Savannah Tribune

ARMOUR LODGE WON. LONG PENDING SUIT AGAINST DI STRICT GRAND LODGE ENDED—18 The Boy of Today Is He Worse Than Boys of Other Days? By President Candage of the Boston "Industrial Home." N public school education the boy of the present possesses an advantage, in length of the school year and in studies as now pursued, over the boy of sixty or seventy years ago, but whether he leaves school better equipped to become a citizen and to battle for a livelihood is an open question. Some think he is not, and give as a reason for so thinking that he lacks kindliness in manners and respect for his superiors, and has little regard for law and order, as compared with the boy of earlier periods. Whether true or otherwise, such is the criticism. If true, does not the fault lie largely in the home training and not at the door of the public schools? The boy who is trained at home to be kind to his equals, respectful to his superiors, and to elderly persons, and to respect the moral and common law is not likely to become a terror to his neighbors by his lawlessness, although there may be exceptions to the rule. Today, our houses are heated with furnace, hot air, or hot water, and the boy has no wood to saw, no fires to build. Water is drawn from a faucet, and he has no pumping to do or water to bring in for washing and household use. And so in many ways he has been relieved of the "chores" the boy of earlier periods had to do, and he finds time for mischief, which, it is said, "idle hands" too often find. HE American people will do well to keep prominent before their eyes the fact that the earning capacity of a piece of property does not fluctuate with the quotations of the Stock Exchange. The crop of 190G was enormous and the price thereof was unprecedentedly high. It has not yet been consumed and not all of it has been marketed. The world is reaching forth its hands for every surplus bale of cotton we can spare, and tenders cash in payment. Labor is employed at better wages than ever before, and our 85,000,000 people are eating three times 85,000,000 full meals a day, wearing unpatched clothes and sleeping sweetly at night. Begone our fears! Not until apprehension of danger resulting from repeated predictions of evil leads to less acreage planted, less raw material purchased for the factories, less labor employed and a curtailment in consumption generally will be sufficient commercial collapse. VOL. XXII. ARMOUR L LONG PENDING SUIT AGAINST DE ARMOUR LODGE RESTORED TO COURT ASSESSED AGA The members and friends of Armour Lodge No. 1884 G. U. O. of O.F. are jubilant over the decision of Judge Ellis in the superior court of Fulton county in restoring the lodge to all of its former rights in district grand lodge No. 18 of Georgia. This was given by default, but it is nevertheless a victory. Armour Lodge took high grounds against the adoption of the endowment system of the grand lodge, holding that it was not legally ratified and even if it was that an account of the fundamental principle of the order, the executive board had no right in suspending the lodge after its refusal to accept the same. In this contention Armour Lodge was backed by all but one local lodge and several of them, out of the city, but all of them but Armour became weak-kneed and several of them were compelled to pay many hundred dollars illegally, to be restored to the grand lodge. Armour held out, rather die than submit to a wrong. The result has come and the lodge is restored without having to pay one penny other than the usual per capita tax. The grand, lodge was in session this week, and the lodge is ably represented by its efficient P. S., Past Noble Father W. S. Roundfield, who is one of the best informed Odd Fellows in the country. Armour Lodge is one of the oldest Odd Fellow lodges in the state, and has among its membership some of the oldest and most prominent men of the city and state. It is no doubt the wealthiest lodge in the state, having valuable real estate and sung bank accounts. Below is the order of Judge W. D. Ellis in the case: In Fulton Superior Court, July Term, 1907—Armour Lodge No. 1884, G. U. O. O. F., vs. District Grand Lodge No. 18, G. U. O. O. F., Jurisdiction of Georgia—Mandamus: Mandamus nisi having heretofore issued in above stated case, returnable November I, 1906, and no demurrier contesting the legal sufficiency of said petition nor answer raising any issue of fact having been led, and said case having been marked in default, said The Boy Is He Worse Than By President Cane "Industri N public school educa- can advantage, in len- as now pursued, over but whether he leave citizen and to battle. Some think he thinking that he lace for his superiors, and as compared with true or otherwise, such is the criticis If true, does not the fault lie large door of the public schools? The boy his equals, respectful to his superiors, the moral and common law is not like by his lawlessness, although there man. Today, our houses are heated with the boy has no wood to saw, no fires t and he has no pumping to do or wath hold use. And so in many ways he ha- of earlier periods had to do, and he n "idle hands" too often find. W 85,000,000 Will Continue the Meals a Day. By Leslie Former Secretary HE American people their eyes the fact is property does not Stock Exchange. The price thereof was not been consumed and world is reaching for cotton we can spare is employed at better 000,000 people are eating three times unpatched clothes and sleeping sweet until apprehension of danger resulting leads to less acreage planted, less rai less labor employed and a curtailment for commercial collapse. FULL RIGHTS AND ALL COSTS OF INST GRAND LODGE. case coming on now to be heard, and over three terms of court having been held, without said default having been opened, said mandamus is hereby made absolute. And you, District Grand Lodge No. 18, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Jurisdiction of Georgia, and H. L. Wilson, District Grand Master; B. J. Davis, District Grand Secretary; R. B. Heggs, District Grand Director, and A. Graves, District Grand Treasurer, and all and singular, other, the officers of said corporation, are hereby commanded (as officers of said corporation) to admit, restore and reinstate petitioner as a member and corporator therein through its duly elected and qualified representative or delegate, allowing him to appear, participate, engage, enjoy, remain, vote and delliberate in the meetings of said defendant corporation, giving to said plaintiff all the rights, belonging to a member of said corporation, and to said delegate all and singular the rights, privileges and franchises incident to him as delegate from petitioner, who is a member and corporator of defendant, as aforesaid, to the annual meeting of the District Grand Lodge No. 18, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Jurisdiction of Georgia, to be held on the 13th day of August, 1907, or on such other day or date at which said meeting may be held or adjourned and at such other meetings hereafter which may be held by said defendant corporation. Further ordered that said defendant corporation and the officers named in this order be served with a copy of this writ and that the cost be paid by said defendant. This August 10th, 1907. W. D. ELLIS, Judge Fulton Superior Court. STATE OF GEORGIA—Fulton County. I, A., B. Harrison, Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the order in the case as therein stated, all of which appear of file and record in this court. Witness my hand and seal of office, this the 12th day of August, 1907: A. B. HARRISON, Deputy Clerk Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. THE SUFFRAGE BILL S PASSED IN GEORGIA LOWER HOUSE. BY OVERWHELMING VOTE Aims to Disfranchise Negroes of the State—Must Go to the People for Ratification. By an overwhelming vote of 159 to 16, lacking one vote of being ten to one, the Felder-Williams disfranchisement bill was passed by the Georgia house of representatives Wednesday afternoon, shortly before 2 o'clock, and the second general bill of the session lacked only the signature of the governor to become operative. In this case the constitution of the state is affected and before it can become a law it must be passed upon by the voters of Georgia at the next general election. With two amendments only the bill was passed as it came from the senate. The first of these was a minor amendment by Mr. Dunbar of Richmond, which cut out the provision that only registered voters be allowed to participate in mass meetings. The second, so the opponents of the bill declare, does more to nullify its operation than any amendment offered. It is that by Mr. Wise of Fayette, which removes, from the bill all time limit as to the clause permitting registration to be made under what is commonly called the "good conduct clause." The senate restricted this clause to be effective until 1910, but the house cut the date off and it stands for all time. Mr. Hall of Bibb, in explaining his vote in opposition, declared that the bill thus amended, put the registrar in complete power, and any one could be registered under it, be he black or white, if the registrar thought he was of "good moral character." The principal purpose of the bill is to disqualify the ignorant and venal negro voters of Georgia, preserving to the white man the right to vote. It will eliminate at least 90 per cent of the negroes of Georgia as voters, and will not disqualify a single white man. The house, as the vote indicates, was strongly in favor of the bill, without any amendments, and its immediate passage. To insure a quick count all explanations, with a few exceptions were cut out or cut short and the aye and nay vote recorded and announced in thirty minutes after the call began. All of the Wednesday morning's session was taken up with the discussion of this measure in its manifold phases. Mr. Fullbright of Burke led the day for the opponents of the measure, and Mr. Wright of Richmond, in its support. After speeches, very short and to the point, were made, the previous question was called upon the bill and its pending amendments. From the first vote it was evident that when the bill was reached, "as amended," it would go through with a sweep. As the amendments were read the chorus of "noes" grow stronger until the amendment by the representative from McIntosh, the only negro member in the house, was reached, it received a single "aye," his own, and an avalanche of noes. This amendment sought to exempt with the old soldier class "all persons in involuntary servitude prior to January 1, 1863, and their children," which would have nullified the purpose of the bill. As all explanations of votes on amendments were prohibited the author did not get a chance to explain his amendment. The result was never in doubt from the time Mr. Adams of Chatham, the first name on the roll call, arose to explain his vote until Mr. Young of Troup availed himself of the same privilege. There were a few who opposed the passage of the bill to the last and a few absentees, but the largest vote yet polled was recorded on this measure. As amended the bill was sent to the senate for concurrence. DANCING RIFTS CHURCH Baptists in Valdosta, Ga., Have Sensational Split-Up Because of Dismissal of Erring Members. An unexpected split-up in the First Baptist church of Valdosta, Ga., has been the subject of much discussion locally. At the conclusion of his 11 o'clock sermon, Sunday morning, the pastor, Rev. L. R. Christie, announced that he had been requested to call a conference of the church, which he proceeded to do. Rev. Graham Forrester acted as moderator. Rev. Christie then read his letter of resignation from the pastorate, giving as his principal reason that he believed the time had arrived for the establishment of another church in the city, and that much good could be accomplished by the step. Fifty-three other members, including some of the most influential and prominent communicants, called for their letters and withdrew from the church. The entire board of deacons, and church clerk also followed the pastor. The First Baptist church is probably the leading church of Valdosta. It has a membership of about 700, and its church building is one of the handsomest in southern Georgia. Rev. L. R. Christie has been the pastor for five or six years, and he is regarded as one of the leading preachers of the denomination in the state. The spilt-up is generally believed to have sprung from the dismissals from the church some months ago of a number of young members for dancing, though all had not been in harmony before that time. It is understood that the members withdrawing from the parent church will begin work at once on the plans for a new church, of which Dr. Christie will be pastor. He is known to favor the building of a new church on the tabernacle order, and it is believed will make a stronger effort to reach the masses of non-church goers. BRUN PAYS VISIT TO TEDDY. Real Live Bear Makes Home In the Woods of Bangamore Hill. A live bear, of whom no one claims ownership, has taken up his home in the woods of Sagamore Hill, and in the early foggy hours Monday morning he paid a visit to the residence of President Roosevelt. The trampling of the underbrush near the edge of the cleared knoll on which the president's summer home is situated, roused the secret service guard to activity. He hastily organized the household dogs and stablemen into a hunting party. For three hours the hunt lasted, but the bear got away. MOROCCO SULTAN GRIEVES. Ready to Accord Any Satisfaction for Assassination of Europeans. The sultan of Morocco, through Ben Sliman, the Moroccan foreign minister, has transmitted t othe French consul at Fez an expression of the grief with which he learned of the assassination of the Europeans, at Casa Blanca, saying that no one more than he condemned "the act which cost five French lives." The sultan said he was ready to accord any satisfaction demanded, even to the dismissal of the pasha of Casa Blanca and the punishment of the guilty persons. UNCLE SAM AFTER HARBIMAN. Move Made to Force Railroad Magnate to Answer Questions. United States District Attorney Stimson filed in the United States circuit court in New York Monday a petition that E. H. Harriman and Otto Kuhn of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., be summoned into court to show cause why they should not answer certain questions relating to the control of the Chicago and Alton railroad. Mr. Stimson acted for Attorney General Bonaparte in filing the petition. JUDGE ARRESTED IN COURT. Taken from Bench on Indictment Charging Murder. Judge S. B. Short was arrested at Center, Texas, while holding court, on an indictment charging him with the murder of Dr. Mike Paul last fall. The arrest caused a postponement of court until he could furnish bonds of $10,000. Dr. Paul was one of a crowd pursuing a negro, Dick Garrett. Garrett took refuge in the home of Judge Short and fired on his pursuers, killing Dr. Paul. Garrett was hanged for the murder. Was Provision for Morgan Statue by Alabama. State Senate Made Every Effort to Push Matter Through, But House Seemed Disinclined or Was Too Busy to Act. Despite the efforts of the Alabama senate to have the remaining niche set apart in statuary hall in Washington for Alabama taken up by a statue of the late Senator Morgan, it will not be. The house was either too busy or disinclined to take it up, and it went to the coasts of oblivion, "left on the calendar," at adjournment of the legislature. There was opposition on the part of one member in the senate to have the statue thus placed, but the vote was unanimous for it. It may be that the next session will complete the work. The other place allotted to the state is taken up by a statute of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, once minister to Spain, an educator, and publicist, a man who devoted most of the productive years of his life to Alabama and its best needs. Friends of the movement, however, are not altogether disappointed in the outcome. They believe that with a short while to discuss the life and work of Senator Morgan, the people will more thoroughly appreciate his life and services, and make it all the more a response to popular demand than it is at this time. Senator Reese of Dallas was the leader in the passage of the senate bill, which carried $15,000, and made the daughter of the dead statesman one of the commissioners for the selection of the type and design. Members of the legislature and the citizens of Alabama as a whole have been greatly pleased at the way Lieut. Gov. Henry B. Gray tended to his position as president of the senate. He worked regularly, being out of his place less perhaps than any man filling a like position in any of the states. He took the work as seriously as he does the running of his bank, and gave to the state a constant service. Mr. Gray is the only announced candidate for governor. He has taken the position in the place he holds that the state is just as much entitled to regular attention to its business as a commercial house or a manufacturing enterprise. He get out of the chair a very few times to work for special measures, and those only when he desired to further bills that he regarded as essential to the welfare of his own city. His first vote to break a tie, resulting in the passage of a bill in the senate to provide indigent school children with books; his last to pass the Greater Birmingham bill, upon which so great a fight was made pro and con. When will the legislature be back? is a question often asked. It can be said upon reliable information that it will not be long if the railroad question is not well settlen. If the juries indict, and there is a gonflief with regard to the laws now restrained, and things get mixed up, the word of the governor is out that an extra session will be called in a few weeks. If the roads get an agreement with the state to wait until litigation is disposed of there will likely be no more of the lawmakers until next year. In any event, they may be looked for a year or so hence. Now that the session is over, the distribution of the increased funds for education will begin. It is going to be a hard job to get the most out of the money, however, as several acts that were very much desired were not passed. BONDS IN BARGAIN SALE. New York Securities Being Disposed of in a Novel Manner. Results of the first day's sale of bonds "over the counter" by New York city were satisfactory, according to officials. There was