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The Extraordinary Bargains We Are RJow
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SIQ6.740.00 STOCK
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845,200.00
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KELLEY-STIGER'S
39c Corset Covers 10c
All of Kelley-Stiger's 39c Corset Covera
made of good muslin, In all slies
trimmed with embroidery on Bale In
Aiusnn unaerwear
Department
Second
10c
50c Kltnona Dressing
Sacques at 15c
These come In all sizes, made of
percale, trimmed with braid around
collar ana sleeves
on sale
Second Floor,
each
braid around
15c
JFTinmRfrfll?1!
Kclley-Stiger Silks
At One-Half Price
More and more splendid silks are brought for
ward as the sale progresses. Monday we offer
some wonderful bargains in fashionable silks.
27-ln. wide Washable Chins Silk white
and colors worth 69o yard
at
Black Summer Allies Washes and wears
well worth 65o yard
at, yard
Pongus Silk 27 inches wide
' worth 75o yard
at, yard..,. ..
24-ln. Crepe de Chine Black, white and
all shades worth 85o
at, yard
39c
35c
39c
48c
Kelley-Stlger Black Silks
KelJey-Stiger carried the finest blaok Lyons and
Swiss dress and lining silks, oil boiled pure dye taffetas,
mousseline all the latest fanoy weaves blaok shirt
waist silks,and guaranteed to wear taffetas, peau de solos,
pongees. Wo sell them at just one-half K.-S.'s prios.
$1.50, 11.25 and II Kelley-Stifer silks on Bargain Square
shirt waist silks, areas
silks, 27-ln. rustling taf
fetas, eta. at, yd
Natural Dyed Pongees all 27-ln. wide,
many of the new coarse weaveB,
newest shades 11.60 value
at, yard
auger suks on Bargain square
'39c49c-69c
79c
Dress Goods
19c
69c
Silk Mousseline de Sole Beautiful flower
patterns always sold 50o yd
at
t
On Bargain Square Newest, up-to-date dress
good, regardless of former prices,
go at, yard
The Biggest Bargains Yet in
SummerWashGoods
From Kelley-Stiger Stock
TOSS
Monday We Make Special Offer in
Embroideries and Laces
KELLEY-STIQER'S
$1 Wrappers at 25c
All of the llpht and dark Wrappers
that Kelley-Stlger sold up to $1.00
In all sizes
on Second
Floor
at
IU ll UJ 1.VJ
25c
25c Handkerchiefs at
10c and 12ic
Kelloy-Btlger'a pure Irish
Handkerchiefs that sold up
to 25c
each,
at.......
Linen
10c-12y2c
French Ginghams Checked grounds, woven
dots or small figures, specially adapted for shirt
waist suits or man's shirts, at, yd
Beautiful Dress Swiss White grounds, woven
dots, new floral designs prettiest tub fabrics of
the season Monday at, yd
36-inch Victoria Lawns the excellent kind W
that sells regularly at 10c yard, Monday, T)
special, at, yard .
82-luch Scotch ginghams,
dress styles,
at, yard
Light and dark French Shirting
Percale, loc grade,
at, yard
Art Drapery sateens, for sofa
pillow tops, etc., , to 1
yard long, at, per piece
!5c
10c
ic
5c
.7k
2lc
40c figured French sateens,
very desirable for drapery
of all kinds, at, yard
Mercerized dress sateens, like
foulard silk, 35c grade,
at, yard
3C-inch bleach muslin,
good grade,
at, yard
Sic
15c
5lc
KELLEY-STIGER'S MUSLINS
At One-Half Kelley-Stiger's Price
Unbleached Defiance Sheets 72x90 to
81x90, worth 70c each,
at, each
Hemmed Defender Sheets
63x90, worth 90c, AlZ0
at, each JC
Iron Clad Bleached
Sheets 81x90, CCI
35c
Kelley-Stiger's $1.26 Cream Sicilian, at
yard
.-..75c
elley-Stiger's 11.60 Black French Voiles, at Q8C
Kelley-Stiger's Black and Colored Silk Chiffon (f
Cram. at. vnril UJJ
... i.oo
.1.25
Crepe, at, yard.
Kelley-Stiger's Shirt Waist Etamlne-Mohalr
mixed, ut, yard.
