Savannah Tribune

VOL. XXV. JEWELRY SWINDLE Conspiracy, Far-Reaching in Its Effects, Unearthed. Crooks Would Ship Valuable Jewelry to Montgomery and Send Dummy Consignments to Country Stores. Then Burn the Stores. Providence, R. I.—A conspiracy, farreaching in its effects, has just been unearthed, and developments up to date, indicate that through this great been robbed of goods valued at half a Rhod Island and other states have Rhode Island and other states have million dollars at least. The arrests have already been made in Alabama and Texas, and one of the alleged conspirators was on the Mexican border ready to cross the border when the officials took him into custody. Details of the swindle were made, public by Hary Cutler of this city, who was a member of the committee named by the New York jewelry board of trade to capture the conspirators. Mr. Cutler says that the conspiracy had gone so far that arson was thought to have been some of the methods resorted to by the alleged swindlers. Montgomery, Ala., is said to have been the fountain head of the conspiracy. The scheme was to buy jewelry throughout the country and ship it to Montgomery. After that, the report says, dummy packages were sent from a Montgomery firm to other store controlled by it. These were then credited as real shipments of goods and so listed. The stores were then set on fire, it is alleged, and the dummy packages were listed as lost assets by the firm in bankruptcy proceedings. AT MERCY OF LOOTERS. Washington, D. C.—The astonishing statement was made by Charles D. Norton, assistant secretary of the treasury, before the house committee on expenditures in the treasury department that there was at present no law on the statute books by which a subordinate in any of the various subtreasuries of the United States could be punished for making away with public funds. A man might loot the treasury of as much as he liked or could get away with, and no law exists by which he could be punished, declared, Mr. Norton. If two or more employees engaged in an embezlement, they might be punished for conspiracy, but that was all. The assistant treasurer at New York furnished a bond of $600,000, signed by private parties for the reason that a bonding company would charge him $4500 premium, and Mr. Norton said the furnishing of bond by private parties in such cases was a most undesirable arrangement for the United States. This much and other similar information was elicited from Mr Norton during a hearing on the question of whether the committee on expenditures in the treasury department should undertake an investigation of the shortage in the subresearch at St Louis and other places and incidentally inquire into the accounting system of the United States treasury. AIDS TO NAVIGATION. Provisions of Interest to South in the Lighthouse BILL Washington, D. C.—The places at which aids to navigation are provided for in the $1,100,000 omnibus light house bill, agreed on by the house interstate commerce committee, were announced. The appropriations made, which aggregate about $900,000 less than the estimate of the lighthouse board, include $120,000 for one relief light vessel, which the board can use to replace any of the sixty-nine now in service that may deteriorate, the average life of a light vessel being estimated at between twenty and twenty-five years. The items included in the measure which of interest to the south are as follows: Lights on Dunn's Creek and Crescent Lake, Fla.; Atchafalaya river, Little Lake, Lake Des Allemands; Bayous Barataria, Segnette, PerotVillars and La Fourche and Lake Salvador, Louisiana. Range lights, Norfolk, Va., $25,000; Baltimore, Md. $125,000; entrance Savannah river, Ga., $4,500; Bogue Sound, N. C., $2,500; lights Cape Fear river, N. C., $21,000; light vessel St Johns river, Fla., $130,000; removal of lighthouse depot. Fort Eads, to New Orleans, La., $27,000. HIS CAREER CROWNED. Roosevelt Addressed Fresh Academy and Received Great Reception. Paris, France. — To Use Colonel Roosevelt's own words, he has reached the crowning of his career as a man of letters. He was the guest of intellectual Paris, participating as a member at a session of the French Academy, delivering a lecture at the Sorbonne and remaining as the guest of the faculty for dinner and the grand reception given by the university in his honor. Colonel Roosevelt's reception at the French Institute and that at the Sorbonne were equally impressive. At the Sorbonne no attempt was made to restrain the demonstrations. VETERANS REUNION. Mobile Royally Entertains Old Soldiers of the Confederacy. Mobile, Ala.—A slender, black-clad, frightened girl stood on a raised platform and while six thousand Confederate Veterans cheered, and while the bands played "Dixie," a score, or more gray-bearded Confederate general officers passed in review before her and with uncovered heads, kissed her hand. The young girl was Miss Lucy White Hayes, granddaughter of the only president of the Confederacy. The incident was the climax of the first day's session of the United Confederate Veterans. The big tent which is said to seat comfortably six thousand people was packed to its topmost tier of seats. The seats had been raised and the throne outside had pressed in. When the new "daughter of the Confederacy" was being presented to the convention, the old veterans went mad. The band was playing "Dixie"—three of them—but the combined masses could not drown out the cheers. The veterans surged forward but the ropes stopped them. Then one by one, the stately general officers on the stage moved in review before the frightened, trembling girl and each kissed her hand as he passed. Miss Hayes' eyes filled with tears, and she seemed overcome with emotion as she passed back to her seat in the crowd. Her valed of honor, Miss Ella Mitchell. Miss Hayes is the "sponsor for the southern Confederacy" in the reunion and takes rank over all other sponsors and malda. Mareletta, Ga.-Memorial Day was made memorable by the splendid celebration which marked its observance and by the unveiling of the "little brass cannon" of the, Georgia Military-Academy. The little cannon was the central figure of all the ceremonies of the day. Miss Annie Coryel, graddaughter of Colonel James W. Robertson, who was commandant at the academy when the first, salute was fired from the little cannon, unveiled the historic gun, revealing the quiet reminder of days of deadly war. The restoration of the little cannon is due to the ladies of the Memorial Association, who have been unfiring in their efforts to bring the little brass cannon back to keep watch over the sleeping veterans of the Confederate States. FEDERAL AID FOR HERO. Aid for Man Who Gave Health to Destroy Yellow Fever. Washington, D. C.-Ill, helplessly paralyzed and supported by the faithful wife, who earns a pittance at the wash tub, John R. Kissinger, the soldier who gave up his health and his future that the cause of yellow fever might be known, will receive a special pension of $125 a month if a bill favorably reported by the senate committee becomes a law. When the ravages of the dread plague swept the men from the ranks and the trenches faster than the machine guns of the enemy at Siboney and Santiago could do, Kissinger offered himself as a volunteer subject for experiment in an army hospital. The surgeons proved by has sacrifices that the mosquito spread the plague, and their experiments upon him are believed to have been responsible for his helpless condition now. BJORNSON IS DEAD. The Lyric Poet of Norway Dies at Paris, France. Paris, France—Bjornstjørne Bjornson, the Norwegian poet, novelist and dramatist, reformer and advocate of universal peace, died here. He was born at Kvikne, Osterdalen, Norway, December 8, 1832. As a journalist, Bjornson expressed strong republican opinions, which aroused excitement, he was condemned to a year's imprisonment for treason, but escaped to Germany, afterward to America and did not return to Christiana until 1882, when he once more began the work of agitation against the government and the union of the two Scandinavian kingdoms. USING MORE BEER. Consumption of Beer is Increasing, According to Report. Washington, D. C.—Nearly a million more barrels of beer were consumed by the people of the United States last month than in March, 1909. This is shown by the statement of the internal revenue receipts for March. The total consumption of beer during the month amounted to 4,993,793 barrels. There was an increase of $1,071,144 in the taxes for spirits and of $130,000 from cigarettes. Newsv Paragraphs: Long hair is to be the fashion for men this year in London. The flat has gone forth from the hair-dressing establishments in Bond street. Professor Herschel C. Parker or Columbia university has left New York on the trip to the top of Mount McKinley. Waldemar Grassal, a Columbia university junior, and H. L. Tucker, of the Appalachian club, will accompany him. It is Professor Parker's intention to follow the route described by Dr. Frederick A. Cook. Tests made with the albumen of eggs laid by hens infected with tuberculosis show that the "white-plague" is communicable by this means, according to a report by W. H. Lytle, state "veterinarian of Oregon." Lytle states, however, that eggs moderately cooked, even though previously infected are not dangerous. The tests showed that the yolks of eggs failed to inoculate. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1910. PEACE PALACE OPENED Building of International Union of American Republics Dedicated. GIFT OF ANDREW CARNEGIE Twenty American Republics Pledged Themselves to Work for Universal Peace. President Taft Attended Exercises. Washington, D. C.—The magnificent new marble palace of the International Union of American Republics—within a stone's throw of the white house—was dedicated in the name of universal peace, President Taft joining with Andrew Carnegie, with Secretary of State Knox, with Senator Root and with Senor de la Bara, the Mexican ambassador, as deputy of the Latin-American republics, in prophecies of peace among the twenty-one American republics and pledged themselves always to strive to bring about that happy state. Mr. Carnegie expressed the hope that some day Canada, with the consent of Great Britain, would join the family of peaceful American republics. The new building, the gift of Mr. Carnegie, won the admiration of all the distinguished company that passed within the bronze-grilled portals, both at the dedicatory exercises and at the reception at which President Taft and Mr. Carnegie headed the receiving party. "I esteem it a great honor to the United States of America," said the president at the dedicatory exercises, "that the other twenty American republics should decide that this home of international union should be here on this soil. As the elder sister of the republics we take great pride in that fact. As the elder sister we also are anxious that each member of the family should know that we believe in absolute equality in every member of the family. There is notling in preference that we insist upon because of the fact that we are the older nation and for the time being can count more noses." President Taft referred to the work that Secretaries Blaine and Root had done to bring about a greater bond of friendship among the American republics. He congratulated the other American republics upon the progress they have made in the past two decades, not alone in the matter of commerce, but toward a peaceful settlement of all disputes. "It goes without saying," he added in conclusion, "that in the foreign policy of the United States; its great object is peace among the American republics. We twenty-one republics cannot afford to have any two or three of us quarreling. We must stop. The organizations and work of this bureau of the republics is doing much in that direction. But Mr. Carnegie and I will never be satisfied until nineteen of us can intervene by proper measures to suppress a quarrel between any two of us." The ceremonies were attended by special and diplomatic representatives of the various nations forming the union. ROOSEVELT LIKE MOSES. Preacher Says Ex-President is "Man of God; Type Man of All Ages." Anniston, Ala. — "The time will come when Roosevelt will no longer be called "Teddy," but all Americans will revere him as "Theodore," declared Dr. John Stagge, president of the Alabama Presbyterian College, in an address to the school. "His Paris speech is in a class with Moses' farewell address and is the greatest effort since the time of Demosthenes." Roosevelt can put Taft in his pocket and never know he's there, but I wouldn't give a cent for Roosevelt as a republican. He is head and shoulders above his party and as a great emissary preaching wholesome morality to the average man throughout the world he stands without a peer as an American." Roosevelt's world-tour is no more a matter of chance than was Moses' journey to Promised Land. He is no 'chance man,' but as Carlylo said of John Knox: "He is a man of God, the type man of all the ages." OLDEST PERSON IN U. S. Oldest Person in Nation Lives at Boston Georgia. Thomasville, Ga.-Boston, in this county, is claiming to have in that district the oldest person in the United States. Mariah Williams is the name of the old colored woman, who is said to be 120 years old. Boston also has a negro woman who is the mother of thirteen children and who has a daughter who has given birth to thirteen children. NOVEL TOWN ORDINANCE Saloons Must Care for the Drunkards in Illinois Town. Sterling, Jill—The Morrison city council has passed a stringent saloon ordinance. The most peculiar feature provides that no saloon keeper shall throw an intoxicated person from the saloon into the street. If any saloon keeper expels an intoxicated person from his saloon, it shall be considered a violence of the ordinance and sufficient to revoke the license. The ordinance provides that it shall be the duty of the saloon keeper or his bartender to take good care of the intoxicated person until he is perfectly sober, and that a place shall be provided for him to sleep. HUGHES APPOINTED JUSTICE. Chief Executive of New York Nominated Justice of Supreme Court of U. S. Washington, D. C.-President Taft received from Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York a letter accepting a tendered appointment as associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. Five minutes after the letter was handed to the president, the nomination of Governor Hughes was on its way to the senate. While it is expected that Governor Hughes will be confirmed with little or no delay, it is understood here that he will remain as the chief executive of the stite of New York until next October, and will not take the oath of office until the fall term of the supreme court opens the second Monday in that month. President Taft has been anxious to I GOVERNOR HUGHES, Of New York. secure the best man he could for the supreme court, vacancy, and he feels that he has done so. He was much tated over the success of his tender to Governor Hughes and said: "I am very much delighted to secure Governor Hughes for the bench. He is a man of wide experience and marked ability, and it is a mighty valuable thing to have on the great bench of the supreme court a man of affairs. Governor Hughes is 48 years of age, and even if he should retire at 70 he will have had 22 years of solid usefulness on the bench." The appointment of Governor Hughes was received throughout all Washington with the greatest satisfaction. The announcement, however, came as something of a surprise despite the fact that it had been generally understood for days that the position was to be tendered him. The general opinion here is that the appointment of Governor Hughes will eliminate him from the New York state campaign this fall. The news of the acceptance of Governor Hughes reached the justices just as they were adjourning for the day. They were all surprised and all pleased. Justice Lurton smiled; no longer would he be the newest member of the court. About the first question heard after the announcement of the selection was concerning the attitude of the new member of the court on the trust problems, as involved in the dissolution suits against the Standard Oil and tobacco corporations. The general conclusions were that the record of the New York man showed he came to the court without prejudices, having fought corporations where he thought them guilty of any wrong doing, and protected their rights where he considered them persecuted. Soldier Burned In Jail. Savannah, Ga.-Henry H. Biggers, a private in the United States hospitals corps at Fort Screven, Ga., was incinerated in the Tybee fall. He had been arrested, when he endeavored to kill himself by purposely falling in front of a moving train. He had been drinking and his mind was affected. It is believed that he set fire to the jail. Southern Railway Increase Wages. Princeton, Ind.-Official notice was given at the Southern Railroad shops here of the general increase effective April 1 of 3 1-2 cents an hour in all mechanical departments of the shops throughout the Southern Railway system, with the exception of the machinists, who receive an increase of 4 1-2 cents. Hettle Green to Retire. New York City—Hettle Green is planning, it is reported, to retire from active business. She is now, 73 years old, and feels she does not care to take an active part in the business world any longer. Her daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes, will probably assume direction of Mrs. Green's affairs. Elnd Gold In Louisiana. Merryville, La-Reports of discoveries of gold in this section of Louisiana have caused great excitement and a company has been formed with the purpose of looking into the finds and ascertaining the extent of the deposits, with a view to development, if feasible. Cotton Mills Curtail. Chicopee, Mass.—In order to meet unfavorable market conditions by curtailing production the cotton mills of the Dwight Manufacturing Company of Chicopee and the Chicopee Manufacturing Company of Chicopee have gone on a schedule of five days a week. The two corporations together employ 3,000 operatives. COTTON CROP DAMAGED Cold and Snow Injure Growing Crops Throughout the Country. FRUIT CROP NOT INJURED Millions of Acres of Young Cotton Destroyed. Seed for Replanting Is Scarce and Price is High. Atlanta, Ga.—From the cotton growing states reports indicate that the cotton crop is very materially dam- aged by the unseasonably cold weather, the average estimated injury rang- ing about 50 per cent. The scarcity of seed for replanting purposes brings the planter face to face with a seri- ous problem. From mally points comes the same reports of seed short- age, the surplus having been worked up by the oil mills. Undoubtedly the acreage will be greatly curtailed on this account. Frost is reported as far south as the Mississippi delta and snow fell as far south as Americus, Ga, and Selma, Ala. It is believed from reports received here from more than a hundred points in Georgia and contiguous territory, that the peach crop is not seriously damaged, although it is too early to base definite conclusions. At Adairsville, the largest shipping point in Georgia for Ellentas, the crop is injured considerably, probably 26 per cent, but such serious harm is reported from few other points. The Fort Valley and Marshallville orchards are believed to be safe. Vegetables of every description are either killed outright or greatly injured. Irish potatoes are bitten dead, young beans are destroyed and garden peas lie limp and yellow on the ground. Cantaloupe plants in southwestern Georgia may be seriously injured, according to late reports from that section. The unprecedented visitation of wintry weather has hurt the cotton planner most heavily. Early reports from almost every section of the south bear the same tone. Cotton that is up and seed that had sprouted are either killed or so badly hurt by the-cold that replanting is imperative. Practically all the early planting, therefore, is a total loss. Cotton jumped from 40 cents to $1 a bushel. One oil mill in Columbus sold several thousand bushels at the last named figure, and many calls were denied. Reports from many sections indicate that planters will be unable to secure enough seed for replanting the damaged fields at any price. Montgomery, Ala.—Commissioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson began to locate all the cotton seed possible and to urge that no more be crushed until it is "discovered how badly the crop is hurt. In one mill in Montgomery he found $0.000 bushels. Huntsville, Ala.—The freeze and heavy frost will cost northern Alabama thousands of dollars. The temperature dropped to 30 above and there was ice in abundance. Practically all cotton that has grown up out of the ground has been killed. Potatoes were killed and wheat badly hurt. New York City. — Widespread reports of crop damage by the cold wave; sweeping the south, together with aggressive tactics of southern bulls and efforts of many of the bears to cover their shorts led to an excited opening in the cotton market, with prices all up and October registering a gain of 31 points, $1.55 per bale, before 11 o'clock. The old crop started in from 15 to 55 cents per bale higher. Sentiment on the exchange was all in favor of much higher prices. Crop damage reports on top of previous estimates of a crop top below the actual trade demands have made the position of the bulls seemingly invulnerable. Chicago, Ill.—With the worst of the blizzard believed to be past, more accurate figures of the loss to fruit and crops, based upon the fact, are being reported from the storm-swept sections of the middle west. The most conservative estimates place the loss at $33,000,000, while others declare the loss will be at least $60,000,000. Those more familiar with the situation declare that the former figures are about correct. The estimated losses in the middle west follow: Illinois ..... $5,000,000 Indiana ..... $5,000,000 Iowa ..... $5,000,000 Tennessee ..... $1,000,000 Minnesota ..... $1,500,000 Wisconsin ..... $3,000,000 Michigan ..... $10,000,000 Nebraska ..... $2,000,000 Kansas ..... $5,000,000 PATTEN DENIES CORNER. Cotton Operator Says He is Master of the Situation. New York City—With the control of the price of cotton on the New York exchange practically in his own hands, James A. Patten, the famous Chicago speculator, left for home to be gone a week. He feels so completely master of the situation that he can leave without uneasiness. "I wish you would deny for me," he said, "the report that I am trying to corner cotton. I don't want to run a corner in anything. You stand a better chance of winning even in a so-called successful corner. I simply believe that cotton is worth more than it has been bringing." N(1).32. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. An official call for the fifth reunion of the Roosevelt Rough Riders at New York from June 16 to 20 was issued at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The chief object of the reunion is to welcome Colonel Roosevelt home. Revised estimates of the aggregate cost of the Philadelphia trolley strike to all those interests involved place it at $1,200,000. The greater burden of the loss fell on the business community, which is estimated to have suffered in the loss of trade and in other ways to the extent of $3,000,000. The cost to the strikers, including those who went out on sympathetic strike, was $3,000,000, while the direct loss to the Rapid Transit company is figured at not less than $1,200,000. What is said to be the first lighthouse built for alrships has just been erected on the top of a small railroad building at Spandau, Germany. It consists of thirty-eight powerful electric lamps, which shoot a glaring light skyward. Its purpose is to guide the dirigibles of the German army at night. Four thousand Philadelphia carmen who have been out on strike practically two months have returned to work for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company under the terms of an order issued by officials of the local union calling the strike to an end. The total exports of the Japanese empire for the first three quarters of 1909 show an increase over 1908 of $8,921,677, of which the principal items were rice, tea, refined sugar, camphor, raw silk, cotton yarn, straw and chip braids, cotton tissues and matches. Washington Colonel W. F. Cody, who has endearled himself to the youth of the land as "Buffalo Bill" and caused more truancy than all the baseball games in history, has established his claim as a private in the army of the United States, and has been granted a pension of $12 a month. The pension was paid to him by the F. Cody, enlisted in the Seventh Army as calvary February 19, 1864, and was honorably discharged September 29, 1865. Although it was generally known that splendid progress had been made by the army engineers in digging the Panama canal, the statement contained in the Canal Record just-ar hand comes as a surprise that all of the excavation that was contemplated in the original project has been completed. Under that plan, 103,795,000 cubic yards of material were to be subsequently in order to accommodate naval vessels of the Dead naught type and the giant liners now under construction, the president ordered the wilting and deepening of the canal prism. That involved the removal of 70,871,594 additional yards of material. Little or no comment was to be obtained from congressional visitors at the white house on the coming retirements of Senator Aldrich and Hale. Speaker Cannon, who was an early visitor, was asked whether the retirement of the two members of the "Old Guard" in the senate would have any influence on him or other members of the house. He said he polled did not enter into their determination at all. For self, the speaker after taking a filing at "Muckrakers" declared he was going to live twenty-five years longer and have a good time while he was doing it. President Taft's office at the white house has been an artist's studio during the past week and official callers have had the double advantage of an interview with the chief executive of the nation and a glimpse of the sculptor's art. Robert L. Alken of New York has finished the clay model of a bust of the president, which is said to be destined either for the Metropolitan museum art in New York or the Concoran Art gallery in Washington. During the three months ending December 31, 1909, there were 1,099 persons killed and 2,491 persons injured on railroads, according to a bulletin issued by the interstate commerce commission. This is an increase of 301 killed and 5,645 injured, as compared with the previous year. On electric lines 26 were killed and 642 injured. The accidents on steam roads numbered 3,206. The National Woman's Suffrage convention has elected the following officers: President, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Pennsylvania; first vice president, Rachael Foster Avery, Pennsylvania; second vice president, Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Illinois; recording secretary, Ella S. Stewart, Illinois; corresponding secretary, Mary Ware Bennett, Massachusetts; auditors, Laura Clay and Miss Ella Stone Blackwell, Massachusetts; treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio. The senate passed the house bill authorizing the use for joint maneuvers by the states of a portion of their militia allotments from the federal treasury. The comptroller of the treasury has held such use to be contrary to the present law, to the great annoyance of the state military authorities. The memory of the North American Indian is to be perpetuated by a statue memorial in New York harbor, if a bill ordered favorably reported to the house by the library committees becomes a law. The bill would authorize the federal government of a memorial on a site in New York harbor to be selected by the secretaries of war and navy. Treasury of State of Georgia Illinois 1AH 1790 190 The undesignated Treasurer of the State of Georgia, hereby acknowledges that he has received for the purpose of the following described sum: Dear Regina and Damon of the City of Atlanta, Elegant and Excellent (Stylish and Dignity) 17th of June, 1900, amends and adds for Development (Go. Go.) amends, due 1920. long and near Ten Thousand Dollars and which are held by the Plate of George by authority and under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly, approved October 22d, 1887, and amended December 20th, 1892. R. E. Pardii. Cattle Raising in Georgia Turns on Revolutionized Conditions. COMBINATION BREED NEEDED Dr. E. M. Knight Expert of The United States Bureau of Animal Industry Talks of Cattle Raising in This State. Atlanta, Ga.—"Live stock raising in Georgia," declared Dr. E. M. Knight, expert of the United States bureau of animal industry, "is impossible under existing conditions. Changes of the most revolutionary nature must be effected before this great industry becomes the asset indicated by Georgia's natural advantages." For ten years Dr. Knight has been in the government service, assigned to that broad southern tectory lying between the Mississippi river and the Atlantic ocean. By education and specific training he is thoroughly equipped to discuss the subject of cattle breeding and raising with a note of final authority. He passed through Atlanta, and was induced to talk upon lines calculated to appeal to every enterprising farmer in the state. "The primary and indispensable premise to cattle-raising in Georgia," declared Dr. Knight, "is the absolute repeal or radical modification of the so-called 'no fence' law. It is impossible to build up a cattle industry on the open range. "Absence of fences means that your pure-bred strains may be contaminated by the scrub stock of your neighbor, or vice versa. "The expense of this innovation is smaller than you would imagine. For instance, old pine trees make the Lest sort of fence posts when treated with creosote. Under these conditions they will last twenty years. A bulletin of the department of agriculture describes the process. "Not more than 50 per cent of the men owning farm lands in Georgia live upon it. We have to deal with this problem of absentee landlordism, and it is to the distinct money interest of these landlords to undertake the expense of fencing in ranges in Georgia and of otherwise encouraging the development of the industry on the part of croppers and renters. "Under existing conditions, the landlord depends almost wholly upon the one crop of cotton for his rent. If he will co-operate to the end of supplementing cotton with cattle, and, in reality, the two go hand in hand, he will be patriotically upbuilding the country and at the same time swelling his own dividends." Dr. Knight went on to show that the average of four cattle to the farm in Georgia, were, as a rule, scrub treeds, worthless for beef purposes, not lending themselves profitably to fattening for the market and not even remunerative as butter and milk producers. BOL. C. JOHNSON, Supt. of Ageno ate a combination breed which can be utilized both for dairy and beef purposes. The only field in which the Jersey can be used to advantage is in that of the dairy or creamery. For general dairy purposes, the scrub cows of Georgia, crossed with registered beef bulls, will produce a breed that will respond quickly and profitably to fattening and make an ideal market cattle. "Local cattle.clubs," said Dr. Knight, "contain the solution of the problem that is, from the.standpoint of immediate results possible under present conditions. A short horn bull, a red Devon, a black poll or a Heretord can be bought by a group of farmer. for from $50 to $150. "If each farmer owning an interest in the animal will make it his business to patronize it regularly, using his native cows as dams, we shall soon be on the highway to the working out of the problem. It is impractical to import into Georgia or any other state a new breed of cattle in toto. The more feasible program is to breed registered bulls of the varieties I have described to native cows. In this way we shall secure a product accustomed to its environment and calculated to thrive under it." Dr. Knight stated that under a plan contemplating the widespread local clubs, the members of all of them co-operating in earnest and particularly in the respect of fencing in the farms, the cattle industry in Georgia would attain paying proportions within about four years. "The offspring from the registered bull and the native cow would be ready for breeding purposes in two years," said Dr. Knight. "And its offspring, in turn, would be grading cattle, fit for beef purposes, responding readily to fattening and equally as available from a dairy standpoint. "In Montana," continued Dr. Knight, emphasizing the financial value of good beef breeds, "a steer will bring $25 miles from a railroad, with few or no rail facilities. In Georgia, with ample rail facilities, the sort of scrub breeds we raise are worth from $7 to $8. I can think of no more conclusive illustration of the importance of specific breeds of beef cattle." Dr. Knight was particularly emphatic in drawing attention to the menace of the cattle tick fever. "The only way to eradicate it," he said, "is to fence in the farms and rotate crops. "Eradicating is gradually going on in several Georgia counties, but the work is rather slow and discouraging, because of lack of interest on part of farmers." One of the most impressive arguments made by Dr. Knight for the development of cattle raising in Georgia is that it would redeem the state, the south, for that matter, from the pelit of a "one-crop country." "The country with but one money crop," he went on, "is founded upon a shifting and uncertain basis of prosperity. Necessarily, it must deal with a large class of poor farmers. A single crop makes, too, for intellectual narrowness. It is as essential to diversify minds and hearts as it is to diversify and rotate crops." P. EDWARD PERRY, Vice President. BLANKS cf every .description. Liberal Discounts Will Be Arranged BOL. C. JOHNSON. Bavannah, Ga. Perry Not a Candidate. Atlanta, Ga.—Assistant State Treasurer Benjamin F. Perry will not be a candidate to succeed State Treasurer J. Pope Brown, who will retire from office. In his announcement, Captain Perry declares that in the first place the duties of the office of assistant treasurer are such that it would be impossible for him to make the race, as it is necessary for him to remain at the desk. Again, it requires quite an amount of funds to meet the expenses of a campaign, and he does not feel justified in taxing his personal funds to make the race. Religion in the Century Magazine. The conductors of The Century Magazine state that in future that periodical will give considerable space to contributions which have especial value to all interested in the cause of religion. It is announced that there will appear, beginning in the May number, a series of papers on the revival of interest in Bible study, beginning with an article on "College Men and the Bible," written by Mr. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, who, as secretary, is in charge of Bible work in educational institutions. Mr. Cooper reports that last year 32,259 college men, in 539 institutions of the United States and Canada, attended voluntary Bible classes. This worldwide movement outside of North America will be described in future articles, and the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D. D. is preparing for The Century a paper on "The Bible and English Literature." That one of America's leading literary magazines proposes to give especial attention to religious matters is significant. How His Fame Came. The game cock, equipped with his artificial spurs, had escaped from his owner and candered among some farmyard folk. "Hello, Chantecler!" exclaimed a busky Leghorn rooster; "so you've won your spurs, en?" "Nope—merely had them thrust on me," said the game cock, frankly. They were basking in the warm sunshine in the gladsome countryside. HOME OFFICE. 463 WEST BROAD STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Bell Phone 1196. Ga. Phone 2029 Directors; L. E. Williams. P. Edward Perry. Walter S. Scott. Sol G. Johnson. W. R. Fields. L. M. Pollard. This company is only chartered under the laws of the State of Georgia, and has compiled with all requirements of the State Insurance department, therefore all policy holders are protected with all the safeguards that the strict insurance laws of this State seek to protect its citizens. Its affairs are directed and managed by Negro men of the city of Savannah of leading standing, and whose character and reputation are of such as to command the respect and confidence of all the people of that community. The same men that manage this Society are the ones that organized and are conducting the affairs of the first successful Negro Savings Bank in this state, therefore we can readily see that by connecting themselves with this Insurance company their interest will be in safe hands. By comparing our rules and benefits with other first class companies it will be seen that we offer the most liberal inducements with the largest sick, accident and death benefits to our members than any other company in this business. A Disappointed Man. MONEY DEPOSITED WITH The Wage Earners Loan and Investment Company Mr. Halloran surveyed the insurance agent with a dark and hostile countenance. The fact that one eye was concealed by a somewhat grimy bandage did not add to the attractiveness of his expression. "Haven't you made up your mind yet to insure with us?" inquired the agent. "You told me I might call again in a few days." "There was two of you at me to get an accident insurance policy," said Mr. Halloran, breathing heavily. "I told you and him both you might call in again, and he come first, day befour yistherday, and I insured wild his company. 18 DOUBLY SECURED BY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INVESTED SAVANNAH REAL ESTATE. 