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The Savannah Tribune. VOL. XXIII. FRIGHTFUL HORROR Nearly Four Hundred Miners Entombed in Pit. WRECKED BY EXPLOSION Disaster One of the Worst Recorded In Mining History of West Virginia. Many Corpses Are Being Six charred and blackened bodies, lying in the improvised morgue, prepared near the entrance to the mine, five men hovering between life and death from the awful bruises sustained and the deadly gases inhaled in a temporary hospital into which one of the company buildings has been transformed, and 380 men imprisoned by tons of coal, rock and mine debris in the depths of the hills surrounding the mining town of Monongah, West Virginia, with the chances all against a single one of them being alive, was the most accurate summary obtainable Friday night of the result of a mine explosion Friday morning which, in all probability, was attended by greater loss of life than any former disaster in the history of the bituminous coal mining industry of America. The explosion occurred shortly after 10 o'clock, after the full force of five hundred men had gone to work in the two mines affected. These mines are Nos. 6 and 8 of the Consolidation Coal company, located on opposite sides of the West Fork river at Monongah, but merged in their underground workings by a heading and on the surface by a great steel tipple and bridge. The finding of the six corpses and the five living men is the only reward for strenuous and uninterrupted work on the part of the large rescuing force that immediately set to work at every possible point. The five living men are unable to give any detailed report of the disaster or to even explain how they reached the surface. They state that immediately back of them when they began their frantic struggle for liberty there was a large number of men engaged in a similar struggle, while still further back in the workings there was a large number of whom they knew nothing. It is the opinion of the mine officials and others familiar with mining that these eleven men had not penetrated the mine as far as had the majority of the day shift when the explosion occurred. The two mines regularly employ 1,000 men, working in two shifts, five hundred during the day and five hundred during the night, and the best information obtainable at this time is that the entire day force had gone to work Friday morning and that all were caught. Neither entry has been opened to the real workings and the indications are that a majority, if not all, caught in the mine are dead. It is reported that the mine officers have ordered 380 coffins shipped to Monogan soon as possible. Clarence W. Watson of Baltimore, president of the mining company, was at Parkersburg, W. Va., when the explosion occurred, and chartered a special train to take him to the scene. EIGHT STATES INVITED. Call Issued for Big Meeting of Railroad Commissioners. The Alabama railroad commission has called a meeting of the railroad commissioners of the state, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Louisiana, to be held at a time and place to be agreed upon for the discussion of the many questions now arising in state regulation of traffic lines. CATACLYSM OF BURGLARIE6. Tidal Wave Experienced in New York May Spread Over Whole Country. A tidal wave of burglaries and robberies which has swept New York for the last sixty days is destined to spread over the whole country, according to officials of a burglary insurance company, who say that the losses from theft in the city the last two months will amount to more than $3,500,000. They say the losses for 1907 in New York will be $16,000,000, by far the greatest in the history of the city. GOLDFIELD TROUBLE. A situation of the utmost and immediate danger at Goldfield, Nevada, is revealed in the official correspondence between Governor Sparks of that state and the president, just made public. The governor's appeal for troops is construed by the Washington authorities to indicate the imminence of great peril. The governor's appeal to the president, dated at Carson City, Thursday, follows. "At Goldfield, Esmeralda county, state of Nevada, there does now exist domestic violence and unlawful combinations and conspiracies which do now so obstruct and continue to so obstruct and hinder the execution of the laws of the state of Nevada, and now deprives and continue to so deprive the people of the said section of the rights, privileges, immunities and protection named in the constitution of the United States and of the state of Nevada and which are secured by the laws for the protection of such rights, privileges and immunities; and the constituted authorities of the state of Nevads are now and continue to be unable to protect the people in such rights, and the reason of such inability and the particulars thereof are the following, to-wit: Unlawful dynaming of property, commission of felonies, threats against the lives and property of law-abiding citizens, the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition and the confiscation of dynamite with threats of the unlawful use of the same by preconceived action. "Therefore, pursuant to article 4, section 4, of the constitution of the United States, and to section 5297 and 5298 of the revised statute of I, John Sparks, governor hereby respectfully request your, excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, president, to immediately send to Goldfield, Esmerald county, Nevada, two companies—of troops of the army of the United States to suppress unlawful disorder and violence, to protect life and property, to restore peace and to insure protection of law to the people of the state of Nevada." The president's reply, next Friday, was as follows: "To Acting Secretary of War: Referring to the accompanying formal request of Governor Sparks of Nevada for federal troops to restore order at Goldfield, please direct General Funston to send a sufficient number of troops, to be wholly adequate to meet any emergency. It is far better to avoid conflict by sending too many troops than by sending too few to run the risk of inviting bloodshed. "(Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." In his dispatch to the adjutant general of the army, General Funston says, in part: "I have just conferred with a prominent mining operator at Goldfield, now here, a man thoroughly familiar with all conditions there. He states Western Federation of Miners in Goldfield, numbers about 3,200, of whom about 1,000 have rifles and shotguns. Not more than three hundred of these men might be considered dangerous, and doubts if they would resist the regular troops. Their leaders are some of the men who made so much trouble in Idaho and Colorado. Danger is that before troops can arrive they will blow up mines and kill people. Sheriff is a member of the federation and in sympathy with them." FALSE TEETH CAUSE DEATH. Ensley, Ala., Man Swallowed the Whole Plate and Succumbed. W. F. Harris of Ensley, Ala., died Friday night as a result of swallowing his false teeth the night before. He swallowed the whole plate, and all efforts of specialists to remove them proved unavailing. Latest Form of Swindle Uncarthed by Immigration Officials. The sale of tickets of admission to the United States is the latest form of swindle discoveried by the immigration authorities at New York. A man who was a passenger on the Hamburg-American lines' Amerika sold more than forty to steerage passengers on the ship, which arrived Monday, receiving not less than $1-apiece for them. For these tickets the immigrants were told they could enter the country without difficulty. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1907. SHARPENING PROBE Tillman, Clay and Culberson "Laying" for Cortelyou. WILL ATTACK HIS POLICY Senate Committee on Finance to Draft Resolution Inquiring Into Recent Issue of Bonds by the Government. A Washington special says: Senator Aldrich Tuesday informed the senate that the committee on finance would within a very short time bring in a resolution providing for an inquiry into the recent bond issues of the government, and that it would provide for an investigation into all matters contained in resolutions offered by senators concerning the financial stringency and the efforts of the government to relieve the situation. With this assurance, Senators Culberson of Texas and Clay of Georgia agreed to permit their resolutions to go to the committee for its consideration, Senator Tillman allowed his resolutions on the same subject to lie on the table until he secures data he desires to present to the senate. The session of the senate was brief. Mr. Culberson's resolution directs the secretary of the treasury to supply the senate with certain information bearing on the financial situation. Mr. Culberson said if he could be assured that the resolution for an Inquiry would cover the information called for by him he would not satisfied to have that course pursued. Senator Clay's resolution calls for information concerning the deposit of money in national banks. Mr. Clay said that up to the present time $250,000,000 had been deposited by the government in national banks, and most of it had been on deposit during the present year. "I do not believe," he said in the senate Tuesday, "that we can justify the placing of such money in banks and then calling for more money by the issue of bonds. That system should be investigated and condemned." He then agreed to have his resolution go to the committee on finance. Senator Tillman's resolutions were introduced Monday, directing the committee on finance to make investigations concerning the recent bond issues and also relative to clearing house certificates. Mr. Tillman said, that in view of what had been done with other resolutions on the same subject he would not discuss his resolutions at this time, but said he would like to have them ile on the tale until he could secure information he was endeavoring to get. His request was agreed to. When Senator Tillman discusses his resolutions calling for an inquiry by the committee on finance concerning the legality of the issue of clearing house certificates in various cities of the country, he will be prepared to exhibit some of these certificates to the senate. He was engaged in securing certificates in order that he may be enable to give an object lesson to the senate of what he claims has been circulated as money throughout the United States since the present financial stringency set in. "Down in my country," he said, "greenbacks have disappeared. It is all white money down there." The fact that an agreement to refer the Culberson and Clay resolutions to the finance committee and to postpone the consideration of the Tillman resolutions was reached so easily in the senate, was traccable to the brief meeting of the finance committee, which was held just before the beginning of the session of the senate. Senator Culberson has from the first preferred to have the information which his resolution calls for before beginning the financial discussion in the senate, and it is understood that Senator Tillman is desirous of accumulating more material before addressing the senate on the subject. BLUE SUNDAY IN·NEW YORK. Everything Closed Tight and Silence Was Painful. New York, which can usually be depended upon to provide something new and sensational, treated its millions of residents and tens of thousands of week-end visitors to the novelty of a thoroughly blue Sunday, the first in the history of the metropolis. The effect of Sunday closing was everywhere apparent. The hush throughout was painful to ears accustomed to week day noises and Sunday harmonies. ARRAY OF BATTLESHIPS Assembled at Hampton Roads Preparatory for History-Making Cruise to the Pacific. The double-starred flag of blue, emblem of the commander-in-chief of the Pacific-bound battleships, was flung to the breeze from the truck of the battleship Connecticut at Hampton Roads Monday, and Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans formally assumed his position as leader of the greatest naval movement in the history of the American people. It was assembly day for the fleet, which is to set sail December 16 and of the great sixteen great fighting machines ordered to skirt the southernmost end of all America and inaugurate a new naval era in the Pacific ocean, there were but two laggards. These were the 16,000-tonned Minnesota, flagship of Rear Admiral C. M. Thomas, commander of the second squadron of the fleet, and the Kentucky, whose paltry-11,525 tons relegate her to a position at the end of the armored column. Both were delayed for a day. The new Maine, which two short years ago was the flagship of the commander-in-chief, but is now thrown back to eleventh place in the list, came during the day, making fourteen battle-ships at anchor off Old Point Comfort. The ships are disposed in two long lines, forming a crescent, which begins just off Old Point Pier and points toward Norfolk. The Connecticut heads the column nearest the shore. Next to her is her sister ship, the Louisiana, the champion hard-hitting, fast-firing vessel of her class, and then in turn come the Kansas and the Vermont, all registering 16,000 tons and belted with steel that is rated well nigh impregnable. These four vessels compose the first division of the first squadron of the fleet, and are the personal charges of Rear Admiral Evans. The second division in the first squadron is made up of the Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey and Rhode Island. The flag of Rear Admiral William H. Emory, in command of the division, floats from the Georgia's truck. Both absentees from the fleet were in the second squadron column. A vacant berth at the head of the line was left for the Minnesota, which was the last of the big vessels to dock at New York, and was given 48 hours' grace. Awaiting the Minnesota in the second squadron were the Maine, Ohio and the Missouri of the third division of the fleet; and in the fourth division are the Alabama, flagship of Rear Admiral Sperry, the Illinois and the Kearsarge. The Kentucky will complete this division and squadron. Like the Minnesota the Kentucky was repaired at the Norfolk naval yard, but was sent away to be docked and painted below the water line. The two long lines of battleships, flanked on either side by vessels of the auxiliary fleet, present a notable picture and one more impressing naval event to the history of Virginia's far-famed roadstead. TO BAR UNION, MINERS. Supreme Test Will Be Made at Goldfield by Authorities. The mines of Goldfield, Nevada, are to be reopened, and the wage scale is to be reduced, and no members of the Western Federation of Miners will be given employment. Meanwhile men will be brought in to the number of 500 to take the places of the strikers. Such is the decision of the executive committee of the mine owners association. Governor Sparks will be on hand to watch after affairs. The troops will be scattered through the camp and will practically guard the mines. The streets of Goldfield are crowded with men discussing the situation and the air is filled with many wild rumors. The general feeling is that serious trouble is likely to come at any minute. DISFRANCHISE ALL NEGROES Is Purport of Bill to Be Introduced In Congress by Georgians. A Washington dispatch says: Representative Hardwick and Representative Edwards, the new congressman from the first district in Georgia, have joined hands in an effort to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution. Their bill proposes to disfranchise all the negroes in the United States except those the individual states permit to vote. GUNS AND TORCHES Property of Tobacco Companies Worth Over $200,000 Burned and Other Buildings Badly Riddled by Hall of Load. Five hundred "Night Riders," masked and heavily armed, marched into Hopkinsville, Ky., early Saturday morning and destroyed property valued at over $200,000, while citizens, in terror of their lives, feared even to open their windows. The police, fire department, telephone and telegraph offices and even the railroad station were in possession of a wild mob, shooting right and left, flames from burning buildings meanwhile lighting up the city and the surrounding country until it seemed that the whole town was ablaze. Windows in the front of the business houses and banks on the Main street of the city were shot out, and the entire front of one newspaper which had been especially severe in its condemnation of the raids of the Night Riders, and which was owned by the mayor of the city, was demolished. Only two men were injured, one of them being Lindsay Mitchell, a tobacco buyer, who was severely beaten with switches and clubs, and the other, a brakeman, who was shot in the back while trying to move his train from the path of the flames. The raid of the Night Riders caught the city unawares, as for some time the depredations resulting from the tobacco war had been of a minor nature; and it was generally thought that in the Dark District at least the worst was over. The property destroyed was as follows: W. H. Tandy, independent tobacco warehouse building, owned by J. H. Latham. Tandy & Fairleigh, buyers' warehouse. In addition the entire glass front of the Hopkinsville Kentuckian, Mayor Meacham's paper, was destroyed, while windows in the front of the Commercial Banking and Savings company, the First National, the Planters' Trust company and the Bank of Hopkinsville were punctured with bullet holes. A number of other business houses and residences bear the marks of bullets, and it is considered remarkable that no one was killed. The insurance is believed to be about $50,000. As soon as the Night Riders left town, a posse of about fifteen headed by Major Bassett of the local militia and Deputy Sheriff Cravens, entered buggies and followed the trail. As soon as the posse could get near enough they opened fire on the fleeing mob, and the pursued returned the shots. The members of the posse escaped injury. They were soon outdistanced by the mounted men, and after chasing the marauders several miles the officers returned home. Governor Beckham, at the request of Mayor Meacham and County Judge Breathitt, ordered the local company of Kentucky guards to report to the sheriff for indefinite duty during the Night Riders' trouble, under