Savannah Tribune

VOL. XXIII. SIX MONTHS' TRIAL Of the New Passenger Rates Must Be Given By Central. NO INJUNCTION GRANTED Judge Newman's Decision in Famous Case Leaves Matter Still Open. Governor Cannot Be Made Par- Judge Newmann of the United States district court, at Atlanta, Saturday night, filed with Clerk Fuller his decree in the petition of the Central of Georgia railroad against the Georgia Railroad Commission, S. G. McLendon, H. W. Hill, et al, for an injunction against the order of the railroad commission putting into effect circular 334. The petiteon is neither denied nor granted, Judge Newman declaring it advisable to allow the conditions now obtaining to continue for six months time from September 2, during which the problem at issue may solve itself to the satisfaction of both parties. On June 7 last the Georgia railroad commission promulgated circular 334. That circular provided that local passenger rates, then 3 cents a mile, should be reduced on the Central to 2-12 cents a mile, the order to become effective on September 2, 1907. The same circular affected other lines than the Central in the state. Request to amend the bill by making the governor and the secretary railroad commission parties caused a fixed hearing to be. When the case was finally ted during the early part of Oct Judge Newman, it had been fully and at length by some of the most distinguished lawyers in south. It was then up to Judge N man to either grant or deny the tion. He did neither. He determined that time was the essential feature. Time would determine whether or not the rate fixed by the commission was sufficient. Paying a compliment to the attorney on both sides, Judge Newman says that "the entire case has been argued with thoroughness, and very great ability. The argument has been worthy of the very important issues involved." In disposing of the amendment making the governor a party to the suit, Judge Newman bigs his ruling "upon the proposition that to do so would make the proceedings a suit against the state or Georgia inviolation of the eleventh amendment to the constitution of the United States." In formulating his opinion, Judge Newman makes frequent reference to cases more or less similar which have gone through the federal courts, and in each reference finds solid endorsement for his ruling. Judge Newman's opinion may be briefly summarized in its essential points as follows: 1. He holds that the governor cannot be made a party to the suit. 2. He does not think that the attorney general may be made a proper party to the suit, and, so far as he is concerned, sustains the demurrer of the state's counsel. 3. He holds that there is no doubt that the railroad commission is subject to injunction in the orders that it may issue. 4. The special attorney of the railroad commission is not a necessary party to the suit, but he may be a proper party to the suit. 6. The fact that the commission has put an order into effect does not prevent an injunction being taken against it. 7. The claim of the roads' attorneys that enormous losses would result from the order remaining in effect is not, holds the court, well pleaded, because, as the opinion states, this is a mere conjecture. 8. In this connection Judge Newman suggests that the only way of determining whether or not the rates are confiscatory is by trial, and he suggests six months as a period of time in which to try the rules. However, he suggests if on January 1st next the attorneys wish to resume a hearing of their bill for a hearing of their bill for injunction he will hear them. 10. In dealing with the facts alleged in the case, Judge Newman considers solely the allegations of the road, as set forth in the bill, and does not undertake to decide the facts for himself, in this opinion. 11. He withholds decision on the merits of the case. LITIGATION IN ALABAMA Will Be Subject of Conference to Be Held Shortly Between Governor Comer and State's Attorneys. Argument on the restraining order issued by Judge Thomas G. Jones at Montgomery upon bills filed by the Louisville and Nashville and allied lines and made returnable, December 2, has been postponed and attorney's for the state granted further time. A conference will be held between attorneys for the state in the pending litigation and Governor Cornell at the conference a day will be determined upon at which the arguments will be made. This will be on some ray between December 15 and 20. Attorney General Garber, Judge S.D. Weakley and Horace Stingfellow of counsel for the state held a conference in Montgomery Friday over the pending litigation. After their conference Attorney General Garber called on Judge Jones and asked that the state be given further time, as it could not properly make an answer in the short time allotted. This was granted and the understanding was reached that the restraining order and the hearing of the supplemental bills would come up for argument on some day between December 15 and 20. Governor Comer returned to Montgomery Friday night from his hunting trip. He positively declined to discuss the litigation saying that he had not communicated with his office and had not read the newspapers in four days. Governor Comer was besieged by reporters. He could not discuss the order of Jones because he did not know not about it. He had been hunted had not even read the papers could see the attorneys for he could not sty what course could pursue. A. Washington dispatched senator J. H. Foraker made the nearly known Friday that he will contest the Ohio delegation to the republican national convention with Mr. Taft. This decision is contained in a letter to Conrad J. Mattert, vice president of the Ohio Republican League, who forwarded Mr. Foraker a copy of resolutions adopted by the advisory and executive committee of the league indorsing Mr. Foraker for the senatorship and for the presidential nomination. Senator Foraker says he is gratified by the indorsement of the committee at this time, because it is a flat rebuke to the suggestion that the office of United States senator is not to be stripped of all the real honor attached to it by making its incumbent a mere agent to register the decrees of somebody else. On this point Foraker says: "I do not want to even appear to be a candidate for two offices at the same time, and therefore forego the double honor proposed and with heartfelt appreciation accept the support for the presidential candidacy which the committee has so generously tendered." New Orleans Newspapers May Be Indicted by Grand Jury. Following a crusade started against racing in New Orleans, Federal Judge Sanders, in his charge to the United States grand jury, Friday, called attention to newspapers publishing "tips" on races, and said that if they were paid for it they should be indicted and prosecuted. By publishing this matter and sending it through the malls, the newspapers are guilty of furthering plans for the obtaining of money under false pretenses, he declared. Tobacco Company Gives Bond for Over Eight Million Cigarettes. Bond covering their value at $7,272, having been given for the release of 8,750,000 cigarettes for export to London and Singapore, seized at New York, for the alleged violation of the anti-trust laws, the United States marshal is directed by decree of Federal Judge Waddill received, from Richmond, Va., to release the seizures upon order of the British-American Tobacco company. SAVANNAH. GA.. SACURDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1907. THE MESSAGE READ Only Feature of Second Day's Session of Congress. A LENGTHY DOCUMENT Two Hours and a Quarter Consumed In Its Readings and Attention The annual message of President Roosevelt was read Tuesday in both houses of congress, and practically no business was attempted by either party beyond listening to the message. The galleries of the senate and the house were crowded at the beginning of the session of each body, but as the reading progressed the attendance diminished somewhat. In the main, however, it was well maintained until the last sentence of the document had fallen from the lips of the official readers. Senators and members were supplied with printed copies of the message and many of them following the reading class with scupnulous care. The reading consumed about two and a quarter hours in each of the houses. The house did not follow up the lead of Monday in the matter of introduction of many bills, but some measure were presented. In the senate so far no bills have been introduced but there is scarcely a senator whose desk is not well covered with these documents. The speaker Cannon treated the house to a slight surprise in announcing the membership of the committee on banking and currency. This advance formation of that committee led to the conclusion on the part of many that it was his intention to press financial legislation, but those who are close to the speakers say that his only purpose wa sto afford a depository for petitions and letters bearing upon the currency question. Both the house and senate adjourned after conclusion of the reading of the message. The adjournment was until Thursday. Mr. Gore and Mr. Owen, the two gentlemen chosen by primary election to represent the new state of Oklahoma in the senate, appeared on the floor of the senate, and occupied the seats set apart for them, for some time, listening to the president's message. This was a plain extension of what is known as senatorial courtesy, inasmuch as neither senator has yet been legally elected to serve in the senate. Before the reading of the president's message, Speaker Cannon announced that he had received a communication that ordinarily he would refer to a committee, after the organization of the house, but he thought it so important he would have it read at once. The paper proved to be a telegram from the Oklahoma legislature to the house of representatives: "Oklahoma's first state legislature," it stated, "just organized by the fond reality of local self-government, sends greeting to the sixtieth congress of the greatest nation on earth and conveys to her sister states a message of progress and prosperity and loyal devotion to the union and the common good." The speaker himself read this message in an impressive manner, and as he concluded the house broke into applause. BONANZA FOR SAFE BLOWERS. Second Robbery in Four Days in South Carolina Town. Safe-crackers blew the safe and cleaned out the postoffice at Pelzer, S.C., the big mill town Monday night. This is the second safe blowing in that neighborhood within four days. It is not known how much money the gang got on this occasion, but it is understood they cleaned up the office. Naval Stores Operators Denied New Trial in Peonage Case. Thomas and J. B. Graham, prominent naval stores operators of south Alabama, convicted in the United States court at Pensacola, Fla., after trials on charges of peonage, were denied a new trial Saturday. Thomas Graham was sentenced to serve thirteen months in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., and to pay a fine of $500. J. B. Graham was sentence to six months in jail and given a fine of $500. GEORGIA BOOMING Tax Values in State Increase $12,725,985. FLATTERING CONDITIONS Shown by Figures Just Compiled In Office of Comptroller General. Other Interesting Features An increase of $32,725,985 in the taxable values of property in the state of Georgia is shown in the tabulated statement just compiled in the office of Comptroller General W. A. Wright by Captain "Tip" Harrison, and shows that the last year saw the state grow rich indeed. This is the gain after the tax books from 145 counties in the state had been checked up, verified and added up. In addition to these totals, the statement is replete with interesting data which shows the prosperity which visited the state up to the time the tax books closed in the spring. According to this book, there are 211,085 white polls in the state and 116,041 colored polls. Just now much these lattog figures will be reduced in the event. the disfranchisement amendment is carried at the next election remains to be seen. This book, too, shows that there are 1,041 white defaulters in the state and 4,143 colored. Captain Harrison has also tabulated the number of professional men registered for taxation in Georgia, and his list shows that there are one-third more physicians than lawyers in the state. There are 2,462 physicians, 1,877 lawyers, 451 dentists, 30 veterinary surgeons, 36 architects, 54 engravers, 152 presidents and corporations and 11 superintendents of corporations. When it comes down to the question of lands, this statement shows that there are 31,171,072 acres of improved land in the state, valued at $164,644,712, and 4,474,124 acres of wild land, valued at $4,728,572, making a total of 35,945,196 acres of land, with a total value of $169,373,284. The aggregate value of the city property is placed at $169,770,647. The total value of all property in the state is $575,978,707, which will yield the state in taxes $3,268,294.20. WON'T LEAVE JACKSONVILLE. American Naval Stores Company Re- sidential Forces Widow's considers Expressed Withdrawal. Announcement was made in Savannah, Ga., Friday that the American Naval Stores company had reconsidered its expressed determination to withdraw its buying from Jacksonville, Fla., thus breaking up the factoraga business of that city, unless it should develop that an exporting com- to begin operations there. This means Jacksonville has an open market for retail stores. Some time ago, the company was created in Jacksonville, the naval stores circle by the announcement that the American Naval Stores company would withdraw from there on account of a lack of adequate banking facilities. December was the date named for that withdrawal. Now arrangements for continuance have been made and the business will go on just as in the past. UNIVERSITIES BLAMED For the Spread of Agnosticism In This Country. That the growth of agnosticism in America is directly traceable to the universities of the country was the statement made by Rev. Brann, at the dedication of the new church of St. Monica in New York. He especially mentioned Columbia and, Harvard universities. Visits: New, Haven on Double. Mission and is Warmly Welcome; William J. Bryan received a warm and hearty welcome Friday when he visited New Haven, Conn., on a double mission of handing over to the city a marble fountain erected through a FOR ALLEGED CONTEMPT Alabama State Official is Ordered to Answer in Court Before Federal Judge Jones in Montgomery. Henry B. Stegall, solicitor of the third circuit, with residence at Ozark, Ala., has been cited to appear before Thomas G. Jones, judge of the United States court for the middle circuit, sitting in the railroad injunction cases at Montgomery as judge of the fifth circuit, and show cause why he should no be adjudged in contempt, it being alleged by Deputy Marshal William Pulliam that Mr. Stegall threatened to have him arrested when he went to his office to serve the orders of the court in railroad injunction petitions. Mr. Stegall is ordered to appear in Montgomery and show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt for his alleged misbehavior towards said deputy marshal, as set forth in his affidavit. The clerk of court has issued the order, and the district attorney is called upon to prosecute the case. In the order it is said that it seems to the court that, unexplained, a prima facie case is shown of criminal contempt of the authority of the court. Deputy Marshal Pulliam makes affidavit that when he went to serve the orders at Ozark, he called upon and was received courteously by the clerk, who accepted an acknowledged service. He then asked that he be introduced to Mr. Stegall, which was done by the clerk, the solicitor being found in the office of the probate judge. Pulliam alleges he said to the solicitor: "I have a paper I want to serve on you," and that Stegall replied, "No, I will not accept it," and that thereupon the solicitor said: "The sheriff wants to see you;" and, addressing Pulliam further, either said "I am going to have him arrest you," or "He is going to arrest you," or words to that effect. Mr. Pulllam swears that then some friends of Mr. Stegall told him to go on and accept the service, which he did. The deputy thanked the solicitor, and marked his papers served. After that Pulllam returned to Montgomery and reported the incident to Marshal Judkins, who, in turn, made to the court, following which the judge made out of which the order came. Mr. Steen will be held, if found to be guilty, the execution of the sentence statutes given in the sentence of punishable offences, and the execution of the sentence of punishable offences, and six months' imprisonment. The sentence of execution will be gall and serious in the case of the public sentime, and the litigation of the sentence of execution will be said to be serious in the case of all cases of the execution of the sentence of punishment, and serious in the case of the court in the future. BRYAN GIVEN AN OVATION. Nebraskan Appears on Floor of House at Opening of Congress. William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska was given a notable reception when he appeared on the floor of the house of representatives at the opening session. The greeting was spoanteous and vociferous, and amounted to an ovation. The special significance of the reception was in the fact that Mr. Bryan has hied himself to Washington during the congressional session for the past six years, but on no former occasion did the reception tendered him equal that accorded him on this occasion. The galleries joined in the demonstration, and several republicans did likewise. Mr. Bryan, as an ex-member of the house, was entitled to the privileges of the floor. CULBERSON IS CHOSEN By Democrats as Minority Leader on Floor of Senate A Washington special says. The democratic senators held a conference after the adjournment of the senate Tuesday and elected Senator Culberson of Texas chairman of the democratic caunis. This position carries the nominal leadership of the minority on the floor of the senate Senator McCreary of Kentucky was chosen vice Begins Session at Washington Amidst Great Eclat. Galeries Were Packed to Utmost by Elite of Washington - House Organizes With Re-Election of Speaker Cannon. Congress assembled in its sixtieth session at noon Monday. It was Washington's one great show day of the year. Long before the gavels fell in the senate and house, a stream of people coursed down Pennsylvania avenue, filled the galleries and overflowed into the corridors—a mass of confusion and color. The procedure in the senate was formal and brief. In the house the entire membership had to be sworn in, Speaker Cannon and the other officers had to be re-lected and seats had to be assigned. In the senate Vice President Fairbanks presided, the organization of the senate being continuous. