Savannah Tribune

MANY DIE OF FEVER Thirty-Four Victims and 154 Cases in New Orleans. Statistics Compiled Up to Tuesday Reveal True Situation of Affairs. Authorities Busily Engaged Tuesday night in response to the request of the state board of health the New Orleans city board of health compiled the figures of suspicious and actual cases of yellow fever and deaths, and the figures as issued by the state board show: Between July 13 and July 21 there were about 100 cases, suspicious and positive, and 20 deaths. Since then there have been 54 cases and 12 deaths up to the 24th, making all told 154 cases and 32 deaths. Tuesday there were two deaths, making 34 tb that date. There are about 50 cases under treatment. Physicians are reporting promptly all cases of fever, and immediate steps are taken to prevent mosquito infection, so that the prospects of restricting the infection are considered bright. The emergency hospital on Dumaine street was equipped Tuesday morning and placed in charge of Dr. Hamilton A. Jones, who had charge of the isolation in 1897. He has as his assistant, Dr. L. J. Faget, a noted yellow fever authority and a man conversant with the Italian characteristics. The advisory board of the city board of health has begun active work, and it will have immediate charge of the work of ferreting out the new foci of infection, and carrying out the sanitation and isolation, should any develop. It will also have general supervision over the campaign of education and the cleaning up of city, screening of clisterns and houses, etc. Surgeon White and Surgeon Gulteras of the marine hospital service, have completed all plans for the establishment of the detention camps along the different railroad trunk lines, and have selected the physicians in charge, who have already selected their staffs. The equipment is on the way. Tuesday was spent in trips to different locations to locate sites for the detention camps. In view of the complications over outside and inside quarantines, the state board will quarantine the state against the city of New Orleans and such territory in the immediate vicinity of New Orleans which desires to maintain open communication with the city. This will result in relieving the quarantines which Mississippi has placed against the whole state. A report received in Washington Tuesday from Surgeon White of the public health and marine hospital service, who is stationed at New Orleans, and who, under instructions of the acting surgeon general, is engaged in an effort to determine the exact condition with regard to yellow fever in that city, says the city authorities concede twelve cases and eight deaths, but adds that there probably are many more cases. Those so far observed are of a virulent type. Surgeon Whsdln, stationed at Memphis, who rendered signal service during the epidemic at Ocean Springs, in 1897, has entered on a careful investigation of conditions along the gulf coast from Mobile to Pass Christian, Miss., and Passed Assistant Surgeon Young has been ordered from Chicago to Jackson, Miss., to confer with the Mississippi health authorities relative to train inspection. A dispatch of Tuesday from Stockholm, Sweden, announces the resignation of the whole of King Oscar's cabinet. GOES IN QUEST OF IMMIGRANTS. Mississippian Visits Europe for Purpose of Securing Laborers. Hon. Charles Scott of Bollvar county, Miss., is now en route to Europe for the purpose of making careful inquiry into the feasibility of importing thrifty foreigners for work on the delta plantations. Mr. Scott is thoroughly convinced that the large planters of the south will have to quit depending on negro-labor to produce their crops, and during his European trip will endeavor to ascertain what class, of foreigners are best adapted to agricultural work, VOL. XX. Disease Is Virulent. King Oscar Loses Cabinet. The Tells Why He Killed Ticket Agent Wright, and Declares He Has Overwhelming Proofs. Vincent T. Sanford, former tax collector of Floyd county, who shot and killed George Wright, city ticket agent of the Southern railway in Rome, Ga., gave the first statement of his side of the killing to a representative of the Atlanta Constitution Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Sanford's statement is as follows: "To My Friends and the Public: Many conflicting rumors have been circulated and many false reports are going the rounds with reference to the killing of George Wright, circulated to prejudice the public mind against me. I deen it my duty and my right to ask that no judgment be formed until the true facts are made to appear at the trial. To my friends I beg to say, you need have no fear but that I will establish by overwhelming proof that George Wright not only sustained illicit relations with my wife, once, but repeatedly. That on three different occasions they stalk at a hotel in Atlanta, registered as man and wife under assumed names, at times when I thought she was with relatives and friends in Madison. The day before the killing George Wright told all the facts to a party thoroughly reliable who will be at the trial. These and many other acts showing intimacy will be proven. As on as these facts were established, without one moment's delay or the time I did what I considered to my duty and what every other kind of home and pure womanhood and every husband and father should do. I regret the necessity for the killing. The loss my little children and myself have sustained is much worse the death. JAPS JUBILATE OVER TAFT. Americans Enthusiasmally Receive at Yokohama and Tokio. Secretary of War Taft and party, received a demonstrative welcome to Japan, the principal buildings, streets and wharves of Yokohama, and the shipping in the harbor being gally decorated. A noisy display of daylight fireworks along the streets fronting the harbor announced the arrival of the steamship Manchuria at the quarantine grounds at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning and continued until the vessel was docked. Lloyd, C. Griscom, the American minister, the attaches of the legation and consul general, H. B. Miller of Niuchwang, together with representatives of the Japanese imperial household foreign officers, war department and the Aslatic Society, then boarded the Manchuria and extended formal greetings to Secretary Taft and Miss Roosevelt, who held an informal reception upon the deck. The party was then driven to the railroad station through the crowded streets and, boarding a special train, departed for Tokio at 10 a. m. amid the cheers of the assembled multitude. Upon arrival at Tokyo Secretary Taft and his personal staff were taken to Shiba, where a detached palace was provided for their accommodation. Miss Roosevelt accompanied Minister Griscom to the American legation. ROOSEVELT PACIFIES CARTER. Governor of Hawaii Reconsider's Determination to Resign. A consideration of Hawaiian affairs occupied President Roosevelt's attention for several hours Tuesday. He had as a guest at luncheon and greater part of the afternoon, George R. Carter, governor of Hawaii. Governor Carter visited Oyster Bay, and determined to resign his official position to escape the annoyance to which he has been subjected since he succeeded Sanford B. Dole as governor. The president not only declined to accept his resignation, but told him to go back to Honolulu and he should have the full support and sympathy of the national administration. OIL FIELDS IN FLAMES. Lightning Starts Conflagration Which Soon Extended Over Large Area. A dispatch from Humble, Texas says: Covering an area of three-quarters of a mile square with a great smoke covering two miles, the oil tanks of the Texas company continue to boil and bubble under the great heat of the burning oil. When it can be extinguished no one can guess. Certainly not until it has burned all of the oil in the eleven big tanks which held 2,500,000 barrels when lightning struck them Sunday afternoon, Savannah Tribune. SAVANNAR. GA.. SATURDAY. JULY 29. 1905 REPORT CORRECTED Revised Cotton Figures Reveals Work of Holmes. ACREAGE AGAIN REDUCED Decrease Should Have Shown Fourteen Per Cent Instead of Only Eleven—Makes Difference of 4,731,000 Acres. 'A Washington special says: Assistant Secretary Hayes Wednesday made public the following report to Secretary Wilson on the acreage of cotton in the southern states in 1905, compared with that planted in 1904: "The crop estimating board of the department of agriculture has considered the report issued by the bureau of statistics on June 2, relative to the acreage planted in cotton in the southern states in 1905, as compared with that planted in 1904, and has concluded: "First: That a new estimate should be made on acreage planted, and that the figures in Mr. Hyde's hands, when making his estimate, should be used as the basis. "Second: That Mr. Hyde, with Mr. Holmes at his elbow prompting him, made the estimate lower than the facts at his hand from the reports from the seven classes of reporters employed by the bureau, warranted. "Third: That the board finds, upon careful consideration of the reports of all classes of correspondents and agents, that the acreage planted in cotton this year, including the entire season, should have been estimated at 85.1 per cent of that planted last year, equivalent to a reduction in planted acreage as compared with last year of 14.9 per cent (instead of 11.4 per cent) or 4,731,000 acres—the estimate of the total acreage planted this year being 26,999,000 acres. The estimated percentage of the increase in each of the cotton-growing states is as follows: Vingtals ..... 18 North Carolina ..... 16 South Carolina ..... 14 Georgia ..... 14 Florida ..... 12 Alabama ..... 11 Mississippi ..... 16 Louisiana ..... 17 Texas ..... 16 Arkansas ..... 19 Tennessee ..... 13 Missouri ..... 15 Oklahoma ..... 15 Indian Territory ..... 11 "The averages were made for each state by each of the four members of the board, and the comparatively small disagreements were harmonized almost wholly by averaging, and the above results are fully agreed to by each and every member of the board. "Respectfully submitted, "VICTOR OLMSTEAD. "The above findings, and report, made under my supervision, have my entire. approval. reau of Statistics "Approved by James W. Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture." THREE MANGLED IN WRECK. Spreading Rails Results in Smash-Up of Train on Georgia Central. of Train on Georgia Central. Three men crushed to death, and as many more wounded, two of the wounded now being in a critical condition is the result of a spreading rail on the Central railroad at Oakland avenue, in Oakland City, an Atlanta suburb near Fort McPherson, Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. The dead are: John M. Woodruff, yard conductor; Horace McGhee, switchman; Green Colvert, colored, fireman. The list of wounded includes: F. M. Woodall, yardmaster, who has been in the service of the Central for years, and Samuel Farris, engineer. Operation Performed on Rojestvensky. Rear Admiral Rojestvensky has undergone a successful operation at Tokio. The wound on his forehead was opened and a small piece of bone was removed. His condition is satisfactory. Hyde's Female Secretary Resigns. Announcement was made at the department of agriculture at Washington Wednesday that Mrs. Bertha Jucn, private secretary to former Statistician Hyde, had resigned, and that her resignation had been accepted. GALLOWS AND PRISON. In Fate of Jesse and Leonard Rawlings. Jury Decreea Death for Ona and Life Sentence for the Other. The trial of Jesse and Leonard L. Rawlings, on the charge of the murder of two children of W. L. Carter, ended at Valdosta, Ga., Wednesday afternoon with a verdict of guilty, but a recommendation for mercy for Leonard. This means Jesse will have to hang, and that Leonard will spend his life in the penitentiary, unless a higher court should decree otherwise. It was five minutes after 5 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, when the jury notified Judge Mitchell that they had reached an agreement. The judge was at the court house waiting for the jury's decision, and the jury was very quickly brought in. The foreman handed the verdict to Sollicitor General Thomas. It read as follows: "We, the jury, find Leonard Rawlings and Jesse Rawlings guilty, and recommend that Leonard be sent to the penitentiary for life." The jury was polled, and each member acknowledged the verdict as his. The mother and sisters of the condemned young men were, present, and as the verdict was read out, the mother broke down and sobbed aloud, but the girls showed little emotion. Leonard and Jesse received the verdict with pale faces and bowed heads. The entire morning session of the court was consumed by the speeches of Solicitor General Thomas for the state and John R. Cooper for the defense. Judge Mitchell charged the jury before the noon recess, and the body retired to their room at 1:38 o'clock p. m. Large crowds attended the trial, but there was no demonstration of any kind, and the best of order was observed in and around the court room. Very little surprise was expressed at the finding, as it seemed to have been about what the majority of people expected, and is generally approved. Although the evidence against old man Rawlings is said to be even stronger and more direct than that against his sons, it is expected that his attorneys will make a determined fight in his behalf, and the trial promises to be one of the hardest fought and most interesting in the whole series. While showing some signs of breaking down, he maintained his composure throughout the ten days of the trials of his sons. He appears to realize more fully, since the conviction of his other two boys, his perilous situation, and told his wife and daughters that they would have to look out for themselves, as everything seemed to be going against him. He remarked to callers at the jail that he would have killed W. L. Carter during a session of the Valdosta ely court some months ago, but as he started to draw his pistol Sheriff Passmore stepped between him and his intended victim. SIX DEATHS FROM YELLOW JACK Was Wednesday's Record in New Orleans—Eleven, New Cases Reported Six deaths from yellow fever were recorded in New Orleans Wednesday up to p. m., making a total to date of 42. The number of cases reported is 11, making, all told to date, 165. The organization of forces for fighting the spread of the infection and for a practical application of the mosquito extermination plans has been completed. Besides 100 men put on as extras to clean gutters by the city, 350 men are working as part of the system of sanitation. In his advices from New Orleans to the public health and marine hospital service at Washington, Surgeon White says that a house to house inspection is being conducted in the portion of the city which is infected by yellow fever. This section includes forty or fifty blocks. Grand Jury Hard at Work The grand jury investigating the cotton scandal at Washington heard six witnesses Wednesday, four of them being from New York. It is believed that the investigation will continue for two weeks. QUARANTINE OFFICERS' RIGHTS. Charges Preferred Against Railroad Conductor for Electing Jones. A Decatur, Ala., dispatch says: Blewett Wallace, superintendent of the state yellow fever quarantine, has been instructed to arrest Conductor Payne of the Southern railway and prefer charges against him for ejecting Quarantine Officer Lew Jones from his train at Leighton, Ala., and John Almon, near Huntsville. The Southern has since issued orders to make its conductors pass all quarantine officers upon proper credentials. THREE-CORNERED FRACAS Indulged in by Editor, Legislator and Newspaper Reporter, on Streets of Atlanta — No Damage Done. Editor James R. Gray, of the.Atlanta Journal, and Representative Henry H. Revill, of Merlwether county, met in a personal encounter in front of the Capital City Club of Peachtree street in Atlanta Monday afternoon. The difficulty was the sequel to a statement made