command of Major E. B. Bassett. The local officials believe that they will be able by an offer of protection to secure witnesses who can positively identify members of the mob. Important clews are said to have been discovered that may lead to the arrest of members of the mob. Unverified reports came Sunday that two men were killed in Trigg county by the citizens who pursued the Night Riders. Treasure, Consisting of Spanish Coins, Taken from Tree Trunk. James Frazer, a truck farmer near West End, four miles below, Mobile, Ala., while splitting trees that he had felled, brought to light an iron pot containing a large number of rare Spanish gold coins. The amount of the find has not been made public. The tree was a very old one, and the pot of gold is supposed to have been buried there over a century ago. Hurling Forty Workmen Into Raging River—Seven Meet Death and Score Are Hurt. Highwater Tuesday night caused the collapse of a new bridge in course of erection over the west branch of the Susqtahanna River at Mifflinville, Pa., and resulted in the death of seven men and the injury of nearly a score of others, two perhaps fatally. Forty men were at work on the traveler on the middle span of the structure when it collapsed. They were all thrown into the swollen river. The accident occurred just at nightfall, when the men were preparing to abandon their work. As a result the work of rescuing those who were thrown into the water and caught in the mass of twisted iron and steel was greatly retarded. The second span of the bridge was being erected and it was this section that fell with the big traveler. The bodies of four of those killed were found floating on the surface of the water entangled in the bent and twisted girders and iron work but the others sank. Many of the men were caught in the rapid water and carried a mile or more down the river before they were rescued. One of the most miraculous escapes was that of William Nesit, who was caught in the iron work and held a prisoner for an hour with his mouth and chin above the water before being rescued. Loss of life and great damage to property is reported from central and eastern points in the state by floods caused by the heavy rains of the last few days. The Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill rivers rose rapidly, and small streams throughout the coal regions overflowed their banks, flooding mines, causing cave-ins, and doing great damage to railroads and other property. Officeholders Must Not Boom Third Term Proposition. After the cabinet session last Tuesday, the letter addressed by President Roosevelt to the members of his cabinet on November 19, instructing them to inform federal officeholders not to participate in a third term movement for President Roosevelt was made public at the white house. It is understood that cabinet officers will at once take action in accordance with the terms of this letter, which was as follows: "I have been informed that certain officeholders in your department are proposing to go to the national convention as delegates in favor of renominating me for the presidency, or are preparing to procure my endorsement for such renomination by state convention. This must not be be I wish you to inform such officers, as you may find it advisable to inform in order to carry out the spirit of this instruction, that such advocacy of my renomination of acceptance of an election as delegate for that purpose will be regarded as a serious violation of official propriety and will be dealt with accordingly. Sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROSEVELT." OKLAHOMA SENATORS ELECTED. Both Claim Distinctions Out of the Ordinary Run. The Oklahoma legislature Tuesday, in separate sessions, elected as United States senators Robert Latham Owen and Thomas Prior Gore, democrats. Owen was born at Lynchburg, Va., February 2, 1856. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry with a mixture of Cherokee Indian blood. His father, Robert Owen, was a distinguished confederate soldier and later vice president of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad. The senator's mother was a daughter of Chisholm, the last hereditary chief of the Cherokee nation. Senator Gore has the double distinction of being the first blind member of the United States senate and of being the youngest in that body, being only 37 years old. His sight was destroyed in childhood when he was a page in the senate of Mississippi, his native state. He was educated at Cumberland university at Lebanon, Tenn. BOSTON GOES REPUBLICAN In Close and Hard-Fought Municipal Battle of Ballots. In the closest and hardest fought election contest which Boston, Mass., has known for many years the city went republican by about 2,000 votes. Postmaster George A. Hibbard, republican, defeated Mayor John F. 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The last edition (150 pages) is from beginning to end filled with tables, short cuts, and up-to-data methods of calculating, making it the most complete, useful and comprehensive work of the kind ever published. It will make every one independent, sure and self-reliant in all practical calculations connected with farming and other lines of business. It will prevent mistakes, relieve the mind; save time, labor and loss. It is a pocket edition with pocket for papers and a loose silicate slate from which lead pencil marks are easily erased, and is an invaluable assistant for every farmer or business man. 9.25 A. M. 4.20 P. M. 7.45 P. M. 11.54 P. M. 12.16 A. M 1.40 A. M. 3.15 A. M. 4.20 A. M. 5.15 A. M. 9.30 A. M. --- One may easier fall in love with an apple orchard than with anything else nature has given us. The trees grow up with us. The earliest joys of childhood are with Juneatings and Redstreaks. The apple is equally delightful to advancing age. It is associated with our school dinner baskets, our working days, when it wqnd up our lunches, and what more could we give to our boy loves than a red-cheeked, golden-hearted Pearmain? So, so! But was it not an apple that every morning we carried to our teacher, with which to buy a smile and pay for love. Those were golden days when the Sweet Bough covered the sod, and burst open with innate goodness. Why should one not love an orchard? I remember well that by a little turn on the way home from school I could go through the old Kirkland orchard—the first one planted by white men on their westward way from New England across the continent. There I sat in the trees, among the Spitzenburgs dreaming life dreams, and looking into a valley paradise, until the call of the cows warned me to drive them homeward for milking. Yesterday I sat at the foot of some of those same old trees, leaned my head against them, felt their broken arms with sympathy, and when the October sunshine called out the bees and the butterflies, in the midday hours, I kissed the dear old tree that was my boyhood favorite. Why not? It gave me cheerfully, liberally, capfuls, pocketfuls, of delicious apples. · The pickers are at work—home pickers, and they know what they are about. They do not toss, nor do they drop the apples, not even a few inches; but as true apple pickers should do, they lay each one gently into the basket. Rudeness is never more out of place than when picking fruit. Think you what nature has done in packing together these balls of cells, each one delicately fitted to the other, and all enclosed with art finer than that of Apelles—who once deceived the birds. Handle each apple sympathetically, and then do not pour out the basketful into the wagon, but once more lively out the apples like eggs. A basketful of Northern Spyals! What can be more beautiful! Some have burst their sides in the process of growing, and you see the yellow-fleshed cells, full of nectar. The boys lay these aside for their own use—for to be sure nothing can be better to make fine boy flesh and soul—and if placed in a cellar they will not keep. They are like boys and girls that are crowded in school; they die early. The Swaar is a sly apple, for it is of green russet color, and one would not know it to be the very standard of quality; yet if you do but know what to do, you will ask for a barrel of prime Swaars, and store them away to be used next May. The McIntosh and the Walter Pease are brothers of the most famous (Fameuse) family of apples ever created, and when you look at their glory you will hardly like to see them taken from the limbs. A tree full of either sort is so perfect that only the freezing weather just ahead could induce me to despair it. McIntosh is as white inside as it is red outside, and Walter Pease has a fragrance like a bed of illies. And not long ago Mr. Burbank sent us the Winterstein, the very climax of science and art combined. Grimes Golden and Jonathan are not big apples, but they go a long way toward being perfect apples. They should be planted alternately, so that you shall see the gold of one and the perfect crimson of the other side by side. But if I keep on at this rate you will know not only that I am a work-shipper of the apple, but that I shall never get the picking finished. Only I do not like an apple grower who knows nothing about comparative values. He grows Greenings, Ruscets, Spys and a dozen more sorts possibly, but in my orchard of eighty sorts he is lost. He knows no apple history, does not keep pace with progress in the gardener's art, and the new things that burst out of God's will and man's intelligent work—these he cares nothing about, because he does not understand them. He grows his apples without brains, and he picks them without brains, while the grandest harvest on his acres wakens no more enthusiasm than his turnips. His apples are tossed, poured, tumbled; and in the mid-winter he digs them for use, out of a half-rotted bin of rubbish. All right work is poetry and religion; all wrong work is implyment as well as illiteracy. The most learned man I ever knew thought more of apple lore and rose lore than of his Greek hexameters. He said, "In my garden there is a greater poem than the Odyssey. The days write it, and the winds chant it, and as for me, I learn to see it and to hear it." The load is ready for the cellar, only you may be sure that we do not put apples in a house cellar, with vegetables, where greasy odors or the smell of decay can taint them. In such a cellar all sorts of apples will taste alike before January. The life deserves a cellar by itself, clean as a library and sweet as a chamber. There is no abomination in civilization worse than the ordinary cellar—a wicked resort of all sorts of microbes and bacteria. Then all winter you will know one apple from another by the smell over the blin. The aromas will blend in the middle of the cellar. In this apple cellar of yours, which may be under your carriage house, well lighted and well ventilated, you will have bins on the side walls, and a brook running along the middle floor—a clean, fresh, drinkable brook; to keep the fruit from shrivelling. The boys are placing the apples in these bins now. You do not hear the Golden Pippins rattle as they are poured—for indeed they are not poured, but they are lovingly transferred from the basket. About one-fifth of each load is sorted out into boxes, and left outside of the collar to be pressed into cider—every apple that is in the least defective. A true farmer should certainly have his own cider press and grind his own apples. It should be a beautiful process and a clean one. Home-made and strictly honest cider would reform the most infamous drunkard. Every apple must be clean and without decay. It is not any more fitting to drink a rotten apple than to eat it. Al, but you "never tasted cider before?" To be sure, but it may be decent What an appetite! And yet I have sampled nearly every sort in the orchard, and there are over half a hundred—only a few of them however do not this year bear fruit. Yet a good appetite is an honest affair and wholesome, and we are glad to hear the call for supper. Do you know samp? Have you ever tasted it—the real old-fashioned samp? If not, you have so far missed the most perfect food man and nature ever put their heads together rto devise. Take the very finest ears, right from the huskling. You must not wait for a flavor of mold to touch even the cobs. Dry the ears around the stovepipe—then persuade your miller to grind it alone, and to give you the result at once—it must not lie about the mill. Then sift out all the fine meal, and dry the rest on salvers in the kitchen. When thoroughly cured put it on the stove in a kettle about half filled with water. Bring it to a boll. Then set it back to cook more slowly—all day. You will never forget it, if once you have heard samp rolling on a kitchen stove—the bubbles bursting with a pouff, pouff, pouff. Sir it gently, but you must not forget it for a moment. And day long it must be watered and stirred and thought of, and smelled. It must go on at daybreak, and it must gently cook until night. The odor changes about noon. It becomes tempting to take a samp. It grows irresistible about noon. It gets the fragrance, takes possession of the whole house, it becomes a mystery. The little mother has done nothing else for two hours but watch it and smell it. I assure you that a cook without a good nose is not worth having. Now the blue bowls are on the table. A pan of milk with solid cream is in the centre, the samp is yellow as gold, and it will be sitting open with little of heated fragrance. Yeah, ambrosia and your nectars, where compared with samp and milk. The real samp of our mother's day. It is a lost art, and for these forty years I have neither tasted nor smelled genuine samp. Afterward an apple pie! A ple of Spitzenburg apples! Our mothers would not cook any others, and they were right; and to this day there is no other such apple forples. The Astracan makes better jellies, and, for baking, the York Pippin and the Gravenstein are ahead; but not for the creation of that summation of kitchen art—the apple pie. Did you ever see one made? Well, I cannot say how it is done nowadays, only I suppose it is like everything else, by measure and by weight. But then, in my memory days, a woman did not follow any rules at all—that is six spoonfuls of this and two spoonfuls of that. Bless, my soul! Why, just enough, and if you have not the cooking instinct, so that you know what is enough, you will not be a cook by going to a cooking school—not till you die. But the pie? Yes! It was a compound of goodness, but it had unity—and it was full of digestion. In my boyhood the old people scraped apples when eating them raw, to avoid indigestion. For a delicate stomach I could name you half a dozen sorts: the Wismer, the Dellicious, the Stuartes Golden, the McIntosh, the Walter Pease, and the Danchy Sweet. These are creations of a recent day. There are already seven thousand apples catalogued in the United States, and I suppose a great many more varieties remain uncatalogued. What shall the future apple be? Not seedless, for a seedless fruit is at the end of evolution. We want seeds until perfection is reached. Tucked away in those germs are possibilities of improvement. "There!!" says Nature, "take these and try for betterment. These little brown seeds are your pledge of possible progress. When I give you no more seed you are finished, and I shall take no more interest in your affairs." A seedless apple is the end, bah! The coming apple must be also red, not only to please the housewife, but to honor the artistic taste of Nature herself—her struggle for the beautiful. As for size I hardly dare to say, but I think a Northern Spy is just about right. One of these will fill a man's stomach and three will fill a boy's. We must learn when to stop—Outing Magazine. Hunan Billboards. Some of us are made on the order millboards: a flashy front with a vacant lot behind.—Hogwallow Kent- uckian. M. OUR MOST AUTHORITATIVE EXPERT ON PURE FOODS. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has built up the United States Government's system of food and drug inspection in the face of opposition from powerful vested interests that were accused of profiting enormously by the practice of adulteration. Dr. Wiley is now affirming that the public mind has been misled into the notion that preservatives in canned meat are not necessarily dangerous. He is refuting this idea in a recent book on the food question. STONES UPON WHICH THE CANAANITES SACRIFICED CHILDREN EXCAVATED IN PALESTINE BY THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION EHND. Under the pavement surrounding these standing stones at Gezer were found remains of sacrificed children who had been buried in large jars about 5000 years ago.—Illustrated London News. Glove Sustainer. The prevalence of the short sleeve and long glove fad has made a place for a new arrival among the fal-lails of femininity, and that is a piece of jewelry, which is nothing more or when referring poses Dickson of the co less than a quarter for the glove. In the absence of some such device, as this it is a common thing to see the fair ones in the mode of the moment engaging in a constant struggle to keep their glove tops and sleeves in the same vicinity, but it would not require a very keen observer to note that the two articles seem like anything but harmonious neighbors. The apparatus shown links them together perfectly, and at the same time offers a touch of color to the costume. It may be worn on the outside or inside of the arm. It consists of a pretty buckle, which is secured to the sleeve, and a neat flower-like clamp which clasps the top of the glove. A chain link holds the two parts together.—Washington Star. Twists in Tree Trunks Curious twists are observed in many tree trunks, and the inquiry, just begun in Europe suggests the surprising conclusion that they are produced by the earth's rotation like the twists of storms and the whirls seen in water. Van de Broeck, the Belgian geologist, points out that if conditions of growth were the cause the torsion would follow the sun's apparent path. In at least 990 out of 1000 trees the reverse is true, and it may be that the twist is usually the left in the northern hemisphere and to the right—or with the clock—in the southern hemisphere, like the turn of the cyclonic storms and water vortices. This difference is due to the earth's rotation. Jean Brunhes notes that it was shown some years ago that the winds due to the earth's motion blow steadily at a season when vegetation is active and sensitive, and a slight continuous bending and turning then would be likely to affect the tree permanently.