt. Pleas- ant, and Rey. Scétt, of St. Albans, were business Visitors. were last week. Mrs. Lane, of Guyandotte, Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Charlie Slash. Rey. kL. Davis returned to the ctty last Monday from his charge in New Pittsburg, Ohio. Miss Virginia Madison, of Clay street, is the guest of her aunt in Chi- cago. Rey, Mr. Tony and Rey. Mr. O'Brien spent several days last week In Clarksburg. The annual conference of the W. M. church is now in session at Hillsboro, Ohio. A large delegation fs in attend: ance from this city. ¥ Mrs. Nelson Devers desires to thank her friends for the kindness and sym- pathy during the recent illness and death of her mother, Mrs. Mitchell. Mrs, Lizzie Orr died at the home of her mother on Clay street. last Thurs- day. Interment was made at Kock: land, Ohio. Rey, George Jett, of Ctarksburg, passed through the city Thursday en route home to Hinton. Rev. Jett is district missionary of the Baptist chureh, Mrs. F. A. Scott was ill a few days last week. Misses Carry Comedy and Ethel Hill returned Saturday from Clarks- burg. ‘The Busy Bee will meet with Mrs. Wm. Tony next Friday. ‘Mrs. Caroline Walker Porter, for- merly of this city but now of Cincin- natiis a visitor in the city. Mrs. 8. A. Smith, who has been vis iting in Columbus for some time has returned home. Mrs. White, of Fairmont. who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Day, returned home this week. Master Richard Brown had a birth- day party last Monday. Quite a pleas- ant evening was spent by those pre sent. Mrs. Wm. Dandridge and children have returned home, after a several weeks visit with relatives in, Char- leston. Tae many friends of Mr. Andrew Burton were shocked to learn of his death being ill only a few days. Charles Jones, of Washington, D. C., is The guest of his sister, Mrs. J. MI. Carter. Mrs, Thomas Fletcher, of Marietta, Ohio, was calling in the city Friday Miss Florence Jackson, of Clarks- burg, who has been the guest of Miss Marthena Dixon, returned home Sat urday. . Mrs, A. F. Tuck left last: Tuesday for Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Ed. Jones and son. Blair have returned from a several weeks visit in Washington. Mrs. Guss Green has returned home to Clarksburg. While in the city she was the guest of Mrs. Alice Foun: taine. Miss Clara Butler arrived in_ the city “Thursday fom Columbus. Miss Butlerwill teach at the Summer build ing this winter. ‘Assistant professor HL. D. Hazlewood arrived in the city Friday noon Prof. L. .OWilson spent a few days in Weston, last. week. Quite a number of Wheeling folks were in the city Sunday. Mrs. Booker and children, of Char burg, were guests of the Browns on Gould avenue last week: Miss Esther Colston returned to the city Monday to resume her work as teacher at Sumner school Prof. L. ©. Wiison and Prof, J. 1 Jefferson left over the B. and O. last Sunday mornjng for Lonisyille, Mr. and Mrs, James Hayes, of Fair mont, arrived here Friday to locate. Miss Grace Arnold, of Weston, is visiting Mrs. Bactlett of Fifth street. | Master Ebert Lee, of Weston, is vis iting his mother this week Miss Rebecca Brown will leave in a few days to visit friends in Pitts burg. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Comedy arc spending a few days in Columbus. Mre. J. M. Carter, Mrs. B. ¥. Seam: and her house guests, Mis: Lydia Seams,of Columbus, spent ‘Thursday it Marietta, Ohio, gests of Mrs. Fletch er Mes, Wil Stanton, of Pittsburg, Pa. is the guest of Miss Ernestine Foun aine this week ROANOKE, VA. Rev. S.A. Adams, of Roanoke, will preach in Salem, every second Sun ay Mr. and Mrs. R. B, Anderson, have returned io Pulaski, after visiting their sick mother. 3. R. Webb has been giving an en tertainment at his residence No, 111! Salem avenue for the benefit of High Street Baptist. church Mrs, Bdna Redd, who has been vis iting relatives at 801 Norfolk avenue &. W. was the guest of Mrs. Broad: hax Monday afternoon. Mr. P. Tirooks, of Rocky Mount Va. was in the city last week. II. Turpin, of Columbus, O., was in ‘he city last week. Constable H. Richardson, of Kimbal W. Va, was in the city Monday. UE VOOCATR. vary 41) Ee, oS TCR avout is_very sHeSiSeepe Mrs. Das J@akins Is the guest of Mrs. DOCROAMMME St 29 Ninth avenue, ‘Mrs. LRM, of Norwich, is = pts phar illness, ania, JORaQme who was palnfayy burped at: the Wirnace. is: eee Miss T. 'ShoRAlyy recurned Thuraday from a. plodadiiyiigvisit. to Charleston, Wiva. . ve Mrs, Annie Die, of 327 Second ave nue 15. AM. — cscs Mist Ruth , is able to be out with the guj of qgrutehes. She is a victim umatisn. Miss Edna Redd, of Bastern vir ginia, is visiting her sister, Mrs, Cors Redd, of No. Ot Norfolk avenue, n we > Mrs. Annie Williams has returned from Franklin epunty, where she was visiting her, er. wm. brava ir Noffolk avenue n. Ww. Is at Wor again after having a finger cut off while connecting cars. Wm. Dudley has returned to New: port News. |) > Mrs, N. Ware, of 514 Eleventp ave nue, 2. ©, hag returned from her!sey: eral weeks vialt to Houston and Jamestown. > Wm. Vaden, of Fifth avenue, who has been sick for several weeks, is up agatn. J. Edmonds, “of Lynchburg avenue, is much better than he was a few days ago. i J. Chapple raturned last week tron a visit to his home in Ameallure county, Va. M. L. Davis,-of Keystone, W. Va. spent a few minutes in the city or his return from Reading. Pa. Mrs. Lucy Leftridge has returned to Rocky Mount, atrer a short visit to her daughter, Mrs. St. Clair, in Norwich. Mrs. Lucy Nervel. of Kimbal, W Va., was in the city last week. Mrs. H. Morris, of Salem, was the guest of her sister |.abor Day. There was an entertainment at the skating rink Labor Day. Women’s Day was appropriately oD served last Sunday at St. Paul's M B. chureh, C. EK Hodges, pastor. The services of the day were conducted by the ladies of the church. ‘The program was both interesting and in spiring. The music furnished — by Hill Street Baptist church. The choi desrves special, mention. Rev. C. 'T. Walker, of Augusta, Ga. will preach for Rey. J. H. Burks 6n the third Sunday in September, his dedicatorial sermon. ~ A. J. Oliver, the well known and successful l@wyer, has just returned from an extended irip to the wes! and reports all well in business cir cles among our people. Especially s¢ in the thriving state of West Virginia where he says that the Negro is no only coming, but has already come. MIDDLEPORT, OHIO. | ofr. and) Mrs/*R. ". Frazier, after }s two weeks visit!with relatives here ‘ote Tuesday for thelr home at Pitts burg. . Rey. C. FE. Willams. pastor of A M. BE. church left Monday for confer enceavhich convenem;at Columbus. thi week. ~ Mrs. §. B. Allen, who has been il the past week with malarial fever is not much imprd¥ed at this writing Mr.and Mrs. Thampson returned te their home at Columbus Sunday, they were accompanied by Mrs. Laura Scot| who will visit thm mdefinitely. Mrs. Nellie Webster jeft Sunday (01 Columbus to visit relatives during th¢ fair week. Mrs. Harriet Hazlewood, of Cam bridge. was calling am friends Monday evening. Miss Nora Morris entertained at dinner Tuesday, August 22 in hono! of Miss Wells, of. Parkersburg. Mrs. Celia Morpis yent to Rutlan¢ Sunday to attend the bedside of her sister, Miss Amanda Sutton, who fs quite ill. Miss Elvira Simmons spent the past week with relatives in Gallipolis and Buek Ridge. S. B. Allen made a busines trip te Gallipolis the first of the week. Quite a number of representatives of the K. of P. ladge of Athens were in attendance at the funeral of James Brent last Friday. Mr. Brent had been ill for some time at his home a Pomeroy ang tinaJly had to yield hi spirit to God who,gave it. ‘The fun eral services were eonducted .by th Rey. Mr. Stafford of the M. B. church Flo leaves an axed mother and a sis ter who have the sympathy pf a hos of friends. = Henry Finney spent Synday in Co Jumbus. ca Mrs. Alice Graham and danghte: Rhoda, were ihe Sunday guests of he: daughter. Mis. Aryona Lynch, 0 Huntington Miss Nona Mogris left Friday for Blizaboth, Pa., where she will spen the winter. . Mrs. Sybil Grant and neice, of Glow cester,were gnesta of, Mrs. Mary War rén a few days Jagt week. Master Elmer .John#an, of Glous ter, is visiting this week with Mrs Bila Roberts: Mrs. Jennie Clews, of Charleston [is spending her. vacation with he ‘cousin, Mrs. Charity Smothers. POWRULTON. Last Sunday was our. missionary day, the altenlanes wag very good. The officers were elegted for the en suing year and they. are as follows: President, Mys, Sallie West; vice president, Mrs, Latey Carter; secre: tary, Mrs. Ida WM, Jones; treasurer, Mra. Lillie Fairfax. ‘The society rendered @ very excel: lent program Sunday night. Mrs. Sarah Coleman, who was taken to the Shelicring Arms hpspital, last tN tat ae atee ae Vag? SAE aii ROM SOREN . ae ‘me ic) i ss oy BLUEFIELD (POLORED |NSTITUTE ’ Bluefield, ww. Ve Oe A Callege gna Nemes gie for cal- ored students, located ‘at’ Bluefield, “the leading Commercial town of the southern. part OF WUst Virginia “on the ‘Norfolk: aad Western railtéad, 205 miles east®f Kenova : c's) hn Ss : ayy ‘an i ‘ ST Ft | q Pen eo : e as Se ee oe a dere i Splendid: College Buildings, Beautiful : Grounds, Dormitories : forma sea temals’ saudenees faratined rooms; a rendiiig room aup- ; piled with the best current: Mterature; a good Ibrary, and a physical, * » ane atten Tetatiog Sina wholesome surrounditigs. Board. $%,00 per i ae month, Tuition free ‘to; state students, rates very low to non-rgsifent . the Bluefield pelea eoates wperuatiea Sprertentty tor young ee a 5 / OR. P. SIMg, uefield W. Va . Week, is improving. 3 The delegates to the Great council of the I. 0. of Red Men have return. ed with favorable reports. , On last Wednesday night the Rev. Mr. Butler preached a very good ser mon. s Miss Carrie E. Fairfax has return: ed home from McKindrge Hospital for a few weeks of recreation’ before en- tering school. zs PT. PLEASANT. ,W. L. Clendenin and Miss Hattle C. Jordan were married. Monday, Luly ‘1, at Homestead, Pa., at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Posey. "They have the best wishes of their many friends. Mrs. Mary Rickman, of Columbus, spent Sunday, Aug, 18, .with “her aunt ‘Mrs, Ellen JSrdan. Sfe was accom: Fanied Home by-her daughters, Misses Florence and ‘Selma Cobb, who had been the guest of relatives for two weeks. Among those who attended the ‘teachers institute here were Misses ‘Francis Morton, Maggie Mitchell, of Pomeroy; Georgia Sutton, of Middle- rort; Harry Bennett, of Gallipolis. Mrs’ TB. L. Mbrton spent several days in Pomeroy the guest of rela- tives. Mark Holmes and Miss Rhoda Banks, of Charleston were the guest or Miss Ida Alexander Sunday, Aug ust 18. ‘C. W. Hamilton, who has been the guest of Miss Bess Jordan, *the past three weeks" left Tuesday. August 27 for Pittsbtirg and Fairmont. Mrs. W. L. Clendennin and gister Mies Allee Jordan went to Fayette- ville, last Thursday. Miss Alice who is an attendant at the Weston Insane asylum 100 a patient from Fayette to Weston. Mrs. Clendenin returned home Saturday. Miss Alico Jordan, after/ a two weeks yacation ha¥ returned to Wes- ton, Miss Bess Jordan and C. W. Hamtt- ton were egiling on friends in Middie- ‘port and Pomeroy last ‘Thursday. A. H. Williams, of Morgantown, spent a few days here with his family ast week, returning home Thursday August 22. , * Born to George Jones andi wife Sun- day night, Aug. 25 a son. \ Mjss\ Katherine Jordan is fn Moundgyillg the guest of her sister, Mra. J. H. Campbell. ©. W. Hamilton and Miss Bess Jor- dan were calling on friends in Gall- polis Synday, August 25. > Miss Jean Jones, of Wheeling, was the guest of Miss Ida Alexander Tues- day and Wednesday, August 27-28, en route to Institute to visit friends. Mrs. E, 1, Morton is on the sick list this week. ‘Mrs. W: L. Clendenin left Monday August 26 for a few weeks visit. to Wer husband at Upper Sandusky, 0. Mrs. Joe Jordan was the guest of ker sister, Mra. Chas, Harris at Gal- lipolis last week. Miss Bessie 8. Jordan’ left Friday August 30, for Fairmont, where she will teach this year. Prof. Morton and Mica Jordan were reelected July 4, 1907, for the ensuing year. 1s. A. H. Walliams and children teh Friday for Morgantown, where they will make thelr future home. Mrs. Jas. Toles and children. will re: turn this week from Wellville, ©., af- fer a two weeks visit with her broth- ors, John, Flem and Jesse. ” Miss Julia Smith is the guest of ‘Miss Lula James in Huntington. * + Mrs. Chas. Harris, of Gallipolis, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Joe Jor- dan. Mrs. Sarah Stribling and Lawrence Brooks, were married at the bride's home on last ‘Tuesday evening. Miss Plizabeth Wilson, of St. Al- bans, arrived in the city and will be one of the teachers of Langston school this term, MONTGOMERY. | Miss Nellte M. lewis, left Sunday for Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Warner Brown is sick at hei home in Norman Flat. Ledia Hardy, who has beer sick several weeks, with typhold fever 1: | improving. | Geo. Holmes, who spent several weeks in Ohio, is home again. . Mrs. Boston Scott, left Friday’ for her home in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Richard Johnson, {5 visiting relatives in Martinsville, Va. | Miss Lucille Jones, of Columbus ©. ig here the guest of Miss «Bila | Burke, ‘ Rev Hubbard Williams left Satur day for a ‘visit to his old home in Lynchburg,’ Va. 8. M. Davis has returned from an extended visit (o Washington, D. C, and points in Virginia. . Rev. R. W. Meadows, of Hunting ton, was her> on Inciness last week. | Mrs. F. Donally Rafley opened school this week at Donwood on Mor ris.¢reek With a good enrollment. ‘Cabin creek district is having seven months at $55.00, "$45.00 and $35.00 this year Mrs. Warner Brown was hostess te the Willing. Worke: club Priday after noon, Mr. and Mrs. John Brown are at Jamestown this week. Charles Calfee, ot Pulaski, Va., came Friday to spend sometime ' with his father, ‘James Calfee. ‘Mrs. Maria Thomas Ss home again after having spent sometime .with het ranghter, Mrs. DeHonney {n Charles. ton. . Misses JoniMla Morgan and Mollie Guarral aro visiting In Charleston. The B. Y. P. U. reorganized Sun. day-.with Mr. S. I. Childs as. prest. cent. Mrs. B. F. White and baby Dorothy left Saturday for Hinton and White Sulphur Springs. ‘ WINIFREDE. Miss "Edith ‘Walker, of Columbus Ohio, spent te first of the week here the guest of Mrs, R. Dean ©. H. Tnrner, Ro Dean and R. G Green spent the latter part of the week out of town on. busines. Jas. Boll, of Cabin Creek, spent Saturday and Sunday here. W. W. Lewis is spending a few days with his family at Kanawha City. Alex. Lucky. of Hugheston, spent the week here the guest of friends. WOH, Allen left Saturday for his heme in St. Albans, Mra. J. H. Watt spent tite week vis iting frlends ab Hugheston, Wm. Tucker and family are spend: ing a few days in Qharleston this week. Mise Sizzie Ran@olph ft spending the week at Kanawha City. B. B, Allen. G. W. Perkins, ©. A and Jas. J. Thomas, Neal Watt and R. R. Allen spent Tabor day out of town. S¥YLVEA. | Sunday was preaching day with us. Rev. Hunter filled .the stand and preached two instructive sermons, Rey..and Mrs. C. C. Booze, Mr. and Mrs. George Kinley, Rev. Gregory and itev. Hunter attended the convention las: week, | James ‘Toney is visiting relatives in Virginig. + Our ‘state missionary, Mrs. M. Thomas was a pleasant ‘visitor with us this week. She gave an instruc- tive lecture Wednesday night at the church, We are;giad to jbave such | yisitors as Mis, ‘Thomas and trust she will come again soon. While here | ghe was entertained, by Mrs. Wm. Glenn... ~ James Toney and family are occupy- ing their new home now. Saturday. the. missionary society ‘ave an entertainfent at the hall for the béreft of the society. Rev..Mahoe, of Ansted, will be a resident of our town ag* soon as his new house is completed. | Mies Racheal Monroe, of Red Star, is visiting. friends here. } oT a Ne ecg me The Cclorgd Américan Magazine. Masons of every degree, and espect- ally Scottish Rite Masons, will be in- terested in the articles by S. R. Scot- }tron in The Colored American Maga- zine, published by Fred. R. Mooré, 509 Highth Avenue, New York City, beginning with the September number The doings of Council of Deliberation of 1880-1 reviewed. Churchmen of eve:'y denomination, and Episcopalians In particular, should read (o2 September number of the Colored American Magazine, pub- ished by Fred. R. loore, 509 BKighth Avenue, New. York Clty in which appear articles by Rey. Hut- chens C. Bishop, of New York, and Rev. W. V: Tunnel, of Washington, D. C., and ap article gn the Order of Elks. The happenings of the month: and the edycational dengrtment mako this a most Interesting mumber. ‘The October number, wil he most in- teresting, containing articles on edu- cation by Mrs. J. Sflome Yates and an grlicle on “Industrial aij Protession- al Purcuits of the Calored. Pedple ‘of the Qld Yew York,” by Mr. Samuet KR. Seottron.. Scottish Rite Masonry. will he cantinyed, All’ for 10 cents a copy. Subscription price, $1.00 a year. . AN INDIANA LAD. ;|_ “I think I'll .write 4 volume of *| reminiscences." . “Oh, come now, Johnny. You're -|only seventeen,” "Thy. something °| else.” “Well, I'll write a history of tha t workd.”” : ‘ STEEL COMPANY PATLS. , 4 Owns 2 Number of Furnaces Jin the | z South, Vast and West. | Avsoetated Prose, ¢ ‘| New York, Sept, 4.—A receiver .| was today appointed for the Union ;|Iron and Steel company, a New York corporation, hy Judge skeen, s)of the federal court, sitting in’ Bris- tol, Va. The company is capitalized at two million dollars and owns furs j}naces and manutactaving plants tn t}Several Southern states, Michigam and New Sergey.» “af hoi ah Oa ep Bea has PN RY RERUN aE NG BTSs ARG Pr Lae . ASSURE Comte Fe eC NR Oe ee re Rae ene 1S ARES ee eee ORR TRO ES Sr ac Seen ee cee ne Eo eae ae mee | Sg aan j eS Mah BP ie ne Be eS Phage ena Si ayaa \ 4 XX 5 ral fs oe Fe ANS Te Ma mine baie tah ahah oe ee iN, Huai dibdinaalt UR ciataib ok: rinse oN Na =i i *, Galkat the Gem r P _tarmacy t andhwet a Bottle of fteef, “Wine and fron for that tired feoking. 