by Mr. Revill in the house of representatives Monday morning, in which he attacked Mr. Gray and his paper because of an editorial published a day or two previously, attacking Mr. Revill on account of certain questions asked on the floor of the house during the debate on the anti-pass bill, in which Mr. Gray's name figured. Learning what Mr. Revill had said upon the floor of the house Mr. Gray had a message telephoned from the Capital City Club to Mr. Revill's hotel to the effect that some one wished to see him at the club. In response to this message Mr. Revill started across the street from the hotel, and as he reached the sidewalk in front of the Capital City Chun, he was confronted by Mr. Gray. Neither man knew the other positively, and there was brief preliminary conversation, followed by a decidedly lively encounter which was fought all the way from the sidewalk up to the club veranda. The difficulty, which lasted for several minutes, attracted large crowds, both from the members of the club who gathered upon the veranda, and the passersby who collected on both sides of the street. As in all matters of this kind, there are two versions of the dispute between the two gentlemen. According to statements of eye-witnesses, however, Mr. Gray, upon meeting Mr. Revill, asked a question to make positive that he was the right man, and then struck him. Mr. Revill, it is stated, then drew a pistol, whereupon Mr. Gray closed in upon him, preventing his using it. In this way they struggled, it is said, from the sidewalk clear back to the ralling of the club veranda, where Milt Saul, an employee of The Journal, who ran across the street from the Majestic, caught the pistol and took it from Mr. Revill's hand. It is stated that Mr. Revill then drew a knife, which was also taken from him. During all this time several blows were struck by the belligerents, it is stated, and there was also an encounter between Mr. Revill and Mr. Saul, the latter striking the former in the face. They were finally separated by friends. After the battle none of the belligerents looked as if he had been in so serious a difficulty, as they bore no marks of consequence upon their faces. TWO BOYS PLACED ON TRIAL. Jesse and Leonard Rawlings Face Jury in Valdosta Court. Interest in the Rawlings trial is still deep, and crowds attended the trial of Jesse and Leonard at Valdosta Monday, although there were not as many people in the city from the Hahira neighborhood, where the crimes were committed as previously. Court convened at 9 o'clock, and it was agreed between the state and the defense to put both boys on trial at the same time. It was found more difficult to get a jury than in the trial of Milton Rawlings, six panels of twelve men each being exhausted before the last juryman was secured at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. W. L. Carter, father of the children whom the Rawlings boys are charged with murdering, was the first witness and gave about the same evidence he did in the trial of Milton Rawlings. He was on the stand for two hours, and was subjected to a rigid cross examination by Attorney Cooper. Alf Moore, the confessed accomplice, followed Carter on the stand, and was up until 7:30 p. m., when court adjourned until Tuesday morning. The negro related practically the same story he did on the trial of Milton Rawlings HOME WRECKER GETS LIMIT. Man Who Shot Captain Park in Tampa .Fla. Given Year in Jail. Harry Bomford, who seriously shot Captain C. L. Park, when surprised by the latter in his home with his wife, was sentenced by Judge Gordon, at Tampa, Fla., Friday, to one year in the county jail, the maximum penalty for aggravated assault. In sentencing Bomford the judge stated that the jury would have been justified in convicting him of assault with intent to murder, in which event the court would have given him the maximum penalty under that charge—twenty years. BROKERS ARE SUMMONED Rumors Current at Capital of Sensational Disclosures Yet to Come. Bottom of the Affair Not Yet Reached. The investigation of the leakage of the cotton reports of the department of agriculture was begun at Washington Monday by the federal grand jury. In accordance with the call of District Attorney Beach, the jury assembled and promptly entered upon the work before it. As Mr. Beach entered the room he declined to express an opinion as to how long the inquiry would continue, to state how many witnesses would be called, or to give any information whatever except that he would personally conduct the investigation. There were no witnesses present when the jury was called to order. Persistent rumors of new evidence regarding the cotton leak, and of probable disclosures equally as sensational as those of the past, are to be heard in interested quarters. Anything like official confirmation of such stories is lacking; however, the grand jury investigation was conducted with unusual secrecy, and nobody around the department would talk. Advices received in the city indicate that the southern producers are by no means as excited by the situation as are the speculators, and some others who have nothing to do with the growing of the staple. Everybody who has the best interests of the south at heart, however, is insisting on a full and complete investigation, and on the punishment of the criminals responsible for the juggling and leakage of the crop reports in the past. Mill Men See Wilson. The delegation from the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, appointed at the recent meeting at Charlotte, N. C., to take up with Secretary Wilson the question of issuing a new June cotton acreage report, called at the department of agriculture Monday and were in lengthy conference with the secretary. At the conclusion of the conference Secretary Wilson gave out the following statement: "The department of agriculture has determined that the statistical board shall meet Wednesday, June 26, to consider whether revision of the cotton acreage should be made from existing data or from a new inspection and to make public their findings or estimates at 12 o'clock, on that date, or the earliest convenient date thereafter." The cotton men informally discussed the question of ordering a new report. No representations of inaccuracy were made against the June report, and the members of the delegation appeared satisfied with the decision of the secretary, announced in the statement issued. The suggestion was made that a weekly report of the condition of cotton should be issued, but it was not urged upon the department. It was said that most of the cotton men realized that more frequent reports cannot be had under the present appropriation for gathering crop statistics. Cotton Brokers Summoned. Cotton Brokers Commission Subpenas requiring the presence or several New York cotton brokers before the grand jury were issued Monday. The attendance of those named in the subpenas is required in Washington before the end of the present month. A federal official said that all the men upon whom subpenas have been served have made statements, both signed and sworn, in which they tell all they know of the so-called cotton scandal. It was upon these statements forwarded to Washington that District Attorney Beach caused the subpenas to be issued. When, where and before whom the statements were made could not be learned. Beach Announces That Probing of Cotton Leak Will Now Begin. The grand jury of the District of Columbia will take up the allegations that there has been jugglery in the cotton crop statistical reports of the department of agriculture with a view of possible Indictment of Indictments. The announcement that the grand jury would meet to consider the subject was made in a statement issued by United States District Attorney Morgan H. Beach at Washington Friday night. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year.....$1.25 Six Months.....$1.50 Three Months.....$2.00 Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter Advertising Rates given on application. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1905. NEW ORLEANS is infected with yellow fever; Savannah is too healthy for it to get even a foothold here. THE reformatory bill has passed the house. It provides for its establishment at the State. Will the colored juvenile prisoners be benefitted should it become a law In the western part of the Southern states if a colored man strikes a white man, matters not how jutifiable it may be, he is lynched for it. This lynching business will yet prove a boomerang. GEORGIA is on record against class legislation. The worst laws on its statue books are those against the marriage of colored and white, a law that we do not strongly oppose, and the separate car law that we do strongly oppose. Other class legislation so prevalent in other states have been killed in the legislature several times. A COLORED man in Washington saved the statue of Frederick the Great from being destroyed by dynamite. In token of this the Emperor of Germany has presented him a silver watch with the Emperor's monogram on the back. Many heroic acts of the Negro have been allowed to go unrewarded and in numerous cases, unrecorded. For the past several years the first bale of cotton has been produced by a colored man, Mr. Deal Jackson, of Albany. Mr Jackson is among the largest land owners and farmers in the State. His practical method of farming and especially in producing the first bale of cotton each year, is the marvel of the State. What Mr Jackson has accomplished can also be done by others of our young farmers by close application and frugality. It is announced that the Grand Jury in its presentments, will touch up the magistrates. Some of them need it. It is alleged that many questionable acts have been committed to filch the more ignorant ones among our people. We are proud to state though, that there are some magistrates who are above such actions. It would be a God send if some method would be adopted by which a number of those magistrates could be cut out and the others be given a salary instead of a fee. The effect of this would be far better. FOLLOWING is the platform of the Niagara movement: Freedom of speech and criticism. An unfettered and unsubsidized press. Full manhood suffrage. The abolition of all class distinctions based simply on race or color. The recognition of the principle of human brotherhood as a practical, present creed. The recognition of the highest and best human training as the monopoly of no race or class. A belief in the dignity of labor. United effort to realize these ideals under wise, pure and fearless leadership. ANOTHER victory has been won against class legislation and discrimination. Recently the Florida legislature enacted a separate street car law. It went to effect July 1. Since that time the colored citizens of Jacksonville allowed the cars to go by empty. Steps were immediately taken to test the law. Under the leadership of the law firm of Wetmore and Purcell, this was done. A test case was made, but dismissed. Another case was made, and the merits of which were argued inthe Circuit Court at Jacksonville on Monday Messrs. Wetmore and Purcell made arguments and stated facts that were irrefutable. The two attorneys on the ether side sighted but few few facts to substantiate their side of the case. The decision of the judge was reserved next day when he decided that the law was unconstitutional. All honor is due Messrs. Wetmore and Purcell and the loyal race men and women of Jacksonville for the nullification of this uncalled for law. The opposition will appeal it to the Supreme Court of the state. The following special cable from Germany has been going the newspaper rounds recently: "A colored student, Edwin Gordon, has created quite a stir at the University of Berlin, where he is attending lectures regularly. While the female students nearly all seem to have fallen victims to his charms, the male students have boycotted him entirely and will have nothing to do with him. "The colored seeker for wisdom pays no attention to either. He declares that he has entered the university to pursue his studies previous to returning to his native home, America. "The professors declare unanimously that he is an unusually gifted and energetic student who undoubtedly will make his mark in life." Mr. Gordon is not the first colored student to attend the university. Savannah was represented there by two students during the terms of 1903 and 1904. They reported that they were courteously treated by their fellow students and everyone else. ATTEMPTS are being made to have all of the Negro troops in the state disbanded. Years ago there were about twenty-five companies in the state. Gradually these companies have been cut down until now there are only five of them in the state. Three of them are in Savannah, one in Macon and one in Augusta. These companies are under command of Col. Deveaux and are among the most efficient that can be found in the militia of any state. In fact frequent commendations have been given them by the officials for efficiency and faithfulness to duty. Despite these facts there is a tendency to do away with them, as shown by the bill introduced at this session of the legislature. It is believed that the more conservative members of the legislature, those who believe in fair play, and are determined to give the Negro a square deal, will not allow the bill to be enacted. Georgia and many of the present members of the legislature are on record against class legislation, and undoubtedly this same sentiment is prevalent and will show itself in this case. Until very recently and for the past twenty-five years, the colored troops have been of no expense to the state whatever, and even now the state gives about eight hundred dollars a year to their support. This paltry sum should not cause their disbandment, in fact the colored citizens are entitled to this small return for the tax that they pay each year. Assurances have been received from various sources that influence will be used against its passage. National Negro Business League. New York, July 18.—In addition to the very attractive program of the National NegroBusiness League, the sixth annual session of which is to be held here August 19, 17, 18, in the Palm Garden, 28th street and Lexington avenue, a series of entertainments of the most satisfactory kind are being arranged for the delegates. On the afternoon of the first day's session an automobile expedition will carry visitors about the city and through Central Park, visiting all points of interest; on the afternoon of the second day a large excursion steamer will be chartered to carry the delegates for a ride np the Hudson river. on the evening of the third and last day, a banquet, being arranged to eclipse any similar affair ever given here among the colored people will be tendered the delegates. The famous Glee Club of the Williams and Walker Company has offered its services for the opening day's session, morning and evening, and throughout the three days if engagements do not conflict. The New Amsterdam Musical Association will render the music on the evening of the banquet. The coming session has stirred New Yorkers and they are in readiness to extend such a welcome as has never before been given the National Negro Busi- ness League. Through the influence of Dr. Booker Washington on the president of the organization many of the most prominent capitalists and philanthropists of New York have become interested and will not only attend, but in every other way will lend their influence toward making the meeting a success Reduced rates of one and one third fare from every section of the country on the certificate plan, have been secured. Glenwood Dots. Mr. J. T. Tucker, and Mr. Geo. Fordham left for Dublin Ga., Sunday last. We wish them a pleasant trip. We are very glad that Mr. J. S. Tanner improves so rapidly. Mr. Joseph Brown attended the corner stone laying Sunday last at Helena, Ga. Miss A. L. Mason is attending the Sunday School Convention at Abbeville this week. Miss Eva and Lula Powell, attended preaching at Ochwalkee last Sunday. Miss Ida Grant was the guest of her sister at Ailey on last Sunday. Statesboro Items. Miss Mary A. Hodges is up again and her many friends are glad to see her up again. Also Mr. Andrew J. McClain is up and his many friends are glad to know. Rev. and Mrs. W. Hodges attended their church at Banks Creek and reports a good meeting. Rev. J. M. Hall of Portal filled his appointment at Bethel A. M. E. Church on Sunday and preached a fine introductory sermon and had a very good crowd and raised $8.75 for mission work. Rev. J. C. Williams has been attending his protracted meeting at Clito and is getting a good many members. Also Rev. L. H. Lawton of Sylvania is attending his at St. Mary's Baptist Church near Blitch and is having good meetings. Miss Viola Lanier and Messrs. Joe and Artis Lee attended New Hope Baptist Church at Register and report a lovely time and good preaching. Messrs Charles Hodges, Steven Hendly, Willie Hendly, Colquit Hall, and Lester Hall took in the exursion to Savanhah on last Sunday and reports a fine time which they enjoyed out at Tybee. Miss Corinne C. Butts of Grimshaw is visiting her sister Mrs. E. B. Lee and Mrs. M. Hodges a few days but has now returned to lier home at Mr. and Mrs. Mayme Moore. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bryant Hall is residing with her parents Rev. and Mrs. W. Hodges for a while. Mr. J. Bryant Hall made a flying trip to Savannah one day the past week. Say boys let don't forget the excursion on the 3rd of August and have an enjoyable time so go one go all. Masonic Notes. It would be well for every Lodge in the jurisdiction to have a practical method of conducting the lecture. On each lecture night a full attendance of the brethren should be urged and the lecture taken up by sections. No section should be passed until squarely worked out by every brother. Make the lectures so attractive that the brethren will deem it a source of pleasure always to attend. In all of our lecture the spirit of charity should be instilled in the minds of the brethren. Let them inculcate the divine fact that it is more "blessed to give than to receive." Each brother the state over should be proud of our home in Americus and point to it with a great degree of loyalty. It is the time for every Worshipful Master to urge his members to pay the usual assessment for its continuance. There is no use whatever for any difference of any kind to arise in a Masonic Lodge, especially so if the brethren act according to the teachings of the order. As good Masons sincerity and plain dealings should distinguish each one of us. Let us do everything possible to promote the welfare of, each other, especially with an eye single to building up the interest of Masonry. The call has been issued for the meeting of the Grand Chapter, O. E. S., which will be held in Americas on Tuesday morning Aug 29 at 9 o'clock a.m. Every Chapter in the state is urged to send at least one representative. Several new chapters will apply for warrants. The Grand Matrón is arranging to have a very interesting program for the opening. Each delegate is urged to be present at the opening. Mican Lodge, one of the oldest Lodges in the state reports an interesting celebration of St. John's Day and that the address by Past Master W. R. Robinson was a timely one. The tyler of this Lodge Bro. W. F. Coney has been called from labor to refreshment. The brethren the State over sympathize with this Lodge and the bereaved family in his death, but commend his spirit to the One who gave it. During the season a large number of the brethren from various parts of the state generally visit our city. Whenever they do so a cordial invitation is given them to call and see us. Seven Star Lodge celebrated St. John's Day by attending the Baptist church at Waynesville, Rev. A. Cooper, D. D. delivered a timely address. Several others spoke. The occasion will be one long to be remembered. Titus Lodge at Ailey celebrated St. John's Day in an appropriate manner. Several brothers from Lodges in the vicinity attended. Worshipful Master S. S. Mincey presided. An address of welcome was made by Mrs. Lizzie Crawford. A timely address was delivered by Miss Alberta P. Mason who received the applause of the entire assemblage for the same. The sermon was preached by Rev. E. T. Turner who handled his subject in a masterly way. Bro. Mincey and his Lodge never do anything by halves. Past Master :Daniel Harris was in to see us some time ago. He is a whole soul brother, always smiling and cheerful. Such brothers carry sunshine wherever they go. We were glad to see him. On account of our indisposition we were unable to see and note the presence of the large number of brethren who were recent visitors to the city. The entire Masonic family are hoping for the early recovery of Bro. E. N. Sullivan. He left on Monday last for McIntosh County. It is hoped the change will do him good. Zi n Baptist Association. Zi n Baptist Association The 40th annual session of the Zion Baptist Association convened with the Jerusalem Baptist church at Pennick, Glynn County Ga, on Thursday of last week and adjourned on Sunday, last and was largely attended by both delegates and visitors and quite a number of new churches were admitted to membership; among those which was the Bryant Baptist Church of Brunswick, Rev. G. M. Sprattling pastor; Mt. Tabor Baptist Church of Savannah, Rev. N. H. Whitmire, pastor; Friendship Baptist Church, Walthourville, Ga; Rev. P. J. Butler, D. D., pastor, and a number of smaller churches too numerous to mention. In spite of rain and unfavorable weather, the meeting was a success financially and other wise. Peace and harmony prevailing throughout the entire session several able sermons were preached and several able speeches were delivered by the various visitors and representatives of the state and National Convention. The following officers were elected for the next twelve months: Rev. P. J. Butler, Moderator, Walthourville; Rev. H. B. Hamilton, Vice-Moderator Savannah; Rev. A. Wilson, Clerk, Darien; Rev. V. O. Titman Assistant Clerk, Baileys Mill; Rev. N. H. Whitmire, Treasurer, Savannah, Ga. Peace and quietness prevailed while the election was being had and the election of all officers were made unanimously. The next session will be held with Zion Baptist Church Liberty County. Spoiled Her Beauty. Harriet Howard of New York, at one time had her beauty spoiled with skin trouble. She writes: "I had Salt Rheum or Eczema for years, but nothing would cure it, until I used Buckle's Arnica Salve." A quick and sure healer for cuts burns, and sores. 25c at any drug store. Notice to Delegates to Negro Business League All persons who desire to attend the National Negro Business League and go along with the Georgia delegation, should send in their names at once, that the necessary Pullman car accommodation can be reserved. Please notify, John W. Armstrong Savannah, A. S. Beasley, Macon, G. M. Howell, 16 1-2 Wall Street, Atlanta, or Jas. J. Carter, Brunswick, Ga. Yours Truly, J. G. Carter. For Rent. Rooms lately occupied by the Jeracho Lodge. M. J. Doyle. Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Compay. Shares $9 each Full Paid Non-assessable. 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 it 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 easies 222 W. Broughton St., Sav F. M. COHEN, Teller. J. W. For Rent Flat of rooms with use of bath. Mrs. Lark, 632 Mercer Street. 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. Savannah, Ga., June 26, 1995 Notice is herewith given that, for the entrance fee into the United Order, of True Reformers is reduced to $3.00. Persons desiring to open conventions or to enter any already opened, should address the Chief. R. H. Williams 512 Huntingdon St., W Interest 2nd quarter, Saving Bank M etropolitan Mercantile and Realty Co., is due and payable at the Company's office on and after July 1st. 2t F. M. COHEN Teller. Asbury M. E. Church Wednesday Evening, x * Aug. 30, 1905, AT 8:30 O'CLOCK GRAND CONCERT RECITAL BY THE COLERIDGE TAYLOR 'GLEE CLUB, Miss Helen M. Ellis. Mr. Chas. McDowell. Entertainment given for the benefit of Charity Hospital. Admission - 25c Tickets can be secured at West Side Pharmacy. I P. C's. AT DAUFUSKIE, A fine band of music and select line of refreshments will be on board and on the island. Steamer will leave her wharf, foot of Whitaker street at 9 o'clock a.m. sharp. Fare Round Trip 50c THE GUARANTY AID and Relief Society. 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E have arranged with The American Woolen Mills Co., of Chicago, to handle their lines of made-to-order SUITS TROUSERS ```markdown ``` 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., 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 $510.00. 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. The Peddler's Pack. EVERY now and then the swinging signboard creaked and groaned as if it were determined to attract attention. And it was usually successful. In addition to the name of the Inn it bore a weather-worn representation of something that falsely resembled an overgrown-soldier's knapsack. "What does that signify?" inquired a traveler, glancing up at the picture. "Ah! They don't carry things of that sort nowadays." answered the gray-haired landlord, pointing to a pile of commercial travelers' sample cases, "but the road boys" were not such aristocrats when I was younger. Then, they used 'packs' just like you see pictured up there. I was a bit hard on them long ago, and ever since I've tried to make up for it by treating them as well as I can. It was in one of their 'packs' that the biggest slice of luck I've ever known came to me." As he spoke he shuddered and sighed in a manner that betokened mystery behind his words. "We were high up on the wagon road that runs through Scrafina Pass, and the name of the little inn, "The Travelers' Refuge," was thoroughly appropriate, for not a bagman that went that way but was fain to rest for a space within its hospitable doors. The landlord, it was clear, was most anxious to have an opportunity of unbosoming himself further, but he waited until his daughter, a buxom matron, had left the room. "Yes," he mused, half to himself. "I was a bit hard on one of 'em—there's no mistake about it. It ain't a pleasant story, but I like to tell it just to remind myself that the worst thing a man can have in this world is a hot, obstinate temper. You see, I came to this coast soon after the gold fever broke out, and settled down in the Josita Valley, below here, raunching. I was a widower even then, and had brought with me from the States my only child—a daughter, past seventeen. "She was a pretty girl, if I do say it, and, being as good as pretty, you can imagine I was quite up in her. Of course I was anxious to keep her with me, and, if not that, at least I looked for her to do something better than fall in love with a peddler." "And did she?" "Yes; you see in those days the country was full of young fellows who had struck out for themselves, and were trying to get a start by carrying knickknacks around from one mining camp to another. Some of them were lively shaps enough, and well educated, but I was fresh from the States, with all the Eastern prejudices, and it almost drove me wild when Mary-told me she wanted to marry a young fellow who brought his pack through our district a good deal oftener than the trade seemed to require. I was a hot-tempered fool in those days, so I stormed, threatened, locked Mary up for a week and sent word to her lover that I had loaded my gun for wildcats and peddlers." "What did Mary do?" "You might have guessed it. One day when I came back from a cattle sale she was missing. I chased her a couple of days, but they had taken to the tall timber and it was of no use. After a while I got a letter, and I wrote back, saying that I disowned her, and that he had better keep out of range of my rifle." "What did you do then?" "Suffered, mister—just suffered. I knew I was wrong, but I'd have died rather than give in. For three years I lived like a toad in a rock, hating the whole world. All the pleasure I had was in watching for peddlers. One evening, after a terrible rain storm, one of the tribe came to my house and asked for shelter for the night. He was a thin, weak looking fellow, with his face covered by a huge ragged beard. He carried on his back an enormously long and heavy pack, and seemed so exhausted with his tramp through the mire that I hadn't the heart to do more than order him off the place." "That was pretty hard," said the listener. "I suppose it was. The peddler seemed all broke up when he found I wouldn't even give him a bunch of straw in the stable, and no other house within twelve miles. Instead of complaining, however, he merely begged that I would let him leave his pack, which he said contained goods of value, under shelter from the rain. I finally consented to this. So, as I had sworn none of his trade should ever cross my threshold, I carried his pack inside, while its owner limped off to crawl under some bush or other." "Didn't you feel mean?" "Yes; meen and bitter at the same time, for something about the man reminded me of Mary's husband a little. However, I locked and barred all the doors and windows, as usual, for some road agents had been around those parts about that time, and had stood up and robbed several ranchers, and, as I told you, I was all alone. Somehow, I couldn't go to sleep when I went to bed. After tossing around for awhile I got up and sat by the fire, brooding over my trouble and trying not to think of the poor chap shivering out there in the cold and rain somewhere. I looked at his pack sitting up in the corner, and wondered what made it so long. As I watched it I fancied I saw it move." "Saw it move?" "Exactly. I wouldn't believe my eyes at first; but after watching intently for a while I distinctly saw the front of n hand pressed against the canvas from the inside. Like a flash, then, I understood the whole thing. The peddler was one of the road agents' gang, and knowing I had considerable money about the house they had adopted this plan for smuggling one of their crew inside the house. After I had gone to sleep the fellow inside could let in the rest and finish the job. I walked quietly across the room, took my gun from the antlers, knelt down a few feet from the pack, almed square in the centre and pulled the trigger." "Go on," murmured the listener, with a shudder. "But the gun didn't go off," continued the landlord, clearing his throat. "The nipple was rusty and wouldn't work, so I laid down the rifle and got an axe from the kitchen. It had been newly ground that day, and, when I lifted it over my head, I counted upon cleaving that pack, robber and all, clear to the floor. Just as I raised the axe and braced myself for the blow I saw a ghost." "A ghost?" "Yes, sir. The pack opened, and I saw sticking out of its top the curly yellow head, blue eyes and rosy checks of my Mary when she was a little tot of four. The shock staggered me so that I sank on my knees. I wiped my eyes, and wondered if I had gone crazy. I was almost certain of it when the ghost stretched out a pair of chubby white arms and said, 'Deevin, grandpa!'" "Ah, said the guest, with a relieved sigh, "I begin to see. And what did you do then?" "I don't exactly know," said the landlord, softly, "but if there is anything that will bend a stubborn neck quicker than the arms of a little child, I'd like to know what it is. I put the tired little prisoner down by the fire, opened the door and held out my arms." “And the mother—” "Yes," nodded the landlord, "they were both there, and, mister, I guess that's the end of my story," and the old man wiped his eyes. "You must excuse me," he said weakly, "but that was a wet evening, and somehow I haven't got quite dry since."