Savannah Tribune

VOL. XXII. ROADSTAKEACTION Lines in Alabama to Use Injunction Against State. KICK ON NEW STATUTES Claim is Made That New Laws Just Enacted by the Legislature Will Decrease Earnings More Than Petition for temporary injunctions were filed in the United States circuit court at Montgomery Monday to prevent the railroad commission, and attorney general from putting into force several of the recent laws passed by the legislature. It is the first gun of the one of the hottest legal battles the state has ever known, and the railroads have announced their determination of fighting the matter to the bitter end, carrying it as high as it is possible. All the railroads acted uniformly in filing the petitions for injunctions and they averred the new laws are confiscatory, and that the railroads cannot operate under them. The maximum rate law, the two and one-half cent passenger rate law and the "110 articles" law as it is known, are those attacked. Certain of the other laws seeking to regulate the railroads will be attacked later. The railroads acting are the Louisville and Nashville, which includes the South and North, the Southern Railway, the Frisco System, the Central of Georgia Railway, the Seaboard or the Atlanta and Birmingham air line, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Alabama Great Southern, the Mobile and Ohio, and the other roads operating in the state, probably including the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City. Each of the railroads make a separate petition for an injunction to keep each of the separate bills from becoming effective. The railroads aver that under the new law they would not be able to operate and pay their expenses. They will present a mass of figures carefully and accurately compiled to show that, with the greatly increased cost of operating and cost of material and the reduction of their revenues, which would result from these laws, they could not make enough money to pay their actual expenses. They aver that the reduction of the passenger fare from 3 cents per mile to 2 1-2 cents will crease their passenger earnings by actually by one-sixth and more than one railroad will allege that it actually loses money in Alabama by operating passenger trains at 3 cents per mile. The Seaboard will aver that it has never made expenses since it operated in Alabama, and other roads will aver that their passenger service nets them nothing. The maximum rate law they allege would cripple them badly. Many of the rates, it is alleged, which were made the maximum that could be charged according to the new law were commodity rates and were established for a limited length of time, or for some industrial purpose and that the railroads would lose money by handling freight at those prices all the time. They aver that these commodity or special rates are frequently established for the purpose of aiding infant industries or nourishing other industries that could not otherwise exist, and for other reasons, such as protecting the iron manufacturer of the district and enabling him to compete with the manufacturer of another district. It will be shown that these rates are out of all proportion with what is right and that establishing them as a maximum rate would injure the railroads infinitely. CAPITAL STOCK INCREASED. Georgia Railway and Electric Company at Atlanta Adds $2,500,000. At a meeting of stockholders of the Georgia Railway and Electric company in Atlanta Tuesday morning, an issue of $2,500,000 of stock was made. Of this $2,000,000 was divided among the stockholders of the company, and increased their holdings about one-third. The issue was in the nature of a dividend. The remainder, $500,000, was held in the treasury to be distributed according to the requirements of the company. The Savannah Tribune. CANAL WORK CRITICIZED By Contractor Oliver at Conference in New Orleans—Resolutions Adopted at the Meeting. At Monday night's session of the southern states and gulf coast Panama canal conference in New Orleans W. J. Oliver, the contractor, made the following criticism, of the canal work: "It is greatly to be regretted that the administration has decided to place the construction of the Panama canal in the hands of army engineers instead of committing its fate to contractors. No matter how capable the army engineers may be, their training has not been along the lines of construction and direction on a large scale. They are totally without organization to draw from and will always be wound up in costly red tape. Army methods will not avail, for a civilian always has one more right than a soldier—he can quit—and the high-spirited American citizen will certainly exercise that right when he comes to face the arbitrary, dictatorial methods of army regulations." The conference at the morning session adopted the following resolutions: 1. The natural economical route for a large part of the United States for passengers and materials intended for Panama is via the ports of the Gulf of Mexico. 2. The isthmian canal commission has been operating what is practically a government-owned steamship service from New York to Havana, and this exclusive service via New York places the industries of the South, the gulf states, the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Alabama and Georgia valleys and contiguous territory at a prohibitive disadvantage. 3. The southern states and gulf coast Panama conference represents to President Roosevelt that at least two of the government's steamships should be operated out of a gulf port, because of its closer proximity, by some 600 miles, to Colon than New York. 4. We strongly protest against the discriminations of the purchasing department of the Panama Railroad Steamship line, whereby the large majority of orders are confined to the eastern states. We see in this virtual monopoly of the present canal trade the gravest danger to the future prosperity of sections of the United States, particularly the southern and gulf coast states, as the persistent diversion of trade to eastern ports will have the certain tendency to establish and maintain a channel of commerce in that direction from and through the Panama canal when it shall have been completed, thereby cutting off the natural ports from successful competition. The resolutions concluded by petitioning President Roosevelt for the government-controlled Lips and also to investigate the reason why the preponderance of purchases for account of the Panama steamship line are made in the eastern states." NEGRO TROOPS GUILTY Was Verdict of Courtmartial That Exonerated Major Penrose. The senate committee on military affairs at Washington Monday received a copy of a telegram from Brigadier General McCaskey, commanding the department of Texas, concerning the Major Penrose courtmartial. The telegram says that, Penrose was exonerated, but that the court found that the shooting up of Brownsville was done by members of the Twenty-fifth infantry. The following is the text of the telegram: "Major General Ainsworth—Major Penrose was exonerated by the court-martial, but the court found that the shooting in Brownsville was done by the men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Finding approved by me. "M'CASKEY, "Commander." "ONLY SPURT OF DELIRIUM." Ex-President Cleveland Deprecates Attacks on Railroads. "There is much of the nature of dellrium," said former President Grover Cleveland in an interview at Princeton, N. J., Sunday, "in the popular outey against railroad corporations. We shall all be ashamed of it by and by. There is much that is not only groundless, but wrong in the off-hand attacks made on the railroads by thoughtless people. What is well founded in them will be cured, but the craze of denunciation will soon pass." SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MARCH 30. 1907. GRAZE CLOGS MAILS Chain-Prayer Fanatics Worry the Postal Department. INTOLERABLE NUISANCE Millions of Letters and Cards, Containing -Billy Vaporings in the Gulse of a Prayer, Are Choking Mails Daily. According to a Washington dispatch the "chain letter" epidemic has again broken out. This time it appears that all the religious cranks in the country have been set to writing prayers. The more prayer letters, the more imprecations from postal clerks and carriers. The thing seems to have taken a tenacious hold upon the superstitious in widely separated communities, and their name is legion. The innocent cause of the trouble has sought to stem the tide and entirely disclaims responsibility for the scheme which has loaded the mails with these prayer letters. Ministers have denounced the fake and urged their congregations to burn the missives and pay no attention to the threats they contain, but still the letters multiply and are seriously overloading the mails. It seems that nothing but common sense will serve to break up the chain. The letter is as follows: "Dear Friend and Christian: Below is a prayer chain just as it was sent to me, so I send it out to others, for I do not want it broken in my hands. May God bless you and others to keep it going: 'Oh, Lord Jesus, we implore thee, O Eternal God, to have mercy on all mankind; keep us from all sin, and take us to live with thee eternally. Amen.' "This prayer was dictated by Bishop Lawrence. He commands it to be written and sent to nine other persons. He who will not do it will be afflicted by some misfortune, and persons who pay no attention to it will meet with a terrible accident. He who will write this prayer for nine days and send it to nine others, commencing the day you receive this (only one day), will after nine days experience some great joy. At Jerusalem, at the feast, it was said he who would write this prayer would be delivered from every calamity. Please do not let this drop in your hands. I have written this just as I received it. Now, please send it to others. Sincerely, CHRISTIAN." Through fear of being overtaken by some dire calamity, as predicted in the letter, the superstitious recipients have invariably set down and complied with the instructions to write a letter each day for nine days. As a consequence, millions of prayers have been written and sent through the malls in the form of letters and postal cards. Postal cards are thrown out by the clerks and carriers under instructions from headquarters, but of course the sealed letters are usually sent through to their destination, since there is no way of selling from the outside what they contain. In speaking of the matter an official of the postal department said: "The Bishop Lawrence referred to in the letter indignantly denies that he ever commanded or authorized anyone to use his name in such a matter. He thinks the originator is either a practical joker or some religious enthusiast, possibly possessing more piety than common sense. The bishop asserts that the originator of the "chaln" was not a good Christian or he could not have incorporated the falsehood in his original letter, setting forth the bishop's supposed connection." A newspaper correspondent called at the assistant attorney general's office, in the postoffice department and was shown the card reproduced above. The assistant attorney was asked under what law this matter could be excluded from the mails. He referred to the act of September 26th, 1868, which refers to "seurrious matter." THREE ISLANDS IN DISPUTE. # _____ Part of Canal Zone Property Claimed by Pacific Mall Co. Richard Rogers, general counsel for the Isthmian canal commission, who started for Panama with Secretary Taft and his party, will investigate the titles to the three Rock Islands in Panama harbor and recommend what steps shall be taken for their acquisition. The Pacific Mall's Company are using one of the islands and claims title to the property. MAJ. PENROSE ACQUITTED By Courtmartial or Misconduct in Brownsville Affair, Preferred Against Him by Roosevelt. Major C. W. Penrose, of the Twenty- fifth infantry, on trial before courtmartial at San Antonio, Texas, was acquitted Saturday of the charge of neglect of duty preferred against him at the instance of President Roosevelt for alleged misconduct in connection with the shooting up of Brownsville, Texas, by the soldiers of the Twenty- fifth infantry last August. The decision of the courtmartial was reached after four hours' deliberation, and was immediately transmitted to Brigadier General William McCaskey, commanding the department of Texas, who authorized its publication. The Penrose courtmartial has established a record in American military history for duration and quantity of evidence introduced. The argumentls heard Saturday closed seven weeks' proceedings, and nearly twenty-five hundred pages of typewritten matter comprise the record. Major Penrose will now go to Washington, where he has been summoned at a witness before the senate investigating committee. BODY RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. Negro Who Attempted Assault is Lynched by Alabama Mob. Cleveland Harding, a negro, who attempted to assault Mrs. Ben F. Rice, near Florence, Ala., Friday, and who was driven off by Mrs. Rice's shepherd dog, was summarily executed Sunday by his intended victim's husband and some 200 or 300 sympathizers. Tied to a tree with his arms up, the negro was riddled with bullets, the first shot being fired by Rice, following which it is said every man in the crowd emptied his revolver at the prisoner. It is said that over 1,000 shots were fired. The negro was captured Sunday morning half a mile below town, and was taken