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The Savannah Tribune VOLUME XXVII. Aunt Serena's Supper Party By TEMPLE BAILEY (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) "What in the world are you doing?" I asked. Aunt Screna laughed. She was standing by her mahogany dresser, putting into a shabby bag a well-filled purse, her diamond earrings, a coral pin, and two rings. "My dear," she said solemnly, "I have always been afraid of burglars. It always seemed to me that if I should wake up some night and find a man in my room I should die. So, in order to avoid it, I always put my valuables in this old black bag and set them on the hall rack with a note addressed to any chance burglar, telling him that there is nothing worth stealing in the house, asking him to take these and go away as quickly as possible." I stared at her in amazement. "Why Aunt Serena," I cried, "you are practically giving your things away; you might be able to hide them so they couldn't be found." "I have never lost anything," she said lightly, "and I have lived here alone for twenty years." It gave me a creepy feeling to go to bed after that talk about burglars. I was a city dweller, and the still country night, the dense darkness, got on my nerves. At last I slipped into Aunt Serena's room. She was propped up among the pillows, reading; a candle stood on a little table beside her bed and cast a faint flame into the surrounding darkness. I sat on the foot of the bed and talked to her. It had been ten years since my last visit, and I wanted to hear the news. "Are all the neighbors just the same?" I asked. "And where is the little boy who used to wade with me in the stream and play Indians in the woods?" Aunt Serena smiled. "He came home from college yesterday," she said, "and he asked about you." "He was a nice little boy," I remarked, reflectively. "He is a nice young man," Aunt Serena replied. "He comes over very often and cheers me up when I am lonely." I went to bed presently; but not to sleep. Old memories crowded upon me. I could hear the frog croaking in the pond where years ago, Bruce Burns and I had floated paper boats and built our windmills. He was a nice boy, I thought, as I drifted away in dreams, and his smile was—1 I sat up suddenly. I had heard the crack of a twig; it seemed to me that there was a stealthy step on the walk! There are times when I am brave. I thought of poor Aunt Scerena's black bag on the hall rack. It contained her most precious belongings, and I was not inclined to let some tramp carry off the treasures. I slipped on my kimono and went to the head of the stairs; the burglar was in the kitchen. If I made a rush for it I could undoubtedly get the bag and gain the safety of my own room before he discovered me. With my heart beating furiously, I made the descent, grasped the bag and stood still, as a light flared up from the dining room I caught sight of the burglar. "Hello," he said, easily, and came toward me. For a moment I felt as if I should die of fright, but a look of his face reassured me. This was no hardened criminal. The smile and unembarrassed manner spoke rather of one who, having been caught in an unusual act, was prepared to defend it. I came forward into the light. I must have made a rather fantastic figure in my flowing gown, my hair tumbling about my shoulders. But I did not think of my appearance. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" I demanded sharply, "to enter a house where there are only two de- fenseless women? If you must steal teaspoons, why don't you go to some place where you won't frighten a dear old lady to death?" He stood perfectly still looking down at me. There was something in his expression that I could not fathom. "So you thought I came to steal the teaspoons?" I nodded. "What else could I think?" I asked, and pointed to the drawer. It stood wide open, and the spoons lay revealed in a shining row. "It seems dreadful," I said, "that a young man of your appearance should-be brought to this." "It is," he agreed, "but I am going to ask a favor of you. I am very hungry. I will leave teaspoons and everything else if you will find something for me to eat." His impertinence took my breath away, but a second thought told me that it would not be well to make him angry. "There is chocolate cake in the pantry," I said, "and bread in the bread box. You will find cold ham and butter in the refrigerator." I helped him get the things and set them on the table. He ate with the manners of a gentleman, glancing at me now and then with an expression I could not understand. When he had sliced the ham he passed the dish to me. I refused haughtily, but weakened at his offer of chocolate cake: I have always loved sweets. As I took it, however, I felt that the time had come to tell him what I thought of him, and I did it in plain terms. "My dear lady," he said, when I had finished, and it seemed to me that his eyes twinkled, "shall I tell you who brought me to, this sad end? "When I was a small boy," he continued, "I was contented to play R.W.KRS. Propped Up Among the Pillows, Reading. Propped Up Among the Pillows, Reading. with innocent things to dig in my garden, to fly my kite, to whittle boats out of bits of wood and to sail them on the pond. But one day there came from the city a little girl with dark eyes and hair. She was not a pretty little girl, but there was promise in her of beautiful womanhood." He glanced at me and went on. "A promise which has been I think fulfilled. After she came I found that I had known nothing of the romance of life. She spurned my simple plays and taught me new ones. The game she liked more than any other was what we called the 'pirate game.' The little ships we sailed on the pond were pursued by a sinister craft with a flag made from black paper, and which sported a skull and crossbones. How we scuttled those ships and made the dolls which formed the small crew walk the plank! Then we grabbed the booty and sailed away with our gains to shore." I sat up suddenly and looked at him. "Why, I used to play those games. Are you—are you Bruce Burns?" He nodded, but before he could say another word we heard a voice from above. "Bruce dear," it murmured, "can you find anything to eat?" I flitted to the foot of the stairway. "Aunt Serena," I asked se- SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911. verely, "did you know he was coming over?" "My dear," she asked, in astonishment, "are you down there?" "Yes, I thought it was a burglar." "I should have explained," she said, "that Bruce keeps up his little boy habit of coming over here to eat. I always put something where he can find it, for his mother does not believe in midnight suppers. He does so much around the place that this is the only way in which I can repay him." "I help keep away the burglars," Bruce said, but there was a wicked smile in his eye. "And now and then I am taken for one." "Naturally," my voice was icy, "and now that I have discovered the name of the intruder; I will say good-night." I made my retreat in a dignified fashion, but when I was once more in bed I thought of the charm of his smile. It was a year later that I married Bruce Burns. For a wedding present he gave me a chest of silver. On the chest was carved a skull and crossbones. Beneath the lock was a silver plate and on it was engraved, "To a Dear Pirate from Her Burglar." Aunt Serena gave me her diamond pin. "It will make one thing less to worry about," she protested. But she is no longer afraid of burglars, for Bruce and I live with her, or rather she lives with us, in a house protected my electric alarms and safety devices from all intruders. MOSES A REAL GENTLEMAN Child Deduces That Fact From Incident of Daughters. of Jethro at the Well. "There is often something luminous about a child's definition," says a Sunday school teacher in Harrisburg. "What can you tell me about Moses? I once asked of a pupil. "He was a gentleman,' was the somewhat startling reply I got from the youngster. "A gentleman!' I exclaimed. 'What do you mean by that?' "Well, ma'am," explained my youngster, 'when the daughters of Jethro went to the well to draw water, and when the shepherds came and drove them away, and Moses helped the daughters of Jethro, he said to the shepherds, "Ladies first, please, gentlemen." CLEVER SWINDLE. With the opening of the oyster season in Paris, the swindler has not been slow to avail himself of the opportunities offered for the perpetration of fraud. A few days ago one M. Langlois was dining in a Paris restaurant, when his attention was drawn to an exclamation of surprise coming from a neighboring table, where two gentlemen were eating oysters. Being of an inquisitive turn, M. Langlois inquired the cause. One of the connoisseurs of oysters showed him a fine pearl which he had discovered in the shell. The novelty was so great that M. Langlois, after some moments' reflection, made an offer to the innocent discoverer of the pearl to purchase it for 100 francs. He knew nothing about pearls, he said, but would accept the offer. The pearl changed hands. Next M. Langlois hied himself to a dealer, who on examination declared that it had been fabricated and was worthless.—London Globe. KNEW THE DISTANCE. A traveling man, who drove across the country to a little town in western Kansas the other day, met a farmer hauling a wagonload of water. "Where do you get water?" he asked. "Up the road about seven miles," the farmer replied. "And you haul water seven miles for your family and stock?" "Yep." "Why in the name of sense don't you dig a well?" asked the traveler. "Because it's just as far one way as the other, stranger.—Argonaut. SENTENCED THANKSGIVING DAY CHRISTMAS DAY NEW YEAR'S DAY LOOKING INTO EXPRESS RATES Interstate Commission Begins Investigation. RATES, · RULES, PRACTICES Charges That the Rates Are Exorbitant and the Service Poor—Each Company Represented By Individual Counsel. New York.—The Inter-State Commerce Commission through Commissioner F. K. Lane, began an examination of the express business in the United States at the request of 211 business organizations, which are banded as the express rates conference and whose chief complaint is that express rates are unreasonable. "The purpose of the inquiry," said Commissioner Lane, "is to determine whether the rates, rules and practices of the express companies are such as should come under the regulation of the Inter-State Commerce Commission." Representatives from all the leading express companies attended. Each company was represented by its individual counsel. Attorney Lyon, for the Inter-State Commerce Commission, submitted figures, which he said showed that the total net operating income of the 13 leading express companies for the past three years was $10,000,000 a year on an estimated plant valuation of $27,000,000. HITS AT MOBS AND COURTS Colohan Roosevelt Attacks Lynchings in Unmeaural Terms New York.—Declaring that legal delays often result in exhibitions of lynch law and demanding that criminal assault upon women be made a capital crime for which there must be an immediate trial, Theodore Roosevelt, in the Outlook, attacked lynching in unmeasured terms. "The repeated race riots and lynchings that have occurred in the Northern States during the last decade must have convinced the least observant that neither race feeling nor the tendency to lynching is in a sense peculiar to the South. It is a horrible thing for which the whole country must bear responsibility. Lesser Of Two Evils. "But mere denunciation of the crime of a mob amounts to little or nothing. We must recognize what the facts are that excite the mob to act. Dreadful though it is for the mob spirit to be roused in a community by such a crime, it would be an even worse calamity if the community did not feel the fury of indignation which produces the mob spirit. There is no question that there are serious breakdowns in the administration of justice in America. Slowness in deciding cases, readiness to admit appeals, the subordination of justice to legal technicalities, the irritating delays in getting the machine of the law into motion and the utterly improper attention paid by the courts to the sharpness of lawyers in invoking technicalities—all of these result in frequent, miscarriages of justice and, in delays which, if long enough, amount, especially in their effect upon the public, to an absolute miscarriage of justice. Lesser Of Two Evils. NEW YEAR'S DAY NOW READY TO MEET PEOPLE THRONE FOR COMPROMISE Imperial Troops Ordered Not To Attack Rebels — Ex-Minister Tang Shae Yi As Intermediary. Peking.—Tank Shae Yi, ex-Minister of Posts and Communications and prime mover in the scheme for settling the future government of the country by a conference of representatives of the provinces, refused to retain his portfolio in Premier Yuan's Cabinet in order that he might retain freedom to approach both the Government and revolutionaries in the interest of peace. He left here last week disheartened by the Premier's unswerving support of the dynasty, but returned to Peking, having decided to renew his efforts, and discussed a compromise with Yuan Shi Kai. "The Government," said Tang, "is now willing to meet the people, but the matter of abdication of the Throne will not be pressed unless the compromise scheme fails. The Premier desires to prevent further fighting and agrees not to attack the insurgents anywhere, although the Imperialists must fight if attacked. The movement of troops against the Shan-si revolutioniaries accordingly has been abandoned. "The situation at Nanking is beyond the Government's control. General Chang is acting on his own responsibility, and his defeat is only a matter of time. The Government has no sympathy with him." Forts Fall At Nanking. San Francisco.-The revolutionary troops captured one of the forts on Chun Shan Hill, near Nanking, after several hours' desperate fighting, according to a cable received from Shanghai by the Chinese Free Press. Dr. Wu Ting-fang and others are working on a proclamation, which will be issued shortly, asking all nations to recognize the republic, according to a Shanghai dispatch received by the Chinese daily paper. Missionaries Robbed By Bandits. London.—A dispatch to the Dally Mail from Peking says that 19 missionaries with women and children, headed by the Swedish missionary, Dr. Blom, have arrived from Ho-Nan-Fu. They were attacked and robbed by bandits near Ho-Nan-Fu, and both Dr. Blom, and his wife received knife cuts. Takes England's Advice and Apologizes To Russia. London—The Persian government officially notified the British government that, acting under the latest advices, it would comply with the demands of the Russian ultimatum. Orders have been given for the withdrawal of thegendarmes who were sent by W. Morgan Shuster, the Persian treasurer general, at the instance of the National Coupil to seize the property of Shua-es-Sultaneh, a brother of the ex-Shah of Persia. The Persian government will apologize to Russia. Government Anxious End Revolution. PERSIA GIVES IN. $50,000,000 TO HANDLE COTTON Set Aside by New York Banks to Aid Growers. TO HOLD THE PRICES UP Metropolitan Financiers, After Conferring With Southern Cotton Congress and Governors' Conference,. Announce Plans To Protect Growers. New York.—New York bankers who have been conferring here for the last few days with representatives of the Governors' Conference and the Southern Cotton Congress, announced that they had raised a fund of $50,000,000 to be placed immediately in the cotton belt States for the purpose of handling the cotton crop of 1911 and enabling growers to participate in any rise in the market. The negotiations were conducted on behalf of the South by Gov. Emmet ONeal, of Alabama; Senator Balley of Texas, who has been advising his colleagues as to legal aspects of the proposition; E. J. Watson, president of the Permanent Southern Cotton Congress and commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina, and Clarence Ousley, of Fort Worth, Tex., representing the Governor of his State. The bankers who will furnish the fund, according to the statement, are headed by Col. Robert M. Thompson, of the brokerage firm of S. H. P. Pell & Co., of this city. The financial support of several of the strongest banks in New York has been given to the plan, the statement continues. Plans For Control. The plan proposes to advance the grower $25 per bale upon his cotton, based on the market value at the time of the loan. No interest will be paid upon the loan, the only charge being $1 a bail, which is regarded as a legitimate minimum charge for expense of grading and handling. The cotton is not held nor taken from channels of trade, but is placed at the best advantage. The grower is given the right to designate the day of sale prior to January 1, 1913, and will participate in any advance in price to the extent of three-fourths of the rise of the market. Details of the plan are yet to be worked out. It has been decided, however, to place the fund through state committees named by the governor or commissioner of agriculture of a State and these committees shall be empowered to sell when cotton reaches 12 cents and compelled to sell when it reaches 13 cents, regardless of advice from the growers. Provision against any violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Law is contained, the promoters believe, in a clause empowering each committee to name the day of sale in event the market climbs to 12 or 13 cents. "Of course," reads the statement, "everything depends upon the acceptance of the plan by the individual farmer in connection-with his pledge to reduce acreage the coming year." TO USE LIFE-PRESERVERS. Navy Aviators Will Be Equipped With Them. Washington.—Navy aviators who operate the hydro-aeroplane with which it is expected every American battleship soon will be equipped will wear a life-preserver invented especially for their use. Experiments to perfect the preserver are now conducted at the navy aviation headquarters at Annapolis by Lieut. John Rodgers, one of the navy fliers. The affair is very similar to the baseball catchers' breast protector and is attached in the same manner. The straps, which go around the neck and waist to keep the apparatus on, will be rubber tubes, and when the preserver is in use these straps, as well as the whole piece, will be inflated. This would keep a man afloat at least until assistance could reach him. WOMEN BARRED FROM JURY. Get Suffrage In California, But Cannot Sit In Court. Sacramento, Cal.-Attorney General U. S. Webb ruled that women cannot serve as jurors in this city, the question having been raised as a result of the success of the equal suffrage constitutional amendment. "Under the common law," says Webb, "a jury consists of 12 free and lawful men, and under the same law women were not eligible to jury duty. "I don't understand that the suffrage has affected the question of eligibility for jury service." UNDRESS "JACK" PARTY. Butler, Pa.—How the loser at "Jacks" removed a garment at the end of each game is being revealed in the S. A. Wright divorce suit. Steam heat prevented players from taking cold; See © & Odrizen ooper rize The Up-to-Date Tailors 218 WEST BROAD STREET, BETWEEN HULL AND OGLETHORPE AVE. The Latest Patterns in FALL and WINTER GOODS. First-class workman- ship guaranteed. Our prices will interest you. « Oe Johnson Undertaking Establishment | @AREY’S ate a Variety Bakery. ‘The Royall Undertaking Company) gsc caverea sromty to am (Incorporated.) yest iat es en mae tai Funeral Directors and Embalmers | ™ 2 a (alt . Johnson Undertaking Establishment —COMBINED. WITH—— | ‘The Royall Undertaking Company (Incorp orated.) Funeral Directors and Embalmers . Finest Ine of Coffins, Saskets and Robes, White and black funeral ‘ears. Office and warerooms 325-331 Jefierson street. : W. 