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The Savannah Tribune VOLUME XXVII Public Meeting of Civic League AT MASONIC TEMPLE LAST SUNDAY VERY INTERESTING Rabbl Solomon's Speech Very Practical-Large Crowd Present- Several Joined League - Another Public Session to be Held Soon. The public meeting of the Negro Civic Improvement League which was held at the Masonic Temple last Sunday afternoon was very interesting and was attended by a large crowd. The meeting was presided over by President R. R. Wright who spoke of the work which the league, although in its infancy, has already accomplished and what it hopes to do in the future. The meeting was attended by a very large and representative audience which proved by their enthusiasm that the work which the league is attempting to accomplish appeals very strongly to them. This was the second public meeting of the league since its organization several months ago and was gotten up by the committee on entertainment of which Mr. R. A. Harper is chairman. The principal feature of the meeting was the address of Rabbi Solomon which was very practical and was received with much applause by the large audience. The speaker spoke very plainly and showed that the cause of sanitation was one which was of common interest to both white and Negro citizens and that the land-fords and tenants alike are responsible for the deplorable conditions which surround the inhabitants in certain sections of the city. In this respect he pointed out that the tenants of these miserable huts which are used as living places should compel the owners by constantly complaining, to them to fix up the houses which they rent and if they refuse to do so that it is their duty to themselves to move. He also took occasion to criticise the property owners who, refusing to put their houses which are rented to the lowly in proper condition, find room to complain of the filthy condition of their tenants when the housing facilities which their property affords is miserably lacking. He said that instead of finding fault with the sad conditions which surround their tenents they should seek to relieve the situation by putting their property in reasonably fair condition thereby making it fit for human habitation Dr. Soloman emphasized the fact that sanitation is the broad fundamental of the entire civilization and that without sanitation civilization cannot exist. The most practical way of reducing the deplorable conditions which surround the living quarters of the Negro, Dr. Solomon said, is for the Negroes of the city who have money to invest it in organizing a co-operative company for the purpose of building model homes which could be rented to the lowly of the race, thus affording them an opportunity of getting out of the miserable conditions which now surround them. This, he states, would be neither a charity nor a philanthropy, but would net a fair revenue to the investors. After Rabbi Solomon had completed his address the league called for new members and several availed themselves of the opportunity to join in the movement. It is the plan of the leaders of the league to hold these public meetings at frequent intervals. F. B. B. Church Dots On Sunday morning Rev. C. Walker preached a very instructive sermon from I Cor. 15:53. The choir sang "Tis Heaven there." Rev. C. Wright led the hymn "Lord I approach thy mercy seat." There was baptism immediately after. In the afternoon there was a very large crowd at communion. The services were very impressive. At night the church was packed. The honored guests was the Young Pilgrims Society and their Juvenile branch. Rev. Wright read for the lesson Ps., 18:1-19. After reading the history of the society, Rev. Wright gave them a hearty welcome. His remarks about the care of children and their rearing were excellent. His text was from Acts 18:10. The sermon was a very vivid description of Paul's preaching to the Corinthians and was well filled with spiritual food and good advices. The choir very appropriately sang "God will take care of me." Rev. Wright led the hymn "Amazing grace" You are always welcome, so come at any time. Bull Moose Elected National The few Bull Moose adherents met on Monday lirst at the Harris street hall and elected R. T. Jollig, Jr, Geo. W. Hall, Daniel Simmons and J. Clayton Williams as delegates to the Chicago Convention, with W. O. P. Sherman, Jr., M. D. Dunn, Morris Simmons, and W. W. Mumphris as alternates. It is reported that the convention had a hard time of it raising the hall rent of three dollars. Just how many of them will attend the Chicago convention is hard to tell. The two state conventions held in Atlanta last week eliminated the colored brother entirely, and the congressional convention held on Monday is asking Mr. Roosevelt what is the meaning of all of it. At any rate it seems as if the colored brother is not wanted in the formation of the party. In Florida he holds separate conventions from the whites. It is quite a wonder that any self-respecting man can put up with such conditions. especially in the forming of a new party. Among the Masons And the good that you can do." Instead of taking his usual vacation in various sections of this and other countries, Grand Master Butler will devote it in paying official visits to the Lodges in his jurisdiction. About the middle of August he will be in this section of the state. August 18th he will have a joint meeting of the Lodges. Ludowije at that time. The same week he will visit the Grand Chapter O. E. S at Brunswick. August 23rd he will have a joint communication of the Savannah Lodges. His visit to these Lodges will be bailed with delight and will prove beneficial. The Grand Chapter O. E. S meets in Brunswick on Tuesday, August 20th, at 9 o'clock a. m. The Apron is the Symbol, and not the wearing of it. He who wears it worthily adds to its symbolic lustre, just as he who wears it unworthily dims it. In either case the Apron itself still remains more ancient and honorable in the eyes of the true Mason than any emblem of the empire or decoration of the potentate.—Marsh H. Perkins, Vermont. It is the proud boast of the Briton that the outpost of his military service stretch entirely around the world, and the roll of the drum is constantly sounding the reveller or taps somewhere in his majesty's possessions. Applying this continuity of thought to Masonry, somewhere and in neither longitude, some worshipful master is ever opening with solicitations of praise or closing with the benediction of peace and brotherly love. Ours is the metropolitan order of the area; the cosmopolitan order of the world, which neither storm, pestilence nor famine neither wars nor rumors of wars disturb. The cycle of time neither points its beginning nor indicates its ending.—Missouri Freemason. It is given to those who are nearing the end of life's journey to see with clearer vision the real philosophy, the surpassing beauty of Freemasonry, stripping the shell of vanity and artificially from the kernal of truth. Only a year ago, the venerable Bro. Hugh McCurdy, who has passed to the reward of a well spent life, wrote of Freemasonry: Our order plants the flower of brotherly love in every Mason's heart: brings down king and baron on a level with the weak and humble; binds man to man with never a thought of caste or creed; pride or purse obtruding. Here are no distinctions—here is no caste. Every man's foot is on the broad level of fraternity and equality. Here is the summum bonum of Freemasonry, its brightest jewel, its highest development. What is our boasted "charity"—a trifling thing at best and all out of proportion to our capacity—compared to the mission of planting 'the flower of brotherly love in every Mason's heart, with never a thought of caste or creed, pride of purse obtruding?" This is Masonry's highest ideal, for with brotherly love, equality and fraternity all good works shall follow. It is not an impossible ideal, and should never be lost to sight. amid petty vanities and rivalries.—N. Y. Masonic Stan. In the words of Sir Walter Scott, is the secret sympathy. The silver link, the silken tie With heart to heart and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. Religion is the golden cord which unites man to God. Masonry the silver line which runs from man to man. In its bosom flows cheerly the milk of human kindness and its heart expands with Love and charity. It wears the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, at peace with God, itself and the world. With one hand Masonry extends the olive branch of Peace, offering succor to the distressed. The more Masonry is examined the more beautiful it appears, the more a Mason serches into the Science, the more he loves it. It is like the humble fly, which, viewed with naked eye of science and understanding, displays andreamed of beauties Masonry has met with many enemies and many persecutions, but like the sil- iver seven times tried by fire, it rises each time more brilliant and more worthy of our respect and admiration. — Corner Stone. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 1912 United Brotherhood America MET IN ANNUAL SESSION JULY 22-23. Large Gathering Present—Session Very Harmonious—Reports Encouraging—Few Changes in Officers—Next Session in Savannah. The United Brotherhood of America met in their third annual session at Ardmore, Ga., on the twenty second and twenty third of last month. The meeting was a very large one, being attended by representatives from all parts of the state and was considered one of the most beneficial in the history of the order. Supreme Grand Architect, W. D. Kennedy, presided during the sessions and injected much life into the meetings. The sessions were all very harmonious and the business of the order was dispatched with great celerity. The reports were all of a very encouraging nature and told of the rapid progress which the order has made during the past year. The two most particular features of the reports, and those which elicited the greatest enthusiasm from the members present, were the purchase of the hall at East Broad and Anderson streets this city for the sum of four thousand dollars and the cash balance of three thousand dollars which the order has on hand. The report on membership showed that there has been a very substantial gain in this respect during the year and judging from present indications this year will find the ranks of the order very materially strengthened. All the old officers, with a few exceptions, were reelected. The only changes occurring in the election of District Grand Directors, G. L. Lodge, of Burke County, as S. G. O. W.; R. B. Vaughn, of Seriven County, as S. G. M.; E. W. Belcher, of Effingham County, as S. G. I. W. The next session of the Grand Lodge will be held in Sayannah. Monumental Notes Last Sunday was a glorious day in the old mother church. Sunday School was well attended at 9:30 a.m. Rev. R. Brady preached an instructive and helpful sermon at 11 a.m. General class was in full bloom at 4 o'clock p. m. Dr. L. A. Townsley preached an able sermon at 8 p.m., five joined the church. His sermon at 11 o'clock a.m. at Rincon, Ga, was very impressive. He was head of the Sunday School institute work while at the convention last week Class meeting Tuesday night was a gem, three joined, collection was grand, Rev. M. B. McPhearson and Rev. W. R. Austin were among the visitors, they both are from South Carolina Conference. Dr. Bynum of Africa was also out. 12 members joined since the last writing, 812 since Dr. L. A. Townsley had charge as pastor. Love feast was a rare treat. Everyone present had something to say in the way of experience. Services to morrow, Prayer meeting 5:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Preaching 11 a.m. 3 o'clock and 8 o'clock p.m. The rites of communion will be administered at both the afternoon and evening services. You are welcomed. Installation of officers. The Savannah Home Association held its annual installation of officers on last Monday night at its reading room 410 Taylorstreet west. It entertained as a few guest the ladies' branch. After a few appropriate remarks by Mr. Joseph J. Brown, who acted as Chairman of the occasion, the association was turned over to the installing officer, Mr. John F. Andrews, who aquitted himself admirably. Following are the officers: Ed H. Burke, president; W.H. Herbert, vice president; Ed R. Collins, financial secretary; H. E. Peyton, recording secretary; R. C. Butler, treasurer; Peter B. Biggins, bank book keeper, Joseph H. Gathers, advocate; J. O. Miller, clerk; Charles Squire, chairman of health; House committee—Joseph J. Brown, chairman; Jeff Moran, Henry Payne, Wiltig Wiggins, Charlie Squire. Seventh Day Adventists Evangelist J. W. Manns begs to notify every one that the annual Camp-meeting of the colored people of the Seventh day Adventists will be held in this city, commending August 15, and will be continued until the 25th inst. The Evangelist expects to have a large delegation from various parts of the state. He also expects some other ministerial brethren, who will utilize the time in expounding the scripture, and giving daily instructions for the benefit of all who realize the need of them. A cordial invitation is extended to every one in this city. Another baptismal service will also take place during these meetings; there are upwards of 40 persons to be baptized. Do not fail to attend these services. Donations for Carnegie Library LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE TO COME IN FROM FRIENDS Curators Making Strenuous Efforts to Raise Money-Ball Game for Benefit of Library To be Played This Month. Donations for the proposed Carnegie Library continue to come in and the curators are meeting with encouragement on all sides. Many subscriptions of substantial amounts have been received during the past month and indications are that these are but fore-runners of many larger amounts in the future. The solicitors who have appealed to both the white and colored citizens of the city seem to be meeting with very fair success here of late and are greatly encouraged in their work. During the present month it is proposed to hold a baseball game at the Athletic park between the professional and business men of the city for the benefit of the library and this will undoubtedly be attended by a very large crowd of persons. Talk of the game can be heard all over the city and it is the consensus of opinion that it will be the greatest social affair of the summer. The date of the game will probably be given out shortly. St. Philip Dots Masonic Temple, West Gwinnett street. Rev. Singleton's discourse at 11 a.m. on Sunday was one of great interest and every person paid strict attention to what was said. His text was from Luke 14:36-27-33. Subject, "Test of Discipleship" Rev Singleton preached at 8:30 also, not-withstanding the closeness of the weather a large crowd was out to hear him. Our delegation from the Sunday School Convention held at Meter, Ga, reported having an enjoyable time and much business transacted. The several Trolley rides planned by St. Philips for the past week were postponed on account of the accident to the Electric Company. They will take place during the next week. Our monthly love feast was held on Friday night. Bro. Samuel Brauxt was buried from his residence on last Wednesday afternoon. Bro. Geo. Dennis was buried from St. Paul C. M. E. Church on last Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. Both of these brethren had been members of St. Philip for some time. St. Philip's membership is growing, not a service is held that from three to four do not join the church. The following service will be held on to-morrow, Sunday; Prayer meet ng 5 a.m. Preaching, and baptism of children and adults at 11 a.m. Sunday School at 3 p.m. A. C. E. League at 6:30 p.m. Preaching at 8:30 p.m. Everyone invited. St. Paul C. M. E. Church St. Paul C. M. E. Church Services at St. Paul C M. E. church last Sunday were indeed a feast of good things. The Epworth League of which Rev. J. H. Brookins is president had quite an excellent meeting at 7 p. m. Our young men and women are cordially invited to attend these meetings. The members of St. Paul C M. E. church how their heads in humble submission to the will of Almighty God, in that he has taken from us one of the pioneer members and leaders of the church, Dr. J. Walter Williams. Memorial services to him will be held at St. Paul C M. E. church sometime in August. Love feast meeting and communion First Lord's day. Subject for Sun' day night will be "Ideal Manhood." you should hear it. Sacred Concert. At the Second Baptist Church, Sunday August 18th, at 4:30 p.m., there will be a Sacred Concert given under the auspices of some of the young people of the church. Admission free. The public is cordially invited to attend. Anthem . . . Choir Invocation . . . Pastor Solo (vocal) . . . Miss Iona Coston Reading . . . R. D. Millidge Selection . . . Eureka Quartette Recitation . . Miss Anna Lindsay Solo (vocal) . . Prof. J. H. C Jenkins Introductory remarks . . . Mr. E. W. Shriman Address . . . Rev. R. H. Singleton Anthem . . . Choir Selection . . . Forest City Quartette Instrumental duet. . . The Misses Grant Recitation . . . Miss Willie Grant Cornet (solo) . . Prof Walter Childs Solo (vocal) . . Miss Alma Davis General remarks . . . Pastor Cornet solo . . . Jno. J. Hart Instrumental solo . . . Mrs. Jeanne Belle Horne Benediction . . . Rev. R. H. Singleton Jno. J. Hart Master of Ceremonies *St. Stephen's Episcopal Church* Harris and Haversham Street. Services Sundays 8 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. All seats free. Hearty singing. A cordial welcome to all. Asbury M. E. Church. Gwinnett Street West of West Baoad, Sunday services 11 a.m. and 8:30 p. m. Sunday School 4 p. m. Class meeting Tuesday nights. Epworth League Thursday nights. Rev. W. V. Daughtry past o St. Stephen's Excursion August 15th, 1912. Owing to the bad weather, we have been unable to give our friends and patrons their usual enjoyable outing. Consequently, we will go to Daufuskie, Thursday afternoon, August 15th, and invite you to go with us. Save the Editor Even Though He Makes Mistakes. In a recent editorial convention a minister was present and offered the following toast: "To save an editor from starvation, take his paper and pay for it promptly; to save him from despair, send him every item you can get hold of; to save him from bankruptcy, advertise in his paper liberally; to save him from profanity, write your correspondence plainly on one side of the sheet and send it in as soon as possible; to save him from mistakes, bury him. Dead people are the only ones who never make mistakes."