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The Savannah Tribune VOLUME XXIX Must Teach Race Cohesion and Family Pride KEYNOTE OF REV. J. L. TAYLOR'S EMANCIPATION ADDRESS A Beautiful Tribute Paid to Womanhood—The Regeneration of the Race Must Come From Within. Long has been the time when a speech fraught with as much wholesome advice and encouragement has been heard by the Negroes of this city as was true of the address delivered by the Rev. James L. Taylor, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal church, at the very commendable emancipation exercises held at the First African Baptist church, on Thursday of last week. It had the true ring of a speech by a Negro to a Negro audience and inspired its hearers with hope and enthusiasm. The address of Rev. Taylor was listened to most attentively by the very representative gathering present and often was the speaker interrupted by vociferous applause. A glowing tribute was paid to womanhood by the speaker, and among the telling thoughts advanced by him was that of race cohesion and family pride. At the conclusion of the address the speaker was given a most hearty applause and congratulations were literally showered upon him from every side. The address in entirety is here given: "Friends, my presence here to day tells you that I appreciate the great honor which you have conferred upon me by your solicitation of me for this momentous occasion. I appreciate it because it comes from a race of people with whom I am identified and of whose ability and progress I am truly proud. I appreciate it again because it is in the city of Savannah that I am called upon to give tribute to a people, who, fifty years ago to-day, shook off the chains of slavery, walked out of the house of bondage into the glorious fields of freedom and liberty and have outstripped the last vestige of their horrible depression and shame, and now stand side by side with all the other races of the world in civilization. "The more we study the word 'Negro' the bigger and brighter it becomes and the more we realize the text, "Out of one blood has God made all nations to dwell upon the face of the earth." That we, too, are the "Children of God" and the more sure we feel that at some appointed day Ethiopia shall stretch forth her arms and show the world what the Sons of Ham have accomplished. It is not the purpose of God that the nations should exist as so many hostile groups. It is God's design that the several nations shall complete each other through sympathy and of the sky into magnificent musical systems in which each star preserves its own orbit and movement and color, so does He by many shades chords link together the many races into one broth erhood, each people still retaining the distinctive characteristics which are so precious to itself. The good things of nature are not always found in any one land, we get tea from China, wool from Australia, cotton and wheat from America, oil from the north and silk and spices from the south. In nature the flowers have their several nectars and perfumes to attract the bees and secure that cross fertilization which is essential to strength and fruitfulness; so has God given to each land some special treasure that it may attract to itself different peoples and to secure national intercourse for man's fullest and highest civilization. Etymology also gives reasons for national sympathy and intercourse. No one national type includes all perfections. The mental and physical deficiencies show the great need one nation has for the other. The docility of the Negro, the brilliancy of the French, the artistic instinct of the Italian, the thoroughness of the German, the science of the East and West show the dependence of several races and how necessary intercourse is if mankind is to develop into the highest power and usefulness. The thought of God is the brotherhood of man. The very flowers in our garden come from other fields. Silk weaving, woolen trade, the skill to make glass, the erecting of a paper mill, the making of potteries, the building of ships, have all been brought to this country. The sweetness of song, the art of manufacturing calico and many arts and sciences have been given to the world by the Negro race, and we believe that the Negro is to be the connecting link in the great brotherhood of mankind. "We are a wonderful people when we consider the many and great losses we have sustained, mental, moral, spiritual and physical. For two hundred and fifty years, we as a race, have been deprived of the family and home. During this period we were not only barred from the ownership of property but the power to acquire was destroyed. The intellect was crushed by laws which closed the doors of all schools and the pages of all books against the race. These, of course, shut out enlightenment from the mind and the light of the Gospel from the soul. Continued on page two The Teachers' Club in Annual Entertainment On the evening of the 26th of last month at the residence of Prof. John McIntosh, the "Teachers Culture Club" held its first annual. The president, in his annual address, set forth the aim and intent of the organization in a splendid speech. To discuss the object of the club would be, simply, to recall the idea that gave rise to the organization of summer training schools for teachers. Such schools have been established all over the country and the result of their existence has been seen in the efficiency of such teachers as have attended them. Though it may be that the Culture club will carry with it the social idea, yet it will not make of it a specialty. The social side of the organization is but an adjunct to its more beneficent aim. The chosen speaker of the evening was Prof. H. Pearson of the State College, whose address was fraught with profound thought. After haying defined the word "Culture," he outlined some of the requisites of its attainment, bringing a preponderance of authority to bear in defense of his theory. The professor concluded a splendid address by a unique classification of teachers as artists, artisans and quacks. The address was well received and brought forth a shower of plaudits and much favorable comment. The paper by Miss Madeline Shivery on the work of the organization up to date, was a splendid contribution to the future history of the club. Such a contribution, if omitted would render its history incomplete. Miss Shivery stressed the need of associated ideas and objects in teaching, and with the touch of an expert, delved into a discussion of inductive and deductive logic. The paper was big with bright bits of beneficial lore, and displayed the wisdom as well as the utility of the organization. The select reading of Miss Stony was easily a feature, and, it blent tastily with the subjects chosen and gave new thoughts on books- The program was interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. Miss Geneva Styles led off with an enchanting instrumental solo that was truly a voice from the soul of song. The performance was excellent and elicited prolonged applause. The enchanting voice of Miss Nettie Houston was heard in "My Spanish Rose," which charmed members and visitors alike. Miss Houston was at her best upon this occasion and did herself proud in this performance. Miss Henrietta Houstoun sang and were superiors. She left with the audience both sentiment and song. "Though the Rain is on the River, there is Sunshine on the Hill," will ever ring in the cars of its hearers. Prof. R. W. Gadsden is president of the club, Miss Madeline Shivery, secretary and Miss Henrietta Houstoun, treasurer. After the exercises the club served refreshments to a jolly set of members and a few invited guests. Miss Etta McIntosh presided at the piano. Mt. Zion Baptist Church Mt. Zion Baptist church held election on last Monday night. After various reports were read, the election was held; Deacon L. L. James Jr., was re-elected clerk; Julius Gay, recording secretary; Bro J. M. Mooney, treasurer; Lie-Ed. Lee, Supt. Sunday School; Miss Albertina Smith, Asst. Supt.; Mrs. Julia Lewis, sexton; Messrs. R. L. Lockley, Wm. Stovall and J. M. Mooney were re-elected trustees, Mrs. Isabella Black, re-elected organist. The public is asked to our Age Rally Sunday, January 12. Officers Installed On Monday night last the officers of the Ladies' Union were installed for the ensuing year as follows: Mr. J. S. Quarterman, president; Mrs. M. Fields, vice president; Mrs. E. B. Whitfield, financial secretary; Mrs. J. A. Mack, recording secretary; Mrs. L. Quarterman, treasurer; Mrs. C. E. Gilmore, chair of finance; Mrs. M. A. Johnson, chair of health; Mrs. I. B. Mack, chair of examination; Mrs. J. Bottamus, clerk of order; Mr. C. Nagle, chaplain. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914 Report of Christmas Fund of the People of Savannah Through the Local Branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes Report of Christmas Fund of the People of Savannah Through the Local Branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes The report of the Christmas fund of the people of Savannah through the local Branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, was made recently to the executive board of that body and shows the total number of subscriptions to the fund to be 467, and the amount collected was $552.10. There were thirteen subscribers to the fund, who failed to pay, the amount uncollected being $11.25, making the total amount subscribed $555.09. Of the money paid in, 429 colored subscribers paid a total of $484.05, and $68 05 was collected from 38 white friends. Among the subscribers will be found many of the leading citizens, both white and colored, and a vast number of the poor whose mite showed their spirit of helping their less fortunate brethren. The total number of baskets sent out Christmas Eve day was 520, of edibles, packed and delivered by ladies of the league. Aside from these there were 71 orders for shoes, blankets, clothing and toys, and since that time, 30 loads of wood were provided for. The number of families assisted was approximately 700, and one invalid given a pair of crutches. With the exception of $37.20 the total amount expended was spent with Negro merchants. RECEIPTS .50 J. Gillison, .50 Geo. F. Tyson, Mdse. W. W. Mumpsey, Shoes Henry Mears. .25 B. S. Walton. .25 J. C. Scriven. .25 J. B. Morris, Sham, 3588. 5.00 L. R. Edward. 2.00 J. B. Bartlett. 5.00 J. W. Welche. .25 J. W. Brooks, 1.00 George L. An. 2.25 Rev. Pela Pe. ,25 Ed. Wright, .50 John Taylor, .25 Henry Willis, .1.00 R. L. Lockley, .10 George Canter, .10 W. A. Wilkes, 2.00 George E. Tr. .50 J. R. Davis, .50 A. P. Barnar, .1.00 F. B. Pette, .25 Dr. C. E. Bre, .25 Dr. H. M. Co, .25 Jacob Wright, .50 Mrs. Florence, .25 A. P. William, .25 C. S. Pleasant, .25 J. M. Mooney, .25 W. J. William, 90, S.J.A., 2.00 John H. Taylor, .25 F. Mack, .50 W. R. S. Hare, .25 John Pritchett, 2.00 W. H. Logan, 1.00 Miss Susie Sc. W. Bradley, .1.00 Robert Lee, .25 Henry Bailey, 10 Roy Maynor, 2.00 Miss Fannie H. L. M. Pollard, 2.5 W. R. Fields, 1.10 E. G. Bryant, 1.00 Joseph Powell, Eureka Aid a. Alpha Temple, 10 Miss Carrie H. S. R. Ralls, .50 Mrs. Clara Jo. 25 Israel Jordon, .50 Mrs. Leora W. 50 John H. Mon, .50 W. H. Norma, .25 B. C. Cashion, .25 Capt. J. C. S. .50 J. B. Parker, .25 Arthur Andre, 1.00 H. A. Manzo, 1.50 W. H. Johns, 1.00 Capt. Julius G. Robert L. Gig, .50 M. William A. 1.00 H. E. Clark, .2.00 Aarong Yelver, 2.5 J. S. Bond, Cash, .25 T. H. Green, .25 J. F. Jones, .25 Edw. H. Bun, .50 J. H. Hopkins, 5.00 Dr. B. W. S. Edw. C. Far, A. L. Stanfee Union Mutual, 1.00 Ga. Mutual H Agency Force, 2.00 Mrs. A. C. H. 1.00 Prof. R. M. 2.00 Prof. J. M. H. 2.00 Prof. G. A. .35 W. B. Wyat, .10 R. M. River, .10 C. P. Perry, .10 G. H. Bower, 1.00 Mrs. G. H. H. H. G. Youn, 1.00 Donald Thor, 75 George W. Cash, .1.00 A. L. Tucker, 5.00 F. D. Tucker, 1.00 Opal Court, 1.00 Merritt W. 13.10 F. M. Coher, 5.17 Mrs. M. M. 5.00 Nathan Rob. 5.00 R. M. Smith 2.00 W. S. Round 5.00 Miss Bessie 2.5 Mrs. E. W. 10 Mrs. Anna G Rev. R. H. 5.00 Mrs. Willie .20 Miss Rosalie .05 Miss Ida B. .50 G. L. Bowl. 50 John L. M (Continued on page four) A wedding of much interest was that of Mr. John Greenleaf Graves and Miss Rosalie Thurman Coles, which occurred last Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock at St. Philip Church. Charles and West Broad streets. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. H. Singleton, and long before the wedding party arrived the church was packed. The first of the bridal party to enter the church were the ushers, Messrs. John Mitchell, Robert W. Williams, Floyd Stiles and R. H. Polote; following these came the attendants, Miss Frances Morris, and Miss Henrietta Johnson. Mrs. Alice Coles, mother of the bride, entered next, followed by the groom and his best man, Mr. Alfred Mayo, of Hawkinsville. The matron of honor, Mrs. Minnie L. Rogers, of Atlanta, followed and immediately behind her came the flower girl and ring bearer, respectively, little Dorothy Spring and little Robert W. Gadsden, Jr. The bride leaning on the arm of her father then entered. The wedding was one of the most beautiful which has occurred here for some time and the church was very artistically decorated for the occasion. The bride was gowned in ivory satin and shadow lace, with pearl and crystal trimmings. Her veil was caught with orange blossoms and white roses. The matron of honor wore chiffon and crystal trimmings over green satin. The two attendants were gowned, the one in pink satin and ermine trimming, the other in blue figured charmeuse. The mother of the bride wore blue figured charmeuse. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Coles, 32nd street, west, and the groom is one of the progressive mail clerks of Hawkinsville, Ga. The bride and groom left Thursday night for Hawkinsville, their future home, where a reception was held last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Miller. Mr. Thomas E. White of Tennille was among the out of town guests present. Fairchild-Ferrell Nuptials Miss Marie Fairchild, of Bainbridge, Ga., and Mr. Chas. Clyde Ferrell of Savannah, Ga., were married at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday evening of last week at the home of the bride. A number of friends of the contracting parties were in attendance and the handsome gifts were numerous. The reception was held at B. and A. hall, Bainbridge, Ga. The brides and groom are now at Lewis street, Bainbridge. Beth Eden Baptist Church Our anniversary services closed Monday night. Those who did not come to any of the services had much to miss. Each night's program was well carried out. There were some splendid papers and forceful addresses. The pastor, Rev. N. M. Clarke, in his anniversary sermon waxed eloquent. The sermon was taken from Deut. 32:2. The music rendered during the services were beautiful, especially so were the solos. We feel indebted to the various ministers of the city and their choirs for making the services a success. At the close of the services Monday night, all were invited into the beautifully decorated lecture room where was served all kinds of good things; the twenty-three lighted candles, in honor of our twenty-third anniversary, added much to the beauty of the well laden table. We invite all of our friends to worship with us to-morrow. Services toorrow as followg: prayer service 6:30 a.m.; preaching 11 a.m.; Sunday school 3:30 p.m.; B. Y. P, U. 7 p.m.; preaching 8 p.m. First Shiloh Baptist Church Service all day Sunday was very good. The pastor preached two able sermons. Services tomorrow will be as follows: 11 a. m., "The way of salvation;" 3 p. m., "His death a sad death." At this service the first communion will be served. All our friends are invited. At 8 p. m., the pastor will preach from a very interesting sermon from the subject "It made God sick? Was It you." NUMBER 17 Work on New School Began Monday HAVEN HOME BUILDING TO HAVE TWENTY-ONE ROOMS Will be Ready for Occupancy October First and will accommodate 1000 Children-To be Modern in Every Respect Work on the new Haven Home public school was begun Monday, morning and under the contract the building must be completed and ready for occupancy no later than October 1st. The new school will have twenty one rooms and will be two