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THE RICHMOND PLANET A Scene in Chimborazo. Editor of The PLANET.— The lines below were suggested by reading of an incident alleged to have occurred in Chimborazo Park as described in the following clipping from The Richmond Times-Dispatch. August 27th. EXCITING MOMENT Police Heard White Woman Was Murdered, but it Wasn't Like That. On a charge or disorderly conduct, James Allen, colored, twenty-one years old, and Lavina Manning, colored, seventeen years old, were arrested yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock, in Chimborazo Park, and locked up at the Second Police Station. Allen and the Manning girl were quarrelling, and the man slapped her in the face. A white man, who appeared about that time, was under the impression that Lavina, who is a bright matto, was a white woman. He demonstrated with Allen for attacking one not of his own color and fired two shots from a pistol at Allen as he fled, but missed. Discovering that the girl was colored the man with the pistol disappeared. Information was received at the First Police Station that a white woman had been shot and killed by a negro. Sergeant Brown and Officers Napier, Jennings, Smith and Toot hurried to the park. They found Allen and the Manning girl and arrested them. Allen told the police that he does not know the white man's name who fired at him. Mock Epic. 'Twas in old Chimborazo Park He heard a woman cry. For she'd received a ringing smack Which barely missed her eye; The woman was so fair that he Felt sure she must be white. But the man who delt the blow was sure A Negro black as night. The race pride in the white man blazed. He could not curb his ire. He drew his gun, with deadly aim Let go with scathing fire! The black assailant flew apace, The maiden blushing stood. While her defender now drew' near, Ablaze with brave manhood. But lo, what was it now he saw, The smoke had cleared away? Great Scot! there stood a Negro girl, and she was To think! he thus had compromised His standing as a man. His Aryan blood boiled at the thought; But he'd defied the law, The police justice he must face, And fines and bonds he saw. So, safely out of reach he hled While the police caught the black, And he and the fair dusky maid Were hauled up to the rack. Conduct disorderly, was the charge Preferred against the pair, And no doubt the'll soon forget Old Chimborazo square. A lonely woman to defend Is knightly, brave and right! But, would our Knight have thus be- haved, Had this same pair been white? In that case, though Caucasian pure, Her sex might not appeal. The aggressor being in all respects His equal, he would feel, Not called upon to play the Knight With pistol, sword, or spear. But shut his eyes and stop his ears, Go further! not draw near. —Evangeline. Of Interest to Colored People! St. Joseph's Colored Catholic Church Second Grand Moonlight to Dutch Gap, Steamer Pocahontas, Tuesday, September 13, 1910. Steamer leaves Old Dominton Wharf, Dock and Ash Streets, at 7:45 P. M. Sharp, Tickets 50 cents. Music and Refreshments. Fun, Frolic and a Cool Breeze. Mr. Notey Poindexter Gone. POINDEXTER-Died August 18, 1910, at 10:45 A.M. at his home in Williamsport, Pa., Mr. Notey Poindexter, in the fifth year of his age. We carry a fine line of visiting cards. Send your order to us. Miss Mabel Holmes has returned to the city. Mr. D. T. Watson, of Fayetteville, N. C., called on us. Miss Ethel Bowler is quite sick at her residence in North Ninth Street. Mr. W. L. Pannell, of Covington, Va., was in the city. He was en route home. Major Thomas F. Williams, who has been ill for some time, is out again. Mr. Willie Schools, of Philadelphia, Pa., was in the city this week looking well. Dr. Albert A. Tennant and wife, has returned to the city from an extended trip north. He is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Isham have returned from Lynchburg Va. where they visited Mrs. Isham's brother, who is now married and is residing there. —Miss Ollie B. Booker returned to the St. Francis de Sales Institute, Rock Castle, Va., after having spent several days in the city visiting relatives. Lawyer James Alexander Chiles was called to the city last Wednesday from Lexington, Ky. on account of the illness of his wife. She is much improved. Prof. Albert F. Mando, violinist and musical director of the Mando Mozart Conservatory of Music, New York, N. Y., was in the city last week, and called on us in company with Mr. A. J. Gray. Mrs. N. F. Mosselle, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city the guest of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Griffin. She is looking well and is well pleased with the progressiveness of the citizens of this community. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thompson have been attending the session of the Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria in Chicago, Ill. On the return trip they visited Cincinnati, O., Indianapolis, Ind., Pittsburg, Pa. and were highly entertained. Mrs. Alice Jackson, formerly of Richmond, but now of New York City has been on a visit here about four weeks. She visited her cousin, Mrs. Maggie Harris, of Powhatan County, Va. and Mrs. Hetty Smith, on Leigh Street. She left for New York last Saturday. Rev, W. F. Graham, D. D., his wife and his daughters, Misses Eva and Otte, left last Wednesday morning 9 o'clock, via N. & W. R. R. for Arkansas, where they will visit his mother. They will extend their trip to New Orleans, La., attending the sessions of the great National Baptist Convention. Mrs. Ramsey Dies Suddenly. Mrs. A. E. V. Ramsey, wife of Dr. P. B. Ramsey, and mother of Dr. J. Mercer Ramsey, died suddenly at her residence, 115 East Leigh Street last Tuesday night from the rupture of an artery in the calf of her leg. She suffered with varicose veins and had been indisposed the day before. Dr. Ramsey as is his custom had been sitting on out the front porch with her. He got up to go to his K. of P. meeting and she gave him a pencil, with instructions to bring it back. She went into the house after passing her grandchild to its mother. Suddenly Dr. Ramsey saw her stagger and he caught her and forced her in a chair. She became unconscious and it was then discovered that she was bleeding copiously. The carpet in the hall-way was saturated with blood. Dr. William H. Hughes, who happened to be at home at the time responded to the call, and did all that he could to revive her, but she had lost too much blood and was beyond the reach of human aid. She breathed her last and passed away as peacefully as a child. Mrs. Ramsey was a sterling character and she made numerous friends among those who came in contact with her. She was a trained nurse and was well versed in her profession. She was interested in the various movements for the elevation of her people and the grief over her demise is genuine and well nigh universal. Her remains were conveyed to Petersburg last Thursday at 12:10 o'clock where Rev. Dr. Graham Campbell, President of Ingleside Academy at Burkeville conducted the Presbyterian services. Funeral Director A. D. Price had charge of the remains. Nor that they see so late in you, as that they feel solitude on themselves. You are doing much in forcing them employment. Take that from them who have they! The nation respects you the more because of your adverties and your works over them. YELLOW NEWSPAPER KIDS LIMITED TO MIDDLE LEIS HOUSE SMITH of GEORGIA BILLIAN of South Carolina of Mississippi VARDAMAN TOM DIXON of Virginia They have called me rattle, woman president, without ambition. They have written and are no dead of infallibility yet of my system, all are silent, in spite of the noise, at a time, this many Churches. THE LATE NEGRO'S CONSTITUTION IN NATIONAL WEALTH SOVEREIGN ANNUALLY Before the Spectato Before the Spectators in the Gallery. MONUMENT TO JOHN BROWN To be Dedicated by the Negroes in 1913. By Alexander Hamilton Lee. After many years of thought and meditation upon the subject I have concluded to make an effort toward the erection of a monument to John Brown by the colored people. He was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, abolitionists that ever lived. We are nearing our half century of liberty and we have as a race enjoyed and are still enjoying many great blessings as the result of the great efforts of those who through their kind sympathies for our rights and the lofty respect for righteousness in the sight of God started the abolition movement. The most conspicuous of these was John Brown We have advanced very rapidly along some lines, in fact, along most lines, but I think we have been a little slow in doing some things. It seems to me to be our duty, and therefore it should be a pleasure to us, to honor one who has been so great an advocate of our rights and liberty. Since we expect to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the Negro race in 1913, I believe it to be a suitable time for a monument of John Brown to be dedicated. I would also advocate that John Brown's life be taught in the homes and public schools of our race, that the younger generation of the present age and all those that are to follow may learn to know the life and works of this good man. There are many good lessons to be learned from the moral and religious life of John Brown. I do hope that all brothers who love liberty will see the wisdom in this move and lend me their aid and assistance. I am most truly yours, ALEXANDER HAMILTON LEE. —From Advocate Verdict of June 3, 1910. Col. Roosevelt and Dr. Washington The Richmond PLANET protests in three columns of editorial space against the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt for President by exuberant delegates of the Negro Business League, in New York, August 18, "upon the adroit and diplomatic motion" oi Bishop George Washington Clinton. "Adroit and diplomatic motion" is delightfully delightful. We sit at the feet of it and listen. "Can they deliver the goods?" Asks the PLANET. "Those who forced this business organization into the vortex of political agitation, the whirlpool of National politics" or the PLANET phrases it, will have to answer for it. The PLANET states its attitude frankly as follows: "We are all the more amazed that Dr. Washington took up the suggestion where Bishop Clinton left off and emphasized all that he was enthusiastic enough to say. Both of these gentlemen could pledge the National Negro Business League and its many branches, but certainly not the solid support of the colored people outside of this organization. It seems to us that this was the only vital blunder made by this great organization. Stir up the animals; it will do them good and furnish food for thought for those who propose what others dispose as they deem best on election day.—Philadelphia Tribune. The Colonel Comes Back If there ever was any doubt as to Col. Roosevelt's ability to "come back" with the Negro voter it was dispelled at the New York convention of the National Negro Business Men's League. The "discharge without honor" of the black battalion was forgotten and women vied with the men delegates in expressing their approval of the utterances of the man who, while president, taught by precept and example the gospel of the square deal and advocated the doctrine of all men up, not some men down. The Negro has come to see that Colonel Roosevelt was not the worst man who ever sat in the presidential chair. The eyes of the race are opening to the fact that "one swallow does not make a summer", one hasty action against members of the race does not characterize its doer as a Negro hater. This fact would not be so prominent in the minds of the masses if Col. Roosevelt's successor had not adopted and followed a course so different from that of his immediate predecessor. If Mr. Taft had been content to leave well enough alone to reappoint the Negroes already in office or to displace them with other Negroes, they would not have been so ready to see in his every removal a desire to build up a lily wn... party at the expense of the black voter. As it is Col. Roosevelt has "come back" with the Negro good and strong, and in proportion as the Colonel goes up Mr. Taft goes down.—Charleston, West Va. Advocate. WANTED—A Registered Pharmacist in this state wishes a position as clerk or manager of store. For particulars write N. T. PANNELL, Staunton, Va. WANTS "JIM CROW" PARKS A Councilman's Peculiar Resolution, Colored Folks Opposed to it. On the roll call, George McD. Blake, the new member from Monroe Ward, offered something entirely new but something which is designed to cover an old complaint. His resolution, which was sent to the Committee on Grounds and Buildings without comment, provides that in all city parks special sections must be cut off for the accommodation of colored people. According to his plan there will be no discrimination as to quality of benches and other accommodations in the white and colored sections, the object or the ordinance being simply to divide the races very much after the plan of the railroads in providing separate waiting rooms. Complaint that negroes, many of whom have nothing better to do, are overrunning the parks has been made a number of times in the last few years, but up to this time no definite action has been taken. Just what eventually will be done by the Council is a matter of conjecture, but the general impression is that it will pass. This measure would not affect Capitol Square, which is under State control. Mr. Blake also offered a resolution providing that parties applying for liquor licenses be allowed to do so ten days before the time they should be issued instead of thirty days as at present—Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch. September 6, 1910. Norrell - Cribins Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Phillips request your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Adelaide Lolo, to Mr. M. Alphonso Norrell on Thursday, September 15, 1910, at 7:30 o'clock P. M., 720 North Fifth Street. Reception from 8 to 11. (No ards. Friends are invited.) FOR RENT WANTED—Tenants for the following properties: 6 room house, 804 N. Seventh St. 3 room flat, 810 N. Seventh St. 8 room house, 722 N. Third St. 6 rooms and bath, 825 W. Leigh St. 3 room cottage, 931 W. Leigh St. 3 room flat, 513 N. Graham St. 4 room flat, 724 W. Broad St. 4 room flat and bath, 1417 E. Broad St. 6 room flat and bath, 1417 E. Broad St. 6 rooms and bath, 5 E. Clay St. Apply to B. A. CEPHAS, Agent, 602 North Second Street, 'Phone, Monroe-588. 5TH ST. BAPT. CHURCH Located, Cor. 5th and Jackson Sts, RICHMOND, VA. Weekly News Column. REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., Pastor Residence: 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, Editor Office: 1215 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va Last Sunday morning services at Fifth Street Baptist Church were solemnized by the funeral of Sister Mary Blunt Baker, one of the founders of the church. During her lifetime she was one of those class of members that could always be relied upon to comply to every request of the church, from a financial standpoint. Pastor Dr. W. F. Graham preached a feeling sermon, one that caused one to think and consider. Among the ministers present were: Revs. Jacos Turner, W. H. Harris and Rev. W. H. Watkins, who prayed a heartfelt prayer. The choir as usual, rendered lovely music suited to the occasion. At 3:30 o'clock Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham addressed the Y. M. C. A. Darius Harris and George Wilkerson Derius Harris and George Wilkerson favored the audience with five solos. Prof. E. T. Pollard's Y. M. C. A. chorus deserves credit for the fine music rendered. A vote of thanks was tendered the Doctor for his fine address. The Y. M. C. A. is doing great work for the salvation of young men. Dr. Scott Burrell its secretary, has done great work in promoting the object of its creation and has plans on foot for the erection of a new building. Let everybody lend a helping hand to the cause and see to it that such a building is erected as will reflect credit to the race, row much will you give, and when will you give it? Let Dr. Burrell near from you as soon as possione, the Y. M. C. A. has proven to be a blessing in our community. Let every body resolve to do more to aid this institution than they have done in the past. Sunday night, Pastor Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham preached a fine sermon, which was enjoyed by all present. On Wednesday morning he will leave with his family to visit his mother in Arkansas. His mother is now eighty-five years old, and desires to see the Doctor and his family and have a motherly and family communication, hence, the Doctor thought it beating and right to comply with the wishes of his dear mother; hence, he will take a vacation for about thirty days, in order that the wishes of mother will be compiled with, during which time he and his family will visit the National Convention, which will meet in New Orleans, and thence to Mississippi, to see the parents of his wife, Mrs. Josie A. Graham. The church prays them a pleasurable and happy trip and a return in safety. Rev. Rev. B. Brown, of New York, will occupy the pulpit, Sundays the 11th and 18th. Church is reported to be an extra fine and great preacher. Come out and hear him. Before leaving the Pastor arranged for a rally on the fourth Sunday in October, as the Fall rally. The church has voted the same and asks every member and club to do its duty. Macedonia Club, of which Sister Callie Brown is president., Sister Josephine Baker, secretary, and Sister Virginia Cheatham, treasurer, together with the rest of the members have started to work with the view of leading as they did in the last rally. Sister Callie Brown is one of the greatest workers in the church, and she has a fine corps of officers and members who believe when they determine to do a thing they will always accomplish their purpose. The Macedonia Club having lead in the June Rally is now the banner club, and Sister Brown says she has no fears of the Macedonia Club losing its title in October; that she feers she has the best club ever organized in the church. That if she can beat the deacon's and usher's clubs, what right has she to fear any other? (Sunday school last Sunday morning witnessed a rare treat. Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton opened school at 9:30 o'clock. Miss Annie Brown, pianist and Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy, organist, played sweet music. Teachers taught classes for twenty minutes after which the program was well rendered: peer, "Our Duty to Our Sunday School, R. C. Mitchell: Solo, Miss Lucy Williams; Paper "Why Young Men Do Not Attend the Sunday-school," Miss L. B. Walker; Soto, Miss Louvina Dorsey: Selection, "Thanatopsis," Miss Estelle D. Ward. The school is increasing numerically and in interest. Parents will please send their children to Sunday-school and send them early to be on PRICE, FIVE CENTS time. Estelle Ward. B. Y. P. U. meeting nights, Friday nights of each and every week. Press. John W. Howard wants to see every member Friday night. Come out at 8:30 o'clock P. M. Don't forget prayer services Wednesday night. Rev. James Pinkney lead the meeting during the absence of Pastor Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham. Rev. James Pinkney is a worthy young man and a Christian gentleman. Just such a young man to be at work in such a position. Come out and help him. No one can do such work alone. Be on time Wednesday night. Col Roscoe C. Mitchell, secretary of Fifth St. Bapt. Sunday School had his Pythian Cadets out again Labor Day. They made a fine showing as did the Uniform Rank of Pythians, under command of General John Mitchell, Jr. The entire community of colored people feel proud of them. The Negro Baptist Old Folks' Home of Richmond, Va. To the Generous and Charity Loving Public of our City: We the officers of the above named institution, appeal to you in the name of our Lord and Master, and in the name of the worthy old mothers and fathers of our race to help us raise $3,800.00 to free the home of this burden under which it is struggling so hard. THE PLAN We ask each man to give to the Home one dollar inside of one month, and each woman to give fifty cents within 30 days. This money as it is contributed is to be placed in the bank to the credit of the Home. We invite you to come and inspect it and see if this is worthy of your help. We have 15 old ladies there, go and see them, for you may have to go some day. We shall hope to have a contribution list in several of the dailies and one of the weeklies and every person contributing to the fund, their names will appear in the contributor's list. Persons wishing to contribute, will find receipts at the following named places: Reformers' Bank, N. Second St., Mr. R. T. Hill, Cashier; St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Broad Street, Mr. Emmett C. Burke, Cashier; Mechanics' Savings Bank, Mr. Thomas Wyatt, Cashier; First Baptist Church Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Pastor; Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., pastor; Sixth Mountain Zion Baptist Church, Rev. R. V. Peyton, D. D., pastor. R. V. PEYTON, President, W. H. STOKES, Secretary Mr. C. C. Williams Gone Mr. C. C. Williams, a well-known citizen of Richmond, died at his residence, 607 N. Second Street, Tuesday, September 6, 1910, at 8:20 P.M. after a lingering illness. He is survived by his widow and several children. Funeral services Friday 9th inst., at 11 o'clock at Fifth Street Baptist Church. Presented a Badge On Friday night, September 2, 1910, at the meeting of Planet Auxiliary, Planet Co., No. 8, presented the president of the Auxiliary, Mrs. Lucy Cross, a handsome badge made up in red, blue and yellow ribbon, embellished with gold. The presentation address was made by Lieut. B. H. Peyton, adjutant, first battalion, first regiment. Mrs. Cross was overcome with joy, and responded in words befitting the occasion. Thomas W. Fleming of Cleveland, Ohio. Named for Third Term as Athletic Director. City Councilman Thomas W. Fleming, of Cleveland, Ohio, was elected as a member of the Ohio Republican State Executive Committee, at a meeting of the State Central Committee, held in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, August 25th. This is Mr. Fleming's third term as a member of the committee, he having succeeded George A. Myers, of Cleveland on the committee in 1906. Mr. Fleming is the leading colored politician in Ohio, and was the first Negro to be elected to the City Council in Cleveland, he being elected last Fall. Forty-two members constitute the committee. The other colored members appointed were H. T. Eubanks, Lakewood, O., Charles R. Doll, Chilicothe, O., and William Copeland, Cincinnati, O. The Ohio campaign will open September 17th and signs point to the election of Warren G. Harding for governor and the endire Republican ticket in November. —Cleveland Journal. —Please do not bor ow this paper. GRETOIEN was always up when the morning was rocy, when the trees were still dark and mottoises and the heads of dow white and frostlike, for what is better than to meet the day as it comes over the mountains and silence breaks here and there in the houses and streets, in the fields and the vineyards? Let old age, which has played its part and taken to the wings of the stage—let old age lotter in the morning, but not green years. Gretchen awoke as the birds awoke, with snatches and little trills of song. To her nearest neighbors there was about her that which reminded them of the regularity of a good clock; when they heard her voice they knew it was time to get up. She was always busy in the morning. The