5 PER CENT PAID ON DEPOSITS. "That very night I met up wid Barney Casey on the way home, which was what I was expecting wud happen," continued Mr. Halloran, raising himself by grasping the arms of his chair with two capable although scarred hands, "and whin we'd finished wid one another, I was like this! Why Heavier-Than-Air Ships Are Able to Fly "Yistherday morning I sent for the insurance chap and says I to him, 'Look at me,' I says, 'and estimate the damages and pay them.' "He squirmed right out o' the door, saying 'twas no accident I'd had.' "Now if meeting wid Barney Casey after keeping out o' his way for six months, is no accident, I'm done wid insurance companies, and the sooner you leave this house the betther twill plaze me"—Youth's Compan- By Edvar Lucien Larken, of the Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, Cal. HE mathematical principle involved in aeroplanes, machines heavier than air, is that of gliding over a fluid. The air under the flat surfaces may be considered as being compressed—that is, a cubic foot of air under a moving plane weighs more than a cubic foot above it because there is more air in the cubic foot of space. And the greater the velocity of the plane the greater the compression. T Finds Attic Slab. Word has been received at the Johns Hopkins University that an important discovery has just been made by Dr. Allan C. Johnson, who was fellow at the university last year, and who is now holding a fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. While pursuing his investigations in the Acropolis at Athens, Dr. Johnson was prompted to examine carefully the stones which compose the retaining wall of an ancient cistern, and found that one of them had engraved upon it an inscription which had previously escaped observation, because it was built into the wall in such a way that no letters were visible. Thus: Suppose that a horizontal or slightly inclined upward plane is moving in air under the force of a given im- pulse; it will traverse a much greater distance than a body of any other shape driven by an equal force. I tried this experiment up here by throwing stones and tin plates. Different shapes of stone, pieces of iron, wood, etc., were thrown out over a canyon below the observatory. Smooth stones did not go more than 250 feet, wood and iron bodies less. Then flat tin shingles were thrown horizontally or inclined upward. About twenty were thrown. Upon trial two were sent at the proper angle and speed to "catch the air," and they flew to a distance of not less than 1,500 feet. This is the principle elaborated by Langley in his basic experiments. The reaction pressure of the air under the gliding plane was against gravitation and sustained all that part of its weight in excess of that able to be kept up by the air in its natural state. With enormous speed a velocity theoretically, if not actually, could be reached where the air under the plane would be as a solid, be a road for the flying plane. Thus the air in front of a rifle bullet is very dense and has been photographed as a dark mass. When the slab was removed the description proved to be an Attic degree of 203 B. C., which was enacted an honor of Nikon of Abydos for having saved Athenians from drowning in a previous war. This valuable document, which is thirty lines in length and contains historical information hitherto quite unknown, will be published by the discoverer at an early date.-Baltimore American. In front of lightning the air becomes solid and turns the electricity aside in zigzag paths. The air above and around melinite approaches a very dense state when the explosion occurs. Meteors, when they move with their maximum speed of forty-two miles per second, compress the air in front. The aeroplane rides on air which itself compresses. The greater the speed the greater the weight sustained. Advertise in Your Home Paper For the Very Best Results. Choose Your Route. Agencies of death: fires, pestilence, earthquakes, tornadoes and green motormen.—Philadelphia. Telegraph. I am having whispered in my ear A number of truths each day; From doctor and lawyer and priest I hear The things they would like to say— "If—they only dared"—here they smirk, and sigh. "If—they would but cared"—here they wink an eye. If "twere safe or wise to reveal the truth, warn the肩, to succor To ask in print what they whisper low, To state the facts which all men should know. They would like—oh, yes, they just yawn to speak. But—another shrug, as excuse they seek. And at last I hear every whisper say: "I will tell the truth if the thing would But. In this crass age I must talk with care And I have no truths on the listening air Which might cost me aught that I treasure dear. And so I whisper them in your ear— Things which must rest in their silent shhh. Till some braver man speaks each one aloud." —Lurana W. Sheldon, in the New York Times. When the Senatorial Limited was wrecked and the engineer, Big Bob, as he was commonly called, ordered off duty to work in the yards, there was genuine consternation among the ranks of trainmen. They all knew Big Bob, who had run an engine over the road for 30 years; knew his love for his big black steel, and his gruff kindness. When the monster petition went in to the president of the road for Bob's reinstatement, stating that owing to a disastrous storm he had worked night aid day for a week, and tired and over-strained had failed to see the washout on the roadbed in time to save theditching of the Senatorial, the president was annoyed. Weighed down by problems that kept him on the rack continually, the man, summoning the iron which had lifted him to his present position, declared that discipline, by which the road was to avoid expensive accidents, must be maintained. So when Big Bob, dazed and heartbroken, brushing by subordinates in outer offices like files, stood before the president in his private office, unheralded, formidable, that official listened stonily and curtly dismissed him with the announcement that they needed younger men. All the Scotch blood in Big Bob's body then surged madly, and lifting a knotted hand he cursed the president in language forceful and terrible, calling vengeance from the Almighty upon his head. The president's hand shook for an hour thereafter as he nervously signed papers, while the memory of that fearful Scotchman with uplifted hand was to remain long in his shrinking memory. Big Bob worked about the yard and on the battered hulk of his old engine, No. 900; doggedly. As he tinkered valves and levers, tightened bolts, rubbed brassbound ralls and hands and oiled the loved machine that had once raced at his bidding he muttered exultantly, "Ye'll help me make him pay for this." His life was sad and broken, looking on each day as the big black locomotives went out with strange hands at the throttles, while he did boy's work about the yard. Only one grim purpose kept him alive now—the purpose of vengeance. The general manager with anxious face strode through the yard, while everywhere, amid the howl of the gathering storm, sounded notes of excitement. When its purport reached Big Bob a grim smile contorted his face and he hastened to the manager. "Yes," the harassed man replied, "Briggs, running the special, was taken ill just outside the yard, his engine derailed and put out of commission—there's not a spare engine or engineer nearer than 50 miles on account of extra work, and the president with a directors' meeting so important he's crazed at the thought of delay. What, you have old 900 in good shape and can get steam up in short order? Wait!" Back from the president hurried the manager, "Hook on to the special on main track ready to leave at 5.43. Hustle!" As Big Bob backed his engine down into place before the waiting special, his face was terrible in its insane purpose. Just as the hissing steam was pouring from beneath No. 900 a taxicab drew up, a young lady emerged, hurried past the engine and boarded the train. Big Bob's eyes narrowed. His vengeance now would be quite complete when, running full-speed past the signal near the end of the route, he ditched his train on the emhancement beside which flowed Lake Gonica. But where had he seen that girlish Jace before? The thought followed him into his cab as he put his hand on the throttle, threw it open and felt the iron monster shart and quiver beneath him. Suddenly a vision flashed, vivid before him. An apple orchard in full bloom—a girlish figure entering it hearing a dripping baby girl cuddled close to her silken bosom. Her machine passing, she had spied the baby toddling toward the river and raiding across fields and almost knee deep into the waters had gathered up the tot and brought her to the white faced parents, then, hardly waiting for thanks had dashed off in her runabout. That was years ago, but Big Bob at last recalled clearly, unmistakably, that the girlish face was, the same as that of the president's daughter. Pulling his only hands over his eyes he shuddered, racked by the thought of the thwarting of his vengeance. But he had saved his baby, he must have her—and starting to check speed his ear caught a sound behind that turned the blood cold about his heart. Thoughts came incoherently, then one flamed clear as if written in fire. He knew the time schedule perfectly—the had all blundered. The Montreal Express, late and making up time, was behind with a single track, a more powerful engine, and the storm howling and blinding between! Turning, he saw that the terrified fireman, too, had heard, and calling fiercely, threateningly to him, ordered him back to his shovel. Then, jerking the throttle wide he felt the great engine, trembling like a thoroughbred, give a mighty leap and shoot forward madly. Milepost after milepost flew past like wreaths, and gripping his window stanchions with both arms he leaved-out and back. Just, then the engine behind rounded a curve, and its headlight-dung its stabbing gleam into their faces. It was to be a race for life, and Big Bob, hugging the reversing lever to keep from being knocked against the pitching cab, still held a rigid purpose stamped on his ashen face, but the purpose now was not that of a destroyer. As the big machine tore ahead in spurts of uneven, speed like the plunges of an infuriated steed, that black spectre just behind, and galling on them, all thoughts of hatred died in the desperate heart of Big Bob. He thought of the president now as the father of his baby's rescuer, and through white lips, and with the headlight of that pursuing demon almost in his eyes, vowed to save them. It was red hot now in the cab and the faces of the two men were drawn and blistering. Myriad lights, signals, tore the inky blackness as they shot by like a thunderbolt, swaying and lurching. Beade the luxurious parlor car, ignorant of danger, sat the two distinguished passengers. The president, sighing with relief, remarked on their rocking speed and added that Big Bob was certainly breaking records, and he would make the meeting all right. The engineer held his hand now on the throttle, while his eyes were wide and steady ahead. With the speed of lightning they crashed past the signal near Lake Conica, the big machine pounding as if her heart would break, then, suddenly, the man at the throttle shut off the steam and with mighty effort bent to the reversing lever. Groaning and staggering the train shot onto a sliding while almost simultaneously, with a roar as of a hundred devils, the Montreal Express tor by in the darkness. Old 900 limped into the station a little later, sheet iron flaring in ragged confusion, fire-box leaking—truly the end of the valiant monster. Dazed and bruised Big Bob staggered out of the dillapidated cab just as the president and his daughter came along. Holding out his hand the president said tersely, "Good work, my man—re By John K. LeBaron. port to Clarkson tomorrow for a flyer run." Big Bob took the hand in his grilled and aching. one, then turned to the man's sweet-faced daughter, and with tears coursing down his cheeks silently took off his battered cap, finding speech at the moment impossible. Boston Post. Prevention of Many of the Cold Weather Skin-Troubles. It is natural that persons with delicate, thin skins should suffer more or less discomfort in the winter, and when to a delicate skin is added a poor general circulation the suffering may be serious. Mucus may be done to reduce this suffering to a minimum in the case of persons who are not obliged to expose themselves to the elements in all weather, and even those who are much exposed may help their condition by observing a few simple rules. The greatest anboyance in damp, cold countries, in England especially, is the chilblain. In most parts of America the very cold weather is also dry and this particular horror does not flourish. The hands and feet are the parts most generally affected, by chilblain, which is a sort of miniature frostbite. The intolerable itching which is associated with it is one of the most trying symptoms. It often leads to such vigorous scratching that the skin is broken and ulceration results; but with the warm and dry American domicile there need not be fear of this particular form of skin trouble. Some persons always develop skin troubles in a prolonged spell of very cold weather, and all very delicate skins will suffer from harsh and bitter cold winds. Persons who are subject to any form of eczema are especially liable to an attack in cold weather. There are many simple precautions which no one of ordinary intelligence should neglect. Take, for example, the simplest form of all cold weather skin bothers, chapped hands. Many persons will say, "My hands always chap dreadfully in cold weather," and if cross-examined these same people seem to regard the chapping as an inevitable condition from which there is no escape. Let such persons try the following simple treatment; Never wash the hands in very cold or very hot water. Use a simple, pure, superfatted soap, dry very thoroughly and apply some emollient; the old-fashioned glycerine and rose water will often work as well as anything; In some cases it will be better not to use soap in any form and to substitute oatmeal. The hands should always be well covered when' in the open air. If to this is added proper exercise, in order that the circulation may be good, there will be no chapped hands. The same rules apply to the face and to the skin generally; thorough protection by the clothing, care in bathing, with the use of an emollient all the time, and a good general circulation.—Youth's Companion. FOR CHAPPED HANDS. Something Unusual. Something Unusual. He hunted through the library, He looked behind the door, He searched where baby keeps his toys up on the nursery floor. He was in the Mary, He called mamma to look, He even started sister up To leave her story book.. Contundrums. When are men like grain? Ans.—When bearded. What gates are like church bells? Ans.—Toll gates. When are dogs like hens? Ans.—When setters. When is a glass jar like a mischievous boy? Ans.—When full of capers. When are snow and wood allike? Ans.—When drifting. When is an egg like a defeated army? Ans.—When beaten.—Washington Star. Central Park Squirrels. I am going to tell you about the dear little squirrels that have their home in Central Park. Every Sunday morning, I go over to see and feed the squirrels. They are the faintest and prettiest little creatures I have ever seen, and when I feed them they come right up on the bench I am sitting on and take the peanuts I give them and go right away and bury them. Last Sunday one of them came right up on my lap and took the nut I gave him and ran away and buried it. The next minute he came right up on my lap again, popped his head in the bag of nuts that was lying there and took a peanut. It is very interesting to watch them go and bury their nuts in many different places.—Violet MacQueen, in the New York Tribune. Cork Trees. We have many different kinds of forests in our own country, but to see cork trees growing we have to journey to other lands. In southern Spain there are many of these evergreen oaks which give great quantities of cork. Stoppers for bottles, shoe poles, hat linings, lifebelts and jackets used to keep people from drowning, cork arms and legs for people who have lost their own limbs and many other things used every day are made from the bark of the cork trees. When a tree is fifteen or twenty years old its outer layer of bark is cut off, for then the tree is thirty-or forty feet high. From that time on every eight or ten years the bark is removed, and, instead of growing poorer, it grows better with each cutting. Usually the trees live to be over 150 years old, so you see each tree gives a great deal of cork. In July or August, for that is the cutting season, the bark is stripped from the trees by girdling the trunks with a knife just above the roots and just below the branches. The great wrapping of each tree is then divided into sections by lengthwise cuts, but the inner bark is never split, for then the tree would be injured. The sections of bark are pried off very carefully, then soaked in water and scraped and cleaned. After this the cork is heated so that the large pores will be closed and then the cork is pressed on a flat surface. In olden times corks used to be cut by hand from the sheet of cork, but now machines do the work much better and without so much waste.—Washington Star. Dolly's Visit to the Country. Dolly's Visit to the Country Dolly was such a dear little girl, just like so many other little girls one sense everywhere one goes. She lived with her parents in a big, big town, where there were no cows nor pigs nor chickens nor colts nor calves. And as Dolly had never been in the country, she had never made the acquaintance of cows, calves, colts and chickens. So you will understand why she was so easily frightened by such creatures when she did see them for the first time. One fine winter's day Dolly's papa said to her mamma: "Don't you want to make a little visit to your parents out in Ohio?" "Oh, dear, yes; if we can afford the expense," replied Dolly's mamma eagerly, her face aglow with anticipation. It had been nive years since she had seen her parents. And one good old folks had never seen her little daughter, Dolly. aop beekml...k' oin un ununumm "Yes, business is picking up, now." explained Dolly's papa, who was just the best man in the world—or one of the best. He always wanted his wife and little daughter to have the very best of everything he could afford-to give them. "But he'll be so busy at the office all day that he'll not miss her so much. It will be of evenings that he'll say, 'Oh, where is my little Dolly tonight?' And won't Dolly miss papa, too?" Dolly nodded her head emphatically, and sliding from her chair, cropt into her father's arms to be kissed and patted on the head. After a few days' preparation, mamma and Dolly started to the old home "out in. Ohio," and as papa kissed them goodbye at the railroad platform, Dolly cried out: "Oh, let's hurry, mamma, or the big shu-shu train, will do off an' leave us." And on the train, Dolly had such a lovely time. Ever so, many big men stopped in the dishe of the car to pat her on the head and say: "Hello, little girl!" And Dolly would always bow and say very respectfully: "Howdy do, srl." And many ladies would speak to her as she went up and down the car, asking her name and her age and saying the pretty things ladies always say to such dear little girls. And so you will see that Dolly was quite the center of attraction in the big car as she rode along to the state where grandpapa and grandmamma lived. And at the last station of their journey Dolly was happier than ever, for there were grandpapa and grandmama, whom she had never seen before. And the dear old folks hugged Dolly, so tightly that she almost lost her breath, and she had to say: "Oh, gran-papa, you are huggin' me like a big bear!" Then the joyous ride in the sleigh—for a fine, deep snow lay over the ground—to the old farm miles from the station. Wasn't it just too jolly in a sleigh and the sleigh bells jingling? Oh! Dolly was too happy to tell about! And pretty soon they drew up in front of the big farmhouse—such a big house! It was quite wonderful to Dolly. Why, the sitting room they went into could have held all their city flat and had room to spare. And there was the kitchen! Did any one ever see such a kitchen? Why, it was ever and ever so much bigger than Dolly's home kitchen, dining room and some other rooms combined. Dolly felt that she'd get lost in such a big house. And at the long table for dinner! Dolly sat with eyes and mouth open, wondering at everything. Then after dinner—the very best Dolly had ever eaten—Dolly was taken out to have a walk about the barnyard. Her mamma' stayed indoors to talk with her grandmamma, so Dolly went out with grandpapa alone. At first she was a bit afraid of the pigs in the pens, for they came right toward her grunting and grunting as if to say, "Ugh! We'll eat you up!" Ugh! We'll eat you up!" But the wonder of wonders were the cows and calves. "Why, the calves are little cows, aren't they, grandpapa?" asked Dolly. "Yes, just as my little girl is a little woman," laughed grandpapa. Then grandpapa told Dolly to stay beside the barn door while he went around to see if the old brindle cow was in the pasture behind the cow sheds. "Till be right back, honey," he said. "The snow is too deep for you to come with me." So Dolly remained where grandpapa had left her, wondering at all she saw. Oh, how far she could