before Mrs. Rice, who fainted at sight of him. Upon recovering she fully identified her assailant. Beyond confessing his guilt, Harding had nothing to say, and was stolidly indifferent, it seemed, to his fate. The body was left tied to the tree by the mob, members of which made no attempt to shield their identity. The sheer ing overtook the crowd before the lynching, but his appeals were unavailing. TREMENDOUS FOREST FIRE Sweeps Patrick County, Virginia, Doing Immense Damage: A tremendous forest fire is sweeping the county of Patrick, Va., and heavy damage to property has has already resulted and the lives of many are endangered. Patrick county is a mountainous county, located about 60 miles southwest of Danville, and is famous for its timber lands and as a fine fruit growing section. WHITES AND NEGROES SCRAP. Four People Wounded in Girard, Ala., as Result of Race Clash. Five persons were wounded, two perhaps fatally, as the result of trouble between whites and negroes, in Girard, Ala., Saturday night. The trouble started, when a negro butcher cut two young white men. A negro was cut at the same time. Later on the trouble was resumed and two negroes were shot down in the street. FINAL COTTON REPORT MADE. Census Bureau Places Number of Bales Ginned at 13.290.677. The final census report on cotton for the year shows that 13,290,677 bales of cotton, counting round bales as half bales, including linters, have been ginned. The number of active gunnerles is 28,702. The 1906 crop is compared with 10,725,602 for 1905 and 13,697,310 for 1904. BIG LUMBER PLANT BURNED. Fire in Bluff City, Arkansas, Entails Loss of $750,000. Fire at Pine Bluff, Ark., Friday swept over the entire plant of the Bluff City Lumber-company and destroyed several small dwellings own by the company. The loss is vario- ly estimated at from $500,000 to $750, 000. The Bluff City Lumber company is one of the largest concerns in Pine illuff and large quantities were stack- ed in the yards. This was destroyed or badly damaged. OFFICIALS INDICTED Head Men of N. Y. Central Held for Manslaughter. BECAUSE OF BAD WRECKS Vice President and the General Manager of the Company Are Held in $10,000 Bonds' by the Grand Jury in New York City. Indictments charging manslaughter in the second degree were returned by the grand jury at New York Wednesday, against the New York Central, Ira A. McCormick general superintendent of the company, and Alfred H. Smith, one of the vice presidents of the road, in connection with the wreck of the Brewster Express on the Harlem division last month. McCormick and Smith entered pleas of not guilty, and were released on $10,000 bail each. The grand jury also handed up a presentment containing many recommendations to the state railroad commissioners concerning restrictions upon railroad operations In New York state. The grand jury declares that the railroad company "feloniously, willfully and carelessly, with gross culpable negligence and misconduct," omitted to ascertain at what speed it was safe for the train to pass around the curve. It charges also that the company, omitted to exercise any effective measures to prevent the train passing around the curve at a speed faster than was safe, and that it placed the train under the control of an engineer not properly trained and experienced and not competent to run the train with safety. To the high speed the jury attributes the derailment of the train and the death and injury of the passengers. Twenty-four persons lose their lyes and more than a hundred others were more or less seriously injured in the wreck. The train was one of the new electric type which recently replaced those drawn by steam locomotives in the Central's suburban service. At Woodlawn curve the second car of the train jumped the track, and it and those that followed were piled up in a heap beside the track. Some of the witnesses established the speed of the train at the time of the accident as high as 70 miles an hour. JUDGE MORGAN O'BRIEN BALKS. Chairman of Thaw Lunacy Commission Resigns Job. A New York dispatch says: After the jury which has been trying Harry K. Thaw for more than two months past was excused Wednesday until next Monday morning, and the members of the lunacy commission named by Justice Fitzgerald to inquire into Thaw's present state of mind had been sworn in, there came the sudden announcement late in the afternoon that former Supreme Court Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, the chairman of the commission, had resigned. In a letter to Justice Fitzgerald, Judge O'Brien stated that, upon reflection, he was forced, because of the condition of his health and professional engagements previously entered into, to decline to serve as a member of the commission. Justice Fitzgerald made a new order appointing David McClure, a well known local attorney, and a member of former Police Commissioner McAdoo's advisory committee of citizens, to fill the vacancy. Mr. McClure met the other members of the commission during the afternoon and was selected as chairman. WARNING FROM HEADQUARTERS Free Rural Delivery Mail Boxes Must Be Erected. In a decision rendered Wednesday Fourth Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw insists upon an adherence to the regulations requiring that boxes on rural mail routes should be erected by the roadside, so that carriers can easily get access to them without deviating from their routes or dismounting from their vehicles. Failure to comply with the regulations in this respect, the decision states, is likely to result in the discontinuance of the delivery of mail by rural carriers. NEGROES ARE BARRED. Orders Have Been Issued by Government to Stop Recruiting Them for the Army. Announcement was made Wednesday at the recruiting station in Houston, Texas, that orders have been received from the war department at Washington instructing that no more negroes will be accepted for service in the army. Announcement was also made that all negro troops in the United States will be dispatched forthwith to the Philippines. The Houston recruiting station has been foremost in the enlistment of negroes. It was stated at the war department that the reason the order was issued discontinuing further recruitment of negroes is because the existing military organization authorized by congress has now been filled up to its maximum strength, including the battalion of the twenty-fifth infantry, the members of which were dismissed without honor as the result of the Brownsville affair. The department itself announced several months ago that all the negro troops of the United States, with a small exception affecting some short-time men and a few at the West Point Academy, had been ordered to the Philippines, and this order has been modified only so far as it affects the companies of the twenty-fifth infantry supposed to have some knowledge of the Brownsville affair who may be wanted as witnesses in this country. In the case of that organization the order to go to the Philippines has been rescinded. ATLANTA SHAKEN BY EXPLOSION Car of Dynamite Caps Blows Up—Two Negroes Killed and Several Hurt. The explosion of forty boxes of dynamite caps in a freight car in the yards of the Southern railway in Atlanta Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock caused the death of two negroes, malming of four others and the wrecking of several cars and a portion of the freight depot. The terrific noise made by the explosion was heard nearly all over the city. Every window in the depot was broken and glasses were shattered in stores many blocks away. Just what caused the accident can only be conjectured. One theory is that a negro truck hand, engaged in unloading the car, let a box of the caps fall from his truck. Another theory is that a truck was run against one of the boxes of caps. The percussion caps, made of a fulminate of mercury, were in forty boxes of eight crates. It had been billed so the railroad clerks stated, as caps and not as dynamite. The forty boxes weighed about 950 pounds. 'Frisco Chief Executive Accused in Connection with "Bodding." Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco Wednesday denied the truth of the charges published in local papers to the effect that the prosecution has abundant evidence that Schmitz profited to the extent of not less than $662,000 for participation in the "boodling" operations now being investigated by the grand jury. "These charges," ne said, "are maliciously false, and as soon as I am afforded the legal opportunity I shall prove them to be so." STREET CAR MEN STRIKE. Employees of Montgomery, Ala., Trace New Company, Moly, Damage tion Company Make Demands. One hundred and forty-five street car men in the employ of the Montgomery, Ala., Traction company went on strike Wednesday for the following demands: Recognition of the union; nine-hour day, straight day work with dinner and night relief; time for meals so that they will not be forced to eat on the cars; twenty cents an hour for men for the first six months' service; and after that 22 cents; twenty-five cents an hour overtime for all over twelve hours' work. A Washington dispatch says the important conference was held at the white house Wednesday night, in which the railroad situation was discussed. Those present were secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou secretary of the Interior Garfield assistant Secretary of State Bayside man Knapp and Special Counsel logg of the interstate commission mission, and all the members The Guaranty Aid and Relief Society Treasury of State of Georgia. long in 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, 1857, and amended December 20th, 1877. Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Reward Offered for Murderer. Governor Terrell has offered a reward of $250 for the arrest and delivery to the sheriff of Gordon county of the negro flend who attempted to assault Mrs. James Tolbert at Fairmount, and murdered her 2-months-old child. The reward was offered in response to requests from Gordon county. Savannah Still Holds Palm. The close of the naval stores year comes on March 31. As it approaches it is apparent that Savannah's supremacy as the greatest naval stores market of the world remains unthreatened. Thus far receipts are short only about 14,000 casks of spirits and 30,000 barrels of rosin. Despite the fact that Savannah territory is being thinned out in turpentine-bearing timber, its business in naval stores holds good. Expert to Examine Road. After discussing for practically an entire day the evidence introduced in relation to Bowdre Phinizy's charges that the property of the Georgia railroad and Banking Company is in a rundown and unsafe condition, the railroad commission decided to appoint an expert to make minute examination of that road and its rolling stock, and report his findings to the commission. * * * Gen. Evans Declines Honor. Gen. C. A. Evans has announced positively that he would not accept the proffer of the position of adjutant general of Georgia. This means that Col. A. J. Scott, now assistant adjutant general, will be the next adjutant general. When the offer was first made General Evans, he declined, after considering the matter two weeks. He was requested to reconsider, and give his answer later. He did so, but now states positively and finally that he will not accept General Evans is deeply appreciative of the high compliment thus paid him. Troup County Prohibition Fight. The prohibition fight is now on in earnest and will be waged to a finish in Troup county. Committees are circulating petitions for signatures requesting the ordinary to call an election under what is known as the Buch- SOL. C. JOHNSON, Supt. of Agenoes. Treasurer of the State of Georgia. anan law, and the information is that the petitions are being numerously signed, and the required signatures of one-third of the qualified voters will be secured within a few days. The prohibitionists are showing considerable enthusiasm. It is claimed that they will carry the county overwhelmingly. So far there has been no effort to organize the friends of the dispensary system for a fight in its behalf. ```markdown ``` Not Right Kinds of Immigrants. A letter from James A. Strachan, who is now in Scotland, representing Georgia in the matter of securing immigrants, just received by Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson, announces that he has sent another party of seven Scotchmen to Savannah. It is expected they will arrive there within a few days. Three of these are carpenters and the others are painters and machinists. Commissioner Hudson has written to Mr. Strachan urging him to tuna his attention to the matter of securing laborers for farms, mills and factories, as we already have skilled labor in abundance, comparatively speaking, though there is plenty of room for all of this class who wish to come. Georgia Holds the Record. Announcement was made in a dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., a dav or two ago that Alabama had leased 100 convicts, able-bodied of course, to a lumber company in that state at $43 per month per convict, and it was commented that this was thought to be the highest price ever paid for convict labor. But Georgia can furnish an instance surpassing that, though it is not the state that is receiving the price. Under a subcontract recently made by Hamby & Toomer, lessees of 500 Georgia convicts, this firm sublet the labor of 100 able-bodied convicts at $47.50 per month each, which is in excess of $10 per week for common