Savannah Tribune

Calling for Eighty Millions Presented in the Sehale. LODGE TALKS OF THE TREATY Declares that England, in New Hay Pauncefote Convention, Gives Us the Widest Decreation Anent the Waterway. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, introduced a bill in the senate Tuesday providing for the construction of the Nicaragua canal. It provides an aggregate of $180,000,000, of which $5,000,000 is made immediately available, and of which aggregate sum such amounts as are necessary are to be appropriated by congress from time to time. The control of the canal and of the canal belt is vested in a board of eight citizens of the United States in addition to the secretary of war, who is to be president. The members of the board are to be paid a salary of $8,000 a year each, and they are to be chosen regardless of political affiliation: There is a provision authorizing the establishment of a regiment from the regular army on the canal belt to properly guard it, and courts also are authorized conformable to the powers granted by the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. There also is a provision making three divisions of the canal during the construction and there is to be a chief engineer and two assistants on each division, the chief to receive a salary of $6,000, and the assistants $3,000. Lodge Advocates Treaty. After the senate went into executive session Tuesday Senator Hoar presented the report of the committee on the judiciary, recommending the confirmation of Attorney General Knox. He made a brief statement referring to the protests against confirmation as made by the anti-trust league, but said that after giving careful attention to the representations the committee had decided to recommend a confirmation. No opposition was voiced, but action on the nomination was postponed by common consent. The senate then, before taking up the isthmian canal treaty, proceeded to pass upon other nominations, of which there are an exceptionally large number before the senate. After a number of nominations had been confirmed, Senator Lodge called up the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and made a brief statement regarding that convention. The senate then adjourned in order to give the democratic caucus committee an opportunity to hold a meeting. Mr. Lodge contended that the new treaty does away with the objectionable feature of treaty of the last congress, and enumerated the particulars in which the revised agreement conformed to the action of the senate in the last congress, when the old treaty was before it. He analyzed the treaty from beginning to end, showing that in specific terms it abrogates the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850, which, he said, had stood constantly in the way of the construction of an Isthmian canal. The abrogation of this treaty, he contended, was a most important achievement, and he did not believe that the United States should or would lose an opportunity to make secure that concession. Senator Lodge also, called attention to the omission in paragraph 1, of article 3, of the words "in time of war as in time of peace." He said that in the old treaty the paragraph read, "The canal shall be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations on terms of entire equality," etc. He urged that the omission of this phrase had the effect practically of leaving the United States to do with the canal in time of war, according to its own good pleasure. Hackett Goes Out. President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Mr. Frank Hackett as assistant secretary to the navy. NEWS FROM MANILA. Terror Holders in Batangas and Thousands Flee to Placea of Safety. A Mahila special says: Thousands of people are leaving Batangas province for places of safety, owing to increased activity of rebels. The natives are stirred up by the closing of the ports and bitterly object to reconcentration. General James M. Bell reports an engagement between a force of insurgents at Labo, province of Camarines, and a detachment, of the Twentieth infantry. Three Americans were killed. The loss of the enemy is believed to have been heavy. The Savannah EDITORS GIVEN THEIR LIBERTY. Employees of Hearst's Chicago Ameri can, Given Their Liberty, Under Habeas Corpus Proceedings. At Chicago' Saturday Andrew M. lawrence, managing editor of Hearst's Chicago American, and H. S. Canfield, a reporter, who were sentenced recently by Judge Henecy to forty and thirty days respectively in the county jail for contempt of court, were discharged from custody by Judge Dunne. Judge Dunne admitted that the articles and cartoon which Judge Haneey objected to were clearly calculated to intimidate and coerce the court, had the court not already rendered its decision. Judge Dunne admitted that the cartoon in evidence was probably libelous and the articles probably so. Harsh criticism, Judge Dunne remarked, is one of the incidents and burdens of public life. "I see no reason," he said, "why a judge should be offered a different remedy for attacks in the public print than a president or a governor or a congressman. Criticism of a public official, if just, will do no good; if unjust, will do no harm." Following is Judge Haneey's comment on Judge Dunne's decision: "Judge Dunne had the power so to decide, but he did not have the right. Any judge has the power to let every prisoner out of the penitentiary, but they have not the right, nor does anybody expect that they will." The contempt case and the habeas corpus hearing which followed grew out of an effort made by The Chicago American to secure an order for the quo warrants proceedings to compel the People's Gas Light and Coke Company to show by what right they operated in Chicago. Judge Haney refused to allow the quo warrants proceedings, and following this refusal The American printed articles and a cartoon strongly intimating that the judge had been unduly influenced and that when he again came up for election he would discover that the people had no confidence in him. Judge Haney cited Lawrence and Canfield, with others of the paper, for contempt and found Lawrence and Canfield guilty. W. R. Hearst, owner of the paper, Clare Briggs and Homer Davenport, cartoonists, have not been within the jurisdiction of the court, and the contempt charge still pends against them. PECULIAR WRECK ON CENTRAL Cars Fall Through Culvert, Killing Two and Injuring Forty-Eleph. Two dead, one fatally injured, seven seriously injured, and about forty painfully so, is the sum total of a wreck on the Central of Georgja railway at the Southern railway culver, near Ocmulgee river bridge, in the city limits of Macon at 3:30 Sunday morning. The wreck was caused by a defective switch, a portion of the train going on one track and another part on a different track. Two negro women whose names cannot be learned are the dead. One was killed instantly, the other died shortly afterward. Another negro woman was fatally injured. About twenty-five members of the Walter Main circus were badly bruised and cut, but they were taken through on a special train sent out by the Central railroad to make their connections for the north. The members of the Berger Carnival Company were also slightly injured, but none of them so seriously as to cause them to stop here. The place where the wreck occurred is just on the Macon side of the Ocmulge river, where there is an embankment fully 25 feet high. Under this run the tracks of the Southern railway. The second-class coach, in which were the negro women, fell through this cutvert and onto the Southern tracks below. The front trucks of the other coach remained on the bank, but the other portion of the car was crushed into kindling wood. So small were the parts that the Southern track was cleared by men carrying away portions of the wreck in their arms. No engine was necessary to pull the wreck out of the way. The train was the regular passenger from Savannah, and was due to arrive in Macon at 3:45 o'clock. ANTI-CHINESE, BILL. JNTRODUCED. Measure to Keep Out Unwelcome "Pigtaill" before the rouse. Representative Kahn, who represents the San Francisco district, containing the Chinese quarters, in which some 30,000 Chinese reside, introduced a Chinese exclusion law in the house Friday. It defines strictly the status of those who by treaty have a right to enter the country, excluding all except Chinese, officials, teachers, students, merchants, travelers and returning laborers. In each of these, excepted cases a section is devoted to the rigid identification, and specification of the excluded parties. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1901. UNDER MARTIAL LAW STATE TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT Twenty-Five Negroes Incarcerated In Jail at Andalusia, Under Charge of Murder, Object of Mob's Wrath. A Montgomery, Ala., special says: Sherlf Bradshaw, of Covington county, Friday afternoon wired Governor Jelks that he had positive information that a mob from Opp would attack the jail at Andalusia for the purpose of lynching the twenty-five negroes implicated in the killing of the town marshal and a merchant at Opp. The sheriff asked that soldiers be sent to Andalusia without delay. Immediately upon receipt of this telegram the governor ordered the military company at Greenville to proceed by train to Andalusia, and arranged with the railroad company for a special. Captain Gamble, of the Greenville company, replied in twenty minutes that his company would leave for Andalusia at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. The distance from Greenville to Andalusia is about sixty miles. Military Were Sent. About 3 o'clock Friday afternoon Governor Jelks received a second message from Sheriff Bradshaw, stating that he had the situation in hand, and would not need the Greenville company, which had been under arms: Twenty minutes later he received another message from the sheriff that the mob was already formed at or near Opp, and would certainly attack the jail. The military were at once ordered to the scene. Under Martial Law. A special to The Montgomery Advertiser from Andalusia, Ala., says: "The governor sent troops tonight to aid Sheriff Bradshaw in protecting the negro rioters in jail here, and the town is now under martial law. The sheriff is fearing an attack at any moment by a mob from Opp, and is prepared to protect his prisoners at all hazards. "Three negroes, names unknown, were caught and killed by a posse of citizens near Opp Friday for alleged complication in the riot, and the whole country is in arms against the negroes." BABY BREAKS A WILL Novel Suit Is Decided In Fulton Superior Court In Atlanta. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says: The Alexander will contest came to an end Friday morning in the superior court with a victory for Mrs. Minnie B. Alexander, widow of the late W. H. Alexander, over which a legal fight has been waged, is now revoked by the verdict of the jury, and as a result Mrs. Alexander comes into possession of an estate valued at $45,000. The fact of the birth of a posthumous child to Mrs. Alexander during the present year broke the will, the law providing that the birth of a child subsequent to the making of a will, in which such an event is not contemplated, shall be a revocation of the will. WILSON DIED HARD. After Execution His Body Wriggled In Coffin and Eyes, Opened. Bud Wilson, a convict who killed R. H. Naylor, a guard of the Yell county convict camp, last September, was hanged Friday at Danville, Ark. The trap was spring at 9:45 o'clock and at 10:05 the body was lowered into a coffin. Before the lid was placed upon the coffin the body began moving about. Wilson opened his eyes and his whole frame shook with tremors. He was taken from the coffin by deputies and carried up the steps to the scaffold for the purpose of hanging him again. When the platform was reached the body became rigid, remaining so for a moment and then became limp. HOWARD'S FRIENDS·BALKED. Attempt Made to Rescue Gosel Suspect From Hands of Officers. Friends of Berry Howard, the mountain feud leader, made an attempt to rescue him as he was being taken to Frankfort, Ky., to answer an indictment charging him with complicity in the murder of William Goebel, for which he had been arrested by Sheriff Broughton and, his deputy, who got the drop on Howard and his body guard after luring them into Pineville. Quick action by the engineer of the train in pulling the throttle wide open, saved Broughton and his supporter. Tribune. SENATE PASSES DEPOT BILL. Upper House of Georgia Legislature Pages Important Measure With Only One Dissenting Vote. By the very decisive vote of 37 to 1 the Georgia senate, Tuesday morning, passed the bill just as it came from the house, with the additional amendment, which provides that the president of the senate and the speaker of the house be added to the commission under whose direction the depot is to be built. With exception of this minor amendment, which must go to the house for its ratification, the measure now lacks only the signature of Governor Candler. The depot bill was made the special order for the day in the senate, and as the public quite naturally expected some debate and perhaps a fight, quite a large crowd gathered in the galleries. But there were no arguments forthcoming and the measure was passed by the largest favorable aye and nay vote cast in the senate during the present session. Mr. Swift, of the Thirtieth district, cast the only nay vote. Slayer of Mrs. Rowland, at Macon, Ga., Behind the Bars. The murderer of Mrs. R. J. Rowland, at Macon, Ga., has at last been captured and is now safe behind the bars of the Bibb county jail. Since the horrible murder of Mrs. Rowland, which occurred last week, officers of the law have been constantly on the trail which led to the arrest of Arthur Price, a negro man, Tuesday afternoon, near Fort Valley. On the way to Macon, after much persuasion, Price made a clean confession of the crime. He resided near the Rowland place in South Macon, and was well acquainted with the Rowland family. A few days before the murder Price bargained to trade Walter Rowland a revolver. On the morning of the crime, he says, he went to the Rowland home to deliver the pistol to Mrs. Rowland's son. Mrs. Rowland was alone and when the negro approached with a pistol in hand, she became frightened and began to scream for help. Price says he tried to get Mrs. Rowland to be quiet, telling her he only wanted to deliver the pistol to her son. According to the negro's story, Mrs. Rowland continued to scream, and when she started to leave the house to alarm the neighbors, he struck her with his fist. This did not quiet her, and, fearing the neighbors would gather and lynch him, he took an ax and struck the helpless woman on the head. He admits that he struck her a second blow with the ax after she had fallen to the ground. Walter Rowland says there was a trade between himself and the negro about a pistol, and this partly confirms, in the minds of the officers, the story told by Price. FOUGHT DUEL IN CAR. Bloody Tragedy Enacted In 'Coach of a Southern Railway Train. In the aisle of the ladies' coach attached to a fast moving train of the Southern, and in the presence of women and children, horrified and frightened almost to death, James Pierce and Thomas Collins, with pocket knives, fought a duel to the death near Doraville Ga., Tuesday morning. Blood spurting from ugly, ghastly wounds darted from the arteries and veins, which had been severed by the kean blades, upon the clothing of the terrified women and children, as well as upon the men looking on, but powerless to stop the death struggle. Within a few moments Pierce was a corpse, while Collins was growing weaker each second by the loss of blood from a countless number of gashed about his head, face and neck. The two, men were brothers-in-law and had been unfriendly for a long time; and those who were cognizant of their dispositions were not surprised when the encounter became known. BELIEVE GIRL IS DEAD. Parents of Nellie Cropsey Abandon Hope that She is Alive. A dispatch from Elizabeth City, N. C., says: The family of Nellie Cropsey, who have heretofore clung to the belief that she is alive, are now of the opinion that she is dead, but do not state the basis for this change in their opinion. A member of a committee of five in search of the missing girl today said: We believe we will produce the body of Nellie Cropsey within twelve hours. WRIGHT-BILL VETOED Chief Executive of Georgia Differs With Legislators and Gives His Reasons In Characteristic Style. Friday Governor Candler, of Georgia, notified the house of representatives that he had declined to approve the Wright dispensary bill. He communicated his reasons to the house in a message, and in that message he characterized the bill as a delusion and a snare, which would not tend to prohibit, but would increase the sale of whisky. The following, in part, is what the governor said: While it purports to be in the interest of temperance and for the restriction of the sale and use of intoxicating liquors, it will, in my opinion, however good the intent, have precisely the opposite effect. It will open the floodgates in the dry counties and overwhelm them, and at the same time set back the cause of temperance in the state at least a generation. If the construction put on it by some able lawyers is the true construction, it is a delusion and a snare, not only damaging to the cause it purports to foster, but misleading in its language and its details. No matter how the election goes, whether for or against dispensary, the result is the same—the sale of liquors in the county, if not in dispensaries then in barrooms. This is the construction put upon the bill by some good lawyers. If it is the correct interpretation, the bill is unwise and unfair to the dry counties and ought not to become a law. If not, then the language is ambiguous, and it ought not to go on the statute book, because it would give rise to bickering and vexations and intermingle litigation. It is evident that it was drafted with special reference to the "wet" counties in the state, and without regard to those, more than ninety percent of the whole, in which liquors cannot be lawfully sold at all. Its effect would be to precipitate elections in all of the counties which have, under the local option law, prohibited the sale of liquor within their borders, in order to give the wet counties a chance to establish dispensaries; to lose those counties which have been saved in order to save those which have been lost; to damn the redeemed by an awkward device to redeem the damned. Instead of putting a quietua on the agitation of the liquor traffic it will inaugurate in almost if not quite every county in the state fierce contests over it. I have heard only three arguments in favor of the bill. One is that it will stop the agitation of the liquor question. This is not true. On the contrary, it will probably precipitate fierce contests over it in every county in the state within twelve months. Another is that it will stop the lilcit sale of liquor in the dry counties and provide for its lawful sale by responsible bonded officers who will not, as do the blind tigers, sell on the days forbidden by law, nor to minors and drunken men. There is some force in this argument, but not so much as those who advance it think. The other argument which has been advanced and chiefly relied on, is that it will be a great source of revenue to the counties and towns in which the dispensaries are located, and will in this way greatly reduce the burden of taxation. It is even claimed that already there has been found a county in which no taxes are imposed for county purposes, because the profits of its dispensary amply support the county government. Grant that this is true and that the dispensary in every county will pay all the expenses of the county and the people be wholly relieved of local taxes, can Georgia, a glorious state, glorious in her history, her traditions and the achievements of her illustrious sons, and peopleled by Christian people, afford to sanction a law making every county and town in the state proprietor of a liquor shop to debauch the morals of the youth of the country in order to escape the legitimate burden of local government? Can she afford to put upon her statute book a law to coin the tears and blood of the wives and children of weak men into dollars to fill the coffers of county and town treasuries, that their tax-payers may be relieved from taxation? I do not think she can, and for