Savannah Tribune

. . . i + ‘ - ‘ FE of aiita j rt ie . : s f - : 5 ‘ E . . . . z . : VoL XX! : ~ 3. ~ ts yy a + i * . i, Vor. XX, . SAVANNAH. GA. SATURDAY. JUNE 24, 19085. NO. 38. rr EE HAS PROVEN A LEAK|FRANCE FINALLY YIELDS. TWENTY-FIVE DEAD) HX =vEStGuT AILS] BUTGHERY PLANNED] 7 ORUSH LiNeviros. & Baan Aor s Ganiareaa & Svein —— | renege dace, oo Teconded” Runiem and A ‘ : - urrounded Russians, an So ae anelaty of the Out the Moroccan Tangle. Frightful Wreck on Western ees Children Thwarted the Exter- Ready for 2 Decisive Blow. ‘otton Association Kbaste Se. Maryland Railroad. . | Mtuminasts of the Paty One and AN, ; . . oooene ' pecial says: An Interna-| ) y' 5 ava beriona, Deiocte cA searigns! mination of Whole Family. ! — tlonal ‘conference for the considera- —— pine ‘Ciear, Unwaverioge at sor —— H ganna neue sous Tat : : tame Cannot Iurt the Eyov CHARGE SUBST, jen of the affairs of Morocco is now New York, June 20.—No one can go Ing: “The Japanese are continui ANTIATED | sracieny sermert ss the result of TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER into our sebools or: mect a sroup of CONEESSION Of PRISONER thelr victorlous advance in Mancl —_—— St ee ne ee eae see ft é 5 . of the Victims Were Railroad Peo- arg s Cheatham Retums trom. Washington | man ambassador, and attention is now | ple Returning to Their Hames. | sbectacles. ‘The proportion ‘seems to | Alf Moora, Colored, Tells Graphic Sto- pletely outflanked on“both wings, a and Talks of Result of Investi- | airecteq to defining the scope of the a | > | tnerease yearly, and there are many | ry of Acaagsination of Carters and | SCS Of Japanese victories may gation as to Cotton conference, Details are betug capi] ~,, ‘Sena the Lise 'tor more who ought to wear glasses. The D expected shortly. The Japanese ha Statistics. ly arranged and the officials expect : Sunday Rest. - . | experfence of one teacher might be da- Ipbelteal; <senene, “oF the considerably over half a million m a ae ie a re ae Pan plicated by the score. She knew Alice Alleged Murderers. In the field.” s Richard Cheatham, secretary of th Southern, Cotton Association, who ha: been in Washington the last tw weeks, pushing charges against < branch of the agricultural department returned to headquarters in Atlant Friday. ' When seen by 2 representative o! The Constitution, he talked interest inly of the situation as It now stands “Some people think ft is the same old hue and ery that has been made year after year,” he sald, “but they will soon see that It is an eatirels different thing this time, and that the charges I have brought against the department will bear fruit. “I received 2 message stating that the evidence could be secured agains! the man or men who had altered the figures of the cotton statfstics, and 1 Jeft for New York on the first train. Getting reliable lawyers to help me, I soon found that I had the Informa. ton I wanted, and wired Pres{dent Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cot ton Association, that I had enough evidence to convict. - “I was instructed to push the charges, ang I went to Washington. Arriving there, I sent my card , to Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department, and was received by him. “The information I brought him cut?him to the quick. Noz that he did not want to rid “his department of all posible traces of fraud, . but simply because he hated to know that men he hed trusted had becn so un Worthy of that trust. “I had brought with mo from New York four brokers, who swore posi- tively that they had received tips that came from the department ahead of the time the report was given to the public. . : “The matter stands this way. 1 S0t information indisputable that a certain man or men had altered the figures of the statistical bureau so as to hurt cotton producers, consumers and legitimate traders, and to help the few gambling speculators. “In addition to this, I found that the man or men gave out tips in re- gard to what the report would be in advance of the report to the public it- self. One can readily see what the Tesult would be in such cases. “With this proof in hand, E. S. Holmes, Jr., first assistant statistician, who was acting chief statistician in the absence of John Hyde in Europe, was sttspended »y Secretary Wilson, and {s awaiting further action. “When my Information was given in, Seerétary Wilson immediately had the secret service notified of the sit- uation, and the detective force went to work on the matter, “The charges are neither dead nor dying. “They are Iiving and making themselves felt. Not only this, but I ean say from knowledge that the charges will stick to Holmes. I am satisfied of this; in fact, positive. “We are not prepared to give out the exact charges. I won't even say whether others ure implicated besides Holmes, but will in time tell, “Chief tSatistician Hyde has been called back from Europe, and will arrive in Washington ‘next. Friday. Until that time final action in regard to the charges will not be taken. “This matter is too important to trifle with. The northern papers have been fillea with it, and they real- fze exactly how far-reaching the charges wil] be if substantiated. Over 4,500,000 cotton men of the south are made to suffer on account vf a part of the Wall street contingent who gamblo in cotton futures.” + Over Hundred Natives Massacred and Their Property Seized. ‘News of a terrible ryassacre of 150 natives by pirates on the Siberian coast hes been received at San Fran- cisco in a letter from Petropaulovskl, cn the coast of Kamchatka. Robbery was the only motive, for ‘every hut had been ransacked and anything of marketable value was taken. Who the marauders are can- nx be learned, excepting that some Japanese were said te be jn the party FRANCE FINALLY YIELDS, Agrees to the Proposition of Germany for a Conference to Straighten Out the Moroccan Tangle. A Paris special says: An fnterna- tlonal ‘conference for the considera- Hon of the affairs of Morocco is now practically assured, as the result of Jthe conversation between Premier Rouvier, and Prince Radolin, the Ger- man ambassador, ang attention is now directed to defining the scope of the conference. Details are being rapid- ly arranged and the officials expect to be able to announce the plans for ee conference fn the course of four or five days. / ‘This result, after the sovere strain ‘which tested the diplomatic resources of both governments, bas the effect of relieving the tension, the officials of the forelgn office and the diplomats of the Germam embassy agreeing that za amicable adjustment Js acar at hand. Although the acceptance of the conferenée gives a certain measure ot suecess to German diplomacy, yet M. Rouvler emerges from the controversy with the advantages of having brought Gexmany to define exactly the scope of the conference and so to rid it of the objection of being a mence te French Interests. Although the basis of the conference has not yet been settled, i is un- derstood that the two governments substanially agree on some of the main features involved. Germany has suspected, that France had designs on the sovereignty of Morocco, but the negotiations disclos- ed that France had not qiestioned this soverelgnty. Simllarly, it was disclos- ed that France had not designed to interrupt the present territorial status quo of Morocco. This appears to have been one of Germany's chief ap- prehenslons as any change in Moroc- co’s statns quo might involve an ulti- mate French protectorate similar to that over Tunis. With both governments favorable to the soverelgnty of Morocco and to her territorial and rolitica} status quo ‘+ remains for the conference to adjust the equality of commercial rights, as Germany desires this ‘assurance from an international conference, Instead of through the operation of the Anglo- French agreement. Therefore, the con- ference is uot likely to consider chang- es in the pailtical status of Moracco, but rather international reforms and commercial privileges. A Berlin dispatch says: No adequate view of the German feeling over the Moroccan affcir can be presented with- out meking note of the general be- lief in naval cireies that Great Brit: ain 1s seeking an excuse to check the gréat progress which is making in the German sea armament. This belief is widely expressed among naval officers of all classes. It Is their view that Great Britain would be will- ing that Franco should suffer on land if Britain thereby was given a chance to destroy the German navy. AS a result of this feeling there is great activity in the German navy, and it has never been so alert or so perfectly ready for defense as now, WALLACE QUITS PANAMA JOB? Such Is Rumor from Colon Anent the Departure of Chief Engineer. A dispatch from Colon says: It was publicly announced that J. F. Wallace, chief engineer for the canal zone, who sailed for the United States June 16, was golng home by order of Secretary Tatt, for the purpose of a> consulta. tion on important matters prior to the sailing of the secretary for the Phil. ippines, and that he was not likely to return to the isthmus’ until his annual report had been written and he had secured a rest. Since the departure of Mr. Wallace, however, 1 has been said in Influential circjes that he does not intend to re- turn to the Isthmus to resume his position of chief engineer, but that he has gone home to confer with Sec- retary Taft on the subject of his res. ignation. The fact that Mr. Wallace went home, accompanied by his wife ang two secretaries, seems in some quarters to lend credence to the ru- mor that he does not intend to re turn. + FRANCE HOLDS ALOOF. Republic Takes No Action on Emper. or Bill’s Conference Proposal. A Paris special says: The efforts to secure a diplomatic adjustment of the Franco-German controversy rela- tive to Morocco remain without def- nite results. France has not given hér final re sponse to Germany’s movement for an international conference and the officials do not confirm the German press reports shat France has definite. Jy rejected the proposal for a confer ence, TWENTY-FIVE DEAD Frightful Wreck on Western , Maryland Railroad. = - TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER All of me Wictims Were elltead ee ple Returning to Their Homes . © ce Along the Line ‘for * Sunday Rest. - : By far the worst wreck in the bls: tory of the Western Maryland rallroad occurred Saturday evening at 9 point Labout a quarter of a mile from Pa- tapsco, a small station between West- minster ang Finckburg. ‘The death list foots up twenty-five and this number {s likely to be in- creased from among the list of those grievously mangled. Passenger train No. 5, westbound, was running at a very. high rate of speed when, at the point named;*it crashed into a double-header freight- running east. All three of the en- gines were reduced to scrap-iron, the express and baggage cars of the pas- senger were smashed and a number of the freight cafs were splintered. The passenger coaches sustained little fu: fury, and almost wjthout exception their occupants escaped with nothing worse than a bad shaking up. Men Killed Were Employees. All the dead were employees of the railroad company, returning to their ‘homes in the small towns along the railroad to spend Sunday. With the exception of the train crews, they had been at work repairing, the damage done to the road about ten days ago by a mmor freight wreck. The train, which was No. 3, passenger, west- bound, carried a large number of pas- sengers, all the coaches being filled. Consequently, as many of the workmen “as coud do so went into the ° baggage), car, the re ‘wainder of the gang of thirty-five finding places on the platforms “be- tween the mail and baggage cars and between the latter and the tender. In the neighborhood of Patapsco sta- tion, about cight miles from West- minster, the Western Maryland has many curves, and that just west of the bridge crossing the Patapsco river is a sharp one. + ‘An extra freight, made up of heary coal and provision cars, was running east. If should have taken a siding to allow No. 5 to pass. Such were the orders. Why they were disregard- ed will never be’known, for all those who should have seen that they were obeyed are dead. The passenger train was running thirty miles an hour, and the freight was ‘making good time, with the two engines pulling it. = Just west of the bridge they came together with terrific force, the three engines being piled one ypon another. The fearful Impact drove the passen- zer tender into the baggage car and demolished it and the mail car. Heartrending Shrieks. ~ Heartrending shrieks from the in- fured brought to the scene the Inhab- itants of all the farm houses within a considerable radius and these imme- diately began helping the victims: Farmers’ wives and. daughters made bandages of their clothing and hoyse hold Hinen and work herolcally amid the blood and grime. As fast as they could be taken from tho wreckage’ the dead were placed aboard the train for Westmin- ster and then taken to that town and Blue Ridge. Tke more seriously injured were sent to Baltimore. At the, union sta- tion in that clty when the first train loag of human wreckage arrived five patrol wagons and two ambulances were in waiting. When these were filled, express wagons were pressed Into service. : . At Westminster a crowd of at Ieast a, thousand people met the funeral train, and as many of the dead had friends and relatives in the town, there were terrible scenes at the en- gine house, where the bodies wero taken and exposed for identification. a aaa a a Banks Hit Harg by Crooked Work of Man Now Dead. a One of the most sensational cases of forgery ever brought to light in ‘Philadelphia financial circles was dis- closed Tuesday, when it was announc- ed’ that certificates calling for small numbers of shares of stock had betn fraudulently raised. to hundreds of shares, causing a loss to certain*bank and trust companies of the city of from $750,000 to, $1,000,000. The forg- ery involves the name of Benjamin H. Gaskill; a broker, who died a few weeks ago. WHY EYESIGHT FAILS INFERIOR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FRE+ “QUENTLY THE CAUSE. OEE of the Past, One and All, Have derions Difects—Acotyione Gas, With Tts Clear, Unwavering, Yet soft Flame Cannot Hurt the Eyow ; _. New York, June 20.