Savannah Tribune

VOL. XXIII. RATE LAWS BIFFED By Decisions Rendered in U. S. Supreme Court. TWO STATES INVOLVED North Carolina and Minnesota Courts Courts Placed Under Jurisdiction cf Federal Tribunals—Disastrous Results Predicted. A Washington special says: In refusing to grant to Attorney General Yucun of Minnesota a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the penalty imposed by the United States circuit court for the district of Minnesota on the charge of contempt of court in instituting a proceeding in a state court for the enforcement of the railroad rate law after the federal court had prohibited such a course, and in affirming the decision of Judge Pritchard of the United States circuit court for the western district of North Carolina, discharging from imprisonment James H. Wood, a ticket agent of the Southern railway at-Asheville, after he had been sentenced by the Asheville police court to serve a term on the rock-pile on the charge of collecting for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the state railroad law, the supreme court of the United States Monday added another to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term of that court. In both cases the right of the states to fix rates for railroad transportation was the issue, and both involved conflicts between the federal and the state courts. The decision in each case was opposed both to the states and to their courts. The opinion of the court in both cases was announced by Justice Peckham, and, with the exception of Justice Harlan, all the other members of the court stood behind him in the announcement of the court's finding. Justice Harlan read a dissenting opinion in the Young case, in which he took the view that the suit was practically a proceeding against the state, and therefore not permissible under the eleventh amendment to the constitution. He therefore characterized the opinion as era-making in the history of the court, saying that it had the effect of closing the courts of a state against the state itself, and predicted that the result would be disastrous. The two cases were so similar that both practically were decided in one opinion. The principal pronouncement was made in the Minnesota case. - PERMANENT INJUNCTION Issued Against Federation of Labor in Buck Stove Company Case. The American Federation of Labor and President Gompers and others of that organisation were permanently enjoined from "conspiring, agreeing or combining to restrain, obstruct or destroy" the business of the Buck Stove and Range company in a decision rendered by Chief Justice Clabaugh of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, Monday, making permanent the temporary injunction of Justice Gould against the federation in that case. The federation's counsel immediately noted an appeal to the district court of appeals. Monday's decision bars the federation from in any manner calling the attention of the public to the Buck company, or its business or products, and also bars the federation from placing the company on the "unfair list" or from stating the company's products should not be purchased either in Missouri or anywhere else. STAID SENATORS AWED. Untimely Death of Young Bryan Subject of Solemn Comment. The senate Monday for the fifth time in the present session adjourned because death had robbed the body of one of its members. The announcement that Senator William James Bryan of Florida died Sunday was made by Senator Clay of Georgia, in the absence of Senator Tallaferro, who left Washington early Monday morning as a member of the committee which accompanied the body to Jacksonville. The untimely death of Senator Bryan, who was familiarly known as the "baby" of the senate, a title in which he took pride, came home to the senators with more force than any which had preceded it. The seven sorrows that have come upon this branch of congress since adjournment a year ago were a matter of solemn comment. TOBACCO TRUST YIELDS. Report That Farmers In Kentucky Have Won Long Fight and Will Get $14,000,000 for Weed. An end to the night riding in the Kentucky White Burley district has been brought about through a formal agreement reached between the American Tobacco Company and the executive committee of the Society of Equity in a conference at Winchester, Ky., Tuesday, according to apparently authoritative statements made in Cincinnati by members of the American Society of Equity. Nearly $14,000,000 and the purchase of the entire crops of 1906 and 1907 on the one side, and no planting of a crop for the year 1908 on the other side, are points in the agreement. Word is said to have been received by the executive committee of the Society of Equity on Monday afternoon from headquarters of the American Tobacco Company in New York that the company would buy the 1906 and 1907 crops at 16 and 18 cents per pound, respectively. The committee was sworn to secrecy, and the report has been officially denied, but is nevertheless declared to be authentic. The two-year crop aggregates about, 80,000,000 pounds of leaf now in store in various warehouses and private barns throughout the White Burley district. According to the reported terms of the agreement, the company will commence to take over the big purchase immediately. The reason for secrecy by the society lay in its determination not to raise any crop this year. Before adjourning the executive committee adopted resolutions condemning the night riders and disavowing any responsibility for them. A prominent member of the society, in confirming the agreement, sald: "It is all settled. The cruel war is over, and we have won. There will be no more night riding or violence, but there will be no 1908 crop of tobacco. The American Tobacco company has agreed to buy all the pooled leaf of the 1906 and 1907 crops, and will pay nearly $14,000,000 for it. We have prevailed in the just fight, and are now confident that the farmer and renter can raise tobacco and market it and have some money at the end of the season after paying the grocery bills." CYCLONE WHELMS TOWN. Village of Lynn, Ga., Wiped from the Earth and Many People Hurt. Just after daybreak Tuesday morning a cyclone struck the small town of Lynn, Ga., six miles north of Bainbridge, on the Georgia, Florida and Augusta railway, destroying every building in the place and seriously injuring a number of people. The cyclone came without a moment's warning, and before the people had time to leave their beds. The houses were blown down on them. One house, in which were six people, was so completely demolished that only a few floor timbers could be found. All the occupants were more or less hurt. A little child was blown from its father's arms, and carried over two hundred yards into the woods. The store of Rich & Bailey was destroyed and stock badly damaged. The house of Tom Rich was ralized to the ground, without injuring the occupants. "BLACK HAND" CLOSES BANK. Run Made on Dago Institution in Revenue for Murder of Secret Agent. A plot, relentlessly worked out by members of the Black Hand, ended dramatically in New York Tuesday in a run of depositors and the suspension of the bank of Pasquale Pati, an Italian banker, and his flight from the city in fear of death, threatened by the Black Hand because he recently shot and killed Francesco Palletro, one of their alleged members, who had demanded money under the pain of killing the banker and his family. UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATIONS To Denver Convention, is Advice of New York Democratic Committee. As predicted by Chairman W. J. Conners, the New York democratic state committee Thursday voted almost solidly. In favor of an uninstructed delegation to the national convention. But one voice was raised in opposition, that of Charles Williams, of Lyons, who subsequently explained that he stood for Bryan. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MARCH 28. 1908. DEATH GRIPS BRYAN Passed Away In Washington Hospital After Long Illness—Was In Senat But Little Over Two Months. United States Senator William James Bryan of Florida died at Providence hospital in Washington at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning-of typhoid fever. It was only seventy-three days since he took his seat as the successor of the late Senator Stephen R. Mallory, who died December 23, and thirty-three days of that time was spent in his fight against disease. Several times during Mr. Bryan's illness his friends despaired of his recovery, but as late as Saturday night the report was given out that his condition had taken a turn for the better. His death, therefore, came as a surprise and a distinct shock. In physique Mr. Bryan was unfitted to withstand a protracted fever. He was slight of build and of a nervous temperament. He came to Washington early in January from the warm climate of Florida and from the day of his arrival was far from well. Finally he was compelled to give up and was taken to Providence hospital. In Mr. Bryan the senate loses the seventh member by death since the adjournment of the fifty-ninth congress on March 4, a year ago. They were the two late senators from Alabama, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Pettus; Mr. Mallory of Florida, Mr. Latimer of South Carolina, Mr. Proctor of Vermont, Mr. Whyte of Maryland and Mr. Bryan. Curiously, the last two were the oldest and the youngest members of the body. Mr. Whyte was 81 years and Mr. Bryan less than 32 years old. Although Mr. Bryan was in the senate too short a time to impress his individuality on legislation or to take a prominent part in the consideration of matters in committee. It is conceded that he would have become a forceful part of the minority. Mr. Bryan was born in Orange county, Florida, October 10, 1876. He attended the public schools of his state and Emory College, Georgia, graduating from the latter institution in 1890. Three years later he was graduated from Washington and Lee University and in 1899 began the practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla. Until a short time before his appointment to succeed Mr. Matolry in the senate he had served as soicitor of the Duval county criminal court. He was married to Miss Janet Allan of Lexington, Va., who, with one son, survives him. ELEPHANTS ROUNDED UP. Two Escapes from Circus in Florida Finally Caught After Long Chase. The two big elephants which escaped from the Van Amberg circus in Florida were rounded up seven miles from Jasper Saturday night, and were taken in charge by members of the circus. The elephants were at large four days and nights, and created much terror. They were fired upon several times. They swam streams, broke through ponds and lakes, walked through wire fences and tore down whatever came in their way. TOBACCO FARMERS IN PANIC. Fear of Night Riders Cause Them to Destroy Beds and Stop Planting. Driven by a panic of fear because of the warning letters and visits of the night riders, farmers in nearly all of the forty-two counties in the whitburley tobacco district of Kentucky are busily destroying their tobacco beds. In many counties fluge signs have been erected on buildings, declaring the intention of the farmers not to raise, a crop this season. TWO PRIESTS SQUELCHED. Indicted for Attacking Civil Marriage Law of Porto Rico: The federal grand jury at San Juan Porto Rico Saturday, returned an indictment against two priests, at San Juan, Porto Rico, Saturday, editors of a Roman Catholic publication, for printing an article in which it was asserted that persons contracting marriage under the civil law live in a state of concubinage and that their children are illegitimate. The jury holds that the article in question was obscene and unfit to be published. MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS Presented to Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks by Delegation Headed by Sam Gompers. Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks Thursday announced their belief that the present congress will pass an employers' liability act which will meet and overcome the unconstitutionality of the present law, polited out by the supreme court of the United States in a recent decision. These statements were made to a delegation, led by President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, from eighty-seven national and international trade and labor unions and organizations of farmers, assembled in a national conference in Washington. The delegation called on the speaker to lay before the house of representatives, through him, a memorial entitled "Labor's Protest to Congress." The scope of this memorial was set forth in the following opening paragraphs: "We, the official representatives of the national and international trade and labor unions and organizations of farmers, in national conference assembled, in the District of Columbia, for the purpose of considering and taking action deemed necessary, to meet the situation in which the working people of the country are placed by recent decisions of the courts, now appear before congress to voice the earnest and emphatic protest of the workers of the country against the indifference, if not actual hostility, which congress has shown toward the reasonable and righteous measures proposed by the workers for the safeguarding of their rights and interests. "In the name of labor, we urge upon congress the necessity for immediate action for relief from the most grave and momentous situation which has ever confronted the working people of this country. This crisis has been brought about by the application by the supreme court of the United States of the Sherman anti-trust law to the workers, both organized and in their individual capacity. "There is something ominous in the ironic manner in which the courts guarantee to workers: "The 'right' to be discharged for belonging to a labor union; "The 'right' to work as many hours as employers please, and under any conditions which they may impose. "Labor is justly indignant at the bestowal or guaranteeing of these worthless and academic 'rights' by the courts, which, in the same breath, deny and forbid to the workers the practical and necessary protection of laws which define and safeguard their rights and liberties and the exercise of them individually or in association." MURDER CHARGED TO THREE. Trio of Negroes Bound Over for Killing Pawnbroker in Atlanta. Jim Madden, Tom Frazler and Woodson Davis, three negroes, were bound over by Judge Broyles of the Atlanta police court Thursday, charged with the murder of Jacob Hirsovitz, who was shot to death in front of his pawn shop, on the night of February 29 while in a scuffle with a negro who had entered his shop, and 'selzing a pistol, had endeavored to make his escape through the door. When on the sidewalk the negro cried out to two confederates standing nearby to shoot. This they did, Hirsovitz falling to the sidewalk mortally wounded, while his assailants made their escape in the darkness. HOMESEEKERS IN WRECK. Two Killed and Several Badly Hurt In Accident on Great Northern. Two men were killed and seven other persons were badly injured Thursday when an excursion train on the International and Great Northern railroad, bearing a party of homeseekers from Kansas and Oklahoma, en route to La Paletenas, Mex., were wrecked by a broken rail at Pearsall, Texas. BIG LUMBER COMPANY FAILS. Liabilities of Concern In Neighborhood of Two Million Dollars. The McIntyre Lumber Company at Jackson, Ala., failed Friday. The company originally represented a capitalization of $1,100,000. Recently it purchased the Zimmerman Lumber Company in the same vicinity, capitalized at $800,000, making the total liabilities of the company about $2,000,000. No reason is assigned for the failure other than the financial conditions. JAPS TO SEE FLEET Cordial Invitation of Mikado Has Been Accepted CABINET ACTS PROMPTLY Washington Officials Believe that China Will Also Request a Visit, Thus Making the World The American battleship fleet is to visit Japan. The desire of the emperor of the island kingdom to play host to the "big sixteen" was laid before Secretary Root at Washington Thursday by Bayon Takahira, the Japanese ambassador. The invitation, which was couched in most cordial terms, was made the subject of extended consideration by President Roosevelt and his entire cabinet Friday. Secretary Root was directed to accept the invitation, and the acceptance was laid before the Japanese ambassador later in the day. It is regarded in official circles as more than likely that China will be next to bid for a look at the fleet, and that should this be the case the invitation would be accepted. Secretary Metcalf and Admiral Pillsbury, chief of navigation, are arranging the details of the new itinerary. With the exception of China, it is believed to have been determined that all other invitations, should any be received, will be declined, for, at best, the fleet will not be able to reach the Atlantic until next March. The intinerary which seems to be most direct includes stops at the Hawaiian islands, Samoa, Melbourne, Sydney, Manila, Yokohama—should that port be selected as the stopping place in Japan—possibly a Chinese port, back to the Philippines, and then home by way of the Suez canal. The fall target practice has been planned to occupy a month at Manila, either before or after the visit to Japan. Although target practice is regarded as decidedly important, and the custom is to have the ships occupy a month each spring and fall in gun practice, the desire to have the fleet return to its home station may lead to a curtailment of the month planned for Manila. Japan will have the ships a week, according to tentative plans. While the stops in foreign ports so far made have been on an average of ten days' duration, a part of that time was occupied in taking on coal. The acceptance of the Japanese invitation is regarded in official circles as of considerable importance in the way of a demonstration of the cordiality existing between the American and Japanese governments. Late Friday night the state department gave out the Japanese note inviting the American battleship fleet to visit Japan and the president's response accepting the invitation. CREEKS WOULD SELL LAND8. Hold Convention and Ask for Removal of Restrictions. 