labor. And yet the subcontractors expect to, and doubtless will, make money out of their deal. In view of the Alabama assertion it may be considered quite probable that Georgia now holds the record for the price of convict labor. The state, in the meantime, is recelying an average of only $225 a year for its able-bodied convicts, or less than $19 per month, hence there is a profit of about $26.50 per month per convict to the lessees. Plans were agreed upon at the convention, held in Barnestille during the past week of the farmers' Union, for the establishment of a cotton school to be held at Barnesville during July and August, and every arrangement will be made for making it a great success. Experts on cotton will be secured for giving lectures for the purpose of instructing farmers in the handling of cotton. These lectures by experts will cover grading, marketing and the handling of cotton in all its phases and conditions. President Duckworth and the other state officials are quite enthusiastic over the movement and expect hundreds of farmers from all over the state to be in attendance on the school. It is asserted that the instructions given at that time will be of the greatest practical value to cotton growers. * * * The Agricultural Contests. Interest in the agricultural contests among school children increases each week. The demand for bulletins describing the contests and giving suggestions for study of corn and cotton comes from all parts of the state. We have sent out about four thousand couples during the past week. The boy who reads and thinks and works will be the successful man. It is the farmer who practices diversified farming that is independent. These contests are offered in order to make the farmer boys study their crops and plan how to increase the yield of each and the profit of the farm. Two farmers in Coweta county were talking last week about their year's work. It happened that each had used seven mules. The younger said he made 95 bales of cotton. The older said he raised 85 bales. The listeners laughed at him for allowing the younger to beat him. "Hold on," said he, "let's see if he beat me. I raised sixteen hundred bushels of corn. How many did he raise?" "Two hundred bushels," was the reply. In this way it was shown that the older farmer had raised, besides his 85 bales of cotton, 1,600 bushels of corn, 500 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of wheat, 150 loads of hay, 20 hogs, 15 beeves, had 8 gallons of milk a day and 4 pounds of butter, and kept 120 hens, from which he received 800 dozen eggs. His neighbor raised 95 bales of cotton, 200 bushels of corn, no wheat, a little folder, no hay, and did not keep sufficient hogs, cattle and hens to supply his own family. It does not take a blind man to see which was the better farmer. Now, what this farmer does we want every young farmer to do.—J. 15 STEWART, Athens, Ga. Greece and Her Earthquakes Greece holds the earthquake record with 3,1S7 shocks in five years. L. E. Williams. F. Edward Perry. Walter S. Scott. Bol. C. Johnson. 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The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or figures. It appears to be a grayscale image with indistinct shapes and lines. According to Scripture. ROM the. indisputable evidence of the calendar they knew that they had been married just six years Easter — but the recollection brought joy to neither. Five of the ROST the disputable evidence of the calendar they knew that they had been married just six years Easter — but the recollection brought joy to neither. Five of the six he had alternated abroad, or, when in town, at his club. She, curiously enough, had never ceased loving him, and had, by her charming personality, won a warm place in his parents' affections, with whom she dwelt. The latter rarely spoke of him except to deplore his headstrong stubbornness, boy and man. A mere triviality had separated them. Just at first wounded pride silenced her. But when days merged themselves into years without word or sign, her anguish increased pro rata, so it came to pass that the wealth of love cemented itself in her, bonnie little five-year-old son his father had never seen, though cognizant of his existence. There were times when she felt an indescribable longing for his presence—then she would summon all her dignity to her aid and strive to overcome it—but our wills are not always under control, and feminine nature is still an unsolvable quantity. Thus, she decided that concessions, if any, must certainly emanate from her if their embittered lives were ever to be welded into one harmonious whole. So, like a thorough tactician, she formulated her plans and resolved to storm the citadel. Her anticipation of victory was heightened by the encouraging reports of mutual friends who assured her that his misery exceeded hers—his loneliness in the midst of social distraction more pronounced—and his stubbornness still! his besetting sin. J Easter morn with the scent of lilies in the air; the glorious radiant sun lavishing her quivering spears of abundant gold on the fashionable strong promenading the avenue. And he—lreproachably attired, nodding, nonchalantly to passing acquaintances from his point of vantage—allows a shade of annoyance to mar his cynical countenance as an express van suddenly halts in front of this habitat of swelldom. But annoyance quickly gives place to consternation as a huge packing case, profusely perforated and handled with sollicitous concern by some person—presumably a footman—and a dainty beffried French maid, whose instantaneous appearance mystified him more than the congregated spectators. His range of vision being necessarily limited, he remained in ignorance of the close proximity of a faultlessly appointed automobile. But, consternation in turn gave place to absolute horror as he decliphered his own name in bold lettering upon the case, and realized that it was to be deposited in his apartment. He had scarcely regained his mental equilibrium, ere his valet, with evident perturbation, announced—but just what he intended to impart was relegated to oblivion, for, following close upon his heels, were the obsequious man and maid servant and between them the obnoxious case. "If monsleur permits"—but are monsieur could collect his scattered senses the duo had swiftly and deftly surrendered the seemingly clumsy boy, and disclosed to view an immense egg elaborately gilded and tied about the centre with a broad satin ribbon. "Monsieur's Easter gift," announced the maid deurely, adding, "when Monsieur is ready the carriage waits below." Scarce comprehending and certainly unconscious of their exit, he gazed apprehensively at the novel gift—this chef d'ouvre—then gingerly approached, while conflicting thoughts' spread through his brain. Upon close inspection, however, perceiving numerous perforations, he felt greatly relieved, and, under the impression that some eccentric friend had presented him with a rara avl, he proceeded to untie the knot of ribbon. Instantly the egg parted—disclosing a satin-lined nest in which reposed the sweetest, chubliest miniature of—himself. The little man was arrayed in a middy suit, and the jaunty gold-lettered cap had slipped back, revealing a glistening mass of sunny curls. One tightly clinched hand held a sadly battered woolly dog. Drowsily, sleepily, the big brown eyes opened. Unabashed, and with perfect unconcern, he clambers from his bizarre abode, and, like a lesson well learned, placed his dimpled hand within that of the astonished elder man, and, with the abandon and confidence of prattling babyhood, lisped. "Me want mamma, oum tum!" MADONNA ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN ILLUSTRATED BY SQUARE-MARS The Child is the Future incarnate— A Spint unfallen and free— The spotless forerunner of manhood— The type of a race that shall be. Oh, white is the soul new-created, By the prayer of a mortal beguiled. And the holiest thing under heaven Is the innocent heart of a Child! And yet to no eye save the Mother's Life's difficult secret is plain; She has sounded the deeps of Creation— She has passed through the furnace of Pain; Her soul is the soul of a Virgin, By the passions of earth undefiled, And the angels in heaven do homage To the Mother adoring her Child! —Harper's Bazaar then spying the glistening fob, ejaculated, "want dat, too," suiting the action to the word. Having gained one point he grew loquacious anent his woolly dog, his chu-chu ears, gran'ma and gran'dad, interlaced with spasmodic attacks of manmān his attentive listener, abelit a clumsy nurse, was strangely affected by this hum-drum domestic recital until the demands for mamma dominated all else with the exception of a piteous little, "Ise hungry, too." Then he hastily pressed a button, but in lieu of the valet he expected, the demurely smiling maid awaited his order. With a cry of delight the little fellow sprang into her arms. The maid reluctantly turned toward the door. Suddenly he bounded from her embrace and scampering toward his erstwhile nurse, lisped plaintively, "Oo tum too," with an irresistible but familiar little gesture. The man fushed dully, hesitated, then, as the insistent "tum-tum" became more clamorous, suddenly bestowed an involuntarily caress, gathered him in his arms and paced the apartment with uncertain steps. Halting before the wide window he perceived for the first time the waiting automobile. The child evidently recognized it, too, for a joyous gurgle escaped him—"Tum-tum wif me;" he pleaded eagerly. The man glanced sharply about—the maid had noiselessly disappeared. Straining the child closely to his breast, he showered burning caresses upon the wide-eyed, wondering little face. Then, hurriedly, as if fearing a revulsion of feeling, he donned his outer apparel and softly departed, holding the little one close, its gleeful laughter echoing strangely through the lofty corridor and she—watching, waiting, catches a glimpse of two happy faces—murmurs tremulously, "Verily; a little child hath led him."—Buffalo Evening Times. AN EASTER MENU. Smell Blue Ponty, Half Shell. Oliver, Salted Almonds, Radishes. Cornbread, Bacon. Brook Trout Fried With Pork Sliced Cucumbers. Roast Spring Lamb, Browned Poultry. Drews Fries. Snow Fritters, Country Sauses. Patted Poppers, Entree Puddings. Leflora Salad. Ban Bany, Fruit, Cubes. Coffee. Message of the Lillies. The welcome of spring is the welcome of flowers. The richest of the Easter flowers are the stately, snow-white illies. We seek the shy, stained violets, and bring them from their hiding places to gladden the earth with their perfume, but we love the illies, because of their messages of purity, love and life. With their beauty and purity, rising from the dull soil, they gladly lead us to believe that from our sinful surroundings, uncouth helps and bitter temptations we may develop beautiful and pure characters. Then, it is a hard, dull heart that can contemplate the lilies without emotion. The smiles of a noble, affectionate parent always prompt the child to love. These lilies are God's smiles. His animated sunbeams, given to us in the most delicate and claustre of pearl; and the saint looks upon the lilies of the field to his comfort, as the Master did when on earth, and he loves God more because of His lily smiles. They also bring the message of life—resurrection life; for, after lying dead in the tomb all winter, they burst forth with new life upon the world, saying, as they rise in triumphant dignity: "Oh, winter, where is thy victory?" Death cannot destroy those who have the gift of eternal life. "And now, by every lowly grave, One tender thought our fond hearts crave, That He whose outworn grave-clothes lay Nobled and fair on Easter Day, May come so much our own to be, That we His blessed company May light like sunshine all our gloom, And make our Easter lilies bloom In hearts that join with full accord The anthems of the risen Lord." Mrs. Guinea Pig—"Say, Mr. Rabbit, why do you suppose the doctors always takq the members of our families to experiment on?" Mr. Rabbit—"I presume the scare over race suicide is spurring them on to looking for a remedy."—Life. An Egg Radfish. Radishes do not grow from eggs, you say. Oh, yes they do, at Easter time. Take a n red egg and paste upon the large end some leaves made of tissue paper that has been crumpled in the hand. Care should first be taken to cut the paper into the shape of a leaf. Take a small piece of worsted or cotton, dyed the same color as the egg, and paste it on the small end of the egg, twirling the worsted round and round in the fingers to make the long end of the vegetable. ```markdown ``` The animal is lifted in slings and all the feet (with the exception of that to be shod) are tied. Ah Ox-Shoeing Shop in the Woods In some portions of the Pacific Northwest teams of oxen and bulls are still used for hauling out logs from the forest. To prevent the animals from slipping on the wet skid roads and in the swamps, they are sometimes shod. The bulls, however, are so difficult to shoe that it is necessary to tie them securely before the operation; otherwise they would kick, over the furrier and do other damage in their efforts to release themselves. The accompanying photograph shows one of the novel blacksmith shops, which is designed for shooting bulls in one of the Washington lumber camps. The animal is led into a framework of stout timber underneath a beam, to which it attached a sling of heavy canvas. This SHOEING The animal is lifted in slings and all to be shod sling, which is fastened by chains to the beam, is placed around the bull, and the animal lifted a few inches from the ground by turning the beam and winding up the chains by which the siling is fastened. In short, the bull is lifted in the same manner as a haifid windlass is turned on board a ship, iron bars being used to revolve the beam in its socket. The feet with the exception of the one to be shod, are then tied to the framework of the "cradle," as it is called. Only in this way can the shoeing be safely done, and frequently two men are required, one to hold the foot while the other adjusts the shoe and drives the nails.