—Bulletin of American Forestry Association. For Driving Screw Eyes For driving Screw Eyes. The amateur carpenter, whether man or woman, has lost no time in realizing the great possibilities of the screw-eye. These things are capable of a great number of uses, and if an assortment of them is kept around the house there is hardly a day when their convenience will not be $b^{practically}$ demonstrated. Feminine fingers are not always hardened enough to drive them home, and, indeed, sometime the sturder digits of the masculine are not sufficiently strong to accomplish this task, so that it is not always possible to drive them into the wall far enough to be substantial. A time and labor-saving device for accomplishing this work without undue severity on the fingers has been recently invented and it is shown in the accompanying cut. It is supplied with a locking jaw which takes hold A of the eye and holds tightly while it is driven into place. 'With the aid of this tool the eye can be driven into the wood up to the very ring, and thus it will hold a considerable weight, which would be impossible under other circumstances.—Washington Star. Hint to Housekeepers. A penny spent on a receipt file will often save pounds in litigation. Judge Emden, in Reynold's Newspaper. For the Children. It is said--that London produces over 200 new designs in "penny toys" every week. CANAANITES SACRIFICED CHILDREN BY THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. holding these standing stones at Gezer were children who had been buried in large jars and London News. The Farm Cottonseed Meal. How is cottonseed meal used as a fertilizer for lawns? G. B. F., Pittsburgh, Pa. Answer: It is highly nitrogenous and should be used early in the spring in order to give the lawn quick growth and dark green color. It also contains a good per cent. of potash and phosphoric acid. Apply from 150 to 200 pounds per acre just before the grass starts in the spring, and a second application in July, as follows: 150 pounds of cottonseed meal, 100 pounds of muriate of potash, 300 pounds dissolved bone per acre. Mix thoroughly and distribute ovenly. In the fall do not mow the grass too closely, but leave it to get a moderate top to protect the roots during winter.—Country Gentleman. Peanuts For Cows. One of the experts of the Department of Agriculture tells the farmers that peanuts make the finest of all dairy foods. Doubtless nicely baked Graham flour bread, sliced and buttered, would be appreciated by the cows, but there are some things that are worth more, on the market than as dairy feed, and, taking into consideration the cost of producing peanuts and harvesting them, they would make rather expensive dairy feed at present prices. Where land is cheap and well suited to peanuts, it may pay to grow them for hogs to harvest for themselves, but whatever they could do for cattle would hardly pay for the expensive harvesting that peanuts usually demand. —The Country Gentleman. Dishorning. 'Can this be done by chemicals, in the case of very young calves? P. C. Oshkosh, Wis. Shave the hair from the little knob which may be felt under the skin and which, at this time, is not attached to the frontal bone, and washing it with a little soapsuds, being very careful not to wet the portions around the place where the hair has been removed. With a stick of caustic potash moistened at one end, the exposed place, not more than the size of a five-cent piece, may be treated. Do the work thoroughly, taking half a minute or so in the actual application of the caustic, and taking great care that it does not spread over any of the skin, except that immediately above the incipient horn.—Country Gentleman. Handy Barn Device. The illustration shows a Covice for a hay box, which should be in every stable. This box may be made of any dimensions desired and reaches from the loft to just above the manger in the stall below, placing it at a height so that the horse can get at the hay readily. As shown in the cut the box should be wider at the bottom than at the top to prevent the hay from lodging. The open space below should be fitted with two or more light iron bars to prevent the animal from pulling out too much of the hay at a time and wasting it. In the lower part of the drawing is shown the slatted bottom, which is used in this box so that the chaff and dust may sift through. The top of the box, in the loft, should be covered with a heavy slatted arrangement for the purpose of ventilation. It should be made of slats sufficiently heavy to bear the weight of a man if he should step on it accidentally, and be hinged at one end for easy handling. These hay boxes may be made of inch material, and will cost but a trifle, compared with the saving of hay and their convenience. Saving Labor and Food. It is a loss to keep an animal four years if it can be gotten into market when three years old, for the year's time saved means labor and food, as well as interest on capital investment. With the use of such beef-producing breeds as the Shorthorns, Herefords, Angus and Galloways, an average of 2000 pounds per animal has been obtained in four years, while three-year-olds have reached 1800 pounds and two-year-olds 1200 pounds, the daily increase being over two pounds for the yearlings up to two years old, and from one and one-half pounds to one and three-fourths pounds for older animals. The live weights only are given, but animals have dressed sixty-six and one-half per cent. when in prime condition.—The Epitomist. Coaxing Hens to Lay. Not every man can coax his hens into laying forty-cent a dozen eggs during December, yet the right kind of feed will, frequently start the kens to work, and once started to laying now they will likely keep busy during the rest of the winter. The thing to do is to study the habits of the 25% and surround her with the conditions of springtime, which is the most prolific egg-laying season. Notice the hens on the farm during the first warm days of spring. They usually have the run of the yard and field. They gather up all sorts of grazing green stuff and gravel. In fact, it takes them only a few days to stock up on egg material if they are allowed to run where they will. If you want winter eggs give the fowl plenty of fresh air and exercise. Feed grain, grit, meat scraps and green food. Grain does not mean all corn; wheat is much better. Some feed a mixed ration of corn, wheat, barley and bran, with clover or other green stuff. Try for some of the forty-cent eggs.—L. C. Brown, Illinois, in New York Tribune Farmer. smoking Meat. In the home smoking of meat I have learned something by experimenting that is a great saver of work and of much more consequence—keeps the meat in better shape during the smoking process. I used a low smokehouse, and handle the little necessary fire as best I could; it would sometimes heat the meat more than was good for it. I had the fire covered in a little pit in the centre of the smokehouse. Then I tried a pit outside several feet from the building with an underground flue, but all the heat generated in that went into the smokehouse, so it was unsatisfactory. I placed an old heating stone, with the legs taken off, on the ground about eight feet from the side of the ```markdown ``` smokehouse, put an elbow on the stove and ran a pipe in through the side of the smokehouse. Then I started a little fire, in the stove, and as the smoke poured from the funnel it occurred to me to turn the smoke down, so I put on an elbow with mouth pointing down, and as that worked all right I put a length of pipe on that and watched to see what the smoke would do. In a moment it poured from the pipe right down near the ground. The end of the pipe is four or five inches from the ground and nearly on a level with the bottom of the stove. It works finely. The cooled smoke rising from the ground conveys no heat to the meat, though quite a little fire is kept in the stove. The fire needs but little attention, as the stove is kept about closed all the time. It is very satisfactory.—Kansas Farmer. Econorize in Time. We have often urged that it was not economical to use one-horse implements. The Denver Field and Farm prints an estimate of the distance walked in plowing at different widths, and it also shows how much longer it takes to plow short lands than long ones. This is a point that is usually overlooked. If you do not keep or need but one horse as a general rule, it will pay you to get a two horse plow and harness and then hire an extra horse when you have plowing to do. It will be much more economical with one horse tools. The Field and Farm says: When cutting a furrow nine inches wide the plowman walks just about eleven miles while turning over one acre, that is without reckoning the journey from the barn or house to the field and back again. It is one of the advantages of long fields that the time occupied in turning at the ends is so much less than on shorter stretches and smaller fields. In plowing an acre 352 yards long, cutting a nine inch furrow, the man goes twenty-seven' and one-half times around, and turns on the headland fifty-five times. If we allow one minute for turning, the time thus taken up is equal to fifty-five minutes or say an hour's work and about the hardest besides. This would be a field of average length. Now when a field is 179 yards long, the number of turnings is just about doubled, therefore the amount of hand work and the time absorbed is one hour and fifty minutes. In a field 117 yards long, the plowman turns 165 times in order to cut through an acre with a nine-inch furrow and allowing one minute for each turning, two and three-quarter hours of time are occupied in that operation. Further along the line of tedious work varies from one and one-half to two miles an hour. Applying these figures to the eleven miles walked in plowing an acre, at the rate of one and one-half miles an hour, takes seven and one-half hours. With a ten-inch furrow there is one mile less of walking which may be computed as half an hour to three-quarters of an hour, as ending to the estimate of traveling pace. With a ten-inch furrow on light land where the ordinary furrows are 352 yards long from six to seven hours are occupied in plowing an acre at the ordinary pace of two miles an hour. Florida Agricultural. 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At) St gas beloved by all she bnew, Fase, Seo Gout conelded oa vodeas wet SHOES Cees 1 = m ; —=lany rate ‘bis declaration has hye sete seers for'a few conte ll pon ote he yee OUR shoes have’always given satisfaction, give “” Elms, National Republican gen "hope" to” the vother| faréed terniese sac” | RCTYan a sane) pamaetas wean ening i Fantomas | OS 2 ts - She Gnished out her eourse on earth magazine newspap is offer the right prices. Meu’s Rubbers 6 * Raed aad tha ol | cnn sous Daeaex oleate | wa one vel | | j= held at Chicago, Tuesday, Jane |charman of the Republican |g. we fencer To the Eattor of Tue Tamdne Pusiaine | IC a UNGs ie cay aeattg al the Winks . 16th of next year, committee for the First Diatrict| u°Ro" date trnewt at hands Johe elon ot Tux bamdve Pesusuine | TOR CREAM furnished in any quanti atten Wintér. You Sar Ey of Georgia, He is doi ~ | When we sbull meet to pare'no m announce’ to the public that I have re-| 469 zc,{nnow our: tee Cream ts thy bess. 2 _ REST siak ebook will hele ar aceast uae eo | Bw lan pec ta“ | eee Go Oe : b Pian Homes f wish also fo cive an iter: hase spark ot manhood should pasts in i Jothargy of the Her Tosog frend | feaccot of mele Reteasa.| So nem e tee that their poll tax is paid|P2's his way he will ho —anathicenencemmsmnnamets | from J. 1. Harr rath, 1907. Received . 7 : * r3 . Col. S J. J, Has 3 Lie 7) - Sefadonyto Byler and Poe|esycutscgl Dore. Sel.) am mamortam, (deca ate tan et niin. eeunee me tenes eral office holder but this does] Yq memoriam of our beloved sister, [Clu $250 Mouton ot ce| TREAT. BSTATE : Our contention is that indus trial education is the hest for the great mass of our people Those who are able shonka take the classics. The industrial idea has pervaded our white brethren and they are preparing allover the Stateto give their children training along — that line. WuiskEy and concealed weapon havebeen the cause of numerous tragedies in this coun- ty. Only cowards carry con- cealed weapons and any one found guilty of doing 0, should be made to work on the chaingang instead of being fin- ed. The law is strictly against the carrying of weapons con- cealed and our young men should learn to obey the law. |, Treen approach of the lol idays fear is €xproosed mainly because the bai-rooms will be closed on the first of the year and many persons will endeavor to drink more than usual, there by getting intoor causing trou- ble. Our people, especially the “younger ones, are cautioned to becarefal and only celebrate the occasion as it befittingly should be By many itis not known that there are a number of prosperous ‘colored men in this connty mak ‘ing good on the farms. A visit t, these places is quite inepftiy f More of-our peopie should spitk to the soil. ‘There is a plenty of Jand in the county that be bought or rented reasonably aud by stadious work our"men can live more independently, mike more meney and become health- jer than they now are by crowd-; ing in the city. Tm Christmas season will soon heupon us and those in position to, are seranging to make those’ who are near them happy. We should also be mindful of the poor ones whose hearts will not}be made glad with presents, ete It would be agratefal act on the part of the churches and other institutions if afand was collected to at least give these poor.ones a good dinner and make them feel that there is ‘godd will among meu.’’+ : Somziime ago the -board of education,saw fitto increase the salary ofgthe white teachers This is just and the board is to be commended foryso,doing. Would it not have been. a grate- fal act and a deserving one too, for the board tu have also {n- creased that of the colored teachers? These teachers are deserving of more pay because their work is harder than that of the white teachers, caused by the environments and number of children that they have to contend with. The colored citt- zens have great faith and confi- dence in the present board and feel that the right thing will be done by them. ~ In thiscounty we haye som four or five efforts to conduct an orphan home, and not one of thenris doing the least thing tangible, whereby the philan- thropic citizens could help with a knowledge that some good will be the result. These disor- ganized effortsare no good for us as a whole. We do not doubt the sincerity of some who are in the work, but their efforts will be fraught with failure un- less there ia more practicability abont it. These various persons .snould come together and form one body with a hoard of manag ers composed of Citizens of un- qaéshonable intberity. Going be org the publiowith such a board would;command téspect “and: a hearty] response sto the work: — wee A ea eR. We Catinot'afford to support two Suamnre Oona. homes, -.and action should be taken whereby promiscions begging without re- sults will be a thing of the-past. Present Roosgvetr in a vigorous way reiterated his statement declining to become a candidate fora third term. His ardent friends will try to induce him to declare otherwise. At any rate his declaration has given hope to the other candidates. « Cox. Joun H. Deveaux is chairman of the Republiéan committee for the First District of Georgia. He is doing the sen- sible thing of arousing his con stituency from lethargy of the past Tn this way he will hold ‘is own. Col. Deveaux is a Fed- eral office holder but this does not prevent him from working to put new life into the Repub- lican party of Georgia.—Geor- gia Baptist. We stated in our Jast issue that it was reported that at the meet- ing of the Board of Education on Monday night, Judge Sam- uelB Adams would bé elected its president. ‘this has been doneand the members of the board are receiving commenda tion for so doing, Judge Adamsisa noble hearted chris tian gentleman. He is a loyal citizen and his sense for right and justice jis unquestioned The colored citizens hold him in high esteem and feel that in him they have‘ a ‘true friend along all tight lines. Tue TriBuNE together with our people extend him congratulations on iis election. Coltere Dots. -“ _ We have niet the enemy and we are theirs,” this is what the Collegé foot ball team said after meeting the Sunday Club team trom thecity on Thankgiving Day. he score was 5-0 in favor of the Sunday Club team, ‘in charge of Mr. Moses W. Bryan One of our teachers said “Well boys, the greatest defeat is some times the grandest victory,” but th®,boyscould not see 1 chat yey ‘The forenoon field orts under the direction of Brot. Lemon, were very interest ing. 100 yards dash was won by Randolph Abbott; ‘?Cross country run” to Bonaventure and return, was won by R. But- ler of first normal cluss, 26 min 5 W. H. Davis of the Freshmen class came second, 28 min. Oscar Daniels and W. B, Hannuh also of the first normal class came in. third, $1 min. ‘The last présent mentioned iu the Roston silver wedding was presented by Mr. Roston’s bro ther and sister-in-law who live in Brooklyn, N.Y. The name was omitted inadvertently. So was the present of Prof. and Mrs. Work and mother, a set of salt spoons, = ‘The fall term examinations be- gins next Thursday. | Will Celebrate The Emancipation Association met at St. Philipg A, M. E church, Tuesday jast. A num- ber of representatives were pre- sent. The _yarious: committees were appointed and thefoutlook is quite encouraging for a fine celebration. A commitiee con- sisting of Mr, @, S.