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SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
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WILLIAM OSLLR
Ur. Osier has just returned from abroad, and, when uiet on the pier
as he left the orean liner, was introduced to an official 65 years old. still
in the service, spry and of pronounced business ability—he failed to see
the point.
NEGRO MESSENGERS ARE
BEING USED IN TENNESSEE
Both Companies Have Had Them on
a Week, Saying They Were Forced
by Carelessness and Negligence of
White Messengers to Make Change.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., .lan. 6.
(Special.) —For six days the new sys
tem Inaugurated by both the Western
Union and Postal telegraph com
panies has been In operation, and,
while there has been some expected
objection, it has seemed to serve the
purpose pretty well. iCegro boys are
now used as messengers Instead of
white boys, as formerly.
The change was occasioned by a
new phase of the labor prohlem.
which has confronted other offices be
side those here, and which may be the
cause in the next few days of in
augurating a general change in the
system.
The management of the local of
fices of both companies make the
statement that for several weeks
prior to the first of the year, when
they put the negroes in, operators,
clerks, linemen or anyone else to be
The Word Boss.
The "boss" who has been routed in
bo many of the American elections Is
a peculiar American Institution; but
his name is simply the Dutch “baas"
ami Barlett's “Dictionary of Ameri
canisms" record that the proper pro
nunciation of the “o” in "boss" is
like that of the "a" in "all." Origi
nally in Dutch "baas" seems to have
meant uncle, cousin, or kinsman in
general. Then, because the master of
a house might be regarded as the prin
ciple kinsman of its inmates, the
word came to be used of him; from
which to meaning the master or fore
man of workmen or an authority of
any kind the transition is simple. “Do
tvouw is de bas§" is the Dutch mean
ing ,in American; on the prairies it
meant a buffalo —Latin “has,” no
doubt.
Evidence.
Briggs—Do you mean to say that
you slept outdoors all winter? Arent'
you cold?
Griggs—Cold! Why, when the doc
tor took out my appendix the other
day it was chapped.—Life.
A Very Short Time.
Mrs. McCall —They haven't been
keeping house very long, have they?
Mrs. Hiram Offen--Gracious, no.
Why, she can recall the names of all
the servant girls they have had.—
Baltimore News.
Ministers, as a rule, live to a ripe
old age, yet we are told the good die
young.
CATARRH of e wi l nter
Every Catarrh sufferer dreads the return of cold weather, for at the first
rold breath of the season this plague of Winter is fanned into life with all
its miserable symptoms. The nostrils are stopped up, and a constant drop
ping of mucus back into the throat keeps up a continual hawking and spit
ting, the patient has dull headaches, ringing noises in the ears and a half
sick, depressed feeling all the time. Every inner lining and tissue of the
body becomes inflamed, and secretes an unhealthy matter which is absorbed
into the blood and distributed to all parts of the body, and the disease be
comes constitutional. The catarrhal poison brings on stomach troubles,
effects the Kidneys and Bladder, attacks the soft bones of the throat and
bead and if not checked lead 3to Consumption. A disease so deep-seated
and dangerous cannot be washed out, neither can it be smoked awaj-.
Sprays, washes, inhalations, etc., are useless, because they only reach the
membranes and tissues, while the real cause of the disease is in the blood.
S. S. S. cures Catarrh because it attacks it through the blood; it goes into
the circulation and drives out all unhealthy accumulations and catarrhal
matter, and when this is done even- part of the system receives a supply of
rich, pure blood. Then the inflamed mem
branes and tissues heal, all discharge ceases,
the depressed feeling of the body is relieved, and
_ _ every symptom passes away. S. S. S. goes to
® • the very root of the trouble, and by purifying
PURELY VEGETABLE. and enriching the b’ood and building up the
entire system, cures Ca.arrh permanently. If
you have Catarrh do not waste time with local remedies, but begin S. S. S.
and write for our book and any medical advice without charge.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, CA .
V
found handy in the employ of the
company had to be used for delivery
of messages because of the fact that
the white messenger boys could not
be handled to any degree of satisfac
tion. For some months they have
displayed a carelessness about th«
work which grew more unbearable
and annoying, until the point was
reached where the change was made
a necessity.
