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Savannah Tribune. VOL. XXVI. MT. WILSON Arch Hoxsey Soars Above Highest Peak in Range. Holder Of World's Altitude Record Crosses Range That Rims California Valley—In the Air One Hour and Twenty-Eight Minutes—Army Officer Says One Thousand Aeroplanes Could Carry 10,000 Troops Across the Alps In a Single Day. Los Angeles, Cal. (Special).—Arch Hoxsey, of Pasadena, holder of the world's aeroplane altitude record—11,474 feet—Thursday flew over Mount Wilson, the highest peak of the mountain range that rims the valley in which Los Angeles, Pasadena and the towns of the orange belt lie. Under ideal weather conditions, he soared 10,005 feet into the sky, and cleared the crest of Mount Wilson with 4,200 feet to spare. Lieut. Vernon Boller and several other army officers, who are here to see the flights, asserted Hoxsey's performance polled a new way of transporting armies across mountain ranges. Lieutenant Boller, who came here from Fort Whipple, Ariz., said that a thousand biplanes could transport an army of 10,000 men across mountains as high as the Alps in a day. Buns Into Sleet Storm. Hoxsey used a Wright blplane, equipped for passenger service, and he made the journey from the field to a point beyond the mountains in 1 hour and 28 minutes. The distance is estimated at 31 miles. On an air line the distance from the field to the mountain is less than that, but Hoxsey circled over the field until he had reached his maximum height, before he pointed the nose of his machine toward the range. He was out of sight before he made the attempt at topping the peak. News of his success was flashed to the aviation field by telephone from the Carnegie Solids Observatory, on Mount Wilson, directly above which the aviator soared. "It was fearfully cold," said Hoxsey, "and when I got to a point just above the summit, I found that the haze, which obscured the mountains from the aviation field, was a heavy pall-of vapor with fine ice particles that stung my face. I am certain that if I had had a recording thermometer with me it would have shown the temperature of the upper altitude to be far below zero. However, hurdling mountains is much easier than climbing 11,000 feet over a valley of the sea. The earth does not seem so far away." GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Has Doubled Output of Entire United States in 1800. Charlotte, N. C. (Special).—In an address at the annual banquet of the Greater Charlotte Club Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record, in discussing matters bearing upon the South and its progress, said: "Despite all the disadvantages under which we have labored, despite much of the unwise agitation of all kinds of the last 10 or 12 years, agitations which have created false impressions about the South, this section has achieved wonders of which it may well boast. Sometimes we have talked about being too poor to develop our educational facilities, and yet the South is now spending for common-school education largely over $50,000,000 a year, against $23,000,000 as the total amount thus expended by the United States in 1860, when the population of the country exceeded by 3,000,000 the population of the South at present. "In its cotton mills this section has twice as many spindles as the United States had in 1860. It is making three and a half times as much pig iron as the United States then made. Last year it produced almost as much grain as the whole country raised in 1860, and its total farm products exceeded by $900,000,000 the value of the agricultural output of the United States at that time. We have two and one-half times as much railroad mileage and six times as much money in bank deposits as the whole country had in 1860." Yes. The Lion Yawned San Francisco (Special).—While visiting the winter quarters of a wild animal show here, John Kellert, of Knights' Landing, Cal., was told that he could make a lion yawn by tickling his coin. John tried, with the result that he is now in a hospital nursing a band from which two fingers are missing. SELF-SUSTAINING BASIS Eut P. 0. Department Expenditures Exceed Receipts. Washington, D. C. (Special). That Postmaster-General Hitchcock is determined to put the Postoffice Department on a self-sustaining basis is evidenced in the annual report of Third Assistant Postmaster General James G. Britt, just made public. Though the expenditures of the department for the past year still are in excess of the receipts, there is a marked decrease in the expenditures for the past year when compared with those of a year ago. The total postal receipts for the fiscal year 1910 aggregated $224,128,657.62. This is an increase of $20,566,274.55, or 10.10 per cent., when compared with those for the preceding year. The expenditures for the past year amounted to $229,977,224.50, an excess' of expenditures over receipts of $5,848,566.88. To this deficit should be added the sum of $32,915.07 lost by burglary, fire, bad debts, etc., making a total deficit of $5,881.-481.95, a decrease of $11,598.-288.52 when compared with the deficit of the fiscal year 1909. The Third Assistant Postmaster-General discussions in detall the different branches of the postal service which come under the jurisdiction of his office. The financial system, the supervision of the manufacture and issuance of postage stamps, postal cards, etc., the money-order system and registry system and the classification of domestic mail matter are all taken up fully in the report. GIVES EMPLOYES $100,000. T. G. Plant, Shoe Manufacturer, To Retire From Business. Boston, Mass. (Special). Thomas G. Plant, the Jamaica plain shoe manufacturer, is about to retire from the firm bearing his name, and, in pursuance of a policy he inaugurated in the nature of a merit system, he gave to his employees a vast sum of shining gold fresh from the mint, exceeding $100,000. This gift will be followed later in the year by a second distribution of $50,000 to the employees. Although the news of the distribution came through the employees, it was confirmed at the office of the company. In letters he sent with the gifts of gold to the several hundred employees Plant said: "I believe length of service, to a great extent, expresses the individuals' loyalty to his employer. I express my sincere appreciation of your loyal services." Lemoyne. Pa. (Special).—Thrown on the pilot of the engine of the southbound fast Hocking Valley passenger train, which struck and demolished the buggy and instantly killed his wife, who was riding with him, John Bartelshelin, a wealthy farmer, was carried to Pemberville, six miles distant, where he alighted, dazed from the shock and exposure to the cold, but otherwise uninjured. When he alighted from the engine he still held part of the broken lines in one hand, together with the lap robe. KILLED BY NITROGLYCERIN. Charge Containing 25 Quarts Put in Hot Water. Washington, Pa. (Special).—William C. Maloney was about to shoot an oil well in Cross Creek township when he complained that the nitro-glycerin was too thick. He placed the explosive in a barrel of hot water and was completing preparations for the shot when the charge exploded. Maloney was blown to pieces, and the derrick at the well wrecked. His horses, although knocked down, were not hurt. The charge contained 25 quarts of fluid. Maloney had been a "shooter" for 10 years. Lives Saved From Shipwrecks. Washington, D. C. (Special).—According to the annual report of the general superintendent of the lifesaving service, just made public, 6,601 lives were saved and 1,463 disasters to shipping at sea were aided during the course of the year. Fifty-three lives were lost. More than $10,051,160 was saved to the companies owning vessels. The entire cost of the service was $2,249,395. Gem For Mrs. Taft. Washington, D. C. (Special). Among the earliest presents received at the White House for Mrs. Taft was one which came as a testimonial from her associates, the women of the Cabinet. The gift was a beautiful ring, set with rubles and diamonds. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1911. BOILER EXPLODES SIXTEEN KILLED At Least Two Other Men Expected to Die. BODIES OF-VICTIMS BLOWN TO PIECES Men Had Gathered In the Boiler Building Of the Morewood Lake Ice Company, At Morewood Lake, Preparatory To Harvesting Crop—Senator W. Murray Crane Heads Relief Fund. Pittsfield, Mass. (Special).—The lives of 16 workmen were obliterated Thursday, by the explosion of a boiler at the plant of the Morewood Lake Ice Company, at Morewood Lake, two miles south of this city. Twelve men were killed instantly, one died shortly after the accident and three others died in the hospital. In addition 12 men were injured, and it was stated at the House of Mercy, the hospital to which they were removed, that it was feared that two of the patients would die. State Officer A. H. McNeill was assigned by the Massachusetts District Police officials to make a thorough investigation of the cause of the explosion. At a special meeting of the City Council resolutions were adopted calling for immediate action to supply the wants of the fatherless and injured. Upon the suggestion of Mayor William B. MacInnis, a subscription paper was started and in a short time nearly $3,000 had been subscribed. United States Senator Winthrop Murray Crane, whose home is in Dalton, near here, headed the list with $500. Gathered this forenoon in and about the little boiler building, which was some distance from the ice-houses, were about 125 men, mostly Poles and Italians, awaiting the chance to earn a few dollars by cutting ice. With a crash, heard for miles around, the boiler burst. Bodies of men and fragments of iron and timber were hurled through the air. Those of the workmen who were not killed outright were either seriously injured or dazed by the shock. SUGAR TRUST OFFERS $700,000. Wants To Compromise After Discovery Of Drawback Frauds. Washington, D. C. (Special). Recent disclosures in the "drawback" frauds against the government have put the Treasury Department in a position practically to dictate the terms of compromise with the sugar refining companies. The American Sugar Refining Company's recent offer of $700,000 may not be accepted, in view of the fact that the government is said to have evidence to compel the return of not less than $1,000,000. It has just become known that at a recent conference with Attorney General Wickersham, attorneys for the sugar company offered $500,000 in settlement and declared that "was the last cent." The offer was declined and the $700,000 one came soon after. WED 60 YEARS; NEVER FUSSED. Cleveland, Ohio (Special) — Marriage is a success, say Mr. and Mrs. Max Dubinsky, respectively 80 and 77 years old, who celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Tuesday. The Dubinskys were married in Riga, Russia, when he was a lad of 20 and she a lass of 17. Dubinsky says the only way is to marry young. Both say that they never quarreled. They are hate and hearty and hope to live to celebrate their seventieth wedding anniversary. 9 TONS OF BAD EGGS SEJZED. Board of Health Will Be Asked to Destroy Them. New York (Special)—Nine tons of "liquid eggs" were seized Tuesday by federal officers in the cold storage plant of the Merchants' Refrigerator Company, Jersey City. The warrant of seizure, which was issued by the United States Commissioner, described the eggs as "filthy, decomposed and putrid animal matter." The Jersey City Board of Health will be asked to destroy them. Murderer Stabs Keeper. Trenton, N. J. (Special).—William D. Turner, deputy keeper at the state prison, was fatally stabbed by Dominic Menango, a convicted murderer, of Passaic county. It is believed Menango bore Turner a grudge and waited his opportunity. The convict called Turner to him and stabbed him twice. Menango was overpowered and placed In a dungeon. SEVEN KILLED; SCORE HURT Over a Ton of Powder Explodes at El Paso, Texas. El Paso, Tex. (Special).—Attempting to blast away a slag pile at the El Paso smelter, workmen accidentally exploded 2,400 pounds of blasting powder and came near wrecking the plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company, second largest in the world, damaged it considerably, caused a loss of probably seven lives and the injury to over a score. Property was damaged severely in the immediate vicinity of the explosion, and windows were broken three miles away. Many small houses of Mexicans in the vicinity of the smelter were badly damaged, and in these most of the injured were located. About 20 men were tunnelling beneath the slag pile when the explosion occurred, and the tunnels saved those who escaped with their lives, as the slag merely poured down around them and they survived until dug out. At dark Guillermo Dominguez and Florentino Naltarro had been taken out dead and as nothing could be heard from five men unaccounted for and believed to be in the tunnel No. 3, nearest the explosion, they are all supposed to be dead. Those in other tunnels had talked from their prisons to their rescuers. All are Mexicans. Marcelli Hermanos, a Mexican woman living in a small house near the smelter, was sick in bed when the explosion occurred, and its force wrecked her house, and the wreckage fell on her. She was tzken to the smelter hospital, where she died later. Porfirio Vorak, Maturn Marquez, Louis Marquez and Domingo Minjares and their families suffered. Most of all the children were more or less hurt in these small homes and Mrs. Maturo Marnuez, who was sweeping her house at the time, was thrown to the floor and hurt. The operations of the smelter were not interfered with, although all windows were broken and holes were torn in the roof by the falling slag. ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS SON. Shotgun Discharged When Knocked Against Hollow Tree. Greensboro, N. C. (Special).—Fred Ward, a lad of 15, was instantly killed when a shotgun in the hands of his father, Richard Ward, was accidentally discharged. The father and son were squirrel hunting in Orange county, and while the father was knocking against the butt of a hollow tree with the gunstock the weapon was discharged, the entire load going thrugh the heart of the boy. 3 CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE. Mother Away, They Are Trapped By Locked Doors. Glasgow, Ky. (Special).—On returning home from an errand Sunday Mrs. Robert Boles, of Wisdom, Ky., found her home in ashes and in one corner of the ruins the charred bodies of her three young children. When Mrs. Boles left home she covered the fire and locked the doors. The children had apparently tried to escape, but were trapped. Ice Breaks: Judge Drowned. Springfield, Ill. (Special).—Precitated into Shoal creek when the ice broke under the weight of his horse and buggy, Judge Milton M. Creighton, of the Montgomery County Circuit Court, of Litchfield, drowned Thursday. Another jurist riding with him escaped. Judge Creighton was a brother of Circuit Judge James A. Creighton, of this city, and Circuit Judge John Creighton, of Falkfield, Ill. Earthquake In Greece. Athens, Greece (Special).—Immense damage to property, with probable loss of life, has been occasioned in the province of Elis by continuous earthquake shocks. The movements of the earth have been unusually severe, hundreds of houses and stores having been thrown to the ground. There is great panic in the province, and much suffering. Troops will be dispatched to the aid of the people. Poisoned At Communion. St. Petersburg (Special).—By accident a priest in the Lutheran Church in the Peterhof district filled the communion cup with a chemical compound instead of wine. As a result, three of the communicants died Thursday and more than a score are in a serious condition. Two Killed In Pistol Fight Cypress, Fla. (Special). "Jim" Whit, of Altha, Fla., shot and fatally wounded Stephen Johnson, a neighbor, in a quarrel over a trivial master Sunday. Whit was in turn shot and instantly killed by the mother of Johnson. "BLACK MAMMY" MEMORIAL PLANS. Athens, Ga.—(Special.);—At a meeting of the incorporators of the "Black Mammy Memorial institute," here this afternoon, Mayor Maddox of Atlanta, Col. H. H. Dean of Galnesville and J. C. Hood of Commerce were elected additional trustees, and plaus for launching the enterprise were considered. The full board of trustees is: Maj. J. E. Talmage, Sr., Mr. W. T Bryan, Mr. John D. Moss of Athens and the three named above. The treasurer is Mr. E. R. Hodgson of Athens. This board of trustees will meet on December 21, for the perfection of arrangements to launch the unique school which the association has inaugurated. Chancellor Barrow of the University of Georgia, and a number of other prominent white men and educators are backing the organizer of the association. Prof. S. F. Harris, who has been at the head of an industrial school here for several years. Considerable funds have been raised and after the meeting of the trustees work will be begun on an old colonial building to cost several thousand dollars, and in which the colored girls of the state will be taught to do the work for which the historical figure of before the war "the old black mammy" was famous. PULLMAN, PORTERS WANT RAISE. Traveling Public Is Not So Liberal With Tips As It Was Formerly. Chicago.—(Special.)—Pullman porters have sent a petition to the general manager of the Pullman company asking for an increase in wages. The petition says: "The growing tendency of the traveling public either to discontinue altogether, or to reduce to one-half or less, the gratuities with which they formerly rewarded Pullman porters who merited such consideration, and the high cost of living generally, have forced us to come through you to the Pullman company begging for some relief." A porter on one of the New York-Citicau company, relating some of the hardships encountered, told an incident which happened recently on his train. "The professor of the agricultural department in a certain university," said the porter, "brought 29 of his students to see the international stock show in Chicago. The professor told the students it was against the law of the state to give a 'tip.' They traveled in my Pullman car. "I worked all night scrubbing off the mud and polishing up the 30 pairs of shoes. In the morning I brushed the whole party off. Did I get anything for my polish and time? No." MRS. WASHINGTON TALKS. Wife of Tuskegee Educator Talks to Washington Colored Y. Washington, D. C.