these reasons, and others not necessary to mealion. I am obliged in the conscientious discharge of moral duty to withhold my approval of this bill. Nicaragua Minister and Representative of United States Sign Important Treaty. A special from Managua, Nicaragua, via Galveston, says: Dr. Fernandon Sanchez, Nicaraguan minister of foreign affairs, and William L. Merry, United States minister to Nicaragua, Salvador and Costa Rica, signed a treaty Monday by which Nicaragua agrees to lease a section of Nicaraguan territory six miles wide, which includes the route of the Nicaragua canal, to the United States perpetually. A Washington dispatch says: Senator Lodge presented to the senate in executive session, Monday, the report of the committee on foreign relations recommending favorable action upon the Hay-Pauncefote Isthmian canal treaty, and gave notice that he would ask the senate to go into executive session Tuesday for the consideration of the treaty, repeating the request each day until the senate should act upon it. Trolley Kills Man and Is Ditched—Re- lief Car Sent, Repeats the Hherror. A peculiar and remarkable double tragedy occurred Monday night on the East Point line of the Atlanta, Ga., Railway and Power Company. A farmer, W. J. Smith, was killed between East Point and Fort McPherson about 6:30 o'clock, and the car that was sent out to relieve the car that killed him, killed a second man whose name could not be learned, and his horse on the return trip to Atlanta. The first man killed was W. J. Smith, of Palmetto, a well-to-do farmer. He transacted some business in Atlanta and started back home on foot. He was about fifty years of age and leaves a wife and children. The car cut his body half in two and then jumped the track and plowed through the earth for nearly one hundred yards. Smith was killed instantly, hardly knowing what struck him. The passengers in the car were greatly frig-tened and shaken up. The accident occurred between East Point and Fort McPherson. Smith was walking along the car track, probably having left the road to avoid the damp chert. He was not seen until the car was too close upon him to be stopped. It was at a point where pedestrians are never known to go and there was no reason to suspect that a person should be walking along that part of the track at such an hour. When the news of the killing of Smith reached the city and it was reported that the car that caused the accident had been ditched, another car was sent out to take its place. The second car when coming into the city about 11 o'clock, ran into a buggy at a crossing between West End and Oakland City. The buggy was smashed into kindling, the horse was killed and the man crushed to death. Both bodies were brought to the city and turned over to an undertaker. JOINS RANKS OF EMBEZZLERS. Cashier of Los Angeles Bank Lines Pockets With Some $100,000. H. J. Fleishman, cashier of the Farmers and Merchante' bank, of Los Angeles, has disappeared with a sum of the bank's money which Vice President H. W. Hellman estimates at $100,000. Fleishman has been cashier and assistant cashier of the bank for many years. He began work for the institution when a boy, in 1875. He was under bond with a surely company for $30,000. In addition to this he has real estate and personal property in the city sufficient, in the opinion of Mr. Hellman, to protect the bank from the loss of a dollar. Failing Tree Kills Three. Manager Johnson, of the Postal Telegraph Company, his son and a negro driver were killed near Newton, Miss. Monday by a falling tree. They had gone to repair a telegraph line when a tree fell across the road crushing them to death. YOUNG FOOTPADS-SQUELCHED. Three Boys Get Ten Years in Penitentiary For Robbing Old Man. At Montgomery, Aia., Saturday Charlie Hartman, W. J. Bell and Frank Smith, three white boys, the oldest scarcely 19 years, of age, were convicted of highway robbery and given ten years each in the penitentiary. The trio caught a drunken country- man in an alley one night and relieved him of about $. Bell is from Mobile, Hartman from Georgia, and Smith from Louisiana. All were birds of passage in Montgomery, and happened to get together at a law. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO 116 W. St. Julian Street. Gs. Phone 574. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year. $1.25 Two Months. 1.50 Three Months. 5.00 Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter. Advertising Rates given on application. THE anti-lynching bill in Congress should become a law. THE aim of some of our young men seems to be only for a good time. NEXT week the tax books will close. Do not fail to pay your tax. THE pride of race would help us all in more ways than we can think of. LET the white man degrade the Negroes and he will be effected thereby. THERE are only a few of the dudish young men manly enough to pay their poll tax. WE can afford to offer a sigh of relief—the Georgia legislature has adjourned. WE are in favor of the representation of all states be based on the number of votes cast and not according to population. KOESTER, the lyncher, who is appointed as collector of internal revenue of South Carolina, should not be confirmed by the senate. WE greet Col. W. A. Pledger as chairman of the Republican party of Georgia. He is the only Negro in the states that hold such a position. No man should begrudge paying one dollar a year poll tax for the education of his children, and those who have none should feel that they are helping others. The young woman who continually shows her teeth whenever spoken to by a man of the opposite race, is the main cause of the little regard that the race is held. The great need of the three thousand Negro boys and girls of the city that are out of school, is at least two more school buildings. At present we will be satisfied only with one. It is a mistake to say that education has done no good for the Negro. Nearly all of the writers of such sentiment hardly ever come in contact with the educated ones. Their ideas are derived from the shiftless ones. We are tired hearing that the Negro gets more from the state for for his education than what he pays in taxes. Let all of the Negroes leave Georgia for a few months and the entire state would go into bankruptcy. THE TRIBUNE is proud to note the great interest that our people are taking in public affairs and keeping up with the events of the day. By their doing this will be putting them to thinking, which will result beneficially. A strong educational sentiment should pervade the home of every Negro in this county, and a crusade made for better school facilities. THE TRIBUNE never gets tired speaking on this line, for it is one of our platforms of solution. A SOUTHERN student of Princeton refused to debate on the affirmative "That the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United has been Justified," because he is prejudiced to the Negro. His prejudice is real deep set. We constantly hear of trouble caused by collectors of certain houses insulting those whom they go to collect from. The best thing to do is not to deal with such houses and not allow collectors to call at your home. Go and pay your bills. THE music of "coon" songs is catchy and many a person who protest against it invariably find themselves whistling or humming an air. While the music is catchy, the words are detestable and should not be sung in any intelligent home. SOME Southern Democrats are of the cheekiest kind. They want to control the affairs of their party and at the same time dictate to the President about his appointments. President Roosevelt is not the kind of man to stand for such dictation. We believe in giving our boys and girls all of the education that we are able to, to better prepare them for the reality of life. If one of them will only be a boot black, let him be educated. He will then be better able to give more satisfaction as much. THE registrar of Alabama, as at work arranging the new registration list of voters and distressing the Negroes: This brings, forbely to mind, the reported fraud in the ratification of the, new Constitution. The New York Sun succinctly says: "Of the sixty-six counties in Alabama, thirty-three gave a majority for the proposed new Constitution and thirty-three against—an equal division. Naturally, the highest majorities against the instrument were in the white counties. A remarkable circumstance, however, is that the counties of the "black belt" gave or were returned as giving large majorities for disfranchisement. Thus, in Dallas, which includes the city of Selma, the residence of the two United States Senators, where the colored population numbers 45,000 and the white population only 8,000, there is an alleged majority for the new Constitution of 7,890. In Chalmers county, on the Georgia border, in which the colored population is 17,500 and the white population 1,500 there is a returned majority for disfranchisement of 4,051. In Hale county, where the colored population is 23,500 and the white population only 5,500, there is a recorded majority for disfranchisement of 4,603; and in Wilcox county, in which the colored population numbers 29,000 and the white population less than 5,000, there is a majority of 4,000. "A result so remarkable is likely to give rise to sinister suggestions as to the methods used in the Alabama election." BILL ARP has uttered a libel up on the women of our race, one that can not be allowed to remain without being refuted. He said "That the most alarming trait among the Negroes is their utter disregard for chastity and their conjugal obligations. A large majority of the Negro women are harlots and their children are bastards." No greater insult has ever been offered a race of people. We can not afford to uphold a certain class of our women, but for him to say that a majority of them are unchaste, is an assertion that we can not approve as being truthful. Bill Arp's wish to cast aspersion upon the race seems greater than speaking truthfully about the women. THE comments on the very able memorial presented to the legislature against the Bell bill, as published in THE TRIBUNE of last week, were of a commendable nature. The memorial was of a manly sort, nothing cringing about it. Plain facts were stated in a dignified manner. The memorial was prepared