Savannah Tribune

TAMPA FIRE-SWEPT EIGHTEEN BLOCKS BURN Northeastern Section of City Hard Hilt Over 300 Buildings, Including, Seve- ral Large Cigar Factories, Destroyed—Loss Heavy. The entire northeastern section of Tampa, Fla., composing the city proper, was destroyed by fire, which raged from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Sunday. The area burned covered fifty-five acres or eighteen and one-half blocks and three hundred and eight buildings were destroyed, with a total loss estimated at $600,000. The burned section included four large and one smaller cigar factories and numerous restaurants, saloons, boarding houses and over two hundred dwellings occupied by cigar makers. The factories burned were M. Stachelberg & Co., loss*$100,000; M. Perez & Co., loss*$50,000; Gonzalez Fisher & Co., loss$40,000; Esberg Gunst & Co., branch of Stachelberg, loss$40,000; Fernandez & Brouwer, loss$20,000. All factories carried 1 hand stocks of tobacco* and cigars. Theinstinct swept by fire embraced all that is tion of the city between Twelfth and behligan avenues and Sixteenth and Twelfth streets. It originated in a boarding house on Twelfth avenue, and fanned by a strong wind, spread out, fan shaped, defying the force of the fire department, which was crippled by very weak water pressure, owing to the smallness of the mains in that section. Occupants of over two hundred dwelling houses thrown into a panic rushed out, attempting to save but little of their belongings. One fatality is reported, a Cuban woman in a delicate condition, who dropped dead from the shock, her body being rescued from her burning home with difficulty. In the big factories it was possible only to save the most variable of records, books, etc., and the valuable stocks of leaf tobacco and manufactured cigars ready for shipment was left to the mercy of the flames. Citizens volunteered assistance to the hard-working firemen, but the spread of the flames was so rapd that little effectual work could be done. Among buildings, other than factories destroyed, were the hotels and safes of Perez & Castro and Maximo Caras, six saloons, twelve restaurants and ten boarding houses. The fire finally burned itself out at the extreme northeastern corner of the city. Fully half of the people rendered homeless were out of work, owing to the dull season in the factories, and also practically out of funds and their shelter became an immediate problem. The insurance is estimated at not more than half of the loss. Telegrams were sent to Lakeland, Bartow and other nearby towns for fire apparatus, but later were countermanded. In the Stachelberg factory was destroyed a solid silver case, in which cigars of the firm were displayed at the world's fairs and expositions, valued at $25,000. At the home of Miguel Rodriguez, a cigar maker, the corpse of a child in a coffin awaiting funeral services, was cremated. The state militia was placed on guard Sunday night in the burned district to prevent depredations. SUDDEN DEMIST FOR HAMILTON Was Custodian of "Yellow Dog" Fund for Insurance Companies. Andrew Hamilton, formerly counsel to the New York Life and other insurance companies, and in charge for many years of insurance litigation and legislative matters in all parts of this country and Canada, was found dead in bed Sunday morning at his home in New York city. "NOT GUILTY," SAYS ALIO. Anarchist Slayer of Priest Arralgned In Denver Court. Gluseppe Allo, slayer of Rev. Leo, the Catholic priest, pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, when arraigned at Denver, Col., Saturday. Judge Greeley Whitmore set his trial for Monday, March 9. Peter Bossie was dismissed as interpreter in the case because of the charge that he is a member of the anarchistic organization. The Savannah Tribune. BY THE USE OF CASH Bryan Alleges Opposition Will Attempt His Undoing—Scores Democrats Who Defeated Beckham. Before the members of the state legislature and several thousand Mississippiians, William J. Bryan made a characteristic speech at Jackson Saturday. Mr. Bryan arrived from Memphis at an early hour and was met by Governor Noel and a reception committee. He was escorted to the governor's mansion, where he spent the forenoon. Mr. Bryan was asked concerning a paragraph in the current issue of The Commoner, reading as follows: "Watch the personnel of the delegations to Denver. Money is being used in some of the states of the Mississippi valley to secure delegations who will be obedient to the predatory interests. The democratic masses must not be betrayed by representatives of that system." When asked concerning the evidence in support of this charge, Mr. Bryan said: "I wrote that paragraph myself and know what I am talking about. I have my information from a man who overheard a conversation on the subject." When asked what interests he charged with being behind the movement, Mr. Bryan said: "I am convinced that it is the interests representing the trusts and the railroads. They do not hope to prevent instructed delegates in the Mississippi valley states, but they are trying to get a personnel of delegates who will be unfriendly to my nomination." Mr. Bryan then went to the Century theater, where the members of the house and senate, together with a large number of spectators, were gathered. He was introduced by Governor Noel, who paid the democratic leader a glowing tribute. Mr. Bryan's address throughout was a repetition of subject matter dealt with in former addresses. The only new phase was his caustic reference to the four democrats in the Kentucky legislature who, by casting their votes with the republicans, elected Mr. Bradley, republican, United States senator. He referred to them as embezzlers of power," and declared that the embezzler of power is a worse malefactor than the man who embezzles money. At the conclusion of the address a resolution endorsing Mr. Bryan, as the democratic candidate, was adopted by a rising vote, every man, woman and child in the theater rising and applauding the Nebraskan. Initial Effect of Operation of the New Nine-Hour Law. A Washington special says: American railways have made arrangements to comply with the provisions of the "nine hour law." The operation of the law will mean the employment by railroad companies of several thousand additional operators and the closing of a large number of small stations. The discontinuance of railway service at many points, it is realized, with induce at least temporary inconvenience to the travelling and shipping public, but, in order to reduce operating expenses, which now seems necessary, the operating officials or the railways believe thats this is the only way they possibly can meet the situation with which they are confronted. WU TING FANG ARRIVES. Chinese-Minister, With Large Retinue, Reaches 'Frisco' Wu Ting Fang, for the second time appointed Chinese minister to this country, arrived at San Francisco, on Friday, on the Pacific Mall liner Silberia with a large retinue of secretaries, consuls and attaches, numbering seventy persons. He brought with him new consuls for Mexico, Havana, New York and San Francisco, besides three nephews, three secretaries and seven other attaches for the Chinese legation at Washington, and twenty-four students who will enter various schools and colleges in this country. DOCTOR WAS TOO GAY. CUSTER FOR INDIAN SERVICE BY ROSSEVELT for Escapades with Teacher. A special from Los Angeles, says: Back of the announcement that Dr. Howard Bartlett had been dismissed from the Indian service is a story which has been whispered in Needles, Cal., of his infatuation for a pretty 20-year-old teacher at the Fort Mojave Indian school, 20 miles up the Colorado, although he has a wife. In any event, his guilt was proved to the satisfaction of the president, who ordered the instagram dismissal of the physician. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MARCH 7. 1908. BECKHAM DEFATED LONG DEADLOCK BROKEN Successful Candidate a Republican and a Former Governor of the State. Victory Won by Narrow Margin of Four Votes. A special from Frankfort, Ky., says: Amid scenes of the wildest excitement on the floor of the house of representatives, former Governor, William O'Connell Bradley, republican candidate, was Friday elected to succeed James B. McCreary, in the United States senate for a term of six years, beginning March 4, 1559. He received 64 votes, barely enough to win, and was enabled to gain victory through the assistance of four anti-Beckham democrats, Senators H. S. McNutt, and Albert Charlton, and Representative Chrys Musler, of Loulsville, and Representative E. W. Lillard, of Boyle county. Until Friday they had voted for democrats for senator, and their sudden rally to Bradley took Beckham men completely by surprise, although the latter claim to have information that a deal was effected by which the liquor forces were to elect Bradley In return for the defeat of the county unit bill in the senate. The completion of the first roll call showed: Bradley, 64; Beckham, 60; Blackburn, 1; James, 1. Before the speaker could announce the result the democrats obtained a recapitulation, and attempted to break the quorum by leaving the hall, but came back accompanied by Beckham, who authorized the withdrawal of his name and released the democrats from the primary nomination pledge to him in hope that some other democrat would be named who could defeat Bradley. The four bolting democrats were surrounded by lifelong party friends and urged to withdraw their support from Bradley, and elect James B. McCreary, or any democrat they might name, but they remained obdurate, declaring that the proposition came too late. The democratic leaders promised a caucus to select a candidate to which the name of Beckham would not be presented, but the recalcitrants refused all offers, and the result could not be changed. The ballot, as finally completed after the democrats finished changing their votes, was as follows: Bradley, 64; Beckham, 15; James, 15; McCreary, 10; Mayo, 5; Allen, 2; Smith, 2; Peak, 2; Newman, 1; Hunt, 1; Elliston, 1; Stanley, 1; Blackburn, 1; Cantrill, 1; McElroy, 1. There was great disorder in the chamber during recapitulation, the republicans demanding that the speaker announce result, and the democrats seeking to delay, hoping to induce one of the democrats to leave Bradley. In a speech, accepting his election; Bradley thanked the speaker for his fair and impartial rullings. He promised to use every effort, as senator,, to secure the repeal of the 6-cent tax on tobacco. Representative Lillard was the only one of the democrats to explain his vote for Bradley. He said he thought the time to throw off the party shackles and to break up the machine had come, and although he did support the democratic ticket for forty years, he believed his vote for Bradley was the best democratic vote he ever cast. BOMB AIMED AT SHAH. Ruler of Persia Has Narrow Escape from Death in Streets of Teheran. An attempt was made in Teheran, Persia, Friday afternoon to assassinate the shah of Persia by a bomb. His majesty was not hurt. Three of the outriders who were accompanying him at the time were killed. The bomb was hurled, from the roof of a house. Kills Three of Her Children, Wounds a Fourth and Sulcides. Mrs. J. C. Spires, wife of a farmer, three miles west of Basil, Calo, Friday killed three of her children, fatally wounded a fourth, and then committed suicide. One of the children was drowned in a well and the others were shot and their throats cut. Mrs. Spires took carbolic acid, shot herself and cut her throat. The surviving child is a boy four years old. FRIGHFUL HORROR HOST OF CHILDREN KILLED LITTLE ONES MEET FRIGHTFUL DEATH PENNED IN NARROW HALLWAYS WITH EXITS LOCKED AND NO AVE- UE OF ESCAPE. Penned in narrow hallways, jammed up against doors that opened inward, between 160 and 170 children in the town of North Collinwood, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, were killed by fire, by smoke and beneath the grinding heels of panic-stricken playmates. The awful tragedy occurred at 10 o'clock Wednesday in the public school building, a three-story brick structure. At 10 o'clock Wednesday night, one hundred and sixty-five corpses were in the morgue at Collinwood, six children were still unaccounted for, and all hospitals and houses for two miles around contained a number of children, some fatally and many less seriously injured. All of the victims were between the ages of six and seventeen years. The school contained between three hundred and ten and three hundred and twenty-five pupils, and of this number only about eighty are known to have left the building unhurt. It will be several days before the exact number of killed is known, as the rules may still contain other bodies, and the list of fatalities may be increased by a number of deaths among the children who are now lying in the hospitals, hovering between life and death. The number of pupils was more than normally large, and the smaller children had been placed in the upper part of the building. There was but one fire escape, and that was in the rear of the building. There were two stairways, one leading to a door in front, and the other to a door in the rear, both of these doors opened inward, and it is claimed the rear door was locked as well. When the flames were discovered, the teachers, who throughout seem to have acted with courage and self-possession and struggled heroically for the safety of their pupils, marshaled the little ones into column for the "fire drill," which they had often practiced. Unfortunately, the line of march in this exercise had always led to the front door, and the dazed children had not been trained to seek any other exit. The fire came from a furnace situated directly under this part of the building. When the children reached the foot of the stairs they found the flames close upon them, and so swift a rush was made for the door that in an instant a tightly packed mass of children was piled up against it. From that second none of those who were upon any portion of the first flight of stairs had a chance for their lives. The children at the foot of the stalrs attempted to fight their way back to the floor above, while those who were coming down shoved them mercilessly back into the flames below. In an instant there was a frightful panic, with two hundred pupils fighting for their lives. Most of those who were killed died there. The greater portion of those who escaped managed to turn back and reached the fire escape and the windows in the rear. What happened at the foot of that first flight of stairs will never be known, for all of those who were caught in the full fury of the panic were killed. One of the scenes of supreme horror that attended the fire occurred at the rear doorway of the building before the firemen arrived. This door, like the one in front, opened inward, and as it was locked, the children were piled up high against it, and when it finally was broken down by their weight, and because of the fire that had partly burned and weakened it, the women who had gathered on the outside, saw before them a mass of white faces and struggling bodies. The flames swept over the alley while the women stood helpless, unable to lift a hand to aid the children. Many of the women were unable to withstand the sight, and dropped fainting to the ground. WOMEN TURNED DOWN. House Judiciary Will Report Adversely on Plea of Female Suffragists for the Right to Vote. The house committee on the Judiciary will report adversely the joint resolution by Mr. Davey of Louisiana to so amend the constitution of the United States as to confer upon women the right to vote. In discussing the proposition, Chairman Jenkins said: "Our girl friends seem to think that the duty of this committee is very easy and that it is a very simple matter to amend the constitution of the United States. Those in favor of this proposition overlook the fact that the federal government was created by the states, and the states expressly reserved unto themselves the power and the right to say who shall vote and who shall not vote. Now, why should the federal government undertake to force upon the states something they do not want? To illustrate New York refuses the right of suffrage to women. Why should they join in a crusade to insist that the right of suffrage upon women should be conferred in the state of Georgia? "The right to vote is exercised under what we commonly call the police power of the states, and it is a serious question whether we should attempt to divide that power. So far it has been proved that it is best to leave it entirely with the states. "But insistence on suffrage is only a step that is followed by marriage and divorce and several other sentimental propositions. " "When the question is fairly presented as to whether women shall vote or not, we shall have to argue the question on different lines. I am perfectly willing to say that since I have been in congress I have never seen a member of the committee on the judiciary who felt favorably inclined to this proposed act." The Uncle Remus Magazine company of Atlanta has secured by purchase at a figure said to be more than $150,000 the Home Magazine, issued for 10 years past by the Bobbs-Merrill company of Indianolis. With the May issue the Home Magazine will be discontinued and its consolidation with Uncle Remus' Magazine consummated; the magazine in the future to be issued from the plant of the company in Atlanta, under the editorship of Joel Chandler Harris. This consolidation gives the Atlanta Magazine a circulation of 276,000. The Home Magazine has a circulation of 205,000 and Uncle Remus' Magazine 71,000. Heinous Double Murder Shocks Community Near Empire, Ga. Another terrible murder shocked the section of county near Empire, Ga., Wednesday, and excitement is intense. Just at daylight some one attacked Warren Hart as he went out to feed his stock, crushing his