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Not alone for’ self he labors, Moved by cry of others’ need, ° He goes forth on holy mission, Bearing with him precious seed. Not ag seed that oft {s scattered In the hope of worldly gain, Ofttimes sadly disappointing; But seed pure, and true to nama, Not tn gloom of darkened! cloister Can the work of God be done, But in open fields of labor; “AN the world,” said God’a dear Bon Though the virgin soll be fertile, “—“ And abundant, showers of rain; Yet, if therein naught {s planted, Thorough tillage will be vain. This the rule, without exception, In the vineyard of our Lord: “It no sowing, then no reaping; If no labor, no rewerd.” But God's servants need not falter, Nor draw back from task assigned; If the precious seed he scatter, Rich reward he'll surely find. ‘When from fields of tof! returning, At the call of Christ his King, He shall come again, rejoicing, Precfous sheaves he'll with him bring. —Rev. J. Ransom Hall. THE DAYS GONE BY. on, the days gone by! Oh, the days gone yt The apples in the orchard, and the path- way through the rye: ’ The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the qual As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale; ‘When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was In the sky, And my happy heart brimmed over, In the days gone by. In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped By the honeysuckle tangles where the water lilies dripped, And the ripples of the river Mpped the moss along the brink: Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle came to drink, And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant’s wayward cry And the splashing of thé awimmer, In the days gone by, Oh, the days gone by! Oh, the days gone byt The music of the laughing Ip, the lus- ter of the eye: The childish faith In fattfes, and’ Alad- + din’s magic ring— The almple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything— . When life was lke a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the golden, olden glory of the days gone by, + —James Whitcomb Riley. - “KEEP ON’ GOING.” There's only one method of meetin’ life's test; Jes’ keep on a-strivin’ an’ hope fur the best; : Don't give up, the shtp an’ retire In dls- may “Cause hammers are thrown when you'd like a bouquet. This world would be tiresome, we'd all ret the blues, If all the fotks in it held just the same views: . So finish, your work, show the best of your skill, Some people won't Ilke ft, but other folks will, If you're Ieadin’ an army, or buildin’ a fence, Do the most that you kin with your own ‘commonsense. ‘One gmall word of pratse In this Journey af tears Outweighs in the balance ‘gainst carloads of sneers. ‘The piants that we're passin’ as com- monplace weeds Oft prove to be Jes’ what some sufferer needs. So keep on a-going: don't stay standin’ still; z Some people won't ike you, but ‘other folks will, i cdocec’: SOME DAY. Some day ‘twill all be over— The toll and cares of Ife; Some day the world be vanquished With all this mortal strife: Some day, the journey ended, Till lay my burden down: Some day, in realms supernal Receive, at last, my crown, Some day I'll see the mansions Of heaven's clty far; Some day I'll greet with pleasure, ‘The dear ones awaiting there; Some day I'll hear the voices Of God's angellc throng: Some day T'll Join the cliorus In heaven's immortal song. Some day T'll see the Saviour, ‘And know him, face to face: Some day receive, unmeasured, ‘The blessings of his grace; Some day he'll smile upon me, From that white throne above; Bome day I'll know the fullness Of his undying love. Selected. DEFEAT. Many there are among our human kind ‘Who labor long, and evermore in vain, Bome deep-desired and beckoning goal to gain— Some cherished guerdon of the heart or yaind; Bo it the swain to imperfections blind, Be it the soldier of fame’s glory fain, Be it the statesman in whose teeming brain The fetteh, power, ts Uke a god en- shrined. Defeat Is bitter, bitter to have fought And failed, Inglorious, In the project planned; Through day and nighttime to have striven and wrought, And seen fond hopes fall lke a house ot sand; But bitterer by far, beyond all thought, To find the prize but ashes in the hand! —Cilaton Scollard, in Ainslce’s, SUCCESSFUL NEGRO FAIR MANY PRIZES AWARDED AT THE SECOND ANNUAL FAIR OF THE UTICA NORMAL AND INDUS- TRIAL INSTITUTE—A FINE LOT OF EXHIBITS. caiae ace ae er icc EO ss | Negro fair, held under the auspices of the Utica Normal and Industrial In- stitute, came to a close here, the éx- ercises on the last day belng attended by about 2,000 persons, including far- mers from the surrounding neighbor. hood. Visitors from various points tn Hinds and Copiah counties and the entire student body of the institution. Competitive games, races and a bar- becue furnished the entertainment and much interest was mnanifested in the exhibits. Walter S. Buchanan, presl- dent of the Agricultural and Mechan!- cal College for Negroes, located at Normal, Ala., made the principal ad- dress. He was Introduced by Prin- cipal W. H. Holtzclaw, who In his in- troduction took occasion to give some frank advice to the farmers present with reference to saving money. Prof. Buchanan urged his hearers to build good schools in the remote rural districts where Negroes live in large numbers and have an opportu. nity to plant themselves firmly in the soll, contending *that ff the Negro, through bis own ¢tforts, does not sup plement public school funds and pro vide better schools for Negro children in the remote rural districts, we shall eventually lose our hold upon the soll ang let alip away from us foreyer, the opportunity to gain a firm and lasting foothold upon ‘the agricultural re sources of the south. An unusually good line of exhibits was placed by the farmers, their waves and the students from the in- dustrial divisions of the school. The exhibit stands were made out of the 1,200 bales of hay made and baled on the institute farm, and included every- thing practically from farm machin- ery used on the farm to the most common-place handicraft. The following prizes were given out: Cotton, bale and stalk, first prize, Ples McCadney; honorable mention, R. D. Morrison; turnips, po- tatoes, peas, corn, first prize, Utica Normal and Industrial Institute; best peanuts, first prize, Mrs. Newell; rice, first prize, Dallas Page; honor- able mention, Harrison Flanders; Louisiana sugar cane, first prize, William Walker; honorable mention, R, D. Morrison. R. D. Morrison, pumpkins, first prize; Lee Lawson, honorable; Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, printing, honorable mention; Lewis Patterson, drawing, first prize; Isafah Marshall, horse nad buggy, honorable mention; James Williams, colt, first prize; Ernest Holtzclaw, colt, honor- able mention; Oscar Newell, stallion, first prize; Alexander Savannah, hon- orable mention; James Broom, hogs, first prize; Utica Normal and Indus- trial Institute, honorable mention; live stock, Utica Normal and Indux- trlat Institute, honorable mention; . baled hay, honorable mention; Heury Sampson, chickens, first, prize; Wil- liam H. Holtzclaw, honorable men- tion; Elijah Adams, horse, first prize. Quilting, Mrs. Stella Irvin, first prize; Flora Garfield, best exhibit of cooking, first prize; Ora Page, best laundry work, first prize; Mrs. E. M. Davis, honorable mention; R. D. Morrison, sorghum, honorable men- tion; Mrs. Roxie McCadney, plain sewing, first prize; Mrs. M. E. Holtz- claw, pecans, first prize; Mrs. Roxie McCadney, honorable mention; Mrs. M. E. Holtzclaw, jelly. first prize; Utica Normat and Industrial Insti- tute, millinery, honorable mention; Bessie Burns, fancy work, first prize; Winnie Watts, honorable mention. During the past year a number of improvements have bene made at the Utica Institute that greatly increase its facilities. Mississtppi Hall, a three story dormitory for girls, has been completed, the first floor being used for a kitchen and dining hall; The water works system has been com- pleted and an electric lighting plant put in operation. Altogether the school property is worth abgut $100,000., BIG FAIR AT RALEIGH. Raleigh, N. C.—Secretary Hamlin of the North Carolina Negro State fair says that the attendance this year was the largest in the history of the association, which has been hold- ing these annual state faira for the past 35 years. The weather was splen- did and there waa a large number of Negroes from all parts of the state for the fair. There was 2 big con- cert, for which the Negroes were granted the use of Raleigh's great new auditorium. The attendance was estimated at 2,500. The crowd at the fair the biggest day (Thursday) was 10,000. _ Announcement is made that Love Brothers, successful Negro druggists, of this city, will head a big stock com- pany of Negroes to erect a $15,000 Negro hotel, to be erected on the cor- ner of Davis and Blount streets. Ra: leigh has no Negro hotel at all now. ONE EXPLANATION, “Bay, Pa, what does {t mean when it says the Supreme court dissolved a trust?” “Well, my son, you see, hum—ha— that’s a sort of solution of the trust question.” “Does it fix it so there isn’t any trust any more, Pat; “Well, my son, when you dissolve 8 lump of sugar in water, the trust is atill there, but you can’t seo 1” ‘Llfe, The Sanday | School Lesson Sunday Schoo! Lesson for Dec. 3, 1911. NEHEMIAH REBUILDS THE WALL. OF JERUSALEM. Golden Text.—"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you lke men, be strong.” I Cor, 16:13. Nehemiah 4:6-18, Commit vs. 16, 17- Time—444 B.C. Place—Jerusalem. Exposltton—I, Opposition from with- out, 6-9. Nehemlah’s plans had been ridiculed (vs. 1-3), but he sought help from the one who never fails (vs. 4, 5). Success was inevitable and it came (y. 6), On the human side the secret of success was, “The people- bad a mind to work.” When each man takes hold and does his part, the opposition of outside enemies counts for little. Nehemlah’s success stirred his enemies up to greater anger. Noth- ing so angers the enemles of God as- the activity and progress of his peo- ple. And now that success attended his affairs, “They were very wroth.” It fs always a good sign when San- ballat and Toblah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdo~ dites get mad. It proves that there Is something doing. Samballat and bis colleagues showed thelr anger In a very practical way. They were not so much at one among themselves, in- deed they had grave differences, but” they were one in their hate of God and his people. So they “conspired all of them together.” The same thing Was seen In Christ's day when those bitter enemies, the Pharisees and Sac- ducees, conspired together against him. So also today, the most an- tagonistic classes make common cause against Christ and his ‘church (Ps. 2:1-5; Isa, 8:9, 10). That is a won- derful “nevertheless” In v. 9. It looked dark ané@ stormy, but “nevertheless” Nehemiah knew to whom to look in such an hour, so it all came out right. There can never an emergency arise ‘in Christian life and service where, if we make our prayer to God-we shall not find that the key to the situation, (Ps, 50:15; Acts 4:23-31; 12:5); 2 Ch. 32:10, 21; 2031-4; 17:22-24. ,Pften the people of God in their extremity cry, “What shall we do?” “Pray” is God's answer (James 4: 2). If Nehemiah and the people had taken themselves to their own resources, the work would have come to nothing, but they took themselves to God and so they es- caped all the devices of their enemles. But they did not pray and sit (down to ‘do nothifg, they “set a watch )against them day and night.” Wateting and praying should always go hand in hand (Matt. 26:41; Luke 21:36). Cast- ing all your care upon him fs not in- consistent with belng vigilant our- selves (1 Pet. 5:7, 8). 1, Discouragement within, 10-13. When Judah said, “We are not able to build the wall” it was a more sertous trouble than when all their enemies conspired to fight against them. Dis- couragement among God’s own people is far more dangerous than the flercest opposition from without. The people of Nehemlah’s day really had no just cause for their discouragement. It is true that there was “mych rubbish,” but it was quite within thgir power to clear it away. There is “much rub- bish” in the church today, but we need rot be discouraged. Let us get up and be doting and clean it out. Walle Judab was thus talking within the “adversaries” were also talking with- out. They said, “They shall not know,” ete, But they did know. Their ad- versaries had forgotten that God was on their side. That is what the ad- versarles of God's people constantly forget. Nehemiah acted with great prudence (vy. 13). He saw to It that the people were fully armed (cf. Eph. 6:11-18), and especially guarded the weak places. He sought first of all to encourage his own helpers (v. 14). Why should God's children ever be afraid of God’s enemies? (Rom. 8:31.) Note Nehemfah’s cure for fright be- fore our enemles, “Remember the Lord.” We might well be frightened if we thought of ourselves, but don’t think of yourself, think of him. And when they had remembered the Lora what were they to do? “And fight.” Our remembrance of the mighty God should not lead us to sit down, but should give us courage to fight. It is to @ warrior life that God calla us (2 Tim, 2:3), and we are to get strength and courage for the fight, not by thinking upon ourselves but upon him, Nehemlah’s words had thelr In- tended effect and their enemies right- ly divined that {t was not Nehemiah, but God who had “brought their coun- sel to naught” (cf, Ps, 33: 10, 11). iL Tolling and ready to fight, 16-18. When the enemy was folled “every one” returned “unto bis work,” not Me aD, ee ag FRANCE TO MAINTAIN BLACK MILITARY 1,000,000 Negroes to Be Recruited from French African Colonies. ARMY AND NAVY IS WEAK FRENCH POPULATION STEADILY DECREASING — WRITER SAYS BLACK MAN IS VALUABLE AS SOLDIER—GERMANY ALARMED. Constant talk of a probable conflict between France and Germany, and the revelation that France's population in late years has dwindled to such an alarming extent that in the event of war the French would be compelled to put out an inferior army and navy to battle with the enemy, has caused the French government to seriously consider recruiting 1,000,000 black men from the French colonies. While the French are becoming enthused over the plan of France maintaining black military reserves, the other foreign powers do not take kindly to the idea of having to combat with negroes, knowing full well their value as warriors. Among those who believe that France's only hope on the battlefield in the future will be by recruiting from the French African colonies is Francis Gribble, a writer of reputation, who says: "The population of that part of the French African colonies in which recruiting would be possible is estimated at 10,000,000; and there is reason to believe that the estimate is considerably under the truth. It is a population of fighting men—men who would much rather fight for their living than work for it. There would be no need to institute a system of universal service in order to compel them to come in. They would all gladly come in of their own accord, as volunteers, and the number of them who are able-bodied and of a fighting age is computed at about 1,000,000. "One million men, be it observed, who could be recruited and trained, and kept ready for use in a European war—a reserve of men, that is to say, practically inexhaustible, and so situated that, as long as France, or her allies, kept the command of the sea, no enemy could possibly get at it and destroy it. A million men, too, whose fighting value is not to be denied. "It has sometimes been assumed that, because handfuls of white men have often scattered hories of black men, therefore the black man would be of no use in a white man's war; but that is a mistake. Inferior equipment and lack of organization easily account for these sensational defeats. The black man has often proved that, if he is armed like the white man, and has white men to lead him, he is quite capable of standing up to white troops. He did so in the American war of secession, and in the American war with Spain, when the heights of San Juan were stormed by a black regiment. Napoleon himself employed black troops in European warfare—a black regiment particularly distinguished itself at the siege of Gaeta, and afterward captured Fra Diavolo under the guidance of Victor Hugo's father. Black troops helped to storm the Malakoff, and were employed at Magueta, and in Mexico. At least 3,000 of them served through the Franco-German war. Their bayonet charge at Froeschwiller was one of the most brilliant feats recorded in the history of the war; for they actually preserved their morale after the regiment had lost 92 per cent. of its officers and 85 per cent. of its men. "We may take it, therefore, that there is nothing new or chimerical—nothing to be described as a counsel of despair in the French proposal to employ black troops against Germany. "This is the black peril for Germany and for no other power; and it is much more real than that yellow peril against which the kaiser noisily warned the western world. "Presumably, too, it is a peril to which Germany is not altogether blind, and one not without its bearings on the course of the critical negotiations proceeding, at the moment of writing, with reference to the right of the two countries in Morocco. The German demand for compensation, is, in effect, a demand for the surrender of a portion of the Black Reservoir. That is one of the reasons why Germany is so eager, and so firm; that is also one of the reasons why France shows herself so obstately reluctant to cede anything." BEYOND HER DEPTH. They were seated around the table partaking of watermelon, so the talk naturally turned to the luscious fruit. "It reminds me of a conversation which took place between two colored women," said one of the guests. "Mm-r, but Ah certainly does lobe watermelons," said one. "It sure does tickle mah palate. How does you like watermelons, Sister Lize?" "Waal, Ah tells you, Sis' Jane," returned the other, "Ah certainly does lobe watermelon, but Ah can't eata 'em." "Waal, that am too bad. What am de matter, Lize?" "It am like dis, Sis' Jane. I lobes watermelon, but Ah always get mah ears wet when 'Ah eats 'em.'"—Milwaukee Free Press. HUNTING THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN On the 20th of August, 1910, I sailed from New York city for London, England. I had been given a leave of absence of two months from my work at Tuskegee, on condition that I would spend that time in some way that would give me recreation and rest. At one time it occurred to me that I should like to spend my vacation in the West Indies, looking into the condition of the portion of my race in that part of the world. After considering the matter, however, I finally came to the conclusion that I could, perhaps, learn more in Europe than anywhere else about the problems in which I am particularly interested. I concluded that in Europe I would be able to get an outside view, so to speak, of my own country and by making comparison with what I was able to see there, with what I knew of conditions at home, I should be able to get a clearer and more comprehensive view of the situation of my own people in America than I could in any other way. Having settled upon Europe as the place to take my vacation, I determined to carry out a plan I had long had in mind of making myself acquainted with the condition of the poorer and working classes in Europe, particularly in those regions from which an ever increasing number of immigrants are coming to our country each year. The best way to get acquainted with an individual, or with a people, according to my experience, is to visit them at their work and in their homes, and in this way find out what is back of them. So it was that I determined to make use of my stay in Europe to visit the people in their homes, to talk with them at their work and to find out everything I could. I was curious, for one thing, to learn why it was that so many of these European people were leaving the countries in which they were born and reared, in order to seek their fortunes in a new country and among strangers in a distant part of the world. The majority of the people who reach this country as immigrants from Europe are, as one might expect, from the farming regions. They are farm laborers or tenant farmers. Furthermore, there exists, as I discovered, a very definite relation between the condition of agriculture and the agricultural peoples in Europe and the extent of emigration to this country. In other words, wherever in any part of Europe I found the condition of agriculture and the situation of the farm laborers at their worst, there I almost invariably found emigration at the highest. On the other hand, wherever I visited a part of the country where emigration had, in recent years decreased, there I quite as invariably found that the situation of the man on the soil had improved. What interested me still more was the fact that this improvement had been, to a very large extent, brought about through the influence of schools. Agricultural education has stimulated an intensive culture of the soil; this in turn has helped to multiply the number of small landowners and stimulate the organization of agriculture; the resulting prosperity has made itself felt not only in the country, but also in the cities. Another