Savannah Tribune

REVOLUTION IN HAITI UNDER FRENCH PROTECTION Alexis Wrapped in Flag of France to Awe Mob. Assassination Pre- vented by Soldiers. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. — President Nord Alexis has been deposed and is now safe on board the French训 ship Duguyne and Port-au- Prince, the hands of the revolu- tionists. General Antoine Simon, the leader of the insurgents, is marching up the peninsula with an army of 5, 000, and a new president, General Le- gittman has been proclaimed. At the last moment President Alexis yielded to the urging of those about him and decided to take refuge aboard the French warship. Thousands had gathered at the palace early in the day, and they had surged around the entrances threatening to tear down the walls to drive out the president and his loyal followers, and heaping curses on the head of the aged man. So serious was the situation that the French minister, M. Carteron, and other foreign representatives, together with members of a specially appointed committee, forced themselves upon the president, who finally consented to withdraw. Shouts greeted him as he stepped form the palace and into a carriage which had been provided. M. Carteron, carrying the French tri-color, sat beside him and threw the colors of the flag over the shoulders of the deposed president to protect him. All along the route the people shouted, jeered and cursed at the fallen president, but when the landing stage was reached the mob lost all restraint. Infuriated women broke through the cordon of troops and shrieked the coarsest insults into the face of the president, who strove bravely to appear undismayed. They tried to hurl themselves upon Alexis, and fought with hands and feet the soldiers. A space finaly was cleared and Nord Alexis was hurried aboard a skiff in tow of a steam launch, his suite tumbling in after him. As the launch drew away three Haltien gunboats and the French and American warships in the harbor fired a salute. One of the leaders charged that the American minister, H. W. Furliss, was encouraging the president to resist, and he issued the following proclamation: "Citizens: The danger is supreme; we risk our independence if we do not take good care. The old man would have given up already were it not for the advice of a diplomat who is preparing for our annexation. A clash is expected, and this diplomat wishes to precipitate one in order to have a pretext for colonizing us. Let us, therefore, be docile, yet not supine." The flags of the nations are flying over the doors and from the windows of the homes of the foreign residents, for, notwithstanding their exhibitions, hostility against their dread president landing of forces from the warships. They especially fear "the men of the United States cruisers Tacoma and DesMoines, whose reputation for putting down riot and disorder have gone before them. General Canal is doing everything possible to maintain order, For Remission of $14,000,000 of the Boxer Indemnity, Washington, D. C.—"Long may your excellency enjoy good health and happiness. May the American people be blessed with prosperity and peace. These are our heartfelt wishes." The above are the sentiments expressed in a letter from the late emperor of China to President Roosevelt, presented to him by Ton Shoa Yi, the special Chinese ambassador, thanking the United States for the remission of $14,000,000 of the indemnity guaranteed by China for damages resulting from the Boxer rebellion. For Transmitting Franked Matter Through the Mails. Washington, D. C.-The cost to the government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, by reason of the transmission free through the mails of departmental and congressional franked matter was $42,544,047, according to the annual report of the third assistant postmaster general. Third figure includes the departmental care to the postoffice department for itself, and the postal service. Added to this is $57,000,000 for uncompensated service in the handling and transporting of second class matter of publishers of newspapers and periodicals. $40,000 Given Rector of Grace Church, New York, by Congregation. New York City—When the Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington, rector of Grace Church, this city, sat down to his breakfast, one morning recently, he found under his plate check for more than $40,000. This sum was voluntarily contributed by members of his congregation as a token of their esteem for his long, faithful service. Dr. Huntington recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, and for 25 years has been pastor of Grace Church. He thought at the time that he would resign, but, instead of accepting the resignation, he was, urged to remain. VOL. XXIV. CHINA THANKS UNITED STATES. MILLIONS PAID BY H. S. BICH PURSE FOR PREACHER. The $16,975,222 POSTAL EEFIGIT. Biggest Shortage in the History of the Department. Washington, D. C.—In his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908: Postmaster General Meyer gives the total receipts for the year as $203,381,856, thereby showing a deficit of $18,975,222, the largest in the history of the department, with an addition loss from fire, burglary, etc., of $37,056. The deficit of 1909, it is estimated again, will exceed $16,000,000. Attention is particularly called to a number of improvements in business methods of the department as tending to its advantage and the saving of considerable amounts. Recommendation is again made for the creation of the position of director of posts, at a high salary, and who shall hold office during good behavior, the object being to have a continuity of policies for the benefit of the postal service and the people of the United States. The necessity for good roads is pointed out in connection with the development of the rural free delivery service. It is suggested that should congress grant the department authority to utilize rural routes still further by the enlistment of a limited parcel post confined entirely to rural delivery routes, it would then be possible to earn additional-revenue amounting to millions of dollars, and at the same time benefit the farmer by enabling him to have merchandise delivered when ordered by telephone or postal mail when ordered by the farmer purchased. "The special parcel post," says the postmaster general, "will enable the farmers to have small parcels delivered at their gates, to live better and to obtain easily the necessities of life." Permission is requested to establish experimentally a limited parcel post in not to exceed four countries, in order to demonstrate the practicability of the plan. DETECTIVES CAUSE RIOT. Fired Over Heads of Strikers and Were Attacked by Mob. Perth Amboy, N. J.—When drink-crazed detectives employed to guard the 'strike-breaking employees of the National Fire Proofing company, fired their pistols over the heads of a gathering mob about the stockade of the plant, the word went out that strikers and their sympathizers were being murdered by a short time man and women were roiling and blood was flowing freely. Great excitement prevailed following the shooting. No one was struck by bullets and the only wounds were made by flying bricks and clubs. TO CURB KAISER WILLIAM. Socialists Want Chancellor Held Responsible for Buler's Words. Berlin, Germany.—Three separate and distinct propositions to curb the power of the kaiser and incidentally to secure to the German people a real constitutional government were offered to the reichstag. The Socialists suggested that the kaiser be deprived of all power to declare war without the consent of both the federal council and the reichstag, also making the chancellor who-fails in his duty or should permit the kaiser to involve any nation in a position of discredit is liable to prosecution in the criminal courts. 24 Bridges Destroyed. Cleveland, O.—Twenty-four bridges just finished or in course of construction by the National Erectors' association, otherwise called the bridge trust, have been destroyed by dynamite during the last year and the organization announced its determination to find and punish the dynamiters. A reward of $1,000 has been offered. Glad Treaty is Signed. Tokio, Japan.—News of the signing of the American-Japanese agreement was received here with glad acclaim. Crowds thronged about the newspaper bulletin boards and the announcement that Secretary Root and Ambassador Talahira had affirmed their official signatures to the document was greeted by enthusiastic cheers. Emperor of China Crowned. Pekip, China.—The coronation of Pu-Yi the 3-year-old emperor of China, successor of the late Kuang Hsu, took plate at the imperial palace. The new ruler was given the name of Hsuen Tung. Trial of the Coopers. Nashville, Teen.—On application by the defense, the trial of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, Robin Cooper and ex-Sheriff John D. Sharp, indicted for the murder of former United States Senator E. W. Carmack, has been postponed until the January term of court. Pope Plus Very Ill. Rome, Italy.—All audiences at the vatican are suspended indefinitely owing to a slight change for the worse in the popo's condition. He is worse and fever has developed, which obliges the pontif to remain in bed. Physicians declare his condition is not serious, but the public is becoming apprehensive. Mrs. Wardell Dead. San Francisco, Cal.-The wife of General Wardell, who was exiled in Arizona, died here. The romantic attachment of General Wardell for his wife who was afflicted with leprosy and his devotion in remaining at her side at the risk of his own life was commented on universally. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1908. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. Director of Posts to Handle Affairs of Postal Department if Law is Passed. Washington, D. C.-The four offices of assistant postmaster general will be abolished, a director of posts, with seven assistants, provided for, and the entire postal service of the United States, divided to fifteen separate districts. If the bill providing for the revision of the postal laws which is being prepared by the joint postal investigation committee of congress, appointed two years ago, is passed by congress It is claimed that a director of posts, appointed to hold office until removed for cause, and who shall receive a high salary, will tend to improve the service through a continuity of policies for the benefit of postal service. By providing for seven assistants to the director of posts, the members of the committee believe that the disadvantages due to frequent changes and the appointment of inexperienced men to the four offices of assistant postmaster general can be bifurcated, these directors are, according to the provisions of the bill, also to hold office during good behavior. The postmaster general would continue as the executive head of the department. Much information was gathered by the commission last year in an effort to find some means of improving the accounting system of the postal service. To perfect the system of management, provision for fifteen superintendents to have direct charge of the fifteen separate postal districts, which it is proposed to create, has been decided upon. According to the bill, each separate district would in a sense be a branch office of the post-office department. In addition to these charges, many of which have to be recommended by Postmaster General Meyer, numerous minor alterations in the postal laws are included in the bill. The commission is composed of Senators Penrose, Pennsylvania, chairman; Dolliver, Iowa and Clay, Georgia, and Representatives Overstreet, Indiana; Gardner, New Jersey; and Moon, Tennessee. HORROR MARS JUBILEE Many Trampled at Diamond Fete of Empress of Austria Vienna, Austria.—In honor of Emperor Francis Joseph's diamond jubilee, the city was illuminated on a scale of unprecedented brilliancy. The cathedral and city hall and all the public buildings were outlined in electric light and the effect was enhanced by powerful searchlights playing from high towers. The pressure of the enormous crowds in the streets caused several serious accidents. Four persons were killed, forty seriously injured and more than a hundred others slightly hurt. At one time a panic ensued directly in front of the Hofburg, where the crowds converged from three directions. Hundreds were trampled to the ground, and it is estimated that there were fully 1,500,600 people in the streets. It is believed that in addition to the official list of killed and injured many others were injured, but were able to reach their homes. Three thousand four hundred people in all classes will receive titles, decorations and promotions in honor of the jubilee. CENSUS TAKING EXPENSIVE It Will Cost Nearly Thirteen Millions to Count People in United States. Washington, D. C.—The cost of taking the next census, as estimated by Director North, will be $12,930,000. The director says that this is but $410,000 more than the cost of the census of 1900, and says that this will be accomplished "in spite of the enormous growth in the population during the last decade, a growth largely contributed by foreign-born people, who do not speak English, a class which it is very expensive and very difficult to enumerate. If the work can be done for this sum it will be the first time in the history of the nation that a census has been taken and compiled at practically the same cost as the prior enumeration." Notwithstanding the congressional requirement that appointments be made on the basis of non-competitive examinations the director says that personal and political pressure must become the determining factor. He favors the appointment of clerks on the basis of their standing on the list of eligibles. THAT STANDARD OIL FINE Government Asks Supreme Court for Writ of Cortiorari. Washington, D. C.-Attorney General Bonaparte formally submitted to the supreme court of the United States his petition for a writ of cortiorari to the circuit court of appeals for the seventh circuit ordering up for review the judgment of the court reversing the winners of Judge Laluis in the rebate case against the Standard Oil Company, in which the company was fined $29,000,000. The effect of granting the petition will be to postpone until after the holidays the court's decision as to whether the case should be reviewed by the supreme court. 138 KILLED IN MINE Gas in Pennsylvania Coal Pit Exploded. Inspection Just Completed. Pittsburg, Pa. —The last ray of hope for the rescue of any one of the 123 or more miners who were entombed by an explosion at the Marianna mines of the Pittsburg/Buffalo Coal Company was dispelled when the first rescue party reached the workings and found the dead bodies scattered about the floor of the mine. Construction work was 'practically finished, and Deputy State Mine Inspector Henry Louttit a few minutes before the explosion, had completed a two days' inspection, which had revealed no cause for apprehension. Mine Foreman Henry Thompson and two miners entered the cage, and it was started towards the bottom of the 500-foot shaft. There was a trembling of the ground, round about the mouth of the shaft as from an earthquake, and an instant later there was a terrific report, and the cage was hurled up the shaft and through the roof of the shaft house, the mine necromachy, and the women were hurled right through the top of the building and far beyond it. Thompson was dead when picked up, while the others, although mortally injured, were hurried to a hospital. Shattered portions of the woodwork about the mouth of the shaft were blown into Ten-Mile Creek, 2,000 feet from the shaft. Portions of at least two other bodies were blown from the shaft and were found in the field nearby. The ventilating fans were put out of commission by the explosion, and for several hours no air could be forced into the mines. Immediately following the explosion a dense volume of smoke issued from the shafts. Rescue work was immediately started, but it was impossible to gain entrance to the mine for a long time. The opening up of the shaft was the only solution, and for this task there were volunteers in numbers. The noise of the explosion was an ominous sound to all the people of the little town, and they hurried to the scene, each seeking a loved one, and most of them, learning that a loved one was down in the workings, was in all probability dead or dying. The scenes were pitiful. Many of the women were hysterical, and their shrieks and cries were heart-rending. Others were silent in their grief, but in their drawn fates could be awful agony they were enduring. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. Two theories are entertained; one is that a pocket of gas was struck by one of the miners, quickly filling the workings and then igniting from a lamp; the other theory is that gas from a well on the Fulton farm, under which the mine is located, penetrated the workings. PAUL REVERE'S RIDE. Letter Published to Show That the Trip Was Never Made. New York City.—Walter Benjamin, a publisher, has a document which he believes proves that Paul Revere never made the midnight right attributed to him by Longfellow and tradition. The publication of Mr. Benjamin is a letter from John Hancock to Elbridge Gerry dated Lexington, April 18, 1755, 19 o'clock. This was the night before the battle, and three hours before Revere, according to Longfellow, "crossed the bridge into Medford town." The letter reads: "Dear Sir: I am much obliged for your notice. It is said the officers are gone along the Concord road and I will send word thither. I am fully agreed with you that we ought to be serious, and I hope your decision will be effectual. I intend doing myself the pleasure of being with you tomorrow. My respects to the committee. I am. Your friend. Mr. Benjamin says if Hancock of the committee of safety knew pt. 9 o'clock troops had gone along the Concord road, Lexington and Concord were fully aroused to the danger of the coming British troops, and there would have been no need for Paul Revere to send "Through the night his cry of alarm To carry Middlesex village and ... farm." SECRETARY STRAUS TO PRESIDE. Judge George Hillier Will Later Perform Same Duty. Montgomery, Ala.—It is announced that Secretary of Commerce and Labor Stras will preside over the Southern Commercial Congress at Washington, December 7 and 8. Others to perform the same duty later are Philip Werline, president of the Progressive Union; New Orleans; J. E. Smith, president Business' Men's League, St. Louis; C. H. Davis, chamber of commerce, Petersburg, Va.; Judge George Hillier at Atlanta. Estimated Cotton Crop. JAPAN AND U. S. AGREE Notes are Exchanged Regarding Policies in Far East. DEVELOPMENT OF PACIEIG Is the Aim of Both Nations—Other Powers not Sure of the Real Meaning of the 'Exchange of Notes. Washington, D. G.—Secretary of State Elliu Root, on behalf of the United States, and Kogoro Takahir, ambassador, on behalf of Japan, exchanged diplomatic notes defining the policies of the two governments in the Far East. The actual ceremony of exchange was very brief, Secretary Root handing the ambassador a note which bore his signature, and the ambassador giving to Mr. Root a paper defining Japan's policy and bearing his signature. Assistant Secretary Bacon, Second Secretary, of Embassy Masanao Hanihara and Mr. Babcook, Mr. Root's private secretary, were witnesses to the transaction after an informal exchange of felicitations, the ambassador and his secretary left the state department, the former with a smile on his face, indicating his great satisfaction over the conclusion of the exchange. The exchange of notes is based on the idea of encouraging and defending free and peaceful commercial development in the Pacific, and to this end the signatory parties have prepared a series of articles expressive of their intention in the matter. Legislative action by the senate is unnecessary and the declaration or exchange of notes will not have to be referred to that body. The declaration is not a treaty, simply a reaffirmation of what both Japan and the United States have stood for in China and the Far East generally. It has no legal standing, but its greatest benefit will be that derived from the moral effect it will exercise in the future diplomacy governing the Far East. In this respect, it has been likened to the Monroe doctrine in American history. It was pointed out as rather a singular coincidence that the exchange of notes with Japan regarding China should occur the same day as that on which Tang Shao Yi has come to thank the American government for the remission of the Boxer indemnity. As apart from the retteration of the attitude of the two governments interested, on the subject of China, the exchange of the notes is very timely and useful, according to the state department. Newspaper publications abroad, while expressing generally a favorable degree of satisfaction over the step taken by Japan and the United States, at the same time show that there is still some misconception of the real attitude of the two countries. 93 KENTUCKY COUNTIES DRY. Twenty-One Partly "Dry" and Four Entirely "Wet." Louisville, Ky.-Ninety-three of Kentucky's 119 counties are now totally "dry," twenty-one are partially dry and four are wholly wet, and the case of one county, which recently voted as a unit on prohibition, is being settled by legal process in court. This is the substance of a statement secured by a local newspaper from the Kentucky anti-saloon league. During the past year the fight has been quietly but vigorously waged, and over twenty counties have gone over to the cause of prohibition. The four counties which are entirely wet are Jefferson Lake, Louisville, Nebon. The local option election recently held in Scott is being contested in court. The anti-saloon league leaders are claiming that already Kentucky, the home of the distillery, drinks less whiskey than three-fourths of the states in the union. GERMANY WAS SOUNDED. America' Knew Her Attitude on the Japanese Agreement. Berlin, Germany.-The state department at Washington sounded the German foreign office in advance concerning the Japanese-American agreement for the maintenance of the integrity of China and of the status quo in the price and was informed that it would be received here with the fullest approval, being in the interest of Germany as well as the powers participating in it. Germany's policy in the Far East is identical with that of the United States, and it is one part of the world where the two governments have pronounced mutual concerns. The foreign office considers the agreement-a high achievement in the statesmanship of both the United States and Japan and that it was conceived and executed on a large scale of liberality and good will. MANY CHINAMEN ESCAPE Twenty.One Held for Deportation Make. Their Escape. San Francisco, Cal.—Twenty-one out of the 116 Chinese held at the Pacific mail dock pending the decision of the immigration officers as to whether or not they were entitled to enter the United States, escaped from the detention, sheds at Second and Brannan streets. Four of them were recaptured in Chinatown and returned to the shed and a vigorous search is being made for others. The Orientals, cutting the heavy wire netting over one of the windows, sawed through iron bars and slid down a water pipe. LATE NEWS NOTES General Three men, armed with porcelain, held up a Third avenue surface car in New York City and robbed the conductor. One highwayman forced the motorman to keep the car moving at the point of a pistol, while the other two seized the conductor and forced him to turn over his money. They then escaped. A wireless station in San Francisco reports having overheard in the last fortnight cell messages which are believed to have been sent from some station in Japan. To confirm the local company's belief that messages have come, the Japan and Honolulu wireless station is said to have heard the same message. The Japanese station is over 6,000 miles from this city, and should the signals have originated in Japan it breaks the wireless record by over three thousand miles. A. S. Trude, a millionaire attorney and "skyscraper" owner, will leave Chicago soon "for a seven months" Robinson Crusoe existence on an uninhabited island. He will pitch a tent on Mattagorda island, in the Gulf of Mexico, south of the mainland of Texas. The island is merely a sand bar, devoid of vegetation. It has never been inhabited and nobody claims ownership of it except the government, and he has obtained a permit from the authorities to live there in his tent from December 10 to July 15. W. C. Brown, known in the little town of Dallas, Ore., as "Uncle Billy," entertained seventy-six widows at a banquet. The number included all the widows in his town and the immediate vicinity. It was strictly an invitation affair and if any were omitted it was by advertisement. "Uncle Billy" is a widower and is looking for a wife. He is 84 years old and celebrated the event by inviting those whom he thought possible candidates for that position. The oldest of his guests was 91 and the youngest 25. Experiments that have been going on at Berlin, Germany, for some time have shown that it is almost impossible for dirigible balloons to escape from the fire of field pieces and rifles on the ground by going to high altitudes. The greatest height the airships can attain with safety will leave them in range of special cannon with which the experiments are being made. It is the opinion of experts that dirigible balloons will have to rely solely upon their own speed to escape the fire of a properly equipped enemy. B. H. Hardaway of Columbus, Ga. has been awarded the contract by the Southern Power company of Charlotte, N.C. to build a dam ninety feet high on the Broad river near Blacksburg, S. C. The dam will be one thousand one hundred feet long and its construction, and the building of the power house, which contract was also awarded to Mr. Hardaway, will represent an expenditure of about $1,000,000. The dam will develop 20,000 horsepower, which will be used by South Carolina and North Carolina industries. Mr. Hardaway recently received a contract to build a $500,000 lock for the United States government on the Black Warrior river in Alabama. President Roosevelt has ordered his hunting shoes. They really are boots reaching almost to the knees and the measurements by which they are to be made are the most complete that have ever ben made. Several weeks ago, at the request of the president, a Brockton, Mass., arm sent one of its most expert men to Washington to take the measurements of the president's feet. Orders were given for four pairs of boots. Each of the president's feet was carefully measured and the nearly city measurements were taken. From them plaster casts will be made of the president's feet and legs and the boots will be built on them. The shoes will have an extra double sole into which the upper will be sewed with waterproof stitches. Washington The monthly statement of the director of the mints shows that during November, 1908, the collage at the mints of the United States amounted to $8,817,210 as follows: Gold, $7,933,740; silver, $820,000; minor coins, $3,470. There were also coined 3,475,000 pieces for the Philippine islands. It was announced at the headquarters of the Southern railway that the new uniform bill of lading approved by the interstate commerce commission would be put into use on January 1 next. Notice to this effect has been sent out to all agents of the road, together with the information that an effort is being made by interests representing the water and rail routes to bring about some modification in the terms of the commission's bill, necessary to its application to water and rail traffic, and to meet certain local conditions. Secretary Wilson has stated that his department was gaining control of the foot and mouth disease among the cattle of Maryland, New York, Michigan and Pennsylvania, but that the department would permit no laxity in the quarantine against these states until the disease had been checked. More than a thousand cattle, he said, had already been slain. Herbert L. Satterlee of New York who was offered the position of assistant secretary of the navy to succeed Mr. Newberry, who has been elevated to be head of the department, has notified the president of his acceptance of the appointment, Mr. Newberry was sworn in and participated in the cabinet meeting. He was accompanied to the white house by Mr. Metcalf, his predecessor. Treasury of State of Georgia Alabama, JAN 17 1908 190 The undesignated Treasurer of the State of Georgia hereby acknowledges to have received from the Secretary of State the following described stock: Dear Representative, Person of the State of Georgia, Elsa Tennant, European Company, Dear Representative, 174710, member, sold from Dear Representative, Good Amount, 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, 1877. R. E. 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President Roosevelt gave a dinner at the White House for a number of personal friends closely identified with the labor movement. YOUR MONEY IN A GOOD BANK IS SECURED BY Boston (Mass.) Sheet Metal Workers' Union and the employers have renewed for another year the $3.60 eight-hour day agreement. WHY NOT PUT YOUR MONEY IN REAL ESTATE AND RECEIVE DOUBLE PROFIT? I AM PREPARED TO OFFER SOME GOOD PROPOSITIONS AND ONLY A LITTLE CASH WILL START THE BALL ROLLING. In order to encourage thrift among its employees the Northeastern Railway Company, England, some years ago established a savings bank. In Colombia, South America, half the miners are women. In hydraulic mining they work up to their waists in water side by side with the men. REAL ESTATE AND RENTING AGENT, BELL PHONE 3188. 22 STATE STREET, WEST. The Federated Butchers' Union of Brisbane, Australia, has empowered its executive to make application for a wages board to deal with the whole of the meat industry. Elghty Japanese students are employed in the Glasgow (Scotland) shipbuilding yards, studying the trade. Their expenses are entirely defrayed by the Japanese Government. As the result of a vigorous organizing campaign conducted in New York and near-by cities, more than 5000 new members have joined the International Laborers and Hodcarriers' Union. The Federation of Labor, in convention at Denver, rejected a recommendation of a committee that advised that it was the duty of organized labor to disobey injunctions and go to jail if necessary. The times shown are Central Standard Time, and are given only as information and are not guaranteed. Bird Snaring in Connecticut. Reports from hunters who have made trips to different points where game usually can be found indicate that snaring has prevailed this season to a greater extent than ever before. 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Deeds, Contracts, Wills and Other Legal Forms Prepared and Attested. 116 West St Julian Street + — PF EN Es See EES eae oe EP Te Ee gee eee PRS a Teena Ra SEN or OE ES MLE CEES @ “> 2 . ms ; rags ee SERg SS Sa i ae See eon ee ee ES 2 sipcies eee ue gee mst menit Ea Ter ge) eee _ 3 , z 7% ae coal thio envemenremretiiy t-te adsnsiinendisgiind diianisin, thiacsainkchisiilinissdimatiiisimia’, * . ~ ~ - a ei tn i “Ly pee Nt ie Oe eS Pastimes -of ‘Madmen OME of the inventions of the jnsane are of ‘sctent{tic valuo. A patient at Villejuif invented a “panlfication machine” by ecmbining .2 bottle, a ‘plank; ‘and ?smalltnetallic’ tubes, to which he had fitted faucets. Having set, up his machine, he procured loaves of bread the size of a, man's head. The YJ bread was good—so good that it'was décided to make tho rs machine known. One-day when it was in action the doctor suggested taking a photograph of it. The inventor watched him as if petrified for a moment; then he fell upon the machine wrenched it apart, and “trampled it underfoot.’ The inyentlon—an exceedingly useful one—was lost, because no one had seen him make it, and no one dares speak of it to him. To allude to it Is to bring on a furlous at- tack. Most Innatics, no matter how cottented they may. be, generally cher- ish a furtive longing to escape. They collect wax from the: polished floors, take the Impressions of Jocks, and make keys from empty sardine boxes; spoon-handies, or anything to be found. Dr. Marie’s museum includes a col- lection of kiilves, of strange and unHeard-of shapes. Some of -them have blades made ftom. pleces of glass or slate and set in handles of corset steels. Objects harmless in themselves become dangerous weapons through the in- gentity of madmen. 