Savannah Tribune

The Savannah Tribune. VOL. XXI. SIXLINESCOMBINED New Railway System for Georgia and Florida. PROJECT IS WELL BACKED Roads Consolidated Are All Short Lines, Representing Total of 230 Miles Owned by Middendorf, Williams & Co. The banking firm of Middendorf, Williams & Co., at Baltimore, announced Tuesday that a syndicate organized by that firm and the International Trust company, also of Baltimore, and that of John L. Williams & Sons, of Richmond, Va., has consummated the purchase of six short railroads in Georgia and Florida, having a total mileage of about 230 miles, which it is proposed to consolidate under the name of the Georgia and Florida railway. The roads purchased are: Douglas, Augusta and Gulf railroad, Millen and Southwestern railroad, Augusta and Florida railroad, Nashville and Sparks railroad, Valdosta Southern railroad, Midvale, Swainboro and Red Bluff. Connecting links have been planned, and when built the road will extend from Augusta, Ga., to Madison, Fla. The carrying out of the plans of the syndicate involve an expenditure of about $5,000,000. It is announced that the Valdosta Southern railroad, from Valdosta, Ga., to Madison Fla., has been sold to Jno. Skelton. Williams and his associates, and that the line will be made a part of the through line which the Williams syndicate is building from Augusta to Valdosta. A deal has been pending for the sale of the road for several weeks. E. L. Beamls of Richmond, Cecil Gabett and John Scott, prominently identified with the Williams syndicate, spent Monday in Valdosta, and while these gentlemen, as well as Col. J. M. Wilkinson, president of the Valdosta Southern, decline to discuss the matter, it may be authoritatively stated that the object of their visit was consummated in the deal which they made. It is understood that the new owners will take charge of the road on June 1, and that John Skelton Williams will be president and Cecil Gabbett general manager. The proposed line, which is now being surveyed from Valdosta to Nashville, Ga., will be connected with the Valdosta Southern at the former town, and with the lines which are being merged to the north will make the through line to Augusta. Colonel J. M. Wilkinson, who built the Valdosta Southern, was the principal owner of the road. BURTON CASE BEFORE SENATE. Resolution Asking That Necessary Action Be Taken. The senate Tuesday directed the committee on privileges and elections to investigate the effect of Monday's decision by the supreme court in the case of Senator Burton. The resolution was offered by Senator Hale and read as follows: "Resolved, That the committee on privileges and elections be directed to examine into the legal effect of the late decision of the supreme court in the case of Joseph R. Burton, a senator from Kansas, and as soon as may be practicable to report their recommendations as to what action, if any, shall be taken by the senate." The resolution was adopted without debate. NATIONAL TROOPS PARADE. For First Time They Take Part in Celebration at Mecklenburg For the first time in the history of the Mecklenberg declaration of independence national troops, consisting of two companies of infantry, two of cavalry and two of marines, headed by the marine band, were in the parade Tuesday at Mecklenburg, N. C. Following these were the state troops, TO ASSIST THE SOUTH In Securing Labor, Immigration Commission Will Be Organized. On Monday and Tuesday, June 4 and 5, a meeting will be held in New York to organize and put in immediate operation "The Southern States Immigration Commission," the purpose of which is to serve as a distributing bureau, or clearing house, for immigration and labor to the south, acting under the state authorities in the south. Governors of the southern states have been requested to send one delegate each. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MAY 26, 1906. VAST TRACTS LAID WASTE Forest Fires Sweep Michigan Counties—Large Area Containing Several Towns, Desolated: A dispatch from Escanaba, Mich. says: Driven by a heavy gale, one of the most destructive forest fires in the history of the district Friday afternoon laid waste a tract of land fifty miles square and at a late hour Friday night was spreading. It is definitely known that the following cities and villages have been completely wiped out: Quinnnesec, population 2,000; Schaefer, 600; Ralphs, 400; Salvote, 200; Cornell, 500; Woodland, 200; Talbot, 400. At North and several other points on the line of the Escanaba and Lake Superior road at six o'clock, Friday night, when all communication was cut off, the fire had reached the outskirts of the villages and no hope of saving any of the property was offered. Hundreds of people are homeless and are being brought into Escanaba as fast as trains can be sent to the burned district. In addition to the loss of several saw mills and other buildings, millions of feet of cut timber have been burned and great tracts of standing timber have been badly damaged. As far as can be learned no lives have been lost, although families of several homesteaders are missing. The safety of a large lumber crew at work in the heart of the heavily wooded country and with no railroad facilities is feared for. PHYSICIANS FULLY EXONERATED County Grand Jury Knocked Out by County Commissioners. At Atlanta, Friday, the county physician, Dr. E. D. Richardson and Dr. J. W. Hurt against whose professional work among the inhabitants of the Fulton county jail and the Fulton county convict camps the Fulton county grand jury recently made complaint, were fully exonerated by the Fulton county commissioners after a most searching investigation. A few weeks ago the grand jury in returning its general presentments for the term declared that Drs. Hurt and Richardson had been neglectful of the prisoners within the custody of the county. Both physicians quickly sought the board of county commissioners by which they are employed and demanded an investigation of the charges made. The board heard the request and passed a resolution providing for the investigation the physicians asked, at the same time directing the county attorney to conduct the prosecution. The evidence produced during the trial indicated that the physicians might have been somewhat tardy at times when calls were made upon them. Yet it was shown conclusively that both Doctors Hurt and Richardson had worked most industriously in behalf of the prisoners, the tables of mortality indicating a very small per cent. After giving the day to the hearing of the evidence the board declared that the charges were without foundation, the views of the board being expressed in the following resolution: "Whereas, the grand jury of Fulton county for the March term, 1906, in its presentments reported that the county physicians, Dr. John W. Hurt and Dr. E. D. Richardson, had been guilty of gross neglect in their treatment of the convicts and recommended that the board of commissioners of roads and revenues discharge them from their positions; "And whereas an exhaustive investigation of the charges and evidence taken in support of said charges and in refutation thereof has been heard by said board of commissioners; "Resolved, by the board of commissioners of roads and revenues of said county, that Doctors John W. Hurt and E. D. Richardson be and they are fully exonerated from said charges and the same are dismissed." TO GUARD CANAL ZONE. Six Hundred Marines Will Be On Hand During Elections. More than six hundred marines will confront liberal leaders on the Isthmus of Panama, in case they attempt to promote riots and revolution at the time of the election in Panama on June 20. Although the canal zone is under the secretary of war, there is no indication that the war department will have any troops near the Isthmus at the time of the approaching election, and Secretary Taft must rely on the marine corps to protect the canal zone. BURTON DISGRACED Also Deprived of Right to Hereafter Hold Office Under Government. Must Resign Seat in the Senate or Be Forced Out. The supreme court of the United States Monday rendered a decision in the case of United States Senator Joseph R. Burton of Kansas. The decision was against Burton, affirming the decision of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri, by which Burton was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the jail of Iron county, Missouri, required to pay a fine of $3,500 and deprived of the right to hereafter hold office under the government. The opinion was by Justice Hazlan. All of the points made in Burton's interest were overruled. Senator Burton was prosecuted on the charge of violating section 1752 of the revised statutes, which prohibits senators and representatives from receiving compensation for services rendered before any of the government departments in any matter in which the government may be interested. He was specifically charged with accepting a fee of $500 per month for five months from the Rialto Grain and Securities company of St. Louis for services rendered that company in an effort to prevent the issuance of an order by the postoffice department prohibiting the use of the mails by the company. Justices Brewer, White and Peckham united in dissenting opinion delivered by Justice Brewer. The court granted a motion to give sixty days to Senator Burton in which to prepare a petition for a rehearing. The action will have the effect of taking the case over until the October term of court. That the senate will be compelled to take cognizance of the case is indicated by the decision. Justice Harlan held that the sentence could not cover an election to the United States senate as they do not hold their places under the government of the United States. To the newspaper men who called to see him, Senator Burton said: "I shall adhere to my original policy of saying nothing until my case is finally determined." He would not say, in reply to a question, that he intended to take further legal steps, but from the fact that he does not regard his case as finally decided, in view of the sixty days granted for a rehearing, it is inferred that he will do so. If Senator Burton does not resign "at once," as a prominent senator puts it, a resolution will be introduced to declare his scat vacant. VICE CONSUL ASSASSINATED. W. H. Stuart, Our Representative at Batoum, the Victim. W. H. Stuart, the American viceconsul, was shot and killed at his country place near Batoum Sunday night. The assassins escaped. Mr. Stuart was a British subject, and one of the largest ship brokers and exporters in Batoum. During the revolutionary trouble of last fall his life was many times threatened by longshoremen whom he had offended. Batoum is situated upon the east coast of the Black sea, and has a population of 20,000, chiefly Turks and Armenians. The European population, including Russians, is of about 5,000. It is in the heart of the Russian oil district, and the shipping of petroleum is the chief industry. The state department has received confirmation of the murder in a message from Ambassador Meyer at St. Petersburg. DYNAMITE WRECKS TOWN. Report Says Much Damage Was Done, But No Lives Were Lost. A report was sent out from North Bay, Ont., Friday, that Cabalt, one of the mining centers in New Ontario, was completely destroyed by fire. It is also reported that several persons were killed by an explosion. A later dispatch says a large quantity of dynamite in the northeastern section of the town ignited by a bush fire, exploded, wrecking twenty-five houses. Several persons were injured, but so far as can be learned no one was killed. ACREAGE IS INCREASED. Area Planted Exceeda That of Last Year by 735,228 Acres—Official Statement. Issued. The Southern Cotton Association, by President Harvie Jordan and Secretary Richard Cheatham, issued on Monday night the following statement regarding the cotton acreage for the year 1906. "Replies received from a very large number of our 17,000 correspondents enable us to give out the following report on cotton acreage for 1906 compared with 1905: 1906 1905 Louisiana. 1,595,18 1,610,674 Arkansas. 1,327,427 1,790,365 Georgia. 3,922,767 3,826,717 Alabama. 3,621,978 3,571,618 Texas. 7,727,602 7,311,071 N. Carolina. 1,098,523 1,116,539 S. Carolina. 2,173,861 2,212,807 Tennessee. 789,336 780,793 Mississippi. 3,196,906 3,145,633 Indian T. 944,913 853,404 Oklahoma 461,823 833,404 Florida, Virginia, "Net Increase of acreage 736,221, which shows an increase of 2,76 per cent over the acreage planted in 1905. "The foregoing will be verified or corrected by the state presidents of the Southern Cotton Association, who will meet in Jackson, Miss., May 31, for the purpose of compiling a general report from data secured from their respective states. "Cotton field labor is very scarce, especially in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, it being the opinion of a majority of our correspondents from these states that at least 10 per cent of cotton now planted must be abandoned on account of scarcity of hands necessary to cultivate. Cotton field labor, especially the negro, can be compared to a balky horse, as they must be begged and coaxed continually. Large, planters would not be surprised if at any moment a migration of every hand on their plantations would occur. "The very wet early spring caused nearly all planting to be done on too wet soil, making it impossible for the cotton plants to thrive as they should. Several frosts between May 8 and 10 in different portions of the cotton belt did an immense amount of damage, causing much replanting to be done and leaving very bad stands in many localities where seed for replanting could not be secured. "HARVIE JORDAN, President. "RICHARD CHEATHAM, Sec." RATE BILL TO CONFERENCE. House Committee Non-Concurs in All Senate Amendments. The railroad rate bill was considered for three hours Monday night by the house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce and the decision reached to recommend disagreement to all of the senate amendments and to send the measure to conference. The committee will not ask that instructions of any character be given to the house conferences. TEXAS LIQUOR LAW VALID. Sustained by the United States Supreme Court. In an opinion by Justice Holmes, the supreme court of the United States has affirmed the decision of the court of appeals, involving the constitutionality of the Texas liquor law. The validity of the law was attacked on the ground of discrimination as the law was not made applicable to wines from Texas grape. BIG CONFERENCE CLOSES. Methodists Finish Their Work at Birmingham and Adjourn. The fifteenth session of the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, came to a close in Birmingham, Monday afternoon with a few words of paternal advice and a touching benediction by the venerable Bishop Wilson, the senior bishop of the church. Report That Russ Military Court Condemns Hero of Port Arthur. It is rumored, in St. Petersburg that the military court, which has been investigating the surrender of Port Arthur and the battle of the Sea of Japan, has condemned to death Lieutenant General Stoessel, who commanded the Russian forces at Port Arthur, and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff, who commanded one of Admiral Rojestvensky's squadrons, and who surrendered during the naval battle to the Japanese. RATE BILL PASSED Measure Adopted in Senate by Whooping Majority. More Power Given Interstate Commerce Commission and People's Rights Are Safeguarded—Bad Feeling Dissipated. After seventy days of almost continuous deliberation, by a vote of 71 to 3 the senate late Friday afternoon passed the railway rate regulation bill, thus placing upon the statute books the law strengthening the hands of the interstate commerce commission. While this new law is the embodiment of democratic principles, its passage is in large measure due to the activities and energies of President Roosevelt. With but seven votes against it in the house and but three in the senate, this new law cannot be construed as partisan legislation in any sense. It reflects the popular desire. Supplementing, as this does, the original interstate commerce law, under which many abuses have been regulated, and the anti-rebate law, under which, so many successful prosecutions against rebating have—especially within the past two years—been conducted, this new law places in the hands of the federal authorities full power for the regulation of all abuses in interstate commerce that has been complained of, including now the power to fix and establish just and reasonable rates, and this new law represents an important advance in legislation. Under it, the interstate commerce commission is given full power to regulate such discriminations in interstate commerce as the shippers of the country, have long been complaining, and justly, for without the power to fix a just and reasonable rate—the railroad's rate having, upon investigation, been found unjust and unreasonable — the commission has been helpless. As it passes the senate the bill in so far as it relates to the rate-making power of the commission, is practically unchanged. The senate has, however, added some important features. By amendments it has removed doubts where they occurred, it has safeguarded the constitutionality of the measure in several important particulars; it has added provisions aimed at the evil of railroads owning and dealing in coal and other products; it has put pipe lines, express companies, and sleeping car companies within the purview of the act. it has restored the imprisonment penalties, which had been stricken out by the Elkins law; it has provided additional and severe penalties upon consigners and consignees, which force or take rebates, from the railroads, this provision being aimed particularly at the great trusts such as Standard Oll; it has given the commission the power to compel railroads to put in switches to connect with the private tracks of shippers; it has provided that the courts shall not hold up the commission's rates on exparte hearings, but no temporary injunction or interlocutory decree shall be granted until after five days' notice to the commission and after a hearing before three judges, this being the Bacon amendment. It is expected that the house will accept these senate amendments without change, as they all tend to strengthen the bill as it came from the house. With the final passage of the bill by the senate, peace and happiness has been restored in that body. All the factional differences and bitterness developed in the heat of negotiation and debate have been forgotten. The three negative votes were cast by Senator Foraker, republican, of Ohio, and Senators Morgan and Pettus, democrats, of Alabama. LENGTHY/MERCY PETITION Containing 115,000 Names, Presented in Behalf of Alleged Murderer. A petition more than a mile long and bearing more than 115,000 names, was sent to Governor Guild of Massachusetts Tuesday, asking him to commute life imprisonment the sentence of death imposed upon Charles I. Tucker for the murder of Mabel Page, at Weston, in March, 1904. The signers include 80,860 men and 35,695 women. An express wagon was necessary to transport the petition to the state house. NO. 34. SOLONS FELT INSULTED. Anti-Graft Bill Defeated in House Because Congressmen Were Included in Its Provisions. By a vote of 107 to 60, the house Saturday refused to pass the anugratt bill, so-called, dealing with cotton leaks and other matters of a confidential character which, should they become publicly known, might have a tendency to affect markets because the conterees had recommended that members of congress be included within the scope of the bill. The opposition was led by Mr. McCall of Massachusetts, assisted by Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana, Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio and Mr. Gardner of Massachusetts, while the friends of the measure were represented by Mr. Burleson and Mr. Jenkins. Mr. McCall of Massachusetts, leaing the opposition against making members of congress amenable to the penalties of the measure, said the clause of the bill sought to be incorporated was an advertisement to the world that the members were crooked. He said numbers of congress were neither collectors nor the guardians of secret governmental statistics. They are representatives and can have no secrets from their constituents. "If you are to enter upon this field," Mr. McCall