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C. Jacobs, of Madison, Wis, who is visiting her son, Will Jacobs, in this city. The guests were greeted at the
 door by Mrs. Stowell, Mrs. Jacobs and Miss Stowell The decorations were most complete, myriads of spring flowers of the lavender hue being in evidence everywhere. There were ten tables of excited players, the ever popular bridge being the game. Miss Berta Sullivan Came out
 with first honors and was awarded hand embroidered work bag. The second prize beautiful silk bag, was won by Miss Olivia Alexander. Mrs. billiard Saunders captured the conso- lation prize, a cut glass violet vase. The honoress, Mrs. Jacobs, was pre- sentel with pair of silk hose. The scorers award, a violet pin, was won by Miss Victoria Goree. At the con clusion of the game elegant refresh ments were served in three courses. Mrs. Stowell and her daughter proved to be most entertaining hostesses and the guests who were present are most lavishing with praises.
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Young Ladies' Club.
 Mrs. W. T. Radford delightfully."- en-

Mrs. W. T. Radford delightfully."- en- tertained the Young Ladies Club of the First Methodist church Saturday Afternoon, at her home on South Ala bama street The home was beauti- fully decorated with pink carnations, palms and ferns. A very enjoyable program was rendered, piano duet by Mrs. A. ". Mills and Mrs. Fl. l.. Mills, and a piano solo by Mrs. F. E. Renfrow. deserves special mention. After the program tempting refresh ments were served. Mrs Ral.nroi mother, Mrs. E. E. McCamman Quite large number of guests were pres ent and together with the club mem bers voted the affair a success in every detail. In addition to the club members the guests present were:
 N Mesdames R. T. Benton, Campbell Fox, Oliver Galbraith Charles Clark, 'C. H. Owen. G. N. Hart, J. W. Martin, Chas. Fitzhugh, F. G. Chew. Edgar Brewster, Peter Byrd Oscar Brew ster, L. c. Matthews, Garland Brew ster, R. H. Stearns, Pear! Stroud. J. H. Watkins and Chas Laverenz; Miss es Blanch Fox, Lucy Greenfield. Jes- sic Adams and Emma White.
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ter the rough one of the morning.