Kelley-Stiger's. Best Black French- Voiles, U
a
yard
durable and looks like linen,
at, each
Bleached Sheeting 9-4
equal to Lockwood,
special, at, yard
35c Hemstitched
Cases 42, 45, 50
and 64-lnch widths, .
at, eacn.
WHAT TO DO WHEN IN DANGER
Examples of the Average Person's Help
lessness in a Panic
WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT
Great Vain of Keeping; Yonr Head
and Yonr teat and Becomlnf ,
Acquainted with the Mean
of Escape.
(Copyright, U04, by Guy T. Vliknlskkl.)
Punic Is man's greatest enemy and de
stroyer. It bloats ordinary accidents into
great disasters. It Is the annlhilator of
common sense and the last vestige of rea
son. In the twinkling of an eye it turns
men into brutes, making them mad with
unreasoning terror. It even transforms
brave men Into the most arrant 'of cow
ards. Panic, according to dictionary definition,
la "a sudden fright; especially a sudden
frigfft without real cause, or terror In
spired by a trifling cause or misappre
hension of danger."
Fear causes its victim to reason out ways
of eacupe from the Impending danger. "If
I don't find a way out of this," says the
man caught In a burning building, "I
fear I'll be burned to death." Reason
still guides the man who fears and usually
guldea him to safety, ,
How Panic Operates.
But panic is Infinitely worse. All bar
riers go down before It.
A little puff of smoke, and a whole
audience is rnadly scrambling for the exits
of the theater, the weakest, being knocked
down and trampled under foot and killed,
lie dead and Injured piled In heaps at
the choked-up exits, that, had the crowd
been orderly, would have permitted of the
passage of all to safety before real danger"
threatened those In the rear. What killed
the majority of the victims In the Iroquois
theater horror lout DecomberT Borne of the
occupants of the upper gallery were suf
focated by the heat, but as for the rent,
the heap of bodies before the exits and
the bruises on the corpses showed that
not fire or smoke or heat, but 'panto
claimed their Uvea.
A girl In a tobacco factory In Phil
adelphia runs a needle Into her finger.
She screams from the pain. Instantly the
200 workers on her floor spring up as one
girl, rush blindly down the stairs and
jump from the third-story windows, and
a half doaen lives are sacrificed and two
score or more girls lujured.
A steamship meets with an accident,
perhaps slight, perhaps serious, but not
so serious that the passengers cannot be
got off In safety In plenty of time, pro
vided order la maintained. But a woman
swoons, a man grows excited over some
unusual hapiwnlng on the dork, he rushes
wildly at the lowering lifeboats, and the
Useless sacrifice of life has begun.
Throw buck your mind to past disasters
of recent years Inolude the Paris Basar
- fir borror, where -strung men, la their
20c
Pillow
12k
Kelley-Stiger's silk embroidery baby flannels
at half price. - ' j ,
All the $5 Oxfords at $2.50 Your
choice of all the ladies' street oxfords
that nave sola up to f5 s0.50
a pair, Monday on Second
Floor,
at, pair ,
From Kelley-Stiger's
All of Kelley-Stiger's Medium and Wide Widths of
Embroideries and insertings in Swis3 Nainsook and
Cambric, up to 18 inches wide some of the very finest
embroideries, in this splendid 1 dTb f
stock worth up to 50c yard U Q H m J f
at, yard A"
All the Fine Laces that Kelloy-Stiger sold up to 25c
Yard In plat vals, Normandy vals 1 d
clunys and torchons hundreds of f II Q J
styles, at, yard W Allrxs
Al! the Fancy Trimming Laces from the Rslloy-Stiger stoold-inclu ding
Venice bands, ranoy galloons, wide not top orientals, many ICI
styles on bargain square, worth up to 40o yard, at yard IrC
Ladles', Misses' & Children's Hosiery
All full seamless, fast C iOl.tCr,
black, worth up to 30c, lvl"a5 J-IOC
French Imported Hosiery Plain lisle
allover lace lisle, fancy -IE Itl-AClr
lace, worth up to $1. at sSO-OU"VC
Pure Silk Hosiery Allover lace, silk
embroidered, etc., worth u75c-l Q8
Men's 60c and 76c Hose, 25C
10c plain and fancy border Hand- Ol-Bi
kerchiefs, at - aSJ-OW
ude.. $20 Waists at 85c
Ladies' Munsing Union Suits Low
neck, sleeveless, also umbrella yfCI n
styles worth II, at nfJ
fllsses' and Children's flunslng Union
Suits Long and short sleeves
wnrth fiOn. at JZJl
Children's 20c Lace Trimmed
Pants, at
Boys' ond OJrl's 25c Knit f T I
Underwalsts, at IsW2C
10c
85c
t Jv "l- j ii vy -,
KELLEY-STIGER'S LINENS
Now Is the time to far In a supply of fine linens,
110 and $12.60 extra fine Irish Double Da
mask Pattern Table Cloths. V-k yards
wide and 3 and yards long, A QQ
for, caoh ..' "
U All IJnen 10-4 Hemstitched Pat
tern Table Cloths, at, each
1.98
70c All Pure Linen Silver Bleached
German Table DanuiBk, yurd -uw
48c
68c
$1.00 All Linen Bleached and Silver
Bleached Table Damusk, yard ....
