Savannah Tribune

LIBEL CASE DISMISSED N. Y. World Held Guiltless of Slandering Government. ROOSEVELT ORDERED SUIT Government's Prosecution of Newspaper for Publication Angent Canal Purchase Ends in Quashed Indictment. New York City—The indictment against the Press Publishing Company, publishers of the New York World, charging Joseph Pulitzer and others with criminal libel against Theodore Roosevelt, President Taft and others, was quashed in the United States district court. Judge Hough ruled that the statute upon which the indictment rested was not sufficient in authority, or, in other words, that the court had no jurisdiction. The decision of Judge Hough is of international interest, the now famous libel case having at its inception involved ex-President Roosevelt and his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, and President Taft and his brother, Charles P. Taft. The publishing by the New York World and the Indianapolis News, just before the close of the last campaign, of an article in which it was asserted that relatives of former President Roosevelt and President Taft were members of a syndicate to purchase the stock of the French Panama company from the French stockholders when it was certain the United States would buy the stock, created a sensation. The American syndicate was said to have made millions. President Roosevelt sent a special message to congress on the matter, and made public correspondence in which he characterized the publication of the Panama story as false, and asserted that Delavan Smith, one of the owners of the Indianapolis News, was a "conspicuous offender against the laws, honesty and truthfulness." Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, came in for a severe scoring by President Roosevelt. The federal proceedings in Indianapolis against Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams, proprietors of the Indianapolis News, were thrown out of court, Judge Anderson declaring the publishers should not be "dragged from their 'nomes' to Washington to be tried. Among lawyers, the opinion was general that the collapse of the government's case marks an end of further prosecution. GOVERNOR PATTERSON IN NEW YORK. Tennessee's Executive Says South Holdes Key to Lower Prices. New York City—The south holds the key to lower food prices, according to Governor Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennessee, who is in New York for a few days. Here is what Governor Patterson had to say when asked for his solution of the problems presented by the higher cost of living: "We are not feeling the pinch nearly as much in the south as you are up here. The principal reason is the plentifulness and productiveness of our land. There is no congestion of population in the south. What we most need is an increase in population. "If a method could be decised whereby millions of the poor in the crowded sections of the east could be scattered over the agricultural lands of the south, the problem of the excessive cost of living would soon be solved. "I hope soon to see an organization movement led by able men to scatter the people back to the soil. Our vast domain is yet undeveloped. There is where the fortunes of the future are to be made. Any man who comes to the south willing to do the work of a man will find profitable employment and an open road to independence. "Our land, though better than most western land, is cheaper because the demand has never been stimulated by the adventitious use of subsidies for railroads as the west, which has been settled and developed through the necessity of great railroads to entire people to occupy their lands." VIRGINIA HAS CLAIM AGAINST U. S. Governor Swanson Says State is Entitled to Portion of $80,000,000. Richmond, Va.-Governor Swanson, in a special message to the legislature, advised Virginia to claim from the federal government a portion of the $80,000,000 derived from the sale of public lands in the territory which Virginia ceded to the United States from which were formed the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and a portion of the present state of Minnesota. WANTED FAME AS MOTHER Woman Assembled Four Foundings to Boast of Having Quadruplets. Los Angeles, Cal.-In Biblical times it required the wisdom of Solomon to adjudicate the claims of two mothers to one child. But Judge Curtiss D. Wilbur, of the juvenile court, was called upon to decide the question in the claim of one mother to quadruplets. Mrs. W. W. Wilson faces the curious charge of having assembled four foundlings in order to achieve the celebrity of being a mother of quadruplets. Not only that, but it is alleged, that on previous occasions she went through the same proceedings with twins, then triplets. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. GREAT FLOODS IN FRANCE. Sufferers by Blood Reach Into The Hundreds of Thousands. Paris, France—The floods have brought disaster to a large part of France. The victims of the flood now number more than a hundred thousand, and, the monetary loss is incalculable. Thousands of poor are hopelessly ruined and are facing to Paris. The government, by urgent measures, has requisitioned army and navy material to house the sufferers, and boats for the rescue of the stricken, as well as those imprisoned in the houses in the flood centers on all sides of Paris. The region of inundation is steadily enlarging, and villages, in scores of places, are completely submerged, the people fleeing for their lives and also abandoning everything. Paria practically cut off south and west, and in the present conditions continue the question of food supplies will become menacing. The senate unanimously adopted an appropriation of $400,000 for national relief, and various societies are sending out calls for aid. President Fallieres heads the list with $4,000 and other gifts aggregate $40,000. The entire population of Ivry-sur-Seine and adjacent places, which are completely covered with water, are in adesperate state. Only the tops of the houses at Alfortville are visible, the water averaging 12 feet in the streets. At this place 3,000 persons have been rescued by boats, and 30,000 others have found safety by their own efforts. In many towns along the rivers the houses are collapsing, and the wreckage is whirled off in the stream. Groups of apaches had gathered, and soon were engaged in the work of piracy. They seized several of the boats and robbed rescued and rescued alike. In some cases they entered the houses and carried on their depredations. Finally a force of the soldiers drove off the looters. The hospital at Ivry, containing 2,000 patients, is surrounded by water, and grave results are feared. President Fallieres and Premier Briand made an automobile trip through the flooded districts in the eastern section of Paris. They walked through some of the streets, knee deep with mud and water, and saw the crowds fleeing, men tugging at valises and trunks, and weeping women burdened with children and all sorts of household belongings. The conditions were appalling and the president and premier hastened away to seek means of relief for the suffering people. AUTOHOBILES RUIN ROADS. So Secretary of State Knox tells the Committee of Congress. Washington, D. C.-Secretary Knox denies that the congestion of population in great cities is caused in large part by the lack of goods in this country. He told the mouse committee on foreign affairs that the reason France was the best agricultural country in the world was because she had good roads so long ago. Said he: "The agricultural population of France does not have to spend its money in repalring vehicles and their harness every winter. I think it has improved the attractiveness of rural life. I think it has caused the population to remain on the soil more than in any other country." The subject came up in connection with the consideration for an appropriation for the participation of the United States in the "permanent association of road congresses," an international affair, and the secretary seized the opportunity to declare his interest in good roads. He also made the interesting statement that automobiles were working havoc with the roads generally. "All of you who have traveled in France in the last year or two know that their roads are wearing out." Mr. Knox said. "The automobiles have destroyed the surface of the French roads, and they (the French government) are anxious to co-operate with the other powers to see if some new methods cannot be devised for the protection of roads that will meet the demands upon them." The secretary succeeded in getting the appropriation. Traded Land For Whiskey. San Antonio, Texas—James B. Alken of Forth Worth is responsible for the statement that he had exchanged 100,000 acres of land for 100,000 gallons of whiskey with Dayton, Ohio, distilleries. The land is valued at $1.10 an acre, and the whiskey also valued in the same sum. Pronounced Dead: Woman Still Lives. Marion, ind—After the doctor. had pronounced her dead and the undertaker had come, Mrs. Ora C. Gunlons revived and has a chance to get well. Sho is suffering from the effects of a surgical operation performed a week ago. Balloon Trip Across the Atlantic. New York City—A balloon - trip across the Atlantic will be undertaken in May. New York and Berlin are behind the scheme. It is planned that the balloon small leave Berlin on May 15, with Vancouver, British Columbia, as its ultimate destination. Will Give Millions to Colleges. Chicago, 111—After having given more than $4,000,000 to struggling colleges in many parts of the country, Dr. D. K. Pearson, on the eye of his 90th birthday anniversary, announced that he intends to give away every cent he possesses before he dies. Dr. Pearson is reputed to be worth many millions, SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1910. BOYCOTT STILL SPREADING Butter, Eggs and Meat Are Quoted Much Lower In Cities Where Boycott Is Effective. Chicago, Ill—Agitators against the high cost of living gained their first victory here in their battle against prevailing food prices when reductions of 3 to 5 per cent were announced in the wholesale prices of eggs, butter, potatoes, pork products and the better grades of dressed beef cuts. Big recessions also were made in the value of live hogs, cattle and sheep and in the quotations of corn, wheat, oats and provision on the speculative markets. Of chief benefit to the housewife were the declines in butter, which dropped from 32 cents a pound wholesale to 31 cents, and in eggs, which receded to 33 cents a dozen, as compared with 34 cents last week. The Elgin butter market recorded a big slump. Butter men who had been bidding as high as 38 cents registered bids of but 30 cents, and received offerings at this price. The deals practically decided the price. Three reasons were given in Elgin as the cause of the decrease—the agitation against the high price of foodstuffs—a break in the corner on butter, held by a butter company of Aurora, and the decline in the demand since the holidays. In the Chicago wholesale market potatoes, went down to 35 and 50 cents a bushel against an extreme price of 52 cents on Saturday. New York City—Milk, eggs and butter led the procession of receding prices in food products here. Nationwide agitation, aided by potent local influences, have brought about the drop. Meat, too, is on the decline, following a greatly decreased consumption. State anti-monopoly laws are to be invoked in the movement to combat the trusts that have advanced the food prices. A special grand jury, whose particular office it will be to consider the effect of combination among dealers in foodstuffs, was sworn in. While it is expected first to deal with the alleged milk combine, the meat question is likely to be investigated thoroughly, and possibly the whole scope of the food situation will be taken in during its probing. Milk is down a cent a quart already on at least two big dealers' routes; butter in the best qualities has been cut 5 cents a pound, and eggs are off 5 cents a dozen in the local markets. Storage eggs that have been selling as "strictly fresh" at high prices are no longer put as such, the big wholesalers say. Louisville, Ky.-Louisville was very pleasantly greeted with the announcement that butter prices had decreased 6 cents per pound during the night. This reduction was made following the action of the board of trade at Elgin. Louisville retailers could give no reason for the decline other than the agitation against high prices and the pledges being signed in many of the centers to eliminate butter from the diet while the price remains at a high level. Cleveland, Ohio.-Another, reduction on live stock was quoted here, the amount being 10 cents per hundred pounds. There has been no lowering of the retail prices, however. Boston, Mass.—A "Meat strike" in Boston is the alternative which the Boston consumers' protest committee recommended if the conference with the whole and retail meat dealers is not productive of lower prices. Redlands, Cal.—Two days of an anti-meat strike were enough for the residents of the Mission, a suburb of Redlands. Petitions were signed by almost the entire population, who pledged to refrain from eating meat for sixty days. The meat markets closed their doors, but were induced to reopen and at once there was a rush to obtain fresh meat. Chicago, Ill.—Roger W. Babson, in an address before the Chicago Advertisers' Association, declared that the prices in one-hundred leading commodities have doubled or tripled since the time of the Chicago world's fair. He gave these six reasons as the causes: Trusts. Tariff. Over-production of gold. Over-spending—waste from buying more than is needed. Wholesale desertion of the farms for the city. Great increase in money spent for luxury. NO RAID ON CORPORATIONS. President Denies That He Is Planning a Crusade. Washington, D. C.—President Taft made public the following statement as to his reported crusade against corporations: "No statement was issued, either from the attorney general's office or the white house, indicating that the purpose of the administration with reference to prosecutions under the anti-trust law is other than as set forth in the message of the president of January 7, 1910. Sensational statements to the effect there were to be a new departure and an indiscriminate prosecution of important, industries have no foundation. COTTON GROWING IN MEXICO. Consul Freeman Writes of Improved Methods Columbia, S. G. Of peculiar interest to the southern cotton growing states is an article in the consular reports which has been called to the attention of local cotton oil mill men. Consul Freeman writes of the production of oil in Mexico: "The cultivation and manufacture of cotton and cotton seed products is a most important industry in this consular district. In contradistinction to the implements used in the western part of this state such as wooden plows, brush harrows and other equally crude tools, the hacchendas of the Lagune district in the eastern section of this district which are devoted to the raising of cotton are emphatically up to date in agricultural methods and implements. On these plantations are to be found gang plows, cultivators, gins, presses, and tools of the latest design all run under the direction of a superintendent or manager, who thoroughly understands cotton growing and who receives a salary commensurate with his responsibility. In this district, there are no small farmers, and, so far as I am able to learn, no land cultivated by shares men, as is the rule in the corn-rising part of this district. Each plantation is a business proposition. Under the superintendents are the overseers, the office staff, and the laborers. Taeese last receive on the average perhaps $0.75, Mexican currency, (31/2%) per day of eleven hours for work in the field. All the machinery used on the cotton hacchendas, including gins, presses, etc., is of American make." AWFUL "BLACK HAND" DATH. Constitution of "Society of Banana" Read in Court. Toledo, Ohio—The alleged constitution of the "Society of the Banana and Faithful Friends" was introduced in evidence by the government at the trial of the fourteen men charged with Black Hand conspiracy. This document provides penalties of death, stabbing, two to five cuts with a knife, branding on the body, designation of "tratiro," or "swindler," of deprivation of a share in the profits for their months, according to the gravity of an offense against the obligations placed upon the member. Death is prescribed for revelation of secrets. Among offenses mentioned were cowardice, failure to use the knife as ordered, dealing sparingly, refuting calls of command, attempting to harm a fellow member or his family, neglect of "inspectors" to "keep order and pass the news around," and absenting one's self without notifying the local." The constitution declares that there shall be no excuse for failure, but that there may be extinuting circumstances on account of drunkenness. WANT $1,000,000 TO IMPROVE ROADS Resolution Passed at the Meeting of League for Highway Improvement. St. Augustine, Fla—Asking an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the establishment of a national commission on highway improvement, a bill was approved by the International League for Highway Improvement and resolutions were adopted asking for its passage by congress. The commission is to consist of one senator, one congressman, four civilians to be appointed by the president, a representative of the postoffice department and one of the department of agriculture. It shall be the duty of the commission to have surveys made for a national system of good roads. Officials reported that President Taft has promised to approve the bill for survey, for coordination of all highways into one system. A committee was appointed to go to Washington to urge the passage of the bill by congress. Newsy Paragraphs. It is not so certain that the president will be able to force through the ship subsidy bill. Middle western members are showing a disposition to abide by the wishes of their constituents and vote against the bill. Dr. Edward A. Spitzka of the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, in an address before the Protestant Episcopal Clerical brotherhood at New York, created a sensation by arguing that murder and suicide were at times justified. Doctors, he said, had the moral right to kill patients to end their tortures in hopeless cases. Spitzka also said that the so-called science of phrenology is in error and that the thory of criminal brains/is all wrong. Hearings upon the half dozen or more bills introduced in the house dealing with the subject of cotton futures and other options, most of them prohibiting gambling in futures, will be held by the house committee on agriculture, beginning February 9. Joseph A. Danna, house surgeon on the Charity hospital at New Orleans, thinks there is a good deal of humbug about the hook worm. "The very fact that Rocketfeller gave a million dollars to help stamp out the hook worm has added much to the talk of the disease. Candidly, I think much of tails talk is poppy-cock." Such was the opinion rendered by Dr. Danna. "An Italian physician," continued Dr. Danna, "recently told me that the reports of the prevalence of this distase had the effect of scaring Europeans away from the south." The executive committee of the National Education association announced that the forty-eighth annual convention will be held in Boston, July 2 to S. 1910. HIGH COST OF LIVING Producer Gets Little More Than Formerly for Products. CONSUMER PAYS EXTRA PRICE American Farm Products Are Sold Cheaper Abroad Than in This Country. Washington, D. G.—Proof that American farm products are being sold abroad cheaper than in this country is being gathered by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. This was the declaration made by him at the "High Cost-of Living" hearing being conducted by a sub-committee of the house committee of the District of Columbia. Mr. Wilson gave strong evidence to show that the producer at the present-time was getting a little more than formerly for his food products, while the ultimate consumer was paying an excessive price. "Until comparatively recently the American people enjoyed the cheapest food in the world," continued Mr. Wilson. "But nowadays, not enough people know how to farm profitably, know how to get enough out of a day's work, know how to make an acre respond. The lure of the factory has called the farmer from the plow." Secretary Wilson declared that Washington was one of the most expensive cities in the land and that retailers in this city demanded 42 per cent profit, where in cities like New York and Philadelphia they were content with from 17 to 20 per cent. Conditions at the capital, however, with reference to the cost of living, the secretary said, were true to a great extent of other cities. He told the committee that it had a great opportunity to do a service for the whole people by ascertaining the cause of these conditions. Chairman Moore intimated that the whole matter of the cost of food producer to consumer would be gone into. COTTON CENSUS REPORT. 