—No one can go “Into our schools or-mect a group of children on the street without noticing how Jarge a number of them wear spectacles. The propertion ‘seems to inerease yearly, and there ase many more who ought to wear glasses. The experience of one teacher might be du- plicated by the score. She knew Alice was inattentive and she thought she was unusually stupid. She said so to the principal and sent a note to the mother, requesting@that, the child be helped at home if ehe wished her to keep up with her class. One day after a blackboard explanation, the teacher called upon the chiid and found that she had not seen what had been written. She was kept sfter school and by dint of much sympathetic ques- tioning Miss C. found tbat Alice had never been able to see what was put on the board and that her head had ached so often and .so hard that she frequently failed to hear what was sald. Such a condition. may be caused by lack of proper food, but in our Ameri- can homes it is usuajly due to the poor quality of the artificial ight. ‘The yel- low, insuflcient Neht of the ordinary kerosene Jamp, with its smoky chim- ney, is about as bad for the eyes as can be fmagined. The flickering Jight from a coal gas jet is but littie better, and ‘even the electric light, brilliant as it usually is, has “an unsteadiness due to variations in power, and a glare peculiarly trying {o the delicate nerves of sight. The comparatively new il- luminant acetylene gas produces as nearly perfect an artificial light as has yet been found. It gives a clear white, unwarering light, very brilliant, yet perfectly soft, and so nearly like the rays of the sun that even colors ap- pear as in daylight. Fortunatés, acetylene is very easily and cheaply produced, ahd thd simple apparatus necessary can be purchased and instalied in any home at a very moderate cost, and the acetylene ean be. piped to conventent points Jn, the house whereva light is needed. It is then lighted and extinguished and used exactly like common city gas. Acetylene is rapidly coming Into common use in homes, churches, schools and institutions of all kinds, and it 4s reasonable to expect that as its use In the heme Snereases, there will be fewer defective eres, particu- ,larly among children. Poor eyesight and the many {ls resulting therefrom yyIll undoubtedly be much reduced by the use of this new {!uminant, LONDON PAPERS PLEASED. election of Washington as Place for Conference, Elicits Compliment. The acceptance of Washington as the: place fof the conduct of peace ne gotiations is regarded by the London morning newspapers @S @ great_com- pliment to President Roosevelt's di- plomacy,, and as a further proof of the growing influence of the United States in international politics, ARMISTICE NOW PROBABLE. Armles in Manchuria May Soon Be Served With “Stop” Orders. A Washington dispatch says: Alone on the plaips of Manchuria, midway between the two great armies, , the Russian and Japanese commanders will mect to sign the armistiec whith will pave the way for the Washing. ton ‘conference if the, present tenta- tive program is followed.. Exchanges on this point are now‘in progress be- tween Tokio and St. Petersburg, via Washington. APOLOGIZES TO A CONVICT. Something New in Pardoning Line In State of Alabama. Something unique in the pardoning line was done by Governor Jelks of Alabama Friday when he apologized on the part of the state to a convict who had been convicted of, burglary sand eentenced to.two years. The gov- ernor sald: + “J am led to believe that he is not only entitled to his liberty, but an apology from the state.” , ‘There were grave doubts as to the man’s guilt. BUREAU CHIEF ARRESTED. Hill Falsified HIs Books to Cheat the City of Philadelphia. ‘The arrest at Philadelphia Tuesday of John W. Hill, who resigned re- cently .as chief of the bureau of fil- tration, on the charge of forgery and falsifying certain books and papers be- longing to the clty and the annulment of a $700,000 contract held by Me- Nichol & Co. were dramatic develop ments in the sensational political ,up- heaval. Hily entered ball-in thesum or $10,000. . BUTCHERY PLANNED Children Thwarted the Exter- mination of Whole Family, CONEESSION Of PRISONER Alf i Colored, Tells Graphic a ry of Assassination of Carters and Diabolical Scheme of the Alleged Murderers. The confession of Alf Moore, the negro arrested Saturday for complic- ity in the Carter assassinations, has added to the excitement in Valdosta, Ga, and the Habire district, over the murders. He has told the full story of the plot from Its incipienoy, de- tailmg the conversations he alleges to havo had with the Rawlings, the geal made with him for his partie! pation in the effair and the acts of himself and. the Rawlings boys on the night of the tragedy. . He says that Rawlings hired him to come from Ivey's crosstie camp, where he was working, to Kill or help Kill, the entire Carter family. That when he reached Rawlings’ home he was taken to a small vacant house nearby and kept there until the night of the assassination, his meals being carried to him. - He says that Rawlings and his boys joined him at this house op the even- Ing of the tragedy and that Rawlings told them. to go and kill Carter and his wife, then the grown daughter and younger children, to throw their bod- Jes In the house and to set the place On fire after taking all the money they could find. The premature appearance of Wil- Me Carter and his sister in the yard, where they went to doctor a sick calf, thwarted the original plan to vill Mr, and Mrs. Carter first. After the boy and girl were shot down Carter began firing on the as- sassin and Moore states that he then became frightened and ran away, making his way back to the crosstle camp where he was arrested. The officers are wotking on other important evidence and while a dis- closure of the nature of this evidence would tend to defeat the ends of jus- tico and needlessly increase the pub- Me feeling over the crimes, they in- timate that other Important develop- ments are Ukely to be made in a few days. Ono or two other arrests will probably be made soon. None of the prisoners are allowed to see or communicate with any per- sons except their attorney. WAR PARTY Is OBDURATE. Backed by Military Element, It En- deavors to Hamper Peace Move. A St. Petersburg special, under date of June 19, is as follows: The war party has by no means surrendered. On the-contrary, backed by the mil- itary element, Is it making” a concert- ed effort to dissuade the emperor from concluding peace. Even with the two armles already clinching members of the war party are filling St. Peters- burg und Peterhof with optimistic ylews and Lfeutenant General Line vitch and his Meutenants are rein- forcing thelr arguments with roseate reports of the strategic situation. Many Russian correspondents at the front, evidently inspired from St. Petersburg, are flooding thelr papers avith dispatches in the same strain, The Novoe Vremya's correspondent, in his zeal against the conclusion of a humiliating peace, points to the hazards for the government in dis- banding an army of half a million men without giving them a taste of success, and expresses the fear of dan- gerous consequences. Tho samo cor respondent, however, chronicles the ‘net that the rank and file are indif- ferent and concludes: “If peace can be obtained without the cession of Russian territory, or blood money, then peace by all means.” = BOTTS SHOWED GREAT NERVE. Young Wife Murderer Goes to Gal. lows in Hilarious Mood. Otis Botts, 21 years old, was exe- cuted at Peoria, Ill, Friday for the murder of his wife, on January 5, last Botts spent the night laughing and joking and telling stories. He invited everybody to attend his funeral. His mother wanted to attend the exect tion, but he said: “Don't do it. You'll make me lose my nerve." He died with ‘2’ sneer on bis Hps.Botts strangled his girl-witt with- a plece of ribbon. : TO CRUSH LINEVITCH. - Oyama’e Forces Reported to Have Surrounded Russians, and Are , Ready for a Decisive Blow. ° f 7 —_ + | ‘The correspondent of The London Telegraph at Tokio sends the follow- Ing: “The Japanese sre continuing thelr victorfous advance in Manchu- tla. The Russians have been ‘coni- pletely outflanked on ‘both wings, and. News of Japanese victories may be expected shortly. The Japanese have considerably over half a million men in the field.” Jt A St Petersburg ¢ispatch says: The only hope for en armisticé pending the meeting of the peace plenipoten- tlaries seems to rest with President Roosevelt, and even that is considered. slender. So far as known, the pres- {dent has not taken a positive step in this direction. The impression here continues strong the Japan only with great reluctance coald bo Induced to! forego the advantages of her strategic position, which, despite the tone Yof the official advices, from the front;is regarded as being altogether favor- able to Field Mejrshal Oyama, and agree to a suspension of hostilities of at least six weeks, during which UUme thousands of reinforcements would reach General Linevitch ‘and. Vladivostok would be strengthened, with munitions and supplies to with, stand a siege. Indeed it is suggested that Japan deltberately planned to postpone the meeting long enough to give Oyama a chance to edminister to the Russians a‘ fresh defeat on land in order to rob the war party in Russla of their last card and facll- Wate acquiescence to her terms. Con- sidering the situation, therefore, Pres- ident Roosevelt's triumph will be alt the greater if he could now succeed im crowning ‘iis work by an agreement which would at least prevent another bloody battle pending the show of hands at Washington. At the British embassy it was said that Great Brit- ain had not offered Japan any advice on the subject. Brigadier Genera? Barry and his colleagues, in view of the prospects of a general engagement, are ‘hastening thelr round of official visits, in order to get to the front in time to witness something of the fighting. They have already called on several of tho ministers. A special from Tokio says; Discus: sion of the meeting of the peace plen- ipotentiaries continues through Wash- ington with indications of an early completion of the details. There has been a series of conferences through the elder statesmen and the cabinet to consider tha conditions and discuss the selection of plenipotentiaries. It Is thought to be possible to complete the details for the appointment of the plenipotentiaries and organize a staff of assitanis in time for them to sail on the steam Empress of India, June 30, from Yokoama for Vancouver, 5. C., a voyage of about two weeks. It ts expected that the party will number a dozen. et In the meantime the military activity will continue. > GEORGIA EDITORS IN SESSION. Weekly Press Assoclation Holde Nine- teenth Annual Meeting In Cordele. The nineteenth annuat convention of the Georgia Weekly Press Asso- ciation was calléd to order in Cordele Tuesday morning by {ts president, Walter 8. Coleman of Cedartown. The call to order was followed by an in vocation by: Rev. A. B. Campbell, pastor of the Baptist church. The address of welcome was delivered by Hon. J. W. Bivins, chairman of tho local committee, and one of the pres- ent vice presidents of the organiza- tion. The response was delivered: by Hon. W. N. McGehee of Talbotton New Era. ® TO ASSEMBLE AUGUST FIRST. * Date for Gathering of Peace Plenipo- z tentiaries Is Fixed. . An Associated Press dispatch from ‘St. Petersburg says: Russia finds no objection to August 1, as suggestci by Japan, As the date for the mect- ing of the plenipotentiarics and in- structions wili be sent to Ambassa- dor Cassini to accept it. . SHOW STAND GOES DOWN. Sixteen People Injured During Enter- talnment at “10J" Ranch, Fifty or more yards of the mile and a quarter grandstand surround- ing the exhibition arena ut the “101” ranch collapsed in Oklahoma Sunday evening, sixteen persons being more or less serlously injured. The accl- dent was witnessed by the 30,000 spec- tators attending the entertainment. Fiber Plant Destroyed by Fire. The plant of the Ashland (Wis.) Fiber company was destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss $50,000; insurance 92v, 906. - The Savannah Tribune. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. 116 W. St. Julian Street. Ga. 'Phone 574. SUBSCRIPTION RATE S. One Year. $1.25 Six Months. .76 Three Months. .50 Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter. Advertising Rates given on application. DURING the first part of the year for about three months the two colored city physicians rendered strenuous duties in vaccinating thousand's of people. This was done without extra compensation. The white city physicians were given a donation of a hundred dollars each for less work than that done by the colored physicians. At the meeting of the city council on Wednesday last the colored physicians were each donated the paltry sum of $25.00. Council should feel ashamed to offer these faithful and efficient physicians this amount, and it is hoped that at the next meeting the matter will be reconsidered and the amount increased. Collector Rucker. We have taken some interest in the attacks on Collector of Internal Revenue H. A. Rucker of Georgia which have appeared from time to time in a certain Georgia paper published ostensibly in the interest of the race, but, as it seems to us, without any fixed convictions or clear conceptions on any question of vital moment. Two phases of the attack have attracted our especial attention. The first is that Mr. Rucker has not been considerate of his colored brethren in the distribution of the patronage of his office, and the second is that his reappointment or continuance in office rest solely on the ground of his color. Upon careful and disinterested investigation we find that neither of these assertions is true. The facts disclosed by official records are as follows: Under collectors prior to Mr. Rucker's incumbency they were more than one hundred employees under the collector, only about eight per cent of whom were colored. Under Mr. Rucker there are 60 employees, about one-third of whom are colored. Prior to Mr. Rucker's administration there was never a colored man employed as a deputy collector in the office of the collector; now there are three such officers in the office of the collector. Under former Republican regimes there was usually but one colored field deputy collector. There are now four, one being a stamp deputy. And there is corresponding increase in the number of colored men employed as storekeepers and gangers. Collections are as good or better than ever, and violations have materially decreased. This is the record. It shows that Mr. Rucker has not been neglectful of his own people and that he is an able, upright and efficient official and on that record he should be continued in his present position. —Washington Bee. A Distant Note. I have read with much interest the contributions to Pythian history by "Meddler" and other historians, and to say I was surprised is putting it lightly. It seems that most of the historians are against Creswill, and their principle reasons are: he has been in office long enough, and his stand on the Temple Tax. Of course every man has his friends as well as his enemies, and the best way to judge a man, when it is a question as to how successful he has been along any given line is to note the number of enemies has made. The unusual success made by the present administration is a thorn in some people's hide, again some people are sore because a part of the Grand Lodge funds were not deposited, in a colored bank in Savannah (I would venture the assertion that "Meddler" attended the G L. session at Albany last year and advocated this, at least George Williams of Savannah, whom I believe to be Meddler did,) the unbelievers also charge that Creswill is taking all credit for the unusual success of the G. L. to himself, this is not true, but if any thing detrimental had occurred during his administration no one but Creswill would have been b'amed. As to the Temple Tax, if memory serves me right, Creswill asked my opinion as to its legality, and the very words used by "Meddler" were a part of the opinion sent him, stating that the lodges must pay the tax, or be suspended. Don't blame Creswill for that. Then the cry goes up about the S. L. representatives "Meddler" ought to get something more tangible. While Georgia has not as many representatives she should have, they can be increased without changing the officers. If the G. L. recommend a grand officer for S. L. honors, providing he has performed meritorious services they will be conferred. Cohen has been recommended but never went to a S. L. session to receive them. To demand a man's retirement for such reasons are silly, especially when every cooperation, be it private, public or municipal, from the general government down are crying for competent men to fill positions, men who stand on merit, men who have done something, we are crying for Creswill's scalp because he has merited all he has received. It would be a distinct loss of prestige for Creswill to be defeated on such issues, it would show to the people that we are retrogressing not progressing. If you oppose a man on general principle, say so, if you oppose him for personal reasons be a man and say it, if you have friends seeking office that you prefer over another say so, that is your right, but don't show your envy and jealousy by opposing a man for such reasons assisted by "Meddler" and a few others. While I am now located 1200 miles away from the scene of conflict I expect to be in Savannah, and if alive will certainly vote for every man now holding office if he is a candidate for re-election from Creswill to the G O G. Defiance Lodge No. 13 Macon Ga NOTE—Sir Sellers' communication will be read with much eagerness by many and undoubtedly 'Meddher' will be able to give a good account of himself. If the other parts of the article is like the part that alludes to "some people are sore because a part of the Grand Lodge funds were not deposited in a colored bank in Savannah," then the article will be of little force, because of our connections with the two savings banks in Savannah, we know that Sir Cohen has favored both with an equal deposit. Sir Sellers, you are way off—Ed. Statesboro Items. Mrs. Sarah Ann Lee of Blitch is improving very much and we hope she will soon recover. Miss Mary A Hodges is on the sick list this week and we are afraid that it. is the typhoid fever she is taking Also Mr. Andrew J. McClain is very sick and we hope he will recover Rev. J. C. Williams filled his appointment at Clito on last Sunday and had a large congregation, he preached a fine introductory sermon. After the services the Children's Day exercises took place, they had a lovely time and raised for mission work $6.40. Children's Day was at Bethel A. M. E. church on the Second Sunday and raised for the Mission $4.80. Mrs. Dorris Love and Mrs. Clorry Hodges were visitors to to Rev and Mrs W. Hodges on last Sunday. Miss Alice Johnson of Tattnall