The $1.25 All Linen Extra Fine
Bleached and Cream Damaak, yd.
$2 very fine and heavy soft finished two
yard wide full bleached Double . Qc
Satin Damank, yard jjs
$2 Napkins, both bleached and half t OC
bleached, dozen ""
$4 Napkins, bleached and silver 4 QQ
bleached, dozen S.u
$5 Double Damask Napkins,
for, dozen '..
2.98
10c Fringed Linen Napkfns, O In
each
The lowest prices ever known in Otnnha.
39c
5c
10c
31c
$1.00 Fringed Table Cloths, all white
or with red or blue border, each...
lie and 25c Sewed Fringe Linen Doy.
lies with open work center, 10c and...
Knotted Fringed Linen Towels
that sold up to 25c, each, for .
10c Turkish Wash Cloths,
each
Genuine Turkey Red Table Cloths, 8-4 and
10-4 size, that sold for $1.00 fiQp.CQri
and $1.25, for each UVWOVl
Larze size cotton Huck Towels worth 10c,
but slightly Imperfect, lli
each, for Oaw
Mill Ends Turkish Towels, worth
up to 10c, each, for
Pillow Shams, Scarfs, Tray Cloths
and Squares, worth up to 75c, for.
All the Kelley-Stlger 60c Table Pad-OtE
ding, 64 Inches wide, for, yard
10c Cotton Diaper, 18 to 27 Inches
wide. In Mill Knds for, yard
.2ic
25c
5c
From KELLEY-STIOER Stock
Sheer white embroidered
Shirt Waists, so fashion
able this season, wide
lacb berthas, lace medal-
ions, insertion, etc., Kel
ley-Stige r'a
price $2,60,
Art - sj
Very finest Silk Shirt
Waists from the Kelley
Stiger stock of the fash
ionable Jap silk, elabor
ately trimmed 550
worth $7 and $8 J
IJJew Silk Shirt Waist Suits $8.9?
New lot of Silk Shirt Waist Suits of the new
figured changeable taffeta. These were priced
by Kelley-Stiger at $17.50 a Q fk Q
suit Extraordinary (
arkMfnl frvnr1ntr
Pretty Wash Shirt Waist Suits Kel-iey-Stiger's
price, $10, at ........ .
Wash Shirt Watst Suits Cham bray,
percales, etc., Kelley-Stiger's U.'J
Unllned Mohair Walking Sfcrfs-also
cheviots, K.-S.'s price $5.00, at
Denim and Duck Skirts Black and whita
and blue and white polka dots, launder
498
250
JEWELRY
BOUGHT FROri THE U. & CUSTOMS HOUSE AT
LESS THAN THE DUTY.
On sale Monday ell the beautiful filigree, inlaid and mosaic
Jewelry from the big stock consisting of
brooch pins, stick pins, ornaments, etc.
actually worth as high as $3 each
to close them all out, at.