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GOMPANY):-Dopt, “SL” GHIDAGO, ILL, JEWISH NEW YEAR Celebration in Charles- ton Next Sunday NO HISTORIC: EVENT * Next Sunday specfal services will bo held in the Jewish Synagogue in this city to celebrate the Jewish New Year. “Rabbi Volmer will deliver a jepectal sermon and several vocal sel- ections have been arranged. ‘The fall séason-of Jewish holidays ‘begins this year September 9, with the coming of New Year, or Mosh Hashonah ag it fs called in Hebrew. As the Jewish day commences at sun-down, the initial gervice will be held at the ‘Temple Stnany. evening, September 8. No. longer employed for secular pnrposes, ..osh Hashonah has come generally ‘to enjoy simply 4 religious significance. Known as “the day of memorial," or “the day of remembrance," it Is devoted to a consideration of the moral value of life, to retrospect and prospect, and to preparation for the ‘Ten Days of Penitence,” which it inaugurates, The Sabbath following is called “The Sabbath st Return,” from the 14th chapter of the Book «+f Hosea which Is read on that day, and whieh begins with the words, “Return, 0 Israel until the Lord, thy God.” The tenth day of the season is Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. Ac- cording to the Jewish conception, ‘every child enters life pure and sin: less, éndowed with reason, conscience ‘and free will, capable of triumphing over sin and developing toward per- fection. “Because “It is human to brr," as he grews he sometimes falls to measure up to his possibilities, and falls into the depths. But by’ vir- ‘tue of his uature, he can by his own unaided efforts again rise to hls ‘sigh estate, it only he will repent of his wrongs, try to make repara- ‘tion for them, and sincerely strive to wet back on the right track, Man may atone any day, but what he may do any day he 18 apt to-do no day, so.the Day of Atonement, {s provided, ‘on which touched by the common Smpulse of his people, the Yew may repair to his synagogue and through Introspection and, humility, through meditation and prayer, and exhortation, find the way to reconell- jation with God from whom. he has stranged himself. In'this way the Gittosopny of the day responds to ‘numan conditions and needs. Observed by none but Jews, Rosh Masonah and Yom Kippur are stil universal in their extent, Based on no historte occurrence, they were in- ‘troduced to provide for feelings that belonged to men as a whole. ‘The festival of Tabernacles which occurs the fifth day after the Day of Atone- ment, however, has more of a denom- Inational appeal, It has historical significance in that it refers to the time when, wandering In the wilder- ness; Israel dwelt In booths, and ag- rieultural, in that tt recalls the fautumn harvest festival which the Jews’ observed in Palestine, when they gethered'In the fruit and- grape harvest, and threshed the gathered corn and wheat, | The festival lasts elght days, the last day being known ag the Day of Rejoicing in the Law, or Simchath ‘Torah. when.after finishing the rend- Ing of the scroll, the reading is be- gun with the first chapter of Genests, find also as the Festival of Conclu- ston, because it closes the holiday season. On the Day of Atonement Jews fast to indleate taat “man liv. eth not by bread alone,” and to give fone ,day uninterruptedly to prayer and ‘serious thought. During the Fes- Uval of Tabernacles, the synagogue ‘ls usually decorated’ with the fruits ‘of the field, In some places little Vooths are constructed in the syna- ‘gogues, or the’court yards adjoining. OPE ON A VACATION. A. J. Humpeles, of the Board, of Affairs, aceompaniéd by his wife, father and mother, have gone on a visit to their former home in Vir- inia, where they expect to romain tor two or Unree weeks viewing fa- miliar seénes and renewing former friendships, *. BRTAFIGIAL PEABLS. What @ Little. Bilver Fish Taught. « Erensh Beadinakers: “Vl tell you,” said a Jewoler, “how tho wondertully perfect artificial pear fame to: be Invented, ‘A ‘vich Bench beadmaker, Motse Jnquin—he tiyedyin the seventeent? ceutury—found a pond In his garden covered one morning with a lovely sft yery luster. Amazed, he called bi kanlener, who anid If was nothing some alhettes bed got crushed; thal was all, "Albettes were little sliver Aisi bleaks the Leuciweug alournus, "The gartene expisined that It you crushed, thon they always gave the water a pearly sheet! Ike that. Jaayln pat on his ‘thinking cap. rie “Vor six years he wotked with bends and blesks, wasting militéns, of both but finally, he achieved succest), WX sfearned tiow..to extract the pearly tus ter from the bleaks’ scales and to cov “Gr a glass bend with It. “What be dig-and bis method still wsed—wiis fo scrape the senles fron the fish, wash tind rub them and say the water, ‘The water, decanted, gay ff & lusfous fluid of the thickneds of oll, a veritable pearl ‘paint, a magi Auld, that tiparts a lovely pearly sheer “to everything It Ix appliéa to.” “St takes. 1,000 bleuke to yleld at ouhge’ of this pearl paint.”—New Or leans Tithes-Dagocrat. GIRGYUS RIDERS. They Earn Good Saiarica, but Their ‘+ Careers. Are Short. A man horseback rider recolves from $75 to $125 m week, and his enreer as a principal ridey lasts about ten years. Tt ‘ia short not Ho mnch becauke these men get stiff and Jose thelr agillty as be- cause they lose thelr nerve, Nearly ail elreus folk marry young, and with thelr added responsibilities ‘Conia a lively sense of danger which they Ignored in younger days. A man rider-who can hot turn a somergault on a horse can: not command more than £50 @ wate, A woman rider who can perform this feat gets from $150 to $200 a week If she 1g a finished rider. ‘his Jsn’t much when all the disad- -Yantages of the calling are taken Into consideration, but It should be remem. Wered that all’ the. expenses are paid, including the. care, feeding. and of course. the transportation of thelr horses. AN they have to provide is thelr own clothing. Vor the men riders Clothes do. not constitute’ mucly of factor, and the women uearly always make their own, eXcept those provided by the management. Misgeacts Weacae Sibadn wel * a. collector oF rags offered the .man- ager of a large boarding house a cor taln price for,a bag of wornout linen, “These rags. are worth more than .that,” sald the shrewd landlord,“ Fuh ‘several’ Houses In this neighbor hood, and all are occupied exclusively by Wrench guests,” ‘The desler apparently constdered that remark suMciently explanatory. He cast a hasty glenco upon the con. tents of the bag, then raised the price. “And he could well afford to raise it too,” said the landiord. “Even at that rate he will make money off the tings French rags the world’ over bring a higher price than any other. ‘The rea: son why? French people wear @ bet ter quality of linen and thelr easton garments ave Jn demand by «ll mani Yacturers of high grade paper.”—New York Press, ——___~— Tho CoAgregation Smiled. ‘Two country clergymen had agreed to exchange puipits on a certain date One of them: made the Yottowing sol emn annoumcement to his congregation ‘on the Sabbath previous to the event: “My dear bretbren and sisters, Inve the pleasure of tating that on next Sunday morning the Rev. Zachariah 8. Day will preach for you. Let us now sing two verses of hymn No. 489, ‘That Awful Day Will Surely Come.” And it took him some time to discov. er why the congregation smiled, ain baa MLA, At first when a man wanted to cross A deep stream he was compelled to swhn across, Tut man at best isa poor awhmmer, and it was not tong be fore he invented a better method of traveling on water. A‘log drifting tn a stream furnished the hint. By resting his body upon the log and plaghing with his hands and feet he found he could move along faster and. easier ‘Thus the log was the first bont and the human arm was the first oar.—8, ¥, Forman in St. Nicholas, Witty Women. Women have more wit than humor: ‘They are more sensitive tan men, ‘Their minds are nimbler. Thel thoughts tnsh Instantly to an tntnitive conclusion; hence wit {# far more nat ural to them. ‘They have hardly the Intellectual patience to create or engey the less obvious and more .deltherate moods of humor.—Munsey's Magazine __ A Failure. “So you don't believe in the mind cure?" ee “Did yon evr try 1?" “Well, T once tried to convince my wife that sho didn’t really want m nev gown." Judge, ‘Léake Yaaa Whee, “T wonder if Mars really Is Inhabit ed” “Don't know, but ff Saturn t8, TH bet the politicians own It" “Think 602" “Certainly; can't you ace the rings?” Philadelphia Presa. A concented apnek 1s more to fenved thaa an open fire—German Proverb. “Pray, what do you think a girl ought to wear?” “Clothes,” . re aaa are te ein glk SN OM maa area died a hme Ua dates pati $ The. tforta‘ fuking by wu the Government VALUE OF THE WORK Fh ee oe aE Ce OS, States has now been, reached’ where Mdovelopment of the country is made, Prot tn the face of the forest but with its essential ald. ‘Mie old process of fexhausting the supply of timber in a yegion and then seeking new felds is practically over. Already the Tuimber Industyy 18 turning back jon its tracks, A” quality of timber’ 1s feugerly sought In the Lake States Which a Tow years Ako was Ignored fas utterly worthless. and in the South the whole ple resion ts Delug one over in@ close search for the Hol} field pine, a trea once despised put now ‘bought wp, at prices much phigher than those formerly pald for the magnificent Umber of the virgin Htorests. A publication, Just. fssuct by the Department of Agteuliure, entitled “National Forests,.and the Lumber Supply,” defines the Amportant part which (he National Forests are des- itined to play in the economle devel- pment of the country. Abuses have grown up under the laws which pro- lwite for the . disposition of public Jand, notably the | sexregation of large holdings of timberland for speculative purposes. ‘Timber from the national forests is now pur- chased by the thousand board fect and payment is made upon the actual |soale of the logs when ent. ‘Two dot- lars and-a half pe¥ thousand feet 1s comparatively low. As present charges 80, bint since thé eut ranges trom 6,000 to 20,000 fet per acro, the xovernment ‘recelvei' from five to twenty times as much for the timber Jas St did-under the-fmber and stone act. cs Public opinion naw demands, not that the government should’ dispose of ‘it remaining timborlands as rap- Ndly as possible and leaye, it to priv late enterprise to exploit the forest hastily, but that what remains of the national forests should be more con- fnervatively used. ‘The government has been forced’ into the lumber [business solely in order that a sup- Iply of forest products may be guar- Janteed to future generation®, |, Probably 65 per cent of the ‘total stand of merchantable timber within the forests ts located on the Pact Coast, were for a long time the fonormons supply of privately owned timber will satisty, most of the de- and. ‘This more accessible private mber surrounds the forests as the ment of an apple surrowhd the core. It has been entirely eaten away in many places, while in others it {g locked up by epectlatora, ‘The thing }to remember, then, is that this {m- monse body of public timber Is there fas.a great resorve agatist the time ‘when private timberland will be do- pleted. and for use ax, a weapon lngatnst_ monopoly. The first effect of nétonal forests upon prices, particularly where thee 4s still a great deal of avaliable tim- her, 18 to raise the prlee of outside fstumpage toward its actual value by withdrawing, the excess supply of ltow-priced tfmber from the market, But later, as the supply. of timber dwindles and values aré forced up- ward by speculative ‘héldings, the effect of the iforests will be to check ithe advance of prices, In the virgin forest, growth is just about balanced by decay. In the western forests, however, natural deterioration is ‘ereatly. augumented by forest fires, ‘The fires usually do most harm by damasing merchant- fable timber, but, great as this Injury is, vastly more actual logs In forest woalth results from the Yearly burn- ing over of the icrass and under- Browth of the forest. Ground. fires do not consume the large trees, but they destroy seedlings ontelght’ and injure growing trees so that they laulekly “decay. Winally, the forest Moor, composed of « mola of needles, wigs, and mosses, is burnéd away. Far beyond the present. influence lof the national forests upon the lum- ber supply will be (helr-smportance fn the future, ‘The Unkter States Is now faving a shoriaxotn the stock fof available timber. ‘The yteld trom the national foresis will aid greatly to bridge over the perled in which ynalure timber will be Jacking, a period which will last from the time the old trees are one, until, the young trees are larke enough to take thelr places, | ‘The definite result, therefore, of fthe wale of timber fromthe forests wIN be to sustain the Immber bust- ness, to maintain a steady range of timber values anit 80, discourage speculation, and, {ur moke Important still, steadily to fot “tre “unin torrupted development Of.the great Industries dependen! upOR wood, “o.-¥ou don't liketb@eelkea chon KANAWHA TEACHERS RESOLVE a VOU AK OF PF if NOT WHY NOT? Retarn Thanks for Courtesies, Re- commend Changes in the Com- pulsory School Law, Bite, Be tt resolved by the te&chors of \Kahawha County Institute assem- ‘bled, }. ‘That grade one cortiMeates shall ve renewed on thelr expiration with- out any further ecamination of the |polders thereof; provided, that if fany person applying for such renewal shall haye “taught successfully at Heast four years of tho five in which 'safa certificate was tn force, and has otherwise conducted hintselt proper- ay ‘Tkat when an applicant fora Htexcher’s certificate shall fail of making an average of 90 per cent or lover on not exceeding three branches rhe shall be entitled to a.re-oxamina. ‘lon on these branches “only at. the jnext uniform examination; his-stand- ling in this second trial to be syb- stituted for the corresponding stand: ings In the previous test, and. his certificate graded in accordance therewith, ‘That the Inw be amended so as to feltminate general history, bookkeep. ling and phystology from the common ‘school course and that the subjects ot hygiene and elementary agricul ture be added in Meu thereof. ‘That the minima salaries o! teachers be as follows:” For a num: der one grade, $50; for a number two grade, $40; for a number three grade, $35. ‘That we favor a uniform: program for district institutes and suggest hat the county superintendents pre pare’ them. ‘That we favor an Increase in the salary of the members of the bourdé bf otlucation. : ‘That the compulsory school law bo amended that the word ‘shall’ be substituted for the word “may,’ und that the age limit be made to In: clude persons from 8 to 18 ‘That we extend our thanks to the board of education of Charleston for ‘the use of Mercer Hall, to Mrs. Blanche Ruffner and Miss Belle Michaelson for thelr excellent work in directing the music, to our abl instructors for the Inspiration and educational sentiment awakened 3 them, to our county superintendent Mr. Shawkey, for his untiring effort in, making this the most interesting enjoyable and instructive Institute 1) the history of the county; to. th Kelly axe factory for the ‘courtes; shown the teachers In giving them ar opportunity to vislt its plant and tc the clergy of the elty in conducting the devottonat services, ‘That a copy of these resolutions b printed in the Charleston papers, 11 the Educator and the West Virginic School Journal. H. C. Robertson, Mrs. Mary R. Me Gwiggan, D. W Hunt, B. C. 8. Har khis, 8. C. Blafr, P.'F, Jones, Jen nie L. Frist, Elen Greor and: H , Cunningham, Committee. ao Ge WE TEU ae. : : apy Do-you not know that the” Knights,.of Pythias is. the f Strongest and most progres«~ Sive order of the age? . “ The four departments of the — order aré asfollows; .. o in this the, members’ are. united to care for and pres tect. each . other’s storey as Well as sickness and. distress. ee In.-this. departmént cour ’ young menare receiving # military education. which they can- get in. no other way. thus making them. better and more usefw ! citizens. , , In this the wives, mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of Knights are Une: ited for the common pur:' poses of life. ey) ENSOWMENT ‘ In this department we. are Raving out thousands | of. dollars annuatly to, thé. widows, and heirs of des: ceased Knights. -—— : ts Ifthere is no lodge. in yeur locality, confer. with the Dep- » uty Grand Chancellor of. your diSfrict or.write S. W. Starks, Charleston, W. Va., for. terms upon which to organize a lodge. : FOR A’ THAT. An American official In Englayid tells the following as illustrative of a well-known Scotch characteristic: Upon his accession to the throne of Norway, King Haakon VII. was appointed colonel in chief of & cer. tain Scotch regiment, While dress. ing for parade duty, says Harper's Weekly, an enthustastic subaltern was communieating th's Information to a fellow-soldier: “MeDonald,” sald he, “havo. you heard that the new king of Norway has been appointed colonel of the regiment?” “Indeed?” querled the Scot. “That's a verra fine thing, now! Bul will he be able to keep both jobs?" NEGRO NOT LYNCHED. Alleged Lynching. of Negro at Welch Said to Be a Fake, ‘ Bluefield, W. Va., Sopt. 4.—The report became current that the ne- xro, William Woodson, who IciMied Conductor Sidney Bolton, had been lynched Friday night at Welch ‘This proves to be unfounded. ‘The body of an unknown negro was found by the railroad tracks Friday, near McClaren, and this is what probably caused tho report to be started, ‘The negro who killed Conductor Boltor ix in jail at Welch. He wax only slightly Injured and was not taker to the hospital, STORER COLLEGE, | Harper's Ferry, a 3 West Va, 4 | Courses ‘ f Academic, Stato Normal, Biblical, Vocal and Tnéteiimental | | / Muslo, Carpentry, Blacksinithing, " Practical Gardening amis | - Musbandry, Cookery, Setving and Drosemaking. } Equipment ¥ Ample Bulldings, Beautitul Campus, I aboratory, Tolosdope, Las. J | braries of over 6900 volums, *Comm‘dions Bara, Piggory, Hennery, Dairy, several acres of of gstdons, Cold Frames ana, | | Hot Beds. a Expenses Books, Koom Rent and Tultion treo to West Virginians. -Nebé essary’ Kixpenso mot over $6.50 per month to State studenta “a Special Features $ Bight valueble sholarships and six prixes awarded annuany || | Athletics, Nand, Literary Societies, Frequont Lectures’ and Ma | tertalnments, Musical @iubs, ¥. M,C. A. “% bon | Storer fs a Non-eotarian, Christian Institution, ggaigieee “| For Iiiustrated Catalogue send. to = hh | denry T. McDonald New York, Sept. 3.—A dlamond studded purse worth $1,000 was Yost, found, and returned Tast night all in three “hours, and Mat without the aid of teh police, who had been call- ed to take @ hand, Mrs. T.1. Hughes of 1698 Broad- way lost the purse on a street car about 6 o'clock In the evenlag while ‘going from Ninety-ninth to itty- fourth street. She at once notified the police of the West Forty-seventh Street Station, and a general alarm was sent out from Headquarters. ‘The purse was of gold and was set with twenty diamonds, Inside was another gold purse and a chain of pearis. The name and address of the owner was In the purse. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Hughes calted up police headquarters and xaid that hor missing property had been re- turned, that It had yen found by a young woman, who refused to give her name, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY THE ADVOCATE PUBLISHINGCO., Office, Pythlan Building, Charleston, W. Va. Home Phone 923. The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months $0.50 Sixxx months 1.30 One year 1.50 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1907 OFFICES. New York: 738 7th Avenue. Washington: 1325 12th St. N. W. Louisville: 1112 W. Madison St. Bt. Louis: 3137 Pine St. Philadelphia: 702 So. 15th St. Baltimore: 502 W. Biddle St. Booston: 94 a Harvard St., Cambridge Pittsburg: 461 6th St., Braddock. Columbus: 266 St. Clair Ave. New Orleans: 226 S. Robertson St. Jacksonville 556 W. Union St. Nashville: 706 Bass St. Indianapolis: 1605 Alvord St. Lexington: 567 N. Upper St. San Francisco: 865 Union St., Oakland. Detroit: 261 Elliot St. El Paso: Chicago: 3519 Calumet Ave. BISHOPS FOR RACE IN THE M. E. CHURCH Jim Crowism often needs to be, defined. Many cry out against it, while leaping forward to promote it. Ambition will make men decry the essence of principles wrapped up Jim the fairest laws of nature, or advocate measures the far-seeing knoweth will undo the fondest dreams of a Christian. The Methodist Episcopal church is all wrought up over a discussion as to whether or whether not to adopt a resolution, or rather, pass a law, looking to the election of the "Bishops for Races," the title of the subtle drafters and promoters of the measure. The braver among those who favor the law, and such, for the most part, are prominent Negro ministers, make no secret of the ultimate purpose and object of it, which are to promote the ambition, worthy and respectable of those who see no other road to advancement and power, and to provide the Negro conferences throughout the South with Negro bishops. "Bishops for Races," is subtle and good, and sufficient balm for the unsuspecting. The wisdom of such a law is doubtful and may be debated or discussed with profit to the church and likewise to its farmers and backers. We are sure the laity throughout the country would welcome that enlightenment bound to come of a proper and an extended consideration of so important and so far-reaching a departure. Important, because of its radicalness; far-reaching because the children of today must feel its influence fifty years hence. The Ohio conference is extremely likely to go on record as being against the passing of the proposal. This conference is composed almost, wholly of white preachers. Their views maybe said to be disinterested. They are, however, we believe, the views of most honest men. The measure, they contend, is out of harmony with the spirit of Methodism; it would promote segregation in a much larger measure than now obtains and finally it would destroy that influence—the presence of the great bishops of the church—which has meant most for the Negro members and the Negro preachers in the church allie. Harmony strikes us sweetly; the destruction of the polity of the church has no fears for us; segregation we abhor; but that last reason of the brethren over in Ohio strikes home, and must demolish at one sweep any argument that can be advanced by the emboldened aspirants. No one will ever be able to write down accurately the powerful and uplifting influence exerted by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church upon the life and aspirations of not only their own members in the South, but upon the Negro people as a whole. That influence is still needed, both as an incentive and a needed Sympathy; for those of the Bench of Bishop who have during the last forty years gone into the South to meet the several conferences, have done so as brothers in Christ and in human ties. They are no publicans. Southern sentiment had no terrors for them; they cared not one breath for criticism, nor searched they out white Southern Christians with whom to fraternize or commune. They have done their work nobly, and well, and of civilization itself, the Hebrew home, which, since history began to be written, has been the altar of the Hebrew faith, an earthly throne, and the very chiefest influence in the life and vision of the Hebrew child has preserved its place and its power in the development of that race even in sc thoughtless and gold-struck country as ours with amazing poise. Prof. Isaacs very properly attributes the it will be felt down the years. They have given dignity to the Negro minister. There is yet a higher reason why this "Bishops for Races" proposition should not prevail. It will as surely promote the spirit, and ultimately the letter, of "Jim Crow" as night follows day. There can be no opposition to the election of a Negro as a full-fledged bishop in the Methodist church. On the other hand, there is no good reason why one has not been selected before this day. There are Bowen, Jones and Brooks, Mason and Thomas, Lucas, Shumport and Logan, and a score of other men of like character, reputation and attainment, any one of whom would honour the bench and carry forward the work of the church. But the selection of either were a distinct defeat of the spirit of the church and the index and higher ambition of the Negro people, unless it meant that he could preside in Ohio as well as in Georgia. A Bishop is a Bishop. Who would, who could restrict him, and yet not know the import and consequences of that restriction? Men cry out "Representation, representation!" So cry we, but not representation at any cost. Hard is the pill for the mubious, but, their membership perfers it. The black membership of the Methodist Episcopal church is not asking for black bishops; they are satisfied with bishops, with love in their heart, and the gift of power, nor do they care whether their faces are done in ivory or in ebony. If the time ever comes when this membership must have black bishops, since there is not a needle's point of difference in the faith or creed of the mother church and the A. M. E., A. M. E. Z., or C. M. E. churches, why not join either of these? Each has black bishops to let. That thought we know is not comforting to the eagle-eyed masters of the trick in the several Negro conferences, but we press it. It at least shows the way of escape from radiating "Jim Crow" principles in a church great because it has so far successfully withstood the march of prejudice and separation. A Lesson From the Jewish Home. Prof. Abram S. Issues writes for the latest number of The North American Review a scholarly and an inspiring article on "The Jewish Home." He points out that, notwithstanding the baleful influence of riches hunting and wealth madness exercised against the home as the most sacred af all institutions, and likewise as the foundation of society and good morals, if not sobriety and industry and obedience of the Jewish people to the early lessons of the consecrated home. He sets himself to the task of analyzing the strength and permanency of the Jewish home. "What subtle magic," he inquires, "invests it with such strength." Three things, each elemental and fundamental, the Jewish Home stands for. First, it stands for religion. Scriptulously is the Hebrew religion guarded and handed down to the children. The emblem of the faith has a sacred setting upon the doorways of the home, for it is written, "and thou shalt write them on the door posts of the house and on thy gates." The festivals are preserved and celebrated. The traditions that have made this people, great, and brought them safely through centuries of sufferings and misfortunes, are the bulwark of the home, and the cornerstone of the building of generation after generation." The home," says Prof. Issues, "is in the shadow of the Almighty. * * * It is an altar, with the parents as priest and priestess." Second, the Jewish Home stands squarely and impressively, unwavering for the historical consciousness of the Jewish race," being thus a school of knowledge and loyalty." The triumphs and glory of this people, their defeats and exiles, their present grander away in the frontward, are taught the Jewish children at the knee of the priest/father. Upon what the Jewish race has been, the child is taught to look forward to what it may be, what it will be, if the children of Zion shall diligently exercise the faith and fortitude of their fathers, nor know it is to be ashamed of their race. Third. The Jewish Home stands for the principals of the family life; the children are taught the sacredness of family ties, and the sanctity of the home. The parents know the very depths of the import of parenthood, and they eagerly dedicate themselves to the proper and sympathetic rearing of their children, of whom they constantly think as the guard and hope of their race, of which their one opinion is, that it must, in the philosophy of history, and the promises of divinity ultimately rule the world, and the children of men lead them the way to righteousness and to Victory. Prof. Isaacs dwells upon the absence of drunkards among the Jewish people, and the infrequency of divorces between Jewish men and women and claim for the absence of these forces the influence and teachings of the home. Heaven alone is more sacred than the ties of marriage. Home is Heaven upon earth. There is much that is inspiring in Prof. Isaces article; it teaches great lessons, needed and having power to save. The Negro home makers charged with the correct building of a mighty race, whose past glory is not the least of its virtues, may well study the Jewish theme, to the end that the children may be strong in the faith, having perfect fear of God. Home is the school and the college, the making or the ruining of the child. And home ought to become for the Negro a sacred and an inviolable altar upon which burns forever a sacrifice neither vicious nor vain. The Negro children should be taught the power and glory of religion; the grace and force of race-consciousness and a consequent responsibility, and the sacredness of the family. A race is no stronger than its children think it, and a people who know not that a race is but a larger home, may not hope to win the prize. RACE QUESTION IN POLITICS. Cincinnati Enquirer. The investigation of the Brownville "shooting-up" incident got to the stage of popular indifference before the recess of the committee at Washington. Some of the investigators got tired themselves, and there was some doubt about their being ultimately any important result. Interest has revived. The investigation itself is by no means dead, but the chief concern has been transferred to the political field. Senator Foraker has met with most enthusiastic approval of his course from the colored people in Ohio, and a big vote in' this state will be influenced by the Senator among colored electors, to the exclusion of all ordinary political questions and all other issues. The number of colored voters in Ohio is now a figure of the deepest consequence in the Republican situation. The administration has entered into the fight. Mr. Taft, who as secretary of war was conspicuous in the enforcement of the dismissal order, has been especially in earnest in addressing the Negroes in Kentucky and elsewhere. How far the speeches Mr. Taft has made will go toward removing the convictions made by Mr. Foraker's exposition of the facts of the dismissal is hard to mathematically estimate. Will the revolt of white Republicans who are tired of so much concession to the colored element offset the alleged injustice of the Brownsville dismissal? Has Mr. Foraker taken from Mr. Roosevelt his position of amiability toward the colored people, and if he has, will it do him harm or good? The judgment of conservative people is that President Roosevelt has suffered greatly in republican friendship on account of the warmth of his social considerations. Has he promoted or postponed the extinction of prejudice between the races? That is one of the aching questions. Now Senator Foraker has come in gallantly for the "colored" troops. Where will it all end? Who is going to get the worst of it? IS THE SOUTH GOING "DRY"? Georgia's adoption of the State prohibition by legislative enactment directs national attention to the marvelous progress of this idea in the Southern States. In the North, except in Indiana, Ohio, and southern Illinois, the prohibition sentiment is moribund, if not dead; but in the South it is sweeping onward, with relentless and irresistible force, gaining new converts and increasing in power every year. Seven-eighths of the territory of the Southern States is today "dry," and it is believed that a majority of the population favors national prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League is well organized in most of the States, and is pursuing a quiet, determined, relentless opposition to the liquor business. Today there are fewer saloons in the thirteen Southern States than in Greater New York, and only a few more than in the city of Chicago. In New York there are 20,000 places where liquor is sold, In Chicago 28,000, and in the entire South only 29,000. In New York State the estimated population in 1905 was 8,160,000, and the government issued in the state that year 34,080 "special-tax stamps" to persons desiring to engage in the manufacture and sale of liquor. The thirteen Southern States, with 23,500,000 people, secured in 1906 less than 30,000 stamps. President Marion E. Taylor, of the National Liquor Dealers' convention, held in June in Atlantic City, in calling attention to the assaults made by Prohibitionists on the liquor business especially in the South said: "Our only recourse now is to save our business. Unless we work with energy and determination to stop this tidal wave, every state in the South will be closed against us." Measures designed to restrict or absolutely prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages have been in produced since the first of the year in the legislatures of half a dozen Southern States, and in almost every instance have resulted in new victories for the prohibition cause.—From "The Prohibition Wave in the South," by John Corrigan, in the American Review of Reviews for September. A Naval Ceremony That Is Not What It Used to Be. In the old navy, when United States ships were actually ships with yards, the boats mate's call, "All hands cheer船" was followed by a much more picturesque ceremony than is possible now, when the vessels of the navy are fitted with but a single yard and that only used for signalling. At the word of command "Man the yards!" there was an amount of acrobatic scurrying on the main decks of the old ships that was calculated to make the ship visitor hold his breath, the thing looked so dangerous. The men in bluejacket would fairly leap up the rope ladders, and almost by the time the echoes of the command had died away every yard on each mast would support scores of men and boys, all standing erect, most of them only held up by the crossed arms of the men beside them. This representation of a cross was held by all of the men, and it was their business to stand thus with absolute statuesqueness. Then the command "Cheer船" would be bawled out on deck by the chief boss'n mate, and there would be a yell from cathedrast to mizzen that couldn't help but warm the blood of everybody within hearing of it. When the men manned the yards with all sail except topsails and stansails set, such a picture was really beautiful, the men's uniforms of blue standing out in sapphire-like contrast to the cameo whiteness of the shrouds. This was a ceremony on all formal occasions, such as the visit aboard the old ships of distinguished men. And "Man the yards!" and "Cheer船" were commands always given when one of the old clippers of the United States navy was either departing for or arriving from a foreign station. TO MASTER THE SHEET. What You Must Learn If You Want to Be a Sailor. One thing you have to learn before you can write sailor after your name, and that is to master a sail. Brute force is of no account. To use brute force with a sail is like employing it to capture an elephant or run down an untamed steed. Mastering a sail is a game of strategy, finesse, diplomacy, flattery, persuasion and perseverance, with fierce energy flashed in at the right instant. You must know your sail; Sails are not all alike. What will work with a jib will fall if applied to a mainsail or topsail. When once a man has become skilled at this game he can do more at it than three rubbers. I've seen three men tackle a jib and come back on the head baffled and beaten after a fifteen minute fight, and then a fellow not a quarter their combined weight go out and conquer the sail, binding it captive in ten minutes. A sail master has five hands—two on his arms, two on his legs, and his teeth. Besides, he has knees, his elbows, the grip of his thighs, his neck, and his whole body. He must be an octopus, a boa constrictor and a monkey, combining with their qualities the patience of an ox, the quickness of a tiger and the subtlety of a fox.—T. F. Day in the Opting Magazine His Medal. The button worn by those to whom congress awards medals for special bravery in the country's service is blue with white stars, but it is not common enough for its significance to be generally understood. A city official who was entertaining a visitor who wore one of these buttons was puzzled by it and finally asked his visitor to enlighten him. The man hesitated modestly and began to explain that it was different from most decorations, especially foreign, which are usually brilliantly colored. Suddenly the official recalled what the medal meant. "Oh. I understand now," he interrupted; "it certainly is different. There's no yellow in it."—New York Sun. Lively Mourning. A noted English artist once was standing at the edge of the road waiting for his horse and he was dressed in his usual peculiar style—mustard-colored riding suit, vivid waistcoat and bright red tie. A man who had evidently been reveling happened to lurch round the corner of the street. He stared at the famous artist for a minute in silence, then he touched his cap and asked in a tone of deep commiseration, "Beg pardon, guv'nor, was you in mournin' for anybody?" The Place For the Repentant. They had cloped and returned for the parental blessing. "Father," the beautiful young woman said, "we are sorry for what we have done. Will you"— "Then," the stern old man interrupted, "why don't you go to the lawyer round the corner? I'm no divorce court." The Little Darling -Mrs. Upmor (unkling a call) -Why, this is your latest photograph, isn't it? It's an excellent likeness of you, but it isn't so good of baby. Wasn't he—Mrs. Highmus -The Ideal! Did you think the little darling in my lap was baby? That's Fido!-Chicago Tribune Of Retiocination: Nickler — A boy's mother always finds out when he has been swimming. Bocker—And yet folks never know when a man takes a Wall street plunge.—New York Sun. Norwegians and Lapps, the world's tallest and shortest people, live side by side. The blood thrown out by the heart travels seven miles in an hour, or Some Curious Facts About the Size of Wings' and Bodies. In the attempt to discover some universal law of bird flight scientists have disclosed concerning a number of species a most puzzling paradox, perhaps the most mysterious of the enigmas that the subject presents. It is that in a number of birds and insects the size of the wings decreases in proportion to the increase in size of the body of the flying creature. The Australian crane, for instance, welgals over 300 times more than the sparrow, but in proportion has only one-seveath the wing area of the smaller bird. This curious fact is equally striking if we compare birds with insects. If the guan were increased in size until it was as large as the Australian crane and if the wings of the insect were enlarged to maintain the proportion they now bear to its body they would be about 150 times larger than the crane's. It requires 3.62 square feet of wing area per pound to float the bank swallow, but to sustain the tawny vulture, a monstrous bird in comparison, requires only .68 of a square foot of wing surface per pound of body. The albatross, weighing eighteen pounds, has a spread of wing of eleven feet six inches, while the trumpeter swan, weighing twenty-eight pounds, has a spread of wing of only eight feet. The stork weighs eight times more than the pigeon, but in proportion has only half as much wing surface.