Savannah Tribune

HALLEY'S COMET CAME Earth Passed Through the Tail of Heavenly Body. FIVE-HOURS TO PASS EARTH Atmospheric Conditions Were Perfect at the Yerkes Observatory and Pictures of Unusual Value Were Obtained. Atlanta, Ga—The comet has com- and gone, and nothing more serious has happened than a spell of bad weather, if that can be charged up to the celestial wanderer. With all the fears and misgivings the comet caused, he left us as he found us, and we are still doing bus- ness at the same old stand. Denied all privilege of a stop-over ticket, greeted by the stony and res- sentful stare of an unsympathetic pop- ulace, and with every man's hand turned against it in uncompromising distrust, Halley's famous comet, hold- ing its schedule of some 3,000,000 miles per day, through the earth's orbit without even hesitating, and last reports was burning up space for parts unknown. And when Halley's comet passe and neither the heavens fell nor the earth was rent in twain nor any other hair-raising phenomena of similar dire character was exhibited, the somewhat skeptical and pessimistic inhabitants of this mundane sphere breathed a long, sweet sigh of relief an then went back to sleep and dreams. Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wile—As the world passed through the tail of Halley's comet, astronomers at the Yerkes Observatory here secured photographs and accurate records of meteoric phenomena and varying heavenly illumination under atmospheric conditions nearly perfect for work with camera and telescope. The pictures and data are considered of unusual value, and may develop scientific information and theories of unexpected importance. Vallejo, Cal.—Professor T. J. See of the United States naval observatory at Mare Island reported the following observation on sun snoots: "Great sun spot were noted at this station. The largest spot was slightly northeast of the sun center, and was made up of three parts roughly joined together by bridging such as characterizes complicated spots. "The largest spot observed at Mare Island was estimated to be 60,000 miles long and 30,000 miles wide." San Jose, Cal.-Professor J. S. Riordan of Santa Clara College Meteorological Observatory states that he observed two very large spots on the sun, both intensely black. The astronomer states that one spot was about 12 hours from the central meridian. East of it were 13 pores, or small spots. These spots were entirely new, he said, as for three months almost nothing in the nature of spots had been observed. New York City—Electrical disturbances, attributed to the approach of Halley's comet to its point nearest the earth, resulted in confusion in telegraph service. The wires appeared to be badly affected. Reports from a wide area told the same story or trouble and considerable delay was caused. Topeka, Kans—A meteor weighing about a pound fell through the skylight of the Shawnee building into the office of the Shawnee Fire Insurance Company, splintering, the desk or Clerk Harry Morgan, within ten feet of J. W. Going, secretary and general manager of the company. There were about 50 persons in the room at the time. Brazil, Ind—Many foreign coal miners employed in the fields near here, drew all the money that was coming to them, believing that the passage of the earth through the comet's tail meant the destruction of the world; the men spent their money lavishly San Juan, P. R.—Fearing disastrous consequences from the comet, hundreds of Porto Ricans paraded the streets of San Juan and other towns in Porto Rico, carrying candles, and chanting prayers. Many of them also spent a considerable time in the confessionalals. A large number of workmen failed to report at the tobacco factories and plantations and the pineapple shipments have been curtailed because the laborers have refused to work. V01. XXV. ```markdown ``` ◄ Comet Came, Comet Went; ◄ Old World Still Moves. ◄ The comet came, the comet went, and this old-earth is no worse and no better off, thus far, very little wiser. There was no collision, as the superstitious and the ignorant feared, and, now that the comet is headed away from us, there will be no recurrence of the manifestation of terror that were recorded from all parts of the country and of the world. The earth did pass through the tail of the comet, and simultaneously brilliant auroral displays were seen from Williams Bay, Wis.; Milwaukee and elsewhere, but the majority of astronomers were not willing to concede, that the streamers in the heavens were consequent upon the presence of cometic matter in our atmosphere. The TO RAISE THE MAINE Spanish Engineers Want to View Battleship's Hulk. Washington, D. C.—When the wreck of the battleship Maine is raised from the mud at the bottom of Havana harbor it is thought to be the purpose of the United States government to invite Spain to send expert engineers to be present at the examination of the hull'provided it is found that the Spanish government desires or will accept such an invitation. It is probable also that it will be intimated to other naval powers that this government would be glad to have them send representative experts. It is doubted by many if the condition of the hulk, after this lapse of years, would show whether or not the battleship was destroyed by an exterior or interior explosion, but other experts say that the action of the water will not have seriously affected the wreck. Spain has always contended that the Maine was destroyed by an internal explosion. If a Spanish engineer is invited to inspect the wreck, the other naval powers will also be invited. If the attempt to raise the Maine is successful a part of the metal will be given for the erection of a national monument to the survivors of the historic vessel at New York. TRUSTS NOT A MENACE President Hadley of Yale Says Combinations of Capital Not Dangerous. Berkeley, Cal. — "Large combinations of capital are not in any true sense the cause of our dangers and difficulties today. They are symptoms rather than causes." In these words President A. T. Hadley of Yale summed up his address on "An Educated Democracy" at the golden jubilee exercises of the University of California. "It is commonly said that concentrated wealth is fatal to democracy," he said. "Large combinations of capital, however, are indications that the population has become so large and society so complex that their needs have outgrown the framework that sufficed for the older and simpler conditions. Under these circumstances it is absolutely necessary to separate the problems of the people from the problems of the experts. We must educate the public up to the point where it will be content to leave some things to trained experts. "The growth of invested capital, the increased importance of transportation, the consolidation of industry, the incipient separation of classes in American society, have produced a set of conditions with which neither the lawyers nor the people can deal intelligently, because neither lawyers nor people have the special preliminary education necessary for the understanding of some of the complex problems connected with them. "A public opinion watchful and active on all general questions of ethics, but ready to give a free hand to the trained experts in all matters requiring technical training as a basis for intelligent judgment—this is an educated democracy; and this is the kind of democracy which will endure in the face of great problems." UNION LABOR JEALOUS. Why Labor Unions Oppose Trade Schools. St. Louis, Mo.-Members of labor unions, being jealous of their callings, have held aloof from encouraging the establishment of trade schools, said Samuel DenDrey, secretary of the Central Labor Union of Washington, D. C., at the National Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, Delinquent and Dependent Children, in session here. "Trade schools if allowed to run wild, as they are, menace the very life of the apprenticeship system of labor unions, because they preclude the teaching of a trade to the boy," was his assertion. Mexico Claims U. S. Ground. Washington, D. C.-The United States has suggested to Mexico that the boundary question involved in the celebrated Chamizal zone case be submitted to some well known jurist of a mutually friendly power for arbitration. The question involved is whether the southern section of the city of El Paso, Texas, valued at several millions of dollars, belongs by right under the boundary treaty of the United States with Mexico, to Mexico or to the state of Texas. Foe of Slavery Dead. Richmond, ind.-John Wright Johnson, personal friend and co-worker with Harriet Beecher Stowe in the campaign against slavery, died at his home in Fountain City. Death was due to the infirmities of old age. Johnson, who was 91 years of age, is accredited with having assisted Eliza Harris of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" fame, to escape by means of the "underground railroad," and to have given Mrs. Stowe the facts for her story. Favor Income Tax. Albany, N. Y.—The New York senate by a vote of 26 to 20, adopted the Davenport resolution placing New York.state on record as favoring the income.tax amendment to the federal constitution. Kentucky Has "Rat Day." Lexington, Ky.-Hundreds of farmers of Nicholas county, Kentucky, joined in a war of extermination against rats. This is the second annual "rat day," and wagon loads of the rodents were killed. The pests have caused thousands of dollars' worth of damage in central Kentucky, and an effort is being made to exterminate them. Savannah Tribune. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910. EXPLOSION KILLS 100 Dynamite Destroys Barracks of Cuban Troops. 30 KILLED IN OHIO EXPLOSION Havana, Cuba—Two almost simultaneous explosions of dynamite, supposed to consist of 3,000 pounds, completely demolished the rural guard barracks in the city of Pinar del Río. Fully 100 persons were killed and as many were wounded. Most of the dead were rural guards, but the entire families of several of the officers of the rural guard, it is reported, were killed also, as well as several employees of the public works department, and residents of the city, on watch fell a deluge of masonry and debris from the blown-up building. It is not known yet whether the explosion was the result of an accident or was due to an act of conspirators, but the former hypothesis is considered the more probable. Canton, Ohio.—With a roar that was heard miles away, a battery of seven boilers at the plant of the American Sheet and Tinplate Company exploded, killing probably thirty men and injuring about fifty. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The fireman and engineer, who were in the boiler room, are dead. No one else at the tree plant who survived the accident can give an explanation. One workman says he heard three distinct explosions in quick succession. The force of the concussion was terrific. The big plant is in such a state of ruin as to be practically a total loss. A mere egg shell of the building is left. Identification of the men was difficult, because many of them were so mutilated that even the most ultimate friends of the dead could not recognize the features. Heads were blown from several bodies. Arms and legs were torn from the trunks. Fragments of bodies were blown several squares from the scene and bits of human flesh have been picked up on porches and roofs of houses and trees. The body of one man, unknown, was blown through a house more than seven hundred feet from the plant. The body entered the house from the east side and continued in a straight line through a bed room and out the other side of the house. COTTON OPERATORS CHEATED Millions Lost on Fraudulent Cotton Bills of Lading. New York City—A receiver's complaint filed in the federal courts in New York sets forth what purports to be details of one of the recent so-called cotton bills of lading frauds through which firms in this country and abroad are said to have lost millions. In this instance alone, the receiver estimates that cotton operators in the United States, Germany, France, Spain and Russia will be out from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. The defunct firm involved is Steele, Miller & Co., of Corinth, Miss., thrown into involuntary bankruptcy on May 6 last. J. A. E. Pyle was appointed receiver, and he now directs proceedings against Stephen M. Weld & Co., cotton brokers of this city, and the New York Dock Company, to whom he alleges fraudulent preferential payments have been made. On the strength of these allegations, Judge Hazel, in the United States district court, granted injunctions, restraining the defendants from disposing of cotton, notes, stocks and bonds in their possession, and claimed by the receivers for the benefit of all the creditors of Steele, Miller & Co. MANUFACTURERS' MEETING. Important Subjects Suggested for Government Consideration. New York City—Three important subjects for the consideration of the federal government were put forward at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. One urges the participation by this country in the building of a deep water canal through Canada as a means of aiding the transportation of ores and grains from the lake regions; amendment of the immigration laws to provide more liberal terms for the admission of skilled labor, and steps to see that aliens are distributed in the farming sections where they are needed, instead of being allowed to congregate in large cities, were also advocated. GAVE FORTUNE FOR LOVE. Girl Gave Away Her Fortune to Prove Lover Loved Her Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Edward Swortfiguer, recently Miss Marietta Swortfiguer, left with her husband for St. Helena, Cal., with no property save the clothes she wore, having deeded back to her brother the $100,000 estate which she inherited. Determined to prove that her cousin, Edward Swortfiguer, was marrying her for love, as a preliminary to the wedding ceremony, Miss Swortfiguer transferred all right in the estate of her mother, who died recently, to her brother, he agreeing not to further oppose her marriage to their cousin. 35 CONVICTS CREMATED. Stockade Hear Centerville, Ala. is Destroyed by Fire. Connick Used Torch. Centerville, Ala.-The stockade of the Red Feather Coal Company at Lucille mines in Bibb county, about 15 miles north of Centerville, was completely destroyed by fire; and 35 convicts were burned to death and one was shot and killed while trying to escape. A convict, in trying to escape from the stockade, set it on fire, and soon the whole structure was blazing. On account of the extreme dryness, the building was rapidly consumed. The convict who set the building on fire was burned to death, and 34 of his fellow convicts shared a similar fate. It was with much difficulty that the remainder of the convicts in the stockade were prevented from escaping, as more than a hundred were kept in the stockade at the time of the fire. All of the convicts at Lucille mines are state convicts, who are leased by the convict department to the Red Feather 'Coal Company for the purpose of mining coal. Montgomery, Ala.—Official information reaching Montgomery says that 26 men were burned to death in the stockade fire at Lucille, and that 21 were seriously burned, several having died since. There were but three white convicts at the camp, and the authorities do not know whether or not they met death. State Convict Inspector Hugh Wilson has been sent to the scene, and the governor has been advised, and has offered assistance. The stockade was recently inspected and was pronounced in good condition. A number of the convicts are known to have been slowly roasted to death, and several guards received slight injuries while rescuing other men. Other coal operators in Bibb county have come to the assistance of the Red Feather Company. The camp is reported quiet. DR. HYDE CONVICTED. Kansas City Physician Found - Gully of, Murdering, Col. E. H. Swone Kansas City, Mo.—After deliberating 60 hours the jury in the trial of Dr. B. Clark Hyde found him guilty of murdering Colonel Thomas H. Swepe, the millionaire and philanthropist, with a sentence of life imprisonment. Thus ended one of the most remarkable murder cases of a decade, in which it was charged that the doctor planned to secure the immense Swepe fortunes by killing off his wife's entire family with disease germs and subtle poisons. A new trial will be asked for and if this is denied an appeal will be made to a higher court. In the meantime Dr. Hyde is in fall without ball. Explosion in Alabama Mill. Tallapoosa, Ga.-A large boiler of the McCurdy Lumber Company of Fruthurst, Ala., exploded, killing Howard McCurdy instantly and seriously injuring two McDaniel brothers of Fruthurst, and slightly injuring Lloyd Thomas, Jr., of Tallapoosa. The body of McCurdy was found where the engine stood and was mangled beyond recognition. The mill was totally demolished, timbers being thrown several hundred yards. The report was felt in Tallapoosa, twelve miles distant. Students Favor Morse Pardon- New Haven, Conn—A petition is being circulated in the senior academic class at Yale in favor of pardon of Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, now in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. The entire senior class will sign it and the petition will go to President Taft. Erwin A. Morse, son of Charles W. Morse, is a senior. The signature of Robert A. Taft, son of the president, and a member of the senior class, is expected to be on the petition. Newsv Paragraphs. Train No. 4 on the Salt Lake route has arrived in Salt Lake City from Los Angeles four months late. It was due January 2, but it has been marooned near Callente since the distrous washout of January 1. Traffic will be resumed on the Salt Lake route June 15. Charles H. Schlocks, vice president of the Western Pacific, announced that the Western Pacific would be open for passenger traffic between July 15 and August 1. "Do not tell a child how bad you think him," said E. E. Gardner, superintendent of the Sockanoset School for boys, of Haward R. L., in an address on industrial training in state schools, before the seventh annual session of the national conference on the education of backward, truant, delinquent and dependent, children, which met in St. Louis. "Rather show him how useful he can become. Leed him to think that good is expected from everyone and that he amounts to something." George W. Coleman, after admitting that he looted the National City bank of Cambridge, Mass., of $309,000, was sentenced to fifteen years in the county jail at Greenfield, Mass., by Judge Halle in the United States district court in Boston. The Rev. William A. Wasson, has resigned from his Episcopal pastorate at Riverhead, N. Y., to work for limited license as against total prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors. In a letter to the Right Rev. Fredarick Burgess, D. D., bishop of Long Island, Dr. Wasson says he wishes to give his whole time to "fighting temperance falsely so-called, and advocating the true temperance, which means moderation and self control." CANAL FORTIFICATIONS Government Will Spend Millions to Guard Panama Property. STRONG COAST DEFENSE Government Cannot Afford to Leave $500,000,000 Investment to the Mercy Washington, D. C.