Savannah Tribune

The Savannah Tribune VOLUME XXVIII Congregational Convention Congregational Convention CONVENES IN THE CITY WEDNESDAY Delegates From All Congregational Churches, In State—Woman's Missionary Union To Meet—Many. Prominent Men To Be Present. The General Convention of Congregational churches of Georgia will be held at the First Congregational church, this city, Rev W. L. Cash, pastor, next week, beginning Wednesday and continuing through the week. In connection with this convention, I will be held the Sunday School and Young People's Christian Endeaver Unions, and also the Woman's State Missionary Union. Delegates will be here from all the Congregational churches throughout the state, and the convention will be one of the most interesting ever held by these bodies There will be several men of National prominence present. The following is the program for the four days of the Convention: Wednesday Night, Opening Session S o'clock Devotional Service, Rev. S. A. Paris, Marietta, Ga. Music by the choir; Welcome Addresses: "On behalf of the church" Prof John McIntosh; "Woman's Missionary and Congregational Workers," Miss S. C. Housount. "Sunday School," Mr. M. W. Bryan, Superintendent; Y. P. S. Christian Endeavor, Miss Edith Weston; and on half of the churches of the city, Rev. R. H. Singleton, D. D., pastor of St. Philip's A. M. e. church. Response to Welcome by the Moderator, Rev H. H. Proctor, D. D. Hymn; Annual Sermon, Rev Henry S Barnwell, Thomasville, Offering; Announcements: Benediction. Thursday, 9:30 a. m. Devotional Service, Rev. N. H. McTier, Trinity. Enrollment of churches and delegates. "In what manner may a Church best serve the Interests or the Community?" (a) Improving its Intellectual Life? Rev. H. A. Sengstacke, Savannah (Woodville Church.) (b) Entertaining and holding the young People? Rev. S. A. Paris, Marietta. (c) In reaching young Men? Deacon Geo. S. Williams, Savannah. (d) Bettering the Sanitary and Hygienic Conditions of the Homes? Rev. H. S. Barnwell, Thomasville. Each paper is limited to twenty minutes. What is a properly qualified Ministry for the present Day? (a) Their Obligations to the Community and how can they best meet them? Rev. H. T. Johnson, Andersonville. Open discussion led by Rev H. H. Proctor. Adjournment. Thursday afternoon, 3:00 o'clock, Devotional Service led by Rev. W. M. Kirklin, Rogers. Address, "The Missionary Work of our Rural Churches," Rev. W. K Kennedy, Hagan. Address, "The Practical and Spiritual Value of the Apportionment Plan" Rev. C. Stephen Haynes, Athens. Address, "The Campaign of the American Missionary Association for a Million-Dollar Endowment Fund for our Schools of Higher Education," Rev. Geo. W Moore, D D., Superintendent of Southern Church Work, Nashville, Tenn. Adjournment. Thursday Night, 8.00 o'clock—Devotional Service led by Rev. C. Stephen Haynes, Athens, Music by the Choir, Paper, "The Work of Woman in the Church," Miss Marie Woolfolk, Atlanta Address, "The Problem of the Rural Churches of the South and the Key to the Situation," Rev W. H. Holloway, Talladega College, Talladega, Ala. Music, Annual Address of the Moderator, Rev. H. H. Proctor, D. D., Atlanta Offering, Announcements, Benediction. Friday Morning Session - 8:30 o'clock, Devotional Service with Beach Institution (Continued on Page Two) 6 JOHN HABERSHAM Star of State College 图 11 INTERIOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH WHERE CONVENTION WILL BE HELD Beaufort, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Fisher are out again after an illness of two weeks at their home, corner West and Craven streets. Mr. A. D. Burr, of Port Royal, was in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Clansey left for Boston, Mass., last week after spending three months with his mother. The election passed off very quiet here; special arrangements were made for the returns at Cross Pins Social Club. The many friends of Mr. Geo. Smalls, of Port Royal, will regret to learn of his death on Saturday; the interment was Sunday. Mr. Smalls was a very popular young man and made a great many friends both at Port Royal and Beaufort. Capt. J. I. Washington left this week to attend the Colored Fair at Columbia. Capt Washington has a host of friends in the Capitol City. Mrs. Henry Wallace, the wife of policeman Wallace, died at her home on Washington street, Sunday morning, after an illness of three months. Mrs. Wallace was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church. She is survived by two adopted daughters and a husband. The funeral took place Monday at 3 p.m. from Tabernacle Baptist church. Beaufort is to have a Colored County Fair to help local farmers. The stork seems to be kept quite busy now-a-days. He left a bouncing baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Blocker last week. Mr. C. H. Hoyward was in the city this week. He reports business good on Paris Island. Mr. Edward Simmons, of the Paris Island light station, was in the city this week. Mr. J. E. Zealey seems to have the cotton market cornered on Paris Island; he came up this week with boat loads of cotton to gin. Mr. King, of Port Royal, is one of the tew colored citizens of this section that owns his own launch. We are glad to see Prof. J. S. Schanklin out again, after an illness of two weeks. Miss Coleman of Dayton, Ohio, will assist Prof. Schanklin this year. Mr. Samuel Washington has opened a wood yard, corner of Charles and Duke streets. Mrs. Washington is in charge of the store. From the outlook business seems to be on a boom on Duke and Charles streets. Mrs. J. C. Wright continues to improve. Her many friends wishes for her a speedy recovery. Mrs. W. I. Allen is out again after an illness of two weeks. Mr. C. H. Singleton left for Charleston this week where he will remain until the Fair and Fleet week is over. He will carry his large touring car over. Miss Margaret L. Wright is out again after a week's illness. The auditorium will open this week for the season with "Introduce Me" as the opening attraction. The Hon. Judson Lyons and Mr. A. W. Wimberly of Augusta, Ga, were in the city this week. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1912 Large Crowds Expected-Interesting Program Planned-Savannah Day, Nov. 26th. The sixth annual Colored State Fair will open in Macon Ga., on Monday of next week and will continue through the 28th of the month. Judging from present indications large crowds from all sections of the state will be in attendance at the fair which gives promise of being very successful. The agricultural, educational and domestic display is reported to be the best ever shown at this fair- The program which has been planned is very interesting and includes many attractive features. On the opening day there will be a grand street parade and an interstate prize drill by the Pythians of Georgia and Alabama. On Savannah Day, which is Tuesday, November 26th, there will be a parade of shows and midway attractions aside from a foot-ball game between the Georgia State College and the Athens Athletic club, of Athens, Ga. Among the other attractive features of the fair will be the Metronome orchestra of this city which has been engaged for special occasions. Atlanta Baptist College 48, Atlanta University, 0 The Atlanta Baptist College foot ball team dealt a crushing defeat to Atlanta University on the campus of the former last Saturday att@moon by a score of 48 to 0. The goal of the Atlanta Baptist College was never in danger and early in the first quarter it was evident that Atlanta University could not withstand the fierce on slaughters of their opponents who out weighed them about ten pounds to the man. The first score came five minutes after the game started by Atlanta Baptist College rushing the ball down the field by a series of end plays and line plunges. From then on it was only a matter of how small a score Atlanta University could hold its opponents to. Several times Atlanta Baptist College used the forward pass to advantage. Among the substitutes used by Atlanta University was one Savannah boy, Houston Tolbert. During the long rivalry of these two schools this is the largest score ever made by either team against the other. Congregational Church Choir Recital Very Creditable That the First. Congregational church has a choir of much merit was demonstrated last Sunday night by the excellent recital which they gave. For a little more than one hour the members of the choir entertained the large audience with one of the best choir recitals ever rendered in this city. The members of the choir were all in excellent voice and acquitted themselves very creditably. "Immerse" Used Instead of "Baptise"—Other Words Follow Church Doctrine (Special to The World.) Philadelphia, Nov. 12—What is regarded as a most radical version of the Holy Bible was placed on sale here to-day at the American Baptist Publication Society room. It is a Baptist Bible for Baptist only, and much of the old text has been entirely changed. In that portion of the New Testament where the conversion of the Saviour is described, in place of using the Greek "baptize" the literal translation "immerse" is used, so as to conform with Baptist teachings that Christ went down into the water for the baptism. All the archaic forms of the King James and Revised Version have been completely eliminated. The new Bible is called the "Improved Version," and is distinctly different from the old Scriptures. Practically no other church but the Baptist will be able to use it, because it interprets the scriptures to mean solely what the Baptist church teaches. Mrs. Leonie Ashton Green's Funeral Largely Attended. The funeral of Mrs. Leonie Ashton Green, who died Friday morning, Nov. 8th, took place last Sunday afternoon from St. Stephen's Episcopal church and was attended by a very large concourse of friends of the deceased. Arch Deacon Richard Bright conducted the services. Mrs. Green was one of the most popular young women in the city and was twenty-one years of age. She was a graduate of Beach Institute and Atlanta University, and was refined, cultured and talented. She was a very pleasing conversationalist and was one of the most widely liked members of the younger set. The deceased was formerly Miss Leonie Ashton and married Mr. Joseph H. Green, one of our young post men, about five months ago. The floral designs, which were very numerous and beautiful, were arranged on the grave by the members of the Poinsettias club, of which the deceased was a member. The crowd at the cemetery was immense. The deceased is survived by a husband, father, two sisters, brotner and other relatives. An Interesting Thankgiving Wedding. Considerable interest is being shown in the coming wedding of Mr. Samuel G Dent of Brunswick, Ga., and Miss Eleanor L. Jones of this city, which is to take place on Thanksgiving evening at St Stephen's Episcopal church, this city. The contracting persons are both very popular in their respective towns and the wedding bids fair to be one of the most brilliant affairs of the season. Miss Jones is the eldest daughter of Capt. and Mrs. F. F. Jones, 506 Henry street, east, while Mr. Dent is a mail carrier in Brunswick, Ga., and is one of the most progressive young men of that city. Holstoun-McNichols The marriage on last Tuesday evening of Miss Rowena Hutton Houstoun to Mr. Robt. A. McNichols, solemnized at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Jennie C. Houstoun of 303 Waldburg street, east, by Rev. W. L. Cash, pastor of the First Congregational church, was a beautiful event. The house was very artistically decorated in bamboo vines. Christmas berries and palms. The bridal party, entering to the wedding march, played by Miss Helen M. Lifis, was led by the groomsmen, Messrs. Engene Edwards and Malvern McNichols, followed by the ring bearer, Master Albert W. Jackson; then came the flower girl, little Miss Edith Sheftall Jackson, who preceded the maid of honor, Miss Henrietta C. Honstoun, sister of the bride; next entered the bride, with her mother, who was met by the groom and best man, Mr. Robert E. Scott, under a canopy of palms, where the ceremony was performed. The bride wore a hand made gown of all silk chiffon draped over Japanese silk. The waist had a bodice of handsome shadow lace diaperies of chiffon with trimmings of pearls, and satin covered buttons, finished with a crepe charmeuse girdle; the skirt was of the gracefully draped pannier effect ornamented down the front with pearl trimmings and caught in the center a little below the knee with a cluster of handsome satin and tulle buds. Below the pannier the skirt had a deep flounce of exquisite shadow lace which extended all around and veiled the the underskirt of chiffon. She wore a veil beautifully caught with orange blossoms and carried a bouquet of bridal roses and maiden hair fern. The bride wore a real pearl necklace, the gift of the groom. The maid of honor wore a gown of pink silk marquisette draped over satin messaline. The waist was in surpice outline with folds of marquisette from shoulder to girdle on the right side and a fichu effect of cream shadow lace on the left, with decollete neck; handmade rosebuds combined with rosettes of marquisette and green foliage trimmed front of the waist and top of sleeves. The top of the skirt was draped in pannier effect, caught with rosebuds and the lower part was arranged in plaits at each side. She carried pink roses and fern, tied with pink tulle. Little Miss Edith Sheftal Jackson wore a beautiful French nainsook over canary silk elaborately trimmed with valenciennes and canary ribbon. Her hair was flowing and decked with bandeau of canary ribbon; she carried a basket of yellow rosebuds and fern. Master Albert W. Jackson wore a cream French serge and carried a silver tray with wedding ring. Miss Sallie C. Houstoun, another sister of the bride, was gowned in a lilac silk chiffon draped over lilac silk, the lower part of skirt being of lilac messaline. She wore a bunch of yellow roses. Mrs Houstoun, mother of the bride, wore a black charmeuse satin, the bodice of which was of white point lace, and the skirt trimmed with puffings. She wore a handsome fringed sash of brocaded silk. The presents were numerous, handsome and useful which attest the popularity of the couple. Mr. and Mrs. McNichols are at home to their many friends at 222 Park avenue, east. The French take a very different view of the Negro from that of Americans, as is shown by the action of the French press recently in congratulating M. Delcasse, Minister of Marine, for promoting to the grade of captain a Negro of the name of Mortemol. Mortemol was born in Guadeloupe, and he entered the navy just after graduating from the "ecole polytechnique." His comrades received him well and he rose rapidly, so that it is now predicted that in the near future he will be permitted to fly from the masthead of his ship the pennant bearing the stars of the admiral. No similar situation exists throughout Europe, and the Parisian press takes this opportunity to point out that only in France does there exist the equality of races which should be the case the world over. This emphasises the motto of the French republic, "Liberte, oqualite, fraternite." NUMBER 9 Claflin. Smothers State College GAME PROVED VERY EASY FOR SOUTH CAROLINIANS Local Boys Outclassed—Exhibited Poor Knowledge of Game—Visitors Goal Never in Danger—Large Crowd Out Playing true to the excellent form which they exhibited during the early part of the season, Claffin University, Orangeburg, S.C., defeated the Georgia State College at the base ball park, on Friday afternoon before last by a score of 38 to 0. The game proved very easy for the South Carolinians and very seldom were they forced to kick in order to gain the required distance. The local boys, even though they had several outsiders in their line up, played a miserable game and were able to gain the required distance but three times during the entire game. They exhibited a woeful lack of knowledge of the game and were clearly out played. During the first quarter the State College held their opponents to one touch down, but early in the second quarter it became evident that the South Carolinians were getting themselves together and were going to roll up a big score The only feature of the game in which the State College surpassed the South Carolinians was punting. The good work of Washington in this department of the game saved the local boys at least two touchdowns. His punts were high, long and very difficult for Claflin to handle. Of the individual players on the State College team, most praise should be given to Habersham, right guard. His offensive and also defensive work being much superior to that of any of his teammates. For Claflin. Capt. Parks did the most sensational work. He ran his team with good judgement and injected much spirit into his men. A crowd of about five hundred was present at the game. Meeting in Interest of Negro and Professional Men. There will be a mass meeting Monday evening November 18th, at the First African Baptist Church, Franklin Square, in the interest of the Negro Business and Professional Men of the city. The two principal speakers of the evening will be Rev. R. H. Singleton who will address the gathering on "The Relation between the Negro Business and Professional Men" and Rev D. Augustine Reid, who will talk on "Why the Negro should patronize their Business and Professional Men." There will be several other speakers on the program and many musical numbers. Rev. W. L. Jones will officiate. It is expected that a large crowd will be out. 15 CAPT. PARKS Star of Claflin University 55,000 FALL IN FIVE DAYS' FIGHT Terrible Slaughter in Front of Constantinople. LAST FORTS HARD TO TAKE Two Large Turkish Forces That Are Probably Cut Off—Ports On the Adriatic and the Sea of Marmora Occupied. London.