Savannah Tribune

ROOSEVELT ORATOR At Syracuse, N. Y., on Occasion Labor Day Celebration. Reviewed Monster Parade and Afterward Delivered Speech Before an Audience of Fifty Thousand People. President Roosevelt went to Syracuse, N. Y., Monday to speak to organized labor. He was accorded a magnificent reception by the citizens of his own state. From the moment of his arrival at 9:30 o'clock a.m., until he stepped aboard his special train at 10:30 at night, to begin his return trip to Oyster Bay, he was given a continual ovation. Fully one hundred thousand persons from all sections of New York state tested the carrying capacity of the various lines of railroads and many additional thousands came from the country immediately contiguous to the city. Everywhere in the city, and at the grounds of the New York State Fair Association, the president was received with notable enthusiasm. In his address the president said in part: "Side by side with the increase in the prosperity of the wage-worker and the tiller of the soil has gone on a great increase in the prosperity among the business men and among certain classes of professional, men; and the prosperity of these men has been partly the cause and partly the consequence of the prosperity of farmer and wage-worker. It cannot be too often repeated that in this country, in the long run, we all of us tend to go up or down together. If the average of well-being is high, it means that the average wage-worker, the average business man are all alike well off. If the average shrinks there is not one of these classes which will, not feel the shrinkage. "It is all-essential to the continuance of our healthy national life that we should recognize this community of interest among our people. The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us, and, therefore, in public life that man is the best representative of each of us who seeks to do good to each by doing good to all; in other words, whose endeavor it is, not to represent any special class and promote merely that class' selfish interests, but to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interest by working for our common country. "We can keep our government on a sane and healthy basis, can make and keep our social system what it should be only on condition of judging each man, not as a member of a class, but on his worth as a man. "It is an infamous thing in our American life, and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions, to apply to any man any test save that of his personal worth, or to draw between two sets of men any distinction save the distinction of conduct, the distinction that marks off those who do well and wisely from those who do ill and foolishly. "There are good citizens and bad citizens in every class, as in every locality, and the attitude of decent people toward great public and social questions should be determined, not by the accidental questions of employment or locality, but by those deepest principles which represent the innermost souls of men." "The failure in public and in private life thus to treat each man on his own merits, the recognition of this government as being either for the poor as such or for the rich as such, would prove fatal to our republic, as such recognition has always proved fatal in the past to other republics. "Legislation to be permanently good for any class must also be good for the nation as a whole, and legislation which does injustice to any class is certain to work harm to the nation. Take our currency system for example. This nation is on a gold basis. The treasury of the public is in excellent condition. Never before has the per capita circulation been as large as it is today; and this circulation, moreover, is of money every dollar of which is at par with gold. Now, our having this sound currency system is of benefit to banks, of course, but it is of infinitely morg benefit to the people as a whole, because of the healthy effect on business conditions. "There is no room in our healthy American life for the mere idler, for the man or woman whose object it is throughout life to shirk the duties which life ought to bring. Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1903: —The flop of General Simon Bolivar Buckner to the republican party in the effort to elect his son in idw, Colonel Morris Belknap, governor of Kentucky, is the feature of the warm campaign just launched in that state. —The Third United States artillery, which has been stationed at Chattanooga, will march 800 miles across the mountains to Fort Meyer, Va. —The fourth annual convention of the United States Postoffice Clerks' Association began in Nashville Monday. —Columbia, S. C., was swept by fire Sunday night. The total loss is estimated at $150,000. —By the building of a road to pierce the Kentucky coal fields, the Great Northern and Pittsburg Coal Companies will control the trade from Pennsylvania and all states along the Ohio river to New Orleans. A new world's record for long distance running has been made on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; 259 miles was covered in 278 minutes, 128 miles of the distance being made in 125 minutes. At Pelham, N. H., Sunday, crowded, trolley cars going at a high Rate of speed, met on a curve. Four persons were killed and nineteen seriously injured. A detachment of Salvationists will invade the dark corners of Kentucky and attempt to reform the feudists. Millionaire Griffith, of Los Angeles, Cal., has been arrested on a charge of shooting his wife, Mrs. Griffith while on her knees. President Roosevelt left Oyster Bay Sunday night for Syracuse, where he made a Labor Day speech. —Near Goshen, Ind., a Big Four passenger train was wrecked Sunday by striking a cow. —Conditions in the Balkans continue chaotic. The Turks are burning villages and outraging women. It is said that Bulgaria has resolved not to go to war. United States Minister Lelschman is taking no steps in the Magelssen case. —The general feeling in Colombia is said to be favorable to the canal treaty. The senate is taking steps to arrange for negotiation of treaty that will not violate the constitution of Colombia. —The advance in the bank rate at London depressed all investment stocks. The cloth market at Manchester was quiet. —A fund has been started at Monterey, Mexico, to relieve the yellow fever sufferers in places where the disease is epidemic. —Unconfirmed reports have reached Vienna that an attempt was made to kill King Peter, of Servia, at Nish. —Duchess of Mariborough objects to Italian marble and goes to Ireland for material to finish her home. —Union of bookbinders in England is planning to come to America to help defeat Roosevelt. —By order of King Edward, all cats are driven from Windsor castle. He objects to them. —Sir Thomas Lipton was the guest of honor of the Pilgrims of the United States at a dinner given in New York Friday night. Among the speakers was General Joseph Wheeler. - At Kingston, N. C., while under the influence of liquor, Emmett Boyett shot and killed his wife in the presence of her mother and sister. - Four white convicts were shot at the Pratt mines near Birmingham, Ala., Friday while attempting a wholesale delivery. - Adams and Lewis Young, of Spartanburg, S. C., have been arrested for selling a fake counterfeit machine. - Ministers of the A. M. E. church, in northern states, unite in an appeal to decent negroes to aid in suppressing the criminal element of their race. - Members of congress are complaining about the backwardness of the treasury department in pushing work on public buildings. - It is stated that Edson, who killed Mrs. Pullen and himself, was short from $50,000 to $100,000 in his accounts with a New York church. President Roosevelt has determined hereafter in appointing consuls, to name men who have had experience in the service. Seventeen of the largest cotton mills in New England will shut down the coming week because of the high price of the staple. Roach, who has fled to Mexico, states that former Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, and Caleb Powers would give $100,000 for his head so as to be sure that he would never tell what he knows about the murder of Goebel. COTTON SHORTAGE Cuts Great Hole in Pockets of Farmers in Many States. RESULT OF DRY WEATHER Unfavorable Reports as to Crop in Georgia, Alabama and Texas are Made Known-Million Bates Hon. George W. Truitt, well known largest farmer of Troup county, Ga., who is also known throughout the south as an authority on matters agricultural, estimates that the recent, severe drought throughout the cotton belt has cut a million bales from the south's cotton crop. According to Mr. Truitt's estimate, the dry weather days have cost the farmers of the south $50,000,000, calculating that the staple will bring $50 per bale during the entire season, which is quite a conservative figure at the present prices. According to the weekly weather and crop bulletin issued by Section director J. B. Marbury, for Georgia, the cotton crop is in a critical condition. The crop is about one month late and the cotton continues to open, shed and rust rapidly; picking is becoming general in the southern and middle sections. The weather conditions during the past week have been detrimental to all crops, cotton being an especial sufferer. Decrease in Alabama. Alabama's commissioner of agriculture, R. R. Poole, stated Tuesday that the cotton crop has deteriorated 25 per cent in the cotton belt of the state within the past two weeks. "The hot weather, the foll and army worm are injuring the crop and will cut it short," said the commissioner. "I predict that the next report will show a worse average condition of the crop than we have had for years." Texas Shy Million Bales. According to The New York Commercial, unless there is an organized effort on the part of press correspondents all over the state of Texas to falsify concerning existing conditions in their different localities, the ravages of the boll weevil in that state have been underestimated rather than overestimated by the reports that have been sent out before this time, and the condition of the Texas cotton crop is very bad. It is evident from the tone of the telegrams from Texas and the crop information published in the newspapers of that state that the Texas idea of what this year's crop will be is very different from the idea of a great many northern cotton men. In New York there is plenty of talk about a 4,000,000-bale crop for Texas, and the figure is very seldom placed below 3,500,000 bales, while in Texas, where it is fair to be presumed the situation is better understood than it is in New York, a man receives newspaper notoriety as an optimist of the most pronounced type if he estimates the crop at 3,000,000 bales. In forty-two reports from different Texas cotton centers only three or four are indicative of as large a crop this year as there, was last. About two-thirds of the telegrams tell of the ravages of boll weevil and other pests; a number of them say the crop in certain sections has been ruined, and from every place comes the report that the crop is unusually late. Allowing for the fact that some correspondents may have somewhat aggerated the conditions existing detrimental to a good crop, the reports from all over the Texas cotton belt are undoubtedly in the main very accurate, and the condition they show is certainly not a favorable one. INVESTIGATING AT MONASTIR. Military Attaches of Powers Probe Affairs of Disturbed Districts. $ ^{a}$ A dispatch to a London news agency from Constantinople says that military attaches of Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, France and Russia have arrived at Monastir and will commence an investigation into the situation in all the disturbed districts of European Turkey. SECOND WARNING BY JELKS. Alabama Governor Acts Vigilant Watch Dog Over State Treasury, Governor Jelks, of Alabama, Tuesday afternoon sent to the legislature another message again calling the attention of its members to large appropriation bills. This makes the second request of the governor. The message is quite lengthy and goes into the details of the finances of the state. The governor acknowledges that the prosperity of the state at this time is unparalleled in its history, but says that it would be detrimental to the state to draw too heavily upon the treasury. GOMPERS SCORES PARRY. Labor Leader Pays His Compliments to Head of Manufacturers' Association in Scathing Terms. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, in his labor day address to 15,000 persons Monday afternoon at the fair grounds in Indianapolis, spoke in part: "I ask every thoughtful man and woman within the sound of my voice, I ask any one who may perhaps have the opportunity of reading what I may say this afternoon, how can a workman, an individual workman, act upon his own initiative, and from his own volition? Where can he act as an individual to try and secure improvement in his condition, much less protection against a great corporation?" "Some say the workingmen lose their individuality when they join a union of labor. In truth, the workingman has lost his individuality just as soon as he enters one of our great modern industrial plants. "The old idea, even among the business men, that competition is the life of industry is no longer held as an economical tenet; it is no longer believed and declared by men who know the trend of events in the development of industry. They realize that competition is today the death of the trader. "A strike is nothing more nor less than a disagreement between the employer and his workmen about continuing industry upon an old agreement. And strikes are diminishing in numbers in spite of what our opponents say. We stand for arbitration and we pin our faith to it." President Gompers then turned his attention to D. M. Parry, president of the National Manufacturers' Association, and devoted the remainder of his address to Mr. Parry's opposition. He said Mr. Parry had constituted himself the savior of society and civilization. His references to Mr. Parry were from the standpoint of ridicule. Said he in closing: "A strike may bring about strife and discord, but as soon as it is done, better feelings are engendered and mutual respect is brought about. I don't think I would care to have a strike in Dr. Parry's factory, but I don't believe it would be an unmixed evil, for he might learn the lesson that Mr. Baer has learned—that there is something to arbitrate, to discuss, to concede. From what I can learn the wages paid by Mr. Parry are less than any fair establishment in the same line of business in the whole country. "Organized labor has feeling against Mr. Parry. It has no designs against his life, his children or the safety of his property. He is as safe from labor as is President Roosevelt. "I have never yet challenged Mr. Parry to joint debate, but I say I will challenge him to a debate on the labor question and the labor movement. I challenge him to submit the report that he prepared for the last convention at New Orleans to the next convention of the Manufacturers' Association and ask the convention to indora all he said in that report. He knows that the National Manufacturers' Association will not be committed to such unjustifiable and unreasonable attack on organized labor." Secret Alliance Said to Have Been Formed by and Between Them Formed by and Between Them. A special from Pekin states that the much moted secret convention between China and Russia has been executed, but this is not officially confirmed. The Pekin correspondent of a Toklo, Japan, newspaper, wires that concerning the opening of Manchuria, the United States minister, Mr. Conger, has made a strong argument, to which Prince Ching has replied in a note. The prince's message says that If China assents to the opening at this time Russia will make that action a pretext to continue the occupation of Manchuria after October 