Savannah Tribune
Saturday, October 30, 1909
Savannah, Georgia
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7 ij “FORTY GIRLS POISONED. C N \POTASH MONOPOLY PLANNED, | LATE-NEMS:NOTES.,
MANEUVERS ESSENTIAL|....a1°srsseete mee cu: [ ATLANTIC LINER SINKS cats noses wat vo now ve [OHILD LABOR IN SOUTH] =| UTEEEET.
——— lege Become Ill. . ———= 4 rf American Trade. —s Im a lecture beforo the Aero Clul
Officials Say That War Games| Birmingham, Ala—Perhaps Atty | 34 Lives Lost When Steamer et ce ee anne Textile Union Denounces the ee eee, Lottlescn Eat seats oe
? ‘/#irls, students at the Athens Female} =~ ia Hil ash mines atid American fertitizer'| Employment of Children. — | causa th tment of laws defnin:
Will Not Be Abandoned. {Conege, at atiens, Ala, have Bass] =. Hestia Hits Rocks. companies af ricea lower | than hose Rene On SENOS the Tight and ‘privileges. of person
ed through Birmingham, or stoppe: Z oO! @ syndicate has influenc« ie who travel fn balloans anc aero
4 here, I to their hi se The imperial minists yf the interic to pli 3 Mr. Fe te that uniles:
MILITIA NOT A. PLAYTHING) rs: S*,.2, 23facie2"Swine'ts| ONLY SIX PERSONS SAVED) trusts’ iiss ot ci, tutter te | ATTAGHS ATLANTA MINISTERS | rss," ic, Ror tears atti
. ———— 7 2 ed existing: ete Some of —- eee with the object of going Bell Sars Ailaais Bveechore Wie ba ouners whose Utes ee tse
Physical Standard of the National Caard oe eee eae ver dis: | Donaldson Liner, From Glasgow to Bel-|® Stverminent control over the pot- | Delegate Says Atlanta Preachers Ficht | possession of baie abore prope
“Mast Be Kept as High as That | banded, 6 Beneok wae GS] simore, Weedked on a Ledge in the Joa would prevent the-illing of Ameri. | Whiskey But Are'ladifferent About | Dash, "tn‘ order’ ‘to avold, sults fo
_ of the Regular Army. _ Relatives of the girls arriving say ‘Treacherous Bay of Fundy. can contracts at pricos contracted by | Children Working in the Mills. | trespass, Mr. Fox suggests that tht
Washington, 0D. C-—Recognizing
the law of the “survival of the fitt
est,” the officers of the war depart
sment have determined that henceforth
only the country’s strongest and best
will be allowed to participate in the
war games of the national guard. The
explanation of this action 1s that the
maneuvers are altogether too streau
ous and too much like the real artl
¢le for those not physically ft. —
The division of militia affairs wil
soon send out Instructions to the
medical officers of the various na
tional guard organizations directing
that more strenuous medical exam!
nations be required of recrults enter
ing the militia and that no militia
men who are not physically: able to
stand the strain will be allowed to
take part in future war games.
_ Strong faith in the present method
bf training the national guard {s ex:
pressed by General Robert Shaw Oli.
ver, assistant secretary of war, whe
has charge of militia affairs.
“The war department,” he says,
has not tho slightest ‘intention of
varying its plans for the general ed.
ucation of the national guard in con.
nection with the army In joint camps
and maneuvers In alternate years,
and by the methods provided in gen:
eral orders of the war department.
Future participation of the national
guard in maneuvers similar to those
recently held in * Massachusetts
should shereafter be limited to suen
organizations as have proved fit to
také reasonable and proper care of
themselves, and only those organiza.
tiéns which have been especially re-
ported to the department as such
should be given this privilege.
“There is no question that the re
cent maneuvers have been Invalua.
ble, and simply because certain hard-
ships may have been suffered through
thelr ignorance by some of the men
of the national guard there is certain.
Jy no. reason for interference with
‘or changing in any way the well set.
Hed policy which has been determin-
ea~vpon by the war department.
‘There is no reason for assuming that
there was any excessive amount of
sickness or injury to health in the
recent maneuvers. On the contrary,
from certain unofficial statistics
which have been published, it Is in-
clined to believe that there has been
Jess sickness as a result of these
maneuvers than usual.” =
‘The real lesson. derived from the
Massachusetts war games 1s that the
physical standard of the national
guard must be kept practically as
high as that of the army itself. The
militia can no longer be considered
@ mere plaything, or an excellent sub-
stitute for gymuatsic exercise by clt-
fzens, It must be ready to respond
effectively when called upon, if it fs
to-be taken seriously as a factor in
the national defense.
" WHY WOMEN MARRY.
Chicago Minister Explains Cause of
hbebieamees.
Lena Seer me,
Chicago, I—Matrimonial mishaps
and how to avold them was the text
of an address delivered before the
Kilo association, a woman's club, by
the Rey. D. D, Vaughan.
About two hundred young women
listened to the discourse and went to
their homes with some of the follow.
ing epigrams to ponder over:
Marriage is the normal state, but
St fs no longer @ necessary state.
Women often marry for a home,
for money, or because they wish to
show some other woman that they can
marry that particular man.
Learn to understand your husbands
—men are transparent,
Pretty womon are not in demand;
neat girls are.
To hold the love of your husbands,
Keep fooling them. Make them be
Heve you are the angel they supposed
you before the wedding ceremony.
‘Women should love their husbands
more than their children or parents;
otherwise they will not be {deally hap-
PY, .
_ "The idea that a man can live
cheaper after he has married than he
did before is fallacious and mislead.
ing.” sald Mr. Vaughan.
“That Is possible only when the
candidate for matrimon{al honors has
spent his income in riotous living.
‘The single man who has been thrif-
ty will find that when he gets married
che will be called upon to spend three
‘times as much for living expenses as
he did before.”
OIL COMPANIES FINED $175,000.
Pleaded Guilty to Violating Texas
Anti-Trust Laws,
Austin, Texas—The Security Oll
Company and the Navarre Refining
Company confessed ‘to having entered
into a combine in volation of the
‘Texas anti-trust laws, In the district
court, and judgments amounting to
about $175,090 were entered against
the companies by Judge Calhoun of
the sixth district court, ~
A fine amounting to $65,000 was as-
sessed agalust the Standard O!1 Com-
pany of Indiana. .
‘The Union Tank Line Company was
fined, for the value of sixty-five tank
cars<of oll, Which are now in posses-
sipn of the state. “© |...
FORTY GIRLS POISONED.
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Birmingham, Ala—Perhaps ‘Atty
sirls, students at the Athens Female
College, at Athens, Ala, have pass:
ed through Birmingham, or stopped
here, going to their homes. The
school has been disbanded, owing to
a malady existing’ there,” Some of
the girls passing through Were on
tnvalid beds. ‘The school was dls
banded.
Relatives of the girls arriving say
that there are forty-odd girls at the
college too ill’ to be removed. It fs
said that a Nashville specialist has
Pronounced the malady, which wasat
first thought to be’ fever, to be
ptomaine poisoning, and it ‘is also
said here that it is an epidemic of
grip. Whatever it Is, there are doz-
ens of sick girls, ‘No deaths are
reported. Seven trained nurses from
Nashyille are aid to be at ‘Athens.
‘The college is under the auspices of
the Methodist Church.
Advices from Athens aro to the
effect that the school has been sus-
pended for ten days. The president,
Miss Mary N. Moore, was thrown
from her horse about ten days ago
and sustalned a broken rib. For
several days she has been at the
home of her sister, Mrs. F, W. Bran-
don, In Bessemer, "Rey. F. W. Bran-
don, presiding elder of ‘the Bessemer
istrict, 1s now at Atheris in charge
of the“school — |
It fs stated that about 100 students
have left thé school in the last few
days, Although great secrecy has
been maintained about the situation
at the school because of the fear
that it would do the institution in-
calenlable hard, {t is understood that
the doctors have been greatly puz-
zied by the malady, The first symp-
toms are sald to be a severe aching
of thei lower limbs, followed by yio-
lent vomiting. That it has not been
really serlous 1s showa-by the fact
that there have deen no fatalities.
The sickness, is it sald, passes off
in two days,
Bessemer, Ala—Regarding the epl-
demic of fitness at the Athens Fe-
male College at Athens, Ala. whieh
has caused a ten days’ Guspension of
the Institution, the president, Miss
Mary N, Moore, who is in this city,
suffering from a broken rib, issued
@ statement In which sho says:
“Of the 173 girls in the school, 43
were taken .sick of ptomaine poison
from eating fish, and while none of
the sickness 1s of a serious nature,
it was thought best to give the holl-
day. To decide exactly what the
sickness was, the state bacterlologtst
of Tennessee came from Nashville,
and made n diagnosis and gave as his
opinion tHat the, aickness was pto-
maine polsoning from eating fish, and
the ame report was concurred in by
Dr. Cunningham Wilson of Birming-
ham, > =
U, S.NAVY WILL TRY WIRELESS,
Experiments To Be Conducted With
Long Distance System.
Washington, D, C-——-The navy is
soon to conduct experiments in long
distance wireless telegraphy. —_ Im.-
pressed with thé importance of 2 sys-
tem which will in cases of necessity
transmit messages from some placo
on the Atlantic seaboard a. distance
of three thousand miles, the subject
was taken up in earnest almost a
year ago.
‘The desirability of such Jong dts-
tance communication, the officials
say, 1s obvious, for in times of war
it would prove invahiable to the gov-
ernment. By its means the navy
department will be able to .control
and direct readily from shore the
movements of the fleet. ‘This, togeth-
er with the proposition ‘o’ install
wireless apparatus in the specifica:
tlons Inviting proposals for construct-
ing the proposed high powered station
as well as for the apparatus abroad
ships.
‘The messages from shore must not
be interrupted by atmospheric dis-
turbances or internatfonal or uninten-
tional interference by neighboring
stations, The messages also must be
transmitted with entire secrecy. The
apparatus aboard thé ships must be
capable of transmitting and receiving
messages at all jimes, in all’ seasons
and in al] latitudes for one thousand
miles, and to receive messages from
the high powered station for three
thousand miles at all times.
‘Upon the result of these experl-
ments will rest the question of the
erection by the navy of a wireless
tower at Washington, D. C., as con-
templated originally, ‘that in Massa-
chusetts belonging to a private com-
pany,
| Newsy Paragraphs.
As a tesult of a feud between Ital-
fan families of New Orleans, Lewis
‘Manacia, aged twelve years, is dead
and his mother and two childron are
dying. They ate sugar sent them as
a present, It was discovered that tt
was sent by enemies of the family.
“Rocky Boy and “his band of Chip-
pewa Indians, numbering about one
hundred and fifty braves, encamped
near Birds Eye, Mont, probably will
owe their rescue from’ death by Star-
vation to the promptness of Indian
office officials, who took speedy
means to relleve “thelr desperate
plight,
The West Virsinia synod of the
Presbyterian Church fn session at
Elkins, W. Va., adopted a resolution
protesting “against the invitation ex-
tended to President Taft to address
the Jaymens’ nifssionary . convention
November 11. This action was tak-
en after a lengtliy discussion, argu-
ments in favor Of the resoluti@ne be-
ing based upon the president's’ afflia-
thon with the ‘Unitarian -clitrch,
ATLANTIC LINER SINKS
34 Lives Lost When Steamer
., Hestia Hits Rocks.
ONLY SIX PERSONS SAVED
Donaldson Liner, From Glasgow to Bal-
timore, Wrecked on a Ledge in the
Eastport, Maine-—The North Atlan:
tle's annual toll’ of lives and vessels
received the first tithe of the winter
season from its tributary—the Bay of
Fundy—in the loss of at least a score
of souls, and the destruction on
shoal, inside of Old Proprietor’s ledge,
of Seal Cove, Grand Manan, of the
Donaldson line steamer Hestia, bound
from Glasgow for St. Johns and Bal.
timore. .
Four of the victims—young Scotch
laddies—were passengers on the Ill-
fated steamer and the others were
members of the crew. Captain New.
man and twenty or more members of
thé crew were last seen In a ship's
‘boat which was being tossed on a
stormy sea,
Of ‘the forty persons who were
aboard the steamer when she piled up
on the shoal, only six are positively
known to have been saved. They
were forced to cling to the wreck,
shifting their precarious positions of-
ten as the steamer was tossed by the
great seas,
‘A heavy northeasterly gale ts be-
Meved to have been responsible for the
Hestia’s fate, although it is supposed
that a mistake of the man at the
wheel in believing he had picked up
Gannett Rock Light, while discerning
the gleamS of the lighthouse on Ma
chias Eeal Island, several miles south-
west, was the principal cause of the
disaster. -
FLOOD DESTROYS MEXICAN TOWNS.
Property Damage Will Reach Into
‘Millions.
| Mexico City, Mexico—An estimated
fous of ‘ve millions jot pesos, inelud-
ing crops of corn, beans and other
grain, frult and flue hardwoods, two
lives’ known to be lost, and many
others, it {s feared, sacrificed in the
foods, hundreds of homes in. country
and. twn washed away and thousands
of head of cattle drowned are the
known results of the disastrous cloud-
Durst and storm that broke over the
state of Tabasco, following on twenty-
one days’ of incessant rain all over
this region. Rivers are out of their
banks, towns are inundated, thousands
are homeless and no reliet is yet in
sight. °
A total of 32 1-2 Inches of water has
fallen in the state in three weeks,
which 1s the record for waterfall in
32 years. A large part of the lower
section of San Juan Bautista is under
water, The Barrio of Santa Cruz has
“been totally depopulated, and the wa
ter is three and four ‘feet deep in
many houses. Temporary lodging
houses have been fitted up by the au-
thoritics of San Jyan Bautista, and
more than a thousand people are be-
ing fed and lodged at the city's cx
pense, :
So complete is the inundation of
Santa Rosa that {t resembles an arm
of the sea. Streets, parks and gar-
dens aro inundated ‘by three feet of
water, and the population is livzug on
roofs,’ shivering and starving, praying
for the waters to recede. *
W. 6. T. U. CONVENTION.
All Old National Officer Re-Elected by
Temperance Workers.
bebaccen rt beac lenin th tala
Omaha, Nebr—Election of’ officers
and adoption of resolutions were the
featres of tho sessions of -the na
flonal convention of the Women's
Christian "Temperance Union, No
«change of importance Is madé fn the
‘national organization, but that body
went unanimously on recorg as giv.
ing little encouragement to woman
suffrage.
Total abstinence is again made the
watchword of the organization.
President Taft is asked to use his
prerogative and abolish the sale of in.
toxtcating Mquors in the Panama cu-
nal zone.
Chijd labor {s denounced and the
organization 1s pledged to secure a
minimum working age by federal ex
actment.
‘The conyention re-elected its old na
tional officers fér the coming yeas.
‘The sid goneral officers are:
‘Mrs, Lillian M. N. Stevens of faine,
president; Miss Anna M. Gordon ut
Ilinols, vice presidentatiarge; Mrs.
Frances P. Parks of Ilinols, corre:
sponding secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth
Preston Axdersop ‘of North Dakota,
recording secretary; Mrs, Sarah Hoge,
of Virginia, ussistant recording secre-
tary, and Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hutchin-
$on ‘of Iilinols, treasurer.
WEALTHY WOMAN A SUICIDE.
Jacksonville Hptel Dead.
Jacksonville, Ffa—With ber throat
cut from ear to ear, Mrs. Mabel A.
Beauchain, of Boston, Mass., was found
dying in her room in the Aragor Ho-
tel by her private physician, Dr. £.
E. Banker of New York, who accom:
panied her here ang occupted a .robm
across the hall, She died a short
time later. :
Mrs, Beauchain was ‘the widoy of
the Iste John L. Beauchain, part own-
er of the Moxie Nerve Remedy, and
was quite wealthy. She was 34 Years
ola, and had been in bid health for
some-timé, In"committing suicide she
‘used a razor belonging to Dr. Banker.