—More than 100,000 men have fallen in the ferocious conflicts before Adrianople and Constantinople. In the five days' engagement along the line between Lule Burgas and Bunerhissar the Bulgarians, it was officially announced, lost 15,000 men killed or wounded. The Turkish casualties exceeded 40,000. The Turkish garrison, it is reported, has been withdrawn from Salonika, after destroying a number of bridges forming the approaches to the city. The American High School for Girls at Scutari, on the Asia Minor side of the Bosphorus, has sent its scholars of Bulgarian nationality on board one of the British cruisers now at Constantinople, owing to fears for their safety. The occupation of the Port of San Giovanni di Modua, on the Adriatic Sea, as well as of the cities of Alessio and Jakova by the Montenegro troops is confirmed. Between the Bulgarian army and Constantinople now stand only the Tenatulla forts, which are held by an army that has suffered a series of crushing defeats and that has been rendered, it is believed in military circles, incapable of making any sustained defense against a vigorous assault. Some villages in the vicinity of this last line of defense are reported already in the hands of the Bulgarians. Preparations are being made for the protection of the menaced population of Constantinople, and at the request of the foreign ambassadors entrenchments have been thrown up at San Stefano and at Kiatkane so that if the rout that occurred after the previous battles should be repeated the mob of fleeing soldiers can be checked. Should matters become more threatening in the Turkish capital the fleets of the powers may force the Dardanelles, in which case there would be 6,000 men available for landing with possible reinforcements from the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. It is officially announced that the port of Rodosto, on the Sea of Marmona and the city of Visa, southeast of Adrianople, were occupied by the Bulgarian troops on November 5. . A HERRING IS A HERRING. Important Decision Bearing On Fish Relationship. Washington.—A herring is a herring. Assistant Secretary Curtus so answered the question. What is a Herring? which has been before the Treasury Department for many months. It was recently discovered that many importations of sardines were coming into the United States under the quise of herring, the duty on which is considerably lower than on other fish. The Treasury Department made a deep study of the families and relationship of fishes, deciding that anchovies, bris-lings, sardines, sprats, pilchards and alewives are not herring, and should be assessed 30 per cent. ad valorem duty when shipped in tins and small packages and three-fourths of one cent when shipped in casks, etc. JOKES WITH SURGEONS. Man Watches Them Repair His Injured Scalp. Philadelphia. When Thomas Dougherty fell downstairs at his home he ripped two-thirds of the scalp from his head. He was rushed to the University Hospital and, lighting his pipe, he sat coolly and watched the surgeons cut away the scalp, lay it on a marble slab and shave off all the hair. Then the surgeon laid the scalp back on the head and sewed it on. Dougherty had his granium bandaged up and took a car for home. WIRELESSED ELECTION. Steamers All Over the Pacific Ocean Catch and Interchange Bulletins. San Francisco.—Fifteen thousand persons on board 50 steamships on the Pacific Ocean received election returns by wireless from stations in this city. The first wireless election bulletin was flashed at 8 o'clock and the operator had hardly closed his key upon the news that Governor Wilson had more than enough electoral votes to win before the operator on the Pacific Mall liner Nile, just entering the port of Honolulu from the Orient, confirmed it. MOTHER AND BABE DEAD. Daughter Makes Gruesome Discovery At Farmington, Pa. Uniontown, Pa.—Mrs. Mary Wilson and her baby were found dead in a room at their home near Farmington by her daughter Mary. Mrs. Wilson's throat had been cut and the baby's head almost severed. It is thought Mrs. Wilson in a fit of melancholia seized her husband's razor and after killing the infant committed suicide. ANOTHER BITTER DISAFFORTMENT BEN, I THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER RIGHT HERE IN TOWN SHE BURNS ALL RIGHT, BUT "PING IT ALL" WHERE DOES THE HEAT GO TOO? ANTICIPATION (Copyright) REALIZATION PROVISION FOR THE MAJORITY ONLY No Minority Recognized in the National Law. PRESIDENT IS LEGALLY FREE Bull Moose Likely To Be Disappointed In Their Expectations For Representation On National Commissions. Washington.—Statements by Progressive party leaders that they will expect representation on non-partisan government boards, commissions, etc., has led to an examination here of the laws and precedents bearing on such appointments. This shows, it is declared, that the law makers, in creating non-paftisan boards and commissions, made no provision for the selection of members from minority parties. Consequently, the general rule has been merely to prohibit more than a majority of the members of these boards and commissions being selected from one party, nothing being said from what party or parties the minority shall be chosen. In accordance with this, President Wilson would be legally free in most cases to select minority members from any of the minority parties. The Hepburn Rate Law, increasing the number of members of the Interstate Commerce Commission from five to seven, provided, that "not more than four commissioners shall be appointed from the same political party." The law governing the appointment of the three Civil Service Commissioners provides that "not more than two whom shall be adherents of the same party." The law creating the Board of-General Appraisers, at New York, provides that "not more than five of whom shall be appointed from the same political party." The personnel of many commissions, such as the managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution, is determined upon by the Houses of Congress itself without regard to the law as to non-partisanship. It is generally recognized that the question of moral support for the demand for representation will be passed upon by the Democratic leaders alone. In the House and Senate representation of Progressives on committees and commissions is likely to bring complications. In the last Congress the Democratic majority required the Republican minority, the leading minority, to care for the Socialist member in the committee appointments. The general rule, in both the House and the Senate, is to allow the minority leader to make assignment of minority members or senators to the respective committees. HAVANA STILL UNDER GUARD. Trouble Over Election Now Seems To Have Passed. Havana.—The city still continues under the guard of the combined troops, rurales and police, following the apprehension over last Friday's election, although it is believed that all danger has now passed. President-elect Menocal has announced it as his policy to secure tariff reform with a view to reducing the cost of living; greater economy in the running of the government and closer relations with the United States. RAILROAD BLAMED. Bad Roadbed Responsible For Natioch Wreck, Save Report. Washington.—Severe condemnation of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad for not keeping that part of its roadbed near Natioc, Ill., "sufficiently well maintained to permit the operation of trains in safety" was voiced by a special report of Interstate Commerce Commission inspectors, following an investigation of the causes of the wreck at that point which, on August 25, killed one person and injured 25. CONTRACT FOR CANAL PROJECTS Enormous Amount of Steelwork Ordered. HUGE COALING STATIONS. Isthmian Canal Commission Has Begun Execution Of Its Extensive Plans For the Operation Of the Panama Canal. Washington.—Beginning the execution of its extensive plans for the permanent projects for the operation of the Panama Canal, the Canal Commission has awarded a contract to the United States Steel Products Company for 7,000,000 pounds of structural steel work, to cost about $410,000. The Commission's plans are for works seperate entirely from the canal construction, and include all the facilities that the government is to provide for the repair of ships, the upkeep of the vast canal machinery itself, the handling of coal and liquid fuel for shipping and permanent office buildings and accommodations for the small army of employees which will be required to operate the canal. There will be a large force of clerks and engineers under permanent employment. The present contract covers machine shops, forge shops, steel storage sheds, paints and car shops, planking mills, foundries, coke sheds, boilerhouses, roundhouses and gashouses. This is only the beginning. Among the other facilities to be supplied are 1,000-foot piers for commercial use at Balaena, two wharves and one pier at Christobal, besides a mole and breakwater, to be followed by four other piers should the traffic justify it. There will be a great drydock at Balaena, 1,000 feet long, capable of accommodating any vessel that could pass through the canal locks. This will be on a rock foundation, built of concrete. A smaller drydock, at Balaena, will handle vessels up to 350 feet in length. As the government is going into the business of supplying merchant vessels with fuel, water and other supplies, the Commission, according to the Canal Record, plans to locate the main coaling plant on the Atlantic side, capable of handling and storing 200,000 tons of coal, one-half of which will be kept under water, where it has been found to better retain its gaseous contents. There will be a lesser coaling plant on the Pacific side, at Halbon, capable of storing 100,000 tons of coal under and above water. In recognition of the rapid substitution of oil for coal as a marine fuel, the Commission has planned to erect four steel tanks, of 40,000 barrels capacity each, and contracts already have been placed for their construction. The main repair shops for merchant vessels will be located at Balbon. They will be on a large scale, covering a ground space of 525,000 square feet. As far as possible the present machinery will be utilized in the new shops. One item of equipment, peculiar to the canal, will be one or two powerful floating cranes, capable of handling the giant steel lock gates of the canal when repairs are needed. WICKERSHAM READS BIBLE. Flinds Consolation In the Words Of Hezekiah. Washington.—Attorney-General Geo. W. Wickersham has returned to the Bible for consolation. Mr. and Mrs. Wickersham, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel and Mrs. Nagel received election returns in the President's office at the White House. Late in the evening, when the returns were particularly unfavorable to President Taft, Mr. Wickershaw picked up a small Bible from Mr. Taft's desk, opened it at the Second Book of Kings, nineteenth chapter, third verse, and read: "Thus saith Hezekiah, this day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke and blasphemy." PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS DAY OF THANKSGIVING. Washington. — According to the century-old custom, President Taft issued his proclamation setting aside the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day. The presidential proclamation read: "A God-fearing nation like ours owes it to its inborn and sincere sense of moral duty to testify its devout gratitude to the All Giver for the countless benefits it has enjoyed. For many years it has been customary at the close of the year for the National Executive to call upon his fellow-countrymen to offer praise and thanks to God for the manifold blessings vouchsafed to them in the past, and to unite in earnest suppliance for their continuance. "The year drawing to a close has been notably favorable to our fortunate land. At peace within and without, free from the perturbations and calamities that have afflicted other people, rich in harvests so abundant, and industries so productive that the overflow of our prosperity has advantaged the whole world, strong in the steadfast conservation of the heritage of self-government bequeathed to us by the wisdom of our fathers, and firm in the resolve to transmit that heritage unimpaired, and rather improved by good use, to our children and our children's children for all time to come, the people of this country have abounding cause for contented gratitude. "Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, president of the United States of America, in pursuance of long established usage, and in response to the wish of the American people, invite my countrymen, wheresoever they may sojourn, to join on Thursday, the 25th day of this month of November, in appropriate ascription of praise and thanks to God for the good gifts that have been our portion, and in humble prayers that His great mercies toward us may endure. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington, this seventh day of November, A. D., 1912, and of the independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and thirty-seventh. (Signed) "WILLIAM H. TAFT." WOULD RECALL MAYOR. Citizens Of Seattle, Wash., File Petition Against Executive. Seattle, Wash.—A petition for the recall of Mayor George F. Cottrell containing nearly 24,000 names was filed in the Comptroller's office. It is alleged in the petition that Mayor Cottrell has shown himself lacking in executive ability and moral courage, that he suffers certain persons and certain institutions to interfere in political matters, that he has failed, apparently because of obligations to "certain politicians and socialist agitators," to protect citizens of Seattle in their constitutional rights and to enforce proper respect for the American flag. INFECTED WITH·MOTH. Federal Quarantine On a New England Christmas. Washington.—The Department of Agriculture placed an embargo upon interstate shipment of Christmas trees from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut because of gypsy and brown-tail moths. The quarantine becomes effective November 25, and also affects the shipment of decorative plants, such as holly and laurel, known as "Christmas greens or greenery." Only in cases where the plants and plant products have been inspected and pronounced to be free from these two insects by Department of Agriculture inspectors will they be permitted to enter interstate commerce. DANIEL KIEFER INDICTED. Charged With' Illegal Use Of Congressman's Frank. Cincinnati, O.-Daniel Kiefer, treasurer of the Joseph Fels' single tax fund, was indicted by the federal grand jury October 3, according to a report by United States District Attorney McPherson. He was charged with using a frank of Congressman Henry George, Jr., in sending out mail. THE BALKAN WAR. Bulgarian troops have occupied Buk, on the Salonika-Constantinople Railroad, cutting off communication between the Turkish army in Macedonia and the Turkish garrison of Adrianople. The correspondent of the London Chronicle, in writing of the battle of Thrace, says it was a terrible and appalling defeat for the Turks, followed by a rout for which there is scarcely a parallel in history. A wireless message from a foreign warship at Saloniki says that the Turkish army, which was defeated at Yenidje, about 14 miles from Saloniki, has reached that city in complete disorder. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Some people will, always, tend to retrogression, however favorable might be the circumstances by which they are surrounded; because they delight in that excitement which ever keeps their footsteps in the foreground and expose them to the shaft of public criticism. Unfortunately, that element is little hampered by shame or self-respect; hence ridicule, a weapon most effective in the correction of abuses where reason rules, is powerless in their case. In localities where ignorance, superstition and general deprivacy are sufficiently densed as to become noticeable, the strong arm of the law is the only agency able to cope with the situation; and, at times, its skill is baffled in the handling of conditions. The most intelligent sometimes err; but mistakes of the head when good is intended may not be attributed to sordid design yet these are not excusable in the eyes of the law. But, when the miscreant willfully and maliciously tramples upon the rights of individuals and disregards sacred privileges which belong to others, he violates the cause of humanity and subjects himself to the penalty which that violation invites. The short-comings of these irresponsibles do much to retard the upbuilding of communities, and obstruct the trend of healthy growth. In all ages, that class of human vermin has ever been the bane of the populace to which it was allied; and strenuous conditions had to be meted to accomplish beneficial results. All races have their failures—their virtues and their vices—but the crimes and follies which they commit (except the negro) are charged to the culprits who perform the acts. Prejudice is blind to merit, and does not always give credit where it is due; yet it scruples not, for the sins of a part, to cast aspersions upon the whole. The negro, amid his peculiar environments, has much to bear; and the load of the better element is made more burdensome because he is compelled to bear the stigma which the thoughtless of his own people evokes. Therefore, in order to safeguard every interest which concerns the body and protects the good name of each worthy son, it is well that the pulpit, press and lecture platform make a general crusade against this tendency to riotous inclinations, and strive to elevate their sentiments to nobler heights. There is nothing so disturbing to the harmony of society as the criminals in its midst; nor could there be anything more destructive to its welfare. There have been too many fancy ideas of education. Too many of our young people who have completed courses of study in college find themselves handicapped in the world from the fact that they don't know how to do anything. They have acquired certain knowledge, but they can't apply it. This circumstance is detrimental. We want men and women of action. We commissorate, to say the least, the young man who has spent several years in college acquiring knowledge of mathematics, language and science, and then goes out into the world unable to render the people practical, efficient service. On the other hand, we must regard him as educated, though he might have never spent a day in college, who is able to achieve some victory for the race and thus increase admiration for it on the part of the outside world.—Savannah Independent. The report of the American Church Institute for Negroes presents on the one hand an array of facts highly creditable to the colored people, but on the other a statement of conditions by no means satisfactory to either whites or blacks. Since emancipation the negro, starting without a dollar and without education, has acquired ownership of 24,000 square miles of land, has established more than 500,000 homes owned in fee simple, has built and maintains upward of 26,000 churches valued at nearly $30,000,000 and has expended more than $25,000,000 for his own education. Against that bright showing stands the portentious fact that after all this progress, conditions remain such that of 3,000,000 negro children of school age less than 1,000,000 regularly attend school, and that of those that attend, the training is meager because of the short terms. It is clear that in this respect the negro is not getting his share of the advantages common to other races in the Union. The day never comes for a woman to realize the futility of powder. The reason for the sinking of the Titanic and the sacrificial offering of human lives was the direct result of carelessness on the part of 'a British sea captain; avarice on the part of British ship owners, and the same is the cause of Afro-Americans not making greater material progress; racial jealousies and petty prejudices.—Cadiz Informer. When a woman is afraid of showing her age she tries to cover it with a coat of paint. What can the white people of the country do to help advance the interests of the ten million negroes, who contributed in 1911 over $700,000,000 to the wealth of the nation, and showed unusual activity in the work of building up business enterprises? It is true that the negro has succeeded in spite of opposition, lack of training, and the schemes of designing men. Nevertheless the fact remains that where the negro has had a sympathetic contact with the best white people, he has made the greatest progress and has suffered least from wasted activity. The white people of this country can do a great deal of good by encouraging the negroes about them to assume responsibility, to begin business operations, and to follow out the suggestions which Dr. Washington and others offer. White people can explain the methods that they have found to be of value to them and point out some of the pitfalls of business life. They can do what Julius Rosenwald, president of the Sears, Roebuck company of Chicago, recently did—speak with perfect frankness out of their rich business experience and give that wholesome advice which has already been perfectly squared with practice in and out of business life. They can give publicity to the good things that they know concerning negroes. They can keep an open mind on the race question and deal with negroes as men and women who are struggling valiantly for the higher things of life. They can be generous, kind hearted, sympathetic, and fair in all their relations with the colored man. Through co-operation in its various phases, through understanding based upon helpful contact, and through justice itself will the white people and the black people of this country continue to secure the blessings of earth. Southern Workman. We wonder if the negro will ever see the folly of having everything going out and nothing coming in? There is only one way in which to force white men to realize the necessity of giving us a square deal and that is by touching their pocket books. So far as insurance is concerned we have negro companies just as solvent, just as able financially to guarantee you insurance protection as any white companies operating in the state. Suppose that the negroes had the confidence in them they ought to have and would join them as readily, don't you see that you could demand employment for your boys and girls which they could not hope to get otherwise? Let's get together on these questions. —Louisville Defender. Dr A. Clayton Powell goes at the matter in the right way to correct the evil when he shows by statistics that the negroes of Harlem, in New York city, spend $4,500,000, annually for food and clothing, the profit of which must be $810,000, much of which should be handled by negro business men. How much of it is handled by them? Encourage the young folks to go into business, however small the beginning, and patronize them as well as the old ones who are already established and fighting to succeed.—New York Age. Mrs. Emma M. Nakulna is a water rights commissioner under the territorial government in Hawaii. Mrs. Nakulna is an American woman, granddaughter of Captain Metcalf of the Eleanor. She lives in Kailhil. Ninety thousand persons have paid a penny cach for admission to the famous maze at Hampton Court Palace this summer, the largest number for some years. It is estimated that about 25 per cent. of these were foreigners, mostly French and German. During August 24,000 people passed through the turnstiles. For a number of years the takings at the maze were the perquisites of one of the palace attendants, upon whom the right to collect and retain them was conferred by the late Queen Victoria. Since his death a few years ago the takings have gone to his majesty's office of works. The negro in the short period in which he, as a free man has conducted his own operations has done much that the world commends; but there are still disagreeable associations which he needs to ignore if he would win the recognition of the more worthy of mankind. Discourage rowdyism, drunkenness and kindred errors. Drive from companionship the worthless parasite; keep to upright conduct, and in the not far distant future the negro will come into his own.—Atlanta Phalanx. A woman consciously dislikes; a man unconsciously hates. Show your hand and perhaps the other fellow will hide his face. Every day teaches us how much of life there is still to know. To be patient with fate and with those whom fate seems to have stricken should be commensurate. To trust is to lead others to be trustworthy. The Best Man Won Despite the Great Odds Against Him. By HARMONY WELLER. Blossom looked down, suddenly very much abashed. The question lurking in the masculine eyes must be answered and there were three sets of eyes, all adoring and likewise all impatient. Dick gazed fondly at the little brown hand that he longed to possess as his own; Harry's eyes were riveted on the misty line of blue that showed beneath her lashes and Tom absorbed the whole perfect girl in his glance, but mostly he watched the crimson stain of her lips which curled now and again with a troubled smile. She looked up and her eyes lingered on Tom, on Dick and on Harry. Each man watched with trepidation the dimple that played fitfully in the girl's face. A half drawn breath escaped her lips. "You have all," she began in her sweet voice, "honored me—by loving me." The men glowered, each at the other two. She continued a trifle nervously, "And in return—I love you—each one of you—with the same amount of loyalty. I think that I am not a 'one man woman.' I think I could be happy with any one of you—very happy," she added. This polygamous speech had not the soothing effect that the girl had hoped for. The masculine element glowered with greater force but made no attempt to break the line of thought that struggled behind the girl's eyes. A touch of color fanned her cheeks; her eyes became darker. "I want to marry one of you. I long for the city! Life on this island has become irksome to me and I want to see the broader sphere of life. Living here, I have been denied so many pleasures. Until this summer I had not realized a half of what life holds. You have each, in your grand big way, made the last three months a Paradise to me. I had never seen an airship until the day Harry swept down through the air in his huge machine. I had never been in a motor until Dick came whizzing across that old bridge. Good old fleet-footed Bess, whom Tom has taught me to ride, has filled me with—well—joy, and you have all three just spoiled me with your attentions." Negative shakes from three heads condemned her last words "Yes, you have," she contradicted quickly. Blossom drew a deep, troubled sigh. "And now—I have to decide whether I would like to marry a birdman and fly with him, a motorist and joy-ride with him or an equestrian and gallop through life with him! It is a vexing question." She raised appealing eyes to each man in turn. The look compelled an answer. "The latter is of course the most enjoyable," said Tom. "The former is more exhilarating," said Ilarry. "The middle path is always the safest," said Dick. Glossom laughed and jumped quickly to her feet and motioned the men to remain. "I am going to bring out a jug of cider and some fresh doughnuts. While you three are making them disappear I shall walk once around the island. When I return it will be to tell you whether I motor, gallop or fly through life." With another rippling laugh she was off. When she had gone a second time, leaving in her place a tray of fresh doughnuts and cider, Tom, Dick and Harry glowered darkly one upon the other. Then, because they were all of fine mold, an arm shot out from each brawny shoulder. "To the best man—may he win!" they toasted in one breath. Blossom tripped along with light feet. She went first along the level stretch of sand upon which a great airship spread its wings in rest; she looked tenderly at it. She passed the old bridge, the only connection between the island and the mainland; a gray racing motor lay silent. Blossom's eyes caressed it. Still farther on, under the great spreading elm, Brown Bess grazed. The mare whimied at sight of the slim figure in the pink sunbonnet and Blossom fondled the sleek neck and let fall a light kiss on the mare's velvety nose. She walked on with knitted brow. Half way around the small island she stopped short. The idea had come. Excitement lent speed to her return. Blossom rank down in a little flutter of grace beside Tom, Dick and Harry. She began without preamble. "I will marry—" she paused. "—The man who first reaches me with a parson and a license!" The girl gasped. She was not prepared for the lightning effect of her words on her three admirers. Had she shot them simultaneously out of a triple-barreled cannon they could not have started with such precision and speed. Her grip on her breath relaxed and she looked after the flying figures wondering at the hidden force of her words. A little unsteady laugh fluttered from her lips. She closed her eyes and tried to still the beating of her heart. In this position of expectancy Blossom remained until some time later, when a multitude of sounds broke upon her cars. Her eyes traveled to the mainland whence the noises came. First, a cloud of black dust like the funnel-shaped mass that precedes a summer cyclone and out of it grose the honk, honk and whirr of Dick's green racing car. Second, her eye caught sight of the great-winged thing hovering over the tree tops, and the sound of its engines floating down to her like the humming of a million bees. Blossom held her breath. A fearful sinking of the heart took possession of her when she discovered Brown Bess and her rider were nowhere to be seen. "Oh, what if my foolish dare has brought them to grief!" She was scarcely able to stand as she scanned the horizon line. "Ah!" a sigh of relief escaped her. They were there, far in the rear, like a speck of black against the blue, but dashing toward the inlet for dear life. Nearer and nearer the three men came. Inch by inch the birdman drew ahead! He was just over the water's edge! The motorist dashed to the bridge and good old Brown Bess leaped on at the same moment. Blossom, no longer having control of herself, beat the ground with her foot and cried excitedly first to one and then the other. Suddenly her blood seemed to stop in its course. There was a deafening crash, a splintering of wood and a fearful splash. The girl, terrorstricken, was afraid to look. But she summoned her courage. The unexpected had happened. The old bridge, unable to stand the strain of a motor courtship, had given way and a thin line of water separated it from the shore. A terrific jerk of the brake threw Dick and his aged member of the clergy sprawling on the bridge. Brown Bess, her master and a young curate, were thrown into panic. Suddenly a dull roar rent the air. Blossom screamed. In the topmost branches of the old elm tree the airship had come to grief and Harry, a minister and the hugo machine were struggling with Fate. She stole a glance into the elm tree. The reverend gentleman was safely wedged in a supporting branch while Harry was trying frantically to aid that dignified person into speedy descent from the tree. It looked to the girl as if she would one day be a birdman's wife. She sighed. Hastily her glance swept in the scene on the bridge Dick was storming violently both at his machine, which was half in and half out of the water, and in a milder but none the less urgent manner at the old curate, who was slowly collecting himself. "Can't you swim?" Blossom blushed at Dick's tone toward the white-haired minister. Above the beating of her heart it was not possible to hear Tom's voice, but his words had been effective. She saw the wiry young curate fling off his clerical coat and hat and make a neat dive into the water. After that Tom commanded Brown Bess, and she, too, with a tremendous splash went into the water. Tom followed suit. Out on the bridge Dick raged inwardly and outwardly. Up in the tree top Harry fumed at the impotent moment. Yet in the heart of each defeated man was a something; that clamored for expression. And as Brown Bess reached the shore and with steady muscles drew herself on to a level beach a cheer went out from each heart. The mare stood for a moment dripping: then, as the slim figure in the pink sunbonnet made an involuntary movement toward her, she whinnied a glad welcome. It seemed almost as if the animal's intelligence had told her that she had won a very dear prize for her master. Blossom found, when she reached the mare's side, that she was trembling. The girl did not realize until her arms were about Brown Bess' neck that she could not have faced any other outcome from the race. Tom and the young curate splashed onto the beach then, and in the new shyness that had come over Blossom she could only hide her flushed cheek on dripping Bess. The parson went hastily to Blossom. "Allow me to congratulate you," he said, smiling broadly and giving her a wet but genial handshake. "This is 'another case of the best man to win despite all odds against him.'" "I consider my victory a good object lesson, parson," put in Tom, bringing himself alongside his sweetheart. "You see my desire was so strong and my object so desirable," he sent a swift, tender glance Into Blossom's eyes, "that no new inventions of mankind could cope with the God-given power of good old Bess; nothing could take you from me," he added, as he handed Blossom a soaked license. (Copyright, 1912, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Found Tobacco Popular. Compilers of the "Statistical Account of Scotland," published in 1791, did not find tea drinking much in vogue. They reported that "the chief luxuries in the rural districts are snuff, tobacco and whisky. Tea and sugar are little used, but the use of whisky has become very great. The use of tobacco may almost be sadd to be excessive, especially among the female sex. There is scarce a young woman by the time she has been taught to spin but' has also learned to smoke Smoking seems to have been introduced as an antidote to rheumatism and ague. The favorable alternation with respect to these diseases has produced only a greater avidity for tobacco. True Love Love is the purification of the heart from itself; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous; and the power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. "FIGHTING PRIEST" TACKLES THREE ROBBERS: The Hold-Up Gang Had Beaten Two Victims Into Unconscious When Father McGrath Sailed Into Them—Police to Rescue. New-York.