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THE RICHMOND PLANET The True Reformers. STILL CALLING FOR MONEY-COUNSEL'S POSITION SHIFTED-EX-GRAND MASTER TAYLOR COMPLAINS-WANTS MONEY FOR OLD FOLKS HOME-THE OUTLOOK BRIGHT. VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 3. The True STILL CALLING FOR MONE SHIFTED—EX-GRAND I PLAINS—WANTS FOLKS HOME— BRI Grand Worthy Master A. W. Holmes is making strenuous efforts to raise enough money to save the Order of True Reformers from bank- ruptcy. His appeal to each member to lend ($5.00) five dollars to the Grand Fountain is being responded to to some extent, but not enough yet to do any material good. He had a meeting of the Past Officers' Council at the True Reformers Hall Friday night, 10th inst. and there were some spicy things said and much heat in the debate developed. Rev. William L. Taylor, D. D. was for a while the centre of attraction. He did not like the action of the Reformer in publishing his name in the list of contributors to the loan fund as having given nothing. His son, Mr. Thomas W. Taylor was similarly labelled. REV. TAYLOR'S PROTEST Rev. Dr. Taylor stated that he did not see his way clear to give anything. He had not been treated right by the present management. He had been cut off without any salary. It seems that he was given to understand that he would be elected to a position that would pay him ($100.00) one hundred dollars per month, but that after the Grand Fountain adjourned, this action was nullified and he claimed that he had to go about now to get enough money to support his wife and children. Some of the speakers, though appeared to be much incensed at Rev. Taylor's action and did not mince their words relative to his conduct. NOT READY TO REPORT Many persons subscribed to the fund to aid the Grand Fountain and it was reported that some cash money was realized. The receivers for the Savings Bank give no hope what ever as to the time when a report will be made. The Order is now being run on the amounts being sent up by loyal members. While there has been a decrease in the amount formerly received, enough is sent to enable the present officers to pay some of the long past due death claims and with conservative management, it is hoped that the organization can be tided over its present embarrassment. A PECULIAR MOVEMENT Another significant fact has developed. It is now stated that the prominent law firm that originally represented the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers does not act in that capacity any longer, but will be retained to represent any of the officials who may be charged with felonies on account of any improper conduct in connection with the affairs of the institution. Grand Worthy Master Holmes is not receiving the support in the conduct of the affairs that he should receive, so it is alleged. He has positively declined to have any further dealing with ex-Superintendent Taylor in connection with the True Reformers' Old Folks Home, unless he is willing to have the entire matter gone into. WANTS ANOTHER HEARING Mr. T. W. Taylor states that he is willing to pay all amounts that he is shown he justly owes, but that there are items in the committee's report, which he can show should not be charged against him. It seems to be a case of "hide and seek," that if the Committee goes over the matter again, that it will probe deeper than it did before and probably make other claims not embraced in the present report. Grand Worthy Master Holmes wants ex-Superintendent Taylor to hand over the amount of the shortage as reported by the Committee and intimates that he will take legal steps to get this money due that department of the Order. Those people holding claims against the Grand Fountain are showing no disposition to press them. THE SITUATION AS IT IS The situation about the Bank's deposits is just this: the Order is hoping to put in a claim of ($275,000.00) two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars against the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, just as though it was in every respect a separate corporation. Under this arrangement, it is hoped that under a fifty cent on the dollar payment, the Order would realize over ($120,000) one hundred and twenty-thousand dollars out of the assets. As the deficiency is ($120,000,00) one hundred and twenty thousand dollars on death claims, this would float the Order out of its present embarrassment. DEPOSITORS MAY BE PAID IN FULL. But this would be done at the expense of the outside depositors, people, who have their savings of years tied up in the institution. If they insist upon their claims and the court sustains them, they will be paid in full and the membership of the Order would be required to make an assessment or loan money as is now being done to make up the shortage. If you have any spare rooms, I can fill them for you. I rent anything from a barn to a mansion. No business is too small—none too B. A. CEPHAS, Agent, 602 N. Second St. Mrs. Anna E. Taylor is still sick at her home, 120 West Hill street, and slowly improving under the care of Drs. J. P. Leonard and P. M. Mercer. Mrs. Edith R. Moss, formerly of this city, now of Philadelphia, Pa., was in the city recently visiting her many friends. She looks the picture