tinkle of the bell outside brought her to the door, and her two goats same pattering in to be relieved of their creamy burden. Gretchen was then they looked no more at all. The mourner she and unkilled them they went tinkling-off to the steep pasture. Even in mild summer the dawn was chill in Dreiberg. Gretchen blow on her fingers. The fire began its cheerful crackle, the kettle boiled briskly, and the frunal breakfast was under way. There was daily one cup of coffee, but neither Gretchen nor her grand-mother claimed this luxury; it was for the sick woman on the third floor. What the character of the woman's illness was Gretchen hadn't an idea, but there could be no doubt that she was ill, desperately, had the gosse girl but known it. Her face was thin and the bones were visible under the drumlike skin; her hands were merely claws. She mystified the girl, for she never complained, never asked questions, talked but little, and always smiled kindly when the pillow was fresheed. "Good morning, frau," said Gretchen. "Good morning, liebchen." "I have brought you a brick this morning, for it will be cold till the sun is high." "Thank you." Gretchen pulled the deal table to the side of the cot, poured out the coffee and buttered the bread. "I ought not to drink coffee, but it is the only thing that warms me. You have been very patient with me." "And that is why I love you. Now. I have some instructions to give you this morning. Presently I shall be leaving, and there will be something besides crown." "You are thinking of leaving?" "Yes. When I go I shall not come back. Under my pillow there is an envelope. You will find it and keep it." Gretchen, young and healthy, touched not this melancholy undercurrent "You will promise to take it?" "Yes, frau" "Thanks, little goosling. I have an envid for you this morning. It will take me a while." "To the palace" echoed Gretchen "What shall I do?" "You will seek her highness and give her this note." "The princess! Will they not laugh and turn me out?" "If they try that, demand to see his excellence Count von Herbeck and say that you came from No. 40 Krummer." "And if I cannot get in?" "You will have no trouble. Be sure, though, to give the note to no one but her highness." Gretchen decked her beautiful head with a little white cap, which she wore only on Sundays and at the opera, and braided and peribonbon her hair. Who was this old woman who thought nothing of writing a letter to her serene highness! And who were her serene highness? And who were her nocturnal visitors who poured. Being of a discerning mind, she filled about the Platz till after 9, for it had been told to her that the great sleep rather late in the morning. What should she say to her serene highness? What kind of courtesy should she have to the soldier near him humble servile aid for Grotteau a bit of a Socialist. Did not Herr Goldberg, whom the police detected—did he not say that all men were equal? And surely this sweeping statement included women. With a confidence born of right and innocence she proceeded toward the east or side gates of the palace. The sentry smiled at hen. "I have a letter for her serene highness," she said. "Leave it." "I am under orders to give it to her highness herself." "You cannot enter the gardens without a permit." Gretchen remembered. "Will you send one to his excellency the chancellor and tell him I have come from No. 40 Krumerweg?" "Krumerweg! The very name ought to close any gate. But, girl, are you speaking truthfully?" Gretchen exhibited the note. He extracted his skin, perplexed. "Rin'along. If they ask me I'll say that I don't see you." The sentry reminded his best. Gretchen stepped inside the gates, and the best beauty of the gardens was revealed to her the first time she stared down she had never seen before. It was all a fairyland. There were marble stairs will hanging vines and stone statues. "A head grouped her rodally by the arm." JU By HAROLD MacGRATH Copyright, 1909, by the Bobba-Merrill Company I "IN YOUR PRESENCE, HIGHNESS?" Something in her glance cooled even the warm blooded Hermann. "But you live in Dreidel and ought to know." You could have told me without bringing my arm," douglasly "Hermann." Gretchen and the head gardener whirled. Through a bodge which divided the formal gardens from the tennis and archery grounds came a young woman in riding habit "What is the trouble, Hermann?" she inquired "Your highness, this young woman here had the impudence to walk into the gardens." "Has she stolen any flowers?" "Why, no, your highness, but it is not customary." We, you and I, Hermann," said her highness, with a smile that won Gretchen on the spot. "will overlook this first offense. Perhaps this young lady had some errand and lost her way." "Yes, your highness," replied Gretchen en eager. "Ah! You may go, Herrmann." Hermann bowed, gathered up his pruning knives and delicators, which he had let fall, and sanked down the path. "Whom were you seeking?" her highness asked, startled by the undeable beauty of this peasant. "I was seeking your serene highness. I live at No. 40 the Krumerweg. "Krumerweg?" Her highness reached for the note and read, and as she read tears gathered in her eyes. "Follow me," she said. She led Gretchen to a marble bench and sat down. "What is your name?" "Gretchen, highness." "Well, Gretchen, sit down." "In your presence, highness?" against. "Don't bother about my presence on a morning like this. Sit down." This was a command, and Gretchen obeyed with slurry. The two are mutely. They were strangely alike. Their eyes nearly matched, their hair, even the shape of their faces. They were similarly molded, too, only one was slender and graceful after the manner of fashion, while the other was slender and graceful directly from the hands of nature. They were lifted off the ground, in their hands. The princess had never toled with her fingers except on the piano. Gretchen had plucked greece and dug vegetables with hers. They were, rough, but toll had not robbed them of their natural grace. "How was she?" her highness asked. "About the same, highness." "Have you wondered why she should write to me?" should," was Gretchen's frank admission. "She took me in when nobody knew who I, was clothed and fed me and taught, me mined so, that some day I should not be helpless when the battle of life began. Ah, impatiently, 'had I my way she would be bound in the palace, set in the lofty, Krametwave. But my father does not know that she is in Dürberg, and we have not tell her what I would do with my abduction. That she supported. She was drastic, making the present, 'we confidant.' What a palm! Gretchen, did not move. She saw that her husband was deafening, and she herself had dreamed. GIRL "Do you like music?" "Highness, I am always singing." "La, la, laf" sang the princess casually. "Brava!" clud the princess. "Who taught you to slug?" "Nobody, highness." "What do you do?" "I am a goose girl. In the fall and winter I work at odd times in the Black Eagle. "Tell me all about yourself." This was easy for Gretchen; there was so little. "Nother mother nor father. Our lives are something alike. A handsome girl like you must have a sweetheart." Her highness did not take offense. Rather she liked this frankness. It was a taste of the old days when she herself could have chosen a vintner and married him with none, to say her nay. She surrendered to impulse. "Gretchen, I do not think I shall marry the king of Jugendheit." "You must not ask questions like that, Grechenen." This was not understandable to Grechenen, but a locket the princess were pleased her eye. Her highness, observing her interest, slipped the trinket from her neck and laid it in Grechenen's hand. "Open it," she said. "It is a picture of my mother, whom I do not collect hying ever seen. I will open it for you." Click! Grechenen sighed deeply. To have had a mother so fair and pretty? She hadn't an idea how her own mother and looked indeed, being sensible and ready to coaxing she and rarely bothered her head about it. Still, as she gazed at this pertinent sense of her isolation and loneliness drew down upon her, and she in her inn sought the dowers and saw them not. After awhile she closed the locket and returned it. "So you love music" picking up the safer thread. "Ah, yes, highness." "I will give you an opera ticket for the season. How can I reward you for bringing this message? Don't have any false pride. Ask for something." Well, then, highness, give me an award, grand duke's head hinder for a place." "For the man who is to become your husband." "Yea, highness." "You shall have it tomorrow. Now, come with me I am going to take you to Herr Ernst. He is the direktor of the opern He rehearses in the court theater this morning." Gretchen followed the princess. As her highness entered the Blohue jazz director she music in the little gallery which serves as the royal box sat several indies and gentlemen of the court, the grand duke being among them. "I have brought you a prima donna, Herr Director," pointing to Gretchen. Herr Director showed his teeth. "What shall she sing in, your highness? We are rehearsing The Bohemian Girl." he feasted. The chorus and singers on the little stage exchanged smiles. "I want your first violin," and her highness. "Anton!" A youth stood up in the orchestral pit. "Now, your highness," said the herr direk.or. "Try her voice." And the herr direktor saw that she was not smiling. He hade the violinist to draw his bow over a single note. "Imitate it, Gretchen," commanded her highness, "and don't be afraid." Gretchen lifted her voice. He was sweeter and mellower than the violin, "Again!" the herr direktor cried. Without apparent effort Gretchen passed from one note to another, now high, now low, or strong or soft; a trill, a run. The violinist of his own accord began the jewel song from "Fanat." Gretchen did not know the words, but she carried the melody without mishap. And then I "Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls." This song she knew word for word, and, ah, she sump it with strumming and marbling. One by one the musicians dropped their instruments to their knees. All realized that a great voice was being tried before them. The herr direktor struck his music stand sharply. "Your highness has played a fine jest this day. Where does, madness your great alp—in Berlin or Vienna?" "In quellher," answered her highness. "She lives in Droebel, and, till this morning I never saw her before." The berr direktor stared blankly from her highness to Gretchen and back to her highness again. Then he grasped it. Here was one of those moments when the gods make gifts to mortals. "You have a great voice, fraulein. I shall teach you. I shall make you a great singer." But Gretchen never became a prima donna. There was something different on the knees of the gods. T I P, graind, date, stamped, back and forth, with a dumbbell as a measure, stained, T I P, would play, with a dumbbell as T I P, would and sound like this time, T I P, would and He "And else as He powerf spoke remain Had And no his bett front w ble. War: for it. now. Hertford can easily in- ter, who else couldn't you have left? The duke uses the note down on the deck. Herbert pleaded it up and worked out the crease. "Well!," The query tingled with rage. The answer on the chancellor's lips was not obscured. Hildegard came in. He embraced her and kissed her brow. "Read," she said to the duke to her. She slipped from her father's arms and looked with plyt at the chancellor. "What do you think of this, Hildegard?" "By father, I think it is the very beating in the world?" dryly. "An insult like this?" The duke grew rigid. "You accept it calmly, this fahibou!" "Shall it weep and tear my hair over a boy I have never seen? No, thank you. I was about to make known to you this evening that I had reconsidered the offer. I shall never marry his majesty." "Your highness, the regent is really not to blower, for his majesty had given him free rein in the matter, and his royal highness, working as I have been for the best interests of the two countries, dreamed that the king would rebel." The king has been generous enough to leave the publicity in our hands: "It is to say, he agrees to accept the humiliation of being rejected by her servant highness." "That is very generous of him!" said the duke sarcastically. "Send for Ducwitz." "Ducwitz, your highness?" cried the chancellor, chilled. "Immediately?" "Your highness, if you call Ducwitz I shall surreinder my portfolio." The chancellor wils firm. "Do so. There are others to take up your work." Hildegarde dew to the duke's slob and snatched at his sieve. "Father, you are mad!" "At least, you must in Ehrenstein Herbeck. You will have the kindness to summon, General Duwitz." "Your highness, replied Herbeck. I have worked long and faithfully in service. I can not recollect that I do so now. Do not send for Duwitz tonight. See him in the morning. This is no time for haste. You will throw the army into Juendebell, and there will follow a bloody war." "I will have my revenge!" stubbornly. "Father, listen to me. I am the atfured person." "I—alone—have the right to say what shall be done in the matter. And say to you if you do know the enemy, his excellency and bring war and death to Ehrenstein. I will never forgive you—never, never. You are wrong, wrong, and I, your daughter, tell you so frankly. Leave it to me. There will be neither war nor humiliation." "My deaf child," he said, "I have suffered too much at the hands of Ju gendhelt. It was my daughter the first time: It is my honor now." nopbuild. D "Will it balance war and dovasation?" the girl asked quietly. "Is it not grate rather than honor? The prince regent imade a pardonable blunder. Do not you, my father, make an unpardonable one?" "A porfita to the judgment?" a sild the chancellor insisted. "It all allows." "WILL IT BALANCE it all rest upon WAR and DEVASTA my shoulders. I TION!" alone am to blame. It was I who first suggested the alliance." Notwithstanding that he was generally hasty, the duke was a just man. He offered his hand, with half a smile. "You are blinding me farwell, your highness?" and Herbeck. "No, count. I would not let you go for half my duchy. Even a duke may be too sometimes left in his cold hand upon the duke's. Then he went over to her highness and kissed her hand gratefully, for it was truly at her feet the wreath of victory jay." "Highness," he said softly, "you shall marry when you will." "Add where." "I wound that," I could make it so. But there is a penalty for being placed, so high. We cannot change this un written law." "Heaven did not write it," she replied. "No; my daughter," said the duke "Man is at the bottom of all the kinke- and twister in this short life, not heu- en. But Horbeck is right. You shall marry when you will." The knock of the valet was again heard. "Your highness, there is a young woman outside a peasant who desires to speak to life a serene highness. What! She enters the palace, who out and into many treasures she finds. By my question, she asks the king died of vision. In God, she is of the Kronenweg. Adolf her." (Horbeck is taken in by Horbeck.) robec. tell them to put everything de." ended the note in his hand ily. it was anonymous, but it clearly, like truth. The sender undiscoverable. be not opposed it for months? w, having surrendered against er judgment, this gratuous af- as offered him. It was damn- le smote the offending note. Nothing less. He was prepared Twenty thousand troops were the valley, and there were eserves. ck came calmly in. the devil couldn't you have Herbek was a strong man. He was always, far removed from tears, but there was a mist over the usual clarity of his vision. He ripped down the map. It was only a simple note to her sorene bighight begging her to give the inclosed banknotes to one Grethen, who lived in the Krummerweg. The notes represented n thousand crowns. "Take them, little goose girl," said the duke. "Your ship has come in. This will be your dowry." An ice shiver ran up and down Grethen's spine, a shiver of wonder, delight, terror. A thousand crowns! A fortune! "And I shall add to it another thou sand," said Hildegarde. "Give to me, to me." Fortune amounted to lit the more than $400, to but to Grethen, frugal, and thrifty, to whom a single crown, was a large sum, to her it represented wealth. She was now the richest girl in the lower town. Dreams of kieldsoeocap variety flow through her head. Tears sprang into her eyes. She had the power to do no more tun ween. The duke was the first to referee the awkwardness of the moment. "Count, has it not occurred to you that we stand in the presence of two very beautiful young women?" Herbck scratched Gretchen with care. He compared her with the princess. The duke was right. And the thing which struck him with most force was that, while each possessed a beauty individual to herself, it was not opposite, but strangely alike. When the duke was alone he slowly passed on to his secretary and opened a drawer. He laid a small bundle on the desk and untied the string. One by one he rung the articles—two little yellow shoes, a little cloak trimmed with wristle. There had been a socket, but that was now worn by her highness. Hermann Breunner lived in the granite lodge just within the ancient quater of the royal gardens. He was a widower and shared the ample lodge with the undergardener and their families. He was a man of brooding mood, and there was no laughter in his withered heart. He adjusted his heavy spectacles and wore a hat with a wward the candle. A note or a letter was a singular event in Hermann's life. This note, left by the porter of the Grand hotel, moved him with surprise. It requested that he present himself at 8 o'clock at the office of the hotel and ask to be directed to the room of Hans Grumbch, who might be might. • He decided to go. Certainly this man Grumbch did not urge him with permission. He clerged at the hotel, who knew Hermann, conducted him to room 10 on the entree. Hermann knocked. A voice hides him enter. "You wished to see me?" "Yes," offering a chair. "You are Hermann Breunner." be- came the name. You once had a bachelor named Hanna." Hermann grew rigid in his chair. "I have no brother." "You did have." Hermann's hand dropped. "My God, yes, I did have a brother, but he was a scoundrel." "Perhaps he was a scoundrel. He is—dead!" softly. "God's will be done." But Hermann's face turned lighter. "As a boy he loved you." "And not love him?" said Hermann's face. "Did I not worship that boy, who was move like a son to me than a brother?" "I knew your brother, I knew him well. He was not a scoundrel, only weak. He went to America and became successful in business. He fought with the north in the war. He was not a coward. He did his fighting bravely and desperately. He died facing the enemy, and his last words' were of you. He begged your forgiveness. He implored that you forget that shock moment. He was young, he said, and they offered him a thousand crowns. Inge moment of despair he fell." "Despair! Did he confess?" "Did he tell you to whom he sold his honor?" "That he never knew. A gryp from the hills came to him, so he said." "From Judge Dudleit?" "I say that he knew nothing. He believed that the gryp wanted her brightness to hold for ransom. Hans spoke of a girl called Tekla." "Tekla? Ah yes; Hans was in love with that doll face." "Hans followed the band of gryples into the mountains. The real horror of his age did not come home to him till then. An the remove! But it was too late. They dressed the little one in tags. But when i ran away from them I took her little shoes and cloak and locket." "Herrmann was on his feet. Grumba's eyes were as bright and glowing as coal." "Blood mourn for me, No, Hanna!" "Resides, I have made a will, at my death you will be rich." "Rich!" "Yes, Hermann. I am worth 200,000 crowns." "Hermann breathed with effort." "But riches are not everything." "Sometimes, they are little enough, Hans agreed." "Oh why did you do it?" "Have I not told you, Hermann?" There is nothing more to be added. Then, with raping passalor, "Notjing more now than my heart" blistered with blood and perspiration, God knows that I have repented and repented. I went to war because I wanted to be killed. They shot me here and here and here, and this saber cut would have split the skull of any other man. But it was willed that I should come back here." "My poor brother! You must fly The chancellor is unpleasant." "I know that, but since you my, brother, failed to identify me certainly his excellency will not. And you will not betray me when I tell you that I have returned principally to find out whence came those thousand crowns." "A! Find that out, Hans; yes, yes!" Hermann began to look more like himself. "But what was your part?" "Mine? I was to tell, where her highness and her nurse were to be at a certain hour of the day, nothing more. My running away was the expression of my guilt; otherwise they would never have connected me with the abduction." Hans rose. "Hans, have you no other greeting?" Hermann asked, spreading out his arms. The wanderer's face beamed, and the brothers embraced. "You forgive me, then. Hermann!" "Must I not, little Hans? You are all that is left me of the blood. True. I swore that if ever I saw you again I should curse you." "And what has of the principal cause? Tekla!" "Bah! She is fat and homely and the mother of seven squalling children." "What a world! To think that Tekla should be at the bottom of all this tangle!" "A rap on the door startled them. Hans slowly opened the door. Carl michael block outside." "Ah, captain!" Hans shook Carmen by the hand and drew him in to the room. Hermann passed into the hall and softly closed the door after him. It was better that the American should not see the emotion which still illuminated his face. Carmichael put in a counter query "was you was your mother doore here" "I had a dog." In his told him who I am. "Was it wise?" He will talk neither in his sleep nor in his walking hours. He has forgiven me." "For what?" thoughtlessly. "The time for explanations has not yet come, captain." "Pardon me, Grummit. But I came to bring you the invitation to the military ball." The bread white envelope emblazoned with the royal arms fascinated Hans, not by its resplendency, but by the possibilities which it afforded. "Thank you. It was very good of you." "It was a pleasure, comrade. What do you say to an hour or two at the Black Eagle? We'll grown our sorrows together." The Black Eagle was lively, as usual, and there were some familiar faces. The vintner was there, and so was Gretten. Carminchael halled her. "This is my last night here, Herr Carminchael," she said. "Somebody has left you a fortune?" There was a jostle of Carminchael's eyes. "Yes," replied Gretchen, her lips unsmiling. "The poor lady who fired on the top floor of my grandmother's house was rich. She left me a thousand crowns." "And, what will you do with all that money?" asked Iman. "I am going to study music." "I thought you were going to be married soon," said Carmichael. "Surely, But that will not hinder. I shall have enough for two." The vintner scowled over the top of his paper, Carmichael eyed him mischievously. Gretchen picked up her copers and went away. Hans abstractedly. "She might be Hebe with no trouble at all." At that day there was only one newspaper in Diefenbog, the vitinier presently amused, down the journal, opened his knife and cut out a paragraph. Carmichael followed his movements jolly. The vitinier, crushed the remains of the sheet into a ball and dropped it to the floor. Then he danced his beer, rose and proceeded, down the white leading to the rinkmaster below. Carmichael called a waitress and asked her to bring a copy of that day's