—Scientific. American. New Style Match. Few men realize the danger of carrying a bunch of matches in their pocket. The heads of the matches are sure to rub together some day and ignite, causing damage which can readily be imagined. A proper safeguard against such a thing happening is the use of safety matches—those that will ignite only when drawn across a piece of ignition material. Still, all men detest carrying 100 Channel in Match Stick. a box in the pocket. A Massachusetts man, realizing this, and probably being addicted to the habit of carrying loose matches in the pocket, has solved the problem in a peculiar manner. He has devised and patented a match that is unique in construction. It is shown in the accompanying illustration. It is made in the usual way with a splint having an ignition head. Instead of using the ordinary round splint the latter is formed with a concaved or channel portion extending from the head of the match to the opposite end. In this channel is placed igniting materials. In use two matches are taken from the pocket, the head of one being drawn across the other, and the match thus ignited. A hundred could be safely carried in the pocket, with no chance of accidental ignition. There is also no necessity of marking up the walls. Texas Tea Farm. The experimental Government tea farm at Wharton, Texas, is soon to be put to a test. It is three years since the seeds were planted. Tea has also been successfully grown in South Carolina, and the chief obstacle that stands in the way of its becoming a commercial enterprise in the United States seems to be in the cost of labor rather than any serious difficulty with the crop itself. Uncle Sand's Paper Bill. The Government Printing Office in Washington uses 10,000 tons. of paper a year and receives about $40,000 a year for the waste. Not Quite So Close. However. The sense of duty, like our shadow, belongs to us to the grave.—Baltimore American. ```markdown ``` In the cooking of certain liquids it is often necessary to know when a certain temperature has been reached—as the milk, etc. Unless the cook is careful the liquid becomes too hot and "burns." This preparation of infusions, such as coffee, cannot happen where the temperature alarm shown here is used. It consists of a bazing ring, extending from which are four uprights which support a twisted wire standard. At the upper extremity of the latter is an inclined loop in which rests a ball attached to a chain. Secured on the standard is a bell. Plotted within the base ring is an inverted cup, from which extends a rod, the upper end connecting with the ball. In operation the device is placed in a vessel containing a liquid. AN OX. the feet (with the exception of that ) are tied. The ball is placed in the loop. The small bubbles of air which form under the cup at a temperature of about 150 degrees are held captive until T they accumulate sufficiently to cause the pressure beneath the cup to lift it. The cup in rising carries up the rod, which in turn throws the ball out of the loop. The ball in falling strikes the bell, and so sounds an audible alarm. To adjust the apparatus to different temperatures a weight is placed on the cup opposite to the rod. In this way the time of lifting the cup may be accelerated or retarded, the range being 140 to 214 degrees. Power. Is not the evidence of ease on the very front of all the greatest works in existence? Do they not say plainly to us, not "there has been a great effort here," but "there has been a great power here?" It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and this is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way, but lose some pounds of our own weight—Ruskin. Stupidity Rebuked. Thomas—"They don't 'ave rain in 'caven, does they?" Thomasina —"Course they does, silly! That's where it's a-comin' from, anin't it?" —The Sketch. A judgehip at Sacramento, Cal., was vacant. There were three candidates. Two of them, who believed their chances equal, agreed to shake dice as to which should withdraw, and did so. The Governor heard of it and appointed the third candidate to the place. The Savannah Trilunns SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1907. All of the County schools closed on Thursday for the term. Many of them had appropriate closing exercises. Prof. L B. Thompson will deliver an address at the Sunday Club to-morrow afternoon. Mrs. Addie McNichols, after a two weeks visit to Brunswick, has returned home. She had a very pleasant time. Mr. Chas. J. Russell of New York spent Thursday in the city. He left at night for Americus to visit his parents and friends. There will be Easter exercises at the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church Rev. N. H. Whitmire, pastor, on Sunday night. The public is invited to attend. Miss Wilhelmina Fields left on Steamer City of Columbus, on Wednesday for New York, where she will enter the nurse training class at Lincoln Hopital. Mr. P. M. Turner formerly of this city but now of Baltimore, Md., was called to the city on account of the illness of his mother. While in the city he was pleasantly entertained by Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Dobson. Learn the boy and girl how to save. Get a Union Savings pocket bank. They are free at 20 State Street West A class of twenty was confirmed at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church last Sunday night. Bishop Nelson preached an able sermon. The services were largely attended and very interesting. Miss Anna L. Chisolm of this city and Mr. George E. Dennis of Baltimore were quietly married on Wednesday evening March, 20th., at the residence of her aunt Mrs. Edward J. Jackson 521 Charles street, by the Rev. D. W. Cannon of Both Eden Baptist Church. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Habersham between Harris and Macon streets. Services: Sunday School 10 a.m. church services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Hymns that everybody can sing Short sermons, all pews free, everybody welcome Tuxedo Aid and Social Club held its regular meeting at the residence of Mr. Mitchell, Charles, St After the meeting refreshments were served and a pleasant evening was spent. The club turned out in a body at Beth Eden Church and heard a very interesting sermon by Rev. Cannon, subject "What the man of to-day owes the man of to-morrow." They were headed by the Head Waiter, Mr.J. A. Walker, Let the boy have one of those beautiful pocket nickle banks. They are free at the Union Savings and Loan Co:20 State, Street West. Easter services will be held on Sunday at the First Congregational Church. At the morning worship, the pastor will preach, subject "The Resurrection Revelation." The choir will render special music. At 8 p.m., the Easter exercises of the Sunday School will take place. An excellent program will be rendered. You are cordially invited to attend all these services. Visitors are always welcome. Services were well attended all day last Sunday at Bethlehem Baptist Church. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday School at 3 o'clock. The Easter sermon will be preached Easter morning at 4 o'clock. The text "Resurrection of Christ" At three o'clock Sunday School. The children will have their Easter exercises Sunday night after preaching. The mass meeting held at Masonic Temple Sunday afternoon last advising the people to not ac cept any jim crow accommodations, was largely attended and the several speakers were applauded for the manly things said for race uplift. The meeting was under the auspices of the Men's Sunday Club and the Chatham County Emancipation Association. Dr. Lloyd, presided. and President E. B. Roberts, Jr., of the Association, assisted. The young men who are working up the sentiment are to be commended and the people should encourage them by retaining their race pride. The Buster Brown entertainment given by Mrs. Mary Smith at Masonic Temple, Gwinnett street, Friday evening March 22, was a complete success. The hall was beautifully decorated with ferns and national colors and the various tables were spread with the choicest of refreshments. The attendance was large and each person enjoyed very immensely the novelty of the entertainment as well as the up-to-date music by Prof. Ward's orchestra. The selected committee worked diligently and everything was conducted in a creditable manner. The entertainment was given for the specific benefit of St. Paul's C. M. E. Church and the Orphanage Society of Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Smith, the representative of the society, will leave Monday morning next for Charleston, S. C., to present the donation at a special session of the society which will convene several days. Her many friends wish her much success in her charitable and worthy efforts also a safe arrival each trip. Pythian Celebration. Last Sunday was the forty-third Pythian Period observance of the Knights of Pythian. The lodges and uniform ranks met at Masonic Temple and marched to St. Philip Monumental church where, they were joined by the Courts of Calanthe. The edifice was crowded to its utmost. Past Chancellor, J. J. Bolen acted as Chancellor Commander and Past Chancellor J. C. Hamilton as Master of Caremonies. The sermon was delivered by Rev. R. V. Branch, who idified his hearers, not alone by his eloquence but the practicable things said. District Deputy Grand Chancellor, E. W. Sherman delivered the annual address, which was done fluently and in a manner that proved him to be a deep thinker and a scholar. Miss L. E. Hendrickson and Mrs. Julia A. Woodruff represented the Calanthes in well rendered papers, while Sir Knights F. M. Cohen, W. H. Burgess and a TRIBUNE representative, spoke in behalf of the Supreme Lodge, the Grand Lodge and the Endowment Bureau, respectively. The entire service was pointed and the choir rendered good music. The several speakers depicted the growth of Pythianism which was attested by the vast crowd that was present. Easter Exercises. Easter Exercises. The Easter Carol entitled "The Lord of Life" will be rendered by the Second Baptist Church Sunday School on Easter Sunday Evening at 8 p.m. Processional Choir Song, "The Lord of Life" Prayer Paster Primary Song, "Wake up little blossoms" Recitation, "A Silent message" Master J. A. Anderson Song, "Our Redeemer Lives Again" School Recitation, "So changed" Washington Song, "Send the glad shout ringing" School Exercise, "Banner of Easter" Class Responsive Reading Solo, "He Loves me" Mary Ella Brown Song, "O Day of Resurrection" School Recitation, "The Glad Awakening" Marlon Stovall Song, "Easter, Glad Easter" School Recitation, "No. 20" Miss Rosa Lee McAllister Song, "The Easter Message" School Offering Song, "All Things Awake" School Recitation, "If I could be a big church bell" Agnes Douglass Song, "Be glad for Resurrection" School Exercise, "If I could choose" Class Song, "Ring the Joy Bells" Choir Recitation, "In the Garden" Willie DeZone Coronation and Benediction Accompanist Miss A. I. Monroe Musical Director Miss C. Chas. F. Waters Rev. J. H. MAY, Pastor. First B. B. Church. Our services are usually well attended, and very interesting. On the 17th and 24th exceptionally so. We arranged for a grand rally some time ago and told our people we wanted $1,000, so about three weeks before the time our members went out with prayer and labor to get it. They simply worked like Trojans. It was very quiet and harmonious and unprecedented. When the conclusion came the members and friends of the church placed $1,035,710 no the table. We simply asked for $1,000 this time and received what we asked for, the next time we are going to ask for more and we are going to get what we ask for. Our church was never in a better condition spiritually and financially. Peace and harmony prevails in our church and every department of our church work was never in a better condition. We are looking forward to an early date when we shall cancel every debt we owe. Tomorrow Easter services will be held. At 11 a.m., a special sermon will be preached by the pastor. At 7:30 p. m., a special program will be rendered by the Sunday school, and a short sermon by the pastor. Come and enjoy yourself at our church, all are welcome. Our Amusement Column Any entertainment that amounts to anything can be seen announced in our Amusement Column. It is popular with the people who largely scan this column each week. Always read it and see that your entertainment is there announced. To-morrow at Beth-Eden. The services at Beth-Eden Baptist Church to-morrow, will be as usual very interesting. At 11 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. D. W. Cannon, will deliver a sermon from the subject "The Resurrection of Jesus Christ." At night about thirty converts will be baptised. To each of these services the public is invited. Revival to Begin. Revival services will begin tomorrow at the Second Baptist Church Rev. J. H. May D. D., pastor. His subject for to-morrow morning will be "Falth." At night the Sunday School will have its Easter exercises. The revival will be conducted by Rev. E. O. Cole of St. Louis, Mo., who will arrive in the city about the middle of the week. The public is invited to attend these services. Sermon to Young Men. On to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock Rev Wm. Gray, the beloved pastor of St. John Baptist Church will presach a special sermon to the young men of the city and will endeavor to impress upon them that they should acquaint themselves more with the knowledge of God. All the young men and the public are cordially invited to attend. Wanted. A few young women of good character and education to learn the Kindergarten work. Good Kindergarten teachers are always in demand. Address: No Nonsense, care of Tribune Office. 