of health. She was warmly received by all and highly entertained with receptions, and tokens of appreciation of her coming. Amelia Courthouse Va. Dec. 7 Mrs. Belle B. Venable underwent a serious operation and was successful in getting well. She was operated on by Dr. M. B. Jones, the best colored physician in the city of Richmond. She had the best attention from all the nurses, who were really sweet, kind and pleasant. To the Married Ladies of Richmond. Will you please tell us how many children you have in your family? How many boys and how many girls? We want to know especially how many boys, their size and their age, as we are interested in your boys. We can fit any boy in your family in a nice suit of clothing, ranging in prices from $1.50 to $8.00. We can also supply him with a nice hat or cap, from 25 cents to $1.00 to match. Don't forget we carry school boys' shoes at $1.50 to $2.50 guaranteed or money refunded. Dear ladies, we make this appeal to you because your husband don't deal with us. They seem to lose sight of the fact that there is a Clothing Store on Broad street, owned and conducted by colored people. If you haven't any boys in your family please read this to your neighbors. Thanking you for any favor, or word that you may speak in our behalf, I remain respectfully yours, I. J. MILLER, 314 E. Broad St.—Wrong Side A SIGNAL TRIUMPH. We have received a beautifully illustrated pamphlet picturing the building and offices of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, at Richmond, Va. This institution stands today as representing a signal triumph of the Negro's ability to master the devious and intricate details of high finance. It was organized in 1901 by John Mitchell, Jr., with a capitalization of $25,000, which has since been increased to $100,000.—Mound Bayou (Miss) Demonstrator. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1910 NICKEL SAVINGS BANK GOES UNDER Could Not Stand Pressure—New Of officers Did Not Take Charge— Depositors Will Not Lose All—May Reopen The Nickel Savings Bank of this city, the second oldest bank organized here, the Savings Bank, Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, being the oldest, went in the hands of a receiver on last Wednesday, Mr. A. J. Chewning, Jr., being named by Judge Grknan for that position. The institution has been in bad financial condition for sometime, due to errors for which the present officers are said not to be responsible. An effort was made to reorganize the corporation some time ago, and Mr. W. Isaac Johnson was elected president. He did not qualify, however, and finally resigned. WOULD NOT TAKE CHARGE Attorney J. R. Pollard was elected cashier, but he also declined to qualify and then resigned. Both seemed to have seized trouble. This left the entire responsibility upon the shoulders of Dr. R. F. Tancil, the retiring president, and upon Rev. R. J. Bass, the vice-president and cashier. Mr. Roscoe C. Brown was assistant cashier. The liabilities are variously estimated to be from eight to ten thousand dollars. The institution has about ($27,000) twenty-seven thousand dollars on deposit and the assets lead to the hope that the depositors will not lose all of their earnings. If arrangements can be made, then the bank may pay dollar 100 dollar. WANTED TO SAVE DEPOSITORS The present officers did not deem it advisable to keep open longer in view of the present unfavorable outlook for the institution. This failure is especially unfortunate in view of the approaching Christmas holidays. The officers are determined to make strenuous efforts to reopen the institution if it can possibly be done, and have taken steps with this idea in view. I go anywhere for business. When you need me, ring Monroe, 588. B. A. CEPHAS, Agent, Real Estate Agent and Notary Public. Eastern Colored Teams Going South All arrangements have been perfected by Nat. C. Strong of New York to send the Cuban Stars of Havana, Cuba; the Philadelphia Giants, of Philadelphia, Pa., and the New York Royal Giants through the South and West next spring. Cuban Stars, the pick of the best players in Cuba, will arrive in New Orleans about April 1st, while the Philadelphia Giants and the New York Royal Giants who will train at Palm Beach, will leave there about the middle of March and work their way through the South into Texas and then northward, returning home via Chicago, arriving in the East about the first of June. The Cubans, with Mendez and Pedrosa, the star pitcher, will play solid throughout the West, returning to the East about the 15th of July. All good first-class clubs desiring games with these clubs should address Nat. C. Strong, World Building, New York, immediately for dates. Free Library Detroit, Mich., Dec. 8, 1910. My Dear Sir,—You may announce in your paper, beginning January 1, 1911, we will begin to establish Mechanical and Domestic Libraries free in every public school for Negroes in the United States, especially in the rural districts. This is for the benefit of girls and boys of my race. Upon application from them their teachers or parents so to do. We have disposed of large interest in our Canadian Patent of our invention, "The Friction Heater." We retain $1,200,000 in the United States Company, and feel that girls and boys in the