10. President Shaffer "Unearthed." Theodore A. Shaffer, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Worekrks, who has been missing from his home in Pittsburgh, surprised the labor unions of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Monday, by appearing at the Labor day celebration. FOR PHILIPPINE SCHOOLS. New Education Measure Provides $72,000 for First Year's Expenses. A Manila special says: The new education bill has just become a law. It appropriates the sum of $72,000 to cover the expenses, of the first year. It further provides that one hundred of the best qualified students, securing at least 75 per cent on each subject at-an annual examination, shall have the privilege of going to the United States to complete their education at institutions designated by the governor. GRISIS IN ORIENT Turkey Prepares to Swoop Down Upon Little Bulgaria. AN ULTIMATUM PROBABLE Lives of Foreigners in Constantinople In Great Peril and Situation is Grave—Horrors in Balkan- States Continue. A dispatch to The Tageblatt (Berlin) from Constantinople, dated Saturday, says: "War with Bulgaria is in sight. The council of war has recommended sending an immediate ultimatum to Bulgaria, but the sultan has decided to wait. It is rumored that Turkish troops have already crossed the Bulgarian frontier without a declaration of war. "The members of the council of war were up all last night at the Tildiz Kiosk and Edhelm Pasha as commander in chief. "The Turkish press is printing inflammatory articles against Bulgaria." The Turkish government, according to information received from the foreign office in Berlin by the Associated Press, has notified the powers that the porte cannot guarantee the safety of the legations at Constantinople. This extraordinary statement was communicated, without explanation or qualifying details, in response to an inquiry as to whether German marines were among those United States Minister Leischman reported as having been landed at Constantinople. It is inferred, however, that the conditions at the Turkish capital are not so grave as the sultan's ontification would imply, but that the legations have been warned to look out for their own safety, the porte disclaiming 'in advance responsibility for any disorderly act. The porte's inability to take energetic hold of the Macedonian insurrection is the worse feature of the situation. Powers Forced to Act. A London special says: So threatening is the Macedonian situation that the powers are being forced to take action sooner than it had heretofore believed would be necessary. Before adopting any definite scheme for the pacification of the Balkans it was intended to wait until the czar's visit to Vienna, when the matter was to be discussed fully with Emperor Francis Joseph, but it is learner a recent exchange of views has brought the powers to a stage where decision is about to be reached regarding the character of the intervention which should be adopted. While the proposed plans are not divulged; it is authoritatively denied that the intervention contemplates the occupation of Macedonia by Austria and Russia. It is equally certain that the powers have no intention of acting so as to in any way encourage Bulgaria to declare war. Atrocities on the Increase. Advices from Sofia under Sunday's date state that the Autonomye publishes the names of fifty villages burned by the Turks in the following districts: Resen, thirty villages; Kostur, fourteen; Krushevo, sfx, and one monastery. The Turks burned four villages in the district of Strushkopolis and murdered the priest. The population fled to the mountains. The Turks have destroyed all the flour mills in the district of Resen and also every church. Reports have reached the revolutionary headquarters in Sofia of atrocities by the Turks in the village of Vilokostf, in the district of Debre. The troops and bashi bazouks are said to have surrounded the villages and part of them entered and began plundering the houses and assaulting the women. The other soldiers remained outside and killed those inhabitants who tried to escape. The Turks then set fire to the village in four places, burning twelve women and children. One child was hanged. Allogether sixty peasants were killed and their bodies were left lying in the streets. BECKHAM OPENS CAMPAIGN. Immense Crowd Gathers at Winchester, Ky., to Witness Event. A crowd estimated at from seven to ten thousand was present at the opening of the democratic state campaign at Winchester, Ky., Saturday. Speeches were made by Governor Beckham, Senators McCreary and Blackburn and Congressman Ollie James. Several brass bands discoursed music, and special trains from Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington and other places-carried large delegations. Thousands of gallons of burgoo were dispensed. SUNDAY RIOT IN BEIRUT* Admiral Cotton Says He Is Prepared to Land Force of Marines When ever Situation Warrants. Cablegrams were received at the state and navy departments Tuesday from Minister Leischman at Constantinople and Admiral Cotton, commanding the American, squadron now in Turkish waters, respectively, giving an account of a riot which occurred at Belrut Sunday. It was stated at the navy department that no new instructions had gone to Admiral Cotton in consequence of the report. Instructions sent to Minister Lelschman, however, contemplate that he keep the state department constantly informed as to the situation, that the department may know to what extent protection is being afforded American citizens. The president was advised of the facts reported. Rear Admiral Cotton's cablegram is dated Beirut, September 7, and is as follows: "Violence and bloodshed 'between Mohammedans and native Christians occurred at Beirut Sunday. Six Greek Christians, three Mohammedans and three Turkish soldiers wounded seriously. Other murders reported. Flag lieutenant and the United States consul were present Sunday and Monday in the disturbed quarters and verify details of statement. Turkish government willingly afforded facility for their investigation and guard; promise one thousand more Turkish soldiers. Turkish soldiers present sufficient, if properly disposed of, to handle situation at Beirut. Well patrolled and all quiet Sunday night and today, Monday. Turkish governor promises to do all in his power to restore authority. Many houses closed and business suspended. I have prepared to land force for protection of property of American citizens if situation demands. Will act with caution. Present trouble due to animosity between Moslems and native Christians and failure to control crimes." GRAFTERS ARE GRIPPED. Grand Jury at Washington, Probing Postoffice Department Scandal, Return Seven Indictments. After deliberating for several weeks over a mass of documents submitted by the postoffice inspectors the federal grand jury in Washington returned seven indictments in postal cases, involving six different persons. All the indictments were kept off the public records and both the officials of the district attorney's offices and of the postoffice department refused to discuss names or details of the indictments until the parties indicted are arrested. The identity of the indicted individuals thus was left a matter of conjecture. It is expected that arrests will occur tomorrow and that the postoffice department will have some announcement to make during the forenoon. The grand jury action probably marks the beginning of the end of the investigations that have been in progress since the middle of last March. Voluminous evidence has been laid before the grand jury as the result of the inquiry, and while the present report of the jury disposes of most of the cases, there yet remain several cases to be passed upon. When the latter are disposed of, according to Postmaster General Payne, the investigation so far as the work at Washington is concerned, will be at an end. Several of the persons indicted live outside of Washington. Postmaster General Payne, and Fourth Assistant Bristow received word of the grand jury's action shortly after that body reported, and subsequently they had a long conference on the subject. Both officials refused to divulge details pending official notification of arrests. Two other important events occurred during the day. Leopold Stern, the Baltimore contractor who disappeared from Baltimore before he could be arrested on an indictment, returned July 31 last, was located at Toronto, Canada, and the long-delayed surrender of George W. Beavers, the former head of the salary and allowance division, to the New York authorities took place. Soper Admits 'Working Great Graft in Indian Territory' The department of justice, at Washington, has received from Pilny Soper, United States attorney for the northern district of Indian Territory, an answer to the allegations which have been made against him, to the effect that he has been interested in leasing and releasing Indian lands, etc. The department has ordered still another special agent into that territory, and will investigate Mr. Soper's statements. It also will make an investigation of other federal officers of the four districts of the territory. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. 116 W. St. Julian Street. Ga. Phone 574. SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.25 One Year.....$1.25 Six Months.....$1.25 Three Months.....$1.25 Excellence must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter. Advertising Rates given on application. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1903. OUR friends of the Age and the Independent of Atlanta seem to be at outs. What's the matter brethren? WE acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a catalogue of the Lincoln Institute of Missouri, of which Prof. B. F. Allen is president. THE daily press of the country takes delight in misrepresenting the colored people especially when there is a difference between the races. THE TRIBUNE is not in favor of vagrants and is anxious to see all of them ran out of the city. It is this class that furnishes the criminals. In the enforcing of the vagrancy law advantage must not be taken of the innocent ones. This has been and will be done despite all efforts to thwart it. This time next year politics will be booming. The campaign will be one sided for the present incumbent of the white house will be reelected with an overwhelming majority. The recent school census shows that thousands of colored children in this city are without school accommodation. Assurances have been given that in the near future another school will be established, the crying need of which is apparent to each person interested in educational affairs. There is no reason why the industrious ones among us should leave the South. They can get along here as well as anywhere. The main draw back that we have is in the rural districts where much advantage is taken of us, especially the less intelligent ones among us. If this is surmounted this section of the country would be a haven for our people. This season of the year the minds of our boys and girls are turned to the school room. From there they expect to return better prepared to fight life's battle. While they are preparing themselves, their parents and those who are interested in affairs of the race should be making an opening for them. All of them cannot go into the professions. The only outlet then is in the business field. Have this developed so that they can secure employment after leaving school. THE separation idea of Mr. John Temple Graves will never be carried out. If an attempt was made to have the colored people leave this country, especially in the South, affairs would be more demoralized than they were directly after the war. Take Savannah for instance: it has a colored population of nearly 30,000. This vast number of persons spend weekly thousands of dollars with the merchants, and in fact support fully sixty-five per cent. of the retail business of the city, not counting the amount received from them for the renting of the homes in which they live. If this number or even one half of it was to leave the city, the business houses above mentioned would have to close and the property owners would soon loose their holdings being unable to pay tax. This is only a part of the havoc that Mr. John Temple Graves' idea would create. But what's the use taking that man seriously, he is a crank on the separation idea and only a few fanatics like himself are in favor of it. COMMENTS of a favorable nature were made on the appearance of the hundreds of colored men who were in the union parade on Monday. It was a fine body of men, all intelligent and prosperous looking. Such a body of men could work wonders for race betterment if they only would. They have the opportunity of doing so if they would only grasp it. If each of those men were tax-payers, there would be several more thousand dollars go toward the education of the thousands of unfortunate boys and girls who are unable to secure school accommodation. If those men would support enterprises of the race, in a few weeks these enterprises would make large improvements and employ more of our boys and girls. If one third of those men owned property, matters not how small it may be, they would feel more independent and at the same time would be treated better by the opposite race. All of these things can be easily done by them. They should be put to thinking along these lines. At each of the meetings of the various unions those who are interested in affairs of the race should give a talk in this direction and put the men to thinking and acting. AFTER reading the many prejudiced articles in the various journals of the country against our race, it is refreshing to peruse such articles as the following from the leading journal of the country and one that believes in equal rights and justice and still keeps up the spirit of Horace Greely who made it famous, The New York Tribune: "What blind leaders of the blind are those presachers on the lynching evil who turn from the problem of dealing with society as it exists to the advocacy of wholesale emigration of the blacks" Mr. John Temple Graves, of Atlanta, in his Chantaquna address, after glorifying the mob as the bulwark of civilization, ended up with the conclusion that neither education nor time, Christianity nor law could be anything but a temporizing expedient, and that the only solution for the great race problem was separation. "The Charlesston News and Courrier" makes the same point in discussing the President's letter to Governor Durbin, saying that if he and his party are really anxious to suppress lynching and avert the national demoralization and degradation it causes, they will give attention to the one plan which promises result—"the plan of separating the two races by the width of the sea." "Such counsels only make the situation worse by withdrawing attention from real remedies for present conditions. To tell lynchers that the remedy for lynching rests in the far off consumption of a practical impossibility is to give them plenary permission for indefinite indulgence of riotous passions. The problem of civilization in this country is to make possible the orderly and prosperous subsistence in it of its present inhabitants. The prescription of laws or customs suitable for a pure white community and the insistence on conforming the community to the prescription, instead of making a prescription more suited to the existing trouble, is worthy of the physician who did not understand typhoid, but was death on fits and thought he could effect a cure if he could only throw his typhoid patients into fits. Now, whether we like the disease we have to cure or not, our task is to deal with two races, not with one. If we say that there is no cure except in removing the Negro, we confess that our country and its civilization are doomed. "Whether we like it or not, the Negro is in this country to stay. He