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Colored Men are up-Notchers. But Do Not Receive Credit Due them From the Sporting Publ. Cincinnati, Dec. 28.—A crowd of sporting men were discussing the champions of the prize ring last night in The Enquirer office when some one asked Joe Humphreys to give his opinion whether or not the old-time champions were better than the men who hold down the Honors at the present time. "Why, there's no comparison whatever" shouted Joe. "The fighters of today are a lot of fams. Not one of them could hold down a championship in the days of Bob Fitzsimmons, excepting Jack Johnson, and he is the best colored heavy weight since the days of Peter Jackson." "Look here," continued Joe, dragging out his pencil and paper. "What would be the betting if the new and old champions were brought together? Take, for instance, the following matches: "Bob Flissimmons vs. Tommy Burns. "Tommy Ryan vs. Billy Papke or Hugo Kolly. "Joe Wolcott vs. Young Ketchell. "Joe Gans vs. Packie McFarland. "Terry McGovern vs. Abe Attell. "You could play the old-timers to win right down the line without losing a bet, McGovern could whip Attell, Moran, Tommy O'Toole and Jimmy Walsh all in the same ring without any danger of being knocked out. "In my opinion Fitzsimmons was the greatest of all the heavy weights. He gave Jeff two of the worst beatings he ever got in his life, and would have whipped the boiler maker had old Bob been a few years younger. left Jeff say, was afraid of no man yet. It is mighty queen how he quickly retired when Jack Johnson, the big unknot man, loomed up on the horizon. I think Johnson is superior to any heavy weight in the world today. He is the king of the heavies. This looks tough for the white men, yet the facts before me are very plain. Johnson is the best of the heavies; Joe Jeanette, leader of the light heavy weights; Sam Langford superior to all middle weights. Jack Blackburn the best of the weiter weights and Joe Gans is the daddy of all the light weights. Langford can fight at 158 pounds at 3 o'clock, and Blackburn can make 136 pounds ringside. If the white boxes do not get up their nerve pretty soon there will be no way to determine where the class lies. As it is now the colored boxes have all the others scared. McGovern Fought All Comers. "Just Imagine Terry McGovern drawing the color line on George Dixon when the latter was featherweight champion. He would have been roasted from one end of the country to the other. When Terry became champion he went out and met all comers. Dixon was champion for about 14 years, and always wore the American colors. He fought five battles with foreigners, winning the championship of Great Britain from Nune Wallace at the National Sporting Club, London. Later he defeated Abe Willis for the championship of Australia. He again defended the title against Fred Johnson, of England, at Coney Island, N.Y. Later he battled with Billy Pimmer, who was then recognized bantam champion of England. Pimmer went back and fought Pedal for the bantam-weight championship of England and lost. The new champion came over and fought a six-round draw with Dixon. Though colored, Dixon was the marvel of the age, and the best liked fighter of his day. "There are no Dixons today. He never welghed more than 120 pounds in his life. This is a lighter figure than any of the socalled feather weights of the present time can make. The light weights have all passed up Gans and Blackburn. The real reason why Gans has retired in my estimation is that none of the light weights would meet him, and he realized that he could no longer get any money in public. Before retiring he should have named at least a half dozen legitimate weights who can honestly and fairly make 133 pounds Ringide, such as Willie Fitzgerald, Battling Nelson, Packie McFarland, Tommy Murphy, Bert Keys and Matty Baldwin, and had them fight it out among themselves. I thought at first Johnny Summers might do, but since he returned from England the last time he has not showed anything like champion- schp form. Until he does he will not consider him eligible for the title. George Menisc would figure very prominently in this bungalow, but I do not believe that he could do himself justice at the weight. There is more interest. In the light-weight class than any other at present, as the number of available men is greater than in any other division. Colored District Attorney Seeks Seat on Bench Occupied by Judge Lantry. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 27. A recount was begun today of the ballots cast at the municipal court election in November, 1906, to determine whether or not assistant District Attorney F. L. Barnett, colored, is entitled to a place on the bench occupied by Judge Thomas B. Lantry. In his petition for a recount Barnett charged that the count of ballots in 111 precincts was fraudulently and erroneously made. - GOVERNOR ALARMED By Reports of Impending Race Riots, Henryetta, Okla. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 27—Governor Haskell states tonight that he has most disquieting reports from Henryetta relative to race troubles, and that two companies of National Guards are being held in readiness to move to that town at any moment. He is awaiting a telegraphic request from the Mayor for help, which a telephone communication leads him to believe will come at once. Military companies at Chandler and Oklahoma City are in readiness to move. Armed guard are patrolling Henryetta streets and courriers and officers are out, endeavoring to locate an armed body of Negroes who last were reported four miles from the town. The Governor expects to remain in his office most of the night, so that he may be in touch with the situation. NEGROFS DEPART Muskogee, Okla. Dec. 25. The Negroes are rapidly leaving Henshotta, where the lynching of James Graff, a Negro, occurred yesterday, following the murder of Alfred Rales, a prominent white man. The blacks were given notice to get out of the town within 18 hours. A second attack was made on the jail early today by a mob of citizens who sought a Negro named Bill Smith, charged with involving Graff to commit the crime. Sheriff W. F. Robertson, however, spirited the man away from the mob and took him to Okmugee. Mrs. A. F. Lomans, who has been quite ill, is about well again. Mrs. Cora Moze and children are here visiting her mother, Mrs. Harriet Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Winston, formerly residents of this place, but who have been living for some years at Grays Flat, are here now as permanent residents. Mrs. Prince Davis and daughter, Miss Cora, of Goshen, were guests, this week, of Mrs. C. R. Beale. Mrs. Ruth Pryor, of Lowmoore, spent Saturday the guests of her cousin, Mrs. Mary Braxton. C. R. Beale was confined the first of the week to his bed with rheumatism. Rudolph Mickens, of Hampton Institute, and Adolphus Lomans, of Petersburg institute, spent the holidays with their parents. Mrs. Chas. Adams has been quite ill for two weeks. Lphone Panel spent Christmas at his home. Rudolph Mickens entertained a number of his friends Saturday night at his home. The Messrs. Leftwich gave a social, Saturday afternoon, in honor of Miss Loving, of Iron Gate. Quite a number of young folks was present. Miss Sohpla Mills, who is teaching in West Virginia, came home for the holidays quite slick, but is able to return to her school. Charley Wright, who has been so ill, with pneumonia, is about well again. The play known as Jesse James, played by home talent during the holidays, was quite good and reflects credit upon the manager. T. Mills Mr. and Mrs. William Wright, who have been spending some time in Baltimore, returned Saturday night. Misa Bessie Chambers spent some time, this week, visiting Miss Lena Clark. She returned home, Monday morning, accompanied by Miss Clark. Miss Amelia McDaniel, principal of Ronceverte school, spent her vacation here, the guest of Mrs. W. J. Hackett. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, JANUARY 2, 1908 AND IS EXPECTED TO GIVE THE OTHER FELLOW A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY, ACCORDING TO OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT—THE LEGALITY OF THE PRESIDENT'S DISCHARGE OF THE COLORED SOLDIERS TO BE TESTED IN COUNT—VERNON IS LOOKING AFTER THE INTERESTS OF HIS COLORED CONSTITUENTS BY SEEING THAT SALARIES ARE INCREASED. Staff Correspondence. Washington, D. C., an. 1, 1908. Notwithstanding the diverse social activities of ahe. Yuletide, the political attention remains the center of interest in this hot-bed of solons, and those who would like to bask in their improving smiles. The chase for the festive "band wagon" abates nothing in intensity. President Roosevelt is taking things easy since he ceased to be "it." and Secretary Cortelyou shows signs of recovering from his attack of grip and other midwinter alliments. Speaker Cannon is smoking long Havanas rast and fortunately, and Vole. President Fairbanks beams as bluntly as assever and shakes your hand with a grasp so firm that you are convinced that he is really glad to see you. The friends of Governor Hughes are somewhat in the dark as to the future of his boom, and are looking forward for something to happen that will brighten things up a bit in 'New York state. Senator Foraker is getting ready for the titanic struggle in Ohio. Secretary William Howard Taft is in town, and is occupying the Lion's share of the limelight at present. There is noted a distinct revival of the Wilhelm enthusiasm that surrounded his candidacy prior to his departure for his long international tour, and if the convention were held at this time, it looks as if the jovial war secretary would "win in a walk." His wonderful trip around the world during which his engaging personality, and his sagacity as a statesman and superbly-equipped man of affairs, were displayed to marked advantage, has inmeasurably strengthened him with American people of every section. The confidence and affection exhibited by the "little brown men" at Manilla, the ovations accorded by the Japanese, the warm tributes paid by the Russians, and the final courtestes extended by the German emperor, all stamp him as a universally popular and thoroughly rounded character, who would fill the most exacting requirements demanded of the president of a cosmopolitan republic like ours. It is becoming apparent to all who read as they run, that this movement toward Secretary Taft is not wholly sentimental, much as he is admired in all quarters for his gnual bearing, unfailing tact and optimistic temperament. It is being discovered that he is not merely an echo of any existing power, fully as he may sympathize with certain prosperity producing policies now in operation. He is a man of positive force in his own right, and is a master of diplomacy, statescraft, and economics, with an originality of method that will enable him to handle in his own way every problem which this nation is apt to face in the next twenty years. Mr. Taft has many friends among the rank and file of the colored people of the country, as well as among the leaders, and they have faith in his disposition to do the right thing by the race in all emergencies. His connection with the Brownville incident was of a purely perfunctory nature, and his prompt action in holding up the discharge order evinced his warm instinct for fair play, no matter what the circumstances may have been. It is whispered that he is now working on the plan that will bring about the results that the race has longed for, and no one on the inside will be surprised if the matter is satisfactorily adjusted within the fewest of weeks, at the very latest. It is certain that he will not permit any innocent soldier to suffer, when the proper time for action presents itself. Now that Mr. Taft is at home again, he has buckled down to work on his report of conditions in the Orient, but is not averse to snatching a moment occasionally to look over the political situation, and it is understood that he is pretty well satisfied with the outlook. The struggle in Ohio bids fair to be an interesting skirmish, but there are those who believe that all will be well be fore any real life bloom is spilled on either side. Songer. Foraker is regarded as too true a party man to allow such a thing as personal animosity or individual ambition to cooperate, the welfare of the national organization, and a peace pact is still hoped for by the conservatives of both factions in the Buckeye State. In any event, Mr. Taft has an abundance of supporters in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, West Virginia, Iowa and the south, and is the second choice of several states which are now putting forward "favorite sons." Negroes, as well as their white fellow partisans, are rallying to the Taft standard, and there is no doubt that his interests will be ably cared for between now and convention time. The legality of the president's action in discharging the soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry, on account of the attray of Drowsynville, is to be tested in the courts; it seems. The repose of the state citizens of the nation's capital was given a decided shock. Friday morning, by the surprising intelligence that Oscar W. Reid, a private in Company G, of the 25th regiment, had been sent in the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York to recover back salary to the amount of $11,26; the sum alleged to be due him for services from the day he was dismissed, November 9; 1906, to the day upon which his enlistment terminated, July 18, 1907. The action is brought under the Tucker act, an almost forgotten statute, passed in 1837, which provides that a claimant, under certain conditions, may sue the United States government in a district or court court, instead of presenting the matter to the court of claims, if the plaintiff so elects. The law in question has been very cleverly searched out, and some folks are wondering why it took everybody so long to discover that the almost obsolete statute could be made to bear upon the case. While the salary issue is made prominent in the plea, no secret is being made of the fact that the real point in the controversy is to test the right of the president to discharge the soldiers of the 25th infantry, without the formality of a court martial, which privilege, the plaintiff contends, is an inherent law, in consonance with the articles of war. The law firm of Ward, Mellen & Woodbridge, of New York, has been retained as counsel for Private Reid, and the information is freely given out that a group of wealthy and influential New England men whose identity must not be revealed, are behind him in this fight. The statute now invoked by Private Reid's counsel has been cited but twice within the memory of the best posted practitioners, and the case has set some of the wisest barristers to guessing. The outcome will be highly significant, if it reaches a settlement in open court, as a failure of the court to sustain the president's right to dismiss without honor is likely to mean the restoration of the entire battalion, without prejudice, to their former status in the United States army. Other shrewd lawyers, however, have found a technicality in the Tucker statute, which they claim, excepts the pay of government salaries of its operations, and contend that the case must be contended out of the district court and go automatically to the court of claims for adjudication. Be that as it may, the final result will doubtless hinge upon the right of Private Reid to his money, and will thus test the legality of the discharge without court martial Dr. W. T. Vernon register of the United States treasury, is doing a splendid work for the advancement of the colored men employed in his department. He is not accentuating the color line, nor can he be accused of undue favoritism for his race in so doing, for partiality based upon artificial lines is bound, to react harmfully; but he is wisely seeing to it that his people are not being discriminated against in the matter of promotions when they deserve them. He "runs his office," and it is not difficult to perceive that the register of the treasury is the man designated by President Roosevelt to perform the duties of that office—not some subordinate, who may happen to possess a falter skiff. Since June 12, 1906, the date upon which Register Vernon took the oath of office, the following promotions of colored men have been made upon his recommendation: Lieut. T. H. R. Clarke, from $1,000 to $1,200 per annum; R. P. Ikehn, $720 to $840; Woodie Over, $680 to $720; George F. Beason, at $900; John D. Reynolds, at $660; and Roscoe L. Gray (temporary), at $250, have entered the office since the accession of Dr. Vernon. These promotions and accessions represent a net increase of salaries paid to colored men of $2,145, directly attributed to the unselfish, broad-minded and painstaking policies of this race-loving statesmen. Other persons of the Negro race carried on the roils of the register's office are George C. Smith, at $900; George J. Booker, at $660; Charles W. Edwards, at $660; A. H. Matthews, at $660, and George D. McCoy, at $660, bringing the total salaries paid to the colored employees under Register Vernon up to the handsome figure of $8,065 per annum. Adding to this the $4,000 received by Dr. Vernon, and the $2,500 received by Assistant Register Cyrus Field Adams, we have $14,565 paid from the treasury to colored men. In connection with this one office—a showing of which the race may well feel proud, and the future promises even better results. Dr. Vernon has also been largely instrumental in securing appointments, promotions and transfers for colored men outside of his own bureau. He very correctly feels that his position of opportunity and power is a trust to he administered for the benefit of his people, as well as for the safety of the government's money and bonds, and he never refuses to take the time to serve any meritous member of the race where he can legitimately do so. He makes no "Juss;" he just "does things"—that's all. He is just the kind of a leader we need at court in the nation's capital. The problem is, as Andrew Carnegie so aptly said of the Negro in America: "How can we get more of them?" Former Congressman. George, H. White, now a prominent member of the bar of Philadelphia, and head of a banking corporation, was in the city this week, en route to Asheville, N. C., where he delivers the enunciation day address under the auspices of the Young Men's Institute, of which his son-in-law, Prof. J. W. O. Garrett, is president, and Prof. W. J. Trent is general secretary. Mr. White is optimistic as to the future of the Negro in this country, particularly in the south, and believes that the situation is so shaping itself, even in politics, that we shall soon "come again," and our voice will once again be heard in the halls of the national congress. The eleventh annual meeting of the American Negro Academy was held Monday and Tuesday. In the main building of Howard University. The general subject for discussion was "The Physical Aspect of the Negro in America." Prof. J. E. Aggrey, of Livingstone University, read a paper on "Physical Characteristics of the Native of the West Coast of Africa;" Dr. Joseph J. France, of Portsmouth, Va., spoke on "Susceptibility of the Negro to Certain Diseases in Virginia;" and Dr. S. C. Fuller, pathologist of the Hospital for the Insane at Westboro, Mass., told of "The Insane Among Negroes of Massachusetts and Their Ratio to Population." Prof. Archibald H. Grimke, of Boston, presided, and delivered an instructive annual address. The academy is made up of Negro scholars, and their annual meetings are productive of much good. Prof. J. W. Cromwell, principal of Bannaker school, of this city, is corresponding secretary, and arranged the details of the meeting. Mme. E. Azala Hackley, who has been studying classic music for a number of years in the best conservatories of Paris, appeared before a cultured audience. Thursday evening, at the Metropolitani A. M. E. church, and scored a tremendous "blit." Her voice is of the purest soprano, and though lacking in some measure the volume of Mme. Bellka, Mme. Sissiteretta Jones, or perhaps Miss Itachol Walker, she makes it up in dramatic expression and flexibility of vocalization. Her trills, cadenzas, etc., are made without apparent effort and her high notes are full and resonant. Her selections were of the highest type, yet she responded gracefully to the demand for those of the popular school in her numerous encores/Mme. Hackley is a credit to her race, and her efforts to establish a loftier standard of musical taste entitle her to the thanks and loyal support of the people ev- erywhere. She was capably assisted in this concert by Mr. Clarence Caueron White, vloeminist, and Miss Mary Powell Burrill, elocutionist. Miss Henrietta Winton Davis has returned from a successful tour of New York and New England, and gave a splendid performance. Monday/ evening, to a crowded house at the Tenth-street Baptist church, of which Rev. S. Gerald Lampkins is pastor. Miss Davis is putting on an entirely new line of specialties this season, and her bookings indicate that she grows more popular with experience, and closer study of the dramatic art of, which she is an acknowledged queen. The campaign for delegates from the District of Columbia to the Chicago convention is beginning in earnest. • The colored republicans are mapping out a particularly aggressive line of action. There is not much talk as to the presidential nominee just now, among the candidates, as the disposition is to make the issue of suffrage for the district paramount. Some of the possible aspirants for delegate so far mentioned are: Dr. J. R. Wilder, Dr. O. M. Atwood, Dr. W. S. Loehring, Mr. Glavin Chase and Dr. E. D. Wilder. It is understood that Dr. Robert Burr, the present incumbent, will seek re-election, and the colored republicans will probably turn to Dr. J. Ricketts, formerly of Government Printing office, as the favorite for the white and of delegate apportionment. At Garfield Hospital, last Saturday. Dr. A. M. Curtis, former surgeon-in-Chief of Freedmen's Hospital, performed an operation for appendicitis upon Mrs. Dickerson, wife of Dr. W. P. Dickerson, of Newport News, Va., who came all the way to Washington specially to avail herself of the services of this eminent specialist. The operation was successful and the patient is in a satisfactory condition. The Garfield Hospital is a white institution, but colored patients are treated with every possible consideration by its official staff. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, for twenty-five years pastor of the 19th street Baptist church, has received a call to the son Baptist church, Richmond, Va., but may not accept. The Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple, Rev. Shion P. W. Drew, pastor, enters its new $25,000 house of worship on the first of January, opening with an oratorio, "The Messiah." Recorder John C. Dancy delivered the emancipation day address at Hampton, Va., under the auspices of the B. P. Y. U. of the Queen street Baptist church. He was the initial attraction last week of the regular lecture course of the Dunbar Literary Society at Richmond. Register Vernon is scheduled for February 18th. The local branch of the National Negro Business League, of which John A. Lankford, the well-known architect, is president, is arranging for a mass meeting early in the new year. It will inaugurate a vigorous campaign of awakening among the colored business men here, and will contribute to the fund for the redemption of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home. R. W. THOMPSON. PARIS PAPERS REGRET FUN AT/EXPENSE OF A NEGRO Deputy from Guadeloupe Denies He is a Robber and Will Sue Publishers. Paris, Dec. 28. Paris papers, which 'gladly welcomed Monsieur Legitimus, a deputy from Guadeloune, are not friendly to him now. They have been informed that he intends to sue several papers for things said about him before he came to assume his official duties. Legitimus is a full blooded Negro and a person of large proportions. Before he came to France, some of the papers wanted to make him rather romantic, spoke of him as being a fetish priest, one who worships bones of dead persons. It was also related that he is a conqueror of spirits and that he was a partner of one of the most feared robbers of his native land. It was related that Legitimus and the robber had hidden treasures of gold and sparkling jewels. When Legitimus came to Paris and banquets were arranged in his honor, he refused to take part in them. He said, in a jocular way, that he preferred to play with the bones of the dead, than to eat at tables with the living. A few days ago his lawyer made it known that Legitimus is not a fetish priest and that he has never been in partnership with any robber. He is a Free Mason and is a man of superior education. One of his reasons for coming to Paris, the lawyer said, was to sue all the papers which slandered him. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 28. The eighteenth annual convention of the Southern Educational Association closed today with the election of officers for the ensuing year and the adoption of resolutions taking a decided stand for the advancement of Negro educational work in the South. The most important action of the three days, which is set out in substance, is as follows: "We indorse the accepted policy of the states of the South in providing facilities for the youth of the Negro race, believing that, whatever the ultimate solution of this grievous problem may be, education must be an important factor in that solution. We believe that the education of the Negro in the elementary branches of education should be made thorough and should include specific instruction in hygiene and home sanitation for the better protection of both races. We believe that in the secondary education of Negro youth encultures should be placed upon agriculture and the industrial occupations, including nurse training, domestic science and home, economics. We believe that for practical economical and physical reasons, Negro teachers should be provided for Negro schools. We recommend that in urban and rural Negro schools there should be closer and more thorough supervision, not only by City and County. Superintendents, but also by directors of music, drawing, manual training and other special topics. On account of economic and psychological differences in the two races, we believe that there should be a difference in courses of study and methods of teaching, and that there should be such an adjustment, of school curricula, as shall meet the educational needs of Negro youth. We insist upon such an equitable distribution of the school funds that all the youth of the Negro race shall have at least an opportunity to receive elementary education provided by the state, and in the administration of state laws and the executive of this education policy, we urge patience, tolerance and justice." The association in a standing vote adopted unanimously the resolutions. The report of the Treasurer showed a total disbursement of $589,92 since the last convention and a balance of $749,10 on hand. Retiring President Tighe read an invitation from the National Educational Association, to members of the Southern Educational Association to attend the annual national convention at Cleveland, Ohio, June 22 to 29. It was due to the efforts of Superintendent M. A. Cassidy, of the Lexington public schools, that the convention was held here, and his election as Second Vice President of the association is an appreciated honor. The afternoon was devoted to departmental meetings, at which expressions of appreciation for the welcome accorded the visitors to Lexington were given. The closing feature was a reception from 4 to 6 at the rooms of the Wooms Club. The time and place for the next annual meeting has not yet been selected, and will not be until some time in the new year. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, P. H. Claxton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.; First Vice President, J. H. Van Sickle, Superintendent City Schools, Baltimore, Md.; Second Vice President, M. A. Cassidy, Superintendent City Schools, Lexington, Ky.; Third Vice President, Mrs. Bessie Birdsall, Winthrop College, South Carolina; Secretary, H. E. Bierly, Chattahooga, Tenn.; Treasurer, E. P. Burns, Atlanta, Ga.; Board of Directors: Alabama, W. G. Griggs; Arkansas, John H. Hineman; Florida, Miss Clem Hampton; Georgia, C. B. Gibson; Kentucky, G. Crabb; Louisiana, J. B. Aswell; Maryland, M. B. Stevens; Mississippi, H. L. Whitfield; North Carolina, E. P. Childe; Oklahoma, J. W. Baxter; South Carolina, D. B. Johnson; Tennessee, G. H. Baskette; Texas, D. F. Houston, Virginia, J. L. Jarman, West Virginia, T. G. Cilley. PRESIDENTS' RECEPTION. Washington, Jan. I.—For the seventh time President Roosevelt omit-ated as President at a New Year's reception at the White House. He was assisted by his wife and the members of his cabinet and their wives. CORRESPONDENCE MONTGOMERY. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Johnson entertained a few friends at dinner, Sunday. The Christmas tree, Christmas eve, was heavily laden with many and useful presents for each member of the Sunday school. The literary program was well rendered. Much credit is due Supt. P. W. Wright for the success of the Sunday school and Christmas tree. The services at the First Baptist church, Christmas morning, were well attended. The Rev. Brown preached an excellent sermon, and the choir rendered most excellent music, especially prepared for the occasion. A banquet was given, Thursday evening, by the Odd Fellows, at their hall. This banquet was the best managed and better attended than any given here for several years. The addresses were timely and to the point, music excellent, supper plentiful and well served. The grand march was formed on the third floor. M. H. Ralley and Miss Nellie M. Lewis led the march to second floor, where supper was served. Thomas Johnson, chairman of the committee, deserves especial mention, for it is due him principally the success of this banquet. Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Page entertained at dinner, Wednesday, complimentary to Mrs. Z. T. Brown, of Institute. B. T. Beasley, of Grafton, was the Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hardy. Will Meadows, of Handley, was here, Sunday. Geo. Lee is spending the week at Institute, with his mother. Dr. and Mrs. B. F. White entertained at dinner, Friday. The out of town guests were: Mrs. Z. T. Brown and Augustus Brown, of Institute; Mrs. C. R. Pack, of Hinton, and Wm. Taylor, of Nuttall. Mrs. M. A. W. Thompson, of Pratt, was the guest of Mrs. Mary Perry, last week. Mrs. Samuel Buster is quite sick at her home in Buster block. H. H. Ruiley was a business visitor to Carbon, Friday. Wm. Taylor, of Nuttall, was here several days last week. Rev. E. C. Page and children, Taylor and Portia, were at Kanawha City, Thursday, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Page. Mrs. King Jackson, of Charleston, was up Sunday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hardy. Mrs. Issle Lewis entertained at dinner, Friday. Misses Rosa, Belle and Virginia Lockette, of Brown, were here, Saturday. Mrs. C. R. Pack and baby Leonard, of Hinton, were here last week, guests of her sisters. Ernest Law, of Hill Top, is here visiting friends. Orlando Hodge, of Washington, is here spending some time with his mother, Mrs. Lucy Hodge. Edward Fulks, of Charletson, was up a few hours, Friday. Rev. Geo. E. Wooding, of Charleston, was here, last week, visiting his brother, Avery Johnson. He preached at the M. E. church, Sunday morning. Geo. Perkins, of Winifrede, was here several days last week. W. A. Brown, of Institute, was here several days, last week, visiting relatives. Cornellius Howard, of Charleston, was up a few days last week. Miss Sessie Jordan, of Eagle, who spent Christmas week with Miss Wysor Watson, returned home, Sunday. Miss Amelia Wilcher, of Charleston, was up last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Burrell. Mrs. Mary Perry was the guest of friends in Charleston, Saturday. Geo. Hodge is visiting friends in Grafton this week. Miss Lolo Lavender, who spent Christmas here and at Charleston, returned to her school, Sunday. R. L. Brown, of Institute, spent a few days here last week, the guest of relatives. John S. Page was the guest of friends on Loop creek last week. Last, but not least, of the Christmas entertainments was the program and supper, rendered and served by the Red Men, at their meeting hall, Tuesday, December 31. This entertainment was well attended, the program was especially interesting, each one rendering his part so as to reflect much credit upon himself and the order. Dr. S. A. Washington, of Hill Top, was a business visitor here, Monday. Mrs. A. J. Gay, of Boomer, and sister, Mrs. Woodley, of Christiansburg, Va., are here the guests of Mrs. D. C. Deans. M. E. Malone, editor of the Sentinel, is here, the guest of Miss Ella Burke. Miss Blanche Jeffries, Lizzie Hopkins and Amey Hutchinson, teachers at Charleston, are, guests of Mrs. Mary Perry. Miss Abbie Friend, of Institute, is here visiting Miss Etta Hall. Dewitte Moss, of Fayetteville, spent, Friday, here with Miss Wysor Watson. Miss Lyda Gore, of Institute; Rob- ort Lee, of Charleston, and Homer Washington, of Fayetteville, were the last week guests of Miss Sadle Allen. Edward Bowling, of Lewisburg, and Robert Parrish, of St. Albans, were here visiting Oliver Wilkerson, last week. Miss Eva Gallion, of Charleston, spent a few days here with Miss Montew McKinney. WINIFREDE. Misses G. E. Hayes, C. L. Stewart, R. B. Allen and J. D. Wiseman went to Montgomery Monday. R. H. Aller spent the Holidays at his home in St. Albans. Alex Luckey, of Hugheston, spent a few days here this week. Miss Estella Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Watt, Herbert Mitchell and Arthur Watt spent the holidays at Hugheston. Those who did their Christmas shopping in Charleston were J. M. Wooding, A. C. Chapman and daughter, Wm. Tucker, Miss Ada Thomas, C. A. Allen, J. W. Waller, Ed. Tyson and Mr. and Mrs. James J. Thomas. W. H. Morris left Tuesday to spend the holidays in Charleston. W. W. Lewis left for his home in Kanawha City Saturday. Little Ernestine Shelton is slowly recovering from a severe case of fever. N. V. Bacchus spent the holidays in Charleston with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Giles are spending the holidays at Hugheson. Will Robinson, of Montgomery, is spending a few days here this week. Miss C. L. Stewart left Wednesday to spend the holidays in Huntington. Ed. Robinson, James Scales and G. W. Perkins spent the holidays in Charleston. PARKERSBURG. Edward Morton, principal of Fairmont colored schools passed through the city Thursday en route to his parents home at Pomeroy, Ohio, to spend a part of his holiday vacation. Miss Georgie Sutton, of Middleport, Ohio, who is teaching in Buckhannon passed through last week to spend her holidays with her parents at home. The card club has been having quite an interesting and enjoyable series of meetings during the holidays. The opening party was held with Mira E. V. Seems on Latrobe street Christmas night. The second was held with Miss Rebecca Brown on 19th street. Miss Mary Peyton arrived home last Monday week from Storer College and is spending a pleasant time with her mother, sister and friends. Sre will return to resume her work after the holidays. Miss Esther Colston and Miss Clora Butler returned Wednesday from Zanesville and Columbus, Ohio respectively, where they were visiting their parents. They report a pleasant time. H. D. Hazlewood returned Saturday from a very pleasant visit to Buckhannon. Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Thomas, who have been quite ill for the past week, are somewhat improved. The friends of Miss Ernestine Fountaine and Mr. Richard Robinson were greatly surprised last Saturday week on learning of their sudden marriage. We wish them abundant success and hope Miss Fountaine who has been quite ill for several years will ultimately recover. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fletcher, of Marietta, Ohio, were in the city last Friday evening attending the card-party at Miss Rebecca Brown's. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson, of Belpie, Ohio, attended the card-club meeting at Mrs. E. V. Seams Christmas night. Miss Eva Taylor was also an agreeable guest at Mrs. Seams The Court of Calanthe held an interesting meeting last Thursday night and much business of importance was transacted. The officers were elected for the ensuing term. They decided to have an elaborate banquet and entertainment January 9th, the details of which will appear later. The officers of Blannerhassett Lodge No. 77, K. of P. were elected last Friday night. The literary program and Christmas tree at Logan M. E. Church Christmas eve were excellent and highly appreciated and enjoyed by all who were present. The Chritmas entertainments at all of the churches were well attended and enjoyed. Miss Julia McClung Jelt Christmas night for Baltimore, to spend a week or ten days visiting friends. Miss Ruth Banks, of Charleston, passed through the city last week en route to Baltimore to spend the holidays with friends. Master Harry Jefferson handles the Advocate every Saturday and will deliver a copy to your address each Saturday for 5 cents. Prin. J. Rupert Jefferson and son, Harry left Saturday for Pomero, O., to spend a few days with Mr. Jefferson's mother. The dance at Marietta, Ohio, last Thursday night was largely attended and was enjoyed by all. Quite a crowd was in attendance from this city. John Carter, of Charleston, was in the city Christmas day the guest of his cousin, Mrs. Henry Comedy. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. McClung have been spending the past few weeks with Mrs. Zack McClung, Mr. McClung's mother, on 8th street. Mrs. Cordella Ryson's funeral occurred from Zion Baptist Church last Sunday. The little Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Riggs, died last week after an illness of several weeks with pneumonia. Mrs. Monroe Jackson has been quite ill for several days at her home on Ann street. Miss Gertrude Williams and a Mr. Johnson, of Pittsburg, were married at the home of the Bride's mother on Green street last Thursday. They left the same evening for Pittsburg where they will reside. Miss Williams has many warm friends in the city who wish her a pleasant voyage on the sea of matrimony. Miss Anna Washington spent several days in Sistersville last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mike Lotterberry. MT. CARBON. Rev. J. J. Turner, who is taking a course of study at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, is spending the holidays with his many friends here. On Christmas eve a program was rendered by the children under the guidance of Mrs. H. H. Rally, of Montgomery, which was excellent. Uite a number attended the wedding at Kimberly of Miss Irene Robinson and Mr. Leroy Lowry. The wedding march was played by Miss Bessie Dow, of Eagle. Rev. J. J. Turner united the couple. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ellis have gone to Virginia where they will spend the remaining holidays. Your correspondent is again able to get about a little after a long attack of rheumatism. Mrs. S. E. Williams and Mrs. J. J. Anderson were visitors of many friends at Kimberly last week. Mr. and Mrs. Finney, of Sun, spent the holidays visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Anderson. A number of friends from Eagle called on Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Williams on the 27th. W. T. Carter has returned from Virginia where he spent the holidays. Wm. Vaughan spent Christmas at Cotton Hill. Rev. J. J. Turner and your correspondent took tea with Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Reid on the 27th. Miss Josie P. Jackson, our teacher, is spending the holidays at her home at Lewishburg. WESTON. Rev. Griffith has closed a very successful revival at Sutton. The Christmas tree and Literary program at the church on Christmas night were very creditable. Miss Gracie Arnold deserves much praise for the efforts she put forward to afford the public such a pleasant evening's entertainment. H. D. Hazlewood, of Parkersburg, passed through here last Tuesday on his way to Buckhannon to spend the holidays with friends. Clark Ray, of Sutton, spent a few days of last week in the city. Miss Violet Smith spent last Monday and Tuesday in Buckhannon. Wm. Riffie and Fred Arnold, of Philippi and Miss Nancy Moulton, of Clarksburg, spent the holidays here with relatives and friends. Misses Cora and Lillian Jackson and Miss Hattie Washington, of Clarksburg were in the city a few hours last Thursday. They were on their way to Buckhannon to spend the holidays with friends. Wm. Smith has about recovered from his recent severe illness. Joe Lacy and daughter Minnie, of Sutton, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lacy several days last week. Thomas Grant and Jno. Brown have returned to the West Virginia Colored Institute. The oyster supper given by Mrs. Mary Hubbard, Violet Smith and others at the church on Christmas night was a decided success. Gibson Golgsbay is here from Sutton spending the holidays. TOMSBURG. Rev. P. A. Harris filled his pulpit here Sunday. Richard Holloway and John Moore were business visitors in Charleston Saturday. Miss Enima Meadows was in Charleston Monday shopping for the Christmas tree. W. E. Smith returned last week from the hospital where he has been for the last three weeks. W. H. Philliph was a business visitor to Trimmond Christmas day. Miss Meadows went home Christmas Day and returned Saturday. She began school Monday, December 30th. A Christmas tree was given here Christmas evening and quite a nice program was rendered to an appreciative audience. The tree was filled and nearly every one in the house was remembered on the tree. Samuel Benlas spent Christmas day at Lewisburg. Mrs. Holloway entertained at dinner Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Banks, Mrs. and Mrs. Oliver, Mr. Brown and Mrs. Kates. Miss Maynard Ivy, of Charleston, was here last week to attend the Moore Robinson wedding. Miss Maynard Robinson and Mr. John Moore were married Sunday evening at seven o'clock. Mr. W. H. Phillip best man, and Miss Emma Meadows bridesmaid, entered the room, which was beautifully decorated with Garlad and Sowers, followed by the bride and Groom. They met at the alter and Mar. P. A. Morris officiated. After such ceremony the invited guest repaired to the dining room where supper was served. Mr. and Mrs. Moore received quite a number of useful as well as valuable presents. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are of Tomsburg's best young people and they have the best wishes of their many friends. A series of meetings is expected to start here some time in January. BARBOURSVILLE. George Grish, of Asheville, Ky., was a pleasant visitor here Monday. Mrs. Daniel Lynch and sister Miss Rhoda Graham were business visitors here Tuesday. The latter being a school teacher, succeeded in getting the school which will open after the holidays. M. N. Hicks was in Huntington Tuesday. Miss Maggie Payne, of Charleston, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ed. Hamler. Mrs. Harriet Johnson, of Kenova, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Francis Peyton. Frank Goode, of Martha, is spending the holidays in town. Mrs. David Hamler returned home from Columbus Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Whirl and son Arthur, of Columbus, are visiting relatives this week. George Hill, of Huntington, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hill. M. N. Hicks is spending a few days with friends in St. Albans. C. S. Glover, of Zanesville, Ohio, was a pleasant visitor to our town Friday and Saturday. POWELLTON. On Monday evening, 23rd inst., at 8:30 o'clock was the beautiful wedding of Chas. G. Thompson to Miss Rosa Carter at the church. Special arrangements were made with the C. & Q. to have the train carry the intended bride, groom and friends to the church, wait till the marriage was over and carry them to Mr. Horace Carters, the bride's brother, where they were entertained. S. W. Dickerson accompanied by Mrs. L. H. Woods and T. B. Fairfax with Miss Mary, Hale. Tuesday evening we were entertained in the hall, first by a program rendered by Miss Cornella F. Spears of her school. After which there were two Christmas trees beautifully dressed and every body enjoyed themselves. Mrs. Ella J. Perrian and T. B. Fairfax left Thursday afternoon for Virginia. Fairfax is on his way to Virginia Seminary and Mrs. Perrin to Botetourt county to visit parents. Mrs. Gallie Miles left Thursday for Ward to visit friends. Miss Gertrude Johnson is visiting friends in Charleston. J. L. Early left for Huntington last week. Harry Walker, who went to Virginia to get married, has returned with his wife. Misses Eva M. Johnson, C. F. Spears and Carry E. Fairfax were visiting friends. In Montgomery last week. Mrs. Willis Jackson gave a reception Christmas day at 2 o'clock. Many friends were present. Rev. Williams, our pastor, preached a beautiful sermon on Christmas day at 11 o'clock. The meeting was very well attended. J. 8. Thompson and Miss Gussle Fairfax made a trip to Charleston Friday. A. D. Fairfax spent a few days at Union visiting his brothers. Robert Wood went to Virginia last week where he will spend his Christmas at home. J. F. Fairfax spent a day in Charleston last week. RED STAR Ferdinand Clayton came up from Caperton to spend a part of the holidays with relatives. Robert Kesler, of Sun, was in town Christmas day. The Sunday school gave a Christmas tree Christmas night and rendered a program. Messrs. Rose, Napper, White and Braxton are home to spend the holidays. Miss Mildred Burdette is home for Christmas. Mr. M. Malone, of the Seminary, left Thursday morning for Montgomery and other points to spend Christmas. Mrs. R. J. Perkins is taking Christmas at her old home, Huntington. Miss Rosa Winston and little Miss Beatrice Miller, who is up from Huntington to spend Christmas, went to Macdonald Friday morning. BLUEFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE A College and Normal Institute for colored students, located at Bluefield, the leading commercial town of the southern part of West Virginia on the Norfolk and Western railroad,205 miles east of Kenova NILSON COLORED INSTITUTE Splendid College Buildings, Beautiful Grounds, Dormitories for male and female students; furnished rooms, a reading room supplied with the best current literature; a good library, and a physical and chemical laboratory. Healthful location and wholesome surroundings. Board $8.00 per month. Tuition free to state students, rates very low to non-resident students. The Bluefield School offers an unequalled opportunity for young men to secure an education, for they can always find profitable employment when at