25c
panic, beat women back Into the flames
and I daresay you will recall vividly the
fact that the word panic occurred again
and again In the accounts -that panic, ac
cording to eye-wttnesses and the authori
ties, caused the greater part of the loss
of life; that without panic, the majority
of the victims would surely have escaped
with their lives. And you can hardly read
of small accidents' without running across
"panic." "Fierce Drug Fire Blase In
Store Starts a Panto on the Floors
Above." "Killed In Blow-Up Panlo In Dye
Works." Panlo Is the god of moat dis
asters, great and small.
Panto m Possibility Everywhere.
Panic is a possibility everywhere at any
time where two or three are gathered to
gether for any purpose whatsoever. And
because it feeds on nothing or a triviality,
because It robs fear of reason where fear
is well founded. It Is the most difficult
thing with which firemen, policemen and
other clvlo regulators of order have to
cope.
There Is apparatus aplenty wtth which
to fight fire. But there is only one thing
to pit against panic. That la "a cool head,
and Its efficaciousness Is limited. It csn
at best save only Its owner and those in
the Immediate vicinity. It can reduce the
death list, but It cannot prevept It. There
fore, no general rule can be laid down
against it. Only guidance for the In
dividual is possible of outline.
The Great Precautionary Rale.
The great precautionary rule Is this: If
any member of your family Is going to
the theater, a muslcale, or any sort of
public gatherings, take particular pains to
Impress upon him the supreme importance
of keeping his seat In case anything
causes the audience to rush pell mell for
the exits. Drive it homeward that the
seat must be kept by all means during
the first mad rush and until the crush
has swept paBt.
By that time your wife, or son, or
daughter will have had to think out cooly
a means of escape, and will undoubtedly
effect it, If you have also Insisted upon
the pleasuregoer becoming familiar with
the location of the different exits as soon
as possible after entering the building.
In case of a theater, or other public
meeting place, this can be very well done
by studying the diagrams of the place,
which ar required to be exhibited upon
the programs and in the lobby. These dia
grams murk the fire esr&pes and the ex
Its. Men, in this matter, can equip them
selves more fully than women. For ex
ample, if they are attending a theater be
fore the play begins they can walk around
bnc-k of the seats, locating by eye the va
rious ways of esraiw. Of course, such a
method is hard for women to pursue. But
a close study of the diagrams will be' ex
tremely effective, depend on that.
Wh a Panic Strikes.
This, then, is the first thing to do to
combat panlo to be prepared for it. Then
when It comes, keep cool. If you can do
that, more than likely yon can keep those
around you cool. Speak to them In a
quiet, even, commanding tone. "Keep cool,"
tell them. "Keep your seats. Stay out
of the crush. You'll get hurt. Keep your
so la, I say. iJoa'i you see that we'll get
out all right If you'll Just keep your seat
and keep cool."
Tour words will undoubtedly have the
desired effect on the majority of those who
bear them. But If any one shows a ten
dency towards panic, which may be com
municated to his neighbor, don't hesitate
to pull his sleeve or coat-tall vigorously,
and gruffly command him to "sit down."
fleeting reason; at least. It will give him
and those about you a moment's respite
from brute force that may mean the ultl
The unexpected order may bring back his
mate salvation of all of you.
Don't follow the mob and rush to and
block up the exits. Let the wave of panlo
aweep by you. Then, using your reason,
pick out the place that It tells you permits
of probable escape. Let reason guide you
there; and If you find more difficulty than
you looked for, still keep cool. Perhaps
you have reached a window on the upper
part of a tire escape, the lower part of
which Is licked by flames. Don't Jump.
Common sense has carried you In sight of
the firemen. It will keep you safe until
the firemen can reach you, which will be
In a minute or less.
As you kept your neighbors quiet until
the time came for you to effect escapo,
so you can load them to a place of safety,
for once you have established respect In
them for you by making them obey your
first command r "they are too human not to
follow like sheep where the stronger mind
leads. This Is the only efficacious method
I know of to help others' out of a panlo.
Panlo oa the Water,
A panic among a crowd on water al
ways a possible thing In summer with so
many excursion boats plying around the
majority of our larger cities should be
bandied in much the same fashion.
The tendency Is for all the passengers to
rush to one side of the' boat. If such a
thing occurs tbje rail will speedily be under
water. But you of the cool head should
not permit this listing of human cargo.
Urge nay command as many of your fel
low passengers as you corns in contact
with to make for the opposite rail. Point
out that there they will be dry at least,
and farther away from the water which
they fear.