rural districts can best be helped by us in such contributions. White schools are not exempted. Respectfully, C. S. L. BAKER, Inventor. Branch Office, 58 Mullett St. G. W. Lackey, Secretary. Start the New Year right. Select your Real Estate Agent. If you select me, I promise fair, square and honest service. B. A. CEPHAS, Agent, 602 N. Second St. Editor Mitchell's Long Journey. A SCENE IN LOS ANGELES. A Trip to Santa Catalina Islands—A Barbecue Dinner—Flying Fish in the Pacific—Tame Seals Abound—Divers and the Money—The Submarine Garden— A Graphic Description. (Continued From Last Week.) The business streets of Los Angeles are a source of neverending interest. For hours we walked up one thoroughfare to come down another. It possesses a network of stores, many of which are an attractive as any in the United States. The new post office building is a magnificent structure. The street car system is one of the largest and most complete of any in the United States. Its private residences are palatial in their furnishings and sublime in their architectural beauty, rivalled and excelled only by the millionaire residences at Passadena, which may well be accredited to Los Angeles, the garden spot of the Pacific. COLORED FOLKS PROGRESSIVE The colored people are progressive. Most of them are content with private or public employment. Still, they are active and intelligent. Many of them own their own jobs and those who are prospering demonstrate rare ability to keep pace with the white people in a similar sphere of life. Mr. Eugene Walker, the tailor has a large establishment on one of the main thoroughfares of the city. He has a large white trade and he employs a large number of skilled work men in his establishment. We saw white men, colored men and Japanese wo-king away quietly in his establishment. There was no noise, no shiftlessness. Everybody talked in whispers, so to speak, and labored on in silence. His Madame is invaluable to him and she is past mistress at the business of pleasing his customers. MANY INVITATIONS We were the recipient of many invitations to visit residences and be the guest of honor at dinners. We could not accept. One of these came from a lady of entertaining men and engaging appearance. We regretted we could not accept her hospitality. Our engagements with the American Barkers' Association ma'e it impossible for us to accept. She gave us her card and from it we gleaned the interesting information that her husband was the "chef" (cook) at the City Jail and she was desirous that we should taste the viands that he knew so well how to prepare. OFF FOR THE CATALINA ISLANDS The main body of the American Bankers' Association did not meet on Wednesday, October 5th. It gave up both that day and Thursday to the meeting of the sections. A trip to the Catalina Islands had been arranged and all members were notified to be at the station to take the suburban car at 8 o'clock for San Pedro, where the steamers were awaiting the arrival of the bankers. We arrived at the station on time and there was a large crowd present. Finally we went through the gate and found ourselves seated with a white banker from a suburban town near Chicago. FRIENDLY WHITE BANKERS We conversed for some time on banking and we found him very sociable. He traced his lineage to the Southland and this gave added zest to the conversation. Reaching the wharf, we were among the first to board the steamer. President Plierson was aboard when he was called for and came ashore. It seems that the small steamer had been reserved for the officers and he and his Madame came down the gangway through the large crowd. We presume that they regretted the change for our steamer left after they left, but soon overhauled their vessel and left it far behind. IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE It is impossible to describe the sensation. Here we were on the broad Pacific Ocean. Outside of the colored servants, we saw no colored person in the midst of that vast throng of white people, composed as it was of the moneyed individuals of the continent. We had ceased to be a curiosity and our presence was now taken to be a matter of fact occurrence. Occasionally, we conversed with some banker from either the North or the South, but all of them possessed a friendly spirit and regarded us with favor. If the gentleman was from the South, he would take our presence and our booklet as an evidence of the liberality of his section and as proof positive that his section understood the race question and that Southern white people were the best friends of the colored people and were more interested in their welfare and success than the people of the North. THE SOUTHERNER'S ARGUMENT As a literal evidence of this, they would point to and speak of "John Mitchell the Negro banker from Virginia." We soon found that we had become a walking argument so to speak in favor of the White South, which took our evidences of prosperity as a ringing testimonial of their kindness, forbearance and ability to make something of nothing, so to speak Now then, it seems to us that white and colored folks, who are reading this "long journey" will be able to appreciate the embarrassments of the member of the American Bankers' Association, who inside was a "stranger in a