9,792,990 Bales Ginned According to Government Bulletin. Washington, D. C. The bureau of the census report on cotton ginned shows 9,792,290 bales, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1909, to January 16, compared with 12,566,203 for 1908 and 10,323,551 for 1907. The proportion of the last three crops ginned to January 16 is 96.8 for 1908, 93.5 for 1907 and 93.8 for 1906. Round bales included this year are 147,846, compared with 232,510 for last year and 188,037 for 1907. Sea island, 92,001 for 1909, 90,254 for 1908 and 80,190 for 1907. The number of bales ginned by states from the crop of 1909 is as follows: Alabama.. . . . .1,028,725 Arkansas . . . . . .664,946 Florida . . . . . .60,896 Georgia . . . . . .1,827,752 Louisiana. . . . . .254,013 Mississippi . . . . . .1,028,101 North Carolina . . . . . .615,533 Oklahoma . . . . . . .532,251 South Carolina . . . . . .1,114,806 Tennessee . . . . . .232,146 Texas . . . . . . .2,378,312 All other states . . . . . . .55,504 The distribution of the sea island for 1909, by states, is: . Florida... ... ... .....27,888 Georgia ... ... ... ...50,372 South Carolina ... ... ...13,241 IN POORHOUSE AT 36. Song Writer Blames His Condition on Whiskey. Detroit, Mich.—Hugh Cannon, who wrote "Goo Goo Eyes," "Ain't That a Shame?" "Bill Bailey," and other classics of rag tale, was sent to Eloise poor house at the age of 26. "I quit the coke easy" he said. "Fifteen days in jail cured me of that. I hit the pipe in New York for a year and stopped that. I went up against the morphine hard and quit, but booze, red, oily booze, that's got me for keeps." PROPOSED SOUTHERN CANAL TA Connect Chattahoochee River With St. Andrew's Bay. Washington, D. C.—The army engineers' estimate of the cost of a canal connecting the Chattahoochee river with St. Andrews bay places the figure at $350,000. The canal 101 which estimates were submitted to the committee is to be 70 feet wide and accommodate vessel drawing six feet of water. Representatives Adamson of Georgia and Clayton of Alabama are united in trying to secure the appropriation for the canal. IMMIGRATION COMMISSION DENOUNGED Representative Macon of Arkansas Blocks Appropriation. Washington, D. C.-By cutting off a deficiency appropriation of $123,000 for the national immigration commission, the house lent its support to several members, led by Representative Macon of Arkansas, who denounced the commission and its work and threatened it with extinction. Unless friends of the commission succeed in having the item restored to the urgent deficiency bill in the senate, it will be compelled to suspend for lack of funds. The commission asks for the $125,000 appropriation, which it needed to wind up its work. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. The new-fangled storage battery street car created by Thomas A. P.ison was tried out on a New Jersey trolley line and is said to have made good, several trolley officials riding on the trial trip. The batteries are equipped to run the car one hundred and fifty miles without recharging, at an average expense of about 1 cent a mile. It takes four hours to recharge the batteries, but it is expected that by installing wires at intervals along the track the recharging can be done while the car is in motion. A large number of money prizes are awaiting winning in England by aerial flights of different distances and under different conditions, but the one great condition attending nearly all the prizes is that either the machine or the aviator, or both, must be English. The most important prize is the $50,000 offer of the Dally Mail. A settlement has been finally reached regarding the Hankow-size-Chuen railway loan of $30,000,000, and the allotment of bonds will be announced in the near future. England, France, Germany and the United States are each to share a one-quarter interest of $7,500,000 in the loan. Dr. Henry Leffman of Philadelphia is working to develop a series of moving pictures of flowers in process of growth, so as to show the changes in minutest detail from bud to leaf bloom. Usually he prefers to study the more rapid blooming roses. His plan is to take a photograph of the selected flower every half hour for several days till several hundred pictures have been taken. These, when run through a film machine, simply hasten the rate of change, so as to make all clear to the spectator. Dr. Octave Chanute, who now at the age of almost eighty is regarded as the father of modern aeronautics, and who began experiments with soaring devices in 1874, in a New York interjew denies that the Wright brothers were the first to discover the principle of warped wing tips by which their machine is balanced and which forms the basis of their suit at law against Curtiss and other aeroplane builders. He says the tips were actually used in flight by Moulliard, a French engineer, in 1885. Washington. President Taft has selected representative Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio as a member of the Chickamauga National Park commission. General Grosvenor desires to have the headquarters of the commission transferred from Washington to Chattanooga, Tenn., so that it will be close to the park. It is reported that Senator Culberson of Texas will not be a candidate for re-election to the senate. Ill health has caused the senator to be absent from the city during the present session. He resigned the minority leadership in favor of Senator Money of Mississippi last month and following this come rumors that the senator will not continue in public life. The senator's time expires one year from March 4. He has made no announcement of his future plans. The senator is a native of Dadeville, Ala. President Taft announced that he favors a provision for two new battleships of the improved Dreadnaught or "all-big-guns" type in the forthcoming naval appropriation. He declared that his predecessor's policy of keeping the American navy well equipped with modern fighting machines could not be abandoned and that it would be false economy, to provide for any less than two battleships a year. The following nominations were confirmed by the senate: To be United States marshals, Clarence G. Smithers, Eastern district, Virginia; John F. Horn, Southern district, Florida; Asbury B. Patrick, Eastern district, Kentucky; Frederick W. Cottins, Southern district, Mississippi. To be United States attorneys: Lunsford L. Lewis, Eastern district, Virginia; Ernest F. Cochran, South Carolina; John M. Cheney, Soutaern district, Florida. To be collector of internal revenue: Lawson Reno, Second district, Kentucky. A question having been raised concerning the right to transmit labels for seed packages, through the mails under congressional franks, the law officer of the postoffice department has ruled that such labels are not public documents within the meaning of the law, and that, therefore, they cannot be mailed free of charge. This appears to be a very simple ruling, but, as a fact, it will affect a good many members of congress who have been sending to postmasters in their district seed labels with instructions to mall the seeds—also sent free in packages Signs of the approaching completion of the Panama canal are manifested in the summary of the work done on that great project last year. During the year more than thirty-five million cubic yards of material were removed, two million yards less than the record of 1908. The reason for this decrease is that the field of operations in dry excavation has been narrowed by the completion of the work in certain sections, while in the wet excavations the work has become more difficult on account of the depth obtained by the dredges. Meanwhile great progress has been made in the construction of the enormous locks at Gatum, where two thousand yards of concrete were placed in a single day. Largest Sick and Death Benefits; Smallest Premiums. The Guaranty Aid and Relief Society L. E. WILLIAMS, President. The undersigned Trustee is to have executed for a of Georgia, by authority and an issuably, approved Colo- 20th-1879. Guara SOL. C. JOHNSON, Treasury of State of Florida JAN. Feesome of the State of Georgia the following cities: Thousand Dollars, and which c bounty and under the provisions of a October 2nd, 1887, and R. E. SOL. C. JOHNSON, Supt. of Ageno Treasury of State of Georgia The undesignal Treasurer of the State of Georgia hereby acknowledges to have excused forthwith from any action or expense of the following cities: Dear Regent, I am a trustee of the Excuse, Georgia (Pittsburgh) in 1740, and am pleased to thank you for your kindness. (50.00) account, June 1920. long in total Five Thousand Dollars , and which are held by the State of Georgia , by authority and under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly , approved October 22d, 1887 , and amended December 20th, 1877 . food law is being enforced, not only as to bleached flour, but as to all other articles which come under it jurisdiction. Out of 360 samples of flour taken, it is asserted only two were found to be bleached, and the two lots of flour, represented by these samples from eighteen Georgia towns and cities, were seized and taken off the market. In all cases where a violation of the national pure food law was involved, report has been made to the proper united States officials. Splendid System of Pikes Being Built in Sumter County. Americus, Ga.—One hundred convicts, Sumter's entire working force in roadbuilding, is now concentrated between Americus and Ellaville, in Schley county. The distance is 14 milcs, and half the mileage is in Sumter. The Schley county force is rapidly working in this direction, and the two forces will meet at the county line a month hence. A branch of this road will lead 3 miles to historic old Andersonville. In every direction, now, splendid highways — north, south, east and west—radiate Sumter county from Americus, and the work of improvement is continued this year with the greatest vigor. 1SCO Fund Will Be Closed Up at Once by the Govxerror. Atlanta. Ga.—Governor Brown is now taking steps to clear up the. 1905 school fund. He expects to pay out at once approximately $200,000 of last year's school money, and the rest, about $180,000, will be available to the counties to which it belongs whenever they want it. This $10,000 represents an aggregate of balances which a number of counties have to their credit. By dint of enterprise and thrift they have gotten ahead on the school fund, and have accumulated balances in the state treasury which are held subject to their orders and payable upon demand. Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson, State Entomologist E. L.Worsham, J. J. Lee, president of Farmers' Union of Georgia, and others, will resume their tour of the state about February 10 in the interest of the black root campaign, begun so auspiciously before Christmas. Major B. F. Dixon, Raleigh, N. C., commander-in-chief of the National Association Blue and Gray, met with other national officers and the Fitzzerald post, and fixed the date of the National annual encampment at Southern Pines, N. C., on April 18, 19, 20, 1910. President John M. Slaton of the Georgia senate is now engaged in reading up on the automobile laws of the eastern states, with a view to introducing an automobile measure which will regulate the speed of autos in Georgia. DEMAND FOR CONVICTS Many Counties Ask Prison Commission for Labor. GOOD RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED Counties Have Obtained Fine Results From Convict Labor and are Anxious to Continue System. Attanta, Ga—Secretary Goodloe Yancey of the prison commission has sent out notices to every county in the state regarding the apportionment of the state's convicts for 1910 and asking them to notify the commission as promptly as possible whether or not they will take convicts this year. Some thirty replies already received indicate that the demand for convicts this year will be much greater than last, and it is more than probable that the commission will have to hold each county down strictly to its legal apportionment. Twenty-four of these thirty counties which are now working state convicts not only want to retain them, but want more than the now have. In almost every instance there is request for an increased number. New Counties on the List. Two counties, Crisp and Douglas, which are not now working state convicts, have asked for them in year, and it is expected a number of others not using them will make requisition for their apportionment. Four counties of the thirty—Chattahoochee, Habersham, Rabun and Jen Davis—which are not now using convicts state they do not want them this year. There are now an even 100 Georgia counties using state convicts, while there are seven others working their own misdemeanors, but take none from the state. NEW FARMER'S ASSOCIATION. Purpose is to Improve the Products of the State. Athens, Ga.—During the Farmers and Farmers' Wives' Conference here the Georgia Breeder's Association was organized. The purpose of the association, which will deal with the corn, cotton and other crops of the state, and the live stock industry likewise, is to assist in the movement to improve the kinds of cotton and corn grown and to improve the breed of cattle and stock raised in the state. The former results will be obtained by judicious seed selection, and the latter by economic methods of raising and modern methods of keeping and feeding. ENFORCING PURE FOOD LAW. - Sale of Bleached Flour Stopped, It is Asserted. *Atlanta, Ga.*—The state department of agriculture gave out a statement in which it is asserted that the pure Treasurer of the State of Georgia. SUMTER BUILDING GOOD ROADS. PAYING UP SCHOOL FUND. GEORGIA NEWS NOTES. P. EDWARD PERRY, Vice President. Eastern and Georgia capitalist completed the organization of the Georgia Southwestern and Gulf Railway, which will extend from Cordale to St. Andrews Bay, Fla., with a view of handling the freight from steamers touching the Florida West Coast from points beyond the Isthmus of Panama directly through the interior to the Atlantic seaboard. The company proposes to take over the Albany Northern Road, which extends from Cordale to Albany, and to build a line of road from Albany to the gulf. It is also proposed to build a line from Cordale to Hawkinsville. This will give a direct line to Charleston, S. C. The railroad commission issued an order directing the Georgia Railroad to build a depot in the town of Blue Springs, in Morgan county. Application for a charter for the Bank of Chickamauga at Chickamauga in Walker county, was filed with the secretary of state. The bank is to have a capital stock of $25,000, and among its incorporators are G. L. Bonds, J. L. Moore and S. C. Tarver, all of Chickamauga. Application was filed with the secretary of state for a charter for the Bank of Hephzibah in Richmond county. The bank is to have a capital stock of $25,000, and among the incorporators are W. B. Frost, R. N. Smith and Henry S. Johnson. People's. Types of stories appear and disappear with the regularity of types in other subjects of passing interest, but for some reason or other the western story remains fixed and unalterable in form, in quality and in the affection of the reading public. Very occasionally some inspired author manages to break away from tradition, and produces a story of the west which is fresh and unhackneyed in taenne and manner of treatment. Such a story is the latest from the pen of William MacLeod Raine, whom no one will deny the palm in the matter of tales of the cowboys. This story, entitled "Bringing in the Law," deals with the Mexican border at a time when affairs were, to say the least, unsettled; with surprising defiance of treatment, but without sacrificing the effect of every bold stroke, the author tells the tale of the Cibola Kid's reign of terror as "king of Adams County," and how the law was brought into the mesquite at last. The story, which will perhaps appear in book form later on, is one of the two complete novels in the February number of People's Ideal Fiction Magazine. As They Interpreted It. * Hero is the invitation which Mrs. D'Jones sent to her married lady friends: "Come and spend Christmas afternoon with us. We are planning a jolly time to include a hockey game on the ice in a park near by. "P. S.—Bring your skates." And each woman who was invited came and brought her husband.—St. Louis Star. HOME OFFICE 13 WEST BROAD STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Phone 1192. Ga. Phone 2023. Directors. L. E. Williams. P. Edward Perry. Walter E. 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By comparing our rules and benefits with other first class companies it will be seen that we offer the most liberal inducements with the largest sick, accident and death benefits to our members than any other company in this business. That we pay our claims promptly can be testified to by the thousands of our satisfied members. First February Popular Contents. "The Luckless Pot." A complete novel. B. M. Bower. "The Game Warden." A short story. A. M. Chishotm. "The Fugitive Freshman." A serial story. Ralph D. Palne. "Jones." A short story. W. B. M. Ferguson. "Bulldog Brown." A short story Walter Camp. "The Princess of Forge." A serial story. George C. Shedd. "The Mate of His Soul." A short story. Morgan Robertson. "The Red House on Rowan Street. A serial story. Roman Doubleday. "Red Ryan, Adjuster of Claims." A short story. Charles Nevel. "Pincus' Philosophy." A short story. Max Marclin. "From the Ranks." A short story. Charles R. Barnes. "The Furnace." A two-part story. Louis Joseph Vance. The first issue for February of the fortnightly Popular Magazine is full of the life that is strenuous. There is "something doing" in every one of the twelve stories contained in its 224 pages. The long complete novel, which has been a feature of the Popular since its earliest numbers, is written the month by B. M. Bower, whose "Chip of the Flying U" had a big sale in book form. The novel is called "The Luckless Pot." It is a cowboy story, with a stirringly described encounter between the sheep herders and the cow punchers, and a real mystery to carry the reader forward. Smith's for February. February will remind you—if you haven't begun to fossilize—that Saint Valentine's Day is at hand; and, going through into the next car of this train of thought, Valentine's Day surely suggests a pretty girl; and a pretty girl brings you to your own car and your own section; in other words, Smith's Magazine and the Theatrical Art section—to get off the train and stand on solid ground again. The sixteen new portraits of "the stars that shine"—as a popular song has it—are certainly good to look upon. You will find your particular favorite there, and fifteen other close seconds. But that is only a part. There are a round dozen of clever stories in this February number, to say nothing of four or five poems and a little sermon thrown in for good measure. It Might Be Worse. I often think I'd like to be A prince upon a throne somewhere With willing lackeys serving me And ninety-seven suits to wear; I often sigh because I've got To work so hard to earn my pay, But I am so glad that I am not A bill collector anyway. —Chicago Record-Herald. A Misconception. Tnglish Girl—You American girls have not such healthy complexions as we have. I cannot understand why our noblemen take a fancy to your white faces. American Girl—It isn't our white faces that attract them, my dear; it's our green backs.—The Wasp. WALTER S. SCOTT, Secretary and Tr eas. ADDRESS THE HOME OFFICE, 463 West Broad St. Gavannah, Georgia. Masonic Books & Regalias. Publishers' and Manufacturers' Prices Liberal Discounts Will Be Arranged. BOL. C. JOHNSON. Bavannah, Ga. SOL. C. JOHNSON Notary Public. Deeds, Contracts, Wills and Other Legal Forms Prepared and Attested. 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, Besides education, not less than $500. There are some outstanding claims which your secretary and treasurer are compelled to meet, because all we have in the way of property stands subject to claims we made for the convention. Should you fail 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 Atlanta, please send $1.00 as your enrollment fee, and a donation from your church. Address your letter to the convention in care of the secretary. Whatever amount sent will be promptly reported and a receipt for the same will be mailed to you in return from Atlanta. I am. How stonily that fellow stares Who wants to buy. He looks upon your cherished wares With jaundiced eye. His talk is curt, his manner grim; He says you can't bambooze him. But note the transformation when He wants to sell. He has a fund of chatter then, Of jokes to tell. His attitude is far from stiff. The motive always makes a diff. —Philadelphia Bulletin. STATE BAPTIST CALL. Office Recording Secretary M. B. C. of Georgia, Route No. 5, Box No. 47, Hawkinsville, Ga. October 1st, 1909. To the Brethren of the Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia: In view of the fact that we are to meet 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 certificate plan in November, account the convention; but instead of getting certificates there will be reduced rate return tickets on sale November 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 same time, and the rate above mentioned has been granted on that account. So when I applied for the usual 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 governed accordingly. We have learned that changing the Convention from June to November does not meet the approval of a host of brethren. It will be remembered that the change was recommended in the President's annual address, which paper was referred to a committee; 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 if the change is not the best, let's urge that the convention may rescind its action; but, personally, I think the change from June to November is best. 1st. It's 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 is interested in our work could plant one or two acres of cotton specially for conventional purposes, and in November of each year a great contest could be worked up among the farmers. 