\POTASH MONOPOLY PLANNED.
Germsn -Dealers Wait to Hold Up
American Trude,
Berlln, Germany.—The _ completion
of contracts between the German pot-
ash mines atid American fertilizer
companies at prices lower than those
of the syndicate has influenced the
imperial ministry of the Interior to
prepare bills for submission to the
Telchstag, with the object of creating
a government control over the pot-
ash frdustry. The legislation propos-
ed would ‘prevent the-filling of Amerl-
can contracts at jiricos contracted by
the Americans, who have placed or-
ders covering a greater part of thelr
requirements up to 1917.
If these measures should be adopt-
ed, America, which takes about sixty
per cent of the potash exported, would
be obliged to pay monopoly prices,
‘The American interests here are
concerned over the ~ situation, and
probably will make _ representations
concetuing it to the state department
SCHEME TO DEFRAUD.
Spanish Swindlers Again Set Their
aanntat, 226, the_Unwary.
Washington, D, C-—After a period
of quiescence ai adroit gang of Span-
ish swindlers which has for the last
15, fines deen exploiting credulous
pepile. in America has resumed activ-
itygd Within the last few days letters
hala been received in Washington del
tedt@y approaching the recipients for
fuiids, While the schemo is many-
aided’ and the details vary in each
caSe, the basis of the appeal is al-
Whys an injured’ damsel in distress.
ge sums of money are promised
t} the confiding American who will
pat up a small amount of cash to res-
cle the unfortunate young woman.
in one case the alleged writer of
je Jetter was a Spanish banker and
seabed to Russia only to be arrested
d returned to Spain. He, however,
taken the precaution to secret 2
cument which would be indispensa-
je to the finding of the treasure In
secret pocket in 2 portmanteau, and
is find he would divide with” the
American who would take In charge
his.young daughter and recover tho
property"at the place he would tndl-
cate--for a present financial consid-
eration. .
It Is known to the state and post-
office departments that a number of
eredulous Americans have fallen into
this trap, so that every effort will be
made to break up the gang. -
FARHER’S FORTUNATE WIFE.
Woman — is Left $4,000,000 by a
< Warnes: Guvesthaals:
hs Jonesboro, Ark—Coming as a se-
quel of hher’ girlhood days, Mrs. John
D. Erwin, wifé of a Green county
farmer, will probably be put In pos-
session “of an estate valued, it is es:
Umated, at $4,000,000, ,R. E. MeGoft,
a Kentucky attorney, executor of the
estate of a resident of that state
whose name he will not disclose, is
in Jonesboro securing proot as to the
identity of Mrs. Erwia.
Some years ago, It 1s asserted, Mrs.
Erwin, then Mary Duval, met a young
Gefman, who told her of yast ances-
tral’ estates. The two became fast
frlends, but because of parental ob-
jection’ the marriage which he pro-
posed did not occur. Instead ’ the
young woman became the wife of a
farmer. Recently “the man who first
sought her hand died, naming in his
will as bis legatee his former sweet-
heart, ‘That she can produce ample
proof that she is the person 1s de-
elared by Mrs, Erwin, :
GOVERNMENT GINNING REPORT.
5,525,591 Bales Ginned to October
the Eighteenth,
Washington, D. C—The census re-
Port shows 3,525,591 bales, counting
round as half bales, ginned from the
growth of 1909 to ‘October 18,
‘The number of bales ginned of the
crop ‘of 1909, by states, is a3 fol-
Iqws:
‘Alabama 513,535, Arkansas 927,645,
Florida 34,903, Georgla 1,113,700, Lou:
isiana 144,073, Mississippi 293,414,
North Caroline 253,245, Oklahoma
329,705, South Carolina 622,570, Ten-
nessee” 101,190, Texas 1,672,812, all
others 19.799.
Five Girls Die in Fire.
Lynchburg, Va—Five children, all
Inmates of the nursery, were inciner-
ated in a fire which totally destroyed
Shelton Collegefi the home of-the girls
at the Virginia Synod Presbyterian
Orphans’ Home. The children were
all on the second floor of the wing of
the building, and were caught by the
fire in a manner that made their res-
cue impossible.
Triple Murderer Confesses.
Kansas City, Mo—James McMahon
confessed he murdered his sisters,
‘Miss Rose McMahon and Mrs, Alonzo
Van Royen, and his broterin-law,
|Alonzé Van’ Royen, on a farm near
‘Kansas City, Kans. last week.. A
long-standing family quarrel caused
the tragedy.
| Keeping Liquor From Indians.
| Washington, D, C—The Indian se
eret service for the suppression of tho
Mquor traffic among Indias Is mak-
ing a vigorous campaign in Wiscon-
sin. Notwithstanding- the local prej-
udice encountered and the active work
of the organized Iquor interests, good
results are delng reported from ee
er towns in which roaming Indiins
bave secured liquor,
Last Federal Commander Dead.
Burlington, Vt-—General Oliver O.
Howard, last of the union command:
ers of the civil war, died at histiome
in this city. Heart disease was’ the
cause of tho’ noted soldiers death.
He was’ 79 years ld. ° *
CHILD LABOR IN SOUTH
Textile Union Denounces the
Employment of Children.
ATTACHS ATLANTA MINISTERS
Delegate Says Atlanta Preachers Fight
Whiskey But Are‘Indifferent About
Children Working in the Mills.
Washingten, D. C—Declaring that
dearly as he loved the south, he was
not willing to have her purchase com-
mercial success at the sacrifice of
her Uttle children, F. C. Roberts, for-
merly a Georgian, and. chairman of a
committee of the Central Labor Un-
fon of this city, at the convention of
the United Textile Workers of Amer-
tea, stirred up much fndignation
against Dr. C. A. Stiles of the United
States Public Health and Marine Hos-
pital Service, who was quoted before
the Southern Textile Association at
Raleigh by a speaker who was defend-
ing the employment of children in the
southern cotton mills.
‘Mr. Roberts declared his surprise
that a ‘public officer, paid from the
public revenue, should appear before
@ convention of employers of labor
and undertake to defeid the system
of child labor in the southern states.
He advocated action by the conven:
tion in opposition to any attempt to
further extend and to perpetuate the
system of child labor in southern cot-
ton mills. Such employment, he said,
merely tended to displace adults.
“I Jove the southland,” said Mr.
Roberts, “and I would do almost any-
thing in’ my power to have the cotton
of the south manufactured in the
southern states. But there are prices
I would not pay for such a commer-
cial victory. I would not give our
little children as the price of success.
“We know that the houses of these
people are unsanitary. The effort ‘ot
‘organized labor is to make them more
sanitary, Here in the district of Co-
lumbia is a dally occurrence to hear
white’ and black men and women ask-
ing the judge of tho-polico court to
send them to the workhouse becauso
they would be better off there than in
‘thelr own homes, °
Thomas Tracy, secretary of the
‘Union Label Department of the Amer-
{ean -Federation of Labor, called at-
tention to an article appearining in an
August magazine, which, he sald,
would place Dr. tSiles in’ the position
of a witness against himself inthe
matter gf the emplosment” ot ‘ofira
ren in Southern cotton mills,
In that article, he said, Dr. Stiles
had deprecated the employment of
children and stated there were 200,000
children In the southern cotton mills,
and that their lives weer slowly be-
ing sapped by the hook-work disease.
John I, Rodler of this city warned
delegates from the New England
states that if they looked with indif-
ference, on the policy of working the
children in the southern cotton mills
they would socn face a movement for
the repeal of child labor laws in Mas-
sachusetts, Rhode Island and Connect-
feut, as the New England industry
would find It impossiblé to compete
against such cheap labor,
“I find,” said Mr: Rodfer, “that men
who advocate putting children In the
cotton mills of the south do not put
thelr own children there, but send
them to school, :
‘Mr. Rodier told of his experience
in Atlanta, Ga,eduring a campaign
against the Mquor tratic.
“Ministers of the gospel and women
got down on their knees,” he said,
“and prayed to save blg, strong men
from the demon rum and against their
own vices, but these same ministers |
and women were indifferent when we.
attempted to get legislation prevent-
ing the omployment of children un-
dek ten years of age.
After the speaker had left the .as-
sembly hall, his reference to the min-
isters and’ children brought Eawin
Johnson of New Bedford, Conn, to
his feet, declaring that a gratuitous
Insult had been offered to the mixls-
ters. &
Secretary “Albert Hibbert of Fall
River, Mass, suggested that It was a
fact that ministers did not take the
same interest in prohibiting child 1a-
bor that they‘tcok in the liquor traf.
SHARED FORTUNE WITH BROTHER.
Dr. Morgan Realized $7,000,000, and
Gave Brother $1,000,000.,
New York City—Through the gen-
erosity of a, brother, Dr. E. B. Mor-
gan of Paterson, N,’J., with a mod-
est Income, has become the possessor
of $1,000,000, Recently the brother,
Dr. John Morgan of Boston, realized
$7,000,000 throuhg the sale of some
secnrities, and, desiring his’ brother
‘to share his good fortune, offered
him a,millfon, Tho offer was nc-
cepted’ and the Paterson physician
will retire from practice,
$100 FOUND IN HAIL.
Unaddressed “Envelope Containing
Money in the Dead Letter Office.
Washintgon, D, C—Somebody Is
out just $100’ because of carelessness
in forwarding; money through the
mails. The division of dead letters of
the postoffice department received an
envelope, unsealed and unaddressed,
containing an,amount of currency ag:
gregating about $100.
The envelope was deposited in 2
street letter box in a town in New
York state. :
» THe inguiry will be continued for
Some time and if the Identity, of the
sender pf the money is not disclosed,
the ‘money will be turned sinto the
‘Dalted Slates treasusy *
LATE-NEWS:NOTES.
©. ‘Genenals t
.,In a lecture beforo the Aero Club
of America, Lyttleton Fox urges that
the club take immediate steps to
causa the enactment of laws dcning
"the rights and privileges of persons
who travel {fn ballo@ns and aero-
planes, Mfr. Fox fears that unless
Jaws to the contrary are passed, prop-
erty owners whose titles give them
possession of the alr above property,
may prosecute. air travelers for tres-
pass, In order to avold suits .for
trespass, Mr. Fox suggests that the
varlous states condemn a certain ae-
rial stratum as a public highway
and take title to ft. * a *
- Two large 22,000-pound Rodman
guns, relics of- the confederacy,
mounted at the abandoned Fort Hen-
Ty, near Pass Christian, Miss. wilt
de blown up and shattered into port-
able sections with dynamite. They
were recently sold .to 2 St. Louis
firm by the state of Afisstesippi and
were to be exhibited ab historical cu-
riosities. But the purchasere have
fount it Impossible to get the guns
away from their mountings, The site
of the old fort has almost been buried
under the accumulations of the past
forty years : %
Counterfelters, working almost ‘In.
the shadow of the treasury, have in-
vaded certain districts of Washington
with spurious coin, The counterfeits
are of the 25 cent and 10 cent -coln-
age, patterned after the issue of 1908,
but, according to the secret service
operatives, they are poor imitations.
Jobn L. Carlisle, a prominent farm+
er and politician of Marion county,
Mississippi, Is so strongly impressed
with the belief that he has found gold
on bis farm near Magnolia “thut he
has sent a sack of the nuggets to the
United States assay office at Wash-
ington for analysis, The nuggets
were picked up in a cotton field on
the Carlisle place, and the ground
is thickly strewn with them. They
appear to be a composition of- sand
and bright flecks resembling goid.
dust,
The International. Banking corpor-
ation, an American concern, which
was the first to open a house in Pe-
kin, Ching, stated m branch in Han-
kow, With’ the object of increasing
trade relations intween the United
States and the Far East.
‘Washington.
When President Taft returns from
his western trip he will find awaiting
him in the whitehouse a big barrel
of sauerkraut which represents his
winning at the Elks’ fair held at San-
dusky,s Ohio, last winten, ‘Tho pres—
ident was presented the winning tick-
et by W. H Reinhart, head of the
Perry’ centennialgcommission, while
the jatter was if Washington, ‘The
barrel was packed with twenty-two
gallons of fresh briny food and -tx~
pressed to Washington,
Record target practice scores of
the vessels of the American ‘navy for
4909 made public at tho navy depart-
thent show that the Washington {s
a winner of the battleship class, the
Charleston a winner in the cruiser,
class, the Wilmington a winner in tho
gunboat class, the Tingey the win-
ner in vessels competiting for the tor~
pedo trophy. :
The use of the words “so help ma
God” at the end of oaths may bo
prohibited in the courts of tho Dis-
trict of Columbia if congress passes
a law which Is now belng dratted by
the commissfoners of the District of
Columbia, The bill under considera-
tion is similar to one efacted by the
Maryland legislature, and leaders of
the bench and bar in Washington are
being consulted as to the desirability
ef recommending -Its ensctment by
congress,
A pew in, the fashlonable St. John’s.
Eplscopal church in Washington, the
property of the late Dr. Robert ‘Rey-.
burn, was put up at auction. As there
were no bidders the pew. probably
will be sold_at private sale. Lest
May a pew In the same church’
brough brought/ $3,000. ‘This is not
the only high’ phice pafd for a pew in
St. John’s In 1816, when the edifice,
was built, the pews sold for $100
each, but at that time the church or-
ganization recelved the moncy and
not a pew holder, as now is the case,
A few years ‘ago Representative
George M. Hutt of ‘Pennsylvania pur-
chased from an estate a pew directly
in the rear of what 1s known as the
“presidential pew,” paying $2,750
Uncle Sam grew financially fat off
industrious inventors last year, the
records showing that revenues in
fees from this source were sum™clent
to pay $1,887,443, the expenses of the
United States patent office, and Ieave
a surplus of $88,476. This fact, which
is emphasized In the annual report of
Edward B Moore, commissioner of,
patents, has made the basis for im-”
portant recommendations urging new
laws by congress which will effectual.
ly expediate-methods for issuing pat-
nts, z
Improvements tn the ‘methods of
sustaining the army while traveling
by rail have made the lot of the pri-
vate soldier much more comfortable
than formerly, This‘is shown in tho
annual report of Commissary General, °
Henry G. Sharpe. The report says
the Operations of the kitchen tourist
car, the detachment mess car and
tha portable gas cooker, which he
says have been thoroughiy tried out,
are found satisfactory. They hate
revolutionized, he says, the old sys-
tem of providing for subijstence of
traveling ‘froops, The report shows
that it wost the commissary: depart!
ment $333,822 tore to Keép thé army
of Cuban pacifestion."in the island
than it would have cost to take cara
of the soldiers in this ‘country’
, | ° bargest sIcK and Deatn E
“_, Bel R WILLIAMS, President. . P, EDWARD PERRY, |
~ The G ty Aic
oo ce U Panty ae
‘gi ; SOL. 0. JOHNSON, Supt, of Zgenoiw
|S Gaasuay of Mate of Buigia. |
ce . lle, we vr een age ”
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Tarendlisgek Geass of the Seale of Gerrgio, herelyy ackaciolds’ >
ef . . 2 have wretieed fiseZEh a 2 ah De: + Cada .
. Pre the following dserebed tie. ewnte =” .
Pa Ep an eS Be, |
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- Ff Gooiginnly ontherily and anda the poaisisns ofan Aol of the Gencral
‘ 3 a? Treasurer of the State of Georgia.