look. Away over the land to some houses—farms like grandpapa's—in the distance. But just as Dolly was thinking that that she would like to go to the distant hills and farmhouses, too, she heard a funny noise at her side, and quickly looking round she beheld a terrible sight. A great monster of a bird was standing looking right at her, saying "Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!" And behind him came some other birds, only not quite so tall, and they said "Quack, quack, quack!" And the "gobble, gobble" and the "quack, quack" "frightened Dolly very much. Oh, what shall I do?" she cried, trembling in every limb. "I wonder if they'll eat me up! I wonder if they are as wicked as bears an tigera? Oh! mamma! Oh! grandpapa! Oh! gran-tamma! Somebody come an take me to the house! Oh! I'm so afraid!" But just at this minute grandpapa came round the side of the barn, and, seeing the terror depicted on Dolly's face, he said: "Why, dearle chile, don't be afraid of them. They are our nice, friendly fat turkeys and ducks. That big fellow who is talking to you—the one who says 'gobble, gobble'—is the old turkey gobbler. He's the king of the barnyard. All the chickens, ducks and his own immediate family are gulded by him. He's a great gobbler." "Well, he may be nice, grandpapa," said Dolly, standing very close to grandpapa for protection, "but I don't like his looks, nor his voice. An I don't like the fat ones, either." By the "fat ones" Dolly designated the ducks. "Well, we'll see how you like them later on, when they are baked brown and juicy in the oven, with fancy dressing," said grandpapa—Washington Star. Musk Ox Robe. Many musk ox robes are in use in the province of Ontario for cold weather driving. They are rare and too costly to be common. I know of none being exported, from the district to the United States. No more luxurious robe can be had than the musk ox. Its long, woolly fur, some of it measuring fourteen inches long, defies the savperst cold—Fur News. Dr. Max, Wolf, of, Heidelberg, to whom astronomy owes the discovery, by the aid of photography, of thirty-six new asteroids, has himself never seen a single one of these little planets. He has only looked upon the images of the stars, discovered by him, leaving to other "searchers of the sky," the pleasure of viewing them through telescopes. Dr. Schlick's apparatus for pigeventing ships from rolling at sea has lately given fresh proof of its ability. One of his gyroscopes has been fitted on board the mail steamer Lochiel. While the vessel was rolling 161-2 degrees on each side, through a total angle of 33 degrees, the gyroscope was started, and immediately decreased the total angle of roll to 3 degrees. The apparatus is driven electrically and requires little attention. Preece has calculated that an audible sound is produced in a telephone by a current of 6 by 10-13 amperes, and Pellat has calculated that a sound is produced by a difference of potential between the two stations, amounting to only 1-2000 volt. These statements give some idea of the great sensitiveness of the modern telephone, but the sensitiveness of the human ear, which perceives the invisible vibration of the telephone diaphragm, is no less remarkable.—Scientific American. Bread made of cotton seed flour was exhibited on the board of trade recently by Charles Stearn. It is the first of its kind ever shown here and was a decided novelty. The bread, although ten days old, was sweet and nice, and resembled brown bread, being one of the best imitations of Boston brown bread that has been seen. The cotton seed flour was ground and the bread baked at Ennis, Tex. The flour can be had at $20 a ton, or 11-2 cents a pound. People in Texas are booming it as a substitute for wheat flour.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The use of the gas furnace for forging, tempering and hardening steel is spreading among the workshops where cutlery and tools are made. The old 'hearths' are disappearing, replaced by small, clean gas furnaces, which are not only economical in space and cost of running, and comparatively clean and neat, but furnish a uniform temperature of any desired degree, thus avoiding damage to the steel through 'burning,' or irregularity of temperature. The working of the furnaces is economical, because the gas can be cut off the moment the operation is finished. RAILROAD 'PHONES A SUCCESS. New System of Train Dispatching Extended to Main-Line. Such great success has, attended the use of the telephone in lieu of the telegraph in handling trains on the Mahanoy & Hazleton division of the Lehigh Valley railroad that the system has been extended to the main line between Easton and Penn Haven Junction, Pa. The movement of trains is smoother and more rapid, it is asserted by the company's officials, than it was when the dispatching was done by telegraph. There also are fewer interruptions between the train dispatcher and the offices along the line. When it first was suggested that the telegraph be done away with and the telephone used to regulate the movements of trains there were many railroad officials who were skeptical. Official announcement was made yesterday that the new system of dispatching not only has met but actually has exceeded the hopes of the most enthusiastic friends of the telephone in that connection. As rapidly as it can be done the use of the 'phone will be extended on the system. It has cost the Lehigh Valley about $30,000 to equip the 152 miles of line already covered by the 'phone service. One of the fine features of the service is that the dispatcher may talk directly with the engineer and the conductor of a train. Thus fewer mistakes are made. It is one of the rules that he numbers of trains and engines and the names of stations not only must be pronounced distinctly, but afterward spelled out in full. The telegraph facilities still are used for purposes not connected with train handling—New York Press. Rise of Lady Tree. Lady Tree, upon whom congratulations are being showered no less heavily than upon her husband, Sir Herbert Beebohm Tree, has in her time played many parts and is even more versatile than the new theatrical knight himself. For, having had a brilliant career at Queen's college, she began life as a classical tutor there; then she made a reputation for herself as Miss Helen Maude, an amateur actress. Finally she achieved brilliant success as a Shakespearean actress, as a comedienne and as the female villain in melodrama. Lady Tree is a brilliant Greek scholar, one of the wittiest women speakers in England, a good musician and a skillful néeedwoman, while she wields with no small skill the pencil and the brush. —Lady's Pictorial. Consul Felix S. S. Johnson, of Bergen, reports that on September 30, 1909, the population of Norway was 2,363,511. The number of births for the third quarter of 1909 was 10,195, against 9,650 and 8,299 for the same periods in 1908 and 1907. Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter. Advertising rates given on application. Entered at the Post Office at Savannah, Ga. as Second-Class mail matter. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1910 CONVICTS in stripes should be denied the freedom of the city. On mostly any occasion one or more of these zebras can be seen darting into some dive or holding an impromptu reception on a street corner. In certain localities a large number of homes of our people can be found. Many of them are badly in need of paint or white wash. Our people must learn to keep their property in decent repair and use the paint brush unstintingly. Beautify the homes inside and have the outside made attractive. THERE are a number of dives and loafing places in the city that should be cleaned out and the habitutes be made to work either for themselves or for the county. These dives are the breeding places of criminals. Another thing the police should keep the loafers off of the street corners, especially where the pool rooms and near beer saloons are located. An ordinance has been introduced to compell all washer women to be licensed. Alderman Barrow is in favor of inspecting the homes before issuing license in order to prevent the spreading of tuberculosis. How about the tuberculosis home from where the wash may come? It is painful to note that our churches with about one or two exceptions paid not the least attention to the proclamation issued by the President of the United States and the Governor of this state, for the observance of Tuberculosis Sunday and the appeal for charitable donations to fight the white plague. This disease affect our people more than any other classs, and if for nothing else, our ministers and leading ones should be interested, and readily respond in order to wipe it out. Our people must become more public spirited and be inclined to help every movement for public good. Given New Trial. The Supreme Court has granted a new trial to Brunswick McRae. If it were not for Lawyer Oliver's efforts in his behalf, no doubt he would have been sent to his doom long ago. In Behalf of Tuskegee. In Befair of Tuskegee. Prof. Cicero C. Simmons, Southern soliciting agent for Tuskegee Institute is visiting Savannah this week in the interest of the institute. Prof. Simmons travels extensively through the South. He is a representative type of what Tuskegee stands for. He was attentively listened to by a large audience at St. Philip Church last Sunday night which showed appreciation of his work by giving him a liberal collection. On Sunday at eleven o'clock at St. John Baptist Church, he will again talk of Tuskegee, its work and its needs. He will also speak at the Men's Sunday Club in the afternoon. Like all large institutions it takes a vast amount of money to meet the expenses at Tuskegee and Prof. Simmons is trying to discourage the idea that Tuskegee is immensely wealthy and does not need the support of the public. After a recent visit in Jacksonville, Fla., the Florida Times Union, a white paper spoke most favorably of Prof. Simmons, highly commending his work and stated that in that state he had raised upwards of eight thousand dollars. On Monday night May second there will be an Educational Mass Meeting at First African Baptist Church in interest of Tuskegee Institute. St. Mary's Dots. Mrs. M A Harris left last Thursday for Jacksonville, where she will spend a while with relatives and friends. Mr R L Davis of Brunswick, Ga was a pleasant visitor last week. He is one of the old home boys and we are always glad to have him visit us. The stork continues to make his monthly visit. He appeared recently at the Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas Scott with a vower to 1931. Mother and son are doing nicely Mr C J Harris left on Tuesday for Jacksonville, Pla. He will accompany his mother home. The farmers in this section are much worried over the front this week. Prof Washington returned home on Monday last after its absence of two weeks in the city. Prof Washington is much pleased with the progress made by the teachers and pupils during his absence. The school in charge of Mrs Laurs E Dallas and Mrs Minnie L King, musical instructor, have the commencement program well in hand. The watchword is "Commencement" May the 29, 30, and 31st. Yours. (Meddler) The Trouble Tuesday Night Could Have Been Averted. The occurrence on the East side on Tuesday night is still fresh in the minds of the people. It could have been averted if the man Jones had peacefully submitted to arrest, and today he would not have been a near-murderer and a fugitive from justice, the policeman would not have been in the hospital, and Mr. Ed. Williams would have been free of any charge. The action of Jones for insulting the two colored girls, and the shooting down of the policeman who went to arrest him, is severely condemned, and every colored citizen is anxious for his apprehension, legal trial and severe punishment. The white man who without authority, attempted to hold the colored man and girl, is to be blamed for the second part of, this regrettable affair. He had no business laying hands on innocent persons, and had he waited for the arrival of an officer and had the parties pointed out and if necessary placed under arrest, the policemen would not have been hurt and Mr. Williams would not have been accused. It is understood that all good citizens should aid the officers of the law when necessary, but the action of some of them in instances like the above is liable to be misunderstood. To avoid unnecessary trouble it would be well for them to use discretion. Mr. Williams claims that he did not cut the policemen. Be it as it may, whoever did it was not justified. Our people must understand that matters not how unjust the charge may be; whenever they are apprehended by an officer, they must peacefully submit to arrest. If this advice be followed much trouble would be averted. The entire affair is regretted, because such tends to create race feeling. The relation between the races in this city is more cordial than anywhere else, and THE TRIBUNE and all good citizens desire a continuation of the same. Ministers Union. The Evangelical Ministers Union met in St Phillip A M E Church with Dr RH Singleton in the chair. Devotional service was conducted by Rev RG Jefferson. After singing and prayer the 8th Chapter of Roman was read. The Union chanted "Jesus Lover of My Soul" Sermonic Reports were given by P E B. S Hannah and Dr P W Greatheart. The Union offered commendation and thanked these distinguished dylines for such able sermons. Or L A Townsley thanked the Union for the interest taken in his rally. The Union will meet next Tuesday at the First Congregational Church. Second Baptist Church. Meeting closed this week, and there will be baptism tomorrow night, also the second Sunday at eleven o'clock. The sick list is larger this week; Brothers Nelson and Harris are quite sick. Four funerals during the week; two being members of this church; Sisters Hattie Baker and Polly Garrett who were baptized by Dr J J Durham twelve years ago. The Sunday school is launching to do some real repair work on the church basement. The W H and F M Society will have an important meeting tomorrow morning. Rev B S Hannah of the A M E Church preached an excellent sermon to our meeting last week. All rally clubs unreported are urged to report tomorrow. The pastor's rally is continued also tomorrow. An important business meeting will be held Monday night to which every member is invited. Delegates will be elected to the State Convention in this meeting. Sunday school at the regular hour. St. Phillip nots. Rey J A Capps, local deacon preached at 11am on last Sunday. His subject was "Love and belief" St. John 3:16. It is a source of pleasure to hear Rey Capps His discourses are plain and practical. After the sermon two adults were added to the church. Bishop C S Smith did not arrive on Sunday, official business connected with the church kept him away as was explained in several letters read by Rev bishopton from the bishop before services on Sunday. Every member who intend to do their duty in the building of St Philips are up and a doing. Remember the first rally comes on Sunday May 2nd. If your name is not on the subscription booster by tomorrow night the it will remain off until after the rally. A funny concert and Tom Thumb wedding will be given at St Philips on Monday May and admission 10 cents; reserve seats 15 cents. Come rain or shine. Rey Singleton preached a wonderful sermon on Sunday night to a large audience and it was a sermon that stirred every heart and put the sinner to thinking and ask "Where I should eternity" The congregation of St Philips attended the rally at the Monumental Church on last Sunday afternoon and out of some seven or more churches represented St Philips lead with a collection of $25.00 towards the Monumental rally. They tells us that they are going to do great things at St Philips rally on May 2nd. The travelling representative of the Tuskegee Institute was at St Philips on Sunday night and gave quite an interesting talk along the progressive and educational lines that our race is making. A collection of $5.00 was given him for the advancement of the cause of which St Philip will get credit. A trip around the world or a trottler star ride will be given for the 'benefit of St. Philippe' building fund 'on Monday night. May 16th you will see bills and tickets for further, information or the committee S J Howard, W J Williams, T Y Simmons, R W Cole or R H. Singleton. Our district steward in the company of Bro R L Barnes made a growing report from the West Savannah District which conveyed at Metter, Ga on Thursday of last week. Brother Barnes made a creditable representative. Every member that have not been attending church and not doing their duty toward the church had better do so because the axe is beginning to chop all, dead limbs, so the body of the church will grow as it should. A hint to the wile is suffice. Our monthly love feast was held on last Friday night. The following services will be held tomorrow: prayer meeting at 5:30 a m; preaching, baptism of children and adults at 11 a m. Sunday school at 2:45 A C E League at 4:35 preaching at 8 p m. Strangers are always welcome. F B B Church. Those who attended church on Sunday morning heard an able discourse on "Baptism" by Licentiate Charlie Wright. The choir sang "Sing and Rejoice." Rev Wright led the hymn "Amazing grace how sweet it sounds," and quite a number came forward and bowed at the mercy's seat. Prayer was offered in their behalf. The baptism was very touching especially when a poor sick man was brought to the pool by his friends who assisted Rev Wright in baptizing him. Though very ill, he insisted on being baptized. His communion was taken to his home in the afternoon and immediately after it was given him, he passed to a better world from which travelers never return. At night Rev Wright read for the lesson, 34th Ps. The text was from Acts 3:6, subject "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise." The sermon was excellent and filled with beautiful thoughts, and was evidently enjoyed by the very large crowd. The choir sang the sweet medley "Nearer my God th Thee." Rev Wright led the hymn "Did Christ o'er sinners weep." He invited those that felt the need of prayer to the mercy seat. A large crowd bowed and prayer was offered. We are still having our revival and will be pleased to have you come down. St. Benedict's Church. Greeting and Frost. Broad routes. Gaston and East Broad streets. Sunday May 1. Fifth Sunday after Easter and Feast of St. Philip and St. James. First mass at 7 a.m with a short instructnct; second mass at 8 a.m. High mass and sermon at 10:30 a.m. Rev. Gustave Obrecht will preach on the Gospel of the day. Evening devotions at 8 p.m consisting of rosary, sermon, procession and benediction. Father Dah lent will preach the sermon, the subject will be "Catholic devotion to Mary, the Mother of God." The Catholic church has consecrated the beautiful month of May in honor of the Blessed Virgin, and the month of May is therefore called the month of Mary. On the first Sunday of the month, we have the May Procession in which the children take part. The May procession is an old custom and has been instituted in honor of Mary. As on a special occasions our men parade in the streets of the city to honor the memory of some great man, so the memory of May our children was the mother of our Sister. In the May procession children of all religious denominations may take part; they must be dressed in white and be in the school rooms at 7:30 p.m next evening; the rooms at 7:30 p.m next place inside the church. Next Thursday will be the Feast of the Ascension, the day on which our Blessed Lord returned into heaven. For us Catholics, Ascension day is a Holy, day of obligation. Every faith is bound to hear mass and to abstain, as much as possible from