county has closed her school in the Riggsboro community in this county, two and a half miles south of Statesboro and she will make her return for home this week with her brothers and sisters. Mr. Johnnie Lee is home from Georgia State Industrial College and reports a fine school for our boys and girls. The Teachers Institute was held on last Saturday at Parameau Chaple M. E church and everything was alright as usual. Mr. Stephen Hall of Ocilla, Ga., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Hall and all of his friends and relatives were glad to see him home again also his 200 lb wife. Miss Viola Lanier has gone to Waynesboro where she will remain for one wee. The hardest rainfall in Bulloch this year was last Saturday morning and it washed away some portion of the farmers' crops and fences. There was a very good game of ball played on Saturday be tween the Nine Bros. ball team of Clito and Twilight ball team of Statesboro, the scores stood 6 and 1 in favor of Clito. On July the 4th the New Hope base ball team and the Ogeechee base ball team will cross bats with the Nine Bros. at Clito, for there is a big barbecue on that day and we expect to have a lovely time so come one come all and let us have a good time. Meshack Hodges. A Mad Chase. Millions rush in mad chase after health, from one extreme of faddism to another, when if they would only eat good food, and keep their bowels regular with Dr. King's New Life Pills, their troubles would all pass a way. Prompt relief and quick cure for liver and stomach trouble, 25c, at any drug store; guaranteed. LESSON AGAINST LYNCHING. Justice Asserted Itself and Two Accused Released. On Tuesday night of last week a report was made of an attempted assault on a white woman on the Ogeechee Road, this city. The assailant was alleged to be a colored man. Excitement ran high. A colored man was arrested as the alleged assailant The officers had as much as they could do to keep a mob from getting him. It finally resulted in his release. In the meantime the mayor offered a reward of one hundred dollars for the arrest of the assailant. A short time afterwards another colored man named James Gant, was arrested. He was taken before the woman and faintly identified. The officers having him in charge had to take him into a store and bar, acaded the door to keep him from being molested by the dawless men on the outside. Upon arrival of the patrol wagon it was with difficulty that the accused was taken from the store. He was identified by the woman as her assailant. The grand jury was called into special session and on testimony of the woman he was indicted and Tuesday last was fixed as the day for the trial. Judge Cann appointed three very able young attorneys to defend the accused. The case was watched with much interest by everybody, and before the trial sentiment as to the innocence of the accused was expressed by many. At the trial the state had but one witness, the woman, while the accused had several strong ones in his behalf. From the opening of the case it was seen that the prosecution had no evidence to convict. The woman made conflicting statements which damaged her considerably especially when she swore that she was married March of 1904 when the marriage license showed that she was married only three months ago, and yet she is the mother of a baby only two months old. The woman accused Gant of going to her house after her husband had left. She alleged that he met her at the back door and told her to go to the dining room where her baby was thrown on the bed. During all of this time she neither screamed nor called for help, nor did her baby cried after be thrown on the bed. She claimed that he was frightened off by hearing a noise, yet after he left she made no attempt whatever to give an alarm until her husband returned. During the interim she had bathed her baby, put it to bed and fainted after her husband returned when medical assistance was given her. Gant had witnesses to prove that at the time the crime was alleged to have been committed he was at his home eating supper. His employer also testified as to his trustworthiness. A gentleman living next door to the woman gave evidence to the fact that if an assault was attempted that he would have known of it, for as a general thing he can hear the least noise that happens in the house. After these witnesses had testified the lawyers made but little argument before the case was submitted. The jury was only out about five minutes when the verdict of "not guilty" was given. This verdict pleased nearly all present. As a precautionary measure Gant was accompanied to the home of some relatives by officers to keep any one from interfering with him. A great lesson is to be learned from the out come of this case, and it proves every assertion we have made against the lynching habit. If this affair had occurred in any place other than Savannah no doubt two innocent men would have been sent to eternity by a lawless mob and too, the last accused on account of conflicting statement of the white woman. No greater plea can be made against lynching than that presented by this case and the following editorial of the Morning News: The outcome of the Gant case in the Superior Court yesterday very well illustrates the position that we have always taken against lynching. In some communities the very accusation against Gant would have been his death warrant. The fact that he had been "positively identified" would have been followed by a short rope and a short shrift. But we do things differently here. A full, free, and impar- trial investigation before a jury of thoughtful white men resulted in the acquittal of the accused. So weak was the case against him that the jury was out only three minutes; and yet it is risking nothing to say that men have lynched on no stronger evidence. As a matter of fact, there were some hot-heads who wanted to lynch Gant when he was first arrested, but the prompt and efficient action of the police and constables' prevented any such thing. In the application of lynch law there is always danger of wreaking vengeance upon an innocent party. The only safe course is through the just and duly constituted machinery of the law. The prompt trial given the accused will be an example for other communities to follow in similar cases. Glenwood Dots. The Second Quarterly Conference will be held here in St. Mary's Chapel July 1st and 2nd R.v. J. A. Brocket, presiding. All are cordially in to attend. Mr. A. J. Mason's mother, Mrs: W. S. Mason, of Dublin, Ga. is the guest at his home this week. Mrs. J. S. Tanner is on the sick list we hope she will be quite like herself soon. Miss Alberta P. Mason made a flying trip to Ailey, Ga yesterday on special business. The farmers are glad to have the weather agreeable that they may get a dead-shot at Mr. Grass. Mr. John Tanner made a flying trip to Erick, Ga. Saturday last. Masonic Notes. Each delegate that attended the last session has retained home highly elated over its success. It was pleasing to note that not a delegate gave a discouraging report of a Lodge. Let us resolve to make this year a bigger one for improvements than the last one. By our action let us cause an increase in membership in the year. A masonic Lodge should be established in every prosperous community in the State. It was a happy stroke of Grand Master Butler when he advised every Mason to become land owner. This refrain should be taken up by every Master of a Lodge and wafted to the brethren in every corner of the State. The Grand Master has declared against the use of spirituous liquor in Lodge rooms. So mote it be. Brethren take due and timely notice and keep the demon out, not only of your Lodge room, but your homes and your bodies. To-day is St. John's Day. It will be observed the State over to-morrow. Pythian Pointers. Crescent Lodge held its election on Monday night last. It was largely attended. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, B. W. Warren of Americus, was in the city this week, the guest of Sir Cohen. A few friends took him launching on Tuesday. We are always glad to see "Boss." Amusements of all kind are arranged for the delegates in July. "Wisdom" in the Independent is badly mistaken when he says that Cresswill's stock is rising-in Savannah. Cresswill is liked, by the boys, but not enough to give him another term as G C. Clark will be his successor by a big vote. Pure Food Begets Health- Every physician will tell you that if you wish to live long and enjoy good health, the best thing to do is to eat the purest food. Of all food that which should be the more careful in selection is the meats. Nothing is more enjoyable than a fine roast, steak, etc., especially when it can be purchased from a butcher who knows his business, who keeps a clean stall and who treats you courteously. It is not only a pleasure to deal with such a person, but it benefits us bodily and lengthens our lives by doing so. Such persons and such a place can be found at the White Stall in the city market, at the south east, entrance on Barnard street. It is conducted by J. D. Epps & Co. Their trade is strictly cash and will give you your money's worth in every instance. Try them and be convinced. Second Baptist Church. Notwithstanding the fact, that the diurnal orbe of day sent down its burning rays at eleven o'clock last Sunday, a fair representation of the members attended church, and listened to the sermon of the Rev. M. C. Maxwell whose words were freighted with interest, thought, and pathos. At night the pastor, Rev. Smith preached to a still larger audience. His discourse was short, and he gave a glowing account of his trip to the convention which he enjoyed hugely. Sunday School at 4 o'clock. Friends are cordially invited. Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Compay Shares $9 each. Full Paid. Non-assessa An Iron-clad Investment of the highest order, combining safety, profit, pleasure and prestige for the present and something to fall back on in after years. No preferred stock.- All share and share alike. No watered stock. When stock was $5.00 we sold it for $5.00. When it was worth $6, $7 and $8 we sold it at those figures. When it reaches $10 we will sell it for $10, and nothing less, nothing more. Investment in the Bank is just as good. 7 per cent paid compounded quarterly. If you do not get this in other banks, you are not getting a fair share of the earning capacity of your money. All companies that do any business at all can pay 7 per cent. Any how we can and will Our minimum earning capacity is 21 per cent. We divide 1 as follows: 7 to the investor; 7 to run the company; 7 to the sinking fund, which enhances the value of the investment and strengthens the company. $50,000 TO LOAN on good city and suburban thing. Terms the easiest .222 W. Broughton St., Sav F. M COHEN. Teller. J.W. on good city and suburban real estate. We build any thing. Terms the easiest and best. Call or address 222 W. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga. Bell Phone 1144 F. M COHEN, Teller. J.W. ARMSTRONG, Gen'l Mangr. Cemetery Lots For Sale. Lots 10x20 in the well located Oak Grove Cemetery, just four miles from the city, on one of the main paved roads, are now on sale. The choicest lots can be bought for $500 a piece. This cemetery contains thirty acres, and is high and dry. In a short time Laurel Grove cemetery will have to be closed, therefore you had better purchase choice lots at Oak Grove cemetery. Apply to II. Maxwell, Waters Avenue. In Memory of Rev. Alexander Ellis. Again as in the former years, Since thou hast left us toiling here, We will think of thy loving life Which thou didst spend midst joy and strife We can't forget the loving voice That made our very soul rejoice To hear thee tell of that great love. Which God did give us above. Therefore, as usual on this date Thy dear life we'll commemorate; And hope, when we have toiled and striven To meet our dear beloved in heaven. IVERNE E. COLUMAN PROCLAMATION Office of Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court I. O. O. C., N. A., S. A., E., A., A., and A., Jurisdiction of Georgia. Savannah, Ga., June 1, 1905. To the Grand Court officers, Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellors, Past Worthy Counsellors and Representatives, Greeting: 1st. According to the requirements of Article and Section 2, of the Grand Court constitution of I. O. O. C., that the Grand Court shall meet at the same time and place as the annual session of the Grand Lodge K. of P. Therefore be it known by the power of the above mentioned article and the authority in me vested as Grand Worthy Counsellor, I. R. L. Barnes, do hereby call the Grand Court of Georgia to assemble in its thirteenth annual session in the city of Savannah, State of Georgia on the second Thursday in July (13) in Court Castle Hall at o. a. m. 2nd. All Endowment and per capita tax must be in this office, by the first of July otherwise the Court is find $2.50, also 10 cents for each member for the Pythian Temple tax. 3rd. No representative will be allowed a voice until all indictedneers is paid. 4th, Past Worthy Counsellors and Rep. resentatives that are to take the degree of the Grand Court must pay 50 cents. 5th. All Representatives and members of the Grand Court must wear the Grand Court Badge, those haven't them can get them at the session for 50 cents. 6th. All officers and Representatives will receive board and lodging free of cost that have sent in their names. 7th. The following are the credential committee: Mrs. M. S. Grant, Mrs. S. Bryant, Mrs. Willie Hill and Sir T. S. Price. Turn your credentials to them on Tuesday and Wednesday before the meeting. 8th. All delegates attending the, G. C. must get certificates when they purchase their ticket and they can return on one third fare. MRS. R. R. L. BARNES, G. W. C. MRS. M. S. GRANT, G. R. of D. Big Bargains IN Accordeon SKIRTS Pleated In BLACK, BLUE, TAN, Cashmere - $3.98 Brilliantine 4.98 AT SCOTT'S, 462 West Broad Street. (Incorporated) In Choosing a Bank in which to deposit savings, SAFETY ought to be the first consideration—and last. A high rate of interest is of no consequence whatever if the principal is endangered. Safety may be judged by the management of the bank. THE WAGE EARNERS LOAN AND INVESTMENT COMPANY is a safe banking institution. It does not engage in any other business and its management has always been along lines of strict conservatism and reasonable progressive ness. It was founded in 1900 and has enjoyed steady continuous growth ever since. 5 Per Cent compounded interest is paid on savings because we can pay it with safety. THE WAGE EARNERS LOAN & INVESMENT Co.. "The Pioneer Negro Saving 468 West Broad Street Savannah, Ga. Bell Peope 1198 Ga. Phone 2023 Bell Phone 1198 Ga-Phone 2029 Let us be Your Tailor. T WE have arranged with The American Woolen Mills Co., of Chicago, to handle their lines of made-to-order SUITS, TROUSERS and MACKINTOSHES. As this is the largest company making Clothing to order by measure we are sure that our patrons will be satisfied in the style, fit and durability of their garments. Sults - - $10 to $35 00 Trousers - - $3 00 to $10 00 Order your Spring Suits now. Full line Von Zandt, Jacobs & Co's, All Linen Collars, 2 for 25 cents. SCOTT BROS, 462 WEST BROAD STREET. Metropolitan Mutual Benefit Association. (INCORPORATED.) In addition to our sick and death benefit policies we are offering the public industrial insurance in straight life policies ranging from $100.00 to $5.00. Premiums within the reach of all. A fair value for your money in a reputable company is what all of us are looking for. This is what we are giving. See any of our agents or call at the company's office for rates and particulars. Energetic men and women can make anywhere from $5.00 to 25.00 a week working for this company. Office 222 W. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga. J. W. ARMSTRONG, Vice-President. CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. HA LET NED WOULD LIKE TO BE. I'd like to be a tadpole A swimming in the pool. For then I would go barefoot And never mind a rule. I wouldn't do a lesson. For there'd be none to do; I wish I was a tadpole. Now, honestly, don't you? —New York News. DUTCH ROOFS Do you know why on all the old-fashioned roofs there are such funny little steps? These were not for ornament as you suppose, but were to enable the little sweeps to reach the chimneys. On the steep, slanting roots this would have been impossible had it not been for these attractive little steps. MILKING RUBBER TREES The first tapping of the cultivated rubber trees on the east coast of Nicaragua occurred during the present year, the trees having attained the age of seven years. The novel experiment was tried of making slight incisions at intervals of a fortnight, instead of exhausting the sap at once with a large tapping. Although the quantity obtained at one time was thus relatively small, it was found that the trees yielded as well at the second tapping as at the first, and it is believed that by this method they can be induced to form the "milk habit" to the advantage both of themselves and their owners. The rubber obtained is also better than that supplied by the old unscientific method practiced by the natives. NEW WAY TO PLAY BLINDMAN One of the players is to he blindfolded and the others stand about the room as they please. The blindfolded one then walks or groops around until he touches a player, and the player touched must then stand still and make a noise in imitation of some animal; say a cat, a dog, a cow, a pig, or a horse. If the blindfolded player chooses he can have the sound made three times, and if he then guesses the name of the person the person takes his place. If he does not guess correctly he releases the player and tries again.—Indianapolis News. WHY WE PLANT TREES The pupils were discussing tree plantings in a West Philadelphia school the other day. "Why do we plant trees?" asked the teacher. Two scholars stood ready to put down answers. The replies came thick and fast, and here are some of them: Because they are beautiful. Because they give us shade. They break the force of winds. They help to make us healthy by equalizing the temperature and moisture in the woods. Because they provide us with india rubber, gum, resin, spices, dyestuffs, medicines, seeds and nuts. They furnish us with timber for building houses, ships, railways cars, etc. Because without them we could not have spools, matches, shoe pegs, toothpicks and lots of other useful things. Because trees are the most valuable crop the ground-can produce. The value of our trees is fifteen per cent, more each year than our production of all our wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and buckwheat put together. AN ELEPHANT YARN . In the jungles of India there lived an elephant who showed a wonderful sagacity and mother love for its offspring. One day, relates the Indianapolis News, the baby elephant wandered away from its mother, who showed her unaccented at its absence. Reaching the top of a hill, she saw her darling quietly browsing at the foot, while stealing along, at no great distance, was an enormous lion. The mother was at her wits ends. She realized that the baby would not have a ghost of a chance against the hunger of the lion, who every moment was drawing nearer to its desired end. The lion halted a moment directly beneath the place where the helpless mother stood. More quickly than it can be told the elephant rolled herself into a huge ball and rolled down the hill. The lion never knew what struck him. His feelings were completely crushed, while the baby elephant was led home, where he no doubt got a severe scolding for going away from home without his mother's permission. : A FRIEND: OF ICE CREAM Every boy and girl is familiar with the vanilla which comes in a bottle, and which mother used to flavor the puddings and ice cream of which they were so fond. Few of them would recognize their favorite if they met it in its own country. The vanilla plant is a climbing vine, thirty feet in height, and about the thickness of one's little finger. The vine is round, knotted and covered with dark, green pear-shaped leaves. The vines blossom profusely . . . the spring; the strange delicate flowers, with their pale yellow petals springing from the angles where the leaves branch off. After a few days' existence, the flowers wither and fall, leaving but few of the blossoms to be followed by fruit. This takes the form of a large pod, and, strange to say, although the pods attain their full growth within the fifty days from the fall of the petals, they take seven months more to ripen. The pods vary from five to twelve inches in length and are about one inch across. In shape they are something like a banana. They are better described as resembling a knife sheath, hence the name vanilla, which is a corruption of the Spanish word vanilla—a small scabbard. Each pod contains a quantity of small black granules, surrounded by a pulp, whose peculiar combination of oil and acid imparts to the pods that delicious flavor and powerful aroma, which is esteemed by both young and old—Indianapolis News. A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT. If you possess a magnet there are more ways of amusement and instruction open to you than you have any idea of. For instance, the follow- HOW THE FILINGS WILL GATHER ing experiment with iron filings will prove most interesting, and will impart a bit of useful knowledge. Iron filings are procurable for the asking in any machine shop or place where there is an ironworker's lathe. They are the minute particles of iron that fall when the iron is being cut or ground into shape, and possess the same relation to iron as sawdust does to wood. A bar magnet is necessary for what you are to show. Lay it on a table or any flat surface and then cover it over with a piece of stiff cardboard. Now sprinkle the iron filings over the surface of the cardboard, and then a very curious thing will happen. The filings arrange themselves as shown in the accompanying illustration, each particle forming a part of the various curves which radiate from the two magnetic centres, which indicate where the ends of the bar magnet are. These lines have a scientific application, for you have made a very learned demonstration with the iron filings and the magnet - you have shown most clearly what is generally called in science "the lines of magnetic force."-New York Mail. THE TURTLE AND THE STAIRS. They went out for a romp on the lawn, and when they came in the nursery closet door stood ajar, but Mr. Turtle was nowhere to be seen. They asked the nurse if she had "seen anything," but she "looked them in the eye" and said "no;" so they knew she was telling the truth. They searched the hall and every room on that floor, without finding a trace of the missing creature. Just as they were about to give up a screech from the region of the kitchen sent them helter, shelter in that direction. There stood the indignant cook, who had just come in from a tete-a-tete with the next door, waltress. The butcher boy had set the market basket on the kitchen floor. In the corner of the basket is small hole exposed an inviting bit of steak, and there stood the turtle nibbling like a toothless old man. No one in the house could tell how the turtle got into the kitchen, so, in search of an explanation, the boys carried it up and set it at the top of the stairs. The turtle walked to the edge of the step, crept part way over the brink, then, quickly drawing in its head, feet and tail, tumbled down to the step below. Here it walked to the edge, as before, then bumped down to the next. The boys shrieked in delight, and when the turtle reached the bottom it crawled off toward the kitchen, none the worse for wear. — Philadelphia Record. The assistant of a London dentist pulled the wrong tooth from a patient's jaw, and a court has ordered the dentist to pay the sufferer $84. SUPPLEMEN TTÖ SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1905 OF INTEREST TO WOMEN WOMEN'S HONOR. If anything, we women are in these days overscrupulous, principally owing to the fact that feminine honor in the past has frequently been the subject of masculine glues. Women were formerly commonly supposed, and generally allowed to cheat at croquet, a privilege they shared with curates, and in games where money changed hands while the winnings were invariably handed over to them, they were never expected to pay when they lost. Of course, we have changed all that to-day.-Ladies' Field. HAIR ORNAMENTS. Ornaments for the hair are worn with all evening dress, and while there are charming wreaths and sprays of flowers which give somewhat a flat appearance, the high feather, butterfly, or spray of flowers is more and more fashionable all the time. The hair is still worn in pompadour, but the pompadour is pushed more forward over the face, while the rest of the hair is either in a small knot on top of the head or in a soft graceful coil low in the neck.—Harper's Bazar. STYLE ABOUT THIS COAT. Very distinctive and smart are most of the new styles in coats, which come in varied shapes and lengths. The long, loose coat of cloth, pongee, or silk-faced waterproof material is no longer a hideous and shapeless garment, but has a noticeable style about it. It indicates, while it almost hides, the lines of the figure. The colors used, too, are most attractive, says Harper's Bazar. The reds and blues and ivory whites, as well as the natural color pongee, are all good solid colors, while the fancy buttons are an added ornament. The coats are double breasted, as a rule, with big sleeves fastened in at the wrist with a band or cuff, and fitting well over the shoulders and around the neck. HOW TO LOOK YOUR BEST. When you wish to look your best at a dinner or dance on any special occasion if tired, says a writer in the Gentlewoman, lie down in the afternoon and be sure to throw off both shoes and corsets, for without the removal of these, as a hospital nurse once told me, you get no real case. Now take, and quickly, a warm bath and afterward rub your spine well with can decolgne or verbena. Dress very slowly, and while your maid does your hair close your eyes. The face should first have been carefully washed with water as hot as could be borne, softened with bran and then shuled with cold water into which some toilet vinegar had been dashed. To brighten the eyes bathe them in a teacupful of water which has been slightly salted. Whatever happens, be sure to have all your clothes, your stockings, shoes, gloves, handkerchief, laces, handbag, fan, open glasses or what not laid out ready for you in the afternoon. Your hair brushes, etc., so that when the hour comes for you to dress you can have no sort of worry or hurry and can make your toilet composedly. If a pick-me-up be needed there is no recipe so good as a glass of boiling milk sprinkled on top with nutmeg, to be slipped slowly. A REVOLUTION IN HATS For a wearisome number of years hats have remained the same shape, a little larger or smaller from season to season, and all worn at an angle of forty-five degrees—about as much use as a protection from wind or sun as a neat bit of schooner rigging, the larger ones often suggesting the wisdom of reeing in a storm. This season, without a word of warning, hats are entirely different in shape and size, and for the first time in a decade are worn squarely on the haed or tilting down over the eyes. And there is no more wholly becoming, chile, captivating manner of displaying a pretty hat than to let it half shadow the eyes, soften the complexion and add a pretty piquant mystery to even the plainer girls. The newest French hats are the plateau style with no crown at all, and on very dressy occasions the Russian officer's hat, which is a crown without any brim, and another test of youth and beauty. The plateau hat is worn turned up directly at the back, with a bandaue bridge below the masses of flowers or ribbons on the upturned brim. If the hair is worn low, the trimming extends from the brim to hair twist. The brim may be turned up in a straight line or in many curves, and often the sides are rolled up too and flower lined. The more fashionable braids are on the whole rather ganzy—silk Milan straw, Leghorn with glace finish, morning glory braid in all the morning glory tintis and silk straw galloons that are made up on any becoming frame. The "forward hat" occasionally has a crown, low and rather large, and then it becomes something of a sailor and the back brim is worn up or down as it is intended for afternoon or morning use. That mischievous crown hat, which is known as the "hussar" or the "polo" is about as trying a style as the single-masted effect of last year. No woman should attempt, to wear the little "crown hat" who has not a full face, fluffy hair and features that do not require moderating with becoming shadows. As for trimming, you may use gauze or silk, velvet or lace, and quantities of flowers, made of silk, velvet, chiffon or ribbon. Some of the loveliest French millinery creations are entirely trimmed with ribbon flowers or garlands of ribbon designs, stars, anchors or Greek borders. Sometimes maledain hair ferns or rose foliage are combined with ribbon flowers. Dyed laces are much seen on the pale-tinted hats, and flowers dyed all sorts of unnatural hues, blue roses, green carnations, pink forget-me-nots and black orchids. If one has a millinery scrap box, you cannot do better than to get out all your old pale color ribbons, and trim your hat with a garland of knotted ribbons in Persian colors. First dust the ribbons, then dip in cold borax water so that they will not fade, say a teaspoonful of borax to a basin of water; then wash, gently in a suds of lukewarm water, pure borax powder and shaved castile soap. Pat until the creases are gone, wind on a pole very tight; when dry you will have ribbons fresh, soft and pretty as new.—Mary Annable Fanton. Boydoir CHAT If there is ever a time when a woman ventures beyond her depth it is when she thinks she knows something about politics.—St. Louis Star. Mrs. Frederick Tracy believes there is only one way for a woman to manage her home successfully, and that is by using the same amount of common sense that a man does, in his business. Under one circumstance a woman will admit her age, and that is where she is a "real" daughter of the Revolution. There are a few still living whose fathers fought in the Revolution. A lady of Cloverland, Ohio, recently, it is stated, told her husband to "take his clothes and go" and formally lays down the law that an American wife has the same right to "fire" her husband as her servant. Now let some anti-race sulcidist come forward and advocate the scheme proposed by a local club woman whereby the right of franchise would be bestowed on the fair sex as a reward for having large families, advises the Detroit Free Press. It has been brought out through the case of a young woman who is making charges against an employment agent, that she, the young woman, can speak twelve languages. Think of being "answered back" in a dozen tongues by a saucy maid! In the great political game which every four years ends in the election of a President of the United States, the President-makers give absolutely no thought to the possible "Mrs. President," yet it is a trusim well proved that no nation has ever risen above the level of its women; hence the "Mrs. President" is of paramount importance, since, as "the first lady in the land," her manners, habits, tastes and personality are practically public property, and set the pace for two-thirds of the women of the country. It speaks well for the American system of rearing and educating its women that not one who has gained the high social position of chatelaine of the White House has ever failed to discharge her duties there with dignity and true courtesy. Pretty Things to Wear The linen parasols are new, and will doubtless enjoy great popularity for a time. There never was a time when the guippe played such an important part in the fashions. The fashion of matching every part of one's costume is being carried to the extreme limit this season. If there is material enough for the skirt and the merest scraps left over a pretty gown is altogether possible. Similar to the bretelle gown is the peasant waist and skirt. The skirt is made simply and is always wide and full. Soft muslin gowns in delicate colors are being made with white lace or batiste embroidery yokes and guipmps. A charming dress for a young girl was made of silver grey fancy silk, with a small embroidered figure in darker grey and black. The bretelle gown is a boon to mothers of growing girls, especially if there are gowns of her own to be remade for the daughters. A gown of heavy pink linen was embroidered in wide bands which ran down the sides of the skirt on either side of the front panel and above the circular flounce. The London City Council does not allow window cleaners to stand on window.sills that are more than six feet from the ground. 