has as much right here as the white man. He was born hero. His father and mother were born here. He is do more an African intruder than the white man is a European intruder—in fact, less so, for he did not come of his own free will. The Negro race was established here by the whites. It was made to be fruitful and to multiply for the white man's profit. It was taught that very looseness of morality which is now the menace of white rural society in the South as an incident to the propagation of human beasts of burden without family ties. Now the Negro is a citizen. The United States is his country, its flag is his flag. Who is going to expel him? What law is going to deprive him of his birthright? "But pass over his question of right. Assume that justice is to be trampled upon, and that as he served here two centuries unwillingly for the benefit of a white oppressor, so he is to be expelled unwillingly at the convenience of the white man. How it is possible to put the sea between the races? There are nine millions of blacks in this country, and they are increasing rapidly. The exodus of any such multitude is almost inconceivable. Imagine the gathering up all the people of New York and Pennsylvania and shipping them off somewhere to please the people of other states! Think of depopulating the whole United States as it was in 1820! The greatest migrations of prehistoric times would have been more excursions of petty bands beside so gigantic a movement. Several of the nations of Europe have tried by persecution to rid themselves of undesirable elements of their population. But while they have succeeded in forcing a few hundred thousands to emigrate, more hundred thousands remain and increase. The Negro race here increases so rapidly that it would more than make up for any probable decrease through emigration, no matter how systematically it was encouraged. Moreover, the South would not tolerate its wholesale deportation any more than it would have tolerated in the days of slavery. Its prosperity rests on the Negro. It must have his cheap labor. Deprived of him, it would demand coolies to take his place. It might get white men for all the trades now carried on by blacks, but who would raise its corn, cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco? No! the Negro is in this country to stay. He is bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. He may be a trouble and a problem. But the trouble and the problem white men brought on themselves, and their only hope is facing the conditions they have made as they are, not in sitting idle, waiting for conditions which will never be seen." THE board of education has recently purchased the C. M. E. church building on Maple street. The building is now being rearranged into school rooms to accommodate the children of the Anderson street school and those in the two grades in the Duffy street school. Other than this there will be little room for an increase of the number of children who attended last year, and the thousands of children will still be without accommodation. The crying need of these children should put every race loving man and woman to thinking and only cause a redoubling of efforts to secure facilities for them. THERE is less than eight hundred colored registered voters in this county, yet in the parade on Monday there were fully two thousand stalwart, intelligent and progressive looking men. Why can't they pay their tax and become upright citizens indeed? St. Phillips Dots. Dr. M. J. Maddox preached a very interesting sermon at 11 a.m. His text was Malachi 4:2, subject "B righteousness." This subject was a grand one and every person who heard it pronounced it as being one of the best sermons that they have heard in quitsa while. At 8:30 Rev. Sims preached one of those heartfelt sermons. The text was Numbers 10:29. Rev. Sims' sermons are always good and give the hearers something for thought. Our rally that came off on the fifth Sunday in last month did not come up to expectation and it is still open. If there are any members or friends out of the city they can send their donations to St. Philips church and it will be thankfully received. Our Sunday School gave an excursion to Wilmington on Labor Day. Notwithstanding other excursions and picnics elsewhere they were quite successful. The usual services will be held on Sunday. Rally at St. Paul. Grand Woman's Day Rally will be at St. Paul C. M. E. church, Rev. G. L. Word, A. B. pastor, tomorrow. Sermon at 11 o'clock by Rev. Dr. Hunter; sermon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J. W. Carr, D. D.; sermon 8:30 by Rev. R. D. Dudley, P. E., after which eleven clubs will make their report. The clubs are as follows: Millidgeville Club, Francis Shines, president; Augusta Club, Mother Hill, president; Macon Club, Mrs. Lula Gladman, president; Charleston Club, Mrs. Grant, president; Columbia Club, Mrs. Wallace, president; Atlanta Club, Mrs. Jdaa Williams, president; Savannah Club, Miss Martha Johnson, president; Beaufort Club, Miss Jessie Simmons, president; Thompson Club, Mrs. Jula Edwards, president; Wayneboro Club, Mrs. L. Gordon, president. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. Local Brevities: Miss Eugenia Smalls of Charleston is spending awhile in the city with her aunt Mrs. Sarah Harrison. Mrs. E. Kelsay of Augusta is spending awhile with her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Bonaud of 615 Bolton street, west. Mrs. Sarah Harrison who has been quite sick for the past three weeks is able to be out again much to the delight of her many friends. Attend Y. M. O. A. mass-meeting on Friday night next at Tabarnacle Baptist church, on Huntingdon street near West Broad. Mr. Cyrus Campfield, class of 1001 and Miss Gertrude Adkins, a student in millinery at Tuskegee, were married at Aiken, S. C., recently. Both are employed at Miss Schofield's school. Mr. Campfield is teacher and conference agent, and Mrs. Campfield will continue to teach millinery and dressmaking—Student. The National Baptist Convention meets in Philadelphia next week. It will be a large and representative gathering. Savannah will be well represented. Among those who may go are Mrs. Fannie Starr, Mrs. M. M. Mills, Revs. Durham, Kemp, Carr, Heywood, Williamson, Weston Gray, Butler, Thomas, Whitmire, Irby, Mr. C. H. Ebba. The National Convention of Congregational Workers among the colored people will convene in Atlanta September 19 to 23. Representatives from all parts of the country will be present. Savannah may be represented by Rev. A. Clyde Randall, Miss A. B. Miller and Mr. A. L. Tucker. It will be indeed a representative meeting. Miss Wilhelmenia Jones and Mr. Marion McNichols were united in holy wedlock on Wednesday last at St. Stephen's Church by Rev. R. Bright. They left immediately for New York, their future home. A reception was tendered them before leaving. Mr. McNichols is a Savannahian, but has been residing in New York for quite awhile. The bride is a popular member of St. Stephen's with a number of friends. On Tuesday evening last Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Wright, were entertained by the Cherokee quartette of Charleston; S. C. Messrs Thomas Jenkins, first tenor; Robert Robinson, second tenor; J. Johnson, baritone; A. Nelson, bass. Those present were: Mrs. A. J. Elliott, Mrs. Anna Lester, Misses Bessie Butler, Lula Butler, Messrs L. R. Nichols, Willie Johnson, A. Handy. The singing was quite enjoyable especially Messrs A. Nelson and W. Johnson with their funny jokes. A number of young folks were delightfully entertained at an evening soiree given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wicks at their residence Bolton street, west, on last Tuesday evening. The parlor was so tastefully decorated by Miss Lula Wicks, that the entire surrounding sent forth a radiance almost defying the brilliancy of the city lights. The guests were: Meadames, Christina Reshard of Brunswick, C. Green, A. V. Rutledge, L. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. John Dennis, Misses Lula Wright, Ada Scott, C. A. Ford, Lula L. Wicks, Laura Huggins, Everlina Eugee, Messrs Henry Eugee, Robt. Davis, M. Johnson, S. F. Bynes, P. A. Harris, Prince Clarke, Arthur Wicks, and P. I. Smalls. In Mr. Bynes' toast upon the occasion he desired a repetition of the same every Tuesday evening. Fearful Odds Against Him Bedridden, alone and destitute. Such, in brief was the condition of an soldier by name of J. J. Havens; Versailles, O. For years he was troubled with Kidney disease and neither doctors nor medicines, gave him relief. At length he tried The Public is Invited to Subscribe To the Capital Stock of the Prospective PEMBROKE LAND COMPANY Beautiful Tract of Land, Situated on the Salts and Consisting OF 330 ACRES. 1st. To build a commodious pavilion and bath house on the salts and arrange suitable grounds for picnics, etc. 2nd. To build a spacious hotel for the accommodation of the Negroes of Georgia and the surrounding country. A limited amount of stock is now for sale at $25.00 per Share. Subscriptions will be received by WALTER S. SCOTT, Sec'y and Treas. 20 STATE STREET, WEST. Electric Bitters. It put him on his feet in short and now he testifies." Best on earth for Liver and Kidney troubles and all forms of Stomach and Bowels Complaints. Only 50c-Guaranteed by Knights Drug Store. COMMERCIAL BANK OF SAVANNAH, GA. Young People's Forum. An exceptionally rich and instructive program will be rendered. Mr. A. Clyde Randall, Troop "K" Tenth Cavalry serving in Cuba, will present a paper on his experiences and observations in Cuba, while defending the American flag. Prof. R. W. Gadsden, a prominent graduate of the Atlanta University will present a valuable paper upon the national subject "The Race Problem." There will be an excellent musical, both instrumental and vocal programs rendered by some of the best musical talents of the city. The Young People Christain Endeavor topic will be discussed by Mr. E. A. Overstreet, a recent graduate of Atlanta University. These literary and musical renditions will be a rare treat and most salient uplift to the strenuous times in which we live. We urge your presence. Prof Jno McIntosh, president, will preside. Masonite Column Improvement along every line should be the watch-word of every member of the various lodges. The suspension list will be published the first of the quarter. Each lodge should send in report in time. The Grand Secretary is glad to be at his post of duty again after an absence of three weeks caused by illness. Electa Chapter No. 1, O. E. S. will hold a special meeting on the fourth Friday night. Business of vital importance will be transacted. Every member is urged to be present. The regular communication of Mt. Moriah Lodge will be held on Friday evening Sept. 18, at 8:30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present, also members of sister lodges and transient brother E N. Sullivan, W. M.; J. A. Walkes, Secy. The first half of the assessment for the home is now due. Lodges should not wait until it is collected from the members, but forward the amount at once and collect from the brethren afterwards. Feel proud of the work that has been accomplished and show it by making prompt payments. As announced in these columns some time ago, every penny on the Orphans' Home has been paid and next month the school will be placed in operation. Prof. and Mrs. J. C. Styles have been selected as instructors. This is the first and only institution of the kind in the country. It is an institution that every Mason should be proud of and rally to its support. Knights Of Pythias' Notes Knights of Pythias Notes G. M. of E., Cohen is keeping his office up-to-date. Dr. Davis left St. Louis for Sheephead Bay, N. Y. The recent outing of Crescent Lodge was a success. G. C. Cresswill was with the Sir Knights at St. Louis. The members of Olympia Lodge feel proud of its large membership and expect to maintain it. K. of R. and S., Warren of Americus, is one of the best sir knights that ever filled that office. Mrs. R. L. Barnes who attended the Supreme Court I. O. O. C. at St. Louis, has returned home. Chas. Sumner Lodge has a progressive membership, and is one of the staunchest lodges in the order. Progressive Lodge is the infant in the city, but is on a substantial basis. It has some old veterans among its membership. White Rose Court of Calanthe No. 72, after meeting on Wednesday night last, gave a surprise by a grand supper to its representative to the Grand Lodge, Miss M. A. Cole. The twelfth biennial session of the Supreme Court of Calanthe at St. Louis, Mo., was the best ever held. A large delegation was present, even Honolulu was represented Georgia came in for a lion's share of the honora by the selection of Mrs. R. L. Barnes of this city of Supreme Worthy Inspectrix, and Mrs. Willie L. Catledge of Americus, Supreme Lecturer. The next session will be held at Pittaburg, Pa. COMMERCIAL BANK J. H. H. ENTLEMAN, Pres't. J. FERRIS CANN, Vice-Pres't. BARRON CARTER, CASHIER. 4 Per Cent Conducts a General banking Department wherein 4 per cent. and computed quarterly. Depo to the 10th of any month drawin This bank makes a specialty accounts and invite the accounts etc., and guarantees prompt and Conducts a General banking Business and maintains a Savings Department wherein 4 per cent. per annum is allowed on deposits and computed quarterly. Deposits in this department made prior to the 10th of any month draw interest for the full month. This bank makes a specialty of receiving and handling small accounts and invite the accounts of individuals, Lodges Societies, etc., and guarantees prompt and courteous attention. End of Bitter Fight. "Two physicians had a long and stubborn fight with an abscess on my right lung" writes J. F. Hughes of Dupont, Ga., "and gave me up. Everybody thought my time had come. As a last resort I tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. The benefit I received was striking and I was on my feet in a few days. Now I've entirely regained my health." It conquers all Coughs, Colds and Throat and Lung troubles. Guaranteed by The Knights Pharmacy Drug Store. Price 50c, and $1.00. Trial bottles free. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY TO THE North, East, South and West. The best rates to all EASTERN CITIES, FLORIDA POINTS, SAVANNAH, AMERICUS, FITZGERALD, COLUMBUS, ALBANY, MONTGOMERY, MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS, —the South and South-west. For detailed information, literature time tables, rates, etc. apply to any agent of the SEABOARD AIR LINE BAILWAY or to Your Shoes Half Soled, 50 Cents in Ten Minutes. AT DILWORTH'S. 327 West Broad Street. Fancy Work School, for children from 4:30 to 6 p. m., on Mondays and Fridays. Terms reasonable. MISS J. V. E. HOUSTON 511 Gwinnett Street, west. Dr. A. W. McKane, Bay Street Extension, near Dundee Bridge. Dr. C. McKane, 53 North Farm Street, City, Near Baltimore Wharf. Diseases of Women and Private Diseases of Men, from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. Mrs. Emma R Dennis. Wishes to inform the public of her vocal and instrumental school that will be opened on Tuesday night September 15th, at her residence, 606 Indian street. Terms reasonable. Vocal music, two lessons per week, 75 cents. Instrumental, two lessons per week, $1.50. One lesson per week $1.00. Music nights Tuesday and Friday. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Everything Fresh. Always call at Bowen & Company green grocers-coorner Perry lane and Houston stree, where you can get a choice supply of specialties. Politeness and good weight is our motto. BOWEN & CO. Bell'Phone 964. Business and maintains a Savings per annum is allowed on deposits deposits in this department made prior interest for the full month. of receiving and handling small of individuals, Lodges Societies, and courteous attention. DUNHAM TRANSFER CO. Schedule Effective Aug. 23, 1903. Wagona will run from North East corner of East Broad and Liberty streets as follows. LEAVE CITY. Weak Days—10 am, 3 am, 5 pm, 9 pm. Sundays—9 am, 11 am, 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm, 9 pm. LEAVE CATTLE PARK Week Days—12 am, 3 pm, 5 pm, 9 pm, 12 am. Sundays—11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm, 9 pm, 12 am. The Dunham Transfer Company will run special picnic wagons from East Broad and Liberty streets to Moore's Pavilion at Cattle Park, one of the most ideal places on the salts for picnics, pleasure parties etc. A splendid pavilion over the water cool and pleasant where all can come and enjoy themselves. Facilities for bathing, boat-rowing etc. Refreshments of all kinds on hand. Extra teams will be put on if needed. Our conveniently arranged vehicles will make the trips rain or shine. FARE — 20 Cents ROUND TRIP, Office 419 Bay east. Ga. Phoena 578. PIEDMONT IGE CREAM PARLOR 506 West Gwinnett street. is still inviting the public to come and be richly fed with our delicious ice cream and fine soda water. We have also secured an electric fan which will assist much in having everybody enjoy their stay while buying. All are heartily welcome S. N. and W. G. Williams To the old friends and patrons who used to have their barbering done at 323 West Broad Street, we solicit the return of your patronage. We guarantee the best service in the city, at cut-rate prices. New manager, new barbers, new management. Politeness our motto. You will find the most delicious Ice Cream and all sorts of Cool Drinks served in a beautiful parlor made of Japanese porters, and a neat dining room where first-class Lunches are served. Also a choice line of Groceries and Confectionaries. You will be entertained every Sunday by one of Edison's phonographs. Come, you will be delighted. AFIRST-CLASS Boarding and Lodging, CAN BE HAD AT MRS. JULIUS KING; At Reasonable Prices, 415 WEST WAYNE STREET. Stall No. 30 City Market, is the place to find the very best meats. Beef, Veal and Mutton. Games in season. Goods delivered in any part of city. P. A. J. McDowell. Both Phones 680 BELLEVUE ICE. CREAM PARLOR. 341 East Broad, cor. Charlton street Is the most popular and up-to-date Ice Cream parlor in the city. Our delicous Ice Cream is the talk of the town; a select line of Cool Drinks, Cakes, Candies etc. We invite you once, because we know you will come again. BROGSDALE & MUSE. Prop NOTICE. C. D. DAVIS, Manager, 323 West Broad Street. 243 Price St. FOR THE FAIR WOMEN AT WORLD'S FAIR. Miss Haywood, who is a member of the Board of Commissioners of the St. Louis Exhibition, has succeeded in having a woman's department dispensed with. She contended that women have long since gone beyond the domain of pickles, preserves and fancy work, and that they are entitled to have their work displayed by the side of that done by men. This she claimed as a right in their behalf, and the other Commissioners adopted her views. Women's work will be shown at the great Galf, but the accustomed discrimination will be eliminated. SWISS GIRLS. "I have you ever noticed how cultured the Swiss girls are?" asked an admirer of the fair residents of the land of the Alps, "As linguists few people, except cezaphs, the Russians, can match them. For a Swiss girl to know less than two languages is a rare thing; she not infrequently knows three or four. They are matchless embroiderers and kniters, and usually clever musicians. With all these they combine a distinct talent for the domesticities, and can cook or men or make for a household in a way that even the cleverest German haus-frau might admire, and they are as house-proud as the Dutch women. No wonder that, brought up in an atmosphere of domestic comfort, the Swiss benedict seeks, before all then he marries, a good manager. Her beauty is a second-rate consideration, and though he thinks it desirable that he should have money, the 'dot' is not so indispensable a thing in Switzerland and as in France." ODD STYLES IN JEWELRY. There is a great craze just now for old and barbaric jewelry. One does not need diamonds to be distinctly in style. A necklace of t. gold chain added with uncut turquoise or sapphire stones, a matrix pin, will stamp weaver as decidedly up-to-date. Bracelets, charms and lockets of jade are very popular. Coral, either rough in, polished bead form, is muchorn. Semi-precious stones are seen to a seat extent, topaz being prominent mong them. Oriental jewelry, in the shape of rules and necklaces, is beautiful but women can wear it. A necklace of uncut turquoise has a tld bead between every two blue ones, and another pretty combination pink coral alternating with white ophires. Another beautiful necklace is made two rows of seed pearls with indiant gems hanging at intervals all around. In the centre, forming a pendant, was a quantity shaped, rather age, baroque pearl, and among other nests were sapphires, amethysts, totes and moonstones. PROVERBS ABOUT WOMEN. the North American Indian is not hout his proverbs. As with his lized white brother, many deal with men. The Iroquois Indians especially, says Chileaco Inter-Ocean, have many verbs about women which are con- tently heard about the long houses. They hit deep and many miss, but the st ingenuous one is: "Woman is newhat of a mystery." Here are some of the Iroquois probs. womanhood is man's salvation. women and hens are alike when lous. omanhood and earth are both hers. presick woman scorns a feast. omen on evil bent own feet, not gs. oman without shame is an impossibly. oman is not revengeful; she is the of self-preservation. woman of no account is a family fortune, woman who is fond of finery sel- knows the beauty of nature. omen and ribbons flutter in their atmosphere. love-sleek woman knows best her plant, though she sighs to mystify relations. els should have sweethearts be they marry, for love-making follo to the end of our existence. lovable woman is her own guard-varrior. woman's conduct based upon man's ve and behavior is contemptible to mankind and nature. MALTESE LACE. Maltese lace is of necessity hand The people of Gozo, one of the se group, from which comes most lace brought to this country, deeply rooted aversion to 'labor machinery of all kinds. In mes of industry there the meth- ylogue a century ago are emo- day. The art of lacemaking is down from generation to n, and one will often find an ally beautiful design the jeal- rated secret of a single family. 23,000 population 10,286 are and girls, of whom about two lacemakers. The art has taught in the schools since it impetus given to the trade, gland and on the continent lace has long been celebrated, during the last two or three has been valued on this side of the wafer. During the last six months more lace has been invoiced to American dry-gifts houses than for forty years previous. Several firms control the work of many families on the little lace-making island. Wages are low there, and the peasant housewife is glad to add to the family exchequer by thus utilizing her spare time. As her children grow up she trailing them in the art, and it is not long before the female contingent of the family are found to be important factors in the support of the household. Among the articles made may be mentioned handkerchiefs, edging, parasol covers, pillow covers, collars, boleser, lamp shades, shawls, mantillas and even whole skirts. Silk is the chief material used, but of late there has been a demand for cotton lace.—New York Tribune. Boydoir CHAT: The Czarina of Russia has just completed her thirty-first year. The Infanta Eulalie of Spain has accepted the honorary Presidency of the Universal Alliance of Women for Peace. Mrs. James G. Blainle left an estate valued at $500,000, most of which will be inherited by Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Harriet Blainle Beale and James G. Blainle. The oldest recorded minister of the Society of Friends in the world, Mrs. Phoebe Ann Gifford, has just celebrated her 100th anniversary at her home in Providence, R. I. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Mitchell is real estate agent for three blocks of the poorest tengment-houses in Boston. She collects rents from about 500 families and carries on an extensive educational and charitable work among her tenants. In recognition of her sympathy with the rebelling American colonies, the Alaska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution proposes to erect a memorial to the Empress Catherine II. of Russia, in the Russian cathedral at Sitka. The Princess Mathilde, who completed her eighty-third year recently, is the daughter of the great Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, King of Westphalia, and was engaged when nineteen years old to marry her cousin, the future Napoleon III. Mrs. Laura Cooper, of Dowagiac, Mich., who has donated $1000 to the fund for the endowment of a chair of Christian missions at the University of Michigan, is a member of the Michigan Christian Board of Missions, which maintains a chair in the university. Miss Bird M. Wilson has been admitted to practice in the United States District and United States Circuit Courts of San Francisco, being the first woman to secure professional recognition in either court. Miss Wilson is an Illinois girl, but has been a resident of San Francisco for years. Sieh King-King, called by Western admirers the Chinese Joan of Arc, recently arrived in San Francisco to receive an American education. Her opinions are entirely occidental. She has allied herself with the Chinese reform party, and the aim of her life is to secure the political and social reconstruction of China. FADS FANCIES Some chiffon vells are of the loveliest colors. Pale blue vells are charming on pale blue hats. Three narrow tucks border a chiffon vell prettily. Placed down the shoulder the tab is an epaulette. Skirts show panel fronts which are only giant tabs. Fairly ubiquitous are the linen suits with long coats. Sheer lace is among the loveliest of fabrics for sleeves. Scroll work of ribbon is effective in trimming a lace robe. Narrow insertions trim many of the thin dresses in tab effects. Laces are used extensively for stocking appliques, as well as for whole hats. Sheer cotton's, light-weight wools and silks are all utilized for the dainty shirred dress. Toques for hard wear are fetchingly formed from straw (battlement designs, are good) and quilts. One deep sheer lace collar made of net with ruffles does duty on two tea gowns and a dressing sacque. Blue and black is a late combination in sunshades that has quite caught militady's fancy, particularly in the form of a plain blue taffeta with applications of black lace medallions. Magpid effects in parasols are always pretty. This season black and white stripes or checks are especially desirable. The stripes usually have check borders, and the checks striped borders. An imported white linen walking dress is shown with a pleated skirt, and blouse with wide polished collar trimmed with a fall of Irish lace, a red shiny leather belt, a red sunshade and a large white hat, with a border of red straw. A favored idea for fancy gowns of skin materials is to have two sash ends to the bottom of the skirt of the same material as the girdle. When silk, ribbon or velvet is used, the sash ends are sometimes finished with a deep hand-knotted fringe. Cost Him 85 to Regain His Pocket Piece After Six Years' Absence. Take an ordinary copper cep piece, stamp it with a private mark, put it into circulation and what are the chances that you will ever see it again? There is one man who says that he tried the trick and succeeded at it. He is a business man, who refuses to allow his name to be used in print about the story, but he tells the tale to many of his friends, and he vouchs for its truth. In 1894, he says, he found u n cent piece dated 1853, in the restaurant of the Lafayette Hotel. He pocketed it for luck, and as a memento of a jolly little dinner scratched his initials on it just over the feathered head, while on the cheek he added those of the hotel. Until 1806 he treasured the coin, then drew it out of his pocket with a handful of other change, and, before he realized it, the cent piece had gone the mysterious way of all money. A year ago he chanced, being of a curious turn of mind, to fall into conversation one evening with a professional beggar at Broad and Chestnut streets. He upbraided the man for getting so much money for nothing. "Oh," said the beggar, "I don't get so much. That's all I've got in the last hour," and he held up a cent piece. At that moment the electric light fell upon the coin, and the business man, to his amazement, caught sight of the letters "H. L." on the cheek of the face. He took the coin and examined it more closely. Sure enough, there were his own initials just above the fetters where he had placed them a half dozen years before. At once his prejudice against begging vanished. "I'll give you a dollar for that coin!" he cried. The beggar grew wary at his eagerness and demanded $5. Needless to say he got it, and also, of course, the cent piece has never since left the business man's watch chain.—Philadelphia Press. WISE 'WORDS. A good man does good merely by living.-Bulwer. To live long it is necessary to live slowly.-Cicero. He wants wit who wants resolved wit.-Shakespeare. The highest degree of love is sacrifice.—L'Abbe Perreyve. He repents on thorns that sleeps on beds of roses.—Quarles. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.—Carlyll. To know how to wait is the greatest secret of success.—De Malstre. Like the bee, we should make industry our amusement.—Goldsmith. Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.—Bartol. Any man may make a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.—Cicero. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.—Goethe. Fear nothing so much as sin, and your moral heroism is complete.—C. Simmons. The Special Sense of Animals. The Special Sense of Animals. Dr. Werner, of Vienna, has lately printed the results of his observations upon the special senses of animals, especially upon the sense of reptiles and amphibians. He concludes that these latter are capable of going directly toward water, which attracts them, so to say, even at long distances. Light acts upon them, independently of heat. In winter they quit warm hairs to go to sunlight. Their sight is generally good and is probably their most acute sense; yet their vision is very limited. Crocodiles cannot distinguish a man at distances above ten times their length. Fish see for only short distances. The vision of serpents is poor. The boa-constrictor, for example, can see no further than a third of its own length. Some snakes see no further than one-eighth of their length. Frogs are better endowed and see twenty times their length. The hearing of all these animals is even worse than their sight. Most reptiles are deaf, especially boa-constrictors. "Deaf as an adder" may represent a careful observation of our ancestors.—Medical News. Wealth Brings Its Cares. The good people of Carleton, bent on doing what they could to, alleviate the distress caused by the great coal strike, established bureaus of relief where needy families could procure fuel by applying for it. In most cases the applicants were deserving, but there were instances in which their benevolence was abused. One family applied at four separate stations for a load of coal. Four loads were delivered shortly afterward at the address given, and the next day the youngest member of the family, a boy, went to one of the stations and asked for a padlock. "What do you want of that, my son?" asked the man in charge of the office. "Why," he said, "we've got plenty of coal now, but some of the neighbors haven't, and we're afraid they'll steal it."-Youth's Companion. 1. A Sad Case. An interviewer speaks of an author whom he found "writing in his shirt sleeves and slippers." This is sad! When it gets so that an author can't afford blank paper for writing it is time for him to abandon the business and join the rail-splitting brigade.