3rd. The associations belonging to our convention will have met and closed at this season—and they could send by their moderator or representative their annual donation direct to the convention, and through that medium, if properly worked up and given a fair trial before we decide to change from November back to June, it will only be a question of time before we can lay on the conventional table from three to five thousand dollars. 4th. Now, we have some white friends who have, and are still stand- LODGE SEALS, FINANCIAL CARDS and BLANKS of every description. 4262 West Broad St. Yours for success, J. A. KIRKLAND, Rec. Sec. M. B. C. of Georgia. All Depends. FOR THE FARMER AND STOCKMAN ' Cows that have such a yearly record are certainly valuable, with butter selling at thirty-five cents a pound, as now. There are several such cows reported, one of the latest being an American Jersey cow, Warder's Lady, now in the Jersey herd of C. I. Hood, Lowell, Mass. This cow has a yearly record of 700 pounds of butter. The same hound has four such Jersey cows, and this, record has the stamp and authority of the Massachusetts State experiment station. Brown Swiss Cows. The Michigan Agricultural College farm has some notable Brown Swiss cows in its dairy herd. One of these cows gives in a year 9633 pounds of milk, which made 424 pounds of butter. Another one 10,158 pounds of milk making 457 pounds of butter. Another 9477 pounds of milk, and 416 pounds of butter. Still another gave $120 pounds of milk and made 406 pounds of butter. Their average weight is 1250 pounds. These certainly are valuable cows, and are full blood Brown Swiss. New Corn For the Southwest. Last year a small lot of shelled corn of a kind new to this country was sent to the Department of Agriculture from Shanghai. It proved to have qualities that may make it valuable in breeding a corn adapted to the hot and dry conditions of the Southwest. The plants raised in the test averaged less than six feet in height, with an average of twelve green leaves at the time of tasseling. The ears averaged five and a half inches in length and four and a third inches in greatest circumference, with sixteen to eighteen rows of small grains. On the upper part of the plant the leaves are all on one side of the stalk, instead of being arranged in two rows on opposite sides. Besides this, the upper leaves stand erect instead of drooping, and the tips of the leaves are therefore above the top of the tassel. The silks of the ear are produced at the point where the leaf blade is joined to the leaf sheaf, and they appear before there is any sign of an ear except a slight swelling.—Scientific American. Dry Farming. The Spokesman-Review, of Spokane, in commenting upon the dry farming movement, says: "The objects of the dry farming congress are intensely practical and laudably patriotic. They are, in brief, to develop the science of producing profitable crops from a rainfall, that was insufficient under old methods of cultivation. This science has ceased to be a theory. It has become an inspiring, demonstrated reality. In a sentence, it is nothing more than conservation of moisture—the breaking of the stubble in the right way and at the right time to catch and hold the rains of autumn and the snows of winter, and after that the best methods of cultivating the crop, so that the finely pulverized surface soil will hold the imprisoned moisture around the roots and prevent evaporation. "This seems wonderfully simple, but it has been found that, while the general principle is applicable to all sections, there are varying local conditions which require somewhat different applications. The work of the congress is, therefore, educational—such as fostering the establishment all over the West of scientific experiment stations." Silage Fed Beef Cattle: Indiana is becoming famous for its beef cattle fed in part at least on corn silage. The Purdue monthly calling attention to such feeding says: Commission men, who handle beef cattle in the markets, often value silage fed steers thirty-five cents per hundred pounds higher than steers which receive no silage. Here is one of the chief reasons for using silage in a ration for feeding steers. Silage can be put up and fed as cheaply as clover hay and the steers receiving silage make better use of the corn they eat. The steers fed here at Purdue on corn silage made cheaper and more rapid gains, gained a higher finish and were valued higher at the finish. Hogs fed after silage fed steers did equally as well as those after hay fed steers. The amount of grain consumed by hay fed steers was greater than with silage fed steers. The manure from silage fed steers is free from weed seed unless they are found in the bedding material. In feeding clover hay the weeds have a good way of spreading. The same amount of silage can be stored in less space and it saves hauling hay or fodder in bad weather. The results obtained last year were published in last June's issue, but it may be well to say that the lot of cattle receiving corn, cotton seed meal, and corn silage made a profit of $14 per head, while the cattle receiving corn and clover hay made a profit of less than $12 per head. The facts are that silage is surely the entire corn crop can be utilized with but slight waste, and the higher finish and selling price at the cheaper gain price, all should appeal to the practical steer feeder. Early and Large Vegetables. There are two ways in which every man who takes pride in his garden likes to excel his neighbor. One is in having the earliest product and the other is in having the largest. One may earn a reputation for having the sweetest peas, the crispest lettuce or the most mealy potatoes, but all this is eclipsed by one big squash or turnip, or one vine of early tomatoes, though none of these prizes may be any more than tolerated for the table. Earliness is the result of conditions favorable for the rapidity of growth and quick maturity. A warm soil is still further improved by the addition of available plant food and abundance of humus. A little nitrogen in some form is good at the start, but later it encourages a growth of top which retards maturity. This is not objectionable in case of some vegetables, but it is not advisable for others. The treatment which would be fitting for lettuce and asparagus, or other plants grown for the top, would not be commendable for tomatoes and beans, or plants grown to their fruit. A balanced ration is most reliable in this case, and barnyard manure serves the nurseries best if it is to be had. For producing large vegetables the requirements are different. A long season is desirable. For this reason an early start should be made and maturity retarded so as to secure a long period for growths. The soil should be in good responsive condition. The plants are not to be forced into a rapid growth at the start, but are to be kept growing through a long period. Stimulating nitrogenous manures are to be used sparingly, but phosphoric acid and potash are the independents, the former seed or fruit growth and the latter for root. He who succeeds, understands the requirements of plants and treats them accordingly. He sows the seed and sees that conditions are what are most suitable. Nature will do the rest—Farmers' Home Journal. Management of Cattle. For practical purposes and general convenience on breeding and feeding farms, a general separating and classing of cattle is necessary, so that each class of animals may have suitable treatment. Feeding cattle probably require the first consideration, and the utmost economy, as well as the best management, is necessary if this class of animals is to repay the feeder. One of the essentials that is conducive to economy is the comfortable housing of the animals to be fed, and this particularly with respect to warmth. A certain amount of feed is required to be consumed by the animals for heating purposes before any is utilized for the formation of fat. Any excess of food, after a proper temperature is arrived at, is placed upon the muscles in the shape of fat. It is very essential, then, that for fattening purposes the animals be kept at a proper temperature. Warmth is equivalent to food. The variations in the amount of food required by an animal are dependent in a great measure on temperature. In proportion to the temperature which an animal has to keep up will be the loss of the materials consumed in keeping up the animal heat. In addition to warmth, rest and comfort are necessary for feeding animals. Every movement causes a corresponding waste in the muscles that make it, so that no more exercise than is quite necessary for general health's sake should be allowed. Animals that sleep well gain more flesh than those that are more wakeful, so any plan that conduces to drowsiness should be adopted, such as darkening the shed after feeding is over. Grooming feeding cattle is labor well spent, and frequent washings from head to tail, along the spine with a weak sanitary fluid will keep them free from lice. These little details will materially help in the general economy of feeding. The time for each meal should be kept as punctually as possible, so that the animals are not fretting for the food. Whatever is the diet laid down, there can be no doubt but that the first meal of the day should be something easy of digestion, so that after the night's fast it may quickly be taken into the system. Unlike feeding cattle, animals that are growing, to develop into healthy and well grown cattle, require plenty of room and exercise; good, roomy yards with plenty of shelter accommodations are the right places for them. They should be liberally fed on a growing ration.—W. H. Underwood. Savings Banks. An Irishman was explaining American institutions to a green countryman. "A savings bank," he said, "is a place where you can deposit money to-day and draw it out to-morrow by giving a week's notice."—Success Magazine. FOREST DESTRUCTION AND THE EROSION OF ARABLE-LANDS BY DAY ALLEN WILLEY. The work of the elements in eroding or eating away the surface of the United States affords a study for the scientists which is of extreme interest and importance. So many are the causes of erosion and so many and varied are its effects, however, that a series of volumes would be needed to describe the effect of air and water merely on the different soils, in the various climates, and at the various altitudes. Perhaps the most familiar effects of earth erosion are in the West, in such regions as the Arizona desert, where the crumbling away of the surface has revealed the petrified forests. The remarkable formation in the Bad Lands of Dakota and Nebraska and the picturesqueness of the famous Garden of the Gods in Colorado are due almost entirely to the wearing away of the softer formation, exposing the curious shapes formed by the more solid composition. Much of this erosion is due to the extremely dry climate and high temperature, which have caused the earth to become remarkably friable. Here and there can also be seen the effect of water upon the soil, but a really wonderful result of the power of water is in what is now the Salton Sink, into which the detritus from millions of acres in the States of Arizona and Utah has been carried and deposited by the action of the Colorado River, the original surface of the sink being covered in some spots to a depth of no less than 200 feet. Erosion caused by a river or creek, however, is seldom beneficial. In the case of the Colorado, the ma- BRUSH DAMS WHICH ARE NOW TO HOLD BACK THE ```markdown ``` BRUSH DAMS WHICH ARE NOW BEING INTRODUCED IN THE WEST TO HOLD BACK THE MOUNTAIN TORRENTS. terial carried down in flood contains so many fertile ingredients that it has reclaimed a large area of the Southwestern desert, making it fit for cultivation by irrigation. In this respect the conditions resemble the annual inundation of the Valley of the Nile with its renewal of the fertility of the soil. districts of South Carolina which were actually fifty feet in depth, yet only two or three feet wide at the top. The drainage water cut through the soft surface like a knife, and with no hard clay or rock to stop its course, had caten its way into the earth. With such a formation, it is not strange that one can see fields of In many other portions of the United States, however, the result of erosion by water has brought literal destruction to very large areas of farm land and of territory available for agriculture by reason of its advantages of climate and soil. In spite of the enormous extent of cultivated lands in the various portions of the country and the many tracts which can be made available by the farmer in the East as well as in the West. His destruction has already assumed such large proportions that it has seriously affected our most important industry. While evidences of the injury done by erosion can be found in New England and in many parts of the Middle States, possibly the Southern States present the most notable illustrations. This is due to several conditions, such as the topography, the character of the soil, the size and number of the streams and the volume of water which they carry, especially in the flood season. A considerable area of the South is composed of the flat, level land adjoining the seacost. The descent of the rivers from the mountains where they have their source to the coastal plains is so abrupt that experts of the Geological Survey who have been investigating the Appalachian region estimate that nearly 3,000,000 horsepower could be secured from the principal water courses—more than enough to operate all of the industries of the South at the present time. This figure illustrates the volume and force of the water in the Southern rivers. During the flood season, when the rivers are swollen by the melting snows in the mountains or by heavy rains, and the flow of the water is many times greater than at other periods, some of the streams become literal torrents and carry down their course an enormous amount of sand, gravel and other detritus, much of which is held in solution. Unfortunately this material is unlike what is carried by the flood waters of the --- Colorado and the Nile; for it usually covers the land to such a depth that the soil is worthless for agricultural purposes. This distribution of alluvial material is one of the most serious; destructive effects of erosion. Every year large areas of the valleys in the Piedmont section, as well as of the lands of the coastal plain, are inundated by the high waters, and this deposit left upon their surface. The direct erosion caused by the flood water, however, is another great injury to agriculture. The soil of the Piedmont region consists largely of clay and loam; the upper statum of which is so soft and loose that the contact of water causes it to dissolve just as a pile of sand will be disintegrated by a small jet of liquid. It is this quality of soil which is noted for its crop production. Upon the "red lands," as they are called, of the Carolinas and Georgia is raised a large proportion of the cotton crop, some of the planters averaging nearly two bales of cotton to the acre. This land is also adapted for the growing of fruit, as is shown by the great peach orchards in the red lands of Central Georgia. Much of it is included in the older plantations which have been cultivated for over a half century. It is in this country, however, that erosion from water has done great injury; for many of the plantations are situated in the foothill country where the land is sufficiently rolling to permit a rapid flow of water. The erosion even of a small rivulet is of such an extent as to seem almost incredible. The writer has measured ravines and gullies in the plantation BEING INTRODUCED IN THE WEST MOUNTAIN TORRENTS. districts of South Carolina which were actually fifty feet in depth, yet only two or three feet wide at the top. The drainage water cut through the soft surface like a knife, and with no hard clay or rock to stop its course, had caten its way into the earth. With such a formation, it is not strange that one can see fields of fifty acres or more which have been abandoned because so creviced by the water. But even greater damage has been done to plantation and other bottom lands in the valleys through which flow the mountain rivers. Such may be the force of the flood torrent that it will carry away the entire earth crust, washing it down to the rock itself. As these bottom farms are usually extremely fertile and produce large crops of corn and cotton, the loss to the farmer is very great. —Scientific American. How to Know the Twins. The Beverly twins, Fred and Frank, were such exact counterparts of each other that none of the neighbors could tell them apart, and even their mother sometimes had her doubts. The resemblance is accentuated by the fact that they are dressed exactly alike. "How in the world can you yourself tell which is which, Mrs. Beverly?" asked a caller one day. "To tell the truth," she answered, "I can't always, but if I hear a noise in the pantry and call out, 'Fred, is that you?' and he says, 'Yes, mamma,' I know it's Frank, and that he's in some kind of mischief." — Youth's Companion. Berlin's Clean Streets. The total length of the streets cleaned in Berlin in 1907 was 320 miles. The total working force was 2056, including 509 "street sweeping boys." These boys get from forty-seven to fifty-three cents a day; the adult laborers get eighty-nine cents, and after three years, $1.19 a day. A Sharp Distinction. Alabama deflected the prohibition amendment by over 28,000, but a large majority of the people of the State, favor temperance.