Savannah Tribune

VOL. XXIII. GREAT DEATH ROLL RESULT OF TORNADOES WHICH SWEPT OVER THE SOUTH. VICTIMS NUMBER OVER 350 Details of Work of Devastation and Death Wrought, Far Exceed First Incomplete Reports. Tornadoes sweeping over the southeastern states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia and southern Tennessee, Friday night and Saturday morning, left in their wake greater destruction of life and property than has ever been experienced in this territory from the same cause. The totals of death, misery and ruin were compiled Sunday in approximately correct form. Briefly stated, they are: Killed, about 350; injured, painfully or seriously, 1,200; homeless, several thousand; towns reporting serious wreckage, 46; habitations and business houses practically complete ruins in these towns, about 2,500. The above figures do not include the wreckage of plantations and farms. The total number of dead will never be known accurately, for the reason that about 300 of them were negroes, and they were buried in many communities without careful records being made of their numbers. By following the wreckage of towns, the general direction of the tornadoes can be traced closely. Apparently the storm struck in three separate currents, each describing the arc of a circle and traveling toward the northeast. The first of these struck through northern Louisiana, Mississippi and into Tennessee before daylight Friday morning. The second appeared further south about breakfast time in central Louisiana and Mississippi. This apparently was the portion of the storm which swept on through Alabama and Georgia on Friday night and Saturday morning. The third portion of the storm appeared during Friday afternoon, further south than either of its predecessors. This was the storm which demolished Amite, La., and Purvis, Miss., the two towns in which the wreckage was worst. The scene of the worst disaster was at Purvis, Miss., where eighty are reported dead and practically the entire town wiped out. At Chipley, Ga., eight were killed and scores injured, and half of the business section swept away. At Cave Spring, Ga., nine were killed, and it is believed the list of injured numbered more than fifty. There was also great destruction of property. At Griffin, Ga., three were killed and seven seriously injured. The Rushton cotton mills were destroyed together with many other buildings. Columbus, Ga., reports twelve dead in that vicinity with scores of injured. In Georgia the storm also touched McDonough, Harris City and Locust Grove, each place reporting deaths and a list of injured. In Alabama the storm struck late Friday afternoon at Albertville leaving thirty dead and fifty injured. At High Mound five are dead, at Harton four, four at Lesburg and three dead and twenty-one injured in a settlement three miles from Albertville. At Amite City, La., 75 are dead and many injured in the vicinity. Reports from Ft. Deposit, Ala., show that the town is practically wiped out. At McCallum, Miss., twelve are dead, with scores injured. The list of dead in and around Natchez, Miss., will reach seventy-one and the number of injured will go over two hundred. PAPER PROBING UNDER WAY. Special Committee Appointed by Speaker Cannon Begins Work. The actual investigation of the wood pulp and print question, involving an examination into the affairs of the paper trust to determine whether or not it is, as alleged by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, a combination in restraint of trade and maintaining a monopoly of the print paper supply in the United States, is under way at Washington by the select committee appointed by Speaker Cannon. ROOSEVELT LOSES FIGHT In His Demands for Four Battleships—Senate Finally Decides That Only Two Are Now Needed. By an overwhelming vote, President Roosevelt's four battleship program failed, in the senate Monday Just as it did previously in the house. The amendment for four battleships was introduced by Senator Piles, and the fight for its adoption was led by Senator Beveridge. Twenty-three votes were cast for the increased program, the number largely being made up of recently elected senators. Fifty senators voted to support the house and the recommendation of the senate naval committee in favor of building only two battleships. The debate on the battleship amendment lasted three days, to the exclusion of all other matters.. It was begun by Senator Beveridge with an eloquent appeal for the support of the president, and a suggestion that the larger navy might be needed for war. Members of the committee upbraided the Indiana senator for this velled hint of war with another country and sought to make him admit that he meant Japan. At times the discussion came near becoming acrimonious, especially sharp exchanges occurring between Senators Aldrich and Beveridge. The former's referenes to Mr. Beveridge excited Senator Smith of Michigan to protest against the senate chamber being "made a slaughter house for the young senator from Indiana." It was developed by Senator Allison during the debate that there is a well-defined understanding among the senate leaders for the authorization of two battleships each year, until the American navy is regarded as sufficient to meet any demands that may be made upon it. As finally passed the bill carries appropriations aggregating $123,115,659, and provides for the construction of two battleships and two colliers, and the purchase of three additional colliers, the construction of submarines and other necessary craft, and increases the pay of officers and enlisted men, as well as increasing both the pay and the strength of the marine corps. RECTOR GETS INTO TROUBLE. Denice Virgin Birth of Christ and Must Face Heresy Trial. Because he will not recall his publicly voiced belief that the story of the resurrection of Christ is only a beautiful fairy tale, and because he insists that the theory of the virgin birth must be viewed in the relation to the divine rather than the human life of Christ, Robert Hamilton Cotton, D. D., of St. Paul, 67 years of age, and for two score years a patient and sacrificing teacher of Christ's life, as it helps the every day man, must surrender his right to preach and step down and out. He has been denied a license to preach in Minnesota by Bishoj S. C. Edsall of the Episcopal diocese, and is charged with heresy. OLIVER LANDS CONTRACT. Given Job in Cuba Despite Protests of Local Contractors. A special from Havana says: The Cuban government has awarded the $700,000 contract for the highway building in the Pinar del Rio province to W. J. Oliver of Knoxville, Teen. Oliver was the lowest bidder, but his offer was attacked by Cuban contractors. They represented Oliver extended bringing laborers from the United States, despite the fact that large numbers of Idle Cubans needed work. The sufficiency of his bond was also questioned. Blanchard Doesn't Want Federal Aid. Governor Blanchard, who received an offer of federal aid to Loulsiana, said that he individually prefers that the state should care for its own cases of distress and not accept outside help. COFFEÈ BRANDED "MOCHA." Name to Be Restricted to Coffee Grown in Arabia. After a thorough investigation of the restrictions necessary to be placed upon the coffees put upon the market and sold under the name of "mocha," the board of food and drug inspection, with the approval of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, has decided that the term "mocha" should be restricted to coffee grown in that part of Arabia to the north and east of Hedgeidah, known as Yemen. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MAY 2. 1908. UNCLE SAM AIDING Homeless Storm Sufferers in Stricken Sections. ON ORDER OF ROOSEVELT People Are Also Contributing Freely to Alleviate Distress—Final Resume Shows Deaths Will Not Reach Practically complete returns from all portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia show that the death list in the wind, rain and electrical storm of last Friday, Saturday and Sunday will not be more than 400. The number of injured stands at about 1,200, with reports indicating that a number of the persons hurt will probably die. Relief measures have been extended by the United States government to Hattiesburg, Miss., Purvis and other towns in the four states. In addition to federal aid, the states took prompt measures for the relief of those made homeless by the storm and for hospital accommodations for those injured. At some points state troops have been called out to guard devastated districts and to aid local authorities in relief work. Tents and supplies have been sent to many of the towns wrecked. A New Orleans special of Monday says: With about 325 newly made graves distributed broadcast over nearly the entire width of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, the dead in Friday's tornadoes had been mostly cared for, and it is possible to say with accuracy that the death list in these states would not exceed 350. The few who may yet be added to the fatalities are possibly a score of the 200 most seriously wounded in hospitals throughout these states. The remaining injured, numbering about 1,000, are reported on the road to recovery. The gravity of the situation now centers in the problem of the living, namely food and shelter. SOME SPECIAL PREMIUMS Arranged by Joint Committee for the Georgia State Fair. At a joint meeting in Atlanta Monday of the fair committee from the Farmers' Union of Georgia, under whose auspices the state fair is to be held this fall, and a committee from the Atlanta Fair Association, it was decided to offer $6,000 in special premiums. Of this sum $3,000 is to be offered for exhibits made by the various county unions in Georgia and $3,000 for those exhibits made outside the union. The prizes by county unions are to be as follows: For the county union making the best exhibit $1,200; for second best, $800; for third best $500; for fourth best $300; for fifth best $200. A special subcommittee, to whom all questions in regard to the fair are to be submitted, was appointed as follows L. H. O. Martin, G. F. Hunnlcutt and W. I. Kemp. When they can't agree the entire eleven are to be called in. G. M. Davis was before the committee in the interest of his seed selection contest. At his request $25 was set aside as a prize for the best 12 ears of corn exhibited, and a similar amount will doubtless be offered for the best twelve stalks of cotton grown. CALLS ON NATIONAL BANKS. Cortelyou Wants $45,000,000 of Government Money. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou Monday announced a further call on the national banks for approximately $45,000,000, $20,000,000 to be paid on or before May 9 and the remaining $25,000,000 on or before May 23, 1908. Senator Bankhead of Alabama Asks for $500,000 Appropriation. Senator Bankhead of Alabama Saturday spoke on his amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill appropriating $500,000 for the improvement of roads, in states in which half of the money necessary for the proposed improvement is raised locally. Mr. Bankhead addressed his remarks especially to the constitutionality of appropriations for public roads, canals and waterways improvements. He undertook to show the advantage of such improvement in facilitating the delivery of rural mills. A LUMBER MERGER Planned at Executive Conference Held in St. Louis. INCLUDES WHOLE SOUTH About Five Million Acres Will Be Represented and Capital Stock of $300,000,000 is Proposed—Holding Company is Suggested. Lumber men, representing companies comprising in their holdings about 5,000,000 acres, or practically all of the yellow pine timber of the south, held executive conferences in St. Louis Tuesday and Wednesday, and it is understood, the purpose of the meeting is to form a holding corporation or merger, not only to conserve the timber supply, but also to maintain equitable prices on yellow pine products. It is stated that the proposed organization will be capitalized for $300,000,000. The holdings of the various companies, representing one hundred plants, will be vested in the corporation, and the stockholders of each will simply exchange their stock share for share for stock in the holding company. That the companies may not run counter to the anti-trust laws, the government has been duly advised, and the details of the proposed corporation and the scope and general purposes fully outlined. A committee was appointed to work out plans for the deal, and another meeting will be held in a month or six weeks to hear the committee's report. ROSWELL WANTS ROOSEVELT. People of Home Town of President's Mother Appeal for Third Term. One hundred and seventy-four citizens of Roswell, Ga., the home of President Roosevelt's mother, have signed a petition urging the national republican convention to nominate President Roosevelt for a second elective term, and urging the people of Georgia, irrespective of party, to sign the petition. This petition was signed by 174 voters of Roswell, only two or three not signing it on account of party affiliations. Party lines were forgotten, and the petition was signed from the mayor and council down. A former mayor of Roswell, R, G. Broadwell, drew up and circulated the petition, and the first to sign was the present mayor, G. W. Wing. While en route to Atlanta in the fall of 1905 President Roosevelt visited Roswell, the home of his mother, and was much delighted with his cordial welcome there. HARPER AGAIN IN PRISON. Notorious Murderer,Who Escaped from Atlanta Tower, is Captured by Posse. John Harper of Fannin county, Georgia, the murderer of Allion England, at Mineral Bluff, Ga., last December, and of Sheriff Ben Keith of Murray county, near Spring Place, who escaped from the Tower in Atlanta, while under sentence of death, was captured Wednesday at the home of his father-in-law, William Wimberly, near Blue Ridge, Ga., and is now once more in the Atlanta jail. Harper was captured by A. C. Griffith, sheriff of Fannin county; A. W. Woody, United States marshal; W. J. Cook, city marshal of Blue Ridge; W. A. Wilson, justice of the peace, of Blue Ridge; Gus and Ellick Barckley, Joe Starb, T. J. Addington and J. J. Thomrs, deputy sheriffs of Polk county, Tennessee. The capture was only made after a seige of three hours. Harper had fortified himself in the house, and, armed with a winchester rifle, threatened to kill any one who attempted to arrest him. When the posse threatened to dynamite the house, he gave up. Rewards to the amount of $850 were outstanding for his arrest. PROMINENT BROKER SUICIDES. Coster Lost Money and Caused Failure of Big Firm. Following the suicide Tuesday night of Charles Coster a prominent broker and society man, the stock exchange firm of Coster, Knapp & Co., at New York, of which Coster was a member, announced its suspension Wednesday, on the floor of the New York stock exchange. In an announcement, given out at the time of the suspension, it was said that the action was directly due to the death of Mr. Coster. THREE-CENT CAR FARES Celebrated by People of Cleveland, O., in a Day of Free Rides—Flight Lasted Seven Years. Without price, citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, were riding upon the street cars Tuesday. Following the settlement of the so-called war of seven years in which the municipality has been engaged, President Dupont, who took charge of the newly organized Cleveland Railway Company at midnight Monday, announced that free transportation would be granted the people for one day as an evidence of the cessation of the troubles. Incidentally President Dupont is reported to have stated that upon the same date each year an effort would be made to "consercrate" the day in a similar manner. Downtown Cleveland is torn up physically in the furtherance of the effort to reroute cars and much confusion has resulted. Three-cent street car fare on all lines operating within the city of Cleveland became a possibility Monday night at the regular meeting of the city council when a "security grant" was passed under suspension of the rules to the Cleveland Railway Company, a new corporation, which took over the consolidated properties of the old companies. At the conclusion of the council meeting that body, as a committee of the whole, met the officials of the Cleveland Railway Company, the Cleveland Electric Railway Company, the Forest City Railway Company and the Low Fare Railway Company in the chamber of commerce hall, where the final papers were signed and passed, leasing the property of the Cleveland Railway Company to the Municipal Traction Company, the holding or operating company, for fifty years. The rate of fare, according to the new grant, shall at no time or under any