~ Williams, De oa Johnson;7:Mr. R. Barnes, Drs. Wm Gray, J. A Lindsay, Revs. R. V., Branch, B- Molett, and H. L. Haywood were appointed to confer with the Chatham County Emancipa- tion Association. A committee consisting of Revs. Branch, H L. Haywood and B. H. J. Cars well was appointed to arrange carriages for the street parade. It was further decided to ask each lodge taking.a part in the parade to donate $2.50 to the occasion, and ulso decided ask the churches to donate the sume as they were assessed last year. ‘The association hopes that the citizens af the coutty willturn out in full force that day and demonstrate to the public the fact that they are really patriotic .and appreciate their freedom. ‘The regular meeting of the Ohat; hom County Emancipation Associa; tion was held on Friday night last and it was largely uttended by re- Presentatiyes of various clubs of the city. Rey, H. L. Haywood and, Mz, R. Barnes representing the Emanci- pation Association were presut aad uddressed the meeting which Wasen- joyed by all present Rev, Haywood said that, the Emancipation Agsucia- tion was with us whenever we are right and when we are wrong they williielp‘ugto.get might We the Ubethams? County Emancipation Abe eae Ee « aa S: Asadelation answered -by saying,” “qnited ‘we stand, diiyded we fall’ S¢ B Roberts, Pres. ~ J H Davis, Acting sec. Dedicated to tiie Mémory of mire. Stones oy Mad, who, eS Pariea thie iiie Dec: 11,1906 She wis a tender bearted friend, But now she js no more, For she has joined the blessed throng On Qaoaap's happy shore. s Bhe was beloved by all she knew, But she bas. gone te rest, We donot murmer nor complala, * For God does whats best. She Gnished out her course on earth And left a good record, Resigned her body to the dust. Her spirit to the.Lerd, Sleep on is dear beloved friend ‘The time is near at band, When we shall meet to part no more On Qanaan’s peaceful land, Her loving friend. ADEA SPENCER. reaction in Memoriam. Yo memoriam of our beloved sister, JANIE BRADWELL. Who departed this life Sept. 24th, 1007. Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to call from ‘the field of labor our dear sister, Janie Bradwell. Wheress in her demise Household of Ruth Ne. 118 G. U. O. of O. F. has lost a beloved gister, atrue and devout member, her husband bas fost an affectionate wife, her daughter a loving mother, Our lots is Heaven's gain and we bow in humble submifsion tothe will of our Heavenly Father ‘Therefore be it resolved that we tender our heartfelt sympathy to her husband and relatives, commending ihem to Him who has promised to ever be with us and never leave us alone Resolved furthermore that while we deeply deplore the loss of our beloved anid departed sister, let us emulate the exdm- ple of patience’ and uncomplaining obsdi- ence ia which she bore her illness, ¢acd strive to meet her again on the other shore; for & » Welloved her, yes we loved her, £ Butangles loved her more, * And they have sweetly called. ber « _Totyonder shining shore. Her life's race was wall suo, ‘Her life's victory well weap And now zomes rest." Resolved furthermore that’s copy ot These resolutions be sent to the hereayed husband, aod relatives, be spread upon ‘the minutes of this” Household, aod printed in Tite TarwNe and Odd Fellows journal, Committes; Sister Sylvia Sande.s, . “| Frances Mason, : “ sLephemia Cole Ce EROS Second Baptist Church. VOTE SOCY 28 ene Pas mase Sneares agreat Xmas and good meetings. Sun- day wasa greatday here; pastor May preached at 11 o'clock. Rev. A. A. Banks of Boston, Mass., preached at night. An nousually large crowd attended the communion seryices at 4 o'clock and _pas- tor May was assisted by Hevs Jobasoa of Tennessec, Av A. Banks of Boston, J. R. Maxwell and Hamilon of Savannab. Several deacons of other churches attend- ed Come again brethten you are always welcome by voth preachers and deacons. Every member and friend are requested 10 attend the early Xmas morning prayer meetiog and praise service here Wedues- day morning’ Dec. asth, at 5:30 a. m. Prepare also to attend the “‘watchmeeting’* and the first Sunday prayer und fast ser- vices. The general health of the members is good. Two funerals this week, only one aehurek member. Pastor's morning ext to-morrpw morning; “By the grace of God 1 am What I am” ret, Cor. Isto. At night there will bea special sermon to be starried Women's) Pleasure Club, erybody invited. ; Everybody “- 4 se. A. B. Church. ‘Sunday Rev. A. W. Bryant of Valdos. ta ba., preached ‘aa able acrimon ot the morniug and eveniog services. Rev, Bryant is one of our accompiishedzsons having started in the ministry at tbls church, aad we arc proud of bis auecess. The Meacons conducted the sogvices during the week ereditably. Supt J, ‘A. Snyder with his efficieat corps of teachers are prepariog the children of the Sunday School for Christmas exercites. A number of our old members are on the sick list, Deacon Oscar Elmore is im- proving is healthy To-morrow (Sunday) every member is asked to give §1.00 or more to meet an obligation. Monday will be our last montbly conference for this year, and mueb business will be transacted. ———_ =o Bethlehem Baptist Church Rey LL, Biair, tne pastor, occupied the pulpit and preached twice during Sunday to very large congregations, ‘Ine Sua day school was well attended asd had a very interesting session. The at teadance and interest scems to increase atevery session. Y. MM, C. A. had its sual service at 6 o'clock, the andicace being very large. Master Eugene Chance presided. We ate now carrying on a week's niceung.COur friends and well wishes are cordially invited to be out withus, * The New-York Tribune. Ske newapepes 1 the homes 8 B HEces: sity. Get one that can be safely read by the entire family. 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Are you Fond of Geod Reading? |, Look where you may and you'll not be abletefind sucha ‘wonderfal vol- ume of hve news, stories, pictures, edi Aerials comic drawings poetry poztles, ‘&c., & , cost considered, as youcaa get for'a fem conte if you order from sour Remadealera copy of nest Sunday's New York World. the biggest and best magazine newspaper published on earth Savannah, Ga., Dec. 4th, 1907 To the Editor of Tx Tarsunz PUBLISHING Go.,_ Sir; I the undersigned, beg leave to announce to the publicthatI have re- signed as solictor from the Chatham Or- phan Home. I wish also to give an item- ized‘account of moaies and provisions col- lected from July rath, 1907. Received from J.J Hargrove groceries. ase Zion Hill Baptist Church, 7se. New Zion Bap- tist Church 6sc. Young Ladies Christian Club, $2.30 Mount Ohve Baptist Church of Gordon, Rev. Grant $1.26 Bryan Bap- ust Prayer House, goc Monat Zion Bap- tist Church,-Rev. Jackson 4oc. Mr. L. EB. Willams soci-Payoex Chapel A. M. E. Ellabelle, Ga., Rev. Scott $3.92 Mount Calvary Baptist Association, Ssopatr: Ww O. Baker, $1.00 Cash, 20€. Union* associ- ation $130, Amount collected $17.65 Disbursement, July 15th; 1907 groceries j2.e0 July. zand, 1907, groceries $2 2 pols, 27shut907," $3.00 August, sth, 1907 1.50 ABgust 17th, 1907, $2.00 August 28, 1907, 83 50 Sept 1907, Merchandise $2.25 Sept, Toth. 1907 groceries. $205 Sept. 1907 Fresh meat $f 00. Total expended 97-55, T wisk to thank the public and ‘taany friends who have so earnestly and pobly contributed toward the- Home, and ‘wishing your continued help in the future in another field which I shall state later, Phanking you in advance for the further: ance of a good cause, and praying God's blessing on you for your kindaess, courte: sy and observance shoma me. Tam your obedient servant. . ._ Laura A. Jones. Box 7,:No, 106 Auguta Road. ——_—_Se Petition fot sx poration. State of Georgls,.Couaty of Chatham. ‘To the Superior Coutt pf aaid County : The petition of Willlam D, Kénnedy Edward M. Green, Paul B. Black, George N. Ferguson, Alfred W. Wright. Chester A: Bimpking, Joba H. Law, Henry A. BrownjgThomas, G, Young, Thomas N. Greco reépuettblty Showa ego" 2" tat That they dévire foryhemselzey, aneir acebraes oer corporated ‘fur, a= fWwHies years with thefpris peice end of such,jme, under tM¥nameand Hvle of the Young Ben MefcantilaBaving Loan and Investment Compaayof Sing Geatle meaKotertalners Ald atd'8, C, of Baran 2d” That the principle Bice ai'plafe of doing business of said cpgporatlon-will be Savannah, Chatham County, Stata of Georgia, but desire that said cofporatfoa shal] have the right to do business“elaé whefelin the State of Georgia and pf the united states when ever it may be deemed by the board of directors"advlsable’ the home of the sgid corporatién however shall always bog thécity.of Savannah: Georgia, 3s. cae ard- that the object dithslr'ssaociation is aafollowsito baygyalls lease, reat grant, morigageyegcumber tmprove and otber- wise Hold sad"deal.J. real and personal property, tolead wid'boirow money wa notes, ‘bills. bonds,” pledges, deeds, mortgages} of other obligations, or lines, avith oF wlth out real or persooal security, act ai Akerts,.abmialstrators and truste for Indiviaui's “or for corporations, .to entefS and carry out contracts for the buildlog and vepairiog of all kinds -of houses, and geoerally 10,¢6 “aaPperform all acts and things inckdent aodSsimallar to those above enumerated, dth,abeamonst of ‘capital stock to be employed by your patitioners is five thou- aod (#5000,00) dollars foro Give thousand {5009,00) shates of (160) dolfar each, of which ten(lo) per cent is now actually ald io. Sth petitioners ask the right of tacreas- ing the amount of said ~capital stock at any tme, to any” amount not .exceediog twevty five ($25.000,00) thensead dollars and to decrease the ‘capital stock at any time toany amount mot less than five ‘shousand {$5000,00) dollars. “6th, ne, stotkholder gid, sald company shall beBuiad fa hls TadI¢idual capacty for the coattact® ordebts<of the company beyond thé amount “of his unpald sub seriptiea to its capital stock. : ‘7th, petitioners "pray that they be granted tne right to thake all proper rales, bylaws, and constitution, and alter the same at pleasure, also that they have the power to elect suchMirectors, officers and agents as they see At, ‘Sth to have and to use a corporate seal, to sue and be sued. ‘8th, petitioners pray that thls petition may be filed and recorded as by law provided, and when the same has been published as prescribed by statue, tbat an order may be passed Incorporating pe titioners nader the namg and style and for the purposes above’ specified. Acd petitioners, will ever pray ete H.A. MACBETH, Petitioners Attorney Petition filed in office this sthday of December, 1907 Taaees K.P. Carr, . ‘Clerk S. G. C- Ga- THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY READY FOR BUSINESS. 25° Experienced Agents Wanted at Once. ‘The Savannah Mutual and Fire Asso- ciation of 20 State street, west, of Savan- nab, Ga., announces its readiness to begia business, ‘The company will write in- surance on the homes, household goods, churches, lodges, business bouses and other property of our people. ‘This will alord protection which has hitherto been dédied them. ‘Twenty-five or more agents will be put to work st once ia various parts of, the State, and a thorough canvass made’ for safe legitimate business. ‘A few persons 25 or more who have had some experience as agents and pos seas other requited qualifcations tay secure positions with salaries of forty to Gfty dollars per montlf, accordjag to fit néss forservice, For further particulars address $e” D. © Suggs, Pres, or LS. Reed, Sect. 20 Brate street west, Savannah, Ga. oo ww. 2, CRRA ee arr yoo he 482 West aos, SOOT 1 ROS. tei tuieee . “ON THE square ‘ = + DRESS HATS for Men and Women, latest styles“ HATS direct from New York at ray et prices. ade} Winter line of UNDERWEAR for men, women Underwear vie Wecansuit you in Hosiery, Cuffs and Collars, _ ~ 4 SUESINE'SILKS, all colors. Canton Flannel,” Ginghams and Outings. ~ OUR shoes have always given satisfaction, give SHOES thema trial. Weare looking for your basses: We offer the right prices. Meu’s Rubbers 650, ‘ Women’s Rubbers 0c, Children Rubbers 50c. MEN CLOTHING MADE ‘10 ORDER. ICE CREAM furnished in any quantity all the Winter. You know our {ce Cream is th» best. « - | 462 West Broad Street. SCOTT BROTHERS. NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST IN REAL: BSTATE. Iker Watch this space for my offerings. CHAS. A. R. McDOWELL, Real Estate and Renting Agent ~ Bell Phone 3188 22 State Streét, west FoHnnson’s ~ Undertaking Establishment, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS. All Orders promptly atténded, Day or Night. Firstclass Embalming zak all work of that kind guaranteed Our stock of Coffin, Caskets and Robes is the largest in *. the city. Wealso havea first class Livery Stable where we furnish the best Carriages, Hearses and +” Funeral Cars. We also have in our employment. Mr. H. S. Dunbar, who would.Jike-to see his friends at auy time. 1 ——-MA'NAGERS; HS. DUNBAR’-g, - W-K. FIELDs, Bell Phone 676°* ~ *» _,.336-3833 JEFFERSON STREET. ss -gUnio Savings & Loan Co., geuion, CAPITAL 60,000.00. a ene. ee we Stands for ; FS By a A : Negro Manhood: “4 at ree Be Negro Homes = Sse Sand Negro Busi-’ TRANG ia AES SY The Hope, of the Race. “RIRRTIpenst fcc given at " g arty aod is eo STATE STREET, West. * ee, te ot ee Tee Si@eSsr OF THEM aLT The Royall: Undertaking Co., aes bs % BREN GUE SOR AE Denar Funeral Directors and Embalmers, Only First Glass Service Rendered jwith —Hespectful .Attention.— : QUE §10CK OF CASKETS, —— COFFENS, ROBES, Etc, is Complete Phones 219 Oglethorne Ave., West . * W. S. ROUNDFIELD, Manager. , , > _ Residence.623 Anderso» St., E. Bell Phone 3572 TT; SANTA CLAUS EXPOSITION. | The Santa Claus Exposition will take placa from December 18th to the gist. He will reach my store on tbe above date and will remain for 12 daye, He will bring arcicles for father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, niece, neyhew, cousin and friends, “What will he bring? He Will bring the follew- ing articles: Watches, rings, cut glasses, hat pivs. studs. cuff buttons, collar buttons, broches, ear rings. earercews, neck chains. watch charms, shirt waist sats, pocket knives, magic charms. soaaf retainers, Isckets, eyeglasses, watch J chains, bloase sets, bracelets, fob chains, swaslika and articles of every des- - eription; beauty pins, emblem for every secret order in exsistence; key “chang cheeks, key chains, Enagie hair witch, hair curlers bair weauing machine, har puller and in other words I have glits teat will please him or her, A gift of x ‘watch goes straight to the heart. It is a lasting gift and it unites beauty with usefullness beyond any other [form of wearable things. The best stock of watchés is at ‘BROWNS, 807 West Broad street. Would you make a supreme 1 Xn.as gift—a ring in any form, pin or what not isthe thing and the best assortments in size and price are at BROWN’S. 807 West Broad stzeet If In- a8 to the “acceptable and perfeet”’ gifts, see our beautiful things at BROWN'S 807 West Broad, sireee and your doubts will be solid gifts like jewelry. Come and see. Give her alocket*and see her eyes sprrkle, \from 75 ceats upwards = at BROWN’S, £07 West Broad street. Wouldn’t a clock fill the Dilly You™ . couldn't give anything that would bring the donor go often to mind, as it is" constantly refered to, There sa place for itin the dining room, parlor or bed room. Sce ig . W. H. BROWN, Watchmaker and Jeweler, : 807 West Broad Street, Savannah, Ga, Grand New Year Hop) Dr, Isaiah D. Williams At Masonic Temple, ,PHYSICIAN and SURGEON -* COLONIAL AID axp SOUIAL » CLUB, * Monday Night, Jaauary 6, 1908 Fine music, plenty refresh- meuts. Come, you are invited. ADMISSION .16 CENTS. Willie Thomas, Gen’l Manager. ~~ [8, Henly, Exofiicio, » Dr, Isaiah D, Williams aPHYSICIAN and SURGEON, - ’ recent graduate of Meharry Medical Cot legs, hag a neatly furuished office ~ - with all modera appliances at 6244 West Broad Street, overz, Metropolitan Bank, ae For treatment of diseases of WOMEN and’ CHILDREN and Veneral Diseases iB ‘a specialty. -- 28 Ofice-Haurs—B8 to 10 2. my 12 93 SLY 3104p. m.,6t0 8p. m. and all night. Fa Bell Phone s104 we ne Oe ERE ae ee Se he ce we PPS Oe Rone ct A leat, FO toe welt a SY yer ES ————e—————= NS renee = zs aoe TY ori MERC aay Dhow Iwe]POr? raw Oe The Savannah Trflene.| 9.3909 te ot ew vor | toe Mera ae ele ATE ae | SATURDAY, DEO. 14, 1907. Inacetd een eh the city’ leat week | rant to grow hnd-develop in“business and | at ae Spent aeveral days in the city durin; the week on business, , _ Lhe many frieads of Miss Mami I.Durden will be glad 10 hear tha * she is out again after being confine to adark room for sometime, due ~ 6 an operation upon her eyes. “Mr. Isaac Prioleau died suddenly on Satarday night before last and waa buried the following Monday Be was a native of Charleston’ and lived here pearly thirty years, He left several children and a large cir- cle of acquaintances. a Attendthe seryices at the First Congregational Church The eer. +viees are short, the sermons by Rev Cush are along practical lines and well delivered. -On Wednesday night last Mfr, Wilhe Moses entertained a number of friends at his residence in honor of bis 21st birthday. The occagion was enjoyed by all present. Mrs. M. E. Bryant of 713 Daffy, street, nas returned home after apending * JO while with her sister Miee/Susie B. Brown of New roft, R. I. Roy. O. Priester, president of thr ~Obutham Orpbannge is appealing to the public for hisyophunage. He says that he isin a position to care for a number of orphans and would ‘like for those who are interested to communicate with him at 1124 Hail street, east, Mr, John Matthews, died Wed- nesday last al_his late residence in ousnile, He wus an old citizen atd for many years u pilot. Mr. Matthews wasa member of Asbury MI. E- Church from which he was buried on Friday afternoon, He leaves a wife, three daughters, five ~gons apd u host of friends to mourn big death. Rey. T. W. Cobb, of Stockton, + Wag 1, the city fast week and return- ed hothe on Monday. He preuched atthe K. A. B, Church, on Thura- day bight. 