4 The Oklahoma delegation in congress Friday were advised that at a convention of Creek Indians Thursday at Cheoita, Okla., resolutions were adopted favoring the removal of the restrictions put upon alienation of lands of mixed bloods and asking for the removal by the secretary of the interior of the four Creek delegates and the attorney in Washington who have been opposing the proposition. MISTAKEN FOR SMUGGLERS. Custom Inspecters Shoot Each Other Dead In a Duel. Mounted Customs Inspectors Charles Logan and Charles Jones fought a duel in the dry bed of the Rio Grande river, in El Paso, Texas, Thursday night, and both were killed. Their bodies were found Friday. It is supposed that each mistook the other for a smuggler. PERUVIANS INVADE CHILE. Armed Troops Cross Frontier in Pur- suit of Smugglers. A dispatch received in Valparaiso from Arlica says that a detachment of Peruvian troops invaded Tarata, a Chilean town in the province of Tacna and near the Peruvian frontier, in pursuit of smugglers. The Chilean police disarmed the invaders, but later fresh Peruvian troops arrived at Tarata and entered the houses, searching for arms. It is so much easier to forget a favor than it is to forgive an injury. POPULISTS OF GEORGIA Through Executive Committee, Condemn Present Administration and Will Put Out a State Ticket. A resolution condemning the present state administration as exemplified by the present governor, and calling for a state convention, subject to the call of the chairman, to put out a state populist ticket, from the governor down, and the selection of forty-nine delegates to the national convention in St. Louis, was the action of the Georgia state populist executive committee meeting in the senate chamber at Atlanta Tuesday. A heated discussion was precipitated by a resolution, which not only rapped the present administration, but endorsed the candidacy of Joseph M. Brown. It was apparent that this resolution was going to bring on a discussion that would last indefinitely, so Chairman J. J. Holloway promptly named a committee of three on resolutions to settle the matter. This committee was out but a short time and returned with the resolution shorn of the endorsement of Mr. Brown, and amalgamated with a call for a state convention to name a populist ticker. The resolution passed with only two dissenting votes. It is as follows: "Resolved, by the representatives of the populist party here assembled, That we deplore the disastrous policies of the present state administration as exemplified by the present governor, and we think the best interests of the farmers, laborers and business men of the state would be well conserved by a change in the administration. "That it is our desire to call a populist convention in the capitol, Atlanta, for the purpose of putting out a full state populist ticket, from governor down." The section referring to the candidacy of Hon. Joseph M. Brown, which was stricken out, was as follows: "Whereas, Hon. Joseph M. Brown, a patriotic and capable business men, in whom the elements of intellect and affection are admirably commingled, fitting him in a rare degree for the proper discharge of the great responsibilities of this exalted office, we, therefore heartily commend his candidacy to all the people of Georgia." Chairman Holloway will later take action on the calling of a state convention for the purpose of nominating a state ticket. SWORN TO STOP LAWLESSNESS. League Organized Against Night Ridere in Tennessee. A law and order league has been or ganized for Clarksville and Montgomery counties, Tennessee. A permanent organization was perfected to suppress lawlessness in that part of the dark tobacco district. The league already has over three hundred members. Following is the oath taken: "As God is my witness, I solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, without reserve or equivocation, that I accept the purposes of the league; that I pledge my best endeavors to securing these purposes; that I shall hold secret all proceedings of the league and that I shall not divulge the name of any member of the league, so help me God." CIVIC FEDERATION MEASURE Seeking to Amend Anti-Trust Law introduced in the House. The bill prepared by the National Civic Federation after conferences with the president and representatives of capital and labor to relieve the stringency of the Sherman anti-trust law was introduced in the house Monday by Representative Hepburn of Iowa, chairman of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. It was referred to that committee for consideration and report, and it is understood that President Roosevelt will, in a message, make a recommendation concerning l- WAS PLOT OF KOREANS. Shooting of Stevens in 'Frisco Result of a Conspiracy. The attempt to assasinate Durham W. Stevens, the political adviser of the Korean council of state, in San Francisco, it is now said, was the result of a carefully hatched conspiracy inspired immediately by a manifesto of the Korean "righteous army," calling upon all loyal Koreans to consecrate themselves to a holy war and exterminate all Japanese. THE OLD POLE STAR. Before the clepsydra.had bound the days Man tethered.Change to his fixed star,and said: *The *Edor* races, that long since are dead, March 14 that light; it swerves not from its base. Though all the worlds about it wax and fade." When Egypt saw it, fast in reeling spheres, Her Pyramids shaft-centred on its ray She reared and said: "Long as this star would shine." In unrivaled ether, shall the years Revere my monuments—" and went her way. The Pyramids abide; but through the shaft That held the polar pivot, eye to eye. Look bright nothingness! As though Change changed. At man's presumption and his pungy craft, The star has slipped its leash and roams the sky. Yet could the immemorial piles be swung A skyey hair's breadth from their rooted base. Back the central anchorage of space, Ah, then again, as when the race was young. Our faith full-centred on it. It was known Thus of the elders who forran us here, Mapped out its circuit in the shifting sphere. And found it, 'mid mutation, fixed alone.' Change laughs again, again the sky is cold, And down that fissure now no star-beam glides. Net they whose sweep of vision grows not Still at the central point of space behold Another pole-star; for the Truth abides. -Edith Wharton, in Scribner's Magazine. THE WOMAN ENTERS. By KATHARINE LYNCH. In the chaparral on the edge of the bluff Dick Matson lay flat on his stomach, his chin propped on one hand, while the other rested lightly on the shining barrel of a rifle. Below, on the further bank of the river, Escolante, the cattle-thief, strutted back and forth before the door of his cabin, his gun in his hands, his strident voice proclaiming to the air his disdain for all gringos in general, and for the white-livered chingado Matson in particular. Matson, unseen, and his presence only dimly apprehended by the strange animal instinct of the half-breed, could hear with sufficient plainness the gusts of wrath and oblargement which floated up from below; and when his own name was mingled with especially acclid vituperations, the rage to which he dared give no more audible vent expressed itself in tense and impotent mutter-fins. "I'll get you you, you old cattie-thief, O Lord, O Lord, to have to lie here and take such blasted impudence from a black-hearted Apache mongrel!" This when Escolante's remarks on the status and heredity of the gringo became particularly personal and historic. "Wish I wasn't a white man and I take a pot-shot at you for luck, just as you stand, you cattle-stealing, lying whelp. Cursed nonsense anyway, waiting for proof, and taking a man to the law, when I know darn well you've a steer of mine stowed away in the bushes somewhere. Wait till I find your cache, or catch you red-handed; and I'll make you sweat for this." So each vocal volley from below, directed against the unseen foe that the half-breed apprehended to be lurking near, was answered by the hidden enemy with one no less heartfelt because of being, for strategic purposes, necessarily unheard. As the time passed Matson's limbs grew increasingly cramped and stiff. Decidedly, he reflected, Escolante had the best of the game. He warily stretched himself into a new position. The hours slipped by; and still the half-breed, warned by his subtle instinct for danger, kept up his grotesque parade; and still the watching man was baffled of his clue. The shadows lengthened on the river. A few crows, loudly caving, shook themselves out of the branches of a tree near the cabin and winged themselves for the homeward flight. Dusk was all but fallen; and the watcher painfully stirred his limbs, preparing for a furtive retreat, when a new element entered the scene below. The girl who stepped to the door of the cabin was slim and lithe as a willow from the stream. Her black hair fell sleek and straight on, either side of her face, hanging in thick braids nearly to her knees. She raised one hand to her forehead, shading her eyes for a long look up the river, and the movement had the supple, untaught grace of a wild thing of the woods. Matson drew his breath in something that came dangerously near to being a whistle. So this was Escolante's daughter—child of a Mexican mother and a half-breed father—who since her mother's death had been with the sisters at Santa Barbara. He vaguely recalled having heard of the girl's return. This could be none other than she; for what woman, young and beautiful, would foregather with that wicked old Escolante. He cautiously reached for his binoculars, with which he had so carefully scanned the landscape earlier in the day. The girl stood as if posed, straining her level gaze toward the sunset. The glass revealed her face, a warm brown oval, the curves as soft and perfect as a child's, yet with the fullness and richness of early womanhood. The heavy brows were arched. The thick lashes, fringing lids now wide-flung, over soft fawn- like eyes, surely must shadow her, cheek when the lids were lowered. The red, curving lips were slightly parted, disclosing white teeth; firm-set and regular. The glass did its work well. The girl might have been standing close by; so close that if one reached out a hand one might touch the brown curve of the cheek, or part the silky masses of her hair. The n.a.n caught his breath sharply till it hissed between his teeth. The pain in his limbs was forgotten. The girl's face held him like a spell. Suddenly the upraised hand fell to her side. Escolante's daughter turned, with a swift grace and entered the rude cabin. The sun's red rim slipped below the horizon. Soon a light shone in the cabin. -The man on the bluff lay watching it till far into the night. But his head was sunk on his arms and his gun was unheeded at his side. When a black figure for an instant darkened the doorway his heart leaped up. Then the old gleam of hate sprang anew in his eyes. It was the half-breed. The man in the chaparral softly raised himself. "I'll settle you yet," he exulted. And in the dark he shook his clenched fist at the cattle-thief. Then he stealthily withdrew. A month had passed and again it was the dark of the moon. The time had dragged heavily for old Escolante, for with the accursed gringos so closely watching, even a practiced hand must move warily, and it was hard to go empty with fat cattle feeding at one's very door. To Dick Matson time had flown on golden wings. Love and hate war well together in a strong man's heart; and the red lips of Dolores were sweet. To the girl the month had passed as a day. It is good to live when the blood is warm; and young love is daring and does not wait for the dark of the moon. On this night Escolante ate his last meal of frijoles and tortillas without the customary sullen scorn. He even ventured a few coarse jests with Dolores, who was dear to him as the apple of his eye. A man may well jest whose knife is whetted for the killing, and who knows that on the morrow he will feed fat, voliding his hate and filling his stomach at one and the same time. Dolores met his badinage with easy response and well-simulated affection. It is easy to scatter careless affection from the lips when the heart is brimming over with love. Without, men gathered quietly in a certain lonely glade. The night was heavy about them. In the silence each man could hear his own heart-beat and his straining breath. The little voices of the night shrilled loudly, and the sound of the cattle cropping the rich grass was like a thousand crunching engines in their ears. The waiting had lengthened to hours before a fat steer coughed and fell under the knife. Then something whirred in the gloom; and then a lantern flared out. Escolante was caught red-handed. His ludicrous dismay when the deft-fluing riata tightened round him drew a burst of rough mirt from the sheerft as he slipped on the half-breed's wrists the symbol of the law and its bondage. But when Dick Matson stepped from the darkness and reclaimed his riata the cattle-thief broke into fierce vituperations, for this was the most hated, and therefore the most preyed-upon of all the gringos. "Save your wind, old man," laughed Dick Matson. "You'll need it for the blessing, for to-morrow I marry your daughter." Escolante grew livid and his jaw dropped. Then he opened a fresh volley of imprecations, hurling the lie in the gringo's teeth. Dick laughed a careless laugh. "Come here, Dolores," he said. Like a shadow the girl slipped out of the blackness and stood beside him. Dick slid an arm about her and bending kissed her full on the mouth. Then the half-breed went mad with rage, and spat and screamed out curses on the pair until it was horrid to hear him. The sheriff and his men had trouble to hold him. Dolores trembled and shrank against her lover. But Dick Matson only laughed his easy laugh and tightened his arm around her. Then he turned and drew her with him into the forest. No more cattle are stolen or killed within the range of the Cross Bar X. The cattlemen sleep well of nights and Dick Matson grows rich off his profits. Several plump brown children play about his door; and of those he is inordinately fond, as is also Dolores, who see in them adorable, replicas of the man she worships. The two are very Lappy, for Dolores is still slim and beautiful; and Matson wants no better life than that of the range and his own fireside. There are moments, however, when the hair stiffens on the back of his neck, and a chill runs along his sping. These are the moments when he reflects on the fact that the utmost that the courts could award to Escolante was a life sentence; and that there is always the chance that a prisoner may escape, or that a toollient governor may exercise the right of pardon.—San Francisco Argonaut. Old Union Men. - The carpenters' union, of Wintipeg, Manitoba, boasts of three men who have been continuous members of the organization for more than thirty-six years. The union believes this sets a record. With the Funny Fellows A Fine Distinction. "Twas twins! The doctor laughed "hal hal!" And the father laughed. "he! he!" A difference in the notes you'll note; Now wherefore should it be? "Ha! hat!" is the proper thing to laugh At thought of the bull and its joys. "He! he!" is the laugh pronominal When it's twins and the twins are boys! —New Orleans Times Democrat. Hope. "Do you expect to get anything out of your investment?" "Well," answered the man who is pretty well discouraged, "if the price of paper keeps on going up the stock certificates ought to be worth something."—Washington Star. A Doubtful Question. Young Wife—"Doctor, is my husband's age against him in this illness? Is there any hope?" Doctor—"Any hope? How can I tell, madam, unless I know which way you would like the illness to end?"—Baltimore American. A. Careful Contractor. Mrs. Subbs—"If you'll shovel the snow off all the walks I'll give you something to eat and some money besides." The Hobo (after a survey of the premises)—"Dat looks good ter me, lady; but where am I ter sleep nights?"—Puck. Babe's Symptoms. The Visitor—"So the baby ate something that disagreed with him, did he?" The Child—"Yessir, an' ma doesn't know if it was the paint off the front gate, or some earth out of the flower pots, or a collar button that pa lost."—Harper's Weekly. Serenity. "Your latest speech has made the greatest hit of any in your career," said the flatterer. "I suppose you regard it as your masterpiece." "Not necessarily," answered the orator, "the fact you recite merely indicates an improvement in public taste."—Washington Stur. Getting His. "Of course you don't want anything you are not entitled to," said the conscientious man, "Of course not," answered Senator Sorghum; "but I will incidentally remark that I always have the best talent available to ascertain what I am entitled to."—Washington Star. Certainty. Visitor — "How do you do, Tommy! I've come to stay at your house a week, and I'm sure you can't even guess who I am." Tommy—"I'll bet you one thing." Visitor—"What?" Tommy—"I'll bet you're no relation of father's."—Harper's Weekly. Some Relief. "Everything lovely down at the house?" "Yes; we are leading the simple life these days." "How do you work it?" "Well, you see, we have a phonograph, and it alternates with my wife after supper."—Nashville Banner. Conditions in Chicago. Mrs. Lakeside—"Oh; yes; some of those narrow-minded exclusive Eastern people say that Chicago isn't cultivated." Mr. Lakeside—"Humph! All the city is, except the south part, and that's too marshy. The land ain't worth cultivatin.'"—Town and Country. The Play. Manager—"Now, as to the moral quality of the piece, we wish that to be very conspicuous." Playwright—"By its absence?" Manager—"Oh, when it comes to mere details of method, we leave everything to you, of course. We don't care how you manage it."→ Puck. Unambitious. "Have you ever made any effort to get into politics?" "No," answered Farmer Corntossel. "I don't see what fun I'd get out of it. I don't like to make speeches an' I don't like to listen to 'em, an' I knit git enough plain, ordinary hard work right here on the farm."—Washington Star. What He Meant. "He said you reminded him of his watch." Miss Chatters—"Ah! I suppose that's his way of paying me a compliment." Miss Knox—"I Hardly think so, dear. He afterward remarked that his watch was an 'open face.'" Philadelphia Press. Looks Like It. It happened in the sideshow; she weighed 486; The fellow was a conjurer, who did some clever tricks; The lady popped the question; he didn't understand; At least, pretended, not to. Now was that sleight of hand? —Washington Herald. By A. B. LEWIS. He stood in front of the laundry with a far-away look in his eyes and appeared to be deciding some momentous question. Finally he entered the place and said to the young man behind the counter: "I see, son, you need laundry hands." "Yep," was the reply. "Want a job pushing a flatiron?" "Fergit it! I'm tryin' to git Sarah a place. She's my wife." "Had any experience?" "Sarah has had experience in all kinds of work," he said proudly. "Why, I've-seen that woman make pancakes, fry eggs, cook beesteak, iron socks, gossip with the neighbors, and lick a couple of the kids, all at the same time. That's a woman for you, my boy! What's the wages?" "She'll get four dollars per if she's any good." "Any good? Say, you ought to be around some Monday mornin' when Sarah is cookin' breakfast, tacklin' the week's wash, an' gittin' six children ready fer school. Can't no one beat her, if I do say it myself. But there's one thing I want to warn you about." "Well?" "Don't cross her." "Don't cross her?" "No. Don't cross her, or any other red-headed woman weighin' 200 pounds, fer that matter." Bout ten in the mornin' Sarah will want to sit down an' smoke her corn-cob fer a spell. That's a dangerous time to cross her—a dangerous time." "Smoke her corn-cob?" repeated the laundry clerk in astonishment. "I guess not. No smoking allowed here." "Sarah will do it. She claims that what's good fer man is good fer woman, an' she knows good tobacco a mile off. What time to-morrow will I send her around?" "We can't use her here. She's probably all you say she is, but we can't have smoking here. Why don't you try that blacksmith shop on the next corner? He needs a helper, I understand, and she could smoke herself do death there." "No; I guess not," he said after thinking over the suggestion. "It's hardly a woman's work, but I'm bettin' Sarah would shoe a hoss inside of a week or know the reason why. An' I be sorry for the hoss what kicked her. Well, so long." "Say!!" called the laundry clerk as the man was leaving, "how did you get that black eye?" "That's what comes of crossin' a good woman like Sarah," he replied, —From Judge. Odd Preserves. Perhaps the oddest of all jams (some of which is imported into this country) is made from a red pulp obtained from the seed vessels of the common wild rose of Europe. It is brick-red in color and, as might be imagined, is in flavor entirely unlike any other known kind of preserve. In parts of the South what is known as "peach leather" is made from peach juice, which is put into bright pans and dried in the sun. In the dry state it looks a good deal like leather, and is eaten without further preparation, keeping for an indefinite time. There is commonly manufactured in Turkey a similar product from grapes, the juice being evaporated to the consistency of molasses. Some flour is mixed with it, and the stuff is spread in thin sheets upon muslin, being then exposed to sunshine for a couple of days. In the same Oriental country walnuts are commonly strung upon twine, and after coating them with a mixture of grape-molasses and sugar are dried. Travelers bound on long journeys frequently carry these strings of nuts, which afford much nourishment in concentrated shape. In California a delicious syrup is made from orange juice, which, of course, is quite rich in sugar. And in Virginia watermelon syrup, which is said to be particularly delicious, is not unknown as a local product. Philadelphia Press. Workmen Eat Much Sugar In lumber camps and in the mines of Canada and the colder sections of the United States workmen consume large quantities of sugar in the form of molasses. Tea and coffee is often sweetened with molasses, and in some places is it added to almost every article of food. The same is true to a greater or less extent in the logging districts of the South, where molasses and rice mixed together have become almost a staple diet. Sugar is contained in large proportions in many natural foods, such as fruits. Sugar of milk is part of the natural food of the infant. From consulting the tables it will be seen that the carbohydrates (sugars and starch), are needed and consumed in much larger proportions than either of the other two chief classes of nutrients. A person requires more than twice as much of carbohydrates as he does of protein and fats combined. Hence the carbohydrates might be called the chief class of food nutrients. They make up a large part of vegetable food and in general are very completely digestible. Sugar, it is declared, is completely digested.