shool, during vacation, holidays and on Sundays. For catalogue and other information, write the Principal. Miss Mamle Clayton left Saturday for Caperton to visit relatives. The church gave a successful rally on the 26th inst. Rev. H. C. Gregory was over from Raleigh county to assist in the meeting. Miss H. M. James, teacher at Montgomery, is up to spend Christmas with relatives. The Woman's Improvement League gave a pleasant social at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. S. H. Washington: Each member invited one guest and all list at a late hour expressing themselves quite freely on the enjoyment of the evening. Miss Maud Tarrer came over from Greenston to attend the social given by W. I. L. While here she was the guest of Mrs. Washington The Masons gave a public installation Friday and Friday evening a banquet for their wives and daughters. A pleasant time was spent and what with addresses, recitations and feasting the time passed all too quickly. It was three o'clock before the banqueters could hie themselves home and seek the sleep that all were in need of. Miss Mildred Burdette gave a party for a few of her friends Saturday evening. Mrs. L. O. McIver is on the sick list. HUNTINGTON Miss Mary Bean, who was the guest of Miss Lula James a few days during the holidays, returned to her home Friday. The Tom Thumb wedding Friday evening under the direction of Misses Josie Barnett and Georgia Scott was much appreciated by a large audience. The little tots went through their parts in such a manner as to reflect much credit upon their instructors. Bernard James arrived Friday to be the guest of his parents during the remainder of the holidays. Mrs. A. B. Hughes and daughter Revella spent several days last week with friends in Charleston. Robert Manggrum came down from Columbia to spend the holidays with her parents. Miss Almira Riddle is spending the holidays with relatives here. Misses Mina and Clara Stewart left for Gallipolis Saturday to spend the remainder of the holidays. Miss Lula James entertained quite a number of her young friends Christmas eve in honor of her guest, Miss Bean. Rev. I. VBrgant went to Bidwell Wednesday to spend the holidays with his family. Rev. N. Barnett is spending the holidays with his family. Jno. Dickerson returned to Holden Sunday after spending Xmas with his sister. Miss Ethel Bryant is spending the holidays at her home, Bidwell, Ohio. Miss Mabel Whiting returned to her home, Gallipolis, Monday after a brief visit to Miss Mine Stewart The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Dotson on 10th avenue is quite ill with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jackson entertained at dinner Thursday, Misses Mina Stewart, Clara Stewart and Dr. Franklin Mrs. C. E. McGee, of the orphans' home remains quite ill. Bluefield, W. Va. R. P. SIMS, Bluefield W. Va. The christening of the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Smith occurred at the M. E. Church, Sunday morning, Rev. Withrow of declaring. She was christened Fragelia Elizabeth Smith. Miss Garnett Harris is the guest of friends in the city during the holidays. The hearts of many little ones were made happy during Christmas, by the various Sunday schools, having Christmas trees laden with presents for all. PT. PLEASANT. Mrs. Lue Craig loft, Monday, for Jackson, Ohio. Mrs. Joe Lincoln and two daughters left, Monday, for Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Mosella Colston, teacher at Kanawha, is home spending the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brooks, of Padon City, spent Christmas with Mrs. E. L. Davis. Miss Eva Brown, of Institute, is spending a few days with Miss Ida Alexander. James Adams, of Institute, is spending the holidays with his brother. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Armstead entertained a few of their friends Christmas day. Miss Julia Smith, of Institute, is spending the holidays with her parents. Miss Eldorado Williams is spending the holidays with her brother, William Williams. Rev. E. D. Venture, of Huntington, W, Va., was in our city a few hours Christmas. Miss Mithoe Colston, teacher at Mason City, is home for the holidays. Mark Holmes, of Charleston, spent Christmas in our city. Thomas Davis, sr., and Thomas Davis, jr., spent Christmas in Gallipolis, Ohiо. Master Mose Jordan, who has been indisposed, is better at this writing. Mrs. Hattie Clendenin is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nicholas entertained a few of their friends, Thursday evening. Rev. G. P. R. McKinney preached a Christmas sermon at the First Baptist church, Sunday. Mrs. Sam Craig, of Kanawha, was in car city, Monday, shopping. William Ashman spent Christmas in Charteston. Bertha Minters spent a few days with Mrs. Joe Jordan. Harry Lewis spent Christmas in Gallipolis, Ohio. Robert Settles left, Thursday, for Morgantown. The Christmas trees at both churches were successes. Thomas Davis entertained a few of his friends, Friday evening. Miss Martha Washington is spending a few days with her parents. Mrs. Violet Hardy of Montgomery, spent Thursday here, the guest of Mrs. D. A. Lipscomb. Misses Rhoda A. Wilson and Georgia E. Banks came home. Saturday, from Page to spend the holidays. Miss Garnett Dawson, of Charleston, is visiting friends in town. Miss Lizzie Wilson of St. ST. ALBAN8. HOTELBROWN EUROPEAN When Visiting Charleston stop at West Virginia's popular colored Hotel. Rooms 25c, 50c and 75c per day. Rooms in suite for receptions committees, etc., $1.50 per day. 500 Capitol Street, near State Capitol Phone 1098 I. C. BROWN Proprietor. ant, is spending the holidays with her parents. Miss Mary Bean passed through St. Albans, en route to Institute, Thursday. Joe Branch, of Page, passsed through, Thursday, on his way to Huntington. Miss Lucy Friend, of Institute, is visiting her brother at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Friend spent Christmas at Institute. Floyd Waddy, Jr., is visiting in Charleston. Mrs. Wm. Preston, of Kimberley, is visiting Mrs. Ada Preston. Ruffner Willis is visiting his mother, at Huntington. Mrs. Mary Green is quite ill at her home, on Bryant street. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are visiting Mrs. Brooks' mother, Mrs. L. Wilson. J. W. Price is home on the sick list. Miss Virginia Wilson was shopping in Charleston last Monday. Misses M. G. Washington and Garnett Harris are visiting friends in Huntington. Miss Gertrude Parrish is visiting Charleston. Arthur Chandler, of Mound, is the guest of Miss Gertrude Parrish. Mr. and Mrs. West Melton, of Page, are visiting their parents at this place. Harry Erskine left Wednesday for Richmond to spend the holidays. Misses Lula and Lillie Bowles, of Charleston, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Matilda Jackson. Matt Hicks of Barboursville, spent a few days in town. Roy and Mrs. W. W. Scott are visiting friends at Barboursville. Mrs. Alice Morton received a message from Virginia, stating her husband was very low. Misses Rhoda Wilson and Georgia Banks are spending a few days at Huntington and Barboursville Ten dollars in gold for every one who will send the Advocate 25 paid-up subscribers by Dec. 24th. Money is scarce, but the Advocate has $10.00 in gold to give every person who sends in 25 paid-up subscribers by Dec. 24th. THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF ART ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YUR 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 Pythian 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 t othis office. LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU Pythian Mutual Investment Associaion S. W.STARKS. President CLARKSBURG Miss Amelia Lowry, a student at the West Virginia Institute, is spending the holidays with her parents, on Monticello avenue. Floyd Martin, of Steubenville, O., was the guest of relatives here last week. Mrs. Jas. Mason, who has been quite ill, is improving nicely. Mrs. Annie Chatman, of Withville, Va., is the guest of her niece, Mrs. Banks Farmer. Miss Anna West, of Washington, D. C., is the guest of her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. West. Charles and Ruth McGee, of Unlontown, spent the holidays here with relatives. The Christmas treat and tree, at Trinity M. E. church, Tuesday night, was well attended. A very pleasing program was rendered. The Christmas treat at Pride A. M. E. church, on Christmas night, was attended by such a large crowd that the seating capacity of the church was taxed to its utmost. A short but creditable program was rendered, after which followed the distribution of presents and the treat to the Sunday school. The tree was decorated more beautifully than ever before. On Thursday evening the Sunday school presented the Christmas Merry, Go-Round, a cantata, to quite a large audience. Mr. and Mrs. Jas, Walker, of Bellington, spent Christmas here, with friends. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Smith entertained at their hospitable home, Thursday evening, in honor of their guest, Miss Anna Anderson, of Pittsburg. A very delightful evening was spent. Saturday afternoon, Master Campbell Tuck gave a skating party, at the Smith Garden, for his little school friends. Quite an enjoyable afternoon was spent. Rev. George Jott, Rev. N. B. Dunn, Rev. J. W. Robinson, and Rev. J. E. Pryor, all left last night for Parkersburg to attend the meeting of the executive board of the Mt. Zion Baptist association with Rev. Toney, D. D., m. Director, and to be held at Mt. Zion Baptist church in that city. The meeting is to arrange for the annual session of the association and to consider the different reports coming from the various boards and to make appropriations for the various charities of the association. On Tuesday night Miss Emma Murphy and Mr. Frank Carribad were married, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bucy, on Locust street, in the presence of a large host of friends. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. E. Pryor, who came to the church later and was presented with a handsome suit of clothes by the ladies of the Morning Star club. The Christmas tree, at the Baptist church, was so burdened with presents for friends and loved ones until it had to be propped up. Freeman Lowry entertained a number of friends, last evening, at his home, on Monticello avenue. A pleasant evening was spent by all present. Music and games were the features of the evening. A most delicious lunch was served and at a late hour all departed, wishing Mr. Lowry many happy returns of the evening. Those present were: Misses Mary Brent, Lydia Jenkins, Stella Walker, Amelia Wilson, Cornelia Meade, Rebecca Green, Amelia Lowry, Hazel Dillard, Mable Rone, Mary Jett, and Messrs. Benjamin Smith, Morse Ogden, Guy Ruffin, William Fagan, Ed. West, Miletus and Willie Walker, Misses Banks, Percy Hayes and Ressco Jackson. Beulah Lodge, No. 3, A. F. & A. M., held its first annual banquet at Trinity M. E. church, Friday, December 27, 1907. The following program was ren- fored: Brayer by the Worshipful Master, G. G. N. Jenkins, Dr. D. Address by Rev. G. T. Smith, "The Origin of Masonry." Hymn, by lodge. Prayer, by Mrs. Nannie Howard. sister of Eastern Star, Huntington. Address, by Dr. N. S. Turner. Address, by M. P. Smith, "Man Wanted." Address, by Prof. J. N. Robinson, "Industry." After the close of the program all retired to the reception room, where the following menu was served: Blue points, cold slaw, roast turkey, roast chicken, ham, potato and salmon-salad, pickles, celery, olives coffee, cocoa, ice cream and assorted cake. Music furnished by Ruffner's orchestra. Quite a large number of invited guests was present, and all departed declaring this the bigner social event of the holiday entertainments. BUCKHANNON. Mrs. Mary Lewis and little daughter, of Sutton, spent the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Eliza Mumford. Miss Mand Tyler, of Wheeling, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Lee. Miss Cora Taylor, of Fairmont, came home to spend the Christmas vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isom Taylor. H. D. Hazlewood spent several days here last week, and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Davis. Misses Cora and Lillian Jackson and Hattle Washington, of Clarksburg, were the very pleasant guests of Miss Lella Powell during the holidays. Miss Velma Snyder, of Morgantown, spent several days here last week, the guest of her schoolmate, Miss Lella Powell. Mrs. Violet Smith, of Weston, visited Mrs. Enos Mumford last week. Matt Bailey and William Rifle, of Weston, attended the violin recital, which was held at Simpson chapel, Friday night. Master Herbert Lewis, of Clarksburg, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Bertha Lewis. Thomas J. Grant, of Weston, was calling on friends in the city last week. William Burley, of Webster, is visiting friends here. Joseph Teller, of Pittsburg, arrived in the city, last Thursday evening, to spend some time here with his wife, who has been here for several months visiting her mother, Mrs. Hunter. Mrs. Newman, of Philippi, and Miss Nettle Gordon, of Romney, were here, Friday, to attend the violin recital by Charles H. Davis. The entertainment given by, the members of the Silver Leaf Club, on the 26th, was well attended and en- joyed by all present. Mrs. Georging Wright and daugh- ter, Miss Heuland, went last Tuesday with Weston Manda. Mrs. Margaret Hall is on the sick list. Miss Gay Johnson, of Fairmont, is visiting friends here. Mrs. Lillian Withers and little son of Fairmont, visited Mrs. Susan Madison, last week. Miss Ingle Taylor is visiting relatives in Beverley. Lawrence Madison, who has been away from town for some time, came home for the holidays. The violin recital, which was given, Friday evening, at Simpson chapel, was met with marked approbation by all present. Owing to the unavoidable absence of J. S. Hunnoutt, Charles H. Davis played the violin while Miss Roberta Maud Davis presided at the piano. Long before it was time to begin the church was crowded to its utmost capacity. All present declared it a high class musical treat. They were able assisted by Misses Jeanette and Lella Powell, Beulah Wright, Mrs. Mary Jones, Misses Ruth Mintford and Hattle Martin, all of whom rendered their parts with credit to themselves. The program was as follows: Invocation—Rev. O. T. Davis. Duet, "Sing Me To Sleep"—Misses Lella and Janet Powell. Recitation, "When Mandy Combs Her Head"—Ruth Mumford. Violin Solo, "Since You Called Me Dearle"—Ghas. H. Davis. Recitation, "Poor House Nan"—Mrs. Mary Jones. Piano Solo" Moods and Fancies"—Miss Maude R. Davis. Violin Solo, "Mexican Serenade, Sonora"—Chas. H. Davis. Recitation, "Doll Rose's Bath"— Hattie Martin. Vocal Solo, "Hearts of Gold"— Miss Janet Powell. Violin Solo, "Good-bye, Sweet- heart, Good-bye"—Chas. H. Davis. Recitation, "The Voleceless, Chimes"—Miss Beuth Wright. Chorus—The Children MT. HOPE Mesdames A. C. and J. C. Caul, Jessie Davis, Jayne Connor, of Winno; Miss Birdie and Charley Turner, of Fayetteville, attended the Masonic banquet here, Thursday. Mrs. Sable Lipscomb, of Pittsburg, spent the holidays, with her brother, Wm. Woodson, of the West Side. The social given in Honor of the W. V. I. students, the 27th, was an enjoyable affair. A creditable program was rendered at the Kinss tree at Macdonald Baptist church, by the school children, conducted by Mrs. J. V. Wilkerson. Rev. J. W. Warren, of Union, preached at the M. E. church, Sunday morning, and Rev. J. E. Dotson, pastor, at night. The annual banquet given by the order of Masons, Friday, was a brilliant affair, and was largely attended by families and friends of the members of the order. J. L. Green and Miss Hattle Thomas were married, Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock, at the home of the bride, by Rev. J. E. Dotson. After the ceremony an elaborate dinner was served to the many guests. Music was furnished by the Citizens band. The presents were many and useful. Robt. Garland and wife, of the West Side, spent several days at Covington, Va., and other points during Christmas week. Miss Leah Green entertained at dinner, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Green, Jno. Hill and wife. Miss Josephine Thompson spent the holidays at Institute with her sisters. L. H. Henderson visited Montgomery during the holidays. Mrs. Amanda Gregory and Miss Rosa Winston, of Hill Top, were guests of Mrs. Susan Grey and Mrs H. A. Scott, Friday. AT COLLEGE "Going to make the debating club??" "I fear not." "What's wrong?" "They say I'll have to remove my football conditions first." HUBBY'S IDEA "What did your wife give you for Christmas?" "It appears to be a bunch of nothing, elegantly trimmed inside and out, and hand-decorated aloft and alow." THE CHEERFUL FOOR "How are things?" inquired the first Wall-street magnate. "Well," answered the second Wall-street magnate, "we have half a terrapin in the cellar and the panic's over. We won't starve." SENDABLE GREETINGS. Oh, newest kith, You're all the fromage. Accept herewith Our Oklahoma. VERDICT IS UNANIMOUS "We all love a pretty woman," opined the party of the first party. Colonel Bill Secret and the Privilege He Graved. When Colobel Bill Sterret first went to Washington to report the news of the capital for his Texas papers, he had desk room in the office of General H. V. Boynton, then the militant correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. General Boynton spoke out in meeting. He said things about statemen that made the statesmen angry. He had many personal encounters with patriots whose feelings had been ruffled. One night a man came into Boynton's office loudly proclaiming that he infended to shoot Boynton. The general grabbed a chair, beat the intruder over the head with it, knocked him down and threw him out. All this time Sterret sat at his desk, looking on in great amazement. When the unn landed in the gutter Stormcame timidly over to Boynton. "General," he said, "being a new hand here. I don't know the practices of this office nor the customs that pertain to Washington correspondents, and I didn't want to intrude. Now that I have seen what has happened, I trust you will allow me a question?" "Go ahead," said Boynton. "When the next man comes in, would it be too forward if I should crave the privilege of kicking him a few times in honor of the saluted Confederate dead?"—Saturday Evening Post. REMOVED AT LAST. The Figures Did Not Appear In the Final Set of Drawings. A candidate for the royal engineers some years ago was told by his instructor to draw up the plans and specifications for a railway viaduct to connect two high hills, between which ran a small stream. In due course an excellent set of drawings was presented, one showing the bridge in its completion, with a sketch of the surroundings, and on which sat two men, with their legs hanging over the side, fishing. The drawing was returned with the request that the men be removed from the bridge. Upon receiving the paper the second time the professor discovered that his instructions had been carried out, but that the two men were seated on the bank of the stream, still in quest of representatives of the funny tribe. Again was the paper returned, and this time with positive orders to remove the men from the drawing altogether. Imagine the consternation which overspread the features of the learned instructor upon receiving the papers for a third time to find two little graves and tombstones with appropriate epithaps situated near the bank of the stream. His orders had been obeyed and the men removed altogether—London Answers. Sandy and the Mare. A Scottish paper tells a story of Sandy Mo., a Fortarshfre farmer who had been spending an hour or two in the evening with a friend a couple of miles away. It was a moonlight night, and Sandy, after partaking freely of his friend's hospitality, was riding quietly home across the sheep pastures on his "guild auld mare," when they came to an open ditch, which his mare refused to cross. "Hoot awa, Maggle," said the rider, "this winna dae. Ye maun jist gang ower." He turned back about 100 yards, wheeled round and gave the mare a touch of his whip. On she went at a brisk canter, but as they reached the edge of the ditch she stopped dead and shot Sandy clean over to the other side. Gathering himself up, Sandy looked his mare straight in the face and said: "Vera weel pitched indeed, ma lass. But hoo are ye goin' to get ower yersel, eh?" He Was an Expert at Figures. After an absence of several years a one time cavaller of a lady called on her. He found her in the company of her three children. "Well, well!" he said. "And how old are they?" "Johnny," answered the lady, "is seven, Julia is five and Maud is two." "Dear me!" he cried, alarm in his voice. "Is it possible time files like that? Who would think that you had been married fourteen years?"—Philadelphia Ledger. The Incentive: "Does your son study Greek in college?" "Oh, yes. He's very enthusiastic over it." "I thought he didn't care for language?" "He doesn't, as a rule, but next year the football team is to have Greek signals and Harry is trying for the 'leven.'"—Kansas City Independent. Tommy Changed Hia Spot. Teacher—Can the leopard change his spot? Now, Tommy, answer me! Tommy—Yes, sir; he can. Teacher—Nonsense! How can he? Tommy—Well, sir, when he's tired of sitting in one spot he can change to another, can't he, sir?—Winnippeg Telegram. A. Reproach. Cook—Lawks! Here's mistress! Quick, into the clothes press! Soldier Sweetheart—In the clothes press and not in the larder? Mina, and you say you love me.—Meggendorfer Blatter. Lucky. Then: Mrs. Benham-I got it for 13 cents a yard. Benham-Isn't 13 an unlucky number? Mrs. Benham-Not when it is marked down from 15.