circumstances be more than 5 cents cash fare or six tickets for 25 cents. It can be made as, low as good service will permit. Three-cent fare will, it is expected, go into effect within ten days. In Terrific Crash of Trolley Cars Crowded With Passengers. Two large interurban trolley cars, on the Detroit, Jackson and Chicago railway, a part of the Detroit United Railways System, running from Detroit to Jackson, collided head-on Tuesday afternoon, while running about 45 miles an hour, twenty-five miles west of Detroit, near Ypsilanti. Nine men were killed, and about thirty men and women injured, some of them seriously. A mistake in orders on the part of Motorman Isa Fay, of the limited car, who was crushed to death beneath his vestibule, is alleged to have caused the collision. It is charged that he overran his orders. Four of the injured are in a critical condition in the hospital. The limited car, comfortably filled with about forty people, left Ypsilanti at 2:17 o'clock for Detroit. The running time of the car was changed Tuesday, and reduced, so that Motorman Fay left Ypsilanti ten minutes earlier than he had been accustomed. Instead of stopping at Harris Switch, about two miles west of the scene of the accident, where, it is said by the officials of the road, the cars should have passed, the limited rushed by the crossing point at high speed. As it rounded a curve four miles east of Ypsilanti the local car flashed, into view, also running at high speed. It was a hopeless effort to try and stop the heavy cars, and they crashed together with a terrific impact. T.O SETTLE BIG STRIKE. Messrs. Knapp and Neill Are Invited to Chester, Pa. A Washington special says: Chairman Knapp of the Interstate commerce commission, and Commissioner of Labor Neill have decided to accept an invitation to act as mediators to bring about a settlement of the traction strike at Chester, Pa. HOUSE EULOGIZES SENATORS. Memory of the Late Morgan and Pettus' of Alabama Honored. The house was in legislative session for about two hours Saturday during which time it passed the bill reclassifying and increasing the pay of certain officials and employees of the customs service. The remainder of the day was devoted to eulogies on the life, character and services of the late Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, both of whom died last summer. NO. 32. NEBRASKA CYCLONE Takes Several Lives and Destroys Much Property. Wires Were Blown Down in All Directions, and Much of Territory Swept by Tornado Yet to Be Heard From. A cyclone swept through Cumming county and into Thurston county, Nebraska, at noon Thursday, and three people are known to have been killed, a number injured and a number of houses destroyed. Telegraph and telephone wires are down, and reports are slow in arriving. The tornado struck the house of John Mangleson, near Pender, Neh, and then swapped up into the air, taking the wreckage of the house, and both Mr. and Mrs. Mangleson were killed, their bodies being carried a mile. George Waacker and family were at lunch when the twister struck their house. Three of the family were seriously injured. The dead body of a little baby was picked up in the public road 10 miles from Bancroft. The child has not been identified, but undoubtedly was brought by the cyclone from some residence which was wrecked. A heavy downpour of rain and hail followed the cyclone, which swept northeastward towards the Winnebago Indian reservation, where much damage is supposed to have been wrought, the houses being of the most filmy character. The storm passed within a quarter of a mile of Pender and caused consternation in that town. MONEY IS FORTHCOMING. To Build Two Warships, as Result of President's Threat. A Washington special says: As the senate was about to conclude consideration of the naval appropriation bill Thursday, Senator Piles, of Washington., proposed an amendment increasing from two to four the number of new battleships to be authorized. As several senators desired to speak on the amendment, the further consideration of the bill was postponed until Friday. An amendment to the naval bill was adopted appropriating $7,000,000 to begin construction on the two battleships authorized by the bill as it was passed by the house. This amendment was in response to the threat of President Roosevelt to veto the bill if it was sent to him with a provision for warships, but without an appropriation to begin work on them. A spirited debate occurred on the amendment for the restriction of the purchase of materials for the construction of the battleships, submarine boats, etc., to those of domestic manufacture. Amendments to remove the restriction from the bill were defeated, Mr. Hale stating that since the investigation of the steel trust some years ago the price of steel armor had been reduced from $550 and $600 per ten to $4.16 per ton, and Mr. Beveridge declared that the United States pays less for its armor plate than any other nation, except Japan. REMOVAL OF DAVIS' NAME From "Cabin John Bridge" to Be Investigated by House Committee Representative Carlin is preparing to introduce a resolution in the house calling upon the secretary of war to make an investigation into the removal of the name of Jefferson Davis from "Cabin John Bridge." Mr. Carlin's resolution is the forerunner of a second resolution directing that the name be restored to its former place on the bridge. RECORD APPROPRIATIONS. Total Amount Exceeds Any Sum in the History of Previous Cannoses. The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported to the house Saturday by the committee. It carries $106,715,369. The following statement of the author of the bill was made by Chairman Tawney. "The estimates submitted by the different departments of the government for sundry civil expenses for the next fiscal year far exceeded the estimates for like expenditures in any previous year in our history, aggregating $111,284,366. Timothy Ware ‘By RACHEL B. HAMILTON, % eoesesesSeseSeseSeSeseseyv” j¥ou might have noticed him, perhaps, ‘as you passed along—a wrinkled, keen-eyed, elderly man. Now elderli- ness, I take it, is further off from the sweet ripeness and flavor of old age than youth itself. To be elderly pre- supposes some thinness of blood, some sort of inexpressible poverty of nature, such as there seems to be all about this region where T. Ware's house is located—a range of long, low-lying, uneasy hillocks that could never settle themselves to anything; a sandy, incapable stretch of thread- bare grass and stunted woodland. It was not an easy thing to imagine ‘that just over the south ridge lhy a amiling and fruitful country, a thrifty settlement of Quaker farmers, who held themselves, perhaps, a little too much aloot from this inhospitable aeighborhood. It was a chill October afternoon, and the low slant rays of the setting sun looked furtively out from,a.blue- Diack ridge of cloud over the garden and the garden’s owner. There had been a frost over-night, which had wiped out almost every lingering ves- tge of summer-time. A few elderly beans clung shrinkingly to their poles 4n the bleak background; a scanty patch of corn rustled its sere leaves forlornly in the wind, with here and there a pumpkin ripenipg sparsely between, and turning out its yellow rotundity to the sun, as resolved to put the best face on things that was possible; while, tall and stark, a row. of sunflowers, flapping gauntly above the hedge, overlooked the desolation. As old Ware stood there at his gate and looked about him, with his faded red cap on bis head and bis lank Sressing-gown clinging about him, he seemed verily a part of the frost- Bitten scene, illustrating it feebly, lke an ill-eut frontispiece in a badly printed volume. Yet there was a tra- dition that he had once upon a time been the chief figure in a great con- cern somewhere in town, and that in some forgotten pericd long ago the ‘old weather-beaten house had flaunt-| ed gayly In a new coat of paint and bright green shutters, and Fas bright ‘with new carpets and curtains fo wel- come a coming bride. But all that was so far away now that people had forgotten the cate, and could not re- call that they had ever been inter- ested in anything concerning old Ware. Tin Ware, Esq., the boys called him—a nickname based, perhaps, on a. floating legend of miser-made wealth stowed somewhere away in the loose clap-boarding of his tene- ment, or perhaps intended briefly to Dear testimony to the value set upon chim in the community—Tin Ware, Esq., was not a popular man among the lads of the village. They had 4 persistent inclination to hoot him, to gibe at him, and to torment his lean, ill-tempered doz, which followed his master everywhere with a snarling and objectionable faithfulness. ‘The boys, considering all these things, felt themselves called upon to vindl- cate the claims of justfte by robbing old Ware's orchard and breaking into his melon patch. Things in this way ‘were brought to a sort of balance. I myself saw one day, as I passed his fence, a huge charcoal placard, read- ing thus: LB. Ware of The Dawe. And many a bare-legged youngster, 1 have no doubt, hid snickering in the hedge at the sight of old Ware slowly deciphering the scrawl in wrathful spectacles. But very few besides the boys ever troubled the old man with attentions, either for gcod or ill. He seemed to hare slipped from the mind gt both men and fate—an elderly, shrivelled old figure whom Time had forgotten to digniiy with gray hair. He looked up and down the road keenly with his frosty blue eye, not as a man who expected anything or anybody, but simply because it was his habit to look sharply. And yet as this northeasterly glance swept the road, ‘there came along it something far from unpleasant té look upon—a Bray figure in a Quaker bonnet. ‘There would have been a smile of welcome in almost anybody's eye as the plump, quiet Quaker face of Re- becca Rhodes approached, but not a spark kindled in old Ware's flinty gray orbs. Rebecen's well-kept acres lay just Yeyond him, over the south ridge, and all about her farmhouse was trim and tidy, clean and wholesome, as Re- becca herself, It must have been the love of cottfarast that broucht ker te Dor,” she said. “Nay, nay; I recom- mend thee try the loaf. It's spoken well of, 1s my sweet bread, the coun- try round. Thee wif! not shorten thy days much by just one trial, and if thee likes it not, I'll never trouble thee again.7 Even the imperturbable face of old Ware shows a slight smile at this mingling of acerbity and sweetness, but he made no demonstration, “Iam on my way to see old Bet- sey,” says Rebecca, quietly extending her hand apd placing the Joaf on the gate-post. “She's one of the town’s Poor—or rather one of the Lord’s poor, I think, for she doesn't: belong to this township. Poor old Betsey!” One might have imagined that old Ware gave a sort of start just now, as it an invisible electric shock had Struck him. He was not used to hearing sympathetic talk of any kind. it tried his nerves, probably. * “One of the wretched vagrants that are pauperizing the community, wan- dering hither and yon,” growled Tim- othy. “Aye, aye, nelghbor,” says Rebecca, softly and Wistfully; “a hard time they have ft, poor things! And this many a Fear ‘has she been a wanderer hind a vagabond on the face of the earth, has poor old Betsey." She ‘takes the white-covered loaf absently with her large, shapely hand, looks ‘up and down the road with thought- ful gray eye, sighs softly, and goes her way, leaving loaf and napkin cap- ping the gate-post. And there you might have scen it at night-tall, it you had chanced that way; for hadn't Timothy told the woman he didn't want it? and was he the man to de- mean himeelt after that? And your speculating on the singular stubborn- ness of the human heart would not have been lessened had you caught sight of him, by the flickering candle in his upper window, sitting there motionless with an-eye on the gate below. Perhaps he expected Rebecca back after her gift. I do not know. “She's one of the town poor, is old Betsey,” sald Rebeca, meckly, and had said it meekly year after year, striving to allure the vagrant old woman into feeling at home on the charity list of the good towns-folk, and fo rest her aching old bones in the town poor-house, But old Bet- sey was not to be trapped. If one must be poor and ragged, at Teast let one have plenty of fresh-air leisure, says old Betsey. To be a pauper and a drudge both is a little too much. And to be preached to and prayed over and hedged In right me MORE WE HELP OTHERS 7 BEAR THEIR BURDENS ¢ vue [GHTER OUR OWN wu oe. : and Jet, and to scrub work-house floors and scour work-house knives, all for a bit of bread—bah! that is all unbearable, says old Betsey, shrug- ging her bony shoulders under her ragged shawl, and setting ont warily on her ever-.asting tramp. She 1s an incorrigible vagrant, utterly irre- claimable, Perhaps Rebecea thinks a half-fledged thought like, this when she finds her prey bas escaped her and {s fairly on the road again, On the road again, untamable, ragged, hungry and free. She walks at a rapid, uneven pace, her thin shawl fluttering in the wind, her un- tldy slippers flapping at her heels. It rows dusk as she steals along; the road is dreary with cloid and shadow, and with a mocking moon that gleams out now and then, dodging viciously after this gray old ghost of a woman flitting below. There is a: white ob- Ject there ahead of her—something tall and queer, with a round white head. The vagrant swerves a minute out of her way, surveying it furtively. Then she puts forth her claw-like hand and clutehes greedily Rebecca's sweet, dainty loaf. Aha! what a good providence Is here! Ah! can it be that Fate should come, for once in a way, with sweet- ness and luxury in her hand for an old pauper, and night and darkness to devour it in! Bewildered with pleas- ure, old Betsey hugs the dainty un- der her faded shawl. ‘There is a crash then, as it the heavens were falling; a shout that curdles her thievish blood; a rough hand is lald upon her with vise-like grasp. Law and justice seem to have come down bodflyupor the marauder; but it Is only old Ware, who has been watching from his window. i hand is raised to strike the thicf— the thief with vagrant and vagabond written all over her; in her vulpine eyes, her long blue nose, her skinny, claw-like hand. The woman shrinks back, cowering, agaiust the gate-post, with a wheezy cough; the old shaw! falls away from her face. Out comes the moon and sails along with a sin- ister ray pointing right down on the shivering, crouching figure and on the countenance that for one instant up- turns tolWard the assailant. “My God!” cries Timothy. And that is all. His hand falls at his side, he turns and walks back to the house, leaving the wretch to her plunder. ‘The wretch is a mere animal, after all—s bunted animal, it is true, with all the greed and cunning of such. She makes her way somewhere with the prize—it doesn’t much matter where. But, there comes up‘a storm! chilling storm that might make the vVerlest tramp thankful for shelter. Old Ware, sitting motionless In bis upper chamber, hears the rafters shake overhead. He lstens; perhaps he fs afraid the house will come down over his head. The wind raves and shrieks about window and doorway. He gets up by-and-by, and lifting the dripping sash, looks out into the road. He sees nothing; .n6 boys will rob bis melon patch to-night, and no beggar come whihing to his gate. Afar off, where the road circles to the south land, old Betsey has crawled into the shelter of a way-side barn, No, there is "nothing to be seen any- where about. Timothy shuts the window with a shudder and crawls tobed. _ A week “after this Rebecca; sweet and tintless as a snow-drop, stops at the gate once more. “Old Betsey, my poor old vagrant, left us last night, nelghbor,” she says. “The blankets and pillows they sent were a very great charity, but she needeth our charity no more.” “No more?” repeated old Ware, vacantly. “She died last night,” answers Re- becca, and her lp trembles a little. There is no reply. Rebecea does ‘not break the long, long pause. She 1s used to the old man’s moods. Final- ly she sets her face to the road again;: it is getting late. “Rebecca,” says the old aan, ab- tuptly, placing hfs bony hand upon hers—“ReWecca, you—you needn't put her in Potter's Field, She mightn’t rest easy, you know.” “I have no such superstitions, friend,” said Rebecca, smiling sweot- Iy. “It"can make very little difter- ence to her now where she rests, poor, nameless wanderer.” “She had a name once,” sald Tim- othy, standing erect, with a strange flush on his face. “A bright and deantiful woman once was my