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the distinguished chaplain of the senate, offered prayer, the roll was called and the vice president announced a quorum present. The swearing in of newly-elected senators was then taken up, after which Sena tor Hale, the master of ceremonies, offered the usual resolution directing the appointment of a committee to act with a committee of the house to walk upon President Rosevelt and inform him that congress was assembled and prepared to receive any communication he might be pleased to make. The coming together for the first time of the men who have been elected to the senate and the house, about one hundred of whom have not before served in congress, made the occasion one of particular interest. The glad hand was extended to the four democratic representatives from Oklahoma who were sworn into their seats in that body, ever, until the formal election by the legislature when they set in January. The striking scenes of the day were in the house of representatives, where the formal selection of Joseph Cannon to again be speaker of that body and the designation by the democrats of Mr. John Sharp Williams as their leader were occasions for ovations for those gentlemen. The vast hall of the house of representatives rang with cheers of republicans and democrats for their leaders, and the speaker received as warm a welcome from members of the minority as he did from his own part. In accepting the speakership Mr. Cannon made a brief-but feeling address. When the adoption of rules for the government of the house during the sixtieth congress came up the rules of the last congress were opposed by John Sharp Williams, and he was joined in that opposition by democrats and by a single republican, Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin. The old rules were declared to be too autocratic, placing too much power in the hands of the speaker, but, after a somewhat acrimonious discussion, they were adopted by a party vote. Committees were appointed by both houses to inform the president that congress had met and was ready, to receive any message that he might wish to communicate. New senators and representatives were sworn in, and both houses adjourned out of respect to the memory of members who have died during the recess of congress. Senator LaFollette was the first senator to be recognized at the opening proceedings of the upper house, and presented the credenitals of Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin. The vice president ordered that the roll of senators-elect be called alphabetically and they were sworn in by fours, being escorted to the edsk by their colleagues. All of the senators-elect were present in the chamber, except Senator Bankhead of Alabama, who is destained at home by illness. 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Leave Buntingham..... 4.20 P. M. Leave Montgomery..... 7.45 P. M. Leave Lumpkin..... 11.54 P. M. Leave Richland..... 12.16 A. M. Leave Americans..... 1.40 A. M. Leave Cordele..... 3.15 A. M. Leave Abbeyville..... 4.20 A. M. Leave Helena..... 6.15 A. M. Arrive Sayannah..... 9.30 A. M. THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE CURRENCY REFORM The Regulation of Public Service Corporations is Necessary; But They Must Have Fair Treatment—Integrity of Administration of Public Affairs a Duty That Applies to All. To the Senate and House of Representatives: No nation has greater resources than ours, and I think it can be truthfully said that the citizens of no nation possess greater energy and industrial ability. In no nation are the fundamental business conditions sounder than in ours at this very moment; and it is foolish, when such is the case, for people to hoard money instead of keeping it in sound banks; for it is such hoarding that is the immediate occasion of money stringency. Moreover, as a rule, the business of our people is conducted with honesty and probity, and this applies alike to farms and factories, to railroads and banks, to all our legitimate commercial enterprises. In any large body of men, however, there are certain to be some who are disloest, and if the conditions are such that these men prosper or commit their misdeeds with impunity, their example is a very evil thing for the community. Where these men are business men of great sagacity and of temperament, both unscrupulous and reckless, and where the conditions are such that they act within supervision or control and at first without effective check from public opinion, they delude many innocent people into making investments or embarking in kinds of business that are really unsound. When the misdeeds of these successfully dislodge on urally, when it does occur the sufferer are apt to forget that it ger it was deferred the more pani it would be. In the effort to punish the guilty it is both wise and proper to endeavor so far as possible to minize the distress of those who have been misled by The guilty. Yet it is not possible to refrain because of such distress from striving to put an end to the misdeeds that are the ultimate causes of the suffering, and as a means to this end, where possible to punish those responsible for them. Our steady aim should be by legislation, centiously and carefully undertaken, but resolutely persevered in, to assert the sovereignty of the National Government by affirmative action Interstate Commerce No small part of the trouble that we have comes from carrying to an extreme the national virtue of self-reliance, of independence in initiative and action. If it is wise to conserve this virtue and to provide for its fullest exercise, compatible with secing- that liberty, does not become a liberty to wrong others. Unfortunately, this is the kind of liberty that the lack of all effective regulation inevitably breeds. The founders of the Constitution provided that the National Government should have complete and sole control of interstate commerce. There was then practically no interstate business save such as was conducted by water, and this the National Government at once proceeded to regulate in thoroughgoing and effective fashion. Conditions have now so wholly changed that the interstate commerce by water is insignificant compared with amount that goes by land, and almost all big business concerns are now engaged in interstate commerce. As a result, it can be partially and imperfectly controlled or regulated by the action of any one of the several States; such action inevitably tending to be either too drastic or else too lax, and in either case ineffective for purposes of justice. Only the National Government can in thoroughgoing fashion exercise the needed control. This does not mean that there should be any extension of Federal authority, for such authority already exists under the Constitution in amplest and most far-reaching form; but it does mean that there should be an extension of Federal activity. This is not advocating centralization. It is merely looking facts in the face, and realizing that centralization in business has already come and cannot be avoided or undone, and that the public at large can only protect itself from certain evil effects of this business centralization by providing better methods for the exercise of control through the authority already centralized in the National Government by the Constitution itself. There must be no halt in the healthy constructive course of action which this Nation has elected to pursue, and has steadily pursued, during the last six years, as shown both in the legislation of the Congress and the administration of the law by the Department of Justice. The most vital need is in connection with the railroads. As to these, in my judgment there should now be either a national incorporation act or a law licencing railway companies to engage in interstate commerce upon certain conditions. The law should be so framed as to give to the Interstate Commerce Commission power to pass upon the future issue of securities, while ample means should be provided to enable the Commission, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, to make a physical valuation of any railroads. As I stated in my Message to the Congress a year ago, railroads should be given power to enter into agreements, subject to these agreements being made public in minutes detail and to the consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission being first obtained. Until the National Government assumes proper control of interstate commerce, in the exercise of the authority it already possesses, it will be impossible either to drive or to get from the railroads full justice. The railroads and all other great corporations will do well to recognize that this control must come the only question is as to what governmental body can most wisely exercise it. The courts will determine the limits within which the national authority can exercise it and there will still remain ample work within each State for the railway commission of that State and the National Interstate Commerce Commission will work in harmony with the several State commissions, each within its own province, to achieve the desired end. Reference is here made to the difficulty of framing a law that will with of the ity. The German law is given interesting example. Sherman Mitratt Law center, in my judgment, there. It should be additional legislation looking in to the proper control of the great business concerns engaged in interstate business, this control to be exercised from their own benefit, and prosperity no less than for the protection of investors and of the general public. They have repeated said in Messages, the Copper and elsewhere, experience, which not merely the unaware but the futility of endeavoring to put a stop to all business combinations. Modern industrial conditions are such that combination is not only necessary but inevitable. It is so in the world of business just as it is so in the world of labor and it is as idle to desire to put an end to all corporations to all big combinations of capital, as to desire to put an end to combination of labor. Corporation and labor union alike have come to stay. Each if properly managed is a source of good and not evil. Whenever in either there is evil, it should be promptly held to account; but it should receive hearty encouragement so long as it is properly managed. It is profoundly immoral to put or keep on the statute books a law, nominally in the interest of public morality, that really puts a premium upon public immorality, by undertaking to forbid honest men from doing what must be done under modern business conditions, so that the law itself provides that its own infraction must be the condition precedent upon business success. To aim at the accomplishment of too much usually means the accomplishment of too little; and often the doing of positive damage. The antitrust law should not be repealed; but it should be made both more efficient and more in harmony with actual conditions. It should be so amended as to forbid only the kind of combination which does harm to the general public, such amendment to be accompanied by, or to be an incident of, a grant of supervisory power to the Government over these big concerns engaged in interstate business. This should be accompanied by provision for the compulsory publication of accounts and the subjection of books and papers to the inspection of the Government officials. A beginning has already been made for such supervision by the establishment of the Bureau of Corporations. The antitrust law should not prohibit combinations that do no injustice to the public, still less those the existence of which is on the whole of benefit to the public. But even if this feature of the law were abolished, there would remain as an equally objectionable feature the difficulty and delay now incident to its enforcement. The Government must now submit to irksome and repeated delay before obtaining a final decision of the courts upon proceedings instituted, and even a favorable decree may mean an empty victory. Moreover, to attempt to control these corporations by lawsuits means to impost upon both the Department of Justice and the courts an impossible burden; it is not feasible to carry on more than a limited number of such suits. Such a law to be really effective must of course be administered by an executive body, and not merely by means of lawsuits. The design should be to prevent the abuses incident to the creation of unhealthy and improper combinations, instead of waiting until they are in existence and then attempting to destroy them by civil or criminal proceedings. Pure-Food Law. Incidentally, in the passage of the pure-food law the action of the various State food and dairy commissioners showed in striking fashion how much good for the whole people results from the hearty cooperation of the Federal and State officials in securing a given reform. It is primarily to the action of these State commissioners that we owe the enactment of this law; for they aroused the people, first to demand the enactment and enforcement of State laws on the subject, and then the enactment of the Federal law, without which the State laws were largely ineffective. There must be the closest cooperation between the National and State governments in administering these laws. Currency. In my message to Congress a year ago I spoke as follows of the currency: "I especially call your attention to the condition of our currency laws. The national-bank act has ably served a great purpose in aiding the enormous business development of the country, and within ten years there has been an increase in circulation per capita from $2.41 to $33.08. For several years evidence has been accumulating that additional legislation is needed. The occurrence of each crop season emphasizes the defects of the present laws. There must soo be a revision of them, because to leave them as they are means to incur liability of business disaster. Since your body adjourned there has been a fluctuation in the interest on call money from 2 per cent to 30 per cent, and the fluctuation was even greater during the preceding six. The Secretary of the Treas- needed step in and by wise action put stop to the most violent period of oscillation. Even worse than such fluctuation is the advance in commercial rates and the uncertainty felt in the sufficiency of credit ever at high rates. All commercial interests suffer during each crop period. Excessive rates for call money in New York attract money from the interior banks into the speculative field. This depletes the fund that would otherwise be available for commercial uses and commercial borrowers are forced to pay abnormal rates, so that each fall a tax, in the shape of increased interest charges, is placed on the whole commerce of the country. The major statement of these facts show that our present system is seriously defective. There is need of a change. Unfortunately, however, many of the proposed changes must be ruled from consideration because they are complicated, are not easy of comprehension, and tend to disturb existing rights and interests. We must also rule out any plan which would materially impair the value of the United States 2 per cent bonds now pledged to secure circulation, the issue of which was made under conditions peculiarly creditable to the Treasury. I do not press any especial plan. Various plans have recently been proposed by expert committees of bankers. Among the plans which are possibly feasible and which certainly should receive your consideration is that repeatedly brought to your attention by the present Secretary of the Treasury, the essential features of which have been approved by many prominent bankers and business men. According to this plan national banks should be permitted to issue a specified proportion of their capital in notes of a given kind, the issue to be taxed at so high a rate as to drive the notes back when not wanted in legitimate trade. This plan would not permit the issue of currency to give banks additional profits, but to meet the emergency presented by times of stringency. "I do not say that this is the right system. I only advance it to emphasize my belief that there is need for the adoption of some system which shall be automatic and open to all sound banks, so as to avoid all possibility of discrimination and favoritism. Such a plan would tend to prevent the spasms of high money and speculation which now obtain in New York market; for at present there is too much currency in certain seasons of the year, and its accumulation at New York tempts bankers to lend it at low rates for speculative purposes; whereas at other times when the crops are being moved there is urgent need for a large but temporary increase in the currency supply. It must never be forgotten that this question concerns business men generally quite as much as bankers; especially is this true of stockmen, farmers, and business men in the West; for at present at certain seasons of the year the difference in interest rates between the East and West is from 16 to 10 percent, whereas in Canada the corresponding difference is but 2 percent. Any plan must, of course, guard the interests of western and southern bankers as carefully as it guards the interests of New York or Chicago bankers, and must be drawn from the standpoints of the farmer and the merchant no less than from the standpoints of the city banker and the country banker." I will again urge on the Congress the need of immediate attention to this matter. We need a greater elasticity in our currency; provided, of course, that we recognize the even greater need of a safe and secure currency. There must always be the most rigid examination by the National authorities. Provision should be made for an emergency currency. The emergency issue should, of course, be made with an effective guaranty, and upon conditions carefully prescribed by the Government. Such emergency issue must be based on adequate securities approved by the Government, and must be issued under a heavy tax. This would permit currency being issued when the demand for it was urgent, while securing its retirement as the demand fell off. It