matter in regard to which I hope to get some first-hand information during my stay abroad was what I may call the European, as distinguished from the American, race problem. I knew that in the south of Europe, a number of races of widely different origin and characteristics had been thrown together in close contact and in large numbers. I suspected that in this whirlpool of contending races and classes I should find problems—race problems and educational problems—different to be sure, but quite as complicated, difficult and interesting as in our own country. There was another thing that made the trip I had outlined peculiarly attractive to me. I believed that I would find in some parts of Europe, peoples who in respect to education, opportunity and civilization generally, were much nearer the level of the masses of the negro people in the south than I was likely to find anywhere in America. I believed, also, that if I went far enough and deep enough, I should find even in Europe great numbers of people, who, in their homes, in their labor and in their manner of living, were little, if any, in advance of the negroes in the southern states. I wanted to study at first-hand, as far as I was able, the methods which European nations, were using to uplift the masses of the people who are at the bottom in the scale of civilization. One of the first things I learned in Europe was the difficulty of meeting the ordinary man and seeing and getting acquainted with the matters of every-day life. I soon discovered that the most difficult things to see are not the sights-that every one goes to look at, but the common place things that no one sees. In order to carry out the plan I had in mind it was necessary for me to leave the ordinary beaten track of European travel and to plunge into regions which have not been charted and mapped, and where ordinary guides and guide-books are of little or no avail. I set out from America, as I have said, to find the man farthest down. In a period of about six weeks I visited parts of England, Scotland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Sicily, Poland and Denmark. I spent some time among the poorer classes of London and in several cities in Austria and Italy. I investigated, to a certain extent, the condition of the agricultural populations in Sicily, in Bohemia, Poland and Denmark. I saw much that was sad and depressing; but I saw much, also, that was hopeful and inspiring. Bad as conditions are, in some places, I do not think I visited any place where things are not better now than they were some two years ago. I found also that the connection between Europe and America is much closer and more intimate than I had imagined. I am sure that very few persons in this country realize the extent to which America has touched and influenced the masses of the people in Europe. I think it is safe to say that no single influence which is today tending to change and raise the condition of the working people in the agricultural regions of Southern Europe is greater than the constant stream of emigration which is pouring out of Europe into America and back again into Europe. It should be remembered that not only do large numbers of these people emigrate to America, but many of these emigrants return and take with them not only money to buy lands, but new ideas, higher ambitions and a wider outlook on the world. II-PETTICOAT LANE AND BETH- NAL GREEN. In the previous chapter I told of my purpose in visiting Europe. In the present chapter I shall tell something of my impressions of London, where my first extended observations were made. The first thing that impressed me about London, was its size; the second was the wide division between the different elements in the population. London is not only the largest city in the world; it is also the city in which the segregation of the classes has gone farthest. The West End, for example, is the home of the King and the Count. Here are the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, most of the historical monuments, the Art Galleries and nearly everything that is interesting, refined and beautiful in the lives of seven millions of people who make up the inhabitants of the city. If you take a cab at Trafalgar Square, however, and ride eastward down the Strand through Fleet street, where all the principal newspapers of London are published, past the Bank of England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the interesting sights and scenes of the older part of the city, you come, all of a sudden, into a very different region, the center of which is the famous Whitechapel. The difference between the East End and the West End of London is that East London has no monuments, no banks, no hotels, theaters, art galleries; no history—nothing that is interesting and attractive but its poverty and its problems. Everything else is drab and commonplace. It is said that more than one hundred thousand of the people in this part of the city, in spite of all efforts that have been made to help them, are living on the verge of starvation. So poor and so helpless are these people that it was at one time, seriously proposed to separate them from the rest of the population and set them off in a city by themselves, where they could live and work entirely under the direction of the state. It was proposed to put this hundred thousand of the very poor under the direction and care of the state because they were not able to take care of themselves; and because it was declared that all the service which they rendered the community could be performed by the remaining portion of the population in their leisure moments, so that they were, in fact, not a help but a hindrance to the city as a whole. I got my first view of one of the characteristic sights of the East End life at Middlesex street, or Petticoat Lane, as it was formerly called. Petticoat Lane is the center of the Jewish quarter, and on Sunday morning there is a famous market in this street. On both sides of the thoroughfare, running northward from Whitechapel road until they lose themselves in some of the side streets, one sees a double line of push-carts, upon which every imaginable sort of ware, from wedding rings to eels in jelly, are exposed for sale. On both sides of these carts and in the middle of the street a motley throng of bargain-hunters are pushing their way through the crowds, stopping to look over the curious wares in the carts or to listen to the shrill cries of some hawker selling pain killer or some other sort of magic or cure all. Nearly all of the merchants are Jews, but the majority of their customers belong to the tribes of the Gentiles. Among others I noticed-a class of professional customers. They were evidently artisans of some sort or other, who had come to pick out from the goods exposed for sale a plane or a saw or some other sort of second-hand tool; there were others searching for useful bits of old iron, bolts, brass, springs, keys, and other things of that sort which they would be able to turn to some use in their trade. I spent an hour or more wandering through this street and the neighboring lane into which this petty push-cart traffic had overflowed. Second-hand clothing, second-hand household articles, the waste meats of the Saturday market, all kinds of worn-out and cast-off articles which had been fished out of the junk heaps of the city or thrust out of the regular channels of trade, find here a ready market. I think that the thing which impressed me most was not the poverty, which was evident enough, but the sombre tone of the whole proceedings. It was not a happy crowd; there were no bright colors and very little laughter. It was an ill-dressed crowd, made up of people who had long been accustomed to live, as it were, at second-hand, and, in close relations with the pawnbroker. In the south it would be hard to find a colored man who did not make some change in his appearance on Sunday. The negro laborer is never so poor that he forgets to put on a clean collar or a bright necktie or something put of the ordinary out of respect for the Sabbath. In the midst of this busy, pushing throng it was hard for me to remember that I 'was in England, and that it was Sunday. Somehow or other I had got a very different notion of the English Sabbath. Petticoat Lane is in the midst of the "sweating" district where most of the cheap clothing in London is made. Through windows and open doors I could see the pale faces of the garment makers bent over their work. There is much furniture made in this region, also, I understand. Looking down into some of the cellars as I passed I saw men working at the lathes. Down at the end of the street was a bar room, which was doing a rushing business. The law in London is, as I understand, that travelers may be served at a public bar on Sunday but not others. To be a traveler, a "bona fide" traveler, you must have come from a distance of at least three miles. There were a great many travelers in Petticoat Lane on the Sunday morning that I was there. This same morning, I visited Bethnal Green, another and a quite different quarter of the East End. There are a number of these different quarters of East End, like, Stephney, Poplar, St. George in the East, and so forth. Each of these has its peculiar type of population and its own peculiar conditions. Whitechapel is Jewish, St. George's in the East is Jewish at one end and Irish at the other but Bethnal Green is English. For nearly half a mile along Bethnal Green Road I found another Sunday market in full swing, and it was, if anything, louder and more picturesque than the one in Petticat Lane. It was about one o'clock in the morning; the housewives of Bethnal Green were out on the street hunting bargains in meat and vegetables for the Sunday dinner. One of the most interesting groups I passed was crowded about a pushcart where three sturdy old women, shouting at the top of their lungs, were reeling off bolt after bolt of cheap cotton cloth to a crowd of women gathered about their cart. At another point a man was "knocking down" at auction cheap cuts of frozen beef from Australia at prices ranging from four to eight cents a pound. Another was selling fish, another crockery and a third tinware, and so through the whole list of household staples. The market on Bothnal Green road extends across a street called Brick Lane and branches off again from that into other and narrower streets. In one of these there is a market exclusively for birds, and another for various sorts of fancy articles, not of the first necessity. The interesting thing about all the traffic was that, although no one seemed to exercise any sort of control over it, somehow the different classes of trade had managed to organize themselves so that all the wares of one particular sort were displayed in one place and all the wares of another sort in another, everything in regular and systematic order. The streets were so busy and crowded that I wondered if there were any people left in that part of the town to attend the churches. AWAITING WORLD-WIDE PEACE. Andrew B. Humphrey, secretary of the American Peace and Arbitration league, was discussing in New York the universal peace movement. "This movement," he said, "has lately made gigantic strides, but, of course, we mustn't expect too much of it. We mustn't, like Peleg Shucks, expect to see universal peace come in our time. "Peleg Shucks, you know, was thinking of buying a gun. "I guess, though," he said, thoughtfully, one night at the general store—I guess I'll wait a while after purchasein'. "Wot yer idea in waitin', Peleg? asked the storekeeper. "Wall, ye see," said Peleg, 'arter all them European nations take up this Carnegie-Taft arbitration and disarmament contract, guns is goin' to get tarnation cheap.'" WILLING TO PAY. The morning had been long and the arithmetic lesson particularly severe. Little Tommy Traddles had laboriously worked his way through a tantalizing maze of figures till his small head ached, and he now stood before his master with the result of his travall. "Wrong!" said his instructor, curtly. "Return to your desk and do it again!" Tommy glanced at the clock. "Please, sir, he asked, "how much am I out?" "Your result is twopence short of the correct total," was the reply. Tommy's hand sought the pocket which contained his most valued possessions. Swiftly he separated two coins from a piece of rtring, some marbles, a top and a penknife. "Please, I'm in a hurry, sir," he said, "if you don't mind I'll pay the difference!"—London Ideas. SONGS PERVERT OUR MORALS Mabelle Sings Words That She Would Not Talk. WALTER KENILWORTH ATTRIB UTES THE VULGAR RAGTIME MUSIC TO FACT OF NEGRO ORIGIN. What is the cause of this degeneration in the moral sentiment of popular songs? In an article on "Negro Influence in American Life" in the Forum, Walter Kenilworth attributes the decline to the fact that "rag music has its visible source in the ancestry of negro music," which, in turn, "had its birth through the sensuously sonorous larynx of the negro and was first voiced from his savage sensuously formed mouth." After stating that there is a certain sway and swing, a certain indescribable sensuous something appealing about the ring and melody, the rhythm and versification of the music," he asks: "How could it be otherwise when the ancestry of the music was first.voiced in the wild, weird, barbarous howl of the protypical African?" Considering the fact that the present day "rag" is usually the product, as to both words and music, of the white man, whereas the genuine negro music, whatever its "sensuous swing," is usually associated with religious words, there would seem to be some unfairness in this exclusive indictment of the negro. If, as Mr. Kenilworth claims, the source of national retrogression in morals, "the increase of divorce, the lapsing of the marital code . . . all are more or less due to our popular music," we should be just enough to question how far exactly the negro is responsible for the songs turned out so profusely by publishers and so obligingly performed by young women in department stores to crowds of eager listeners. "It is easier," says Mr. Kenilworth, "for a highly civilized community instinctively to follow lower or more primitive morals than to follow its own high ideals." It would seem that it is easier also for the highly civilized community to understand and interpret in words the meaning of the "sway and 'swing" of sensuous music than it was for the untutored race which made its spontaneous melodies the vehicle for religious feeling. One can fancy the accused race retorting: "It is not that our music is base, but the white man has seized, distorted and debased it." Wherever opinion may place the responsibility, Mr. Kenilworth's characterization of the songs themselves is undeniably exact: "Scrutinizingly criticized, all of the songs are insidiously perverting; they are indicative of relaxive morality, of disparagement of the martial tie, of triviality in relationship of sex, etc., and the entire moral code might be included. There is not even an attempt at concealment of the thought conveyed in the song. It is out-and-out vulgarity." "Let me make a nation's songs and I care not who makes its laws," some wise man has said. If such a dictum has any foundation in truth it would seem to be a fact worth noting and a condition deserving both attention and action if the songs that are loved and sung by the youth of America are bad. If bad songs sell well this season the demand for novelty will bring out next season a variety still more daringly rique. It is true that not all the popular songs belong to the class that we have been discussing. Many of them are quite innocent in theme and unobjectionable in dictum. To an onlooker the varieties appear to exist side by side in the repertoires and acquaintance of the public without discrimination as to their respective worth or sentiment. The music is the thing, apparently; if that proves popular the words are accepted without challenge and amazingly without comment. Without comment and without the music which distracts attention from them the following stanzas, selected from the popular songs of the day, are submitted for inspection: Cuddle and squeeze me, honey, Lead me right to Cupid's door; Take me out upon that ocean called the "Lovable Sea." Fry each kiss in honey, then present it to me. Cuddle and please me, honey. Anchor at that kissing shore; Stop, stop, stop, stop, don't you dare to stop. Come over and love me some more. Hug up close to your baby, Throw your shoulders t'ward the ceiling, Lawdy, Lawdy, what a feelin'; Snug up close to your lady, Close your eyes and do som nappin', Somethin' nice is gwine to happen, Hug' up close to your baby; Sway, me everywhere, Show your darlin' beau just how to go to Buffalo, Doin' the grizzly bear. All alone, all alone, Nobody here but me; Parlor's nice and cozy, Everything is rosy, We'll have lots of— Hurry up and get there, honey, Take a car, it's not far, My time is all my own; Hurry up, there's something missing, We'll have lots of kissing. Pa and ma have left me all alone. it well; Gee! but married live is tough, Case of fight both day and night, I'm gentle and she's rough; If I could find the man who married me I'd hang him on a sour apple tree. Wedding bells, sweet wedding bells, Never harmonize with baby yells; Why did I get married? If I'd only tarried With the crowd I'd mingle, Yelling, "God bless the single." Work by day and fight by night. Stand it no one can; So now you congregation Say a prayer for my salvation, "Lord, have mercy on all married man." Winter, winter, When the snow is softly falling, That's the time to squeeze When it starts to freeze In October, November and Decomber, Just remember, Winter, winter, When your sweetheart comes a-calling By the fireside bright you'll sit and tease her. —Louisville Courier-Journal. IT WAS LUCKY. "Speaking of Irish wit," said Senator Ferris, of Utica, "a railroad man—a section foreman—had his brother over from Ireland recently, and one Sunday morning he took him along the line of the railroad to see some of the fast trains rush by. Finally, they stopped just at the entrance of a tunnel, and waited until an express, running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, tore past them and with a roar disappeared in the tunnel. 'Well, what do you think of it?' asked the railroad man of his raw Irish brother. 'I was just thinkin', said he, shaking his head, 'that it was mighty lucky the train didn't miss the hole.'" A TENNESSEE ROMANCE. A St. Louis man went down into Tennessee the other day to freshen memories of his youth. In the course of looking up everybody he called up an old negro mamm who is a fixture upon the place. "What's new, mammy?" he asked. "Well, Marse Bob, they ain't no nuthin' new 'cept Nellie's gwine marry Lee," she said. "That trifling nigger Lee, mammy? How did that happen?" "Ah don't know, Marse Bob. You see Nellie's got a home an' a stove, an' cold weather's comin' on. Ah 'spects that nigger Lee's jest fixin to baffle the winter, Marse Bob." PUNISHING THE MICROBES. "The germ theory, thanks to the study of hygiene in the schools, is familiar even to our children," said Dr. Charles T. Aikens, president of Susquehanna university, in an address at Sellingsgrove. "Two little Sellingsgrove urchins played in their mother's kitchen the other day while the cook boiled some water. Hearing the sound of the boiling, they drew near the gas range. "What is in that pot?" said the first urchin. "Water,' said the second. 'Just water.' "What is the sound I hear, then, brother?" "Sister, it is the microbes crying." LESSON IN ETIQUETTE AT SEA. The captain was trying to impress upon the sailor the importance of saying "Sir" in addressing his superior. "How's her head?" he asked. "Nor-by-east," answered the old tar gruffly. Another trial was without success. "Let me take the wheel," said the skipper, "and you ask me the question." "Ow's her head," roared the sailor. "Nor-by-east, slr," replied the captain. "Keep her so, my man," said the old tar, "while I goes forward and has a smoke."—Success. MINUTE INFORMATION. "Do you know anything about Mars?" asked the professor. "Yes," replied the confident student. "It is inhabited by a numerous race of highly industrious people." "Indeed! And may I ask why you believe all this?" "Because otherwise it would be impossible for them to build canals as fast as some of our astronomers discover them."—Washington Star. SQUEEZED. Tim—Say, Jim, what's the difference between a soldier, young ladies, and an Italian fruit stand? Jim—I don't know. Give it up. What's the answer? Tim—The soldier faces powder, and young ladies powder faces. Jim—Yes; but where does the Italian fruit stand come in? Tim—Oh, that's where you get your lemon.