—(Special.)—Mrs. Booker T. Washington addressed a large gathering of Negro citizens at the colored Y. M. C. A. vesper service. She gave a graphic talk, exolaining the work of Tuskegee for the betterment of the Negro race in the South, and declared the salvation of the Negro depends upon his ability to adapt himself to conditions along industrial lines in general. That the Negro race has advanced so much during the years following the war is due to the wisdom on the part of certain leaders among them, who talked less of politics and more of industry, the speaker declared. FRANKLIN'S RULES OF CONDUCT. From Benjamin Franklin's Auto biography: 1. Temperance—Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence—Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order—Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution—Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality—Make no expense but do good to others or yourself: i.e., waste nothing. 6. Industry—Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity—Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. Justice—Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. Moderation—Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries much as you think they deserve. NECESSITY OF SCHOOLS FOR NEGRO POINTED OUT ADDRESS OF REV. SAMUEL H. BISHOP OF AMERICAN CHURCH INSTITUTE FOR NEGROES. NEED FOR MISSION WORK Mohammedanism Knows Better Than Christianity How to Attract Boston, Mass.—(Special.)—At a meeting of the Massachusetts Clerical association in St. Paul's church parish house, Rev. Samuel H. Bishop of the American Church Institute for Negroes was the speaker. Mr. Bishop urged the importance of the work for Negroes in this country, which he said was foreign missions on the doorstep of the American church. Speaking of the Negrorace, Mr. Bishop said that theirs were the most wonderful prayers that had ever been written, that their music not only had the technical excellencies to compare favorably with any music ever written, but in addition he said; "The music of the Negro is the music of the resurrection life, the music that carries the human spirit through calamities worse than death. The Negro has a literature that compares favorably with any of the great literatures of the world, and his poetry is to be placed almost side by side with that model of all poetry, the Hebrew." Continuing, the speaker said: "We are in the habit of thinking of the Negro religion as highly emotional and as having no high pledge of conformity between belief and practice. With the exception of two things this seems to be a mistake. "The Negro seems to us to be lacking in the sense of personal propriety, and in the importance of personal purity, but these two things are the things in which he has been most despiled through the ages. But the Negro has attempted to conquer the world with love, with a patience, and with a degree, of success equaled by no other race on earth." The speaker urged the necessity of supporting the schools in this country for the Negroes, that efficient, intelligent teachers might be sent out, not only to Africa, but among the millions in this country. JACK JOHNSON A FINANCIER. Champion Pugilist Is Investing His Ring Earnings in Real Estate. Chicago.—(Special.)—Champion Jack Johnson, in pursuance of his purpose to invest his ring earnings in real estate, has secured an option on the property in State street, near Thirty-first street, known as the South Sidet, Turner hall. The champion has the matter of purchase at a price said to be in their neighborhood of $60,000 under advisement, and he is expected to close the deal within a few days. The ability of Johnson to consider real estate deals of this size naturally aroused some comment in quarters which had given credence to the reports that the Negro was squandering, the earnings of his Reno fight when he took the title from Jeffries. From those in close touch with Johnson's financial affairs it is learned that the champion has a cash balance in a local savings bank of nearly $165,000, and that instead of drawing on this sum for living expenses, the Negro has paid all his current expenses-out of his theatrical earnings since the fight and has in addition increased his wealth enough to buy the Prairie avenue property, for which he is reported to have paid $18,000. COTTRELL GETS COLLECTOR JOB Washington, D. C.—Special.)—President Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Charles A. Cottrell of Toledo, to be collector of internal revenue at Honolulu, Hawaii. Cottrell is a Negro, and his appointment was forecasted from the white house just prior to last election. A protest from Honolulu that a. resident of that city should be appointed was unheeded. Honolulu, Hawaii—(Special.)—The people of Honolulu are greatly wrought up over the prospect of having a Negro for collector of internal revenue. A repetition of the results of President Roosevelt's appointment of a Negro as collector at Charleston, S. C., will be seen. The entire staff of the Honolulu internal revenue officer will resign and walk out as they will decline to serve under a Negro. Cottrell will be much opposed, as no Negro has any position here. The whites accept well-educated Hawaiians, half-whites, as their social equals, but Hawaiians are bitter in their dislike of Negroes. ANTHROPOLOGICAL When I was a small boy in school I was greatly interested in reading geographies and other books about the five races of mankind. I found much to admire and wonder about in the descriptions and pictures of all these races excepting the black or Negro race. For this one I always had a sort of pity and a feeling that his picture was put in the geography because he could not well be omitted and that that he served as a sort of contrast to emphasize the superiorities of the other races. Later in university classes on anthropology and etnology I learned why the Negro was made to appear to be such a bad-looking creature. But as a child or adult I could never quite agree with all that was said concerning him; for although there were some Negroes of my acquaintance who were as ugly and unprepossessing as the pictures in the geographies and anthropologies, yet I felt that these representations were unjust. This caused me to think much concerning types and to study their nature and value. I found that the nature and value of the type depends upon who makes it and the purpose for which it is made. Types which are created or chosen by the people that they are to represent are generally idealistic, that is, they set forth the best features or characteristics of the people. The persons whose statues are being placed in the hall of fame in New York City are chosen because in various fields of endeavor they are the representatives of the best in American life. Westminster Abbey contains the bodies and busts of those who are the most representative of England and that for which she stands. Painters have also when their subjects have had to do with national life depicted the ideal so that the type became the composite of all that was good along that particular line. On the other hand, types which are created by persons outside of the race for purposes of ridicule and disagreement, usually set forth the ridiculous, the absurd, the uncouth and whatever will tend to show forth the weaknesses of the race. Take for example, the typical Irishman as represented in caricature. This type was not chosen by the Irish people, but by those who sought to ridicule and belittle them. The Irish, seeing the bad effects of this, have taken steps to counteract this influence and bring before the public the better side of the Irish people. The modern school of Irish writers is protesting vigorously against the false representation of their people and is setting forth the best in Irish life to overcome the impression made by the earlier caricatures of the typical Irishman. At Mobile, Ala., on April 21, 1910, the seventh district grand lodge convention of the Independent Order of B'nai B'Rith entered a vigorous protest against the caricaturing of the Jew on the stage. Charles F. Moritz of Montgomery, Ala., one of the leading members of the lodge, spoke in no uncertain tones against the practice, and the grand lodge, in accordance with his carnest appeal, went on record against it and requested every member of the lodge to discountenance the practice. The Negro, like the Irish and Jew, has had his types made for him. These caricatures of the Negro, created for the most part in the United States during the nineteenth century, had a close connection with the discussion of Negro slavery and of the condition of the Negro after his emancipation. His oppressors were especially concerned with keeping him in bondage and in having an impression made that would be favorable to this bondage. They, therefore, made DONT'S FOR TRAVELERS. Don't travel unless you afford it. Don't return civility with its opposite. Don't fail to assist any infirm, crippled or aged fellow traveler who may need a helping hand. Don't permit your children, if you have any with you, to annoy people by ill-bred behavior. Don't carry a chip on your shoulder. Most of the people you meet are well-disposed and kind. Don't refuse courtesies when offered by strangers if exceptional circumstances occasion them. Don't ask questions, except of officials on the road, or the ship, or of policemen on the street. Don't exchange visiting cards with strangers, unless this is justified by exceptional circumstances. Optimism is born of courage; the man who is afraid of the dark generally sees only the dark. Don't forget that you owe a duty to every human being, the duty of looking pleasant and being gracious. Another Misunderstanding. Silas (telling of his trip to New York): Do you know that there's a church at the head uv Wall street, Ezry? Ezry: There is? Then, by gum, it can't be one of them there reform ed churches! From Missouri. Mrs. Reno—Do you believe in a uni form divorce law? Mrs. Nevada—Let's see the uni form?—Smart Set. By Prof. Monroe W. Work of the Tuskegee Institute. caricatures of the Negro which represented his as being a little, if any, above the gorilla of his native country. He was represented as a hideous creature with slanting forehead, projecting lower jaw, thick protruding lips, bandy shins, jaybird heels and monkey arms. Although these types did not agree with what he actually saw around him, the Negro was told that these types were representative of the Negroes found on the west coast of Africa, and this he religiously believed. Through acquaintance with West Africa by means of better edited anthropologies, travelers, returned missionaries and other sources he has, however, learned that the native West African is a much higher type than he has been represented. In fact, the typical native of West Africa, when this type is selected by those favorable to the Negro, does not suffer in comparison with the best types of the American Negro. It is especially important that the Negro have the best types and ideals to pattern after and as far as possible these types and ideals should be of his own creation. The good effect of the best types upon the Negro youth cannot be overestimated. Dr. Booker T. Washington, in his article, "Chapters From My Experiences," in a well known magazine, calls attention to the great, difficulty he had in his early youth in convincing himself and his companions that a Negro could be anything. He here also calls attention to how he discovered that there was such a person as Frederick Douglass and the great influence that the fact that Frederick Douglass had been able to acclimate distinction had upon him. There is at the present abundant material from which we may construct our own types and ideals. For one of the great generals of the world we have Toussaint L'Ouverture, the famous Taytian general, whose fame was such that it excited the jealousy of Napoleon Bonaparte and caused Napoleon to decide that there could not be within the French dominions but one great general; and therefore, Toussaint was, through treachery, kidnapped, brought to France and allowed to die in a dungeon of starvation. There is scarcely a field of endeavor now in which there are not notable examples of successful Negroes. In the field of literature there is Alexander Pushkin, the greatest of Russian poets; Paul Laurence Dunbar, our own poet; Phyllis Wheatley, the first woman in America to achieve distinction in letters; Alexander Dumas, Sr., the greatest French romantic novelist and the most universally read story teller in the world; and Alexander Dumas, Jr., one of the most distinguished of modern French dramatists. In the field of art we have Edmonia Lewis, who achieved sufficient distinction to be noted among American sculptors; her work, however, has mostly been done in Europe and is not generally familiar to the American public. Meta Vaux Warrick is another sculptress, who, in Paris, gained the attention of Rodin, the greatest of the present-day French painters, and by her work at the Jamestown exposition called forth general praise for her artistic ability. There is also Henry O. Tanner, one of the most noted of the present day painters, who has perhaps achieved more fame abroad than any other living American painter. In the field of education we have Booker T. Washington, the most noted of all American educators. In the field of music there is Samuel Coleridge Taylor, whose work as a composer and director of musical festivals has placed him among the most noted of English music writers. WORTH REMEMBERING. beginning to achieve some distinction which has reacted as a great incentive to other Negroes to embark in business ventures. This has been particularly true of Negro banks. The most conspicuous example that we have at the present day of a successful Negro banker is in the person of Dr. William R. Pettiford of Birmingham, Ala., the founder of the Alabama Penny Savings bank, which has just celebrated its twenty-first anniversary. When this bank was established there was much doubt in the minds of both colored and white people as to whether Negroes had the ability to conduct banks. But that time has long since passed and Negro banks and Negro bankers are at the present time no unusual sight. In the field of agriculture we have numbers of successful Negro farmers who could be put forward as good types. Such an example is Deal Jackson of Albany, Ga., the famous first bale cotton man of Georgia, who for over ten years has been marketing the first bale of cotton in the second largest cotton state in the country. There is also Junius Groves, known as the "potato king" of Kansas, who is one of the most extensive potato dealers in the world. In the field of medicine and surgery the Negro has achieved distinction This is particularly true of Dr. Daniel H. Williams of Chicago, who is classed as one of the greatest surgeons of the United States. One of the most hopeful signs of the progress of the Negro in America is that he is creating types of his own. There is a deliberate effort to have types setting forth the better characteristic of the race. As an example of this we have the large number of art calendars with Negro subjects which are making their appearance. Some of these calendars have for their subjects good-looking young colored women and groups of well-dressed colored children. A particularly interesting and suggestive calendar was issued for 1910 by the Bank of Mound Bayou, Miss., the famous Negro town. This calendar represents Isaiah Montgomery, the founder of Mound Bayou, standing with a small boy, looking at some bales of cotton Mr. Montgomery, as he points, says: "As long as mouths are to be fed, backs to be clothed and, lands to be tilled, the place of the farmer in the hearts of the American people will be supreme." The manufacturing of Negro dolls by the National Negro Doll company of Nashville, Tenn., is another instance of the Negro attempting to create his own types. These dolls made of the best material and after the best models are works of art. The aim is to cause Negro children to admire instead of despairing and being ashamed of their own color. In contrast with the purpose of these dolls the writer calls to mind a visit that he made to a certain Negro school. In the principal's office he found that one of the most conspicuous objects was a very ugly and unreprespossessing Negro doll, which, of course, all the colored students who came into this office would see and instinctively set down as being representative of the typical Negro baby. This effort to create types of our own and to influence ourselves and the general public with these types should be carried muhc farther. There should be well-organized and systematic efforts, first, to use the large number of types that we already have at hand; and, second, to create other types. In this respect we should be as aggressive as the Jews and the Irish people. By so doing we would increase our respect for ourselves and also gain more respect from the white race. Rise wid de lark, an' w'en neat is higher'n you kin reach, ketch de lark an' brle him fer b'rakfast. Many a man dat wears cut de knees of his britches prayin' gets mad an' falls from grace kaze Providence don't give him a new pair. You don't reckernize de Happy Lan' when you is in it; dat's why you allus lookin' fer it whar it never wuz an' never will be. Moses wuz a great man, though he wuz found in re bulrush; but ef he lived in dis day an' time I doubt ef he could stand a bull rush in Wall street. AFRICAN MISSIONS AS SEEN BY COLONEL ROOSEVELT Theodore