wife, Elizabeth Mae ag: A long “ind weary winter had passed; a summer has brightened and faded; the autumn twilight fs settling softly on bloom and barrenness, as old Warestands at his gate once more, looking down the road. In his hand is something wrapped in white, which he sets upon the gate-post as a gray- clad, graceful ‘figiire comes walking up the road. “Rebecca,” he says, “I return your napkin.” “Nay,” says Rebecca, recognizing her own initials—“nay, friend, I have an abundance—” “Open it,”,interrupts the old man, abruptly. ‘The gentle Quakeress is used,to humoring his moods, and as she Unties the linen. a diamond ring rolls glittering out upon its edge. There is a box of shining trinkets within and a smal} gold watch. “They were all hers ence, in the old times,” says old Ware, huskily, “before she left me. You may keep Sm ter Ber sake, an Jew” 19 pauses; there is no answering move- ment from Rebecca. “Or,” he adds, with frritation and sudden energy, “I'll just heave ‘em overboard when I quit here for good and all. Yes, I'll quit here for good and all, I never had no home nor no friends— she spofled all that—and I may as well finish it out that a-way.” Rebecca clears her throat. “It has long been borne fn upon me, friend Timothy,” she says, in a high, con- strained voice, as one who delivers a difficult message—“It has song been borne in upon my mind that thee is living too much alone. Thers,{s none to look after thee, or fix thee up a bit comfortable for the winter; and I have had a clear leading from the Lord which I have suffered hitherto to be hidden in my heart—it is that I should‘ offer thee a home with me, neighbor Timothy, if so be {t seems ‘good In thy sight.” “A home?” said Timothy, looking up queryingly at his weather-beaten old mansion. “As how, Rebecca?” As ow, Rebecca? ‘There was a group of small boys hidden just be- low the hedge, in the opening where the great apple tree dropped its fruit- age on elther side of the rails. Tom and Jim and Dick were there, bare- legged, and sly as weasels. Of course the apples belonged to them on that side of the fence; but then night was the safest time for getting them. There was mo withstanding the logic of old Ware's dog by any argument of justice and fair play, Tke twilfght had quite faded now, a pale moon shown in the heavens, and there at the gate stood Rebecca, with her hand in Timothy's. “Whist, fellows! whist! ye needn't to run,” cries Tom. “She's goin’ to have him for her ole man. Bully for her! She'll never set the dawg onto a feller.” And with {ull pockets and beating hearts ‘the youngsters file off past old Ware's very gate. Tom gives:a loud whistle when the feat is achieved, and stands a moment looking back with an eye of approval. “I knew it all along back,” says Tom, oracularly —“course I did; didn’t I gee old Tin- ware looking down that ‘ere road time an’ agin arter her? Why, she could sweeten a crab-apple, she could!” 2 And I think that she did, for the boys of the village had a grand din- ner one day, at which Mr. Ware and his Quaker bride walked down among them, smiling right and left, and-Tora and Dick nodded knowingly to each uther and sald, “I told you so.” Good Literature. Sen | A BOOK ABOUT FRAUDS. , The qridtis'ot the Curio Trade as Plied in Paris! renks lower than it formerly did as a market for art objects and curiost- ties of all kinds, but foreigners, and especially Americans, still buy large- jy from the innumerable art dealers here, without perhaps being sufi- clently struck by the suspicious fact that the supply is always equal to the demand, writes the Paris correspond- went of the New York Tribune. fn a recent cable the writer made a brief -alluston to the new volume which has just appeared from the pen of that prolific writer and well known art expert, M. Paul Eudel, under the title of “Trucs et Truqueurs:” In this the countless tricks of the sham eurlosity manufacturers and fakers are amusingly related. The book has had a wide and instantaneous success, and, to use a threadbare phrase, which happens, however, to bevthe most apt, is an indispensable vade mecum for all art cdllectors and am- ateurs. The range of M. Eudel's en- eyclopaedic information on this curi- ous topic Includes antiques, arms and armor, autographs and manuscrips, banknotes, bronzes, plaster fasts, terra cotta and marble, ceramics and Blass, chiselllag and gilding, draw- ings, miniatures, illuminations, mili- tary relles, book plates, cameos, en- Sravings, musical instruments, tvor- fes, books, medals and coins, furni- ture, gems, silver enamels, pictures, old and modern; tapestries, lace and postage stamps. On the subject of antiques M. Eu- del relates ‘the following tragic anec- dote of a collector named Blardot, who never in his life bought one thing that was senuinc. The son of a wealthy butlding contractor, Biar- dot quarreled with his father, left for Naples, where he married, and bit by bit formed a collection of pretend- ed antiques, which it was safd had been stolen from the ruins of Pom-| peil, With this collection he re- turned to Paris and offered it for sale to the Louvre for $400,000. A com- mittee of examination was appointed consisting of the Duc de Luynes, M. De Wilte and Mf. De Longperler, who declared the objécts to be faked. One of them was a helmet copied from the Bavarian military helmet, but claimed to be of Roman origin; another was a bas-relief in silver representing the “Three Graces,” and signed “Praxi- teles" in Italian! Biardot died firm- ly belleving in the genuinenes8 of his collection. His widow sold it to an intermediary for $$000, and it was finally disposed of by public auction for $853, a sum barely sufficfent to cover the expenses of the salesroéom and the catalogue, z With respect to ancient arms and armor Mr. Eudel’s skepticism Is af most universal.~ The suit of armor which used formerly to be exhibited at the Musee d'Artillerie as that of Jeanne d'Arc is now known to be Mi- lanese of the sixteenth century, and is no longer offigially associated with the name of the national heroine. M. Eudel denies that the coat of mail ex- hibited at Fontainebleau as having been worn by the unfortunate Mar- quis Monaldeschi when he was mur- dered in the palace by order of Queen Christine of Sweden was ever on the back of the victim. It Js a common soldier's mail coat and is of the fifteenth century. Nothing, he as- sures his readers, is more rare than ancfent armor. None of the four- teenth century is any longer in exist- ence, hardly any of the first half of, the sixtéenth century, and very little of the second half. Armor was at all {mes very dear, and for this reason was constantly being rehammered and refitted for successive owners. A ‘The people who live in the Scottish Highlands deem their climate the best in the world, although other peo- ple find fault with its high winds, cold rains and chilly days. In ““Mem- orfes” Major-General Sir 0. T: Burne tells of a minister in one of the High- land churches who wished his people to realize how much they had to be grateful for. “What causes have we for grati- tude! Look at the place of our habl- tation! How grateful should we be that we do not leeve in the far north, amid the frost and the snow, the cold and the wet, where there’s a lang day to half of the year and a lang nicht to the tither, and we should go shiver- ing aboot in skl=:. “And how grateful should we be that we do not leeve in the far south, beneath the equawtor, the sun burn- jug, the sky bot, and the earth hot and the waters hot; and ye're burnt black as a snoddy! Where there are teegers and lions and crocodiles, and fearsome beasts growling and grin- ning at ye among the woods—that we not leeve in such places! “But we should be grateful that we do leeve in this blessit Isldnd of ours, called Great Braitain, and in- that pairt of it named Scotland, and in that bit of auld Scotland that looks up to Ben Nevis, where,there's nelth- er frost nor cold, nor wind, nor, wet, nor hail, nor rain, nor teegers, nor llons, nor burning suns, nor hurri- canes, nor—” Here a tremendous blast of the wind and rain from Ben Nevis blew in the windows of the kirk, and brought the preacher's eloquence’ to an abrupt conclusion.” Denatured alcohol to the amount of 1,744,272 gallons was produced 4n the United States during the first six months of 1907. The free alco- hol law took effect on January 1, 1907. ~ x. | cient armor in.public and private col- lections is,“faked.” A déaler named Reandcar, M. Eudel relates, purchased some years ago at Havre two hand- some suits of tilting armor for Prince Soltykoff, which are now at the Mu- see d'Artillerie. In the same lot there, were a few detached pieces of Gothic armor which the prince refused. Randcar collected some other bits of the same period, took them to the ar-- morer of the Cuirassier Guard Regi- ment in the Champs Elysees, and had them made up into a complete sult, carefully retaining the old puncheon marks. After Randear’s death bls son made a few more “fake” altera- ‘tions in the suits and sold them to the great collector Zersplt, from whose possession they passed into a famous private collection. They are now, asserts Mr. Eudel, to be seen at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. ‘The perfectioh which has been réached in photographic reproduction makes it extremely easy to “fake” autographs and prints. England has been inundated with pseudo auto- Braphs of Charles Dickens obtained . from proofs of a photograph drawn age faintly upon salted paper and then gone over with violet ink sim{- lar to that which Dickens was fond of using, and answering to the oxalic acid test. The same trick «used to be perpetrated with Bismarck’s visit- ing cards, bearing a word of acknowl- edgment*and a signature. For the fabrication of what are known in the trade as “bogey” pictures, Paris, and particularly Montmarte, have always had an evil reputation, But M. | Endel relates one method of passing off a copy for an original which will be new to most amateurs. It is ap- parently of Italian invention. A cer- tain collector traveling in Italy ,had bought for a. fair price a perfectly genuine Httle picture and proposed to carry {t home with him under his arm. The dealer begged to be al- lowed to send it to him at his hotel, and suggested that if he were afraid of a substitution he should sign the picture on the back. The céilector wrote his signature, but still feeling suspicious he nevertheless decided 40 take his treasure with him. On reach- ing home, and after haying taken off the frame, he found stuck against the picture at the back a valueless copy, and it was this thet hé had signed! Had he accepted the dealer's offer he would have been robbed of the orig- inal, and in the presence of his own signature would have had no legal means of recovering his property. M. Eudel casts doubt upon the en- re authenticity of one of the most famous violins by Stradivarius exhib- ted at the Musee du Conservatoire. He thinks that {t has been fitted with 4 new head and that the old diapason bas been changed to the modern one 0 enable the professors to play upon it. The bronze statue said to be that of Jeanne d'Arc at the Cluny Museum, yousht for an enormous sum by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild and presented to the nation, he believes ‘o represent if reality a beardless young captain of the Middle Ages. He casts suspicién upon the bronzes ttributed to Bénveauto Cellini and presented to the Louvre by the late M. Thiers. Of the 150 works at- aributed to Cellini and distributed hroughout the collections of the vorld, hardly ten, he thinks, will tand examination, M. Eudél’s book S destined to fill with pessimism the nind of the average collector, but it s none the less full of useful hints. ¢ is a monument of sprightly erudi- ion.—C. I. B. “Musical Indian Names For Cottages, Some Indian names appropriate for country houses are given below, They are not all easy to say in one breath, but most of them are musical, and they all have two unusual virtues in country house naming—they are significant and American. Dosyowa, means Tho Place of Bass: wood; Onannoguska, Shagbark Hick- ory; Dedyonawa‘h, The Ripple; Nany- onyahaok, Narrow Point; Heyout- sathwathah, Picturesque Place; Ken- Jockety, Beyond the Multitude; Deo- stehgan, A Rocky Shore; Oatka, The Opening; Utowanna, Big Waves; Ta- warloondah, Hill of the Storms; No- doneyo, Hill of the Wind Spirit; Yu- nasasah, Place of Pebbles: Astenro- gen, Place of Rocks; Onehda, Hem- locks; Tarrajorhies, Hill of Health; Oserwatokee, Butternut Place; Ore- queshsabheed, A Grassy Place; Wil- tenagemota, Council Tree; Alkam- karten, Smooth Water; Alepconck, Place of Elms; Elkwabite, The Sen- tinel; Mudwayaushka, Sound of the Waves on the Shore; Neenavbaig, Water Spirit; Tawassagunskee, Look- out Hill; Skashneghtada, Beyond the Openings; Jonodok, Shallow Water; Ohnatokoonk, Among the Pines; Ka- ryahnkoo, Resting Place. The long, stately names for the big mansions, the shorter names for the camps and cots. Who could deny the charm of Kenjockety (“beyond the mnultitude”) for a mountain lodge, Nodoneyo (‘the wind spirit"), for a breeze blown Long Island home or Jonodook (“shallow water”), for a wee, bit cottage near a stream?—3fag. azine of American History. ‘The Angelus. The.Angelus {s the bell that 8 rung noon and night to invite the faithful to recite the Angellc Salutation, Luke I. It gives the name to the famous picture by Jean Francois Millet.— New York Anierican. . SSS (=== | \Zie, HOUSE aad HOLE Pt Stained Woodwork. 4 “Many houses have highly varnished yellow pine. If the woodwork is gone over with ammonia and iminediately covered with a stain, a beautiful dull finished wood is the resulty in any, color desired. Olive green, black, brown or silver gray are all suitable. For $10 a large dining room can be thus stained by a painter, Including the shutters, and the change 1s decid- edly worth the outlay. A blue and green dining room fs a delightful combination. There are quite a num- ber of most artistic English papers with this combination of colors, and with green stalned woodwork’ and mahogany,. furniture, ‘a delightful room may be evolved.—Indlanapolis News. iste at the tei, To prevent’a lamp from smoking soak a new lamp wick two or three hours fn vinegar. Dry well before using. ‘Lamp wicks in lanterns or carriage Jamps that are not in dally use should be tréated In this way. Ofl in lamps should not be allowed to get down to less thancone-half the depth of the reservoir. ‘The wick should be soft and com- pletely fill the space for it,"but with- out crowding. A lamp should be neither suddenly, cooled, nor exposed to draught. In extinguishing the flame the wick should be first turned down, and then a sharp, quick puff blown across and not straight down upon the flame.— New York Press. How to Cook Rice. __ Few housewives understand how to cook rice so that it puffs into a snowy mass, each kernel distinct, I havo found a way. First wash ft thor- oughly through several cold waters, ‘rubbing the kernels between the hands. This is to remove all tho Joose flour on the outside of the grains. After the water runs clear, turn the rice into a colander, and drain; then put it into a stewpan, al- Jowing one quart of boiling water to a cup of washed rice. Add a tea- spoontul of salt, and allow it to come to a boil. Cook Steadily for twenty minutes, lifting the rice occastonally with a fork to prevent its sticking. Shake the kettle also for the same purpose, but never stir or mash with a spoon. Take it .rom the fire, nour off the water if any fs left, and place it on the back of the stove, in the oven, or even orer a pot of hot water until it Qnishes swelling. Cooked in this way you will find the rice plump, Nght and white, each grain distinct and separate.—M. N., in Harper's Bazar, Pure Water, To purify water add powdered alum to the water fn the proportion of one teaspoonful to every four gal- Jons. If you will stir this in briskly you will find that all impurities will be precipitated to the bottom, while the rest of the water will be left pure and clear. * If you are sitting at adesk or sew- ing steadily for hours at a time it is well to rise occasionally, stand erect, inhale a full breath and raising both hands as high as possible, bring them down on top of the head and bend backward. Repeat two or three times and you can not imagine how much, it will rest you, Better than a tray is the Nttle drop leg sewing table which {s high enough for the top to rest across the bed while an Invalid is eating. Turn back the legs on-one end of the table, allowing the others to rest on the floor, supporting some of the weight. This gives ample room to spread out the dishes and the table being rather light the welght fs not noticeable. It can be propped at one end with a pll+ low.