head to a jelly and killing him instantly. They then went to the kitchen, where Mrs. Hart was preparing breakfast, and attacked her with an ax; leaving her for dead. She was found lying on the floor, barely alive, with a fork in her hand and her breakfast burned to a crisp. SENATOR PROCTOR GOES HENCE. Aged Vermont Statesman Yields to Grim Reaper in Washington. United States Senator Redfield Proctor, Vermont, died in Washington Wednesday afternoon after a short illness: following an attack of grp. He was 77 years old. The senator had been confined to his room for about a week. His illness was diagnosed as grp, which later developed into pleurisy with pneumonia complications. Faulty Battleship Construction. The senate committee on naval affairs Saturday heard the statements of three naval officers who have been quoted as criticising the construction of battleships and upon whose authority has been suggested the charges made by Reuterdahl were based. The officers were queried concerning their views on naval construction and Rera Admiral Capps asked questions and commented upon their testimony, as they proceeded. Regarding Alleged Peonage Exposed in the House. Southern Congressmen-Declare Rank Stories Are Told to Divert Immigration-Clark Roasts Department A Washington special says: An investigation by the immigration commission of labor of conditions in turpentine camps, plantations and other industries of the south, especially the existence of peonage, is provided for in a resolution taken up by the house Monday under suspension of the rules. Mr. Williams of Mississippi said that the circulation abroad of stories regarding peonage had done harm to the south, and he desired an investigation by an important body. In reply to a question by Mr. Mann of Illinois, he said he believed the stories had been put out by labor agents in New York in order to divert immigrants to other sections of the country. Mr. Humphreys of Mississippi supported the resolution. He charged that a systematic campaign had been waged for the past twelve months throughout the press of the country "by those whose interests could be best served in that way," for the purpose of discouraging immigration to the south. Stories of peonage and white slavery, he said, had been conjured up and given to the press with sensational coloring, and the state of Mississippi especially held up to the world as a slave camp. Agents of the Italian government, he said, had busled themselves "In concocting and circulating these stories. When I deny them, as I do now most vehemently deny them," he said, "I want some tribunal created and authorized to swear witnesses and hear testimony, and before which this issue may be tried, to the end that those who have uttered these libels may be compelled to appear and either substantiate them or stand convicted as common slanderers." In a bitter criticism of the government and some of its officials, Mr. Clark of Florida declared that the state of Florida was prepared to answer "the accounts of 'peonage,' 'slavery,' 'involuntary sorvitude,' 'brutal and inhuman treatment' of laborers,' and other publications which smell of the 'slums' and in some of the most remarkable documents, emanating from the department of justice of the United States," which, he charged, were absolutely false in all essential particulars. The people of Florida, he asserted, courted the fullest investigation of a matter which had been of so much injury to the fair name of their state. He predicted that these people will come through the ordeal of investigation" without the smell of fire upon their garments and in spite of the batteries of slander which for the past year have been belching their infamous "slum begotten" fabrications. The department of justice, Mr. Clark charged, had never been especially distinguished "for the legal knowledge of the alleged lawyers who are generally supposed to be housed therein," but he said that usually "something of a lawyer" had been at its head. He feared that the country had fallen into "evil times" with reference to the "big chief" of that department. Whatever may be the qualifications of Attorney General Bonaparte, he said, that official had been unfortunate in the selection of some of his inferiorors to whom had been committed peonage prosecutors in Florida and other states. He referred to Attorney General Bonaparte as "this transplanted bud of alleged French nobility," who had become acquainted "with a lady bearing the euphonious cogmen of Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos, whose field of labor previous to her acquaintance with the great Baltimore lawyer was in the slums of the "east side" of "dear old Manhattan isle." He presumed, therefore, that Mr. Bonaparte considered "this great slum worker" a very proper person to send to Florida to regulate conditions in the south. Mr. Clark next turned his attention to Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Russell, who was given charge of the investigation, and who, he said, quickly called to his aid Mrs. Quackenbos. "My God," he exclaimed, "what a combination! In normal times it would be an affliction upon any people, to send into their midst Charles W. Russell, 'a southern man and a democrat,' and Mary Grace Quackenbos, in combination or separately." Largest Sick and Death Benefits; Smallest Premiums. The Guaranty Aid and Relief Society SOL. C. JOHNSON, Supt. of Ageno Treasury of State of Georgia. long in total Ten Thousand Dollars, and which are held by the State of Georgia, by authority and under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, approved October 22d, 1887, and amended December 20th, 1897. Georgia Briefs Locker Club Members Indicted. The federal grand jury at Savannah Saturday returned sixteen indictments containing the names of forty individuals connected with locker clubs in Savannah. Arrests will follow. --- G. A. R. Organized at St. George. A branch of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized at St. George Saturday with a membership of twenty-five veterans. P. Q. Stoner of Ohio was chosen commander and Smith Warren of Iowa, vice commander. Wesleyan's First Graduate Dead. Mrs. Katherine E. Benson is dead at her home in Macon after several weeks' illness. She was the first graduate of eWsleyan college, and was the first woman in the world to receive a diploma from a chartered college. She was widely known and beloved as a woman of excellent Christian character. She had reached the advanced of 86. * * * A., S. & A. Approves Mileage Books. It is announced by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad company that the new mileage books of the Southern railway will be honored on their lines under certain conditions. The action of this road makes the third road to become a party to the books as the Seaboard and the Atlantic Coast Line have already agreed to the Southern's plan. *** Brewers to Ask Modification of Law. There is a movement on foot, backed by the brewers of the state, which contemplates urging the legislature at its next session to modify the state prohibition law so as to permit the sale within the state of beers and light wines. Those urging the modification of the law, it is reported, base their hope in a large measure upon a public statement of Governor Smith, made last December, to the effect that he hoped to see the standing saloon eliminated everywhere and such modification of the law as would permit only the use of light drinks, such as wines and beer, at the table as food. Can Run Only 10 Miles an Heur. Following the report of an inspection made by one of the track walkers in the employ of the railroad commission, the commission has issued an order to the Fitzgerald, Ocilla, and Broxton railway company, operating between those points in south Georgia, to reduce the speed of all passenger trains over its line to ten miles an hour until certain repairs which the commission deems necessary shall have been made. Auditor Resigns Temporarily. Special Auditor L. C. Mathews, who has been in the employ of the railroad commission for some months, has severed his connection with the commission, at least for the present, though it is said to be with the understanding that he will be requled whenever the commission has occasion to require his services. It is stated that the position of special auditor was not intended to be permanent, but that he was employed for certain work which has now been completed. The principal part of this work is said to have been an examination into the books and accounts of the Central of Georgia Railway Company in Savannah, upon which the commission now has a complete report. The Central afforded Mr. Mathews every facility for making this examination, although it does not concede the right of the commission to make such inquiry. George Barton Captured. George Barton, one of the prisoners who made a sensational escape from the Fulton county tower, Atlanta, on Sunday night, February 2d, has been captured in, Bessemer, Ala., and returned to the Atlanta jail. John Harper, the other prisoner who escaped with Barton, is still at large. The escape of Barton and Harper resulted in the grand jury finding indictments against James Brown, the night jailer at the tower, and two trusties, Joe Williams and Eulace Wallace. One of the trusties has made a written confession, in which he says that he, with the connivance of the night jailer, opened the cells of the two prisons, thus making their escape possible. Harper was under sentence for murder, and was held awaiting an appeal to the supreme court. Barton was charged with robbing a safe. There is an outstanding reward of $250 for the arrest of Barton, and one of, $600 for the capture of Harper. --- Want Fair to Be National. Enthusiastic plans by which the annual state fair, to be held in-Atlanta next October, will be given under the auspices of the farmers of the state will be proposed at a meeting of the district managers of the unions in Atlanta during the present month. It is believed the farmers of the It is believed the farmers of the NIGHT TRAINS SAVANNAH & MONTGOMERY. VIA SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY. WESTBOUND. Leave Savannah ..... 5.00 P. M. Arrive Helgun ..... 8.15 P. M. Arrive Abbeville ..... 10.10 P. M. Arrive Cordele ..... 11.15 P. M. Arrive Americus ..... 12.45 A. M. Arrive Richland ..... 2.00 A. M. Arrive Lumpkin ..... 2.22 A. M. Arrive Montgomery ..... 6.45 A. M. Arrive Birmingham ..... 10.40 A. M. Arrive New Orleans ..... 6.00 P. M. EASTBOUND. Leave New Orleans ..... 9.25 A. M. Leave Birmingham ..... 4.20 P. M. Leave Montgomery ..... 7.45 P. M. Leave Lumpkin ..... 11.54 P. M. Leave Richland ..... 12.16 A. M. Leave Americus ..... 1.40 A. M. Leave Cordele ..... 3.15 A. M. Leave Abbeville ..... 4.20 A. M. Leave Helena ..... 5.15 A. M. Arrive Savannah ..... 9.30 A. M. Train will consist of PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPING CARS, Day Coaches between Savannah and Montgomery with at change; making close connection at Montgomery with all lines diverging for Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and all Western points; Birmingham, Memphis, St. Louis, Nashville, Chicago and all Northwestern points; the SHORTEST LINE to Montgomery, New Orleans, Birmingham and the earliest arrival at these points. At Savannah close connection is made for all EASTERN POINTS, Richmond, Washington, New York and with Constwise Steamships for Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Get sleeping car reservations and full information from any SEABOARD Agent, or write to state will enthusiastically favor the plan of holding the fair under the auspices of the union. Among the plans that will be proposed will be that of holding a mammoth national convention of farmers in Atlanta during the fair. Two thousand delegates, representing a membership of 2,000,000 people, will be present if the meeting is held. President R. F. Duckworth of the Georgia division will issue a call for the various district executive committees in the state to vote on the subject of holding a state fair in Atlanta this fall, in connection with the Atlanta Fair Association. Following this action National President Barrett will take a poll of the various state organizations in regard to making the fair national in its scope. Cotton Seed Meal in Great Demand. According to the February report of the tag sales given out at the department of agriculture the sale of cotton seed meal tax has increased by twenty per cent over the amount sold up to this time last year. This report also shows a corresponding decrease in the sale of fertilizer tags under the number disposed of a year ago. This tremendous increase in the sale of cotton seed meal tags, which it is estimated will bring the total sale of tags up to 200,000 tons over 170,000 tons for 19061907 is attributed by the officials for the greatly increased per cent which is being used as a cattle feed in Georgia. This company is duly chartered under the laws of the State of Georgia, and has complied with all requirements of the State Insurance department, therefore all policy holders are protected with all the safeguards that the strict Insurance laws of this State seek to protect its citizens. Its affairs are directed and managed by Negro men of the city of Savannah of leading standing, and whose character and reputation are of such as to command the respect and confidence of all the people of that community. The same men that manage this Society are the ones that organized and are conducting the affairs of the first successful Negro Savings Bank in this state, therefore we can readily see that by connecting themselves with this Insurance company their interest will be in safe hands. By comparing our rules and benefits with other first class companies it will be seen that we offer the most liberal inducements with the largest sick, accident and death benefits to our members than any other company in this business. cotton seed meal has 38.62 protein, whereas the most generally marketed is pure wheat bran, which has only 14.50 protein or about, one-third as much. This is the great thing for Georgia, and the south, as it is turning over our southern product and keeping the farmers' money close at home. Another consignment of cotton seed meals tags, which go twenty tags to the ton, has been ordered for the spring use of the department. To Enforce Pure Food Law. State Commissioner Hudson has issued a statement in which he calls attention to the fact that, beginning March 1st, all violations of the pure food and drugs act, passed in 1906, will be hereafter certified to the proper court for settlement as provided by law. The statement points out that since the law went into effect last August the department has conducted a rigorous campaign of education, with a view to inform the public of the requirements of the law, but that the time has now come when further violations must be looked after in the usual legal manner in the courts. The order will be one of the greatest interest to manufacturers, jobbers and dealers in meats, milk, snusages, other foodstuffs and beverages. The order states that if the manufacturers, jobbers and dealers are not familiar with the law they should inform themselves without delay, as from this date on no excuse whatever will be accepted for the violation of the law because WALTER S. SCOTT, Secretary and Tr the 'ignorance of the law is no excuse.' The order closes as follows: "The one great fundamental principle of this law is truthfully labeling and thus putting the consumer on notice of the exact character of the article he is buying. Injurious substances and harmful coloring must not be used in any food product; for example, preservatives in milk, sausage, meats and other foods as well as beverages. "All manufacturers, jobbers and dealers in stock feeds should inform themselves of the provisions of the law regulating the sale of their products and should not offer for sale any feed that contains any of those substances specifically forbidden by law." FOUR VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY. Children's Quarrel in Kentucky Leads to Duel by Parents. Three men were killed and a fourth mortally wounded in a battle with revolvers, following a quarrel in the lumber camp of Congleton & Williams Bros., on Rose creek, near Evelyn, Ky. John Hamilton,, James Bowles, Richard Spicer and George Frazier had been working together with about 70 other men, hauling lumber and staves. The children of Bowles and Frazier had fallen out with those of Spicer and Hamilton. The men quarreled over the matter, as they worked, and finally resorted to revolvers. It isn't always easy for a female detective to catch a husband. Deeds, Contracts, Wills and Other Legal Forms Prepared and Attested. 