223 BALES OF COTTON
SOLD BY STATE FARM
Attanta, Ga—Chairman Rue Hutch-
ens and Wiley Williams of the pris-
on commission have just returned
from the prison farm at Milledgeville,
which they report to be in a most
prosperous condition. While there
they disposed of 123 bales of cotton
rafsed on the farm at between 13 and
14. cents per pound. , ‘i
It is expected that’ the farm thiS
year will sell products to the extent
of considerably more than $20,000. On
a trip to the farm two weeks ago
General Evans sold 100 bales of cot-
ton at about 13 cents, The farm has
already realized $17,000 on the sale
of cotton, and there will be about
59 more bales to be sold, and 1,000
bales of hay to be sold.
The farm has raised plenty of corn,
hay and forage for its owrsi needs
and will be practically self-support-
ing ,according to reports made by the
commissioners,
There are now about 250 prisoners
on the farm, including women.
SERGEANT LESTER IS
ASSIGNED TO GEORGIA
Atlanta, G2.—Notification from the
war department at Washington has
been recejved by Adjutant General
Scott of The assignment of Sergeant
Henry F. Lester, Jr., of the first in-
fantry to duty in Georgia, with heac-
quarters at Atlanta,
Sergeant Lester, while in the em-
ploy of the regular army, Is to be
under the orders of Adjutant General
Scott. He will instruct the Various
companies in the care and repair of
equipment 2rd make himselt_general-
ly useful in perfecting the service of
the state, ~
21,205 BALES OF COTTON .
ARE SENT TO BREMEN
Savannah, Ga.—Carrying 21,85
bales of cotton, equivalent to 22,725,
600-pcuzd bales, and valued at $1,-
534,102, the Leland line steamer In-
dian sailed from Savannah for Bre-
men, This is probably the most val-
uable cargo of cotton that ever clear-
ed from an American port. Besides,
the Indian carries 700 barrels of ros-
"in valued at $5,828,
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER IS
THE BANNER STREAM
Montgomery, Ala-—The Alabama
tiver has had an unfavorable report,
mage October 1 from” W. P. Lay, spe-
-ctal agent of the. government, who has
-been looking in southern streams. He
Intimates that the river traffic can-
not compete with rail under present
conditions to the extent required by
the government; also that there has
not been adequate growth of the
business.
‘Thet Chattahoochee, in Georgia, is
the stream with the banner showing.
Merchants along the route own boats
and jn this way make its traffic very
.preftable in the saving of rates.
Sx Tenor aes
"NEAL BANK TO PAY
7 DIVIDEND NOVEMBER 20
Atlanta, Ga—The Central Bank and
“frnst Corporation, as admipistrator of
the Neal Bank, “hied in the superior
court 2 petition to be allowed to pay
all depositors of the Neal Bank a diy-
idend of 15 per cent on November
20. Practically sufficient funds for
this purpose are now on hand, It is
set out, and more is expected to be
soon realized from the sale of Neal
Bank holdings.
It is set out in the petition that
the Central Bank and Trust Corpora-
tion thrcugh the, sale of certain prop-
erty of the Neal Bank, has realized
$214,845.98, while the total amount
ntcded to pay a 15 per cent disiderd
te eH depositors of the Neal Bank Is
only $240,000. The remaining $25,-
and, it is set out, is expected to be
realized from other sales before No-
vember 20. Practically: sufficient
funds for this purpose are now on
hand, it 1§ set out, and more,is ex-
pected to be soon realized from the
sale of Neal Bank holdings.
In case these sales are not made
by that time it is petitioned that the
C¥ntral Bank and Trust Corporation
be allowed to borrow this amount
PRIZES AWARDED TERRELL
COUNTY CORN CONTEST
Dawson, Ga—At the beginning of
this year Hon, John R. Mercer here
‘offcred four-prizes aggregating $100
‘to the farmers of Terrell county who
produced the largest quantity of corn
to the acre in this county this year,
the land to be carefully measured and
the corn, accurately weighed by dis-
interested persons.
A large number of competitors con-
tended for these prizes, and the
awards were made, the successful con-
testants being axyfollows:
First prize $40“ awarded to H. T.
Bridges, who raised 110 38-56 bushels
cn one acre;' second prize, $30, G. F.
Smith, 99 20-56 bushels; third prize,
$20, J. L. McLeod, 64 13-56 bushels,
atid fourth prize, $10, J. C. Hill, 5%
bushels.
SUMTER COUNTY ENCOUR-
AGES HOME GROWN GRAIN.
Americus, Ga—To encourage home
preduction of grain and cereals and
secure the best provender for the
county's lve stock, the county com-
missicners of Sumter are ’authorized
to purchase every bale of pea vine
hay produced, in the county, paying
$16 per ton ‘therefore. Already the
commissioners have recently purchas-
ed enormous quantities of hay, and
will likewise purchase several car-
loads of home raised corn for live
stock, and as bread for chaingang
forces. Sumter county works one
hufdred convicts anda hundred mules
in road improvement, and alf surplus
corn and hay finds a market here,
TO DAM SAVANNAH
“RIVER NEAR ELBERTON
Atlanta, Ga—The railroad commis-
sion has authorized the Interstate
Power Company with. offices at El-
berton, Ga., to issue $5,000,000 wort?
of bords and $5,000,000 of stock. The
purpese of the company {s to con-
struct a great dam on the Savannah
river near Elberton and to genergte
exd furnish electric power for manu-
facturing and other purposes. -
One of the Jeading promoters of*the
concern js C. Elmer Smith, a York,
Pc. millionaire, 4 7
WITH NECK BROKEN
MACON YOUTH LIVES
Macon, Ga—Lying in the Macon
nospital with his neck broken by a
fall from his room window; Earl
Hedges; a well known young man,
and nephew of ‘Judge Robert Hodges
of this city, is+fully conscious, and
physicians entertain hope of saving
his life. In attempting to fasten a win-
dow shutter the young man lost his’
balance and fell 20 feet + 7
The surgeons found complete paral-
ysis of the entire body, except the
muscles of the heed. The youth’ re-
gained consciousness, and later tali-
ed coherently. Sy
GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Some days ago it was arnounced
that, unless the national guard of the
several states came up to the require.
ments of the regular army federal
aid would be withdrawn, Adjutant
General Scott stated he was doing all
in his power to bring. the militia of
Georgia up to requirements, and he
felt confident federal aid would not be
withdrawn in this state. So far as
organization is concerned, the na-
tional guard of Georgia is already up
to requirements, he stated. This
means that the national guard is or-
ganized just as the regular army is,
having the regulation number of offi-
cers and carrying no extra officers.
|The equipment isnot yet up to the
‘standard, but is being brought to a
1apid state of perfection. The state
of Georgia now receives $90,000 an-
nually from the federal government.
This 18 used. for equipment for rifle
practice and encampments.
Governor Brown has offered a re-
wait of $100 for the arrest and evi-
dence to convict the. unknown person
or persons who on March 13 and
September 13 last fired the sawmill
of J. B. Spinks, at Jupetion, City, in
Talbot. county.
The executiva committee of the
beard of trustees of the Georgia State
College of Agriculture has, authorized
the formation of a class in manual
training for the benefit of boys who
desire to learn the art of handling
tools and the elementary principles
ef working with wood and iron. Not
more than sixteen boys can be accom-
medated at present, ang they will be
given a place in the order of the re-
ceipt of the application.
Chafles A, Wickersham was re-
elected president and general mana-
ger of the Atlanta and West Point
read and the Western Railway of
Alabama, at the annnal stockholders’
and directors’ meeting held at the
officcs of the company in Atlanta.
This was the ninth re-election of Mr.
Wickersham Frank H. Hill was .-
elected secretary and treasurer of
the company. He has been with the
company for twenty-two years, acting
in his present capacity since April,
1901, The other administrative of-
ficers are appointive and are W: H.
Smith, auditor; B, T. Eckles, general
freight agent; J. P. Billups, -general
passenger agent; R, T-*Pace, purchas-|
ing agent. The regular semi-annual
dividend of 3 perccent was declared
for the West Point stock and 2 1-2
for the Western of “Alabama. The
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' This company ts duly chartered under the laws of the State of Georgis, and has complied with all re
quirements of the State Insurance dupartment, therefore all policy holders are protected with all the safeguards
that the strict insurance laws of this State seek to protect its citizens. .
“Its affairs are directed and managed by Negro men of the city of Savannzh of leading standing, and whose
character and reputation are of such as to command the respect end confidence of all the people of that
community. The same men that manage this Goclety are the ones that oiganized and are conducting the af-
fairs of the first successful Negro Savings Bank in this state, therefore we can readily seo that by- connecting
themselves with this Insurance company their intorest will be in safe hands. ~ . Bee
By comparing our rules and beneilts with other first class companies it will be seen thzt’wd offer the most
Uberal inducements with the largest sick, accident and death benefits to our members than any other-oom-
Pany in this business. ‘ 7 X x
‘That we pay our claims promptly can be tastified to by the thousands of our satisfied members. *
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SON REI op SR eh RT SRA, | SRO aT eae
and Birmingham road by the A. and
WW. P. rcad was not taken up.
A Black Mand: letter was _ found
tacked to the door of W. A. Rows &
Co's, store at Comer, It reads as fol
lows: “Say, all you Comer peopue,
lookout for a battle here on the 26th;
going to kill from cradle up, white;
not one black; prepare your guns for
it. Good bye. (Signed) “W. A. John.
sony’?
When the general assembly of
Georgia convenes next summer, Judge
J E. Burch, one of the representa-
tives from Lawrens county, will in-
troduce a Dill to repeal the tax oa
near-beer, Judge Burch says tho best
Anterest of the state demands the fe.
‘peal of this tax.
Pure Food Inspector P. A. Methvin
1s making an extended tour of in-
spection in the interest of the food
and drug law of Georgia, which {is
now being most rigidly enforced. Mr.
Methvin, upon this trip, will visit
practically all of the large cities of
the state, and will make’a close ex-
amination of the hygenic and sanitary
conditions of the dairies in these cit-
jes, with a yiew to seeing to it that
they are all kept pure and up to the
standard required. —
Colonel Lucius L. Brown, a farmer
living fiye miles south of Perry, last
fall secded ten acres in wheat, using
fertilizer, From this ten acres he
harvested 255 bushels of wheat, 209
bushels of which he made into flour
and sold for $400. After harvesting
the wheat he prepared the land and
planted it in watermelons. He mark-
eted five tars of melons, which he
sold on the land for $65 a car. He
now has on the land a good crop ot
kay, which he will harvest in a few
days. Mr. Brown says he will clear
$i9 per acre on this ten acres of
land.
‘The grand jury of Clarke county
approved the work done in the im-
provement of the roads of the county:
and recommended ‘other and further
improvements which will place the
roads of this county second to none
in the state. *.
All records for Savannah weer bro-
ien this week by cotton receipts.
The total number of bales in one day
was 26,011, of which 1,274 “were Sea
Island. In round figures the value
pf this immense amount of cotton is
$1,900,000. It isspredicted Savannah’s
receipts for the year will near the 2,-
100,000 bale mark. t
Commissioner of Agriculture Thom-
as G, Hudson received a letter from
the acting chief of the national forest
service asking if the state of Geor-
zia was prepared to give $200 to pay
the expense of a detailed investiga-
fon of its forests and timber re-
sources, The forest service’ would de-
vcte an equal amount to defraying
the expenses and would bear any ad-
litional expense © entailed. Captain
Bcb Wright, the acting commissioner
in the absence of Mr. Hudsdn, stated
hat there was no fund specifically
set apart for that purpose, but the
lepartment would endeavor to co-op-
erate and haye the work done.
Commissions have been issued ta
‘rank ‘H. Saddler and C. H N, Brown
soth af Hart county, as cattle inspec;
ors. ed:
STATE BAPTIST CALL.
Office Recording Secretary M. B.C. of
Georgia, Route No, 5, Box No. 47,
Hawkinsville, Ga,
Ogtober ist, 1909.
To the Brethren of the Missionary
Baptist Convention of Georgia:
In view of the fact that we are/to
}meét again in annual session, in the
month of November this year, I have
deemed it expedient to address this
circular letter to the Brotherhood.
First. Let it be borne in mind that
we will not be favored with the
cortificate plax in November, account
the convention; but instend of get-
ting certificates there will be reduc-
ed rate return tickets on sale Nov-
ember 7, 8 and 9, from all points in
Georgia to Atlanta. Rates of 3 cents
per mile plus 25c, with final limits
to ‘return November 16th, 1909. This
arrangement is cheaper than using
the certificates, There is to be an
automobile exhibition in Atlanta the:
Bame time, and the rate aboye men-
tioned has been granted on that
account, So when I applied for the
ustal certificate plan the Company
advised me that it would make said
rate apply to Convention also, .
Connection with the programmes,
I send you this letter so that there will
be no mistake. Take due notice, and
be goveried accordingly.
We have learned that changing the
Convention from June to November
does not meet the approval of 2 host
of brethren. It will be remembered
that the change was recommended in
the Fresident’s annual address, which
paper was referred to a cozamittee;
the committee reported favorably ‘and
subsequently the convention ‘adopted
and approved it by her votes,
Let's go up to Atlanta in full force,
and !f the change is not the best, let’s
urge that the convention may re-
sein] its. action; but, personally, I
think the change from June to No-
vember is best.
1st. Its a time in the year when
the majority of the laymen have some
money that they can give, as well as
the pastors. .
2nd. Every farmer In our convention
who ig interested in our work could
plant one or two acres of cotton spe-
clally for conventional purposes, and
in November of each year a great
contest could be worked up among
the farmers.
Srd.. The associations belonging to
ur convention will have met and
STosed at this season—and they could
send by their moderator or represen-
tative their anual donation direct to
the convention, and through that me-
dium, if properly worked up and given
» fair trial before we decide to change
from November back to June, it will
only be a question of time before we
can Jay on the conventional ~ table)
from three. to five thousand dollars,
4th. Now, we haye some whites
sttnds who have,.and are still stand.
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Masonic Books &
-. Regalias. ~
LODGE SEALS, "
FINANCIAL CARDS and
BLANKS cf every descriptien.
Publishers’ and Manufacturers’ prices
Uiberal Discounts Will Ba Arranged.
BOL. C. JOHNSON, -
Savannah, Ga.
SOL, 6. JOHNSON
Notary Publi
. NOWTY FUDIE.
Deeds, Contracts, Willy and Other
Legal Forms Prepared ang
$ Attested. ,
4262 West Broad St.
ing by us; and in view of that, let
me, as your secretary, urge that we
make the keenest sacrifice and raise
for printing and general expenses,°
desides education, not less than $50v.
There are some outstanding claims
which your secretary and treasurer
are compelled to meét, because all
we have in the way of , property
stands subject to claims we made for
the convention. Should you fall to
provide for us so that we can meet
your creditors, legal steps will be
taken against us immediately,
Now, if you cannot come to Atlai-
ta, please send $1.00 as your enroll-
ment fee, and a donation from your
church.
- Address your letter to the conven-
tion in care of the secretary. What-
ever amount sent will be promptly
reported and a receipt for the same
will be mailed to you In return from
Atlanta, I am,
‘Yours for success, sais
J, A, KIRKLAND,
Ree, Sec. M. B.C. of Georgie.
_ Every college student in the United
States should read “My Ideal of the
‘True University,” by President Wood-
row Wilson of, Princeton University,
in the Delineater for November. Dr,
‘Wilson's view of education in. its high-
est and largest meaning 1s inspiring.
The fashions for the ‘month are re-
viewed and charmingly illustrated
ard there gre many clever sugyes-
tions for Thankegiving dinners and
\Tkanksgiving entertainments.~
-One. good turn deserves another, es-
pecially in vaudeville, “~ ~° .
GOLDEN HARVEST-FOR DR. COOK AND PEARY
$500,000 Apiece Will Accrue to
Discoverers, Besides Honors,
Medals and Decorations.
Shortly before Commander Peary sailed away in the Roosevelt, his little girl asked him a question. People of sordid inclinations, to whom the eagle on a dollar bill is ever the bird of freedom, have been asking the same question ever since the first Arctic explorer sailed away for the top of the world.