said, "why not make a complete code. Why not provide that members shall be taken into the police court and fined when they fall to vote, imprisoned when they do not attend the sessions of the house, and that the speaker, when he plays the czar, shall be flagged at the cart's tall in the public square. "If you want to encourage filling the chamber of two houses with patrols of the 'gumshoe' breed, whose footfalls you never hear, men who want always to stand behind somebody, somebody who perhaps at the moment is playing all the roles of government, then pass such a bill as this. Laws like these will make congress still less attractive to honest men." FAIRBANKS ON CHURCH UNION. Vice President Gives Views of Subject Before Methodist Conference. In his address before the Methodist general conference at Birmingham, Vice President Fairbanks, in referring to the prospective union of the two churches, said: "I do not know how long the followers of John Wesley will dwell apart in the United States. I have faith to believe that the barriers which still divide us are growing less formidable with the lapse of time, and that they will ultimately yield, and union will be established between the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church, south, thereby creating one of the greatest instruments for good in the entire Christian world. "We each and all desire to see the symmetrical development of our common country. We wish to see an intellectual, industrious, patriotic and religious people, firmly welded together. We desire particularly to see the lines of division between sections completely obliterated and forgotten. "I trust that Methodism may not long be divided upon lines of former sectional differences — differences which, thank God, are past and gone forever and forever." "May we not hope to see the great bishops whom you honor and whom we honor in the north presiding over conferences in every portion of the republic. May we not hope to see a united church, freely transferring its ministers between the north and the south, as well as between the west and the east? "Such interchange between the various portions of our country will serve mightily to advance a wholesome national purpose. We all earnestly hope to see the myriad influences making for good among us, threading from north to south and from east to west, weaving the people of all sections into a homogeneous whole. "Consolidated Methodism would tend in a considerable degree to promote the intellectual and moral interests of the entire country. National solidarity will be advanced in some measure, in fact, as well as in name, when Methodism comes into complete organic fellowship." The vice president spent a day in Birmingham and delivered five speeches. The first was a short talk to the general conference in the morning. At the Country Club he spoke to representatives of the commercial bodies of the city. At 4 o'clock he made a public speech at Capitol Park. At 8 o'clock he gave the formal address to the conference, and following this there was a banquet by the Scottish Rite Masons at the temple, where the vice president spoke briefly. Largest Sick and Death Benefits; Smallest Premiums. The Guaranty Aid and Relief Society SOL. C. JOHNSON, Supt. of Agencies. B. W. COOPER, General Manager. The undersigned, Treasurer of the State of Georgia, hereby acknowledges to have received from the Secretary of Dawson the following described: Davis Regiment, Company of Infantry, Elkton, Georgia (Suppression No. 14010, inscription, pack for Dawson handwritten) (continued) avenger, June 1925 long a total Ten Thousand Dollars and which are held by the State of Georgia by authority and under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, approved October 22d, 1887, and amended December 26th, 1897. R. E. Paoli --- The undersigned to have received from Davis David Prayer Elizabeth, B. 17th, 1800, long and total Ten of Georgia by auth assembly, appric 20th, 1899. GEORGIA BRIEFS Hon. Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States, will address the Georgia and Florida bankers at their joint session in Atlanta, June 11. A letter just received by President Joseph T. Orme of the Georgia Bankers' Association, contained Mr. Treat's acceptance of the association's invitation to address its members at the joint meeting. Library Offered G. N. I. College. President Parks of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville has been notified by Mr. Carnegie that he will give $15,000 for a library for the college, provided $15,000 is raised for the maintenance. President Parks will bring the matter before the trustees of the college at their next meeting. For Trans-State Railroad. Secretary of State Phil Cook has granted a charter for, the "Franklin-Southeastern Railroad company," to be capitallized at $200,000, with headquarters in Brunswick. The road will be built clear across the state, extending from LaGrange in Troup county or possibly Franklin in Heard ro Brunswick in Glynn. On paper it looks like a parallel of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic. Cities and Towns Same in Law. On the ground that there is really no legal difference between the words "city" and "town," the Georgia supreme court upholds the decision of who took the places of union men who were seeking to secure their the lower court in the case of the Mayor and Council of Smithville vs. the Dispensary Commissioners of Lee County. Smithville claimed to be a city and the act of the legislature allowed dispensaries only in "towns" in Lee county. Crisp County Seeks Immigrants. The Cordele chamber of commerce has plans on foot to bring a large number of north Georgians and good farmers from other states to Crisp county this fall. Their plan is to develop all the unimproved lands that can be secured in Crisp county, and to do this good farmers will be induced to move to the section. Labor is fast giving out, so Crisp county can be filled up with a large number of small farmers. Cost Cash to Yell "Scah." For calling two non-union linemen "scabs," E. R. Meyer, who works for the Atlanta Telephone company, was fined $5.75 by Recorder Broyles in the Atlanta police court. Meyer acknowledged that he called the two men "scabs" and said that the men rights were "scabs." The recorder said that Meyer had no right to insult men on the streets by applying such an appellation, and fined him $5.75. Populist Meeting Postponed. J. J. Holloway, chairman of the populist state committee, issued the following statement to the press, announcing the postponement of the meeting of the committee, which was called to meet in Atlanta, May 21: "At the request of some leading populists of the state, and because some members of the committee cannot be present May 21, and owing litalic mind at the present juncture, I. is thought best to defer the meeting of our committee to a later date, possibly to the middle of July. "Please therefore so state in your valuable paper; and oblige yours very truly." Mandate In Rawlings Case Received. Attorney General Hart received last Saturday morning the mandate from the United States supreme court in the Rawlings case. The mandate sets forth that the supreme court of the United States refused to go into the appeal of J. G. Rawlings and his two sons, Milton and Jesse, who asked for a new trial. The paper will be reviewed by the state supreme court at once, and will become the judgment of the state court. The judge of the Lowndes county court will receive a remittur before the expiration of the governor's respite, which is until June 8. The pardon board will, in special session, hear the appeal for a commutation of the death sentences of the three Rawlings men the first week in June. While he is making every effort to save the lives of his clients, old man his lawyer to let him die. Georgia Elgth In Roster. According to a new roster of the organized militia of the United States, just issued by the war department, Georgia ranks eighth among the states of the union in quota of troops with 3,184 militiamen, rank and file. The roster, which is a comprehensive report, gives the number of troops in each state, showing the divisions, brigades and stations. $ ^{b} $ Over one-fourth of the militia of the United States are included in the southern states, which has a total quota of 25,084 troops. The roster indicates the decreased percentage of negro troops in the national guards of the different states, there being at Only Daily Limited Train. Quickest Schedule. Shortest Route. Electric Lighted. Leave Savannah ..... 5:00P.M. Arrive Richmond ..... 6:45A.M. Arrive Washington ..... 10:10A.M. Arrive Baltimore ..... 11:30A.M. Arrive Philadelphia ..... 1:45P.M. Arrive New York ..... 4:15P.M. SOUTHBOUND SCHEDULE. Leave Savannah ..... 9:20A.M. Arrive Brunswick ..... 12:15P.M. 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The action of the state executive committee in refusing to adopt a measure prorating the vote of each county in convention, in accordance with the respective strength of each candidate in the primary, is given by Dr. Nunnally as the chief reason for his withdrawal. He stated that the plurality rule adopted was unfair to his candidacy. Georgia B. P. U. Convention, Atlanta, June 19-21. The twelfth annual convention of the Baptist Young People's Union of Georgia will be held with the West End church, at Atlanta, June 19-21, next, and promises to be the largest and best convention in the history of the organization. Fully seven hundred delegates are expected. HOME OFFICE. 468 WEST BROAD STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Bell Phone 1198. Ga. Phone 2029. Directors. L. E. Williams. P. Edward Perry. Walter S. Scott. Sol. C. Johnson. W. R. Fields. J. H. Deveaux L. M. Pollard. R. R. Wright. W. H. Burgess. J. H. Bugg, M. D. C. F. Jones. J. M. Ferrebee. 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The doctor has as many patients among women as among men, and he has for years studied them in public and private hospitals and in his own practice, and from the success he is having in curing THE NEW YORK DOCTORS, 204 Liberty Street, East, Savannah, Ga. AT MY FIRESIDE. When north winds rule the winter night And all their trumpets blow. And merry sprites, in wild delights, Dance from the sky. Then round my hearth the ones I've loved Come trooping to and fro. And round my dreams in splendor gleams The light of Long Ago. Fresh garlands wreathe the dreamlit halls Where spectral feasts are spread, And by my side dim shadows glide But visiued through the rifted clouds, Far fairer towers I see --- A Faith on Trial. A Faith on Trial. "What is it makes you so glum, old man?" The speaker was a young man of twenty-eight and the man addressed was about the same age. There was, however, a striking contrast between the two. The first was, perhaps, the less interesting of the two, his square face, firm jaw, and solidly built frame seemed to proclaim him an admirable specimen of the average man, so full of common sense as to have no room for ideals. His companion was, on the contrary, a noticeable man. A man, it could be seen filled with quixotic notions, a poetical and highly strung temperament, the chief visible sign of which was the finely formed nose and sensitive nostril. The friends, for such they were, walked slowly along the Thames Embankment in full enjoyment of a surprisingly mild morning in March. When they reached Cleopatra's needle, Martin Atock made the remark with which our record of a remarkable episode opens. His companion, Richard Lyon, repiled somewhat gloomily, "Because I have lost all faith in womanhood." His friend, surprised, exclaimed, "By Jove! What a loss." "It is a loss, a very great loss," said Lyon with emphasis, and added as he grazed Atock's arm. "I did not tell you I am engaged to be married. "Married! By Gad, you surprise me. Not knowing the lady, I suppose I can't congratulate you, and knowing you so well, with your poetic fads and fancies, I'm afraid I can't congratulate her! That's the situation, I fancy. Seriously, dear boy, I'm delighted. But are you sorry that you're about to be tied up? Is that what's the matter? And where does the loss of faith in womanhood come in?" "Let's us take one of the seats in the gardens for a moment, and perhaps when I tell you the facts you can help me." They seated themselves, and Lyon, tapping the sole of his boot with his stick as he rested one leg on the other, said slowly: "I am, as I told you, engaged to be married." "And I have congratulated you on the fact," said Atock. "I hope you'll be very happy." "Yes; but I've got myself into a horrid mess, in this way. I have been engaged now three months, and the day before yesterday I wrote a long letter to my flance." "Well, that was not a very wrong thing to do." "Will you listen? I wrote to her as one does to the girl one hopes to make one's wife. Naturally, I used very strong terms of endearment, and I am worried to death by the fact that writing in the office, as I did, in a hurry I put my letter into an envelope, addressed to a girl I have only seen once and never said more than 'It's a fine day' to." "Well, there's nothing criminal in all this. The recipient may smile or laugh at you, but if she's a lady she'll return the letter without a word, and by and by you'll both forget all about it." "What worries me, Martin, is this. I wrote, as I told you, in a very strong strain. I let my feelings run away with me, and I even had the temerity to ask my wife-to-be to come alone to my rooms at half past seven tonight and promised to take her to the theatre." "Yes," well, you think you've given the show away, so to speak, to a stranger. "Is that it?" "No," said Lyon, shortly, "I did not mention my fiance's name at all, so the person to whom the letter is addressed cannot be identified." "Then what in Heaven's name are you groaning about?" cried Atock, interrupting. "Can't you see that there is something worse than what I have yet told you?" "Dear old chap, fell me what it is," said Atrock fully won at last to view the matter in a serious light. "The tragedy lies here," said Lyon. "I write and ask a lady to come to my rooms alone. The letter is addressed, with, of course, the most honorable intentions, to my fancee, but it reaches the hands of a lady who is an utter stranger to me! "Yes," said Atock, keeping a very serious face with an almost superhuman effort, "and the tragedy? "The tragedy is that she has accepted my invitation! She is coming tonight, she writes me, and even adds that she does not mind whether we go to the theatre or not." "Well," said Atock, "that is awkward. I must admit. You're in a beastly fix. I'll tell you! I have it." You did not say you'd be alone. I'll be there with you. That will settle the matter, eh, my boy?" "If it could have been so easily settled, I wouldn't have bothered, you about it," said Lyon with marked vexation. "I told you I wrote a very strong letter, an impassioned love letter, in fact, and I said over and over again what delight it would be to me to see her—I mean my flances—alone for five minutes, for her old cat, of an aunt never gives her a moment's peace." "But, by the way, you don't mind letting me know the name of the girl—" "Let you know! Certainly not. I wouldn't reveal it for worlds." "I mean, dear boy, the name of the girl you are to marry." "Oh, I don't mind telling her name to you, of course not. You've met her—Bessle Bldidulph." There was another pause and then Atock cried: "I have it! Why not get Bessle—I mean Miss Bldidulph—to meet the lady?" "Really, you're getting to be idiotic," shouted Lyon. "A nice time I'd have explaining how the whole affair happened! I'd have to admit that my letter to Miss Bldidulph went astray, and there's anything in the letter to prove to whom it was addressed! It commences, "My Darling Girl,"—" "Oh, Miss Bldidulph knows you've only got one!" laughed Atock. Seeing that his friend was truly perplexed, Atock said again: "It is worrying, but where, to revert to my original question, does your gloominess and loss of faith in womanhood come in, and is there anything very, very incriminating in the contents of your letter? "Nothing incriminating, but how can one have any faith in woman if you can invite an almost unknown girl of undoubted social position and blameless antecedents in the manner I have told you, and discover to your horror that such a proposal is accepted with alacrity? If one girl does such a thing, why not all?" "I mean to meet the girl," he went on savagely. "I've gained a lot by telling you about my worry, haven't I, I shall meet her and tell her it's all a mistake. I don't want to compromise her or myself. I might have called upon her; perhaps I'd better wire, but on the whole I think I shall see her—though I've no respect for the brazen baggage." "She's not a brazen baggage," said Atock, with sudden warmth. "How in heaven's name do you know?" cried Lyon. "I never mentioned her name." "No, you did not," said Martin, "but I think you should be just to the poor girl. You're a very fascinating fellow, you know, old chap, quite a lady-killer, you know!" "Well, thank heaven, I'm not an exasperating idiot. Thank heaven I've got ideals and live up to them. Thank heaven I've reverence left for true womanhood, though that reverence has been rudely shaken by this—this—disgraceful parallelogram in pettycoats as I believe O'Connell called a particularly offensive piece of womannood. Thank heaven—" "Thank heaven that you've got a friend who can get you out of the mess your high-flow ideas have got you into," said Atock. "I happen to know the lady you are speaking so disrespectfully about." "You do?" cried Richard. "Who is she then—for I shall not tell you, even if you're right." "Her name is Ada Beatrice Purser," said Martin solemnly. Lyon gasped. "She is a lady for whom I have a profound respect," continued Atock. "I was with her when your letter arrived." "And, you respect a 'lady' who can accept such an invitation as was mine?" cried Richard. "Certainly I can," calmly replied Atock. "You're not the only one engaged to be married, my boy. I am engaged to Miss Purser." "Then what on earth is the meaning of her conduct?" asked Lyon. "Simply this. I dined with the Pursers on Tuesday. Ada's father has consented to her marrying me. She received your letter in the envelope which you had addressed to her in reply to the questions on English literature which I had asked her to put to you under pretext of being a soul thirsting for knowledge. I know you are fond of being consulted as a kind of watchdog of knowledge. Of course she could make neither head nor tail of your letter, and I—I made her write and accept your invitation, which appointment, of course, she never intended to keep, and I—well, I called to see you this morning just to see the effect her letter had had on you. Of course, I did not know then that you were engaged to be married! So your faith in womanhood is still intact!" "One's faith is, I suppose, stronger after such tests," said Richard gravely; but, he added with a smile, "in future no more ambiguously addressed letters for me!"—Aaron Rodd, In Madame. The Reason. A teacher in a public school of Boston once had great difficulty in imparting to a boy pupil of ten certain elementary principles of grammar. In class one day the instructor experienced more than the usual amount of trouble with the lad. In desperation, the teacher finally blurted out the question: "At least, you can't tell me why we study grammar?" "Yes, ma'am," returned the pupil, "we study grammar so that we can laugh at the mistakes of others?"