—Southern Life Magazines. Waycross, Ga. Dotes. A big baptisnal service took place at Hoboken, Ga., on last Sunday, Rev. O. J. Jordan was the officiating minister. At 11:30 a.m., the church marched to the river and there assembled for the service which was very impressive. Rev. A. J. Johnson preached the sermon which was very instructive. At 3:30 p. m., the pastor presented to the audience Rev. W. J. Rodgers, from Waycross to speak. Rev. Rodgers' discourse was thoroughly enjoyed. At the conclusion of his remarks, several persons came forward and subscribed for The Savannah Tribune, of which Rev. Rodgers is representative. Those who subscribed are: O. A. Adams, A. W. Cobb, John McCeary, Mrs. O. J. Jordan. St. Paul Baptist church held their regular service on Sunday night. Collection amounted to $87.78. Almost 400 were present. St. John B. Y. P. U. held their regular service Sunday at 6 p. m. Prof. N. E. Thomas presided. Misses Viola Wilson and Anna Small from Brnnswick are in the city visiting Misses Hilda and Willie Wells, 130 Reynolds Street. Mr. Sylvester Brown, from Havana, Cuba, is in the city visiting at No. 5 Johnson street. Miss Helen Smiler has left for Sayannah to visit friends. Miss Cora Session and Miss Helen Smiler made a flying trip to Blackshear this week to be present at a social given by her school mates. Mrs. Tilda Wyche left for her home in Boston, Ga., this week. Mrs. Agnes Smith from Americus, was in the city visiting her three sisters at 39 Samuel street. She left Thursday night for home. Mr. C. Hall, 29 I street, arrived home this week. He has been in South Florida for a long time. Rev. W. J. Rodgers and Rey. A. J. Johnson made a flying trip to Hoboken Sunday to the baptism. Miss Hennie Paton, 178 Butler St. is very busily engaged teaching a class of little ones at her home. Mrs. Hannah Paton of Hawkinsville is in the city visiting her daughters and grand children. She will be in the city two weeks. Miss Mary E. Jones of Jacksonville was in this city visiting her aunt, Mrs. Wm. Brown 84 Brown's alley. Miss Lillian Johnson gave a delightful social at her residence, 30 Lee street. Mrs. Wm. Founches is very ill at her home. Miss Hadie Odom of Blackville, S. C. is spending a, while with her relatives in the city. Mrs. Norma Davis, wife of the late Claud Davis, formerly of Waycross, returned to Tuskegee, Ala., after a pleasant week's visit to her relatives. Miss Delia Goods is visiting out of town this week. Prof. D. J. Hill, Inspector for the Guaranty Mutual Health and Life Insurance Co., who left for Savannah this week will return soon. Rev. Higgins, Superintendent for Pilgrim Insurance Co. made a flying trip to Savannah this week. Evangelical Ministers' Union. The Evangelical Ministers' Union met Tuesday with Dr. R. H. Singleton presiding. Devotional service was conducted by Rev. C. W. Prothro. "In the cross of Christ I glory" was sung. Having addressed the throne of grace the 30th Psalter was then read. The Union followed this with a chant. On account of the slayers of the late Mr. J. H. Turner being on trial, the Union postponed all business to attend the trial in a body. Rev. J. S. Jenkins reported his wedding which took place last Sunday at 3 o'clock p. m. He received the congratulations of the Union. Come out next Tuesday. Remember the Tuesday after the first Sunday always sermonic reports. Visitors always welcomed. NUMBER 46 Slayers of Turner Acquited. CRIME A MOST HEINOUS AND BRUTAL ONE. Great Interest Shown in Trial—On Previous Trial One of Murderers Received Life Sentence—New Trial Granted Him on Technical Grounds. The two young white men, Boggs and Worley, who have been held in custody for the killing of Mr.J. H-Turner, the popular automobile hackman, lodging house and barber shop proprietor, were acquitted Thursday night by a jury of the Superior Court of Chatham county. On a previous trial last November of Worley who was one of the principals in the murder, he was convicted of murder with a recommendation to mercy. After several months a new trial was granted and it was then decided to try both men at the same time with the verdict of Thursday night as the final result. The crime for which Boggs and Worley were held was one of the most heinous and brutal ever committed in Chatham county, and at the time brought forth the condemnation of the entire community. The history of the crime is thus: On the night of July 31, 1911, two white men, who were later found out to be Boggs and Worley, hired Mr. J. H. Turner, a Negro automobile hackman operating his own car, to drive them over the road. When about twelve miles from the city, a little beyond Monteith, Ga., Mr. Turner was struck in the head with a sledge hammer and killed. His body, wrapped in a sack, was placed in the automobile and carried farther on the road to an empty house and there on the premises of the deserted house deposited in a well. The murderers then entering the automobile continued on the road to Oliver, Ga., where they washed up and after about two hours departed, returning to Oliver after their car had broken down. They then decided to dispose of the disabled car and sold it for one hundred dollars and departed. The authorities by this time had been notified of Mr Turner's mysterious disappearance from town and a search was instigated. Several days after the disappearance of the unfortunate man and his car his body was discovered in the well by one of the friends of Mr. Turner who was a member of one searching parties. Meanwhile information was received by Sheriff Meldrim of Mr. Turner's car being bought at Oliver, Ga. With this finding, therefore, of both the body of the murdered man and his car, the authorities set to work to apprehend the guilty parties. But very little clues were given them to-work upon, these being a shoe, a hat and a small piece of paper with writing on it left in the boarding house in Oliver where the murderers stopped. With these meager bits of evidence at their command, the authorities worked night and day to catch the murderers, and after a search of two weeks landed their men in prison, one in Decatur, Ala., the other in Detroit, Mich. The prisoners were brought to Chatham county and placed in jail. Great interest has been manifested in both the previous case when Worley was tried alone and convicted and that of this week in which both he and Boggs were brought to trial. The court room was packed during Tuesday and Wednesday and even standing room was at a premium. It is intimated that charges of larceny are to be preferred against Boggs and Worley for running away with the murdered man's car and selling it. Second Baptist Church In the absence of the pastor, Rev. D. Augustine Reid, who was attending the convention, Rev. Butler, formerly of Savannah but now of Providence, R L preached a very good sermon on Sunday morning from the text, Job 22:21. He also preached at the evening service. On to-morrow morning the pastor will give a brief account of the convention and its work. The Sunday School under the leadership of Supt. J. C. Lindsay is progressing nicely. The public is cordially invited to attend each se. vice. Good singing, services usually short. BY DR. G. W. BELL, PINE BLUFF, ARK., AN EX-SLAVE AND AN EX-STATE SENATOR. Many writers and public speakers claim that there is no real problem concerning the negro any more than that which relates to any other race; that the application of the "golden rule" will destroy it; that if he is given a square deal in the struggle of life and let alone, that he will solve it. Some advance the idea that wealth and education are the most potent factors and essential requisites necessary for its solution. But the one idea which attracts more attention than all the others combined is the industrial education which makes him "a better hewer of wood and a better drawer of water," and chooses for him the south in preference to all the other countries of the earth. For 45 years past, more or less, these various propositions have been before the American people and the other civilized nations of the earth, and it is strange to say, yet 'its true, that they are as far from the solution of this problem as they were when it first began. There are many elements in the formation of this all absorbing proposition which have never been discussed in the public forum. heretofore. We therefore admit the existence of this problem, which began as we understand it from the flood and has continued from that period until the present day. When Nimrod sought to be independent of God and conceived in his fertile imagination the building of a tower broad enough and high enough to overcome every known obstacle to his ambition, a shadow indicative of his awful sin and disobedience was reflected and indelibly imprinted upon the mind and conscience of the world. Pause a moment and look with me down through the archives of the ages and there we behold the relies of God's awful wrath lying in the valleys, upon the plains and upon the highest mountains. The carcasses of those God had no recently destroyed by the flood can be plainly seen and the stench of their decay is still fresh in the nostrils of Nimrod, the great-grandson of Noah and the grandson of Ham and the son of Cush, the first born of Ham instead of becoming awed and impressed as he gazed upon these great and mighty deeds of God, his indignation was fired to a burning desire to be revenged on God. He therefore planned to build a tower with a base deeply riveted in the bowels of the earth and its tomost parts reaching the heavens. At this particular period there was no division in the family of Noah. Nimrod then was the ruler of all the inhabitants of the earth. He undertook the most gigantic and heroic scheme that has ever entered the brain of mankind. God only could comprehend and overthrow his flagrant and contemptible scheme. There never has existed in the history of all the world since that eventful time such unity of mind and purpose as was concocted and cemented into a people as was watchlessly manifested by this wonderful and mighty one before the Lord. Behold his audacity! After God had confused their languages, overthrowing and checking the building of the Tower of Babel, Nimrod remained there and organized the first government upon the face of the earth after the flood. He planned and built the first Great City of Babylon and handed down the plans that enabled Assur, the son of Shem, to build Nineveh on the River Tigris. How long he reigned and when he died we have no history. Centuries must have elapsed before the all conquering and haughty Hamatic family marched westward over the plains of Shinor and planting their great cities of Sidon, Sodom and Gomorrah upon the west bank of the Mediterranean sea. It was from these centers that Europe, Asla and Africa were colonized. It was here that the world learned its first lessons in ship-building and commercial enterprise. Here the Phoenicians, the Canaanites, the Philistines, consolling three branches of the Homilic family, conducted and carried on the most prosperous commercial supremacy that the world had ever seen. They held the keys of commerce with the whole world! Should any one ask what the negroes have done in history answer-them by pointing to those achievements. If they are still ignorant of the facts, call their attention to Mlsraine, the second son of Ham, who was the founder of Egypt, and whose name means Egypt. He with his song, Pathrusim, Ludim and Lehabil, migrated from Asia and settled, colonized and founded the garden spot of the earth. He was soon followed by Cush and Phut, the first and third sons of Ham. It was here in this rich and fertile country all the inventions and scientific discoveries were born! It is here we find the greatest wonders of the world! It was here that the world's greatest leader was reared and educated. Here God manifested himself to the Hamitic family in a most practical manner in the Red sea. Here also he sent his son Jesus for protection. This scrap of history is enumerated and cited on account of the direct bearing it has in dealing with the negro problem. This question, if you have followed me carefully, began at the Tower of Babel, repeating itself at Sodom, Gomorrah and in the Red sea. The negro is shown here to have reached the acme of political fame, inventive ingenuity, philosophical sagacity and the highest commercial supremacy! Yet not understanding the crash and overthrow at Babel, the thunderous tones of God in his hearing at Mt. Sinai. The miraculous lessons God gave them when he overthrew Pharaoh in the Red sea, intoxicated with his wealth and charlots of gold, he refused from time to time to accept God's messengers, who tried to teach them revealed religion. They were stiff-necked and believed only in natural causations and that there was no God. If the Negro, after reviewing his conduct in ancient days, can catch a ray of hope, in which he is justified in drawing the inference from the memorable statement, "That before the end of time Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands, unto God," to mean that special favors are to be granted unto him, without special efforts upon his part to merit them, there is no possibility for him in attaining them. If we can properly sum up his deeds as we have shown in his most active part played in building the Tower of Babel; his attempt to be revenged upon God, his maker, and his gross and beastly immorality; his utter and total neglect and forgetfulness, of God; his highhanded and most wicked statement that there is no God, that all things exist from natural laws that spring up spontaneously without a God to govern and direct them; his rejection of Abraham, when God sent him among them to teach these worldly and most prosperous people the most skilled and the most powerful forces of men, who had demonstrated in every respect all that human ingenuity, backed by its most potent factor, wealth, revealed religion! He marshaled all his forces both in Africa and Asia Minor and fought daily against the God of Israel; God overthrew the Negro king and drowned him with his host within the Red sea. He made David to kill the brazen and stubborn Negro Philistine, Gollath. God ordered every Negro killed who was found in the Promised Land. And those in Africa he overthrew and drove them from power; from all their beautiful cities, their wonderful pyramids, into the jungle of Africa and gave his inventions, skilled acts into the hands of others who at least acknowledged the existence of a God. The real, certain and comprehensive meaning of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands unto God may be summed up after this manner; I have tried you and you have absolutely rejected me, I shall sell you into strange lands, I shall heap burdens upon you and sting you with the lash of persecution until you can see the error of your wickedness and call upon me. When you do this I will harken unto you and try you once more. The Spanish, the Dutch and Portuguese, in fact every civilized nation upon the earth, were given a large bunch of the Negroes of Africa, and history shows the most cruel treatment given unto them until they submitted and cried unto God. In proportion to their moving into the glorious sunlight of Christianity their yoke was taken from their necks. Though they had been working the soil, fountains of knowledge were opened and the streams thereof were sent by every Negro's door. The country was stocked with preachers and teachers of the Negro race. An industrial wave has swept over the race and has created the deepest interest. He is truly becoming skilled in all the arts and sciences that his ancient ancestors handed down in their early supremacy through Greece and Rome to the world. In order that the Negro might learn and imbibe the elements of self-sacrifice and the missionary working spirit, God raised up in his midst such characters as Abraham Lincoln, Lovejoy, Harriett Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglas, who were used as instruments of God to fire the heart and mind of all nations against over-enslavement. We have been given marching orders according to the light and reason of Christian obligations to carry the gospel training, together with our knowledge manipulating the soil, over which we had roamed and more than two hundred million are now roaming, stumbling over gold and diamonds and plucking berries and other natural products from the bushes of the forest like so many wild beasts without knowing their value. Are we so blind to reason that we cannot see that history repeats itself? Let us at this moment compare God's dealing with the Jews, a people who have more than any other race been wrapped up in history since the flood. The world owes all of its substantial structures in civile pride and commercial prowess to the Jew and the Negro. It took the Negroes four hundred years to educate the Jews in order to teach them to make brick without straw; 50 learn and to become skilled in pottery, wood and iron. They knew absolutely nothing of these things, for they were a nomadic people living in tents before they were sent to Egypt. The Negroes had fallen into that same condition before they were taken from Africa. Joseph was sold by his brethren, so was the Negro sold like the Jew into a foreign land. Joseph's brethren had intended to kill him if they had not found captors always put their prisoners captured from other tribes to death. But like Joseph's brethren, Arabs purchased them for the market and they were thus redeemed from a cruel death. The Jews were put to tasks, so were the Negroes. The Jews were learned in all the arts and sciences of the Egyptians, so are the Negroes imbbling these principles from every nation. Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were our Aaron and Moses. The Jews spent forty years in the wilderness after their most wonderful deliverance. Some would be leaders advised the going back into Egypt and to remain there rather than to bear the hardships which were necessary for their discipline in order to fit them to grapple with the great problems of fighting and building up the country which God had given them. The bones of all those old grabbers after the gold and silver which here represents the golden calf are let in the desert. There are those among us who seem to be selected by our old task masters to persuade us to believe that we can find no other place upon the face of the earth more or better suited for us than our old land of bondage. These so-called leaders walk out or ride around in palace cars and lo! they see our brethren shot down, lynched and burned at the stake. Our women murdered and insulted and unlike Moses they are conspicuously silent. Such would-be leaders advise us to obey and love our old task master, to drop all political rights, do not bother with commercialism, to let law, medicine and all the professions alone, but point with pride, to southern fields, where live our "best friends," who on the slightest provocation show their friendship by giving "necktie parties." The southern Negroes as well as the ex-slaves in other parts of the world have become infected with the gorms of selfishness and greed. Having been reared in an atmosphere every atom of which is filled with submission, oppression, persecution and all the attributes of citizenship and the same deleterious and baneful elements are handed, down and freely imbibed by their children. Though educated and that under a low pressure standard within such an atmosphere, how can we expect to produce strong men and women possessing the true requisites of manhood and womanhood? Just as it is impossible to rear a strong and healthy child in a loathsome and dirty, foul atmosphere, which will impoverish and weaken every cell and tissue in the child's mechanism, so it must be with those who are forced to live under mental and oppressive conditions. Like the Jews, the Negroes are not grateful to God and the friends who alided him in gaining his freedom from bondage. What he has gathered in art and science from his neighbors, the Negroes seek to bury it again in the flesh pots of slavery. He is again forgetting God and is running after and building up the golden calf. This is the same spirit he imbibed from his old master. HOLES IN MACARONI DEVICE BY WHICH THE HOLLOW STRIPS OF DOUGH ARE PRODUCED. Haven't you often asked, "How do they get the holes in macaroni?" Yes, you undoubtedly have, and unless you have visited a macaroni factory you are probably still in doubt. Interesting methods are employed in bringing this food into the form in which it is placed before the public. After the dough has been well mixed and kneaded in a powerful machine it is ready to form into macaroni, which is of a tube shape about one-fourth inch in diameter, or spaghetti, which is a solid shape of about one-eighth inch in diameter. This is done by forcing the dough under hydraulic pressure through a cylinder with a flat circular bronze die or mold at the bottom. The macaroni die is full of holes about one-fourth inch in diameter, and each hole has a small pin in the center of it, which is attached to one side of the hole. This pin forms the hole in the macaroni and divides the dugon on one side as it starts through the hole, but before the dough reaches the end of the hole the divided side comes together and remains so, making a perfect tube. The spaghetti die contains only plain holes about one-eighth inch in diameter arranged in groups. When macaroni and spaghetti come from the presses or cylinders they are cut into certain lengths, the length depending upon whether the curing or drying is to be done on trays or by hanging over rods. In curing or drying macaroni the length of time varies according to the process employed and to atmospheric conditions outside the factory and the standard of quality maintained. Some makers require only three days, while others take as many as six days.—Omaha Bee. THE DOCTOR'S FEE. There came a leupin in the rush of patients, and the doctor opened two small envelopes lying on his desk. "It's all right," he said. "I wasn't sure. Without offending I couldn't open the envelopes in the presence of the persons who gave them to me. They contain the fees left by two Englishmen who called close on each other's heels. English etiquette is rather embarrassing for a physician who is used to patients who hand over their money with the denomination right on top. American fashion. In England it would be considered an insult to give a physician his fee unwrapped. You can't insult an American physician that way, but newcomers credit him with an excess of sensibility and give him a good many unusey moments wondering if he hasn't been underpaid."