Roosevelt is optimistic about the work of missionaries in British East Africa and Uganda. He went and saw and judged with a calmness based upon his experience with the difficulties of a mixed people dwelling in the same land. In any country such as that of East Africa, where we have whites thrown in contact with the mass of savages, hostility is apt to grow up among the different classes. The officials do not like the settlers or the missionaries; and the settlers do not like the missionaries or the officials, he declares. A traveler will always hear the missionary work decried by men who have lived on the ground and who honestly believe they are good observers. Such was Mr. Roosevelt's experience, but, as he told a Methodist missionary gathering in Baltimore, he had the proper corrective. In the Northwestern Christian Advocate (Chicago) we read: "Fortunately, I had been out West a good deal and I had sifted for myself the statemnts that both settlers and army officers used to tell me about the Indian, and I knew that much of it was not so—I knew that because I knew the Indians." And so I was not surprised, but I was greatly pleased, to find that on the average the mission boy who had received some education at one of the mission schools was raised incomparably above his former pagan comrades. "Now, of course, I do not mean to say for a moment that you cannot pick out an occasional mission station where no good work has been done. Missionaries are human like everybody else, and there are other walks of life where I could pick out occasional members of any profession who amount to very little: Of course, you take a well-meaning little fellow whose zeal outruns his knowledge and he may find himself pitifully unable to grapple with new and strange and sometimes very terrible conditions. But, as a rule, I was immensely impressed with the improvement in the character of the natives who had been under missionary control. We had one of our headmen, a mission boy, who used to receive regularly in the mail, every week—his mail would come as regularly as mine—the missionary pamphlet printed in the native character. And really I wished I had had the time to get him to translate it, as I am sure it must have been interesting from the way he read it. Me was a very intelligent and very self-respecting man. I am mentioning merely one—and I could mention a number of instances of that kind, where I came into contact with improved natives. "I found one partial explanation of the insistent allegations of mission boys going wrong. Of course a percentage, a considerable percentage, of the mission boys do go back into paganism—a percentage turn out badly. I have never yet known in any of our own colleges a class every member of which did well. And a percentage of the mission boys may drift into the towns, and, for instance, be among those engaged as porters. Well, as they are the castaways of the missions, they naturally fall to do well as the porters, and the man who has engaged one will condemn all mission boys because there is a rejected missionary boy who has done badly as a porter in his outfit. Taking the Africans as a whole, I am certain that any unprejudiced witness will testify to the improvement wrought. Now mind, I am speaking of British East Africa, where the cultural development of the tribes is low, where they are still in such primitive savagery that it is impossible to expect to bridge over in a few years the great gulf between them and our civilization." Of the extent of the field of his observations Mr. Roosevelt remarks: "I visited a number of missions in British East Africa, in Uganda, which is right in the heart of the continent, lying as it does on both sides of the equator and right in the middle of Africa—In the Upper Nile regions and near Egypt. In East Africa the missions that I visited were the American Interdenominational mission, under Mr. Hulbert at Cawjaba, with its branches here and there; and a Scotch Presbyterian mission. In Uganda there were the missions of the English Established church; in the Sudan and In Egypt, the Reformed Presbyterian church. Of course I saw widely different missions. That depended partly upon the missionaries themselves, and, of course, partly upon the material with which they had to work. A farmer in the arid belt has a good deal harder time of than one on the bottom lands of the Mississippi valley; and it is just the same way in missionary work." In Uganda, where a much higher cultural stage has been reached by the natlyes, a totally different state of things was found. He gives us here some details of native life: "They had developed a semi-civilization, a sort of advanced barbarism of their own; they had some settled industries. They made a cloth out of the inner bark of a certain peculiar tree they had there; they were cunning ironworkers, 'working in iron,' as the Biblical phrase has it; they had musical instruments; they had herds of cattle and goats; they were industrious cultivators of the soil. They had a fairly well-developed governmental system—almost a representative system—not an elective system, but a representative system. They were under a cruel and bloodthirsty tyranny, but they had great capacity for development. And, fortunately, they were taken by the ploneers of Christianity in the very nick of time. "The Mohammedans reached them from the North just about the time that the Christian missionaries reached them coming in from the East coast. Now, as all of you who are acquainted with conditions in North Africa know, while Mohammedanism unquestionably works some temporary good in any pagan tribe, and brings them up to a distinctly high stage of culture, ethical and intellectual, it unfortunately petrifies them at that stage, so that they cannot easily advance further, and become impervious to Christian missionary efforts, or wellnigh impervious. And if the Mohammedans had had time to make these Uganda people Mohammedans, we would have had the extreme difficulty in dealing with them that Christian missionaries encounter everywhere in Moslem lands." While Christianity and Mohammedanism were competing for Uganda a pagan reaction was suddenly threatened. "The pagan said they would drive all intruders out of the country." Then this happened: "The Christians and the Mohammédans joined forces and said, 'At least we all believe in the Book.' They had a book, the Bible in one case and the Koran in the other; and they said: 'We all believe in the Book, and now we will prevent these pagans from driving us out of the country.' And they joined to stop the pagan revolt. Afterward, most fortunately, the Christians got the upper hand and saved the country. Now I wish I could show you what Christianity saved Uganda from. Perhaps I may in this way. When I passed through the Sudan tribe I saw on every hand what the Mahdi rule had meant in the Sudan. Mahdism was really an outbreak of various Mohammédan proselyters which reproduced in the nineteenth century just the conditions of the seventeenth century. Well-meaning people, who did not know anything of the facts, would ex- Most people are benefited by a cool bath every morning. While it takes considerable courage to indulge in a tub bath of very cold water, it is not necessary that the water be of the same temperature as it comes from the tap. Although a tub or shower bath is not available for everyone, all having a bowl of water may indulge in a sponge or hand bath and the brisk rub afterwards. The stimulus of the reaction sends the blood coursing through the system, the respiration is deepened and the active exercise of rubbing gives one a good start for the work of the day. The old idea of impurities in the blood still survives and is the foundation for the belief that the blood needs to be purified in the spring by taking purgatives and all sorts of "spring medicines." The real cause of lowered vitality, weakness and "that tired feeling," is found in confinement to over-heated rooms, late hours, too much food, and lack of outdoor exercise during the winter. Reasonable care should be exercised towards chilling the body. The greatest danger comes in sitting still in a room below 65 degrees or remaining inactive for a considerable time in a strong draught or wind. While one is taking active exercise there is little danger of one taking cold. Wet clothing conducts the heat away from the body much more rapidly than when it is dry, so that it is dangerous to remain quiet if the clothing is damp. This is especially true in regard to shoes and stockings.—LeBosquet. press sympathy with the Mahdists on the ground that they were struggling for independence. They cared for independence for just two reasons. In the first place, to kill out every Christian; and in the next place to establish the slave-trade. These were the two cardinal principles of the government of the Mahdists. Theirs was a cruelty of which we in our lives can form no realization. I passed through village after village in the Sudan where I could see native schools established in connection with the Gordon Memorial college. I would see a native school with a native teacher and lots of children up to twelve years of age, and perhaps three or four over that, and I asked about it. They said: "Those are the government children." And I asked them what that meant. All children were killed except as the government took possession. I came upon tribes of pagans where there would be children and old men, and no, or practically no, men of middle age, because they had all been killed out by the Mahdists. I would come upon the traces of communities where we would find still on the ground the remains of the old tribal fires, the fires of the villages where every living being had been killed. The figures will show this, that out of about ten millions of people, nearly seven millions were killed during the years of the Mahdhi uprising. Now that is what Christianity saved Uganda from; that is what missionary effort saved Uganda from. It saved it from sufferings of which we, in our sheltered and civilized lives, can literally form only the most imperfect idea, and I do wish that the well meaning people who laugh at or decry missionary work could realize what the missionary work has done right there in Middle Africa."—Literary Digest. --- WORDS OF WISDOM. The wicked are always ungrateful.—Cervantes. He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.—Franklin. No government is respectable which is not just.—Webster. Fairy tales are made out of the dreams of the poor.—Lowell. Every person who manages another is a hypocrite.—Thackeray. True men and women are physicians to make us well.—C. A. Bartol. If you had an eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.—Shakespeare. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.—Johnson. Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which the character affects our own interests and passions.—Macaulay. Give the masses nothing to do and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government and they will make pulpits useless and colleges an impertinence. —Wendell' Phillips. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. On account of the activity of the, British naval forces in the Persian, Gulf in putting down "gun running," and the consequent scarcity of arms in Afghanistan, prices have increased from 400 to 500 per cent. in the Afghan bazaars. Iron cloth is largely used today by tallors everywhere for the purpose of making the collars of coats sit property. This cloth is manufactured from steel wool, and has the appearance of having been woven from horsehair. The strongest, indication, and no doubt the principal factor of the return of prosperity in British South Africa is its increased agricultural production, and no one item has ever shown such wonderful increase as the production of maize. The news of the granting of a concession for the construction of a railway from Taubate to Natividade, Brazil, has been very well received in the former city. The prefect gave the camara's employees a holiday, and the people rejoiced exceedingly. Lead for industrial and manufacturing purposes, other than the making of shot and bullets, has been exempted from all prohibition and directions under the Indian Arms Act of 1878, in the districts of Karachi, Larkana, Sukkur and Upper Sind Frontier, Sind. In a recent English exhibition, moving pictures-were shown of sleeping sickness in a rat, various organisms in the blood of rats and mice, the life history of the Mexican exolotl from the first movement of the embryo in the egg, an x-ray examination of an ulcerated stomach. NEGRO PUBLIC SCHOOLS An Open Letter From Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Through the medium of this valued newspaper I desire to say a word to the colored people regarding the importance of good public schools. It has been some months since I have had anything to say on this important subject. I wish to repeat that which I have tried to emphasize from time to time, that there are few, if any, subjects which are of more vital and far-reaching importance to the masses of our race in the South at the present time than that of building up a good public school system. Only a very small per cent. of our people can ever go to a large boarding school, or any kind of college, or industrial school, for their education. The masses must depend upon the public school in their neighborhood for whatever education they get. If the public school is a failure the masses grow up in ignorance, and so I am making this direct appeal to every minister, teacher and business man and woman throughout the South to take a personal and deep interest in the condition of the Negro public schools. First of all, we should bear in mind that we are American citizens and that we should have our rightful share of the public school fund. Where we are not getting our just share of the public school fund, a direct appeal should be made to the public school authorities for a more just distribution of the public school funds. This kind of appeal should be repeated again and again until we do receive our just share. We should not give up or stand still, in cases where the public school authorities are not willing or unable to give more money. It will be no excuse to the future generation of children, if they grow up in ignorance, to tell them that they might have been educated, if the public school authorities had done their duty. In traveling through the South, I have observed that wherever a good public school house is provided, in most cases, the result is that that community will have a good teacher and a school term of respectable length. I advise, then, that every community set to work to secure either through the public fund or from private gifts in that community a good public school building. In many cases where people are not able to give money toward the erection of a good schoolhouse, they can give the use of their teams to haul lumber, or they can give material, or give without charge so many days' work each week, but in some way, every community that is now without a comfortable schoolhouse should set to work to secure one. In many cases the schoolhouses in which the children are taught are not fit for pigs to live in. The roofs leak, the floors are full of holes, there is no stove and in many cases the benches and other furniture are so rude and worthless that it is impossible for teacher and children to stay in such houses without being in continual misery. A schoolhouse is not completed until it has been either painted or whitewashed on the inside or outside; neither is a schoolhouse, complete until it has been ceiled or plastered on the inside, and every schoolhouse should be thoroughly furnished with good seats; a teacher's desk, with good blackboards, etc., before it should be considered completed. It is almost as Explosions are odorous. A chauffeur and his honey are soon statred. A large tip turneth away a country constable. Honk, toot and be noisy! To morrow pay the bill. A spark! A spark! My gold trophy for a spark! A speed ordinance worth breaking is worth breaking well. The joy rider scorches when no fly cop pursueth. The song of the taxicab is one of fearsome meter. Meters cannot lie—but they spin around like fury while you, whisper honeyed phrases into the ear of Gwendolyn the fair.—The Widow. WISE SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. Faith, needs her daily bread.—Georgiana M. Craik. You can't order remembrance out of a man's mind.—Thackeray. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.—Shakespeare. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.