—Grand Magazine. Viking Courage. Whether on the high field or below the roaring foes, or in the wild fishing life which is common to the Norwegians along 2000 miles of rock-bound coast, you cannot fail to mark the extraordinary coolness of the Norwegian in the moment of peril, his marvellous indifference to exposure, toil and physical pain. He is the strong man. Born of a hardy race, bred in air so keen and pure, he is physically powerful both by inheritance and habit; what the chance visitor might mistake for stolidity experience shows is unruffled patience and an unquenchable perseverance. A liberal education in the heroic legends of his forefathers from before the memory of man has endowed him with a soul of endeavor, and deep down in this soul, quite ineradicable, you will find a whole love for his country and a whole faith in her future.—London Express. Togo's "Don't Worry Club." Perhaps the granite coolness of the commander of the United Squadrons of Nippon is largely due to the strict observance of the principles of Xomel, who taught that the cardinal element in the make-up of a great man is the poise of the soul so serene that no trifles such as the turmoilis and affairs of the earth and its life should have the power of disturbing its equilibrium.-Adachi Kinnosake, in the Independent. Had One Too Many Himself "Serves him right!" murmured Mrs. Henpeck, looking up from the paper in which she had been reading of the arrest of a bigamist. "Serves whom right?" asked Henpeck. "Oh, a man who took one wife too many." "My! Maybe they'll be after me next."-Philadelphia Public Ledger. Result of One Smile: One smile makes a flirtation. One flirtation makes two acquainted. Two acquainted makes one kiss. One kiss makes several more. One engagement makes two fools. Two fools make one marriage. One marriage makes two mothers-in-law. Two mothers-in-law make a red-hot time—Chicago Journal. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN THE CORONET PLAIT. What a setback the low hairdressing has suffered! The coronet plait has carried all before it; and it is amusing to see how the hairdressers are simply filling their windows with the most tempting switches plaited into coronets poised on the heads of beautiful beings in wax. One may have a small tiara pleat or a fender pleat. Most people can manage the small tiara pleat, and some the fender pleat, but all may manage it with the friendly artifice of the hairdresser. One is reminded in this connection of the old lady who, when some one asked her wonderingly, if the brilliant set of teeth her smile revealed were her own, said: "I should think they were! paid for, every one of them." Who can dispute that the pleat for which we must pay so many guineas is our own?-Washington Times. RIBBON AS TRINNING One of the most/suggestive features of the hour is the employment of ribbon as a trimming. It ranges all the way from the tiny comet ribbon to the wide, soft sash ribbon. Ribbons are much used on summer gowns, and there are any number of striped and shaded ribbons used for decoration. Sashes and girdles reign supreme, belts having gone out of date since the appearance of pointed bodices. Very narrow comet or baby ribbon is used either as embroidery or in shirred designs. For example, a ruffle of broad ribbon may be trimmed with several rows of very narrow ribbon put on in the form of a tiny rushing. Another trimming is made by shirring the ribbon on both edges and applying it like a scant puff. Not a few of the cashmere cloth gowns are trimmed with shirred ribbon. SUN THE BABY Sunning the baby is the latest thing in baby culture, says an exchange. No household is too poor to possess one of these patent adjustable sun parloris. They are made of some kind of hard wood and are built by the carpenter to extend beyond the window. The top and sides of the little platform are covered with glass, and strips of carpet are laid on the floor, to stop up any cracks there may be. No matter how fiercely the winds may blow or how low the thermometer may sink the sun parlor is always ready for the baby. A pillow is placed on the carpeted floor, then the baby is warmly dressed and well covered for its morning or afternoon nap. Mothers who have tried this method of sunning the baby are boasting of the gain in weight and health, and have the proud satisfaction of knowing they are strictly up to date.—Brooklyn Magle. NOT POETIC. BUT PROFITABLE. Here is a tip to the woman who is a gardener for business reasons. She should raise onions. For them the farmer can get a dollar a bushel, with a prospect of higher prices before long. The onion crop in Europe was a failure last year, and a great many are being sent over the water at the present time. Twenty thousand bushels were sent in one consignment from Sunderland, Mass, a few days ago. It is estimated that there are now about 90,000 bushels in the Connecticut valley which can be bought by people who have "got the price." They are said to be mostly owned by four men. There is a very good profit in raising onions at a dollar a bushel—a good deal more than in producing tobacco at the present time. Indeed, it may be doubted whether there is any other crop which pays so handsomely as the odoriferous vegetable which is now commanding such a high price in this part of the country." DOMESTIC SERVICE The aversion which working women in this country feel to entering domestic service appears to be shared by the women of European nations. Observers in England some time ago noted with alarm that young girls who were obliged to work would do almost anything else sooner than become house servants. Now, Mr. Cuneo, American consul in Turin, reports the same of the Italian girls in that section of the country. Mr. Cuneo says he has known people to look for domestic help for weeks in vain, the fact being that there as in the United States "intelligent and ambitious young women seek employment as teachers, as clerks in post-offices and stores, as secretaries, stenographers, typypwriters, in factories—in fact, they seem to prefer any kind of employment to domestic work." It seems, that they even prefer to drive teams, to pull or push carts on the streets or to become porters to being domestic servants." The industrial opportunities which Italy opens to these women ought to warm the cockles of the heart in any woman suffragist who yeards to see her sex competing freely with men in the various activities of life. Mr. Cuneo relates how, not long ago, he visited Forno, a small Alpine village. "There being no wagon road to within five miles of the village, all necessaries except a few vegetables have to be carried mostly from Omegna, a distance of ten miles. In my walk to Forno and back I frequently met women with large baskets on their backs, strapped to each shoulder, and I saw that the baskets were filled with provisions and merchandise. "I also noticed that the 'royal mail' was thus carried. This carrying is given to the lowest bidders, and as women are willing to work cheaper than men they have a monopoly of the carrying business, and men have been driven to find employment in other lines."—Massachusetts Ploughman. . THE WOMEN OF INDIA. How to improve the condition of its women is one of the greatest problems which faces India. That their lot has been a hard one; that they have not been given a fair chance in life; that the natives of India can never rise to a high position among the nations until their women have been elevated, is being more and more commonly admitted. With the progress of education and the growth of the more civilized community, Indian women are slowly coming to understand that many spheres of activity and usefulness which hitherto have been closed to them are appropriate for them as for their husbands and brothers. For the present this community must lead in all these movements. The Marathi Mission of the American board, working in the Bombay presidency, has now fairly developed several industries for girls. The most important are weaving with hand looms, rug-making, lace embroidery and art needle work. The objections to the first and second of these are that the profits are small, and that they require machinery and equipments which prevent their being developed except in factories. In India, much more than in the United States, factories are unsafe places for girls. The third and fourth industries are most appropriate for Indian young women. They can be developed in private homes or anywhere else; they require only a small and inexpensive outfit; they offer large scope for skill, intelligence and taste, and also bring fair profits.-Southern Workman. WEDDING BOQUETS Wedding bouquets have practically resolved themselves into two styles—shower and "Bernhardt" bouquets, although an occasional sheaf of long-stemmed roses is seen, or even more occasional round bouquets. For the bride herself, almost any white flower is good, the stereotyped bouquet (like the stereotyped gown of white satin) being made of white roses, relieved by little sprays of lilies of the valley. Lilies of the valley, in fact, play a most important part in almost every bridal bouquet, whether it is composed of roses or orchids, gardenlas or hyacinths. Loops of misty tulle, twisted in through the flowers, are an echo of the wedding veil that softens the whole effect of the bouquet, and transforms it into something at once unusual and exquisite. "Bernhardt" bouquets are built on the lines of a stickle with the flowers arranged to curve away from the face and to droop over the arm. Instead of preserving the curious stiffness so often seen in loose clusters. But the prettiest idea of all is a new arrangement for the tiny maid who serves as flower girl. A great, rough straw garden hat is bent up into a basket, the handle formed of wide satin ribbon, and is piled high with blossoms — ribbons and blossoms matching, and both matching the ribbons on the small girl's dress. For the bride's veil, orange blossoms are the rule, but gardenias and lilies of the valley—and at Easter, Easter lilies—are often used either instead of or combined with the orange blossoms. The only arrangement of them is the adjusting and readjusting of a flower or two, or tiny sprays of the little flowers until the most becoming effect is got.—Washington Times. Pretty Things to Wear Plain white "Buster Brown" suits are still popular. Suspender dresses for young misses will be more popular than ever. Coats for young girls of gray and white fancy woolen mixtures are useful for cool days. A sailor suit of white linen for small boys has a collar of pale blue chambray with several rows of white braid. A pretty chambray dress has a boxpleated waist with a collar of white linen. A pretty Swiss wrapper was made over hellotrope china silk, which gave substance to its alry texture, and decorated with quantities of valenciennes lace. A dress for a young girl, of pale blue chambray, has a small yoke of fine embroidery, decorated on each side with rings formed with fine feather-stitching. A delicately lovely and becoming gown was made of China silk of the always charming shade of pale blue, with a flounce headed, with three rows of spotted lace insertion and finished at the bottom with the same. Before Chicago established a municipal electric light plant, the city paid $125 per annum for each arc light. Now the cost is only $54 for each arc light TRINA Operated by 90th Meridian Time—One Hour Slower Than City, Time READ DOWN. 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Thus you may hear a date of the battle of Waterloo because a guest another, and the great object of does not suggest another, artificially to Thus (in the matter of those Balkan Bucharest, but if you think of a mana future forget that Bucharest is the c names will henceforth be associated by dom and clumy illustration of the print pable of marvelous elaboration and w memorize a list for shopping just as suc or the good tales heard at the club. The treatment of numbers is, and m artificial. Numerals are not connected numerals, be connected one with another that the first nine letters of the alphab numerals, and O for naught; all the other instantly has a basis upon which to con A first class system of memory train It will be carefully planned and worked end by the smallest means. It will be adaptable, elastic and comprehensive. The Russian "The By Vance T. How To Train the Memory By T. P. O'Connor, M. P. EMORY training, like the acquisition of foreign tongues, seems to be a topic of interest just now. 3. The purpose of being possessed of what is known as "a good memory." It is the first of these three classes, and the first section of that class, which is loudest in its outcry for an invigorator of memories, and to which most systems primarily appeal. Every system of memory training that is not purely arbitrary must, I apprehend, be based upon the well known and ancient principle entitled "the association of ideas." A certain person has no difficulty in remembering certain extrinsic facts. Thus you may hear a man say: "I always know the exact date of the battle of Waterloo because I was born on June 18." One thing suggests another, and the great object of the memory trainer is, when one thing does not suggest another, artificially to induce it to suggest another. Thus (in the matter of those Balkan capitals), Roumania does not suggest Bucharest, but if you think of a manlac and of arresting him, you will never in future forget that Bucharest is the capital of Roumania, because the two names will henceforth be associated by an idea. I give this merely as a random and clumsy illustration of the principle, a principle which is certainly capable of marvelous elaboration and wide application. It can be utilized to memorize a list for shopping just as successfully as the heads of an argument or the good tales heard at the club. The treatment of numbers is, and must be, more arbitrary and much more artificial. Numerals are not connected with ideas, and cannot therefore, as numerals, be connected one with another. But if one begins by laying down that the first nine letters of the alphabet shall stand respectively for the nine numerals, and O for naught; all the other letters remaining meaningless, one instantly has a basis upon which to construct associations. A first class system of memory training will neither be random nor clumsy. It will be carefully planned and worked out so as to gain the greatest possible end by the smallest means. It will be full of minor ingenuities. It will be adaptable, elastic and comprehensive. The Russian "Third Section" By Uance Thompson. R theatres; in a r loudly easy to re evidently been in the livery or sunlight—and that, in an open least be safe from speak of the-wes and good patern traveling strange clubs, the hotels, tler police than police. You brush a hat theatres; in a restaurant, as in the drumsily easy to recognize those you meet, evidently been instructed to disguise them the livery of a gentleman is a frock or sunlight—an umbrella. The famous that, in an open cab—talking Fernch or least be safe from surveillance; but his speak of the weather. The fat cabby on and good paternal eyes, may be a spy, travelling stranger; and, if the cabman clubs, the hotels, or the embassies, the older police than that of the third sections in every capital in Europe and Amphionage. Its mesh is over every man theatre; in a restaurant, as in the drawing room of a friend. It is ridiculously easy to recognize those you meet in the fashionable resorts. They have evidently been instructed to disgulse themselves as gentlemen, and for one of them the livery of a gentleman is a frock coat, a silk hat, and, always—by rain or sunlight—an umbrella. The famous third police! A stranger might fancy that, in an open cab—talking Fernch or English to his friend—he would at least be safe from surveillance; but his friend will touch him significantly and speak of the weather. The fat cabby on the box, somnolent, with white hair and good paternal eyes, may be a spy, more skilled in the languages than the traveling stranger; and, if the cabman has been found loitering near the great clubs, the hotels, or the embassies, the chances are strong that he is. A subtert police than that of the third section—the akrana, which has its ramifications in every capital in Europe and America—completes this great system of espionage. Its mesh is over every man in Russia; no one goes unwatched—save only old Count Tolstol.