is worth investigating to determine whether officers and directors of national banks should ever be allowed to loan to themselves Trust companies should be subject to the same supervision as banks; legislation to this effect should be enacted for the District of Columbia and the Territories. Enforcement of the Law. Enforcement of the Law. A few years ago there was loud complaint that the law could not be invoked against wealthy offenders. There is no such complaint now. The course of the Department of Justice during the last few years has been such as to make it evident that no man stands above the law, that no corporation is so wealthy that it can not be held to account. The Department of Justice has been as prompt to proceed against the wealthiest male factor whose crime was one of greed and cunning as to proceed against the agitator who incites to brutal violence. Everything that can be done under the existing law, and with the existing state of public opinion, which so profoundly influences both the courts and juries, has been done. But the laws themselves need strengthening in more than one important point; they should be made more definite, so that no honest man can be led unwittingly to break them, and so that the real wrongdoer can be readily punished. Injunctions. Instances of abuse in the granting of injunctions in labor disputes continue to occur and the resentment in the minds of those who feel that their rights are being invaded and their liberty of action and of speech unwarrantably restrained continues likewise to grow. Much of the attack on the use of the process of injunction is wholly without warrant; but I am constrained to express the belief that for some of it there is warrant. This question is becoming more and more one of prime importance, and unless the courts will themselves deal with it in effective manner, it is certain ultimately to demand some form of legislative action. It would be most unfortunate for our social welfare if we should permit many honest and lawabiding citizens to feel that they had just cause for regarding our courts with hostility. I earnestly commend to the attention of the Congress this matter, so that some way may be devised which will limit the abuse of injunctions and protect those rights which from time to time it unwarrantably invades. Moreover, discontent is often expressed with the use of the process of injunction by the courts, not only in labor disputes, but where State laws are concerned, refrain from discussion of the question as I am informed that soon receive the consideration of the Supreme Court. The loss of limb from railroad accidents in this country has become appalling. It is a subject of which the National Government should take supervision. It might be well to begin by providing for a Federal inspection of interstate railroads somewhat along the lines of Federal inspection of steamboats, although not going so far. The National Government should be a model employer. It should demand the highest quality of service from each of its employees and it should care for all of them properly in return. Congress should adopt legislation providing limited but definite compensation for accidents to all workmen within the scope of the Federal power, including employees of the navy yards and arsenals. Flight Honr Law. The Congress should, consider the extension of the eight-hour law. The constitutionality of the present law has recently been called into question and the Supreme Court has decided that the existing legislation is unquestionably within the powers of Congress. The principle of the eight-hour day should as rapidly and as far as practicable be extended to the entire work carried on by the Government; and the present law should be amended to embrace contracts on those public works which the present wording of the act has been construed to exclude. The general introduction of the eight-hour day should the goal toward which we should steadily tend, and the Government should set the example in this respect. Compulsory Investigation of Industrial Disputes. Strikes and lockouts, with their attendant loss and suffering, continue to increase. For the five years ending December 31, 1905, the number of strikes was greater than those in any previous ten years and was double the number in the preceding five years. These figures indicate the increasing need of providing some machinery to deal with this class of disturbances in the interest of the employer, the employee, and the general public. The need for some provision for such investigation was forcibly illustrated in their recent strike of telegraph operators which soriously interfered with telegraphic communication, causing great damage to business interests and serious inconvenience to the general public. Inland Waterways. The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our National life. We must-maintain for our civilization the adequate material basis without which that civilization can not exist. We must show foresight, we must look ahead. As a nation we not only enjoy a wonderful measure of present prosperity but if this prosperity is used aright it is an earnest of future success such as no other nation will have. The reward of foresight for this Nation is great and easily foretold. But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Tariff on Wood Pulp. There should be no tariff on any forest product grown in this country; and, in especial, there should be no tariff on wood pulp; due notice of the change being of course given to those engaged in the business so as to enable them to adjust themselves to the new conditions. The repeal of the duty on wood pulp should if possible be accompanied by an agreement with Canada that there shall be no export duty on Canadian pulp wood. The Panama Canal Work in now progressing at a satisfactory rate. The private bids for the construction of the canal were all unsatisfactory, and in consequence were all rejected. Postal Affairs. I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress a postal savings bank system, as recommended by the Postmaster General. The primary object is to encourage among our people economy and thrift and give them an opportunity banks to their resources, particularly those who have not the necessary funds for depositions and savings banks. Visual information from the experience of other banks, it is evident, provides a much aid to reach out with them, being from companies, individuals have and the working class, all of which are involved with own and keep the deposit box. The deposit box is the pro-sperity fund the pos-sion fund the money wounds of trade unions and benefit of capi- command to the Congress the consideration of the parcel post, especially on the rural routes. There are now 33,215 rural routes; serving nearly 15,000,000 people who do not have the advantages of the inhabitants of cities in obtaining their supplies. These recommendations have been drawn up to benefit the farmer and the country storekeeper; otherwise, I should not favor them, for I believe that it is good policy for our Government to do everything possible to aid the small town and the country districts. It is desirable that the country merchant should not be crushed out. Reports show that during the past year we made a clear profit on our foreign postal business of more than three and a half million dollars. The President recommends that profit be expended in improving the service. Oklahoma Oklahoma has become, a State, standing on a full equality with her elder sisters, and her future is assured by her great natural resources. The duty of the National Government to guard the personal and property rights of the Indians within her borders remains of course unchanged. German Tariff Agreement. A re-adjustment of the German tariffs made it necessary to appoint a commission composed of experts to investigate conditions and secure the fullest measure of rights to shippers, both exporters and importers. Porto Rico. I again recommend that the rights of citizenship be conferred upon the people of Porto Rico. A bureau of mines should be created under the control and direction of this Secre- tary of the Interior; the bureau to have power to collect statistics and make investigations in all matters pertaining to mining and particularly to the accidents and dangers of the industry. Vicksburg National Park. If further recommend that a naval monument be established in the Vicksburg National Park. This national park gives a unique opportunity for commemorating the deeds of those gallant men who fought on water, no less than of those who fought on land, in the great civil war. Legislation should be enacted at the present session of the Congress for the Thirteenth Census. The establishment of the permanent Census Bureau affords the opportunity for a better census than we have ever had, but in order to realize the full advantage of the permanent organization, ample time must be given for preparation. Presidential Campaign Expenses. Under our form of government voting is not merely a right but a duty, and, moreover, a fundamental and necessary duty if a man is to be a good citizen. It is well to provide that corporations shall not contribute to Presidential or National campaigns, and furthermore to provide for the publication of both contributions and expenditures. The need of collecting lage campaign funds by the parties would vanish if Congress should provide an appropriation ample enough to meet the legitimate expenses of each of the great parties. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Government should accept more than a fixed sum from any individual, subscriber or donor, and the necessary publicity for receipts and disbursements could easily be provided. The Army. Never in our entire history has the nation suffered in the least particular because too much care has been given to the Army, too much prominence been give it, too much money, spent upon it, or because it has been too large. As a nation we have always been shortsighted in providing for the efficiency of the army in time of peace. I think it is only lack of foresight- that troubles us; not any hostility to the Army. In the matter of efficiency it is urged that officers and enlisted men should be paid sufficient compensation to warrant them in making the army a life occupation. Among officers there should be examinations rigid enough to weed out the inefficient. The practice marches and field maneuvers of the past two or three years have been valuable, and these should be continued perhaps the most important legislation needed for the benefit of the army is a law to equalize and increase the pay of officers and enlisted men in the army, navy, marine corps and revenue-cutter service. The Public Health Service interest in this country in the question of the public health. "At last the public mind is awake to the fact that many diases, notably tuberculosis, are National scourges. The work of the State and city boards of health should be supplemented by a constantly increasing interest on the part of the National Government. The Navy. It is recommended that this year provision be made for four new battleships, and that docks, coaling stations, colliers and supply ships be provided to meet the needs thus created. Our coast line is on the Pacific as well as the Atlantic and occasionally the fleet should be dispatched to the waters of the Pacific. Our duty to California, Washington and Oregon is the same as to Maine, New York, Louisiana and Texas. I sincerely hope that the fleet will be shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific every year or two until our navy is of sufficient strength to admit of division. Foreign Affairs. In dealing with other nations it should be our policy to be neighborly and do all we can to help others without meddling; and at the same time, forgive them to understand in a proper way that we do not mean to be imposed upon. The Phillippines. The Secretary of War has gone to the Philippines. On his return I shall submit to you his report on the islands. International Bureau of American Republics. One of the results of the Pan-American Conference at Rio Janeiro in the summer of 1966 has been a great increase in the activity and usefulness of the International Bureau of American Republics. That institution, which includes all the American Republics in its membership, and brings all their representatives together, is doing a really, valuable work in informing the people of the United States about the other republics and in making the United States known to them. Its action is now limited by appropriations determined when it was doing a work on a much smaller scale and rendering much less valuable service. I recommend that the contribution of this government to the expenses of the bureau be made commensurate with its increased work. Only two more weeks before the tax books close. Fail not to pay your tax in order to register and vote against the disfranchisement next year. PROHIBITION sentiment is spreading all over the country. A strict enforcement of the prohibition laws here and elsewhere would be a blessing to the great mass of our people. Our Congressman from this district is being made a big man by the newspapers His front seat in Congress will not increase his illputian size and his efforts for this district will not prove fruitful. This district needs a broad-gauged and able man in congress. Our congressman's smallness was shown early in the session by his introduction of a disfranchisement bill. This district wants deep water and enactments that will prove beneficial. THE Board of Education will elect a new head at its meeting on Monday night, also two new members. Judge Adams is reported to succeed the late Col. Mercer as president. No better selection can be made. Judge Adams is a high toned Christian gentleman and we are sure that he will not turn a deaf ear to the great need of another school for the thousands of our boys and girls who are unable to now secure accommodations. The proposed new members are also excellent gentleman. THE following report of a decision by the Supreme court should be considered by the leaders of our people in every locality. Legal advice should be gotten and everything be done whereby the decision can be of benefit to us in getting a large number of our men on the voting list by only paying the seven years back tax. Here is the report. "A very fine legal point invoked in the question of whether or, not, a decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia nullifies the oath required by the voter by the constitution of 1877. Under the decision of the Supreme Court it has been held that plaintiff cannot go back in the case; required to that taxes has been paid from the time from the framing of the constitution up to the year in which the ballot is cast. Now authorities are asking if the Supreme Court decision does not cover oath and prevent the state going back of seven years. "The language of the oath says 'All taxes required, which may be taken, mean all taxes the individual must legal pay. "Discussion of this point is brought out by the statement that the names of 161,041 Negro taxpayers appear on the tax盗ests for this year. Just how many of these negroes will qualify by payment of all taxes this year is a question yet to be determined of course, but the question arises if they should pay taxes whether not they could vote in the election in year. If the Supreme Court decision is considered they would be required to show that all taxes had been paid since 1877. If the opinion stands the state can not go back of seven years. It would probably largely increase the number to enfranchise. "Inasmuch as the people must pass on the statute disfranchising the Negro at the elections next year, the question arises as to the possibility of a sufficient number qualifying to defeat that measure" Chatham Orphanage Chatham Orphanage. Thanksgiving day a number of persons were at the Chatham Orphanage and spent the day among them being Rev. D. H. May, D. W. Cannou, D. D. Mills, R. B. Simpkins, J. W. Hill, L. J. Robinson, Miss Ida Lee, Mrs. Susie Crawford, Miss M. E. Brown, Mrs. M. E. May, Mrs. Virginia Jackson, Mr. Cato Young Rev. C. Priester, president of the home made remarks in reference to the work, followed by several others. A collection was raised and a delicious dinner served. Charity Hospital Dots. Charity Hospital; wished to thank charity THE TRIBUNN the following friend who so generously remem- bered it at Thanksgiving: Congre- gational Church, box containing fruits, groceries, and vegetables. Teachers and pupils of Hayen Home 2 baskets of fruits, vegetables groceries and $1.93; St. Philip Church; $2.00; St. Stephen's Kindergarten, 3 bags of fruits, groceries and a large bunch of lowers. Mrs. Mittie Caunal 1 sack of flour; Mr. Toney Steele through Mrs. Lucas 32 gards of sheeting. The hospital is greatly in need of theets, spreads, pillow cases, towels, gowns, wrappers and overall. The committee appointed from the auxiliary tenders their thanks to the public for donations amounting to $7.20 as a Thanksgiving offering. Ten dollars was taken from the treasury making a total of $17.20. Thirty-two families were given groceries and 10 cents each for wood. Five persons who was given groceries from other sources but needed money for rent were each given 50 cents. The remainder amounting to $1.50 was given out promiscuously to those whom we saw on the streets that seemed needy. A general report will be read on the fourth Sunday together with the names and amounts that each person gave. KNIGHTS? OF LIBERTY The Organization of the Order by Rev, Meses Dickson He took a few true and trusty young men who were to enter into any plan that would assure freedom to the African race. they knew that it would require time and patience to make a success. They resolved to take two years to study out a plan. They met in the city of St. Louis, Mo, the 24th day of August 1846 to prepare for business. It will not be amiss to give the names of the men who like the twelve apostles commenced the great work for liberty. The names are John Patton and Henry Wright in South Carolina; James Befford, Silas Green in Mississippi; Irvin Hodges, Alabama; Peter Coleman and Willis Owens, Virginia; James Orr in Louisiana; Miles Graves in North Carolina. Henry Simpson in Georgia; Lewis Williams in Tennessee and Moses Dickson, their Chief. Silently like the falling of autumn leaves the organization multiplied until 1856 the army of true and trusty men numbered 4,720,040 