—Father Phillip McGrath of the Catholic Segmen's mission has a sore head and a bruised body, but it's little he cares for that. No for nothing do they call Father McGrath the "Fighting Priest." He fought before this, as at this time a year ago, he took a blackjack away from a bully on West street and felled him with his own weapon, delivering him to the police while whistling "The Low-backed Chair." "Well, as things happened, Father McGrath, without a thought of fighting in his heart, was going quietly along Perry street early the other morning, when at the corner of West street, he saw two men being held up by three, which is contrary to all the ethics of the old country. Father McGrath sailed in. The two victims had already been beaten almost into unconsciousness and presently a blackjack landed on Father McGrath's head. "Thwop!" it went, just like that. Father McGrath went down, but as he went he pulled a police whistle and used it mightily. Patrolman Brennan came running, and the fight waged briskly until Father McGrath was felled again, and at the same moment a "bunch of fives" caught Brennan on the point of the jaw and toppled him. "There seems to be two of us," remarked Father McGrath. Brennan was as game as the priest. As the robbers kicked him he got his revolver and opened fire. Grath. "Now watch the rascals run." They did, around into Perry street and into a tenement, the policeman and the priest close behind. The thieves, however, dodged trough a passage alley, into a backyard and over a fence. Back at the corner Father McGrath and Brennan found the two victims who identified themselves as John Jone, and Peter Anderson, firemen on the Steamship Momus. "We were seeing the town," they explained. "True for you," agreed Father McGrath. Ambulance Surgeon Ryan of St. Vincent's hospital attended the men, and took them to the mission at 422 West street. After giving them time to recuperate from their beating, Father McGrath escorted them to their ship. The priest declined medical attention, as did Brennan, who was worried only because one of the robbers get away with his night stick. Father McGrath says the highwaymen had prepared for their work by putting out all the street lamps in the vicinity. He was unable to describe the men accurately. "However," says he, "I'm thinking they will remember there was a fight." FIRST BABY COURT OPENED Tiny Girl Toddler Brings Quarreling Parents Together Again on the First Day. Chicago.—Chicago's "baby court," the only one of its kind in the world, was thrown open to the infantile public the other morning, and through its agency a family was reunited after months of separation. Husband and wife had taken their difficulties into the court of domestic relations, across the corridor from the restroom and nursery for mothers and children, as it is known, and final separation seemed their only recourse. The daughter was left to play in the nursery. Judge W. N. Gemmill continued the case. The mother came into the nursery, picked up her baby, cuddled it to her breast and played with it. Behind her the father stood, twisting his old black hat out of shape. The child ran to him and threw herself into his arms. "Mary, I'm sorry," he said to his wife, "and if you think you'd care to have me back again, why—say, here's something for the kid," He gave her some money. The "baby court" will be operated in connection with the domestic relations court. Baby and mother can play or rest here until the mother's case is called. Heaps of toys and picture books will serve to keep the little tots busy. Trained nurses and charitable women will see that they have all the fun they wish. Mrs. Mary Leavitt has been made cle of this court, thus becoming the only woman court clerk in the world. A formal house-warming was held in the "bany courtroom" after the close of the courts, Tea, cakes and candy were passed around. Pastor Wins Baseball Fans. Columbus, Ind.—Rev. John L. Shaw, a former Methodist preacher of this county, who is now located at Norden, Neb., has written that he has greatly increased the attendance at his church in Norden by "swapping" work with his congregation. He proposed to the baseball fans of the town that he would pitch for the home team if they would attend his church. He proved a winning pitcher, and now the fans are attending his services. Nichols, THE SHOE MAN 19 EAST BROUGHTON STREET. The affable H. B. Wright is still with us and expects the continuous patronage of his friends. Johnson Undertaking Establishment COMBINED WITH Funeral Directors and Embalmers Finest line of Coffins, Saskets and Robes. White and black funeral cars. Office and warerooms 325-331 Jeflerson street. W. R. FIELDS, Manager. Residence Phone 2032. Livery Stable Attached. Office Phone 676. C. H. ROYALL, Residence 509 Charles St. Phone 3064. W. L. BLUNT, WHOLESALE, AND RETAIL 234 ST. JULIAN ST., WEST. 235 BR YAN ST., WEST. 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Directions on each box. For sale, price 25 cents per box. GO TO— Young Bros. For your TOBACCO, CIGARS and FRUITS Of all kinds. 503 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 15 and 25 cents. MRS. 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. Che Savannah Crikune, Established 1873 % i) JOUN T1. DEVEAUX . ‘ Published by SOL. C. JOHNSON fditur and Proprietor JAS. WH. BUTLER - . A sy. Editor and Manzger Published Every Saturday ~ 1909 West Broad Street. / Phone 2071. Subscription Rates: One Year - - - - - - $1.25 Six Months - - - . - at) Three Months - - - - 50 Remittance must be made by Expres: or Post Office Money Order, or Register ed Letter. Advertising rates givén or application. * Entered at the Post Urtice at Savan. wah, Ga., as Second-Class mail matter. eg ee Svrurpay, Nov. 1671, 1912. It is indeed with a great deal o pleasure that we note the calmies with which our people throughou the country have greeted the elec tion of Gov. Wilson to the -presi dency. According to the Negr« press of the country, the Negro i not only looking to President-Elec Wilson fora square deal, but i: view of certain pre election state ments by him on his position it regard to the Negro, is expecting it, Ina letter to ‘Bishop Walter who nad charge ‘of the Colored Democratic bureau at National headquarters during the presiden. tial campaign. the President-Elect is quoted as writing as follows: 7] hope that it seems superfluous to those who know me, bat to thos who do net know me perhaps it is not unnecessary for me to assure my colored fellow citizens oi my earnest wish to see justice done them in ever, matter, aud noi mere grudging justice. but pastiee executed with hberality and co:- tial good feeling. Eyery seu rai tee of om Taw. every principle of our Constitution ~ comar.nds this, and oar ayinpathies should make itewsy. Lhe colored people ofthe United states have made extraordinaty — prugress towatd self-support) aud usefulness, and aught tobe encourazed in every possible and proper way. My sympathy with them is of long standing, and T want to assure them through you that) should I become President of the Un.ted States, they may count upon me for absoluve fair dealing und for everything by which I could as- sist in advencing the interest of the race in the United States”. Braver afd fawer words than these could dot be expected from aby : one. And coming as they do from the tian who has since been elect ed to the highest ofhce in the gift of the American people, their gravity becomes all the more pro nounced, ‘The foregoing promise of President Elect’ Wilson is in deed « splendid one. And judgins the mun by his record in offices believe that he has the comsge o his conviction to fullilevers pron ise unde by himor at least teat in. the attempt so to do. In the meantime our people should not lose sight of their duty to them | selves... if we expect to receive’ recognition and help from those in authority, then we must prove worthy of such help. Resting on our laurels of the past while sit- ting by idly in the present. will not gain for us increased recosni- tion andaid. We must be up, and doing. When the Democratic adininistration goes into power on the fourth of March next, let us show it that no thriftier, more patriotic and erergetic race of people can be fourd domiciled within the borders of our country than the race with which we are identilied, It is our duty chen to vet together as never before “for the good of the whole and then work for itsinterest. In so doing we shall make ourselves ever more worthy of recognition by our government and thus change for better the high opinion already expressed of our worthiness by President-Eléct Wilson. Our fu- ture is ina large measure in our hands. Let us so live and act that that which is promised us cannot be withheld from us on account of our unworthiness. To our entire satisfaction, the election held in our city on last ‘Tuesday on the Commission Gov- ernment charter, resulted in its overwhelming defeat. ‘To us, this is an indication that at least for the present, the majority of our citizens are satistied with the pre- sent charter of our city. As bas been pointel out Sy various speakers during the pre-election sampaign, our present churter has been tried aud found not wanting. Under its provisions, our city has enjoyed the periods of her great- est prosperity. To our minds, it would be the proper course, if it were discovered that the greatest efficiency in municipal affairs could not be reached under the present charter, not to abolish it BOE SUIPCLO TS =COLUeCIN DEW . final usted tn fall view of the fact thee the city has groivn and pros pered under the present’ charter, but iv iopreve upon. this old ehaiter is sach changes or mmend- Meats that wif result i the sueusthening of mt. ‘The old ;adage thit it peys “to jet well [enoush alone” must have actuated the majority of the voters on last ‘Tuesday in turning déwn the new charter For a time at least. the Commission Government — idea will not be in vogue. Among those who share largely in its de- feat ure the colored voters who marched bravely to the polls on {last ‘Tuesday and placed them- [selves an record as not favoring any radical chavge in the govern- ment of our city. From the, be- ginning of the campaign for the new charter, we have opposed it. We have felt all along that in con- junction with the best: iuteiest of tie city, the interests of our own people would be best subserved lander the old charter. We ap- [vealed to our people to yote ‘against the measure and much to our satisfaction, did we note their fealty to duty and interest on last ‘Tuesday when they yoted almost.’ as one man against the new char- ter. This is indeed a pleasme sien of the times. It is i.deed in a large measure an indication of the fact that moreand more our people are deauing how te wield Miteddipenthy the bailot entrusted to them. ft. ceased to be the case with tira to vote just to be voting aud without conviction. They are appreciating the fact more and more that the interests of the city are theirs as well as anybody's else and that it as thear! bounden duty Lo asstst in saving! tu the community good Jaws unc good otlicers. Undterty autnu: -, ties crxnnot help bac note the in-} creased intelligent activity of out ; people in wlans of the communi-) ty. We are part and pareel of! agreat city. I tho great efforts! now being put forward by our, citizens tor a bigeer and better: Savannahs we are closery ideuti- fied. Inthe campaign now tenet waxed for better aud morp ani tur, hoines and surroundings, we are playing po inconspicugus part. | We are beginning to feel more} wid more that Savannah is for us and that -we are for Savannah. | Hence we work; hence we pray;} not for self alone but for Savan- yah as well, We believe.that our ity i$ wastined to grow and thut we will grow with IL. Hence any- Mug tbat is fur her promuuvsn snd Wellate, lu iL uo We 1eadily subscribe. We ure yinds thar our seuple seized the upporlunily & XpIUds LMEHISeIVes AL We pulls on abt tuesday. ebour people nue duly COnLINUG Luger present imter SL aL ACLS ILy I Ube Alas’ ol Wy cite. Gun deb cued Increase Tiss sod WE Peyisler ute HPAL SalisteClon oe LNCd ae dete ak Lut pure ot Lussduy dance Among tite .nasoas. degrees for whom at would be nec- essary to.apologize to any body for Being « Mason, blackball him— ‘Trowel. ° LOCATION OF THE Lignts. Mackey places the representa- tives of the three Lesser Lights on the East, Westand South. Sickles has two North und one South of she Altar. The Louisiana work requires all three to be placed in a triangular form about the Altar, Usually, one is placed about the ‘northwest corner, another about ‘the southwest corner, and the other East of the Altar. As the North is Masonically a place of darkness, it seems to us that ‘Mackey’s form or that of the Louisiana Lodges would be prop- er, so that no light is in the North —Trowel. / An experience of 40 years in ‘the quarries has taught me that in Masonry, as in all human insti- tutions, while men are willing to work without*hope of fee or re: ward, yet there is a proper desire to know that their labors are ap- preciated, and thus recognition is acknowledged by the conferring of Honors within the gift of the Craft. It isa laudable ambition to aspire to Masonic honors, and the reward for faithful service thus held out to every Masonie worker, inspires him with renew- ed zeal, lends enthusiasm to his labors, and adds testimony to the appreciation of his merits.—Chris- ‘topnber G Fox, New York. “Practice meetings” are a good thing when there is nothing else todo. There is no danger of any- one learning too much about Ma- sonry, und when you have work in your lodge to .do you want to sce it done well so it will make a lasting impression on the mind and heart of the candidates. Noth- ing is more degrading than poor degree work. It works a hard- ship on the lodge because the members losefinterest and the can- didate is nor sufficiently impress- edtomuke you 2 youd working member after he has been ratseu to the sublune degice of aM. Mi [Practice « little and reftesh your | mumory- alt will dv you good. | —Masonic Yeus , Parents Day Mectine. | Parents and guardians of childres attending the Maple St, Public Schvo jare most cordially invited to be presen! at the Parents Day Mecting, Maple St. School, Manday Nov. 1+,1912 at 2 o'clock sharp. Much school itiformation wil be given by the principal and teacher: to parents Interested in the welfare ol their children. The pupils, teachers and children are too far apart to obtain best results. If jthe cnildren of the public schools, parents and teachers be united in one grand trio of co-operative work the |Public School system will be more ef- fective for greater good and a more generous uplift of child, parents and teacher = We are living in a progressive age and, as in politics, party lines and time honored atfiliations have just most sig- nificantly failed to tie the erstwhile stalwart politician and partisan to the Grand Old Party, so in educational matters, child, parents and teachers must make progress, must learn more than books and keep pace with the times. To stand still is suicide, Jno. McIntosh. Evancelical Ministers” Union. The Evangelical Ministers’ Union met Tuesday With Dr it. H singleton presiding. Devotional seryice was conducted by Rev. E. D. Giddins Having addressed the throne of wzrace the 49th Psalm wasthen read. — The Union joined ina chant. Rev J. W Williains of Jacksonvillé, Fia, visited the Union, The Union witl only have the sermonie report frum-now until after the appointment of the aqnual conference. The Union passed a motion to draw up a resolution relative to the death of Rey H. L Heyward and Rey Mrs. Jas Green. Sermonic report wes given by Dr T. No M. Smith. Come out-next Tuesday. Visi- torsalways welcome Congregational Convention. TContinued from Pace Onel ‘tute, led by‘the Moderator, Dr. Proc- itor... The Convention reassembled ‘at the church; Roul call Reading ol tminutes. Reports of churches, (writ- :ten.) Collection of dues. Reports of committees Address, “What can we | soto ercouraye our Churches to become Self-supporting,” Rev. NH McTier, | Hrinity, Gu. Open Discussion led by Prof. N.H. Aliord Register. Address, | (‘System in Church Fiuances,", Mr C. © Cater, Atlanta. Open discussion, led |by Mr. P. A. Denegall, Savannah. 'Ad- | iournment. | Fiiday Afternoon Session, 3 o'clock, j Devotional Service led by Rev. H. S: Barnwell, Thoutasville, “The Old Evan- gelistic Method Vs. the Men and Relig- ‘on Forward Movement” by Rev. J. Wesley Holloway, Thebes. Address, « Evangelism.” by Rev D. J. Flynr, Charlo'te, N.C Oprm discussion ‘ed by Rev. W L. Cash, Savannah. Ac jourrment. Reception by the loca, Uhurch 5:30 to 7:30 p m. Fridry Night,—8 o clock, The Sun day School and Y P S.C. E. Con- vention, Prof L.S. Clark, President. Athens, Ga. Program to be supplied. Siturday 9:00 o'clock, Devotional Service led by Rev. A.S. Sco't, Har rison Minutes; Reports of Churches .completed;) Report of Revistrar; Re sort of Treasurer; Reports af Commit- tees; Business unfiniste! and new; Election of officers Adjournment Business Session of the Sunday Scho 1 andY.P S.C E Convention. 