paper. Meanwhile he recovered the vitinier paper, and wrote his daughter the two poems he wrote in a simple form. Carmichael was a kind and careful preparer of the procession. "There was no need to add to it," the waitress said. "The little boy leaves. It may not notate the anthem but the American was proud over the routine. There were no additions to it." The boy had informed the vitinier. "Do you care for a little boy?" The waitress said. "We will back to the hotel." At that time the little boy Herr Gaderybern had the follow-up hit with his girlfriend. Carmichael brushed in his hair. "So I am to the world, to you all who knew me," quietly. "Why have you returned? The will hang you." "Perhaps I am a fool, perhaps willing to pay the penalty of my At least that was uppermost. learned that her highness has found, and the rope is not mad will fit my neck. Will you dem me, brother?" "I?" "Why not? Five thousand still hang over me." "Blood money for me? No. He 'Besides, I have made a will my death you will be rich." faited 'Where is the grand duke' pride we have heard so much about 'Are we, then, afraid of Zu- gendrecht' | 'No' roared in ```markdown ``` Not roped his auditors, will have a plan brothers. It will show the duke to what desperation he has driven us at last. We will "A ART'S WE, THEN, mob the Jugend-abraid OR JOUNKED holt embassy on hurt? " the day of the wedding, we will tear it apart, brick by brick, stone by stone." "Hurrah! cried the polis ones. The noise subsided. Gretchen spoke. "Her serene highness will not marry the king of Jugendhaut. "Indeed, and Goldberg, bowing with ridicule. "Since when did her sorene highness make you her condant?" "Her serene, highness told me so herself." A roar of laughter went up, for the majority of them thought that Gretchen was indulging in a little pleasanty. "Hohot So you are on speaking terms with her highness?" Herr Goldberg laughed. "Is there anything strange in this face she sheared?" Scholz Herr Goldberg. "Since when did goose girls become intimate with her serene highness." "Does not your socialism teach that we are all equal?" The vintner thumped, with his skis in approval, and others imitated him. Goldberg was no ordinary fool. He sidestepped defiant by an assumption of frankness. "Tell us about it. Tell us under what circumstances you met her blissiness. Every one knows that this marriage is to take place." Gretchen nodded. "Nevertheless, her highness has changed her mind." And she recounted picturesque her adventure in the royal gardens, and all lures on her words in a kind of maze. "Hurrah!" abutted the vintner. "Louz live her highness. Down with Jgundheit." There was a fine chorus. A police officer and three assistants came down the stairs quietly. caught down the room quietly. "Let no one have this room!" she offered an敏 strightly. The draught of smoke was succeeded by a bait of confusion. "No, there! Stop him, you!" It was the wisteria who caused this cry, and the agility with which she scrambled through the window into the blind alley was an inspiration. "After him!" yelled the officer. But they searched in vain. "Out into the street, every mother's son of you!" cried the officer. "This is your last warning. Goldberg. The next time you go to prison." Gretchen alone remained. It was her duty to carry the stalk up to the bar. The officer, rather thorough for his kind, studied the floor under the window. He found a cutting from a newspaper. This interested him. "Do you know who this fellow was?" with a jerk of his head toward the window. "He is Leopold Dietrich, a visitor, and we are soon to be married." "He is new to Dreiberg. Perhaps he thought you were going to arrest every one." "Ask him if he is not a spy from Jugendheit," the officer said roughly. The stolens clicked crisply in Grochen's arms. One of them fell and brooked her feet. LOVE'S DOUBTE, GRETCHEN, troubled in heart and mind over the strange great of the night, walked slowly home. A footstep from behind caused her to start. The vinter took her roughly in his arms and kissed her many times. "Gretchens." She did not speak. "What is it?" "You ask?" "Was it a crime, then, to jump out of the window?" He lunged. Gretchen's face grew sterner. "Were you afraid?" "Do you moment. I have never run aoul the police. I thought perhaps, wore all to be arrested." He could care to have the police ask you questions? "What is all this absent?" He pulled her toward him so that he could look into her eyes. "What is the matter? Answer?" "Are you not a spy from Jugendhal? truth." He holds aside her hand. "Sot. The first doubt that enters your ear finds harbor both. A say from Jugendhal! That is a police suggestion, and you will do." Do you keep it? "Yes, proudly, snatching his hat from his head and throwing it violently at her feet." We deny it. I am, but a spy from country." "**have asked you many questions**" "and asked, 'but you are always laughing'" "If you a bleakest way to avoid an awning'" "The winner now himself at the end" "finthest hour of hate, commit it, so wrinkl, if you, you must have forgiven, we will go to the justice barren and with kind words'" "**Wood**" "fnk for me." "Forgive me," brokonly. "I insist. This thing must be righted publicly." "I and I was thinking that the man I loved was a coward!" "I am braver than you dream, Gretchen." And in truth he was, for he was about to set forth for the lion's den and only amazing cleverness could extract him. The police bureau was far away, but the distance was nothing to these healthy young people. It was Gretchen who drew back fearfully. The subchief of the bureau received them with ill conceived surprise. "I have learned that you are seeking me," said the vintner; taking off his cap. Immediately the subchief did not know what to say. This was out of the ordinary. "You are not a native of Dresberg," he began. "No, herr; I am from Bavaria. You will find that my papers were presented two or three weeks ago." The vipther's passapora were produced. The stuhchef compared them wuy to the corresponding number in his book There was nothing wrong about them "What is your business?" "I am a vintimer by trade, herr." "I am a vinder by trade, hert. "Why did you jump out of the window? "I was frightened at first, hern. I believed that we were all to be arrested." "You accused him of being a Judgenthenday." broke in Gretchen "What have you to say?" "I deny it." "Read this." It was the cutting. The vintner read it, his brows drawn together in a puzzled frown. "I can make nothing of this, herr. When I cut this out of the paper it was to preserve the notice on the other side." The vintner returned the cutting. The subchief read aloud Vintners and presses and pruners wanted for the season. Find and liberal compensation. Apply Holtz. Gretchen laughed joyously, the vintner grinned; the subchief swore under his breath. "The devil fly away, with you both! he cried, making the beat of his chirrin. "And when you marry don't invite me to the wedding." After they had gone, however, he called for an assistant. "Did you see that young vintner?" "Yeah." "Follow him night and day. Find out where he lives and what he does and gassack his room if possible. He is either an innocent man or a sleek vassal. Report to me this time each night." On reaching the street Gretchen gave rein to her laughter. As they turned into the Krummerweg they almost ran into Carmichael. "Herr Carmichael!" said Gretchen. "And what are you doing here this time of the night?" "I am looking for a kind of ghost, a specter in black that leaves the palace early in the evening and returns late, whose destination has invariably been 40 Krummerweg." The vintner started. "My house?" asked Gretchen. "Torn? Perhaps you can dispel this phantom?" asked Carmichael. "She was a lady who comes on a charitable errand. But now she will come no more. The object of her visits is gone." Gretchen answered sadly. "Well, I will not tell." "Are you not afraid to walk about in this part of the town so take!" put in the vintner. "Afraid! Of what? Thieves! Bah, my little man! I carry a sword stick, and, moreover, I know how to use it tolerably well. Good night." And he awwing along. The vintner was not patient tonight. "Who is this mysterious woman?" "I am not free to tell yob." "Oh!" "Leopold, what is the matter with you tonight? You get like a boy." "I am wrong, Greichen. You are right. Kelsey." She liked the fighter, she liked the vintner, though they hurt. Good night, my man, she whispered. Good night, my woman. Together now night, my woman. Together He tucked her in tightly and swirled aimers, he hitler; a butcher and a housemaid stepped cautiously forth. "He heard something," said the mountaineer. "He has ears like a rat for hearing. What a pretty picture!" typically, "All the world loves a lover sometimes. Touching scenes." No one replied; no one was expected to reply. More than that, no one carded to court the fury which lay thily disguised in the mountaineer's tones. "Tomorrow night, you heard what he said. I am growing weary of this play. You will alon him on his way to yonder house. A closed carriage will be at hand. Before he enters, remember. She watches bird too long when he leaves. Fool!" The quartet stole along in the darkness nolessly and secretly. The vintner had indeed heard something. He knew not what this noise was, butd't was enough to set his heels to dying. His room held a cot, a table and two chairs. Out of the drawer in the table he took several papers and burned them. Ah!" A patch of white paper just inside the door caught his eye. He fetched it to the candle. What he forced the color from his cheeks, and his hands were touched with transient palay. "The devil! What shall I do now? he muttered.— What indeed should he do? Which way should he move? Carmichael, Carmichael! The vintner chuckled softly as he scribbled this note If Harr Carmichael would learn the secret of No. 6 Krumerweg, let him attire himself as a vintner and in the Krumerweg at 3 o'clock tonight. "No there is a trap, and I am to beware of a mountainer, a carter, a butcher and a baker? Thanks, Bhar sonstein, my friend, thanks! You are watching over me." --- Colonel von Wallenstein curled his mustaches. It was a happy thought that had taken him into the Aldergase. This Gretchen had been haunting his dreams, and here she was coming into his very arms, as it were. Gretchen stopped, a cold furry in her heart; "I am not going to let you pass till I have had a kiss." "Ah!" Battle flamed up in Gretchen eyes. "Will you let me by peacefully?" "After the toll—after the toll" Too late she started to run. He laughed and caught hold of her. With a supreme effort she freed herself and struck him across the face. Quickly a flash she whirled around and ran to the street. The one hope for Gretchen, now lay in the Black Eagle and in the tavern she darted excitedly. "Frau Bauer," she cried, "must come behind your counter?" Wallenstein came in. His hand hot against his stinging cheek, was telltale enough for the proprietress of the Black Eagle. "Shame!" she cried. "She shall stay here all day." declared Frau Bauer decidedly. "I can wait." The colonel made for the door. But there was a formidable bulk in the doorway "What is going on here little gossip girl?" asked the grizzled old man "Herr Colonel insulted me" "Insulted you?" the colonel laughed bolsterously "Out of the way" he angrered "He tried to kiss me," said Gretchen "The man who tries to kiss a woman against her will is always at heart a coward," said the mountainer "The colonel seized the old man by the shoulder to push him aside. He put out one of his arms and clasped the colonel in such a manner that he gasped. He was in the clutch of a Carpathian hear "I will kill you for this" I will kill you for this. "So y'all. The old man thrust him back several feet without any visible exertion. He let his staff slide into his hand. The colonel drew his sword and lunged toward his awaillant. The old man laughed. He turned the throne with his staff. Then the old man struck back. The saber rattled to the stone flooring. The victor put his foot upon it. On his part the colonel's blood suddenly cooled. "My sword," the colonel de- The colonel drew his saber and lingered toward his assistant. The old man laughed. He turned the throne with his staff. Then the old man struck back. The saber rattled to the stone flooring. The victor put his foot upon it. On his part the colonel's blood suddenly cooled. "My sword," the colonel demanded. I WILL KILL YOU "I could have FOR THIS." broken it half a dozen times. Here, take it. But be wise in the future and draw it only in the right." Outside the old man laid his hand on the colonel's arm. "You must never bother her again. Listen. You are Colonel von W leutstein; you are something more besides." "What do you infer?" "I infer nothing. Now and then there happens strange leakage in the duke's affairs. The man is well paid. He is a gambler, and who is always reasonably certain that the gambler will be wanting money. Do you understand?" "Who are you?" "Who I am is of do present consequence. But I know who and what you are. If you teach yourself you will be allowed to continue in prosperity, but if you attempt to molest that girl again there will be no more gold coming over the frontier from Jugendstadt. Now do you understand?" "You." Weakly. "Go. But be advised and with circumstance." The colony's pride and distrust, as in his(mind's) eye, a squad of soldiers, a wall! "Single, solly and disobedient, full of earth, military, informers were always assertive." The accused were in the barricade, and the enemy The Silver Horde By REX BEACH Author of "The Spoilers" and "The Barrier" A Stirring Story of the Great Northwest Mr. Beach has written his most powerful novel in "The Silver Horde." His characters are men and women of flesh and bone. There is action in every line of this story of frenzied finance that embraces the money markets of New York and Chicago as well as the mining and salmon fishing industries of Alaska. The Silver Horde Is by Far the Most Exciting Story Offered to the Public in Recent Years KEEP TAB ON THE ISSUES AND WATCH FOR THE OPENNING CHAPTER. The A Stirring Story Mr. Beach has written Horde." His hand and bone. There is zied finance that exists and Chicago as well tries of Alaska. The Silver Horde Is to the KEEP TAB ON THE ISSU Attempt to kidnap Heirress. Miss Ruth Sheppard of Scranton pa. heiress of the big Crawford estate worth several millions and the daughter of James G. Sheppard of Scranton president of the People's Coal com- pany, has returned from Martha's Vineyard. Mass with her nerves shaken by a daring effort to kidnap her, which might have succeeded but for the presence of mind of Rev Dr. Dorchester and his wife A short time ago she and Blanche Reynolds, of Scranton, went to visit Dr. and Mrs. Dorchester at Martha's Vineyard. A few days ago as the four were out walking the two girls being ahead, a well dressed, heavy set man stopped from the bushes along a lime road and seized Miss Sheppard The girls shrieked for help and Rev Dr. Dorchester and his wife rushed up. The man was dragging Miss Sheppard down the road and refused to release her. He said he was a detective and that Miss Sheppard was a girl for whom he had been looking. Dr. Dorchester said that in that case they would go to Martha's Vineyard and the mistake could be corrected. The man daringly started with them, holding Miss Shepperd by the arm, but fled when close to the town they perceived a police officer. Miss Shepperd was greatly upset by the experience. Bridegroom Instantly Killed. John Wynant, only recently married, met with instant death when he fell from a blast furnace being erected at the Bethlehem Steel works, at South Bethlehem, Pa., and fractured his skull. Killed by His Own Wagon. Jrng Wheeler, a well known craftsman of Glove valley, made woodwork for the M. Yaffel company, which made woodwork for the Bethlehem Steel works. Bather Attacked by Dogfish. Fred H Mellow of New York, in under treatment at Bangor Me for a severe wounds received in an attack by dogfish. Malloy and John Wallace also of New York have been cruising in their motor boat Conqueror along the Maine coast. Diving off the boat while two miles off lakesboro Malloy was surrounded by dogfish. 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TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. local from East--8:23 A. M. 7:50 P. M. Through from East--11:23 A. M. 6:53 P. M. Through from West--9:30 A. M. 9:50 A. M. :90 P. M. Through: 1:00 A. M. 4:54 P. M. James River Lake--9:33 A. M. 6:00 P. M. *Daily except Sunday.* JOHN M. WASH CIGARS PURP GOODS TURN VALUE FOR THE MONEY: 1610 Bad Pierce Street. (Not 50) Blairsville. BIGHORN VIRGINIA. GOOSE CHAPTER VI. OFTCHEEN'S DAY. RETCHEN was always up when the morning was row, when the trees were still dark and multicolored and the beads of dow white and frostlike, for what is better than to meet the day as it comes over the mountains and silence breaks here and there in the houses and streets, in the fields and the vineyards? Let old age, which has played its part and taken to the wings of the stage, let old age loiter in the morning, but not green years. Gretchen awoke on the birds awoke, with snatches and little trills of song. To her nearest neighbors there was about her that which reminded them of the regularity of a good clock, when they heard her voice they knew it was time to get up. She was always busy in the morning. The tinkle of the bell outside brought the floor in, and her two gonks came patting in no yellow of their creamy burden Gretchen was fond of them. They needed no care at all. The moment she had milked them they went tinkling off to the steep pasture. Even in midsummer the dawn was chill in Dreilberg. Gretchen blew on her fingers. The fire began its cheerful crackle, the kettle boiled briskly, and the frugal breakfast was under way. There was daily one cup of coffee, but neither Gretchen nor her grand mother claimed this luxury. it was for the sick woman on the third floor. What the character of the woman's illness was Gretchen didn't an idea, but there could be no doubt that she was ill, desperately, had the gossip girl but known it. Her face was thin and the bones were visible under the drumlike skin, her hands were merely claws. She mystified the girl, for she never complained, never asked questions, talked but little, and always smiled kindly when the pillow was fresheed. "Good morning, fran," said Gretchen "Good morning, liebechen." "I have brought you a brick this morning, for it will be cold till the sun is high." "Thank you." Gretchen pulled the deal table to the side of the couet, poured out the coffee and buttered the bread "I ought not to drink coffee, but it the only thing that warms me. You have been very patient with me." "And that is why I love you. Now. I have some instructions to give you this morning. Presently I shall be beside the crowd." Gretchen, young and healthy, touched not this melancholy undercurrent. "You will promise to take it?" "Yes, frmu." "Thanks, little goaling. I have an errand for you this morning. It will take you to the palace." "To the palace!" echoed Gretchen. "What shall I do?" "You will seek her highness and give her this note." "The princess! Will they not laugh and turn me out?" "If they try that, demand to see her exertion Count von Herbock and say that you came from No. 40 Krummer." "And if I cannot get in?" "You will have no trouble. Be sure, though, to give the note to no one but her highness." Gretchen decked her beautiful head with a little white cap, which she wore only on Sundays and at the opera, and braided and peribunded her hair. Who was this old woman who thought nothing of writing a letter to her serene highness! And who were her nocturnal visitors? She pondered. Being of a discerning mind, she idied about the Platz till after 9, for it had been told to her that the great sleep rather late in the morning. What should she say to her serene highness? What kind of courtesy should she make? At least she would wear no humble, service ail; for Gretchen was poor, Goldberg, whom the police detested—did he not say that all men were equal? And surely this sweeping statement included women. With a confidence born of right and innocence she proceeded toward the east or side gates of the palace. The sentry amiled at her. "I have a letter for her serene highness," she said. "Leave it." "I am under orders to give it to her highness herself." You cannot enter the gardens without Gretchen remembered. "Will you send some one to his excellence the chancellor and tell him I have come from No. 40 Krummerweg." "Krummereweg. The very name ought to close any gate. But girl, are you speaking truthfully?" Gratchen exhibited the note. He scratched his chin, perplexed. "Run along. If they ask me I'll say that I didn't see you." The sentry resumed his beat. Gratchen stepped inside the gates, and the real beauty of the gardens was revealed to her for the first time—strange flowers she had never seen before. It was all a fairyland. There were marble urns with hanging vinet and marble statues. "A hand grasped her rudely by the arm. "What are you doing here?" thundered the head gardener. "Be off with you." "How dare you touch me like that?" she cried loudly. J ***** By ***** HAROLD MacGRATH Copyright, 1909, by the Bobbs-Merrill Company D "IN YOUR PRESENCE, HIGHNESS?" Something in her glance cooked even the warm blooded Hermann "But you live in Drethberg and ought to know." You could have told me without bruising my arm," defiantly "Hermann!" Gretchen and the head gardener whirled. Through a hedge which divided the formal gardens from the tennis and archery grounds came a young woman in riding habit. "What is the trouble, Hermann? she inquired "Your highness, this young woman here had the impudence to walk into the garden." "Has she stolen any flowers?" "Why, no, your highness, but it is not customary." "We, you and I. Hermann," said her highness, with a smile that won Gretchen on the spot. "will overlook this first offense. Perhaps this young lady had some errand and lost her way." "Yes, your highness," replied Gretchen en eagerly. "Ah! You may go. Hermann" Hermann bowed, gathered up his pruning knives and scissors, which he had let fall, and stalked down the path. "Whom were you seeking?" her highness asked, rather started by the undeniable beauty of this peasant, who stood near the staircase toward highness. I live at No. 40 Krumerweg. "Krumerweg?" Her highness reached for the note and read it, and as she read tears gathered in her eyes. "Follow me," she said. She led Gretchen to a marble bench and set down. "What is your name?" "Gretchen, highness." "In your presence, highness7 agsth. "Don't bother about my presence on a morning like this. Sit down." This was a command, and Gretchen obeyed with silence. The two sat mutely. They were strangely alike. Their eyes nearly matched, their hair, even the shape of their faces. They were similarly molded, too, only one was slender and graceful after the manner of fashion, while the other was slender and graceful directly from the hands of nature. The marked difference lay, of course, in their hands. The princess had never toled with her fingers except on the plano. Gretchen had plucked gecse and dog vegetables with hers. They were rough, but toil had not robbed them of their natural grace. "How was she?" her highness asked. "About the same, highness." "Have you wondered why she should write to me?" "Highness, it was natural that." should," was Gretchen's frank admission. "She took me in when nobody knew who I was, clothed and fed me and taught me music so that some day I should not be helpless when the battle of life began. Ah." impulsesly, "had I my way she would be