1 was a fine effort and interested his hearers. Sunday morn- ing be was at Rev. Whitmire’s Cnurch and in the afternoon head mintetered communion at Maocedo- pia Church, He also preached u soul stirring sermou at night. Rev. Cobb isan old and experienced min- ister and well known -all over the state and well liked in Savannah, Mr. ©. A, Allen formerly of this city, now of Washington, D. C., af- rived here on Wednesday of last week whera he will remain antl January 10th, Mr, Allen 1s well known in Savannad, huving firet seen the light of the aun here, He 18 a business man, conducting a fine “laundry in Washington giving work to fiya ladies and two men. He 18 stopping with bis sister at Thunder- bul We wish bim much success Miss Virginia Jackson, Mies Mary] "EB. Brown and Mrs. G. WV. Griffin, ‘wish to return thanks to their|' sfrienda, white und colored, who do-|' nated 19 them for the dioner for} the Ghatham Orphanage. The little | ‘children were well fed. ‘They also’re-|) turn thanks to the Adelphia Club]! for the barrel they sent®and to|t ‘Mrs, J.B. Brown ot Rincon, Ga.,|! for ber kindness snd¥ also wish to thank the the trustees for what| / they did. Among}those of thejtrustee | £ board who donated were the two nd Uato, Young. Mrs} ‘ nffin‘a@ed as chairman in Merving-the dianéh,, r & very delightfal banquet -was| given by Mr. and Mrs. Chambers} ' on Thavkegiving Day, in honor of|t St. Benedict Choir, Several beauti-}1 ful pieces of musio were 1endered}. after which a delicious supper was| ( served, Rev. Father O'Sullivan re-/] sponded to the toast “Jim Crow”|! and in hia very eloquent way de-|] nounced the action ot Vity Council, }4 thereby compeling our ‘people to}! stay off rather than to be humilat-|t ed by riding on the atreet cars.}b Among those present were, Father | O'Sullivan, Mrs. C. Blills, Mrs. A.jd Grahum, Mra. D1. Cuyler, Mra, A.{d Chambers, Mig. A. Proctor, Missea| E A. Ward, Jennie Long and Carrie]b Elliot, Messrs. N. Cugler, James M-|i1 Dowse and Chas. Seigitng. n j2ioaashold of Huth No, 118 G.'U. z . of O. F. elected the following 1 officers on Dec. Gth: Mies M. A |" Dole, P. M. N. G.; Mrs. Carrie Max- well M.N.G: Mis MM. Dadlev RR wmae's >, Sti-Aucustine’s Episcopal ee Ea eraane Bolton vis. Savan- Ga. Nervices: 2nd and 4:h sundays iL rand8 p.m, letand3rd sundays 8 p.m Dights § pom. Holy kucharist, gaya it wm; ‘Holy Eucharist Saints 3am. Sanday pehoo! every Sanday A cordial welcome to all. ‘The ov. n Weston, Vicar, 42 West Bol: ree . , Local Notes. ee Mr; Jos. W, White of New York passed ‘through thé city°last week for Jacksonyille, where be will ee. curé a bride. He will return to New York next week. Mie. A: St. Clementhia di Leo, and her daughter, Miss Estrelle Marie, of New York City, are stop ping at the residence f their cousin Mr. Joseph King on Dale Ave. Mrs, and Miss di Leo will epend Christ mas in Savannah, after which they will visit friends in several parts of Fis. From the latter plece they will depart for San Domingo. After several weeks spent jn the south, their return will be made to New York, vis. Ocean Steamship line. A few guests were entertained at cards and luncheon, on Wednesday last in honor otf thege ladies. Sev- eral selections were rendered on the piano by Misa di Leo and Miss Dewey, and enjoyed. Dancing was enjoyed until the late afternoon. Among those present wert, Mra. and Miss di Leo, of New Mork; Miss Marie Tweedy, Mr. Joseph H. Green, Mr. Samuel J. Brown and Mr. Joseph King. The Ladies’ Whist Club. In the cosy apartment of Mrs. Wesley Oarter, the club was delight- fully entertatained on Monday after noon. The aitting room was de- corated with handsome potted plants. Inthe center of the table sat a beautiful fern, The score earda Were the color of the room, green. Mre. Small won the firat prize, a pretty mustard jar. Mrs, H. L. Scott won the second, a choc- olate cup and saucer. Mrs. Hart was awardéd the consolation prize, achina plate, Refreshments were served in courses which were de- licious. Mr. Garr of Augusta being present was entertained by the club, Those present were, Mrs. H. L. Se: tt, Mra. GC H. Branham, Mra, Henry Small, Mrs. Willie ttoberson, Mre. Hart, Mra. W.Ouarterand Mr. Carr. All members are requested to attend all meetings, ‘he club will be entertained,by Mrs. H. L Scott, 527 ‘Taylor Street, east, Mon- day next. Men’s Sunday Club. - } The musital numbers on the programme for fast Sunday could not be rendered on account oa the piano but will be rendered to morrow, which will be as follows; Instrumental colo, Miss.L Dewey Vocal solo, Migs LL, Jordon; Vocal solo, Migs M, Johnson. A commit- tee was appointed on last Sunday to make arrungeménts for « charitable entertainment and the pubiio: is asked to patronize the eame when it is given because ths proceeds will go tothe poor. ‘I'he club will also haye appropriate exercises for Jun. 1st. . ——~-e—__ .. & New Tabernacle Mount Olive Tubernacie, BK. and D.of ‘Tabor was set up Dec. 11th, Following are the officers; Daugh- tera, M E. Sherman, H. P; E. RB. Dennis, V. P.5 J.C. Woodruff, U. R.; T. A, Stewart, V.R; L. vavies, C. T.; A _R. Vardell, C. Ps S. Joiner, LS, 0. Hayward, 0. S3‘f A. Mid- dlenton, OC. T.; G. Whitfield, C. T.; F, Merrill, ©. T.; Ida Larcha, B. E.; M. C. Lyons, B. EB; M. L, Middle ton, B. E; A, Hlantroyal, B. V5 N. Million, B, V; E. DeRoach, B. V.; ‘The-work waa done by Mrs. F: D. Armstrong, D. G, M., with forty. five members, ape Death of Mr. G. H. Ralph. Ou Priday night of jast week, Mr Geo. H. Ralph died at his late resi: dence Nicoll and Price streets, He was confined at home from Nov. 29. untii his death, His funeral took place on Sunday afternoon trem _ St. John Buptist Church, Rev. Wm, Gray, pastor, It was attended by ‘Protection Lodge of Odd-Follows, P. G. M. Council, Household of Kutb, Progressive Lodge, K.of P., and Carpenters Union, all of which he was a member. In these inatitu- tions Mr. Ralph was well known and bas left bis impress upon each one, He was a nan of conviction and well did he stickto it. Mrs. Mattie Mid- dlebrooks, of Athens and Mr James Brown, of Augusta, sister and brother ina of Mre Ralph arrived in the city in time to attend the fu- neral, MecRealph left a wife and lite ile boy, Geo. H- Ralph, Jr, His many acquaintances extend aincere sympu thy to the widow, Death or Mr. Hamilton. dir. Obristopher Hamilton died on Thursday of last week at his late residence, Harris Street, west, after an illnesa of more than six months, but he was only confined to bed a few days before his death, The funeral took place from the home of his father, Mr, He nty ‘Hamilton, West 32ad street, on Fri- day afternoon, Besidessa wife and father, Mr. Hamilton “leaves one siater Mra, Edward Reid of Newark, N. J., and two brothers, William and John S. Hamilton. - ———-+——__. St. Philip’s Dots. Rev. J. A. Lindsay, D. D,, preached at 11a m.onSunday.and us usual there was a large congregation~ont, The offi cials and members are glad to note -the visitors from the various churches ia, our city, “Awake my soulto_sound-.His praise’ was sung 7by the: cholr“and.con gregation, The subject was “Christaid | Sree erage, speed oat oe Yarlous jaterests in men's life an how*he wart to grow hnd-develop In“business and along other Hines, just so we must’grow In the’ grace of our Lord. and Saviour Jesus Christ, Itcan be eaid by every person who is fortunate to hear these sermons that they dre a source of pleasure_to sit and listen to the gospel expounded by this noted divine. Rev, J. A. Lindsay preached again at 8 p, m.to-2 large and representative congregation. His sermon wasinteresting throughout. At 3p. m. our Sunday Schosl had {ts harvest and ronquest exercises preparatory to thelr, Christmas festivities. The programe ar ranged by Prof J, H. Baldwin and bis ex cellent corps of teachers was very good and could notfbe’improved, Miss Viola Jor dan rendered ‘a solo that captivated the audience and shows careful trainiag and study. Shehas a rich voice, that {f eult! vated will besecond to one in tho city Miss Macedonia Wartla’s select reading was well rendered, proved Interesting to the'Negro. Mr. David F. Moses read the harvest and conquest address. which was timely and polated ard wound up by read- ing aletter from dear old Santa Claus, which was recieved with pleasure by the children, -The chorus of twelye small rirls iead by Miss Annic Davjs and Mrs. Maud Wicks was one of the best on the program. It is always a pleasure to hear} Miss May Stewart: render a solo. The audience had the pleasure to hear ber slog on this occasion, The scholar contest for the yearmas awarded to the lady teachers for bringing ia the largest num ber of new scholars. By agreement the gentlemen teachors will bave to content themselves with cheese and crackers at tho christmas festivities while the ladies will haye the dainties of the season. After the Sunday School classes finished their report It was found they had raised $40.33 Mrs. J. A, Lindsay léading with $8.42. Class No. 4 isto be congratulated oa having such a teacher at its bead. We are glad to note that our weekly official | poard meeting {s changed from Monday nights to Thursday nights ofeach week. Leaders must govern themselves according y. The usual services will be held na tematran, : hte and Kaueh | Knights and Daughters ef Tabor. On Thursday evening November 28th, The Temples and Tabernacles went to St, Philip Monumental Church to cele brate Moses Dickson day and to give the thanks to the Almighty Deity for bis kind protection. The Daughters under the leadership of Mrs, WiD. Armstrong, D. G, P., was out In their sirength: Chief Menter Sir F. ‘J. Hilton was master of ceremonies and did credit to the occasion. D.G. ML, SirJohn J. Bolen made some timely remarks, Mr, E. W, Sherman car Tied the audience ‘on-the wings of elo quence when referring to our great found er, Moses Dickson sir Rutledge gave notice of the. coaventlons that are now in Progress. All true hearted men and Womenare Invited to take a part. The Temples and Tabernacles regretted yery muck that Rev. Branch was out of the city but were givena great aurprise ia the pér sonof Rev, Redd who wonderfully fed them with logic and much needed instruc tions, The Knights and Daughters of Tabor are doing splesdid work aad the cry is still they come, = Church Notice. The Morning: Star Baptist Church held its regular services at the Sisters Hal, nussel St., atl am. Rev J. H. Hamilton preached a very instructive sermon which filled the hearts of the con- Bregation with joy. Sunday school was well attended, “Our Ba filled as it seemed to us with the Holy Spirit preach eda soul stirring sermon On the ‘*Attrac tion ot the” Heavenly clty” This was a powerful effort and had its effect on the congregation, The services will be con ducted by Pastor Haywood Suaday, 11 a. m. At Sits p ma special sermon will be preached by the pastor. All are ‘in yited to these services. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. —— Coming Events in The So- -cilal World. 4 grand Leap year entertalament wil! be given at Masonic Temple, by White Rosc Court, No, 731. 0.0. C. Monday night, January 13th, Tickets ‘rs cents. A Patriotic entertainment will be giver at Harris strect Hall under the auspice: of, tne, Chatham County Emancipation ASsociat on, Wednesday night, December 18th, for the purpose of raising means for the Emancipation celebration January rst, Tickets 15 cents. Eastern Star Lodge No. 138 I. O. of G. 8, and D. of 8. will give their late fall en. tertainment at Harris Street Hall, Moz- day night, Dec. 16th. Tickete is and 25 cents. A New Year breakfast will be given for the benefit of the F. A. B. Church, by the Pew Club in the lecture room of the church, New Year’s Morning. Tickets 1s cents. ® A grand’catertalnment will be given by Warehouse Club No. 1 at Margaret street Hall, Monday night, December 16, sickets 1g and 25 cents, A grand new year hop will be given by the Colonial Aid and Social Club at Ma- sonic Temple, Moaday night January 6th, Vickets 15 cents. The annual Rustic Picnic of Faithful Workers Club vf Beth Eden Baptist Church will be giyen at Masonic Temple December 16th. Tickets 15 cents, A swell daace will be given at Chatham Hall by the Western Aid and Social Club Monday night Dec 23rd. Tickets ig cents. The Desoto, Waiter-sTuxedo Social Club will give their’ second annual dance at Harris Street Hall fuesday night Dec. 7th. ‘Tickets 35 and so cents, 4 grand Parnotic entertainment “Will be given at St. James A. M. EK. Church, con- ucted by Mrs. S. A. K. Taylor, of Boston Mass,, Monday night Dec'i6th. Tickets joceate, A grand cdtertalament will be given at Masonic Temple by Household of, uth No. 438 Tuesday mght Dec. r7th. Tic cele 25 cents U1. 5, PAS, ‘a DENTIST 240 Barnard St., Suvannab,'Ga, Does all kfad of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship, Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Goid Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Filt- ings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full-set of teeh ‘$7.00 and $3.00. Broken Places mendea and teeth added io old ones or asmall cost. BellPhone 1244 =i Gold’ Crowns Guaranteed 23% K Gold. = ro ee —— = ’ | BH. LEVY BRO., & C5, : . . Savannah, Georgia. . 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Many a man’s early training has Kept him from making good, ‘Tazlor’a Cherokee Remedy of Sweet ‘Gum and Mullon je Nature's great reme- dy—eures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Con- samption, and all throat and lang troubles, ‘At draggiats, 25a., 500. and 81.00 per bottle. Awarded $223 for Cat's Board Bill. ‘As payment for a cat's board bill “Mrs. Ellzabeth B. Meyers was today sallowea $223 in the Muntclpal Civil *Court. Ben, an Angora cat, accori- ving to testimony, 1s very fastidious, -and has an appetite’ only for cream, ‘tenderloin steak, and salmon. Mrs. ‘Meyers testified that the cat was brought to her by Martha W. Merrill, “of Lebanon, N. H., in April, 1908. She was to care for the cat at $2 a week It was not stipulated, according to Mrs. Meyers, what Ben was to eat. ‘The cat sulked unless be bad cream three times a day; tenderloin twice with a side order of salmon. On such diet Ben worried along in Ite ‘until 1907, when his board bill for 164 weeks was $203. Mrs. Meyers sent urgent demands Yor Ben’s owner, Mrs. Morrill, who finally camo from New Hampshire and made a part settlement of $154. ‘Ben fs stl running up bis board ‘Dill, Mrs. Meyers testified today that -she had made repeated vain attempts to locate Mrs. Merrill—Boston Dis- watch to the New York Herald. ON THE OUTSKIRTS. ‘Traveller: “The 9:15 train Is very Tate again this morning, porter.” Porter: “It fs a bit behind, sir, but we're expectin’ it every hour “now.” Ostrich feathers can be taken every ninth month. ‘The plumes are not, a3 some suppose, pulled, but are cut with a sharp knife. The stumps wither 2nd fall out. BOTH GAINED . ‘Man and Wife Fatten on Grape-Nuts. ‘The notion that meat fs necessary tor real strength and the foundation of solid flesh 1s nowcny longer as prevalent as formerly. Excessiva meat eaters are usually “sluggish a part of the time because ‘they are not able to fully digest thelr food, and the undigested portion {s ‘changed into what {s practically a kind of polson that acts upon the "blood and nerves, thus~getting all through the system. “I was a heavy meat eater,” writes -an Ills. man, “and up to two years -ago, was in very poor health. I sut- “fered with Indigestion go that I only swelghed 95 pounds. + “Then I heard about Grape-Nuts sand decided to try it. My wife ‘Iaiighed at me at first but when I -gained to 125 pounds and felt so fine, she thought she would eat Grape- -NGTS too. : “Now sho 11 fat and well and has “gained 40 pounds. We never kaye in- digestion any nrore and seldom féel the desire ior meat. A neighbor of ours, 68 years old, was troubled with {ndigestion for years; was azheavy meat eater, and now since he has been eating Grape-Nuts regularly, he <eays ho 1s well and never haa ind! gestion. I could name a. lot of per gons who have really been cured o: “Indigestion by changing from a heayy Rieat diet to"Grapé-Nats.” “There's Ja’Réacon:” Name given by Postum Mo. Battie: Crack, etch. HB Readstheilittle book, “The Road 1 ZWelvitein‘pks: , =. . ear : F i ects Practice es LETSE pee ice Soyer a ets er les 06 ee | Beek oe cee ema ito 5 a see ca H . _ <””:*CdW ARE SERGE GARGIIGEE = < Boe a eka Pkg ae Sy cae det Bae HAT Set eee SESS a URteR trois orate ketene EEOC og ag ae eer RSS EES EP BOM in gee POSS CEES ARE ME SES Sen ara Soa Seta he MN Ante ee he eee tea NERS gars Ana re Ra ocstvekecists i. ot epboreaicn si So cee SOS 2 7 ene aT ete eee Seine See ES em) Reais aero ae et Betasy 2 Sas ia aed eee oa ee: eae SI ele 2 ge ec x p= Pa Pe SA ra SOS AN ine OAD. 08 Par To SAS, os SRNR a Seni ees Sean eR : : Mien hs ee "i Rae ati pee ee Regents ere mE Meter SO | 5 ae RP Rt Cee Alaa” ee eee eae Peder Utila vcerkty pete ee ea Sa od are eae aia Sista eee eign eno Seer. <td es aera et 2 a A Sd Ete Gate Pee as eo NN I eRe 5 Pain en i Settee ce |) maa ae sass 2 Fea i I ae ac) NAVAL BASE AT MAGDALENA BAY, OBJECTIVE POINT OF CRUISE The December day set for the starting of the “Practice Cruise to the Pacific” will doubtless go down in history as one of the red letter days of the American Navy, for the depatture of the Atlantic fleet from Hampton Roads on {ts 13,000-mile Journey inaugurates the most mo- imentous undertaking ofcits kind that the world has ever seen. Perhaps the nearest approach to it was Ro- Jestvensky's Il-starred Journey around the Cape of Good Hope, but In strength and numbers his ficet can in no way be compared to the mighty armament whieh Rear- Admiral Evans’ flagship, the Connecticut, {s to lead through the winding channels on their way around to the Pacific. of ee) Magouan Strait. Although the trans- fer of the flcet from ocean to ocean has been discussed as no movement of a fleet has ever been dis- cussed before, it 1s probable that few yet Fealize just all it means. “ The _ state. ment that it Is equiva- lent -to the transfer from the Atlantle to the Pacifte séaboara of a highly disciplined army of nearly 2, 900,000 men may seem extravagant, but, in a sense, it Ig no "less true. “In a recent essay read be- fore the Naval Insti- tute, Captain Bradley A. Fiske drew an analogy between bat- tleships and armies, and in which the author asserted that a battle-ship is a much more powerful thing than an army of 100,000 mien. “on Jand,"" this author sald, “an army of 100,000 infantry car les 100,000 riffes. If those 109,000 riftes Were ail fired simut- taneously, the com. bined energy of tho bullets at the muzzlo mee eh ua to only seven per cent. more than the energy of two twelve- {ach guns in one battle-ship. And {f the total energy of those 100,000 men could be concentrated, it would not be more than 25,000 horse-power, about fifty per cent. more than the horse-power of the ‘Maino, The 100,000 men would weigh about 7200 tons, about half the weight of one large battle-ship.” But, as Captain Fiske adds, ‘the fire of 100,000 men cannot be con- centrated, neither can thelr energy Sees me ae ie aesearce tener ty 8 PraLCee Be dior sie FS RI eT eat ete pee cers sia per oe i i se 7 5 ees 5 . ae NAVAL BASE AT MAGDALENA B. nor their weight. So it would seem that the battie-ship is a machine of a higher order, possessing, in her gun- fire, a greater. amougt of concen- trable energy, in her engines an energy more than half as great as that of all the men and horses in SUE Set ERS Ne? BS AER 24 | es. EO EA \ re INE \\ Fe = (3s {as Ne . & SAS * ‘Se \ uy o-~ U. S, Army Transport Service Flag. ‘The section at the left is red, the section at the rigtt blue, and’ the centre section white, with the letters in red and the insignia in blue. Arkansas Diamond Ficlds as ¥ Rich ag South Africa. Little Rock, Ark.