-New York Press. Miss Maggie Payne as visiting her sister at Barboursville this week. ARE YOU A K.OFP. IF NOT WHY NOT? Do you not know that the Knights of Pythias is the strongest and most progressive order of the age? The four departments of the order are as follows: SUBORDINATE LODGE In this the members are united to care for and protect each other's interest as well as sickness and distress. In this department our young men are receiving a military education which they can get in no other way, thus making them better and more useful citizens. In this the wives, mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of Knights are united for the common purposes of life. In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to the widows and heirs of deceased Knights. If there is no lodge in your locality, confer with the Deputy Grand Chancellor of your district or write S. W. Starks, Charleston, W. Va., for terms upon which to organize upon which to organize a lodge UNIFORM RANK In this dep young men are military educl they can get way, thus m better and citizens. LADIES' COURT In this the wit widows, da sisters of Kn ited for the o poses of life. ENDOWMENT In this depart paying out the dollars annu widows and ceased Knight If there is no locality, confer wuty Grand Chanc district or write Charleston, W. V upon which a lodge BELLS CLANGED, SIRENS SCREAMED, CRACKERS BOOMED NOISY GODSPEED TO THE DYING YEAR AND CLAMOROUS WELCOME TO THE NEW. TEN MONTHS OF THE PAST YEAR WERE PROSPEROUS ONES FOR CHARLESTON. GENERAL HOLIDAY OBSERVED AND LITTLE DOING IN A BUSINESS WAY. Amidst the ringing of bells, the screeching of whistles and the echoes of cannon crackers, a new year was ushered in last night at midnight; 1907 was allowed to peacefully glide into the realms of history with those that have gone before, and the welcome was extended to the new year, 1908, a leap year at that. What the coming year has in store for Charleson and her people is beyond speculation, but where misery and trials will fill the year for one and make it appear desolate throughout the land, success will crown the efforts of others. As to the weather, 1908 came in dark, gloomy and damp. However, there is never a time when the new year is not welcomed. It is a time to even up old scores by wiping them off the slate and starting in a clean column. To those whom the passing year dealt unkindly, the approach of the new year is heralded with delight, the hand of welcome is extended to the youngster over the threshold, while the old year is gent- ly assisted to its place in the row of years. The past year was a prosperous one for Charleston. For ten months the business of Charleston never reached a greater figure than it did in the first ten months of 1907. About the middle of October, when serious disaster to the country was narrowly averted in a financial disturbance, business contracted to a certain extent, but again reached its normal size during the week prior to the holidays, when the evidence of the large territory Charleston has to draw from, was very visible. Like in former years, the trade between Christmas and the first of the year can now be used as a barometer, and consequently the merchants expect business conditions to resume their normal condition at the beginning of the new year. Charleston merchants have been exceedingly prosperous for a whole year and hope is expressed that the new year will be at least as good, if not better. In the city today the banks are closed. The postoffice was open only for an hour this morning, the carriers making only one delivery of the mail, and business is pretty well suspended although the merchants kept their stores open. A SLOW POKE. Said the young lady; "I hear there's a hugger at large." Said the young man: "Is that so?" "Yes; I wonder how he operates." "Why, I have no idea." And now the young lady is telling it that he is the slowest man in town. IN LUCK. "Then yuletide me over?" exclaimed the man whose friend had signified a willingness to stand for a moderate holiday touch. THE ADVOCATE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY THE ADVOCATE PUBLISHING CO. Office, Pythian 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 Three months . . . 1.50 One year . . . 1.50 OFFICES. New York: 738 7th Avenue. Washington: 1325 12th St. N. W. Louisville: 1112 W. Madison St. St. Louis: 3137 Pine St. Philadelphia: 702 So. 15th St. Baltimore: 502 W. Biddle St. Boston: 94 a Harvard St., Cambridge. Pittsburg: 461 6th St., Braddock. Columbus: 266 St. Clair Ave. New Orleans: 226 So. Robertson St. Jacksonville: 626 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. IN DEFENSE. In our last issue there was published an editorial from the pen of one of our editorials writers, who thought much of it in manuscript. He did not think that way when he saw it in type. No one else did, we suppose. Indeed, John Greenleaf Whittier must have felt blue even in heaven if he came across that issue of The Advocate. Many saints we have no doubt, read us constantly. We reproduce the thoughts at least dressed out in decoup, garb, soothing and excusing. There is Whittier, whose swelling and vehement heart Strains the strait-breasted drab' of the Quaker apart. And reveals the live Man, still supreme and erect. Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect There was never a man born who had more of the swing Of the tree lyric bard and all that kind of thing For reforms and whatever they call human rights' Both singing and striking in front of the war And hitting his foes with the mallet of Thor. The songs and character of John Greenleaf Whittier have been the orator's chief business and the singer's song during the past fortnight. He was born a hundred years ago in a Massachusetts village, Haverhill. He can never die. He has gone away for a little while and yet he is with us. We can forget him not even for a season, for when he walked the Earth, he wrote his name and marked his fame forever. Whittier is song, Phillips on the platform, Garrison making up the forms of righteousness; Harriett Beecher Stowe turning Fancy to Duty's service; John Brown baffling description—these freed the Negro and refreed this country, for as long as slavery endured there was no true freedom, North nor South, in the West nor in the East. The Dial in its continental tribute to Whittier, a tribute of unusual brilliance and power, makes the astounding statement: WILLIAM M. O. DAWSON Another year and the state of West Virginia shall have elected a New Chief Magistrate, Governor Dawson shall be nearing the season for which his fellow citizens called him to rule over them. And yet West Virginians have seen enough of his work to correctly measure him, and assign him his place on the role of those who have ruled and passed on, either to oblivion or to another if not a higher work. Our next Governor it is entirely reasonable to predict or seek to foreshadow. We only know he will spring, as sprang Atkinson and White and Dawson from the ranks of the republican party. If he should come from any other creed or party, it would be a calamity from which the state could escape nor recover in any comforting season. West Virginia's prominence and her prosperity, the place within her borders, and the bidding years of promise and hope stretching before her, are concededly traceable to the principles of the republican party and to the man who came forward to interpret those principles and lead on in the work so much needed and so long neglected. Republicism means progress; it means liberty; it is the motto word of the progressive spirit of God's unfolding countries. Let us erect of our native granite a testifying shaft to old Zach. Chandler. The democrat ought to draw the velling flag. They owe more to republicanism than republicans owe. But to Governor Dawson! West Virgina is rich in men of distinctive virtues of character, ability and leadership. Some have gone on some are here with us. Some are in power; more are not. Each has contributed in his way to the glory of the state and the permanent character of the party. Elkins and White; Atkinson and Scott; Northcott and Hubbard; Dawson and all the rest are ours. But there be none to whom we can refer with more pride, nor whose public life and works reflect more credit upon those who hailed him hence than Gov. Dawson. He has vindicated the judgment of his party and made his place and name secure in the history of the state. The measures he has advocated, as patriotic as they are, as beneficent as all agree they are or in time will be have, stamped him no deeper than the rectitude of his own behavior, and the admirable dignity he has lent to the place to which he himself almost unnaided attained. He will be remembered as a constructive statesman, as upright as he is able; as bold as he is resourceful, full of honor and a patriot. These are not like words; They express the thoughts of a vast number of West Virginians, proud or humble. Where is the republican who would not favor, where the sinner who would not predict his renomination and his triumph, but for a provision, of more or less wisdom, of our constitution? That is a sure measure of hold his elementate, and also will be has planted in the people. Possibly more to Gov. Dawson than to any other single force, the republican party in the state is indebted for its organization and its victories. When it was disorganized and discouraged, halting and hopeless, this Preston county man, silence upon his lips and a printing rule as a compass, came forward, at the urgent solicitation of those who hoped against hope, to inspire a broken phalanx, and himself lead the charge. The records tell their own story. Do they not agree? The victories of the republican party we see all around us are his, and we cannot constrain either our pity or mirth when the braggart or the upatt rises up and swells out in his pride. Honor to whom honor, as well as tribute to whom tribute. But these things bear directly on his political and participan activities, and yet in a review of Gov. Dawson's larger work, they have a place not altogether small or unimportant. Before he was governor, Mr. Dawson for eight years was secretary of state. Mainly because he exhibited uncommon qualities in administrative ability, and because he kept his hands clean, he was promoted to the place secured to his fellow-believers and workers largely by his unbending will and conserving faith. The distinguishing attributes marking his years as secretary of state have in a larger and reassuring measure attracted the admiration of his followers and excited the respect of his adversaries. He ought to be perfectly willing to risk his record to the hands of the most searching historian. His name is forever linked with legislation, the effect of which will pass on to generations yet to come. Moral issues of far-reaching importance have arisen in his time, and often in his name. He has neither finched nor fouled; rather, he has stood out free and fearless, and declared himself with no semblance of regret or reserve. To the farthest parts of the state, men say he is the man apart; the individualistic force that moulds a period and often redeems the times. What has most largely distinguished Mr. Dawson, whether here or there; now or then, is the equableness of his temperament; his honesty; the inflexibility of his character—the tenacity with which he holds on to disrobed and even-sealed justice. Why, the man's other name is truth. No judge was ever juster; no prophet ever truer. The governorship of this state merely afforded an attractive stage whereon he could exemplify, before men that one may really rise on the stepping stones of the basic virtues! The hamblescitizen of this state may with perfect freedom and fearlessness approach him on any question the settling of which in even so small a way affects the public weal, knowing that he can and will obtain a fair hearing, and receive a consideration at once just and decisive. While his attitude on some questions or measures may have seemed harsh to interests affected, it has never been claimed that his final word and work was not in the highest interest of the people. The people never had a more loyal governor since governors were; nor one more consecuted to the task of developing the state by reason's rule and the candle of fairness. If there be one to say that he has opposed what is commonly called business, let us answer such an one by the unparalleled strides of industrial development since there was a Dawson governor. We confess a partiality not to Dawson the ruler, but to Dawson the man; to his insistent striving to do the right as he sees the right, and to the great wisdom he has brought to the office he adorns, and the invariable justice with which he has administered his duties. What he will do whep he retires we do not know. But this we venture to observe, he will not pass to recluse and uselessness, but, because he is deep in the hearts of the people and his party, he will be called constantly to work of import and large requirements. 'OKLAHOMA'S REQUIREMENTS COMPLETE. Oklahoma is now a full-fledged state. President Roosevelt signed its official document November 15, and it was then widely and loudly proclaimed a member of the sisterhood. Its legislature has been in session long enough to show its folly and ignorance, and to flaunt the narrowness and perfidy of the democratic party in the face of the federal constitution to which the state swore allegiance upon entering the union. But Oklahoma cares no more about the constitution than Mississippi does about the war amendments; no more than Georgia does about the declaration of independence. But Oklahoma only filled its last, and to Oklahoma, and all the south, its most important requirement, last week. A Negro was lynched. The blood of an innocent man seals the first Oklahoma legislative report. The newest of states, conforming to the predictions of the press and upholding the fear of its friends, takes its place alongside the lawless and crime bent states of the south, not only as regards this particular exhibition of injustices, behavior, abominable, and disgraceful as it is, but also in its conduct with reference to the election laws brought forward to disfranchise the Negro, and the "Jim Crow" car laws framed to humiliate him, and drive him from the state. The Negroes, in certain localities in this new state, are the commercial leaders, unquestioned, yet harassed. The democratic leaders of Oklahoma promised to unloose the dogs of hell upon the Negro if ever the opportunity came. The opportunity came, came through President Roosevelt, who was warned of it all, but who held that he had no right to defeat the purpose of the congress, and the desires of the people. That is to say, to the four winds and the sea with the constitution of the United States! the lynching of that unconvicted and untried Negro on the soil of Oklahoma harms, in reality, only Oklahoma, for the occurrence is a stigma and a reproach. The attitude of the leaders of the democrat is so infamous as to admit of no calm discussion. Do they not know that they are sowing the wind? And is it not promised that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind? And are the south and the democratic party exceptions to this the first-hand testimony of the decree of the Great Justi? We think not. When the long conflict (the war of the rebellion) was over, and the political passion that had hitherto inspired his song had achieved its aim Whittier found his intimate self once more, and became what nature had all along meant him to be the poet of his own native section. Now, this is so much empty nonsense, directly contrary to Whittier's own testimony, and against the opinion of Lowell, Longfellow and Emerson, and in conflict with what every student of his life and character and the great question of his period, has inescapably found. Whittier was the poet of freedom, the chief singer of Liberty! Nature may have meant him to be "the poet of his own native section," but God intended him for the performance of a grander and nobler work before he should sing of woods. and hills and running brooks. And what he died in this higher and loftier work in that measure of his immortality, and this was attained before he conceived either "Snowbound," "The Barefoot Man" or another of the verses with which his name is fondly associated. Before Whittier threw himself and his mute into the work for the slave, he had sung in halting measure of the beauties of the noble section that gave him blith; he had been an editor. Tired and weary, worn and discouraged, it not broken-hearted, he had retired to Haverhill, there as he wrote to a town friend and admirer, to spend the remainder of his days in rechuse and meditation. He confessed that he had failed as a "literary man;" that for him there was neither hapn nor cymbal; indeed, that he was no poet. Whittier was wrong, as subsequent developments proved. He was made to be the first of poets. God had destined him to touch the deeper note; to sink the grander song; in season. He would tune the harp and place it in his keeping. Very often men lie dead in disappointment. Those of us who extol their virtues, unmown and, therefore, by the larger world, unmang, cry "Hannah cruel and a world unjust." It is not always so. More often than not men rebel against their natural adaptability and propensity and pursue what to them is a meaningless phantom; their chase is spent in quest of another's bow and boon, while their own hope and harp lie behind their mute and motionless. There is the death of a promised note; possibly a minor in the "Lost Chord;" here is the death of an ambition that would neither listen nor hearken to the teachings of Nature. When William Lloyd Garrison discovered Whittier, who as a boy of tender and inexperienced years, addressed a poem to Garrison's newspaper at Newburyport, he saw in him the promise of the singer. In the years since Whittier, in that pursuit of a cap of purple, had strayed from the path that leads to glory, along which Garrison had pictured the Quaker treading in triumph and in song. Whittier had been to the legislature. Telling released the poet's sister and his license, his friends at home, were spouted to send him to congress. Before the necessary turns and tricks towards that consummation could begin, his Light shone upon him. Garrison called him the second time saying, "Whittier in this cause God in the leader. He calls you! Whittier answered in a battle cry, dedicated to Garrison. Champion of those who groan before me. Oppression's from hand. In view of penny, hate and death I see thee fearless stand. I love thee with a brother's love, I feel my pulses thrill. To mark thy spirit soar above The cloud of human ill. My heart hath leaped to answer thine And echo back thy words. His heart leaped to answer Garrison's, leaping, it escaped from its meaner self and found its certain element; leaping, it was kissed by God's glory in its flight to Pame's fair and eternal borders. Whittier did not go to congress, but see how greater and grander thenceforward was his work! Wendell Phillips, son of the first family of Boston, might have been a governor of Massachusetts, but he chose rather to be the orator of justice. Congress and Massachusetts are less glorious because of Whittier's and Phillip's early and constant allegiance to the broader freedom of their country, but see what a greater glory enshrines their records, and thereby, the history which makes us proud! When the poet declared himself and took his stand on the mountain top as the Chief Singer, he closed his earlier life, and blotted its record off his memory. Transfigured and transformed, every hour was his season for a song. Now denouncing, now expostulating, cheering today, waiting tomorrow, rebuking the north with this quill, shaming the South with that, encouraging the bondmen in one breath, urging the church to its plain and inviting duty in the next, the Spirit of the Lord was his only text. He grew on the country and on the world. Men everywhere came to book to film for the inspired word against the damnable system of slavery, which made beasts of one race, and hypocrites and robbers of another, and established this country as a land of travail and sorrow and great emptiness of speech before the nations of the Earth. Whittier's fame, then, must rest upon his poetical activities against slavery. Resting upon that, it is more secure than the fame of any other American poet. Indeed, the fame of all the great poets of the earth is linked with some epoch or era, the end of which has, in one way or the other, influenced the history of mankind, and in no small measure changed the course of civilization. Whittler's "Exemplation" began his Anti-Slavery antiflots: Our fellow countrymen in chains! Slaves in a land of light and law! Slaves, crouching on the very plains, Where rolled the storm of free- In this exciting verse he placed his finger upon every decisive battle of the Revolutionary war, and drew his lesson. Years after the nation learned, but it didn't learn until the sword had writ in blood what Whittier penciled in love. The poet thought, and proclaimed that the Lord was God of battle: For broken heart and clouded mind Whereupon no human merotes fall: Or be the gracious love inclined, Who, as a father, pittiest all! The South 'often complains' that the North meddles entirely too much with its affairs. In its murderous attitude towards the Negro, it desires to be 'let alone'. It has always been so. Whittier answered the complaint a half century ago. Rail on, then, brethron of the South; Ye shall not hear the truth the less; No seal is on the Yankee press! From our Green Mountains to the sea One voice shall thunder. We are free! His "Farewell," the story of a Virginia slave mother whose daughters were sold into Southern bondage, touched the heart of the nation and moved the world to tears. "The Panorama was read the country over and won the heart, if not the mouth, of many a border Southerner. Massachusetts, smoke through this injured, son, to Virginia, and Virginia, stretching to head, awakened the entire South, the South protested, and its noble attracted the world. George Lolmer, an escaped slave, was returned from Boston without warrant to his owner, A. B. Gray of Norfolk. Every noble impulse of Whittler resented so dastardly a procedure and he wrote his son's protest in life. But for us and for our children the view, which we have given For freedom and humanity is registered in heaven: No slave hunt in our borders.—no pirate on our strand. But we must cease, though the subject consumes every patriotic and grateful impulse. Daniel Webster, the idol of New England for a period, and the most pitiable figure in American politics, in quest of the nomination for the Presidency, had steeped his soul in sin. Nothing had been for him too low. He had cut the golden cord, however, when he supported the Fugitive Slave Law, and espoused the famous compromise. The North was indignant and Whittier, though a distant relative, came forward with the crown of disgrace: All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled; / When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead. Then, pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame; Walk backward, with averted gaze And hide the shame! Whittier will live as long as Freedom endures; he will die when Liberty is defended, and when Truth takes Error by the hand, and marches on down to touch the hem of destiny's garment. The Negro gave Whittier to Fame, because their woe called him from a life of dull care and no promise. He will live with Summer, Douglas, Garrison and Phillips and John Brown. The Negro people gives his fame to the nation, in the name of Him whom he served with the faith that moveth mountains and turns the wendings of rivers: I know not where his islands lift. 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Four months. Four months. MUHN & Co. 3616 route, New York Muhn Office. 