—Atlanta Constitution. The Reason. When a girl refuses to marry a duke it is because he refuses to ask her.— New York Press. CUT BETTER, FINISH WORSE. English Clothes Compared With the Work of American Tailors. The difference between American and English tailors was under discussion the other day by three men who have worn the clothes of both. The conclusion was that in point of finish and workmanship American clothes are superior to those made in England, but in the matter of cut the praise was given to the London maker. "The principle on which the English tailors cut a coat," said one of the three, "is the only right one. They make a coat broad over the shoulders and it hangs. "It follows only remotely the slope of the figure. The important thing is that it hangs straight, with no attempt at the kind of fitting that is the bane of American tailors. "They want every curve to be indicated in the form of the coat. They may not make a coat tight, but, in any event, its lines will follow the figure of the wearer to an extent that no English tailor would ever thing of attempting. "Loose clothes are, of course, the only kind that are now smart. Anything tight is shunned like the plague. The tailor does best now who makes a coat loose and yet suggestive of the wearer's outlines. "This result is attainable only by cutting clothes on the English principle, which is to fit the shoulders well and then let the rest of the coat hang from them. Few American tailors have ever learned the secret of making coats in that way." If the superiority of the Englishmen in the matter of fit was acknowledged unanimously; there was equal accord as to the superiority of the American tailor in the matter of finish. "English clothes," said another man, "may be made at the most expensive shops, and they will still begin to wear at the linings after a few weeks. "The silk used is often as good as the best employed here, but for one reason or another linings do not last. They begin to rip, too, almost immediately, because they are badly sewed. "I used to think that my tailor was possibly careless because he thought I was an American and would take anything. So I was constantly complaining until I learned that this was a peculiarity of all London clothes. "Personally I would much rather have a well-cut coat than a well-lined one, but all men are not of my opinion." -Sun. The London School Children: The-London School Board's report on the degenerate condition of a large percentage of the school children has caused a profound sensation. Two per cent. of the pupils are declared to be so deficient as to be unteachable; ten per cent. have so defective eyesight that they are thrown back in their work; another ten per cent's hearing is seriously defective, and one per cent, have defects in their ears, which lead to a fatal result. Classes have been opened in sixty-one centres for feeble-minded children, while the percentage of actual imbeciles has grown so that the asylum accommodations at present available are entirely insufficient. Early marriages, underfeeding, drunken parents, bad air and neglect are mentioned as causes of this terrible state of affairs.-Philadelphia Press. Are Hair Brushes Harmful? "The hairbrush is responsible for much of the baldness that we see," a barber said. "It irritates the scalp. It destroys the little, delicate, tender follicles of hair that are trying their best to get on in the world." "What would you substitute for the hairbrush, the comb?" a man asked. "By no means. I'd substitute rubbing with the hands—massage. A little massage morning and evening, with a shampoo once a week, would keep the hair in excellent condition. It would encourage new hair to grow, whereas the vigorous brushing that is so common scares and kills" all the feeble new hairs as soon as they sprout out. The brush and comb should only be used to part and arrange the hair—for about a half-minute, that is, daily."—Philadelphia Record. Inconveniently Long. The late Rev. Dr. Boardman, of Philadelphia, used to relate the following on himself: "I preached a funeral sermon at one time, and spoke on the resurrection. I am sure I spoke longer than was my custom. "The undertaker was a man of nervous temperament, and as the afternoon was going he began to be anxious to be on the way to the cemetery. He finally whispered to one of my members: 'Does your minister always preach as long as that at a funeral?' " "Well," said the brother, "that is a good sermon." "Yes,' said the undertaker, 'the sermon is all right, and I believe in the resurrection, but I am afraid if he does not stop pretty soon I will not get this man buried in time."—Philadelphia Ledger. A New Cure For Nerves. The latest cure for pervious diseases, according to a Swiss doctor, is tea made with melted snow. The snow ought to be first melted and the water then boiled. The taste of tea thus made is insipid and slightly disagreeable, but it is said to have a very soothing effect upon the nerves, and in many cases nervous people have been cured when all other remedies had failed. Temple of Serpents. The small town of Werda, in the kingdom of Dahomey, is celebrated for its temple of serpents, a long building in which the priests keep upwards of 1000 serpents of all sizes, which they feed with birds and frogs, brought to them as offerings by the natives. Atlantic Coast Line RAILROAD COMPANY. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. ATLANTIC COAST LINE travel between the North, and Cuba. The route of the da Special, The Florida and Chicago and Florida Limited. Ed. Pullman Sleeping, Drinkin through trains. Tickets sold points in the United States, Representatives - will cheer rates, schedules, Sleeping and H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager, Wilmington, N. O. Division Pas ATLANTIC COAST LINE, the great thoroughfare of travel between the North, East and West, and Florida and Cuba. The route of the famous New York and Florida Special, The Florida and West India Limited and the Chicago and Florida Limited. Passenger service unexcelled. Pullman Sleeping, Dining and Observation Cars on through trains. Tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in the United States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico. Representatives -will cheerfully give all information as to rates, schedules, Sleeping and Dining Car service, etc. H. M. EMERSON W. J. CRAIG. BIRDS WITH ODD WAYS. All birds live in more or less close relation to the earth, but some are peculiarly associated with it, or depend upon it more especially for certain requirements. Not the least interesting of these are the burrowing owls. These, unlike their tree or tower-haunting relatives, make their home underground, digging their tunnels together, and laying their eggs at the farther end. Here in the darkness the little owlets are hatched, and here they are fed on fat grasshoppers and mice until they are able to climb up and look upon the world for themselves. It is curious that these owls, which of all their family would seem to have the best practice in the dark, are not nocturnal, but dig their burrows, catch their food and do their courting in broad daylight. Ostriches may be mentioned as types of birds which have found it so good for them to spend their life in running that they are without the power of flight, and are nyer able to rise above the ground—"winged creatures" of the earth, not the "air." The bird which is pre-eminently of the earth earthly lives in the far antipodes—Australia and the Philippine Islands. It is the megapode, or mound builder, and has the curious habit of burying its eggs in the ground or in a mound of leaves and dirt, leaving them—reptile-like to hatch from the heat generated in the pile of decaying vegetation. It is thought that the parents never see their offspring, which are fully feathered when they leave the egg and able to dig out and fly at once. This unusual development at birth is made possible by the great amount of nourishing yolk in the eggs, which are very large in proportion to the size of the bird. Think of a member of this class of birds, made to spend its life partly in the air, hatching in a tightly packed, damp mound of earth six feet below the surface. We cannot censure the parents for shirking the responsibilities of incubation when we think of the enormous amount of work necessary to collect such masses of rubbish, which measure sometimes 50 feet in circumference and 14 feet in height. Of course, this is not collected in one year, but it is a great undertaking for birds no larger than our common grouse. Thus we see man cannot take the credit of having first used an artificial incubator to hatch the eggs of birds—Good Literature. CAPTAIN JIM'S ANTICS. Captain Jim has a tank all to himself at the Aquarium, and although all the people are warned not to go too near him, none of them follow the warning. He is one of those quiet sea lions which rolls about in a lazy way just as though he did not know that he was alive. He has two small black eyes, which he keeps half closed, and you would think to look at him that he never saw anything or took any notice of the persons who constantly pass his tank. There is no danger of him splashing anybody, says the boys with the new suits. The girls with the new hats and the new dresses laugh at the idea of Captain Jim being impolite, and they gather in groups about him. The mothers of the children, although they are afraid that their hats will be ruined, soon forget about the sign, and stand over the tank to see the sea lion. Captain Jim waits until he can see at least three women with fine hats and their children in their best clothes. Them, with a blow of his slippers, he sends sheets and showers of water over the group which has gathered about him and rolls down to the bottom of the tank shaking with laughter—New York Herald. --- the great thoroughfare of East and West, and Florida and famous New York and Floridan West India Limited and the Passenger service unexcellent and Observation Cars on and baggage checked to all Canada, Cuba and Mexico. Finally give all information as to Dining Car service, etc. W. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. H. LEAHY, Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga. THE LITTLE PINK MAGNOLIA. There was quite a stir in the first botany class, as Fred Stapleton came in from the country, on Monday morning, with a pink magnolia in his hand, The Stapletons owned a big plantation just out of town, and Fred rode in on horseback every day. The botany class crowded about him. At recess the botany teacher took up the matter, and the principal and his assistants discussed the strange phenomenon behind closed doors. The magnolia was as much a native of this Southern town as the people themselves, but never before had a pink one made its appearance. The news of it spread to all quarters, and curious visitors stopped at the schoolhouse. Fred was called from his classes a dozen times that day to tell of his find, and this quiet, unassuming little chap ran the risk of becoming quite a fion through the fame of the pink magnolia. "Is this the first pink one?" asked the botany teacher. "Yes, sir, all the others are white, and there's nothing, strange about the tree," answered Fred. "It's a remarkable freak of nature. I shall take the class to your house on Saturday afternoon; this may prove a valuable discovery. If you find any more, Fred, be sure and bring them to school." The daily paper made quite an item of the pink magnolia. Fred begged them not to mention where it came from, as their place would be besieged, and if there should happen to be any more such valuable specimens they would certainly be stolen. So the article merely stated that: "A wonderful and rare magnolia has been discovered on a plantation near the city." Then followed a vivid description. When the botany class went out in the country to investigate there was, unfortunately, not one to be seen. Fred, however, had brought a couple of buds the day before; so the interest was keen enough to hold them, clustered around the famous tree, studying it root and branch, and jotting down notes and figures in quite a botanical way. Just then Mr. Stapleton cam riding up the road. Seeing the little group under the tree, he dismounted and joined them, much amused. "Hello!" he said. "Trying to dig up my magnolia?" "Oh, no," exclaimed the botany teacher. "Fred has created quite a sensation with his pink magnolia, and we've taken it up in the class." At this, Mr. Stapleton threw back his head and laughed like a boy. "The rascal!" he cried. "He tried the same prank on his mother and me, and I must say he took us in. Out with it, youngster, and tell them how you did it: Fred was choking with suppressed laughter, but he managed to say: "I—I dissolved some cochineal—and—and dipped them in—that's all." Then quite overcome, he rolled on the grass, while the first clams in botany generously joined in the fun—Pittsburg Dispatch. THE COOL BEDROOM. To have a cool bedroom in summer, one should remove all draperies and knicknacks. If possible have matting on the floor, with light, cool-looking rugs and dainty white washable curtains. The bedding should be light and open. Nothing is so good as white for walls, cellings and furnishings. It is the most restful and coolest looking color. No one could be cool in a red bedroom. Yellow is too trying to the nerves. Green is very soothing and blue cool and restful. But white is most sanitary and stands less chance of becoming monotonous. do not sigh for childhood's days, As singers often do; I will not miss those guileless sports What I will me black and blue; I should sigh care to climb a free And eat marmalate fruit, Nor struggle with examples which Den now I can't compute. HOW I FOUND MY WIFE. BY PETER QUINCE. "Yes, I answered, "and to the sweetest little woman in the world." "Of course you think so," said my friend; "but I cannot understand how one who was such a confirmed cynic as yourself could be so easily caught. Iray tell me how it was?" And so, with my feet on the old desk, and myself cozily ensconced in one of the huge armchairs with which every lawyers office is or ought to be adorned, I told my old friend, Harvey Burt, how I found my wife. for a little amusement. When the hot weather camp on, I did not care a fig for Long Branch or Saratoga; I had been to Newport and the Spings, and, by the way, they bore you horribly; and so I began to look about for some quiet spot where I could have a month's fishing and shooting. The village of N—attracted my attention, and I went at once, rejoiced to think that I might have quiet and peace, no match-making mammas, with marriageable daughters, no extra toilers for a dinner; but a quiet home, where I could do as I pleased. N—, you know, is on Long Island Sound, and I rejoiced in the prospect of boating and bathing, without the nuisance that infest a fashionable watering place. But as the lumbering old stage drove up to the door of the Akerman House, the only hotel in the place, I saw at a glance that my dream of peace was dispelled. Young women! Bigh! Harrey—and such young women! I assure you that I was cyed and commented on for at least an hour by three or four amiable damsels, who were on the lookout for 'something new.' I went to my room and made ready for supper, as they styled it, and had the honor of an introduction to several of them at the table. One attracted more than a passing notice, and in the evening I found myself flirting with Miss Hall, after the most approved fashion. Such a girl, Harvey! You never saw the mate for her!" * "Was she your divinity?" —rather good-looking, gifted with a tongue, and a correct knowledge of its use—believing firmly in what Thackeray says of Becky Sharpe, 'That any woman with a knowledge of