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. IN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY 'REV', DR. JOHN CURTIS' AGER. Therpe; Tabernacle of God. Brooklyn, N. Y. —Sunday morning the Rev. Dr. John Curtis Agris, pastor emeritus of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), new professor in Cambridge Theological he filled for so many years. His subject was "The Tabernacle of God With Men." The text was from Revelation 21:8: "And I heard a great voice out of the (new) heaven, saying, see, the tabernacle of God with men, and He will tell us the tabernacle of God by tell us, His peoples, and He, God with them, will be their God." Dr. Agris said; The preceding verses, with the greater part of what follows in this chapter, are a description of what John saw coming down from God out of the new heaven. The remainder of the prophecy tells us what John heard out of that heaven. John recognizes this distinction when he says we saw and heard these things. This reflects an important spiritual distinction that is in some measure recognized in the common language of the world. Seeing a thing mentally is a purely intellectual act, but hearing implies also such a giving heed to the truth as calls for some response from the will. So in this prophetic account, we will see picture those aspects of the new truth now coming into the world that appeal to the understanding, while the things he heard represent those aspects of truth that appeal also to our emotions and volitions. The new heaven and the new earth, the holy city descending from the new heaven upon the new earth, complete in all its parts, with its walls and gateways, with its gold and jewels, its streets of pure gold, and the whole city as transparent as the purest glass, and resplendent throughout with a divine light, for the Lamb was the light of it—all this is a divine symbol of that body of divine truth which will illuminate and fill and quicken all our intellectual faculties as fast and as fully as we are prepared to do, and as well as formed both to John's sight and John's hearing to picture the important truth that man is not a purely intellectual being, and that he cannot be made a new creature by any change, however great or radical, in his intelligence alone. The new truth has not done its work until it has touched the emotions and has quickened and directed them to form the conduct and filled it with a new spirit. And this aspect of the truth is especially pictured in that part of the prophecy that John heard. It is said out of the new heaven that he saw, John heard a great voice, which means, not a loud voice, but a great volume of sound, such sound as would be fit expression of heavenly love. And this great voice-said, "See, He will be barnacled with them, and they will be His peoples, and He, God with them, will be their God." This pictures another aspect of the new truth that is now coming into the world. This truth is first pictured as a holy city to indicate how completely it would meet and satisfy all the intellectual needs of men, a perfect belfoy and peace. It was pictured as a bride attired for her marriage to teach that the requirements of this belief will not be satisfied until the life is brought into harmony and union with the belief. And now it is pictured as a tabernacle in which God will tabernacle Himself with men, to enact the most perfect spiritual abiding place for men, but also an abiding place for God with men. To realize the full force of this symbol we need to recall that the tabernacle was 'under the Jewish dispensation' on the Jewish dispensation, as we know, was a dispensation of types and symbols. Its sole function was to symbolize or picture the true human church of the Lord or the true human life on the earth, and to maintain that representation in the world. The ceremonies, as prescribed by the Lord, were simply a body of prophetic symbols. The tabernacle which was built at Mt. Sinai under divine direction was, in a sense, the centre of this whole representative order. Until the temple took its place it was the 'centre and seat of the entire Jewish system of worship, and for a time the centre of the temple was possessed. In itself it was simply a tent, similar in many respects to the tents in which the people themselves lived, and as readily transported from place to place during their nomad life. It was made after a pattern shown to Moses in heaven, and every detail of its construction was typical of heavenly things. And to the Jewry of the Most High, the tent of the great unseen captain of the host, by whom all their movements were directed. His presence and His commands were made known by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, which moved forward to guide the host in its movements and rested both on the march and in camp this holy tent was at the centre and was regarded with reverence and awe it is impossible for us to realize. And whenever specific directions were needed Moses sought the will of the Lord in the tabernacle, as it had before been revealed to him in the mount, and the Lord talked with him in the desert, and afterward with less fullness during the conquest of the promised land. And 'when at last a more permanent abiding place for the temple was brought and placed in the form of lies of the temple, this manifestation of the divine presence by the cloud "filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord has filled the house of the Lord." And this wonderful cloud of glory, this symbol of the divine presence, called by the Jews the Sheklinah, continued to rest upon the ark until the temple was burned by Nebuchadnezzar and the ark was destroyed. But the tradition remained that when the Messiah came, and their government was destroyed, the Sheklinah would be restored and the presence of the Lord with them again made manifest by this outward sign. This hope and expectation of the Jews, in which doubtless the early Christians shared, is necessary to recall to make clear the meaning and force of this prophecy. As under the Jewish dispensation God's actual presence with His people was made physically evident in the story of Jesus and in connection with the tabernacle, and as those who followed this cloud and got from it immediate direction from God know themselves, by this visible symbol, to be His chosen people, so in these latter days, when a new Jerusalem would descend from God out of a new heaven, there would be given a new tabernacle of God with men, in which He would in a new and higher way tabernacle of God with men, in which He would be His peoples, and He, God with them, would be their God. Thus the old returns in the new. But it returns only as a type fulfilled, as a symbol realized. Between the old and the new there is the immeasurable difference between shadow and light. With the light, the light is present. With the Jews God's presence in the tabernacle was only a typical presence. His revelation of Himself in the cloud was only a typical manifestation, they were His chosen people. With the light, the light was God with them, their God, only in a typical or representative way. And this brings us back to the same primary truths respecting the true life of man that the Divine Word everywhere reflects. The true life of man is not a product of human prudence or of human ideals of goodness and human strivings after such goodness in which there is little if any reference to the Divine Word and solely the Divine Life flowing into us and becoming active in us. This is the fundamental truth revealed in the Incarnation, whereby God became tabernacled with men, and whereby as "Immanuel," God with us, He became our God. Thus in Jesus Christ this prophecy became potentially fulfilled. When God took upon Himself our nature and glorified it He became tabernacled in every minutest capacity and activity of that nature. In a fuller sense than man has ever known or ever can know did He then become tabernacled in every minutest capacity and activity of that truth that the apostles gained were soon obliterated, and in the Christian Church in us real sense has the "God with men" become their God. To some He became a type or example of the possibilities of human nature, to others He became an infinite victim to explain the infinite sinfulness of the race, but to He became a bringing down of the Divine Life into such contact with fallen human nature as a whole as would restore that nature to its true order with it thus that He became a life and thus also into such contact with our individual life as to make the restoration of everyone's life to its true order and to its true relation to the Divine life an easy task. But in the now opened word this is the truth that is everywhere proclaimed. What the Old Testament prefigures the New Testament declares fulfilled. To the Jews God made manifest His presence and revealed His will by physical signs, because they had no eyes to see His spiritual presence, no ears to hear His spiritual voice. Those to-day God for us, for the fallen, ple are able to see, in the light of spiritual truth shining into their opened spiritual intelligence, that these Jewish signs are actually fulfilled; to see in the Divine human life of our Lord Jesus Christ the tabernacle of God with men; to see that, by what the Lord did in His assumed human nature, the Divine life is in actual contact with every minutest movement of our life; to see that in every least issue between right and wrong that comes before our thought the Lord is really with us, to help us and uphold us to the fullest, extent of our faith, and that, by this belying all our thinking and feeling into harmy with this truth, all the requirements of spiritual lifting will be made easy and its burdens light. This simple truth, which makes clear to us the relation of the Divine life to our life, is the good tidings of great joy which the world is now beginning to hear. It says to us: "See the tabernacle of God with me. Christ the tabernacle of God with me. How He is the tabernacle of God with men, we have only to open our minds and hearts by the repudiation of evil and falsity and He will come in and tabernacle in us; and we shall then be in reality His people, and He, God with us," will be our God, for His Divine human wisdom will then be applied to His Divine human love our love, and His Divine human life our life. And this truth is to come, not merely to our spiritual vison as a truth seen, but to our spiritual hearing as a truth heard, and heard as a great voice of one of our hearers, that reflections we well hear our thought will be moved and quickened by the limitless love that is revealed in that supreme truth. For when we spiritually hear this truth, we not only see but also feel that God is our Heavenly Father, yearning to make us more aware of what we consequently partakers of all the joys and delights that spring from that life. And no voice that ever entered human ear can compare with the fullness and sweetness of that voice when it is heard. It is the voice that has spoken unto you that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full." Fairness. Let us-be open-minded and fair toward all men; let us judge them, but not prejudge them. Let us treat others as we would have them treat us. IDLE young men and women are truly a menace to race uplift. IN a respectful way we should seek for the righting of every wrong. THERE will be no lack of applicants for enumerators' place for the taking of the U. S. census. A number of capable persons have already sent in their application. The annual conferences at Tuskegee have done more to give vigor and inspiration to our people of all classes, than anything else. It is the great lever of uplift and improvement among the farmers and laborers. The Tuskegee idea is growing in every community and has also permeated our friends of the opposite race. It would be a great thing if a number of farmers in every community could attend these conferences. The conference last week was better than ever. ATLANTA ranks thirteenth among the American cities for the annual number of arrests. All kinds of explanations have been given as an excuse for this showing. The trouble in a nut shell is that the police have been two pollicie in arresting colored persons. One of the daily papers said, and it is true, that "The police sometimes, if not often, make arrests without provocation. The recorder himself recalls a number of cases in which men were brought before him on no substantiated charges. Officers should exercise a close discretion in this matter, for a needless arrest reflects upon the law." BISHOP REES in his address before the Episcopal Convention at Americus, relative to the colored people, said in separating them in classes, that "There are many who are exceptional in many ways, industrious, sober, capable and honest. There are some who are educated and refined. The latter we see and know little of. They are forming a life apart from ours." We note this because there are such few white publicists who will give us proper credit, but generally class all of us with the masses that are seen always in public. We are anxious for our white friends to know more about the home life, industry and thrift of a large per cent. of our people. By this means they will be better enabled to judge us. "We Have no Ladies Here." Wednesday last a representative of one of the insurance companies had occasion to visit the Georgia Infirmary to pay the sick claim of a policy holder. He politely approached the matron and asked for the policy holder, using the word "lady." The matron replied heatedly and with emphasis, that "We have no ladies here!" The representative noting her disposition, refrained from any contention, especially as he was anxious for the unfortunate member to get the amount due. The amount was turned over to the matron who gave a receipt for it. Indignation has been expressed by all who heard about the affair. No one objects to the fixed idea of the matron in saying that "We have no ladies here," because it is felt that it will not be changed. Sirrenuous objection is made, though, to her discourteous treatment of those who visit the hospital. No longer than Tuesday last, it is reported that she in a very uncouth manner ordered out some visitors who were there about the closing hour. There have been much complaints about her manner of treating visitors, etc., so much so that friends who are inclined to lend aid to the hospital have become luke warm. It is assured that the matron's action will not be approved by the officials of the institution, who are among our foremost citizens and who would not in any manner give an offense, especially to those who are less fortunate in life. Meeting of Churchmen. The annual council of Colored Churchmen of the Diocese of Georgia, was held in Augusta, January 18th, 19th and 20th. The council showed a decided improvement on all lines. During the last year confirmation classes have been presented in all the churches. The Sunday school enrollment has increased and work done in parochal schools have been very encouraging. During the council the Bishop delivered two very able addresses which expressed his interest in the colored work and his intentions of fostering and building it up. The remarks of the Bishop expressing the practical side of religion and its relation to morals were well received, and his encouragement toward self-help was heartily in accord with the desire of the council. The council adjourned to meet at Brunswick, Ga., next year. St Philip Dots. Rev. R. H. Singleton, D. D., preached at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. both of which services was well attended. At the morning service choir and congregation s a n g "Guide me O thou great Jehovah," Rev. Singleton's text was from St. John 2-49. This important subject is one that should have been heard by hundreds of people. Those that did hear this great subject was much benefited and should be stamped on their hearts to guide them through the world. At 8:30 p. m. Rev. Singleton again preached. Another hero has fallen and answered to the roll call, Brother Tony White, leader of class No 3, died on Saturday Jan. 22nd, and was buried from St. Philip on last Sunday. Brother White had been a faithful of St Philip for more than twenty five years and a class leader for over twelve years, always at his post of duty in the church. At the recent session of the quarterly conference at St. Philip's Church the following officers and teachers of the Sunday school were confirmed for the ensuing year by Rev. N. Benbry, Presiding Elder: J. H. Baldwin, Supt.; J. Brinson, Asst. Supt. Mrs. D. F. Allen, Secretary; Miss A. Grier, Asst. Secretary; Mrs. J. Radcliffe, Treasurer; Mr. A. W. White, Librarian; Mrs. C. P. Frank, organist; Prof. B. S. Reed, chorister; Mrs. J. Singleton, Asst. organist; Mrs. B. Holmes, Asst. chorister; Mrs. M. A. Phoenix, primary Supt.; Mr. A. W. Quarterman, S. S. steward. Teachers—class No. 1, Rev. R. H. Singleton, No. 2, Mr. J. Brinson, No. 3, Mrs. J. Singleton, No. 4, Mrs. T. J. Hopkins, No. 5, Mr. H. C. Jones, No. 8, Mrs. J. T. Read, No. 9, Mrs. L. A. Newton, No. 10, Miss S. Gaston, No. 13, Mrs. A. H. Davis, No. 14, Mr. D. L. Ligon, No. 15, Mrs. C. L. White, No. 16, Mrs. E. T. Sharpe, No. 17, Mrs. C. A. Bailey, No. 18, Mrs. P. G. Jones, No. 19, Mrs. A. B. G. Carr, No. 20, Mrs. M. A. Phoenix, No. 22, L. Buncome, No. 23, Mrs. A. Murray, No. 24, Mr. W. A. Russell, No. 25, Mrs. C. V. Payton: No. 26, Mr. F. B. Bryant: No. 27, Mrs. B. Holmes; No. 28, Mrs. N. Seabrooks. Assistant teachers Mrs. H. Wright, Miss Nellie Mae Hart, Miss H. Neal, Mrs. D. F. Allen, Miss L. Ballard, Miss Virgine Wright, Miss Ruth Martin, Mr. R. H. Williams. The first quarterly meeting of the Women Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Georgia Conference was in session this week at St. Philips Church, Charles street. Quite a number of delegates were present and great interest was manifested in the work of mission. Several prominent sisters were also present and made timely remarks. Our monthly love feast will be held on next Friday night. The following services will be held on tomorrow: Preaching at 11 a. m., Sunday school at 3 p. m., A. C. E. Lea at 4:30 p. m., preaching at 8 p. m. Everybody are cordially welcomed. F. A. B. Church Friday evening of last week terminated the celebration of the 122nd anniversary of First African Baptist Church, Franklin Square, which began Monday the 17th inst. The program was well arranged each night, and carried out in a satisfactory manner. Able sermons were preached during the celebration by Rev. J. H. May, D. D., Rev. N. H. Whitmire, Rev. W. A. Daughtry, and Rev. W. R. Forbes, D. D., of Macon, Ga., who preached the anniversary sermon on Thursday evening. A banquet was spread on Friday evening in the basement of the church for the pastor, officers and participants in the celebration, which befittingly expressed the appreciation of the church. Mrs. Ada Gordon headed the committee of ladies that served the sumptious banquet. The pastor, Rev. W. L. Jones, preached an able sermon on last Sunday morning, also at night, at which time he addressed the Grand United Benevolent Society, who turned out in a large body. He took for his text Hosea 2:19; and for his subject "Contract for Protection." The choir very sweetly sang at the conclusion of the sermon, "O happy days, etc." and the audience joined with loud praises. The society made neat donations to the pastor, church, choir and sexton, which was gratefully received. The funeral of Sister O. Johnson, better known by most of the members of the church, as another Doll Johnson took place at the church on last Tuesday. Revs. P. M. Hunter, B. Molett, J. M. Sims, Daniel Wright and the pastor officiated. In the death of Sister Johnson the church has lost one of its oldest members, whose christian life for over a half century stood as a beacon light amidst both ups and downs of the church. Hundred of boys and girls have been reared to useful manhood and womanhood through her teachings in the Sabbath school and now serve the church as monuments to her usefulness. Monday night Jan. 31, the church will hold its annual conference which was postponed on account of the anniversary. Each member is asked to be present, as much business will claim their attention. Second Baptist Church. Services here last Sunday were fine; the pastor preached in the morning and Rev. C. S. Wilkins, D. D. of Augusta, Ga. preached at night. The rally list was completed and $1000 the third Sunday in March is the organic cry here now. The entire city is called upon to help the 120 clubs. Brothers Willis and Howard seem to be leading in money raising, closely followed by Bros. W. R. Fields and Chas. Anderson. All the clubs are at work. The executive committee of the Women Mission Society had a meeting last Sunday and the entire society will meet tomorrow morning after services. Several new additions are made to the sick list, sisters Nora Brown (at hospital,) Lucy Black, Mary Wade, Grace Turnbull and others. One funeral during the week. Both toomorpw and the first Sunday in February will be used as "general expenses" day, let all come prepared. New and special music will be a prominent feature of the choir at tomorrow's services; don't fail to hear them. The Sunday School is taking on new life; they are preparing for Easter. The pastor will presach at both services tomorrow and the public is invited to attend these services. St. Benedict's Church East Road and Grazing acres Sunday January 30th, Sexagesima Sunday. 