—President Taft has recommended to congress an appropriation pt. $4,000,000 be made immediately available for the work of fortifying the Panama canal. The total cost of the work will be $14,000,000, and it is to be completed in three years and six months, at which time it is estimated the construction of the canal proper will be completed. When opened to navigation the canal will bristle with the most modern and powerful means of defense that modern military strategists have been able to work out. While the plans for the fortification of the big ditch can be given in only the most general terms, enough may be set forth to show that Uncle Sam is not going to leave the work half done, or, in other words, complete the house without providing for fire insurance. In addition to the hidden forts with their disappearing guns, of larger calibre than any now in use; the submarine wits the most powerful explosives ever invented; the most wonderful fire control to direct the shots of the battery; the instruments for telephone, telegraphic and radio communication between the land and naval forces; the most expert men in the land and sea forces to direct the work and handle the machines of destruction, there will be called into use all the modern inventions of aerial navigation, Including the aeroplane and dirigible balloon, to watch out for and report every movement of the enemy, and to carry messages and commanding officers from one vantage ground to another. No military man will contradict the axiom that it is the man behind the gun who wins the fight. Realizing this the military authorities have arranged to place along the Panama canal about 500 coast artillerymen. Every foot of the 53 miles of canal banks will be patrolled every hour of the day and night by these men who have a thorough technical knowledge of the defenses they are there to guard. Under their feet and over their heads will stretch telegraph wire putting them in instantaneous communication with headquarters. Almost at hand will be men who could defend against an army, or repair any serious breeches in the works of the canal. Off the west entrance to the canal and about three miles out in the Pacific ocean are three islands. On these will be erected forts to command the entrance to the canal. On each will be erected a hidden fort, manned by a protected garrison. Four great 14-inch guns are to be installed on these islands, mounted on disappearing carriages, and worked by a perfect system of fire control which protects the gunners. These guns are now being proved at Sandy Hook. The 14-inch guns will carry at least 10 miles, therefore, the western entrance of the canal will be protected with a radius of 13 or 14 miles, a greater distance than any from which a modern battleship can make an effective fight. But in addition to the guns of the forts on the island, the water between these outposts and the mouth of the canal will be threaded with lines of submarine mines, some to be worked by electricity from the forts, others which will explode by contact. This system of submarine defense will be more elaborate than any ever devised for the protection of a port or harbor. Two torpedo boats at each entrance of the canal will be about the only floating defense that will be constantly maintained to guard the canal. On the Carribean sea side, the eastern side of the canal, the plans of defense will not be so elaborate. The inland forts will have, in addition to the batteries of small guns, four of the great 14-inch guns. The system of submarine defense will not be so elaborate, nor will the range of effectiveness of the big guns be as extensive as on the western side of the canal. The torpedo boats and the submarine mines will be maintained. At the canal will be maintained airships to transport officers to danger points; and swift launches to aid in quickly mobilising the army. The war lords of the army and navy war college hold that after the country spends $500,000,000 on the canal it should not be left at the mercy of an enemy. DEVICES FOR CHEATING. New York City—Some things that add to the high cost of living are shown in the quarterly report of Acting Chief McCoy of the bureau of weights and measures. Nearly 400 violations of the laws are reported. One shortage of 4 1-2 quarts out of a supposed 30 quarts of milk was discovered, and one coal dealer was found short in weight four times in a month. Devices for cheating included measures containing false bottoms, while weights were found to be drilled out and the holes filled in with wax and blackened over, some four ounces short on the pound. --- ADVERTISING THE SOUTH. Atlanta, Ga.—In connection with the work it is doing in exploiting the resources of the south with the purpose of attracting desirable settlers, the Southern Railway company announced that during the coming fall it will make displays of southern products at a number of important fairs in the north and west where they will be witnessed by at least a million people outside the south. At the Ohio Valley exposition to be held at Cincinnati, October 29 to September 24, the Southern Railway company, co-operating with other railway companies of the south, will make a very large exhibit. Arrangements have been made for over twenty thousand square feet of floor space in which it is planned to install just as complete exhibits as possible of the agricultural, horticultural, mineral, forest-and manufactured products of the south. Attractive photographs will also be used to exploit the resources and beauties of the soluturn country. In addition to this joint display at Cincinnati, the Southern Railway company will make a number of displays at other expositions and important fairs where it is likely the greatest number of people can be reached and shown the possibilities and opportunities which await them in the south along the lines of the Southern and its allied roads. The co-operation of the people of the south is needed and requested in making these exhibits as attractive, complete and convincing as they should be, and it is hoped that they, will give this co-operation by contributing specimens and samples of products which will aid in showing the resources of the country. Samples of agricultural products of high class, together with information about yields, cultivation and returns are especially wanted. M. V. Richards, land and industrial agent, Washington, D. C., will make the exhibits for the Southern Railway system and all who are interested should communicate with him, giving information about the material they can furnish, so that proper instructions may be given as to shipping products for display. It is important that every section be properly represented and commercial bodies, agricultural organizations and citizens generally interested in the growth of their localities are invited to promote the interests of their particular sections by working for a thorough representation. The representatives of the Southern's land and industrial department in the south are: W. L. Henderson, Mobile, Ala; O. J. Stephens, Macon, Ga; T. B. Thackson, Bristol, Tenn; and J. F. Hays, Brevard, N. O. A letter to any of them or to Mr. Richards will receive prompt attention. The determination of the Southern Railway company to make such extensive exhibits of the resources and products of the south at expositions and fairs in the north and west this fall is due to the splendid results received from such work in the past. Since its organization in 1894 the Southern Railway company has made exhibits of the products of the country along its lines at nearly fifty expositions and fairs, both in the United States and Europe. In this work the company has expended a large amount of money, believing this to be one of the best methods of advertising the southern states. These displays have done most effective "boosting" for all portions of the south reached by the company's lines and many settlers and industries can be traced directly to them. ROOSEVELT'S HOMECOMING. "Hot Time" Reception In Preparation for Ex-President. New York City—It will be to the strains of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" the very strange battle hymn that inspired the American troops in their charge up San Juan Hill, that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will be welcomed back to New York, on June 18. That welcome will come, too, from the men who heard it played with him on the battlefield, the Roosevelt Rough Riders' Announcement was made by Captain Arthur F. Cosby, secretary of the Roosevelt reception committee, that assurances have been received from nearly three hundred of the Rough Riders that they will be on hand. To the Rough Riders has been accorded the honor of acting as the export to the former president in the land parade, which will be the feature of the celebration on his return. Tales of the Rough Riders are just now at a premium, and one attributed to Colonel Roosevelt 'himself, tolling of an unfortunate comrade, who wrote for help, is the best. "Dear Colonel," wrote the soldier. "I am in trouble. I shot a lady in the eye, but I did not intend to hit the lady. I was shooting at my wife." Educated Chimpanzee Dead. Portland, Ore—Charles L, the famous educated cildempanzee, valued at $75,000, which has been exhibited all over the world, was suffocated in a car while en route from Seattle to this city. The animal was found dead when the car was opened, the heat from a steam radiator having proved too much for it. Charles I smoked cigarettes and signed his own name. Whale Snks Shlp. Juneau, Alaska—The whaler Sorenson, owned by the Teeo Whaling Company of San Francisco was wrecked by a blow from the tail of a harpooned whale off Cape Ormaney, and sank in four minutes, giving the crew barely time to escape in the small boats. The Guaranty Aid and Relief Society Treasury of State of Georgia The unmistakable Treasurer of the State of Georgia, hereby acknowledges to have received point of evidence of the following described transactions, wevel: Dear Regent and Treasurer of the State of Georgia, Elegant, Gracious (Stylish Dear Regent) 1780, in connection with the sale of the property G. O. O. Ex-Governor Will Not Enter the Governor's Race. ISSUES PUBLIC STATEMENT Hoke Smith Declares That Personal Reasons Are Responsible For Him Not Making the Race For Governor. Atlanta, Ga. — Former Governor Hoke Smith issued a statement in which he declared that he will not be a candidate for the office of governor in the election this fall. Without going into details, Mr. Smith states that "personal reasons," which would prohibit him from mak- T. ING a personal canvass of the state in the campaign, are responsible for his not making the race at this time. He also states that the principle which he advocated in both his campaigns have been enacted into law. Mr. Smith's statement is considered as final, and puts an end to the speculation which has been rife throughout the state for months past as to whether or not he would be a candidate for the office of governor. The former governor says: "During the past two weeks I have received requests in various forms urging me to enter the race for governor, and convincing me that an extended movement has begun to cause my candidacy for that office. "While I deeply appreciate the purpose of those engaged in this movement, as I cannot see my way at this time to become a candidate, I wish to spare them useless trouble. "But for the conviction that certain legislation then in the public mind was absolutely necessary to the permanent welfare of the people of the state, I would not have entered the first race. The second race was pre- BOL. C. JOHNSON, Supt. of Ageno cipitated before I had been in office nine months, and I entered it from a sense of duty. "Before the close of my two years as governor the important measures for which the contest of 1906 was made had been accomplished, and the principles embodied in them will remain the policy of the state. "If my individual preferences alone were involved, I would yield them without hesitation, and comply with any call made upon me by that splendid body of men who stood together so loyally in 1906 and again in 1907 for the reforms in question, and who went down with me in the last election be fore forces of opposition which I cannot believe can again be combined. "But there are other reasons of a personal nature which prevent my entering a heated political contest at the present time. "While I cannot now consent to enter the race for governor, I wish to assure my friends and fellow-citizens of the regret it causes, me not to comply with their wishes, and of my readiness out of office to serve them in any way possible. I shall be ready at all times to take active part in the support of measures which will promote good government whenever the opportunity is given." IMPORTANT SCHOOL DECISION School Boards Must District All or None of County. Appling, Ga.—There is no authority in law for a county board of education to lay off one school district and leave the rest of the county undistricted, according to a decision handed down by the supreme court in the case of Lansdell and others against Tax Collector King of Columbia county. According to the act amended in 1906 the boards of education are required to district every county in the state. The board of education of Columbia county laid off three districts, left the rest of the county undivided and sought to collect local school tax from those districts. COLORED FARMERS' UNION. Organization Plans to Care for Interests of Negro Planters. Macon, Ga. — A Georgia Colored Farmers' Union is promised in the organizing of a number of colored farmers at Loralne. Application has been made in Bibb superior court here. It is planned to have divisions and county organization all over the state and the business of the organization will be to take care of the interests of the colored farmers. President Greets Mrs. Longstreet Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet of Gainesville, widow of the noted Confederate general, was at the white house, and had an interview with President Taft. When she left she carried an autograph photograph of the president, given to be sold for the benefit of the memorial fountain being erected at Gainesville to C. C. Sanders, a famous regimental commander of Longstreet's immortal first corps of the army of Northern Virginia. GEORGIA NEWS NOTES. On May 21 the statue to the memory of the late Samuel W. Spencer, first president of the Southern railway, killed in a wreck in 1906, while he held that office, will be unveiled on the plaza of the Terminal station, Atlanta, with appropriate ceremonies. The statue, which represents Mr. Spencer seated in what might be an office chair, was purchased with the individual contributions of thirty thousand employees of the railroad system which represents the work of his life. Advices received at Waycross from Washington state that just as soon as practicable the preliminary surveys of the Satilla river from its mouth to the Atlantic Coast Line trestle will be made. This is for the purpose of determining the feasibility of using a portion of the river in a barge canal proposition, by which Waycross hopes to get in communication by water with the Atlantic ports. An increase of from fifty to one hundred per cent in crop yields is expected in Ware and Pierce counties as a direct result of following directions of the bureau of plant industry of the department of agriculture. Dr. J. E. W. Smith, who is special agent for the bureau work in the counties named, states that from the interest and co-operation shown he is satisfied the results will be as good if not better than the showing in Bulloch county last year. An average yield of one hundred bushels of corn to the acre is an accomplishment being worked for in Ware and Pierce, and it is believed yields of the next season or two will come up to this. The farmers find it easier to cultivate their land so as to grow a greater amount on a smaller space than usual, thus cutting down their funning expenses. Corn is already the leading crop in Ware and is fast improving in quality and quantity. Cotton in almost all parts of the county will be a late crop. The damage by cold was not great, but the dry weather made the growing cotton backward. Replanting has been found necessary in only a few instances. A new idea in penology has been advanced by the board of commissioners of Floyd county, who want to dress all the men prisoners received at the Floyd county jail in "Mother Hubbard wrappers. The board has sought legal advice to learn whether or not it has the power to deprive the men of their clothes. There have been frequent complaints of late that the jail is in a filthy condition and the prisoners infested with vermin. The board believes that the kimona effect in dress will enable the jailers to keep the prisoners clean and that the unique garb would prevent escapes from the joll, as the sight of a man strolling down the street in a loose wrapper would doubtless create a sensation. All records, except during Christmas time, for seizures of stills were broken by the revenue officers for April, one hundred and six stills being raided. The seizures for the fiscal year will probably amount to one thousand. 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Let us Figure on your Next Order for Job Printing Work Delivered Promptly An effort to pump "the bottomless well" dry was made at Dalton, and after several hours' work with a pump capable of bringing up two thousand gallons of water per hour, the attempt was given up as a bad job. The well is located in the northwest.ern part of Dalton, and it is believed that an underground river flows through it. When the well was being dug some time ago, a portion of the bottom "fell out" and a roaring sound similar to the sound made by a water fall was distinctly heard. A larger pump will be attached to the engine near the well and another test will be made within a short time. If the well pans out the city may in the future get its water supply from it. It is understood that the census of Macon for 1910, which has just been completed, will show that this city has doubled in population in the last ten years. This will make the present population of the city not less than forty-five thousand. Optimistic public officials and well-posted citizens had hoped that the increase would be even greater, but it is now understood that the returns will give Macon about forty-five thousand six hundred, and Bibb county about seventy-five thousand. This will be the most remarkable gain made by any city in the state. Comptroller General W. A. Wright was in receipt of a letter from the tax collector of Taylor county, to the effect that there were several hundred bales of cotton in a warehouse in his town for which he could find no owner. He wanted to know of the comptroller how he could collect the taxes due. the state on the cotton. General Wright advised him that, if he would have fl. fas. issued, looking to the sale of the cotton for taxes, he would probably not be long in discovering an owner for it. SS === |some time, and to-night is a good], When the door opened, she saw the i 7 3 @ 7 , @ tlme—you'll be alone. I am going] girl mother enter joyously, ready to, THE«PULPIT, upllts the wenld Je face Be deca what ~ | © down to the shop. You will-find me|be welcomed. And she jsaw vividly 2 ee ss eer sotto tperson.can dou He ‘offers © | ° [there tt xo want me.” her Grandmother Bell, sitting there | °° «237 *. — Jaivine forgiveness to -every sin-sick © She took the books and glanced at] at one. corner of the dining-room |-A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON SY|soul. Who can measure the meaning a2 eS © them curlously, At the door he| table, gloomlly ighted by a emall | ~\ ' REV... D. WALTER, Se that erent sacricee upon tne cree © i - paused. “Don’t fall asleep before} Kitchen lamp, eating bread and but- ; cos : _M an By Leila M. Church. Y oem read them, and drop them into|ter with a cup of cold tea, her severe fat pen eae aps to each of our lives’ Tf we place the neslng of the ety Te saod ne corner. by one dormer-window, through which one might see entranc- ing pictures of swaying elm tops, blue sky, and far away the line of the bills. ‘The bed itself, a resurrection, was the mother's pride. Its four slender posts were draped with a wonderfully clever imitation of that which had dressed it seventy-five years earlier. And the yalance, with quaint little knotted fringe that the mother had * searched the efty over to find, and the shéet and pillow cases beautifully embroidered with the daughter's monogram—all standing waiting and ready. “fsn't it all just too lovely?” said the mother, delightedly, And then, + with a little anvious note in her voice, “Do you think she will Ike It?”", ‘The father stood in the doorway, looking on. “Why, yes; how can she help it?" she .answered, hopefully. Being a inan, he was optimistic. The next day the daughter would return from her long absence from home, a visit of a few weeks with cousins in a distant town. Together now the mother and father stood, to examine and to appreciate all the de- talls of the great surprise. The room had always been the daughter's, since she had been old enough to discover how /fascinating a third-floor room is, with four dor- mer-windows, but the mother had found the possibilities. With all the ardor of a girl planning her lons- dreamed ideal of a room, she had “vought, selected, sorted ‘and ban- ‘ished, till now it was perfected, the last thing was done. It was father who hed the fireplace fitted In, with fts high, colonial man- tel, and he also contributed the and- irons. ‘The mother selected the paper, with its riot of roses and buds over walls and sloping ceiling alike, and she had covered the high-backed rockers and low chair herself with the flowered cretonne exactly like the pa- per. The mirror was Great-Grand-| mother Drake's, and the candlesticks at each end of the mantel; but the dressing-table—not even father knew how much she bed paid for that from ‘ther own allowance. The old dresser hhad been in the room before, but it looked quite different in its new cov- er, and little’ new bedroom slippers peeped from beneath the valance of the bed. With appreciative eyes they both studied the room. Over the mantel was a dark old portrait of Grandfa- ther Drake as a young man, in high collar and satin ‘stock, with sloping shoulders and fancy waistcoat. The ‘oval frame was dull gilt and effective. The mother was doubtful about it. —she feared it was hung too high— then she wondered if the daughter would care for it, although she had always been such'a great admirer of Grandfather Drake. Once the daughter chad said she wished .she might have certain old photographs of her father and moth- er. On each side of the mirror, and directly over the candlesticke cn the dressitg-table, was a small, oval frame like that of Grandfather Drake’s picture’ only in one of these ‘was a demure Ittle maid, with parted hair, and low-necked, short-sleeved gown, showing dimpled arms and shoulders, and in the other the dear- est, pudgiest, round-faced and won- arously kilted little father, “Weren't sou the dearest thing?” cried the mother, giving him a sud- den little hug. “«T don’t know,” he answered, smil- ing, “but I am quite sure you were.” “Do you think she will like it?” she repeated again, after a pause in which she took in’ every detail, the result of weeks of planning and hard work and anxious effort to please. “It is Just the sort of rdom I should have liked.” ‘The next dey was cold, with alter- nating downpours of rain and fog. ‘The {ather left late in the afternoon for the depot, arriving a full half- . hour early, that he might be there in time for the train.” At home everything was aglow with light and warmth. “The dining-room table was lald with the best silver and china and the new table-cloth, and was lighted softly from the can- delabra, which were heirlooms of great value. The library fire snapped anderackled cheerily, and on the piano and on the table in the hall Were bowls of carnations, A new Picture hung at the stair landing. Searethinag was seats. Watia ot erat @ 9. and the father made a great pretense, of kicking off his rubbers. Ther, the daughter extricated herself and looked around. . She was a perfectly healthy, fresh, nice-looking girl of about nineteen, with clear, gray eyes, a rather round face and a pretty color. People said that, with a few changes fn her halr and a slight tightening of the lips, she might resemble strongly her mother's mother, Grandmother Bell. “My, but aren’t you all ablaze here!” she said, cheerily. “And | flowers—why, Mother Drake, how er- travagant!” : fhe mother’s face grew sober a trifle. “Shall I go right up, mother? 1 want to get into something comfort- able.” “Yes, dear, Father will carry Jour bag." The father and mother exchanged a very knowing glance. The daugh- ter started for the stairs, and they eagerly, trying to appear unobtrusive and above suspicion, followed, At the first flight he put down the bag, and they finished the last flight at a gal- lop, close at the hecls of the daugh- ter. Hand in hand, with pleased, ex- pectant smiles, they stood in the door- way, peering in as the daughter en- tered. The fireplace, where a small log was cheerlly burning, sent out a soft glow, aided by the candles on the dressing-table. The dull frames of the pictures sparkled bravely in places. One chair was drawn coni- fortably to the fireplace, while anoth- er gtood invitingly near. Flowers were on the table, and the bed showed snowy and tempting, with its fittings beautifully embroidered with the monogram of the daughter. They watched her stand, amazed, and look slowly around the room. ‘Tarning suddenly, she saw them ‘there in the doorway. OMEONE has asked the question, “What is a friend?” S It is the,fellow who will inconvenience himself for you. It is the man who will] sit by your bedside when your frame has been touched by disease. It is the man who will come to you when the clouds are black, when the muttering thunder of misfortune growls along the sky. It is the man who says, “Don’t be discouraged; I'll see you out.” It fs not the man who will do you a kindness only when he feels he will get back full pay for services rendefed. Remember that all who write their names in seript in your friendship album are not your friend. Sproat tetces ? shaghp ety ° patgtencopcincs ° haGbea tat de © agate cb: sae A apdapeter dap ape ese A acs, Derr ter a silence that was breathless on the part of those without. “Why, what made you do it? I am afraid you'll get all tired” out, mottir. Seems to me you don’t look quite as well as usual to-night,” scatining re- provingly the face of tho one stand- ing in the doorway, whose pretty color had almost entirely disappeared. “It is very nice, I am sure,” she continued, going up to the fire to in- vestigate that. “You're a great per- son for surprises, mother, New pa- ‘per, although I really think Llike the old paper better, I had it so long, dad, and new curtains, and I see you have the same old bureau. But where on earth did»you get the bed?” There was a pause, when the mother tried bravely several times to say something. At last, murmur- ing an Incoherent remark about din- ner, she turned apd fled. The father found her at one corner of the library sofa, staring straight ahead and with one hand tightly clenched over a ball of a handker- chief. He smiled whimsically. “How about it?” he asked. "Do you think you are going to cry?” She shook her head mutely. Then each, seeing tho anxious face of the other, suddenly began to laugh, to Jaugh long‘and heartily at the whoje situation. “anyway, you are better off than Tam,” he sald. finally. “She spoke of the bed, but she didn't say any- thing about the fireplace.” And he put his hands reflectively deep into his pockets. ‘The mother only laughed, but it ended with a little sob that caught at her throat. One evening a few days later ‘the mother was talled away to a sick friend. The daughter brought her books to the Itbrary, where the father stood, rather aimlessly moving about the table. Ever since the night of her arrival home, the father had acted queerly, tt seemed to the daugh- ter. Often, after a long sober pause; she would find him studying her in- tently, as if there were something he could not understand. . Of course the mother was always mother, one expected her to be what she was, That day one of her girl friends, whom she had taken up- stairs to show her new room, had re- marked, “What ‘a perfectly lovely mother you have! If I had a mother, and oné, like yours, I should be the Wiapplest’ person on earth! I should love her to pieces!” The daughter had taken it as a matter of course, and -smiled care- lessly at her orphan friend's ravings. The father went to the safe, and after a short search, brought back to the table two little leather-covered books, worn and’ old-looking. He called'the daughter to him. | “Here Js soisatnins I should es you'to“fedd to-night—I think you vyill find these .interesting. I H}ve dv veawst meant ¢ fave sou send then “WHAT IS A FRIEND? some time, and to-night fs a good time—you’ll bé alone, I am going down to the shop. You will-find me there it you want me.” * "She took the books and glanced at them curiously, At the door he paused. “Don't fall asleep before you read them, and drop them into the fire,” he’ added, humorously. “They are precious.” “No, indeed, I won't, father! What are.they?” But he had gone. She opened one of the books. The name on the fly-leat caught her atten. tlon—“Cornelia Bell, Diary for 188—." How ‘odd, how interesting! she thought. Mother’s diary! She drew her chair to the open grate, then abandoned ft and dropped to the hearth-rug, where she began to read. It was the later diary she read first, the happy chronicle of the moth- er’s first meeting with the father, of their growing friendship, her shy de- light In the secret of her love for him, and later, exultant and awed joy over the, precious thought of his love. ‘Tender, shy and quaint emo- tions were expressed in those pases, the story of a maid and a man in their: beautiful youth, one’s father and mother. * , ‘The daughter was conscious of queer little thrills of Interest as she read of these things, little Intimate manners and tender caresses, when they were new and strange and won- dertul. It was like the most entranc- Ing love story. And to think it was father and mother! It made one’s.heart grow big and soft and eager to love. “Dear old dad!” she murmured with a smile, as she read an eloquent account of a charming necktle he wore in his youth. She understood now why mother and father each must ever be young to the other. She finished the book and gazed dreamily into the fire. New thoughts, new {deas came into her mind. “What a very fascinating girt mother must have been!” she said, aloud. For a long time she thought deeply over what she had read. Precious indeed they must seem to father, these books. - After a while she opened the other diary, written before father bad ap- peared in her Mfe. Grandmother Bell, whom the daughter had stood in awe of most of her life, figured strongly in the pages. She felt that she never understood before how lonely her mother had been as a girl, although she had al- ways known that her childhood had not been particularly happy. She could see why she had been so lonely in spirit, the mother as agirl was so entirely different from her brother, who was a good deal of a prig, and from her Puritan mother. ‘The daughter smiled as she read in one place, “To-day mother re- ceived a letter from her friend, Sarah Smith, who isca terribly good wo- man. She wrote she had been to visit a poor, sick woman, bedridden over twenty years, who believed in the Life Everlasting, but Uked to have some one come fn now and then. I laughed. Mother said, I laughed just Mke all the Bells, the worst think she thought she could say to meee In another place she read, ‘What I like about Thanksgiving and Christ- mast and New-year’s and Fourth of July is that it is a hollday, and you dress up, but you can sew and do things. ‘Sundays there are so few things you tan do. I know some girl: who always make candy. I shall let my girls make candy, week in, week out, night and day, if they like.” And again: “I sald td mother,.‘T always make believe I am a buteher slicing off cold boiled ham when’I cut bread, don't you?’ Mother was disgusted. ‘No, she said, coldly, ‘I have no desire tc be a butcher.” Sometimes sentences or paragraphs caught the daughter's eye. The tear: sprang quick to her eyes as she sa¥ her successful, rather pompous Unck John in the lnes, “When we were ready to go, John kissed his wife nodded awkwardly to me, and said coldly. ‘Well, good-by.” T.get so hun. gry for something to love and hug and squeeze, and never let go. 1 ‘wonder if I had a husband if he would kiss me good-by.”” ‘The daughter remembered that the mother’s husband was equal to the most affectionate, and was glad. The pages that interested the daughter most contained an accoun' of 8 home-coming of her mother from a short visit. Never before had she realized how much it might mean to one who Joved all the little beaut: jes and graces of Ife to live sur. rounded by those who néver dreamed, never idealized, and lived in a small world of plain outlines. She was with her mother, in the pages of the diary, on the car of her :Feturnhome. She saw the eager girl, in imagination, with a love for home, in spite of all, a desire to seo het mother and tell her of her visit, o! the things that had happened, and tc show the little gift’ she had dented herself to bring home withsher. She could hardly wait to open the door sll eagerness, all smiles, _ 9 © ® ‘When the door opened. she saw the her Grandmother Bell, sitting there at one corner of the dining-room table, gloomily lighted by a small kitchen lamp, eating bread and but- ter with 2 cup of cold tea, her severe face not softened In the Jeast by her dark woolen dress. The daughter could see her look of amazement as the girl mother entered; ‘she could, hear her say, “Why, what made you come-home to-night? I didn’t expect you till to-morrow.” And then, when the wonderful gitt was produced, a new table-cloth, that appeared to have been wished. for, and representing a sacrifice of long- saved money, she could see her un- fold {t slowly, almost severely. rub one corner between her two hands, hold it up to the light, spread it out, and say, “What made you spend your money, Cornelia? I had hoped you would get a new hat. The table: cloth is very nice, though I never cared much for the snowdrop pat~ tern, How large fs it?” ‘The daughter laughed." It sounded exactly Mke Grandmother Bell. ‘The mother had written out her heart's burden in her {ttle diary. At the end of this eplsodéshe wrote, “When I have girls I shall just le awake nights planning how I can make them happy, and everything as bright and pleasant for them as I can, I tvall let them do as they please, and try every way to please them. But perhaps, after all, they won't care, like mother.” ‘The other affair—when the girl in the diary had made a dressing-sack, for a surprisé for her mother, and spread it out invitingly in the best front room, and written a series of notes containing directions as to how to find it. The daughter laughed to think of the grandmother running from pineushiqn to parlor vase, from teapot to chalr-cushion, each time finding a note telling where to go next. -"T should think Grandmother Bell would have been dizzy,” she thought. At last, when’ she found the dress ing-sack in the front bedroom, she said to the girl mother, “The shades are up and the sun is fading the carpet. How long has that been like that? The dressing-sack is all well enough, but don’t ever leave the shades up again like that.” After finishing the diary, the daughter sat still on the hearth-rug for a long time. She thought of all she had read and learned of the: cheerless life that must have been her mother's, of her sensitive tem- perament, her love of the beautiful, and the austere Grandmother Bell. ‘The words kept repeating themselves in her mind, “Perhaps they won't care!”—the girls whonf she had planned to’do so much for. The daughter suddenly - realized how much the mother had done for her one girl, what a dear, lovély, charming mother she was, taken al- ways as a matter of course. She felt now that she never had appreciated her, she had been like Grandmother Bell. Tears came to her eyes and rolled’ unheeded down her cheeks, staining their pink ‘roundness. She looked at the picture of the mother on father’s desk, mother in her wed- ding-gown, as she was at the begin- ning of a newer and a happigr life. She clasped the little books against her wet cheek. ‘Dear girl mother,” she said, softly. “I do love you.”” Suddenly she rose and went in search of father. Along the halls she crept Softly, quickly, as if she feared some one would steal away the beautiful thoughts that kept crowding into her mind. Father was in his workshop, in the basement, where he Iked to think he made things, and where he framed pictures sometimes, and had a good time, She opened the door, filled with the thoughts of her mother, and went to him. “Father,” she said, softly, her eyes still bright with the tears of her emotion. He did not hear her at first. When sho called again, and laid her face against ‘his shoulder, he looked up. He put his arm round her and drew her to him. “Pather,” she said, again. ‘This time there was a little break in her voice. “I have read the books, and can’t I—can't we—oh, let us do some- thing for mother—quick!"—The Wenthte fimnantin os WORDS OF WISDOM. Love your neighbors. You can al- ways get more out of them that way. . When a woman weeps she wondérs Why there ins't a,second.deluge. ~ ‘The only readoh some men are not gluttons 1s because they are dyspep- ties. The man who thinks seriously, of marriags is likely to remain 4 bach- elor. ae Dead men fell no tales, but the same can't be said of their biogra- phers. . ‘The tallest shaft in the cemetery isn’t going to take 4 man any nearer heaven. . It is impossible to buy happiness, but that is no reason why. we should go by it. -* i ‘What has been done once can be done again, and with the bill col- lector it usually‘ ts. Many a man whose aim Jn life fs to acquire riches proves to be a mighty poor shot. _ It is necessary to strike the average man below the beit if you want to reach his pocketbook, i It is probably the uncertainty of the future that prompts women to cry at weddings and funerdls.—From “Musings of @ Gentle Cynic,” ‘in ‘the New York. Times: _ 7 THE :PULPIT, A BRILLIANT. SUNDAY senuon 8Y ~, REV.-F. D. WALTER. ‘Theme: Power of tie Cross. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Sunday the Rev. Frank, Duwell Walter, who was ap- pointed from’ South Norwalk, Conn., to. the pastorate of Simpson MM. E- Church to succeed the Rev. Dr. W. J. ‘Thompson, preached in the morning his opening’sermon. His subject was “The Power of the ,Uplifted Cross.” The text was from John 12:32: “And I, {f,1 be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.” Br, Walter said: This ‘text contains the pith and marrow of Christianity. The whole yorld has stood before the uplifted Cross, and felt the magnetism of Christ. “His power eludes scientists. baffles philosophers aud defeats the invislble powers of darkness. Many of His enemies have been willing to concede that He was a good man, but they can find no explanation of how 'He opens the eyes of the blind, makes bad men good, lifts the nations off their hinges and leads them.to new ideals. Ralph Waldo Emerson puts Jésus upon a plane with Caesar, Plato and Shakespeare, but Charles’ Lamb is not content with this characteriza- tion. He beautifully states the case when he says, “If Shakespeare should enter this room, we would all greet him, If Jesus’ Christ entered we would all fall down in adoration and seek to touch thé hem of His gar- mient.” No theory which falls to recognize the divinity of Jesus Christ can ever explain His life and work among the children of men. These words become the idte utter- ance of a visionary dreamer if wo co not premise them ‘with Christ's di- vinity. He would be classed as a self-opinionated boaster and imposter of the first order. What would we think 6f a young man, thirty years -old, uttering such words as these found in the tert? How did He pro- pose to do this wonderful work? By death upon the Cross. Ix it reason- able to suppose that He could do more by His death than He could by His Mfe?_ What human power could He command that was able to accomplish such a task? Christ came from a small nation. He had no armies to carry out His plans. His peopla had no great philosophers, law makers or reformers with which to undertake this great work. They were pract!- cally dead in the Iterary world at that time, Reformers ordinarily do not come from a nation with such a standing. 