—Harner's Weekly. Tea-Time. It's time for tea. It's time for tea. The nicest time for you and me. With lessons over, books all done, And for a treat perhaps cake or bun. And nurse said something about "jam," "It's rude," she says, to "stuff and cram," But we'll be well-behaved, nor take Before the bread and butter, cake. And don't begin till all are ready, "Now hold that cup and saucer steady," I'm sure our manners, you'll agree, Are very good at nursery tea. small quantity of spirits of wine which burn by throwing in a lighted match. Quickly place the end of a ripe banana in the top of the bottle having first made a few lengthwise slits in the peel. With a noise like a glutton sucking up his soup, the bottle will begin to "take it in." You will see the peel pushed up and aside as the fruit enters the bottle ready for eating. Answered at Last. Why did the antelope? Only the gnu knew. Why was the sideboard? Because it heard the table talk. Why did the ice cream? Because it saw the acid drop. Where was the salad dressing? In the green room. Why did the scarlet runner run? Because the dog-rose. When did the baker bake? When the loafer loafed. Why did the coal scuttle? Because the tongs were snappy. — Boston Transcript. Never-Falling Chickadee. Chickadee is the only bird in my little world that I can find without fall three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. From January to the end of March he comes daily to my illac bush for suet; from April to early July he is busy with things domestic in the grey birches of the wood lot; from August to November he and his family are talking quietly and hunting in a little flock through the trees of the farm, and from then on to January again Chickadee is back for his meals at "The Lilac."—Dallas Lore Sharp in Country Life in America. A Pretty Japanese Custom. No people on earth love trees and flowers more than do the Japanese, and the blossoming of the plum trees and the cherry trees they make a time of special holiday. The Plumtree is the popular favorite, and when it flowers, the people, dressed in their best, go out into the gardens and groves and slip tea under the fragrant branches. There they give vent to their aesthetic delight by writing little verses on bits of paper and hanging them up on the boughs of the trees. A fete of a similar kind takes place when the cherry trees bloom. There is a road in the outskirts of Tokyo that is lined on both sides with great old cherry trees for a distance of five miles, and the branches, meeting overhead, form a perfect canopy of blossoms. A Treasure Party. A treasure party makes a funny party, especially where part of the guests are inclined to take a funny view of what they consider their treasures. Each is asked to bring her treasure concealed and hand it to the hostess, and as each one is exhibited the guests are asked to write on numbered lists to whom the treasure belongs. This has some of the features of an heirloom party, as things made a generation or two before are apt to turn up among the treasures, while some of the more practical ones will bring that which she values most from the utility standpoint. At such a party lately some "bargains" were brought which were valued over and above anything else just at this time, by the owner on account of the low price at which they were procured. One girl 'who had a penchant for the top gallery brought her opera glasses. Another brought a poem which always proved an inspiration and which was afterward read. Souvenir treasures brought from foreign lands are apt to turn up and make a good feature with their little history. Goose Party for the Children. Where children are to be entertained there are delights in a goose party. A sheet is stretched in the doorway and a goose head is thrust through it which is made of white flannel with a bill lined with red flannel, and which has black bead eyes. It has a long, stocking-shaped neck, which is slipped over some one's arm and the head is just padded enough so that the bill can be nicely manipulated with the two fingers. Interest in the goose is led up to by having some young girl tell the story of the golden egg, after which she announces that she is to appear in the part, which she does with a great deal of bowing. Little bags of popcorn are given to the children, and each is sent up in turn to feed her. She responds by disappearing after taking the corn, and coming back with a small package in her bill for the small person who has been feeding her. At the table there is a pond in which small, downy geese are swimming, which afterward are given as souvenirs to each one of the little guests, and in the bill of fare the bird appears as often as possible, small seed cakes being baked in goose shape, the croquettes molded into little geese, and the ice cream geese being the crowning triumph. Magical Experiments. To make a banana peel itself. Take a bottle with a neck of a size that would be a close fit for a banana with the skin off. Pour in the bottle a small quantity of spirits of wine, which burn by throwing in a lighted match. Quickly place the end of a ripe banana in the top of the bottle, having first made a few lengthwise slits in the peel. With a noise like a glutton sucking up his soup, the bottle will begin to "take it in." You will see the peel pushed up and aside as the fruit enters the bottle ready for eating. The bent match problem. Bend a wooden match in the middle, so that it will be almost broken through, the two parts being only held together by a small-section. Now place it at an acute angle across the mouth of an empty bottle and lay a nickel on it. Ask the spectators how they would set about making the coin fall into the bottle without either touching or breathing on the bent match or the nickel. They may suggest several things, but are hardly likely to guess the trick, though it is not hard to do it. Dip your finger in a glass of water, and, holding it above the angle of the bent match, allow a few d.ops to fall on the broken part. Swollen by, the moisture the fibres of the wood will tend to straighten themselves, and little by little, you will see the angle of the match growing larger and larger, until, no longer supporting the coin the latter will fall into the bottle. That is "all there is to it."—Philadelphia Record. "Bill" and "Sam." Edward Crossman, of Ely, Minnesota, owns one of the oldest teams in America. He has succeeded in the unusual task of breaking a pair of moose to drive in harness. In his sleigh Mr. Crossman splins about as rapidly behind these animals as if drawn by a prancing span of horses. Ordinary reindeers have long figured in the mythical doings of Santa Claus and are partially driven by the Laplanders, but the moose is a much larger and different representative of the deer family and should not be confused with the reindeer. The moose were captured at Bear Island lake, a few miles to the southwest of Ely, three years ago. The mother had been killed by an Indian, and a trapper in the vicinity, hearing his dog barking furiously, hurried to the spot, where he found the two moose calves. Mr. Crossman bought these calves from the trapper and secured a permit from the governor to keep them in his possession. At first the moose didn't relish being hitched up, but, as they are young in years, they became accustomed to it much sooner than if they had been full grown. Their antlers are now growing and by the time these animals are five years of age will be of large, size. At the start the problem of feeding them was no small one. When running wild they live on pond illy roots, leaves of trees or tender shoots of willow; and to get the illy roots it is very common to see them wading in the shallow water of their native haunts. At first Mr. Crossman fed them on willow twigs and young birch; but this became quite a task, for they required about three wagon loads a week. Today they eat hay, turnips and cabbage and seem to enjoy the diet as much as the one to which they had before been accustomed. One of these moose will eat as much as two horses. They nibble at something most of the time except when lying down during the middle of the day. Each weighs about 700 pounds or thereabouts. When full grown their shoulders will be higher than those of a horse. Their antlers will then add materially to their weight, often weighing 50 to 60 pounds. The moose have a coarse, brown hair. "Bill" and "Sam" have become quite tame. When captured they made no resistance, but seemed to look upon their captor as their protector. A full-grown moose, it is said, is not regarded by hunters as a dangerous animal under ordinary conditions, though his antlers and hoofs allike furnish him means of protection which he uses at times with terrible effect. The speed which Mr. Crossman's moose team attains is about the same as that of a horse. This is when hitched to a sleigh. As yet they have never drawn a carriage. They know Mr. Crossman's voice and will come to him when called. One of the team escaped one day from the park in which they are inclosed and wandered away a distance of five miles. A picnic party found it, and knowing to whom it belonged, notified Mr. Crossman and he soon reached it. Mr. Crossman has refused a large sum of money for this interesting team. — Philadelphia Record. Attorney General No Lawyer. The present labor government of South Australia has an attorney-general, A. H. Peake, who is utterly innocent of law. In the Adelaide Criminal Court recently a defending counsel raised the objection that the information had been sworn by an attorney-general who was not legally qualified to hold the position; but it was not sustained by the judge. King Is Hearty Eater. Don Carlos of Portugal is considered the heartiest and most frequent eater of all the crowned heads of Europe. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. If a man had a rich father-in-law probably he'd fall. Smoking wouldn't be half as much fun to a boy if his parents made him do it. Nina times out of ten judgment against doing a thing is being afraid to try. A little girl looks forward to getting married the way a little boy does to learning to smoke. A woman hardly ever has a better time than she has two different reasons for a good cry. A man has a lot of friends that get mad with him if he makes more of a success than they do. When a young woman acts as if she didn't know what a beau is it is a sign she has several. A man falls in love with a girl because he wants to; he marries her because she wants him to. Either a woman figures out that the baby is going to be very handsome or have a sweet disposition. There is hardly anybody in the world who doesn't know something but it's of no use to him. The nicest thing of all about a woman is the way she doesn't care how little brains you have if you are hers. It takes a woman who wears false hair to sneer at another because she suspects her figure isn't all her own. The reason some women like to have their husbands smoke is they don't know what they would do instead of it. If you get mad because somebody steps on your corn people think you have a bad heart and if you don't that you are a poor fool. A man never knows what a poor guesser he is till he sits down and figures out how different married life is from what he thought it was going to be. If the government taxed men in a whole year for keeping people clean and healthy what they will spend in case night on an after-theatre supper there would be a revolution.—New York Press. THE SLEEP OF PLANTS. Members of Vegetable Kingdom Need Regular Nass. That sleep at regular intervals and for certain periods is necessary to the well-being of animals, man included, we all know. That plants in their turn, need periods of repose, although equally appreciated by the botanist, is an item of nature knowledge in possession only of a few; perhaps it does not hold outside scientific circles. This position is the outcome, in a great measure, of regarding the animal and vegetable kingdoms as related, if at all, only in a minor degree, or, rather, of looking upon them as things apart and - irretrievably separated. Plants must sleep, as well as animals, and if the sleep of the former has in some respects rather a different significance than it has in the latter, yet the two have also many points of resemblance, or at least of analogy. The owner of a garden or grounds well stocked with plants, if he is at all observant, cannot but have been charmed with the bright and open-faced appearance of everything on a clear morning, especially if it has rained overnight, or a heavy dew is lying on the plants. The cheerful appearance of everything may be maintained throughout the day, but if the observer, says Cassell's Popular Science, lingers long after sundown, and the dew begins to season may require more than two years to work out. The result is that all of our museums are collecting much faster than they can digest, and every cellar is full of boxes of fossil treasures not available to the public simply because there has not been time to mount them. Obviously this is a difficulty which every year increases, for if it requires two years to work up one season's collections, when these are but half done another two years' supply has been accumulated. This has been going in some museums for a number of years, and their exhibitions are now from 10 to 20 years behind their collections. Professor Osborne urges the need of more museum workers and larger endowments to digest properly this growing surfeit of fossils. Beyond the Limit. "I don't mind folks borrowing," said Miss Hodges, plaintively; to an old friend who was paying her a visit, "but I've got an awful trying woman for a neighbor just now. She borrows such queer things I'm most out o' patience with her." "Shears and brooms, and the flour-sifter and ironing board, I s'pose," said the guest, who had known life in a country town. "Mercy me, I don't count, such things!" said Miss Hodges. "Nor my best umbrella nor my carving knife. I can make shift to get on without 'em for a while any time. But when she come over to borrow my diary the other day, so's she could keep account of the weather and her hen's eggs and on till till her husband came back from California, she having given him hers to put down his expenses and sights in, so's she could copy her record in from my book in the right place—I declare I called it the cap-sheaf!"—Youth's Companion. Clear the Track! "I see that some of the Sioux tribe of Indians are buying automobiles." "Getting 'em cheaper than white buyers could, I suppose?" "Why so?" "Because they don't need any honk-honk! They can furnish the whoop-whoops!—Cleveland Plain Dealer." SCIENCE French winegrowers are more than ever.convinced that hallstorms can be averted by the timely firing of cannon. In the Deaujolais district alone, 462 cannon are now in use. The Society of German Engineers, official title of which is the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, now number 20,000 members and it is casily the largest technical society in the world. However, it is not only in size that it stands pre-eminent, but it ranks with any technical society in the world in the prominence of the technical men include in its membership. It is proposed to hold a 50th anniversary meeting in Berlin, during June of the present year. A series of interesting experiments to investigate by means of kites the relationship between the circulation of the upper and lower strata of the atmosphere, in order to know what winds to expect, are to be carried out by the British Meteorological society, which as devoted a portion of the government appropriation to this work. An experimental station is to be established in England, and instruments provided for kite ascents and other methods of investigations. The researches are to be international in character, for on certain days kites will be sent simultaneously in England, France, Germany and Russia. In the Comptes Rendus of the Paris Academy, Mr. Lowell gives the result of a series of spectrographic determinations of the rotation of Venus and Mars. For Venus, the speed of motion of a point on the equator was found to be practically nil, the probable error of the observation only amounting to 0.003 kilometer per second, the result thus supporting the idea that Venus rotates in the same period as her revolution. For Mars the speed was found as 0.228, the computed value being 0.241. The probable error in the case of Mars was 0.036. The satisfactory result obtained for Mars lends support to that for the larger and brighter planet. M. P. de Wilde, professor at the University of Brussels, has taken up the study of the gold which is contained in sea water. He proposes a new method of extracting it. A ton of sea water is treated with 4 or 5 cubic centimeters of an acid and concentrated solution of chloride of tin. The whole of the gold is thus concentrated in the complex body known as purple of Cassius, which contains gold, tin and oxygen. It is found that the gurple body is fixed very strongly upon the faky hydrate of magnesium which is set free in sea water when we pour in lime water. The hydrate, falls to the bottom with the gold attached to it. The gold is set free by a cyanide of potassium solution (about 1 in 2000) thus forming a cyanide of gold. The metal can then be extracted by a number of well known methods. WEALTH HID IN THE SAND. Steel of Good Quality Made From That on Pacific Coast Dr. David T. Day, a government expert, has created a new industry in the Northwest. After months of patient investigation, says the World's Work, he has proved that the common black sands of the Pacific Coast are rich in useful minerals and that good steel can be made from this sand. Manufacturers of placer-machinery are now devising improved mining apparatus for working the sands. The little smelter at which Dr. Day made his experiments was in a corner within the grounds of the Portland Exposition. The results were not completed, however, until after the Exposition had closed. Sea sands of various kinds and colors were tested for many months. New magnetic separators and other machines were manufactured and sent to the laboratory especially for the work. Every day during the fair, and long after the crowds had departed the separating tables and furnaces were kept in operation, until mineral after mineral had been found. Some of the sand produced 644 pounds of magnetic iron ore to the ton. Gold was found, platinum also, and a number of other minerals. Not enough of any one material is contained in a ton of the sand to make working it profitable, but the total product of all the different minerals proves that mining the black sand will pay. There is considerable platinum, worth $21 an ounce, and some tantalum, so called because it has long tantalized the chemists, who have only within a few months been able to find enough of it to examine it and consider its usefulness. Dr. Day believes that within ten years it will be used for filaments for electric light. Probably 3000 filaments could be made from one pound of tantalum, and they would give twice the light with half the power now used. Considering all the products of the black sands, Dr. Day's experiments have proved wonderfully rich in results. Asla's Wealth of Coal. The coal deposits of North America are estimated to contain nearly as much as those of Europe, or 681,000,000,000 tons; but even this gigantic figure is completely dwarfed by Asia's wealth of coal, as to which it is at. present impossible to make an even approximate estimate. China more especially seems to possess inexhaustible supplies, and a German scientist has put the coal deposits of the province of Shansi alce at 1,209,000,000 tons SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year.....$1.25 Three Months.....$50 Three Months.....$50 Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter Advertising Rates given on application. THE educational view taken of the Negro by Mr. Oliver of this city as the cause of him spurning manual labor is all rot. We would advise the gentleman to be more conversant with subjects that he discusses. Some weeks ago three colored men were lynched at Springfield, Mo., for an alleged assault. It terminated at the investigation of the grand jury that the woman was not assaulted and naturally the men were innocent. This makes the conduct of the mob more reprehensible. MR. H. P. SMART of this city is to be commended for his position on the labor question. He says that the Negro is the best laborer and should be treated justly. That's our view in a nutshell. Stop taking advantage of him in the rural districts and give him protection at law and you will not find a more faithful laborer. At the caucus of the Citizens' Club last Tuesday night, Mr. Thomas P. Ravenel was nominated for judge of the City Court. This is one of the best nominations ever made by the club. Mr. Revenel is a gentleman of high standing in the city, a lawyer of unquestioned ability and well liked by everybody. The position that he is nominated for is an honorable one. In it he will come in contact with a large number of a certain class of our people, and he will be able to understand them and mete out justice accordingly, and we know too, without any feeling of race prejudice. He made a noble recorder and will undoubtedly make a humane judge. The claim is being constantly made that the colored man is more criminally inclined than the white man, and that the record of crimes, especially in the South is referred to, to prove the assertion. So far as the record goes the claim is a just one, but when it is considered upon what flimsy charges and many times trumped up ones, colored men have been made guilty, it can be truthfully and vehemently refuted. Many times persons of color have been found guilty on charges for which a white person would not be arrested, or if arrested would be set free. Instances of this kind can be named in every community in the South. This is why the criminal (?) record of our people appears greater than that of the opposite race in this section. If impartial justice is meted out to every man, regardless of race the record would soon change. To prove our assertion, the following taken from the press dispatches of last Tuesday will show the consideration that is given the whites, and the treatment that is accorded the blacks: NEGRO WAS LYNCHED FOR STEAL. ING A DOLLAR. BODY OF JACKSON WAS FOUND, RIDDLED WITH BULLKITS. Shreveport, La., May 22.