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 of the most blessed Sacrament at 8 p.m. The morning sermon will be preached by Rev. Jos. A. Dah lent and will be on the gospel of the day: "A man went out to sow the seed," beautiful lessons contained in this inspiring parable. In the evening Father Obrecht will preach. Next Wednesday, February 2nd, is Candlemas Day; it is a day of special devotion. It is the feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary in the temple of Jerusalem. It is a custom in the Catholic Church to bless the candles on that day. In every Catholic home a blessed candle should be kept and lighted in time of sickness and death, and also in moments of danger. The second number of St. Benedict's Messenger will be distributed tomorrow. It is not less interesting than the first number and therefore will be read with pleasure by the subscribers. Besides the news of the church, this issue contains a short history of the African Mission Society, to which our priests belong, and a instructive explanation of the ceremonies of Ash Wednesday. The little calendar, indicates the Sundays and feast day of the month of February is the most interesting and is worth being kept during the whole month for useful information.' Kindly get some new subscribers; the subscription is only 25 cents a year. All communications must be sent to Rev. Jos. A. Dahient, 518 East Gordon street. F B B Church On Monday night Jan 19th, 2010, we began the celebration of our 192 anniversary. The church was beautifully decorated with evergreen vines, palms, white reeds and balls. There was a beautiful arch over the rostrum. In the left hand upper corner was the photo of Rev G W Griffin and over it it was his last text jer. 2-5. In the right hand upper corner was the photo of Rev U L Houston and over it his last text Matt 25:6. These two pastors have long gone to their reward. The furniture on the rostrum was covered with white. The prayer meeting was led by Deacons Andersen and Robertson. Rev Sims read for the lesson Acts, 3. The welcome address was made by Miss Bessele E. Foster; she was highly complimented for, the very excellent paper. Prayer was offered by Rev Howard Smith. Rev Wright introduced Rev Wm Gray, pastor of St John Church who preached the introductory sermon. Rev Gray's text was from Ps 50:8. The sub- ject was "The mysterious way of the Lord in planting his vine which is in his church." The sermon was an excellent one many beautiful lessons were drawn. Rev Gray's chair furnished very sweet music. On Tuesday night January 18th, the prayer meeting was led by Deacons Merchison and Slagfield, Rev Boynton read for the lesson Ps.1, and 2. Prayer was offered by Rev Thomas of College Park Baptist Church. Misses E Swanging and R Riley a duett, "Take me to Thee" Rev Boynton's text was from John 4:20. The subject was "Our father's worshipped in this mountain." The sermon was well received. "When the roll is called" was sung. Rev Thomas read hymn 153. Rev S H Norman of Clarkesburg West Virginia offered a very touching prayer. The distinguished guest was the Hyacinth Aid and Social Club and the Boy of Pleasure. Both clubs contributed liberally to the church. Brother J Washington presented (the donation for the former and Brother S D Scott for the latter. The 1st A B Choir of Bolton street furnished the music. Wednesday night Jan 10th. Hymn 623 by Rev Simms. Lesson Mtt 1112 by Rev B H J Carswell Miss Mabel Hemby was highly commended for her very sweet text. "Sometimes I can not tell." Mrs. Mrs. M M Mill can an excellent paper subject "An Unmixed Blession" Rev B H J Carswell's text was from Matt 1121. The subject was "the church of God." Somany new and beautiful truths were brought out that we shall remember this sermon for days to come. "I have friends that have gone on before." was sung. Prayer was offered by Rev Daughtry. Tabernacle choir furnished excellent music especially the "National Anthem" Thursday night prayer meeting led by Deacons Lee and Roberson. Hymn 614 by Rev Sims. lesson Heb 12, by Rev Irby. Anniversary prayer by Rev D Mills. The Sunday school choir sang a beautiful anthem. "Awake put on thy strength." Rev Sims read the history of the church. Mesdames R Stevens and E R Dennis sang a very sweet duet "Star of the Dermison pastor of St Peter's Baptist Church. The distinguished guests were Patrolare No 6 G U O of F, the Bryan Mutual Aid and its Branch. The latter and its branch contributed liberally to the church. Brother Chapain presented the donation. Rev Smith a northern missionary was present and sang pieces. "We shall know each other there." The Grunble "Central Baptist Church choir furnished the music. Friday night prayer meeting was led by Deaf: Green and Wymm. Hymn 703 by Rev Heyward. Lesson Matt 24:14 by Rev L Baird, of Bethlehem Baptist Church. Prayer by Rev S E Scott. Rev H L Heyward was introduced by Rev Weyward's text was from Matt.24:14 Subject "Gospel I Kingdom." "Saviour more than life to me" was sung. Friendship Baptist choir furnished the music. A donation was received from Mr F Scriven to be divided between the church and pastor. It was received through Sister Fannie Lloyd. Sunday morning Rev Sims read for the lesson 2 Sam 18. The text was from Prob 22:6 The subject "Parental Love." The sermon was one of the best that we have ever heard. We know that all enjoyed it. Among the many beautiful truths he told us that our Sunday school is just eight three years old and it was established by Presbyterian ladies. The choir sang "Unto us a child is born." Brother Chas Wright offered prayer. Rev Wright's remarks on the sermon and prayer were beautiful and so true. Rev Wright introduced President Johnson and Vice president Gathers of the BY P U. Denco and Mrs Brown and Mrs Grayson of Nicholsonborough in a large crowd. Rev Wright had them to stand so that the congregation might see them. The community was largely attended. Sunday night prayer meeting led by Brother Jas Grawford. Hymn 906 by Rev Sims. Lesson Rev 118 by Rev Andrew Johnson. Prayer by Brother Chas Wright. Mrs Lula Middleton sang a beautiful solo "Beyond the gates of Paradise" Rev Johnson's text was from John 14:14-15. He gave us a beautiful history telling us many things that we did not know. The choir sang "O be joyful" The F B quartet composed of Messrs E B Campbell, Charlie Harris, Mesdames J C Woodruff and E D Dennis sang a sweet "Where is the blessedness." Rev Weyward led the hymn "Amazing grace how sweet it sounds." He asked all who felt the need of prayer to the invitation. A large collection was taken to assist a poor brother. On Monday night prayer meeting led by Deacon Anderson. Hymn 744 by Rev Townsley Prayer by Presiding Elder Galens. Rev Townsley of St Phillips Monumental was introduced by Rev Wright. Rev Townsley's text was from Rev 215 "Behold I make all things new" though he was very last on the program he certainly made everything new and made us feel though we were just beginning our celebration. We certainly enjoyed it and have been smiling ever since Monday night about his telling the secretary that he would not tell where his text was but she would find it somewhere in Rev. She found it as you will see above. The choir sang "All hail the power of Jesus name." Prayer was offered by Rev Edwards. A fine collection was raised. The banquet was grand. Rev Wright, the deacons and members wish to thank all who in any way contributed to the 122nd, anniversary. Rev Townsley had us sing "God be with you till we meet again," and shake hand with those near you. This was certainly touching. Death Claims Paid by Royal Benefit Society. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 19, 1910. Royal Benefit Society's death claims paid during 1909 are as follows: Mr. C. Daniels $100.00. Mr. M. Collins 87.50; Mr. J. Williams 200.00; Mr. B. Jackson 50.00; Mrs. Gilmore 200.00; Miss F. Redmond 37.50; Mrs. M. Bass 200.00; Mr. J. Hall 37.50; Mrs. C. Williams 50.00; Mrs. E. L. Green 188.15; Mrs. L. Williams 55.00; Mrs. J. B. Ford 100.00; Mrs. A. Mumphries 100.00; Mrs. A. Bailey 75.00; Dr. S. P. Lloyd, 300.00; Mr. J. Holmes 40.00; Mr. Wm. Kelly 225.00. Total $1,820.65. Sick claims paid $2,896.70. The House of First Class VAUDEVILLE and Stock. Our Motto is to please the Most Fastidious. The Manager spares neither pains or money in making this one of the most enterprising little play houses in the South. Our acts are the best that nature and money can produce. OUR BIG ACTS CONSIST OF SUCH ARTISTS' AS; GLENN, FISHER & GLENN Miss PARLINE KRAMPTON, The Reputable Lady Vocalist and her Educated Dog. $5.00 IN GOLD GIVEN AWAY EVERY SATURDAY-NIGHT Matinee Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for School Children. W. J. STILES, Manager. BOB RUSSELL, Stage Mangr. 46 Attractive Houses on Joe street between Paulsen and Harmon Sts. Brand new. Every convenience. Ready for occupancy February 1st. For information apply to CHAS. A. SINGLETON, Sorrel Building. SAVANNAH TRUST CO., 13 BAY STREET, East. We advertise in THE TRIBUNE because this reaches every Colored home in Savannah, and we want to let you know we appreciate your patronage. You are always welcome to our Store. We carry a full stock and our prices are alway just right. Our motto: "Live-and Let Live. Lots $75.00 and Upwards Near the Daffin Park Car Line. A beautiful place for a home on easy terms. $5 DOWN and $2 PER MONTH. No Interest, no Taxes for Four Years. We will build for you. This grand opportunity is to toiling men and women everywhere. Here is hope and help for you. Note the names of some purchasers: J. G. Lemon, Rufus M. Cooper, E. W. Sherman, C. D. Creswill, Dr. G. W. Smith, M. L. Horn, J. M. Northington, J. R. Middleton. Mendel Real Estate, & Improvement Co., 623 West Broad Street or Phone 2098 Geo, W. Jacobs, Agt. These goods bear the Union Label and are the equal of any $3.50 or $1.00 Shoe on the market. 120 WHITAKER STREET. POLITE ATTENTION TO COLORED TRADE. Monthly meetings on 3rd Friday night in each month. Wm. Wright, Organizer for Ga. Mrs. E. I. Wright, Sec'y. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Habersham and Harris Streets Services: Sunday school 9:45 a.m. Sundays, 11 a.m. and 8:15 p.m. Wednesdays, 8:15 p.m. Miss LULA CULBREATH, Hair Dresser and Straightening. She sells her own hair grower, grease which will grow hair on any bald head. Shampoo the hair ard in a sage the face. She makes you beautiful. Give me a call ladies and I will dress your hair and and face in any style. 88 Tonic cures Chill and Fever. Hymes K. and B. P. L. try them for Kidney complaints. For Over Fifty Years, Mrs. Winslows' Soothing Syrup has been used for over Fifty Years by MILLIONS of Mothers for their CHILDREN WHILE TEXTING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOThes the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUNS, ALLIAS all PAINS; CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHOHA. Sold by Druggist in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslows' Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. 25c bottle. CRECEUS Horse Shoeing & Clipping Shop Conveniently located. Horses sent for and returned. Quick and satisfactory work. Horses Clipped on short notice. 330 JEFFERSON ST. Phone 3509 NELSON CUYLER, The Expert Horse Shoer. Manager: HOMESTEAD PARK THE SPLENDID NEW SUBURB FOR THE COL- ORED PEOPLE OF SAVANNAH. Since the Opening Day, January 15th, a great deal of Homestead Park property has been sold. During the time a large force of men and teams have been at work grading the wide, 50 feet streets and making other improvements. Don't miss this great opportunity to buy land at each Low Prices and Easy Terms right in the path of the city's certain growth to the south. Think of it—Lots as low as Don't delay. Come down this week, Saturday or Sunday, or the first day you can and make your selection. Buy to Save, Buy to Invest, Buy to Build, Buy for yourself, for your wife, or for your children. Remember our Free Car Fare offer still holds good. Take the Isle of Hope Car and get off at SANDFLY STATION. Our office and property is right at the station. He was an Old Citizen. The many friends of Mr. Isaiah Richards Allen will be grieved to know that he departed this life January 20th. Mr. Allen was born in this city April 9th, 1853. He was a member of Chatham Lodge, No. 315, K. of P. and had been a member of the Congregational Church for a number of years. His funeral took place on Friday afternoon, January 21st, from his late residence. Rev. W. L. Cash of First Congregational Church conducted the services. Mr. Allen leaves a wife, Mrs. Jennie Allen, two sons, Mr. Wm. J. Allen of Jacksonville, Fla.; Mr. Clarendon W. Allen of this city, and several small children to mourn his death. He is also survived by his aged mother and aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson and Mrs. H. J. Ward, and his sister, Mrs. Pauline Stoney. He was the eldest male member of the family and his death is deeply felt. The G. E. Club Branch. The installation of the G. E. Club Branch officers was performed by Mr. J. R. Brown, assisted by Mr. M. W. Bryan and Mr. J. J. Brown. Following are the officers: Mrs. M. Black, Pres.; Mrs. L. Johnson, Vice Pres.; Mrs. Lizzie Ferrell, R. S.; Miss M. Bell, F. S.; Mrs. B. Robinson, Treas.; R. Yates, Chaplain; Miss S. Bradley, C. of health; Mrs. R. Hamilton, C. of order; Mrs. S. Malone, C. of finance; Mrs. S. Joiner, C. of examining committee Refreshments were served in style by the ladies and a delightful evening was enjoyed. Local Dots. 88 Tonic cures Chill and Fever. Hymes K and B, Pills, try them for Kidney complaints. Miss Ulisha Pollard is at Collins, Ga., where she is teaching in the public school. Miss Eloise G. Holmes daughter of Mr. H. C. Holmes is engaged in teaching at Thrift, Ga. At Men's Sunday Club, January 30th, Prof. I. M. Jackson will deliver an address "Your Social Account." Good music and discussion. The music loving public will be given a chance to hear one of the country's most famous singers in the person of Madam E. Azelia Hackley, March 11, under auspices of First Congregational Church. She will be supported by local talent. Grand Chancellor C. D. Creswill of Macon spent several days in the city this week. The Grand Chancellor finds here a host of loyal supporters who always uphold him in that which benefits the Order. Grand Auditors E. J Matthews and J. W. Gilbert were here this week auditing the accounts of Secretary and Treasurer, F. M. Cohen of the Endowment department. As usual the office is well kept. 88 Tonic cures Chill and Fever. The Allen Christian Endeavor Union League met at Gaines Chapel A. M. E. Church Sunday last. The president, Mr. W. O. P. Sherman, Jr., presided. "Candle under bushel" was the subject discussed by the following: Miss S. Gaston, Mr. A. B. Scurdy, Mrs. A. B. Scurdy, Mr. Himes, Mr. Bryan, Prof. B. S. Reed and others. This is the program that followed the discussion: Solo, Miss Meta Galoway; Paper, Miss Carswell; Solo, Mrs. L. A. Newton; Duet, Mrs. Drayton and Mrs. Singleton; Quartett Prof. B. S. Reed, Mrs. Mott and others. Instrumental solo, Mr. Albert Days; Solo, Brother B. S. Reed. The following officers were elect: ed: W. O. P. Sherman, Jr., president; Jesse Brinson, vice president; Mr. H. B. Hannah, secretary; Miss Carswell, assistant secretary; Prof. B. S. Reed, chorister; Mr. H. C. Jones, reporter. The next meeting will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, on the third Sunday in February at 4:45 p. m. Mrs. Rebecca Lark and her sister Miss Bertha A: Mills were called to Grahamville, S. C., Sunday last on account of the serious illness of their father. We hope for his early recovery. Mrs. Anna Carter has been seriously ill for the past several weeks at her residence West Broad street. Her daughters, Misses Sarah Ann and Josephine Carter, were called home on account of her illness. We are glad to state that she is slightly improving. Mr. P. C. Joseph of St. Simons, Ga., passed through the city last week for Augusta where he attended the Episcopal conference. While here he was entertained by some of his friends. Mr. Joseph is a prosperous business man of St. Simons Island. First Class catering can be had by calling on Mrs. M. Lockett Small, 817 West Broad street. For ice cream, salads, picnic boxes and desserts for Sunday dinner. Catering of all kinds. Officers of Progressive Lodge No. 97 K. of P., were installed by General F. M. Cohen, acting D. G. C. Robert Edmonson, P. C.; W. A. Wilder. C. C.; R. V. Caully, Prelate; A. J. Williams V. C.; W. H. Burgess, M. of Exc.; J. S.; Adkins, M of F.; C. S. Andrews, K. of R. and S.; Wm. Dozer, M. of A.; W. H. Burgess, Grand Rep; B. J. Scott Alternate; Joseph Brown, Inner Guard; Henry Taylor, Outer Guard; A. Bennair, Banking Committee; H. Taylor 18 months Trustee. Mrs. Emma Collier of 508 Park Ave., west entertained with a dinner party last Thursday evening in honor her former pastor, C. S. Wilkins, D. D., of Augusta, Ga. The dinner was served in courses with all the delicacies of the season that made the affair quite elaborate. After dinner those present were charmed with sweet strains of music by the accomplished pianist, Miss Farmer. The guests were Dr. J. H. May, wife and son William Henry, Rev. Farmer of the C. M. E. Church, and daughter, Dr. L. S. Parks, Mrs. Alice Clark, Mrs. Sarah Heyward and Mrs. Lula Johnson. A Five Nights Entertainment. A five nights entertainment will be given at Asbury A M E Church, Gwinnett and West Broad streets beginning Monday evening Jan. 31st and continuing each evening up to Friday evening Feb. 4th inclusive. The annex to the main auditorium will be used for the occasion which is to be uniquely and attractively arranged by the ladies who are in charge. The proceeds of this effort are to be applied on the liquidation of the indebtedness of the church. A most vigilant group of committee have been arranged, who will spare no pains to make the affair enjoyable, rendering to the public most efficient and polite service. The public is cordially invited and urged to attend. Admission 5 cents, season tickets 20 cents. G H Lennon, Pastor, Mrs. A L McTear, Directress. Dr. L. S. Parks, DENTIST 240 Barnard Street, Savannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot, and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Filling$^a$ Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00$ and $8.60$. Broken places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. Bell Phone 1244, Solid Gold Crowns Guaranteed 234 K Gold who died one year ago Jan. 31st, 1909 A year has flown since our loved one was called from among us by He who watches over all. But over green is the memory of our beloved Joe, called away while still in the flowery of youth. He is now where the cares of earth can no longer trouble him, and where happiness and peace only reign. From a sincere friend, Miss Laura Huggins. In loving memory of our devoted wife and mother, Husband and daughters, Mr. Alexander McHardee, Mrs. E A. Danzay, Mrs. E L. Bullock. In loving remembrance of my dear niece. MARIE BUOKER. who departed this life January 25, 1907. In heaven you are sweetly resting, Free from all earthly cares. And with the angels you will be waiting For our meeting over there. AMUSHBENNY UBUMN. The Adelphia Club will give their annual fete at Harris street hall, from Febuary 1st to 8th. Tickets 10 cents. A grand mid-winter entertainment will be given at Masonic Temple by Willing Workers Fountain No 799 U. O. T. R. Monday night January 31st. Tickets 25 and 35 cents. Savannah Company No 2, U R K of D will give a grand entertainment at Harris street Hall, Menday night, January 31st. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. The Y B D of A wilt give an Italian Ball at Masonic Temple Monday night February 7th. Tickets 50 cents. A unique bazar will be given by Armour Lodge No 1884 and Household of Ruth at Harris street hall, February 7th, to 19th. Tickets 10 and 50 cents. A grand entertainment will be given by P W O Union at Masonic Temple Friday night February 12th. Tickets 15 cents. A masquerade entertainment will be given by Chas Sumner Lodge No 89 K of P at Harris street half, Tuesday night, February 22nd. Tickets 15 cents. The annual entertainment of the Morning Star Benoyleaf Society will be given at Masonle Temple: Wednesday night, February 9th. Tickets 15 and 15 cents. Household of Ruth 5588 will give a grand entertainment at Masonle Temple, Tuesday night, February 8th. Tickets 15 cents. Lepageville Social Society will give an entertainment at Eastern Star Hall, Jackson and Arnold streets Monday February 9th. Tickets 15 and 15 cents. Pansy Council 485 G U O W M of E, will give an entertainment at Masonic Temple Wednesday night February 23rd. Tickets 15 and 45 cents. Southern Eagle A and B Club will give their second annual ball at Harris, street Hall Monday night February 23rd. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. A grand ball will be given by the Evening Call A and S Club at Harris street hall, Monday night. Feb. 26th. Tickets 50 cents. A five nights fete will be given at Anbury Church's commenting Monday night January 31st. Tickets 5. and 20 cents. A Valentine Bazar will be given by the G B and Fountain City. Branches at Masonic Temple February 14 to 18th. Tickets 25 and 10 cents. The first annual dance of the Myacinth A and B Club will take place at Masonle Temple, Monday night February 21st. Tickets 15 cents. A policy with the UNION MUTUAL ASSOCIATION is equivalent to having the face value of what that policy calls for deposited in what one might consider the safest bank in the State of Georgin. By all enterprising race loving Negroes, this company is considered to be one of the race's greatest assets. And why! It has stood like a gigantic stone wall thru two panies; and like the great work, the harder the wind blow, and the more terrific the storm, the deeper this grand old institution of which the appreciative Negroes are so proud, rooted and grounded itself into their affections. This company is still adhering to its time honored custom of paying every claim promptly on the day it is due; and ever will. Do you carry insurance with them? If not, why! Call one of their agents and take a policy today: Agents, W L Murray, Capt. F J Hilton, Col. H G Nixon, J H Baldwin, W H Harvey, superintendent of agents. Miss G V Wallace, secretary. For further information phone 1470 J C Lindsay, Dist Manager, Williams Building 509 West Broad street, or Write Wm. Driskell, Sec'y. and Gen'l Mgr., 210 Auburn Ave. Atlanta, Ga. Garey's Variety Bakery 506 West Broad St, near Gaston. Phone 1331 L WEST SIDE RESTAURANT 461 West Broad Street. Near Union Station Meals 15 and 25 cents Mrs. A. S. Scott, Prestige Dr. J. W. Jamerson Firstclass Dentist. ARK THE COL- ork grading the wide, 50 feet streets th to the south. Think of it—Lots month; yourself, for your wife, or for your nt at the station. MAIN OFFICE 50 Church St., New York City Hymes K. and B. Pills, try them for Kidney complaints. Church Notice. Shepherd's Chapel, Primitive Church Green street, Ditmorsville, Savannah, Ga., of which Rev. Samuel F. Shepherd is pastor, is the First Church on the Memorial Roll of Honor. Services Sunday, prayer meeting at 5 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m and 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday nights preaching. The Palative The only Colored Cafe of its kind in the city. SEA FOOD AND GAME in season. Home Cooking a Specialty. EDWARD JOHNSON, Proprietor and Caterer. 