a steady call of buyers and sales of job lots of bonds ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 were frequent. In this way more than $300,000 worth of the $15,000,000 issue, which the city failed to dispose of by the usual method of bidding, were sold. TEDDY WON'T MEDDDER Will Take No Hand in Settlement of Strike of Telegraphers—Both Sides Still Remain Firm. President Roosevelt will not concern himself personally with the telegraphers' strike, according to the best and latest information obtainable. Appeals to the president to take some action looking to a settlement of the strike were received at the executive office in Oyster Bay Wednesday from boards of trade and commercial bodies of a large number of cities. The applications were similar to those formulated by the Chicago board of trade. The communications have been referred to the commissioner of labor, Mr. Neill. It is understood that no instructions or recommendations have been forwarded to Mr. Neill. The strike situation in Chicago and throughout the middle west, Wednesday night, according to officials of the Western Union and Postal, showed that during the twenty-four hours preceding the companies whose men went on strike have made rapid strides towards getting their business back on a normal basis. Conditions have improved, so much with the Western Union Telegraph company they felt they were justified in opening their board of trade office, and announcement was made that they would have telegraph operators on the floor Thursday morning when the market opened, ready to accept business for all parts of the country. The Postal telegraph officials declare that they were more than satisfied with what they had accomplished toward getting the service going, and that it will be but a short time until branch offices will be opened for business. Peace efforts inaugurated by Samuel Gompers and other officers of the American Federation of Labor are still under way, according to a statement made by President Gompers: "Peace has not failed, because peace has not been considered by either side up to the present time. While the men are still answering the impulse to strike, there is little, if any, use in trying to get them to think of going back." said Mr. Gompers. All the Associated Press circuits radiating from Chicago to the east, the north and the west, were restored to normal working basis on Wednesday morning. There was little change in the telegraph strike situation Wednesday as far as concerns New York. The Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies profess to be thoroughly satisfied with the progress made toward normal conditions. On the other hand the leaders of the strikers declare their cause has been strengthened by the responses to the calls to go out in many of the cities where strikes had not already been inaugurated. The demands of the striking Associated Press operators forwarded to General Manager Stone are as follows: Day Work—Six days, eight hours day, $30 per week and overtime and extra, at the rate of 60 cents per hour. Night Work—Six nights, eight hours $25 a week and overtime and extra at the rate of 70 cents per hour. The vacation to remain as at present. A proportionate increase for chiefs and sub-chief operators. CORTELYOU IN THE BREACH. Secretary of Treasury Goes to Relief on Money Market. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou has decided again to come to the relief of the money market and distribute government bonds to aid the movement of crops this year. The plan pursued last year, again will be followed with some modification, but in general it will be that formerly adopted by Secretary Shaw. In Order to Exploit Petroleum Products in Foreign Countries. In the business of selling petroleum products in foreign countries the price policy of the Standard Oil company has apparently been to sacrifice the interests of the American consumer for the purpose of securing foreign business. 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The last edition (160 pages) is from beginning to end filled with tables, short cuts, and up-to-date methods of calculating, making it the most complete, useful and comprehensive work of the kind ever published. It will make every one independent, sure and self-reliant in all practical calculations connected with farming and other lines of business. It will prevent mistakes, relieve the mind, save time, labor and loss. It is a pocket edition with pocket for papers and a loose silicate slate from which lead pencil marks are easily erased, and is an invaluable assistant for every former or business man. Leave New Orleans...... Leave Birmingham...... Leave Montgomery...... Leave Lumpkin...... Leave Richland...... Leave Americu...... Leave Cordele...... Leave Abbeville...... Leave Helena...... Arrive Savannah..... Had there been no change in proportional employment since 1870 we would have three and a half million more farmers than we have to-day. On the other hand, we would have 500,000 less manufacturers, 2,000-000 less persons in trade and transportation and 500,000 fewer in professional work. Much has been written about the deserted farms of New England, and the flocking of farm lads from everywhere to the cities, to engage in other occupations that that of their fathers. Reliable history says that shortly before the Revolutionary War ninety-seven per cent. of our people were farmers. One hundred years later (census of 1870) less than forty-eight per cent. (47.4 per cent.) were engaged in agriculture. At that rate, another seventy years would close out the industry altogether, but it is not going on at that rate now, and, what is more, it is not going forward nearly as fast as twenty years ago. It looks very much as though the next census may show a comparative halt in the change from farm to city occupations, for the last ten years shows very little loss. Does it indicate a reversed swing of the pendulum? To rightly understand the situation, we must look at the actual number of farmers, as well as the percentages, for, in spite of the decreased percentages, the farm workers have increased in numbers from nearly six million (5,922,471) in 1870, to over ten million (10,381,763) in 1900. Nor does that tell the whole of that side of the story, for those thirty years represent a period of the most remarkable advance in the use and efficiency of farm machinery ever known. Therefore it is probably safe to say that a million farmers to-day are quite the equivalent of two million thirty years ago in the planting and harvesting of food crops, and those are important items in agriculture. At any rate, our farmers are supplying the nation (that is now almost twice as large as thirty years ago) more generously than ever before, and in addition they are sending away more than twice as much to supply other nations as they were sending thirty years ago. While the supply of food and of clothing flares is important, that of brain and brawn is more so. The reduced proportion of farmers has not reduced the relative supply of material products, but, rather, that relative supply has been increased. Has it reduced the rural supply of brain and brawn that is the real fundamental of national endurance? It is now, and ever has been, from the farms that have come, by large odds, the major supply of our captains of government, captains of manufacture, captains of trade, captains of transportation and captains of intellect in all our great activities. From colonial farms and cabins sprang such leaders as Adams, Otis and Patrick Henry. From farmer stock all our earlier and many of our later Presidents were drawn. The training and influence of nature incident to farm life are of vast importance in the development of American boyhood. The early rising, the steady training of muscle, heart and lungs that comes of axe and plow and harvest time, of breaking colts and driving flocks and gathering fruits, of hunting days and fishing days and wrestling bouts, together with the plain yet savory foods such as abound in most American farm homes, build a physical foundation fit to stand the furious etrains that come to the captains' of the nation in winning their marvelous, successive victories. The sweep of the winds, the songs of the birds, the beauty and fragrance of the wild flowers, the glory of sunrise and of sunset, the very silence of the open limitless country, build into the life of expanding childhood and of opening manhood a touch of reverence and of generosity to which the artificial environment of town life is a compulsory stranger. The broad view of field and of forest, of plain and of mountain, the great stretches of cultivated areas, the long country roads, going on and on forever, the ceaseless flow of springs and streams, the quiet constant growth of crops, the direct and unconventional argument of plain-speaking neighbors, build into men's lives a breadth of view, a sense of correlation and a steadying power that can come from no other source. Add to this fact that the rural schools are better now than ever before, the rural homes have more books and newspapers, and at many a farmer's reside the multi-educating telephone is adding its insistent A Useful Witness. A witness was being examined as to the sanity of one of the inmates of the asylum. "You hold that this inmate is insane, do you?" a lawyer asked. "I do," was the firm reply. "Why are you so sure?" "The man," the witness said, "goes about asserting that he is Santa Claus." "And," said the lawyer, "you hold, do you, that when a man goes about asserting that he is Santa Claus, it's a clear proof of his insanity?" "I do." "Why?" "Because," said the witness, in a loud, indignant voice, "I happen to be Santa Claus myself."—San Francisco Argonaut. training power to mental development, and we are justified in judging that the intellectual, potentialities of the rural forces are quite as much increased as those of the material side. Therefore we are further justified in concluding that the sources of efficient leadership are not decreased by the relative shrinkage in agricultural employment. So much for the change in agricultural occupation—a loss of nearly twelve per cent in thirty years in relative numbers, a gain of seventy-five per cent. in absolute numbers, and a probable gain of 150 per cent. in absolute efficiency, both material and intellectual. What about that twelve per cent, relative loss of numbers? Where have those three and a half million farm lads found their industrial homes in the great families of national occupations? There are four other chief groups of "persons employed in gainful occupations." Of these, manufacture leads by a relative net gain of nearly three per cent. in the thirty years (21.6 per cent. in 1870 and 24.4 per cent. in 1900). More than three per cent from 1880 to 1890. Since that date a small relative loss. So small a gain in the thirty years will doubtless be a disappointment to many readers who, during the past twenty years, have read of the wonderful strides made by manufacture in the United States. We must therefore look at the absolute as well as the relative side of the subject, as we did of agriculture. This shows a little over seven million persons (7,055,992) in 1900; as against about three millions (2,707,421) engaged in manufacture and mechanical employments, in 1870, and a product increased from a little of $4,000,000,000 to $12,000,000,000. Again, there is no escaping the fact that improvements in machinery have more than made up for the relatively small gain in proportion of total wage earners. However, this surprisingly small net gain of persons accounts for about one-fourth of the boys that have left the far mossince 1870. The next smaller group of wage winners ("Domestic and Personal Service") shows so little change in the thirty years as to make it evident that very few of the farmer boys have chosen employment in that group. It may, therefore, be nehave left the farm since 1870. The next smaller group of wage ("Trade and Transportation") shows the greatest gain of all. Much over half, nearly two-thirds, of the missing farm lads have chosen employment in the enormously developing mercantile and transportation industries centering in the chief cities and branching out into smaller towns and hamlets of every part of our great domath. The professional workers, although comprising the smallest group, have attracted practically all of the rest of the missing farm boys. About one-sixth of them have entered "Professional Service!" that group that includes literary workers, lawyers, physicians, teachers, clergymen, legislators and others who contribute directly to the potentiality of the civilizing forces of the nation. If we note the absolute increase of workers in each group of industries and compare those advances, two striking facts appear: 1. Agriculture drops below the position of total population, thus again indicating its relative loss. 2. The two groups having the lesser number of workers have each gained almost 300 per cent. in the thirty years. Now to recapitulate: From 1870 to 1900 agriculture has made a net proportional loss of nearly twelve per cent, as among all "persons engaged in gainful occupations." That is, if the same proportion of all income winners were now, (1900) farmers, as in 1870, there would be nearly three and a half million (3,401,000) more farmers than there are. Of these absconding farm lads, over three fourths of a million (841,000) are in manufacture. Almost exactly two million (2,006,000) are in trade and transportation and a little over half a million (522,000) in professional service. In "spite of the relative loss of numbers, the potentiality of the agricultural element has rather gained than lost in both physical and mental force. Quite as evident is the potential gain over gain in numbers, in manufacture, in trade and transportation and in the professions: for the gain in the number of workers, large as it is, cannot account for the remarkable output of results that have contributed so mightily to the eminent position now held by this nation among the world powers.—Harper's Weekly. Spices and Indigestion. Although the use of spices for the purpose of heightening the flavor of food is almost universal, it is generally recognized that their influence on digestion is detrimental. Some experiments recently carried out tend to prove that while spices stimulate the motor functions of the stomach, they progressively*impair the secretory functions, and in the long run inhibit the production of hydrochloric acid. Of the whole, therefore, the ingestion of spices hinders, rather than alleviates digestion, though an exception may be made in respect of persons in whom spice ingestion is due to a dehydrated activity on the stomach, and also possible. SOME UNKNOWN AMERICAN NATURAL BRIDGES SOME UNKNOWN AMERICAN NATURAL BRIDGES BY T. S. PARSONS In the southeastern part of Utah, on the southwestern slope of the Blue Mountains, in San Juan County, far from the main lines of travel and in a region almost inaccessible, are dozens of natural bridges varying in size from a few feet to hundreds of feet across. Three of the largest are shown in the accompanying pictures, and they may well be classed among the wonders of the world. These three bridges are located THE GREAT AUGUSTA NATURAL JUAN COUN Span, 320 feet; height, 348 feet; THE GREAT AUGUSTA NATURAL BRIDGE, WHITE CANON, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH. Span, 320 feet; height, 348 feet; width of roadway on top, 35 feet. within a radius of three or four miles, and many smaller ones are found within a comparatively short distance. The smallest of the three shown is a giant compared with the Natural Bridge of Virginia, with which every one is familiar. *On account of the distance from railroads and the difficulties encountered in making the trip, but few people have visited these curiosities, and their discovery being comparatively recent, but little is known about them. Only within the last year or two has anything like a scientific study, been made of these peculiar formations. In 1905 Salt Lake City men visited the region, and the scientists of the party made an extended study of the structures and careful measurements as well as numerous photographs. A picture gives but a faint idea of the magnitude of these giant structures, the largest of which is to the natural bridges of the world what the Grand Canon of the Colorado is to the gorges of the world. It is claimed that the Augusta Bridge is the largest known natural bridge in the world; but Mr. Charles F. Loomis in his interesting book, "Some Strange Corners of Our Country," describes a natural bridge in Arizona that is large enough to contain a five-acre peach ditch upon its floor. Its structure is, however, radically different from that of the Utah bridges, so that it cannot be classed with them. These three bridges are situated in the White Canon, which leads down to the Colorado River. In fact, all of the natural bridges of this region are in canons leading down to the Colorado. The large bridges are in the very wilds of the continent, about 125 miles from Yellow Jacket Canon, Colorado, and 155 miles from Cortez, Colorado, the nearest outfitting point for travelers visiting the region. Bluff, Utah, a small Mormon settlement, is a sort of relay place or halfway point on the journey, which must be made on horseback most of the way. The dimensions of the bridges, according to estimates and careful measurements that have been made. THE LITTLE OR EDWIN NATURAL UT THE LITTLE OR EDWIN NATURAL BRIDGE, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH. Span 206 feet; height, 121 feet. will give one something of an idea of their magnitude. The largest of the three, the great Augusta Bridge, has a span 320 feet and a height 348 feet, with a roadway on top thirty feet wide. The Natural Bridge of Virginia with its span of ninety-three feet and a height of 215 feet is a more pygmy compared with this giant of the Rockles. The archway of the Caroline Bridge has a span of 250 feet and a height of 183 feet. The smallest of the three is known as the Little or Edwin Bridge. Though called little it is far from being small with its span of 205 feet and a height of 121 feet to top of the roadway that crosses it. -Scientific American. What is a Baby? A Baby: That which makes home happier, loves stronger, patience greater, hands busier, nights longer, days shorter, the past forgotten, the future brighter—Rupert's Magazine. Burglars made holes in the roof of the premises of Messea, Langham, pawnbrokers, Dudley, and by this means secured a hand of 100 watches and articles of jewelry. ORIGIN OF THE PINEAPPLE Evidence From Old Writers That If It is a Native of South America, There is little ground for any other belief than that the piceapple is a native American plant. The first mention of it is in Ovledo's work (1526). The edition of his work published in 1535 contains the first illustration of a piceapple ever shown by a European. "It may appear crude to us, and yet one can distinguish the plant with certainty. Ovledo was followed by a number of other prominent naturalists who described—and many of AL BRIDGE, WHITE CANON, SAN NTY, UTAH. width of roadway on top, 35 feet. whom pictured — the pineapple. Notable among these were Thevet, Benzoni, do Lery, Durante and Orta. Some of these knew and had seen the pineapple in its native habitat, Brazil. There, seems, however, to be some reason to believe that it extended northward in Mexico. On the other ```markdown ``` From a Photograph of the First Pineapple Illustration Ever Published.