—Everybody's Magazine. PALFREY FOR DINNER. It Was Not Horseaffle, However, That Dr. Johnson Ate. Dr. Johnson in his journal mentions the interesting fact that he had on a certain day that "palfrey for dinner." Now, these three words have caused not a little trouble to the critics, and for this reason, that they know not what palfrey really is. It has been suggested that palfrey is a clerical error made by the doctor himself for pastry, but the doctor wrote so legibly and there is so much difference between the words palfrey and pastry that this position is not at all tenable. Palfrey is defined in Johnson's celebrated dictionary as "a small horse fit for ladies," and some have thought that the doctor (whose feats as a trencherman were notorious) may have broken a record on the day in question and disposed of a small horse. All these and other conjectures are wrong, and we will proceed to give the correct explanation. The word palfrey (sometimes pamfrey by the interchange of 1 and m) is still in use among the rustics of Scotland and the north of Ireland and means young cabbages when they first come to table in the spring. Such cabbages have not begun to "close" or become solid in the center. They are generally spoken of as "early pamfrey" and are considered a luxury. Dr. Johnson probably picked up the word from his friend Boswell or from some other Scotch acquaintance. — London Notes and Queries. A Good Medicine Laughter not only galas friends, but it's a good medicine—keeps the eyes bright, the heart light and increases the number of red corpuscles. Perhaps that is the reason one sees so few fashionable people laughing. They are cultivating blue blood. A man who was very ill was visited by his doctor, one of those lugubrious creatures, about as cheerful as a tombstone. He assumed the properly dejected air and inquired of the sick man where his friends were; in case they need be notified and asking if he had any last request. "Yes, one," the patient answered feebly. "What is it?" "I wish I had another doctor."—St Louis Republic. A Curious Embrocation: Rattlesnake oil is preserved and prepared very carefully, for use as a limiment in some parts of the world. Rheumatism and sore joints are the ailments in which it is chiefly employed. The fat is taken from the dead reptile and laid upon a cloth in the hot sun, from which the filtered oil drips into a jar. From fear that the reptile may be bitten itself the clear oil is tested by dropping a portion of it into milk. If it floats in one globule it is regarded as unaffected. If it breaks into beads and curdles the milk it is judged to be poisonous and thrown away.-Montreal Standard. The Poor Cat A young wife called her husband on the telephone to tell him a tale of woe. In tear choked accents she said: "That you, dearie? Well, you know that lovelier chicken ple I made you—that horrible old cat came in and ate it up before I could stop it." He answered, "Never mind, darling! I'll get you another cat." Hia Symptoms. "Maybe that boy of yours will be famous some day," said the friend. "I shouldn't be surprised," answered Farmer Cornfossel; "he does like to wear curious clothes and say things that sounds more surprisin' than sensible."—Washington Star. Her Discharge. "Why did you leave your last place?" "Sure, I wore discharged for doin' well, mum." "Discharged for doing well? Why. where were you?" "I wore in the hospital, mum." "London Answers." Prosperity tries the human heart with the deepest probe and brings forth the hidden character.—Tacitus. 4,292,000 miles in a lifetime of 70 years Washington, Sept. 4. —Senator Hemenway, of Indiana, once lived in Kansas and he tells how in those days he used to make money hauling buffalo bones to Wichita. The prairies of Kansas were covered with these bones and the settlers soon learned that they could sell them, as they were shipped to New England and used for making buttons and other things. There was a time when one of the principal streets of Wichita was paved with buffalo skulls and horns, and it is said that many a good horse was ruined because of it. When the settlers brought in the buffalo bones many of them brought the horns and skulls also, but there was no market for these; and the city authorities made the settlers take them out of town on their return trips. Some one started dumping their loads of horns and skulls on Seneca street, Wichita, and soon every one was following the example. Not long afterward buffalo horns and skulls brought a good price, but in those early days thousands of dollars' worth of them were thrown away. The Missing Link That there are scientists who still believe there is, a missing link between mankind and the animals is shown by the fact that Dr Max Moskowski, of Germany has just arrived at Java with an expedition whose sole purpose is to discover the "missing link." The expedition is being financed by the Royal Prussian Academy of Science and the Dutch government, and Dr. Moskowski, who is a zoologist, is accompanied by geologists, engineers, and an escort of troops provided by the Dutch authorities. Java was selected as the starting point of the expedition because Prof. Dubois, a Dutch scientist, said that he found the "missing link" there some twenty years ago. In the course of his excavations at Java Dubois unearthed the remains of a savage being which, he says, could have been neither man nor ape, but something between the two. Dr. Moskowski intends to begin his excavations in the valley of the Sofo River, near the volcano Layu, and he will carry on the work for at least a year. A New Radium Substitute The school of medicine at Rochefort, France, has announced the discovery of a new radio-active substance by one of its students named Luncien. It is said that the substance is uranyl-molybdate, and its constituents, uranium and molybdenum, are fairly abundant so that there should be no trouble in procuring them, or in preparing the new discovery. The molybdate is formed by adding ammonium molybdate to uranyl nitrate, when a white powder separates. This is dried in the dark, and is so unstable that it must not be exposed to the light. It is said to give radio-active effects practically as intense as those given by radium. Its cost is estimated at about $110 an ounce, which, however, is slight compared to that of radium, which has gone up to many thousands of dollars an ounce. Making Bread Quickly. A favorite feat performed at some of the Massachusetts shoemaking towns, when they have a distinguished visitor, is to measure him for a pair of shoes, then show him a hide and allow him to watch while a pair of shoes is completed for him in a few minutes. J. H. Lawton, of the Wild Moss Mill in Carroll county, Mo., reports that he saw a similar feat performed by farmers last year. They went to the field where the wheat was standing ready for the harvest; cut down enough of the ears for their purpose, thrashed it, ground the wheat, and in eight minutes visitors were eating pancakes from the flour so garnered. Industrial Education in Ireland. In spite of the new movements in Ireland against the established order of things, Irishmen have to admit that few counties have been treated more liberally in the matter of industrial education. For a population not much larger than that of Massachusetts, over $1,000,000 is spent annually for industrial teaching of this sum $250,000 is contributed by the local authorities and the remainder by the council of agriculture. The larger cities have technical institutes on a most elaborate scale, in which various trade and academic courses are offered. Prominent among these are the municipal technical institutes at Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. These institutions are housed in magnificent buildings, and are thoroughly equipped for trade instruction. The Vale of Women. The Vale of Women. - The Gaulois, of Paris, has been making a collection of proverbs from various countries, showing in what estimation woman is held. 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MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 11th Street, Boston, D.C. "A man wins much who loses his wife." An Italian proverb is: "Man in two, woman is fire, and the devil blows the bellows." Other samples are: "The tears of women are worth much, though they cost little." "The fox is cunning, but the woman who loves knows far more than he." The Arabs place about the lowest possible value on women, and two typical Arabian sayings are: "When you want to get square with a man give him a handsome wife, and when you want revenge on a woman give her a handsome husband." "Always consult your wife, but do as you please." The Origin of the Menu. Not even Dr. Doran, in his interesting "Table Talk," was able to find out how the habit of having a list of catables to show guests originated. Recent research credits the origin of the modern bill of fare to the year 1500, when Duke Henry, of Brunswick, had an eating program made out for himself. He was seen to scan carefully a long strip of paper by the side of his plate, and when asked by the other guests what it was, he showed them the program of things to eat which the cook had preached, and which had been sent to him so that if there were any delicacy there he preferred he might reserve his appetite. The idea appealed to the other guests, and the plan soon spread, though for many years it was customary to have the menu printed on a big board so that all the guests might see at once. Special Low Rates TO THE WEST California, Oregon, Washington Montana, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, British Columbia and Mexico every day SEPTEMBER 2 TO OCTOBER 31 —via the— You can reach almost any point you desire on the Coast on these low rate tickets and if you are thinking of going West this is your opportunity to get there at small expense, complete tariff of information covering the low rates, routes, side trips that will be made and stopovers that will be allowed your way, is now in the hands of Avery of the Ohio Central Lines and agents will be pleased to give all inquiers full and complete information. With through sleeping car service to Chicago the Ohio Central Lines offer you the best route, making direct confections with trains from Chicago to the Coast. I will be call on one of our agents, write to me and I will be pleased to give you desired information. eR I ee ‘On "br about ‘the, 15th Mrs, 0. H. dimes, 23 Summers” St,, will have t& newly furnished: rooms for the accommodation of lodgers, a (0; alging and Tan hey at Mr _ Hara a Z chey at Mrs, pepe Shrowsbary St, M Ueies, AS ete | ci = Mira, Ide Beott ia visiting friends. ai Ste eeon tne: week. ss Mrs: ‘Jenuig Olews is spending the ‘Week “at Middleport, 6., with friends ' Mrs, M. 'V. Woodley returned Friday trom a ten days Vieit*in Virginia. att and Mrs, -B, H, Husking: left ‘Ufday..for Cayton, 0., to attend tae darters couvontion ae Milekigs-repredeuting the carrleys of thiscity. 4 . F.C. Sitiimons, editor of the Na Bonat Revigy, Gt New York, spent a fow -daya "bere last week the guest ot Mr, nhs Mie, 'S.0W. Starks, , Asstetant’ Law, Librarian J. Arthur Jackson hag “so. far recovered from hig srecemt. Yinese ‘as’ to Bo able to lave hig. réom, A party-of about eighty composed! of members of the two K. of P.. Unk Tora. companies, First Regiment K. of P. band, Clipper base ball club and otherg left early Monday morning for Louisville, Ky, to attend: the Supreme Lodge and Bneampment, Mrs. C. E. Mitchell, of Ingtitute, was the guost of Dr. and Mra. R. 1. Jones Tuesday. z Miss Ella Page feturned Thursday of last_week-from Afantic City. Dr. H. F. Gamble and daughter, Kathryn returned Saturday trom Bal: tlmore where the doctor attended the meeting of the National Medical as: spélation, Yelng Joined there by |e laughter, who spent. the week’ previous af Atlantic City, Miss. Esther Fiks plans to leave next. week. for Pitisburg’to take the courde: In techinleal dressmaking in the Carnegie. Techutcal schools. J, €; Campbell has returned to his “autios tthe! cansue bureau at, Wash, ington,after ‘spending two weoks very ploazaptly here:with his parents, Mies [réne Jackson has issued inv‘. tations to @ juvenile party at her vesttonce-Wodnesdey-of- next-week,— Notwithstanding the — threatening weather, a. good crowd attended the aunual pienic of the Ladies Ald: Socl- ely at St. Paul A. M. E. church given at Glenwood park Monday afternoon. ‘Thesmain attraction of the afternoon was: the base’ ball game between the Charleston Bloomers and the Kano- wha Valley White Feet. After’ nine hard fought innings the score was 5 to 4 An favor of the Charleston Bloom- OF. 6. m Rey. W. IR Walker and 8. P. West held tho first quarterly meeting and communion service for the newly er. ganized A.M. E. church Sunday morn. ing and afternoon at ®t. Albans which was a great success. jdits. G. P- Porter entertained at her home on Elizabeth street Mriday evening’ of last week complimentary to/Mrs, Annie Hensley, of Chicago, Miss Sarah. Bullard, ‘of Washington, Miss Gertrade Hider, of Huntington, and Mrs, Samuel Johnson, Mrsy Por: ter 1s an ideal hostess and the eve ung was very pleasantly spent by her guests, Mrs. Samuel H. Johnson has re turned home from Union, where she spent the summer with her mother. Mrs. Fredda Pannell entertained at dinner Thursday evening of last week Mrs. Eliza Trigg, of Norfolk, Va, Mr. and Mrs, Graham, of New York; Miss Eva Parrish, of Akron, 0.; Mr. Don Williams, of Montana, Mrs. D. Tolliver Miss 8. Burks, Mrs, Shortes, Mrs. W, Jones, Mrs. Cajlle Pettigrew and C. Minters. : : Mrs. Hattie Lucas is ill Miss Hilda Dillard has — returned from. Wheeling where she visited her mother. + William Jones entertained Monday evening In honor of his sister, Mrs, ‘riggs. Mrs, Dora Tolliver’ yas at home to her: friends Wednesday evening Inst. M, A. Weaver, of Dunlap, was the guest “of Mrs. Rhoda Muse last. week. M. L. Slaughter, of Columbus, -0., Ys visiting’ her sister, Mrs, Iolien Franklin ,N. Rand street. Mro-and Mrs, Harry Haywood had as their guest at a theatre party Mon day night M. W. A, Wise, of Cineii nati, 0. After the play they had supper at Brown's cate. Mrs, Rosa Simpkins is visiting frienda at Columbus. ry one of those electric combs at ‘Mrs. Brown's. 500 Capitol strect. Mr. and Mrs. Joe/Millor, of White Sulphur Springs, are in the city with the view of jocating, Mri M. W.' Shaw and Miss Ruth Rico. spent Monday at Malden Mrs. Mary Lewis entertained at din. ner Friday at her home on N. Rand at" Mra, Charles Catlett on Lewis ‘Breet last-Thursday might; ‘gy the ladios of St. Paul A. M. B®. ‘phuroh was a’ great succesp. Mrs.” Catlett. and family spared no pains to make it pleasant for all who attouled. Rev. W. E. Walker will. preach the annual sermon for°the Woinén's Mite /Misslonary society at 3:80 p. m. Sun. day at St, Paul A.M. EB. church. A special invitation Ig extended to all the miketonary societies of all: the churches of the city. Mrs, Lynch the istrict légturer of ‘the A. °M, EB. church of Huntington, Is expected to be present. ne WOULDN'T THIS JAR YOU? ‘Wheeling Cor. Philadelphia Record. A clty exclusively for Negroes is tc be built in West Virginia ff the plans of the projectors do not miscarry Partially Iptendet.os a eolution of th race ‘problem, the promoters of the black elty belleve thetr project “will meet with instant favor among the colored people of Weet Virginia, and they expect within g year's time {¢ have a city of several thousanil per song,without a white person among ite ‘population, : | Bight mies from Charleston, the ‘slate capital, ts the West Virgials Colored Institute, an institution for ‘the higher education of he colored people, maintained by the state. ..For ‘mer Tax Commissioner C. W. pillen of Fayette county, hae purghased some 500 acres immediately adjoining. the colored institute property. He Is hav Ing It cut into elty property, gtading streets, laying cement eldewalks, put ting in electric’ lights and seworage and {s constructing a lage clty’ park. He will refuse to sell a lot in his town to any but a colored person, dnd with the distinct understanding that no white man Is to be allowed to live in the city. UL iy believgd the Negroes will take to the {dea as the place is clore enough to Citurleston to enable them to retain their positions in Char leston and live in the Negro commun ity, ‘The city will give a splendid object lesson in .the capacity of the Negro to govern his own race, for a Tull city government’ will haye to be pro vided. “BUFFALO BULL" IS COMING. (eee Return of The Wild West After Four Years of Trhimphant Suc- ce%s Abroad. 7 The announcemept is made that Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Con- gress of Rough Riders of the World will visit this city on Saturday, Sep- tember, 21, coming direct from. its opening” engagement at Madison Square Garden, New York, where it sueceeded in .casily. convincing. the newspapers and public of its increas- ed magnitude and historical merits. Col. Wm. F. Cody (“Buffalo BUI") has been abroad for the past four years and tn that time has shown to the nations of Europe his animated scenes in the early history of his na- tive land. As a universal educator along Mnes' which tell of the con- quest of the Great West there can be ‘no equal for Buffalo Bill's remark- able exhibition. * His entertainment depicts actual seenes In the reclaiming of vast ‘acres to the uses of civilization; his Congress of Rough Riders demon. strates the usefulness of the horse fg @ factor In colonizing the bound- tess plains, and throughout the en- Ure entertainment the onlooker “is Impressed more vividly than through any book with the herculean task which confronted the pioneer and Plainsman in his task @f subduing the redman, | ‘The historical value of Cols Cody's exhibition cannot be under-estimat- ed. ‘The legendary tales of the pral- Hes have become so closely assogiat- ed with actual history, that an on- tertainment 51h as Buffalo Bill pro- vides Is fraugit with niore than com: mon interest to both old and young. To the student his assemblage of horsemen from ail climes gives a vivid Mustration of the costumes and methods of the various nations which are represonted. As to the historic elements, the Wild West Is replete with valuable lessons. Special features for the present tour of the Wild West includes "Phe Battle of Summit Springs.” and "The Great Trafn Hold-up," both of which are essentially well suiled.to Buffalo Bill's exhibit, showing, as they do, two widely varying lucldents In the development’ of the Western wilds. Both productions are set in appto- priate surroundings and in each in- stance the care and attention to de- tall both in tho matter of scenery and the persons engazed In the pro- duction have been caretully and hit lorically considered “The Battle of Summit Springs” is & production of one of the most thrilling and decisive confilets known in the. annals of Indian warfare and shows: Buffalo Bill amid surround- Ings In which he achieved one of the most noteworthy (rinmphs in his long career as an Indian fighter, scont, guide and plainsman. It was in this battle that “Tall Bull was numbered among the merciless red- men who fell before the nnerring aim of Col. Cody and it was his scouting and guiding which directed Gen, B.A. Carr and his cavalry to the scene’ of their victory. “The Great ‘Train Mold-np" de- piets a scene ag typically. Western as the battle with the Indians; althonsh in the train-robbing scene only white men are participants either as outlaws or as the pursning and avenging “handit-hunters of the Unlon Pacis.” RIVER OF SALT WATER. — Flows inland’ In» Greek Inland and Then Disappears. Shee Le at See ge One of the most ‘curious phenomena of geography Is found on the southern coast of the island of Cephalonia, near Greets. “It Is a etteam of salt iwater whleb for an uiknown period Has lett the almost tldelesa sea: and flowed 'tn- land with considerable volume, | ‘The..gea enters the land -at four poluts where the coast is practically on 4 level with the salt water surface, ‘The four Initial streams unite to form ‘the little=rirer-tlint-Aows-inland-in a ‘broken rocky channel until te poally Gisappears In the Imestone rock: dnd ‘sinks into the earth. ‘Ths thiind flow “has continued al- most dertainly for several centuries. It fs far too great for remova) by evap. oration, themical combination or even Physical absorption by pores or cay- eras in the rocks, What becomes of the water that 1s constantly flowing inland and disappeurs finally in the ‘fissures that have opened tn the lime- stone? ~ ‘The question has been the subject of mueh study, but no conclusive answer ‘bas been given. It 1s probable that there {s an underground chimnet whtch carniey. the water baok tuto the sea at no great depth below the surface. ‘The vonstant Influx of sult water at Cepha lonta Is duplicated as far gu is known at no other point of the world.