"Papa," asked the little girl, "what do you want that old pole for? Is it any good? Can you get any money for it?"
"My dear," replied the explorer, "when you are older you will know that there is a thing called honor which is worth more than money."
This was a very noble sentiment, and the little girl is proud to remember that her father said it, but now that he has been successful and the North Pole has been discovered and flagged and tabbed for future reference, it begins to be apparent that the North Pole not only brings honor, but large amounts of money as well.
Market Price of a Pole.
Why go in-search of the pole? What is it worth?
For the sake of those to whom medals and decorations are but gold discs strung on fancy bits of ribbon, let us turn first to the cash value of the North Pole and exploration as a business proposition. The price tag is always an interesting document; it is the point from which most men figure. The medals and decorations can wait, for they have always been above price.
Before Dr. Cook had time to get a shave and a new suit of clothes, a man knocked at his door and stated that he was authorized to offer him the sum of $125,000 for his book. Dr. Cook did not accept this offer, and the result of the Peary announcement has been that one firm of American book publishers has offered Dr. Cook a sum which dwarfs the orignal amount. The same will be true in Commander Pears's case.
The next man who made Dr. Cook an offer was a representative of a lecture bureau. He offered a cool quarter of a million for one hundred lectures; an American theatrical concern asked Cook to name his own terms and consider the affair closed.
The Lucrative Lecture.
At the same time a magazine offered Dr. Cook $20,000 for an article dealing with his trip to the pole. This makes all other dollar-a-word rates look cheap by comparison.
The great amount of money will come from the books and the lecture platform. The latter is always open to men whose dignity will not allow them to descend to theatrical methods of exploitation. Those who live in a great city have no idea of the wide field offered to the man whom the common people wish to see and hear. Commander Peary has made many lecture tours; he has always been a great drawing card. What has gone before will be a very small thing to what must come after his successful trip to the pole.
On a safe, sane and conservative estimate, the discovery of the North Pole will be worth somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to each man within the first eighteen months. As the world is a large place and lecture platforms are always open, both men may be sure of more than a President's salary for several years to come, or until such time as they decide to retire and live upon the interest of their money.
The cash value of the North Pole has been dealt with. Now for the honors and the decorations—the little medals in the hardwood cases.
Medals Galore.
While the telegraph wires were still buzzing with the wonderful news came the word that the King of Denmark had greeted the man from Brooklyn with royal honors. Dr. Cook has received from the Danish Geographical Society the Gold Medal of Merit with the Crown, a decoration which has been bestowed on but three explorers—Nansen, Sven Hedin and Amundsen. Dr. Cook will be the first American to wear this decoration.
The Italian Geographical Society, aroused to great interest in polar research by the feat of Abruzzi, will present their gold medal to Dr. Cook. He will be the third man to wear it, the others being the Duke of Abruzzi and Lieutenant Shackleton, the Englishman.
The other Royal Geographical societies of Europe are sure to confer their medals on both Cook and Peary. America sometimes recognizes favorite sons who have done something. Congress will vote medals to both men. These medals will not be handed to them by a gentleman of royal birth; some representative with whiskers will probably make a short speech, perhaps crack a joke or two, and the plain gold discs will be delivered; that will be all the ceremony. But a medal voted by Congress means something, and perhaps these two Americans will value those medals above all the jeweled decorations of kings and potentates.
Robert E. Peary is now a Commander, which is a grade which a naval officer reaches after devoting years of his life to the service. Recognition wears no wings in the naval service, but in all probability Commander Peary will receive what honors the Navy. Department can give.
and will be advanced to the grade of Rear-Admiral. Then, after the medals are bestowed, when the tumult and the shouting dies away, the money lies in the bank turning itself over slowly and adding to its bulk, there will come to each man the thing which is worth more than honors and decorations and money—the full realization of that satisfaction which comes after work worth while has been well done.
THE SMELL OF THE RAIN.
All Nature Senses It and Echoes Welcome With Outstretched Arms.
Sweeter than any perfume ever distilled by the chemist, sweeter than roses or cape jessamines, or the scent of a ripe grape, sweeter than new mown hay or a baby's breath, sweeter than fresh linen and milady's washed hair, is the smell of the rain.
It is the breath to the nostrils, exhilaration to the lungs, elixir to the blood, and wine to the brain. The dusty earth inhales it and is pulsing again with potential life; the flowers that were panting are revived, and the very leaves of the trees absorb it as incense and are lifted up. Hungry, fretful, parched and complaining, man opens his mouth and gulps it down like a gormand.
The fading and wilting cotton blossom welcomes it as a message of new life, and the naked of all the world rejoice in the hope of replenished wardrobes. The growling, groveling beasts of the stock exchange, intent upon the dust and drought and want of grim prospect, sniff it and are abashed and tame. Miasmas of privation and distress fade away from it, as the fogs before the sunshine, and mellow wholesomeness possesses the fields and permeates the habitations of men.
The grass of the plains, brown and withered and dry as stubble, senses it as the blind and deaf are aware of the unseen and unheard approach of friends, and it steals over the land as the perfumed herald of an unforgetting Providence.
The very sparrows of the ground twitter their delight, the songsters of the forest acclaim it with a more liquid melody, and the mother bird on her nest whispers rejoilings to the brood beneath her wing. The bee that hung despairingly to the honey comb files straight to the clover field.
It springs up like a new born presence; it comes down like a benediction. An unseen censor is swung in the air; a silent baptism is celebrated; the prayer that was uttered haltingly and half-faithlessly is answered, and a resurrection is realized. What skeptical, impatient and unworthy creatures we are; what malcontents and murmurers! And how short-sighted is our view of creation and reproduction and the eternal scheme of life! Six thousand years have taught us little, though we know so much of the current day and hour. A lifetime of bounty, centuries of progress, and the recurring cycles of a perpetual universe are vain to impress our poor understanding with the truth of the unfailing and the everlasting. What know we of the recessions and precessions, the actions and the reactions, the energies and the restings of this old-young earth's large life? How unmindful we are of the deep, big truths which nature has been exhibiting all these years and generations and eons of the upward and advancing march! A little trial, a little hardship, and we are undone, though the storehouse is full and the fat years are certain to return for the fruitful ground will not belle itself.
But the smell of the rain—one whiff of it and all repinings are done, and the way is shining again, and we are after the butterflies as eager and as heedless as before. Men are but children of a larger growth, and their ears are dried and their hurts are healed by little kisses which they straightway forget.—Fort Worth Record.
Largest Animal in the World.
What is claimed as the largest animal in the world is represented by a colossal skeleton in the museum of Christ Church, New Zealand. This is the remains of a large specimen of the blue whale stranded on the coast of that country. This whale is probably the largest of all living animals. The length of the skeleton is eighty-seven feet, and the head alone is twenty-one feet. The weight of the bones is estimated at nine tons. This gigantic whale gets its name of blue whale from the dark bluish gray of its upper surface. The tinge of yellow on its lower part has led to the name "sulphur bottom," by which it is known on the western side of the Atlantic. It is otherwise known as Sibbald's rogail (Balaenoptera sibbaldii).
The chief food of this gigantic animal is a small marine crustacean (Thysanopoda, inermis), known to the whalers as "krill." Another species of the same shrimplike group has been obtained in thousands from the stomachs of mackerel caught on the Cornish coast. The nearly related oppossum shrimps found in enormous numbers in the Greenland seas form the chief food of the common whaler. Some of the thysanopoda are phosphorescent and contribute to the liminosity of the sea. London Globe.
Chauffeuse Fined.
Miss Sydney K. Lodge, a professional automobile chauffeur, was arraigned this morning in the Municipal Court before Judge Bennett on charges of having no badge and of not having a lighted lamp on the rear of her car at night time. She pleaded guilty and was fined $15, which she paid. Boston Evening Transcript.
The Farm
- When Corn is Dear.
Even when corn is high the relative price for pork frequently makes it the cheapest feed for finishing; fifty-cent corn is not expensive feed for six-cent hops. Up to the last six weeks of feeding, wheat, rye or other cheaper substitutes may be used with grass, but in the ordinary course corn will be the best dependence for the close of the fattening period.—From Coburn's "Swine in America."
Rancid Butter.
Here is a good warning or suggestion about rancid flavor in butter that is well to consider: "If the merchant who handles your butter in the market complains about a rancid flavor, the chances are that you over-ripened the cream, if you didn't have a lot of stale stuff that day. Now, if you tested your cream for acidity and kept a daily record of it, you could look up the records for the day that butter was made, and chances are that the records would show the cause of the complaint. If the records don't show the cause, chances are your records are 'off', either wrong or incomplete." — Indiana Farmer.
The Dairy Type.
At a recent farmers' institute one of the addresses on dairy cows contained the following strong point: "If a man who raises corn should take from his crib big ears and little ones, with big cob and small cob, long grains and short grains, nubbins and all, would he ever get corn of one type? Or if, on the other hand, he constantly selected corn of one type, would he expect corn of another type? Yet this is just what some dairy (?) farmers expect in raising cows. "By the word 'type' I do not mean breed. There is a general type or form in good milkers of all breeds. If we breed for the perfect beef type we necessarily breed out or eliminate the dairy type just as in corn breeding for one type of corn, we eliminate all other types."
Handling Bees.
Like many other things, this is an art which comes natural and, easy to some folks and just the reverse to others. Bees never sting some people, or rarely so, while others are stung every time they go about bees. Without full consideration this seems strange and mysterious.
Some beekeepers always go about their bee yards in the most gentle manner and never stir up antagonism in their bees. They make no angular or abrupt motions. When they lift the cover from a hive, it is done so gently that the bees don't realize it and remain passive.
If you begin to jerk things around the hive and make disturbing noises you may expect trouble. It seems, too, that the odor of some people is repulsive to a bee, but just how far that may be counted on we cannot tell.
Having a bee sting and then crushing it makes the matter ten times worse, for the odor from the crushed bee enrages its companions and causes them to be much more vicious. Always use smoke and give exactly the right amount. Fully protect yourself with gloves and veil and then if a thousand should come at you they could do nothing.—Farmers' Home Journal.
The Bracted Plantain-
Inclosed you will find a weed. This variety has been giving me much trouble. Will you please give its name and tell how to get rid of them?—W. T. M.
The weed which you sent us is the Bracted Plantain, a close relative of the common Woolly Plantain. Its leaves appearing almost like a tuff of rather thick, dark green grass leaves, spring from the apex of a thickened root. Its seed-bearing stems, five to ten inches in height and numbering five to twenty-five on each plant are leafless and naked near the base. It is a tough annual plant producing on an average of 3000 seeds to the plant each year. As the seeds ripen throughout the season and so are apt to be harvested with a clover crop, they are most likely to be found as an impurity in clover seed and the heavier grass seed.
Hand pulling and burning is perhaps one of the best remedies where the weed is not too abundant. If the land has become thoroughly seeded a series of hoed or cultivated crops will probably be necessary to clear it out. In permanent pasture repeated mowing of the plants as the seed stalks first appear will keep them in subjection. If allowed to go unchecked they will spread rapidly and become very troublesome.—Indiana Farmer.
Fertility Must Be Maintained.
We insist upon one absolute and fundamental necessity, namely, that the fertility of the soil must be maintained in both live stock and grain farming. These are some foundation facts:
1. We must maintain the supply of organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil.
2. A ton of average farm manure contains about 500 pounds of organic matter, 100 pounds of nitrogen and two pounds of phosphorus.
3. A ton of dry clover contains about 2000 pounds of organic matter, forty pounds of nitrogen (which may have been taken from the air) and five pounds of phosphorus (taken from the soil); and mahy grain farmers can plow under a two-ton crop of
clover on forty acres who cannot procure 300 tons of manure.
4. A ton of good natural rock phosphate, which can be delivered to most parts of the corn belt for $8 or $10, contains about 250 pounds of phosphorus, or more than is contained in 100 tons of average manure.
5. More than a million tons a year of our best phosphate is being shipped out of the United States, and this contains the only plant food element in which our common soils are becoming deficient, aside from nitrogen, which can always be secured from the inexhaustible supply in the air, by means of clover and other legume crops.—G. O. Creelman, of Ontario Agricultural College.
Hemp as a Weed-Killer.
The United States Department of Agriculture, the various State experimental stations and the college departments of agronomy are doing a wonderful work in the matter of educating the farmer. One of the latest announcements is the discovery of an effective method for suppressing weeds without resorting to the laborious process of hand-pulling.
The agricultural department of the University of Wisconsin, while conducting a series of tests in hemp-growing, found that the crop's greatest usefulness was in eradicating weeds. Some of the experimental plats this year on land worked by the university were badly infested with quack grass, Canada thistles, wild mustard and other deep-rooted weeds. These plats were sown to hemp, which grew to a height of ten or twelve feet. It may have been the rank growth of the hemp or the deprivation of sunlight, but when the land was broken, after the crop was removed, it was found that nearly all of the weed roots had been killed. A university bulletin makes the announcement of the facts in the case, and adds that weedy ground does not affect the growth of hemp.
But the most important fact in connection with the matter is that it pays to grow hemp—at least in Wisconsin, so that the farmer can get a profit from his land at the same-time that he is getting rid of one of his worst enemies. On a four-acre field about 1000 pounds of fiber were secured. The fiber brings seven cents a pound, or $70 an acre, and the labor of producing it costs about $30, leaving a balance of $40—Buffalo Commercial.
The Silo a Great Help.
Upon one of our farms we keep a dairy, using nothing but Holstein cows. We retail this milk in Emmitsburg, Md., at six cents per quart and ten cents a pint for cream. We are milking only eighteen cows at this time. We have been in business for ten years and have had a silo for the last eight. Before we built our silo we had to buy milk from other farms to keep up our trade. Since then we have had plenty of milk and cream, for our cows yield as well in winter as in summer, when grass and pasture are good.
We built our silo a little too small. It is twenty-four feet high, and twelve feet wide, about the right proportions. But it would have been better had we made it twenty-six feet high and fourteen feet wide for eighteen: head of cows. We feed them six months in the year and we use about six or seven acres of corn, planting it so as to have one stalk every ten inches. We cultivate the corn four times and get all the grain that we can from such a stand. We have found nothing better for silage than corn. We feed about forty of fifty pounds per day for each corn and add to this a little bran and a little cottonseed meal. My cows are in good condition. We have another silo upon another farm where we feed steers. They do well upon this and the feed costs much less than corn chop. When you get your silo filled you have your feed all ready for winter. There is no husking or hauling corn month after month. We seed our ground that we take the corn from with winter wheat. We have just bought another farm and will put a silo upon this. We can fill it this coming fall. The question as to the profitableness of the silo has been permanently settled. The man who is farming and keeps stock cannot do without one unless he is working for his health rather than for profits. We often look at our neighbors' stock at this time of the year when they are anticipating grass, and their condition is certainly lamentable. It takes them almost half the pasture season to recover.—Paterson Bros., in Kimball's Farmer.
Kentucky's Biggest Cornfield
The biggest cornfield in the State of Kentucky is outlined by the gigantic horseshoe sweep of the Ohio River from Henderson round past Evansville to Green River. It is the biggest because it is corn continuously for 6000 or 7000 acres, unbroken by bences, unrelieved by any other crop — no hay, no tobacco, oats or wheat — just corn, corn, corn and then more corn.
It is estimated that over 300,000 bushels of corn will be raised in this monster tract this year, and this in spite of the fact that the farmers were scared out of a year's growth by the high water and for a time were not quite sure whether the high water would let them raise any corn. Louisville Courrier-Journal.
Farm hands for harvesting the grain and fruit crops of California are scarcer than ever.
"His Brother's Keeper."
BY HOLMAN DAY.