—De Oviedo, 1535. hand, it was probably not native to the West Indies. Agosta (1600) says it was introduced there from Brazil. However many, it was probably cultivated there before the coming of the Spaniards. There are at least three American AL BRIDGE, SAN JUAN COUNTY, TAH. names for the fruit; and there are no ancient names except those derived from this source. Moreover, no mention is made of it before the published description by Oviedo. The Backward Moora There is no education, as we understand it, among the Moors. There are no clocks, and it is estimated by one who knows that not fifteen per cent. of the population* are able to reckon the time of day. As the sun crosses the meridian at 12.17, o'clock a flag is run up on the tower of the principal mosque, and immediately other flags appear upon the towers of other mosques throughout the city. This is noon. At 1.30 another flag is run up, and at sunset the evening gun is fired. This is the extent of the Moorish idea of time. Only a few of the better class have booing or can read or write. The mails are carried by runners, who go from Tanglers to Fez in two days. They carry a leaf of coarse wheaten bread which, together with an occasional drink of buttermilk, serves as their only sustenance. Outing Magazine. In my thirty-four years of terribilial life I have seen many things to be remembered, as well as things to be forgotten. First it was the naked frontier, with its Indian troubles, then the brewing mining camps and later that peace and safety of life and property, incident to the westward march of law and order. It is not of these things I care to write. Cabio Blanco has exploited his frigorist experiences most entertainingly. Many others have furtured the same field. *Largely* this has been of white man against Indian and Indian against white man, but the following little story is of a scrap between the reds. It was fought somewhere near the west-end of the Plima-Maricopa villages, about 175 miles, in a direct line, east of here, and much further if following the various windings of the Gila along which the attacking party marched. In 1854; when the California gold fever was at white heat; the Government established Fort Yuma, the first post of its kind in the Southwest. It was located on an ingenious bluff overlooking the Colorado River. It was built for the suppression of lawlessness at that particular place. It was at this point the old Yuma trail crossed the river. Robbery and murder were of common occurrence. In this work the hostile Indians had but little advantage over some of his white brethren, who infested the crossing of the Colorado. Life was held lightly in those days by the men who rough-hewed the way civilization was 'to follow in the Southwest. Shortly after the location of the post an effort was made to chastise the Indians, and thus put an end to their continuous devilry. The post is on the California side of the river and the Indians to be punished were in Arizona—then New Mexico. The troops crossed the river and made a campaign of five days without seeing so much as a hostile Indian, but no sooner had they returned to quarters than the Indians showed up on the opposite side of the river and went into camp in full view of their would-be pursuers. It was later learned that the hostiles had fallen in behind the troops, marched when they marched, camped when they camped, without the soldiers being aware of it. The principal ranchera of the Yuma Indians, then, as now, was on the Arizona side of the river, about 100 miles to the north of the post. As depredations continued to go on it became necessary to teach them a salutary lesson in good manners. This was done at the upper ranchera in the way of burned villages, wasted crops and dead Indians. It was hitting them where they lived and was too much for paint and feathers. A peace with the white man was made and never broken. At the time when the post was established the Yuma indians—sometimes known as Cucans—were under the command of a noted war chief known as Caballo y Pelo (Horse and Hair). He is said to have been one of the greatest war chiefs the Yumas ever had. He died in 185S and was succeeded by Pasqual. Then, as now, the Indians on the Colorado burned their dead, and with the body all personal belongings of the dead and such articles in the way of weapons, food and finery as friends and relatives contributed to comfort the departed one in his fateful journey to the spirit land. Horses were stolen from the whites, sacrificed over the ashes of the dead chief, and then roasted and eaten. With much feasting, loud lamentations and wild outbursts of barbaric grief the assembled people recalled his parting admonition to the head men of his tribe to "never make peace with the Marloponas." The upper river men were their friends, but the men of the desert were their enemies, aid among them the Maricopas were never to be trusted. The dead chief had been a man of much authority in his day, and his parting injunction sank deep into the hearts of the fighting men of his tribe. Councils of war were held, and if was decided to destroy the Maricopas. To this end assistance was asked of the Chimehuevas, Molave and Yavannas, friendly tribes living to the north and northeast of the Yumas. The two former were river Indians, but the Yavannas were one of the hill tribes that did much to make the name of Arizona a synonym for blood and murder. The most noted fighting men of these tribes offered themselves for the occasion, and to this force of several hundred men, the pick and pride of these several peoples, was assigned the destruction of the Maricopas. They rendezvoused at the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers, within the limits of the present town of Yuma. From that point they began their fateful march against the Maricopas. The Pima and Maricopa Indians lived in scattered villages along the Gila River, the nearest village being distant about 175 miles east of the place of rendezvous. To the south and southeast of them lived the Papagos, a tribe of desert Indians to whom they were closely allied by blood, and marriage. Collectively the three tribes could gather together a fighting-force of about 1000 men, but the Yumas and their allies had no thought of meeting such a combination. The Pima-Marcopa were to be surprised and slaughtered, in full settlement of centuries of incumulated grievances. Big with In the gray dawn, or em- naling they struck the west end of the village with terrible shock. The surprise they found only a few squaws, whom they ruthled butchered, and still a few other little further in, an additional w to their first for blood. Sudden, in front and on both sides the alleys were attacked by an overwhelming force. With terrific yells they closed in on the invaders and then began one of the most desperate and bloody battles ever fought by Indians in the Southwest. Finding themselfs trapped, the alleys faced about and herolically struggled to ex- tricate themselves. The overlapping flanks of the Maricopa and their allies, the Plimas and Papagoes, darkened the way with flights of arrows, speats, and stones, but in the agony of desperation the Colorado Indians succeeded in breaking through only to be clubbed, speared or shot in the running fight that followed. This is known to have continued for forty miles. Of all that left the Colorado River with such high hopes, but few lived to return, and those to die of exhaustion and wounds. They had up a hard fight, but went down under the weight of numbers. The fatal trap had been barbarously baited with a few old squaws. The invaders unsuspectingly entered it and their doom was sealed. Quarter was neither asked nor given, and the brains of the wounded and ex- hausted were beaten out by the savage women that followed in the line of pursuit. Never in the lives of the allied tribes had they lost so many of their best men. In anticipation of easy victory and consequent plunder many of their squaws had gone far to meet them. They were frenzied with grief over the unexpected results. It is said that their wallings and lamentations could be heard for miles. Among the noted Yumas killed was Francisco, a chief well known to the few whites then living in the country. It was through his influence that the famous Olive Oatman had been given her liberty by the Mojaves, she having been purchased by them from the Anaches. For a time it was feared that the Maricopa, emboldened by their successes, would attack the Yumas on the Colorado, and all available warriors were held in readiness to meet them. The women and children were sent to the rancherla on the California side of the river, and numerous rafts were prepared for the crossing of the warriors in case they were again beaten; but the victors were satisfied to let well enough alone. Beyond an occasional meeting of a few bold spirits, this battle ended hostilities between the two tribes, and animosities have so far been forgotten that intermarriages have taken place between them. This has been due mostly to the schools at which the young people of the different tribes are in attendance. The Maricopas had been advised of the proposed raid of the Yumas by the Cocopahs. These were also river Indians, but residents of Lower California. From "all time," they say, they have been at enmity with the Yumas. A strip of land twenty-five miles along the river, between the two flutes, was considered neutral ground, but between the Cocopahs and Maricopas friendly intercourse had long been kept. Cocopahs were employed on the steamers that occasionally found their way up the river with Government freight. These the Yumas invariably killed if they were indiscreet enough to leave the protection of the white man's boat. It was while so employed that the Cocopahs learned of the intentions of the Yumas to raid and massacre the Maricopas. Certain it is that Markopa scouts kept their people informed of every move made by the invaders, for at least two days before they reached the villages, where they were impatiently awaited in overpowering numbers.—Correspondence in Forest and Stream. Jique Wood Ties. Mahogany is often used for ties by the railroads in Cuba, as well as in other tropical countries, but Sir William Van Horno has forbidden it on his road. He considers it a crime to cut small mahogany trees, as there is plenty of other-timber in the forests suitable for construction purposes. Jique (pronounced hickey) acana, jucaro nigro, all hard woods which do not grow large and cannot be utilized for cabinet work, are just as good as mahogany for ties and will outlast steel rolls in this climate, because they won't rust. On the railroad between Negritas and Camaguey, the oldest in Cuba, which was built in 1338, are jique ties which have been taken out and used for fence posts after fifty years. Some of them have been taken, out and used for fence posts after thirty years in the railroad bed. There is a tramway at Camaguey with rails of jique wood over which the cars have been running for more than a quarter of a century already. Do not show wear and more than steel after the same services, because the wood is so hard and hard, that it will sink in water. Differences Record Herald. PUBLISHED BY SATURDAY, BY THE TRIUME PUBLISHING CO. 116 W. E. Julian Street. Ball Phone 2171. DESCRIPTION RATES. One Year. $1.26 Six Months. 70 Three Months. 50 Three Months must be made by Express ent Office Money Order, or Registered Letter advertising Rates given on application. SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1907. THE Negro Business League is in session at Topeka, Kansas, this week. This representative body is doing much to encourage the Negro in business. We are always against the carrying of conceal weapons. It is only a cowardly person who have such things concealed. Our young men should learn to be law abiding in this respect by leaving their pistols, razors and knives at home when they go out. ALDERMAN H. E. Wilson acted as recorder during the week. He was the first recorder Savannah has ever had and well did he discharge his duties. He is an able and broad minded gentleman, and will never allow advantage to be taken of any one, matters not what station of life he may be. If all recorders were of the same stamina as Mr. Wilson, things would be better in this community. SEVERAL nights ago in Yamacraw, a policeman in attempting to arrest a colored man, fired a number of shots at him promiscuously in the crowded streets, hitting a horse, breaking a lantern while held by a white man, and it was only a miracle that several persons were not killed. No crime that a man could commit should cause an officer to be so reckless in a crowed thorough fare unless lie was a dead shot. Chief Austin should see that such acts are not repented. At certain entertainments, picnics and excursions, a class of young men generally attend and without cause create a disturbance. These fellows are being spotted and are not allowed to attend these things. The institutions that place them on the blacklist are to be commended as it is a step in the right direction. They should be treated more severely. Whenever they raise a rumpus, their names should be presented to the authorities so that they can be punished by the law. Rowdyism must be abated at these picnics and entertainments. THE TRIBUNE extends to the sixteen members of the Georgia legislature who voted against the disfranchisement bill, the gratitude of every single colored person in the state. This bill was passed by a large majority on Wednesday and will be presented to the people for ratification at the next election. For this election our voters must prepare. Every colored man of lawful age should put fourth sufficient manhood and race pride as to go and pay up all the tax that is due and become qualified to cast a vote against this race hating act. Be men and act now. Why can not the better class of our young men in this city come, together, organize and either purchase or build a Y. M. C. A. building? Certainly this is not a task beyond them. Just one half of the money spent in one year for pleasure would, perhaps pay the cost of a handsome structure. Such an organization and building in the hands of intelligent and worthy young men would be a credit to the community. The young men of Savannah must wake up and do something along this line or else they are going to be left far behind. Both Atlanta, Augusta and Columbus have Y. M. C. A. buildings and strong organizations. In these buildings one may find reading rooms, gymnasiums, bath rooms, lecture-rooms, etc. Now is the time to act. DESPITE the following very manly and other protests against the disfranchisement bill, it passed the house on Wednesday. This protest is from Hon. H.A. Rucker, of Atlanta and it contains great truths in a nutshell: "We were satisfied, without choice, and as glaves to your muscles felled your forest, tilled your lands, built your high wags and your houses, and or neatly two, two in your houses, you directely in your way you directely and billions of dollars where wasted. "You were a party to this strife, and the courage and cleverness you displayed in it-is a matter of history which commends you to all nations. But have you thought that you could not have won such admiration and that your efforts on the field would have failed early in that great struggle if faithful, honest, toiling men and women in black skins had not been left at home? "Your struggle was for the continued enslavement of these people. But did they prove traitor or treacherous? Did they outrage your women or mistreat your children or neglect your fields or your cities?" "Since the ending of that terrible strife have we not under the changed relationship striven to be your friends, and be mainly? Have we not toiled as before, and have we not suffered that which caused the earlier strifes, the articles of confederation and the declaration of independence? Are we not taxed without consent or representation or without the privilege of aiding in the selection of those who impose taxes? Are not the taxes paid by us distributed without regard to our wishes and without respect to our opinion? Are you not to derive their just powers from the consent of the governed?' Are these truths and will you turn your face from them and persist in making right? "The South is our native land and we love her hills and her fertile valleys and the possibilities and opportunities nature's gentle hand has provided for her. We would love to live here and contribute our talent and our brawn to its further complete development. We shoot here and due here as citizens not mere subjects: "When you tax us as you do for the maintenance of 'your institutions, and of this we have not complained; when you deliberately plan to deprive us of our enfranchisement, the ballot, the most effective weapon of a free American citizen; when you purpose that we shall not be permitted to assemble in our lodge rooms, a privilege vouchsafed in the Declaration of Independence and in the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, which declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside, and that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, we realize that there is but one thing left to remind us that we are still wanted in this state. If we are not wanted, this one thing should speedily be removed, so that the emigrant agent can get busy in every county in the state. "The question of disfranchisement