stories high. It will have all of the latest improvements and will be modern in every respect. It will contain rooms for laundering, and domestic science, features which are not to be found in any of the other three Negro schools of the city. The building will face Anderson street and will be erected of red pressed brick. It will cost in the neighborhood of $50,000 and will give accommodation to about 1000 children. It will be steam heated and will contain a library and principal's office. Eastman, Ga., News Eastman, G. a., Jan. 2, 1914. Editor Tribune: Please permit me space in your excellent journal to speak of our Emancipation celebration which was the best we ever witnessed in this place. The weather was beautiful, the crowd was large and enthusiastic. Everybody expected a great speech and a great speech was delivered by one of Georgia's most talented and gifted sons, Rev. C. S. Wilkins, A. M., D. D., Ph. D., the orator of the day. His address swept the great audience like a tidal wave. The people, white and colored, united vigorously in applause as the speaker would present the proofs and illustrations of the black man's "Past, Present and Future." After the address, white and colored rushed to the platform, congratulating the orator of the day. We knew Dr. Wilkins as a great preacher, scholar and church builder, but we did not know him as a platform orator until now. The people wept, laughed and rejoiced. The Lincoln Association members are jubilant. The speaker was introduced by Rev. G. B. Burney, pastor of Mt. Calvary Baptist church, this city, Rev. G. I. Burney led song by and by when the morning comes was sung; prayer was offered by father Bazton; reading by Missers Roberta Drakee and Amelia J. Johnson: remarks by Deacon M. H. Harris. The choir was led by Mrs. Annie Stanley; Mrs. M. Butler sang a beautiful solo. Mrs. M. Jordan. Mrs. Julia Killings, Mrs. E. G. Harris, Rev. Moses Yopp, tag committee: Program committee, S. D. Jackson, Alex. W. Lanair, M. Yopp and E. G. Harris. Miss Water Lou Seward, in a clear, voice and with much eloquence, read the Emancipation Proclamation, which brought forth much applause. N. White, Chairman and Prof. E. E. Butler, A. B., Master of Ceremonies. Yours truly, E. G. Harris, reporter. Evangelical Ministers' Union The Evangelical Ministers met with Rev. W. V. Daughtry, president, presiding. Devotional service was conducted by Rev. B. S. Hannah. After having addressed the throne of grace, the first Psalter was then read. Rev. G. P. Prescott and Rev. J. S. Stripling joined the union. The following officers were elected: Rev. P. F. *Curry, president; Rev. J. S. Stripling, vice president; Rev. J. A. Martin, secretary; Rev. G. P. Prescott, assis- tant, Rev. J. L. Taylor, treasurer, Rev. J. W. Maxwell, chaplain Rev. C. W. Prothro, critic; Rev. W. V. Daughtry, assistant; Rev. J. S. Jenkins, reporter; Rev. J. A. Martin, general reporter, Rev. R. H. Singleton, chairman of the program committee; Rev. J. S. Stripling, chairman of the vigilant committee; Rev. J. S. Jenkins, organizer --- Emancipation Address by Rev. J. L. Taylor (Continued from page 1) The home and the capacity for gain are the fundamental principles of all law and order. They, my friends, must be fully restored. We must go back to them more earnestly, we must inspire and spread life among our people, family devotion, family reverence, family obedience. All the learning, all the riches, all the fames all the industrial activities, all the political franchise, all the yearnings and clutchings after office cannot substitute for the ideals which cluster around the family and the home. Next to the love of God these are the most important things in the world. If you look in your bible you will see how Almighty God at the creation sets great store upon it. It is first of all marriage, marrying, which produces the fami y. He holds it up where as the first and foremost of all human institutions. He guards it by His strongest laws, especially the seventh commandment. He fixes the inheritance of his chosen people by the limitation of it. He arranges the sacrifices its life order. He regulated the Jewish life for all time and in all generations, by the law of the family life and he brought redemption through Christ out of the children. Its life and order are everywhere upheld, exalted and exemplified and sanctified by the teachings and sacraments of God. Parentage, motherhood, the nature of children, the ordering, the love, the reverence and obedience of the young and the fear of God, my friends, are the foundations of human society. If we have more of these true and lofty ideals every thing: good will follow, the ownership of property, intelligence and the growth of the desi e to have the slave system declared that the Negro should not even own his own body. It made him a chattel, and for centuries this grand principle of social growth has been driven out of us; we lost our grasp upon earthly things and their valine; we lost that grip and forecast which one must always have for a proper greed; we lost the awful ambition which reaches out for wealth and riches; we lost the capacity for ownership of property, the family, the true teachings of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and we must go more fully into these. They must be restored by teaching and instruction and the teachers will not come from afar. "The regenerators of any race or nation spring generally from their own rauks, so must it be with us, my friends our benefactors, our ministers, our teachers and our lecturers must be ourselves. We must teach in pulpit, in school the idea of race cohesion and family pride. We must teach our children to think much of their parents and we must so live ourselves that our children will be proud of us. We must proclaim constantly the dignity and sanctity[of] marriage and home. No race or nation is better than its womanhood. The mother and the wife are the vital sources of power in the home and on the battlefield. "Lincoln said, 'All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my mother.' Every man who towers among his fellows, who lits souls among his brethren, who is distinguished for splendid service to his church or his country, owes the inspiration that shaped his life to the powerful solicitude and careful training of a mother. The history of Rome furnishes the best illustration of this truth. As long as the woman was respected, loved and protected, kept can and divine. Rome was the city that sat upon the seven hills and ruled the world. The trend of her mighty armies marching to war, shook the earth and made the knees of her enemies smile each other. The sight of her implements of warfare, her breast plates, helmets, battle axes and battering rains made her bitterest enemies surrender. But when she forgot her destiny and marriage was dragged into disgrace and divorce was as frequent as marriage when she forgot God, then it was that Death rapped at her gate and demanded a surrender. Rome died to rise no more. She had been a great nation for five hundred years but her defeat was a degeneration of the family lite The family is the source of all real contentment among men. To create homes, my friends, and protect them is the highstend end of statesmanship and the real justification of human government. The tragedy of the world is not death. It is the loss of these great virtues and principles we have mentioned Pride, home, character, love of race, the failing to attend church, and the failing to obey parents, these, my friends, are worse than death. When our ancestors came in contact with the civilization of the Western world, there were many nations, tribes and peoples on the continent and in the Pacific and Atlantic states, in the same stagnant condition as they were with some, however, on a little higher plain of elevation. There were the American Indian the aboriginal Mexican, the Peruvians south of the States. There were the caribs of Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica; there were the Maoris of New Zealand; there were the Gouches of the Canaries and divers tribes of Australia. At the discovery of America all these peoples were for the firsttime touched with the rising rays of civilization. So our fathers had, with them, to run the same difficult race of enlightenment. Will our people stand the comparison? Go to Africa and see the naked and untrained African and then turn to the descendants in the West Indies and on this American soil. What meets your eyes? Here far from the fatherland is a race numbering over 40,000,000 people, a people to a great extent lettered and enlightened, cultured ladies and gentlemen, some in the land of their captivity merchants, planters, scholars, two rulers in provinces of their former servitude, masters of the situation. In a little over too hundred years this same despised and forsaken race trodden upon, sold as beasts and cattle, have by almost superhuman power 'risen above their servitude in the very land of their oppression and produced names that will honor any history. From the agonies of slavery have come accomplished physicians, lawyers, linguists, mathematicians, generals, philosophers, men from the coasts of Africa holding professorships in the great Universities of Europe, such men as Henry Dias, commanding officer in Brazil, Hannibal, Lieutenant General in Russia, Dun Juan Lateno, Latin professor at Sav Juan Anthony William Arno, Doctor of Phil- csophy in the University of Wittenburg, and when we come near home we have such men as Dr. B. T. Washington, foremost leader of the Negro race, Prof. DuBois, Kelly Miller, Jas S. Russell and many others who are safe leaders. Let us follow our leaders through all fields of industry and scholarship. We have risen from the most prostrate conditions of freedom; we have pushed forward from freedom to manhood; we have advanced from manhood to culture and monetary assurance. Yet we have reached no point where we can say let us stop and be thankful. Scientists tell us of migratory birds which try to make winter quarters their summer homes, rather than risk the sage of the wild seas. They have the sense of a genial clime beyond of summer landscape) rich with flowers and palms and of abundance of pleasant food, but them shrink from the journey between them and the land on their dreams and remain where apples are rotten on the ground. They dip they and stifle the migratory impulse and starve and perish in the cold. The same is true of some of our race who are torn and tortured and sleeping between the impulse which urges them to go forward and seek the higher and most useful rather than yield to the decaying things of sense and time—to gain knowledge. Service is a divine plan and is stated in nat re as well as in the Bible. The first school established was an industrial school Adam, the king of the world, took his first practical training under the great architect of the universe. "Do something, do it soon. And God, Himself, inactive Were no longer blest." The building of our world reveals the infinite wisdom and power of God. The creation furnishes all we study about in our schools or concerned about in the daily pursuits of life. The work of six days reveals law, order, and a systematic development of stupen our enterprise carried forward to a glorious finish for man's good. In the teu commandments God makes industry essential to moral character and shows that man was planned to enter the schemes of industrial activity for the good of the world but thus drawing out his highest mental and moral powers. Let us go forward trusting in God and creating business enterprises of all kinds as we have here in our beautiful city. They will always enable us to overcome inferior conditions and to secure strength and respectability. Practical training will enable us to use the past, present and future for the good of ourselves and all mankind. It will give us power to see and think and act. It will place us in position to honor and trust and give us a standard among our fellows. We believe that the Negro is worthy of the best training. He has always been a potential factor in the development of the South before and since the war. Through all the complex changes and conditions he has kept the even tenor of his way, making the best of all circumstances and ever responding under all conditions to the exactions of his employers. When other races have tied up the industrial activities of the nation, destroying property and terrorizing communities he has been loyal and peaceful to his employers and safe to the country. The many crimes committed by the Negro during the first twenty five years after freedom are not to be accounted in his unwillingness to obey but rather in his ignorance of the laws of his states and country. From bondage he came having no knowledge of civil law and but little of divine law If known to pray he was compensated with the past-master's lash Under such conditions how could he know? When you look into the jails of the country, upon the faces of the Negro in fetters remember his hardships of slavery. When you pass by the penetentaries of this land and see him wagging with ball and chain, I beg you to remember his adersifes. There is, not the slightest incination upon his part to disobey the law. He has no say in making the laws of his country, but seldom complains. He accepted his freedom under the laws made by others and said nothing to their perfection. His obedience was tested in the beginning and then he proved faithful. Wren Christiana, queen or Cuba, emancipated her slaves, she sent them not to war, but to their homes to enjoy freedom. On the first day of January 1863, Abraham Lincoln emancipated the Negro and on the same day called him on the battle field to defend his country. He came forth notwithstanding he had been worked nearly to death in slavery, like an obedient servant with a sore back and bruised head, he fought manfully for the rights of his country and if you desire to know how he stood in war, take the testimony of Sherman, Hunter, Pnelps and others who stood with him in war and saw his fidelity to trust in fighting to defend the constitution he had no voice in forming, to support the laws he helped not to enact. If you visit the east corridor of the Capitol on the Senate side, you will see there the picture of a naval battle on Lake Erie. It is the poorest attempt at art and the most disgraceful picture in modern times. The Negro is represented as a coward and frightful whereas in the same government we have the record of the prowess and the eulogy of his bravery in this very battle. Commodore Perry speaks of his black naval heroes in warmest and enthusiastic terms. General Lord Wolseley, next to the greatest captain of the age, declared that the Negro makes one of the bravest soldiers in the world Pinckney and General Jackson declared that the Negro soldiers went beyond their expectation in war. The Negro fought bravely in all the wars in this country. As far back as the Revolutionary War there were three thousand Negro soldiers employed on the American side. The history of this country could not be truthfully written without mentioning the Negro soldiers who have figured so conspicuously in shaping the destiny of the nation. When the yoke of British tyranny under George the III became so oppressive that it brought about taxation without representation, Virginia gave her Jefferson to endite the Declaration of Independence, her Madison to pilot the nation over the sees, her Monroe to declare that America should never be subject to any foreign power The Negro race gave Crispus Attucks, who was the first to spill his blood in the cause of Independence The Apostles never saw what we are privileged to have to-day, my friends They never saw the printing press; they never saw a Christian home; they never saw a public school; they never saw a Young Men's Christian Association; a Young Women's Christian Temperature Society; a Christian Endeavor. They never heard of a co-operative business league. We have such an organization as the National Business League founded by Dr. Booker T. Washington in 1900, the most wonderful art of advertisement and one of the greatest achievements of the Negro race. Fruits of this organization are seen in this city as well as in all other