116 West St. Julian Street Masonic Books & Regalias. LODGE SEALS, FINANCIAL CARDS and BLANKS of every, description. Publishers' and Manufacturers' Prices Liberal Discounts Will Be Arranged. COL. C. JOHNSON. Savannah, Ga. W. H. LLOYD, —Dealer In— GROCERIES, WOOD AND COAL, 621 Oglethorpe Avenue, East. Ca. 518 PHONES—Bell 506 OHIO REPUBLICANS MEET. lumbus with Taft Men in Control. The republicans of Ohio, who met in state convention at Columbus on Tuesday placed the entire party machinery of the state in the hands of Williams H. Taft and his political followers, and eliminated the interests of Senators Foraker and Dick by wiping off the state central committee every man who was known to have any bias in their favor. Every member of the new state committee is a Taft man. GREAT GRAFT FOR RAILROADS. Missouri Congressman Alleges They Have Illegally Secured 70 Millions. The charge that the government had been robbed of oyer $10,000,000 since 1880 by railroads carrying the malls, was made on the floor of the house of representatives Tuesday by Mr. Lloyd of Missouri. He referred to the new system of weighing the malls recently introduced by the postmaster general and declared it an admission that the people of the country had been mutilated out of the sum stated. AN ALLIGATOR EXPERIENCE By E. S. Traymore. To read of being "treed" by either a bear or an angry bull is common. To read of being treed by alligators is not common. Then, too, the victim in the first instance is a man, almost without exception, while in the instance to be related the victim was a woman, and the writer of this account. It happened a number of years ago, when alligators were more plentiful in Florida than they are to-day. I had seen so many of these creatures that they did not frighten me, although it must be admitted that this "seeing" had been always from a safe point, and one that could be left at any moment. Following my annual custom, as soon as the snow began to fly I betook myself with my camera to the sunny South, and made straight for a certain small town in Middle Florida, where I had passed several winters. The hospitable greetings over, I soon settled down to work, and wandered dally hither and thither through hummock and pine-land, for both bordered the neighborhood of my winter home. One lovely day I started out about 2 o'clock, unaccompanied, as was generally my choice, except by a small dog which belonged to the house, and which had taken a great fancy to me—why, I do not know, for as I was not very fond of dogs, he had not been encouraged, although his meek devotion had to a certain extent gained my good-will. His persistence now won his cause. So by my side he trotted, his brown eyes shining with such joyousness that at last, ashamed to do otherwise, I was forced to make him welcome. My uncomfortable experience later on was due primarily to the presence of Dandy. On the other hand, had I taken warning from his instinctive uneasiness, the probability is that this story would never have been written. My destination was the swamp-land which lay in a certain section of the hummock; my object, the photographing of cypress-trees just as they grew, out of the black mud in the darkness of a region not unlike that of "The Great Dismal Swamp." The way I pursued was lonely enough, but I was not afraid. The few natives and negroes that passed me as I walked leisurely along gave me a pleasant greeting, for all knew me and my camera. I plunged into the forest, and forced my way along a faultily marked trail, dodging several rattlesnakes which resented my intrusion, and at about 4 o'clock found myself on the border of as desolate a region as the most ardent swamp-seeker could wish. It was a dreary stretch of shadowy, ghost-like trees, their branches woven into an almost jungle-like impenetrability by a tangle of parasitic vines, many of which were several inches in diameter, and which hung in fantastic contortions from the tops, often of the highest trees. The faint light that filtered through the matted growth of leaves and festooned Southern moss was brown and misty, and a fog rose from the adjacent dank and decaying vegetation. The water of the swamp was black, and its glassy surface shimmered at the jar of my footstep as I crept carefully over a quantity of fallen cane-brake, so molded as to afford a precarious foothold. The only living creatures in sight were two lonely boars, no doubt originally razorbacks, but now entirely wild. Their tusks rattled like castanets as they stood with chattering jaws, at challenge; but their warlike bravado changed into cowardice as they espied us, and turning away, they disappeared in the jungle. "Quite the place for a whole army of alligators." I said, half-aloud, as I picked my way along a narrow strip of land that reached out into the water. "However, it is no time for thinking about that, for the sun is getting low, and I must make haste." It so happened that out of this strip there grew several straggling trees. One of these had been broken off, probably by some storm, and its top lay bent down so that its branches interfered with my tripod as I endeavored to pass beyond. I grumbled a bit at the inconvenience, not dreaming how important a part this broken tree was to play in my day's experience. The tree passed at last, only a few moments were needed to set up the camera, to focus and to take the picture; yet even these moments I begrudged, especially the twenty seconds required for the exposure of the plate, for the gloom seemed to increase so rapidly that a most uncomfortable apprehension seized me. I noticed, too, that Dandy was odly affected, for he barked and whined with great uneasiness. My nervousness increased. This was indeed a hideously lonely spot to be in, especially for a woman, and night was coming. There was that long walk home, and only a faintly outlined trail to follow! Truly, never before had I been so foolhardy. Overpowered by a rush of emotions, I snapped together my camera, threw the long carrying-strap round my neck, snatched up the tripod, and turned sharply to retrace my footsteps. I nearly fell headlong. Poor Dandy, in his terror, had hidden beneath my skirt, and his little shivering body was the cause of my stum blé. I tried vainly to 'make him get up; but he only shrieked with fear and crouched at my feet. Just then, not five feet distant from where I stood, a great british head protruded from that inky water—a sight never to be forgotten! That black and moss-grown skull, those evil eyes, with their blood-chilling stare—so near that I could have touched the creature! Appalled, I drew back shuddering, and crying out to Dandy, who again nearly overthrew me in his haste. I clambered over the branches of the fallen tree, leaving my tripod behind in my flight, with the intention of running back to the mainland. I was too late. Already attracted by the cries of the dog—alligators are very fond of dog-flesh—three of these great brushes had crawled out from their near-by hiding-places in the swamp, and now lay stretched upon the bit of land over which we must pass in order to reach the shore. Yes, even as I paused, be-wildered, and with my heart in my throat, I saw that four more of these hideous creatures were swimming rapidly toward the spot. Ah, Dandy, Dandy! You tried so hard in your doggish way to warn me that danger was near, but your cries only made matters worse! Alligators in front, alligators behind. Whither were we to fly? I stumbled against the prostrate treetop—happy thought! In less time than it takes to write the words both Dandy and I had scrambled up the straggling branches like two nimble cats. Here was safety, such as it was, for we were some eight feet above the surface of the swamp. Partly from pity and partly to check his ear-plelering cries, I snuggled Dandy in my arms; but when at last I ventured to look down, the sight made me grow sick. I dared not try to count the alligators, but there seemed to be twenty or more gray and scaly creeping and shuffling about on that narrow strip of half-dried mud, hissing, blowing and sniffing the air angrily for the scent of the canine prey which they could not reach. The sun was really sinking, as the increasing gloom portended. I collected my scattered wits, and tried to plan the best way to pass the inevitable night. Fortunately I had brought with me a jacket, which I had slipped on when the chill of the swamp had struck me. This would in a measure protect me from the night cold; then, too, Dandy would help to keep me warm. So I propped myself as comfortably as possible in the crotch where the tree trunk had spanned off, fastened myself to a strong upright branch by passing the strap round it and then about my wrist. This would at least keep me from falling should I chance to faint or lose myself in sleep. How many of those long, weary hours passed I had no way of judging, but at last, worn out with fatigue, I felt a deadly chill creeping over me. Suddenly the little dog moved in my arms, and licked my hand softly. He seemed uneasy, and stretched up his head, as if begging to look beyond me. I humored his wish. For a moment he stood motionless, with his paws upon my shoulder. Then, to my amazement, he whined—not a whine of distress, but one of pleasure. Yes, he was even then wagging slowly his stump of a tail, while his whole body quivered with excitement. Loosening the safety-strap with my benumbed fingers, I twisted about in the tree seat, and saw—a light! Fascinated, I watched the glow, which grew brighter. I tried to cry out. To my dismay I found myself speechless! The chill and nervous shock had in a way stiffened my throat and tongue. I strained and fought to overcome the temporary paralysis which was like a dreadful nightmare, for shout I must. That light meant rescue if I could only make myself heard. Some "gator men" were out hunting, and I knew that the light was from their jack-lantern, which was fastened at the bow of the boat. The "jack" serves to attract the creatures, or at least to fascinate them so that they remain motionless until the hunters come within shooting distance. The boat came near, then turned to go off in another direction. Now or not at all must I cry out, or it would pass out of sight and hearing. Beating at my throat with my hands, I finally threw off that dreadful cramp, and a shriek for help that could have been heard a mile—it seemed to me—came mercifully to my lips; and as it echoed through the swamp, the boat stopped. I heard a negro's frightened-voice: "Who da? Who da?" Again I could not speak, but Dandy's yapping bark rang sharply. Then a white man's voice cried: "Who is there? Where are.you? Why don't you answer?" Once more my tongue loosened. The voice was that of Jim Bronson, a professional hunter, and a man well known by everybody in the little town. "This way! This way! Oh, make haste!" Then I fainted. I did not see the boat as it came swiftly toward me; nor did I see the gleam from the lantern as it illuminated my feeble stronghold; nor did I hear the fusiladè of shots 'which drove away the brutes; nor did I know that I was taken carefully from among the branches and laid upon a hastily improvised bed, made of coats, in the bottom of the boat of my rescuers. Yet all this happened, and Dandy crept to my side and licked my unconscious hands, as they told me afterward, while we were borne rapidly away from that gruesome spot. - Youth's Companion THE WORLD'S ADVANCEMENT. One Hundred Dates of Inventions and Other Important Events. What is it that gives us moderns our principal advantage over the ancient world? Is it art or literature of which we can afford to boast? What artists can we compare to Michael Angelo? With Shakespeare as the sole exception, Homer and Horace are still the rivals of our greatest modern poets. No historian have we superior to Tacitus or Polylius. No orator has been the equal of Clearo, probably the greatest who ever uttered speech. In this connection Wendell Phillips, in his lecture on the lost arts, took much of the conceit out of our national character. What has made the difference? The answer is, modern inventions. The following is a list of one hundred important inventions and discoveries that have been made by the modern work: Leap year is a very peculiar year, and few people know very much about its history. Therefore an entertainment at which questions are asked and answered relative to the history of the year and its cause and when it occurs will always be interesting. The origin of the name "Leap Year," or the reason for it is unknown. Some have endeavored to explain its meaning in the statement that any date in such a year after the added day (February 29) "leaps over" the day of the week on which it would fall in other years. Thus, if March 1 falls on Monday in one year, it will fall on Tuesday in the next if that is an ordinary year of 365 days, but on Wednesday if it is a leap year. Leap year is the only year that contains 366 days. It comes every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, forty-six seconds) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each day, which is eleven minutes and fourteen seconds more than the excess of the real year. Hence it is necessary to suppress the added day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400. Therefore leap year is every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder, excepting in cases of full centuries, which to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder. The year 1900 was not a leap year.—What-To-Eat. Chance For Title Seekers. The government is considering the sale of honorary titles, and it is suggested that the title of marquis might be sold for a million taels.—Pekin Correspondence Shanghai Mercury. By the environment of his forbears for generations back, you may know the dog. An Eskimo or sledge dog, or a Chinese chow chow could never create the deep friendship that a deerhound, or an old English sheep dog, or collie, or a bulldog, or a terrier is capable of inspiring. Years before any of us were thought of, the sledge dog was a beast of burden, tolerated because human lives depended on his "motor" power, begrudged the necessary wherewithal to keep his "machinery" in good order, and treated not as a companion, but as a pariah and as a brute without feeling, without thought, without hope. How expect a descendant of these half-starved, cuffed and buffeted animals not to shrink from the uplifted hand and treat with suspicion all friendly overtures? All man has ever done for him and his forbears has been to play the brute and make life a dreary bondage. And in all parts of the globe where the struggle for life is most desperate, and people—according to our estimate—are brutes or semi or whole savages, so are the dogs of that people. Persian wolffhounds, chow chows, "dingoes" in the wilds of Australia, Tibet mastiffs, Russian sheep dogs, Samoyedes, all more or less dread man, who many years ago beat them into subjection, not affection. With the $500, $1000 and $2000 champions and their brothers and sisters and cousins who made last month's Westminster kennel show the success it was, the story is different. Neither they nor their ancestors have known what it was to turn cannibals to avert starvation. Man did not beat them into drudgery. Man warmed to them and they gave their all to man. And of the 2000 dogs gathered together from here, there and everywhere, there were probably not a dozen who would churlishly snarl at a stranger's greeting—Everybody's. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. PROFESSOR CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. Collapsible Lunchbox. Those who do not take kindly to shoe boxes, etc., will be interested in the collapsible lunchbox shown in the illustration, the invention of a Massachusetts man. The several sections are hinged at the corners, so that they can be folded into a small Folds Into a Small Package. space when necessary. In fact, when the entire box is folded up it can be carried in the pocket. When expanded the box is carried by a leather strap. The box is made of pasteboard, of wax composition, insuring the proper keeping of the food within—a distinct advantage over the ordinary box—Philadelphia Record! Still More Remarkable. "It is remarkable that birds are so intelligent, when they're so small, isn't it?" asked one member of the Easy Information Club of her choicest friend, as they walked home together from a talk on "Our Home Birds." "Yes, isn't it?" assented the friend, cagerly. "Why, just think even how very clever the little cuckoos in cuckoo-clocks are, and of course they are only little wooden birds."—Youth's Companion. The surgeon is the only "cut-up" who really makes it pay.—Atchison Globe. O Mr. Timtot (teaching a friend golf)—"Before I go hany further, let me himpress upon you, old man, that heverything is in the way you stand!"—Sketch. Surgical. University Tests. One might say that the first test at Oxford is athletic ability, the next, sociability, and the final, scholastic ability. When you have passed the first two you are the admiration of your friends; when you have shown yourself a scholar besides, you are the admiration of your college.—Rhodes Scholar in Sunset. Until and Till Boys and girls should not fall into the error of putting an apostrophe before the word till, as if it were a contracted form of until. Till is a regularly formed word and therefore does not require the apostrophe. They should also remember that the possessive forms, hers, theirs and its, should not be written her's, their's and it's. The last one, it's, is in common use, of course, but it is a contraction of "it is" and not the possessive form of it.—Chicago News. If I should ever lose my watch I would, make a sun dial out of a water tumbler. Take a plain water tumbler and close its top with a round slat of wood, into the centre of which stick a darning needle. On the outside of the glass paste a narrow strip of paper which has been soaked in oil. Then place the glass on a slanting piece of wood and the sun dial is ready. At 5 in the morning place the glass so that the needle throws a shadow on one end of the strip of paper and mark the spot with a line and number 5. After each hour mark the shadow of the needle, and at 7 in the evening you will have a reliable sun dial.