—Judge. NO PLACE FOR AN ARTIST. "I am looking for local color," said the artist, as he strolled about the little town. "Have you any merry villagers here?" "No!" answered the old resident. "All we have here is disgruntled taxpayers." Published Every Saturday 462 West Broad Street. Phone 2171. One Year $1.25 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Register ed Letter. Advertising rates given on application. Entered at the Post Office at Savan uah, Ga., as Second-Class mail matter. Several months ago there occurred about twelve miles from St. Mary's, Ga., one of the most cold blooded and hicious murders in the history of this state. The victims were a respectable Negro woman and her daughter, who were slain in their home by a white man for the sake of securing a small sum of money which he knew they had. He had seen the woman cash a check and in order to get possession of the money slew them. He was brought to trial, found guilty of the dastardly deed and sentenced to hang. An application for clemency was made but was turned down by our new Governor, the Hon. J. M. Slaton. On last Monday the murderer was executed, thus avenging the death of the two women whose lives had been so ruthlessly taken by him. This is one of the most commendable acts of justice that has taken place in our state recently and shows that the Negro is not without friends among the whites for all classes of them joined in the petition to allow the law to take its course. Everything that portends to the prosperity of Savannah should be loyally supported by the colored citizens. Even if they are not directly benefited, it matters naught, for in some manner this prosperity will reach them. This will be true should the issuance of bonds be successful at the polls on Tuesday next. The purpose of this bond issue is for the laying of mains in order to connect house and sewer drainage especially in the east, south and western sections of the city. This improvement is greatly needed and no one will be more benefited than the colored citizens who reside mostly in the eastern and western sections not now affected by house drainage. It is known that these sections are the breeding points of whatever malaria or typhoid fever that may be in the city, and for a certainty the residents thereof are mostly affected. The Tribune is in favor of the bond issue; every progressive and loyal citizen should also be in its favor. It will be found that those who are mostly against the issue are the property owners who have many small houses that are rented to colored people and who are not disposed to put in house drainage for the protection of their tenants. Weigh their objection against the great good that will be accrued to health and progress and it will be found that drainage will have the call. We appeal to every colored voter to go the polls early Tuesday morning and cast a vote in favor bonds. Do not stay away because if you fail to vote it shows that you are against this improvement. One of the most noticeable things during this week when the city was crowded with thousands of visitors was the admirable order which has been kept in and around the city by the local authorities. There has been a surprising amount of lack of bad behavior on the part of the many visitors and the home folk. The arrests which have been made were but few in comparison to the overwhelming crowds which have been thronging the streets from early morning till late at nights. Those who have so forgotten themselves as to force the local authorities to lay hands on them have, for the most part, been arrested for minor cases of misconduct. While the crowds were merrily going about visiting the many places of interest which Savannah affords, there has been a very perceptible feeling of good humor about every one and, all told, it has been the finest crowd ever gathered in our city. Complaints on the part of the visitors have been very few indeed and the four days of entertainment beginning with last Monday have passed without a hitch. There was but very little drunkenness witnessed even though the near beer houses did a rushing business, for there were thousands of visitors here who came from little Georgia towns where it is much more difficult to get nold of intoxicating beverages than it is here, but even the majority of these people entered into the real spirit of the occasion and refrained from imbibing too freely. Every protection was afforded the strangers to keep out of the hands of those who would do them harm by notices being placed in prominent public places warning them of the dangers and evils which generally accompany such vast throngs. These notices had their good effects and put the strangers on their guard and as a result only a small number of them were "caught napping." The police handled the crowds in a manner which was very pleasing to the citizens and strangers alike and there is nothing to be complained of on this score. --- It is a difficult thing for the ordinary city, large or small, north or south, to bring to a conclusion an automobile event of such proportions as the Grand Prize or Vanderbilt races. As to the correctness of this statement we would refer you to those sections of the country where the big races have been "pulled off" with an appalling loss of life, such as, for instance, one year on the Long Island course, New York, where the Vanderbilt was run. On this particular occasion the course was virtually blocked with spectators and the racing cars in order to pass the throng of people who obstructed the road had to push their way through the narrow passageway left them to go on their hazardous rounds at the rate of a mile a minute. Naturally, there were many injuries and fatalities resulting from such bad management of the crowds on the course and the race was finally called off and a future place sought for the running of this classic automobile event. In the meantime Savannah had successfully run two small road races and two large races, the Grand Prize of '08-10 which rivaled in importance the Vanderbilt. One year later this city duplicated the successful running of these races and naturally the eyes of the automobile world were turned toward our beautiful little city with the well kept roads that surround us on all sides. It was confidently expected that Savannah would be given due consideration when a new place for the holding of the next Vanderbilt would be selected because we had demonstrated to the world that no better place could be secured than Savannah. Finally the day for awarding the races arrived. The Grand Prize and light car races were given to Savannah with but little effort on our part, but the promoters of the Vanderbilt hesitated before they selected our city as their choice. Western and northern cities with thousands of dollars already subscribed for the event, offered their roads for the holding of this race, while Savannah with her limited amount of money but unsurpassed roads also put in her bid. The money offered by the other cities made our little pile look very insignificant and yet with this monetary disadvantage we won out and the race was awarded to us. How well the promoters of the Vanderbilt decided is now a matter of history and thus we not only successfully ran the one big race, the Grand Prize, which is ours by virtue of our having run it successfully on two prior occasions, but the great Northern classic, the Vanderbilt, was put through by us without a hitch. The races of Monday and Thursday are the biggest triumphs that Savannah has ever experienced and place her in a class by herself in the eyes of the automobile world. Other cities almost infinitely larger than Savannah have been made to accede to us, on account of the admirable manner in which we handled these two races this week, all honor as being the premier automobile racing city of the world. Where else other than Savannah could there have been such an unobstructed, clear course as was afforded them on Monday and Thursday. Truly, does Savannah deserves to be commended for the record she has made in the automobile racing game and her name will be heralded from one end of the world to the other. These races are but a forerunner of what we are going to accomplish in the future. They have opened our eyes to the possibilities of our city and will spur us on to greater things along other lines. They are going to make both the black and white citizens of our commonwealth wake up and take advantages of the many opportunities that are at our very feet... Monday and Thursday Auto Races Most Successful Ever Rolled Off Office Argentina Pulled Off in America. The most successful automobile races ever held in the United States were those which were run on the Chatham county roads on last Monday and Thursday. The races of Monday, three in number were run without a hitch. The light car races which were begun early in the morning were very closely contested by the twelve entries and resulted in victories for the Mercer and E.M.F. cars, the former winning the Savannah Challenge Trophy, the latter crossing the line a winner in the Tiedeman Trophy. The Vanderbilt which was run after the completion of the light car races was highly exciting and resulted in a victory for the Lozier car, an American entry driven by Mulford, while second and third places went to the two Mercedes cars. The most interesting event, however, of the week was the Grand Prize race on Thanksgiving day. An overwhelming crowd was gathered around the seventeen mile course, as was the day of the Vanderbilt. The weather was ideal and the thousands of people who viewed this race went frantic with enthusiasm as their favorite drivers would pass. The contest was one of endurance, the Fiat car driven by David Bruce Brown finally winning out having travelled the four hundred and eight miles at the rate of 74.4 miles per hour. Thus the most successful races ever run in the annals of automobile meets were pulled off on our beautiful Chatham county roads. The aeroplane flights on last Saturday, Monday and Wednesday also helped create more interest in the features of the week. Mr. M. C. Parker, Blackshear, Ga. Dear Sir: Yours containing B. Coffee's letter in print is at hand. In reply I beg to say that the Republicans of the Eleventh Congressional Executive Committee, did endorse Hon. C. Grier at the meeting held at my office Aug. 30th, 1911, pledging their support for whatever he wanted; and I thought for a-time, inspire of myself, and a few others, they would endorse him for the Presidency. I just can't understand why Bro. Coffee has forgotten it so soon, unless he is resorting to this same old tricks. I have nothing much to say about his tricks either, but I confess to you, that I detest his methods, which in my mind, are far worse than selling whiskey, or even acting as a whiskey agent. "What harm has Grier done?" Do you know of a boy in your vicinity, white or black, that is old enough to vote, but what he can tell you of more than a dozen places from which to order whiskey? This being true, if Grier's letter carried any tidings, it must have been his lesson on how to register; therefore, "what harm has been done?" Nobody in Georgia bestirred himself but Grier. Nobody had even a stone with which to kill two birds but Grier. Now the feathers are beginning to fly, and a great hugh cry is being raised, even gone up to the cars of ex-Gov. Hoke Smith- Its a shame. In conclusion I desire to say, I have always taken both you and Grier, with a pinch of salt, but your last acts of manifest interest and sincerity I think will suffice for the removal of all future doubt. More Negroes have registered in Ware this year already than ever; it seems, therefore, that Grier's circular is a God send, if the devil did bring it. I think some newspapers, as well as some other people, need not worry themselves so much about the ignorant Negro preacher, and their members, or they may wake up to find that they have all got more sense than they are being given credit for. The forty-sixth Annual session of the Georgia Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church convenes at St. Philip church, Charles Street, Wednesday morning at nine o'clock. Bishop C. S. Smith will be the presiding officer with Bishop W. J. Gaines as associate. There will be in attendance about three hundred and fifty ministers together with all the general officers of the church represented. Rev. R. H. Singleton, who has been Secretary of the Conference for fifteen years will call the roll. The most important business of the Conference will be the election of delegates to the general Conference in Kansas City, Mo., which will probably take place Thursday. The Conference will conclude its session Sunday night. IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE. Interesting Services in The Churches of the City. Gaston and East Broad St. Sunday Dec. 3—First Sunday in advent. 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 of the Blessed Sacrament at 8 p.m. Special Sermon will be preached on Sunday night during advent, which is a Holy Season instituted as a special preparation for the great Feast of Christmas. Friday Dec. 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin is a Holy day for the Catholics. Masses will be celebrated in our church at 6:45 a.m. and 8 a.m. Every Catholic is bound to attend Mass on that day. Last Sunday evening Father Dahlent gave an interesting lecture in St. Mary's Chapel on 36th street, the subject was "Why Catholics pray for their dead." Holy mass will again be said in the little Chapel on next Sunday at 10 o'clock. Sunday School takes place at 1 a.m. St. Benedict's school will be closed on Friday Dec. 8th, a Catholic Holy day. Instructions are given at the Reverend 518 E. Gordon St, every Tuesday and every Friday evening. St. Phillip Botts Rev. Singleton occupied the pulpit at St Philip on Sunday at the morning and evening services. The missionary program rendered by Mrs. A. B. G. Carr and the missionary pupils was some thing long to be remembered by those that were out. The Georgia Conference will convene on Wednesday Dec. 6, and the corner stone of the New St. Philip will be laid December 10, at 3 p. m. Bishops Smith and Gaines will conduct the exercises assisted by the Masonic fraternity. All members are requested to pay their dollar money no later than Sunday night. Our monthly love feast was held on Friday night. Thanksgiving services were held on Thursday. The followinn services will be held on tomorrow: Prayer meeting at 5:30 a. m., preaching, baptism of children and adult at 11 a. m., Sunday school at 2:15 p. m., communion at 3:30 p. m., preaching at 8:15 p. m. EYE TROUBLES We take care of your EYES by Fitting the proper glasses and the right kind of frames to your face. You are assured good attention. [Name] Leave your Orders for Ice Cream Delicious Ice Cream WITH Scott Bros. Reliable Delivery PHONE 2829 West Broad & Gwinnett Rev. Singleton, who has been Secretary for fifteen years of the Conference which convenes at his church Wednesday will undoubtedly be one of the delegates chosen to attend the General Conference at Kansas City, Mo. in May. Rev.' Singleton's good work in Savannah speaks for itself and the Georgia Conference will not act amiss to choose him as one of its leading representatives at the Missouri meeting. ONLY NEGRO PHARMACY INTOWN Monumental Notes. Monumental Notes. The "Holy Spirit" was in the church Sunday all day. The memorial sermon preached by the Pastor was delivered with much feeling, text "If a man die shall he live?" Job 14:14, also the ecologies given by the Stewards and Stewardesses class leaders, touching upon the lives of the departed ones, numbering twenty eight (28) were listened to and the choir rendered appropriate music. The Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. was well attended, a liberal collection was raised, the pastor as usual put the climax on the lesson by explaining the chart and black board. General class Sunday afternoon 3:30 p.m. was well attended. At 6 o'clock p. m. the pastor preached a sermon on "Race Identity." A large audience greeted him: One joined the church. Class meeting Tuesday night was in its bloom in spite the inclement weather. Now as the pastor is about to close out his third Conference year we will give a brief synopsis of his work since he has been with us. Savannah Pharmacy LEE CHEMICAL CO. Prop. PHONE 2570 811 WEST BROAD ST. West Broad and Gwinnett Lane M. On the first Sunday in December three years ago, a frank looking spare-made man about 5 ft in high, weighing about 150 pounds, clean shaven, eyes glowing with the expressions of a manhood sensibility, voice of a servant sent with words of great intent proving his ambition, declaring before a vast audience who came out to greet him that he would do everything in his power to please the people and bring the old "Mother Church" where she had been. This was Rev. L. A. Townsley. During his first year he was busy getting his members on a working system, organized the first unitformed ushers association in the city, the first vested choir and Stewardess board, pulpit aid board and others during that year. He received into the church 213 members. Raised for all purposes $4,444.44. The second year he succeeded in paying off the mortgage on the church, raising for all purposes $5,023.85. Received into the church 199 members and then went to Conference feeling proud. The third year he remodeled the church from bottom to top, renovated the Lecture room putting in new flooring and electric lights and gas at a cost of $989 paid, and raised the ceiling of the auditorium, put in new wall, doors, windows, flooring, pulpit, electric lights and new pews in the auditorium. Insured the church for $11,000.00 for five years at a cost of $353.00 all paid. Now the auditorium is completed, new paint on the wood work, walls kalsomined, gas radiators put in and historical marble slabs which will be unveiled next week during the Conference and new chandeliers have all been placed in the church and paid for. Received into the church 211 members. Raised for all purposes up Sunday night $621.54. Total raised for the three years $15098 82. Total members, joined 673. Read the Guide to tomorrow, it will give you desired results. Services to-morrow. Prayer meeting at 5:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Preaching 11 a.m. Preaching and Holy Communion 3 and 8 p.m. WEST END PHARMACY The PLACE to get your DRUGS. Pascript ions given strictest Attention. We handle everything known to the Drug Business. TOILET ARTICLES the BEST on the MARKET PATE'S WEST END PHARMACY BAY AND FARM STREETS. "The Black Spurgeon" WILL LECTURE AT First Bryan Baptist Church Wednesday Night Dec. 6th, AT 8:30 O'CLOCK Under the auspices of the MEN'S SUNDAY CLUB SUBJECT "The Optomistic Side of a Pessimistic Problem." Fine Musical Program ADMISSION 15C. Rev. Townsley has made an enviable record since he has been in Savannah, as the above report shows. He is well worthy of the careful and thoughtful consideration of the coming Conference which convenes here Wednesday as a delegate to the General Conference which meets in Kansas City Mo. in May. Rev. Townsley is one of the most energetic men in the Savannah Pulpit and a tireless worker. His great work here should commend him most favorably to the Conference. Rev. Townsley is very widely known, probably being one of the most prominent secret order men in the city. Locals. Scott Bros. for shoes. Mr. J. H. Hall of Louisville, Ga, was in the city this week. Mr. Henry C. Grant and son of Atlanta, Ga., are in the city this week. Mrs. Nellie P. Handy of Waycross, Ga. is in the city. Mrs. H. C. Wright of Columbus, Ga. is in the city for two weeks. is in Mr. William J. Jones of Americus, Counsel in the city thus week. Mr. H. C. Burke, of Cordele, Ga., is in the city. Mrs. Lurley Manzo, of Waynesboro, Ga., is in the city this week. Ga., is in the city of Atlanta, M. Thomas Brood, of Atlanta, Ga., is in Mr. William Martin, of St. Augustine, Fla., was in the city during the week. Hosiery for men women and children at Scott Bros. Misses Pearl Tatom, and Carey Drennell of Augusta, Ga., are in the city. Mr. Walter Harris of Augusta, Ga., was in the city during the week. Miss Minnie Sapp of Wayupsboro, Ga., spent the week in the city. Dr. R. N. Jackson of Brunswick, wa among the visitors during the week Go to Pate's Drug Store, West Broad and Hall streets. Miss Hattie Chambers of Charleston, S. C., is visiting Miss Emily Grant, or 30th