—New York Sun. AMERICAN SUNSHINE. Until a man has made the experiment it is impossible to believe how vivid and how severe on British eyes is. the glare of the American sun, and also how immossible it is, no matter how strong British prejudice may be in that regard, to play golf in the coat which all the traditions of Scotland prescribe as decent. Very soon the Briton golfing in America will have cast from him that worse than superfluous garment and will be going with light heart and light raiment—so-called "in shirt sleeves"—like the American himself—London Globe. THE AGRICULTURAL LABORER IN ITALY AND HUNGARY EXTRACTS FROM DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S BOOK, "THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN." In the present chapter I shall describe what I saw of the agricultural laborer in Italy and Hungary. While the situation of the farm hands in Hungary differs from that of the farm hands in Italy in many ways, there are two important respects in which the situation of each is the same. First, a large part of the land of both countries is held in large estates; second, farm laborers, as a rule, particularly in Hungary, do not live, as is the case in America, on the land. On the contrary, they dwell apart in villages, so that they are hardly any more attached to the soil they cultivate than the factory hand is a tached to the factory in which he is employed. In Hungary, for example, it is the custom for a group of laborers to enter into a contract with the land owner during the summer to harvest his crop in the fall. A contractor, who either represents or employs a farm hand, will look over the field and bargain with the owner to do the harvest work for a certain per cent. of the crop. At the harvest time, the contractor arrives with his laborers, just as he would come with a gang of men to build a house or dig a ditch. While the work is going on, the laborers, men and women together, practically camp in the fields, sleeping sometimes in the open fields, or in such scant shelter as they are able to find. It happened that I was in Hungary at the harvest time and, in the course of my journey through the country, I had several times seen these gangs of men and women going to their work at daybreak. In this part of the country, the strongest costumes are worn by these peasant people, and the women, especially, with their bright kerchiefs over their heads, their short skirts and high boots, when they are not barefooted, were quite as picturesque as anything I had read had led to expect. The field hands go to work at early dawn during the harvest season. They work sometimes as much as 16 to 18 hours a day, I have been told, and then throw themselves down to rest for the night on a truss, of straw or under a single blankets. After the harvest is over they return again to their villages. Working in this way, in troops of wandering laborers, there was no room for any permanent relationships between themselves and their employers; such relationships, for example, as exist in spite of the difference of race and color, between every white planter in the south and his negro tenants. On the other hand, the hand, the laborers, working and living together in the way I have described, come to have a strong sense of their common interest, all the more, perhaps, because they are looked down upon by the rest of the population, and particularly by the small land owners, with whom they had been associated up to the time of their emancipation in 1848. About 1890, a series of bad harvests, coming on the heels of other changes which, for a number of years, had made their lives steadily harder, helped to increase the discontent of the agricultural laborers. Thus it was that when, about this time, the socialists turned their attention to the agricultural population of Hungary, they found the people prepared to listen to their doctrine. What made socialism the more popular among the lowest farming classes was the fact that it not only promised to teach the farm laborers how they might increase their wages, but declared that the state was going to take up the land out of the hands of the large land owners and divide it among the people who cultivated it. What made the situation the more difficult was the fact that, as soon as they were thoroughly organized, the agricultural laborers had the landowners, during the harvest time, at a peculiar disadvantage because when work in the fields stopped, the standing grain ripened and spoiled and the landowner was ruined. In the emergency created by these strikes, the government came to the rescue of the landowner by establishing recruiting stations for farm laborers in different parts of the country. Collecting laborers in those parts of the country where labor was abundant, they shipped them to other parts of the country where, because of the strikes, laborers were scarce and crops were in danger. Thus the government had at one time a reserve force of not less than 10,000 strikebreakers with which it was at any moment able to come to the rescue of a landowner who was threatened. One effect of these disturbances was to greatly increase the amount of emigration to America. In 1904 when the struggle was at its height, no less than 200,000 persons, mostly from the country districts, emigrated from Hungary. Thousands of others left the country and moved into the cities. The exodus of the farm laborer from Hungary threatened, in spite of the rapid increase of the population, to permanently check the rising prosperity of that country. It was soon found that the great landowners could not rely upon repressive measures alone to solve their labor problems. Something must be done to redress the grievance and to improve the condition of the agricultural population. Relief funds were organized in 64 counties and boroughs to aid temporarily disabled workmen. Public prizes and diplomas were offered to laborers who were faithful to their masters. Something was also done to brighten the monotony of the agricultural laborer's life and strengthen the ties between the laborers and employers. At the suggestion of the minister of agriculture an attempt was made to revive the harvest least which brought the farmer and his laborer together, working men's clubs, libraries, friendly and co-operative societies were encouraged by the government. A popular weekly paper, printed in seven different languages was started for the benefit of agricultural laborers and as a means of agricultural education. A bill for life insurance against accidents and old age for the benefit of agricultural laborers provided that if a laborer loses more than a week's time, he shall receive in addition to the expenses of doctor and medicine, a sum amounting to about 25 cents a day for 60 days. In case of death of an agricultural laborer, his family receives a sum amounting to something between $40 and $50. In Italy the socialistic movement among the agricultural classes has taken a somewhat different course. For one thing, it was not confined merely to the poorest class, namely, those laborers who live in the villages and go out at certain seasons to assist in the work on the farms, but extend to the small proprietors also and those who rented land. In many cases, the large estates in Italy are not managed as in Hungary by the proprietor, but by middlemen and overseers, who pay a certain amount of rent to the proprietor and then sublet to tenants. Sometimes, particularly in southern Italy, lands are sublet again a second and third time. In many cases, the terms upon which the land was held and worked by the small farmer were terribly oppressive, even in northern Italy, where conditions are said to be incomparably better than in the south. Although the peasants in northern Italy were normally given their freedom in 1973, their condition, until a few years ago, has been described by one who was himself a large land propretor as, "a little better than if they were slaves." In addition to the high rents, the tennant former was compelled to furnish the overseer with a certain number of chickens and eggs, and certain amount of peaches, nuts, figs, hemp, and flax, in proportion to the amount of land he rented. The overseer claimed, also, just as the overlord did in the days of feudalism, the rights to the labor of the peasant and his ox cart for a certain part of every year. His children were expected to work as servants in his household at a nominal price. The overseer sold the crop of the tenant farmer, and, after deducting all that was coming to him, for rent and other charges, returned the remainder to the tenant farmer as his share of the year's work. In one case where, as a result of the revolt of his tenants, the middle man was driver out, the tenant farmer, under the direction of the socialist leaders, undertook to rent the land directly from the landowners. It was found that the middle man had been appropriating not less than 45 percent of the profits, which, under the new arrangement went directly into the hands of the man who tilled the soil. In recent years, co-operative organization of all kinds have multiplies among the small farmers of northern Italy. There are societies for purchasing supplies as well as for disposing of the products of the small farmers; the most important of these societies have been, perhaps, the cooperative credit organizations, by means of which the small landowners have been able to escape the burden of the heavy interest charges they were formerly compelled to pay. There is much in the history of the agricultural laborers of Hungary and Italy that is interesting to any one who has studied the condition of the negro farm laborer in the south. In many respects their history has been the same. There is, however, this difference, when the serfs were freed in Hungary, as in most other parts of Europe, provision was made to give them land, though to a very large extent they were denied the political privileges enjoyed by the upper classes. In Italy also it was intended, in giving the serfs freedom and again when the vast estates of the church were taken over by the states, to create a large class of small owners and to give them land to the people who tilted it. In both cases, however, it was but a few years before the greater portion of the peasant owners were wiped out and their lands had been absorbed into the large estates. At the present time, the small, land owners, under the influence of education and agriculture organization, are galing ground, and both countries in the interest of agriculture, are seeking to encourage this movement. The case of the negro was just the opposite. When the masses of the negro people were turned loose from slavery, they carried in their hand, the ballot that they did not know how to use, but they took no property with them. At the present time, I believe, by a conservative estimate, that the negroes in the south own not less than twenty million acres of land, an area greater than that of the four New England states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. On the other hand, the negroes have largely lost, at least temporarily, many of the political privileges which were given them at emancipation. The experience of the peasants of Europe, just as the experience of the negro in America, has served to confirm an opinion I have long held, namely, that it is very hard for a man to keep anything that he has not earned or does not know how to use, and, in most cases, the best way and, in fact, the only way, to insure any people in the possession either of property or political privileges, is to fit them by education to use these gifts for their own' good and for the highest good of the community in which they live. ONE OF THE EARLY WILDCAT GET-RIGH QUICK SWINDLES ONE OF THE EARLY WILDCAT GET-RIGH QUICK SWINDLES The "Mississippi scheme" was one of the famous get-rich-quick bubbles in the world's history. Thousands of people in France were swept to ruin in it, and the infant king's reign in its early years was practically discredited by it. This pioneer of get-rich-quick schemes was the work of John Law, a notorious promoter of financi- bubbles and frenzied financier of the period when Louis XV. ascended the throne of France in 1715, at the age of five years, under the regency of Philip, duke of Orleans. At thirteen the little king was declared of age. Law was the son of a goldsmith of Edinburgh and early turned his attention to the question of public finances, always leaning toward the spectacular. Presently he came to be known as a skilful gambler and juggler of finances. He was finally forced to dilt England for the killing of an antagonist in a duel, going to the continent, where he lived by his wits as a professional gambler until in 1716, when he landed in Paris. He soon ingratiated himself with the regent, the Duke of Orleans, who authorized him to establish a sort of government bank and appointed him to the management of it. Soon afterward Law created the Mississippi company, a monumental scheme for the payment of the entire national debt and the enrichment of every person in France who chose to subscribe for it. The promoter obtained for his glided enterprise a water tight monopoly of the entire trade of France from the Cape of Good Hope eastward to all the other parts of Africa, to Persia, India, China, Japan; and even to the strait of Magellan. The French people took to Law's frenzled scheme with a rush. They put into it every penny they could beg, borrow or steal. But one day the bubble was pricked and every investor in it went to sudden and complete ruin. Thousands of families that had been rated as wealthy found themselves paupers in an hour. Law fled with all France hpwling maledictions at his luckless heels. He became a wandering vagrant and died a few years later in Venice. CURIOUS CONTRASTS AUTHORS WHOSE WRITINGS AND METHODS OF LIFE WERE CONTRADICTORY. A man of genius when he writes a book and "all the god comes rushing into his soul" is in an abnormal state and hence lives of men of letters have often been in glaring contrast to their writings. Montagne tells us that he always observed supercelestial opinions to be accompanied with subterranean morals. On the other hand, the most latitudinarian professors of epicureanism have often lived like anchors or trappists. Some of the best sea songs have been written by men who never snuffed a salt water breeze, stirring war songs have been written by timid men and women who would have shrieked at the sight of a mouse, and hymns steeped in the very spirit of devotion have been written by men of doubtful morality, who were never less at home than in a Christian church. Charles Lamb was eager to wager that Milton's morning hymn in Paradise was penned at midnight, and we know positively that Thompson, who sang the praises of early rising in the "Seasons," used to lie abed till noon. Sir Richard Steele could discourse eloquently on temperance when he was not drunk. Woodworth in his "Old Oaken Bucket" sang the praises of cold water under the inspiration of brandy. Dr. Johnson, who wrote so well on politeness, interrupted his opponents with "You lie, sir!" "You are a vile' Whig, sirt!" Burns was a compound of "dirt and delty." Rousseau, who was always filling people's eyes with tears, betrayed and slandered his 'benefactors in turn and sent his children to the foundlings' hospital. When Moore proposed to Scott to go and see Melrose abbey, as Sir Walter had described it, by moonlight, "Pooh, pooh," said Scott, "you don't suppose I ever saw it by moonlight!" — William Matthews, Salte Beuve's Monday Chats. U. S. FARM LIBRARIES. The United-States bureau of education, which is of recent establishment, is introducing a scheme for bringing a circulating library to the home of every farmer in the United States. The plan is to place from 100 to 150 books of suitable character in charge of the local storekeeper or postmaster, and to pay him a small salary for handling them. The books will be renewed every three months. The books will be of a character desired by the readers as far as possible. Collections may be loaned to schools. The plan is patterned after that tried in Van Wert county, Ohio, for many years. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS One of the most informing papers read the Tuskegee International conference on the Negro, as published in The Southern Workman for June, was that on "Education and Racial Traits," by Mr. William I. Thomas, professor of sociology in the University of Chicago. Prof. Thomas takes no stock in race superiority or inherent intelligence as an inheritance. The children of every race have to be taught all that their fathers knew, and any break in the education from sire to son starts the child back from the highest to the lowest point of cultural education and refinement. That is to say, education and culture are not transmissible, as an inheritance, from the father to the son. These are locked up in the son, and require the same long cultural process to unlock them as was required in the case of the father. The same theory holds in the case of environment and social status; these must be continued unbroken from father to son or relapse is reasonably certain. Talking about handicaps to individual success or unsuccess. Prof. Thomas says: It may naturally occur to some of you that race prejudice is the most serious and oppressive form of isolation and cause of mental backwardness in the case of the Negro, and I am certainly not inclined to make light of prejudice. At the same time I do not regard it as a profoundly serious matter. It is something you can get by—It may even be a stimulation. Compared with slavery or serfdom, it is trivial. I am now making some studies among the Slavic peasants of Europe, for the peasant was and is mentally as backward as the Negro is or as he was in slavery. I have found even more backward cases. But my main reason for speaking lightly of prejudice is that it does not successfully isolate. One of the gentlemen from Jamaica who excited your interest here by his mental poise and the unimobility of his wits confessed that he had studied in some of the most important centers of learning in the world. The point worth emphasizing is that race prejudice as "the most serious and op- be a diawback but may be made a "stimulation" to mental, physical and material development and growth. The militator of anything is not the originator of the thing, and that which may be good for the originator of it may be destructive for the originator of it. Mr. F. G. Peck, in the same number of the Workman, talking about "Conservation for the Indians," says that the difference between the Negro and Indian is that the Indian has retained his mental attitudes, his social isolation and his manhood independence, refusing to relinquish his own for those of the white man, and is the stronger for doing so; while "the unenviable present social position of the Negro masses is undeniably partly due to the way in which they have faithfully allowed their native originality to become annihilated. . . . Suroly to become annihilated has not proved an advantage to the Negro, so far as his social rank is concerned;" while in the same issue, talking about "Education Among the Bantu of Southeast Africa," Mr. Maurice S. Evans of the African Society of the matter as Mr. Peck does. He says: It seems to me that in breaking down this life we, the Europeans of South Africa, are placed in a position of responsibility we must whole heartedly accept. To leave the native subject to the corrupting influences of our civilization in his present unprepared state, is to leave, the door open to disaster for him and for us. And if for no other reason than to act as a counterpoise for this destructive process now going on, it is imperative that some influence for good should be brought to bear upon him. To go back to the old life is impossible, the new is full of danger to a race so unprepared for change; the Europeans of South Africa are responsible for this and it is our valuable duty to take steps to minimize or remove the danger and give the native guidance and opportunity for a higher and better life. And I must confess, the only method I can see is education in its broadest sense, which includes moral and religious instruction. It is problematical, however, if the broadest English education will ever make out of the Bantu as good and strong a people as would have cultural education of him along Bantu lines. He was a simple pastoral people, and education along his lines of thought and habits made him a strong African Bantu and not a weak English Bantu, thinking in Bantu and talking and working in English, as many American Negroes do even now, some centuries removed from their African habitat, language and religion. Far from allowing race prejudice and segregation to affect them disastrously, American Negroes should make them serve as opportunity for more natural culture of the native genius and virtues, with the advantage of adopting so much of the white man's genius and virtues as are lacking in their own. We have foreign colonies in every section of the country that are doing this, and Negro communities have made a good beginning in doing so, and should be encouraged to do so.