ter the rough one of the morning.
 forgot to tell you about the Rus sian pilgrims we saw at Tiberius There were about 900 of them; had landed at Haifa, walked to Nazareth, thence to Sea of Galilee, from there they came to Jerusalem and Jordan, bathed in the latter, and saved the clothes to be buried in. We went to the Greek convent where they stop ped, to sec them. They were eating hard brown bread and dried fish. They had heavy but kind faces, regu- lar peasants But I know 1t was the event in their lives.
 Nazareth is a nice pastoral city of 12,0OO, cleaner than ordinary. We went to the Virgins Fountain, ab- solutely authentic. Here Mary and Jesus came often, we know. We than went to the reputed sites of Mar. home, Joseph's work shop, and ,.ia synagogues where Christ denouncei the people. Went up high hill, and got a beautiful view of the surround ing country, Carmel, Mediterranean, Little Hermon, Main, Talor, etc. Went to the English Orphans Home, where they had 70 orphan Syrian children.
 Thursday-We left Nazareth Tues day morning on horseback, and have ridden two days and half. We stop ped at Main, Shunem, Jezreel, Sam aria. The latter city had fine exca- vated large pillars, noble flights of steps. etc. Going down the mountain, we passed at least hundred columns along the driveway. some broken. some prone up on the ground. It surely must have been ,a beautiful city in its day. You iwould have been amused had you seen our procession -forty-two people, (eleven ladies). besides two Syrian dragomen, one Spaniard, our conductor, about ten Bedoium muleteers; every now and l then we would get mixed up with train of camels.
 The muleteers rode donkeys--they were dressed very queerly, sang Ara bian songs, gesticulated, and "cut up" generally. Miss Scott Ia fellow trav- eler) and l learned an Arabian song, which pleased and amused the Be- douins very much. It goes as follows and is very expressive:
 "Bi-li-li, Bi-li-li Bi-li-li
 Il horvie shak toe.
 Hish neck eya male,
 Mashina druba drub."
 These sons of the desert have ex- pressdve names. Ali Hassan, Abdul lah, Ali. Mohomet, etc. Sounds like the Arabian Nights)
 We reached Jerusalem this after noon, will write more of the trip later. :" c. s. K"
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which Is generally thought now to be Capernaum, on account of the re- cent excavation of very handsome building. There were four large heart-shaped columns, with beautiful Corinthian capitals (saW nothing as handsome at the Acropolis); these were at the four corners of the build ing. There were other handsome columns. parts of freze, floor intact
 also some of the seats, two sets of steps. 1t is thought to be the syna- gogue built by the Roman Centurion. The sites were pointed out to us of Bethsaida Julius, the feeding of the 5000, the place of healing of the man possessed of devils, and the destroy ing of the swine (Gadara). We saw where the Jordan entered the sea of Galilee and passed out of 1t. Sum day afternoon we had services in the Scotch mission at Tiberius Miss Ford, Presbyterian missionary to the Hauran and the Mohammedans gave us a very interesting talk on her work She is located at Stuffed, on a mountain near Tiberius-said to be the city that caused Jesus to speak of the 'city that is set upon a hill, cannot be hid" MT. Dorlittle, anoth- CT Presbyterian missionary located at Sidon also talked of his work. Dur ing the time, a hard shower of rain came up-positively our first.
 I enjoyed the Plain of Genessaret, especially. for Christ did 80 much of his teaching there. Many think the Sermon on the Mount occurred on a hill off of the plain. We came by carriage next day by the Plains of Hattiu. where the last battle was fought between Saladin and the Cru saders. one of these hills Is called the Mount of Beatitudes. The plain is very fertile. and we'll cultivated by the German settlers. We ate lunch at Cana, in the Greek convent. Saw the place where the wedding was supposed to have taken place, an old Crusaders church has been here. Saw the we'll that the water was drawr from to be turned into wine. Saw the supposed site of Nathaniel. church. Cana is a miserable village of mud huts, we went in same ant had to almost bend double to get 1T the door. Saw one hut used only fol baking bread. The large iron pot i. buried in the earth, bread put in 1t lid put on, and ashes banked over it The bright spot about Cana was thu mission school the church of Englan, has for the Syrian children. The. sang Jesus Loves Me-" recited tn. Ten Commandments, and the Lord'
 Prayer. =. ...,........,,. ,,..
 From Cana to Nazareth was a fin, macadam road. which we enjoyed af
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Spencer Fox Entertains.