—Tho diamond Bold discovered, in Fike County, this State, 1s rich, according to the report of Professor Philip Schneider, geolo- gist of the Syracuse (N- Y.) Univer- sity, who was employed by the State Department of Agriculture to make an investigation. x __‘In bis. report he gays that, while niuch of the land ‘which he'luspected is worthless, a few acres are rich pro- ducers of genuine diamonds,equaling “the Kimberley mines; i that army; possessing also the ability to go farther ‘In any given length of time, and be self-supporting for a greater Jength of time, and possess- ing in her armor a protection, may be sald to double her offensive strength. ‘The author of this paper does not mean to imply that a battleship gould do, on land what 100,000 In- fantry could do, but that on its ele- ment, the se:., the argument is that a battle-ship is a more powerful thing than an army of 100,000 tifantry 1s on its clement, the land. And that, furthermore, "100,000 ‘men cannot march 240 ‘miles a day, whereas a battle-shfp can go 240 miles a day with easc. rcent. ‘Not including the six destroyers welve-| which are to accompany the feet, And {f|and leaving out of count the supply 10,000 | and repair ships which form a part d, it/of this vast armada, the total battle- 25,000 |ship tonnage which fs to make the cent. | voyage from ocean to ocean is 223,- of the| 826 tons. There are about 13,000 would|men attached to the flect and Its t half|aurillaries, and it will require more ship.” | than 6,000,000 pounds of ,rovisions s, ‘the | to supply their needs throughout the 2 con-jthree or four months which will be snergy | required for the long voyage. These ST pA coe Senet eR ah pit oso mee wat ee Kees Se ae ae Rae ee see Rs Sen ee a, etn eg ae ee se es AO Ceo OMe al gee ib ialits On Stee Sere See oe ge EN ee a - Fi EI INA BAY, OBJECTIVE POINT OF CRUISE supplies include 1,200,000 pounds flour, 1,000,000 pounds fresh beef (frozen), 800,000 pounds potatoes, 300,000 pounds smoked ham, 1,000,- 000 pounds of vegetables, the list in- cluding turnips, cabbages, carrots, onions and asparagus, 200,000 pounds tinned corn, 200,000 pounds United pease, 150,000 pounds tigned tomatoes, 160,000 pounds salt pork, 110,000 ' pounds oatmeal, 100,006 pouhds each of rice, lard, mutton 'and corned beef; 600,000" pounds of canned fruits, including apples, peaches, pears and other frogs: 100,- 000 pounds of condensed. milk, 106,- 000 pounds of coffee, 15,000 pounds of tea, 40,000 dozen fresh ceggs, 5000 pounds of mustard, 6000 pounds of pepper and 5000’ pounds of salt. a Nearly everything that a person can think of to eat or drink, except intoxicants, is included in the lists of supplies. In making out the lists the Navy Department officials took into consideration the fact that the ships Prof. Wm. James Finds a “Psychic Marvel” in New Hampshire. Boston, Mass.—Professor William James, the Harvard psychologist, has examined the strange case of Mrs. Nellie M. Titus, of Lebanon, N. H., and has discovered in her, be says, a “psyeh{c marvel." Hoe ‘gives threo explanations of her power and ex- presses tho opinion that she has a super-normal faculty of searahtp. Mrs. Titus in a trance Jocated the body of Bertha Huz, of Enfield, who was’ drownéd off Old Shaker Bridge ‘nine years ago. > will be at sea on Christmas, New Year's and Washington's birthday, and special dinners for. those occa- ons have already been arranged, a3 1s shown, by the large, number. of turkeys, ‘plum puddings, pumpkin ples, nuts, dried frults and other dell- cacies named In the lists of foods re- quired. The Navy Deparfment real- izes how long and, .ot times, how monotonous the voyage Is going to be, and it was determined that so far a8 the food was concerned the men would not have any excuso to grumble. ‘The officers of the fleet must lay in thelt' own supply of provisions at thelr own expense.. ‘They. may choose what they wish without reference to the provisions which the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts makes for enlisted men. All of the food pro- vided will be kept fresh by means of cold storage. Water will. be distilled Rboard ship. At therports now sup- plies can bo taken aboard, but the orders of the Navy Department are that the ships be provided without reference to any stops they may make ‘The projected cruise has already involved the purchase of nearly a quarter of a million tons of coal, and the charter of a fleet of coillers which Js numerically greater than the battle-ship-fleet itself. The mil- Hons of dollars which the coal and the collfers cost can only be appros!- mated, but they are many, The cruiso itself bids fair to be one of absorbing interest, not only to this country and to the nations which will follow Its movements as it makes {ts way down the great dip ‘of sea hill which sweeps from the Line to the Horn and up tho latt- tudes to the ine again, but it prom- fses to bo eminently spectacular to all of those whose fortunes will be cast with the Armada. AAaeot ram ne me ee ne eS aa sane cao iA ois ’ i aa ee BOM 8a AOS oc Bath noes eres Ba Smeets 7 o Su erus site. Caray J BS ser ook a em eee a0 eS apes tse : 1 ees ERENT crs imines apg i ae Se ee ‘Twould, perhaps, be “worth ten years of peaceful life, one glance at that array,” as, under thio eyes of the President, it moves out from Hamp- ton Roads—sizteen superb battle- ships, with thelr attendant cortege of supply, hospital and repair ships. The first’ stop will be at Trinidad, where the fleet will renew its coal supply from the fleet of colllers which will be awaiting {ts arrival there. Then it will proceed to Rio, where another supply of coal will be taken on board from another fleet of waiting colliers; apd then begins the long run to Punta Arenas—one of the most dreary regions in the world, the jumping-off.place—sinister as the Pit Itself. Coaling again from col- Uers, the Sect will resume Its way, taking passage through the Strait of Magellan. It 1s expected. to arrive ‘at Callao, its next stopping place, on February’ 18, and at Magdalena Bay on April 6." Here {t will effect a junction with the vessels of the Pa- cific fleet. ‘This Is expected to com- prise the.six new and powerful ar- mored ertilsers of the South Dakota class; the Tennessee.and Washington, of a later and evel more powerful type;_the threo blg protected cruts- ors, St. Louls, Milwaukee and Chi- cago; the battle-ship Oregon, that famous old dog of Santiago; the bat- tleship Wisconsin, which is ‘of the Alabama class, and the new battle- ae earn ps SOG aa gh Srna een Seas oe gs horas ep ne Steere REIN APES Sas eee ETE SE ae PRON Soa Se ee Bates Se is aie ge a iS ‘ Siig he ee x Beas pes Bere oie ie See ae Soe ES fess & Be Re rore een eae eee eae eR Bauer ae sy beans a er ae eee ea en i aE rN [Saneeneenetier pene eee THE ARMORED CRUISER ‘TENNESSEE. Trolley Car Searchlights Hyp- Professors Calls Fraternity notize Delaware, Rabbits. . Mouses Devil's anstrumer Wilmington, Del.—Rabbits are en-|_ Chicago.—Charles W. Fret snared by trolley cars in Delaware. | braided high school fraternity hou The capture of many animals would|as “instruments of the devil” 2 be easy for the crews of the West|a “plague spot,” and the fraternit Chester, Kennett and Wilmington|as being surrounded by a score Blectrie Raflway. ~ 7 more of. degenerating influences. ‘The cars arz equipped With power-| “Whovthat has seen the chapt fal electric searchiights, and when | house ‘open_day, and night, with the intense rayy appear, at nlght,'ttobacco and profanity and too of fabbits make for the light. As thejorgies lasting’ {ato the small hou rays strike them, they perform alljcan fall_to ‘eee a vicious influe: sorts of gyrations, and when bit injwhich terids to ruin those who pai the eyes are completely hypnotized. - |élpate,” -he*sald. a, THE_-FIGHTING. ‘STRENGTH OF THE BATILE-SHIP\ Omtcers Ships. Guns, andMfen Connecticut 24 881 | Kansas 24 850 Loulsiana 24 881 Vermont 24. 5 881 Virginia 24 812 Georgia 2a ~ 812 New Jersey 24ee - 812 Rhodé Island 24" 812 Alabama 18% 713 |. Minois 227. 690 Kearsage ° 22> 690 Kentucky 22- 68g Ohio, - 20 - | g00 Maine 20 * 813 Minnesota 24 881 ‘Missouri 20 779 + 360 © 12,793 ship Nebraska, but recently commis- sioned. In addition to these are the four protected cruisers of the Den- ver class; the erutsers Chicago, Al- bany and the gunboat Yorktown. The PERS mt | SS CaN oes Ns ae tpo, 7 hor ° * combined fleets will therefore have the following strength: Battle-ships .....scccsessccese 19 Armored erdisers wo00002I111 “8 Protected crafsers .......02+0. 9 Gunboats ..-.6eeseeseeeeeeee 1 Destroyers ...cecccsccescssees 6 TOtAl ..ceeeeeeececeesees 43 This immense armament, by far z re oe pa ee eee eae aes FPR es eee EBM. cee arama ies ore Sere eR eae Seni a. a > ee pe Sue ER ee I Fa” SI al i mea b ee the greatest ever assembled by any nation, will be under the command of Rear-Admiral Evans. The incon- gruity of having so vast a force under the command of an officer with no higher rank than that of Rear-Adm!- ral Is recognized most everywhere, except in Congress. ‘The creation of the rank of Vice-Admiral and the bestowing of it upon “Fighting Bob’ would, of course, not increase the competence of that distinguished officer; but the rank would be a more fitting one for the- commander-in- chief of this mighty fleet, Upon the junction of the fleets in Magdalena Bay, the present pro- gram contemplates a series of ex- tensive maneuvres between the com- bined forces, and target practice, in- cluding the ‘fring of the guns when the ships are in a rough sea, and record practice when they are in smooth water. Tho vast armament will be divided into two fleets, and the fleets sub-divided into squad- Tons and divisions. ’ ‘This story of the projected crufse of the fleet may well leave it in Magdalena Bay, for no prophet may tell where it will go from there. Some official utterances Have laid its course north to San Francisco; where- as-some others, unoficial, have plot- ted its track to the Philippines and thenco around the world via the Suez ‘Canal and home. Professors Calls Fraternity / . S¥euece Dovil's snster Chicago.—Charles W. French branded high school fraternity houses as ‘instruments of the devil” and ‘a “plague spot,” and the fraternities as being surrounded by a score or more of. degenerating influences. “Whovthat has seen the chapter- house ‘open.day, and night, with its tobacco. and profanity and too often orgies lasting" {nto the amall hours, ean fall_ to “seo a vicious influence which tetids to ruin those who partl- ‘Cipate,” -he‘said. * a eae co ae Seine Expertments have’ ‘reedaly= hes made to prove that: sugar i9sq7yet2 uable frigredfent In ‘mortar andigps meng, baving qtrong: binding gi ties.” Equal quantities of-finely ‘p dered imo of a very common kind: were mixed with an equal quantity of good brown sugar, with the addition. of water, and the result was a cement; of exceptiona} strength. This ‘ing: heen tried at Peterborough Cathedral, two large pleces of stone.of the brok en tracery of a window having been’ joined firmly together by sugared mor “tar. The severest test {s Joining glass, which gives no hold to morfar without the use of sand; yet this has been successfully done. The fact appears té be certain that sugar pro- duces an extraordinary effect on lime when the latter has been allowed to fall Into # fine powder and has been thoroughly slacked. Particles of un- slacked Ume would destroy the re- sult, because of thelr ‘expanston,. which would make’ the mortar lita! The sugar mortar thus made will te found to be as good ms Portland~ce- ment, and the only question, there-' fore, 1s one of cost. It is even prob- able that Portland cement itself would be made much stronger by tho addition of sugar. Treacle might have {he same effect—Detrolt News ‘Tribuno. More Reading Matter.” 7 “Martha Smith, the village post- “mistress, {s in a fine humor,” con- fided the rural mat! earrier. “Going to got a ratso in salary?” asked the city boarder. ~ “Nope! Thatwouldn't please “her half as much “as the aew “postal wkyards.” - “New postal cards?” “Yeou beti Since people are al lowed to write on both sides of thera Martha has had twico as much to “read every mail."—Chicago News: & THEIR PITFALL. ar Father (steraly)—So you've tailed. again in your examination! How do- you explain that? \Son—Because they went and asked me Just the same questions az before, Translated for Tales, from Familia Journal. i FITS St.VitusDance:Norvoas Diseasea anently cared py Dr. Iino Great Nerve Restorer. #9 trial bottle and treatise frea. Dz. H.R. Kling, Ld.,oSL Arch St.. Phin, Pa . ‘C¥YNIOAL. Miss ‘Passe—I havo had many: chances to marry. Only a short time go a man told mo of his love, ~ Miss Pert—Did he also tell yow. the name of the lady?—Translated for. Tales from Mesgendorfer Blatter. = , Catarrh' Cannot Be Curcd, With Loca APPLICATIONS, as they cannot; reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh'is 47 blood oF constituticoal disease, and in orden to cure it you must take jaternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken ipternaliy. andy acts directly on the blood and mucous sare face, Hunil’y Catarth Core ia not a ack medicine. {t was presenbed by one of the» best physicians iat this country for ion ia'a regular presortptic composed» ettee| pent tonice Enown combined wth thes | feta, acting directly om*tha, mrasous eurlaces, ‘The perfect combination’ of the two ingredients ja what produces such wonderfal.results in curing catasrb, 4 Send for testimonials, free. 5 heat Eg SUEREE & C0, Prope. Toledo, OF ru fice, 5 ake Halle Family Pils for constipation. 38 TWo BUSY. x Gardener: “Why, yer not goth’ to's get rid of them fine bees, sirty—-=0m New Tenant: “Fine bees sean h ed! Do you think I'm going, to.keept® “em about the place, eating ‘thelr heads pftt™ aoe 2 0285,05 —— “S32 te Z + ‘Only One “Bromo iiatne = ‘Thst {5, Laxative Brom> Look for the signature of EW. Grove, Used thes ‘Wrontd ovgr fo Cure « Coll in Ong Day: 300.3 Gray matter:is-all right In its’ plaice ¢ and so Is the long a fae ies toathlng, ton, allays psin, oes wind colic, ea “Give © small boy a pla andyo both wilt be on mischfet ‘bemta “ist ~ Yech cured in 30, minutes by Woolford’a: Sanitary Lotion» Nover fails. At divggistess, A Bargain. Se ] Aree * Mr. Mason rubbed the edges of-the:! sunshade with discriminating? agers » ‘while hia wife listened to the’ sales woman's enumeration of itevigeeds, polnts. © Seay “This is ten dollars, tshé=itt™ key asked. ‘€ weer “Ob, n0/" replied the micsivoa reproachfully; “it 1s nine dollars=dld.! eighty-nine cents.” SESS “She "seems to regard thes if cents a3 particularly invidic i wonder why?” whispered ‘Mrz Meso, to his wife. * 5 Paes “Not at all,” sald Mrs, Bagoiys mild heat; “nothing ‘inyidicust- aime? 1 Only, very naturally, “1%! Yhe girl not to have you spa ‘ that you were getting a barseiaie NO TIME FOR scrop aer™ “I notice that in some “ot Malia down east towns iley ‘ecomeme pepper. for strawberries to-inqréiaee: their digestibility.” ~ Se “Well. any man who “will: stoge se, think ‘about digestibilify;whom : a strawberry deserves to eat “ per alone.”