—Success. NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST. Jesup *58 annah.Ar 9 45a ... 3 15a 6 42p nesup. Lv 2 15a ... 3 15a 6 42p jacon. " 2 16a ... 6 15p 8 05a ilanta. " 11 60p ... 3 17a 7 15p atnoga" 6 50p ... 3 20p 7 20a puillevie. " 6 20a ... 12 01n 7 20a lanetat. " 6 20a ... 13 35p 7 20a Louls. " 10 01p ... 7 26a loago. " 9 09p ... 7 26a lanta. Ar 10 15p ... 7 26a amphs. Lv 8 15a ... 4 10p 7 26a nas City. 6 30p ... 2 55a 4 12p ... 7 15a 8 15p New G *37 *57 Via Mon. 3 15a 6 42p 6 15p 8 05a 3 17a 7 15p 3 20a 7 20a 12 01n 7 20a 1 35p 7 20a ... 7 26a 4 10p 7 26a 2 55a 4 12p 7 15a 8 15p Now, in the first place, it is necessary to consider what are the various purposes of training the memory. These, I think, can be divided into three classes or sorts: 1. The purpose of acquiring and retaining facts in any branch of knowledge. 2. The purpose of remembering, for a period more or less brief, and by a conscious effort, certain facts or impress-of facts or impressions, as they happen. USSIA is pre-eminently the land of spies. Democratic and socialistic France has raised the spy system to a state function, but in Russia it is the very soul of the state. In Moscow, in the streets, agents of the police are stationed every five hundred yards; in addition, secret agents watch the houses day and night—one being allotted to every four houses; and in every house is another spy, the porter. Go where you will, you are never out of the watchful eye of the police. You brush against spies in your hotel, as in the *37 *57 Via Montgomery. 3 15a 6 45p Lv. Savannah. Ar. Lv 6 15p 8 05a "Wilgery." (L. & N.) 3 17a 7 15p "Nashville." 3 20p 7 20a "Louisville." 13 01n 7 20a "Cincinnati." 1 35p 7 20a "St. Louis." (M. & O.) .... 7 26a "St. Louis." 4 10p 7 15p "Chicago." 2 56a 4 12p Ar. Mobile. Lv 7 15p 8 15p "New Orleans." Connections made at Port Tampa with U. S. mail steamships of the Pennellian and Occidental Steamship sailing Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:40 p. m. Tickets offices, DeSoto Hotel, Phone 79, Union Station, Bell phone 285, Georgia 811, H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager, Wilmington, N. C. THE SILVER TEAR DROP By MYRA HAMILTON. IE Burgomaster's wife sat at her window daring one of her husband's socks. From time to time she put down her work, and then resumed her mending with a heavy sigh. It was so terribly quiet outside that it seemed as if the entire town was wrapped in slumber from which nothing would ever rouse it. But suddenly a flower seller commenced calling out, "Real roses for sale, real roses for sale!" The Burgomaster's wife was so pleased with this noise that she leaned out of the window to have a look at the man, and she was glad to ascertain that although he was a good distance down the street, he seemed to be gradually working his way in the direction of her home. The Burgomaster stonched into the room; he was wearing large carpet slippers that tried to fall off with every step he took, so he could not raise his feet properly from the ground. He had a long pipe in his mouth at which he slowly puffed, and he seemed to be very stout and contented—as stout and contented as a miller's cat, for instance. He approached his wife and patted her heavily on the shoulder. "Come, come, Martha," he said gruntly. "You look sad again. What is amiss now? Anything wrong with the dinner?" "Oh, William," sighed his wife. "have you forgotten that if we had not lost our little ones they would have been six years old to-day?" "Nay," said the Burgomaster, solemnly scratching his head; "I remember well enough. The way they disappeared with their nurse that summer's afternoon has always puzzled me. Not a sign, not a trace of them did we discover after they started for that ill-fated walk. But perhaps what happened was all for the best." "All for the best. For shame, William" cried Martha, indignantly. "What mean you by thus speaking of your own flesh and blood? For shame!" "I dread to think what their food, let alone their schooling, would have cost me," he replied. "And then Gretchen, their nurse, too. What an appellete she had! Her keep would have ruined me entirely." "Silence!" screamed his wife; "you have always been close-fisted with your money, but I won't listen to your grumbles any more," and she burst into such an angry storm of weeping that her husband's mean heart was touched. "Do not cry so, my dear," he objected, slowly. "See, to show you I do not fear to spend my hard earned gold, I will buy you a pot of these flowers the man in the street is selling." The Burgomaster's wife glanced out of the window once more, and when she saw the rose bushes the man offered for sale she longed to possess one, but her husband grumbled at the exorbitant price when he heard it. "I can't give that for a little rose plant," he protested; "it may die." "William," pleaded his wife, "you promised to buy me one. I must have it." "Nice little rose frees," urged the man, edging near the window. "Pink and white buds in the same pot." Then he lowered his voice and willispered to Martha: "Lady, don't refuse them. These are wonderful flowers, charged with magic. You could never guess what they represent." "Aren't they roses?" she questioned in some surprise. "In truth they are now," he said. "But they will not always remain so. Lady, don't turn your back on your future happiness. Take this one pot. You will never regret it." "I will give you one silver piece for them," said the Burgomaster, walking away to fill his pipe. "Take my offer or begone." But the man still lingered to dispute the price, until he finally consented to accept the silver piece the Burgomaster offered him, augmented by a pair of his wife's gold earrings as payment. As he handed the pot up to the window he whispered to Martha, "These are your children. You did well not to refuse them. My master, who is a magician, charmed them away five years ago, but now he wants money, so they must be sold. I cannot tell what strange shape he caused their nurse to wear, but these pink and white rosebuds are your lost babies. I can swear. Tend them carefully, good mother, but do not divulge the secret I have told you, otherwise my master will whip me for not asking a greater sum for them." But the Burgomaster's wife held his hand tightly as she took the pot from him. "Tell me what I must do to remove the spell over them," she entreated. "See, here is another silver piece for you." The magician's servant popped the money in his wallet and then he shook his head laughingly. "Ask the rain drops," he retorted as he went away; "ask the rain drops." For several days the Burgomaster's wife tended her rosebuds with great care. She was convinced they must be her lost children laboring under a terrible enchantment, for every mortal evening, when she wothed them, the two little rosebuds would bend forward and bob their soft petals against her cheek as though they wanted to kiss her, and once she felt sure she heard them sigh as she talked to them. One day she started to walk to a pottery at the ned of the town; she wanted to buy a larger pot for her rosebush, hoping it would thrive better in it; but on the way back a terrible thunderstorm came on. Lifting her skirls well away from the muddy read, the Burgomaster's wife ran quickly toward her home; she objected to her clothes being spolled by the wet, and she desired to place her little rosebuds out in the rain, as she thought it might freshen them up. As she carried the plant into the garden, she remembered what the magician's servant told her, so she decided to ask-the aid of the rain drops in regaining her children. Raising her eyes in the gray-looking sky, she said to the water as it splashed upon her face "Little rain drops, tell me what I must do to win my children again?" Suddenly she heard a shrill voice call out: "Sprinkle them with a silver tear drop from the moon;" but when Martha looked in the direction of the sound she could see nothing. "Where are you?" she called softly. "Where are you?" One large drop had fallen upon her cotton glove, and when she asked this question she saw it move a little. But the reply came so falsely that she had to raise her hand to hear it "at all, "I am here on your glove," said the little, voice. "In a minute I shall have completely soaked in, and then I shall not be able to speak again. But attend to my last words. Fetch the moon's tear drop." All that evening the Burgomaster's wife wondered how she could send to the moon. At first she thought of a balloon, but she knew it could never travel so far, and she was sure also that her husband could not afford to buy her one, even if she begged him to do so. She crept into the garden, for her husband was dozing in his chai and his snores disturbed her, so she sat down under a large tree to listen to a nightingale singing in its branches, and tried to make plans for this tremendous journey. Suddenly the nightingale stopped its song and flew on to her lap. "What is the use of me singing to you?" it objected frettily, "if you don't listen?" "I am very sorry," said the Burgomaster's wife penitently, "but I am so worried that I came here to think of a way out of my difficulties. Will you sing again, and then I really will listen?" But the nightingale shook his little gray head. "Certainly not," it said, haughtily; "I never waste my music on people who want to think. You had better tell me your trouble," it went on, patronizingly; "I am exceedingly clever, and no doubt I shall be able to help you." So the Burgomaster's wife told the nightingale how much she wished to obtain the silver tear from the moon, and she also explained her reason for desiring it. "I understand perfectly," said the conceited little bird, nodding its head thoughtfully for a few seconds. "It is a good thing you asked my advice, for I see directly what you must do." "How clever you are?" said Martha, "What must I do?" "You must send for it," declared the nightingale, solemnly. The Burgomaster's wife was so angry that she wanted to shake the bird. "Of course, I know that," she said, crossly. "I knew that ever so long ago. But how am I to send for it, silly?" "You need not call me names," retorted the bird, "because you are too stout to fly to the moon yourself. Well, I will tell you that I will do. You are always so good to us in the winter that, as a great favor, I will go to the moon for you. I will start tonight and be back before the dawn. Get me a yellow king cup from the brook and tie it around my neck, and then I will set off." In great delight Martha hurried to fetch the king cup, and in a few minutes the nightingale was equipped for its journey. "Little bird, how can I thank you?" cried the Burgomaster's wife, sobbing from pure joy as she watched the little thing preparing to leave. "Go to bed," it replied; "I will tap at your window when I return and give you the silver drop. Farewell." Away flew the little bird, and, after watching it soar out of sight, Martha retired to bed, though she did not sleep. She lay awake for the bird's little beak to come tap-tap on the window pane. Suddenly she thought she heard it. She sat up in bed and listened intently. Something was certainly rapping on the glass, but it was much too soon for the nightingale to be back: The Burgomaster's wife slipped out of bed and opened the casement, and then, to her horror, she realized that her little gray messenger had arrived home, but it had not brought the drop. "I am very sorry," explained the bird, when he saw her pale face in the moonlight. "I started off to the moon, but when I discovered what a long distance it was, I felt I could not go. especially as I want to sing to-night to a pair of young lovers in the grove. They always admire my voice so much, and I really can't be bothered to fly so far. You must not expect it." "You are a seishit little bird," cried the poor, disappointed woman, as she took the king up away from him. "I have a great mind to wring your neck." But the nightingale flew off without waiting for her to put her threat into a lion, and it never looked back, although it knew Martha laid her head on the window sill and was weeping bitterly: Suddenly the. Burgomaster's wife heard another voice addressing her. "Why are you crying?" said the little voice; "can I help you?" When Martha looked up she was very much surprised to see that it was a little bat speaking to her, as he sat on the window sill by her side. "I don't know," she said sadly; "I am afraid nobody will help me. The nightingale promised to do so, but now he has declined, and I am powerless to act alone." "I am sure I could anything that the nightingale promised to do," pleaded the bat. "I wish you would let me try. Won't you tell me what it is?" "My two little children are under a magician's spell, and it can only be removed by sprinkling them with the silver tear drop from the moon," explained Martha. "I cannot fly up there and the nightingale refused to go for me, so what am I to do?" "It will go," announced the bat, proudly. "if you will grant me one favor when I return." "Indeed, I will," cried the Burgomaster's wife, gratefully. "Will you promise to spare a wee portion of the tear drop for me?" he begged. "I am not a bat, really; I am a mortal like yourself, though I have been under this charm five years now." "Of course, I will promise," said Martina, gratefully. "See, here is the king cup all ready. May I tie it round your neck? And then you shall start." "I have not a moment to lose," said the bat, nervously. "I must return while it is still dark, otherwise I shall be blind and unable to find this window again. Farewell. Do not fret; for I shall bring back the moon's silver leaf, I know." All through the night the Burgomaster's wife waited at the window for the little bat to return, but there was no sign of it in the sky; and at last, with an aching heart, she was forced to believe that she had again been deceived, She watched the first streak of dawn spread over the sky, she heard a cock in the yard crowding vigorously, while the birds in the adjacent trees answered it cheerily; and then she proceeded to dress herself, for she was obliged to work hard, even if she was unhappy. As she returned from milking the cows she was surprised to see a girl she did not know walking over the dewy grass toward her. "Who can this be?" said Martha to herself, but when she approached nearer the stranger she threw down her milkpall and rushed forward to meet her. "Why, Gretchen," she cried in amazement; "where have you come from? For five years I have searched, for you, knowing you were under an evil spell, and now I find you in my own field." "I come from the moon," answered Gretchen merrily; "I was the little bat you sent last night. The distance was so tremendous that I knew it would be light before I returned to your window, so I sprinkled myself with a little of the silver tear when I reached the earth, so I might resume my original shape and need not delay further. See, here is the king cup with the remains of the 'drop in it. Let us go and release your children, which I am sure are in your possession disguised as rosebuds. But before we go I have a favor to ask you." "What is it?" asked the Burgomaster's wife, impatient, for she was fretting to get to her little ones. "May I be your children's nurse office again?" pleaded the girl. "Even when the magician turned them into rosebuds I did not desert them. I followed them here, and I row I will guard them from all dangers if you will only give me another chance." "Of course, I, will, dear Gretchen," cried the Burgomaster's wife, throwing her arms around the girl's neck and embracing her warmly; "and flow come with me and remove the charm." Directly they emptied the contents of the king cup on the rosebuds, the children sprang from the pot and stood by their mother's side in their natural form; and I am sure you can imagine what rejoicing there was in the house at their return. Even the Burgomaster was pleased when he saw how pretty his little son and daughter had grown, and he did not grumble at the extra expense they would mean to him, but went out and bought them some toys instead.