—New York Age. If thought photography ever becomes practical the world will learn some astonishing secrets. Indicative of the south's industrial awakening we must consider the improvement in southern stock raising; for the stock raising spirit is spreading over the south. In Mississippi alone we find four cattle breeders associations. Almost every breed of sheep is tried in the south today. Within the last decade hog raising in the south has been revolutionized. A few years ago one could hardly see anything but unmitigated "Razorback." The best that could be looked for was a little group of grades. But now this is all changing, the south is supplanting the "razorbacks" with thoroughbred hogs, such as the Essex and the Berkshire. Not only has the south awakened in the matter of stock raising, but she is becoming just as active in fruit growing. Within my own memory the south has become the fruit market for the whole country, instead of as formerly, importing fruit from the north. Neither is the south asleep in regard to her opportunities and possibilities in vegetables. Truck gardening has been given great attention in the south within the last few years. All along the coast from Norfolk to Galveston, trains and streams are well laden for months each year with early vegetables. Having briefly considered the awakening gin regard to the stock, fruit and vegetable raising in particular; and agriculture in general, I pass to another phase, and note the south's awakening with reference to her mineral resources, of which coal and iron are among those of first importance. Extensive coal and iron mining operations are of comparative recent origin, yet it is in the south that the most rapid progress in opening of new mines is being made today. She has doubled her coal output in the last few years. Alabama mines nearly as much coal today as the entire south did in 1885. History now records such stupendous increase as we see going on in the southern mining today. Another phase of this awakening is that of manufacturing. For years the south regarded cotton seeds a nuisance, and dumped them into the river in order to get rid of them, but she has long since awakened to the full knowledge of the importance of cotton seed. Today there is a great demand for all cotton seed that can be produced. Having learned the economic value of these seeds, the south is now extracting millions of gallons of oil, and using the residue as food for stock and as fertilizers to enrich the soil. Her 85 ice factories, 125 foundries and machine shops, 1 Bessmer steel roll mills 440 miscellaneous iron works, 30 stove foundries, 5 gas works, 30 agricultural implement factories, 40 cotton mills, 60 furniture factories, 90 tobacco factories, 100 flour mills and 500 lumber mills are incontrovertible evidence of the south's industrial awakening. Although the south's recent activity in productive industries has attracted world-wide attention, not less so has her industrial awakening in the building of railroads, which may be seen and heard in "the fierce meteoric of thunderous and clattering railroad trains" sweeping through the length and breadth of the southland, and exclaiming to northern travelers that the south, the industrial "Rip Van Winkle" of this nation, has awakened from a long, long industrial slumber, and today is delving in the depths of the earth, in quest of hidden coal and iron, multiplying furnace blasts in iron and steel factories, developing natural resources, converting forests into fertile fields, reclaiming waste lands, stretching better highways over the surface of the south, and causing a wilderness to blossom as a rose. The colored natives of some parts of Georgia are considerably agitated over n prophecy recently uttered by a new-born babe. The prophecy foretold the death of the babe, which was to happen and did happen in four days thereafter, and the death of the mother, which was to occur and did occur in four weeks; and the end of the world, which is to occur in November! And it is this latter part that is sorely troubling the colored folks. Whether this old world is really going to come to an end in November remains to be seen, but the thing that worries us is not that it is coming to an end, but in the words of the old preacher, "My God, which end?"—"Old Hickory." We can't all raise white potatoes, but most of us can and do eat them. It is interesting to know that the American negros have a "Potato King" of their own, and a real good looking one. His name is J. G. Groves and he lives at Edwardsville, Kan. He raises 75,000 bushels a year. We have found, too, that it is easier to buy potatoes at so much per than to raise them. It is easier to buy anything, if you have the price, than to raise it. PROF. MASON A. WHITFIELD, JACKSON, MISS. Great dams conform to the dictates of Dame Nature in common with all things. Their ultimate proportions as dominating factors depend largely upon the power to delude into being a pastime pleasure. If America is blessed in being called a land of toleration, she is no less cursed with breeding some of the greatest and most far-reaching evils of the centuries. Little did we dream that the little seemingly innocent games of ball playing of our tender youth—25 years ago—would at this late day be placed alongside other national scandals. It goes to verify as fact however that whatever thing men of all shades of character admire, must be morally unsound The expected has happened. As announced by the Associated Press in dispatches under date of December 11, the national commission of baseball games takes a decided stand and asks the aid of the government to break up gambling on baseball games. Gaming of any kind and in any form is an evil in embryo, as we shall endeavor to prove. The young lady who delights in a game of cards, the young man who wastes a few merry hours at the checker board, both see no special harm in these innocent games; yet, they are acquiring the same principles at which they are always too ready to point the finger of scorn in a reprobate gambler. The only difference in the two is that of monetary consideration in an out and out fashion. Under, other heads in this article, we also propose to show that, the gaming spirit is running rampant, even in high places in this country. Baseball, horse racing and cotton futures are similar and coterminous evils of this day. The greed and gain seekers of the time take deep interest in promoting this art for the same purpose as they do horse racing. Money must be collected for gate receipts and otherwise to pay transportation of teams and to meet incidental expenses. Judging the intense interest in this form of sport, those gate receipts amount, in many cases, to young fortunes. Then comes that test of character so common in this materialistic age. "The craze of the day is ball game. Why? Does the cause lie in its classic descent fro m the days of Greece and Rome? Where is any reform in the ball? It rolls and bounds now in the same way it has always done. This feature is as amusing to the ignorantus who looks on or acts as it is to the college-bred man. Our conclusion of the matter is about like the old colored man who was being tried for pliering a certain dollar bill. The judge asked him, "Sam, what could have induced you to take that particular dollar?" The old man replied: "Jedge, you see it was this way; dat was de only one of dem dollars dat had a chicken on it." (Speaking of the American eagle.) So this universal craze over ball games in high centers, not so much in the academic term "athlete" as it does in the few reaping pecuniary profit at the expense of the thoughtless many. As we have never taken any interest whatever in any kind of sport, perhaps we would not pause here to criticise this public scandal that has just crept out, if its spirit was not so farreaching. Its popularity had dragged in a large per cent. of the superficial Christian church. It marches and counter-marches, with such evil influences as appear in the following detailed communication: (1) Sunday school picnics and baseball. To encourage attendance it has become too popular to place a game of baseball as the chief event on the occasion of Sunday school picnics out at the park. Instead of running more knowledge into the head, they are encouraging to run out what has already been learned, through the feet. We know of cases where gate fees were also collected at these gatherings. Excuse: help the school and church. Enclosed with baseball sport we note such incestives as sham battles at church rallies and affiliating with secret orders in dedicating churches. We had occasion to gaze with a sense of pity and palm upon a new church being dedicated with the Knights of Pythias regalia and brass band. That incident took place less than twelve months ago, and today that church is as dead as a salt mackerel. The inference in the above case is that the spirit of Christ alone is too weak and quiet to revive and perpetuate his church. An extromely preposterous and heathenish idea this is! The savage Indian even believes the Great Spirit can do mighty things. Mr. Editor, this one fact more than all others is the trouble with the Christian church the world over. There are too many gamesters in our pulpits fishing for big crowds through artificial and secular pleasures. The sacred verse "religion never was designed to make our pleasure less," has its full literal force in the church today. Again, gaming is void of Christian ethics. There is no doubt that it was one of those things the wise man saw when he wrote: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man: but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Prov. 14:12.) Who can forecast the ultimate outcome of foolish pleasures that unsuspecting leadership is encouraging among us. Compare this thought in the sense of teacher and pupil. Is it sound ethics to give candy to inspire and insure goodness in pupils, or picture a higher ideal and seek to attain it? Ought not men be silently taught to be go for goodness sake rather than fo policy? What will these fish and loaves seekers do when they will have exhausted the category of secular pleasures in the church? Again Christ depicted the man who sides with sports in these words: "He that is of the earth, is earthly and speaketh of the earth." (John 3:31.) It is apparent therefore that the world is cursed with a false leadership irrespective of race or creed. It was said of old that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, he was placed in a manger because there was no room for him in the inn. How true is the abstract sense of this! There is truly no room for Jesus in our national church life. Can it be wondered at that all entreaties for righteous treatment fall upon the ears of modern Baals? The one thought has entered our mind in some inexplainable way, that righteous sentiment alone is going to settle the race question. The means must of necessity come through the Christian church. Like Israel and her kings of old, she has gone into general idleness, lured on by the lusty voice of material things. The heathen in other lands stand crying but unheeded; the poor are thirsting for the pure gospel. But the modern Ephraims are too much engrossed in things which attract the greatest army of dollars to make proper responses. Examine the methods of the average church financier of the day; by close scrutiny you are likely to see the march of the spirit of ball games, sham battles, moving picture shows, secret order services and all else, in the endeavor to get hold of the thing (dollar) that has the old darkey's bird on it. As this spirit (gaming) is fast crystallizing into church sentiment, the faithful few ought to get busy and down at it. Pursuing the present tendency, the time might eventually come, when baseball games will be offering one-third profits for some use of the church's property, as moving pictures do. Reference to these things may sting like a hornet, or prove bitter to the taste, but they are nevertheless true as any one can see exemplified in our church life. While they exist in the churches of both races, the negro above all cannot afford to give credence to them. INTERESTING ITEMS The municipality of Cleveland has a surplus of $9,000,000 lying idle. Of every ninety-three persons in Germany, one is a railroad employee. A French economist writes to a Paris journal that America has no real money. The thirty-six mortgage banks in Germany have now more than $2,618,000,000 loaned out on mortgages. A judge in Morristown, N. J., fined a hackman for failing to keep his appointment to carry a passenger to a train. Germany does not produce any table grapes, the supply for that purpose coming from the Tyrol, Italy, France and Spain. The average annual damage done to the cotton crop of the United States by the cotton boll weevil is from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. The spread of the destructive cotton boll weevil is attributed by some to the destruction of birds which formerly held the insects in check. Authorities of Baku, the Caspian seaport, desire to improve the water supply of the town by bringing water from the mountains, 120 miles away. The business men of Manila are preparing a monster petition asking that the Canadian Pacific steamers make their city a regular port of call. Of the 5,500,000 inhabitants of Sweden, 110,000, or 2 per cent., possess one-third of the total property, and one-third of the total income of the country. The Japanese have developed into good brewers, and an effort is being made to cultivate a beer thirst among the Chinese in order to create a market. Russian emigrants to America show a marked preference for the Dutch steamship lines, and Germany is trying to divert the stream of travel to her own lines. Since January, 1905, beef, pork, veal, and bacon have gone up in price 25 per cent, in Switzerland. The best beef costs 40 cents a pound; soup meat, 26 cents.—Indianapolis News. GENERAL FARM NOTES. In the spring, when the ground is soft, keep teams and wagons, as well as animals, off the fields. Animals tramping on soft ground will injure it. All waste stalks of corn stover around the barns and buildings should be placed in feed lots, where the animals will tramp them into the manure for absorbing liquids and rotting. Feed lots should be located so that liquids draining from them will run over fields for fertilizing the ground. Pastures and meadows that have become broken up and uneven by the rooting of hogs should be reseeded and harrowed in spring as soon as the ground is dry enough to hold up the team. Orchard grass and clover make a good hay mixture, both maturing about the same time, and both being valuable hay for all kinds of animals. Light disking, harrowing and reseeding of pastures and meadows each spring will do them good. Posts to be driven for any purpose should be sharpened and stacked up to dry and season before setting in the ground. JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL OF WASHINGTON, D.C., ADDRESSES GRADUATING CLASS AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Tuskegee, Ala.—The commencement address to the graduating class of this school was delivered by Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal court of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. Judge Terrell is one of the most prominent colored men 1 n the United States—graduate of Harvard college, being commencement orator of the class of 1883, also of the law department, Howard university, Washington, D. C. He was appointed by President Roosevelt to the position of justice of the peace of the District of Columbia. He was reappointed by Mr. Roosevelt and promoted by President Taft to the position of municipal judge of the District of Columbia. Judge Terrell's address was a discussion of "Negro Schools—A Retrospect." He said in part: "The negro has advanced an immeasurable distance since his ancestors first set foot on American soil. From 1619 to 1868 he yielded his liberty and gave his toll unrequited to a master; his body and his intellect he gave over to an institution that would have ground to powder a less hardy people. He has done more than simply survive these hard conditions. He has proved himself in many particulars equal to the severe and exacting demands of American civilization in all of its better forms. And what he has accomplished has been mainly and chiefly attained in the southern states, and I believe that what he will do in the future worthy of record will be done here where there is scarcely any industrial prejudice against him. In the south he has the best chance to win a place of economic importance, if he only takes advantage of the great opportunities at his very doors. It is for the negro to say whether or not the foreign labor which is pouring into our country through the gates of all of its seaports shall successfully invade his province in the southern industrial system. "The economic and industrial problem lies in the very heart of the social welfare of any race. Some one has said that the possibility of honestbread and butter is the noblest possibility of civilization. And for the negro that possibility is right here in the south—a section of the country to which he is already suited and to which it is not necessary for him to readjust himself. "The vast resources of the south have for a very long period of time lain dormant and inactive. But this inertness has given way before an industrial ferment that is transforming and developing this part of our land into a new country, destined to equal, if not surpass all other sections in scientific advancement in agriculture and in a vast expansion in manufactures. In this revolution, as far as it has gone, the negro has played no inconsiderable part. And let us indulge the hope that he is not going to abandon the opportunity to profit by the great evolution in industrial methods which is going on at his very doors; and that he is not going to throw away his chances to attain here the substance by seeking the shadow in other faraway places. "The south is the field for the negro along all lines of activity, it matters not whether he be engaged in any one of the learned professions, or whether he be the skilled mechanic or unskilled laborer. Nowhere can we make men love us, but we can so conduct ourselves, and so do our work that we will command the good will of our neighbors and become indispensable to our employers. "One cannot but be optimistic with regard to the future of the negro in this country when he notes the progress he has already made in the first half century of his freedom. And his accomplishments appear all the more marvelous when we contemplate the fact that the conditions which have confronted him have not always been just and fair and in some localities he is completely shut off from a participation in the best industrial activities which are freely offered to all of the other elements in our great cosmopolitan population. "The spirit of negro progress is crea'ed and fostered in the negro schools now scattered all over the south. These institutions kindle in the minds of our young men and women aspirations for better things; they are pouring forth their influence to strengthen and to invigorate the moral staus of the negro. Wherever we turn we see evidences of their benign and salutary effect in constant development of the young, not only in intellect but even in physical appearance. In these workshops men and women are being trained and drilled for citizenship in that empire where numbers are not the main thing, and where physical power does not control, but where intelligence and capability hold sway, and where this great machine which God has given us, called the brain, is constantly accentuating and emphasizing our contention that all men are created equal. "The young men and young women who will leave Tuskegee today as graduates are going into the world under the most auspicious circumstances. They will take with them diplomas from a school of international reputation—an institution renowned for its development of students of power and efficiency. They will go prepared to enter the great struggle ot life without further apprenticeship, and with a confidence born of a training that insists upon the practical application of the theories taught in the school room. "The late Dr. Mayo paid a high tribute to the kind of education which they have received here, when he said: 'Don't believe any man who tells you that this great movement of industrial education is only a clever device of your enemies to crowd down the coloured man to the condition of European peasantry, only another name for the old-time chattel slavery. So far from this it is the science of sciences, the supreme art of fine art, the science of putting the trained mind and the consecrated manhood into the body, so that all labor may be exalted to a mental and moral discipline and the mighty saying of the great Apostle be verified, 'Know ye not that you are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?' "And these graduates are fortunate, too, in having had for so long a time the exceptional privilege of listening to the words of wisdom which have fallen from the lips of Tuskegee's great principal. "It was Mark Hopkins, the renowned president of Williams college, who made such a wonderful impress on his times as an educator that it was said, if Mark Hopkins were on one end of a log, and a student on the other, that log would be a university. And so it may be said of the great teacher and leader of men, Booker T. Washington, that wherever he is present and speaks, that place is the best of schools. "I hope that the young men and women who are going out from this institution into the world as teachers and artisans will appreciate the fact that they are to be the leaders of their people in the communities in which they locate. And as such leaders they will render their followers the great service if they will recognize and tell them of their defects as well as sing their praises when they merit them. Men cannot be helped by mere adulation. Nations and races can only be great in proportion as they play the parts well in the movements of the age. "For nearly 50 years the negro, as a free agent, has been in touch with one of the world's most intense and highly developed civilizations. And in spite of the keen and almost brutal competition in the industrial field, he has been able to lay a substantial foundation on which to build the structure by which he is to be judged in the future as a real and positive force in American life. On account of his racial identity, the struggle for him is just a little harder than it is for the other man. But our faith looks up when we call to mind the fact that the laws which determine the destinies of races are impartial and eternal. If the negro is true to himself, faithful to his obligations, and appreciative of the grandeur of his opportunities, he will some day take a worthy and permanent place in the higher region of American life. "Young men and young women, knowledge is power and so is wealth. And no race, whatever its color may be, whatever its condition in the past has been, that possesses these two powerful elements of civilization, can long be kept from God's final day of light. Let the words of that great philosopher, Frederick Douglass, sing deep into your hearts: 'Take courage from the example of all the religious denominations,' said he, 'that have sprung up since the days of Martin Luther. Each in its turn has been oppressed and persecuted. 