housed in the palace, not in the lonely Krummerweg. But my father does not know that she in Dresburg but not that she in Dresburg will believe that she had something to do, with my abduction." Then she stopped. "she was strangely making this, pleasant her confidant, What a whim! Gretchen did not move. She saw that her highness was dreaming, and she herself had dreamed. GIRL "Do you like music?" "Highness, I am always singing." "La. la. la." sang the princess confidently. "La. la. la." sang Gretchen, smiling. Her voice was not purer or sweeter; it was merely stronger, having been accustomed to the open air. "Brava!" cried the princess, "Who taught you to slug?" "Nobody, highness." "What do you do?" "I am a goose girl. In the fall and winter I work at odd times in the Black Eagle." "Tell me all about yourself." This was easy for Gretchen; there was so little. "Neither mother nor father. Our lives are something alike. A handsome girl you must have a sweetheart" Gretchen blushed "Yes, highness. I am to be married soon. He is a tinder, I would not trade him for your king, highness." with a spice of boldness. Her highness did not take offense Rather she liked this frankness. It was a taste of the old days when she herself could have chosen a vintner and married him with none, to say her nay. She surrendered to impulse. "Gretchen, I do not think I shall marry the king of Judgement." "You must not ask questions like that. Gretchen." "This was not understandable to Gretchen, but a locket the princess were pleased her eye. Her highness, observing her interest, slipped the trinket from her neck and laid it in Gretchen's hand. "Open it," she said. "It is a picture of my mother, whom I do not recollect buying ever seen. I will open it for you." "Click" Gretchen sighed deeply. To have had a mother so fair and pretty? She hadn't an idea how her own mother had looked. Indeed, being sensible and not given it much to cultivate, she nothered her head about it. Still, she gazed at this portrait the sense of her isolation and loneliness drew down upon her, and she in her turn sought the dowers and saw them not. After awhile she closed the locket and returned it. "So you love music?" picking up the safer thread. "Ah, yes, highness." "I will give you an opera ticket for the season. How can I reward you for bringing this message? Don't have any false pride. Ask for something." Well, then, highness, give me an outfit the grand duke's bead vintner for a plum. "For the man who is to become your husband." "Yes, highness." "You shall have it tomorrow. Now, come with me I am going to take you to Herr Ernst He is the director of the opera He rehearses in the court theater this morning." Gretchen followed the princess. As her highness entered the Bjelou theater the herr director stopped the music in the little gallery which served as the royal box sat several ladies and gentlemen of the court, the grand duke being among them. "I have brought you a prima donna, Herr Director" pointed to Gretchen. Herr Director pointed to Gretchen. "What shall she sing in, your highness? We are rehearsing The Bohemian Girl." he jeated. The chorus and singers on the little stage exchanged smiles. "Want your first violin," said her highness. "Anton?" A youth stood up in the orchestra pit. "Now, your highness," said the herr direk.or. "Tres her voice." And the herr dickrout saw that she was not amusing. He hade the violin to draw his bow over a single note, "imitate it, Gretchen," commanded her highness, "and don't be afraid." Gretchen lifted her voice. It was sweeter and mellower than the violin, "Again!" the herr dickrout cried. Without apparent effort Gretchen popped high one bow or strong or soft; a trill, a run. The violinist of his own accord began the jewel song from "Fanat." Gretchen did not know the words, but she carried the melody without mishap. And then I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls." This song she knew word for word, and, ab, she sang it with strange and haunting tenderness. One by one the musicians dropped their instruments to their knees. All realized that a great voice would win them, the herr dickrout struck his music stand sharply. "Your highness has played a fine just this day. Where does madame your great gag-in Berlin or Vienna?" "In golther," answered her bigness. "She lives in Dreilberg, and till this morning I never saw her before." The herr direktor stared blankly from her bigness to Gretchen and back to her bigness again. Then he grasped it. Here was one of those moments when the gods make gifts to mortals. "You have a great voice, fraulein. I shall teach you. I shall make you a great singer." But Gretchen never became a prima donna. There was something different on the knees of the goda." THE grand duke stamped back and forth with a trumpet as d'idiau taumelat. They would play with him es2. Well, they had loosed the lion this time. He had and her husband "And her husband, in pen, everything else made" "He answered the note in his hand powerfully, he was anonymous, but it spoke clearly like truth. The sender remained undiscoverable." Had he been opposed, it for months! And now having surrendered against his better judgment, this gratitudous airfront was offered to him. It was damning. He was killed in War; Nothing less. He was presupposed for it. Twenty thousand troops were now in the valley, and there were 20,000 reserves. Horbeck came calmly in. "Why the dawn couldn't you have left well enough alone? Read this." The duke dung the note down on this desk. Herbert placed it up and worked out the creases. "Well?" The query tingled with rage. The answer on the chancellor's lips was not ignored. Hildegarde came in. He embraced her and kissed her brow. "Read," and the duke to her. She slipped from her father's arms and looked with pity at the chancellor. "What do you think of this, Hildegade?" "My father, I think it is the very best thing in the world," drily. "An insult like this?" The duke grew rigid. "You accept it calmly in this fashion." "Shall we weep and tear my hair over a boy I have never seen? No, thank you. I was about to make known to you this very evening that I had reconsidered the offer. I shall never marry his majesty." "Your highness, the recent is really not to bhume, for his majesty and given him free rein in the matter, and his royal highness, working as I have been for the best interests of the two countries never dreamed that the king would rebel. The king has been generous enough to leave the publicity in our hands. Aunt is to say, he agrees to accept the humiliation of being rejected by her gereno highness." "That is very generous of him!" said the duke sarcastically "Seed for Duewitz." "Duewitz, your highness?" cried the chancellor, chilled. "Immediately." "Your highness, if you call Duewitz I shall surrender my portfolio." The chancellor was firm. "Do so. There are others to take up your work." "Hildegarde new to the duke's side and snatched at his sleeve." "Father, you are mad!" "At least, you must master in Ehrenstein Herbeck, you will have the kindness to summon General Duewitz." "Your highness, replied Herbock. I have worked long and faithfully in your service. I can not recollect that I ever asked one personal favor. But I do so now. Do not send for Dewitts tonight. See him in the morning. This is no time for haste. You will throw the army into Junglebend, and there will follow a bloody war." "I will have my revenge" stubbornly. "Father, listen to me. I am the afronted person." I—alone—have the right to say what shall be done in the matter. And I say to you if you do these cruel things, dismiss his excelency and bring war and death to Ebrenstein I will never forgive you—ever poor! You cannot wrong, wrong, and I your daughter, you no frankly leave it to me. There will be neither war nor humiliation." "My dear child," he said. "I have suffered too much at the hands of Gendelt. It was my daughter the first time, it is my honor now." proudly A "Will it balance war and deras-tion?" the girl asked quietly. "Is it not prider rather than honor? The prince. regen made / a pardonable blunder. Do not you, my father. make an un pardonable 'one' "A Portrait to the judgment" "s a d i f the chancellor his eye kindling." "WILL IT BALANCE it all rest upon WAR and DESTINATION my shoulders. I TION!" alone am to blame. It was I who first suggested the alliance." Notwithstanding that he was generally hasty, the duke, was a just man. He offered his hand, with half a smile. "You are bidding me farewell, your highness?" and Herbeck. No, count. I would not let you go for half my duchy. Even a duke may be a fool sometimes." Duckel held his hand upon the duke's. That he went over to her highness and kissed her hand gracefully, for it was truly at her feet the wreath of victory lay. "Highness" he said softly, "you shall marry when you will." "Add whores." I would that I could make it so. But there is penalty for being placed so high. We cannot change this unwritten law. "Heaven did not write it," she replied. "No: my daughter," said the duke "Man is at the bottom of all the kinks and twists in this short life, not beuwen. But Horbecer is right. You shall marry when you will." The knock of the valet was again heard. "Four, highness; there is a young woman outside, a possess, who desires to speak to her secrete highness." What she enters the palace with out any more trouble than this! By my others, father, said Hildegarde, who gathered that this priligery visitor must be Gretchen of the Krumerwen. "Admit her!" Gretchen was unlucky in her throat won a little fall as she recognized the three most important persons in the grand jury. "This little good girl, the dolls said half and half." was sicked and her eyes were mournful. She carried an envelope in her hand tightly. "Come to me," Gretchen said, "and she said, 'The doctor is dead. I missed you. I found this letter in her pillow.' Herbek took the envelope. 'Dead?' Hildegard's eyes filled. "Who is dead?" demanded the duke. "Emma Schultz, father. Oh. I know you will forgive me for this deception. She has been in Dreilberg's mouth dying, and I have often stolen out to see her." She let her tears fall uninsured. She held at the rug. Presently she held, "Let her be buried in consecrated ground. Wrong or right that chapter is closed, my child. What is in the letter, Herbek?" Herbek was a strong man. He was always far removed from tears, but there was a mist over the usual clarity of his vision. He ripped down the tap. It was only a simple note to her soreness bighness begging her to give the inclosed banknotes to one Grethen, who lived in the Krummerweg. The notes represented n thousand crowns. "Take them, little goose girl," said the duke. "Your ship has come in. This will be your dowry." An ice shiver ran up and down Grethen's spine, a shiver of wonder, delight, terror. A thousand crowns! A fortune! "And I shall add to it another thou sand," said Hildegare. "Give them to me, father" In all this fortune amounted to lit the more than $100, but to Grethen froggy anger, to terror, to a certain whirl large sum, to whom it represented wealth. She was now the richest girl in the lower town. Dreams of kalefdescopic variety flow through her head. Tears spring into her eyes. She had the power to do no more than seven. The duke was the first to relieve the awkwardness of the moment. "Count, has it not occurred to you that we stand in the presence of two very beautiful young women?" Herbck scruffed Gretchen with care. Then he compared her with the princess. The duke was right. And the thing which struck him with most force was that struck, while each possessed a beauty individual to herself, it was not opposite, but strangely alike. When the duke was alone he slowly passed on to his secretary and opened a drawer. He laid a small bumblebee on the desk and pulled the attrition. One by one he rung the artifact—two lit yellow shoes, a little cloak trimmed with ermine. There had been a lock, but that was now worn by his highness. Hermann Freuner lived in the granite lodge just within the outer gate of the royal gardens. He was a widower and shared the ample lodge with the undergardener and their families. He was a man of brooding moods, and there was no laughter in his withered heart. He adjusted his heavy spectacles and held the note slanting toward the candle. A note or a letter was a singular event in Hermann's life. This note, left by the porter of the Grand hotel, moved him with surprise. It requested that he present himself to Hermann, who asked and asked to be directed to the room of Hans Grumbach, who might he be. He decided to go. Certainly this man Grumbach did not urge him without some definite purpose. The concerge at the hotel, who knew Hermann, conducted him to room 10 on the entrosle. Hermann knocked A voice had him enter "You wished to see me?" "Yes," offering a chair "You are Hermann Breunner" began Grumbach, "and you once had a brother named Huns." Hermann grew rigid in his chair. "I have no brother" "You did have" "Hermann's head dropped." "My God, yes, I did have a brother, but he was a scoundrel" "Perhaps he was a scoundrel He is—dead!" softly "God will be done." But Hermann's face turned lighter "As a boy he loved you." "And did I not love him?" said Hermann fierely. "Did I not worship that boy, who was more like a son to me than a brother?" "I knew your brother. I knew him well. He was not a scoundrel, only weak. He went to America and became successful in business. He fought with the war. He was fight with a coward. He did his fighting bravely and hospitably. He died facing the enemy, and his last words were of you. He begged your forgiveness. He implored that you forget that thick moment. He was young, he said, and he offered him a thousand crowns. In my moment of despair he fell. "Despair! Did he contess?" "Did he tell you to whom he sold his honor?" "That he never knew. A gypsy from the hills came to him, so he said." "From Jugendheit!" "I say that he knew nothing. He believed that the gypsy wanted her highness to hold for rainsm. Hans spoke of a girl called Tekla. "Tekla? Ah yes; Hans was in love with that doll face." "Hans followed the hand of gypsies into the mountains. The real horror of his act did not come home to him till then. He the remoirel. But it was too late. They dressed the little one in. But when I ran away from them I took little shoes and cloak and locket." Hermann was on his feet. Grumbach's eyes were as bright and glowing as coils. Hermann leaned forward. "Is it you, Hana, and I did not know you?" "It is I, brother." "My God!" Hermann sank down wickly. THE ceiling spun and the light separated itself into a hundred dames before the gate of the amused Herakhtine. "You said "No I am to the world, to you and to all who knew me, quietly." "Why not you? Why not?" The duke will hang you. "Perhaps I am a fool, perhaps I am willing to pay the penalty of my crime, at least that was imperfect. I have learned that the lightness has been built into the darkness, that made that will not happen. Will you denounce me brother?" "If?" "Why not? Five thousand crowns still hang over me." "Blood-money for me? No, Hans!" "Residue; I have made a will. At my death you will be rich." "Filch?" "Yes, Hermann. I am worth 200,000 crowns." "Hermann breathed with effort." "But riches are not everything." "Sometimes they are little enough." Hans agreed. "Have I not told you, Hermann? There is nothing more to be added." Then, with rising passion: "Nothing more now that my heart is blistered and scarred with regret and remorse. God knows that I have repented and repented. I went to war because I wanted to be killed. They shot me here and here and here, and this saber cut would have split the skull of any other man. But it was willed that I should come back here." "My poor brother! You must fly The chancellor is unpleasant." "I know that. But since you, my brother, failed to identify me certainly his excellency will not. And you will not betray me when I tell you that I have returned principally to find out whence came those thousand crowns." "A! Find that out; huns, yes, yes." Hermann began to look more like himself. "But what was your part?" "Mine? I was to tell where her highness and her nurse were to be at a certain hour of the day, nothing more. My running away was the expression of my guilt; otherwise they would never have connected me with the sledgement." Hans rose. "Hass, have you no other greeting?" Hergmann asked, spreading out his arms. The wanderer's face beamed, and the brothers embraced. "You forgive me, then. Hergmann." "Must I not, little Hans? You are all that is left me of the blood. True. I swore that if I ever saw you again I should curse you." "And what has become of the principal cause-Teckla?" "Hah! She is fat and homely and the mother of seven squalling children." "What a world. To think that Teckla should be at the bottom of all this tangle?" "A rap on the door started them Hans slowly opened the door. Carminus Bock outside." "Ab, captain!" Hans shook Carminus Bock's hand and drew him into the room. Hermann passed into the hall and softly closed the door after him. It was better that the American should not see the emotion which still illumined his face. Carmichael put in a counter query were warriors doing done here? "I had told him." "Was it wise?" "Hermann sleeps soundly. He will talk neither in his sleep nor in his waking hours. He has forgiven me." "For what?" thoughtlessly. "The time for explanations has not yet come, captain." "Pardon me, Grumbach. But I came to bring you the invitation to the military ball." "The broad white envelope emblazoned with the royal arms fascinated Hana, not by its resplendency, but by the possibilities which it afforded." "Thank you. It was very good of you." "It was a pleasure, comrade. What do you say to an hour or two at the Black Eagle? We'll drown our sorrows together." The Black Eagle was lively, as usual, and there were some familiar faces. The vintner was there, and so was Gretchen. Carmichael halled her. "This is my last night here, Heri Carmichael." she said. "Yes," replied Gretchen, her lips up smiling. "The poor lady who lived on the top floor of my grandmother's house was rich. She left me a thou- and crowns." "And what will you do with all that money?" asked Ians. "I am going to study music." "I thought you were going to be married soon," said Cermelbael. "Surely. But that will not hinder I shall have enough for two." The vintner sowled over the top of his paper. Carmichael eyed him mischievously. Gretchen picked up her copper and went away. "A beautiful girl" said Hans abstractedly. "She might be Hobe with no trouble at all." At that day there was only one newspaper in Dreifeng. The vintner presently smoothed down the journal, opened his knife and cut out a paragraph. Carmichael followed his movements sly. The vintner crushed the remains of the sheet into a ball and dropped it to the floor. Then he finished his beer, rose and proceeded down the stairs leading to the rathakiller below. Carmichael called a waitress and asked her to bring a copy of that day's paper. Mostime he recovered the vintner's paper, and when he finalized the two together it was a simple matter to replace the missing cutting. Grambach showed a mild interest over the procedure. "Why do you do that, captain?" "A little idea I have. It may not amount in anything." But the American was puzzled, over the cutting. There were two sides to it. Which had interested the whistler? "Do you cure for another beer?" "No. I am tired and sleepy, captain." "All right. We'll get back to the hotel." A little time later Hare Goldberg battered the fellow for his仗罪 by Groebner's unjustified in the war. "Brothers, shall -this thing take place" cried HERM Goldberg, "Shall the daughter of Ehrenbauten become Jungseidbaut's vassal? Oh how we have fallen. Where is the grand duke's pride we have heard so much about? Are we, then, afraid of zugondheid? ```markdown ``` "No! rosted his auditors. "I have a plan, brothers. It will show the duke to what desperation he has driven us at last. We will! "A ARK WE. THEN, mob the Jugend-ARAID OF JOUKOJH embassy on UHIT?" the day of the wedding. We will tear it apart, brick by brick, stone by stone." "Herrhah!" cried the noisy ones. The noise subsided. Gretchen spoke. "Her serene highness will not marry the king of Jugendhelf" "Oh, indeed! said Goldberg, bowing with ridicule. "Since when did her sorene highness make you her condant?" "Her serene highness told me so herself" A roar of laughter went up, for the majority of them thought that Gretchen en was indulging in a little pleasurant. "Hobot! So you are on spanking terms with her highness?" Herr Goldberg laughed. "Is there anything strange in this fact?" she asked. "Strange!" echoed Herr Goldberg. "Since when did goose girls become intimate with her serene highness." The vintner thumped, with his stets in approval, and others imitated him. Goldberg was no ordinary foul. He sidestepped defeat by an assumption of frankness. "Tell us about it. Tell us under what circumstances you met her highness. Every one knows that this marriage is to take place." Gretchen nodded. "Nevertheless, her highness has changed her mind." And she recounted picture-suplex her adventure in the royal gardens, and all humbly on her words in a kind of maze. "Hurrah! abouted the vintner. Long live her highness! Down with Jurgendt!" There was a fine chorus. A police officer and three assistants came down the stairs quietly. "Let no one leave this room!" the officer said sternly. The dramatic pause was succeeded by a babel of confusion. "No, there! Stop him, you!" It was the vintner who caused the cry, and the agility with which she scrambled through the window into the blind alley was an inspiration. "After him" yelled the officer. But they searched in vain. "Out into the street, every mother's son of you!" cried the officer. "This is your last warning, Goldberg. The next time you go to prison." Gretchen alone remained. It was her duty to carry the stela up to the bar. The officer, rather thorough for his kind, studied the floor under the window. He found a cutting from a newspaper. This interested him. "Do you know who this fellow was?" with a jerk of his head toward the window. "He is Leopold Dietrich, a vintrier, and we are soon to be married." "What made him run?" "He is new to Dreilberg. Perhaps he thought you were going to arrest every one." "Ask him if he is not a spy from Jugendheim," the officer said roughly. "The steels clicked crisply in Greifen's arms. One of them fell and broke at her feet. LOVE'S DOUBTS GRETCHEN, troubled in heart and indul over the strange grent of the night, walked slowly home. A footstep from behind caused her to start. The vitimer took her roughly in his arms and kissed her many times. "You ask?" "Was it a crime, then, to jump out of the window?" He lunged. (Then he gave sterner. "Were you afraid?" "Perhaps you did not care to have the police ask you questions?" "What is all this about?" He pulled her toward him so that he could look into her eyes. "What is the matter? Answer." "Are you not a spy from Jugendhell?" thinly. He dung inside her hand. "So! The first doubt that enters your ear finds harbor there. A spy from Jugendhell! That police suggestion, and you believed it." "Do you deny it?" "Yes, proudly, matching his hat from his head and throwing it violently at her feet—yes, I deny it. I am not a spy from any country." "I have asked you many questions," she twisted, "but you are always laughing. If I'm a pliant way to avoid an answering." The visceral saw himself ataty. "Griechen, I have committed no crime. If you must have proof. We will get to the police bureau and settle the dispute." SATURDAY....SEPT. 10, 1910 fay for me." "Forgivè