—What-To-Eat. Old Age Pension. The Canadian Government has decided to enact legislation of Parliament providing pensions for old age. The chief-purpose is to encourage thrift and saving among the working classes. The title of Reverend was first used in England in 1657. FOR THE FARMER AND STOCKMAN Don't Neglect the Stock. The neglect of sheep and lambs brings the farmer out of pocket, as well as in other stock upon the farm. Let good care and good feed be the infallible rule with all farm stock. One Essential to the Other. There is no use in denying the fact that in these days of intensive farming the farmer has got to have the assistance of the scientific man; but this is by no means all, for that good A Waste to Doctor. In ninety-nine cases' out of every hundred it is a waste of time to doctor sick chickens. It may pay some time when the fowl is an especially fine one, but as a rule you can save worry by using the hatchet. Good care, good food and cleanliness make the best physic, and if these are systematically applied, there will be but few sick fowls. When to Trim Trees. An authority upon the subject of fruit growing says that he prefers winter to spring for pruning his orchard. The tree, perhaps, does not peel off so easily when rubbed by the ladder or the boot heels. Then another thing, which is of quite a little importance, is that it is much easier to get about the tree tops when the trees are free from leaves or blossoms. Fowls in Cold Weather. According to good practical authority when the cold weather begins the capacity of the hens for finding a portion of their food will be lessened, hence they must be supplied by the poultryman. Not only will ground oyster shells and gravel be necessary, but green food and water. Green food is easily obtained by using finely chopped clover, which should be steeped in boiling water and fed early in the morning. Only Results Count. A cow may possess many of the points of excellence which among the judges are considered as indicating good qualities; she may possess the triple wedge, the soft, mellow skin, the slender neck, the clean head, the dished face, the large, fine nostril, the prominent, bright eye, and yet with all these good features she may possess a meaty udder of small capacity, thus rendering her incapable of large and continuous-milk production. Results, actual results, form the final test of excellence after all.—J. V. Vernon, New Mexico Experiment Station. Mated, Not Matched, Horses In his instructive work, "The Brible Bits," Colonel Battersby (who is a veteran officer and expert horseman) observes that horses put together as a team because they are of the same height and color or look alike, and have been driven with different and various bits, yet don't go well together, are numerous and ought to be divorced. This may be because, although they are mates, they are not matches, and while one is worth $500 the mate is not worth $50. If horses are not well matched in every respect, especially in the mouting, they must be driven, with different bits and the length of the inner or outer rein regulated according to the disposition of one or the other of the team to pull with or against each other, and thus fall into "lagging." Borax in the Dairy. A few years ago most anything "neutral" for milk or cream or butter so long as it came from a cow. Now things are changed. The public realizes, the dairyman realizes and the farmer realizes that there is just as much difference between milk from pure utensils and milk from "stale" utensils, as there is between milk and chalk and water. The problem of keeping sweet all the utensils used in connection with milk and cream selling and butter making has been a serious one with the farmer. He has come to realize fully that the slightest taint or hint of staleness left in a can, tin or churn may ruin a whole output; that the taint which is left in in the form of bacteria which grow and multiply in milk or butter, producing, disastrous results. The farmer has learned that hot water won't rinse away the greasy residue in dairy utensils. He has learned that soap leaves a residue of its own which is, if anything, worse than the milk or cream residue, and it is little wonder that there has been a constant clamor for a dairy cleanser and sweetener that will meet modern requirements. A few of the largest creamy establishments called experts into consultation on this problem, and these scientific aids decided unanimously upon a product of nature which exactly fills the bill—borax. Scientists have long known borax as a cleanser, a sweetener and an antiseptic destroyer of bacteria and germ growths, that jestroys all that is harmful and promotes and preserves freshness, sweetness and purity; and relieves the dairyman and dairy housewife of drudgery and of needless work and worry. Its purity, effectiveness, cheapness and value should give it first place in the necessities of every dairy. One Essential to the Other. There is no use in denying the fact that in these days of intensive farming the farmer has got to have the assistance of the scientific man; but this is by no means all, for that good, sound, practical knowledge, which he has been so many years in acquiring, is an all-important factor. When we have the two nicely blended together in a man of sound, good business judgment, we have before us the ideal prosperous farmer. At the Maine dairyman's meeting this winter Professor Jordan, of this State, who is not only a full-fledged scientific man, but a farmer's friend and assistant through and through, in dwelling upon the subject of applying scientific principles to soil fertility, said that "the question of fertility is highly important. The commercial fertilizer may have settled the question in part, but it is not yet solved. We must now meet the sharpest competition, and the farmer who can put the most skill into his products will win. We cannot escape the trend of modern civilization; modern methods are complex. Our products are selling in critical markets. This calls for a special training. The usefulness of experiment stations depends upon how farmers reach out to grasp their teachings. The experiment station cannot take the place of your own personal knowledge." That's the idea exactly. The farmer is not in a position to do the work of the experiment station, nor is the experiment station capable of doing the work of the farmer. They must work hand-in-hand. From a financial standpoint the farmer has all the advantage, and foolish indeed is the man who does not avail himself of the opportunities for learning afforded by the experiment station as they are offered to him. Ducks and Geese. Waterfowl have attracted more than passing attention of late for market. The cultivation of egg-producing strains of ducks has made possible the keeping of ducks at a greater possible profit; where ducks will lay sufficient eggs during a year to hatch a brood or two and to pay for their own feed, they are a very profitable product. They are-easily kept within an enclosure, grow fast, cause but little trouble or anxiety after they are a week or ten days old. The consumption of ducks as dressed poultry is largely on the increase, and for some reason or other they always sell at the higher price at the same season of the year than that obtained for poultry. Geese, while growing in favor, are more difficult to manage; they do not pay so well unless you have rough waste lands, with swimming pools, from the fact that geese are heavy grazers. Some assert that six geese will eat as much grass as a cow. This is not an actual fact, but geese do consume a wonderful amount of herbage of many kinds. For this reason, low, marshy lands that cannot be made use of for other kinds of grazing can be most profitably utilized for the growing of geese. On lands of this kind they can be kept through the entire year, providing there is a high place on dry land that they can come to at night during the stormy weather. Lands that are unfit for other kinds of stock may be most profitably made use of for the growing of geese. In selecting geese, it may well be remembered that feathers are one of the profitable considerations, and that white feathers will sell for one or two cents more a pound-than will colored ones. There are many kinds of geese that may be made use of, each grower selecting the kind best suited to his locality. More pounds of goose meat can be grown in the same number of days with less cost per pound than in almost any other fowl, from the fact that more than one-half their entire sustenance can be grazed from the marshy lands, being fed only for the first two or three weeks of their existence and after cold weather sets in, when they are to be fed and fattened for market. To have the best results from turkeys, ducks and geese, one should select and have in hand on his farm the stock to be made use of as producers the next year prior to the first of the year. Ducks and geese brought on to a place after the first of March are not likely to prove very profitable during that season. A well-set flock of geese do best in their second year, and continue, to do remarkably well as producers for many, many years. It is always best to change the ganders at least once in two or three years. Keep the old geese so long as they will lay eggs and produce a flock of goslings. Ducks do not continue as profitable breeders much beyond the third year. Very old geese cannot be made palatable for dressed poultry. Ducks can be quickly fattened into palatable food at almost any age; if taken when quite thin in flesh and fed on rich, fattening foods they will fill up, with juicy, palatable meat in a few weeks and make fairly good market fowls.—Country Gentleman. Too many doctors may spoil the war prospects. L. E. WILLIAMS, President. The undesigned Treasure to have received from the Secretary of the Treasury, dated 17th October, 1877, and signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, by authority and assembly, approved October 20th, 1877. Georgia Briefs 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 . Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Meeting of School Superintendents. County school superintendents from all over Georgia will gather in Brunswick on March 31 and April 1 and 2, to attend the annual convention, for which many interesting features have been arranged. *** Dividend of Neal Bank Paid. Dividend of Neal Bank Paid. The Central Bank and Trust Corporation has issued checks for the 20 per cent dividend of the Neal Bank at Atlanta. The amount of the dividend was $342,338.60, or one-fifth of $1,711,943.03, the bank's indebtedness, with the exception of certain preferred claims. * * * Major Palmer Detailed for Georgia. According to a Washington dispatch Major Frederick L. Palmer, U. S. A., retired, who has been relieved at his own request from further duty at St. Joseph's college at Philadelphia, has been detailed by order of the president for duty with the Georgia state militia. * * * Wage Workers Endorse Brown. A political surprise evolved from a meeting of wage workers in Macon when strong resolutions were adopted in which Hon. Joseph M. Brown was endorsed for governor of Georgia without a dissenting voice. It was a meeting of the Wage Workers' Protective Association, and a large number of persons were in attendance. Cuts Revenue of Suburban Trains. The Central of Georgia railway company has filed a petition with the railroad commission asking its permission to remove certain suburban trains running between Atlanta and Jonesboro, on the ground that the establishment of the electric trolley line between Atlanta and Hapeville has so interfered with the business of these trains as to make them unprofitable. The Central seeks to take off one hundred times daily trains. The Central seeks to take off one Sunday and two daily trains. Will Not Canvass from Stump. Ion, Joseph M. Brown, who has announced for governor, states that he will not attempt to canvass the state from the stump. It is Mr. Brown's purpose to reach the voters of Georgia rather through correspondence and the daily press than by making campaign speeches. He further sttaes that he proposes to make his campaign wholly upon the is- Treasurer of the State of Georgia. sues and that he will not inject into it anything of personalities. The senate Saturday passed the bill of Senator Bacon providing for an appropriation of $15,000 to establish a fish-hatching and fish-culture station for the propagation of shad in Georgia The station will be located on or near the seacoast, at some point to be designated by the secretary of commerce and labor. In reporting the bill, the chairman of the committee on fisheries attached a letter from Secretary Straus, indorsing the measure. Business Men to Enter Politics. Following the announcement made by John A. Murphy, a director in the Atlanta chamber of commerce, at a meeting of the directors, that it was time the chamber of commerce was taking a hand in city politics and seeing to it that members were elected from each ward that would represent the best interests of the city, forces have been quietly at work to formulate a "business men's ticket," which will be announced in a short while, to be voted upon at the coming city primary. State Treasurer R. E. Park has received from the Central Bank and Trust Corporation, receiver for the defunct Neal Bank, in Atlanta, a check for $65,502.90, being the balance due on the state's deposits with that institution. The state treasurer was paid $125,000 some days ago, and the court ordered that the balance be paid within twenty days. The depositors who fought the state's claims to a prior lien on the assets of the Neal Bank did not give the required bond to prevent the payment of these funds to the state, though they have already appealed from Judge Ellis' decision to the supreme court. Georgia Campaign Book Issued. As chairman of the Georgia state democratic executive committee, Judge A. L. Miller of Macon has had compiled and "published "The Georgia Campaign"Book" for 1908. Every one of the 50 pages of the book is full of valuable and interesting information of the organization, pledges and personnel of the democratic party in Georgia. It contains specifically a list of the members of the state executive committee, a list of the members of each county democratic executive committee, the democratic platform adopted by the state convention at Macon September 4, 1906, and the rules for the state primaries of 1908, which were adopted by the State is Paid in Full. NIGHT T VIA S WESTBOUR Leave Savannah Arrive Helena Arrive Abbeville Arrive Cordele Arrive Americus Arrive Richland Arrive Lumpkin Arrive Montgomery Arrive Birmingham Arrive New Orleans Train will consist of PULLM Montgomery without change; make Mobile, New Orleans and all West Northwestern points; the SHORT arrival at these points. At Savann ington, New York and with Coastw Get sleeping car reservations an NIGHT TRAINS SAVANNAH & MONTGOMERY. VIA SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY. WESTBOUND. Leave Savannah..... 5.00 P. M. Arrive Helena..... 9.15 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 without 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 Coastwise Steamships for Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. state committee, at its meeting in Atlanta February 6, 1908. <Children Working for Prizes. Since the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association of Georgia announced the offer of $100 in gold to the school children of Georgia for the four best compositions on "The Uses of Cotton, Seed and Its Products," the department of agriculture, at the capitol, has been swamped with childish requests, in regard to cotton seed, cotton seed meal, cotton seed hulls and, cotton seed oil. Commissioner.of Agriculture Hudson and Assistant Commissioner Wright have answered each of these requests at once, and furnished all of the information at hand. The children are limiting their compositions to 750 words, which are being turned over to their teachers, each teacher selecting the three best from that school, and these are sent to the county school commissioner to select the best one, from the lot, to be sent to the state judges, soon to be announced. These judges will award $50 for the best composition; $25 for the second; $15 for the third, and $10 for the fourth. The children are taking up the various uses of the cotton seed products, some writing on its as a fertilizer filler, others tell of its use as a cattle feed, others of cotton-seed off as a cooking substitute for lard and still others as a treatment and cure for consumption. 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. That we pay our claims promptly can be testified to by the thousands of our satisfied members. Liberal Terms and Commission. New Railroad Chartered. A charter has been granted by the secretary of state to the Georgia, Alabama and Western railroad, a 60-mile line to be built between Camilla, in Mitchell county, to Newton, in Baker county, thence through Baker and Calhoun counties to Fort Gaines, in Clay county. The charter was issued to J. B. Kaufman, of Atlanta, in person, who stated that the road was to be built and the bulk of the capital furnished by C. Sprinkle of Vincennes, Ind. The new road has capital stock of $500,000, and the principal offices will be in Atlanta. The charter runs for 101 years. TWO BIG ELEPHANTS AT LARGE Escaped from Circus at Live Oak, Fla. and Caused a Big Score. The people between Valdosta, Ga. and White Springs are greatly excited over the roaming at large Thursday in that section of two big elephants, which escaped Wednesday night from the Van Amberg snows at Live Oak, Fla. The elephants escaped while being loaded on the cars, and got away from their keepers in the darkness. It is reported that they did considerable damage to the farms and truck patches in their line of march, smashing fences and tearing up the crops. At one time the elephants were surrounded by farmers nine miles from Genoa, Ela, and were fired upon. The animals became frightened and dashed away. SOL. C. JOHNSON Notary Public. 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. 518 PHONES—Bell 506 Multiplying, her words, seldom adds to a woman's popularity. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Decided Upon by President Roosevelt Which Will Be Put Squarely Up to Congress. President Roosevelt has determined on a legislative program, the enactment of which will be urged upon congress in a special message. Each of the measures to be proposed involves perplexing difficulties, and each will have far-reaching effect on the business and economic conditions of the country. The program is the product of important conferences through which the president has been put in possession of the clews of all interests concerned. Likewise, the attitude of the leaders in both branches of congress has been made known. Its success depends on the combined effort which he believes can be brought to bear in behalf of the whole plan by those accepted, especially by some of its features. The program includes: A declaration in favor of a revision of the tariff in a special session to be held after March 4, 1909; an amendment to the Sherman anti-trust law so as to make important concessions to combinations of both labor and capital; limiting the powers of certain courts in the use of the injunction in labor disputes; passage of an employers' liability bill; passage of the Aldrich financial bill. The support of the business and financial interests of the middle west was pledged to the president on this program following an extended conference held at the white house Friday night. A most satisfactory conference was held at the president's offices Saturday with leaders of the two houses of congress. ONE DOSE ENOUGH FOR ANNA. Divorced Wife of Profligate Boni Wants No More of Matrimony. Madame Arna Gould, the divorced wife of Count Boni de Castellane, arrived at New York from Paris Thursday on the steamer Adriatic and denied that she is to marry Prince Helle de Sagan. "I have had enough of married life," she said. "I am not engaged to any one." Madame Gould was accompanied from Paris by her three sons, Bonl, Jay and George, the custody of whom the French courts awarded to the mother. The party was met at the pier by Miss Helen Gould, Mrs. George Gould, and Mrs. Tyler Morse. All were later driven to the Fifth avenue home of Miss Helen Gould. THE State committee has met and all signs point to harmony in the Republican ranks in Georgia. TOM BLODGETT came and has gone. He is full of vituperation against those whose places he wants. After May 14, Mr. Blodgett and his ill-advised followers will not be heard from. CHATHAM county and the First Congressional District are the best organized Republican stronghold in the state. Credit for this is given by leaders all over the state, yet a few disgruntled ones are finding fault. THOSE who are harping the loudest against the Republican organization are only doing so from a selfish standpoint. They want to stir the people up and ride in on whatever sentiment they raise. The conservative registered voters are on to their game and at the proper time will show them that demagogic methods will not do and that they are unsafe as proper leaders: On evidence slimly circumstantial, Mr. Henry Perry has been incarcerated for writing an alleged "Black Hand" letter, threatening Judge Speer. The writer is un-American and should be captured and severely punished. Those who know Mr Perry are loud in protesting his innocence, and we assert that our people are above such anarchistic methods. They are too loyal as citizens to become assassins. The white man Langbell has been found not guilty in the United States Court for assaulting Mr. Deveaux. The recorder found him guilty. His accomplice was also found guilty and Judge Speer inflicted a penalty upon him for the offense. Langbell is said to have been the main aggressor. By appealing to race hatred his lawyer convinced the jury that a white man should not be convicted for assaulting a colored man. Yet our southern white men say that they treat the colored man fairly; this is a sample. Saying Girls. In New York city, Philadelphia and in other centers we are glad to take note of the organizations that have for their object the saving of Negro girls who are induced to come from the South to the North. Hundreds of girls come to the large cities of the North who are unprotected, without friends and without any guarantee of securing any employment. To begin with, unscrupulous agents are at work in many parts of the South for the purpose of getting these girls into the large centers of the north for immoral purposes. When that is not true in other cases these girls come North seeking labor and do not find it, and in a few days find themselves without money. Under these circumstances they fall as easy prey to temptation and in many cases soon go to the bad. Wherever possible our people should give strong and immediate encouragement to the organization that has in hand the saving of these Afro-American girls. The above is clipped from the New York Age and partly shows that the pitfalls for girls from this section who go North are many. At this season many of these girls are preparing to migrate North. Parents and friends who are interested in them should not fail in giving them advice along the above lines. Republican Committee Met The Republican State Central Committee met on Wednesday in Atlanta. The gathering was large and the session very harmonious. It proves that the discordant element will not be tolerated and that this state will be found doing that which will be of most benefit to the party at large. The following resolutions presented by Hon. H. A. Rucker meet the approval of all thoughtful Republicans: "Resolved. That the convention of the Republican party of the state of Georgia be and hereby is called to assemble in the city of Macon, on Thursday, May 14, ensuing, for the purpose of nominating a state ticket, Governor and other state officers; electing four delegates-at-large to represent the state at the Republican National Convention in the city of Chiles go, June 16, next; for the reorganization of the party in the state and to transact any other business which may properly come before it. "Resolved, that the Republican State Central Committee cordially indorse the administration of President Rossevelt as vigorous and honorable, high-minded and patriotic. We commend it without reservation to the considerate judgment of the American people. "Resolved, by the Republican State Central Committee of the state of Georgia, in meeting assembled, that we most emphatically condemn the proposed constitutional amendment now being submitted to the voters of Georgia, by which it is proposed to disfranchise a large part of the citizens of the state on account of race and color, and we urge all fair-minded ed voters of the state to do all in their power to defeat said amendment at the polls." Thoughtful Action Means Much for Colored Republicans. EDITOR TRIBUNE: As the time for the convening of the State Convention draws near, the storm signals begin to appear, and the warriors begin to predict what the result of the battle will be and to forecast what the consequences of neglect or refusal to follow certain—always theirs—line of action, will amount to. It is amusing to see the avidity with which the aspirants for leaderships are rushing into print—some of them not all with hair-raising declarations of what "I will do, but it borders closely upon disgust to see the presumptuousness shown by some of the pretenders. If the matter, in all of its phases, were not of so serious import, we might well regard it as a first class vaudeville show. If the adage "the empty barrel makes the most noise" be true, then the loquacious Colonel Tom Blodgett must indeed be dangerously close to the exploiting point, for his fulminations is something to marvel at. The ambition on the part of any man to rise is a most laudable one, but Colonel Tom, in the excess of confidence, seems to think that he is the legitimate answer, beyond the peradventure of a doubt to the question. "Who is IT?" Seriously, though, while we do not think that the leaders of the party have in all cases, shown the proper degree of consideration for it, welfare as a whole nor have they been altogether free from guilt of the charge of placing personal ambition to the fore, it is a very grave question as to whether a change just now would be wise—especially if that change was radical. It would seem infinitely better policy to show the wayward the error of their way, and then, if they do not mend them, bestow the condign punishment advocated by Colonel Blodgett. The Negroes are the only members of the Republican party who will suffer if ill befall it, for the white Republicans have a refuge always, and it incumbent upon us to look well and to be sure that the path to be trod is, if anything, less thorny than the path we have trod. As a Negro, I am proud of any Negro that has ever risen to a high position in or by the party, although I may sometimes feel that he has acted unwisely, and, mayhap, unjustly, in some things; likewise I am just as much disposed to trust those white men who have, for years, stood by, and sometimes with us, even tho in the exercise of their opinions and rights, they have done things with which we did not agree. If all the world thought alike, there would be no political parties. As matters now stand in Georgia, in a general way the conflict is between the old guard of the party headed by State Chairman W. H: Johnson, and the Republican State League, established ostensibly to defeat the disfranchisement law, but soon wrecked on the sea of discord and too much ego, and now the personal vehicle of Colonel Tom Blodgett on one side, and Colonel Job Sistrunk on the other. But Colonel Sistrunk can easily be eliminated as a potential factor, leaving Colonel Blodgett with all the field to himself. Colonel Johnneon has been affiliated with the party actively for years, and we all know him. Encomiums are neither necessary nor proper here, but simple justice demands that he be given credit for what he has done, even though some of the thigs done by him might not have pleased us. As Chairman of the state Central Committee, he has been fair to all concerned, and loyal to the best interest of the party as far as he was able, and as to him seemed best. As a man, he is approach able, and has the confidence of his friends, and as an opponent he has never taken an unfair advantage, as far as is known. The old guard stands by him, and they who have helped to blaze the trail, must have some reason for the faith that is in them, based on the best of mentors, experience, and why should they not have? On the other hand, Colonel Blodgett seems to have grabbed bodily the disfranchisement issue and with the known partiality of the Negroes for Senator Foraker, to be using it as a lever with which to pull, pry and force the Negroes to line up with, and put, him in power. He seems desirous of becoming the grand Chancellor of the party in Georgia, and to accomplish this, has played almost unceasingly upon our emotions. But he has overlooked the fact that there are some Negroes to whom emotionalism does not appeal; they prefer to calmly and dispassionately consider the matter and act upon deliberate conclusions. Colonel Blodgett seems to think that the right to think for us has been deeded to him in fee simple, and has acted accordingly. We do not think, however, that either Bishop Turner or Dr. White gave his State League the benefit of the use of their names for any other than the reason that they wanted to see more life installed in the party. They certainly could not have done so from any feeling of animosity toward the present leaders. But Colonel Blodgett would think otherwise, and right there is where it is unfortunate—for the Colonel—that he is neither an oracle or endowed with the gift of second sight. Indeed, the Colonel reflected on the intelligence of the Negroes when he asks them to believe in his sincerity when he express his purse of laughter in his own brothers Ed. and John, when he became able to do so, for very few of us question as to who would be laughed if that conflict ever came to pass. And, then, slaughtering is hardy—and while the Colonel is hardly a barbarian, it is further true that any Negro would look askance at the white man who promises, in return for their support, to devour any other white man, especially his own flesh and blood. Really we could not swallow, that. It is too good, or rather, barbarian, to be true in this age of civil ization That was a vital error for Colonel Blodgett, and has caused the him chance that he had to vanish if it were thin air. It is always a bad policy to presume that you are "IT"—and it is worse to grow savage about it. Most people though, do not discover this until too late. His abuse of Colonel Johnson, Rucker, Deveaux and Lyons not to mention his castigation, orally, I mean, of his brothers, has hurt him beyond re covery. Abuse never carries conviction and conviction is what wins votes and makes for strength—and victory. In the battle now approaching, the party will succeed or fail as it acts wisely or unwisely, and it is imperative that no false steps be made. The time for action has come, but with it has also come the necessity of thought, consideration and care, and we shall be blind to our own best interest. if we fail to keep always in view the high purpose of "the greatest good to the greatest number," rather than the selfish consideration of personal elevation without regard to fitness. We know what our past leadership has been, and we must exercise care, less in changing, we do so to our own hurt. PARTY MAN. Atlanta, Ga., March 20, 1908. College Dots. Quite recently under the direction Prof. L. B. Thompson, the Collegians enjoyed a rare treat in the character of a sacred concert. Miss Nettie Houston of Savannah took part in the program. Her singing needs no comment. The Collegians are always glad to see her, always delighted to hear her sing. Two sermons have been preached to the teachers and students since the last Dots. One by Rev. W. T. Moore of St. Paul C. M. E. Church and another by Rev. W. L. Cash, of First Congregational Church of Sayannah. Both sermons were simple, practical and powerful. Rev. Moore preached from Deuteronomy and Rev. Cash from Luke The Farmers Conference April 2. and 3. In the day farming topics will be discussed and at night more questions will be discussed by distinguished speakers. Garden and flowers seeds for all delegates. Second Baptist Church. The revival is in progress here and will open up in full blast to-morrow. Several candidates for baptism. The sick are better generally with two exceptions. Three funerals during the week. Owing to Pastor May being called upon to preach the funeral of Mr. Geo. Hanson, Sunday morning at the residence, Bro. Jas, H. Rogera preached the eleven o'clock sermon; all say it was the greatest sermon of his ministry. Rev. Dr. Stone (white) who has recently toured the old country preached an excellent sermon' Sunday night. This church and pastor will commune with the First A. B Churah the first Sunday in April. The rally books are out and can be secured from Deacons Rogers and Osborne. The pastor's rally day last Sunday was greatly hindered by the rain it will be therefore continued through to-morrow and all members are requested to come and pay up. The Sunday School is rapidly progressing under the new features introduced by Superintendent and Secretary. But for the assistance of friends, Pastor May's residence would have been completely destroyed by fire Thursday, the damage however are slight. Special sermon to the unconverted to-morrow at eleven o'clock; all invited. Regular services throughout the day as usual. Bethlehem Bapt. Church. Rev. Blair preached two instructive sermons last Sunday. The attendance at each service was large. Sunday was our rally and the collection was good. Sunday school was conducted by Supt. F. H. Williams. Short review by the pastors Our revival meeting began on Monday night, and the good Lord has wonderfully blessed us. Tuesday night Rev. Williams preached an able sermon, all hearts were made to feel glad. Preaching on Wednesday night by Rev. Washington. All are respectfully invited to come and help us in this battle. Ministers Union The Eyangelical Ministers Union met in St. Phillip A. M. E. Church Divine service was conducted by Rev. W. L. Cash. Sermonic report was given by Rev. W. L. Cash. The sermon was so full of good thought until it caused half an hour discussion. Revs. J. S. Jenkins, B. S Hannah, R. V. Branch, R. H. Robinson, C. D. Johnson, W. T. Moore and G. H. Lennon led in the discussion which was very helpful. The theological questions of Dr. Brockett, Revs. Robinson and W. T. Moore were then taken up. Rev Robinson's question was settled when the Union held that St John the writer of the text said that the scripture might be fulfilled. Rev Moore's question was settled when the Union held that Christ make little of the young lawyer. Dr. Brockett's question was left unsettled because of his absence. It will be taken up when he is present. Rev J. D. Stone, the white evangelist, was introduced and gave a timely address, which was enjoyed. Theological question next Tuesday: Dr. Lindsay want to know if all men will be saved. Christ said "toat if I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." Dr. Stone wants to know what kind of work we can do greater than Jesus Christ. Come out Tuesday. All ministers of the city are invited to be present at these great discussions. Dr. J. H. KING, Pres Baptist Minister's Union: The Baptist Minister's Union met Monday. After the devotional exercises, minutes read and approved, sermonic reports were made as follows: Revs. B. Molett "A man of courage." J. E. Edwards "The Importance of having a shepherd," D. Miles "Christ the bread of life," G. S. Stone "The gospel." From these subjects the brethren showed that much research had been made. Rev. H. D. Martin the educational missionary of the General State Baptist Convention of Savannah district and also Revs. W. M. McKinnie and G. S. Stone were introduced to the Union. Rev. A. H. Banv's was admitted to membership. Union Baptist Church Union Baptist Church Services last Sunday we grand. Rev. H. E. Dunn, B. D., of Augusta, Ga. preached two powerful sermons. Our anniversary offering took place on Sunday night. Our church is growing more rapidly every day. Sunday school at 3 o'clock and conducted by Supt. Sweagin. Our pastor Rev. James Moss, D. D., is at his home, Alken, B. C., sick in bed. We were glad Monday night to see Sister Lula Grayson out. She has been sick several weeks. Those members who have not paid their anniversary offering must pay by the first Sunday in April. Mrs. Carrie S. Foster and Miss Jeanne- bell Boozar, say that the spring concert will be grand. Come out on 30th of March. Tickets only to cents. You will miss a treat if you don't come. The papers read by Mrs. Margaret Douglass was grand. Our communion is first Sunday in April. Dea. Eddie Elam is on the sick list, Sister Annie O. Newsome, one of our faithful sisters will leave us soon for Wyscross, Ga. we all will miss her. F. A. B. Church Dots. F. A. B. Church Dots. The unfavorable weather had a very telling effect on the attendance at each service Sunday at the First African Baptist Church, Franklin Square. Rev. A. Johnson preached very acceptably at the morning and evening services. Our rally is still in progress, and the members who were in arrears are paying up pretty well. Tomorrow (Sunday) at the 11 o'clock service, Evangelist W. A. McKinney, D. D., of Lancaster, S. C., will deliver a special discourse; subject, "Three ways." Rev. McKenney's success in the evangelical work, assures us of the fact that his discourse will be both interesting and reviving. We invite you to come and hear him. Supt. J. A. Saydar is busily engaged preparing the scholars of the Sabbath school for children's day exercises. This branch of the church work continues to make a fine showing at every call of the church in her financial struggle. The reproduced concert given at the church on last Monday evenlog was a success. The church owe to the members composing the Invincible All Stars Concert Troupe many thanks. Morning Star Dots. of who its services as usual) At 11 a.m. general prayer services which were soul stirring. Sunday school at 3 p.m. Our pastor was at White Oak Sunday at 11 a.m. and reported a soul stirring meeting. At 8:30 p.m. he conducted the services. Having put in our new organ our choir did some fine singing at the services. Pastor Haywood as usual preached a very instructive sermon to a good congregation. Our rally will come off Sunday and all our friends are invited to the services. The pastor will preach morning and evening, come over and help us is our cry. --- Only Dry Goods Store owned and controlled by colored people, Scott Bros., West Broad and Gwinnett streets, District Committee Meeting: Savannah, Ga., March, 23 1908. A meeting of the Republican committee of the First Congressional District of Georgia is hereby called to convene at hall corner Harris and East Broad streets in the city of Savannah on March 30, 1908, at 11 o'clock a m., for the purpose of naming a time and place for a Republican District Convention and to consider any other business which may be properly brought before it. If you cannot attend send your proxy to Chairman or Secretary at Savannah. J. H. DEVEAUX, Chairman. SOL C. JOHNSON, Secretary. Notice. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 28, 1908. To whom it max concern: Please to establish these names that you see on this paper for upholding the said J. C. Williams to misappropriating the sum of $6.00 from the Sons and Daughters of Jacob No. 1. The names are as follows: Bro. J. C. Williams, Sisters Katie Perry, Nannie King, Henrietta Giles, Agnes Watts, Victoria Woods, Sarah Jones, Henrietta Slmons, Lizzie Savage, Georgia A. Toods, Cathrine Green, Jannie Garnett, Priscilla Alexander, Bro. D. W. Johnson, Bro. R. H. Simon, Bro. Middleton Garnett, Bro. Geo Washington. Done by order of the body at large in our last meeting in February 28, 1908. Yours, Bro. E. W. Maxwell, President, Bro. C. J. Alston, Jr., Recording Sec'y, Sister Rosa Williams, Financial Sec'y, Sister Clara Small, Tradesurer. r Shoes At E'S SHOE CO., Savannah, Ga. ALL GRADES OF SHOES From one of the largest Factories in the East These goods will be sold at reasonable prices. We are pre- pared to make Shoes to order, guaranteeing perfect fit and com- fort, especially for those suffering with corns, bunions and tender feet. SHOES REPAIRED on short notice and always give per- fect satisfaction. We would be glad to have you call and see our goods. E. F. GOLDEN. Manager. STOP PAYING RENT! You can live in the house and after a while you will have it paid for. I am prepared to offer the industrious colored people of Savannah the best opportunity they have ever had to own their own homes. The house are new 4 rooms each. The land is high and well drained, and the water supply is obtained from artesian wells. I am also offering vacant lots on "Springfield Terrace" on Gwinnett street west, near the New City Water Works. These lots are on a terrace about two feet above Gwinnett street. Drainage is perfect and no city taxes; easy monthly payments. If you wish to own your own homes don't delay until these opportunities are snatched up by others. Ring me up at once over Bell Phone 1264 or drop me a postal or come to the office and I will show you how to make money. DOTT BROAD "ON THE SQUARE" REMOVAL S Stock at a Sale February 1st, Gwine West Broad street in a good bank in REAL ESTATE put your money in REAL profit? I am prepared to owe only a little cash will start S. A. R. McDOW state and Renting 3188 22 State Johnson's Banking Establishment DIRECTORS AND EM- plyt attended, Day or Night and all work of that kind guar- fin, Caskets and Robes is We also have a first class Liv- ernish the best Carriages, We also have in our em- pio would like to see his friend MANAGERS: NBAR - W. P. 335-333 JEFFE BY DEPOSITED Earners Loan an- ment Company ered by Thousands of Dollars Savannah Real Estate. Cent Paid on Deposit Earners Loan & Inv Peer Negro Savings Bank for June 1198. 468 West and Controlled by Savannah MOST UP-TO- ed Barber SCOTT BROS., "ON THE SQUARE" REMOVAL SALE Entire Stock at a Sacrifice. After February 1st, Gwinnett and West Broad streets. 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. Real Estate and Renting Agent Bell Phone 3188 22 State Street, west Undertaking Establishment, All Orders promptly attended, Day or Night. Firstclass Embalming and all work of that kind guaranteed. Our stock of Coffin, Caskets and Robes is the largest in the city. We also have a first class Livery Stable where we furnish the best Carriages, Hearses and Funeral Cars. We also have in our employment Mr. H. S. Dunbar, who would like to see his friends at any time. MANAGERS; H S. DUNBAR - - W. R. FIELDS, Bell Phone 676. 335-333 JEFFERSON STREET. The Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company Is doubly secured: by Thousands of Dollars invested in Savannah Real Estate. 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. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE Colored Barber Shop In he city, can be found at 515 West W have just installed an I patronage is solicited. Ea ting and Electric Mass The Union Sav L. S. REED Pres West Brox Installed an Electric Massage Excited. Easy Shaving, Artificial Electric Massage. Our service. PERRY R. WRI (Six years with J Savings & 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.) The Union Savings & Loan Co. Plant a Dollar UNION SAVIN 20 State St., W., SAVINGS & LOAN . W. Sava UNION SAVINGS & LOAN CO., 20 State St., W., Savannah, Ga. W. J. HILANDS, Rooms 5 and 6 Sorrel Building Cor. Bull and Bay streets. BROS., THE SQUARE" REAL SALE at a Sacrifice. 11st, Gwinnett and road streets. Good bank is secured by ESTATE money in REAL ESTATE and prepared to offer some good cash will start the ball rolling. M. McDOWELL, Renting Agent 22 State Street, west Jenson's Establishment, DRS AND EMBALMERS. Day, Day or Night. Firstclass of that kind guaranteed. Our s and Robes is the largest in love a first class Livery Stable. Best Carriages, Hearses and have in our employment Mr. like to see his friends at any time. AGERS:— W. R. FIELDS, 335-333 JEFFERSON STREET. POSITED WITH Lers Loan and Invest- Company thousands of Dollars invested in Real Estate. Paid on Deposits Loan & Investment Co. Savings Bank of Georgia. 468 West Broad St., ed by Savannah Negroes. UP-TO-DATE Barber Shop Broad St. Electric Massage Machine. Your Joy Shaving, Artistic Hair Cutage. Our service is the best. PERRY R. WRIGHT, Manager. (Six years with Jos. T. Burton.)ings & Loan Co. D. C. SUGGS, Vece Pres In the Union Savings and reap a harvest that will come to those who will act. Do so today. GS & LOAN CO., Savannah, Ga. The Savannah Tritune SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1908. Mr. S. H. Naylor, an old citizen, died on Monday last and was buried Wednesday. Ice Cream furnished in any quantity from Scott Bros.' factory, Gwinnett and West Broad streets. Little Marie, the daughter of Mrs. Rena Barnard who has been ill with measles, we are glad to note, is better. Mr. Willie Rahn, an old Savannah boy is seriously ill at his home, Boston, Mass. His many friends here are hoping for his recovery. Miss Ellen Tropey is in the city having returned from Rockcastle, Va., where she has been for some time, to attend the funeral of her sister. 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. Mrs. Minnie Johnson, formerly Mrs. Threadcraft of Blakely, Ga., quietly married to Mr. J. W. Bass on Monday night at the parsonage of Rev. J. H. May. There will be a re-organization meeting of the Old Folks Home Society on Monday night at the residence of Mrs. Georgia Simmons corner Barnard and Liberty streets. Mrs Rena Tattnall, a former resident of this city and well known as one of the oldest members of the Second Baptist choir, is critically ill at her home in New York City. After finishing a course in millinery, Miss Carrie Bush has returned home, Beaufort, S. C. While here she was the guest of Mrs. Julia C. Carr. 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. Hegge, Assist. M'gr. 817 West Broad, Savannah Ga. 1 25 4. At the First Bryan Baptist Church. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, a special sermon will be preached to the Sunday School by Lic. D. Wright. He will also preach at 8 p.m. Friends of the church are cordially invited to attend. Miss Cathrine Flagg of 533 Roberts street, entertained a few of her friends last Friday night in honor of her birthday with a Japanese tea. The table and dining room were beautifully decorated in Japanese style. Each guest received a Japanese souvenir. Dr. May of the Second Baptist Church has been invited to hold revival meetings at Lincoln, Neb., Chicago, Ill., and LaFayette, Ind., which he will probably do after the meeting is over at his church. Scott Broz, opened their Ice Cream Parlor at West Bread and Gwinnett streets last Sunday. The usual rush was on. Mrs. Frances Kelson, wife of Prof. S. S. Kelson died on Sunday night last. Her death came as a shock to her friends. She was a member of Shiloh Baptist Church from where she was buried Tuesday afternoon. She leaves a husband, a mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tropey, a brother and two sisters, and a host of friends to mourn her death: Mrs. Kelson was a graduate of the public school, of Beach and Atlanta University. 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. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Roberts entertained a few friends with a card party in honor of Mrs. Mamie James of New York City on Thursday evening March 12th. Those present Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen, Mr and Mrs A. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. S. E Fantroy, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Whitfield, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Bland, Mrs. M James of New York, Mrs. Florence Pinckney, Mrs. C. G. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Robinson, Messrs. H. C. Huger, W. H. Johnson, W Lockley, Geo. Refd. Mr. W. H. Johnson rendered several selections on the piano. Gold Medal Preferred. The committee on entertainment of Grand Chancellor Creswill, finding that it would be impossible to give a reception that all may attend, deemed it best to present to the General, a beautiful gold medal, something that will out last the pleasure of a moment. The medal will be presented at the celebration on Sunday. Pythlan Period. Tomorrow the Knights of Pythias wherever established, will observe its period of organization. In keeping with this custom the lodges and ladies courts will assemble at the Second Baptist church to-morrow afternoon where a well arranged program will be presented. The lodges and uniform ranks will assemble at the Masonic Temple at 2 o'clock and march to the church. The ladies will assemble in the basement of the church. ```markdown ``` The Wooden anniversary of Mr. and Mrs A. Brailsford March 18th, was largely attended and enjoyed. Several handsome presents were received. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. James Walberg, Mr. and Mrs. John Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Marshall, Mr. Joseph Williams, Mr. and Mrs. M. Jones, Mrs. H. D. Wright, Mrs. Moses Bryan, Mrs. Archie Vicket, Mrs. Andrew Boles, Mrs. Samuel Jenkins, Mrs. Henry Brown, Mrs. Florence Hagans, Mrs. Mary Gaines Mrs. Florie Dezone, Mrs. Caroline Curry, Misses Marguerite McTyre, Maggie Covingt. u. Janie Campbell, Wilson, J. Simson, Celia Gadson, Lelia Hagans, Hattie Small; Measures D. M. Patterson Chas. A. Singleton, Chas. Jenkins, Geo. Muse, John Chanle, Joe Priester. On Feb. 4th last, at Second Baptist Church the Woman's Missionary Union of Chatham County was organized. The object of this Union is to promote the mission work at home and in foreign fields. Since its organization it has done great work such as seeing after the sick and rendering assistance to those who are in need. This union holds its meetings from one Baptist Church to the other. The officers of this Union are Mrs S. Beauford, President; Mrs S. A. Chisolm, First Vice President; Mrs. Cook, Second Vice President; Miss L. A. Wicks, Recording Secretary; Miss Bessie E. Foster, Assistant Secretary; Mrs. Underwood, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Fannie Starr, Treasurer. The next meeting will be held at First Tabernacle Baptist Church, Huntingdon, street near West Broad street, April 13th. The public is invited. Minstrel for Charity. There will be a minstrel performances at Matonic Temple, on Friday night March 3rd, under auspices of Men's Sunday Club. The patronage of the public is solicited. Meeting at Beach. On Monday next a meeting of the friends and patrons of Beach Institute will be held in the chapel of the institute at 8:30 o'clock p.m. A cordial invitation is extended every one who is interested not only in this institution, but in the general welfare of our children to attend. The great good that this institution has done for us in this community should cause us to do full duty for the school. Our friends in the north have been untiring in their efforts for our educational institutions, and we should in a more tangible manner prove to them that we appreciate what they have and are doing for us. Unless we begin now to show tangible appreciation we can hardly expect a continuance of their unattended support. This notice of the meeting is not restricted to any special ones, but it is extended to everybody. The hope is expressd that there will be a large gathering. Popular Church Worker Thursday night of last week, Mr. L. M Fisher died. His death was a shock to his friends. He has not been in good health for some time, but continued at his usual vocation, and in fact was up the day of his death. Mr. Fisher was an old member of St. Philip A. M: E. Church from where he was buried on Sunday afternoon. His funeral was largely attended and he was buried with Pythian honors, being a member of Olympia Lodge. He is survived by a widow and son who have the condolence of friends. Last week we chronicled the fact that Capt. J. S. Starr had passed a very creditable examination and had his license renewed as a master of steam vessels and pilot of inland waters of three states. We are proud to note that there are several others, including Capts. C. H. Murry, W. D. Armstroug, Seabrooks and Parker, two of whom are actively engaged in work. Along with Capt. Starr these gent'eemen are deemed competent and have been honored accordingly. The Raines School of Millinery I will begin teaching Monday March 23, 1908. I will learn you how to make all kinds of hats, teach you the full course for five dollars; three dollars to start and the other two when you have finished. It only takes four weeks to learn it. Come and bring your old hats and make them new and also make your Easter hats in school. Learn to make your own hats and save money. For information call to see me, 24 Hull street, west, or phone me, Bell Phone 2740. Respectfully, Mrs. ELIZABETH RAINES. A Grand Leap Year Hop EASTER MONDAY NIGHT APRIL 20,1908. Ladles wishing to be in the Nestleie Festi- yal wil bring a tie corresponding their costume. ADMISSION 15 CENTS "The Blue Moon" Song. Tenes of thousands have laughed at James T. Powers, the comedian. His latest success is the musical extravaganza "The Blue Moon" The song hit of the place is "I'll Marry You to Make a Home for Mother." song by Clara Palmer and written by Herbert Ingraham. The sheet music of the song, as published by Shapiro, New York, has enjoyed a large sale. The words and music complete of I'll Marry You to Make a Home for Mother" will be given with next Sunday's New York World. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. The Laborers Pleasure Club will give a grand dance at Duffy Street Hall, Monday night April 27th. Tickets 15 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 Union S. and D., of Elijah will give their 8th anniversary at Masonic Temple. Tuesday night April 7th. Tickets 15 and 50 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 Spring Dance will be given by the Boys of Pleasure A. and S. Club at Masonic Temple, Monday night, March 30th. Tickets 20 and 55 cents. A Leap Year Ball will be given by Jerlcho Lodge No. 40 I. O. of G S. and D. of S., at Harris street hall, Wednesday night April 18th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. A Cut Rate spring dance will be given by the Young G. E. A. and S, club at Morse's hall, Monday night March 30th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The third annual dance of the Ocean Progressive A, and S. C. Branch will be given at Harris Street hall Tuesday night March 31st. Tickets 25 and 40 cts. The Crescent A. and S Club will give a grand five nights fete, beginning Monday night April 13th at Harris street hall. Tickets 10 cents. "The 14th annual dance of the Crescent A. and S Club will take place at Harris street hall, Wednesday night April 8th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. The Bakers Circle Aid Branch will give their 15th anniversary at Masonic Temple Wednesday night April 15th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. A grand excursion will be given to Springfield by the 40n Social Club Easter Monday April 20th. Tickets 50 cents. Palmetto Club will give their first annual French Soiree at Masonic Temple, Friday night April 3rd. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. Mt Morlah Lodge No. 3 I. O. of A. K. will give a grand Spring ball at Masonic Temple. Wednesday night April 8th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. A grand ball will be given by the Golden Eagle Aid and Social Club at Mason I Temple, Tuesday night April 21st, Tickets 35 and 60 cents. The East Side S and B Club will give their first outing to Beaufort, S. O., on Easter Monday April 20th. Tickets 25 and 50 cents. The first spring hop of the Silver Eagles A, and S. Club will be given at Masonic Temple. Monday night April 13th. Tickets 35 and 50 cents. Light Inheritance Lodge No. 133, I. O. of G. S. and D. of S. will give their first spring entertainment at Harris street hall, Tuesday night April 7th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. The Adelphia Club of Svannah, invites you to attend their spring dance at Masonic Temple, Tuesday night April 14th. Tickets 25 cents. Mt Horeb Temple No. 42, assisted by the ladies of Opal Tabernacle No. 45 K. and D. of T., will a grand Easter Soiree at Masonic Temple, Wednesday night April 15th. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. The Golden Hours Club invites you to spend a "few golden moments" with them at Masonic Temple May 1st. Tickets 25 cents. Knowledge Lodge No 1, K. of P., will give a grand excursion to Beaufort Monday May 18th. Tickets 50 cents. A royal blue, yellow and red entertainment will be given by B. K. Bruce Lodge No. 108, K. of P., at Masonic Temple, Wednesday night April 1st. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. DR. L. S. PARKS, 240] Barnard St., Savannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Plovet, 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 Gift Card Amalgam Filleded 23x K Gold Atlanta Shoe Shop Special attention paid to Ladies and Child- ren Shoes. Polite attention given to all work. . . . 103 LIBERTY ST., WEST. J. H. WASHINGTON, Prop. LODGE ROOMS FOR HIRE CHEAP! ENTERTAINMENT HALLS with Piano and Orchestra Hired Together. Music furnished with the Hall MORSE'S HALL. Mrs. M. HALL BOARDING AND LODGING. Boarding by the month or week. Regular meals served. Visitors to the city are invited to stop with me. 509 Harris street; west; 3rd door from West Broad; B. H. LEVY BRO. & CO. 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. Thanksgiving Proclamation. Office of Grand Worthy Counsellor, Grand Court, I, O. O.C., N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. Jurisdiction of Georgia To the Grand Court Officers, Grand Representatives. Members of the Grand Court, Worthy Sellers, and members of the Courts, Greeting: In compliance with the law and the establishing of the Knights of Pythlas and Court of Calanthe and by the power invested as Grand Worthy Counsellor of the State of Georgia, call every Court in the State out on Sunday the 29th day of March, with badges to a church or hall or wherever the K. of P. go. On this day let praises from more than five thousand five hundred and fifty members in this State be given to Almighty God for the continued blessings He has bestowed upon our Order and that Love and Harmony may reign supremely. Any member falling to turn out-without a lawful excuse and so accepted by their Court shall be fined $1.00. You can get badges from this office by applying for them before the 15th. I shall expect every Court in the Jurisdiction to comply with the above proclamation to the letter. Programs from this office or Grand Chancellor's office, $1.28 per hundred. Juvenile Badges 30 cents. Yours in F. H. and L., Mrs. R. L. BARNES, G. W. O. Mrs. M. S. GRANT, G. R. of D. 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 All,Kinds of GAME in Season. Goods promptly delivered to any part of the city free of charge. STALL: 31 CITY MARKET. 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 ELLJAH&J. QUARTERMAN, Expert Adjuster. 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. Reed, Sect. 20 state street west, Savannah, Ga. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Firstclass Dentist, All Work Guaranteed. 623 WEST BROAD STREET. Bet. Huntingdon and Hall. Bell Phone 2098. DO YOU LIKE QUALITY, STYLE and FIT. Not every man knows how to make fine clothes; but the man who knows, and knows he knows, is the right man—follow him. CORRECT OUTNITTERS, 9 Farm Street, Savannah, Ga. Dr. E. D. Bulkley, THE DENTIST. 