—Lowell. Negro Child. cheap to build a good schoolhouse as it is to build a poor one. If every community will organize and come together, with the direct object of providing a good schoolhouse, I am safe in saying I believe that before the present school year passes, a large number of communities will have good, first class schoolhouses. I also advise that an architectural plan be drawn, wherever possible, for these schoolhouses. In many cases, a good deal of money is practically thrown away in the erection of a building, because no plans have been drawn. Aside from the building being almost useless, when a plan is not drawn, it does not usually present a good appearance. I shall hope to hear, as a result of this letter, that a larger number of communities throughout the South have erected schoolhouses. One other thing: My travels through the South convince r: that the public schools for our race are often crippled and weakened by reason of the fact that denominational jealousies and rivalry enter into the public school system. It should be understood in every community that the public school must be separated wholly from church influences. In some communities, the public school system is weakend because the Baptist element want a Baptist teacher, the African Methodist element want an African Methodist teacher, and the Zion Methodist want a Zion Methodist teacher. This kind of contention and jealousy is all nonsense and results only in weakening the public schools. In some communities, the people are now trying to support three little weak schools, with three different teachers, representing so many church denominations, when the people in the community should have one, good strong public school, regardless of denomination. In some cases there are three little public schools lasting only three months in the year, when, if the people were united, they might have one good public school lasting seven or eight months in the year. In public school education, there is no Baptist arithmetic, or Methodis arithmetic, or anything of the kind. What the people want are good, sensible, moral, upright, Christian teachers, regardless of the church to which they belong. There are other matters in connection with the public schools of the South, to which I shall hope to call attention soon through another letter. (Signed) BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. The Scapegoat. The high cost of living, she claimed, was to blame— She sought a divorce and she cornered the same; Yet, really, her reason would seem like a freak— Else why did she marry again in a week? Tumbling. For biplanes and for monoplanes I do not care a hang. They're too much like the whirring rouse "The doctors say not to go into the ocean after a meal." "I wouldn't. I couldn't eat watermelon rinds."—Kansas City Journal Among the Darwinians. "Yes," said the club house bore, "I suppose I owe some of my success to the fact that we've been golfers in our family for generations. I was recently looking up my ancestral tree—" "Did they throw any nuts?" asked the quiet man in the corner.—World of Golf. Fault of the Fashion Mistress—What does this mean, Jane? You know you should be back at 10 o'clock. Jane—Very sorry, mum. It's the fault of these new skirts. I had to take such short steps that it took longer than I expected to get home.—London Tatler. A Knock. Goodley—They're in reduced circumstances, of course, but their family is a very old one and proud, even if they have lots of debts. They'date back to the earliest colonial times—" Cutting—The debts, you mean? I don't doubt that—Catholic Standard and Times. About Thirty. "Pop!" "Yes, my son." "What are the 'Middle Ages'?" "Why, the Middle Ages, my boy, are the ones which when the woman reach they stop counting."—Yonkers Statesman. His Wit "They say he has a ready wit." "I got the idea," after examining a few samples of it, that it was readymade—"Chicago Record-Herald Housework Tiresome? Genuine Relief "For five years," writes Mrs. L. Texas, "I suffered with pains all over and side, and was so weak I could have A friend told me of Cardui. Since the better! Now I can do all my housework with pains at all. Cardui has been a Cardui, the woman's tonic, has proven in cases of womanly ailments with pains, whether the pains come from too much. Tak "For five years," writes Mrs. L. Fulenchek, Houston, Texas, "I suffered with pains all over, especially in my back and side, and was so weak I could hardly do my housework. A friend told me of Cardui. Since taking it, I feel so much better! Now I can do all my housework, and am not bothered with pains at all. Cardui has been a wonderful help to me." Cardui, the woman's tonic, has proven especially beneficial, in cases of womanly ailments with pain as a principal symptom, whether the pains come from too much walking, standing, Take CARDUI I did not receive any answer to my petition as yet. Though I am fragrante delicto, flat justifica au rut soelum. My younger Fra has gone articula mortis. Ipso facto OI tempora OI mores. Does the life of a man go out like a candle? Sie transit gloria mundi that veni, vidi, vict. It is a outrance afaire d'honneur which is agenda for your pertinently consider." "Planissimo, planissimo," said the vocal teacher to the student, "your voice is too loud. Learn to shade your tones." And the student worked hard to carry out instructions. When she went to her next lesson the teacher said: "Better—but still too loud. Try again—you will get it after a while." Again the student returned to her room and tried for a softer tone. Again the teacher told her it was still too loud. Now William, the colored butler, without whom the house would never have gone on properly, had heard and wondered at this gradual diminishing of tone. It did seem a shame to spend the money. He would interview the lady who occupied the room below that of the vocal nunl. "What does you think about de voice above?" he asked, pointing to the ceiling. "Hit strikes me hit's growin' weakah evy day." It was the evening of election day, and Higgleby had just returned home. "Yes," replied the lady. "Straight ticket, I suppose?" smiled her husband. "Well, no," said Mrs. Higgleby. "After thinking it all over and reading the platforms of both parties, I felt that one was about as good as the other, so I split my ticket;" "Split it?" roared Higgleby. "Why, how did you do it?" "Why, instead of putting an X over the name of one candidate," said Mrs. Higgleby. "I divided it in half and put a V over both."—Harper's Weekly. Their Happy Time. Caroline—Aro Emily and her husband happy? Carl—Well, part of the time. Caroline—Part of the time? Carl—Yes, when she's at home and he's at the office. Now Ab Another Now About Clean Food Another Splendid Opportunity to When.the "Weekly" which sued us for libel (because we publicly denounced them for an editorial attack on our claims) was searching for some "weak spot," they thought best to send a N. Y. Atty. to Battle Creek, summoned 25 of our workmen and took their sworn statements before a Commissioner. Did we object? No. On the contrary, we helped all we could, for the opportunity was too good to be lost. Geo. Halnes testified he inspected the wheat and barley, also floors and every part of the factories to know things were kept clean. That every 30 minutes a sample of the products was taken and inspected to keep the food up to standard and keep out any impurities, also that it is the duty of every man in the factories to see that anything not right is immediately reported. Has been with the Co. 10 years. Edward Young testified had been with Co. 15 years. Inspector, he and his men examined every sack and car of wheat and barley to see they were up to standard and rejected many cars. H. E. Burt, Supt, testified has been with Co. over 13 years. Bought only the best grain obtainable. That the Co. kept a corps of men who do nothing but keep things clean, bright and polished. Testified that no ingredient went into Grape Nuts and Postum except those printed in the advertising. No possibility of any foreign things getting into the foods as most of the machinery is kept closed. Asked if the factory is open to the public, said "yes" and "it took from two to three guides constantly to show visitors through the works." Said none of the processes were carried on behind closed doors. At this point attys, for the "Weekly" tried to show the water used was from some outside source. Testified the water came from Co.'s own artesian wells and was pure. A. Mennonite Custom. When a young man reaches the marriageable age and shows those well-known symptoms the elders of the church hold a meeting. They decide if he is honest and reliable to buy him a farm, usually an eighty. Into the farm he puts his savings, and then members of the congregation raise the rest of the funds to pay for the land. This amount the young man must pay back with a small rate of interest. Thus by example and material assistance they blind him by the strongest bonds, that of debtor to the church. They know full well that nothing can be lost, for the land is always worth what it will cost. After the young people are located on their farm the elders assist with advice and help. Do you wonder that this thrifty people are gradually buying the best of all Kansas land and the best part of the nicest little city within the borders of that great state7- Seneca Tribune. When Publicity Is Desired. "X. Y. Z, this office," was the way the woman usually wound up the numerous lost article advertisements necessitated by her 'absent-mindedness. The other-day she tired of anonymity and returned in about ten minutes with the request that her name be substituted for the initials. "I attended to that in the first place, madame," said the clerk. "You did?" she exclaimed. "How did you know I wanted to use my own name?" He pointed to the words "Metropolitan opera house" in her advertisement. "Because that is where you lost your bracelet," he said. "I never met a person who wished to keep his identity secret when advertising for anything lost at the opera house. People who lose things any place else in New York often resort to initials when advertising, but if it happened at- the opera house the more publicity they can get the better." An Awful Warning To those students of English literature who like to write of le dernier cri when they mean the latest craze, and generally to pepper their pages with tags of Latin and French, the following authentic composition is presented as an "awful warning," says the University Correspondent. It is the letter of an Indian subpostmaster who is anxious to be promoted: "Slr: I have the honor to request you that stooping, or just as a symptom of general female weakness. Cardui is a strength-building medicine. You need it if your system is out of order, or if you suffer from any of the pains, to which women are peculiarly liable. Women who need strength, should find it in Cardui. Fifty years of success have produced a confidence in Cardui, that cannot be ignored. During this time, Cardui has benefited a million women. Why not you, now? All druggists keep Cardui in stock, all the time. "Women who expect to buy furs this winter show a lively interest in the Zoo animals," said a Philadelphia animal keeper. "They want to find out what the animal looked like that were their fur coats and muffs before the furs were made over for them. "The recent warnings against imitation furs have made them particularly curious." Somehow they imagine that by comparing the fur of a live lynx with a cat or a rabbit they will be able to detect the difference in dyed furs. Of course they won't, but anyhow this little excursion into natural history will do no harm. "Women with caracul coats are the most persistent, investigators. Very few people except furriers know what kind of an animal caracul grows on, and the specimens of the Russian sheep that produce real caracul and the Chinese sheep that cheap wool that is sold for caracul grows on have been trotted out for inspection so often that they have become as blase as a New York show girl." London's Standards of Length. London's Standards of Length. Londoners have access to authoritative standards for comparison purposes. These are fixed on the outside of the wall of Greenwich observatory, and the various lengths are decided by passing the measure to be tested between raised points inserted in metal plates. At the Royal observatory also is a pound balance, by which any pound weight may be verified. Standards of 100 feet and one chain (60 feet), with subdivisions accurately engraved on them, marked on brass plates, are available for public purposes in Trafalgar square, being let into the granite steps on the north side of the square. Where rigid accuracy is desired recourse must be had to the Standards office in Old Palace Yard, where the tests are carried out under the scientific conditions as regards temperature, etc., prescribed by act of parliament.—Dundee Advertiser. A church at Southend, England, has been dedicated to St. Erkenwald—the only one of its kind in existence. Erkenwald, who was bishop of London from 675 to 693 A. D., was at one time a very popular saint in his country. It was he who built the first stone cathedral of St. Paul's. He, too, it was who erected in the eastern portion of the city the gate which gave the name to Bishopsgate. This prelate suffered from ```markdown ``` First Owners of Fura. A Shame to Spend the Money. Her First Vote. St. Erkenwald. Their Happy Time Bring Out Facts He testified the workmen were first-class, high-grade and inspected by the Co.'s physician to be sure they were all in proper physical condition; also testified that state reports showed that Co. pays better wages than the average and he thought higher than any in the state. F. B. Martin, Asst. Supt, testified Grape-Nuts made of wheat, barley, yeast and water. Anything else? "No, sir." Postmade of Wheat, Wheat Bran and New Orleans Molasses. Statements made on his experience of about 10 years with Co. Testified bakers are required to wear fresh white suits, changed every other day. Said had never known any of the products being sent out that were below the high standard of inspection. Asked if any one connected with the Postmun Co. had instructed him how to testify. Said. "No, sir." Horace Brown testified has been with Co. 9 years. Worked in Grape-Nuts bake shop. Testified the whole of the flour is composed of Wheat and Barley. Attys, tried to confuse him, but he insisted that any casual visitor could see that nothing else went into the flour. Sald machinery and floors always kept clean. So these men were examined by the "Weekly" lawyers hoping to find at least one who would say that some under-grade grain was put in or some unclean condition was found somewhere. But it was no use. Each and every man testified to the purity and cleanliness. As a sample, take the testimony of Luther W. Mayo. Testified been with Company about 10 years. Now working in the bakery department making Grape-Nuts. Testified that the ovens and floors are kept clean and the raw products as they go in are kept clean. Also that the wearing apparel of the employees has to be changed three times a week. RDUI G249 G 249 gout during the later years of his life; and had to be carried about on a litter. After his death this litter was carefully preserved in Old St. Paul's, where he was buried, and in course of time miraculous virtues were attributed to it. It was held to be a sovereign cure for fever, and fever-stricken pilgrims from all parts of the country would flock to the shrine of St. Erkenwald. Mixed on His Melody. A well-known newspaper that boasts the authority and the excellence of its dramatic and musical criticism published recently a criticism of a certain charming light opera. The dramatic editor was lavish in his praise of songs and singers, remarking, with a dignified reminder to his readers that it was his business to pass judgment, not unmixed with censure, that the plot was slightly unconvincing. Of the music, however, he wrote in terms of highest commendation. And he closed his article with praise for the charming extracts. The typesetter got free with the copy, however, or there was a mistake made by the printer's "devil." At any rate, this is what appeared as the closing sentence of a really masterly piece of criticism: "Last night's music between the acts was unusually melodious." Abolish Bear Trans: Williamsport sportsmen intend to circulate petitions to the legislature looking toward the abolition of bear traps. The only persons using traps are those who hunt bears for market, and sportsmen are anxious that the bear be more fully protected than under the present laws. It is pointed out by those back of the movement that the catching of bears in traps not only tends to exterminate the species of game but is a cruel practice, as the animals frequently free themselves by leaving parts of their legs in the trap—Philadelphia Record. "Expert" TestImony A Marsellies "medical expert" has just distinguished himself by declaring that a young woman found dying on the pavement of one of the streets had been assassinated. His expert knowledge enabled him to state that the causes of death was a dagger stab in the back. It has been proved that death was really due to a fall from the fourth floor of a house on to the pavement below. The "dagger wound" was a bruise caused by the fall. an Food unity to Q. Do you use Postum or Grape-Nuts your self at all? A. Yes, I use them at home. Q. If from your knowledge of the factory which you have galned in your ten years at the factory you believed that they were dirty or impure in any way, would you use them? A. I do not think I would. No. Asked if any one on behalf of the Company had asked him to testify in any particular manner. Stated "No." All these sworn depositions were carefully excluded from the testimony at the trial, for they wouldn't sound well for the "Weekly." Think of the fact that every man swore to the purity and cleanliness so that the Atty. for the "Weekly" was forced to say in open court that the food was pure and good. What a disappointment for the "Weekly!" But the testimony showed: All of the grain used in Grape-Nuts, Postum and Post Toasties is the highest standard possible to obtain. All parts of the factory are kept curpulously clean. None of the workmen had been told how to testify. Most of them have been from 10 to 15 years with the Co. and use the products on their tables at home. Why do their families use the products, Grape-Nuts, Postum and Post Toasties, that they, themselves, make? "There's a Reason" Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Battle Creek; Mich. Three Months Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter. Advertising rates given on application. Entered at the Post Office at Savannah, Ga., as Second-Class mail matter. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1911 It is to be hoped that on Tuesday, Jan. 10th, every Negro voter in this city will make it his business to go to the polls and cast a vote with an eye single to the best interest of our people as a whole. On ordinary occasions there is but very little necessity for a minister of the gospel dabbling in politics but when a moral issue is at stake or the good of his people threatened, then it becomes his duty to himself and to his followers to join them in their efforts to uphold the honest integrity of their community and to protect their rights. On a recent occasion a duty similar to this devolved upon one of our six ministers who are able to go to the ballot box this Tuesday and vote and he was not found wanting but in a most advisory manner exhorted his hearers to be careful in the coming election and use their votes as will best benefit us as a race and not as individuals. This is the sort of man the ministry needs, one who is not afraid to voice his opinions when they are needed even though it be in a political meeting. Last Monday afternoon there occurred the Emancipation exercises. In years gone by when evidently the Negro was more enthusiastic over the celebration of this all important event in his career, interest was at a higher pitch and all selfishness and narrow-mindedness were set aside for the sake of the showing which every one wished to make praiseworthy. The last celebration of this event while it bespoke no end of praise for the men and organizations who took part in it yet it was a most feeble showing for the thirty odd thousand Negroes who are to be found in our city. This is the one occasion in our history which we all can celebrate with equal zeal and zest and yet there were scarcely two hundred of us in line of march on last Monday. This is a dismal showing for us and it is to be deplored that the Savannah Negroes who used to make this the one crowning event of the year by turning out by the thousands in celebration of their freedom, should, in the course of a few years have lost so much interest as to scarcely take notice of this event. It is necessary for the civic pride of our people that we do not forget this celebration for there is none other which marks as important a day in our history. It is a time when all classes among us should join in and lend a helping hand to the occasion and not leave the affair to a few faithful ones to shoulder. It is a time when the educated and the ignorant must rejoice together and when the well-to-do and the poor must walk side by side. The Tribune therefore, wishes to congratulate the gentlemen and organizations that took part in this year's celebration and extends its hopes to them that upon the occasion of the next Emancipation celebration they will not be alone but will be supported by representatives from every Negro society in the city of Savannah. When it is generally known that the number of registered voters among the Negro clergymen of this city is practically nilhil there will probably be a little astonishment. The proportion of them that can exercise the right of suffrage is so small that it is a shame to make it known. Out of about a hundred of them who more or less every Sunday give out wise counsel to our people in and around Savannah, but six of them can take part in the coming election. Of course there is a very small fraction of this large number of ineligibles who are property owners in other cities and therefore prefer to be politically associated elsewhere but this percentage is so small that it might as well be lost sight of. The fact stands out prominently that our ministers as a whole have been too neglectful of their political obligations and as a consequence they have been denied the priceless privilege of voting which every dutiful citizen should have. There is no class of men who exert the amount of influence which these men have over our people and if they as a whole are care- less, negligent and unmindful of their political affairs and rights as citizens, how can they expect those whom they lead to exercise any care about the rights of franchise. It is the minister's duty, in fact more so his than that of any ordinary individual for he is supposed to have a deeper insight into life thereby enabling him to better distinguish between the good and the bad, to exercise his political rights and until the Negro clergymen of our city realize that they are expected to do their share of the voting little can be expected of the laymen whom they address every Sunday. By a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States made known through Justice Hughes recently the contract labor law of Alabama has been declared unconstitutional. The law in question provided that if a laborer, with intent to defraud, entered into a contract to labor for another and quit before money advanced under the contract had been repaid, he should be guilty of a misdemeanor, the quitting being made by law a prima facie presumption of intent to defraud. The grounds upon which the decision was rendered were that it destroyed freedom of labor, was especially effective and harmful against the poor and ignorant and was an instrument for the coercian which the constitution forbids. Strangely enough the said decision was passed upon the case of a Negro laborer who had been arrested in Alabama for failing to repay money advanced him by his former employer. He was found guilty and fined twice the amount of the advanced pay. This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court of Alabama but rendered unconstitutional by the highest tribunal of the country. Of course the matter of race discrimination was set aside in this final decision, and yet it is known throughout the south that the only people who are immediately effected by this illegal habit of compulsory labor is the Negro. This fact is clearly recognized by all fair minded people and the destruction of this law in Alabama by the United State supreme court is received with a peculiar degree of satisfaction. Not only should the contract labor law of Alabama be set aside by the supreme court as a direct violation of the thirteenth amendment to constitution but similar laws in Georgia and other southern states should also be declared invalid. It has often been said of us native born Savannahians, that we are a most disinterested people. To this accusation the great majority of us must, of necessity plead guilty for it is a fact beyond contradiction that we have allowed things to go on taking their own course without paying the slightest attention and as a consequence of this laxity of interest in things there has entered almost imperceptibly into our civic, political and commercial life a large proportion of enterprising and energetic men who have migrated to our city from surrounding towns and who being aware of the wonderful opportunity which Savannah presented for development have taken hold of things and worked their way into the good graces of the people whereby they have been enabled to push themselves to the front and in many instances have become the acknowledged leaders in their respective lines of business. This is a lamentable condition of affairs to those of us who have the privilege of proclaiming Savannah as our birth place and yet we must face the condition as it is and be contented to see in many cases the honors which we ought to hold thrust upon the shoulders of others whose residence in Savannah can be traced to but a few years' duration. But perhaps there is seemingly, a reason for this out of which we may find a little consolation and that is, that we have above almost every other southern town enjoyed a marked degree of peace and good treatment from the city authorities that is not characteristic of any other town in our section of the county and which in itself has been instrumental in causing us to drift into a state of lethargy and thus those coming into our midst from afar have detected at a glance our general disinterestedness and have made rapid progress at our expense. They knew that a reaction had come sooner or later. They were aware of the fact that there would soon be an awakening of the people to their own short comings and that the time was ripe for the Negroes of Savannah to fall in line with their comrades of other towns and begin building upon substantial commercial, social and moral lines. For this impetus given us by our friends who have come to us from without we are indebted to the extent of supporting them in their business enterprises, joining them in their social advancement and encouraging them in their uplifting moral influences. But let's not stop here, let us gather ourselves together and make a determined effort to retrieve lost honors and let us give unto this new business awakening which our city is enjoying all the support we can muster. Let us make 1911 the banner year for the prosperity of Negro business concerns throughout our city, thereby aiding the city authorities in materializing their cherished hopes, a greater Savannah. Lines From "Awl Inn." New York City, Jan'y 2d, 1911. Dear Mr. Editor:—I thought I had heard some noise until I saw and heard how the people here welcomed the new year. The streets were literally packed with human beings and others. Good natured jollity reigned supreme. Now for some of the events which took place recently: At a dinner given in New Rochelle last Sunday, at the home of Mrs. Harris, were present the following: Miss Rosabelle Edwards, the Misses Frances and Annie Chichester, Mr. M. T. Wood and Mr. Eugene Harris. "Awl Inn" shook hands with the knife and fork at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Thompson. Nuf said to persons knowing my gastronomic capacity. Prof. P. M. Thompson was present, being here on his Christmas vacation, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are still domiciled at 16 West 135 St., while Prof. Thompson is at Lawrenceville, Va. It is reported that many colored people were caught in the crash which took place last week when the Northern Bank with nine branches was closed. A dinner was given in honor of "Awl Inn" on New Years day at the home of Mrs. Minnie Ryals Young, 119 W. 133 St., a cousin of the late Rev. L. B. Maxwell. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Young, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Williams, Miss Catherine O. Guyton, Miss Marion Levy of Jamaica, Mrs. O. G. Kennedy of Englewood, N. J., Allison Town an old Brunswick boy, and "A. I." I have met quite a few more Savannahians since my last letter. Among the number may be mentioned: Mr. John F. Sneed of Washington, D. C.; Miss Josephine DeLyons, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Guerard, Mrs. Janie Bones Miller and Mr. Miller, Miss Clifford Bones, Mr. George Bones, Miss Hattie Reynolds of Yonkers, Mr. Mingo McCall and wife, Mrs. Mamie Lou Wilson Rose and mother, Mrs. Lizie Bland and others. I spent three days last week in Englewood, N. J. In my next letter, I shall give some impressions of this place. With best regards to the Tribune force, I am. Yours truly. IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. Interesting Services in The Churches of the City. F. B. B. Church. Despite the inclement weather on last Sunday night, an exceedingly large crowd attended church. So large was the crowd that Rev. Wright commended them for their determined efforts in beginning the new year, which looked as if they intended to do right. He read for the lesson, Ps. 29, and his text was from Jas. 16:17. The subject, "God as the Father of Light." The sermon was excellent, and filled with beautiful pictures and brilliant illustrations. The choir sang "I am the Way." Rev. Wright led the hymn "That awful day will surely come." He pleadingly invited those who felt the need of prayer to the mercy seat. Quite a large crowd bowed and prayer was offered in their behalf. On the fifth Sunday, Rev. Wright will be installed as pastor of the Nicholsonboro Baptist church to which he has recently been called. He has been serving them on the first Sunday in every month since the death of their pastor. A number of his friends will accompany him on that day. Despite the threatening weather on last Sunday, the attendance at the First African Baptist Church was good. Many were present at the watch meeting on Saturday night, to bid the old year farewell, and greet the New Year. The pastor Rev. W. L. Jones made a lasting impression on his congregation in a fireside talk. His sermon on Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock was taken from Job. 13:23; subject "Calling for Settlement" and at night from Phillipians 2:27; subject, "The Mercy of God." The communion service in the afternoon was real impressive. Many and loud were the praises from the communicants to God, for having spared them to partake of the first communion in the New Year. Little James Brown was brought to the altar to receive prayer in the arms of his Godmother, Mrs. Ada Brown. The pastor was called hurriedly to the sick bed-side of his mother on last Tuesday, but from advice received, will occupy his pulpit on to-morrow. The church is still distributing provisions and other means to the poor saints. A neat collection was raised last Sunday night for a sick brother. The "deacons" ward reports show that a number of members are sick. The pastor and officers pray that the members will assist them in visiting and seeing after them. The church 123rd, anniversary will begin Tuesday Jan. 17th, and continue till the 22nd. Watch for the program. Have you subscribed for any shares of stock in the new financial plan advanced by church yet? If not do so at any sacrifice when you attend the next service. Monumental Notes. Monumental Notes. Sunday was a glorious day in the old mother church. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. was very interesting. Every teacher and officer was present. The Christmas exercises on Monday last were the best ever witnessed in the history of the church. The pastor preached an excellent sermon at 11 a. m. and also at 8 p. m. At 3 p. m. Rev. Bell of Midville, Ga., preached a heart feeling sermon. The church is in the midst of election this week, will talk about the different elections of the various boards next issue. The emancipation exercises were held at the old Monumental Monday at 12:30 p. m. Those who witnessed them said that they were the best yet. Our noble Dr. Townsley acted as master of the occasion. The oration by Rev. P. W. Greatheart was a master piece of literary work. The choir sang beautifully both days, it was led by Mr. Albert Day the assistant chorister. The chorister Mr. Love being absent on the account of illness. There was also a funeral Monday immediately after the exercises. It was the burial of Bro. Golden, an old war horse who died at the age of 66. The sermon was preached by Dr. Townsley. You must keep your eyes open and see the old mother church. There will be a great deal done this year, the church is free all debt except current expenses. East Broad and Gaston Streets. Sunday Jan. 8, first Sunday after the Epiphany. First mass at 7 a. m. with a short instruction. High mass and sermon at 10:30 a. m., Sunday school at 4 p. m., rosary, sermon and benediction at 8 p. m. Rev. Gustave Obrecht will preach the morning sermon, which will be on the gospel of the day "Jesus is lost in the Temple." In the evening, Father Dahlent will preach. Subject, "The Magi come and adore the child Jesus in the stable." After the evening service, the great annual congregational meeting will take place in the school rooms; Father Obrecht will give the financial report of the year; all the members of the church are requested to be present. On Tuesday evening Jan. 10, the installation of the officers of St. Mary's Aid Society will take place at the residence of Mrs. Doral Ingram, 517 Mapel street, a cordial invitation is extended to all the members to attend; a pleasant evening is promised to all. All our schools reopened on Tuesday last, and the same number of children came back. On Tuesday evening the Catholic Mutual Aid Society gave a New Year's festival at the Harris St. hall and in spite of the inclement weather, a pretty good crowd attended and enjoyed a pleasant evening. Mr. James Dowse was reelected president of the Society and with him all the officers of last year. Come and see the beautiful erib in our church. Evangelical Ministers Union. The Evangelical Ministers Union met on last Tuesday with Dr. R. H. Singleton presiding. Devotional exercises were conducted by Presiding-Elder B. H. Hannah. Then a hymn was sung after which the 12th chapter of Romans was read. This was followed by a chant by the union. The officers nominated for the year 1911 are as follows: Dr. P. W. Greatheart, president; Dr. W. E. Farmer, vice-president; Rev. I. T. Griner, secretary; Rev. R. J. Jefferson, assistant secretary; Dr. B. S. Hannah, treasurer; Rev. E. B. Brown, chaplain; Dr. B. J. Ross, librarian, Rev. J. S. Jenkins, reporter; Dr. L. A. Townsley, critic. Public installation services will be held on Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at St. Paul C. M. E Church when Dr. E. D. Giddens will preach the installation sermon. Visitors are always welcomed at our meetings. Men's Sunday Club as a Benefactor to the Colored People of Savannah. While thinking today of the various organizations for Negro elevation in Savannah, strangely, I thought of the Men's Sunday Club in a most peculiar manner. I thought of it first as an organization for the people and by the people because each colored person in Savannah should feel himself a full member. Then I thought of it as being an uplifter of a three-fold nature, namely spiritual, moral and intellectual. It is seen that it is a spiritual uplifter by its speakers who are in most cases the heralds of God, a moral uplifter by its intention to clear our street corners of their loitering youths and its intellectual upliftment is seen by its refined programs. This great work for many years has been carried on only by a faithful few, but now I believe that it is due time that each and every Negro in Savannah should give his co-operation. Then let this be one of our determinations for the New Year to take more interest in this great work since it means so much to our community and race at large. John Adams, Atlanta Baptist College Engagement Announced. Mrs. Clement Doby has announced the engagement of her daughter, Annie Lenora to Mr. Walter J. Lawson. The wedding to take place in February. The Secret of Song-Writing. A noted composer has said that a song to make a hit, should "appeal to the heart." That's exactly what is giving great popularity to "The Land of the Beautiful Dream," words and music of which will be given free with next Sunday's New York World. This is the song now being sung by Truly Shattuck in "Alma, Where do you live," the play drawing crowds to Webster Theatre, New York City. It's a song that "appeals to the heart." Order next Sunday's New York World in advance and get a great newspaper and a great song at one and the same time. Attend the First Annual and New Year Hop, —Given by THE COLONIAL AID AND SOCIAL CLUB AT MASONIC TEMPLE, Monday Night, January 9, 1911 We will assure all who attend a pleasant time. The Apollo Orchestra will furnish music for the occasion. Single 25c.