me." brokenly. "J mist. This thing must be righted publicly." "And I was thinking that the man I loved was a coward!" "I am braver than you dream, Gretchen." And in truth he was, for he was about to set forth for the lion's den and only amazing cleverness could extricate him. The police bureau was far away, but the distance was nothing to those healthy young people. It was Gretchen who drew back fearfully. The subchief of the bureau received them with ill concealed autopsie. "I have learned that you are seeking me," said the vintner; taking off his cap. Immediately the subchief did not know what to say. This was out of the ordinary. "You are not a native of Dresburg," he began. "No, herr; I am from Bavaria. You will find that my papers were presented two or three weeks ago." The vintner's passports were produced. The subchief compared them. E. B. to the corresponding number in his book. There was nothing wrong about them "What is your business?" "I am a vintner by trade, herr." "Why did you jump out of the window?" "I was frightened at first, here. I believed that we were all to be arrested." "You accused him of being a Jugendheft spy," broke in Gretchen "I am here because of that accusation," said the vintner "What have you to say?" "I deny it." "Read this." It was the cutting. The vintner read it, his brows drawn together in a puzzled frown. "I can make nothing of this, herr. When I cut this out of the paper it was to preserve the notice on the other side." The vintner returned the cutting The subchief read aloud Vintners and presses and pruners wanted for the season. Find and liberal compensation. Apply Holtz. Gretchen laughed joyously; the vint Gretchen taught joyfully, the vintner grinned; the subchief swore under his breast. "The devil fly away, with you both!" he cried, making the best of his chagrin. "And when you marry don't invite me to the wedding." After they had gone, however, he called for an assistant. "Did you see that young vintner?" "Yes." "Follow him right and day. Find out where he lives and what he does and ganassk his room if possible. He is either an innocent man or a sleek rascal. Report to me this time each night." On reaching the street Gretchen gave rein to heraughter. As they turned into the Krummerweg they almost ran into Carmichael. "Herr Carmichael!" said Gretchen. "And what are you doing here this time of the night?" "I am looking for a kind of ghost, a suspect in black that leaves the police early in the evening and returns late, whose destination has invariably been 40 Krumerweg." The vintner started. "My house?" cried Gretchen. "You're? Perhaps you can dispel this phantom?" said Carmichael. "She was a lady who comes on a charitable errand. But now she will come no more. The object of her vials is gone." Gretchen answered sadly. "My luck!" ruefully. "Are you not afraid to walk about in this part of the town so late?" put to the vintner. "Arraid? Of what? Thieves? Bah, my little man! I carry a sword stick, and, moreover, I know how to use it tolerably well. Good night." And he awwing along. The vintner was not patient tonight. "Who is this mysterious woman?" "I am not free to tell you." "I am not free to tell you," "Oh!" "Leopold, what is the matter with you tonight? You get like a boy," "I am wrong, Gretchen. You are right. Kiss me!" She liked 'the tone; she liked the klasse; she touched the hurt. talecte, a baiter, a butcher and a baker stepped cautiously forth. "He hoard something," said the mountaineer. "He has care like a rat for hearing. What a pretty picture" typically, "All the world loves a layer sometimes. Touching scene!" No one replied; no one was expected to reply. More than that, no one carved to court the fury which lay韧ly disguised in the mountaineer's tones. "Tomorrow night; you heard, what he said, I am growing weary of this play. You will stop him on his way to yonder house. A closed carriage will be at hand. Before he enters, remember. She watches him too long when he leaves. Fool!" The quartet stole along in the darkness noiselessly and secretly. The vintner had indeed heard something. He knew not what this noise was, butd't was enough to set his heels to dying. His room held a cot, a taule and two chairs. Out of the drawer in the table he took several papers and burned them. Ah! "A patch of white paper just inside the door caught his eye. He fetched it to the candle. What he read forced the color from his cheeks, and his hands were touched with transient palay. "The devil! What shall I do now? he muttered... What indeed should he do? Which way should he move? Carmichael, Carmichael! The vintner chuckled sofithe as he scripted this note! If Herr Carmichael would learn the secret of No. 4 Krumperwag, let him attire himself as a vintner and be in the Krumperwag at 8 o'clock tonight. "No there is a trap, and I am to beware of a mountaineer, a carter, a butcher and a baker? Thanks, Scharsenstein, my friend, thanks! You are watching over me." Colonel von Wallenstein curled his mustaches. It was a happy thought that had taken him into the Aldergasse. This Gretchen had been haunting his dreams, and here she was coming into his very arms, as it were. Gretchen stopped, a cold furry in her heart! "Herr, I wish to pass." "That is possible. Gretchen." "That would be a plty." "I am not going to let you pass till I have had a klew." "Au!" Battle famed up in Gretchen eyes "Will you let me by peacefully?" "After the toll—after the toll." Too late she started to run. He laughed and caught hold of her. With a supreme effort she freed herself and struck him across the face. Quickly a flash she whirled around and ran to the street. The one hope for Gretchen, now lay in the Black Eagle, and in the tavern she darted excitedly. "Frau Bauer," she cried, "mar" come behind your counter? "Shame!" she cried. "She shall sing here all day." declared Frau Bauer decidedly "I can wait." The colonel made for the door. But there was a formidable bulk in the doorway "What is going on here little goose girl?" asked the grizzled old man "Herr Colonel insulted me" "Insulted you!" The colonel laughed bolsteredly "Out of the way" he snarled "He tried to kiss me." said Gretchen "The man who tries to kiss a woman against her will is always at heart a coward," said the mountaineer The colonel seized the old man by the shoulder to push him aside. He put out one of his arms and clasped the colonel in such a manner that he gasped. He was in the clutch of a Carpathian bear. "I will kill you for this!" "I will kill you for this. 'So?' - The old man thrust him back several feet without any visible exertion. He leapt his staff slid into his hand. The colonel drew his saber and lunged to ward his assailant. The old man laughed. He turned the thrust with his staff. Then the old man struck back. The saber rattled to the stone flooring. The victor put his foot upon it. On his part the colonel's blood suddenly cooled. "My sword," the colonel de The colonel drew his saber and lunged toward his assailant. The old man laughed. He turned the thrust with his staff. Then the old man struck back. The saber rattled to the stone flooring. The victor put his foot upon it. On his part the colonel's blood suddenly cooled. "My sword." the colonel demanded. I WILL KILL YOU FOR THIS." FOR THIS." I could have broken it half a dozen times. Here, it. But be wise in the future and draw it only in the right." Outside the old man laid his hand on the colonel's arm. "You must never bother her again. Listen. You are Colonel von Waltensstein; you are something more besides." "What do you infer?" "I infer nothing. Now and, then there happens strange leakage in the duke's affairs. The man is well paid. He is a gambler, and one is always reasonably certain that the gambler will be wanting money. Do you understand?" "Who I am is of no present consequence. But I know who and what you are. If you heave yourself you will be allowed to continue in prosperity, but if you attempt to molest that girl again there will be no more old coming over the frontier from Jugendahl. Now do you understand?" "You," weakly. "Go. But be advised and walk circumspectly." "The colonel, jule and distract, saw in his mind's eye a squad of soldiers, a wall a single volley and a disheowned roll of earth. Military informers were given short skirts. The colonel went to the barracks." (GO BE CONTINUED.) The Silver Horde By REX BEACH Author of "The Spoilers" and "The Barrier" A Stirring Story of the Great Northwest Mr. Beach has written his most powerful novel in "The Silver Horde." His characters are men and women of flesh and bone. There is action in every line of this story of frenzied finance that embraces the money markets of New York and Chicago as well as the mining and salmon fishing industries of Alaska. The Silver Horde Is by Far the. Most Exciting Story Offered to the Public in Recent Years KEEP TAB ON THE ISSUES AND WATCH FOR THE OPENNING CHAPTER. Attempt to Kidnap Hiram. Attempt to kidnap Helress. Miss Ruth Sheppard of Scranton Pa., heiress of the big Crawford estate worrall several millions and the daughter of James O. Sheppard of Scranton president of the People's Coal company, has returned from Martha's Vineyard, Mass. with her nerves shaken by a daring effort to kidnap her, which might have succeeded but for the prosence of mind of Rev. Dr. Dorchester and his wife. A short time ago she and Blanche Reynolds, of Scranton, went to vault Dr. and Mrs. Dorchester at Martha's Vineyard. A few days ago as the four were out walking, the two girls being ahead, a well dressed, heavy set man stepped from the bushes along a lonely road and seized Miss Sheppard. The girls shrieked for help and Rev. Dr. Dorchester and his wife rushed up. The man was dragging Miss Sheppard down the road and refused to release her. He said he was a detective and that Miss Sheppard was a girl for whom he had been looking. Dr. Dorchester said that in that case they would go to Martha's Vineyard and the mistake could be corrected. The man daringly started with them, holding Miss Shepperd by the arm, but fled when close to the town they perceived a police officer. Miss Shepperd was greatly upset by the experience. Bridegroom Instantly Killed John Wyantite, only, recently married, met with instant death when he fell from a blast furnace being erected at the Bethlehem Steel works, at South Bethlehem, Pa., and fractured his skull. Killed by His Own Wagon. Irving Wheeler, a well known resident of Olive valley, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., fell from his wagon while a staircase and a wheel passed over his head. Dillingham Bather Attacked by Dogfish. Fred H. Mellow of New York, is under treatment at Bangor. Me, for severe wounds received in an attack by dogfish. Malloy and John Wallace also of New York have been cruising in their motor boat Conqueror along the Maine coast. Diving off the boat while two miles off lakesboro Malloy was surrounded by dogfish. His cries attracted Wallace, who put out after him and brought him ashore bleeding badly and nearly exhausted from his bat tle with the fish. Shot His Mother With New Rifle. Lewis Thompson a twelve year old lad of Plitfield Pa., received a pres ent of a small riffle from his father. A few moments later he called to his mother, saying "See, mamma, how I'd shoot a burglar if he tried to get into our house. As his mother looked at him the boy aimed the rider at her and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered Mrs Thompson's brain from a point just below the left eye and the woman fell dead at her son's feet. Mother Bess Son Murdared. Near Wadeshore, in Anson County, Va., Jesse Edwards shot and instantly killed his brother Peter without provocation. Peter had just returned from church, and was sitting on the porch, when Jesse emerged from the house with a pistol in his hand, and pushing aside his mother, who stood between them, he shot Peter three times. Milling him instantly. There is said to have bad blood existing between the two brothers for some time. Drought Makes Wild Animals Bold. The severe drought in the west is causing panther and wolves to be born, naturally bold. Word has been brought to Marathon, Texas by James Walker that a big panther, attacked and killed two cows, and a horse, near his burrow, was so miles from town. --- Holds Baby Above Water. Standing in five feet of water in the bottom of a clistern at her home, near Sodan, Kan. Mrs. John Burch, the wife of a farmer, for eight hours hold aloft her two-year-old child until the arrival home of her husband. The child had fallen into the clistern and the mother had sprung after it, seized the baby in her arms raised it above the surface of the water and called for help. No one was within hearing of the woman's calls, and throughout the greater part of the day Mrs. Burch stood, the water reaching up almost to her neck, and waited for the return of her husband from his work in the fields. --- Bigamlat Gets Long Sentence. Before Judge Savidge and a jury in the Northumberland county court, at Sunbury, Pa., John W. Bloomingdale admitted that he had left his wife and five children in their home at 5054 Westmister avenue, Philadelphia, with only $1 between them and starvation, so that he might marry Kathryn Adams, of Sunbury. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the eastern penitentiary of from two years and three months to nine years, depending upon his behavior. This sentence was partially for bigamy and partially for porjury. Bloomingdale admitted that he boarved falsely when securing a marriage license. Mr. Wood- the best thought of the party will be there e can be said that Mr. W Mr. Barnes and Mr. We planning to bring about of a compromise. They a willing to drop Mr. She interests of harmony," it, and are willing to naming of a man fo chairman who will be the machine and to the faction. The suggestion yesterday that the selec Two Points or View: To a woman in love little things seem big, and to a man in love big things seem little. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; winter clear, $4.25; city milis, fau- $4.60. RYE FLOUR steady; per barrel, $4.10. HAT quiet; No. 2 red, new. $4.10 POULTRY: Live steady; 15½¢ @16; old roosters; 12½¢ $1.1c. 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SATURDAY.....SEPT. 10, 1910. We have received a circular letter announcing the beginning of the movement, to secure simple justice in the treatment accorded by the newspapers of the United States to the considerable body of American citizens, commonly known as Negroes and Colored people. We heartily endorse the movement and we believe if the idea is followed to its logical conclusion, much good will result to the colored people of the United States. We believe that if a committee of the most influential colored people would call upon the editors of the reputable daily papers, a change would take place and much of the objectionable matter concerning us would be expunged from the columns of the daily press. We intended to emphasize the fact that in our opinion, the alms and purposes of the Council of Upper Classmen of Howard University are on the right track and should not only be encouraged, but generously supported. Mr. J. J. C. Waters, Jr. is President and Mr. C. E. Allen, Secretary. The Advocate of Cambridge, Massachusetts tells a remarkable story of intolerance in the highly cultured and patriotic locality where it circulates, when under the editorial management of Mr. J. T. Harrison, it says: The Advocate was refused in many homes because of its lavish reports of the industrial King. Several points in his address were picked, out and put together with another address he made some years ago before a white audience and other comparisons that cannot be found in a single line of his. Address, and we challenge not only the people of Worcester but every reader of the Advocate to point out to us a single sentence in the Address that is untrue. We publish this wonderful Address verbatim and invite criticism on any part that is not expressing real American Ideas for the best interest of the Negro. While the Advocate is standing by its guns, even to the extent of publishing a fine portrait of Dr. Booker T. Weiklargon, it nevertheless remains a fact that there is a deep-seated antagonism to the "wizard of Tunkegee." We can understand why antagonistic to the doctrine of Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips and other great leaders who have gone on before. Still he has done much good in a practical way and more harm in a political way. The effect is being seen from the White House at Washington to Oyster Bay in New York. Whether he was wise in this remains to be fully seen. We are pleased to observe that his latter day policy and recent deliverances are in striking contrast to many of the things that he is now doing and saying in many parts of this spmi-civilized land. Do not boycott a race journal for expressing its convictions, and declaring its opinion. Commend it for so doing so and remember that William Monroe Trotter and his vitriolistic defender are in the land of the living and both are entitled to consideration on this account. 0 THE FINAL EVIDENCE. "He threw off his friends (Negroes) like a n huntsman his pack. For he (Roosevelt) knew when he wanted, he could whistle them back." We confess that we cannot understand the attitude of the New York Age, in denying that Hon. Theodore Roosevelt was endorsed for a political office at the recent session of the National Negro Business League. We have before us the official report of the proceedings with the official "O. K." of Dr. Booker T. Washington printed at the beginning of the article and we quote from that report as follows: New York, August 19 — Theorema Roosevelt has "come back" for the negro. Nobody doubted this today as the Colonel robust and red-checked, stood facing the 2,500 negroes who had met at Palm Garden at the closing session of the National Negro Business League, and was cheered, re-cheered and many offered the opportunity to applaud in 1912: "We will give you any promotion you wish—if you can be promoted—at any time," said Bishop Clinton of North Carolina, in thinking the Colonel for his speech. We think this should set at rest all doubt as to the attitude not only of Dr. Washington towards Colonel Roosevelt, but that of the National Negro Business League as well. It means that either Colonel Roosevelt will not be a candidate for the Presidency and Dr. Washington knows it or it means that he believes that President Taft will not dare make the race himself with Colonel Roosevelt as a candidate for the presidential office. Regardless of all of this, however, it seems to us that there can no longer be any contention as to the meaning of Blessing Clinton's motion. The politicians of the Roosevelt stripe scored a complete victory and Hon. Chas. Anderson stands out today in conjunction with Dr. Booker T. Washington as having delivered the colored voters of the country "boots and baggage" over to the political managers or that remarkable personage. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of New York. What are you going to do about it? AN OFFICER'S PREDICAMENT. In order to emphasize our criticism of the unwarranted killing of Relford Pollard, (colored) by Police-officer W. J. Perkinson, (white), we call attention to the following telegraphic report from Thomas, West Virginia: Thomas, W. Va., Sept. 2—John CoVollich, an Austrian, aged 40, with a family in the old country, was shot and killed here last night by Chief of Police William McVeigh, but was exonerated at the inquest, which the coroner held today. CoVollich was a new arrival. He commenced work in the mines early in the work, but he did not like the job, and demanded his pay. He was told that he would have to wait until pay day. Angered, he went to the store of the Buxton Landstreet company, with his wife, and shuffled a plate-glass windows. Chief McVeigh was notified and attempted to arrest CoVollich, who struck at his head with the pick, the blow falling on his arm, making an ugly wound. CoVollich kept up the attack, and when McVeigh saw he could not escape he shot the infuriated foreigner in the leg, which failed to bring him to time. The officer then shot again, striking a vital spot. Now here is a case in point. The officer first fired at John Covolitch, wounding him in the log. The man returned to the attack upon the officer and then he rightfully fired to kill. This is the rule in all cases of this kind. It is the ability to ar- We have in mind now some of the shrewdest and most capable police and detectives, who have ever carried a revolver or handled a night stalk, who could arrest the most turbulent characters with but little trouble. Men of this stripe and callibre are the ones to be recognized. Certain it is that officers who presume that revolvers were intended to be used upon the slightest provocation are not the ones to be vested with authority, They are a manace to the community for no one knows where, a bullet fired in the emplacement will land. Officer Porkinson has the blood of this colored man upon his hands and it will be a long time, before he shall be able to explain before the bar of public opinion that he could not have avoided the slaughter. · When a man, who has committed no felony runs away from an officer, it is evident that he has no intention of killing him: We are not in the mood to criticise the coroner's jury, who exonerated the officer or the Police Justice who discharged him. What else could they do? The dead man could not speak and Officer Perkinson's statement constituted the evidence upon which the findings were based. But granting that he was not guilty of murder and that a charge of felony could not have been maintained, his own admissions emphasize the fact that he is an official blunderbuss, who cannot be entrusted with the task of arresting an irresponsible, shiftless Negro without killing him. The colored people here are in deadly fear of the Police Department and its officers and will kill one of their own race ten times in preference to injuring a white man once. This then should be sufficient to guarantee to them immunity from such treatment as Relford Pollard received Saturday, August 27, 1910. THE AGE AND THE COLONEL The New York Age, the leading Afro-American journal in this country has seen fit to give to its readers double-leaded editorials in opposition to President Taft and his policy. We mean his policy in dealing with citizens of color, generally known throughout the Southland as Nogroes. It has always been the semi-official organ of Dr. Booker T. Washington, that is if he has ever had any semi-official organ. In its last issue it glorifies in insurgency and "reads the riot act" to the Republican managers of the Republican Party as recognized by the present Administration it is rather "tenderfooted" on ex-President Roosevelt however, and the indications are that it will support the distinguished African traveller as against the present occupant of the White House. But the New York Age comes to the support of Dr. Booker T. Washington in general and the National Negro Business League in particular, when, under the caption of "An Unjust Report", it says: An unjust report to the effect that the National Negro Business League in New York endorsed Col. Roosevelt as a candidate for President in 1912 has been widely circulated. At no time during the session was there any such proposition in any form what ever before the League. Mr. Roosevelt was most cordially received on the occasion of his address and he was given an ovation when he had finished. There were various crises from the domestic audience, all of which were cheered by no political proposition for the endorsement of Colonel Roosevelt or any one else was