is one of the morals, and in this, right and wrong are involved. It often requires a deal more of moral courage to do right to align one's self up with righteousness than it does to do wrong. We review this experience we are apt to find this true in far too many acts. "The members of the Georgia legislature have the opportunities to demonstrate moral courage in considering the disfranchisement bill. I'll they do that?" Mr. Browder said to the colored man us they would have the colored man do unto them?" MATTERS not how successful a general may be in battle, if he continues fighting some day he will meet his Waterloo. For every Goliah there is a David and for a Norwood there is a Dixon. There hangs a tale with which all of our people in this section is familiar. If we had said the same things about the learned judge of the city court, no doubt ere this time our friends would be feeling sorry for us and we would be languishing behind the prison bars. Col. Merritt W. Dixon has done an act and said somethings that we have been thinking deeply about for years but were compel to keep in the darkest recesses of our mind. During the war and after it the people had this thought that were so well put by Mr. Dixon: "Of course, I do not, when I speak of war, refer to the kind of a green goggled campaign of which he was hero, to the kind of a beast with the hard Cardinal now and did then that "The pen is mightier than the sword." About the first time that Judge Norwood was brought into prominence was at the time when Judge Simms was appointed to the judgeship of the city court during early reconstruction days. Judge Norwood's philippic against this appointment was a gem and immediately gave to its author prominence the State over and laid for him a political foundation upon which he has been since standing. Judge Norwood has ever been a relentless hater of the Negro, and this is proven by this truthful assertion of Mr. Dixon: "His sentences of little Negro tots are generally out of all proportion, and the severest punishments are given without stint for the smallest and most trivial offenses—this is known of all men. The truth is that no suffering or sorrow ever touched his heart, or rather the place his nature ought to be. To sum up his natural nature he has no more soul than Lot's wife after she had been turned into a pillar of salt." And further Mr. Dixon delved into the judge's character and brought this much out. "I have known the judge for many years, and in all his controversies, and he has made a chip on his heels. I have known him to write a manly, dignified or temperate article, levly bitterness, sarcasm and cynicism, seem to be his entire literary stock in trade. His mental arrows are all poisoned, and are dripped in the intense bitterness of his own gall. His attempt at wit is always surcharged with venom, his humor as deadly as the dangers of the cobra, and like that interesting reptile, he is always in his coil. He soars not like the eagle, but he stoops like the vulture. As a judge, he really has no humane or impartial sense of justice, and, as a general rule, in the infliction of his penalties, he is cruel, implacable and mercies; especially to the weak, friend, and the criminal court is like a spider's web—the big files break through, the little ones are caught. As a fit person to serve the cruel Czar of all the Russias, Mr. Dixon, says of him: "Had any Russian Czar had known you in your earlier life, and had truly appreciated your worth, he would have overlooked every man in his empire, and made you, dear sir, his minister of police, to be a heathen, crafty, selfish, cruel, and all with a sort of enlightening, what more could be desired? Oblige by a Musevice ruler, self-interest is the master-key of your nature, the mainspring of your motives, the Alpha and Omega of your life." As to Judge Norwood's purity of heart and compassion of feeling, Mr. Dixon drives this much home: "If there be angelic spirits in the great beyond, who witness our frailties and sufferings, they are pure in heart, chaste and compassionate, and from the eyes of the pure in heart and the compassionate, tears are easy to fall—even Jesus wept. But Ohl Judge, you are very far from being an angel. Not the agony in Gethsemane—not the death on Calvary—could wring one tear from your hard, cold merciless steel eyes." Junge Norwood has been on the city court bench for many years. He had an excellent opportunity to show his venom among the colored people, and he did it in a masterly manner. We are thankful that after this month he has only four more brief months to remain, but as brief as they may be, they will appear a decade. AMERICA's greatest sculptor, Augustus St. Gaudens, whose masterpiece in Boston is the monument to the memory of Col. Robert Gould Shaw and his brave Negro regiment, passed away last week in New Hampshire. Of him the Guardian says: "He left to mankind a profusion of the most powerful example of art and the Negro American may justly be proud in the thought that this masterpiece the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, was inspired by the valor of the nation's black defenders and their noble leader." THE tragedy that occurred on Monday night on the Thunderbolt road, is regretted. Those connected with it are well-known and their friends feel keenly. It goes to prove that upon all occasions discretion is the best thing with which to act. If it was done in this case, one life would have been saved, there would have been one less widow and sorrowing relatives in the world, the home of the accused would have been other than darkened with sadness and containing tear-stained cheeks and the accused would have been about their several voeations and no doubt happy. Ministers' Union The Evangelical Ministers' Union met on Tuesday morning at St. Philip A. M. E. Church with the President, Rev. J. A. Lindsay presiding. After devotional services by Rev. B. H. Hannah, the roll was called by acting secretary, Rev. J. S Jenkins. This over, Rev. C. D. Johnson, Rev. F. A. White and Presiding Elder Jas. Jackson treated the Union to semantic outlines. The brethren expressed themselves as being benefited by the sermons. Ravs. R. O. Branch L. W. McMillan, Gillard W. O. Sherman and Johnson W. O. Sherman theological "till" over the text, "Thon God me." If you want your intellectual strength renewed with your spiritual strength, you will do yourself a favor by attending the union. The union was well attended, and was quite interesting from beginning to its close. The brethren enjoy the "Ministerial Union" and harmony which grows out of these meetings. He that is not with us is against us in our struggle to unite God's Messengers. Second Baptist Church The usual order of services for the week was carried out with an encouraging degree of success. More members attended the communion services Sunday afternoon than have been present on any occasion in 18 months before. Pastor May preached both hours. Rev. Jas. M. Simms and Rev. Quo. B. D. aided Dr. May in the communion rites. The sick list is comparatively small at present, only six or seven persons being very ill. The pastor attended two funerals during the week, one a member of this church; Sister Jake Munds. Mrs. Etta Cuttgright performed on the organ Sunday in the absence of the regular organist, Miss Essie Monroe, who is sick. All members and friends are requested to help the church raise the money to-morrow the church in the National Convention at Washington, D.C. The pastor will preach at hours to-morrow. Morning subject "Standing the test." Evening subject "Looking forward." Everybody has a standing invitation to all the Sunday services here, also the Tuesday and Thursday nights services. Sunday School at four o'clock to-morrow and all children are urgently requested to be present. Remember the pastor's phone number is 901 Bell. Bethlehem Baptist Church Services were well attended all day Sunday at Bethlehem Baptist Church. At 5 a.m. prayer meeting. Preaching at a.m. by the pastor. It was enjoyed by all. We also had one of the missionary sisters from the National Baptist Convention, and she spoke very Interestingly. It was enjoyed by all. At 3:30 p. m. Sunday School was well attended, conducted by Sultp F. H. Williams. At 5 p. m., the Y. M. C. A., met as usual and carried out an excellent program. At 8:30 preaching again by the pastor. Prayer meeting Tuesday night. Visitors are always welcome. Odd-Fellows in Session. District Grand Lodge No 18, G. U. O. of O. F., held its annual session at Macon, commencing on Tuesday. The opening exercises were appropriate. The business session begun on Wednesday morning when the report of the committee on credentials were rendered. Much interest centered in this report on account of the sealing of Mr. W. S Roundfield, delegate from Amour Lodge of this city. This was done without any trouble. Opposition to the administration developed but the astute Grand Secretary, Ben J. Davis was able to stem the tide and easily won out. This naturally made his friends feel jubilant and shower him with congratulations. Following officers were elected: H. L. Wilson, Grand Master; I. H. Singleton, Deputy Grand Master; A. Gravens, Grand Treasurer; B J. Davis, Grand Secretary; B. S. Ingram, Grand Director; M. B. Morton, W. L. Hughes, E. J. Mathews, Auditors; H. L. Johnson, Attorney. Mrs R. L. Barnes, with her Household of Ruth made an excellent showing. Mrs. Barnes understands well how to manage large bodies. A large number of Ruths were in attendance. Miss Lizzie E. Hendrickson of this city responded to the welcome address in behalf of the Ruth. THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY READY FOR BUSINESS. 25 Experienced Agents Wanted at Once. The Savannah Mutual and Fire Association of 20 state street, west, of Savannah, Ga., announces its readiness to begin business. The company will write insurance on the homes, household goods, churches, lodges, business houses and other property of our people. This will afford protection which has hitherto been denied them. Twenty-five or more agents will be put to work at once in various parts of the State, and a thorough canvass made for safe legitimate business. A few persons 25 or more who have had some experience as agents and possess other required qualifications may secure positions with salaries of forty to fifty dollars per month, according to fitness for service. For further particulars address D. C. Suggs, Pres or Lc.8. Reed, Sect. 20 state street savannah, Ga. For Recreation and Pleasure GO WITH Forest City Lodge 140 K. of P. To Beaufort, S. C TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1907 Steamer Pilot Boy leaves foot of Whitaker street at 8 a.m. FARE 50c. CHILDREN 35c The Pythian Band will accompany the excursion. Plenty of refreshments. Good order and a pleasant ride. Don't fall to go. A. S. Loyd, Chairman. I. W. Smalls, Ex-officio. DO YOU LIKE We combine the three essentials in garment making in Clothes namely, QUALITY, STYLE and FIT. Not every man knows how to make fine clothes; but the man who knows, and knows he knows, is the right man—follow him. WE DO LADIES TAILORING TOO. Call or drop us a card, we do the rest. Bryant Brothers TAILORS CORRECT OUTFITTERS; 9 Farm Street, Savaunah, Ga. THE EXCELSIOR First-class work Guaranteed. PRESSING LADIES CLOTHES A SPECIALTY. BELL PHONE 3470. 409 JEFFERSON STREET. Special Notice to Ladies When your Sewing Machines get out of order—skip stitches—breaks thread or runs heavy, Call at New Home Office Corner Barnard and York Street And ask for ELIJAH J. QUARTERMAN, Expert Adjuster. Edw. T. F. Smalls TO BUILD THAT HOUSE AND SAVE MONEY, SEE E. W.. BURT, Carpenter & Builder, 110 BRYAN STREET, W Bell Phone 1131. 10-5 6m This steady growth shows that this company has the confidence of the public; BUT WHY? BECAUSE we show visible evidence of the good we do for our people with the funds intrusted with us for investment in more than 100 homes we have built or bought for them. BECAUSE the people have full confidence in the twelve good men that composes our Board of Directors. BECAUSE our company is a strictly HOME institution, and all of its funds being used exclusively for the betterment of Savannah people. BRING Us YOUR DEPOSITS. We pay 5 per cent interest compounded quarterly. Take some stock with us. We have paid 12 per cent dividends for the past four years. The Wage Earners Loan & Investment Co., The Pioneer Negro Savings Bank of Georgia. Bell 'Phone 1198. 468 West Broad St. W. M. GRAY, Pres., A: L. MONGIN, Vice-Pres. D. W. OSHORNE, Treas., John D. SAVAGE, Gehl'l-Mgr. The Afro-American Union Saving, Loan & Trust Co. CAPITALIZED AT $5,000.00 216 Whitaker St., Savannah. Ga. THIS COMPANY Is now open for business. Depositors being favored with the following favorable rates upon all deposits. 5 Per Cent. Interest will be paid upon DEMAND Deposits. 7 per cent upon all ANNUAL Deposits. MONEY LOANED Upon Negotiable Notes and Real Estate subject to the Rules governing such Transactions! We solicit the Patronage. OF THE PUBLIC The Company has a few more shares of Stock for sale at $5.00 per Share. After Stock is paid up, Stock holders will receive not less than 8 per cent. Johnson's Undertaking Establishment. All Orders promptly attended, Day or Night. Firstclass Embalming and all work of that kind guaranteed. Our stock of Coffin, Caskets and Robes is the largest in the city. We also have a first class Livery Stable where we furnish the best Carriages, Hearses and Funeral Cars. We also have in our employment Mr. H. S. Dunbar, who would like to see his friends at any time. MANAGERS: H. S. DUNBAR W. R. FIELDS, Bell Phone 676. 335-333 JEFFERSON STREET. Stock $1.25 per share. Unparalleled Success. A clean record, splendid showing, managed by a board of directors of able business men; looks after the interest of the people; conducts a thriving SAVINGS BANK; pays 7 percent on deposits. The UNION SAVINGS solicits your account upon its record. We desire the accounts of Firms, Lodges, Societies and Social Clubs. Get in line with the thinking men and women of the race and stand by Negro Concerns. UNION SAVINGS & LOAN COMPANY, 20 State Street, W. Only First Class Service Rendered With —Respectful Attention.— OUR STOCK OF CASKETS, COFFINS, ROBES, Etc, is Complete Bell Phone 887 19 Oglethorpe Ave., West MANAGERS W S ROUNDWELL C.H ROY Residence 523 Anderson St. Residence 712 C Willie H. Johnson, The Leading Grocer Fine Stock of Groceries and Confectioneries, Also MANUFACTURER of Candies and Ice Cream. Good Profit is made on Johnson's' Ice Cream. Special Prices on large orders, Bell Phone 3728 Cor. Cuyler and Duffy Sts. Having acquired an interest in the Johnson Undertaking Establishment wish to announce to my friends and the public that I will thank them for all future patronage as in the past. All work will receive prompt attention? Bell Phone 76. W. B. BROWN, 325 Jefferson Street. Styles' Park Open FREE FREE FREE To Societies. Lodges PICNICS AND OUTINGS For general information, apply to H. W. MANN, Agent, 551 Liberty Street. east. The People's Transportation Wagonettes leave Henry and East Broad every Sunday at, 4 o'clock p. m., until further notice Miss Jennie Lee Hill and Master Roy Hill left the city Monday to visit relatives and friends in New York. Miss Mattie H. Brown of 516 Anderson street, east, will spend a few weeks with relatives in Thomasville, Ga. The Berean Baptist Sunday School Convention will convene at Union Baptist Church at 10 o'clock on Friday next. The Letter Carriers' moonlight trip takes place next Thursday night around the harbor. Go and have a pleasant ride. The Misses Carrie Leu Jackson and Bessie Berry, after spending two pleasant weeks with relatives in our city left for Augusta last Sunday. Misses M. Jefferson and M. E. Coleman will leave, on Sunday for Brunawick to spend some time with relatives and friends. Rev and Mrs. M. Dennard also their guest Miss Agnes B. Proctor, went on a launch outing and are at Sini Island. Miss Agnes B. Proctor left Sunday a week ago to spend a number of weeks at Sterling, Sa., the guest of Rev. and Mrs. M. Dennard. Mr. W. R. Fields left on Wednesday night for Washington, D. C. From there he will visit his sister at Baltimore and his daughter in New York. Miss Florence H. Banks closed her summer school on Friday of last week at Bullock Co., and returned home Monday to the delight of her friends. Near two thousand excursionists arrived in the city on Monday night from Montgomery, Thomasville, Valdosta, Albany, Waycross and intermediate points Miss Irene Windham of Montgomery, Ala., was one of the excursionists to the city this week. She was the guest of Mrs. Laura Habersham on Hall Street, west. Mrs. Silvia Smith left on Friday for New York where she will spend awhile with her daughter Mrs. Francis Williams. We wish her a pleasant trip The garden party at the rectory of St. Augustine's Mission on Tues day next will be an enjoyable affair. The public is invited to attend. The admission is only ten cents. Armour Lodge is still in its glory This was verified by the very large crowd on the two boats that were carried to Beaufort on Tuesday. Everybody had a good time. Mr. C. J. Smith of Thomasville, Ga., accompanied by his three children Miss Helen Beatrice, Masters V. W. and J. C. Smith circula ted among relatives and friends this week in our city. Dr. J. H. Bugg, our popular city physician, left on Wednesday night for Lynchburg, Va., to visit Mrs. Bugg and the children. The entire family will hardly be reunited because he has left the d——dog behind. Mr. Daniel G. Monroe left Washington city on his vacation August, 16th, and will spend a few days in the district after which he will leave for Savannah where he will remain with his mother and friends. The Grand Chapter O. E. S. meets next Tuesday morning at Americans. The Sayannah delegation will leave over the S. A. L. on Monday morning, the train leaving at 7:05 o'clock. Col. J. H. Deveaux left on Wednesay for Washington, D. C. He will visit his son, Mr. John H. Deyeaux, Jr., at Hampton and also take in the Jamestown Exposition The Colonel's friends feel that the trip will do him much good. If you did not see your article in THE TRIBUNE, just rest assured that you did not sign your name to it and for that reason it was consigned to the waste basket. No article will be published unless the sender's name is signed to it as a matter of good faith. Misses Julia A. Holmes of Alabama and M. M. Kimbali of Texas who are National Baptist Convention Missionaries were in the city several days this week. They stopped with Dr. and Mrs. J. H. May, 417 East McDonough street. They left Tuesday for Beaufort, S. C. 