212-750-7000. No hopswife, or baker can have good luck if the flour is poor. Why not use the flour that every body spares well of! Few hours ever had such a good reputation as Flour with Life to It. It is purity itself; it is snowy white; it makes bread strong and hard. When you set your bread you know it is going to raise. Surely guarantee you can get against sourness and sogginess. Cask your bread when in it if you don't like it. We are behind him in this. The Dewey Bros. Co., Millers Blanchster, Ohio. And Thon, O Lord by whom are as Ther creatures as they be. On Christmas day the public school pupils rendered a nice program at his church. Thursday night a concert was given at the ball by a few of the girls and boys. A large crowd witnessed the well-tender program. Rev. C. C. Booze preached at Whittenburg on Christmas day. Rev. H. Gregory preached for its Sunday. Monday, December #3, Mr. George Ford and Miss L. Lyons were united in marriage by Rev. Booze. The happy couple are living at Sprague. Mrs. Wm. sea entertained Mr. and Mrs. Reese, on Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Young, of Keystone, and Mr. and Mrs. Brock Young, of Thayer, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon, during the Christmas. Mrs. C. C. Booze, of West Beckley, visited friends here. Sunday. R. L. French and A. Cobbs, who have been ill for some time, are much better. Mr. and Mrs. H. Mitchell, of West Beckley, entertained. Wednesday evening, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lipscomb. Music was the principal feature of the evening. Was Taken to Huntington Deputy United States Marshal Walter Summers left at noon today for Huntington with John Crimms and Tony Hoffman whom he will place in the Cabell county jail to wait the action of the federal grand jury. Crimms and Hoffman were arrested by Officer. Summers last week in Fayette county, on a charge of selling liquor without a license. A Sah Animal With Heart, liver and Kidneys Like a Sheep. The fur seal is a land animal of perverted tastes, who living at sea, has had his paws changed into flippers very like the long black kid gloves of a woman. His heart, liver and kidneys are exactly the same as those of a sheep and just as strong to cut, but his beak, although just like a rat, must look at, is rather slender than from his habit of eating meat. The whole package is put in pieces of thick white fat to keep the book warm, white from the salt grains, a heavy crop of beautiful brown fur, protected with large fat oil bearing hairs, making a glossy surface which slides through the water without friction. Perfectly fearless, overblowing with fun, a perfect little athlete, marvelous, lily strong, the fur seal is the most delightful of all who creatures. Bof, although they live at sea, the seals, being heavily clothed, in fat, skin and hair, and the temperate, latitudes much too warm for comfort during the summer months. Since they cannot shed their gurments like ourselves, they migrate to a subarctic climate, gathering in immense multitudes, where there are fisheries to support them. Their ration is fifty pounds of cod every day, which for a creature the size of a sheep is considerable. Exchange. A STORY OF THE SEA. The Man Who Braved the Storm and the Sailor He Rescued. the Sailor He rescued. Off the coast of Ireland there was a terrible storm, and a crowd gathered on the shore to see a storm tossed vessel not far away being pounded on the roofs. Sturdy men launched a boat and pulled away at the oars to rescue the impelled ones. As the boat came back the watchers on the shore cried: "Did you get them?" and they answered: "All but one. We had to leave him or risk the lives of all." And when they were landed a stalwart fellow stepped from the group and said: "Who will join me in the rescue of the remaining one?" Then an aged woman cried out: "Oh, my son, don't go; don't go! You are all I have left. Your father was drowned at sea, and your brother William sailed away, and we never heard from him, and now if you are lost I will be left in sorrow alone." But the man replied: "I must go to mother. Duty calls me." Then he and other brave hearts launched the boat and pulled for the wreck. Anxiously the mother waited in tears and prayers. At last, they saw the lifeboat coming nearer and nearer, and when it was in hailing distance they called: "Have you got your man?" And the answer rang out clear above the storm. "Yes; and tell mother it brother William." Nests of the Golden Eagle. Every pair of eagles whose habitats I have had an opportunity of watching over a period of a few years would seem to have invariably at least two alternative sites for their nests. Some have three, and I know of one with four sites. In fact, I only know of one pair out of many which habitually resort to but one place and only one. The reason for this is, however, apparent, for owing to its situation it has never been disturbed. The nest is in a small cavern on the face of an absolute wall of limestone rock some 800 feet high, at about 400 feet from the summit. Above the cliff is a talus of stone at an angle of forty-five degrees or so, above which again rise other precipices. To reach the nearest point above this nest would be a long day's work — London Saturday Review. University of Paris The doctor's degree, in the University of Paris is so entitled to designate the faculty under which the work was done, as those who do literary work would receive the degree doctor of letters, etc. To obtain the doctor's degree the candidate must possess the lower degree of the corresponding division of work, submit two theses on different questions, reply to questions or objections concerning them, pay a fee of 140 francs and present 100 printed copies of one of his theses to the university. The candidate for the degree doctor of letters must write one thesis in Latin, the other in French. If in the scientific department, the thesis must be on some original investigation; if in theology, the examinations are both oral and written—School Bulletin. Left Out Id the Cold Elder (discussing the new minister's probation discourse)—In my officemen he wasn' justified in dividing folk into the sheep and the goats. I wadba just say, Jamie, that I will among the unco guild, an' I wadba say that you were among the unco bad. So what do we come in? He'll no do for us, Jamie. We'll no vote for him.—London Punch. An Estimate and a Hope. "You've heard her, you say?" remarked Mr. Dubley. "Ah, she certainly has the gift of song." "Well, I hope that's what it is," replied Miss Knox. "I should hate to think she paid anything for it."—Philadelphia Press. Same Old Misery "Spose dar wuz a turkey fer every man in de country?" "Wouldn't make any difference, fer dey'd have wings enough to fly out er reach."—Atlanta Constitution. A man's misfortune is like a shoe—if too large, it trips him up; if too small, it pluches him.—Horace. We have a new line of GAS STAND LAMPS Come in and look them over COFFEY Plumbing Co. Quarrier St., near Capile L. N. BROWN, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, WILL, GLADLY FURNISH ESTIMATES ON ALL SHELVES, OF BUILDINGS, AND GRAINANTS SATISFACTION. IF YOU INTEND TO BUILD, WRITE ME AT INSTITUTE, W. VA. 1-2-61 CHARLESTON Mrs. A. B. Hughes and little daughter, of Huntington, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hazlewood, last week Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Lowry, of Boomer, attended the masquerade, Thursday night, remaining in the city till Friday the guests of friends, Adolphus Brown, who is pursuing stu medical course at Howard University, arrived home last week. Mr. Brown (will spend the week visiting his parents. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Waters has their guest last week. Miss Virginia Cleveland, of Institute. Miss Gertrude Kyle, a West Virginia Colored Institute student, was the Vallede guest of Miss. Stella James. Miss Emma Mordows, teacher at Tongburg, was in the city last week, waking up puchases for the Christmas tree, for her pupils. J. A. Thompson and Miss Gusie Fabriks, of Powellton, were business visitors here, Friday. Charles Wood, of Parkersburg, is visiting his brother Emanuel during the holidays. Among the holiday shoppers from Wintirede last week were; J. M. Woodding, A. M. Chapman, W. M. Tucker, C. A. Allen, J. W. Waller, Edward Tyson, Mr. and Mrs. James I. Thomas and Miss Ada Thomas. Miss Nina Clinton is spending the holidays with her parents at Zanesville, Ohio. Augus B. Evans and Miss Viola Wood, of Talcott, were married at the parsonage of Simpson M. E. church, December 25, by Rev J. W. Waters. The revival services, which has been in progress for over three weeks, at Simpson M. E. church, will be continued. The church has taken on new life, which was demonstrated at the watch meeting Tuesday night. Miss Ferdinand Stith, student at the West Virginia Colored Institute, was the week-end guest of Miss Beatrice Penn. Misses Luju and Lillie Bowles spent few days this week visiting relatives at St. Albans. Mrs. King Jackson has as her guest this week, Miss Gertrude Parish, of St. Albans. Mrs. Malinda Ford, of Ashland, Ky., arrived in the city last week and is spending the holidays with her parents. J. and Mrs. B. A. Crichlow have returned from Bluefield for permanent residence. The doctor will open an office for the practice of his profession as soon as a suitable location can be secured. John Black, who spent last week here the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Johnson, returned to his home at Union, Sunday. Mrs. Ora Campbell is reported as being seriously ill at her home, on Sentz street. Misses M. B. Jeffries, L. O. Hopkins and Amy Hutchinson spent the first of the week at Montgomery with friends. A business meeting of the local alumni of the West Virginia Colored Institute has been called for Thursday night of next week, at the residence of Andrew Brown, Washington street, by President J. R. Carter. U. L. Bacchins, of Winifreder was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Huffman, last week. Tuesday, by J. Marshall Jones to a honor at a dinner given by Mrs. Geo. Woodley, Thursday of last week/ Mrs. William Hunter and daughter, of Fayetteville, are the holiday guests of Mrs. M. A Parker. The executive board of the Woman's Baptist State Convention held a meeting at the First Baptist church, Saturday. Preparations are on foot for a deep year dance to be given early in the month of February, and a number of young ladies heading a possible string dance in the magazine market, have hepapoen already the company of the gentlemen, whom they wish to escort. New holiday events, were more enjoyable than the dinner given, few of his friends at his restaurant, on Kanawa street. The guests were seated at a long table, and of each plate was fold a carriage and a card expressing the wish of the host for a happy New Year to those assembled around the festive board. The dinner, of nine courses, was served to the following guest: Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Waters. Mrs. J. M. Carner, Miss Fannie C. Cobb, J. F. J. Clark, F. C. Cambric, John H. Hugh, Charles Lewis and J. C. Glimer. No more delightful function has been given at the K. of P. hall since masquerade last year, than the second annual fancy dress masquerade of the Kanawa club. Thursday evening of last week. But few of the large number receiving lavitations, were absent, when the grand march, led by Mr. C. A. Napper and Mrs. J. M. Hazlewood, began. Costumes there were of all degrees and colors, historical, comic and national and their wearers entered, on and all, into the spirit of the character they represented. The music, by Wright's orchestra, ages of the right sirt, and but few of the eighteen numbers on the program escaped repitition. C. E. Mitchell and J. M. Canty, instructors at the West Virginia Colored Institute, passed through the city, Tuesday, returning, respectively, from Boston, Mass., and Harper's Ferry, where they spent the holidays with their wives. Dr. Clay, of elwisburg, was a business visitor here. Tuesday. Mrs. Maggie Davis, and little daughter of Colonel Ohio, have been guests of relatives here the past two weeks. The dance given by Companies, Nepal, 1 and 2, Uniform Rank, K. of P. was, very well attended. A. protracted meeting as begun at St. Paul, M. E. church, Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. Goins and Mrs. Mattei Moss spent, New Year's at Gallipolis, Otho, visiting friends. The trustees of St. Paul A. M. E. church are arranging for a bee swarm the fourth Sunday in February, at which time they hope to raise $500 toward defraying church debts. The following ladies have been appointed Queen Bees of the Hive, each hive being composed of 25 members, who are expected to contribute one dollar each⁴ Mrs. Mattie Moss, Lettie Johnson, Maggie Calhoun, Emina Cowser, G. W. Claire, Sophie Spencer, Viola Wright, M. J. Miller, Daisy Nelson, Hattle Lucas, Lucy Mitchell, Mary Jones, Nita, Overstreet, Emma ubrbridge, W. D. Clark, Fannie Callett, and Minnie Samuel. King Bees: Nathaniel Hawkins, Robert Hamlin, Thomas Hickle and Alexander Jones. Harvey Mishler. Harvey Mickens is ill with fever at his home, on McFarland street. Mrs. Kate Colley has returned to her home at Huntington, after a few days' visit to Mrs. O. M. Mitchell. Noble Mitchell gave a stag, last week, complimentary to Adolphus Brown, who is home from Howard University for the holidays. The other guests were: W. H. and Mason Burke, Randolph Irving, Arthur Jackson, Charles Williams, Henry Smith, Jr. and William Harris, of Columbus. Mrs. Mary Williams entertained a number of friends, Monday evening, at the home of Mrs. S. A. Collier; Morris street. Cards and games were indulged in, after which the hostess served a delightful lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley McNorton, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Meggison, of Glen Jean, were business visitors to the city last week. Miss Lena Rice has returned to Thuyet, after spending the holidays with her parents. John Bradley, of Elkins, is the guest of his niece, Mrs. K. D. Jackson, Goshorn avenue. Mrs. Della Drown returned to Quimfort Wednesday, after spending the holidays in the city. Mrs. Lillie Goff, Miss Carrie Minor and Miss S. Weeds, of Montgomery, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Holte deceased. THE KONGO FOREST. Region of Mystery. The mightiest forest of which the human race has any knowledge today is that of the Kongo. It is a region of impenetrable mystery concerning which accounts have been so strange that until the past few years they have been deemed incredible. But recent discovery has transformed scientific incredulity into a measure of belief. Thus on the basis of Sir Harry Johnston's explorations of Uganda a giant larger than the gorilla is a denizen of this tremendous forest region. There, too, are animals of a quite unfamiliar kind, notably the okapi. The forest seems to be the resort of the five horned giraffe, the tallest mammal in the world. The biggest elephants, bearing tremendous tusks, are there. The largest fish found in all Africa haunt the streams meandering through the recesses of this forest. Lions seem not to penetrate into the thick growth of the jungle thereabouts. The forest leopards are arboreal, catching monkeys for their food. The curiosity of the mighty forest is unquestionably the okapi, a large and seemingly new mammal, discovered by Sir Harry Johnston. In his books of travel Stanley told of an animal of ass-like appearance existing in the dense forest which was caught in pits. The occurrence of anything like a quadruped of the equine root in the thickness of an impenetrable forest seemed so anomalous that no scientist of standing would credit the possibility hence the determination of Sir Harry Johnston to investigate. Current Literature. FORCE OF IMAGINATION. Story of an Odd Incident in a Dental Hospital. A remarkable incident happened recently at a dental hospital. A young woman went there to have five teeth extracted. The anaesthetic decided upon by the dental surgeon was ethyl chloride, and this was administered by the usual form of apparatus. An india rubber cap is placed over the patient's mouth and nostrils, and connected with it is a bag into which a sealed capsule of ethyl chloride is introduced. By the turning of a screw from the outside the capsule is broken and the anaesthetic lingered. The screw was turned, the patient went on gradually into the usual condition of insufficiency, the teeth were extracted, and the patient awakened without feeling any part of the operation. The whole case appeared perfectly normal. Only when the young woman had left the room and the apparatus was being made ready for another patient was it discovered that the capsule of ethyl chloride had by some mischance not been broken all the whole condition of insufficiency had been brought about by the partial hypnosis of the patient. This did that an anaesthetic was being administered as so strong in her mind that she had passed into insufficiency entirely by hypnotic suggestion—Boston Traveler. Wanted the Whistleblower. The warmilite farmer, with the tobacco coaster and furrowed brown climbed aboard the limited and shambled into the smoker. "Mister," he drew when the conductor halted before him, "is that this two-cent-a-mile rate good on this train?" "It is," replied the conductor brusquely. "Where is your ticket?" The old man fumbled in the depths of an ancient shot bag. "An't got no ticket, mister," he said slowly, "but here be 2 cents. I never rode on one of these pesky fliers, and I just want to feel the sensation. But me off after I've rode one mile." Chicago News. Argument For Feathers. Opposition to the wearing of feathers in feminine headgear has encountered an argument which shows that there are two sides to this as to every other question. Attention is called to the fact that were the practice of wearing feathers to be abandoned tomorrow 30,000 girls would be at once thrown out of employment in Paris alone. A champion of the working girls insists that if a bird or a girl must perish it ought not to be the girl. —New York Press. A Slander. "Yes, suh," asserted Colonel Pepper, "I once owned a hen that lived to be twenty years old, suh." "And you lived in Alabama." Considerate. In a country church one Sabbath, as the congregation wakes rising for the first hymn, an bid-telly entered the church at the same time. She held up her hind, exclaiming: "Keep yer seps, Losh, ye needn' arise, though I have come in"—London Express. Didn't Need Them. Neighbor—If your statement is true your clothesline was robbed by tramps. Judson—How do you make that out? Neighbor—Didn't you say they took everything but the towels?—Illustrated Bits. Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.—Spurgeon. years, is visiting his mother. Mrs. Margaret Ranholpli. WHAT HE WENT AFTER. The Office Boy Gave the Business Caller Some Information. The big bell in the city hall tower had just hanged forth the noon hour, and the office buildings were emptying throngs of workers into the streets to fill the lunchrooms. In an elephantine office, seated in a large chair, with his feet comfortably resting on the edge of the manager's desk, was Pingry, the office boy of Junworth & Co. brothers, says Epplisscoff's magnate. His head was cocked on one side, and with evident relish he was puffing a huge cigar which his employer had neglected to finish. "What's that?" said Plugsy, slowly removing the cigar from the far corner of his mouth. I 'want Mr. Jawworth right away. Where is he? 'repeated Whit. Just them the bell of a fire engine changed below, and Plugsy leisurely rose and walked to the window. "Gee," he said thoughtfully, "people do git skeered of them dure parts, all right, all right!" Turning around, he continued, "Boss isn't in. I'm runnin' th' business just now. Want any quotations or" "No, you blit!" yelled the client. "Where has he gone downstairs?" "Yep." "Will he be back after lunch?" "Naw!" yawned the future firm; "that's what he went out after." Most Genuine Specimens Found. In the Province of Astrakhan. The collection of eyestones is a dying industry. In New York the principal sources of supply are sailors who touch the salted fish, and, as might be imagined, the supply is precarious. Eyestones. Are analogous in some respects to bezoards, as they are a conception found in the stomach of the European crabwish. Most of the genuine eyestones, 'crabs' eyes, crabsstones or Lapillin canadum, are procured in the province of Astrakhan, in European Russia. There appears to be some confusion regarding the nature of the eyestone, for some authorities speak of it as a concretion for the botanism of a certain crabit or others as of a paucular shell formation, which is separated from the crabit at the time it sheds its shell. the esculent earth, eyes found fully developed at the end of summer, the crabs taught to shed their shells, it is noted that these concretions are absorbed into the stomach or, the crust during the shedding season and there pityreized and plumbed, the dissolved colorants absorbance being used, it is supposed, for the formation of a new shell. When these calcitous shells are not normally developed and absorbed it is observed that the shedding process is interrupted, and the crab dies an early death—American Drugist. Two hundred discoveries. A bride at wifes wedding I had been best man, lost her guard sing on her honeymoon, on the Scarbayough rocks. She and her bridegroom spent hours in vain search for it. A year later, while sitting on the same rocks, she said to her husband, "Why, this is the very spot where we sat, together last year The Bone. "Say, paw." queried little Tommy Toddles, "what is the bone of couten- tion?" Customer—I must say, waiter, this is the first time you've ever had a really tender steak here Walter (nghast)—Good gracious, I must have given you the proprietor's steak! —London Standard. His Awful Threat. Mother—Why old you not scream when Hins kissed you? Daughter—He threatened me? Mother—How? Daughter—He said if I did he'd never kiss me again—Megendorfer Blatter. Worry. He- You know, if you worry about every little thing it's bound to affect your health. His Wife-Yes. I know. That's one of the things I worry about. Town and Country. Hatched. One afternoon three small children were popping corn, tikking turns at the popper. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed little Dorothy, clapping her hands gleefully, "ergy one of my corn's hatched out!"—Chicago News. His Tenner. Austere Person—I can't tip on young-than uncles you base change for a tenner. Waiter (alizing him up)—Keep your dime, sir. I haven't a nickel about me—Chicago Tribune. With every allowance, for change of tariff, the most completely refreshed giants of modern gold, dwindle into abstemiousness beside that "ane drink"—London Athenaeum. Crowded Out by, Vain Man. "I went into the office looking like a fright," said the woman. "I didn't have a chance to straighten my hat or pat my hair or anything. I had intended to primp going up in the elevator, but there was a man standing before each mirror twirling his matache, and I could even get a peep at myself." - New York Press. MODERN PAPER Not So Good or Lasting as the Old Fashioned Kind. "The men who wrote history on tablets of stone in ages gone had a difficult task to perform and had to cultivate the habit of brevity," says a writer in a German paper, "but what they wrote was preserved. It will be different with the newspapers and books of the present time." The pioneer editor which they are printed with distinct grade in a few years, and the record-historical, scientific and literary will become dust. "I saw two painters recently which told the whole story. One contained an account of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was printed in 1821, in a state of perfect preservation and looked as though it might last with ordinary care a hundred years. The other paper was written because its leading article described the surmiser of Sedan, whom had taken place a day before. Although it had been printed nearly fifty years later, the Sedan paper had to be handled carefully to prevent its sprouting in the creases. One of these painters was printed on old fashioned paper and the other on the modern kind. With the two specimens before me I cannot refrain from urging once more that a few numbers of all books and newspapers, aough for all first class libraries, be printed on good paper for the benefit of those who will live after us. How It Is Made and the Reason It Rises In the Air Of all drewsworks none is more beautiful from a pyrotechnic point of view or more general, popping than the pocket. The powder ingredients are sulphur, charcoal and salt jacket, roughly in the proportions of fourteenth, twenty-six and sixty-respectively. Except in the case of military or life saving rockets, the cylindrical case is of paper or pasteboard, somewhat constricted at the fuse end. Into this the powder is rammed tightly, a conical space being left for the insertion of the quick match which passes through the constriction, or "chokehole," into the mass of powder. This forms the body of the rocket, which is closed at the top with a plaster of paris plug. Through this a small hole filled with a fuse communicates with the optical shaped dead, holding stars, segments, cracks or point of silver rain. The whole is of course attached to a slender stick to direct the light on the shield. Shown here is one of the fuse tubes fitted and the main cylindrical powder placed in the enormous quantity of heated gases generated - force, their way downward through the narrow body urging the rocket upward in the air - Pearson's soils. The power of her heart was strenuous. Illustrated now for long ago in a short white rafter, it now encapsulated what done nothing but sew on the sleeves in sleeves, for four years, was asked to run up scars in the body of the wrists. She commanded that the change made her so nervous that she could not work. "But what is the difference?" asked the foreman. "There is nothing but a straight seam here, just the same as you have been used to." "I know," replied the woman with true feminine logic, "but it isn't sleeves." And it did indeed prove to be a fact that owing to her four years of steady work on sleeves it took her fully that many weeks to overcome her nervousness sufficiently to run the machine at her accustomed speed when sawing an other part of the war.Exchange. A Pennsylvania divine, former lover of a house party in Philadelphia where the younger son, in accordance with what the clergyman observed to be his constant habit, as soon as he had seated himself at breakfast immediately possessed himself of a large slice of bread, the quality of which he proceeded to test by a liberal mouthful. The minister, a stalker in such matters of propriety, gazed blandly at him for a moment or so; then he folded his hands and closed his eyes in preparation for grace. "For what we are about to receive," he intoned, with painful emphasis, "and for what our young friend has already received, Lord, make us truly thankful." - Harper's Weekly. The Greed For Gold "It's a deplorable thing, this greed for gold," said the mournful person. "Of course," answered Mr. Sirius Barker. "If the greed for gold were not so general you and I might pick a chance to get some. It's a case of too many people recognizing a good thing and trying to get in on it."