herself, and a little common sense, and persistence, may marry whom she likes.' This was Miss Hall's creed. To make a long story short—we flirted all the time, and until we were the talk of the house. But I began to tire of the game, and to wish for something new. "One night, as I rowed Miss Hall to the village, we met a party of three coming up with Tim, our porter—two ladies and a gentleman—one was an invalid. Harvey, that face, with its look of utter weariness, haunted me. There's no use to describe it. It wouldn't bear it, but I thought it the sweetest face I ever saw. It was more than a week before I saw it again, though I had been dreaming of it continually. "One night, as I came in from a bath, on entering the hall, I saw a pair of little feet, in red slippers. Laugh if you will, you rascal, but those slippers, or rather, their contents, finished me. As I advanced I saw the same face—the 'invalid was at last able to be downstairs—and I was introduced to Ella Benton. Of course I dropped Miss Hall, thereby causing much scandal. I had thought to win an easy victory with the newcomer, but the cool way in which she repelled my attentions put me at my wits' ends, and I made a mental vow to drop flirting. By what particular process I came to that conclusion it would be difficult to explain. I tried everything. I felt myself falling in love, and suppose that I showed it. I proposed on a week's acquaintance, and was quickly refused. Nothing daunted, I determined on a change of base. I asked her to consider me her friend—and only that, for life—a true friend. I got that foothold, trusting to kindness and little attentions to win, but all failed. "I saved her life. Harvey, taking a cold bath, and spolling a suit of clothes in her behalf, and got coldly thanked in return. Then I tried the letting-alone process, and that was the most complete failure of all. I announced my departure. She was sorry—valued me as a friend, and all that sort of thing, but nothing more. Plue was mingled with despair in my mind; I did not want to give her up. I had said I was going, and I must go. I proposed again and got 'no' for an answer. I vowed that I would set out at once for Marks. She told me that it really did not concern her in the beast. I got angry and left N—. But I could not drive her face out of my memory. "Three weeks ago while on a trip to Montreal I stopped all night at Rutland, and the first name on the register at least the first that I saw—was Ella Benton. I sent up my card, but she would not receive me. I came down in the morning, and turning to the clerk's desk put my hand, in my pocket for my wallet; I went back to my room—no wallet. I was a stranger in the place without money. The clerk openly expressed his belief that I was a fraud. Quite a crowd gathered around me as I endeavored to explain the matter. Just at this moment a lady passed through the hall and bowed to me, though very distantly. It was Miss Benton. "In a few moments she sent for me. I went up wonderingly, and as I entered she arose and said: "Mr. Hirst, I heard accidentally, of of your misfortune. Will you oblige me by using this check, which you can replace at your convenience?" "I tried to stammer out a refusal, but she would not hear to it." "Well," said I, "Miss Bunton, I will accept your kindness, but I have no security to offer unless—unless it is myself." "Which I will accept cheerfully," said the little woman. "Do you really mean it?" said I, hardly knowing whether I was asleep or awake. "Why, yes," she said. "I am very strict about money matters, and as you have no other security I suppose I must take you. Are you satisfied?" "Why, you know my answer, of course, old fellow, and we were married then and there. But I say, Harvey, there's one thing I've forgotten entirely. I never returned that check to my wife."—New York Weekly. *A Diplomatic Incident. In his "Chapters From My Diplomatic Life" in the Century, Andrew D. White writes: Least pleasing of all duties was looking after fugitives from justice or birds of prey evidently seeking new victims. On this latter point, I recall an experience which may throw some light on the German mode of watching doubtful persons. A young American had appeared at various public places wearing a naval uniform to which he was not entitled, declaring himself a son of the President of the United States, and apparently making reading for a career of scoundrelism. Consulting the Minister of Foreign Affairs one day, I mentioned this case, asking him to give me such information as came to him. He answered: "Remind me at your next visit, and perhaps I can show you something." On my calling, some days later, the Minister handed me a paper on which was inscribed, apparently, not only every place the young man had visited during the past week, but everything he had done and said, his conversations in the restaurants being noted with especial care, and while the man was evidently worthless, he was clearly rather a fool than a scoundrel. On my expressing surprise at the fulness of this information, the Minister seemed quite as much surprised at my supposing it possible for any good government to exist without such complete surveillance of suspected persons. Indians Have Hard Tooth "A remarkable thing—and one which very few people know—is that the teeth of an Indian are much harder and in every way stronger that the average white man's teeth," remarked a downtown dentist; "and I had ample occasion, one morning last week, to test and almost destroy every instrument in my shop. "A red man came in and wanted me to extract a tooth and fix his mouth up in general. So I proceeded to work, and after a half hour of the hardest sort of work and breaking my strongest forceps, I managed to pull the aching molar. Another thing I discovered was that the Indian's vaunted stolcism to pain is a myth. This fellow behaved worse than an infant of five years, and I was about to tell him to consult another dentist when he pituously begged me to complete the job, as he had been refused by many dentists to do the work. "Of course, I finished the job, though before I got through I had turned the edges of fifteen or twenty drills. I have often heard of the hardness of the Indian's tooth, but never before did I actually experience the ordeal, both for him and myself, of working upon them, and in the future I'm of the opinion I, too, will shirk the responsibility of working upon them with ordinary tools."-Washington Post. The Making of Books. Books are now multiplied to such a degree that it is impossible to read them all or even to know their number and titles. One large publisher last year sold 1500 tons of a certain set of books, or 3,000,000 pounds. That is only a drop in the bucket. When all the output is considered. Fortunately one is not obliged to read all that is published, either by the volume or the pound. Lubbock's hundred:books idea was appropriated from a man who wanted to write a hundred follo volumes and employ the temporal and spiritual power to compel people to read them—New York Press. Saw a Group of Tornadoes. At Oakley the other day the people witnessed the spectacle of five tornadoes whirling along at the same time. They would dart their snakelike tails toward the ground, drawing them up to dart again, but only one reached the earth. This one tore things up for about twenty minutes in passing over a considerable scope of country, and then vanished aloft in a purple-black cloud.-Kansas City Journal. CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT! Historical Puzzle. Colonel Knox's, detachment taking cannon from Tleconderoga to Boston. Find Colonel, Knox and his adjutant. WHAT DO THEY TALK ABOUT? What d the robins whisper about From the houses in the elms and birches? I've tried to study the riddle out; But still in my mind is many a doubt. In spite of deep researches. While over the world is silence deep, In the twilight of early dawning. They begin to chirp and twitter and peep, As if they were talking in their sleep, At three o'clock in the morning. Perhaps the little ones stir and complain That it's time to be up and doing; But we want to strain To coax them back to their dreams again, Though distant cocks are crowing. Or do they tell secrets that should not be heard By mortals listening and prying? Perhaps might learn from some whisher word. pering word The best way to bring up a bird, Or the wonderful art of flying. It may be they speak of an autumn day When, with many a feathered roamer, Under the clouds so cold and gray, Over the hille they take their way In search of the vanished summer. It may be they gossip from nest to nest, Hidden and less folded; For do not often hear it confessed When a longknent secret at last is guessed. When a long-kept secret at last is guessed, That "a little bird has told it?" They give me no hint or warning. Listen, and tell me if you find out What do the robins talk about At three o'clock in the morning? —R. S. Palfrey, in Every Other Sunday. The squirrel that did not Know. When Bobbie came near them the squirrels in the park sat up and looked curiously at him, with their heads on one side and their tails curled over their backs. That is, all but one of them did. Bobbie stopped all at once, when he saw that one, and gave a little gasp. He went closer, to make sure, and held out a nut. The squirrel crept toward Historic Colonel Knox's detachment taking Find Colonel Knox and his adjutant. him, stopped once or twice, and then snatched the nut from his hand and scampered away. It was true. The squirrel had no tail! Bobble watched it for a while, with a sorry feeling in his heart. It must be a terrible thing, he thought, to be a squirrel-without a tail. He wondered how it happened to be gone; whether a stray dog had caught the squirrel or whether one of the hinged doors of the boxes on the limbs of the trees had closed on it. Anyhow, the tail was gone, and the squirrel was a cripple, like a man without an arm. The squirrel looked at Bobble with its bright little eyes and the boy held out another nut. As it had before, the squirrel came up bit by bit and took it. It made Bobble's eyes fill with tears to see the little stub of a tail, and he turned away. One of the keepers of A boy kneeling in a wooded area reaches out to a rooster. the park, an old soldier-who had lost an arm, was coming down the walk. "If you please, sir," said Bobble to the man, "can you tell me how the squirrel lost its tail?" The Power of Prompt Decision. welghing all the arguments, for end against, until the brain becomes confused and incapable of clear judgment. Such a 'habit' is one of the greatest disgaliors of mental power, and the man who allows himself to-become its victim is foredoomed to failure. A young man who starts out to succeed, must resolve firmly that he will not become a prey to indecision, that he will suffer the consequences of mistakes rather than be forever digging up matters de novo. He should make up his mind not to act hastily, or without proper consideration of the thing in hand, but to use his best judgment in arriving at a decision, and then, without hesitation or reconsideration of the arguments for and against, try to execute it with all his might. If he finds he has made a mistake he must not be discouraged; he has had a new experience, which will prove helpful to him in the future, and the benefit accruing to him from the practice of self-reliance, prompt, unwavering decision, will be of infinitely greater value to him than a successful move would have been had he hesitated, welged, and considered, reconsidered, and changed his mind over and over again before making a final decision. Many people of great ability do not succeed to any extent because of the weakness of their power of decision. They seem incapable of acting independently. They must see their friends and consult their neighbors before they can tell what to do about the simplest thing. They must think it over and over until the brain grows weary of the treadmill round forced upon it; and the more they think it over, the more consultations they have about it, the less able are they to reach any conclusion. So they go through life, halting, uncertain, robbed of their strength, deprived of the large success they were fitted by their ability to win, because of this fatal lack of power to decide for themselves, and to decide promptly. The Survival of the Best. In answering our correspondent's very interesting question, therefore, we must first state what is meant by "fittest" and what is meant by "best." By "fittest" we mean that which is best able to adapt itself to its environment. Perhaps it would do to define "best" as that which will contribute most to the advancement of the race. Let us take a few concrete illustrations, which will show how the survival of the fittest sometimes causes the best to go under. Very often in the intense competition of business, the most unscrupulous man wins out. Though he shows his fitness by winning the fight, surely he is not the best competitor who could have won. Sometimes the man who adulterates his goods can sell them at a lower figure than the man who is selling the genuine, pure article. He may succeed in driving the honest dealer out of business. His survival shows his fitness, but does not indicate that he was the best who could have survived. The man who weaves cotton in with his wool can manufacture his cloth cheaper and by misrepresentation sell it for "all wool." Being able to undersell the manufacturer of the real article, he may beat him out. -Judging success by ordinary standards, those men who have shown their greatest fitness by the degree of their success are of the Rockefeller and Morgan type. These are far from representing our best types of citizenship. In a state of nature, where no artificial conditions exist, the survival of the fittest generally does mean the survival of the best. But, in a state of civilization, such as we live in, with its conventions, usages, restraints and inequalities of wealth, social position and opportunity, it may mean something very different. Our present system tends to let the fittest survive, but the fittest are often those who demand least. Now the man who demands least is the one who has the fewest necessities, and he is usually the least highly organized and therefore the lowest type. Another false notion which seems very prevalent is, that the survival of the fittest implies the killing off of a lot of people. This does not follow from the law at all. Though the establishment of the principle of the survival of the fittest may appear as something which is purely theoretical and abstract, it has very practical applications. We learn at least two things from it. One is that our aim in all legislative and other acts should be to try to make conditions such that the majority are fittest. The second is, that we should strive so to organize society in future that the fittest who survive are the best, i. e., those most desirable to society.