street west Mr. Gus Floyd, the popular tonsal rist of Statesboro, Ga., was in the city this week. Mr. E. F. Gordon of Hawkinsville, Ga., was among the visitors to the city this week: Matting Rugs 33c. at Scott Bros. For first class shoe repairing carry your shoes to Thomas Baker, corner East Broad and Bolton streets. Ring up 2799 when your shoes need mending and Thomas Baker will send for them. Mr. George Smith and daughter of Macon, Ga., are in the city for a few days. Don't forget to be prepared to meet The Tribune collector when he calls to see you. Mr. John Strother of Augusta, Ga. was in the city this week attending the races. Mr. Anderson Fendell, the popular tailor of Augusta, Ga., is visiting in the city. Mr. Bob Shettall of Augusta, was among the many visitors in the city this week. Misses Willie H. and Sadie C. Harris of Atlanta, Ga., are in the city for a stay of three weeks. Dr. J. Walter Williams who has been seriously ill for the past week is slightly improved. Mr. Henry Holmes of G13 Bolton St. west who was injured by an automobile Sunday is improving rapidly. Mr. James C. Muller of Harris street east is recovering rapidly from a serious fall which he experienced Monday. Don't go other places to buy your suit before seeing A. P. Barnard, The Taylor, 310 Whitaker street-Phone 30033 M. Helen Monroe and two daughters of Atlanta, Ga. are spending a short while in the city. Mr. James Anderson and Mrs. H. J Johnson of Macon, Ga., were in the city for the races Mrs. J. C. Hall of Huntingdon street west, entertained a few visiting friends on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Julius J. Mills and Mr Richard Woodson, of Americus, Ga., are in the city for two weeks Dr. L. H. Stinson and Dr. J. C. Collier of Augusta, were among the visitors to the city during the week. Go to Savannah Pharmacy or phone your wants. Prescriptions called for and delivered. Phone 3570 Ask Pate's Drug Store about the Nvall Line. Mrs. Manie Johnson and Miss Katie Rimes of Augusta, Ga, are in the city this week. Miss Margarite Henry who is now a resident of Jacksonville Fla., is in the city for a three weeks' stay. Scott Bros. for Rubbers and Umbrelas 50c. to $5.00. The may friends of Mrs. Maria Meeks of Blackshear, Ga., are glad to to hear of her improvements. Mr. Valdore Giles returned home this week from New York, looking as well as ever. Miss Susie Hutchins of Macon, Ga., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Sidney Jackson of Huntingdon street east. Pay up that subscription of yours when The Tribune collector calls and you can read your paper with an easy conscience. Get your winter underwear at Scott Bros. Mrs. Rosa J. Brown of Waynesboro, Ga., is in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jones, 514 East Anderson street. Hon. M. B. Morton of Athens, came down to see the races this week. He looks well and was gladly welcomed by his friends. Miss Matilda Meeks of Blackshear, Ga., has quite a number of music, she扎尔斯 after finishing her course at Haven Home, Savannah, Mr. James. F. Harrison an old Savannah, but now in the insurance business in Alabama, was in the city this week. Mrs. Mary Brogsdale Fitchett, formerly of Savannah but now a resident of Boston, Mass., is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Mr. C. A. Clark of Brunswick, spent several days in the city this week. He paid official visits to several of the K. of P. Lodges as Grand Lecturer The bond election takes place on Tuesday. Go to the Court house and cast your vote in favor of bonds, which means health and prosperity. Mr. A. J. Dayis and Messrs. Robiu and Haywood Black of Millen, Ga., were among the visitors in the city this week. Go to the Savannah Pharmacy to buy your drugs and toilet articles. They have the goods. West Broad and Gwinnett St. Lane Messrs. F. Fields, C. Hoffman J. Schroder, E. Schroder and A. Sandford of Charleston, S. C., were among the visitors in the city this week. Dr. Samuel Prentis who has been in the city for about three weeks left the city for his home, Chicago, Ill., last Sunday night. Miss Ilo Wilson of Newark, N. J., who has been visiting Mrs. A. G. McDowell, 212 Park Avenue east. sailed for home Thursday afternoon. Mr. E. W. Houstoun arrived in the city on Friday from New London, Conn., to attend the funeral of his sister, Miss Nabel D. Houstoun. The collector for The Tribune will be around to call on the city subscribers between the fifteenth and last of this month. Miss Virginia and May Montgomery and Naomi Powell of Charleston, S. C., were the guests of Miss Mae Stewart of 328 Bolton street west during the races. Miss N. M. Williams and Miss Matte Whitfield of Macon are in the city this week, the guests of Mrs. F. M. Cohen, 419 Duffy street west. Mrs. Helen Muller and Miss Essie Mae Johnson and Elizabeth Harrison of Wa. cross, Ga., are in the city for a few days. Miss A. C. Carson, of Charleston, S. C., is spending a few days in the city the guest of Mrs. M. C. Jones, Waldburg street, west. Dr. J. H Bugg was welcomed to the city by his host of friends of both races. They are anxious for the doctor to return here. he will be in the city until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George M. Victory of Philadelphia arrived in the city last week for the races. Mr Victory is an old Savannah bov who has been away for a number of years. Misses Willie Lawson, Hattie Adams and Wilhe Mae Bowing of Augusta, Ga., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wright of 514 Anderson street east during the races Among the Charlestonians to come over to the races were Mrs. F. C. Butler, Misses A. G. Miller, L. F. Carr and Messrs. F. J. Carter, C. E. Carr and H. M. Miller. Try the Oriental hair grower. If it is given a fair trial it will produce a lovely growth of hair. Sold by Mme Williams. 521 Gaston street, east, agent. Mme. Williams recrimps all artificial hair -ad. Rev. A. E. Day, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of Atlanta, Ga., spent a few days in Blackshear, Ga., recently after five years' absence. Tuesday night Rev. Day preached at Scott Chapel, M.E. Church. Miss Essie Mae Taylor of 1129 Egmont street Brunswick, Ga., is spending the winter with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Powell and family at 1142 East Gwinnett street and will be glad to greet her friends. "Count" A. O. Micheaux of Augusta, spent Thursday in the city. The Count is the oldest printer in the State and worked on the old Savannah Echo, at which time the editor of The Tribune was the office "devil". The Count is looking well and his friends here were glad to see him. Fex Entertainment. On fifth of this month the Fox Club will give one of their celebrated entertainments at the Masonic Temple. This entertainment known as the west Side dance promises to eclipse anything yet given by this club and its loyal followers are looking forward to this occasion with much anticipation Admission, Single, thirty-five cents, Double, fifty cents. South Ga., Conference of the C. M. E. Church Largely Attended. The thirty third annual session of the South Georgia Conference of Colored Methodists Episcopal Churches which coveted Nov. 29th, at St. Paul Church West Broad and Maple streets was very largely attended. The sessions were productive of much good and were very inspiring. Second Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. D. A. Reid, prescheduled a very interesting sermon from the 1st Cor. 2nd Chapter 9th, verse. Those who heard it pronounced it a masterpiece. At night he also preached a very good sermon. Each and every member is earnestly requested to be out on tomorrow morning, the pastor has a very interesting talk for you. The church is preparing to celebrate its 110 anniversary in a very pleasing manner. Come out tomorrow. Services were held on Thursday morning. First African Baptist Church Rev. S. N. Vass, representative of the American Baptist Publication Society and a "Home Missionary, supplied the pulpit of the First African Baptist church on last Sunday at each service. His text at the 11 o'clock a m. service was selected from St. John 17th chapter 9th verse; and at the 8:30 o'clock service from 1st Corinthians 13th chapter, 13th verse. Rev. Vass held meetings at this church throughout last week, giving brilliant lectures on the study of the Bible. To those who have studied the Bible and were in attendance during the series of meetings, a deal of information was gleaned from this learned and versed student in the Bible. He left the city on last Monday much to the regret of those who heard him and numbers that failed to hear him. Rev. P. May Hunter was buried from the church on last Wednesday afternoon. A large number of members of the church, friends and organizations of which he was a member attended. The pastor Rev. W. L. Jones officially assisted by several visiting ministers. A splendid eulogy of his Christian life was read in a resolution submitted by the church. In the death of Rev. Hunter the church has lost a member whose usefulness to various capacities helped greatly to make the church a power in the community for good, and while the church too mourns, she extends much sympathy to the bereaved family. The members will regret to learn too of the serious illness of Brother Joseph C, Williams. Quite a number of the members are on the sick list according to the pastor's and deacon's report. Each member is called upon to do his or her best in the "Rally" on the third Sunday in December in order that the church may raise enough money to place the proposed memorials, in the church, of its former pastors. The various clubs are working quietly, yet diligently therelike a splendid showing is anticipated. A grand musical concert will be CHAS. A. R. MCDOWELL SAVANNAH'S PIONEER COLORED REAL ESTATE AGENT THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED IN EVERY BRANCH OF THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS SELLING - BUYING - RENTING Phone 2098-J 623 WEST BROAD STREET Residence Phone 1206-J give in Mond Night, Dec. 11th, under the uspices of the Rev. Andrew, Marsh shall's club. Admission only 10 cents. Refranchments will be sold in the basement of the church. The following program will be rendered: Doxology Invocation by the pastor, Rev. W. L. Jones; Selection by Blee F. A. B. church chair; Paper by Paper by S. Julia A. Ward; Duett by Mesdames Jampson and Johnson; Recitation by Mrs. Susie Crawford; Solo; Instrumental Duett, Mr. J. M. Elburt and Miss Ethel Grant; Quartet by Messrs. Claus S. H. Anderson, J. F. Ford, J. H. Annoerson, Clifford Anderson; Recitation by Mrs. A. E. Orner, Solo by Miss Lena Bachelor; Cornet Solo by Mr. J. E. Hart; Solo by Miss Mae Stewart; Bass Solo by Mr. W. H. Stokes; Solo by Miss Catherine Alexander; Solo by Mr. W. Howard; Solo by Mrs. Laura Wright; Bass Solo by Mr. P. D. Davis; Solo by Miss Rosa E. Jones; Solo by Mrs. Mamie Williams; Benediction. Committee of arrangement, Prof. I. M. Jackson, Mr. J. A. Snyder, Mr. Wm. H. Ward, Mr. W. G. Williams Mrs. Julia A. Ward, Rev. W. L. Jones, Pastor F. B. B. Dots. The Services on Sunday morning were conducted by Rev. Charlie Wright. After these services there was baptism. There was quite a large crowd of visiting ministers, deacons and members at the communion. The services were very solemn, all seemed to realize that it was nearly the last one. At night Rev Wright read for the lesson Matt. 5-1-1. The J. R. Giddens and the Jollife Union Association were the honored guests. Their histories were read by their respective Secretaries. Rev. Wright heartily welcomed them. His text was from Matt. 5-9. The subject was "Isaac a lover of Peace." Quite an interesting history of Isaac's home life and surroundings was given. The Sermon was filled with beautiful lessons and good advice which are always helpful in our every day life. The choir sang "Be Ready When He Comes" Rev. Wright led the hymn, "Amazing Grace." He waringly advised those who felt the need of prayer to the mercy seat. A large crowd bowed and Rev. Wright offered prayer. The societies contributed liberally to the church, pastor, sexton and choir. Come at any time. We welcome visitors and are glad to see strangers. Dr. J. H. Bugg, who is visiting in the city was present and by request of Rev. Wright told us "howdy" in a few well chosen words. Deaths. Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, after an illness of some time died on Monday night at her late residence Burroughs St., and was burned on Wednesday afternoon from Beth-Eden Church. Mrs. Gibbs was one of the oldest citizens of Savannah having been born in this city about eighty-eight years ago. She has been in it health for quite a while but always managed to get around, until recently when she became seriously ill from which she was unable to recover. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Janie Marshall, several grand children and a sister, Mrs. Mara Louse Lloyd Mrs. Everline Robinson after an illness of a few weeks died on Sunday morning at the Georgia Intimacy and was buried on Tuesday afternoon from First Bryan baptist Church, Rev. Daniel Wright, officiating. The funeral was attended by Gardner's Court of Calahat of which she was member. She leaves a husband Mr. Willie Robinson, a young son, other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her death. In Memoriam. In sad and loving memory of our devoted nunt Sleep on, dear aunty; may your slumbers "When Canibibals Captured Me." That's the title of an amazing story to be featured in the Magazine Section of next Sunday's New York World, narrating the thrilling experiences of a New York City broker who suffered terrible hardships and had hair-raising conflicts with cannibals in Patagonia, barely escaping being eaten by the South American savages. This is a tale the truth of which makes fiction sink into insignificance in its telling. No person should miss reading it. Then there will be a score of other big articles in the Magazine Section of next Sunday's World. Order in advance and read them all SOME CLASS and SOME MUSIC, METROPOLITAN U R invited to attend our grand opening in open N. Y. style. Continuous dancing from 8.30 to 3 a.m. Music by Prof. Mungin's Apollo Orchestra and Prof Middleton's Orchestra. ADMISSION 40 CENTS Including your hat check J. L. Perkins of Savannah and J H Miller of New York, Dancing Promoters. Regular class will be easy Friday night. Special Notice. Mr. Baker, former proprietor of the Airdome, wishes to state, that he is in no way connected with the boxing contest, advertised for the Victoria Theater. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in the Social World. NOTICE-Articles in this column one cent per word. Dec. 12th, Tuesday. Entertainment by Chatham Lodge No. 315, K. of P. at Masonic Temple Tickets 23 and 40cts. Dec. 4th, Monday. Beginning of Five Night Bazaar by the Imperial A. and S. C. at Harris St. Hall. Tickets 10 cents. December 5th, Friday. Entertainment by Past Worthy Counsellors Union at Masonic Temple. Admission 15 cents ple. Tickets 25 cents. Dec. 4th, Monday. Drama entitled "Love Sick; by Miss L. C. Cooper, at F. A. B. Church, West Broad and Bolton streets. Tickets 15 cents. December 11th. Monday. Oyster Roast by G. U. O. of Eastern Star at Sisters Hall, Russell street. Tickets .15 and 25 cents. December 18th, Dance by Orion A. and S. Club at Harris street Hall. Tickets 20 and 35 cents. REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Stretch has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TERTING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. IT SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLIES ALL PAIN; CURSES WIND COLIC, and the back of the MUSIC. It is absolutely harmless. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take no other mind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Attention Calanthians. Office of Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Ouder of Calanthe. Under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias: Of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Courts of Calanthe Rally for 10,000 Membership by July, 1912. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10, 1911. In one great wave of enthusiasm for the cause of Calanthe let our entire jurisdiction be interested. Prize Offered—A set of Jewels (14) pieces to the court showing the largest percentage of increase of new or reinstated membership above (15) and a P.W. G. Jewel to the Deputy that organizes the most courts in his or her district. Also to the Deputy that reports the most new members in their district by our next Grand Court session. Each court appoint supervisors to work up Juvenile counts, for parents and guardians could not do better than to join their children in the Juvenile Court. Let us be able to report 2,000 children at our next Grand Court Session. Yours in F. H. and L Mrs. R. L. Barnes, Grand Worthy Counsellor. THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Is the District Manager of the Old Reliable Union Mutual Association "Nuff Sed, I'm with 'em'" Local office: 509 West Broad Street, PHONE 1470 or write WM. DRISKELL, Sec'y and Gen'l Mgr. 210 Auburn Ave. ATLANTA, : GEORGIA. The Acme Bicycle Store ```markdown ``` Dealer in new and second handed bicycles. Tires and Supplies. Expert Vulcanizer of Bicycle Tires. - Vulcanizing 75c. Phone 1340. NEW THROUGH SERVICE SEABOARD AIR LINE On night trains between Savannah and Montgomery, making connections for all principal points East and West Service was established Sunday November 26th on following schedule 7:00 a. m. 6:00 p. m. Lv Savannah Ar. 9:00 a. m. 8:35 p. m. 7:42 a. m. 6:43 p. m. Guyler 8:13 a. m. 7:45 p. m. 8:52 a. m. 7:58 p. m. Hagan 7:07 a. m. 6:34 p. m. 9:20 a. m. 8:25 p. m. Collins 6:47 a. m. 6:10 p. m. 10:05 a. m. 9:12 p. m. Vidalia 6:02 a. m. 5:25 p. m. 11:25 a. m. 10:35 p. m. Helena 4:40 a. m. 4:03 p. m. 12:55 a. m. 12:08 p. m. Pitts 3:07 a. m. 2:36 p. m. 1:35 p. m. 12:40 a. m. Cordele 2:30 a. m. 1:40 p. m. 3:13 p. m. 2:00 a. m. Americus 1:15 a. m. 12:32 p. m. 4:05 p. m. 2:55 a. m. Richland 12:20 a. m. 11:32 a. m. 6:46 p. m. 5:17 a. m. Ft. Davis 9:52 p. m. 8:48 a. m. 8:15 p. m. 6:30 a. m. Ar. Montgomery Lv 8:30 p. m. 7:20 a. m. These trains will carry First Class Coaches and the Night Trains | Pullman High Class Twelve section Drawing Room Sleeping cars PATE SAYS PATE SAYS You must not let that cough get a hold on you. It means trouble Pate's Mentholated Cough Balsam will cure it. 25c the bottle Our Grip Capsules will break up the worse head colds. 25c the dozen. Our Line Complete. PRICES REASONABLE. Why Trade Else where? PATE'S DRUG STORE Phones 660 and 862 HALL and WEST BROAD STS. Opposite The Pekin Theatre. Excursion. Fares. Vla. Central of Georgia Railway. To Atlanta, Ga., Account Southern Corn Show to be held Dec. 5-19, 1911. Tickets on sale December 3rd to 8th, inclusive, return limit December 12, 1911. Ask ticket agent for additional information in regard to total rates, schedules, etc. J. C. Haile, General Passenger Agent F. J. Robinson, Assistant General Passenger Agent Dr J. W. Jamerson FIRSTCLASS DENTIST All Work Guaranteed Between Huntingdon and Hall Phone 2098 John A. Gadsden THE PAINTER Carriages, Autos, Buggies, etc., Done in Firstclass order. The only Colored Vehicle Painter Doing Business in the city to-day. A trial is all I ask. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 225 JEFFERSON ST. Agents Wanted! For the Sale of Magic Shaving Powder It gives a quick shave without the use of a razor. For particulars write The Shaving Powder Company SAVANNAH GEORGIA NEW THROU For Rent FIVE ACRES of fertile land on Ogeechee Road next to lumber mill, four miles from the city. For particulars apply to MR. CATO YOUNG, 707 Howard street Dr. L. S. Parks, DENTIST 240 Barnard Street, Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings from nine to a full set of teeth $7.00 and $8.00 Broken places mended and teeth added. Gold ones for a small cost. Bell Phone 314. Solid Gold Guaranteed 221 2 K Gold. Everything Beautiful, Everything that is Stylish, The Newest Creations in Ladies' Head Gear You Will Find At GREEN & ALLEN We are now showing a most beautiful line of FALL and WINTER HATS Also a full assortment of Willow Ostrich Plumes and all kinds of Trimmings. Come early and make your selection. Bring your OLD HATS for Remodeling. F. F. JONES Dealer in BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON, LAMB, PORK, HAMS, BACON and CORNED BEEF. All kinds of GAME in season. Stall 31, City Market. GH SERVICE A AIR LINE See Cooper & Odrizen The Up-to-Date Tailors 218 WEST BROAD STREET, BETWEEN HULL AND OGLETHORPE AVE. The Latest Patterns in FALL and WINTER GOODS. First-class workmanship guaranteed. Our prices will interest you. GAREY'S Johnson Undertaking Establishment COMBINED WITH Variety Bakery. Goods delivered promptly to any part of the city. 506 West Broad Street, Near Gaston. Phone 1831-L. The Royall Undertaking Company (Incorporated.) Funeral Directors and Embalmers Finest line of Coffins, Saskets and Robes. White and black funeral cars. Office and warerooms 325-331 Jefferson street. W. R. FIELDS, Manager. Residence Phone 2032. Livery Stable Attached. Office Phone 676. C. H. ROYALL, Residence 509 Charles St. Phone 3064. Take a Policy With The Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Co. The Oldest, Strongest and Most Reliable Company in the State. Gives employment to hundreds of men and women of our race. Pays from $1 to $10 weekly sick and accident benefits and from $10 to $100 death benefits. Our Motto: "Promptness, Honesty and Justice." Home Office: 1143 Gwinnett St. Augusta, Ga. For further information write 509 West Broad St., Savannah, Ga. J. S. Perry, Supt. A. B. Singheld, Gen. Supt. C. T. Walker, D. D., LL. D. Director and General Lecturer. Fruit and Commission Merchant 234 ST. JULIAN ST., WEST, 235 BRYAN ST., WEST. Phone 2968. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. In additlon first class rooms, barber shop, hot and cold baths and automobile service at any hour, day or night. In all of our departments we give first class accommodation. Call and see our rooms while visiting the city at 109 Jefferson street, just a half block from Broughton St. car line going south on Jefferson. Ask any hackman. Young Bros. For your TOBACCO, CIGARS and FRUITS Of all kinds. 509 West Broad Street. Palm Shaving Palace Expert Hair Cutting, Electric Massage and Shampooing a Specialty. All Work Done by Experienced Workmen. Courteous attention to all. SHINING PARLOR ATTACHED. WEST SIDE RESTAURANT PERRY R. WRIGHT, Proprietor 517 WEST BROAD ST., --- SAVANNAH, GA. Near Union Station. The place to get first-class meals Everything neat and clean. Meals prepared in an appetizing manner and at all hours daily. If Your Business Isn't Worth Advertising Advertise It For Sale Meals 16 and 25 cents. MRS. A. S. SCOTT, Proprietressa CHICKENS DUCKS TURKEYS R. H. O. YOUNG Wholesale and retail dealer in Live and Dressed Poultry. Game in Season. Special attention given to picnic or- ders. All orders delivered free of charge. Stall 12 City Market. Phone 2733. UNION Laundry Co. 1218 West Broad Street ONLY COLORED LAUNDRY IN CITY. WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. Atlanta University MYERS & RUSSEL, Props. An Unsectarian Christian Institution. High School, Normal School and College. Superior advantages in Industrial Training, Music and Printing. Home Life Training. For catalog and information address PRESIDENT EDWARD T. WARE. Ice Cream Parlor Ice Cream and Sherbets in large and small quantities. Special prices to Churches and Societies. Also Hot and Cold Lunches. Fish Suppers prepared to order. Phone 4038. Orders very promptly filled. : : : : : 15 East Broad St. Savannah, Ga Woodlawn Park Lots Masonic Books & Regalias. LODRE SEALS, FINANCIAL CARDS and BLANKS of every description. Publisher' and Manufacturer' Prints Liberal Discounts WILL Be Avenged. SOL G. JOHNSON, Bavannah, Qa. Who is the man for Cleaning and Pressing? BAKER'S PRESSING CLUB The Highest Price Lots at Woodlawn Park are Only $150.00 and they 50x400 They have concrete sidewalks and are directly on car lines. Consider how important that transportation feature is. Some excellent LOTS LEFT. You pay $5.00 Cash and $5.00 Per Month See me quickly and get a choice location CHAS. McDOWELL, 612 PRICE ST. Men's Suits Pressed 400; Pants 150; Men's Suits Covered $1. Ladies' work a specialty. Give us a trial. POETRY of and by Our People (Ps. 126.3) He hat goeth forth and weepeth, Sowing seed of truth divine, Is assured most glad fruition At the coming harvest time. Not alone for self he labors, Moved by cry of others' need, He goes forth on holy mission, Bearing with him precious seed. Not as seed that oft is scattered In the hope of worldly gain, Ofttimes sadly disappointing; But seed pure, and true to name. Not in gloom of darkened cloister Can the work of God be done, But in open fields of labor; "All the world," said God's dear Son. Though the virgin soil be fertile, And abundant, showers of rain; Yet, if therein naught is planted, Thorough tillage will be vain. This the rule, without exception, In the vineyard of our Lord; "If no sowing, then no reaping; If no labor, no reward." But God's servants need not falter, Nor draw back from task assigned; If the precious seed he scatter, Rich reward he surely find. When from fields of toll returning, At the call of Christ his King, He shall come again, rejoicing, Precious sheaves he'll with him bring, —Rev. J. Ransom Hall. THE DAYS GONE BY. Oh, the days gone by! Oh, the days gone by! The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye; The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quall As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale; When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky; And my happy heart brimmed over, in the days gone by. In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped By the honeysuckle tangles where the water lilies dripped, And the ripples of the river lipped the moss along the brink; Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle came to drink. And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant's wayward cry And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days gone by. Oh, the days gone by! Oh, the days gone by! The music of the laughing lip, the luster of the eye; The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's magic ring— The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything— When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the golden, olden glory of the days gone by. —James Whitcomb Riley: "KEEP ON GOING." There's only one method of meetin' life's test: Jes' keep on a-strivin' an' hope fur the best: Don't give up the ship' an' retire in dismay 'Cause hammers are thrown when you'd like a bouquet. This world would be tiresome, we'd all get the blues. If all the folks in it held just the same views: So finish your work, show the best of your skill. Some people won't like it, but other folks will. If you're leadin' an army, or buildin' a fence. Do the most that you kin with your own commonsense. One small word of phrase in this journey of tears Outweighs in the balance 'gainst carloads of sncers. The plants that we're passin' as commonplace weeds Oft prove to be jes' what some sufferer needs. So keep on a-going; don't stay standin' still; Some people won't like you, but other folks will. SOME DAY. Some day 'twill all be over— The toll and cares of life; Some day the world be vanquished With all this mortal strife; Some day, the journey ended, I'll lay my burden down; Some day, in realms supernal Receive, at last, my crown. Some day I'll see the mansions Of heaven's city fair; Some day I'll greet with pleasure, The dear ones awaiting there; Some day I'll hear the voices Of God's angelic throag; Some day I'll join the chorus In heaven's immortal song. Some day I'll see the Saviour, And know him, face to face; Some day receive, unmeasured, The blessings of his grace; Some day he'll smile upon me, From that white throne above; Some day I'll know the fullness Of his undying love. DEFEAT. Many there are among our human kind Who labor long, and evermore in vain. Some deep-desired and beckoning goal to gain— Some cherished guerdon of the heart or mind; Be it the swain to imperfections blind, Be it the soldier of fame's glory fain, Be it the statesman, in whose teeming brain The fetish, power, is like a god enshrined. Defeat is bitter, bitter to have fought And failed, inglorious, in the project planned; Through day and nighttime to have striven and wrought, And seen fond hopes fall like a house of sand; But blitterer by far, beyond all thought, To find the prize, but ashes in the hand! —Clinton Scollard, in Ainslee's. MANY PRIZES AWARDED AT THE SECOND ANNUAL FAIR OF THE UTICA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE-A FINE LOT OF EXHIBITS. Utica, Miss.-The second annual Negro fair, held under the auspices of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, came to a close here, the exercises on the last day being attended by about 2,000 persons, including farmers' from the surrounding neighborhood. Visitors from various points in Hinds and Coplah counties and the entire student body of the institution. Competitive games, races and a barbecue furnished the entertainment and much interest was manifested in the exhibits. Walter S. Buchanan, president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, located at Normal, Ala., made the principal address. He was introduced by Principal W. H. Holtzclaw, who in his introduction took occasion to give some frank advice to the farmers present with reference to saving money. Prof. Buchanan urged his hearers to build good schools in the remote rural districts where Negroes live in large numbers and have an opportunity to plant themselves firmly in the soil, contending that if the Negro, through his own efforts, does not sup plement public school funds and provide better schools for Negro children in the remote rural districts, we shall eventually lose our hold upon the soil and let slip away from us forever, the opportunity to gain a firm and lasting foothold upon the agricultural resources of the south. An unusually good line of exhibits was placed by the farmers, their waves and the students from the industrial divisions of the school. The exhibit stands were made out of the 1,200 bales of hay made and baled on the institute farm, and included everything practically from farm machinery used on the farm to the most common-place handicraft. The following prizes were given out: Cotton, bale and stalk, first prize, Ples McCadney; honorable mention, R. D. Morrison; turnips, potatoes, peas, corn, first prize, Utica Normal and Industrial Institute; best peanuts, first prize, Mrs. Newell; rice, first prize, Dallas Page; honorable mention, Harrison Flanders; Louisiana sugar cane, first prize, William Walker; honorable mention, R. D. Morrison. R. D. Morrison, pumplkins, first prize; Lee Lawson, honorable; Utica Normal and, Industrial Institute, printing, honorable mention; Lewis Patterson, drawing, first prize; Isalah Marshall, horse nad buggy, honorable mention; James Williams, colt, first prize; Ernest Holtzclaw, colt, honorable mention; Oscar Newell, stallion, first prize; Alexander Savannah, honorable mention; James Broom, hogs, first prize; Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, honorable mention; live stock, Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, honorable mention; baled hay, honorable mention; Henry Sampson, chickens, first, prize; William H. Holtzclaw, honorable mention; Elijah Adams, horse, first prize. Quilting, Mrs. Stella Irvin, first prize; Flora Garfield, best exhibit of cooking, first prize; Ora Page, best laundry work, first prize; Mrs. E. M. Davis, honorable mention; R. D. Morrison, sorghum, honorable mention; Mrs. Roxie McCadney, plain sewing, first prize; Mrs. M. E. Holtclaw, pecans, first prize; Mrs. Roxie McCadney, honorable mention; Mrs. M. E. Holtclaw, jelly, first prize; Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, millinery, honorable mention; Bessie Burns, fancy work, first prize; Winnie Watts, honorable mention. During the past year a number of improvements have bene made at the Utica Institute that greatly increase its facilities. Mississippi Hall, a three story dormitory for girls, has been completed, the first floor being used for a kitchen and dining hall. The water works system has been completed and an electric lighting plant put in operation. Altogether the school property is worth about $100,000. BIG FAIR AT RALEIGH. Raleigh, N. C.—Secretary Hamlin of the North Carolina Negro State fair says that the attendance this year was the largest in the history of the association, which has been holding these annual state fairs for the past 35 years. The weather was splendid and there was a large number of Negroes from all parts of the state for the fair. There was a big concert, for which the Negroes were granted the use of Raleigh's great new auditorium. The attendance was estimated at 2,500. The crowd at the fair the biggest day (Thursday) was 10,000. Announcement is made that Love Brothers, successful Negro druggists, of this city, will head a big stock company of Negroes to erect a $15,000 Negro hotel, to be erected on the corner of Davis and Blount streets. Raleigh has no Negro hotel at all now. ONE EXPLANATION. "Say, Pa, what does it mean when it says the Supreme court dissolved a trust?" "Well, my son, you see, hum—ha—that's a sort of solution of the trust question." "Does it fix it so there isn't any trust any more, Pa?" "Well, my son, when you dissolve a lump of sugar in water, the trust is still there, but you can't see it."—Life. The Sunday School Lesson Sunday School Lesson for Dec. 3, 1911. NEHEMIAH REBUILDS THE WALL OF JERUSALEM. Golden Text.—"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quilt you like men, be strong." I Cor. 16:13. Nehemiah 4:6-18. Commit vs. 16, 17. Time—444 B. C. Place—Jerusalem. Exposition—1. Opposition from without, 6-9. Nehemiah's plans had been ridiculed (vs. 1-3), but he sought help from the one who never falls (vs. 4, 5). Success was inevitable and it came (v. 6). On the human side the secret of success was, "The people had a mind to work." When each man takes hold and does his part, the opposition of outside enemies counts for little. Nehemiah's success stirred his enemies up to greater anger. Nothing so angers the enemies of God as the activity and progress of his people. And now that success attended his affairs, "They were very wry." It is always a good sign when Sanballat and Toblah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites get mad. It proves that there is something doing. Samballat and his colleagues showed their anger in a very practical way. They were not so much at one among themselves, indeed they had grave differences, but they were one in their hate of God and his people. So they "conspired all of them together." The same thing was seen in Christ's day when those bitter enemies, the Pharisees and Sadducees, conspired together against him. So also today, the most antagonistic classes make common cause against Christ and his church (Ps. 2:1-5; Isa. 8:9, 10). That is a wonderful "nevertheless" in v. 9. It looked dark and stormy, but "nevertheless" Nehemiah knew to whom to look in such an hour, so it all came out right. There can never an emergency arise in Christian life and service where, if we make our prayer to God we shall not find that the key to the situation (Ps. 50:15; Acts 4:23-31; 12:5); 2 Ch. 32:10, 21; 20:1-4; 17:22-24. Often the people of God in their extremity cry, "What shall we do?" "Pray" is God's answer (James 4! 2). If Nehemiah and the people had taken themselves to their own resources, the work would have come to nothing, but they took themselves to God and so they escaped all the devices of their enemies. But they did not pray and sit down to do nothing, they "set a watch against them day and night." Watching and praying should always go hand in hand (Matt. 26:41; Luke 21:36). Casting all your care upon him is not inconsistent with being vigilant ourselves (1 Pet. 5:7, 8). 11. Discouragement. within, 10-15. When Judah said, "We are not able to build the wall" it was a more serious trouble than when all their enemies conspired to fight against them. Discouragement among God's own people is far more dangerous than the fiercest opposition from without. The people of Nehemiah's day really had no just cause for their discouragement. It is true that there was "much rubbish," but it was quite within their power to clear it away. There is "much rubbish" in the church today, but we need not be discouraged. Let us get up and be doing and clean it out. While Judah was thus talking within the "adversaries" were also talking without. They said, "They shall not know," etc. But they did know. Their adversaries had forgotten that God was on their side. That is what the adversaries of God's people constantly forget. Nehemiah acted with great prudence (v. 13). He saw to it that the people were fully armed (cf. Eph. 6:11-18), and especially guarded the weak places. He sought first of all to encourage his own helpers (v. 14). Why should God's children ever be afraid of God's enemies? (Rom. 8:31.) Note Nehemiah's cure for fright before our enemies, "Remember the Lord." We might well be frightened if we thought of ourselves, but don't think of yourself, think of him. And when they had remembered the Lord what were they to do? "And fight." Our remembrance of the mighty God should not lead us to sit down, but should give us courage to fight. It is to a warrior life that God calls us (2 Tim. 2:3), and we are to get strength and courage for the fight, not by thinking upon ourselves but upon him. Nehemiah's words had their intended effect and their enemies rightly divined that it was not Nehemiah, but God who had "brought their counsel to naught" (cf. Ps. 33: 10, 11). III. Tolling and ready to fight, 16-18. When the enemy was folled "every one" returned "unto his work," not to some one else's work, but to his own work. Half fought and half wrought. We need today fighting Christians and working Christians, warriors and builders. The rulers backed up the workers (v. 16). Too often the rulers are on the backs of the people instead of at the backs of the people. They worked with one hand and held the weapon with the other. That is what the Christian often has to do. Nehemiah watched and controlled all and the man to sound the trumpet was right by his side (v. 18). He was ready at every moment for the battle. So ought the Christian to be. He had no fear of the issue for he could say, "Our God shall fight for us" (v. 20). The believer can say the same and so victory is always sure. FRANCE TO MAINTAIN BLACK MILITARY 1,000,000 Negroes to Be Recruited from French African Colonies. ARMY AND NAVY IS WEAK FRENCH POPULATION STEADILY DECREASING — WRITER SAYS BLACK MAN IS VALUABLE AS SOLDIER—GERMANY ALARMED. Constant talk of a probable conflict between France and Germany, and the revelation that France's population in late years has dwindled to such an alarming extent that in the event of war the French would be compelled to put out an inferior army and navy to battle with the enemy, has caused the French government to seriously consider recruiting 1,000,000 black men from the French colonies. While the French are becoming enthused over the plan of France maintaining black military reserves, the other foreign powers do not take kindly to the idea of having to combat with negroes, knowing full well their value as warriors. Among those who believe that France's only hope on the battlefield in the future will be by recruiting from the French African colonies is Francis Gribble, a writer of reputation, who says: "The population of that part of the French African colonies in which recruiting would be possible is estimated at 10,000,000; and there is reason to believe that the estimate is considerably under the truth. It is a population of fighting men—men who would much rather fight for their living than work for it. There would be no need to institute a system of universal service in order to compel them to come in. They would all gladly come in of their own accord, as volunteers, and the number of them who are able-bodied and of a fighting age is computed at about 1,000,000. "One million men, be it observed, who could be recruited and trained, and kept ready for use in a European war—a reserve of men, that is to say, practically inexhaustible, and so situated that, as long as France, or her allies, kept the command of the sea, no enemy could possibly get at it and destroy it. A million men, too, whose fighting value is not to be denied. "It has sometimes been assumed that, because handfuls of white men have often scattered hordes of black men, therefore the black man would be of no use in a white man's war; but that is a mistake. Inferior equipment and lack of organization easily account for these sensational defeats. The black man has often proved that, if he is armed like the white man, and has white men to lead him, he is quite capable of standing up to white troops. He did so in the American war of secession, and in the American war with Spain, when the heights of San Juan were stormed by a black regiment. Napoleon himself employed black troops in European warfare—a black regiment particularly distinguished itself at the siege of Gaeta, and afterward captured Fra Diavolo under the guidance of Victor Hugo's father. Black troops helped to storm the Malakoff, and were employed at Magneta, and in Mexico. At least 3,000 of them served through the Franco-German war. Their bayonet charge at Froeschwiller was one of the most brilliant feats recorded in the history of the war; for they actually preserved their morale after the regiment had lost 92 per cent. of its officers and 85-per cent. of its men. "We may take it, therefore, that there is nothing new or chimerical—nothing to be described as a counsel of despair in the French proposal to employ black troops against Germany. "This is the black peril for Germany and for no other power; and it is much more real than that yellow peril against which the kaiser noisily warned the western world. "Presumably, too, it is a peril to which Germany is not altogether blind, and one not without its bearings on the course of the critical negotiations proceeding, at the moment of writing, with reference to the right of the two countries in Morocco. The German demand for compensation is, in effect, a demand for the surrender of a portion of the Black Reservoir. That is one of the reasons why Germany is so eager, and so firm; that is also one of the reasons why France shows herself so obstinately reluctant to cede anything." BEYOND HER DEPTH. They were seated around the table partaking of watermelon, so the talk naturally turned to the luscious fruit. "It reminds me of a conversation which took place between two colored women," said one of the guests. "'Mm-r,' but Ah certainly does lobe watermelons,' said one. 