—New York Sun, SPORTS AND THE SPHERE. | The Basic Pursuit In Most Games Ia to Drive @ Ball, | Some day fliere ‘Will urlge a .patient favestigator wbo wil! work out’ this problem, Why ate most sports but the Variants of one object, the propulsion of a sphere? i Billiards, baseball, polo, golf, sling. ing, marbles, squash, bundball, foot: bull, rackets, crieket, hockey, hagatelle, tennis, shooting, pelota—the basic pur: sult in each is to drive a ball, the pro /puision of a sphere. | ‘Tipeat, shuttlecock and top spinning are Ae employment of modifications of the sphere, and archery ts but another method of propulsion. It {8 a strange’ Mmitation of form, and there must be a reason. Those who delve into origins may ascribe the whole inotive of sports to some long armed, hirsute ancestor who first threw a pebble at a fellow cave dwell- er and found it great fon OF itymay be nor mortal’s attempt to get In a small fashion into the tre: mendovs scheme of the universe, which“fs the everlasting movement of the spheres. Or it may be that sports are framed in Inevitable obedience to some Irresistible law of nature. At any rate the fact Is sports are based on the propnision of the sphere, and soine one ought to find a reason therefor.~New York American, «Wych Hazel, Not Witch Hazel. The correct name for Hama melis vir- ginica is not witch hazel, but wych hazel. Our plant has no connection with the niagic of the water hunter. ‘The bigekthorn of England, Prunus spinosa, Was the” wood used’ in these divination, or whatever these super: atitions practices may be termed. Ha- zel had a very wide meaning In the olden times, and the elm as well as the nut now known as such waa hazel, One of these elms, now known’ as UL mus montana, was the favorite wood for making wyches, or provision chests, and was therefore) known as the wych bazel In the present diy ft is the wych elm. Our hamametis. re. celved from the early settlers the name of wych hazel from the resemblance ‘of the lenves to those of the wych ha: zel or elin of the old world. Language reformers tmagining that wych shonld be spelled witch are responsible for the confusion. Wych hazel is the correct term for our plant. Danaerous Golf. One of the rules of the Weston-super- Mare (England) Golf club reads, “A dall_ may be lifted and dropped with the toss of a stroke when played with: in the railings surrounding the powder magazine.” ‘There appears to be an element of danger In this kind of golt which reminds a London writer of a certain golf course on the West Afri can coast, where the elhth and ninth holes are’ always optional, as several golfers are said to hive been. lost thefe owing to the proximity of the Jungle, which ts known to be « favor ite lair of the lion, Where tho Difference Lay. “Ove of bis complatuts against bis wife in the divorce suit.” said the law. yer, “was that ghe smoked cigarettes" “Ob, my goodness! And whonever he comes to xee me.” eried the bache: lor girl, “f smoke und amoke!” “Ob, he doesn't mind other women smoking cigarettes,” declared the law. yer. “Ho likes It. It fs only his wife.” New York Press. For the Defense, /Ma—T hear that you've Dew playing with Donald Smith again. ‘Tommy Now. 1 told you— ‘Tommy—Piaying with bim! You see the black eye he's Rot nnit you'll noon guess If there was aniy playing about it—Puneb, ie ae: Mra. Pease—My husband and t new er dinpute before the children, We: always send thei ont when a quarrel feome imminent. Miss Sharp~ A, Vee often wondered why they're 60 much | In the street! “Under the equator, gentlemen,” re marked an extensive traveler, “itt xo hot that the natives have to put hens In fee chests to prevent their laying siird bolted eggs.”"—London Mail, fhina and Japan produce 12,800 yong of silk annually; but about 60 ve ADVOCATE ACRARE BIRD. er cage eevee 25. es Why an ‘Abiatican Shewman’ \Goubd Not Get'lt For His Monsnaiiee When the brminent Prench wi Ferdinand itiere viaited: it ed States i ‘Years ago, Tootutiae a Harvard and other leading untyerst- tles, he bad? ap amusing ex} whieh he dewpeied in the scoala of bis. Ar tour which he ‘after- ward publehed. ‘The great: itteratets devoted miiehigttention to the itd and works of Ho who was oftes gre the “Bagle of eaux,” on neconst per haps of his lofty tlights of éloquence. ‘This fuct, with others pertaining. to his literary gurver, was mentioned: by some daily papers during hig stay in this country. Xt caught the eyes of a shrewd Ameridan showman, who, hows ever, got somewhat mixed‘ over the meaning of th® allusion. He wrote the following letter to the French author: pict have duit heard eae a cortain fentux eagle, yory celebrated, It a Your <i tna become wo igor of maga ih'Sno ofthe fareen cities ‘in "th Beater. ‘This Meat eagle whose reputation’ han been enhanced “by Your etoduency, would certainly net fal Excite tho, eurfoalty of my publi, It you ‘will Tet me have the rare bird aa tell me how to feed I you can quote your ows figure. Brunetlere politely explained that the “rare bird" bad been dead for nearly 200 years, ."* . CORDON BLEU. Origin of the: French Title ae Applied fom Fino Cobk. : ‘The Order ofthe St. Wsprit was cre: ated In 1587, was suppreused by the revolution and..wis revived by Louls XVIUL Sy 1814, To speak rightly, Loula XVIL considered that the order had never ceased, fa exist, for he had given two collars during tis exile, in 1810, the one to Francis 1., king of the two Sicilles, and the other to his brother, the Prinée of Salerno, the father of his vrother's wife, the Duchess d’Aumale, ‘The ribbon ofthis order was a light blue color. It was worn around the neck in the reigns of Henry Il. and Henry IV., But was changed by Louis XIYV., when ft vas worn across. the chest. ‘The Chevaliers of the St, Esprit were always knéwn under the name of Les Cordon Bien, and this was the su- preme honor during the monarchy of France. It was from this that the title of “cordon bleu” was given to a first class cook. WK gentleman one day de- clared after @,good meal that he who haa cooked the dinner had proved him- self a “cordon bleu” among cooks—tn -other words, thaanaster of his art. ‘The tite became quite the rage and If now always used to: designate a good cook without tiie ‘persons who use it know- ing what 1 mesus or still less the ort gin of the titles : FOREIGN. HOTELS. ‘They Differin Many Ways From Those of Our Own Country. Hot water 1s not “laid on” (piped) al foreign Hotels, says'the ‘Travel Maga zine, If you lear a gentle tap on the door in the morning, you mgy inter pret it as meaning. that a copper ewer of hot water bas Just been set dows outside for your personal use. If you order a,,Bath, it will be pre Pared for you accordingly, and a sweet Yolced mald will give you notice wher St is ready. You are not expected t ‘Qperate the water valves at all, and {1 {s doubtrul if you would succeed 4 youtried. From a vaclety of vacant rooms at ¢ hotel shown you you selegt the one you prefer, with a definite agreemon as to price. You are not required to accept humbly and thankfully, In blind faith, whatever room the clerk deigns to assign to you, as in-America, It is expected, however, that you will orde1 your breakfasts af the hotel, belng fre to get your other meals elsewhere 11 you prefer. i Blectrie light switches are not com monly turned on by’ a push: button o: 8 fae key, aan one, bullings but by amall brass lever. Many of the bes hotels have a reading Ischt In the headboard of cach bedstead, he Aue indeed A man went Into an ocutiist'’s the other day and, complaining of faling sight, got fitted with a palr of spec. tactes “Is this the weakest glass for my eye?" he asked. “Yes,” replied the ocuriat, “Supposing I can’t see with ILatter a fow months?” “Get a stronger then.” “And if 1 still cat woo?" “Get a still stroniger”” And If the strougeee pings tate?” “In that case 1 think If I were you 1 should buy a sinzll, Intelligent dog and 4 couple of yarns Of tring.” x tt Made a Differoncs. (Good giacinus!”? exclaimed the vis- ftor. “Hear those boys Axhting and yelling out there. Regular little hood: lums, aren't they? * “L can't say.” replied Mrs, Famley. “I'm rather nearsighted, you know.” “But surely you 6an hear thém."? “Ob, yes; Int L ean't tell whether they're my children, of the nelghbors'.” —Lixchange. ee Doing Up & Shirt. “This bill is too high," sald the ens tomer. “Loo high? ‘ejaculated the laundryman, “That's what 1 said too Iigh.” “But, nan, 'do you know how long It takes to do Yp @ ahirt?" “Why, About four washinga!”—Yonkers States man, _ The Mere. “I think Jones {8 one of ‘the worst bores that ever lived” “Why go?” "He broke right In nid began talking abont himself while 1 was telling about. 2 thiiling experien€e<1 once bad ont Weat”—tnannvoll iat percent ot thin tagtabllined tor hame , COLORWD GiRL KILLS sIsTER, bo Sees dirl of 12 Accidentally Kills @istor “ Aged 3. ‘<3 eee ae etre ‘“Bibefield, W. Va., Sept. 3.—Bessie Johnson, an elglit-year-old colored air] was shot and instantly ‘killed by ter sister, Eva, four years her sen- jor. ‘The entire charge trom a shot 3un, entered the child's abdomen, ‘fterally disemboweling her. Witle the shooting was entirely accidental wome one had given the children some very iltlimed advice, and this feature of the affair should Be in- vestigated. * It seems that after. dinner the two ifttle girls who Live with their grand parents—Pickney and “Aunt” Mary Johnson—on the north side, just across from Midway, were lett alone in the house, after having been toid to shoot any man who attempted to affect an ‘entrance. About 4 o'clock chey saw a white man elimb. over the porch and into the house of au- other “colored family, who lived next oor, and became frightenod. Be; ag alone in thelr house, they doubt. ess thought he would call there too, nd reniembering the admonition to shoot anyone who tried to enter, he older girl ran into the room vhere the shot gun was kept and “BRANCH OFFICE. The American: Beneficial Insurance Company - pA. A. PAYNE, Manager ..One of the best organizations in Virginian df its kidd. We give you £ list of sick claims paid sine Sep- cémber last Miss Fannie Winston, Rivers Ville 34.00 Miss Sadie Wright, Covington, Va. $1.62. Mr. Ernest Brown, Covington, Va., $1.62. Miss Maria Philips, Covington, Va., $10.50. Miss Bessie Hollins, Covington, Va, B2 cents. Mrs, Raith Girdty, Covington, Va. 04 cents, Mrs. Harriee ‘Thomas, Covington, Va., 80.50. Airs, Kinma Loving, Covington, Va., $4.00. x Mr. Joshua Winston, Rivers Ville, W. Va., $8.00, Mr. Hagger Winston, Rivers Ville, W. Va., $8.00. Mrs. Delphia Young, Covington Va., $6.50., « Mrs. Sarah McDowell, Covington, Va., 87.25. Miss Dora Wright, Wright "Ville, $6.50. Mrs, Rosa Green, Covington, Va, $2.50. Mr. Jas. Parker, Spruce, W. Va. 812.00. Mrs. Joanna Walker, Covingten, Va, $1.25. Miss Modesty Johnson, Covington, Va., $1.66. Mrs. Maria Brown, Covington, Ya. $8.25. : James T, Printice, Covington, Va. HB cents, Mrs. Florence Brown Covington Va, $15.00, Mrs, Carrie Miller, Covington, Va., 90.75. : Geo, M. ‘Thomas, Covingten, Va, $3.00. Mr. Philip Winston, Covington, Va. 2.50, : Mrs, Mollie Patierson, Covington Va, 82.50, Mrs, Mollie Patterson, Covington, Va, 85.00. Mrs. Mildred Morris, Covington, Va, $1.25, Mrs, Anna Frantdin, Covington Van, $8.00. Howard Gillum, Covingten, Va. s2.50. Jus, Ky Jackson, Covington, Va. 125. Mrs. 1dia Shelton, Covlugton, Va. 82.50. ‘Total, 136010, THE GREATES1 RACE ENTERPRISE IN THE WORLD ‘The Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Co., 46th and Bighth avenue, N.Y. 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Hill @ e 7 Phe e* Capitol street: aaa Picked up thé weapon. She then Started to thé hall door just ag the younger child‘ran Into the hall. At this mament the gun was in some way discharged, and with one pitiful shriek Bossle, the smaller girl, foll tothe floor and expired Instantly, while Bya, horror stricken at what she had done, was for a fow moments as powerless as her dead sister. Ax soon as she had recovered her wits she ran to the nelghboring house to toll thom of thd tragedy and the au- thorities were quickly notified. — Justice of the Peace John A. Chambers, {n ‘his capacity as ¢oroner, Visited the scene, but after “Aunt” Mery. through her sobs, haa given ‘him all the facts as she had loarned ‘them from: Eva, he decided that an nace was unnecessary, , Giel_of Nineteon Jumps From the Lovell Strect Bridge, But is Promptly Rescued, Bertha Cutlpp, a young girl aged nineteen years, who resides on Hans- ford street, attempted té commit sul- claé “Monday afternoon by leaping from~the Lovell street bridge.’ “""" } The Cutlipp girl haa been to the home of her aunt, Mrs. Asbury, on Columbia avenue during the after- noon, and when she lett her sald “Good bye Aunt Magy you may never see mo again." The girl walked dt- rectly, to the Lovell street bridge, near the western side and mounted the top railing and without another word she jumped Into ik river, She was so near the western bank that the water was only a few inches deep and it wak possible to reach her al- most immediately. ‘Mr. John Revéal was among those MONEY SAVEE On Cleaning, ‘Dye ing, Pressing and Repairing. Ladies! Work a Specialty, Work called for and deliver si Give us atrial, THE RIDGEWAY CLEANING OYE WORKS. = 403 Commonwealih Arey) Reauckc, i e a who saw the ‘gift mount the railing and attempted to stop her but/ig *} being able to reach her Jn tlie ji *|ran to the river and was the fit N-}to render alder dn er of 5], When. taken from the iver th girl was unconscious hat wag soul 1¢| revived and taken to het Bee oF | Hansford stréet. | Medical, aa Wal r-|called but no bones were broken alll id) the girl was sald to be only slighOy er | injured and unleys internal {njiplay il develop she will be able to be gut if ea short time. ae "| ‘There are numerous stories afioak 'r Jas to the cause of the attempted. snk re Jcide but the girl, gives no reason dx at Jeopt that she was tired of Iite/and P| thought that thé river Wad. 9) joom | place in which to end it. Son f that the girl has a largé family of ¢ Ibrothers to support. a = SSS . mH or-Made ij yy i and Skins: " i tine eee at West Virginia Colored Institute INSTITUTE, : : : : WEST VA. The only Industrial Institute for Colored Students in the State. Regular Normal, Academic and Commercial Courses, also Regular Courses in Agriculture. Carpentry and House Building, Steam Flitting, Smithing, Cabinet Making, Painting and Glazing, Dressmaking, Laundrying, Printing. A complete course in Military Training to Cadets. Rooms, Books, Fuel and Lights Free to Normal Students; and in addition Uniforms for State Students. We have a faculty of Twenty-two Teachers Board only Eight Dollars per Month, For catalogue and other information address FURNISHD ROOMS 50C UP. 1000 THE MT. CLEM & MINERAL BA THE MT. CLEMENSHOTEL & MINERAL BATH HOUSE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Has opened its doors for the a People that may come to Mt. Cliff their health and treatment for Rheu Hotel and Mineral Bath House own colored man at any fo the hea States Has opened its doors for the accommodation of Colored People that may come to Mt. Clemens in the future for their health and treatment for Rheumatism. It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any for the health resorts in the United States WRITE FOR SPECIAL RATES. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, Prop. 48 WELTS STREET. Mt. Clemens, Mich. FINDS HOPE IN FAT A Doctor's Experiments With Fenugreek IS A FAT PRODUCER Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 3.—The eyes of the scientific world are right now fastened upon the little town of Ashland, Nebr., where Dr. A. S. von Mansfelde, a prominent physician and well known in medical research circles, is bringing to a close experiments with a new cure for tuberculosis; experiments which promise great things to those who suffer from consumption. Dr. Mansfelde's research work has extended over a period of more than forty years. He has discovered a plant having properties for which he has been searching many years, in which search he has been assisted by the Department of Agriculture at Washington and by Dr. David Fairchild, the eminent botanist and agricultural explorer. This plant is Fenwick, and its home is in the semiarid and arid portions of Tunis and other north African countries. And . EMENSHOTEL BATH HOUSE the accomodation of Colored Clemens in the future for Rheumatism. It is the only owned and conducted by a health resorts in the United 48 WELTS STREET. ens, Mich. the property for which Dr. Manselde has been searching so long, and is possessed by the fenugreek, is that its fattening powers are so great that, even under the ravages of tuberculosis, the patient puts on flesh and gains strength steadily while taking it. Remaining strong, the patient then has an opportunity of throwing off the germs of consumption and becoming entirely well. Although he searched for a plant with the properties of fenugreek for thirty years, Dr. Mansfelde stumbled upon the herb altogether by accident. While reading an article by Dr. David Fairechild, of Washington, who had been traveling in Africa, and had written of fenugreek, Dr. Mansfelde was struck with the following paragraph: "The seeds of this plant (fenugreek,) curiously enough, are eaten by the Jewish women of Tunis in order to make them fat, and no young Jew in that region would think of marrying a girl until the use of this grain had increased her weight to the fashionable figure of 250 to 300 pounds." That was what Mansfelde wanted — something of great fattening power. So he wrote to Dr. Fairchild asking about femgreek. Fairchild had a few grains of the seed with him and immediately sent them to the Nebraska doctor. Then Mansfelde sent to far-away Tunis for still more of the grain and also to inquire how it was taken. The difficulty in the past, which physicians have tried in vain to overcome in a consumptive, is that MALS 50C UP PHONE 245 the fats are not assimilated, and the patient loses flesh, and practically dies of exhaustion and weakness. But von Mansfelde found great difficulty in securing enough fenugreek to carry on his experiments. He had the grain sent him from Tunis in large quantities, but found it so badly adulterated as to be of little use. To meet that difficulty, he planted some of the seed in sandy soil on his ranch, near Ashland, and today is raising a first-class crop of this plant, which never grew outside of the desert before. The doctor hopes that when his crop is harvested, he will have enough fenugreek to carry his experiments to a successful end. Dr. Mansfelde's records cite the case of a young man who, despite faincessant hemorrhages put on flesh and who, he believes, would have recovered entirely, had he not strangled to death during one of the attacks. Notwithstanding the tragic death of this case, Dr. Mansfelde holds that the experiment was an undoubted success, and points to the immense gain in flesh of the patient, despite the terrible drain of