'Yet all in turn have conquered the prejudice and hate of their surroundings. Greatness does not come to any people on flowery beds of ease. We must fight to win the prize. No people to whom liberty is given can hold it so firmly or wear it so grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant. The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enables it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine." "My young friends, your day has dawned, your sun has risen, and there is nothing more certain than when the morning sun has once appeared above the horizon it keeps its course on to the fulness of noonday." TO GET RID OF ANTS. That household pest which is such an annoyance in the home—the small ant which is here, there and everywhere—can be gotten rid of, and Wilson Newell, state entomologist of Texas at the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas, tells how. "Have the druggist prepare a mixture," said Mr. Newell, as follows: "White arsenic (poison), half a gram; cane sugar, 20 grams, water, 100 c. c. "This mixture will make about three ounces of 'ant, polson.' It would be well to have the druggist add to it a little red confectioner's sugar, so that the color will give warning to the household of its poisonous nature. A small dish of this liquid should be placed under tables, refrigerators, etc., where the ants are in the habit of traveling. They will eat of it greedily for a while, and then will desert the neighborhood entirely. The solution should be kept in a safe place away from children and pets, and the usual precautions should be taken as in the handling and use of other polsons." GLASSES TO BE NUMBERED. The glasses used in Hungarian cafes will be numbered in the near future as a means of preventing the spread of disease by the promiscuous interchange of drinking glasses. Published Every Saturday 1009 West.Broad Street. Phone 2171. Subscription Rates: One Year - - - - - $1.25 Six Months - - - - .75 Three Months - - - - .50 Remittance must be made by Express or Post Office Money Order, or Registered Letter. Advertising rates given on application. Entered at the Post Office at Savannah, Ga., as Second-Class mail matter. SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1912 And s till the sensation seeker is finding food to his liking. The Grace trial in Atlanta coupled with the sensational and spectacular investigation now going on in New York of the Rosenthal murder, gives an excellent opportunity for him to feast on the notorious. Trying to keep cool, is one of the most perplexing problems of the day. A tip from us at this time is that the best and surest way to keep Old Sol's rays from giving unusual trouble, is for one to keep busy. Loafing is an aid to heat discomfiture. Keep striving and the darts from Old Sol's rays will find it so difficult to find you that he will give up in disgust and leave you to yourself. The Slade good character bill was voted down by the committee of the legislature during the week. This bill was introduced at the last session of the legislature defining the "good character" clause in the present registration laws of the state. It required a voter to secure the endorsement of a lady who would not be afraid to be with the prospective voter alone in the dark. This legislative committee showed excellent judgment in killing this freak bill. The killing of a young man by another on one of our river boats during this week brings to our attention again the necessity for a stringent enforcement of the law against the carrying of concealed weapons. A huge knife or dirk in the possession of a drunk craved individual or a pistol in the keeping of a twentieth century bully will inevitably cause trouble. The good thinking and law-abiding citizens of our city should unite with the authorities in enforcing the law against the carrying of concealed weapons. During the past ten days the press dispatches reported criminal out-breaks among white soldiers in various parts of the country. In one place these soldiers were reported to be drunk and made frequent assaults on defenseless women. In one instance it is reported that ten of these fellows assaulted one girl. The papers have remained very quiet about these happenings which are far more serious than Brownsville or any other acts of the Colored soldiers. It is hoped that the time is not far distant when the people of this country will look upon crime by a white man as henious as that committed by a black man. Judge W. H. Flexing of Augusta has announced his candidacy for Congress from the Tenth district. Judge Fleming represented this district about ten years ago. In arraying the county districts against the city, he was defeated by the present Congressman Hardwick. The outlook for the judge's election is bright and his friends over the entire state are hoping for his success. Judge Fleming is a gentleman of convictions and he has sufficient courage to maintain them. His views on the race question are correct and he never fails to show up the injustice perpetuated upon unfortunate ones. A few more days, and the doors of our schools will open here we are aware. Then the little army of knowledge seekers will begin to wend their way through our streets. It is indeed gratifying to us to anticipate an increase in the ranks of this army by additional school facilities as promised by the board of education. Start now parents to begin to get your boys and girls ready for the opening. Our promised new school must be crowded to its very doors. When October first comes around and the school bell rings for the first time, may the welkin ring in its own way from the The coming fight in the American Bar Association over the seating of Asst. District Attorney General of the United States, William H. Lewis, promises a split in the Association. It is indeed to be regretted that men (and too of judicial temperament and bearing) can become so narrow in a way as to refuse to recognized ability when carried under a black skin. Attorney General Wickersham of the United States is to be congratulated on the manly stand that he has taken in the matter. He is doing his duty without fault in standing by his appointee at this time. It is sincerely hoped that the fair-minded members of the Association will have the courage of their conviction and see to it that the fair name of their Association will not be blighted by the action of a few prejudice blinded malcontents. The verdict of the jury which was trying the two white men this week for the murder last July of one of Savannah's leading and most prosperous Negroes was awaited with interest. The crime for which the men were being tried was one of the most dastardly and fiendish in the history of Chatham county. The guilt or innocence of the men being tried was a matter to be decided by the twelve men who were sitting on the jury and it is hoped that their verdict of acquittal was arrived at through the facts which were brought out in the case. Yet there is one feature of the trial which any fair minded person would openly condemn and that was the appeal to race prejudice which was made by counsel for the defence. To say that some of the terms used by the defense were very obnoxious and revolting is but mildly describing the gist of the argument which was made and we cannot but feel that this manner of defense more than had its bearing upon the verdict which the jury rendered. It had been hoped by the honest, fair minded and respectable citizens of Chatham county, that the case would be argued on its merit, and the appeal to race prejudice and hatred avoided. To counsel for the state the whole community is indebted for their meritorious efforts to present the case on its cold and plain facts, but of the defense this cannot be claimed and we deeply deplore the methods which they employed in presenting their case. The time is now at hand when reputable lawyers should desist from exciting the prejudices of the jury and argue the case in hand on its merit. That the intelligent and provident Negroes should form an association on a co-operative basis that will have as its object the building of better and more sanitary homes for our people was one of the very strong points brought out by Rabbi Solomon in his excellent and scholarly address before the Negro Civic Improvement League on last Sunday. Such a suggestion we believe meets a hearty response in the breast of all well meaning thinkers of our people. It is indeed a fact that resists successful disputation. that the housing condition of the Negroes of Savannah, in certain sections of the city at least, is deplorable, unpaved and ungraded streets and sidewalks, the accumulation of garbage or refuse matter and the presence of numerous cesspools, are some of the conditions that are typical of certain sections of the city where our people habitate. Now this deplorable state of affairs should not exist. It is indeed a reflection on the progressiveness of our city and its people for such conditions to obtain among us. How such conditions may be changed for the better, is the burning question that now presents itself before us at this time. Will it be done by the landlords and owners of tenements taking the initiative in the matter? We believe not. We believe that the only remedy in this matter rests with the Negroes themselves backed up by the city authorities. Until there be enacted stringent housing regulations, the speculative house builder will continue to infest our city with the miserable little shacks that are now used as homes by some of our people. Until our people refuse to live in these shacks that are without modern improvements so necessary in this age, will these landlords fail to add or make the necessary modern improvements to their properties. The time is now ripe for action to be taken by our people in this matter that is of so vital importance to their health and maintenance. The city and its civic bodies have shown a disposition to improve the sanitary conditions of the slum sections of our city where a large part of our people live. This action on their part is indeed timely and praiseworthy. Now it is decidedly up to our people to show that these changed conditions are desired and will be appreciated by their taking an active part in the campaign now being waged here for better homes and more hygienic surroundings. In our midst, there are numbers of men and women of sufficient means as to warrant the organization of a company as suggested by Rabbi Solomon. This has been done in other places. It can be done in Savannah. All that is necessary is for the proper ones to take the lead in this matter. We believe that a feeling of civic righteousness is now beginning to awaken in the breasts of our people as never before. We believe that they are now more thoroughly aroused as to their proper housing as never before. The day is not far distant when the indifferent landlords will find his unimproved and unsanitary houses unoccupied. Our people ought and must get together for the building of better homes for those of us who rent. It is the duty of our leaders to do this. Until we do this, then and not till then, will we be able to come unto our own and justly consider ourselves a progressive and well deserving part of our wide awake city. By all means may the housing condition of our people be improved by our doing our part toward the same. Deaths. Mr. George E. Dennis, after an illness of seven months, died at his late residence 528 Gwinnett street, west, on last Sunday evening. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon from St. Paul C M. E. Church, on account of the erection of St. Philip A. M. E., Church of which he was member Rev. R. H. Singleton conducted the services. He was a member of Forest City Lodge K. of P., and U L. Houston Benevolent Society which attended the funeral. The grave was covered with many beautiful floral designs. He is survived by a wife, Mrs. Anna Lou Dennis and a mother. FOR SALE House at Thunderbolt, very large Lot. Price $700.00 1834 ~Kollock Street Price $700.00 2 Nice Houses on 60 ft Lot, near Ardsley Park Price $3000.00 Fine Residence on 34th street, west, very large Lot. Price $3000.00 Seven Room Residence on Oak street. Price $2000.00 Lovely Home, Bolton street, east, near Paulsen. Price $1850.00 2 Story House near Gwinnett street Subway. Price $1700.00, $150.00 cash, balance 7 per cent House on West, Broad street, near Duffy, Lot 30x100. Price $3700.00 Lots, Park Ave., east between Price and East Broad. $900.00 each on easy terms 4 Lots beginning north-west corner 36th and Bulloch streets. Will submit an offer of $3200.00 for the four Vacant Lots in every section of the city from $50.00 up Satisfactory terms will be arranged on any of the the above places. It will pay you to investigate before you buy McDOWELL Tribune Building Phone 4568 First-class Dry Goods at reduced Prices. All our seasonable goods at reduced Prices. Come and see our goods SCOTT BROAD WEST BROAD & GWNNE Phone 2829 COLORED PEOPLE IN MILLINERY STORE of our Pattern Hats, and Untrimmed Hopes, are being sold BELOW COST. We have also a nice lot of Summer Felts and Fish Traveling Hats that are very CHEE ing in the Millinery Line very much R GIVE US A CALL. 4 WEST BROAD ST S. SEABROOK CIRCAL DIRECTOR & EMBASSY First Class Embalming A Specialty Polite attention as Heretofore. West Broad Street SAVANNE PHONE 2106 NE: 488 Western Hotel N. E. THOMAS, Proprietor 12 Parallel St. Waycross, G OPEN DAY AND NIGHT $1 Per I Most of WET GOODS That Can be Hated THE PYRAMID Lane, Coco Cola, Soda Water, IceCream Ball, Sinalco, Banana Split. 417 EAST BROAD STREET ekin Theatre HOUSE OF FEAUTURE FILM Pictures that you are looking for, I have be fooled. The pictures shown at the P at the Arcadia Theatredaily coming Monday July 21 WININGS & JENNIE ter known as Bad Land Pete. Some C All of our Pattern Hats, and Untrimmed Shapes, are being sold BELOW COST. We have also a nice lot of Summer Felts and Crash Traveling Hats that are very CHEAP Everything in the Millinery Line very much Reduced: GIVE US A CALL. E. SEABROOK FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER First Class Embalming A Specialty Polite attention as Heretofore. 530 West Broad Street SAVANNAH,. GA PHONE 2106 A List of WET GOODS That Can be Had At THE PYRAMID Bloodwine, Coco Cola, Soda Water, IceCream Soda Grape Ball, Sinalco, Banana Split. 417 EAST BROAD STREET If its Pictures that you are looking for, I have them. Don't be fooled. The pictures shown at the Pekin are shown at the Arcadia Theatredaily Better known as Bad Land Pete. Some Class If you are looking for a good show visit the PEKIN,Strictly firstclass, educational and refined US PERFORMANCE from 7 p.m. MATINEE Mondays and Thursdays. TABLE PROGRAM CHANGED ON THE Pictures Changed Nightly 10 CENTS CHILDREN LINCOLN PARK Great Place of Amusement. Open Sun CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. MATINEE Mondays and Thursdays VAUDEVILLE PROGRAM CHANGED ON THURSDAYS The Great Place of Amusement. Open Sundays Picnic Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays FREE DANCING Every Wednesday and Friday VISIT THE AIR DOME For the Quality Show Shop. Don't Miss Goming by Any Means. Mrs. R. B. Bryant 630 Duffy west left last Saturday for Newport, R. I. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Carr sailed on the Steamship City of Savannah to New York where they have moved and will make their future home. Mrs Sennie V Powell of 1142 E. Gwinett Street, accompanied by Master Jacob M. Powel, Jr. left last Sunday morning for Brunswick, Ga., where she will spend two weeks with relatives of Mr. Jacob M. Powell, Sr. Miss Rena B. Singleton has returned from New York. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Goldwire will leave tomorrow for Atlanta and Newnan, Ga., where they will spend a month. Miss Pinkie Robinson who has been in the city visiting relatives and friends for sometime has returned home to Fernandina, Fla., accompanied by Miss Garnett Fredereca Carter, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Carter of 1147 Gwinnett street, east. Miss Garnett will be away for two weeks, spending one week in Fernandina and one in Jacksonville, with friends. The "Progressive" Party is the individual, man or woman, who uses Foley Kidney Pills for backache, rheumatism, weak back, and other kidney and bladder irregularities. Robert W Herter, Lawrenceville, Mo., says: "I took three bottles of Foley's Kidney Pills and got a permanent cure." They are healing, strengthening tonic, and quick to produce beneficial results. Contain no harmful drugs. Never sold in bulk Put up in two sizes in sealed bottles. The genuine in a yellow package.- Livingston's Pharmacy. Mrs. W. L. Lee of 226 Bowens street, and Miss Helen L. Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Carter, left on Saturday morning for Macon and Atlanta. Miss Carter will remain in Macon and the nearby towns for about a month and will then leave for Atlanta. She will return to her home 1147 East Gwinnett street about October first. August 14th, Trolley Ride by the Progressive Class No. 33 for benefit of St. Philip A. M. E. Church, Building Fund. FOR SALE—Boarding house with 20 furnished rooms. Good condition and has a number of responsible lodgers. Right at city market. 233 Bryan street west Terms reasonable. For further information call on W. L. Blunt, 234 St. Julian street, west ff. The Bethlehem Relief Club, met in their last meeting and after giving the work an investigation raised with the assistance of the public, and the brotherly work of the members of the club, the amount of $15.00, as payment on the property of Mrs M. Blair. D. C. Bybee, teaming contractor living at 689 Keeling Court Canton, Ill is now well rid of a severe and annoying case of kidney trouble. His back pained and he was bothered with headaches and dizzy spells. "I took Foley Kidney Pills just as directed and in a few days I felt much better. My life and strength seem to come back, my backache left me, I slept well, and I got up free from headache and dizzy spells. I am now all over my trouble and recommend Foley Kidney Pills to everyone."—Livingston's Pharmaey. Mrs E. L. Martin is spending the week in Charleston with relatives and friends. Stock in the new Colored Hotel Company now on sale at $50.00 per share. Cash or Installments. Now is the time to buy. Phone 4096. G. H Bowen. 605 West Broad St. Mr and Mrs. R Cobb of Brunswick, Ga., announce the engagement of their daughter, Bessie Clarabelle to the Rev. W V. Daughtry of Savannah, Ga, the marriage to take place on the morning of August 21st, 8 a. m., at their home 1413 Lee street. August 14th, Trolley Ride by the Progressive Class No. 33 for benefit of St Philip A. M. E. Church, Building Fund. Mr. Charles Graham and Mr. William H. Morrison formerly of Savannah, now of New York are spending their vacation with Mr. J. B. Theus in Philadelphia. They will visit Atlantic City, N Mrs. M. M. Taylor of 522 Nicoll street cast, left on Tuesday morning, via Atlantic Coast Line for New York, where she will spend a while with relatives and friends. Miss Annie Mae Cole of Athens, Ga., piece of Mr. and Mrs Randall W. Cole, spent the week most pleasantly with them as the guest of Miss Rosalie Cole She returned home Monday. Miss Rosalie T. Cole and Miss Annie Mae Cole spent Friday most pleasantly at Tyne with friends. She was also given an automobile ride around the race course, with other young folks. Mrs. R. W. Cole chaperoned the party August 14th, Trolley Ride by the Progressive Class No. 33 for benefit of St. Philip A. M. E. Church Building Fund. Hay fever and asthma make August a month of intense suffering to many people. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound gives prompt ease and relief, and is soothing and healing to the inflamed membranes. Wm. M. Meretheth of N Searsport. Me., says: "I suffered with asthma for many years and have used many a doctor's prescription without avail. A few doses of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound relieved me and less than a bottle caused a complete cure. I am glad to let others know what Foley's Honey and Tar Compound has done for me." Refuse substitutes.