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No. 32 and the Florida and West Indian Limited, finest the year round between Southern and Eastern cities, solid vestibulated train, drawing room, sleeping cars, dining car and Pullman high class coaches. Schedule and service unequalled. Dining cars on trains 35 and 32, between Jacksonville and Norfolk. No. 2, jeering Savannah. S 11.5 m., connects at Jacksonville with Pullman Buffet Agent for Carsmith and St Petersburg. Connections made at Port Tampa with U. S. mail steamships of the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship sailing Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:40 p. m. Tickets offered at Dolphin Hotel 73; Union Station, Bell phone 235, Georgia 911; H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager, Wilmington, N. O. W. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. W. H. LEAHY, Division Passenger Agent, W. N. LEAHY, Georgia, GA. THOS E. YEARS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Savannah, GA. I. C. SAPP, City Ticket Agent, Doteo No. 21, leaving Savannah 2:45 p. m., connects at Jacksonville, with Pullman Buffot Sleeping Cars for Tampa. Few Second Few Seconds of Horror A miss may be as good as a mile in some cases; in others the agony of suspense which precedes a narrow escape is almost as disastrous to the nerve as if the result bore out the apprehension. An incident of the nerve-racking kind is thus related by a young man who was employed by a large clock firm, and one of whose duties was to superintend the putting up of steepe and tower clocks. "There isn't much chance for adventure in the placing of a clock. It is prosaic business, although it does take one up to the heights; but now and then some little thing will occur which shows one how near the line of everyday living lies to that of tragedy. "I was in one of the large Western cities, seeing to the construction of a clock which was being placed in the tower of the city hall. The job was nearly done when, one afternoon, I was standing on the roof beside the tower, inspecting the great dial face above me. "I have become accustomed to heights which a few years ago would have made me ill to think of, and I had stepped near the slightly guarded edge of the building without any more thought than if I had been on the sidewalk. Far below me were the brick Melodies an Couldst thou know what the blithe bird pipeth. High in the morning air? Wouldst thou know what the bright steam singeth. Rippling o'er pebbles bare? Sorrow the mystery shall teach thee, And the words declare. Wouldst thou find in the rose's blossom More than thy fellows find? More in the fragrance of the lily Than odor on the wind? Love Nature and her smallest atoms Shall whisper to thy mind. Wouldst thou know what the moon dis-courset To the docile sea? Wouldst hear the echoes of the music Of the far infinity? Sorrow shall ope the founts of knowledge And heaven shall sing to thee. Old Times in Melodies and Mysteries Couldst thou know what the blithe bird pipeth. High in the morning air? Wouldst thou know what the bright steam singeth. Rippling o'er pebbles bare? Sorrow the mystery shall teach thee, And the words declare. Wouldst thou find in the rose's blossom More than thy fellows find? More in the fragrance of the lily Than odor on the wind? Love Nature and her smallest atoms Shall whisper to thy mind. Wouldst thou know what the moon discourseth To the docile sea? Wouldst hear the echoes of the music Of the far infinity? Sorrow shall ope the founta of knowledge, And heaven shall sing to thee. Wouldst thou see through the riddle of Being Further than others can? Sorrow shall give thine eyes new luster To simplify the plan; And love of God and thy kind shall aid thee To end what it began. To Love and Sorrow all Nature speaketh; If the riddle be read. They the best can see through darkness Each divergent thread Of its mazy *texture, and discover Whence the ravel spread. Love and Sorrow are sympathetic With the earth and skies; Their touch from the harp of Nature bringeth The hidden melodies; To them the eternal chords forever Vibrate in harmonies. —Charles Mackay. Old Times in Washington Dr. Edward Everett Hale in an article on "Washington Then and Now," in the Outlook, discourses pleasantly of the capital as he first knew it: "The city has grown, in those sixty years, from a mud-hole which had 30,000 people, perhaps, within its borders, to a city of 250,000 inhabitants. The only part of this common (not far from the corner of I and Seventeenth streets) which was fenced in must have been near where the British embassy is now. We called it the gymnasium, I think. That was the high-sounding name for a bowling alley which the young men kept up. I remember one afternoon we persuaded Mrs. Madison, who was still alive, to visit us there, and with great effort *37 *57 Via Montgomery. 3 15c 6 45p Lv.Savannah.Ar. Ar. Lv. 6 15p 8 05a "M.'Gerson.' Lv. & R. 3 17a 7 15p "Nashville." 2 20p 2 20a "Louisville." 1 201n 7 20a "Cincinnati." 1 35p 7 20a "St. Louis." (M. & O.) ... 7 36a "St. Louis." 4 10p 9 15a "Chicago." 2 55a 4 12p Ar. Mobile. Lv. 7 15a 9 12p New Orleans. *58 *22 9 45a 9 35p 9 50a 8 80a 2 40a 1 10p 8 45p 8 31p 7 00p 1 17p 12 30a 8 16p u. Connections made at Port Tampa with U. S. mail steamships of the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship sailing Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:40 p. m. Tickets offices, DoSoto Hotel, Phones 73; Union Station, Bell phone 235, Georgia 911; H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager, Wilmington, N. C. W. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. W. H. LEAHY, Division Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga. THOS. E, MYERS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga. I. C. SAPP, City Ticket Agent, DeSoto Hotel, Savannah, Ga. C. B. CLATTNER, Depot Ticket Agent Union Station, Savannah, Ga. Is of Horror pavement and the busy people of the street. "I was holding in my hand a screwdriver, a ponderous instrument used in adjusting some of the larger portions of the clock, and as I stepped near the cornice rail in some way I let the heavy thing fall from my hand. It struck on the rail and then bounced out of sight. The slickening thought of the passers-by flashed over me and I grasped the rail with both hands and leaned far over in my attempt to follow with my eyes the fall of the implement. "A young lady was passing in front of the building, just in line with the falling screwdriver. I held my breath in an agony of suspense. It seemed hours instead of seconds before the screwdriver fell on the bricks only a few inches behind the girl who was so unconscious of her danger. The noise of the fall caused her to jump and look about her, but she never knew what had caused the mysterious sound nor how near she had come to death, for the instrument bounded off the bricks and landed harmlessly on the green sward that bordered the pavement. No damage had been done, save to my own nerves, but never shall I forget the horror of those seconds of suspense."—Montreal Herald. And Mysteries Wouldst thou see through the riddle of Being Further than others can? Sorrow shall give thine eyes new luster To simplify the plan; And love of God and thy kind shall aid thee To end what it began. To Love and Sorrow all Nature speaketh; If the riddle be read. They the best can see through darkness Each divergent thread Of its mazy 'texture, and discover Whence the ravel spread. Love and Sorrow are sympathetic With the earth and skies; Their touch from the harp of Nature bringeth The hidden melodies; To them the eternal chords forever Vibrate in harmonies. —Charles Mackay. in Washington she got a ball down the middle of the alley and was complimented on her knocking down the king. President Tyler came over and played with the young gentlemen sometimes. Everything had the simplicity and ease, if you please, of a small Virginia town. Whenever the weather would serve, a great many of the southern members' of the House or the Senate rode to the Capitol on their saddle horses. There were thirty or forty posts in front of the Capitol near where the statue of Washington now stands. You rode up to one of those posts and hitched your horse. You left him while you went in and attended the meeting of the House; you came out and unhitched him and rode him to your 2 o'clock dinner." ON THE PROW. RIVATE DAMER came up the steps of his shack, yawned a little, looked out into the night, and shivered. He made his way to the saddle rack, and throwing the familiar burden over one shoulder, staggered under its weight out to the picket line. "Pretty chilly for old Arizona, eh, Mac?" he said to the sentry, as he untied Dick and led the horse away for feel. Damer sauntered to the cook house. A roaring fire awaited him, with a quart cup of black coffee and several slabs of bacon and bread. As he ate, he managed to have a very comfortable growl with the cook. "It's a holy terror. Doc. ain't it?" he said. "Here we've been in a bloomin' canon four months guarding this old water hole, and ridin' over to meet F troop every day. Why, if it wasn't for them graves we'd never know Geronimo was alive. Lord only knows. I wish they'd kill him or give him up for a Charley Ross, an' let us get back to the post an' the potatoes and onions. I'm sick of boot leg and sow bolly." "That's it!" answered Doc. "You Tellers come growln' at me. Where do you 'spose I'm gain' to get taters an onions? Am I one of them fellers that kin say, 'Let there be taters an onions,' an' there be they? Go chase yourself." The cook was ruler of the camp. Damer fled. As he cinched up his horse, he vented his unexpended energy on the latigo strap. A snap of teeth, and a kick, warned him he had reached the limit. With a "Whoa Dick, durn ye!" he slipped the bit in the horse's mouth, and buckled the throat later. Then he looked to his weapons. He placed a cartridge in the chamber of his carbine, closed the breech block, set the hammer at a safety, and slipped the carbine in its book. He spun the cylinder of his six-shooter, and let the hammer rest on the empty chamber. He mounted; and, as he started, two swarthy figures appeared in the semi-darkness—for it was nearing daybreak—and stood by his side. They were the Indian scouts who were to accompany him on his twenty-five mile search for every chance trail of the hostile Apachees. "Hello!" exclaimed the soldier. "Big Hound, and Pretty, too! Well, run along. I'll meet you at the hill." The Indians slipped away as Damer drew up his reins and touched his horse with the spurs. East G troop, with their Sibley tents, he rode; past the graves, where his comrades had been killed by the Apache band, a short mouth age; and on beyond the sutler's tent. The gray of morning had heightened now. The walls of Gaudaloupe Canon poured the splendid art of nature on either side. Titian bronzes mingled with the green of the fields. Piles of driftwood—the aftermath of cloudbursts—made the setting for a perspective of great mural designs in chaos, needing only some master hand to arrange them. Birds twittered, as they sought precarious breakfasts. It was all lost on Damer. He whithed a pipeful of tobacco from a well-seasonal plug and lighted his pipe. Soon his horse was climbing the canon's side. He dismounted, as he reached the top, to take up the slack in the cinch. The sun just then asserted his full power. A flash of light from the east; incandescent rays beaming skyward, like an Aurora; a rim of white fire from the edge of the mountains; a full bursting forth of the glory of another day—and the sun of Arizona had begun once more its scorching and parching of famished plains and bleaching mountain. Damer never saw the daily miracle. Just now, he was swearing vigorously at Dick, who swelled himself after the manner of well-seasoned cavalry horses to resist the tightening of the cinch. A few punches in the ribs settled the matter. Dick assumed normal proportions. It was force of habit that caused him to play the trick. He knew that a loose saddle menut disaster. A gallop—a sudden shy from a prairie dog hole—a crash of the trooper as saddle and man slipped under his belly; and Dick would have killed his master before he could have stopped himself. Damer swung into the saddle, settled himself, let the bridle reins fall loose, and started along the well worn trail, only horse wide. Lizzards scuttled in and out. The whirr of a rattlesnake cracked sharply. Prairie'dogs chattered; and the little owls sat blinking, one legged and solemn. "Blame you! What do you mean?" It was the familiar expletive, with the trooper's affection for his horse as the underlone, and the startled anxiety of the man who was half soldier, half scout, in the phrasing. A cavalry horse shows the repugnance for an Indian scent of his brother, the Indian cayuse, for the odor of a white man. The rider had been RIVAT the s yawne into t ered. cross the solemn calm ward and onward strives, of date and palm red little lives. toward the verge now I may not know; These gray wastes of surge good for me to go." sun left far behind, mutely sent before, welcome shall I find unveil the distant shore? charbor that it nears, ing the seeker nest, fragile ship that steers haven that is best. —Guy Wetmore Carryl. TRAILERS. Gerry Robinson Wright. nodling. But the sensitive nostrils of the horse were alive to the faintest whiff in the parching air. The nervous sly of the horse brought Damer's trained eyes to the cause—for no army horse turns aside save for some good reason. Damer saw a small beating down of the bushes, the faint impression of unshod hoofs, and the rooting up of earth that evidenced a struggle. His intuition painted an instant picture in his mind's eye. Geronimo and his hand had again cut the trail for Mexico. One of the Indian scouts had prevented the other from giving him the warning. The struggle proved that. The loyal Indian was lying somewhere in the bushes. The other one was hidden, ready to kill Damer should he betray the fact that he had noticed the crossing trail. Damer tightened the bridle reins. He said, aloud, and calmly: "Go on, Dick! What's the matter with you?" A glance to the right and left, a loosening of the carbine in the boot, and Damer slowly dismounted. As he bushed himself with the cinch, he cut two strips from the latigo strap, slowly and with much care. Remounting, he slipped the button from his pistol holster. Dick jogged along; and Damer, in the saddle, rode with the air of a man longing for sleep. An Italian appeared on the trail, with his "lung tour" slung across his arm. The hammer was at full cock. A false move—an inkling of what had gone before—and Damer would have filled the buzzard maws, and Geronimo would have gained another recruit. But the soldier was merely dully curious. "Helloa, Pretty! Where's Big Head?" "Big Head? Him down that way. Mebbe in to-day. Saw deer." An right then; you trot ahead." The Indian swing around on the hall of his foot—the moccasin right about—and advanced again, reassured. Damer sank both rowels in Dick's side. As the frenzied jump of the horse carried him to, the trailer he brought down the butt of his pistol mightily on Pretty's head. A jerk of the bridle, a swift dismounting, and, in a moment, Pretty's hands were behind him. As Pretty was assisted to his feet, he slowly grinned at his captor. The primitive man had asserted himself. Despite of four years of careful schooling, and long mingling with the different environment, the Indian had come back to his own. Damer understood, and he answered the mirthless, significant smile: "You bet! You've fooled a heap of people—but not your Uncle Dudley." They started on the back trail. "I knew you were laying for me and —— Go on, blast you!" Pretty made a small show of protest- ing. "You savey. Damer? Court martial for hittin' Injun. What's the matter? You loco?" "Court martial! I'll mean hanging for you, if I don't kill you myself. Here's how it reads: Trail discovered by two Injuns. One of 'em—and it's not you—honest enough to give me the tip. You kill him; and you'd have killed me. Now, you show me what you've done with him." Indian and soldier slowly traveled, the back trail. "Now them. Pretty; here we are." Damer dismounted, untied his lariat, cut the straps from the Indian's hands, and leveling his forty-five, added: "Go ahead! Bring him out!" "No monkeyin'! You know me! Another move like that, an' there'll be one less Injun to eat Government hears." There was a little brush of mesquite where they had halted. Pretty had cast a cuiling, stealthy glance at Damer, to see whether the chance of a sudden bolt would avail. No! There was a glint in the gray eyes that looked him squarely in the face, and a nervous twitching of the lips which, with the careless Western method of handling Colts, caused him to change his mind. The soldier had the snapshot habit—no looking over the sights, no aim taken; yet, when you glance, the ugly muzzle seems to be covering all parts of