'It sure does tickle mah palate. How does you like watermelons, Sister Lize?' "Waal, Ah tells you, Sis' Jane.' returned the other, 'Ah certainly does lobe watermelon, but Ah can't eats 'em.' "Waal, that am too bad. What am de matter, Lize?" "It am like dis, Sis' Jane. I lobes watermelon, but Ah always get mah ears wet when Ah eats 'em.'"—Milwaukee Free Press. On the 20th of August, 1910, I sailed from New York city for London, England. I had been given a leave of absence of two months from my work at Tuskegee, on condition that I would spend that time in some way that would give me recreation and rest. At one time it occurred to me that I should like to spend my vacation in the West Indies, looking into the condition of the portion of my race in that part of the world. After considering the matter, however, I finally came to the conclusion that I could, perhaps, learn more in Europe than anywhere else about the problems in which I am particularly interested. I concluded that in Europe I would be able to get an outside view, so to speak, of my own country and by making comparison with what I was able to see there, with what I knew of conditions at home, I should be able to get a clearer and more comprehensive view of the situation of my own people in America than I could in any other way. Having settled upon Europe as the place to take my vacation, I determined to carry out a plan I had long had in mind of making myself acquainted with the condition of the poorer and working classes in Europe, particularly in those regions from which an ever increasing number of immigrants are coming to our country each year. The best way to get acquainted with an indiylidual, or with a people, according to my experience, is to visit them at their work and in their homes, and in this way find out what is back of them. So it was that I determined to make use of my stay in Europe to visit the people in their homes, to talk with them at their work and to find out everything I could. I was curious, for one thing, to learn why it was that so many of these European people were leaving the countries in which they were born and reared, in order to seek their fortunes in a new country and among strangers in a distant part of the world. The majority of the people who reach this country as immigrants from Europe are, as one might expect, from the farming regions. They are farm laborers or tenant farmers. Furthermore, there exists, as I discovered, a very definite relation between the condition of agriculture and the agricultural peoples in Europe and the extent of emigration to this country. In other words, wherever in any part of Europe I found the condition of agriculture and the situation of the farm laborers at their worst, there I almost invariably found emigration at the highest. On the other hand, wherever I visited a part of the country where emigration had; in recent years decreased, there I quite as invariably found that the situation of the man on the soil had improved. What interested me still more was the fact that this improvement had been, to a very large extent, brought about through the influence of schools. Agricultural education has stimulated an intensive culture of the soil; this in turn has helped to multiply the number of small landowners and stimulate the organization of agriculture; the resulting prosperity has made itself felt not only in the country, but also in the cities. Another matter in regard to which I hope to get some f-t-hand information during my stay abroad was what I may call the European, as distinguished from the American, race problem. I knew that in the south of Europe, a number of races of widely different origin and characteristics had been thrown together in close contact and in large numbers. I suspected that in this whirlpool of contending races and classes I should find problems—race problems and educational problems—different to be sure, but quite as complicated, difficult and interesting as in our own country. There was another thing that made the trip I had outlined peculiarly attractive to me. I believed that I would find in some parts of Europe, peoples who in respect to education, opportunity and civilization generally, were much nearer the level of the masses of the negro people in the south than I was likely to find anywhere in America. I believed, also, that if I went far enough and deep enough, I should find even in Europe great numbers of people, who, in their homes, in their labor and in their manner of living, were little, if any, in advance of the negroes in the southern states. I wanted to study at first-hand, as far as I was able, the methods which European nations were using to uplift the masses of the people who are at the bottom in the scale of civilization. One of the first things I learned in Europe was the difficulty of meeting the ordinary man and seeing and getting acquainted with the matters of every-day life. I soon discovered that the most difficult things to see are not the sights that every one goes to look at, but the common place things that no one sees. In order to carry out the plan I had in mind it was necessary for me to leave the ordinary beaten track of European travel and to plunge into regions which have not been charted and mapped, and where ordinary guides and guide-books are of little or no avail. I set out from America, as I have said, to find the man farthest down. In a period of about six weeks I visited parts of England, Scotland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Sicily, Poland and Denmark. I spent some time among the poorer classes of London and in several cities in Austria and Italy. I investigated, to a certain extent, the condition of the agricultural populations in Sicily, in Bohemia, Poland and Denmark. I saw much that was sad and depressing; but I saw much, also, that was hopeful and inspiring. Bad as conditions are, in some places, I do not think I visited any place where things are not better now than they were some two years ago. I found also that the connection between Europe and America is much closer and more intimate than I had imagined. I am sure that very few persons in this country realize the extent to which America has touched and influenced the masses of the people in Europe. I think it is safe to say that no single influence which is today tending to change and raise the condition of the working people in the agricultural regions of Southern Europe is greater than the constant stream of emigration which is pouring out of Europe into America and back again into Europe. It should be remembered that not only do large numbers of these people emigrate to America, but many of these emigrants return and take with them not only money to buy lands, but new ideas, higher ambitions and a wider outlook on the world. II--PETTICOAT LANE AND BETH- NAL GREEN. In the previous chapter I told of my purpose in visiting Europe. In the present chapter I shall tell something of my impressions of London, where my first extended observations were made. The first thing that impressed me about London, was its size; the second was the wide division between the different elements in the population. London is not only the largest city in the world; it is also the city in which the segregation of the classes has gone farthest. The West End, for example, is the home of the King and the Count. Here are the Houses of Parlament, Westminster Abbey, the British Museum, most of the historical monuments, the Art Galleries and nearly everything that is interesting, refined and beautiful in the lives of seven millions of people who make up the inhabitants of the city. If you take a cab at Trafalgar Square, however, and ride eastward down the Strand through Fleet street, where all the principal newspapers of London are published, past the Bank of England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the interesting sights and scenes of the older part of the city, you come, all of a sudden, into a very different region, the center of which is the famous Whitechapel. The difference between the East End and the West End of London is that East London has no monuments, no banks, no hotels, theaters, art galleries; no history—nothing that is interesting and attractive but its poverty and its problems. Everything else is drab and commonplace. It is said that more than one hundred thousand of the people in this part of the city, in spite of all efforts that have been made to help them, are living on the verge of starvation. So poor and so helpless are these people that it was at one time, seriously proposed to separate them from the rest of the population and set them off in a city by themselves, where they could live and work entirely under the direction of the state. It was proposed to put this hundred thousand of the very poor under the direction and care of the state because they were not able to take care of themselves; and because it was declared that all the service which they rendered the community could be performed by the remaining portion of the population in their leisure moments, so that they were, in fact, not a help but a hindrance to the city as a whole. I got my first view of one of the characteristic sights of the East End life at Middlesex street, or Petticoat Lane, as it was formerly called. Petticoat Lane is the center of the Jewish quarter, and on Sunday morning there is a famous market in this street. On both sides of the thoroughfare, running northward from Whitechapel road until they lose themselves in some of the side streets, one sees a double line of push-carts, upon which every imaginable sort of ware, from wedding rings to eels in jelly, are exposed for sale. On both sides of these carts and in the middle of the street a motley throng of bargain-hunters are pushing their way through the crowds, stopping to look over the curious wares in the carts or to listen to the shrill cries of some hawker selling pain killer or some other sort of magic or cure all. Nearly all of the merchants are Jews, but the majority of their customers belong to the tribes of the Gentiles. Among others I noticed a class of professional customers. They were evidently artisans of some sort or other, who had come to pick out from the goods exposed for sale a plane or a saw or some other sort of second-hand tool; there were others searching for useful bits of old iron, bolts, brass, springs, keys, and other things of that sort which they would be able to turn to some use in their trade. I spent an hour or more wandering through this street and the neighboring lane into which this petty push-cart traffic had overflowed. Second-hand clothing, second-hand household articles, the waste meats of the Saturday market, all kinds of worn-out and cast-off articles which had been fished out of the junk heaps of the city or thrust out, of the regular channels of trade, find here a ready market. I think that the thing, which impressed me most was not the poverty, which was evident enough, but the sombre tone of the whole proceedings. It was not a happy crowd; there were no bright colors and very little laughter. It was an ill-dressed crowd, made up of people who had long been accustomed to live, as it were, at second-hand, and, in close relations with the nawbrowker. In the south it would be hard to find a colored man who did not make some change in his appearance on Sunday. The negro laborer is never so poor that he forgets to put on a clean collar or a bright necktie or something out of the ordinary out of respect for the Sabbath. In the midst of this busy, pushing throng it was hard for me to remember that I was in England, and that it was Sunday. Somehow or other I had got a very different notion of the English Sabbath. Petticoat Lane is in the midst of the "sweating" district where most of the cheap clothing in London is made. Through windows and open doors I could see the pale faces of the garment makers bent over their work. There is much furniture made in this region, also, I understand. Looking down into some of the cellars as I passed I saw men working at the lathes. Down at the end of the street was a bar room, which was doing a rushing business. The law in London is, as I understand, that travelers may be served at a public bar on Sunday but-not others. To be a traveler, a "bona fide" traveler, you must have come from a distance of at least three miles. There were a great many travelers in Petticoat Lane on the Sunday morning that I was there. This same morning, I visited Bethnal Green, another and a quite different quarter of the East End. There are a number of these different quarters of East End, like, Stephney, Poplar, St. George in the East, and so forth. Each of these has its peculiar type of population and its own peculiar conditions. Whitechapel is Jewish, St. George's in the East is Jewish at one end and Irish at the other but Bethnal Green is English. For nearly half a mile along Bethnal Green Road I found another Sunday market in full swing, and it was, if anything, louder and more picturesque than the one in Petticoat Lane. It was about one o'clock in the morning; the housewives of Bethnal Green were out on the street hunting bargains in meat and vegetables for the Sunday dinner. One of the most interesting groups I passed was crowded about a pushcart where three sturdy old women, shouting at the top of their lungs, were reeling off bolt after bolt of cheap cotton cloth to a crowd of women gathered about their cart. At another point a man was "knocking down" at auction cheap cuts of frozen beef from Australia at prices ranging from four to eight cents a pound. Another was selling fish, another crockery and a third tinware, and so through the whole list of household staples. The market on Bethnal Green road extends across a street called Brick Lane and branches off again from that into other and narrower streets. In one of these there is a market exclusively for birds, and another for various sorts of fancy articles, not of the first necessity. The interesting thing about all the traffic was that, although no one seemed to exercise any sort of control over it, somehow the different classes of trade had managed to organize themselves so that all the wares o: one particular sort were displayed in one place and all the wares of another sort in another, everything in regular and systematic order. The streets were so busy and crowded that I wondered if there were any people left in that part of the town to attend the churches. AWAITING WORLD-WIDE PEACE. Andrew B. Humphrey, secretary of the American Peace and Arbitration league, was discussing in New York the universal peace movement. "This movement," he said, "has lately made gigantic strides, but, of course, we mustn't expect too much of it. We mustn't, like Peleg Shucks, expect to see universal peace come in our time. "Peleg Shucks, you know, was thinking of buying a gun. "I guess, though," he said, thoughtfully, one night at the general store—"I guess I'll wait a while afore purchasein." "Wot yer idea in waitin', Peleg?" asked the storekeeper. "Wall, ye see," said Peleg, 'arter all them European nations take up this Carnegie-Taft arbitration and disarmament contract, guns is goln' to get tarnation cheap." WILLING TO PAY. The morning had been long and the arithmetic lesson particularly severe. Little Tommy Traddles had laboriously worked his way through a tantalizing maze of figures till his small head ached; and he now stood before his master with the result of his travail. "Wrong!" said his instructor, curtly. "Return to your desk and do it again!" Tommy glanced at the clock. "Please, sir," he asked, "how much am I out!" "Your result is twopence short of the correct total," was the reply. Tommy's hand sought the pocket which contained his most valued possessions. Swiftly he separated two coins from a piece of string, some marbles, a top and a penknife. "Please, I'm in a hurry, sir," he said, "if you don't mind I'll pay the difference!" -London Ideas. SONGS PERVERT OUR MORALS Mabelle Sings Words That She Would Not Talk. WALTER KENILWORTH ATTRIB UTES THE VULGAR RAGTIME MUSIC TO FACT OF NEGRO ORIGIN. What is the cause of this degeneration in the moral sentiment of popular songs? In an article on "Negro Influence in American Life" in the Forum, Walter Kenilworth attributes the decline to the fact that "rag music has its visible source in the ancestry of negro music," which, in turn, "had its birth through the sensuously sonorous larynx of the negro and was first voiced from his savage sensuously formed mouth." After stating that there is a certain sway and swing, a certain indescribable sensuous something appealing about the ring and melody, the rhythm and versification of the music," he asks: "How could it be otherwise when the ancestry of the music was first voiced in the wild, wetrd, barbarous howl of the protypical African?" Considering the fact that the present day "rag" is usually the product, as to both words and music, of the white man, whereas the genuine negro music, whatever its "sensuous swing," is usually associated with religious words, there would seem to be some unfairness in this exclusive indictment of the negro. If, as Mr. Kenilworth claims, the source of national retrogression in morals, "the increase of divorce, the lapsing of the marital code . . . all are more or less due to our popular music," we should be just enough to question how far exactly the negro is responsible for the songs turned out so profusely by publishers and so obligingly performed by young women in department stores to crowds of eager listeners. "It is easier," says Mr. Kenilworth, "for a highly civilized community instinctively to follow lower or more primitive morals than to follow its own high ideals." It would seem that it is easier also for the highly civilized community to understand and interpret in words the meaning of the "sway and swing" of sensuous music than it was for the untutored race which made its spontaneous melodies the vehicle for religious feeling. One can fancy the accused race retorting: "It is not that our music is base, but the white man has selzed, distorted and debased it." Wherever opinion may place the responsibility, Mr. Kenilworth's characterization of the songs themselves is undeniably exact: "Scrutinizingly criticized, all of the songs are insidiously perverting; they are indicative of relaxative morality, of disparagement of the marital tie, of triviality in relationship of sex, etc., and the entire moral code might be included. There is not even an attempt at concealment of the thought conveyed in the song. It is out-and-out vulgarity." "Let me make a nation's songs and I care not who makes its laws," some wise man has said. If such a dictum has any foundation in truth it would seem to be a fact worth noting and a condition deserving both attention and action if the songs that are loved and sung by the youth of America are bad. If bad songs sell well this season the demand for novelty will bring out next season a variety still more daringly risque. It is true that not all the popular songs belong to the class that we have been discussing. Many of them are quite innocent in theme and unobjectionable in dictum. To an onlooker the varieties appear to exist side by side in the repertoires and acquaintance of the public without discrimination as to their respective worth or sentiment. The music is the thing, apparently; if that proves popular the words are accepted without challenge and amazingly without comment. Without comment and without the music which distracts attention from them the following stanzas, selected from the popular songs of the day, are submitted for inspection: Lead me right to Capua's door; Take me out upon that ocean called the "Lovable Sea," Lawdy, Lawdy, what a feelin'; Snug up close to your lady, Close your eyes and do som nappin', Somethin' nice is gwine to happen, Hug up close to your baby; Sway me everywhere, Show your darlin' beau just how to go All alone, all alone, Nobody here but me; Parlor's nice and cozy, Everything is rosy, We'll have lots of— Hurry up and get there, honey, Take a car, it's not far, My time is all my own; Hurry up, there's something missing We'll have lots of kissing, Pa and ma have left me all along. Gen. Sherman once remarked that "War is hell." You never been a soldier, but I know I'd hang him on a sour apple tree. Wedding bells, sweet wedding bells, Never harmonize with baby yells; Why did I get married? If I'd only tarried With 'the crowd I'd mingle, Yelling, "God bless the single." Work by day and fight by night, Stand it no one can; So now you congregation Say a prayer for my salvation, "Lord, have mercy on a married man." Winter, winter, When the snow is softly falling, That's the time to squeeze When it starts to freeze In October, November and December, Just remember, Winter, winter, When your sweetheart comes a-calling By the fireside bright you'll sit and tease her. —Louisville Courier-Journal. IT WAS LUCKY. "Speaking of Irish wit," said Senator Ferris, of Utica, "a railroad man—a section foreman—had his brother over from Ireland recently, and one Sunday morning he took him along the line of the railroad to see some of the fast trains rush by. Finally, they stopped just at the entrance of a tunnel, and waited until an express, running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, tore past them and with a roar disappeared in the tunnel. 