ever brought forward. The false report would hardly be worthy of notice were it not that the wrong impression may do the Business League much harm. This sounds very well and we have no doubt but what our able contemporary states the truth. The language used is susceptible to a political construction. What we desire to know is, did Bishop G. W. Clinton use the language imputed to him? is he correctly quoted in the following report: Recalling the words of the former executive that he would not be the one to "close the door of hope in the face of a man because his skin happens to be black", Bishop Clinton expressed the wrath he would for the encouragement which his attitude of the, then President had given to those of his race, and closed by assuring Colonel Roossovelt that in whatever "promotion" in public life he might seek, he would always find the Negro element solidly allied with his support." Now did Bishop Clinton do this? Is he correctly quoted. It will be observed that a citizen might deny that he proposed to endorse ex-President Roosevelt for another term. He might deny that these statements had any political significance, but the language used is certainly subject to that construction. Colonel Roosevelt is a statesman and he is a politician, pure and simple. He is not an elder in the Methodist Church and he is not being spoken of as the President of any of our leading American universities just now. He is in politics and any promotion for him must necessarily come along political lines. Will some one secure the information as to what Bishop Clinton meant? He is the one to know and in view of this agitation, it seems to us that he should have spoken long ago. The report says further: The cheering which greeted this declaration had hardly abated when Booker T. Washington, chairman of the meeting, advanced to the front of the assembly with the sentiment expressed by Bishop Clinton rise, to their seat. hand-answered cheering. In this letter of the report corrected it is possible that the New York politicians duped Bishop Clinton into a political endorsement of Col. Roosevelt, when he did not intend to do so and deceived the loveloaded farseeing leader, Dr. Bookor, T. Washington into leading the movement for the political endorsement of six-President Roosevelt. These are questions which demand answers and it our good friends of the New York Age will enlighten us, we shall appreciate the favor. It is further evident that should President Taft decline to surrender and insist upon being a candidate for the Presidency, he and his policies will be opposed by the most distinguished American in all of this world. Under which flag will the New York Age rally or will it wait and "cross the bridge when it gets to it"? it concludes; But anyone acquainted with the Business League knows that If it is in no degree political, and is just what and only what it purposes to be. Further, no friend of the League or the race will circulate any contrary report. The race has political organizations and it should have them and it has a business league and it should have it. But the business league is not a political organization and it should not be. No one argues, who wishes to be fair and 'conservative' that the National Business League is a political organization, that is why it is all the more surprising that it should have gone out of its way, not to endorse the advantages of Mr. Roosevelt, particularly, but to radically pledge its support to him for whatever promotion in public life that he may seek. Public life means political life. Now tell us, did the gentlemen do this? Did they ascertain the sentiment of the National Business League in the manner described by the reporters? There was no motion, there was no second to any motion, but there was a bona fide effort made to ascertain the sentiment of the house and this was done in a manner to shut off all discussion of the subject. We confess that we do not wish to believe that the report given out by the daily press is correct. We hope the New York Age is not "spitting hirsut" about parliamentary points. All we desire to know is were the reports which we have cited correct, substantially correct? Will any one answer this question? "WHY NOT NOW?" We have received, "Why Not Now?" a book by Charles Gilbert Davis, M. D. of Chicago, Ill, and published by Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, Boston, Mass. The author gives abundant evidences that he has drunk copiously from the fountain of knowledge as well as bathed in the river of wisdom. If we are to judge by the language which he employs in this truly remarkable production, Lot us see: He describes life as follows: Life—human life—is the highest recognized manifestation of cosmic consciousness—the physical realization of God. And again: Along every avenue of terrestrial life, we behold the inevitable working of the great law of evolution. Certain events are approaching certain epoche are culminating, and certain great crises and changes are as fixed as the decree of fate. This law is working for the uplifting of man, pushing him onward to the crowning glory of his high destiny. Man may lift his puny head in impotent resistance and raise the feeble cry of protest; he may organize the thunder of cannon and at the horrors of war attempt to stay the march of progress, but evolution moves forward, revolution follows revolution and after the tempest, we have the calm, the new growth, justice and the triumph or truth. Dr. Davis has certainly stated the law of evolution. He has recognized the hand of God in history and he has given in succinct and emphatic language the creed of every truly great man, who has enunciated great principles and faced the mob in advocacy of those principles. In dealing with race prejudice in this truly remarkable work, he says: The tendency of one human being to assume superiority over another is a remnant of cave life. It belongs to animal existence, and has no place, in the spiritual dispensation. Hate is the offspring of selfishness sired by ignorance. It is natural for many of the lower order of animals to be antagonistic, and when they meet, to engage in deadly combat. This same hatred of one man for another can be traced back to the earliest days of history. Dr. Davis makes the following drastic statement: Today selfishness rules mankind. There is no need just government on the face of the earth. There is not a true democracy existing among men. Our social, political, and business institutions are rotten. Hypocritically shows the meauses grit in every day. protect one thing, and perform another. We weave humanmade and place the footprint on the book of the unfortunate. We are galvanized with forms of righteousness, while the beard is rotten. Who will deny this caustic arraignment of the conditions existing in the world today? In another section of the book, he asks: Is there really any difference between men? Does accident of wealth, nationality, race, or official position really make one human being better than another? Not before the Great Johovah. But enough at this time. The work will richly repay a perusal. It rivals the best productions of our most enthusiastic white friends. To read and ponder it thoroughly must necessarily result, in benefit to any citizen regardless of race, color or previous condition of sorvitude. Dr. Davis address is 31 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., August 30, 1910. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calauthe ($100.00), One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-cause of Sister Rebecca Jones, who was a member of Harmone Court, No. 127, of Danville, Va. Witnesses: U. S. Cunningham, W. P. Allen, S. J. Holbrook, D. D. W. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Portsmouth, Va., August 31, 1910. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A., and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment or the death-claim of Brother Vernon Sewell, who was a member of Pride of the East Lodge, No. 33, of Portsmouth, Va. Signed: MARTHA SEWARD, Beneficiary. Witnesses Cooper Council, Mrs. Lolla Archer, Archer Drew, D. D. G. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Petersburg, Va., Aug. 18, 1910. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother David FITZGERALD, who was a member of Cross Street Lodge, No. 121, of Petersburg, Va. Hor Signed: JENNIE X FITZGERALD Mark Beneficiary. Witnesses: Charles Mamley. R. W. Evans, A L. Ford. M. Lowry. E W. Wood, D. D. G. C. 8150.00 Endowment Paid. 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Ticket on sale with 10% discount. Limit returning September 28, 1920. Call on nearest Tikot Agent for rates and complete information, or write S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. OUR CALENDARS FOA 1911. We have a complete line of Calendars for 1911 from the I. W. Butter Paper Company of Chicago. Ill. They are the latest designs and will meet with favor from every one who will take the time to examine them. Call at our office and see them. SATURDAY. SEPT. 10. 1910. PRESIDENT ON CONSERVATION Says Too Much Is Expected of Federal Government. FAVORS STATE RIGHTS Mr. Taft, Before National Congress, Declares For Liberal Interpretation of Constitution of Federal Powers, But Insists Rights of States Must Be Preserved. Monday was William H. Taft's day in St. Paul, Minn. Ten thousand people who heard him speak at the Auditorium yelled; 2,000 more at the state fair grounds gave their approval by cheers and the waving of flags, and scores of thousands of others lined the pavements of the streets over which Mr. Taft whirled, declared it, too, in no uncertain fashion. In the hotel lobbies where the politicians congregate the warrior war; one of the bounties of the occupation congress" Some went so far as to say that it was the best speech, the most comprehensive, the most "straight from the shoulder" talk that he has ever made. The president asserted that there was a disposition to look too much to the federal government for everything and added with emphasis that caused a profound impression: "I am liberal in the construction of the constitution with reference to federal power, but I am firmly convinced that the only course for us to pursue is to abolish all institutions of the constitution and to guard as we urged the powers of the states." He insisted that the time for rhp-sodies had passed; that those who urge conservation must "feel the noceity of making clear how conserva- tured out" and must provide "specific methods and legal provisions." "Guard States' Rights." Again as touching on the real controversy, that is likely, to break out into a bitter fight later, in the week—state control of resources versus national control—the president said: "I call attention to the fact that a very important part of conservation must always fall upon the state legislatures, and that they would better be up and down. But when it came to the specific subject on which this controversy turns at present he took neither side. This came out in his discussion of water power sites. The president set forth the arguments made for state control of the power sites and the arguments for federal control, and then added: "I do not express an opinion upon the controversy, thus made or a preference as to the two methods of treating water power sites. I shall submit the matter to congress and urge that on the other of the two plans be adopted." References to former President Roosevelt were casually looked for and carefully weighed by the -2000 delegates mitting in the congress. Praisez Roosevelt Policies. Of the inception of the conservation work he said: "Theodore Roosevelt took up this task in the last two years of his second administration, and well did he perform it. As president of the United States, I have, as it were, inherited this policy, and I rejoice in my heritage. What I can do in the cause I shall do, not as president of a party, but as president of the whole people." Again he said: "When President Roosevelt became fully advised of the necessity for the change in our disposition of public lands he began the exercise of the power of withdrawal by executive order. The precedent he set in this matter as followed by the present administration. Mr. Taft pointed out that he had obtained from congress at its last session an act specifically to legalize such withdrawals. Mr. Taft emphasized the fact that real conservation involves wires, non-wasteful use by the present generation. He said the problem was difficult but that "the burden is on the present generation promptly to solve it and not to run away from it as cawards make some mistake." Plunges From 22-Story Building. Crowds on Park Row, in New York stopped, horrified at the sight of a men's body hunting through the air with the twenty-six-story Park Row building. The body crashed into the skylight of the six-story building ajoling and became jammed in the machinery of the factory. It was hardly recognisable. At first it was supposed, the man who was identified by papers on his body as Earl H. Rollbrook, an insur- ance solicitor and collector, of Broadway, and Shakespeare, an artis- tionalist, and a founding educator. He was a member of the New York Theatrical Society and the Walt- land Film Society. Mr. Patterson associates of *Hot Island* said, they knew, of no reason way Holbrook, who formerly lived in Philadelphia, should commit suicide. Two painters working high up on the north side of the building saw the man bickling and waying his armp, as if making futile efforts to save himself. He swpt down his straw hat selling after him. Where the man came from, how it happened that he was flying through the air, are things that have not yet been explained. The painters saw him first in the air above them. So far as they knew he might have been dropped from a passing airship. Gunnar Kills Man in Boat With Him. Norman Fleshon, twenty-three years old, of Philadelphia, was accidentally lopped while hunting seed birds in a boat on the Ponnypack creek, near Holmesburg. The fatal shot was fired by William Campbell. The third man in the boat was Charles Schaeffer. Campbell and Schaeffer were almost in a state of collapse when they gave themselves up to the police at the Tacony station. They said that Fleeson was sitting, camped in, in a low bay of Campbell and Schaeffer were in the stern, the latter polling. Fleeson spied a covey of reed bird close by and rose to his feet, putting his gun to his shoulder to shoot. Campbell saw the birds simultaneously and, taking quick aim, blazed away. The charge entered the back of the boat and dropped backward into the boat at the feet of his horrified friends. Death was instantiating the shot. Flood at such close range, carrying away, part of Fleeson's skull. New Head of Minas Burau and Dr. J. A. Holmes, chief of the tech- logical branch of the geological sur- vey; was appointed by President Taft in director of the new bureau of mines. He succeeds George Quits Smith, who has been acting director since July 1. as: The appointment of Dr. Holmes on came as a complete surprise. He was known as one of the men in the in- terior department who was regarded by Secretary Ballinger as intimical to hat him. He was labeled by Mr. Ballinger as one of the "snakes" whom he in- terested to "kill." $20,000 Salary For Woman. Mrs. Annie McConkey has been elected to succeed her late husband, Senator Edwin C. McConkey, as secretary and treasurer of a York, Pa. insurance company. The election occurred at a meeting of the board of directors of the company after due consideration. Mrs. McConkey, it is estimated, will draw a salary of $30,000 a year. It is probably the largest salaried to a woman in the United States. 4,768,836 People in New York. Census returns show the population of Greater New York to be 4,768,838, an increase of 1,328,838, or 38.2 per cent, as compared with 3,437,202 in 1900. Census returns by boroughs are: Manhattan, 2,331,542; Bronx, 430,980; Brooklyn, 1,634,351; an increase of 464,768, or 40.1 per cent; Richmond, 55,893; Queens, 288,041. New York thus holds its position as the second city of the world. Heaviest Baby Girl. A girl weighing fifteen pounds and fourteen ounces was born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. McGlinty, of Franklin Pa. The weight was made on accurate scales by Dr. H. P. Hammond, of Franklin, who says he believes this a record for girls. The medical records of Franklin weighing fifteen pounds, but no girls weighing three or four pounds of that figure. This is the tenth child in the McGlinty family, the others being boys. The father is a laborer. $60,000 Bulldog Dead What was acknowledged by the dog show judges to be the finest bulldog in the world, and one for which its owner, Walter Jefferson, refused $60,000 a few weeks ago, has just died suddenly in London. He was a grandson of Rodney Stone for which Richard Croker paid $50,000. Car Killa Trapped Man. Biler Cole, a yard conductor for the Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad, was held prisoner in a frog until run down by a car at Galeton, Pa. His leg was crushed to the hip and he died. Will Mark in Richmond Next Year. The Atlantic Deeper Waterways association accepted the invitation of the southern delegates, to hold next year's convention in Richmond, Va. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR work; $45.25; city mile, mfr. Gt. 45.25; mfr. POLLUTR $Live steady; hens. 18$, 18$; $lɔɪr$; $roosters. 11$; $lɔɪr$; $Dressed arm. $choice$ $towls. 17$; $lɔɪr$; old roosters. 18$; $lɔɪr$ Live Stock Markets PITTYSBURG (Udson Stock Yards)— OCTLE 7, 1920 (weday) choice, $1.80-7.50; $1.75 SHIPP firm; prime wethers, $4.00 $4.50; culls and common, $1.00; lams, $1.00; hogs, $1.00; hogs, $1.00; HOGS bihar; prime heavens, $6.00 $6.00; medlins and heavy eorkers, $6.00; medlins and heavy eorkers, $6.00; plugs, $9.50; rouges, $5.00. *Young bish, merry, a homely girl, you are food of good health. All a merry girl, bish, a homely girl.* THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Trial of Alleged American Wife Murderer Opens In London. Prosecution Announces Thirt Poleen More Than Sufficient to Kill Had Been Found In Body. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen as the principal, and Ethel Cira Leavee as an accessory after the fact, were placed on trial in London, Eng. for the murder of the former's wife, Corla Belle Crippen, known on the stage as Belle Elmore. The street police court held a curious, frequent crowd, including a few smartly dressed women and some Americans. Mr. Humphreys, for the crown, set forth that Crippen and his wife were unablipped, married, and that her death was of monetary advantage to him in addition to the fact that his relations with his typist were such that Misa Leavee was unplausantly jealous of the death of her husband, who would relieve the situation from the standpoint of the man who loved one woman and was tied up to another. Crippen needed money and pawned jewelry, later identified as the property of his wife. When his wife disappeared he made an explanation that he later admitted was untrue. The admitted quarrel between the Crippens, the elopement of Crippen and Miss Lena eve, and the finding of the body alleged to be that of the doctor's wife in the cellar of the Crippen home. Mr. Humphreys announced for the first time that pollen more than sufficient to kill had been found in the cellar, which also showed traces of an operation. Girl Only Accessory. Mr. Humphreys said that the crown had decided to change the charge against Miss Leneve from that of a principal to that of an accessory after the fact. In conclusion he stated that he questioned whether the girl could have believed the extraordinary story told her by Crippen in explanation of his wife's disappearance. The conclusion of the prosecutor was that the witnesses were called for the crown. In cross-examining these Solicitor Newton confined himself to a few questions designed to show that Crippen was amiable and kind-hearted and seemed to be on the best of terms with his wife. An application to admit the prisoners to bail was refused and an adjournment was taken until Thursday. Popular feeling toward Crippen contended bitter, because of the bidside charge, that his charge is charged, but there is apparent an undercurrent of sympathy for the accused girl. Crippen seems not to have suffered physically from his confinement. He is nervous; but he has always been of a rather nervous temperament, and if his air of almost indifference is as summed, he plays the bart well. He has been the control of herself than the had when she arrived in London. At that time she appeared on the verge of nervous collapse. It is said that it had been intimated to her before the trial opened that the original charge of being a co-principal in the murder would be dropped and that she would be held responsible only for what knowledge of guilt she acquired subsequent to the commission of the crime. It was then to have had a good effect upon the girl, which it is hinted, was the end soult, by the prosecution, who at the proper time intends to use his companion as a witness against Crippen. d rates." oad con- d be un- f the in- n." He essity of ad been bon of a ring the in sick- o be ap- ey. a little A. Taw- nsibly to Mr. Taw- ted him- Taft was came to ng to the slon, he he house ressman TWO NEGROE Elizabeth, the little daughter, witnessed the tragedy, and when her father turned and allowed his wife's form to fall to the floor, she ran tranftically from the room and down to the lower rooms, where she screamed for help. After leaving the house immediately after the tragedy, Delry lighted a cigar with the utmost unconcern, but when he got to the street the news of her death bore him to die. He ran into the drug store of Mayor J. Harvey Brunce, at Second and Monroe streets, where he was arrested by a policeman. Mrs. Delry was dressing in her bedroom when her husband entered. Little Elizabeth had been assisting her and they paid no attention to Delry when he entered. A quarrel had been sparked between the husband and wife only a few minutes before was Delry unmasked, when Delry up behind his wife as she stood before a mirror, pulled her head back, by grasping her by the hull, and pulled the razor once across the left side of her neck. James B. Ksone III James R. Keene, the noted New York financier and horseman, was taken seriously with pneumonia at the Phoenix hotel, in Lexington, Ky. Physicians were summoned, his brother-in-law, Major F. A. Dainger fell, hurried over to the scene in an automobile from his country estate at Castleton, near Lexington. Mr. Keene arrived here, from New York, accompanied only by his valet. After an examination the physicians announced Mr. Keene's condition to be serious. His relatives in the east have been telegraphed and are hurrying to his bedside. Woman Mob'a Victim. Dangling from a treestle, jatout outside Graceville, Fla. were found the bodies with shooting Deputy Shifflet Allison and Hattie Bowman also colored. Says No State Committeeman Asked Tafs About That Charismantip. Chairman Woodruff of the Republican State committee came back yesterday from his camp in the Adriadacks and after powwowing with Mr. Rodovelt, he was able to reach he gave out a statement last night explaining his side of the happenings at the meeting of the State committee when Mr. Rodovelt was turned down for vow and Vice-President Sherman was selected in his place. The statement, which was revised several times before it was given to the newspaper men; was a repetition for Barres at the Republican State headquarters on Tuesday night. Mr. Woodruff in his statement follows the example set in the statement made by Mr. Barnes and does not attempt to answer the charge