parts of the country and is doing a splendid work for the Negro race. They never saw a hospital in action for the relief of all kinds of physical diseases as we have all over the world to-day. We love our children and are showing it by the many public institutions of learning and the way we are supporting them. They never saw a registered bark. To-day we have sixty-two banks doing an annual business of twenty million dollars. They never saw a Christian church. To-day the land is filled with Negro churches which raise over one million dollars each year for school purposes. After fifty years of freedom, we have over seven hundred million dollars in property, three hundred and fifty dollars per family. We own over twenty million acres of land, more land than the whole state of South Carolina contains Of the ten million Negroes, seventy per cent of them have some learning. We have in church property over fifty seven million dollars. Our churches are giving for missions each year over one hundred thousand dollars. The Baptists are carrying on mission work in five foreign countries, have one hundred and thirty seven stations and support ninety seven missionaries. The A. M. E. church is working in eight foreign countries and has eighty stations, twenty four missionaries and two ordained bishops at work in Africa The A. M. E. Zion church is doing a telling work in Africa and the West Indies. The Colored Episcopal church has one Negro Bishop in Africa and has raised in the fourth department alone over thirty thousand dollars. St. Philip's Episcopal church, New York City, is the richest Negro church in the world. Its real estate amounts to more than one million dollars. The criminal class among us is growing smaller and the better class is making rapid and substantial progress with new awakened visions of life. Even those who were once our pronounced enemies are becoming our best friends. If the daily papers would publish some of the good things the race is doing instead of their sins, we would not have space in our papers to contain them. As we look out upon this beautiful New Year's Day kissed by the hand of a living father, let us thank God for it and keep it pure and clean. Let us thank Him as never before for his guidance and protection in the past years and His presence in the future and resolve to love Him and our fellowmen more. To give our lives, if need be, for our race. I believe that, when a man protects the sanctity of his home and the virtue of the women of his race, he has divinity in him and stands at that moment upon the heaven kissed sumit of fame and nobility, and meets the approval of God and man. Go forward with the arms of the Almighty beneath. He says to you and to me to-day: "Fear not, I walk in the midst of the golden candle-sticks and hold the stars in my right hand. Behold I have set before you an open door and no man can shut it and as I have been your support in the past I am still your pledge. Victory and great reward!" --- Sincerity. The greatest work has always gone hand in hand with the most fervent moral purpose.—Sidney Lanier. The Climbers. After reaching the pinnacle of fame many a climber has found it an uncomfortable roost.—Atlanta Journal. Cause For Tears. "Do you ever weep over a story?" "Sometimes, when I get it back from the publishers."—Houston Post. Just About Fifty-Fifty. It's all right to believe only half you hear, but the trouble is to know which half.—Philadelphia Record. Moist Bombay Bombay averages more than seventy-two inches of rainfall a year and gets most of it in four or five months. Speeding Up. Strange as it may appear, some men go faster after they have received a check.—New Orleans Picayune. Conscience. Conscience is the grand jury of the heart. It only indicts, while the trial is farther on. Don't say people when you mean persons. People is a collective noun, in the singular number. An Exception. "Animals," said the teacher, "frequently become attached to people, but plants never do." "How about burs, teacher?" queried the small boy at the foot of the class. -Chicago News. An Ancient Linden. The German village of Remborn has a linden tree which is said to be more than 1,200 years old. He Crowed Too Soon. She-You'll be glad to learn, dear, that I've got out of visiting our relatives. He-Grand! Splendid! It hung over me like a cloud. How did you manage it? She-Oh, I asked them here. Mannish. Mr. Dubley—How awfully mannish she is! Miss Smart—She is, indeed. Mr. Dubley—Yes, and the funny part of it is she thinks people admire her for being that way. It's queer she doesn't realize that people are only laughing at her. Miss Smart—Well, she's mannish even to that extent—Philadelphia Press. IF YOU ARE TIRED Of Wearing Ready-Made or Misfit Clothes let us Make Your New Clothes Cooper & Odrizen TAILORS They are THE BEST IN THE CITY 218 WEST BROAD ST. Savannah, Ga. ```markdown ``` REGRETS. Regrets are very common an as a rule, are useless. Regrets a a waste of time in every possible stance except one. That one the instance in which the soul tertains them thoughtfully and hably until they become valuable sons for the future. Thoughtful Sweden. The Swedish government operates public employment bureaus. Theirservices are free of charge. No Reason at All. "All the world's a stage," quoted the wise guy. "Yes, but that is no reason why a fellow should want to be the whole show," added the simple mug.-Philadelphia Record. Cynical. "I read the other day of a woman who complained of her husband because he had never said a word since their marriage." "Odd thing that she noticed it"—Baltimore American. No Gentleman. Miss Gossip—What's this I hear about the doctor's being no gentleman! Miss Matter-of-Fact—Yes, that's true. Miss Gossip—Tell me about it. What did he— Miss Matter-of-Fact—It's a lady doctor—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl The Real Test. "Very. She will always sing when you ask her to. She doesn't have to be coaxed." "I know, but will she also stop when you've had enough?" Sought After. "After you became wealthy," said the biographer. "you found yourself much sought after?" "Yes," replied Dustin Stax, "by an investigating committee."—Washington Star. Two Losses. The Host (showing family portraits, proudly)-Portrait of my great-uncle-lost an arm at Waterloo. The Youth (hopelessly bored)-Beastly place, Waterloo; lost my golf clubs there last week-London Sketch Kent Only Antiques. Customer (in antiques shop, after completing purchase)—By the way, have you got a time table I could look at? Antique Dealer (with air of gentle rebuke)—Not a modern one, sir.—London Punch. Avoiding Trouble Singleton—I say, old man, doesn't your spending so much time at the club get you into trouble at home? Wedderly—On the contrary, dear boy, it keeps me out of it—Boston Transcript. Different Scales "Mr. Pater, I love your daughter. Do you object to my paying her attention?" "No, but, I warn you you'll find it a lot easier than paying her bills."—Boston Transcript. Irvung's Rise. Sir Henry Irving first acted on the stage when he was nineteen. He got £1 a week for a minor part in "Richele-du" and made a failure of it. Fifteen years later he did Mathlas in "The Bells" and gained fame—London Mail. Unsolved Problems. The three great problems on the solution of which humanity is bent are the same that perplexed our ancestors—the immortality of the soul, perpetual motion and women's hats—Paris Figaro Cause and Effect. Old Hunks—When I came to this town sixteen years ago real estate in the block where I live was higher than it is now. Old Hewligus—It would be so in any block where you'd settle down—Chicago Tribune. Utah's Forests. More persons make use of the national forests in Utah than in any other state. Nearly 27 per cent of all the permits for sheep and cattle grazing on the forests are taken out in Utah. YOUNG BROS. Is the place where you get Hot Drinks of all kinds. Our Lunches are the best and a temptation for 10 cents. 507 West Broad Street West Savannah & West End Right on or near the Augusta Road. Splendid Car Service to West Broad Street, REAL ESTATE $5.00 Down and $5.00 a Month. THOS. W. HARPER, Happy New Year AND A PROSPEROUS 1914 TO ALL! Pate's Drug Store HALL and WEST BROAD STS Phones 4710 and 4711 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Fruit and Commission Merchant 303 ST. JULIAN WEST AND 23 JEFFERSON ST You will be greatly benefitted by stopping in and getting our free advice on how to take the best care of your shoes which will cause them to last longer and keep better shape. We do neat repairing on shoes and pay special attention to ladies and children shoes. Prompt attention to all work. J. H. W. A'SHINGTOIN WHITAKER STREET Japanese Railways. In Japan, unlike most occidental countries, the chief source of railway income is the passengers. C. C. Middleton, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office: 505 Charlton St., east Office Hours 9-11 a m 2-4 p m 7-8 p m PHONE 80 Dr. Geo. W. Smith Special attention to Diseases of, Women and Children Night calls will receive prompt at- tention OFFICE : 8114 West Broad Street, Phone 1522 RESIDENCE : 605 Oak Street Phone 1439 SAVANNAH. : GEORGIA Protect Your Horses' Fect Have Them Shod by the The Cresceus Horseshoeing and Clipping Shop 315 JEFFERSON ST. Phone 3509 NELSON A. CUBYLER "The Expert Horseshoe," Prop. Important—The only Expert horseeshoeing shop in the city operated by a colored maa. FOR ..100 L West Savanna Right on or near Splendid Car Service Be Independent a REAL $5.00 Down and THOS. PHONE 3196 Happy N ```markdown ``` For Sale Small lot of furniture, among it one pure black walnut wardrobe, at No. 511 East Walburg lane DENTIST 240 Barnard Street, Specialist in Gold and Bridge Work Savannah, Ga. Does all kind of high grade dental work of the best quality and 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. All Gold Crowns Guaranteed 23½ K Gold. Bell Phone 1244 Dr. J. W. Jamerson FIRST-CLASS DENTIST All Work Guaranteed 623 WEST BROAD STREET Between Charles and Oak St. PHONE 2098-J Dr. A. R. Ferebee urgeon Dentist Office Hours: 8 a. m., to 2 p. m. 3 p. m., to 6 p. m. Sundays by Appointment Gwinnett and East Broad Sts (Adjoining Drug Store) SALE NOTS .. North & West End the Augusta Road. to West Broad Street, and Own a Piece of ESTATE 1d $5.00 a Month. W. HARPER, 111' East Bryan St. New Year Among the Masons "Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the dangers is that we shall do nothing." Masonry should teach men how to live and how to die. If you have got no more out of Masonry than a few grips, words and sings, you have made a poor investment of your time and money. The man who fails to appreciate the sublime lessons of morality and virtue, of benevolence and brotherhood and makes them a part of this mental and moral self, falls far short of coming up to the full requirements of Freemasonry. —Masonic Sun. The name, Solomon, means peace, and he is claimed as the founder of Masonry, pre-eminently the greatest peace institution in the world. David, his father, established the kingdom through war. Solomen built the beautiful symbolical temple in peace. Pin Masons and Freemasons To which class do you belong? The Pin Mason takes all the obligations of the various orders, and then quickly forgets them, but never forgets to loudly proclaim himself a high degree.Mason. The true Freemason is the man who values his membership in the order, always remembers his obligations works diligently in his Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery Consistory and Shrine.—Missouri, Freemason. Sometimes wonder is expressed at the great importance we attach to Masonry and the beauty we find in O. E. S. The secret lies following up what one has been taught. Their testimonies of good and widely extended influences cannot be understood without the stimulus and knowledge of fraternity. We wish our brother Masons would interest themselves and help us extend O. E. S. throughout the length and breadth of Georgia. Wherever the Eastern Star has taken hold, we find Masonry: flourishing. This is due without doubt to the interest and sympathy for Masonry which the ladies of the Q. E. S. have attained through their own organization. The home life of Masons is made richer by this kindred association and the understanding which comes from it. The social development in the fraternity is just as necessary for our continued success and prosperity as any other side of this four square order. A ship was wrecked on the northwest coast of Ireland; and a mother tried in vain to persuade her son, who had volunteered to go to the rescue of the last man on board the burning ship, to give up the perilous task. She pleaded that his father and brother had never come back from sea, and that she would be left alone if he were lost. He resisted her entreaties and put out to the sinking vessel. When the boat came back through the surf the crowds on the shore shouted, "Have you got your man?" The reply came, "Yes, and tell mother it's brother William!" Are we sure that the imperiled souls around us are not our brothers?—Exchange. As I view the Masonic institution and its grand and noble principles, so dear to all of us, its purposes may be classed as twofold. The first is care of and solicitude for the brethren to make its votaries wiser and better and consequently happier. The second, as men and as Masons, not only to watch with unfailing care but to take, when time and opportunity offer, an active part in what is transpiring in the world around us, and to be directly interested in anything and everything which appertains in any way to the betterment of our fellow-man and for the general good of mankind. By doing this we shall be stronger men and better Masons. IDLE WORDS We often forget the force of words and say things that wound. and by a single word destroy our own happiness and the happiness of others. How many harsh, cruel words have been spoken, thoughtlessly, it may be, that have wounded and crushed the heart ef a friend, and have led to estrangement, separation, and eventually to hatred. If, then a word is such a powerful thing, powerful for evil, a living, active element in the world, how careful we should be how to use these vehicles of thought. We should measure the force of every word we utter and be careful not to create a living source for evil, for by do ing so we may thereby murder our best friend.—Square & Compasses. MISFORTUNE Disappointment and misfortune are not always evils. Disappointment will make us conversant with the noble part of our nature. It will chasten us and prepare us to meet accident on higher ground the next time. As Hannibal taught the Romans the art of war, so is all misfortune only a stepping stone to fortune.—H. D. Thoreau. Curious Cradles. "The Lapland babe's cradle," said a man who has traveled, "is its mother's shoe—its mother's snowshoe. This snowshoe is covered with skin and stuffed with soft moss. When so disposed the Lapland mother can hang her baby to a tree by the thongs. "The Indian baby wears a nose ring and a vell, and its cradle is a basket swung from its mother's head. "But the strangest cradle of all is the New Guinea baby's. The mothers of New Guinea bury their babies in the soft white desert sand up to the waist. This keeps them out of mischief. It is the only cradle they ever know." Humer From the Hospital. Humer From the Hospital. Perhaps the best story in Sir Edward Cook's "Life of Florence Nightingale" is that of a wounded Crimean sergeant who picked up a wounded comrade and stumbled back to camp. The rescued man turned out to be a general and waited on his rescuer in hospital. The latter, wrote Miss Nightingale, exclaimed: "Oh, general, it's you, is it, I brought in? I'm so glad I didn't know it was your honor, but if I'd known it was you I'd have saved you all the same!" Not as Bad as It Might Have Been. "Now that your boys have gone away to school and your daughters have got married I suppose you find it rather dismal around home, don't you, Mr Cadgerley?" "Well, it's not as bad as it might be. When I begin carving at dinner now I always know that it will be my turn to eat before everything is so cold that it is tasteless."