—New Haven Register, \Rouserekp, y RECIPESY oe Se Cranberry Pie.—Two cups cranber- ries cut in halves and washed well to take out the seeds. Put in stew pan with one cup sugar, one heaping ta- dlespoon cornstarch, one-half cup wat- er, one tablespoonful butter, one tea- spoon vanilla; cook a few minutes, then bake with two crusts. * Bacon and Apples—Slice bacon thin and fry it crisp. ‘Transfer it to & platter and keep it hot while you fry thick slices of unpeeled swect ap- ples in the bacon fat. When theso are tender, drain and put in the cen- tre of a hot platter. Lay the fried bacon about the hot plattck. Lay the fried bacon about the edge of the dish, sprinkle sugar over the apples and sdrve. oe Orange Puffs—Croam one-third cup of butter, add, one cup sugar, then add two beaten eggs. Add alter- nately one-half cup milk and one and three-quarters cups flour, three tea~ spogntuls baking powder, a dash ‘of salt. Beat thoroughly; turn into buttered individual dishes, and bake {wenty minutes. Orange Sauce: Beat the whites of three eggs stiff, add gradually one cupful powdered sugar, then add juice; grated rind of two oranges and one tablespoontul of Semenn tuice, = Largest Sick and Death Benefits; Smallest Premiums. The Guaranty Aid and Relief Society Treasury of State of Georgia Bilabla JAN 17 1908 190 The undersigned. Treasures of the State of Georgia, hereby acknowlledgess to have received from the Secretary of State of Georgia the following discoverd: Dear Regent and Deputy, Allen, Europe (European Depository) 170010, unsealed, proof of Deposit (5000) available, June 1920 long in total Ten Thousand Dollars , and which are held by the State of Georgia , by authority and under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly , approved October 22d, 1887 , and amended December 20th, 1897 . Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. Call to State Labor Federation. President O'Connell of the Georgia State Federation of Labor has issued a call for the assembling of that body in regular annual session at Macon on June 17. * * * Cooper Granted a Respite. Porter Cooper, who was to have been hanged in Sparta last Friday, for wife murder, was resplited until May 15. A plea of lunacy will be interposed. * * * The Central of Georgia railway company has agreed not to discontinue two of its four daily passenger trains between Columbus and Americus, as has been contemplated. An official statement to that effect has been given out. Death Claims Judge Wellborn. Judge Carlton, J. Wellborn, aged 72, died at his home in Millen Sunday. He had served many years as state librarian, was a brigade quartermaster in the confederate army, had been a circuit judge of the state courts. * * * In Token of Girl's Bravery. Miss Ellen Quarterman, 14 years of age, who was attacked by a negro recently, near Thomasville, and, who repulsed him with a pistol, has been presented with a diamond-studded watch and pearl-handled pistol by the citizens of Thomasville in token of their admiration of her bravery. Responsibility with Initial Carrier. Chairman S. G. McLendon of the railroad commission of Georgia, has issued a statement to the shippers of the state calling especial attention to a recent decision of the United States circuit court for the western district of Arkansas construing that section of the Hepburn law governing interstate shipments which makes the initial carrier liable. In giving it out for publication Chairman McLendon calls attention to the fact that Georgia has a similar law protecting shippers in so far as intrastate shipments are concerned, and states that this interstate ruling will prove of widespread interest. The county commissioners of Terrell have submitted to Attorney Gen- Treasurer of the State of Georgia. eral Hart the question as to who are subject to road duty in the county, as there seems to a conflict in the laws on this subject, one statute fixing the age of persons liable to perform road duty at 21 years old, and not over 50 years old, while another provision of the law fixes the ages at 16 up to 50 years. The commissioners have been holding that all persons are liable to road tax who are 16 years old and not over 50; but under the act passed in 1907, amendment to the road laws of the state, it may be determined that only those who are over 21 years old, and not over 50 years of age; are subject to road duty. Premiums for cotton and corn seed culture at the state fair have been decided upon, and they will be incorporated in the list. After a talk with G. M. Davis, prominent in the Farmers' Union and connected with the department of agriculture in Washington, General Manager Frank Weldon fully agreed that this was an important feature of the premium list; which should not be overlooked. As a result, premiums will be offered for the best twelve ears of corn and the best twelve stalks of cotton, both exhibits for seed purposes. The government will have a booth at the fair, in which samples will be exhibited from the 250 experiment stations over the state. The peach crop this season is the heaviest and most perfect in ten years, or since 1898. They went through the blooming progress under summer skies and without any rain, and the weather has been favorable for their development so far. The latest date for frost of any consequence during the past twenty-two years was on April 28, 1888, and unless some disaster overtakes them, Georgia will have a fruit crop this year that will contribute largely to the wealth of the state. It is believed there is at least 7,000,000 peach trees in the market orchards of the state that will average a crate to the tree. This, will make 14,000 can loads. They should bring 50 cents a crate to the grower above all expenses, which will be $3,500,000. Some Appropriations for Georgia. Some Appropriations for Georgia. A Washington dispatch says: In the sundry civil appropriations bill reported to the house Saturday the Atlanta penitentiary gets a total of $134,180 for maintenance and to complete the construction of the wall around the prison. Fort Screven gets $127,705 for barracks and quarters for artillery, in Premiums on Choice Seeds. Record-Breaking Peach Crop. P. EDWARD PERRY, Vice President. NIGHT VIA S WESTBOY Leave Savannah..... Arrive Helena..... Arrive Abbeville..... Arrive Condele..... Arrive Americus..... Arrive Richland..... Arrive Lumpkin..... Arrive Montgomery..... Arrive Birmingham..... Arrive New Orleans..... 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Get sleeping car reservations and full information from any SEABOARD Agent, or write to connection with adopted project for sea coast defenses. An appropriation is made for $250,000 for the completion of harbor work at Brunswick, and a like amount for completion of harbor work at Savannah. At Fort Oglethorpe a cavalry drill hall, costing $55,000, is provided for and an appropriation of $20,000 is made for maintenance and completing the establishment of the park. The sum of $55,000 is appropriated for improving the road from Stevens Gap by way of Davis' Cross Roads to Crawfish Spring, in Walker county. * * * Seizures Under Pure Food Law. The state department of agriculture has discovered and seized in the name of the state, 63 barrels of syrup, intended to be marketed under the name of "Georgia Cane-Compound," on the ground that a chemical examination of the syrup shows that it has been misbranded in violation of law. The syrup will be held by the department and disposed of as the law directs. It was shipped by a Columbus concern to Atlanta. Analysis showed that the syrup contained about 49 per cent of glucose and only 21 per cent of sucrose. The former is not a product of the Georgia cane, whi'e the latter is. The department has also recently seized about seven carloads of "Mixed (bran) Feed," manufactured by the Capital Grain and Mill company of Nashville, Tenn. The stuff was seized 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. 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What is expected to make the state experiment station, Experiment, Ga., more popular than even with the farmers of the state, is a bill proposed to be enacted into a law at the next session of the general assembly. The bill will provide that the experiment station take an experiment with and bring out into the highest state of perfection cotton which shall, afterwards, be turned over to the state farm, there to be planted, grown into fruition, replanted and a large crop produced until sufficient number of improved seed are thus secured as to give a start to the farmers of Gecrgia with the highly developed seed. This is operating in the state, for state consumption, just as the United States government gives its garden seed throughout the United States. It is proposed that the perfected cotton seed from the state farm be turned over to the department of agriculture for state distribution. * * * Compositions Are Called For. 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LLOYD, / Dealer In- Governor Comer of Alabama issued a proclamation at Montgomery Wednesday night, calling on the entire state to respond to the call for aid at Albertville and other parts of the state, but more especially for the stricken Marshall county section. The call is based on a report made by Colonel R. A. Mitchell, in charge of the soldiers of the state at Albertville. office by the first of May, in order to compete for the $100 in gold offered for the four best compositions, on this subject, by the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association of Georgia. Several weeks ago this association announced the four prizes of $50, $25, $15 and $10 to be given out among the school children of Georgia for the four best compositions on the subject named, no composition to contain over 750 words. Each teacher was to select the best three in that school and send them to the county school commissioner. He was to select the best one from all those received in the county and forward it to the chairman of the state judges, Commissioner Pound, on or before May first. The winners will be announced by President Harper of the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association on Monday, June first. NOTED PREACHER PASSES AWAY Dr. Morgan Dix of New York Dies at Age of Eighty-one. Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal parish in New York since 1862, and one of the city's most prominent clergymen, died Wednesday at Trinity rectory in West Twenty-fifth street. Death followed a brief illness. Dr. Dix was 81 years old, and was born in New York city. He was a son of General John A. Dix, author of the famous dispatch: "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot." Deeds, Contracts, Wills and Other Legal Forms Prepared and Attested. 116 West St. Julian Street Publishers' and Manufacturers' Prices Liberal Discounts Will Be Arranged. GROCERIES, WOOD AND COAL 621 Oglethorpe Avenue, East. 518----PHONES----Bell 506 Atlanta Baptist Minister Loses Life by Asphyxiation. Lying unconscious on his bed in a room filled with gas, at his residence, 20 East avenue, Atlanta, Dr. John D. Jordan, pastor of the Jackson Hill Baptist church, was found in a dying condition Thursday afternoon. Physicians were summoned to the scene, and did heroic work, but were unable to relieve Dr. Jordan, who died shortly afterwards from asphyxiation. For many months he had been laboring under difficulties, his health having been very poor. COMER APPEALS FOR AID. Alabama Governor Asks the Entire State to Help Storm Sufferers. The Savannah Trib tne Saturpay, Mar 2. 1908. _ sn Cl Miss Venus Tillman left fo. New York on ‘Tuesday last. Mrs, Loniss Gardner of Americus spent a day In the city, the goest o Mrs. R. DG. Barnes, She left of: Tuesday for New York. Scott"Broa. opened their lea Cres m Parlor at West Broad and Gwinnett streets Just Sunday. The usualrush was on J. LL. Lee, wood yard, Waldborg strect and railroad Arack. Oak, Pine and light wood for sale, Will give special rates to shops. Call and see him or ring Bel! Phone 4302, or Georgia 1534. * Mescis. W, M. Fickland and J. B. ‘Theus of Philadelphia are having a plevsant stay at Wilmington, Del,, with Rev. Ficklaud. Miss Pauline M. Greene left Tuee- day Inst for Newport, RI. Her many friends wish her a pleasant stay. Mrs. R.E. Johnson of Atlantic Gity, N.J., is in the city spending awhile, the gnest of her sister Mrs. “Wm. Murry, 534 Hall street; east. ‘Mrs. M i. Williams of 511 1-3 West Broad street will purchase your combings of hair, Call to see her, Mr. Henry C. Huger [eft on Mon ay Just for Beaufort, where he spent two days very pleasantly. !Mr. Hu- ger is one of our prosperous young business men and is well liked by rhis friends. » Only Dry Goods Store owned and controlled by colored people, Scott Bros., West Broad and Gwinnett streets, | Myre. Annie L. Wil sonjhas return- ved home from from St. Augustine, Fla., where she has been for the :past several months, Send a street wagon ana go to J. L. Lee’s wood yard, Waldburg strect and Railroad track and get a load of last years wood cheap. This is a vargain. Take hold of it. Bell - phone 4302, Georgia 1534. . Mr J. A. Ward of 620 Waldburg street, west, wascalled to the bed- side of his mother, Mrs, Hester An- drews of Walthourville, Ga., who is seriously Il. He has the sympathy of-friends. For a Day of Pleasure spend Mon- day May 25th, at Daufuskis with the Excelsior Aid and Social Club Fare Round, 50 cents, A meeting of the Old Folks Home Association will be held on Monday night next at the residence- of Mra. Georgia Simmons, Liberty and Bar- nard streets, Hriends of the move- ment are invited to attend, Nice large airy*rooms to rent in quiet neighborhood. Inquire at this office. , (4) Miss Lizzie D. Campbell of this scity, closed her school at Ways, Ga., on April 10th. ‘The program was well arranged. Miss Maria E Cole- man of thie city rendered a paper and Miss Essie L, Spaulding alao a teacher at Ways read an essay On “The footpath to peace.” Among the visitors were Mrs. Hattie Camp- bell, Misaes Marie Coleman,} Janie and Georgia Campbell, Sadie and Anna Freeman. Miss Mamie Holmes leaves next week tor New York and from there she will go to Atlantic City, where abe will spend the summer. Her. friends wish for her a pleasant stay. Ice Gream furnished in anv quan- tity from Scott Bros,’ factory, Gwin- nett und West Broad etreets. Mrs. Eugenia Mills of Graham- ville, S ©, spent two weeks very pleasantly in the city visiting her Jelatives. - Mr. W. H. Burgess is soliciting agant for the new side wheel eteam- er Kate. Parties wishing to secure dates can ring him up on Bell Phone No. 2106. / For reat 4 room aparcment 625 West Lrosd street. Surtable fur residence, or doctor or deutlst offices: Scott Bros. Gwinnett and West Broad. | "Mes. Lela Newman and Mra. Nel- jig Robinson arrived in the cry from Washington, D, G., on lest Eriday evening. They ase stopprug with Mra. Julia C, Woodruff, cousin of Mrs, Newman, 632 Margaret atreet- who ig endeavoripg to weke Droad. "Mes. Lela Newman and Afra. Nel- lig Robinson arrived in_ the city from Washington, D, G., on last Eriday evening. They ase otopprug with Mra. Julia C, Woodruff, cousin of Mrs, Newman, 632 Margaret streets who is endeavoring to meke their stay pleasant, All of the owners of Lots in Old portions of the cemetery will kindly give tne immmediate attention, es- pecially those Jote in strangera pore tions a3 the majority arevin bad con- dition. Henry Willis keeper of Colored Portion of Laural Groye Cemetery. Mise M, A. Jackson was hostess on Monday afternoon of the Whist Oluy. ‘Lhe entertainment was a charming oe. Games were played after which refreshment and music, The afternoon was delightiully en- jeyed. Those present were, Mrs. Postell, Mrs. Wricks, Mrs. Smalls, Mrs, H. Hart, Mrs, E, Richardson, Drs. H. Brannen, Mrs, K. Brough- - toa, Mra. J. Black, Mra. B. J. Green Miss Juckson, Messrs. Jones and ‘Romeo Fields, The elab. will be -entertained on next Monday after- noon by Mrs. J. P. Postell, 613 ‘Waldburg street, west. Local Notes« The annualconcert of Beach Insti tute took place on Friday night of Jas week. The chapel ras crowded and the participants rellected credit oa them selves. { The delegates to the General Confer ence of the A. M. E. Church leaves to day for Norfolk, Va. Julia Elizabeth, is the name of the new comer at the home of President and Mrs.B. F. Allen, Lincoln Institute Jeferson City, Mo. She arrived Apri 17th, The Savapnab friends of Presi dent Allen extend congratulation, Mr. Eli Smith, brother of Mr. W. Smith, the city agent of the Guaranty Aid and Relief