—Tom Jackson a Negro who had been arrested for holding up and robbing Hassel Barnes, a white boy, of $1, was lynched at Blanchard, La., twelve miles north of here to-day. The Negro's body, riddled with bullets, was found in a field half a mile from where he had been captured. MERCY SHOWN TO CULPRITS. MERCY SHOWN TO CULPRITE. Augusta, Ga., May 22—(Special) The four young Atlanta and Macon boys who entered the store of Deveney, Hood & Co. last month and stole valuable merchandise therefrom, were the recipients of extreme leniency at the hands of Judge Henry O. Hammond in the criminal session of the superior court yesterday when he imposed upon each a sentence of six months on the changgang or a fine of $50, but suspended execution pending good behavior. Further comment is unnecessary. This is a great country and the door of opportunity comes only in limited measures, so, no faith should be lost, but seize the opening and burst asunder the incree, sing obstacles. No need of, cemplauling, just double the determination with iron will, surrounded with friendliness and succeed anyhow.—Reporter. The greatest need of the Negro is to see a new world and lose sight of what happened forty or fifty years ago; must up a different courage and with double ambition over come all opposition. Failure is sure to be the outgrowth of discouragement. The progress already made should be sufficient to all patriotic thinkers to press forward and add new laurels to those which have been inhumally gained. Believe in the ability of others and see something commendable. It gives life and vigor to the end and speak well for the race and country.—Exchange Liberty Republicans. The Republicans of Liberty county met last week. Another meeting will be held the first Monday in August to nominate county officers. Masonic Notes. The Grand Master will report at the coming grand communication a large number of new lodges. This shows how the Order is growing and too there has been a large increase in membership of the old lodges. Each brother in the jurisdiction should feel proud of the Widows and Orphans Home and Industrial School at Americus This enterprise represent an outlay of many thousands of dollars and not a penny is owed on it. Its successful management is also to be admired. THE TRIBUNE'S special masonic edition will be printed the week preceding the Grand Lodge communication. A copy of it should be in the hand of every mason in the jurisdiction. The copies will be sold at five cents, and to insure same, it is necessary to forward orders a week a head. All of the local lodges are in prosperous condition. The increase in membership has been phenominal. Subscribers for Shares Savannah, Ga., May 15th, 1906, Mr. Editor: I beg through you to extend to the directors of the Union Savings Loan and Trust Co., my sincere thanks for their interest in the Colored State Fair as manifested by their subscription of seventy-five shares of the capital stock. I wish also to extend the gratitude of the directors of the Fair Association to the Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company. This latter Company has subscribed for 130 shares, 25 shares directly from the corporation, and 105 shares from its individual directors. The action of these companies show very clearly their interest in race enterprise and should in my opinion, command for them the respect, confidence and patronage of the public. Very respectfully, R.R.WRIGHT, President St. Philip Dots. An eager crowd greeted Rev. Lindsay at the morning services on Sunday after his return from New York. The choir and congregation sang hymn No. 31, "Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free." Rev. Lindsay's text was Rom. 151, subject, "The duty of the strong to the weak." This discourse was to the Christians along spiritual lines and pictured out to them where they should try to strengthen the weak and bear their infirmities. Rev. Lindsay returned from New York on Friday via. Atlanta. He reported to the congregation what the Home and Foriegn Mission Board did while in session. After paying off all of their obligations, they sent to one church in San Francisco $800. That speaks well for our connection the A. M. E. Church. Our church is highly honored. Rev. Lindsay is the only minister from Georgia and he represents the entire State. He is secretary of that board. St. Philip leads and others follow. Rey. Lindsay will leave on Monday for Atlanta, where he will attend the commencement exercises of Morris Brown College. 'He will also address the graduating class and present fifty-one diplomas to them. Rev. Lindsay will also preach the baccalaureate sermon at the Georgia State Industrial College on Sunday, and the homos still come. Our chair rendered some very fine music on Sunday, in fact the music is good every Sunday Prof. B. 8. Reed is a born musician and the members of his choir is well trained. Don't forget St. Philip's excursion to Beaufort on Tuesday June 12. Steamer leaves at 9 o'clock sharp city time. Fare roundtrip 50 cents. Children under 12 years 35c. Our friends are all invited to go and enjoy one day's outing. Second Baptist Church. Next Sunday (to-morrow) is the installation of Dr. John H. May, into the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church. A great time is expected. The installation will begin at 2:45. There will be baptism at the 11 o'clock services. Rev. May will preach the annual sermon to the Daughters of Zion at 8:30 p.m. Rev. May has been suffering with chills and fever. Dr. Blackman was the attending physician. He was unable to attend the funeral of Mr. David Watson; Deacon Maxwell funeralized the body. Sister Smith, of Newport R. I., was present Sunday morning. She is working in the interest of the "Home for the fallen girls." She spoke a few words, sung and played, after which the church gave her $5.28. The church gave their pastor and wife, a surprise on last Friday night worth $7.50 or $10.00 Deacon Houston, after quite a long illness is out again. Mr. J. W. Davis, son of Deacon R. M. Davis, who has been attending the Atlanta Baptist College, has returned and visited. our church on Sunday. Dr. Este and Dr. Lloyd worthipped here on Sunday. Deacons J. F Jones and L. A. Mack have been slightly indisposed this week. Rev. W. W. Worthen, Dr. May's new assistant pastor, went through with the order of service to meet with the day morning. One member joined and others were acquitted of charges. Collection $42.80. Bunday School and weekly meetings were rapidly building up. Miss Rebecca Styles remains quite sick. Dr. May has been unable to attend his sick because of being sick himself. Mrs. May, who has been a little indisposed is well again. Brother Chappel remains in a serious condition. Mr. C. F. Waters, the chorister is also ill. Mr. and Mrs. Larke, of 415 McDonough street, have shown quite an interest in the new pastor and his wife, who live next door to them. Those wishing to speak to the pastor by phone, remember his number is 2011 Bell phone. The Sons and Daughters of Wesley, made quite a show and an excellent impression Sunday night. They are doing excellent work. Pastor's subject to morrow morning. "Obedience to God's plan, the only road to everlasting happiness in the endlesss life." Everybody body is invited. A Trip to the "Klondike" "One of the most unique and interesting entertainments given in this city was the "Trip to the Klondike" as was given by the Young People Minstrel Co., under direction of Mme. F. L. DesVerney, Monday night at Sunday's Hall, which was filled to the overflow notch. After the performance train left with crowds for the Klondike."—Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Florida. Friday night June 1st, the "Little Folks" Ministrel Company," under management of Mme. Deserveyen will present to the music loving public the same entertainment, at Masonic Temple. Admission 15 cents. Music is catchy. Jokes witty and new. Curtain raises at 8:30. Dancing after performance. Let no one miss it. Much credit is due these little folks for their amateur work. Arrangements have been made for those who don't dance to haye trains leave the hall every 15 minutes. Fare for round trip only 5 cents. Engineer, fireman and conductor will be on board. Be on time. Don't forget the date and place. Friday night June 1st, at Masonic Temple. Odd Fellows Thanksgiving Sunday after May 13, the Old Fellow Lodges marched in a body to the F.A. B. Church, where the Thanksgiving services were held and the address delivered by Rev. J. W. Carr, D. D. On Monday the Lodges had a street parade, P. G. M., L. A Washington was Grand Marshal. The TRIBUNE was especially honored by the Lodges by the honors being given while passing the office. At night an entertainment was given at Duffy Street Hall, and it terminated successfully. One of the pleasant features of the exercises at the church was the music rendered by a select choir of Odd-Fellows and H. H. of Ruth, consisting of Mr. W. D. Willis, as chorister, Miss B. M. Denslow, organist, and Mesdames J. Waldburg, G. Whitfield, F. Mason, E. Roberts, J. Holly Miss C. C. Robinson, Messrs. P. I. Small, C.D. Blake, Foster, T. Thurman and J. H. Whitfield. The Men's Sunday Club. The Men's Sunday Club. On last Sunday, a very appreciative audience was most delightfully entertained by the paper of Miss C. E. Lincoln, her subject being "The influence of the home." Practically speaking, Miss Lincoln is a home missionary and a speaker of no mean ability. She has visited many jails and prisons and has engaged quite a deal in charitable work. Her hearers were given the benefit of her observations and experiences. She called attention to the fact that the home influence played no small part in either making boys criminals, or in keeping them away from the penitentiaries and prisons. Her subject was most fitting and timely. The aboye truth is all the more evident when one pauses to think of the many boys, and often times girls too, whose manners in public places are so indecorous, uncoath, and uncivil. This state of affairs is deplored. Another pleasing number on the program was a song by Miss Flora Smith, at present located at No. 562 Pine street, and who is traveling in the interest of a denominational work. Miss Smith also made a few remarks concerning the work with which she is identified. On the 27, (to-morrow,) there will be a general business meeting at which it is expected to see quite a number of men in attendance. A Card of Thanks. The following is the list of the Courts that donated to the San Francisco su- ferers, and the amount of the same: White Rose No. 72 Savannah, $6.00 L. B. Maxwell " 202 " 3.00 Mt. Mary " 200 Parrot 3.00 Edna " 184 Shack 3.00 Arria " 100 Columbus 2.50 White Lilly " 189 Donalville 3.00 Character " 160 Hazlehurst 5.00 Olive Leaf " 204 Kingwood 1.00 Love " 177 Americus 2.50 Harmony " 173 " 5.00 Pericle Sisters " 186 Macon 2.00 Magnolia " 124 Arabi 3.00 Sweet Beulah " 245 Moultrie 1.00 Fulton " 212 Atlanta 2.00 Queen of Colquit " 192 Moultrie 3.00 Green Light " 179 Smithville 4.20 Enterprise " 130 Ashburn 5.00 M. Zion " 175 Wright 2.00 J. C. Ross " 206 Brinson 2.00 Daisy " 242 Lum. City 1.50 Pine City " 236 Rochelle .97 St. Peters " 247 Camilla 1.50 Hermione " 243 Vidalia 5.00 D of P., of Ga. " 235 Columbus 5.00 Beautiful Rose " 205 Shellman 2.50 Atlanta " 199 Atlanta 5.00 Beauty " 191 Thomasville 5.00 Lily Bell " 190 Allapaha 3.00 Price Bell " 105 Columbus 5.00 Alpine " 87 Darten 5.00 Mystic " 157 Ocilla 12.00 Banner " 140 Valdosta 8.75 P. of L. " 211 Columbus 5.00 Mrs. R. L. BARNES, G. W. C. The Rev. Richard Bright cordially invites the general public and strangers who are visiting the city to the services of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at the corner Habersham and Harris Sts. All the seats are free, come and sit where you please. Hearty congregational singing. The gospel of Jesus Christ preached. Hours of service; Sundays 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesdays 8 p.m. Congregational Services. First Congregational Church, Rev. W. L. Cash, pastor. Sunday services: Preaching 11 a.m. and 8:15 p.m; Sunday School 9:45 a.m; Junior; OE Meeting 4:00 p.m; Y P.S. of OE 7:15 p.m; Prayer Meeting. Wednesday 8:15. You are cordially invited to all services. To all members of our beloved Order, Greeting ; Greeting. In the great calamity which visited California on the 18th, our sisters of the Courts were among the great sufferers. Some of them lost their lives, while some were fortunate enough to escape, they lost all that they possessed. They are homeless, and without food. The entire country is rallying to the support of the sufferers. This appeal is made in behalf of our members. All Courts of Calanthe are requested to send a contribution for their relief as help is needed. I hope special meetings will be called to attend to this matter. Send your contribution to this office and it will be forwarded to those in distress without delay. Receipts will be sent and the list of those who contribute, will be published in THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNK, THE PYTIIAN ADVOCATE and THE ATLANTA INDEPENDENT. Please act promptly as help is needed now. Mrs. R. L. BARNER, G. W. C. Mrs. M. S. GRANT, G. R. of D. Through Train A. C. L. Through Train A. C. L. Through train and sleeping car service between Jacksonville, Fla, and intermediate points to Augusta, Ga. Effective January 10, 1906, the Atlantic Coast Line will inaugurate through Pullman and Sleeping car service between Jacksonville, Fla., intermediate points and Augusta, Ga. These cars will be handled on Florida and West Indian Limited, No 82, and New York and Florida Express, No. 89, with dining car service northbound and buffet service southbound. Trains will arrive at Augusta 9:45 p. m., daily, depart at 10:00 p. m. affording best possible service between South Georgia points and Augusta. For detailed schedule or other information see ticket agents or write. T. C. White. T. E. Myers. D. P. A. Sav'v, Ga. T. P. A. Sav'v, Ga. Scientific Embalmer. A. B. CUMMINGS,'Hygenic and Selenitic Embalmer, Registered State of Ga. No. 1010 Arterial and Cavity Embalming. Clark and Barnes needle process. Remains prepared for shipment to any part of the world. Now with the Estate of J. H. Johnson, No. 133 Jefferson street, Bell Phone 676. Notice. The Union Loan and Investment Company is now open for business, we have on hand 100 shares of stock for $5.00 per share Money invested here is money secured and is subject upon investment herein, to a pro rata part of all interests fees and fines accruing to the company. We have ready money to loan upon easy earns on secured notes, real and personal property negotiable papers including Stock certificates. We are open for business and solicit the patronage of the public. While we regard business transactions as a public privilege, we also regard it in its personal relations, taking into consideration the whims of the individual. We are open at all hours, at 20 State St., West, (up stairs). Ask for Geo. W. Jacobs. Pres. and Gen'l Manager DR. L. S. PARKS. 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 Gold Crowns Guaranteed Both Phones 689. F. F. JONES, DEALER IN Beef-Veal-Lamb-Mutton PORK, HAMS, BACON and Corned Beef. All Kinds of Game in Season. Goods promptly delivered to any part af the city free of charge. Stall No. 31; City Marker THE ROYAL PONCIANA. 524 West-Broad Street; A. B. CUMMINGS, Prop. MEALS served in first class order. Table and Transient boarding. Everything neat and inviting, try us once, you will try us again. Boarding and Lodging. GOOD MEALS SERVED BY Mrs. M. HALL, 408 Oglethorpe Av , E. Everything First Class. The patronage of my old friends and the public is solicited. See us for Fine Printing. Entire Winter Stock Immensely Ladies and Children Cle and Separate Absolutely Sl During the com Unusual Ind In Embroideries and N FOY Broughton and Ba Metropolitan and Realty (Incorporat Capital Stock Shares $1 Full Paid and Non densely Rece ial Children Cloaks, Su and Separate Skirts utely Slaugh uring the coming wee ual Inducer oideries and Muslin U OYE'S Brighton and Barnard S politan Merc Realty Com (Incorporated) al Stock $500, fires $10 ea Full Paid and Non-assessable. Ladies and Children Cloaks, Suits, Waists and Separate Skirts Absolutely Slaughtered During the coming week. Unusual Inducements In Embroideries and Muslin Underwear. Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company. Shares $10 each. Full Paid and Non-assessable. Six Years of Success and service tells a tale unprece of Race Enterprise. Six years of experience and epoch of corporate adventure and Six years of pluck and push, t Six years of progress and pro prestige. Six years WORK and worry, THIS IS THE HISTORY of this g This with Real Estate is behind pay SEVEN PER CENT ann Churches, Halls and Houses, thousand men and women. Make an investment-with us a grow. tells a tale unprecedented in enterprise. of experience and extension corporate adventure and business ac- tivals of pluck and push, trials and tri- tails of progress and prosperity, par- tners WORK and worry, wisdom and HISTORY of this great race in real Real Estate is behind your invest- MENT PER CENT annually. We walls and Houses. We employ men and women. We are here investment-with us and see you. and service tells a tale unprecedented in the annals of Race Enterprise. Six years WORK and worry, wisdom and winning. THIS IS THE HISTORY of this great race institution. This with Real Estate is behind your investment. We pay SEVEN PER CENT annually. We build Churches, Halls and Houses. We employ ouer two thousand men and women. We are here to stay. Make an investment-with us and see your money grow. P. SHERIDAN BALL, PRESIDENT. L. C. COLLINS, SE J. H. F. M. COHEN, Teller. J. W. ARM 222 W. Broughton St., Savannah W. M. GRAY, Pres., J. M. A, L. MONGIN, V. Pres., D. JOHN D. SAVAGE, Gene The Afro-Am Union Saving, Loa (Incorporated) Capitalized at $50 216 Whitaker St., St. THIS COMB Is now open for business. Depositors following favorable rates upon all deps 5 Per Cent Itinterest will be paid upon DEMAND upon all ANNUAL Deposits. MONEY LOA Upon Negotiable Notes and Real Estate governing such Transactions. We se OF THE PU The Company has a few more shares per Share. After Stock is paid up, S not less than 8 per cent. L. C. COLLINS, SECRETARY. J. H. ATKINS Miller. J. W. ARMSTRONG, St., Savannah, Ga. Be res., J. M. NORTHING ,V. Pres., D. W. OSBORN D. SAVAGE, General Mauage Afro-American Living, Loan and Tr (Incorporated.) Realized at $5000.00 Staker St., Savannah THIS COMPANY business. Depositors being fav- rate rates upon all deposits. 5 Per Cent Paid upon DEMAND Deposits ALL Deposits. HONEY LOANED Notes and Real Estate subject to transactions. We solicit the P OF THE PUBLIC. Is a few more shares of Stock for Stock is paid up, Stock holders er cent. F. M. COHEN, Teller. J. W. ARMSTRONG, Gen'l Mangr. 222 W. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga. Bell Phone 1144 W. M GRAY, Pres., J. M. NORTHINGTON, Cashier, A, L. MONGIN, V. Pres., D. W OSBORNE, Treas. JOHN D. SAVAGE, General Mauager. The Afro-American Union Saving, Loan Trust Co. Capitalized at $5000.00. 