817 BURROUGHS STREET. Open all night. R. B. Brooks, Antique Shop and Furniture Repairing, Upholsterer and Cabinet Maker, Dealer in Novelties of all kinds such as Brass, Silver, Sheffield Plate, Old Coins, Bills, &c, Guns, Pistols, Swords and Jewelry. Chipandale, Heplewhite and Colonial Furniture Bought and Sold. Call or Address. 444 Drayton St., Corner Gordon Lane, Savannah Ga. F. F. JONES, DEALER IN Beef - Veal - Mutton Lamb-Pork-Hams Bacon and CORNED BEEF All Kinds of GAME in Season. Goods promptly delivered to any part of the city free of charge. STALL 31 CITY MARKET The place to get first class meals Everything neat and clean Meals prepared in an apetizing manner and at all hours daily. All Work Guaranteed. 623 WEST BROAD STREET. Bet. Buntingdon and Hall Bell Phone 2098. Philosophy of Pat Sheedy. He Had to Die to Win the Life Insurance Co.'s Bet—And Which Was the Gambler? Said He, and What Do They Do in Stocks, Cotton and Wheat?---At Any Rate He Had Learned to Help the Under Dog..... Many of Patrick Francis Sheedy's old friends called at 161 West Thirty-fourth street to take a last look at the dead man and say a word of comfort to his widow. prediction he had made shortly after District Attorney Jerome had raided Canfield's "art palace" in West Forty-fourth street. Jerome made the raid on evidence supposed to have been There were gray haired students of chance who like Pat had turned a card in every civilized, and some uncivilized countries of the globe. There were sad looking wrecks from the underworld who at one time or another had felt Pat Sheedy's generosity. There were substantial business men who had learned to value his word and to enjoy his sunny philosophy; there were curious folks who, having missed the opportunity of knowing Sheedy living, were bound to see him dead, and there were Sisters of Mercy. All had a kind word for the gambler. "His good deeds far-outnumbered his bad," was the comment of one of the sisters. "No better man ever lived. Pat was honest to the core," was the reply that came from the widow as the visitors tried to say something consulting. "The world called him a gambler, but Pat and I didn't care what the world said," she added. Sheedy wasn't afraid to die. One of the last things he said was: "I'll take my chance with the others. I guess St. Peter won't be hard on me." Sheedy had been expecting death almost daily for six months, but friends who visited him say that he kept to the end the same cheerful outlook that he always had on tap in days of health; whether facing the wheel flat broke under the shadow of the pyramids in Egypt or laying his last dollar in less romantic haunts in this city. "I'm not afraid. I know I'm going to get a square deal. I'll have a better chance there than I had here, and it don't think I've done so worse. The Maker plays no favorites," was the way Pat commented on his approaching end. The gambler didn't know whether the fact that he had confessed and had received absolution would help him much on his way or not. "If it does, so much the better; if it does not, then there will be no harm done," was his way of looking at it. Sheedy used to argue that he was a very much better man than some respectable New Yorkers who weren't classed as outlaws. He had been through the college of experience and had learned never to turn a deaf ear to a man whose luck was down. That, as Sheedy, saw the world, was what most people had not learned, and in having mastered this lesson he figured he was just so much better than they were. "Circumstances make a man what he is," Pat has said. "We are not all pacers or trotters. We have our own gait; and we go that gait, and that gait is fate. Why, even fat is fate. I've never eaten more than a bird, and why am I dying of fat? It's my fate." Sheedy often told his friends that In all his ups and downs of life he derived his greatest happiness from making others happy. That was what prompted Sheedy when he was mish to give a helping hand to such motorious criminals as Adam Worth and Ed Guerin. Sheedy had no patience with the conventionalities that made one form of gambling a criminal offense and tolerated another as respectable. "What is the great speculator in wheat but a gambler like myself?" he used to say. "He has owned millions and millions of bushels, but he never possessed one in his life. Only the law protects him and ostracizes me. I've got my life insured for the benefit of my wife; the company I'm insured in bets I won't die this year. That's the toughest game I ever struck; too, for I have to die to beat it; but for my wife's sake I've gone; against it. If I were to call the president of the company a gambler they; would tar and feather me; yet I can't get it through my head that he isn't just as much of a gambler as I am when I step up in front of the wheel." Sheedy before he became an "art connoisseur" made no bones about describing his business. "I call myself a business man because gambling is my business," he said. "L'regard myself as a good business man because I am a good gambler. Few business men have devoted themselves more intently to their work than I have to mine. But the best of us falls at times, and the faro banks have broken me as many times or more times than I have broken them. Everybody who knows me knows that when I sit down at the game and the fever comes over me I won't quit, until I've got all the Bank's money or it has got mine. I have gone into a gambling house a fairly rich man and come out penniless. I have gone in poor and come out with a mighty big wad. I've gone for weeks without money enough to buy me a square meal. I've had men point at me and say, 'There's Pat Sheedy, the lucky dog,' when I didn't have the price of a shave in my pocket. I always have managed to keep up appearances because, when the money was coming in, I bought clothes against a dark day." Sheedy never lost an opportunity to declare that gamblers as-a-class were more honest than other men. Some of Sheedy's friends recalled the SUICIDE OF RATTLESNAKES. Why Scorpion or Venomous Animal Can Not Sting Itself to Death. prediction he had made shortly after District Attorney Jerome had raided Canfield's "art palace" in West Forty-fourth street. Jerome made the raid on eyewitness supposed to have been obtained by "Sleuth" Jacobs. Jacobs charged that the Canfield game was crooked. Jerome threatened to call Sheedy to his office to explain what he knew about gambling in the city, and Sheedy replied: "I suppose the District Attorney's remarks concerning me were brought forth by something I said about his gambler who has turned informer. I have no means of knowing who the man is, but I never duck anything I have said. Therefore I repeat that I do not believe this informer ever set foot inside of Canfield's, and I say again that Richard Canfield is the greatest gambler in the world, bar none, and that his game is as straight as a Quaker meeting is solemn." It wasn't many weeks after Sheedy had said this that Mr. Jerome discovered that Jacobs was faking and that he never had been inside the Canfield house. Eat Sheedy was discreet. He declined a challenge to get into an argument with Mr. Jerome on the subject of gambling. "It's a great thing, my boy, to know when you're well off," he said. "The chap who's always in hot water may think he's happy, but he wouldn't know happiness by sight. So long as I can make a living and give a ton of coal now and then of a hard winter to my mother-in-law and con my wife into believing that she might have gone further and fared worse I'm satisfied to rest easy and not go around hunting for a controversy. Any fool can get into an argument, but it's a wise man that steers clear of it." Sheedy's friends said that he probably did not leave more than a few thousand dollars, enough to keep his widow for the rest of her days. He did not make this money by gambling, but from his little art store in West Thirty-fourth street. In fact, Sheedy, it was said, quit the game a few years ago as poor as when he entered it, although in the course of his career he had won several small fortunes. He said that the public always had a mistaken notion about the money that gamblers make. "Put this down," he said, "that the gambler has a harder time of it than any other business man. Once in a while he gets what slow going, plodding folks might call a great deal of money, but it never lasts long. More often he is obliged to borrow his living expenses from his friends, and Pat Sheedy is no exception." Sheedy had a high regard for the English as gamblers. "Englishmen will pay their gambling debts before they will their tailors," he told his friends. "The Germans, particularly German army officers, are about as good. I wish I could say as much for my own countrymen as I can for the English, but when Americans gamble abroad they sometimes forget that there is none of their money left in the bank at home and they are addicted to the habit or arguing that money lost in gambling can't be collected." Sheedy had no use for the French as gamblers. "Don't speak of them," he used to say. "Anything you can get out of a Frenchman you ought to take home and have framed. And the Italians are worse than the French." Many stories were told by Sheedy's old cronies of the hard times he had in finding a place to lay his money after he got his reputation as a."bank breaker." "At Hot Springs, Ark.," said one, The venoms of serpents, fishes, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, bees, etc., as well as the blood of the cel, owe their virulence to the presence of toxins similar to those which are secreted by bacteria. In both cases the toxins are specific products of the activity of living cells. They are very poisonous, non-crystallizable colloids, of unknown chemical constitution. The venom toxins are very sensitive to the action of heat and light, are easily destroyed by digestive ferments and consequently are innocuous when swallowed. There is a great variety of these toxins. Snake poison alone contains half a dozen distinct toxins, each of which exerts a specific action on the nervous system, the red or the white blood corpuscles, etc. It is possible to produce in any animal an artificial condition of immunity to the effects of any animal venom. This is accomplished by the repeated injection of the venom in doses, each of which is too small to cause death. After a larger or smaller number of injections the animal acquires the power to resist the action of many times the quantity of venom that would suffice to cause death if it were injected Into the veins of a non-immunized animal. The-blood of the immunized animals now contains a new substance, an antitoxin which has the property of neutralizing the toxin of the venom, and this blood (or rather its watery part, or serum) may be employed to combat the toxic "they barred Pat because he had lost. He bought $500 worth of chips and dropped the entire lot. The next day he returned to the clubhouse, asked for $500 more and the proprietor said: 'Mr. Sheedy, I'm an old man and I have to sleep nights; I'd rather you wouldn't play in my house.' He tried it in two other gambling houses at the Springs, and in each place after he had lost his first pile they barred him. Then he left Arkansas in disgust." Another of Pat's friends told of an experience he had had in Charleston, S. C. He had bought a good stack of faro chips and was about $300 to the good, when the proprietor of the place heard somebody call him Sheedy. "Ain't your name Pat Sheedy?" the dealer asked. "It is and I'm proud of it," said the winner. "Well, I'm sorry; but we can't let you play any more," said the dealer. "We haven't any bank rolls handy to meet your high rolling." Some of Sheedy's friends used to circulate reports when Pat hit a strange city that he wanted to wreck a gambling house just for the sport of it, and they would sit back and watch every gambling house proprietor worry for fear that Pat would select his "joint." One man said that there wasn't a good sporting man in the country who would have refused to stake Pat Sheedy at any game and without security at that. He recalled an incident that happened in Boston. Pat had spent some time in Saratoga and luck was against him. He came down to Boston, and the first night he was in town he went against a faro game that broke him. Pat walked into a certain bank whose president had the reputation of being a good fellow. He was ushered into the president's office and said: "I came to borrow $1000 from your bank." "What is your security?" was the first question. "Simply my word," replied Pat. "That won't do in the banking business. Who are you?" asked the president. "Pat Sheedy, the gambler," was the reply. "After a short talk," said one of Pat's friends, "the banker handed over $1000 from his personal account. Two days later Pat entered the bank and repaid it." It was a loan of $2000 that Adam Worth made to Pat in John Condon's gambling house in Chicago that led to the recovery of the famous Galusborough painting. Pat was broke, when a stranger who had been winning heavily pushed a roll of bills into his hand. Sheedy demurred, but the stranger insisted. Sheedy asked for the stranger's name, but he laughed and said: "You'll see me again." It was sixteen years after this that the two met in Constantinople, Sheedy as the proprietor of a gambling house in that city and the lender of the money, Adam Worth, as an escaped prisoner. Sheedy furnished the money with which Worth got out of Turkey and Worth gave him the information which led to the recovery of the valuable painting.—New York Sun. Coal in Japan. There is not less than 1,200,000-000 tons of coal deposited in Japan. This coal is now being mined at the rate of 14,000,000 tons a year. The coal seams usually vary from three to eight feet, and are mostly so conveniently situated that they can be worked by incline, there beh; very few shafts in operation yet. Some shafts are, however, being sunk to a depth of 1000 feet, and two 900-foot shafts have just recently started working. In proportion to its population, more people earn a livelihood by seafaring in Norway than in any other country. Britain comes next. action of the venom in a non-immunized animal. The ichneumon, the hedgehog and some other animals which devour venomous serpents exhibit an extraordinary resistance to the effect of their bites. This natural immunity is explained by the presence of antitoxins in the blood of these animals. Serpents are also little affected by their own venom. In general it is almost impossible to kill a venomous animal by inoculating it with the venom of its own species, of which it can support very large dose with impunity. These facts demonstrate the absurdity of the stories of rattlesnakes and scorpions committing suicide by means of their own venom. It is asserted that a scorpion or a rattlesnake imprisoned in a circle of red hot coals will sting or bite itself to death. This is a physiological impossibility.—The Cosmos. The Pleasure of Poverty. It is a disgrace to die rich.—Andrew Carnegie. It is good to be born poor.—Sir Thomas Lipton. It is glorious to have to struggle.— John D. Rockefeller. It must be grand to be able to desplise money.—Chicago Record- Herald. No contumery attends poverty. Publius Syrns. I don't think.—Lot of other tell- ows. New Institution 'In China With' 95 Very Exalted Pupils. The number of young 'Chinese who have been sent abroad to be educated since 1997' may be reckoned in thousands. At one time there were over 15,000 in Japan alone - but the doctrines they imbibed there were regarded as dangerously advanced, and the tendency now is to send them in preference to America or to Europe. "Among the officials whom I mot," writes a correspondent of the American "Aslatic Association's Journal," "several were having their sons educated in public schools in England or American. Not more striking illustration of the revolution that has taken place in the attitude of the governing class toward this question can be found than the opening in Pekin itself of a public school under the highest, auspices for the sons of official of the highest grades in the Chinese bureaucracy. "The Ninies School, as it is called, is attended at present by ninety-six pupils, and new premises are being built which will enable the number to be doubled. The boys are all boarders, and each boy has a neat, airy cubicle, which serves also as his private study. The classrooms are larger and well ventilated, and in each one there are collections ready, to hand for the teacher's use in illustrating his lectures. "The teaching, which is conducted entirely by Chinese professors, is doubly somewhat elementary, but it embraces practically all the subjects which form the curriculum of the modern side in an English grammar school. Besides of course Chinese, one foreign-language is taught, usually Japanese or English. Of greater importance perhaps than the teaching are the healthy discipline and the physical training which the boys receive, the habits of obedience, punctuality, cleanliness and self-reliance which they learn. "The directors who conducted me over the school was a Chinese naval officer trained in England, and he told me frankly that his chief object was to train them to be men of character and patriotism. Though the boys are educated chiefly for civil employment, they go through a daily course of military drill, and as their masters are drawn entirely from the military and naval colleges the whole atmosphere, tends to counteract the old bureaucratic traditions of contempt for the mere soldier. Last year the whole school attended the army manoeuvres as a cadet corps, marching some ten or twelve miles a day and bivouacking in the open. "Certainly the boys I saw did credit to their training—sturdy, alert and cheerful, and well set up in their neat khaki uniforms. Adjoining the Nobles' School, but within the same compound, is a separate building of even greater significance. It consists of two large lecture rooms, in which lectures are delivered, every afternoon, on the one hand to thirty-two young scions of the princely Manchu houses; and on the other to sixteen youthful members of the Imperial house of China. The Prince Regent himself from time to time attends these lectures, and, the influence which such erailed patronage must exert can scarcely be exaggerated." HAD A CHANCE TO SAVE MONEY. "That man made a million dollars while he was in jail" said in New York financiers. "Yes, but his case, was one of the kind that does not require the expense of alienist testimony."—Washington Star. Friends are very few; it is true, but one has need of only a few. Others we know, mere acquaintances in life's parade, we would not stop to ask them aid. "ANOTHER ARCTIC HORROR" "Have Eskimos ever appendicitis?" "No, but gunhrops may give them Pearytonitis." Chicago Tribune. INSOMNIA Leads to Madness. If Not Remedied in Time. 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Answer This Question When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn't any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble? Here are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Fitchville, Ohio.—"My daughter was all run down, suffered from pains in her side, head and limbs, and could walk but a short distance at a time. She came very near having nervous prostration, had begun to cough a good deal, and seemed melancholy by spells. She tried two doctors but got little help. Since taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier and Liver Pills she has improved so much that she feels and looks like another girl."—Mrs. C. Cole, Fitchville, Ohio. Irasburg, Vermont.—"I feel it my duty to say a few words in praise of your medicine. When I began taking it I had been very sick with kidney and bladder troubles and nervous prostration. I am now taking the sixth bottle of Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound and find myself greatly improved. My friends who call to see me have noticed a great change."—Mrs. A. H. Sanborn, Irasburg, Vermont. say a few words in praise of your medicine, taking it I had been very sick with kidney an bles and nervous prostration. I am now taki tle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound greatly improved. My friends who call to see a great change."—Mrs. A. H. Sanborn, Irasbu We will pay a handsome reward to any j prove to us that these letters are not genui —or that either of these women were paid their testimonials, or that the letters are pu their permission, or that the original letter not come to us entirely unsolicited. We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful—or that either of these women were paid in any way for their testimonials, or that the letters are published without their permission, or that the original letter from each did not come to us entirely unsolicited. What more proof can any one ask? For 30 years Lydin E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. For 30 years Lydin E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health free of charge. 