your anatomy at one time. Pretty noted the signs shrewdly. Like a wise Indian, he parted the bushes and glided away from the trail. There had not been much of a struggle—a downward blow from the butt end of a rifle while Big Head was examining the trail, a swift binding of hands and feet, and the dragging of his body into the bushes. There he lay now, dead. His face was upturned to the heating sun, mouth agape, eyes distended, and bloody marks where the cruel thongs had cut his flesh. Pretty, at the body's side, began a protest: "Damer, I not kill him. I only hit. What the matter, I not know." "Killed himself, eh? Bloomin' magician he must have been! Pick him up, my son, and drag him out to Dick. We'll take him into camp with us. Just rafe evidence he is. "You heap dog!" gritted Pretty. Hate—the bitter malevolence of a race refined in cruelty—glared out of the Indian's eyes. "Yep!" and the six-shooter waved rhythmically up and down the line of Pretty's body. "Yep!" repeated Damer. "Me heap dog. And you'll be dog meat to just a holy second if you don't move—Quick!" The command snapped outward from his teeth like the crack of a Winchester. In its harsh abruptness was all the dominance of the men who had conquered his people years ago. The Indian stooped over and placed his hands around Big Head's body. With a yell he leaped backward, shrreking to the soldier: "Cocheo, pronto! Knife, white, quick!" A cold glance of liquor started from Damer's eyes as he looked, first at the body of the dead man, and then at Pretty's face. The Indian's hand was frantically clutching at his knife sheath. The soldier had not forgotten the knife when he took Pretty's rifle from him. The shining blade of the Indian rested alongside his own. "No," answered Damer. The thought of treachery was chill within him. "You stop this monkey business and drag Big Head out here to the trail." "Look!" The word fairly rasped from the Indian's throat. Holding up both hands, palms outward, Pretty supplicated the soldier. He saw—on the palm of the left hand—two pin pricks, about an inch apart. Even while he stared, two tiny drops of blood started. A rattlesnake bite! As Damer hesitated, The Indian commenced, with an inhuman snarl, to bite chunks of flesh from the wound. A few seconds, and the poison would be swiftly traversing its way to the Indian's heart. "Here?" Damer whipped out his knife and spun it, hilt first, to Pretty. A swift snatch at the blade, a circular sweep of the steel, the swishing sound of parting flesh, and half of Pretty's palm lay on the burning sand. Pity filled the soldier's heart as he stared, oxyed and dumb, at the frightful, bleeding hand, the glare of horror in the Indian's eyes, and the dead body at their feet. A wristling of dry scales over drier twigs acted as a shock. Damer was alert once more; his pistol arm brought the Colts to the front, as he saw four feet of simious, twisting body, the grating tail and cold, emotionless eyes of death incarnate, glide out from under the dead man's body, and coil as though to strike again. He blew off its head, and turned to the Indian. Already a hideous gray mottling was appearing through the bronzeed skin. The trailler's eyes were twitching, while great soils burst from his lips as he struggled for breath. Too late—no chance for life. As the deadly poison swiftly sought his heart, and the cold damp of fear burst out on his brow, more swiftly did the thought come to Pretty of revenge. Damer had partly turned away, sick of the dreadful sight, when, with a noiseless spring Pretty was upon him. They tumbled to the ground. Damer's gun had been knocked from his hand. As the Indian struck, again and again, with his knife, the soldier knew he was struggling for life, the Indian for a dubious death. With the trained muscles of a clean frontier life, Damer evaded the knife thrusts, twice, thrice; then he felt the cold steel grate against his ribs—a glancing blow. But the next one! There must be no next. With a frantic effort he managed to seize the hand which held the knife, and sought for Pretty's throat. He knew that his only hope for life lay in the quickness of the poison's work. Could he hold out against the last frenzy of death? Over the dead body of Big Head they rolled, over the bloody headless body of the rattlesnake. Pretty was beating him in the face with the mangle hand. Covered with blood and slowly weakening from his wound, the tensity of the soldier's grasp relaxed. With a sudden jerk, Pretty tore his arm free and drew back for the full stroke. As he glared in Damer's face, the soldier closed his eyes. There was a sudden gasp, a mighty unheaval of the body, and Damer was tossed aside. Pretty was dead. As Damer arose and looked down at the tragedy, far off, in the blue sky, the buzzards could be seen coming to their feast—Outing Force of Habit. A telephone inspector had occasion to visit a country house to repair the instrument, which had been out of order. After executing the necessary repairs he was informed that the lady of the house would like to see him in the drawing room. He was? shown into the room by the servant, and at once noticed an old lady seated by the fire. The old lady informed the inspector that she was slightly deaf, at the same time putting a large ear trumpet to her ears in order that he might inform her what had gone wrong with the telephone. Imagine her look of surprise when the inspector commenced by shouting down the ear trumpet, "Hallo! Are you there?"—Chicago Journal. Four Questions. Why do we always talk of putting on our coats and vests when we always put on first our vest and then our coat? Why do we refer to the coverings of our feet as shoes and stockings when the stockings are first put on? Why do we invite people to wipe their feet when we mean their shoes? Why, in the olden times, old a father tell his son he would warm his jacket, when every one knew he meant his pantalous? -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ARBADOES, one of the Caribbean Islands, was the scene of the following vivid, and well-authenticated story of a terrible light with a shark, one of the real manuating tribe: A ship named the Southern Trader, from Liverpool, with a cargo of coal, had just discharged her freight at the port referred to, when the crew who had been engaged in the dirty work resolved upon a good salt-water bath, and accordingly ventured into the sea. The coral shores of Barbadoes abound in sharks, and the first mate of the ship, who remained on board; espied one of these monsters making toward the men before they had been ten minutes in the water, and instantly gave the alarm. The sailors hastened toward the boat which the mate sent to them, and all succeeded in getting safely on board excepting one foremost hand—he was the last of his companions to reach the boat. Just as he was about to lay his hands upon the guwaih—a the shark seized him in his caballous jaws and literally bit him in two, instantly swallowing a portion of the body and the lower limbs. The upper part of the body was taken on board, but, of course, life became extinct immediately. The crew in the boat were almost crazy with excitement and horror. There was one among them, however, who said nothing, but gazed first at the dismembered body and then at the spot where the shark's black dorsal fin showed above the surface of the water. It was the chum of the poor victim. They had been warm and consistent friends for many years, and the bitterness of his feelings made him for the moment quite dumb. In the meantime, the insatiable shark was swimming hither and thither through the blood-stained water in search of the remainder of his prey. The rest of the crew were only too thankful to be safe in the boat, but not so with John Hodge, the dead man's clam, who was seen to hasten on board the ship, where he entered the cook's gallery, and having secured a long, sharp butcher's knife, made his way back to the boat, now alongside. "Look ye, messmates," said he, coolly, "I'll kill that devil, or he shall eat me, too!" Saying which, he took the long knife between his teeth and leaped fearlessly into the sea. It was all done so quickly that no one could have interfered had they been so disposed, but all looked at each other in silent amazement at such temerity. the moment that the intrendid seaman struck the water the shark saw him, and made for the spot. Both were equally eager, the one for his prey, the other for vengeance. The monster was soon beside his enemy, and quickly turned half upon his back, after the manner of his tribe, to seize him in his terrible jaws. But John Hodge was self-possessed, and at that instant dove beneath the shark, at the same time thrusting his long knife deep into his belly, causing the water to be dyed all about them with his blood. He managed to give the monster two telling wounds before he came again to the surface. The enraged fish became confused, and his adversary, avoiding his head, gave him repeated stabs with the butcher's knife. The shark retired for a moment out of the bloody circle that now surrounded them, followed in gallant style by the sailor. Soon the fish turned and came at him again. The men in the boat and on the ship held their very breaths in the intensity of their excitement at the strange duel between man and fish. The whole scene thus far had scarcely occupied three minutes of time, and the men were too much confused to attempt to assist their daring comrade. As we have said, the sea monster had turned and was again making toward the sailor, but the latter, so far from realizing any fear, seemed to have gained confidence during the brief encounter, and as the shark approached him once more he dove beneath him, and inflicted two vital stabs in the bowels. The water became red with blood in all directions, and those in the boat began to think that their comrade had been wounded. They got out oars, and were now pulling toward him. As they approached, they saw that the fight was over, and the shark was turning upon its back, and lashing the water slowly with its tail. It was the death throwe! John Hodge was taken on board, excited and much fatigued, but uninjured. A boat hook was attached to the shark, and he was towed to the beach, where he was drawn up upon the sand. It was opened, and the lower portion of the dead man's body was taken out, and being placed with the rest of the corpse, it was decently hurried. Neither John Hodge nor the crew of the Southern Trader will ever forget this fight with a shark at Barbadoes. SAVED BY A BOY. When the wife of one of the United States Senators was a baby of two years, she was rescued from a great peril by the courage of her sister and her nine-year-old brother. Her father, Mr. LEE, lived in a farm-house with his wife and five children, and one day the home was attacked by the Ute Indians. Lee shot three of the Indians in their first rush, says a writer in the New/York Sun, and then he and his family prepared for a fight 6 to the death. The cabin was log-built, and afforded absolute protection against bullets. "The children will be brained or carried tolive and your father and myself shot down if the Indians get into the house," said Mrs. Lee, handing a knife to her eldest daughter. "Don't let yourself or your sisters be taken alive." A smell of smoke revealed the Indians' first move. They had thrown brush on the roof and fired the house. It ignited slowly; for everything was damp from recent rains, but the dwelling soon filled with suffocating smoke, and the baby was thrown into convulsions. While the mother was frantically trying to restore the little one, Mr. Lee attacked the burning roof. Emma, a girl of eleven, made a rush for the barn and returned in safety with a crowbar. With this implement the father was enabled to pry off some of the blazen logs, but the smoke continued to grow dense: Lee was abut to go for water when Emma sprang forward. "Let me go!" she cried. "If you should be killed what would be come of the rest?" The child made several trips under cover of her father's gun and the fire was put out. Charles, a boy of nine, then announced his intention of making a break through the Indians and running to Beaver, four miles away, for help, but both parents refused to give their consent. Charles stood, the inaction as long as he could; then with a cry that he would not stay to die by smoke, he inade a dash out of the door and was gone. Bare-footed and half-clothed, the boy escaped the notice of the sayages, and ran at top speed to the town. His feet were bruised and form by rocks and briers, but he never slackened his pace until he met a man on the outskirts of the village. "Indians!" he gasped; and the man, wheeling his horse round, rode back to Beaver, repeating the boy's cry. Ten minutes inter twenty men were riding at top speed toward Lee's ranch, where they drove the Indians back and rescued the inmates from what had seemed certain death. FIGHT WITH A FISH. On the fats at Winthrop Beach, Boston, on a recent afternoon a lone man and a monster codfish fought and raced and tripped and splashed for half an hour, and it was the strangest duel ever waged on the rock-bound New England coast. Time and time again the determined man wrapped his muscular arms about the fish in an endeavor to secure a strangle hold, and time and time again the cod merrily wriggled away. At times the fish became vicious and lashed his tail against his human opponent with amazing force. Twice the man was knocked down by the codfish, but still wet and sore, he fought until, after thirty long, wet and exciting minutes, the man was victor and dragged the great fish ashore. The skill of rod and reel, of casting and playing was missing from the contest. it is true, but no fisherman ever fought a better fight and no fish was ever gamer. Thrashing about in the shallow waters of the flats the man and the fish dodged this way and that, leaping and struggling together, rolling over and over in the water, each determined and vigorous, and plucky. Mrs. William Duquet, of Faun Bar street, Winthrop, saw from Great Head hill the fish splashing in the shallow waters on the bar. The fish had been caught on the flats by the outgoing tide, and was struggling to work his way into deeper water. Mrs. Duquet called her husband and he hurried to the beach and waded out. He had never seen a codfish of such size. He was expecting to find a young porpoise or something of that class, and was too surprised to do more than stand and gaze at the struggling fish for a while. Finally seeing endless frys and bakes and stews and chowders in the fish he carelessly took hold of the cod's tail and started inshore with him. He started, but that was all. The cod curved his lithe, scintilating body, and with one blow from his tall knocked Duquet flat and floundered in the shallow water. Again and again the man sought to hold the fish, but was unable, after being knocked down a second time he devoted his energies to driving the fish ashore. Finally, when he had the cod well inshore, he ran ashore and secured a piece of sacking. With this to prevent his hands from slipping he grasped, the cod again, and they wriggled and rolled together inshore and upon the sands of the beach, where the struggle was over. The cod welghed sixty-five pounds, being nearly twice as large as any cod ever before caught off Winthrop. Mrs. Elmer Chickering, wife of the Boston photographer, was one of the few witnesses of the strange fight. The cod attracted hundreds during the remainder of the day, when it was on exhibition at the office of the Point Shirley Packing Company. Arithmetic Useless. Sir Oliver Lodge, in an address to teachers at Birmingham University the other evening, described arithmetic as being one of the most absurd of the complexities of pretended commerce. The terms of arithmetic were the worst things ever concocted by a nation emerging from sehit-babbarism. They were, he said, neither arithmetic, mathematics, nor common sense. Mastering them was merely wasting a child's time. The Flamingo. There are about seven species of flamingoes, three of which are in America, frequenting the Babamas, Florida and Cuba. In height the flamingo averages about five feet. If its curved neck were stretched to its full length the bird would tower above the head of an ordinary man. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS PEAR HONEY. Pick over and core fully ripe pearl and cook with a little water until soft; strain through a jelly bag and then smother slowly until reduced about one-third of the original amount. It should be pale, clear and sweet, with a fruity flavor. This is excellent for use with delicate griddle cakes. SPICE LOAF CAKE Cream one and one-half cups of butter, add two cups of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of milk, four well-baked eggs, one level teaspoon of ground cloves, one and one-half teaspoon of cinnamon, one-quarter of a grated nutmeg, five cups of flour in which six level teaspoons of baking powder are sifted, and two cups of raisins. Bake in two loaves slowly. DATE CAKE. Cream one-half cup of butter, add one and one-half cups of sugar, beat well, add the beaten yolks of four eggs, beat again, add one cup of milk, two and one-quarter cups of flour with four level teaspoons of baking powder sifted in it, then add one-half pound of dates chopped and one-half teaspoon of almond flavoring. Bake in thin sheets, cover with a thick ice and decorate with stoned dates. Serve in small squares. APPLE GINGER. Pare and core apples and to four pounds allow four pounds of light brown sugar, the juice and grated rind of three lemons and an ounce of white ginger pounded flat. Cook all together three or four hours over a slow fire until the apple looks clear. Seal in small jars. The ginger can be bought in any drug store, and the pieces should be taken out before sealing the preserve or at any time when the flavor of ginger becomes too strong. SHEPHERD'S PIE: Cut up enough cold roast beef to make a quart of small, thin slices. Season the meat with salt and pepper, and after putting it into a deep carton dish pour over it a sauce made as follows: Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into a frying pan, and when it has become hot add two scant tablespoonfuls of flour. Stir until this is dark brown, and then add a pint of water. Season with salt and pepper and boil for three minutes. Pare, boil and mash eight good-sized potatoes; then add to them a cupful of boiling milk, a tablespoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to suit the taste. Spread this preparation over the meat and sauce, beginning at the side of the dish and working toward the centre. Bake for thirty minutes. Other meats beside roast beef may be used in a shepherd's pie if desired. Hints For the Housekeeper Never put warm food of any kind away in a covered dish if you want it to keep well. When peeling onions begin at the root end and peel upwards, and the onion will scarcely affect your eyes at all. If a piece of furniture is ink-stained, six drops of nitre in a teaspoonful of water applied with a feather will remove it. Glassware should be washed in hot soaps and rinsed in cold water. A clean glass towel does the rest. Use a brush for cut glass. Do not use a sponge; it no longer fills a long-felt want on the toilet table, because it is apt to become filled with germs poisonous to the skin. Use a bit of antiseptic cloth or the hands. A sponge or face flannel which has become slimy through constant use of soap should be well rubbed with salt and then rinsed in cold water. By this process it becomes practically new. Rust on steel may be removed thus: Cover the steel with sweet oil, rub it in well, and let it stand for forty-eight hours; then rub the steel with unslaked lime, finely powdered, till all the marks have disappeared. In addition to the weekly scrubbing of the refrigerator, it is a good plan to occasionally take out the shelves and boll them with a handful of washing soda. The wash boiler may be used for this purpose. Orange frosting for cake is made by grating the rind of an orange and squeezing the juice and a tablespoonful of lemon juice over it. Gradually beat into the mixture confectioners' sugar until the proper consistency is reached. A diet of young carrots is said to be excellent for the skin and all its appendages of hair and nails. This is attributed to its anti-scorbutic salts, its oily matter and the iron which exists in all red-colored vegetables and fruits. A girl who develops her own photographic plates tried many experiments before she solved the problem of keeping her hands, especially her finger nails, clean. She found that lemon juice, if used quickly after the hands had been in the developer and the hypo-removed stains from underneath the nails. It is stated that for the first time it living memory every Turkish official punctually received his full salary on april 1. Rev. J. M. Mallard of Limerick, Ga., was in to see us on Monday. Mrs M. G Knowels and children are visiting relatives in Columbia, S. C. Go with the Masons to Beaufort, on steamer Clifton, on Monday. Leaves promptly at 9 a. m. Are you going to Beaufort on Monday? A crowd is going and you should not miss this treat. Take the salt breeze on Monday with the Masons by going to Beaufort. Only 50 cents for the round trip. Mr. and Mrs. A S Rogers are receiving the congratulations of friends on the safe arrival of a bouncing girl baby. Mrs. Cornelia Overstreet, left the city on the 14th to spend the summer at the north. She will spend her time between New York city and Watch Hill, R. I. Rev. E. C. Foley, a prominent divine of the M. E. Church, of Plains, Ga., accompanied by Mr. G o. S Williams, gave us a call on Tuesday last. The Teachers Union of the Berean Sunday School Convention will meet Wednesday evening at St. John Baptist church at 8:30. The public is invited. The pastor and congregation of St. Stephen's Church are heartily grateful to their circle of friends who assisted in making their outing on the river such a complete success. Mrs. R L. Barnes has returned home after an extensive trip through the state visiting her courts. Mrs. Barnes is easily the foremost lady in the state and is beloved by everybody. A special meeting of the Frances E. W. Harper Liturary Circle will be held Thursday afternoon June 30, at the residence of Mrs L. M. Hutchinson, 510 Hartridge street. All members are urged to be present. The trustees of Oak Grove cemetery have elected Col. J. H. Deveaux on the board in place of Maj. W. H. Royall, deceased. The other members are Rev. H. Maxweil, Rev. R'H. Thomas, Mr. Felix McIntosh, and Mr. Jackson Tattnall. Services of the Union·Baptist church of Daufurki, S.C. was well attended on the second Sunday. The church was full all day. Rev. A. Hucson has improved the island greatly Everybody enjoyed the sermon The Sunday School was addressed by the corresponding Secretary of the S. S. Convention. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Carr, who left for New York, a fortnight ago have returned. Mr. Carr visited Washington, New York and Philadelphia, he reports an enjoyable time. Mrs. Carr will remain North until September, the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. A, Branch Intelligence has been received of the death of little Ruby Lewis, the twelve year old daughter of the later Mr. and Mis. A C. Lewis. Ruby died at Rockcastle, Va., where, she has been attending school, on Sunday last. She is survived by a brother and several sisters. Little Ruby was a sweet tempered girl and beloved by all who knew her. The marriage of Miss Sara Pickett of Montreal, Canada to Mr. Alonzo White of Daytona, Fla., was quietly celebrated at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Pinkney, E. Hull St., on Wednesday evening June 20th in the presence of members of the family, Rev. Redd officiating. The happy pair left on an early train Wednesday morning for Daytona their future home where the reception will be held. A pleasant party visited Charleston on the first Sunday and were met and highly entertained by Rev. and Mrs. Kemp. They attended two services at Rev. Kemp's church. In behalf of the church, the deacons made them welcome and ask that they come again. The party were. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. George, Mrs. Ellen Chipp, Mrs. Martha Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Smith, Mrs. Lda Smith, Mrs. Lzz e Opie, Mrs. Charlotte Martin. The League to Meet. Tuesday afternoon next the Negro Business League will meet at the Wage Earners Bank. Each business-man is expected to be present as matters of vital importance will be considered. The league will also make arrangements for the meeting of the National-body which will be held in New York in August. Georgia and especially Savannah should be fully represented at this gathering. Torture of a Preacher. The story of the torture, of Rev. O. D. Moore, pastor of the Baptist Church, of Harpersville, N. V., will interest you. He says: "I suffered agonies, because of a president cough, resulting from the grip. I had to sleep sitting up in bed. I tried many remedies, without relief, until I took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds, which entirely cured my cough, and saved me from Consumption." A grand cure for diseased condition of Throat and Lungs. At any druggist: price $0c and $1.00, guaranteed. Trial bottle free. Masons to Celebrate. To morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock all of the Masons in the city will assemble in their Lodge room on West Gwinnett street for the purpose of celebrating St. John's Day. The Masons in a body will march to the main auditorium where an interesting program will be presented. The main address will be delivered by Rev. W. D. Johnson, Jr., of American, Ga. A paper will be read by Mrs. J. C. Miller, in behalf of the O. E S., and short addresses will be made by Messrs. J. W. Armstrong and Duncan J. Scott. Interspersed there will be singing. This service will be public and the friends of the order are invited to attend as each one will be made to feel welcome. The next day, Monday, the Lodges will unite in an excursion to Beaufort. Arrangements have been made to make the trip an enjoyable one. The steamer Clifton is engaged and will leave from foot of Whitaker street at 9 a.m., promptly, so as to give the excursionists a long stay in Beaufort, and returning in time to catch the cars for home. This is the first time in a number of years that the Masons have appealed for public patronage and a liberal response by attendance is expected. To Cross Bats. On Thursday afternoon next the professional men and the business men will meet on the diamond at Bolton street Park. The game will be interesting from start to finish, will be well worth the price of admission and more two. The proceeds of the game will be devoted to the benefit of Charity Hospital. The game will be called at 4:30 in the afternoon. To miss this game you will be missing a treat. Admission 15 cents, ladies free; Grand stand 10 cents extra. Sunday Club. The meetings of the Men's Sunday Club are proving to be very interesting as well as profitable. Mr. I. M. Jackson spoke on "The unreliability of Negro Labor." The speaker introduced some original investigation which added to the interest of the paper. The general discussion was very timely, several persons taking part. The club voted to appoint a committee to further investigate the unreliability of Negro Labor. Sunday night the Men's Sunday Club and Francis E. W. Harper society attended services at the Asbury M. E. church for the purpose of organizing a Mother's Club. Dr L'oyd and Prof. Gadsden spoke on sanitation and the purpose of the Men's Sunday Club. Miss Lewis spoke of a Mother's club. And as a result a number of ladies gaye their names for membership in the mothers club which was organized last Tuesday. Tomorrow the 25th will be ladies' day. At which time a special musical program will be rendered in addition and an address by Mr. E. W. Houstown on Negro Education in Chatham County. The Men's Sunday Club extends a most cordial invitation to the public to attend its meetings Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m. at Masonic Temple. Local Notes. The pretty June wedding of Miss Maud A. Middleton and Mr. H. O. Ward was solemnized on Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Middleton, on Nicoll street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Gregory of St. Benedict church. The bride looked very pretty in a white organdie dress daintily trimmed with valenciennes lace and tucks and a transparent yoke of all over lace, and her whole form was enveloped in a lovely tulle veil. The home was tastily decorated with vines and potted plants. After the ceremony there was a reception for the guests. The presents were numerous and handsome. The pretty and attractive little cottage of Mrs M. Howard, 213 Bullock street, was made more beautiful on Friday afternoon last by the addition of potted plants and the abundance of flowers which gave it a lovely aspect suitable as a place for the M. W. P. C. The afternoon was spent in various kinds of amusements. The literary part of the program was enjoyed very much and possibly would have been the best, but for that splendid regiment. And when that was being indulged in, and when one observed the manner in which it was prepared, all other attraction of the afternoon was temporarily forgotten. All present had an exceedingly enjoyable evening. Meslames B. L. Williams, M. Saunderg, and M. Iman assisted Mrs. Howard. The guests of the club were, Meslames O. C. Coleman, Goo. Nutall, S. A. Young, O. C. Robinson, H. G. Hudson, O. E. Thurman, M. Chisholm, T. H. Green, F J Hilton, F. P. Edwards, F. H. Thomas, J. T. Stevens, G. Freeman, Julia Frazier, and Misses, M. Watts, D. A. Blyler, F. S Tropey The charming event of last Wednesday evening in Dorchester, Mass, was an informal reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Plumer at their home "The Colonial Club," Washington street in honor of their guests Misses Johanns Houston and Mary Favors of Savannah, Ga. The parlor was decorated with ferns, white carnation and potted plants. The guests enjoyed games of several kinds after which delightful refreshments were served in the dining room. Many guests were present. Misses Favors and Houston left the next afternoon for Hyannis Port, Mass. Beginning the first week in July. I will take a few pupils in Piano and will organize a class in vocal music if a sufficient number will apply. Call or drop me a postal. CHAS. McDOWELL, 218 East Park Ave. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Thursday will be June 22. A days outing will be given to Montgomery by Mt. Tabor Baptist Church and Sunday School, July 3rd. Tickets 20 and 30 cents. Union Protection Club will give their annual celebration at Masonic Temple, on the night of July 4th. Tickets 15c. The Hucksters will give a grand entertainment at Margaret Street Hall, Monday night June 26. Tickets 15c. Don't fail to attend the grand fourth of July picnic and barbecue to be given by the Laundry Drivers at Scott's Pavilion, Bonaventure, Tuesday, July 4th. Tickets 15c. A grand outing will be given to Lincoln Park under the auspices of Beth-Eden Building Relief Club and Sunday School, Monday June 29th. Tickets 10 and 15c. The Twight Reapers A. and S. Club will give their ninth annual excursion to Daufuskie Island. Tuesday July 18th. Tickets 50 and 55c. Mt.Sier Lodge No. 2441, G. U. O. of O. F., will celebrate her 22d anniversary by an excursion to Beaufort on Monday July 17th. Tickets 50c. The First A. B. Church, Franklin Square, will give their second annual excursion to St. Catheline Island, Monday July 17th. Fare round trip 50c. A grand united excursion will be given to Blufston, S C., by Ashbury M. E. and St. Paul C. M. E. churches on Monday June 25. Fare 50 and 25 cents. There will be a grand concert and tableaux given for the Lerent of New Zion Baptist church at Mill Haven. Monday night June 20th. Tickets 10 cents. Local Union No 17 of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers International Union at Lincoln Park, Monday June 26th. Tickers 15 cents. A grand picnic will be given at Lincoln Park Tuesday June 27th by the Benevolent Daughters of Africa. Tickets 15 cents. A grand outing at Lincoln Park will be given under the auspices of Beth Elen Building Relief club on Thursday June 26th. Tickets 10 and 15 cents. Prof P. J. Johnson of Brooklyn N. Y. will give a grand magic entertainment for the benefit of the Knights of Pythias, at Masonic Temple, Tuesday evening July 11th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. A grand picnic will be given at Stiles Park by the Bethleham Baptist church and Sunday School on Monday July 10th. Special cars will leave Duffy and West Broad streets at 9 a.m. and 8 p. m. Tickets 20 and 30 cents. The Old Reliable Mutual club will run her regular annual fourth of July excursion to St. Helena Island, S. C. To prevent over crowding and at the same time give every body an opportunity to vn, they will run two boats. The steamers Clayton and Swan, have been chartered for the occasion and will leave their wharves at 10 o'clock on the night of July 3rd. Fare for the round trip 20 cents. Remember the Mammoth Family excursion that will be given to Beaufort by the Masons on Monday, June 