Spencer Fox entertained the mem bers of his Sunday school class and & few of his friends Friday evening at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Will Fox, on South Walnut street. Games and music furnished much fun for the merry crowd. Dur Ing the evening Professor Allen made the boys fine talk which was great ly appreciated by them. At an appro- 2riatc hour delightful refreshments were served. Tn addition to the thir- teen class members the guests pres ent were: Wiley Roundtree, Tom Lyle, Frank Hughes, Dewoody Lyle and Grant Hogg.
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 En Route Through Palestine.
 March 9. 1909. We are at Ell Ganin, and I will start my letter so I can mail it at Jerusalem. The last few days have been crowded full of interest Dam ascus was especially so as very an cient city and the scene of Paul's conversion. l know why Naaman val- ued the rivers of Abana and Pharpar so now, for they redeemed the city from the desert. What the Nile is to Egypt these rivers are to Damas- GUS. The Abana runs right through the city, and the two together irrigate the surrounding land. Early Friday morning we started to see the city After passing through the Bazaars, we saw two Corinthian columns, said to be left from the House of Rum nion, the heathen temple that Naa- man referred to when he asked Elijah to allow him to take load of earth to put upon the top of the temple. On the site is mosque, partially de- stroyeI by fire, and recently rebuilt it is very beautiful.
 On a chapel of the mosque Is the tomb of Saladiu, also of his private secretary, The guide on speaking of Saladiu said, Only great Turk" We passed the plain of Hattin yesterday 1 where he won the final victory over the Crusades under Richard the Lion Hearted. The mosque floor is cov- cred with beautiful rugs. In 1t s also sarcophagus said to be the tomb of the John who helped Paul over the wall. It is of green velvet with gilt Arabic inscriptions on 1t. We next went to the old city gate and the street called Straight to the
 reputsd site of Ananias' house, there
 is little chapel under 1t that is said
 to have been used by Christians in
 the troublous times. We went to the
 reputed site where Paul was let over
 the wall. in basket, it is quite an
 old wall; foundation Roman, next layer Arabic, next Turk. We went by
 the so-called site of house of Naaman
 There is an asylum for lepers there;
 we saw some of them. Went to fac
 tories for hammered brass, for inlaid
 work. The people are extremely in-
 dustrious, different from many places
 we have been.. Saw them weaving
 silk. making ropes. In the afternoon
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we went up on q high hill, where we got beautiful view of the city and surrounding country. Saw the old caravan road by which Paul came to the city. It was the Mohammedan Sabbath, and this seemed to be their park. They were as thick almost as flies, women all yelled; men, many of them, handsomely dressed in their way.
 On top of the hill is an old ruin where was building commemorating < the place where Abraham rested on his way to Caanan from Padan- Aram
 We next went to the Bazaars which are very interesting. These are num- erous little stores, in each street, and all have a covered arch-way. Each shop is different, silk bazaars, carpet, saddle, silver and gold ornaments, slippers, etc. Camel bazaar. sheep bazaar, basket bazaar,-on through the whole list. Men and women in picturesque costumes. strings of cam els, donkeys, loaded with a little of everything. Arabs, horses, and dogs throng the streets, l have never seen finer horses. Saw an old Mohamme- dan cemetery; graves built high with clay, and the majority of them paint ed blue. We were closer to Mt. Her mon there than any other place. It looked beautiful as we were going to the depot Saturday morning, when the sun was just rising
 We saw men car-..G>,-- water in pig skins, very funny. ;,. came back over the sauss tra IL Just as in- teresting. Tho E.. asns were a nev- CT failing source s' curiosity. They live in large tents "overed with cam els hair, possibly .D live in the same tent; very degraded and thieving. The Bashan plateau Is the granary of Palestine. All the valleys of this country are we'll cultivated. l would not call 1t desolate at all.
 We reached Hippos on Lake Cali lee about 2:30 p. m., took sail boats at once and sailed for about two hours to Tiberius, an ancient Roman town; ruins of castles here, famous hot sulphur baths about a mile down We took a two mile walk on the shore of the Lake about twilight I shall never forget it. The moon rose; il was such a pure, peaceful scene,-fal from the rush of business,-ant where Jesus spent 30 years of his life That night we met the prince o Dragomen, Ishukrey Hishmeth. He is character.
 | We spent Sunday morning on lake Galilee, visited Magdala, Mary Mag ialen's home. the plain of Genessare Bethsaida, Khan Menyah (thought b! some to be CaDernaum). Tel Hun
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SOCIETY.
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Hospital Association.

The Ladies Hospital and Beneyo- lent Association will hold an import ant meeting Tuesday afternoon with ,sMrs. ID. w. Richey, at No. 1i19 West sF1th avenue. Business of great inn Hortance is to be transacted at this Yzmeeting and it is earnestly desired z that a large number of ladies attend
 Preparations are being made to tsEow the new Davis Hospital open k ae public in May. The exterior ENA interior of the building have Zen practically completed and with
 he exception of the installation of the elevator and few interior fur n1shings the building Is now in readiness.
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Foreign Missionary Society.

Mrs. Y. s. Mcclellan will entertain the Ladies Foreign Missionary Socie- ty of the Lakeside church, Monday af ternoon at her home on Lakeside.
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Mrs. Jacobs Hon0ree.

i One of the most delightfu! Wbist
 parties given in local society circles for many weeks was given Saturday
 afternoon by Mrs. C. 4. Stoveli and
 her daughter, Miss Edna Stouell, at
 their home on Martin avenue. The Ihonoree of the occasion was Mrs. ".
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Homo Missionary Society.