strange land," but who on the outside appeared to be as much at home in that assemblage as were the millionaire bankers from New York and Chicago FLYING FISH IN THE PACIFIC We saw the shores of California fading from view. We saw our sister ships many miles away on this vast expanse of water and after going from one part of that steamer to the other, we sat down on the upper deck and gave ourselves up to meditation. We do not mean to say that we were not objects of curiosity among the members of that steamer's crew. When one of them got an opportunity to talk, he was more than gratified to get one of the booklets of the Mechanics' Savings Bank and he showed it proudly to his associates. We were now near the Catalina Islands. They looked bleak and drear away out there in the Pacific Ocean. Flying fish can be seen as they leap from the water and fly for a hundred yards or more before they again land in the water. These movements are resorted to it is said in order to escape larger fish which prey upon the flying fish for food. IN A GLASS BOTTOM BOAT As we got nearer, we saw a gasoline launch which plowed its way through the water. Then we saw another one coming in an opposite direction. The party had been out fishing. They lifted up a fish to the admiring gaze of the bankers. It was about four feet long and when we reached the shore, we were astounded to know that much larger fish are caught every day there. Our vessel had gotten in first and just before we reached the wharf, we saw many row boats containing two half-naked boatmen, all white, although they were "as brown as a berry." "Throw in some money!" "Throw it in!" they cried. Some threw in five, ten and twenty-five cent pieces and there was splash after splash as the men jumped over the side of the row-boats and dived in the (Continued on Fifth Page.) Song of Striving Souls. From His throne the King of Glory looks with mercy on the sod. And beholds the written story where our bleeding feet have trod; He has spoken in His Message—over saying as we plod, "Thy faith hath made the whole!" Chorus— Glory, glory! Hallelujah! Glory, glory! Hallelujah! Glory, glory! Hallelujah! We're marching to our Goal. We can hear Him 'bove the thunder of the blackest storm of night, As we stand in mystic wonder waiting for a sign of light; But our pounding hearts are forging shields of character aright, While marching to our Goal. We can read Him in the lightning of the Truth within His Page. And our life-strings all are tightening to a key of higher gauge; Now we know the soul He gives can only ripen with the age, As we march on to our Goal. We can see His gracious favor moving in the seeming wrong, And can taste the sweets of labor while our hearts are waxing strong— Hear His, "Come ye heavy laden and I'll give you rest!"—are long We'll reach at last our Goal. —Lucian B. Watkins Rev. D. D. Jenkins Called as Pastor for Life and Salary Doubled. At the regular business meeting of the New Tarnacle, Fourth Baptist Church, Palmetto Street, last night, with two-thirds of its present membership present, the following resolutions were offered by the Deacon's Board: Charleston, S. C., Oct. 4, 1910. Whereas, the Rev. D. J. Jenkins, our Pastor, has given the Church faithful service for the last twenty years: Resolved, That his salary be doubled and that he is called to the Pastorate of this Church for life as a token of our highest appreciation for his work and labor among us for these years. Resolved, further, that these resolutions be placed on our Minute Book and the same be published in the weekly and daily papers. Signed by the following officers: Thomas Gibbs, R. Duffy, W. H. Suares, Henry Martin, S. A. Deveaux Oscar Rivers, J. E. Dowling. President Hovey in Middlesex County Mr. C. A. Robinson writes from Deltaville, Middlesex Co., Va. under date of the 5th inst. that the First Baptist Church there is prospering under the leadership of Rev. J. A. Martin, B. D. Friday night preceding, the congregation was honored by a visit from the able President of the Virginia Union University, Dr. George R. Hovey. He gave a very fine lecture, illustrating his work as he proceeded. He made a profound impression. The object of the visit was to interest the people in the erection of a dormitory on the college grounds. Prof. J. H. Walker of Howard University and Miss Julla Smith of the V. N. and I. I. are teaching in the public schools there. Wants to Find Him. We would like to know the whereabouts of Richard Lewis, Jr. He was last heard from March, 1909. He was then at Portsmouth, Va. His mother's name is Harriet Lewis and his father's name is Richard Lewis, Sr., all of North Emporia, Va. If any one knows of his whereabouts or can furnish any information concerning him, please write his parents at North Emporia, Va., as they are very anxious to find him. Colored Man Burned As He Slept in His Home. Elljah Brown, colored, 60 years old, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed three colored tenement houses in Dickerson Street, Newtown, Fulton, Saturday night, 10th inst. The flames spread rapidly and Brown is supposed to have been overcome while in his bed. No cries were heard and position of the skeleton indicated there had been no struggle. Brown lived alone. Firemen who