—Chicago Record-Herald. Sunshine Is Egypt's Charm. Sunshine is Egypt Charm It is hard to make any one who has not been there feel the spell of Egypt. the enchantment of a land so full of the drowsy gold of romance and the witchery of the African sunshine. But somehow in Egypt one feels that he has come, very near to the fountain of youth. You become a sun worshiper all at once. You forget that you ever had any care or trouble. Somewhere en route you become a lotus enter. Hoary old Egypt has a fascination. The Cairene mosques and bazaars get a hold on you. You enjoy the strange antitheses which constantly confront you on the "streets of Calro"—every place is such a mixture of beauty, history and mystery.—Suburban Life. What We Owe to Baseball. To baseball, according to A. G. Spalding in World's Work, is due our athletic supremacy over the rest of the world. "Baseball," he says, "combines running, jumping, throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of the Olympian games. But above all it imparts to the player that degree of confidence in competition, that indefinable something, that enables one athlete to win over another who may be his physical equal, but who is lacking the American spirit begetten of baseball." Women Were Brewers. The brewing trade in England was formerly almost wholly in the hands of women. Until the close of the eighteenth century the preparation of ale for the household was rekoned among the duties of the mistress and her maids. The same custom prevailed in the brewing of ale for sale, and the "brewsters" or "alewives" long held a great part of the trade, both in town and country. Philologists will remember the termination that was feminine—the "spinster," the "empster" and the "brewster."—London Chronicle. Tracing Back a Joke. It is difficult to find the genesis of the funny story. You know the one of the lady who objected to the man smoking in the railway carriage. She plucked away his cigar and flung it out of the window. The man picked up her pet dog and hurled it after his cigar because both dogs and cigars were illegal there. In a week end reading I have just found that story in Dostoevski's "The Idiot," told by a Russian who had fought in the Crimean. He was convicted of having stolen it from a newspaper. The story probably originated with Noah in the overcrowded ark. And it is good to think our ancestors laughed as heartily as we do—London Opinion. An Unpleasant Encounter. "I was told young Staylate had quite an encounter with Maude Brown's father?" "Yes, he did. He met the old man tacking home from the club just as he was leaving the house and in trying to avoid one another they both fell down the terrace and broke a seven dollar garden vase. And now the old man says he was assaulted by two burly ruffians, and Staylate doesn't dare to go near the house for fear he'll be recognized as both of them."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Program of the 13th Anniversary of the Central Baptist Church of Thunderbolt, Ga. SUNDAY NIGHT THE HELPING HAND. THE HELPING HAND. Lend a word of cheer whenever you can to those who are struggling and despondent. It is a great thing to have a talent for appreciation. He can do much good in the world who recognizes the good other people are doing and tells them of it. More folk than most imagine are getting weary and downhearted because they seem to accomplish nothing. The Poet's Son. "Why, Freddy, how dirty you are, and only yesterday you wrote a verse for papa's birthday, promising always to wash your hands clean" "Well, mamma, that was only poet's license."—Ellegende Blatter. Said What She Meant. "Oh, I am so awfully ashamed of myself" said Edith Jones to her dearest girl chum. "When Henry proposed to me last night I intended to say, 'So sudden' but I quite lost my head and excled, 'At last!' Berlin Butchers The butchers of Berlin have a curious way of informing their customers of the days on which fresh sausages are made by placing a chair covered with a large, clean apron at the side of the shop door—London Telegraph. No Occasion For Worry. "They say when a man is drowning he thinks of every wrong act he ever committed." "Well, there is no necessity for you to worry. They'd have ample time to rescue you."—Life. Envious of the Immune. Little Henry (at the table, to the visitor)—I wish I were like you. Visitor (flattered)—Why, little man? Little Henry—Because no one boxes you ears when you eat with your fingers.—London Opinion. He Had No Sense. Miss Jaggers (angling for a compliment)—They say plain girls are always religious. Now, I'm not at all religious. Mr. Fortnit (gallantly)—Yes, but there are exceptions to all rules, you know.—Puck. A Little Circle. Ethel—This craze for gold seems to me very foolish. Now, a very little would make me perfectly happy. Jack—How much? Ethel—Just enough to reach around my finger.—Boston Transcript. A Defect. A little girl was playing with a girl friend of her own age on the porch of her home. An elderly gentleman, her mother's father, and an elderly lady, her father's mother, were sitting on the porch talking pleasantly with each other. The little girl had often wished her grandparents were of the same name, like other children's grandparents. Presently the little guest remarked. "What a nice grandmother and grandfather you have!" "Oh, yes," she said, with a sigh "but they don't match." His Chance at Last. The busybody was circulating a petition calling upon the powers that be to abolish something or other. "It will be presented at the next meeting." he said, "and a copy of it will be printed in all the papers." The struggling young author made haste to sign. "What's it all about?" asked a friend. "Oh, I don't know," said the struggling young author. "but I couldn't resist the temptation to see my name signed to something that will appear in print."—Judge. arried by Blood. married by Blood. end of Banquey there is a sons differing widely in religion and customs from hearing that name. Marrformed in the forest in of two families. There is thering or feast. The rite transferring a drop of blood len knife from the calf of ing to a similar cut in the . After marriage the man ide to her home, where he nature as a member of the Idleness Is Death. Most men cannot be idle and live. That sounds strange. It is true. It is a law of nature. If a man past forty leads an idle life the probability is that he will live to be fifty-seven years old. If he leads a harmonious and sufficiently occupied life he will live to be sixty-six. This is the experience of life insurance companies, which make a specialty of old age annuities. The figures tell the story. Idleness is harder on the vital organs of mankind than work. To be idle is to die.—Philadelphia Ledger. Surprises For the Librarian "No man gets a better insight into what people read than the public librarian, and a friend of mine, custodian of a library in a poor South London district, can cite many instances of a taste for the higher things of literature in unexpected places," says a writer in an English publication. "Among his regular borrowers are a policeman who specializes on sociology, a lavatory attendant who borrows little else but works on education and psychology, a commissionaire with a taste for abstruse theology and two rag and bone shopkeepers, one of whom studies only theosophy and Buddhism, the other only art." COTTON FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. A good many important discoveries of one kind and another have been in a large measure accidental. In the way of illustrating the truth of this may be mentioned the attempt which will be made the coming season on a considerable scale to grow cotton in northern California. Less than a year ago the Southern Pacific employee who has charge of the pumping station at Roseville, Cal., 107 miles from San Francisco, got a handful of seed from a carload of cotton that was sidetracked at the point mentioned en route north from the Imperial valley. He sowed the seed in a garden spot near the station and was surprised to note how thriftily it grew. The bolls popped open, and the branches of the plant bent under the weight of the ripe cotton. Neighboring ranchers and others heard of his success in growing the cotton and have contracted for seed, with the idea of extending the experiment. This is likely to prove an interesting phase of the development of the cotton growing industry of the Golden State, whose output of cotton, chiefly from the Imperial valley, has increased from 100 bales in 1909 to 100,000 bales the past season. SOME INTERESTING COMPARISONS. That largest crop yields do not always net the grower the most money is shown very emphatically in a comparison of some of the staple crops of 1912 and 1913. In the case of the corn crop the total yield for 1913 is 22 per cent below that of the year previous, yet the growers will receive 6 per cent more for it, and this amounts to $100,000,000. In the case of potatoes, the past season's crop is about 30 per cent below what it was in 1912, yet it will net the growers $40,000,000 more than did the preceding year's crop. Cotton furnishes an even more striking instance of the truth mentioned. Although the yield of the past year's crop is put at nearly a million bales less than that of 1912, a decrease of 5 per cent, the growers will receive for it, at 14 cents per pound, 22 per cent more than they did for the 1912 crop. This amounts to a cash increase of $125,000,000. CIDER SIRUP: An experiment is being made at Hood River, Ore., this winter that will be watched with much interest by apple growers everywhere who have the cull apple problem on their hands. In the experiment in question the sweet cider as it is extracted from the apples is evaporated until the residue is of about the consistency of thin sirup. This is canned and is said to keep for an indefinite time. On being diluted with water it is said to be in every respect equal to the original cider from which the sirup was secured. This matter of keeping cider sweet without preservatives has been a knotty problem—in fact, it hasn't been solved—and if the method referred to proves as satisfactory as the claims made for it apple growers of the country will have grounds for feeling elated. ORCHARD CARE PAYS ORCHARD CARE PAYS. That painstaking care in the spraying and thinning of fruit and in the selection and packing of it at harvest will pay in the New England states as well as out in Washington and Oregon is shown in the record of prizes won by a Mr. Sawyer of Salisbury, N. H., during two successive years on an exhibit of a single barrel of Baldwin apples. In trophies and cash these two barrels of apples have netted their owner $365. The fruit shown was from trees twenty-five years old that were set out by the owner when he was a lad in high school. About the only observation that need now be made concerning these prize winning apples is that the orchard that produced them was not run as an incidental, side issue, calf pasture proposition. SKIMMILK FOR POULTRY. A contributor to an agricultural paper tells of an experiment he made in the feeding of skimmilk to poultry that proves its value in a very definite way. He divided sixty pullets into two even lots. One lot was fed skimmilk as a part of the ration, and the other was given water. The test began Nov. 1 and closed May 1. In this period of six months the flock that had been given skimmilk produced $52.65 worth of eggs at a cost for feed of $18.97. The flock that had been given water produced $30.94 worth of eggs, while their feed bill was $23.72. Buttermilk is nearly as good as skimmilk and either should be fed to the hens whenever it can be had. --- CATTLE ABORTION. A report recently issued by the bureau of animal industry of the federal department of agriculture calls attention to the serious nature of contagious abortion in cattle. a malady that ranks next to tuberculosis in the inroads it makes in the cattle raising industry. The cause of the disease has been discovered, and it has been found that the virus can be introduced into the body of a cow in several ways. When a cow becomes infected with the disease her milk be comes poisonous to her offspring. A further interesting discovery in connection with the disease is that germs may be given off for years in the milk of cows that no longer abort. J. C. Piigg Saturday, January 10. 1914. According to reports, the Negroes of Washington city were the recipients of much excitement a few days ago when Dr. I. N. Ross, the crudite pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, in speaking to a large crowd assembled to celebrate the birthday of Chas. Sumner, urged our people to stop spending their money for certain luxuries of the home and to put the same in guns and in military education which will have to do with the future preservation of the race. Such remarks, coming as they do from Dr. Ross, for whom we have the greatest respect, can but command attention. However, we are of the opinion that the learned divine, in his desire to show his people that they must insist upon the maintenance of their rights, allowed his zeal to take possession of his judgment in no small way. While it is true that we are discriminated against; while it is true that segregation and mob violence are more wide spread now than ever before, the fact remains that attempts to do what Dr. Ross anticipates we must do, sooner or later would be suicidal in the most abject form. We believe that such fiery utterances as those reported to have come recently from Dr. Ross are indeed untimely at this time. What we we need to-day is not fiery or incendiary leadership but a leadership founded upon good common sense and diplomacy in dealing with the problems of to-day. --- No one with a scintilla of respect and admiration for any manifestation of unselfish devotion to any worthy cause or movement, will fail to doff his cap to the ladies and members of the Savannah Branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes for the great and noble effort which they put forward during the recent holidays in the name of charity. From every quarter has come the comment that never before in the history of our municipality, has sweet charity been so bountifully and freely dispensed among the needy poor of our community as during the Christmas season just passed. Organized only a few months ago, the Savannah Branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes has made its influence felt in more ways than one. To succeed in raising through small subscriptions nearly six hundred dollars for charity within thirty days is no mean accomplishment, yet, this is what the Savannah Branch has been able to do. And in doing this, the branch has been able to unite the brotherhood and sis- teachhood of our charitably inclined citizens into a closer and stronger union than ever before. Such results are indeed far above the ordinary and show up in bold relief, far and above the ordinary, the great esteem and confidence with which the members of the Urban League are held by tneir fellow citizens. The Urban League has started its work well. Real, unselfish charity has been made to spread itself over much territory through its agency. Many sad hearts have been made happy through its efforts. Congratulating the league on the eminence of the success of its maiden effort, we wish it God speed and a long life of usefulness among us and for the benefit of those whom we are duty bound to serve. Mechanic Investment.Company Stockholders Meeting The annual meeting of the stockholders of this company will be held at its banking room, 139 Barnard street, between the hours of 12 m. and 1 p.m., Monday January 12th, 1914 for the purpose of electing directors to manage its affairs for the ensuing year. 2t F. D. Tucker, Sec-Treas. St. Philip Dots Sunday was the first communion Sunday of the year. A large membership was out at each service, Rev. S. H. Holton of the East Florida Conference, preached at 11 a. m. His text was Matt. 22:42; subject "What think ye of Christ." Rev. J. W, Maxwell, president of the Central Park Industrial school, gave a short talk at 4 p. m. Rev. Singleton was assisted in the communion service by Revs. Maxwell, Lasha and Capps. Rev. Singleton preached at 8:15 p. m. His text was Judges 14:12; subject, "Sampson's Riddle." The official board has decided to have prayer meeting every Thursday night at 