Society, died on Satur. day last at Milledgeville He was buried on Sunday. Mr. Smith attended the funeral, Mr. Geo. W Hahn died at 12 o'clock Thursday at Boston, Mass.. after an ill- neas of some length. Mr, Rahn was an old Savannah boy. He leaves a wife and child, a father and mother, other relativesand friends, Rev. P. J. Jackson. D. D., was royal. ly entertained by Miss Janie Elmore and Sliss Jennie Deleware, at the latter's residence 512 Hartridge street, on Wed- nesday evening of last week. The dea- cons and ofiicers of the F. A, B Church, and several other guests were present. The house was becomingly decorated, The dining room presented an enchant- ing scene, and especially was the tabie arranged ina roanner that appealed to the sight and the inner man, Selections were played by Miss E. Grant, The dinner was served in courses, Several ladies assisted in serving. Short aod appropriate talks were made by several of the guesta in appreciation of the affair. Look out for the Fox, May 26th Last Tribute of Respec ‘Lhe funeral of Mrs, oarun £4 Roundfield took place Sunday af ternoon, from the Second Baptis! Church. Long before the hour to: the services, the cburch was well filled with friends of the deceased. ‘The services were simple, yet iu- preasiye. The singing by the chorr. he eulugies. ete, were such as to hive appealed t> the more thought- ful. The testimonial of reepect showed by the large number of per- sons present, attested the popularity of the deceased and the high esteem in which she was held. by ker friends, Reva. N. H, Whitmire and J. H. Walker assisted in the services. Rev, E. H. Quo was also present. Rev. J. H. May, pastor of the de- ctased, spoke of her qualities as a member of the church and the words of encouragement given him as pas- tor. ‘The eulogy of Rev, W. L. Cash, of the Congregational Church, was indeed touching. Rev. Cash visited ‘her during her iloess and was with ber a few hours before death. ‘He depreted the last talk he had with her, the strong hope that she maintained and the bending of her will to the inevitable. After the church services the H. H. of Ruth conducted a short cerey mony over the remains. Vhe mem- bers of L. B. Maxwell Court with other friends followed the remains to the cemetery where the servicers of this order and that of the church were concluded, oP s The grave was covered with beautiful and costly floral designs, presented by several friends of the deceased. : ‘The burial of Mrs, Roundfield was indeed 4 pathetic one, and the ex- pressions of sympathy from friends were touching, ‘he deceased was held in Bigh esteem by all who knew her. Her hfe was a useful ove. She was al- waya cheorfal, ever ready to reget aid and did all that she could to make others happy. In her home life she was a model. No one cau truthfully eay ought about her, and we can truthfally say that indeed a good woman hae been called hence. Pesce to the remaine. An Old Citizen Died. Mr. Rufus Carson, one of our old citizens died on Tuesday night last The funeral took place Thursday afternoon from St. John Baptist church, Key. Wm. Gray @fficiating. Mr, Cerson is suryived by a wile, twodanghters, Mrs, A. Curson O1- nerand Mis.Geo Coleman, and two sons. ‘The sympathy of fiends we extended’ the family, . 2 eee — Congregational Church. ‘The mid week service at the above church on, Wedoesday night waa largely attended. It was indeed a praise serv c>. Euch of the young members of the ghurch gave testi- mony in some manner. ‘The service was very interesting, Tomorrow morning st_11 o'clock the regular services will be held. At the close of the service there will be baptism by immersion. At the evening service holy communion will be administered, after the re- ception of members; ut the latter seryice a free will offering will be taken for the poor. To each of these services the public 18 invited. The Atlanta Rios. ‘The rivt in Atlanta is atill fresh im the minds of the people of the country, especially to those of ug in this state. Anything relating to it should be of interest to us as a tace. An opportunity will be giyen the people of this city to hear eomething about it from this subject ~The New light the Atlanta Riot Throws on the Southern Situation.” 1t will be discussed by Rev. “enry HF. Proctor, D. D., pastor of the Congre gational church of Atlanta, ~-Dr. Proctor is fully able to discuss the subject jn all of its phases. He was through fhe thickest of the riof, was among the foremost ones tu con fer with tne white citizene in bebalf of Juw and order and was in a posi- tion tosindy ihe after effect. Be- ‘aides Cheso things, Dr. Proctor isa forceful, able and pleasing speaker acd ia able to interest thore who will bearhim. The lecture takes place-Thureday night May 14 at the Beach, Inetitute and will be under the auspices of the First Congrega- tional churcb. The tickets are now on gale, 15 cents each, and can be gotten from the members of the church. a) KR. H. Bourke is No More. Sunday afternvon last Mr. Robert H. Bourke died at iis late residence op 34th St., west He was an old cifizea and well known. He, leaves a wife, three sons and other rélatives and many friends, ‘Ihe funeral took place Monday ufternoor. An Appealto the Public. 4D Denalt of the publig Library of the city which has been opened over one year for ths use of the public at large. We make the following appeal: In order to make this library thoroughly up-to-date in every respect, and feeling the need of funds for the proper prosecution of the work, we ask our friends and patrons ‘to make a small contribution each month, We extend to each and everyone a cordial invitation fo visit the library. Books can be borrowedand there are many papers and magaziaes for reading. We urge all to come and avail themselves of the op portunities offered. ‘The library is locat- cd at Price ard Hartridge streets, hours Yolo r, §to8 p.m, ~ Chas, A. R. McDowell, Librarian. Rosa O Jones, Asst. Librarian, ns GAMUSEMENT CULUMN. ease a Coming Events in The So- cial WWorld. give a grind exctirsion to Beaufort Mon- day Mayt8th. ‘Tickets 50 cents. A graud May; Hop will be given by the I, L. Us Naval Stores Coopers at Lar. ris street hall, Monday night May 4th Tickets 33 and go cents. ne ‘The Evening Call A. and S, Branct will give a grand excursion to Daufuskie Monday May rth. Tickets so and 3: cents. 7 Spring Social, Refreshments. The Apollo “Orchestra under theauspices oft the 7th Grade, Maple Street Schoul, will pisasaatly entertain the public with Je- lightful music at Masonic Temple, Friday night Mey Sth, Tickets 25 cents, A grand May Dance will be given ny the Ladies and Gentlemen Soiree Club at Slasonic Temple, Monday night May 4th. Tickets 15 cents, The firstanniversary and hanquet_of J. WW. Armstrong Lodge No. 242 K. of P., will Le given at Harris street hall, Mou- day night May 18th, Tiekets so and 275 cents. An entertaiament wwill be civen by Israelite Lodge No. 160, 1.0, of G. S. and D. of S. U.S. A.,at Harris street hall, ‘Tuesday night May 12. Tickets 15 and 25 cents, . Hope Lodge No. 1,A O Kof D, will give their graad banquet at Harris ‘street hall, Monday night May 25th. Tickets so and 75 cent: ‘A grand Spring Festival will be given by tite United Workers Club of Beth- den Church at the parsonage 513 East Gaston street, Monday night May 4th. Tickets 10 cents. The gth annual ‘entertainment of St John Lodge No. 47,10 of GS and D_ of S will be given at Masonic Temple Wed- nesday May 6th, ‘Tickets 15 and 25 cents Your attention is called to the annual memorial day trip to Beaufort by Shaw PostNo 8GAR, They have chartered two boats that will leave Friday eight May 29th, Tickets 75 and so cents, ‘The Fox will give their second annual afternoon outing to Daufuskie Tuesday May 26th, Tickets 50 and 25 cents, A concert will be given by East ‘Broad Street School at Masonic Temple, Friday nght May z2nd_ Tickets 25 cents. A fish fry will be given at Isle of Hope, on Moaday, May 11th. Cars leave Gas- ton and Whitaker streets at 9 o'clock p. m. Tickets 35 cents, The Young Adelpbias and Primrose A. and S. Clubs will give an excurston fo Beaufort, Monday June zgth Tickets, so cents, : A Woodland entertainment will be giyen by Hilton Lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. 3I., Monday night May rSth, at Ma- sonic Temple. Tickets 25 cents. A lecture on the subject “The new light the Adanta rio throws on the Southern Situation," at Beach Institute, Thursday night May 14th. Auspices First Congre- Bational Church. “Tickets 15 cents. A lawn party will be given atthe _resi- dence ‘of Mrs. E. Armstrong, 727 Grant street by the Ladies Lone Star Branch, Wednesday night, May 6tb. Tickets 10 cents, ‘ A merry widow entertainment will be given by,Mt Moriah Chapter No. 37 0. E. 8, at Magonic Temple Wednesday night May 2oth. Tickets 15 cents, “A grand concer will be given at First Bryan Baptist Church, corner West Broad and Waldburg lane, by the ayinible Concert Troupe for the benefit of the church Wednesday night May 6th. Tick- ete To cents, . A grand concert and Harp contest will be given at Mt Tabor Baptist Church | Henry and EastzBroad streets, Monday | night May 4th. “Tickets 10 cents. | Savanaah Lodge’ No. 2892, G. U. 0. of ©. F., will give their first excursion of the season to Beauforts Monday Junesth. | Tickets so ond 36 cents. | ‘The third annual ball of the- Apollo Or- chestra will begiven at Harris street hall Wednesday night May 20th. Tickets 25 wa grad May Hy ML bi by Agrand May Hop will be given by Success Lodge No. 2, A. 0, K.of D. at Harris etrect Hail,’ Monday night May ‘ith. Tickets 26 cen ts, a TLL. STA, 3, one pe sD EBNTIST: 240; Barnard St., Savannah, Ga, Does all kind of hightgrade dentalfwork of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and GoidjCrowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Filf- ings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $8.00. Broken Places mendep™and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. BellPhone 1244 m8 Gola Crowns Guaranteed BR kk Gola *+@B, BH. LEVY BRO.& G9, This season we’re strong on the new models in’ Sack Suits. If you want seé 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 cf them will be sure to syit you. | Suits mikes $12 to $40 Manhattan Shirts | LeSFS"Saso” : oe Nonigl Hat | B.H.LEVY,BRO. & CO. : 5 Broughton Street; West. Marriage Announcement. | Mr. Jo3x. UC. Davis ot Bluff.on, S. G. to Miss Ida L. Pinckuey’ of Orangeburg. S. C., at Cardova, S. C., ou Oct. 12th, 1907 vy fhe Rev. J. J, ‘Brooks. Mre. Davis 13 an accom plished young lady, being a graduate of thc State College of Orangeburg, 'S.C., atso a graduate of the Dixie Hospital of Iampton, Va. She is wjso un c«xcelleot musician. Her home originally was Beaufort. S. C. ue for the past three years she has followed her profession of trained ‘uursing in Orangeburg, und ranks among the foremost of her profession MrJ Davis is well known in Sivan- nuh, where he attended Beach In- stitute aiso Georgia State College. After spending several years in the north, he returned to the State Col- lege 6f Orangeburg, $.C., to com- plete his education, from which he will graduate with first honors on May the 4th. We extend to them our congratulation aud best wishes fora Jorg and happy life. A grand excursion will be given” by the Athletic Club to Beaufort S.C., Menday May 4th. Tickets g0 cents. Speciai Notice. 1 so The Excelsior A. & $; Club Is preparing to run their First £xcursion of the season to DAUFUSKIE on MONDAY MAY 26th, 1908. ~ Your piesence is especially re- quested, Steamer*Clifton will leave her new wharf foot of Abercorn St, ‘at 8:30 a. m, and 2:30 p. m._ < zi - . ‘Yours for pleasure, sa The E. A. &S. C. ©. M Brinson, Pres. 8, Jenkins, Sec. " Fienry N, Clayton. General Mgr. What? O MAY 26 be 44 The "Fox WHERE ? , Dautfuskie, Positively 2P.M. STEAMER CLIFTON, Abercorn St. Pier. Hoibrooks-Dezon Whentiredandhungiy why not stop by the wayside atthe 2. - HOLBROOKS.DEZON RESTAURANT .. They will give you some ‘thing very good to eat, so you may come back again, and the pretty part are ‘the prices which will catch every- bedy. Motto: “Good meals, good caoking:’” 625 WEST BROAD STREET, Savannah, Ga.*- Bad Mouths Made Good Digestion Restored When your teeth bother you consuit Dr: Geo. R. Shivery, Tur Denzisr S243 West Broad st. 9 Dr. J. W.Jamerson, Firstelass Dentist, All Work Guaranteed. ~ 623 WEST’ BROAD S?REET. Bet, Huntingdon and Hall. Bell Phone 2098. A New Pharinacy , The People’s Pharmacy 809 West Broad St. Prescriptions carefuliy com potnded. Drugs ‘Noilet Articles and Sun- dries, e Candics, Soda Water and Iee Cream. J. F. Ford, Prop. F. F. Jones, DEALER IN— 3 Beef - Veal - Mutton Lamb-Pork-Hams Bacon and CORNED BEEF All Kinds of GAME in Season. Goods promptly delivered to any partof the city free of charge. SPALL 31. CITY: MARKET, THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY READY FOR BUSINESS. . 25 Experienced Agents Wanted at Once. ‘The Savannah Mutual and Fire Asso- lation of 20 State strect, west, of Savan- nah, Ga., announces its readiness to begin business. The company will write in- surance onthe 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 oneqiin various parts off the Stateyand a thorough canvass made for safe legitimate business. A few persons 25 or more who have had some experience as agents and pos- sess other required qualifications may secure .itions with salaries of forty to fifty doi.sts per month, according to fit ness forservice. For further particulars address ° D.C Suggs, Pres. or L. S. Reed, Sect. 20 State street west, Savannah, Ga, Mrs. M. E. WILLIAMS, Hair Dressing Parlor SCALP TREATMENT, SHAMPOOING,: Electric Face, Neck and Body Massaging. CourLExion BEAUTIFIED, , MANICURING All kinds of Lady’s Hair Goods, Switches, Puffs, Pompa- dours, etc, 7 6113) West Broad Street. Bell Phone 1111. For First Ciass Shoe Repairing Go TO e sil _ The - Atlanta Shoe Shop Special attention paid to Ladies and Child- ren Shoes. Polite ' - attention given to all work., . * . 103 Liserry St., west. J. H. WASHINGTON, Prop- “po ¥OU LIKE We Gombine the thice essentials] in fgar- ment making in Clothes namely, IQUALITY, STYLE and FIT. Not every man knows howto make fine - clothes 5, but the man sho] knows, fand knows hé knows, is the right man—follaw him. * ;WE DO LADIES TAILORING TOO. * ‘Call or drop us a card, we do the rest. 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In the course of a paper before the French Academy of Medicine Professor Grimbert recently stated that the central pharmacy, which dispenses supplies to the public institutions in Paris and the Department of the Selne, annually furnished 12,000 leeches for use in the hospitals. J. Pierpont Morgan has presented to the Wadsworth Athenaeum, at Hartford, in memory of his father, fourteen volumes 'descriptive of his art collections in London and New York. Each volume is valued at $1000. Amateur photographers are not happy in Russia. They have to secure licenses, and if they chance to take a snap-shot of a view near a fortress they are liable to be whirled to Siberia as spies. Horticulturists have discovered that roses and mignonette cannot live together. If the two flowers are placed together in a vase both wither within half an hour. Laconians, whose chief city was Sparta, were famous in ancient Greece not only for their success in war, but for their scorn of luxuries and their brevity of speech. When King Philip of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great, threatened them, saying, "If I enter Laconia I will level your city to the dust," they sent back the reply, "If!" Their short answers give to the English language the word "laconic." New York City has 113 public parks, varying in size from a few square yards in the angle at the crossing of streets, up to Pelham Bay Park, containing 1756 acres. A New Jersey commuter, fond of figures, estimates that during the six coldest days of this winter, when the rivers were filled with ice, the delays in ferry transportation to persons going to and from their work in Manhattan amounted to forty-two years of working days for one man. An American syndicate has purchased the Port Coloso Railway and nitrate fields of Chile, as well as nitrate fields in Tarapaca and Antofagasta for $12,000,000. Mr. Richard Carter, of South Poland, is probably the tallest man in Maine. His height is six feet eight inches, and he is as 'straight' as an arrow. His shoulders are very broad, arms unusually long and body well proportioned. He weighs only 190 pounds. Home Paper the Best Advertisement. The best advertising medium of a town is its home paper, provided the paper be properly sustained, says the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A good home paper, well edited, well printed, well filled with local advertisements, having the smile of prosperity on its countenance, and well circulated, is in itself an index to the thrift and enterprise of the community it represents and an expression of the enterprising spirit of the people. It has now become an axiom of trade that community is judged by its newspaper. If the newspaper is dull and poverty-stricken, the outsider who sees it will conclude that it represents a dull and thriftless community. If, on the other hand, it is live in all its departments, and shows that it is well sustained, the outsider will judge its constituency accordingly. And usually it is a fair basis of estimate. Nine times out of ten the local newspaper is a correct photograph of the town in which it is published and from which it derives its support. This is a matter which the people of every town should seriously consider. They should bear in mind that every copy of the home paper goes out as a courier, with a message to the outside world. It is for the people to say what sort of a courier it shall be, and what sort of message it shall carry. If the people proclaim to the world that they will not sustain a home paper, how can they expect the world to believe that they will sustain any other home enterprise that might move in? The money spent on the home paper should be expended in subscriptions and individual advertisements, for, as we have said, the paper should be an advertisement in itself of the community. But the local paper is necessarily limited in its reach, and in addition to local support the town should appropriate a liberal fund for general advertising in mediums which have a wider circulation. No town is too large to advertise abroad. The largest cities in the United States are the largest advertisers, and if the cities find it necessary to advertise, how much more necessary is it for the towns, which are not so well known to do so! The German War. In Germany the adulteration of wine and beer is prohibited for home consumption, but permitted for exportation. It is an open secret that wine from Vienna and beer from Munich are doctored before shipping to the United States.