Bicycles were purchased by ihe
companies for use by the black mes
sengers, to be paid for in weekly in
stallments by the users. They were
also provided with regulation caps,
but so far none of them have been
uniformed. That will probably be a
question to determine during the first
three months of the year, when they
are to go through a probation, as it
were.
When the change was made a few
of the white messengers were dis
posed to cause trouble, but the ma
jority of them walked off without a
word.
Similar changes have been made
by one of the lines in other cities in
and out of this state, and the situation
is being watched with a great deal of
interest and speculation as to how far
it will extend.
New Undervest.
m
The newest shape of undervjgst is
made to fasten up the lejt side. It is
shaped to the figure at the sides, and
in order that the wearer may lie well
protected is very much longet. than
usual and completely covers thf hips.
This Is a particularly suitable Jahape
foi a woman who suffers from chest,
ailments, as the garment is high neck
ed, and if necessary the front could
be lined with chamois leather or a
fine quality of flannel.
An Indignant Bundle.
Lord Middleton, a very nearsighted
nobleman, had an embarrassing ex
perience some years ago. “Walt a
moment." he said to a companion as
they entered a railway carriage. "I’ll
just pop this bundle on to the rack.”
So saying he made a grab at an ob
ject occupying a corner seat and
seized a large and elderly lady, who
lndignantlj protested against beimj
disturbed.
.lames M. Follansbee. of Worcester,
Mass, 80 years old. died yesterday as
ter a sudden attack of kidney trouble, j
It was the first, time in forty years
that he required medical attention.
During those years he never tasted!
meat, (nit subsisted entirely on nuts
and cereals. He was a well known
woolen manufacturer.
i -nr -
Customers of a shoe dealer insist I
upon their rights, and they also get
their lefts.
Silliness is railed sentiment by
those who are in love.
MINISTERING ANGELS
OF THE GREAT CITIES
Women Who Devote Their Lives to
Works of Charity—The Office of
Deaconess as Old as Christianity-
Training Now Received in a School
of Creek and Cookery, Liturgies and
Laundering, Christian Evidences
and Bookkeeping.
New York, Jan. 6.—Hidden away in
n lonp row of conventional brown
stone houses in this city Is a school
of Creek and cookery, of liturgies and
laundering, of Christian evidences and
bookkeeping. The community shelter
ed by the three plain city houses is
an association of religious community
in the ordinary sense of that phrase.
The students of the school have not
renounced the world. Instead they arc
preparing to play their own particular
part in the world -some of the scope
of which is barely indicated by the
paradoxical curriculum.
The office of deaconess, for whose
training St. Faith's school exists. Is
almost as old as Christianity itself,
but its revival in this country Is of
comparatively recent date. Since the
Institution was founded in 1889. how
ever, by Dr. Huntington, of Grace
church, its graduates have not had to
look long for occupation. The duties
of a deaconess are many and varied.
She cares for the dependent poor,
teaches the voting and the old. or
ganizes and conducts clubs for those
who are alone in the world, makes ad
dresses at mothers' meetings, leads
mission services and in general dedi
cates herself to beneficence at large.
In the church itself she may assist
at baptisms and prepare communi
cants for confirmation and she has
the altar linens and vestments under
her especial care.
But the lot of the deaconess is not
always cast In quiet places, with the
whole charitable machinery of a great
city to support and encourage her. As
a missionary her work at many a
lonely post may consist of the entire
ministerial charge of it. from giving
religious instruction 1o fighting an epi
demic of disease. Two of the gradu
ates of the New York school who are
now living in a log house on the In
dian agency of Lemhi, In Idaho, found
so much to do when they arrived there
that their experience in settling down
was like that of colonial pioneers.
Even today each girl is caring for her
own horse, saddling it herself and
riding off In the early morning to
execute her daily program of mercy.
With duties which may take her to
the ranches of Idaho or the slums of
New York, which range from cooking
meals for the sick and the poor to
keeping track of the large expendi
tures of some great parish, the dea
coness must not only he trained in
the most opposite accomplishments hut
sha must also be furnished by nature
with an extraordinary mental equip
ment. The age limits for admission to
the Institution have been fixed at 21
and 35, and a certificate from a phy
sician is as essential as one from a
clergyman. Indeed, the routine of life
at St. Faith's is not for fragile women.