—Livingston's Pharmacy. Mrs. M. M. Hailey, A. D. G. S., of Atlanta, and Mrs. F. D. Knighton, of Gainesville, spent several days in the city during the week, the guests of Mrs. R. Ethel Wright, on Waters: Avenue. These ladies are the auditors of the H. H. of Ruth of the State. While here they audited the books of Mrs. Wright who is the District Grand Recorder. Friends of the ladies joined in making their stay here an enjoyable one. Land values are increasing daily. See me about Cann Park and Central Park lots before they advance in price. Easy terms. Phone 4096. G. H. Bowen, 605 Wes Broad St. Mr. Joseph Parker, returned home on Sunday night last after spending two weeks very pleasantly with relatives and friends in Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Rona Barnard spent last Sunday very pleasantly at Grahamville, S.C. The Misses Lillian and Mary Harper of Macon, Ga. are in the city visiting Miss Helen Washington, Waldburg street west. Mr. James Jordan and Mr. William Henderson, of Atlanta, Ga., are in the city spending a few days. Miss Anna Minor of Brunswick, Ga., passed through the city Monday enroute to Chattanooga, Tenn., where she will live in the future. Trolley Ride of July 31st, by Class No. 33 has been postponed to August 14th. Tickets of the above date good for same. Miss Marie Scott and Miss Hattie Butter were among those to sail for New York this week. Miss Edna Winn of Atlanta, Ga., is in the city spending a few weeks with friends. Mr. Harvey Johnson and Mr. Julian Warren, of Waycross, Ga., are in the city for the week. Mr. A. B. Singfield, general supt. of the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company, made a four day trip to Southwest Ga., last week on business. Dr. C. H. Ellsworth, Dentist, 16 Baldwin St., Rochester, N. Y., says Foley Kidney Pills gave him immediate relief and strengthened him wonderfully. "For some time past I have been bothered with weak kidneys and bladder trouble Irregular action, pain and dizzy spellsall troubled me. Foley Kidney Pills gave me immediate relief and strengthened me wonderfully. I am pleased to recommend their use." Foley Kidney Pills are specially prepared for kidney and bladder ailments and are always effective for rheumatism, backache, weak back and lumbago.—Livingston's Pharmacy. Miss J. O. McIntosh, one of the efficient clerks in the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company returned to the city this week, after spending a portion of her vacation at St. Simons Island. Mr Henry Middleton of Augusta, Ga., was in the city this week visiting friends. Prof. W. R. Conners, of West Chester, Pa., accompanied by his two daughters, who has been visiting his sister. Mrs. J. M. Ferreebee, left tor home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Boswell of Atlanta, who have been in the city visiting relatives returned home Wednesday. Miss Rosie Johnson and Miss Sadie Williams of Macon, Ga., were among the excursionists in the city last Sunday. Mrs. Julia Baker and daughter of Waycraw, Ga., were in the city this week enroute to Boston, Mass., where they will spend the remainder of the summer. Miss Hilda Harris of Augusta, Ga., is in the city spending a week with Miss Sarah Collins, Gaston street east. Miss Maria Johnson and Miss Susan Woods of Birmingham, Ala., are in the city enroute to Charleston, S. C. Genitemen, who desire to take meals in private family will phone 2782 J. Rates reasonable. Miss Thelma Carr Woofolk, came down from New York, on S. S. Montgomery on last Monday morning, and is spending some time with her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Davis of 526 Gordon street, east. Mrs. Mattie Broome who has been visiting Chicago, Ill., has return to the city on account of the illness of her brother. Mrs Sabra M. Mooney and Miss Fredreka Price will leave on Sunday morning for Macon, where they will spend two weeks with her mother-in-law, Mrs. J. A. Mooney and friends. Mrs. Rachel Perry and daughter are visiting her son, Mr. Memphis Davis, AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in the Social World. NOTICE—Articles in this column one cent per word August 5th, Monday. Excursion by Eureka Lodge No 1 A. F. and A. M. Tickets 50 cents. August 6th, Tuesday. Afternoon Outing by the G. E's at Daufuskie. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. August 19th, Monday. Afternoon Outing at Daufuskie by the F. DeLis S. Club at the S. S. City of Montgomery. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. August 12th, Monday. Annual Excursion to St Catherine Island by First African Baptist Church. Tickets 75 and 50 cents. August 13th, Tuesday. Annual Two Boats Excursion to Beaufort by Armour Lodge No 1584 G U O. of O F. Tickets 50 cents. August 13th, Tuesday. Outing at Lincoln Park by Mt Sear Lodge 2441, G U O. of O F. Tickets 15 cents. August 6th, Tuesday Moonlight Outing by the Young Imperials. Tickets 35 cents. August 14th, Wednesday. Outing by Morning Call Club at Daufuskie. Tickets 50 cents. August 7, Monday, Mid-summer Trolley Ride by Clubs No 4 and 5 of St. Philip A. M. E. church, tickets 25 cents. August 12, Monday. Outing by Myrtle Lodge No. 1663 at Lincoln Park tickets 15 cents. August 7, Wednesday, Trolley Ride by Progressive Co No. 3 U. R. K. of P., tickets 25 cents. August 6, Tuesday Outing by Evening Call A. and S. Club at Lincoln Park, tickets 15 cents. August 12, Monday, Trolley Ride by B. L. B. No 1 of U. S. and D. of Elijah, tickets 25 cents. August 5, Monday Outing by the Roosters at Daufuski, tickets 50 and 25 cents. Aug 5, Monday Two boat Excursion to Beaufort by Eureka Lodge No. 1 A. F. and A. M., tickets 50 and 25 cents. August 5, Monday, Outing by Young Adelphia A. and S. Club at Lincoln Park, tickets 15 cents. August 5, Monday, Outing by J. W. Armstrong Lodge 242 K. of P. at Woodlawn Park, tickets 15 cents. August 14, Wednesday, Entertainment by Hermion Court No. 3 at Morse's Hall, tickets 25 and 15 cents. August 7, Wednesday, Outing and Barbecue by Joshua Lodge No. 60, tickets 15 cents. August 5th, Monday. Trolley Ride by St Luke Industrial Council No. 3 Tickets 25 cents. August 7th, Wednesday. Outing by Savannah Patriachie No. 3 S G U O of O F to Daufuskie. Tickets 50 cent. August 20th, Tuesday. Outing by Supreme Grand Lodge Knights of Damon, to Daufuskie. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. August 21st, Wednesday. Savannah Home Association Repeated Afternoon Outing by request to Daufuskie Boat leaves foot of Abercorn street at 3 o'clock. Tickets 50 and 25 cents. August 8th, Thursday. Picnic by The Angelic Club at Lincoln Park. Admission 15 cents. August 12th, Monday. Entertainment by Juvenile No. 714 of H. H. of Ruth No 3588 at Masonic Temple. Tickets 5 cents. August 28th, Wednesday. Outing by Sons and Daughters of Southville Branch at Woodlawn Park. Tickets 15 cents. August 12th, Monday. Outing by The Famous Headlight to Daufuskie. Tickets 35 cents. August 5th Monday. Trolley Ride by Isrealite Lodge No 160 I O of G S and D of S U S of A. Tickets 25 cents. August 12th, Monday Trolley Ride by Mt Tabor Baptist Church. Tickets 25 cents. September 9th, Monday. Picnic by Leap Year Pleasure Club at Woodlawn Park. Tickets 15 cents. August 5th, Monday. Trolley Ride by Pilgrim Travelers of South Carolina. Tickets 25 cents. August 19th, Monday. Barbecue by the Independent Order of St Luke No 821 at Stiles Park. Tickets 25 cents. August 26th, Monday. Trolley Ride by Wanderers Aid and Social Club. Tickets 25 cents. August 12th, Monday. Outing by Olympia Pleasure Club at Woodlawn Park. Tickets 15 cents. August 26th, Monday. Trolley Ride by Orion Aid and Social Club. Tickets 25 cents. August 20th, Tuesday. Outing by Ladies Progressive Association at Lincoln Park. Tickets 15 cents. August 19th, Monday. Trolley Ride by the Union Social Club Tickets 25 cents. September 1st, Sunday. Labor Day Excursion to St. Helena by Reliable Mutual Club. Tickets 50 cents. August 19th, Monday. Trolley Ride by J. W. Strauther Court No. 383 O O C. Tickets 25 cents. August 19th, Monday. Trolley Ride by the Gordon Aid and Social Club. Tickets 25 cents. August 5th, Monday. Festival by Ladies Relief Corps at Middleton's Hall. Tickets 10 cents. August 19th, Monday. Outing by the Bricklayers Club at Daufuskie. Tickets 50 cents. August 12th, Monday. Flower Party by Club No. 5 at Harris street Hall. Tickets 5 cents. August 28th, Monday. Outing by Fountain City Aid and Social Club at Daufuskie. Tickets 15 cents. August 22nd Thursday. 16th, B. M. C., Delegation Jubilee at Lincoln Park. Tickets 15 cents. JOB PRINTING Death. After an illness of long duration Mrs Maria Bolen, 518 Taylor street east, departed this life on last Tuesday night. The deceased was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon from her residence. The services were conducted by Rev. M. M Weston of St Augustine Mission. The deceased is survived by a husband, Mr. John J. Bolen, a sister, Mrs Janie Haynes, a life long friend, Miss Carrie L. Gibbs, two nieces and many friends. Whereas our heavenly Father in His wise providence has taken Mrs. H. Sneed, the wife of our beloved Vice President, Joseph Sneed, Theresore, be it resolved, by the members of the Vernon Yacht Club, in the death of this estiamable lady, the Club has lost an earnest worker, the church and community, a christian and highly respected citizen, and the family a devoted wife and mother. That while deeply deploring the untimely death of Mrs. Sneed, we bow in humble submission to the will of Him that doeth all things well. That we express to her family our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement. We feel that their lost is her gain. That a copy of these resolutions be published in The Savannah Tribune, also, that a copy be presented to the family, also, that they be recorded on the minutes. Respectfully submitted, L. A. Washington, Lendon Middleton In Which Class Are You? "Wise men are instructed by Reason, men of less understanding by Exeprience, all others by Necessity. "The judgment and sincerity exercised by individuals in their efforts for protection, uplift and development of themselves not those dependent upon them, are the unmistakable marks of the difference in men. "This suggests the question of Insur- "Happy is the young man, who by Reason and a knowledge of men and things, protects himself against sickness and accidents by a liberal insurance policy, for he has a certain "peace of mind" denied the thoughtless. Besides, in youth, the cost of insurance is smaller than in later years. "Fortunate is the man, who by Experience with unexpected Doctor's bills appreciates the value of an Insurance policy for himself; odhane dependent upon nim "Wretched is the man who, when the ravages of time have reduced his youthold age of affliction and discouragement, first awakens to the Necessity of Insurance. Then waning vitality either bars him from insurance benefits or admits him at greatly increased rates." J. C. LINDSAY J. C. LINDSAY Is the District Manager of the Old Reliable WM. DRISKELL, Sec'y and Gen'l Mgr 210 Auburn Ave. ATLANTA, : GEORGIA. Branches everywhere in Georgia. WE LEND YOU MONEY AT 8 PER CENT We pay you 5 per cent, on all deposits, with drawable on demand All business strictly private Give us a share of your business. Let us help you save something for a rainy day OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH US TO-DAY The Mechanics Investment Company 20 STATE STREET WEST HENRY PEARSON, Pres. F. D. TUCKER, Sec-Treas. PROPOSED COLORED HOTEL MILITARY CENTER This is a first-class business proposition and a much needed enterprise, To be erected as soon as the stock can be sold. Payable either all cash or $10.00 cash and $10.00 per month Send in your order at once to VIVA You Will Die A Seeker IF YOU ARE SEEKING FOR A POLICY WITH BETTER CONDITIONS THAN THOSE ISSUED BY THE Pilgrim Health & Life Insurance Company THE PIONEER CO. OF ITS KIND IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA IN WHICH YOUR Dime or 25 Cents DOES ITS FULL DUTY IN BRINGING HOME TO YOU TO YOU TANGIBLE RESULTS MANY HUNDREDS HAVE CONCIDERED WISELY AND PLACED THEIR INSURANCE WITH THE OLDRELIABLE Pilgrim Health & Life Insurance Co. AND HAVE THERE BY BEEN THE HAPPY RECIPIENTS OF GREAT BENEFITS, WHILE THERE ARE SOME WHO, CONSIDERED THE MATTER OTHERWISE AND THEREBY FORFIETED THEIR BEST OPPORTUNITY. THIS WORTHY INSTITUTION, WHICH HAS PROVEN TO BE A FRIEND. TO THE FRIENDLESS, A REFUGE FOR THE SICK, AND PRESENT HELP TO OUR PEOPLE IN THE TIME OF NEED. IT IS WORTHY OF THE PATRONAGE OF OUR RACE. HENCE IF YOU ARE NOT BEING SERVED AS YOU SHOULD SEE THE PILGRIM'S AGENT TODAY OR RING THE LOCAL OFFICE AT 509 West Broad St Telephone 4129 Home Office 1143 Gwinnett Street Augusta Ga. J. S. Perry Superintendent A. B. SINGFIELD General Superintendent MARITIME MARITIME Phone 4096 THE BEST PLACE In Savannah B. H. Levy, Bro. Co. We make a specialty of framing diplomas, marriage licenses and pictures of all sizes. Work neatly and promptly finished. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices cheap. Enlarging pictures a specialty. Orders called for and delivered. TO BE ERECTED ON WEST BROAD STREET Capital Stock $50,000.00 G. H. BOWEN SAVANNAH, GA FLOOD VICTIMS FACE EPIDEMIC Hunger and Disease Feared by the Authorities. ENTIRE TOWNS INUNDATED. Unlontown, Pa., Leads List Of Dead With 15—West Virginia and Pennsylvania Suffer Heavily. Pittsburgh.—The county of Fayette, 60 miles south of here, that was swept by a series of cloudbursts, is counting up its loss. At least 19 lives were lost, 15 in the Pole Cat Mine near Evans Station, three drowned in Lemont No. 2 Mine, when the creek broke through the roof and flooded the workings. A boy fell into the flooded street at Dunbar and was drowned. Dunbar is a wreck. The county commissioners estimate that nearly a million dollars' damage was done there alone. Eleven business houses were swept away, 75 residences were destroyed, streets torn up and bridges carried out. Fayette county is isolated. The Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio tracks are either under water or swept away. Wires are down everywhere. In places the force of the flood was so great the rails were twisted like light wires. The roads are almost impassable. Provision trains were unable to get within miles of Dunbar, and hunger is being added to the misery of the people. Those who spent the night at the mouth of Pole Cat Mine in grief over their lost ones were dumb in their wretchedness—victims of a poignant grief, but suffering, too, the pangs of a gnawing hunger. The Pennsylvania Railroad had a thousand men at work repairing its road bed. A rescue party of 100 men went half a mile into the slope of Pole Cat Mine to satisfy the grieving women on the surface. They traveled through water five feet deep until the slope took a decided drop and it was impossible to go farther. No bodies were seen. The commissioners of Fayette county wired the State Health Department, asking that a corps of men, be sent into the district to prevent an epidemic of disease. Most of those suffering from the flood are foreigners, who are ignorant of the sanitary precautions necessary following a flood. Thousands of dead cattle, sheep and fowl are lying in the hollows and will be exposed when the waters recede. TROOPS TO QUELL RIOT. Gov. Glasscock Sends Machine Gun To Peytona. Charleston, W. Va.—One company of militia and a machine gun squad left here for Peytona, Boone county, where, during a riot by striking miners, Deputy Sheriff Southpin was fatally shot. Sheriff Sidney White called upon Governor Glasscock for troops, declaring he was unable to handle the situation. Peytona adjoins the Palnt Creek region, where miners have been on strike for several months. Southpin was called to the scene of the trouble, and was attempting to disperse a band of strikers, who attempted to disarm him. Adjutant General Elliott accompanied the troops. RAPS U. S. FOR LAXNESS. Senator Saya This Country Can Control Situation in Mexico. Washington.—In a strong arraignment of the United States Government for its failure to secure redress for injuries to American citizens and property resulting from the Mexican insurrections and revolution, Senator Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico, declared in the Senate that this country would not regain its prestige in Mexico in 50 years. He declared that China, Germany and other countries had forced Mexico to make restitution for the damages inflicted on their citizens. Thus far, he said, the United States had done nothing. THE MIKADO BETTER. Court Physicians Say He Continues To Improve. Tokio.—The condition of Mutsuhito, the Emperor of Japan, continues to improve, according to the court physi- cians Wednesday. A bulletin issued Wednesday af- ternoon says: "His Majesty slept throughout the morning. His temperature is now 98.70; otherwise there is no change." NEW GERMAN AIRSHIP. She Will Be Stationed At Metz, Near French Frontier. Berlin—The most modern military airship of the Zeppelin rigid system was taken over by the war department after an endurance and speed trial lasting 18 hours. The airship developed a speed of 49 miles an hour, and is considered the most speedy dirigible in the world. It has been christened the Z-III., and is to be stationed at the fortress of Metz, near the French frontier. THEM APPLES WAS TOO GREEN. OU:E-E-E ANTICIPATION REALIZATION ANOTHER NEW INQUIRY PLANNED Inter-State Commission to Take Up Interlocking Directorates. MANY COMPLAINTS RECEIVED Lines Interested In Production Of Commodities They Carry Charged With Discrimination. Washington.—A complete investigation is about to be made by the InterState Commerce Commission of the question of interlocking directorates and the part railroads play through these directorates in the control of the coal, coke, iron and steel production of the United States. From evidence now at hand, the commission believes the Eastern lines, particularly those north of the Ohio and the Potomac rivers, are the leading offenders and that they have, through the old "community of interest" plan, gained too much influence upon business by means of the directors serving jointly upon their boards and the boards of the big industrial corporations. From statements by officials of the commission, the investigation as now mapped out will be far-reaching and will have an important bearing upon freight rates. Primarily the commission wants to find out what interest the big railroads have in the corporations, persons or associations that produce cement, coal, coke, iron ore, iron, steel and the products thereof, also of the materials used in the production of any of the articles named. Secondarily, the commission is anxious to learn what degree of interest or control corporations producing these commodities that form the bulk of their tonnage have in the railroads. Fully two-thirds of the complaints about coal, coke, iron ore, iron and steel rates during the past year and a half have come from companies that assert they are discriminated against by railroads owned or controlled by their competitors. They say rules and regulations have been made by these carriers which place the independent shippers at a marked disadvantage. A few railroads, too, have come into court and complained that they were compelled by their big shippers to make rules and rates in the interest of such shippers on the penalty of losing the tonnage. Many of these complaints involved the United States Steel Corporation, the International Harvester Trust and the Universal Cement Company. The cement company, it was alleged, had until recently rate adjustments that gave it an advantage of practically 20 per cent, over its competitors in and around Mannheim, W. Va. These and other specific complaints have furnished the basis for the investigation now proposed. NEW SANITARIUM MOBBED. Angry Villagers Tear Down Hospital for Consumptives. Dublin, Ireland.—A nearly completed consumption sanitarium under construction at Lucan, near Dublin under the auspices of Lady Aberdeen and the Women's National Health Association was demolished by irate dwellers in the vicinity. A great mob, armed with ropes and pickaxes, first tore off the roof and then threw down the walls, leaving nothing but a heap of debris. GOMEZ'S CURT REPLY. Unsatisfactory Answer To the U. S. Minister. Havana.—President Gomez made a curt, unsatisfactory reply to American Minister Beaupre's protest against the granting of a big tract of swamp land made by the Cuban government to a company partly composed of Americans. There were charges of graft in securing the concession, and these were contained in the protest, but President Gomez upheld the old Spanish law. 13 MEN DIE IN COAL MINE Others Escape From Flood After Harrowing Experience. MOST OF VICTIMS MARRIED. The Men Were Drowned 4,000 Feet From the Mouth Of the Mine, Their Only Avenue Of Escape. Unlontown, Pa.