2 ‘Think for a moment of the Roman power with which Christ had to con- tend, Rome was the conqueror of nations. She was mistress of the sea. She had met Greece and shattered her armies, She had swept down upon Egypt and carried away her glory. She had marched north and destroyed the Northmen and the German tribes. She had made both the East and the ‘West tremble at the tread of her armies, What could a mere human Christ hope to accomplish against such a power? That He did purity society, uplift the nations and bring in a reign of righteousness proves conclusively that He must be divine. Let us view Christ fn history, It 1s a good thing for us occasionally to close our Bibles and stand out under the vaulting arch of history and be- hold what Christhasdone. We cannot study the great problem of history without coming face, to face with Jesus Christ. The mdvements of his- tory are an enigma’ until we put Christ in the centre of them, There was a tiny seed planted long ago in Eden. It grew until its branches spread over many nations. Its leaves were for the healing of the nations, its bud of promise so beautifully manifested in the Old Testament burst forth into full bloom in the life and work of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, until to-day all peo- ples delight themselves in the sweet fragrance and purifying power of Jesus Christ and His Gospel. The pleture of Jesus with His dis- elples never grows ‘old. We can be- hold Him training them in the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, They walk up and down Palestine in com- pany “with this wonderful man and behold the marvelous miracles which He performs. They come to worship ‘Him as the Soh ot God. When He disappears from” their vision, they tarry at Jerusalem until the Spirit descends upon them, and then they go forth to preach Ghrist and break the bread of, lite to the world. Three thousand are converted in one day at. Pentecost, They make the lame to walk, the bifnd to see, the deaf to hear and the poor to refoice that the Gospel is preached to them, Martyrs walk courageously to the stake and die shouting Christ’s praises. Herolc spirits spring into the Christian arena and rejoice that they are counted worthy to suffer in His name. One hundred years after the death of Jesus, Justin bears this testimony: “here is not a single raco of men, whether Barbarlans or Greeks, or lifts tha world Jn fuat He docs what uplifts the w Hé does Ww) setothde fperson. ty day He ‘offers divine forgiveness to every sin-sick soul. Who can measure the meaning of that great’ sacrifice upon the cross? What relation does this death bear to each of our lives? It we place the same meaning upon this fact which Jesus did, we shall count {t' the*cen- tral point of all history. The cross came into His vision when He was a mere child, and it nover passed ‘from ‘His sight until He was crucified upon it. He came to write with a bold hand one supreme word for which the world had searched for centuries. ‘They had hoped for it. ‘They *had dreamed about it, He wrote it:with His own blood. H2 wrote it so clear- ly that the world could not “mistake its meaning. It blazed ott with ao divine-intensity and Muminéd“a-very stnfal and weary goul. {t was. the divine word forgiveness." =~ We little reallzo what this word meant to the world im that day. Their gospel had been “an-eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” ‘This word struck a new note in their religious life, Jesus mounted upon the cross and sath one mighty sweep! He brushed away all the trappings of the Mosaic law. Its ceremontes,and puri- tyings now became a dead letter, He burst open the Holy of Holies and made it possible for every repentant soul to approach God. He revealed that for which the centuries had been rlooking. He manifested that for whieh "the heart had been hungry— the love of God. Never again need the world doubt God's love. “From every valley and hillside and hamlet I see the weary, burdened people pushing thelr way toward the cross, to find refuge under its shadow and to seek forgiveness through its sub- Ume sacrifice. It is the greatest mes- sage of the ages. How much this forgiveness means to the world to-day! It touches every, phase of our lives. Jt comes to‘the consclence and places tho enormity of sin by its side and, shcws its estimate in ths light of Biblical standards. It comes to the intellect, and, with the authority of Him who made the in- tellect, reveals the true way to the Father's heart. It comes to the heart and with an infinite pathos and power. shows the love and mercy of the ‘in- finite God. It. fits every side of our lives, Christ forgives vvery mean ec- tion, every sinful deed, every neg- lected duty, and every unkind word. He forgives the sins we Have com- mitted against ourselves, egainst our’ brothers and against our God. He blots them out so completely that neither our own fearfulness, por our strong enemles’ power, nor our self- reproach can reveal them. He buries them so deep that nothing ip heayen. or in earth can-eyer resurrect them. Dig down as deep as you can and you will never find even the skeleton’ of the lifeless dust of your sins. Tho evil heart which {s the fountain of sin will be purified and made white as the snow, so that forever after there will {issue forth pure and right- eous actions, ‘The old famillar hymn states the Christian's experience beautifully: My God fs reconciled, ‘ is pardoning voice T hear, 4 He owns me for His ehild, I can no longer fear, we With confidence I now draw near,, +. And Father, Abba, Father cry. Like Him. Change Into His image! Not per~ fectly—oh, never perfectly in this world. = The refiected image of the sun, in the lakes fs very different from ‘the sun In the heavens. If he ceases to shine, as when a cloud passes over his face, the image fn the water. Is lost. If'you disturb the smooth sur- face of the lake, the likeness of the sun will be broken into glimmering: fragments.’ Still it is the image of the gun. So it is with Christ's Ike- ness’in the heart of the bellever. , If a cloud of unbelief or worldliness comes between the image vatishes, ‘When the heart {s troubled by doubt or fear or sudden calamity, how bro- ken the Itkeness often is! But, whether dimly or brightly appearing, it Is Ikeness to, Jesus still. ~ And be not discouraged, dear Christian soul, it, after all’ these years, you can see nothing of the deautiful tmage in yourself. Let it comfort your heart to reflect that Jesus may see His likeness whera-we can hardiy discern it at all, just as the portrait of a child will sometimes seem better to a parent's eye than to q stranger's. There aro touches of resemblancg which only love.can see. Not that this should content us. We ought not to be satisfied with a lke ness which only the éyé of God can see. We must aim to be so Ilke Christ that all the world can see-Him in us. —Examiner. 7 F Baptized With Fire. When a lecturer on’ electricity wants to slow ati example of m hu- man body surrounded by, fire, ho Places a person on a stool with,‘glass legs. The glass sefves to fsolate him from the earth, because it’ wilt ‘not conduct the. fire—the electric: fiiid. Were it not for this, however much might be poured into his frame, it would be carried away by the easth, but when thus isolated from it he re~ tains all that enters‘him. You see no fire, you hear no fire, but you-are told that it is pouring into him. Pres- éntly you are challenged to the proof, asked to come near and hold your hand close to his person; when you do so, a spark of fire ghoots out-to- ward you. If thou, thin, woulést have thy soul surcharged, with the fire of God, so that those who come near thee shall feel some mysterfoys influence, proceeding out from thee, thou must draw nigh to the sotirce of that fire, to the throne of God and of the Lamb and shut thyself out from the'world —that cold ‘world which to syiftir ‘steals our fre away. “Enter into thy closet, and stiut to, thy door,” and there, isolated “before the throne,” await the baptism; then the-fira shall fill. thee; and, when thou. comest forth holy power will atténd thee, and thou shalt labor, not‘ jn thine own strength, but with-<‘demonstra- tion. of the Spirit, and swith, poyrer.” —Rov. W. Arthur. eas T whe Source! vs dle ~Many ‘men owe'-the*gratidéetr of their lives_to their. tremendonsallf- eultles—CaESpurcestady ouin THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE Entered at the Post Office at Savannah, Ga' as Second-Class mail matter. LAST week several soldiers at Fort Fremont, St. Helena, Island, S. C., visited a colored man's home and poured shots in it on account of some alleged threats, etc. The colored men in the house returned the fire and the result is that the soldiers were well peppered, and one of the colored men is lounging in jail, while the other is at large. The military authorities are investigating the matter, and we shall await their decision. It is asserted that the main cause of the trouble was the fondness of these soldiers for the colored women near the fort, which naturally the colored men resented, and who can blame them? This case is worse than that of Brownville, especially the cause of it. The Georgia State Industrial College and its President. In looking over the old files of THE TRIBUNE, we find that when the campaign was on for the establishing of the State College for colored youths, THE TRIBUNE was ardent in its advocacy of the location being in this community and contributed as liberally toward the fund then being raised as its ability permitted. This was done because we felt that the location of such an institution in this community meant much for its educational, social and moral uplift. After its establishment the columns of the paper were open and contained such articles as were conducive to the growth of the institution. The president and the faculty of the college were received with open arms by the citizens and everybody looked forward to an era of uplift for this community and state. The president before coming to this community, was at the head of the Waro High School, in Augusta. It is said that on account of his activity in partisan politics in that city, he caused the usefulness of that institution to wane; coming here directly from Augusta, with his reported troubles there, we felt that he would improve on account of his experience and do everything possible to keep the people together and labor solely for the upbuilding of the college and the uplifting of the students. The first year or two things were cordial out there and the citizens felt proud of the institution and rallied to the president's support. But alas! The political bee struck his bonnet, and he went deeply into factional politics. That caused the estrangement of a number of his supporters, not only here but all over the state. He did not succeed in his political fights. The interest of the college was placed above his political activities, and we continued our ardent support of the institution. Each recurring four years' he would enter a bitter contest-to be elected as a delegate to the national convention, and each time he would meet inglorious defeat, and at the same time diminish his supporters. In each of these contests we opposed the president of the college, and did so mainly because we felt that the head of such an institution should not dabble in word politics and above all should not lead factional fights simply for petty honors. In all our opposition to him, we did not fail to retain our interest in the college, and so it is today, despite of the fact that the president tried to make us wear stripes and to pay over to him a larger sum of money than we have ever had. Under the regime of its president, the college has not proven what it should. In comparison with similar institutions in other states it will be found to be deficient. Instead of the few hundred students in attendance, there should be over a thousand. Instead of the few collegiate, normal and industrial graduates turned out since its establishment, there should be hundreds. Instead of apathy among the graduates, there should be enthusiastic loyalty to the institution, and its president. Instead of many students finishing in other institutions, they should remain there. Instead of turmoil, charges and countercharges among the faculty, there should be complete har- mony. Instead of scores of boys and girls from this city going elsewhere to school, they should be out there. Instead of the apathetic disposition of the citizens toward the college, there should be loyal encouragement. Instead of a selfish head, there should be a broad minded, liberal and affable president. We have been informed that recently there have been unusual occurrences on the campus. The first part of the year, a member of the faculty had the temerity to give us a job of printing. This was received with frowns from the president. Somewhat later the students of the advanced classes gave an entertainment on the campus. To advertise it a committee of young men favored us with the printing. This was like flaunting a red flag in the face of an infuriated bull. We are told that he severely reprimanded the young men and it was noticed that immediately after the reprimand our imprint on the dodgers were erased. Now we will not make the charge that the honorable president caused this to be done. Many who heard of it were surprised to know that one of the students who had one of his fingers severely injured was not cared for except by the matron. This student was compelled to come to the city for medical attention. The physician on noticing his condition advised that his parents be sent for. The boy died shortly afterward, and the day that his remains left the city a game of baseball was in progress on the campus, and not a public word was uttered in memory of the unfortunate boy. It is reported that at a recent faculty meeting the president took up a piece of furniture with which it is supposed; to assault one of the instructors, who in the meantime had a chair with which to defend himself. Further trouble was averted but the words "rascal" and "soundrel" were prolifically used. A number of the citizens are riled about the suspension of one of the female students. She is reputed as one of the best and most docile members of her classes. It is said that the president used undue advantage in suspending her. It is reported that charges and countercharges have been preferred and that the commission will be kept busy investigating them. Considering all of these things the college can not be a success. The money spent there will amount to naught. For the good of the institution and for the benefit of the youths, of this State, the honorable commission should act. The fullest confidence of the people is stored in the members of the board and especially so in General Meldrim, who has proven his true friendship to us in more ways than one. A new head for the college would mean much for its future progress, and in saying so we want it distinctly understood that all feeling is cast to the wind and we speak solely for the best interest of the College, and in doing so we voice the sentiment of the substantial citizens of this community. This plea we respectfully refer to the commission, the members of which are gentlemen of affairs, practical in their views and who we know will only act in a way that will be conducive to the best welfare of all concerned. The Damons Thanksgiving Day One of the most progressive orders in the State is the Ancient Order Knights of Damon. In point of organization in this State it ranks third to the Masons and Odd Fellows. It has a fine set of officers who are working assidiously for its propagation. Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock its third annual thanksgiving service will be held at St. John Baptist Church and will be united in by all of the lodges, uniform ranks, Temples of Hermion Court, and Juveniles. Follow program will be carried out: Anthem by the Choir. Prayer by Master of Devotions, Henry Jackson, S. G. P. Opening Ode "When Damon stood in Syracuse" by the Order. Introductory remarks, Master of Ceremonies. a History of the Order, Chas. du Henri Fox, S. G. S. Music, Imperial Quartette. Address, Dr. N. W. Este, G. M. E. Address, Mrs. Maggie Williams. Music, "Stand up for Jesus," by the Order. Thanksgiving Sermon, Rev. Dr. William Gray, D. D. Mr. R. N. Rutledge, is S. G. C. and Mr. Chas. duHenri Fox, S. G. S. DOCTORS WERE HERE IN FORCE The Most Successful Session Ever Held The physicians, dentists, and pharmacists of the State were here in force this week attending the seventeenth annual session of the Georgia Medical Association. This was the largest and most successful session ever held. Seventeen years ago when Dr. H. R. Butler and other pioneers organized the association, they had no idea of its present wonderful growth. The doctors begun arriving Tuesday morning, and those who did so, were awarded by being taken in charge by their friends and shown proper courtesies. Tuesday night the opening exercises took place at the F. A. B. Church, Franklin square, and the program as printed was carried out with about two exceptions. The addresses especially of Drs. Roman, Brunner and Penn were well received. The singing was especially fine. Wednesday morning the business session was held, after which the program was carried out. A session was held in the afternoon at the college, where the visitors were entertained. This being the first visit of many of them and they were loud in their praise of its location and magnificence of its campus. Wednesday night a public session was held at St. Philip Monumental Church. The edifice was crowded and many were turned away. The program was well enjoyed, especially the singing. The memory of Drs. S. P. Loyd and B. J. Simmons were properly honored. Several of the physicians attended the banquet given in honor of Dr. H. R. Butler, who is Grand Master of Masons, at Masonic Temple. It was quite an event, and a most enjoyable time was had. Thursday morning another session was held where papers were read and discussed. After this session, the members accepted an invitation from Dr. W. F. Brunner, our health officer, to visit the city laboratory which is in charge of Dr. Bassit. In the afternoon the doctors were complimented with a boat ride around the herbor. A stop was made at Daufuskie, where lunch was served by a committee of ladies. The trip was an enjoyable one, it being the first trip of the kind that many of the visitors have ever taken. Thursday night the ladies of the Calantha and Ruth gave a reception in honor of the visitors at Harris street hall. It was a brilliant affair and excellently managed. The Men's Sunday Club also had a literary and musical entertainment at Masonic Temple. Dancing was indulged in after the program and the attendants expressed themselves as being pleasantly entertained. Samaritan Day at Ways. At Ways, Ga, on last Sunday was observed as "Samaritan Day" by Ways Lodge No 71 G S and D of S and Millers No 67 and Lloyd Hill Lodge No 82 from Chatham County came over and the three lodges attended Bethlehem Baptist Church in a body. An appropriate sermon was preached at 11 o'clock by Rev M Burke. After dinner communication service was held and the day was enjoyably spent by all. St. Mary's Dots. On Sunday last a crowd wrote to the laying of the cornerstone of Carriego's Chapel, at Crooked River of which Rev. E. J. Klimble is pastor. Mr. and Mrs. L. Roberts of Fernandina, Fla., are visiting their parents Mr. and Mrs. Roberts at Crooked River. Mrs L E Dallas left for Tampa, Florida, where she will spend two months with her sister, Mrs Johnson. We are sorry to note the death of Mrs Earmie Fuller of Crandall, Floridia; she had many friends here and she leaves a husband and several small children. Rev. E J Klimble; pastor of the M E Church, will hold his Quarterly Conference on the fifth Sunday. Rev. T W Daniels, pastor of the A M E Church will have a rally on the fifth Sunday. The principal, Prof J M Washington will have his school closing exercises on the 31st. St Mary's is still booming. F. A. B. Church. In the absence of the pastor on last Sunday the Rev. J. H Rogers filled the pulpit-at each service. At the 11 o'clock am service he preached from Revelation 1:18 and at the 8:30 o'clock pm service from Revelation 17 chapter subject, "The signs of the time." Both sermons were edifying and enjoyed by all present. The first public session in our city of the Ga. State Medical Association was held at this church on last Tuesday evening. The church held a very business like conference on last Monday evening. The E K Love Be- nevelent Society will attend church in a body on tomorrow night. Every arrangement is being made to make the Sunday school outing at Daufuskie June 6th an enjoyable one, fare 35 cents. The pastor has returned from his Brunswick trip, after delivering the baccalaureate Sermon to the High School there. We will be pleased to have you visit any of our services which we always try to make interesting. Prayer meetings Tuesday evenings 8:30, preaching Thursday evenings 8:30, prayer meeting Sunday morning 5 a.m. preaching 11 a.m. Sunday school 3:30 p.m. preaching 8:30 p.m. F B B Church. On Sunday night