—Cassell's Magazine. Keeping In Touch With Ones It's good to have money and things that money will buy, btu it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money won't buy. When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world he should go-off into the woods for a few weeks' show and then to make sure he's still a man, and not a plug hat, and a frock cont. and a wad of bills.-Saturday Evening Post. Seasonable. A speeding automobiles meet a smoothly gliding cutter on the road. "Ah!" it said to the cutter, "where are you going?" "Sleighing, of course," replied the cutter. "And you?" "Slaying" shouted back the automobile with a horseless laugh—Lippincott's Magazine, LMOST due east from Manila is the large sweet water lake called the Laguna de Bay; round the southern half of this lake lies Laguna Province. A chain of mountains lies in a large half circle round this lake, thus shutting in this sheet of water almost completely. Books of natural history describe a species of large bat, called fruit bats, great big fellows, with a body the size of a full grown cat, and wing membranes that measure from two to four feet across. I have seen some that were more than five feet from tip to tip. Like all bats, they sleep during the day in the dense forests in the mountains, hundreds of them hung up in the treetops, where they are safe from their enemies. Head down, with wings closely folded to the body and swaying with the wind, they look something like the bobbins of wool that feed the spinning machines in the factories. About half an hour or more before the sun touches the western horizon all these bats wake up, turn themselves right side up with care, give a few flaps' with their wings, and then whirl-away they go, hundreds in a flock. They sail across forest and vale straight as a shot to the fine groves along the lake, where they feed all night. A curious thing about the bats is that they prefer a straight line, and if they meet an obstacle will swerve only just enough to clear it. The Filipinos have found this out, and also that the bats are good to eat. From this discovery dates a most curious sport. Long before sunset, in the village after which the lake is named, the town of Bay, a hundred or more, mey and boys are out, both in the town itself and on the open plain all round it. Each group of two or three has a kite, a tailless. Chinese batteru kite, Everybody is full of expectation, looking southward for the bats to arrive. Suddenly some sharp-eyed youngster spies them coming far to the southwest, and sets up a yell. Ere the yell has died away the advance of the flock has come within range of the floating kites. The bats see in them nothing more than a strange kind of bird. Indeed, it may be doubted if the bats in this bright light see at all. If they do not fly by smell and touch rather than by sight, at any rate, once among the kites, which have begun to sail in very erratic curves, they just swerve a little when too close to one to its cord, and go on. By a skillful jerking and twirling of the cord the men are able to give the kite a swooping motion, similar to that of a hawk's flight, and in addition guide it so as to swoop down upon one of the bats. But always the bats sweep just beyond the reach of the klites, until suddenly one seems to be entangled with something near the cord. A flutter or two, a violent downward movement of the kite, torn along by the bat, a final shake of the line, and like a shot down drops the bat, to be poured upon by some member of the crew of that particular kite. A blow with the club in his hand, and the bat ceases to snap and snail. Surprised, we examine the fellow, and find that the delicate membrane of its wings has been torn as it with claws, making flight impossible. Soon another bat is entangled with a kite, but instead of dropping, it is apparently caught by the cord, for when the man handling this one pulls in excitedly and brings the kite to earth, the bat, despite some wild flutters, comes with it. We then see that hundreds of small fish-hooks are attached to the cord by means of fine strings of abagua or Manila hemp. The bat was caught on several of these hooks. In swerving a little to escape the kite or its cord, it was swept right among the hooks. Their fine thread was too small to be noticed ere it was too late. The bats are not beautiful, and the strong, musky odor they exhale does not add to their attractiveness; but once prepared for the oven, they look much like rabbits, and I am assured by those who have eaten them that they taste exactly like that. Paul L. Strange, in Youth's Companion. AN UNEXPECTED BANQUET. During the summer of 1903 Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., Dillon Wallace and a half-bred Cree Indian, who proved himself a hero, started to explore the Labrador wilds. This purpose was only partially carried out. Winter came on along before Hubbard was ready to turn back, the provisions were exhausted, game were scarce. On the journey to the coast Hubbard was taken ill, and perished of starvation while his companions were in search of aid. Wallace had found some provisions which had been thrown aside on the island trip, and had returned within a few hundred feet of Hubbard's tent, but could not find it. In "The Lure of the Labrador Wild" Jr., Wallace tells something of their hardships: Despite the stendy gnaw at the pit of our stomachs, we had cut down our meals to the minimum amount of food that would keep us alive. For nearly two weeks we had been the prisoners of a relentless storm. All of us felt we had entered on a race against starvation. While we were nearing the shore we sighted three little ducklings bobbing up and down in the tumbling waves, and repeatedly diving. They were too far off to reach with a pistol, and Hubbard took his rifle. It seemed almost like attacking a fly with a cannon, but with our thought on food, none of us was impress d with the incongruity then. After Hubbard fired, one of the ducklings turned over. We paddled to it with fettish haste, and found that it had been stumped by a ball that had barely grazed its bill. It was a lucky shot, for if the bullet had gone through the duckling's body there would have been little left to eat. The next day we foundered on through marshes and swamps. George, with his pack and rifle was in advance, and Hubbard and I followed his track through the snow. In the distance we heard a bang! then, bang! bang! three shots in all. Presently we came upon George's pack near the little lake and waited for him to appear. He had killed two geese. While waiting for them to cook, George cut from the necks a piece of skin and fat for each of us. These we warmed on the end of a stick, taking great care not to heat them enough to permit a single drop of the oil to escape from the fat; hen, half raw as they were, we ate them greedily, and found them delicious. It was really wonderful how much happiness that bit of game brought us. As we were drinking the broth we freely admitted that never before had we sat down to such a banquet. HIS DOUBLE The late Gen. Sir James Brown was stationed for a number of years in Balauchistan. During that period of his life a very strange thing happened to him, so strange that its reading is like that of fiction. In 1878 Sir James was in the political employ at Quetta. Two years of wandering life had weather-beaten him till his face was sunburned and his beard ragged. Walking one day with a fellow officer, he saw a man in Afghan costume sitting by the roadside. A big book, presumably the Koran, was suspended from his neck, but something about him, perhaps his brown beard and blue eyes, bespoke the European. Sir James tells the story: "That fellow does not sit on his heels like a native," I said. Colonel Fellows assented. "And," said he, "he is the very image of you." I looked at the man again and saw that it was so. He was exactly like me. I spoke to him, and he answered in an embarrassed way, saying that he was a Khrighz on a pilgrimage to Mecca. I talked with him a little, and found him so embarrassed that my suspicions were aroused; and later I sent to arrest him, thinking he might be a Russian spy. But the man had fled, and that was the last I ever saw of him. Soon after head men began to drop into Quetta and to seek me out, all claiming to know me. I did not understand what they meant, but I used the opportunity to gain all the information I could. Some of these visitors spoke of meeting me places where I had never been. One died, and I was asked to perform the burial services, the one who made the request saying I used to perform such rites at Mukkur. I was more puzzled than ever, but I did not let the claimants to my acquaintance know it. War broke out soon after this, and I was sent farther into the interior. Everywhere distinguished officers declared they knew me, and spoke with great reverence of religious ceremonies I had performed. The natives would not fight with the company I was in. I went into the most dangerous places unarmed and unattacked. Everywhere I was greeted as a preacher holy. After I was made chief commissioner of Baluchistan I met three Afghans who said they were old friends of mine at Mukkur. One spoke of his wife as my ardent disciple, another of the time I had spent at his house as his guest. Then for the first time an explanation came to my mind. I was indebted for this extraordinary amount of influence to my double, whom I had met on the road. My Doppelganger had disappeared entirely; dropped out of life in a mysterious way. Who he was I shall never know, but for sixteen years I got all the credit of that salty Mussulman. When I denied the identity I was laughed at. Some of my dojos must have seemed rank apostasy to those natives, but they were faithful to their ideal. In time of war I went everywhere unchallenged, much to the amazement of my comrades, who wondered why I was not captured or murdered. I received presents and visits from avowed followers. Unwittingly I entered into that holy man's life and reaped the benefits without the shadow of a claim, and all on account of the strong resemblance between us. UNDER WATER MANY HOURS. UNDER WATER MANY HOURS. After being imprisoned for twenty-four hours, loaded down by a diver's armor and under fifteen feet of water at Canton, Mo., Daniel Hayes was brought to the surface in an unconscious and almost dying condition. He is a professional diver and had been employed to remove brush and debris from the immense pipe which serves at times of low water to drain Lima Lake and transfer its surplusage to the Mississippi River. He was sucked under a pile of refuse and over against a bowler in a way which prevented him from loosening himself from the tangled hose which held him down. In signalling to the men in charge of the air pump Hayes could not let them know his location, as the air hose, being wrapped around the rock, caused deceptive bubbles to rise to the surface. When the imprisoned diver was released his suit was found to be leaking, and he would have been drowned had the ordeal lasted another half hour. The agony he passed through made Hayes appear ten years older than when he entered the water. Tomfoolery CANINE CULTURE. A Boston spinster owns a-dog. One of those high-toned "towers," That's so well bred and nice, "tis said, He never pants—he "trousers." —Philadelphia Post. REVISED QUOTATION. Orator—"Man's inhumanity, to man makes countless mill—mill—" Auditor—"Millionaires!"—Life. SURE TO REGRET IT ANYWAY. Fuller—"If you marry that girl, you'll regret it." Waller—"But no more, probably, than if I married some other girl."—Judge. KNOWLEDGE. "I was surprised at the way you flirted with that young man. You know you're a married woman." "Yes, but he didn't."—Philladelphia Ledger. THE ENDLESS GRIND. "But why do you live in the city if you don't like it?" "I have to live here to make money enough to keep up my country place." —Town Topics. NOTHING TO LONG FOR. "What a discontented, dissatisfied look Mrs. Fullerton has!" "Well, what could you expect? She has a husband who gets her everything she wants."—Town Topics. A PREJUDICED IMPRESSION. "What is your idea of a classic?" "A classic," said Mr. Cumrox, "if something you have to listen to because somebody else said it was good." —Washington Star. Office Boy-"Wy, cert, I want more pay; I'm only getting 'four a week, and give my mother all an earn." Propreltor-"What do you do with the other three and a half?"-Puck. ENDLESS CHAIN. "A soft answer," remarked the party of the first part, "turneth away wrath." "True enough," responded the party of the second part, "but wrath also turneth away a soft answer." -Louisville Courler-Journal. HER POOR TASTE. He—"When I married my wife's eye-sight was very poor." She—"Yes; it must have been."—Illustrated Bits. DIVISION OF LABOR. "How do you and your wife spend your leisure time?" "Well, I think up schemes to make money." "And she——?" "Thinks up schemes to spend it."—Cleveland Leader. A PRUDENT SUGGESTION. "Many people have suffered embarrassment because of their social aspirations." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "Before you insist on getting into the swims you want to make quite sure you are a swimmer."—Washington Star. NO PAIN. Cassy—"I seen in the paper the other day that a docthor out West performed a surgical operation on himself and cut off his own thumb. What d'ye' think' p that?" Cassidy—"Oh, I suppose he put himself under the inflorescence of either before he done it."—Philadelphia Press. ABSURD. "I see that a prominent statistician says that considerable more than one half of the world's population is feminine." "I don't believe it. If that were so how would we account for the fact that 'one-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives?'"—Philadelphia Public Ledger. SUPPLY AND DEMAND "I tell you," said the passenger with the skull cap, "there is something wrong with a country where a prizefighter can make more money in one night than a college professor can make in five years!" "You're right, pard," said the passenger with the loud check suit. "There's too blamed many college professors and too blamed few prizefighters"—Chicago Tribune. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1905. Mr. John Mack of Athens spent a few days in the city. Prof. and Mrs. L. S. Clark of Athens are in the city spending awhile. Mr. R. N. Moore is spending the summer in Beaufort. He comes over on occasional short trips. Mrs. M. Whitfield of Macon, spent a few days in the city the guest of Mrs. F. M.Cohen. Mrs. Dr. W. H. Harris of Athens was the guest of Miss O. Emma Lewis during the week. Mr. and M. s. H. A. Brown are spending a week's vacation in Beaufort, South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reid, Mrs E. Carter and Mr. Willie Holbrook of Athens were recent visitors to the city. Mr. W. H Floyd who was severely injured a month ago, is still improving and hope to be out shortly. He is in Jacksonville. Mr. F. M. Cohen attended the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of South Carolina during the week. The meeting was at Columbia. Unless names are signed to articles, not for publication, but as a matter of good faith, they will find no space in these columns. Miss Henrietta C. Hamilton left on Wednesday for Beaufort S. C. where she will spend a few weeks the guest of Miss Florence L. Deas. Mr. E. A. Overstreet has been on the sick list for the past two weeks His friends hope for him an early and complete recovery. A barbecue will be given by the Earnest Volunteers on Monday Aug. 7th at the residence of Mrs. H. Richardson, Brownsville. Admission 10c. Misses Eva and Ruth, daughters of Mrs. Carrie Waring are in New York spending the summer with their brother Mr. W. L. Waring. Mr. John Woodard is on the sick list this week. His friends hope that he will soon be able to again be at his post of duty. Mr. J. W. Small and Miss R. Victoria Clarke were quietly married on Wednesday night last by Rev. W. G. Clarke at his residence 2306 Bulloch St. Miss Minnie Cook of this city who was married to Rev. A. J. Aikens of Barnesville, S. C., a few weeks ago is now travelling with her husband on his Southern tour he being engaged in Missionary work. Mrs. Dr. C. McCarthy of Macon spent awhile very pleasantly in the city, the guest of Miss S. C. Houstoun on East Park Avenue. She left on the 16th for New York where she will be for the remainder of the season. Mr. Frank Coleman returned home on Tuesday last on the City of Columbus from New York where he spent the past month. He reports a pleasant time. He leaves to morrow to spend a week with friends in Brunswick Mr. C. G. Jordan left for Macon, Tuesday night last. From there he went to Byron to visit his two girls who are spending the summer with relatives. It is hoped that he will find the girls much improved. Miss Juno M. Elliot, one of Albany's charming young ladies is in the city spending awhile as the guest of Mrs. R. L. Barnes on East Broad street. Miss Elliot's parents are among the most prominent and wealthiest in Albany. Her friends will endeavor to make her stay a pleasant one. Mr. R. M. Cooper, one of the instructors at the G. S. I. C., after several weeks' stay in Atlanta, Look Out Mountains and other places, returned home on Sunday and will spend the balance of the summer here. By his oongeniality he has won many friends since he has been in our midst. The friends of Mr. J. J. Coleman will regret to hear of his death which occurred on Friday of last week after an illness of four weeks. His remains were taken to his late home at Jesup, Ga. on Sunday for burial He leaves a wife, five children, and other relatives and friends to mourn his death. His relatives have the sympathy of many friends. $ ^{*} $ On Tuesday last Drs. S. P. Lloyd and P. E. Love, Messrs. Sidney J. Wright, and S. M Mallard were royally entertained by Mr. Jacob S. Blocker and Mr. H. G. Fisher of Beaufort S. C. These gentlemen visiting various places such as the National Cemetery, H. G. Fisher's Ice Cream Parlor and the Cross Pin Social Club, All report a very nice time. A Grim Tragedy. is dzily enacted, in thousands of homes, as death claims, in each one, another victim of Consumption or Pheumonia. But when Coughs, and Colds are properly treated, the tragedy is averted. F. G. Huntley, of Oaklandon, Ind., writes: "My wife had the consumption, and three doctors gave her up. Finally she took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which cured her, and today she is well and strong." It kills the germs of all diseases. One, dose re ileves. Guaranteed at soc and 1.oo, by any druggist. Trial bottle free, The regular meeting was held Sunday afternoon. The Club was favored with three papers on music by Profs. McIntosh, Robinson, and McDowell. Special music was furnished by the Colridge Taylor Glee Club. Sunday night the Club held a meeting at St Paul's Church for the purpose of organizing a mother's Club. which was done Monday afternoon under the direction of Miss Laura Hutchinson. The Asbury Mother's Club No.1 has been holding meetings and indulging in informal talks on everyday subjects. The several clubs plan to do practical work in the community as soon as possible. To-morrow afternoon Rev. T. W. Longwood, returned missionary from Africa, will speak. A special musical program has been arranged. At night the Men's Sunday Club and the Frances E. W. Harper Literary Society will attend services at St. John's Church, Hartridge St. and a third mother's meeting will be organized. The Men's Sunday Club presented to its friends last Sunday one of the best programs ever gotten up by this institution and those who were present expressed themselves as being well pleased. Profs. McIntosh, Robiuson and McDowell spoke on music and its value in the home. To have sat and listened to these polished musicians would have been a treat to the most lowly. Their plea was to stick to the original music of our ancestors which they consider the most beautiful ever written. They acquitted themselves splendidly. The Glee Club, a new feature of the Men's Sunday Club-which was organized by Prof. Chas McDowell, rendered a piece of music which was very harmonious, and won the approval of the audience. This piece was a credit to the club and shows the ability of its musical director. The attendance was good, and we hope the public will continue to give us their support, which is always appreciated. Ladies are always welcome at these meetings. On Sunday afternoon July 30th, Prof. Monroe N. Work will read a paper on "Crime," and at night the club will meet at St. John's Church on Hartridge Street. Local Notes. The Board of officers of the First Battalion met last week and arranged for the anniversary celebration on August 15. The Lincoln Guards from Macon and the Maceo Guards from Augusta will be down with a large excursion. The entire battalion will parade, after which the festitives will be held at Lincoln Park during the afternoon and night. Tuesday morning last Co., D, of the first Battalion under command of Capt. J. H. Bugg, M. D. with full ranks, left for Augusta with ten packed coaches of excursionists. The company was the guest of Capt. L. E. Mosely's Maceo Guards and the boys were royally entertained. The parade was an excellent one. The applause given them for military honors was deafening along the line of march and they were commended by the press and citizens for same. The company returned Thursday morning. Among the recent visitors to the city was Mrs. S. E. Cruse of Clyo. Mrs. Cruse is one of the best known ladies in the State. To know her is to honor and respect her. Mr. Fred McNeil died on Monday last at Clinton, Iowa, where he has been residing for the past number of years. His remains were brought to this city on Thursday and were buried yesterday from the residence of Mr. M. M. Gaillard on W. Anderson St., Rey R. Bright, officiating. Mr. McNeil had been conducting a lucrative confectionary business. at Clinton and it was classed among the best in the State. He was reared in this city. He left a wife, a mother and other relatives along with a host of friends to mourn his death. At the time of his death his mother was with him and accompanied the remains here. The report of Mrs. R. L. Barnes as Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Calanthe, which was recently held in this city was the best ever presented to the Grand Court and she has received the unstinted praise of all who heard it. Mrs. Barnes is a painstaking officer always alert to duty and indefatigable in its discharge. She has been at the head of this organization for several years and under her administration the growth has been wonderful in membership, in the number of courts and in finance. It will be a long, time before the courts will be able to find her superior. Greatly in Demand. Nothing is more in demand than a medicine which meets modern requirements for a blood and system cleanser, such as Dr. King's New Life Pills. They are just what you need to cure stomach and liver troubles. Try them. At any drug store, 25c., guaranteed. Called to Another Parish The parishiners and friends of Rev. J. C. Dennis will regret that he will shortly leave the city to take up a larger work at Brunswick. He will have charge of St. Athanasius church as vicar, and warden of the St. Athanasius Parochial and Industrial school. The Episcopal work at Brunswick is the most important one in the state and the selection of Rev. Dennis to take charge of it is quite an honor to him. Rev. and Mrs. Dennis have been in our midst for nearly six years. The reverend has done much to upbuild St. Augustine Parish. While here he established St. Augustine Parochial School, the attendance at which has been very flattering. In this work he was ably assisted by Mrs. Dennis. The citizens are loath to give them up, but commend them to their new charge. Sickening Shivering Fits of Augue and Malaria, can be relieved and cured with Electric Bitters. This is a pure, tonic medicine; of especial benefit in Malaria, for it exerts a true curative influence on the disease, driving it entirely out of the system. It is much to be preferred to Quinine, having none of this drug's bad after-effects. E. S. Munday, of Henrietta, Texas writes; 'My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice, till he took Electric Bitters' which saved his life. At any drug store; price 50c, guaranteed. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. The Doctors and Professors will play on Monday July 31st at Base Ball Park. Tickets 10c. A Grand Union Meeting will be given at the old Abercorn Baptist church by the L. B. M. A. and the V. L. L. A. on the 5th Sunday in July. Steamer Swan will make the trip. Round trip 50c. - Bethlehem Baptist Church will give a grand excursion to Beaufort on Monday July 31st, tickets 50 and 35c. The Union Brotherhood Benevolent Association and Ladles Branch will give an excursion to Daufuskie Monday July 31st. Tickets 50 and 25c. Remember the grand outing at Lincoln Park by the F. A. B. Church, West Broad street, Monday July 31st. Tickets 15c. There will be a grand excursion to Beaufort August 1st by Beth-Eden and Mt. Tabor Baptist churches. Tickets 50 and 25c. The annual picnic of the Union Sisters Aid will take place at Lincoln Park, Tuesday Aug. 1st. The public is invited; tickets 15 and 10c. You are invited to go to St. Helena Island on an excursion given by St. Marys Lodge No. 1, leaving on Steamer Clayton Sunday night Aug. 6th at 10:30 o'clock, returning Monday Aug. 6th Grand-barbecue and other amusements on the island. Fare 50c. The Morning Call Social Club will celebrate their 14th anniversary by an excursion to Beaufort, Sunday August 6th. Tickets 50 cents. The Young Ladies Independent Circle will give a grand outing at Lincoln Park, on Monday August 7th. Tickets 15c. St. John Baptist Church will run their second excursion of the season to Beaufort Tuesday August 8th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. The Sons of Eastville will give their first annual excursion to Daufuskie Tuesday August 8th. Tickets 50 and 25c. The Broad's Aid and Social Club will celebrate their 24th anniversary by a picnic at Lincoln Park, Tuesday August 8th. Tickets 15c. The second picnic and prize waltz given by the Young G. E. A. and S. Club will take place at Lincoln Park Thursday Aug. 10th, tickets 15c. The Friendly Brothers No. 1, A. and S. Club will give their grand outing to Beaufort Sunday Aug. 13th. Fare 50 cents. A grand Moonlight Excursion will be run from Thunderbolt to Wilmington Island by the Seven Brothers Yacht Club, Monday night Aug* 14th. Tickets 40 and 25 cents. The Long Travelers Lodge No. 3, K. of P. will give a grand Dance Monday night, August 14th. Tickets 15c. Armour Lodge No. 1884 will give their annual excursion to Beaufort, Tuesday August 15th. Fare 50 cents. Juvenile Society No. 113, G. U. O. of O. F. will give their annual pleasure outing at Lincoln Park. Thursday August 17th. Tickets 10 and 15 cents. Clifton Baptist Church will give an excursion to Potters Grove Monday August 21st. Tickets 40 and 25 cents. The Independent Sons and Daughters Branch of Martin Hill Society will give a swell dance at Dittmersville hall, Monday night August 21st, tickets 15 and 25c. Attend the outing of the Forest City Social Club at Lincoln Park, Monday August 21st. Tickets 15 cents. Remember the Independent Pleasure Club's excursion to- Daufuski, Monday August 28th. Tickets 50 cents. Armenia Lodge No. 1930 G. U. O. of O. F. will give a grand excursion to Beaufort on Monpay August 28th. Tickets 50 cents. The V. L. and G. S. C. Club will give a grand dance at the B. M. A. Hall, Margaret street, on Monday Sept. 18, tickets 15 and 25c. 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. Burgess Mrs. W. H. Burgess Cor. Jefferson and Gaston Sts. conducting a neat Dress Making and Millinery Store. Sue solicits the patronage of he public. Guaranteeing perfect fit and polite attention. rders promptly filled. 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 teeth $7.00 and $3.00. Broken Places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. BellPhone 1244 All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23% K Gold Big Bargains IN Accordeon SKIRTS In BLACK, BLUE, TAN, Cashmere - - $3.98 Brilliantine - - $4.98 AT SCOTT'S, 462 West Broad Street. West Side Pharmacy Carries a full line of Drugs, Toilets, Cigars, Tobacco Confectioneries and Stationeries. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Open until 12 o'clock at night. Prompt delivery service and reasonable prices. Bell Phone 2374. Call over phone for what you want. Dr. C. P. Watts and Dr.J. F. Ford, Druggists SOUTHERN RAILWAY. HOW TO KEEP WELL 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 Eat the best meats. You can find this by visiting the OLD RELIABLE Stall No. 31; City Marker 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, corner of Jackson street, Green Grocery, Dealer in Beef; Pork, Veal and Poultry. Union Benefit Association. 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. KIDNEY TROUBLES Increasing Among Women, But Sufferers Need Not Despair Of all the diseases known, with which the female organism is afflicted, kidney disease is the most fatal, and statistics show that this disease is on the increase among women. Mrs. Emma Sawyer Unless early and correct treatment is applied the patient soldom survives when once the disease is fastened upon her. Lydia E. Pinkhana's Vegetable Compound is the most efficient treatment for kidney troubles of women, and is the only medicine especially prepared for this purpose. When a woman is troubled with pain or weight in loins, backache, frequent, painful or scalding urination, swelling of limbs or feet, swelling under the eyes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the region of the kidneys or notices a brick-dust sediment in the urine, she should lose no time in commencing treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as it may be the means of saving her life. For proof, read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for Mrs. Sawyer. "I cannot express the terrible suffering I had to endura. A derangement of the female organs developed nervous prostration and a serious kidney trouble. The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse, until I was unable to do anything, and I made up my mind I could not live. I finally decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had resort, and I am to-day a woman. I cannot praise it too highly, and I tell every suffering woman about my case." Mrs. Emma Sawyer, Conyers, Ga. Mrs. Pinkham gives free advice to women; address in confidence, Lynn, Mass. : -Burglars In Parls Catacombs. Part of the catacombs of Paris beyond the Luxembourg have also been invaded by burglaries, who were on the lookout, not for loot, but for skulls. The thieves, four in number, did not venture far into the subterranean place of the dead, as they were evidently afraid of the labyrinths of the catacombs. They attacked the first pile of bones which they saw, after having effected an entrance, and carried away several skulls. The four catacomb burglars were arrested and tried. They stated in the police court that they wanted the skulls to decorate the rooms of their lodgings. In reality they proposed to sell them to medical students. The four were condemned to fines of 25f. each, and to terms of imprisonment.