100 Ad- journment Saturday afternoon session 3 o'clock, Waman’s Missionary Union, Program itObe supplied Sunday 9:45 a. m. Sunday School with addresses by delegates. Conven tion Sermon, Rev. H_ H, Proctor, D, D, Atlanta. Sunday afternoon session 3:30 o’clock Address by Prof N. B, Young, Presi- dent A. and M. College, Tallahassee, Fla. Address, “The History of Congre- gationalism among the Negroes, "Rev. ‘Abraham Lincoln DeMond, ‘Pastor, Plymouth Congregational | Church, Charleston, S. C. Sunday night, 6:20 o'clock, Big Y. P.S. C. E., Rally. - Address ‘by dele- gates, Music by Y, P.S. C. E. Choir. 8o'clock, Opening Song Service by the Choir. Prof. Robt. W, Gadsden, Choris- ter; Farewell Resolutions presented; In- stallation of new officers. Closing Ser- mon, Rev. Geo, W. Moore, D, D., Nash- ville, Tenn. Offering. Administration |of Holy Communion, Rev. H. H. Proc- tor, and Rev. A. L. DeVond, Ad- journment. The public is invited to attend these services. > SARA AWMA WM «a wap FF 03 5 ee SEABDARD AIR LINE : The Frogressive Railroad of the South Ly. Savannah _ ALL TRAINS DAILY 1:25:p, m. For Columbia, Norfolk, Richmond, Washing- 12;05-a m. ton, New York and Eastern Cities. 2 630a.m, < For Garnett, Fairfax, Denmark, Colnmbia and intermediate points. 4:10 a. m. For Brunswick, Jacksonville, Tampa and 3:30 _p: m. . Florida points . _ 4:30 p: m. For Jacksonville and intermediate points. . 7:00a . m. For Coltins, Helena, Cordele, Americus, Mont- 6:00 p.m. gomery and Western points. Full information at City Ticket O.ice 10 Broughton St, W. Phone 671. : CG. BRYAN, G. PLA C.W. SMALL, D. PL. A Portsmouth, Va. W. H. KINNEAR, C P.& T. A. : Savannah, Ga. | Pekin Theatre . HOUSE OF FEATURE FILMS We .Show The Finest . Pictures Made, | Not only do you see the best in- the picture world, clean vaudeville as well, | —— Pictures Changed Nightly | ADMISSION 10 CENTS CHILDREN 5 CENT , aS ooo | LINCOLN PAR K=>S | | The Great Place of Amusement, Open Sundays | Picnic Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays 8 FREE DANCING Every Wednesday and Friday | Everybody’s Saying It, Saying | It: Saving lt—Savine What? pS eT ee NT Sl VY SReES Saying I am going to attend’the 6th nual S Annual State Colored Fair, Macon, Ga. November 18-28, 1912. Largest Agricultural exhibit, consist- ing of Farm products, live stock, poul- try &c in the history of the state. Su- erb exhibit in the Womens’ Building. Brchibits from Negro Mechanics, Mange factures and inventors from every part of the state. 3 Savannah Day, Thursday, November 2ist, when a Great Foot Ball Battle will take place between the Georgia Stare Golleze team and Athens. Ga., Athletic jub. Round (trip rate from Savannah in- cluding admission to Fair ground $6.59. The Fair Association will furnish round trip rail road transportation, board and lodging in Macon for two days and nights and admission to Fair stround two days and nights for the low rate of $10.00. Join the Savannah State Fair club and spend two dafs at the Big Fair 25 High class shows on _ Midway Grand Pythian Inter-State Prize Drill onthe Opening-Day Companies from Georgia, Florida and Alabama will be | present | Boys Corn Club Parade, 1,009 boys expected to be in line. very body from every where will be there. Don’t miss it. “, For information apply to -R. R. Wright, President. adv. L. B. Thompson, Secretary, Savannah. Ga. SO EGESECSSEESESE SG wes SEs B) GO TO 6 zr. x rye . : @ SCOTT BROS. § +O GWINNETT 2WEST BROAD ¢ gS“ ® JUst RECEIVED RUG ASSORTMENT & & BRUSSELS, AXMINISTERS, VELVETS g ® Ranging in sizes 27 x 54 te 86 x 72 @ Ranging in Pricesd\$1 25 to $4.00 6 & Matting Kugs 33 and 50 Cents . § ® Winter Underwear for Men, Women and Children, g & Weare still selling and recommending g ® THE AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSET g in . & & $1.00 6 SST Vn DpPhe 4 @ SCOTT BROS. & & WEST BROAD & GWNNETT q s Phone 2829 7 g 8 PBPBSPDSSBHBPBRVKHLVVDP BRE BRBRKS Ad R | DOME THE COLORED PEOPLE'S , MILLINERY STORE THE LATEST STYLE PALI AND WINTER OATS Prices Rensonable. Give Usa Call. AG+ WEST BROAD ST. | — Air-dome | some | SHOW rr, | JAMES BOYS a - in’ Missouri Thursday. Nov. 2Ist It will be ‘ a Glorious Week Something/ Doing Every Day Prices the same BAKER The Moving Picture Man -OPERATING— | AIR-DOME-Savannah Hall Lane and West Broad ‘St- Mondays Starting at 4 o’clock' Every night 7 till 11:30 p. m. Admission ADULTS 10 CENTS “CHILDREN 5 CENTS —AL SO— AIR-DOME-Jacksonvill ESE EET E TART Fl SEAB : rE. ABROOK 3 FUNERAL DIRECTOR | i 7 . AND EMBALMER FF Twish to call your attention to my new place of business at i H 514 West Broad street, E. Seabrook, Funeral Director and Em- i § _baimer. Polite attention as heretofore to all patronage. We R _now carry the largest line of Coffins Caskets and Burial Robes fs in the city and our rates are reasunapie Our new Chapel for 4; Funeral services are the most modern and up-to-date there is 4; in the state and [ have also tweof the most commodious Halls kc for Lodge or Societies meetings in the city. Remember them over Seabrook’s 3rd floor. a Chas. H Royall and® Stubbs C Pughsley 8 Licensed Embalmers for E, Seabrook u : 514 West Bread Street SAVANNAH, Ga E ° PRR Renee 7 sec REC RO TIE THE BEST PLACE In Savannah H. M. MONROE & COMPANY JAMES BACON Manager Prompt and courteous attention given all business entrusted to us. Everything of the latest style LATEST STYLE SILVER GRAY AND BLACK CARS CARRIAGE FOR HIRE 605 WEST BROAD STREET Phone 1211 ATLANTA, GEORGIA. An unsectarian christian institution. WITH HIGH SCHOOL . NORMAL SCHOOL AND COLLEGE Superior Advantages In Industrial Training MUSIC AND PRINTING HOME LIFE For Catalogue and information address EDWARD T. WARE, President ATLANTA GA Large Crowds Attending St. Philip's Musical Throughout the week very large and appreciative crowds have been attending the musical festival which is being given at St. Philip church, West Broad and Charles streets. The final night of the musical will be Monday when a grand banquet will be held. The new pipe organ, which was unveiled Monday night, has attracted many visitors during the week and they were all charmed with its beautiful tones. Real Estate Values In Savannah Are Increasing At A Fast Rate During the week there were many speakers of prominence to address the gatherings and much inspiring music was heard. LOCALS Mr. Charles C. Johnson and son. of Waycross. Ga. spent a few days in the city this week on business. Miss Elizabeth Morrison and Mrs. Hattie Marshall were among the passengers from New York to arrive in Savannah Tuesday. Messrs. H. G. and R B. Childs of Jacksonville, Fla, spent a few days in the city this week. Mr. Arthur Mills of Augusta, Ga., is spending a week here with friends. ```markdown ``` Miss Maria Williams of Boston, Ga. is visiting Mrs. Sarah Carter, Huntingdon street west Miss Sadie Harrison of Charleston, S.C., was in the city last week visiting relatives Mrs. Essie Meyers of Jacksonville, Fla. is in the city visiting Mrs. C. G. Moore, Anderson street, east. Mrs. Addie James of New York City, is among the visitors in the city this week. Mrs. James is enroute to Jacksonville, where she will attend the wedding of her brother, Mr. Harry Cox, who resided here a number of years. Mr. George Madison of Macon, Ga., passed through the city Wednesday enroute to Baltimore, Md., where he will live in the future. BUT what good will it do you if you have no land? Nothing so absolutely certain as that real estate will increase in value in any growing city. Savannah is growing and it behooves every wide-a-wake person to get a piece of ground in this city. Mrs. Addie Jenks of Stilson, Ga., was in the city this week Friends of Mr Geo S Williams, 414 Duffy street, west, who was taken seriously ill last week, will be pleased to know that he is now very much improved. Mr C. W Simmons returned to the city last week after spending the summer very pleasantly at Asheville, N. C. He also visited his rel tiyes at Anderson, S. C. Miss Louise Bing left on Sunday last for Tillman, S C., where she will be engaged in teaching Go to the Savannah Pharmacy with your prescription. The only Negro Drug Store in Savannah St. Paul C. M. E. Church. The visit to St. Paul C. M. E. Church by Bishop L. H Holsey of Atlanta, was followed by Rev R. L Mitchell, who presided at the fourth quarterly conference of the above named church. Bishop Holsey's visit was indeed a source of great help. The congregation was greatly inspired with his presence and ora bry. P. E Mitchell found the business side of the church in much better condition than at any previous quarter. The election of officers was the most important feature of the quarter. General satisfaction is shown in the electi You can get it from me in afast growing section at a small cost and one easy terms: See those lots on 42nd to 45th, streets west at from $200 to $300 per lot terms only $5 00 cash and $5.00 per month, no interest. A blendid crowd was out to hear Rev. singleton on last Sunday at 11 a.m. His text was Luke a-4 and 5th verse, subject, "The Wisdom of going beyond one's depth" at 8:15 p.m., he preached an excellent sermon. On Monday night the great musical festival opened with a large crowd in attendance. An excellent program was rendered Dr. Beckett of Columbia, S.C., delivered a fine address. Sunday November 17th, will be Endowment Day at St. Philips at 3:30 p.m., Sunday school exercises; special program will be rendered and Rev. D. Augustine Reid will address the school. We are glad to note that the heater and range were put up in the church this week. One or two more things are to be done and the church will have been completed. We are sorry to note that Brother A. H. Holbrooks has been seriously ill this week. Services for tomorrow (Sunday), prayer meeting at 5:30 a.m., preaching at 11 a.m., Sunday school exercises at 3:30 p.m., preaching at 8:15 p.m. Strangers are cordially invited to these services. Only a limited number for sale I also handle a nice line of improved property. I shall be pleased to send a beautiful map of the city showing the location of our lots free upon request. Call on or address Plain sewing and dressmaking by Miss Mabel G. McIntosh, 616 Gwinnett street, east From the sewing department of the Georgia State Industrial College, College, Ga.; Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.; and The Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tallahassee, Florida.—Ad 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 Miss Etta McIntosh, teacher East Broad Street School and organist of the First Congregational, Savannah, Ga., gives piano lessons at 616 East Gwinnett Street. Terms reasonable, —Ad. November 28th, Thursday. Oyster Roast and Barbecue at Woodlawn Park by the Local Union No 1893, Carpenters and Joiners of America. Tickets 25 cents. December 2nd, Monday. Light of Inheritance Lodge No.133, Good Samaritans at Harris street Hall. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. E. Rankin S. T. Jordan W. J. Jackson SPECIAL AGENTS December 2nd, Monday. Entertainment at Mechanic Hall by the Georgia Union The Aid and Social Club. Tickets 15 cents. November 19th, Tuesday. The Big Four and Jolly Hoppers at Harris street Hall. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. November 28th, Thursday. Thanksgiving Barbecue at Lincoln Park by Joshua R. Simon B. L. R. K. of P Tickets Loen' November 15th, Thursday. The Four Brothers' Oyster Roast at Scott's Pavilion. Tickets 15 cents. November 25th, Monday Dime Social of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Blues Pleasure Club at Mrs. S. A. Greene's residence, 410 East Gwinnett street. AMUSEMENT COLUMN. Coming Events in the Social NOTICE—Articles in this column one cent per word November 18th, Monday. Grand Dance by the Young Imperials at Harris street Hall. Tickets 25 ceets. November 20th, Wednesday. MidFall entertainment by Opal Court of Calanthe at Harris street Hall. Admission 15 cents. November 25th. Beginning Monday Five nights fete by the Ladies and Gents Soiree Club at Masonic Temple. Admission First night and Thanksgiving night 25 cents, other nights 10 cents. November 18th to 22nd inclusively Five night fete at Masonic Temple bg the L B S Club. Admission openin0 night 25 cents following this night t 1 cents, closing night 15 cents. November 27th, Wednesday First fall social and merry go-round of Crescent Temple No. 2 of the Supreme Grand Temple U. B. of A. at Harris street hall. Admission 25 and 35 cents December 13th, Friday. Grand Pythian Hop and Merry go-Round at Harris Street Hall, by Crescent Lodge No. 2 Knights of Pythias. Admission single 25 cents, double 40 cents November 26th, Tuesday. Grand Fall Festival for benefit of St Benedict's Church at Harris street Hall. Admission 25 cents. November 15, Friday, Grand Ball by Ways and Means Committee of the Eureka Lodge No 1, A F and A M, at Masonic Temple- November 25th, Monday Fall Dance at MechanicHall by Union Brotherhood Ladies Branch. December 9th, Monday Chatham Lodge No. 7868 G. U. O. of O. F.. at Masonic Temple. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. November 25th, Monday. Blue Ribbon Party at Margaret street Hall, by the Margaret street school. Tickets 5 cents. November 27, 23, 29, Feay Company A U R K of P, three night Fete at Mechanic Hall, Paulsen and Joe streets. Ticket 10 cents December 2nd, Monday. Grand Ball by High Art Aid and Social Club at Masonic Temple. Tickets 25 and 40 cents. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and workmanship. Gold crowns and bridge work. White Porcelain Pivot and Gold Crowns mounted on the natural roots. Gold Fillings, Cement Fillings, and Silver or Amalgam Fillings. From nine to a full set of teeth $8.00 and $10.00. Broken plates mended and teeth added. All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23+ K Gold. Browns Guaranteed 23K Gold. Bell Phone 1244 M. H. What Will Your Children Think of You If when sickness or accidents necessitate your giving up work you are unable to contribute to their support and maintenance during their dependent years? It is not fair to jeopardize the future success and happiness of your children by overlooking the one absolute method of insuring their health, education and freedom from the evils of child-labor As a husband and father, it is your duty to insure yourself against sickness and accidents, otherwise the wife and children must be sacrificed from home and schoolroom to "keep the wolf from the door." Until the child has had just portion of mental development in schools and physical upbuilding in the natural tendencies of its growing years, it is a crime to subject it to the task of "bread-winning." In these enlightened days, children read and children know and in after years, will not hold you blameless for your oversight. A policy in the Union Mutual Association protects your wife and children from these unnecessary hardships. See one of our agents today or phone 1470- J. C. LINDSAY, Dist. Mgr. or write Wm DRISKELL, Gen'l-Mgr 210 Auburn, Ave., Atlanta Ga- FACTS FEATURES and FANCIES for WOMEN PARIS.