Knights of Liberty. The first organization that was created under the distinct name of the order of twelve was organized by Mr. Moses Dickson, August 1856. The real date of the birth of our or der is the 13th day of August 1872. This organization was known among its members by the name of Knights of Tabor, a name that gave its members courage, as God was with Barak and Deborah in Israel's great battle with the immense army of Sisera. So God would be with them and God surely was with them. The organization was strong and fast, it was let set your right hand know what your left hand do. Trust no one and test every man before he is admitted to membership. A part of the oath was, "we can die, but we cannot reveal the secrets of the organization." No-secret order in the world has a history as grand as that of the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Taber. I must not close without paying due honor to the sainted mother Dickson, the wife of Moses Dickson, who was a faith ful worker in the church. She was installed into the honorable office and titled as mother of all Knights and Daughters of Tabor for life. And now springing up as the flowers of springtime, we have our Mt. Carmel Knights of Tabor 41 in number, Naomi Taboracle 72 in number, Opal Tabernaite 56 in number, and a new Tabernaite ready to be set up. This is the first of little over four months work writing and success due to the Deputy, Mrs. Fannie Seymour, of New York, that required those who were to be born in the year 1846 when he was born in August, that same hearts and souls be put into the same pu- bility to lift the burden of the world and be sufficiently educated. Other Sec. The Secretary of State met at St. Paul's on Tuesday morning at the neglected building of the Church of God and Rev. William H. B. of the Church of which Rev. H. B. was the first order. Rev. William H. B. was present at the Church of A. lonton as N. Butler, J. H. Browne, J. D. Groover, J. J. H. Browne, J. W. Wardar, G. W. Willingham, Ghee R. Brancher, Total collected on motion Rev. N. Hemby acted as secretary. On motion, each brother was granted the same privilege by paying the membership fee at next meeting, carried on motion, by Rev. J. A. Lindsey we went into permanent organization. On motion by Rev. R. V. Branch, Rev. H. H. Haywood was elected president. On motion by Dr. Johnson, Rev. Malter declined and on motion of Rev. R. V. Branch Dr. J. A. Lindsey was elected vice president. On motion Rev. B. H. Garswell elected secretary. On motion by Dr. R. H. Johnson, Rev. V. Branch was elected president. On motion by Dr. J. A. Lindsey was held in the executive committee he withheld until next meeting. On motion by J. A. Lindsey, vice president and R. Barnes was sworn in with Chatham On Association. On motion by R. Barnes that the Uniform Rank be notified to take part in Emancipation Association. On motion by Dr. J. A. Lindsey that we meet, on next Tuesday at 12 o'clock at 8. Phillip. A. M. E. church. The Uniform Rank and the K. of P. are cordially invited to take a part in the celebration, and to send a representative to the meeting next Tuesday. Snow H. L. Haywood, President. B. H. Carswell, Secretary. Second Baptist Church. The Master's cause is being pinned with renewed energy here and peace is attending the ranks. The annual meeting Monday night, in which all the annual officers were elected was the quintest annual meeting ever held here; harming reigned suprems and all officers, were elected except Supt W. R. Roundfield who declined that same being based as his bual nass was of such it kept him from services too much. Mr. Edw. Edward was then elected Supt. Mary James Maynor was elected nass for the first time. The churches to pick up new furnace next week, nobody need stay from church bereafter on account of being soild. Pairot May was sick. Sunday, and unable to be out. night, The late communion service the year will be held to-morrow afternoon. The pastor's morning, subject, "Separation from God" Sunday School, at 2:30 Mission Circle Tuesday nights 8:30 One funeral Monday afternoon, Rev. L L Blair of Bethlehem Church attended the funeral for Dr. May, he being indisposed. Every members and friends of the service arrived after 5:15 ack services here Christmas morning to fall. Christmas morning is to be a great service at the Second Baptist Church. Dr. May of second Baptist Church broke the marriage record last Thanksgiving day by uniting in marriage four couples that day. F. A. B. Church. Service at the F. A. B church Franklin square were well attended Sunday, Rev A. Mathis of Atlanta Ga., assisted by Revs Sims, D. Saml Orner and J. B. Miller administered to a crowded auditorium of the last communion of the old historic church for the year of 1907. At the 11 o'clock services Rev Mathis, subject "The Christian's Race." The Rev Sims one of our oldest ministers in the gospel, perhaps in the south, spoke very impressive just before the blessings was asked on the bread and wine after which Rev D. S. Orner offered prayer and asked the blessing on the bread. Rev J. B. Miller asked the blessing on the wine. The G. E. Aid and Social Club and Ladles Branch attended the evening-services and was given a rich treat in the discourse of Rev A. A. Mathis. They presented the church Rev. Mathis and the sexton with a very neat sum, which was highly appreciated. Over $16.00 was raised during the day's collection. On to-morrow Rev A. W. Bryant of Valdosta, Ga. will preach for us and we invite everybody to come and hear this young and able preacher whose discourses have always given to his hearers a rich production of wholesome thoughts. A New Church. The Morning Star Baptist Church was organized last week. The recognition council composed of Revs. L. L. Blair, E. Sanford, J. E. Miller. B. H. J. Carswell, C. Priester, E. Jones, B. Malet and M. King. After the devotional exercises the council was organized with Rev. E. Sanford, chairman, Rev. J. B. Miller, secretary. The Scripture was read for the occasion also the letters. The name was presented the Morning Star Baptist Church and it was unanimously voted that Rev. H. L. Haywood be pastor, he was elected. Rev. Haywood was escorted to the rostrum by Rev C to Priester and E. Jones. He expressed his heart's gratitude to the members of the church for their confidence in him as their pastor and their leader, and he fully expressed himself also to the ministers and deacons for their support and their assistance in the work. The deacons presented: Zion, Berean, Pilgrim, Mount Olive Associations and the Baptist Ministers Union. The deacons present were G. W. Jones, Wm Crosby, F. J. Smith, J. D. Murdock and Geo. Clark. At the conclusion of the organization a collection was taken and presented to the pastor. The chairman read the scripture and the hand of fellowship was extended. The Morning Star Baptist Church is now holding services at the Sisters Hall, Russell street near Magnolia. Sunday the services will be conducted by the pastor. A special sermon at 8:30 p.m. m., subject "Neilman a model man." Superintendent O Davis will conduct Sunday School at 9 p.m. Rev J B MILLER, Reporter Baptist Ministers Union. The Baptist ministers met Monday in their regular meeting. Rev. Wm. Gray, Vice President in the chair. Rev. Jas. M. Morris was elected chair protem. Rev. D. O'Riner, secretary. The chairman stated that the time had arrived for the election of officer. Rev. Wm. Gray was elected president, Rev. N. H. Wm. mirs, vice president; Rev. H. H. L. Haywood, clerk; Rev. B. H. J. Carwell, treasurer; Rev. C. L. Hayes, assistant secretary; Rev. D. W. Cannon. D. D., critic. The meeting was a harmonious one and all the brethren enjoyed the meeting. Rev. S. A. Banks of Boston, Mass., was also introduced to the union and made some timely remarks which were highly enjoyed by the brethren. Harvest Exercises Recitalist, Tafalo and the Negro "Miss Macedonia Martin Chorus," "Sing his Praise" Intermediate Classes Recitation, Eulie May Saxon Solo, Miss May Stuart Twill Open Your Eyes If you get a copy of next Sunday's New York World and see what wonderful advancement has been made in the publishing of a modern magazine newspaper. It would take you a week to read all the news. local and foreign: the editorial comments, stories of religion, history, romance adventure, science; art, etc., and to laugh at the funny pictures and writings of America's leading comic artists—all to be embodied in this greatest of all Sunday newspapers. Order a copy from your news dealer in advance. St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, West Broad and Bolton St., Savannah, Ga. Services: 2nd and 4th Sunday 11 a.m. Wednesday nights 8 p.m. Holly Buchart, 2nd Sunday 11 a.m. Holy Eucharist-Saints 2 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m. Saint Sunday 5 p.m. A cordial welcome at 422 West Bolton street. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON A recent graduate of Mehary Medical College, has a nearly furnished office, with all modern appliances at 5241 West Broad Street, over Metropolitan Bank To the Superior Court of said County; The petition of William D. Kennedy; Eward M. Green, Paul R. Black, George N. Peterson, Alfred N. Wright, Chester A. Simpkin, H. H., Henry A. Brown, Thomas G. Young, Thomas N. Green respectfully shown. 12t That they desire for themselves, their associates and successors, to be incorporated for a period of twenty two years with the privilege of renewal at the end of such time, under the name and style of the Young Men Merricant Saving Loan and Investment Company of Young Gentle men Entertainers Aid and S. C. of Savannah, Gn 2d That the principle office and place of doing business of said corporation will be Savangah, Chatham County, State of Georgia, but desire that said corporation shall have the right to do business else wherein the State of Georgia and of the united states when ever it may be deemed by the board of directors advisable the home of the said corporation however shall always be in the city of Savannah Georgia. ord. that the object of their association is as follows: to buy, sell, lease, rent grant, mortgage, encumber improve and otherwise hold and deal 1 real and personal property, to land and borrow money on notes, bills, bonds, pledges, deeds, mortgages, or other obligations, or lines, with or with out real or personal security, to act as agents, administrators and trustee for individuals or for corporations, to enter and carry out contracts for the building and repairing of all kinds of houses, and generally to do and perform all acts and things incident and similar to those above.enumerated, 4th, the amount of capital stock to be employed by your patitioner is five thousand ($500,000) dollars into five, thousand ($500,000) shares of (100) dollar each of which ten(10) per cent is now actually paid in. 5th pattitioners ask the right of increasing the amount of said capital stock at any time, to any amount not exceeding twenty five ($25,000,000) thousand dollars and to decrease the capital stock at any time to any amount not less than five thousand ($500,000) dollars. 6th, no stockholder in said company shall be bound in his individual capacity for the contracts or debts of the company, beyond the amount of his unpaid subscriptions to its capital stock. 6th, petitioners pray that they be granted the right to make all proper rules, the constitution, and all other same pleases please; have the power to elect such directors, officers and agents as they see fit. 8th to have and to use corporate seal, to sue and be sued. 8th, petitioners pray that this petition may be filed and recorded as by law provided, and when the same has been published as prescribed by law, that an order may be passed incorporating petitioners under the same and for the purposes above specified. The Savannah Mutual and Fire Association of 20 state, street, west, of Savannah, Ga., announces its readiness to begin fire insurance on the home, household good churches, lodges, business courses and other property of our people. This will afford protection which has hitherto been depicted them. Twenty-five or more agents will be put to work at once in various parts of the State, and a thorough canvas made for safe legitimate business. A few persons 25 or more who have hitherto employed 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 particular address D. C. Suggs, Pres. or L. S. Reed, Sect. 20 State street west, Savannah, Ga. Colored Congressmen in the United States. Since the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1863, many colored men have held official position. Two were United States Senators and twenty Representatives. A fine engraving of these Congressmen has just been issued giving accurate portraits of each; also the Congress in which they served and the years of service. In the picture the two Senators, Mears. Revels and Bruce, occupy the center of the group, surrounded by the other twenty Representatives. In the background, the Stars and Stripes in color. This beautiful engraving, with a booklet containing biographies of these eminent men, is sold for one ($100) dollar. This engraving is a graphic political history of the Negro in America. No home, library, office or school room will be complete without it. Send for one to day. THE COLORED AMERICAN NOVELTY CO., P. O. drawer, 2318, Washington, D. C. AGENTS WANTED. N. B. We also have in stock large engravings, of Frederick Douglas, Paul Dunbar, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Boucher, T. Washington, W. T. Vernon Register of the Treasury, Phillis Wheatley and "Everything about Colored People" in books, pictures, inventions and souvenirs. HATS DRESS HATS for Men and Women, latest direct from New York at the lowest prices. Underwear Winter line of UNDERWEAR for men women children. We can suit you in Hosiery, Cuffs and Col'ars. SUESINE SILKS, all colors. Canton Flannel, Ginghams and Outings. SHOES OUR shoes have always given satisfaction, give them a trial. We are looking for your business. We offer the right prices. Men's Rubbers 65c, Women's Rubbers 50c, Children Rubbers 50c. MEN CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER. ICE CREAM furnished in any quantity all the Winter. You know our Ice Cream is the best. 462 West Broad Street. SCOTT BROTHERS. NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE. Watch this space for my offerings. CHAS. A. R. McDOWELE, Real Estate and Renting Agent Bell Phone 3188 22 State Street, west 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 Enthral Cars. We also have in our employment Mr. H. S. Dunbar, who would like to see his friends at any time. MANAGERS: Only First Class Service Rendered With —Respectful Attention.— OUR STOCK OF CASKETE, COFFINS, ROBES, Etc. is Complete. Bell Phone 887 319 Oglethorne Ave., West THANKSGIVING DAY 1907 I want to thank all my friends and the public in general for encouragement given to my efforts to provide for the people, with their support, a nice UP TO DATE JEWELRY STORE WATCHMAKING AND JEWELRY REPAIRING That none south of Virginia can excel I thank you all for enabling me to do the biggest business between two Thanksgiving Days that has ever been my lot since coming to Savannah, and I accept your favors as an obligation on me to continue to improve my stock, my service and my efficiency. In every way possible I thank you for accepting my intentions as the apology for occasional mistakes, for overlooking this or that, and taking the will for the deed. For your confidence in my earnest desire to do right for the sake of right. Especially do I thank the many of you who after having found my work and prices satisfactory, have told your friends of your friends of your satisfaction and so have increased the number of my customers, through the best sort of advertising—the spoken words of personal approval. Finally I thank my critics for calling attention to my faults; for I now may mend the worst of them and thus, more agreeably and efficiently serve you, and you, and you, and him, and her. Respectfully yours, Knowledge Building. Boy's Hall. Stone Hall. Girl's Hall. Modal House. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. An unsectarian Christian institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College, New maf College Preparatory and English High School courses, with industrial Training. Superior schools in Adult and Preparatory Athletics. Go boys. Physical cultures for girls. Home He and training. Aid gives to needy and deserving students. Term begin, the first Wednesday to October. For catalogue and information, address Mr. E. L. Mitchell of Belfast, made a hurrid trip to the city last Saturday. Mr. J D McMoore of Ellabelle was in the city last Saturday and came in to see us. Rev. J E Ladd of Princeton, Ky., one of the oldest Baptist postors in that state died last week. Mrs. Laura A. Jones wishes to announce that she has severed her connection with the Chatham Orphanage. Mr. John F. Carr, of Augusta will spend the winter in the city the guest of his aunt Mrs. Lizzie S Collings at 519 Gaston street. Miss Marie F. Davis formerly of this city but now of New York, and Miss Laura West also of New York, spent a very pleasant Thanksgiving Day in Greenwich Conn. They were the guests of Miss West's aunt, Miss Brown. Mr. Wm. H. Shellman arrived in the city Sunday Nov. 24th, and expects to remain for two weeks visiting friends and relatives. Mr. Shellman is a Savannah boy but has been residing in New York for the past ten years where he has been quite popular and prosperous. Mr. Shellman is stopping at Mrs. R. M. Johnson 609 Duffy Lane, east. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hamilton entertained with a Thanksgiving dinner in honor of Mrs. G. H Taylor of New York City. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Mrs. G. H Taylor, Mrs. Susie Davis, Misses Florence Kennedy, Mattie Burke, Mr. O. J. Williams and Mr. Robert McIntosh. Attend the two nights entertainment at St. Augustine's Assembly Hall, Monday and Tuesday nights December 9th, and 10th. Musical program each night at 8:30 o'clock. Refreshments on hand. Admission 10 cents each night, by the Woman's Guild of St. Augustine Chapel. The Faithful Workers Club of Beth Eden Baptist Church will give another one of their delightful rustic picnics at Masonic Temple, Monday night Dec. 16th. The ladies having the entertainment in hand intend to have everything so attractive as to please all who attend. Don't miss the three nights fest at Monumental A. M E. Church-Sunday School commencing Dec. 9th, Monday night, Cantata, Tuesday night Bible Contest, Wednesday night, Contest between 18upts J. H. Baldwin, St. Phillips J. Vickers, Bethel S. F Faut, Monumental, W. O. P. Sherman, Jr. Chairman. The Tiptoe Athletic Association defeated the Bright Stars by a score of 10 to 7 on the Huntingdon street green Thanksgiving morning. It was a tight game from start to finish and no one could tell which side would win. The Tiptop line up as follows: John Lark, L. E. Fred Jones, L. T. Willie Rogers, L. G Edger Habersham, G. Willie Holmes R. G. Fred Skipper, B. J. T. Nathan Fuller, R. E. Arman Clark, Q. B. John Habersham, F. B. Albert LaFayett R. H. B. Elliot Fuller, L. H. B On Thursday evening of last week Mr. and Mrs J. H. Brown, formerly of Savannah, gave to their old friends of Savannah, a grand Georgia Thanksgiving dinner at their beautiful city vannie were Mr. and Mrs George Hall, Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Coleman and Marie Wright, Mr. Jaeko Sneeher and Mrs. J. H. Brown Mr. B. Bacon, Mr. B. Gaines, Miss Dana Butler, Miss Frances Rahn, Miss Alice Walker, Mr. Haaten, Miss Ella Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. A. Sims, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, Mr. Jim Barron. Mr. and Mrs. W. L, Lee held their wedding reception Wednesday evening Nov. 20th, at their cozy residence 1613 Burroughs street and received the congratulation of their friends The evening was very pleasantly spent. The sweet clover quartet assisted by Messrs. Ricks and Hunter, rendered some choice selections The followsng composed the quartett Messrs W. H. Norman G. E. McGrath, N. Evans I. V. Johnson, W. R. Ricks, W. Hunter. The guests present were Mrs. Wm. Cash, of Mason, Ga. Miss Drusiller, Darlington, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. John Lee, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Drumwright Messrs Julian Smith, S L Scriven, B J Scott W H Burgess. After many gettings refreshments were served. The evening was enjoyed. The Ladies and Gents Soiree Club gave its seventh annual at Morses hall on the 28th on November. The officers were installed by the Rev. D. S. Orner. President, Mrs. S. T. Emery; Vice Pres., Mr. J. Suarez; Secretary, Mrs. A. J. Small; R. Sec. Mrs. L. B. Fleming; Treasurer, Mrs. B Patterson; Advocate, E. W. Cummings; Chairman of Finance, Miss M. Mittchell, Chairman of health, Mrs. R. Mitchell; Chorister, Miss M. Hubert; Clerk of Order, Mrs. Jones. After being installed the officers and members marched down to the dining room where an elaborate table was prepared. At our last report we are reaching the neighborhood of three-hundred dollars. THE NOTE. The Whist Club met Mouday afternoon, Mrs. John B. Bryant, Mrs. M. Green, won the first prize, Mrs. Hamilton of Trusson won the second. The booby was awarded to Mrs. Robertson. The prizes were dalmie cake plates, pitheers, and fork holders. The score cards were of diamond shaped tiee with dainty yellow ribbons. After games refreshment were served. Mrs. Hamilton was the guest for honor. Those present were Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. H. L. Scott, Mrs. Small, Mrs. M. F Green, Mrs. Roberson, Mrs. Hart, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Broughton, Mrs. Branham, Mrs. Bryant. The club will be entertained by Mrs. Wesley-Carter, Gaston St. east, on next Monday afternoon. The club gave the first social affair this season at the residence of the president, Mrs. C. H. Braham on Thanksgiving day. Each mem ber was accompanied by a guest. Dinner was served at six p.m. After dinner the guests were entertained with games Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Branham, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Small, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. B Bryant, Mrs. Willie Roberson and Master Roberson, Mrs. Broughton, Mrs. W. Carter, Mrs. Bin yard of Jacksonville Fla, Mrs. Cummings Miss Battese Mrs. Scott and Miss Gordon. Mrs. Nathan Roberts entertained the Married Women's Charitable and Pleaseure Club delightfully on Friday afternoon of last week at her home 709 W. Duffy St. The parlor was beautifully decorated for the accession with white and yellow chrysanthemums, Various games were indulged in until a late hour when the program for the afternoon was exquisitively carried out. Mrs. Robert Pierce was as coopsinist. An instrumental solo was rendered by Mrs. Robert Pierce. A beau tiful solo was sung by Mrs. M. B Hemby which was applauded. Mrs Francis Mason made one of her usual hits with select reading, "A glass of wine and a glass of water." Mrs. Roberts, the charming hostess was also applauded after rendering a beautiful solo the program ended and delicious refreshments which was so elabo rately prepared were served in courses and enjoyed by all. The invited guests were Mesdames; H. Holbrooks, C. W. Ward, D. L. Robinson, J. M. Coddle, Chas Allen, L. A. Middleton, Samuel Pinkney, J. H. Whiffield, Wm. Durden, M. Harris, Thomas H. Green, Mrs Robert Pierce, George Walton, Wm. Steward, C. L. White, A. B. Baker, J Allen, Era Fasto of West Point, Virginia, Lizzie Blessess M H Memby, Mable Barron Mrs C Maxwell and Mrs Kirkland assisted Mrs. Roberts in serving. Field day exercises held on parade in front of Mr J. F. King's residence proved a great success and plenty of fun for everybody. The exercises were witnessed by many and were enjoyed. Winners of events are: 50 yards daah, Duncan J. Scott; 100 yards dash, Joseph F. King; burdle race, Duncan J. Scott; three legged race, Almus Loveland and A. L Johnson; potato race, R. William; sack race, Adam Langers; obstacle race, John F. Moore; back ward race, Arthur Dilworth; relay race, A Dilworth, Duncan J. Scott, John N. Moore and Sam Ling; sparring matches, Willie H. Lloyd and Dilworth, draw; Duncan J. Scott and Trotty Riley, draw. The exercises tables were spread out. Mr. King's lawn and lavish with eatables. The G-E's Club held a usual Installation on Thanksgiving night The following officers were appointed by Mr Jos J Browne, the Fields President; R L Jones, Vice President J D Powell, Advocate; Samuel Richards, Financial Secy; Robert McIntosh Recording Secy; John L Mitchell, Treasurer; J. H. Moultry, Chaplain. After the installation refreshments were served. Mc J J. Smalls was Master of ceremony. Speeches were made by Messrs Walter S. Wrote, Mack B Branham. Eddie S. Luke, D W Oaborne, Ge F Tysger, who were guests; R L Jones, Augustus Black, H W Main, members of the club The club and guestz in a body proceeded toasonic Temple where the Branch held an entertainment and were served with supper A delightful time was enjoyed. A Pretty Home Wedding. One of the prettiest and most interesting weddings of recent times, took place on Thanksgiving night, at the residence of Mr Charles Smith, 518 E. Henry St., the contracting parties being Miss Emily M. Smith and Rev. Franklin B. Mallard. The home was most tastefully and artistically-decorated. The parlor was beautified by a wealth of flowers. The flowers were arranged in great banks along the walls. Promptly at eight o'clock, Miss H. Louise Roston began to play the beautifuli wedding march from Mendelsohn, and the bridal procession led by the Maid of Honor, Miss Malinda O. Smith, sister of the bride started. She was followed next by the bride leaning on the arms of her father. And under a beautiful arch of palms, these were met by the groom, attended by his brother, Rev. J. R. Mallard, as best man. Here the couple were united in the holy bonds of wdock by the Rev. W. L. Cash. During the ceremony, "O Promise Me" was played very sweetly and softly by Miss Roston. And after the ceremony, by request, Miss Nettie A. Houston rendered very sweetly, the solo "You." The bride was very prettily gowned, her gown being a figured net over silk, trimmed in lace and medallions. The bridal veil was draped with a beautiful wreath of orange blossoms. She bore a pretty bonquet of bride's roses. The costume, in its entirety, had at beautiful effect, and was a credit to the taste and skill of the dressmaking art. The Maid of Honor wore a white lingerie over blue with trimmings of lace and blue satin ribbon. She bore a beautiful bouquet of La France' roses and ferns and the wedding ring. The groom and the best man wore the conventional suit. The groom wore a beautiful white rose as a buttonette and the bride's father and best man had pink carnations. The bride is one of Savannah's most talented and accomplished young ladies. She graduated from the college department of Talladega college, in the year of 1904, and has since that time, been engaged in teaching for the American Missionary Association at Fessenden Academy. She is very refined and cultured and has a sweet and amiable disposition. While she has the best wishes of her many friends as she enters upon the sea of matrimony, they, at the same time, are loath to have her leave our fair city. She has a host of friends and admirers. The groom is a young man of sterling qualities. He is a graduate both of Tallalfa and of Oberlin Theological Seminary. For the past eighteen months, he has been pastoring at the First Congregational Church of Raleigh, N. C. He is also instructor of Hebrew at Shaw University. The many beautiful and useful presents received by the young couple attest their popularity. The young couple left vis. Seaboard on the midnight train for Raleigh where they will be domiciled in the handsome parsonage recently completed for them. Jefferson-Holmes Miss Sarah Jefferson was united in marriage to Mr. J H Holmes on Tuesday night of last week, Nov. 26 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Benj F Green in the presence of relatives and few friends. After the wedding the guests were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Holmes at their residence at Thunderbolt. The evening was delightfully spent and very much enjoyed. Errors The cause of errors in a number of articles this week is caused by our being short of printers Several articles were left out. Attend the services at the First Congregational Church The services are short, the sermons by Rev Cash are along practical lines and well delivered. THE TRIBUNE is on sale at the following places in the city: R. Barnes, Barber shop 457 West Broad street, S. P. Pope's barber shop, 20 Farm street, Colored Public Library Price street, by Miss Jones, Mattox. Grocery Waters Ave., and Waldburg streets. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. night, Dec. 2nd. Tickets 10 cents. A active nights fete will be given at Harriet Street Hall, by Light of Inheritance Lodge No. 133 I. O. G. S. & D. of S, U. S. A. beginning Monday night December 9th. Tickets 10 cents. A Patriotic entertainment will be given at Harriet street Hall under the auspices of the Chatham County Emancipation Association on Wednesday night, December 18th, for the purpose of raising means for the Emancipation celebration January 1st. Tickets 15 cents. The annual Rustic Picnic of Faithful Workers' Club of Beth Eden Baptist Church will be given at Masonic Temple December 16th. Tickets 15 cents. DR. L. S. PARKS 240 DENTIST 240 Barnard St., Savanna 240 Barnard St., Savannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $3.00. Broken Places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. BellPhone 1244 Gold Crowns Guaranteed 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. Noble's SHOE EXCHANGE First-class Work Downsweat: the money lenders and installment houses. They are sucking the financial blood out of our people. VERY WELL DONE. THAT'S what you'll say when you see the way we can fit you in our high-grade ready-for-service Suits and Overcoats, that will cost you no more than the ordinary kind. We have the proper clothes in extreme or concersative styles for men want to be properly dsessed. MEN'S SUITS $5 TO $45. We show also a very strong line of popular priced goods from $10 00 TO $15.00 B. H. LEVY, BRO. & CO. 5 Broughton Street, West. A New Pharmacy The People's Pharmacy 809 West Broad St. Prescriptions carefully compounded Drugs Toilet Articles and Sundries. Candies, Soda Water and Ice Cream. J. F. Ford, Prop. F. F. Jones, Beef - Veal - Mutton Lamb-Pork-Hams Bacon and CORNED BEEF All Kinds of GAME in Season Goods promptly delivered to any part of the city free of charge. STALL 31. CITY MARKET. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, DENTIST: Go to him and have your work done Crowns, gold and, white, looking like the natural teeth. Filling gold, silver and cement, Plates, full or partial, Bridge neatly done. Extracting done with ease. All work done neatly in a neat first class place. Provided,with all modern appliances 623 WEST BROAD STREET. Bet. Huntingdon and Hall. Good Clothes? We combine the three essentials in garment making in Clothes namely, QUALITY, STYLE and FLY. Not every man knows he can find clothes; but he 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. P. B. RAY, Tailoring DRY & STEAM* CLEANING Ladies Work a Specialty JEFFERSON & BERRIEN STS. SAVANNAH, GA. Metropolitan Mercantile & Realty Commanv. HAS ON THE MARKET A BLOCK OF $100,000 WORTH OF STOCK AT $25.00 PER SHARE. There was sold in the city of New York a few days ago, 5,060 worth of Stock in one day. It is the best investment on the public and will not be on the market long. Pays 7 per cent. We are building those "Queen Annie" Cottages every day. Our terms are the easiest and best for the poor man and the safest for the investor. Call or write and let us talk business with you. Our proposition is worth investigation and investment. Branches everywhere. Reference everybody. P. Sheridan Ball, President. L. C. Collins, Secretary. J. H. Atkins, Treas. W: D. Armstrong, Gen'l Rep. J. J. Bolen, Fiscal Agent. F. M. Cohen, General Manager. 526 West Broad Street, Savannah, Ga. Bell'Phone 1144 (Incorporated—Charter Perpetual) The leading insurance company in the South. Giving emp young men and women than any other company of like benefit. The UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION is the peoples it is the first home insurance company of its kind in this city. Founded, built, owned and controlled entirely by Negro men. Every policy is backed up by a deposit of $5,000 with the GEO. W JACOBS, General Manager. She is striving now to place her policies in every State in Shrewd and energetic agents are wanted. Call aud see us at 20 STATE STREET, W Bel GEO. W JACOBS, General Manager. insurance company in the south. Giving emp women than any other company of like benefit. IN BENEFIT ASSOCIATION is the peoples of the insurance company of its kind in this city. built, owned and controlled entirely by Negro man y is backed up by a deposit of $5,000 with the take out a policy with the UNION BENEFIT a safe investment. and energetic agents are wanted ins at 20 STATE STREET, W Bel EO. W JACOBS, General Manager The leading insurance company in the south. Giving employment to many young men and women than any other company of like benefit. The UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION is the peoples favorite, since it Is the first home insurance company of its kind in this city. Is the first home insurance company of its kind in this city. Founded, built, owned and controlled entirely by Negro men of the city. Every policy is backed up by a deposit of $5,000 with the State Treasury. When you take out a policy with the UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION you have made a safe investment. She is striving now to place her policies in every State in the union Shrewd and energetic agents are wanted. Call and see us at 20 STATE STREET, W Bell Phone 232 GEO. W JACOBS, General Manager: BADGES FOR Lodges, Socie- ties and Clubs, In any Color and with any Emblem, Embossed and Fringed. Cheaper than Elsewhere Call and inspect our Samples. Only Firstclass Material SOL. C. JOHNSON. Reversable the South. Giving employment to man- company of like benefit. TION is the peoples favorite, since it its kind in this city. ed entirely by Negro men of the city. osit of $5,000 with the State Treasury. the UNION BENEFIT ASSOCIATION 刊ices in every State in the union ents are wanted. GREET, W Bell Phone 232 General Manager: MILLER'S RESORT. Waters Road. When on the road, or when you wish to have a fine oyster roast or other refreshments, stop at Sam Miller's Place, Waters Road. Parties of any size served on short notice. Everything reasonable. A royal welcome to all. SAM MILLER Prog. LODGE ROOMS FOR THE FARMER AND STOCKMAN. Hints on Catching Hawks. A New Jersey poultry keeper gives the Practical Farmer his experience in catching hawks as follows: Soft-shelled eggs mean that the hens are too fat or else there is no enough lime in the ration—some times both. Set a pole three or four inches through at top and twelve feet long on a hill overlooking the poultry yards. Set a small steel trap cu top of pole and the hawk is almost certain to get caught when he alights on the pole. Hawks prefer to alight on the pole. I have caught 100 in three years, since I began. The trap, of course, should be fastened; otherwise, a large hawk would take it away. This beats watching about half a day to get a shot at them. Mange on Horses. Mange is an infection caused by a microscopic mite that lives on and burrows in the skin of the animal, causing intense itching, says the Maine Farmer. The treatment and cure are similar for all animals. Remove the scabs by softening in warm soapsuds. Prepare an application of one and a half ounces of tobacco in two pints of water, by boiling. Apply several times at intervals, and repeat after fifteen days to make sure of destruction of any new brood that may have been hatched in the interval. To make a sure job, all harness and stable utensils should be treated in same manner, and the stalls covered with whitewash containing one-fourth pound chloride of lime to the gallon. Setting Gate Posts: The matter of setting gate posts is one that should interest every one who has a gate to hang, for no matter how strong the post may be and how carefully it may be braced it is bound to sag sooner or later so that the gate catches on the ground. It is often desirous to set a gate post in soft ground, such as around the barn yard, or just after a heavy rain when the ground is too soft to do any work in the field. In such cases it is almost Two Ways of Setting Gate Posts. impossible to set the post firmly, but even in such cases this work can be done very satisfactorily by packing small stones in the hole around the post. This work might be even more effectually accomplished if the post were set in concrete, which is a little more expensive, but will hold the post more firmly than stones alone. In setting the post in concrete it should be tamped firmly as the hole is being filled up. After the hole is filled with concrete the post should not be disturbed for several days so as to give the cement time to "set." Care must be taken to have the post exactly plumb all the time while the work is going on as it can never be straightened after the cement hardens. As gate posts are usually much heavier than ordinary posts and are therefore expected to last much longer than the rest of the fence, it is always well to use thoroughly seasoned wood so as to make the work as permanent as possible. Another method of setting posts, says The Farmer, is by using two large flat stones to hold them in place. The hole, of course, must be dug much larger and before it is set in the hole one stone is laid edgewise in the bottom upon the side which is to receive the greatest pressure at the foot of the post. The post is then set in the hole, half filled with earth and the other stone placed against the side of the post to receive the drawing weight from the gate. In this way both stones receive the pressure holding the post firmly in position. Random Jottings. The chicks have great appetites as they near maturity and they need full feeding at that time. Keep a hopper filled with good grain before the birds all the time and then they can balance any shortage in your feeds of the day. Ordinarily, there is no advantage in high roosts and the fowls will do better and keep healthier if the perches are not more than three feet above the floor. Of course all the slats should be on a level, as this avoids crowding and fighting for the highest positions. This is a good time of year to whitewash the hen house. Use a little crude carbolic acid in the preparation. Glass may be all right for use as grit so far as grinding ability is concerned, but its use is dangerous, as it is liable to puncture the crop of the bird. Soft-shelled eggs mean that the hens are too fat or else there is not enough lime in the ration—sometimes both. Many farmers do not know the value of Kaffir corn as a feed for poultry. It has the same nutritive value as Indian corn, but is not no fattening and therefore is a better egg-producing grain. The fowls like it.