5 Insane sculptors are as common as Insano painters. The {nsane sculp- tor hews out coarse statuettes, fantastic animals, ferocious little horned and grimacing devils. An ex-mechanic carves all his soup bones. That his old trade 4g still in his memory fs shown by the little screws that.he makes out of the smaller pleces of bone. He works all day at his senseless and ridiculous task. Another lunatic, who believes he is the incarnation of.the soul of Be- elzebub,-passes his time carving toy men,out 6f wood.” Exch pair of dis ere- ations are Joined together, now at the necks, now at the shoulders.—Harper’s Weekly. « 7 4t Proclivity and ~~ - a . » Corpunctions NTHUSIASTIC professors expound to us that we consume food in, enormous excess of our reasonable needs, and per- E haps we do; but we find eating a pleasant exercise and stick to it, according to our various capacities, as long as we can get fcod that suits us and our digestions hold out. owe As for drink, the habit. of using beverages that are more or less stimulating In thelr qualities is at least as aJd as, als- tory, and doubtless yery mmch older. Coeval with it have been perception of its hezarts and warnings against its ‘continuance. Hardly any major proclivity has such a bad name, or is battered dy such a fusillade of argumentg and awful examples. That rum does any ose any good must seem doubtful even to its best friends., When you have said that ft is pleasant, and that, though it is immensely déStructive to some savages and to crowds of civilized individuals, a considerable proportion, ot the most valuable pzople on the earth seem to be able to play with it without serious damage to themselyes, yoithave said almost all that it Is safe to aver. So great a cloud of compunctions swarm over that proclivity that you marvel that there is any life left in it. Thgs do keep down some of its vigor, so that it is less destructive than it used to be, and probably they hope in time to lll it altogether. One could wish that they might, and that it might stay dead for a generation or two, till we could find out whether the world was better or, worse without it, But it is not being killed. The army of com- punctions it maintains fs evidence of its enormous vitality. To all seeining, so-long as tho earth continues to spin, there are likely to be cakes on it, and yilso ale, but with great improvement probably by the human race in the ‘“yise use, of both—Harper'’s Magazine. % “ > Dyer em Ye 3. The Flea, The Rat a 4ind The Plague S to the place and manner of orlgin"of the plague germ, or bacillus pestis, nothing definite-{s yet known, The manner . of its travel and communteation to man has been clearly traced, The bacillus lives and breeds in the blood of the rat. That rat {s the victim of fleas which live upon his J blood, and as they feed draw into themselves the plague * ° bacilli which swim by thousands in his vital fluid. Thus In- - : = fected, and thereby as. dangerous as so many little dynamite Uf bombs, the fleas pass with the rats Into the habitations of “human beings which the rats infest, and there, from conveni€nt floors” or chairs or beds, leap upon humai victims. The plagué-bitten flea does not poison man with his bite, as the stegomyla -mosquito poisons by injecting the bacillus of yellow fever directly into the “plood. The flea, it is true, bites human beings as he bites other prey, He “sucks blood until‘he is replete, and then squirts blood trom his alimentary canal upon his prey. ‘Therein lies. the peril. Plague bacilli are fn this dis- Marge; and if it be Jeft undisturbed on the skin of the victim the bacilli will ,Déhetrate-the skin and tissues, cnter the circulation, anid thus infect the per- “son upon whom the flea has fed. “e It is this curioys manner of Infection by dejecta that makes the bubonic plague peculiarly dangerous to people who do not bathe frequently. In Japan and in the United States the spread of thé disease among human beings even .in, rat-infected cities is slow, whilé in India and China, and certain parts of ‘Europe, where people bathe séldom, if ever, the! plague runs lke wildfire.” It is almost impossible for a person who bathes twice-a day to become Infected with bubonic plague.—Harper’s Weekly. The Cup That Cheers: gecteeetis F,tea is freshly. made with fresh water that has come to a ore ©>.55 F ‘ full_poll and. if not tor immediate use poured off the fea 2 = jeaves in, say, five orsix minutessinto mother teapof—and 2. % use a “cosey” to keeptthe tea aot—such hot tea will cool 1 Tgae &: ‘you off bétté# than any*iced drink, Of course, we Ameri Sieeeee% cans favor cold drinks id hotiwestuer, and leed tea with a, un See dash ,of lemon “juice is without doubt the most satisfying 8a QEEeeeeSre ee ehesnibe of summer‘duk’. No typhold germs are " ', . Possible, fox the infusion‘ hasbeen bolle. 2;t}0 4 7In the Qrjeht*the Chinainan and titynative ofJapan-drink their tea aot, ‘Hot water is poured on the leaves in ¥ery small teacups, ard fs sipped yore or Jess all day long, heing! continually ‘replenished? with, fresh tea ‘When thé ~ 47 bréw: becomes too strong.” Ever! Europeans-atter tiflln, tired out. with“sight- seeing, find marvelous recuperation in sipping’ fielx teajtinis znade. ‘There is no other way to-miake tea than iopmalcift absolutely fresh. As one hundred and fifty cupsscan’be made from one polind of tea, It is an ipr mensely: profitable drink toyselliattfiyerrerts a” cup or-glass,fall "to <charge- fiftepn ta twenty cents for ‘a small pot of tests toTestzict the nserof_a bev~ o4Grige that inne ‘weather should be obfiinable everywhere, even In saloous, ‘ithout permission of any extreme temperance advocate. _ By Helen E. Meyer. the inventions of the jnsan nt at Villejuif invented a * ing .2 bottle, a ‘plank ‘and®: he had fitted faucets. ‘Hav ured loaves of bread the siz gas good—so good that it! known. Ono-day when it ed taking a photograph of { if petrifled for a moment; art, and “trampled it under was lost, because no one ha to him. To allude to it Is matter how coutented they escape. They collect wax Jocks, and make keys from ng to be found. Dr. Marie’s ange and untieard-of shapes of glass or slate and set in mselves become dangerous as common as insano pats uettes, fantastic animals, fe: -mechanic carves all his so ory is shown by the little s¢ one. He works all day at his ho helieves he is the incars carving toy men,out 6f woo r, now at the necks, now at uae Flea, The d The Pla; By William Inglis. - an es a2ua al . ‘ up That ° BY Yik: Fong. - om freshly. made with fresh w: and. if not for immediate n, say, five orésix minytes*t cosey” to keepthe tea xot- better than any‘tced drink or cold drinks in hotswestt lemon “juice is without do eshing of summer‘ drinks. , for the infusfonthasibeen nfinan Rnd themnative of*32 He leaves in Yery small teac 1B! continually ‘replenished’ y ‘vert Europeans=atter tif cuperation in sipping” Enelr y tomiake tea than tofmaké psv¢an be made from one pi a ee ae ee Repay rarreemnernegS d to us that we consume reasonable needs, and per- g a pleasant exercise and fous capacities, as long as d our digestions hold out. everages that are more or s is at least as qJd as, Is- ider. Coeval with it have and warnings against its a bad name, or is battered ples. That rum does any ; friends., When you have ensely' déStructive to some considerable proportion, of ble to play with it without t all that it Is safe to aver. proclivity that you marvel own some of its vigor, -50 robably they hope in time might, ond that it might ind out Whether the world ‘killed. The army of com- ; vitality. To all seeining, kely to be cakes on it, and y the human race in the 7 * 2 a e Rat & 1ZUe § sinPof the plague germ, or ;yet known, The manner to man has been clearly reeds in the blood of the eas which Hye upon his ‘SPLENDID BARRACKS~.OF}; THE: ‘PORTO. RICO™REGIMENT,, HEAR, FF TMORROSCASTLE, SANSIUAN, PRs 0s _ ’ 428-37 F ae aa! oe EES es Sea ice REE tg OaN tacos) | tt | <a fe FASC sora aa io et RR ee) ie ee ~ HINDOO NAUTCH GIRLS AND MUSICIANS, a ® Petey BS) OA oe ope. i‘ % RANE 2p ae BES Bae es Fee ASIN ME Sok Nan ice pierre Ame emer See ae POU ne See a aR der es hot) are eeats N ie Se 6 a eee e “£28 -+ 3" STS Ee ee Bie Peer Tee per PGR Dee ae ere Mir. ae ee ! oe sen iu y Ne ae See a ae is Pee et eee |. HE NEEDLE-EAGLE. And How It Pouncts Upon the tel - % Tlan.Ran. ¢ “This is quite a startling exhibition on account of the lifelike qualities of the eagle, which really soars into mid- air up the mountain crag after the defenseless sheep. The eagle may reach its prey or hover about it in the alr in an unsuc- ceesful attempt gs long as the youth- ful operator wishes. ir c= iy 9] ; , | iS —s > A sf rt Wi f TS 5. PSY i 2 PEE fi ed ut ° it SE, } SS EN SESE How It Looks to the Audience. A small toy theatre stage presents the best setting for the trick, al- though it can be done on an ordinary table, but with the stage setting by far the best effects may be obtaiued. You can easily fashion a set of mountain scenery by cutting out mountains from colored pictures in old magazines and setting them up elther in the slits of the.stage or on small wooden stand mounts if you have no toy theptre. : Two “wings”of mountain scenery will be enough —that fs, the front wing which is the mountain side in the foreground, and the other “wing” made up of the hills in the back- ground as shown in the picture. Now cut out a very small picture of a sheep and paste it on the “wing” in the foreground at point A. Now cut out a small eagle from fine tissue paper, A small sewing Ieee » YP Y Hy. gene ey a GEA, iy 1 Rl es. he By Fane a i ‘\) How It Looks to You. ' needle should be procured. Thread it’with a plece of fine thread about a foot in length and run it lengthwise through the body of the paper eagle. The most important thing of all to secure is a very strong magnet. You place the theatre or table in such a way as to enable you to stand direct- ly behind the stage, where you can use both hands at the same time. Take the magnet in your right hand and place it at the point marked A behind the mountain and out of-sight of the audience, The needle-eagie starts to fly to- ward tho invisible magnet. You in- stantly clieck ifs flight by pulling backward on the thread, the end of which you havé grasped in your left hand. oy Now you gradually move the invis- Sble magnet upward in the direction indicated by the dotted lines. The astonished audience sees the eagie slowly fly up the mountain side. ‘Tiils seeming miracle is easily accom- plished by holding the thread end so that tho attracted needle-cagle will be just far enough away to get the full strength of the hidden magnet’s attraction without quite. being able to touch it, and as the magnet 4s raised upward behind the mountain the eagle naturally arises with it, The audience sees only the eagle, and, of course, is greatly mystified. If_your hand is steady you may dl- Tect the eagle's filght at will, belng éareful to ‘always, keep’ the magnet out of sight behind the scenes:— Philadelphia Record. Vessels move faster through ar water with the same amount’ of Tee: ~ HINDOO NAUTCH GIR a Bie en 4 PA See oi wae —From Leslie's Weekly. Convenience in Pdstade. *— | Reduction’ of postage between the United States and GreatsBritaln fram five cents to two centa per letter .of first ounce or less, took effect October 1, The convenience and economy to the people of this change is manifest to all who will be alfected by it. ‘Those who.only occasionally send let- ters to England or Ireland are re- Meved of the doubt of the number and denomination of stamps .to be used. Wa can now stamp our letters for England and Ireland with the usual two-cent stamp, same as to Canada, At the New York Postofiice, first day of the reduction, the increase of mail for England and Ireland was so great that twenty extra clerks were detailed at the foreign branch. It Is estimated that 75,000 lettera for England and Ireland were mailed during the day. Already there fs an immense increase in the circular business. Tho increase in business will soon be found to largely make up for the decrease In price.—Cincinniati Inquirer. A Good Trick. Draw a big U on cardboard or stiff paper and then, with a sharp knife or sefssors, cut it out. Laying it on the table, ask who can, In two cuts, divide it into seven pieces. That seems a difficult thing to do, doesn’t it? But it is quite easy. The picture eee f shows how you may do it. First cut across from 1 to 2, vyutch will divide, it into three pleces. *Then place the pleces side by side, and one cut where you see the dotted line will give you seven pleces.—Good Literature. Trance Makes Girl Taller. ‘The case of Clara Konter, the eigh- teen-year-old gir! who became un- conscious recently, 1s growing more pecullar. The father of the girl sald his daughter had grown fully two inches taller in the past three days, and every dress she hak worn {s too small for her. 5 : “The girl is now perfectly ration- al,” said Dr. C. P. Kerr, who exam: ined her. He ddvised the parents that the girl should not be spoken to on the subject, and even the county detectives, who have been prying into the case, were forbidden to question her, — Pittsburg Telegram to the Philadelphia Record. ‘A Slight Mistake. =. ope cae ee vi aan ete ed Bie ee ee FRI T Soe emer i ch 5 fnew Riv eh ae he Pim oc suena wire ed lg Co Beers eek SER POPC a ain MER MOE Ne ty eo eee young Hopeful — “Mummy, have gooseberries got legs?” Mather—No, dear." Young Hopeful—“Then I’ve swal- lowed a caterpiilar."-—The Tatter. In Parls—last year 49,298 horses were killed for food, which was 5000 more than the previous year, These animals yielded 26,600,000 pounds o! meat. ee ee ee Se FA Bam Bs rare Ptrrorinen Caneskyis P:{) SINT TERE erp i NA is @ ye fe ae te ‘ — Of Be Ff kN. * fy ¥ j f } : > Ned FY ] é NEGRI - we / . | Le / P| AL || il ; x 2 . "3 New-York City.—The fancy blouse’ chat {s-made-with ceep girdle, 60 giv {ig,a,modified djrectotre effect, 1s ono’ fe 5 Soe oe « —_— ca - . Cee | ae <> Ge. . Wg Pe = Sita Me RO ee - & ARS eee OES BS Ce Bree Gece eae Resp bad oS OES em Mee ANN Sg i KS sy if a : i oe LW that will have great vogue through- out the season, and this one is charm- ingly.graceful and attractive whiib it Js simple at the same time. In the illustration it is made of crepe de chine with trimming of applique and chemisette and sleeves of lace and the girdle is of messaline satin. It is appropriate, however,'for almost all seasonable materials, and can be va- nied in a great many ways. ifthe sleeves of lace are not ‘Ilked they can be made to match the blouse, or they can be made of chiffon, marquisette or other thin material in matching color, while the chemisette either can be made of the same or of white lace as is most becoming. For the trim- ming any finish that may be liked can be utilized, and tho season is singu- larly prolific of bandings, appliques and Iacé of all sorts, The girdle also can be made of silk or soft bon, with its ends finished with’ fringe welghted with tassels" er with cro- cheted balls or in any way that may hest:sult the specfal gown. The waist is made with a fitted lin- ing on which the chemisette 1s ar- ranged, and there are also closely fitted sleeve linings ‘which serve asa support’ to’ ‘the full ones, and the blouse itself is made with front and back portions. The Mning and the bloise beth, are cut off slightly above the waist line, and are jolned to a v "Blouse Situation. - The, hlouse_en ‘sulte;has to.a great extent replaced tha separate blouse in the cold weather wardrobe, ‘and the silk walst in {ts old-time guise fs hopelessly out, of fashion, ‘but ‘many ‘women stufdlly cling to the separate blouse of white or cream color. Embroidery Flounce. 