'Well, what do you think of it?' asked the railroad man of his raw Irish brother. 'I was just thinkin', said he, shaking his head, 'that it was mighty lucky the train didn't miss the hole.' A TENNESSEE ROMANCE. A St. Louis man went down into Tennessee the other day to freshen memories of his youth. In the course of looking up everybody he called up an old negro mammy who is a fixture upon the place. "What's new, mammy?" he asked. "Well, Marse Bob, they aln't not nuthin' new 'cept Nellie's gwine marry Lee," she said. "That trifling nigger Lee, mammy? How that happen?" - "Ah don't know, Marse Bob. You see Nellie's got a home an'a stade, an' cold weather's comin' on. Ah 'spects that nigger Lee's jest fixin' to baffle the winter. Marse jest." PUNISHING THE MICROBES "The germ theory, thanks to the study of hygiene in the schools, is familiar even to our children," said Dr. Charles T. Alkens, president of Susquehanna university, in an address at Sellinsgrove. "Two little Selinsgrove urchins played in their mother's kitchen the other day while the cook boiled some water. Hearing the sound of the boiling, they drew near the gas range. 'What is in that pot?' said the first urchin. 'Water,' said the second. 'Just water.' 'What is the sound I hear, then brother?' 'Sister, it is the microbes crying.' LESSON IN ETIQUETTE AT SEA. The captain was trying to impress upon the sailor the importance of saying "Sir" in addressing his superior. "How's her head?" he asked. "Nor-by-east," answered the old tar gruffly. Another trial was without success. "Let me take the wheel," said the skipper, "and you ask me the question." "Ow's her head," roared the sailor. "Nor-by-east, sir," replied the captain. "Keep her so, my man." said the old tar, "while I goes forward and has a smoke."—Success. MINUTE INFORMATION. "Do you know anything about Mars?" asked the professor. "Yes," replied the confident student. "It is inhabited by a numerous race of highly industrious people." "Indeed! And may I ask why you believe all this?" "Because otherwise it would be impossible for them to build canals as fast as some of our astronomers discover them."—Washington Star. SQUEEZED. Tim—Say, Jim, what's the difference between a soldier, young ladies, and an Italian fruit stand? Jim—I don't know. Give it up. What's the answer? Tim—The soldier faces powder, and young ladies powder faces. Jim—Yes; but where does the Italian fruit stand come in? Tim—Oh, that's where you get your lemon—Judge. NO PLACE FOR AN ARTIST. "I am looking for local color," said the artist, as he strolled about the little town. "Have you any merry villagers here?" "No," answered the old resident. "All we have here is disgruntled taxpayers." How William Alden Smith Induced Senate to Keep Aged Negro on Its Payroll. There was something intensely human in the action of Senator William Alden Smith urging the senate to retain on its payroll the name of "Old Black Joe" Jones, the former bodyguard of President Jefferson Davis. Senator Smith made the air ring as throwing back his head he rolled out "Sirs" in the good old Patrick Henry fashion. "Sir," he declared to the chair, "the southerners have cared for their wounded and suffering, they have asked no pensions from the government against which they rebelled. With a solicitude which we may well emulate, they have bound up their own wounds, nursed their own sick and dying and cared for their dead, rebuilt their devastated states and voluntarily burdened themselves that we might pension our heroes and house them in comfort in their declining years. I think it is little less than pusillanimous to object to a simple recognition for an aged negro." There was a rollcall, and by a vote of 37 to 18 "Old Joe" was retained on the payroll of the senate. One senator averred that the word "pusillanimous" carried the day for William Alden. But the senator from Michigan only smiled, and after the merry war he strolled down the senate corridor in front of the marble room whistling the refrain of "Old Black Joe" at lively tempo. Joe Mitchell Chapple in National Magazine. A The City Man-What! Fifteen dollars a week! Why, rooms and board ain't scarce about here! The Countryman-I know, but boarders are. TEST ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE. Some novel effects of electrical discharge have been recorded by De Muynck, a Belgian physician. A platinum wire was stretched over supports about twenty-two inches apart, and the end was brought near the spark ball of a battery of four jars, charged from a Holtz induction machine. The wire was heated, other electric currents being suitable for this. When quite hot, increasing the spark gap until no spark crossed it caused the wire to give out a musical note and at the same time to sway in oscillations of half an inch or more. The cold wire did not oscillate. The sound varied with the temperature, and with other conditions not well understood. HARMONICA INDUSTRY. Trossingen, in the Black forest of Germany, is the center of the foreign harmonica industry, where most of the world's "mouth organs" of the cheaper grade are made. One factory alone is said to employ several thousand hands; and the number of harmonicas turned out by all the factories there is enormous, amounting to almost a million annually. Although the United States imports a large number of the cheap German "mouth organs," the finer grades are made in this country, and these are held to be equal in every way to the more expensive instruments made abroad. WIPED OUT MALARIA. In Athens a sluggish stream, with its numerous wide and shallow pools, was cleaned out and deepened, thus making it flow faster, and every week the new made river bed was swept rid of mosquito eggs. All this began five years ago. The first year the malaria in the school children dropped to 60 per cent., and the year following it fell to $ 20 ^{1} $ per cent., and the next year it was only 3 per cent., and from that it fell the following year to 1 per cent., and last year there was no more malaria. Chanticleer Will .Not Crow Unless He Can Raise Head High In Air. A grave question has been raised in Atlantic. It concerns a rooster owned by one William McInnes, and the right of that rooster to crow unrestrained; also, the right of Mr. McInnes to own and operate such a crowing apparatus to the annoyance of his neighbors. Mayor Shea of Quincy has been petitioned to abate the rooster. Now, we do not know the law on the case. We are not certain that the constitution of the United States and the decisions of the Supreme court of either the state or nation provide adequate redress. We do know, however, that this same momentous question recently came to an issue in Chicago; under similar circumstances, and that it was disposed of amicably through a device proposed by a Chicago man skilled in the anatomy and psychology of roosters. A rooster cannot or will not crow without raising his head high in the air. If you prevent him from stretching his neck, you suppress his crow. All you have to do, therefore, to keep him quiet, is to make his coop low enough so that, whenever he feels a crow swelling his bosom and clamoring for utterance, he bumps his head. After a few bumps, he may even give up in despair, and lose all desire to crow, even if liberated.—Boston Traveller. FRENCHMAN'S TASTE IN DRESS His Supposed Imitations of the English Styles Are Fearful and Wonderful to Behold: The rage for everything English still seems to continue in Paris, though the Frenchman who sets out to dress himself a l'Anglais as a rule makes but a poor show for his trouble. His "fancy vests" are usually fearful as well as wonderful, his tie decidedly more original than beautiful and adorned with something quite barbaric in the shape of a pin, his canary colored gloves and absurd cane such as no Englishman would dream of "sporting" in his wildest moments. The Frenchman has, I fear, innately bad taste where dress is concerned, just as the French woman beats her English and even American sisters all along the line when the question of taste in dress comes in. The Parisienne follows the fashion of being English in such matters as "Le Sports" and "Le five o'clock," but she takes good care to set her own fashions in dress and to keep to them. Monsieur, on the other hand, would give anything to be dressed a l'Anglais and to be mistaken for an Englishman, but knows not how to manage it.—The Gentlewoman. SMALL WORKING MODELS. Whether tiny working models of machinery are worth the labor they cost or not, such a collection of marvels as British amateurs have brought together in the London exhibition of engineering models is at least highly instructive. For the most part, such products seem to represent the diversion of persons engaged in employment very different from machine making. At this exhibition about one hundred entries were made by many varied trades—a working steam engine, small enough to stand on a threepenny piece, being one of the eight smallest engines made by three Scotch miners; a complete working model of the Mauretania, the work of a bricklayer of sixty-seven; and a little traction engine, including water tubes, boiler and superheater, the result of a Surrey gardener's spare time efforts. A BAD COLD. She was a shiftless, slipshod creature, not very bright, not very strong, who used to come round once in a while to tell her tale of woe, accept a bundle of old clothes, and perhaps earn a little by some old job of cleaning. The family had missed her for weeks; then she reappeared. "Well, Leslie, where have you been?" "Oh, I been havin' the worst luck! First I had a bone felon, an' couldn't use my hand any for two weeks. Then I had neuralgy pains in my shoulder, an' couldn't use my arms any. Even now I got such a cold in my head I ain't been able to use my head for a week.—Youth's Companion. INVENTOR KEEPS HIS SECRET At the Paris exposition in 1900 there was exhibited an assortment of marquetry work of great intricacy of design and beauty of finish, but at prices so low as to cast reflection upon its genuineness. Many of the pieces were of duplicate pattern. Here is another industrial secret of considerable value that doubtless is destined to go to the grave with its discoverer, if it has not already done so, says Cassier's Magazine. No amount of examination, no matter how searching, sufficed to reveal the manner in which the designs of table tops were duplicated with such maryelous accuracy. That much the inventor, an Austrian, was willing to divulge. The pattern, instead of being made singly of the thickness requisite for the piece it was intended to ornament, such as a table top, was built up of pieces two or three feet long, from which sections were then sawed off. How this composite structure was held together was quite another matter. Interest in the invention reached a point where the Austrian government offered its discoverer a small fortune on condition that his secret be deposited, sealed, in the royal vaults, in order that it might be known after his death. He was to have the sole right of manumacture as long as he lived, the secret not to be revealed until after his demise, but he preferred to keep it locked up in his own head. FOND RECOLLECTIONS. STEENTH ST Uncle Reub—Ah, good old New York! Here's the very place where I was slugged an' robbed of $4 and my watch 10 years ago! FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. Grandfather Billings smiled covertly when Billings junior wondered where Billings third, aged seven, got his trickiness." "If I didn't keep my eyes open," said Billings junior, hotly, "Billy would outwit me every time. "This morning," he continued, "I promised him a whipping tonight. When the event came off just now, he never flinched or yelled. 'Pluck, pure and simple!' said I to myself, mighty proud for I wasn't sparing him in the least. But that wasn't it at all," he concluded in disgust. "The young rascal had on three pairs of trousers." "As I remember," observed Grandfather Billings, reflectively, "you used to insert a small geography when a 'good sound one' was due you."—Youth's Companion. SQUID'S DEFENSIVE ARM. Ancient ink was made by a squeezing out of dead squids after the body was perfectly relaxed. Painters got their sepia from this same squid's bottle. This likewise is the true source of the genuine and original India ink, for which there has never been any satisfactory substitute found. The ink bag is big as a man's thumb, and can squirt six feet, darkening more than a hogshead of water, so the squid can make unseen a dart and a dash and getaway when squid-eating sea fish come around.—New York Press. CHECK TELEPHONE ABUSE. The telephone in a downtown office where there are many visitors daily, some of whom never have any real business to transact there, has become an expensive luxury. Hints thrown out by the office manager seemed to have no effect on the "telephone snipes," as they are termed, and in order to stop the abuse this notice was posted over the instrument: "City calls free to customers and others who can't afford to pay five cents."—New York Tribune. Custom Started by a Professor In a Western University Spreads Through Entire Faculty. If a woman likes the handling of her husband's money she ought to be married to a college professor. In a western university town one of the faculty, a few years ago, being absorbed in his scientific duties, began the practice of handing over to his wife his entire salary and whatever other moneys came to him from his writings, etc., and she did all the buying for the establishment, including the professor's wearing apparel and even books and pen points. He simply mentioned his wants, in case she had not anticipated them, and wifey did the rest, allowing him whatever pocket money he needed from time to time. The practice was so successful that both husband and wife sounded its praises on occasions, and the custom spread at that university. It has now grown to such an extent that a professor in that institution would blush to be caught buying himself a scarf or selecting the material for his shirts. Statistics do not know whether there are any unmarried professors on the list and no further information will be furnished on application. This precautionary measure is deemed necessary for the protection of the town, as it is not large and the boarding facilities are not sufficient to accommodate a sudden influx of the financial sex. MAGAZINES OF FORMER DAYS Editor Phillips Asserts That to Read Them Now With Interest Is Impossible. There had been some conversation of magazines. Some one had breathed the usual sigh for the excellence of by-gone days. And John S. Phillips, editor of the American Magazine, entered an argument of defense. "A good deal of this talk about the good old days of Longfellow makes me tired," he said. "Have you ever tried to read the magazines of the days of Longfellow?" "You haven't? Well, I have. And I couldn't do it. "Take the Atlantic Monthly, for instance, in the days when Longfellow and Lowell and the others were writing for it. The contributions of Longfellow and Lowell were excellent. "But you simply couldn't wade through 75 per cent. of the contents of those old Atlantics. They'd bore you to extinction. "The old magazines were bound up in the interests of the old days—they reflected the times in which they were published. That is precisely what the magazines do now. That's what magazines have to do. On the whole, the publications of the last century weren't a bit better than the publications of today. "If you have any doubts on the subject, just you try to read them. Try hard. You won't succeed!" CAPACITY FOR LABOR. By actual tests, two horses weighing 1,600 pounds each can pull 3,750 pounds, which is 550 pounds more than their combined weight. One elephant weighing 12,000 pounds can pull 8,750 pounds, which is 3,250 pounds less than its weight. Fifty - men, aggregating, 7,500 pounds in weight, can pull 8,750 pounds, which is the score of the elephant. It will be observed that the men also pull more than their own weight. RICHES OF ALASKA. Alaska has proved to be a bonanza in fisheries and a treasure house of gold, coal and copper. There are agricultural stations within seventy-five miles of the arctic circle. At some points, indeed, vegetables are grown north of the arctic circle, close up to the shores of the Arctic ocean. Stock raising is progressing in Alaska and its islands, while wheat, oats and barley flourish under the icy stars of the north. GOOD WORK STARTED. There has been recently formed the American Association for the Conservation of Vision, the object of which is the spreading of the gospel of proper illumination. Its field of labor has been outlined only in the most general way, but it is claimed that there is a great opportunity for good work in this direction. Most of the fixtures for artificial illumination are faulty in that efficiency is sacrificed for so-called artistic effect. With all hotel conveniences. Hot or cold baths. Large parlor with reading matter and music. Polite help. Carriage and hacks, also telephones. If you want a hack or carriage ring up 676 and the manager will see that you get it. Rooms to let at 25 cents. HIGH ART TAILORS 321 BROUGHTON STREET, EAST. Next Door to Red Cross Pharmacy. Special Prices Given for Thir ty Days. A full line of Latest Fall and Win ter Goods. 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CARPET AND MATTING LAYING A SPECIALTY. Old furniture bought and sold. Packing and Shipping. Goods called for and delivered. JACKSON & SLOCUM, Upholsterers BOLTON AND EAST BROAD STREETS. FOR SAFE, COMFORTABLE AND CLEAN LODGING PERMANENT OR TRANSIENT Stop at McCARTHY'S 233 BRYAN ST, WEST. FIRST CLASS SANITARY BARBER SHOP AND RESTAURANT AT TACHED. 230 ST. JULIAN STREET, WEST. TO MY FRIENDS I wish to notify all of my old patrons that I have purchased my old stand at Hall and Price streets, and would be glad to have them patronize me. Phone me at 601 for anything you may want and I will deliver to you promptly. Respectfully, THE PROGRESSIVE MAN Is the one who makes it his business to advertise his business thoroughly. Now is your opportunity Sees ee : Ss: a5 a= as at sare =e tae ‘og | FS = a