—Washington Star. Phenomenon Explained A comparatively young man whose mustache remained jet black while the hair on his head turned white explained the phenomenon by saying it was because his lips enjoyed all the good things of life and his head had to suffer all the troubles.—New York Sun. The Strange Part. "Isn't it strange that so few men discover the secret of success in life?" Yes, but it's stranger still that the secret is still a secret. Surely some of the men who discovered it must have told it to their wives." -Philadelphia Press. Some families seem to have more skeletons than closets. -Detroit News. Beautiful black puffs in sets at Mrs. Brown's, 500 Capitol street. Our many customers are accustomed, after the close of the Spring and Fall seasons to look for bargains--and not wishing to disappoint them, we will from now on make such reductions on our odds and ends that we have left, as to make it worth their while to come early and get the cream of the pick. You know our Reductions sales are bona-fide, as the method of our business, everything being marked in plain figures will indicate. An inspection will convince you of the truth of our assertion. This Reduction Sale is for CASH ONLY Frankenberger & Co. The Only One Price Clothiers Outfitters From Head to Foot Popular Books at Popular Prices Our offering is of high-class novels recently published at $1.50, handsomely bound and mostly all illustrated. Now 50 Cents Per Volume. There will be a big demand for these books at special price. We have space here to mention only a few of the titles. ALL ARE WINNERS. Beverly of Graustark By Geo. Barr McCutcheon The Gambler By Katherine Coell Thurston Princess Maritza By Percy Brebner St. Elmo By Augusta J. Evans The Marriage of Wm. Ashe By Mrs. Humphrey Ward The Virginian By Owen Wister The Masquerader By Catherine Coell Thurston The Right of Way By Gilbert Parker The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop By Hamlin Garland Brewster's Millions By Geo. Barr McCutcheon The Blazed Trail By Stewart Edward White Lady Rose's Daughter By Mrs. Humphrey Ward Any of above S. Spencer 118 Capit BOX OF FINE ORANGES. Grown on the Couch Farm in Florida Recycled By Recorder Ross. City, Recorder J. Shirley Ross received this morning from Roy Couch a box of fine oranges grown on his plantation on Indian river, Florida, and is busy distributing them among his friends this afternoon. The boy contains a solitary lemon, also a product of the Florida plantation, but Shifley having such a large circle of friends to whom this particular specimen would make an appropriate gift, has decided to avoid all personal responsibility by disposing of it by lot. MONTH 18 SUPPOSITION Rome, Italy, Jan. 1. A terrific The Masquerader By Catherine Coell Thurston The Right of Way By Gilbert Parker The Captain of the Gray- Horse Troop By Hamlin Garland Brewster's Millions By Geo. Barr McCutcheon The Blazed Trail By Stewart Edward White Lady Rose's Daughter By Mrs. Humphrey Ward by Mail 60c. Moore & Co. ol Street. explosion terrified the people in the center of the city Tuesday and it was followed by a desperate cry inside the stock exchange. The explosion was combed by a dynamite bomb, which is supposed to have been thrown with the intention of preventing the usual liquidation at the end of the month at the stock exchange. The board of affairs, of Charleston, has seen the governor on one or two occasions for the purpose of having him place in his call for the special session of the legislature contain bills which they believe would be beneficial to the city of Charleston. However, they do not desire to give out the topics for publication at this time. How the Young Insects Sail Away With the Wind. In early autumn the spider families sequestrate. Hundreds of thousands of fortable spiders on a warm sunny morning scale the low bushes, cling to the tips of the leaves and project slender silken threads from the spinnerets at the ends of their bodies. Before very long the air near the ground, becoming heated, ascends and carries up the silken threads with it. Still the little creatures hold on and pour out silk till each has some eight or ten feet of fine rising almost perpendicularly into the air above it. At last they let go and rise into the air themselves, each at the extremity of its own thread. In this way they are carried upward, perhaps for many hundreds of feet, till at last they meet a current of air moving slowly along, and by this they are carried often for many miles, while they can always descend at will by the simple expedient of rolling up their supporting threads. On a warm autumn morning the air is often filled with these baby spiders, each sailing securely on its own little silken airship. When they descend bushes, trees and low plants are frequently covered with their gossamer threads.—London Standard. A LESSON IN LATIN. Criticism to Which the Duke of Wellington Objected. Discussion of the best pronunciation of Latin recalls to the Liverpool Post a story about the Duke of Wellington. It was about the year 1844, and the chancellor in his gorgeous robes was reading the honor list aloud. The list was, of course, in Latin, and Wellington knew more about the handling of brigades than about Latin quantities. Whenever the name Carolus occurred the duke persisted in pronouncing the "o" long-"Caro-ius." It was at last too much for one of the dous standing behind him, so, leaning over, he whispered, "If your grace will excuse me, I should like to point out that at Oxford we call that word 'Car-ol.'" "Very good," said the duke. "Thank you, I'll remember." Presently came the name Jacobus, which, mindful of his lesson, he pronounced "Jacobus." Again the don leaned over. "I humbly beg your grace's pardon, but that name is 'Jaco-bus.'" "Hang it all," muttered Wellington. "you can't chop and chapge like that! Caro-lus and Jaco-bus or Caro-lus and Jaco-bus, whichever you like. But stick to your own rules, if you please." Time Works Wonders. "Hello, Dixon." said Thompson. "How's things?" "Simply swimmingly, thanks, old chap! Couldn't be better. I was never doing so well in my life! I've got a hundred pounds in my pocket at this very moment." "Good, good! I'm glad to hear it! Delighted!" "Yes: a hundred pounds—a hundred pounds! You understand?" "Yes. I congratulate you!" "But you believe me, don't you? A solid hundred pounds in golden sovereigns in my pocket—a hundred pounds!" "So you said. Why do you keep repeating it?" "Well, as a matter of fact, I'm testing that story about a fellow repeating a yarn until he comes to believe it himself. I expect to thoroughly convince myself about Thursday. You might lend me a sovereign till then, will you?"—Pearson's Weekly. A Concert That Failed Hans Pfitzner, the composer of "The Rose In the Garden of Love," says the Munchener Neuesten Nachrichten, had a peculiar experience at Cologne, where he had arranged to give a song recital at one of the hotels. In his own account of the "concert that failed," written in rhyme, the composer says, "Only two tickets were sold after much advertising and the display of many pictures." The purchasers were his friends, who were prevented from being present. When all hopes as to audience had failed he asked to have supper served in the empty concert room. But instead of allowing him to take the meal in "grand solitude" the lights were turned out, and so was he. Her Stipulation. When a rosy cheeked, good natured Irish girl fresh from the other side recently sought employment in the service of a Germanautown woman, the latter began anxiously to interrogate the girl as to her qualifications. "Can you cook, Nora?" asked the lady most earnestly. "Are you a good cook?" "Yes, mum, I think so," responded the girl nivalely. "if you'll not try to help me."—Harper's Weekly. The Main Thing "You told him to diet, didn't you?" asked the young doctor. "Yes," replied the old one; "I told him to ent only the plainest food and as little as possible." "But this case has been chronic so long do you think that will help him?" "Well, it will help him to pay my bill." -St. Louis Republic. A traveler in Ireland recently saw upon an old tombstone over there this epitaph: DR. HENRY JONES. Reader, behold with gravity, For here lies Dentist Jones, Filling his last cavity. Mab is a noble animal, splendid in gales and pompous in the grave.—Browne. Richard Halloway and John Moore, of Tomsburg, were business visitors here, Saturday. COULDNT BE BLUFFED. The Judge Raised, but the Culprit Promptly Called. A correspondent sends in the following account of an incident which occurred in his presence in a Kentucky courtroom: Under the laws of Kentucky the penalty for gaming is a fine of from $20 to $60. Judge W. W. Jones was holding a term of circuit court, and when the case of the commonwealth of Kentucky against Daniel Cross was called he asked Daniel if he had a lawyer to defend him. Daniel said he had not, and Judge Jones asked him what he wanted to do about his case, which was a charge of gaming. "I don't know, hardly, judge," said Daniel. "I thought I would just pay it off." "Were you actually playing?" said the judge. "I guess we were," Daniel replied. "About how much were you playing for, Daniel?" the judge asked. "Oh, nothing much," said Daniel. "Just a nickel or dime on the corner." "Well, Daniel," said the judge. "I will see your dime and raise you $20." Daniel looked rather crestfallen for a moment; but, catching the force of the judge's remark, he quickly looked up at the judge and said. "Well, judge, I am satisfied that you have got me beat, so I'll not raise you, but I guess I will have to call you."—Law Notes. EXPENSIVE BOOKS. Prices That Prevailed Before the Invention of Printing. In the present day it seems very strange to read about the prices of books before the invention of printing. King Alfred gave a very large estate for a book on cosmography. In the year 1174 Walter, prior of St. Swithin's at Winchester, purchased of the monks of Dorchester, in Oxfordshire, "Bede's Homilies" and "St. Austin's Psalter" for twelve measures of barley and a pall on which was embroidered in silver the history of St. Birinus converting a Saxon king. About the year 1400 a copy of John of Meun's "Roman de la Rose" was sold before the palace gateat Paris for 40 crowns, or about 1175. The Countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the "Homilies of Halmon," bishop of Halberstedt, 200 sheep, five quarters of wheat and the same quantity of rye and millet. In 1471, when Louis XI. of France borrowed the works of Rhasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine at Paris he not only deposited by way of pledge a considerable quantity of plate, but he was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with him as surety in a deed binding himself under a great forfeiture to restore the books. English House Names. House owners are sometimes rather unfortunate in their selection of names for their abodes, and in suburbia house naming is occasionally rather ludicrous. Thus "The Maples" has never a maple near, "The Rosary" only exists in imagination, "Sunnyside" is the most depressing villa residence, and houses named after the English lakes no more suggest the lake district than Fleet street suggests the Bois de Boulogne. The Anglo-Saxon word "hyrst," signifying a forest or wood, has become "hurst" in house naming, and "wood" and "holt" have the same meaning. All house names ending with these terminations are pretty and not unsafe to choose. It is curious to note that in Hastings and St. Leonards quite a number of houses have typically Saxon names, perhaps to commemorate the great Saxon tragedy of which the name Hastings is reminiscent. Pomp of English Mayors. Chichester arms its chief magistrate with a gold mounted malacca cane of office, while the mayor of Guildford carries the stick presented to the borough by Queen Elizabeth. At York both the lord mayor and lady mayoress are equipped with the silver mounted oak staves which have marked their authority for centuries. Among the official retailers of the mayor of Ripon is the municipal horn blower, who every night at 9 o'clock winds three blasts upon this aged musical instrument before the mayor's residence and again at the marked cross.—London Standard. Hardened. "Listen to this, Maria," said Mr. Stubb as he unfolded his scientific paper. "This article states that in some of the old Roman prisons that have been unearthed they found the petrified remains of the prisoners." "Gracious, John" replied Mrs. Stubb, with a smile. "I suppose you would call them hardened criminals." Reformed. "Did she marry her husband to reform him?" "I guess so. She reformed him, all right." "Why, he drinks like a fish." "I know it, but he didn't use to be before she married him."—Houston Post. Near Raleigh, in Nottinghamshire, England, there is a valley said to have been caused by an earthquake several hundred years ago, and it is now usual on Christmas morning for old men and women to tell their children and young friends to go to the valley, stoop down and bear the ribs ringing merely in the ruins of the church under the ground.—Tit-bits. Miss Bessie Campbell and Lena Rice are spending the holidays with their parents here. STRIKE OF PILOTS Pittsburg, Dec. 31.—Although no action has been taken by the Monongahela river pilots rescinding the agreement which calls for a strike after midnight tonight, it is the general impression among river men today that there will be no strike. THE LAST WET DAY In the State of Georgia Found Conditions Practically Normal. Dry Tomorrow. Atlanta, Dec. 31.—The last day of liquor traffic in Georgia found conditions practically normal in the city, with no reports of excesses from outside points. At ten o'clock tonight every galoon in the city will close its doors permanently or until the prohibition act is repealed. FAMILY TAKEN ILL Mother and Three Children Poisoned After Eating Supper Last Evening. Pittsburg, Dec. 31.—Mrs. Eva Jazinski and her three children are in a serious condition from poisoning. They became violently ill after partaking of a meal last night. The police are investigating the case. CLOSE FIGHT FOR TAGGART. Opposition Asserts That He Has Been Beaten in Indiana. Indianapolis, Jan. 1.—The opposition to Thomas W. Taggart, the national democratic chairman, put up a strong fight in the county conventions throughout the state, and now both sides are claiming enough delegates to the district conventions to control the new state committee. In this county the Taggart man was chosen, the opposing candidate for district committeeman having withdrawn under the pressure of liquor influence. The conventions demonstrated that the temperance forces in the democratic party were lined up against Taggart and that he was backed by the solid liquor influence. CALLING A MUTE Hotel Clerk Finds It is Not Such An Easy Job as One Might Imagine It Was. How would you call a mute at a certain time after he had gone to his room and locked the door to prevent the entrance of anybody? This is what happened to Harry Jones, night clerk at the Elk hotel, last night. A mute registered at the hotel yesterday evening and with a pencil and paper informed the clerk he desired to be called at 5 o'clock in order to catch a train. At the given time the clerk, realizing that it would be of no use to ring the bell in his room, thought he would go and call him himself. When he tried to enter the room he found the door locked and was then in a quandary as to how to proceed to waken the slumberer. Harry confessed that he and the porter rat tled the door off the hinges in an attempt to make the mute hear, but at last they were so baffled in their efforts that they gave it up and went back to the desk. Five minutes before train time, the mute appeared at the desk and after paying his bill hurried to, the train with the request of the clerk that the next time he had a call at 5 o'clock to please call him. Harry believes that the fellow carries an alarm clock that tickles as well ag ticks. WATER WAGON IS DUE In Charleston Today and the "All Aboard" Cry is Heard Everywhere. "All aboard!" The annual tour of the water wagon began promptly at 12 last night and when it stops at your door be ready to climb on even though you fall before the next house is reached. The annual trip of the water wagon doesn't do any harm and it may do you a world of good. The fellow who is the most willing rider on the water wagon is the one who promises annually never to touch a thing, not a drop of intoxicants for one whole year. He is the first of the enthusiastic delegation to climb aboard and the first to fall off after a week's ride and some times after an hour's rough riding. "The log of the water wagon" in Charleston would be most interesting if "the man about town" had the nerve to tell of his and the other fellows' experiences for a whole year. The water wagon is here. J. R. Carter, of the oustodian's force at the state house, visited his cousin at Parkersburg, last week. $25,000.00 Worth of Men's, Young Men's and Boy's In a short time we will move our store to the room soon to be vacated by Coyle & Richardson in the Bradford Block, hence we offer this One lot of $10.00 Suits and Overcoats for $5.00 One lot of $15.00 Suits and Overcoats for $7.50 $3.50 Stetson Hats for $2-75 BURIED IN CEMENT. The Story of an Arab Boy Who Renounced Mohammadamian. honoured Mohammedanism. According to history, there was born about the year 1520 an Arab boy named Geronimo. He was captured in infancy by the Spanish garrison at Oran, and when about eight years old he escaped from his captors and went back to his family, living as a Mohammedan until the age of twenty-five. He then voluntarily returned to Oran and resumed the Christian life which he had adopted previously when in the hands of the Spanish authorities. A few years later he went on a coasting raid with a party of Spaniards, but the raiders were themselves captured by a Moorish corsair and brought to Algiers. Here the attempt was made to convert him to Mohammedanism, but he parasitously refused to embrace that faith, so that he was tried and condemned to die. His hands were tied behind his back, and he was cast alive, face downward, into a block of concrete then being prepared for the Fort des Vingt Quatre Heures, then building. Careful note was taken of the spot by Hailo, a Spanish Benedictine missionary to Algiers, who prayed the time might come when the Lord would pave the way for his exhumation and Christian burial. In 1853 the French found it necessary to destroy the fort, and the data left by Hailo were found to be correct, for the designated block of concrete on being cut open disclosed the bones of Geronimo and the cavity left by his body. The bones were removed Dec. 27, 1853 and given Christian burial, and they now rest in a massive stone sarcophagus in the cathedral. A plaster cast was made of the cavity and afterward photographed.—Cement Age. Retrenching Retrieve. "I tell you, they are retrenching." "But they still have their auto." "Which they run, well within the speed limit. Bah!"—Louisville Courrier Journal. It Was Basked. Mrs. Jawback—Why, you're wet through! Mr. Jawback—I know it. I'm soaked. Mrs. Jawback—But where's your umbrella? Mr. Jawback—It's—it's what I am.—Cleveland leader. THE NERVOUS MAN. His Complaint and How the Noise Nuisance Was Remedied. He was a nervous man, and he had just moved into a new boarding house. "In't there any way to stop those people across the street from having their coal delivered at 5 o'clock every morning? They seem to get about a dozen tons a day and to have it popped into the cellar at that unearthly hour." "I don't see how I can very well control the neighbors," replied his landlord, "but I will see if anything can be done." About ten days later the new boarder had occasion to thank her for her efforts. "I'm glad you succeeded in having that noise stopped," he said. "It is a great relief to me. Have they got their coal all in or do they have it delivered at some other time?" "Neither," said the landlady. "They deliver it every morning at 5 o'clock, just the same as usual." "You don't mean—why—well, how do they get it down without making any sound." "They don't. It sounds just the same, but you have grown accustomed to it." "I and it hard to believe that." "Set your alarm clock at 5 for a few mornings and satisfy yourself. I've rented that room before."—New York Sun. Bright Rev. "What is the worst thing about riches?" asked the teacher of the juvenile class. "Their scarcity," promptly answered the bright youth at the head. -Chicago News. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. -Milton. An old South Carolina darky was sent to the city hospital. Upon his arrival he was placed in the ward, and one of the nurses put a thermometer in his mouth to take his temperature. Presently when the doctor made the rounds he said, "Well, my man, how do you feel?" "I feels right to be, sat?" "Have you had anything to eat?" "Yassar" "What did you have?" "A lady done gimme a piece of glass ter suck, sar." "Argonaut. 