On Little Spruce Island on the Maine coast I found three old men, brothers—William, Daniel and Nehemiah Shanks. They have lived there all their lives in a tumble-down little shelter. They are melancholy old men. They are contented, but the sea has brought to them a strange, brooding, wistful solemnity. William and Daniel never married. Nehemiah has had a poor little romance that broke his heart. He went home with his confession of wrong-doing.
"Then you must look out for the boys after I'm dead," said his father, forgiving him. Nehemiah has spent his life "looking out for the boys," who are now infirm old men. "It is my duty in return for father's pardon of my wrong-doing," he\t told me, "and I have tried to do my best. I am the youngest, and I am best able to work."
For more than twenty years William has never come out of the hut into the sunshine. He told me that he feared the sun might heat his brains and interfere with his lifework, which is the composition of poetry.
While William Idles, Nehemiah tills the little garden, catches fish, digs clams and cooks. He is cheerfully the burden-bearer, and with some pride says that he is the head of the family; for when his father imposed the trust on him he did so with a ceremony truly patriarchal; he gave into Nehemiah's hands the staff on which he had leaned for many years, saying that it should be the badge of Nehemiah's authority. Nehemiah described the scene to me, tears trickling down his wrinkled cheeks. Memory was only a partial spur to this grief.
Daniel, after more than sixty years of obedience, had become a most amazing rebel. He had declared that another flood had been prophesied to him in a vision, and that he had been ordered to build an ark on Little Spruce. Little Spruce is owned by a lady in Boston, as part of an extensive holding of islands. The Shanks brothers have been permitted to remain as squatters on condition that they do not disturb the standing timber. Nehemlah gave this promise to the manager of the estate.
Daniel, though threescore and ten, took the family axe, hand-saw, and hammer and proceeded to his labors on his ark. Nehemiah stood in front of the lordly spruce that Daniel was about to attack with the axe, and in the name of the Shanks family forbade him to chop. Daniel had the zeal of monomania and insisted. Then Nehemiah brandished the family staff and threatened to chastise the disobedient son of their father. Daniel, in a frenzy, made at his brother with the axe, routed him, captured the staff, chopped it up, and then began on the tree. He laid waste quite a section of woodland before Nehemiah got word to the agent. Then in high dudgeon Daniel built a shack of his own. He lives in it and refuses to speak to his brothers.
"I still hope to be able to meet father at the door of heaven and tell him that I kept the Shanks family together and kept it decent, as he would have liked to have me keep it," said Nehemiah, sadly. "Daniel was always hard to manage; father found him so. But I think he will come back to his home, for I am the only one in the family who can cook things as mother used to cook them."—Harper's Magazine.
Pope Pius and the Guards.
It would seem to be the ambition of Pope Plus X. to pass down to posterity as the Reformer. He has already instituted several notable reforms, in the total reorganization of the financial departments of the Vatican, in the ecclesiastical congregations; in taxes, and in the ceremonial music. At present the Pope is contemplating a number of important changes within the walls of the Vatican with a view to reducing needless expenditures. He has expressed the opinion that there are far too many idle people about the premisses—officials who are costly, but whose offices are pure sinecures. The guards, for instance, are practically valueless. The Guards of Nobles, the Swiss Guards, the Palatine Guards, the Gendarmerie—all alike necessitate a vast expenditure for which little is obtained in return. If his holiness acted in accordance with his real wishes, he would abolish all these, but consideration of historic interest will probably induce him to confine himself to a mere reduction in numbers.—Rome Correspondence of the London Globe.
Lost, Stolen or Strayed.
A story is told of a certain man living in a New England village who lost a horse one day, and falling to find him he went down to the public square and offered a reward of $5 to whoever could bring him back. A half-witted fellow who heard the offer volunteered to discover the whereabouts of the horse, and sure enough he returned in half an hour leading him by his bridle. The owner was surprised at the ease with, which his half-witted friend had found the beast, and, on passing the $5 to him, he said: "Tell me, how did you find the horse?" To which the man replied: "Waal, I thought to myself, where would I go if I was a hoss, and I went there, and he had."—London Telegraph.
Efforts to utilize the spider's web for practical purposes were made early as 1710 in France.
ON THE WAY HOME
Didn't you like the party, dear to night?
(Silence. She turns her head the other way.)
"What have I done? I can't my tie on right?"
(No answer—but her eyes have things to say.)
"Is it because I danced with Mrs. Chatt?
Her husband made me, really." (She is dumb.)
"Surely you can't be jealous that I sat Out with the ally Grimes girl!" (She is mum.)
I know I talked too much of me and mine—Was that the reason?" (Perfect stillness reigns.)
But was proud—you simply looked divin. Can't you forgive me!" (Speechless she reminns.)
"Was it because I stumbled in that waltz? I always do, same fool thing." (Not a word)
I didn't mean to lose your smiling salts." (Two words to the protestation were unheard.)
"Oh, Mrs. Gad then told you that I said Her dress should have the prize?" (Hark! Tis the wind.)
Or was it that cut Ned Killer dead? He's it more rake. Look at me, dear." (She's blind.)
"Well, I confess. I ought to be accursed For talking shop at dinner." (She is mute.)
I'm sorry. that I used the wrong fork for it." (Her hush and nature's hush are absolute.)
"Oh, very well, then, since you're bound to aneer. I am a little too, if quarreline's such fun." She speaks. She smiles. "Why, I'm not angry, dear. I merely wished to know what you had, done." —Chester Firkins, in Denver Post.
RIPPLES
OF MIRTA
"Do the Barkers own their plano?"
"One octave of it."—Life.
Binks (in 1910) "What kind of a funeral did Howard have?" Jinks—"A mile of aeroplanes."—Life.
"I wish my hair marcelled." "Yes, ma'am. Will you have it done white you wait, or call again?"—Chicago Leader.
Sillicus—"Bjones boasts of being a free thinker." Cynicus—"Ah, then of course he isn't married."—Philadelphia Record.
We wonder as Mars comes in view
If there are souls up there;
The men all wonder what they do
"He's the author of several successful plays." "Is that so? And do you still think him a fit person to associate with?"—Detroit Free Press. "They say the Czap's enormous expenses baffle imagination." "Oh, I don't know. I spent over $200 on my vacation trip."—Lculsville Courter-Journal. Geraldine—"You haven't been to see me since you asked father for my hand." Gerald—"No; this is the first time I've been able to get about."—Chicago News. "I suppose the deacons in your church pass the plate?" "Yes; they even go so far as to cut it absolutely dead. I've never yet seen any of them put in a cent."—Puck. Player (thinking of the hill and the woods beyond the pool)—"I'm afraid this is where I'm going to lose my ball." Caddie—"No, sir, I willade in an 'sit it for you'."—Judge.
Hotel Visitor—"Are there ever any deer about here?" Gillie—"Well, there was yin, but the gentlemen were aye shootin' and shootin' at it, and I am thinkin' it left the deerstreet."—Punch.
We did not know just what would hap To stop Wellman's north-going. But we knew something would it did It seems the wind was blowing. "Doctor, I want to engage you to look after my practice while I'm on vacation." "But I'm just out of college, doctor. Have had little experience." "That's all right, my boy My practice, while large, includes very few people who are actually all."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Social Economy.
Certain of the members of a fashionable Washington club collaborated in a very practical joke at the expense of a member long chatted for his tightnessedness.
This member suffered some alight injury to a finger while tinkering with his motor car. To save the price of consulting his own physician, he had a fellow member look at the finger. The latter gravely prescribed a remedy, and, to the surprise of the injured one, promptly sent him a bill for $5. This fee seemed a trifle high, so the tight-fisted member showed the bill to another clubman, a lawyer, and asked his advice. The attorney immediately advised payment, and the next day sent his friend a bill for $10 for advice given.
By this time the victim was in despair, and bitterly complained of the matter to several other clubmen who, being in the joke, hastened to report him to the proper committee for failing to meet his obligations, and ultimately the committed in all solidarity fined him one case of champagne. New York Times.
English Coffee.
"The American opinion of coffee as understood in the English home is not high, and how the coffee of the English lodgings is esteemed may be understood, from the following traveler's tale. It was his first morning in London "apartments," and his landlady came up with the breakfast, and as he began the meal opened a slight conversation. "It looks like rain," she said. "It does," replied the American; "but it smells rather like coffee." Biddon Chronicle.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
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SATUEDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1909
NEVER allow a wrong to pass unprotested.
We should not be satisfied with present conditions, but endeavor to improve on every line of endeavor.
Our men in business should be enterprising, improve their places, improve their methods and reach out for more business.
PRESIDENT TAFT will be in the city next week. The colored citizens have no part in the entertaining of him, in fast they will be treated as aliens to the government. So far we cannot enthuse them over his coming. Some have said: "Ohl for the good old days when the Republican party meant something to the Negro." THE colored citizens of this country feel keenly the death of that patriot and soldier, Gen'l. O. O. Howard, which occurred this week at his Vermont home. Gen'l. Howard was interwoven in the educational uplift of the Negro. We delight in honoring him and in teaching our progeny to do likewise.
Ir is very necessary for those of our young men, who hold responsible positions to be very careful in their actions, and endeavor to make themselves indispensible to their employers. Efficient and faithful service should always be given. Be always honest and straightforward. These are the elements that win.
In this city over two-thirds of the automobile chaueffers are colored young men. They are employed on account of their efficiency and reliability. This speaks well for us. Only a few weeks ago one of our young men won the distinction of driving a machine from Tennessee over the Smoky Mountains, a feat that was never before successful. There is a class of these young men who are careless and abuse the confidence of their employers. This class should learn the lesson of right doing.
WHILE THE TRIBUNE protest in strong terms any advantage taken of us as a race by the opposite race, yet we also condemn our short comings and weaknesses. In many instances the trouble we get into can be avoided by the useing of disertion. We would be more highly respected if the careless class among us would become more law abiding, have better respect for our women and protect them. And too, for a certain class of our women to act in a manner as to demand the respect of all men.
Some weeks ago the acting chairman of the First Congressional District had printed and circulated ever the District thousands of circulars calling upon the voters to register and requesting the leaders in each county to do likewise. The chairman of Burke county has set an example by sending out circulars to the voters of his county calling upon them to register. Let the chairman of the other counties get busy and do likewise, in event that they have not already acted. THE TRIBUNE wants every colored Republican to be on the voters' list.
A few weeks ago, a twelve year old colored boy was brought to this city from Waycross for safe keeping from a mob of would be lynchers. The idea of five hundred men gathered to take the life of an infant so to speak. Where is the boasted civilization of this country when such savagery is allowed. We continue our plea for the presence of missionaries to redeem all lynchers from the thraddom of savagery. Let these lynchers ponder over this from a leading white paper: "The living supreme question is to operate white government, so that it will secure to all protection from the midnight mob—to save society from the white scum who defile it. Unless this is done, those of us who rescued the State from Negroism, stand marked by the fruits of the white supremacy we achieved."
Then read what the Commercial Appeal has to say:
"As sure as fate, unless we halt, we will reap the harvest of the seed that we are sowing and the harvest will be the death of our civilization.
"White supremacy can best be vindicated only under the law, and when it
grows outside of the law, it simply becomes supremacy of white savagery."
LAST week we published a communication from one of our business men urging organization of all who are conducting business. The communication is timely and should strike a popular chord among the business men, who should act for today, and do not consider events of the past. The white buainess man finds it necessary to have his board of trade, cotton exchange, chamber of commerce, etc., and why not the colored business man. He needs organization more so then any one else. It is necessary for him to even educate his people to patronize him, etc. Let us have the organization and at not a too distant day.
THE FREEDMAN'S BANK
Attorney Lyons' Interest in the Relmhursements.
Our reporter met the Hon. J. W. Lyons of Augusta the other day and asked him about the prospect for getting through congress the bill for the relief of the depositors of the old "Freedman's Saving and Trust Company" bank. Mr. Lyons is frequently in Washington and keeps himself thoroughly posted about all matters pertaining to the colored people, especially of the south. He said "sixty two percent. of the deposits have already been paid to the owners and in doing this practically the entire assets have been exhausted so that nothing remains now belonging to the old company from which a dividend could be obtained. Thirty eight percent. of the whole remains unpaid. This deficit amounts to something over one million of dollars, and bills are now pending in both houses of congress to have the government pay it and by proper and discreet management the matter ought to go through this winter. This large sum of money was the first fruit of freedom. It represented the toils and struggles, the savings and the economies of the bondsmen, the man who had come into his new estate without a day's preparation for the hard fight. I think it was a high compliment to him that he had so much put aside for a "rainy day," and that in so short a time after emancipation. It was an earnest of what he is now doing as 'breadwinner.' But it was a calamity that this money was lost. Many of the old people have never recovered from the blow, and despite the fact that they have received in dividends two thirds of their money they have never trusted a bank since.
"I believe the government is not only morally bound to refund by an appropriation this balance, but I think the obligation goes further when we remember that the bank was not only a savings institutions but a trust company besides. Of course nobody can sue congress, but congress will not wittingly do wrong, congress incorporated that bank, provided that its funds should be invested in U. S. bonds and then later on amended the charter so they could also be invested in other securities and then came the crash.
"The depositors are rapidly passing to the beyond, old age is diminishing their energies. They cannot work now as they could thirty five years ago and if, they are to get the balance of their money now is the accepted time so that it may comfort and soothe the declining years of their lives. "I am sure so clear headed a lawyer as President Taft will be impressed with the justice of their claim and it is hoped that he will give the measure the benefit of his endorsement.
"The colored people all over the country ought to write their representatives in the house and senate and urge them to pass that bill. It is a thousand times more meritorious than appropriations for expositions and fairs in unknown places. The bill should provide in the event any of the depositors or their rightful and legal heirs can not be found, and any sum should remain in the treasury on this account, this unclaimed money should be used to aid existing institutions of learning for colored people in the south. In that way the friends and perhaps the unproved relatives of the unfound depositors may be benefited. But to get this bill through congress, the people must take an interest—an intelligent and active interest."
Soms weeks ago Dr. Booker T. Washington was refused accommodation at a hotel in Akron, Ohio. The Cleveland Gazette points out the fact that this is another case of "chickens come home to roost." -Dallas Express.
It would be far better if our contemporaries would secure facts
before publishing articles especially criticising our public men, or in fact anybody. Concerning the above Dr. Washington was not refused accommodation at the Ohio hotel. The local committee before the coming of Dr. Washington, could not secure rooms at one hotel but did so at another. The doctor knew nothing of the occurrence until about the time he was leaving the town. Those who do not agree with Dr. Washington should at least publish true statements about him.
To those who are taking advantage of the humble condition of the Negro, the lynchers, the contract makers and employers in the rural districts especially, we refer them to the words of Judge S.B. Adams recently uttered in this city at a public gathering: "If I were wholly indifferent to the fate of the Negroes and solely concerned with that the new world, on behalf of well as on higher grounds, oppose every form of injustice to the Negro race. The reflex action of injustice is essentially deteriorating. It lowers the race, or man, guilty of injustice, retards real advancement and secures and merits the condemnation of the enlightened public sentiment of the world."
Disrespectful White Colle-ectors
"You see most of my collecting is among the Negroes, and it is customary to walk right into their rooms."
The above words were spoken by P. B. Patrick, a white insurance collector, on the witness stand in the Superior Court on Thursday, and our people are justly indignant about it. These words should be resented by every colored home in the city. It shows plainly the little regard that this class of white collectors have for our people and how slightly they appreciate their patronage. The assertion of this white man should cause every policy holder in white concerns to refuse admittance to their homes of disrespectful collectors. There are a number of stained coated companies having courteous collectors with whom our people should do business. Show your love of home and race by resenting the above dastardly words.
Colored Sailors Coming.