216 Whitaker St., Savannah, Ga. THIS COMPANY Is now open for business. Depositors being favored with the following favorable rates upon all deposits. 5 Per Cent It interest will be paid upon DEMAND Deposits. 7 per cent upon all ANNUAL Deposits. MONEY LOANED Upon Negotiable Notes and Real Estate subject to the Rules governing such Transactions. We solicit the Patronage OF THE PUBLIC. The Company has a few more shares of Stock for sale at $5.00 per Share. After Stock is paid up, Stock holders will recieve not less than 8 per cent. and SHERBETS. I am now prepared to furnish the Public with all kinds of the very best ICE CREAM and SHERBETS in any quantity on reasonable terms and on short notice. See me before going elsewhere. S. S. McFALL; Reynolds and Anderson streets. G: James 215 Randolph Street, corner of Jackson Street. Green Grocery, Also carry a fine line of Groceries, Cigars, Tobacco, etc. Prompt attention will be given to all patronage. ICE CREAM Marly Reduced on Cloaks, Suits, Waists orate Skirts Slaughtered coming week. Inducements and Muslin Underwear YE'S Barnard Streets On Mercantile Company. (corporated) Stock $500,000. $10 each. Non-assessable. Business precedented in the annals race and extension marks an secure and business achievement. push, trials and tribulations. and prosperity, patience and worry, wisdom and winning. this great race institution. behind your investment. We T annually. We build uses. We employ our two en. We are here to stay. with us and see your money IDENT. US, SECRETARY. J. H. ATKINS, TREASURER. ARMSTRONG, Gen'l Mangr. vannah, Ga. Bell Phone 1144 J. M. NORTHINGTON, Cashier, D. W OSBORNE, Treas., General Mauger. American Loan Trust Co. (orated.) $5000.00. Savannah, Ga. COMPANY positors being favored with the all deposits. Cent EMAND Deposits. 7 per cent LOANED Real Estate subject to the Rules. We solicit the Patronage PUBLIC. Shares of Stock for sale at $5.00 up, Stock holders will recieve Dr. E. D. Bulkley, DENTIST All Branches . . . Of Dentistry 211 East Broad Street, Cor. Oglethorpe Lane.) BELL FHONE 1124. Savannah, Ga.! SUITS to order including Ladies Skirts and Jackets. Send for samples. All Work Guaranteed. Edward G. Bryant, Fashionable Tailor and, Cutters Cleaning, Repairing, Pressing and Dysing 9 Farm Street, North. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Elliott were recently made happy by the arrival of a fine girl. Miss Tena Fuller arrived home on Monday from Atlanta where she has been attending Spellman. On account of rain on Friday, the outing of the Georgia State College was postponed to next Monday afternoon. Miss Rowena Houstoun has been very sick for the past week. We are glad to note that she is improving. Rev. M. M. Weaton, of Edenfield, N. O. has been recently called to the rectorship of St. Augustine Chapel of this city. He will come on June 7th. Mr. and Mrs Robert T. Washington are rejoicing over the safe arrival of a fine girl. Mother and baby are doing well. WANTED: Smart, energetic girl or young woman to sell attractive booklet. Liberal commission. Address Striotly Business, Tribune office Miss Elizabeth S. Wilson returned on Monday last from St. Augustine. She spent the winter very pleasantly at Palm Beach, Fla. Her friends are glad to welcome her home. The members of the Charitable Workers Institution have changed that name to the Anna G. Boughs Institution, in honor of its organizer. Miss Ella Holloway who has been spending the past six months in the city the guest of Mrs. M. E. D'Antignac; left on Wednesday for house, Philadelphia. Mr. H. E. Perry, Life Insurance Room 428 Empire Building, Atlanta, Ga. 8-7-06. Miss Eliza Johnson, daughter of Mr. A. L. Johnson of New York, left for home on Wednesday last via Philadelphia. Miss Johnson has been attending Haines Institute, Augusta. She arrived in the city last week and was the guest of her aunt Mrs. J. H. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Williams, formally of Savannah, but now of New York celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary on May 20 and was delightfully entertained by a number of their friends at their residence No. 219 W. 35th, St., New York City. The several Fountains of U. O. T. R, in the city will observe the annual day of the order by attending services at St. James A. M. E. Church to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The address will be delivered by Dr. J. A. Brockett. There will be remarks by Chief J. H. Ashby, and papers by Mrs J. H. Patterson and Mrs. L. A. Harvey. These will be interspersed with musio. A grand surprise party was given on Friday night in honor of the return of the Misses Marie and Hattie Hardwick from Atlanta where they were attending Clark University. Quite an enjoyable time was had. Those present were Misses Pearlena, Albertina, and Annie Smith, Arie M Johnson, Rosa Mae Young, Sadie Fraizer of Orangeburg, S. C.; Gussie Jackson, Marie McNichola, Marie and Hattie Hardwick, Mrs Hodgerson, Carlotta Green, and Louise Boifeuillette, Messrs. Mack Freeman, Nathauiel Jones, Benjamin Denslow Lucius Bacon, Paul Reynolds, Albert Grant, Frank Cook, Samuel Mathis, Willie Riley, Turner Washington, Thomas Deleware, Eugene Greene, Joseph Robinson and Carl Hardwick. The Anna G. Boughs Benevolent Institution celebrated its tenth anniversary with a reception and installation at the residence of the president Mrs. Belle Holmes, 510 Charles St. The cozy home was artistically decorated with vines, potted plants, and ferns and the soft glow of the red lights presented a most beautiful appearance At 10:15 o'clock the efficient and scholarly pastor of St. Philip's A. M E. Church Dr. J. A. Lindsay in his usual and well defined way installed the officers. His words were appropriate and timely, and every one was well pleased with having heard such eloquent installation address. Refreshments that had been so carefully prepared by the hands of the committee in charge were served in courses. At 12 o'clock all dispersed after having spent a most delightful evening. The following officers were installed; Mrs. Belle Holmes, President; Mrs. Maggie Clarke, vice President; Mrs. Mamie A. Cole, Secretary; Mrs. Mary E. Styles, assistant Secretary; Mrs. Harriet F. Hendrickson, Treasurer; Mrs. Mamie A. Cole, Chairman of Finance; Mrs. Maggie Clarke, Chairman of Health. The invited guests present were Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Lindsay, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Rosa Smith, Mrs. Ellen F. Andrews, Mrs. Josephine Coleman, Mrs. Carrie Watts? of Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Gadsen, Mrs. Edward Holmes, Mr. Geo. Holmes, Mr. K. W.! Cole and Mr. Joseph Green: "Rev. Bright" and his congregation cordially invite their acquaintances, "well wshers,' and the public at large to accompany them on the annual excursion of St. Stephen's Church, Tuesday June 19th. In order to take the proposed route it is absolutely necessary to leave early, 2.30 p. m. Music, refreshments and dancing. Popular prices: 50 and 25 cents. Women's Meeting. A meeting of women has been called to meet at St. Philip's A. M. E. Church, West Broad and Charles Sta. on June 4th, at 4 p. m. in the interest of the Women's department of the Colored state fair. All women interested in the progress of the race should attend this meeting. More than $1000 00, is to be distributed in premiums for the women's department. Patriotic Institution. The Ohatham County Emancipation Association celebrated the passage of the 15th Amendment on Monday last at Lincoln Park. The address was an able one delivered by Prof. L. B. Thompson. The gentlemen who are fostering this institution need much commendation for their efforts. They should meet the hearty co-operation of all citizens. To Speak at Conference. Dr. S. Palmer Lloyd leaves on Monday night next for Atlanta, where he goes to attend the commencement of Atlanta University, his alma mater. The annual Negro Conference will be held the first part of the week, and on Tuesday Dr. Lloyd will deliver an address on the subject "Why Tuberculosis is so, prevalent among Negroes." This undoubtedly will be one of the most important addresses. Program of Concert and May Pole. At the Second Baptist Church on Monday night May 28th, at 8:30 o'clock. Song, "Welcome to May," six little tots; Vocal Solo, Miss May Stewart; Dialogue, Susie's Lesson, Miss Katie Brantley and Mr. Eddie Robinson; Recitation, "She would be a mason," Miss Osborne; Vocal Solo, Mr. J. Jenkins; Instrumental Quartette, Miss Edwards; Messrs. Ward, Green and Robinson; An Irish Drama, Miss Franklin and others; Vocal Solo, Miss C. Alexander; Recitation, "St. Peter at the Gate," Miss Cannick; Solo, Miss N. A. Houston; May Pole Drill and Tableaux, 15 little ones. Admission 15 cents. Rev. J. H. MAY, D. D., Pastor. Bakers' Branch Mrs. Mattie M. Gafdner, one of the prominent ladies of Ocala, Fla. is in the city the guest of Mrs. Mary Shivery, 411 Montgomery, Street. Mrs. Gardner is an affable lady and well liked by all who have met her. The annual installation of the Bakers Circle Aid Branch, was held on Wednesday evening last at the residence of the President. The following officers were installed for the ensuing year by Rev. R. V. Branch, President, Mrs. O Maxwell, Vice President, Mrs. R. Mims, Financial Secretary Mrs. F. Mason; Recordening Secretary, Mrs. L. Rodgers; Treasurer, Mrs. R. A. Sweeney; Chairlady of Finance, Mrs. H. Banks; Chairlady of Health, Mrs. E. Williams; Chairlady, of examining Committee, Miss F. Anderson; Chaplain, Mrs. J. Norman; Clerk of order, Miss R. Williams. After the usual admonition and blessing of Rev. Branch, the way was led to the dining room where amid the profusion of cut flowers, light refreshments were served. 31st Anniversary The First Bryan Baptist Church, West Broad street, Rev. A. Harris, pastor, will celebrate its thirty-first anniversary on to morrow. Services will held at 11 a. m., 3 and 4 p. m., and 8 p. m. A cordial invitation has been extended to all sister churches and the public in general are invited to participate. This is also their grand rally day and it is expected that the usual attendance on such occasions will be had. The program for the day will be as follows: At 11 o'clock. Anthem by the choir. Prayer, introductory remarks by the pastor. Hymn by the choir. Scripture reading. Hymn by the choir. Anniversary sermon by Rev. N. H. Whitmire. Hymn, prayer collection, Benediction. At 3 p. m., a sermon will be preached by Rev. W. A. Daughtry and at 4 p. m., the communion service will take place by the pastor, Revs. Daughtry, H. Maxwell and other ministers. At 8 p. m. a sermon will be preached by Rev. A. Hudeon. By special request the choir of Mt. Tabor Baptist church will sing at the morning services. A hearty welcome to all who attend. Beach Commencement. At 4 o'clock to morrow afternoon the baccalaureate sermon of the Beach Institute will be presached at the Chapel by Rev. W. L. Cash, of the First Congregational Church. The class exercises will take place on Tuesday night. On Wednesday evening the commencement exercises will occur at St. James A. M. E. Church. An appropriate program is arranged for the occasion, which will prove very interesting. The addresses will be delivered by the scholarly Rev. J. A. Brockett, D. D., pastor of the church. The following are the graduates: Misses Lottie Leoic Ashton, Willie Emma Adelphia Brown, Florence Anna Callen, Margaret Maudina Clayton, Virginia Naomi Davidson, Mabel Alethea Durden, Viola Constance Foster, Annie Belle Hamilton, Gertrude Edith Martin, Ulicia Francois Pollard, Ada Louise Scott, Alberta Winifred Sherman, Adra Corinthia Spencer, Theodoria Odella Stiles, Annie Ethrel Stiles, Anna Toliver Tucker, Emma Louisa Wilkins and Araminta Marguerite Yancy. Coming Events in The Social World. The Fishermen Club will give a social trip to Blüfton, Sunday June 10th Tickets 50 and 25 cents. Remember the excursion to Beaufort by St. Philip A. M. E. Church, West Broad Street Tuesday June 12th, Ticket 50 and 350. Savannah Lodge No. 2892 G. U. O of O. F; will give their first outing of the season at Lincoln Park, Monday June 4th, Tickets 15 cents. The ways and means committee of the Porters Benevolent Association will give a grand picnic Lincoln Park, Tuesday June 26th, Tickets 15 cents. A grand Picnic and Show will be given by St. Paul C. M. E. Church Union Club at Lincoln Park, Thursday May 31st. Tickets 15 and 10 cents. The G. E. Club will give their annual Picnic at Lincoln Park, Monday June 11th. Tickets 15 cents. The first annual picnic of the Royal Company No. 11, U. R. K. of P., will take place at Lincoln Park Tuesday, June 12th. Tickets 15 cents. Attend the grade concert at Beach Institute, Tuesday May 29th. Tickets 10 cents. The annual outing of St. Augustine's Sunday and Parochal School will be give at Borroughs, Ga., Monday June 11th. Tickets 25 and 35 cents. A grand annauil p'enie will be given at Lincoln Park by the Broad's Aid and Social Club on Thursday, June 7th. Ticket 15 cents. "You are as welcome as the flowers in May," to attend the first outing of Bavannah Light Lodge No. 188, U. R. K. of P., at Lincoln Park, Tuesday June 5th. Tickets 15 cents. A graphophone drawing will be given at the residence of Mrs. T. D. Merritt 554 Jones street, east, Tuesday afternoon, June 26th. Tickets 10 cents. Benefit Chatham Orphan Home. Armenia Lodge No. 1930 G. U. O. of O. F. will give a grand excursion to Beaufort S. C. Monday June 25th, Tickets 50 and 35 cents. "Mother Goose" operetta by 40 children will be given at Masonic Temple Friday night June 8th. Benefit St. Paul C. M. E. Church. Tickets 10 and 15 cents. F. A. B. Church, Franklin Square, will run an excursion to Bluffton, S.C. Monday June 11th. Tickets 50 and 35 cent. The fourth annual supper of the Farmers Union Society of Sackville will take place on Monday night May 28th. Tickets 25 cents. The officers will be installed by Mr. R. R. Nrutledge. A Patriotic Concert will be given by Mrs. J. H. Petterson's school, Second Baptist Church Wednesday night, May 30. Tickets to cents. There will be grand, picnic given by the Ivory Leaf Social Club, Thursday, June, 21st, at Lincoln Park. Tickets 15 cents. Club No. 12 of St. Paul C. M. E. Church, will give a grand musical vaudeville entertainment at Lincoln Park on Friday, June 1st. Tickets 15 cents. The Little Folks Minstrel Co. will present "A Trip to the Klondike" under the management of Mme F. L. DesVerney at, Masonic Temple, Friday night, June 1st Tickets 15 cents. The annual Picnic of the Sunday School of the First Congregational Church, will take place at Cattle Park Monday June 4. Cars leave Gwinnett and Habersham Sts, at 9 a.m. Tickets 20 cents. A grand Parasol Contest and Musical entertainment will be given at Mt.Tabor Baptist Church Monday night May 28th, Tickets 5c. A grand Outing at Lincoln Park will be given by Club No. 1, of the West Broad and Bolton Streets F. A. B. Church Monday May 28th, Tickets 15c. Dont forget that Tuesday May 20, is the date of the Adelphia Club's picnic at Lincoln Park Tuesday May 29th, Tickets 15c. The Mutual Club will run their (annual excursion to Beaufort on the night of May 29th, Ticket 50 and 25c. A grand May Pole and Tableau Scene will be given by the Concert committee for the benefit of Second Baptist Church Monday night May 28th, Tickets 15 and 25 cents. R. G. Shaw Past No. 8, G. A. R., will make their annual visit to Beaufort for the Decoration Day Celebration. They have chartered Steamer Clifton, and will leave at 11 o'clock on the night of Tuesday May 29th, Tickets 75 and 50c. The Cooper Friendly Brotherhood Club, will give a grand ball at Masonic Temple, on Monday night, May 28th. Tickets 15 cents. Commenced business Oct. 5th 1900 - - $ 102.00 October 5th 1901 - - 1,144.00 October 5th 1902 - - 2,462.03 October 5th 1903 - - 11,637.37 October 5th 1904 - - 14,587.63 October 5th 1905 - - 20,897.28 April 5th 1906 - - - 26,413.64 We solicit your patronage. Shares $12.00 each, payable $1.00 down and .50c per share monthly. IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT we allow interest at the rate of 5% compounded quarterly. Money withdrawable on demand. AND INVESTMENT COMPANY "The Pioneer Negro Saving Bank in Georgia." WANTED: by a Chicago wholesale and mail order figure, assistant manager (man or woman) for this county and ajoining territory, salary $90 and expense paid weekly; expanse money advanced. Work pleasant; position permanent. No investment or experience required. Spare time valuable. Write at once for full particulars and enclose self-addressed envelope. SUPT. 118 Lake St. Chicago, Ill. B. H. LEVY, BRO: & CO! Savannah, Georgia. GRACE, DASH, DISTINTION, CALL it what you will there is a something that marks our High Grade lines of Clothing from the ordinary kind. Men in all walks of life can be fitted here more satisfactorily. BETTER VALUE does not necessarily mean higher price that experience which comes from over a quarter of a century of continuos endeavor to obtain the very best there is at the least possible outlay to the purchaser has resultad in our being able to offer "BETTER VALUES AT THE SAME PRICE." Men's Full Suits 10.00 to 35.00 Men's Coat and Pants 7.50 to 30.00 Genuine Panama Hats 6.00 up. Straw Hats all shapes 1.00 up. B. H. LEVY, BRO. & CO. 5 Broughton Street, West. YOU and your friends are cordially invited to inspect the new and original series of post cards now on the market, devoted to and illustrating the progress of the Negro Race. Authorized pictures of such leaders as Douglass, DuBois, Washington and Dunbar; realistic views of the foremost educational institutions, and gratifying glimpses into the business life of the Race are shown, being reproduced in the latest photographic style. Prices 2½-5-10 cts. A fine assortment mailed to any address for 50 cents. Agents wanted everywhere. Address THE WESTMORELAND CO., 23 Harwich St., Boston, Mass. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Go to him and have your work done Crowns, gold and white, looking like the natural teeth. Filling gold, silver and cement. Plates, full or partial, Bridge neatly done. Extracting done with ease. All work done neatly in a neat first class place. Provided with all modern appliances. 623 WEST BROAD STREET, Bet. Huntingdon and Hall. Metropolitan Mutual Benefit Association. 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 $500.00. Premiums within the reach of all. A fair value for your money in a reputable company is what all of us are looking for. This is what we are giving. See any of our agents or call at the company's office for rates and particulars. Energetic men and women can make anywhere from $5.00 to 25.00 a week working for this company. Office 222 W. Broughton St. Savannah, Ga. J. W: ARMSTRONG, Vice-President: Good Quality. Our 44 RYE WHISKEY is a wonder: Only $2.75 per gallon. Send us a Trial Order. Price List of all kinds of Liquor on demand. S. Raskin & Son, West Broad and Henry Sts., SAVANNAH, GA. . (Incorporated—Charter Perpetual) The leading insurance company in the young men and women than any other of The UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION is the first home insurance company of it. Founded, built, owned and controlled. Every policy is backed up by a deposit. When you take out a policy with the you have made a safe investment. She is striving now to place her policy. Shrewd and energetic. 