service work. The masses will be at 6, 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning. Tomorrow the May number of St. Benedict's Messenger will be given out; it contains in interesting reading matter; we recommend especially to the attention of the reader to the article concerning "Our Schools." The Sacrament of Confirmation will be solemnly administered in our church Sunday, May 8th by Right Rev. Bishop Kelly. It will be the last solemn function during the current ecclesiastical year, and a large attendance is expected for the occasion. Two weddings took place last week; one at Wilmington Island and the other St. Benedict's rectory; guess who were the happy couple? Father Obrecht tied the knot on both occasions. St James Dots. Each service was well attended on last Sunday. Rev P W Greathearne preached a very interesting sermon at 11 a.m. Sunday school began promptly at 3:30 and, ACE League at 5 p.m and at 8:30 p.m the pastor again delivered an able sermon. Tomorrow the following services will be held: Preaching at 11 a.m, Holy communion at 4 p.m and 8:30 p.m, Sunday school at 2:30 p.m, baptism at 11 a.m and 4:30 p.m. Tomorrow night will be the winding up of our revival. Mrs H T Lockhart, teacher of class No 4, entertained her scholars at her residence, 786 Gwinnett St E., on Wednesday day afternoon of last week. The class was organized into a literary society of which the following were elected officers: Misses Nancy Hannah, Pies; Wilhelmaena Alexander. See; Learthur Johnson, Ast Sec. Lottie Butler, treasurer; Julla Lightburn, chaplain and Lucile Coleman, critic. F. A. B. Church. A splendid audience greeted each service at the First Baptist church on last Sunday. The Rev G M Spratling of Brunswick, Ga., delivered an interesting and practical discourse at the morning service subject "The Dedication of a Great Image." A voluntary contribution was given him to aid in the Missionary work. The pastor, Rev WI Jones delivered an able sermon at the evening service from Isaiah 3:8 subject, "The Power of action, and Tongue." His sermon pictured very vividly the runed condition of Jerusalem, and the fall of Judah, because of the doings and togues of the people which were against the Lord, and hitherto provoked the eyes of His Glory. Several persons annexed themselves to the church by watch care membership at this service. The funeral of Sister Nettle Corbill, who resided at 915 West Broad street took place from this church on last Tuesday. The pastor assisted by a visiting ministers onlated. Tomorrow will be our communion day, we invite you to be present. Baptism after 11 o'clock service; Communion at 3:30 p.m and preaching at 8:30 p.m. The pastor made a flying trip to Alamia, (Ga., his former home; during last week and returned on Saturday morning. The members are still paying their tally money. Have you paid yours? If not you still owe it. Monumental Notes Monumental Notes. The rally is over and $5.600 was raised up to Tuesday night. At last the old mother church is free and out of debt so far as the mortgage is concern. We wish to thank the various pastors and their congregations for their liberality in our great struggles, viz. R. R. H singleton, D D, pastor St. Philip A M E church $2.600. Rev. B J Ross, D D, pastor Bethel A M E church $7.55, Rev. E B Brown, D D, Gaines Chapel 5.50, P W Greatheart, D D, St. James 3.00, I T Griber 4.01, J Lennon 4.10, W A Daughtry 8.11, Daniel Wright 5.00, J S Irby 1.00, Haywood Friendship Baptist Church 3.55, Stewardess Board B 3.00, Stewardess Board A 16.00, Auxiliary Board 30.00, Parsonage Aid Board 15.00, Pulpit Board 8.70, Sunday school 10.69, public collection 16.05, Rev. L A Townsley's club 66.25. J S Daniels alias "Old Joe," banner class leader of the church, led again in every respect, paying $6.20 himself, his class $22.50. Rev. J. H Este of Fitzgerald, Ga. preached two able sermons at 11 o'clock a m and at 8 p.m. Rev. P. W. Greatheart preached at 3:30 p.m. The various ministers and their congregations mentioned above were present. Monday night the children of the *bunday school* had a grand parade with flags and banners. The program was grand; the recitations of Misses Rosalie Carrol and Grace Bell Rhodes well quite a feature, but the best of all was the mortgage burning. Every department of the church stuck fire to it, two of the trustees held the tin pan while Bro. J. W Love furnished the match and shater Harriet Steward lit the light and the mortgage was burned. The pastor worked hard as also did Misses H B Love and J V Drayton in training the Sunday school children in their parts for Monday night. It was done in one week. A De Wolf Hopper Song Free. By special arrangement with the publishers of the music from the new song play, "A matinee Idol," in which De Wolf Hopper is now appearing at Daly's Theatre, New York City, the New York World will publish next Sunday, May 1, the words and music of De Wolf Hopper's new comic song, "Nonsense," which is making a tremendous hit in the clay. As the demand for copies of next Sunday's World will be very large, owing to this unusual musical treat in store for its readers, it will be wise for all who desire to obtain the song to order next Sunday's World in advance from their news-dealers. Just a Hint to Pleasure Neekers. For the benefit of our many friends who do not like to mingle with the busy throng of reckless people who swarm all parks and boat excursions only to a annoy the ladies and their children and deprive them of their pleasure of which they are in search of, we, The Apollo Dancing Academy have co-operated with The Apollo Orchestra and will open a complete Dancing Academy on Friday May 6th, afternoon and night at Masonic Temple and will continue until September. We will furnish all convenience-such as fans, water and other necessities free. Notice. We do not intend to worry the patience of our patrons out only teaching. We will teach only one hour and the rest of the afternoon or evening will be taken up in dancing. Admission for Grand Opening will be 10 cents afternoon and 25 cents night. General admission will be 10 cents afternoon and 15 cents night. We have also connection with the National Board of Dancers who will furnish us with all the late dances Mr. Carl M. Hankinson, Dance Master. Jno. A. Munain, Music Director. MISS LULA CULBREATH, Hair Dresser and Straightening. She tells her own hair grower, grease which will grow hair on any bald head Shampoo the hair and massage the face. She makes you beautiful. Give me a call ladies and I will dress your hair and face in any style. Miss Lula Culbreath, 554 Stewart Street West. THE YOUNG BROS. HAS II At 509 West Broad St. You will find a nice line of fresh Fruits, Candies, Cigars, Ice Cream and Cold Drinks. At 552 West Huntingdon St. You will find a full supply of Staple and Fancy GROCERIES. They make you SPECIAL PRICES on GROCERIES. Call and see them. Martin Alston & Bro. Dealers in GROCCERIES and GENERAL MERCHANDISE FIRST CLASS Boarding and Lodging Meals at all hours at Restaurant. Bluffton, S. C. P. B. RAY TAILORING DRY AND STEAM CLEANING Ladies work a Specialty. Hats Cleaned and Reblocked. BELL PHONE 2050 N. W. Corner JEFFERSON and BERRIEN Sts., Savannah, Georgia. "C. C. C." on Every Tablet. Every tablet of Cascarets Candy Cathartic bears the famous C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. Look for it and accept no other. Beware of fraud. All drugs, 200. For rent houses. Brand new houses on Joe Street and Joe St lane, between Harmon and Paulsen Sts. Water in each yard, running closets, fire-places in each room. $5.00 per month. Apply at 848 Joe St or to Savannah Trust Company, 13 Bay, east. Nicely furnished rooms can be had at 320 East Jones St., for gentlemen. Mrs Sarah Washigton. FIRST-CLSS RESTURANT 524 WEST BROAD ST. Good Meals Quick Lunches Served by Competent Help Open DAY and NIGHT Doc. Mordecai, Proprietor. SPRING Is here at last and we are happy we neglect ourselves. First you bones ache, your back aches, you not pure; take our advice and s We can get you right and in us and get one bottle of NYAL'S HOT SPRING. It is best because PATE sa PATE'S DR Cor Hall and West Broad Pho Do you own your home We are now giving you this home at WASHINGTON PARK, the Granger tract. When your will build for you The following have purchased lots from us and Edward Boozer, Mary E. Sherman Smith; C. D. Creswill, Macon, Northington, J. R. Middleton, S. Cooper, H. F. Skipper, R. L. Max Chas. Glover, Janie McGriff, G. rah Chisholm, Harry Akins, Am Brown, Jacksonville, Fla.; Those Larke, Jas. Patterson, R. W. Bry Harden, Edward Grant, Mamie S. Let our agent take you out to the just what you have been looking for WASHINGTON PARK 17 BAY STREET Geo. W. Jacobs, Agt. 623 ROAC For Men and The only strictly in the These goods bear the are the equal of am Shoe on the market. 120 WHITAKE POLITE ATTENTION SPRINGTIME We are happy but we will not be happy long if we are. First your system is full of malaria, your back aches, your appetite is bad, your blood is for advice and save a doctor's bill. Right and in good shape for $1.00. Come to the little of HOT SPRING BLOOD REMEDY, because PATE says so. ATE'S DRUG STORE Broad Phone 660 Opposite Pekin Theatre In your home, if not, why not? Having you this great opportunity to secure a BOTTON PARK near Dale avenue, just beyond when your lot is paid for, if you desire why. The following names are some of the few who from us and are going to build: M. L. Horne, Mary E. Sherman, Duncan Pringle, Dr. Geo. W.rill, Macon, Ga; Weston. B. Butler, J. M. Middleton, S. F. H. Phillips, J. G. Lemon, R. M. Perer, R. L. Maxwell, J. G. Geter, Lawrence-Sales, McGriff, G. B. Ferguson, Frances Smith, Sally Akins, Annie Deas; Otis Brown, Rachel Fla.; Thos. Simmons, Julia Edwards, M. J. Jon, R. W. Bryant, Edward J. Bryant, Nellie Grant, Mamie Sales, Noah McGriff, Ella Brown, you out to the property. You will find it to be been looking for. This is your opportunity. BOTTON PARK COMPANY 17 BAY STREET, East. 623 West Broad Street or Phone 2098 ACH $3.00 SHOES Men and Women Strictly $3.00 Shoe Store in the city. Goods bear the Union Label and are equal of any $3.50 or $4.00 in the market. WHITAKER STREET. ATTENTION TO COLORED TRADE. SPRINGTIME Is here at last and we are happy but we will not be happy long if we neglect ourselves. First your system is full of malaria, your bones ache, your back aches, your appetite is bad, your blood is not pure; take our advice and save a doctor's bill. Cor Hall and West Broad Phone 660 Opposite Pekin Theatre We are now giving you this great opportunity to secure a home at WASHINGTON PARK near Dale avenue, just beyond the Granger tract. When your lot is paid for, if you desire we will build for you. The following names are some of the few who have purchased lots from us and are going to build: M. L. Horne, Edward Boozer, Mary E. Sherman, Duncan Pringle, Dr. Geo. W. Smith; C. D. Creswill, Macon, Ga; Weston. B. Butler, J. M. Northington, J. R. Middleton, S. F. H. Phillips, J. G. Lemon, R. M. Cooper, H. F. Skipper, R. L. Maxwell, J. G. Geter, Lawrence-Sales, Chas. Glover, Janie McGriff, G. B. Ferguson, Frances Smith, Sarah Chisholm, Harry Akins, Annie Desis; Otis Brown, Rachell Brown, Jacksonville, Fla.; Thos. Simmons, Julia Edwards, M. J. Larke, Jas. Patterson, R. W. Bryant, Edward J. Bryant, Nellie Harden, Edward Grant, Mannie Sales, Noah McGriff, Ella Brown. Let our agent take you out to the property. You will find it to be just what you have been looking for. This is your opportunity. Geo. W. Jacobs, Agt. 623 West Broad Street or Phone 2098 ROACH $3.00 SHOES For Men and Women "Now Listen" HUTSON'S Cures Chills, Fever, La Grippie you fine appetite, get all the takes the ache out of you. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 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LOUISVILLE, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY and all points in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee North and Northwest, South and Southwest. WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS, City Pass; and Ticket Agent. The Real Ice Cream Man Phone 2685-J Ice cream served free to ladies every Friday from 6 to 7 pm Collier-Cary. A very pretty home wedding was that of Miss Ada Collier and Mr. T. R. Cary of Washington. D. C., at the residence of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Collier on Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. H. May of the Second Baptist Church. The entire lower floor of the handsome and spacious home was thrown open and decorated with palms forming a beautiful arch around which the wedding party grouped. The party entered the parlor to the strains of a pretty wedding march played by Miss Georgia Hurd. Preceeding the bride. Master Woodruff N. Clarke was the first to enter bearing the ring on a silver waiter. Mrs. Selika Courtney, matron of honor was next, wearing a white lingerie gown and carrying pink carnations tied with pink satin ribbon. And then the bride came wearing a charming white lingerie gown, lace-trimmed and carrying a shower bouquet of white carnations, was met by the groom and his best man Mr. Joseph Grimes. Following the ceremony and after congratulations the attendants and guests were served to delightful refreshments. The bride was the recipient of many handsome presents. Mr. and Mrs. Cary will reside in Washington, D. C. after June 1st. Services at Congregational Church. In compliance with the tuberculosis proclamation issued by the President and the Governor, naming last Sunday as Tuberculosis Sunday, at which time the pastors of the various churches were requested to take cognizant of the same in their sermons, etc., Rev. W. L. Cash, the pastor, preached a thoughtful sermon along that line. A collection of $5.10 was turned over for the fighting of this dreadful disease. To-morrow morning services will be held at 11 o'clock. The pastor will preach and there will be christening of infants. At evening service communion will be administered, and several members will be received into the church. The usual collection will be taken for charitable purposes. The public is invited to attend. Local Dots. Hymes K and B Falls, try them for Mr. H. W. Williams of Screven County, spent last Tuesday in the city among his friends. Miss Elizabeth Wilson is in the city for a short while after spending the winter at Palm Beach, Fla. The Inter-denominational Ministers Union will meet at the First Congregational Church next Tuesday May 3rd at 11 o'clock a. m. The many friends of Mr Arthur Marshall, who has been ill over two weeks, are very sorry indeed to hear of it, and wish him a speedy recover. McFall's Ice Cream Parlor. Pure (trut Ice Creams and Sherbets by the quart or gallon. Oysters in season Hot and Cold Lunches Fish suppers on short notice. Phone 4033. Orders promptly filled, 815 East Broad St., Savannah, Ga. Col. F. B. Pettie was admitted to practice in the U. S. Court by Judge Speer on the 20th of this month. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Aiken desire to kindly express thanks to the members of the Brotherhood Union and Branch who donated to the surprise given them on Monday night of last week. The many friends of Miss Florence E. Floyd and Mr. Benjamin D. Green will be pleased to learn of their marriage which took place March 14th. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Singleton of St. Philips A. M. E. Church. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Floyd of Jacksonville, Fla., have issued cards announcing the marriage of their daughter, Miss Sarah Rasalie to Dr. W. C. Small, which occurred April 14. 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. The musicale and recital at Masonic Temple, Tuesday night, was a success. The attendance was large and the participants did well. Following was the program: Opening, Imperial Quartette; solo, Mr. J. E. Johnson; oration, "Incidents of Late War," Miss M. E. Williams; selection, Forest City Quartette; contralto solo, Mrs. Jennie Collins; duet, Messrs. J. E. Johnson and John Graham; recitation, Mr. E. W. Sherman; selection, Imperial Quartette; solo, Miss Mae Stewart; recitation, Mrs. Nona M. Mitchell; solo, Mrs. Jennie Blake; duett, Mrs. Rosa Stevens and Mrs. E. R. Dennis; remarks, quartette "The Fortune Teller," Mrs. Jennie Blake, Miss Etta McIntosh, Messrs. John Graham and J. E. Johnson. Mr. Chas. H. Anderson, master of ceremonies. The service of the participants is heartily appreciated and especially that of Mr. Anderson. McFall's Ice Cream Parlor. Pure frul Ice Creams and sherbets by the quart or gallon. Oysters in season. Hot and Cold Lunches. Fish suppers on short notice. Phone 4038 Orders promptly filled. 815 East Broad St., Savannah, Ga. Mrs. James Willis has been spending the winter with her sister Mrs. L. Swinson on Taylor street, east. She is past matron of Eureka Chapter of New Haven Connecticut, and was the guest of Mrs. S. T. Emery at Electa Chapter meeting on last Tuesday night. She made a pleasant address. The members were glad to meet her. She would be glad to meet the members of the order. 88 Tonic cures Chill and Fever. 7 Hymes K. and B. Pills, try them for Kidney complaints. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stephens entertained a party of friends with a social at their residence 522 Maple street on Wednesday night. The evening was pleasantly spent in games and music after which refreshments were served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Lockley, Mr. and Mrs. S. King, Miss Ella Fields, Mrs. Slocum, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. M. Ferrell, Mrs. E. Huger, Mrs. Galliard, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Messrs. I. C. Butler and William Armstrong. Miss Essie L. Spaulding closed her school at Ways Station on 8th inst., after teaching a successful term. A large crowd witnessed the exercise. Among the visitors of the city were Miss Georgie Campbell, and of Belfast, Ga. Mrs. Holman Normon, and Miss Lizzie Cannon, teacher. The program was well rendered. A short talk was made by Mrs. Lizzie Cannon, and a paper by Miss L. D. Campbell, which was enjoyed by all. After the exercise, refreshments were served and each departed to their various homes well pleased. Silver Star Temple No. 16, U. B. of A., entertained at 519 East Hall street, April 22, in honor of Mrs. Agnes Watts, W. M., who left on Monday for New York. Those present were Mesdames Bessie E. Roberson, Ida H. Harrison, Berenza Pierce, Julia White, Elizabeth Haywood, Alice Seabrook, Matilda Baker, Misses Ella Roberson, Albertha Bacon, Marie Davis, Julia Baker, Lucile White, Annie Bell Harris, Messrs. Henry Jenkins, Henry Bayford, Sam Niles, John Waldburg; Sam Haywood, Robert Pierce, Middleton Edwards, Benj. Lambert. On Tuesday evening, the Rainbow Literary and Pleasure Club, entained with a social a few guests and its members at Morse's hall. The evening was pleasantly spent. The officers and members surprised their ex-president with a small token in appreciation of his faithful and efficient service. The expresident, Mr. E. C. Blackshear was very much surprised and also delighted. The president Mr. C. S. Lockett made the presentation. The following persons were present: Misses Claudia Rice, Ella Pope, Ethel Grant, Carrie Franks, Lula Hammil, Willie Grant, Messrs. C. Swift Lockett, E. C. Blackshear, C. Napoleon Walker, C. C. Cannal, Thos. Carter, James Maynor, J. W. Chancy, Jr., Wm. Heard, Hernon Morrell. Geo. Davidson and H. O. Pope. After an illness of ten days from appendicitis the spirit of little Amabel Matilda Curtright took its flight Monday last. All that lovinghands and medical skill could do for little "Tillie" as she was affectionately called, was done. During her illness she was constantly visited by Revs. Cannon, Blair, Wright, Boynton, Farmer, Singleton, Redd and other ministers. She was eighteen months old and an exceptionally bright child. The funeral was largely attended at the home. Rev. D. W. Cannon was master of ceremonies assisted by Revs. L. W. Boynton, Daniel Wright, Jas. M. Simms, L. L. Blair, Ives, and L. A. Townsley. The choir in charge of Miss Alice M. Ellis and Mr. C. F. Waters, assisted by others rendered the following selections, "Only Waiting" and "The Lord is My Shepherd" The interment was indeed effecting. While the state couch that held the remains of the infant was being lowered into the grave under a tent the choir sweetly sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," and "She sleeps in the Valley." The mound was completely covered with flowers. The funeral was conducted by Messrs. W. R. Fields, Albert Jackson and Prof. D. C. Suggs. For Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Winslows' Soothing Syrup has been used for over Fifty YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It Soothes the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAINS; CURSES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggist in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. 