Colored Sailors Coming. With the torpedo flotilla expected to arrive tomorrow will be several colored sailors, who will be ignored in the entertaining of the others. If it was known in time of their being members of the crew, our public spirited citizens would have arranged to treat them to the hospitality of the city. As it is where-ever they are seen our citizens should make it a point to make them feel welcome to the city. In visiting the flotilla these noble lads will endeavor to show our people around and make them feel that they are a part of the American citizenry.
Semi-Centennial Exposition.
At a meeting held at Tuskegee Institute Wednesday preliminary plans were formulated for a semi-centennial exposition to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the freeing of the negro slaves in the United States. Ten thousand dollars have already been secured to meet the expenses of the preliminary organization. Among the men behind the movement are Booker F Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; Prof E L Blackshear, principal of the State Normal school, Prarieview, Tex; Prof Bowen, principal of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanti; Dr C T Walker, Augusta, Ga; Nathan Alexander, receiver of public moneyes, Montgomery, Ala; Earnest Lyons, United States minister to the Republic of Liberia, and Maj R B Moton of the Hampton Institute.
The exposition which will be held in 1913 in a southern city, not yet decided upon, proposes to show the progress of the Negro, not only since slavery, but since his first landing in America.
Mt. Tabor Anniversary.
The sixteenth anniversary of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, Rev. N. H. Whitlime, pastor, begun October 18th and closed October 24th. On Sunday night last the anniversary closed with much success spiritually and financially. Bethlehem Baptist Church leading in finance. The sermon delivered by Dr. W. L. Jones, of First A B Church was considered the leading sermon of the occasion. The best singing was rendered by Friendship Baptist choir. On Monday night the services were under the auspices of St. John Baptist Church. An excellent sermon was preached by Rev. Wm. Gray, which was much more enjoyed. Collection raised $5,000. Tuesday night the sermon was under the auspices of Bethlehem Baptist Church and choir Rev. L. B Blair preached a strong sermon on "Batan, an angel of light." A beautiful duet was rendered by members of Bethlehem choir. An excellent solo was rendered by Miss Catharine Alexander. Collection $7-34.
Wednesday night; services under auspices of First A B Church and choir. Rev. W L Jones, D D, preached a profound intellectual and soul stirring sermon. Solos were sung by Misses A H: Payton and E J Johnson each with great credit. Collection $7.30. Thursday night, services conducted by Rev. James Rogers, Mt. Tabor rendering music. Rev. Rogers preached appointed and touching sermon. A solo was touchingly rendered by Mrs. Addie Bell Jackson. A beautiful quartette was sung by Misses Catharine Alexander, Mary J. Walker, Messrs A H Payton and W H Stykes. Collection $3.00. Friday night; services under auspices of Friendship Baptist Church and pastor. A strong and interesting sermon was preached by Lic. Scott of Friendship
Church. Duett is rendered by Miss C Alexander and Mr. A H Patton. A touching solo sung by Mrs. Elizabeth Middleton carried each listener into space and held them spellbound. She was loudly applauded. Sunday 5 a m prayer meeting led by Bro. M M Gillislee. Sunday, 2 a m, sermon preached by Rev. T. A. Lomax o f Valdosta, Ga. The sermon was preached with power. Sunday 3:30 p m Sunday School mass meeting conducted by pastor. History of the Sunday School was read by Lle. George Young. Solo was sung by Miss Bertha Butler. Sermon, Subject Christian giving" Rev. T A Lomax Sunday night quite a large number was out. The regular appolite preached the anniversary sermon and it was well delivered and received. A paper, subject "Our Church" was read by Mrs. M. J. Holmes Duetts were rendered by Misses B Butler, L Morrell, Mrs. A. B. Bryant and Miss Lavinia Morrell. A recitation was charmily rendered by Mrs. A Chisolim. The pastor and officers thank their many friends who assisted in making the anniversary a success, not only with their presence but with their money.
St. Benedict's Church.
St. Benedict's Church.
Sunday Oct. 31st, 22nd Sunday after Pentecost. First mass at 7 a.m with a short instruction. Second mass at 8 a.m High mass and sermon at 10:30 a.m. Sunday School at 4 p.m. Rosary sermon and benediction at 8 p.m. The morning sermon will be preached by Rev. J A Dahlent, the subject will be "The communion of Saints," a sacred and sweet article of faith for every Catholic heart. In the evening Father Obrecht will preach on Purgatory and the veneration of the dead. Monday Nov. 1st is "All Saints Day," a day of obligations for the Catholics. On that day every Catholic must attend mass. The Masses in St. Benedict's Church will be at 6, 7 and 8 a.m. All Saints Day on one of four great Easter days, commonly observed in all Catholic Churches. On that day noon and invoke all the saints in heaven. The schools connected with St. Benedicts will be closed on Monday. Tuesday Nov. 2nd, is "All Saints' Day." It is the day on which we remember our beloved dead in a very special manner, and pray that a merciful God may deliver the suffering souls from the place of explaion and admit them into the glory of heaven. There will be a Solemne Requiem Mass on that morning at 8 o'clock. Last Saturday a beautiful infant funeral took place in our church, Matilda Edmondson, 4 years old daughter of H. M. Edmondson died after an illness of a few weeks and was entered in the Cathedral cemetary near her mother who died last December. On Sunday Father Swain, Rector of Eufaula, Ala, preached at the High Mass; he gave an interesting and touching discourse about the mercy of God.
Second Baptist Church.
Second Baptist Church
Sunday was quite an interesting day here, the revival proper began by the pastor's sermons both aiming in that direction; also the roll call of members was begun and will be kept up till the new roll is made up. The revival is continuing in a happy manner. The sick list is quite small this week; one funeral attended by the pastor Dr. May and a number of our people communed with Bryan Baptist and Rev. Wright last Sunday and in turn that church and pastor will commune with us next second Sunday. The choir is delighting all who Rev S F Griggs, D D Educational Sect'y of the National Baptist Convention and pastor First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn., will preach here tomorrow morning. Dr. Griggs is styled as one of America's strongest pulpit men, white or colored. Every body invited to hear him The professional and business men have a special invitation. The pastor's salary rally will be continued tomorrow morning; let all pay up. Revs Molett, Wright, Blair, Irby. Edwards and Hillman will assist in our meeting next week. Sunday's school tomorrow at 3:30; let all be present.
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the communion on Sunday was very largely attended. There were a great many visiting ministers and desacons. On Sunday night the church was crowded. The distinguished guest was Inheritance Lodge No 133, I O of G S and D of S. Rev Wright welcomed the lodge in his usual manner. He read for the lesson 77 Ps. His text was from I Cor. 16:13. Rev Wright described plainly Saul of Tarsus persecuting the christians of his day. He wrought his cruelties in all the cities but Damascus where the christians had built such a stronghold that he could not enter the city. Finally Saul asked permission to go to Damascus and bring to him all christians that he found in the synagogues. His request was granted but while on his fearful mission a light from heaven shown around blim and he fell from his horse as if dead. He was at that time converted and his name changed to Paul. Rev Wright drew a beautiful lesson. The ancient christians built great walls for their protection but our only protection is prayer. The choir rendered a very sweet selection Rev Wright led the hymn "Amazing sight." So impressed were his hearers that in a short while those who needed prayer packed every space. Rev Wright prayed a soul stirring prayer. The Lodge contributed very liberally to the church, pastor, choir, sexton and they even donated to the poor. We are anxious to have you attend our Tuesday night prayer meeting.
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Notwithstanding the coolness of the weather last Sunday every service was well attended tbls, this bespeaks of the benefit that is derived from the services of St Paul. The morning Sunday school is a success in every sense of the word: it is always largely attended rain or shine cold or hot. Pett Rivett preached a noble sermon at the 11 o'clock service. He claimed the attention of the entire congregation and kept them spell boned. Rey Pett preached a sermon with expository preaching can but be admired by all who is so favored to hear him preach at the night services to a vast congregation. Text was taken from Gen. 62:30 subject "The presence of God, preserves life" It would be an injustice to omit the mentioning the choir whore
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The young man paused for a moment at the foot of the steps and gave a quick glance at the house. Then he ascended to the porch and tried to open the door. Something prevented him — the key he carried didn't fit, or the door was bolted. He hesitated a moment as if undecided. Then he went around the house and tried the side door, and the rear door. Neither yielded to his efforts. Evidently determined to enter he went to the rear of the garage and brought forth a ladder. Placing this against the porch he ascended to the roof and a moment later had disappeared through a rear window.
"Why, yes," he answered. "eral moments."
Marjurie realized that she was an extremely unpleasant dilemma. Now that she stopped the man, we could she de with him? Anyway she mustn't let him think shepected him.
"You were looking at property this street recently, I think," said.
That might disarm him.
"Yes," he answered.
He looked puzzled.
"Did you find what you want? Instantly she realized that this dis sound well. She hastily amended."
"Did you find a house that my
And Marjorie Lane saw all this from the house next door. Marjorie was alone in the house. Her mother was away on a visit, the maid was taking her afternoon out, and her father was at his office. Marjorie had been reading in the little reception hall, when the man's footsteps on the porch next door aroused her. She looked out and saw him.
The house next door had been untenanted for several weeks. The Stetsons had gone to New York on a visit. It was rumored they would stay. But their furnishings were still in the house. They were fine furnishings, too, as Marjorie knew. And here was a stranger, in mid-afternoon, feloniously endeavoring to enter the deserted home.
Marjorie ran back when the stranger went round the house, and from a kitchen window hidden behind the shade, saw him bring up the ladder and enter the window.
The girl turned pale. This was the sort of felony that had become so common. The stranger had found that the house was untenanted and had chosen the most quiet time of the day for his nefarious work. No doubt he was in there now, picking over Mrs. Stetson's choicest treasures and selecting only the most valuable for his bundle of loot.
What should she do?
With a shock she remembered that the telephone was out of order. It had suddenly cooled to do duty at luncheon time. Her father, who had come home to please Marjorie, had tried to call his office and failed. "The phone is out of order," he told her. "I will call them up from the office and report it." Marjorie gave another little start when she remembered this. It was entirely probable that the daring housebreaker next door had deliberately cut off the service to serve his nefarious ends. A snipped wire would do it. A bad man who took such chances would know how to surround himself with safeguards.
The house on the other side of the Lane home was empty, too. The Emmets were all away on a vacation trip—Mr. Emmet's vacaction. She could give no alarm there. Nor was it probable any outcry she raised in the street would bear practical results. She was quite sure that the only man within hearing distance would prove to be that very bad individual who even now presumably was sampling Mrs. Stetson's choice household treasures. Marjorie helpted and wrung her hands. There wasn't a weapon in the house, not even a stove poker—stove pokers being unknown in homes heated by natural gas.
Besides, what would an entire arsenal avail her in the present dilemma? The man would presently emerge with his bundle of plunder and hurry away. He might go over the back fence, or the side fence, or across the roofs. To pursue him with firearms seemed out of the question—more especially as there were no firearms available.
Having no other recourse Marjorie determined to wait.
She looked at the library clock. It was 4.15. 'At 5 o'clock, her father had promised to be home. They were going out to dinner. If the marauder would be sufficiently deliberate next door it was possible her father would return in time.
She was sure he would know just what to do. He father was that sort of man. If she could only call him—and she looked pathetically at the useless phone.
Then a step sounded on the next door porch. Marjorie ran back to the hall. The man was letting himself out of the Stetson door.
He closed the door carefully and crossed the porch. He was carrying something—a heavy suit case.
As he went down the steps Marjorie's heart futtered wildly. She mustn't let him get away like this.
She opened the screen door and ran out on the porch. The man had passed the house, going toward the avenue. She hurried after him.
"Sir!" she cried.
He turned around suddenly—and something in the suit case softly fingled.
Marjorie shrank back.
It was evident that he had a plenitious supply of nerve.
"Yes! Marjorie stammred. What could she say next? "Have you a moment's time?" she asked.
"Why, yes," he answered. "Several moments."
Matjurie realized that she was in an extremely unpleasant dilemma. Now that she stopped the man, what could she do with him? Anyway, she mustn't let him think she suspected him.
"You were looking at property on this street recently. I think," she said.
"Did you find what you wanted?" Instantly she realized that this didn't sound well. She hastily amended it. "Did you find a house that suited you?" It was evident that he had his suspicions. Marjorie realized this. She was doing awkwardly. And yet when she met his look, she couldn't help being confused. It was difficult to believe that he could be a housebreaker. Then she realized that she had never seen a housebreaker before. "If you haven't quite satisfied yourself about the house, will you come back and look at this one?" she said. Then she hastily added, "From the outside." He was looking at her curiously. Perhaps he thought her queer. She couldn't blame him if he did. But if he thought her queer, he wouldn't feel suspicious.
"I will be glad to oblige you," he said. "Which house is it?" She pointed to the house from which she had just emerged. "This," she said. He certainly seemed surprised as he stared up at the house.
"And you have no fear of ingrip?" he asked. "They say it takes a very insidious form." He moved his rocker a little again the suit case gave forth an ing sound. Marjorie, started.
LET THE HOME BE HOME-LKE.
LET THE HOME BE HOME-LKE.
THERE are nbsurd ideas and back side of a house and manners in a most half the country towns, considered necessary to upon some dusty street or high and bolted door; with parlors easy way from month to month will be living in some back door doors, never at ease save and as much a stranger to the likely engrosses the best half a country parson. All this is a tion, as the worst ones of the It is true that every man portions of his house for the easy and familiar hospitality the farmer, do not call for an farmer invites his best friend let him see to it then that he and most cheerful of his house to love it, and be, and his wife so that it shall be the rallying tions through all time. No so of a cheery, sunlit home-room and its flames upon the heart thought; and the flame upon the dow, will pave a white path where tenderest fancies, like Donald Grant Mitchell.
THERE are absurd ideas about in regard to the front, and back side of a-house, which infect village morals and manners in a most base and unmeaning way. In half the country towns, and by half the farmers, it is considered necessary to retain a pretending front-side upon some dusty street or highway, with tightly closed binds and bolted door; with parlers only ventured upon in an uneasy way from month to month. The occupant, meantime, will be living in some back corner—slipping in and out at back doors, never at ease save in his most uninviting room, and as much a stranger to the blinded parlor, which very likely engrosses the best half of his house, as his visitor, the country parson. All this is as arrant a sham, and affectation, as the worst ones of the cities.
It is true that every man will wish to set aside certain portions of his house for the offices of hospitality. But the easy and familiar hospitalities of a country village, or of the farmer, do not call for any exceptional stateliness; the farmer invites his best friends to his habitual living room; let him see to it then that his living room be the sunniest and most cheerful of his house. So, his friends will come to love it, and he, and his children—to love it and cherish it, so that it shall be the rallying point of the household affections through all time. No sea so distant, but the memory of a cheery, sunlit home-room, with its pictures on the wall, and its flames upon the hearth, shall haunt the voyager's thought; and the dame upon the hearth, and the sunlit window, will pave a white path over the intervening waters, where tenderest fancies, like angels, shall come and go.—Donald Grant Mitchell.
"Do you live here?" he asked. "You are nervous." said the
Do you live here? he asked.
"Yes," she hastily answered.
"Wouldn't you like to look at the porch?"
He hesitated, and she expected at any moment to see him take to his heels.
But, no, he held his ground.
"Why, yes," he said, "If it will please you."
He spoke soothingly as if he wanted to quiet her. And as he spoke he ascended the steps.
She polished to a chair.
"Be seated, please," she said.
He gave her a quick glance, and placing the suit case on the floor of the porch, seated himself.
"You are not alone here?" he said inquiringly, and there was a touch of collectude in his tone.
Marjorie was frightened.
"Oh, no, no," she cried, "my friends are very near."
"That makes a difference," he said. She felt that it did make a difference, a great difference to the Lane silverware. And even as this thought crossed her mind, the point of the rocker in which the man sat happened to strike the suit case and the later again gave forth its musical clink. Marjorie wanted to cry out, but restrained herself. "How do you like this house?" she hastily asked. "The house? Oh, yes. Why, the house is well enough. And you say it is in the market?" Marjorie fancied he spoke to her as he might to a little child. And she could take no offense at this. At all odds she must keep him there until help came and he could be secured.