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. Mr. T. J. Williams, after an absence of twenty years, is in the city visiting his mother and other relatives. He left here when he was a small boy and has traveled extensively throughout this country. In recent years he spends the seasons between New York and California. Things have changed considerably since Mr. Williams left here and the city appears to him a revelation. His friends were glad to welcome him home. The South Carolina Mutual Association will give a grand excursion to Abercora Master Lewis Ulyses Binyard celebrated his fourth birthday on Monday afternoon last at his residence 514 Bolton street. W. Master Frankle Clarence Peters of Macon came to the city on Sunday night to attend the celebration and returned on Tuesday morning after an enjoyable time. Guests present were Misser-Susie May Allen, Julia Mack, Lillian Mills, Bonzula Smith, California Anderson, Nona May Mitchell, Earnstine Smith, Alice Smith, Madeline Clemons, Lilla Binyard and Uira Smith. Miss Lillian Binyard, Masters Frankle O Peters, Tommy Anderson Nathaniel Melrose, Luther Holmes, Joe Maxwell, Robbie Helmes, Earnest Johnson. Each showed their appreciation and brought a token of love. Long lifes and many friends. Friends in the city of Mr. U. A. Turner who has been for the past several seasons head bellman at the DoSoto, will be glad to know that he is head bellman of two of the largest hotels in New York. He is therefore in a good position to help many of our young men and he has done so. He is sober and industrious, a very good lesson for our boys to learn. One of the pleasant events of the season was that of the Fox Club last week. A good crowd went with the club and every one had a pleasant time. The members of the club are known to give their patrons a good time. They are to be commended for not allowing the undesirables to go on board. Several to whom tickets were sold were refused passage and money returned. This is a good way to discontinue rowdyism on outings of this kind. The Lone Star Branch surprised their Vice president Mr. J. S. Quarterman at his home on Monday evening. Those present were Mrs. H. Martin, Mrs. F. Proctor, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. M. Smith, Mrs. Ida Mack Miss R. Barnard, Mrs. E. A. Duncan, Mrs. L. Quarterman, Mrs. G. Barnon, Mrs. M. A. Johnson, Mrs. M. Fields, Misses L. Jones E. Holmes, J. Roberts, and Messrs. L. A. Washington, E. C. Collins, A. B Haywood, B. Onspard, S. M. Mallard, J. Proctor, J. Green, J. H. Fields and others. Mr. Quarterman, left for Fort Meigs, Florida next day. The Y. G. E. A. and S. C. outdid themselves on Monday last by carrying an overwhelming crowd to Beaufort. All who went had a jolly time. The excursionists were treated to an exciting game of base ball between the Y. G. E. and the Imperials. The victory was gained by the latter. The feature of the game was the battey work of Mesura. F. Haywood and R. Shellman and batting of F. Haywood and P. Denegall of the Imperials. The stars for the Y. G. E. were Messura. Geo. Ferguson, A. W. Wright and W. D. Kennedy. The battey was T. Green, Adam Morrell, R. Pierce and A. Holmes. The members of the committee having the excursion in charge are to be commended for turning down those whom they deemed were undesirable. Mr. E. N. Metts, manager of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company of Charleston, S. O., with his corps of lady clerks, Misses Daisy B. Merchant, Daisy L. Hearn, Lucie Merchant and Viola Mickell arrived in the city Sunday morning of last week and was met by Manager F. M. Cohen and W. D. Armstrong. They were taken to the home of the former where they were entertained in fine style. In the afternoon they took in the sights of the city and were accompanied by Miss Lucy Campbell, Miss Saphronia Gaston, Miss Hettie Roston, Mrs. F. M. Cohen, Miss Whitfield, Mr. Walter J. Lawson, Mr. J. J. Bolen, and Dr. J. H. King. A delightful private picnic was given on Wednesday evening August 7th, by Messrs H. C. Hugen and C. N. Warde in honor of visitors in the city, Miss Septima Sanders of Beaufort, S. C., Mrs. J. A. Hart, of Columbia and Messrs W. A. Thompson and W. R. Robinson of Columbia. The merry crowd went on the transfer wagons for Styles Park where they enjoyed a pleasant evening in dancing and games. Those present were Mrs. Nathan Roberts, Mrs. J. A. Hart, Mrs. Charles Allen, Mr. and Mrs John Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McTier, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Warde. Misses Septima Sanders, Ada Scott, Mamie Williams, Ella Covington, Evalena Huger, Mary Lou Allen, Messrs H. C. Huger, W. R Robinson, Frank Houston, W. A. Thompson, J. W Daniels, J. Scott, Frank Bell, John Whitfield, J. Mackey, Mrs. M. A. Holmes. Meeting at Beach. A meeting of the graduates and undergraduates of the Beach Institute will be held on Monday night at the Chapel of the Beach at 8:30 o'clock. At this meeting the organization will be made permanent and it is hoped that all graduates and undergraduates who are able to, will attend and encourage the organization. The meeting will be short. Killing Deplored. Monday night last Mr. Warren Wilson was killed in front of the house of Mr. Lawrence Morrel near Bonaventure. Messrs. Milledge Anderson, Albert Jackson, Lawrence Morrel and Jack Williams were charged with the offence. They were not held by the corpse's jury. A warrant was sworn out for them before Justice Naughtin. On Thursday evidences were presented which proved unsatisfactory and the accused were discharged to the delight of their friends. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. A grand sea breeze putting to Daufuskie by the Y. L. and G. B. C., Monday, August 19th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. A grand excursion will be given to Beaufort by the P, G. M. Council No. 60 and Household of Ruth No. 458 Monday August 19th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. The Letter Carriers will give a moonlight trip down the river on Steamer Clifton Thursday night August 22nd leaving 730 o'clock. Tickets 60 cents. The Browns A. and B. Club will give their fifth annual dance at Masonic Temple Monday night August 19th. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. Central Baptist Church will run a grand excursion to Daufuskie Tuesday August 20th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. Mt. Tabor Baptist Church will give their last grand excursion to Beaufort, Tuesday August 27th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. Forest City Lodge No. 134 K. of P. and Diamond Court of Calanthe No. 257 will give their outing of the season to Beaufort Tuesday August 20th. Tickets 50 and 38 cents. The West End Pleasure Club will give their Fall dance at Masonic Temple Monday night Sept. 2nd. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The Letter Carriers will give a moonlight outing on Thursday August 22nd, the Steamer Clifton leaving at 7:30 o'clock. It will be a pleasant trip. Care is being taken to carry a select crowd. Fare 50 cents. A-swell dance will be given at Our hall by the-U. D. of Lincoln and the R. D. of Ezekiel Monday night August 19th. Tickets 15 cents A grand picnic will be given at Styles Park by the Royal Brothers of the Southside Monday August 19th. Admission to Park 15 cents. A grand picnic will be given by Rose Walker Fountain No. 2692 U. O. T. R. at Styles Park Monday August 26. Admissinn to park 15 cents. A grand excursion will be given to Springfield, Ga., on the Brinson Railroad by the Imperial Aid and Social Club Monday August 26th. Fare round trip 75 cents. The first Annual dance of the Crescent A. and S. C. Branch will be given at Masonic Temple Tuesday August 27th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. A grand excursion will be given by Bt. John Lodge No. 47 I. O. G. S. and D. of S. to Daufuske Monday Aug. 26th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. The fifth anniversary of the Browns A. and S. C. Branch will be given at Masonic Temple Monday night August 26th. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. The Battleham Baptist Church will run an excursion to Daufuske Tuesday Aug. 27th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. A grand excursion will be given to Springfield, Ga., via Brinson railroad by the Bethany Baptist Church and Sunday School Monday August 19th. Fare 65 cents. An up-to-date Ball and prize waltz will be given at Margaret street hall, on Monday night Sept. 2nd, by the Morning Glory Aid and Social Club Tickets 15 and 25 cents. A grand plenic in celebration of their 10th anniversary will be given at Styles Park, by F. A. B Church, of East Savannah, Tuesday August 27th. Tickets 10 cents. The F A. B Church will give their third excursion of the season to Beaufort, Monday August 26th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. The Golden Star Cirele Ald will open the season with a five nights fair at Duffy Street Hall, commencing Monday night Sept. 6th. Tickets 10 cents. The first annual dance of the Crescent A. and S. C. Branch, will take place at Masonic Temple Tuesday night August 27th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Union Sons and Daughters of Elijah will give a grand hop at Masonic Temple Monday night Sept. 19th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. A grand excursion will be given to Bluffton, by the Colored American Pleasure Club Sunday August 25th. Tickets 50 cents. A grand literary concert will be given by the Women Home and Foreign Missionary Society of Sh. Sh. John Baptist Church, at the church, Monday night August 56th. Tickets 10 cents. A Japanese Party will be given by the Independent Donation Club of F. A. B. Church, for the benefit of the pastor at the residence of Deacon O. Elmore, 329 Taylor street, east, Monday night Aug. 10th. Tickets 10 cents. A grand ball will be given by the Magnolia Pleasure Club at Margaret Street Hall, Monday night August 26th. Tickets 10 cents. An operatta entitled "A day in Flower-dom will be given at Second Baptist Church by the Choral Union under the auspices of the Sunday School for the benefit of the church, Wednesday evening Sept. 4th. Tickets 15 and 10 cents. DR. L. S. PARES, 240 Barnard St., Sayannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work or the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Filt- ings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of tech $750 and $3.00. Broken Places mended, and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. BellPhone 1244 Gold Crowns Guaranteed GOLD CROWNS GUARANTEED 23% K Gold 60 YEARS EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &c. Improve sending a skate and description may be possible without systems, does whether invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBORN on Patents sent free. Oldest through Munn & Co receive special notice, without danger in the SPECIAL SALE MEN'S SUITS The advance of every season finds with many broken lots of Men's suits in all grades and sizes, blue, black, fancy: These suits are among the most popular in our line. Thats the Reason They Sell Now in order to close out these broken lots we have taken all short lines from $13.50 to $30 and placed them on a table to themselves, and on them at the following reduced prices: $13.50 AND $15 SUITS - FOR $10 NEW $16.50 AND $18 SUITS - FOR $12 NEW $20 AND $22.50 SUITS - FOR $14 NEW $24 AND $25 SUITS - FOR $16.50 NEW $27.50 SUITS - FOR $18 NEW $30.00 SUITS - FOR $20 NEW Regular Sizes, Extra Stouts and Extra Longs. B. H. LEVY, BRO. & 5 Broughton Street, Savannah, Georgia. Metropolitan Mercant Company. A New Pharmay The People's Pharmacy 809 West Bread St. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Drugs Toilet Articles and Sundries. Candles, Soda Water and Ice Cream. J. F. Ford, Prop. Capital Stock $1,000,00 HAS ON THE MARKET A BLOCK OF $100,000 STOCK AT $20,00 PER SHARE There was sold in the city of New York a $25,000 worth of Stock in one day. It is the be offered the public and will not be on the market per cent. F. F. Jones, We are building those "Queen Annie" Cottar Our terms are the easiest and best for the poor safest for the investor. Call or write and let us with you. Our proposition is worth investigation. DEALER IN Beef - Veal - Mutton Lamb-Pork-Hams Bacon and CORNED BEEF Branches everywhere. Reference everybody P. Sheridan Ball, President. L. C. Collins All.Kinds of GAME in Season. Goods promptly delivered to any part of the city free of charge. J. H. Atkins, Treas. W. D. Armstrong J. J. Bolen, Fiscal Agent.. F. M. Cohen, Gen 526 West Broad Street, Savannah, Ga. Belle STALL 31. CITY MARKET. Metropolitan Mutual Benefit Association. In addition to our sick and death benefit policies we are offering the public industrial insurance in straight life policies ranging from $100.00 to $500.00. Premiums within the reach of all. A fair value for your money in a reputable company is what all of us are looking for. This is what we are giving. See any of our agents or call at the company's office for rates and particulars. The leading insurance company in the south. Giving ample support young men and women than any other company of like benefit. The UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION is the people's insurance is the first home insurance company of its kind in this city. Founded, built, owned and controlled entirely by Negro men of the Every policy is backed up by a deposit of $5000 with the State Tax When you take out a policy with the UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATE you have made a safe investmant. Energetic men and, women can make anywhere from $5.00 to 25.00 a week working for this company. Office 526 West. Broad Street, Savannah, Ga. Funeral Director GENERAL UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING EVERYTHING FIRSTCLASS RATES Dr. J. W. Jamerson, DENTIST. Go to him and, have your work done. Crowns, gold and white, looking like the natural teeth. Fillage, gold, silver and cement. Plates, fuller partial. Bridge neatly done. Extracling done with ease. All work done neatly in a great first class place. R. BARNES Manager H. BURGESS Mgr NORTH EAST CORNER WEST BROAD HUNTINGTON Provided with all necessary appliances WEST BROAD STREET Huntingdon and Hertford PRETTY THINGS TO WEAR 1 New soft, crush- able materials are the more fas- tioned best of their season and they are with them a very natural de- sertion for waders and gowns that are made full and soft. Here is one of the earliest variations of the over waist that is charming after a dainty A Parisian Fad. It is a Parisian fad among young women to wear on their blouses of linen or bodices with chemisettes of lace a ribbon of black moire of which the ends are ornamented with large rough pearls set in diamonds. Short Jumper Kimono. The jumper kimono is one of the later developments of the all popular idea and very charming, very graceful it is as well as simple in the extreme. Indeed, it involves so little labor in the making that even the busiest woman might have a number, while it falls in altogether graceful, becoming and satisfactory folds and lines. In the illustration dotted dimity is trimmed with an embroidered banding. But not alone all the pretty lawns, batfists and the like are appropriate, the kimono also could with propriety be made from Japanese silk, from cotton crepe and from such light weight pools as cashmere and albatross, while for still colder days pretty light weight flannels are appropriate, trimming being almost anything in contrast that the individual may suggest. The kimono is made in one piece. It is slipped on over the head, there being no opening whatsoever. Straps are attached under the arms that form the sleeve portions and serve to keep the kimono in place. 4 The quantity of material required for the medium size is two and three-eighth yards twenty-seven, two and one-eighth yards thirty-six or one 1 and one-half yards forty-four inches wide with five and one-half yards banding. is commodious enough to accommodate a cabinet photograph and a wig-makers shop. Long Lace Curtains. In Paris, long lace curtains are being used with short sleeves when a long lace is not desirable. The first choice in them is the plain lace cuff of the same tone as the gown. Elastics are run in the tops so that they can be put on and taken off quickly. TO MAKE SUBMARINES SAFE. English Naval Officers Invent an Escaping Suit for Accidents. Two officers of the British navy, Commander Hall and Staff Surgeon Rees, have invented an apparatus which, it is expected, will remove the present dangers to crews navigating submarine boats. It is designed to enable the men to escape from the vessel, even if, it is filled with water or poisonous, gases. Experiments carried out by the Admiralty at Portsmouth proved, it is stated, that the apparatus will fulfil what is claimed for it, and it is likely to be adopted soon by the British fleet. The invention resembles a diving helmet, with a jacket attached. It contains an ingenious oxygen generator, the chief feature of which is that the oxygen may be breathed and rebreated repeatedly for several nours, because the carbonic acid in the respired air is absorbed by a special substance called oxylithe. The apparatus also has the qualities of a life buoy, and the wearer when under water can by a simple manipulation rise, to the surface, rapidly and float until rescued. The apparatus can be hung handily within a submarine boat and can be donned in thirty seconds. Even in the most poisonous fumes of chlorine gas, which sea water generates when it comes in contact with the batteries of submarine boats, the wearer can live for an hour and twenty minutes. Commander Hall says he does not want to keep the patent a secret, and there is no reason why foreign governments should not use the apparatus. —New York Sun. An Apt Reply. A jury in Blankville were sent out to decide a case, and after deliberating for some time came back, and the foreman told the judge they were unable to agree upon a verdict. The latter rebuked the jury, saying the case was a very clear one, and remanded them back to the jury room for a second attempt, adding, "If you are there too long I will have to send you in twelve suppers." The foreman, in a rather irritated tone, spoke up and salid: "May it please your honor, you might send in eleven suppers and one bundle of hay."