25c a bottle. who departed this life April 26, 1899. Years have passed since you left Your memory still lingers with me. I will not weep for you. For you are enjoying that peaceful rest, That Christ has given to His servants, Sleep on till Jesus bid you rise. And receive that fadeless crown. In remembrance of our beloved one SARAH A. ROUNDFIELD. who departed this life April 23rd, 1908 Thon wasn't ever dear to us We cannot but think of thee. And while we miss thy presence We doth ever seem to hear, Thy words of love and cheer. Though thon hast left us here Our joys shall be fulfilled, When we be joined again in heart And perfect like our Savior be, Shall meet around His throne. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. The Y L and G S Club will give a grand May trip to Bluffton, Sunday May 8th. Tickets so and 35 cents. On Monday May 16, J W Armstrong Lodge K of P and W D Armstrong Lodge No. 8048 G U Q of O F will give a Joint Annual Picnic at Styles Park. Cars leave Union Station at 6 and 8 p m reachi- g East Broad and Gwinnett at 6:25 and 8:15 p m. Tickets including care fare 25 cents. The May Queen Concert given by Voluntary Club No. 1 of Gaines Chapel, will take place May 16, at St. Philip Monumental Church. You will be entertained by some of the best local talent of the city. There is in store a great musical and literary treat. You are cordially invited. The grand opening of the Apollo Dancing Academy will take place at Masonic Temple Friday afternoon and night, May 6th. Tickets 10 and 25 cent. A nickel party will be given by the Ladies Aid at Masonic Temple Tuesday May 10th, 1910. A grand May hop will be given by Lone Star Lodge No 6 A O K of D at Harris Street Hall Monday, night, May 2nd. Tickets 25 and 10 cents. Chatham Lodge, 7864 of Odd Fellows, with its friends and well wishers will picnic at Styles Perk, Monday May 9th. Tickets, including car fare, 25 cents The Royal Blues Circle will give their last spring entertainment at Harris Si hall, Tuesday night May 3rd. Tickets 15 cents. The H L P Club will give their first annual dance at Masonic Temple, Monday night May 16th. Tickets 25 and 35 cents. The Bakers will give a grand picnic at Lincoln Park, Tuesday May 3rd. Tickets 15 cents. The Young Ladies Independent Circle will give a grand May entertainment at Masonic Temple, Monday night May 2nd, Tickets 15 and 25 cents. Weldon Chapter No. 1, F O L will give their first outing at Lincoln Park, Monday May 9th. Tickets 15 cents. The Brotherhood and Ladles Union will give a grand excursion to Beaufort Tuesday June 14th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. A grand combination excursion will be given by Progress Lodge No. 3 and St. John Lodge No. 4, A O K of D to Beaufort, Tuesday May 14th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. A grand picnic and "Damons' illumination of Syracuse" will be given at Lincoln Park under auspices of the Supreme Grand Lodge A O K of D Monday May 23rd. Tickets 15 cents. A funny jubilee concert will be given at St. Philip A M E Church Monday night May 2nd for benefit of the building fund. Tickets 10 and 15 cents. The Young Adelphia A and B Club will give their first outing of the season at Lincoln Park Monday May 2nd. Tickets 15 cents. The Fox will give their sixth water outing to Daufuskie, Monday May 3rd. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. A double header excursion to Beaufort will be given by the I O of G S and D of 8 Monday May 10th. Tickets 50 cents. The headlight Social Club will give a dime dance at Eastern Star hall, Monday night May 2nd. Tickets 10 cents. Men's Sunday Club will entertain at Masonic Temple, Thursday night May 19th. Tickets 25 cents. A grand entertainment will be given at Harris street hall by the Christian Social Club Wednesday night May 4th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. St. Philip A M E Church will give a trolley ride touching at Sandfly, Isle of Hope, Ga/State College and Thunderbolt on Monday night May 16th, for the benefit of St. Philip building fund. Fare for round trip 25 cents. 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 Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings, from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $8.00. Broken places mended and teeth added to old ones for a small cost. Bell Phone 1244. Solid Gold Crowns Guaranteed 26t K Gold. SPRING PURCHASES Make Them At LEVY'S Articles for Girls and Ladies Men's Suits $15.00 to $35.00 Boys' Suits $3.50 to $15.00 Latest Cuts at Reasonable Prices B. H. LEVY, BRO. & CO. COLORED PEOPLE OF SAVANNAH HOMESTEAD PARK RIGHT AT SANDFLY STATION LOTS $30. $2 DOWN. $2 A MONTH. THIS is your opportunity—don't delay. Come down Saturday, Sunday or early next week and look over this property. 50 foot streets are now built and other attractive improvements made. Take Isle of Hope car and get off at Sandfly Station. Your car fare from any part of the city refunded if you bring this advertisement with you. Insurance Talk Don't mean a great deal when the people are not familiar with the Company the agent wishes to represent. But the insuring public are fully acquainted with the Union Mutual Association The pioneer Negro Insurance Company of the country, now paying over 800 claims daily. Do you carry insurance with them? If not, phone the local manager to-day and he will have an agent call on you and explain their contract to you, which is absolutely safe by test. or write WM. DRISKELL, Secretary and Gen'l Manager, 210 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, Ga. J. C. LINDSAY, District Manager, 509 West Broad Street, Savannah, Ga. Phone 1470 Garey's Variety Bakery Goods delivered promptly to any part of the city .. 506 West Broad St, near Gaston. Phone 1831 L Lots Are Selling WEST SIDE RESTAURANT 461 West Broad Street Near Union Station plendid New Surburb OF SAVANNAH D PARK Y STATION $2 A MONTH. saturday, Sunday or early next week and and other attractive improvements made. our car fare from any part of the city REALTY CO. MAIN OFFICE 50 CHURCH ST., NEW YORK CITY Church Notice. Shepherd's Chapel, Primitive Church Green street, Dittmersville, Savannah, Ga., of which Rev. Samuel F. Shepherd is pastor, is the First Church on the Memorial Boll 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. 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. 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 spetting manner and at all hours daily. Meals 15 and 25 cents. Mrs. A. S. Scott, Proprietress. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Firstclass Dentist, All Work Guaranteed. 623 WEST BROAD STREET. Bet. 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Parson White's precautionary measure of protecting his chicken coop with chilled steel bars was futile, for that very night four more of his choice leghorns disappeared, leaving the covered and twisted bars as the only visible evidence of the theft. However, his suspicions pointed toward his next door neighbor, whom he had seen prowling around his yard that day, and, accordingly, she had this suspect up in police court the next morning. "If the prisoner can file an alibi I'll let him off with a suspended sentence," announced the Judge 'at the end of' the evidence. "Can you file an alibi, Ham?" "Ah guess Ah kin," eagerly enjoined the suspect, "if it isn't any hauler with Panson White's chicken coop bars?" -St. Paul Dispatch. RATHER MIXED. She—Aren't you delighted, John, that dear mother is going to spend six weeks with us? John (gloomily)—Delighted! She (suddenly)—Oh, John, would you put the old cat out? He (abstractly)—I'd like to, Maria, but she's your mother.—Baltimore American. INS OFFICE. "A biographical writer is a sort of Nemesis for people, isn't he?" "How so?" "Look at all the men he brings to book."—Baltimore American. Day Afte Post Toasties The Earliest Aeroplane. The earliest effort to construct a machine which, according to modern ideas, is entitled to be called an aeroplane, was undoubtedly that of William Henson, in 1842. Prince Rupert and his fellow-adventurers, with a charter granted by Charles II, were the pioneers of the now famous Hydson Bay Company. Ostriches are now hatched in incubators. It requires forty-one days with the maintenance of one hundred degrees of heat before the chicks begin to appear. HANCOCK FABLETS, for sale by DP, tableau JOB. Results are in. Surprising for GIG AND Corrective. Purifying the Blood. Toning the Stomach, and in the Urinary System. Depression. Lumbago. Cazart. Rheumatism. Gout. Narcissine Gold. Stone in its kidney and bladder. and most kidney liver and Skimmish Aliments. A MAGIC WONDER for Hemorrhoids. Pita. 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Early in the winter several agents canvassed the region, inducing farmers and others to subscribe from $200 to $2,000 worth of stock in a proposed new insurance company. It has just become known that the blanks they signed were transformed into promissory notes, which had immediately been realized upon by the swindlers. The agents operated quickly and decamped. All those duped were of good standing and the swindlers had no trouble in getting their money. Some families have been hit for as much as $3,000.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. His Opportunity. "How did you manage to go through every house on that block in broad daylight without being detected?" asked one burglar. "Very easily," replied the other. "I selected a time when a moving van drove up to a vacant dwelling. I worked while the neighbors were hanging out of the front windows to criticise the furniture."—Washington Star. STRICTLY UP TO DATE. Customer—Is this an up-to-date doll? Clerk—Yes, madam; it says "Votes for women."—Harper's Bazar. er Day One will find Post Toasties SUGGER FOR THE UP- AGRICU Sheep Rack. A good rack for feeding sheep can be made by almost any sensible farmer. About all that is needed is a support for the hay so that it shall not fall to the ground and be wasted and also be handy for the sheep to get at.—Farmers' Home Journal. Watch For Scab. In selecting and buyng ewes be very careful not to get disease. Watch for scab. They should always be dipped before leaving their old yards, and if possible, dipped again on reaching the new home. Look for ewes that show good breeding.—Farmers Home, Journal. Tankage for Hogs. The Ohio experiment station has been testing the value of tankage in hog feeding, and especially to hogs following corn-fed cattle. The result of tankage feeding was found to be excellent when used to supplement corn, making the hogs grow and develop very rapidly. After giving the details of these experiments, showing the rapid gain in hogs fed tankage, the Ohio-station concludes its experiment circular announcement on the subject as follows: "In the tests reported in this circular the gains made by hogs fed tankage were more than one-half greater than the gains made by the hogs that depended entirely upon the droppings from the steers—a decided increase from the use of a supplementary feed rich in protein, and ash." The Indiana Farmer has heretofore called attention to like statements in the bulleting of the Purdue experiment station, showing the excellent results in feeding tankage to hogs. It is the high percent of protein in tankage that makes it so valuable when fed with corn, which is highly carbonaceous. The two make a great hog ration. . Marketing Potatoes. Perhaps with no other staple crop can the farmer gain so much by its careful preparation for the market as with potatoes. Both for the local market and for shipping, medium sized potatoes that do not vary much in size are more readily salable than those that vary much in size in the same lot. If your potatoes are not uniform in size it will pay to grade them, putting the large ones in one lot and the medium sized ones in another, leaving out all of the very small ones. After digging it is well to allow the potatoes to lie on the ground till well dried off, usually from one to two hours, so that the dirt will not stick to them. This improves their looks very materially. Bruised or cut potatoes should be carefully excluded from those intended for market. By never marketing anything but sound and uniform sized potatoes a farmer can soon build up a reputation that will be of cash value to film, as dealers are usually willing to pay more than going prices for potatoes which they know to be all right. The same can be said of communities. If all the farmers of a community grow the same variety, the one best adapted to that locality, and for which there is a good demand, buyers will soon become aware of the fact and more of them will come to bid for them and the farmers will get better prices. Mixed lots of potatoes always sell at a discount.—Written for the Dakota Farmer by W. H. Wenz. Milk Vessels and Their Care Clean, properly cared for milk vessels play an important part in the-production of pure and wholesome dairy products. Dirty pals, cans, etc., mean dirty milk and dirty products, and there is no getting around this fact. In the first place use no rusty or otherwise rough cans or pails for garms of disease will settle in every little crevice and afford a harboring place for bacteria. None but tin vessels should be used. It is better not to use wooden vessels of any kind for the holding of milk, for the reason that it is difficult to keep them clean. The pores in the wood readily absorb portions of the milk and only severe treatment in the way of scalding can keep the pails clean. If regularly washed and saturated with boiling water, the wooden pails will remain sweet, but often this is not done. It is best, therefore, to depend upon tin vessels which are free from pores and are easily washed. Clean vessels call for scrupulous care in washing. This is often not properly done partly from lack of knowledge and partly because many do not want to take the time to do it right. Wash all utensils clean by first using lukewarm water and some good washing powder. Use a brush in connection with the washing compound and scour thoroughly, getting into every part of the vessels. Follow this with clean, warm water, and finally rinse again with scalding hot water. If at all possible, dry in the sun, which is a great purifier. There is no need of drying with a cloth, for after being rinsed in boiling water the utensils will readily dry in a few minutes. If a cloth is used in the scouring process, STATIONS THE NO-DATE TURIST let it be a clean one and not a soiled dishcloth. The deposits that form in the corners and under overhanging rims should be dug out. These deposits contain an assortment of the germs that have grown in previous batches of milk and like chunks of yeast they start up, scouring of the milk in the same manner that yeast causes bread to ferment. Scalding will kill these germs, but new ones will soon fall on the deposits. Use milk vessels for no other purpose, than, to hold milk. Keep all sour or tainted milk out of them. This infects the utensils so badly that no amount of washing will make perfectly clean.—W. F. P. in the Indiana Farmer. Experience With Incubators. I will venture to give my experience with incubators. In the first place I use a good incubator and use only good, fresh eggs, uniform in size and color, for white eggs have thinner shells than brown ones, therefore do not require the same amount of heat, moisture, etc. I run my incubator twenty-four hours without eggs to adjust the regulator to the proper degree, then place the eggs in machine and leave it twenty-four hours longer, only to fill and trim the lamp. On the morning of the third day I turn the eggs, and turn and cool them twice each day until the eighteenth day. I do not turn after the eighteenth day, as the chick is fully developed, and has found its proper, position to break its way out, and to turn the eggs at this time would turn the chick head down and drown it, or place it in such position that it could not work to advantage. I also sprinkle the eggs every other morning with water warmed 103 degrees. I run the incubator at 102 first week, 103 second week and 103 to 104 third week. I test the eggs on the seventh and fourteenth days of incubation. Sometimes the most of the chicks will be out and under the tray, and the heat from their bodies will cause too high a temperature below the eggs, and in such cases it is best to remove the dry chicks to the warmed brooder and hasten the remalder of the hatch by spreading a warm, moist cloth on the eggs and leave it there twenty minutes keeping the door closed the while. When putting the cloth in don't leave the door open longer than necessary, as it is important that the temperature does not run down more than two degrees. This application alone has saved me fully twenty-five percent of live chicks that otherwise would have dicked in the shell on account of the shell becoming too dry and the inner lining so tough that the chicks could not break their way out. I had one experience that I am anxious to give my fellow poultrymen. I took ill during my third hatch, and through 'carelessness' the incubator lamp was allowed to go out and remained out over night when the room temperature registered below fifty degrees. As soon as it was discovered it was lit up and started again with but little hope of getting a chicken, but to our surprise and pleasure we got a 91 percent hatch from those eggs. I have taken off four hatches, the lowest being eighty-six percent which was taken out February 18th from eggs laid during January. Again, I say, use a good incubator, fresh eggs from good, healthy stock, and good common hen sense and anyone can get good results with incubators.