The day begins at 6:30, with break
SANTO DOMINGO REVOLUTIONISTS
WHO HAVE OVERTHROWN MORALES
Modern theories dpal with various
kinds of corpuscles, hut none seem to
he more unfamiliar than those of odors
with which we have been always
surrounded. So little matter is given
off In odors that the balance carinoi ■
detect It, lodoform, for Instance, los j
Ing not, more than a thousandth pa't j
a century. A French physlclt, A. I
Baldlt, has found tiiat the odor cor I
puscles affect the leakage of elertrl I
city from electrified bodies, and h--
proposes to use this discovery for j
studying the eharacter of odors and I
the part they play in plants. In his !
experiments, performed in unfavor
able weather, a rod of resin and an |
eleetroscope were enclosed In a glass ,
jar, when the admission of vanlla
odor sensibly lessened the loss of
electricity from the charged rod.
Men of Bin.
"The Irish hit off things very ap
propriately sometimes."
"What, do you mean?”
"I just heard a son of Erin allude,
to them as ‘Sifiators.’ ” J
THE AUGUSTA HERALD.
fast at 7:30, after a short service In t
the oratory. For an hour after break
Inst the future deaconess learns Im
personal experience something about
practical housekeeping and then the
rest of the morning is devoted to
mental training, lectures being given
on the old Testament, the life and
works of our Lord, the Epistles, the-,
ologv, Christian evidences, church his
torv. liturgies, missions, the art of
teaching, and hygiene. The afternoon
is about evenly divided between the
abstruse electives of Greek Htnl ec
clesiastical music and the common-1
place subjects of cooking, bookkeeping
and laundry work. The academic sub
ject a arc for the benefit of the dea
coness herself; the practical work
enables her to rare for others and to'
tench them how to care for them
selves.
In the afternoon and the early even
ing the deaeonoas haa an opportunity
to practice her attainments. In some
one of the many Squalid dlatriots of
New York she hns actual experience
in parochial or city mission work.
| does something In the clinic, the guild
'or the club. Hy 9 o'clock, however,
she is back at the achool for the even
ing aervlce in the oratory, which
I closes the day.
If Ihe exterior of (he three atone;
; houses is conventional, Ihe oratory,
i with ita severe adornment, seems at .
this evening hour far removed from,
the ordinary turmoil of the city out
side. On Its walls of neulral green it
haa cross laths of wide strips of black
wood. At Ihe altar end there Is a
plain black crosH and a simple white
baa-relief. The rows of plainly carved
black pewa face each other across the
aisle, filling Rt the close of the day
with twenty-five young toilers in Ihe
vineyards of the Lord, a little hit
weary, perhaps, each one—and each
one very thoughtful. The young den
coness prays to he freed from 'world
ly cares and earthly fears" and, at
the cloae, to grow- "from strength to
strength and from charity to char
ity.”
Ultimately the school will he trans
ferred from Its present quarters In
Esst Twelfth street 1o the grounds of
the rising Cathedral of Bt. John the'
Divine, on Mornlngside Heights,
where a worthier home for the inatitu-j
tlon, close beside the huge church,
will be erected. This transfer will j
he in line with the determination of
the trustees to make the new cathed-j
ral a centre of religious activity of
every kind, to avoid the reproach chbl
upon many of the famous structures
of the Old World—that they are
merely an impressive stage-setting for
slimly attended services. The move,
moreover, will servo to emphasize the
revival of this anciont order of Ihe
diaconate.
In the eafly ages of the church the
diaconate existed as an ecclesiastical
, office to which women as well as men
were eligible, and in the fourth cen
tury, when It especially flourished. I
many excellent women canto into proin-|
Inence through their work as deacon-j
esses. One of them was the im
| mortal Olympias, nobly born and pos
ses Hod of great wealth, who aflpr her
| conversion to Christianity became the
loyal friend and supporter of St. John!
Chrysostom, and on his account snf
sered persecution. St. John, in one
of his letters, speaks of ihe "coarse-1
ness" of her attire, "surpassing Ihtii of
the very beggars."
The garli of the full-fiedged den
roneaa today Is unobtrusive, rational,
and serviceable. Over the simple black
or blue dress a comfortable cloak Is
»orn on the street. In the winter time.