—New York American. Motives of "Settlement" - Others undoubtedly take up settlement work under the influence of the old idea that a missionary must go away, or be sent away, to proclaim a beneficent flat lux, over a people sitting in darkness. Beyond a peradventure, some people must "go away somewhere" to find their work. But there are cases where people have gone away from their proper work to find it; for a good deal of the world's work lies at people's elbows, and nudges them—Good Housekeeping. Men Who Do Things. None-of our contemporary hallucinations leads more certainly to ultimate weariness and indifferentism than the exclusive glorification of "men who do things." Study the faces of the "men who do things," of the "men of to-morrow," as you find them presented in the illustrated periodicals. They are strong, straightforward faces, the sign of a powerful, high-geared bodily mechanism. These men are the winners in the game which our generation has set itself to play. But many of the faces are singularly hard, insensitive untouched by meditation. If we have purchased speed and power at the cost of nobler qualities, if the men who do things are bred at the expense of the men who think and feel, surely the present american model needs model T The man stopped. "No." he said, "no one knows. We saw it late one afternoon, as sound and well as any squirrel in the park, but the next morning we noticed that its tail was gone." "Oh," said Bobble, with wide eyes, "how do you suppose it happened?" "A dog, I guess," replied the man. "I am so sorry for the poor squirrel," began Bobble. "You needn't be," said the keeper. "Unless I am very much mistaken the squirrel does not know that its tail is gone." "Not know its tail is gone!" echoed Bobble. "What do you mean?" The man looked at the empty sleeve of his blue coat. "My arm was shot off in a battle a long time ago, before you were even born, but some days it seems to me it is still there. I try to curl up the fingers on the hand of that arm, just as I used to do before it was taken off. Sometimes it seems to me the fingers itch, and I forget myself and reach for the hand. If I couldn't see and feel with my other hand that it is gone I don't believe I should ever know it." "Yes, sir," said Bobbie, eagerly, "and the squirrel—" "Just so," smiled the man. "A squirrel cannot see its tail and has no hands to feel for it. Look here!" He held out a nut, and the squirrel, not content with the two Bobble had given it, crept closer to them. Suddenly the man gave a sharp cry that startled, the squirrel, and it halted, trembling. The man clicked two nuts together, and Bobble, who was watching the queer stub of a tail, saw it turn up, just as if the whole tail were there. The keeper tossed the nut to the squirrel. Then he turned to Bobble. A "Did you see that stub of a tail try to curl?" he asked. "Well, I am sure that the squirrel never knew but what its tail was curled over its back, as nice as any squirrel's." "Yes, sir," said Bobble, "and its eyes were just as bright and happy as any squirrel's, too. I know it thinks it has a tail. I am glad it does." And now every afternoon Bobble al Puzzle. cannon from Ticonderoga to Boston. figure than the in driving the but does not f The man w cheaper and by sell the manuf Judging su greatest fitness gan type. Thes In a state of fittest generally tion, such as w of wealth, soc ferent. Our present those who dem the fewest need fore the lowest Another for the fittest impl the law at all. Though the may appear a very practical We learn a One is that make condition The second fittest who su York American Motiv hunts up the keeper, and together they feed the squirrel without a tall, which is the happiest squirrel in all the park. -Leslie W. Quirk, in Chicago Record-Herald. W ALPHABETIC TONGLIE TWISTERS (Try to say these quickly, yet correctly). 1-A. Where was the Ailment of Andrew Air pump's Aunt? 2.-B. Billy Button bought a butter'd biscuit; Did Tilly Button buy a butter'd biscuit? If Billy Button bought a butter'd biscuit, Where's the butter'd biscuit Billy Button bought? 3.-C. Captain Crackskull crack'd a Catchpoll's Cockscomb; Did Captain Crackskull crack a Catchpoll's Cockscomb? If Captain Crackskull cracks a Catchpoll's Cockscomb, Where's the Catchpoll's Coxscomb Crackskull crack'd? 4.-D. Davy Dolldrum dream'd he drove a Dragon; Did Davy Dolldrum dream he drove a Dragon. A If Davy Dolldrum dream'd he drove a Draa t Where's the Dragon Davy Dolldrum dream'd he drove? 5. E. Enoch Elkrig ate an empty Eggshell; Did Enoch Elkrig eat an empty Eggshell? If Enoch Elkrig ate an empty Eggshell, Where's the empty Eggshell Enoch Elkrig ate? 6. F. Francis Fribble figured on a Frenchman's Filly; Did Francis Fribble figure on a Frenchman's Filly? If Francis Fribble figured on a Frenchman's Filly. Where's the Frenchman's Filly, Francis Fribble figured on? Washington Star. A man is held on good as he thinks he is, or as had he wide thinks him. competitive str None-of our weariness and things." Study row," as you strong, straight mechanism. T has set itself to untouched by n of nobler qualities. man who thinks HE man who makes up his mind quickly and firmly has an infinitely better chance of success than the one who is always hovering on the brink of hesitation and uncertainty. The temptation to open up and reconsider should be cut off immediately, for to be weak in your power of decision is to be shorn of most of your strength. One of the most dangerous habits in which a youth can indulge is that of weighing, balancing, reconsidering, and making up his mind, and yet again reconsidering, balancing, and By Frederick Brelthut. CORRESPONDENT asks, "Is it the survival of the best?" No, it is not. At times, the survival of the very worst. Of course, the words "fittest and their meanings vary accents. What is best at one time. What is fittest under one state. Answering our correspondent's very first state what is meant by "fittest" and "a fittest" we mean that which is best perhaps it would do to define "best" advancement of the race. We take a few cartoon illustrations, most sometimes causes the best to go wrong in the intense competition at ours. Though he shows his fitness, the best competitor who could have won times the man who adulterates his man the man who is selling the genuine honest dealer out of business, he does not indicate that he was the best man who weaves cotton in with him and by misrepresentation sell it for manufacturer of the real article, he is success by the degree of their success. These are far from representing our state of nature, where no artificial condition does mean the survival of the man as we live in, with its conventions, his social position and opportunity. Present system tends to let the fittest do demand least. Now the man who best necessities, and he is usually the lowest type. Other false notion which seems very important the killing off of a lot of people all. With the establishment of the principle dear as something which is purely technical applications, learn at least two things from it. It is that our aim in all legislative and conditions such that the majority are a second is, that we should strive so that no survive are the best, i.e., those American. tives of "Set CORRESPONDENT asks, "Is the survival of the fittest always the survival of the best?" No, it is not. At times, the survival of the fittest means the survival of the very worst. Of course, the words "fittest" and "best" are relative terms and their meanings vary according to the time and the conditions. What is best at one time is the opposite at another. What is fittest under one set of conditions is utterly unfit By Ellen Burns Sherman. HIMSICAL wonder is tempted quantities, the X Y Z of mo woman's election of college set a certain per cent—a large creditable to such college. B remaining per cent., has the w Sirene nively confesses that partly to show how, the other HIMSICAL wonder is tempted to figure upon those unknown quaintities, the X Y Z of motives that lie behind the college woman's election of college settlement work. One may concede a certain per cent—a large one, indeed—of motives wholly creditable to such workers. But of the composite nature of the remaining per cent, has the world any conception? Sirene naively confesses that she "went into settlement work." partly to show how, the other half lived, partly because she wanted to "study a new type," and partly because "doing settlement work" sounds better than "living at home." By Bliss Perry, Editor of The Atlantic. JADED millionaire trying to get pleasure out of a too long deferred holiday in Europe is one of the most depressing spectacles. For twenty or thirty years he has been amassing a fortune with the pluck and energy which we all admire. And here he is, set down in Paris or Dresden or Florence, ignorant of the language, the history, the architecture, the ideas of the country. He is a good fellow, but he is homesick, listless, in different. He is taking his holiday too late. Curiosity, imagination, sympathy, zest, have burned out of him in that fierce annah Tribune. Capt. J. I. Washington of Beaufort, was in the city Monday. Mrs. Cindora H. Jones left last week for Waycross and Brunswick. Miss I. Vella Harrison of Thomasville is bringing her sister on Bolton street. Mrs. Burgess returned home last summer an extended trip to Florida, Alabama. Mrs. Patina Reshard of Brunswick is visiting the city, the guest of Miss Lula L. Wicks. Mrs. G. A. Horton, after spending quite a pleasant time at Pembroke, Ga., returned home last week. The many friends of Mr. S. M. Jackson are glad to know that he is convalescing after being ill for some time. Mrs. B. M. Denslow has returned to the city after a pleasant stay with relatives in Sheldon, Burton and Beaufort, S. C. Miss Blanche Gibbs, formerly of this city, will be married to Mr. William Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. J. E. Zealay, clerk at the Naval Station at Port Royal, was in the city on Monday. Mr. Zealay is an excellent young man with a host of friends. Mr. Getis Jenkins, and Miss Francis Sapp were happily married on last Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. T. M. Williamson, B. D., tied at. Catherine Brown of Lynchburg, left for her home last Wednesday night. Miss Jennie W. Bugg accompanied her to enter school Monday. Miss Amanda Robinson left on Sunday night for Tuskegee to attend the institute. She is taking on all the trades and expects to return proficient in it. Mrs. Victoria Deming of Brunswick who has been spending the past several weeks very pleasantly in the city, the guest of Capt. and Mrs. J. S. Starr, has returned home. Dr. C. P. Johnson of Washington, Ga., will lecture at St. Paul C. M. E. church Monday night Sept. 14. His subject will be "Any Thing and Every Thing. Wit and Wisdom." Miss F. A. Olyde returned home last Sunday after a very pleasant stay of two months accompanied by Mrs. M. B. Branham and Mrs. Jas. R. Davis. They report a very pleasant stay. Misses Rupert and Bessie L. Williams two of Warrenton's charming ladies and Rev. O. A. Wingfield, A. B., of Morris Brown College were the guests of Mrs. Rubie B. Jones at Gnyton Ga. Mrs. R. L. Irby returned to her home at Metter, last Thursday after a three weeks stay with her mother, Mrs. Geo. W. Sapp, Sr., who is very ill. We hope for Mrs. Sapp, a speedy recovery. Mr. Wallace O. P. Sherman Jr., who has been on the sick list for the past few weeks left on Wednesday for Chauncy Ga., to spend a few weeks with relatives and friends. We wish for his early recovery. Prof. E. E. Curtright of the High Point Normal and Industrial School, High Point, N. O., spent the week in the city among friends. Prof. Curtright is a graduate of the Atlanta University and is a young man of much ability. Mr. William Edwards formerly of this city, but who has been in New York for the past several years, visited his son, Mr. Engena Edwards at 511 Herndon street last month. He spent most of his time with his family at Thebes. He will return north next week, via the Clyde line from Charleston. Rev. W. W. Walker, pastor of Midway Presbyterian church, spent a few days in the city this week, the guest of Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Caldwell. Rev. Walker is a young man of much ability and is well liked by his people in Liberty county. Knowing ones say that the reverend is in love with Savannah or some fair one in Savannah. B. L. Perry, tonsorial artist. All work satisfactory done by first class barbers. 308 Drayton street. Ring up Ga. Phone 870 or call at 2 State west and have Jackson the plumber give an estimate on your swer connections. Don't wait until the city force on to make your sewer connections but see Jackson the plumber at No. 2 State street, west and have him attend to your plumbing at once and save you further trouble. Terms reasonable, satisfaction guaranteed a. Phone 870. What is Life? In the last anaysis nobody knows, it we do know that is under strict w. Abuse that law even slightly, in results. Irregular living means rangement of the organs, resulting in Constipation, Headache or ver trouble. Dr. King's New fe Pills quickly re-adjusts this. is gentle, yet thorough. Only 25c Knight's Pharmacy. Savannah was honored by a visit from Mr. G. W. Crawford. He will be remembered as the law student at Yale who won the Townsend prize at the commencement exercises. He has won several prizes in class competition. Mr. Crawford is a graduate of Talledega College, and for the past three years he matriculated at the law department of Yale, where he won signal honors. After his graduation he was appointed temporary clerk in the probate court at New Haven, since which time he has been offered the permanent clerkship upon the resignation of the regular clerk. He may accept for the present, but he is determined to come south and practice his profession. Mr. Crawford arrived in the city on Tuesday night from New Haven and that evening he spoke at the First Congregational Church to an appreciative audience. He left the same evening for Tuskeges. He may return to the city on his way North the latter part of the month. Labor Day. Monday was Labor day, and it was celebrated in a becoming way by the various unions. On this occasion the white unions did not officiate with the colored but the showing made by the latter was one to be proud of. The parade was formed on Liberty street and marched through the principal business streets. All along the line the streets were thronged. The various unions were becomingly uniformed and presented a neat appearance. After the parade the various unions divided up by having picnics at Lincoln park, the Fair grounds and Stiles' park. Each of these picnics were well attended. Sermon to Young Men. At the evening service to-morrow at the First Congregational church, Rev. A. Clyde Randall will preach a special sermon to the young men of this city. They are cordially invited to attend. Rev. Randall is an earnest and practicable speaker and undoubtedly his message to the young men will be one of upliftment. The service commences at 8:30 o'clock. Music will be one of the features. Last Sunday evening holy communion was administered. Rev. W. A. Clarke of McIntosh conducted the service. Several members were received. Locals. Miss Maria Sheftall is visiting friends in Macon. Mrs. J. W. Scott, little Cassie May and her mother are home from Atlanta. Mr. Alex. Fields of Hardeeville, spent a few days in the city this week the guest of his sister, Mrs. Rebecca James. After several weeks vacation with relatives at Millen, Miss Maud Spencer and her sister, Lucile, returned home on Monday. The Georgia Artillery will be inspected on Monday night by Col Obear, Inspector General. The other companies will be inspected later. Mr. John C. Butler of 508 Charlton street, east, who has been sick for the past two weeks is reported somewhat better at this writing. Miss Mamie Shettall after spending about two months very pleasantly at Georgetown, S. C., the guest of Miss Alice Louise White, is again at home. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bowman have issued cards for the marriage of their daughter, Miss E. Louise. Bowman to Mr. W. H. Briscoe, Jr., Wednesday evening Sept. 23. Mrs. J. P. Jarret has returned to the city from Washington, Ga., after spending two months with parents. She reports a nice time. She was accompanied by her sister Mrs. Martha Pettus and she will spend a month as the guest of Mrs. Jarrett. Some time ago Mr. J. F. Jones purchased the building that was used as the Anderson Street School He is having the building painted and otherwise renovated. It will soon be ready for entertainments, etc. Mr. Jones will also have the upper story arranged for meeting purposes. The building is well located and will prove popular for entertainments and meetings. To-morrow the anniversary of the Nicholsonboro Baptist Church will be celebrated. This is the church that Rev. Alex. Harris is pastor, and each year a number of his friends attend the services. Arrangements have been made for interesting services on this occasion. There will be no regular sermon, but short talks by the various divines present. Thouss desiring to go out can do so by calling at Maj. W. H. Royall, on Oglethorpe Ave. Dr. G. W. Griffin brought the largest number of members to the F. A. B. Church on last Wednesday night. 