"Yes, it is in the market," she said. "And it is a very good house, too. The—next time you come I will show you the inside. It is fully as good as the outside. The porch is pleasant, don't you think?"
He looked about him critically.
"It seems to be a very good porch," he said, but his gaze rested on the girl.
She was seated on a low chair close to the steps—quite prepared to flee
That might disarm him.
"Yes," he answered.
He looked puzzled.
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She related to a chair.
Marjorie was frightened.
He nodded.
down them and raise a wild alarm if he attempted any threatening move. "Yes," she answered; "it is even better than it looks." "May I ask," he inquired, and she fancied his voice grew suddenly gentle, "if you are related to the owner?" "I am his daughter," Marjorie promptly admitted. He seemed impressed. "And—pardon me—do they leave you alone in the house?"
Marjorie flushed.
"No, no," she quickly replied.
"Not really alone. There is always the phone, you-know."
He nodded.
"But just now the phone is out of order."
Marjorle gave a little gasp. Then he knew. Her dark suspicion was at once confirmed.
"Is it?" she weakly murmured.
"Yes." he answered. "There is a break that affects the entire block."
"How dreadful," said Marjorie still more weakly. But this would never do. She must conceal her agitation. She must hold this reprobate's attention. She was afraid that he doubted her sincerity. At least he had a very singular way of looking at her. She must continue the conversation and do her best to make it sound natural.
"You are quite sure the air is not too chilly for you?" said the bad man with still more solicitude.
Marjorie stared.
"I am very comfortable," she hastily answered. And then she flushed. She had never been more uncomfortable in all her two and twenty years.
"Wh-why do you think I am uncomfortable?"
"I was afraid," the man replied, "that after a fever the atmosphere might be considered chilly."
"Fever?" said Marjorie; "I've had no fever." She could see his purpose now. He wanted her to go into the house—for a wrap, perhaps—and then he could hastily take flight.
"And you have no fear of incipient grp?" he asked. "They say it often takes a very insidious form."
He moved his rocker a little and again the suit case gave forth a clinking sound.
Marjorie, started.
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"You are nervous," said the bad man. "I'm afraid you do wrong when you needlessly exert yourself. I know that your father would not approve of it. Let me call again when you are rested."
And he half arose.
"No, no," said Marjorie hastily. "I'm very well, thank you, and not at all nervous." She tried to laugh to show her unconcern, but it was a weak effort.
The bad man did not laugh.
The bad man did not laugh.
"You said something about the sale of this house," he remarked as if to steady her.
"Oh, yes," she cried. "How do you like it?"
"It looks like an attractive residence," he replied. "May I presume to ask the owner's reasons for selling—it is often customary in advertising homes, you know."
"Yes," said Marjorie. "They usually claim it is lack of health, don't they? Or change of business, or something like that?"
"Something like that," the bad man replied.
Marjorie cudged her brains.
"If my father sold this house I think it would be because he wanted the money."
"An excellent reason," said the bad man. "It is frank, too., and unanswerable."
"I think it is," said Marjorie. "You see, living is much higher."
"So I understand."
"And clothes cost more—a great deal more. And help is dearer—and not nearly so satisfactory."
"It sounds discouraging."
"It is."
"And your father wants to sell his home on this account?"
"It is a good reason, isn't it?"
He looked at her in silence.
"I wonder if your telephone isn't in working order now?" he said in a curious way.
"No, no," she cried. "I'm sure they haven't fixed it yet."
She was determined not to give him the chance to escape.
"I wish you would investigate," he said.
"I will give you an excuse for going into the House. I am, quite thirsty. May I trouble you for a glass of water?"
She shook her head.
"I dislikes to be discouteous," she said, "but the water is not at all what it should be. You may have noticed that prominent physicians have several times declared that typhoid fever is directly traceable to impure drinking water."
He opened his eyes a little wider.
"You actually refuse me a glass of water?" he said. "That seems extraordinary."
"Perhaps, it does," replied Marjorie, "but I assure you I am actuated only by the very best motives."
And she turtively glanced at the suspicious suit case.
The bad man opened his eyes still wider.
"I can't help thinking it seems strange," he said.
And just then Marjorie gave a start and a wild light suddenly gleamed in her soft brown eyes.
Her father was coming up the street.
She watched the bad man narrowly and waited his first desperate move.
Her father came nearer and nearer — he was ascending the steps, he was on the porch!
Then a most extraordinary thing happened before Marjorie could cry out.
"Why, hello, Compton," cried her father, cordially.
"How are you?" And he held out his hand and the bad man shook it.
Marjorie gasped.
"This is very neighborly," said her father. "I suppose Compton told you dear, that he had bought the Stetson house next door, and is to live there with his mother. And you are very welcome, my boy." "He turned toward the door. "Excuse me just a moment. I have a message to phone." As he disappeared Marjorie turned quickly to the stranger. "I—I took you for a housebreaker," she hoarsely whispered. "I saw you climbing through the window. I saw you bring out that." "And she pointed at the suit case. "You can't blame me. You certainly acted the part."
The stranger laughed. Now that he was no longer a bad man he seemed a very attractive youth. "And I took you for an irresponsible—mentally weak, you know. And you certainly played the role in a life-like manner." Marjorie frowned.
"What's in that suit case?" "Door trimmings, locks and hinges. I'm having them changed." And the contents tinkled merrily as he pushed the case with his foot. "Say," whispered Marjorie. "Well?" "Don't you dare betray me to my father."
"About the house?"
"About anything."
"Well, I'll think it over. In the meantime you are in my power—and don't forget it."
"Housebreaker!" she hissed.
"Iresponsible," he returned and rubbed his head and stared vacantly.
Whereat they both laughed, and were still laughing when Marjorie's father came back.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Life is made up principally of anticipations and regrets.
Some men make more noise doing a day's work than other men do in organizing a billion-dollar trust.
You can't tell about a woman. Even the lady lion tamer would probably yell for help if she should see a mouse.
When I see a woman kissing her dog in preference to her husband, I can't help feeling sorry—for the dog.
Money talks, but a woman can generally get in the last word.
Heroism is ephemeral. Even the man who dies for his country is none the less a dead one.
The average man is apt to wish he had all the money he has lost trying to make a lot.
All the world may love a lover except the particular object of a fellow's affections.
When one girl throws a fellow over, another is always waiting to drop him a line.
Adam was once caught napping, and ever since it has been possible for a woman to pull the wool over a man's eyes.
When a doctor tells his patient not to drink champagne he probably wants to be sure of getting his money.
—From "Musings of a Gentle Cynic," in the New York Times.
Bella Instead of Horns.
A Chicago citizen who has evidently been scared frequently by the loud "honk" of automobile horns as he scudded across streets, has written to the Tribune to suggest "that automobiles be made to carry sleigh bells, the same as horses are required to wear in sleighing time." This, he thinks, "would give continual warning to pedestrians." He adds, by way of clinching his plan and commending it to motorists: "Riding would be more enjoyable accompanied by a nice toned set of bells. There would no doubt be quite a strife among manufacturers to see who could turn out the finest toned machine as a selling point."—New York Tribune.
Kansas Farmers Racing Their Autos.
An automobile endurance race over three rounds of fifteen miles each through the country was the feature of a farmers' festival here. — 'Chapman Correspondence Topeka Dally Capital.
The plano was invented early in the eighteenth century.
GOOD ROADS
Dust Laying on English Roads.
The dust laying on English roads promises soon to be a problem of the past. It is being solved by developments of road tarring. Two years ago there were thirty miles of tarred roads in England; last year there were 200 miles; there are now 1500 miles, and in two years you may expect 20,000 miles. On these roads the dust problem is absolutely killed.
Until recently what tarred roads England had were nearly all short lengths. Now long stretches have been completed, such as from Coventry to London and from London to Herne Bay. In many counties, notably Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Kent, the advance has been rapid.
To-day England leads the world in road improvement. France comes next. Five years ago the "routes nationales" in France-were, as a whole, superior to English roads as a whole, although not equal to England's best. To-day England is enormously ahead even of France, and the work done in other countries is comparatively small.
Tar fresh from the gas works is totally unsuitable for using on the roads. It contains a proportion of soluble matter which washer out and which, if it runs into streams, may kill fish and do other damage. The ordinaire tar splashes and injuries dresses, etc. These facts have caused considerable natural prejudice against tar preparations among many landowners and country residents. Methods had to be found-of removing the soluble matter without going to the other extreme and making the coating brittle. There are now various ways of doing this.
The Roads Improvement Association's experiments showed that roads can be made dustless by applying one gallon, of tar so every four superficial yards, costing about $200 a mile for an average road. It was found that satisfactory results could only be had by giving much heavier dressings than were formerly considered necessary. This tar dressing so adds to the wear-resisting qualities of the highway, that so far as can be now seen it will more than repay its cost by the saving it effects, in road maintenance. But it is not possible to speak finally on this point until the tarred roads have been laid down for a longer period.—Chicago Tribune.
Get Expert Advice.
One or two bits of counsel in regard to good roads building cannot be too often emphasized. In the first place, never proceed without expert advice. In some sections of the South the movement for better highways has been set back a full generation because of ignorance and consequent wastefulness in the use of road funds. Get your State Highway Commissioner, your State Geologist, or some official of your State Department of Agriculture, to advise you as to what sort of road improvement policy you should advocate. Many counties are too poor to build macadam roads as yet, especially where stone for macadamizing must be brought a great distance. In such places the merits and applicability of the sand-clay system should be considered. It is much less expensive than macadam, and in hundreds of counties in the South is the best system that can be adopted. And on all clay roads, the split-log drag should be regularly used.—Progressive Farmer.
A Good Roads Dividend.
The county of Sullivan, Tennessee, is building turnplkes. A dispatch from Bristol tells, of the sale of a farm in Sullivan County for upward of $14,000. Before the building of turnplkes the farm would have sold at not more than half that amount. The place was put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. There is nothing to account for the increase in value, aside from the fact that Sullivan County now has good roads where formerly it had bad roads.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Baltimore's Horse Heaven
Baltimore is about to open its rest farm or fresh-air home for horses under the management of the Animal Refuge Association. It is a charitable enterprise, as only the horses of poor cabben and hucksters, who are unable to care for their animals when they become ill, will be received at the farm. These men are forced to let their horses suffer, and oftentimes to sell them when they are unit for work. When the horse of a poor owner becomes ill now he has only to notify the Animal Refuge Association, and for $2 a month his horse will be taken to the farm, where it can revel in clover and forget the hot and dusty streets and the rough cobblestones until it is well.—New York Tribune.
Bound to Get It.
They were coming home from Coney. The conductor came by, handed ten cents change to the man out of the quarter and gave three transfers to him.
"What's the third for?" asked the woman.
The man looked amazed. He looked also at the ten cents out of the quarter. He ran to the conductor and grabbed him by the coattail. There was a hurried explanation and he came back again.
"He charged me for that child who sat back of us," he cried in amazement. "What do you think of that? Just picked me out as owning the child and made me pay his fare. I just caught him in time." — New York Press.
Example of Careless Traveling.
A razor strap that followed E. W. Stephens around the world after being lost at a dozen places on the way he just been returned to his home, in Columbia, Mo., from Blue Mountain, Miss., with the usual postage-due stamps attached. Mr. Stephens has used the strap for years, and has carried it on all his travels—when it was not on the way from his last hotel. The strap was lost once in Hongkong, and later rejoined the Stephens party in Calcutta. Mr. Stephens got his razors in extra keen trim and luxuriously in close shaves until he reached the Holy Land. The razor strap was, again, forgotten, this time at Jacob's Well, near Sheeham, but overtook its owner at the Sea of Galllee. In Cairo the strap was lost again, but was recovered in Athens. At several European hotels it was forgotten and made short jumps, the hotels having forwarded it with the mails to the addresses left by the travelers. The strap has cost a dozen times its original price in postage—Kansas City Star.
Bays the Philadelphia Record; it would take more than a music teacher to cultivate the voice of conscience in some people.
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**" — Conldn't-Get-Fect In.
Bacon—“Did you ever sleep in a
bungalow?”
Egbert—“Well, part of me dia.""—
Yonkers Statesman.
“) A Sure Sign.
City Visitor—“How do you know
this treet a dogwood?”
Suburbanite—T can tell by its
bark."—Baltinore American.
Mind Reading. -
Ckarley Loveday—"Um—ah—er—
er—er—he—he—”
Jeweler (to his assistant) —"Bring
that tray of engagement rings here,
Henry.”—Tit-Bits.
Not That Way in Life, i
“Wives are always So trustful on
the stage.” .
, “Which stows that realism on the
stage is an utter’ myth.”"—Louisville
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Needs It Bad. °
John—"I'll bring you a fork, sir.” *
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‘The Customer—"A fork’s no good.
Bring a reyolver!"—Sketch.
Of Some Benefit.
Barber—“Did that bottle of halr
restorer I sold you do any good?”
Customer—"Yes, indeed; it kept
me from wasting my money on any
more.”—Boston Transcript.
‘Modernizing It. .
Teacher—“Willie, how did Wash’
ington follow Cornwallis?”
‘Willie—"I suppose he subscribed
fo the paper for which Cornwallis was
writing the ‘exclusive story’ of the
‘fight."—Puck.
Airship Gossip.
“How is it she doesn't manage to
get along very well with her hus-
band?” said the porch lady.
“She says he’s too'slow. He al-
ways wants to be pottering ‘round
the United States in an automobile.”
—Puck. =
, Lest Opportunity.
Wifey—“I remember the night you
proposed to me, I bent my head and.
said nothing.”
Hub (comfortingly)—“I know it
worries you, dear, but never mind;
you've made up for it since.”"—Bos-
ton Transcript.
Father's Revenge.
“Here is a telegram from papa?
says the eloping bride. “He says.for
us té come right home and live with
him and mamma.” z
“T didn't think he would be so vin-
dictive as all that,” sighs the eloping
bridegroom.—Life.
; (SO SEIPPME LUNEEC. -
Friend—“I understand, Mrs. Stern,
that your daughter has married since
we last met.”
‘Mrs. Stern—“Yes, and been di-
vorced.” .
Friend—"Ah! And who Is the
happy man?”—Boston Transcript.
A Resemblance Noted.
‘What do you think of tariff re-
siston?””
“Well,” answered’ Farmer Corn-
tossel, “‘it strikes me that the tariff
is a good deal like the weather. No
matter what kind you get it's pretty
sure to be bad for somebody's busi-
ness.”—Washington Star.
She Took a Pair. +
"How much are these shoes?”
asked the lady who had the reputa-
tion of being a keen shopper.
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plied the salesman, who had some-
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A Vision Defined,
Teacher in the Sunday-school (wha
has been instructing the young idea
on the subject of visions)—“Now,
children, can any one tell me what a
vision is? Ah, Tomthy's hand fs up!
Well, Tommy?" °
Tommy (with a drawly voice)—
“It's a sort of dizzy spell.”—Judge. ©
“ Sammer Conauests.
|. “Are these all photogfaphs of fel-
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“No. They're the fellows who
didn't propose.”
“What in the world do you want of
them?” ~ —
“Why, Iam saving them to make a
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The Thirst For Gore.
Unsophisticated Onlooker — “I
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what a fine view we have of this car
coming.” - . $
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: Shipload of the Explosive—Not an Ac
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| With over a millon pounds of dy.
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Yet few ‘people knew, and that few
did not care, that the potential de-
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packed away beneath the hatches, for
the dynamite chip arrives ten times
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fs used in the handling of the ex-
plosive there 1s no reason for fear.