—London Telegraph. Lived by His Nose. There was once a man who was feaf and dumb and in consequence had difficulty in earning enough to support himself. As often occurs, those who are deprived of one sense have another in an unusual degree. This was the case with this man. He had a sense of smell so remarkable that he became an expert in detecting the presence of oil wells. His nose was purchased by a big company (naturally the man himself went along with his nose) and he managed to eke out an excellent living. Change of diet is the only way to really cure stomach and bowel trouble. A woman says: "My husband had dyspepsia when we were married and had suffered from it for several years. It was almost impossible to find anything he could eat without bad results. "I thought this was largely due to the use of coffee, and persuaded him to discontinue it. He did so, and began to drink Postum Food Coffee. The change did him good from the beginning, digestion improved; he suffered much less from his nervousness, and when he added GrapeNuts food to his diet he was soon entirely cured. "My friend, Mrs. _____ of Vickersburg (my former home), had become a nervous wreck also from dyspepsia. Medicines had no effect, neither did travel help her. On my last visit home, some months ago, I persuaded her to use Grape-Nuts food. She was in despair, and consented. She stuck to it until it restored her health so completely that she is now the most enthusiastic friend of Grape-Nuts that I ever knew. She eats it with cream or dry, just as it comes from the package—keeps it in her room and eats it whenever she feels like it. "I began eating Grape-Nuts food myself when my baby was two months old, and I don't know what I should have done without it. My appetite was gone, I was weak and nervous and af, fordred but very little nourishment for the child. The Grape-Nuts food, of which I soon grew very fond, speedily set all this right again, and the baby grew healthful, rosy and beautiful as a mother could wish. He is two years old now and cats Grape-Nuts food himself. I wish every tired young mother knew of the good that Grape-Nuts would do her." Names given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. A Big Loan That Failed. Vienna, June 1.—Again a Russian loan has failed. According to intelligence from St. Petersburg, received in financial circles here, negotiations were proceeding quite lately with the same syndicate of Paris banks which, three months ago, broke off negotiations just when they were to sign a loan of 600,000,000f., (£24,000,000), namely, the Credit Lyonnais, Comptoir d'Escompte, and the Banque de Paris. The renewed negotiations this time had also reached a final stage, and a 5 per cent. six-hundred-million franc loan had been agreed to on the original basis, namely. Tressury bills with eight years currency, of which the syndicate was to take over 400,000,000f., and 200,000,000f. on option. All was ready and the signing fixed for May 30. The news of the naval overthrow marred the contract, and again the banks refused to sign, having gained the conviction that, given this hopeless stage of the war, the Czar and the Grand 'Dukes by no means intended to make peace.—From the London Chronicle. Paul Jones Costumes "Paul Jones," says a writer, "was portrayed in every costume that a pirate could be expected to masquerade in and his whiskers were of the longest, blackest and curliest. He is portrayed in all degrees, from the sardonie gentleman cut-throat to the blood-and-wounds Bill Bowline type of tar, but always with as much rofa-pillow stuffing as possible. One portrait presents him in a neat miltia uniform, something like that of the time of the Mexican war, and with the pattern of whiskers afterward known to fame as "Burnsides." There seems to be one point of accuracy in all these pictures if they are of the three-quarters or full length. Jones is always represented with a girlie full of pistols, a habit of dress to which he was accustomed. FT spermanacally cured. Norfs or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Newvessel storeer, $2trial bottle treatfree Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd. 331 Arch St., Phila, PA. An immature banana is apt to be insipid in 'favor and to cause dyspepsia. Mrs. Winstow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, soften the rums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curves willec, $2a bottle. Lobster fishing is decreasing each year in quantity. I am sure Diso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.--Mrs. Thomas Honkars, Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Former Archudek Leopold has become a private in the Swiss army. DISFIGURING ULCER People Looked at Her in Amazement- Pronounced Incarable - Face Now Clear as Ever - Thanks God for Cuticura. Mrs. P. Hackett, of 400 Van Buren St. Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "I wish to give thanks for the marvelous cure of my mother by Cuticura. She hid a severe ulcer, which physicians had pronounced incurable. It was a terrible disfigurement, and people would stand in amazement and look after her. After there was no hope from doctors she began using Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, and now, thank God, she is completely oured, and her face is as smooth and clear as ever." Carl Bears, of Bangor, Me., runs a worm farm. He raises them for bait. Cures Eczema, Itching Humors. Especially for old, chronic cases takes Botanic Blood Balm. It gives a healthy blood supply to the affected parts, heals all the sores, eruption scabs, scales; stops the awful fitching and burning of eczema, swelling, suppurating, watery sores, etc. Drug-free bottles $5.00, express prepaid. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Wrote Her Answer on His Cun. "The average person has no idea of the number of men who use their cuffs for memorandum purposes," said the local manager of a suburban laundry. "We witness many amusing occurrences. On Wednesday afternoon I received a telegram from one of my regular patrons, from New York, instructing me not to wash his laundry until he arrived at my office. He stated that he was on his way here. "About a half hour later he burst In and demanded his soiled cuffs, which had been collected that morning. I told him the linen had been sent to the town where our work is done, and then he raved and swore. Summoning a messenger boy, he wired to the plant: "Don't wash So and So's laundry until he arrives." Then he dashed pell mell for the railroad station before I had time to get an explanation. "This was forthcoming on Thursday, however, when he stopped in to see me. It seemed that at a dance on Tuesday night he had proposed to an old sweetheart, who is a veritable 'cut up.' She is a fine German scholar, and laughingly said she would write her answer in that tongue in a small verse in his cuff. He had left hurriedly on Wednesday, and not until he reached New York did he realize that the cuffs had been put with his soiled linen. Then he got the cuff and the right answer."—Philadelphia Record. Feminine Gullt There are points on which the fair is less scrupulous than the plain sex; it is not easy to make them understand why they should not smuggle, and few of them, indeed, refrain from smuggling Tauchnitz editions of popular books. They are stealing from authors who may be needy authors. Many a lady smuggles who would no more tip her ball into a better position at croquet than she would cut a throat or scuttle a ship—Andrew Lang in Longman's Magazine Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed EFFECT OF ACETYLENE RAYS ON GROWTH OF PLANTS. Grow to Twice Actual Weight of Those Exposed to Sunlight Only - Latest Victory For This New and Beautiful Illuminant. The experiments recently made at Cornell University prove that the beautiful Gays from the gas, acetylene, are as effective as sunlight on the growth of plants, and this may soon become a subject for serious consideration by all progressive cultivators of the soil. The results of the experiments are astonishing, inaamuch as they show conclusively the great increase of growth attained by supplementing "The Light of Nature" with "The Light of Acetylene" during the hours in which the plants would otherwise be in darkness. For instance, a certain number of radish plants subjected to acetylene light during the night grew to twice the actual weight of the same number of radishes given daylight only, all other conditions being equal, and peas had blossomed and partially matured pods with the help of acetylene light, while without the added light not even buds were apparent. Acetylene is already taking its place as an illuminant for towns from a central plant, for lighting houses, churches, schools and isolated buildings of all kinds, and it is being used successfully for many other purposes. A striking and important feature of acetylene is the ease and small expense with which it can be made available compared with the great advantages derived from its use. The machine in which the gas is generated is easily installed. Vaccination Under Red Light. Dr. Paul, director of the Vienna Vaccination Institute, delivered recently a lecture on vaccination under red light. Dr. Finsen discovered that the blue and ultra violate rays of light produce the ugly scars which disfigure patients who have recovered from smallpox. Smallpox patients are, therefore treated in rooms like those used by photographers, to which red light only is admitted. The window panes are of red glass, and no electric light, only candles, are used in red glass globes. In cases treated in this way the disease lasts a much shorter time, and the scars are almost entirely avoided. Prof. Gartner proposed to vaccinate children in red light. Numerous doctors have taken his advice, with the result that no pain was felt, there was no fever and there were no scars after the pustules had healed. This result, declared Dr. Paul, is the reverse of what is intended by vaccination, which is meant to make people immune against infection, and the more its effect is felt the better will be the ultimate result. Red light, which should be applied in all cases of smallpox, must be avoided in vaccination if the effect of the vaccination is not to be illusory—New York World. Colors Birds Don't Like. Red will annoy a turkey coek' as much as a bull, but a sparrow will not let it disturb its mind. But if one shakes a blue rag in front of a caged sparrow's eyes he will go frantic with disgust. Sparrows and linnets, too, will refuse food offered them on a piece of blue paper, and dislike the appearance of any one wearing a blue dress. Medium light blue affects them most, but blue serge they scarcely mind at all. Thrushes and blackbirds object to yellow, but will use red or blue dried grass left about their haunts to blub the outer layers of their nests. Yellow, grasses they will not use.—Chicago Journal. AN OLD MAN'S TRIBUTE. Uni Ohio Fruit Raiser, 78 Years Old, Cured of a Terrible Case After Ten Years of Suffering. Sidney Justus, fruit dealer, of Mentor, dealer, of Mentor, Ohio, says: "I was cured by Doan's Kidney Pills of a severe case of kidney trouble, of eight or ten years' standing. I suffered the most severe backache and, other pain in the region of TOMMY HENRY binder justus. The kidneys. These were especially severe when stooping to lift anything and often I could hardly straighten my back. The aching was bad in the daytime, but just as bad at night, and I was always hame in the morning. I was bothered with rheumatic pains and dropsical swelling of the feet. The urinary passages were painful and the secretions were discolored and so free that often I had to rise at night. I felt tired all day. Half a box served to relieve me, and three boxes effected a permanent cure." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. THE DIFFERENCE. He-Of course, there's a big difference between a botanist and a florist. She-Is there, really? He-Yes; a botanist is one who knows all about flowers and a florist is one who knows all about the prices people will pay.-Philadelphia Press. Let Common Sense Decide This has made LION COFFEE the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES. Millions of American Homes welcome LION COFFEE daily. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. "Quality survives all opposition." (Sold only in 1 lb. packages. Mon-head on every package.) (Saya your Lion-heads for valuable premiums.) own fault, too. When sick they don't take the proper medicine. You must not touch them, do not permit them to do anything that does not permit the disease to run along without treatment. Our experience has taught us what Checkers will do. We know of no remedy in the world, and we know of no collars action in the permanent cure of most all known chronic or fatal diseases. cause it will do you good, because most any disease will vanish when Checkers commences to search the system. It will find out what is wrong inside—it goes through the system, discases and makes the stick well. Call on your druggist for a sample bottle free—or write na. The better plan is to buy a mammoth dollar bottle to day. ```markdown ``` 100 This has made LION COFFEE Millions of American Hom There is no stronger proof of ing popularity. "Quality sur (Sold only in 1 lb. package (Save your Lion-hea SOLD BY GROC MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 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BOTTLE We want you to try checkers. We want you to use this medicine because it has merit, be- cause it will do you good, because most people to the bottom of every ordinary diseased drugsist for a sample bottle free—or mannmoth dollar bottle to-day. Checker Board and FREE Call on your size heavy C 12 red and 12 to furnish s Checker HEALTHY TOWN. We boll our water patiently, Then boll it once again, We sidestep fights and stay in nights, Avoiding hold-up men. The town would be a healthful place For people to reside If we could break the auto of The trick of nomicide. —Chicago News. Caution to Purchasers of Winchester Guns We find Winchester Repeating Rifles and Shotguns are being offered by certain of the trade, not customers of ours, at cut prices, and that such guns have been altered since leaving the factory, including the changing and obliteration of the factory serial numbers. Not knowing to what further extent the arms have been tampered with, we take this opportunity of advising the public in general that we assume no re- sponsibility whatever connected with any such arms and caution all buyers to see that the numbers have not been changed or obliterated. All genuine Winchester Repeating Rifles and Shotguns are numbered and all Winchester Single Shot Rifles are numbered, except the Models 1900, 1902, 1904, and the Thumb Trigger Model. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS Co. Charity covers a multitude of sins, but it doesn't remove them. (At30'05) On Chill C ney refunded by your m (At30-05) t coffee sold loose (in bulk), exposed to dust, germs and, insects, passing through many hands (some of them not over-clean), "blended," you don't know how or by whom, is fit for your use? Of course you don't. But LION COFFEE is another story. The green berries, selected by keen judges at the plantation, are skillfully roasted at our factories, where precautions you would not dream of are taken to secure perfect cleanliness, flavor, strength and uniformity. From the time the coffee leaves the factory no hand touches it till it is opened in your kitchen. FREE THE LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES. omes welcome LION COFFEE daily. of merit than continued and increas- survives all opposition." ages. Lion-head on every package.) needs for valuable premiums.) CERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. OUR SPECIALTY 3 4 5 Three two dollar shirts for five dollars. MADE TO YOUR MEASURE. Write for samples and measurement blanks. MODEL SHIRT CO. THE LIMIT IN LEATHER HOE MEN the Limit. COMPETITION comfort, and is the Top Notcher of the JUST CORRECT" BRAND SHOE FAMILY. Swarts Shoe Co. E SHOE EXCLUSIVISTS LOUIS, U. S. A. HASN'T IT WRITE TO US. SICK? FREE! 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