14, Embroidery flouficings are ‘exten- sively “Smployediin ‘the developmeat jiotgthe-high, class and pxtremely 0r- nite, fiazeris. blouses: ii foundation girdie, and ovér this:fous~2 ‘dation the drapéd girdle and sash:are. arranged, If the’ long'slee¥es‘are not Hked they can be cut. off in three: quarter length, 3 : — * ‘ | " New Irish Shades. Zi Among the most exquisite novel- ties in tho way, of lamp shades. are those mde of Irish crochet! They are mounted. over a silk foundation of delicate coloring. Six Gored Skirt. The gored walking skirt that gives long and slender .Iites is the one greatly in vogue just, now, ang this! ‘one Is graceful in the extreme. It. can be trimmed with the single-wide band of contrasting material as !1Jus- trated, with a band of the same er with @ succession of narrow bands or rows of braid applied on the same lines, or it can be fintshed with a hem only, all these styles being equally in vogue. Again, it allows 4 cholce of the Inverted pleats or habit back so that it can be made to suit all figures and all seasonable materials. In the itlustration It {s made of one of the new bordered materials, ard the bor- der {s cut off and applled-to form tha, trimming band. 2 The skirt is cut In six gores, and there consequently {s a seam at the centre front as well.as one at centre back. When the habit back Is do- sired the fulness is cut off on tndf cated Hnes. The band which_forms the trimming is arranged over the skirt and fs mitred to conform to the indicated shaping. { I ai fi ya ‘ Lie fb . Or f + a il if f Ai B Tepe ¥ Baus bods ba i eaecee SaaS Uy | i ‘Belt Adjustment. A touch to be observed—in, wear ing forenoon linens, etc~“is, this: If the costume is a short walsted.affatr, whether’ in ‘white or’jn colorg, “tha smart belt to be worn Jz an“til-white one, but. if it-is-long-walstéd, -polor 1s to be chosen for'the:belt. . 7” Avant Hatpins. . 7 , Hatpin heads for;;a while grew larger and, larger; ‘until they resem= Bled the tinj/butter Plates ones“nnk- wersallymsad.* ~~. ° ey? 5F Our people are true believers in good government and the electing to office the ablest and most respected men. In order to vote in the municipal election next month, our men must pay their poll tax for this year. Go to the court house and pay that dollar. The future of the democratic party is being discussed by some of the well known Democrats of this locality. If the party continues in the same old rut we dare say that it will have no future. It is about time for some definite arrangements to be perfected for the observance of Emancipation Day. We are used to having it observed properly and there should be no difference this time. The preacher that entices a young girl out of the path of red titude is worse to the community than a raging pestilence. Terrible will be his retribution. He may think that he is secure from the pulic, but he cannot tool all the people Prof. Wright Beaten at His Own Game. Because we had the termerity to oppose him in his political actions, and assisted in his numerous political defeats, and because we published his actions in these fights, Prof. R. R. Wright attempted to put us out of business, not only by serving time on the chaingang, but by getting five thousand dollars—that much we have never seen in our lives. He entered civil and criminal suits against us. Our friends termed his prosecution as persecution, but at any rate it acted as a boomerang, and the professor has had quite an awakening. His actions against us have been the means of a concentration of friends and caused us to realize our standing not alone with them but with our white friends, and to them Wright exhibited himself in his true colors. His civil case against us was decided in our favor a month ago in a few minutes after having been given to the jury. His criminal case was thrown out on Monday by the grand jury after examining his witnesses and without even hearing from our side. We endeavor to be very conservative in our actions and the conducting of our business and felt at the beginning of this unpleasantness that our position would be vindicated. Prof. Wright came here from Augusta no loner than sixteen years ago. In Augusta it is alleged that he kept the people divided into factions. Soon after coming here he attempted the same thing by opposing us in politics. Twelve years ago he led a fight in which he was defeated. Eight years years ago he made a desperate effort to secure control but was defeated so badly that it was reported in the news papers that he would not again enter politics. He failed to keep this promise. At the beginning of the present year he inaugurated a gum shoe campaign in this county and district in order to secure control. His defeat in each of these efforts, all of these years was inglorious, and for a balm he jumped on such a weakling as we are and even in that he has not been soothed We have often said that personally we have no feeling against the professor. As president of the college we have never opposed him, we have only opposed his method of conducting its affairs. In his recent struggle for reappointment, we refrained from giving aid against him, and was the means of recalling a petition that the citizens began to sign, asking for his removal. If Prof Wright desires to retain his position and make it a success, we advise him to keep out of factional fights and en deavor to cultivate the good will of the people of this community Should he fall to do this, it would be far better for him to resign the attempt to help the youths of the state. Rev. W. L. Cash on "Moral Su That "moral suasion" unaccompanied by corporal punishment is a failure is no longer a mooted question, but it has long since, become an open fact. $ ^{1} $ Suasion"nur persuasion brings the results that the "old home" rod method brings. This fact was beautifully illustrated in a sermon delivered by Rev. W. L. Cash, last Sunday at the Congregational church, and the comments which followed its deliverance, showed the trend of popular thought regarding it. "Rod suasion" is a powerful and necessary adjunct to home rule, making it more effective and binding upon the subjects. "The home," said the preacher, "is the starting point of good government, and that home that spares the rod, most surely spoils the child and oftimes destroys the possibility of his loyalty as a citizen. The child should be taught to fear his parent, not with that fear, however that comes as a direct result of corporal punishment, but that which comes from reverence and respect. Not with the fear of a wolf that runs from the flock upon the appearance of the shepherd—a fear without the lost of any of his ferociousness. Such fear carries with it the seed of the most baneful resentment and finds not favor in the estimate of right." With this version of direful situation, most people agree, and finally there will be a reversal of sentiment in its favor. The knowledge of the fact that he is exempt from punishment at school will force into the mind of an errant youth, that the exemption is and of a right, should be unlimited. Naturally he will object to it at home, and consequently, will drift away to find place with those who are "free indeed." It takes no prophet to predict his fate. A rebel from home rule is a rebel and his acts, small or great will be robelious, and, since "law is a rule of actions," he will rebel against the law, that "applies indiscriminately, to things animate and inanimate, rational and irrational," and the law will most surely apply to him. The application of the law to a rebel is something more than a pastime and brings wails and heart throbs of far deeper import than those which would come as the result of the application of home rule or "home rod." Surely popular thought will awake to the fact that it is time for a change. "Moral suasion" children are a sad minority of the "child body," and the "greatest good to the greatest number" should be the point at issue, as, "In the earlier days of as minute and unseen part. For the goods see everywhere." The parent of children should labor ardently with this, practically "unseen" part of the citizenbody so that when they grow to be visible and potent factors, they may be, "beautiful, pure and clean." Popular thought may yet be against a change, but popular thought is oft deceiving and should not be permitted to inject its baneful influence into the very strongholds of our racial safety. The strongest protection for Negro youth against all breeches of decorum is home training, to effectually inforce which, the rod must occasionally be brought to bear. The rod must be used in childhood or in manhood "stripes" in some shape must adorn or disfigure the backs of a vast majority of humanity. The stripes impressed by the lash of home rule are hidden by a comely robe, but the stripes of the state stand out in bold relief; and are marks of infamy, crime and disgrace. They are the license for the administering of corporal stripes, the stripes that "wont come off." Roy Reginald. Royal Arch Convention. The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons met in Macon last week, the literary program was conducted at Tremont Temple on Monday night and was quite interesting. Mr. J. H. Kendall of Atlanta, was elected Grand High Priest, Past Grand High Priest Jessie Robinson of Macon was elected Grand Lecturer. The Craft of Macon is rejoicing at the decision handed down by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The ladies of the O. E. S. seem to rejoice just as much, even more. We pray God to see the day when all the disgruntled ones will be put out of business in this country, thus we are satisfied that by living upright Masons and trusting in God all the plagues will sooner or later disappear. Rheonix Lodge No. 12, had an application from York "It" a few weeks ago who was once a member of that Lodge to be reinstated back into the folds of its "Printice" Hood, when admitted back, the brother said he was home once more and here he expected to stay until death. Public Library. A hearty invitation is extended the people of Savannah and visitors to the city to make use of the advantages offered by the Public Library at Price and Hartridge streets. There is no charge whatever connected with the privilege of this institution. Remember the hours week days 10 a., m., to 1 p. m., 5 to 8 p. m., Sundays 10 to 11 a. m. The reading room is constantly gaining in favor. You will find there at all times interesting reading matter, magazines and papers. The American Magazine, McClures, The Ladies Home Journal. The New York Age and Colored American Magazine are on file regularly. We cheerfully acknowledge donations during the past month as follows: one book by Miss Marie Gaillard, the current magazine by Mr. Bridges. Don't forget location N. E. corner Price and Hartridge streets. Chas. McDowell, Libarian. An Able Minister and True Race Man. Rev. R. V. Branch has returned after attending the Atlanta Conference. He has been appointed as presiding elder of the Atlanta district. Rev. Branch has been pastor of St. Philip A. M. E. Church for four years, and like his predecessor, Rev. R. H. Singleton he kept the mother church to the fore and with a prestige, for good second to none in the city. In public affairs Rev. Branch never straddled, and he was generally with the people. THE TRIBUNE along with the citizens regret his leaving the city, yet all join in congratulating him on his appointment, and wish him abundant success in his new field. He leaves for his work next Wednesday. Popular Minister and Fluent Speaker. We are glad to welcome-in our midst Rev. L. A. Townsley, D. D., of Atlanta, who has been appointed pastor of St. Philip Memorial Church, the mother church of the A. M. E. connection of Georgia. Dr. Townsley is well-known in the State and is one of the leaders of his denomination and a race man of standing. The members of the Monumental church are to be commended for the number of able men they have had as pastor, and in Rev. Townsley they will find that the record will not be broken. We receive him with open arms and will join in assisting to make his pastorate a crowning success. He will preach at each service tomorrow. For an eloquent sermon go and hear him. F. B. B. Church Dots. Many members, visitors and friends of the church were out on Sunday night in honor of Progressive Sunday No. 97, K. Royal Court, and the Crystal Court of Calcutta. Rev. Wright's subject was "The friendship of Jo-naith and David" He prefaced his sermon by saying, that he felt highly honored to have the priy privilege of preaching the anniversary sermon to the distinguished guests, as he had grown up with and among the members of the lodge and has some very dear friends in the rank. The sermon was 4 very eloquent one. He portrayed David as a shepherd boy in the field attending his father's sheep from which place he was called to fight the Phillisite giant whom he slew with one of his five stones that he had taken from the brook. This great event made David quite n t around the King's palace where he became a favorite of Jonathan the King's son. When the king had, planned to the praise that he was receiving, Jonathan warned David the king's wrath. Rev. Wright told the Sir Knights that as they are the modern type of Damon and Pythias, they should be true to each other as Jonathan was to David. The sir knights looked as gallant as the knights of olden days. They contributed liberally to the pastor, church choir and sexton. Those who made the presentation, speecher acted well the part. Come down at any time you will be benefited. [F. A. B. Church: Key, W. T. Cowan, D. D. of Angus, Ga., preaches two able sermons at the First African Baptist Church, Franklin Square, last Sunday. His visit to the church was in the interest of the Baptist district missionary convention of Georgia - his able discourses the Reverend impressed the members considerably to do more along the lines of educational work, through the convention; which directly fostered Central City College at Macon Ga. Tomorrow at 4 o'clock the church will hold its regular communion services, an Invitation is extended the ministers of the city and their churches. Quite a large attendance is expected, as indications of the week's services point that way. The Bev. w. L. Jones, D. D. of Atlanta Ga., to whom the church extended a call to its pastorate, and who has accepted a same, will administer the communion. The Superintendent of the Sabbath school with his corps of teachers are diligently drilling the children through many rehearsals for the Christmas exercises, which promise to be interesting in every feature. The Thanksgiving dinner which was spread by the members in the lecture room was a crowding success, the ladies composing the committee deserves much credit, the church realized a neat sum there from. The members that have the church's interest most at heart are working ardently, and from present indications the church will be in excellent shape, when the newly called pastor will take charge; which promises to be in January. Second Baptist Church. Second Baptist Church. "The big concert" next Wednesday night is creating wide spread attention and a great crowd is expected. All city patrons (all denominations) will be glean free admission Rev. T. M. Williamson, B. D. of Waycross, Ga, preached a powerful sermon here Sunday, his subject was "The Test of Opinions." Rev. C. H. Zelger, A. B. B. D. South Carolina preached a scholarly sermon to us Thursday night. Revs. C. Chapman, Chas. Wright, Geo. Williams and Jas. H. Rogers wereGeo. Williams and Jas. H. Rogers preached an acceptable sermon to the Georgia State Industrial College, subject "Ambition." The sick are brothers Lockett, Childs Williams and Johnson; Sisters, Williams, Bell, Mann, Carter and Morrison. Two funerals during the week The funeral of Mr. Brownfield was one of the largest for many years. The Choral Union is progressive under the proficient leadership of Mr. C, F. Waters and the organist Miss Essie Monroe is one of the best in the city. We will commune with Rev Bairl and the Bethlehem church the 3rd, Sunday in this month; while Rev Bairl and his people will commune with us Dec. 19th, the 2nd Sunday. As this is the last communion of the year, every member is urgently requested to be present Dr. J. A Brookett D. D will preach here December 13 at the