—Lippincott's. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. How a Veteran Was Saved the Amputation of a Limb. D. Frank Doremus, veteran, of Roosevelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind., says: "I had been showing symptoms of kidney trouble from the time I was musterd out of the army, but in all my life I never suffered as in 1897. Headaches, dizziness and sleeplessness, first, and then dropsy. I was weak and helpless. A. B. having run down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain in the kidneys, and the secretions passed almost involuntarily. My left leg swelled until it was 34 inches around, and the doctor tapped it night and morning until I could no longer stand it, and then he advised amputation I refused, and began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The swelling subsided gradually, the urine became natural and all my pains and aches disappeared. I have been well now for nine years since using Doan's Kidney Pills." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foater-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. LANDING IN ENGLAND. Going Through the Custom House Is a Simple Matter There. There is no country where the matter of landing from American passenger ships is so easy and so expeditiously done as England, says the Travel Magazine. Of course, it is a free trade country, the freest in the whole world. There are duties levled on tobacco and spirits, but travelers are allowed a half pound of tobacco, in any shape and a half pint of spirits, which also means the same as perfume. Sugar is dutiful, whether in grain, sweets or in jam, but a small quantity is freely passed. In all cases, however, these goods must be the actual property of the passenger, and be for his use and control. Cocoa, coffee and tea are also durable, as are reprints of English books. Outside of these things, as namad, passengers can bring in anything, motors, cycles, horses, but not dogs, for which animal a not to exceed six months quarantine awaits. Keep dogs on the American side. The customs officials are life appointees—under the civil service—and will be found most obliging and helpful. In fact, they are a model to the customs world. Tell the truth at all times to these officials and you will be all right. They are marvellously keen on spotting the supposedly smart liar. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. The Bride—I told hubby I was going to give him something of my own cooking and he said I'd better try it on the dog first. Wasn't that a cruel suggestion? Her Friend—Very! I thought your husband was so fond of dogst—Illustrated Bits. Even Luther Burbank hasn't yet succeeded in grafting the milk weed to the strawberry plant and producing strawberries and cream regrets the Somerville Thirst. FOR THE FARMER AND STOCKMAN Soil Formation.imal should have enough of mixt All soils are formed from disintegrated rocks and organic matter. Of the latter, soils contain from one to more than seventy per cent; it is, however, only in bogs or beds of peat that the amount last named is ever present. The best wheat lands contain only from four to six per cent. of organic matter; oats and rye will grow in soils containing only one or two. The intelligent farmer should endeavor to ascertain what is wanting in the soil and supply it, remembering that he can make no possible mistake with barnyard manure. Do Justice to Poultry. Poultry should now be filling the egg basket, and will, if they have justice done them. It is not enough that they are well fed; other conditions are required. Their houses should be well cleansed, their nest boxes thoroughly washed and a little quicklime sprinkled in them. The floors of their houses should also be well sprinkled with quicklime, and the roosting poles whitewashed. All these are necessary to purify the atmosphere and destroy the vermin that infest these places. The cleaning process should also be applied to the horse, cow and sheep stables. You Cannot Afford It. No farmer can afford to do without a good garden. It is not to be expected that every one will be a fancy gardener, but every one should give sufficient attention to the subject so as to produce all staple vegetables earlier than can be produced in the field. It is not only essential to the health and proper enjoyment of the family, but it is actually a matter of profit. Could your whole farm be made as smooth, dry, rich and as well cultivated as a good garden, the increased product would pay a large per cent. of profit upon the outlay. In the garden, or in a separate apartment, may be cultivated strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, grapes and dwarf pears. They can all be had at a very small cost of money or labor, and will add immensely to the enjoyment of the household. Good Males Demand Good Care. We should not "give a rap," as the saying is, for a "rooster" that is not gallant enough to give his mates first privileges when it comes to eating. The rooster that is always ready to "lick" another one that happens to cross his path, the rooster that does not hesitate to show his vocal capabilities by frequently crowing, and the rooster that is courteous enough to believe in "ladies first," and stands and calls his mates and then steps aside while they cat the daftny morsel he has found—that rooster is one after our own heart. Show us that kind of a rooster and we will show you a rooster that is capable of strongly fertilizing eggs from a maximum number of females. But—here, dear friend, is often the "rub"—a male bird of this kind must secure in some way just as much if not a little more to eat than does his less-gallant brother and, unless fed separately, he will become so run down in condition in two or three weeks of breeding service that he will begin to be seriously lacking in sexual strength; therefore, it becomes necessary to remove him from the females every day or two and give him a generous feed of corn and meat of some kind, that is, green cut bone or ground beef scraps. That is the only gallant way for you to treat a gallant rooster, and you will find at the same time that it is the only profitable way.—Poultry Editor, in The Epitomist. Feeding a Horse. The Journal of Agriculture gives some figures of the cost of feeding a horse in the West. How do they compare with the cost of keeping one in this State? What does it cost to feed the work horse during the year? It is claimed that when timothy is worth $18 per ton; wheat bran, $17.50; corn, $22; dried brewers' grass, $17 and gluten meal, $29 per ton, that horse can be fed during the six months when the hardest work is done for $21. During the remaining six months the cost of feed is put at $24.70. It will be noticed that the cost of timothy is figured at about double the price it sells for on the average farm. This is because the authorities who made the estimates live near the large centres, where prices of feeds are higher than in the outlying sections. Where mixed hay retails for $8 to $9 per ton, corn for fifty cents and oats thirty-five cents per bushel, it is safe to say that the average work horse, weighing 1400 or less, can be fed the entire year and kept in good lesh for $40. In the first estimate made above it will be noticed that the price on gluten feed is quoted. It has been found that this material can be fed to horses with excellent results, especially in the spring, when the animals need a variety. A ration composed of one part gluten feed, one part oats and two parts corn make almost the ideal feed for the work horse. The an- imal should have enough of mixture to maintain his condition, however. About one pound per day for each 100 pounds the animal weighs is considered the proper amount. Fertile vs. Infertile Eggs. The Country Gentleman referring to the statement of a Montreal woman in a poultry journal that she has been able to distinguish between eggs that will produce males and those producing females by locating the air cells, those having the cell directly across the large and hatching cockerels, while those having the cells slanting slightly contributed pullets, thinks scientists might well devote some time to experimenting to devise some easy method of distinguishing fertile from infertile eggs before they are placed in the incubator or placed under the hen—in fact before they leave the hands of the spiller if they are bought. This would save a lot of disappointment. The common custom is to test eggs after four or five days, removing those not showing indications of fertility. These are not in the least injured by the few days' heating. But this latter business, while it saves a part of the hatch, does not do away with the disappointment at paying well for valuable eggs only to have too large a percentage prove infertile. Incidentally it is worth mention that even the experimenting Montreal dame does not explain how she arrives at the conclusion that the straight across air cell produces the cockerel, since the hatch of fourteen simply showed them equally divided in sex as the air cells indicated they would be. Variety and Profit. The farmers should make stock raising more profitable by growing a variety of crops, instead of depending mostly upon grain and hay, for variety-gives the farmer more advantages. If he grows turnips he secures them late in the season (usually after liability of dry weather has passed), and a large supply of roots will enable him to economize with the grain and hay. He can also grow late corn fodder, cow peas and rape, the latter affording excellent pasturage for sheep and swine when grass may not be abundant. But it is not so much the growing of various crops for use at all seasons that the farmer should consider so much as the full blins and storehouses of succulent food for winter use. It is in the winter season that the farmer has the advantage of using the crops he has grown, and increasing their value by adding thereto his labor. Many farmers object to certain methods of feeding because they claim that the thorough preparations of foods are too laborious, but if all farmers will consider that the more labor they can sell in the form of some product the greater their increase, they will not hesitate to give more attention to food preparation. Lost time is really lost labor, and the farmer who is not employed every day is losing something. If he can save food and make target profits he will be more than recompensed for his labor, and the best time when one can be well paid for the work is in the winter, as the foods, the manure heap, the repairs of buildings and implements and other indoor work are then the most important matters. Dry Foods. In winter many animals are compelled to subsist largely on dry rations, the sameness of diet being such as to some times cause loss of appetite. In fact, in many cases of livestock being "off their feed," as it is termed, the cause is due to lack of sufficient food, or insufficient variety from the regular routine. With the supply of ensilage this difficulty is not so largely met, but some farmers will not build silos, preferring to adhere closely to old methods. A few acres of beets, carrots or turnips will not fall to be of valuable assistance, not because such articles are highly nutritious (which is not the case, as they are composed largely of water), but rather because they contain a large per cent. of water, are easily digested, and provide an agreeable change of diet—from dry food to some thing more palatable—thereby increasing the flow of milk because they stimulate the appetite, promote digestion and induce the animals to eat more. Invention has also lessened the cost of preparing foods, as cutters and "silcers rapidly" reduce carrots and other roots to a condition in which they can be fed to the animals without danger of choking them. The corn fodder supply, if well cured, and cut down in the field at the proper time, will also be more highly relished if cut into short lengths. Farmers depend upon hay, but they use too much hay, because they either waste other valuable foods, or do not prepare such for the stock. If a bushel of carrots can be reduced almost as fast as they can be fed into the chopper, as may be done, the labor of cutting them is very inexpensive, and the benefit of feeding a variety will be very noticeable. PE RU NA FOR CATARRH OF THE STOMACH BOWLS DUARRHEA DYSENTARY BCOATING. NIGHT SWEETS SUMMER COMPLAINT August is the month of Internal catarrh. The mucous membranes, especially of the bowels, are very liable to congestion, causing summer complaint, and catarrh of the bowels and other internal organs. Pe-ru-ns is an excellent remedy for all these conditions. No grief is as great as the one you cannot take to a friend for sympathy. Argo Argo Argo Argo Argo Argo Argo Argo Argo Argo. Crossing the Delaware "Washington Crossing the Delaware" has been painted more than once. Sully's magnificent painting, thrown on his hands by the Legislature of North Carolina is in the Boston Museum. The picture by Leutzie is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. George crossed, the Delaware on December 8. He was refreaking to Pennsylvania, wasn't he? Washington was a brave man. Why is he depleted standing erect in a small boat, great hunks of ice on all sides, enough to swamp a ship, telescope in hand, looking hungriily for the Pennsylvania shore? He is not represented as a general leading an army, but as a fugitive from justice. Fleeing from the wrath to come. I hate such pictures. Their historical effect is bad—New York Press. About Bats. Nearly all bats have the faculty of hibernation. Their hibernation, however, is not perfect—that is to say that when the warm days occur in the middle of winter they wake up, together with the insects which are their food. Still, theirs is a true hibernation trance, differing from sleep, with very low rate of pulse, heart action and respiration. Probably they would endure immersion in water for an hour or two without drowning, as other hibernators have been found to do. -Pittsburg Dispatch. High-Priced Meat may be a Blessing If it gives one the chance to know the tremendous value of a complete change to diet. Try this for breakfast: A Little Fruit, AdishofGrape-Nuts and Cream A Soft-Boiled Egg, Some Nice, Crisp Toast, Cup of Well-made Postum Food Coffee. That's all, and you feel comfortable and well-fed until lunch. THEN REPEAT. And at night have a liberal meat and vegetable dinner, with a Grape-Nuts pudding for dessert. Such a diet will make a change in your health and strength worth trial. "There's a Reasen." Read "The Road to Welville" in pages. The Pulpit A SERMON BY THE REV- DRAW HENDERSON Subject. "The Opportunities and Abilities of the Church." Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Weirfield street and Hamburg avenue, on the above theme, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his texts Jno. 4:35 and Mal. 28:20. He said: It was Theodore Roosevelt who said "The one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity coupled with the capacity to do a thing worthily and with the doing of which in its vital importance touches the welfare of all human kind." Opportunity and ability—that is to say, the chance and the capacity to do. All true success is a combination of these two elements in human life. Failure is a lack of either or of both. Without opportunity the man of capacity, of ability, of real worth is handicapped in the race of life. To be without the chance to do is to be doomed to failure, whatever may be our capacities or abilities for accomplishment. Contrariwise lack of ability is a failure of what the Mute, inglorious Milton of when the bard so sweet sang, was and is-to-day a man of power, of capacity, of ability, lacking in opportunity. Not otherwise many a man has had opportunity standing at the door of his life beckoning to success who has shorn that opportunity of its value because he has had no ability, because he has been unable to accept the chance that was presented to his view. If there is a sadder thing than a man of genius lacking opportunity, it is chance awaiting the acceptance of incompetency. Ability needs opportunity to the exercise and the presentation of the powers of the human soul. Likewise opportunity is valueless without corresponding and sufficient ability. As with the world so with the church of the living God. The church has ability beyond any force that works for righteousness and for God in the world to day. But if the church has no opportunity for the exercise of her divinely granted capabilities for the uplift and the regeneration of the world her capacities in the other hand, whatever the opportunity of church may be, save as she has the ability to do the work that God has given her to accomplish her opportunities are voided. The opportunities and abilities of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us look for a moment at her opportunities. There are to be found to-day conditions that are at the first glance diametrically opposed that afford an opportunity for the church of the living God. The opportunity of the church is to be found in the lack of principle so largely presented in the lives of the leaders in our social life, as has been revealed in the recent and horrifying disclosures in our political and financial and industrial affairs. Another opportunity of the church is to be found in the imperfect acknowledgment of the part of men in all walks of life their accountability to God and to the divine control. A further opportunity of the church is to be realized in the present distrust in the finality of materialism as a method of life and progress which is increasingly common in all grades of society and among all classes and conditions of men. We are growing to know that money in itself is of little value. We are maturing into a comprehension of the truth that wealth without character is a confession of its possessor. We are learning to grasp the fact that the things that are temporary are really transient; that the spiritual realm in the universe of God affords the greatest satisfaction to the soul, is most of account, lays hold the eternity. Opportunity for the Christian church is found in that comprehension of the nature of the eternities that is becoming creatively the vogue. Men multitudes of men, find that the life that discurses the human soul to its divine Creator is dissatisfying. They are critical of their own spiritual fitness, and of the church's. They are questioning the credibility and reliability of the church's spiritual concepts and