The Woman's Home Missionary So- ciety of the First Methodist church will meet in regular monthly session on Monday, April 5, at o'clock D. ul. A full attendance is very much desir- cd. A ordial invitation is extended to all ladies who are interested in th's great work
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Mrs. Octayia Fleming, maker Of hair goods, 51l Alabama street. La dies having combing can have them
 uade into puffs, braids, curls and nomoadours. 3-31 St
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LETTER FROM
 THE HOLY LAND

Man, Places of Biblical Fame De- scribed and Many Interesting Incl. dents Given.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-07

Last Thursday afternoon the funeral
took place in the parish churchyard Of
Leigh. Staffordshire, of James Blood.
aged 65. When the mourners had left
the churchyard the sexton and one or
two men who We're helping him fll in
the grave were alarmed when their
task was half finished to hear muffied
rapping from below. apparently en-
anating from the coffin AS they lis
tened in consternation the rapping
was repeated five or six times
Crying. Why. the mans afiver' Ed
ward Allcock, the sexton flung down
his spade and ran as fast as he could
for doctor, while the others present
began to throw out the soil from tho
grave with feverish haste A medical
man quickly arrived, accompanied BY
the dead mans two sons, and no time
was lost in raising the coffin from the
grave and carrying II back into the
screwed the lid and the doctor made an
examination. The man was dead and
there was no evidence that the BODY
had moved. The coffin was accordingly
screwed up again and once more borne
to the grave for reinterment a large
crowd of villagers being present.
An astounding thing now occurred
for as the grave was being filled In a
second time distinct tapping was
again heard. AS the. doctor was satis-
fed that death had really taken place
the coffin was not raised again and the
grave was filled up.-London Globe.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-07
Sneers for Women and
Insults for Merchants

ME Chronicle at the of San and OF
all America who have had the temey protest against the
monstrous increase of duty stockings gloves the
Payne tariff They of their proper sphere Chronicle
and meddng with concern them
They should be give them in way
legislation and unadye by indugng
in what the Chronicle calls emotional We noe from
the Chronicle editorial under this heading:
The good ladies committing
With ne one accord @ hey b m that
law o a pudns sIa and the
the duties hosiery and kid alleged kid gloves
every assembly which
be got together for the purpose
This contenptuous sneerng Chronicle in
regard the ability of of public questions ntel
gently inspires paper add that this agitation example
suffrage would Well
right they undoubtedly their present
attempt meet figures
by the but drifts off into vague generaites and
more
instance, emphatcaly oppose the Payne
suggestion and cash by the French German
factuers 1t British gold that paid Now
French Germans who bbe cohiers and haber-
dahers The charge might be resented malicious
merely silly and contemplate.
The affecting Payne schedules stockings may be
thus summarized:
1907 The @ & @ the yod States
M g @ the home 'a supply pa about s per cent Of the d
ee consumption With stockings retailing at from 10 to Is cents
the the higher duty order a. the stockings Of foreign markets
kept the home market Then they would supply about all the
have not attempted to make
In fine these greedy manufacturers already amply
figures production ask add 25
per the price of stockings by American They
would make the duty prhbtve of mporaons in order that they
another the They preach about
for American labor but they protection greedy
monopoly They know that American labor
by organization and all by the tariff Wages lower
conditions quad in Pttsburg than other
city, and that the of highly pro-
tected industry But they do not word about the added
laborers wife the farmers wife
the of higher prices for stockings and gloves
They only the for meddng where they have
business Chronicle edoray and Mr. Payne did
the floor of the house They appear think that the
cncled they add that the merchants bbed Will the
Chronicle enough the San Francisco merchants
suspects taking brbes from foreign manufacturers
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-07
Chinese Cement Making Plant

Vice Consul General Willard 3. Hull.
writing from Canton. gives the follow
ing account of the establishment OF
extensive works by the Chinese gov
ernment for the manufacture of build
ing supplies:
The new cement and brick works
are located on Honam island opposite
the city of Canton and on the south
branch of-the Pearl river.
The institution. which is known as
the Chinese government cement works,
will have a daily output of 500
pounds net. The cement making ma
chinery is of German manufacture and
cost approximately s13L219 gold. The
buildings p, ndg which are all steel. cost
are TO be operated In connection with
| the cement works, cost $47.310. which
includes all of the fire bricks used in
the building of the kilns. Two houses
have been erected for the directors at
an expense of $29,150 and the engine
house will cost about $500.
In addition to this there has been the
expense of bunding along the river.
which amounts to about $20.75O. filling
| in s41.50O. electric light installation
s4.sso and the sum spent for cement
used in construction. which runs up
| to nearly $29,150. making a total cost
of the cement and brick works of
| SALE. 900.
The cement will be manufactured at
cost of about s1.15 a barrel. and they
! expect to put 1t on the market at SIS
Mexican barrel ts2.oS gold.) This is
| 20 cents barrel cheaper than the
| Green island cement made in Hong
] kong, but If the competition becomes
keen the Chinese can reduce their
! price considerably as they expect to be
able to manufacture the cement at a
lower figure than it can be manu-
| factured in Hongkong.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-07
Lack Proper Address