evening services. The pastor will preach at both hours tomorrow; a special lodge sermon at night Everybody invited. Sunday School practice at 3:30 p.m. Don't forget the big "Musicale" Wednesday night of next week. Beth-Eden Baptist Church Services here were largely attended Sunday morning and night. The sermons of the pastor and Rev. T. M. Williamson, B D of Waycross were gladly heard and favorably received. The ten nights Japane Bazaar just closed and the rally netted the neat sum of $240. Tuesday night st the regular monthly conference Messrs. C H Jackson and Henry Myers were elected to the office of deacon. These with Messrs. J A Morrell, E D Broughton, S L Luckey and H S George elected last month completes the full number of deacons provided for in the constitution. Tonerow being communlon day all the members are urged to be on hand ot that service. St. Phillip Dots Rev. John A. Appus, St. Philip's local deacon, presided at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, Rev. Cappus discusbed Matt, 4:05 and " said unto them he go also into the vineyard and whatever is right I will and they went their way." Subject "Laborers in the vineyard" Rev. Cappus dwelt on the subject at length and his discourse was directed to christians showing them their duty, as Laborers in the Master's Vineyard, Rev. Lindsay preached at 8 o'clock and there was a large audience out to hear him. Mrs. Armstrong another old and faithful member of St. Philip was buried from the church on Sunday afternoon. Without fear of contradiction, the musical program rendered at St. Philip on last Monday night by the Bethune Musical Ocette composed of four ladies and four gentlemen and all of them had that he was rendered in St. Philip's hardless all comers the best of critics had nothing to criticise for there were many present but had no criticism to make. The program was just long enough so as to not weary the audience. Too much praise cannot be given Mr J W Moultrie the manager and the company of ladies and gentlemen that compose the Bethune Musical Octette. It is the sentiment of every one present to have it repeated in the near future. Our monthly love light was held on Friday night. We are pleased to have with our congregation some of our old members on a visit from various sections of the north. The following service will be held tomorrow, Sunday: Prayer meeting at 6 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. Sunday school at 2 p.m. communion at 4 p.m. preaching at 8 p.m. Strangers are cordially invited. Tabor Memorial. The International Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor met at the Masonic Temple November 29, for the purpose of celebrating the memorial day of Rev. Moses Dickson. The following program was had: Song, Eternal power Address, Sif F J Hilton Talk, Dt. Cella Jefferson of Columbus, Ga., who gave an arousing talk stating she has been a member for 12 years and has never found anything more useful and encouraging. Song, Shall we met beyond the river Paper, Dt. Namie L Green, H P, subject "Career of Rev Moses Dickson and plans laid to liberate his people" Song, Dt. Belle Houston, Blest be the tie Talk, Dt. F D Armstrong who gave some very encouraging remarks in behalf of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor St. Benedict's Church. East Broadway Gaston streets. Next Sunday will be the second Sunday in Advent and the Feast of St. Nicholas. First mass at 7 a.m with a short instruction. High mass and sermon at 10:30 a.m, Sunday school at 4 p.m, evening devotions consisting in rosary, sermon and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 8 p.m. The moring sermon will be preached by Rev. Martin Blienger, who came from Augusta to help St. Benedict's Church during the illness of the pastor. The subject of the sermon will be "The preparation for Christmas." The evening sermon will be preached by Rev. Jos. A Dahlent, who will give an interesting explanation of the "Immaculate Conception." It is one of the dearest articles of Catholic belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus, by a special privilege of Almighty God, has been free from original sin, and thus she is the honor and glory of fallen humanity. This beautiful dogma has always been believed in the Catholic Church, but only in 1854 it has been defined as an article of faith by the Great Pope Pius the IX. This subject will be interesting: to Catholics and non-Catholics alike; and it is expected that a chosen congregation will be present in St. Benedict's Church SCOTT BROS.. ICE CREAM Furnished in any quantity for entertainments and picnics From SCOTT BROS ICE CREAM FACTORY, West Broad and Gwinnett Sts. Goid Soda and Ice Creamalways on haud at our ICE CREAM PARLOR The Only Colored Dry Goods Store in Savannh. Shoes, Hats: Underwear and Furnishings for men, women and children. You positively save money trading at The Union Savings & Loan Co. UNION SAVINGS & LOAN CO. 20 State St., W., Sayannah, Ga. on Sunday evening. Next Tuesday the December 8th will be the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It will be a Holy day of obligation. Every Catholic is strictly bound to hear man out that day. There will be two masses in St. Benedict's Church on Tu day morning, the first mass at 7 a.m. and the second at 8 a.m. The Immaculate Conception is the Patron Feast of the Catholic Church in the United States. Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The Mt Zion Baptist Church West Broad street, will have a series of meetings commencing Sunday night. The pastor will preach on Sunday night, subject "Death in the pot." The friends and members are invited to attend the services. There will be preaching each night during the week. The pastor, Rev. W. M McKinney is doing a great work for Zion. The public is invited to attend the meetings. Ministers Union The Ministers Union met at First A B Church, Rev W. Grym. preskilent. The devotional exercise was conducted by Rev W A Daughtry. The session was good, the deliberation was interesting. Shronomic reports as follows: Rev E Sankford, subject "No room for Christ" Rev J H May, Luke 1914. Rev W M Barron, subject "Bring your brother." Rev W A Daughtry, Ps. 2511, Rev. Chatman Matt, 12:42. Folkston Dots. An unusual disturbance over the phone on Sunday was caused by the tender voice of a love one calling Mr. E. L. Chatman to be with her in Waycross. Mr. Chatman cheerfully responded On returning it was understood that he will at once enter the matrimony business. We wish him success. We are glad to know that Mrs. L. Knight, wife of Mr. J. H. Knight is up again after an illness of five months. Steps are being made by the boeine of our church in the person of Sister Rosa Morgan of Mt. Carmel Baptist church, assisted by Mrs Rena Auston to carpet the church. They are making a good success. Another similar case of that we find in the person of Mrs. Jennie Bailey, Mrs. Rosa Davis and Miss Fannie Edwards, they are making much success in raising money to buy a communion set for the church. Nothing can be expected of them but success. The future outlook among the colored people of our town is good. T. L. JUxES. Musical Concert. Grand Musical and Concert at St. Phillip's Monumental A. M. E. Church Monday night Dec 14th, under the auspices of the Sunday School. Admission 20 cents. Program Anthen, By choir Invocation, Dr. L. A. Townsley, pastor, Solo, Miss Nettie Houston* Recitation, Robert Powell. Solo, Mrs. A R. Robinson, Duett, Misses Carroll and Loftin. Recitation, Miss L. Carroll. Solo, Miss P. Marshall. Duett Miss Drayton and Buggs. Solo Miss S. Gaston. Recitation Miss W. Hill. Solo, Mr. W. H. Stikes Solo, Mr. J. Johnson. Part Second. Prof. Koo Lair Clang will entertain the audience for 15 minutes, fire, glass and a 604 pound stone. W. O. P, Sherman, Jr. Sup. Rev. L. A. Townsley, D. D. Pastor. Wanted—S6 to $12 per day We want in every county, a honest colored man, and one that is interested in bettering his condition, to take charge of a new line of work, and place some local agents under him. The business will do the rest. No competition, fast seller, needed in every home in town and especially in the country. None but straightforward men, need apply. Write quick for the agency. Address, Post Office Box 245, Savannah, Ga You can get 103 cream and cold drinks at McFall's Grainnell-Lane and East Broad streets. SCOTT "ON THE West Broad and ICE Cream Furnished in any quantity for From SCOTT BROS ICE West Broad and Goid Soda and Ice Cream ICE CREAM The Only Colored in Sav Shoes, Hats; Underwear and and children. You positiv The Union Savi L. S. REED, Pres. Plant a Dollar UNION SAVING 20 State St., W., St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Habersham and Harris streets. We invite the general public to the service. Sunday 11 a.m., and 8 p.m. Wednesday 8 p.m. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Strangers and visitors in the city are cordially invited to worship here during their stay. No trouble about seats; they are all free. Only one collection is taken up at a service. No collection taken up during week days services. Familiar hymns and tunes in which everybody can join. The sermons are short, affording every- body ample opportunity for getting home at a reasonable and seasonable hour. The minister is ready at any time to minister to anybody who has no regular church connection, no matter who they are and what they are. For the Son of man can to seek and save that which is lost. Come and pass us a visit you won't regret it. The Best of the Season. There will be given under the auspices, of the Second Baptist Church, Wednesday, evening Dec. 9, in the main auditorium, a semi-sacred classical recital. Admission adult 25 cents, children under 12 years 15 cents. Children tickets sold at the door. Doors open at 8 p. m., recital begin at 8:30. The following is the program: Chorus. We praise the Lord Almighty by Gellat select voices from the Sua- day. Gelibel, Select voices from the Sunday school Inyocation, Rev. J H May, D D. Selection, Apollo Orchestra By request Mr. Waters will render Al Wilson's flower song entitle The Fairest Flower of all Overture by Suspleb, Mrs. C B Lawis and Miss J B. Bozar Chorus, The Heaven's declare, etc., by Sacra, select voices from Deacon Board Solo, Sweet home of the Angels by Robt. A King, Mrs. R Smith Dost and chorus, Somebody needs you by Gelibel, Misses Lottie Roundale, bottom of the deep blue sea by Pet rie, Mr. J Jenkins Chorus, Wakel 'its autumn's day by Gelibel, select voices choir Union Plain duett, Hilarity March by Noris, Misses A I and E L Monroe Chorus, Over the hills by Gelibel, Choir Selection, Apollo Orchestra Soprane solo, Miss Rosa Jones Cornet solo, The purple heather by Gray Mr. Chas. F Waters Sole, Just for a day by Williams, Miss Nettle Houston Chorus, The day spring by Gelibel, select voices Miss E L Monroe, Accompanist. Miss E L Monroe, Accompanist. Mr. Chas. F Waters, Musical Director' Mrs. M E May, Conductress. The Georgia Mutual Life and Health Insurance Co. of Augusta, Ga., a recent organization composed of some of the most widely known men of the South in the Insurance business have at last revised the insurance system by doubling the chances of a policyholder to receive benefit to that of any other policy on the market. Since the public has been crying for a reformed government, we have shown our endorsement by putting on the market an improved policy. Above all you should see it. Note the Board of Directors: Jas. S. Harper, President. Bishop K. S. Williams, Vice Pres. A. M. Sherrill, Gen. Mgr. H. G. Dugas, Sec. and Treas. A. G. Sartor, Auditor. Rev. O. T, Walker, D. D. Dr. G. N. Stoney. Jno. F. Dugas. 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Its result was to break the French and Indian War for four years and to make English territory of the region between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi. at that time the war between the Colonies and the British Government was still a dozen years in the future. The colonists—especially the Virginiaans—at once planned to settle and occupy the conquered region, which was then known as the Ohio country, where they were organized to go into the new region. There were there with their families, clearing away the forests, opening farms and making homes for themselves in the wilderness. But these pleneers were comparatively few, and the difficulties they encountered were very great. There were no roads anywhere, no bridges across creeks and no secure means of communication except by way of the river. In the main, therefore, they settled upon the river banks, leaving their vast interior country to the occupation of the powerful Indian tribes, who viewed all white settlement with jealousy and hatred. Meanwhile south of the Ohio a considerable number of adventurous Virginians and Carolinians had crossed the mountains and made little settlements in what we now call Kentucky and Tennessee. These included a number of wandering hunters, like Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and George Rogers Clark, whom the Indians called the "Long Knives," because their always carried their hunting knives in their belts. Sometimes two or three families settled near each other; sometimes each family was far removed from each other, and depended solely upon its own members for the means of subsistence and for defense against the Indian foe. This sparsely settled Kentucky country constituted a county of Virginia. When the Revolutionary War broke out the thirteen colonies lay east of the Alleghenies. They had no secure hold, upon the great rich region west of the mountains and north of the Ohio River. That was held, by the British with headquarters at Detroit, to which place a capable, but very cruel and unscrupulous, man named Hamilton was sent as British commander of all that region, to hold it securely. There were a number of French towns and settlements in the region north of the Otloo, and their inhabitants had submitted themselves to the British power in America. The French settlers in this country were always loyal to the dominant power; whatever it might happen to be their sole concern being to preserve and profit by their trade with the Indians. For the rest, the region was occupied by mere tribes and confederacies of Indians who looked with feasious fear upon the American advance across the mountains. During the Revolutionary War Hamilton availed himself of this In- than feauty and hatred as a means of striking the Americans in the rear. Disregarding all, considerations of civilization and humanity, he set his agents to silt the Indians up to a savage warfare that should "drive back the settlements over the mountains." Under inspiration of these agents, who actually, paid bounties to the Indians, for such American scalps as these, following in to the British attacks, the enemy, they alike, upon men, women and children. It was then that George Rogers Clark saw clearly what nobody else had seen of all: He saw that although the colonists might hold their own against Indian attacks during the war, and might ultimately win in their struggle for independence, the possession of all that northwestern country by the British who already held Canada on the north would shut the young rebellious and forever forbid the possibility of its natural expansion westward. I thought of imperial proportions was born in the mind of George Rogers Clark, the hackwoodsman, who was only five twenty-five years old, and who lived from boyhood in the white settlers. His thought was this: "What compere all that region now, what his conquest is possible? Why not make it how and forever a session of the young republic to order of light thought to belong?" I pull of this idea. Clark set out to travel on foot from Kentucky to Virginia, in order to secure the men and the means with which to accomplish the great purpose. This journey was made in the autumn of 1717. Out with George Rogers Clark always reckless, of danger on his account he was never reckless in the realities of his military life, understood that that enterprise ending in failure was immensely worse, than an enterprise at. He and/or took nothing until he and carefully tailed