26th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. The Royal entertainment of Savannah Division U. O. T. R. will take place at MaSonic Temple on Monday night June 26th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. Furious Fighting. For seven years," writes Geo. W. Hoffman, of Haper, Wash., "I had a bitter battle, with chronic stomach and liver trouble, bnt at last I won, and cured my disease, by the use of Electric Bitters. I unhesitatingly recommend them to all, and don't intend in the future to be without them in the house. They are certainly a wonderful medicine to have cured such a bad disease as mine." Sold under guarantee to do the same for you by all druggist, at soc, a bottle. Try them today. Keep Up To Date by attending The Golden Leaf Club outing at Lincoln Park on MONDAY JULY 17TH. 1905. We hope to give you an enjoyable time as usual. ADMISSION 15 cents. Old Relics Bought Such as Mahogany Furniture, Old Coins, old Blue China, Confederate bills, Shinplasters and Brasses. Old Guns and Pistols. Call on or address R. B. BROOKS 441 Whitaker street, corner Gordon lane, Savannah, Ga. Mrs. W. H. Eurgess Cor. Jefferson and Gaston Sts. is conducting a neat Dress Making and Millinery Store. She solicits the patronage of the public. Guaranteeing perfect fit and polite attention. Orders promptly filled. B. H. Levy, Bro. & co. Call on us, if you want to be correctly dressed. A Complete Stock to select from. Latest style. Best Fit. --- T. W. WALKER, President, Birmingham, Ala. WM. DRISKELL, Sec'y & Gen. Mgr., Atlanta, Ga. H. GRIFFIN YOUNG, District Manager, 912 West Broad Street, SAVANNAH, GA. UNION MUTUAL ASSOCIATION, Main Office For Georgia, 212 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Ga. Th largest Negro Industrial Company of its kind in the world. Owned and operated exclusively by Negroes. Employs more Negroes than any other institution in existence. Branch Offices throughout the State Business. Written near $1,000,000. Pays $1 00 to $10 00 per week for Sick and Accident, and from $10 00 to $100 00 in case of Death. Our Motto—Prompt payment of all just Claims. For further information call or write. H. GRIFFIN YOUNG, District Manager, 240 Barnard St., Savannah, Ga Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of tech $7.00 and $3.00. Broken Places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. BellPhone 1244 All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23K K Gold Special Notice. Special Notice. The Excelsior Aid and Social Club will spend the glorious 4th of July on Daufuski Island with their friends and wellwishers, where they will enjoy the cool refreshing ocean breeze. There will be excellent music and dancing, also a hotly contested game of Base Ball between the Adelphia Club of Savannah and the E. A. and S. C. West Side Pharmacy The Adelphias E. A. & S. C. Hamilton —C— Campbell Tyson —P— Whitfield McNichols —1st B— Gaston Branham —2nd B— Bowens Lark —3rd B— Smith Mann —S S— Jenkins Erwin —R F— Wright Williams —C F— Jones Brown —L F— Anderson Substitutes Substitutes Brown & Wright Scruggs & Brinson Colors Colors Red. Blue. Yellow. Red. White. Yellow. Carries a full line of Drugs, Toilets, Cigars, Tobacco Confectioneries and Stationeries. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Open until 12 o'clock at night. Prompt delivery serviceand reasonable prices. Bell Phone 2374. Call over phone for what you want. Dr. C. P. Watts and Dr.J. F. Ford, Druggists A Fearful Fate. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. It is a fearful fate to have to endure the terrible torture of Piles, "I can truthfully say," writes Harry Colson, of Masonville, Ia., that for Bluid, Bleeding, Itching and Protruding Piles, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, is the best cure made." Also for cuts, burns and injuries. 25c. at all druggist. East West North Double Daily Service to the East. Choice of Two Routes to the West. $28.40 WASHINGTON, D. C $28.40 and RETURN For further information, address HOW TO KEEP WELL Eat the best meats. You can find this by visiting the OLD RELIABLE Stall No. 31, City Market Beef, Veal and Mutton, And all kinds of game in season Goods delivered promptly. F. F. JONES & SON. Both 'Phone 689. W. C. McMILLIN, Passenger Agent 141 BULL ST., SAVANNAH, GA. L. S. REED, Pres. JULIAN SMITH, V. Pres. & Treas. ALBERTHA MORDECAI, Fin. Sec'y. HATTIE E. CAMPBELL, Cor. Sec'y. G. James. 215 Randolph Street, cofner of Jackson street, Union Benefit Association. Green Grocery, Dealer in Beef, Pork, Veal and Poultry, Also carry a fine line of Groceries, Cigars, Tobacco, etc. Prompt attention will be given We are pleased to state to the public that THE UNUION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION, having complied with all the laws of the insurance Laws of this State, will protect you in case of sickness, accident or death. It is giving profitable employment to more young men and whomen than any other Negro concern in the city. Room for more good agents. You want only the best Cotton Gin Machinery Ask any experienced Ginner about Pratt, Eagle, Smith Winship, Munger We would like to show you what thousands of lifelong customers say. Write for catalog and testimonial booklet. Continental Gin Co Charlotte, N. C., Atlanta, Ga. Hirmingham, Ala. Memphis, Tenn., Dallas, Tex. Sour Stomach (At25-'05) French as She Speaks It. She had asked permission to use the telephone while her mother transacted her business with the head of the office. A caller was an interested listener to the one-sided conversation until, just as the talk grew interesting, she began to speak in French. "What was that girl saying?" demanded the caller of the bookkeeper, after the two women had left the office. "You speak French." "That is just the trouble," was the laughing answer. "I speak French; that girl merely thinks she does. I could not understand one word in ten." "Then how do you suppose the other girl understood?" "She understood it because they both studied under the same teacher. There is more bad French taught in the fashionable finishing schools in this city than any one save a Frenchman can realize. She used words I never heard before, and yet I could have told what she was trying to say."—New York Press. ALL HE FOUND "I trust," the new joke contributor wrote, "you may find something to attract you in this batch." "Huh!" grunted the editor. "I find an error in spelling. The word 'batch' should be botch."—Philadelphia Ledger. The Japanese government is placing large orders for metal and woodworking machinery in this country. FOOD IN SERMONS. Feed the Dominate Right and the Sermous Aro Bittilian. A conscientious, hard-working and eminently successful clergyman writes: 'I am glad to bear testimony to the pleasure and increased measure of efficiency and health that have come to me from adopting Grape-Nuts food as one of my articles of diet. For several years I was much disheveled during the early part of each day by indigestion. My breakfast, usually consisting of oatmeal, milk and eggs, seemed to turn sour and failed to digest. After dinner the headache and other symptoms following the breakfast would wear away, only to return, however, next morning. "Having heard of Grape-Nuts food, I finally concluded to give it a fair trial. I quit the use of oatmeal and eggs, and made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts, cream, toast and Postum. The result was surprising in improved health and total absence of the distress that had, for so long a time, followed the morning meal. My digestion became once more satisfactory the headaches ceased, and the old feeling of energy returned. Since that time, four years ago, I have always had Grape-Nuts food on my breakfast table. "I was delighted to find also, that whereas before I began to use Grape-Nuts food I was quite nervous and became easily weighed in the work of preparing sermons and in study, a marked improvement in this respect resulted from the change in my diet. I am convinced that Grape-Nuts food produced this result and helped me to a sturdy condition of mental and physical strength. "I have known several persons who were formerly troubled as I was, and who have been helped as I have been, by the use of Grape-Nuts food, on my recommendation, among whom may be mentioned the Rev. —, now a missionary to China." Name given by Postm Company, Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Wylville," in each pkg. Pretty Girl Suffered From Nervousness and Pelvic Catarrh—Found Quick Relief in a Fun Days. ```markdown ``` NERVOUSNESS AND WEAKNESS CURED BY PE-RU-NA. Miss Sadie Robinson, 4 Rand street, Maiden, Mass., writes: "Peruna was recommended to me about a year ago as an excellent remedy for the troubles peculiar to our sex, and as I found that all that was said of this medicine was true. I am pleased to endorse it. "I began to us" about seven months ago for weakness and nervousness, caused from overwork and lack of sleep. As a few days I began to grow strong, my appetite increased and I began to sleep better, consequently my nervousness passed away and the weakness in the pelvic organs soon disappeared and I have been well and strong ever since." Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Santarium, Columbus, O, for free medical advice. All correspondence strictly confidential. **GETTING EVEN WITH HIM.** "If you believe you would be handler away from your husband, why don't you leave him?" "Because I'm afraid need be haper or also." - Houston, Post ALL DONE OUT. Veteran Joshua Heller, of 706 South Wood street, Urbana, Ill., says: "In the fall of 1899, after taking Doan's Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back, with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack. On each Kimmy Tims I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back, with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack. On each and every occasion the results obtained were just as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to my notice. I just as emphatically endorse the preparation to-day as I did over two years ago." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. The Cruel "Range." There would appear to be no season of the year in which calamity in some form does not lie in wait for cattle left to shift for themselves on the great plains. In winter they slowly perish from long-continued cold and lack of food. In the spring storms destroy the young and the less enduring of the older stock. Later they perish from summer and autumn droughts. The indications are that the range steer is going out of existence in a similarly perverse way. With him goes the cowboy, the most picturesque figure of an immature Western civilization. He gave us some fine types. Did not Roosevelt himself develop from a cowboy? But even Roosevelt today condemns the range system, with its wasteful use of land and its necessary monopolies, as well as its cruelties. So it will not be long ere the spectacle of cattle perishing in thousands as the result of a heartless system will have become a thing of the past. The "Western stockman" will have become a farmer.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. NERVY. "Myrilla," said the old gentleman, sharply, "that young man you had in the parlor last night is dull of comprehension. All I had to do was cough when the other chaps remained too late and they would take the hint and depart. Did this one say anything when I coughed last night?" "Yes," replied the beautiful daughter; "he said the next time he called he was going to bring you a bottle of cough syrup."—Detroit Tribune. JUST LIKE SALVATION. Tourist (in Arizona)—How's the death rate in this town—pretty high? Tarantula Tom—High, nothin! dyn' don't cost yer a cent in this yere camp, pard. You kin git it free, an' quick. No, sir; we hain't so sting we've fixed up a schedole yet awhile!—Cleveland Leader. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price 50c. Darling at the 'Phone. She had promised to come down town and go to luncheon with him and about noon she opened his office door. Her husband's voice at the 'phone made her stop to listen. "That you, darling?" he was saying. "Say, my wife's coming down to-day, so we can't leave that spread. But we'll have it tomorrow. Meet me at the usual place, you know. Yes, all right. Goodby." She slipped quietly away, and although he waited until 3 o'clock his little wife did not come to go to luncheon with him. By the time he got home that night she had fought it out with herself and determined to have an explanation. So she said as calmy as she could. "George, do you usually go out alone to your lunch? "Why, yes," he answered. "That is unless Darling goes with me." "Darling?" she cried. "For pity's sake, George, who is——" "Why, Jack Darling. You must remember hearing me speak of him. Don't you know——" She got up and it was several minutes before he could check her sobs and got her to explain why she had broken her appointment.—New York Press. The mother of the small boy had been trying to install within him an idea of conscience. She described it as a little voice which whispered inside one when he was doing wrong. "I never heard it." said the small boy, cynically, and in tones of one who shrugs his shoulders. A little later the small boy did something he had been told not to do, and was sent to sit on a chair, and ordered not to get off until the powers that be gave him leave. Ten minutes later he came into the room where his mother was sitting, jubilant. "Ive heard it, mother," he exclaimed. "Heard what?" asked his perplexed parent. "Heard the little voice. It said, 'Sam Smith, you get off that chair. Don't you care what your mother says!' 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The present fashion of shoes was introduced into England in 1633. Queer Ballast for the Subway. Now that windows, in the Subway cars are let down at the top many passengers seem to think it is done for them to throw things out of instead of for ventilation. An observer says he saw enough stuff hurled from the cars on one trip to fill a trash basket. A woman who had fed her two children on bananas threw skins and bag out of the window. Two girls finished up a quart of peanuts between them, put the shells in a bag and threw them out. One man emptied his pockets of odds and ends of correspondence, tore the paper into shreds and contributed it to the roadbed. There were cigar butts and several empty candy boxes added to the contribution. Orange peel is another thing that passengers seemed to think it was necessary to cast out The spitters, now that the windows are down, are as much in evidence in the Subway as they are on the elevated and surface cars. Men walk half the length of the car to find an open window that nobody is sitting before. The guard never says a word. If this sort of thing keeps on it will be necessary. For Mr. Belmont to get out a revised edition of his expert's pamphlet on pure air in the Subway. The Longest Lawsuit. Spain boasts probably the longest lawsuit in the world's history. It began in 1517 and is still sub judice. The case, which concerns a pension, is between the Marquis de Viana and the Count Torres de Cabrera, and the accumulated sum in dispute would have reached fabulous millions had not four centuries of attorneys, barristers and court officials taken considerate measures of appropriation to prevent the sum becoming unwieldy. ' GOT ONE? With beef absorbing all our stuff The fellow is in luck Who has a back yard big enough To raise a patch of truck. Louisville Courter-Journal— Years for Health Lynda & Pinkham Lydia E. Pinkham*8 is a positive cure for all those painful ailments of women. 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AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR Covered Head, Neck and Shoulders—Suffered Agony For Twenty-Five Years Until Cured by Cuticura. "For twenty five years I suffered agony from a terrible humor, completely covering my head, neck and shoulders, discharging matter of such offensiveness to sight and smell that I became an object of dread. I consulted the most able doctors far and near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura, and in a surprisingly short time I was completely cured. I advise all those suffering from skin humors to get Cuticura and end their misery at once. S. P. Keyes, 149 Congress Street, Boston, Mass." Compulsory cleanliness prevails in the schools of Copenhagen. Checkers $1000 REWARD We will forfeit this amount, if by analysis or chemical test, Checkers is found to contain any Alcohol or the minutest particle of Morphine, Onium, Cocaine, or any other dangerous narcotic drug. 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