8:30 p. m. Hereafter when it rains, the members who cannot attend love feast on the regular night may do so on the following Sunday morning. Our members are urged to attend class meetings On to morrow all clubs and reserves must report at 11 a. m., if they cannot then, report at 8 p. m. Instead of paying their regular pledges on the second Sunday in each month, the pledges have been discontinued and clubs of five have been organized and each club must raise five dollars each month in the year and report the second Sunday in each month. They have been divided into the Flying Squadron and Reserves. Every member is on some club. The first name on each club is the captain. For full information see Rev. Singleton. Prof. William T. Brandon, of Bethel Baptist, Jacksonville, Fla., will give a pipe organ recital at St. Philip's church on Monday night, January 12th, inst., and will be assisted by some of our best local talent. Come out and hear some music and at the same time benefit your church. The first quarterly conference of St. Philip A. M. E. church, West Savannah district, will convene on Friday night January 16. The following services will be held on tomorrow: prayer meeting 5:30 a. m.; preaching 11 a. m.; Sunday school 3 p. m.; A. C. E. League 6:30 p. m.; preaching 8:14 p. m. Strangers are invited to attend these services. Emancipation Association At noon Tuesday their will be a very important meeting of the Emancipation Association at Asbury M. E. Church. All members are requested to be out. E. H. Quo, president, J. H. Butler, secretary. Card of Thanks I wish to thank the many friends for the kindness shown me during the illness and bereavement of my husband and for the many tokens of sympathy and floral designs. Yours, Laura A. Jones. ' Death Mr. John J. Jones died Monday morning December 23rd and was buried the following day from the First Bryan Baptist church of which he was a member. Mr. Jones was born in Richmond, Va in 1863; he came to this city twenty three years ago. He was employed by the officials of the Central of Georgia for thirty five years. Mr. Jones was a good and honest man and had a host of friends both white and black. He was a member of the Past Grand Masters Council, also Mt. Sier Lodge 2441 which buried him. Hedeaver a wife, Mrs. Laura A. Jones and a host of friends to mourn his death. Mrs. Emma Millidge Andrews, of this city, but for 13 years of New York City, is in the city visiting her aunts, the Misses Willeidge of 513 Gaston St. East She intends visiting Brunswick and Jacksonville before returning to New York. Mrs. G. A., Griffin, formerly of this city but now of Evanston, Ill., is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Ella Binyard, Gwinnett and Butler street, Mrs. Mack B. Branham and Miss Janeette have returned from Brunswick, where they spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Wm M. Fleyd, Miss Susie Young, who spent the holidays in the city, left Friday of last week for St. Mary's Ga., where she is engaged in teaching. Mr. Nelson Cuyler, who has been confined to the house through illness, is much improved. Mr. Benj. Walton, for several years at the Union Station barbershop, left for Waycross, Monday where he will be located. Mrs. Minnie L. Rogers of Atlanta, Ga. is spending awhile in the city. Miss Beatrice Anderson was severely burned on Tuesday morning at her home, Duffy street and Styles avenue, while standing with her back to the grate. A physician was called and she was immediately taken to the Georgia Infirmary where she further received medical attention. She did not run into the street, as was reported. The Underdog. The Underdog. The underdog usually gets $50,000, 000 worth of sympathy and 2 cents worth of assistance. Mr. and Mrs. Mack M. Merchison wish to express to their friends many thanks for their interest and sympathy during the illness and death of their son. Mack. THERE IS NO BETTTER INVESTMENT ON EARTH THAN THE EARTH ITSELF I SELL THE EARTH G. H BOWEN, THE REAL ESTATE MAN Notice to Debtors and Creditors Georgia Chatham County. Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against Robert B. Heggs, late of said County, deceased, to present them to me, properly made out, within the time prescribed by law, so as to show their character and amount; and all persons indebted to said deceased are required to make immediate payment to me. Savannah, Ga., December 18, 1913. Lucius E. Williams, executor will of Robert B. Heggs, deceased. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our own free whether an inventor is personally available. Communications strictly conditional. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken group, sum & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $1 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newdealers. MUNN & Co 364 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 65 F. St. Washington, D.C. THERE IS NO BETTTER I THAN THE EA I S THE E G. H BOWEN, THE Improved and Unimproved Real Estate For Sale by G. H. Bowen Whether you wish to buy, sell or rent, it will pay you to see me first. More to select from; less to pay. I am now able to offer the prettiest and best apartments in the city for colored, people; all modern conveniences, as follows: 1 Vacant lot on E. Anderson near E. Broad St., 34x115ft. $800.00. 55½ acres near Pooler, in this County, one half in cultivation, for quick sale, the price is only $1300. 4 Room dwelling on Waldburg Lane West, $900.00. One story 5 room house on fine lot, East Anderson St., $1100.00. One story 3 room dwelling house on West 32 street, $1000.00. 2 story 8 room dwelling on West 32nd street, 2100.00. 3 room dwelling, a nice little store house and large lot on Bulloch street, in Brownsville $2100.00. 16 acre farm with dwelling and other necessary improvements on La Roache avenue and car line, near Thunderbolt. Price $2500 3 vacant lots on Grapevine avenue, 30x90 ft each, near Ogeechee avenue in excellent renting section A fine investment opportunity for the wise buyer. Only $350.00 per lot. Four 4-room houses on Chapman street, West Savannah, near Seaboard Shops. Price $2500.00. One 4-room house, 48 Chapman avenue. Price $800.00 on easy terms. 2 story 7 room dwelling, large lot and extra lot 50x100 ft. on 38th and Harden streets, in the heart of Brownsville, the high class colored residence section of the city; this will make an ideal home or a choice investment, $2000.00. A 2 story ten room double tenement, 525 and 527 Gaston east, 2250.00. This will pay you 10 per cent. 5 room cottage, new, corner Chapman Ave. and Richards street West Savannah, on fine lot, easy terms, $1200.00. 5 room dwelling and 1 acre land on Ogeecchee Road, just outside city limits. 800.00 on easy terms. 4 room house and lot on West 36th, Street. $1200 on easy terms 509 East Charlton St., 6 rooms and attic 2½ story dwelling, choice home in good locality; property thet will enhance in value. Offered a bargain price for quick sale $1500. 8 City Lots on East Park A*e and Collins St., for sale , a WHEREAS, The Negro business of this city have enjoyed a prosperous year, and the entire Negro population has been able to keep intact that friendly relationship existing between him and his white brethren. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves in the following manner: To double our support toward Negro business, to work harder for the uplifting of our community by assisting to boost Savannah; to be charitable; to be law-abiding, and to be sure to join the Georgia Mutual Insurance Co. Branch Office—509 W. Broad St. H T. Singleton, Supt. Ad. ```markdown ``` Lodge Room welllocated and nicely heated 507 and 509 West Broad street, Williams' Building. Some choice nights vacant. Don't delay but come and get the night you want before its taken. Prices reasonable. INVESTMENT ON EARTH EARTH ITSELF ELL EARTH REAL ESTATE MAN whole. $3000.00. 10 Acres fronting on the White Bluff Road, and also has a River front, a beautiful tract near Central Park College $1200.00. This a good thing and terms can be had. Lot in the Granger tract on 48th St. 30x100 st., $1100.00; 3 lots near Dale Ave. $600.00, a snap. Lot corner 35th and Joe streets, $400.00. 2 Story 5 room house 1128 E. Gwinnett street $1225.00. 221, 224 and 225, 1-story tenement, Barrington street, lot 50x 100. Rents for $15.00. Price $1650.00. 2Story 8 room apartment, Center street; rents for $18.00. $2000.00. 514 W. Bolton street, 2 story 5 rooms; $2100.00. 1009 E. 38th street, 5 room cottage and two lots, $1900.00. Two 5 room dwellings, good condition, 2006 Bullock street, between 37th and 37th. Rental $16.00. $1600.00. 512-514 Maple street and 507-509 Oak St. Rental $36.00. $4.000. 4 lots 50x100 feet and 2 story 5 room house in good condition, together with garage and other outbuildings, in Fairview on Williams street and Dale Avenue, and the electric car line. Just out of the city limits. This is a good home at a low price, $2500. Fine business location corner Louisville and Rothwell Sts. close in $400. Part on time. 2110 Bulloch St, 2 story 6 room dwelling. On easy terms, $1600. 1½ acres at Sandfly. Also several choice houses, for either white or colored, which the owners will not permit me to advertise, at reasonable prices. Ask me about these. I shall be pleased to show you these or anything on my list. Automobile service free. For Rent Two 5-Room second floor apartments corner 41st and Harden streets; only two left. Three 4-Room apartments corner 37th and Harden streets, neat and brand new; up to the minute in every respect and never occupied. Call at once they are taken. Best nieighborhood. Special I have a fine piece of business property for sale on West Broad street; two stores with offices above. Ask me about this quick, as it will not be long on the market. G. H. Bowen, 457 W. Broad St. Phone 4096. February 10th, Tuesday, Full-dress Ball, by the Royal Sons of 1912, at Masonic Temple. Tickets 40 and 75 cents. January 27th, Tuesday. Beginning of a four night Fete by Savannah Pariachy No. 38, and their auxiliary at Masonic Temple. Tickets, first night 15 cents; other nights 10 cents. January 19th, Monday Beginning of a four night Fete by Protection Lodge No.320, G. U. O. of O. F. at Harris St. Hall. Tickets 10 cents Banquet Friday night 23. Tickets couple $1.00 January 14, Monday. New Year's Dance by the Union Brotherhood Benevelent Association, Ladies Branch, at Harris St. Hall. Tickets 25 cents. There will be given at St. Philip church, West Broad and Charles streets Wednesday night January 14th an Organ Recital on the new pipe organ by Prof. Wm. T. Brandon by Bethel Baptist church, Jacksonville, Fla. He will be assisted by some of the best local talent. Only high class music rendered. Given for the benefit of St. Philip church. Admission 25 cents. January 26th, Monday, Midwinter dance by Bay Boys Pleasure Club at Masonic Temple Tickets 25 and 40 cts. January 19th Monday, Concert at St. Philip church West Broad street. Admission 15 cents. February 3rd, Tuesday, Dance at Masonic Temple by W. D. Armstrong Lodge No. 8048, Odd Fellows. A good time is assured. Admission 25 cents. Mrs. George Riley, of Atlanta, Ga., is in the city visiting her daughter, Mrs. P. M. Thompson, 309 East Duffy. Mr. Joe, Small of Wade. Ga., was in the city Tuesday en route to Charleston. Sir A. Conan Doyle, creator of the most remarkable character of fiction, Sherlock Holmes, has written a narrative, "The Lost World," that carries its readers in ecstatic flight, through thrill after thrill, into parts unknown. This is a story that no lover of enthralling fiction should miss. It is being published from week to week in the twenty-four-page illustrated magazine of the New York Sunday World. Second instalment next Sunday. Order from your newsdealer well in advance. narrative, "The Lost that carries its readers in right, through thrill after parts unknown. This Mr. Lewis Houston ,who enlisted in the United States Army a number of years ago, with his wife, has returned home from Honolulu, H. I. and with his brother, Mr. Daniel Honston, who lives at Arlington Ga., is the guest of their aunt and uncle, Captain and Mrs, John Starr, 523 East Gaston Street. Oppor To interest STILE Located in the west near the new water and the Seaboard we have decided to the greatest numb Opportunity Knocks. interest you in our Valuable Property STILES TERRACE ted in the western part of the city on Stiles Avenue the new water works, the new garbage destructor, the Seaboard Shops and the Car Wheel Foundry, have decided to offer prizes for the ones who make greatest number of words out of the name To interest you in our Valuable Property STILES TERRACE Located in the western part of the city on Stiles Avenue near the new water works, the new garbage destructor, and the Seaboard Shops and the Car Wheel Foundry, we have decided to offer prizes for the ones who make the greatest number of words out of the name STILES TERRACE. 1. The word must not have more. 2. The word must be a correct E. 3. The words you submit need no NO MORE. 4. No single letter must be used must only appear twice. 5. The answers must all be written name and street address of the con allowed to enter. Contest closes FEB. 1st, 1914, over them and class them. THE RULES OF THE CONTEST ARE VERY SIMPLE AND ARE AS FOLLOWS: A word must not have more letters than are contained in the name STILES TERRACE. A word must be a correct English word, found in any good dictionery. Words you submit need not contain all the letters used in the name STILES TERRACE, BUT RE. Single letter must be used oftener than it appears in the name, that is: the letters S. E. and R. Appear twice. Answers must all be written on one side of the sheets of paper in a legible manner and the full street address of the contestant must be written at the top of the sheet and only adults are to enter. The contest closes FEB. 1st, 1914; but sheets must be sent in as soon as ready so that the judges may go on and class them. THE RULES OF THE CONTEST ARE VERY SIMPLE AND ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. The word must not have more letters than are contained in the name STILES TERRACE. 2. The word must be a correct English word, found in any good dictionery. 3. The words you submit need not contain all the letters used in the name STILES-TERRACE, BUT NO MORE. 4. No single letter must be used oftener than it appears in the name, that is: the letters S. E. and R. must only appear twice. 5. The answers must all be written on one side of the sheets of paper in a legible manner and the full name and street address of the contestant must be written at the top of the sheet and only adults are allowed to enter. Contest closes FEB. 1st, 1914, but sheets must be sent in as soon as ready so that the judges may go over them and class them. FirstPrize $10.00 in Gold, Second Prize $5.00 in Gold Third Prize $3.00 in Gold And for the 7 next best lists will be given $1.00 to each of the seven contestants who stand highest. Remember that these lots are all good, that prices are from $250 up and the terms are $5.00 cash and $5.00 per month until paid for without interest or taxes until after maturity. Georgia Real Estate Company. Week Beginning Monday Jan.12 NEW FACES WALKER & SMITH PRICE & YOUNG All New Songs and Dances HOLT & OVERTON OUTEN AND SEWELL POPULAR MATINEE Monday and Thursday at 3:30 p.m. TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY 7:30 to 9:30 9:30 to 11:30 MOVING PICTURES A big feature Photo Play in 3 Parts every day 10c ADMISSION 10c The Wage Earners Loan And Investment Co, (Incorporated 1900, Under the Laws of Georgia) Pioneer Negro Savings Bank of Georgia 468 WEST BROAD ST. PHONE 1195 Authorized Capital $50,000.00 Thirteenth Annual Statement of Condition at the Close Busi- ness October 4th, 1913 RESOURCES Loans Outstanding $ 169,645 86 Real Estate and Investments 39,010 83 Office Furniture and Fixtures 767 71 Building Fund 3,000 00 Cash 8,999 82 LIABILITIES Capital Paid In $ 40,938 10 Reserve and Undivided Profits 32,815 92 Deposits 122,512 30 Dividends Unpaid 157 90 Bills Payable 25,000 00 Total $ 221,424 22 FIVE PER CENT PAID | ON DEPOSITS L. E. Williams, President and Treasurer W. R. Fields, Vice-President R. A. Harper; Secretary L. E. Williams, L. M. Pollard, W. H. Burgess W. J. Williams J. G. Garey Jno. F. Jones, W. R. Fields [H. B. Wright Sol. C. Johnson P. Edward Perry Wm. Wright R. A. Harper James M. Ferrebee SPECIAL SALE TRIMMED HATS Now. is the time to get bargins. DRESS HATS $5.00 and $6.00 for $2.98 AND $1.98. Also Trimmed Hats and Fancy Feathers. COME AND LOOK THEM OVER. Colored Millinery Store 464 WEST BROAD ST. FARM ORCHARD AND GARDEN BY F.E.TRIGG REGISTER, ROCKFORD, IA. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED [This matter must not be reprinted without special permission.] A good share of the cork used throughout the world comes from Portugal, which harvests about 50,000 tons a year. Those few weeks of warm, foggy weather in the fall gave a good many householders the satisfaction of putting one over on both the iceman and the coal dealer. As a result of careful feeding tests it has been found that corn cut and stored as silage will yield 13 per cent more milk and 11 per cent more butter fat than a like amount of corn cut and fed as dry forage. The reasons for having a new model automobile are just as urgent as are those calling for the latest styles in women's dresses and headgear. Moreover, it takes a bit more coin to keep up with the procession. Timothy hay is not rated by dairymen as an economical ration in milk production, but where good yields of it can be produced and sold for concentrated foods having larger percentages of protein the plan should prove quite satisfactory. An unusual feature of the recent international live stock show was the winning of grand champion honors in the Shorthorn class by Ringmaster, a six-year-old animal that has won the same honors at two preceding live stock shows, those of 1910 and 1911. --- A friend who has tried it has found that his hogs do not do so well when fed on the swill from restaurants as when given a ration of buttermilk and corn, and this notwithstanding the fact that the scraps from these eating places contain a good deal of nourishing food. Deciduous trees are normally considered dormant during the month of December, but a freak condition of the present winter is shown in the sap running from a hard maple tree when hacked with an ax, together with a swelling of the buds to a size far beyond what they ought to be. A country lass made a snug sum of money the other day as a result of a dicker with her father, he having agreed to pay her the market price for all the corn she could husk in a day. She took him at his word and by nightfall had gathered fifty-eight bushels, for which she received 60 cents a bushel, or $34.80. Fresh air in the schoolroom is just as vital a factor in efficient educational work as are competent teachers and up to date schoolbooks, maps and other equipment. However, in spite of the fact that it costs a whole lot more in the loss of efficiency to have a schoolhouse poorly rather than properly ventilated, all too many belong in the former class. In the national egg laying contest recently brought to a close at Mountain Grove. Mo., the first prize for best individual record was made by a rose comb White Leghorn pullet raised at Maryville, Mo. her output of eggs for the year being 260. She welghed but two and three-quarter pounds, and the eggs she laid during the year welghed twelve times her own weight. German chemists are said to have perfected what they call soy milk, which is manufactured from Chinese beans. The product is used quite extensively by peasants and is said to be very nourishing. A Belgian chemist has produced an imitation of meat, made from yeast and vegetable products. It is similar to flesh in texture and, to some extent, in taste and is a good deal cheaper. Professor Scott, forester of the Kansas State Agricultural college, recommends very strongly the planting of the Chinese arbor vine as a windbreak in the western counties of the state. During the past twenty years, he reports, they have withstood the somewhat trying climatic conditions without serious injury. Under favorable conditions the trees will attain a height of thirty to forty feet and will be from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter. --- If your roosters begin crowing too early in the morning you may shut off the disturbance by putting them in coops so low that they can't stand up, for a rooster can't crow unless he can stand up and stretch his neck. The truth of this fact most every small boy has proved when he has thrown cobs at roosters as they have started to crow, the dropping of the head and effort to run away-putting a damper on the crowing apparatus in a very entertaining fashion. Pure maple sirup en route from producer to destination, plainly labeled as to contents, seems to be just about as liable to raiding by those through whose hands it passes as are watermelons in a community with a low grade of colored population. The losses of sheep from a disease the past year are put at 2 per cent less than for the year preceding and from exposure at 10 per cent less than for the preceding year. Applied to the aggregate number of animals and values on Jan. 1, this means a loss of 2,550,000 head, valued at $10,002,000, The trap nest, which has no doubt been of great service in helping to determine the hens that really are the largest egg producers, is not feasible for those poultry keepers who are not able to make frequent visits to the poultry house so as to release the hens after their eggs are laid. Albert Lea. Minn. has an agricultural department that is rendering a distinct service to the farmers of the adjoining territory in that the instructor in charge, Professor Hedgecock, has been largely instrumental in arousing interest in and in organizing one of the four cow testing associations of the county. 一 A well known eastern poultryman in a recent address, before the Connecticut Agricultural college recommended the use of plain tallow as far superior to coal oil as a material for greasing the roost, for the warding off of lice and mite, for the reason that one treatment 1 year would be effective, as the tallow does not evaporate as does kerroene. A very effective as well as satisfactory method of heating small houses is by means of a bricked* in stove placed in the cellar. Not only is much dirt kept out of the living rooms in this way, but a maximum value of fuel consumed is realized. Besides this, a pretty plain stove can be used in the cellar, which wouldn't do at all were it to be set in the parlor. The hog breeder who for several years has won first prize on barrows at the international live stock show and who got first at the recent show on an eleighteen months' old pig weighing 500 pounds uses oilmeal exclusively to furnish the protein needed to balance the grain rations which he gives his hogs. This is in the nature of expert testimony and should have a suggestion for those who have the hog feeding proposition on their hands. The turkey is said to be the only domestic fowl of the present day that can properly be credited to America. The fowl was discovered by Pedro Nlno, a Spaniard, on the coast of Cuman, north of Venezuela, in 1499, and the following year was taken to Spain. Turkeys were raised in large numbers by the Aztecs and other people of Mexico and Central America. By 1570 turkey had become the accepted Christmas dish of the English farm, and a half dozen years later was introduced into France. The farmers in Grant county, Wis., have inaugurated a plan for the cooperative grinding of limestone that might well be followed in other sections of the country where lime is needed for the sweetening of sour soils. The work is being done under the direction of the State Agricultural college. A small portable outfit, consisting of engine and crusher, is being used, which can be readily transported from one neighborhood to another. Large deposits of limestone beneath the surface soil make the undertaking a relatively simple one. It is not generally known that, when properly cooked, the sugar beet makes a palatable article of food for the table. It contains from 15 to 17 per cent of sugar, while the common red garden beet contains but from 10 to 12 per cent of sugar. Some one who has tried them suggests the following methods for cooking: Wash the beets, but do not remove the skin, leaving a portion of the top on so as to retain the juices. Cook in boiling water until tender: then peel and quarter or cut into slices. Make a suce of melted butter, pepper and salt, pour over beets and serve hot. In a certain county in Kansas they have been improving some of the main roads, and a farmer who uses one of these improved highways in hauling his produce to market has figured out that he saves enough in one day's hauling to pay his share of the increased road tax. Before the road was improved he used to haul one load of fifty bushels of grain a day. Since the road has been improved he has been able to haul two loads of seventy-five bushels each. This would seem to be a simple yet forceful object lesson, showing the value of better country highways. It is safe to assume that potato growers of the country will very generally support the action of the federal horticultural board in placing an embargo on potatoes from Canada and those European countries where the black wart and powdery scab have attacked the potato crop. There would be small advantage coming to the consumer if, to relieve somewhat the high prices for potatoes prevailing for the present winter, diseased foreign tubers were admitted only in the end to contaminate American fields and restrict in a large measure the output of marketable potatoes, resulting in a permanent advance in prices. SOME FOOD VALUES. SOME FOOD VALUES. One exhibit at the national dairy show held some weeks ago in Chicago was both unique and interesting. It was arranged by the Milk Producers' Association of Northern Illinois and consisted of an exhibit of a dozen different kinds of foods, including milk, eggs, beef, fish, nuts and several kinds of fruits and vegetables, the amount of each article shown being that which was required to furnish the amount of nutriment contained in one quart of milk, the cost of the several articles being based upon current retail prices. The exhibit was illuminating and instructive and doubtless had suggestions for those heads of families who are a bit perplexed with the high cost of living problem. The cost of the twelve articles shown is given in the following decimal fractions of a dollar: Milk. .08; eggs. .29; beef. .148; codish. .141; cornmeal. .009; potatoes. .026; cabbage. .10; oranges. .226; apples. .002; bananas. .10; prunes. .061; nuts. .163. From these figures it will be seen at a glance that far and away the cheapest food article of the list is cornmeal, which costs but one-third as much as potatoes, while the latter food costs but one-third as much as milk. Milk, on the other hand, at 8 cents a quart, costs less than a third as much as eggs at 35 cents per dozen. Cabbage and bananas cost the same, prunes about two-thirds as much as these, while meat and fish cost about the same and nuts a trifle more. Eggs were the most expensive food shown, and oranges rank next to them. A SERIOUS PEST. For a good many years the onion was considered practically pest free, but within recent years what is known as the onion smut has spread to many sections of the country, at its worst being so serious a handicap as to render the culture of the vegetable unprofitable. A serious feature of this pest is that the spores of the fungus are not eradicated from the soil by crop rotations covering a period of five years. The disease is spread by the tools with which an infected field is worked more than by the seed. Large growers in some sections have found effective a solution made by diluting 40 per cent formalin in thirty gallons of water and applying with a drip attachment on a seed drill at the rate of from 500 to 700 gallons of the solution per acre. MORE EGG LAYING CONTESTS. Within the past three or four weeks new egg laying contests to run a year have been started at both Storrs college, Connecticut, and at Mountain Grove, Mo. The remarkable interest that has been aroused among poultry ralsers everywhere in these contests is shown in the fact that in the contest which is being conducted in Missouri there are entered six pens of layers from New Zealand; three from Australia, two from Canada, three from England, one each from Germany and South Africa, two, from Vancouver and sixty-six pens' from the United States. The world's record for egg production is held by a pen of six Australian birds that averaged 264.8 eggs each during a year. PIG PROGRESS. With a view to increasing the interest of Oregon farmers in growing hogs, the Portland Union stock yards has agreed to furnish a young pig to every school in the state that will take care of one. The gift is made on the condition that some pupil in each school shall keep an accurate record of what the pig eats and how it is cared for. The company further agrees to buy the pig back when it is ready to market and pay full price for it. An Oregon paper, in speaking of the plan, remarks that in ten years it will not be surprising if every country school in the state is not only supplied with pigs, but with a flock of poultry and one or more dairy cows. The idea would seem to be a capital one. BREAK UP THE SUBSOIL. While theoretically a farmer gets everything in the air above his land in the earth beneath, he seldom actually uses more than six inches of the surface soil. The productive period of many a farm could be extended were deeper plowing to be resorted to on such farms and upon those where the soil is plowed more shallow still. Deep plowing would not only break up and mellow the subsol and thus make available its fertility, but would increase the capacity of the soil to retain moisture during a protracted dry spell. Many a farmer appreciates the facts stated and by deep plowing has increased his farm value by a half without adding to the number of his acres. CARE OF THE LAWNS. We usually think of care of the lawn as extending over the period between the first and last cuttings of the season. The average lawn, where the grass is clipped and removed, needs care besides this that is all too seldom given. This consists in giving it at intervals of not more than two or three years a generous top dressing of well rotted manure. This should be applied after the ground is frozen solid and should be allowed to remain until spring, when the coarsest of it may be raked off. The fertilizing elements will have leached into the soil, and the finer particles of manure will have settled down into the roots of the grass. J. C. Triqg INSURANCE GEOGRA- When is a man most confused? When he misses his train. When are the people most unsafe? When they are not insured with the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company. Which company pays for all diseases known to medical science? The Pilgrim. Which company carries its members the longest before lapsing their policies? The Pilgrim. Will you explain why the Pilgrim does this? Only to aid its policy holders, that's all. Which company organized firs among Negroes in Georgia, an secured a charter to do business along the Industrial lines? The Pilgrim, of course. Which company collected the largest amount of morey, accord to the last report of the INSURANCE DEPARTENT, to the Governor of the State? The answer is in the report, The Pilgrim. How can this statement be verified? By referring to the report of the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, of the State of Georgia. How can a policy be obtained with the Pilgrim, in case its agents turn back before they reach your home? By ringing phone 4129. Why has the Pilgrim so many satisfied policy holders? By performing its perpetuated motto, PR MPTNESS, HONESTY AND JUSTICE. Why is it so easy to secure new members for the Pilgrim? They have heard of the many blessings it has, and is still bestowing upon its thousands of satisfied policy holders, How long after the death of a member, before the beneficiary can draw the death benefit? As soon as the death certificate is properly filled by the attending physician. How many men and women of our race are employed and are well paid by the Pilgrim? SIX HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN. Are you being satisfactorily served? If not see the Pilgrim's agents, or ring the office, and your order will be filled, and promptly delivered. Local and long distant phone 4129. Office, 509 West Broad Street, Savannah Georgia J. S. Perry, Supt A. B. Singfield, Sen'l Supt. —Adv Ocean Wave Cafe Meals at all hours. Quick lunches served in up-to-date style. Open day and night J. S. Lloyd & Son 42 Habersham St. TRY TO RISE HIGH. The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. Kindred Jobs. "So you want to be a baseball umplre, eh?" said the magnate. "Are you prepared to give up all your friends?" "I never had any," replied the applicant. "I used to be a weather man."