strength through the bleedings. "If that strangling spell had not come on," says the doctor, "that man would today have been well." JARRETTS FORO NOW ELKVIEW Once Small Locality to Become a Real Trade Center in the Days to Come. What was formerly known as Jarretts Ford on Elk river is now Elkview, and if reports from well known Charleston citizens are to be believed, Elkview will soon be a thriving little village. A boom has struck the village and several Charlestonians have purchased lots there during the past two weeks. A new industry is being moved to the village and several more will probably follow. Foster Prichard and Harry Watson, of Parkersburg, who for years were connected with the well known Kesselman & Company machine works at Parkersburg, purchased a machine shop at Proctor near Wheeling recently and are moving it to Elkview. Several cars are now on the Coal & Coke tracks in this city ready to be shipped to the village on Elk. The opening up of the oil and gas fields on Elk and vicinity brought the machine works to this part. CHANGE IN K. & M. TRAIN That Leaves Charleston for the Jamestown Exposition. Since the change in the time of train No. 5 on the C. & O., which formerly arrived here at 11 o'clock at night and left the following morning at 7 o'clock for Cincinnati, the K. & M. Jamestown special to Toledo, instead of arriving here at 11:20 city time, and going on through, is made up at the local yards at nine o'clock. Passengers for the sleeper can take car any time after 9 o'clock although train does not leave Charleston until 11:20 city time. This change was made when the C. & O. changed time September 1. The K. & M. sleeper was brought as far as Gauley Bridge over the C. & O. and met there by the K. & M. train. The only change made is that the K. & M. sleeper is brought to Gauley earlier. There has been no change in the trains on the K. & M. running from Toledo to Jamesstown. It is Sounded at Half Hour Intervals Day and Night. The ship's bell is the mariner's clock. The nautical day begins and ends at noon, when eight bells is struck. The bell is struck half hourly, day and night, one stroke being added for each half hour until eight is reashed, when the count begins at one bell. EUROPEAN BEACHES. Their Methods and Bathing Suits Very Different From Ours. In Europe there is no lounging on the beach in batting suits. On this point the foreigner is apt to criticise the American woman and to point out that when the women in Europe put on batting suits it is for the purpose of bathing and not of sitting on the beach, high and dry, out of the reach of even the largest wave. There are many reasons for this. One is the consideration that prevents me from making any illustrations of them. They generally are not fit for sight or publication. It would take a very small wave indeed to thoroughly drench the most elaborate of the costumes commonly worn by the ladies throughout Europe when they go bathing. Of course the conditions are different. In Europe madame does not have to cross the beach in her scanty attire. When she enters her bathhouse she is in full street regalia, and as the house is then wheeled out into the water, when she emerges for her dip she is visible only for the brief time it takes to plunge into the water, and she enjoys her swim without the encumbrance of skirts. When her bathhouse is wheeled back and she appears of the beach she is again in street costume. Then, too, there are many beaches on the continent, such as the Damenstrand in Nordenoy, where gentlemen are excluded until a certain hour of the day—Charles F. Peters in Bohemian Magazine. Old French Dial Ring "A dial ring," said the curio dealer, "A French dial ring of the eighteenth century. You can tell the time with it." The ring of gold was beautifully chased, and where the stone sparkles usually there was set a tiny sandiak. "All you have to do," said the dealer, "is to stand in the right way, holding the dial so that the sun strikes it, and a tiny shadow will tell you the hour. Such a ring," he concluded, "is more a curio than an accurate timepiece. It is only good in the locality it is made for, and even there unless it is set toward the right point of the compass, it will be several hours out of the way." — Louisville Courier Journal. It Depends. Dr. Johnson was once consulted by an old lady on the degree of wickedness to be attached to her son's robbing an orchard. "Madam," said Johnson, "it all depends upon the weight of the boy. I remember my schoolfellow, Davy Garrick, who was always a little fellow, robbing a dozen orchards with impunity, but the very first time I climbed up an apple tree—for I was always a heavy boy—the bough broke with me, and it was called a judgment." Expressed Nantically. A certain admiral upon coming on board a ship was met by an old classmate with the salutation, "Hello, old fellow, how are you?" Observing that the admiral had carefully combed his back hair forward up and over to cover the bald top of his head he added, "Well, that's the first time I ever saw afterguard doing foretop duty!"—"On a Man of war." The Clumsy Eye. The human eye is said to be a rather ill contrived piece of mechanism. A celebrated German physician is reported to have remarked that if an artisan were to make for him a piece of ap paratus so poorly adapted to its pur paratus he would not accept it. The Important Thing. "I guess I won't eat any dinner today," said the first clerk. "Why not?" asked the second. "Because if I do I won't have any time for my regular after dinner smoke."—Exchange. Our Infirmary. Willie—Pa, our "interiors" are just people that know less than we do, aren't they? Pa. No, my son; usually they're people who merely know less than we think we do.—Philadelphia Press. Less than 8,000 people own all the land of Great Britain. The building is a large, rectangular structure with a flat roof and a series of columns. It appears to be a public building, possibly a school or a library, given its size and the presence of a staircase. The building is surrounded by a fence, and there are no visible signs of activity or people around it. ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it somewhere about your house—You Are Working For Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent. interest—Your Money is Working For You. The Pythiap Mutual, Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write it othig office. LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU Pythian Mutual Investment Association S. W.STARKS, President GIRL HORSEWHIPS A MAN. Lays on Fifteen Lashes While 1,000 Mineola Residents Look On. Mineola, L. L., Sept. 4.—Saying that she would teach girls to defend their own reputations, Miss Fredia Horther, 19 years old, of Mineola, L. L., horsewhipped Ferdinand Stabb, 26 years old, a baker, at the Mineola ball grounds near the Lond Island Railroad station, in full view of at least a thousand persons who had gathered to watch a game between the Pocahontas Athletic Club and the Mineola Athletic Club, this afternoon. Miss Horther continued to lash the unresisting baker until she was dragged away by several of her girl friends. Andrew Hornern, Miss Freida's father, until a month ago, had employed Stabb as a baker in his establishment, which supplied the wealthy residential section at Wheatley Hill. A month ago he sold his bakery to Frank Kehringer, a baker from Manhattan, who retained Stabb in his employ. Two days ago Kehringer told Mrs. Hornern that Stabb had made insulting remarks about her daughter. This was repeated to Mr. Hornern, who at once started out to hunt for Stabb. His daughter, however, finally persuaded him to leave the matter to her. She looked for Stabb all day, armed with a formidable horsewhip, which she carried under her long coat. This afternoon she found him leaning on his bicycle watching the game. She went to him and laid on about fifteen stinging lashes before she was interrupted. A TREE THAT REALLY WEEPS Peculiar Poplar Tree That Really Sheds Tears. Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 3.—A. L. Fleek, a popular engineer employed on the B. & O., who lives at 320 Ann street, has a tree in front of his home which is considered a phenomenon. While it is distinctly of the poplar variety it towers in the air much higher than trees of that species and makes a magnificent appearance. The phenomenal feature of the tree is the fact that it weeps throughout the day, no matter how hot the sun or how dry the atmosphere. One FRUITS, CANDIES, ICEGRAM Families Furnished with Ice Cream. Orders for shipment solicited. We make prompt delivery of Cream and Ices for unday orders. L.E. Nichols INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS —Begin to save now and learn what a valuable habit it is. Write or call for full particulars Capital $250,000 Surplus $150,000 Kanawha Banking & Trust Company Charleston West Virginia can sit under its branches by day or night and feel the drops of water falling from them. The branches overspread the tin roof of a porch and the roof is seldom ever without a sprinkling of water. Motors killed twenty-two on London's streets last year. DR. B. A. CRICHLOW Physician and Surgeon K. of K. Bldg, Washington and Dickinson Sts. Electrotherapy, X-Ray examinations and Vibro Massage by appointment. Office hours after June 1st, 9 to 11 a.m., 2 to 4 p., a., 7 to 9 p. m. IF YOU'RE THINKING OF BUILDING, OR HAVE BUILT HEAR IN MIND THAT HOWEVER ANXIOUS YOU MAY BE TO HAVE AN EXTERIOR TO BE PROUD OF, IT'S THE INTERIOR THAT SHOULD MOST CONCERN YOU. THERE'S WHERE YOU LIVE; THERE'S WHERE YOU EAT, SLEEP, LOUNGE, READ AND ENTERTAIN YOUR FRIENDS. THERE ARE FORMED THOSE SENTIMENTS AND INFLUENCES WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN ONE WORD OF WEIGHTY SIGNIFICANCE—HOME. Prindler have made a careful study of that word. We've spent money to learn the deeds of Home-keeping hearts. Therefore, our merchandise is not merely a collection of Housefurnishings generalities, but a studiously assorted display of the finest, up-to-date, that the Furniture and Furnishing markets of the country have produced. You'll never fully realize how closely your home wants have been studied by us until you take a trip through Prindles. of Highgrade Stoves and Ranges at the right price. We guarantee every stove sold by us to give promotion in every respect and if not we will replace same one: Can you find any one to do more than this? Furniture In Furniture we are always foremost in this t We have them, but that's too general. We want you to know that these Carpets and Rugs were selected for you, with the most careful regard for your wishes as well as to meet all the demands of Charlestonians peculiar environment. You can't buy cheaper elsewhere; can't buy as well. We turn the large rugs over before you like the pages of a book and show you Body Brussels, Axmusters, Witons, Arlingtons, Tapestries in all conceivable shades and patterns until you come to what you want. Our carpet assortment is as extensive as that of our Rugs. Stoves and Gaa Ranges The wonderful past business and Gas Ranges is sufficient pro PRIN Stores at Portsmouth wonderful past business we have experienced is sufficient proof that we are se GRINDLE at Portsmouth, O., H The wonderful past business we have experienced on Stoves and Gas Ranges is sufficient proof that we are selling our lines Reduced Rates to the National Baptist Convention Via C. C. & O. R. A reduction of fare and one-third, on the certificate plan, has been securely attending the meeting of National Baptist Convention (Colored), Washington, D. C., Sept. 11-16. The following directions are submitted for your guidance: 1. Tickets for full fare for the going journey may be secured within three days (exclusive of Sunday) prior to and during the first three days of the meeting. The advertised dates of the meeting are from September 11 to September 16, consequently you can obtain your ticket not earlier than September 7. Be sure that, when purchasing your going ticket, you request a certificate. Do not make the THE BAUE & FISH CO 28 AND 30 In our new c we now ha lowing line Trou , Pick Mackerel Salmon, BAUER MIL FISH COMPANY AND 30 CAPITO our new department now have the wing line of fresh f u , Pickerel, Pickerel,Herrin Salmon, Blue and Cat THE BAUER MEAT & FISH COMPANY 28 AND 30 CAPITOL ST. In our new department we now have the following line of fresh fish And the Sea Foods as follows: Shrimp, Clams, Lobster Deviled Crabs, Hard a Soft Shell Crabs, T Also all kinds of Fancy Cheese, Su mer Sausages, Bullions, aSuces, Oli Pickles, etc. mp, Clams, Lobster, Sviled Crabs, Hard and Soft Shell Crabs, Tso all kinds of Fancy Cheese, Suier Sausages, Bullions, aSuces, Oli kles, etc. Shrimp, Clams, Lobsters Deviled Crabs, Hard and Soft Shell Crabs, Turtles Also all kinds of Fancy Cheese, Summer Sausages, Bullions, aSuces, Olives Pickles, etc. we clean Fish ready for pan. --- mistake of asking for a receipt. 2. Present yourself at the railroad station for ticket and certificate at least 30 minutes before departure of train. 3. Certificates are not kept at all stations. If you inquire at your station you will find out whether certificates and through tickets can be obtained to place of meeting. If not, agent will inform you at what station they can be obtained. You can purchase a local ticket thence, and there take up a certificate and through ticket. 4. On your arrival at the meeting, present your certificate to Prof. R. B. Hudson. 5. Ithas been arranged that the special agent of the Trunk Line association will be in attendance to validate certificates on September 12, 13 and 14. A fee of 25 cents will be col- R MEAT COMPANY CAPITOL ST. department ave the fol- of fresh fish kerel, Herring, Blue and Cattish , Lobsters s, Hard and Crabs, Turtles ncy Cheese, Sum- ons, aSuces, Olives --- of Highgrade Stoves and Ranges at the right prince In Furniture we are always foremost in this territory. Not only do we have the largest assortment in the state, but the little fads and conceits that appeal to your taste for the "difficult" are always here. We mention one example a magnificent Bedroom suit in Mahogany, one of the most up-to-date, artistic and all round high grade suits to be found anywhere. About our Prices We do not claim to sell our goods at what they cost us. We make something on every article we sell. But we don't believe in large profits. We believe in Honest Profits alike to the dealer and the purchaser. When we sell a $2 chair we want it to be the best chair that $2 will buy. That's our style. Again we urge you to visit. lected for each certificate validated. If you arrive at the meeting and leave for home again prior to the special agent's arrival, or if you arrive to the meeting later than September 14, after the special agent has left, you cannot have your certificate validated and consequently you will not get the benefit of the reduction on the home journey. No refund of fare will be made on account of failure to have certificates validated. 6. So as to prevent disappointment is must be understood that the reduction on return journey is not guaranteed, but is contingent on an attendance of not less than 100 persons holding certificates obtained from ticket agents at starting points, showing payment of full first-class fare of not less than 75 cents on going journey. 7. If the necessary minimum is in attendance and your certificate is duly validated, you will be entitled up to September 19 to continue passage tickets to your destination by the route over which you make the going journey, at one third the limited fare. A. P. STRAUGHTER. BUCKHANNON A magnificent reception was given by Miss Maude R. Davis at her home on Main street Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mumford, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lewis, Mr and Mrs. Jas. Wade, Misses Jennie Littleton, Clarksburg; Eva Taylor, Belpre, O.; Ingle Taylor, Susie Jones, Hattie Walker and Beulah Wright, Messrs. Samuel Brown, Edward Hunter, C. F. Walker and H. D. Hazlewood. Whist, flinch and the music furnished by the hostess were very much enjoyed by those present. Towards the close of the evening the guests were invited to the dining room where the hostess assisted, by her mother, served an elegant dinner. The table which was artistically arranged and beautifully decorated presented a very pleasing appearance. MENU Chicken Creamed Peas Fruit Salad Potatoes Ice Cream Cakes Wafers Coffee Miss Beulah Wright entertained Friday evening at her home in East Buckhannon in honor of Miss Eva Taylor, of Belpre, Ohio. The time was spent with cards and the ever enjoyable flinch pack. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Wade, Misses Eva Taylor, Susie Jones, Ingie Taylor and Maude R. Davis and Messrs. Samuel Brown, Edward Hunter, Chas. H. Davis and H. D. Hazlewood. Elegant refreshments were served. Miss Francis Morton arrived in town Saturday evening ready to resume her work at Victoria school which opened its session Monday. A party consisting of Misses Maude R. Davis, Beulah Wright, Eva Taylor and Messrs. Chas. H. Davis, Edward Hunter and H. D. Hazlewood, made a visit to the state hospital at Weston Tuesday August 27th. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Davis were presented with a fine baby boy last week. Mrs. Hannah Powell left Saturday August 24th to visit friends in Virginia. Jas. L. Davis is in Clarksburg on business. Miss Jennie Littleton, of Clarksburg is visiting her sister Mrs. Jas. L. Davis. Mrs. Araena Chapman and Mrs. Belle Thomas of Elkins, are visiting friends in town. Miss Diffie Taylor of Beverly, W. Va. has been the pleasant guest of her cousin Miss Ingle Taylor for the past two weeks. Miss Eva Taylor of Belpre, Ohio, is visiting Miss Maude R. Davis on Main street. Miss Taylor and Miss Dayls were associates as students at Wilberforce university. A united effort on the part of the pastor, Rev. Jasl T. Reed and trustees of Simpson M. E. church to pay off the indebtedness of their church is meeting, with great success. During the month of June a payment discharging $50.00 of the principal was made and at the rally held Thursday night August 9th, $27.00 more was raised with a prospect of $50.00 by the first of September. The pastor is earnest and unselfish in his efforts and deserves the hearty support as well as the commendation of his church and people. We predict a successful year's work for him. One of the most enjoyable social gatherings of the season was the reception given by Mrs. Jas. Wade at her home on Meade street Friday evening August 23rd. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Murford, Mrs. Mary Lidle, Misses Eva Taylor, of Belphe, Ohio, Diffie Taylor, Beverly, Susie Jones, and Maude R. Davis, Messrs Chas, Davis, Edward Hunter, Thom as Taylor, John Taylor, Samuel Brown, and H. D. Hazlewood. Whist and filch furnished the amusement. The hostess assisted by her two little sons Arthur and James served an elegant repast. Presiding Elder Briggs conducted services at Simpson M. E. chapel Sunday. LEWISBURG. Mrs. Laura Dunn and two children, of, Chattanooga, Tenn., are guests of their relative, Mrs. H. McVey. Chas. Dawson is here from Charleston. Miss Hassle Minor, who has spent the summer here, returned to Fayette Saturday. Miss Gertrude Jackson has returned home from Baltimore. Two wagons loads of M. E. chuch children went on a merry picnic to Fairview last Thursday. They report one of the best outings yet had. Miss Ila Young gave a soiree at her residence on Lee street in honor of Miss Hassle Minor last Thursday. A jolly crowd of young people were out and spent a delightful evening. Dancing and games were the chief pastimes. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. D. Gardner, of Bramwell, are visiting their mother, Mrs. Annie Gardner. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bolling was the place of a very pleasant dinner last Sunday. The guests were Misses Fidella Freeland, Mary Tamner; Oliver Wilkerson and C. A. Robinson. Rev. Moses Lake preached to the waiters at White Sulphur Springs last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Rosa Lee, of Charleston, is visiting relatives here. Miss Valma Scams is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Belle Banks, at Pratt. Miss Florence Bolling and brother Edward, are taking in the Jamestown exposition and visiting relatives at Richmond and Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Robinson are here from Mountain Lake. Quite a number of vehicles filled with people, went to Williamburg last Sunday, where a large camp meeting is being held. Our boys defeated the White Sulphur team by a score of 6 to 4 on the latter's ground last Monday. Miss Sallie Burks returned to Charleston Monday. Miss Willie Gardner is visiting friends on Brushy Ridge. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION NOTES. Doctors A. M. Curtis, R. F. Boyd, J. C. Hall, Dr. Holly, of West Virginia; Dr. Story, of Virginia, and Dr. Kinney, of Tuskegee, were at the Negro building recently arranging for the visit of the National Medical Association, scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 31, when in addition to a program of speeches and music in the day, there will be a reception in the evening which will probably be one of the finest social events that have taken place among the colored people in the country. True Reformers' Day, September 13th, is now looked forward to as probably the biggest of the approaching events scheduled for the Negro exhibit. This occurs on September 13th, and the prophecy is being made that there will be at least 25,000 True Reformers and their friends to greet each other at the Negro building. Friday, September 27th, has been set apart by the management of the Jamestown Negro exhibit as South Carolina Reunion day. The program is now being made up and will include many distinguished people who live in different parts of the country. Visitors who have attended the exposition will regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Dollie Jones, proprietor of the Virginia Cafe near the Negro Building, whose long sickness and final death has been a source of sorrow to all associated with her. Mr. Robert Kelser, who has devoted himself to exposition work in various capacities, is proving quite an adept in arranging for the comfort of visitors in the Negro building. CAUGHT THEM IN THE ACT Wood County Jailer Just in Time to Prevent Delivery. Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 3. By a clever ruse Jailer Gabbert, his wife and his efficient turnkey, Ed. Callihan, foiled a jail delivery which was on the fire and ready to be pulled off in a very short time at 1:30 o'clock Monday morning. The work of four convicts and prospects was nipped just in time, though they possibly could not have made all preparations this morning. For the past three or four nights Jailer Gabbert or some member of his family has been awakened during the night to hear what seemed to be the work of the prisoners with saws. Jailer Gabbert remained up all of Sunday night in order to detect them if possible. After midnight a noise from the cells convinced him that operations were on and he summoned Mrs. Gabbert and the turnkey, who, with him, crept stealthily to the corridor door. Without having made a bit of noise they turned on the lights full, and then Mrs. Gabbert swung the door wide. There were four men at work with saws, in the full glare of the streaming light. They were utterly surprised and dropped their tools in confusion. Meantime the jailer, Mrs. Gabbert and the turnkey were making a survey of the situation. The four actively engaged at work were Charles Lavin, convicted of shooting Mike Sheell; Robert Armour, convicted of forgery; Rev. Graham, the preacher-horse-thief, who is awaiting the action of the grand jury, and Jim Wilson, charged with breaking into a box car. They had four of five saws, each about eight inches long, and a half inch wide, which the jailer said must have been passed in from the outside and which he believes came from Marietta. The men were at work sawing off the heads of bolts which held in position an iron plate which covered the place of a missing bar, which had been left out to make room for a pipe, connecting with a sewer from a toilet room. When the room was torn out and the pipe removed the iron plate had been fastened to the bars by means of bolts. It would have required probably another day to remove all the bolts and then the plate, and it would have been very easy then to escape from the jail through the main corridor. The jailer's idea in catching them at work was to make sure of the presence of tools. He has made repeated inspections and has failed to find any tools in the possession of the convicts and he doesn't know where they were so successfully concealed. Jailer Gilbert said last night that from now on a man would be cept as a guard over the prisoners constantly. TALE OF GREASED PIG. Rhapsody of Bowlegs and Assorted Squeals. Washington, Sept. 4.—That the man who originated the popular proverb that a bow-legged man can't catch a greased plg was scientifically incorrect, to say nothing of his smoking the wrong brand," was demonstrated at Deanwood Park yesterday afternoon. A man who could sit with great THE GLOBE FURNITURE CO. 610 Kanawha St. Both Bronx Furniture Carpets and Stoves we have cut the prices on our big stock and can save you money in all our departments. Go.Carts and Porch and Lawn furniture at a big bargain. Look at our special picture at 45c. Look us up and we will save you money. We sell either for Cash or Easy Payments. But filling every every order F. F. V. Time. We desire to call your attention to the importance of trading with us Prompt delivery to every part of the city. comfort on a barrel had no difficulty in capturing the porter and bringing home the bacon. His legs were a rhapsody, an inspiration, and a poet's dread. To the pig they proved a delusion and a snare. He belittled them, took liberties with them, made himself offensive to them, and was caught by them. It was after 2 o'clock when the hog was first displayed to the eager eyes of the colored "gemmen" who were to strive for his fine hams and his chitterlings. Many started in the pursuit, and for twenty minutes all sorts of gymnastics were performed. Most of the contestants sought to overwhelm the pig by falling upon him, but he was too elusive—the lard of some of his dead ancestors had been caked too carefully on his back. Others, thinking men, endeavored to grasp him by the tail and hold him firmly by the curl, but there was no chance, for this, too, was greased. Some grasped at his ears, but did not stay him. The pig was enjoying himself. He charged at bevies of pickaninnies and drove them, screaming away. He upset fat women with lunch baskets, and discommoded dignified men. He had no respect for station in life, and on several occasions, narrowly averted destroying the ministerial decorum of Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, who was mainly instrumental in arranging the barbecue and picnic. At last the bow-legged man took off his coat and jumped into a pair of overalls and a jacket. He became more determined when the pig stopped and looked at him, then wiggled his tail derisively. But the man with the hoop-like diaphragm was undaunted, and waddled nearer his porkship. Like a flash he was upon the plg's back, and hung like grim death when the fat fellow rushed madly about the field. It was futile, however, for the colored man's fingers, were entwined around the pig's ear, and soon the contest ended. Ursus, who conquered the bull in "uo Vadis," was not given a greater demonstration than was the bow-legged man, for it was realized he had done a deed which would revolutionize the science of pig-catching, and forever remove the foulest blot on the escutcheon of bowed legs. THE TRAGEDY OF EAGLE ROCK. Crowd Thought a Man Fell From a Balloon—It Was a Dummy. Montclair, N. J., Sept. 3. Great excitement was caused here by the form of a man falling rapidly through space, apparently from what appeared to be a balloon which was soaring above Eagle Rock. Shortly after 3 o'clock many resi- We Are But filling every every We desire to call your of trading with us Because We save you money. We guarantee to please We keep the most up-to the city. Our Motto---"C Home Phone 183 Prompt delivery to e PEOPLE'S G Washington St., dents, looking in the direction of the rock, were startled to see the form dropping and performing all sorts of gyrations in the air. Hundreds made for the place below the balloon. Many stumbled over each other in their rush to be on the scene first, and all the while they were screaming to passers-by, "A man has fallen from a balloon. He will be killed." Excitement ran high as, with a double somersault, the hotly turned and turned again, and finally struck the ground with a dull thud. The body did not move. Life had surely been crushed out. "See if he is alive," said one. "No, you go. It is horrible," said another. Finally one man summoned up courage and approached the form. After feeling it and turning it over he remarked that there was absolutely no sign of life. Even this reassurance did not quiet the crowd, and there were soils from the women. "Can no one do anything to help the poor fellow" one asked. "I am afraid he is past all human aid," the man who examined the form said. And he was. The figure was a well-constructed dummy that had been sent up on a kite string by Fred Hickson, one of the village boys, for a trick. That the joke had succeeded was plainly evident. Young Hickson had constructed the dummy out of fine wire, and then attached it to a big box kite in such a manner that it could be released by pulling a string when the kite was high in the air. Young Hickson then went to the top of Eagle Rock and sent up his kite with the figure attached. As soon as it got high enough he released the figure. A new movement, headed by Chng-Fu-Kien for the purpose, of on-setting the Tung, has been started among the Chinese to promote native enterprises in efforts of the Japanese to obtain a foothold in that During the eight weeks following July 1st the New York Life Insurance Company has paid over two million dollars in death claims, dowments, annuities and matried tintines. The number of beneficiaries was over twenty-two hundred. The attitude of foreigners here has reached a stage of pronounced antagonism to the Japanese. This attitude is especially noticeable among persons belonging to the nations which are the allies of Japan. The antagonism has been largely provoked by Japan's constant success both in Korea and Manchuria. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1907 AN UNOPENED PADLOCK. Vienna's Strange Relio That Defied the World's Locksmiths. In 1810 a blacksmith went to Vienna and locked an iron band around a tree with a padlock. What he did with the key no one knows to this day. There is a mirthful legend to the effect that he carelessly threw it into the air and that it never came down again. At any rate, the key could not be found, and the Austrian government offered a prize of 500 ducats to any one who could make a key that would turn the bolt in the lock without breaking it. Many have tried to win the prize, but nobody has won it. Eventually it became the practice among the contestants to drive a nail in the tree and the heads of some of the nails bear the initials of those who drove them. The practice of driving nails into the tree sealed its fate. The lower part of the tree in a few years assumed the appearance of a solid mass of iron. One spring the leaves failed to come out, and later a summer storm blew the top away. The historic stump was cut off and placed on a pedestal on one of the prominent street corners in Vienna. At the same time the iron band was cut in two and put around the stump to hold it in its niche, leaving the padlock in its original position. And there the old stump stands to this day an object both of the curiosity of tourists and the veneration of the residents of Vienna. Incidentally, a street, Stock im Eisen—"Stick in Iron"—has been named after the stump—Scrap Book. ANTIQUITY OF GEOMETRY. The Science May Have Existed In India For Long Ages. Did we learn our rule of three and our Euclid from India? Researches have brought to light astronomical tables in India which must have been constructed by the principles of geometry. Some are of the opinion that they have been framed from observations made not less than 3,000 years before the Christian era, and if this opinion be well founded the science of geometry must have been cultivated in India to a considerable extent long before the period assigned to its origin in the west, so that many of the elementary propositions may have been brought from India to Greece. The Indians have a treatise called the "Surya Sidhanta," which professes to be a revelation from heaven communicated to Meya, a man of great sanctity, about 4,000,000 years ago. This book contains a rational system of trigonometry which differs entirely from the first known in Greece and Arabia. In fact, it is founded on a geometrical theorem which was not known to the geometricians of Europe before the time of Vieta, about 200 years ago. And it employs methods of demonstration unknown to the Greeks, who used others. The former have been attributed to the Arabs, but it is possible they have received this improvement in trigonometry as well as the numerical characters from India.—Chicago Tribune. Irish Stories An Irishman while taking a barge up the Shannon was asked what goods he had on board and answered, "Timber and fruit." "What kind of timber and what sort of fruit?" "Well, an' if ye must know, the timber is just birch brooms, and the fruit, well, it's pretitious." An Irishman averred that the habit of Irish landlords of living outside of Ireland was the great grievance Ireland had to complain of. "Oh, yes," answered an Englishman, "that's the old stalking horse! I don't believe in your absentees." "Not behave in 'em! Come to Dublin with me and I'll show ye 'em by the hundred. Why, the country just swarms with 'em." Ravenous Rats. It is estimated that the rat does $50,000,000 worth of damage a year in England. In a slaughterhouse near Paris rats in a single night picked to the bone the carcasses of thirty-five horses. There is very little that they will not eat; eggs, young birds and animals are among the dainties which they snap up in the ordinary course of business. But when pressed by hunger they will eat anything through which they can drive their terrible teeth. Rat will eat rat. The idea that a trapped rat will bite off an imprisoned leg and so escape is now said to be wrong; it is the other rats which do the biting. They eat the captive. A bookbinder was putting a binding of lead on a book. "Why lead?" a visitor asked. "This," the binder answered, "is a naval code book for use on a battleship. All such volumes are bound in lead." "But why?" "So that in the event of the ship's destruction the books will sink with it, for they contain secrets of immense value, and every precaution must be taken to keep those secrets dark." A Substitute. "You're rather a young man to be left in charge of a drug store," said the fussy old gentleman. "Have you any diploma?" "Why-er-no, shr," replied the drug clerk, "but we have a preparation of our own that's just as good." -Philadelphia Press. "Steward, how long will it be before we get into the harbor?" "About an hour and a half, ma'am." "Oh, dear, I shall die before then." "Very likely, ma'am. But you'll be all right again when you've been on there ten minutes."—Marine Journal. "The meteorites which hurl them solves at this sphere add about 1,000 tons to its weight every three years. AN ODD SUPERSTITION. British Fishermen Balk at the Name of Graham. One of the most curious of British fishermen's superstitions, the one which perhaps to this day has the strongest hold upon them, is that connected with the name of Graham. No fisherman will go to sea if he has heard this name mentioned, nor will he do any manner of work upon that day. He will refuse to sail in a boat with any one bearing the name, and a house painter from Newcastle called Graham, who had been sent to do some work in one of the large houses, found his life made so unbearable by the villagers that he incontinently returned to the town, leaving his work uncompleted. The women who bait the lines in the winter will unbait every hook and rebait the whole length—the labor of hours—if they hear it mentioned. A local tradesman bearing this unfortunate patronymic is never referred to save as "Puff," another, an innkeeper, is known as "Lucky Bits." No rational explanation is to be found. On one of the most intelligent fishermen being questioned on the subject he laughed the idea to scorn. Why, his daughter was married to a Graham. But, he added, a strange thing happened two years ago when he was off at the herring fishing and had not been home for some weeks. Having received a letter at Shields to say that his son-in-law was ill, he hailed a passing boat which had come from the north, asking if they had heard how Jack Graham was. "And, wad ye believe," no sooner had aa ysed the words than theor wes a crash, and the mast went ower the side!" None of the crew spoke to him for the rest of the day—New York Post. HABITS OF SPIDERS. "Do Those Insects Sleep?" Is Not an Easy Question to Answer. The question, "Do spiders sleep at night?" is not easy to answer. I have made a careful observation of the sleep of ants, and that could readily be done by watching colonies in their artificial formicaries. It is almost impossible to deal with spiders in the same way. I would answer, however, in general terms that spiders sleep, as all animals do, and doubtless parts of the night are spent in slumber. Many species, however, prey on the night flying insects, and so must be awake in order to catch their prey. If you will watch the porch or outbuildings of your home on a summer evening you will be likely to see an orb weaving spider drop slowly down on a single thread in the gathering dusk of the evening. From this beginning a round web will soon be spun, and either hanging at the center thereof or in a little nest above and at one side is the architect, with forefeet clasping what we call the "trap line" and waiting for some night flying insect to strike the snare. In this position spiders will sometimes wait for hours, and it is just possible that they may then take a little nnp. They might easily do that and yet not lose their game, for the agitation of the web would rouse the sleeper, and then it would run down the trap line and secure its prey. Some species of spiders do the chief part of their hunting at night, and there are some who chiefly hunt during the day; but, as a rule, these industrious animals work both day and night—St. Nicholas. Suffered For His Chickens. In London as far back as 1791 a city ordinance was passed to suppress the early morning cries of the street hucksters. This law was so severe that a person arrested twice for the same offense could be imprisoned for ten years. There is one record of a man lingering in prison for ten years. When his time was up he was asked what his crime was. "For selling chickens that squawked," was the reply. In the confusion of the trial the fact was not brought out that the chickens and not the man were responsible for the din that aroused the wrath of the disturbed citizens. Wanted Money Too Ned, walking with his father, saw him give a beggar 5 cents and inquired into the matter. "What did you give that man 5 cents for, papa?" asked Ned. "So that he might eat bread, my boy," said the father. That evening at the supper table it was observed that Ned declined to eat any bread, in any shape. "Aren't you eating bread nowadays, my boy?" his mother asked. "So papa'll give me 5 cents."