the additions to the problem mentioned himself this ability to solve it. Accordingly beforestiming out for ninja Clark sent, two and three of friends among the young men of uttacku to naddoof and report to all the facts bearing upon the situation. Causing a student misrehearsal, we have, in did not give the facts, the intimacy of intimacy, the plans that were forming its misad, they supported him although the rich in all the forts were loyal to the British their loyalty was indifferent—passive rather than active. They wanted peace and good trade conditions, and they did not actively care for anything else. He Clark judged that by a due exercise of force and diplomacy, he might be able to keep the French neutral, or, possibly, in—case his life—attempt he had successful, might win him the French. He was British and Indians, he was confident of his ability to deal with them, if only he could secure official permission and men enough. Accordingly he set out for Virginia and after a painful and very dangerous journey, laid his plaus before Patrick Henry, who was then Governor of Virginia. He explained the importance of the mission he was about to undertake, and the lasting effect its success must have upon the future fortunes of the republic which was struggling desperately for independence. The British were closely pressing the Americans at that time; and no troops could be spared to aid in this enterprise. But Patrick Henry gave Clark permission to enlist four companies of volunteers, of fifty men each, for the expedition. This had to be done secretly. Even the men enlisted must not know upon what service they were intended to go. For if Hamilton, at Detroit, should suspect Clark's purpose, he might easily and certainly defeat it by throwing re-enforcements into the posts likely to be attacked. With some difficulty Clark managed to raise his four companies, although not one of them had its full force of fifty men. In all he secured 100 enterprises for which 1000 would not have been an excessive number. There were three French towns in the region to be conquered, which constituted the principal British posts and the possession of which practically-determined the control of the entire territory. One of them was Kaskaskla, in Illinois, not far from the Mississippi, about-thirty miles or so below the Spanish town of St. Louis. Another was Cahokla, which lay just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. The third and most important, was Vincennes on the Wabash, in what is now Indiana. Clark decided to assail Kaskaskla and Cahokla first, although those towns lay 200 or 300 miles further west than Vincennes. Accordingly, he embarked his little force of fighting men on flatboats and went down the Ohio River to an island near the mouth of the Tennessee. There he landed and hid his boats, and there he was joined by a little company of Tennessee hunters who had recently visited the towns he pursued to assail. From them he learned that at Kaskaskia the fort was strong, the militia was drilled and well armed, with Indian allies all about, and that the force which would oppose his attack was much larger than his own. But George Rogers Clark faltered not nor failed. Knowing himself to be outnumbered by the enemy, he had to make a desperate success lay in affecting a surprise. He therefore decided—instead of going up the Mississippi in boats and thus inviting discovery—to march secretly through the woods and swamps and fall upon Kaskaskia unexpectedly. On the night of July 4 Clark, whose approach had not been, suspected, quietly slipped into Kaskaskia. He quickly disposed his men so as to prevent the assembling of the militia. He ordered all the French people to betake themselves to their homes and to stay there on pain of instant death. These French people had heard terrible stories of the cruelty and brutality of the Kentucky Long Knives, so they obeyed the command, glad of even a chance to escape with their lives. The commandment of the place, a Frenchman named Rochebleave, who was devoted to the English cause, was holding a dance in the fort at the time, with not a hint or a suspicion that a force of Long Knives was approaching the town he was set to guard. Thus even the fort itself was without a sentinel on duty, and the evening was given up to merrymaking. Haying posted his men in such fashion as to forbid the firing of an alarm or the mustering of the defensive force, Clark slipped into the fort and stood in the doorway of the dancing hall looking on at, the dance. Suddenly an Indian who had seen him before recognized him and gave the alarm. Instantly, confusion seized upon the assemblage, but Clark quietly bade the people go on with the dance, adding: "But remember, you now dance under Virginia not under Great Britain." [His mastery of the situation was already complete, and he promptly made the most of it.] Those profite reputation the Long Killers had among the French servant Clark well. These people not only made no resistance to their conqueror, but they offered, to become slaves, if he would spare their lives. Their terror was all camellium. To a Catholic priest who asked that he might hold service in his church, Clark replied that he had nothing to do with any church except to protect it, and that under the United States all religions were equally free. The priest at the church resigned the American cause, awe allegiance to it, and made his parishioners the like. His name was Pierre Gibault, and he became at once an intensely loyal American. Commander, Rochester, obviously refused to accept Clark's terms. When Clark, meaning to be friendly, asked him to dinner, he sent an insulting note in reply, and Clark who knew how to be severe as well as how to be gentle, arrested the man, and sent him to Virginia as a prio- One thing that helped Clark in all these proceedings was the fact that an alliance had been formed between France and the United States. Fickle as they were, the French in America still held a sentimental allegiance to their home government, and, upon learning, that, France had responded to the British, they were eagerly ready to become; Americans, particularly when and where the American power seemed to be dominant. Some of them joined Clark as militiamen, and he sent a force to take possession of Cahokia, which was accomplished without difficulty. Then the Americanized French priest, Pierre Glbaut, volunteered to go to Vincennes and win the people there to the American cause. He was completely successful. But by that time Hamilton, the British commandant at Detroit, learned what was going on. He instantly organized a force of British French and Indians to mutilate the French supremacy there. It required a considerable time for Hamilton, to accomplish that purpose, but after a few months he achieved it, and Vincennes became again a strong British post. This left Clark in a very perilous position. He was in control of a half hostile population, which had indeed sworn allegiance to America, but which, as he very well knew, was ready to change its allegiance upon any plausible pretext. He was surrounded by hostile Indians, fully armed and fully fed by the British, and fully controlled by the British. His only military base; lay at Pittsburgh—hundreds of miles to the east—and Vincennes, with its stronggarison, lay immediately between him and that base. It was Hamilton's purpose, of course, to assail Clark and conquer him, thus recovering Kaskaskia and Cohokis to the British power. But he decided to rest for the winter. Clark saw his opportunity, and although the term of his men's enlistments had run out, he persuaded them to begin a march against Vincennes. It was a terrible ordeal. Food was scarce and there were no tents nor blankets. The army had to wade through ice streams, gun over head. At last, however, they arrived at the fort. Clark's rifles prevailed against the defenses after a day and a night of fighting. Hamilton and his men were made prisoners. Clark paroled the greater part of them, but he sent Hamilton and twenty-five others as prisoners of war to Virginia. George Rogers Clark was now master of the Northwest, and by virtue, of his extraordinary conquest of that region Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin are to-day great States in the American Union instead of being—as they otherwise must have been—province of British America. Youth's Companion. Quaint and Curious In 1907 72,500 barrels of apples were imported direct from the United States and Canada to Manchester. Mount Cameron, on the tween coast of Africa, long regarded as an extinct volcano, was found to be still alive and in danger of eruption by a party of German explorers recently. At Yale University, there is a skull of a prehistoric animal which measures, nine feet long and six feet broad. Many doctors say, that lawn tennis is the most healthful form of recreation. From time out of mind certain devotees of Japan have visited a celebrated temple at Narita, twice a year to perform the plions, act of fasting within its sacred precincts. Municipal pawnships have been opened in agreement for the reelist, of the residents who have been here before the victims of extortionate private establishments. The city charges are fifteen per cent, while those held herein paying city. The Great Lakes rank next to the Atlantic Coast. In the quantity and value of coal-consisted in sham propulsion, Qut of A7399,000 tons loaded, on vessels, for hunker, purposes in 1907, these waters alone are credited with twenty-five per cent, the total coal tonnage required annually. THE PUMA PIP BRUNELLE SUNDAY'S SEMINARY WHEREVER JESUS KNOWS PRIEST MOST Subject: The Compassion of Jesus. Brooklyn, N. Y. — In Puritan Congregational Church Sunday the pastor, the Rev. JasonNoble Pierce, joined on one of his Compassion of Jesus, 1234, and on another, 1235, 1236, "And, when the Lord saw her He had, compassion on her and said unto her, weep not." Mr. Pierce said: "I have taken, not as my subject this compassion, but as beautiful and comforting theme to "The Compassion of Jesus." If there is any one present in this congregation who has been experiencing trial and suffering, or who has been called to bear some grievous burden or suffer from a special, to the consideration, of this theme. And if there is any one here who, would make more sure of God's personal, love for His individual child, to the consideration that love as it is revealed in the course of His Son, our Lord and Saviour. Briefly but clearly, the author of our Gospel presents the scene: "Benehold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and the only son of his father, and of the city was with her." From our text we know that she was weeping, and well she might, for death leaves a smarting sting. This was not the first time she had faced death in the city, and she was a widow. But how often did she forget of the one member of the family make it any easier to part with another, especially when it is an only son, a young man, and probably the main support and gay of his widow to conspire to make the occasion full of greatest sorrow for her, and as the procession passes through the city gate and turns toward the burying ground the burning tears course around her and sees naughts, feuds, naughts, but the brief that is in her heart. Of all the helpless ones in Israel she, passing out of the gate, was most helpless. And that was the very hour the mightest one in all Israel drew strength, human need and divine help; these are never far separated! But will the divine grace become operative? Will the 'Saviour' act? When the Lord 'saw' her He had Weep not; And he came, and touched the blier; and they that bear him stood still. And He said, Young man, I say unto, thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and began to speak, he delivered him unto his mother. Hallelujah! What a Saviour! If the issue could be avoided I would gladly pass over a discussion, of the miracle involved in this lesson. But how can I? If I assume that you all accept the miracles ascribed to Jesus, I make a false assumption, for someone conceived that some of your miracles ant uncertainties in your minds. If I could separate the question of Jesus' compassion from .His miracles I might do that. But how can I? Everywhere in the Gospels where the miracle is occasioned, I receive in connection with some miracle. His was not an inactive compassion. He did not do as so many of us do, allow our sympathy to vent itself in empty alr. His great heart made demands upon a great power, and the sight of our suffering was for its relief. Four times does St. Matthew and four times does St. Mark refer directly to Jesus' compassion, and upon each occasion do we find Him working a miracle. St. Mark speaks directly concerning the compassion of Jesus and that is in our text. The subject demands our attention. There are some men who are not greatly troublel concerning the miracles. They sweep them, all in or all out of their theological acceptance of hard thinking or penetrating wisdom. Their political issue is one of the portable variety, cheaply bought, ready made, quickly clapped together over a foundation of sand. It may serve on a fair day, but when the test comes how is it? The rain descends and the floods come and the winds blow and beat upon that house; and it falls; and great is it. One of the safeguards of the church is the number of thinking men and women, within it, who concentrate not only their hearts, but their minds unfo' the Lord, and who meditate upon Him in the night.watches. And to all such comings sooner or later the question of the miracles. We wrestle with the miracles, we pray over them we come to understand concerning them, and our conclusions are not always alike. There are some who discriminate among the miracles. Those they can explain through understood laws, they abstain, the rest they hold in abeyance. "Some of the most consecrated and loyal followers of the Master are amongthe disciples. Also who believe that through Jesus were done many mighty works. I am of this mind. This does not mean that we give unqualified approval to all that Jesus was said to have done. His is the only instance, on record. If it is so, that all that was said of Him is true. But it does mean that through He deadens wormed that the human mind 'dogs not yet understand. It mightly works. In His own strength and of His own knowledge. "I can of mine own self, do nothing." He said, "but the Father that dwelleth in Me'He doeth the works." and larger, faith of the mighty works of Jesus. But I recall your attention this morning not to the miracles themselves, but to their cause; not to an analysis of their accomplishment, but to the discernment of that which called them forth, the compassion of Jesus. Often the crowd 'gathered' about Jesus and demanded some marvelous work, a sign from heaven: He refused them. Men came to Him seek help, gain gain, but they always departed sadder and wiser: men. Nothing could tempt Him to make a show on the crowd, through the marvelous. But when He saw people in need or in sorrow of suffering, when He was quick was His response: How sufficient in power! His maxim was, "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are able. When the multitude penetrated the desert whether He had gone for retirement and needed rest, when He behold their desire for Him and knew the hunger and heart sickness that impelled them to seek Him. "He was not afraid of them, he didn't cause they were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd." When the blind and the demented cried unto, Him, the Lord of Light and Spirit was mighty in deed. When the leper of Gallue knelt before Him saying, 'If Thou wilt, Thou canst touch,' And Jesus, heart was touched, 'And Jesus, heart was compassion, put forth His hand and touched him and saith unto him, I will, be thou clean.' Oh, the mighty love of Jesus. It met that dear mother at the gate of Nafn and did for her what none in all the city could do, restore to her her wonder and, joy imagine her wonder and, joy imagine that came to her when Jesus delivered him to her? And, now, in approaching the final consideration of this theme it, is important that we bear in mind the steps this far taken, for they have an follow. We have seen that Jesus was in fullest sympathy with all who carried a burden, and that all such found a way of approach to Him at all times. In the second place, we have seen "Father in heaven that the mightiest of works were possible unto Him and were accomplished through. Him to relieve human sorrow. And we have seen, too, that His loving compassion knew no bounds, that it embraced the suffering, that it left no one with whom He came in contact outside His affection. And lastly, we have considered the fact that Jesus opposed Him to evil in whatever form it was found, and regarded him as an enemy to be trodden under foot. Dear friends, whilo we have been talking about Jesus we have in reality been talking about our heavenly Father. While we have been considering the compassion: of Jesus we have been discussing the loving compassion perfect manifestation of the latey. All that, has been said of Jesus, compassion I now assert to be true of God’s love. If there is any one here with a burden, a heavy sorrow, a hidden grief, let me tell you that you do not bear it, alone. It may have seen you, but you have not written you. You had ever bled you in the multitude, but the very moment that the child has been darkest is, the time, He has, been most near. He has always kept the way, of approach, open, which is more, than we can say for ourselves, and often when one calls for help in his voice has been calling. Combató Móse! Mei! that lbor and are heavy, iaden, and I will give you feet.” Not, has he. He overlooked one. No one is beyond the reach of his love. It may have been longrage that you turned aside from Him; and you may feel that you are indeed a stranger with him, claim upon Him; but it is not, His compassion is without bound. An Impossibility You cannot expect the consequences of a religion when they cannot affect the followers of the religion. MISS. SOPHIA KITTLESEN. Had a Bad Cough Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston, Ill. writes: "I have been troubled with catarrh, for nine twenty-five years and have tried many causes for it," but obtained very little help. "Then my brother advised me to, try Peruna, and I did." "My health was very poor at the time I began taking penums. My throat was swollen. "Peruna has cured me. 