—There is always a period when the writers of fashions wander about in a veritable maze of perplexity, hesitating to say what will be the best style or what will not. On one side they hear rumors of sensational and drastic changes; on the other, that the changes will be scarcely noticeable, and will consist merely of modifications of what is the present mode. As a matter of fact, during that painful time nobody, really knows, and it is not until the autumn races commence in Paris and the Parisians, who are responsible for most of the fashions, return that one can speak wind and weather society has been moment has arrived, for in spite of wind and weather society has been attending the races at Chantilly for a week or more, and on Sunday the first of the large meetings will begin at Longchamps. Now we can all talk as glibly as we please, for once things are worn the agony is over. The changes, for of course there are always these changes to be noted, that have evidently come to stay, are by no means sensational nor drastic, but they are improvements and in some cases marked ones. The first is that longer skirts are sure and certain, and the second is the decided differences in the materials that are being used Long. Slim Look Retained. Fortunately, the long skirt is not going to appear for street frocks, but only for afternoon gowns and for those intended for evening wear. There is no doubt but what these are far prettier and more graceful than the much abbreviated skirts that have been generally worn for all occasions, even the most informal. Some of these newest ones are so little on the ground that one would hardly notice that they train, but they fall with just the least bit of flare about their lower edge and are possibly an inch on the floor. Others, afternoon, as well as evening gowns, show decided trains, some being small and pointed, others fairly long and showing a more generous allowance of material in their sweeping lines. None of them has the drawn in appearance of the trained skirt of a season or more ago, for if the skirt is narrow the front and sides are invariably slightly lifted to display a petticoat beneath, or there are cunning little lace plaitings that are insertion in the bottom of the skirt to give it extra fullness. In this manner the long, slim look that women have found to be so becoming is still retained, but with this they have greater freedom of movement and have lost that constrained walk that was a necessity with the mode of 1911. Materials are the important things now, for it is principally by these that the latest styles can be determined. The great novelty is in the employment of all-sorts of brocaded effects for every kind of costume, from street suits to gorgeous ball and dining toilets. They consist of broche silks, figured silks, and satins, stamped velvet and matelasse velvet, plush that has designs sprinkled over its surface, ribbed silks that are also figured (the effect of this being unusual, and of heavy satin damask with marvelous patterns of conventional flowers or birds covering them. In addition to being brocaded or figured, some of these fabrics are given the appearance of being quilted, and this is used for petticoats that appear beneath satin gowns or for parts of draperies that are only slightly littered up. Fabrics More Than Sumptuous. All these stuffs are remarkably rich in appearance, and for those who thought the height of luxury in woman's dress had been already reached last season the output of fabrics this year would be a revelation. Sumptuous is the only word that nearly describes them, but even this falls short of the mark. Along the same line as the materials for dresses come the stuffs that are being shown for evening cloaks and wraps, with this difference, that the latter are frequently combined with silver and gold effects. Thus satin backgrounds show gold threads woven into them and over this a stunning design done in velvet or plush, or there are ribbed silks which show every other cord in gold or silver tinsel, which may be also brocaded in dull colors or in black or white, both being in velvet. Materials for Practical Use. In addition to all these silk and satin materials there is a great variety of others to be seen which are intended for more practical use. These include, first and foremost, velvets, chiffon, and otherwise, which later in the season will undoubtedly take the place of many of the satin brocades now being worn for the street, velour de laines, which are now to be had having plain surfaces, and those ribbed and striped and which have a finish that greatly resembles velvet camel's hair, which is being made up into tailor costumes in place of satin; eponge, of an extra- ordinarily heavy quality; ratine, and of course serge, but of a coarse quality. Some of it, in fact, is heavy enough for automobile coats and is used for them, having the appearance of the rough and ready to wear that is especially attractive for this purpose. It is always a problem to say what is to be, the color of the season, but if a choice must be made then one would say that for street and much day time wear purple and the shades of prune, amethyst, and dark mauve take the preference. Certainly for hats purple is much to the fore, for these are being worn for every kind of occasion and in every shape and style. Red for street use is also having its inning, and some of the tailor frocks that are being shown by the great dressmakers are of this color and in really dazzling shades. Combined with dark furs or with some of the shades of fox, these red costumes are lovely and give a note of change among the many dull tints worn. Black Tailored Suits Everywhere. Blue in faded tones is more than fashionable for house dresses, and for evening wear there are being shown some beautiful combinations of bronze and of this shade with gold or amber. For the conservative woman black is always "the thing," and as always this will be worn more than any color no matter what fashion or the dressmaker will decree. Black tailored suits are to be seen everywhere, sometimes brightened with a touch of color on collar, cuffs and waistcoat, but frequently with nothing more than a band of fur at the neck and a lace jabot with ruffles in the sleeves to match. Black com- 1 blined with gray does not sound effective, but when used by an artist and in just the proper degree it is one of the popular combinations. Black camel's hair costumes trimmed with chinchilla are exceedingly smart, and the same material combined with chinchilla, plush, and a touch of brilliant flame color to give it character, is ravishing pretty. Skirts Still Narrow. Now comes the question of the tight or nontight skirt. Early in the fall we were told that the skirt of narrow dimensions was doomed and that the day of plaits, draperies, and of all sorts of looped and pantered effects was at hand. This may be true of the future, but for the present the skirt of narrow width and straight line is the fashion. There are draped skirts for the street, but the drapery is a mere pretence, there is so little of it, and what there is is so artfully adjusted that it is scarcely to be seen. Not that the skirts are what is known as "hobble," but they are close and are as narrow still about their lower edges as they can be worn. There is a distinct partiality for jet for all beaded materials used in combinations for evening gowns. The jet generally takes the form of embroidery or it is used in outline on brocaded stuff. Jet tringe is charming on frocks of white chiffon or white satin, and it is frequently seen bordering tunics or on the ends of sashes that are draped on to träned skirts. Some elaborate evening gowns have been seen that are wholly beaded, this appearing on the bodices or in white borderings on skirts or overskirts. Long Coat. For serge or cloth the model illustrated is well suited; it is loose fitting and has the sides from shoulder to halfway down skirt part set on with wrapped seams; these have tabs cut in with them at the waist-line, a button is sewn in the rounded end of each tab. Material is used to face the collar and cuffs. Hat of straw to match, trimmed with a feather mount. Materials required: 5 yards 48 inches wide, 4 buttons, 4 yards silk or satin, for lining coat. GREEK QUEEN IN PLEA TO WOMEN OF AMERICA Gordon Rose, special correspondent of the Chicago American, wires his paper from Athens as follows: "I had the good fortune to travel on the steamer Praga from Brindisi to Corfu with her majesty, the queen of Greece, from whom I obtained an exclusive statement. Her majesty traveled with her usual lack of ostentation and was accompanied only by one lady in wait- per from Athens as follows: "I had the good fortune to travel on the steamer Praga from Brindisi to Corfu with her majesty, the queen of Greece, from whom I obtained an exclusive statement. Her majesty travelled with her usual lack of ostentation and was ac- companied only by one lady in waiting and a courier. It was many years since I had seen her, and I thought I could recognize in her strong, thoughtful face new lines, perhaps from the worries and cares of the past few weeks. Queen Olga, who is an aunt of the ear, carries herself as one would expect—a queen. Although dressed somberly in black, the only touch of lightness was her gray hair and the natural brightness of her face, which was illuminated by her smile of recognition. Queen Olga spoke freely and declared that as a devout Christian she had a message for the women of Christendom throughout the world. She said: "Greece does not fear to throw herself into the scale. She does not-fear for what she may lose, nor has she any hope of territorial azgrundlement. Greece, like the other Balkan states, has a solemn duty, that of succoring Christian women and children and men suffering the barbarities of Turkish misrule. It is a strange phase of history that has made Greece the champion of Christendom, whilst the great powerful Christian nations stand aside, but this is not a question of politics—it is a question of humanity. "War can hold no horrors as bad as those of peace under the Turkish flag. There will be many families in destitution because those breadwinners who have not carried the colors have come forward as volunteers. There will be many widows, many women weeping for sons who will not come back. Privation and perhaps starvation will be added to the empty chair of him who comes home no more. "Greece will do all she can to aid her people in distress, but Greece is so small and the distress is so vast that her women will sell their jewels and finery to provide for the stricken, just as they did in the last war. If the women of the great Christian nations who are not asked to sacrifice their men in this latter day crusade would but sacrifice the smallest fraction of their comforts and luxuries for a few weeks, then the men would fight with lighter hearts, knowing that their dear ones are not starving at home. "Greeks throughout the world are filled with enthusiasm. From all over Europe and Egypt and even America every incoming ship brings a load of pariots. Their enthusiasm is solid. They do not cheer or shout on this grim business. They take it earnestly. If the enthusiasm and grit of the poor man who risks his all means anything, then there is food for reflection in the question of how much civilization has borrowed from Greece." RUDOLPH SPRECKELS A WEALTHY FOE OF GRAFT Since the conviction of Abe Ruf and his associates in San Francisco, tion of Abe Ruef in San Francisco, Cal., on charges of political corruption and municipal graff. Rudolph Spreckels has become a leading figure in the fights for purer politics in many large cities in the United States. It was detectives in his employ who uncovered Ruef and his methods and Catt, on charges of political corruption and municipal graft. Rudolph Spreckels has become a leading figure in the fights for purer politics in many large cities in the United States. It was detectives in his employ who uncovered Ruef and his methods and it was his cash that backed the prosecution of the case. Mr. Spreckels is a son of Claus Spreckels, who built up a great fortune in the sugar business, which figured recently in the investigation of the Sugar trust. He is a brother of John D. Spreckels, who is identified with a great many enterprises in San Francisco and along the Pacific coast and is owner of the San Francisco Cr.ll. Mr. Spreckels inherited much of his wealth but even now, in addition to his business, he finds much time to devote to politics and to the driving out of crooks and grafters wherever they may be found. Women Students In Germany. Nowhere in the world have the universities a more masculine outward aspect than in Germany, and yet, if we may judge by recent statistics, feminism is surely gaining ground even in these strongholds. It is now only four years since women were by law allowed to study at German universities. Now they represent five per cent of the incorporated students. Berlin counts 845 (by far the largest number); Bonn, 255; Goettingen, 224; Munich, 188; Heldelberg, 165; Freiburg, 149; Breslau, 134, and Leipzig, 103. To this total it is necessary to add nearly 1,800 unattached students, making the grand total of women students in Germany 4,500. The majority are Protestants or Jews. Very few are Catholics. The courses of study most in favor with them are philosophy and history. It has been announced in Rome that King, Victor Emmanual of Italy nounced in Rome Emmanual of Italy has decided to assume the title of "Emperor of Rome" in the near future. M. Should Victor Emmanuel assume on his own motion the title "Emperor of Rome," he will invest himself with a designation that even Julius Caesar, its first wearer, took only after it had been voted him by the senate. And if there is anything in a name, the Italian monarch will push farther into the center of history's spotlight than Tiberius and Claudius, who, politicians of acumen, refused to prefix "Emperor" to their names. Were pre-Caesarian Rome alive and should Emmanuel take the field personally and administer a thorough whipping to the Turk, the title undoubtedly would come to him in due course by the hand of the comitia curata. In the earliest usage the title first was awarded magistrates. In strictness it was more an epithet than a title. Toward the end of the Roman republic, however, it had become rather a special title of honor bestowed by the acclamation of a victorious army on their general, or by vote of the senate for distinguished services. The last man to wear the imperial crown of Rome with any degree of legitimacy was Romulus Augustulus, who assumed it A. D. 475, and beset by the barbarian invader, was glad to cast it aside in the game year. Thercafter many adventurous persons, by various rough and uncoath means, managed to establish themselves for brief periods in the Eternal City and dub themselves emperors, but most of them shared their power with representatives of "the people," as denoting their personal followers. Such was Louis the Bavarian, who in 1328, after whipping Henry VII, managed to have himself proclaimed emperor, but whose turbulent Incum bency was a matter only of months. FOREIGN MINISTER OF RUSSIA VISITS ENGLAND The Russian minister for foreign affairs arrived in London on the eve on the evening of Friday, September 20. As he alighted from his saloon at Victoria a man, standing within a few feet of him held aloft a white placard on which was printed, "Tussla must evacuate Persia if she wishes for England's friendship," and at the same time she showed P "Down with Russia," Clear out of Persia! Down with Russia!" The demonstrator was promptly removed from the platform. On the following day; M Sazonoff, with the Russian ambassador in London, visited Sir Edward Grey at the foreign office. On the same evening the British foreign minister left for Scotland. M Sazonoff, Baron von Schilling, and Count Beckendorff started for Balmoral on the following Sunday evening; arrived at Ballater on the Monday evening, and drove to Balmoral castle in motors sent for them by the king. Sir Edward Grey, who had broken his journey, arrived at the same time. It is generally assured that the "conversations" are concerned chiefly with the interests of Great Britain and Russia in Persia, and also with the near east problems. Filling Matrimonial Agency Impiree Matthias Agency. We observed that at night all the Igorrote unmarried women occupied a large hut near the center of the village. They call this institution an olig. It is a sort of social hall, where the young people of the tribe meet at night to do their courting. When an Igorrote girl takes a fancy to a particular man, she will steal his spear, or shield—in fact, any portable chatel—and hide it in the olig. To recover his property the young man, of course, must go in person to identify it. So all Igorrote look on the olig as the natural matrimonial bureau of the tribe. And once the Igorrote man and woman are thus mated, they observe the marriage bonds as faithfully as they are kept in countries where the ceremony is not so simple.—Christian Herald. A Harmless Scrape. The trap drummer chuckled joyfully. "Gona be some fun, in a minute," he said. "Whaas matter?" asked the trombonist. As soon as he could compose himself sufficiently the trap drummer replied: "I just rubbed soap on the bass fiddler's bow." Convincing Argument. A Chinese cook and a Japanese waiter served Father Vaughn at an Alaskan dinner with caribou steak, moose tenderloin, leg of mountain sheep, wild duck, salmon, crabs and brook trout. After that and a few other things he decided the United States drove a good bargain when it purchased Alaska for $7,000,000. HOW SHE MADE A HIT Really Simple When You Get the Combination. Young Woman "Stocked Up" When She Realized She Had to Face a Party of the Literary Highbrows. Her fluffy golden hair and a pair of dimples didn't look the least bit literary, nevertheless the highbrowa one by one dropped out of the contest with her, ceased to spout poetry and only could sit humbly around gazing in wonder at the wealth of her knowledge of belles lettres. Even her most intimate friend, when the studio party was over and they were homeward bound, said: "I had no idea you knew so much about books and writers." "I don't," responded Miss Fluff promptly and shamelessly. "But—why—you know more than all those people put together. They all had to quit trying to talk about literature for, fear you would see how little they know." "Want to know how I did it?" Miss Fluff was of an obliging disposition, as dimples usually are. "It's quite simple when you understand. I went to a public library station, found a nice girl who didn't look too tired and told her I'd give her a dollar to make me up as long a list as she could afford for the money of the least known authors in the world, sprinkling in a few quotations. Then I went to a man I know who writes book notices for a publishing house and got a list from him of books that are hardly off the press yet. That was to make me seem briefly up-to-date. I studied real hard one night on those two lists when I knew I was to do this studio party, for I didn't want those highbrows to have anything on me. When they spoke of Maurice Hewlett I said, you may remember, that he had taken many of his ideas from Ingonar Devrell of the 12th century. "I don't know a thing in the world about Hewlett nor if there really was such a person as Ingomar Devrell, but neither do these highbrows. When they mentioned Mrs. Humphry Ward I languidly referred to that remarkable woman of the Alexandrian library, Flavella Somolla. Of course there never was such a person, In fact, the wilder I became in my statements the safer I was, for nobody present knew enough to trip me up. I soon become quite independent of my list, except the new books. Even those, however, were too new for the highbrows, so I think I gave them all the run for their money they will want for some time, don't you think? It's very easy to do literary talk if you don't get scared. Same with art and music. Just get the lingo and the names of a few pictures and artists that nobody knows anything about and you can make the biggest kind of a hit."