4200 The Battle Fought on Calvary. There death and hell their forces joined Against the Lord alone, But Jesus fought and bled and died AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. The Appolo Orchestra under the leadership of Prof. John Mongin, will discourse sweet music at the joint Easter Festival on Wednesday evening April 3rd., at Harris street Hall, by the Catholic Mutual Aid Society of St. Benedict Church. Tickets 15c A Pink Party will be given at the residence of Mrs. L. A. Springs, 320 Huntingdon street, west, Monday night April 1st., for the benefit of First Congregational Church, Tickets only 10 cents. The Oak Grove Club will have their grand opening at Styles Park, Monday April 1st. Wagons leave Henry and West Broad Streets every hour. Fare including admission to park 30 cents. The Young Adelphia A. and S. Club will give a grand Spring Cotillion at Masonic Temple, Tuesday night April 9th. Tickets 55 and 59 cents. The Star of Success Fountain No. 2636, U. O. T. R., will give a Spring Social at Masonic Temple, Thursday night April 18th. Tickets 20 cents. A grand concert and Spring Hop will be given at Harris Street hall by the Union Brass Band, Tuesday night April 16th. Tickets 25 cents. A grand Musical Concert will be given by the Juvenile O. E. S., at Masonic Temple, Wednesday night, April 17th. Tickets 15 cents. The Ladies Auxiliary Union No. 320 of the I L. U., will give their third anniversary and public installation at Our hall, Monday night April 1st. Tickets 15 cents. Mrs. Addie McNell Herdon of Atlanta, Ga., will appear in a reading assisted by local talent, under the auspices of the Men's Sunday Club at Second Baptist Church, Friday night April 5th. Admission 25 cents. The Sixth Anniversary of the Union S. and D of Elijah, will be given at Masonic Temple, Wednesday evening April 10th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Young Ladies Independent Circle will give a grand Easter hop at Masonic Temple, Monday night April 1st. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Crescent A. and S. Club will give their 14th annual dance at Masonic Temple, Monday night April 8th. Tickets 50 cents single or double. Right-of-Way Fountain No. 2118 U. O. T. K., will give her first Spring entertainment at Our Hall, Monday night April 15th. Tickets 15 cents. A grand Masquerade Ball will be given at Harris Street hall by the Young G. E. A. and S. C. Club, Monday night April 15th. Tickets 25 and 50 cents. A Spring Musical will be given by Sections 1 and 6 of First Congregational Church at Masonic Temple, Friday night April 19th. The leading talent will participate. Tickets 15 cents. Normal Concert at Beach Institute Thursday evening April 18th, at 8:30 p. m. Proceeds for graduating expenses. Tickets 10 cents. An April fool entertainment will be given at Morse's Hall. Herndon Street, by Opal Court No. 41 I. O. O. O. Monday night April 8th. Tickets 15 cents. Light of Inheritance Lodge No. 133, I. O. G. S and D. of B., will give a grand entertainment at Harris Street hall, Tuesday night April 2nd. Tickets 15 and, 25 cents. A grand Concert will be given at Beach Institute, Monday night April 1st. Tickets 10 cents. Don't fail to attend the Fox Spring Dance at Harris, Street hall, Thursday night April 11th. Tickets 25 cents. The faithful workers of Beth Eden Baptist Church will give a "Rustle Picnic" at Masonic Temple Friday night April 12th, for the benefit of the church. Tickets 15 cents. A grand Easter Hop will be given at Duffy Street Hall by the Union Sisters Aid G. U. O. U. L. A. Monday night April 1st. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. A grand five nights fair will be given at Masonic Temple, by The G. E. Club commencing Monday night April 22nd. Admission 10 cents. Season tickets 35 cents. A Grand Easter Hop will be given at Masonic Temple by the Letter Carriers on Thursday night April 4th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Young Zulu Pleasure Club will give a grand dance at Masonic Temple Thursday night April 11th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. A Swell Easter Hop will be given at Harris street hall by the Imperial Aid and Social Club Monday, night April 1st, Tickets 35 and 50 cents. A grand Easter Masquerade Ball will be given at Masonic Temple, by Chas. Summer Lodge No. 87, K. of P., Tuesday night April 2nd. Tickets 25 cents. The Easter Stars will give an Easter Hop at Masonic Temple Wednesday night April 2nd. Tickets 15 cents. The Ocean Progressive Ald and Social Club will open the excursion season by an excursion to Beaufort on Monday April 8th. Tickets 50 cents. An Easter Festival will be given at Harris street hall, by St Benedict's Church, Wednesday night April 3rd. Good music and refreshments. Tickets 25 cents 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 *3 Gold Crowns Guaranteed An Early Easter Means Early BUYING And to buy the BEST means to buy a SUIT bearing the Label B. H. LEVY BRO., & CO., Savannah, Georgia. Our Quality is Better, Our Style is Better, Our Fit is Better, And Our Prices are no Higher. That's why we have lead and that's why we are still leading. Spring lines in the following makes are here: Hart, Schaffner & Marx, Stein Block & Co., Hirsh, Wickwire & Co. and the College Brand. B. H. LEVY, BRO. & CO. 5 Broughton Street, West. F. F. JONES, Beef-Veal-Lamb-Mutton PORK, HAMS, BACON and Corned Beef. All Kinds of Game in Season Goods promptly delivered to any part at the city free of charge. 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The drugs may be well selected as to their efficacy, but the compound ENTIRELY SPOILED BY THE PROPORTION in which they are combined. It takes years and years of experience to discover this proportion. There is no law of chemistry, of pharmacy, by which the exact balance of proportion can be determined. EXPERIENCE IS THE ONLY GUIDE. In compounding a catarrhed remedy Dr. Hartman has had many years' experience. In the use of the various ingredients which composed the catarrhed remedy, Peruna, he has learned, little by little, how to harmonize the action of each ingredient, how to combine them into a stable compound, how to arrange them into such like proportions as to blend the taste, the operation and the chemical peculiarities of each several ingredient in order to produce a pharmaceutical product beyond the criticism of doctors, pharmacists or chemists. WE REPLAT, THAT AS MUCH DEPENDS ON THE WAY IN WHICH THE DRUGS ARE COMBINED AS DEPENDS UPON THE DRUGS THEMSELVES. The compound must present a stability which is not affected by changes of temperature, not affected by exposure to the air, not affected by age. It must be so combined that it will remain just the same whether used in the logging or mining camps, of the northwest or the coffee plantations of the tropics. A complete list of the ingredients of Peruna would not enable any drug-gist or physician to reproduce Peruna. It is the skill and sagacity by which these ingredients are brought together that give Peruna much of its peculiar claims as an efficacious catarrh remedy. However much virtue each ingredient of Peruna may possess, the value of the compound depends largely upon the manner and proportion in which they are combined. The right ingredients, put together rightly, is the only way a medical compound can be made of real value. SHELL AND JUICY NITE TOBACCO Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. WINSTON-BALEM, N.C. NOT IN A TRUST The Original "Break Plug" Tobacco. 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Why he stay- ed three days once at a Florida hotel. Somerville Journal. Mica Axle Grease Best lubricant for axles in the world—long wearing and very adhesive. Makes a heavy load draw like a light one. Saves half the wear on wagon and team, and increases the earning capacity of your outfit. Ask your dealer for Mica Axle Grease. STANDARD OIL CO. Incorporated Even when a fellow is beside himself he can't see himself as others see him. LUMBAGO AND SCIATICA ST. JACOBS OIL Penetrates to the Spot Right on the dot. Price 25c and 50c HOUND. CORN BREAD NOT IN A TRUST tobacco. The Only "Adver- lina Flue-Cured Tobacco YEAR since introduced. E-BUT NOT IN CHEW" S LD S ch neir skapo, nt better, Timely Fashion Hints 1 New York City.—No smarter or more attractive waist for receptions, the theatre and all occasions of the sort well can be devised than this one. It includes an exceptionally attractive little bolero, the exceedingly 10 low cut of which leaves much of the live guimpe exposed, while there is a girdle of unusually becoming lines and proportions. As illustrated the bolero is made of ivory white broadcloth with trimming of a stitched A band of the material on which discs are embroidered, while the guimpe is of lace and the girdle is of taffetta held by a plain gold buckle, the buttons on the bolero also being of gold, but carved. The combination is an exceedingly handsome and distinctive one, but such a model as this can be utilized in almost numberless ways. It is at its best perhaps with bolero and skirt made to match, but the bolero can be made of a heavier and different material if liked, while silk and the lighter weight wools, such as voile, colienne and the like, are quite as appropriate as cloth. The lace guimpe is always handsome and always dressy, but lingerie materials are many although very attractive, and these are quite appropriate when a simpler effect is desired, so that the waist can be made either adapted, to really formal occasions or to every day ones as one combination or another is chosen. The gluimpe is made with front and backs, and its lower edge is attached to a smoothly fitted foundation girdle, over which the full one is arranged, the two closing together at the back. The sleeves extend just below the elbows and are moderately full, but are tucked to fit snugly at their lower edges and finished with roll-over cuffs. The bolero is entirely separate, made with fronts and back, and closed at the front. The quantity of material required for the medium size is one and three-eighth yards twenty-one, seven-eighth yard twenty-seven or three-quarter yard forty-four inches wide, with three yards of banding for the bolero, one yard-of silk for the girdle, three yards 'eleghteen' or twenty-one or one and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide for the gluimpe. Skirts are much more severe than those of last season. Flowers are comparatively little worn, in the hair, but the Empire wreath still continues in vogue. Tortoise-shell pins and combs in every variety, as well as colored and carved horn, are also much to the fore. Blouse Waist. The blouse that can be worn over any pretty separate yoke or gulpe as lkind is one of the novelties of the season that has been very heartily accepted, and which has extended vogue. Here is one that is adapted both to the entire gown and to the separate waist and that appropriately can be made of silk or wool material and a little later of the pretty washable stuffs. In this instance it is made with three-quarter sleeves and the material is taffeta trimmed with soutache braid and French knots and edged with velvet banding. But the trimming as well as the material depends upon individual taste and need, and any finish that may be liked is quite appropriate for the prettily shaped bertha. The feature of the waist consists of the fact that it can be varied in a number of ways. It can be made either lined or unlined with a separate yoke, or with a fitted lining faced to form the yoke, or it can be worn over any entirely separate waist that one may possess. Also the sleeves can be either in three-quarter or full length. The waist is made with front, backs and beltha. The front and backs are tucked at their upper edges and the bertha is arranged over them. The moderately full sleeves are arranged ```markdown ``` over fitted linings which are faced to form deep cuffs when long sleeves are used. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards of material twenty-one, three and a half yards twenty-seven or two yards forty-four inches wide, with three- ```markdown ``` eighth yard of all-over lace and six and a half yards'of braid to make as illustrated, one yard of all-over lace if long sleeves are used. Broadcloth Beauty. Exqulsite new broadcloths are in the following colors at $3 per yard: Burnt rose, dark rose claret, Delft blue, French blue, peacock blue, elephant gray, mode, golden brown, chestnut brown, drab, purple, plum, lavender and hellotrope. Pale shades for dressy afternoon and evening wear are pastel blue, baby blue, pastel pink, oyster white, biscuit, pastel green and chamois. Dried Beet Pulp. Dried beet pulp, from beet sugar mills is becoming popular among dairymen in some localities. The pulp is soaked in water about six hours before feeding and five pounds of pulp will take up nearly four gallons of water. It makes a bulky, juicy feed for winter, especially relished where there is no silage or root crops in the ration. It is claimed that the samo material is a good food for sheep, hogs and poultry. CURES ALL SKIN TROUBLES. Sulphur the Accepted Remedy for a Hundred Years. Sulphur is one of the greatest remedies nature ever gave to man. Every physician knows it cures skin and blood troubles. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur enables you to get the full benefit in most convenient form. Don't take sulphur "tablets" or "wafers," or powdered sulphur in molasses. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is pleasant to take and perfect in its action. Druggists sell it. A well known citizen of Danville, Pa., writes: "I have had an aggravated case of Eczema for over twenty-five years. I have used seven 50-cent bottles of the Liquid, and one jar of your Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment, and now I feel as though I had a brand new pair of hands. It has cured me and I am certain it will cure anyone if they persist in using Hancock's Liquid Sulphur according to directions. FOXY MAC "Lars Porsena, of Clausium," wrote Macaulay, "sat in his ivory car." "I won't mention the make," he murmured. "No use in stirring up trouble."—Washington Herald. FRANE J. CHENY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENY & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARN that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARN CURE. FRANK J. CHENY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my promise, this 6th day of December, A. W. GLEASON. (SEAL) Notary Public. Hall's Catarn Cureist takes internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Drugsists, 756. Steers Swim to Safety at Call. In response to their master's call, heard a quarter of a mile away above the roar of raging waters in the blackness of a stormy night, a herd of sixty-seven steers, penned in a lot-surrounded by a barbed wire fence, leaped into the roaring stream from the spot where they had taken their last stand on high ground in the middle of the lot, swam over the fence, and swimming in a body, reached the shore without a single loss. Such is the report which reached Columbia, Mo. The creek, which joins the Missouri only a few miles from the point in question, was on a rampage and had flooded the country for miles. Frank Scott, the owner of the steers, had previously trained them to come at his calling. When the current marooned them at midnight he rode as close as he could and called to them with the astounding success reported—New York World. The Tie Crop of the Future. The Pennsylvania Railroad proposes to plant trees systematically to furnish a cross-tie supply in future years. This follows five years' experimentation along this line. In this time 1,500,000 trees have been planted on land owned by the company. An area of 681 acres near Altoona, Pa., will in the springs of 1907, and 1908 be planted with chestnut and red oak seedlings. The railroads of the country are using about 110,000,000 cross ties each year, of which the Pennsylvania uses about 5,500,000. This great demand had denuded the forests so rapidly that ties are now selling at seventy cents each. GOOD NATURED AGAIN. Good Humor Returns With Change to Proper Food. "For many years I was a constant sufferer from indigestion, and nervousness amounting almost to prostration," writes a Montana man. "My blood was impoverished, the vision was blurred and weak, with moving spots before my eyes. This was a steady daily condition. I grew ill-tempered, and eventually got so nervous I could not keep my books posted, nor handlo accounts satisfactorily. I can't describe my sufferings. "Nothing I ate agreed with me, till one day, I happened to notice Grape-Nuts in a grocery store, and bought a package, out of curiosity to know what it was. "I liked the food from the very first, eating it with cream, and now I buy it by the case and use it daily. I soon found that Grape-Nuts food was supplying brain and nerve force as nothing in the drug line over had done or could do. "It wasn't long before I was restored to health, comfort and happiness. Through the use of Grape-Nuts food my digestion has been restored, my nerves are steady once more, my eyesight is good again, my mental faculties are clear and acute, and I have become so good-natured that my friends are truly astonished at the change. I feel younger and better than I have for 20 years. No amount of money would induce me to surrender what I have gained through the use of Grape-Nuts food." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Welville," in pkgs. POPULAR SCIENCE British celluloid producers are interested in the Italian device for making celluloid non-inflammable by mixing glue, gum arabic and colza oil with the ordinary composition. When purified from sediment, it is claimed, the new material can be used as an inexpensive substitute for any kind of tortoise shell, and under the most unfavorable conditions it merely carbonizes, without igniting or spreading fire. The saving of the vast amount of plant food now carried away by the rivers is a great problem for the future agricultural chemist. In one estimate the slit borne off by the Mississippi in one year is placed at 443-750,000 tons, and analysis has shown Mr. C. H. Stone that in this quantity there must be 8,120,025 tons of lime, 5,592,250 tons of potash, 1,109,375 tons of phosphoric acid, and 665,625 tons of nitrogen, besides soda and other materials of uncertain usefulness. The value of the fertilizing material removed in one year by this one river alone is estimated at about one thousand million dollars. An effort to follow the wanderings of fishes, about which we know so little, is being made by the British Marine Biological Association. A numbered tag has been fastened to many place, which have been returned to the water, and about twenty per cent. of these marked fishes seem to have been caught again and returned to the association. As a rule, only the larger fishes migrate to any considerable distance, the smaller ones remaining at home. The migrants go south in winter and return northward in summer, and one place was found to have traveled 175 miles in six weeks, while another was caught 242 miles from the spot where it was placed in the water eight months before. Investigating the dispersal of seeds by the winds, Dr. Ridley, of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, forms three groups—(1) winged fruits and seeds, which are dispersed most slowly and, cannot cross a wide sea; (2) plumed, fruit and seeds, which may travel rapidly over open country, but are checked by forest, and (3) powder or dust seeds—such as orchid seed, fern spores, etc—which are dispersed readily and to great distance. It was calculated that a certain forest tree, with winged fruit, would travel three hundred yards in a century, and would take one and a half million years to spread from the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines if there were land connection. Many have wondered how milk can be reduced to powder without changing its properties. In the process, patented in Germany, the milk is evaporated in a vacuum with continual agitation, until it contains from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent. of water, and then with access of air, at a temperature below the melting point of the milk fat, until the water is reduced to sixteen to twenty per cent. The product is then powdered, further drying at the temperature stated leaving not more than fourteen per cent. of water. This method, it is explained, yields a milk powder in which the fat is present as small globules, surrounded by dried "blue milk" which prevents the fat from decomposing. APPLES PROPAGATE MOTHS. Germans Give Warning Against Keeping the Fruit in Dwellings. Germany has found a peril in apples. They are the principal medium for the propagation and spread of the destructive house moth (Glycyphagus domesticus) according to observations recently made. The discovery was the result of a plague of moths at Gries and the villages surrounding it. The larvae were traced to the stores of apples kept in the houses and thence to the trees themselves. The larvae are found first of all in the apple blossoms. As the fruit grows they cluster in the conical depression about the stem of the apple. When the fruit is taken into the house it is laden with the eggs. The propagation of the eggs is said to be prodigious. When the fruit is taken into the house the eggs find their way into clothing, hangings, carpets and upholstered furniture and the insect is hatched out, with the well known ruinous results. The eggs are also said to be the cause of the white mottling that is so often noticed on dried fruits. As a result of the discoveries it is urged that apples never be taken into dwellings without careful cleansing, and even then they should never be kept in living rooms, and the peelings should be promptly removed.—New York Sun. Decline of English Study. In all directions tragical results of the long neglect of serious English study are visible. The worst English is practiced and appreciated outside of a very small circle of English societies. The municipal libraries, which minister to the literary needs of the multitude, overflow with literary vacuity and vapidity. The standard of average taste in literature steadily declines.—Academy. The Pulpit A SERMON BY THE REV- IRW HENDERSON Subject: Jesus the Preacher. Brooklyn, N. Y. — Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, on the theme "Jesus the Preacher," the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took Mark 2:2, "And He preached the Word unto them," as his text. He said: The sharp line between preaching and teaching is very hardly drawn. The preacher who amounts to anything at all ought to be a good teacher, instructor of men. It does not necessarily follow conversely that a good teacher will be as ready when preaching is the need. But the preacher must be a teacher does he wish for success in the sowing of the Gospel seed. He who would be an influence for and toward God must be able not only to declare to men what is the way we should live that we may attain to eternal life, but also he must be able to unfold to mankind how we may find the way and keep to its middle on the march toward heaven. But lest we drift from the theme in hand, let us to the point. Jesus was the greatest preacher the world has ever seen, and He stands to-day as the Master and the inspiration of all those who would tell His truth. Glorious as are the messages of the prophets to their people and their day, and long line of spirit-filled men, who have since Christ preached the Gospel of God unto men, Jesus yet holds the premier place as the mightiest message-giver of them all. Let us for these minutes, while we are here together, glance at several salient qualities in the preaching of Jesus which commend Him to us. Let us not waste our time in speculation over the sort of gestures Christ may have used or of the oratorical powers we may conceive Him to have possessed. Let us rather get down to the kind of gospel He preached, and to a consideration of those elements of reaching-force in it, which have so captured and held the attention and the lives of men throughout these many years. First and foremost Jesus preached the Gospel—the good news to men—that men could be saved from sin through the everlasting love of the Father. Knowing that sin is the deep and engrossing godless fact of life, and knowing also that the one desire of men when at their best is to escape from bondage to sin, Jesus wasted no time over non-essentials, secondary or inconsequential things; but came straight to the point. Jesus took no time to prove the existence of God—He took that fact for granted. Christ spent no moments to make it clear that sin really does exist—that too He felt to be the consciousness of every normal man. Jesus asked no man whether or no he was hungering or thirsting for a sure salvation from sin, but rather gave the Gospel straight without question. Repent and believe and follow. These are three of the great words that Jesus sent to the hearts of men: "Turn away from evil unto God and humble yourself in His presence, asking pardon for your sins." "Mine is the revelation of the Father in all His fullness, which is able to lead you out of death and bondage into freedom, light and life." "Follow after Me, do as I do, act as I act, walk as I walk, think as I think, love as I love—for I walk in the similitude of our Father—and then shall ye grow from grace unto grace." These are three of the mighty words of Jesus to sinning men. And they are the essence of the Gospel. No philosophy is deeper than the Gospel, no story is more simple, no truth more full of power. And it is because the Gospel meets and administers to the deepest need of men that it is to-day ever the predominant influence in our world. Because it shows hope of escape from sin it lifts the criminal unto Christ. Because it is so simple and so satisfying it touches the hearts of little children yet unlearned in the mysteries of life. A message of profound and universal truth it challenges the thinker and meets his tests. To all