—New York Press. VERY TRUE Sally Gay—"What a cunning little fellow Mr. Callipers is!" Dolly Swift—"Cunning! Why, look at him—he's dreadfully bowlegged." Sally Gay—"Yes; but that gives him such an arch look, you know." —Pick-Me-Up. The tip of the tongue is the most sensitive part of the human body: the tips of the fingers come next, and third the lips. WOMEN'S KIDNEYS. Are the Source of Most of Women's Bickness. Mrs. Rebecca Mock, 1795 E. Rich Street, Columbus, Ohio, writes: "I believe I would still be a victim of kidney troubles but for Doan's Kidney Pills, for when I started using them I was in constant pain with my back, and no other remedy had been of believe I would still be a victim of kidney troubles but for Doan's Kidney Pills, for when I started using them I was in constant pain with my back, and no other remedy had been of any use. The kidney secretions were irregular, and I was nervous and lacked energy. But Doan's Kidney Pills gave me prompt relief and continued use cured me." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HE BEMEMBERED "Well, George, what did you learn at school today?" "I-learned—that—well. I learned that, three apples plus six pears equals nine oranges."—Philadelphia Record. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address P. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggins, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. PROHIBITIVE HANDICAP "I can't get a pair of shoes to fit me." "That is strange, considering they are made in such variety." "I know they are, but what good does that do a fellow when he hasn't got the price?"—Nashville American. HOW TO TEST LINSEED OIL There is nothing that will make paint go wrong on the house more quickly than poor oil. It is as bad in its way as adulterations in the white lead. Petroleum oil cheapeners may be detected by placing a drop of the oil on a black painted surface. If one sees the characteristic fridescence or plav of colors which kerosene exhibits, it is evidence of adulteration. Corn and fish oil can be detected by the smell. Adulteration in white lead can best be discovered by the use of a blowpipe, which National Lead Company will send with instructions free to anyone interested in paint. Address, National Lead Company, Woodbridge Building, New York City. THE DIVINATION Cholly-"I wondah why they call it leap year?" !! Wally—"Because it gives the death girls a chawnee to jump at us."—Baltimore American. WANTED Responsible young man to take charge of two or more counties in safest, surest, good money-making plan, with absolute guaran- cita. Address WAYNE'S SALES Co., Jeau, Ga. KINDRED. Knicker—What is the successor to the Bridgejam? Bocker—The Subway jelly.—New York Sun. Hicks' Capuuline Cures 'Nervousness. Whether tired out, worried, sleeplessness or what not. It quits and refreshes brain and nerves. It's liquid and pleasant to take. Trial bottle 10c. Regular sizes 25c. and 50c., at drugrists. A REAL STOODENT She—Why do you always get behind in your courses? He—So I can pursue them.—Harvard Lampoon. How I Cured Sweeny and Fistula. "I want to tell you how I saved one of our horses that had a fistula. We had the horse doctor out and he said it was so bad that he did not think he could cure it, and did not come again. Then we tried Sloan's Liniment and it cured it up nicely. "One day last spring I was plowing for a neighbor who had a horse with sweeny, and I told him about Sloan's Liniment and he had me get a bottle for him, and it cured his horse all right, and he goes off now like a colt. "We had a horse that had sweeny awfully bad, and we thought it was never going to be any good, but we used Sloan's Liniment and it cured it up nicely. I told another neighbor about it and he said it was the best Liniment he ever used. "We are using Sloan's Sure Colic Cure and we think it is all right." THE PROPER WORDS. Young Man (calling)—What is proper to say when leaving a young lady, "Good evening" or "Good night?" Young Woman—"Say "Good 'morning'"—Philadephia Press. He- (pointing on field)—That's Green over there. In a few weeks he will be our best man. She—Oh, Charlie, this is so sudden!—Princeton Tiger. AS TO A POLITICIAN "He says he's wedded to a high tariff." "Well?" "I take it he didn't marry it to reform it."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Lots of Oxen Left in Maine. We have heard much in recent years about the disappearance of oxen from our Malne farms, but we find by the report of the State Assessors that in 1907 there were 8,758 of them left in the State. That would make quite a herd if they were pastured together, says the Kenebee Journal. If yoked up in pairs they would make a team stretching a dozen miles away. There are 750 oxen in Kennebec county, and if these 375 pairs were put on the country road on parade or taking part in an old-fashioned "hauling bee," they would furnish a mile of goodly satisfaction for the wielder of the oaken goad. So the patient ox is not yet quite as uncommon on the Maine farm as the caribou and wolf on the Western plains, but the rate of decrease is indicated by the fact that where there were 8,758 oxen in Maine in 1907, there were 15,473 of them ten years earlier. Bad Economy A southern gentleman recently at a banquet in Washington related the following story about a certain philanthropist he knows at home. He said: "My friend heard of a negro family that was reported in destitute circumstances, and, calling at their home, he found the report true. The family consisted of mother, a son about 15 years old and three young children. After hearing the mother's story, he gave the oldest so a bright silver dollar, saying: "Here, my lad, take this dollar and get a turkey for the Christmas dinner." "No sooner was he gone when the mother said in a stern voice to her son: "Heah, Jackson, you done gib me dat dollar, and go git dut turkey in de nachral way."—Harper's Weekly. Diving for Fish. A unique method of fishing is employed by natives along the Panlaung River. Two dugout boats are employed about thirty feet long, with two men with long poles. One in the bow, the other at the stern punting the boat along. They stretch a long rope made of bamboos and plaited grass about a hundred yards long and weighted about every ten yards with big stones. This they let down into the water, and the fish are frightened toward the bank. The divers then jump in three at a time, remaining down about twenty seconds. They carry gaffs about eighteen inches long and fishbooks with cords attached. When they strike a fish they let go the gaff and the fish is hauled up in the boat. A big fire is lighted on the river bank, and the men warm themselves before it when not diving.—Rangoon Gazette. THIS IS LEAP YEAR. "I'm weary of being a bachelor girl." "Well?" "Do you know any fellow who's tired of being a spinster man?"—Kansas City Journal. "Willie, is it right to say 'my sister has come to school'?" "No, ma'mam." "Why not?" "Because your sister has went home."—Philadelphia Record. BUILT RIGHT Brain and Nerves Restored by Grape-Nuts Food. The number of persons whose ailments were such that no other food could be retained at all, is large and reports are on the increase. "For twelve years I suffered from dyspepsia, finding 'no food that did not distress me.' writes a Wisconsin lady. "I was reduced from 145 to 90 lbs., gradually growing weaker until I could leave my bed only a short while at a time, and became unable to speak aloud. "Three years ago I was attracted by an article on Grape-Nuts and decided to try it. "My stomach was so weak I could not take cream, but I used Grape-Nuts with milk and lime water. It helped me from the first, building up my system in a manner most astonishing to the friends who had thought my recovery impossible. "Soon I was able to take Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast, and lunch at night, with an egg and Grape-Nuts for dinner. "I am now able to eat fruit, meat and nearly all vegetables for dinner, but fondly continue Grape-Nuts for breakfast and supper. "At the time of beginning Grape-Nuts I could scarcely speak a sentence without changing words around or 'talking crooked' in some way, but my brain and 'nerves, have become so strengthened that I no longer have that trouble." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pks. GOOD ROADS Road Taxes on Wheels. The system of graduated tax upon automobiles which is proposed in New Jersey by Senator Frelinghuysen—himself an enthusiastic automobilelist—is probably not perfect, but has much to commend it to favorable consideration. It seems to be beyond dispute or question that automobiles have done much more damage to the improved roads of the State than all other vehicles put together, and have, indeed, wrecked some of them to such an extent as to make rebuilding necessary, and it also seems certain that roads which will be suitable for and will stand the wear and tear of automobiles will be much more expensive to build and maintain than roads for other vehicles. Therefore, it is not unreasonably argued, those who use automobiles ought to make a substantial contribution to the increase in the cost of roads which will be incurred on their sole account. That principle conceded, it naturally follows that the big, heavy and swift automobiles, which do most of the damage and which require a special kind of road, should pay more than the small ones, which do little if any damage. The questions of the proper amount of the license fees and their proper graduation according to the size and power of the machines, however, are not readily to be answered, and it is probable that the bill as it now stands needs some amendment in those respects. The suggestion has also been offered, though we do not know that any serious effort is likely soon to be made to put it into effect, that taxes should be levied upon all vehicles using the public highways, graduated according to the size, weight and style of the vehicles. That also has something to commend it. Funds must be procured for the construction and maintenance of roads, and it would seem to be appropriate that these should chiefly be provided by those who use the roads and in proportion to the amount of use which they make of them. The old system levied a direct road tax, generally paid in work, upon each taxpayer who was a land owner, in proportion to his general tax. The same system still prevails, save that working out is abolished and the tax is now paid in cash. But it is obvious that a man may own much property and pay heavy taxes and yet make little or no use of the roads, while one who owns little land may make much use of them. Generally speaking, the man who owns the greatest number of vehicles makes the greatest use of the roads, so that a tax based upon the former would most equitably pay for the latter. The objection may be raised that a tax upon wheels would be a partial or a class tax, which would be odious. There is no problem in all the complex science of government more puzzling than that of taxation or more difficult to solve to universal satisfaction. Proverblally all taxes are odious, yet certainly taxes of some kind are necessary. No doubt taxation for general purposes, for the common benefit, should be levied as generally and impartially as possible. But there is much ground for arguing that public expenditures which are chiefly for the benefit of a certain part of the community should chiefly be met by taxes levied upon those beneficiaries. That is a rule already adopted in some directions, and sooner later it may be found expedient to adopt it in respect to public roads.—New York Times. Maryland Roads. Most of the Maryland counties have been very cautious in the matter of creating bonded debts. When such loans have been floated they have generally been for aggregate sums that are not large in proportion to county wealth, as indicated by the assessed taxable basis. The road systems of the counties are generally provided for from the annual-tax levies, and it is generally conceded that the method is one of makeshifts and poor economics. The repairs that are made in the summer time go to work, over and over, year after year, during the succeeding winters. From time to time the question of a system of permanent and substantial road construction has been raised in one Maryland County or another, but the conclusion arrived at has been with few, if any, exceptions that good roads are too costly to be paid for out of the annual tax fund, and county boards apparently stand overawed when a suggestion of creating a road-building fund by a bonded loan is made.—Baltimore American. In Connecticut. James H. MacDonald, State Highway Commissioner of Connecticut, has ordered that a survey be made at once of roads in the northern part of the State. The work will be started soon. Improvements are planned for stretches of road in several towns on the east side of the river on the road to Springfield. The Commissioner is planning to have the road from Hartford to the State line macadamized before the middle of next summer. Tugging the Elephant. Thirty men engaged in a tug-of-war with an elephant at Olympia last night for $250. The men won. London Daily Mall. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. LEWIS T. REED. Brooklyn, N. Y.