—Washington Star. Sun Dial. The Savannah Tribune PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO 462 West Broad Street, To All of Our Subscribers. By a recent law of the Postoffice Department, publishers of weekly papers cannot allow subscribers to be delinquent more than one year. On papers sent to subscribers owing more than one year full postage rate will have to be paid. The law will be in force April 1, 1908. We take this method of notifying all delinquent subscribers to make a settlement before that date else their paper will have to be stopped, but in stopping the paper will not relieve them of the amount they owe. The Federal government allows publishers to collect from subscribers for any length of time that they have received the paper. This right we will be compelled to take advantage of and make 2 demand for full settlement. Without further notice we kindly request delinquent subscribers to settle at once. We have hundreds of honest and straight forward subscribers who never wait to receive a dum but pay promptly. To them we extend appreciation, and hope that the others will follow suit. THE Ohio republicans have endorsed Taft for the presidential nomination. In the coming campaign the Negro vote will 'cut' quite a figure and will undoubtedly have to be reckoned with INTEREST in registering is somewhat lagging. This must not be so with our men. Let them do their duty now and register. GEORGIA Republicans know whom they want to send to the National Convention from the State and at the proper time this will be manifested. JUDGE SPEER has put a quietus on the locker clubs Like lambs to the slaughter, the managers of the several clubs were led before him and humbly signed an agreement not to sell liquor in Georgia. THE charge of Judge Speer to the grand jury last week does not contain any comfort for us as a race. The complimentary sop that he threw out in behalf of the better element among us will not over balance the serious charge that he has made against us. We have always counted the Judge as being among our friends, but will he forsake us! At Reidsville, Tatinall county, week before last, a party of white fellows visited a colored Odd Fellows hall and nearly demolished it. The miscreants have not been found yet. It is stated that it was done by a party of youngsters, and that the better element among the white citizens has condemned it. The thing for the good white citizens to do is to have these youngsters brought to justice and taught to respect the property of others regardless of race. COMPLAINTS are being frequently made by some of our women about the treatment accorded them in the streets and in public places by white men, who act insultingly toward them. It was only this week that a colored lady was compelled to ask the protection of a colored man, on account of being followed and insulted by a white man, who ran like a coward when this was done. It is difficult for our self respecting women to walk the streets without being insulted. These insults must be resented, and as men we must protect our women. In his sermon last Sunday, Rev. Pickard stated that he was insulted while walking a prominent street, by drunken colored men. This is unfortunate, very much so. At this time especially, our men must be very careful of their action. They must be law abiding, and while in public places, they should act in a dignified and respectful manner. We must not allow our undue actions to aleniate from us the few white friends who are loyal. In Our New Office. After a month of preparation and over a week of removing, we are in our new location at 462-West Broad street. It may take us a month longer to get everything straight, but this will in no manner interfere with us in getting out work on time for our many patrons. While, our quarters are not as large, as we are used to, yet we are in a better position to turn out more and better work than ever. Second Baptist Church. The forces are drawing together remarkably in this church and the regular congregations are larger than for ten years in the past. Members are continually joining. The Sunday School is simply excellent. Pastor May preached at both hours Sunday. At the morning hour there was a down pour of the Holy Ghost and many gave vent to their feelings in shouting and praising God. Deacon John F. Jones, one of the deacons of many years on the staff made a lengthy statement which was great encouragement to both church and pastor; the deacon said "I feel better to-day than for many years in the past. I know for myself I'm born of the spirit of God." Deacon Jones is a strong character in the church and a great friend of the pastor. The sick list remains larger; those who are real sick are as follows: Sister Florence Gardner, Sister Myra Williams, Miss Essie Anderson, Sister Egleton, one member at Sandfly station and one at Georgia Infirmary. Two funerals during the week. Two marriages also. The officers of the Women's Mission will be formally installed Sunday at the conclusion of the morning services. The revival will begin about the first of April. The third Sunday in April will be the second anniversary of Dr. May's pastor ate. To-morrow at 4 p.m. communion will be administered here by the pastor who will be assisted by several city pastors. The Deacons Union of the city notified pastor May that they will turn out in a body to communion tomorrow. They will receive a hearty and cordial welcome. Regular services tomorrow. Pastor will preach at both hours morning subject "Encouragement." Every member should hear this subject discussed. At night be will preach the annual thanksgiving to the Brotherhood Union. This Union is one of the largest local organizations in the city. Dont fail to be out Sunday night. Every member should come prepared Sunday to subscribe the amount they will give in the rally. An excellent as well as a beneficial conference was held Monday night. Bethlehem Bapt. $ ^{3} $ Church. Rev. L. L. Blair, pastor, occupied his pulpit all day Sunday and preached two good sermons to very large congregations. They were heartily enjoyed by all. He lost no time in explaining the word of God to old and young that they may get in and stay in the heavenly path. Sunday school convened at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. L. L. Blair. The attendance was fair. After Sunday school the reverend and some of the deacons and members went down to the Morning Star Baptist Church in communion with Rev. H. L. Haywood. There our souls and hearts were made to rejoice that the good Lord was still with us. Tuesday night prayer meeting, Wednesday night teachers meeting, Thursday night preaching by Rev. Sappy which was very interesting, and instructive. All are respectfully invited to attend these services. F. A. B. Church. F. A. B. Church. The results of a series of meetings during last week at the First African Baptist church proved very successful. There was evidence of an outpouring of the Holy Ghost at each service Sunday and every person present burned of the spirit felt very keeely its Divine visitation. Upon the initiative of Deacon Chas Matthews were these meetings held, Rev. J. B. Miller, pastor of First Macedonia Bapist church, one of our loyal sons of whom we are proud, conducted the services Sunday, assisted at the communion service by the Rev. J. M. Simms and other ministerial brethern. The concert at the church on last Mon 'ay by the "Invincible All Stars Corcert Troupe" was a crowning success and the church realized a neat sum to assist in the coming rally March 15th. "The not d attendance was sufficient to give credit to the promoters composing the troupe. The church highly appreciate the charisability of the Troupe, and feel that the banquet spreaded for them after the rendition of so excellent a programme, was but a trifle compared with the real value of their service and assistance to it, in its financial struggle. Watch the TIBUNE for a repetition of this concert March 23rd. Our sick list has decreased to 33rd, and the general attendance at each service is good. The members are working ardouly and harmoniously together to raise the required amount at the annual rally this month. The contest between the east and west Side clubs, is growing more exciting as the time approaches; and it is thought that one will excell the other but a trifle. Every member is asked to pay their assessment, at least be identified in this rally, for the clerk of the church will proceed to begin a new roll of membership of the church, immediately after this rally, which has been a long felt want of this old historic church. Attend the cushion party at Sister Amy Delaware's home 512 Hartrage St. on Monday evening, March 9th, for benefit of the church. Admission 10 cents. The church extends many sympathy to Rev. and Brother J. B. Miller in the sudden demise of his elder brother on Wednesdays day morning last, and trust that God will over balance his sorrows with manifestation of comfort. Union Baptist Church. Sunday was indeed a church going day and the members turned out in full. Services were gr.nd. Our pastor Rev. Jas. Moss is a forceful speaker and a sweet and charming singer. Everybody who hears him once will want to hear him again. He will certainly interest you. It was indeed a pleasure to have with us in communion services, kev. Hill, Dea. J. H. Rogers and Dr. J. H. May and a good many of his members and officers. The Sunday school at 3 p.m. was addressed by Mr. Rogers. The concert that Mrs. Carrie Foster and Miss Janie Bell Boozar, are planning to give will take place on the 30th of this month; you are invited to come. Don't forget the anniversary which will begin on the 12th and -continue to the 23rd. All the churches, pastors and friends are invited to come and be with us. The members all will give their $1.00, please don't fail. We must pibest ourselves. The sick list is smaller, in part as follows: Sisters H. Grason and Willie James. The officers, and members of Union Baptist Church will commune with the Second Baptist Church, Sunday. The Morning Star Baptist Church. The Morning Star Baptist Church held its regular services Sunday, Rev. H. L. Haywood, B. D., pastor. At 11 n. m., Rev. M. C. Maxwell, of Statesboro, Ga., preached a soul stirring sermon. Subject "The life of a Christian soldier." Sunday school at 3 p. m., was largely attended as usual. At 4 p. m., the Lord's supper was administered to a full house. Revs. L. L. Blair, M. C. Maxwell, J. A. Johnson, S. J. Hillman were present. At this hour the saints of Morning Star feasted on food divine, At 8:30 p. m., the pastor delivered a powerful sermon, and he proved himself to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Sister Lottie Stokes died Saturday morning. Pastor Haywood conducted the services at 3 p. m., Sunday. The services will be conducted Sunday morning and evening by the pastor. We invite our friends to attend services at the Sister's hall Russell street. Died at Early Manhood. Mr Solomon W. Walton, who for many years was a porter for M S & D Byck, died on Monday last after several weeks of illness. Mr Walton was highly respected by his employers and fellow workmen. He was always willing to give a helping hand to those who stood in need. The deceased was a member of Crescent Lodge, K. of P. and the Porters Benevolent Association He leaves a wife, Mrs. Era S Walton and a sister Mrs Marie Tyson of Register, Ga. and a host of friends a mourn his loss. Mr. Blce's De th Mr. George R. Rice, after an illness of some length died on Thursday last at his late residence Henry street, east. The funeral took place on Friday afternoon from the First Congregational Church of which he was a member for a number of years. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. L. Cash and were attended by a number of people. Mr. Rice was a straightforward man and well liked by all who knew him. He was a dutiful husband, a loving father and a loyal friend. A wife, two boys and other relatives survive him. To them a host of friends extend sympathy. Well Attended Services. Unusual interest centered in the services at the First Congregational Church on Sunday last. The services in the morning were largely attended. The music by the choir was good and the sermon by the pastor, Rev. W. L. Cash was full of wholesome food for thought. At the evening services over twenty persons were r served into membership and the holy communion was administered. The attendance was one of the largest ever had at this service, extra seats being required to acomodate those attending. The sermon by Rev. Cash was in keeping with the occasion and the entire service was full of interest and very helpful. Notice to the Public. Sayannah, Ga. 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After February 1st, Gwinnett and West Broad streets. MILLER'S RESORT, Waters Road. Your Money in a good bank is secured by REAL ESTATE. Why not put your money in REAL ESTATE and receive double profit? I am prepared to offer some good propositions and only a little cash will start the ball rolling. CHAS.. A. R. McDOWELL, Real Estate and Renting Agent Bell Phone 3188 22 State Street. west When on the road, or when you wish to have a fine oyster roast or other refreshments, stop at Sam Miller's Place Waters Road Parties of any size served on short notice. Everything reasonable. A royal welcome to all. SAM MILLER, Prop. 11.1.07 Savannah, Ga. March, 3, 1908. Mr. Edilor Trimunk. Mr. Editor TRIBUNK: Replying to Mr. McMillen's reply of February 5, 1905, regarding how he pays rent, would like to say a word or two regarding his honesty as a rent-payer; the date in question, my father was informed in the afternoon of his packing up, I took the burden on myself, after I got off at 6:30 p. m. rode out to the house to find he had already locked up the house- and' left. I hunted him up, but hunted in vain but I found his wife. She informed me he was on his way to my father's house with keys and rent for (2) two months which house he has never reached. Now if Mr. McMillen had to take a railroad train to reach our house, I am to state that same railroad train is still in motion, only to be had more to his advantage now at 2 1-2 cents per mile, which rate is cheaper than when he left 12 o'clock M. (night) some weeks ago. I would be at his pleasure to meet him man to man on his arrival, at any time, just let him drop me a postal at his departure. Pity he could have not met my father man to man before he ducked. Undertaking Establishment, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS. All Orders promptly attended, Day or Night. Firstclass Embalming and all work of that kind guaranteed. Our stock of Coffin, Caiskets and Robes is the largest in the city. We also have a first class Livery Stable where we furnish the best Carriages, Hearses and Funeral Cars. We also have in our employment Mr. H. S. Dunbar, who would like to see his friends at any time. MANAGERS: H S. DUNBAR W. R. FIELDS. Bell Phone 676: 335-333 JEFFERSON STREET. ROBERT WASHINGTON, adv. Son of A. I. Washington. The Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company Mrs. M: E. WILLIAMS, Hair Dressing Parlor SCALP TREATMENT, SHAMPOOING, Electric Face, Neck and Body Massaging. COMPLEXION BEAUTIFIED, MANICURING All kinds of Lady's Hair Goods, Switches, Puffs, Pompa- dours, etc. 5111 West Broad Street. Bell Phone 1111. Is doubly secured by Thousands of Dollars invested in Savannah Real Estate. 5 Per Cent Paid on Deposits The Wage Earners Loan & Investment Co., The Pioneer Negro Savings Bank of Georgia. Bell Phone 1198. 468 West Broad St., Owned and Controlled by Savannah Negroes. Dr. E. D. Bulkley, THE DENTIST. 219 East Broad St, Corner Hull. THE PLACE TO GET DENTAL WORK THE MOST UP-TO-DATE Colored Barber Shop 515 West Broad St. W have just installed an Electric Massage Machine. Your patronage is solicited. Easy Shaving, Artistic Hair-Cutting and Electric Massage. Our service is the best. PERRY R. WRIGHT, Manager. (Six years with Jos. T. Burton.) Don't Buy a New One. Do Your Stove give Satisfaction? Does it bake in the bottom as on top? Does it draw the draught up the flue so as to not to fill your eyes with smoke when cooking? If it don't, some part of it is out of order and we can remedy it if you would call to see us. We are experienced workers in the THE OLDEST OF THEM ALL The Royall Undertakng Co., Repairing of Cook Stoves and Furniture of every description. Oil Finishing, Upholstering, Re-caning Chairs, Mattress Renovating. Packing and Shipping is our Special work. Call, and see us at Jackson-Sloeum Repair Shop Only First Class Service Rendered Wi Respectful Attention. Jackson-Slocum Repair Shop, 436 EAST BROAD STREET. OUR STOCK OF CASKETS, COFFINS, ROBES, Etc, is Complete Bell Phone 887 319 Oglethorne Ave., West Colored Congressmen in the United States. Since the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1863, many Glored men have held official position. Two were United States Senators and twenty Representatives. A fine engraving of these Congressmen has just been issued giving accurate portraits of each; also the Congress in which they served and the years of service. In the picture the two Senators, Messrs. Revels and Bruce; occupy the center of the group, surrounded by the other twenty Representatives. In the background, the Stars and Stripes in color. This beautiful engraving, with a booklet containing biographies of these eminent men, is sold for one ($1.00) dollar. This engraving is a graphic political history of the Negro in America. No home, library, office or school room will be complete without it. Send for one to day. W. S. ROUNDFIELD, Manager. Residence 523 Anderson St., E. Bell Phone 3572 You Will Trust The Man Whose neighbors speak well of him—whose friends vouch for his honesty—whose business associates respect and honor him—whose counselors testify to his fair dealings—and whose ability and brains have shown him that a SQUARE DIAL is essential to permanent success. Stolling to do but collect your rents and look after your property. THE COLORED AMERICAN NOVELTY CO., P. O. drawer 2318. Washington, D. C. Call anh See Us at our new Location GRANTS WANTED "N. B. We also have in stock large engravings of Frederick Douglas, Paul Dunbart, Toussaint L'Onverture, Booker T. Washington, W. T. Vernon Register of the Treasury, Phillis Wheatley and "Everything about Colored People" in books, pictures, inventions and souvenirs. UNION SAVINGS & LOAN CO., Mrs. Louisa A. Alexander after six weeks illness with a very serious attack of LaGrippe is able to be out again to the delight of her many friends Mr and Mrs Nathan Hart are in the city, stopping at 553 Congress St, West. Mr Hart is messenger to Judge Speer. Miss Carrie Bush of Beaufort, S. C., is in the city taking a special course in millinery. She is the guest of Mrs. Julia C. Carr, Waters Avenue. Mrs. M. L. Ward left on the 27th ult, to join Mr. Ward who left here since Jan. 1st to make Jack sonville their future home. Their many friends wish them joy and happiness in their new home. The Invincible Concert Club will render a sacred concert at Beth-Eden Baptist church on Sunday, (tomorrow) night. Friends of the church and the public are cordially invited; everybody welcome Mrs. C. B. Elwards of Summit, New York is visiting her friend Mrs. Wm. Mitchell of 525 Jefferson street. When it comes to the prompt payment of sick and death claims of its members, the Atlanta Mutual leads them all. Call for one of their agents. A. F. Herndon. Pres., R. B. Heggs, Assist. M'gr. 817 West Broad, Savannah Ga. 1 254. Mr. Jas. E. Buggs, formerly of this city but for the past several months residing in Baltimore, Md., has been appointed messenger in the commissary of the Department of the Gulf and is now stationed at Atlanta. Mr. Buggs is a brother of our popular young tailor, Mr. Frank H Thomas, and has a number of friends in the city who are glad of his appointment. At a meeting of Armenia Lodge No. 1930, G. U. O. of O. F., held Monday night March 2nd, the following officers were elected: E. A. Fields, N. G.; A. Cogawell, V. G; M. B Stevens, P. N. G.; George Johnson, N F; H. J. Freeman, W. Treas; W O. P. Sherman, P. S; W. B. Mill, W. C; R. N. Rutledge, Advocate; J. S. Jenkins, E. S; O. J. Williams, Weeley Butler, W. A. Thrash, Trunstees. J. L. Lee, wood yard, Waldburg street and railroad track. Oak, Pine and light wood for sale. Will give special rates to shops. Call and see him or ring Bell Phone 4302, or Georgia 1534. The W. C. P. Club entertained on last Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. M. C. Maxwell. The parlor was tastely decorated for the occasion. Various games were indulged in until a late hour, then a sumptious repast was served which was enjoyed by all preaent. Mrs. Maxwell was assisted by Mrs. M. Smalls' and Mrs N. Rohrets. The guests present were Mesdames M. J. Howard, J. A. Williams, R. L. Barnes, Emma Paul, John Allen, J F Whitfield, C. C. Allen, Foster, S E. Fantroy, M. Haskell, J. Clayton Williams, Misses Fanny Grav, Sarah Johnson, May Steward, Mamie Oneal. The Atlanta Mutual Insurance which took over all of the Georgia business of the Metropolitan Mutual Benefit Association has not a single outstanding obligation, pays all claims promptly and solicits your patronage. 