—The Epitomist. How to Draw Poultry. Operation birds are to be drawn the operation should be performed immediately after the pin-feathering is finished or after they have become slightly cooled, as it is more difficult after they are thoroughly chilled. A sharp knife is essential, although some dressers prefer to make the necessary incision with curved scissors similar to those used by surgeons. Drawn fowls usually have the head removed also, and this should be done first. Sever the neck close to the head, taking care not to cut the windpipe and gullet, which can be more easily pulled out if left attached to the head. Draw the neck skin back and remove a short section of the bone, thoroughly washing out any blood that may collect. Finally draw the skin forward, and tie firmly. Remove the intestines through a small opening, as a large aperture is unsightly as well as unnecessary. Cut carefully through the walls of abdomen, making the incision entirely around the vent, then hook the first finger into the loops of the intestines and thus pull them out. Usually the heart, liver, lungs and gizzard are left attached in their natural position, as ordinarily the removal of the intestines is considered sufficient. After this has been accomplished the cavity should be thoroughly washed to remove all blood and other secretions. A select private trade often demands that poultry be even more carefully prepared, in which case the giblets should be removed and cleaned. Cut the gall sack from the liver, the blood vessels from the heart and remove the contents of the gizzard. Cut off the shanks after first removing the strong sinews which run up through the leg to injure the quality of the "drum stick." To take out these sinews run a knife blade down the back of the shank, between it and the sinews. Remove the skin above the sinews, and pull the latter out singly by means of a strong fork or skewer. A still easier way is to have a strong hook fastened to the wall at the proper height. Place the point of the hook under each sinew, which can then easily drawn out. The bird is now ready for lying up. Replace the giblets in the body cavity, draw the end of the drum sticks down to the "pope's nose," and there tie firmly. Finally fold the wings behind the back. Birds so tled are usually attractive, always appearing plump and chunky, due to the absence of sprawling legs and wings. Brollers may be attractively prepared for private trade as follows: Pluck carefully and remove the legs and sinews as above. With a heavy sharp knife make a cut each side and the entire length of the backbone, covering the ribs. Let these incisions meet in front of the neck and below the vent. This permits the removal of the head, neck, backbone and entire intestinal tract, and the bird opens out flat in convenient form to be placed upon the broiler. The giblets should be cleaned and should accompany the remainder of the carcass.—Butchers' Advocate. Good Hay Corer. Where lumber for barns is often dear, temporary roofs of inch boards over stacks serve a good purpose, the boards being carefully selected to have no cracks in-them, well painted with some light-colored paint and laid on as shingles are laid, one lap- The Board Cover. ping over the other, and held by a light flexible chain at each end and a staple. Have the ends of the chain attached to large rings which slip over slender poles driven in the ground and with headless spikes driven in like barbs, so the winds will not lift the roof. By boring one small hole near the lower edge of each board n wire would tie the two to the chain and not injure the board as staples might. Sapphire mining in Kashmir is being revived by a new company, composed of Europeans of high standing and wealthy natives. "THE EDITOR AND THE TOWN." By D. W. GRANDON, TELEGRAM, ADRIAN, MICH. Communities are different. The people of one town differ from the people of another town. An editorial policy that will win applause in one community would create a bushel of "stops" in another. The editor who would be popular and a power in one community might play a losing game and become a man of small influence in another. There are towns that will take almost any kind of glush that an editor may give his readers. There are other towns that almost resent a real editorial opinion. The editor is an evolution. He is growing better year by year. The town is an evolution. It is growing bigger and broader and greater year by year. I believe and have always maintained both in public and private, that an editor both to be successful and influential must play square with the people. If-partisan politicians, rings or machines are robbing the public and the editor is sure of his grounds, he should be man enough to say so. If special interests are working special schemes to give them special privileges to benefit the few at the expense of the many, the real editor who plays square with the people should be willing to oppose directly and emphatically all such schemes. The real editor should be broad enough and have backbone enough and brains enough to take a stand in opposition to his best friends, to his 'largest patrons, to his heaviest advertisers, if the public interest demands it. The public interest should come first. Even from the most selfish standpoint if no other. Your best friend may die. Your largest patron may sell out or move away. Your heaviest advertiser may go into bankruptcy. But the public goes on forever. Play square with the public and the public is your friend, and if the public is your friend, the advertiser will go to the paper the public-reads, whether he believes in the editorial policy or not. Then on broad principles without attempting to suggest any plan that would apply generally, the editor should be honest. He should be honest with himself, honest with the public and honest in the presentation of public questions. It is impossible to always be right. Mistakes will happen. Honest editorials are often written on misinformation. But even they should ring true. They should strike clear. They should not be written as if the editor was feeling around for a soft place to light. More than that, a newspaper ought to have editorial opinions. More than that, it ought not to dodge local issue. It is the local questions that interest the local readers. A Republican editor or a Democratic editor, who devotes a column to lambasting the opposition party on national or State questions, and permits his party council to give half the town away, without ever uttering a protest, is not living up to the high ideal of a real editor. The local editor cannot do much toward shaping the destinies of his State or national organization, but with the use of brains and tact and hard work, he can do wonders toward helping his home town. It is the duty of the editor to do all he can to help his town. He should favor the policies that will help his town get new factories, new enterprises, new improvements, new citizens. He should help his town by frequently speaking of its advantages, its good location for business, its opportunities for buyers. The newspaper that is not afraid to get on the right side of public questions will be respected. A great many editors speak out strongly on most questions, but weakly dodge the liquor and similar questions. Don't dodge anything. Don't be afraid of anything. Meet and treat the questions of the day fairly and honestly. The public is willing to differ from you. But it doesn't admire an editor who is always squirming around and flopping about. If a Democratic alderman should make a mistake, take a wrong position, the thunders of Mt. Sinai would not be equal to the thunders of vultuperation the Republican organ is usually able to turn loose. Or if the shoe should happen to be on the other foot, the roar of Niagara would be as mild as a summer breeze, compared to the raging torrents of denunciation and noise that a partisan Democratic editor would fire at the political culprit whose chief fault probably arose from his standing in the way of some graft in which some friend of the partisan journal was interested. A thousand worse things, however, would go toobanning through the town, creating havoc, piling up taxes, getting the town by the ears, and the same editor would never utter a word of protest. It is my judgment that an editor should be an editor. That he should never be a partisan partisan. Belong to a party if you feel that to be your duty, but don't let the party use you to pull its burning chestnuts out of the fire. Like a just judge sitting on the bench, the editor should deal with public questions from the sole standpoint of doing the greatest good to the greatest number. I believe that such policy is not only the right policy, but I believe it is the winning way. The editor must be fair. He must be honorable in his dealings with the public. He should stand fairly in favor of right principles, sobriety, honesty, integrity, honest and economical public service and "hurrah" for his town always and all the time. He should print a good newspaper, a news newspaper, an enterprising newspaper, an up-to-date American newspaper. He should see that the local news field is carefully handled, thoroughly covered, and the paper edited with a view to making the news reliable as well as readable. But it is useless to offer suggestions along these lines. You all know these things as well as, many of you better, than I do. As to the town much depends on that. Some cities are very proud of very poor papers. Some cities are constantly kicking at very good papers. No hard and fast lines can be laid down as to what the town should do for the editor. But I think it is safe to say that if he will give his town his best efforts, even though they may not always be brilliant, just an honest, earnest effort to serve the people, his town will be good to him. The editor must take the people as he finds them. He must take his town as he finds it. It is not the editor's duty to carry all the burdens of the town on his own shoulders, but he will have to carry ten times as many of them as any other man. The editor should not imagine that he is the dictator. He should not swell up and become infected with the notion that ho is the big boss or the one overgrown boy, who is to do all the talking. That won't go down with a lot of people. The town is full of people who know what they want done just as well as the editor knows what he wants done. They can give him bushels of points every day in the week. They can tell him where to back in. In fact some of the people sometimes get so excited over their failure to reform the editor that they are liable to quit taking his paper for a few weeks at least. If the paper is really worth while, they soon come back. After that they do not try to reform the editor all the time—they begin to stop and eat once in a while, at least—and they usually stay longer after an experience of that kind. For myself, I believe in opening up the columns of my paper freely to the people who disagree with my editorial policy. The public is given to understand that while I am compelled to pay for the privilege of saying what I please, as well as pay for the other fellow's privilege of appearing in print, the public can use the columns of the Telegram without money and without price to agree or disagree with my editorial policy or utterance just as much as they like so long as they present their remarks in a respectful manner. The real editor it seems to me should not be afraid to open up his columns to the kicker, the knocker or the objector. Give these people space and if they are wrong, they will hang themselves. If they are right, the editor certainly has no reason for keeping their utterances from the public. After all every great reform that has ever blessed mankind has been started by what in this day and age would be called a "knocker." If the editor is the man he ought to be, he lights the torch of progress and goes marching up and down the streets. He asks the populace to unfetterly and earnestly get together and give the old town a boost. Sometimes in some towns the people quickly respond. They follow the leader and they do things for the old town that make the knockers and the kickers' club waken up and take notice. Sometimes, in some towns, no amount of coaxing, no amount of argument, no matter how well the story is presented will bring results. In such a place I can see only one hope for the real editor, and that is to sell out and get into some town where intelligence, hard work and enterprise will be appreciated. The editor must believe in the town if he wants the town to believe in him. It seems to me that he should keep his paper free from entangling alliances of all kinds. If an editor is constantly asking the politicians to favor special ordinances that will, give him business, he gets into a position where he naturally is compelled to favor the ordinances the politicians want passed to give them or some other workers special privileges. I don't believe the editor will get as much from that kind of method as he will by keeping entirely free. I don't believe he is doing the best he can for his town, and I don't believe his town will do the best for him if he follows that kind of a policy. He should ask only what is fair. He should be willing to share in the general prosperity. He should not insist on cream all the time. He should get his results by working for the good of the whole town. It seems to me that the editor who does this will have greater prosperity on the average. He will at least enjoy the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. He will live a life of usefulness for the good of the old town. He can make a good living for himself and leave an honorable patrimony for his family. When, at last old Father Time strikes "thirty" and the work of his life is done, the old town will be a sincere and honest mourner that so good a friend has gone to his reward. What more can the editor ask of the town than appreciation while alive and real sorrow when he is called to his long rest, well earned. —From the National Printer-Journalist. GOOD ROADS Motors on Country Roads. My home is on a road over which, on Sundays, sometimes pass a half dozen automobiles. In front of the house this road makes a sharp curve, on one side of which is a hill hiding the road beyond the curve. It is an unusual thing for an autoist either to blow his horn or to slow up on this curve. What is done on this road is probably done on all roads. The only reason there has not been a serious accident at this particular point is because two vehicles have never happened to meet there. A timid horse meeting a machine in such a place would have no chance at all. The picture in the August Century, called "The Right of Way of the Automobile," illustrates a common occurrence in the country. The roads are for the use of the people who live on them, and not chiefly for those who merely pass over them on pleasure trips. The farmer must use the road if he is to sell his crops; his family must use it if they are ever to see any place but their own home. Now the road is used at more or less risk to every one, and at great risk to the old men who cannot move quickly, and to the women who are not constant drivers. In fact, few of the women who used to drive when the roads were free now attempt it. If autos are rare on any particular road they are all the more dangerous when they do appear. A horse cannot be easily trained to pass them in the country because of their irregularity, and because during the winter, when autos are rare, the horse forgets all about them and is ready by spring for an accident. Also, a horse which is unafraid in the city often becomes unmanageable in the country. I believe the Times has been making a list of automobile accidents, but I think many of the accidents to the horse-drawn vehicles are not reported. The owner of the auto who causes the trouble is not apt to publish it abroad, and reporters are not so plentiful throughout the country as to learn of all such cases. So far as I know, it is at present lawful for an auto to be driven at any rate of speed by any person "whether he has intelligence or experience or not, over any road in the State that is not within city limits. When bicycles first came into use, they were ridden on the sidewalks until laws were passed forbidding it. The laws, no doubt, proved an inconvenience to cyclists; they often had to give up short cuts and smooth roads but as pedestrians were in the majority, the walks were reserved for them, and the cyclists built their own paths. The farmers are a great majority in the roads, and horse-drawn vehicles likely to be employed on the most exclusively for some times to come, judging by the present cost and unreliability of the motor cars. Could not the machines be restricted to certain main lines throughout the State, connecting private owners by their own private lines? Leadmit that this doesn't seem feasible, but that can be done? The present state of things is more dangerous than even the people as careless of life as we care less prolonged. I understand that in London stops are being taken to have separate roads for autos. Could we not, at least, limit the autos to use of such roads as are twenty-five feet wide throughout their length, and which are so built as to have at least 150 feet of the road visible in both directions from any part of it? The roads are just about as pleasant for driving as a railroad track would be for a sidewalk.