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CURES CONSTIPATION, BILIOUSNESS, RHEUM- ATISM, STOMACH AND LIVER COMPLAINT GET A 25¢ BOX ALL DRUGGISTS Nature's Remedy NATURALISM EASY-- SURE TO ACT BETTER THAN PILLS FOR LIVE, ILLS A. H. LEWIS MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS MO. CABBACE PLANTS EARLY HEADERS Our plants are grown in the open field from the best seeds obtainable and will give the best possible results. We make, oak, all short counts, and guarantee delivery, in good condition to your express office. Prices 1. o. b. Meggett: 1 to 8,000 a $10 per 1,000. 4 to 8,000 a $1.25 per 1,000. 9 to 14,000 a $1.50 per 1,000. Special prices on large orders. Prompt attention on all calls and queries. Folders on Cabbage culture mailed free. E. M. GIBSON COMPANY, Box 2, Meggett, S. C. SUCCESSION FLAT DUTCH ```markdown ``` He asked so many questions that day that he finally wore out his mother's patience. "Robert," she cried, "if you ask me another question I shall put you to bed without your supper." Robert promptly asked another and was packed off to bed. Later his mother repented. After all, asking questions was the only way he could acquire knowledge; so she tipted upstairs, knelt beside Robert's bed, and told him she was sorry. "Now, dear," she said, "if you want to ask one more question before you go to sleep, ask it now and I will try to answer." Robert thought for a moment, then said, "Mother, how far can a cat spit."—Success Magazine. "A friend's praise is a cheery thing, and there's no reason why it should be begrudged. P NORA E. HARRIS THE WONDERBERRY OR SUNBERRY. Has Proved a Great Success—Thousands Say It's the Best Thing They Ever Grew. The Wonderberry or Sunberry, the marvelous garden fruit originated by Luther Burbank, and introduced by John Lewis Childs, the well-known Seedsmans, of Floral Park, N. Y., has proved a great success all over the country. Thousands of people say it is the best thing they ever grew. Mr. John Burroughs, the well-known author, Naturalist and bosom friend of Theodore Roosevelt, says it is the most delicious ple berry he ever tasted, and a marvelous cropper. A Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station says, it fruits abundantly even in pure sand. In the short season of North-western Canada it is a godsend, and fruits long after frost has killed most garden truck. D. S. Hall, Wichita, Kan., says thirty people grew it there last season with perfect satisfaction. K. S. Enochs, Hammond, La, says it yields $250 worth of fruit per acre with him. Mrs. J. H. Powers, 4732 Kenwood avenue, Chicago, raised enough berries on a space 4x10 feet to supply herself and friends. J. P. Swallow, Kenton, Ohio, says its equal for all purposes does not exist. Rev. H. B. Sheldon, Pacific Grove, Cali, says he likes the berries served in any and every way. W. T. Davis, Enon, Va., says it is true to description in every way, and fruits in three months from seed. Judge Morrow, of U. S. Circuit Court, says the Wonderberry is simply delicious raw or cooked. Mr. Childs exhibited one plant five months old bearing 10,375 berries which measured about eight quarts. Mrs. Hattie Vincent, Hayden, New Mexico, says it stands long, hard droughts of that climate and fruits abundantly all summer. It is certainly the most satisfactory garden fruit and the greatest Novelty ever introduced. One is not so particular whether the ice man is on time or not, now. Ith cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggista. It is a long night which is spent after a rarebite feast. TERRIBLE ORDEAL A Virginia Woman's Sufferings With Kidney Disease. Mrs. Virginia Spitzer, Buena Vista, Va., says: "For thirty years I suffered everything but death with my kidneys. I cannot describe my sufferings from terrible bearing down pains, dizzy spells, headaches and periods of partial blindness. The urine was full of sediment. I was in the hospital three weeks. Doan's Kidney Pills were quick to bring relief and soon made me well and strong again." bearing down palms, dizzy spells, headaches and periods of partial blindness. The urine was full of sediment. I was in the hospital three weeks. Doan's Kidney Pills were quick to bring relief and soon made me well and strong again." Mrs. Spitzer. Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. In the heart of the true there wakes no suspicion. For HEADACHE—Hleks' CAPUDINH Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or Nervous Troubles, Capudine will relieve you. It liquid-pleasant to take—acts immediately. Try it, 10c., 25c. and 50c. at drug stores. Every time a heart breaks poor little Cupid has to get out his tools. Epidemic of itch in Welsh Village. "In Dowlais, South Wales, about fifteen years ago, families were stricken wholesale by a disease known as the itch. Believe me, it is the most terrible disease of its kind that I know of, as it itches all through your body and makes your life an inferno. Sleep is out of the question and you feel as if a million mosquitoes were attacking you at the same time. I knew a dozen families that were so affected. "The doctors did their best, but their remedies were of no avail whatever. Then the families tried a druggist who was noted far and wide for his remarkable cures. People came to him from all parts of the country for treatment, but his medicine made matters still worse; as a last resort they were advised by a friend to use the Cuticura Remedies. I am glad to tell you that after a few days' treatment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, the effect was wonderful and the result was a perfect cure in all cases. "I may add that my three brothers, three sisters, myself and all our families have been users of the Cuticura Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas Hugh, 1650 West Huron St., Chicago, Ill., June 29, 1909." The man who is temperate in all things is never a teetotaler. H. H. GREEN's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this paper. The population of Berlin is decrease in. Avoiding Popularity. "How shall we avoid popularity?" John Wesley onceo asked his preachers, and straightway gave them the answer in a set of rules. Here is rule 4: "Warn the people among whom you are most of esteeming or loving you too much." And here is rule 5: "Converse sparingly with those who are particularly fond of you." Some people are as grouchy over the weather as though you did it to spite them. PALACE OF BBILICAL KING IS UNEARTHED. Seat of Apries, Contemporary of Jeremiah, Disclosed by Excavations at Memphis. Professor Flinders Petrie, in giving an account of the work of the British School of Archaeology, said the great result of this year at Memphis has been the discovery of the palace of King Apries, the Pharaoh Hophr of the Bible, who was a contemporary of Jeremiah, B. C. 629-583. Hitherto no palace has been known in Egypt beyond the tower at Medinet Habu and some remains of a rather earlier date. Following are the details of the palace: Length, 400 feet, very impressive; breadth, 200 feet; middle court, 100 feet square; painted columns forty feet high; seven stone-lined walls fifteen feet thick. The approach to the palace led up through a large mass of buildings to a platform at a height of about sixty feet above the plain. In the ruins a scale armor, hitherto rarely found in Egypt, was discovered. Good bronze figures of gods were also found. What Professor Petrie described as the one supreme piece was a fitting of a palanquin of solid silver, a pound in weight, decorated with a bust of Hathor with a gold face of the finest workmanship of the time of Apries the Great. A gateway and immense walls descending deep into the mound indicated that there lay ruins of successive palaces built one over the other. Professor Petrie predicted that in six or eight years the excavators might dig down to the earliest records of the Egyptian Kingdom. THE GREAT LAWYER. Theory That He is Born and Not Made is Asserted. This is an age of investigation and of speculation. All sorts of inquiries are propounded, such as "What is a Democrat?" And now we have the question: "What is a lawyer?" One respectable and eminent authority answers that he must have a collegiate training and get his law learning in a law school, else he can never expect to be other than a "case lawyer," and not much of that. One opinion is that lawyers are born, not made. Unless one have the "legal mind," all the colleges and all the study in the world will not make a lawyer of him, and if he be gifted with the legal mind he will get to be a great lawyer, although he never saw a college and never read half the textbooks. Abraham Lincoln was one of them. Robert Burns never went to college, but he ranks among the greatest poets of all the world. Ben Hardin of Kentucky never attended a law school, but he was the equal of any lawyer our country has produced. To be a great lawyer, one must understand the philosophy, the science of it. All the study in the world, in college or out of college, and all the experience the court room can supply, will not reveal the philosophies of the great principles of our jurisprudence, and yet your greatest lawyer, however much he understands the reason, of "the rule," must make himself acquainted with the history of the rule, when it was established, and the conditions that called it into being. John Marshall was not a learned lawyer. He was not versed in the precedents as Story was, or as any other one of his associates on the bench was; but he knew the principle and applied it to every case, and he cared not whether there was precedent or not. If there was, all well and good; if there was not, he established the precedent. Your "case lawyer" can give no opion onhand. He must search the precedents; but your great lawyer applies the philosophy of the law to given facts and he flings precedents to the winds if they be contrary to his conception. Hence from the "bench we have "leading cases." The late William Lindsay, when on the Supreme bench of Kentucky, rendered an opinion about rents for the occupancy of real estate, or something of that kind—for this paper is a layman and cannot hope to be versed in the nomenclature of the profession. Judge Lindsay adjudicated in reversal of the precedents of America since its first settlement by the Anglo-Saxon and in reversal of the precedents of England for centuries, and to-day his decision is a precedent and is cited as conclusive authority in the courts of Great Britain. Lindsay never attended a law school. He did not have to. He was a natural-born lawyer.—Washington Post. Changed the Pronoun. The old gentleman had prospered in business and took his son into partnership. The young man appreciated this move, but in his newly added dignity became just a little bit too much inclined to take things into his own hands. So his father resolved to demonstrate. "Look here, young man," he said, "let's have a little less 'I' and a little more 'We' in this business. You must remember that you're the junior partner." A week later the son appeared in his father's office looking a little anxious. "I say, dad," he said, "we've been and done it now." "Done what?" snapped the parent. "Well—er—we've been and married the topst."—Tit Bits. You Look Prematurely Old 2019 ANIMAL SCHOOL TUKE New Book on Consumption FREE TO ALL 200 page cloth bound medical book with 100 pages of simple language that consumes can be curved in your own home, also available just lately WESTERN CO. 2025 WATER ST. ALAMEDA, ALAMEDA BRONCHIAL TROCHES An absolutely harmless remedy for Threat, Heartbreak and Cough. Give immediate relief in Bronchial and Lung Affections. Fifty years reputation. Price, 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00 per box. Southern STOCK REMEDY Formula: Iron, for the blood; Arsenic, for digestion; Nux Vomidus, nerve and heart tissue; Antimony, antipheline tonic Alcea; Ixazative; Saltpeter, kisai; alumina, alumina; man doe to every table. Write for books. THE COLE PLANTER MAKER BIGGER CROPS WIAKEN BIGGER CROPS Because it mixes the cuanto with the soil close from the time it sprouts and Grows off strong and Thrility. A farmers' 1988 Cole Planter is equal to 200 pounds putout in the usual way. A DAILY IT INCREASES THE YIELD A BALS OR MORE TO EACH ONE-HORSE CROP. SAVES TIME AND MONEY One man and one horse at one trip prepares the嵌-bed, pitches the cuanto, just the right way for either Corn, Cotton, Peas, Sorghum, Peanuts, Etc. THE COLE PLANTER beats the world in ingestion of a plant after another in a straight Blue, thick or thin, so that it saves soed, coats less to thin, and less to cultivate. M. Hearn of Georgia writes "I WOULD NOT PLANT FOR $20.00." IF MEANS MONEY TO YOU, write at once for I.M.K.B. catalogue and name of merchant who sells and guarantees Cole Planters. THE COLE MIGG CO. BOX 52. CHARLOTTE, N. C. The lass that loves a sailor will have to include the airship variety Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gripe. Some people put on airs when they haven't much else to put on. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggets refund money if it fails to cure. E.W.Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. When a man loves two women at a time be sure he loves himself best. Mrs. Windslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gum, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a Potlite. Food for thought is not very satisfying to a hungry man. Perry Davis' Painkiller has no substitute. No other remedy is so effective for rheumatism, lumbago, stiffness, neuralgia or cold. Jumping at conclusion is not the best way to accomplish an end. Don't neglect that cough that racks your system and may lead to something serious. Allen's Lung Balsam will effectually check it. To the charitable heart the greatest help is given to the nearest need. In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease. The antiseptic powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable, nervous and often cold and damp. If you have swollen feet, sore feet or drugstore and shoe stores. Sold by all drugstores and shoe stores. 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The charity of the world is more ready for those who need it less. Than a neglected cough" is what Dr. J. F. Hammond, professor in the Ecclesiatic College College says, "and as a preventative remedy and a cuartive agent, I cheerfully recommend Taylar's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein. Tested 50 years. Nothing better for whooping cough, croup or consumption. At drugging, 255, and 580. When a man boasts most loudly, pride waits for a fall. Distemper In all its forms, among all ages of horses and dogs, cured and others in the same stable prevented from having the disease with Spohn's Distemper Cure. Every bottle guaranteed. Over 500,000 bottles sold and over 100,000 dog druggists, or send to manufacturers, guaranteed. Write for free book. Spohn Med. Co., Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. Optimism parts the clouds and the tangles, and it costs a man nothing. Rheumatism Cured in a Day. Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action is remarkable. Removes the cause and disease quickly disappears. First dose greatly benefits. 75c. and $1. All druggists. In the country of silent people, parrots never talk. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. Pazo Qintment is guaranteed to cure any case of itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c The principal stellar body is Self, in many instances. For COLDS and GGIP Hick's CAPDUNN is the best remedy- preserves the aching and feverishness—cures the Cock's normal conditions. It's liquid-effects immediately. 1cc., 2cc. and 5cc. at drug stores. WAY IT GOES. "Politeness pays." "Whilst Thrift explains that it left its money at home."—Louisville Courier Journal. TRIALS of the NEEDEMS THIS IS A DUN SHOW. I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE. THIS IS A WORLD WHERE JOHN YOU MUST BE SICK. THIS PLAY IS VERY FUNNY. THAT PAW-PAW PILL YOU GAVE ME LAST NIGHT MADE ME PEEL GOT YOU SOME THAT YOU HAVE THE KIDS. THERE IS NO PILL. THE PILL THAT WILL. RESOLVED THAT A GOOD LAUGH AND A MUNYONS PAW-PAW PILL MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING. 10 PILLS 10¢ Munyang's Paw Paw Pills coax the liver into activity by gentle methods. They do not saturate, gripe or irritate the skin. They calm the nerves and invigorate to weaken. They arrest the blood and enable the stomach to get all the nourishment from saline. They are a mooding, healing and attaining. For sale by all drugs in Ioo and Socias. If you need medical advice, write Munyang's Cold Medication. The medication absolutely free of Charge. MUNYANG'S Sid and Jefferson Biss. Philadelphia, Pa. Munyang's Cold Medication causes a cold in one day. Price $20. Munyang's Rheumatism Remedy relieves in a few hours and cures in a few days. Price $20. SUNBERRY-IMPROVED WONDERBERRY SUNBERRY LUTHER BURBANK'S GREATEST SEED 20 CTS. This is positively the GREATEST new get away from. The proofs are over. Fruit blue-black like an enormous rich black. Unsurpassed for eating raw, cooked, canned or hates. Bestest plant in the world to grow, and a favorite grease and sauce for fruit glazing. Boon to the family garden ever known. Leaves used for greens and are superb. Everybody can. LUTHER BURBANK, of California, the world famous Burbank, and nurted it over the years of it: "This absolutely new berry plant is value as it bears the most delicious, wholesome, utmost profusion and always comes true from HEADY CATALOGUE, pages 2 and 3, culture, news etc. Also Colored Bunzl. With a farm from known and reputable people all over the "Crime of the Wonderberry." Address JOHN L. P. S. This offer will not appear again. PUTNAM Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any dry any garment without ripping apart. Write to: The Secret Do you wonder how why other women older than you The secret can be put your health, and you will prey By "health" we mean no nerve health, as, sometimes, women are nervous wrecks. But whether you are we you need a tonic, and the best It builds strength for the It helps put flesh on your bones. TAKE CARE IBERRY—The Bank's Greatest Creation. A Luscious SEED 20 CTS. PER PACKET. 3 PAIRS. Deliverily the Greatest new Fruit and the best NOVEMBER. The proofs are overwhelming in number and delightful the Greatest new Fruit and the best NOVEMBER. Like an enormous rich blueberry in looks and taste, eating raw, cooked, canned or preserved in any form. Fruit is equally valuable in hot, dry, cold or wet climate in the world to grow, succeeding anywhere and of fruit for summer and fall. This greatest garden ever known. Leaves and branches are also superb. Everybody can and will grow it. Of California, the world famous plant wizard, orcharder and nursed it over to make juicies. It absolutely new berry plant is of great interest and the most delicious, wholesome and healthful berries and always comes true from seed." Also Colored Plants. With scores of testimonials and reputable people all over the country. Also Wonderberry." JOHN LEWIS CHILD will not appear again. Write for Sunberry and NAM FAD better and faster colors than any other dye. One 100. package without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to D The Secret of You You ever wonder how you can remain for women older than you, look younger than secret can be put in a few words; truth, and you will preserve your youth." Health" we mean not alone physical health, as sometimes, magnificently strong are nervous wrecks. Whether you are weak physically or a tonic, and the best tonic for you is mild strength for the physical and nervous flesh on your bones and vitality into you. THE CARDI SUNBERRY- IMPROVED WONDERBERRY PLANT 3 MONTHS FROM SEED SUNBERRY-The Improved Wonderberry LUTHER BURBANK'S GREATEST CREATION. A Luscious Berry Ripening In Three Months From Seed.. SEED 20 CTS. PER PACKET. 