Over twenty-two million pounds of
dynarnite have been delivered on the
Isthmus for the canal work since the
American control began in 1904, and
there has not been an accident {2 the
unloading &t the docks or delivery
slong the line. ;
Later in the day the supervisor of
explosives, having seen. to It that tho
dynamite ‘was securely stered in box
‘ears, gave the word and a train of
dynamite started for the Mind! masz-
zine. Other cars were taken to, zhe
magazines of the central’ and Pacific
divisiong, and. the dynamite was care-
fally stored away under the direction
of the supervisor in well ventilated
concrete houses which are guarded
night ang day.
The dynamite which the ‘Vatillia
brought to the Isthmus was the iast
shipment under the contract for the
fiscal "year 1909. Ut 1s estimated that
over nine million pounds -will be re-
quired between now ang July 1, 1910.
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Next month Thanksgiving will be with us. This is the season of the year when we should remember the unfortunate ones among us. Our order stands for charity and charitable actions. Should we not be the embolishment of charity? Some of us are poor and there are others of us in better condition, but, each of us can spare at least a few pennies in spreading joy and help to the less fortunate ones among us, such as our poor orphans, widows' and needy brethren. It would be an excellent action on the part of each Worshipful Master in the jurisdiction if he would take up a collection in his lodge of either funds or useful articles and forward same to the Orphan Home at Americus so that same could arrive in time for Thanksgiving in order to add cheer to the hearts of the poor orphans. Do this, brethren, and it will leave your lives.
Our Relief Department is doing much towards the helping of many a poor widow left behind by beloved brethren who have reported above.
The annual sermon of the Daughters of Sphinx was preached on October 17th, at Waycross, by Rev. P. W. Butler at Macedonia Baptist Church. Brother Butler seems to be the favorite of the ladies who have him to preach this sermon each year. A liberal collection was raised and the following, not members of the order, gave 25 cents each: Messrs. K. G. Scarlett, B. J. McNeal, J. W. Williams, L. B. Bryant, P. H. Hall and Miss Pearly Jackson.
Illustrious J. H. Walker, thirty-third degree, passed through the city on Monday night for home. He attended the session of the Commistory in Kansas City, Mo., and made a visit to several other cities on his way home. He reports a successful and intercsting meeting.
The Grand Chapter R. A. M. convocates in Macon next month.
THE DUTY OF OFFICERS.
What is, and should be, the duties of a brother when he takes office in the lodge, is often given a lot of thought by the newly elected or appointed officer?
It is not sufficient that they do their work on the floor of the lodge in a capable manner, from the very first they should remember that it is their place to set an example for their brethren, more especially the newly initiated. For instance how often do the stewards remember that all facetiousness should be eliminated from their conversation when preparing the candidate, else how can it be expected that he shall come into the lodge room with a mind that can assimilate the glorious lessons to be taught. Instead of giving him a jolly, prepare him for the high moral teachings he is going to listen to. It is not necessary to say that the degree should be handled in an intelligent manner, but it certainly is in some cases needful that more time be given in instructing the candidate in his work for the next degree, not alone in the bare words, but; also, in the meaning of the work. This can only be properly done by the lodge of instruction system. It should not be left to one of his friends or to some brother who lives in his vicinity but should be done by one or all the officers on the candidates as a class. It are due veneration for the whole scheme and plan of Masonry can be taught and the lessons driven home in a dignified manner. The officers of a Masonic lodge should follow out the lessons they teach, in their daily life. For instance, it has been known for an officer to inculcate temperance into a candidate and, after lodge is closed, to invite him to the nearest bar for a drink, which, to say the least, is hardly consistent.
An officer should practice the lessons he teaches, it is not sufficient that you simply teach the words of the grand Masonic precepts. You must also teach with deeds the most lasting lesson you can give.—Masonic Ashler.
SILENCE.
Don't harm the order of the Eastern Star with a to active tugue. There is dignity in silence over an unjust act, which commands more respect than all the power of speech. A dignified silence lies fully open to the light of day, and if it is harder to interpret it aright than speech, it is less likely to convey untruth. This is sufficient reason for using it in many cases in preference to speech. When words can scarcely fall of going more or less beyond or away from the mark and when an ill-shosen word may leave a lasting scar, it is often possible by maintaining an eloquent silence, to convey all that is important without the risk of wounding or misleading. It is then that silence is golden. Silence, noble silence, holds shut the door against the strife of the tongue, Silence is more eloquent in many instances than speech. Silence is deep as ternity. It is the sphere of melody and is powerful in reproof.—Mishap.
Who can estimate how great an influence Freemasonry has exerted in bringing about the almost universal desire of the great nations to unite in the cultivation of the arts of peace; and in treeling the world from the horrors and carnage of war, since, in them all, it numbers among its supporters men of the greatest intellectual powers and the broadest sympa-
thies, who have; subscribed to its tenets and practiced them; for Freemasonry is not a system of ethics built up for the admiration of mankind, but a practical guide for human conduct, and these men, imbued with a love of sincerity and truth, have found themselves at its altar to practice its teachings, among all of which none is more-important than brotherly love, which unites men of all nations, races, religions and opinions.—Grand Master Charles E. Johnson, Malne.
I beseech you to re-consecrate yourselves to the principles of our beloved fraternity, and to carry them out into such active and constant practice that you will forget the manner of your doing in the largeness of your doing. Is it not possible for us to get out of the way of a mere formal ritualism, of a mere intellectual conception, and to get the warmth and sunshine and the love which every Mason has a right to ask from every other Mason?—Brother William 'H. Rider, Massachusetts.
ANENT THE ADDRESS OF MR.
THOMAS TAYLOR AT THE
MEN'S SUNDAY CLUB.
The subtlety of disquisition, force of imagination, perfect energy and eloquence of expression" which, characterized the address of Professor Thomas Taylor before the "Men's Sunday Club" on Sunday last, will linger long in the memory of those who heard it. The address was a gem of literature, pointed and profound, and called forth much fayorable comment.
The political, social and economic condition of the Negro in America were forcefully and logically handled and a contrast was drawn between that condition that now exists and what must inevitably follow in the general order of things.
Mr. Taylor stressed graphically the consequences which must come upon the peopling of the wild lands of the far west, when the trend of immigration must then be southward. What must result then, said Mr. Taylor, will necessarily be the squeezing out of the Negro. He set forth a method of preventing this. He urged that the Negro patronize Negro business and that Negro business men employ and encourage Negro help. In this way the creator and minipulator of Negro concerns will in turn for the patronage of the masses, contribute to the masses (each class helping the other), and both classes building up a bulwark of trade that will demand recognition of all men. Said the speaker: "There is no prejudice as the direct result of race color or previous condition, but that it is the result of the failure upon the part of the Negro to tie himself to the heart of the community In which he lives in a manner that would force recognition."
The doctrine preached by Mr. Taylor was a wholesome doctrine to any, but to those who are weedul insuperably to the "old way" it was as cutting as a two-edged sword. For there are those among us who actually believe that an article purchased of a black man is, and of a right, ought to be inferior to the same article purchased of a white man. Now, these case-hardened souls are to be pitied rather than condemned and yet it is meet that we condemn them, not so much for the good or evil that the condemnation will do them, as for the influence we may be able to yield upon those who shall follow after them.
Would that every Negro in the city could have heard this forceful discussion of this vital subject. Would that such logical preachments might be delivered, periodically, to the people of the entire state. And may be some of the fundamental truths might take root and grow to the eternal good of the race. For it is a fact that unless we create something that other may support or support something that others create, the busy, bustling world will reserve no place for us as individuals, or as a race, upon which we may hope to rest securely. We must build for ourselves a plase of royal highness upon which may be found all the requisites necessary to a peaceful and profitable career as citizens, then all rights and immunities will, in the order of things, come to us.
ROY REGINALD.
NOTES FROM EASTMAN.
We are still trying to raise fallen humanity, and encouraging our people to higher living.
Everybody is hustling, trying to gather in the crops. In our section the farmers have done well this season, and many of them will be able to pay off old debts. Several of the wise ones have already been able to bank their earnings.
We regret very much to hear of the death of Father Alexander Harris. We help to mourn his loss.
The Second Rehoaboth Association has just closed a successful session. Over a thousand dollars was raised. Much of that amount will go to the McRae Institute which one year-ago the association donated. $1,100, to purchase twenty acres of land to build the institute.
Mrs. C. L. Burney is much improved after having a mule run away with her a few weeks ago and break. All of her friends thought that shing the buggy completely. All of her friends thought that she was fatally injured, but they are now glad that she is improving greatly. The boy who was drilling had his arm
broken and shoulder dislocated. is also getting better. Dodge county is getting ready the state fair.
Hermit Tripp of Bushy Island
BY·HOLMAN DAY.
"Hermit Tripp," as he was called, believed that Captain Kidd had buried his treasure, on Bushy on the coast of Maine. Old and decapit as he was, he began to dig the island. He wore out shovel after shovel at his task. When he died he had shovelled nearly half the island off into the sea, cleaning the earth down to bed rock.
He died in August, 1908. On the night of his death a summer gale swept the coast, wrecking cottages and flattening acres of trees on the main near Bushy. When the old woman realized that Tripp was dying she took a big hand bell and, though so weak and old that she could walk only with difficulty, she went out on the high land of the island and rang the bell with all her strength, hoping that in some lull of the gale the sound would be heard on the main.
At midnight she went to the hut to minister to the, old man, and found him dead. Then she resumed her vigil on the shore, ringing the bell, blinded by the lightning, drenched by the rains, and blown about by the rage.
People heard and came off to the Island the next day. But Bushy Island is one of those "set-off" places, a no man's land so far as the law goes. Three towns at first disclaimed responsibility for the burial expenses of a pauper. The old woman stayed alone with her dead a second night. Then came men and dug his grave, a pebble toss from his hut, and laid him there. Some one read a bit from the tattered old Bible that was found in the house. Those who had buried the old man went away and left the old woman alone. Chance and idle curiosity brought me to Bushy one day. I had supposed that charity had provided a home elsewhere for the lonely tenant. But she was still there. She was ill, she was hungry, she had not sufficient strength to walk or to build a fire. There is no fresh water on Bushy. She had a scanty supply in a jug.
It is not necessary to go into the details of the measures promptly taken for her relief. At first she concealed her name. We discovered what it was from some old letters that were flying about the little yard. She "had been some one" once on a time. She had a brother living, a worthy and prominent man in an inland town. He came promptly when I communicated with him, and went with me to visit his sister in the hut on Bushy Island. He had not seen her, for many years. He had sought for her, but she had disappeared. He and she are the only ones left of a well known family.
It is proper in this connection to state that later the brother appointed me his agent and almoner, and before the fall grew late the woman was removed from the island to a comfortable home, where she is now cared for.—Harper's Magazine.
Making Room For Hosea.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale was a foe to long sermons. He used to tell a story of a long-winded preacher and the minor prophets.
"This preacher," so Dr. Hale would begin, "once preached over an hour on the four greater prophets, and then, when his exhausted congregation thought he was through, he took a long breath, turned a fresh page, and, leaning over the pulpit, said:
"We now come to the more complex question of the minor prophets. First let us assign to them their proper order. Where, brethren, shall we place Hosea?
"An irascible old gentleman in a back pew rose, took his hat and stick, and said as he departed;
"Place him here if you want to. I'm going."—Washington Star.
No Flies on England.
The files can be put down. The proof is that it has been done. Speaking rashly, there are no files in England; at least, there are so few that the inhabitants do not think it worth while to screen their dwellings. The reason is the simplest—the tight little island is kept clean: Fifty years ago files were a nuisance in England, though not the plague they are here, for no other really civilized country was ever quite so dirty as the United States of America. This nuisance is pretty completely abated. In fifty years England has been swept and garnished, and the files have starved.—McClure's Magazine.
A Waterless Bath.
"What do you think, said the man curious, "I cleaned my face to-day with a vacuum cleaner. It just takes the skin and pulls it so you can hardly get away. The man who operates one told me that he went over his face and clothing every night when he got through his work and felt as fresh as a dalsy. Of course, he takes off the thing he uses for floors and walls. I believe I'll start a fad—taking waterless baths."—New York Times.
Fortunate is the man who is financially short when some one comes along with a gold brick for sale.
POPULAR SCIENCE
During the recent rioting at Barcelona all the gas and electric light plants were out of commission, and the city was illuminated only by the searchlights of warships in the harbor.
The term "electricity" was derived from the Greek word meaning amber. Electricity itself is earliest described by Theophrastus (321 B. C.) and Pliny (70 A. D.), who mention the power of amber to attract straw and dry leaves.
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At the annual convention of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, the licensees under Mr. Edison's patents, held last week at Scarborough on the Hudson., was celebrated the thirtieth birthday of the incandescent lamp.
In order to compete more effectively with the gas company, which lets kitchen and other stoves, the municipal electric light plant of Aberdeen, Scotland, has laid in a stock of electric heating and cooking apparatus, which it proposes to offer for hire at proportionately low rates.
The latest use of radium was upon a case of filariasis, or blood worm disease, in Paris. In this mosquito-caused disease the blood at night swarms with millions upon millions of microscopic maggots plugging up and inflaming and swelling the kernels in the armpits. A short course of radium in the armpits cured the swelling and made the worms scarcer in the blood.
Plans have been filed for a new home for the American Geographical Society at 156th street and Broadway. The building will form one of a group that now includes the Hispano Society's home and the Numismatic Museum, although it has no connection with either institution. The building will be erected from funds provided by Mrs. C. P. Huntington. The estimated cost of the building will be between $250,000 and $300,000.
Professor Charles Richet, of Paris, has devised a means for purifying the air in rooms. According to press dispatches his apparatus is an air filter which mechanically sterilizes air. Very fine drops of glycerine are scattered along the walls of a cylinder containing a suction fan. Each particle of air drawn in by the fan is freighted with glycerine, and hence tends to drop, thereby carrying with it the germs, dust and microbes with which it may be laden.
The Middle Splash.
"That is impossible," said Senator Aldrich of a socialistic proposition. He laughed.
"In its impossibility," he went on, "it reminds me of Joe Jobson's middle splash.
"Joe Jobson, a very ignorant and pig-headed chap, presented himself at the church with his infant son for the christening. The following dialogue then took place between Jobson and the minister:
'What name do you give this child?'
"Peter Ananias Jobson."
"Ananias? I refuse to christen the child in that name. Do you know who Ananias was?"
"I don't know who he was, and what's more I don't care."
"But Ananias was the greatest liar in all biblical history."
"Well, that's nothing to me. My baby ain't no liar, so what's the difference? I want him christened Ananias because I like the sound of it."
"I won't do it. I will christen the child Peter Jeremiah Jobson."
"And the minister was as good as his word, and as he repeated each name he sprinkled a little water on the infant's face.
"And I rub out that middle splash," said the father, heatedly. He rubbed his sleeve across his child's wet face and sprinkled a little more water over it. "I rub out that middle splash, substitute this one for it, and christen him Peter Ananias Jobson." And that settled it." — Washington Star.
Parliamentary Pretensions
Parliamentary repartee, as illustrated by recent anecdotes in the Office Window, was ably upheld by Lord Brougham, especially during the great reform debates of the last century. On one occasion, when anti-reformers were trying to howl him down by imitating the sounds made by various animals, among which the braying of the ass was most recurrent, he waited for a pause, and then remarked imperturbably that by a wonderful disposition of nature every animal had its peculiar mode of expressing itself, and he was too much of a philosopher to quarrel with any of those modes. This was no less severe than the famous libel on the Earl of Limerick, calling him "a thing with human pretensions," which appeared in the Times in 1831, and for which the printer was fined £100 and confined for an indefinite period in Newgate.—London Chronicle.
A composition of wax and pitch is now being used instead of glue in the making of organs for tropical countries, where the damp climate causes glue to peel off.
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