—L. A. C., in the New York Times. On heavy roads that are likely to become very hard after being wet and traveled the tool known as the road planer is especially useful. It also serves the purpose of the road drag and works on the same principle as The Road Planer. the King road drag. The sketch shows one which is very well designed, says Farm and Home. It should be about fourteen feet long and five feet wide, the outside runners, scraper, blades and inside running boards all of 2x10 or 2x12-inch planks. The runners keep the planer from going too deep and will bridge over low places in the road, filling them to uniform surface while cutting off the high lumps. The planer boards are edged with a strip of steel so they will keep a sharp edge with considerable usage. If an ordinary dirt road is properly constructed and once put in good condition, it can be maintained in shape by the use of this planer and the King drag at a cost of five of ten dollars per mile per year. MRS LIZZIE LOHR MRS. LIZZIE LOHR, 1155 W. 15th St. Chicago, Ill., writes: I take pleasure in writing you these few thinking there may be other ways, either in writing or other ways. these few lines, thinking there may be other women suffering the same as I did. I did my complaints for over a year, night, night, night. The title, I was run-down so far that I had to sit down to do my cooking, I was so weak. I tried many different medicines and doctors also. Nothing seemed to do me any good. The doctors wanted to operate As at last I wrote to Dr. Hartman. I told him just exactly how I was, and he told me what ailed me and how I should take it. I did as he told me for four months, and now I am all owed. "No one can tell how thankful I am to have given up all hopes of ever getting well." "I am a widow and the mother of six small children who depend on my support. I work all day and seldom get tired. I took five bottles of Parma in all. "Any woman wishing to know more about my case may write to me and I will gladly tell all about it. "I thank Dr. Hartman for what he has done for me." GA-ALA. BUSINESS COLLEGE MACON, GA. New Management Most Export Faculty FINEST POSITIONS "AMERICA'S BEST" WRITE FOR CATALOGUE No man ever has as much sense as the woman he is engaged to thinks he has. Taylor's Oxygeno, Ronnie of Sweet Gums and Mallon in Natty's good sense -sures coughs, Colds, Creep and Consumption, and all throat and lung troubles. At druggists, 250., 500. and $1.60 per bottle. Chicago University Library. The university has already collected a library of 400,000 volumes. Generous appropriations are made annually for the purpose of desired additions. The whole world is being drawn upon for rare books essential for completeness in a given line of study. Now publications in fifty departments of education are being bought. Files are being kept up to data. Already, so far as size is concerned, this library ranks among the largest in the country, with every assurance of continued increase in its facilities. Take with the other great libraries of Chicago, it helps to make 2,000,000 volumes available in this city. But its usefulness has been impaired sadly by the lack of adequate stack room and improved machinery of administration.—Chicago Tribune. NOTHING SERIOUS. Major—Did the Kentucky delegation reach the destination in safety? Yes, although there were only a fewashes on the way. Major—Gracious! Train headed! Colonel—No, mint time! Chicago News. ANOTHER WONDER OF ME, "You say you owe you life to this patent medteline!" "Yes, indeed. I was penniless and starving when I received $12 for writing that testimonial."—Kansas City Times. BEGAN YOUNG Had "Coffee Nerves" From Youth, "When very young I began using coffee and continued up to the part six months," writes a Texas girl. "I had been exceedingly nervous, thin and very sallow, After quitting coffee and drinking Postum Food Coffee about a month my nervousness disappeared and has never returned. This is the more remarkable as I am a Primary teacher and have kept right on with my work. "My complexion now is clear and rosy, my skin soft and smooth. As a good complexion was something I had greatly desired, I feel amply repaid even tho this were the only benefit derived from drinking Postum. "Before beginning as use I had suffered greatly from indigestion and headache; these troubles are now unknown. "Best of all, I changed from coffee to Postum without the slightest inconvenience, did not even have a headache. Have known coffee drinkers who were visiting me, to use Postum a week without being aware that they were not drinking coffee. "I have known several to begin the use of Postum and drop it because they did not boll it properly. After explaining how it should be prepared they have tried it again and pronounced it delicious." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the booklet, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There is a Reason." Quaint and Curious Corn and beans are the staple articles of diet of the working classes of Mexico. After the fruits, flowers and vegetables of Algiers, the first to reach the French, English and German markets are those from the sheltered corners of old Provence; they are sent as fast freight, without refrigerator cars. This makes care in packing its important a feature that at a recent exposition in Marsilles there was a department devoted entirely to packing and shipping devices. Americans prefer the great English hotels to the mansion either in the city or the country. 一. Hannibal was born 247 B. C. and died 183 B. C., and was therefore sixty-four years old at the time of his death. Hannibal was never taken prisoner. He died near the present city of Constantinople from a self-administered dose of poison, which he had for many years carried about with him in a ring. Coco is Spanish for bogie, and it is said the coconut was thus mamed for its resemblance to a distorted human face. On est la Femme? (Where is the Woman?) Buchman considers this saying to be derived from Juvenal (Sat. VL, 242): Nulla fere cause est, in pus non femina litem moverit. (There is hardly any litigation of which a woman is not the cause.) The Erzberg, Austria's iron mountain, will furnish ore for 1000 more years. The name of Michael Scott is the earliest on record among the Scotch poets, but the oldest fragments of Scottish poetry now known to exist, consist of a few lines of lamentation on the death of Alexander III. of Scotland, which took place in 1268. The ancients were of the opinion that the plants, in their movements through space, produced severally the seven notes of the gamut. This music, it was contended, was imperceptible to human ears on account of' the fact that it was too powerful for our hearing. Others held that men did not hear it simply because they were so used to it, just as we do not notice the roar of the city from our constant familiarity with it. The real "Music of the Spheres" is purely intellectual, lying in the great and splendid fact of the universe of law and order. TYPEWRITERITIS. Nervousness That Displays, Itself in the Tapping of Eight Busy Fingers. Nervousness that displays itself in constantly tapping the fingers is said to be exhibited to some extent by typewriter girls. Expert typewriting operators use eight fingers at their work. The steady concentration and extreme speed in some cases, seem to produce a digital numbness that occasionally becomes so pronounced as to interfere with the ability of the typewriters. In some cases impatient employers falling to comprehend the cause of their photographers' trouble, have discharged them. If the girl afflicted with this finger tapping trouble manages to do her work-properly and speedily she pays for her grit. The bothersome numbness leaves her fingers soon after the day's grind at the typewriter is ended, and is succeeded by the nervousness that many of the victims consider far more objectionable. All that is required by the typewriter girl suffering from this disorder is a table, the arm of a chair, a book or bag in her lap, or any other object upon which she may rest her wrist and begin the ceaseless tapping. "Typewriteritis" might describe the malady. The eight fingers of the victim thrum idly the moment she sits down to dinner. A stranger noting the movement watches for it to cease, but there is not letup. Any one may feel a desire to drum with the fingers for a few moments without considering himself nervous, but it is the design of the typewriter girl to continue it indefinitely that marks her as a victim and generally makes her friends equally fidgety. Girls with shapey, well-manicured fingers sometimes simulate the symptoms of the disease, but none of the immunes, however vain, can initiate the nervous tapping of a real victim. Seventeen stenographers in the Park Building were asked if they ever noticed the nervousness in themselves. Five said yes. The twelve others looked scornful or amused, or incredulous, but said no. Twelve of the same profession in the Flatiron Building were put on the witness stand, and all but five disclaimed having any symptoms of the disease. One of the five treated the matter frivolously and asked the questioner what he wanted her to agree to give the right answer: regardless of the facts. Typewriters who operate the keys slowly need have no fear of the trouble—New York Sun. EARLY, KANGAS JUSTICE. How a Murderer Was Safety Landed In Dodge City-Jall. R. G. Cook, of Dodge City, who visited friends in Garden City this week, first went to Dodge City thirty-four years ago and for several years hunted buffalo on the plains. He was also justice of the peace and Coroner for several years in the early days and these official positions, says the Garden City Telegram, gave him frequent opportunities to see some of the thrilling events that happened in the west. Mr. Cook relates one incident of the palmy days of Dodge City that was not unusual at the time. "Mysterious Dave" had been arrested for a murder which had been committed in the town and was brought before Judge Cook to have his preliminary hearing. Dave had a number of friends in the town and it had been rumored that it made no difference if he was bound over; that they would release him as soon as the preliminary was over. "I had heard this talk," said Mr. Cook, "and when I took my place in the court room I laid two revolver down on the table before me, within easy reach of ejected hand. Both were cocked and both ready for action. The court room was full and a great many of Dave's friends were there. We heard the evidence and just before I gave my decision I said, "Every one will keep his seat until this court is dismissed." "The sheeriffs are instructed to shoot any one that disbuses this, order. Then I bound the prisoner over to the district court for first degree murder, without ball. The sheeriff took the prisoner to fall and returned before a person left his chair. There were three or four deputy sheeriffs in the crowd and the order would have been carried out if any one had attempted to disbuse it." "What, a dollar a pound for teal" exclaimed the customer. "Isn't that too steep?" The south outranks New England in steam horse-power, but New England is far ahead in water horse-power. Mrs. Winalows Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums, reducesinflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, ESCa bottle Clothes don't make the man, argues the Dallas News, but in some longitudes they make a pretty effective disguise. Syrup of Fire and Elixir of Senno Cleanses the System Effectu- tually; Dispels Golds and Head; aches due to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts truly as a Laxative. Best for Male women and Children - Young, and Old. 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In only five of the forty-six States of the Union are women eligible as Municipal Councillors and Aldermen, but in almost all our States women can be admitted to the bar. Alice Stone Blackwell, in the New York Times. No Nut-Brown Malds The nut-brown maid is out of fashion. No longer is the cheek of tan of the athletic girl voted fashionable. Indeed, the easy-going ways of our grandmothers are taking the place of former strenuous sports. The leisure and comfort of the automobile seem to influence the present-day girl toward inactivity. She doesn't ride as much as she used to or play tennis or golf. No, the gentle game of croquet is at present one of society's amusements. — New York Journal. Real Value of Dress Harmony. The well dressed woman must recognize harmony in clothes—harmony in appropriateness of garb chosen to the occasion or condition of life. There must also be perfect harmony in colors. There must be harmony between style and the figure to which it is adapted. What would be becoming and approving to one will not always be so to the next figure Horizontal lines decrease the height, vertical lines increase it. The too tall, lamp-post girl must remember the value of horizontal lines—New York Journal. Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes. So far as science is concerned there are only two kinds of eyes, those which are blue and those which are not. Blue is the natural color of the eye; all the other hues, described as hazel or gray, green or violet, are due to flecks of pigment or color superimposed on the blue iris, and science roughly dubs them brown. Now, the children of two blue-eyed people will always have blue eyes, but if people marry whose eyes are not true blue then there is always a probability and sometimes a tendency on the part of one or more of their children to revert to blue. Thus two people one of whom has hazel eyes and the other what are usually described as brown eyes, might quite normally have a child with-blue eyes, because blue is a color which tends to reassert itself.—London Daily Graphic. Must Segregate Women. President Frederick W. Hamilton, of Tufts College, in his annual report, declares against the co-education plan in that college. The report calls attention to the decrease in the number of men in the arts courses, and compares the experience of Tufts with that of other New England colleges which this year have been forced to turn away many applicants, and proceeds; "A very careful study of the situation convinces me that the cause is to be found in our system of co-education. The average young man will not go to a co-educational institution if other things are anywhere near equal. He will enter the Tufts engineering school because he wants a specific kind of training. Moreover, he does not associate with the women in the class room except in a few electives. He therefore is not disturbed by the presence of women. The student who desires a general education, as represented by the bachelor of arts degree, very much prefers to go to an institution for men only. He is not comfortable with the women in the class room. "The fact simply is that the average young man of college age does not want to go into a co-educational institution. "If the present state of affairs continues the college of letters will become a girls' school, and that sooner than most of us realize. "I am confident that there is only one way in which this problem may be solved. The future of the academic department of Tufts College as a man's college depends upon the immediate segregation of the women into a separate department or college. I do not believe Tufts ought to go out of the business of educating women, but I do believe that Tufts should educate its women separately. I should say that it would be safe to begin operations on the new plan if $250,000 could be available for buildings and salary funds. I regard this as the most pressing educational problem we have before us." —Boston correspondence of the New York World. Cost of Making a Woman Doctor. One of the best known medical women in London contributes interesting details to the discussion on the cost of bringing up a child. Brought up at home till the age of twelve and taught for several years by a governess, the future doctor of medicine went to school at the age of thirteen, "knowing nothing." By the time she was sixteen she had learned enough to pass the London matriculation examination, and at seventeen the preliminary scientific examination of the same university. She then went to the Royal Free Hospital and qualified at the age of twenty-two. Between the ages of twenty-three and twenty-four she acquired "economic independence" with a salary of £60 a year and board residence as house surgeon in a provincial hospital. More substantial success followed immediately. In the home stage the cost of her bringing up, having regard to the fact that two nurses and a visiting governess were engaged for several children, probably averaged £100 a year. Fees for the boarding school period were £100 a year, clothes £50 and extra home and holiday expenses £25. In the five years during which this woman doctor was studying at the hospital she estimates that her parents spent the following amounts on her account: Board and Lodging..... £780 Dress..... 650 Fees..... 150 Extra fees..... 100 Total..... £1630 In all, the parents of the woman doctor spent on her behalf: At home, twelve years..... £1200 At school, three years..... 