If no one will follow you, go there
alone. Stay there until the brutal fight
fer possession of the lifeboats Is over.
Stay there even when the over-loaded
lifeboats leave the ship's side, to sink, per
haps, with too great weight before they
are out of your sight. You will be safer
by the rail.
Stick to the vessel as long as common
sense tells you Is proper. Then, If you
have no life-preserver, remember that any
frail object a fragment of board, a piece
of the ship's rail, an oar, a chair, will
support you for hours In the iwater. All
you have to do Is to grasp It lightly with
your hands, and you will float In ordinary
cases until help comes.
You can do more. If any ono is de
pendent on you In the emergency, you
can provide him with the means of keep
ing afloat. Or, If you deem it better to
keep your companion erhups your wife
or your daughter with you, then have her
lightly place a hand in your shoulder
while you grasp the float. Thus both 'of
you wtU stand Infinitely better chance of
rescue than if, flcbUng, jreu had plunged
headlong into the over-crowded lifeboats.
Panic not only seizes hold of gatherings.
It works in individuals. It Is panic that
causes this woman or that man to Jump
from the upper windows of a burning house
or to run shrieking through smoke an
heat-filled halls. Inviting suffocation, when
the only reasonable thing to do. If other
escape is cut off, is to stand at a window
where fresh air can be had and wait for
the firemen to reach you, which they gen
erally manage to do, since that Is a part
of their life work.
Panic, operating in Individuals, is largely
responsible for hotel holocausts. Of courso,
carelessness on the part of guests Is also
somewhat to blame; for bow many guests
of a hotel are ever aware of the means
provided for their escapeT But ignorance
does not preclude all hope of escape by any
means, while panic practically seals Its
victim's doom.
Panic unreasoning terror; "terror In
spired by a trifling cause or misapprehen
sion of danger." You say a fire like the
one in the Iroquois theater was not a mis
apprehension of danger It certainly was,
in that the audience forgot completely that
Ore has to burn up before It can spread
out. That takes time, and In that time, if
only the audience had not been possessed
of a sudden fright that the Are would come
out on them Immediately, I believe, and
others who know the circumstances
fully believe, that probably every ocou
pant of the parquet would have escaped
and many In the gallery also.
Panlo Prevents Escape,
Unless the whole place biases up In
stantly, which is a very remote possibility,
a theater or other publlo place with the
escapes provided according to law, can
surely be emptied when a fire Is
discovered without loss of life be
fore the flames become really menacing.
If only the audience can be made to keep
Its head. Any theater In New York can be
emptied in three to four minutes ample
time, for a Are cannot reach out over the
audience In less time than that If the
Iroquois theater audience had only recog
nised this and not blocked the exits there
would have, been a far less gruesome tale
to tell to the. world Just entering on Its
Christmas festival.
Your only weapon when panto surges
around you Is a cool head. Keep It and
the odds are largely in your favor that you
will reach a place of safety. Lose It
and you throw your life away.
EDWARD -CROKER,
Chief of New York Fire Department.
WASHINGTON ON ZION'S HILL
She Wasted an Experienced Artist.
A woman who had become suddenly rich
was traveling In Europe, and while there
It occurred to ber that It was the proper
thing to have her portrait painted by a
prominent artist. Accordingly she called
at the studio In Paris of a painter of high
reputation.
"Will you kindly sit down and wait a
few moments?" asked the attendant, when
Mrs. Newrich bad stated ber errand.
"Well, I'm In a hurry. Is your master
busyr" she-asked.
"Tea, madams. Ho Is engaged on a
study."
"On a study!" exclulmed Mrs. Newrich.
"Well, no matter, I guess I won't wait. I
sha'n't want him to paint my picture. I
want an artist who has got all turougb
with bis studies!" Success.
Principal at Tuskegee Institute Exhorting
a Baptist lially.
SYMPATHETIC PICTURE OF THE ASSEMBLY
Effective Work in Advsvnclnc the Col
ored People Along; Lines of Greater
Usefulness Encouraging; Re
sults Achieved.