On the hair, hut not covertug It. a
cap is generally worn in the house,
made of folds of gauzy while. The
distinctive garli of the deaconess ex
plains her errand As she Is in the
world and must to some extent share
in its social functions, this garli solves
tile difficulty of deciding how far lo
go in the way of fashion and at the
same time to remain within the sim
plicity that Is appropriate to her of
fice. Site preserves tho i radii lons of
the past more faithfully in her ceil
bacy. She Is not bound to this by
vow, she makes no solemn promises,
hut should site undertake matrimony
It Is understood that she will rolln
qtlish her deaconship. Just as she
would resign should any other cause
estrange her from her work.
The only experimental feature of
this reconstruction of the ancient in
•dilution of deaconesses lay in adapt
ing the policy of the fourth century
to the problems of Ihe twentieth. The
sixteen centuries which stretch lie
tween have not lessened the demand
for the work that the deaconess is to
do. From the far west and the far
east comes the summons; ono la book
ed for China, one for the Philippines,
one for r local pariah. One field alone
of the deaconess's activity, destined
to become its largest local centre —the
missionary and settlement work of the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine—is
expanding so rapidly in the plan of
the rathedral policy that years before
the gerat pile on Mornlngside Heights
is complete it would seem that a
force of deaconesses equivalent to the
class that graduates yearly from SI.
Faith's must he pressed Into service
properly to exploit It.
After Long Years.
The Storyette Editor sat In hi* den
and his visage was puckered and blue.
He was wading through piles of an
cient jests that, were stale when the
world wrr new. There were pokea of
the plumber that Adam made when
he was a gay .voting spark. There
were nautical wheezes hy mariner
Noah when he sailed with the Jioo
in the Ark. There were joken of
goats, of mothers-ln law, the nnglers
Hnd mythical fish. There were mid
summer jest lets and Christmas puns
—a widely assorted dish.
But the editor knew them all by
heart, and his heart grew black with
guile aa he read the pokeq that, the
Pharaohs told to the crocodiles down
by the Nile.
But nil of r sudden he gave a cry
nnd his breath came thick and fast,
sad he scanned a postcard eagerly,
and then, shouted: "At Inst! at last!
A brand new Joke! Can It be, ye gods?
Yea, 'tis; yes, tls, I vow." Then his
brain gave way with a horrid crack,
and he'H In the asylum now.-Tit-
Bits.
Our idea of r mean man la one who
enjoys spoiling some other ntsn's
fun.
Many a so-called blue-blooded aris
tocrat has a red nose.
Waitfp J Tpavl?
GOLFER ENTERED FOR MEXICO CITY TOURNEY.
HEARD IN THE CORRIDORS
"It's bad weather that doesn't make
somebody feel good," said the ob
server. "And for several weeks the
shoe men have been having their In
nlng. Overshoes have been going like
the proverbial hot cakea. At a number
of the stores lit the city the stack of
overshoes has been entirely exhaust
ed and people have hnd to walk from
one place to unother In many In
stances In search of the needed ar
ticle.
"Wednesday afternoon I had just
made my final appeal to a well known
shoemnn, when ho saw a negro cross
lng the street. To prove his state
ment. that the demand was greater
than the supply the dealer offered to
make a small bet that the negro
would ask for rubbers. I look him
up because II was evidently a bona
fide case. The negro headed straight
lo Ihe store, opened the door and said:
‘Boss, you got any of dem overshoes?'
“Of course, the unusually rainy
weather for the past few weeks la re
sponsible for I lie small supply of rub
bers on hand, but only an unusually
large slock could have withstood the
run made yesterday and ‘today and
for some days past. It proves the
point that It pays to be prepared for
emergencies. It libbers, like a grsid
many tilings, are not needed often,
but when the time comes they become
badly wanted.”
"Did you know that Knsley, Ala., is
one of the few cltlcH In the country
that lias a population of 12,000 and
.seven railroad lines, and that has no
passenger trains passing through it?"
naked a commercial man from that
I city Inst night at the Albion hotel.
Continuing, he said: "Without n
doubt Knsle.v has as line railroad fa
ellllles as any town of Its Hi/,a in Iho,
country. All of the main lines operat
ing In Ihe Birmingham dlslrlel have!
lines in the city, and most of the |
ronds have freight depots .and (lie ton- \
nage handled In this city will exceed,
that of any other city In Iho slate to
its si 7,i'. Vet we never see a pas- j
senger train and with the exception I
of the special cars of the officials of I
.Ihe road entering Knsley we never see
a passenger coach.