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The certain return of prosperity is eloquently indicated in items in the news of the past week. From all over the country have come reports of the reopening of factories after ten months of cessation. Whirling machinery tells of the employment of thousands of men and women who have had nothing to do. While only a short while ago mills were running on half time, to-day they are rushed with work and are giving employment to all who apply. Railroads are feeling the Aladdin-like touch of prosperity and are planning to expend millions of dollars upon improvements. There has been a lossseating up of the money market so that funds to carry on the gigantic projects contemplated are to be had readily. Correspondents send in glowing reports of conditions in all the manufacturing centres. In the Northwest, the South, the East—everywhere there are signs of better times. One positive evidence of the improvement in conditions is given in the disbandment of the National Prosperity Association, of St. Louis. Its chairman, E. C. Simmons, explained that now that prosperity is swiftly returning, there is no more work for the organization to do. News of a Week That Shows Evidence of Better Times Washington, D. C. — Reports received by the International Brotherhood of Operative Potters during the week indicated a general opening up of work everywhere in that industry. The force at the Riverside Pottery, at Wheeling, W. Va., has been greatly increased, and the firm is getting orders in a steady stream. The Dresden Pottery is working at fullforce. The Klondike Pottery will have no slack time this winter, its employees having all time to do. The Seling Pottery is doing so, but it has the busiest November it has known in years. It is expected that the American China Company, of Toronto, will operate steadily to the year's end. The Union Buffalo Cotton Mills, of Union, S. C., which is said to operate more looms than any other textile corporation in the South, received such a rush of orders that it will be obliged to run all of its three immense plants to their fullest capacity. This sets going 17,000 spindles and 300 looms, which were idle during the summer. The mills employ 2000 men and women. The Fales & Jenks Machine Company, of Pawtucket, R. I., employing 400 hands, began working on a fifty-five-hour-a-week schedule. The factory had been running-on half time. The Easton & Burnham Machine Company, of Pawtucket, R. I., started its factory on full time, after running on short time during the summer. It employs 100 men. Lumbermen of Tifton, Ga., report that all the mills are booked with enough orders to keep them going full tilt for three months. Some are declining orders until March 1. 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Charlottenburg, Germany.—At a meeting of the League of German Naval Architects, Dr. Anschutz-kaempfe, of Kiel, exhibited a compass without a magnetic needle, which has just been invented. It is in the form of a gyroscope, which, when suspended in a certain way, always adjusts itself parallel to the earth's axis. The invention is regarded as of great importance to ironclads, where the compass needle is frequently deflected by the adjacent metal. The United States Steel Corporation decided to erect a $3,000,000 plant at Monessen, Pa., in the Monongahela Valley. The Schoen Steel Company, of Pittsburg, announced, that it would take on 300 more men and spend $1,500,000 in improvements. The National Tube Works, of McKeesport, Pa., placed its plant on full time. The WestinghouseElectric Company put all its departments on full time. The Republic Iron and Steel Company, of Pittsburg, ordered every one of its furnaces run to full capacity. Every spindle in the cotton mills of Midland and new London counties, Midland has been started, and the mills are rushed with orders. The American Woolen Company's mills at Moosup, Conn., are preparing to run full time, after a bad period in which less than half time was worked. The Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, of Chicago, which suspended because of the financial conditions, started to reorganize, and it is expected to resume within a few weeks. Mills of the International Paper Company, at Berlin, N. H., idle for three months, reopened with a reduced force. J. D. Farrell, of Seattle, Wash., representative of E. H. Harriman, in the Pacific Northwest, has been called to New York. Financiers and contractors say that railroad construction work on a scale heretofore unknown is about to be inaugurated in the Northwest. 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"Mothers have to be all right," remarked Mrs. Brathwaite, as with a dexterous rear swoop of her arm she extricated Bobs-baby from under her rockers. "The doctor gazed meditatively at Bobs-baby. From below came a sound of young voices, shrilly commingled. "Six of them," said the doctor, "the eldest of whom is—" "Fourteen," said Cordella. "I'm small for my age," she added. She was so tired of hearing other people make this remark that she had taken to making it herself. The doctor turned from Bobs-baby to Cordella, the extreme gravity of whose demeanor was somewhat counteracted by a tissue-paper cap that fluttered over one ear and a pair of worsted reins that dangled from her shoulders. "Playing horse?" he asked. "I have asked," he asked. "Laura likes to drive me while I'm making the beds," explained Cordella, preoccupied with her mother's health. "Are the beds finished?" suggested the doctor. "Yes," replied Cordella, shortly, turning red as she left the room. She was not used to being dismissed on any occasion of importance. "You are sick," said the doctor to Mrs. Brathwaite. "I am not!" she answered hotly. "Your pulse!" She resisted a childish impulse to sit on her hands. "Now your tongue, if you please." Then, "You are sick; if you don't take care you'll be slicker." "I can't help it. O, baby, please get off mama's foot. Mama can't ride you now." "Come here, young man!" roared the doctor. "How long since you've been off anywhere for a change?" he went on with his interrogation. "We went to mother's at Christmas." "Took the family with you?" "Of course." "How long since you've been away from—from that racket down there?" "Never." "Do you mean to say that for fourteen years you've never had one day free from your children?" "Doctor. I love my children! I wouldn't leave—" The doctor looked as if he desired to be explosive, but thinking better of it, gulped and said: "I beg your pardon. But," he persisted, "don't you think you could manage to get off for a little while soon—if you tried?" "It's impossible. Mr. Brathwaile's vacation comes neri week, and —" "Oh; he takes a vacation, does he?" "Of course!" Again her eyes flashed, and again the doctor was cowed. "And you think you really can't go away?" "I cannot possibly go away," she answered, with tense lips. The doctor was growing tiresome. "You'd better," he said, rising; "but if you won't, good morning!" But the doctor was not through with Cordella. Before he could slip out, having left the mother upstairs, Cordella had hurried from the rear regions, with sleeves rolled up and hands damp washing. "Doctor, is mama sick?" she asked, pushing him into the parlor and closing the door. "Is mama sick?" she repeated: Cordella was in no mood for triling. "But is she?" she demanded. "I want to know what you think." "Yes, I think she is," he admitted. "Ought she to go to bed?" "Under the circumstances, I don't think that would do her much good." "Shall I make her some arrowroot?" asked Cordella. But the doctor was discouraging about the arrowroot, also. "What do you want me to do for her, doctor?" Cordella folded her wiiry, bare arms and looked at him. She was a very plain little girl. She had never had time to grow pimp; her features were Japanese, rather than otherwise, and her hair stood out in a stiff black braid. But when she smiled, and her little tilted nose wrinkled itself up almost to disappearance, and her almond eyes shone and, twinkled, and one dimple appeared on her freckled cheek—but this was no smiling matter. "Never." "She says not." "I'd keep her as quiet as possible," he said. "Make her lie down, and keep the children away as much as you can. Don't let her see of'hear them. Rest is what she needs. If she could go away—" "Oh, but she can't! Papa is going away. We're getting him ready now. It's very hard to make mama lie down, but I'll try. Can't you give her some medicine?" He took out his prescription tablet. "O dear!" exclaimed Cordella, abruptly. The doctor followed her gaze out of the window. "What is it?" he asked. "Only Marjorie, going off to play with Daisy Cole. I thought she'd stay in and finish the dishes." The doctor whipped out of the front door and bounded nimbly over the lawn. Marjorie was unprepared, therefore yielded to attack, and returned to the kitchen. Marjorie was next to Cordella in years, but not in maturity. She was delightfully pretty, and had a tendency to shed responsibilities. "I'll just leave this prescription at the drug-store as I pass by," said the doctor, as he took his leave. Inwardly he considered that, his morning round over, it would be passible for him to run into the city for an hour, and drop in on Mr. Braithwaite at his office. Cordella closed the front door and went up to her mother. She found her moving about with nervous rapidity, pulling out drawers and shutting them again shortly, and laying out various masculine garments on the bed. Her cheeks were flushed and her lips were tight-set. Cordella foresaw that it would be a particularly hard matter to make her lie down. Bobs-baby appeared to be very much underfoot. Cordella lifted him out of her workbasket, and stood holding him in her arms. He resented the interruption, and pounded her vigorously; but she smiled at him so persistently, as if not dreaming he could wish to hurt her, that at last he desisted and cuddled his head down on her shoulder. "Mama," pleaded Cordella, "don't you think you could let papa's things go for to-day, and rest instead?" "How can I? I must get these things in order. Your father must have his vacation." There was a ring in her mother's voice that Cordella had never heard before. "It's only Wednesday," she begged, "and he doesn't go till Till Saturday. If you would rest to-day, perhaps you'd feel more like working to-morrow." "There isn't any rest for me, and I shall never feel like working!" She would have, controlled herself somehow in the presence of the other children, but she could not keep the words back when it was only Cordella. A louder burst of noise from below; the mother put her-hands to her temples. "Oh, my head! If I could only be quiet!" Then suddenly she sank into a chair, sobbing wildly. It was very dreadful for Cordella to see. She dropped Bobs-baby, and swiftly cleared her father's clothes from the bed, tucking them anywhere, everywhere, out of sight. She took her mother's hand gently but firmly. "You must lie down, darling," she said. She darkened the room quickly and laid a wet cloth on her mother's brow, bent and kissed the drawn lips. There was at times a great strength and restfulness about Cordella. Again there was a sound of shouting and stampede in the kitchen below. The mother was quiet now, but her forehead contracted in agony. Cordella caught up the baby and hurried down. There was nothing for it but to sweep them all out of the house for a picnic. The tale Cordella told in the kitchen was dire and silencing. She knew by experience that the sympathies of the youngsters, Marjorie, Jamie, Nan, Laura and Bobs, required powerful appeal. When she had finished, Jamie's lips were trembling, and even the filibertgibbet Marjorie's eyes were wide open with alarm. It is not probable that any of them expected ever to see their mother in the flesh again. They creaked about the kitchen on tiptoe, watching Cordella's preparations for the plenice with subdued and fearsome pleasure. True, Bobsbaby exhibited a tendency to disappear and be found scutting upstairs on all fours toward his mother's room; but determined.hands plucked him back by his little petticoats, and determined sisterly palms were clapped over his protesting mouth. Having reduced her flock to such unacustomed and frightened docility, Cordella's motherly soul relented to the extent of a whole glassful of fresh current jelly and five microscopic crumbs of the sacred and inviolate fruitcake. Once safe in Pomfort's grove, a secure three-quarters of a mile from her mother's bedroom, she gradually allowed her spirits and those of the other pigniters to rise. She led the games with all her usual wizardry. They would play they were off camping, just as their father camped every summer. Had he not described it in every detail, to their wonder and delight? Their father's vacations, were like a visit to fairy-land for all his family. True, Cordella ```markdown ``` knew that during these vacations the stay-at-homes did without befestake, and, as she expressed it, lived out of the garden—but why should they not? Cordellia's simplicity was sometimes puzzled by the domestic feats her father described himself as performing during his expeditions. He was always camp cook, and yet at home, in their well-appointed kitchen, with the convenience of an excellent gas range, he never attempted any of that wonderful biscuit or gingerbread or onelet he boasted of manufacturing with such delicious success amid the primitive culinary arrangements of the camp. To-day, under the spell of Cordella's glowing fancy, all six campers had a glorious time. They shut their ears against the half-hourly intrusions of the whistling, pumbling suburban train; Pomfort's woods became an Adirondack forest, where behind the distant tree trunks they could spy the brown flanks of deer, while a far stump took the shape of a bear surprised at its berry-pickling. When at last the slinking sun looked at them level across the roofs of Pomfort's stables, Cordella gathered up her sisters and brothers and her baskets and tin pails, and set off homewards. Meanwhile things had happened. The doctor had gone to the city, he had visited Mr. Brathwalte, and Mr. Brathwalte had come home early, to find his house deserted and preternaturally silent, and a white and suffering woman in a darkened room upstairs. But that was two hours ago. Now, at five o'clock, two pairs of eyes, a little misty, watched Cordella as she marshalled her brood up from the back road and on through the meadows. At the garden fence she halted her followers, and seemed, to utter admonishing words, at which—most curious sight!