817 West Broad St. Savannah Ga. 1254 Miss Lillian Heffron who was a student at Scotia Seminary, was compelled to return home last week on account of illness. We are glad to note that she is improving greatly. An afternoon tea was served Monday last at the residence of Mrs. John Scott, 512 Huntingdon street, west by the Daughters of Tabor No. 45. Those who served were Mesdames S. B. Johnson, Mamie O'Neil and John Scott. Among the guests were Grand Chief Mentor N. D. Jackson of Atlanta and Rev. D. W. Cannon. The next tea will be served at the home of Mrs. M. A. Coles, 31st street west on Monday afternoon. A Card of Thanks. Mrs. George R. Rice desires to express her thanks and gratitude to her friends for their flowers, their condolences and many favors and kindness during her sad hours of affliction and bereave ment, Plant a Dollar In the UNION SAVINGS and reap a harvest that will come to those who will act. Do so to day. Loans..... Over Drafts..... Furniture and Fixtures..... Bank-Building and other Real Estate ..... Cash on Hand. Local Notes. Miss Rebecca Sengstacke, who is teaching at Waycross, spent a few days in the city this week. Mr. Stephen Jenkins is out again after being confined at home caused by a fall from a ladder while painting a few days ago. The friends of Mr. Perry Wright will be glad to hear that he is getting along nicely after having undergone and operation for appendicitis. Send a street wagon and go to J. L Lee's wood yard, Waldburg street and Railroad track and get a load of last years wood cheap. This is a bargain. Take hold of it. Bell phone 4302, Georgia 1534. A Birthday Party. On Monday evening last Mr. and Mrs. Jus. R. Brown 553 West Congress street entertained in honor of the birthday of Mrs. Brown. The evening was pleasantly spent. The home was beautifully decorated for the occasion with palms, potted plants, ferns, cornations, cut roses. At 12 o'clock, led by the host and hostess the guests were carried to the dining room where a sumptious repast was had. The menu was of great variety as well as quantity, served in courses. Mr. Nathan Hart acted as toast master. Each gentleman was called upon to deliver a toast after which the host made an able response. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. V. Greene Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hart, of Macon, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Chesley T. Welch, Mrs. Ida Cummings, Mr. Lewis K Ligon, Mr. H. T. Singleton, Mr. Chas. M. Brinson. Birthday Social. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dickson of 415 West Bolton street entertained Wednesday evening of last week in honor of Mrs. Dickson's birthday. Games were indulged in until 11:30 when the guests repaired to the dining room where the table was beautifully decorated with violets, japonicas and zalias. The birthday cake was beautifully decorated with candles of variegated colors. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas, Miss Essie Anderson, Mr. Joseph Green, Mr. Frank Coleman, Dr. Jamerson. Mr. E S Williams, Mrs. R Anderson, Mrs. C S. Perry, Mrs. Geo. Anderson. The presents were handsome. Many out of town presents were received. The guests on leaving expressed themselves as having spent the evening very pleasantly and wished the hostess many more pleasant birthdays. Fox Election On Tuesday night last, the Fox Club's annual election occurred at their club room and the following officers were elected: H. W. Mann, Pres; Morris Anderson, Vice Pres.; Samuel Taylor, Financial Sec.; Jas. M. McIntosh, Recording Sec.; Chas. Smith, Trez.; Chas. H. Heyward, Advocate. These officers will be installed at the rooms of the club on Tuesday night, next. Twlight Reapers At the regular meeting of the Twilight Reapers Aid and Social Club the following officers were elected and installed: President C. D. Brown; Vice President, S. M. Lee; Financial Secretary, C. N. Williams; Recording Secretary, E. A Small; Adyocate, J. W. Sweedenburg; Chaplain, B Thomas; Sergt. at Arms, k. Price. This Club was organized March 15 h, 1896, and has been one of the foremost among our young people during that period. It has had a successful career and have lost only two memb-rs by death and is also especially strong financially having quite a net sum deposited, and investments in stocks. Their usual Annual Ball will take place on March 17th, at Odd Fellows Temple Harris street at which time the members intend entertaining their friends most royally. The admission to the ball will be 50 cents angle and $100 double. --- St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, West Broad and Bolton 61s, Sawanah Ga. Services; 2nd and 4th Sundays 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. last and 3rd Sundays 8 p.m. Wednesday nights 8 a.m. Holy 2nd Sundays 11 a.m. Holy Eucharist Saints Days 6:15 a.m. m. Sunday School every Sunday 4 p.m. A cordial welcome to all. The Rev Milton Moran Weston, Vicar, 422 West Boston street AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. The G. E. Club will give a five nights fair at Masonic Temple from Monday night March 9th to 13th. Tickets 10 and 35 cents A grand Pythian Period Entertainment will be given by Crescent Lodge No. 2 K. of P., at Harris street hall, Monday night March 30th. Tickets 25 cents. The Brotherhood Union will give their 13th anniversary at Harris street hall, Monday night March 9th. Tickets 35 A grand ball will be given by the Golden Eagle Aid and Social Club at Mason ic Temple. Tuesday night April 21st, Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Jolly Hoppers will give a grand minstrel and dance at Harris street hall, Tuesday night March 10th Tickets 15 and 25 cents The 42 Anniversary of Eureka Lodge No.1, A F and A M, will be given at Masonic Temple, Wednesday night March 18th Tickets 50 and 75 cents A Cushion Party will be given for the benefit of F. A. B. Church at the residence of Mrs. A Deleware. 512 Hartridge street, by Deacon Elmore's Club, Monday night March 9th. Tickets 10 cents. A grand Leap Year hop will be given by St Philip Lodge No. 11, L. O. of A, K, at Masonic Temple Monday night March 23rd. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. The Union S. and D., of Elijah will give their 8th anniversary at Mason c. Temple Tuesday night April 7th. Tickets. 35 and 50 cents. Remember the "Invincibles" concert at F, A. B. Church, Monday night. Tickets 10 cents. A grand Leap Year entertainment will be given by Savannah Sprouting Fountain No. 2070 U. O. T. R., at Harris street hall, Monday night March 16th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The Ladies Union Branch of the Brotherhood Union will give a grand Dutch Ball at Harris street hall, Tuesday night March 24th. Tickets 15 cents. 15 and 25 cents. "An evening on the Lawn" will be given at Masonic Temple, by Naomi Tabernacle, No. 40 D. of T., Tuesday night March 17th. Tickets 15 cents. A grand Spring Soiree will be given by the Young Adelphia A. and S. Club at the Masonic Temple, Monday night April 6th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. A grand entertainment and exhibition drill will be given by the Juvenile Cadets at Duffy street hall, Monday night March 16th. Tickets 15 cents. A Spring Dance will be given by the Boys of Pleasure A. and S. Club at Masonic Temple, Monday night, March 30th. Tickets 20 and 35 cents. The Twilight Reapers A. and S. Club will give their twelfth anniversary at Harris street hall, Tuesday night March 17th. Tickets 50 cents and $1,000. The Fountain City Aid and Social Club will give their first annual dance at Masonic Temple, Monday night, March 16th. Tickets 25 and 20 ceats. A Spring Concert will be given at Haven School Monday night March 23rd at 0:15 o'clock. Tickets 10 cents. A Leap Year Ball will be given by Jericho Lodge No. 40 I. O. of G S and D. of S., at Harris street hall, Wednesday night April 1st. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The Invincible Concert Club will give a grand Skiddoo Party at Morse's Hall, Monday night March 16th. Tickets 23 cents. Every 23rd person admitted free. The first anniversary of Eastern Star A. and 8. Club will be given at Harris street hall, Wednesday night March 25th Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Ladies and Gentlemen Social will give their first annual dance at Our Hall, Monday night March 23rd. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The Friendly Bros, Club No. 1, will give their 20th annual at Harris street hall Wednesday night March 18th. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. A grand Leap Year Dance will be given by the Colored Automobile Chauffeurs at Harris street hall, Wednesday night March 11th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. DR. L. S. PARKS, 240 Barnard St., Savannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $8.00. Broken Places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. BellPhone 1244 Gold-Crowns Guaranteed 23% K Gold Picture Frames. If you have pictures to frame bring them to us and we'll frame them in any style frame you like. As we have a large assortment of moulding to select from, prices are very reasonable. Also a large as sortment of postal cards always on hand. S. K. FRIEDMAN. Barnard and York lane. THIS season we're strong on the new models in Sack Suits. If you want see some of the most swagger styles ever made in Men's Clothes just come here some day and ask to one our Fine Hand Made Varsity Models; there are half a dozen or more styles in the Varsity line; some of them will be sure to suit you. A New Pharmacy The People's Pharmacy 809 West Broad St. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Drugs Toilet Articles and Sundries. Candles, Soda Water and Ice Cream. J. F. Ford, Prop. F. F. Jones, DEALER IN Beef - Veal - Mutton Lamb-Pork-Hams Bacon and CORNED BEEF All Kinds of GAME in Season. Goods promptly delivered to any part of the city free of charge. STALL 31. CITY MARKET. DO YOU LIKE Capital Stock Paid In..... Surplus Fund..... Due Banks..... Deposits, Savings Department..... Bills Payable..... Undivided Profits 1908..... The Savannah Mutual and Fire Association of 20 State street, west, of Savannah, Ga., announces its readiness to begin business. The company will write insurance on the homes, household goods, churches, lodges, business houses and other property of our people. This will afford protection which has hitherto been denied them. Twenty-five or more agents will be put to work at once in various parts of the State, and a thorough canvass made for safe legitimate business. A few persons 25 or more who have had some experience as agents and possess other required qualifications may secure positions with salaries of forty to fifty dollars per month, according to fitness for service. For further particulars address D. C. Suggs Pres. or L. S. Read Sect. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Firstclass Dentist, All Work Guaranteed. 623 WEST BROAD STREET. Bet. Huntingdon and Hall. Bell Phone 2098. DRY & STEAM CLEANING Ladies Work a Specialty HATS CLEANED & RE-BLOCKED Bell Phone 2050 JEFFERSON & BERRIEN STS. SAVANNAH, GA. LODGE ROOMS FOR HIRE CHEAP! ENTERTAINMENT HALLS with Piano and Orchestra. Hired Together. Music furnished with the Hall. MORSE'S HALL. SpecialNotice to Ladi es When your Sewing Machines get out of order—skip stitches—breaks thread or runs heavy. Call at New Home Office Corner Barnard and York Street. And ask for ELIJAH J. QUARTERMAN, Expert Adjuster. Our subscribers should know that as long as they allow the paper to be sent to them, even if the time they subscribed for has past, that they are responsible for the payment. This right is granted by the laws of the country, therefore those of our subscribers who want the paper discontinued had better notify us at once. $ 7694 50 2536 63 1850 00 15,413 07 4000 00 316 17 $ 31,810 37 The Peoples Company, The S, Secretary and Treasurer. W. A NEWSOME E. M. BELL TEMPERANCE WORKER Peruinis is of Valuable Nerve and Lobd Remedy. 1980 MIBS BESSIE FARRELL MISS BESSIE FARRELL, 1011 Third Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., is President of the Young People's Christian Temperance Association. She writes: "Peruna is certainly a valuable nerve and blood remedy, calculated to build up the broken-down health of worn-out women. I have found by personal experience that it is wonderful value of strength, assisting the stomach to assimilate and digest the food, and building up worn-out tissues. In my work I have had occasion to recommend it freely, especially to women. I saw of nothing which is better to build up the strength of a young mother, in fact all the ailments peculiar to women, so I am pleased to give it my-hearty endorsement." Dr. Hartman has prescribed Peruna for women and managemen- ters (he has to receive a multitude of letters like the above, thanking him for the wonderful benefits received. Man-a-lin the ideal Laxative. GRIP lets down the bars. The trouble is it gives no warning. The hits of the scent means you of danger, but Grip never gives an alarm until its poison has undone the system. Weak lungs—mean consumption; weak heart, heart disease; and weak kidneys, bright disease. Take JOHNSON'S Grip 2 Fever Tonic In 23 minutes it enters the blood and begins to undo the miracle, and in one day the Grip victim is placed beyond the danger line. Use nothing else. Johnson's Chill 2 Fever Tonic Co. Savannah, Georgia. AGENTS (without money) WANTED. DO YOU KNOW THE WET WEATHER COMFORT AND PROTECTION afforded by a TOWER'S FILM BRAND SLICKER? Clean-Light Durable Guaranteed Waterproof $399 Everywhere CAPUDINE CURES It removes the cause scolding the nerves and relieves the aches and GOLDS AND GRIPPE Travail- it gives all headaches and Nurture also. No bad effects. 10c, 20c and 500 bottles. (LUCIUS) No man is as dangerous as he thinks you think he is. HER GOOD FORTUNE After Years Spent in Valle Effort. - Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse, of Cambridge, N. Y., says: "Five years ago I had a bad fall and it affected my kilneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twings followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too I had a bad fall and it affected my kidneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too weak to work. Though constantly using medicine I despaired of being cured until I began taking Doan's Kidney, Pills. Then relief came quickly, and in a short time I was completely cured. I am now in excellent health." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Now is the time to do things; by and bive is the time to do nothing. MINARD'S LINIMENT After trying nearly everything for two years, writes J. Perry, 33 Ingraham St., E. Providence, R. I. To prove that it cures rheumatic pains, we will send a special bottle free upon request. Minard's Liniment Mfg. Co., South Framingham, Mass. There are many sick-of-home voyagers on the sea of matrimony. Plies Cured in 6 to 14 Days. Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any case of Jelbing, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Plies in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50C. "Get busy" may not be good English, but it's good advice. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, increases inflammation, allays pain, cures wind, colic, 25ca bottle. A lover is a man a woman picks out to throw herself away upon. Prince Haseba, the distinguished Japanese, referred at a dinner in Spokane to the well known cleanliness of his nation. "If you should visit a Japanese house," he said, "you would be obliged to remove your shoes at the doorway. Japanese floors are very beautifully kept. I know of some houses where thirty or forty servants have no other duty than the polishing of the floors. "A young Japanese student studying in London had the misfortune, to live in an apartment house where the janitor did not keep the hall in very good condition. It was a great change to him, and he felt it keenly. "On the approach of winter the janitor put up in the entrance the notice. Please wipe your feet." "The young Japanese the first night he observed this notice, took out a pencil and added to it. 'On going out.'"—Seattle Post Intelligence. Abe a Good Penman. "Abraham Lincoln," said his schoolmate, Austin Gollaher, "was an unusually bright boy at school, and made splendid progress in his studies. Indeed, he learned faster than anyone else in the school. Though so young he studied very hard. He would get spicewood brushes, pack them upon a log, and burn them two or three together, for the purpose of giving light evening by which he might pursue his studies." "It was considered at that time," said one of his early friends, "that Abe was the best penman in the neighborhood. One day, while he was on a visit at my mother's, I asked him to write some copies for me. He very willingly consented. He wrote several of them, but one of them I have never forgotten, although a boy at that time. It was this:— "Good boys who to their books apply Will all be great men by and by." . Billion Dollar Grass. Most remarkable grass of the century. Good for three rousing crops annually. One Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold $300. 800.00 worth of seed and "had 300 tons of hay besides." It is immense. Do try it. FOR 10c AND THIS NOTICE send to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., to pay postage, etc, and they will mail you the only original seed catalog published in America with samples of Billion Dollar Grass, Macaroni the milled miliaurea, Saffron the dry soil luxurian, Victim Rape, the 200 a ton green food producer, Silver King Harley yielding 132 bu. per acre, etc., etc, etc. And if you send 146 we will add a package of new farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Ws. A. C. L. An Uncertain Compliment. James J. Hill, the railway magnate, on a recent visit to Kansas City, said of a certain rise in stock quotations: "It looks well, but I am afraid it is dubious. Yes, it is dubious. It romlinds me of the Turkish bashaw and his wife. "A Turkish bashaw lay dying. He summoned to him the youngest and fairest of his forty-six wives, and said to her in a low, weak voice: "Put on your richest costume, your most brilliant jewels. Deck your hair with pearls, brighten your finger tips with henna." "The young wife blushed. Even in her grief she was flattered. "And why, my lord," she said, 'do you desire me to make this sumptuous toilet?" "So that Death, when he comes, the man replied, 'seeing you so very beautiful, may perhaps carry you off instead of me.'"—Kansas City Times NO MONEY ADVANCED. "For 2 cents I'd knock your block on," said the angry man. "Well, you don't expect me to furnish your working capital, do you?" responded the other and calmer one. Philadelphia Ledger. DON'T CUT YOUR CORNS. If you suffer with corns, bunions, sore, callous spots on the feet or soft corns between the toes, go to your druggist or send 25c, by mail for ARBOTT'S EAST INDIAN CORN PAINT. It cures quickly and permanently without cutting, burning or "eating" the flesh and leaves no pain or soreness. Address The Import Co., Sayannah, Ga. If a man is unusually polite a woman is apt to be suspicious of him. Hog Cholera. The greatest drawback to the hog industry which breeders in this country have to contend with is what is known as "hog cholera" and "swine plague". Hog cholera is a highly contagious disease and unless checked is liable to carry off a great number of hogs in a very short time. Mr. A. P. Williams of Burnetts Creek, Ind., tells of an experience which he had with some hogs that had the cholera. "Five years ago," says Mr. Williams, "I was in the employ of Mr. J. D. Richardson, Lafayette, Ipd., as his barn foreman, Some fine hogs that I was feeding took the cholera. I gave them Sloan's Liment and did not lose a hog. Some were so bad they would not drink sweet milk and I was compelled to drench them. I have tried. it at every opportunity since and always find it O. K." Write for Dr. Sloan's-free book on the treatment of Horses, Cattle, Hogs and Poultry. Address! Dr. Earl S. Sloan, 615 Albany street, Boston, Mass. It's a good thing to avoid people who consider you a good thing. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN 38 New York City.—The over blouses that give a gulpe effect are in the height of style, and this one is susceptible of great variation, while it is 1 both novel and chic. In the illustration touline silk is piped with velvet and worn over a gulpe of thin lace, but for the blouse itself everything $ \textcircled{3} $ seasonable is appropriate, while the gulpe can be made of lace, embroidery or of the still simpler lingere material or of chiffon as liked. It is entirely separate from the blouse and consequently it can be varied as often as may be liked, so that really with very little labor the one blouse can be made to take on two or three quite different shapes. Again, the model is just as well suited to the odd walst as to the entire gown and consequently, is an exceedingly valuable acquisition to the possibilities of the wardrobe. In this case the gulpe is made with the new long sleeves, but it can be made quite sleeveless, and those of the blouse only worn if liked. The blouse is made with fronts and back, which are tucked on becoming lines, and to which the pretty three-quarter sleeves are attached. These sleeves are finished with oddly shaped cuffs and to the lower edge of the blouse is joined a basque portion, which keeps it perfectly in place. The gulpe is made with front and backs and plain fitted sleeves that are made with upper and under portions. It is closed invisibly at the back and the neck is finished with one of the new stock collars that rounds up back of the ears. Close, Short Coat. The woman with large hips may think a close, short coat is most becoming to her figure, but there is a possibility that the coat which falls just over the hips will call less attention to them. Lace and Gold. When the lace is set together with gold or silver thread and a fold of gold or silver tissue is set at the top of the collar, one has an excellent effect. Belt Worn Straight. Belts are worn straight around the waist. Shirt Waist or Bliouse. Every fresh variation of the shirt waist meets its welcome. Here is one, that while it, is made in tailored style, departs somewhat from the regulation model and is exceedingly chic and smart. In the illustration it is made of white linen and the little chemisette is of the material tucked, while the band is of the same trimmed with pearl buttons, but there are a great many possibilities in the design, simple as it is. It can be made of washable material and left unlined, or it can be made of silk or of wool and used with or without the lining as liked, while the little chemisette can be of embroidery in place of the tucking, or can be treated in any way that may be liked. Again the plain front affords exceptional opportunity for embroidery and can be elaborated in a variety of ways. The waist is made with the fitted lining, which can be used or omitted as liked, the centre front, the tucked side fronts and the backs. The chemisette portion is applied over the plain front and if liked the material beneath can be cut away. A collar finishes the neck and there are regu- > lation shirt waist sleeves with overlaps and straight cuffs. The quantity of material required for the medium,size is four and a half yards,twenty-four, three and an eight yards thirty-two or two and 1 an eighth yards forty-four inches wide, with a quarter yard of tucking for the chemisette. Colored Satin Linings. White satin linings, either for muffs or jackets or cloaks, have become entirely ancien jeu—they are replaced by rich colored liberty silk in contrast, to the garment, resedig green lining purple or gray garments royal blue lining khaki color, while maroon is lined with flaming geraium, and aubergine with verdigris. For evening cloaks this vlyd lining is of chiffon, full, detached from the garment, so that it blows from the open fronts-like inner scarfs. The question was recently asked in a newspaper, "What is the most dismal of professions?" Among those that occurred to the British Medical Journal as having a claim to be considered were grave digging, scavenging, listening to Parliamentary orations through an all-night sitting and the writing of poems—or articles—that nobody reads. The washing of dishes may be made interesting if done-scientifically. Don't blame the leap year maid for trying to make a name for herself. What Causes Headache. From October to May, Colds are the most frequent cause of Headache, Laxative Broma Quinine removes cause. E. W. Grove on box. 20c. When a wise man is too tired to think his talk is sure to sound foolish. Brown's Bronchial Troches have a world-wide reputation for curing coughs, sore throats and relieving bronchitis and asthma. Even a busy man has time to feel sorry for himself. Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists. IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW. 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It Costs to Rün a Big City It costs New Yorkers $31 a head to be governed. In Philadelphia and in Chicago it costs only $13 a head and citizens are provided with police, fire, sanitary and other protection common to large cities. In Buffalo the figure is $12; in Washington, Bridgeport, Scheenectady and cities of that sort, $11 per capita pays the tax; in Houston, Tex., the charge is under $10; in lively Los Angeles, $7.50; Scranton and Seattle each collect $6.50, and Nashville, Teen., is at the bottom of the list of progressive cities with a taxation of about $6 per capita, less than one-fifth of New York's rate. The average city tax throughout the country is probably between $10 and $11 per capita, or almost exactly the amount by which New York has raised its per capita figure in only nine years.—Broadway. AT JAMESTOWN. A newly-married-couple was taking in the Jamestown Exposition "There's our biggest man-of-war, dear," said the husband, pointing to one of the vessels in the harbor. Just then a little tug was seen puffing around the big ship. "And is the little one a tug-of-war, Tom?" asked the wife.—Success Magazine. OLD SERGEON Found Coffee Caused Hands to Tremble. The surgeon's duties require clear judgment and a steady hand. A slip or an unnecessary incision may do irreparable damage to the patient. When he found that coffee drinking caused his hands to tremble, an ill surgeon conscientiously gave it up and this is his story: "For years I was a coffee drinker until my nervous system was nearly broken down, my hands trembled so I could hardly write, and insomnia tortured me at night. "Besides, how could I safely perform operations with unsteady hands, using knives and instruments of precision? When I saw plainly the bad effects of coffee, I decided to stop it, and three years ago I prepared some Postum, of which I had received a sample. "The first cupful surprised me. It was mild, soothing, delicious. At this time I gave some Postum to a friend who was in a similar condition to mine, from the use of coffee. "A few days after, I met him, and he was full of praise for Postum, declaring he would never return to coffee, but stick to Postum. We then ordered a full supply, and within a short time my nervousness and consequent trembling, as well as insomnia disappeared, blood circulation became normal, no dizziness nor heat nashes. "My friend became a Postum enthusiast, his whole family using it exclusively. "It would be the fault of the one who brewed the Postum if it did not taste good when served." "The best food may be spilled if not properly made. Postum should be boiled according to directions on the pkg. Then it is all right, any one can rely on it. It ought to become the national drink." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. GOOD ROADS Must Have Good Roads. Erskine Ramsay's discussion of county road making and maintenance which appeared in an interview in The Age-Herald has been warmly approved by many persons familiar with the question now agitating this community. Mr. Ramsay, an engineer by profession and a man of acute observation and wide practical experience, recommends that the section system long in use, in railroad maintenance be applied to the cherted and macadamized roads of Jefferson County. That is to say, divide the roads into six-mile sections, place one man in charge of each section and make him responsible for every foot of its condition, winter and summer; and at the end of each year pay him a bonus for the satisfactory performance of his task. This plan would, of course, call for supervisors whose duties should include thorough inspection of the section work at stated intervals. A system such as this gives excellent results wherever it is in vogue. It operates so well, indeed, that no other system would be considered. - No one questions the integrity of the men who compose the Jefferson County Board of Revenue. These public servants expend the money available for roads as, in their judgment, seems to them best. But the fact remains that the highways are in wretched condition, which of itself shows that money has been wasted and that the road system now in operation is altogether defective. Let not the board lose time in reorganizing its road department. Let an engineer be employed to give his entire time to the work of planning and directing and let his position be in all respects like that of the city engineer. County road building is a science that ranks with railroad construction. It requires brains, training and administrative talent on the part of the engineer, and energy and experience on the part of the supervisors who assist him. The various materials needed in road making, the question of grades and the question of drainage and the use of the latest and most approved machinery for the economic prosecution of the work are mere matters of detail. The people know good roads when they see them. What they have a right to expect is a system of firm, smooth roads that will enable them to haul heavy loads at all seasons of the year or to drive in buggy or family carriage with comfort and pleasure. This is what they are demanding and this they are determined to have in the very near future.—From the Birmingham Age-Herald. Novel Road Apparatus. The increasing importance of smooth roads has suggested to M. T. Brown, an English engineer, an apparatus for automatically tracing on a band of paper every inequality, and defect. The instrument is called the viagraph, and it ressembles a long and narrow sled drawn by a long cord. The recording apparatus, under a glass cover, is placed between the runners. A toothed wheel at the end of a horizontal lever is held to the road by a spring, being thus made to follow every elevation and depression, and through an adjustable link a second lever is made to follow a band of paper carried by a vertical drum. The paper is drawn from one spool over the drum to a second spool by motion of the sled itself. An accurate tracing of profile of the road is made on paper with the inequalities more or less exaggerated according to the adjustment of the link connecting the two levers. Along sounds at each revolution of the drum and the distance traveled by the road wheel is recorded on three dials. Fasadena, Cal. is trying what seems to be a new plan for paving street car lines. It is thought to be an improvement on a similar plan tried at Long Beach. The specifications provide that the old surfacing or paving, and the tracks also shall be removed, and in their place a trench shall be made, to expose the natural soil. A twelve-ton roller is to pack hard the bottom of this trench, after which five inches of macadam is to be spread and rolled by the heavy roller. On this layer of broken rock the ties are to be laid, ballasted by broken stone and brought to grade with sand gravel. On this foundation crushed rock is to rest, and oil is to be applied at the rate of one and one-half gallons per square yard. A top dressing of sand and fine rock screenings, rolled until the whole is smooth and hard, will complete the work. Red in the Face. On Ralph Stuart's recent visit to Portland he told this story of his boys: "Upon the birth of the youngest boy the proud father escorted the eldest lad (aged five years) to the crib where the sleeping infant lay, "Aren't you proud of your little brother? he was asked. "Yes," he replied, hesitatingly; "but see! ain't he sunburnt!" "Portland Oregonian." AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. D.WRIGHT E. MARVIN. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching Sunday morning in the Flatbush Presbyterian Church on "True Greatness," the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Dwight L. Marvin, took for his text, John 10:41: "John, indeed, did no sign; but all things whatsoever John spoke of this man were true." In the course of his sermon Dr. Marvin said: John did no miracles, yet he was great, the greatest of the prophets. Human nature loves the marvelous. Men turn and look in wonder at the feats of the performer on the trapeze, whether it be in theology, business, politics or science. Dazzling feats of mind and body give a false view of life. John did not measure his greatness by that of others; he was too much absorbed in his mission to think of the work of his fellow men. Like Moses, who "wist not that his face shone" when he came down from the Mount of Communion, John went to the river bank to preach in obliviousness of his own superiority to others. To himself he seemed but a voice, a breath, or a slave unworthy to loose Messiah's sandals. Yet John was ambitious; he aspired to a position of faithfulness that would make him worthy of his calling. Ambition is mutual; he indeed there is little hope for advancement. Life without it. Young people sometimes be satisfied to be satisfied with the additions in which they are placed and crush all desire to better themselves. Ambition is right and praiseworthy when it is founded on humility and obedience; it is wrong when grounded in pride and selfishness. Daniel was ambitions to make known the power of Jehovah in the land of his captivity. Joshua was ambitions to be a worthy successor of Moses. Paul was ambitions to plant the standard of the cross in every town of Asia Minor. John the Apostle was ambitions to repeat the vision that came to him on Patmos, and Jesus was ambitions to save the world. In studying the life of John the Baptist we discover four things that made him great: He was faithful to his call; he was humble in his servant life; he was strong in the presence of the Messiah; and he was devout in all that he did. He was not a miracle worker, but he was a forerunner, and as a forerunner he gave himself to his work. Rome had extended its power in many directions; the destiny of the empire was in one man's hands; the old, sturdy Roman stock had died out; two classes of men took its place: the petted devotees of wealth and luxury and the slaves. The old brick imperial city had given way to a city of marble. Stoicism, epicurianism and superstition prevailed. Men worshiped their ancestors and the emperor. The Jews in Palestine had become restless under the Roman yoke and were ready to resist foreign control. They waited only for some great man to arise and stir them to rebellion. There was a feeling everywhere that the kingdom of heaven was hard, that the Messiah was about to appear and that men on to successful combat against the Romans. Suddenly John the Baptist made his appearance on the hanks of the Jordan. His strange garb, his positive preaching, his bold message, attracted attention, and crowds came from every district to hear his sermons, and submit to his baptism. It is no wonder, for John was a great preacher. We sometimes hear it said that there are too many ministers. Vacant pulpits, unemployed clergymen and the prevalent unwillingness of Christians to pay living salaries to their religious leaders are all mentioned in evidence of the fact. It may be true that there are too many ministers, but there are not too many prophets, and there never can be. The trouble is, we have a narrow view of the ministry. The work of the Gospel Herald cannot be held down to the limits of a profession. Eleven o'clock in the morning, 8 o'clock in the evening, so many prayers, so many readings, so many sermons, so many calls during the week, and the work is finished. Fra Angelico preached when he wrought his wonderful pictures, Savonarca preached when he hurled an anthem, so many calls during the rupture of religious leaders; Binyan preached when he penned his marvelous dream of the "Pilgrims' Progress;" Carey preached when he planned missionary service while working at a cobblers' bench; Gordon preached when he set an example of righteousness and led his soldiers on to sacrifice and service; Livingston preached as he pushed his way on through the dark continent; Agassiz preached in his scientific investigations; Miller preached when he saw the footprints of the Creator in the stones, and Frances Ridley Havergail preached when she wrote her poems and her songs. Every Christian is called to be a preacher just as truly as was John the Baptist. Our stores, shops, offices, homes and schools are our pulpits, and our contracts, bargains, services and daily routine work are our Bible self-gifts. The separation of oneself for preaching is always harder than the preparation of a sermon. Every man wrought in Jesus Christ unto good works is a preacher, and he is blessed of God in his ministry according to his faithfulness. There are no special promises for the profound, the learned and the brilliant—"John did no miracle"—but there are innumerable promises for the faithful. John stood for truth. He said that Christ would thoroughly purge His floor, that He would baptize with the Holy Spirit and that He could take away the sin of the world, and it all came to pass as he said. The heroic prophet on the river bank never compromised in matters of principle. He was the same loyal minister in Herod's palace as before admiring crowds; he was the same devout disciple in the Tower of Antonia as he was in the wilderness. Carlyle has said that "To teach religion, the first things needed and also the last and only thing is finding of a man who has religion"—a man who has strength of character enough to stand for truth and right- ousness. John's greatness was, seen not merely in his faithfulness, but also in his humility. Humility is not what most men think it is. It is a common opinion that it consists in thinking meanly of oneself, of disparaging oneself before others. How can a man think meanly of himself when he realizes that he is made in the image of God, that he possesses a divine nature, that he is of sufficient value to call forth the sacrifice of the Son of God? No; man was not made to crawl but to climb. Humility consists in possessing an ingenuity to stoop to the lowest children of earth and lift up the fallen, comfort the sorrowing, strengthen the weak, to yield ourselves, as did Christ, willing sacrifices for our fellow men. John knew the importance of his commission; he felt himself honored in being selected to proclaim the coming speech, yet he reckoned himself a mere crying in the wilderness, or, a bond-servant, unworthy to minister to his God. We have read that an order being given to adorn the walls of the House of commons with pictures, Haydon sent a petition to Parliament, asking that he might have the privilege of painting one of them, and begged at the same time that, if his request were denied, he might be granted the right to paint a single figure, and that if that should be refused, that he should be allowed to put on a few touches. Fearing, lest even this last desire should not be granted, he petitioned the government to hire the artist for artists, or rather than be excluded entirely from participation, permit him to hold their brushes. So great and erated was the work to be done that, with true artistic longing, he felt that he would be honored in the lowest service. Herein we find the secret of true humility, the willingness to minister in the lowliest places and to the most degraded of our fellow men, while possessing a sense of our greatness as children of the Highest, if only we can be used of God in advancing His purposes in the world. Still further, we see John's greatness revealed in his realization of the presence of Christ. To him the Messiah had ceased. to be a coming deliverer; He was a present leader, a contemporary. Moved by this profound conviction he felt as did the Apostle Paul, that he had but one mission in life, to herald the presence of his Lord. Perhaps there is nothing that is needless to-day than a stronger sense of reality in our religious lives, a clearer vision of the presence and power of God. We have in our churches machinery enough; we have organizations and committees in abundance. Have we forgotten that without a deep and abiding realization of a living Christ these things are vain? What does a drowning man desire most of all? A fine discourse on the art of swimming? A pamphlet on the buoyancy of salt water? A schedule of statistics on physical endurance? Would not these things be to him a mockery? What his soul most desires is a plank, a boat, a rope, a helping hand. What does the needy world want more than all else? A sermon on the art of spiritual notation? A book on the uplifting power of human nature? A statement regarding religious instincts? No; to an immortal being engulfed by sin these are a mere mockery. The world to-day is calling for a real Sayjour, one who is actually present, to lift and strengthen and guide. This is an age of negations, an age in which slight reference is made to the blood atonement. But the crying need of men, as of old, is the preaching of Christ a crucified and risen Lord. By faith we become identified with Him, by faith we accept His sacrifice, by faith we are nailed with Him to the cross, by faith we rise with Him in newness of life, by faith we partake of divine power. Yes, we need a real Sayjour. But again we find John's greatness shown in his devotion. He was not a word repeater. He cared little for forms. Creed making was not in his line of work. He had outgrown the rudiments of life and had come to know the secret of power. The set rules of the schoolroom are important in their place, but in after life we forget them, having adopted the principles that they expressed. Words become nothing to us when they have done their work and fixed their meaning in our lives. John was possessed with a realization that he was commissioned by the Almighty to proclaim a great fact. His whole soul was thrilled with the thought. He 'was on fire with a divine enthusiasm. He had no inclination to con over the old form of his call, but rather, to do his work under the impulse of a new soul ambition. Who ever heard of any man being permanently banned who was on fire with a great truth? He says that circumstances against him so. It was faithlessness that hindered our devotion. The world always believes in the man who himself believes. The crowd always makes way for the man of faith. The trouble is we keep conning over our old formulas instead of allowing ourselves to be swept on by great convictions. We repeat our creed and say, "I believe in God Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ. His only Son, our Lord," but the statement does not take hold of us and inspire us to action. Do you want to be great? It is a laudable ambition. But you will never become so if you measure greatness by show. John did no miracle. True greatness comes by faithfulness, humility, a sense of reality and devotion. Emotions pass, but principles abide. 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BX2 Charlestoa LARGE TYPE WAKEFIELD Second Earliest AM ON MY ANNUAL TOU8 around the world with any of the best-known varieties of fruits. For Grown Cabbage at 9,000 to 10,000 at 8,100 to 10,000 or more, at 900, F. O. B. Meggert, G. S. All orders promptly filled and satisfaction guaranteed. Ask for prices on 50,000 or 100,000. Cash accompanying all orders. GO 'WAY; I'M BUSY! COUNTRY MERCHANTS FLOCK TO NEW YORK WITH NEWS THAT EVERY SECTION IS PROSPEROUS Ten Thousand Buyers From South and West With $100,000,-000 to Spend Tell East to "Cheer Up." New York City. — Ten thousand business men and women from the West and Southwest are in town spending, it is estimated, $100,000-000. They have driven pessimism from the great down-town jobbing district with stories of assured prosperity and leading joy and cash among the hotels, theatres and other amusement places. ports from commercial travelers are to the effect that conditions are as good as they were this time last year. Alexander Bombard, representing one of the largest houses in Galveston, Texas, said: "We have had splendid crops down in state, and have no patience with hard talk, to witch one of the largest orders for This is the annual buying period for the spring trade and reduced rates on the railroads are bringing merchants here from the small towns in far away Texas as well as from Chicago, St. Louis and the big centres. The registration at the Merchants' Association is within a hundred odd of the phenomenal registration last spring, when prosperity was at its height. Nearly 2000 buyers or representatives, about one-half of whom are women, have registered. They are coming at the rate of nearly 200 a day. As only a portion take advantage of the special railroad rates it is estimated-that the total number of buyers at present here is about 10,000. Hotels Are Crowded. Every hotel that caters to the out-of-town custom is crowded, the big hotels have all they can handle and the family hotels are turning hundreds of people away. The buyers are being entertained at clubs, dinner parties, theatres and with automobile trips by the merchants who are excelling the benefit of their trade. S. C. Mead, secretary of the Merchants' Association, said of the influx of buyers: "It means that the country is all right. The men who are coming to New York now to lay in their spring stocks are mainly from the West and Southwest. I have not heard one of them talk about hard times. They laugh at the idea, and I tell you their optimism is having a big effect here in New York. Our merchants rather had the idea that trade was going to be dull this spring, but they have changed their opinion in the past few days. Buyers have registered here from towns of not over 1000 population in Texas, the new State of Oklahoma and the entire Southwest as well as from Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit and the other big cities. "The most encouraging reports are brought from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where the crops have been good. I have been surprised at the number of new faces and have been told that scores of new business houses are springing up." In the shops of the H. B. Claffin Company, Tefft, Weller & C., C. B. Rous, the Chelsea Trading Company, and others extra employees have been employed in the trade. There has also been a boom in the mall order, business, while re- New York City.—Astonished that the recent panic affected the South so little, Wilbur F. Wakeman, treasurer and general secretary of the American Protective Tariff League, returned from the cotton belt. He said only, one Southern bank crashed in the course of the disturbance. Several banks carried from fifty-five to seventy-five per cent. of their deposits in cash from October 1. One sold $200,000 of currency here early in December. "The possibilities of the South," Wakeman continued, "are scarcely yet fully understood by industrials. Up the Savannah River there is 200,-000 horse power going to waste every day. That covers the region above Augusta, Ga. Of virgin soil there are Farmers Buy Michigan Prison's Output of Binder T Jackson, Mich.—The State Prison Board has just sold the output of the blender twine plant in the State prison, estimated at 1,000,000 pounds, for the next year, to the Order of the Gleaners, an organization of farmers. Representatives of the International Harvester Company and other dealers also bid for the output. The Gleaners will pay eight and one-fifth cents a pound and the twine will be sold to farmers at this price with only the cost of handling added. ports from commercial travelers are to the effect that conditions are as good as they were this time last year. Alexander Bombard, representing one of the largest houses in Galveston, Texas, said: "We have had splendid crops down in our State, and we have no patience with the prices. I'm here to purchase one of the largest orders for expensive dry goods that our house has ever put in. Texans have money to spend and they are going to spend it this spring. My advice to New Yorkers is to cheer up." A. S. Semmes, of Detroit, said: "I guess I wouldn't be buying $50-000 worth of clothing, mostly expensive, too, if we were running bread lines in Detroit. The outlook in our section is very bright, and I am sure it is going to be a good business year." "Business was never better in my State," said Chester L. Walbridge, of Baton Rouge, La. "We anticipate a big spring trade, and I am going to take South with me the biggest stock of goods that I ever purchased. Not even the coming Presidential election has scared us." The elements were made by business men from Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and other cities. H. C. Fisher, of Buffalo, said the merchants there are preparing for a great rush of trade. New York Alone is Nervous. "We are not worrying anything like the New York merchants seem to be," said Mr. Fisher. "It appears that New York is the most nervous town in the country. Further afield you find more confidence to the block than there is here to the acre." Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Newman, representing several departments of a large Chicago store, spoke for the Middle West. "We expect to do a banner business this year," said Mr. Newman, "panic or no panic. There is no fear of overstocking in Chicago, and I believe the same is true of the Middle West towns. I expect to purchase more goods on my present trip than ever before, and I've been a buyer for a good many years." Representatives of firms in Columbus, Cincinnati and Youngstown, O., had the same thing to say. Irwin Hochstein, of Atlanta, Gas declared that Southern city to be just as prosperous as the big towns further north. Cheer-Up! Money's Plenty. "New Yorkers should cheer up," he said. "There's plenty of money around, and people are spending all the more freely for the temporary stringency." Albert Fresch, of a Memphis firm, said he understood that the planters expected a good year, and added that as the planters fared, so fared the South. hundreds of thousands of acres. Fertilizers are in great demand, and when it was pointed out to me there were millions of tons of natural fertilizer accessible by stripping the land of five feet of surface I thought Noah must have left the balance of the world in the neighborhood of Georgia and South Carolina. "There is general enthusiasm throughout the water regarding the betterment of waterways, which naturally will have an important effect on transportation of freights." He estimated convivial Georgians were not suffering from prohibition, as he understood each colonel had laid in a household supply so lavishly as to cause a temporary local financial stringency. None of Cuba's Sugar Mills Grinding Near Its Capacity. Havana. — The Agrarian League has appointed a committee to memorize Governor Magoon and urge him to use the $1,000,000 the last Cuban Congress voted to promote immigration. The league bases its action on the present scarcity of canecutters, which is due to roadbuilding and other public works. None of the sugar mills is grinding more than three-quarters of its capacity. WOMEN CRY FOR BALLOT. Delegation of Female Suffragists Be- sieve the House and Senate With Demand for Right to Vote. The advocates of female suffrage were Tuesday given their annual opportu- nity to present pleas to con- gress, the presentation to the senate being made before the committee on woman's suffrage, and to the house before the judiciary committee. Senator Clay of Georgia presided over the senate committee, and Rev. Anna Shaw, as the president of the National Female Suffrage Association, introduced the speakers, the first of whom was Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who has the distinction of being the only woman who ever made the race for the presidency. Mrs. Lockwood expressed confidence in the support of her cause by the committee. Mrs. Fannie Fernald, president of the Maine-Woman's Suffrage Association, made an eloquent plea for "A voice in government which controls every interest we hold dear." The house hearing was presided ver by Chairman Jenkins of the judiciary committee, and was in charge of Mrs. Harriet Upon of Ohio. The speakers before the house committee were Miss Emma Gullette of Washington, Mrs. Chapman Catt of New York, Mrs. Richmond W. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts, Senator Owen of Oklahoma, Mrs. Emma Funk of Maryland, Mrs. Mary E. Craigle of New York, Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer of Pennsylvania and Miss Kate Gordon of Louisiana. Mrs. Catt showed that the condition of women in foreign countries, and even in Great Britain where such agitation of woman suffrage was now going on, was better than in the United States. She claimed that the male riffraff of foreign countries who emigrated to these shores, after a year or two of residence, was given the ballot and allowed to vote on questions/vitally affecting woman. Still, woman herself is denied the right to ballot. Most of the speakers claimed that woman should be given the ballot as a matter of right. They pointed out that her education was equal, and in a great many cases superior, to that of man; claimed that to her was entrusted the training of the future voters of the country, and contended that if she was competent to raise her sons so that they might become good citizens, she certainly was competent to be given the right of ballot. South Carolina Legislature Meets to Elect Successor to Latimer. The general assembly of South Carolina convened in extra session at Columbia at 7:45 oclock Tuesday evening for the purpose of electing a successor to the late Senator Asbury C. Latimer. One ballot was taken in each house without result, and adjournment taken to Wednesday. The total vote was as follows: F. B. Gary 65, LeGrand G. Walker 42, W. L. Mauldin 18, J. L. Cokern 20, Wille Jones 7, Joshua H. Hudson 3, James H. Carlisle 1. CHICAGO OFFICIALS ARMING. Heads of Municipal and Judicial Departments Prepare for the "Reds." Following the attack on Chief Shippy, at Chicago by Anarchist Averilluch, whom he killed, the high authorities in the city and local branches of the state have made plans to prepare themselves for a repetition of the assassination attempt. Mayor Busse, Judge Kersten of the criminal court, and Associate States Attorney B. J. Short, have all purchased and are carrying revolvers. UNCLE SAM'S FINANCES. Government Glives Out Receipts and Expenditures for February. The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures shows that for the month of February, 1908, the total receipts were $3,324,699, and the expenditures $56,730,007, which leaves a denctt for the month of $8,405,118. IMPROVEMENTS POSTPONED. The Norfolk and Western Decides Not to Spend $2,000,000. The Norfolk and Western railway officials at a meeting in Toanoke Friday announced that the matter of spending $2,000,000 in improvements on the Pocahontas division, which has for some time been considered, has been abandoned for the present, owing to the general depression no prevailing. MASTER PLUMBERS INDICTED. Fifty-Four at New, Orleans Charged With Violation of Law. Fifty-four master plumbers of New Orleans and three plumbing firms were indicted Saturday by a federal grand jury on charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust law. These indictments make a total of over 125 in two days, under the Sherman act, Friday seventy-two labor union representatives, members of the dock and cotton council, being indicted. Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Locker Club Members Indicted. The federal grand jury at Savannah Saturday returned sixteen indictments containing the names of forty individuals connected with locker clubs in Savannah. Arresta will follow. G. A. R. Organized at St. George. --- Wesleyan's First Graduate Dead. Mrs. Kallierne E. Benson is dead at her home in Macon after several weeks' illness. She was the first graduate of eWsleyan college, and was the first woman in the world to receive a diploma from a chartered college. She was widely known and beloved as a woman of excellent Christian character. She had reached the advanced of 86. --- A., B. & A. Approves Mileage Books. It is announced by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad company that the new mileage books of the Southern railway will be honored on their lines under certain conditions. The action of this road makes the third road to become a party to the books as the Seaboard and the Atlantic Coast Line have already agreed to the Southern's plan. --- Can Run Only 10 Miles an hour. Following the report of an inspection made by one of the track walkers in the employ of the railroad commission, the commission has issued an order to the Fitzgerald, Ocilla and Broxton railway company, operating between those points in south Georgia, to reduce the speed of all passenger trains over its line to ten miles an hour until certain repairs which the commission deems necessary shall have been made. * * * Brewers to Ask Modification of Law. There is a movement on foot, backed by the brewers of the state, which contemplates urging the legislature at its next session to modify the state prohibition law so as to permit the sale within the state of beers and light wines. Those urging the modification of the law, it is reported, base their hope in a large measure upon a public statement of Governor Smith, made last December, to the effect that he hoped to see the standing saloon eliminated everywhere and such modification of the law as would permit only the use of light drinks, such as wines and beer, at the table as food. Auditor Resigns Temporarily. Special Auditor L. C. Mathews, who has been in the employ of the railroad commission for some months, has severed his connection with the commission, at least for the present, though it is said to be with the understanding that he will be recalled whenever the commission has occasion to require his services. It is stated that the position of special auditor was not intended to be permanent, but that he was employed for certain work which has now been completed. The principal part of this work is said to have been an examination into the books and accounts of the Central of Georgia Railway company in Savannah, upon which the commission now has a complete report. The Central afforded Mr. Mathews every facility for making this examination, although it does not concede the right of the commission to make such inquiry. George Barton Captured. George Barton, one of the prisoners who made a sensational escape from the Fulton county tower, Atlanta, on Sunday night, February 2d, has been captured in Bessemer, Ala., and returned to the Atlanta jail. John Harper, the other prisoner who escaped with Barton, is still at large. The escape of Barton and Harper resulted in the grand jury finding indictments against James Brown, the night jailer at the tower, and two trusties, Joe Williams and Eulace Wallace. One of the trusties has made a written confession, in which he says that he, with the connivance of the night jailer, opened the cells of the two prisoners, thus making their escape possible. Harper was under sentence for murder, and was held, awaiting an appeal to the supreme court. Barton was charged with robbing a safe. There is an outstanding reward of $250 for the arrest of Barton, and one of $600 for the capture of Harper. Want Fair to Be National. Enthusiastic plans by which the annual state fair, to be held in Atlanta next October, will be given under the auspices of the farmers of the state will be proposed at a meeting of the district managers of the unions in Atlanta during the present month. It is believed the farmers of the state will enthusiastically favor the plan of holding the fair under the auspices of the union. Among the plans that will be proposed will be that of holding a mammoth national convention of farmers in Atlanta during the fair. Two thousand delegates, representing a membership of 2,000,000 people, will be present if the meeting is held. President R. F. Duckworth of the Georgia division will issue a call for the various district executive committees in the state to vote on the subject of holding a state fair in Atlanta this fall, in connection with the Atlanta Fair Association. Following this action National President Barrett will take a poll of the various state organizations in regard to making the fair national in its scope. . . . Cotton Seed Meal in Great Demand. According to the February report of the tag sales given out at the department of agriculture the sale of cotton seed meal tax has increased by twenty per cent over the amount sold up to this time last year. This report also shows a corresponding decrease in the sale of fertilizer tags under the number disposed of a year ago. This tremendous increase in the sale of cotton seed meal tags, which it is estimated will bring the total sale of tags up to 200,000 tons over 170,000 tons for 1906-1907 is attributed by the officials for the greatly increased per cent which is being used as a cattle feed in Georgia. The pure food analysis shows that cotton seed meal has 38.62 protein, whereas the most generally marketed is-pure wheat bran, which has only 14.50 protein or about one-third as much. This is the great thing for Georgia, and the south, as it is turning over our southern product and keeping the farmers' money close at home. Another consignment of cotton seed meals tags, which go twenty tags to the ton, has been ordered for the spring use of the department. . * * * To Enforce Pure Food Law. State Commissioner Hudson has issued a statement in which he calls attention to the fact that, beginning March 1st, all violations of the pure food and drugs act, passed in 1906, will be hereafter certified to the proper court for settlement as provided by law. The statement points out that since the law went into effect last August the department has conducted a rigorous campaign of education with a view to inform the public of the requirements of the law, but that the time has now come when further violations must be looked after in the usual legal manner in the courts. The order will be one of the greatest interest to manufacturers, jobbors and dealers in meats, milk, sausages, other foodstuffs and beverages. The order states that if the manufacturers, jobbors and dealers are not familiar with the law they should inform themselves without delay, as from this date on no excuse whatever will be accepted for the violation of the law, because the 'ignorance of the law is no excuse.' The order closes as follows: "The one great fundamental principle of this law is truthfully labelling and thus putting the consumer on notice of the exact character of the article he is buying. Injurious substances and harmful coloring must not be used in any food product; for example, preservatives in milk, sausage, meats and other foods as well as beverages." "All manufacturers, jobbers a dealers in stock feeds should inform themselves of the provisions of the law regulating the sale of their products and should not offer for sale any feed that contains any of those substances specifically forbidden by law." WILL VETO ANY CHANGE In Georgia Prohibition Law Upless Backed Up by Friends. That Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia will veto any amendment to the prohibition law not backed by the friends of the law, is stated in an interview in the Rome Tribune-Herald. That paper published an interview with Seaborn Wright, in which Mr. Wright made the direct statement that Governor Smith had stated that he would veto any amendment to the bill that might be passed by the next general assembly. When shown this interview, Governor-Smith admitted its practical correctness, but declined to discuss the matter further. MILLION IN `BACK TAXES. Paid Chicago by Trustees of Late Milli- lionaire, Field's Estate. A check for $1,000,000 in payment of back taxes on the estate of the late Marshall Field was delivered to John R. Thompson, treasurer of Cook county, at Chicago Monday. The payment is made in accordance with an agreement entered into by the trustees with county officials several weeks ago by which suits aggregating $1,700,000 were comprised. It isn't always easy for a female detective to catch a husband. Secretary Straus Orders Immigration Officials to Start Crusade of Deport- At Chicago Monday, Chief of Polico George M. Shipply, his son, Harry and his driver, James Foley, were wounded by an anarchist who attempted to assassinate the police official in the hall of the latter's residence, shortly after 9 o'clock a.m. The desperate struggle, in which Mrs. Shipply and her daughter, Georgette, joined was terminated when the chief drew his own revolver and killed his assailant, who was later identified as Lazarus (Harry) Averbuch, a Russian Jew, 20 years old, a native of Kishineff, Russia. He had been in this country only three months. He resided at 218 Washburn avenue, with his sister, Cga, 25 years old. He had worked a month for W. H. Eichengren & Co., commission merchants. He was an anarchist of a morbid, insane type—a disciple of Emma Goldman, "queen of the reds." Isadore Maron, 20 years old, a Russian known as the "Curly-Haired Boy," companion of Lazarus Averbuch, was arrested Tuesday near Averbuch's home. Uncle Sam After "Reds." A Washington special says: The secretary of commerce and labor on Tuesday issued a sweeping order to all commissioners of immigration and immigrant inspectors in charge directing them to confer with the police in their respective jurisdictions with a view to "securing the co-operation of the police and detective forces in an effort to rid the country of alien anarchists and criminals falling within the law relating to deportation." The order of Secretary Straus, in part, follows: "To All Commissioners of Immigration and Immigrant Inspectors in Charge: "It is hereby directed that, with a view to promptly obtain definite information with regard to alien anarchists and criminals located, in the United States, you shall confer fully with the chief of police or the chief of the secret service of the city in which you are located, furnishing such official with detailed information with regard to the meaning of the term 'anarchist', as used in the immigration act of February 20, 1907, and with regard to the inhibition of that statute against allens of the criminal classes, explaining the powers and limitations imposed by said statute upon the immigration officials with respect to such persons. "The co-operation of said officials should be requested making it clear that in order that any particular anarchist or criminal may be deported, evidence must be furnished showing (1) that the person in question is an alien subject to the immigration acts, (2) that he is an anarchist or criminal as defined in the statute, (3) the date of his arrival in the United States, which must be within three years of the date of his arrest, (4) the name of the vessel or of the transportation line by which he came, if possible, and (5) the name of the country he came from; the date of his arrival, and the port of entry. "It is desired that the above indicated steps shall be taken at once, and that no proper effort shall be spared to secure and retain the co-operation of the local police and detective forces in an effort to rid the country of allen anarchists and criminal falling within the provision of the statute relating to deportation." OHIO DECLARES FOR TAFT. War Secretary is Backed for Presidency in Convention. Unanimity for William H. Taft as Ohio's candidate for the nomination for president was the feature of the republican state convention at Columbus Wednesday. Four delegates at large were selected to the national convention and they were instructed to "vote for Mr. Taft until he is nominated." The names of Governor Harris, former Governor Herrick, Arthur I. Verys and Charles P. Taft as delegates at large were presented to the convention and approved. STOCK DEALS MAY BE TAXED. Bill Proposing an Impost Introduced In House by Hepburn. A Washington dispatch says: An important bit of legislation was offered the house-Monday by Mr. Hepburn of Iowa, through a bill imposing a tax of 50 cents per hundred shares on stock or agreements to sell. a0