the seating capacity of the church was taxed to accommodate the exceedingly large crowd that attended church. The distinguished guest was "The Indies Union Benevolent Association." Rev. Wright read for the lesson Gal., 6:1-15. The history of the society was read by the financial secretary. The subject of Rev. Wright's sermon was "The Glorious Christ." His we come to the society was very touching especially when he said that it was to them that Rev. G. W. Griffin preached his last sermon. Rev. Wright preached an excellent sermon which was evidently enjoyed by all. The choir sang very sweevd "Father in Heaven." Rev. Wright led the hymn "Amazing Sight the Saviour Stands." He invited those who needed prayer to the merey seat who very large,crowd bowed and he offered a soul stirring prayer in their behalf. He led the hymn "We are Passing Away." His next invitation was to those who wanted to unite with the church. Several came forward and joined. The society contributed exceedingly liberal to the church, pastor and secton. If you are a sinner it will make you think and if you are a Christian it will revive you to attend our Tuesday night's prayer meeting. Come down at any time St. Benedict's Church. Gaston and East Broad streets. Sunday May 22, 1910. To-morrow, at Trinity Sunday the summer schedule of services will begin. First mass at 6:30 A.M., second mass at 7:30 A.M., and last mass and sermon at 9:30 A.M. Sunday School immediately after the last mass. Benediction of the most blessed Sacrament at 8 P.M., after which a congregational meeting will take place in the school room. At their monthly meeting last Sunday evening, the members of St. Mary's Aid Society, decided to have an afternoon outing to St Anthony's mission on next Tuesday May 24; if the weather is favorable, they will give a most enjoyable evening to their friends. The sympathy of the members of St. Benedict's church has extended to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dowse for the loss of their infant Norma Elizabeth. The funeral place last Sunday at the residence, No. 520 E Park Ave. Father Dahlent officiated and addressed a few touching words to the parents and to the large crowd of sympathizing friends who was present. The closing exercises of St. Peter's Clayer school will take place on the last day of May, at the Masonic Temple. The little children will present some interesting features. After the exercises, the teachers will give a dance to the young people. The tickets are only 15 cents. It is expected that this festival will be well patronized, as it is for a worthy cause St. Benedict's school will be closed sometime in June. Ministers Union. The Evangelical Ministers Union met with DLL A Townsley in the chair. Devotional service was conducted by Rev M C Rogers. "In the Cleft O of ages," was sung. Having prayer the 5th chapter of Ephesians was read. The Union joined in chanting "Draw me nearer." Rev G H Lennon's paper was deterred for the near future. Sermonic report was given by Dr E D Giddens. The sermon was masterly handled. The Union offered commendation. Brother J H Beans from Selma Ala, visited the Union and made a short address, which was enjoyed. Dr B J Ross was appointed to preach at Mr Philip A M Church at 4 o'clock p.m in the grand rally. Come out next Tuesday. Visitors always welcome. Second Baptist Church. Second Baptist Church. The pastor preached at both hours Sunday. The W H and F M Society elected as delegates to represent them in the State Convention Mrs M E May and Mrs F H Stair. Mrs H E H vice-president of the National Baptist Convention lectured here Thursday night. The following is the slick list: E B Edwards, Joseph Barnard, Jr., Robert Nelson, Rachael Logan, Susie Deveaux, Maria Decutcher, Harriet Spaulding, Maria Mann, Hannah Early and others. Quite a number of books were put out last Sunday, and it is hoped that all will help solicit the necessary amount for the designed repairs in our church. Rev Robinson S I D a recent graduate of Lincoln University will preach the 5th Sunday night. The pastor will preach at both hours tomorrow, his morning subject will be "The Church Covenant" A special business meeting of vital importance at the conclusion of the morning service and every member is urged to be present without fail. Tomorrow is pastor's salary rally therefore let all come prepared. Special collections will be taken at both services tomorrow for State Convention purposes. The Missionary women gave an entertainment at Sister Starr's. Monday night. St. Philip Dots. Quite a representative congregation heard Presiding Elder J T Thomas of the Waycross district at eleven o'clock on Sunday. The choir and congregation sang No 648 "Holy, Holy, etc" which gave inspiration supplemented by that able discourse by Rev Thomas. At 8:30 p.m J W Armstrong Lodge K of P and W D Armstrong Lodge of Odd Fellows attended services in a body to celebrate their third and first anniversary respectively. Rey Singleton prescribed the sermon in a way that won for him the admiration of every true K of P and Odd Fellow. The subject was "True Friendship". If the words that fell from the speaker's lips were, heeded there would be better men in the various organization that exist to stay. After services Messrs E W Sherman, Ed H Burke, J L Mitchell and W H Davis presented to the trustees, chair, sexton and minister $14.65 which was recelled by Bros Law, Reed, Sweet and Rev Singleton. Tomorrow May, 22nd, is the day that must go down in the pages of history as the 'greatest financial gathering of St Philip Church.' It will be the first great rally on the various amount that have been subscribed by the mem- SPRINGTIME 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. We can get you right and in good shape for $1.00. Come to us and get one bottle of NYAL'S HOT SPRING BLOOD REMEDY. It is best because PATE says so. Do you own your home, if not, why not? 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 Deas; 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, Mamie 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. WASHINGTON PARK COMPANY. 17 BAY STREET, Eust. Geo. W. Jacobs, Agt. 623 West Broad Street or Phone 2098 ROACH $3.00 SHOES For Men and Women The only strictly $3.00 Shoe Store in the city. These goods bear the Union Label and are the equal of any $3.50 or $4.00 Shoe on the market. 120 WHITAKER STREET. POLITE ATTENTION TO COLORED TRADE. bers and friends of St Phillips for the new building fund. Get your lamps filled with oil ready to meet the bride and the groom. Don't wait until the last minute and go around to borrow oil for your lamp. A hint to the wise is suffice. These will be rally rain or shine; come prepared to do your duty. Notwithstanding the extremely cool weather on Monday night the trip-around the world or trolley ride was quite a success. On Monday June 7th there will be given a grand excursion to Beaufort, S C on the Steamer Pilot Boy for the benefit of the Building fund. Everybody is invited; don't fail to go. The hospitality of St Philip is known far and near her doors were thrown open to the big gathering of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists on last Wednesdays to hold their seventeenth annual session. Among them are some of the most widely known physicians of the A M E Church. For the past month quite a number of our members have been on the sick list. We are glad to note that some are on the way to recovery. The following service will be held on tomorrow. Rally at 11 a.m, Rally 3 p.m, Rally at 5 p.m. Everybody is in invited, bring your subscription St. James Dots. Rev P W Greatheart preached a very interesting sermon on last Sunday morning. Sunday school is rapidly increasing in every respect. On last Sunday we had a very large attendance and several visitors and also some new members. A C E League meeting was enjoyed by all present. At 8:30 p m Rev Greatheart delivered an interesting sermon. Tomorrow services will be held at 3 p m. A C League at 5 p m, Preaching at 8:30 p m, and school picnic June 20th, Buffalo S.F. In loving remembrance of my grand- father, ROBERT STEPHEN BAKER, who died May 23, 1909. Every year the Father calleth Some loved one to endless rest; And the heart thou filled with anguish. Can but cry. "He knoweth best" But a year, not distant, cometh, When we tread the vast unknown We shall find our ransomed dear one Seated near the great white throne, His granddaughter, Mrs. Clautelle E. Nelson. In sad but loving remembrance of our devoted MOTHER, who was taken from us May 17, 1909. Gone home! the door through which she vanished Closed with a jar and left us here alone We stand without, in tears, forlorn and banished Longing to follow where our mother dear has gone. Gone home! oh how we long to reach her See her again, and know her for our own. She will conduct us to the heavenly teacher. And bow beside us, low before His throne Gone home! Oftender loving Saviour: Give us a balm to soothe our heavy woe We know thou wilt in tender pitying favor Keep us, till we with her, eternal joy shall know To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die Her sorrowing children. Viola T Walher. Laura B Reid. Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Rev McD Spencer D P, the newly elected pastor of Mt Zion Baptist Church has arrived in the city to begin his work among the members and friends of the city. We are praying for the success of Mt Zion to be elevated with the assistance of this our leader. 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 so We can get you right and in g us and get one bottle of NYAL'S HOT SPRING It is best because BATE sa We invite our friends to 'be with us on Sunday. Prayer meeting at 5 a.m; preaching 11 a.m, Sunday school 3 p.m, preaching Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. The pub is invited. A Cohn & Harris Song Foo "May Moon" is the name of the big song hit of the Cohan & Harris minstrels presenting George Evans and his "Honey Boys" during their recent run in New York. The words are by Earl J. Benham and the music by Billy J. Vanderveer, two well known song writers. By special arrangement the words and music of this pretty love song will be given next Sunday with the New York World. Reward Headquarters Supreme Grand Temple of the U B of A. Inc. Office of W. D. Kennedy S. G A. By virtue of authority in me vested by the action of the Sub. Supreme Ex Board in a regular monthly meeting held on Monday night, May 16th, 1910. A reward of twenty-five dollars ($25) is hereby offered to any one who will furnish this office with positive information leading to the discovery of a body or person of Henry White, late charter member of the Supreme Grand Temple, and of Adamant Temple No. 4 who mysteriously disappeared from his home on Tyberie Island on Friday May 0. Done by the Order of the Sub. Ex. Board, this 18th day of May 1910. W. D. Kennelv. S. G A., R. L. Lockley second S. G. A. and E. M. Giacene, S. G. S. Rent, Sale and Want. 2 cents a word a month. 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 820 East Jones St., for gentlemen. Mrs Sarah Washington. I have fourteen new houses on East Boundary street just north of Broughton, which I can rent to respectable colored people in one, two or three rooms each. Electric lights in the yard. J. H. PURVIS, 24 West Bryan St. Telephone 2923. 4t For Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Winslow's 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, ALLIAS all PAINS, CURSES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggitist in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing, Syrup," and take no other kind. 25 c a bottle. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Firstclass Dentist. All-Work Guaranteed. 623 WEST BROAD STREET. Bet. Buntingdon and Hall. Bell Phone 2098. Garey's Variety Bakery Goods delivered promptly to any part of the city ... 506 West Broad St near Gaston. Phone 1331 L The Masons Greeted Their Grand Master. The Masons of the city were elated to have with them on Wednesday night their Most Worshipful Grand Master Dr. H. R. Butler of Atlanta. A joint meeting of the local lodges were held. The Grand Master gave an inspiring address. Every word was eagerly caught by the brethren and each one of them gave hearty expressions of approval and their love and loyalty to the Grand Master and the order. Past Master L. A. Townsley D. D., also gave an instructive talk which the brethren enjoyed. After the closing of the lodge, a number of the brethren and visitors repaired to the banquet room, where an efficient committee of ladies of the Eastern Star assisted the brethren in preparing a table with viands that were unsurpassed. These were served in courses and in a manner highly satisfactory. Expressions were heard from the Grand Master, Drs. G. N. Stoney, Hamilton, Jones, Burris, Owens, Parks, Jamerson and others. All of these resounded with praise and loyalty to the good old fraternity, and also for the delightful time that they spent and viands that they enjoyed. Rev. S. T. Redd was toastmaster. The Masons of Savannah are always proud to have Grand Master Butler in their midst. At the regular meeting of "The Goblers," held on Friday night of last week the following officers were installed by Messrs. R. B. Heggs and Ed. H. Burke: J. C. Williams, chief gobler; M. B. Branham, leading gobler; G. F. Tyson, cash gobler; Jno. F. Andrews, check gobler; Perry R. Wright, recording gobler; R. B. Heggs, law gobler; F. J. Hilton, lecturing gobler; Jas. Woodson, peace gobler; After the ceremonies an ample collation was enjoyed by the 75 members present. The closing exercises of the Beach Institute will be as follows: Sunday afternoon May 22, at the Beach Chapel, at four o'clock, the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. Dr. Greatheart. Monday night May 23, at the Beach Chapel, grade concert by pupils of the grammar grades. Tuesday night, May 24, at the school building, exhibit of literary and industrial work and a short literary program to which the friends and patrons of the school are cordially invited. No admission. Wednesday night, at the Second Baptist Church, the Commencement exercises of the graduating class will take place. The address will be delivered by Mr. E. W. Sherman. The graduates are Edith Theresa Bythewood, Mabel Deas, Rosabell Deborah Edwards, Bertha H. Gaitwood, Ethel Louise Grant, Hazel Alethea Heffron, Cornelia Oliver McDowell, James Edwin Maynor, Earl Arno Parks, Louise Houston Small, Mary Taggart, Rosa Mae Young. Haven Home School Closing The closing exercises of Haven Home School begin next Thursday morning, having kindergarten closing. Friday morning at 9:30 the grades will have a program in honor of Patrons' day. The work of the classes and the industrial department will be on exhibition. Sunday morning May 29, at 11 o'clock, the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. G. W. Arnold, at St. Philip A. M. E. Church, Charles street. The commencement program will be rendered at the same place on Monday night. The graduates are, Eighth Grade—Esther Garvin, Amy Ivy Gross, Pearl Eunice McArthur, Joseph Miller, Sophronia Sarah Myers, Trumilla Rivers, Effie Ella Williams, Lucy Whaley. First Year Normal—Albertha Elizabeth Brewer. Men's Sunday Club. The Men's Sunday Club held an interesting meeting, Sunday afternoon at the Masonic Temple. The Prince of Brazil was present as per promise and rendered two solos, which was of a high order and was much enjoyed. The club had the pleasure of hearing Mr. E. W. Sherman who is always willing to respond to the request of the club. Prof. L. B. Thompson spoke, after which Mr. Geo. S. Williams made a few remarks concerning the progress of the club. To-morrow we are to have Rev. D. W. Cannon, one of the best speakers in the city to address the club in our highest aim. The meeting will begin promptly and dismiss promptly; be on time. Anniversary Services. The anniversary services of the First Bryan Bapt. Church, West Broad St. and Waldburg lane, will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow. The sermon will be preached by Rev W L Jones, D D pastor of F A B Church. At the close of the service the communion will be administered. Everybody is invited. Mr. C. Moore of Statesboro, spent several days in the city. We are always glad to shake hands with Mr. Moore. Mr. James. P. Bourke left on Monday for Atlantic City, N. J. to visit his brother Mr. Chas. C. Bourke who resides in that city. McFall's Ice Cream Parlor. Pure fruit 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. Mr. Chas. Byrd of Limerick, Ga., is spending a few days in our city as the guest of Mr. Edward Collins 512 Oak Street. Mr. Byrd is a student of Dorchester college. Mrs. Wm. Murray of 534 Hall Street E. is home after a very pleasant stay in Charleston, S. C., as the guest Mrs. Albert Beaton and Mrs. W. H. Burgess. She reported having an enjoyable time. Miss Mabel Clarke of 527 East Gaston Street, entertained with a birthday dinner on Sunday last. Having with her many relatives and friends, Misses Minnie Atkinson, Mary Lloyd, and Miss Bertha Gaitwood. 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. Master Richard Bacot, the grand son of Mrs. Sarah Sheftall, left on Tuesday for New York, where he will reside with his mother. Miss Mary Sheftall, formerly of this city, where he will enter school and finish a trade. 88 Tonic cures Chill and Fever, Hymes K. and B. Pills, try them for Kidney complaints. The following delegates have been elected to the B. M. C., to be held in Baltimore: Mr. W. S. Roundfield of Armour No. 1884, Mr. Frank Cain of Myrtle No. 1663 Prof. W. D. Kennedy of Adamant No. 7862, Grand Chief L. W. Beasley of W. D. Armstrong lodge No. 8048, Mr. M. W. Swain, Mt. Carmel No. 8379 The commencement of the Dorchester Academy, Thebes, Ga. last week was largely attended and the exercises were of a high order. There were only two graduates this year, Miss Emma V. Wilson and Mr. Alfonse K. Wilson, Jr. It was a pretty race between sister and brother for first honors, and their parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Wilson are justly proud of them. McFall's Ice Cream Parlor Pure fruit Ice Creams and sherbet 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. The Supreme 'rand Temple of the U. B. of A. Incorporated A Fraternal Business Organization which represents a departure from the old principles of fraternal societies in fact this order is in a class by itself, as it contemplates in its scope the development of the race to a higher commercial standard, for while it retains all of the good features of the older fraternities, it also embraces many new features which have so impressed the public that it has already gained its confidence. Think of it! This order costs you less to join, less dues and in case of sickness, death or other distress, it gives you more. All of which is covered by the one certificate of membership. This new order is the result of years of patient study, and hence is not to be classed with the many mushroom orders of which the public generally hear of only once. The standing of the men whose names are at tached to its charter is a guarantee of its reliability. The promptness with which it has met all of its obligations, a fact of which the public is well informed, is an argument as to business like way in which its affairs are being handled daily. Join this flourishing order that not only cares for the sick and buries the dead, but gives employment to its members. Deputies and live representatives wanted; liberal pay. Address Headquarters Supreme Grand Temple, Prof. W D. Kennedy S. G. A. and Founder, and Hon. E. M. Greene, S. G. S. Cloud and Sunshine or the Pillar of Fire. The above is the title of a beautiful Cantata which will be rendered by the Sunday school and choir of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on Wednesday evening June 1st at 8:30 sharp. It illustrates the return of the Jews from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land, and depicts vividly the dramatic incidents connected with it, from Moses pleading with Pharah to the moment that they set foot once more in their fatherland. The greatest pains have been taken in training the children and all who are fond of good music would do well to be present. A cordial invitation is extended to the public at large. All the seats are free and ushers will be in attendance to conduct visitors to seats. No admission fee is charged but a silver offering-will be taken up which will give the friends of st. Stephen's an opportunity of showing their liberality to this church which stands for the real uplift of humanity. Sunday-school 9:45 a. m. Sundays, 11 a. m. and 8:15 p. m. Wednesdays, 8:15 p. m. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in The Social World. A Chicken entertainment will be given by the Yoogh Men Usher Club of F A B Church, Bolton street, at the residence of Mrs Emma Hunter 620 East Gwinnett street, Monday night May 23rd Tickets 10 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. The Fox will give their sixth water outing to Datfuskie, Monday May 23rd. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. A grand picnic will be given by Bryan Mutual Aid at Lincoln Park Tuesday May 24th. Tickets 16 cents A grand afternoon excursion will be given under the auspices of Savannah Baptist High School, Tuesday, May 24, Tickets 50 cents and 25 cents. You will be welcome to go with the First Congregational Sunday Shool, to Bluffton, Friday, June 3rd. Tickets 50 cents and 25 cents. The closing exercises, concert and festival of Peter Clayer school will take place at Masonic Temple. Tuesday evening, May 21st. Tickets 15 cents. A cantata entitled "The Jolly Picnic Party" will be rendered at the Masonic Temple by the pupils of the Sayannah Baptist High School. Monday night, June 6th, tickets 15 and 25 cents. A grand old fols. concert will be given by the Cottrell club for the benefit of St Paul G M E Church at Masonic Temple Wednesday night June 1, 1901. Tickets 10 cents. Verbena Court No 260 O O C will give a grand entertainment at Masonic Temple Monday night May 23rd. Tickets 15 cents. The Devine Bros S C No 224 and Branch will give their annual ball at Harris street Hall Monday night June 6th. Tickets 15 cents. The old reliable Mutual Club will give their annual decoration day excursion to Beaufort Sunday night May 29th. Tickets 50 cents. - Middleton's Band will give a grand decoration day excursion to Beaufort, Sunday night May 29th. Ticket 50 cents. - The Bright Star of the East Loving Association will give their first excursion to Beaufort Monday June 6th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. - The annual afternoon excursion of St Stephen's Church will be held at Daufuskie Tuesday June 21st. Steamer leaves foot of Abercorn street at 3:30 sharp. - Returning leaves the island at 10 o'clock by moonlight. Dancing and refreshments. Tickets adults 50 cents. Children under 12, 25 cents. R G Shaw Post No $ G A R will run their annual decoration trip to Beaufort leaving Sunday night May 29th, 11 o'clock Tickets 75 and 50 cents. An old folks concert will be given at Masonic Temple for the benefit of St Paul G M E Church by Cottrell Club No 5 Wednesday night June 1st. Tickets 10 cents. The annual picnic of Second Baptist Sunday school will take place at Styles Park Friday June 3rd. Cars leave Habersham and Gwlnnett 9:30 a m. Tickets 19 and 25 cents. Savannah Lodge No 2892 G U O oleQ F will give their first annual excursion to Beaufort Monday June 6th. Ticket 25c and 50 cents. A neck tie and apron entertainment will be given by the G U O of A K will be given at Freeman's Hall, Monday night May 30th. Tickets 15 and 25 cents. Grade concert at Beach Institute Monday night May 23rd. Tickets 10 cents. The picnic we give is for the pleasure of you. It is the business of the Savannah Home Association to see that you enjoy yourselves at their Souvenir picnic at Lincoln Park, Monday, June 6th. Tickets 25 cents. A Joint picnic will be given to Daufuskie by Eureka Clubs Wednesday June 8th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. Wait for the two boat excursion to Beaufort given by Armenia Lodge No 1930 G U O of O F Tuesday June 28th. Tickets 50 and 35 cents. The closing exercises of St Benedict's School will take place at Beach Institute Wednesday night, June 15th. Tickets 25 cents, The annual excursion to Daufluskie of St Benedict's Church will take place Tuesday July 9th. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. The annual Outing of the Letter Carriers Association will take place at Lincoln Park, Tuesday June 7th. Tickets 25 cents. Tuesday, May 24th, 1910 Cheapest rates of the season. Apply early and secure your state room. C. A. TURNER, 1615 Vine St. Dancing Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons and Every Friday Night AT MASONIC TEMPLE Music by Apollo Orchestra. 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. 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 1944. Solid Gold Crowna Guaranteed 234 K Gold The West End S.E. Cor. Berrien & Jefferson Sts. Ladies and Gents Tailor-made Suits to order $15 AND UP Clothes Dyed, Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. Club members special rates. J. H. GATHERS, Prop. 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. THE YOUNG BROS. HAS 11 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. Cold Wave Freezing Every Day W. H. Johnson The Real Ice Cream Man Phone 2685-J Ice cream seryed free to ladies every Friday from 6 to 7 pm CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY TO----AUGUSTA, MACON, ATLANTA AMERICUS, ATHENS, ALBANY BIRMINGHAM, MONTGOMERY, MOBILE NEW ORLEANS, MEMPHIS. LOUISVILLE CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY and all points in Shepherd's Chapel, Primitive Church Green street, Ditmersville, Savannah, Ga, of which Rev. Samuel F Shepherd is pastor, is the First Church on the Memorial Roll of Honor. Services Sunday, prayer meeting at 5 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m and 8 p.m Tuesday and Thursday nights preaching. tf SECURETY Means Protection, Safety etc. Because of the protection the Union Mutual Association has guaranteed to the many thousands of their well pleased and highly satisfied members, they (the members) in turn, as all appreciative persons might be expected to do, are telling others of the BENEFITS to be derived from carrying INSURANCE with this the PIONEER NEGRO INSURANCE Co. of the country. Phone the local manager and take a policy to-day, 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 CRECEUS Horse Shoeing & Clipping Shop Conveniently located. Horses sent for and returned. Quick and satisfactory work. Horses Clipped on short notice. 380 JEFFERSON ST. Phone 3509 NELSON CUYLER, The Expert Horse Shoer. Manager. 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Mr. McWade in a recent address, said: "The bankers fell us that they oppose these postal savings banks because they are afraid the government won't be capable of handling the people's money." "And at the same time, though the people haven't said a word, the bankers admit that they haven't given the people proper savings bank facilities, and they beg for a chance to reform. Dear me! "The people haven't said a word, you the bankers are bubbling over with self-accusations. They are thought readers. They remind me of Hal Saunders." "Hal, a worthless rascal, was in the habit of staying at the corner malloon till 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. One morning it was quite 3 o'clock when he returned. His patient-wife, who always sat up for hits, received him in silence. Nevertheless the drunken scoundrel gave her an unmerciful beating. "She naturally, protested against such treatment when she had made no complaint, but her brute of a husband roared, shaking his fist in her face." "No, you said nothing—that's true enough—but you're a thinking fool, you are!"—Washington Star. "There is nothing new under the sun that tomorrow, and that never comes." Post Toasties Some Sweet Day "I'm afraid," said Deacon Hardesty, shaking his head, "we'll have to take our new preacher in hand and straighten up his doctrinals a bit." "Why, he ain't preaching heresy, is he?" asked Brother Keepalong. "Well, he comes mighty close to it. When I asked him the other day if he didn't think that the upbraidings of conscience would be one of the worst tortures of the lost souls in perdition, he said: 'Nonsense, deacon! Nobody that has a conscience will ever go there.'"—Chicago Tribune. Pains of Chadbourn, N. C., writes: with awful pains, every so often. would often faint. I could not days at a time, and had awful dache and backache. I would die, but my husband So I began and the first bottle cooking. By the time I had ui, I could do all my work. man you recommend it to do." 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At its northern end it has a depth of about 1,300 feet, while the water at the southern extremity is only from three to twelve feet deep. The Dead sea is fed by the Jordan from the north, but has no outlet—the water being apparently carried off by evaporation. The water of the Dead sea contains a large amount of the salts of magnesia and soda; as a consequence its specific gravity is high, and bathers float in it with ease. According to tradition, Sodom and Gomorrah, "the cities of the plain," stood on the site now occupied by the Dead sea. This view, however, is no longer entertained, and it is now considered certain that the Dead sea existed in its present state during the days of Abraham, and even much earlier.—Chicago Examiner. THE PROBABLE ONE "What do you suppose is the song of the desert?" "I don't know, but I should think it would be, 'The Camels Are Coming.'"—Baltimore American. Sweet Day You may be served with Post M. H. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Out of His Hunter's Garb and in Citizen's Togs Once More. PASSING OF A FAMOUS JURIST. THE LATE DAVID J. BREWER. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. After filling a decanter about two-thirds full of water close it by means of a cork provided with two apertures. Through one of these pass a short pipe stem, affix a cork provided with two apertures. The apertures may be easily formed by means of a ```markdown ``` Self-Smoking Pipe. red-hot poker. The latter aperture serves to fix the pipe. Finally, with the other cork and a bent tube form a slphon. After the latter has been primed and is once in operation it will tend to empty the decanter, and the vacuum formed will be immediately filled by the external air flowing in through the pipe. It is then only necessary to light the latter in order to see it "smoke itself" tranquilly as long as any water remains in the decanter. This experiment is very interesting and may easily be performed.—Scientific American. The Power Behind the Stage. King Edward, it is reported, desired a London player whose makeup in a current drama was thought offensively to suggest one of his majesty's close friends to change the outward aspect of his characterization. The actor declined on the score that a change would endanger the success of the play. Here was a conflict which must have suggested to the king the limited prerogative of royalty these days. In other times it would have been "Off with his head!"—New York Dramatic Mirror. Siberia. Siberia is one of the largest and most productive agricultural regions on the face of the globe, the greater part of the land being fertile and capable of yielding abundant crops and of sustaining large flocks and herds. Then, too, the mineral resources have hardly been touched. Ohio State Journal. One smile makes a flirtation. One flirtation makes two acquainted. Two acquainted makes one's kiss. One kiss makes several more. Several kisses make an engagement. One engagement makes two fools. Two fools make one marriage. One marriage makes two mothers-in-law. Two mothers-in-law make a red hot time. —Woman's Life. Mrs. Agnes J. Rossler is the person who is notified when a blind visitor appears at the Museum of Natural History. Mrs. Rossler has thought out classifications and arrangements which are labeled in Braille or New York point for the use of the blind and as each article is passed from hand to hand and studied by the blind visitors an informal lecture is given.New York Sun. Leading physicians and eminent specialists might be greatly edified if they could hear the opinions attributed to them at luncheons and bridge parties or other purely feminine gatherings. Women's tongues run riot on such occasions, and the woman who has not the courage to advance an opinion of her own falls back upon her doctor or her husband, repeating over and over again, like a parrot: "But Dr. So-and-So said just this," etc. And as no one else heard the doctor's remarks her statements cannot be refuted.—New York Tribune. The Berlin police woman, Fraunlein Margaret Dittmer, appointed just a year and a half ago, has found the position no sinecure thus far. During her first year of service she had 604 cases to deal with. Much of Fraulein Dittmer's work corresponds to that of the woman probation officer in American cities. Youthful delinquents, wals and deserted children are placed in her charge. She deals with them as she thinks fit, sometimes placing them in institutions, sometimes—in the case of delinquents—restoring them to their parents and afterward visiting them frequently. Among Fraulein Dittmer's charges last year were 165 boys and girls who had run away from their homes in the provinces to Berlin. The majority had come because they "wanted to see the Kaiser's palace."—New York Tribune. Views of divorce which an English clergyman has just expressed have drawn high encomiums from sundry divorced women in town who have grown reticent about their ages and have given up having birthday parties. "We ought to have the divorce law that was enforced in ancient Greece," the preacher said. "If a certain old Greek clause were tacked to every separation, I am persuaded that divorces would fall off sixty to seventy per cent. This law was that when a man got a divorce he could not, under any circumstances, marry another woman younger than his former wife. An innocent law, a brief law, not much to look at—but how many divorce suits would be nipped in the bud if all husbands knew that after the separation they could not marry younger women than the wives they had cast off?"—New York Press. Whether or not there will be any season-lasting fashions evolved out of the Chantecler-fad, it is quite certain that the word itself is to be applied to a vast amount of things that commonly constitute a woman's wardrobe. The Chantecler hat is not to be taken seriously, considered as a whole, but the Chantecler feathers that are used on it will probably be with us all summer. There is no reason against this; they are really very pretty in curve and coloring, and are quite an addition to the vast amount of common barnyard.plumage that we have been wearing for years since the Audubon Society became more than a name. Its work has given women a queer feeling about wearing songsters and their plumage, and the millners have bowed to the law. At once there sprung into the millinery market the products of invention and ingenuity, and the result has been altogether admirable and satisfactory. We have not sacrificed our better feelings and we have not sacrificed the beauty of our hats. We wear ignorantly and blissfully the plumage of the guinea fowl and the Cochin China hen. We add to this now the tall and neck ruff of the rosters and call them Chantecler. To show how ingenious the French are in naming fashions, in popularizing some passing garment by giving it a local habitation and a name! A Brief Surprise. Former Senator William E. Mason, of Illinois, speaking before a Chicago fraternal organization recently, told a story illustrative of the contempt with which, new members of the United States Senate are regarded by the veterans of the "Millionaires' Club." Shortly after his arrival in the capital Mr. Mason encountered a fellow Senator, with whom he was slightly acquainted, and was greeted with: "Weren't you surprised, Mason, when you found you were elected Senator?" "I was," came the ready response, "until I came to Washington and saw what dubs I had for associates."—Spare Moments. A Champion of the British Budget. THE WEDDING OF MARY AND JOHN Miss Violet Asquith, daughter of the English Prime Minister, took so prominent a part in the political campaign that her speeches form a decidedly strong feature of the Liberal propaganda. A Close Corporation. "I want to get a line on that fellow. Whom does he care for principally?" "Himself." "But has he no companion?" "Oh, yes; his umbrella."—Louisville Courter-Journal. WOMANS REALM Bluefish a la Venetienne.—Have a two-pound bluefish cleaned and scraped; place it in a buttered baking dish with one-half cup of lliur in which mushrooms were boiled, one chopped tomato and six mushrooms. Cover with oiled paper and bake for fifteen minutes, take from the oven, sprinkle with crumbs and minced parsley, season with salt and pepper, dot with butter and return to the oven until browned. Progression. Teaches the Blind. Second-Hand Opinions. Work of Police Woman. Our Cut-but Recipe. Paste in Your scrap-Book. They Do It Better in Greece? The Chantecler Ruff thiere is this story: This neck frill which they took up last autumn was a truly French variation on our more severe and trying Peter Pan. It was accordian plented, made of softest, lingerie fabric, and was applied to a neckband that was only slightly lower than the usual-one. To-day, and-not until to-day, has it been popularized. And why? Because it has ingloriously been given the name of Chantecler ruff. And it really is not unlike the soft-collar of long feathers that adorns a rooster's neck. This name has given an impetus to its being made in the iridescent colorings of red, and bronze and black; that one notices in the cock's feathers; the fabric is chiffon or net, and the effect is gained by placing a layer of one color over a layer of another color. Attractive as this is from a color, standpoint, one has to go carefully in applying just such a bit of neckwear. It won't blend with white or cream, but it is rather effective on an all-black gown, and queer, odd tints of red. As an article of wearing apparel, however, it can hardly have a chance to be popular because of the very reason that it is difficult to find anything to put it against. There is no such obstacle to the popularity of the all-white or ivory-tinted Chantecler ruff. It is here already in large quantities, and in every width and degree of fineness. It is to be hoped that it will not become popular in the very cheap muslins and coarse cotton laces. There is always that danger in lingerie things. It is so easy to coarsen them and bring them within the reach of every one who wishes to invest in the last thing. Not that one wants the smart fashions kept for the people with full purses. Far from it. They are too often the people who cannot wear the "last thing" with half the snap of the girl who hasn't a dollar to spend on superfluities; but if these girls couldn't pick up the cheap-looking Chantecler ruff for a few cents they would go home and make one for a few more cents that would have the charm of fineness about it. No one counts on these rooster ruffs being becoming. There is something trying about that straight pleated line below the base of the neck, but the American girl can be trusted to turn and twist it to its best advantage. When it has points at the lower line, and is worn a bit lower in the front than at the back, then it has more chance of setting off the face above it—New York Times. PRETTY THINGS TO WEAR Figured foulards are to be used as linings for many of the smart tailored coats. Cornflower yellow is one of the evening shades that are popular in all fabrics. Many turbans are trimmed simply with huge bows of changeable ribbon at the back. Crochet lace is decidedly smart this season, whether or gowns, aprons or lingerie. The dotted veils are enjoying a revival of favor; the very small dots are the smartest. Challis comes in very pretty patterns and makes dainty little frocks for small girls. With the afternoon dresses there are carried parasols of black chinchilla lace, over white. Many of the negligees have a hint of the Directoire with crossed-vests of brocade or beaded net. For street wear the correct stockings are the plain, heavy black silk with an embroidered clock. A bewildering number of changes will be rung upon the way in which the new smart coat is fastened. Belts of every description are found; even on evening gowns we are astonished by a belt of leather. Wrist bands which