50c. Knee Pants for 33c. $3.00 Pants Reduced to $2.00 10c. Hosiery for 7c. 15c. Hoslery for 10c. FRUITS, CANDIES ICE CREAM Families Furnished with Ice Cream. Orders for shipment solicited. We make prompt delivery of Cream and Ices for Sunday orders. The Virginia Legislature Will Make Sweeping Changes in Law Regulating Sales of Drugs. Richmond, Va., Jan. 1. Sweeping changes in the laws of Virginia regarding the sale of and traffic in drugs will be asked by the Virginia state pharmaceutical association from the next general assembly. It is proposed to wipe out all the statutes on this subject now existing and to substitute, for them a general statute, the provisions of which it is hoped will be sufficiently drastic to stamp out the rapidly growing drug evil. The first section of the proposed statute forbids the misbranding or adulteration of any drug named in the act. The second requires the board of pharmacy to make uniform rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act. Section 1 of chapter 3 declares that it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, furnish, or give away cocaine, morphine, heroin, opium, and preparations thereof containing a higher percentage of morphine than Charleston, W. Va. DIES ICE CREAM Furnished with Orders for ship d. delivery of Cream and Ices for Sun- Nichols tincture of opium of the strength ordered by the United States pharmacopoela, or any salt or compound of the foregoing substances, except upon the original written prescription or order of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, which must have plainly written upon it the name and address of the patient, and must be signed by the person giving it, which prescription can be filled only once. For violation of this section or any provision of the act the punishment for the first offense is &wine fine not to exceed $100; upon the second offense a fine of not less than $200, nor more than $1,000, or imprisonment for six months in jail, or both fine and imprisonment. Washington, Jan. 1.—An eclipse of the sun will occur Jan. 2, and will be partially visible in the Southern States of the United States and the Western coast of North America. Although the United States Naval observatory is interested in the phenomena, no official parties have been sent out by the government. The eclipse will be total at Flint Island, in the Pacific, and a party from Lick Observatory, in charge of Prof. W. Campbell, who already have been conveyed there from Tabitl aboard the United States ship Annapolis, will make observations. 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Tebeuted; 7 a ‘Them are te More. precipitods, ‘with aha ‘Dhiggcles: ana ‘Jay god Id outlines “In Beight Aor ane Ave,“ Mibert dad-sflanca slightly pitt oi of th@an’ Juahi duty! whotdeledinad: wv Ds of oe axe ts ‘Hedda "tc and’ ghove 14,090 feat 2) Mbupt Witsoe 14,280 toot—tne ‘dom: foantipel, lepno of the wont massive ju the’ ettles Rocky ‘mountain range Just Mast ofthis mountatn ly the re markRbld teadhyte- obelisk teafled / Liz ard id. Tie vivid ‘taaaton an ently pidheer who: had “sodlng thingy” 18 sald ‘to be.responsible. fo tho Daine, ae * ‘The, pumiult tn 14,100 feat above th sca, *From a ponderstis’ base the pin: naclo Vises 200 tot, with a dlamicter at the dot of onty Hbput alsty foot, grad ually:tapering fo legs than helt that a the thp. ee Listrd head has, dened all attempt of mopbtajn elinbore’te reach its stim. mits. ‘Tho foot of the qinnaéle ts exslly accomplished, but thus. far the stecy sides of the 290 foot shatt have proved insurmountable. No doubt the tim will como when the _yentnrogom: mountgin climber will tnd a way, bu many fallure.(8 the, ‘reogrd of th past. ASE ee eR ee ‘Trains circle tha, taoumtasn for mblos on tho way trom Telluride to Rico. New York Post. x ‘Two Horap Tales. , An ‘Albanian who bad peen in an eastern’ stato while freshets wore tu full ewing ‘told ‘the following about a horse‘ which had been attached to a footlitidge crosding ca brook: to keep the gfructure from. gotig adtift. The floodfinally swept horge and bridge down stream. Later the bridge was discovered lodged against the bank, with tho borse sitting quietly on the former. A bystander who had listened intent ly to this tale remarked quietly: “T yoo suthin’ eimilyar oncet.” “Indeed? What was It?” asked the story'telier. E “Xo see.” was the reply, “arter the hogs T see was took down stream no- buddy ever 'spected to seo him allve agin, Buta *a=\ pow'tul sort o! brute, an’ ‘bout a hour afterward we seo him acomin’ upstream a-pullin’ the ‘blame old bridge arter Ylin!"—Al- vany Journal, Mortar Tossers,.-) \ ‘There 1s no bod carrying In Japan. ‘The native bullders have a method, of transporting mortar whiéh\.makes. It seem more ike play than work—to the onlooker. ‘The mortar is nixed In a pile.ta the street. “Oue ‘man ‘takes this‘up into balls of about six Hounds wolght, which he tosses to a mai Who stands on a ladder midway bétween the. roof and they ground, ..hia'mav defy catches the ball and tosses It up to @ man who stands on the roof.— Sani Francisco Chronicle, _ Women anal ths Theater ‘Tho first alm of the “modena piay- wright 18 to please the women in tle audience. ‘Phe second thought. ts for the female characters inthe play. If a play @nds favor with the women It 4s bound to be a success, ‘The men will go If only becauée she 18 there, or to act as her escort.—Theater Maga- xine. \ Had to Keep Ideals. “Why don’t you get marrlea?” “Oh, It would be absolutely fatal to mmy literary work." “What do you wrlte?” “Love, stories.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. When a quarrel “is the breakfast food look out for marital Indigestion. ~ Manchester Unlon. aS a * Bobby's Reason: Little Bobby was saying bis prayers at bis mother’s knee, but so rapidly that she asked bim why be did not peak mors slowly. “Bacause, you know." be replied, “tt would’keep all the other children walt. Ing.""—Lippincott’s. Bidee Hind Ont “80 you really aétended the lecture ast might?” att “Yea ‘ “What Gd the lecturer talk avout?” “Well, I'm not sure, for he didn't say."—Lycoumite and ‘Talent, No Timo to. Lose, : “sir,” sald the young man, entering tho office, “I sent you a communication yesterday!” . “Well?” asked the grim faced man. “Well, Mr. Prater, I thought perhaps you might give me a reply to my re ‘guest, and'’— “Walt a thinute,” maid Mr, Prater “Aare you the man that sent this ac count for £10 for hate for my daugh: ter?” “Noval; W"— 4 “Then you are the one that left this Dill for £53 for her dresses?” We "'No, wir. My commu"— “yShén tt must bo this Por £7 for ajoen— Atte My note was one asking if Taglebe havo your daughter's hand.” ee Brant to marry her!” gtsped (MeiRDtgp. | Then, turning over the ‘pile of bills, he urged: “rake her, young man! T don’t know your name but take her quickly! She's talking about doing sdme more shopplog."— London Scraps. / ‘A Parle Réckaltait. ‘The Parisian ‘men ‘are not Iikely to grumble at being asked dine In dress clothes tn any partiddlar London restaurant, for they Dav in‘ Paris one ea » COIR QR eerltten: law Map ease tl cone ch o ‘oven: ‘ing at: typ Atabenonyitie TH he Bole ag Bouin poe et OR “clothiog.s, WHY: faidh< Ge So crip sriclictinis'ingy te ab day ot (he boulder can iin ries bbe. rput at B Geol drives. to ip Mle adres Parke a ah oe Anows./'1t Ip custym, and, there:'to.a Barittan, dete end of tt,“Bellman.’ Ap Ree ‘hig’ Hfect on the. Nerve of Gambling. "Boyes nee do bla tA work aurédly, ‘Valen’ represents fevbidpe only tb. enrnlug of. a tow abillings, when bis-anxious other’ neurotic ‘self ts! won. dering how a horde be bag wever seen, ridden by a Jockey be hai only hearq 8, inva racg be has only fond avout, ts faring ay to “njoney Zostenalbly. his, ape be canbot atrord’ to;lose- because tie hes nei pene got: {tft she should have ty Bay? Ts such ab existence Wkely t> add tothe race-yalue of our stock of Geeting patriotism ?—Iry's Magazine, oe he Made Him « Sinker, Fariner‘Joaes (to amateur bunter)— ‘Thora wasw't n better Water dawg liv- Mnf. tt? you shootin’ géhite took to bor. rowin’ "fm, Now ‘is ‘Ide’s tbat full of shots he'd sink’ to the’ bottom IIke a brick."—London Bystadder. The Mea “You should try to be a little less augertive, my dear. Remember, ‘the meek shalt inherit the Sect #e 5 SOR, yea; Tidarp say Yhey’ will—when the otfiets have done Jwith {t!"—Lon- ov Opinion. ete Joys are not the propesty of the rich alone.—Horace: oe Fluency of Speech, ‘The common fluency, of ‘speech tn many men and most women Is owing to'R scarcity of matter-and a scarcity of words,’ for whoever ‘is a master‘ at langinge and hath a mind full of ideas wil}, be apt tn speaking to hesitate up- on the choice of both, whereas: com- mov speakers bye only otie set of Ideas and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always’ ready at the mouth, so people come faster out of chureb when ft Is almost empty than when a crowd Is tthe door.— Dean Swift. Exemplified, *. Georgie—Auntic, what does trong menn? Auntie—lt means to say one thing and mean the opposite, Ike call- ing-a ralny day a fine day. Georgio— U think 1 understand you, auntie. Wouldn't this, be Irony: (Auntie. 1 don't waut @-nico big. plece of cake?” Git Gace < "Grabbit has given. up bank. clorking to tad & posttjod As 'n chaductory 3p the electric ears.” py Bus that’s,ao edd change." ‘Oddyehai ! Bits Vnot.to. ve a oer 6 Letevery bird ‘ging/its own uote,— Daniéh Pave a pe ‘ a Advgnegd, Arithmetic. | Xenneth’ isthe “name of a god na: tured Washington" lad who ts as ‘stu. Aidhs as any of his companions, but he Is young yet and bas not udvanced very farin the:gendes of the public schools, ‘The other.evening he was vis {ting 2 boy friend who has iald’ his plaus for serving tp Uncle Sam's army in the future and‘contemplates gradu. ating from West Point some day. ‘The two were talking ubout mathematics When # young lady sought to test Ken aeth’s knowledge of ‘rithmetic. “It lemons are 28 cents u dozen,” she asked him, “how much are cast fron lamp posts apiece?” . i With « perfectly. serious expression on bis faco Kenngth replied: “I\don't know, mies, 1 haven't got that\far in ‘rithmetic yet."— Washing. ton Star; J One Way ts Judas, - “Do you know.” said the head walter at a fasifouable restaurant, “that an experienced walter can usually tell whether a,diner 1s wealthy or not by tho way Ho handles his meal check? It a wan carelessly pitches out his money for the walter to pay the’ bill without I6oking over his check we know the chances aro that he Isn't wealthy. /He Is indulging to a luxury and fears he might be ridiculed if he examined ‘tho check. On the other hand, the wan who bas plenty of money ex- jamines bis check closely, a8 n rule. If ES finds an ‘tem which he thinks Is wrong he tells the walter about it. It was probably Just such care as that tha* made him rich. Is ho laughed at? Well, I guess not. In fact, the wait. ere admire hin for hig carcfulness, and the result Is they are doubly particular about how ho-ts charged."—-New York Press. Shakespéearé and Hie Plave. }, The Shakespeare-Bacon controversy Js right where {t bogan many years ago. ‘The man from Stratford ts atill In possession, though thore aro Phuty Jeatned men who sériously question hie tights. Tt bas aot been proved that Bacon wrote the plays or that Shake- ‘speare did not write them. One thing the controversy has done. however—"t bas immetsutably helghtened the mye ‘tery of the fact, If It In a fact, that the plays wero written by the historicn! Shakespeare, Between the Shakexpenre we know In history and the man who wrote "Lent," "Hamlet and "Mae. beth” there would soem fo be an un: bridged distance—New York Amer- can. | Wnerai Heats Htis:onfare “My ttlend Sinks says he can't cateh up with his orders." “Ia he a manafaetarer?* “ “Ob, no; Justa minrried man with five grown dnughters,"—J.oulsville Cou- Her-Journal. Re “ ee PM men Sa LE Vie no aie e Lae) Seger oa! S, BRere ey Me aE ies xO RRR s hi pe age A Ug po i & Wee ® Pes YY tf NR ee ~ f aa: WY 7, oe a, Ute ton fp gy, oe! Mia pets yy ON i Re A ted a’ ae ae RM Eas Mice i foe, -. | Rn oy Bi POOR uf ON arr. he ae ty B sei NN Ren aie er tS ia ont 2 sez aa in 11 ee eid: ss 7 ED. a neascabae 3 Be aig iN a Re se t Ne ae ee} Pee", 1 ON yo ee VLG SNCs i Sk) MON FO SOR EE NTR 4 a ie x) 1 NN Rg CHE : aa Ys. 2S A a. 7) as ef i i We ; copyright 1907 NY | i & Wallon Facets ss ft Ss * ADMIRAL DEWEY AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY. Vow of the world's famous men bave growy old more gracefolly than Admiral Gorge Dewey, who at threescore aud ten is still, ae, Mack ‘Cwaln would say, “only seventy years young.” Quite ns hale «ind. snore vigorous than the average man tn the prime of Ife, the admiral Is AD .exainple in t.cfe headiong, bolt-your-brenkfast times of what It menne. to keop cool. One sentence he uttered on a May day morning in Manila fay iis his nature—"You may fire when ready, Gridley." The adiirat doast't romnens- ber ever laying been. nerrous,untess possibly It was Dec, 2h 1887, qwtien ho was slightly disappointed nt having artived in this bustitag gtd werd too late for the Christmas festivitios, = VHS BARERWBIGHT. 5 ‘Travels of 5 NOE EE Win and Its “a. Ultimate Bato." A> banerwelgit'Soneleting of a plece cartel glia With atékay wine label fastened on” thd “buck aud showing thedvigh Is ti patt of the desk furniture {0 the tlbrary..of'a man who goes. to Europe ncarly every. yeir. . “People Jook at the thing," bo saldy:*and Won: der what the wind lnbpl is doing there, and when I see: the-questtin coming’t (alwaya' tell the dtory: ‘ “Some Fears ago I went to’ Raab, td Hungary, where 1 ealled on an ld lady who’ In Vienna years ‘before .bad shown much tatorest in and befriend. ed a young Atertean’ student -at the unlversity. ‘The. poor student: bad grown to be arch phyéiclan, and .he wanted me to call and pregent his compliments. - When I’ waié about’ to ‘leave afte? a pleasint yisit the wo: man banded tie a bottle of wine which had como from ‘ler estate and ‘asked me to take st to out mutual friend. 1 carted that bottle all over Hurope. paid duty ou it several times and Bnal: ly landed {t safe aiid sound bere in the house. -A fow days after. my return we Invited the'doctor for dinner, and the bottle was brought In with much ceremony, I made a little presenta: ‘tlon speech and tien'in handing it te the doétor dropped it on the floor “where you see tbat staln, ‘That's the label under the glass.” — New York eae HORSE AND DOG. es Contact With Civilization " Lossens Their Cunning and Sagacity. ‘The dog is no doubt the most fntelll- gent of our domestic unjmals, apd I yield’ to vione fi’my affection for him. I can ylmost eat and sleep with a tine dog winter andsummer. But I try not ‘to deceive myself about his Intelll- gence. [t’seems to.me phat if the dog ‘had the feast spark of Wit akin to our own—that {s,, power of , reason—his long association with man would have fanned It Into a flame, however small. But after all’ these - thousands ‘of years of human’ companionship: and love he has less wit Ih some en than bis wild brothers, the fof and the wolf. Having been spared (he struggle to live that falls to their tot, his cynning and sagaeity have deterto: rated. ‘The same is true of the horse, which has less intelligence than, the wild stallion of the plains and tor the same reason. . ‘These anfinals do not grow wiser ag they grow less Wild. They do not elvi- lize. or develop. We train them tuto certain wayg that make them service. able fu Fe burmantia shen welt caddtug to theft Trhental’ Gdpacity, Di other words, we cannot cross our in- telligence spe theirs: aud. make it teiyitfar In? them. he” gérnp will 90 take.~Johi Burroughs i Oating Mig’ zing, : ae lee in te Cie et see ‘The ne the ae ang the girl! How seldgm we flatl thbin together'"s. “Baht "The cotnbination that we sel: dom find together is the man, the shower atid ‘the, umbrella.’+Loutgvilld C_acbicce’t Tae ee ae er RRA eG rae esene ye Sie La Ape esl ° , Here Shee i ys Ce on tee Le SEWN. 8 Ryle eenh. er igbee ss SAR ok celles | eater: Sunsiase hk 5 ¢ Ga Fa : we a Veen oa teh V ey ad A i ee Re gece > flies, See Ry % oer | emma Te NS eee ie ace meer EC : leer Gabrararaie tere ae PCC MheC dace am Pee enact cele oe , aaa CLL SY cee ee as AB cM RS el cn, eS a inl eS LEE OD a a I (clas gr ee ue ee aS ee ee 8 ar ee Ee E ata a CHICAGD:. COLISEUM, WHERE THE BEPUBLICAN CONVENTION WILL BE ‘HELD. MAMEDIATBLY atten the Republican*gational committee had decided to hoid the convention in Chicago archi- I tects were puke walk to remoiel the Jnterfor of the/big Coliscums. Tt In intended to increase the seating ca. pacity .to 16: provide suet’ othey Inprovements ‘arid’ accommodations as are considered tesessary for 80 large 8 gathering.’ “ChItAgo. Ichds all the others as a favored convention city. ‘The convention of June 10 wil be too eleventh gathering of the Kind: held’ thére. * Lincoln’ was nominated there’ In 180, McClellan tn-1804, Grant in 808, Garfield ip 1880, Cleytiana and Blaine in 1884, Harrison in 1888, Cleveland in 1892, Bryan in 1696 and Roosevelt in 1904. te A ope BOS «| DRIVER ANTS. “== KING HEROD’S ROOSTER. |. RIVER OF-SALT WATER |. 2 -——-- the Noble@Ataiy lof Mactyrs.“u4- the Noble Atmny ‘of Mactyrs.7,/ Ever since inst Christina eve the cock bas growed "nll ufght long on the anniversary to keep away evjl spirits, for the cock.ts a holy bird and a knowing oné.t Phere is a pleasaiit tale of him und: St. Stephen, the tirst martyr, whose day.f: Dee. 26, close by his dear’ Lordiag, St Stepkea gs Icing Heroa’s stew: ard, it seemsy Who. served him in, the kitchen and ‘at tqble,’ One night ag he was Dylagifiy i Oe Boag's head for his pastor's dhe uagaaw the ste. tf tng over Betti oust Inmediatély ‘he et-down the ,fuge ‘platter ‘and -ex- einimed: ae ‘ “No longer, Herd, will 1 be thy’ serv: ant, fora greatoy’ Klug than thou 1s Born.” _ “Waat alleth ‘thee?” cried the king wrathfully, “Do:.you luck meat’ of drink that you would desert my serv: fee for another's?” < “Nay,” answered: Stephen; “I lack neither mext nor drink, but ‘the Child that Js sore ene ut is greater than nil of us, ead Blip aly sll1 serve. “Phat 8' as" ¢rhie“MAWoth Herod, smit. ing the tuble with hfs fist, “4s that this roast ie Ye Platter shall erow be toge ud." 23 fy | Mardiy Wile Ns: words out of tits [mouth when, the, cock stretched his ec. a tpt, mnt pa tus “ot th jot ‘thal, Stephen's worda were true Herod was so angry tha} i Made, pls soldiers take Stephen oupbiagthe Malls of Jerusalem and stage dh itagfenth. And this ts the Tago Hfivhiy Bo this dag, St. Stephen t8/4ho% of stonecutters—Abbie Haeeeh No in Lippineott’s Maga- zine, % ae a ee eet RIVER OF .SALT WATER. Flows Inland In a Greek Island and . ‘Than Disappears, One of the most. cuirlotis phénomena of, geography {ts fovnd on the southern oust of the island of Cephalonia, near Gkeece. It fs a stream of salt: water whieh for an unknown period has left the almost tideless set’ sind flowed in- Yapd with considerable volume. The sea enters ,fhe land at four polnts where the coast is practically on @ ‘level with the éalt water surface, {fhe four initial streams unite to form the little river Yhat tows inland in a Broken rocky channel until it finally ‘disappears in the lmestone rock and Sinks Into the earth. > Ybis inland flow bas continued al- most certainly for several centuries It'tg fav too great for remayval by evap. orition, chemica) combination or even physical absorption by pores or cav- erns in the rocks. What becomes of the water that {fs constantly flowing Inland and disappeats finally in the Gasures that have opened in the lime- stone? The question has been the subject of en wtudy, but no conclusive answer fies been given. It 4s probable that berets un underground’channel which ‘(Barrlés the’ water back Into the sea at pe great depth below the surface. The ‘constant thfux of walt water at Cepba. fonia 1s duplicated au far as ts known it no’ other point. of the world.—New Work Sun. SPORTS, » AND, THE. SPHERE, pits ei bab soe pTha Bisby Pursuipiin dg Grains di ? to Drive» Ball, “Some day there will urise aepatient {investigator who, will work out, {bis Problem, Why, are ciosf sports but the Furlants of one object, the propulsion fot a sphere? i Biillards, baseball, polo, golf, pling- ‘tpg, marbles, squash, handball,’ toot- jball, rackets, cricket, hockey, bagatelle, ‘teols, shooting, pelota—the basic pur- uit in each is to drive a ball, the pro- pulsion of a sphere. Tipeat, shuttlecock and top spinning are the employment of modifications of the sphere, and archery is but another method of propulsion. It {8 a strange limitation of form, and there must be a reason. Those who delve into origins may ascribe the whole motive of sports to some Jong armed, hirsute ancestor who first threw a pebble at a feltow cave dwell- er and found it great fan. € Or it may be poor mortal’s ad&tempt to get In a sual fashien into the tre- mendovs scheme of the universe, which is the everlasting movement of the spheres. Or ft maz de that sports are framed in inevitable obedience to some frresistible law of Aature. At any rate the fac. is sportd are based on the propulsion ef the sphete, and soine one ought to tod a reason therefor._New York American, GOVERNMENT ANIMALS. eS Ne eee ee ee ee Army Regulations, Whenever you see the letters "0. 8.” branded on the left fore. shoulder of au anini, take up your wind at once that that beast! 