—In the Flatbush Congregational Church the pastor, the Rev. Lewis T. Reed, preached a sermon on "The Theory and Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics." The text was from Matthew 8:13: "And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be healed in the same place. And this servant was healed in the selfsame hour." Mr. Reed said: In this theme of "The Theory and Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics," it is not my purpose to expound novelties or to satisfy curiosity, but to assist all of you who worship here to lay hold of some of the great principles within this movement by which it will be possible for you to live confidently and joyfully. I should be glad to make all of you practitioners of the art of suggestive therapeutics. There are a few great principles which it is essential you should honor and obey. First—the power of suggestion. We have been wont to be optimistic about everything that takes place in our lives, provided nothing evil appears at once on the surface. We have proceeded on the faith that the psychical system could take up and dispose successfully of every suggestion made to it. Evil thoughts, envy, anger, greed, concipence, gluttony—all the vices abhorred by St. Luke's Church, the mind to the mind, and as long as we did not act on their suggestion, we still preserved our character. We deluded ourselves with a hope that we what we appeared to be. And now we have had to learn afresh the truth of that Scripture: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." I know of no process in man's life more calculated to give him life more thought than this function of the suggestions that the outer life brings. Day by day as we touch the courage and courdew, of self-control or self-defeat, of purity or selfishness, of love or hate, we are continually dropping, dropping these suggestions into the reservoir of this subconscious self, to come forth some day to bless or curse. Abraham Lincoln lives day by day the sacrificial life of the burden-bearer of this people. Day by day, hour by hour, he gives himself the suggestion of devotion, sacrifice and faith; and then, when the hour for utterance has come, a bestowed sheet of four learned sheets the supreme English masterpiece of half a century. Benedict Arnold was always passionate and revengeful. Day after day, year after year, the reaction of life on him resulted in suggesting to his deeper self hate, envy, pride, and self-will. When his hour for expression came, he took up his pen to sign his name to the betrayal of his trust. There is nothing in the process of the soul that needs to cause us more of joy and more of fear than this amenability of the soul to suggestion. Secondly, you must come to a new realization of the supreme place of the will. Heredity must have some place in the formation of character, although that place is not yet very clearly determined—but the most weighty discovery of the present day seems to me this rediscovery of the regal power of the will to do right; These psychologists, and hypnotists, in their investigations into the unexplored tracts of personality have come across not only a God-like aspiration after virtue in every soul, but also an unlimited power for the attainment of that aspiration. Just as the Master of Life stooped over the cripple, saying, "Arise and walk;" and knew that within that stricken form there was the ability to rise and walk; so modern psychology stoops over every sinful soul and repeats the Scripture command, "Be ye therefore perfect," for ye are in the image of your Father in Heaven, who is perfect. This is a tenuous doctrine of individual responsibility. It is an old Scriptural doctrine, but it gains a new force when, by the modern hypnotist's appeal to the soul of goodness in a man, you see the spirit and mind of man, the mind the thrift reformed and the invalid made well. If there are in us those possibilities of virtue, there is no escape for us from the responsibility of attaining that for which we were created. There has come to us the conviction that inspired Jeremiah: "In those days they shall say no more. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes his teeth shall be set on edge." There is no more proper incentive to earnest living than the realization of the fact that God has intended life to be perfect for every creature; and that if it is otherwise, the fault is in ourselves. "Dark is the world to thee; thysof art the reason whr." Whoever would possess the reality of the Christian life must achieve the victory over his moods; and the most heartening message of this or any age is that by our God-given endowment of the will it is possible for us to give to the deeper life of the soul the suggestions of courage and faith and patience and strength, which altogether means eternal life. In the third place, you will have to form for yourself very likely a new, and very stern, doctrine of sin and virtue. The old doctrine of a forensic justification before God was an admirable thing to look at, but it did not work very well either for the justified or for his family. Those who deemed themselves "saved" very often failed to possess the homely virtues of cheerfulness, kindness, courage and forgiveness; while many who were obviously good" were not conscious of salvation. The other virtues of the genuinely "good" man his due, and placards in their proper place these hateful sins of unkindness, intolerance, moodiness, worry and hardness of heart. It is a great service that any sect bestows when that body of people stands forth to proclaim that the fills of the flesh have an origin in the fills of the mind, and that the thoughts that issue in these bodily fills are sins against the High.and. Holy One. From whatever source derived, the conviction of the necessity of controlling the outbreaks of our evil moods would be the greatest conceivable blessing in so-called Christian homes. This is surely no new gospel. All this teaching is from the apostles; the rest is undoubtable that the reed presentation of it has amounted almost to a discovery. The fourth principle which must govern your thought is that of the very great influence that we exercise over one another. If you believe in the telepathic communication of one subconscious mind with another, you will believe that the condition of your subliminal consciousness—of irritation, or quiet, of hope or fear—even though you speak no word, will affect those associated with you. In no hazy way, but very definitely, then, we are our brother's keepers, responsible for the world's stock of cheer and faith. The home is the peculiar field for the operation of this subconscious mind. There are quickest examples of the kind that is felt most readily and most deeply. The atmosphere of a home, although a hackeyed term, expresses a clearly defined reality. The atmosphere is the spirit of the house, emanating from the deep well of the subconscious mind of the homekeeper. God has created no more gracious figure in His great world than that of the wife and mother, who gives to the very place of her abode her own quiet, buoyant, soothing spirit. What she is in the unsounded deeps of her being will appear in time in the house where she dwells and in the faces of the little children that look up to her. On the other hand, the home of the card-club woman and the home of the gad-about! Who does not choose another shelter than thought? Their atmosphere is that of restlessness and spiritual poverty. Woe betide her children and her husband; for she cannot give them, after their day of temptations and vexation, that by which they are renewed, the spirit of peace and quiet confidence in good. II. Now, it will sometimes happen that, despite our best endeavors, we shall be overborne in the press. Illness comes on, whatever the cause, and the causes are often complex. What are we to do? Every physician would join with me, I believe, in saying: make the spiritual attitude correct. To use the terminology of the books, give yourself the auto-suggestions of courage, confidence in God, faith in His willingness and power to care for and restore you. Make it the genuine conviction of your spirit that God does provide for all His creatures. Rest in the promises of divine health with which the Scriptures abound. If there is any cause of irritation, remove it, if it be possible, by the right action on your part. Nothing is more irritating than harboring a vigorous grudge. I need not remind you how strictly scriptural is all this method of creating a correct mental attitude; and I believe that your own careful observation would comp to my support in the statement that the great majority of the diseases from which our house and office can from a final edge the rest of our present life. As the pastor, then, of your souls and the minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, who, through faith, restored the body, I would exhort you to cultivate to the utmost the virtues that Christ always insisted upon—trust in God, humility, self-forgetfulness, forgiveness, sincerity. Still, in many cases, the conditions of ill health will continue. What is to be done then? Manifestly, if the trouble be serious, it is the time to employ the physician, who can diagnose the case and prescribe the regulations under which recovery can be most rapid. I earnestly hope that in the excitement of this new discovery of the therapeutic power that is in the mind no one here will believe that he is privileged to sin against either himself or his brother. All laws of action are laws of God. The best results ensue when we learn how to use of God's laws in harmony with other. Quinine is just as much a creation of the divine spirit as is the mind of man, and we may as well acknowledge that infection is a process likely to take place under prevailing conditions, unless guarded against. The employment of mental healing in cases of physical disorder is the employment of a therapeutic agency. You may use medicines if you see fit and they produce the results, although as a matter of fact medical practice of the present day makes less and less of the treatment by drugs and more and more of the treatment by the natural agencies of rest, air and water. On the other hand, you may employ the mental healer, provided your spirit is so attuned to the spiritual life that you are able to receive its benefits. My own belief is that those who are wonted to the spiritual life—by which God through prayer the life of faith in a controlling power, and of interest in the life of the spirit in its higher manifestations—are best prepared for the reception of these benefits. No one can be benefited who sets himself even secretly against his healer, who prefers his own will and to the will and way of God, or who cherishes a false self pride in his own condition. The only way of restoration is the sincere and humble committal of oneself into the hands of God that He may work His restoring will. He must learn the very heart of the meaning of the sixth chapter of Matthew, the core of which is the insistence upon the necessity of the genuine union of the life of man with God. If there is one place in which this deception is possible it is in this relation with God. Whoever the healer may be, the pre-requisite to success is the necessity of the patient to be helped. Greater than the desire of having one's own way, and of cherishing one's own folble, must be the desire to receive that more abundant life that Christ came to bring. Therefore, while, on the one hand, this is only a system of therapeutics, on the other, it is a system the success of which is so intimately related to the attitude of a man's spirit toward the infinite that it becomes a matter of religion. An Epigram by Dr. Frank Crane. Life is a perpetual choosing; the road to ruin branches off at every step. DRINKS FAR APART. Plants as Well as Animals That Thrive in Arid Regions. It is difficult to comprehend the part that water, or rather the lack of water, plays in shaping the life of the desert. Mice and other small rodents native to arid regions have been known to live on hard seeds without green food for periods of several months or even as long as two or three years, and nothing in their behavior indicated that they ever took liquid in any form. Similar adaptations are exhibited by a large number of plants. The guareulq of Sonora is a member of the squash family, inhabiting a region in which the annual rainfall occurs within a few days in the autumn. The base of the stem at the surface of the ground becomes swollen to the size of a market basket in the adult plant, and this serves as a reservoir for water. During the hot rainy season the thin vines are sent up, leaves are formed, and the small, squashlike fruit is formed; then the vines and roots quickly perish, leaving the guareulq resting on the surface of the sandy soil like a bowler until the next rainy season, when the vegetative activity is regenerated. One of these huge tubers was picked up under an acacia tree in the Sonora sands in February, 1902, and placed on a shelf in a museum case with a number of preserved exhibits; in the summer of that year, and in every year since; it has sent up its thin stems and spread its leaves at a time corresponding to its active season in the desert. These have soon died down in a very natural manner, all the plastic material and water not used being carried back into the tuber, which now goes into a sleeping or resting condition for another year. Six times this awakening occurred, and no change in the firmness of the guareul or of its external appearance has taken place. It has already lived six years upon water which it had in reserve, the last addition to its store having been made in October, 1901. It would not be unsafe to say that this plant accumulates a reserve which may last it for a quarter of a century.—From the Outing Magazine. BURDEN ENOUGH NOW. "So you are not in favor of having the Government own the railways?" "No," answered Farmer Corntosel. "It strikes me that the Government has siltfulness of its own to keep it busy for the present."—Washington Star. DON'T CUT YOUR CORNS. 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Dulce Among the Masons. a —— - Grand Lodge-Call. 40 the worshipius siasters, wardens and Members of Subordinate Lodg- es—Greeting: First——By the power in me vested by .the anclent constitution of our order, ‘the rules and regulations of the srand lodge, you are hereby fraternally noti- fied that the grand lodge will convene in its 38th annual session, June 9, at 9 a. m., 1908, A, L, 5908,at Anfericus, Ga. Second—All lodges are required to ‘be represented by their proper repre- sentatives, the master and wardens or past masters or past wardens and w2o must be a member or menibers of the lodge represented. ‘Third—The. attention of the several lodges throughout theg rand jurlsdfc- tion of Georgia, ts hereby called to the grand lodge constitution, secticn 4, article 12, which requires that each warranted lodge shall pay to the grand Jodge a tax of 25 ceuts on each master Mason; and according to section 2, ar- tlele 16, for each degree conferred, 25 cents for the first degree and 12 1-2c each for the second and third degree. ‘The above taxes to be forwarded to Brother Sol C. Johnson not later than May Ist. Fourth—All subordinate lodges are required to make their -regular annual reports under penalties prescribed by the constitution. - . Because a lodge has not received a dlank return, must be no excuse for not reperting. on time. Worshipful masters must pay particular attestion’ to this matter. Fifth—If you hate not received a Diank return write to the graid sec- retary, Brother Sol C. Johnson, Savan-, nah, Ga, for one at once. Sixth—All lodges now working un- der dispensation are requested to ap- ply fer a warrant of constitution at the grand lodge, the same costing thir- ty (320) dollars, which must accom- pany said application. .Seventh—All lodges now working under dispensation must hold an elec- tion of officers as the names of wor- shipful master and warden must ap- pear on application for a warrant. Eighth—The attenticn of £he lodges 4s called to article 13, section 5,which requires that delegates shall be given suificlent amount of money to defray all expens2s while in attendance upon the grand lodge. Delegates and visit- ors can secure board during the grand session at $1.2 day. ; Ninth—All lodges working under dis- pensation that have paid part on thetr warrant will be expected ‘to settle in full at this session and receive the warrants, = Tenth—All lodges that have not com- piled with the law requiring 50 cents per annum for each master Mason re- ported at the last session of the grand lodge for the orphans’ home are here- by ordered to send it in at once to Brother W. H. Spencer, No. 314 Fourth avenue, Columbus, Ga, as per law, from their treasuries. ‘ Eleventh—All lodges that have paid part of said assesment are requested to settle balance, The lodges that have rot been represented and have net paid their grand lodge taxes and assessments as per law for the Ma- sonic Home, for orphans of worthy de- ceaved, master Masons, must settle up at this sesion or how cause why their - charters should not be arrested, ‘Twelfth—Arrangements are being made with the Southeastern Passen- ger Association for reduction of rates for the delegates. Thirteenth—Delegates will please learn from their railroad agents all .varticularg relative to rates, change of cars, ote., before purchasing their tick- ets that no mistakes may be made. Fourteenth—Take special notice of section 3rd of this call in which all G. L. taxes and fees for conferring degrees are sent to Brother Sol C. Johnson, Savannah, Ga,. Fifteenth—Take special notice of " section ten (10) of this call, by which you ate Instructed to forward assess- ments for the home and school to Bro- ther W. H. Spencer, Columbus, Ga., as ‘before. Sixteenth—~Take due notice that the finances of each department