are a revival of the early Victorian beaded bracelet have been introduced, and there is a threat of quite a revival of these trifles. The costume is now considered incomplete without a wrap of some sort, no matter how slight it may be, and this has caused a renewed vogue for the scarf. A number of pretty suits are made in colors and trimmed with bands of heavy white or ecru lace instead of the lace to correspond with the color of the suit. Spanish and Russian mantles are decidedly artistic, but they must be worn by a woman of height and slender build—one who can carry their gown gracefully. Excursion Rates Via A. B & A. R. B. Reduced excursion fares have been authorized for the following occasions: Georgia Educational Association, Atlanta, GA, May 14, 1910. Atlanta Music Festival, Atlanta, GA, May 1-9, 1910. This is the famous Metropolitan Opera Company, including Caruso, the world's greatest toner. Southern Baptist Convention and Baptists of North America, Baltimore, Md., May 11-19, 1910. May 8-9, 10, and return limit June 1, 1910. Fifthth Annual Convention, Grand Conclave Knights Templar of Georgia, Savannah, GA, May 11-12, 1910. To Albany, Ga., for the Georgia Chautauqua April 14-24, 1910. To Albany, Ga., for the Presbyterian Church 1 U. S., Atlantic City, N. J., May 18-31, 1910. World's Sunday School Association, Washington, D. C., May 19-26, 1910. National Baptist Sunday School Congress (Colored), Atlanta, Ga., May 25-30, 1910. Agents will cheerfully furnish all information about the school's limits, etc. The passenger service of the A. B. & A. is unexcelled. W. H. LZAHY. General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. New Light on War. Lem Jackson loved to loaf. He lived in the mountains not far from Greenville, Tenn., with his wife and a large brood of children. Lem had a "houn" dawg" that he set great store by, and he spent most of his time lounging in a runway waiting to shoot a deer driven in by old Bose or sprawling on the bank of a stream fishing. In that way he was a good previder after a fashion; but not all the urging, scolding, nagging and broomsticking of his shrewish wife could drive him to work. Lem led the lazy life of a Rip Van Winkle until the outbreak of the Civil War, and then he surprised everybody by joining the Confederate army, for most of the mountaineers fought for the Union. At the end of six months Lem was shot through the right thigh, and it was long before he was able to limp out of hospital and back to his regiment. In the second year he was shot in the left shoulder, and when he returned to duty his left hand was bent far back by a shortened tendon; but he was still able to raise his rifle. Early in the fourth year they got him again—a musket ball through the body—but he was back in the ranks long before the fighting was ended. Every one wondered at Lem's persistence in sticking to the terrible trade of war. Dr. Girdner met Lem hobbling down the street in Greenville one morning in June, '65, still pale and weak from his latest wound, his right leg short and wobbly, his left hand stiffly bent back. "Glad to see you alive, Lem," said the doctor. "I suppose you're glad to be home again." "Waal," Lem admitted, without enthusiasm. "I s'pose I had to git elong home. Gin'l Lee he surrendered us down to Appomattox an' we all had to go home." "But aren't you glad to be away from the dangers of war?" "Why, doc, war hain't so bad," cried honest Lem. "War hain't so bad. There's lots o' days when you don't have nothin' to do."—Harper's Weekly. Rare Remedies. In some parts of England the natives say the best way to cure a stiff neck is to wrap a live snake about it. In some of the Hebrides islands great faith is had in perforated, water-worn stones called "snake stones." These are dipped in tepid water, which is then given to cattle which have been bitten by snakes. If no stone can be obtained the head of an adder dipped in the water gives just as good results. An eel's skin worn as a garter around the naked leg is a fine preventive of cramps, and some localities it is equally good as a bandage for a sprained limb. SWEETEST GIRL OF ALL I love a pretty maiden. For her I fondly sigh; Her face so sweet I seldom greet, Of me she's very shy. I follow her day after day, 'Mid scenes of strife and squalor; If you would view this maiden, too— Look on a silver dollar. —Smart Set. American Pearl Worth $20,000. An American 'pearl weighing 187 grains has arrived In the Malden Lane district from the Western fisheries. It is round and pink and is said by New York dealers to be the largest perfect fresh water pearl ever seen in this city. It is valued at $20,000. It was found by a "pearler" a short time ago in the White River, Arkansas and sold to a Western dealer, who brought it here—New York American. A clear brain and Steady, dependable nerves Can win wealth and fame For their owner. Coffee contains caffeine A. poisonous drug. Postum is rich in the Gluten and phosphates that Furnish the vital energy That puts "ginger" and "hustle" Into body and brain. "There's a Reason" GOOD ROADS. Road Building as a Study. "Road building." writes a subscriber, who is a prominent county engineer in Massachusetts, "is a matter which requires special study in each particular case, and the effort to lay down uniform practice even for localities which have fairly uniform conditions leads to imperfections. Methods which worked well in one particular stretch of road may fail when applied to another. In making up specifications for country roads, while it is convenient to have a standard form, the engineer will do well to vary that form to suit the conditions. Traffic should be studied more and the benefit derived should be commensurate with the expense. "The phase of the study of roads which is preliminary in its nature, should be more dwelt upon by essayists and authorities. The importance of the road from the standpoint of its expected use should be more thoroughly inquired into before entering on the actual construction, as well as the various preliminary engineering inquiries of the state of the soil, the availability of native material, drainage, etc. In other words, does public canvence and necessity require certain work done? "The construction of good roads over long stretches of country means such a vast expenditure, not alone in first cost, but of more importance still, in future maintenance, that haphazard methods must be abandoned and all the elements of present and future use gauged with as certain a forecast as possible. "These are some of the points which I feel are somewhat neglected in current literature, and it would seem also that the State legislation is perhaps weak on the subject of maintenance; legislators do not understand that after a macadam road is built, three or four hundred dollars per mile a year must be spent to maintain it; in the long run perhaps more." In Kentucky. The county court of Boyd County, Kentucky, has announced its intention to make an official trip of inspection in automobiles over the roads of the county, to determine what steps are required to put them in first-class condition. When the court convenes after the inspection it is expected that contracts will be let for the repair and maintenance of the roads for a term of two years. WHERE CHINESE SAILORS FAIL They Never Learn to Tie a Knot Properly, Says a Skipper. "I don't know why it is," said the captain of the tramp steamer in South Brooklyn, sixty days out from Hong-kong, "but you can't teach any of those Chinese sailors there to tie a real knot. "There isn't much need aboard a steamer for the rope knowledge that used to be so much the part of a focs' training, but we do need splices and knots now and again just the same. "Those Chinese there, who were signed as A. B.'s, can' do anything needed in the way of splices that would make an old tar green with envy, and they'll fix up deadeyes better than most of the men I've shipped. "But you can't get one of.'em to tie a right knot. Teach 'em again and again, they remember the lesson for half an hour. Next time there's a straight everyday knot to be tied the Chinese focs'le hand makes up the same old granny. "Every child that tries to tie a knot makes a granny. This kind of a knot is made up by passing the ends around each other in the reverse direction, making the ends stand out at right angles. The ends should be wound around each other in the same direction. When they come out of the knot they should lie alongside the line on either side of the knot. Such a knot won't slip. But a Chinaman can't learn it for keeps—not he. "The Lascar and Malay and Kanaka learn the right knot easily enough. In a storm that's one of the things we have to guard against if we have Chinese sailors."—New York Sun. An Old Racing Town. Lincoln, where the "saddling bell" which is not a saddling bell "rings" to-day on "the Carholme," which is not Lincoln, for what, is not "the opening of the racing season," has had a long connection with the turf. King James I held "a great horse race on Lincoln Heath" in 1617, and probably paid the jockeys with long speeches delivered half in Latin and half in Caledonian. Pessimists who assert that our present day "sprints" tend to equine decadence will be surprised to learn that the course on that occasion was only "a quarter of a mile long."—London Chronicle. Coincidence. "Now, Tommy," said the teacher, "you may give me an example of a coincidence." "Why—er," said Tommy, with some hesitation, "why—er—why, me fadder and me mudder was both married on de same day."—Harper's Weekly. Remedies are Needed Remedies are Needed Were we perfect, which we are not, medicines would not often be needed. But since our systems have become weakened, impaired and broken down through indiscretions which have gone on from the early ages, through countless generations, remedies are needed to aid Nature in correcting our inherited and otherwise acquired weaknesses. To reach the seat of stomach weakness and consequent digestive troubles, there is nothing so good as Dr. Fierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a glycerio compound, extracted from native medicinal roots—sold for over forty years with great satisfaction to all users. For Weak Stomach, Billiousness, Liver Complaint, Pain in the Stomach after eating, Heartburn, Bad Breath, Belching of food, Chronic Diarrhea and other Intestinal Derangements, the "Discovery" is a time-proven and most efficient remedy. You can't afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this non-alcoholic, medicine or known composition, not even though the urgent dealer may thereby make a little bigger profit. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy. That take Nature's Remedy (NR tablets) to night will feel better in the morning. 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Irritability may be a sign of genti us, but it's not a proof of it. This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powder for children, can treat Eyelids, Bad Bones, Bad Stomach, Teethin, Trial Sole, Regulate the Bowl and Destroy Worms. They break up colds in 24 hours. Pleasant to take, and harmless as milk Never fail. At Drugista. 25c. Samplemilled Free. Address All.SC.olmed.LeR.Y.N.Y. Old age has its comforts much greater than youth. The genuine has on its outside wrapper the Signature Well begun is half done. · Baby Wasted to a Skeleton. "My little son, when about a year and a half old, began to have sores come out on his face. I had a physician treat him, but the sores grew worse. Then they began to come out on his arms, then on other parts of his body, and then one came on his chest, worse than the others. Then I called another physician. Still he grew worse. At the end of about a year and a half of suffering he grew so bad that I had to tie his hands in cloths at night to keep him from scratching the sores and tearing the flesh. He got to be a more skeleton, and was hardly able to walk. "My aunt advised me to try Culticura Soap and Culticura Ointment. I sent to a drug store and got a cake of Culticura Soap and a box of the Ointment and followed directions. At the end of two months the sores were all well. He has never had any sores of any kind since. I can sincerely say that only for Culticura my child would have dled. I used only one cake of Culticura Soap and about three boxes of Ointment. "I am a nurse and my profession brings me into many different families and it is always a pleasure for me to tell my story and recommend Culticura Remedies. Mrs. Egbert Sheldon, R. F. D. I, Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 23, 1909." Cultivate stick-to-it-iveness. 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French rule began in Algiera by cutting murderers' heads, off instead of killing by splitting and salting the hands, and then sewing them up in raw cowhide, so killing the criminal by slow and awful blood poison lasting 6 weeks. Anglo-Saxon civilization has grown like a mighty oak, and more races and nations have reposed in peace and safety under its branches than under any other institution since the world began. After years of experimenting and of more scientific and so-called merciful methods, we see no benefit in the shape of diminished homicides proceeding from their use. For murder, punishment, severe and relentless, is society's most precious protection. Mere life immurging and painless removal of murderers does not do the work. England's success in this leaves no doubt, whatsoever—New York Press. Dr. Le Page, the eminent Brussels surgeon, has sent in his bill for $20,000, his fee for operating on King Leopold a few days before the king's death. 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Vest-pocket box, 10 cents—at drug-stores. People now use a million boxes monthly. (At 20'10) y Old $1.00, rotall. TO TRAINS —Cartoon by Triggs, in the New York Press. YOAKUM SAYS POLITICIAN IS FARMERS" WORST FOE. PLURAL VOTING IN CANADA EXPLAINED. American Consul Frank Deedmeyer Writes of the Novel Election System Adopted in Charlottetown, P. E. I. 2. STUDENT TUTORS DO WELL AT PRINCETON. St. Louis, Mo.—Excessive profit taking by middlemen was the reason assigned for high rates of foodstuffs by B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the Prisco system, in an address which he made before the National Convention of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union, in conference in this city. He declared that the heavy reductions in freight rates of the last few years had been absorbed by the dealers and not shared in by the farmers or consumers. The railroad man described the demagogic politician as a disturbing and expensive middle agent, and urged that he be cut out in the dealings which the railroads and the farmers should have with each other, because he fosters malice. "The most important force for the welfare of the Nation will come when the land owners of America are organized," said Mr. Yoakum. "This organization is important not only for the benefits which will come to the farmers, but on account of money, which will be saved by the consumers. It is not prices received by farmers which make living expenses high, but the profits of the dealers handling the foods between the farmer and consumer. "The Florida farmer receives $2.25 for a bushel of green beans, the railroad gets fifty cents for the 800-mile haul to New York City, and the consumer pays $6.40 for this same bushel of beans. There is thirty-five per cent. for the grower, eight per cent. for the carrier, and fifty-seven per cent. for the dealer. This is not a fair division. "Thirty cents a dozen was the average price of eggs in New York City last year, while the farmers of Arkansas and Missouri received fifteen cents. The freight was two cents a dozen. The man who received the eggs at a freight station in New York Washington, D. C.—American Consul Frank Deedmeyer described the plural-voting privileges of Charlotte town property owners in the capital of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island: "In elections of mayors and councilors alderman, for the city of Charlotte town all men and all unmarried women above the age of twenty-one years, having paid prior to the time of holding any such election all rates, taxes, and assessments then due, have a right to give one or more votes. The franchise is limited to those possessing a freehold estate of $100 assessed value or over; to renters of real estate of a yearly rental value of $14; to payers of an annual income tax of $2 and upward, and to those who pay a poll tax of $2 each year. "Non-residents, owners or lessees of real estate in the city, may vote at these elections. A voter thus qualified may vote in the ward in which he or she resides, and also in every other ward in which he or Princeton, N. J.—In a report issued by the Princeton Tutors' Association appears the statement that $14,000 is the amount which in the last year has found its way into the pockets of the students who make a business of tutoring less studious undergraduates at the rate of $1.50 to $2 an hour. As the total membership of the association is about twelve or thirteen, each tutor averaged a little over $1000, or more than enough to pay his college expenses every year. The association was organized about two years ago, when a Says Negro Children Washington, D. C.-The white man's ancestor has bequeathed to him a lot of afflictions from which the negro is free, according to Dr. J. L. Miner, of Memphis, Tenn., at the American Ophthalmological Society, one of the organizations of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, which was in session here. Dr. Miner said negro children had a better vision than white children, their eyes showing a remarkable absence of refractive errors. City and delivered them to the consumer took thirteen cents a dozen profit. "The farmers and the railroads have something to co-operate with and something to co-operate for. First, let us eliminate the men who talk radical ideas to foster hatred and malice between the producer and transporter. We do not need any middle agent. We can talk straight at one another and save money by doing so. In short, let us work together. "The farmer works to produce the food, the consumer works to pay for it, the dealer under organized methods takes the lion's share of the profits. It is through organization of the producers working closely with the transporters that foodstuff can be placed on the table of the consumer at a fair price. "All we hear from Washington is military exploitations and unimportant political controversies. All we hear from most of our Congressmen and State legislators is the preaching of false doctrines against the institutions of the country. There is seldom a word of encouragement for the upbuilding and development of the country's resources. Another demand being urged through your officers is more liberality in National appropriations toward agricultural projects and less money for battleships. National legislation to aid agriculture is of the greatest importance." "The railroad director closed with a strong appeal to the farmers that when their legislative committee asked for more liberal appropriation for agricultural development they were touching the heart of the Nation's future and they should definitely outline their policy on that question. "To succeed you must be specific," he declared. she owns or occupies real estate. Under this provision an elector, residing in one ward of the city and owning real estate or being in possession of premises for business purposes in the other four wards of the city, may vote five times at the same election, once in each ward, and he or she votes in each ward for one of the candidates for mayor and for the number of councillors to be elected from such ward. "Voting at these elections is not by ballot, but at polling place vivo vote before election officers, who register the choice of the elector, as declared by him or her in public. In case of a tie the returning officer casts the deciding vote. Contests of elections are allowed only if notice is given by each polling place before the closing of the polls. No person can hold the office of mayor or councilor unless he is the owner of unincumbered real estate in the city to a specified value. A councilor is permitted to resign on payment of a fine of $16." number of men who found it necessary to work their way through college established, a summer school for the benefit of men who needed help. It was decided to continue the school during the college year, and now it is a regular unit of the university life. These tutors also do a profitable business in relieving "pensums." A pensum is an assignment of from five to ten hours' tutoring, and it is imposed upon a student by the Faculty as a punishment for excessive absence from recitations. Sir Christopher Furness' London.