—New York Press. Has Unique Spider Web. The largest spider web in the world was spun not by a spider, but by human hands. It stands on the lawn of a Chicago man's country home, and is of such tremendous size as to startle the passer-by when he first sees it. The creator of this interesting oddity conceived the idea of attempting to see how closely an actual spider's web could be reproduced with rope. Selecting two immense trees on the lawn of his home, he spun between them this spider's web, 40 by 60 feet, which is so strong that a boy may easily climb to the center, or top of it. The web faces the main thoroughfare which passes the house, and is one of the most fascinating country ground decorations ever seen. The spinner could not attain the minuteness of the actual spider's work, but came so near to it that the illusion is almost perfect. The uniqueness of the undertaking catches and fascinates every eye. How He Saved the Day. Three bright young men were spending their vacation in camp, and they had agreed to draw lots to determine which one should do the cooking. It was also agreed that if anyone should complain about the food, he should be required to take the cook's place. In the drawing, Slasher, the young doctor, lost, and cheerfully set about his culinary duties. When the toast was placed on the table McAfee, the law student, gave it a look and yelled: "Ye gods and little fishes! This toast is burned to a charcoal on one side." Then, recollecting the penalty in store for complainers, he hurried on to say: "But that's the very way I like it, though—fine, fine!"—The Pathfinder. Near Biography of a Great Man. The subject of this sketch was born of poor but honest parents. As a youth he worked in a grocery store for $7 a week until he owned the store. In the meantime, like many another young man, he fell in with dissolute associates and learned to gamble. However, he eventually made up his mind that there was nothing in being a cheap crook, and began the study of law, and was in due time admitted to the bar. Twenty years later he was elected to the United States senate. Thus we see what ambition, coupled with a knowledge of poker and an inkling of the law, can accomplish. MADE GOOD ON HASH Still Little Wife Had Doubts About the Matter. Dinner a Success, According to Mr. Roberts, but in the Background There Was Mrs. Roberts to Consider. "Where are you Franéca?" "I've brought Roberts home to dinner with me. Where are you?" "In my room," came a muffled voice from above, and Paul, with a word of excuse to his guest, bounded up the stairs. "Are you sick? Is anything the matter?" he asked breathlessly, pushing open the door. Frances met him with a tragic face. "No, I am not sick, but for the love of mercy, why did you bring that man to dinner without sending me word?" Paul's countenance assumed the hang-dog look peculiar to the husband who has brought home unexpected company and found it inconvenient. "I just met him coming out on the train and he seemed forlorn—sald his-wife was away—" "I wish yours was," Paul. There's not a thing for him to eat!" "What were we going to have?" "Corn beash hash—I know you don't mind it for dinner once in a while—" "No vegetables?" "Yes, of course, stupid! Rice and egg-plant. But hash for dinner; I can't put a man down to that!" "I'll bet Roberts would love it!" "I don't care if he would! I'd be mortified to death to have any one know we had hash for dinner!" "Well, I wouldn't! What's good enough for me is good enough for Roberts or anyone else. Why, Frances! You're not going to cry?" "How do you know I'm not?" quavered Frances. "I could do it without any trouble, at all." "Come, dear, don't be silly. I'll tell Roberts you're not well and take him out somewhere and get a bit—" "You won't do anything of the sort," said Frances, 'dabbing a little powder on her reddened nose. "If you can stand that hash I'll try to bear it." "Is there enough of it?" "I'll have some poached eggs on top of it to help out." "Is this what you call a pick-up dinner and apologize for?" asked Mr. Roberts an hour later. "I consider it a banquet." The meal had begun with tomato soup, continued with the egg-topped hash and vegetables, followed by branded peaches and waters—Frances having raided her emergency cupboard—and concluded with black coffee. "Hardly a banquet with hash as the principal dish!" laughed Frances. "I'm not so sure of that!" returned Mr. Roberts. "If my wife could make such hash as yours I'd insist upon always having it for company dinners." "Now, aren't you ashamed you cried?" teased Paul, after their guest had gone. "I didn't really cry—I only sniffed. And your friend, Roberts, may say what he pleases, but I bet his wife will sniff in a different way when she hears we gave him hash for dinner! But I don't care, sb long as you are satisfied. If you sniffed I couldn't stand it!"—Los Angeles Express. Why He Refused a Raise Congressman Lamb of Virginia has an old "befo" de wah" darky working on his place, whom he pays a dollar a day. The old man is not very fond of work, and loses a day very often because of his alleged infirmities. The other day the congressman told him he was going to raise his wages from $6 a week to $7. The old darky emphatically refused the raise, and when his boss asked him why he answered: "It's lak dis, Mister John. When I loses a day from work now, I knn count mah money; but if you gib me a raise an' I loses a day, I won' know how much I'se got comin' tuh me."— Judge. The story was, told of the late Justin McCarthy—Mr. Punch's "Jestin MacHearty"—of the English officer who, at a reception in Dublin castle, announced the man who claimed to have made his riding breeches as "Major Riding Bridges." But this was nothing to the cruel case of Count Paravieich, who, at an assembly in Paris, was ushered in by the finkley as "Monsieur le Comte da Paul et Virginie!" In a London drawing room, too, Count Beust, the Austrian ambassador, was once announced to his hostess as "Count Beast," and he was followed by his German colleague, Count Munster, as "Count Monster." His Need of the Clock. A younb man in Washington, who many months ago hung up his shingle, "attorney at law," had not yet been overwhelmed with clients. A friend, entering the office the other day, observed on the desk a cheap alarm clock. "Taking it home, eh?" he observed. "Good thing this time of year. Everyone's liable to oversleep these mornings." The lawyer smiled. "I have not purchased this clock for the reason you mention. I bought it to wake me up when it's time to go home." THE SCRAP BOOK TWAIN AND THE TYPEWRITER. It was in 1874, during a famous trip to Boston with Dr. Twitchell, that Mark Twain saw for the first time what was then a new invention—a typewriter; or it may have been during a subsequent visit, a week or two later. The famous humorist began to practice on the machine, and he wrote two letters—one to William Dean Howells and the other to Orion Clemens. In the latter he says: "I am trying to get the hang of this new-fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made, and yet I perceive that I shall soon easily acquire a fine facility in its use. I saw the thing in Boston the other day, and was greatly taken with it." He goes on to explain the new wonder, and, on the whole, his first attempt was a very creditable performance. With his usual enthusiasm over an innovation, he believes it is going to be a great help to him, and proclaims its advantages. This is the letter to Howells: "You needn't answer this; I am only practicing to get there; another slip-up there; only practicing to get the hang of the things. I notice I miss fire and get in a good many unnecessary letters and punctuation marks. I am simply using you for a target to bang at Blame my cats! but this thing requires genius in order to work it just right." CITIES MADE TO ORDER. As compared with the normal process by which towns come into being, their development proceeding spontaneously and by slow stages, it is interesting to note the occasional deliberate construction of large seaports, and other towns, complete and ready for occupancy in a few years' time; the motive being sometimes political and sometimes commercial. There is the remarkable case of Port Sudan, founded a few years ago by the British authorities on the west coast of the Red sea. A similar undertaking, though with different aims, was the building of the German seaport of Tsingtao, China; a city, notable, among other things, for the fact that no American atlas-maker discovered its existence until ten years after its foundation. In contrast to these successful experiments in city-building, we learn that the port of Huengechow, which was laid out in the spring of 1909 on the shore of Yehi bay, 10 miles by water from Macao harbor (China), has by no means realized the hope of its creators that it would speedily become a formidable rival to the neighboring ports of Macao and Hong Kong. It was built on up-to-date lines, with telephones, waterworks, electric light, tramways, etc., but it has not succeeded in attracting trade, and its present population is only 2,000. FOOD CANAL IN MAMMALS. A Frenchman who has made an examination of the food canal in mammals has measured the length of it in 280 specimens that belong to 30 species. He has found that the ratio between the length of the canal and the length of the body is smallest in the carnivorous animals, larger in those that are called omnivorous, and largest in the vegetarians. In other words, the length of the food tract seems to vary with the digestibility of the kinds of food that are consumed. The rule holds true in birds as well as in animals. In man the alimentary canal is about 30 feet long,—usually from five to six times the length of the body. ARSENIC IN NATURE. It has long been known that traces of arsenic are to be found not only in human and animal organisms, but in certain plants, such as the cabbage, turnip and potato, and in wheat. Two members of the French academy of science, Messieurs Jadin and Astruc, have shown that arsenic is also to be found in rice, peas, beans, lettuce, celery, asparagus, parsnips, and in most vegetables used as food by man, as well as in apples, pears, pineapples, oranges and nuts. Since plants undoubtedly get the element from the soil, arsenic must occur far more widely in nature than was at one time supposed. BEADS FROM BETHLEHEM. The chief industry in Bethlehem today is the manufacture of articles of religious devotion and ornaments from mother-of-pearl. The principal products are carved shells on which religious scenes are depicted, beads, and rosaries. The maternal known as "pearl waste," from which the two latter products are made, is very largely imported from the United States, and that country is the largest purchaser of these goods. The large carved shells are mostly sold to tourists in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. HAIR FOR THE BALD. If you are bald, and desire a new head of hair, you can have it. Dr. Szekely Ferencz of Budapest has inventing a way of planting hair in the scalp. A man or woman with thinness of hair about the parting can have another 400 or 500 strands set and combed over without much difficulty. The method of plaiting hair as explained by Dr. Szekely Ferencz is as follows: The scalp is first carefully cleansed, and then anaethetised with a solution of novocaine. The operator uses a number of small hooks, made of gold wire, and in the eyelet of each hook a double folded hair is inserted. The hook is then pushed into $o_{r}$ the scalp with the air of a special needle, of which from 300 to 400 are in readiness, all prepared with hook and hair. When the needle has been pushed into the scalp it is turned at a right angle and then pulled out, leaving the hair under the skin fastened by the outstanding end of the hook. Thus the little bit of gold acts as an anchor to hold the end of the hair. As at one sitting not more than from 300 to 400 hairs can be emplanted, a full head of hair requires from 25 to 40 stitches, assuming that from 10,000 to 25,000 hairs will cover a head. If the hairs are somewhat long then considerably fewer are necessary, because in this case it is sufficient to implant several hundred hairs around the parting, and these long hairs are combed across the scalp so as to cover the bald surface. After the sittings there is very little reaction on the scalp, and even that disappears after one, or at most, two days. Of course, every precaution must be taken to ensure perfect cleanliness and antisepsis. As to the frequency of sittings, Dr. Szekely Ferencz says that he is able to apply the treatment every alternate day. If there is some inflammation around a hair this is pulled out, whereupon the inflammation prompts ceases. MEAT DIET BEST. "If you want to be healthy, eat plenty of meat," is in substance the advice of Professor Edmond Perrier, given before the French Academy of Science recently. M. Perrier described experiments in feeding ducks on separate diets of fish, vegetables and meat, in which experiments the meat-fed ducks proved themselves altogether the superiors of the fish-caters and the vegetarians. Further experiments were made to prove the relative health-giving properties of the three diets, with the result that the livers of the meat-cating ducks were shown to be in a far better condition than those fed, on fish or vegetables. M. Perrier declares his opinion that vegetarianism is much over-rated, and that the eating of much meat is not only harmless, but health-giving and useful. "Everybody should eat plenty of meat," says the professor, "unless suffering from from special complaint which renders it obnoxious. Except in such cases, a meat diet is the healthiest of diets for healthy people." A MONKEY RAID. A few years ago the municipal authorities of Mino-Machi, Japan, spent a good deal of money in laying out a public park, and adorning it with a magnificent monkey house, in which a large number of apes were installed for the amusement and education of the natives. On New Year's eve this year, during the absence of the night watchman, who had gone to the celebrations, the monkeys dug a hole through the floor of their house and escaped. The "gaol-delivery" was discovered in due course, and a search instituted, but without success. On New Year's day, however, when the guests arrived at the district commissioner's office to pay their respects to that official, they found the building in the possession of a band of over 100 monkeys, who, not content with destroying the records and books, had eaten up the fruit and sweetmeats which had been prepared for the commissioner's friends. WONDER CAVE OF ARIZONA. One of the most wonderful caves in the world has been found in southern Arizona. Unnamed, unexplored, and almost unknown, it gives evidence of being a rival to the Mammoth cave of Kentucky, whose fame is world-wide. Only a few have dared to enter it to view its grandeur and to study the marvelous handwork of the Almighty in its construction. This cave lies at the foothills of the Huachuca mountains, about 40 miles northeast of Nogales. Santa Cruz county. Exploring parties have entered and spent days inside, but none has ever discovered the end. They report passageways, rooms and chambers innumerable FORMATION OF OXYGEN. + When water is decomposed by radium or by ultra-violet rays it produces hydrogen and peroxide of hydrogen, and it does not form oxygen. A German investigator bases a new theory relating to the drying of the earth on the fact that one form of decomposition produces oxygen, while the other form does not. Part of the water vapor emitted by the seas is decomposed by the ultra-violet rays of the sun; the hydrogen formed rises toward the high atmospheric strata, and all the water does not return to the surface. Therefore, the quantity of water on the face of the globe is always diminishing and the earth is necessarily, if gradually, drying. NEW TARGET FIRING Warships to Fire at Actual Boats Instead of Canvas 1. _____ Orders Issued to Prepare Three of the Old Torpedo Craft of the Reserve Division for Service as Tar Washington—The Atlantic fleet in target practice this fall and next spring will make several important departures. These include: Firing at actual torpedo boats instead of canvas targets in night practice. Firing actual torpedoes, minus explosives, at real ships. Firing on the old San Marcos wreck at short instead of