—Philadelphia Record. In Debt to the Tailor Dutton—You should pay more attention to your personal appearance, old chap. Remember that clothes make the man. De Broke—Yes, but for me the man refuses to make any more clothes—Boston Transcript. A. Jan. Medical Man—Jobson has done the meanest thing I ever heard of. He came to my house the other night, ate a big dinner, got indigestion and then went to another doctor to be cured.—Exchange. Hard to Decide "What are you pondering about. Marie?" "My husband and myself are dividing the furniture pending a divorce." "Well?" "If you were I, would you rather have an icebox and six dining room chairs than an old style plano with a chipped leg?"—Loulsville Courier-Journal. Wifely Curiosity. "Henry, dear, I tried on a suit of your clothes the other day, and it fitted me to perfection." "May I ask your object in taking such a liberty with my garments?" "Why, Belle Greene said she heard Tommy Tolliver say that you wasn't much bigger than a shrimp, and I was just wondering how big a shrimp is." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Burat of Genius "If twenty men reap a field in eight hours, how long will it take fifteen men to reap the same field?" a student was asked. He thought long before writing down the answer, and when he handed in his paper this is what the examiner read, "The field, having already been reaped by the twenty men, could not be reaped a second time by the fifteen." SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson II.—First Quarter, For Jan. 11, 1914. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Luke x, 1-16—Memory Verses, 1, 2—Golden Text, Luke x, 2—Commentary by Rev. D. M. Stearns. The sending forth of the twelve is recorded in Matt. x, Mark vi and Luke ix. The sending of the seventy is told only in our lesson chapter. Both companies were sent by two and two, as lambs among wolves, and they were to preach the kingdom of God and heal the sick verses 1, 3, 9; ix. 2, Mark vi. 7; Matt. x, 7, 8, 16. The reason given in each case for sending them is the same—harvest great, laborers few. The command to pray is also the same. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth laborers into His harvest" (verse 2; Matt. ix, 36-38). Matthew says that He saw the multitudes as sheep having no shepherd and He was moved with compassion on them. Believers are expected to have the mind of Christ, to manifest the life of Jesus, to be a willing and obedient people, to live to give the Gospel to every creature, but where is the compassion of Jesus for the shepherdless multitudes seen, and how many are willing to be sheep in the midst of wolves, hated by the world for His sake (John xy, 18, 19). The twelve were not to go to gentiles or Samaritans, but only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel; the seventy were to go before His face into every city and place whither He himself would come, but since His resurrection the command is to go into all the world (Matt. x. 5, 6; Luke x. 1; Mark xv. 15). After they were told to pray the Lord to send forth laborers they were told to go themselves (verse 3), and we cannot honestly ask the Lord to send others unless we are ready to say. "Here am I; send me" (Isa. vi. 8). Isaiah saw the Lord upon a throne and heard the voice of the Lord; he had the assurance of iniquity taken away and sin purged; he saw in vision the earth full of His glory, and when the trulune God said "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" he was ready to reply, "Behold me; send me." It was the vision of the glory of the Lord that constrained Isaiah. "It was seeing and hearing the risen Christ when on his way to Damascus that changed Saul of Tarsus from a persecutor and murderer to a most devoted follower of Jesus of Nazareth and made him blind and deaf to all but Jesus for the rest of his life (Acts xxil, 6, 11). The Lord Jesus said to him, "I send thee to open their eyes, to turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance" (Acts xxvl. 17, 18). One of the great words in our lesson is, "Behold, I send you forth" (verse 3). He chose the twelve that they might be with Him and that He might send them forth (Mark ill. 14). To Gldeon He said: "Go in this thy might. * * * Have not I sent thee?" (Judg. vi, 14.) Over thirty times in the gospel by John He speaks of Himself as sent by the Father, and after the resurrection He said to the Apostles, "As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you" (John xx, 21). When we go in His name, with His message, sent by Him, we may always go with quietness and confidence. When on His business we need have no anxiety about the wherewithal, for He will surely see to it. He said to the twelve: "When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said nothing" (Luke xxil, 35). We are to go preaching peace by Jesus Christ, the peace that He made by the blood of His cross (Col. 1, 20). We are to rejoice in His presence with us, and that He is in us, and considers all treatment of us, good or bad, as done to Himself and to the Father who sent Him (verse 16). As the responsibility of those who heard the twelve and the seventy was greater than the responsibility of the people of Sodom and Tyre and Sidon, so their judgment would be heavier. What about those who today hear and do not heed? Consider II Thess. 1, 7-9. The seventy went forth as commanded and returned with a good report, saying that even demons were subject to His name. His remark concerning Satan falling from heaven probably points on to Rev. xl1, 9, 10. How wonderful His words, power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you (verse 19). What do we know of it in our experience? He does not say that we shall not suffer; He says plainly that we shall (John xvi, 33). It may be in some form or other, the fiery furnace or the lions' den, but no hurt was found upon either of those four because of their faith in God (Dan. ill. 25; vi. 23). Note well, the greatest cause of rejoicing, names written in heaven, and compare with verse 20, Phil. iv, 3, and consider the awful fate of all whose names are not in the book of life according to Rev. xx. 15. If only we truly receive the Lord Jesus, putting all our trust as sinners in His precious blood shed for us, we may rest in the assurance that according to His word we have eternal life, have become children of God, and have the forgiveness of sins and can never perish (John 1, 12; ill. 16; v. 24; vl. 37, 47). The South Atlantic Barber shop Headquarters for barber supplies and shoe polish.. A fine line of cigars, pipes and tobacco. Shoes shined and repaired. Dealer in second handed shoes Clothes cleaned, pressed and repaired Hot, cold and shower baths. H. A. MANZO, Gen'l. Mgr 145 West Broad St. The Up-to-date BARBER SHOP Hair Cutting, Shaving, Shampooing BUMP AND WART TREATMENT WORK GUARANTEED. W. H. PRINCE, Proprietor 508 W. Gwipnitt St. Savh. Ga AGENTS WANTED TO SELL MAGIC Shaving Powder A wonderful discovery to shave the head and face without using shears or razor. Will send half pound can by mail, postage paid, for 25 cents in stamps. THE SHAVING POWDER COMPANY J. W. SMALLS Contractor and General Builder Estimates Cheerfully Furnished ON SHORT NOTICE Write or Call at 139 Barnard street Phone 506 THE UTILITY RED Call and see the birds. For sale at reasonable prices. Duck eggs for sale in season. Indian runner Duck and Pekin Duck. Duck eggs $1.00 per set J. H. ANDREW 748 EAST BOLTON STREET Henry Mears Feed Co HAY & GRAIN OF ALL KINDS 508 W Jones St. Come and take a look at ou Stock or Phone your order and it will be deliveredpromptly. Phone 3461 Madame Florence 2. Williams Graduate Prof. Roher's School, New York. 445 Price Street, near Gordon Telephone 2328 Wigs, Switches and Pompadours Made from Naturals' hair. Combings Made Up. Shampooing and Hair Straightening a Speciality. Face and Electric Massage, Dyeing and Matching Hair. ORIENTAL HAIR GROWER, An excellent preparation, will pro- duce a beautiful growth of hair. Di- rections on each box. For sale, price 25 cents per box. Thc Acme Bicycle Stoe Dealer in New and Second Handed Bicycles. Tires and Supplies. Agency on the Monarch Bicycles. K. K. HALPERN, Proprietor, 463 West Broad St. Phone 1340. GAREY'S Hoods delivered promptly to any part of the city 504 West Broad St. Near Gaston Phone 1893 Masonic Books and Regalias LODGE SEALS, FINANCIAL CARDS and BLANKS of every description. Publishers' and Manufacturers' Price Leferal Discounts Will Be Arranged. GOL G. JOHNSON RIGHTS AND DUTIES. Thou hast too much to say about thy rights and thinkest too little about thy duties. Thou hast but one inalienable right, and that is the sublime one of doing thy duty at all times, under all circumstances and in all places.—Frederic R. Marvin. A Sculptor's First Job. The story of Naoum Aronson's first commission reads like a romance, says a writer in World's Work concerning the Russian sculptor. He had gone short of food and worked incessantly in his scanty leisure so that he might send a bust to the salon, and it had been accepted. One morning, faint from want of proper nourishment, he turned giddy on the stairs, fell down the flight and knocked himself senseless, and there he was found unconscious by his first patron, a gentleman who had noticed his work in the salon and called to commission a bust. From that moment Aronson never looked back. Good Advice. Never forget the advice of Themistocles. Said that ancient, "I would bestow my daughter upon a man without money, but not upon money without a man." Just change money for title and see the different reading: "I would bestow my daughter upon a man without title, but not upon title without a man."—New York Press. Modern Schooling. "Husband, you will have, to go out in the woods this afternoon and catch a mud turtle." "The idea! Why should I catch a mud turtle?" "The teacher says Willie must have one for his natural history tomorrow. Don't you want to help the child with his lessons?"—Washington Herald. Mending Without Sewing. Here is a simple and efficacious way of mending a tear, three cornered or otherwise, in an article of clothing: Place the cloth flat on a table and smear a little white of a raw egg all around and over the tear on the reverse side. Now cut a piece of linen (a handkerchief will do) a little larger than the tear and place it over the rent so that it adheres to the white of egg. Then get a hot iron and simply press it, without ironing, over the linen. The linen will adhere firmly to the cloth and will not come off even if washed. The rent in the material will now be almost invisible on the outside, and the mending will last as long as the dress or suit—London Answers. Gossip In the Club. Only one thing is fatal to the happy social life of any country community, and that is gossip. If the women in their clubs cannot find in the wide field of housekeeping, chicken raising, preserving, care of children, public schools, music, art, reading, public improvements, good government, health, sewing, entertaining and all other delightful household tasks enough material to lift the meetings above petty personalities, then the little club or whatever it is called is doomed. Whenever gossip is allowed to creep into any organization people will begin to break up into little cliques or circles or groups, and the whole thing falls.-Hilda Richmond in Farm and Fireside. Tides of the Mind Shakespeare tells us that there is a tide in the affairs of men. Certainly there is a tide in the minds of men. He must be very unobservant of himself who does not know that the mind rises and falls, that it swells into fulness and strength and then fades into emptiness and weakness, we know not how, we know not why. Formerly the tides of the sea were also a great mystery. Slowly did observation disclose that they were under the influence of the moon and, still later, of the sun. So with the tides of the mind. We are taught now that they are caused and governed by our faith and by our love.—Theophilus Parsons. Bonehead Stick. A grewsome walking stick was that used by the late Moberley Bell, so long manager of the London Times. It was a plain, stout stick, mounted with a bone from his own body. When a correspondent in Alexandria he was crossing a railway line and caught the heel of his foot between the points. A train was approaching, and by a desperate effort he wrenched himself free. But he so injured his ankle that an operation was necessary, and one of the joint bones had to be removed. This he had mounted as the handle of the walking stick which he used to counteract the limp his accident left him.—London Tatler. LOOK TO THE FUTURE Never mind the past except to profit by its mistakes. The past is in many things the fee of mankind; the future is in all things our friend. For the past has no hope; the future is both hope and fruition. The past is the textbook of tyrants, the future, the Bible of the free. Those who are safely governed by the past stand, like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward and forever incapable of looking forward.—Maryat. THE PIONEER OF NEGRO INSURANCE The Union Mutual Association OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA Rev. T. W. Walker, D. D., Pres. Your friend in time of sickness and managed by men noted for co- executive ability and wide exper- representatives are intelligent, po- formation, see one of them or pho J. C. LINDSAY. District Ma- ah, Ga., or write the See'y'-Mg'r SAVANNAH 811 West E , D. D., Pres. G. S. No. time of sickness, accident and been noted for conservative business and wide experience in the intelligent, polite and courteous of them or phone 1470, Y. District Manager, 509 West the Sec'y'-Mg'r, 200 Auburn A NNAH PHAR 11 West Broad Street Rev. T. W. Walker, D. D., Pres. G. S. Norman, Sec- & Mgr Your friend in time of sickness, accident and death. Controlled and managed by men noted for conservative business methods, great executive ability and wide experience in the insurance field. Our representatives are intelligent, polite and courteous. For further information, see one of them or phone 1470, J. C. LINDSAY. District Manager. 509 West Broad St., Savanah, Ga., or write the Sec'y'-Mg'r, 200 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, Ga. SAVANNAH PHARMACY 811 West Broad Street (LEE CHEMICAL CO., PROP) We are in business for your our Mentholated Cough that relieves a Cough, quicker than SATURDAY Beef, Wine and Iron..... Tasteless Cordial of Cod Liver Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil..... Dyspepsia Remedy..... Female Regulator..... 25 Compound Cathartic Pills..... Toothache Wax3..... Regal Hair Dressing..... Wine of Cardui and Black Dra 1/2 lb Peroxide 15c, 1/2 lb If it is in the drug line we h Quick De Phone 3296 Let Us ness for your health. Stop the need Cough Syrup. It P quicker than any other remedy. SATURDAY SPECIALS ion... of Cod Liver Oil... Liver Oil... ay... chartic Pills... ing... and Black Draught... 1/16b... drug line we have it. Phone 3 Quick Delivery. et Us Renova We are in business for your health. Stop that cough! Use our Mentholated Cough Syrup. It POSITIVELY relieves a Cough, quicker than any other remedy. If it is in the drug line we have it. Phone 3570 your order. Quick Delivery. A. Savannah - Spac FAME IS A SHUTTLECOCK. A man whose business it is to be talked of is much helped by being attacked. Fame, sir, is a shuttlecock; if it be struck only at one end of the room it will soon fall to the ground; to keep it up it must be struck at both ends.—Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Flatty were having quite a brisk little quarrel. "You have no regard for my feelings," asserted Mr. Flatty. "You treat me worse than you do your dog!" "How can you say such a thing?" demanded Mrs. Flatty. "I do nothing of the kind. I never make the slightest difference between you!" — Chronicle Plain Dealer. A Cruel Insinuation. Stern Old Lady - They tell me, madam, your husband is continually smoking dreadfully- Young Woman (bursting into tears) -I don't believe it, you horrid old thing! Old Lady (astounded)—What's the matter with the woman? Officious Bystander—Her husband's dead.—Baltimore American. d) What's the Her husband's can. me Hair Dr Probably nothing could have a more powerful effect upon social, domestic and individual welfare than the widespread diffusion of the spirit of truthfulness. It underlies all honest and faithful work. Easily Explained. "I wonder what is the matter with me?" he said. "I have a feeling of depression and I can't throw it off, no matter how I try." "I know what is the matter," his wife replied. "You have an engagement with the dentist at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, you know."—Boston Transcript. "Would you love me just as much if I were a poor girl?" "Every bit as much," he said, congratulating himself that the dear girl didn't ask him if he would still want to marry her.—Detroit Free Press. ```markdown ``` He Was Mistaken. Truthfulness. Easily Explained. A Doubtful Answer. G. S. Norman, Sec- & Mgr. stress, accident and death. Controlled conservative business methods, great experience in the insurance field. Our elite and courteous. For further information 1470, Manager. 509 West Broad St., Savannah, 200 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, Ga. PHARMACY Broad Street health. Stop that cough! Use Syrup. It POSITIVELY many other remedy. MY SPECIALS 49 cents Oil. 49 " 49 " 49 " 49 " 12 " 05 " 19 " night. 1.00 " 25 " have it. Phone 3570 your order. delivery. Renovate That Hair, Wool, Moss Or Cotton Mattress New Ticks Furnished SAVANNAH MATTRESS CO., 318-320 East Bay St. Daniel Simmons PROPRIETOR Residence: 521 East Nicoll St. Special Notice Mrs. Manie E. Williams, the artistic and old reliable hair dresser. has moved to 1111 West Broad street just across from her recent parlors. She will be pleased to have her customers and friends call. Switches made from combings. Manacuring, Massaging, Scalp treatments and Beauty culture. Madam Walker's goods and treatments can be had.—ad R. E. PHARROW. General Contractor HOME OFFICE 202 Odd Fellows Building ATLANTA. Ga. Builder of the $250,000 Odd Fellow Block, Atlanta, and St. Philip A. M. E Church, Savannah, Ga. Mechanically Competent and financially able to carry out the Largest Contracts. Estimates furnished free on application. GIVE me. Hart's Hair Dressing and Grower A TRIAL It will make the hair grow long and silky. Second to no hair preperation on the market. All who have trie it gladly reccommend same to others. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for terms VIOLA E. HART Manufacturer 208 College St. Amerieus, Ga. I Am Confidential Let me Build Your Homes and save you from worrying and having extra expense. Thos. H. Anderson, Contractor Carpenter and Builder. Jobbing of all kinds promptly attended to, Estimates cheerfully given. No. 5 West 56th St. P. O. Box 4 R. F. D. 2. Phone 2225. Georgia PICTURE FRAMES We make a specialty of framing diplomas, marriage licenses and pictures of all sizes. Work neatly and promptly finished. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices cheap. Enlarging pictures a specialty. Orders called for and delivered. W. W. HILL 507 WEST BROAD STREET THE PALM SHAVING PALACE Expert Hair Cutting, Eleetric Massage and Shampooing a Specialty. All Work Done by Experienced Workman. Courteous attention to all. SHINING PARLOR ATTACHED ACCIDENT —AND— Death Benefits SICK BENEFIT $3.00 PER WEEK ACCIDENT FROM $100.00 to $200 DEATH BENEFIT $500 to $2000 For Information See E. A. Fields, Clerk, 519 Oak St. S. M. Turner, Asst Clerk 809 W. Broad Street or Robert McNichols 222 East Park Ave. Funeral Directors and Embalmers Prompt and courteous attention given all business entrusted to us. Everything of the latest style LARGE STYLE SILVER RAY AND BLACK CARS CARRIAGE FOR HIRE 60 WEST BROAD STREET Phone 1211 Mrs. Mary Williams 632 PRICE STREET —Agent For— Earle's Toilet Preparation These goods are all first-class and highly recommended for their. Purity and Quality. Earle's Princess Hair Oil 50 cents a bottle. Manufactured by James T. Earle, Newport R. I. GEORGE GREEN FIRST-CLASS HORSESHOEING Give me a trial 756 WHEATON STREET T. F. Smith Chas. Molony, William J. Ryan. Vulcan Fuel Co. Coal and Wood Phones 283 and 328. YOUNG BROS. NEW STORE is the place to get your Groceries, Meats and Confectioneries, Cigars and Tobacco. Telephone orders promptly attended to EDW. G. YOUNG, Manager Phone 4291 Cor. 36th and B u noughs Sts. ADVANTAGES GF A Guaranty Policy FOR MEN'S GOOD SHOE Prices $3.50 up Plain Contracts Free From All Technicalities Death Benefits Increasing From Year to Year B. H. Levy, Bro. Co. Emancipation Meeting A very important meeting of the Emancipation Association will be held at Asbury Church. Tuesday noon. Assets Equal to THREE TIMES the Reserve required by the Insurance Department. JOB Get one and you are Protected Guaranty Mutual Life & Health Insurance Co WALTER S. SCOTT President and General Manager 504 WEST BROAD STREET Phone 2540. PRINTING WEST BROAD STREET JUST SOUTH OF GASTON STREET Finest and Largest Theatre in the South For Colored People Only Program for Week beginning JANUARY 12th Monday, Tue "Chie A Thrill Moving Picture Two Performances N NIGHT PERFO Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday "Chief Outlanche" A Thrilling Western Drama Two Performances Nightly, 7 and 9 o'clock. NIGHT PERFORMANCES ORCHESTRA 15c. BALCONY 10c. --- An Appeal to the White People of City Noting the urgent necessity for better preparation of the Negro boys and girls in this community and adjacent counties, for a life of usefulness, the undersigned, with a few associates, have begun the erection and establishment of a training school for Negro boys and girls outside the southern limits of the city on the White Bluff road. The name of this institution is the Central Park Normal and Industrial Institute. It is properly chartered under the laws of Georgia for the work it essays to do. Knowing the position which we must occupy in the economic life of this great city, and greatly appreciating our opportunity, we are willing to make and are making every possible sacrifice to meet the conditions. A building, is now being erected on the grounds of the institution, which is the first to be built on a campus of 23 acres. The building as it stands was erected at a cost of $5,000.00. Every dollar of which was contributed from the scanty earning of the Negro himself, as we did not desire to appeal to our white friends until we had demonstrated our own earnestness in the work. We think, by the above showing, that we deserve your sympathy and help and we, therefore, take this method of appealing to you, feeling assured that it will reach the hearts of those who are only waiting to help us. We appeal to you on the grounds, first: That whether we will or no, the white man and the Negro occupy the same common territory in our beautiful southland, and will continue to do so, perhaps, to the end of time. Second; The time will never come when the Negro will be independent of the white man. Today he is dependent on him for every line of occupation by which he earns his daily bread and should be assisted in the preparation for the better performance of his duties as servants, laborers and artisans. Third: The American Negro, and especially the Southern Negro, needs today, more than ever before, the helpful sympathy of the American white man, the southern gentleman. We do not regret the millions that are being spent for the education and Christianization of our brethren in Africa and the isles of the sea, but we do ask that, of your bounty, you do not forget us at home, who must live here, work here, spend our earnings here for the necessities of life and at last die and be buried here. While your sympathies run out for the heathen far away; help, O, help us to rescue these nearer home, some of whom are not far removed from their pristine state. The establishment of this institution was made possible by the generosity and Christian spirit of the Central Park Company of this city. Its establishment cannot conflict with the work done by any similar institution, as the demand for efficient service far exceeds the supply. We are trying to make men and women who can be depended upon, and believe you will help us. We desire $5,000 to be ready to begin work, but must have $1500.00 in order to save the work already done. We must have this in 15 days. We appeal to you and believe that you will liberally respond. A personal canvass will be made immediately, by the undersigned. Those wishing to make donations direct without personal solicitation can send checks to Rev. R. H. Singleton, pastor St. Philip church, 507 Charles street, the secretary, who will properly receipt for the same. Thanking you in advance for your donations to this worthy cause, we are Faithfully yours. B. S. Hanna R. H. Singleton G. H. Bowen Ex. Com Social Happenings. Mrs. W. C. Lee entertained at her home No. 526 Bowen street on Tuesday night at 10 o'clock tea in honor of Miss Rosalie Cole, and Mr. Lee entertained Mr. J. G. Graves of Hawkinsville, Ga. The guests were Mr. Alfred Mayo of Hawkinsville, Ga., Mrs. H. Rogers, of Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Jackson, of Macon. Mrs. Geo. Jameson, of New York, and Mrs. Gibson, of New York. Mrs. Clara Elliott Coats, formerly of Savannah, but now of Jacksonville, Fla., was hostess at a delightful party on last Tuesday evening at her beautiful new home, 212 Laura street, at which she entertained in compliment to Mrs. Sarah J. Searles, of this city, her cousin. The pretty rooms which open ensuite were lovely in their Christmas decorations of holly, mistletoe and brilliant poinsettias. The guests were cordially received in the reception hall by Mrs. Essie Walker and Miss Addie Clotte Thomas. The hostess was becomingly gowned in gray satin. Mrs. Searles wore a pretty frock of yellow crepe de chine, fashioned with a minaret tunic of shadow lace trimmed with yellow chiffon roses. During the early part of the evening the guests enjoyed a number of interesting games and contests, after which dancing was indulged in until a late hour. Refreshing fruit punch was served throughout the evening and during the intermission a delicious salad course was served. Mrs. Coats was assisted in entertaining her guests by Mrs. Alma Hinton and the Misses Nettie Amy and Eliza Stone. Among those participating in the delightful affair were Mr. and Mrs. E. Lamkin, Mr. Thomas Lamkin, Mr. and Mrs. Demas Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Walker, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. M. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. H. Grover, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grant, Miss M. Berlock, Miss Forfett, Miss Maud Williams, Miss Katie Hall, Mrs. Eya Brown of Savannah, Mr. Andy Roberson, Mr. Mike Sullivan, Mr. James Roberson, Mr. John Abrams, Mr. S. Jamerson, Mr. G. Lee, Mr. J. A. Mickens, Mr. Sidney Woodard, Mr. E. Smith, Mr. Eichard Edwards, Mr. Jonrie Jones, of Macon and Mr. Arthur Elliott of Savannah. Music was furnished by Mr. Grover and Geo. Jones. On Tuesday evening Dec. 30, Mr. and Mrs. John Pollard of 1706 Twelfth St., N. W., Washington, D. C., entertained Mr. Louis A. McCullen of 24 W. 140th street, New York city. The evening was spent with games and music. After a few musical selections by Miss. Cooper and Mrs. F. M. Pollard, the guests were escorted to a beautifully decorated table, which had been prepared by accomplished caterers. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. Pollard, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Pollard, Mr. and Mrs. W. Stephens, Miss Eleanor Atkins, Misses Gordon Theresa Grant, Evelyn Bowie, E. Cooper, Messrs. Chas. Martin, M. Champ, Louis A. McCullen, Herbert Harris. Mr. Louis A. McCullen is the brother of Mrs. Maud McCullen Stephens, Mrs. Hellen McCullen Stephens Matthews and son of Mrs. F. C. Alexander, all formerly of Savannah, Ga., but now of Washington, D. C. The social given by Mr. and Mrs. A. Voss. New Year's night at her residence, 521 W. 40th street, was an enjoyable one. The house was decorated beautifully in vines and the table was artistically adorned. The serving was in courses and a very delight time was experienced. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nixon, Mr. and Mrs. Singfield, Rev. and Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Addie McLoy, Mrs. E. N. Grant, Capt. Davis, Alex Grant, Thursday, Friday and Saturday "Dark Town Journal" A Laughable Farce Comedy. Matinees Mondays and Thursdays.at 3:30 o'clock k Robert Simmons, Mrs. P. H. Brown, Mr. A. Riley who sang a solo, "Church across the way," Miss Gertrude L. McLoy, Mrs. Susie Williams, Mr. Chas. Nixon, Mrs. Susie Axon, Mrs. Lewole Charlton, Mrs. W. A. Andrews, Mr. McCoulber, Mrs. Lucile Charlton, Mr. Peter Brewing, Mrs. A. Voss, Mr. A. Voss, Mrs. E. N. Grant and Mr. P. Brewing. Mrs. G. S. Williams, Duffy St. west, entertained Friday afternoon of last week with cards in honor of Mrs Leanora Wilson of Newport, R. I. About 40 guests were present, and a very enjoyable time, was had by all. The house was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The guest of honor wore a gown of pink satin brocade draped with pink chiffon and chrystal trimming touched off with a hugh bouquet of white carnations. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith, of 207 W. 31st street, entertained on New Year's eve night in honor of Mrs. Lavinia Guerard and Mrs. Gertie Thorpe, formerly of Savannah but now of New York City. The evening was very pleasantly spent. Those present were Mesdames Lavinia Guerard, Gertie Thorpe, Lucius Williams, Florie Dezon, Mamie Sampson, Kitty Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dilworth, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hooker, Messrs W. W. Williams, Charlie Smith and Taylor of New York, James Whiteman and Sanders. Notice to Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe The Pythian Period joint committee is requested to meet January 25th at Seabrooks hall. The meeting will be called promptly at 4 p. m. Yours fraternally, R. W. Gadsden, D. D. G. D. MATINEES CHILDREN 5c. ADULTS 10c. Is well worth $20.00 or more. Don't miss it. The reduction is now on. 509 West Broad Street A. Rev. Theodore Hawkins, the subject of this sketch, was born in Washington, D.C., in December 1876 and his early school training was had in that city. After finishin school there he studied theology at Virginia Seminary and College and took a course in art at the Royal National Training school New York City. He has organized and pastored the following named churches: Zion Baptist church, Ambler, Pa.; Zion Baptist church, York, Pa.; New Hope The Best Colored Stock COMPANY in the World Every Day t 3:30 o'clock k CHILDREN 5c. ADULTS 10c. Baptist church, Coraopolis, Pa.; Mt. Sinia Baptist church, Newark, N.J.; the New Jerusalem Baptist church at Philadelphia, and was called from there to the First Shiloh Baptist church, this city. He has done much effective work as an evangelist and is well known in many of the eastern and southern states. He has won, through his artistic abilities, four gold medals, one of them at the Buffalo exposition and the others at the World's Fair, St. Louis. He also holds four certificates of proficiency in art from four of the best art schools in this country He has painted and decorated the interior of 300 churches including some of all denominations of the race. He was the only Negro artist who worked in the Congressional Library in Washington, D. C. He was employed by Harper and Bros. of New York City, who had charge of the interior decoration of the same. Death Mr. J. Ward, the son of Mrs. J. A. Ward of Wathourville, Ga., died on Wednesday. He leaves a mother, Mrs. Amelia Ward; a wife, Mrs. Julia Ward, and two children to mourn his death. LDMAN SUIT i ‘ & a ihe 1 abe en ee i=