—Sir Christopher Furness, the ship owner, who has represented the constituency of Hartlepool in Parliament since 1900, was unseated by the court and his recent election was declared void on the ground that there had been illegal employment of demonstrators and payments made through his agents. The court emphasized its conclusion that Sir Christopher was not personally guilty, but must suffer for the acts of his agents. IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS Good Advice for the Ball Player Tin Munane, the Boston sport writer, gives these tips on how to win ball games: Good physical condition. Cut out reading during the playing season. Use judgment in the kind of food you eat and eat lightly before the game. Cut out liquor. Go to bed when possible before midnight and rise early. Cut out all kinds of gambling among the players, especially on the trains and at the hotels after 11 o'clock. Keep your eyes off the grandstand and cut out the dance music. Remember the clubs pay for washing the uniforms, and, therefore, don't be afraid to hit the dirt. Fight all games to a finish, and don't look for favors from umplres, players or public. The greatest teams of the past have been made up mostly of players that would never attract attention on the street as natty dressers, their one thought being how to win games. ```markdown ``` San Francisco, Cal.-Jack Johnson's followers are well pleased with the showing made by the fighter in his opening workout. They saw him stripped fol- Jack Johnson Refuses lowing his To Drink Wine Now. twelve - mile road jog and many professed to be agreeably surprised over his condition. All agreed that the negro should have little difficulty in removing surplus weight during the long training interval before the fight and Johnson's announced intention of taking things comparatively easy for a while is generally commended. Johnson says that his road exercise was the first real work he has done in preparation for his meeting with Jeffries. What he did at Chicago he declares was more for the benefit of photographers than for himself. A tentative program has been outlined for Johnson's preliminary training. For the first two weeks he proposes to put on the gloves three days a week, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Later he will increase this to four days a week, appearing in the gymnasium on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. After posing for pictures wine was unooked but the pugilist sheld away from the bubbling beverage and called for buttermilk. "Buttermilk is good for you," he remarked. "It don't put on any weight and it keeps you in good condition." △ △ Accidents are becoming exceedingly common in baseball. Already in the Southern league circuit two players have suffered broken logs, Osteen teen under normal conditions, is an exceedingly clever performer, and his loss will be felt by the Climbers. Schltzer was obtained by Chattanooga at a considerable outlay of spot cash and gave every appearance of being a corking good man. Had two such accidents happened in Southaer football the howl which unfriendly throats would have sent up would have started the wild goose flying high to a winter's retreat. △ ▼ ▲ There is more than a passing possibility that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will be present at the Jeffries-Johnson fight on July 4 next unless the California Roosevelt May See governor gives The Big Fight. ear to the na- wall and attempts to block the bout. The colonel likes a fight. He likes to participate and he likes to look on. He likes boxing matches and when he was police commissioner of N. Y. city he used to attend the fights "to see that things went right." He is a boxer of ability himself and his old instructor, Mike Donovan, says he has the hardest punch of any man not in the ring. Roosevelt will be in the next summer. He has accepted invitations to fairs in Cheyenne and Galveston. Just when he is going west is not settled at this moment, but he admires western people and western scenery. Jack Gleason is coming east to present a ticket to Colonel Roosevelt when the hunter gets back from Europe. Mr. Gleason will tender a ticket for the finest seat in the arena, and if Colonel Roosevelt will consent to attend he can have n whole section to himself. The strenuous que no doubt would like nothing better, but that trivial thing of public opinion must cut some figure. However, the ticket hasn't been refused yet. A A Manager Frank Chance of the Chicago Cubs says that a baseball player can only become great by obeying the old adage: "Tarly to bed and early to rise." Frank is writing a book of health rules for the Cubs. A A In these days of go-as-yon-please baseball writing players don't practice any more, they "work out"; pitches don't pitch and catchers don't catch, but they "work"; players don't sign contracts, they "sign up," and a fielder isn't a good fielder, he is "some" fielder. A A President Lynch of the National; Johnson of the American, and Chivington of the American association, have instructed their umpires to inflict heavy fines on players guilty of using profanity on the playing field. Ty Cobb's brother, Paul, is with Lincoln, Neb. in the Western league. Ty ought to lend the youngster a little of that surplus batting, fielding and base-running and bring the kid into the big show. Undoubtedly there are more ball-players living in careless abandon today than the average fan imagines—that is, the fan who has not watched morn ing Carelessness of practice or Ball Players Discussed the perfecting of f teams on inside plays before or during the baseball season. Some day a man will break into baseball who will revolutionize the game. He will tear down the hive of luxury and ease in which at the present time the major leaguers loll in careless abandon, drive out all the drones and bring about a new era in the great American sport that will perfect a system of play deemed impossible in the past. He will be desplained and hated. He may even be banished from the game before his mission is complete, but he will have begun a reformation that all will follow. This idea was conceived upon watching a theatrical company rehearsing for a new production at one time. The man who was drilling that company know he must have every movement of his players perfected or it would never "take" with the American public. The hours and hours of drudgery put in by those actors would have driven many a ball player to distraction. One man, a leading man, too, was compelled to make an entrance in one part of the play at least fifty times in one rehearsal before he fifty times in a manner that suited the exacting producer. Is there a ball player in the major leagues today who would slide to second fifty times in one morning's practice just to get the form of the action exactly as the manager wanted? Baseball has grown into such prominence with the American carry the fans along to tradition. It must be inventive. It must progress. Old fans will tell you today that the present day players do nothing on the ball field that was not done in the days when Carley Comiskey led the St. Louis Browns to four successive victories. If nothing new, can be invented managers can at least teach players to do the present things with greater accuracy and dispatch. A new players are masters, but in every instance it seems due to the players' own efforts or to their natural ability. Ty Cobb is the greatest base runner and one of the grandest all-around players because he is the fastest man in the game, and because he is ambitious. He worked while others slumped. Incredible as it may seem, few managers drill players in running and sliding to bases, yet that is conceded to be one of the principal features of the game. Outside of the bit of sliding, one might do in a practice game, there is little effort made to teach even the beginners this important feature. △ △ The fans of Augusta are confident that Manager Norcum has a team which will be at least one, two, three, when the race is run, and the aggre- claimed champion of the Sally in 1910. Manager Norcum has a well-balanced team. While it is true that behind the bat and on first and second, he has recruits, still these men are showing up in such splendid style to warrant their retention, and all of the trio are showing great improvement each succeeding day. The gap left in the catching department because of Tom Carson, the old reliable, going to Chattanooga, has been mighty hard to fill, but young Dudley, the Alabama recruit, is catching, hitting and throwing well, and it goes without saying that he will be Augusta's mainstay behind the bat during this season. At first base base House, formerly of the New Orleans city league, will hold forth. Edwards is showing up well at second, being a clean fielder and fair batter. Blerkortte and McMahon need no introduction to the fans of the south, as their work in previous years has stamped them among the premier infielders of minor league baseball. The outfield is also too well known to be again introduced to the fans of the circuit. Coles, Viola and Norcum are fine fielders and consistent hitters, and Augusta wouldn't trade her outfield for any in the Sally league today. Pierce, Wagner and Hannifan are doing the bulk of the pitching, with Howell Smith, a recruit, in reserve. With the aggregation above named, Augusta believes that she has an even chance to win the flag in the Sally this year. △ Quite the latest wrinkle in the Majors is the securing of the services of detectives to watch the movements of the players. "Bugs" Raymond, of by a Pinkerton man. Recently "Bugs" got it in his head that he would run away from the Giants. He ran over in Brooklyn, it is said, thinking he would surely be safe there. The detective was game however, and even followed him to Brooklyn. This is what "Bugs" said to his comrades on his return; "I came back on the Pink's account. He isn't such a bad fellow, and he has a family to support. I didn't want to get him "in Dutch." If I had run away he would have been out of a job." A Cincinnati councilman, Robert O'Brien, has introduced an ordinance in Cincinnati councils prohibiting the wearing of hats in the grand stand at the Cincinnati ball park. △ △ The Rev. Dr. Mitchell, Methodist minister and father of Robert Mitchell, Mississippi State University pitcher, who has just agreed to a trial offered by the Chicago Nationals, says baseball is a "cold-blooded, money-making business nowadays, and that no element of sport lies in the game of today." For that reason he will forbid his son to enter the professional field. "Bob" is touring with the "Varsity squad, and it is not known whether he will abide by his father's decision. He is over twenty-ons Ex-Governor Will Not Enter the Governor's Race. Hoke Smith Declares That Personal Reasons Are Responsible For Him Not Making the Race For Governor. Atlanta, Ga. — Former Governor Hoke Smith issued a statement in which he declared that he will not be a candidate for the office of governor in the election this fall. Without going into details, Mr. Smith states that "personal reasons," which would prohibit him from mak- PETER H. ING a personal canvass of the state in the campaign, are responsible for his not making the race at this time. He also states that the principle which he advocated in both his campaigns have been enacted into law. Mr. Smith's statement is considered as final, and puts an end to the speculation which has been rife throughout the state for months past as to whether or not he would be a candidate for the office of governor. The former governor says: "During the past two weeks I have received requests in various forms urging me to enter the race for governor, and convincing me that an extended movement has begun to cause my candidacy for that office. "While I deeply appreciate the purpose of those engaged in this movement, as I cannot see my way at this time to become a candidate, I wish to spare them useless trouble. "But for the conviction that certain legislation then in the public mind was absolutely necessary to the permanent welfare of the people of the state, I would not have entered the first race. The second race was precipitated before I had been in office nine months, and I entered it from a sense of duty. "Before the close of my two years as governor the important measures for which the contest of 1906 was made had been accomplished, and the principles embodied in them will remain the policy of the state. "If my individual preferences alone were involved, I would yield them without hesitation, and comply with any call made upon me by that splendid body of men who stood together so laoily in 1906 and again in 1907 for the reforms in question, and who went down with me in the last election before forces of opposition which I do not believe can again be combined. "But there are other reasons of a personal nature which prevent my entering a heated political contest at the present time. "While I cannot now consent to enter the race for governor, I wish to assure my friends and fellow-citizens of the regret it causes me not to comply with their wishes, and of my readiness out of office to serve them in any way possible. I shall be ready at all times to take active part in the support of measures which will promote good government whenever the opportunity is given." IMPORTANT SCHOOL DECISION Appling, Ga.—There is no authority in law for a county board of education to lay off one school district and leave the rest of the county undistricted, according to a decision handed down by the supreme court in the case of Lansdell and others against Tax Collector King of Columbia county. According to the act amended in 1906 the boards of education are required to district every county in the state. The board of education of Columbia county lald off three districts, left the rest of the county undivided and sought to collect local school tax from those districts. COLORED FARMERS' UNION Organization Plans to Care for Interests of Negro Planters. Macon, Ga. — A Georgia Colored Farmers' Union is promised in the organizing of a number of colored farmers at Loraine. Application has been made in Bibb superior court court. It is planned to have divisions and county organization all over the state and the business of the organization will be to take care of the interests of the colored farmers. Morse's Appeal Denied. Washington, D. C. — Charles W. Morse was denied the privilege of filing an application for a writ of habeas corpus by the supreme court of the United States. New York City—"That finishes the matter, so far as the taking of legal steps is concerned," it was said at the office of Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Charles W. Morse, when information reached there of the supreme court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus for Morse. US Capitol Building Washington According to Secretary Wilson, who is continually startling the world with the results of his scientific and economic discoveries, rats have be- rodent to which the Secretary refers, but the muskrat, the meat of which he declares has become a staple article of human food. Nor does Secretary Wilson deprecate this custom. On the contrary, he apparently regards the consumption of muskrats as food as a highly desirable method of checking the capacity of the Beef Trust, for he announces that he is preparing to issue a bulletin furnishing information on the best methods of increasing the supply. Members of the committee on the cost of living vehemently assert that the recent consumption as food of two missionaries in the South Sea Islands had no relation to the tariff or the high price of beef, but they will probably find it more difficult to convince the public that the consumption of muskrats as food is not due to these causes. Hence they have declined to attempt the fultile argument and have determined to assist Secretary Wilson in the dissemination of his conclusions as to the cost of living. ★★ After a long debate the Senate passed the House bill providing for the establishment of a Bureau of Mines in the Interior Department. tigations as will aid in making mining less wasteful of life and resources. One of the principal duties of the new bureau will be to discover the various causes of each type of mine accidents and the best preventive measures, to aid in the development of a uniform code of signals for use in mine operations, etc. The bureau will also collect data concerning the best practices for safe and efficient mining followed in other countries. A number of amendments were adopted. Senator Root took a prominent part in the debate. He said he realized he was in a hopeless minority in opposing the bill, with the beneficent purposes of which he was heartily in accord. He desired, however, to register a protest against this effort toward the usurpation by the National Government of Junctions and prerogatives which belong to the States. Realizing that the bill would pass, Mr. Root made various suggestions to perfect its phraseology, and did not ask for a roll call on its passage. * * * Representative Nicholas Longworth is relating to his colleagues in the House a pathetic tale which he calls "the sorrows of a son-in-law." Mr. Longworth declares Sorrows of a that ever since the an-Son-in-Law, nouncement of his engagement to the daughter of President Roosevelt his every utterance has promptly been assumed to have been inspired by Mr. Roosevelt. When the colonel went to Africa, however, Mr. Longworth evers, he expected to get credit for at least a little originality, but he admits his hope was baseless. He has just received a letter which reads, in part: "Whenever you get off anything worth saying, which is mighty seldom, we all know it is inspired by your distinguished father-in-law, and most of your constituents congratulate you on the colonel's early return. When he lands on American soil you may expect us to read your speeches, but in the meantime you might as well save yourself the trouble of mailing them." Mr. Longworth submits that the public life of the son-in-law of a great man is hardly worth the living. ★★ It is not necessary to say that Colonel Roosevelt does not sympathize with the Taft-Ballinger attitude toward the policy of conservation. He nat- Roosevelt and orders he issued with Conservation, drawing from settlement considerable areas of the public domain were legal and require no ratification by Congress, and that further withdrawals may be made by the Executive without specific statutory authority. The policy of awaiting legislative authority he regards as inimical to the broad policy of conservation, especially as Congress is loath to convey the needed authority to the Executive. On the other hand, Mr. Roosevelt is quite broad enough to give to those who hold views opposed to his own credit for their entire sincerity. He has long understood the extreme legal views which Mr. Taft entertained, even as a member of the Roosevelt Cabinet. He appreciates that Judge Ballinger is in entire harmony with the views of his chief in the course he is pursuing. And, moreover, it will not be a surprise to Colonel Roosevelt if he becomes satisfied that Mr. Plinchot, in the excess of his zeal, misunderstood the Secretary of the Interior and was easily misled by the charges of Glayis. This interpretation of the attitude of the former President comes from a source which cannot be questioned and is based on recent private communications. Coal Passer Commended For Rescuing a Baker. Washington, D. C.—The Navy-Department has sent a letter of commendation to Robert Wade, a coal passer, who enlisted at Los Angeles. Determined to commit suicide, a baker of the receiving ship Independence threw himself into the water and mud which surrounded the ship. Wade stuck a boathook down and felt the man at the bottom, where he was imbedded head first in the soft mud, and then hanging on to a raft with one hand rescuing the man.