“The possibilities are that In the
near future, however, passenger t ruins |
will be passing through our little city.
I understand that Ihe Southern rail-,
way Is contemplating running a lino
from Mobile junction by way of lies
senior and Knsley In Birmingham. If
fills project Is carried out, I see no
treason why the passenger truffle from
this oily and Bessemer would not be
sufficient to Insure the success of Iho
service.”
“Last. Monday. Reform Day, I was \
amused at Ihe many people I heard
making resolutions and giving their
experiences with similar resolutions In 1
the past,” said Joseph Cleveland, of
Sentinel, Ari/.., In the lobby of the Al
bion yesterday. "On nil sides you
could hear people making vows never
to do Hits and that during the year
190(1, tind In nine rases out of ten
lyes, !f!l out of 100, would tell you
[that they made the same resolution oil
January I, 1906, which they were un
aide to keep; still they felt that they
had grown older now and could afford
to s'op one thing or another better
thaw they could this lime last year.
"I spent Now Year's day with
friends In New Orleans and ft was as
ter 1 had gone to the hotel In tin
evening that l heard so many of
these resolutions. I reckon I heard
twenty-five men say thut they were |
going to cut out. smoking for a year \
and see If It would not prove bene !
r T° H ? BEST PAINTS V'LZ COSKERY’S
Also for TRUNKS, SATCHELS AND SUIT CASES.
All these will be sacrificed and closed out to make room for other goods
Sole Agents for the BABCOCK Fine Vehicles
749 and 751 Broad Street, - Augusta, Georgia.
1 ficlal to them. I'd be willing to bet
all that I Imd that not. 76 per cent
of all of the resolutions made on
Reform Day have been kept during
this the first week, especially those
pertaining to the use of tobacco.
"I have stopped making resolutions,
not because of the fact, that 1 am
pleased with myself, but by reason of
my Inability to keep them, ft used to
be a regular custom with mo to swear
off smoking every New Year and I
have never yet been able to stop for
a period of two months. I remember
very well that one year I decided to
stop smoking cigarettes, and I actually
did stop smoking them from the first
of the year until February 19th, when
on one occasion I wont to my work
leaving my pipe at "home. I decided
I hat Just one or two between then
and the time I returned home from
work would not hurt, and once I start
ed I failed to stop when I did get
my pipe Yes. I used to sit up until
12 o’clock on the night of December
; Hist, not to see the old year go out
and the new one come In, but to get,
to smoke until the clock struck 12.
As I say, I have tried this and other
resolutions of u similar nature until I
uin sick and tired of them and I have
iibout decided Dial you cannot ‘teach
old dogs new Irlcks.’"
Progressive Appreciation.
Koine of the country flowers Illus
trate the truth that "the prophet la
not without honor save In his own
country," as well ns any person could
possibly do It.
One morning a summer resident
started from Brooklyn with a bunch
of flowers In her hand.
“Going to tote that, white weed Into
the city?" Inquired the man who
drove her to the station, with evident
scorn.
“Yes," -aid the young woman, quite
unmoved by lilh opinion.
On the train she was joined by an
other young woman who had formerly
lived in the city, but had married »
Brooby man a few years before.
"Those are pretty daisies you havs,'
she said, tolerantly.
“Yes, I think they aro." said ths,-
summer visitor, smiling to herself. <
An hour later she handed the flow
ers to a friend In n busy city office.
“Oh, what lovely marguerites!*
cried the recipient,
'Tin glad you like llinn," said the
yong woman, quietly. "I thought, you
would.” -Youth's Companion.
Rival Forces.
“No; I must confess that. I didn't
enjoy the opera."
"Why, the papers say that all the
singers were In very good voice.”
“True, but ro were the people In
the boxes."
Resentful.
"These newspaper people are giving
us fits," groaned the first life Instir
anep official.
"That's what they are,” assented the
second life Insurance official. "Con
sarn 'em, I wonder If thpre ain't any
tricks In tlielr business?”
Former Judge .1. I. Clark Hare, who
served for many years as peraldlng
Judge of Common Pleaa Court No. 2,
of Philadelphia, died at his country
home, neat there, yesterday. He was
In his ninetieth year. Judge Hare re
tired from the bench In 1896, after 46
years of continuous service. He was
the author of many works on legal sub
jects.
Home men show a spirit of aggres
siveness even when In most trouble.
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