made by President Taft that he had no knowledge of the charges named and that on the contrary when it was suggested to him that there might be some opposition to the proposal to name Mr. Roosevelt as the temporary chairman of the convention the President insisted that before anything was done both Mr. Roosevelt and the Republican county committee should be consulted. Mr. Woodruff professes to have no knowledge of the whisperings which Mr. Ward and Mr. Barus set going among the members of the committee just before the meeting was called to prove the validity of the prosecution of the selection of Mr. Sherman. As a matter of fact, Mr. Woodruff just after the meeting said to a group of reporters, one of whom was a Sun reporter, that Mr. Sherman would not have been chosen because he was a distance telephone that the selection of Mr. Sherman for the temporary chairmanship of the convention was thoroughly agreeable to him. President Taft in his letter to Mr. Gliscom has said that the first intimation he had that Mr. Sherman was a candidate of the reports he read in the newspapers on the morning after the meeting. DIRECT CONFLICT WITH GRIS COM. Another point on which there is a disagreement of fact between the assertions made in the Woodruff statement and the statement made by Mr. Griscom after the meeting is that in which Mr. Woodruff asserts that, without warning, Mr. Griscom when the Sherman resolution was brought up moved to substitute the name of Roosevelt for Sherman. Mr. Woodruff says that Mr. Griscom was around the Republican Club for fully an hour before the meeting of the committee was held and that he had full knowledge that the committee was sent as the choice of the committee for temporary chairman. Mr. Griscom has said that he had not the least idea that a resolution named Mr. Sherman was to be presented until he was told of the scheme a few minutes before the meeting and that when he heard of it and protested against it, Mr. Griscom said that the resolution would be put through because it had been sanctioned by the President. Mr. Griscom replied to Barnes, Ward, Woodruff, and some of the other leaders of the regulars that he was certain that the President had not agreed to it, because the situation was one that he had talked over with the leaders of the convention. He asked that, the voting on the resolution should be postponed until he had had an opportunity of getting into communication with the President. The appeal was rejected. When Mr. Woodruff reached town yesterday he made an appointment with the newspaper men to meet in the evening, when, he said, he would have ready for publication a statement giving his side of the situation. When the reporters arrived at headquarters at the hour named the statement was waiting for them, but they were informed that Mr. Woodruff had gone to Garden City two hours before. This was the statement which Mr. Woodruff left. Nothing that has transpired since the meeting of the Republican State committee, nor anything that has been said since, then should mislead anyone as to the conditions or the situation. In accordance with the president established two years ago in the selection of Senator Root as a temporary chairman of the State Committee, I said, among those who have been involved in the Republican party through the two last political elections, that the State committee should not be involved in the sideration, of several names, decided to presetit to the committee the name of Wloe-President Shorman as temporary chairman, a selection which will be made by the committee to be highly satisfactory to the Republicans or the State. Much to my surprise and entirely without warning, Mr. Grissom, who sat in the committee as a proxy and who had been in the State committee rooms for nearly an hour before the meeting, me about it, moved to substitute the name of Mr. Roosevelt for that of Mr. Sherman will full knowledge which every one had had all the morning that a majority of the committee were committed to Vice-President's motion to select a new State committee's motive in placing Mr. Roosevelt in the position of being defeated I could not then comprehend nor is it important to discuss it now. President Taft was in no way involved in this matter, as the members of the State committee acted entirely without regard to the temporary chairman without, as far as I know, a single one of them consulting with him about it; but in view of the apparent affront to Mr. Roosevelt caused by the action of Mr. Grissom I felt called upon as chairman of the committee to send the following letter to the President: "Col. Theodore Roosexcelt. "My Dear Col. Roosevelt: It cannot be possible that it is necessary for me to tell you that the action of the State committee yesterday, in which I participated, was in no sense intended as an act of hostility toward you or the other men. Now Ward and Barnes after their talk with you and they told me what you and they had said about this whole matter, and I hope you know, despite some things to the contrary which the newspapers contain, that the exact facts. Not one of us supposed that your name would be presented without your notifying Ward, the national committeeman or me, the chairman of the State committees, that you wished it done, and I never knew that you did. As when Griscom made the motion which he did. Not a word had been said up me before the meeting by anybody that indicated this course was to be taken, and I understand that neither Griscom nor any one of the other men of the committee that this was their purpose. "Bellevue that you must appreciate the position in which under these circumstances we suddenly found ourselves, after having agreed upon the selection of Sherman, the selection of Senator Root, established by the selection of Senator Root two years ago as temporary chairman, I beg to remain with best wishes. Yours respectfully. "TIMOTHY I. WOODRUFF." Such harmonious action at the Saratoga convention as is necessary to success at the polls can only be secured by the co-operation of all Republicans. I know or no party principle upon which we are at present divided in this State except, that involved in the proposal to abolish the convention system of making a ballot therefor for the direct nomination plan, which has been characterized as "the device of the demagogue and the millionaire." Upon that question at the Saratoga convention there will doubtless be a division. It is right and proper that the attitude of the party on this issue be without equivocation or misunderstanding, that the voters may know exactly where the party stands. Those who are opposed to this fad and who believe that its introduction in this convention means of populistic ideals will, if chosen delegates to the Saratoga convention, rightly and properly endeavor to prevent the convention from committing itself to this folly. The spirit that is behind this agitation for the convention is that it is more dangerous than anything that the proposition itself embodies. The radicalism which in this State is directed against the representative system of nominating by convention will if given its head, next menace of industry and frighten enterprise. I am glad to know that Mr. Roosevelt intends to go to the Saratoga convention and present his ideas on this and other subjects. The importance of this convention will thereby clarify the nature of liberty or the convention system to the direct nomination method demonstrated. The best thought of the Republican party will be there expressed both before the committee on resolutions and upon the floor of the convention. Differences that may exist upon matters of principles or policies will be there debated and decided. On the part of myself and the other regulars there is no personal warfare involved in this matter, nor has there been. Our interest lies where it always has—in the success of the party when its progressiveness does not violate its traditions. Our right to contest for principles in which we believe can be opposed by I and I believes that the opposition has the same interest at heart as we have and will be as ready as we to accept the verdict of the State convention, which is the supreme authority of the party. HOPING FOR A COMPROMISE. Although Mr. Woodruff in the latter part of his statement implies that he exports a fight at the Saratoga convention, particularly on the direct nominations question, and that he is looking forward with pleasure to such a fight. Mr. Woodruff, the "best thought of the Republican party will be there expressed," it can be said that Mr. Woodruff, like Mr. Barnes and Mr. Welf, is already planning to bring about some kind of a compromise. They are more than willing to drop the Saratoga convention, and they call it, and are willing to agree to the nominee of a man for temporary chairman, who will be acceptable to the machine and to the progressives' faction. 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For Free Tution or Further Information, Address. there will be no dickering with Mr. Woodruff. Mr. Griscom is condent that the coming primaries will make it clear that the majority of the Republicans of this State are in favor of director nominations and that they should be the basis for their battle in the convention that will be beaten. More than that, Mr. Griscom thinks that if circumstances should lead to a vote between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Sherman the old guard's candidate would be beaten. Mr. Roosevelt should be presented that Mr. Sherman's name will not be presented to the convention. Mr. Griscom and the other Roosevelt men in this city were greatly elated overday over the action of the Republican convention of 1922 of delegates to the State convention to vote for the election of Roosevelt as the temporary chairman of the convention. This proceeding was unusual because so far as is known there is no precedent for a county convention diving into the nomination process should vote on such a question as the naming of a temporary chairman. "The result of the county convention in Orleans," Mr. Griscom said yesterday, "shows how the Republicans of the State feel in the present contest. The news from Orleans will ring from one end of the state to the other and will gift Republicans the opportunity to be followed soon by other victories for the man who have followed Taft and Roosevelt." Mr. Griscom added that he was receiving daily from every corner of the State communications from influential Republicans urging him to continue his night on the old guard and promising that on the day of the convention there would be a summary convention to defeat Barnes, Woodruff, Ayard and those who stand with them. 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The colored citizens of Durham are ones, of the most progressive stage. The Hill is beautifully decorated with handsome buildings, nicely furnished with the latest designs of furniture, with beautifully arranged yards decorated with abundance of fragrant flowers. Let the colored citizens of this Hill establish a handsome colored park as it is the most desirable place for such enterprise in the city. Mrs. Mattie Turpin of Washington, D. C., is visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. Cotnoy Turpin. Mrs. Lucy Gilbert, the mother of Mrs. Harriet Irvin, who has been sick for several days, is convalescing. Mrs. Edith Brooks, of Baltimore, who was the guest of Mrs. Harriet Irving for several days, left for her home last Sunday. Mrs. Minnie Washington, of Staunton, spent several days in the city, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Calloway, returned home Tuesday day morning Mrs. Mattie Anderson, of Salem, Va., who was called to the bed side of her mother, Mrs. Lucy Gilbert, returned home Sunday Mrs. Branch Dabney, of Bluefield, West Va., is the guest of Mrs. Harriet Irvine Mr. Willie Jennings, of Richmond, Va., is the guest of his cousin, Mrs. Mary (C) Thompson at Thompson has come to the city of hills to regain his health. We wish for Mr. Thompson a speedy recovery Mrs. Mildred Ross, of Boston, Mass., who has been visiting Mrs. Harriet Irvine for several days, left the city last Monday for home Rev C D Henderson, of Roanoke, Va. passed through the city Friday en route from his vacation. He was the guest of Mrs. Sue Muck Stone, Woll Street and Mrs. Annie Miner, Park Avenue. A german will be given at the residence of Mrs. Carrie Davis, on Monroe Street by Mrs. Harriet Irine and Mrs. Minnie McDonnell In honor of Mrs. Mattle Turpin, of Wash.ington, D. C. Mrs. Eliza Jeffries, of Seventeenth Street, who has been sick several days, is improving again. Rev. Payne, of Richmond Va., was in our city this week. Miss Sydney J. Davis, missionary or the National Baptist Convention, passed through our city last week. Rev Temple Johnson, pastor of Horcumb Rock Baptist Church will preach at Court Street Baptist Church Sunday, at 3 P. M. Mr G V Komp of Troy New York, brother of the popular tailor, of this city, Mr Wm. Kemp is in the city of Hills, visiting his brother and cousin, Mr F. H. Kemp. Mr. Kemp is one of the progressive tailors and musicians of Troy, N. Y. He is prospecting the city probably to locate and establish business for the future. 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Vice-President Bpherman will leave this city at 2 o'clock tomorrow (Friday) morning for the West, on his Congressional campaign tour. He goes that in Chicago and after delivering several speeches in Illinois will go into Chicago. till brother-in-law, Shirill Bpherson, accompanies him. The statement, smashing from Watertown, today to the effect that Vice-President, Bpherman, and included in friends in that city this week that on the complete book for his term. as Vice-President he would retire permanently from public office and active politics is discredited here by Mr. Sherman's close friends. The Vice-President himself refused to discuss the matter, maintaining the close silence which has characterized him during the last few days.—New York Sun, August 26, 1910. TAFT'S APPEAL TO REPUBLICANS Give Party's Record in Congress and Says More Important Measures Are to Be Enacted. An urgent call for all Republicans to forget their differences after the nominations of their party have been made and to unite in trying to elect Republican nominees and thus insure the further carrying out of platform promises is made in the letter which President Taft has written for use in the Republican campaign textbook. The letter was addressed to Chairman William B McInlay, of the Republican congressional committee, at the headquarters of the committee in the St James building in New York. The letter virtually takes the place of a party platform in the campaign for congress this fall, and it is evident that the president intended it for such Only a brief and guarded, reference is made to any factional strife within the party and that in the very beginning of the letter Assuming that party candidates will have already been selected by the time his letter is published which, however is not the case, the question will be, says Mr Taft "not what completion of Republican one prefers but whether it is better for the country to have the Republican party control the legislation for the next two years and further redeem its promises or to enable a Democratic majority in the house either to interpose a veto to Republican measures or to formulate and pass bills to carry out Democratic principal". Only twice does the name of Mr Taft's prosecution appear in his letter and is in reference to conservation. To Mr Roussevelt Mr Taft gives the credit for arousing public interest in this subject A large part of the letter is a summary of the legislation of the last session as evidence of desire of the Republican party to fulfill its promises. Among the measures yet to be enacted and for which he asks the return of a Republican majority, Mr. Taft places the measure to give the infunction power. He declares that the Democrat substitute "would create a privileged class of lawless workmen and would seriously impair the power of the courts of equity to do justice." The regulation of stocks and bonds of railroads, a ship subsidy measure and a national board of health are other promises which remain to be kept the president assists. Those who wish for such legislation, in which Mr. Taft uses the word progressive, should vote for Republican candidates, the president insists. The principal points in the letter are as follows: It is better to have the Republican party in power in order further to redeem its promises. The Republican party should forget its differences in the coming election. All Republicans who believe in the platform principles of 1908 should give loyal support to candidates. The legislative program could not be carried out by one congress. More reductions than increases were made in the Payne tariff law The tariff is not responsible for the increase in prices of necessities The importance of the tariff commission. Defect turned under new law to surplus of $25,000,000 Advantages of the corporation tax law. Interstate commerce law amendments beneficial. Epoch created by enactment of postal savings bank law. Creation of the bureau of mines and legislation The safety devices on rail roads a boon to labor. Revision of conservation legislation Bond issue of $20,000 000 for reclamation. Passage of river and harbor and statehood bills. Economies in conducting government departments. Republican party that of construction and progress; Democratic that of obstruction and negation. Crippen and Companion Arraligned. Dr. Hawley H. Crippen and Miss Ethel Clara Leneve, his typist, were accused of the murder of Bole Elmore, Crippen's wife, in the formal charge read to them in the Bow street police court, London, England. Miss Lenove was charged also with harboring and maintaining Crippen after the crime and while knowing that he committed it. Inspector Dew introduced evidence to show that Crippin contemplated suicide while at sea following his flight. Crippen was quoted also as declaring that his companion knew nothing of the trouble in which he was involved, and Miss Lodgee was said to have protected her innocence. Roosevelt Warmly Praises the Forestry Service. Colonial Gives His Idea on the Conservation of Natural Resources in Vigorous Language. Colonel Roosovelt arrived in Denver, Colo., on Monday and was greeted by a salute of twenty-one guns. The expresident received the most enthusiastic reception of his tour and was kept on the move all day. He first reviewed a parade and then attended a banquet given by the Denver Press club. In the afternoon he addressed the Colorado legislature. At a mass meeting in the Auditorium he was wildly cheered by an audience numbering 12,000, when he gave his idea on the conservation of the nation's natural resources, and in doing so made some references that had a bearing on the bitter controversy between Gifford Pinchot, the former chief forester, and Richard A. Ballinger, the secretary of the interior. Neither was mentioned by name, but the forest service, of which Pinch was so long the head and the mouthpiece for the "promulgation of the Roosevelt conservation policy, received unstinted praise. On the other hand, what was considered by many of the former president's audience a direct call at Ballinger came in his discussion of the Alaska coal lands. "These coal, mines," declared the colonel, "should be leased, not sold, and those who mine the coal should give back part of their profit to the people." Then he added, "It is the right and the duty of the people to demand the most vigilant trusteehip on the part of that branch of the federal government in charge of the fuel resources of the United States." This he urged for the industrial development of the west and the needs of the navy in the Pacific. Colonel Rosenvolt made no direct reference to the Taft administration, but he denounced in strong terms bills that were introduced in the last session of congress with the purpose of transferring water power sites in the national forests and the public domain to the control of the states. Then swinging rapidly into the discussion of the forest service of which Pinchot was so long the controlling factor he said. "The forest service has enemies because it is effective. * * * Much of the opposition to the forest service, like much of the opposition to conservation, takes the form of direct misrepresentation * * * Like the forest service the reclamation service has clashed with certain private in forests and has had to pay the penalty * * * in the form of bitter opposition." New York state politics crept into the speech for a minute, when the former president regretted that he would not be able to attend the sessions of the National Irrigation Congress the latter part of September, just about the time the Republican convention will meet at Saratoga, N.Y. "I must" he said in the inait at that time. Colonel Roosevelt also proposed considerable interest by a definition of interstate commerce included in his speech. "All commerce on a scale sufficiently large to warrant any control over it by the government is nowadays interstate or foreign commerce," he said. Until courts and legislative bodies recognized this he declared the interests of the people would suffer. Roosevelt's Conservation Ideas. "I do not believe that a single area of our public lands should hereafter pass into private ownership except for the single purpose of homestead settlement. This is absolutely necessary on the agricultural lands. It is at least equally necessary on the mineral lands." "The forest service has enemies because it is effective. Some of its best work has been met by the bitterest opposition." "Much of the opposition to the forest service like much of the opposition to conservation, takes the form of direct micropresentation." "Like the forest service the reclamation service has clashed with certain private interests and has had to pay the penalty of its service to the public in the form of bitter opposition from those with whose profit it has in terred." "This country has shown definite signs of waking up to the absolute necessity of, handling its natural resources with foresight and common sense." "In the first place, the needless waste of the natural resources must be stopped." "In the second place, the natural resources must be developed promptly, completely and in orderly fashion." "In the third place, so far as possible, these resources must be kept for the whole people and not handed over for exploitation to single individuals." Denver Wild Over Roosevelt. The tour of Mr. Roosevelt through the west is becoming more interesting every day. Denver turned out in large numbers to bid him goodbye and go speed. The capitol of Colorado we wild over Roosevelt. The now-spawn sprained the colonel to the skies. Most of the political shouts out there seem to think that if Mr. Roosevelt wants the nomination in 1812 he can have it, but the colonel, he expresses, no desire yet, unless it is the life-threatening one of the future demons. All of the political shouts out there are the battles. The day stop was made at Colorado Springs, where about 1000 persons cheered, and heard the colossal scold the corporations some more. Philippe signed the streets, and did all sorts of things to make Mr. Roosevelt valk and his party feel at home. The reception committee that got on the train at Denver handed out regular paper badges that admitted you to any part of the grounds. A string of automobiles was down at the station and the band played. The interest of Mr. Roosevelt to wards year's part of this country was illustrated again. He spoke of New Mexico and Arizona. He said that many of his friends had written to him asking that he advise