—Cleveland ‘Plains r. rs Faroe STRUCK THE EXCEPTION;L~. —— Rae Sunday- School _‘Teasler2¥ihy; Wiltie Wilson! Fighting 4 2 Dbdn’t last Sunday's Joseon tabgeaer that when you are struck-on wage alias you ought to tuin’ ths sotNeeyigimho Hirlnect ee ‘Willie—Yes'm; -but: heh Sige 00 the nose. and Tis esiy settee: T. Phe 8 EP ee pee US mw SR Gg eeteperdee® FN RR | SES ere agora ha ani EP an hae eee ee ar << re ee cen ee RDN eet ee Bees ee Ps ne ge Ee, ed ROR tease, 65. A ap ctaty phone a a eTe at Lel ON pete 2 oe te aN ee Ort i Ports ok Senne. octets aoe ean BN Re Sew spas pote PERS aa BEER ah Se es es dy a aa Paes aoe Cee be Sey lore) acl Ve) {RW IENDERSSN SESE ~ Subject: Muowtag Chiat: Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching on the spore ‘themg at. the Irving Square Bresbyterian Church, Hamburg, ave-- faetaad “Welrfleld~ street?” the" Rev. | “Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took agchis text, Luke 24:31j82:” “And -Bhelx eyes Were opened and they knew ‘Hin; and Ho-vanished out of thelr alght. And they satdjone ta, nother, ‘wgg-not our heart burning withip us While-He spake to us in the way.” ‘Ho satd: y “"If'there ig any one thing for which Tam at al} envious if fo, that I might) have hady in: God's ‘providence, the| same opportunity that-these men had to talk face to face. witht Jeans; to have had an Intimate; personal, hu- manly peregived, knowledge. of His reality In the bodily sense. If there is any particular men of whont I-am_ envious, it is those disciples; who/ from time to time, went with i on His ministering tours; who-knem, Him, as we do not know Him—sinca "He. has gone hence; those men wha. heard His voice, who could look up _ Into His face while He spoke to them, ‘who could hear Him in the accents of thelr own language, which they wers able to understand with the human ear. And while I am cognizant of ths. fact that we, can get just as. close to Jesus, spiritually and personally, 09 these’ men ever got in a bodily ‘and . zmaterial sense, there 1s to me a pe- ‘eullar charm wrapped’ around. thelr lives, owing: to tho fact that they fatkea with Him, that they: really held conversation ‘with the Lord and could see Him antl understand Him and love Him as a man: *Yon know how these two:men were walking by the way when Jequs camo and‘spoke tothem and-interprpted to them the Scriptures. ‘They wera mn- able to seg, Him, because Hos was then to be discerned only spiritually, And after afew moments ‘thelr eyes ere opened and they knew Him and > He vanlshed out of thelr sight:” An mthey safd-one to the other, “Was -nok sour. heart burning within us as He spake to uz in the way?” There are a great many Chrietian people who have never\heard Jesus epeak to them; who have not the faintest! sort of idea‘of what it means to havo communion with our Lord; people who havo no spiritual pescep- Hon; who are but- babes spiritually: who-haye not had thejr eyes opened to the contemplation of ‘spiritual things: who have no realization—as + they shomtd-have—that Jesus Is con- finuaily speaking to:them by the-way. ‘Taelr eyea-are closed because. they have-never. gotten spiritual -pawer: It-ts,a peculiar thing about.Chris- tlanity, that you-cannot tell whether the Lord can be spiritually discerned until you get into spiritual relations with the Lord. You cannot tell what was the spirit that thrilled and _ firobbed through the hearts cf. these ‘ymon, until your own heart has been /throbbing and thrilling withe the knowledge that you have been talking ;with tho Lord. But as soon as you ‘have had a definite and experimental *eommunton with the Lord, you begin ‘to understand what wasctho fecling of those men who talked with Christ and, “whose hearts burned within them. e “Lam not to deflno to you this morn- ing what ought {0 be your spiritual experience. Somelof us thinkthat we ougnt to hgar some volce, speaking, audibly, to Us; that wo-ought to have }rome oral communication that will strike upon our cars and convey a —defitite, distinct impression. But the dvery"momont that you are conscious of committing a wrong act or that you are doing right before God, that {Yer moment He fs speaking to you by the way. The very moment. that !ygu open theso Gospels, writings and / eptstlos—theso explanations and ex- ' plications of what Jesus meant—the moment your soul is.fled-with the diyings glory and filumlnation, you may be just as sure that-He is ‘speak- ing to You, as that He'spoke to those sive going to Emmaus. 7 do not think Fa omyou to have-a col Eeoiideaupiai down your backs in hat. yous haye a real Epmaniedcs:in the. spyou haye = talking with o Diyine power... think-our; Christan Jifp 1s susceptible to d’great-deal of senseand mach non- sense, Idonotthink weneed any more vislotis-of-men than weget inthe world around us, than we get in the faith and fe of Jesus Christ. I do not think that yort need any more demon- stration that the Lord is speaking’ to you as you' go in the way, than you shave: when you feel that tho Scrip- ‘tares are iNuminated to you; when you hear the still, small voice com- Mending you when you do right or Admonisbing you when you do wrong. Lbelleve that God gave us brains and {hat He talks to us with our under- standing; that God gave us hearts and speaks to us through onr emo- tions. When we aro lifted up into ' transeendental helghts—of which it may bo difficult to tell our experience =~God is then speaking to us. There 45 not one of us, however weak in ' faith, who has not from time to time _heen ‘lifted up out of the senses and “the sensuous into the eternal. There re times when it has seemed that “Gwe Gave taken dight from the body, z havd taken leave of the senses, and = Sra lifted out of oursélves. And while «1, belleve that that 1s purely emio-| = tonal, yet it fs for you and me just 3 much of a vision of the Divine . teallty as we shail ever get this side SbOUE The iwondzout ner iMegion. CaKS Vary, and air (bat, means to men? but it you have not“the Jove of God invyourvown.'hearty Jfvsourdo wot now, shat Calvary 18 your.owp.salear tloh,youdonot kiowanytuing about it experimentally, “Al'that:you know is Reataar,, You nay go. into the resin ofother things thap, spiritual apd you mag! take! another mins” word: Tor much truth. Asiwe.are.humanly.con- stituted, it is neceseary that we. should‘také @ Ereat deal ‘of truth: on tho;testimony “of, otters. 1. 2a;a0t pretend to be an expert on electricity recente okt experimental, knowledge. of, these things, In whom I can trust, and take Rip werdstorrtte, Bo ft or ae be all the-reaim-of-natore. Rat when, 3, eecee abiritual thiags, tho oly thing. thatis of-any-use to You 1a first hand knowledge,. I care not how much you may be abla to Bbilassghizes an" may, do that. from; they iptares., 9: Canyon that Book, But Ie ig fer ophy on that Book, But it 1s. mroré-necescar}-Ca have a Ide thit-ls founded ton dlrine-roglitiens- Ti care Rot-haw mush,you may Knqw about. the. Scriptures; avout Chrlst trom the testimony of other people; the thing that:te- Smportant-to me tits your: heart burning. within you as you walk by. the.waz, while the. Lord 13 speak- ing’to your soul? 7 ©, my friends, let us not be de- ceived: Christ can speak to you to- day just as. powerfully, just as up- Uttagly and just ag burningly, as ever He spoke to the disciples, Christ can speak to you, in words adapted to your pecilfar eed; Just-as=much: as when Hespoke to-Bfases in the.burn- ing ;bugh.. He, will reveal. Himsels.to ug, Jast.es truly as any pairtgrch ever got'a vision of God. Y am weary ot the way: the church of Christ goes back to the Fathers, May-we have, tho Christian foresight and, braing and ability to turn oir faces’ to’ God and-learn trom Him. I-am.a great dellever.tn giving all homage to those who have gone before. Tha. knaw}- edge of to-day {g vory largely tounded on’ what is left.to us by those who have antedated us—tt fs the consum- mation of an: eversincressing pro- gress. But the only way that thoso ‘WH6 ‘lived before us,grew in’ ‘knowl- edge was-by turning’ thelr own faces to-God that Ho might lead-them, give them illumination and-knowledgs, of the.troth | And, if we are to make any-progress at all in spiritual thiags, wWermust:bo willing to have a divine aud wholesouled faith in God's pur- pose to lead us aright, eyenvas He led the patrigrehs. I do not mean to say that we ‘are perfect, that- we have no-reason for contriteness of heart— Dut we, belittle ourselves, Some peo- Ble think ‘that the ‘power of God stopped inthe hearts of men, with Jesus and Paul. Some people havo more falth‘in Abraham apd Moses than they haye in the mea of thelr own day: A man of our day and ago who bears upon his face the marks of divinity and of- inspiration and’ of power, a man who fs.in all things Just a8 good ag Abraham, should re- ceive just as much Tecognition trom his own and from the world.as Abta~ ham gets. Why! on tho, basis of common knowledge, what was the wisdom of Abraham compared with the wisdom of to-day; the enlighten- ment, the spiritual power of the pa- trlarcbs compared with what.ve have with Christ in our hearts? And yet, We are more willing to accept tho dicta: of Moses*or Abrahani than of Beecher or Spurgeon. I understand just what Jesus meant when He said, “A prophet is not without honor eave in, his own country.” There He was, 2 man in His own day and age outranking any man who ever lived, tn spiritual things; and yet they said, “Is nat this the carpenter's Son from down yonder in Nazareth?” “Why, out of that tewn no good can come; that man kaoweth nothing.” We in our day and age hall Jesus Christ and tho revealment of God In His truth and beauty. And yet I know men to-day who are just as much Inspired of God as Abraham was ever-inspired, who are.just as much ‘filled with the Spirit of God as was Abraham, and more so; men who have a bétter and wider knowledge of the truth of.God; men wh§-live,liyes which are nobler. But they aré not trpsted. Let us have some sort of confidence that God is able to-lead-us.to-day even as He led our fathers and the patriarchs. You may- try: to down that if you will. Buf, my trends, unless the church'of Jess Christ begins: to give’ men a God who {s ruling in the warld ta- day, a God who fs lifting men in the world, to-day, a God who Is just as powertulid Your life and mine as in any Other man’s, you-will see that the Freshyterlan and. the Baptist and the Methodist and ‘the Congregational and all “the other churches will bo sweptiout of existence that'men may get for themselves in somo way, un- der some other organization, the truth of God. know there fs a good deal of talk, and a good deal of trouble ‘in tho hearts of ‘men, in the church to-day, leat various organizations outside of | the church should erfpple us. But Jet us read‘tn tho-movings of the people away from us the signs of the times. Let us read the handwriting in the heavens. 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Wecnies be ali renee raisins ke; CRAUCMIS CeRCAT GG. BO Wisin 4. [ ) ERE Secernieeee 1 ; ip : teecatasPtiaril ple Banea Ale eee y¥ HEADERS Box of ‘Parting with ‘book of ieetrase ‘ Feat ind Soran tetany ane q dal cleanses : vada gears iadinctain cased by ean ee veoy are a1 A ame abs sits eo cere ana o have'stuck to them. They are {@ Alive Bower over theso troubles is,extra- st reliable Cabbage Seed Growers ordinary and gives immediate ‘rellet s0_Seed in the open field, which guimcading heresy, any EE nde Te karate fol cat cad WE | Srenese tone Sencate Severe is ceases nat retard Tite Ib PAXTON Guu Hostons Mass: sone poeieress ra $5 : Sess | | aT eae as ravest Thompson sEyé Water uth Carolina | ee eee cee ee vie a a (At50- 07) i hi. S.A eee The Ferguson Colleges x=? \ SUES 7D ness colleges in pe Geerolvion tert terse Inpilr FERGUSON SUCRE fesse pee eNSERRS yar tesa ye PE Ruse Ou Er EARS FVGOT GRADUATE INA GOOR, COPU Gh, der ie canes a . S| FERGUSON ILLEGES. _- Address THE FERGUSON COLLEGES, REGO IN aan er BS See EO! EL. : 2 emrcara 9 \ 320) J 4 ‘Sala PRICES, esata fea a . es 7 i MEMDEN SESE PREYS 5 : uct, BOYS, WOMER, MISSES AND CwiLoREN. Ne B- s t, £. Dou kes and aclia mor: R ees ¥ HO Hb Hesaienzarts seat acl mere oe Vg Ba Waid eo tame thle hata "Tale may We ee, rer ae eee earn toy aed 8 NES ee Gi Shoes Extho world torcaye sl at fie | Wh. Duuptas $4 and $6 Gilt Edga Shoos cannot ba equatied af any price. Reo NEB ata nme Ps are tee, mabete ae EESSrecis Mantalk cates ements, Shor led fo facie i any Dar eee. BQ. We sre agula ready I ie, to fill’ your Orlers oa Phd Beebe: ae Gor Plants are all GROWN ENON THERA NEG DE SMOG) “Sez Firat are a GROTON PEE Hs RAMEE SS ORSELD WE MET OUR CRUF FROM. Wo how allot ine ea Fel Liendin Vas lotieeEARLY JERSEY: WAKEFIELD, very eazly, Sar Epis CHARLESTON WAKEFIELD, about ten daya later. In fat PF Alay rarsosies wa hayg Succession, a Modhim Early, and Short fem Pumas, Lote Fiat Dalcb. Pricea‘as follows:-L.030 to 5,000; 81.50}, MRR ste! 51000 to 9.000, 81.25; 10,000,an4 npmards 1,40 These sor RRS plauis.arp all grown noarealt mater and ‘will stand gorere caida. et a ST Without (ojurr. TIE CALLR-CARLTON CO? wz y. Senator Tillman on Operations of the Treasury. Investigation is Asked in Senate Resolutions Anent Legality of Issuing Certificates and Canal Bonds by Government. Senator TIHman of South Carolina introduced resolutions in the senate Monday directing the committee on finance to investigate the recent proceedings of the secretary of the treasury in connection with the financial crisis, and to make inquiry concerning clearing house certificates. The resul- the committee on finance to investigate and report to the senate as follows: First—Whether the issue of certificates of indebtedness bearing 3 per cent interest, bids for which were invited by the secretary of the treasury, November 18, 1907., were for the purpose of borrowing money "to meet public expenditures," as provided by section 32 of the act approved June 15, 1895, and if not, whether there is any warrant of law for the issue of said certificates. Second—Whether the issue of the $50,000,000 of bonds of the Panama canal loan, blinds for which were called for by the secretary of the treasury, November 18, 1907, was required to "defray the expenses of said canal, there being at the time when both of these loans were made upwards of $200,000,000 in the treasury for current expenditures." Third—Whether any legislation is necessary to protect the people and business interests of the country from the issue of unlawful money, if clearing house certificates are such as to prevent the illegal increase of the public debt in time of peace. The second series of resolutions directs the finance committee "to investigate and report to the senate as soon as practicable" on the following points: First—Whether clearing house certificates with which the country is now flooded, have been issued under authority of the law, or contrary to the same. Second—Whether the issuing of said certificates by an association of banks, both state and national, and the use of the same as money subjects such certificates or notes to the tax of 10 per cent provided in section 3412, United States revised statutes. Third—Whether it would be permissible under the law, as it is, for an association of banks, warehouses and elevators to issue certificates based on cotton, wheat and tobacco, stored in such warehouses and elevators, and fully insured, to be used as money in marketing said crops in the same way as clearing. house certificates are now used. Scrappy Time Occurred In Cullman Town, Alabama. Cullman county, Alabama, where Germans are almost in majority, was in the throes of a prohibition election Monday. For a while scrappy times were on Monday in Cullman Town, growing out of the refusal of Sheriff Casey to allow the women of the town to put up a tent in the court house yard to serve refreshments. In the excitement a telegram was sent to the governor asking for troops, there being fears that a riot might follow. LMIGRANT6 REACH SAVANNAH. Steamer Eugenia Arrives from Europe With 725 on Board. The steamship Eugenia arrived at Savannah Tuesday afternoon with 725 immigrants, 150 of whom are to be distributed from Savannah. A few will remain in Chatham county. The greatest number, however, will go to Brooks county. The remainder will be equally distributed in Lowndes, Dooley, Decatur, Bulloch, Effingham, Bibb and Muscogee counties. REPORT OF THE GINNERS. Up to December First 8,333,000 Bales Were Turned Out. The crop reporting board of the bureau of census, issued at Washington Monday shows the number of bales of cotton shipped to December 1 is 8,338,000 bales. This compares with 10. TOM DINES WITH TED. Noted Georgian Conferee With President and Says Greenbacks, Will Solve Financial Question. A Washington special says: Hon. Thomas E. Watson was the guest of President Roosevelt Monday at luncheon and discussed financial laws and legislation. He told the president of his conviction that the whole trouble could be settled by an issue of greenbacks, and recalled the fact that civil war acts authorizing greenbacks were still on the statute books. In discussing his views, Mr. Watson said to a number of newspaper men that he was totally at variance with the financial theories of Mr. Bryan. He opposes the whole national bank system and thinks it would be particularly dangerous for the government to undertake to guarantee national bank deposits. He favors the postal savings banks, and believes their adoption would prove of immense benefit to the people everywhere. Following his lunch'on at the white house, Mr. Watson would not divulge what transpired, further than to state the general subjects on which the conversation turned. He said the occasion was in every way most pleasant. In an interview with the correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution after the conference with President Roosevelt, Mr. Watson said, in part: "So far as paper currency is concerned, it is a question of whether the government will use the national credit for the benefit of all the people, or whether six thousand national bankers shall be allowed to use it for their own exclusive profit. "National bank currency is based upon government bonds, and the bonds of course rest upon the power and the wealth of the nation. Whoever buys the bonds becomes a national credit, and when the bondholder is allowed to issue one hundred dollars in notes against every one hundred dollars of the bonds, he is using the nation's credit to support his own notes. The bonds are untaxed and the notes pay no tax, for while the government collects a nominal 1-2 of 1 per cent tax, it is well understood that the proceeds of this tax do not cover the actual expenses of maintaining the currency bureau, safekeeping the bonds, engraving the notes and supervising the operations of the banks. "Consequently the national banker enjoys at the public expense the following advantages: "The one hundred dollars invested in bonds bears him interest, and this interest is paid in advance. Thus he has principal and interest working for him at the same time. Besides, the one hundred dollars issued to him in notes brings him compound interest at the highest legal rate, if no more. Suppose he gets 8 per cent; then he earns $80 on each thousand dollars of the notes which have cost him nothing! When the government anticipates the interest, the national banker has three dollars to put out at compound interest to every dollar actually invested. "When it is remembered that he pays no tax whatever, and that his investment in the bonds is insured by the government against all change, it is easy to realize what avast advantage he enjoys over other citizens. "The bond, of itself, is a good investment, because a capitalist thereby puts accumulation's where they are guaranteed by the government, and where they contribute nothing toward the expenses of town, county, state or nation." UNCLE SAM BUYS SILVER. Takes 400,000 Ounces at Fraction Over 55 Cents Per Ounce. The treasury department at Washington Monday purchased 400,000 ounces of silver at 56.372 cents per fine ounce, 100,000 ounces to be delivered to each of the mints in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Denver and New Orleans. MANY CITIES SEEK HONOR. Warm Contest Over Place for Next Democratic National Convention. According to Washington dispatches, indications point to a lively fight before the democratic national committee by several cities for the honor of entertaining the democratic national