219 East Broad St. Corner Hull. THE PLACE TO GET DENTAL WORK P.B. RAY Tailoring? DRY & STEAM CLEANING Ladies Work a Specialty HATS CLEANED & RE-BLOCKED Bell Phone 2050 JEFFERSON & BERRIEN STS. SAVANNAH, GA. The Georgia Everything neat, clean and up-to-date Club breakfasts and club dinners our specialty. Open day and night. Entrance 418 GASTON STREET, W., (upstairs) We also have attached a firstclass POOL & BILLIARD PARLOR 470 West Broad Street These are the only places of its kind in the city owned and conducted exclu sively by a colored man. W. A. THRASH, Prop. 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, Pompadours, etc. 5111 West Broad Street. Bell Phone 1111. 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 Repairing of Cook Stoves and Oil Finishing, Upholstering, Re-caning Chairs, Mattress Renovating. Packing and Shipping is our Special work. Call and see us at Jackson Sleeman Bain In Shop 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 p t. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-Informed. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine—manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. LUZIANNE has a tremendous sale throughout the South. More than fifty orders for carload lots, averaging 30,000 lbs. each, have been filled within the past year.² Coffee being the most important article of food on the market, well known for their very best to be obtained. That is why we commend to our readers this splendid and satisfying brand. Shepard Kollock, of 44 Wallace St. Red Bank, N. J., is a remarkable weak and every exertion sent a sharp twinge through me. I had to get up several times each night and the kidney secretions contained a heavy sediment. Recently I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, with fine results. They have given me entire relief." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT FOR Whiskey, Drugs, Cigarette and Tobacco Habits. Also NEURASTHENIA or NERVE ENHAUSTION. Admisteried by Specialists for thirty years. Correspondence confidential. The Only Keeley Institute in Georgia. 229 Woodward Ave., ATLANTA, GA. The Secret Of good health is a well ordered liver. NUBIAN TEA brings immediate relief. Cures tendency to constipation and restores normal conditions. Pleasant to take, effective and leaves none of the bad results of calomel and other violent remedies. Proved by the experience of twenty years to be a most valuable liver regulator. Thousands testify to its efficiency. Read the following: "Ludwicj, Ga.—It is the finest medicine I ever saw, and a big seller. It takes the place of calomel and all other purgatives. C. J. McDonald." All dealers sell it. Manufactured by SPENCER MEDICINE COMPANY Chattanooga, Tenn. DOVE-TAILED PUTTY LOCK SASH No builder can afford to use the old knife when he can get the Lock Sash just as cheap. For sale by Randall Bros., MYT Sash, Doors and Blinds, ATLANTA, GA. GREATEST Protective and Beneficial Order ever started. Over 50,000 mem- bers. Both men and women. Helps get people. RIGHTER WAGES, LESS TOIL and IMPROVED CONDITIONS generally. NO RACE DISCRIMINATION. $100 at the wife's death. $10 at children; MANY OTHER BENEFITS. Membership open to all honorable people alike. LEADING THIS WANTED IN EACH LOCALITY. Work after hours. LIBERAL PAY AND PLEASANT WORK. Write at the office. Mail to: WORK FOR postage. The I-L-U GRAND LODGE, 178 I-L-U BLUGE, DAYTON, OHIO, Billion Dollar Grass. Most remarkable grass of the century. Good for three roving crops annually. One Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold $3, 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 Set Co., La Crosse, Wis., to pay postage, and they will mail you the only original seed catalog book in America with samples. Billion Dollars. Wheat. The wheat, the sly miller mixer, Sainfoin the dry soil luxuriator, Victoria Rape, the 20c ton green food producer, Silver King Barley yielding 173 bus. per acre, etc., etc. And if you send 14c we will add a package of new farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. A.C.L. Lots of people look easy until you try to do them. HAD EGZEMA 15 YEARS. Mrs. Thomas Thompson, of Clarksville, Ga., writes, under date of April 23, 1901: "I suffered 18 years with tormenting accem症; had the best doctors to prescribe; but nothing did me a y good until I got xerthrinx. I cured me. I am so thankful." Thousands of others can testify to similar accem. Tartyrhinx is sold by druggists or sent by mail for $60. by J. T. SHUPRYNIN, Dept. A, Bavamah, Ga. No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others. Only One "Bromo Quinino" That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Look for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 220. It's better to work for nothing than to play a losing game. Free Cure for Rheumatism, Bone Palm and Eczema Botanic Blood Balm B (B. B) B. cures the worst cases of Rheumatism, bone pains, swollen joints, and muscle pain. Thousands of cases cured by B. B. B. after all other treatments failed. Price $0.00 per drug store, with complete directions for home use. Free by writing Blood Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga. MADE FOR SERVICE and guaranteed absolutely WATERPROOF OWNERS THE BRAND OILED SUITS, SLICKERS AND HATS Every garment guaranteed Clean - Light - Durable Suits 1329 Slickers 1329 SOLD BY BAY DOLLARS EVERYONE CATALOG PRIZE FOR THE ARCHIVES ```markdown ``` MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN, A Certain Care for Feverishness, Constipation, Hydrangea, Constipation, Wrongly Seated Tissue Destroy, Golden Teeth Childs, In 24 hours. At all times. 20 cnt. New Home. Sample mailed FREE. Address New York City. A. S. OLMSTED, Ls Roy, N.Y. Fancy prices please the seller more than the buyer. CAPUDINE CURES It removes the cause, acne the nerves and relieves the aches and tiredness. GOLDS AND GRIPPE Past. It Readheads and Neuraxis also. No bad effects. 10c. Ds. and 500 bottles. (Liquid) ASC Whiskey, Drug Also NEURASTHIE by Specialists for The On 229 Woodwa The General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its component parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. Better a day worker than a day dreamer. Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists. Some actresses look upon matrimony as a sort of progressive game. A. H. GREEN's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this paper. Multiplying her words seldom adds to a woman's popularity. A SPLENDID COFFEE. Luzanne Possesses Fine Flavor, Superior Quality, and Perfect Purity. We are pleased to call the attention of our readers to the splendid merits of Luzanne COFFEE, our prized firm, the REYL-TAYLOR Co., of New Orleans. This coffee is of fine flavor, superior quality, and perfect purity. It is blended and prepared, according to the recipe, to make one Coca-Cola cooks for more than fifty years, and when you drink LUZANINE, you are drinking a coffee that has made New Orleans famous, the world over. You can make it for the family or moderate means, the fact that it has two strengths of ordinary coffee, requiring only half the usual quantity in the making, and its price is very moderate, indeed, considering its price is the most economical of any on the market. Notwithstanding its high grade quality, many beautiful presents are given away to children in the community to advertise it. The coupon, in every can, tells you all about it. Always call for LUZIANNE when you buy coffee. are not always on the level. Some of the charity that begins at That Dry Hacking Cough needs attention. Ask your druggist for Brown's Bronchial Troches, which will quickly relieve the cough. Some men are like gas meters; they just can't help lying. A REMARKABLE MAN. Active and Bright, Though Almost a Centenarian. man at the age of 98. For 40 years, he was a victim of kidney troubles and doctors said he would never be cured. "I was trying everything," says Mr. Kollock, "but my back was lame and ```markdown ``` After calling a prisoner down the judge is not to send him up. A POPULAR SCIENCE Scientists declare that a toad can live 1000 years in a state of suspended animation. Deposits of bitumen are said to extend all along the coast of Venezuela from the Gulf of Paria to Colombia in the form of artificial lakes. Subjected to the action of liquid air, lead becomes elastic and can be made to rebound or serve as a spiral spring during the-continuation of this low temperature. By rubbing metals with salt before applying mercury, says the Engineer, the ancients obtained a reaction similar to that for which copper sulphate is used. The chlorine released from the salt formed a silver chloride easily attacked by mercury. To raise a heavy door slightly on its hinges, when about lubricate them, place an axe on the ground with its edge toward the door, and open the latter so as to force it up the thickness of the axe for about a quarter of an inch. The axe will hold the door with the pintles exposed while the 'lubricant is applied. The continually increasing use of India-rubber in its various forms gives importance to every discovery of new rubber-bearing trees. Such a discovery has recently been made in Tonkin, and is the first of the kind made in Indo-China. The tree is described as a new species of the genus Bleckroda. It is found in abundance and the rubber produced from it is said to be of the highest quality. Cable lines look straight enough as seen on the maps, but they are anything but straight as they lie on the ocean floor. Dr. Klotz, of Canada, said in a recent lecture that the great Pacific cable, 8000 miles long, between Vancouver and New Zealand, was time and again deflected from a straight line between the island stations at which it touched in order to avoid towering submarine mountains or craters or ground that was hard or otherwise undesirable as a resting place for the cable. The Vale of Kashmir is one of the spots on the earth that poetry has fixed most conspicuously in the imagination, and the thought of its invasion by the electric engineer must forcibly strike every reader with a sort of surprise. It is reported that the electric plant designed for the upper part of the Jhelum River, which flows through the celebrated valley, will be the most important underaking of the kind in India. It is expected to produce 20,000 horsepower. It will light the city of Srinagar and heat the silk factory at that place, said to be the largest in the world. It will also work a wool factory, and operate a dredging fleet on the Jhelum. The Nerves of the Modern Actor By JOHN S. LOPEZ. "Actors travel on their nerve so much nowadays, it makes 'em think they're nervous," said the old carpenter. "Why, I was with a show that had to delay opening two weeks because the star discovered a fancy interior done in blue and gold. He said blue got on his nerves; so we lost time while the scene was painted over. Same way with another—a woman star. She wouldn't work because a parlor set had panels decorated with peacocks. Said she was picked once by a peacock, and even pictures of 'em scared her. "But you can bet that they done mostly for advertising. They do their acting for the press agents, and the more hot air is wrote about 'em in the newspapers, the better actors they think they are. "Used to be actors had to produce the goods—and do it on real acting, too. They could act and talk so as to make the audience think it was a balmy moonlight night, for instance, without a lot of electrical stuff to help 'em out. There's often more stagehands working realistic effects, nowadays, than there are actors in the whole cast; and sometimes what passes for a good show would be just as interesting if there were no actors in it." "What is lacking in the modern actor compared to the old school?" asked the student. "Most of 'em isn't got the backbone to be good actors," replied the old man. "Can you figure any of these dude society stars pulling off fierce sword fights and struggles like McCullough or Forrest? No, sir; they ain't physically able. And that's what makes us sick when we have to stand in the wings and listen to them fool the audience into thinking what wonderful heroes they are."—Harper's Weekly. A Curious Anomaly. Until a few years ago the Phillippine Islanders held their Sunday on the day which was Monday to the inhabitants of the neighboring Island of Borneo. This curious anomaly arose from the historic fact that the Phillippines were discovered by Spanish voyagers coming from the east, round Cape Horn, while Borneo was discovered by Portuguese coming from the west, and sailors lose or gain a day according to their direction in crossing the Pacific. How much can the American nation save by wearing its old clothes this year? asks the New York Evening Post. The report of the Census of Manufactures for 1905 shows that the factory product of men's clothing for the year was valued at $355,796,571. One-third of this, or considerably less than one-third on the basis of retail prices, would more than equal the entire balance of trade in this country's favor for the month of December. Helped Him A physician out west was sent for to attend a small boy who was ill. He left a prescription and went away. Returning a few days later, he found the boy better. "Yes, doctor," said the boy's mother, "the prescription did him a world of good. I left it beside him, where he could hold it in his hand most of the time, and he can almost read it now. You didn't mean for him to swallow the paper, did you, doctor?"—Harper's Weekly. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, LSS. LUCAS COUNTY. FRANK J. CHIENEY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHIENEY & COUNTY and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of GATARRIH GATARRIH CURE. FRANK J. CHIENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1824. A. V. (SEAL) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cureis taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mueous surfaces of the sputum and or testimonials, F. C. CHENNEY, O. Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills, for constipation. HAPPY THOUGHT Mrs. Knicker—Henry, why did you leave your shoes on the stairs last night? Knicker (dazed, but inspired)—English custom, m'dear; left 'em to be blacked.—Puck. GEE! DON'T THAT CORN HURT! Stop the pain and get rid of the corn quickly and permanently. Abbott's EAST INDIAN CORN PAINT will remove any corn, bunion or callous spot without cutting, burning, or "eating" the flesh and leaves no soreness afterwards. Applied with a brush mighty little trouble. 25c. at druggists or by mail from The Abbott Co., Savannah, Ga. An Irlsh. Answer. "Secretary Cortelyou was discussing," said a New York broker, "a question of finance during the panic. He broke off to tell a story. "He said he was reminded of the Irish farmer on the way to the cattle fair. "Where are you going, my man?" said an English tourist, stopping this agriculturist. "To Waterford fair, your honor," was the answer. "And how much do you expect to get for your beasts at Waterford fair?" he asked. "Sure, an' if I get £8 a head I shan't do badly," said the Irishman. "Ah, that's a sample of your country," said the Englishman severely. "Take those heifers to England and you'd average £14 a head for them." "The Irishman laughed. "Just so, yer Honor," he said, and if yez wero to take the Lake of Killarney to purgatory yez would get a gulnea a drop."—Washington Star, AN ASSUMPTION "So you have written a book," said Miss Cayenne. "Yes," answered the authoress. "The publishers are sure it is going to create an immediate sensation and be a great seller." "In that case I suppose propriety forbids our discussing it any further." —Washington Star. "What's bogie at your golf club?" "Nineteen Scotch highballs and three gin rickeys." - Puck. HAPPY OLD AGE As old age advances, we require less food to replace waste, and food that will not overtax the digestive organs, while supplying true nourishment. Such an ideal food is found in Grape-Nuts, made of whole wheat and barley by long baking and action of diastase in the barley which changes the starch into sugar. The phagephates also, placed up under the bran-coat of the wheat, are included in Grape-Nuts, but left out of white flour. They are necessary to the building of brain and nerve cells. "I have used Grape-Nuts," writes an Iowa man, "for 8 years and feel as good and am stronger than I yas ten years ago. I am over 74 years old and attend to my business every day. "Among my customers I meet a man every day who is 92 years old and attributes his good health to the use of Grape-Nuts and Postum which he has used for the last 5 years. He mixes Grape-Nuts with Postum and says they go fine together. "For many years before I began to eat Grape-Nuts I could not say that I enjoyed life or knew what it was to be able to say I am well." I suffered greatly with constipation, now my habits are as regular as ever in my life. "Whenever I make extra effort I depend on Grape-Nuts food and it just fills the bill. I can think and write a great deal easter." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville" in pkgs. ```markdown ``` A Desolated Street in Ferruzano, Showing the Destructive Effect of the Seismic Shocks on the Buildings of the Town. QUAINT BUILDING, OF THE NAVAL, Y. M. C. A. AT CAVITE, P. L. —From Leslie's Weakly A Rising Chinaman. An official report states that another great man has arisen in China, one who, by his ability and his achievements, gives promise of being a fit successor to the late Li Hung-Chang. This new leader in the Celestial Kingdom is Yuan-Shih-Kai, who not long ago was appointed president of the board of foreign affairs at Pekin. He was formerly viceroy of Chih-Li, entering on the duties of the office when that province was in disorder and chaos. He grasped the reigns of government with a firm hand, put down thieves and plunderers of all kinds, and made himself feared and hated by all evil-doers in that section of the country. The good effects of his strong and righteous rule became speedily apparent, and he was recognized as the ablest and most patriotic official in the whole empire. While governor of Chih-Li he instituted good relations with foreigners, and became popular with the O 8 natives as well. His advice was frequently sought by the imperial government, and some of the best edicts issued by it were suggested by him. He is mainly responsible for the decree suppressing the plopum traffic and for the steps taken to establish a constitutional government in China. The empire is fortunate in having at this critical stage of its affairs so able and progressive a man to guide it and to shape its destinies.—Leslie's Weekly. Plenty of Hot Water. Boardinghouse Keeper—"A glass of hot water! What can the man want with a glass of hot water? He doesn't shave." Cook—"He wants ter drink it." "To drink it? Well, I never!" "Oh_ all the boarders is sending for hot water now, three times a day." "Goodness me! What for?" "Goodness me! What for?" "Fur to drink. They calls it the hot-water cure. It beats all newfangled notions what come up." "What does it cure?" "Oh, they say it do cure everything just splendid." "Thank fortune., it's cheap. Give 'em all the hot water they want, Maria." "Yes'm." "So hot water is a great cure, is it? Well, I shan't let any of my boarders get ill for want of medicine. Just put another gallon of hot water in that ox-tall soup, Maria, and I think you'd better take out the ox-tall now; it might get too rich."—Tit-Bits. Unique Door Bell. A most unique and at the same time practical doorbell is the recent invention of a Virginia man. As shown in the illustration the bell is of the push-button variety and is combined with the door-knob. Even BELL in the darkest night a caller can readily locate the doorknob and, having done so, easily locates and pushes the bell button. The bell is placed in the inside knob, which is made hollow for the purpose.