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Might Start a Forest A lady told a party of friends that she had quarreled with her husband and had planted a tree in memory of their first falling out. "What a splendid idea," whispered another lady in her husband's ear; "if we had adopted that plan we might have had by now a fine avenue of trees in our garden." Blind to Them. "Never be critical upon the ladies," was the maxim of an old Irish peer, remarkable for his homage to the sex. "The only way that a true gentleman ever will attempt to look at the faults of a pretty woman is to shut his eyes." According to Rules Sentry—You can't leave. Soldier—But I have the captain's oral permission. Sentry (importantly)—Let's see it!—11 Motto per Ridere. Mark Twain says that England is the home of wit and America is the home of humor. A bird's wing is, in proportion to its owner's weight, twenty times as strong as a man's arm. A "CURE" FOR CUSSING. The Penitent Scotman Found His Load a Heavy One. A clergyman in Scotland observed with much perturbation that a member of his congregation was greatly given to the use of strong language. Over and over again he demonstrated with the man to give up the bad habit. In time the man himself came to see the error of his ways, and desired no less earnestly to break himself of the use of bad language. The difficulty, however, was to find a method of doing so. One day the clergyman hit upon a happy thought. "Get a bag," he said to the man, "and every time you swear put a pebble into it. At the end of the month you will bring that bag to me. I will count the pebbles and see what the effect has been." The man accepted the idea with alacrity. He got a bag, and, religiously, every time he swore what Mr. Gilbert in the "Pinafore" calls a "big, big D," he duly put a pebble into it. At the end of the month he went to the clergyman, taking the bag with him. It was not an easy task, for, as any one might see, the bag was very full and very heavy. He went into the clergyman's study and put the bag on the table. The minister looked up with a serious expression. "This is very serious, my friend. I am sorry to see you have so many pebbles in the bag." "Hoot, minister!" exclaimed the man cheerfully; "this is only the 'devil's'—the 'damns' are all at the dikeside in another bag. They were over heavy to bring up!"—Excelsior. A CLEVER TRICK. The Way Lord Cockrane Once Won an English Election. When Lord Cochrane was a candidate for parliament in Honiton he refused to give any bribes. As his opponent gave £5 a head, Lord Cochrane suffered defeat. The latter, however, sent the bellman round the town announcing that all those who had voted for Lord Cochrane would receive 10 gulneas apiece if they called on his agent. In those preballot days of course it was known how each man voted, and the happy minority marched off to the agent, each getting his 10 gulneas. Naturally enough, the majority began to think they had made a mistake, and they resolved to rectify that mistake at the first possible moment. In due course an opportunity came. There was another election. Lord Cochrane stood again, and the voters, remembering his lavish methods, asked him no questions, but returned him with a roaring moment. Then they conveyed a delicate hint to the noble lord asking what he proposed to give them for this distinguished service. "Not one farthing" roared his lordship. The unhappy men reminded him that he had paid 10 gulneas a head to the minority at the previous election. A complacent grin brightened the face of the member as he gave this explanation: "The former gift was for their disinterested conduct in not taking the bribe of £5 from the agents of my opponent. For me now to pay them would be a violation of my own previously expressed principles." Identified. Tommy made himself the hero of a story, which the Boston Record prints, when he called for "that one about the boy who ate the ribbons and it made him sick." Aunt Ethel was puzzled. "I know of no such story," she said, after searching her memory vainly. Nothing she could suggest answered the description. Tommy cannot read, but he thought he could find the book. He found it. They read one thing after another, until in the midst of the "Night Before Christmas" Tommy gave a whoop of glee. Aunt Ethel was reading: "He rushed to the window and threw up the sash." "That's it! That's it!" cried Tommy. "You see, it's just as I told you!" A Dutch Ironclad It is of interest to note that, according to some authorities, the Dutch were the first in the modern period of history to build an ironclad and that during the siege of Antwerp by the Spaniards in 1585 the people of that city built an enormous flat bottomed vessel, armored it with heavy iron plates and thus constructed what they regarded as an impregnable battery. This they named Finis Belli. Unfortunately the vessel got aground before coming into action and fell into the hands of the enemy. It was held by Alexander of Parma to the end of the siege as a curiosity, but was never employed by either side in any action. A Handy Measure. If you have a pint jug and wish to measure off half a pint with tolerable accuracy it is useless to try and do so by guessing when the jug is half full. A better way is to fill the jug until the contents just reach to the upper end of the bottom of the vessel and just touch the lip at the lower end of the mouth. In this way the space in the pint jug is practically cut into two equal portions, each half representing the space taken by half a pint.—London Graphite. Man Is Wiser. Gerryman (at the mirror)—Put a monkey before a looking glass, they say, and he will look behind it. Miss Sharpe—But a man knows better. He knows he won't find anything funnier there than the face he sees before him.—Boston Transcript. All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.—Lavater. Japan has 2,237 banks, with $295,244,334 capital. Five new banks have opened since February. It is a Precious Gift and Helps to Lighten Life's Way. I regard a name of humor as one of the most precious gifts that can be vouchsafed to a human being. He is not necessarily a better man for having it but he is a happier one. It renders him indifferent to good or bad fortune. It enables him to enjoy his own discomfiture. Blessed with this sense he is never unduly elated or cast down. No one can ruffle his temper. No abuse disturbs his equanimity. Bores do not bore him. Humbugs do not humbug him. Solemn alms do not impose on him. Sentimental gush does not influence him. The follies of the moment have no hold on him. Titles, and decorations are but childish baubles in his eyes. Prejudice does not warp his judgment. He is never in conceit or out of conceit with himself. He abhors all dogmatism. The world is a stage on which actors strut and fret for his edification and amusement, and he pursues the even current of his way, invulnerable, doing what is right and proper according to his lights, but utterly indifferent whether what he does finds approval or disapproval from others. If Hamlet had had any sense of humor he would not have been a nulsance to himself and to all surrounding him.-London Truth. EGIDU OF NINEVEH. The Most Ancient Banking House of Which We, Have Record. There was a kind of public record office attached to the palace and temple at Nineveh in which it was customary to deposit important legal and other documents, such as contracts and agreements, for the purchase and sale of property, marriage settlements, wills, etc. Among these there were discovered official statements as to the history and transactions of the eminent banking house of Egidu at Nineveh. Assyrian chronology proves that these refer to a date about 2,300 years before the Christian era, when Abraham dwelt at Ur of the Chaldees, as is stated in Genesis. We may therefore claim for this firm the reputation of being the oldest bank in the world at least of which we have any record or are likely to have. The accounts are very voluminous and cover the transactions of five generations of the house from father to son. The firm grew rapidly in importance during this period, during which they attained great wealth, for they succeeded in securing from the king the appointment of collectors of taxes, a position which in the east always leads to fortune. They afterward farmed the revenue for several of the Assyrian provinces with very great gain to the firm.-T. P.'s London Weekly. Corrected In Rhyme Thackeray was much pestered by the autograph hunter says Hodder in his "Recollections." He disliked above all things to write in an autograph album and often refused those who asked him to do so sometimes rather brusquely. On one occasion the owner of an album, a young lady, was fortunate. Thackeray took her book to his room in order to look it over. Written on a page he found these lines: Mount Blanc is the monarch of mountains. They crowned him long ago. But who they got to put it on Nobody seems to know. Albert Smith. Under these lines Mr. Thackeray wrote: But yet methinks that Lindley Murray Instead of "who" had M. Thackray Pliny's Yarns. Pliny's yarns about human anatomy were something wonderful. He tells of a race of savage men whose feet are turned backward and of a race known as Monocoll, who have only one leg, but are able to leap with surprising agility. The same people are also called the Sciapodae, because they are in the habit of lying on their backs during the extreme heat and protecting themselves from the sun by the shade of their feet. These people dwell not far from the Troglodyte, to the west of whom again there are a tribe who are without necks and have their eyes in their shoulders. Clever. Mrs. Petter-Did you see that? Dixon seized that rocking chair and was into it before his wife had a chance to reach it. And on his wedding trip too Mr. Petter-That's just it. There's where Dixon is smart. Nobody will suspect that he is on his wedding tour, don't you see? And besides, he gets the chair.-Boston Transcript. All That He Had. "Can you give bond?" asked the judge. "Have you got anything?" "Judge" replied the prisoner, "sence you ax me. I'll tell you. I hain't got nutbin' in the word 'cept the spring chills, six acres of no 'count land, a big family, a hope of a herenfter an' the ole war rheumatism." - Atlanta Constitution. The Tiresome Part Macfoozler (playing an absolutely hopeless game) Here! What are you lying down for? Are you tired? Caddie—are no tired o' carryin', but I'm sair weary o' countin'-Punch. Not Qualified. "No, suh. Harris isn't ready for de kingdom yit," declared Uncle Peter. "Hit don' gib yo' wings ter hab yo' name on de flyleaf ob de 'Bible.' Youth's Companion. Quackery has no friend-like gullibillily.—Italian Proverb. In all races the man's brain averages 10 per cent heavier than, the brain of the woman. MEAD BROTHERS &. COM'Y 908 KANAWHA STREET BED MATTRESSES SPRINGS Is your Bed worn out and "rickety?" Is your Mattress flat and lumpy? Is your Spring "the worst I ever slept on"? IF SO-WHY SO? Iron Beds, - $2.50 to $15.00 Brass Beds - $18.00 to $75.00 Excelsior Mattresses 1.75 to 5.00 Felt Mattresses - 6.50 to 18.00 Wood Frame Springs 1.75 to 3.00 Splendid all steel Springs 5.00 to 10.00 Box Springs, $10.50 to $20.00 The Hog Question on the South Side, and the Conveying of Liquid Stops Causes a Ruling—Routine Matters Discussed. The meeting of the Board of Affairs yesterday was largely devoted to routine matters, all important questions touching the extension of improvements and other matters of similar import, being held in aheyance pending the determination of the vote on the proposed bond issue; which will be taken on Tuesday next. Messrs. Loeb and White were the only two members of the board present at the meeting, Mr. Humphries having gone on his vacation. The first business to come up was a couple of cases of parties who are keeping hogs on the South Side within the city limits, and utilizing slop from the city restaurants in feeding them, the complaint being not against the keeping of hogs in the outlying districts, a matter which had already been provided for, but for the spilling slops along the road while hauling it to the respective domiciles of the swine. It was ordered that slops must hereafter be carried only in closed vessels. Permission was given J. W. Skeen to temporarily remove a portion of the sidewalk on Clendennin street in order to put in a sewer connection, the sidewalk to be replaced in good condition without unnecessary delay. Capt. Rand, of the fire department, reported that Ruffner Lane was in such bad condition that it was practically impossible for the fire apparatus to get through it, and the board promised to give the matter prompt attention. Capt. Rand also presented the resignation of Cadet B. D. Wills, which was accepted, and the application of Cadet John Jarrett for leave of absence, which was granted. Resident Engineer Bingham, the representative of McCracken & Co., the sewer contractors, received a second notice to fill the ditch along North Rand street, without further delay. A number of South Side citizens petitioned for repairs to the road above the bridge, expressing their willingness to bear one-third of the expense, which is estimated at three hundred dollars. The matter was taken under advisement. The K. & M. crossing at Young street, where a new sliding has recently been put in, was reported by City Engineer Hogue to be in such a dangerous condition that the fire wagon could not possibly get over it, and the board will investigate the situation. The balance of the session was taken up in the discussion of several matters which could not be determined at this time, and the consideration of the budget and allowance, of salaries for August, after which adjournment was taken. We are showing today our new lines of seasonable Dress Goods, Silks, Knit Goods, Hosiery, Waints, Skirts, &c. Also in our Carpet Department, new Rugs, Carpets, Mattings, Linoleums and Lace Curtains. STERRETT BROTHERS Dress Goods New novelty dress materials in plain, plaid and mixed effects. Containing the desirable weaves and stylish colors. We show a complete assortment at 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 yard. Also "Priestleys" black dress goods in all popular weaves ranging from 75c to $3.50 yard. There are, no black goods that equal the Priestleys's. White Waists Ladies Fall Waistls in Cambric, Lawn' and Linen tailor made with laundred collars and cuffs $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.50, Black' Silk Waistls made of soft swiss Tafeta plain tailored effects mailable for travelling and street wear, at $3.75, $4.00, $5.00, $5.75, $5.10 and $7.50. Skirts Ladles' Tailor Made Skirts in the new styles for the season, "Broadcloths," "Voil," "Panama" and "Chiffon Panama," well tailored and perfect fitting. They range in price, $5.00, $5.75, $6.50, $8.50, $10.50, $12.50 and $15.75. Black Silk Underskirts Taffeta Silk Underskirts made from heavy nestle silk at $5.75, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50, $9.00 and $10.50. Silk Ginghams Our new lines in checks, plains, and fancy effects, Silk Ginghams are now being shown. Just the article for Misses' and childrens' school dresses. Price 25c yard. Tailored Suits Ladies' Tailored Suits in black, browns, blues and fancy cheviots. Made STERRETT FAMOUS COMPOSER DEAD. Nas Norwegian and His Death Considered a National Loss. Borgen, Norway, Sept. 4. — Edward Hagerup Griegg, the composer, died here. Among his, works was the "Peer Gynt" opera, on which the play of that name, produced by the late Richard Mansfield, was founded. His death is considered a national loss. EXPLODING GASOLINE TANK. Associated Press. New York, Sept. 4. — An exploding tank of gasoline in the cellar of a burning building on Havemeyer St., Brooklyn, seriously injured five firemen, two of them fatally. ORDER OF PUBLICATION State of West Virginia, Kanawha County, ss.: At Rules held in the Clark's Office of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, on the first Monday in the month of September, 1907. Jefferson Davis, Plaintiff, vs. In Chancery, No. 1551. Nellie Davis, Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a decree from the bonds of matrimony. This day came the Plaintiff by his Attorney; and on his motion, and it ROTHERS & 908 KANAWHA STREET In the new styles for Fall and Winter. They are shown in our suit department. Second floor. Infante White Dresses Long and short white dresses for Infants and Children, 1 to 5 years old. Made from fine white goods with dainty embroidery and lace trimmings, $1.25 to $6.90. You can buy them ready to wear for less than cost of material and trimming. Children's Muslin Underwear in Drawers, Skirts, Gowns and Waistst that you can buy at less than cost of material and trimming. Dress Making Our new dress making department will be opened September 20 to 25th. We propose to make this department one that will meet the requirements of our customers. Work from this department will be shown in the next few weeks. You can better judge of the style and workmanship after the models are shown. Dress making department will be arranged on 3rd floor. Carpet Department New line of Velvet Brussels, Wilton and Axminster Carpets with border to match suitable f rooms, halls and stairs. New showing of Brussels Rugs (room sizes at last season's prices. Brussels Rugs, x910½ ft... $12.00 Brussels Rugs, 9x 12 feet... $13.50 Brussels Rugs, 9x 12 feet... $15.00 Velvet Rugs, 9x 12 feet... $19.50 Axminster Rugs, 9x12 feet... $22.50 We also show a line of Ornamental Patterns in fine, rugs 9x12 feet at a special price of $28.50. This rug is shown by no other house, neither are the designs seen in any other rugs, even at much higher prices. appearing by idaviday filed, that the Defendant is a non-resident of this State, it is ordered that she do appear within one month after the date of the first publication hereof, and do what is necessary to protect her interest in this suit. Teste: D. M. SHIRKEY, Clerk. T. G. Nutter, Sol. 9-5-4t Notice to Take Depositions. To Nellie Davis. Take Notice: that on the 4th day of October, A. D. 1907, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., at the law office of T. G. Nutter, Esq., 604.1-2 Kanawha street, in the city of Charleston, Kanawha county, West Virginia, I will take the deposition of myself and others, to be read in evidence in my healf in a certain suit in Chancery now pending in the Circuit Court for the County of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, in which Jefferson Davis is Plaintiff and Nellie Davis is Defendant. If from any cause the taking of said deposition shall not be commenced or completed on the day aforesaid, the same shall be continued from day to day, or from time to timer at the same place, and between the same hours, until the same shall be completed. JEFFERSON DAVIS. T. G. Nutter, soI. 9-54-4