convention of 1908. Chicago, Denver, Cleveland and Louisville are after the convention and each will put up an active contest. PORT ARTHUR HERO ON TRIAL. Stoessel and Other Russ Generals Arraigned Before Courtmartial. Generals Stoessel, Fock and Reiss, charged with the joint responsibility of surrendering Port Arthur to the Japanese, were placed on trial at St. Petersburg Tuesday. They turned their defense into a furious attack on the war mkilistry. In denying their guilt, the accused say the fortress was so ill-equipped, underprovisioned, poorlyarmed that effective defense was im Some of the lodges have already held election. No delay should be made in forwarding reports to the Grand Master and to the Grand Secretary. The first report of election that we received was from Western Light Lodge at Walthourville. This lodge has failed to comply with orders by not giving the postoffice addresses of the officers. The reports are no good to us if the addresses are not given. Brethren, be careful and do not omit anything. Of all the Grand Lodge officers, not one is more busy than Brother W. C. Thomas, our efficient secretary and treasurer of the relief department. He is now engaged in making out policies for the thousands of Masons in the state who are forwarding their applications through their lodges. Officers of lodges must remember distinctly that this is the month for them to forward the dollar, for each member for a policy in the relief department. Do not delay in this matter; the sooner that the amount is forwarded the more advantage will be given the members Have any of the members thought of the great benefit that a policy in the relief department would be in event of death? At present our maximum amount for benefit is $300. At 25c per month a member would have to live one hundred years before paying back that amount. The average length of life of our membership is twenty years. In that number of years at 25c per month only $60 would have been paid, and at death our beneficiaries will receive $300 or $240 clear on the investment. What thoughtful brother would refuse to sing loudly the praise of this department. In legislating about affairs of the order, especially where it effects another brother, we so often forget the principle of the order. In all of our actions the tenets of the order should be constantly before our eyes. Immediately after The Grand Lodge communication, the lodges responded well to the order, of two dollars for the painting of the home. Nearly 200 lodges have failed to comply with the request. Officers of these lodges should see that the amount is forwarded immediately to the Grand Secretary. Don't forget the duty that each Mason owes to the Home. One part of the assessment is now due. It is only fifty cents a year that each of us has to pay for the support of the widows and orphans, or less than one cent a week. Who is so selfish as to begrudge giving this small pittance for this noble cause? Brethren, always remember that a Mason's charity is extensive. We must not say it alone, but we must put our savings into action. Send us news for this column. Send so that we can receive same on Tuesday morning. Always write plainly on one sheet of the paper and what you have to say make it short. Brother W. S. Brickle of Crispus Attucks Lodge writes us that his lodge is in full accord with the endowment and will make a full showing to Brother Thomas. He gives a glowing account of Brother A. Hill's conversion. Open the lodge promptly at hour set for opening. Keep your halls neat and clean. Have a few Masonic magazines on desk in Tyler's room. Don't let the work drag; keep everything moving. Give the visiting brother a hearty welcome—make him feel that he is among friends and brothers. "Freemasonry should strengthen our faith, intensify our love and teach us to exercise charity in word and deed to all mankind. We should carry out in life what we teach in our lodge rooms, and the day dream of our hearts should be to so fashion our words that wherever we are or whatever we do, may be emblematic of the pillars of truth that support our beloved fraternity." Hattiesburg, Miss., Dec. 7. The Stringer Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons held its 32nd annual session in this city during the past week, and over a thousand delegates from all parts of the state were present. Rev. E. W. Lampton, D. D., of Greenville, presided. He has held the position of grand master for a number of years, and is also financial secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church with headquarters in Washington. D. C. The Grand Lodge is one of the largest, wealthiest and most aggressive organizations in the country. Each session was interesting and good advice was given the members of the craft by Dr. Lampton. His annual address was pronounced a literary gem by those who heard it. He is one of the strongest men in the entire south. The report of-Hon, E. E. Perkins of Edwards showed that over 111,000 were in good standing and the receipts of the Masonic Benefit Association, of which he is treasurer, during the past year had been $166,360.10, and had paid to widows and orphans $117,460.27, leaving a balance of $18,919.93. He also spoke of the 11,000 acres of land-pur chased in the Delta a few years ago, being valued at $40,000. Grand Master Lampton was presented with a gold watch, purchased in London, England, at a cost of $1,000. Hon. John W. Strahran was chairman of the committee which made the purchase, and the presentation speech was made by Hon. L. J. Winston of Greenville. It is an unusual timepiece, as one can tell time in the dark as well as in the light. It strikes the time, hour, then the minutes past the hour. DEPENDS ON HARRIMAN'S LUCK. Ownership of Central of Georgia Rail- way Will Soon Develop. A New York special says: If things fall right for E. H. Harriman in his fight for the control of the Illinois Central with Stuyvesant Fish, December 18, the ownership of the Central of Georgia will be cleared up and actual names made public. It can be stated, however, as a fact that Mr. Harriman already owns, in his own name, or controls $5,000,000 of the stock which was disposed of by the Southern, and which Marsden J. Perry and Oakleigh Thorne secured. A glance at the railroad map of the south will readily show what the acquisition of the Central of Georgia means to the Harriman Interests if that gentleman retains his grip on the Illinois Central. Physical connection at Birmingham giving an outlet to the Atlantic with exceptionally good dock and terminal facilities are assured his great system. If he loses his control of the Illinois Central, the Central of Georgia will not be of much use to him, and it may change hands again. STEGALL WAS ONLY JOKING Judge Jones Exonerates Alabama Solicitor in Alleged Contempt Case. Henry D. Stegall, solicitor of the third Alabama circuit, cited by Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States court, on charges of contempt, appeared in the office of the judge in Montgomery Monday morning; related the conversation he had with the deputy marshal, and was cleared of any offense toward the tribunal. Mr. Stegall made a statement of just what happened when the deputy accosted him to serve the railroad injunction orders. He said his remarks were jocular and his intentions were in no sense to the discredit of the orders of the court. The showing was so plain that Judge Jones did not hesitate to express his belief in the entire disinclination of Mr. Stegall to "misbehave." The citing of Stegall grew out of the service upon him as solicitor of the orders of the federal court. It was said that Stegall told the deputy marshal that he would have the sheriff arrest him if he tried to serve the papers. TO TEST THIRD TERM IDEA. Clayton of Alabama Asks the House to Go on Record. Representative Henry D. Clayton of Alabama wishes the house to 'go on record as opposed to the Roosevelt third term boom. That was the purpose-of a resolution introduced by him Monday. A similar resolution was passed in the forty-fourth congress in the effort to defeat President Grant's third term aspirations. The measure was presented by Representative Springer of Illinois and passed on December 15, 1875, by a vote of 233 to 18, with 35 members not voting. The house was democratic and Kerr of Indiana was speaker. Many republicans who were unfriendly to Grant and opposed to the third term idea, supported it. Speaker Cannon is said to favor the Clayton resolution, and its author hopes enough republicans will support it to have a record vote, but the speaker, despite his personal preference, may not permit the actual vote to be taken. WORK OF THE BLACK HAND. Dagoes at New Orleans Use Dynamite Against Enemy. An effort was made in New Orleans early Friday to dynamite the grocery store of Charles Graffini, an Italian. The booth struck the sidewalk and exploded without doing further damage than the shattering of windows. Graffini was a member of the Italian vigilance committee which was instrumental in running down, capturing and convicting a number of Italians implicated in the kidnapping and murder of eight-year-old Walter Lamana last June. TROOPS ARRIVE AT GOLDFIELD. Were Well Received by Crowd of Citizens—No Disorder Reported. At 12:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon an engine and six cars of the first section of the train conveying United States troops to the gold camp arrived in Goldfield, Stepping on the platform Colonel Reynolds, who is in command of the soldiers, found that a committee, representing the mine owners' association had been swaiting his arrival. DEADLY HORROR GROWS. Fifty-Three Corpses Taken from the Wrecked Mina Up to Sunday Night. But fifty-three bodies had been recovered from mines Nos. 6 and 8 of the Fairmont Coal company at Mononga, W. Va., when darkness closed over the little town Sunday night. Fifty-six hours had elapsed since the awful explosion and a majority of the bodies brought to the surface were in in a terrible condition, necessitating almost immediate burial. It is now believed that the number of dead will not be over four hundred. A thorough investigation was made by the company Sunday, and it was discovered that many miners believed to have been entombed had escaped because they had not gone to work Friday after Thursday's holiday. Shortly after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon fire broke out again in mine No. 8, and the rescuers were at once ordered to the surface. Thousands of sightseers from the surrounding towns had gathered about the openings. Through-megaphones the crowds were notified of the fire and the danger of another explosion, but they refused to leave, and it was with great difficulty that the special police assisted by many mines forced these people to seek places of safety. Efforts were then directed toward extinguishing the fire, and it was subdued within a few hours when the work of rescue was again taken up. About 40 per cent of the entombed men are Americans. Nearly 400 coffins reached Monogah Saturday from Pittsburg and West Virginia cities. All saloons in Monongah have been closed since the explosion, and the 6,000 miners employed in other mines in the vichity have suspended work and tendered their assistance to the rescuing parties. There are between 5,000 and 6,000 inhabitants in the mining town of Monongah, and it is doubtful if in this entire population there are a score of persons who have not either a near relative or a close friend numbered among the victims of the disaster. C. W. Watson, president of the Consolidation Coal company, dictated the following statement: "The accident is deperable from any standpoint. It was entirely unexpected. As yet we do not know the exact cause of the explosion. It might have resulted from a blown-out shot igniting a pocket of gas. About 50 per cent of the mine accidents of the country are caused in this manner. It is probable the present one resulted from the same cause. We will conduct a rigid investigation. Investigations, however, will not benefit the dead miners. Their families will be looked after. The company is being extended to all newspaper men in order that the general public may be accurately informed as to the disaster. We have nothing to conceal, and are pleased to give whatever information we can." IMMIGRATION AGREEMENT Reached Between Jap Representatives and Ambassador O'Brien. Advices from Tokio state that there is reason to believe that the entire question of immigration of Japanese to America has been satisfactorily settled, at least for the present, by the series of conferences which have been held between United States Ambassador O'Brien and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hayashi. It is understood that the representative of the Japanese government outlined a plan by which it is agreed to limit emigration to students and commercial men having means of support, and entirely to prevent Japanese laborers from migrating to America. BANKS TO FINANCE COTTON. Texas Crops Shipped to Galveston Will Be Taken Care Of. Arrangements were made in Chicago Saturday to finance the entire cotton crop of Texas at a conference between Galveston banking houses and President J. D. Neill of the Farmers' Union. The farmers by shipping their cotton to Galveston can receive an advance payment in New York exchange. Twenty dollars a bale will be advanced if he wants his cotton held subject to his order. If left to be sold at the discretion of the bankers, he will receive $30 a bale. TO PROSECUTE HOTEL KEEPERS. Sunday Closing Law Will Be Tested in Windy City. Warrants were issued at Chicago on Monday by Munlepal Judge Sadler for the keepers of 29 large hotels in the city, charging them with violation of the Sunday closing laws. The warrants were sworn in by Daniel L. Cruce, an attorney who promised prosecution Concerning mud stains. Mud stains on dark cloths should be allowed to dry before any attempt is made to rub them off. Very often atter drying the mud will come right off with a good brushing and leave little or no mark—New York Journal. In the Bath. In the West Indies the lemon bath is almost a daily luxury. The juice of three or four lemons or limes are sliced into a tub of water, and allowed to stand half an hour or so before using, that the juice of the fruit may have a chance to permeate the entire bath. The deliciousness of such a tubbing must be tried to be appreciated, affording, as it does, a feeling of most invigorating freshness, while the skin becomes delightfully supple and smooth—Washington Star. Hair Wash and Tonic. As a hair wash and tonic it also excels. For the wash cut a large juicy lemon in half. Dip the head in a large bowl of tepid water, while the lemon is rubbed over the scalp and among the roots of the hair. Soak and rub the hair thoroughly, then rinse well in water of the same temperature. Dry at once with vigorous rubbing, and there will be no danger of taking cold. No soap is required. The acid of the lemon removes dust and grease, leaving the hair pliable and glossy.—Washington Star. The first thing to be done for a person suffering from nerve exhaustion is to adopt a dietary and a habit of life that will rebuild the nerve cells. The lost energy must be gently and slowly "coaxed" back—not through medicines, but through proper environment, proper employment and proper food. The dietary should be simple and nutritious, abounding in lettuce, parsley and the fresh green edibles in season. It is unnecessary to say that active stimulants should be entirely eschewed. Pittsburg Dispatch. Test the Heat of an Oven. To judge of the heat of an oven try the oven every ten minutes with a piece of white paper. If too hot the paper will blaze up or blacken; when the paper becomes dark brown—rather darker than ordinary meat pie crust—the oven is fit for small pastry. When light brown—the color of nice pastry—it is ready for tarts. When the paper turns dark yellow you can bake bread, large meat pies or pound cake, while if it is just tinged the oven is fit for sponge cake and for meringues.—Boston Post. Recipes. Lemon Turnovers—Julice of one lemon, one cup sugar, one chopped egg, one rolled cracker, one cup chopped ralsins. Mix together and bake in a rich pie crust. German Fried potatoes—Slice about 6 raw potatoes and 2 small onions, put in a spider with slices of salt peas and a little salt (a small handful) and put a dish over it and let it cook and steam or about half an hour, or till done. Salad Tartare—Parbell the oysters in their own liquor; lift out carefully, lay flat on a plate-and put on the ice thoroughly chilled. Make a cupful of mayonnaise dressing; add to it a quarter of a cupful each of chopped oysters, pickles and capers and a tablespoonful each of chopped onion and parsley. When ready to serve place the oysters on crisp lettuce leaves, with the mayonnaise, tartare heaped on top. Spaghetti - Boll together one and a half pounds of hamburger steak, one can tomatoes, two onions chopped into two large green peppers chopped, pepper and salt to the mixture, and one half hour of spaghetti in separate kettles until tender; drain the spaghetti and put on a large meat platter. Spread the pot of meat andables next, as a layer, and grate cheese on top. Kipling—Mix half a tablespoon each of flour and curry powder, a little cream until smooth. Mix tablespoonful of butter in a large pan; add a tablespoonful of minced onion and a teaspoonful grated apple, and simmer gently a few minutes. Season with salt, pepper, and add the flour and half a pint of cream, and gently fifteen minutes; add a pint drained oysters, and cook just the gills curl. Serve in a border of boiled rice. Cup Plates. "These cup plates assure this 100-year old china service real thing," said an antiquary stopped making cup plates 100 ago. "Cup plates," he went on how table manners change, you know what they were for were to hold your dripping tea—after you had poured it into the saucer to drink, that the cloth should not be "Yes, in the past everybody hot tea from the saucer — King queens, emperors and generals with a gurgling sound, tilted saucer with careful haliers lips. The cup meanwhile, with the cup plate." — Minneapolis The tourist In Madagascar by the flansana, who from two poles six feet a seat and foot rest. : = == = te Ze