1s or was at one lime the property of our rich old Un ete Sam, ‘Then again if you knew the key to the systein of branding utilized by the quarterwaster's department, — United States arms, you would in a moment be uble to Nal the organization of the acuy to which that anitial was as- figued tminediately after purebase by the government. Branding public animals ts not a matter of cholce, but Is provided for jYy the army reghtations, which direct Unt “Public animals shall vpoa the day received be branded with the letters °U. 8 on the left fore shonider. Horses ausigned (0 organizatlond will ai80 be branded on the hoof of one Core foot one and oue-half inches below the coronet with the dealgiktion of the ompany. Branding irous of uniform size and dcalgn with b& supplied by the quartermaster'a departinent, let lors “Ul. 82 to be two inched 16 height. letters and numbers of hoot brands |on the same line to be three-fourths of an Inch high, the letter to precede the oumber an blocked £6 a8 to pene- trate the hoof onesixteently of an tuch For example, the hoot brands on horses axsigned to band, Ninth cavalry, would he C9; to'Troop A, Kitth cay Hairy, would Se AS; to Company A, bat (tation of engineers. would be BEA." Cinetonatl Kaquirer. fronting 3" fi SD Eee Pa RA ee i} aa ee Pai Sa i { Hs if ae Dae ie lt fae Ih Pi ; ha AL TBRE pa ) ! li f E iP Ad SS GETEE Ul gas tn ir eye ae aes ON (Ea Se oe nn 2 oe Ch a aa es if Ee Wage i = eee ee Og ire we ee ee Wo ee sa Nhe a Bk ie Peas Pa Be faa ee 7 | pp ral Te 11 ee a | ite YT ay ep a nn) | gas | | eg ae as Ai il ‘ ee - ‘ RS 1 ee wx 7 ENS | oe eres Ne" Ry TG ae ay THE PRESIDENT'’S GOODBY TO REAR ADMIRAL EVANS, | * When the fect was about to sail for the,Peciic and. Rear Admin vei, was taking his leave of Preatdent Roosevelt on board the yacht M ner Mr. Roowevelt called the reat admiral aside, aud they converted eaten Rae: five unlnutes. ‘Thore wo, stood near wore tuable to bear what ithe tiie: president or the commanddt of tho fect sald, hut ear Adruteal Evaih AOaMie very closely to Mr. Roosevelt and frequently nodded assent. The DROwMMGR from which this pictoré was made was taken at the momont Whe $i didit shook hands with Ryans, No one except Mr. Roosevelt idl” Halt miral Beans knows what paased between them In that last five A ite oe a veraution, but It may prote to have beon of worldwide importance 4, tho. bistory of the next few, months {4 written, LES AOR a DRIVER ‘ANTS. he Way These, Ferocious Little In- sects Daty.the Frochets, There are. ceftei.uuts that show wonderful Intelligence, and the “driver Ets” not only Jud. boats, but iauues them (00. Ofily. these bouts ure turmed of their own boatys. , ‘They are ciled “drivers because of thelr ferocity. Nothing cap staud be fore the atiacks of these Ittte crea: tures: Large: pyttions have becn killed by them in w sibgle‘ntght, white enrex. cus, Lizards and other untuinls in west: UD Alrien feo ‘from them 10 terror ‘Yo protect themselves. from ther,next they erect arches, mder which aumer ous armies of them pass tv surety. Sowmptimes the-aret is made otras and efirth ‘und ts'gumoed togethec by sumie secretion, and aguin st 18.rormed by the bodies’ot- the larger wuts, wien hold themselves ‘together by thel strong nippers.whlle the workers pass ander them. ® é At certain thes of the yenr freshets overfow:the couutry tuhubited by the “deivers," und tis then thar these anit fo to vea. ‘The rulo comes sudaenly, und the wally.of their bouses . are prokeu 1m by thé ’tiood; but, Instene at colning to’ the stirface in xeattered nue Gredy: aud Belug! Wont off: to. destruc Lon, (out ‘of ithe fue rises “a Diack batt that ridey'sofely on the water and rites’ aways wo hs At the? tliat Werning of Anngerstne ete cred tires £00" tugetner and rors 8 wolld body of kot, the weaker: su: the center. Often (ig bell IN larger thai common cetoked billy aud. 40,08 Wa} icy “oats Wiboue” well. “they. 10axe Ratt mdmecatio) upton! tha dscauebes vf whlch they’ are #odu sufe wod.souud —Leursun's' Weekty,” + The Way pf New. York. In. Now York, you, bay your. theater tickets from, a spgguiator for two prices, and after the show you brlbe 4 waiter to bring you food for, which You pay the jolly iunkeeper two and one-half prices, after which you may be hauled home by a rheumatic horse it you flay the driver once for hauling you home ,and once for not getting own trom‘his perch end booting you Gat OF the hanenas Lnstaville Comclek. cage Rae ae ey “Caves of the’ sink an Told, tip) i" ‘Old Darky Biriveso FN ee ee) ari weeh) Sen aes hg old darcy wal sing Une malin comipatiy for! dauiages.., Tbe mais eany torided that, not belng warned by whigi ‘ie’ oF ettging Gall: he had at sta drive fe rig. across the. comphi yi track when a eee Dex_eat, of anit retipat crashed {ito.bis outtt, cai ing, the death pf! the horse, loss of the} Wagon aya” minor: Injures to hiawelb After *the- prosevutiou bad closed 3th aldé: pf the tase-'the company's la w¥er called the old ‘darky to the stand’ and) went at him. EE “Me, Lamson.” be began, “your ‘tig was struck by the'bog-car in full days, Ught, wax ttindt?? 2 “1 Bk dar-was yome clouds orahemtt, sub,” aiswered th® cayiting witness. “Nevee miod the clotids! Aud only. 8 few days ‘before this uceldunt ‘thé \railroad compauy bed put dew, ‘eign: ut that erisuing’?* WR) “Dan was a-sigadarsizans, abi", “And. @ido't. that sigu wey: tStipy Look! Listen?” ON ee “Now, dar am de whole’ nceti ub de trouble!” deciared the dir with animation. “If dat ‘stopt badn't caught dis cbile’s. eye fare Ab war square on dat track, dav would b’t'a’ been no sutashup!”—Bohemiainy ———— ap THE DEADLY UNDERTOW. EERE nb eee ge eo eee oe en eee Treacherous Currente. Us : ‘Those deadty ‘undertows: whicl “bo often prove fatal to Rwimmers are pro- duced by tides.and const currents, .'The® former only carry out at ebb tide; ‘the latter usually zigeag along the shore. <“If Jou are a roburt swimmer,” waid, & professor of the rrt, “you ean gene. erally overcome sm by quick,’ alert: strokes.’ If, hoy ever, you da’, not ap: ance ‘succ=2 don't persevere, (for: thi Js:one of the exceptions to the :eule, about perseverance, » Step fighting ber fore‘exhaustion comes and go; witb. the de or current, By resting» abort Ume, floating or swimming lelsurely, you will _have time to take your bear ings and°elther make another attempt or call for assistance, nye “Sometimes you will find the :undery tow runs parallel to the shore, ‘tne may then let yourself be earrled along with the certainty that before:long if will twist {nsiiére, when a short épurt will bring you to safety."—Cansell'a Journal. ‘i —+>—- ; Pr a ee ' A sort of oplun ig obtained ftom the common lettuce. "tie scene La it? fa tong name. tiled no doubt Aneeua? something very Yeurned and profeiutidy ‘and declare’ that they and hope : differences between the opium of the lettuce and* the oplum of the:popay.. Dut:tor all: prnctient purpose ties ome 18 Identical ,with the other. Mangia, inan’ who basionten lettuce knows bod Sleepy itcauses iui to bevome wf ok 80 after dtiiier, ‘nnd the dak deftuce: the-greater ‘tho! eleepinens.\ in) mature lettuce the milk snjee Ja. Agveloped‘and all the’ properties of the oplum are present.— London News... es No Place to'Die. 9°‘) szay) The soldier of the feglon lay: ayingith , Algiers." , se OEY A‘chinmitlee-of citizens who “wlink? ed ‘to boom Algiers as a héalth ‘tesort: waited upon bim, oe “We want you to change jour Neat quarters," announced they. “Soitts’ Larting | business here." — Pitts ‘Post. vee aR Bike os Si illal PNK Ti itd wit 2 Sig Cay NARA enh hl BE BR ie toga on. \ ote gia, fete a pee 0 TR ey oi ee ie ae opel anh pan aM hea ialeer ag) dip. ak W ; e oe e | West Virginia Colored Institute ; INSTITUTE, : : : : oa WEST VA. rs The only Industrial Institute for , | : colored Students in the State. | » Regular Norma), Academic and Com-_ mercia) Courses, also Regular Courses in Agriculture, Carpentery and House Build | ing, Steam Fitting, Smithing,Cabinet Mak- | } ing, Painting and Glazing, Dressmaking, | Laundrying, Printing. A Gomplete 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 facultv of | Twenty-two Teachers Board only Eight | Dollars per Month, ) For catlogue and other information address | J. McHENRY JONES, A. M. Pres ident. | Institute, West Virginia .§ ' Charles W. Dillon Declines To Enter the Race for the - Gubernatorial Nomination t BAUER MEAT 3 AND 30 CAPITOL ST. ranean Beef, Veal. Mutton, Pork, — Fresh Pork Sausage - and Weiner Our Own Make Try our machine sliced Hams and Bacon OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY The Best Qualities in all the popular kinds of Cheese We want your. patronage, for we have complete stock in our / lines and you can get it when you prant it most. Co , Wheeling, Jan. 1. don, Charles W. Dillon will not de a candidate for the republican nomination for governor, While in this city he gave put an interview stating his position in the matter. concerning which the Yntelligencer says x. y¥ Among the distinguished arrival: Bt the MeLure last night was thc Hon. C. W. Dillon, of Fayette coun- ty, the former state tax commissioner Mr. Dillon has of late figured rather prominently in the public eye, as a possible republican candidate for the governorship. He has been strong- ly importuned upon all sides to en- (er the race by hig friends, who ve- lieve he would make a strong candt date, To an. Intelligencer reportep last evening at the McLure. however Mr, Dillon stated: “I have after, eare- ful cousideration decided not ‘ty be- come a candidate’ for governor." am very appreciative of the loyalty ‘shown me by my friends and take ‘the pleasure of extending, throug! the Intelligencer, my thanks for th« many offers of support received, and which comes from very — generally over the state. . However, | realize ‘that to make the fight for the nomi ‘nation aud election would put me tc a very severe test and place me Iz a position whieh just now would b embarrassing. During the last year I have entered rather prominentiy into business, and made a number of engagements which to enter the race for governor would compel me to neglect and to give them the at tention their importance demands would leave nie little or no time for the gubernatorial’ fight. In consid eration of this and various private reasons | have determined not to b a candidate.” While Mr. Dillon states ne would under no®conditions’ now enter the race as a candidate for governor, he is a candidate for delegate at large from West Virginia ‘to the nationa republican convention. He hopes tha his friends who urged him to become a candidate for governor will 3 equally as cordial In their support of his candidaey as a delegate to the national convention, Mr. Dillion is in the city on his way to New Martinsville, where he will attend the session of the Stalc Bar association today. On the eom- pletion of the sessions of that or. ganization he will return to Wheeling and meet a number of local friends. Last evening Mr, Dillon was very busy and unfortunately was unable to meet all that called upon him. Among the other prominent ar. rivals at the McLure was Emmett W, Showaltef. of Fairmont, assistant U, S. district attorney. who is going to New Martinsville today, as is also the Hon, Elliott Northcott, of Hunts ington. Mr. Northcott last evening could not be seen. fe has been fn the east and has heen very active, and is understood to be a strong Swisher man. + That Was Dropped by Ik Banking Company's Messenger—Amount Said to Be #1,000, in Twenties. ‘The Elk Banking Company has se- ured no trace of the money that was lost. by Johnson Swinburn, the messenger, last Friday, while driv- ing from the bank to one of the banks on Capitol street. Although detectives have been placed at work in an effort to locate the missing checks and money, there is no devel- opment as yet. Although the bank- ing company does not state what the loss is, It is sald that the package lost contained fifty 920 erisp certifi. cates and cancelled checks amount ing 10 $1,500 SUICIDE ATTEMPTED. Or So Alleged, But No Particulars Could Be Learned. Some place im the efty there ix sald to have been an attempted suicide. It was reported on the streets this morning that a you girl by the name of Britton had A tempted to take her life by swallow- lowing carbolic acid. Physicans were summoned and it was later sald that the girl would recover. It is claimed the girl 9s employed at one of the hotels in the city but if sbe was at the hotel (oday, tha mangers would not reveal the tact. THE ADY * For theiGagnibal Feasts. Mrs. I MeDuidp of Auckland, New ae aa the Maori women “The Maork woiggn can keop at will She has practice@ the art, which lia: formed au importapt part of her téaln. Ing. She weeps'go ceuuluely and x copiously: ax ta aielt the heart of a sywpathiaing yitness. ‘The Maoris Uold ‘tuagis,” de weeping Rarties, te thourn thelr doad,.gnid in these gather. Ings the Wore play a conspicuous part. While weeping they utter a low, mournful cry, whe has a very weird effect when pry by a number of Toices.” The’ montreal tn grade with their bene martialts covered, giv: tug forth thelr idtouous walling and shedding coptous: tears: “The Maorl Wotan of past ages ab most excelled hef Jord in shvagery. On the return of a triyinphant war party they usually brought home a number of prisoners and “slaves. It was the privilege of the.women of the tribe to fall upon thege, alguzhtering them in preparation" ‘for géhe cannibal feast which followed, {tue women vore the painful ceremony ef the tattoo wituvut shrinking. Spiral ‘Marks were cut Into the flesh of thelé obins. lips and faces; a soot mado by a pecullar method was rubbed into the wounds, causing an in- delible blue-black stain. “The Maoris,oven in their former state, treated thelr women with a cer- tain amount of ‘consideration, although the lot of the sfemale slave was very. hard and ofteh ended in her being served up as/a,dalnty dish to appease the appetite of her voracious lord, who would Eick ae the baskets of vege- table food presttated to him by his wives as a signal that he required the tender fiesh of<a slaye girl.” THE SIX-HUNDRED. Incidents of That Mad Ride te ‘Death at Balaklava. mo Of that mad but heroic charge a bun- dred incidents are preserved—thrilling, humorous, shocking. ‘The Cornhill Magazine tells‘ofia-man of the Seven- teenth lancers who Was heard to shout, just as they raped fu upon the guns, ® quotation from Shakespeare, “Who is there here would ask inore men from England?” : ‘The regimental butehcr of the Seven- teenth lancers was engaged In billing a sheep when he heard the trumpets sound for the charge. He leaped on a horse. In shirt sleeves, with bare arms and pipe In mouth, be rode through the whole charge, slew, it is said, six men with his qwn -band/eand came -back ‘again, pipe still im faouth! —~ A private of the Eleventh was under ‘arrest for drunkenness when the charge began, but “broke: dat, followed” ‘hia troop on a spare horse, picked up a eworl as-he ‘rod’ wid shared in ‘the rapture and: pétils ofthe charge: ‘The charge lasted twenty chinates, and-was ever before such’ OF such suffers Ing packed Into a oo so brief? The squadrong, rode: into. fig’ Aght number- Ing, 678 ‘horsemen, ‘Bul'their: inounted strength when the fig@t was over sas exactly" 195. hii t It'was aff a binndety but it evoked a hervism which made the blunder itself magnificent. And as-Yong as brave dceds ‘can thrill the” imagination of men the story will be-remembered of howe Sct tae cod Stormed at with sbot'and shell, Polly they rode and well Into, the Jaws of Goath, into fhe mouth of hell— t ‘Héble aix honaraat c He Was Too Hasty. A prominent automobilist condemned scorehing at a dinner.” “I condemn,” he said, *seorching and thé scorcher, but I dén't condemn the corcher unheard. 1 don't condemn the accused man hastily. Hasty con- demnation fs always a mistake. Once on a Cavadian railway-'E got off the train, for a five minute Iuneheon at a railway eating bar, ‘Thére was a man beside me gobbling awaiy,and when be Gnished I heard him’ gay,/bitterly, as he took ont his purser.” (57 > “Call that a hameandwigh? It's the worst bam sandwich) Yoever gte. No more taste than Bawdust and so small you could hardly see it’ ““Ye've et yer tickof,’ #ald the walt er. ‘This here's yer ham sandwich.” Philadelphia Butlctin: ——$f-s Bnake Myths. Snakes have ro medicinal qualities and the following popiilar notions are myths hat galis of snakes are an antidote for snake bites; that their ofl 18 good for rheumatism, baldness and deafness; that wearing their skins will cure rheumatism or @tiffness; that a snake heart, oll or blood fs good tor consumption or other ‘fils; that snake flesh should be eaten for blood disor. ders; that a kecond bite of the snake In the same place will ere’ of counter. act the first bite; that rattlers of snakes are charms. 4 The Modern Reathéseness, Like the Athenians of old, most peo- ple are vainty searching tor some new thing. only to look upon St when they find It With susnicior. Of the vast majority it is as true today as it was first written- ‘They eat, they drink, they aleep, they ‘Thay 'R to church owABundny, And many are afraid-ot God, And more of rs. Grusdy: —London Ladies’ ¥ield. * Gidtina Oran Calenitition, “T naved 8000 this yeaesby moving.” “Cheaper house?” . “No; I found that my wife was try- tng (6 outdress a rich woman in the same block.” No man can produce great things rho {8 not thoroughly eincere In deal- ng with bimscit.—Lowell Mrs, Annie Byrd; has, recovered rom a recent Wnevs, oe ‘TOLO-HIS WIFE ABOUT IT: ee Ser ae 0@ Be) 26 Caress. mae a. | eins @ AS BLL Le Oat . ‘ . PRB sosriie or our be gaan Biro r fh) wy eB sari se eer SEP has 2 De BR fb Mbt Ovrany cxser tamumacurer ordesitrinthegore Cg Ate PNA. G0 Nor eur a Brayvoi: 4 ne ae i f & ta AN Ve i ry shee ult ge ave, raced uit EOD] SEM coe ae ute cter she ek one Bet, A , . Bad TN Stow proses il a cca et AS moe IMO" Wik sz esanccr raat, astcguisnars nanan Ronen i ppo " i} imate toe Sig atch eer, (J $8.60 PUNGTURE-PROOF TIRES 2" 2} oeat ‘ aE nies SS Where oer ee OO sammie Birr: iethpeibo : ‘ yo, Wilt Soft lk ) P for Only "| @ (caaH with anne es) ee q i NO MORE TROUBLE 19 PUNCTURES. . het ning. ‘Nodanuse fom THORNS, CAC AE Eke eal making. ger from. my : y — TUS PINS, NAILS: TACKS oe GIGASS Bytes dhs thick Mbes toga Socios puncttaes Hike himeation kalic chute oon gh neveipite sin Recta be vulcanized like any othektire. x AR, To prevent aie cuttiege Tite ‘Two Hundred Thousand pairs now in actual Se, Over make BOSE ELASTIO tod Seventy-live Thousand palrs seld test year, EASY RIDIN oe wPeeapnr nantly at atone eltne oe vely amd enny riding, very durable and lint lanide Without allowilg the ait to eacape. We Lave bundredeot ietkers frat acne Tee slate ‘that their tires haveonly Deeg, ™ br twice ina whole season, They weigh momorathan eu, ordinary tire, che unites being gives. by several Tagyre oft, peat eget th tent the aise Ree aire MNUEA Mam ae squcered out between the ce and the roed thus overcoming all auction, Theremclat nes ot thee Hes 1s $3.90 per pair, but for advertising purposes we wre making & special rice to the vider Sfonty $4b0 per bait, AU, ‘shipped nme day ietict Isrcedived, Westin GOD ps arora Youdo not a cont URN yu te Cearalned nd found thet waicy See hen Pe ¥Gvewill aflow a cush discount of § percent (thereby making the price Ga, Perini tt you nen TUL Cash Witu ORDER "and enclose ih ree We vil alae dead owe eel Binet c Closets to by ubed in Case of tntcutional kalfe cuts er heavy gates era perecuned SL OUN capense if for any reason they are not salisiactory os ciafsipats . ‘ rere periectiy reliable mad money peat fo us 9a eafe Zain m banks Ask ter, Banker, prosody freight Agua oF eRdtore Shs paper shout sa Ridraerk pet cl Re Gch Gis anemmen ti ceccneite be reg tien neste goo tint wen you rant Beceem will gles ao yeu onde” Wewaat Sat YES CoN eo Lane ee QOASTER- BRANES, ©! chrhls sediter, pada, ft tl palo, ant prices charged by dealers and repaif mea.” Write for our big GUNDICY catalogue . BO NOT WAIT Bis Scr pair ot tires foe covers oat Eee MEE end ‘wonderful ffera wo arc taking. Teonly costo a postal to eara every ing.” Wi NOW @ 6h 6 ” “ MEAD° CYCLE COMPANY, Dept. “JL” CHICAGO. ht, ' Sense of Hurter, ¢ | Baglisymen. are often accusedsot be- ‘(ng ugadle to grasp the ‘polnt. of ‘the American pun, and sotmetimes’ they may think thoy see-the point ofa joke wen perliaps they do not. An, Rag, Usbman named. Morley was. walking Along the sidewalk otie-day with an 'Awerican friend when the latter inad: vertentiy slipped and fell down. , “Ab, my deah ‘boy, I hopé gou ate vot burt! How did it happen?” ‘To whicb the friend replied!” “It bappéned notwithstanding.” They both Inughed over the pun, and Morley sald tt: was 20 good he was going to tell bis. wife abput it’ At dinner that evening he remarked that be had such a good joke on hig triagd Browa, aud by way of preliminary, leading up to the point, of his atory, be procreded to tell ail about who Brown--was, bis associations and busl- ‘ness ‘connections, Low he came to get acquainted with him, commercial re- ‘lations be bad bad with.tiz, ete. until be forgot about the story, but was re minded of it by the wife, who said im- patiently: 5 ¥ “But what about the story.2” “Ob, yes!” laughing Immoderately ax the recollection of “it struck , him. “Wby, you see, Brown and I were walking down tbe street together, and be slipped on a banana, peeljog and fell down, and when 1 aaked him bow It bappened be said, “xqverthelens” And be was sore-at her-all evening and declared she had“no sense of hu- mor because she said she dido't sce anytbing fuany to that.—Judge’s LI- ‘ieaee. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. ; , In Use Today. There'are no products of human skill on which a greater degree of care Is expended than the standards of weight and measure in use among the civi- lized nations of the globe, Two things in particular have to bp considered, uccuracy and durability. Nature docs not furnish auy single metal or min- eral which exactly answers the re- quirements for a standard of measure or weight, that shall be as pearly as possible unalterable. ‘The best substance yet ‘produced-tor this purpoge Is an alloy of 90 per cent of plattaum with 10 per cent of tridi um. This is called tridio platinum and Is the subgtance of which the metric Standards prepared ‘by the internation. al cominittee on. weights and. méasures 1s composed. It Is bard, 1g less atected by heat than. any ‘pure. metak (8 prac- tically nonoxidizable and can be finely engraved: “In fact, the: Hnes on the Standard meters are bardiy. visible: to the waked eye/ yet thes, are sinooth, sharp and accurate. § + If our cl¥ilization shonld éver be tost and relics of tt abauld be aigcovered’to some brighter age-in the remote future there Js vothing: that would ‘bear bigh- erteatimovy to ite character thpo there ‘statidard. measures of tridio platinum, for the protetilon and preservation of which theiscience of this Nay .has done its:very. best.—Sn Louis, epubtic? We have ‘now on sale a full line. : 1 Bae op Stich‘as you will like. Do not-fail to < atop by and be'‘satiafied’: GEM PHARMACY, | Cor: Washington and Dickinson Sts... Charlestentj WoVa. Home Phéne 1207. Belk 879. po “t An Obedient Patient, § An old doctor whose memory was be Bivving to fall-bim catied in to see A young man who was itl.’ Op “arriving at the home be found nis patient in bed with nothing the matter but 1 slight cold. After prescrthing the usual reinedies be said: 3% “Now, my dear sir, you must stay Yn bed till I come again.” 5 He went away und. fotgot al? about bis patient. The time flew py. One day the M. D. cate across the. young man’s mother Ip the street. ‘The #igh! of Mrs, Jones brought his patient to his mind, and, with a start, be said: “By the bye, bow ts your son getting ony” ae To bis amazement Mrs. dynes replied that be, was still in bed, obedient to the doctor's commands. 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A. = cy . - Btoret i& a Non-Scotarian, Christian Institution. « For Illustrated Catalogue send to’ - ws McDONALD, Pres. 2 The Art of Pickling Nuts, “The Chinese are the oly people in the wortd who know the art of pickling all kinds of puts,” sald a San Krunets~ ¢d man.” “You take, for Instance, the pickled, Chinese walnut ‘Thin jx the most delightful of wi the refsb fami ly. ‘The big -vot is pickled and has the Buest kind of flavor. . it ts rich, and ap order of thew costs $1. Then there Js the Chinese butternut. ‘This, too, 1s pickled and Is palate tickling ‘The Chivese are the only folk who can really make One out butter, In fict, the Chinese have more. accomplish: ments than the average American ever dreamed of.”—Nashville Tennessecan. Home, ~ | Home! How deep o spell that tittle word covtalos) It 18 the circle 10 whicb our purest, best affections move 4d consecrate themselves, the hive 16 which, ke the Ipdustrious bee, youth garners the sweets and twemorics of Ute tor age to meditate aod teed upon! 11 18 childhood’s tempie and maa- bood's sbrine—the ark of the past and the futvre.—Ubiand. . YOUR SAVINGS : , SHOULD NOT BE IDLE. oo ue “5 a whit “e = —Deposit your dollars here and let: theth inetehge sy: by drawing interest at liberal rates. Beet sir Ba ag Fi Wiite or call or fll particulare MY.» + es . e Capital $250,000 - Surplus $150,000 ‘ 9% ' Banking x Trust Company — Charleston 9. West Virginia - . Lh pipes ot White and Black Lies. “What,” queried the young man, "Is the-wifference between white les and biack ies?" “White Mes." answered the Lowe grown pbilosopmer, “are the kind we tell. Black lies are the kind we bear.” ~Chicago News, a The Obligato, “F went to the upera last night” “What did you bear?” _ “That Mr. Browning ts going to get ® divorce, Mrs. Biggs has the dearest dog and new baby, and the Huttone are going to live in india.”—Harper’s Bazar, Mrs. Marie Mason, of Cincinnati, ig. visiting Mrs. Woodw