—Inland Farmer. Farm Notes. Get a strong healthy ram to head the flock. The ewes should be kept in prime condition, not being permitted to fall off in flesh. Put a little salt in the daily meal of the hogs. Not too much, but a little daily for best results. Hogs should not be permitted to sleep in the dust. It may cause mange and lung trouble. A bushel of corn will make as much pork or beef on your farm as it will in any other section of the country. Protect sheep from cold rains. The fleece will hold a large amount of water, and it takes a long time to dry. Let every farmer aim for better hogs. He is getting started right when he buys a few pure bred sows, or a pure bred boar. To prevent rust, plows, cultivators, mowers, reapers and other implements of the 'like' should have their steel surfaces rubbed over with oil. If you are not getting along well with your farming, ask yourself what the matter is. Try and probe the trouble to the bottom. Make sure the failures are no fault of your own. For roof paint, mix 35 parts of powdered clay slate, 30 of powdered mica slate, 35 of powdered American rosin, with half the quantity of pure coal tar and boll until an easily brushable mass is obtained. Ecuador's last cocoa crop was worth $4,333,497, and the cocoa industry there is only in its infancy. In the year-1833 scientific excavators in the dark sandstone at Hildburghausen, in Germany, came unexpectedly upon a series of huge impressions, which undoubtedly represented the footsteps of a beast. In some enormously remote period of time, when the sandstone was still soft mud, a very heavy animal must have walked over this place and pressed his forepaws deep in the mud bank. After that the ground dried up and a new layer of mud flowed over the impression. By some accident in a remote geological time the two layers became separated, and thus the impression of the feet preserved in negative and positive form. The most astonishing fact about this discovery was that the impression of the forefeet and the much larger hindfeet bore a very close resemblance to the human hand. You could see at once the ball at the base of the thumb, which could be opposed to the other fingers just as in the human hand, and you could even see the joints of the toes. This discovery was the beginning of a process of investigation which entirely changed the views of the early evolutionists concerning the development of the human hand. What kind of beast had thus impressed his forepaws in the stone? The scientists sought eagerly through the records of the prehistoric animal-world, but nowhere could they find a beast whose construction agreed with those strange footprints. They, therefore, named the extinct animal the "Chirotherium," or "hand beast." The tracks of the "Chlrotherium" are now held to prove that we must share the possession of a prehensile hand not only with the "Chlrotherium" and with many of the lower mammals, but with the lower mudfish, and even with the frightful dragon-like creatures of the prehistoric world. How are we to apply this remarkable agreement of prehistoric creations to explain the riddle of the five-fingered hand? If there is anything in logic, these facts must point to the existence of a common group of ancestors for all the higher vertebrates possessing pentadactylic extremities with opposable thumbs. We must seek this prehistoric creation further back than the "Chrrotherium," who first walked over the mud banks in the Triassic period. When the coal beds were still green forests, hundreds of thousands of years before the age of the "Chrrotherium," there swarmed many five-toed amphibious creatures, whose skeletons now adorn the museums. The state of possessing fire toes was then in the process of becoming permanent. The hypothetical ancestor of the five-fingered prehensile hand must have already been in existence before the straight trunks of the carboniferous tree found a place to grow on the soft, boggy earth. He must have lived in a depression in the earth's surface which was already inhabited by fish, but not yet by land beasts. Are we then to infer that the human hand found its origin in the fin of the mudfish? Science answers "Yes" to this question, and as evidence points to a highly interesting race of animal which is not exclusively a water animal, but is not a land animal. This is the mudfish or lungfish of Australia, known to science as Ceratodus. This has been well described as a living fossil, because it is the only survivor of an otherwise extinct group of animals which populated the earth at the beginning of the carboniferous age. The Ceratodus is endowed with two methods of breathing. In the rainy period, when the stream in which he makes his home is filled with water, he breathes like a true fish, through his gills, but in the long dry period of the Australian summer his gills are out of use and he breathes the air freely through his lungs. Through a creature like the salamander fish, Nature must have made the bridge by which our ancestors passed from exclusive water-dwellers to life on land. Among them, also, we must seek the origin of the five-toed foot. The celebrated anatomist, Karl Gegenbaur, says the fins of the fish, concerning which we formerly held coroneous ideas, are nothing but many toed feet. The numerous rays, of the fins correspond to the fingers and toes of the higher vertebrates. If the fin is the original form from which the hand develops, then the numerous rays of the fin must have been reduced in some way to five. This process does not appear probable in the highly complicated steering organs of the higher fishes. But we gain quite a different view when we study the Ceratodus, which possesses today four very primitive fins, somewhat in the shape of a term leaf. Each fin consists of a strong central stem, with numerous articulated rays branching out on each side. On these fins, which are apparently predestined to become legs, the Ceratodus, or lungfish, is accustomed to rest at the bottom of the water. Let us suppose that in the far distant Devonian period the fins of some species of Ceratodus became developed to aid in the forward movement of the body so that the conquest of the water might be better attained. The mall bone of the fin and the side branches which are most useful for movement would have grown stronger, while the other rays would have grown weaker until they finally disappeared altogether from disuse. What remained then of the fernlike in the Ceratodus would have been many-toed foot, which in course time would become better adapted to its needs. This, however, does not settle the question of the five fingers and toes which we, together with the land animals descended from the Ceratodus, possessed at the starting point of the creation of foot and hands. These must have arisen later for some object which is still concealed from us. In any case, we must recognize the Ceratodus as the predecessor of the possessor of the original five-fingered hand from which the hand of man, as well that of other animals, is derived. We must thank the Ceratodus for our decimal system and our method of counting, which is based upon the ten fingers. When we celebrate jubilees and centenaries we should pay some honor to the original Devonian ancestor of the higher vertebrates, who, millions of years after his death, through his Australian cousin, the Ceratodus, has put science on the path of unravelling the problem of how men came to have five fingers. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Australia will borrow $5,000,000 for the development of railroads, mines and public works. Every year shows a decrease in the number of convictions for drunkenness in the British isles. Of the world's stock of money seven billion dollars is gold, three and one-half billions silver, and four and one-third billions uncovered paper. An Illinois farmer presents the country with an almost cobless corn. The new corn is described as having each kernel growing on the parent stem instead of adhering to the cob. In 1906 there were 3,328 labor strikes in Germany. In 1907 there were 2,266; in 1908, the number was 1,347. Of the 1908 strikes, 206 were successful, 437 partly successful and 704 unsuccessful. Many Japanese women gird their teeth. Women of Arabia stain their fingers and toes red. In Greenland women paint their faces blue and yellow. In India the women of high caste paint their teeth black. Herbert M. Wilson of the United States Geological Survey places the annual damage and waste by smoke in the United States at $50,000,000 in the large cities alone, or about $6 to each man, woman and child of the population. In some parts of England one of the-best cures for a swollen neck is to draw a snake nine times across the throat of the suffering one, after which the snake is killed and its skin sewed in a silken bag and tightly sewed around the neck. Much money is made by the sale of old rope and string. Thousands of dollars are netted by the buying and selling of old fishing nets alone; but this amount is a mere bagatelle to the cash that is turned over in the handling of old cordage at the docks. The Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore asserts that during the past decade the cotton crops of the South, including seed, exceeded by $2,505,140,-200 the value of all the gold produced in the world, while it was $1,472,930,-300 in excess of the combined value of gold and silver. Copper Production. The copper industry in 1908 showed a gradual recovery from the severe depression in the last part of 1907. Many producers that had greatly curtailed or even suspended production in that year, began again to increase output practically at the opening of 1908, and in spite of the low price of the metal nearly all the important producers of 1907 were in operation throughout most of 1908, and a few new companies began production during the year. The rate of production has been steadily increasing, and is now greater than at any other time in the history of the industry. It is estimated that the production of blister and lake copper in 1908 from ores mined in the United States will be greater by about 50,000,000 pounds, or between 6 and 6 percent, than that in 1907, which was 868,966.41 pounds. Production of total refined new copper by works in this country cannot yet be given, but probably it will hardly equal the output of 1907, which was 1,032,516,247 pounds.—Geological Survey. Immigrants. In 1907, we got 1,285,000 immigrants; in 1908, 782,870; and these figures were offset by a strong human current, running from our ports back to Europe. Out of last year's total, Austria-Hungary sent 168,000; Italy, including Sicily, 128,000; the Russian empire and Finland, 156,000; over three-fifths of the total number thus coming from southern and southeastern Europe. There is a prospect of a Russian emigration of a higher quality than we have had heretofore, from the reformer and high-grade revolutionist class; discouraged patriots, such as somewhat as came here from Germany—Carl Schutz 'among them—after the troubles of 1848—Harper's Weekly. BACKACHE! Suffered Over Nine Months, Nothing Kelieved Me Until I Took PE-RU-NA. MRS. JOSEPH LACELLE. Mrs. Joseph Lacelle, 124 Bronson St. Ottawa, East, Ontario, Canada, writes: Ottawa, East, Ontario, Canada, writes: "I suffered with backache and headache for over nine months and nothing relieved me until I took Peruna. This medicine is by far better than any other medicine for these troubles. A few bottles relieved me of my miserable, half-dead, half-alive condition." BUY "BATTLE AXE" SHOES Philosophy of Luck. "There's no use in trying to buck against bad luck," said the successful gambler as he sat down his glass of witchy and milk. "If you see luck is going against you, drop out. If the fickle goddess of fortune is with you, woo her for all you are worth. That's the whole secret of the game. "I've been gambling all my life, and I rarely lose. Why? Because I never take a chance against bad luck. Luck is bound to be either with you or against you. You win or you lose. The chances of breaking even are mighty slim. And who wants to break even, anyhow? Luck always runs in streaks. I can generally dope out whether I am going to be lucky or not, and when I know it isn't my time to win I simply don't play. How do I know? Well, I have a little system of my own, and I don't mind letting you in on it. Before I sit into a game I try out my luck in the seclusion of my apartment. I take a deck of cards and start to play solitaire. Canfield against an imaginary banker. In five or six deals I can get an idea whether luck is with me or that particular time or not. If the cards are running consistently against me I stop and spend the evening at the theatre, or chinning around the hotel lobbies. No game for me that night. On the other hand, if I see the cards are running my way I get into a game, and seldom quit a loser. It may sound foolish, but take my word for it, it's a pretty good dope to go by."—New York Times. His Opportunity. "How. did you manage to go through every house on that block in broad daylight without being detected?" asked one burglar. "Very easily," replied the other. "I selected a time when a moving van drove up to a vacant dwelling. I worked while the neighbors were hanging out of the front windows to criticize the furniture."—Washington Star. CIRCUMLOCUTORY LUCK. 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Death presses heavily on that man, who, being but too well known to others, dies in ignorance of himself.—Seneca. Mrs. Nagg—"Who was it that said, 'I thank God I am not as other men?' Mr. Nagg—"Some bachelor."—Liprincott's. Old age is the consummation of life, just as of a play; from the fatigue of which we ought to escape, especially when satiety is superadded.—Cicero. If you wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit; throw nothing on it which will increase it; at first keep quiet and count the days on which you have been angry.—Epictetus. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness or speaking a true word or making a friend.—John Ruskin. ACTORS IN CHINA. Their Low Social Standing—Players Who Have Position-and Influence. "The social standing of actors in China is very low. In the eleighteen grades of China's social caste they are placed at the twelfth, which is lower than the position immoral women or thieves occupy. This is the natural outcome of their being ignorant and leading a questionable life." A Pekin contemporary writes; "But there is a class of actors called yu hsl zuu (imperial actors). There are kept on salaries like ordinary officials and act in the presence of his Majesty on the 4th of every month. "They have great influence and often defy even the command of the highest mandarins. At present there are about ten of them in Pekin, the oldest among them being 65 years old and the youngest 30." It is a curious fact that so far as we know no satisfactory reason has even been assigned for the exceedingly low place to which actors and actresses are condemned in Chinese society. In Japan much the same state of affairs used to exist, but the cause has always been tolerably well known. Another interesting feature is that in both countries alike the drama had its origin in a kind of operatic performance with music and song. The Chinese histrionic art has been much more conservative than the Japanese, for the former has remained always a singing representation, whereas the latter, even before it was reached by foreign influence, developed all the characteristics of the theatre proper—Japan Mall. In The Lobby. This was overheard in the lobby of a big hotel in Cincinnati! when a busload of traveling salesmen came from the station. Every man of them, as he signed the register, paused to shake hands with the hotel clerk—fatherly old fellow, who had been there many years. "Ah," said one of them to the clerk, "It's a good thing you're still on deck, Uncle Dave; I don't think the house could run without you." "Couldn't it, thought!" said Uncle Dave. "You fellows would come in here, and if there was a strange clerk you'd say, 'Where's Uncle Dave?' And the clerk would say, 'Why, didn't you hear? He died a month ago.' And then you'd say, 'Well I'll be darned. That's too bad. Say, when'll dinner be ready?' Eyewitness Stories. In his Royal Institution lecture Sir Hubert von Herkomer incidentally touched on the point that no two people seem to see allike, as illustrated by the familiar experience that twenty eyewitnesses of a street accident will give twenty widely varying accounts of its details. We had an instance of this recently in the case of the Tottenham outrage, and few failed to observe the extraordinary fact that, when the Druce coffin was opened, two reporters made hopelessly divergent statements as to the beard—the very thing most interesting.—Fall Mall Gazette. Germany annually imports from Chile about half a million tons of salt-peter, valued at $23,000,000, for fertilizing purposes. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. 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Chicago.—Minus its tail, its lustre dimmed to a point below the light of a sixth magnitude star, but rushing earthward at the exact place its schedule prescribed, Halley's comet returned to the ken of astronomers, and for more than half an hour before dawn was watched from Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., by Professors Frost and Bernard, working independently. That the spectrum may show what has happened to the apparently lost tail of Halley's comet is the belief held by Professor Frost. "It is worth noting that when it was here before in 1835 the tail disappeared two days before the perihelon, and was not seen again for two months!" he said. "Halley's is the only comet ever known to behave like this. It is probable that the tail. Is there, but is so dispersed that it is not bright enough to be seen. Washington, D. O. — Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau, issued a statement that will bring peace of mind to folks who are worrying about a possible collision with Halley's comet. Here is what Chief Moore has to say: "Popular apprehension regarding harm to the earth and its inhabitants during the impending visit of Halley's comet to this portion of the universe is unfounded. The result of a collision between the earth and a comet would depend upon the mass of the comet, the velocity of the bodies and the angle of impact. A collision in the present case will be impossible owing to a safety margin between the tracks of the earth and the comet of some 13,000,000 miles. The tail of the comet through which the earth will probably pass will be noticeable only as an absolutely harmless luminous gas or dust, and may produce electrical and magnetic effects that can be detected only by self-recording instruments. A source of possible Burlington, Iowa.—Representative Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, a former Burlington resident, has taken up the prosecution of a historical project of interest to Western Illinois and to this part of Iowa. By the donation of a sum of money he has furthered the project of setting up permanent markers to outline the march which Abraham Lincoln took up in the Black Hawk war. Only the oldest inhabitants in those regions now have any memory of the course of that campaign, which is not adequately outlined in history. The object of the markers will be to fix permanently the line of march and the camping grounds planned by the martyr President. The way led across the prairies of Illinois to the Mississippi River at a point near Burlington, then known as Flint Hills. The march was made from Beardstown, Ill., to Quawka, then known as the Yellow Banks on account of the peculiar coloring of the river shore line. From Quawka the route was said to the mouth of the Rock River. There were two expeditions in the Black Hawk war, one in 1831, when Black Hawk escaped from the pursurers and crossed the Mississippi, and the second in the following year, when Black Hawk returned to the Illinois shore with the determination to remain. Lincoln was made captain of one of the companies which took up the campaign against the Indians. The expedition gave several names to the localities along the route which are still borne. It is interesting to note London Expected to Spend $15,000, London.