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You Will Trust The neighbors speak well of him—whose friends you business associates respect and honor him— to his fair dealings—and whose ability and brave SQUARE DEAL is essential to permanent go do but collect your rents and look after you. HAS. McDOWE 22 West State Streets. SUITS TO ORIG Good Material—Perfect SCOTT BRE 462 West Broad St Hats, Caps, Collars and Shirts Women and Children Hoe Apron Ginghams and A new line of CORSETS—Best for Founded, built, owned and controlled entirely by Negro men of the city. Every policy is backed up by a deposit of $5,000 with the State Treasury. When you take out a policy with the UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIAT ION you have made a safe investment. You Will Trust The Man Whose neighbors speak well of him—whose friends vow to his beauty—whose business associates respect and honor him—whose engineers testify to his fair dealings—and whose ability and bravery have shown him that a SQUARE DEAL is essential to permanent success. Nothing to do but collect your rentz and look after your business. Hats, Caps, Collars and Shirts. Men's Women and Chidren Hosiery. Apron Ginghams and Notions. A new line of CORSETS-Best for the Price. Announcement. or friends are cordially invited to inspect the most cards now on the market, devoted to a Negro Race. Authorized pictures of such leagton and Dunbar; realistic views of the for gratifying glimpses into the business life produced in the latest photographic style. B rally invited to inspect the new and original the market, devoted to and illustrating the oriented pictures of such leaders as Douglass, realistic views of the foremost educational into the business life of the Race are photographic style. Prices 21/2-5-10 cts. ```markdown ``` nn Mrs, Mittle Huffaker. laprommir mom. wim] HAWTHORNE’S DESK IN muse: | * $he Was Puzzled. JINSPIRATION CAME IN FROLIC.] DESIGNED FOR THE BUSY MAN. PE eA Pee ee era eee | ae aa SaErneee 2243 re ee Ne oc 7 o SARs: ‘ i “Seat °: j ee LK : ee oe ee. ee \ eee OS ee eet — <a eee OC > ee Rect a eae esp Ore ae Pee alee : eee: ie iHAD GWEN UP ALL HOPE “4 Owe My Life to Pe-ru-na,” Says Mrs. Huffaker Mre, Sittie Huffaker, x K. No. 3, Columbia, Teun., writes: “Iwas afitoted with dyspepsia for éoveral yours and at last was con- dined to my bed, unadle to-stt up, “We tried several ditterent doctors with ouThad Lt Lt ho; dof end was almost dand wnen sy husband bought me a bottle of Pe- rung, “At firet 4 could not notice any benetit, but after taking several bottles 1 was cared sound aad well. “Itisto Peruna Lowe my Ufe to- day “I cheerfully recommend it to all eut- ferera” Devieed Fermela. ~*~ “For a number of sears requests have gome to soe from a niultitude of grateful friends, urgiog that Peruna be given 2 alight laxative guality, 1 have been ex- perimenting with a laxative addition for guite « Jength of time, and sow feel grat jed to’announce to the friends of Peruna that I have incorporated such » quality in the medicine which, ip, my opinion, can ‘only enhance its ‘well-known beneficial character, §, B. Uartaay, 3f. DJ" See =. The per capita Sugar cobdimpffon in the Talked States is sore than Aouble that of Germany or France, Darling Wot Days and Cool Nizhts “Tako Dr. Biggers Huckleberry Cordial for rall Stomach and Bowel Troubles. Children ‘Teething, eto. At Drugglzt 250 and 500, { Giratter are the most difealt af all ani- awals to take by surprise. SP THE Sia OF Tt FS x i z AOHERY i ieee ANY fa stood for the BEST Dae during seventy yenrs of s Increasing sales, Reneniber this when you want waters Proof olled coats, sults hats, or horse (00d for all kinds of wet work. ‘WE GUAZANTIE EYOEY GARHENT, ot shiiogacavoron mass uch. MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR, “Ls pet a new and untried remedy, ‘More than 34 of a Centory attests 1s Wosderfel carative and heallb- giving properties, end serves to Siow ieat it has no equal a3a core fot core eadache, ahd all Sher fits arising from 4 TORPID LIVER. Belog strict! table com: pocnd it hatte barmtul or even Ropleasant effects, Its action is Rentle but none the fess thoroygh— Evansing the stomach aud bowels Sail impurities, and toning op the galire autem to 0 beallby cox dition eaviog the person fecling Spiny tan W2. AKASLOOAETTLE, ALL DEG STORES. “One Dose Comvinces." eee oe PS - 4 a pee er! y RAE q eee For this Oak Mantel, French Plate Mirror, ‘Tile Hearth and Facing, 30-inch Grote; ‘no -,Basamer Front. Bend 26, for eatalogue show /4rg 300 designs trom $10 +6 $100, 5 EF eee on RB Can LONG-EARED ONE ELOQUENTLY PRAISES HIS RACE. Present afid Future Value and Past Achievements the Subject of a Shert Talk—The Discoverer of Coeur d'Alene Mines. “Halt, you busy people of this world and think of me for a while, I have been keeping a big ears open for years and years and I have lsten- ed to everything I have had a chance to hear and f think I have pald pretty courteous attention at that, I admit I am balky now and then, but what more could you expect from ure who has been forced to sten alt his life to the plaudits of overy- as e AP Oh (as POY eR ae Tins sh te an TR. SOME ER, Figen eet seldom ever hears anything commen- datory of himself. Now, if you plecse, T should like your attention for a Ut- tle while, so-that I can sound some of my own praises gnd let you all know how important I reafly am.” Thus spoke a mule, He ned taken @ position in front of a batch of ant- mals at one of the stock yards trad- ing marts and insisted on sa$ing his say so forelbly that the owner gave way so long as the prospective pur- chaser refrained from kicking and the mule seemed as if he might cut up a ttle in that Mne himself. The mule then proceeded: “While the draft horse, carriage and saddle horses have their purpose, and perform them nobly and are iz Increasing demand, there is no doubt that in these prosperous times there is a great demand for animats like me. We are becoming more popular it places where a few years ago we were not used, and so the demand fs increasing for us as werx animals to take the place of horses. “The big public ircprovements call for more of us and the development of te soul 3s taking more of us right along. The farmers who are in a position to Talse a few of us each year cannot make any mistake by breeding us. “The mule has been tried In many ways and seldom found wanting. In addt tion to our won: derful powers of endurance we have shown both on x & BS Oee Ae eee ea a TE Te ee ane borne our burden well under the most torrid conditions. “It costs about $35 to raise one of us ready for market, and find a ready ‘sale at three years old if of good size, at prices ranging from $150 to $250 singly, and for good, matched pairs sales have taken place lately as high as $1,000 a pair. “The mulé has been until lately essentially a Kentucky anti Missouri product, but the breeders and farmers of the middle and western states have’ had their eyes opened to our value by the demand and quality required and purchased by the agents of the British government, who came over from the old sod, thelr pockets bulg- ing with banknotes, and purchased everything {n sight with long ears. “We rendered great railroad service in the Boer war and without us Eng- land never would have hushed the song of the Boer bullets, crushed the Boers and claimed the Transvaal. England should erect in perpetual memory a monument in gratitwe for the services we have rendered. “Let me‘tell a story of the discov- ery of the famous Cocur ¢'Alcae SUG SOCy Sele discovered by pure luck, A man Jeant bis mule to two prospectors. In the course of thelr wanderings ' the mule was tled to a tree, and, becom: ing impatient, Fawed the ground and uncovered a lead vein, which Is now the site of a famous mine. The owner of the mule sued for a third interest In the J "4 4 | oe (As | pre ake lsh, VRS 4s Ore ae ae ae claim and the courts granted {t to ‘him, stating that as the mule had made the discovery and that as he was {ts owner he was entitled to the -mule’s share. “The three owner3 sold their dis- ‘covery for $500,000 any and nothing was too good for that mule for the rest of his days. He was exhibited in a private car ard lired on the fat of the land and now a tombstone marks his grave. His harress bangs in a noted resort, where it is gazed upon with deepest reverence by the old- time prospectors. “Our {mportance never bas been fully recogized, but lately agricultural shows ini several states have hung out money for mule exhibits upon 2 plano equal to our importance and Intrinsic values . a * * “Thanking you, one and all, I am now ready: ta “be sold”—Chicdgo ‘News, 2 . HAWTHORNE’S DESK IN MUSEUM. Pittsficld, Mass, Has Interesting Rellc pf Author, One very Interesting relic of Na- thaniel Hawthorne's short residence in Lenox is in the Berkshire athenaeum in Pittsfield, Mass. It isthe old- fashioned desk on which Hawthorne wrote “The House of Seven Gables,” “The Wonder Book,” and “Tanglewood Tales,” during his occupancy of the “Little Red House,” from the early summer of 1850 to the winter of 1851. It {s an upright desk and bookcase Peat | ae nad ot Pie ae i: Berea cs ce ae a eae mentee SEE Ee ene ore f Nae eee | 3 és . of mahogany, i has a fold-over shelf to write on, with small drawers for pens and papers and commodious drawers beneath the writing shelf. This desk was obtained and pre- sented to the Berkshire athenacum by ex-Congressman Frank W. Rockwell and John M, Stevenson of Pittsfield, who in the summer of 1877 recovered the desk in Lenoxdale. On the door to the bookcase fs a fine engraving of Hawthorne framed in 2 piece of wood taken from a win- dow casing of Hawthorne’s little Lenox residence, which was burned on June 22, 1896. Habits of Savaae Tribes. The habit of snuff taking has been confirmed’ among savage tribes for past ages. In South Africa it is used among Swazis, Basutos and Mata. veles. Every Zulu today, even in towns, carries a little square box sus- pended around bis neck by a plece of string or gut, and the snuff spoon (tor they do not indulge in the home- ly “pinch") carved out of sheep's bone, often ornamented with intricate geo- metrical designs, and for convenience carried hanging downward through a silt in the lobe of the ear, The Zulu regards the lobe of his ear as a use- ful receptacle for various small ar- tictes he meets with. The umfaan, or houseboy, universally met with in Natal, has a penchant for safety pins, which have to be carefully hidden from his sharp eyes; even then he is usually ,to be seen, after going through the rooms, with a string of these pins suspended from each ear until they reach his shoulders. A Novelty In Watch Dials. MajorGeneral Baden Powell of Mafeking fame, and the author of more than one valuable handbook on military matters, is responsible for an {nvention iustrated herewith, which scarcely needs description, It appeals Z (@) . peas Za ES 2 LINN Hi Sp, AV LE Hm oP” ail} vey “Or <ay LNG a) a WER! 8 VA TENN LAS AROS ae LOS OW allke to the shortsighted civilian and the soldier employed on night scout- Ing. According to one of the most fashionable jewelers in London, a number of eminent military and naval officers have had the “B-P” dial adapted to their chronometers. Foot as a Measure of Lencth. Some very Interesting facts have lately been collected about the foot, the most widely used measure of length in modern Umes. The measure is cerlved from the length af the hu. man foot, but apparently has varied more than that portion of the skeleton ean possibly have done in historic times. The anclent Welsh foot, for instance, was nine inches long, where- as the ‘Piedmont foot was , twenty inches. In modern times it has varied from the Spanish foot of less than eleven inches, to the Venice foot, of more than thirteen inches, Almost every country has used a foot measure of a different length, It was this confusion which led the French to de- vise the metric system. Tenants for 145 Years, Mr. Reynolds of Little Saling, Sus. sex, who Is 81 years of age, has lived all his lifé in the same house, in which ‘also his father and grandfather had lived. a8 The period covered by the three tenancle’ is 145 years, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have recently celebrated ‘thelr golden wedding—Diet, and Dreams. ° a * $ho Was Puzzled. Mrs, Ypungmen—The {deal It's very funny you can’t give me any money. My Ausband has an account bere. ; Bank Cashier—I know, madam, but if your husband wanted you to have some money, he would have given you a check. ‘Mrs, Youngman—But my gracious! it he’s got an account here can’t you charge it?—Cathollc Standard and Times. . To Be Exact. 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Just the medicine for old people, as It give thom new, vigorous, blood, Druggtsts, $1 per large botile, with directions for home cure, Sample free and prepald by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga, Desoribe trouble and special free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. B, B, B, is especially, advised for chronic, Seep sented cases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures atter all else tails. Probably no famous bird has a smaller tale hae the thd at cee eT Eee BR oO ee ee Buy I. & M, Paint and get a full gatlon. Wears 10 to 15 years, beenuee J. &. 3 Zine hardens L.& MM. White Lead’ and maker 1. & M. Paint wear like iron, 4 gallons of L. & M. mixed with 3 gallons oil will paint a moderate sized house, C.S, Andtews, Ex- Mayor, Danbury,Conn., writes: “Painted my house 19 years ago with L. & BI. Looks well to-day.” PAINT YOUR HOUSE, 15 per cont, commission allowed to any resident where we have no agent, on sale of L. & M. to property-owners, at our ré- tail price. i Apply to LONGMAN & MARTINEZ, Paint Makers, New York. Represented Flithy Lucre. Assistant Secretary of State Bacon Is exceedingly natty {n personal ap- pearance and cannot ablde anything or anybody savoring of sloveniiness. Walle rummaging throzgh his desk a few days ago.be found several soiled and rumpled slips of paper. With one hand be touched a button for his mes- senger and with the other dalntlly picked up one of the slips. “Eddy,” said he, “what is this?” “Taat ts your pay check, sir.” “And these others?” “These are pay checks also, sir.” “Well, take the filthy things away and get them cashed,” sald Mr. Bacon in disgusted tones. Would Be 2 Hero. * Jacob Rils has been ill at his home of angina pectoris, and his physician ordered him to cancel all lecture en- gageinents. Notwithstanding this Mr. Riis was recently approached by an ‘emissary of a certain chureb, who pleaded with him to deliver a lecture, “But,” sald Mr. Riss, “my physt- clan has told mo that {f I lecture again this winter it may kill me.” “well, then,” replied the church- man, pot a whit abashed, “you will die in a good cause.”—New York Sun. A Cheaper Way. Old Kelly—Do yo taink men should be chloroférmed at sixty, Norah? Mrs, Kelly—Phat, wid chloroform so expensive! Phat’s ta’ matter wid an ax!—New York Press, BREAD DYSPEPSIA. ‘The Digesting Elemeot Lefi Oct, - Bread dyspepsia js common. It af- fects the bowels because white bread is nearly all starch, an¢ starch is di- gested in the intestines, not in the stomach sroper, Up under the shell of the wheat berry Nature bas provided a curious deposit which {s turned into dinstase : when it 1s subjected t@’ the salivs aud to the pancreatic juices in the human “Intestines. This diastase ts absolutely necessary to digest starch ard turn It Into grape- sugar, which is the next form; but that part of the wheat berry makes dark flour, and the modern miller cannot readily sell dark flour, s¢ nature's val- unable digester is thrown out and the human system must bandle thg starch ag best it can, without the help that Nature Intended. ‘Small wonder that appendlcitls, peri- tonitis, constipation, and all sorts of trouble exist when we co so contrary to Nature's law. The food experts that perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowlug these facts, made use in thelr experl~ ments of the entire wheat and barley, Including all the parts, and subjected them to molature and long continued warmth, which allows time and the proper conditions for developing the diastase, outside of the human ody. In this way the starchy part Js trans- formed into grape-sugar in a perfectly natural wanner, without the use of chemicals or any outside ingredients, The little sparkling, crystals of grape sugar can be seen on the plecen of GrapeNuts. This food therefore is naturally predigested and its use In place of brend will quickly correct the troubles that have been brought about by the too free use of starch In the food, and that is.very common in the ‘buman race to-day. The effect of ealing Grape-Kuts ten days of two weeks and the discontin- uance.of ordinary ‘white bread; is very marked. The user will gain rppldly in ‘strength and physical and mental health. 7 “DP hero’s a Teason.” INSPIRATION CAME IN FROLIC. Chopin's Funeral March Composed Un- der Strange Circumstances. Many people have heard the “Marche Funebro” of Chopin, but few are aware that it had its origin in a rather ghastly after-dinner frolic, ‘The painter Ztem, still living fn hale old age, relates how, some fifty-six years ago, he had given a little Bohe- mian dinner in his study, which was divided by hangings into three sec- tions. In one of these was a skeleton sometimes used by Zlem for ‘“drap- ing,” and an old piano covered with a sheet. During the after-dinner fun Ziem and the painter Ricard crept into this section, and wrapping the old sheet like a pall around the skeleton car- tied it among their comrades, where Polignac seized it, and wrapping bim- self with the ekeleton in the sheet sat down to play a queer dance of death at the wheezy old plano. In the midst of it all, Chopin, who was ofthe party, was seized with an inspiration, and, seating himself at the plano with an exclamation that brought the roysterers to their senses, extemporized them and there the fam- ous “Marche Funebre,” while his Bo- hemlan auditory applauded in frantic delight.—Montreal Herald. _ NOT HOMELIEST MAN IN STATE. Bet that Wes Easy Money for New Hampshire Man, In the summer of 1858 or 1860 there came to the town of Wolfboro, N. H., a clreus, an unusual occurrenct, which brought to the old brick school- house grove many of the townspeople and those from the outlying couptry. From Tuftonboro came one Nathanlel Burke, the tdllest, thinnest, most angular and disjointed of men, with fe s ie The Homeliest Man. cross eyes, unkept light hair and beard. Ho had long, bony hands and feet, and ill-fitting homemade clothes. He could double himself up with per- fect ease, The proprietor of the circus saw him, and was so interested that he questioned him, saying finally: “I will bet.