Writing to the Boston Transcript con
cerning the Influences for good exerted by
the Tuskegee Institute, Koscoe Conkllng
Bruce draws the following picture of Prin
cipal Booker T. Washington addressing a
Baptist rally:
That Sunday I shall not soon forget.
From the library that Tuskegee owes to
the munificence of Mr. Carnegie I had got
a pile of magazines and a few books and
was Just making ready to be secretly com
fortable when a sharp rap on the door
halted my preparations. Principal Wash
ington extends to me an invitation to drive
with him to the "Rally" of the Baptist
church on the other side of the town; be
is to deliver an address.
Promptly accepting the Invitation, I
slipped on hastily the whitest, thinnest,
coolest clothes my grip could muster. The
sky was lurid with the blaze of the sun,
the wind even on these sandhills was be
yond resurrection, and the mercury had
evaporated. The team a pair of Tuskegee
bred horses, young, clean-limbed and eager
was waiting at Mr. Washington's gate
Impatiently. In a moment mine host came
briskly down the gravel path from his
bouse, greeted me In his hearty way, and
lo! we were whisked down the 'road In a
rush of breeze.
This powerful man by my 'side, grave and
silent, but alert and keenly observant, I
have grown greatly to admire. He has
made an oasis of thrift and Intelligence In
a desert of shlftleesness and Ignorance; in
a wilderness he has been true to a great
IdeaL One quality which, as much as any,
accounts for the continuous, the Inevitable,
the glacial advance of Mr. Washington, Is
unswerving common sense. Crotchets and
prejudices, praise and blame, momentary
ills and Joys, none of these disturb this
man's balance and fixity of purpose; he
steidlly gazes through sham and aentiment
and detail, upon the essential, and for tbs
essential be unceasingly strives.
Addresafosi His Own People,
What would he have to say at the rally?
I wondered. In New York and Boston and
Washington and Chicago I had again and
again heard Mr. Washington address white
audiences. Who that was in the great
audience at Madison Square garden laat
February to hear Mr. Carnegie, President
Eliot, Dr. Frlssell and Dr. Washington
speak In behalf of Hampton could forget
the overwhelming effect of Mr. Washing
ton's words? "Reduced to the last analysis
there are but two questions that constitute
this country's raoe problem. The answer
to the one rests with my people, the other
with the white race. For my race on of
Its dangers is that it may grow Impatient
and feel that It can get upon Its feet
by artificial and superficial efforts ra
ther than by the slower but surer process
which means one step at a time through
all the constructive grades of industrial,
mental, moral and social development
which aU races have had to follow which
have become strong and independent. I
would counsel: We must be sure that we
shall make our greatest progress by keep
ing our feet on the earth, and by remem
bering that an Inch of progress Is worth a
yard of complaint. For the white race the
danger is that in its prosperity and power
it may forget the claim of a weaker peo
ple; may forget that a strong race, like an
individual, should put Its hand upon Its
heart and ask. If It were placed in similar
clroumstances how It would like the world
to treat It; that the stronger race may
forget that in proportion as it lifts up the
poorest and weakest even by a hair s
breadth, it strengthens and ennobles Itself.
This is the lofty doctrine of statesman
ship. On such an occasion the plane of
thought and feeling and method of ex
pression is of course Immeasurably beyond
the range of what I figured his audience
at the Baptls' cha'ch to have. How would
this man, with his easy mastery of an au
dience in the north, master the rallyT
Gathering; Worshipers.
I began to notice groups of rather quietly
dressed colored people, men and women and
children, hastening across the fields and
along the road toward tbe church, which I
could now discern In its shimmering white
ness set like a beacon 'at the utmost top
of Zion hill. As we neared tbe neat little
building Mr. Washington ran a very gaunt
let of greetings, grotesque but genuine,
greetings which he scrupulously acknowl
edged with a certain shyness which could
not quite conceal a glow of appreciation.
At the door of the church the parson,
robust and dark as night, and good hu
mored, met us. As Principal Washington
entered, the choir started up "Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot," but every eye In the con-1
gregatlon, dcbplte the seductions of the
song, was fixed upon the Moses of the ne
gro people. The congregation, sociologically
considered, was transitional; the gray
haired, gentle mannered freed man rubbed
shoulders with the smartly attired New
Issue; the black mammy of the old regime,
with beaming face and snowy apron, sat
without her kerchief, fur even she has be
come adjusted to the new order of things
beside the ribbon bedecked, bright eyed
school girl. And the tactful pastor, himself
a product of tbe schools of freedom, has
kept this place a solace for the older gen
eration and a church for the new.