men, and to all conditions, ranks and abilities among men, the good news has its application and its mission. And it is because the Gospel is the universal, deeply simple, inspiring message that it is, that it has such a hold over the hearts of men. In the second place, I would call your attention to the fact that the Gospel was definitely preached by Jesus to the desperately poor, to the downtrodden and the weary. In His day the rich had all they needed and more besides, and the effort was to give them as much more as possible. For the publican and the sinner, for the oppressed and sick and the discouraged no such care was taken. They were allowed very largely to shift for themselves. But Jesus overturned the system with His Gospel and talked first to those whose need was greatest. And "the common people heard Him gladly." In the third place Jesus went out to the people with the Gospel. He did not wait for them to come to Him, but rather sought them out. It made no difference to the Lord whether men came to Him or He went to them, whether He had one man or five thousand to whom He spake the truth, whether men came by night or climbed up into the trees in the broad glare of the hot-Eastern sun to see Him, whether they made a clamor by the wayside or just silently and stealthily touched the hem of His garment. When men would not come to the synagogues to hear Him preach and teach—that is to say to church—He went out into the streets of the city and up on the hillsides and brought the word of salvation to them. Now, to be sure, we have merely touched upon a very few of the elements which are characteristic of the preaching of Jesus. But so far as we have gone the lessons from the preaching of Jesus to the men of today are unmistakably definite and clear. And the lessons three are these: First, we should preach the Gospel; the simple story of salvation from sin through the love of God in Christ. Secondly, we should preach that Gospel not only to those who are rich, but to those also who are poor, whose misery is crushing and whose necessity is so urgent, whose hearts are so saddened and whose hope is almost gone. And lastly, we should carry the message of salvation out to where men are. If they will not come into our churches—and God knows many times it is more our fault than theirs that they do not come—then must we go out after them and compel them to come in—not first into church, but into the kingdom. First, we should preach the Gospel. "Tell me the old, old story," is not mere sentiment set to music, but the outcry of breaking and bleeding hearts and souls that are ready and eager to know the truth in Jesus Christ. And for my part, J, as a minister of the Gospel, believe the call of men should be answered. Answered not with theoretical and doctrinal discussions, not with recitals of our doubts and differences upon points that are non-essential, but with that simple and eternal truth upon which our hearts are stayed and through which the souls of men about us may be saved. The mission of the church is to bring the story of salvation unto humanity and I for my part am very sorry for the Christian brother whose soul is jarred into discord rather than swung into harmony with redemption's glorious song when those whom Christ has commissioned to reach His word call men to Jesus and ask them to take a stand for Christ. The Christian who objects to the methods of Jesus Christ needs to go to His knees and get a new baptism from above. Then, too, we must preach a universal Gospel—a Gospel that shall relieve poor men of restraint. And I, for my part, will have neither part nor communion with any congregation of God's people who would make clothes or cash a requisite to open-handed and free-hearted admission to the house of God. And I think I voice the opinion of this household of faith when I say that all men of whatever race, character or condition who wish to hear the good news of God unto eternal life through Jesus Christ are welcome to this church. And the more the Church of God reaches out toward men of low degree and men in sin the faster will she grow in grace and numbers, and the more will she do the will of Him who hath sealed her as His own. And lastly I may say that we ought to do definite, energetic, widespread personal and collective work for Jesus. It is our duty to go to men. Our command is not to do them come to us, but to go to bid them to come to Jesus. And this church and every congregation of the church militant would do a far grander and a more wonderfully blessed work if we would but go out to the people and tell them the glad tidings that they so much need to hear. How God Can Help. God is never at a loss for means to protect His people. Sometimes the means are surprisingly simple. With 200 men, armed with trumpets and lanceurs, Gideon drove a vast army of Midianites and Amalekites out of the land of the children of Israel. The youth David, armed with a sling and a few pebbles, defeated and killed the thoroughly armed giant Goliath. The prophet Elisha and his servant were alone at Dathan, when they found themselves surrounded by the army of the King of Syria. But Elisha was not afraid. The Lord smote the Syrians with blindness, and they became harmless. Felix of Nola on one occasion, when being pursued by his enemies, hid in a deep, dark cave. There he rested until his pursuers had passed. Coming to the cave, his enemies looked in, but, seeing a cobweb spun across the mouth of the cave, they concluded he could not be there, or it would be broken. Felix heard them speak of the web. Then he philosophised: "With God, a spider's web becomes a stone wall, and without God a stone wall becomes a spider's web."—Reformed Church Record. The Conversion of Waste. At the Engineering Exhibition just closed, considerable interest was manifested in a product which has proved to be of great commercial value. As exhibited before being ground into its final form, it resembles a collection of beautiful topaz crystals, which shine brightly in the light. It is another illustration of the scientific conversion of what was once known as "waste." These sparkling crystals are simply compounded of sand, coke, salt and sawdust, subjected to a heat of 7500 degrees Fahrenheit (an almost incredible degree of heat), with the result named. The scientific world is supplying the church with numerous illustrations of the "conversion" of waste. Society, however, pays little heed to the conversion of human waste, which it treats as hopeless. The Christian alone knows the secret power which is capable of redeeming the most abandoned portions of humanity, and claiming them for God —London Christian. What is Drying? I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then some one at my side says: "There! she's gone!" Gone where? Gone from my sight—that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me—and not in her. And just at the moment when some one at my side says: "There! She's gone!" there are other eyes that are watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There she comes!" And that is—drying—Sunday-School Erangel. You Look Prematurely Old Mirage Qff Coney Island. Early marine observers on the snowy beach at Coney Island, yesterday morning had a fine glimpse of air shipping. The sun was about an hour high, the breeze tight, and the sea had just enough of a lop on to give a slightly scalloped horizon. Strung out in order from the sun track there were seen coming in a tern, a fisherman's sloop, a schooner with topsails drawing, and a liner making her way up the main ship channel. This little fleet in the offing was held in a mirage which lifted every vessel above the horizon by about ten or twelve degrees, and left a strip of clear air beneath every waterline. Thus floating in air, they stood up the harbor on their way like an argyos in the sky. All at once something happened to the meteorology which had produced the vision, some invisible air current rolled attwart the line of vessels. First the liner dropped back into the sea, then the topsail schooner, then the fisherman, and last of all the term; one could almost imagine the splash, as the ships of the air returned prosally to the ocean—New York Sun. NOT ENVIOUS. Smartly—Brown's wife makes all of her own hats! Mrs. Smartly—Well, I don't care as long as I don't have to wear them—Detroit Free Press. FITS, St. Vitus' Dance; Nervous Diseases per manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, $3 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. B. Kline, Ld., $21 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Any poet can write magazine articles on how to live on $10 a week. A Natural Remedy—Garfield Tea! It is made of simple Herbs. Take it for constipation, indigestion, sick-headache; it regulates the liver, purifies the blood, brings Good Health. 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"Increase Your Yields Per Acre" e Farm Money crops you raise—cotton, 100 RED TAPE IS SHOWN In the First "Distribution" of Rockefeller's Great Gift. SOUTH ALMOST IGNORED Big and Wealthy Colleges, Which Are Able to Duplicate Gifts, Are Apportioned Lion's Share. Buttrick Explains. The first distribution by the general educational board since it received John D. Hockefeller's most recent contribution of $32,000,000,was made at a meeting of the board in New York Tuesday when conditional gifts totaling $625,000 were made to five educational institutions. The money was divided as follows: Yale University $300,000, Princeton University $200,000, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Ma., $50,000; Colorado College, Colorado Springs, $50,000; Millsapps College, Jackson, Mia., $25,000. After making these appropriations, the board voted to give a total of $42,500 to colored schools, the names of which were not made public lest the help of the board should tend to discourage gifts to these schools from other sources. With the five principal gifts is the condition that the institutions named shall raise a specific sum independent of the board's appropriation. Yale and Princeton are each to raise $2,000,000; Colorado College, $500,000; Bowdoin, $240,000, and Millisapps, $100,000. These subscriptions were decided upon after the board had considered applications from about four hundred institutions. All the members of the board were present with the exception of J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., R. C. Ogden and Hugh Hanna. The list of twenty-eight securities in which Rockefeller provided to pay his pledge of $32,000,000 was received, but were not made public, although it was made clear that on a basis of an average income of 5 per cent this recent endowment would aggregate an income of $1,600,000 annually. In speaking of the distribution of funds, Dr. Wallace Butrick, secretary of the board, said that in making the subscriptions the board had endeavored to act equitably. "You will see," said Dr. Buttrick, "that the southern institutions which have not the financial backing of some of the northeastern colleges are given sums under conditions which can be more readily met. They will not, have to raise such large sums themselves in order to receive the subscriptions given by the board. Western institutions, which are somewhat more prosperous than southern ones, receive gifts under terms which are quite easy. The northern and eastern institutions which are more able to raise the necessary amounts are naturally required to raise more on their own account for the amount given by the board." SALVADOR SEEKS PEACE. Little Republic Appeals to Mexican President to Intervene. Mexico has been at last requested to intervene and use her best efforts to bring about peace in Central America. The request came from the republic of Salvador and was made to President Diaz Tuesday by Dr. Baltazar Estupilan, the minister to Mexico, from Salvador. THE "GEORGIA" OFF FOR CUBA. Battleship Leaves Virginia Capes to Join North Atlantic Fleet. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says: The United States battleship Georgia passed, out the Virginia capes Tuesday for Guantanamo, Cuba, where she will poin the North Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Evans. NEGRO BANKER UNDER ARREST. Is Charged With Murder of Cashier of the Institution. Joseph Pettus, colored, president of the People's bank, a negro institution of Hattiesburg, Miss., has been arrested and charged with the murder of Edward Howell, the cashier of the bank, who was waylaid and shot to death on the night of March 19. After the murder, the bank vault was opened and several notes Pettus owed the bank and $2,700 in cash were missing. This led to the arrest of Pettus. BONILLA IS IN FLIGHT. President of Honduras Forced to Skiddo for Safety. Santos Ramirez, director general of telegraphs in Nicaragua makes the following statement: "The Nicaraguan forces have captured Cheluteca, Honduras, which was held by the Honduran and Salvadoran troops, and President Bonilla has fled by boat. Steamers will pursue the fugitive president. I believe the war is ended." TO TEST THAW'S SANITY Commission of Three Prominent Men is Appointed by Judge Fitzgerald. New Phaze of the Case. A Ntw York special says: Harry Thaw may never again face the jury empanelled more than nine weeks ago to try him on the charge of murder in the first degree. Justice Fitzgerald Tuesday unexpectedly named a commission in lunacy to inquire into the present state of mind of Stanford-White's slayer. The decision of the three disinterested men named to conduct the inquiry will guide the future action of the court as to ordering Thaw to an asylum for the insane or directing that the trial that has been interrupted shall proceed. Justice Fitzgerald announced the appointment of the commission privately in his chambers. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was there with the lawyers, and it became her task to break the news to her husband in the tombs. Tearful when she left the judge's rooms in the criminal courts building, the young woman, who has been such a conspicuous figure in the trial from first to last, was smiling and cheerful when Thaw was brought from his cell to the hospital ward of the prison to meet her. Thaw received the court's decision philosophically and said he had no doubt the commission would declare him a sane man. The personnel of the commission appointed by Justice Fitzgerald lends a new distinction to this already notable and salacious case. The men who will determine Thaw's mental capacity are: Morgan J. O. Brien, a former justice of the appellate division of the supreme court; Peter B. Olney, former district attorney of New York county and lawyer of high legal attalnments; Leopold Putzel, a practicing physician and authority on mental disorders. Former Justice O'Brien is one of the trustets, with Grover Cleveland, of the Hyde stock in the Equitable Life Assurance Society. When he was a candidate for re-election to the bench in 1901, as a democrat, Justice O'Brien was unopposed. President Roosevelt made a trip from Washington to Oyster Bay to cast his ballot, for him. Before being elected district attorney of New York county in 1885 Mr. Olney had been a member of the commission appointed in 1897 to revise the laws of the state affecting public interests in New York city. Dr. Putzel, the third member of the commission, is a graduate of Eellevue Medical school, and has had a long experience in that institution. MORE ARE OUT THAN IN. Nineteenth Convict Levants from the Chaingang at Americus, Ga. Convict Ernest Guerry escaped from the chaingang at Americus, Ga., Tuesday night. He is the nineteenth convict to escape recently. Guerry entered the tent of Thomas Godby, the guard, and exchanged clothes while Godby slept, leaving his stripes and donning the guard's suit and dress shirt. Sumter county has been most unfortunate the past few weeks in losing convicts, and at present has a larger number in the woods than in the chaingang. MOTHER'S HORRIBLE MISTAKE. Thought Son Was Burglar and Caused Him to Be Killed. At the order of his mother and with a shot gun fired by his 12-year-old brother, Hiram Patterson was shot and killed at Columbia, Miss., on Sunday night. The shooting was the result of a mistaken identity, Mrs. Patterson believing that her son was a burglar. Her delusion was caused by a prank of the young man. In coming home late and demanding admittance while refusing to tell who he was. The tragedy was not generally known until Tuesday. BOOSEVELT TO STOP WAR. Big Stick and'Mexican Troops May Be Used Against Belligerents. As the result of a series of conferences at Washington Monday by the Mexican ambassador and all the Central American ministers with the assistant secretary of state, this government will join Mexico in stopping hostilities in Central America. Joint intervention of the two peace-seeking countries will be made by the means of the "big stick" In the hands of President Roosevelt and an armed force, backed up by President Diaz, it necessary. VENGEANCE. OF NIGHT RIDERS. Tobacco Beds of Independent Planters Destroyed in Kentucky. During Saturday and Sunday nights the tobacco beds of a number of independent planters in the country south of Princeton, Ky. were practically ruined. These planters have been frequently warned that unless they joined the association of tobacco growers they would be visited by night riders. The Interstate Congress Negro Composers and Musicians THE MOST EXCELLENT TALENT OF SAVANNAH, BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL, IS NOW REHEARSING AND HAVE REACHED A DEGREE OF EXCELLENCE, IN RENDITION OF SOME OF THE CHOICEST COMPOSITIONS OF THE MASTERS TO DELIGHT THE MOST EXACTING AND CRITICAL MINDS. PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SPEAKS IN HIGHEST COMMENDATION. BOTH HE AND FORMER GOVERNOR W. J. NORTHEN EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT. NEGROES MEET DEATH As Result of Defiance of Uncle Sam's Authority—Secret Society Members Clash With Officers. As a result of a fight between members of an organization of negroes known as the Union Socialists on one side and city and government officers on the other, at Muscogee, Indian Territory, late Tuesday afternoon, John Scofield, a white police officer, was shot through the body just above the heart and will die; Guy Fisher, white, a clerk in a wholesale grocery establishment, was shot through the shoulder; Sam and Elbert Barker and a man named Scott, all negroes, are dead; two other negroes whose names cannot be learned were badly wounded, and are in hiding with friends, and six negroes are in jail. The United Socialists are established in many country towns and one of their claims is that the United States has no jurisdiction over its members. The leader of the organization, William Wright, a negro preacher, is among those arrested. The fight took place at a house occupied by the members of the organization. Officer Scoffield went to the house to serve a warrant on Elbert Barker and was shot down. In response to a riot call United States Deputy Marshall Ledbetter, Hubbard, Williams and Smith responded. When they reached the scene they were met by the Barkers, and in reply to the demands that they surrender, one of the negroes raised his winchester rifle to fire on the officers. The four officers opened fire almost simultaneously, both of the negroes being wounded. Although mortally wounded, the two negroes returned the fire, but without effect. Then shots were fired, resulting in the wounding of Fisher and a bystander and the two other negroes and the killing-of Scott. Because of the fact that this particular gang of negroes is disliked by the others of their race, further rioting is not looked for. They lived apart from other negroes, and were known as "money finders," because it was their custom to travel about at night and hunt for buried money. LANDS REOPENED FOR ENTRY. President's Order to That Effect is issued at Washington. The general land office at Washington has issued a statement giving the location of the following public lands reopened to entry by the president's order of March 12 last: Colorado, 1,250,000 acres; New Mexico, 2,000,000 acres; Montana, 2,100; 000 acres; Oregon, 710,000 acres; Utah, 138,000 acres; Wyoming, 1,240,000 acres; Washington, 320,000 acres. The lands were, previous to the order of March 12, included in lands classed as coal lands, and withdrawn from entry. FLANDERS REAL PROSECUTOR. Trial of Rev. Morgan for Perjury Begins at Wrightsville, Ga. The case against Presiding Elder F. F. Morgan, charged with perjury on an indictment obtained at the instance of W. J. Flanders, was called in Johnson superior court at Wrightsville, Ga., Wednesday. The state refused to mark the name of Flanders as the prosecutor, though the solicitor general admitted that Flanders was really the prosecutor. NIGHT TRAINS SAVANNAH & MONTGOMERY. 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Behold its splendid beginnings: We see with vision clear the Sacred City, the Temple erected by the wisdom of the Great King, the assemblable multitude of prophets, priests and people, while in the Holy of Holies rested the very presence of the living God: Onward and forward through the ages the serried ranks are marching, till in this wondrous twentieth century we still behold the banner of Masonry, undimmed by age, unstained by crime, unharmed by wars and revolutions, waving proudly above countless hosts of faithful craftsmen. Well may we stand with bared heads, with reverent mien, with shining eyes, with glowing faces, with fast-bearing hearts, with boundless love and enthusiasm, before this wonderful picture, this splendid scene, worthy the brush of the greatest painter the world has ever produced! Well may we exclaim, "We, too, are Masons; we, too, wear upon our breasts the compass and the square; we, too, worship the God whom our fathers revered; we, too, are warriors in the great cause of truth, righteousness and humanity!"—Max Meyercharft. MASONIC INFLUENCE. We often hear that some one has done much for Masonry. Did it ever occur to you that no one ever did as much for Masonry as Masonry does for him? The ledger ever shows a large balance to the credit of Masonry. May we not sometimes wonder whether our novitiates are indeed uninfluenced by mercenary motives? As man is a creature of his environment, may he not be expected to partake of the spirit of rapacious greed that masks under the name of commercial activity? Will he, who is a Mason in truth and spirit and who practices the pure principles of the art, be one who will find a Masonic offense in an indebtedness of business or a violation of contract, to adjudicate which civil courts are provided? When a defeated candidate at the polls arralns the members of his lodge because they did not support him, is he properly wielding the working tools of the craft? When the tongue' of scandiouis report sets the pack upon the man, does the true Ma- THE TROPHY BY MAYOR G. W. TIEDEMAN IS SUPERB-STANDING OVER FIVE FEET HIGH, OF BRONZE FILIGREE, OVERLAID WITH GOLD AND SMOKED AMMONIA ART PROCESS. FIRST DRAFT OF PROGRAM MADE MONDAY NEXT. 7 WATCH THIS SPACE EACH WEEK—THEN CUT THESE OUT FOR FURTHER REFERENCE. son join, or does he seek to drive the hounds back into their kennels? Are the teachings of the institution such that one can for a moment doubt the line of his duty? Should we mercilessly pursue the unfortunate man whose appetite leads him to debase his profession and destroy his faculties? Should we hasten to our lodge with formally prepared charges against such an one? Or should we go to his side and lift him up, set his feet right and hold up his hands? —B. G. Brown. AMONG THE MASONS. The Grund Secretary has sent to each lodge in the jurisdiction a copy of the Grand Lodge call, with blanks, etc., for the rendering of the annual report of the lodges. These reports, along with Grand Lodge dues, must be forwarded to the Grund Secretary not later than May 1, 1907. Do not send him any money for the Home. This fund is to be sent to Brother Spencer at Columbus. Read carefully the call and the return blanks, and no mistakes will be made in the rendition of reports. If you fall to get a return or call send for same, but do not delay your report for the want of same. Past Master Petty of Pythagor s Lodge and his members were in their glory on Monday night. The "goat" was at his best and made things lively for the candidates. Chapters of the O. E. S. needing programs for the annual observance Sunday in April can secure sane by writing the Royal Grand Matron, Mrs. Viola E. Hart, Americus, Ga. Grand Master Butler is constantly adding new lodges. He will be able to make a glowing report in June. CORTELYOU TO THE RESCUE. Secretary of the Treasury Gives Aid In Money Stringency. Secretary of the Treasury Corteloy Tuesday directed the deposit of customs receipts in the national bank depositories of New York city. This is an enlargement of the order recently issued by him. It will increase public deposits in that city about $15,000,000. WOMEN SPIES ARE SHOT. Moonshiners in Virginia Mountains Perpetrate Dastardly Deed. As a result of an attack by a mob of men on Sunday night, Annie Hall, a white woman residing near Charity, Patrick County, Virginia, was shot to death and her sister, Jane Hall, seriously wounded. The accounts of the killing are very meager and the killing is supposed to have been the work of illicit distillers of whiskey. The murdered woman and her sister lived in a cottage with their nephew, and it is alleged that they have been acting in the capacity of spies and have been reporting to the revenue officers the names of the operators. This infuriated the "mousshiners," it is reported, and a band of them, about a dozen in number, went to the house at a late hour at night and opened fire. Volley after volley was fired by the mob, and the house was literally riddled with bullets. The nephew referred to happened to be absent and consequently escaped injury. It was evidently the intention of the mob to murder all three of the occupants. No arrests have been made, but sensational developments are expected later. SOUTH IN ASCENDANCY. Coming Achievements of This Section Will Attract World's Attention. A notable speech was made before the chamber of commerce at Anderson, S. C., Tuesday night by Richard H. Edmonds, editor of The Manufacturers' Record. Mr. Edmonds took for his theme the material achievements of the south during the past ten years. Vast as these achievements are Mr. Edmonds asserts that what has been done is merely preliminary to getting ready for an era of achievement by the south that will grip the attention of the world. PANAMA LOCAL GOVERNMENT To Be Inaugurated April 15—Whole sale Charges Ordered. Changes in the local government in the Panama canal zone will abolish all municipal governments now in existence and result in the harmonizing of various parts of the zone, becoming effective April 15. President Roosevelt has signed executive orders providing for wholesale changes. ==: SSS ae