525 At the hospital, five years..... 1630 Total..... £3405 Extravagance in Hats. Last year the fashion of ladies' hats was extravagant, and I thought that the climax of folly had been reached. A woman looked when out walking or driving like the horse at a funeral. Her hat was a mass of ostrich feathers that waved far above her. This year this extravagance has been outdone. The hat itself is generally of straw and in shape is like a waste paper basket reversed. But the straw is merely used as a foundation for a wondrous fabric of flowers, fruits or feathers. When it is feathers they are arranged after the idea of Choctaw Indians. Some of them are piled on high, others straggle down the backs of the wearers, and others seem to be put on in a vaguely promiseously fashion, for the essential is to have a great many of them. When it is flowers they look like a bed which a gardener has sown with variegated seeds that have been allowed to grow as they list. The wearer either tilts this huge structure on the side of her head or at the back, and seen from behind she looks as though she had no neck. The prettiest girl almost ceases to be pretty when arrayed in this headgear. As, for the plain ones—and they seem to have the largest hats—they are made doubly plain. A lady, fat, dowdy and past her youth, in such a hat, is one of the most ridiculous sights that can well be conceived.—Truth. An Old-Fashioned Novelist. Somehow or other Mary Jane Holmes had always seemed to us a venerable monument of literature. In the dark backward and abysm of uncritical childish memory she stands or ships, vague and wonderful, an author, a maker of palaces of dreams, with the "Arabian Nights," "Keeper's Travels," "Queechy," the "Lamplighter," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Dred" in solemn black—Jewett or Phillips, Sampson & Co.—"Thadeus of Warsaw" and the long Rolliad of Jacob Abbott. We can see just how "The Lofty and the Lowly" looked and smelt the brown books of Gould and Lincoln, Reed, Ticknor and Fields, Redfield and Derby and Jackson. Then we can hear the flopping of great clumsy "novelettes" published by Ellot, Thomas and Talbot, and feel on rainy Saturdays and any Sundays the joy of the New York Weekly, wherein many of Mrs. Holmes' many stories appeared. The Weekly was not a model of typography, but we will maintain against all comers that a more improving and virtuous publication never was; yet there was a guilty joy in reading it. Some 2,000,000 of Mrs. Holmes' works have been sold; and they are selling still, and public libraries have to keep them in stock. We are glad of this even if we don't remember the name of one of her books. To us she will always be a fount of literature, and we will bet a copy of "Henry Esmond" against the complete works of Brander Matthews and Harry Thurston Peck—say a centillion to one—that Mrs. Holmes' works, if too simple and virtuous for this age, are as valuable and will last as long as most of the productions of the novel trusts of to-day—Editorial in the New York Sun. New York, says the Sun, has a new Hall of Records, in which there is no room for the records it was built to house GOT HIM ON THE RUN. Oklahoma City—Not a saloon is open in Oklahoma, and the new state is as dry as Sahara. Five hundred and sixty saloons were put out of business. The day before the closing the liquor-stock was disposed of, of its bargain price, the saloonkeeper had placed an empty barrel in his window accompanied by these words: "Everything going out and nothing coming in." WORLD CITERNET CUTTURE by R. RAYMOND in the Indianapolis New Glamour Thrown by a Yellow Newspaper Ovor Adventures of Criminals Attracted Her to a Similar Life—She Craved Excitement and Had Nothing Else to Do. Chicago.—Mrs. Evelyn Romadke, wife of the Milwaukee millionaire trunk maker, who was sentenced to serve a prison term for burglary, told the story of her downfall to Judge Bretano. She left a home of luxury in Milwaukee, where she had everything a woman naturally would desire, to come to Chicago to associate with thieves, and eventually entered upon a career of burglary to satisfy her own morbid craving for excitement. She declares emphatically that she owes her downfall to the constant perusal of stories of crime printed in what she called the "yellow newspapers." "I had nothing else to do," she said. "I was married, but no one tried to add to my amusement or happiness. I read all my books, and then I took to reading copies of this newspaper." She mentioned one by name. "The glamour which it threw over the acts and adventures of criminals, the exaggeration of everything but the iniquity of their offenses, attracted me." "I wahted to meet these thieves," Mrs. Romadke continued. "I had the idea I would be absorbed in the stories a real burglar could tell. I wanted to test the interest awakened in me in their lives and see whether it was real. I even had a desire to try whether I myself could steal without detection." "Well, I came to Chicago. Part of the time I lived in a South Side flat. It was there I met Albert Jones, the negro. He came to do some cleaning for the woman from whom I rented my room. I saw him and asked him the time. He drew, from his pocket a woman's watch, and with it inadvertently a woman's diamond ring. "He glanced at me surreptitiously, and stealthily put it back in his pocket. Here was I face to face with a thief. We were at the door of my apartment. I pulled him into it. 'I believe you are a burglar,' I said, and then stopped him as he was about to speak and move away. "Stay here," I said. 'I have wanted to meet a burglar for some time. I am interested. I want to know you. I will not give you away.' I can tell you stories about stealing that would make your hair stand on end. Jones told me, or something like that; and that was the way we became acquainted. I talked with him, getting the stories at first hand and not from the yellow newspapers any more. Then I planned with him to try my own hand. I did it, you know not how many times, and I thought I was doing it undetected. I guess I wouldn't have been caught if I had kept my head." Mrs. Romadke was weeping when she finished her story. AND NOW FINLAND ABOLISHES ALL LIQUOR. Drastic Prohibition Results From Women Voting—"Sentiment" Rules It is Believed the Czar Will Veto the Measure. London.—Finland furnished this week a striking example of the effects of universal suffrage combined with virtual control by Socialist theories. Its Legislature consists of a single chamber of 200 members. Fifty-six per cent. of the voters at the last election in the towns and fifty per cent. in the rural districts were women. Nineteen women were elected members of the chamber. The Social Democratic party elected eighty members, and it has other sympathizers. It has just passed a drastic act for the total prohibition of spirits, wine, beer and alcohol, which may be kept only for medical and technical purposes and for the use of Russian troops. Even the use of wine for the communion service is forbidden. No one may keep alcoholic drinks in his house unless he can prove that they were in his possession before the act was passed. The police have full-rights of search and the penalties vary from $20 fine to penal servitude for three years. There is no provision for loss of capital in breweries, distilleries or private houses. The Baroness Gripenberg, one of the best known women members, said that in dealing with a question of this vital social importance it was quite time "to leave reason aside and let sentiment prevail." This moved the Times to remark: "There we have the true inwardness revealed, of the Social Democratic revolution naked and unashamed. The earlier revolutions were content to inaugurate the 'Age of Reason,' and we know what that meant. It was reserved for the Social Democratic revolution to inaugurate the 'Age of Sentiment,' and we have yet to learn all that that means. At any rate it means, so far as it has gone in its chosen home of the Grand Duchy of Finland, one heavy blow at the principles of liberty." It is not expected that the law will ever come into operation, for the veto of the Czar is regarded as certain. 。 FRANCE HAS GOLD BEYOND HER NEEDS. Enormous Holdings In Her Great Bank and In Other Financial Institutions--No doubt to you in John Have a $^{15}$ Paris.—Never before perhaps in the history of France has there been such occasion for pride in the wealth of the country as during this week, when practically every Stock Exchange in Europe and America has been sending petitions to Paris for more gold. Although much-gold has left Paris in the last fortnight, France still has more of the precious metal than she knows what to do with. French thrift knows no limits. In France no one is idle; every one saves. Nor is money saved to be hoarded. The huge semi-official banks which have no counterparts in America, and which not only accept deposits but give advice concerning investments, have more customers to-day than ever before. The Postoffice Savings Bank, State controlled, where a deposit of one sou is as welcome as that of a hundred francs, also shows a tremendous increase in business for the present year. Although the maximum account allowed to a depositor is only $300, it is estimated that the deposits in the Postoffice Banks this year will run up to near a billion dollars by the end of December. Money lent abroad is doubly profitable in the case of France, for a fair percentage of it's brought back to France by the horde of foreigners who annually visit this favored land. New Portrait of George Washing Death Test Which Will Prevent ton Here From Storied Possibility of Burial Alive. New York City—Bearing a trait of George Washington when he was a major in the Colonial Army, R. absolutely precludes the possibility of W. Austin, American Consul at Glasbury's galler, has been discovered at wg. Scotland, arrived. It will be sent at once to Washington, where it will be put on exhibition before it is taken to Mount Vernon and hung there. The portrait, which is life size, is still the property of the People's Palace in Glasgow, but it is loaned to the American Government for an indefinite period. The practical part of Masonry does not consist alone in holding communications and initiating men to membership. The enrolling of individuals of good character into a brotherhood is for purposes which the candidate states without, prompting, and these purposes should never be lost sight of Masonry never contemplated being a benefit aggregation in the pecuniary sense—but it is intended to be helpful in many directions. Charity is one of its principal tenets—not that charity which yaunteth itself in elecmosynary accomplishment, but that charity and benevolence toward the human species in which it is declared by Him that all men are brothers, and in the injunction that "ye love one another." Practical Masonry goes further than this, but which may not be classed as charity. It is to help and give encouragement to a worthy "Brother in distress." Fortune is fickle; riches come today and go tomorrow. No man is exempt from vicissitudes or disaster. There may be a depression in his chosen business; sickness may betfall him, or a hundred other reasons for his "distress" over which he had or could have no control. The practical part of Masonry can be applied here, and that practical part will suggest itself to each brother for himself what it should be. If the "distressed brother" is out of business, make an effort in his behalf to secure him something to do more or less remunerative. If you can make an opening for him in your own business, however briefly, do so; hunt up a business friend of your own and recommend him. If every brother who is feasting on milk and honey would add his endearment to aid in this way him who has only a bone, there would be very many fewer "brothers in distress," and besides if would cost them nothing—only the effort. Brethren, try a little practical Masonry when you have the chance.—Exchange. AMONG THE MASONS. This is the month of election in all of the lodges. December 27th, will be St. John's Day. Each Lodge in the jurisdiction should celebrate it in a becoming manner. Your brother In the jurisdiction is expected to pay this month the dollar for endowment policy. No prother is exempted from this demand. If the brothers desire to remain in good standing they must pay this amount at once as no lenency will be shown to anyone who refuses to obey the edict of the Grand Lodge. Few reports all over the State the brothers are enthused over the Endowment department and many of the Lodges will render glowing reports on the Grand Master Butler in his proclamation matters that he will endeavor to have his Lodge to excel all of the other Lodges in the Endowment department. The Grand Secretary joined by his Worshipful Master, is determined to do the same thing that the Grand Master said that he will do. Now if this spirit extends to all of the lodges, the department will indeed be successful. While we are anxious for the success of the Endowment department, yet we must not forget the duty that we owe the Home. A part of the assessment for its maintenance is now. Let the brethren respond respect to this call. Don't forget the painting of the Home. Each Lodge must forward at once $2.00 to the Grand Secretary for this purpose. The several chapters of the O. E. S. in the State will also hold election for officers during the month. The Rite is growing in the State and it would be well for the brethren to know that the sisters are conducting a flourishing Endowment department and have several thousand dollars in bank to their credit. Brethren we are, anxious to receive short writeups from your Lodge. Make them short and pointed. Write plainly and on one side of sheet. Always send so that a name can reach us on Moudays. SIXTY MINERS ENTOMBED. Explosion of Black Damp Wrecks Coal Pit in Pennsylvania. Between fifty and sixty miners entombed in the Naomi mine of the United Mines Coal company at Fayette City, Pa., as the result of an explosion of black damp at 8 o'clock Sunday night. It is thought many are de d behind tons of coal and rock, whi t fell during the concussion and blocked its entrance. COSTLY BLAZE IN HOUSTON. Whole Block in Texas City Wiped Out By Fire. Early Monday morning fire started in the block bounded by Main, Fannin, Congress and Preston streets at Houston, Texas. The loss is more than a half-million. The firemen had great difficulty in getting the flames under control. Every building in the block was destroyed. "Not Gulity" was the verdict rendered in the United States criminal court No. 1 at Washington in the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of former United States Senator Arthur M. Brown, on December 8, last. Amid the applause of a crowd that filled the court room, Mrs. Bradley, with tear-dimmed eyes, was discharged from custody and a trial that has evoked national attention during the past three weeks was at an end. The jury into whose hands the case was delivered by Justice Stafford, at 4:17 o'clock Monday afternoon, took its first ballot twenty-five minutes after entering the jury room. No agreement was then reached, the vote being nine for acquittal and three for manslaughter. Arguments followed, and an hour later two of the three joined those for acquittal. The lone juror, Julius H. Prigg, who stood out for manslaughter, finally yielded at 1:20 o'clock Tuesday morning when the final ballot was taken. On entering the court room, Foreman James L. Feeney nervously clutched in his hand the document that meant so much to the frail and nerve-racked woman in the prisoners' chair. Every neck was craned; every person in the court room, from judge to spectator, almost breathlessly awaited the answer. "Not guilty," replied the foreman, and "not guilty" echoed the jurors who sat in judgment in the case. For a moment in the tenseest excitement not a word could be heard, then the suspense was over and a murmuring "thank God," from a group of women, who sat on the front bench, was heard through the court room and was the signal for a demonstration. There were tears in Mrs. Bradley's eyes, but she bore up bravely and there were no indications of a collapse as might have been expected at the crisis of such an ordeal. Immediately after the jury delivered its verdict, the court thanked the jury for the manner in which it had performed its duty, and the jury, in turn, through its foreman, expressed to the court and counsel its thanks for the consideration and courtesy shown them. The jury was then discharged and Mrs. Bradley was released from custody. She was immediately surrounded by men and women from among the spectators who pressed upon her their congratulations. AOKI IS CALLED HOME. Jap Ambassador at Washington Will Report to Mikado. Japanese Ambassador Viscount Aoki will leave Washington for Japan shortly to make a personal report of his work to the mikado. The fact that the ambassador is preparing to leave the capital for a period gave rise to a rumor that he had been recalled, but this is emphatically denied at the embassy. The ambassador has been making a very careful inquiry on his own account and through the various Japanese consular offices, to the extent of the reported race of those listing in some sections of the United States to ward Japanese immigrats. At the state department it was learned that Count Aoki did not present any letters of recall, but that what he had received was a summons to come home for consultation with his government. It is not known at the department whether Aoki would or would not return to the United States, and the impression there was that the ambassador himself was not aware as to what his future movements would be. The ambassador expects to leave Washington on his homeward trip before Christmas, and during his absence Mr. Milyaoka, the counsellor of the embassy, will act as charge d'affaires. STATE OF TEXAS WINS. Defeats Federal Courts in Waters The United States circuit court of appeals, sitting in New Orleans, handed down a decision Tuesday reverses the decision of the United States circuit court at Sherman, Texas, in the matter of the state of Texas, about the Waters-Pierce Oil company court case, and giving the state courts a risdiction in the matter. THAW TRIAL POSTPONED Rotten Case Will Be Alred Again at New York January 6. A New York special says the trial of Harry K. Thaw has charge of killing Stanford. The postponed Monday until January. The court ordered that a jury of 250 talesmen be summoned to select the jury.