—Washington Star. A Royal Prerogative: The King, can do no wrong, but there is one innocent thing that no sovereign ever does—namely, "to stand with his back against the wall. At the royal stand at Newmarket or elsewhere his majesty invariably leaves ample room for the persons to pass behind him, so that he may escape having perpetually to reply to their salutations, which he would be bound to notice did those people pass in front of him—London Chronicle. Boy Seat. To make a box, seat you must have two boxes just the same size." Knock one side off of one of the boxes. Cover both boxes with some heavy goods—denim or burlap is the best. Use very small tacks for the corners, but for the rest you can use brass headed tacks. Then take the brass tacks and on the front of the bottom box make some pretty design. Then put hinges on the boxes, and there you have a seat and shoe box which will make a pretty present.—Irwin A. Rawson, in the New York Tribune. The most wonderful, costly and magnificent garment in the world is the state robe of the Queen of Siam, which she wears about once a year. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. B. J. NEWMAN. Brooklyn, N. Y.—In Unity Church, Irving place and Gates avenue, Sunday morning, the Rev. B. J. Newman preached. The text was: "And fearing lest we should have fallen upon the rocks they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day." He sald: The text is taken from Paul's story of the shipwreck. Paul was going to Rome to be tried for his life, but on the sea a storm raged for two weeks. In the darkness of the dead of night, not knowing where they were, the sailors on watch heard the sound of water breaking on the rocks and they took soundings. And again they took their soundings and finding that the water was shallower, they threw out four anchors "and wished for the day." We do not have to be sailors to know the value of these anchors to the storm assailed men on that ship. They held them to their anchorage until light came and they could see their way. My purpose this morning is to consider briefly the anchors of righteousness that, we need in our daily living. The simplest analysis of our present day life, of one week's experience, would show that there are a dozen influences outside ourselves and two dozen temptations within us that are storming our righteousness. We are surrounded on all sides by difficulties. Our honor, our justice, our sympathies, our religion, all are assailed, and we have got to protect ourselves and our fellow men. Take the first day of the working week and look at the experiences we meet with in that day. We go to business, and fundamentally the principle to-day upon which business seemed to be based is that of dishonor. It is not "honor all men." It is not trust all men, but it is distrust your fellow man; "put him under bonds." Only the other day in the Sunday school I said to the young men and women there: "Be honest: tell the truth," and one member came to me and said: "How can we be honest? We have to lie." There is a tendency In the life of men-to-day to get ahead, no matter what happens to the other man. Or_on Tuesday we read in the paper that some bankers to whom the funds of the people had been entrusted, and on which the stability of business men depends, and to whom the money of widows and children has been entrusted, have been dishonest and speculated in the stock market to increase their own incomes, and have failed. Our confidence is assailed, and we say: "Whom can we trust?" On Wednesday, perhaps, we go to a magistrate's court and we watch the who is elected to dispense justice in your name, and we see case after case where the politician's influence is at work or where the petty bride is at work, and men and boys that have broken our law, and who should be put in our prisons until they learn what it is to live among their fellow men in righteousness, are discharged and go free. Our sense of justice is shocked. Or perhaps if is some man in a higher rank of life who takes the life of another, who comes into our courts, and under the plea of insanity he is declared not guilty of his crime; while some poor man, with the feelings of poverty and want, steals a loaf of bread from the corner grocery, and he is sent to jail for three months. Our sense of justice is rightly shocked. Perhaps on Thursday at 6 o'clock we are coming home and we are at the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge, and we see a mad rush to get into the cars. There is no sympathy shown. Each man tries to get himself in and pushes women and children aside, and we say: "What are men that they will do this?" And so our sympathies with our fellow men are being shocked. And so it is through the rest of the week. And Sunday comes; Sunday, the day set aside when we try to commune with God and learn a little bit of what it means to be righteous, to do God's will. Sunday comes, and a few of us, here and there, attend services; but there are the so called sacred concerts, poolrooms and saloons, all thrown open. Men say "liberty," but this is not liberty, but license to degrade themselves. And we permit it, and our religion is assailed, and our culture, and the development of our culture to worship God is assailed. Temptations and conditions outside ourselves and temptations arising within cause us to face danger daily. We hear of the cruelty of the factory that allows the little boy and girl of ten to work twelve hours a day until they get the "great white plague." We hear of the evils of the stockyard, of the great railroads, and so on. We hear of these things so often that we are growing hardened to them. Familiarity with evil dulls its power to affect us, and dulls our eyes to its ugility, and we go on our way rejoicing in our prosperity; and we are unmindful when we do not work with all our hearts to overcome these things. These things are affecting our lives. We have to have good anchors to hold us to the right. The right, friends, is our life; nothing else in life. Right in everything —not only in the personal sphere, but in the world around us. Those Israeliitish prophets preached, not personal righteousness, but social righteousness; not pure by yourself, but pure by your state, and that is what we have to do. If we love our right we will fight for it, and for its best expression, even as Paul fought for the lives of the seamen and his companions when his ship was cast upon the rocks. And in order to fight for ourselves we have cast out our anchors and "wish for the day." Now, what are these anchors? The first is the anchor of faith. Here is the situation confronting us: Our confidence is assailed; our faith in our fellow men is assailed; our faith in our God is assailed. We have to cast out the anchor of faith. We know that the eternal righteousness will triumph. It is so. Through every difficulty, every experience, every trial; all through the past it has always sought the higher expression of itself. We have to have faith in this righteousness and the inspiration to give ourselves to the service of the expression of righteousness. N. only have we to cast out the anchor of faith, but the anchor of hope also; so that when these storm clouds are upon us, when darkness surrounds us, when it seems as though the light of day would not show itself to our vision we have to have the hope that is born of God, the hope that gives a happy outlook. It is so easy to be discouraged and to let these experiences that are surrounding us dampen our ardor. The next is the anchor of love for our fellow man: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. This do." With that love God calls us to service. It calls us out of ourselves with the love that makes us want to go out into our city and wherever we see one who needs us, it makes us want to give ourselves to that one; and I tell you never in God's world was there a city that needed more redeeming love than does this city of New York and Brooklyn to-day. I have gone into homes where the darkness of despair was because no love was there. I have gone into homes where mothers and fathers have said: "None cares for us; no one will help us." Don't tell me the world love us, because we know differently. I tell you we have to have that love in us that the Russian proverb says "dwells in the house of labor." There is a reward for him who loves his fellow man. Then there is another anchor, and that is the anchor of prayer. I care not what a man's work or education is, whether he is college bred or has no education at all, but this thing I am sure of, and that is, without a prayer in your heart you cannot make life worth what God is expecting of it. Prayer is our wanting to get near to God, wanting to tell God of our difficulties, our troubles, our perplexities, our successes; our ideas, our wanting to ask for His strength and guidance. We have to have this anchor when things are going wrong, when the world seems dark and lifo is weary. We want to have this anchor in God to give us courage to go on our way, and if we have not been doing right to help us to return and through our fellow men serve God. Let us cast out our four anchors: our anchor of faith in God and our fellow men; our anchor of hope in eternal goodness; our anchor of love in universal service; our anchor of prayer to God; and in so doing may the blessing of Godrest with you in all your labors. A Meditation. "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come unto you." the Holy Ghost is come unto you. There can be no acceptable service without this endowment. Even Jesus must first be baptized with the Holy Ghost before He could enter upon His great mission. The apostles, who had been in Christ's school for three years, could do nothing until, they were endowed with power from on high. Mr. Moody used to say that he would rather break stones on a turnpike than attempt to preach without the indwelling and power of the Holy Spirit. The great reason why some of our young people's meetings are such a drag is because its members do not seek power from above. To obtain this power we must earnestly seek for it in prayer. "If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him." To obtain more power, we must use the 'power already bestowed. "Go in this thy might," the angel said to Glideon—the might of the promised presence. "The Lord be with thee." As he went he realized the presence and power of the Almighty. We must use this power in witnessing for Jesus. "I am no more in the world, but these are in the world." We are His representatives. Let us not misrepresent Him. Christian Union-Herald. Self-Conquest a Necessity. Deeply, I fear, does this age need to take to heart the stern, inexorable necessity of self-conquest—not in self-torture, but yet in earnest watchfulness; not in extreme fasting, but in habitual careful moderation; nor in morbid self-introspection, but in thorough and vigorous occupation; not in enfeebling the body by maceration, but by filling its hours of work with strenuous and cheerful activity and its hours of leisure with bright thoughtfulness and many a prayer; by these blessed means we, too, even in the midst of the world, may attain to the spirit which is dead to the world; we may be keeping under our body and bringing it into subjection; nay, in no mere formula, but a truthful figure be crucified with Christ.—F. W. Farrar. Digging a Way to Heaven. Bless God for the wilderness; thank God for the long nights; be thankful that you have been in the school of poverty, and have undergone the searching and testing of much discipline. Take the right view of your trials. You are nearer heaven for the graves you have dug, if you have accepted bereavements in the right spirit; you are wiser for the losses you have bravely borne, you are nobler for all the sacrifices you have willingly completed. Sanctified affliction is an angel that never misses the gate of heaven.—Parker. Stepping Stones to Glory. When God saves us He does it not alone for our good, but for His. He expects us to work for Him and to see that not one of His children is turned away hungry or thirsty. Sacrifice and unselfishness are the stepping stones to glory and in my mind the least of the work of saving a soul is done when we have gotten the penitent to open his heart to God. It is the after-work that counts, the display of the. friendly Christian spirit that shows the new convert that he has friends on earth and in heaven. Human Sympathy May Mislead. The cross separates not only from sin but from friends and human good. God's children are sometimes tripped by human sympathy when what they need is divine sympathy. When we see God's children going through trial let us be careful to uphold and encourage them. Let us not endeavor to lift the cross before God's time.—Missionary Worker. Don’t Neglect Your LIVER When you ignore torpid liver, it can endanger your life in more ways than any other organ of the body. It can reach you through the stomach by indigestion and racking dyspepsia. It can turn your blood into venom, through the kidneys. It can afflict you with all these, and more, at one time, bringing on biliousness, constipation, insomnia, nervousness, headache, aching bones, and misery too great to bear. Many medicines, such as oil, and salts and calomel, simply force the stomach and bowels to be rid of the cause of the trouble just at the time, but medicines of this nature do not give permanent help and often leave the system in a more depleted condition. NUBIAN TEA MAKES THE LIVER WELL. 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Adulterated and fake "White Lead," of which there are many brands on the market, is generally some sort of composition, containing only a percentage of white lead—sometimes no White Lead at all; in such stuff, barytes or ground rock, chalk, and similar cheap substances are used to make bulk and imitate the appearance of pure White Lead. There is, however, a positive test by which the purity or impurity of White Lead may be proved or exposed, before painting with it. The blow-pipe flame will reduce pure White Lead to metallic lead. If a supposed White Lead be thus tested and it only partially reduces to lead, leaving a residue, it is proof that something else was there besides White Lead. 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Removes all swelling in 8 to 20 days; affects a permanent cure in 30 to 60 days. Trintreatment given free. Nothing can be fairer A SPECIAL MESSAGE Transmitted to National Law- makers By President. IS LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Which Was Recently Agreed Upon at White IHouse Conferences—Summary of Special Features of A special message from the president was read in both houses of congress soon after convening Wednesday, and in both it was closely followed. In the house the declaration that the time had come for a revision of the tariff elicited hand clapping on the part of the democratic members. Democratic approval also was given by the way of pounding desks to the suggestion that congress could with advantage forthwith remove the tariff on wood pulp, with a corresponding reduction upon paper made from wood pulp. The republicans waited and confined the applause to the message as a whole. In the senate the message was received without comment of any kind. The message urges the adoption of child labor laws throughout the nation. Recommends the enactment of employers' liability legislation, for government employees as well as those connected with common carriers and public utilities' corporations. Suggests remedial legislation for labor and capital disputes. Declares that no temporary restraining order should be issued by any court without notice and all hearings for permanent injunctions should be within a reasonable time. Amendments to interstate commerce and anti-trust legislation are urged. Laws should be framed which would allow railroads to enter into traffic agreement subject to approval of commission. Issuance of all securities by railroads should be first passed upon by federal commission. Where railroads or corporations are placed in receivership the attorney general should appoint one of the receivers so as to protect stockholders. Anti-trust legislation should be modified so as not to prevent legal combinations. Publicity in cases of all combinations and corporations is recommended. Mutual trade agreements between employer and employee are strongly urged.. While arbitration is the best plan, the right of equitable organization by labor and capital must be recognized. Legislation to suppress financial depression is Recommended, and the establishment of postal savings banks is urged. The establishment of a waterways commission is also urged. HIGHWAYMEN ROBI BANKER. Two Are Caught But Third Got Away With the Money. Frank Froer, president of a bank in Lincoln, Ill., and of the Lincoln Mining company, was held up by three highwaymen Wednesday afternoon two blocks from the public square of Lincoln and robbed of the $5,000 monthly pay roll of the mining company. Two of the robbers were caught, but the third escaped with the money. Missing Alleged Violator of Carolina Dispensary Law Gives Up. James S. Farnum, known as the "Beer King," for whose arrest a warrant was issued more than two months ago, charging violation of the South Carolina dispensary law, and who left the state the same day, surrendered at Columbia Wednesday and was released under $10,000 bond. Paying Teller and Auditor Taken Into Custody as Culprits. More than $1,100,000 has disappeared from the vaults of the Farmers' Deposit National Bank of Pittsburg, Pa., according to information reluctantly divulged by officers of the bank. Two arrests have been made and the men taken into custody are Henry Relber, paying teller and John Young, auditor of the bank. INDIANA STANDS BY BRYAN. Democratic Convention Instructs Delegates for the Nebraskan. Delegates to the Indiana state democratic convention, at Indianapolis, Wednesday afternoon, selected by districts 26 delegates to the national convention at Denver and the committee on rules selected four delegates at large. All of the 20 national delegates will vote for William Jennings Bryan for president. UNION FARMERS' FAIR To Be Held Jointiy With Local Association—Will Begin October 8th and Continue Through to 24th. Atlanta will have a state fair this fall, opening October 8 and continuing through October 24. It will be held jointly under the auspices of the Farmers' Union and the Atlanta Fair Association. The Farmers' Union will have entire charge of the agricultural features of the fair, while all other features will be under direction of the Atlanta Fair Association. This was the final action of the meeting of the county presidents held in the hall of the house of representatives at Atlanta Wednesday. A committee of the Fair Association made the proposition that in addition to the usual premiums for agricultural displays, the association would offer $2,000 in special prizes for the various county and local unions, and with the understanding that the Farmers' Union should have entire charge of the agricultural features. The details were presented by the committeeemen, and shortly after they had retired from the hall the convention had accepted the proposition and assured the success of the big fair. "We propose to make the finest agricultural exhibit ever seen in the state," said President R. F. Duckworth. The following members of the union, one from each congressional district, were appointed to act in co-operation with the Atlanta Fair Association in arranging all details' for the state fair: First district, W. J. Kemp, Emanuel; Second district, not present; Third district, C. B. Bohanan, Palaski; Fourth district, W. P. Cumby, Heard; Fifth district, G. F. Hunnicutt, Fulton; Sixth district, J. G. Hightower, Fayette; Seventh district, J. I. Harris, Polk; Eighth district, L. H. O. Martin, Elbert; Ninth district, L. M. Moore, Cherokee; Tenth district, failed to report; Eleventh district, Z. R. Taylor, Dodge. The meeting had an attendance of fully 150, including many county presidents and other officers from all parts of the state. Following the action on the state fair matter an executive session of the union was held at which many matters were discussed behind closed doors. Among these were questions of reduction of acreage, the handling of cotton, good roads and rural education. RIOTOUS STATE CONVENTION Was That Held by Republicans of Tennessee in Nashville. The Tennessee republican state convention, which met in Nashville on Wednesday for the election of presidential electors and delegates to the Chicago convention, proved to be the "wildest and wooliest" affair of the kind ever held in the state. Pandemium broke loose as soon as the convention was called to order. A dozen fights occurred between the Oliver and Evans factions, in which pistols were drawn and in one instance a hatchet was flourished. The Oliver people finally got control and ejected delegates to Chicago. W. J. Oliver was endorsed for national committeeman. The Evans wing met and immediately adjourned until Thursday morning.