$10 you are the very homeliest man in this state.” Nat replied, in his slow, dronelike way, after relleving himself of an old plpe and changing his quid of tobacco to the other side of his mouth: “I'll take yer bel.” . He went away and later produced his brother Joe. The circus proprietor Jooked Joe over, and then Nat, and finally, turning to bis clerk, sald: “Pay this man $10,” and the crowd ebeered Nat. Cutest tn Railwave.. Hochstauffen, near Bad Reichenhall, in Germany, will soonthave one of the most pecullar railways in the world. It will run up a steep mountain side, and will be operated by 2 balloon. The mountain $s so steep that no ordinary way of locomotion would do, so it has been planned to hitch a balloon to the car that makes the up trip, and have It practically lit the car to the top of the hill. But the car will be held to the earth by clamps that will retain the wheels close to the rails, and the upward tendency of the bal- loon will furnish the power. The big bag of gas will be 67 feet in diameter, and will have a lifting capacity of about 10,000 pounds. Useful Clock. * This clock, an English invention, wakes you, Hghts a lamp, bolls a pint ages GRD FR Nt ee Sens SPOR eet ‘ ar Hey =a of ‘rater, pours It over the tea, puts out the light and sounds a gong when the tea Is ready. Scallop Fishers in Union. A scallop union ts the latest com- sination of labor. The seallop fisher- men of Bar Harbor, Maine, are going to unite In order to control the price of the shellfish that are brought to that port. This action was decided upon because the selling price has been so low that it has scarcely pald to bring the catches tu market. Daner Machines Work Ranidiv. Some of the large paper machines of the country supply a stream of pa- per at the rate’of @ mile {n ten min- utes? Great. difficulty 1s experienced when this ‘sheet of paper breaks, for the broken shreds come so fast that the ronm {s filled before the machine can be stopped. * DESIGNED FOR THE BUSY MAN. Perpetual Calendar Will Keep Track of All Engagements. A perpetual scalendar, which also serves as a daily reminder, Js a re- ceat patent of a Baltimore man. It 1s made of stiff cardboard, carrying five strips, upon which are printed the days of the month, beginning with 1 and ending with 31. Each line, ex- cept the last one, has se¥en num- bers, representing the days of a week. The nurabers are‘not printed direct- ly on the cardboard, but on the strips, which are pasted on the back at the fame Rebel | fs eo Pe DES Poet lower edges only, ia order that the spaces between the rows can be adapted for the retention of cards or slips of paper bearing memoranda of various kinds, The upper edges be- ing loose, there is thus provided nar- row pockets in which the sips can be Inserted. Over the upper and lower ends of the back are placed end- less flexiple bands, upon which are printed the names of the day of the week,,each band having two sets, one following the other. & These bands slide around the back, the upper band to bring the proper day of the week to the first day of the month. By having two bands, notes of engagements for parts of two months can be made. To prevent complication the phrases “Ensuing month” and “Present month” are printed over the upper and lower band. To fdentify the present month a strip holding twelve cards, one for each month, {s placed over the lowest band. Asked for Tidings of Pet. a Lewiston, Me., man found the foi- lowing note {n the mane of a borse he purchased recently: “Dear Sir: To the man who buys this maré her rame {s Nina. She is so kind and a splendid work horse, I trust someone will get her that will be kind and good to her and feed her well, for she was a pet of mine, Would you be so kind if you set this note to drop a few lines to-let me know where she is and how far from home she Is? I am yery anxious to know. Hoping to hear from her, please, Mrs. J. B. McMillen.” Salt Cellar Centuries Old. A salt cellar, declared to be more than 266 Sears old, ts the prized pos- session of Fred H. Bates of Manches- en he geen eee cellar back to the first members of the: family, who came to this country and who brought it with-them in 1¢40, How much older the dish may be cam only be conjectured. Death Charm. . ‘When a Neapolitan wishes to effect the death of an enemy he takes some object often a lemon, which he uses to represent the heart of his victim, =) p 2A eas > FR a ae ; [ave 1 Py OES ‘ Ns oo. agate ine eee ea Sines eG = Aan Bie eee ee aa Wo SS ee and he plezces it with nails or pins, which he fastens securely with twine. With approprlate incantations this fictitious heart is roasted over a slow fire, and is placed as near to the In- tended victim es circumstances allow. Suaor from Corn. Prof. F. Stewart cf Murrysville, Pz, has recently been granted a patent for an {uvertlon for ‘the manufacture eft maize sugar and for the treatment of maize for cellulose products. Prof. Stewart has demonstrated’ the feasi- bility of producing a fine quality of sugar from the juice of the cornstalk and fn quantities which will make its culture“very profitable, The by-prod- ucts can be made equally profitable. Paper pulp ts made, after the sugar- producing juices have been extracted, of a quality pronounced by experts to be of the best. Old Frenchman In Misfortune, An old man was recently arrested at Paris for stealing a pair of sabots, or wooden shoes. At the police court she declared that he was 101 years old, and had never been in prison be- fore. His statements were found to be true. The old man was bora on the 24th of June, 1805, end had per- formed his military service under Charles X in a regiment of dragoons. He was released, and was rt the sams time presented with a small sum of money which had been collected to him. Heavy Postage on Letter. A Dover, N, H. man has a letter from the Arct{c sea on which the post- age amounted to mom. thah $25. "It was-written on @ veszcl ty the Arctle whaling fect, and had to be sent by one” of the boats: returning with a cargo. . o A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. TORREY. THE GREAT REVIVALIST. Subject: One Miser Worse Than Twelve Whiskey Flends. Philadelphia.—The Rev. Dr. Torrey, the great revivalist, on Sunday delivered a compelling sermon entitled "One Miser Worse: Than Twelve Whiskey Flends." His text was Acts xxll, 18: "And now, why tarrist thee? Arise and be baptized, washing away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." "Why tarrist thou?" It was God who asked that question of Saul of Tarsus, who, as you will remember, was a most bitter enemy of Christ; I doubt if Jesus Christ ever had a more bitter enemy, a more determined, more rebellient enemy than Saul of Tarsus. Saul of Tarsus sincerely believed that Jesus Christ was an imposter, that his claim to be the Son of God was a false claim, and he hated Him with all the intensity of a sinner soul. There were times when the thought would come stealing into Saul's soul, "Perhaps He is the Son of God?" Especially when Saul stood and saw Stephen stoned to death and heard Stephen's dying testimony, "I see the Heavens opened and the Son of Man stands on the right hand of God," the thought came to Saul, "Does he really see Him? Is Jesus really the Son of God?" But Saul would not listen to these suggestions. He kicked against the goal and became all the more bitter against Christ in his emunity, because there was a jurking suspicion that he was wrong. He breathed an atmosphere of threatening slaughter. He went down into the streets of Jerusalem, going from house to house, dragging from their homes men, women and children, sparing neither age nor sex, all those who professed belief in Christ; he dragged them to be tried and punished, to be put to death, and if anyone was to be killed he always voted for their death, until at last he had exhausted all his opportunities for persecution of the Christian people of Jerusalem, but he had not exhausted his hate of Christ. He heard that 130 miles away from Jerusalem at Damascus there were other Christians, and his heart went out in bitter hatred toward those Christians he had never seen. So he went to the High Priest and asked the authorities to allow him to go to the city of Damascus and to do what he had done in Jerusalem. They were only too pleased to allow him to go, so he started on the long, weary way to Damascus, hurrying there, neither stopping for the intense noonday heat, but pressing eagerly on, so intensely did he hate the Son of God. And now he has almost reached Damascus; he stands on the last footfall and stands looking down into the valley at Damascus. Damascus was a city noted throughout the ancient world for its beauty. But as he stood there looking at the beautiful city Saul did not think of its beauty, but of the thousands of Christians there whom he wished to drag from their homes to death. As he was standing there, there suddenly shone around him a light brighter than the sun, and in the midst of that light the brightest and most wonderful face and form that Saul had ever seen appeared. It was Jesus, With a cry Saul fell on his face to the ground, and out of the cloud came a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecute thou Me?" From a humbled man came back he answer, "Who art Thou, Lord?" Back comes the crushing response, "I am Jesus, whom thou persecute." And now from a thoroughly humbled man came the answer, "What would you have me to do?" "Arise; get on thy feet and go into Damascus, and there you shalt be told what thou shalt do." He arose, and found himself totally blind, and thus he entered the city where he had expected to come as a conqueror, blind, helpless as a cripple, where he spent three days and three nights fasting and praying. But still he did not accept Christ. Christ sent a certain discipline to Saul with the question, "Why tarliest thou? What are you waiting for? You know I am the Son of God; why don't you arise and be baptized in your acceptance of Me?" I am going to ask that question of every man and woman in the building to-night. "Why tarliest thou?" There are a great many in this building to-night who in their secret hearts believe in Christ, but have never once professed that faith in Him. Why tarliest thou? What are you waiting for? Why don't you accept Christ to-night? Why don't you publicly confess your acceptance of Christ to-night? I wish it were possible for me to descend from this pulpit to-night and go from seat to seat, from man to man, woman to woman who has not publicly accepted Christ and put to them the question "Why tarliest thou?" I believe that if I could do to that almost every man and woman who is out of Christ in this great building would be brought to Him to night: But that is impossible, so the next best thing to do is for you to forget that I am speaking to a great congregation here, and just think you and I are having a personal talk together, and that I am asking the question. And while I am asking that question I want everybody to draw near in prayer for a few moments, at the end of which time I shall have your honest answer. Let us have a few moments of perfect silence. Why harried thou? [Perfect silence for a few moments.] I know what the answer of some of you is. It is, "I am waiting until I am convinced, and just as soon as I am convinced that the Bible is the Word of God and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God I will accept Jesus." Now, to every one here who makes that answer, I will make the offer: If you will come to me at the end of this meeting I will show you with absolute certainty that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that the Bible is the Word of God. Now if you are really an honest skeptic you will accept that offer. If you don't accept it, don't go around saying you are a skeptic; you are not a skeptic, you are only a humbug. Of course, if you are a more quibbler I have no time to waste on you. But if you are an honest skeptic I have all the time in the world for you. But let me say, right here, that I have ret to find the first honest skeptic, infidel, nagistic, Unitarian, or Christian Scientist who really wanted to know. The truth is that I could show them that the Ebile is the Word of God and Jesus Christ the Son of God. It has been accepted by millions all over the world, and I know that every one that has accepted it has found joy in Jesus Christ and is rejoicing in Him to-night, and if you come to me really wishing to know and are willing to obey your conscience, I will put you in the way of finding out, and if I don't succeed, you will be the first one I have ever failed on. A few years ago I lived in Minneapolis at a time when the boom was on and men made fortunes in a day. I came back to the State of Ohio on a visit. One night I and my wife were stopping with a friend who was then seventy years of age. He had accumulated half a million dollars. One foot was in the grave. One night when everybody else was in bed he and I remained up for a talk, and what do you think he wanted to talk about—about eternity, or about the future of his soul? Is what he wanted to talk about? No. He leaned over that old white hand of his and whispered, "Archie, do you know any place up in Minneapolis where I could invest a little money where it would bring big interest?" [Laughter.] You laugh, but there is nothing laughable in it; it was appalling. Thousands of men in Philadelphia to night are in the same grip of that awful curse, that love for gold. I would rather undertake to save twelve whisky flends than one miser. How is it with the lore of pleasure? Ah, friends, as the years pass by the less and less pleasure there is in the world, but the more pleasure you seek and endeavor to enjoy, the more of a slave you become to it. You go to a theatre and you will see women old enough to be grandmothers, dressed in low-necked gowns, exposing their thin, weazoned old forms, blazoned with diamonds, as eager to see the play as the miss just making her debut in society. The longer you live for the world the more of a slave you become to its pleasures, but the less pleasure there is in it, and the time will never come when it is easier to give up the world than it is to-night. Some years ago I was stopping with a friend, and after we came home from meeting he told me the story of his life. He said: "I had been happily married for more than fourteen years. I was the principal of the public school in the town where I lived. My wife and I quite agreed in everything, and we were very happy together. "One night something over fourteen and a half years after we had been married my wife said to me, 'Husband, I have decided to become a Christian and wish to unite with a church.' I laughed at her and said, 'Tut, tut you're not going to become a Christian; I have no idea of becoming a Christian, and don't see why you should wish to become a Christian. Now we have lived happily together for fourteen years, and if you will do that it may result in my going my way and you going your way and virtually in a separation.' "After some further talk I finally promised to let my wife become a Christian, but on her promise that she should not unite with the church; so she became a Christian, but did not unite with the church. It went on this way for about six months, and you know that no really converted Christian can really be happy out of Christian fellowship. "At the end of six months one Saturday night she said, 'Husband, I have been trying for six months to be a Christian outside of the church, and I have decided that it is my duty to make a public confession of my faith and unite with the church.' 'Then I was angry and I said, 'Wife, see here, now, I have no intention of becoming a Christian, and I want you to understand that if you unite with the church you are nothing more to me.' "That was a pretty stern test to put to a loyal wife, but that wife was loyal and not only loyal to her husband but loyal to God and man. That wife said, 'Husband you know that I love you, but I must obey Gld, and His Word is clear. I have made up my mind to make a public confession of religion to-morrow, and to unite with the church.'" "I was very angry and said. 'Very well, wife, then you go your way and I go my way; you are nothing more to me.' We both went to our rooms and refired for the night. I could not sleep. At 2 o'clock I cried, 'Wife, I am converted; we will go to church together.'" When he told me that, he was a Congregational minister, and now he is in glory. If that wife had waited for him perhaps neither of them would have been converted. She went first and brought him in. If you will come first perhaps you will bring your friends along. "Suppose they won't come?" you say. Then come without them. I had rather go to Heaven alone than go to hell in company. If I were not a Christian to night and not another person started for Heaven to night, I would start though I started alone. Men and women, don't you know you are lost? Oh, yes. Don't you know that Jesus Christ died for your sins? Yes. Don't you know that if you accept Him he would save you to night? Yes. Well, will you accept Him? Will you accept Him? Feeling or no feeling, tears or no tears, agony or no agony, will you receive Him? The Teacher's Religion. It was said of a good Christian minister that wherever he went he made people fall in love with the Lord Jesus Christ. Evidently he had the right sort of religion. It would be well if all Sunday-school teachers had the same kind. There are some people, Christians too, godly and conscientious, who live honestly and uprightly, and who are active in good works, but who do not make people fall in love with Christ. It was said of a very earnest church worker the other day, "I suppose he is a Christian, but somehow he never makes me think of Christ." Yet are there not too many such church members? The teacher ought to have a religion that will make other people think of Christ. It should be a sunny religion. Christ was the light of the world. It should be a joyce religion; for Christ was always joyce. It should be a religion of love, for Christ was all love. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure, or Money Refunded by Your Merchant. So, Why Not Try IT? Price, 50c. Retail. An old proverb advises the shoe-maker to stick to his last. It means that a man always succeeds beat at the business he knows. To the farmer it means, stick to your plow; to the blacksmith, stick to your forge; to the painter, stick to your brush. When we make experiments out of our line they are likely to prove expensive failures. It is anunning, however, to remark how every one of us secretly thinks he could do some other fellow's work better than the other fellow himself. The painter imagines he can make paint better than the paint manufacturer; the farmer thinks he can do a job of painting better, or at least cheaper than the painter, and so on. A farm hand in one of Octave Thanet's stories tells the Walking Delegate of the Palettes' Union, "Anybody can slather paint" and the old line painter tells the paint salesman, "None of your ready made mixtures for me! I reckon I ought to know how to nix paint." The farm hand is wrong and the painter is wrong: "Shoemaker, stick to your last!" The "fancy farmer" can farm, of course, but it is an expensive amusement. If it stikes him as pleasant to grow strawberries at fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs that cost him five dollars a dozen, it is a form of amusement, to be sure. If he can afford it, but it's not farming. If a farmer likes to slush around with a paint brush and can afford the time and expense of having a practical painter do the job right pretty soon afterward, it's a harmless' form of amusement. If the painter's customers can afford to stand for paint that comes off in half the time it should, they have a perfect right to indulge his harmless vanity about his skill in paint making. But in none of these cases does the shoemaker stick to his last. There is just one class of men in the world that knows how to make paint properly and have the facilities for doing it right; and that is the paint manufacturers—the makers of the standard brands of ready-prepared paints. The painter mixes paints; the paint manufacturer grinds them together. In a good ready-prepared paint every particle of one kind of pigment is forced to join hands with a particle of another kind and every bit of solid matter is forced, as it were, to open its mouth and drink in its share of linened oil. 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Miss Barrows Tells How Mrs. Pinkham's Advice Helps Working Girls. Girls who work are particularly susceptible to feeble disorders, especially those who are obliged to stand on their feet from morning until night in stores or factories. 1 Mary F. Barrows Day in and day out the girl tolls, and she is often the bread-winner of the family. Whether she is sick or well, whether it rains or shines, she must get to her place of employment, perform the duties exacted of her—smile and be agreeable. Among this class the symptoms of female diseases are early manifest by weak and aching backs, pain in the lower limbs and lower part of the stomach. In consequence of frequent wetting of the feet, periods become painful and irregular, and frequently there are faint and dizzy spells, with loss of appetite, until life is a burden. All these symptoms point to a derangement of the female organism which can be easily and promptly cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Miss Abby F. 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Her long record of success in treating woman's ills makes her letters of advice of untold value to every ailing working girl. Address, Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Affable Stranger—I can't help thinking I have seen your picture somewhere in the newspapers. Hon, Mr. Greatman—Oh, no doubt, no doubt. It's often been published. Stranger—Then I was not mistaken. What were you cured of?—London Tit-Bits. HICKS' CAPUDINE IMMEDIATELY CURES HEADACHES Breaks up COLDS IN 6 TO 12 HOURS Trial Reqs. Ex. At Dragon CAPUDINE IMMEDIATELY CURSES HEADACHES Breaks up COLDS in 6 to 12 hours Total Seats 36. Dr. Dragon all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh, uterine catarrh caused by feminine sore, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. 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It relieves pain. It regulates unnatural irregularities. It has been found a most successful cure for all the diseases peculiar to women. Try it. W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES W. L. Douglas $4.00 Clit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. M.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOTHERS SOLE AGENTS FOR M.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6 1870 CAPITAL $2,300,000 W. L. DOUGLAS MAKES & BELLS MORE MEN'S $5, $10 SHOESHIRT ANYOTHER MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD. $10,000 REMARQ to ayesse who can wear $5, $10 shoes. I could take you into my three large facets at Brockton, Masse., and show you the infinite care with which every pair of shoes is made, you can see how the shoes are cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Dougles Strong Hado Shoes Top Mens Shoes. All sizes. Mail order. Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.50, $1.78, $1.80 CAUTION. -Inist upon having W.L. Dougles dress shoes without his name and price stamped on them. Fast Color Eyelashes used; they will not wear brassy. Write for Illustrated Catalog. W. L. DOUGLA, Brockton, Mass. THE DAISY FLY KILLER delivers an army combat lavery crown. One room stretches. Harmful to persons, male or female and you will never have it done. Post by dorsal, post by HAULD SONK, 151 WEST AVE. Downtown, B. W. CURED Dropsy Quick Roller Removes all swelling in 8 to 20 days; affects a permanent cure in 50 to 60 days. Trialtreatment given free. Nothing can be fairer than Dropsy. Specialists, Box 81 Alenfa & The Compliments of the Season. Cabby—"I 'ad a beard like yours once, but when I found what it made me look like I got it cut off." Bussy—"An' I 'ad a face like yours once. an' when I found I couldn't get it 'cut off, I grew a beard."—From London Punch. SIMPLE STRING HOLDER A simple piece of wire bent as above makes a good string holder, according to a correspondent of the Gardening World. NOVEL ROLLING-PIN. A Pennsylvania man has invented a rolling pin which has an attachment which feeds flour on the dough while the latter is being rolled, thus preventing the rolling pin sticking to the dough. The rolling pin carries a trough and a dredger for flour, or which the dough is more or less covered while it is under manipulation on the molding board. The rolling pin is of any suitable construction, the handles being detachable and the roll turning on the handles. The ends of the trough are attached to the handles and extend above the top of the roll, the sides of the trough extending so close to the roller that the latter can ```markdown ``` barely turn without contact with the trough. Thus the rolling pin is surmounted by a trough, which is open at the bottom, save as the roller itself forms a bottom to the trough. Inside the trough is a hollow cylinder, formed of perforated sheet metal, the cylinder moving within the trough and close by a cover. When the cylinder or dredger is partly full of flour and is placed on top of the roller the latter can be so operated as to sprinkle more or less flour on the roller, whence it will be carried on to the dough. A little experience gives great facility in the use of the rolling pin, so that the dredger can be made to drop just as much flour (or fine sugar, as in rolling out cookies) as is necessary.—Philadelphia Record. DRESS SUIT CASE. In the dress suit case shown here it was the purpose of the inventor to devise a supplemental compartment for containing collars, cuffs and the like, which is accessible without opening the other sections of the case. Rumpling and damaging of the contents are also oblated without adding to the size or detracting from the appearance of the case. There are three sections in this dress suit case—the body section, the lid section and a section supplemental to the body section. Each of the sections has combined with it an ordinary partition lid, which is hinged to the case. The supplemental section is produced by extending each end of the body section upward and by the employment of vertical and horizontal partitions. This section is again divided into a number of compartments by vertical partitions. In the use of the case garments and underwear can be placed in the body and lid sections, and articles of toilet, such as handkerchiefs, neckties, collars, brushes, comb, etc., arranged in the compartments of the supplemental section. Should it be necessary to remove one of the latter articles at any time the locks are unfastened and the lid raised, thus exposing only the compartments to view to the exclusion of the others. This would be exceedingly convenient in traveling on Divided Into Sections. the cars, where a traveler is very often crowded for space, and where it is generally impossible to find a vacant seat where the case can be spread-out flat. —Philadelphia Record. Photography in Architecture Photography in Architecture. Photography has long proved herself a useful handmaiden to other arts and sciences, and is now asserting her claims to render valuable service in architecture. Germany has led the way in appreciating these services. For twenty years there has existed a special State institution of archives of monuments, with a permanent staff, one of whose most important duties is to secure adequate reproductions of all really important historical monuments of home and abroad. This institute has secured photographic copies of plans, elevations and other features of 833 monuments in 135 regions—most of them in Germany, but many also in Athens, Baalbeck, Constantinople, Damascus and Jericho. A Large Poultry Farm. Isaac Wilbur, of Little Compton, R. L., is said to have the largest poultry farm in the world. He ships from 183-000 to 150,000 eggs annually. The hens are separated into some 100 colonies of about forty hens each. Feeding is done by means of a horse and wagon, which passes from house to house twice a day. Eggs are collected in the same manner. Paul Heyse is accredited with being one of the most famous living German novelists, who is almost as well known in America as in the Fatherland. The Czar of Russia announces that he will retain his same autocratic powers. How Coal Companies Eought Good Will of Roads. PATTON GIVEN BIG SUM Stock to Amount of $307,000 is Secured by Railroad Official Without Paying Out a Cent—Revelations Most Startling. Further revelations concerning the stock holdings in soft coal mining companies by officials of the Pennsylvania railroad were made Wednesday when the interstate commerce commission, sitting at Philadelphia, resumed its investigation into the alleged discrimination by railroads in the distribution of cars. Three high officials of the railroad, Vice President John P. Green, Third Vice President, Samuel Rea and William A. Patton, assistant to the president at Philadelphia, were the important witnesses of the day. Mr. Patton was under examination the greater part of the morning and was an unwilling witness. The persistent questioning of Attorney Glasgow for the commission, however, brought out the fact that Mr. Patton had acquired stock, the par value of which is $307,000, in various coal companies without cost to himself. He explained, however, that he had signed notes obligating himself for his share of the losses, and declared his belief that it was proper for him to accept the stock under those conditions. Vice President Rea read a statement to the commission in which he explained all of his stock transactions, stating that he did not believe he was debarred from such ownership because of his connection with the railroad company. Mr. Rea said that most of his stock was acquired through his association with land purchasing syndicates for development. Vice President Green said that twenty or thirty years ago, if it was not considered improper for an official of the railroad to own coal company stock, but that conditions had changed, and such holding might not now be regarded in the same light as formerly. He informed the commissios that the board of directors of the Pennsylvania railroad, acting upon the information that had been brought out at the hearings, appointed a committee, of five directors to make an investigation into the connection of its officials with coal companies. Mr. Green said that he did not own a dollar's worth of coal company stock. Other witnesses testified to stock ownership and to discrimination in the distribution of cars. WALLACE DARES TAFT. Former Chief Engineer of 1stmilhan Capal Answers Criticism Former Chief Engineer John W. Wallace of the fishmian canal, addressed a letter Wednesday to Senator Millard, chairman of the committee on interoceanic canals, in reply to Secretary Taft's recent testimony before the committee, in which he charges Secretary Taft with having abused his official position in order to make a second assault upon him, and to place in a public record statements "calculated and apparently intended to affect my reputation for venacity, such as he would not make to me as one man to another, face to face." NOT KNOWN TO BE LOADED. Boy of Six Kills Four-Year-Old Sister With Revolver. Catherine Clutter, aged four years, was shot and killed at her home In Homestead, Pa.. Wednesday, by her brother Wiley, aged 6. The children found an old revolver, which was not known to be loaded. The parents are nearly crazed with grief. LENGTHY TROLLEY LINE. Plans Started for Electric Road from Atlanta to Macon, Ga. The first step was taken in Atlanta Wednesday morning for the construction of a trolley car line from Atlanta to Macon by the filing with the city clerk a petition to the mayor and general council for the right of way over certain streets. The new car line will run from Atlanta to Hapeville, Forest Park, Jonesboro, Hampton, Giffin, Forsyth, and Macon, the total length being a little over 100 miles. HOME MATERIALS PREFERRED. Senate Acts on Reaculation Anent Purchase of Canal Supplies. A Washington dispatch says: The senate committee on finance'Wednesday favorably reported a resolution directing that the materials for the Panama canal shall be of domestic manufacture and production, unless the president deems the price for same to be excubitant. CZAR SHOWS HAND Russ Autccrat Tosses Bombshell Into Parliament. DEPUTIES TURNED DOWN Refused to See Committee Appointed to Present Address In Answer to Throne Speech—Act Consid- A bomb was thrown into the parliamentary camp at St. Petersburg Sunday afternoon by a note received by President Mouromtzeff of the lower house, from Peterhoff, which instead of making an appointment for an audience at which he and the deputation could present the address in reply to the speech from the throne, contained the information that the czar would not receive the deputation, and that the address must be presented through the ministry of the court. Disconcerted utterly at this unexpected development, the leaders of the majority in the house hastily summoned a caucus of the constitutional democratic deputies. President Mouromtzeff instead of sending the address to Baron Fredericks, minister of the imperial house, immediately issued a call for a meeting of parliament at 11 o'clock Monday and ask for further instructions. The first disposition of the caucus of constitutional democrats, which was in session all the afternoon and evening, and at midnight had not been concluded, was to regard the refusal to receive the deputation as a challenge and an open affront, which was only answerable by a counter declaration of war. The deputies were received with rage, but after the passion had cooled the leaders realized the danger of too precipitate action and set for themselves the task of bringing their enraged followers under control. An interesting constitutional point is involved in the refusal of a personal audience by the emperor. According to the parliamentary law "the president submits to the consideration of the emperor the transactions of the lower house," but it is not stated whether he does so personally, and a deputation is nowhere authorized. The Associated Press is informed by a member of the ministry that Emperor Nicholas was willing to receive President Mouromtzeff, but that the act of the house in appointing a delegation to accompany him was regarded as a tiangerous precedent, capable of being stretched to include a deputation of any size—even to the whole of the membership of the house. This minister intimated that if the leaders of the house decide to avoid a rupture they could do so either by accepting the instructions to present the address through the ministry of the court as a proper and justifiable matter of routine or could, by keeping within the limits of the constitutional provision, direct the president of the house to apply at once for an audience. It was pointed out that no distinction had been made between the lower house and the council of the empire, and that the last named body had also been instructed to present its address through the same channel. PRISONERS GAIN LIBERTY. Sawed Through the Steel Bars of Jail at Fort Oglethorpe. A Chattannoga dispatch says: By sawing through the steel bars that covered the windows eleven general prisoners escaped from the guard house at Fort Oglethorpe Sunday night. They each had prison terms of from two to five years ahead of them. They had been brought from southern posts preparatory to being sent to Fort Leavenworth for permanent confinement. A sentry walked his post in front of the guard house and other sentries, some of them mounted, patrolled other adjacent parts of the army post while the prisoners were sawing through the steel bars. ADDRESS BY FAIRBANKS. Made to Methodists in Conference at Birmingham. The feature of Thursday's session of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, was the address by Vince President C. W. Fairbanks, fraternal delegate from the northern Methodist Episcopal church. The immense auditorium was packed and hundreds were turned away. Rev. Dr. W. S. Matthew of Berkeley, Cal., clerical delegate from the northern church, also spoke. Cuban President Takes Gath of Office for Second Term. President Palma was inaugurated Sunday in Havana in the presence of the diplomatic corps, cabinet officers, senators, congressmen, judges; heads of departments and the representatives of economic, agricultural and commercial associations. None of the liberal members of congress attended. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD CO. Treins Operated by both American Time—One Hour Shower than City Time. SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE APRIL 9, 1906. 82 NORTH AND SOUTH 89 83 105 1358 40 Lv. Savannah Ar 250a 900a 510 5551 105a Ar. Charleston Lv. 1201p 700a 1145 140p Ar. Wilmington Lv. 345p 600a 4178 800p Ar. Richmond Lv. 905a 725p 754 1160p Ar. Washington Lv. 430a 345p 909 1484 Ar. Baltimore Lv. 251a 212p 1122 425a Ar. Philadelphia Lv. 1210a 1152a 1153p 723a Ar. New York Lv. 925p 925a 57 21 83 89 SOUTH 80 58 93 645p 245p 95a 315a Lv. Savannah. Ar 115a 940a 1255p 750p 820a Ar. Brunswick Lv. 830p 950a 1060p 600p 1250p 605a Ar. Waveros. Lv. 1075p 630a 950a 1050p 420p 1020a Ar. Thmasville Lv. 255p 810a 615a 1050p 540p 1145a Ar. Albany Lv. 1250p 545p 20a 805a 1135a Ar. Bantbridge Lv. 650a 745p 500a 840p 140p 140p 1105a Ar. Jacksonville Lv. 805p 855a 1045p 840p 1105a Ar. Palatka Lv. 450p 535a 155p 605p 155p 605p Ar. Sanford Lv. 200p 200a 302a 710p 302p 302p Ar. Orlando Lv. 1242p 1020a 525a 910p 525a 910p 525p Ar. Lakeland Lv. 1025a 1020p 700a 1080p 650p 650p Ar. Tampa Lv. 900a 835p 712a 1040p 705p 705p Ar. Tampa Bay Hotel Lv. 810a 815p 755a 1100p 725p 725p Ar. Port Tampa Lv. 820a 755p 850a 950p 950p Ar. St. Petersburg Lv. 540a 545p 1120a 915p 915p Ar. Punta Goran Lv. 645a 405p 1240p 1035p 1035p Ar. Ft. Myers Lv. 515a 245p NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST. *57 Via Jesup. *58 6 45p Lv..Savannah..Ar 9 45a ..... 8 30p Ar..Jesup..Lv 7 45a ..... 9 00a "..Macon..." 2 18a ..... 5 20a "..Atlanta..." 11 50p ..... 9 45a "..Chat nooga" 6 30p ..... 7 15p "..Louisville" 8 06a ..... 7 40p "..Chickland" 8 06a ..... 10 00a "..St. Louis" 6 12p ..... 7 10a "..Chicago" 8 80p ..... 7 00a Lv..Atlanta..Ar 10 08p ..... 8 05p Ar..Memphis..Lv 3 15a ..... 9 40a "Kansas City." 6 80p .... *517 Via Jesup. *518 Via Montgomery. *519 *22 6 45p Lv. Savannah. Ar 9 45a ... 3 15z 6 45p Lv. Savannah. Ar 9 40a 9 35p 3 30p Ar. Jesup. Lv 7 43a ... Ar. Jesup. Lv 7 45p 9 35p 8 00a "Macon." 2 15a ... 6 15p "Mtgomery." 7 45p 6 50a 5 20a "Atlanta." 11 50p ... 8 60a "Mtgomery." (L. & N.) 5 20a "Atlanta." 11 50p ... 8 60a "Mtgomery." (L. & N.) 9 45a "Lathoughe." 6 30p ... 3 15a 7 25p "Nashville." 8 45a 7 15p "Lathoughe." 6 30p ... 8 20p "Lathoughe." 2 15a 2 45a 7 40p "Cincinnati." 8 30a ... 12 01p 7 20a "Cincinnati." 11 00p 10 00a "St. Louis." 6 12g ... 1 53p 7 40a "St. Louis." 8 45p 7 10a "Chicago." 8 30g ... "Chicago." 6 49p ... 7 10a 7 01a Lv. Atlanta. Ar 10 08p ... 4 59p Ar. Modle. Lv 1 28p 13 49a 8 05p Lv. Memphis. Lv 8 15a ... 2 55p "New Orleans." 9 25a 8 15p 9 40a "Kansas City." 6 30p ... "St. Louis." 7 59p *Dally. Trains into and out of Charleston are operated by Eastern time. Connections made at Port Tampa with U. S. mail steamships of the Cinnusar and Occidental. Steamships sailing Sundays Nos. 82 and 85, the Florida and West-Indian Limited, finestall the year round between Southern and Eastern flies, soil vestibulated train, drawing room, sleeping cars, dining car and Pullman high class coaches. Schedule and service unequalled. No.89, leaving Savannah 8:15 a.m., connects at Jacksonville with Pullman Buffet Cars for Tampa and St. Petersburg. No.21, leaving Savannah 2:45 p. m., connects at Jacksonville, with Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars for Tampa St. Petersburg, Ft. Meyers and Intermediate points. WHEN. YOUR CLOCK STOPS Striking and your Watch goes on Strike, consult W. H. BROWN, Watchmaker and Jeweler, 695 West Broad, Corner Charles St THOSE WHO WANT. POLITENESS AT DISCOUNT Among Young Generation of Negroes in Atlanta, Says Police Judge. Dr. E. C' Ripley was arraigned in the recorder's court at Atlanta Tuesday morning for striking Julius' King, a negro mail carrier, on a Peachtree street trolley car several days ago. The evidence was that King declined to give up his seat to a crippled white woman when asked to do so by Dr. Ripley, and an altercation led to the doctor striking the negro. King contended that there was a vacant seat in the car which the lady could have taken and did take. Recorder Broyles dismissed the case against Dr. Ripley, as he has been bound over by the United States commissioner for "striking a mail carrier who was in uniform," and because he could be prosecuted in the state courts for an assault. In rendering his decision the orderer took occasion to say that he deplored the fact that the old-time regro of the south was fast passing away. "While King had a right to his seat in the car," said the recorder, "he did not show that politeness which was once proverbial with the old-time southern negro. I have often seen negro men sitting in cars while white women with babies in their arms were standing up. So long as such, things occur, so long will there be a probability of such affairs occurring as that which took place between Dr. Ripley and King." CALEB POWERS LIONIZED. Suspect Given Remarkable Farewell Recention at Newport, Ky. Caleb Powers, formerly secretary of state of Kentucky, was given a remarkable reception when he was taken from the Newport, Ky., fall to the station to be turned over to the state authorities at Georgetown for his fourth trial in connection with the murder of William Goebel, as ordered by the United States supreme court. His cell in the Newport jail was almost filled with flowers, the other prisoners united in blinding him farwell and farewell greetings were also exchanged with all the city, county and state officials in Newport. Woman Escapes the Gallows The court of pardons of New Jersey has commuted the sentence of Mrs. Anna Valentina to life imprisonment. Mrs. Valentina was under sentence to be hanged at Hackennack on May 25th for the murder of Rosa Salva. *89 | *57 | Via Montgomery. | *58 | *22 3 15i | 6 45p | Lv. Savannah. Ar Ar | 8 05a | "Mtgomery, " (L. & N.) 3 15i | 7 25p | "Nashville, " | 9 40a | 9 35p 3 15i | 2 1a | "Louisville, " | 7 45p | 6 50a 12 01i | 7 20a | "Cincinnati, " | 8 45a | ... 15 3p | 7 14a | "St. Louis, " | 11 60p | ... 15 3p | 7 14a | "Chicago, " | 8 45p | ... 4 50p | 4 12p | Ar. Mobile. Lv | 1 28p | 12 49a 2 55a | 6 15p | "New Orleans" (M. & O.) 7 15a | 8 28a | "St. Louis, " | 9 25a | 3 15p .. | | | | 7 58p | ... Connections made at Port Tampa with U. S. mail steamships of the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship sailing Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:40 p. m. Tickets offices, Desoto Hotel, Phone 73; Union Station, Bell phone 233, Georgia 911, W. J. CHAIG, Passenger Traffio Manager, Wilmington, N. C. T. C. WHITE. Division Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga. THOS. E. MYB3. Traveling Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga. I. C. SAPP. City Ticket Agent, DeSoto Hotel, Savannah, Ga. R. C. BLATTNER. Depot Ticket Agent. Union Station, Savannah, Ga. We Lead, Others Follow. 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