—The first state ball of the season at Buckingham Palace will take place at an earlier date than usual to enable invitations to be extended to Mr. Roosevelt and his family. So many splendid entertainments are projected by American hostesses in honor of the Roosevelts that it is estimated that some $15,000,000 will be spent in London in that way during the week's visit of the family, and that the coming season will be one of the most brilliant on record. "The theory of its being foreshortened or the head being between us and the tail is altogether untenable. A comet's tail always points away from the sun, and if there have been any pictures printed in which this was not the case they are incorrect. Sometimes a second tail appears, and this freak tail may point toward the sun, but the main tail always points away. "If the tail is there and is merely invisible to our eyes the spectroscope might show it. There was, of course, no such instrument when the comet was here in 1835. We hope to be able to use the spectroscope on it in a short time, and may prove that the tail is present by this means. The fact that the spectroscope did not reveal its presence would not necessarily mean that the tail is not there, however, for it might be too dim for that instrument." danger or discomfort to the earth attending cometary visits would be the falling into the sun of a comet. As the least distance between Hallay's comet and the sun in the present instance will be more than 54,000,000 miles the possibility of discomfort from solar excitations will not exist." Hallay's comet was sighted by Professor Asaph Hall, U. S. N., at the Naval Observatory through a powerful telescope. At 4.50 o'clock in the morning Professor Hall saw the dim outlines of the approaching comet. Its position was one hour and forty minutes west of the sun. The comet should have been visible during the past week, but its approach was obscured by cloudy weather. This was the first time the comet has been sighted in this city. On May 19 next the earth will pass through its tail, and after that the comet will be visible only in the evening. It will then be leaving the earth, not to reappear again for about seventy-five years. that twenty-five years after his brush with Black Hawk Lincoln, when he was coming into prominence, again visited Yellow Banks, and, after making a speech there, came to Burlington by boat. Yellow Banks had become Quawka and was a thriving village. The markers to be placed along the route will be of stone and with suitable inscriptions, and a map of the march will be drawn and copies kept on file among the public records at various points. HISTORIC ELM SAVED. Washington Tree on Cambridge Common Given New Lease of Life. Cambridge, Mass.—After considerable hard work on the part of the Cambridge Park Department officials the Washington Elm on the Cambridge Common has been put in excellent condition and probably will live for many years to come. According to the report, just issued, strenuous measures—the same as were used to save the trees bordering Decatur street, many of which have been badly eaten by the elm leaf beetle. On the Washington Elm much of the dead wood was removed, the tree was sprayed twice with arsenate of lead and watered twice a week from a perforated pipe, which was laid a year ago. It was also watered frequently from a near-by hydrant. High Price of Beef and Mutton Leads the Poor to Try Goat Meat. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Brooklyn is "getting the goats" of a lot of people these days because of the high cost of living. With the prices of beef, mutton, lamb and pork soaring, the poor of the borough are turning to the meat of "Nannie" and "Billy" for food. For the first time in its history the flesh of goats is being offered for sale in the poorer quarters of the borough. The price is from five to seven cents a pound lower than lamb is mutton. FRIDAY. LUCK By F. E. C. ROBBINS. "Noah Ruwson tells me he expects to start in on his new barn to-morrow," said Isaac Grose, interrupting a protracted discussion of the tariff question. "What, Friday?" exclaimed Uncle Bijah Neal, rousing himself from the doze, or perhaps reverie, in which he had been indulging. "And why not on Friday?" demanded young Abner Harmon, ready enough to drop the tariff for some other subject of controversy. "I hope that you don't hold to the notion that Friday is an unlucky day?" "I haven't said that I did," replied the old man, meekly. "That's one of those old superstitions that sensible people outgrew long ago," persisted Abner. "Just what I told Mother Gleason one Friday long before you were horn," said Uncle 'Bijah, his face lighting up with the glow of reminiscence. "I guess I shall never forget that particular Friday, and the kind of luck I had," he continued, with a clearing of the throat that the company assembled in Lufkin's store had learned to recognize as the precursor of some simple tale of bygone days. "My wife's mother was visiting us at the time. Mother Gleason was an excellent woman, and sensible in the main, though I suppose she was hardly up to Abner's standard, for she had her superstitions that she held to like Gospel truth. I used to laugh at her some, but all the time I had a half-feeling that there was something in her notions. Most of 'em weren't new to me, anyway, for my aunt that brought me up as full of signs herself as the Old Farmers' Almanac. "Well, one morning my next neighbor brought me a letter from the postoffice, and come to open it, it was from the Widow Lincoln over to Pottertown. She wrote that she was thinking serious of selling her woodlot, and if I was a mind to come over and see her, maybe we could trade. "I was a good deal pleased, for I'd been trying to dicker with Mis' Lincoln for that wood-lot for more than two years; but the widow was independently rich, for those parts, and kind of crotchety, and I hadn't seemed to make any headway. "So now I made up my mind not to let any grass grow under my feet; and I told the women-folks that I was going to hitch up and drive down to Pooduck Centre and draw my money out of the savings-bank, and then go over to Pottertown in the afternoon and see if I couldn't close the trade right up. "But Mother Gleason spoke up, and she says, 'I guess you've forgotten what day of the week it is, Ablah. You wouldn't start in on anything as important as that on a Friday.' says she. "That was kind of a wet blanket on me at first, for I'd forgotten about its being Friday; but in less than a liffy my mind was made up. "That's just what I'm going to do," I says. "There's other, folks would like that wood-lot, and I'm not going to risk losing the best chance I've ever had to make some money on account of an old superstition that no sensible person really believes in," I says. "I didn't mean to hurt Mother Gleason's feelings, but you see I had to put it pretty strong for the sake of keeping my own courage up. "Well," says she, terrible solemn, "I only hope you won't regret it," and it kinder sounded as if she rather honed I would. "However, I harnessed up and drove dawn to the Centre and drew all my money out of the bank. It was along early in the spring and pretty hard travelling, and coming back, old black Charlie slipped on a patch of ice and went down on all fours, barking his knees and breaking one of the shafts. I patched it up and got home as best I could, and I tried to make light of it to the women-folks; but when I let on that I meant to foot it over to Pottertown that afternoon, Mother Gleason she warned me again. "You take my advice and give it up for to-day," says she. "It's one of the surest signs of ill luck even to dream of a black horse down, let alone actually seeing one tumble on a Friday," says she. "But I wouldn't hear to her, and after I'd tended to old Charlie's knees and eaten a late dinner, I started off for Pottertown—a good six miles. "After I'd gone a piece, I thought of a path through the woods that would cut off quite a little of the distance, and then I wished I had taken my gun. Of course I wasn't really afraid to go through the woods with that money in my pocket, but I thought that the gun would kind of be company for me. "So I went back and got it, but I was most sorry I did so, for it gave Mother Gleason a chance to expiate on another of her signs. She said it always meant bad luck to turn round and come back for something after you'd once started off. "I suppose all this prophesying of disaster must have made me a little nervous, for I was all eyes and gars when I struck 'into that lonesome path. But the only living thing I saw was a rabbit. He was in the middle of a kind of swampy place, and he' seemed to be nosing round for wild berries under the snow. "Now," thinks I, "I'll have a crack at that fellow just for luck." So I stole round cautiously through-the bushes, and finally knelt down behind a fallen log without his seeing me. Then I took a good alm and let drive. "Well that rabbit didn't fall in his tracks as I expected! I doubt if he even, realized what a narrow escape he'd had. He just looked round for a minute as if he was a little surprised at the noise, and then he seemed to think that on the whole he'd better seek some other field of labor. "I was a good deal worked up about it, for I considered myself, a good shot in those days, and for me to miss such an easy chance as that seemed like a surer sign of ill luck than any of Mother Gleason's. To make matters worse, in going back to the path I caught my foot on an old root, and fell among the bushes and scratched my face ridiculous. "I suppose it must have been going on toward five o'clock when I finally reached the Widow-Lincoln's, though I couldn't say exactly, for when I went to look at my watch just before I got there, lo and behold, it was gone! "It was an old bull's-eye and not worth so very much, but I valued it because it had belonged to my grandfather. Besides, I couldn't help thinking how I'd heard that it always caused ill luck to lose an old family heirloom. "So I wasn't over and above cheerful when I entered the widow's yard, and I was still less so when I came out. "I didn't so much mind her setting the dog on me, for he didn't really bite through my cowhide boots, and she called him off as soon as she found out who it was. And I could have stood the dressing down she gave me for coming there with a gun and my face all bloody, scaring a lone woman half out of her wits, as she said. But when, finally, she 'lowed that she wouldn't sell her wood-kot to me at any price, I did feel considerable down 't the heel. "The day of the week had nothing whatever to do with it," declared Abner. "It was merely a coincidence that your hard luck came on a Friday." "No doubt you're right," admitted Uncle Bijah. "Probably it was just such coincidences that gave Friday its bad name." "Didn't you ever find your watch, Mr. Neal?" asked the storekeeper, with a kindly interest. "Oh, yes," he replied, resuming his narrative with this encouragement. "I went over to that swampy place the next morning, and found the watch right under the log where I was when I fired at the rabbit. It hadn't taken a mite of harm—ficking away as cheerful as could be when I picked it up. I had my gun with me, but of course I didn't see anything to shoot. "I was kind of curious, though, to know where my bullet went the day before, so I rummaged round a little, and finally I spied the very hole that ought to have been made in that rabbit. It was in the butt of an old dead tree, and come to look at it close, I saw something yellow and sticky oozing out. I took up a little on my forefinger, and touched my tongue to it; and then I says to myself, "I wish I'd brought my ax instead of my gun!" "I clipped it for home, and got my ax and two twelve-quart palls, and came back to that tree, and got out all I wanted to carry of as prime honey as I should ever wish to see." "When I'd got most home I met Hosea Ross." Before I had a chance to show him my prize, he sung out, "Well, Blie, how much money did you have in the Pooduck Saving-Bank?" "Why,' says I, 'I did have quite a number of hundred dollars, but I drew it all out yesterday,' says I. "Why so? says I. "Why, haven't you heard?" says he. "Then he went on to tell how the burglars had blown open the savings-bank safe the night before, and got off with all the funds before the Pooduck Centre people had fairly waked up. You must recollect hearing about that robbery, Mr. Lufkin, if it was forty old years ago?" "Sartlin I do, as if it was yesterday," said the storekeeper. "So you got your money out just in the nick of time! How did you finally invest it. If it is a civil question?" "Oh, I bought the wood-lot with it. The Widow Lincoln came over to see me that very afternoon, and said she felt as if she had been a little hasty; and finally she offered me the lot for six hundred and fifty, which was fifty dollars, less than I'd calculated I'd have to pay. I made quite a speck out of that wood-lot," he added, complacently, "So, as I told Mother Gleason, my Friday luck turned out good in the end, after all." "I should think that after that you would have been completely, rid of the Friday superstition," said Abner. "Well, you would think so but I d'know how it is. It's curious about some of those little kinks that your mind gets into, in your younger years. Maybe you think you've got 'em all straightened out, but the chances are they don't stay so. "Now I know in all reason as well as you do, Abner, that Friday is so different from any other day, and yet I do suppose if I was, Noah Rawson, I should put off commencing on that barn till the first of the week."—Youth's Companion. 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These lodges have obeyed the law by reporting on time. It is expected that all of the others will be sending in their report before or by the first of the month. Don't be among the laggards, but see that the report is sent on time. The members of this jurisdiction should be readers of Masonic literature. First they should read the Tribune, the official organ of the Grand Lodge, thus enabling a wider scope of articles published, and, too, read the history of Masonry and study its lectures, etc. No man can be a true Mason unless he knows something about the order. The Orphan Home building will be repaired in time, for the Grand Lodge session. Let every lodge be mindful of the appeal sent out and send to Grand Master Butler a liberal donation for this purpose. Brother Alexander Melton, one of the oldest Masons in the State, and a member of Eureka Lodge No. 1, who is now an inmate of the Old Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va., after reading the Tribune and noted the appeal, for the repairing of the Home, immediately sent to his lodge $2.00 to be applied to that fund. Now this is an aged brother with no employment, yet from the fullness of his heart he has done much. It is hoped that this will inspire the hearts of others to do likewise. Sweeten your lives by being charitable. THE LETTER "G." The Grand Orator of Rhode Island said in the course of his remarks: "When I became a Mason, forty-eight years ago, the first sign that engaged my eye was the letter 'G.' I have never lost the impression of it from that hour to this. Its great character and teachings are based on that truth, God is; and because of Him Masonry exists among men. If the real truth were not ours; if our life were based on theory and human philosophy; if no-high purpose, no great underlying principle lay at the foundation of our order, it would indeed have been like Jonah's gourd—it would have begun in a day and perished in a day. "The iron hand of time sounds the knell of departing years, and points as phantom pictures the shifting scenes of life. Death is so common, so awful, so august in grandeur and tilday, as to daze us and fill us with wonder and amazement, and oftimes the gliding moments, full of sable sadness, leave us as 'those that dream,' and when we awake we are full awake, we are surprised that we still live while so many of our comrades, whose cheeks were but yesterday, flushed with good health, have now fallen in decay at our side. And is it true that we too must die? Yea, verily, verily; the houses that now hold our immortal spirits are but tenements of clay almost ready for the crumbling and decay. Life is but a stage—the curtain rises—flowers bloom—birds sing in sweetest melody—the air is redolent of incense of noblest love—we enter the scene with hopes and buoyant prospects—our castles in the air are builted, and bye and bye we go up and live in them. We play our part—we hide our time—the scene ends—the curtain falls. The world passeth away, only he that doeth the will of abideth forever. Ah, brethren, he only lives who lives nobly, truly, grandly and unselfishly. Such were not born to die, and such, let us hope, were our beloved brethren, who within another brief year have slipped out from us, beyond our hand grasp, our beck and call, our sympathies and our help. Impetent and alone we stand in the presence of the Great Enemy, Death. God help "us to reflect. Oh, thou Great Architect of the Universe, so teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." LODGE CARDS. Folkston, Ga., April 22, 1910. The Masonic brethren should know how important it is to have their lodge cards with them when travel and, how it may help them at a time unexpected. I have met so many without their lodge finance cards. I found it of importance last week. I was in Jacksonville, and had to have a check cashed, and had only thirty minutes in which to attend to some very important business. I had to be identified before I could get it cashed, and would have had to go two miles and back before getting some one to identify me and the thirty minutes would have expired, and I would have been out about $3.00. I stopped for a moment and thought and drew out my memorandum with letters in it addressed to me and that would not do. "What kind of card is that?" asked the cashier, "My lodge card," I replied. "Let's see it." He looked at it a moment and said, "This is the thing I want, this will do." Another white man, standing aside said, "It is good to be that." Thanking the cashier I walked out. So brother, I insist on you paying your dues and having your card made out. It will serve to help you some way. Of course, a brother never leaves his card at home unless he is three or four months in debt to his lodge. Being secretary of my lodge I know what I am talking about. BASEBALL Becker, the new Giant, is a ball player of the aggressive type. Al Bridwell is sneedier than ever around short field this season. Ty Cobb reported to the Detroitfs, not full of malaria, but of ginger. "If Kling is in his old form he'll help the Cubs n lot," says McGraw. If Erwin and Daubert make good for Brooklyn then Brooklyn will have a large proportion of young bloods who made good. Some comments in magazines by alleged baseball experts are as amusing as they are inaccurate. The magazine industry needs a few more Fullertons. "Griffith's Gritty Ginger Ginks" isn't smatches from a conversation in Chinese or the name of a new kind of food, but an alliterative title for the Cincinnati Feds. Third baseman Tom Sheehan, the ineligible Brooklyn jumper, who is confined to the California League for four years, has signed to manage the new San Francisco Club, of that league. "The White Sox are out to win the pennant," says Hugh Duffy. So are seven other clubs. But Duffy adds that "the White Sox are going to do it," and therein he has it on the seven other managers. Fred Clarke says the New York Nationals have bought one of his patient diamond covers. "If I had the time to devote to pushing this contrivance I could clean up $100,000 in four years," adds the Pirate chief. Billy Gilbert, the former New York shortstop and second baseman, was signed by Manager W. J. Clymer, of the Wilkesbarre team of the New York State League. He will be used at second base. By Different Roads. A prominent New Hampshire farmer of the old type has two grown-up sons. One is a preacher of the gospel, while the other is a liquor dealer. A New Yorker., in company with several other friends, was talking at the old man's home about his family. At last one of the company present asked the old man what his sons did for a living. The old man replied: "One is serving the Lord and the other the devil, and both are doing wqll."—Lippincott's. Not the Same. "What do you call your mule, uncle" "You mean what'k his name., boss, or whut Ah call; him?" ie 2 ; = lee