* SENATOR BRYAN LAID TO REST. Funeral and Burial Service at Jacksonville Largely Attended. The funeral of Senator William Jas. Bryan took place Wednesday afternoon at Jacksonville, Fla., from St. John's Episcopal Church. Long before the cortege reached the church the streets were thronged for blocks and as the funeral party passed, all heads were uncovered in respect to the youngest United States senator, from whom the people of his state had expected so much. Prominent Florida friends from all over the state gathered to pay the last sad tribute to Senator Bryan's memory. WANT THE GUILTY PUNISHED. Mothers Whose Children Perished In Collinwood School Take Action. Mothers whose children perished in the school fire at Collinwood, Ohio, have sent a petition to the governor to see that those guilty for the fire are punished. At a mass meeting speaches denounced the verdict of the coroner, and the investigation of the trustees, which, they declare, were whitewashes. An effort will be made by the women to fix the blame. COSTLY BLAZE IN MILLS. Pickers' Building Burned, Entailing a Loss of Over $100,000. The pickers' building, warp and machine room of the Cooleemee cotton mills, in Davie county, N. C., were destroyed by fire, which started in the picker building Friday, entailing a loss of over $100,000, fully covered by insurance. The origin is unknown. AMONG THE MASONS. Next week the grand secretary will send out the call and blanks for the Grand Lodge communication in June. Each lodge must prepare to make a good report and render same at the time required. A Mason should never forget his obligation. To be a good citizen, every Mason should be a taxpayer. If each Mason was a tax payer and a voter, much would be done in defeating the nefarious disfranchisement bill next October. Those of us who are not tax payers can become one, and each one of us should be one in time to vote against this bill. It should be the ambition of the members of each lodge to own a hall for meeting purposes. But little respect is shown the man-who is a renter. Those lodges owning halls must be sufficiently prudent to have them insured to their full value. Keep in mind the Grand Lodge communication in June and prepare to make good reports. In Freemasonry no man is any better than another. According to our Masonic organization each and every member has an equal voice in the administration of the lodge. A good deal is said nowadays about the lodge boss, but in every lodge where there is a boss of this kind, it will usually be found that the brethren have shirked their duty and some faithful brother has undertaken to carry the burden and has received for his plans the appellation of "the lodge boss."—Mystic Light. The obligations of Masonry are often misunderstood. Not long since a brother took a demit from his lodge because he said that the members did not trade with him. There is no moral obligation, moral or otherwise, requiring one Mason to trade with another. It cannot be denied that throughout the world Masons are exceedingly friendly with one another and many times distribute their trade among their fellows. But they do this from no Masonic obligation of any kind, but rather as a matter of courtesy. A man is supposed to petition a Masonic lodge "uninfluenced by mercenary motives" and actuated "by a desire of knowledge and a sincere wish of being serviceable" to his fellow creatures." If he has never learned the lesson of self-sacrifice he will never make a good Mason. He must learn that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Whatever else he may acquire from his fellows in worldly affairs will come from his having "decee unto others as he would be done by."—Mystic Light. Keep in the sunlight. Nothing beautiful or sweet grows or rplens in the darkness. Avoid fear in all its varied forms of expression. It is the greatest enemy of the human race. Avoid excesses of all kinds. The long life must be a temperate one. Don't allow yourself to think on your birthday that you are a year older and so much nearer the end. Never look on the dark side. Take sunny views of everything. A sunny thought drives away the shadows. Be a child. Live simply and naturally and keep clear of entangling alliances and complications of all kinds. Cultivate the spirit of contentment. Form a habit of throwing off before going to bed all the cars and anxieties of the day—everything which can possibly cause mental wear and tear or deprive you of rest.—Chicago News. The Masnine Wall Flower. The Masonic Wall Flower. If it wasn't for the so-called "wall flowers," the attendance at our meetings would be small. We say, God bless the brother who attend meetings regularly for no other purpose than to take a "back seat," so-called. There is something in the lessons taught in conferring the degrees other than dotting of "I's" and crossing of "t's" and they thoroughly understand that "such is the nature of our constitution that some must, of necessity, rule-and teach, so others must learn to submit and obey." They come for the good they see in Masonry, and, therefore, are valuable members. Blessed is the body that has many of them, say we—Ex. A Mason should be a man of integrity, a whole man; a man whom you can trust and know that your confidence will not be bertayed; a man who you can believeth and know that he will not lie; a man to whom you can commit your interests and even your honor and know that they are safe; a brave man, fear nothing but to lie and be dishonest; true to you because he is true to himself, to the holy aspirations and the high and noble possibilities which the Supreme Father has implanted in his soul—Light. Just now there is need of frequent recurrence to the principles and ideas on which rest the structure of Freemasonry. There is a holiday type of Freemasonry.much applauded. Freemasonry exists as thus appreciated and set forth, for entertainment and material good. Over against this holiday type we should constantly set that other type which represents the moral quality of Freemasonry and its higher uses. Its chief mission is, not to amuse and entertain but to instruct, uplift and bless; so helping man to live at his best, following noble and true ideals as he goes forward in that path which shines brighter and brighter to perfect day.—Ex. Masonry has a great deal more to fear from its enemies inside its walls than those without. Those on the outside only make themselves appear ridiculous. POLITICAL ACTION URGED Upon Labor Hosts of Country in the Coming Elections. "While the supreme court and other institutions may be able to temporarily retard and seriously embarrass the growth and action of our movement, we boldly assert that no power on earth can destroy, successfully outlaw or disrupt, the trade union movement." These words form the key to an address issued at Washington Saturday night to organized labor and farmers' associations by the labor workers who had been in session in the city for four days. The address states that a large part of the discussions of the conference were devoted to the consideration of the supreme court's action in applying the Sherman antitrust law to labor. After stating it to be the duty of laboring men to question candidates for congress as to their attitude toward labor legislation, the address calls upon the labor workers "to stand faithfully by our friends, oppose and defeat our enemies, whether they be candidates for president, for congress or other offices, whether legislative, executive or judicial. The address concludes as follows: "Hold mass meetings in every city and town in the United States on the evening of the third Sunday or Monday in April, 19th or 20th, and at that meeting voice fully and unmistakably labor's protest against the supreme court decision, which strips labor of the rights and liberties which we had supposed were guaranteed by the constitution. "Each candidate," continues the address, "should be questioned and pledged as to his attitude upon all subjects of importance to the toilers, whether in factory, farm, field, shop or mine." A foot note to the address states that "this is signed by the same names as were appended to labor's protest to congress." GEORGIA REPUBLICANS MEET. Assemble In Atlanta, Pass Resolutions and Name Convention Date. and Name Convention Date. Resolutions endorsing the administration of President Roosevelt, condemning the Georgia disfranchisement act, and fixing the date for holding the state republican convention occupied the attention of the members of the central executive committee of the republican party in Georgia when that organization met in the state chamber of the state capitol at Atlanta Wednesday at noon. Harmony prevailed throughout the meeting. Following are the resolutions adopted: Resolvad. That the republican state central committee cordially endorses the administration of President Roosevelt as vigorous and honorable, high-minded and patriotic. We commend it without reservation to the considerate judgment of the American people. Resolved, That a convention of the republican party of the state of Georgia be and hereby is called to assemble in the city of Macon on Thursday, the 14th day of May, ensuing, for the purpose of nominating a state ticket, governor and other state officers; electing four delegates and four alternate delegates at large to represent the state at the republican national convention to convene in the city of Chicago, June 1 next; for the reorganization of the party in the state and to transact any other business which may properly come before it. Resolved by the republican state central committee of the state of Georgia, in meeting assembled, That we most emphatically condemn the proposed constitutional amendment now being submitted to the voters of Georgia by which it is proposed to disfranchise a large part of the citizens of this state on account of race and color, and we urge all fair-minded voters of the state to do all in their power to defeat said amendment at the polls. MERCHANTS MUST ANTE UP. Required to Pay Dollar License to Sell Fertilizers in Alabama. A number of Alabama merchants stand to lose on guano contracts if they do not pay the $1 license required by the state for permission to sell fertilizers. Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson has been endeavoring to impress the merchants who have not paid of the danger of such procedure. The loss will come in the fact that suits for sales may not be collectable if the license has not been paid. To meet this difficulty the larger fertilizer makers are seeing to it that the merchants they sell to pay the license, so that the notes will be good. It is only in novels, claims the Chicago News that girls receive proposals of marriage in a conservatory. SHIPING ANARCHISTS BACK HOME. TO THE DOCK ALIEN ANARCHISTS —F. Bowers, in the Indianapolis News. Washington Officials Admit Difficulties—Not Optimistic as to Outcome of the Latest Measures—Effective Measures Too Drastic to Receive Popular Support—Restrictions on Immigration Inadequate to Keep Out Anarchists. PANAMA CANAL MUST FAIL. SAYS STEVENS. of Isthmian Waterway Gives Reasons For Prophecy. Washington, D. C. It may not be reassuring information, but the Washington officials are none too optimistic about the outcome of the attempt to drive all the anarchists from the United States. Those officials whose duty it is to deal directly with the anarchists cannot talk for publication. The officials who can issue orders to immigration inspectors telling them to be alive to their duty have talked for publication, but the talk, like much of the work done, is impotent. Some one here has said that anarchists are made no more anarchists will be made as long as there are anarchist teachers who get within touch of receptive pupils. This means that as long as there are anarchists in the country their ranks will grow daily. Since the shooting of the priest at the altar in Denver and the attempted killing of the chief of police, Shippy, in Chicago, the Senators and representatives have been busy talking about immigration measures, but they have confined their talking largely to the corridors and cloak rooms. Most of them are just as afraid to-day to pass a restriction bill that means restriction as they were before the shootings gave them sharp excuse for the passing of an absolutely drastic measure. One member, who is not more than one generation removed from being a foreigner himself, told your correspondent that it wouldn't do to draw a line part way up the continent of Europe and to say that no one from below the line should come to this country. "What we ought to do," he said, "is to draw a line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and another one down the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and to say no one shall cross." Restriction Problem Difficult. When a New York Representative, on the floor of the House, spoke in advocacy of a really restrictive immigration measure, several Representatives whose constituents are largely Southern Europeans, at once began missionary work. They told the other members what a wrong it would be to punish the many because of the fallings of the few, and they did not negate them. They also balanced the balance of power, of course, which the men coming from some of the European countries hold at the polls in America. One member, an illinois man, told a colleague who was urging no action, that it would be far better for him and for his people in the future to have all immigration stopped from their native countries for a series of years. This would give them a great opportunity to assimilate those were here to that point of assimilation which means the dropping of hyphens and writing of themselves as Former Chief Engineer of IST For P New Haven, Conn.—John F. Stevens, a vice-president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and a former chief engineer of the Panama Canal, has issued a statement regarding the latter enterprise, in which he prophesies a failure of the undertaking. In this statement Mr. Stevens says that the canal will not help the United States in its trade with South America, as practically all of the inhabitants of the Southern Continent are on the east of the Andes, so that it would be of no advantage to make use of the canal to reach there. Mr. Stevens also says that in our commercial relations with the islands of the Pacific and the Far East the canal will be of little value. Our coal and wheat centres are and still cell products have to be started on their way all. When loaded on cars it would not be cheaper to ship to the Atlantic and then ship to the East by the way of the canal than it would be to send directly to the ports on our Pacific coast and then get on board ship. Furthermore, Mr. Stevens believes that our coal supply is fast diminishing and that China will be the coal country for the future. Siberia, he says, will be the wheat country of the future, with India a close second. Swift Interests Buy 300,000 Acres and 20,000 Cattle in Texas. Austin, Texas—Major George W. Littlefield, of Austin, closed a deal for the sale of his 300,000 acre ranch. which comprises nearly all the land in Lamb and Hockley counties in the Panhandle of Texas, to a syndicate of Chicago men closely identified with the interests of Swift & Co., packers, prominent members of the Beef Trust. He disposed of 20,000 cattle and 500 saddle horses with the land. The total consideration was approximately $3,000,000. Americans, not only to the full letter but to the full of the American spirit. The men who have given the subject of immigration the closest study seem to feel that the work connected with the keeping out of the criminal and the anarchistic classes should be done on the other side of the water. They believe that a means can be found by which every intending emigrant from a foreign country can be made to "prove his record" before he shall be allowed to step on shipboard. The immigration inspection laws were useful last year to the extent of keeping out something fewer than 300 people. The record was 300 better than for the succeeding year, and yet the man who attempted to kill Chief Shlppy came in as a "desirable," and it took him only a few months to do something more than prove his undesirability. Educational Test Inadequate. The reading and writing clause which it was proposed to put in the last immigration bill would not have kept out Lazarus Averbach, neither would it have kept out the Denver assassin; and, in fact, it wouldn't have kept out one in a hundred of the real Americans, the other means must be found) if the desire be to debar from the country the men whose "thinking drives them mad." There is recognition in Washington of the fact that in the heat and passion following the recent Denver murder, and the attempted assassination in Chicago, there is a disposition on the part of the police officials to confuse anarchism with socialism, and with other forms of thinking and practice which take no cognizance of violence in any shape. The difficulty is that in the heat and passion the officials are apt to do things which they ought not to do, and which tend to increase, rather than to diminish, the violence, and to be so fooling the eradicate. Another difficulty is that when the heat and the passion have passed, there comes forgetfulness and the officials lapse into the old state of apathy, to stay in it-until some new violence ruses them. All that has been said within the last week was said immediately following the assassination of President McKinley. Then anarchism was to be killed, and anarchism kept on living, and, from all appearances, it is pretty much alive to-day. The Washington preaching is for systematic and continued pursuit of the anarchists, but the preaching, if one may judge by the past, will not be followed by the practice. Congress can do much with a proper form of immigration bill, but there is no present prospect that Congress cares to undertake the work. Panama Canal cannot hope to become anything more than an expense. It will not meet expenses and it will cost more than is expected. It will be an advantage, yes, but an advantage to European countries and not to us. The idea of the canal being of great value to us in times of warfare, since our naval forces can be quickly cent from one coast to the other, he says, is utterly absurd. It would take days for the ships to get around, and during that time hostile shells could have done their work. Mr. Stevens believes that it would be a far wiser plan of defense to put the money that the canal will cost into a greater pay. Mr. Stevens is not unique, however, as a prophet of evil for ship canals. Forty-odd years ago many-British and other mercantile economists were cocksure that the Suez-Canal could never pay expenses. Yet for years the directors of that work have had periodically to reduce their tolls on shipping in order to keep their net yearly profits from exceeding the twenty-five per cent. permitted by the charter, and the •$200,000,000 worth of shares which the British Government probated in 1875 are now imputed worth fully $155,000-000. There is no objection to Mr. Stevens keeping company with those who went so wide of the Suez mark. Trustees of Northampton Academy of Meals Report Gain of $2000 of Music Report Gain of $2000. Northampton, Mass.—The trustees of the Academy of Music have made public their annual report showing for the financial year, which corresponds with the calendar year, a profit of $2000. This showing is the more satisfactory when it is considered that it covers a part of the present season of hard times. The last two annual reports have shown a profit of $5000, and have done much to justify Northampton's experiment of maintaining a municipal theatre.