declarations. The church has a gorious opportunity in the return toward God that is characteristic of the lives of a host of God's children throughout this land. From sea to sea, from lakes to southern gulfs, materialism is palling on thoughtful wanderers from the truth is appealing and such force as seldom in the history of the world it has appealed. To see this appeal is along new lines. It is suited to the needs and the demands of the day and of this generation. It is about yesterday's appeal, it is to-day. But it is real. It is vital. It is compelling. It is heard. It will bear fruit. It will be the leaven in the meal that will perfect society and make it palatable to thoughtful men. It is the truth of God. It is God's voice in the language of the land and of the day. It is the message of the Almighty to the people. It cannot be denied. It will not be denied. There is a moving in the tree tops. The foot-falls of Jehovah are to be heard on earth. The signs of the time who he runs may read. Any man who an open ear and open eye and an open mind may hear, and see, and satisfy himself in the contemplation of such revelations as are as transcendent as the light. Having considered in some fashion the opportunities of the church let us consider now some of the abilities of that organization, instituted of God among men, into whose hands has been given the tremendous, divine task to transform individual lives and to transform sinful, ering human society into the image of the heavenly democracy of God. The abilities of the church are commemorate with her opportunities, truly as He was with Israel. God is in her midst. His presses lusures her. His glory illumines her. God is with her. He constitutes that everlasting majority against which sin cannot prevail. The abilities of the church are to be found also in her means, in her men and in her message. The ability of the church is to be found in her means. The church has more means than ever before in all her wondrous history. She is the richest institution in the world. The organization of the church is tremendous. We are almost over-organized. The church has an influence that is as far-reaching as her spiritual dominion and as effective, when applied, as it is widespread. Men may scoff at the church, they laugh behind her back, but a militant and loving church, filled with the fervor and the aposites, panoplied with the power of cohovah, is a sight to strike terror to the heart of every evil man and band. Yea, and it does strike terror. The church may move slowly, as too often she does. But the church in motion is irresistible. The church has the men. Never was her ministry more able, more intelligent; better educated, more cultured. Her spiritual possibilities through them are unsurpassed. When they galu the spirit of self-sacrifice of the Redeemer they will be invincible. In all the world there is no body of men better fitted to do the labor of blazing the trail for the world as we ascend toward God than the minister of the church of Jesus Christ. There is more competent leadership. There is no booby-trap that can so safely guide. The church has the men in the pew as well. The day has passed when the pew was pliously uneducated and religiously untutored. To-day the bulwark of the church is to be found in her enlightened laity. The minister no longer is the only superbly educated man in the community. The layman is as cultured as the priest. And it is well. The efficiency of the ministry ought to be enhanced thereby. And it is. No minister may be the stupendous reform that has been wrought in the world, for the good of the ministry as for the whole church of Jesus Christ, through the education of the pew. Such a pulpit and such a pew constitute a living factor that is constantly an effective asset to the work of the church of God. And the church has the message. And it is not a new one. We may restate it. We may redefine its essentials. We may clothe it in the vernacular of our land and age. We may readjust it to the changing life to which it speaks. But it is the same old message. The message of salvation from the domination and the grip of sin through the grace of God is given to us by God. It rallows through Jesus Christ our Lord. The world needs it. The world wants it. The church has it. It is her mighty asset. The church not only has the message. She is the message. She not only has the truth; in a sense she is the truth. If she is not she ought to be. There is no need for new truth. There is no call for a new gospel. The necessity is that we shall apply the old, old story of God's redeeming love. and of man's responsibility to God to the world-to-day. We must lead man to the crucifixion that God is as truly the custain of our souls. He been of our fathers' in the ages past, and that peace, quietude, contentment, that are perdurable, can be secured only through complete obedience to His holy will. These opportunities and these abilities are dependent upon the spirit of fidelity to the Spirit of God that possesses us. Dominated and controlled by the spirit of the living God—the church, translating desire into energy, may lead humanity to the promised land of the new dispensation and follow our Saviour into the confines of the spiritual kingdom of God. Without the spirit opportunity and ability are helpless. The church must accept these opportunities since she has received these capacities. The world is her field. And the world is needy. The hearts of humanity are warning toward God. It is her preogative, her very realism, to direct humanity to Heaven. She must be neglectful. She will not be. Tussing the power of omniscience and relying upon the energy of divine love the empowered church will accept her God-given opportunities and measure up to them. For the church must be faithful to God or die. The church was not born to die. The church is immortal. Daily Life Glotified. Last Sunday morning in unnumbered churches throughout the land stood a simple table and upon it bread and wine. Men were partaking of the Lord's Supper. Christ had touched "commonplace things and made them holy. Most memorials are evidence of striving after the uncommon as the worthy — the tomb upon the mountain-top, the obelisk, the pyramid, the vast building or the great institution. Not least of the lesser lessons taught by that simple meal is the worth of common things. There is no meal but may be made an hour of thanksgiving, no honest toil that cannot become worship, no smallest deed to which highest motives may not add glory. The Lord's Supper gains its glory from its reference to Christ; why not "do all to the glory of God?"—Pacific Baptist. The Ouietness of Power. One of the impressive things about the greatest engines is the silence with which they do their work. The stars rushing through space with a force we cannot even imagine, do so in silence. The same thing may be observed in regard to the work which is done in the world. The most powerful is the quiet. The great spiritual ministry of the Christian Church is carried forward with very little noise. Noise is not the same as work; frenzy is not power. — Friendly Greetings. The Heart is Known. Lord of mercy, most loving, at whose coming men live, at whose goodness gods and men rejoice! Sovereign of life, health, and strength! The heart of man is no secret to Him that made it. He is present with thee, though thou be alone.—From Egyptian Records. You Look Premature! DOCTORS PRESCRIBE SULPHUR. "Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is the most wonderful remedy for Eczema I have ever known," writes Dr W W. Leakey of Orlando, Fla, who was curied of a case of yeas' standing. Dr W, A. Heard, of Maitland, Fla., was cured of Dezoma after he had suffered for thirty years, and says: "Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is the finest remedy for all Skin troubles I have ever used or prescribed." Doctors everywhere prescribe it, but they say Sulphur should be used in liquid form only, as it is in Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, Druggists sell it. Booklet free, it you write Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore. It cures all Skin and Scalp Diseases, if used in connection with the wonderful Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment. *Jane—Yes; she won't even let a man kiss her before they are engaged.—Detroit Free Press.* There is nothing nicer packed than Argo Ibad Salmon, and yet the price is within the reach of all. IN PRACTICE "As angels, we shall wear sandals," observed May. "Won't we have trouble keeping them on?" asked Fay. "Not after pumps."—Louisville Courler Journal. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums, reducesinflammation, always pain,cures wind colic, 250c bottle A woman's organization in Sweden is called the "Dammklubb." There are several in this country, complains the Washington Post, that are called the same thing by the husbands. MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS. Martin Luther said, "No teacher is fit to teach school who is not also able to teach music." So music went into the German schools four centuries ago, and so began the wonderful musical culture of the German people. The musical advantages and opportunities at the State Normal School at Athens, Ga., have been created because the public in Georgia prefers a teacher with musical accomplishments. There is no better instruction anywhere in common-school music teaching, sight-reading, chorus singing, glee club music, or on the piano, violin, mandolin, guitar, cornet, or clarinet. Prof. C. S. Stanage, Director of this department, is a very genius as a teacher, chorus master, and conductor of orchestra. Miss Clare Harden, his assistant, is a most accomplished pianist and a superb teacher of piano music. Charges are moderate. The School sends a special Music Eulletin upon application. The session begins September 31. USES OF NOSES. Teacher—"Yes, little ones; this is the elephant's trunk." (She proceeds to explain at length what the elephant can do with its trunk.) "And now, children, you shall tell me what your nose is for." Eliza Ann (aged five)—Us 'aves it to wipe, mum—Illustrated Bits. Argo Red Salmon furnishes material for the muscle and brain and does not heat the blood. Look in your grocer's window for the transparencies of Argo Red Salmon. IT ALWAYS DOES IT. "Experience," said the Sidewalk Philosopher, "is the best teacher." "That's right," replied Senator Badger. "There's nothing like experience to steer us against new mistakes."—Milwaukee Sentel. Granulat d Eye Lids can be cured quickly by Leonardi's Golden Eye Lotion. Weak, sore and inflamed eyes are cured without pain in one day. In normal, cool, heath, strengthens. Makes strong eyes. Money refunded. Dr.iggins sells it at 25 cts. or forwarded prepal for receipt of price by b. B. Leonaru & Ct., Tampa, Fl. Dr. Wiley asserts that total abstinence from pie for a period of a year or more will result in greatly improved health. 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LAS BEST IN THE WORLD Arove W.L. make & sell 50 shoes Districtor Pyman rupee rupee of their ling qualities for sale. Looks after by foregoneant paul in the gavel. Jackson. Must are made, you are better they make. a cannot be cuzuald of them you cannot by the best shoes W.L. DUGLAS. ```markdown ``` Dearest Lawyer Preston Comes of an Epileptic Family, and Further Avers That His Daughter Was Tricked into the Wedding. Over his signature, in a personal card wired to the New York American, at his own expense, Tuesday night, W. E. Christian, father of Miss Julla Jackson Christian, only granddaughter of General Stonewall Jackson of the confederacy denounced Edmond Randolph Preston, the young Virginian to whom she was married a few days ago at Salisbury, N. C. Both Mr. Christian and his son, Stonewall Jackson Christian, now a cadet at West Point, were bitterly opposed to the marriage and did everything in their power to prevent it. But the young lady, despite her deep affection for both father and brother, would have none of the opposition, and, with that determination which was one of the leading characteristics of her grandfather, evaded her father, who was following her to prevent the marriage, he having had an intimation from a friend that his daughter was then ex route to Charlotte to John Mr. Preston for a journey to Salisbury, where friends were awaiting them to witness the marriage ceremony. In his card printed Tuesday morning Mr. Christian gives his reasons for opposing the marriage and thereby severely arraigns the young man who captured the heart of the granddaughter of the greatest warrior the struggle between the states produced. Mr. Preston, according to what Mr. Christian writes, is the direct descendant of epileptics, his mother having died in a saultarium, while his grandfather was a victim of that dread malady. But Mr. Christian's card speaks for itself. Here it is: "Atlanta, Ga., August 13—New York American; Referring to your story, issue August 13, of the marriage of my daughter, Miss Julia Jackson Christian, to Mr. Edmund Randolph Preston, I desire to say in behalf of my son, who is now a cadet at West Point, and in behalf of myself, that the cause of this runaway match was an objection by my son and myself based on the fact that Mr. Preston's mother died insane of epileptic fits at a sanitarium, and that his grandfather had epileptic fits. My son and I did not desire her, with strong blood of both sides of her family, to be sacrificed to a man with degenerate blood. We have pleaded with her for over twelve months, through physicians and otherwise, to prevent her from throwing herself away, but she has been cunningly tricked and trapped by this man, and the friends of mine throughout the south who know the circumstances are deeply grieved that this splendid, innocent girl should have been practically ruined as far as her descendants are concerned by this probable epileptic. As her father, I feel so deeply on this subject that I will ask you kindly to print this card. W. E. CHRISTIAN." BROWN ENTERS RACE. Former Florida Railroad Commissioner After Gubernatorial Honor. Hon. Jefferson B. Prowne has announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for the governorship of Florida. Mrs. Browne is well known throughout the state, having served with distinction in the Florida legislature, and as a member of the state railroad commission. ALMOST CAUSED A RIOT. Brownsville Negro Troops Create Dis Brownville Negro Troops Create Dis urbances in San Francisco. Members of the twenty-fifth infantry, colored organization, who figured in the Brownsville riot, created a disturbance at San Francisco Friday night and at one time it was feared a r' would result. The riot call was sounded for extra police and eighteen of the negroes were arrested. The twenty-fifth, which had been stationed at the Presidio, left Saturday for the Philippines on the transport Crook. CHURCH CONSOLIDATION. United Brethren in Atlanta Join For Vines With Congregationalists. There is no longer a United Breth- ren tabernacle in Atlanta. At a meet- ing of the congregation it was decided to leave the United Brethren denom- ation and go over to the Congregational Church, which will in future be known as the United Congregational tabernacle. Negroes Fire Upon White Men and Latter Burn Buildings to Get at Assailants—Principals Escape Garland Beloate, a white man, was shot and seriously wounded Saturday night at Onancock, Va., by a negro named Uzzle, editor of a paper published at that place, and caused a small-sized riot. Large numbers of negroes prepared themselves for rioting and went into ambush. Four white men leaving Onancock in a hack were made targets by negroes from a grocery store in the suburbs. Their baggage was riddled with bullets. The identity of the men could not be learned. The printing office of the paper which belonged to Uzzel, and the store house of Samuel Burton, also a leader of the rioting, were burned to the ground by the whites early, Sunday morning. Several negro dwellings were riddled with bullets, but no one was seriously injured excepting one negro, who was shot in the shoulder. The negroes, Burton and Uzzel, were thought to be in hiding places in the store which was burned. This caused the burning of the buildings, which was done in a very quick time by using oil and gasoline. The building was surrounded to make sure that if the two negroes were there they would have no chance to escape. Many whites who, toward midnight, filled the streets' of the town had come from neighboring towns and county surrounding, lost no time in a search for the men who were especially wanted, being the ones that began the shooting Saturday evening. But this search was in vain in every respect. It is now supposed that both negroes made their escape from town, as the negro village was thoroughly searched Sunday morning, and no clue could be found of them. A and cursed Kellam, then calling for to look, after the situation, as it is the mass meeting was held Sunday afternoon by the town council for the purpose of taking the following action: First, to request the governor of Virginia to rush arms for the citizens of the town. Second, to ask an injunction to prevent the negroes from holding their agricultural fair at Teasley, Va., on the ground that Uzzel and Burton are officeholders in the fair and both outlaws. They also appointed five extra policemen. Later advices state that the trouble began over a bill which Constable Kellam tried to collect from a man by the name of Conquest, who was in Burton's store at the time. Conquest refused with some words and cursed Kellam, then calling for assistance. At the same time Uzzel appeared on the scene and fired a shot, which missed its aim, and struck Garland Beloate, a citizen of the town, in the hip, on the opposite side of the street, but not seriously injuring him. Set Forth in Current Issue Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index Alabama Industrial Index. The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says in its issue the past week; "The steady increase in the number of manufacturing plants, the substantial and unceasing expansion of cities and towns and the construction of more steam and electric railroads in Georgia and Alabama, to a degree unprecedented in the history of the two states, have made lands more valuable and caused them to be in greater demand. This is true alike of suburban, timber, mineral and farm lands. The existence of a new industrial era, the permanency of which is guaranteed by large and increasing investments of capital, both local and from other sections, is imparting new values to lands, thereby giving more nearly commensurate importance to property that in a large measure is not only a barometer of business prosperity, but a basis of commercial worth. "Among land transactions reported to The Index for the week are the sale of a large number of suburban residence lots at Washington, 'Ga.', the sale of 150 lots in South Highlands at Besemer, Ala., purchase of 50 acres of land at Wayerross, Ga., to be divided into building lots, and the sale of a large tract of mineral and timber land in the Gadsden, Ala., territory, to be developed by the purchaser. In a Georgia county, a 2,000-acre tract of farm land has been sold for a price that a few years ago would hardly have been considered. · BAILEY BUYS OIL LANDS. Texas Senator Salts Down Sum of $165,000 for Few Acres. Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas and John H. Kirby of Houston have purchased the Hammett and Gillespie farm in the Glenn Pool, paying $165,000 for it. The farm comprises seventy-two and a half acres and has five wells on it producing 2,500 barrels of oil daily. Officials of Both Western Union and Postal Companies Declare They Encouraged by their success in hampering the facilities of both commercial telegraph companies in Chicago, the striking operators are now planning to carry the warfare to all parts of the United States and Canada. Instructions were telegraphed Sunday by National Secretary Russell to the men in New York and other cities to "save their money and await orders." The telegraph companies are preparing to meet the issue, and declare they will fight to a finish. They declare they have been temporizing with the union for months, and that they will hold no further negotiations with the representatives of the men on strike. Cots have been installed in the buildings of both companies in Chicago for the accommodation of strikebreakers, and other preparations for a bitter struggle are being perfected. "We are filling positions as rapidly as possible," said T. P. Cook, general superintendent of the Western Union. "We are in better position than we expected. We will not deal with any representative of the strikers, as the company only treats with its own employees. When the men quit work they ceased to be employees of the Western Union, and our relations-with them are at an end. There was no union recognition in this controversy." The points affected by the strike up The points affected by the strike up to Sunday night were: Western Union-Chicago, Houston, Kansas City, Topeka, Oklahoma City, Pueblo, New Orleans, Nashville, Columbus (Ohio), Memphis, Dallas, Meridian, Jackson, Miss.; Napoleons, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Helena, Mont.; Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Worth, El Paso, St. Paul, Los Angeles, Fargo, Omaha, Sioux City, Knoxville and Atlanta. Postal-Chicago, Kansas City, Topeka, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Dallas, Memphis, Jackson, Tenn.; Augusta, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Birmingham and Omaha. That the strike would be universal throughout the United States and Canada within twenty-four hours, was a declaration made Sunday night by National Secretary Russell of the telegraph organization. This statement was made by Mr. Russell after he had been informed of the action taken by the men in New York, who, at a meeting there, Sunday, decided to hold a walk-out in abeyance until the latter part of the week. "The strike movement," said Russell, "has come to the point where there can be no backdown. The telegraphers have been trodden upon long enough by the companies, and we are going to use all our strength to enforce our demands. For several weeks President, Small and myself have been holding the telegraphers back and have been advising conciliation, but they have taken matters in their own hands, and we are going to stand by them. "No union man will be allowed to work with anyone not belonging to our organization, and this means that the strike will become universal. We can't go half way in this matter now. The strike has been precipitated by the men themselves without the sanction of the national officers, but we are now all working in union, and anything that the officials of the various unions throughout the country have done in calling strikes meets with our hearty co-operation." EXCITED GIRL LOSES CASH Left Bag of Gems and Money Amounting to $3,100 o the Beach. At Atlantic City, N. J., Tuesday, Miss Dorothy Haywood of Pittsburg becam's so excited while watching life guards rescue a girl from drowning in the surf that she waited away and left a leather bag containing diamonds valued at $3,000 and more than $100 in cash lying on the beach. When she remembered that she had left the bag she ran back to the beach, but it was gone. SOUTHERN TRAIN DERAILED. Cars' Overturned and Fourteen People More or Less Injured. Passenger No. 8 of the Southern railway which left Asheville, N. C., at 8:40 Wednesday morning for Lake Toxaway, was derailed at Sellca, N. C., four miles beyond Brevard. All the cars were overturned, and fourteen persons were injured, though not seriously. seriously. COUNTRY GOING AWRY Is Pessimistic Declaration of John D. Rockefeller, Who Poses as a Prophet of Evil. The attention of Secretary of War Taft was called by a report Tuesday to an interview with John D. Rockefeller, in which Rockefeller was quoted as predicting that the "runaway" policy of the present administration toward great business corporations of all kinds can have only one result, disaster to the country, financial depression and financial chaos. "The world already has a fair dose of this since the extreme penalty imposed on one corporation, with a limited number of shareholders, has caused a loss of confidence, reflected in a falling stock market, a tightening of money and a fear of the future. The newspapers are full of this slump and reflect the feeling of unrest. They ascribe it to the present order of things. "What will be the effect when similar action is taken against corporations with stockholders scattered throughout the country, the investors, the widows, the orphans? There can be but one answer. The present situation will be intensified many fold. It does not require an expert to reason this out. The most superficial can do it. "I will go further and say that because of the administration with its reports every five minutes of new actions and of heavy fines, the country is already beginning to drift toward the rocks of financial depression. "Confidence is gone and confidence is the basis of all prosperity. With confidence established there can be no stopping of the wheels of progress; without it, all, is at a standstill." Mr. Rockefeller was also quoted as saying that Secretary Taft and Governor Hughes were deliberate and safe men and that he believed that Mr. Taft would not be guided by the beliefs and policles of a predecessor. When Mr. Taft was asked by a reporter for his opinion on this subject he said: "I haven't followed the markets in years. I must see the president before I can say anything about this Rockefeller crisis. "I'll say this much, however; it does seem a bit strange that the adminis tration, which, up to a very short time ago, when I left for the woods of Canada, was heralded around the world as the most prosperous in the history of the American republic should now be on the brink of ruin. Don't it hit you that way?" BOTH SIDES REMAIN FIRM. Labor Commissioner Will Attempt to Settle Strike of Telegraphers. It is reported in Chicago that Secretary Russell of the telegraphers' union has called a general strike. He could not be seen, but S. J. Konnenkamp, chairman of the executive board, said if Russell had not already called a general strike, he would do so in the course of a few days. Commissioner Neill and Secretary Easley of the National Civic Federation are quietly gathering facts on which to base action upon the arrival of President Small, while Gompers and Mitchell will attempt to adjust any internal strife in the commercial telegrapher's organization; that is, any understanding between the conservative and hot-headed, members. Partial returns from 135 locals in the country voting on the strike question are overwhelming in favor of a general strike. The ballot was carried on secretly by the local unions to test the pulse of operators everywhere. There are several disquieting reports from railroad telegraph circles, which are regarded by the commercial telegraphers in Chicago as indicative of a growing spirit of restlessness among the railroad operators. MOORS COURTED DEATH. Attempted to Sack Casa Blanca and Hundreds Were Knocked Out. Advices from Tangier, Morocco, state that a frenzied mob of Moors, probably numbering four thousand persons, made a futile attempt to sack Casa Blanca Monday night, but was repulsed by French troops with great loss. It is reported that many were killed and wounded. The hospitals are crowded and streets were strewn with corpses awaiting burial. EVE IN DECOLLETTE GOWN [Satisfied 'Recruiting Officers and Applicant Was Accepted. Frank Richtle, aged 21, was rejected by the United States army recruiting station because of a figure of Eve in Paradise tattooed on his arm near the wrist. Later the young man appeared with a decollette gown tattooed over the nude figure and was accepted without question. PEARLS OF THOUGHT Probably there would be no fun in feeling lazy if we didn't have to work. A financial genius is a man who can have a family and money at the same time. The man who invented curling tongs has made more curly heads than the Lord. A girl can pretend she doesn't want you to kiss her till just the minute you do it. A man doesn't care whether you call it income or just plain pay if there is plenty of it. A woman does a lot of worrying just to satisfy herself that she is a good mother. A woman would rather be right in an argument with her husband than have him president. Smoking costs a lot, but swearing off costs a lot more trying to find as much enjoyment in something else. A man imagines he is having a fine time if he can sit on the plaza in his shirt sleeves even when he is cold. Some women are so consciious they won't spend any more money on clothes than they can get hold of. A man has an angelic disposition when he doesn't say the coffee is cold because his suspender button came off. There are lots of women that the others would never speak to if they weren't afraid they'd miss the things they say, about people. What a woman likes about giving a reception is the way all the people tell her what a good time they had when she knows they didn't. A nice thing for people who are engaged it doesn't seem to make any difference to them how big fools they make of themselves, and that's the way to have fun—From "Reflections of a Bachelor," in the New York Press. CABINET OFFICERS' SIGNATURES. Some of Them Spend Two Hours a One of these ever old but ever new propositions that probably will receive some attention at the coming session of congress is the signing of mail by cabinet officers.4 Some of the new men who have come in with the Roosevelt administration, especially some of the younger men who were shuffled in on the last round of cabinet changes, have been seriously discussing the subject. They say that the hardest manual labor of a cabinet job is signing the mail, according to law. Some of the secretaries spend two hours a day in the busy season simply signing their names. A messenger stands at their elbows and removes and blots the sheets as fast as they are signed, and the secretary does not any more know what nine-tenths of the things are that he is signing than if they were written in cuneiform characters. It is the law and has to be compiled with, but it is only a daily grind, for all the cabinet officers hate it, and it wastes about two hours of the secretary's time that he might very profitably devote to something else. It used to be that treasury notes and bonds and the like had to be signed by hand, but the job got so big that the treasurer and the comptroller could not possibly have managed it, and the antiquated law was changed. In the same way it was only within a few years that typewriters were introduced into the state department. All the correspondence up to that time was done in manuscript. Now, if the cabinet officer's signature is done away with another of the antique customs of the government will have been sacrificed to modern utilitarianism.—Washington Star. A Needed Invention. "In the way of needed inventions," said a merchant, "the man who will perfect an automatic wrapping machine that will handle packages of all sorts, shapes and sizes will be a benefactor. He will, besides, make a fortune in quicker time than any of the merchants who sell the goods that are wrapped. The difficulty of keeping expert hands at the work of wrapping in some businesses and the time now occupied even by the most expert of these have long been recognized as calling for a s. substitute. Here is a more immediate and lucrative field than that of the flying machine, even though it be a more humble one, but it seems a long time in being filled." —Philadelphia Record. She Had Heard of Him. The vanity of Samuel Warren, the author of "Ten Thousand a Year," in his early years of authorship, at least, was remarkably, and there is a story told of him to the effect that on one occasion at a friend's house he had to take down to dinner a lady whom he had not met before, and as soon as they were seated at table asked her if she had ever heard of Samuel Warren. "Oh, certainly!" was the reply. "My husband prefers Warren's blacking to any other. We always use it?"—Westminster Gazette. Trouble WILL Come. We are willing to bet any amount under 45 cents that trouble, doesn't come singly to the Kansas man who has eloped with two girls.—Toledo Blade. The South is said to be getting richer at the rate of $7,900,000 a day. Among the Masons. Past Master W. B. Robinson of Caliro was a welcomed visitor to the city this week. He is a constant visitor to the Grand Lodge and as a member of the committee of Welfare and Grievance he became well known to the brethren. He is one of our old friends and we are always glad to see him. Brother N. McNair of Atlanta spent a few days among friends in the city. He makes friends wherever he goes and is well liked. He is an ardent worker for the O. E. S. and will be a prominent figure at the grand chapter session next week. Brother E. L. Mitchell of Belfast is spending a while at Morehead City, N. C., visiting his relatives and his friends at his old home. Brother Mitchel is doing much for the order in his locality and is determined to have a chapte rof the O. E. S. organized shortly. The grand chapter order of the Eastern Star will convene at Americus next Tuesday morning at nine o'clock in its ninth annual communication. Many new chapters will be reported, and an interesting session will be held. A large delegation will be present and the grand chapter will be resplendent in new furniture and regallas. Delegates in purchasing tickets must secure a certificate. In event that no certificate is given cause the agent to give you a receipt for the amount paid. It is important that we get not less than one hundred certificates in order to secure the reduced rate. Al delegates are enjoined to be present at the opening of the grand chapter; on Tuesday night the literary program will be presented at the A. M. E. Church. This is expected to be a pleasant feature of the session. Royal Grand Matron Mrs, Viola E. Hart and her committed will see that everything is done to make the delegats feel welcome. The Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star meetings are of incalculable benefit. They bring us in touch with one another. We exchange views, obtain valuable suggestions; emphasize our order and possibly induce members who have not felt an interest to appreciate its importance and resolve to aid in the work. The good work to which we have pledged ourselves; the unselfish work in which we are enlisted. If in the use of the black ball we should remember and practice the original golden rule and not the modern revised version, much heart-burning and unnecessary ill feeling would be avoided. If our order means anything at all it means much. It means that in our chapter rooms envy and malice have nb place; that we small rejoice in the good fortune and happiness of our sisters and brothers and mingle our tears with those of the bereft and unhappy. It means the charity which "suffers long and is kind," -Fanny M. Sover. Once a month it is a very good plan to look into our hearts and lives and scrutinize ourselves as we sometimes do our associates. Do this at night when you are alone and can see yourselves as you are. Review your conduct for the month, and see if it will stand the light of day. In your treatment of father and mother, husband and wife, brother and sister, or children, put yourself to the test, and do it as justly as you would some one else and then judge if you have been as kind, as gentle, as considerate of your home circle as you might have been. After you have examine your conduct at home, see how you have treated your brothers and sisters in the chapter and then the larger circle, your business associates. There are many men and women who are pleasing to their acquaintances, but are cross and disagreeable and fault finding at home. If any such read this, stop and think how unjust is such conduct. If there is any place where we ought to be lovable, it is at home. The man whose children are not glad when he comes up, or whose wife does not try to make home the dearest place in the world is not doing her part properly. If any of our readers will look into themselves and look earnestly and honestly, and not find something they can improve we would-like to know them, for we know they would do us good. So much of the present life is given up to getting money that the real living is lost sight of. What matter is it whether we can count many or few dollars if we are so selfish that we cannot see any of our faults. We think the man or woman who can learn the lessons, and live them each day, that are taught in the chapter, is much better than those who do not practice them. Just repeating the obligation does not make for betterment; unless it becomes a part of your daily life. "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."—Ex.