and presented by the following leading gentlemen of Atlanta: Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Rev. H. H. Proctor, Prof. John Hope, Hon. H. A. Bucker, Hon. S. W. Easley, Hon. C. O. Wimbish, Mr. J. F. McDogould, Prof. G. A. Towns, Mr. L. L. Lee, Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Dr. S. O. Upshaw, Prof. J. M. Henderson, Dr H. R. Butler, Prof. W. H. Crogman. For his unmanly letter published on the Booker T. Washington episode in the Nashville Banner, Prof. W. H. Council of Alabama, is being unmercifully flayed by the Negro press and justly so. Our able contemporary, the Chicago Conservator, reflected on Georgia when it said that Council is from within its borders. We repudiate him as much as the Conservator has and can conscientiously say that, "Council is a fawning sycophant, a sickening funkey, who seems willing to wear with smiles the frowns of his own race, if by belittling his own race he can get the white man's dollar." THE Republicans of Georgia will learn with surprise and regret that Hon. W. H. Johnson, the honored head of the Republican State Central Committee has felt it his duty to resign his position as chairman, under a construction of the Civil Service Rules recently promulgated by the attorney general of the United States. Mr Johnson has made an able and conscientious chairman and is greatly respected throughout the State of Georgia. BECAUSE a colored boy or girl can read the least bit and write his name in the eyes of those who desire to cast asperion on the race, they are educated. Many of this class generally get on the chaiangang, in the penitentiary and the jail, and they are classed as educated Negroes and the showing is made that education does the Negro no good. Verily "a little learning is a dangerous thing." It is sad to note the number of young Negro boys that are sent, on the chaiangang of this county. They are placed among hardened criminals when their terms expire they are generally worse than before. This proves that a reformatory is badly needed in this county. The longer the delay in establishing one, the greater will become the problem. It is a matter of encouragement to note the number of young men of Chatham, county who own either comfortable homes or valuable pieces of property. Their number is being added to, which goes a far ways towards falsifying the assertion that the educated Negroes are worthless. If the legislature of the various southwestern states would pay less attention to the Negro question and more to the development of the commercial interests, this section would be able to compete with the great, north, east, and west. Until then—never. The pawn brokers and small money dealers are waxing fat on the labor of a certain class of our people. This class of business men are a menace to the best welfare of the city. The city should cause them to pay twice as much tax as they are now paying. It is disgusting to see the number of collectors, peddlers, etc., that knock at the doors of a number of our people. Do not make bills that you are not able to pay promptly and whenever you make a promise, keep it. The honesty of a person is known by his promptness in paying his bill. This is an age of concentration and our men should get in the game. We should have various kinds of business, enterprises in this city. It can only be realized by our men of means banding themselves for that purpose. It should be done so that our boys and girls can secure employment, thereby building up the race. A PETITION is being presented to congress by the Rev. John W. Leekins asking for compensation. He claims to have prevented the capturing of Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., during the war by imparting important information about the same. His property was afterward taken from him and he compelled to leave Baltimore. By all means the Rev. Mr. Leekins should be magnificently compensated. About two weeks ago two white men in the town of Laurens, S. C., of good standing disgusted as colored men, assaulted a white girl in her room. The girl's screams attracted attention and the men were detected, one of them was wounded and arrested. The other one was arrested afterward. No surging mob appeared to lynch them. The color of a man's skin has much to do with the crime he commits. A few weeks ago in Virginia, a white man named Marx was visited for the purpose of being tared and feathered. He opened fire on the mob and several of the party were fatally shot. The New York Sun says about it: "A few such lessons as Herbert Marx, a young man from this city, administered to some midnight regulators in Virginia a few days ago would have a salutary effect on communities which are always looking for an excuse to take the law into their own hands and inflict summary punishment on persons against whom they have a real or imaginary grievance. The sort of treatment that Marx gave his assailants is a healthful tonic for constitutions, infected with the lynching fever." LAST week Mr. Dickerman, who is among a number of northern philanthropists, visited our city. We sent him a few marked copies of THE TRIBUNE containing articles on the lack of educational facilities in this city for colored youths. In reply he sent us the following letter: Camden S. G. Dec. 7, 1901, Editor of the TEIBUNE. Dear Sir: While in Savannah yesterday I received two copies of your paper with marked articles which I read with interest. Few things concern the welfare of a community so vitally as sufficient school accommodations and wise instruction of the children, such an education as will train them to become intelligent, industrious and prosperous citizens. We have not yet mastered the problem of popular education even in the most favored places. The people need to give more money, be more willing to invest more money. Things are valued in proportion to the amount of time, effort and cost expended on them. Superior schools are always the results of a superior educational spirit in the people who maintain them. Such articles as those referred to are likely therefore to prove very useful Crowded Alleys. Quite as deadly to civilization as the crowded tenement house, says Dr W. E. B. DuBois in the December Southern Workman, is the equally crowded alley in the slums of large cities. "The nucleus of Negro population in Southern cities is the alley. It is seen at its worst in the slums of Charleston, Savannah, Washington, and such cities. It represents essentially a crowding—a congestion of population, an attempt to utilize for dwellings, spaces inadequate and unsuited to the purpose, and forms the most crushing indictment of the modern landlord system. Attention has lately been directed to the tenement-house abominations but little has been said of the equally pestilential and dangerous alley." A Great Opportunity. The burned district of Jacksonville Fla. is to be rebuilt at once, offering an opportunity of employment to workers, and excellent prospects to contractors and capitals in directions by the Seaboard Air Line. Railway system, which offers mexico-scaled facilities in the way of schedules and through car service to that point. Several of the lodges will have a big celebration on John's Day. Ornash out the bogus "York Rites" whenever you find one, and do not allow reputable men to be. deceived by being duped. Electa Chapter No.1 will hold its annual election on Thursday night. Every member is earnestly requested to be present. A new chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will be organized at Pidcock Ga., on Saturday next. Several more will be organized in the near future. The first part of the assessment of the Home is now due. Masters of lodges are earnestly urged to collect this amount and send immediately to Bro. Spencer. Do not delay. Eureka Lodge No.1, will hold its election for officers on Wednesday night next. This is the mother lodge of Georgia, and the reports of the officers at this meeting are expected to be glowing. Election is on in all of the lodges throughout the state. Brethren do not forget to send to the Grand Master and the Grand Secretary the name and address of the newly elected W. M's and Secretaries. The members of Mt Moriah lodge No.15, are requested to meet at the Lodge room on Friday evening next at S o'clock. The election of officers will take place. E. N. Sullivan W. M., G. W. Williams, |Secretary. The Grand Lodge of South Carolina met this week. Grand Master Johnson has done much to build up this grand jurisdiction and showing up the fallacy of the "York Rites" The days of this one man's institution are numbered and the thinking men in their midst will cause the same Editor Holmes of the Recorder attempted in the account of the recent meeting of the peddlers of spurious masonry, the "York Rites" to name some of the leading men who are connected with it of Georgia. The men named are not known and we are in a position to know every Negro man of the least prominence in the state. Hilton Lodge elected the following officers on Wednesday night: L. A. Thomas, W M; P M. S. G. Ryals S W; J. B. Brown J W; P. M, M. G. Robertson, Treasurer; P. M, S. G. Webster. Secretary. Appointed officers, P. W. Maxwell S D; N. H. Thompson, J D; S. Batey, Chaplain, J. W. Hendrickson, S S; J. D. Butler, J S; R. B. Bryant, Tyler. Pythagoras Lodge No 11 elected the following officers on Monday night: E B Roberts, W M; Edward Pettie, S W; E A Spring, J W, J H Hooker, Treas. A G McDowell, Secretary. The following were appointed; L. W. Theus, S D; William Morris, J D; Sol Scott, SS; E C King, J S; A Rennair, Chaplain; S H Bryant, Marshal; G Washington, Tyler. Please allow me space in your paper to note that Deputy Grand Master, G R Hutto, paid an official call Dec. 5th, and constituted, and dedicated Ebenezer Lodge, No 191, at Ocklochnee, also held the election. The following names were electe: T J Maddox, W M; A A Maddox, S W; A N Colbert, J W; J P Gordon, Secretary; C K King, Treasurer; J D Drayton, S D; J S Fryerson, JS; S Smith, S S; R Maddox, Tyler; I Jones, Marshal; P W Wilson, Chaplain. Bro Hutto made an interesting speech at the school house upon the principle character of the Order, also spoke on the Order of the Eastern Star. He was the guest of Bro I Jones while at this place. The wife and daughter of Bro T J Maddox being