reach each office by May 1st Seventeenth—All financial returns and assesments, eredentials and other of the grand lodge must be reported to the grand master, who will suspend sald brother unlese a satisfactory ex- -cuse fs given.” - Nineteenth—All masters andlsecreta- ‘ries or other lodge officers whe have sent money to this office, the grand secretary or Brother We H. Spencer, /tince the last grand lodge session will please bring thelr recelpts from each }of us and from the postofce money order department, This will greatly “help the finance committee in settling ‘disputes about officers claiming to have sent money to-these depart- ments, : - ‘Twentieth—All master Masons who desire to take the Scottish rite degree, inclusive to the thirty-second degree, can receive the same If they come to ‘the grand session prepared financial- ly and are found worthy. Our drother, J. H. Walker, Jr, G. W., of Macon, Ga,, will be glad to furnish informa- ‘tion on that Ine. * ‘Twenty-first—Let every lodge in the fudisdiction strive to excel thet other in having the best and most complete report, * | Twenty-second—Let every represen- tative see to {t that his lodge fs-In good standing in the Masonic Relief Association, and all the other depart- ments. Send no money by other dele- gates if your lodge is not able to send a delegate; but send the money direct to the officers to whose depart- ment it-belongs, cr to the grand mas- ter not Jater than Jume Sth, at Atlanta, after that date to him at Americus, Ga., not later than Jdne Sth. ‘Iwenty-third—All delegates must In- quire at thelr respective starting: points from the ticket agents as to the kind of tickets to purchase, the fare, etc: We make this request because {t will be April 20th, before we .will have a heating from the roads and cannot hold our-eall back Ionger. Special Notice. , Worshipful Masters, Wardens and Brothers, will take due notice and gov- em themselves accordingly. H, R, BUTLER, -M. D.,. Most Worshipful Grand Master. SOL C. JOHNSON, Right Worshipful Grand Sec't'y. tr Yesterday was May first. At that time each lodge in the state. was to [have forwarded to the Grand Secretary its annual report and fees. During jthe past week, the Grand Szcretary ‘has recived reports from several of ‘the lodges. He is prepared ‘to return ‘receipis and give immediate Yeplies to all returns. "The assessment for the Widows and Orpians is to be forwarded to Bro. JSrencer dt Columbus. De not fail, to jdo this. . | The Home at Americus is being re- ‘paired and painted. At the-last ses- sion of the Grand Lodge each Lodge in the state was requested to for- ‘ward 10 the Grand Secretary two dol® lars f2r thls purpose. ‘A number of the lodges have failed to do so. At this time the Grand Secretary should have had on hand nearly five hundred dol- lars for this purpose, but hg was only able to forward to Bro. A: L. Felton, per orders of the Grand Mastez, less than half this amcunt, Lodges that Ihave failed to forwatd the assessment ‘for this purpose, should do so at ‘nee so that the pressing claims can be paid before the Grand Lodge ses- sien. i | All exes are now turned to the Grand ‘Lodge communication which is abcut }A month off, Every lodge must pre- pare to be represented, Whether your lodge has received a |biank or not is no excuse for not 1ea- dering the annual report on time. Send fin the names and money ‘witheut a blank, | ‘ The Eastern Star Ghapters through- out the state nave appropriately cele- | prated the annual day of the rite. From 'rgperts received increased interest was (manifested in the same by the mem- bers. $ Last Sunday night E‘ecta and Mt. | Moriah Chapters at Savannah, carried ‘out a nicely arrahged program at the |First Bryan Baptist church. The pro- | gram as published in Tae Tribune was carried out. All who took parts did credit to themselves, The; Eaxern Star is growing in the hearts cf the | peapte, . | Bro. J, H, Hubbard infqrms us that , Amelia Chapter had a creditable exer- cise at the First Baptist chureh of | Pelham, . | Mrs, Amanda Mathis, the faithful ‘Royal Matron of the Chapter at Carcy, reports a grand time at her celebra- |tion, A large crowd was present. Pa- |Ders were read by Miss “Addie E. Ro- |zier ana Miss Cora Lee Mathis. Bros, [| A. D. Rozier md Dan Mathis re- isponded, Rev. F. B, Mathis of Sticam |rcaze gave a spul stirring lecture. Ey- Lily, Ga., April 21,, 1908. ‘Trinity Chapter No.974 O. E. S. met at the hall at Drayton, Ga. ‘Sunday moming. The chapter was called to order, by the R. M. Singing, “Count Your Blessings." Prayer by R. P. Singing, “We are Workers, Earnest Workers.” After whicit we arranged the program fer the day. Then we marched down to Shady Grove C. M. E. chure, where the fol lowing program was carried out: Singing—Nothing but the blood of Jesus. - Invocation—Bro, Joe White. Select reading from the Rilbe, Matt. 2.—Bro, C .Bf. Cross. . Singing—Rock of Ages. + Easter greeting—Sir M, D. Jones. Response—Bro, ©. M. Cross. Recitation—Miss Estella Key, Solo—M. D, Jones, 149 Psalm—Miss Katy Ray. Singing—I heard a voice. Why should we raise the standard of secert societies—Prot. E, E, William- son, ‘ ‘Singing—Sweet hour cf prayer. \, Easter Day—Miss Tommie Ander- son, Faith and its frults—M. D. Jones. Singing—Earnestly, tetiderly, ‘ Singing—Make a joyful noise. * Short talk—Bro. John Ray. Solo—Little Miss Leala Goshen. Talk in Behalf of the O. B. S.-M. D. Jones. Singing. A sermon was delivered by Rey. Wil- liam Brooks, He tcok for his text, “What time the star appeared.” Tae sermon was highly appreciated and very interesting, He believes in the star. We are glad tb have such men as Rev, Brooks in our midst. Come again. Yours fraternally, C. M. CROSS, R. P. MISS M. D. JONES, R. M. * MATTIE 0. CROSS, Sec. | I wish to say through your valuable paper thay New Hope lodge has one Member that is second to ncne, in the ‘person of the Rev. C. M. Moon, He was raised to the sublime degree of ‘a Master-Mason in the’ Masonic lodge at McRae but placed his demit with ‘New Hope No. 83, He took hold ct New Hope when it was almost at low water mark without a dollar, and a very small membership and when he resigned as master the lodge was abl2 to tally with any of the lodges in the state. Rev, Moon is a scciety man. At the grand convocation of the Holy Royal Arch chapter in 1907 he was elected to the office of grand King without any opposition, He {s a mints- ter that cannot be excelled, He is 1 beaecn light to his-race. He Is a mar- ter Mason, R. A. M., Eastern Star, Supremé Circle and stands second to none, As the sun rules the day and the moon the night, so we are glad of this Moon we have on earth with us. So If we had more Moons like this “Mocn,, we would be, 2 ‘united race. God bless you, Rev. Moon, go for- ward, God will reward you at the jast day, J. W. MAXN., Secretary. BEACH AID ASSOCIATION. | - Savannah, Ga,, April 24, 1908. Savannah Tribune, / Dear Sirs:—Ye have been request- ed to use the columns of your paper to make public the organization cf Beach Aid Association and its pur- pose, i After mature consideration this asso- elation was permanently organized with the following officers: | Mr, James M. Ferrebu, Chairman. {phn H, Baldwin, Secretary. Mr. L, E, Williams, Treasurer, “This organizaticn has for its definite Purpose the thorough canvass of tals city among the citizens, churches and societies, for {uns to assist Mm estab- Ushing an industrial plant to be oper- ated in connection with the Beach Nor- mal and Industrial institute of this city. + It is planned to have pledges from all cf those in sympathy wita the move- ment payable in monthly installments. | Pledgés of 10 cents per month will be accepted with as much consldera- tion as one dollar per month, Below is ‘given the persons composing the several canvassing committees. All persons committeed are request- ed to meet at the Beach Chapel on Thursday night, April 30th,lat half past eight. * Church Ccmmittee—Revs. Wm. Gray, J. A, Lindsay, R. V. Branch, J. A. Broekett, W.'L, Cash, J. N. May, Wm, Redd, Richard Bright, G..H. Lem- on, H. L, Haywood, R. M. S. Taylor, T. N. M. Smith, J.T. “Fhomas, N. H. Whitmire, B, S." Hanna, N. Bembry, D. W. Cannon, W. A, Daughtry, M. M. Weston, Alex. Harris, L, L. Blair, Park Ave.; Deacons J. F. Jones, B, H. Max- well, H. B. Wright, Dan, Wrigat, R. T. Spencer, C. J. Jordan, W. K. Callen, 'W, R, Fields, S, B, COoper: Messrs. W. J. Willams, W. G. Williams, R. L. Barnes, 8. J. Howard, J. E. Jobn- songL. S. Reed; ‘Mesdames F. L; Starr, F, H, Rebinson, SalJie Houston, M. E. Talbert, Willie Brown, M. E, Harper, Laura Reed, J. A. Lindsay. Masonle Commlttee—Messrs® Sol C. Johnson, Chairman; M.G. R. Robinson, E, A. Overstreet, E. B. Roberts, Sr., G. L. Binyard., Odd Fellows Committee—Messrs. W. #. Burgess, AV. S. Roundfield, E. A. Fields, T. A, Milledge, W. Smith R. B. \Heggs, J. D, Powell, Dr. S, P. Lloyd. K. of P. Committee—Messrs, G. S. Williams, Chairman; C. G. Jerdan, L. E,, Williams, W. K. Callen, H, B. Wright, H. @, Nixon, E. W. Sherman. K, of Tabor Committee—Messrs. W. D, Armstrong, F. M. Cohen, .J. J. Bal- en, R. A. Harper, F. Hilton. K, of Dawson Committee—Massrs. R. N. Rutledge, S. H, Maxwell, Jobn ‘Ceates, Tom Conoley, Lewis Tayler. . Good Samaritans Committee—3r. J. W. Johuson, Chairman; Messrs. L. W. Beasley, L. E. Williams, W, M. Miteh- ell, B, B, Sneed, Dr, J. H. Bugg. * Court of Calanthe Committee—Mrs. R, L. Barnes, Mr. J. C. Hamilten. D of Tabor Committee—Mrs. F. D. Ammstrong, ‘ Eastern Star Committee—Mrs. F. D. Armstrong, Misses Jessle Foster and J. C. Miller, ‘ H, of Ruta Committee—Mrs.-R, L. Barnes, Laura Reed, Frances Marcher- son, Ophella Mcintosh, C. E. Thurman, Lizzie Henderson. True- Reformers Committee—S._L. Screven, Jno. McIntosh, W. D. Ketine- dy, chairman; Dr. J. W. Jamescn, C. A. MeDowell. Labor and Non Secret Committee— Jagob Wright, E.~ L. Martin, chair- man; Philip Gilés, A, W, White, EL P. pate: - | «Perry's Mill, Ga., April 20, 1908. | The fifth Sunday in March Rev, A. H. Holmes of Ailey, Ga., was wita' us ‘at the Center Chapel ‘Misstonary Bap- tist church. In the morning we had a ‘glorious mass meeting. The Sunday echtal lesson was taught in a very in- ‘teresting way. Many helpfut thoughts were gleaned. A | Rev, Holmes preached a beautifu: sermon. A collection for the proposed algh’ school at McRae, Ga., was raised. We earnestly hope that those who are leading in this grand and nobte project will prove fatthful unto the end. A fallure now would be a fatal blow to the M. B.A. : Come pigain, Rev, Holmes, ang in: spire us with more cf the Home Mis- sion spirit, . EASTER, Easter was a high day at Perry's Mill, In the morning Bethel A. M. E. church celebrated Easter. Rev. Wat. ‘kins, the pastor,, preached the Easter sermon. It was interesting and In. structive, s Mrs. Luey Starr lead in the Easter exercises. She carried out her program well, Mrs. Stuckey is a falthfulework er in the Sabbath school and,is worthy of-commendation. =. In the afternoon Birch Chapel M. E. church and Center Chapel -M. B. chure’ united in celebrating the resurrection of Christ. . x It was a fine pregram and every ene did well. The children especially de- serve much praise. Among our most noted speakers were Mrs, Hngh Ran- dall, Mrs. Isaac Bell, Mrs, Stller Cartor, Mrs, Maggie Griner, Miss Lizzie Arline, Miss Estella Griner, Miss Bertha Smith, Miss Lou Ella McGill, Mr, Jo- nah W. Griner, Mr. D, W. Finch, Rev. G, N. Freeman and Mr, Isaac Griner, Sr. Oh, that more of our churches would lay down sectarianism and bigotry and unite in one grand and glorious caus? commen to each, and-“praise Goi from whom all blessings flow.” We put our nfites together to send to the heathen lands that they might know the true meaning of Easter. J. ANNA HALL, MAIL POUCHES STOLEN. Three Bags Sent from Lendon to New York, Containing $500,000, CMyste- riously Disappear. The London postal authorities have learned that two bags of mall from New York, centaining securities and other valuables worth $500,000, were stolen in New York the latter part of last month. According to the reports received in London, one of the bags was destined for St. Louis, and was shipped by the Majestic, waich arriv- ea in New York March 26; the other, destined for Brooklyn, was shipped by the steamer Philadelphia, which ar- rived at New York on March 29. Both bags disappeared in transit between the steamers and the postoffice. It {s stated that they were handed over to the mailboats and receipted for. Et- forts have been made to keep the theft a secret, while the Investigation has been going on. New York postal authorities profess- ‘ed to know little about the loss re- ported. Postmaster Edward M. Mor- gan and Postal Inspector Walter S. Mayer both stated that they thought it imposalble fer $500,000 worth ‘of se- cufities or oter property to disappear without complaint being made, Postal Inspector Mayer sald that it is true that, a couple of mail bags are miss- ing, but the authorities are inclined to believe that the absence of the bags was due to an error. . TAFT TO VISIT PANAMA, ‘WII Investigate and Settle a Number of Questions at Issue. ~ As the result of deliberations at the cabiiet session Friday it was deter- mined that Secretary Taft should go to Panama. He will sall April 30 oa the cruiser Prairie. A detachment of marines also will be sent on the Prairie, : a —_—_—_—. Local Option Law Held Valid. ‘Thie Ilinols suprenie court Thursday rendered a decision tm the McBride case, declaring~the new Idcalop#ion Jaw passed last year conptitutiobal. MONEY DEPOSITED WITH The Wage Earners Loan and: In j ; | = ——Yestment Company . IS DOUBLY SECURED BY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INVESTED IN 25 SAVANNAH REAL ESTATE. 5 PER CENT PAID ON DEPOSITS. a * The Wage Earners Loan & Investment Co., 2 THE PIONEER NEGRO @AVINGS BANK OF GEORGIA, BELL PHONE 1198, 468 WEST BROAD ST. - . OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY SAVANNAH NEGROES. oe THE MOST UP-TO-DATE Colored Barber Shop IN THE CITY CAN BE FOUND AT 515 WEST BROAD ST. . * WE HAVE JUST INSTALLED AN ELECTRIC MASSAGE MACHINE. YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED. EASY SHAVING, ARTISTIC HAIR CUTTING AND ELECTRIC MASSAGE. OUR SERVCE 1S THE BEST. PERRY R. WRIGHT, Manager, (Six Years with Joseph T. Burton.) * I J ll 1 ki i bli I { Johuson's Undertaking Establishment, FUNERAL DIRECTORS 7 mo, ~ AND ‘EMBALMERS. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED, DAY OR NIGHT. FIRST CLASS EMBALMING AND ALL WORK OF THAT KIND GUARANTEED. OUR STOCK OF COFFINS,/CASKETS AND ROBES IS THE LARGEST IN THE CITY. WE ALSO HAVE A FIRST CLASS LIVERY STASLE, WHERE WE FURNISH THE BEST CARRIAGES, HEARSES AND FUN- ERAL CARS. WE ALSO HAVE IN OUR EMPLOYMENT MR. H. S, DUN- ‘ BAR, WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIS MANY FRIENDS AT ANY TIME. “MANAGERS: H. S, DUNBAR. W. R. FIELDS. BELL PHONE 676, 35-333 JEFFERSON STREET. YOUR'.MONEY IN A GOOD BANK IS SECURED BY Real Estate WHY NOT PUT YOUR MONEY IN REAL, ESTATE AND RECEIVE DOUBLE PROFIT? ! AM PREPARED TO OFFER SOME GOOD PROP. _ OSITIONS AND ONLY A LITTLE CASH WILL START THE BALL ROLLING. : . ‘ ° CHAS. A. R. McDOWELL, ! REAL ESTATE AND RENTING AGENT, | BELL PHONE 3188, 22 STATE STREET, WEST. Bi THE OLDEST OF THEM ALL ~- f e The Royal Undertaking Co., % ——INCoRPORATED— : - FUNERAL DIRECTORS - — , AND EMBALMERS ONLY FIRST CLASS SERVICE REN DERED, WITH RESPECTFUL AT- . : . . TEN TION, OUR STOCK, OF CASKETS, COFFINS, ROBES, ETC., IS COMPLETE. BELL PHONE 8£7. ~ 319 OGLETHORPE AVE., WEST. W. S. ROUNDFIELD, Manager. Z 4 Residence 523 Anderson St., East. Bell Phone 3572: 3 We Do Job Printing | 2° OfANKinds, | = We Can Please You. § MRS. M, E. WILLIAMS, Hair Dressing Parlor ndines SCALP TREATMENT, SHAMPOOING ELECTRIC FACE, NECK AND BODY MASSAGING, COMPLEXION BEAUTI- FIED, MANICURING, ALL KINDS OF LADY'S HAIR GOODS, SWITCHES, PUFFS, POMPADOURS, ETC. 511 +2 WEST BROAD STREET, BELL PHONE 11/1. MRS. M. HALL, BOARDING AND LODGING, BOARDING BY THE MONTH OR WEEK. REGULAR MEALS SERV- ED. VISITORS TO THE CITY ARE INVITED TO STOP WITH ME. 509 HARRIS STREET, WEST, _ THIRD DOOR FROM WEST ST. P. B. RAY 9 Tailoring, DRY AND STEAM CLEANING. = LADIES’ WORK A SPECIALTY, HATS CLEANED AND REBLOCKXED BELL PHONE 2050. JEFFERSON AND BERRIEN STS., SAVANNAH, GA, The Geargia . Rathskeller-. Everything -neat, clean and up to. date, Club breakfasts and club diu- ners our specialty. Open day and¢ night. Eittrance A1$ Gaston Street, West, upstairs. -7 We also have attached a first class Pool and Billiard Parlor, 470 West Broad Street. These are the only places of their kind in the clty cwned and conducted exclusively by a colcr- ea/man, 3 7 W. A. 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