—Caught like rats in a trap when water rushed into the manway of Superba No. 2 Mines, at Evans Station, three miles north of Unlontown, following a cloudburst, 13 men were drowned and 37 escaped after a most harrowing experience. The men were drowned about 4,000 feet from the mouth of the mines, their only avenue of escape. The majority of the victims were married and had large families. The men who escaped were forced to half swim and half walk to the pit mouth through water ranging in depth from their waists to their necks on their way to safety. The majority of the miners who escaped were knocked down by timbers that were sent down the mine with great velocity in the raging current. Several men were being carried back into the mine to certain death when rescued by their companions who risked their lives. Officials of the Superba Company say it will take at least 60 days to clear the mine of water and until that time bodies must remain in the water in which they perished. Superintendent J. Buttermore was the first man to see the high water start in the manway. He raised the alarm and all the men on the outside rushed into the mine yelling as they went. In that manner more than half of the miners were saved. The wives and families of the miners and drivers in the mines when the alarm was raised rushed to a large hole made by the rushing water at the manhole and frantically threw sticks, stones, bushes, poles and whatever other timber they could find into the water to stop the rush into the mines where their loved ones were earning their daily bread. Failing in that they rushed to the mouth of the pit and would have continued their mad dash into the water in the mine had they not been stopped by cool-headed persons who guarded that entrance. The women and children remained at the mouth of the slope late tonight refusing to return home until an attempt had been made to rescue their husbands and fathers. Several large pumps will be placed in the mine tomorrow and everything possible will be done to get to the place where the bodies are certain to be found. ILLITERACY IS SCARCE. Chicago Completes Blennial School Census—Shows Big Gain. Chicago.—Chicago's present population is 2,381,700, according to the blennial school census just completed by the board of education. The figures of the last Federal census, taken in 1910, were 2,185,283. The school' census shows the total number of minors in the city to be 882,516, of which 50,791 are foreign born and 11,191 are negroes. According to the count there are only 157 children between the age of 12 and 21 who are unable to read or write either English or some other language. MINERS FOR NEW WAGE SCALE. Peace Assured For Next Year In Pittsburgh Coal Fields. Pittsburgh.—Peace for another year in the .Pittsburgh coal fields was assured Monday when a special convention of District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, approved by a two-thirds vote a new wage scale. The action affects 45,000 men. In addition to an increase of 5 cents a ton, the miners secured a number of important concessions regarding working conditions. TO AVOID TRIAL JUDGE RESIGNS Climax in Congressional Inquiry at Seattle. TRIAL WILL BE DROPPED. Chairman Of House Investigating Committee Says Main Object Has Been Accompilished. Washington.—Chairman Henry D. Clayton, of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that he considered unnecessary further impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, of Washington, who has resigned. In a lengthy statement Chairman Clayton declared that while Congress had the power to try a Federal official for impeachment after he had resigned, he did not believe that course necessary in this case. Chairman Clayton instructed the sub-committee, now in Seattle taking testimony in the Hanford case, to discontinue its work. He received the following message from Representative Graham, chairman of the sub-committee: "Judge Hanford has just forwarded his resignation to the Attorney-General. We are not quite done taking testimony, but nearly so. The subcommittee unanimously favors to discontinue the taking of further testimony." In his statement Chairman Clayton cited the precedent of the case of Secretary of War Belknap, who was impeached and tried by the Senate after his resignation had been accepted by President Grant. The articles of impeachment against Belknap failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote in the Senate. In conclusion Mr. Clayton said: "The main object of impeachment being to get rid of an unfaithful officer, having been accomplished in this case by the resignation of Judge Hanford, if it is true that he was unfaithful, there seems to be no necessity for impeaching him in order to disqualify him from hereafter holding any office of honor or profit under the United States. "I take it that no President will ever appoint him and no constituency would ever elect him to any office of honor or profit. Of-course, there will be no formal action on the part of the Committee on the Judiciary until a report is made by the sub-committee which I appointed to investigate the alleged misconduct of Judge Hanford." Word of the resignation of Judge Hanford was received here with surprise. Representative Berger, the Socialist member from Wisconsin, who introduced the resolution that began the impeachment inquiry of Judge Hanford's conduct, announced he would drop the matter. "It closes the case so far as I am concerned," he said. "I take Judge Hanford's resignation as an admission of guilt. It cannot be construed otherwise. I was fighting corruption on the bench generally—not Hanford personally. I never knew the man." FIND WOMAN IN BOX CAR. She Waa Fashionly Dressed and Claimed Wealthy Relative. Kansas City, Mo.—Saying her name was Juanita Wood, and that she was the daughter of Frank Wood, a wealthy Boston contractor, a young woman, 24 years old, was found unconscious in a box car here by the police. She was fashionably dressed, and said she had run away from college in the East. She told the police she had been in company with a man from St. Louis, who had befriended her and that the last she remembers she was walking with him yesterday. A PRINCESS ROBBED. Her Jewels, Valued At $80,000, Stolen At a Hotel. Ostend, Belgium.—It is announced that the Princess of Thurn and Taxis, while staying at a hotel here, has been robbed of jewels valued at $80,000. The Princess of Thurn and Taxis, prior to her marriage to Prince Victor, at Uniontown, Pa., was the divorced wife of Gen. Gerald Fitzgerald. SNOWBOUND IN THE ALPS. American Motorists Unable To Traversee White-Clad Passes. Geneva, Switzerland. — Snow fell heavily all over the Alps throughout Sunday night. It lies to a depth of eight inches on the six principal passes and a number of American motorists are snowbound in the mountains. SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE. Winkleman Then Ended His Life By Hanging. Pittsburgh, Pa.-William J. Winkleman, aged 45, set fire to his home in which slept his wife and family, escaped from the police, who caught him in the act, and three hours later his dead body was found hanging by his suspenders from a tree in River View Park, near his home. Winkleman is said to have been despondent over the loss of his employment. By PROF. MASON A. WHITEFIELD. JACKSON, MISS. When John Gutenberg and Laurens Janazoon Coster perfected the plans of movable typography, they made a contribution that holds within its clutches an everlasting influence to mankind. The printing press is a veritable power for good or for evil. There is indeed great comfort as well as pleasure in retiring among the quiet recesses of our library room and spending the time in gleaning silent facts from the printed page. This quiet room may contain thousands or even hundreds of thousands of printed pages, but none of these have more popular or higher values than the daily paper. Its journey is that from the pent-up convictions of a vibrating world. Its influence is therefore both magical and tragical. Men are being shaped and hammered in this the most dominant foundry of the modern age. It is a little less than useless to attempt to change a man from processes of crystallized newspaper convictions whatever their character. The position that the press holds is therefore one of importance. As the wind carries the refreshing raindrop to the thirsty cells of the vegetable kingdom, so do these flying messengers fill the hungry intellect of man. They further demonstrate the well-known fact of man's being a social creature and is lonely when excommunicated. In the face of this one fact it can be indisputably conjectured that the newspaper will forever serve as a connecting link and a modifier of civilization. We have noted that intense interest is centered in the paper. On the holy Sabbath its power displaces the monotony of all secular lore; surely, there is seldom or never any time to read the Bible. If perchance a copyrighted sermon or Sunday-school lesson is put in the daily paper on Sunday the reader may scan over it hastily just prior to quit reading and go to sleep. Secular affairs always are given first place. The idea obtains then that the newspaper is a power any way it is taken. Next we will note its object. Observation discloses two facts that the average newspaper exists for: first, to make money; secondly, to civilize. In this day the mad rush of greed and gain has about asphyxinated the term "civilize." The term in its American use has largely degenerated into a barren superficiality. Moralists have long since agreed that mere intellectual training is not a prerequisite to higher spiritual training and living. Some of the blackest characters painted on the pages of history were of giant intellect. So a man who is conversant with all current events may, and oftentimes will, assimilate the worst spirit and fall victim to crime. The real object of the press, generally speaking, is lost sight of in the last analysis. The average newspaper man was as much called to go and plow corn as the old darkey was who said he saw his own "call" in the clouds. We will disclose this fact under the subject head "Abuse of Power." The position, the power and the object of the press have all been considered. It is now timely to know how it is abusing the privilege of good service. To be more specific, we submit the exact mind and temper of its daily visitations: (a) dominance of materialistic ideas; (b) sports; (c) advertisements; (d) sensations, as grafts, murders, kidnapping, embezzlements, rape, lynching; (e) all forms of intemperate speech and habits; (f) low politics. How is the press abusing its privilege by publishing these things? Shouldn't they be known? Truly, they should. Holy Writ exposed the diabolical conduct of Judas Iscariot but not without moral considerations to others. Notice, Christ, knew the man's intention prior to the act and issued general warning so as to save even Judas, if he had accepted. Can one be persuaded to believe that there is much ethics in, the life of this great press army in America when crime is running rampant in the face of daily exposition? Is it not true that man is growing intellectually wise and morally weak? Does not the temper (spirit) of the general moral conception rest upon fine-spun phraseologies of speech rather than helpful influences? The man who will stand for hours and narrate all of the details of a national or local scandal as a mere matter of entertainment is not near as noble as he into whose mind these evils had not crept. Since the article read is nude of ethical temper, he, like humanity in general, only yearns for an opportunity. Before leaving this paragraph, perhaps the words of Mr. Alfred H. Fried, before the great Inter-Racial congress in London, England, who spoke on "The Press as an instrument of Peace;" might turn on some light. Mr. Fried said: "The far greater part of the press in all countries, and especially those journals that appeal to the largest number of people, are hungrily swallowed by millions of readers, take no interest in promoting civilization and the peaceful development of peoples and races. Their only interest is to oust their rivals in providing the greatest possible sensation and so secure the largest editions. The consequences of this are most mischievous. In the first place millions of readers learn nothing of the great activity of civilization in our time; for this action is not sensational, but slow and silent. Secondly, they learn all the more of uncivilized activity—of crime, violence and unrest. They are led to form the erroneous opinion that the world is full of crime and is simply kept under control by force. Thirdly, the great haste with which news is published, in view of rival papers, leads to a good deal of inaccuracy, and the reader has a very bad account of the real events. Fourthly, the announcements very frequently do not correspond to facts. They are inventions." We will close this quotation with the thought expressed by Mr. Fried in his next paragraph: "Hence the press that needs sensation as a condition of its existence has no interest in serving the cause of peace. It has all the more interest in inflaming the people against each other." The speaker's allusions here pertained to the international peace, but no person acquainted with the American press can fail to see the full effects of those truthful words. Our sole reference has been to the avaricious, merciless, secular press. As its mission is materialistic rather than moralistic, and since material possessions do not necessarily produce greatness of spirit, the secular press does not civilize the people in the true sense. We concur with Mr. Fried where he says, the action of civilization is "slow and silent." This is true if the forces of nature themselves count anything. The coal fields of Pennsylvania, the gold mines of California, the diamond beds of the Dakotas, each and all are exemplifications of this "slow and silent" idea of forces. The idea of exclusiveness stands out plainly in secular journalism. It was said by one of old, ye cannot serve God and mammon. So with the modern news-monger, he cannot go "fast" and make character; his one ambition is to make money; hence, he goes "fast" and misrepresents. Let us not despair, dear reader, there is a mighty army in the world whose movements upon the mind are as "slow" and "silent" as the forces alluded to above. Like the monster icebergs that imperceptibly plow their way through ocean currents, they are destined to break to fragments the convictions of false pilots. What if it takes a thousand years? Will it all not serve to magnify the name of our God? Where in all Christendom today can you find one believer that does not enjoy reading of Belshazzar and the means of his overthrow? Our optimism leads us to believe that as generations come and go, the Almighty's influence will so modify the temper of the times that the same press that is now working mischief will set type to print and disseminate spiritual food of the highest quality. Some wise one of spiritual vision said not long ago that ours is an age of prophetic fulfillment. He said Christ came as an embodiment of all that spiritually concerns us. Now, he says, the railway car is the chariot and the electric telegraph and the telephone are prophetic visions of preceding ages. If that be true the prophets saw the humble efforts of journalism which began among the Chinese early in the tenth century (A. D. 925) and has developed into presses sending forth thousands of sheets per hour. "Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying roll. . . . Then said he unto me, this is the curse that gooth forth over the face of the whole earth." (Zech. 5:1-3.) Parallel to this another prophet wrote: "And when I looked, behold a hand was sent unto me, and lo, a roll of a book was therein . . . and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations and mournings and woe." (Ezek. 2:9, 10.) We are not in position to say whether a scene of twenty centuries after Christ flitted before the spiritual gaze of these holy men or not. But, most surely, some of their statements correspond with existing facts and conditions of our day. (1) The morning and evening papers do go "flying" to the habitats of civilization in the flying machine of the iron rail. (2) Their message does consist of "lamentations;" "mournings" and "woe." No wonder the other prophet has told that "this is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth." If the wisdom of antiquity did espy this day, it does not imply that there will be an incessant reign of conditions. The trend of events in all history justifies this conclusion. Christ told his pupils of a time of persecution because of belief in him, but exhorted them to stand fast. Today there is hardly a case of religious persecution, except in the abstract sense. It seems natural for great gifts to receive abuse at the first hands of human nature. Humah speech has been made to develop for divine intent, so can it be said that Zechariah's "flying roll" (the newspaper) has such intent, since it is a popular vehicle in which loaded thought-shells (words and sentences) ride. That it will finally redound to the glory of God is made evident in these words: "The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it." (Ps. 68:11.) Hence, it is shown that the newspaper occupies a pre-eminent position as a civilizing agency, but it is handicapped by those seeking selfish interests, actuated by vicious impulses. The voice of Christianity will eventually drive out this satanic principle as the apostles did the spirit of divination from the young damsel. Or, more sweepingly, as the man among the tombs out of whom our Savor drove many demons and restored him to sanity of reason. This hope is the only consolation afforded to a race of ten millions or more souls, struggling through hardships in the poisonous stream of American sentiment created by mischief-working journalism. THIS IS THE DAY OF THE TALL WOMAN Inches will count this season, and the daughter of the gods, divinely tall, will be fashion's favorite peg for the new mode's display. It stands to reason that the ideal figures will be the one that measures five feet eight or nine, for the introduction of panniers and flounces, big sleeves, a greater skirt width, and, above all, curves, makes it necessary that there shall be height to "carry off" these conditions. The tiny woman rejoiced in the Empire toilette, with its high waisted effect and the straight silhouette of the one piece dress, because those fashlons disguised the proportions of her physique and gave her height. If her build was in perfect proportion she had no need to mind what modes she adopted, but as there are few ideally planned frames, those vogues appealed to the majority of small women. Under fashion's new regime, as at present understood, there are many conditions that are exceedingly trying to the small in stature. As the waist is to be more defined and placed in its natural position the straight silhouette's aid departs. Then, in order to indicate the curve or hinge of the waist there is to be a more noticeable display of drapery upon the hips, not amounting to much, it is true, but apparently greater than the clinging tightness of the hobble skirt's form. And what is more, the new sleeves are longer than the old. The leg of mutton pattern is a newly resuscitated attraction, and that, while it draws attention to the delicacy of the waist measurement, distinctly detracts from a woman's height. "As we must look tall, how are we to contrive to make the most of our inches?" a maker of modes was asked the other day. "Don't forget how useful your headgear can be made," was the reply. "Provided the ruse is not palpable, a hat with a high crown can be relied upon to add just the requisite number of inches required to balance large sleeves and fuller skirt draperies. "Then there is the tall neckband to render help. It gives the figure a much more stately look than the turned over Puritan collar, and suggests height. "It is really wonderful in what subtle ways inches can be gained by suggestion, I mean, or shall we say illusion? "A woman who has made a study of the matter—she must be sixty by now, and has broadened with the years and shortened, as elderly people will, yet is apparently as elegant as ever—says she never wears white gloves unless she puts on a white frock. VEGETABLES AS A MEDICINE VEGETABLES AS A MEDICINE Persons are coming more and more to understand the call of nature for her own remedies, which may be had in the daily bill of fare, if rightly chosen. The needs of the body to be thus supplied will in a measure account for all members of a single family not caring for the same dishes at the same meal, says an exchange. Food specialists are now studying the question of natural vegetable cures and are teaching people the value of the common fruits and vegetables when used as medicine for various ills. The pineapple is a sort of complete medicine chest in itself for derangements of the stomach. It has been regarded as an indigestible food, but this was because it was not known that no particle of the pulp should ever be swallowed, for this cellular mass is in truth completely indigestible and should not be permitted to pass to the stomach. The juice only should be swallowed, and the cellular pulp removed from the mouth. It should never be eaten with sugar, but always with salt The sugar with the acid makes a bad combination. Scientists have discovered of late that the juice of the pineapple contains a digestive principle very much like pepsin, the action being the same, and it is recommended as a cure for dyspepsia. It has been found that the juice acts upon the caesin of milk just as rennet does, and the experiment has been tried of placing a slice of raw beef between two thick slices of fresh pineapple, and the character of beef has been completely changed within three or four hours. The action of the juice, like pepsin, is digestive. Pineapple juice is now being made use of by physicians in cases of diphtheric throat and croup, the false membrane being dissolved by the powerful, insidious acid of the tropic fruit. It brings quick relief. Cranberries are now regarded as one of the best cures for malaria and for erysipelas. The best way to take them medicinally is raw; the chemical properties of the acid are then complete, whereas in cooking they are somewhat weakened. There are two delicious ways of eating cranberries raw—in a salad and in a beverage. As a salad the largest, ripest berries are selected, washed and cut in halves with a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice and egg. As a beverage the cranberries are crushed and left to soak in water over night. $ ^{a} $ The acid in the water is extremely refreshing and cooling to the blood. The cooked cranberries are excellent for clearing the system and blood, and should be eaten in large quantities. Onions are one of the most potent of the vegetables. For nervous troubles they are a tonic and should be eaten in great quantities, either raw nKnuha-oueuphfiwou E fmebc u a*7 cr cooked very simply, and eaten without any other vegetable. Baking thoroughly is the best method of cooking onions when they are to be used as a medicine. They should then be eaten with butter and a very little salt. It is better to use no salt at all. Cases of nervous postration have been cured by a persistent diet of onions, whole wheat bread and butter and raw eggs, varied with a few simple desserts and pineapple eaten with salt. Onions also cure sleeplessness. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Diluted oxalic or tartaric acid will remove ink stains from books without injuring them. All cooking utensils should be washed immediately after they have been used, which will remove every trace of grease. To put a new wick in any lamp burner quickly, thread a needle first, run the thread across the wick and pass needle through burner. When selecting poultry see that the feet are soft and moist, the eyes clear and the flesh plump. Salt water will clean bamboo furniture and Chinese and Japanese matting and will preevnt it from turning yellow. If a panful of lime is kept in the pantry where the preserves and jellies are stored it will prevent them from molding. A tablespoonful of melted cocoa or chocolate stirred into the poor man's rice pudding quite changes the dessert. Salt on the fingers when cleaning fowls, meat or fish will prevent slipping. If a small piece of zinc is burned in with the coal occasionally it will coat the interior of the chimney so that soot will not form in it. If rice is cooked in water it will absorb three times its measure. If it is cooked in milk at least half as much more liquid will be necessary. Do not rub fabrics roughly between the hands when cleaning them. It will be found sufficient to rub the cleaning fluid in gently with a fresh cloth. To simmer is to boil slowly; if the liquor throws up bubbles above its surface it is boiling at a gallop and will harden any meat that is cooking in it. THE TASTY SALAD Carrots and string beans make an excellent combination. Cauliflower is another vegetable which should be marinated with the French dressing; serve with a bolled dressing. Sweetbreads and cucumbers tossed up with a cream dressing are served on lettuce or other green leavves. Bananas or strawberries should be served on nests of lettuce with a mayonnaise made without mustard and whitened with whipped cream. Lemon makes a pretty garnish. Young dandelion leaves washed and then chilled on the ice till very crisp and mixed with spring onions, are tasty. Serve with a French dressing, and with little bacon riced yolk of egg. Another way of serving dandelions as a salad is to chop the cooked ones and serve with a French dressing made with bacon fat instead of oil. A good salad combination is pepper shells filled with shredded cabbage mixed with mayonnaise. Tomatoes stuffed with cream cheese are delicious served on a bed of green with a French dressing. The canned pimentos, or sweet green peppers, stuffed with cream cheese and sliced, make an attractive salad. Garnish with green and serve with a French dressing. Left-over spinach, or greens of any kind, if molded in small cups, make a tasty salad, served with French dressing or mayonnaise. Cream cheese balls, or the yolks of hard-bolled eggs, riced, and the whites shredded, make a nice accompaniment. Kidney beans and tender summer cabbage in equal parts, and seasoned with shredded sweet green pepper, make a happy salad combination. RESTORE FADED UPHOLSTERY. Beat the dust out thoroughly; brush them; then apply to them a strong lather of castile soap, by means of a hand brush. Wash the lather off with clear water, and afterward wash with alum water. When dry the colors will be restored to their original freshness. When the colors have faded beyond recovery, they may be touched with a pencil dipped in water color of suitable shade, mixed with gum water. POETRY of and by Our People THROBBING with powers as a living soul, Freighted with human cargo bound for the goal Of some station, destined to unload, Man, the mortal substance on board. Ere the time of departure on its mission grand Souls are seeking comfort, shaking de- parting hands. Hands that console, hearts that for us yearn On the way to our destiny, while the train runs. We speed onward in life with minds com- plete With the thought of arrival to the longed for seat Of our destiny, though many fall To count up the cost before they sail. On life's railroad with anticipated joy They ride onward and their time em- ploy With foibles and phantoms that easily es- cape. To mind or soul e'er you know it's too late. In the midst of life's journey some ac- cident rare Happens to toll our hopes and unawares. They come while riding the powerful train. Of hope, ambition, powerful steam. Minds that are powerful in awakening thought, Quaff the draughts, of danger serenely fraught With poison to the soul—the mind grows dull. No longer edged, nor with potencies full. The signal lamps are placed by the way To warn from danger night and day. Between the stations where no light is placed. Is often the danger-to the human race. Dangers that lurk by the roadside of life. Where we must pass, dangers are rife. The soul that moves onward, no dangers thought Finds his train goes dead before the journey is wrought. Goes dead, far from the anticipated goal. Powerful in mind, a well formed soul. A covering of earth and a cavern for a bed. The journey is complete, the train goes dead. —Clarence F. Carr, Palestine. WHAT IS LIFE TO YOU? To the preacher life's a sermon, To the joker it's a jest; To the miser life is money, To the loafer life is rest. To the lawyer life's a trial, To the poet life's a song; To the doctor life's a patient That needs treatment right along. To the soldier life's a battle, To the teacher-life's a school; Life's a good thing to the grafter, It's a failure to the fool. To the man upon the engine Life's a long and heavy grade; It's a gamble to the gambler, To the merchant life's a trade. Life's a picture to the artist. To the rascal life's a fraud; Life perhaps is but a burden To the man beneath the hod. Life is lovely to the lover, To the player life's a play; Life may be a load of trouble To the man upon the dray. Life is but a long vacation To the man who loves his work; Life's an everlasting effort To shun duty to the shirk. To the heaven's blest romancer Life's a story ever new; Life is what we try to make it— Brother, what is life to you? —Old Hickory. THE BLACK MAN'S HOPE. They make a lot of fuss these days. About the white 'man's hope; They're scouring all the earth around To find some one to cope With Little Arthur Johnson in A pugilistic bout, Before the fight enthusiasts. And put the black man out. They've hunted north, south, east and west; They've even searched beyond the seas Why can't some one be found with pow'r To bring Jack to his knees? In searching for this lucky one, They have secured a bunch Who know the fighting game all right. But lack a fatal punch. But have he in chained to win. For Papke, Lang and Flynn are light— Mere middleweights, you know— While Al Kaufman and Morris, too, Are pretty fat and slow. So. Judging from his age, his class. His whole fighting career, 'Twill take—at least a decade yet To find John Arthur's peer. And though he be a pugillist, He has inspired the race To strive for higher, better things— To set a higher pace. -By Wm. M. Young THE TIDE IS SURE TO WIN. On the far reef the breakers Recoll in shattered foam. Yet still the sea behind them Urges its forces home. Its chant of triumph surges ; Through all the thunderous din- The wave may break in failure. "But the tide is sure to win." The reef is strong and cruel; Upon its jagged wall. One wave—a score—a hundred, Broken and beaten fall; Yet in defeat they conquer. The sea comes flooding in- Wave upon wave is routed. But the tide is sure to win! O mighty heal? thy message In changing spray is cast; Within God's plan of progress It matters not at last How wide the shores of evil, How strong the reefs of sin— The wave may be defeated, But the tide is sure to win! —The Watchman, See COOPER & ODRIZEN The Up-to-Date Tailors 218 WEST BROAD STREET, BETWEEN HULL AND OGLETHORPE AVE. The Latest Patterns in SPRING AND SUMMER GOOD8. Firstclass workmanship guaranteed. Our prices will interest you. 19 EAST BROUGHTON STREET. The affable H. B. Wright is st patronage of his friends. 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AGENTS WANTED For the Sale of Magic Shaving Powder East Side Lodging House With modern conveniences, athletic arrangements, also shining parlor attached for ladies and gentlemen. Open day and night. Give us a call. ISAAC C. BROWN, . . Proprietor. Phone 3746. 626 York St., West. Ccurteous Attention to All. MADAME FLORENCE E. WILLIAMS Graduate Prof. Roher's School, New York. 719 West Broad Street. Wigs, Switches and Pompadours Made from Natural Hair. Combings Made Up. Shampooing and Hair Straightening a Specialty. Face and Electric Massage. Dyeing and Matching Hair. ORIENTAL HAIR GROWER. An excellent preparation, will produce a beautiful growth of hair. Directions on each box. For sale, price 25 cents per box. GO TO— Young Bros. For your TOBACCO, CIGARS and FRUITS Of all kinds. 529 West Broad Street. WEST SIDE RESTAURANT 461 West Broad Street. Near Union Station. The place to get first-class meals Everything neat and clean. Meals prepared in an appetizing manner and at all hours daily. Meals 16 and 25 cents. MRB. A. S. SCOTT, Proprietress Your Money Pile Grows Just in proportion as you advertise your business, and our columns are open for you to begin at once. Suppose you give us a trial. Advertise in this paper THE HIGH COST OF LIVING has not affected our job printing prices. We're still doing commercial work of all kinds at prices satisfactory to you. NEVER HAD A TAILORED SUIT? THEN START NOW. BECAUSE I GIVE SPECIAL INDUCEMENT FROM THE 27 OF JULY TO 31 OF AUGUST MADE TO YOUR MEASURE FROM THE LATEST FALL AND WINTER GOODS, 1912 AND 1913. I GUARANTEE THE GOODS, THE WORK, THE FIT OR YOUR MONEY BACK. A SQUARE DEAL YOU GET AT THE UNION TAILOR, D. FELDMAN 50912 WEST BROAD ST. TUXEDO PATE SAYS Hutson's 88 Head Ache Powders are the best, Hutson's 88 Liver Pills are the best, 10c 36 Fever Tonic breaks the fever and keeps it off. Nyal's Stone Root for the Kidneys, none better. 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For full information relative Special Service, Pullman accommodations, etc., call on nearest agent- or write C. W. SMALL, Division Passenger Agent Seaboard Air Line Sayannah Georgia SMART SET TAILORING J. H. BARTLETT, Proprietor TAILOR MADE SUITS FOR THOSE WHO CARE NEAT REPAIRING 441 West Bread St. Savannah, Ga. SAVANNAH PHARMACY Lee Chemical Co., Props. The Only Negro Drug Store in the City A FULL Line Of RESH'DRUGS,TOILET ART The Only Negro Drug Store in the City FRESH DRUGS,TOILET ARTICLES Cigars, Delicious Creams, Sherbets and Sodas THE ONLY PLACE IN TOWN TO GET Dr. King's New Blood and Rheumatism Remedy AND LEE'S LUNG EMULSION 811 West Bread St. Phone 3570 Get the Habit of Patronizing Us. A SUIT FOR $16.50 623 WEST BROAD STREET Between Charles and Oak St. PHONE 2098-J FOR UP-TO.DATE . FURNISHED ROOMS Call at 510-515 Huntingdon Street, wes Everything Clean and Inviting E.W. Cummings, Proprietor St. Stephen Kindergarten AND Primary School A first-class Primary School where children get first-class training. We lay a good foundation. Clean, comfortable school rooms. Thorough work Girlf taught sewing and the rudiments of Domestic Science. Fermer pupils are requested to send their names and address to the Rev. R. Bright in order to have a reunion, if possible sometime this year. For particulars apply to the Rev. R. Bright, 313 E. Harris St GILLISON and TAYLOR When in Need of a AUTOMOBILE Ring Phone 1055-J or call for car No. 13635. A five passenger seat and very comfortable for riding. C. C. Middleton, M.D Phys'cian ane Surgeon Office : 505 Charlton St., east Office Hours 9-11 a m 2-4 p m 7-8 p m NOTICE The Original Mme, DeLong Formerly located at 809 West Broad street and late of Thunderbolt, now located at Mme. DeLong is America's greatest life reader and adviser. Her work appeals to people of intelligence. She tells you the truth, good or bad, concerning the very matters you are in doubt about. Office hour 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Stephen's Church Afternoon Excursion TO DAUFUSKIE Thursday August 15th, 1912 MUSIC DANCING REFRESHMENTS Boat leaves foot of Abercorn St. at 3 o'clock. Three hours of pleasure on the island. OT YET, BUT SOON! THE DOVES Are making preparations to fly again TO DAUFUSKIE Monday August 12th, 1912 For the last of the season. All we ask to come. Good order as usual. Yours for pleasure, When in Waycross Give us a call and get your warm MEALS. All kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCTS, GOLD DRINKS, ICE CREAM, Etc. You will be treated right for your potronage 25 D STREET Hope P THE DOVES Georgia Infirmary Nurses Organized, The following officers were elected when the Georgia Infirmary Nurses organized: Mrs. Lizzie C Davis, President; Miss R. L. Boifeuillet, Vice-president; Miss Louisa Rhaney, Treasurer; Mrs. Ella S. Reid, Secretary. Meeting is every third Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock Everybody is Subscribing. The unusual offer of the New York Morning World by mail for $1.00 from now until after election (up to Nov. 25) has attracted wide attention. This is an unusual offer, and is made by this great newspaper to largely increase its circulation during this the "warmest" campaign since Grant sought his third term. Remember, the weekday Morning World from now until Nov. 25 by mail for $1.00. Social Happenings On Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 Mrs. Rosa Allen of Augusta, Ga., who is visiting Rev. and Mrs. Prince was delightfully entertained at a social gathering given in her honor by Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Jackson at their cozy little home, 1150 Styles Ave. Others presents were Mrs. Sabrah-Mooney, Mrs. Mamie E. Green, Mrs. Lizzie Nesbit, Mrs. E-Holmes, Mrs. Nancy Prince. Delicious refreshments were served. Miss Eloise M. Williams entertained on Friday of last week at her residence 624 West Bolton lane. The evening was very pleasantly spent with various games, after which light refreshments were served. A very enjoyable time was spent by all. Those present were Misses Marie Blalock, Drusilla and Creola Blylar. Ethel Adams, Florence McCoy, Carrie Belle and Lucy Coles, Evadne, Lillian and Edna Edwards, Della Hemby, Camilla Marshal, Mamie and Emmie Jones, Mabel Robinson, Jennie Aikens, Etta and Meta Williams, Messrs. James E. Collier, P. Belle, John Gilford, John McIntosh, James Simms, Freddie Mills, Anthony Stripling, Jr., David Williams, W. G Williams. Petition for Incorporation State of Georgia.} Chatham County.} To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of Henry N. Clayton, John H. Harris, Stephen Jenkins, William A. Sabattie, Charles T. Toomer, Henry Horne, J. D. Hughes, Harrison W. Mann, Charles H. Sabattie and Albert P. Williams respectfully shows: 1st: That they desire for themselves, their successors and assigns and such other persons as may become associated with them to be incorporated under the name and style of "The Dove Aid and Social Club," for the term of twenty (20) years with the privilege of renewal for a like term at the end and expiration thereof. 2nd: That said corporation has no capital stock and is not organized for individual or pecuniary gain, but to extend aid and attention to its members during illness and in case of death to pay to their legal representatives the sum $50.00 out of such dues and fines as may be received from them and from donations and funds received from other sources. 3rd: For the purpose of better promoting the objects aforesaid, your petitioners ask for corporate authority to enforce good order, receive donations, own property and to mortgage and sell same, to collect dues, to receive funds from entertainments and such other social gatherings as are promotive of the objects of the Association, to preserve and invest all monies paid into the treasury as the Directors of said Association may deem best. 4th: Petitioners also pray that said Association be authorized to prescribe the rights, privileges, benefits and liabilities of its members and to prescribe how and by whom membership may be obtained therein. Petitioners further pray the use of a corporate seal and to sue and be sued. 5th The principal office and place of business shall be in City of Savannah, Chatham County, State of Georgia. 6th: Petitioners pray the Court to grant them and their Associates under the name aforesaid such corporate powers as may be suitable to their enterprise and not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Georgia nor violative of private rights. And your Petitioners will ever pray ets. H. A. Macbeth, Petitioners' Attorney-Original Petition, Filed in Clerk's Office this 3rd day of July 1912., Hope Pinckney Prop. and Mgr. YOUNG BROS. NEW STORE Ewd C. Young, Manager Over 10 years of experienced. Cor, 36th and Burroughs Sts. is the place to get your Groceries and Meats and Confectionary, Cigars and Tobacco Premiums are being given away. Come and get one. Telephone orders promptly attended to. PHONE 4291 Protect Your Horses' Feet Have Them Shod by the The Cresceus Horseshoeing and Clipping Shop 315 JEFFERSON ST. Phone 3509 NELSON A. CUYLER "The Expert Horseshoe," Prop. Geo. Jaudon, Frank Dowse, assistants Important—The only Expert horseshoeing shop in the city operated by a colored man. Ocean Wave Cafe Meals at all hours. Quick lunches served in up-to-date style. Open day and night J. S. Lloyd & Son 42 Habersham St. Mrs. M. E. Williams 1114 West Broad St And will be pleased to have her friends and customers call and see her. New Pension Laws SENT FREE NATHAN BICKFORD, 1425 N. Y.AVE Washington, D. C. -THE- Auditorium Cafe Is the piace to refresh yourself when in Beaufort Cold Drinks and Ice Cream, Cigars and Tobacco. Everything up-to-date. Courteous treatment to all. Alex Myers, Prop: Bay St. Beaufort, S. C. When Visiting Mrs. M. SINGLETON Restaurant & Lodging House Cor. West and Port Republic Sts Beaufort, S. C. Do You Visit Beaufort? If so when there see therelible H. G., FISHER For hiring automoniles, carriages and delivering of goods. The best service for the least money Dr. Geo. W. Smith Special attention to Diseases of Women and Children Night calls will receive prompt attention OFFICE: 8111 West Broad Street, Phone 1522 RESIDENCE: 605 Oak Street Phone 3256 J SAVANNAH, : GEORGIA R. M. RIVERS Barber Shop Electric Massage. Everything Sanitary Cigars and Tobacco HOT AND COLD BATHS 509 WEST BROAD STREET (Williams Building) The South Atlantic Barber shop Headquarters for barber supplies and shoe polish. A fine line of cigars pipes and tobacco. Shoes shined and repaired. Dealer in second handed shoes Clothes cleaned, pressed and repaired Hot, cold and shower baths. H. A. MANZO, Gen'l. Mgr 145 West Broad St. The Up-to-date BARBER SHOP Hair Cutting, Shaving, Shampooing BUMP AND WART TREATMENT WORK GUARANTEED. W. H. PRINCE, Proprietor 508 W. Gwinnett St Sav'h, Ga. Thomas H. Anderson AND BUILDER Jobbing of all kinds promptly attended to. 56th STREET, Near/BULL ST. Box No 4A, R. F. D. No. 2 Phone 3325 For A Professional Registered Trained Nurse Ring 3159-J or write 529 Ott Street Well Experience Messeuse Florie A. Wilson The Acme Bicycle Store Dealer in New and Second Handed Bicycles. Tires and Supplies. Expert Vulcanizer of Bicycle Tires Vulcanizing 75c K. HALPERN, Proprietor, 463 West Broad St. Phone 1340. For First-Class BOARDING & LODGING Meals served in up-to-date style and nicely furnished Rooms Call on Mrs. LIZZIE ANGLERS 321 Bay St, W, Cor Montgomery Lodge Rooms For Rent. The first requirement of a good meeting place or place of entertainment is sufficient ventilation, the next is cleanliness, the next is size, then comes location and convenience. In the Supreme Grand Temple Hall we have all of the above. Terms reasonable. CALL AT Headquarters of U. B. of A. 1316 East Broad St. Phone 4374. Dr. L. S. Parks. DENTIST 240 Barnard Street, Specialist in Gold and Bridge Work Savannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workman- ship. 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 $8.00 and $10.00. Broken plates mended and teeth added." All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23d K Gold. Snes 225 Saree eae eS == i oer eee a5 Sa ase meee oe