ill. Pridgeon Pointers. Miss Missouri Taylor of Scott Lake was here a few days of last week delivering a fine lot of glassware to her many customers. Miss Taylor is a very industrious lady, and is meeting with success in her agency. Mrs. Amanda Moore and Mrs. Sarah Shackleford were pleasant visitors on Friday. They will leave for Lake Park Ga, where they will spend the holidays. We are sorry to note the illness of little Amanda Fullmore who has been confined to her bed for several days, we hope for her a speedy recovery. The writer and Mr. Wm. Staten made a flying trip to Carter's mill on Wednesday and was pleased with the many objects to be seen there. Mr. W.J. Carter the proprietor is one of the leading business men of Polk Co. Mr. W.J. Pridgen has been very busy arranging to put in a force of convicts on his turpentine works. Miss Nellie Frances, school closed on Friday with nice exercises. Mr.D. Faircloth on Scott Lake was here on Saturday. Mr.A.L. Bright made a flying trip to Lakeland on business. THIS STORE is growing better every day. It is absolutely the popular trading place of people of all kinds of purses. Everything known in Dress Goods, Ready Made Suits, Millinery, and House Furnishings. When in need of such b sure you pay them a visit and you will be pleased with the good treatment and low prices. Lakeland is the guest of Mr. and Mrs W. J. Pridgen. Miss Sadie J. Bradley's school will close on the 20th, inst. She is arranging to have a grand affair. Little Mamie Taylor is on the sick list. Mrs. Georgia Littles visited friends here on Wednesday. Mr. W. P. Heap was here on Sunday. Mr. Eck McArthy and Mr. H. W. Highsmith made a flying trip to Bartow on Sunday. Rev. L. Simpkins and Rev J S Jordan of Lakeland were present at the A M E church on Sunday. Rev Applewhite preached at 3 o'clock. Rev White made some timely remarks. At 8 p.m Rev Jordan preached an able sermon to a large audience. We are always please to have the reverend in our midst. Mr. E. L. Scott was in town and called on Miss S—Oh excuse me Eddie, I did not mean to tell before February. Some one will be a constant visitor to Carter's mill on business of course See— THE TRIBUNE has many friends in our little place. Mr. C. T. Taylor went to Bartow on Saturday, call on Z. R. Fullmore for a copy of the TRIBUNE—Z. R. F. Sylvester Siftings. Death visited our city on last Saturday and took sister McRae the wife of Mr. Ben McRae. Sister McRae has been suffering for some time, and her death was not a surprise. She was laid to rest on Sunday in the Sylvester cemetery. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the community. The United Home Business Association held a meeting here last Saturday, Rev. J. M. Meyers presided. In absence of the secretary H. K. Croom, A. L. McDonald acted as secretary. The officers of the institution seem to have a favorable impression toward our town and are talking of making their headquarters here. Their object is a good one and we have our doors open to help all good enterprise. Rev. Ellison, pastor of the A. M. E. Church here, is closing successful year's work. He preached his closing sermon last Sunday, and also made his annual report of work done during the year. Rev. Ellison has with his members built a model house of worship. Sister Cassie DeLony has been confined to her room for the past few days but we have been informed that she is improving. The Sylvester Lodge No. 4, of P. B. F. Union, will meet on next Monday night at Sylvester, Ga. All members are requested to be present. ors are requested to present. Fraternally, A. i. McDonald. Seaboard Air Line. The Seaboard Air Line Railway announces that, effective October 15, 1991, round Trip Winter Excursion tickets will be sold to resort points on its lines in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. These low rates taken in connection with the superior service and fast schedules operated over this line, which is the shortest route to Florida, allow you to the attention of those who are planning Winter tours. It will be distinctly to their advantage to obtain definite information, which will be cheerfully furnished by any Agent or Representative of the Company. J. G. HORTON Eastern Pass' Agent, 1183 Broadway, New York City W. H. Doll, Gen'l Agt. Pass' R Dept., D. G 1434 N. Y.Ave., Washington, D. G C. L. LONGSORF, N. E. Pass' R Agt. 306 Washington St., Boston Mass. J. R. DUVAI, Passenger Adm., Bollinger, Cobt I Trust Bldg., Baltimore, Md. R, E. L, BUNCH, Gin Pass' Agt., J. H. W. BOWENS. KEEPS A FINE LINE or GROCERIES At the Corner of Perry and Guilford Sta. —Call On Him AT EITHER-OF HIS STORES WHEN YOU Wish Anything in His Line. Dr. E. D. BULKLEY, Dentist. (Late with Dr. Bald of New York City.) DOES FIRST-CLASS DENTAL WORK. At prices in reach of all. Consultation and Examination Free. FLORIDA WEST SAL INDIA SHORT LINE VESTIBULED LIMITED TRAINS DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE The short line to Norfolk, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and the East. No. 27 North and East - - - - - 500 am No. 31 North and East - - - - - 150 pm No. 34 Jacksonville and Florida - 205 pm No. 72 Montgomery and Wast - 800 pm No. 78 Helena and Local Points - 850 am No. 68 Montgomery and Florida - 1137 pm No. 66 Brunswick - - - - - 1010 am DEPARTURE OF TRAINS FOR No. 27 Jacksonville and Florida - 500 am No. 31 Jacksonville and Florida - 155 pm No. 34 New York and East - 210 pm No. 35 Brunswick - - - - - 430 pm No. 71 Montgomery and West - 725 am No. 74 Helena and Local Points - 630 pm No. 88 New York and East - - - - - 1145 pm Magnificent Pulman buffet sleeping cars to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York; also to Jacksonville and Tampa. Buffet parlor cars Savannah to Mont- gomery. For additional information, apply to Ticket Office, Bull and Bryan streets; phone 28. Trains arrive and depart Savannah on 90th meridian time—one hour slower than city time. Schedule in Effect June 26, 1901. TO THE NORTH AND EAST. | No 34 | No. 36 | Daily | Daily Lv Savannah (C.T.) 12.25p 12.30a Ar Blackville (E.T.) 4.12p 4.28a Ar Columbia 5.50p 6.15a Ar Charlotte 9.00p 9.55a Ar Greensboro 11.42p 12.43p Ar Norfolk 8.30a 10.40p Ar Danville 12.48a 1.52p Ar Richmond 6.00a 640.0p Ar Lynchburg 2.40a 4.07p Ar Charlottesville 4.35a 5.52p Ar Washington 7.35a 9.00p Ar Baltimore 9.15a 11.35p Ar Philadelphia 11.35a 2.56a Ar New York 2.03p 6.13a Ar Boston 8.20p 3.00p TO THE NORTH AND WEST Lv Savannah (Central Time) - - 12.30 am Ar Columbia (Eastern Time) - - 6.15 am Ar Spartanburg - - 10.20 am Ar Asheville - (Cent. Time) - - 1.00 pm Ar Hot Springs - - 3.3 pm Ar Knoxville - - 7.10 pm Ar Lexington - - 5.55 am Ar Cincinnati - - 8.10 am Ar, Louisville - - 8.40 am Ar St Louis - - 6.39 am Ar Louisville - - 8.40 am Trains arrive Savannah as follows: No. 35 daily from New York and Washington, 4:50 a.m. No. 33 daily from New York and Washington. 3:05 p. m. All airlines arrive and depart from the Plant System station. THROUGH CAR SERVICE, ETC REE, ETC. Talins 33 and 34 daily NEW YORK AND FLORIDA EXPRESS. Vestubled limited trains with Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between Savannah and New York. Connects at Washington with Colonial Express for Boston. Pullman sleeping cars between Charlotte and Richmond and Charlotte and Norfolk Dining cars serve all meals between Savannah and Washington. Trains 35 and 36 daily, THE UNIFIED STATESFAST MAIL, Vestibuled limited trains, carrying Pullman drawing room sleeping carls between Savannah and New York. Dining cars serve all meals between Savannah and Washington. Also Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between Savannah and Cincinnati, through Ashville, and "The land of the Sky" For information as to rates, schedules, etc., apply to W. HARDWICK, d V P. and G. M. W. H. HARDWICK, G. P. A., Washington, D. C. W. H. TAYLOE, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, R. G. BLAITNER, Depot Ticket Agent, Print System station, Savannah, Ga. E. H. THOMSON, C. P. & T. A., Savannah, Ga. G. J. THOMSON, C.P. & T. A., Savanah, Ga. 414 Bull street. Phone 850. The "New Home" NEW HOME LIGHT RUNNING THE NEW HOME SEwing MACHINE CO. DEPT. 120 MAY Buy the Best or None. Office 120 Whitaker Corr: State Street SAVANNAH, GA. 10 SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 1901. See the shoe offer of Mr. A. S. Nichols' in another column. Little Miss Irene Brocks is spending a pleasant time with Rev. and Mrs. Johnson at Olyo, Ga. Mrs. Geo. R. Rice, with her little sons, Geo R. Jr., and Stephen Overstreet, called at THE TRIBUNE on Thursday. Mr. Mark Anderson who has been sick for the past several months, is out again much to the satisfaction of his friends. Mr. J. B. Parker, the big man who saved President McKinley from instant death, will lecture in this city about the first of the month. To enjoy a real excellent: sermon and hear good singing attend the services at the First Congregational church at 11 a.m., and 8 p. m., on Sundays. Miss Carrie E. Grant of Darien, who has been attending the State College, returned home this week on account of the feeble condition of her health. Miss Rosa Montgomery of Charleston, after spending a pleasant time in the city as the guest Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Brooks, returned home on Saturday last. For concert's fairs, dances, and entertainments, get Fords Opera house, large hall, plenty of floor space, good music and well lighted apply to L. S. Reed, 22 State street, west. Sergt. R W Spaulding was elected second lieutenant of Co D, on Wednesday night last. The election was managed by Lieut. J Henry Bugg, M D, and Lieut. H H Small. Much rejoicing has been brought to the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Cohen, 513 Hall street, east, by the arrival of a son at 2 o'clock, on Tuesday afternoon. Mother and baby all are doing well. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Daisy Corene McLain of Camden, S.C., to Dr. Edward D. Bulkley, of this city, Dec. 31, at Camden. They will be at home, 220 East Broad St., Jan. 1. Miss Addie Harris is one of our subscribers that we are always pleased to meet. Besides always paying her subscription promptly, she always has a word of cheer for the "often turned down" collector, and commendation for THE TRIBUNE. The annual election of the Adelphia Club took place on Wednesday night, and an excellent board of officers was elected as follows: L. E. Williams, president; M. C. Rogers, vice-president; A. P. Williams, secretary; R. W. Rogers, treasurer, and J. H. Davis, advocate. The many friends Mr A H Hamilton will be glad to know that after about three months illness he is able to be about the streets. He paid us a visit on Wednesday. Mr Hamilton is loud in his praise of Mrs A B G Carr, the efficient trained nurse who has been constantly at his bedside for two months. All of the A.M. E. ministers and the other delegates are attending the annual conference at Brunswick this week. Rev. A Cooper of St. James preached the annual sermon. Rev. R. H. Singleton of St. Philips Monumental is secretary of the conference and all of the other delegates are taking prominent parts. The entertainment given by Club No. 1, benefit of First Bryan Baptist church on Wednesday night, was a financial success. Quite a neat sum was realized which will go toward the ceiling fund of the church. Miss Julia C. Williams was chairman of the affair and did much to make it the success that it was. Mr. H. B. Wright, is captain of the club. The Ladies Select Branch had its officers installed on Tuesday night last. The following ladies were installed by Mr. Edward Wicks: Mrs Rebecca Harrison, president; Mrs Eliza Barnard, vice-president; Mrs Nancy Lee, treasurer; Miss A. N. Rahn, financial secretary; Mrs. Rachel Harrison, recording secretary; Mrs Lucy Stephens, chaplain; Mrs Louisa Murry, clerk of order. A delightful evening was spent on Wednesday last, in dancing, singing, and games, at the residence of Mrs. M. A. Gardner, 225 East Broad street, in honor of Miss Matilda Jones, of Houston, Texas. The following were present: Misses Matilda Jones, Stella Bagnell, Emma Armstrong, D. Gibbs, Mrs. M. A. Gardner, Messrs. Robt. L. Smith, Robt. B. Fields, Chas. C. Bourke, Tommy Thomas, Jas. B. Bourke. The board of trustees of the Charity Hospital are earnestly requested to meet at the hospital on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock promptly. Business of vital importance will be considered and every member should be present. C. M. E. Conference The annual conference of the C. M. E. church, met in this city on Wednesday morning at St. Paul C. M. E. church, Bishop L. H. Holsey D. D., of Atlanta, presiding. A large number of delegates are present, and the session is an interesting and beneficial one. Reports from the various charges show good work and quite an increase over last year. Yesterday by an invitation, the session was held at the Georgia State Industrial College. Interesting services will be held the entire day to-morrow. At 11 o'clock the bishop will preach; in the afternoon song service and possibly preaching. At night Rev. H. S. Doyle, will preach. At the conclusion of the evening service the appointments will be read out, and each of the anxious ones will know where his field is. It is earnestly hoped by the many admirers of Rev. Bonner, the pastor of St. Paul, that the bishop will return him there. He has done excellent pastoral work during his two year's stay in our midst, as well as the interest that he has in everything that is undertaken for the general good of the community. Among the prominent members of the conference present are Dr. C. H. Phillips of the Christian Idex, and Rev. H. Bullock, manager of the Publishing Department, both of Jackson, Tenn The general officers present are Rev. R. A. Carter, Secretary of the Epworth League and Rev. I. S. Person, Secretary of missions. Rev. F. M. Hamilton of Macon is secretary of the conference. Death of a Good Lady. Mrs. Susan M. J. Stewart Williams, wife of Mr. Robert' Williams of Boston, Mass, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Catherine L Stewart, 711 West Broad street on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Williams had only been in city about three weeks and her death was quite a shock to her mother and friends. She was formerly a native of Savannah, but left here for Boston where she has been residing for the past several years. She was a christian lady and had many friends both here and in the north. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Luke W. Stewart. The funeral occurred from the residence of her mother, Rev. Williamson of Augusta, officiating. Besides a husband and mother, Mrs. Williams leaves one child, a brother, Mr. Chesterfield, Stewart, to mourn her loss. Boston and New York papers please copy. St. Phillips Church Dots. Rev. Cargile delivered his farewell sermon on Sunday night. Before leaving for conference the year's reports were read from the various departments. The reports were the best ever made in St. Phillips. The amount of money raised was something over $5,000. The members congratulate Rev. Cargile and his board of officers on the year's work and they hope that the next year will be just as successful. Rev. Cargile left for Brunswick, Ga., on Wednesday morning to attend the Georgia Annual Conference which convened on the 11th, inst. Prince Oska Suma gave an entertainment at St. Phillips on Wednesday night to quite a crowd, and everybody was well pleased. If any person want to donate any thing for St Philips Bazaar it will be thankfully received; you can send whatever you have to the general chairman Mr. M. C. Rogers or any of the committee. Chairman Rogers want all of those ladies who are going to enter the bicycle contest to call on him and he will furnish them with a book. The usual services will be held on Sunday. Ministers from the C.M. E. Church conference will be present with us on Sunday. Quite a number of ladies and societies will take supper at St. Philips Bazaar. Tickets for all organized bodies will be 25 cents including supper, and it will be a fine supper. The shooting gallery will be managed by Mr R. Barnes. Prince Oska Suma will give one of his exhibitions at the bazaar one night; you had better come out and hear him; it will be more advantageous for him at the hall on account of the stage. Admission only 10 cents. We are glad to know that Bro. A. H. Hamilton is improving; also Mrs. Gardner. Turner Temple the new church that the A.M.E. connection will buy near the fair grounds was christened on last Sunday afternoon, and named in honor of Bishop H. M. Turner, and the congregations of the several A.M.E. Churches took part in the exercises. It is a fine piece of property and the conference will appoint a pastor for the same and take charge. There will be a five nights entertainment given in the Ladies Exchange of St. Philips church beginning Monday night Dec 16th, continuing to the 20th, by St Philips Sunday School. Refreshments served every night. Come out and patronized the children. Prof Jno H Baldwin and his fine corps of teachers ask your patronage. Coming Events in The Social World. Members of Mt. Tabor Baptist church will give a six nights fete, beginning at Meyers hall Monday night Dec. 16th. Refreshments on hand and piano music. Admission 10 cents. A concert will be given by Miss Edna Simpkins at St. James A. M. E. church on Monday night Dec. 17. A good program is arranged. Mr. J. Stikes will render selections. Ticket 10 cents. Club No. 3 of First Bryan Baptist church, will give a ten nights floral bazaar at Labor hall, Bryan and Abercorn streets, beginning on Monday night Jan. 6th, benefit of the ceiling fund. Admission 10c. This club will award a $45.00 drop head Singer sewing machine to the lady soliciting the largest amount of money. Mr. Daniel Wright is the captain of the club. Clubs Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Brotherhood Union will give a ten nights fair, beginning at the Duffy street hall Monday night Dec 30th. A prize is offered to the organization attending with the largest number of members. Music and refreshments. Admission 10c. The physicians of the city, under the chairmanship of Dr. T. James Davis will give a New Year's hop and supper, at Labor Hall Bryan and Abercorn streets, January 20th 1902, for the benefit of Charity Hospital: The Harpers have been engaged to furnish music for the occasion This is expected to be an event in the musical loving world. More about this entertainment soon. A five nights entertainment will be given by the Princesses of Wonderland at First Bryan Baptist Church lecture room. Commencing Monday night next. The princesses will be supported by the West End Quintette Monday night and by the Imperial Glee Club on Wednesday night. There will be various amusements on the other nights. This is given for the bereft of Club No. 1, of the above church. Admission 15 cents, season ticket 20 cents. A new year ball will be given by the Evening Call Aid and Social Club on Wednesday Jan., 1st, at Harris street hall. A fine orchestra will discourse music for the occasion. Choice refreshments The following gentlemen compose the committee: Messrs. S Bradley, M Butler, W. S. Rhelt. Jas Wallace, E Green, Jno Grinage, D M Jenkins, R L Drayton, P C Scott, D Williams, T W Williams, R L Foster, T S Young, chairman, H Glover, ex-officio. The Cheerful Workers of the Charity Hospital are made up of a number of some of our well known young ladies who have volunteered to work for the hospital. They ought to be encouraged, since the object is a praiseworthy one. This organization will on the evening of the 15th of January give a pink and blue entertainment at Morse's hall, Herndon street, to assist in meeting the current expenses of said hospital. All are invited to come and help this worthy cause. The price of the admission is 15 cents. A Business Conference. The Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Co. agency in this city will hold a meeting at Morse's hall, Herndon street, Wednesday night, Dec. 18th, at 8:30 o'clock, for the purpose of establishing a branch department store here. Dr T. James Davis recently back from New York, will address the meeting and, with the assistance of the agency, propose to give all necessary information of the concern workings, what they have done and what they will do upon certain and possible condition. Model Homes For Sale. A model home on Henry street west, can be had on very reasonable terms, seven rooms, hot and cold water, gas, bath and all conveniences. Good home on Duffy streets east real bargain on good terms, one of the best homes in the city. -Call and investigate. L. S. Reed 22 State street west. Special Notice. All Lodges, Clubs, and Societies that have received a communication from St. Phillip church fair committee. Will kindly address reply to J. B.' Monroe, Charles and West Broad streets. Rates to the Exposition. The Plant System Exposition Flyer leaves Savannah for Charleston via Plant System 8:30 n. m. city time; arriving Charleston 12:30 p. m. Elegant parlor cars on these trains. The West Indian Limited leaves Savannah 2:05 p. m. city time, arrives at Charleston 5:10 n. m., carrying sleeping and dining cars. Those desiring to make an early morning arrival at Charleston should take the New York Express, leaving Savannah at 2:30 n. m. city time, arriving Charleston 6:40 n. m., carrying sleeping car. Trains leave Charleston returning 5:30 p. m. parlor car. 11:26 p. m. sleeping car 6:10 a. m. dining car. HOLIDAY GOODS An invitation to one and all to call and examine our Stock. Fine Dress Suits, Hats, Necktie, etc., for Men and Boys. Cloaks, Skirts, Gloves, Belts, etc., for the Ladies and Misses Call and Inspect. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church On Habersham street between Macon and Harris. Services Sunday 11 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sunday school 3:30 p.m. Services on Wednesday night at 8:00. Strangers are always welcomed.—Rev. Richard Bright, Rector. A Few More Lots. I have a few more of those beautiful lots on 41st street, and Waters Ave., in the best section of the city and are bound to enhance in value. These lots can be had for a price that will interest you and on the best of terms. Get a foothold in this fast growing city and in the near future you will be able to get many times what the property cost you. For buying, selling, and renting, see L. S. Reed, 22. State street, west. Ga. Phone 870. J. WALTER WILLIAMS, M.D 511 WEST BROAD STREET. Office Hours..... 8 to 10 a.m.; 2 to 4 p.m.; 6 to 8:30 p.m. Office, Bell 'Phone 111. Savannah, Georgia. Dr. L. S. Parks, DENTIST 240 Barnard St., Savannah Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $8.00. Broken Plates mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23 x-2 K. Gold. H. W. BOWENS. Frults, Cakes, Pies, Cgars, and Tobaccos. Your wants in this line supplied. GIVE ME A CALL. No. 649 WHEATON STREET. FALL IS HERE. Money saved is money made. You can successfully do this by calling on E. J. Dancy, No. 306 Drayton street, Savannah, Ga., who can make you a new suit or make your old one new and save you money. So do not forget that he is the man you want when in need of anything in the line of first-class tailoring. Do not forget the place, 306 Drayton Street, Savannah, Ga. $30.00 Given to My Customers JAM. 1, 1902. I will give to Purchasers of Shoes at my Store the above amount. Every buyer gets a ticket. The first number receives $10.00 ; 2nd number $5.00 ; 3rd number $3.00 ; 4th number $2.00 ; and 15 numbers, from 5 to 15; $1.00 each. FRESHEST AND BEST Beef, Veal, and Mutton, IS AT.... Stall No. 31, City Market. Goods delivered promptly. F. F. JONES &'SON. LOGAN'S WOOD & WASHING LIQUID CO. Solicitor for Leonard Iron & Metallo Co. Pine Wood, Oak Wood, Light Wood. Guaranteed full load and good wood. Terms cash to everybody. Hall's Washing Liquid. The great labor saver of the age for Housekeeping and Wash Women. 5c. per Quart, 15c. per Gallon W H. LOGAN, Sole Agent Perry and Randolph Streets, Ga. 'Phone 969. Savannah, Ga. Improved City Property. Low Rate of Interest. One to Five Years. Chas. F. Fulton. Shares in it now on sale in this city. Metropolitan Mercantile and Reality Oog's stock can be bought in Savannah in blocks of 5, 10, 15, 20 and upwards, at $5 per share. A purely colored concern doing business in the states of New York and New Jersey. One dollar down and forty cents per month until I paid up. JOHN W. ARMSTRONG, Sole Agent. RING UP PHONE 1575, The Forest City Laundry AND HAVE YOUR Linens Laundried To your satisfaction. 206-210 Park Avenue, East. C. H. SHEFTALL; Prop. 'AN IMPRESSION "I am very much afraid," said Mila Cayenne, that I am losing my reputation as a keen observer and a satirist." "What makes you think so?" "Several people yesterday said they were glad to see me as if they really meant it." WHEELS FALL OFF. "There don't seem to be so many bicycles as formerly." "No; it's riding instead of riders that is falling off now." - Iridanapolis News. A Curious Custom. No document can have the authority of the imperial throne of China unless it bears a red mark placed there by the sovereign. With this seal upon it, the paper becomes official. The genuine Hostetter's Stomach Bitters must have their. Private Die Stamp over the neck of the bottle. For fifty years it has been recognized remedy for stomach liver and kidney complaints. It will cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation and biliosness, also prevent malaria, fever and ague. The furrier sometimes makes things warm for his customers who don't pay their bills. PRINGESS VIROQUA, M. D. Endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound After Following Its Record For Years. "DRAH MRS. PINKHAM:—Health is the greatest boon bestowed on humanity and therefore anything that can restore lost health is a blessing. I consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a blessing to State and Nation. It cures her mothers and daughters, and makes them well and strong. PRINCESS VIROQUA. Practicing Physician and Lecturer. "For fifteen years I have noted the effect of your Vegetable Compound in curing special diseases of women. "I know of nothing superior for ovarian trouble, barrenness, and it has prevented hundreds of dangerous operations where physicians claimed it was the only chance to get well. Ulceration and inflammation of the womb has been cured in two or three weeks through its use, and as I find it purely an herbal remedy, I unhesitatingly give it my highest endorsement. —Erternally yours, Dr. P. Vinoqua, Lansing, Mich."—$5000 forselt if above testimonial is not genuine. If you are ill do not hesitate to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. for special advice: it is entirely free. Corn removes from the soil large quantities of Potash. The fertilizer applied, must furnish enough Potash, or the land will lose its producing power. Read carefully our books on crops—seat free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. MITCHELFS SALVE W. C. HOLMES Improved Jewelry Best up-to-date Jewel made. Price $4.20 with rod. Write for North Eorsey St., Atlanta, Ga. Sold a poetal for Bargain Catalogue. JOSEME PAYS THE FREIGHT. BOX N. Y. ENGLAMTON. N. Y. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY gives quick relief and cures worst season. Book of lore. Book of wisdom. Book of tales. Dr K. M. GREEN RIDGE. Pax R. Ahtape. G. PISOL CURE FOR SUN WATER IN THE ALL Best Outdoor Spruce. Tartar Soak. Use in time. Sold by druggist. CONSUMPTION JUDGE-SLAY PARSON A Sensational Sunday Tragedy In Brookside, Alabama. REVENGE OF ANGERED JUSTICE At His Church Preacher. Referred to man, Who Subsequently Slew Him, as a Bearer of Falsehoods and Slander. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: Justice of the Peace R. D. Coffman, at Brookside, in the western part of the county, shot and killed the Rey. J. W. Bradford, pastor of the Methodist church at that point Sunday afternoon. The shooting took place in the parsonage after Rev. Bradford had ordered Coffman to leave the place. Three shots were fired, one taking effect, going into the minister's right temple and coming out on the opposite side of the head. Several months ago a feud broke out in the Brookside church, and Custman withdrew, being a leader of one of the sides. It is stated he was expelled from the church, a charge being made that he struck his wife. The North Alabama conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, met at Anniston last week and the Rev. Mr. Bradford was sent back to Brookwood. At Sunday school Pastor Bradford addressed his congregation, saying he was pleased to be back. He said it was not his custom to preach the first Sunday on his return from conference, but he desired to take this opportunity of expressing the hope that the coming year would be a prosperous one. He said it would be if such men as Coffman were kept out and so prevented from "lying on the church and the pastor," it being told that Coffman had been indulging in much talk about the church and the Rev. Mr. Bradford. This address was communicated to Coffman and late Sunday afternoon the latter called at the parsonage to see the minister. The minister ordered Coffman to leave the place, when Coffman fired three times, as stated. Coffman surrendered to Marshal Sorrel, claiming the minister attempted to shoot him. Warrants had been sworn out before Justice J. T. Sellers charging Coffman with murder. The Rev. Mr. Bradford died two hours after the shooting. His family is visiting in Louisiana at present. MARSHAL JOHNSON RESIGNS. Leader of Georgia Republican Turns Over Party Affairs to W. A. Pledger. Walter H. Johnson, United States marshal for Georgia, has resigned his position as chairman of the republican state central committee. This action on the part of Mr. Johnson was brought about by a circular sent out by Attorney General Knox November 22, in which he stated that it was contrary to the spirit of the civil service laws for any officer of the department of justice to act as chairman of any political organization. The resignation of Chairman Johnson leaves the state affairs of the party in the hands of W. A. Pledger, of Atlanta, the well-known negro leader. Pledger is vice chairman of the committee, and as such will probably direct the affairs of the party in Georgia for a number of months to come. TEXAS PURSUING A TRUST. Suit Is Brought Agalnat Alleged Combine With Thirty Millions Capital. A special from Austin, Texas, says: The famous Kirby Lumber Company, which was recently incorporated for $30,000,000 under the laws of Texas, has been sued for damages on the ground that it is operating in violation of the anti-trust law. The charges are that the said company has violated the law in freezing and buying out competitors. The penalties amounting to $770,000 are asked