415 of his members were present, while Rev. Wm. Gray came second with 75, and Rev. H. L. Haywood brought 72 members from his church which was excellent. The S. S. Teachers Bible was won by Dr. Griffin. Dr. Griffin has a loyal following and whenever he becomes interested in, any movement all he has to do is to command and his people will obey. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. September's awesest hapening will be the Golden Leaf Club's outing at Lincoln Park on Tuesday Sept. 22nd, to while the public is invited. A delightful time is promised. Admission 15 cents. The Painters Union and E. A. & S. C. will give their annual entertainment at Harris street hall, Monday night September 28. Admission 25 cents. The first annual picnic of the Branch of the Y. G. E., will be given to Lincoln Park on Monday. Sept. 14. Admission 15 cts. Armenia Lodge No. 1930, G. U. O. of O. F. will give the last outing of the season at Lincoln Park on Tuesday Sept. 29th. Admission 15 cents. Sayannah Lodge No. 2892, G. U. O. of O. F. will give a picnic at Lincoln park on Monday Sept. 21st. Music and refreshments will be on hand, Admission 15 cents. The first autumn dance of the season will be given by the Young Ladies Independent Circle at Harris street hall on Monday night Sept. 14th. A fine orchestra will be in attendance. Admission 25 cents, single double 55 cents. Special Rates. Account meeting Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. Baltimore, Md., September 21-26th, Atlantic Coast Line will sell round trip tickets at one fare for the round trip plus one dollar. Tickets will be sold from points south of Jacksonville Sept. 17-20, inclusive and from all other points Sept. 18-20 inclusive with return limit September 28th 1903. By payment of $1.00 additional at Baltimore limit will be extended to October 3rd. Superb sleeping and and Dining Car service. See W. J. Craig. Sudden Misadventure. Carelessness is responsible for many an accident and we never knew when to expect one. It is well to know for our own benefit and for others that Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the best remedy on earth for Burns, Scalds, Bruises, Cuts, Felons, Boils and Piles, Only 25c. Guaranteed by Knights Pharmacy Drug Company. Low Rates to Philadelphia Low rates to Philadelphia and return via Atlantic Coast Line account National Baptist Convention (colored) September 19-23 1903. Rate from Savannah $25.75. Tickets will be sold September 13, 14 and 15 with return limit September 25th, 1903. Through 'sleeping cars Tampa and Jacksonville to Philadelphia without change. Dining car Savannah to Philadelphia, meals al A carte. Quickest and best service. W. J. Craig, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. W. H. Leahy, Division Passenger Agent Savannah, Ga. · Wanted Agents. Three or four young men wanted to represent the Union Benefit Association, good pay to young men who are not afraid to work. L. S. Reed, 20 State street, W. Wanted a young lady, must be a good writer and book keeper. Apply Union Benefit Association. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. An unsectarian Christian Institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College, Normal and Preparatory courses, with Industrial Training. Superior advantages in Music and Printing. Home life and training. Aid given to needy and deserving students. Five large brick buildings. New PRACTICE SCHOOL building soon to be erected. TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 30, 1903. For catalogue and information, address President HORAGE BUMSTEAD, D. D. SPECIAL NOTICE. Music ! Music ! ! Music ! ! ! THE ORIENTAL ORCHESTRA wishes to notify its patrons that Mr. Battey Ward is no more connected with the organization, and that we are still furnishing that first-class music and wishes the patronage of the public, such as Social Clubs, Lodges, Societies, etc., during the coming season. For information, you can find Mr. O. A. Price at the Piedmont Ice Cream Parlor, 506 Gwinnett street, west; or Mr. W. S. Smith at Okarma, Barnard and Perry streets, at any time. Satisfaction guaranteed. Yours, ORIENTAL. MAKE YOUR MONEY WORK. Money Deposited with us DRAW 5 Per Cent. per annum, compounded quarterly. THE WAGE EARNERS LOAN AND INVESTMENT COMPANY. 20 State Street, West. Don't miss the FIRST GRAND' BANQUET of the season, which will be the 1st. ANNUAL BANQUET Of The WAITERS' LOCAL No. 238, On Wednesday Sept. 21, 1903. On Monday September 20, 1806 AT HABRIS STREET, HALL. Admission, single 50c, double 75 cents. "If you want to know what smartly dressed men will wear this season, ask to see our styles. CALL ON US If You Want to be Correctly Dressed. SUITS that FIT at PRICES to PLEASE. A Complete Stock to Select From. Latest Style. Best Fit. I can give the colored people better work than they can get anywhere in Savannah. How is that? Because I have the proper things to work with and know how to do it, and do all of my own work; therefore know what material is in it and how it is done; and besides the white dentists that do good work do not and will not work for colored people. Stop being faked and gouged by the cheap Dental Parlors; they rob you. I will give you better work than you can get anywhere else in Savannah, and as good work as you can get anywhere baring none. Teeth extracted without pain. The very latest methods, and satisfaction guaranteed in every case. Gold 'Bing up Bell 'Phone 1124 and make engagements. 240 Barnard St., Savannah, Ga. 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 Filling, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nins to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $8.00. Brooken Places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23% K Gold. PRIVATE BOARD AND LODGING by the day or week, neat rooms and good meals at the most reasonable prices. Give me a cal first and you won't have to go elsewhere. 523 HARRIS St., West MRS. ALICE GREEN Prop. Don't throw your old shoes away New ones make corns. See A. L. CLARKE and get your old ones renewed. Cor. Walburg and Burrough Sts. All Work Guaranteed. Work call for at no notice. are preparing to entertain their friends and patrons at Harris street hall. Monday evening September 28th, at their Fourth Annual Ball. The public is cordially invited to be present on this occasion. Music will be furnished by the Eureka Sting Band. Refreshments of all kinds will be served by Mr. R. B. Coleman. E. A. & S. C. C. M. Brinson, Stephen Jenkins, General Manager. Get What You Ask For! When you ask for Cascarets Candy Cathartic be sure you get them. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. A substitutor is always a cheat and a fraud. Beware All drugists, soc. Full Paid and Non-Assessable Shares $5.00 Each. An interstate corporation, managed and cost oiled by colored business men. This company is the largest and strongest of its kind in the world and offers a sure and steady income to investors. The stock matures in 10 months and is cumulative. If paid up by July 1st, next, will participate in the annual dividend which will be not less than seven per cent. It paid a dividend of seven per cent last year and the year before, and we have every reason to believe that it will pay even a larger dividend this year. The usual discount of six per cent allowed on cash payments. The stock of this progressive enterprise is desirable to institutions as well as individuals. The investment is backed by real estate at an appraised valuation enhancing all the time. We build churches, halls, school houses, residences, and in fact anything in the building line. This is the first and only colored concern that has reached a point where it can build cheaper than other companies and make a profit. This we pay to our stockholders in dividends. Call or address: 150 Nausau street, New York city; 226 N. 18th, street Birmingham, Ala.; 109 Drayton, street, Sayannah, Ga.; P. O. Box, 38, Lakeland, Fla.; 123 Ashley street, Valdez, Ga.; 424 King street, Charleston, S.C. HOW TO KEEP WELL Eat the best meats. You can find this by visiting the OLD RELIABLE Stall No. 31; City Market. And all kinds of game in season. Goods delivered promptly. F. F. JONES & SON. Both 'Phons 689. HEFFRON & LEE Contractors And Builders. All work trusted to our care will be executed in workmanship manner. We will furnish plans and specifications. Jobbing promptly attended to. 508 Anderson Street, East. One of the ideal places near Savannah for picnics, pleasure parties, etc. Large dancing pavilion over the water where it is cool and pleasant. Facilities for bathing etc. Refreshments of all kind served to parties. I driving out stop and refresh yourself. For information, apply to G. J. MOORE, Proprietor. Call on, Bell Phone x285 Stephen Jenkins for your Painting, Paper Hanging, Staining, Graining, Varnishing, Kalsoming and Glazing of all kinds. All jobs promptly attended to. Satisfaction guaranteed. 911 WEST BROAD STREET L.S. REED. Real Estate; Loan and InsurANCE. Buys, sells and exchanges real estate. Special attention given to the collection of rents. Loans negotiated—any amount $10.00 to $10000,00 L. S. Read, 22 State Street, W. Ga.'phone, 870. LOGAN'S WOOD & WASHING LIQUID CO. Pins Wood, Oak Wood, Light Wood. Guaranteed full load and good wood. Terms cash to everybody. The great labor buyer 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 069. Intile & Reality Co., ORATED) HomeDuties The real heroines of every day are in our homes. 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Thanks to your Vegetable Compound I am certainly grateful for the relief it gave me. It is the mother's great friend. I would not be without it in my house, for when I feel tired or out of sorts I take a few doses and feel all right. I would recommend your medicine to all tired motters, and especially to those suffering as I was."—Mrs. R. F. CHAMBERS, Bennet, Neb. $5000 FORFEIT If we cannot forthish produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove our genuine admiration, we are grateful to Mrs. R. F. CHAMBERS, Bennet, Neb. The Watkins "Boy" Hay Press THE MARVEL OF THE COUNTRY. OHBEAR, SIMPLE, DURABLE! Two boys can operate it (no other power needed) and bale the crop rich in the field at less than cost of handling it every week. It also lot of other things and costs only $25. Write us at once for circular No. 27. E, E, LOWE CO., - Atlanta, Georgia. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. CAPUDINE CURES Sick Headache AND DIZZINESS. 10, 25 and 80c. at Drugstores. CURED Gives Quick Relief. Removes all swelling in 8 to 20 days; effects a permanent cure in 30 to 60 days. Trial treatment gives great relief after faster Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, Specialists, Box B Attends, Ga. PREVENTS Bilious Attacks by keeping the stomach clean and liver active. GUC. and $1.00. At Drugstores by mail from THE TABRANT CO. (Bus. Est. 1834) New York. If afflicted with weak eyes, tap Thompson's Eye Water Removes all swelling in 8 to 20 days; effects a permanent cure in 10 days to the same extent given free. Nothing can be farer Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, Specialists, Box B Allentka, Ga. Prevents Bilious Attacks by keeping the stomach clean and liver active. GUC. and $1.00. At Dr. Gardner's at mail from Thankful for That. She—Oh, no; but I am glad it is no worse.—September Smart Set. FITS permanently cured. Noitor nervousness. Nervalrestorant. Nervalrest. Great Nervalrestorant. $25ml bottle and treatfree Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., $931 Arch St, Phila, Pa. It must be fine to be so rich that you don't have to keep up appearances. Mrs. Wialow's Soothing 3grpup for children teething, softon the gums, reduces Infarmation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c, abottle. A man is not necessarily a miser because he refuses to pay compliments. Also's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.—Wm. G. Emendley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Some people never get busy until there is nothing left to be done. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling. A capacity for hard work is usually a man's most valuable asset. J. J. Bell whose book, "Wee Macgreegor," is meeting with so much success, has a good story in Alnsees's for September, entitled "First Love." It describes, of course, as one may gainer from its title, the waxing and waning of one of the indispections of adolescence, which seems to be as necessary as mumps or measles are to childhood. As is to be expected, Mr. Bell handles his subject with the ease and grace of a master. To all who suffer, or to the friends of those who suffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder or Blood, Disease, a sample bottle of Stuart's Gin and Buchu, the great southern Kidney and liver, is available at the cost. Mention this paper. Address STUART DRUG MFG CO, 38 Wall St., Atlanta, GA. HEROIC MEASURES. "I'm after a servant girl," said Hauskeep, "one with a good big appetite preferred." "That's rather an unusual request," began the employment agent. "Well, I've got to put a stop to this business of having things warmed over the next day."—Philadelphia Press, Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed Taking Care of the Phrims. A new and very convincing way to demonstrate to boys and girls that if they will take care of the pennies the dollars will take care of themselves has recently been discovered by the pupils of one of the public schools in Washington, D. C., the national capital. These young people, acting under the direction of their principal, have started a school savings bank, which is conducted in every way just like the great institutions where their fathers place their money for stockkeeping. The principal makes himself responsible for the safekeeping of the funds, and at the close of each day's business deposits' the daily receipt in one of the city's ordinary commercial banking institutions.—From "A School Savings Bank" in the September St. Nicholas. On a bracket in Edwin Booth's sleeping room at The Player's—the apartment remains as he left. It ten years ago—stands a battered skull, which the elder Booth, and afterward his son Edwin, used to colloquize over in the fifth act of "Hamlet." There is a gruesome story. connected with the coming of this relic into Booth's hands, a story which Thomas Balky Aldrich will tell in the September Century under the title of "Poor Yorick." Must Get One or the Other. "I know the choir master will give me the—cr-old Harry," said the basso, "if I funk again on the low C in my colo." "Ah!" exclaimed the tenor, "then you're really between the devil and the deep C, ch?"—Philadelphia Press. I never see my rector's eyes— G. M. Fergess, in September Smart Set. Teachers Get a Year Off Successful teachers of Chicago schools who wish to continue their studies in colleges, universities, etc., now may be granted-leave of absence for the period of one year, under the authority of the superintendent of the schools.—New York Commercial Advertiser. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarra that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarra Curs. H. W. CENEK & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- sions, and will carry out any obligations made by their firm. WERT & TAKA, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. 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