—Admission—Double 40c. B. H. Daniels, See'y. I. S. Henly, Ex-officio. Mme. Florence E. Williams, Graduate Prof. Rohrer's School, N. Y. Hairdressing Parlor 521 GASTON STREET, East. Telephone 2328 Wigs, Switches and Pompadours made from Natural Hair. Combibeds made up. Shampooing and Hair Straightening a specialty. Face and Electric Massage. Dyeing and Matching Hair. WOOD! WOOD! WOOD! BY THE LOAD OR CORD. Julian Smith, 515 EAST ANDERSON ST., Or call up 1464 and Leave Your Order. Prompt Delivery. Dealers in STATIONERY and NEWS. Afty book desired. Pictures of all kinds. Manufacturers of Frames in all sizes. Enlarging Portraits a specialty. A beautiful Easel Free with each cash order. Agents wanted in and out of the city. Liberal commission. Call on or write W.W.HILL Phone 1084-J 513 West Broad St., Savannah, Ga. That OLD COUGH will get you yet if you don't mind. One 25c BOTTLE of our famous SYRUP, WHITE PINE with AMMONIA will break it up, or if you have Cold in the head, try our LAXATIVE COLD TABLETS they work wonders—25c. We recommend 88 TONIC for Fever, Cold and LaGrippe. Get your School Supplies from us. PATE'S DRUG STORE The Wage Earners Loan and Investment Co., Seaboard Air Line. Account of Christmas Holidays, the Seaboard Air Line will sell low round trip tickets between all points on Dec. 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31 and Jan. 1st. Tickets good returning until Jan. 8th. For full information, rates, schedules, etc., call on your nearest Seaboard agent, or write R. H. Stansell, Savannah, Ga. School Notice. Change of Name What was once the Savannah Baptist High School, East Broad and Anderson streets, is now the Forest City High School same location. With its present corps of efficient teachers, the school is making substantial progress, and does not suffer in comparison with other schools of like character and aims. In connection with the day work, there will be a night school beginning Oct. 31st. This department will be under the same general management as the day session, with a teaching force fully competent. Herein, an opportunity is offered to those whose occupation or other considerations prevent them attending the day school, to get the rudiments and more of that which all men ought to have, an education that they might become what they ought to be. There will be also a Missionary training course during the evening period. This is to train young men and women how to do effective mission settlement work at home thereby developing the missionary spirit and desire even unto the foreign fields. The work of this course is based upon a close sympathetic study of the lives of Christ, Paul and other great missionary spirits, with the "world for Christ" as our motto. This course will be under the direction and tutelage of one who is fully experienced and thoroughly trained. Berean Baptist Academy The Berean Baptist Academy.began its fall term Oct 3rd at the Mechanic's Hall, Joe and Paulsen streets. It is a fine place for a school, well ventilated building, steam heat and all modern improvements. A corps of competent teachers under Miss Alice Brown is employed. Also a theological department for the training of young men. This is a graded school ranging from 1st to 12th grade. For all information see Miss Brown, 1103 East Colling street. EASELS FREE. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Habersham and Harris Streets. Services: Sunday school 9:45 p. m. Sundays, 11 a. m. and 8:15 p. m. Wednesdays, 8:15 p. m. Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Firstclass Dentist, All Work Guaranteed 623 WEST BROAD STREET Bet. Huntingdon and Hall. Bell Phone 2098. 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. New Year Sale! Call and inspect our new line of goods. We have just received a number of Stylish Hats also a select assortment of Plumes, Feathers, Flowers, etc., which we are offering at SPECIAL PRICES for the holidays. Greene & Allen 464 West Broad St. Agents Wanted by & HILL, EWS. Any book desired. Pic- of Frames in all sizes. Enlarg- The Farm Did you ever watch the hen with the "song?" You will always find she has a good egg record. Show me a flock of hens with the gladsome cackle, and I will show you a flock of hens that is in the egg business every day of the week. When I approach a silent poultry yard during working hours I naturally feel that there is something wrong there—either sickness or worthlessness from age or other causes. A hen that has the proper instincts wants to be doing something every working minute. That, she is not particular whether it be in your favorite pansy bed or not is "another story." The scaggy legged hen is usually found on the roosts. However, she is sometimes a good layer, but as a rule she is a losing proposition and usually one of the first affected by disease. Her condition is usually a symptom of a poor constitution. Anyhow, it is safer to get rid of her. Poultrymen, as a rule, keep too many fowls for their accommodations. So in weeding out the old ones and the drones you had better err on the side of retaining too few rather than too many. You may have accommodations for 1,000; if so, don't try to keep 1,500. Or your capacity may be 80 or 100; then don't keep 125 or 200. At any rate, only keep the number and kind of fowls that pay you a profit.—Michigan Farmer. SEED AND "CONTEST" CORN. The ears of corn which the extension division has described as the best to be selected for seed corn should by rights be regarded as also the best for exhibition in the boys' "corn contests." As has been repeatedly shown, the largest ears while more attractive to the eye and affording a greater amount of shelled corn, are very likely to be insufficiently matured to afford the best quality of seed; or, if matured, the time required for their perfect maturity has been too long to justify their use for seed in a region where jack frost is so likely to pay an unwelcome visit in the "ripening days" of September. The judges of corn contes, as well as the exhibitors, should bear Minnesota conditions in mind. Those ears are 'the best ears' the planting of kernels from which will produce the greatest proportion of ear-bearing stalks, and therefore the largest number of bushels to the acre. It is hardly the part of wisdom, then, to encourage the boys to direct their efforts too exclusively to the raising of big ears which make a fine show at the exhibition. CORNER IN WORLD'S BEEF. That the beef trust is master of the meat supply of the whole world, with the possible exception of the comparatively limited output of Australia, and that they have already entrenched themselves in South America to such an extent that competition in the United States is impossible, tariff or no tariff, is disclosed in a report received by the department of commerce and labor from its South American commercial agents. That the supply of meat in Argentine is plentiful is indicated in another report, but it is stated that the Chicago companies have no intention of shipping any of the beef, mutton or lamb to the United States. Another report indicates that the Chicago packers have entered into a combination with the meat producers they were unable to buy out. ROTATION RESTS THE SOIL. A neighbor of ours is a bit discouraged over his crop outlook and thinks his soil needs a rest, therefore, he is talking of fallowing his land next year. Allowing to lie idle for a season may be a good thing for a lazy farmer, but I never could see any other reason for it. The idea, of course, is to "rest" the land and the conserving of an extra season for a single crop. This might be done provided the man has cultivated during the fallow period, a fine mulch maintained, and the weeds kept down, but if it is all to grow up to weeds and grass this will take out quite as much moisture as a crop of corn or anything else. Soil cannot assimilate plant food unless it is cultivated, and therefore, it follows that much of this food goes to waste on fallow land. If the farmer would set his plants a little deeper, keep the cultivator going more steadily, "rest" his land by a change of crops, buy a manure spreader, then use it, his farm would produce twice as much as it will if he carries out the fallow plans. HOG RAISING IN ENGLAND. Hogs in England are given a great variety of feeds—potatoes, turnips, carrots, beets, peas, beans, harley and cats. The grain is either steamed or ground, and the vegetables usually cooked and mixed with swill. Grasses and clovers are cut and fed during the summer time. English hogs tend more to the bacon type than do those raised in America. If lean meat is wanted we must feed a greater variety and select muscle-forming foods. PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR OAT AND WHEAT SMUT. Bulletin 212 of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment station by Dr. F. L. Stevens which has just appeared from the press gives full directions for preventing the various smut of oats and wheat. These are due to little living parasitic plant which grow within the wheat and oat plants. They cause large loss, cutting down the yield of grain often as much as 20 per cent. or even 30 per cent, while the stinking smut of wheat does much greater damage by injuring the milling quality of the grain. The formalin treatment which is thoroughly effective and costs almost nothing, is described and recommended for oat smut. The same treatment is even more effective than the ordinary bluestone treatment for the stinking smut wheat. The loose smut of wheat can be prevented by a modified hot water treatment coupled with separate growth of seed in a protected seed plant. Director G. B. Williams, West Raleigh, N. C., states that these diseases cause thousands upon thousands of dollars' of loss every year to the oat and wheat crops of the state and that this bulletin was prepared especially to give farmers at this time the most effective means of combating these diseases. He states that a copy of this bulletin may be secured by any resident of North Carolina free of cost upon application to him. PASTEURIZING MILK. To pasteurize milk or cream is simply to heat the same to about 160 degrees, then rapidly cook the liquid. By this process the lactic germs or germs which cause milk to sour are destroyed, but the germs which cause milk to become putrid are not destroyed. Experts claim the danger is that dirty milk may be pasteurized, hence the operation may be dangerous or, at least, disappointing from the reason that one cannot tell just when purification may take place. The latter cannot be detected until it reaches an advanced age, as pasteurized milk or cream may never grow sour, yet may contain germs fraught with danger. Many physicians also claim that pasteurization reduces the digestibility of the milk or cream. Farm and Poultry Notes In cutting rape for soiling it is best to cut about four inches from the ground. It is advisable to arrange the cutting so that each day's product will be consumed within that time, as the foliage soon wilts and is then not relished so much. The setting hen must not be disturbed. If eggs are laid in the same nest with those that are hatching it is often difficult to tell the fresh one from the others, hence partly hatched eggs are taken out instead of the fresh ones. The problem of soft-shelled eggs will be solved if your laying hens are given free access to the grit box and prohibited from eating sloppy, watery mashes. Soy beans shed their leaves before the grain begins to ripen; therefore when hay is desired the plants must be cut when half or more of the pods are fully grown, but before the beans begin to harden. Sheep are excellent for cleaners. The Wisconsin experiment station finds lime is reficient in much of the grain ration fed to dairy cows and hogs. Hogs fed on phosphates and bone mash, made consistent and profit able gains. The table value of both lettuce and radishes depends largely upon a quick growth under moderately cool conditions. For this reason the soil should be very fine of texture and fertile to stimulate the most rapid growth. Do not put more than 50 chicks in one brooder, or one compartment, and better results will be secured with a smaller number. Overcrowding is the cause of many deaths in the brooder. The bruise on an apple is injurious. A grape vine to bear well must be cultivated and carefully pruned each year, cutting back to two, three, or not more than four canes, and carefully pinching off surplus young shoots during the summer. The earliest sown lettuce should be of some of the loose growing varieties. For summer use plant cabbage lettuce, or heading varieties, as the leaves during the warm weather will be thriftier and more crisp. Corn is a good feed, the year around, provided the birds have plenty of green stuff during the warm months. A tablespoonful of baking soda placed in the drinking water two or three times a week will prevent bowel trouble. Lice and mites come with warm weather. Tie the grape vines to the trellis wires before the vines begin to run. It is a sad mistake for a man to make a good crop of grass into poor hay. COMMENT ON CURRENT LITERATURE CONCERNING NEGRO. W. W. Naughton, writing from San Francisco, says: "The pages of pugilistic history make it evident that the Negro champions cannot assimilate the rewards of viticulture with as little damage to their systems as do the white kings of the ring." Now, we care nothing for prize-fighting, "perse," but we are always interested in what the critics have to say about us along racial lines. The above charge may be true or it may not; if not; if it is true, then circumstances are just about what one would expect them to be. All prize fighters at best, or so nearly all that results are the same, belong to the lowest stata of humanity. By this we mean that they are generally ignorant, vicious and brutal. In late years there have been some apparently conspicuous exceptions to this rule. If we are right, no wonder they succumb to the flattery and temptations that accompany their triumphs in the ring. They are spendthrifts because their money comes easy, because they associate generally with the class of people who value a dollar chiefly for the good time it will bring. They have had no training, consequently they know little of the virtues of self-restraint. The white pugilist has a better chance to accumulate that his colored rival; a better chance to invest his earnings, and is likely to be more intelligent every way; consequently he is better fortified against temptation—he has more to lose. Mr. Naughton speaks of Johnson as "the hope of the black race," and we often wonder what the critics mean by that expression. Johnson is a prize, fighter who has succeeded in his chosen line of work, no more, no less, and we honor him for that. We cannot, however, resist the temptation to say that if we Negroes were to pick out the man who stands as the realization of all that is best, all that is highest, all that is ideal, we most certainly would not place our hand upon Johnson or any other pugilist. Says the Outlook for December: 'The grandfather clause was adopted last August as a constitutional amendment and imposes an educational test on all Negroes whose grandfathers were slaves, and on all naturalized citizens from countries where they did not have the right to vote. The test is the ability to read and write a section of the constitution. The state supreme court recently decided that the provision was constitutional, and the federal court now holds that it has no jurisdiction to grant relief.' To impose any qualification whatever on Negroes that is not applicable to whites it, to our mind, a clear violation of the spirit of the fifteenth amendment. That the law operates to exclude from the suffrage those white allens who cannot read nor write does not mitigate the unfairness of the legislation. If the fifteenth amendment means anything, it means that the states shall not deny the right of suffrage to a man because he is black or of any other color; because of his race, or because his ancestors were denied suffrage on account of their thraldom. Some Negroes are alfranchised because they cannot read or write; all must submit to a test instituted because their grandfathers were slaves. No white man, save naturalized citizens who had no votes in their native countries, need submit to any test at all, as their grandfathers were white, and therefore not slaves. What is the condition then upon which the suffrage is granted in Oklahoma? Plainly it seems to us to be the color of the man applying, and therefore a condition violating the spirit of the amendment. Every conscientious judge seeks to interpret the law, not only according to its letter, but his judgments are tempered and governed by what he considers to be its spir- Because there is more light in the sky on a clear, moonless night than can be attributed to the stars, a German scientist has evolved a theory that the earth is surrounded by a luminous coma resumbling that of comets. Since Argentina has learned how to ship corn to Europe without spoiling on the voyage her corn crop each year has increased in such amazing strides that the corn supremacy of the world will be a question between the United States and Argentina. Her total corn (maize) export this year will be three million tons. The Twentieth Century Club of Boston has made the suggestion that the portrait of Julia Ward Howe, painted by her son-in-law, John Elliott, be hung in Fanull Hall, "the cradle of liberty." Tuberculosis is the greatest scourge of overcrowded Ylenna. Seventy persons in ten thousand die from this disease in the working class quarters, as compared with sixteen in the other districts. For a score or more of years the body of a fourteen-year-old boy was kept in a Nottingham cupboard. When Mrs. Shawcrawt took over a small shop a year ago the previous tenant left a parcel to be taken good care of and called for later. Nobody called, and curiosity led to finding the immmified body. it. The article says further: "Some of the Negroes claimed they were not afraid of the educational test, but were afraid that it would be applied so as to defraud them of their vote by trickery or lawlessness." A very natural fear, say we, as there are records of incidents in some of the Southern states of ignorant white election officers, who could not be competent to judge of a man's intelligence, refusing the suffrage to college presidents and professors because they were Negroes, having no appeal from their prejudiced decisions. How could the most learned Negro in America ever read anything to the satisfaction of Ben Tillman or Hoke Smith? Again: On the other hand some of the whites were afraid of Negro lawlessness, since some of the country sheriffs have advised the Negroes to go to the polls with their guns and force the election officers to permit them to vote." How funny! A man actually wrote the above in all seriousness. Lawlessness—bah! May we ask, with "equal seriousness," why it didn't occur to these "models of domestic tranquility" that they themselves were engaged in a species of lawlessness far more criminal than any anticipated revolt of Negroes could have been? Which is the more delinquent—the robber, or the man who fights to prevent being robbed? In Maryland, we are glad to say, the effort to subvert the fundamental law of the land met with failure—thanks to the moral courage and legal brilliancy of a judge who seems to regard himself as something more than a pensioner of Uncle Sam. The det there, known as the "Annapolis law," declared that, "in order to vote a voter must have had the right to do so prior to January 1, 1868, or must prove descent from persons having enjoyed that rigat." As before 1868 only white persons could vote in Maryland, the restriction was necessarily based on color and race and Negroes were practically barred from voting in local elections. Three Negroes sued the election officers for damages when they were not allowed to register, and won their case before Judge Morris in the federal court. The case has been carried to the Supreme court, and it remains to be seen whether the court of last resort will sustain the ruling of the lower court or seek to dodge the issue, as it generally does. This is the first time that any federal court has passed upon a restriction patently intended to deprive the Negro of his vote by the imposition of the "grandfather clause," and Negroes ought not to forget the great judge who was not afraid "to grasp the bull by the horns." United States judges are elevated to the bench primarily for their profound legal abilities, and that they may remain deaf to the ever varying currents of popular frenzy, impregnable in the midst of political bickering, and insensible to prejudice against the weak, it has been thought wise to give them their places for life or during good behavior. Why is it then that so few seem able to render fair decisions or to interpret the law as it is written without fear or favor? The Negro does not fear any law to which the white brother citizen must also submit. Make it property, if you will, make it education or any other test, but, in simple justice, apply it to all men living under the flag. An ignorant man with a ballot in his hand is more to be feared than an anarchist with a bomb. Qualification laws based on education or the possession of property, may operate temporarily to exclude from the suffrage a larger proportion of colored men than white, but make by them if you will—we look into the future with unbalanced cheek, cheered by the unfailing, unchanging conviction that it will not always be so—James H. Harris in Illinois Chronicle. Yes. Yes. We All Know That. A small boy went into a neighbor's house and espied a peach in the fruit dish. "Is that your pear?" he said to tel lady. She said: "That's not a pear; it's a peach." "Well, I can eat it. Mamma would let me," he replied. "All right; take it," she said. He took it, and, after turning it over in his hand, took a bite. He looked up in surprise and said: "It's just like a carpet."—Delinator. What He Is In. Visitor—So your boy is in college, is he, Mr. Corntossie? Farmer—I can't say exactly. He's in ther ball nine, an' in ther rowin' crew, an' in ther jinnayzeeum, an' in ther dommytory, but whether he's ever in ther college is more'n I kin find out by his letter.—Harper's Bazar. His Modest Hope. "Then you don't want to leave foot-prints upon the sands of time?" "Nix," answered the politician, guardedly. "All I want is to cover up my tracks."—Washington Herald. He—Just one more kiss before I go. She—That will make twenty kisses you have gotten from me by promising to go. Oh, little god of Hymen! You're a delightful sake; Of all the gods' and goddesses; J. L. Green—Does he figure much in politics? Wise—No; he's one of those politicians who use five-syllable words to express one-syllable ideas. Breaking It Gently. Callahan was stopped on the street by Father Clancy. The good priest's countenance took on a sad expression. "What's this, I hear, Callahan," asked he, "about your breaking Ilogan's head last night? And the two of your friends for years." Callahan seemed somewhat taken back. "Sure, I was compelled to do it, your rivement," he explained apologetically, "but out of consideration for that same friendliness, I broke it gintly, your rivence."—Lippincott's. The Cache. Nkicker—We are told to do our shopping early. Bocker—I know it; my wife has already concealed a 49-cent tie in the top bureau drawer. GOT IT. Got Something Else, Too. "I liked my coffee strong and I drank it strong," says a Pennsylvania woman, telling a good story, "and although I had headaches nearly every day I just would not believe there was any connection between the two. I had weak and heavy spells and palpitation of the heart, too, and although husband told me he thought it was the coffee that made me so poorly, and did not drink it himself for he said it did not agree with him, yet I loved my coffee and thought I just couldn't do without it. "One day a friend called at my home—that was a year ago. 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"John," said I, quite simply. "John"—just like that, the saloon and get a drink," said he. And so I held his horse while he went in the saloon and got a drink. But this was on lower Ninth avenue, in a day when the avenue's honors went to the man who could clean the most cops in a given time. By and by the gang came along and beheld that wagon full of tinware. The peddler was detained within by a sore thirst, and they took the tinware. And then they came back and took the cushions off the wagon. Eventually, becoming daring, they unlitched the wagon and took it away. True to my trust, I stood there, holding the horse. And by and by the peddler came out of the saloon and sized up the situation. "Well," said he warmly, "you're Honest John, all right. You saved the horse." BABY'S HAIR ALL CAME OUT "When my first baby was six months old he broke out on his head with little bumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break out again and it spread all over his head. 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Bethel on the line of travel was admirably located to intercept pilgrims to the feasts who would otherwise have gone on to Jerusalem. Jeroboam belonged to the tribe of Ephraim. He was born at Zedra in the Jordan Valley. His father's name was Nebat and his mother was Zeruah. He was one of the common people, as distinguished from Reboam of the royal family and son of one of the greatest monarchs the world has known. He was a man of great ability, a self-made man like so many of the greatest men in history. So marked as a controller of men, of such business capacity and energy, did he show himself in his work on Millo, a fortress of Jerusalem, that Solomon placed him at the head of the forced labor hands of the northern tribes. Jeroboam made the mistake of starting a rebellion against Solomon. But Solomon quickly put an end to that scheme, and Jeroboam escaped into Egypt. Jeroboam in his desire to retain his kingdom adopted a plan which would destroy its very foundations, and make it a house built on the sand and not on the rock. He was a politician, l. e., one who seeks his own welfare first; a statesman, who makes his country's good supreme. He trusted his own wisdom, and proposed to succeed by defying God's conditions of success when he offered him the kingdom. It was the story of Adam and Eve repeated. He feared that he would lose his kingdom, and the two be united under Rehoboam, if his people should go up to Jerusalem to attend the annual Jewish feasts prescribed by the law of God; that unity of religion would lea dto unity of state. He had also the excuse that Rehoboam was a bad man, and a cruel oppressor. If the two kingdoms should unite under him, they would lose all they had gained by the revolt. He made two calves of gold. "They were probably of considerable size, and represented a young but full-grown bull." The Hebrews were familiar with figures of bulls, and "the most conspicuous object in the courts of Solomon's temple was its molten sea, supported on the backs of twelve bulls." The ox-symbol of God was most natural for an agricultural people, for whom the great animal, so powerful yet so docile, was the breadwinner, a material embodiment of the divine strength and beneficence. And he set the one in Bethel, near the southern border of the kingdom. And the other put he in Dan, an ancient place of heathen worship near the northern extremity of the kingdom. And this thing became a sin. The doing this was a sin, and a means of sin. Jeroboam "pandered to the rude and sensuofofs instinct which makes materialism in worship so much more attractive, to all weak minds, than spirituality." PROHIBITION BRIEFLETS. A Chicago Catholic priest recently refused to receive pew rent of a saloonkeeper because the. "saloon-keeper's business was to undermine the work of the church." 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His Ruling Passion. The young man waited for the millionaire's reply. "I don't blame you for wanting to marry my daughter," said the latter. "And now how much do you suppose you and she can worry along on?" The youth brightened up. "I-I think," he cheerfully stammered, "that $200,000 well invested, would produce a sufficient income." The millionaire turned back to his papers. "Very well," he said, "I will give you $100,000, providing you raise a similar amount." And the young man went away sorrowing. Seats of the Mighty "Have you investigated those charges against Biggun yet?" asked the intimate friend. "Not yet," answered the distinguished statesman who was a member of the investigating committee. "All we have done is to hold an informal meeting and decide that he isn't guilty." The Limit. "Do you have much trouble with your automobile?" "Trouble! Say, I couldn't have more if I was married to the blamed machine."—St. Louis Star. 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We put the best medical talent within everybody's reach. We encourage everyone who ails or thinks he ails to find out exactly what his state of health is. You can get our remedies here, at your drug store, or not at all, as you prefer; there is positively no charge for examination. Professor Munyon has prepared specifics for nearly every disease, which are sent prepaid on receipt of price, and sold by all druggists. Send to-day for a copy of our medical examination blank and Guide to Health, which we will mail you promptly, and if you will answer all the questions, returning blank to us, our doctors will carefully diagnose your case and advise you fully, without a penny charge. Address Munyon's Doctors, Munyon's Laboratories, 53d & Jefferson Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. MOSQUITO THE MALARIA MONSTER THE MALARIA MONSTER If the mosquito were as big as it is bad, it would darken the air like a gigantic death-breathing dragon. Each sting of a mosquito sows the germs of malaria. These germs multiply with wonderful rapidity. Then come chills and fever with other forms of malaria that undermine the health and sap the strength. OXIDINE It is the modern malaria medicine and the one sure antidote for malaria poisoning. It kills the chills. It quenches the fever fires. It stamps out the cause and consequences of the disease. That's only the beginning of helpful healing work of OXIDINE. It builds up the body, revitalizes the system, enriches the blood, tones up the stomach, bowels, liver and kidneys. OXIDINE puts the body on a fighting footing of superb health. The tonic qualities of OXIDINE make it the best medicine for all weak, run down, thin, pale persons. It is the best body-building tonic money can buy. PATTON-WORSHAM DRUG CO., Mrs., Dallas, Texas "Jones is so dreadfully primitive." "What's his latest?" "Why, we were at the opera house the other night and a stage hand removed a table and Jones yelled 'Supe! supe!' We were dreadfully mortified." "I was at a dinner the other night and Jones sat next to me. When he saw the row of spoons and, forks and knives beside his plate he beckoned to the waiter, 'Say, boy,' he hoarsely muttered, 'I guess you spilled, the spoon-holder!'" "Well, it's lucky he's rich." "Ain't it?" Had Been in a Worse Scrape. Damocles saw the suspended sword. "That's nothing," he cried, "I've sat between two women with hatpins!" Thus they saw he could not be scared. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, nilays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. How can a man come to know himself? Not by thinking, but by doing. —Goethe. Itch Cured in 20 Minutes by Woolford's SanitaryLotion.Never falls. At druggists. Love is the only thing that never falls. Discouraged —a bottle proves. in medicine and the one sure ing. It kills the chills. It it stamps out the cause and That's only the beginning of OXIDINE. It builds up the body, shies the blood, tones up the kidneys. OXIDINE puts the superb health. OXIDINE, make it the best own, thin, pale persons. It is money can buy. Our Dealer's Kind Old Gentleman—Why, children, what's the matter? The Twins (in chorus)—Booohol! Everybody sez I looks like him! On the Dog. A small West Philadelphia boy may be an author some day. He has just finished his first essay. It is on a dog. "A dog is a anmule with four legs, a tale and pants but he never changes them. He wags his tale when he is glad and sits on it when he is sorry. A dog is a useful anmule because he bites burglaris but he is more trouble than he is worth when he tracks mud on the carpet. A bull dog is the king of beests." TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BULLARIA THE SYSTEM Take the Old Standard GROVES TANLESSHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking, showing it is simply Qalahine and iron in a laxeless form. The Qalahine drives out the malaria and malaria out the system. Bold by all dealers for 50 years. Price 50 cents. On the Ties. First Thespian—Walking home? Second Thespian—Yes, the railroad cars are insufficiently heated. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this paper. It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. —Sir James Mackintosh. SS DYES cold water better than any other dye. You can dry E DRUG CO., Quinoy, Illinois. MONEY IN TRAPPING FURS We sell you how; and pay best marked prices. We do refreshes and weekly price list. M. SABEL & SONS, LOUSEVILLE, KY. Dealers in Park, Hide, Wool. Established 1854. y Old $1.00, all. OF INTEREST TO OUR WOMEN NAMING THE CHILD. A name is something to be always with us unless altered by act of legislature or disguised by an alias. The former causes comment and some confusion, and the latter is a doubtful success. It is a great pity that parents do not look ahead a few years when naming a baby. One grown man of today has to sign his legal name as "Willie" because his mother would have him baptized that instead of William. As for all the Percivals, Roys, Dukes and Lords and other romantic selections, doubtless their owners long for a plain John or Names, particularly if the last name is not sufficiently high sounding to correspond. Naming the baby is a matter of consideration and formality in other parts of the world as in America, although here in selecting the name the wishes of both parents are usually followed as far as possible. Probably the baby in later life often wishes that this were not so, and that, like the poor little Chinese girls, it might simply be numbered 1, 2 or 3, as the case may be, until it reaches years of discretion and chooses a name to suit itself. Japanese children are nameless until they are five years old, when the choice of nomenclature rests entirely with paterfamilias. Hindoo mothers name their offspring at the end of twelve days, and then usually call them by a flower name. A pretty Egyptian custom is to light three candles, naming each after a god or some exalted personage. The child is called after the "lucky" candle which burns the longest. PROPER DIET FOR CHILDREN. After the beginning of the third year meat may be given once every day—scraped beef, beefsteak, lamb chops (broiled, never fried), roast beef and lamb, and the white meat of chicken. Beef and lamb should never be overcooked, rather, a trifle rare; chicken, however, should always be well cooked. Milk. This must continue the standby. A quart a day is not too much. If not perfectly digested in its unmodified state, it may be prepared in the following way: To six ounces of milk and one ounce of cream and three ounces of water. Eggs. One soft,boiled, codled or poached egg may be given every other day, especially before the age of five years. Eggs are a very valuable form of food, and it is unfortunate to create in children a dislike for them, and this frequently happens when they are used every day for long periods. OLD SKEWERS. A novel present given to a bride-to-be at a housekeeping shower was a set of four old silver skewers. The handles were, quaintly carved and always a matter of admiration and comment when drawn from a roast by the host. So delighted was the giver by the success of her present that she has started collecting them in antique shops and on old farms and tumble-down houses on her travels. The advantage of such a collection is that it has not been done to death, so valuable finds are more probable PREVENT PLACKETS TEARING. To prevent the placket of your skirt tearing, sew a hook and eye at the bottom of it, keeping it hooked. The majority of the all-corts-of weather coats are manish things, really deserving to be called, as they are, overcoats. They are made of fuzzy chinchilla cloth, or blanket cloth, with wilde, but not gathered sleeves, and big storm collars, usually of fur. The sleeves are regarded as the smartest at present. SAILOR COLLARS POPULAR. Sailor collars are making a strong bid for popularity. It appears as a coat forms that return to the raglan feature of suits, or separate coats and of blouses. It differs from the collar of a year ago, since it is cut to fit smoothly across the back without any shoulder extension. FASHION NOTES. Everything tends to smaller collfures. Shawl collars are still a feature of coats. The fine real Irish insertions are much used upon children's handsome little frocks, with real cluny for second choice among the heavy laces and with Valenciennes as popular as ever. Egyptian embroideries are in high favor. The banded-in effects are even seen in coats. Benver hats with enormous rosettes of tulle are-worn. Some of the richest opera cloaks have kimono sleeves. The badger afrette is in high favor and is beautiful. ```markdown ``` OVERCOATS. HOW TO HANG PICTURES. "Pictures should be hung about on the general eye level, and this rule must be remembered and adapted to the eye level of a child when hanging pictures in a child's room or nursery," says Lucy Abbot Throop in Woman's Home Companion for September. "The pictures will not be noticed at all if hung too high. Pictures should be grouped according to the simple rule of balance. Taking a central vertical axis on a wall pictures of equal size the general similarity of tone, and color value will balance at equal distance from it; or one large picture will balance two pictures of half its size at equal distances from the center. If one has one fairly large picture to balance with several smaller ones, the heavy one is to be nearer the center, and this will keep the feeling of balance. If you watch children on a see-saw, it will explain this. If a heavy boy is on one end he moves nearer the center and several smaller toys may be needed to make the balance perfect. A large picture is usually most effective when placed alone in a space with its center coinciding with the center of the space. Two large pictures, one on each side of a mantlepiece, for instance, give a feeling of restfulness and dignity by their perfect balance. Pictures should be grouped in such a way that they have a relation to each other, are balanced on a center and in this way are made to tell as a whole. It is a useful rule to remember that things become disconnected when they are divided by a space exceeding the width or length of the objects themselves. For instance, two pictures each one by two feet when hanging one above the other must not be more than one foot apart, and not more than two feet apart when side by side. "Pictures should be hung from two hooks, and there should never be a triangle formed by the wire and the top of the picture frame. The construction lines of the room are straight and the picture wires should also be straight. It is better not to have the support of small pictures show, as it makes too great a complexity of wires. Tacks or small picture nails may be used, according to the size and weight of the picture. CARE OF PILLOWS. Many housepeepers who are careful to cover their mattresses with slips which can be taken off and washed from time to time, are not aware that the same course is equally good with pillows. Old sheets or pillowcases can be used to make these secondary silips, changing (either washing or renewing) when necessary. Not only does this preserve the ticking, but the pillow cases look whiter, thanks to the white linen underneath. Household Matters Try darning hose over shoe trees. The darns will be more comfortable to wear, as they will conform to the shape of the foot. After the weekly washing rub a little vinegar and spirits of camphor over the hands. This will keep them in good condition. To remove shine from a coat or skirt, rub either with turpentine or strong coffee. A little vaseline may be rubbed over kid shoes at night, and rubbed off with a soft cloth in the morning. Thus a good polish may be obtained, and the kid will be preserved by the vaseline. When the shoes are shabby, vaseline will still be a good dressing for them, if a little lamp black be mixed with it. Cracked wheat, steamed in a double boiler for four hours, is a nourishing, easily digested and generally liked children's food. The last hour of the baby's day should be a happy one, not one filled with struggle and fret that leaves him sad and exhausted. Soiled spots may be removed from white silk or satin by rubbing them with a fine flannel cloth dipped in a little alcohol or ether. Wrap the soiled baby ribbons around a bottle and wash in warm white soap suds. Use a soft nail brush. Rinse and let dry on bottle They will need no pressing. Fine old lace can be made to look like new if laid away in dry starch for several hours and then hung on the clothes line on a sunny day for a short time. Whiting rubbed on with flannel will remove baking stains from discolored cups and dishes. Some flour thickens more in proportion than some other varieties so be cautious about putting in the last measure. Go slow until you are sure you are in no danger of making dough or batter too stiff. A little lemon juice added to rice while cooking will keep the grains separate and makes it better. Test a good nutmeg by piercing it with a needle; if fresh the oil will follow the needle. ```markdown ``` Among the Masons. Another year has begun. We should strive to make this the best year of our lives. Election returns should have long been rendered by the lodges. Many have done so; many have also failed to do so. Don't be among the laggards. The orphan home and school is in a more prosperous condition than ever. The present management seems alive to its needs and working assiduously to that end. The sympathy of the craft goes out to Brother S. S. Mincey of Alley, Ga., who lost the entire contents of his barn by fire about two weeks ago. The loss amounts to about $800. It was only by luck that his livestock was saved. The most abject slave is he who is controlled by his passions. His first lesson has not been learned until he has subdued them.—J. M. Hodson, Oregon. Attend the lodge punctually, and you will find it one of the best instrumentalities for elevating and improving your character and standing as a man and a citizen.—Voice-Review. Atlogether the outlook for Masonry is brighter than ever before. This splendid institution—hoary with age—is yet young, powerful and strong, and will continue for generations to dispense light and knowledge, and to prove a blessing and a benediction to all the sons of men. The passwords, and grips, signs and tokens amount to nothing, unless we know how to apply them in connection with a correct application of the tools that are given us to build the temple not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, of which each and every one of us are or should be a liging stone, hewn and made square in the quarries. So let each one apply the working to us and be sure that stone he is at work on is made a perfect ashler, ready to be placed in position by the master builder and inspected by the all-seeing eye of the grand architect of the universe. MAN'S MISSION. Every man has a mission in life. Creation would be purposeless if its highest and crowning consummation—man—was left to wander aimless and objectionless. What matters it, if he is endowed with Godlike qualities of intellect, a superb brain, a creative, active mind, an intelligence that can grapple and overcome the potential and hidden forces of nature, if all these magnificent inheritances are only wasted and unutilized? If the grave is the goal to which all humanity tends, if life is to be swallowed up in that all-embracing vortex, then it matters little whether our brief existence terminates without the sensation, of a strife or passion or amidst the splendors of accomplishments and a name synonymous with great deeds and mighty achievements. But the grave is not the goal of the human race. Existence is not the effervescent dream that flits althwart the mind in the silent watches of the night. It is a most wretched delusion that leads a man to believe that after a misspent life, where no promise met with fair fulfillment, and every flower of beauty and fragrance, ere it blossomed in the sunlight was choked with the noxious weeds of passion and vice, he could lay the garments of his soul into an earty casket and say: "Here at last is oblivion. In this grave are rest and peace." Impotent delusion! Vain hope! Boundless space, boundless time, never ceasing and eternal energy are some of nature's conditions, and through its ever changing forms it is still and for aye never changing.—Frank H. Myrick, Colorado. THE JAPS AND MASONRY. The attitude of the Japanese government toward Masonry has always been rather strange. Until a year ago it declined to allow the existence of lodges in the dominions of the Mikado, though it not only permitted but actually encouraged its citizens to join the craft abroad and to attend foreign lodges. In fact, nearly all Japan's statesmen and diplomats are Freemasons.—Freemasons' Chronicle. Attend the lodge punctually, and you will find it one of the best instrumentalities for elevating and improving your character and standing as a man and a citizen.—Voice-Review. Stamp Collector's Freak. A wealthy Russian stamp collector's freak has been the subject of some comment among philatelists. M. Steminer of St. Petersburg, a well-known collector, has in his possession five old stamps, mostly German, which he believed were the only specimens in existence. His friend Prince Troubetzkol ridiculed the idea and after much advertising obtained duplicates from dealers in the United States and paid $5,500 for them. Stemmer was furious and wanted to buy them immediately, but Troubetzkol refused to sell. After much persuasion the five stamps changed hands for $12,500, and, beaming with joy, Stemmer threw them into the fire. "Now my set is really unique," he exclaimed to the amazed Troubetzkol. When a man's affection wanes, his applied to self. Pot-boilers have added to more happiness for two than any inspiration one can think of. GAREY'S Variety Bakery. Goods delivered promptly to any part of the city. 506 West Broad Street, Near Gaston Phone 1331-L. Office Phone 3570. Res. Phone 3256-J Dr. Geo. W. Smith PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office 811 West Broad Street, Residence 605 Oak Street. SAVANNAH, GA. SAVANNAH PHARMACY CO. Prescriptions called for and delivered. 811 W. Broad St. Phone 5570. Savannah, Ga. GO TO— Young Bros. For your TOBACCO, CIGARS and FRUITS Of all kinds. 509 West Broad Street. Buy for Cash and Save Money T. FREEMAN, GROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES We lead, others follow. Our motto is to please. Soda Water, Tobacco, Cigars and Ice always on hand. 466 Montgomery Street. THANKS—CALL AGAIN LUTHER'S PRIDE OF BIRTH Great Reformer Was of the Commonest People, and Was Glad Martin Luther was very human and very lovable, strikingly like our own Lincoln in his quaint humor, his homeliness of speech, his human sympathies, his simplicity of character, his clearness of vision. He came, as so many of the world's great men come, of peasant stock. "I am a peasant's son; my father, my grandfather and my great-grandfather were genuine peasants," he was accustomed to say, not without a touch of pride, and in spite of his opinion that "there is as little sense in boasting of one's ancestry as in the devil's priding himself on his angelic lineage." He was of the commonest people, and was glad of it. It was one of the secrets of his power, "Rich people's children," he once remarked, "seldom turn out well. They are complacent, arrogant and conceited, and think they need to learn nothing because they have enough to live on anyway. On the contrary, poor men's sons must labor to lift themselves out of the dust and must endure greatly. And because they have nothing to boast about or pride themselves upon they trust God, control themselves and keep still. The poor fear God, therefore he gives them good heads that they may study, become educated and intelligent and be able to assist princes, kings and emperors with their wisdom." Luther's family was not the lowest class. For generations his ancestors had owned their house and farm in the village of Mohra, on the western side of the Thuringian hills. There are still Luthers in the same tiny hamlet, changed perhaps as little as the place itself.—Prof. Arthur C. McGiffert in the Century. The Courage of Life The two virtues that help us along most in life are trust and courage. Apart from the tragedies invited by sin and violence and self-indulgence, a large part of our trouble comes from anxiety, distrust, apprehension. It was not all frivolity that dictated the answer of a young girl who, being urged to prepare herself for a profession or a definite work, responded: "I'm not going to look ahead and worry. I can do a lot of useful things: I can mend, and make salad, and amuse children, and be patient and economical, and help people to enjoy themselves, and I don't believe nice girls starve." Courage and faith are always assets. Even if life goes back upon them and falls to come up to expectations, the practise of these virtues is just that much to the good, and we have at least not lived in the evil moment until it arrived.—Louise Collier Willcox, in Harper's Bazar. Women Ald City Work. The Woman's Municipal league of New York not only interests itself in the work of making more clean and beautiful the city, but has formed a junior league, the idea being to teach the children and possibly through them the parents will learn better the obligation of every citizen to keep the streets clean and make the city a healthful and beautiful place in which to live. The purposeful individual can afford to possess his soul in patience. That which is one man's problem is fat pickings for another. FOR FIRST-CLASS SHOE REPAIRING CALL ON J. H. WASHINGTON Don't throw away your old shoes. You will never find any new ones as comfortable—for the old shoe, the one that has become shaped to your foot, is. and always will be, more comfortable than any new shoe ever made. You know that's so, don't you? Then send the old shoes here; we will make them look like new ones, with all the comforts of old one. 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FIRST CLASS BARBER SHOP next door. All first class workmen. We also have autos for private service at any time. Give us a call at 304 West St. Julian street, Savannah, Ga. J. H. TURNER, Proprietor. G. B. Young & Sons Wholesale and retail deaers in Live and Dressed Poultry. All kinds of games in season. All orders properly attended to and delivered tree. Stall 12, City Market. Phone 3733 R. H. YOUNG, Manager. The Colored Dry Goods Store. West Broad and Gwinnett Streets. THE HIGH ART TAILORS Just received a new and up-to-date line of Fall Goods at reasonable prices Satisfaction Guaranteed Come and place your order soon At 321 Broughton St. East Next door to Red Cross Pharmacy. Any gentleman can have a Perfect Fit in my Tailoring Establishment. SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED. P. KOLMAN THE TAILOR 44 WEST BROAD STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Again We Say Subscribe for THIS PAPER CHICKENS, DUCKS. SCOTT'S ce 37 Bull Street. WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS, City Passenger and Ticket Agent. King Establishment BED WITH Artaking Company (operated.) S and Embalmers d Robes. White and black funeral 1 Jefferson street. HELDS, Manager. Table Attached. Office Phone 670 COLD WAVE Freezing Every Day. W. H. Johnson The Real Ice Cream Man. Phone 2685-J. Ice Cream served free to ladies every Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. Corner Duffy and Cuyler Streets. WEST SIDE RESTAURANT 461 West Broad Street Near Union Station. The place to get first-class meals. Everything neat and clean. Meals prepared in an appetizing mannes and at all hours daily. Meals 15 and 25 cents. MRS. A. S. SCOTT, Proprietress. FIRST-CLASS Boarding & Lodging At 120 Cannon St., West Charleston, S. C. A nice cool spot; your patronsge sollicited. One block from the Belt Line. Mrs! P. C. Burgess, Proprietress. West Broad Street Pharmacy W. A. PIGMAN, Proprietor, Opposite Union Station. Don't cough; use Pigman's Pine and Tar-Diamond shape. 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. Masonic Books & Regalias. LODGE SEALS, FINANCIAL CARDS and BLANKS of every description. Pubilahers' and Manufacturers' Price. Liberal Discounts Will Be Arranged. BOL. C. JOHNSON, Bavannah, Ga.