for. Will Donate That Sum to United States For Educational Purposes. President Roosevelt has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie in which the latter offers to make a donation of $10,000,000 to the United States. The letter will be referred to congress. Mr. Carnegie gift is for the purpose of establishing in Washington a university for higher education. It is somewhat on the line of the bequest of James Smithson, the Englishman, who gave $1,000,000 for the establishment and maintenance of what is known as the Smithsonian Institution. SWITCHMEN LOSE FIGHT. All Pittsburgh Railroads Affected Are Doing Usual Business. All. Pittsburg, Pa., railroads that were affected by the strike of the switchmen now have the full number of crows at work and the officials say that so far as they are concerned the strike is at an end and that whatever trouble and inconvenience there has been is at an end. For More Than a Quarter-of a Century the reputation of W.L. Douglas $100 and $200 shoes for style, comforts and work has resulted, and other makes sold at these prices. This excellent reputation has been won by merit alone. We'll. Donglas shoes have to be two and one in another $100 and $200 shoes because his reputation for the best $100 and $200 shoes must be maintained. Sold by 63 Douglas Stores to American elites selling direct from factory to owner's store profit and best shoes goods first whereby. W.L.DOUGLAS $350 SHOES $300 UNION-MADES The standard has always been placed so high that the wearer receives more value for his money more $0 and $100. It is a good way to get two or more two price-fixed items. W.L. Donglas $8.00 and $8.50 shoes are inside of the same high-grade features used in $6.60 and $6.00 shoes and are just as good in every way. Instead upon having W.L. Donglas shoes with means and price stamped on Donglas. Shoes sent anyhow to receive or brief and as open as additional for the goods they have been shown to state people desired to size and size. NATALO GEEING W.L.DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. "I had a most stubborn tough for many years. It deprived me of sleep and I grew very thin. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was quickly cured." R. N. Mann, Fall Mills, Tenn. Sixty, years of cures and such testimony as the above have taught us what Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will do. We know it's the greatest, cough remedy ever made. And you will say so, too, after you try it. There's cure in every drop. Three sizes: 25c, 50c, 11. All drapes. Consult your doctor. If he says take it, to take it, then don't take it. He knows. Leave it with him. He knows. Leave it with him. He knows. LAYER 40, LUNES, Mass. A QUESTION OF NEED. "What have you done with all the money I gave you for campaign purposes?" asked Senator Sorghum. "I have put it where it was needed," answered the agent. "That's what I thought," was the disconsoilate answer. "Before I can rely on getting it all placed, I suppose I've got to wait until you get more than you need" We refund 10c. for every package of PUYRAM FADELERS DRE that fails to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co., Unionville, Mo. The Japanese earthquake of 1703 was the most destructive on record. It killed 180,000 people. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it innable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Oure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circlars and testimonial. Address F.J.C.XXNX & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Some naturalists say that no insect except the silk worm feed upon the leaves of the mulberry. See advertisement of RE-M Catarrh Cure in another column—the best remedy made. A woman can't throw a stone, but she can heave a sigh. Dr. C. I. S. Cawthon, of Andalusia, Ala. writes: "Tettertine is superior to any ramsedy known to me for Eczema and stubborn akia diseases." 50c. a box by mail from J.T. Shup trine, Savannah, Ga., if your druggist don't keep it. Justice often pursues with a leaden heel, but anites with an iron toe. Best For the Bowels. No matter what ails, you, badhads to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARATS help cure, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 13 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARATS Candy Cathario, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has O.D.D stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Men as well as clocks are known by their works. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Klino's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatfree Dr. R. H. KLINZ, Ltd., S31 Arch St., Phila. Pa. Some people never attempt to do anything for fear they might do it wrong. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. $6 a bottle. The worst thing about life insurance is that we never live to enjoy it. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds: N.W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N.J., Feb. 17, 1900. It's the dull fellow who is generally the greatest bore. WE PAY R. R. FARE AND UNDER $5,000 Deposit Guarantee Deposit, Guarantee Positions 100 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS, BOARD AT COST. Write Quick to GA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLLEGE, MACON, GA. How to Get Rich A book of 100 pages written by a business man of 60 years experience, who has made fortunes and once contemplated the fate of priests of 50 men or money of the country. Especially for boys and young men-yet thousands of older men read it. YOU become successful by following directions. You are a member of a 50 men or money order. Agents selling them fast. G. S. & F. M. SCOFIELD) Hankers, ATLANTA, GEORGI. SYRUP OF FIGS Acts Gently; Acts Pleasantly; Acts Beneficially; Acts truly as a Laxative. Syrup of Figs appeals to the cultured and the well-informed and to the healthy, because its component parts are simple and wholesome and because it acts without disturbing the natural functions, as it is wholly free from every objectionable quality or substance. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained from an excellent combination of plants known to be medicinally laxative and to act most beneficially. To get its beneficial effects—buy the genuine—manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. Louisville, Ky. San Francisco, Cal. New York, N.Y. For sale by all druggists. Price: fifty cents per bottle. "The banana peel joke seems to have gone entirely out of vogue," remarked the casual observer. "That," replied the city official, who never misses a trick, "is entirely due to the efficiency of the street cleaning department." A SUSPICION. "You know George Washington said he could not tell an untruth." "Nonsense," answered the practical politician; "that was probably a campaign slander, invented to make his party managers think he was a hard man to handle." HE HAD. "Colonel," the fair, grass widow asked "have you ever had a dumb, nameless dread of something that —" "Yes," he answered, leaping over a music rack and thus getting out of the corner, "but its gone now." Office Furniture and office supplies of all kinds, Yost Typewriters and Typewriter Supplies, Waterman Fountain Pens, Stationery of all kinds, Letter Files, Transfer Cases and Indexes; and in fact everything good that is required in an office. Write to Mower-Hobart Co., 61 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. Sy EE-M Catarrh Compound Cures Catarrh, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bronchitis and Colds. A mild, cool, pleasant sauce, purely vegetable, which any lady can use. We give an antiseptic mask that is appropriate will cure CATARrh or your money refunded. References: Dunn's, Bradstreet's or any bank in Atlanta. EE-M is not a makehift. For tobacco users we make EE-M medicated cigarettes. We also provide medical properties as the compound. Samples Free. One box, one month's treatment, one dollar, postpaid. EE-M Company, - Atlanta, Ga. WOMEN! SUPERERERS! Write to say, For ONE ORD AND BEAM THE DAY you earn yourself, at home, of Leophorus, Ulcation, Displacement, Zumor, and all female Particulars. Office beowale, Particulars tree for stamped office. Uupper Supply Office, Atlanta, Ga. 115% W. Cleared, Uupper Supply Office, Atlanta, Ga. Uupper Supply Office, Atlanta, Ga. Merve Lindes needed in unassigned territory to stamp out the stamped envelope to the United States Office, South Bank, Tn. Subscribe For FOREST & FIELD at sight. It is published in their interest at Atlanta, Ga., monthly. Only $20 per year. Agents wanted. Sample copies Free. A requisition of W. L. has excited all other as been won by merchant with their stock and gold shoes must be direct from factory to LAS $3.00 W. L. DOUGLAS 8400 Gul Edpy King Queen Ave Kingsland at Any Price The Corset? is one that puzzles all women. If you want the right kind, wear the best made, the Straight front Royal Worcester or Bon Ton Corsets. They Always please. Ask your dealer to show them to you—Take none other. Royal Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Mass. WINCHESTER CARTRIDGES IN ALL CALIBERS from .22 to .50 loaded with either Black or Smokeless Powder always give entire satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a modern manner, by exact machinery operated by skilled experts. THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD ▶ ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM. $2000.00 PER DAY GIVEN AWAY! The offer in our Premium Booklet expiring January's, 1902, is hereby EXTENDED FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR OF 1902 PRESENTS WILL BE GIVEN FOR TAGS R. J. Reynolds' 8 oz., Strawberry, R. J. R., Schmapp, Golden Crown, Reynolds' Sun, Cured, Brown, & Bry's Mahogany, Speckled Bounty, Apple Jack, Man's Pride, Early Bird, P. H. Hanes & Co.'s Natural Leaf, Cutler and O. N. T. To appreciate our offer, those that should be considered: That we are giving $3000,000 per day for tags, so by the memory of observers on our trade marks placed on inboxes, to identify our host persons to please answer, and prevent them from being deserved by imitators. Full descriptions of Presents offered for our tags will be furnished upon request to R. J. REYNOLDS TOWNSCO CO., WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.