3 PACKETS FOR 50 CTS. POSTPAID This is positively the GREATEST new Fruit and the best NOVELTY of modern times. These are facts which one can get away from. The proofs are overwhelming in number and conclusive in character. Grown last year by 350,000 people. Fruit blue-black like an enormous rich blueberry in looks and taste. Unsurpassed for eating raw, cooked, canned or preserved in any form. Excellent for making juices and juices. Easiest plant in the world to grow, succeeding anywhere and yielding great masses of rich fruit all summer and fall. The greatest boon to the family garden ever known. Leaves and branches are also very useful for making juices and juices. Luther Burbank, of California, the world famous plant wizard, originated the Wonderberry and turned it over to me to introduce. He says of it: This absolutely new berry plant is of great interest and is a wonderful berry in its uteness, profusion and always comes true from seed. READ MY CATALOGUE, pages 2 and 3, for full description, culture, uses, etc. Also Colored Plate). With scores of testimonials, a reputable people all over the country. Also "Crime of the Wonderberry." THE SUNBERRY is an improved form of the Wonderberry. I introduced exclusively last year and which proved so satisfactory. I have grown a genius mates. Easiest plant in the world to grow, succeeding anywhere and yielding great masses of rich fruit all summer and fall. The greatest boon to the family garden ever known. Leaves and branches are also very useful for making juices and juices. Luther Burbank, of California, the world famous plant wizard, originated the Wonderberry and turned it over to me to introduce. He says of it: This absolutely new berry plant is of great interest and is a wonderful berry in its uteness, profusion and always comes true from seed. READ MY CATALOGUE, pages 2 and 3, for full description, culture, uses, etc. Also Colored Plate). With scores of testimonials, a reputable people all over the country. Also "Crime of the Wonderberry." THE SUNBERRY is an improved form of the Wonderberry. I introduced exclusively last year and which proved so satisfactory. I have grown a genius mates. Easiest plant in the world to grow, succeeding anywhere and yielding great masses of rich fruit all summer and fall. The greatest boon to the family garden ever known. Leaves and branches are also very useful for making juices and juices. Luther Burbank, of California, the world famous plant wizard, originated the Wonderberry and turned it over to me to introduce. He says of it: This absolutely new berry plant is of great interest and is a wonderful berry in its uteness, profusion and always comes true from seed. READ MY CATALOGUE, pages 2 and 3, for full description, culture, uses, etc. Also Colored Plate). With scores of testimonials, a reputable people all over the country. Also "Crime of the Wonderberry." Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 100, package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can sand any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONOLE DRUG CO., Quincy, IL. The Secret of Youth Do you ever wonder how you can remain young, or why other women older than you, look younger than you do? The secret can be put in a few words: "Preserve your health, and you will preserve your youth." By "health" we mean not alone physical health, but nerve health, as, sometimes, magnificently strong-looking women are nervous wrecks. But whether you are weak physically or nervously, you need a tonic, and the best tonic for you is Cardui. It builds strength for the physical and nervous systems. It helps put flesh on your bones and vitality into your nerves. TAKE CARDUI The Woman's Tonic "My mother," writes Mr. ville, Tenn., "is 44 years old change of life. "She was irregular and I My father stepped over to the of Cardui, which she took acco she is up, able to do her hov like a new woman." Try Car Write by: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattar Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "HAMILNS WIZAR mother," writes Mrs. Z. L. Adcock, m., "is 44 years old and is passing the life. She was irregular and bloated and suffered her stepped over to the store and got her which she took according to directions able to do her housework and says a new woman." Try Cardui in your own care. Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chatty Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women." "My mother," writes Mrs. Z. L. Adcock, of Smithville, Tenn., "is 44 years old and is passing through the change of life. "She was irregular and bloated and suffered terribly. My father stepped over to the store and got her a bottle of Cardui, which she took according to directions and now she is up, able to do her housework and says she feels like a new woman." Try Cardui in your own case. Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept. Chattanooga Medicine Co. Chattanooga, Tenn., "Tor Special Instructions, and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent free. (At-4'10) Louisiana Fishermen. There are all kinds of fishing along Mississippi Sound from Bay St. Louis to Billoxi, according to H. C. Ryall of New Orleans. "The mullet, a small but very palatable fish, is the common diet of the people all along the coast, and is familiarly known as 'Billoxi bacon.' The mullet is caught with a little cast net familiarly known as the 'Billoxi life preserver,' because anybody can go out in a boat at any time and catch fish enough for a meal in a few minutes. "The Louisiana fishermen are called 'cajang' the diminutive of Acadians, and they are the same people whose pathetic story is described in Longfellow's 'Evangeline.' They are scattered all along the coast and make their homes chiefly on the banks of the bayous and inlets, but I have not yet seen any one resembling either Evangela or Gabriel. They are not a poetic looking class of people, and they live the most unpoetic lives, satisfied with very little."—Washington Herald. The Hot Air Furnace. There was a young publisher who made a sudden fortune by appearing to that largely neglected class which we call Society. Gaining riches, the young publisher retired and was seen less and less in his old haunts. "Where's Lawrence?" some one asked of "Mr. Dooley." 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Personal treatment or mail to y Old $1.00, retail. f . a io : ks 7 “a . . ae . os ee *. et op st g a ai ‘ Bp etl taney SO ee See, ME ATM cere Et, Ree te Flower Adams, and Cowper's. “God Moves in a Afysterious Way.” Many of these were -written under pecullarly dra- matic circumstances, as was particulerly the case with.those : by Cowper and Johri Henry Newman alluded to above. But wide az has been their uge and their application among + Christiane of all creeds dnd sects, there is one hymn that overshadows all others, wheter we consider its widespread popularity or its wonderful evangelistic power. _ ‘This hymn is “The Ninety and Nine,” by the late Ira D. Sankey, long the musical associate of Dwight L. Moody, These two men together were the greatest soul winners ever known, and the suc- cess of their united work was undoubtedly largely traceable to Mr. Sankey’s songs In general, and to “The Ninety and Nine” in perticular, Its unique origin hes often been described, but will bear repetition. - “When leaving Glasgow for Edinburgh-with Mr. Moody, Mr. Sankey bought a penny religious paper. Glancing over it as-they rode on the cars, his eyo fell upon a féw verses in the corner of the page. One day, they had an, unusually {mpressive meeting in Edinburgh, in which Dr, Bomar had spok- en' om “The Good Shepherd.” At the close of the address Mr. Moody beckon- ed to his partner to ‘sing sometixing appropriate. “At first he could think of nothing but the Twenty-third Psalm, but that he had sung so often; his second thought was to sing the verses he had found in the paper, but how could ifbe done when he had no tune for them? Then a thought came—to sing the-verses he had found in the paper, anyway. Ho put thé verses, before him, totiched-the keys of the organ, and sang, not know- ing where he was going to come out. He finished the first verse amid pro- found silence. He took a long breath and wondered if he could sing the sec- ond the same way. He tried it and succeeded. After that it was easy to sing i, When he finished the hymn the meeting was all broken down— ‘throngs were crying and ministers were sobbing all around him,” Hundreds were converted then and there, while in subsequent years other thousands of souls were gathered in through the singing of “The Ninety and Nine.” . Clearly the cong was the result of a sudden inspiration so far as its muai- cal setting was concerned, and it maybe doubted if there was ever a sim- ilar case of spontaneous and subsequently successful composition. “The Ninety and Nine” Mterally sang its way around the world. The simple paraphrase of the ecripture parable appeals to “all sorts and conditions of men/’ and the world's hymmology is the richer for that Sunday afternoon inspiration in the Scottish capital which came to Ira D, Sankey.—Milwaukee Sentinel. account outside of their original purpose. Suoh a simpic thing as holding down {ts food with one foot scarcely occurs to an ordinary bird. A hen will pull about 2 cabbage leaf and shake it In the hope that a small plece may come away, but it never enters her head to put her foot on it, In-this and other matters the parrot stands apart end aleo the hawk, eagle and owl; but these are not ordiiary birds. Beasts, having twice as many feet as birds, have learned to apply them to many uses. They dig with them, hold down thelr food with them, fondle their children with them, paw theirfriends, and scratch thelr enemies, One does more of one thing and another of anothér, and the feet soon show the ef- fect of the occupation, the claws first, ther the muscles, and even the bones ‘dwindling by disuse, or waxing stout and strong. ‘Then the joy of doing what it cam do-well impels the beest further on the same path, and its off- spring after it. Of all the feet that I have looked at, I know only one more utterly ridicu- lous than the twisted filpper on which the sea Hon props his great bulk in front, and that is the forked fly-fap’wrich extends from the hinder parts of the same. How can it be Worth any beast’s while to carry such an absurd apparatus with it just for tfe sake of getting out into the alr sometimes and pushing oneself aboit on thp ice and being eaten by Polar bears? The por- poise has discarded one pair, turned the other into decent fins, and recovered a grace and power of motion in water which is not equalled by tho greyhound on Jand. Why have the seals hung back? It is so difficult to pry into the domestic ways of these sea people—but evidently the seals cannot manage it, so they are forced to return to the land when the cares of matternity are on them. * > T have called the feet of these sea beasts cidiculous things and so they are as we see them; but strip°off the skin, and lo! there appears a plain foot, with its five digits, each of several joints, tipped with claws—nowise essen-, {ally different, in short, from that with which the toad or frog, first set -oat in a past too distant for our infirm imagination, Admiration Itself is par alyzed by a contrivance so simple, so transmutable, and so sufficient for every nééd that time and change could bring. : Husband Gives Hera Just i Share of What She Earns { > By Mrs. Robert Erskine Ely, Sociologicat Investigator © figured {t out together, and out of his income he gives me the fair, just share wich I earn, and I do with it-as I choose—spend It or put it In the bank or giye it away, I never have asked bim to sive me a cent—I don't need to. Isn't that a good. way of arranging things? Certainiy,*no woman ought to marry just for the sake of obtaining a house for which she doesn’t have to pay rent and a dinner which she needa't buy. I do not think selfsupporting women are inclined to do this. I do pot know, but there may be fewer marriages among women who work on that ‘account. Eisten—in that caso, fewer women can have thelr own children. ‘Then, perhaps; they ‘will be willing to pey some attention to the poor Uttle chifdren whotayen’t their own-mothers and‘fathers. Orphan asylums are,full of euch bables—so bright and pretty and cunning, and nobody to love tem.-It the number of bustneds women who do not marry increases, perhaps.some ot them yill.take pity'onthese poor,lttle ones, and the world will be better off efter all. That baaws.thinking about. — . . a ye re ae BR: 7° WHY DO THEY:DRESS SO? 7 s Ze, “4 @ gD Ba Ss G5 ED f Ws Ee a) ap - FREY WA wp ~ hat << > +f 9 aS ; IN ao ANN \ Aes sh een? & \ See DB ris sure erence inner at ea seoeenetin SON ENP £008 620 TOA SHRIE LIKE TAT of (OR Do ney Bat THe way DAY, . “foo wor, Rar pareneae z ay i ~~ -: ~ 1 Paty ~ fae incr * &S FS Ge) Ga) a WIDE OY fe wee, ‘ RS < ‘ <a Mi RY Q Rares ( ( : «“ GR if Os \ “Gs NY ) Elf} ol a CX - Eye getey : [Paae TOMAS OF Onrcaca'savs nar A MAN REARS) . ; y “et LAY FiGURE UPON WHICH TOL A) ae pH PANE 31GHS_OF M73 PROSPERITY. - - —Cartoon by Triggs, in the New York Press. GOVERNORS ALIVE TO COST OF LIVING AS A PROBLEM In Some States Investigations Already Are in Progress--- Hadley Advocates “Back to the Soil” Movement--- ~~ + Anti-Food Trust League Growing. - 4 ‘Washington, D. C.—As reflected by ‘the views of the Governors now here in conference, the high cost of living is a most acute question throughout the entire country, In some States investigations to ascertain the cause “already are in progress. Governor Harmon of Ohio is inves- tigating the condition through a spe- cial commission:’. Governor Hadley of ‘Missouri will take the subject up with the Legislature when it next meets. ‘Gavernor Harmon said he was not prepared to say what the direct cause of the bigh cost of living is, but he recognized the injury done by great combinations. “Out our way,” said Governor Had- ley, “‘we are agitating a ‘back to the soli” movement that will bear good fruit.” a The Governor says he keeps thrée cows now. “I had chickens, but I had to give -them up when I became Governor; I always have had a garden. Every- ody who ¢an should keep chickens and make a garden. That would help amazingly.” ._ <Gavernor Weeks of Connecticut be- lieves that conditions have been brought about largely by the people sthemselves. “The luxuries of a few years ago ‘for the rich seem to-day to be the ne- scessities of the wage earner,” he de- clared. _ Governor @Ansel of South Carolina thinks the problem too deep for ready solution. The people of his State haven't felt the pressure as keenly as 4n the North, he believes, but “with even the Governor paying fifty per cent. more for his living than several Years ago, it has brought the subject ‘very near to the head of the State.” Governor Curry: of New Mexico ‘says that the cost of Mving isn’t af- fecting the Southwest “in the same ‘proportion as the crowded East." He Wooks upon the operations of combin- -ations as largely responsible for the trouble. Governor Kitchin of North’ Caro- lina recognizes that thero are thou- sands of contributing causes for the high cost of living, but the tariff is the Governor's chief objection, Governor Cromer of Alabama points out that the cotton growers of dls State are not profitizg by the high price of cotton. “They sold their growth many months ago,” he declared. “Some of the planters sold before the crop was ready to be picked.” Governor Draper of Massachusetts preferred not to discuss the matter. Governor Willsonof Kentucky finds the situation acute in his State. Governor Shafroth of Colorado said he had not given the subject much consideration, The same was the case with Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska, Governor Burke of North Dakota, and Governor Carroll of Iowa The latter threa being great agricultural States, the, people are not complaining directly against the ex- -orbitant cost of living, because they are getting high prices for thefr farm products. The Beef Trust is rapped on all hands. “I live comfortably, and I know that it costs me forty per cent. more to keep my family than it did three years ago,” said Representative Fitz~ gerald, of New York, during a debate ‘in the House. “The cost of living jhas been going up steadily for fifteen ‘Years, and it is the maladministratton ‘of the Republican party that is to blame.” ‘Mr. Fitzgerald's outburst was made when the $1,260,000 item in the Ur- gent Deficiency bill for the Commis- sary Department of the army was reached. Chairman Tawney had ex- plained that the soldier's ration had gone up from nineteen to twenty-two cents. The Houso laughed when Francis Burton Harrison, of New York, a multi-millionaire, got up and took ‘his kick at the high price of food stuffs. The Central Labor Union, of Wash- ington, 35,000 strong, has sought al- Mance with the new National Anti- Food Trust League. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the league the union's application was accepted. So also was the appli- eation of the League of Penwomen of America and the Householders’ Al- agce of this city, of which Ellen Marshall Rugg is president and -Mrs. David J. Brewer, Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver and Mrs. Robert M. La Fol- Sette. vinasneestdante: + BOYCOTT ON MEAT FORCES PRICES DOWN. Cleveland Butchers Promptly Respond to Campaign Against High Cost of Living--Thousands Join Crusade--Adopting Scheme to Follow Veg~ -etarian Diet Until Easter-- National Boycott Plan Proving Popular. Cleveland factories has spread so fast, not only in this city but throughout Ohio, that the first effect camé in the announcement of a straight cut of two cents on certain kinds of meat. Further reductions are expected. The meat dealers are alarmed, and a se- cret meeting of the Butchers’ Protec- tive Association was held to devise means of combating a movement that threatens to become national in scope. Many of the dealers say thelr or- ders have been cut in half in the past two days, and they fear some will be forced out of business. Over 10,000 men in Cleveland factories have al- teady pledsed themselves to abstain from eating meat for at least thirty days, and it is belleved tat fully 100,000 people in this city and sub- urbs will be in the vegetarian class before the week ends. Other cities of the State are following ‘the idea, and Senator Williams’ suggestion that the entire State boycott meat till Baster Sunday is being taken up with an earnestness that means business. Big meat dealers here and the agents of the packers say if the boycott reaches New York City. it wilt sarely force a decided drop in meat pfices throughout the entire Central and At- liantie States. Columbus, Ohio, — A _ resolution <calling upon the people of the Stgte to abstain from meat for the next sixty -days and to subsist entirely on a diet -of vegetables, nuts and fruit for that time was introduce into the House by Representative Tidrick, Chairman Williams, of the High Price Committee, was fairly swamped ‘with mail from all parts of the State containing suggestions as to possible remedies for the situation, many of -which were deemed worthy of consid- -eration. One of the most popular ideas in ‘the rural districts scemed to be that the millers had abandoned the old custom of taking one-eighth of the grain as toll and were now asking twenty-two out of every sixty pounds -of wheat as the toll for grinding. Many women representing women's clubs pointed out that lack of instruc- tion in cooking among the young women of to-day is responsible for the added cost of living by waste and extravagance in many households.” Senator Williams held a long con- -terence with the Attorney-General re- garding the situation, Cleveland, Ohio. — The anti-meat ‘movement that started here a few days ago among the workmen in ae President Taft Proclaims Minimum Tariff Nations. Dogs Run in Racks Like Wolves Over New Hampshire Mountain Washington, D. C.—The President -issued bis proclamation in whith ft Js declared that under the new Tariff Jaw the countries of Italy, Great Bri- tain, Russia, Spain, Tyrkey and Switzerland are entitled to the mini- mum rates imposed by that act. Of this list Italy is the most im- ,portant of the countries-of Europe to yreceite the reduced rates, Inasmuch sas tier exports to the United States ex- sceed those of elther Russia, Spain, “Switzerland or Turkey. | Nashua, N. H.—Hounds running in packs like wolves have exterminated the deer in the central part of Hills- borough County and particularly on Temple Mountain ahd Mount Monad- nock. This statement was made by Game Commissfoner Nathaniel Went- worth, Mr. Wentworth returned from Rindge, where he prosecuted two men. Four hounds ‘belonging to them were captured .on-a pend in Rindge out of a pack of six + Famous Songs’ —~ ’, How “The Ninety and Nine” Originated se With Sankey : 5 «By F Reddalt nee Feet ¢ Some of the Things a Natures Student Has "Noted ° ———— > 7 By E. H. Aitkin BFPRRING to birds and beasts with standard fect, I fin that the frst outside purpose for which they find them ser QC viceable is to scratch themselves, This is a universal need But a foot is handy in many other ways. A hen and chick == || ens, getting into my garden, transferred @ whole flower-bec to the walk in half an hour. Yet a bird trying to do any thing“with ite foot is like a man putting om his socks stand ing, and birds as a race have furned thelr feet to very litt _ WAS brought up to believe that every girl should know how to look out for herself, My motler always talked that, and she Saw to it that I and my sisters could quality, § J do not consider that by working for my husband in our home I am in the least forfeiting my financial independ- ence. I settled that before we were married. I said: “Now Robert, we will decide what I om actually worth to you for the work that I do, and my salary will be put aside Ce ee nn ae Blais eeieiien Peaktn Gira etd pa: Sere f ee er ee | LEADING STO ee. Rees s Beccs- SF eee ce Pee 2c eae be ta a0" ae F ee ee ss eee i | { ee ee ne peer ren ce. pa pile ce Foose re eres ee a a : © 4 Invented and Manufactured by a Colored Man. 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