long range. Heretofore the fleet in practice fired at targets made by holisting screens of canvas on masts erected on rafts of heavy timbers, which were anchored on the range at various points, their exact location being unknown to the firing vessel. These screens were painted dark gray, with a white streak at the foot, supposed to represent the bow wave of an oncoming torpedo boat. There were usually four targets, and the firing ship was directed to steam along a certain prescribed course. At a certain point, marked by anchoring another vessel, brightly lit up, on the range, the firing ship was permitted to turn on her searchlights and begin hunting for the targets, of which there were usually two on each side. When she found them the ship had a certain number of minutes allowed her in which to hit all four targets. The targets this year will be genuine torpedo boats. Orders have been issued to prepare three of the old and out-of-date torpedo craft of the reserve division for service as target vessels. They will be built up amidship to give them the high free board and as nearly as possible the general appearance of a modern destroyer, and will be filled with cork to keep them afloat as long as possible, even though riddled with rapid-fire shells. One ship from each class of vessels, that is, one dreadnaught, one battle-ship of the Connecticut class, one of the Georgia class, and so on, will do the actual firing. The entire fleet will form in column to come on the range. As shown in the diagram (No. 1) the point for commencing fire is marked by a station ship. But, to assist in reproducing as nearly as possible the exact scenario of a night engagement, a flotilla of destroyers will be sent out ahead of the fleet to act as a screen, precisely as would be done in time of war, and these destroyers are expected to discover the "enemy" and report their presence just as they would under real battle conditions. The only difference will be that the destroyers themselves will not open fire. The guns of the broadside battery will be allowed five rounds of ammunition apiece for this practice, and in addition a few rounds of the new 12-inch shrapnel will be distributed for use in the turret guns. Shrannel consists of a thin steel shell filled with a great number of steel balls, which are arranged around a small charge of powder called the "bursting charge." A fuse is attached, timed so that just before the shell reaches the target it bursts and scatters the steel bullets. * BEAUTIFUL LANTERN SLIDES. A very beautiful work is being done at the agricultural department which is bound to be of benefit in public schools and ought to be copied abroad. Interesting teaching in nature study and botany is taught by Miss Susan Sipe in the public schools and demonstrated in a lecture with colored lantern slides. They are the most exquisite things the writer ever saw. The slides contain pictures of tulips, narcissus, several species of iris and also orchids. Other lantern slides give you hollyhocks, stocks, cherries, wistaria, asters, chrysanthemums and many others of the same class. The first complete exhibition of these flowers was held in a lecture at the agricultural department, with Jack Hillers at the lantern and Mr. E. L. Crandall, photographer of the bureau of plant industry, who took the photographs and made the slides. These slides were photographed from the growing plants and many of them colored from the same models. The colorist is Mrs. Catherine Mayo Richardson. It is impossible to describe the infinite care with which the work has been done nor how exquisite these blossoms are as presented on the slides. Usually it would be a wonderful help to the schools of the country if they could be supplied with similar collections. At the exhibition which was given some 30 or 40 department experts and specialists were present, and they were united in declaring these lantern slides a splendid study for young children especially. KINGBIRD EXONERATED. Uncle Sam has granted a certificate of good character to the kingbird, sometimes known as the bee martin, a species of flycatcher which inhabits pretty nearly every part of the United States. The kingbird has been under indictment in many sections as a destroyer of bees and a foe to apirists. Department of agriculture experts fully exonerate the bird of the charge of being a destroyer. They say that it kills only the drones and the useless bees, and is therefore a boon to bee raisers. TO STOP COUNTERFEITING. Robert O. Bailey, assistant secretary of the treasury, is trying to compile a list, of the ten greatest men in American history, to carry out a new idea in the manufacture of paper money. Under his plan the face of some famous American would appear on a certain denomination of bill. His face and none other would always be there. It has been the experience of the treasury department that bill raisers and counterfeiters always have the most trouble with the faces of men on the bills. The new plan would make the raising of a bank note above its denomination an impossibility. No one could put a beard on the picture of Abraham Lincoln and make it look like that of Grant. As there are ten denominations of United States paper currency, Mr. Bailey needs ten famous Americans. He made out a tentative list, and then came another rub. Should the greatest of the great be placed on the bills of larger or smaller denomination? Mr. Bailey decided that since the smaller bills, although not the more popular, were more frequently handled and were infinitely greater in number, they should contain the engravings of the best-known men. Here is the list as it stands now: George Washington goes on the $1 bill. The next most handled bill is the one of the $5 denomination, and Abraham Lincoln is down for it. Jefferson is slated for the $2 bill. Coming down to more modern men, Cleveland gets the place on the tenth-of-a-century note; Hamilton, the father of our financial system, goes on the $20; Jackson, on the $50; Franklin, on the $100; Marshall—not Governor Marshall of Indiana—on the $500; Clay, on the $1,000, and Grant, on the $10,000 bill, the largest in denomination. This list, of course, is only tentative and is subject to change. Under the new plan, we can expect to see the words "a one," "a fiver," "a fifty," and the like, to become obsolet. Instead we will be paying "a Washington and a Jefferson for a $3 pair of shoes, or will be asking for change for "a Lincoln." Five or ten "Grants" would put us in Easy street. LANDMARK TO GO. Plans for the erection of a business block at the corner of Twelfth street and New York avenue will remove one of the most memorable landmarks in Washington. The landmark is a toy store where President Lincoln was wont to take his little son Tad. The same little jumping jacks, the same little arks with Noah and his wooden family, and the same little horses and monkeys occupy the windows of the toy shop at 1203 that avenue, as when, half a century ago, it was the favorite resting place of President Lincoln. It is the Stuntz toy shop, the goal of little Tad Lincoln's desires. Here, when the burdens of the greatest war the world ever saw seemed too great even for his broad shoulders to bear, the president would go, taking little Tad by the hand and stealing forth from the White House by the back way, and here he would forget his cares of state, watching Tad and the genial proprietor exploiting the various toys, oftentimes taking a hand in the play himself. TO ASK FOR $13,000,000. Appropriation of $13,000,000 will be asked of congress this year to cover the District's expenses. Last year $12,129,035 was asked, but congress cut the estimates to $10,675,33.50. About $150,000 will have to be pruned from various estimates by the commissioners during the next few days. The budget was in the hands of the secretary of the treasury by October 15. The largest item is the amount asked for public schools. The board of education and the commissioners agreed that $3,100,000 would be the smallest amount to be demanded for the educational system. This includes an item of $250,000 for beginning the construction of the new Central High school at Eleventh and W streets northwest, the total cost of which is estimated at $1,250,000. About $1,150,000 will be asked for the board of charities. Sucpolying Bellc Hunters The relic hunter is still abroad in the land and his desire for the unique is fully met by several factories in this and other countries whose business is to supply the demand of those who will not be "satisfied until they get it." Tomahawks by the thousands are turned out in Kansas City and are sent to the Indian reservations in the west, where they are sold to tourists, especially to foreign tourists. The manufactured article is said to look more archaic than the tomahawk made by hand. There is a-rell factory at Valley Forge that runs night and day at this season turning out in a continuous stream broken swords and rusty gunstocks, pepperbox pistols, corroded bullets, blood-stained knee breeches, shot-riddled haversacks and other relics dear to the tourist's heart. Family of Prominence: A monument has just been unveiled in Mecklenburg-Schwerin bearing the following interesting inscription: "To the Knight Godefroy von Bulows, authentic ancestor of all the Bulows." The family has given Germany many distinguished sons, including not only the ex-cancellor, but also Hans von Bulow, the pianist, the first husband of Mme. Cosima Wagner, and they all claim to be cousins, more or less distant. ```markdown ``` The illustration given above shows a nine-foot stone road, built on a sand foundation, near Portage, Wis. GOOD ROADS IN TENNESSEE All Public Thoroughfares Laid Off Into Districts, and Then Let to Responsible Corporations. A few years ago it was the good fortune of the editor to visit the state of Tennessee, and he was forcefully struck by the beautiful turnpikes that traversed almost every section of the state. These roads were properly laid out by engineers, and the editor of the Co-Operator was very anxious to learn how these roads were built and maintained. SOLVE GOOD ROADS QUESTION Thing to Do Is to Get Every Farmer to Buy an Automobile and Problem Will Be Worked Out. A few years ago the bicycle came into use and the good roads agitation was born. In a few years afterward the auto came. At first its home was chiefly confined to the city streets. In a few years it became a friend to the countryman and the villager, and now it is found in every section. The bicycle is passing and the auto is now serving a splendid purpose in awakening the people to a betterment of road conditions, and when the farmers of the country adopt this modern way of travel there will not be any great trial in getting the public highways in better condition. The thing to do is to get every farmer who can afford it to buy an auto and in less than 50 years the good roads question will be solved. The autos must come before the good roads question can be solved. The auto tours that are being made throughout the country are proving to be builders of the highest order. We need more of them. Good roads associations will follow in the wake of every auto tour and these associations will improve public highways.—Lamar Republican-Sentinel. CAMPAIGN FOR GOOD ROADS Fall Season Is Good Time to Take Up Question of Better Thoroughfares—Few Reasons. Now that the fall months are here, after the crops are secured, it will be a good time to take up the matter of good roads building. This work can often be done to better advantage in the fall and winter months, or in the early spring, and where gravel or other binding material has to be used, it will pack and harden better at this season. Another reason for the fall and winter tampaign for road building is that there is usually more time, and the work can be done cheaper. No town or community can well make a better investment than by the judicious spending of labor and money in the construction of public highways, if properly applied, and that is certainly one of the problems that Idaho needs to work out. Uncle Sam should set the pace in this matter, and the various states should co-operate. It should, furthermore, be a perpetual campaign.—Gem State Rural. Macadam Road Economy. I have no doubt that it will surprise most people here to learn how little material is used in the making of some of the finest roads of Europe, writes Ernest, Flagg in the Century. The average thickness of the national roads of France is only five and one-eighth inches; 11 per cent of them are less than two inches thick, and 42 per cent are less than four inches thick. Yet they stand constant and often heavy traffic with impunity, and are always in a perfect state of repair. Perfect repair is, indeed, essential, for it needs no argument to show that roads so thin must be free from irregularities if they are to stand at all. Good Roads. When will we learn that the best way to make good roads is to hire the ditching, drawing and dragging done by competent men, instead of the present bungling system of "every man" working out his own road tax? Weeds In Corners. . Fence corners full of dead weeds make fine hibernating places for all kinds of bugs which will get busy with your crop in the spring. GOOD ROADS IN TENNESSEE All Public Thoroughfares Laid Off Into Districts, and Then Let to Responsible Corporations. A few years ago it was the good fortune of the editor to visit the state of Tennessee, and he was forcibly struck by the beautiful turnpikes that traversed almost every section of the state. These roads were properly laid out by engineers, and the editor of the Co-Operator was very anxious to learn how these roads were built and maintained. We wre told that the law in Tennessee provided that the proper court shall lay off all public roads into convenient districts, and then let them out to responsible corporations, who enter into a contract to build and maintain a perfect highway throughout the district covered by said contract for a period of ten years, and the lessees are in the meantime empowered to establish toll gates and collect such toll as the law prescribes for building and maintaining such public roads. These are under the jurisdiction of a watchful supervisor whose duty it is to see that the road is kept in accordance with the contract. If the lessees falls to keep and maintain such road as specified in the contract, then it becomes the duty of the court to forfeit said contract, and the road becomes the charge of the county. Each citizen of the county is permitted to buy a road permit that entitles him to the privilege of traveling the public roads of the county for the period of one year without let or hindrance. These roads are laid out by experienced engineers, and are carried around the hills and mountains so that all grades are the same and all grades are made easy of ascent. These roads are properly graded with graders and then macadamized by putting stone over the surface while the grade is new, or during the wet times, so that the sharp edges of the stones will be easily pressed into the ground and make an even, smooth surface for horses and vehicles to travel over. All along the public highway where ever there is a stone quarry you can see great piles of broken stone ready to be hauled upon the public roads. This stone is sold to the lesses of the roads for so much a car load. It costs from $2,000 to $8,000 per mile to build these roads if no other materials used in their construction. The bridges and culverts are all constructed out of concrete and are very strong and durable, and with the proper care and attention will last for ages. The state levies a small tax as a sinking fund to maintain these roads after the lease expires, and to keep and maintain any districts where the lease has been forfeited. By this system of public highways the state has a uniform system of public roads that cover the entire state and through this system the roads are kept in perfect repair, giving that accommodation that is so necessary to facilitate our growing commerce. The slogan of the town and country should now be good roads, and this slogan should be echoed and reechoed until Texas has a system of roads that meets the demands of her people and her growing commerce. Texas Farm and Co-Operator Medal for Paying Blocks. An advance in road paving for which a British engineering firm has been awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Sanitary institute should be of more than ordinary importance. Clinker residue from the collection and burning of house refuse is used for the paving-blocks, and by special machinery is ground, thoroughly mixed with oil and Trinidad asphalt, and then pressed into blocks 9 by 4 1/2 by 3 inches in size, each weighing about ten pounds. At the destructor works at Kensington more than five hundred blocks an hour are made. They are passed directly through a water-cooling process, and are then ready for immediate laying. Some of the blocks under test have been laid over four years. They have not only provided an exceedingly durable and noiseless pavement, but it is claimed that they are sanitary and take little scavenging; that they do not become slippery, and that they are not in any way affected by rain, frost, sunshine or other ordinary conditions. 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