responded to the alarm were helpless to fight the flames as the nearest water plug was so far away that the hose connected with it would not reach the burning dwellings. Another Free Bridge The City of Richmond has pur- chased old Mayo's Bridge and the toll system will be discontinued. People can now cross it free of charge. TAKE NOTICE The 1910 Southern Aid Messenger is now in preparation for the press. All who desire advertising space may obtain space and rates on application for same. The 1910 Messenger will eclipse all former editions; will be profusely illustrated and for free distribution, assuring the best results from this unique advertising medium. Address all communications to Advertising Department, Southern Aid Society of Virginia (Inc). No. 527 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. CORNS BOTHER YOU?—Send Ten Cents for our Antiseptic Corn Plaster and be relieved. Why suffer? Agents Wanted. Virtue Remedy Co., 1001 N. Broadway, Balto., Md You live on the earth—why not own a part of it? I have the earth for sale; if you wish a part of it, see me. B. A. CEPHAS, Agent, 602 N. Second St. PRICE. FIVE CENTS RACE ORDINANCE PASSES COUNCH. And Will Likely Be Signed by the Mayor. The race segregation ordinance passed finally in the City Council last evening, and will be laid before Mayor Mabool this morning. He will immediately refer it to City Solicitor Poe, but will not ask for an opinion as to its constitutionality, which has been brought into question. The Mayor feels that the courts should pass upon that phase of teh measure. Mr. Poe will be requested to repass upon that phase of the measure, and to make the usual inquiry as to its course through the Council. Should his report be favorable the Mayor will sign the ordinance. Mr. David Stewart delayed final action on the ordinance in the Second Branch, where it was on the third reading calendar, having previously passed the First Branch. Mr. Stewart drew attention to some defects, as he saw them. He suggested an amendment making certain blocks wholly and permanently white and others permanently black, leaving out of consideration entirely all blocks in which both colored and white people now live. He said an amendment to this effect would strengthen the ordinance. Mr. Stewart said that in its present form the ordinance would work a hardship on the owners of houses in blocks where both white and colored people are living. He pointed out that his plan would not prevent the sale of a house in a mixed block when the tenants moved out. President Numsen and others in the branch thought they saw something in the suggestion worth considering, and postponed action on the ordinance. After reading the letter over carefully and looking into the question the branch decided to pass the measure. Congressman-elect George Konlg, Mr. Downes and Mr. Heintzman said Mr. Stewart had made his suggestion too late. They declared that he should have appeared before the Committee on Police and Jail, while it was considering the question. Mr. Heintzman was the only member of the branch to vote against the passage of the ordinance. He said the penalty for violations was too severe. Mr. Heintzman is the only Republican in the Second Branch. All the Democrats were present, and every one voted in favor of the ordinance. The belief about the City Hall is that Mr. Poe will find the measure flawless, so far as its passage through the Council is concerned. Every pre caution was taken against errors, and special care was taken to see that the provisions of the charter and the rules of the Council specifying the methods by which ordinances and resolutions should be enacted upon were carried out to the very letter. Experts guided the measure through. The indications are that Mayor Mahool will approve it on Monday, if not this afternoon. Mr. Milton Dashhell, who started the agitation, and who drafted the ordinance, has already asked the Mayor for the pen he will use in affixing his name to the measure. A Court in Prince George County Prince George Court, Order of Galanthe was organized in Prince George County last Saturday by Mrs. Martha Harris, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor of Petersburg, Va. assisted by Dr. J. Alexander Lewis, acting Grand Medical Director. The following are the officers: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Margaret J. Jones; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Lelia Williams; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Bettie Cryer; Worthy Orator, Mrs. Nancy Parker; Register of Deeds, Miss Susie C. Williams; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Martha J. Ruffin; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Nancy Blanda Senior Directress, Mrs. Mary McClenbon; Junior Directress, Mrs. Vink Hines; Conductress, Mrs. Emily Bland; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Sarah White; Escort, Sir Isaiah Ruffin; Herald, Mrs. Elizabeth Riles; Protector, David Bland. The candidates were delighted with the initiation and detained the party of visitors long after the time for their return to Petersburg. John Mitchell, Jr. of the Richmond PLANET, in describing his long trip West, passed through the growing country of Louisiana and thought he would never get out of it. We