—they all squatted down and waited in perfect quiet while Cordella proceeded alone to the back door. There in the doorway stood her father and mother, and her mother, although still pale, looked so marvelously radiant that ten years seemed to have dropped from her age. She had on her white dress, and there was a rose in her hair. Her father wore his new linen suit, and he looked flushed and hot, but very happy. Through the door Cordella saw the dining-room table all set, and on it was a great plate of gingerbread and opposite that a heaping mound of biscuits. When Cordella recovered from her astonishment, her first words were of reproach: "O mama, why did you get up and get supper? I was coming home in time to do everything." "I didn't do a single thing, dear," answered her mother, hugging her. "Papa did it all. See, he made gingerbread and biscuits." The parents very graciously permitted their hungry offspring to sit down to table with them without any further preparation than the washing of their faces and hands. At this supper there was a change in the usual manner of seating. Ordinarily Cordella had Laura one side and her mother, had Bobs-baby next to her, and Nan they shared between them. Meals were rather busy occasions for Cordella and her mother. To-night their father placed himself between Larua and Bobs-baby, a change occasioning much jocularity, which grew visibly feebler toward the close of the meal. "Do they always eat like this?" the father asked, as at last he pulled back Laura's high chair, attempting at the same instant to evade Bobs-baby's buttery caresses of his sleeve. "Yes," answered the mother. After supper the younger members of the family were about to dance out into the summer evening, after their care-free habit; but a strong-voice called them back. "Marjorle and Nan, you will please wash the dishes, and Jamie, your mother's pansy-bed needs weeding; and I think Laura is big enough to amuse Bobs for a blit, and keep him from bothering mama. To work, all of you! Cordella, don't you want to take an evening stroll with your old daddy?" Cordella beamed with pleasure and surprise. Such an honor had not been hers for many a year. Usually her father took the dainty four-year-old Laura by the hand after supper, or perched Bobs-baby on his shoulder, and went romping with him down the garden paths. Cordella supposed that fathers always preferred the youngest ones. But to-night the father chose Cordella, and put his arm about her and called her sweetheart—plain, overworked, overworried Cordella. He was a very nice father, very handsome and debonair and jolly. He led his daughter to the apple-tree bench, and there they sat and talked over what the doctor thought about the mother. "The doctor says she must go away," said Cordella's father. "It's too bad that she can't," rejoined Cordella. "Why can't she?" "Because you are going away." "Is that all?" he asked, dryly. "Well, I propose to vary my program this year. I propose to take my vacation in my own suburban retrap, and send your mother to the mountains." Cordella gasped, but was speechless. "Why this surprise? I can cook, can't I, young lady? And as for the management of this family, it has occurred to me that a season of gentle paternal discipline would not come amiss. There is a pleasant little boarding-place ten miles this side-of- camp, and mama could be very comfortable there." Cordella's face was still blank with astonishment. "The doctor says," continued her father, "that it would be well for mama to have one of her, children with her." Cordella was certainly very dense, for she replied in a resigned way: "I suppose Bobs-baby wouldn't let her go alone." Her father looked at her in some puzzlement, and looking, noticed how thin she was, and what knobby little wrists she had. "I'll settle that with Bobs-baby," he replied. "He is not to go. It must be one of you who can look after mama if she needs it." Still Cordella's little face was turned up to him, anxious, uncomprehending. "In short, Cordella," he concluded, "you are to go with your mother." Understanding slowly brightened over Cordelia's face. Her eyes grew starry, her lips trembled, her little nose wrinkled itself away. It was a teary smile, but it was Cordelia's smile—which who could help kissing, for the precious, precious sweetness of her? Then in the soft evening shadow, her father took Cordelia on his lap: he spoke a little huskily: "Cordelia, there are at least two very nice girls in my family—your mother and you."—Youth's Companion. A Present Day Utopia A Present Day Utopia Hugo Parton, writing in the Outing Magazine, says that the happiest and most beautiful spot on earth today is the island of Moorea, one of the Sandwich Islands in the South Seas. As a contrast to strenuous American methods this description sounds alluring: "Whenever you are thirsty a word will send a lilie, brown body scrambling up a tall palm tree trunk and in two minutes a green coconut is ready for you to quaff—the nectar of the Polynesian gods. It is worth the trip down here to eat the native 'vittals', for you get at every meal things you never tasted before, and each seems better than its predecessor. To see your dinner of fresh water shrimps, sharks' fins and roasted sea urchins. The bananas you eat—there are eleven varieties—baked, raw, fried, dried, grow a few rods back in the valley, ditto the breadfruit, the pineapples and about everything else on the board. It's nice to have you morning coffee grown in the back yard. Guavas grow in such profusion they are used as pig food, grated coconut is fed to hens, while sensitive plant is considered excellent fodder for cattle. "For perfection of the human body the Tahitan is unexcelled, if indeed he is anywhere equalled. They are a large race, both men and women being noticeably taller and more fully developed than Anglo-Saxons. Every man looks like a picked athlete with sloping shoulders and bared chests. A crowd of them together reminds one of the scene in a "locker building" toward the end of the fall when the 'varsity shirt is narrowed down and the afternoon's practice is just over. I doubt if any Society Islander ever went through a whole day in his life without having a wreath of flowers on his head or a blossom behind his car. The love of flowers is innate with man, woman and child; they can't pass through a patch of woods without emerging with a garland. Every gay mood calls for flowers on their hats, in their hair, behind their ears—and their life is an almost unbroken sequence of gay moods. Scarcely a native on the island of Moorea can speak a sentence of English, but every one you meet greets you with a courteous smile and the welcoming words 'fa-ora-na' (Yorana)." WORDS OF WISDOM. Love is never preserved in family jars. Poets are born—therefore parents must be to blame. People with small minds are apt to use some big words. It's impossible to make a doctor believe that health is wealth. Many a woman acquires her reputation for beauty at a drug store. What's the matter with putting up an umbrella for a rainy day? Clubs, for men have added much to the comforts of home. It takes vigorous brains to generate vigorous thoughts. A woman judges the value of a letter by the length of the postscript. If there's one thing a boy enjoys seeing more than a circus it is a dog fight. Although a cyclone carries everything before it, a lot of rain is left behind. Fortunate is the man with a pull—provided he doesn't pull the wrong way. One way to buy experience is to speculate in futures. Invisible patches are not used in patching up quarrels. Wise is the man who knows when to treat and when to re-treat. It's easy for a deaf mute to love a girl more than tongue can tell. Many a spinster who could have married in haste repents at leisure. Many a married woman's idea of a stylish hat is one that costs more than her husband can afford to pay. From "Pointed Paragraphs," in the Chicago-News. [Portrait of a man in a suit with a tie]. ROBERT F. MADDOX. Atlanta's Next Mayor. Made by Commission are Now in Effect. TIME FORCHECKING BAGGAGE twenty 'Four Hours Must be Allowed No Loaded Shotguns to be Carried on Trains. Atlanta, Ga.—The railroads in Georgia must allow twenty-four hours for checking, baggage. This ruling of the railroad commission went into effect December 3rd. Heretofore baggage left for more than twelve hours has been subject to demurrage charge of 25 cents a day. The railroad commission took up this matter several weeks ago, and its investigations led to an amendment to passenger rule number 5 relating to the checking and handling of baggage. The public must, therefore, be given twenty-four hours before demurrage charges can be assessed. A new rule has been adopted by the railroad commission which requires all railroad companies to stop their passenger trains at stations with a view to easy egress and ingress for passengers. In most instances trains are stopped in a way to expedite the handling of baggage. The commission has decided that the comfort of passengers must be the first consideration. No passenger will in future be allowed to carry a loaded shotgun into a railway coach. Any person entering a coach with a gun, must breech it within view of the conductor and show FOREST FIRES IN FLOYD. Many Acres of Timber Have Been Destroved. Home, Ga.—Forest fires in several districts of Floyd county have wrought great damage and destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of property in the past few days. Acres of timber were consumed by the fires on Horseleg Mountain and the fires have not yet been subdued. Miles of fence have been destroyed by the fires, and the loss will fall heavily on the farmers. It is not known how the fires have ben started, but it is thought by many that the woods were set on fire purposely, or by persons out hunting carelessly dropping matches in the dry leaves. The city has been filled with smoke from the fires during the mornings recently. $15,000,000 MORTGAGE DEED. Will Take Douglas Officials a Week to Transcribe. Douglasville, Ga. — A $15,000,000 mortgage deed is enough to create attention in large money centers, but such a deed was filed in Douglas county superior court here last week. The deed was made in favor of the Central Trust Company of New York by the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company for the purpose of refunding its outstanding indebtedness. A copy of the mortgage is filed in every county where there is a branch of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. SEEK TO EXTEND NOTES. Plans Advanced to Aid the Holding of Cotton, Statesboro, Ga.-That the Bullloch county branch of the Farmers' Union is making a determined effort to assist the farmers of this county cannot be disputed. Through a committee of the branch a meeting has been called for December 12 at the court house, which, if the object of the meeting is carried, will mean much to the farmers of this county. ROAD MAY ENTER COLUMBUS. Rumored That G, F. & A. May Build Extension to Richland, Columbus, Ga.—It is rumored here, although unconfirmed, that the Georgia, Florida and, Alabama Railway Company is to build an extension from Cuthbert, Ga., to Richland, Ga., and that its trains will enter Columbus over the tracks of the eSaboard Air Line Railway. J. P. Williams of Savannah is president, and J. O. Hatch of that city is vice president of the road. THROUGHOUT THE STATE: Robert F. Maddox is the next mayor of Atlanta. He won a decisive victory over his opponent, James G. Woodward, by a majority of 3.149 in the eight wards of the city. He carried six of the eight wards in Atlanta and lost two wards by very small majorities. Mr. Maddox and his friends are more than pleased at the result. They say that they made the fight for good government, and Atlanta stood nobly behind them. Governor Smith has appointed Berry T. Moseley judge of the recently created city court of Danielswille for a term of four years, beginning January 1, 1909. J. L. F. Bond was appointed solicitor of the court for the same period. The city council of Brunswick opened blds for $64,000 of refunding 5 per cent bonds to mature in January. 1921. Townsend, Scott & Son of Baltimore, were awarded the entire issue. In all there were eighteen bldders. Colonel Dan C. Kingman, who has for some time been conducting a joint investigation of damage in in and around Augusta by the recent flood, with Mayor B. M. Harrod of New Orleans has returned to his home in Savannah. Major Harrod took a sixmile tramp of the river bank on the Georgia side, in company with Nisbet Wingfield, commissioner of public works, for the purpose of examining carefully the damage wrought, to shore lines and adjacent property by the high water. Postmasters appointed for Georgia; Bopetteville, Decatur county, Albert F. Kenley, vice J. H. Cheshire, resigned; Emmalene, Jenkins county, William M. Tinley, vice W. Parrish, resigned; Hughes, Murray county, A. L. Brady, vice R. H. Keith, resigned; Masssee, Berrillon county, Jacob Gibbs, vice J. Newbr丹, Jr., resigned; Mistletoe, Columbia county, David C. Cliatt, vice B. F. Cliatt, resigned; Rockyford, Screven county, Maude Miller, pice J. M. Newton, deceased. On December 15 next Atlanta Masons will constitute a lodge of St. Justin conclave of the Red Cross of Constantine, and officers will be installed. It is announced that Samuel E. Bliss, grand sovereign, and George W. Warvelle, grand secretary, will attend the ceremonies, and Samuel P. Cochran of Dallas, Texas, illustrious intendent general of Texas, will conduct the ceremonies of constitution and installation. The ceremonies will take place at the Masonic temple, Mitchell and Forsyth streets. It is expected to make the affair one of the most important ever held by and Masonic order in Atlanta. At the next session of the general assembly of Georgia a bill will be introduced by representatives from Richmond county to amend the state constitution so that any city may have the right to issue municipal bonds on 50 per cent of its income-bearing property. A draft of the bill has been made out by Mayor Dunbar of Augusta by whom the proposed amendment was conceived, and submitted to the legislative committee of the chamber of commerce for their approval, so that it may be possible to carry out the original policies of presenting a bill that bears the official endorsement of both municipal authorities and organized commercial interests. Obviously, the purpose of the bill is to provide Augusta a means of raising money necessary for the erection of a levee for protection against future disaster by flood. The assessed tax valuation of the city's income-bearing property is more than $1,500,000, so it will be an easy matter to raise sufficient funds by the issuance of municipal bonds if the amendment is ratified. At a mass meeting of the citizens of Conyers and Rockdale county, it was unanimously agreed to extend to the citizens of DeKalb county who live in the territory, contiguous to Rockdale county a cordial invitation to become citizens of this county in the event of the dissolution of DeKalb county. The Elberton Air Line railroad with all its assets, was sold by Commissiter H. J. Rowe of Athens, to the sum of $51,252,18. This was the only bid that was made. The road will be operated as an independent line between Elberton and Tocoe. a: = = ee aE = === a = a ante at Ze ze =o Se Sere = . =e Ts et