Official statistics show that during
the year 1904 an average OF 10, 900
pieces OF mail matter were sent each
day 10 the dead letter departments OF
the Il main postal divisions OF Ger
many. OF each million pieces OF mail
handled by the imperial post IN 1904.
an average OF 327 were destroyed as
worthless and undeliverab1e., In 1907
the number grew TO 396 pieces. an in
crease Of 21.7 per cent. About So per
cent of the 10000 parcels daily ad-
mitted to the "hospitaP' Afforded no
clew TO the identity OF the writer or
of the person for whom intended and
were burned The rate in 1875 was
only 21.6 per cent.
Comment is made In the German
newspapers on the growth OF the num-
ber of unbelievable pieces OF mail
matter despite the spread OF education
and the decrease of illiteracy.
One reason assigned for the increase
in the dead letter totals Is that Ger
many's rapid commercial develOpment
sia alone had 406, 900 foreigners in 19O5)
who have little or no schooling. Most
of the letters sent to the dead letter
departments have no city, village or
town indicated, or have only the first
name OF the party to whom they are
addressed Postal cards OF the picture
kind are responsible for the bulk of
the nondeliverieS- In 1907 they fur
nished about IS per cent or exactly
1.4S0,400 of the 1.97S,250 cases unsolved
by the dead letter experts
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-07
Gossip of Railwaymen

T HE Reno and the Phoenix cases
have brought up before the inter-
state commerce commission the
rate situation in all the territory
intermediate on the Pacific coast west
of Ogden, Albuquerque and Ell Paso.
and the commission seems to believe
that the rates in the territory men
toned need adjusting. in some in
stances the rates being too low. and in
many cases too high. The commission
ers appreciate that they have to de-
eide an important question, not only for
carriers, but for the jobbing cities on
the Pacific coast and also the interior
jobbing cities. and it IS likely that sew
eral hearings will yet be had before a
decision is rendered.
Remarks made by some of the mem
bers of the commission indicate that
the decision will not only cover what
are reasonable rates in themselves. but
will fix the relation OF rates from the
different territories that do. business
in the territory under eonside{atiOn-
Supplement- No. TO eastbound tariff
No. 81 has been received on the Pa
cific coast The principal change which
1t authorizes is the advance in rate on
sugar cents per 100 pounds to Okla
homa. This advance was objected to
by California refineries, as il undoubt-
edly will curtail the movement of sugar
from this coast. The Immediate cause
of the advance was the threat Ofthe
New Orleans refiners, backed by the
CQ rr a -iracr hof e -
south that If rates were not advanced
to Oklahoma from California the cor
responding decrease would be made
from New Orleans. California carriers
fought this advance as long as they
consistently could do so. and finally
agreed to the advance for the reason
that they felt assured that If they re-
fused it probably would disturb tlse
sugar situation throughout the middle
and western states.
The Amarillo extension OF the Rock
Island lines has been opened for bust
ness through to Vega, Tex, 50 miles
west of Amarillo. 1t is expected that
the remainder of the new line which is
being built to Tueumcari, N. NJ. to con-
meet with the main line of the Rock
Island road between Chicago and Ell
Paso will be completed in September or
OClODcE VI lIiS y e<tE MS Will open
up a new line from California to Okla
homa. Arkansas and Tennessee and will
be much shorter than any OF the lines
now serving that territory.
Clyde w. Colby of the Erie returned
yesterday from a trip through the
northwest and reports that Seattle is
housing a great many strangers who
have been attracted to the coast by the
fair. He also says that the westward
movement to the northwest is good,
while the eastbouHd travel is light. He
accounts for this by the fact that the
visitors to the Acoast are in no haste to
go home, but are awaiting the opening
of the exposition.
1t is reported at salina, Kan. that