After another hymn by the choir and
prayer by a visiting preacher the pastor
arose In quiet dignity to Introduoe the
speaker of the occasion. Rev. UadHen in
clear, mellow tones expressed the gratitude
Of his congregation for Mr. Washington's
long continued an aubatantlally expreaaed
Interest In them, their church and their
school for tills congregation helps support
the Booker T. Washington public school.
"Our people,' said the pastor, "in their
preparation for the next world have not
forgotten this world." And to the evident
delight of the guest he read a long list of
members of the church, who since Mr.
Washington's last visit had bought land,
built comfortable homes, painted their
houses, developed vegetable gardens, begun
poultry raising on a larger scale, etc. "And
there Is a brother here today," said the
preacher, looking with a broad smlls,
while the congregation tittered, into tha
face of a serious young man who ntwig a
shrill tenor In the clioir, "there iy a
brother here today who painted his house
red all over this week, so that Mr., Wash
ington when he came today wouldn't think
that John lived In an unpainted house."
A Fatherly Talk.
After anothar plantation me:ody not a
coon song, but a genuine plantation melody,
unordered and to alien ears grotesque, but
strangely touching Principal Washington
rose to speak. In his hand wus thut in
evitable pencil, and on his face the gen
tlest smile of a stern father who wants his
children to be joyful occasionally, but al
ways to be sensible and prudent and ma
ture. "I rejoice with you," ho said, "in
your successes, but (n your Jubilation do
not forget the victories yet to be won."
And thon for an hour, to the most attin
tlve listeners I have ever seon, he talked
simply and directly of some of tho ways In
which they could raise the level of their
lives. He emphasized In mlnuto and toll
ing detail the subtle Influence for whole
some family life of a comfortable houso
with Its garden of vegetablns, Its orchard.
Its pigs and its poultry. The deeper sourcs
of social enjoyment are in the home, not
in the enmasse activities of the enmp
meeting and the street. Then, too, the evils
of the negro habit of pouring from tho
plantation on court day into the gallery of
the courtroom, there to satiate a morbid
curiosity in the older folks, and develop It
In the young, were outlined with Illustra
tions, humorously pathetic, drawn from life
outlined arid effectively denounced. That v
frailty of taking the quarrels of the chll
dren to ths court for settlement did not
elude the speaker's fearful Irony; lie ex
preaaed hia delight In the admirable cuntnm
of the Judge to fine, with Invariable gen
erosity, both defendant mid plaintiff! Nor
had the searching eye of Mr. Washington
failed to note the effect of the Saturday
excursion to town upon the salts tit tho
dispensary; ten years -ko the deacons felt,
and now some more youthful members of
the church feel. In conscience liomid to
aupport that dispensary, when tho wive
and children could put the nl'kels and
dimes and quarters to infinitely better una
than doea the barkeeper! And nf rnursn
Mr. Washington paid his respects to the
"hollerlu' preacher" the fellow who has
an lca that the Almlahty is n bit d.af,x
and who therefore fiercely pawn the IilMo ,
and lifts his voice to the very skim. Tha
"hollerln preacher" has gone out nf busi
ness, at leaat In this community; ond this
congregation must decently support t h -1 r
more modern minister. Finally, th? rpeaksr
emphsslzed the Importance of uhIhk tho
church as an Instrument f r ennobling tho
actual life of the community, and cited m,
a case In point the practice of this church
to help support the public school.
I have spoken of Mr. Washington's noM
mastery of the Madison Square Garden
audience, and of his eloquence there, but I
am tempted to feel that at the rally'of tha
Baptist church on Zlon Hill that memo
rable Sunday, he displayed In his homely
sympathy and commonsense an equal
though different eloquence. For the heart
of Tuskegee's principal, unaffected by
what men regard as the greater affair, of
the spacious world. I. with tha poor and
lowly of his people. And thev sjrlve to
realise hla Ideas, to be sensible and p-u-dent
and mature, because In many ways
be Is to them a father.
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