them about the making of the constitutions of the two new states. The colonel has replied that he isn't familiar with conditions to do it. Nevertheless he can hand out a bit of advice on the outside. Mr. Roogevelt is strongly of the opinion that the "people of New Mexico and Arizona should have a constitution easy of amendment at any time. He declares that not only the doctrinaire, but also the designing corporation lawyers are apt to slip into the constitutions matters that aren't thoroughly understood and that will work havoc later on. They ought to look out for that. R. R. AGENT KILLS MAN WHO SHOT AT HIM Slays Discharged Employe in His Office. C. P. Welsh, a discharged special agent of the Great Northern Railroad company, entered the office of Chief Special Agent Al G. Ray, at St. Paul, Minn., and fired five shots at him, but missed him each time. Ray then shot Welsh dead. Welsh, who was about forty-five years old, had been discharged by Ray about two months ago for shooting a man at Duluth. Shortly after Ray entered his office Welsh appeared. As he opened the door to the office he drew a revolver and began to fire at Mr. Ray. At the fifth shot Mr. Ray returned the fire and killed Welsh. Welsh was shot at four times. One bullet went through the head and another through the stomach. Just before he fell dead Welsh pulled a plint bottle of nitroglycerine, with a fuse and cap attached, from his pocket hurled it to the floor and staggered through a door it failed to explode due to the fact that it was wrapped in heavy paper. ROBBERY ON SHIP AT SEA Chicago Woman Loses $343D In Jewels and Money. WIRELESS GALLS DETECTIVES Slept With Stateroom Door Unlocked and Awoke to Find Her Ornaments Gone—No Trace of Thief. Miss Ethel May Davis and Mrs. James S. Rodgers, of Chicago, arrived in New York on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II., and said the former had been robbed of $3430 worth of jewelry and money while the ship was on the high seas. Pinkerton detectives, ordered out by a command from Chicago in response to a wireless sent from the ship, looked about and asked questions, and said the robbery was a sure thing. More Pinkerton detectives, sent by agents of the line to make an investigation, simply shook their heads. Anyhow, at sun-up on Monday morning, other passengers in the neighborhood of the room occupied by the two young women were awakened by loud screams, and word soon spread that Miss Davis had lost all the jewelry she had been wearing, at dinner the night before and some more, together with some money. The list of things said to be missing comprised a pearl ring valued at $100; a gold chalatenel bag, $180; a diamond ring, $750; a double diamond bracelet made into a necklace, $1200; a gold enameled vanity box, $150; a diamond and sapphire ring, $600; a gold watch, $75; an amethyst and pearl, brooch, $60; a gold mesh bag, $75, and besides there were a 600 franc, French note and $130 in American money. Miss Davis and Mrs. Rodgers occupied stateroom No. 442, which is just forward of the dining room. The former said that when she went to bed her money and jewels were on a shelf alongside the mirror. Mrs. Rodgers also had a bag of jewels which were said to represent a value of $2000 to $10,000, but the bag was on the sofa. A steward, awoke Miss Davis at 2 o'clock in the morning to deliver a wireless message, but this was the only interruption to the response of the women during the night, though Miss Davis confesses to have had promotions, and Mrs. Rodgers had a feeling several times during the night that somebody else was in the room! Mrs. Rodgers got up about 6 o'clock to go to the barroom, and left the door of the stateroom unlocked. Both after she came back she awakened Miss Davis, and the two were startled upon discovering that Miss Davis醉ily and money were gone. 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It was the grandest reception that the colonel has yet encountered on his tour, and no one realized it better than he. The colonel talked conservation in St. Paul, and he took occasion to endorse part of President Taft's address, but he was careful his praise did not go far. His position in regard to the control of natural resources was made unmistakably clear, for he hammered away at that phase of the new nationalism that insists that federal control shall be stronger than state control. When he did refer to Mr. Taft and the reference was a compliment, delegates and the thousands in the galleries cheered. The reference was an interpolation in the former president's not speeches it was: "Much that: I have to say on the subject of conservation will be, but a repetition of what was so admirably said from this platform Monday." Again he said: "All friends of conservation should be in heartfelt agreement with the policy which the president laid down in connection with the coal, oil and phosphate lands, and I am glad to be able to say that this last session congress finally completed the work of separating the surface title to the land from the mineral beneath it." The question of federal or state control of water power afflicts is the one before the congress that has given rise to the most animosity. The president avoided committing himself on this point, leaving it for congress to decide. The colonial declared "himself vigorously for federal control, in this connection he said," "There is apparent to the judicious observer a distinct tendency on the part of our opponents to cloud the issue by asking the question of state an against federal jurisdiction. We are ready to meet that issue if it is forced upon us, but there is no hope for the plain people in such conflicts of jurisdiction." The essential question is not one of habe-splitting legal technicalities. It is simply this: Who can best regulate the special interests for the public good? Most of the predatory corporations are interstate bishops interstate are largely similar to what was used in the control. The actual state is "Chicago Trouble Housed." Strong For National Control. 311 North Fourth Street, jurisdiction. The most effective weapon against these great corporations, most of which are financed and owned on the Atlantic coast, will be federal laws and the federal executive. That is why I so strongly oppose the demand to turn these matters over to the states." In a number of other parts of his speech Colonel Roosevelt showed that his attitude was for strong national control. He made a strong plan for the development and regulation of all the waterways and urged specifically that these be guarded from the "interests" and that the railroads be prevented from controlling them in the future as they have in the past. Here the president injected extemporaneously: "There are classes of bulk freight which can always go cheaper and beger by water if there is an adequate waterway, and the existence of such type of waterway in itself helps to regulate railroad rates." He declared that any railroad connection with water lines should be under the "attriest regulation of the interstate commerce commission." He also asserted that the necessity of federal control of the forests had been proved and urged the formation of a federal bureau of health, declaring the financial waste to the nation in sickness and preventable deaths to be appalling. Raps Congressman Tawney. The former president took a little shot at Congressman James A. Tawney, of Minnesota. It was ostensibly to combat the renomination of Mr. Tawney that Glifford Pinchot absented himself Monday when President Taft was here. When Colonel Roosevelt came to that part of his speech referring to the national conservation commission, he told of the introduction into the house of representatives by a congressman from Minnesota of an amendment to the civil service bill, which, he said, was designed to put an end to the work of the commission. His recital throw the crowd into an uproar. A man in the balcony shouted: "Now what do you think of Tawney!" The colonel went on to say that the subject came up just at the close of his term in the White House. If he had remained president, he said, he would have paid no attention to this provision of law, because he believed it to be unconstitutional. This declaration was anointed loudly. Nearly 100,000 Great T. R. The conservation congress, while it was a big affair, didn't compare with the terrestrial crowd that Mr. Roosevelt faced at the Minnesota state fair, grounds. A gathering estimated at between 95,000 and 100,000 persons jammed themselves into the enclosure and most of them heard the colonel make a long speech. The management declared that Roosevelt drew the largest crowd of persons that ever this state heard of. In the hotel lobbies and on the streets one hears arguments as to who drew the greater crowd: Roosevelt or Taft. The consensus of opinion very strongly favor Roosevelt. It was a respectable, cordial reception that Mr Taft got. Roosevelt got the whoops and the shouts. "Lucky dog, that man Doseworth," "Has he come into a fortune?" "No, he has secured a certificate from his doctor showing that he has organic heart trouble. When an insurer We Carry A choice stock of printing sundries and our supply rooms have an assortment that will please the most fastidious. 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Telephone messages that were received at Athens, Ga., from Carlton, Ga., where five colored men were reported to have been killed After attempting to attack the daughter of Robert Huff, a planter, and rob and murder the other members of the Huff family, indicate that two of the accused men are still at liberty. Cliff Bolton, one of them, resisted arrest when captured by Marshal Johnson, it is stated, and was probably fatally shot. Two others are reported to have been captured by possess and summarily dealt with, while the remaining two made their escape. Mr. Huff's daughter, according to reports, aroused her father, who detained the intruder until neighbors could be summoned by telephone. It is said one col. I man confessed that he and four others planned to rob the house, attack the woman. Kill the occupants and then burn the dwelling. 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The ward went for Bass, as did the entire city. Senator Gallinger was a candidate for delegate to the state convention and was overwhelmingly defeated: The Democrats have nominated Clarence E. Carr, of Andover, for governor. LAFOLLETTE WINS Renominated For United States Senate at Wisconsin Primaries. Senator LaFollette is the victor over the Taft Republican candidate in the primaries in Wisconsin for United States senator by a vote of at least two to one. The two candidates for governor who opposed county option, and running a close race for the nomination for governor, with W. M. Lewis, LaFollette's follower, for county option, is running far in the rear, a bad third Crank Calls Roosevelt a Liar. A rough, dirty, looking man, wearing a battered derby hat, and with a two days' growth of beard on his face, jammed his way through the crowd at island park, at Fargo, N. D., where Mr. Roosevelt spoke, and demanded an audience. It was just at the conclusion of the colonel's speech to the laboring man of the west. On the platform from which Mr. Roosevelt had spoken were fully 1500 persons. They didn't know what it all meant. "I've a question to ask," he yelled, as he pressed closer to the colonel. "I want to speak to you." Mr. Roosevelt, thinking that the stranger was a laboring man who wished to make himself clear on some point in the address, asked him what he wanted. "Who is paying for this trip of yours?" the stranger cried. "Who's paying for it?" The colonel was very angry then, and he glared fiercely. "That is a very impenetrable question," replied Mr. Roosevelt. "I don't mind telling you, however, that the Outlook Magazine, with which I am connected, is paying for it." The rough intruder stepped closer to Mr. Roosevelt, while the crowd stood and gasped. There were no policemen near. "It's a life; I tell you all," the man shouted. "The nation is paying for it. The country is doing it." 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The colonel saw in a flash that the man was a socialist and probably a demented socialist. He rushed towards him, grabbed the man's right arm and jerked it upwards, wrenching it as he did so. He pushed the intruder back from him in no gentle manner and continued to push him so that the man had dropped to the ground. The man disappeared in the crush before an officer hove in sight. not to Escape, unmurdered young saft treasurer of material company, and his negro mate, tied through baste that they's sulitcase consilver and bills. J. Lane and Su Leonard, of the ambled upon the were beating up party of armed found not only Fowler had been Atlas brickmaker steps of where lucky negro had they came upon others had used in theater repeating two revolvers hands and knees they found two laborers com part of the couna handkerchiefs with oycholes; the scattered hope and the let contained, and a tiny clearing just imponetrable where the robble they waitedESSY. 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Lane and Leonard found not only the money that Dont Fowler had been hurrying with to the Atlas brickmakers, but within a few steps of where Mr. Fowler and the plucky negro had been shot to death they came upon the weapons the robbers had used in the killing, a Winchester repeating rifle, a shotgun and two revolvers. Searching on their hands and knees through the wet bush, they found two caps, such as Italian laborers commonly wear in this part of the country; two red bandanna handkerchiefs which had been pierced with oycholes and used; for masks; the scattered fragments of an envelope and the letter the envelope had contained, and the scrap strown spot, a tiny clearing surrounded by almost impenetrable thickets of thornbush where the robbers had made camp while they waited for young Fowler's buggy. Fowler and his negro driver were shot dead and robbed by masked men while on their way to pay off the men ABRUZZI WINS RICH PRIZE Gets $18,000 on Lottery Ticket Bought of Beggar. 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Cary and George R. Burrell conducted the meetings in the city home last Sunday. The jail committee made a great hit last Sunday. Elgiven prisoners were led to accept Christ. The workers meeting was well attended last Sunday, morning 9:30 o'clock. The men are taking much interest in this meeting. The bible study for the boys last Sunday was a good one. This means much towards helping the boys. "D. W. F. G. Graham, pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church delivered an address last Sunday to only men which will ever be a special help to those who heard him. The Doctor's soul was in the effort. Mr. George Wilkerson sang the "Hand Writing on the Wall." This was in keeping with the subject. The Y. M. C. A. Chorus made a great hit. Prof. E. T. Pollard knows how to help men. The blues and reds fought hard. The voluntary rally was a great success. The rods are ahead. The blues are still working. We need everybody for his or her help. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. A special meeting will be held for boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the Y M C. A. building. An open meeting for men Sunday 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. build- ing Subject, "Humility" Come and take apart, Bring the other man, Warm singing Prof J. W. Barco will be glad to meet you at the opening of the class for the explanation on the Sunday- school lesson, Saturday September 24 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. build- ing, Women, and men are invited. The night school of the Y. M. C. A. will open Monday, September 26. 8 P. M. at the building it is for you. come. * The season for the Y. M. C. A. work will open at the Third Street Methodist Church, Sunday, October 3:30 P. M Every mother and father is asked to be a committee for this meeting. The Y. M. C A. lecture course will open October 10th. Women's voluntary rally. Sunday September 25th, 3:30 P. M. at the St. Phillip's Episcopal Church. Rev. C. E. Hodges, B. D., pastor of the Leigh Street Methodist Church, will deliver a special address. Subject, "To be a Woman or Not to be a Woman" Special music Only women will be admitted Tell the other woman. Ex-President Roosevelt's Future. What does Colonel Roosevelt mean? He is on record as having said that under no circumstances would he again be a candidate for President of the United States. He is responsible for the nomination and election of President Taft, and assured the American people that Mr. Taft would make a most acceptable chief executive and his administration would be devoted to the fight of the Roosevelt policies. Of course, the people generally don't feel that Mr. Taft is doing any great business as the head of the nation, and they are many of us who felt skeptical when he was being pressed by Mr. Roosevelt. His remarks on the question of the Negro, lost him all love we may have had for him and we judged his general character on public question from what he had done toward the Negro. The time has come in this country when the Negro cannot afford to do other than have it known that he has been made independent not by his own act, and having been driven out of the country, and allegiance to any particular party any further than that party makes it possible to recognize him. No man in the Presidential chair has done more for the Negro in our cattimation, than Colonel Roosevelt, and if he means that he is out for the office again, why we are for him tooth and toennil. There are plenty of white men all over the country who know that the Negro does not get justice in hardly any political way, and they want to help him, but every mother's son has weakness of courage. No man embodies in himself the courage of his convictions more forcibly than Mr. Roosevelt and despite the mistakes he sometimes makes, he can always be counted on to do the right thing by all. Why bless your soul, they tell us it's, as hard for a representative Negro or a body of Negroes to see Mr. Taft as it is to get an audience with the Pope, and yet he claims to be the President of all the people. His cabinet is made up of man who seem to despise the brother-in-black and do everything in their power to discourage and dispoll all efforts of the Negro toward political preference, and yet we are asked to stand up and support this kind of unkindness. At this present time we may not be able to define Mr. Roosevelt's meaning, but, we mean, unless the present Republican administration recognize the Negro's citizenship then we can see no wisdom in our trying to help it by our votes, to continue in power—Newport News Star, September 3, 1910. Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 6, 1910. Mrs. Fannie Coleman, of Macon- ville, N. Y., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Cotnoy Turpin. Durington Hill. Special services at the Durington Church Sunday, Rev. Reason Pearse preached in the morning and Rev. James Carter at night. The D. Y. P. U. is in a very flourish ishing condition. Mrs. Carrie Carter returned home from Big Island where she spent great days, visiting her relatives and friends. She reports a most pleasant trip. Mr. Taylor Harvey, of Madison Street, is still on the slick list. Mrs. Sue Mack spent Labor day at Roanoke, Va., where she spent a most pleasant stay. You will find the PLANET at Bradley & Carter's Barber Shop, 615 Main Street, for sale. While reading The PLANET, get a hair out and shave. Mrs. Mary Lynch, of 14th Street, had a little accident Monday by failing, and received a bruised limb. Mr. W. L. O Donoghue, formerly manager of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, of this city, has been promoted to assistant Inspector of Richmond division. Mr and Mrs Isaac Fowler, of Poke Street, were blessed a few weeks ago with a little girl, which brings joy to them. When you want a quick lunch, go to Leftwich Cafe. 34 Cabell Street Rev W H Benderson preached at the Macedonia Baptist Church Sunday. He preached quite a soul-stirring sermon. Rev R. Senlor, of Pittsburg, Pa. who is the guest of Dr W H B Henderson this week, was a visitor to Macedonia Baptist Church, Sunday, and delivered a most excellent ad dress. Rev. M. C. Holland who has had a most successful years' work in leading the Macedonia Baptist Church to success, is preparing to leave the city on a vacation Rev Holland will spend his vacation in Tidowter, visiting friends and relatives On this return, he will enter the Virginia Theological Seminary, where he will begin Lord ever bless the young man who is struggling to reach the topmost round of the ladder of life Mrs. Diggs, of Providence, R. I. is in our city, visiting relatives and friends She is the guest of Miss Mary Cash, of Fillmore Street. There was a grand lawn party given on the lawn of this parsonage at the Marshal Chapel A. M E. Church, Monday night. In the clerk's office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 7th day of September, 1910. Mary Ellen Jones. Plaintiff vs. In Chancery. John Jones. Defendant The object of the above suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonio, by the plaintiff against the defendant. And an amitwift having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant, John Jones is, without effect, and that the plaintiff does not know his whereabouts it is ordered that the defendant John Jones do appear here within fifteen days after duo publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein A Copy—Teste P P WINSTON, Clerk To John Jones: You'll take notice that I shall on the 10th day of November, 1910, at the office of Phil B. Shold, Room Numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce building, stunted southwest corner Nishin and Main Streets, in the City of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M, and 8 o'clock P. 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Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an amdavitt having been made and filed that the defendant, Anderson Johnson is a non-resident of the State of Virginia: it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy—Testo: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk, Anderson Johnson. You'll take notice I shall on the 20th day of October, 1910, at the office of Phil B. Shalld, Room Numbered 6, Chamber of Commerce Building, situated Southwest corner of Ninth and Main Streets in the City of Richmond, M.A., between the hours of 9 o'clock A.M. and 6 o'clock P.M. M of that day proceed to take the depositions or witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, Va.; wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if, for any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if, commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. J. Henry Crutchfield, p. q. Office: 1215 East Broad St. Richmond, Va. VIRGINIA—IN VACATION: In the clerk's office of the Law and Equity Court, City of Richmond, this 17th day of August, 1910: Marina Garrett, . . . Plaintiff vs. . . . In Chancory John Garrott, . . . Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculum matrimonium, by affidavit having been made and filed that John Garrott is a non-resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatsoever is necessary to protect his interest herein. You'll take notice that I shall on the 20th day of October, 1910, at the office of Phil B. Shoil, Room Numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce Building, situated Southwest corner Ninth and Main Streets, in the City of Richmond, Va.; between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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