felt that way when in Hawaii; there was sugar cane everywhere where anything would grow, apparently, and it absorbed all the waters of the mountains and ate up the land as well. Like the red clay lands of Virginia, out of which the tobacco plant had eaten all of the life, sugar cane is a great land parasite, requiring constant renewal and abundance of water. Philadelphia, Pa. Tribune A Synopsis Nat Duncan, discharged for incompetency by his employer, goes to the home of his friend Kellogg, who has helped him in the fight. Kellogg sympathizes with Duncan, who meets some of his old time acquaintances at the home of his friend Kellogg wants to help Duncan, who is interested in a novel scheme whereby Duncan can repair his shattered fortunes. The scheme is that Duncan should go to a countryside where he will go to church, we readily and thus attract and marry the wealthiest girl in the town. CHAPTER III. AFTER dinner they smoked and talked about Duncan's future. Finally Kellogg said significantly, "Nat, if you follow my advice you can be worth a million dollars in a year!" "Let him rave," Duncan observed enigmatically and began smoke. "No, I'm not dippy, and I'm perfectly serious." "Of course. But wont'd they do to me if I were caught?" "This is not a joke. The proposition's perfectly legal. It being done right along" "And I could do it, Harry?" "A man of your enflair couldn't fall." "Would you mind ringing for Robbins?" Duncan asked abruptly. "Certainly!" Kellogg pressed a button at his elbow. "What d'you want?" "A straitjacket and a doctor to tell which one of us needs it." Kellogg, chirrled as he always was if joked with when expounding one of his schemes, broke into a laugh that lasted until Robbins appeared. "You ring, sir?" "Yes. Put those decanters over here, and some glasses, please." "Yes, sir." The man obeyed and withdrew. Kellogg filled two glasses, handling one to Duncan. "Now be decent and listen to me Nat. I've thought this thing over for—oh, any amount of time. I'll bet any thing it will work. What d'you say? Would you like to try it?" "Would I like to try it?" A conviction of Kellogg's carniness forced itself upon Duncan's understanding. "Would I?" He lifted his glass and drained it at a gulp. "Why, that is the first laugh I've had for a month!" "Then I'll tell you—" Duncan placed a pleading hand on his forearm. "Don't kill me, Harry," he entreated. "Not a bit of it. This is straight goods. If you want to try it and will A "DO YOU THINK ANY ORG WITH A MIMI LION WOULD TAKE A CHANCE ON ME?" "Rules," Man I'll follow all the rules in the world! Come on, I'm getting palptation of the heart, waiting. Tell it to me, what've I got to do?" "Marry," said Kellogg serenely. "Marry!" Duncan echoed, agast. "Marry," reaffirmed the other with unbroken gravity. "Marry who?". "A girl with a fortune. You see, I can't guarantee the precise size of her pile. That all depends on luck and the locality. But I'll run anywhere from several hundred thousand up to a million, perhaps more." Duncan sank back desperately "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Harry" he said dully "You had me all excited for a minute." "No, but honestly, I mean what I say." "Now look here, do you really think any girl with a million would take a chance on me?" "She'll jump at it." Duncan thought this over for a while. Then his lips twitched. "What's the matter with her?" he inquired. "I'm willing to play the game as it lies, but I bar funnies and cripples." "There's no particular her, yet. You can take your pick. I've no more idea where she is than you have." "Now I know you're stark, staring, gibbering." "Not a bit of it. I'm inspired, that's all. I've solved your problem; you only can't believe it." "How could I? What the devil are you getting at, anyway?" "This pet scheme of mine. Lend me your ears. Have you ever lived in a one horse country town, a place with one unspeakable hotel and about twenty stores and five churches?" "No." "I have. I was born in one of 'em." Have you any idea what becomes of the young people of such towns?" "Not a glimmering." "Then I'll enlighten your egregious density. The boys—those who've got the stuff in them—strike out for the cities to make their everlasting fortunes. Generally they do it too." "The same as me," assented Kellogg, unperturbed. "But the y妒, the Jaspers, stay there and clerk in father's store. After office hours they put on their very best mail order clothes and parade up and down Main street, talking loud and flirting obviously with the girls. The girls haven't much else to do. They don't find it so easy to get away. A few of 'em escape to boarding schools and colleges, where they meet and marry young men from the cities, but the majority of them have to stay at home and help mother. That's a tradition. If there are two children or more the boys get the chance every time. The 'girls stay home to comfort the old folks in their old age. Why, by the time they're old enough to think of marrying—and they begin young, for that's about the only excitement they find available—you won't find a small country town between here and the Mississippi where there aren't about four girls to every boy." "It's a horrible thought." "You'd think so if you knew what the boys were like. There isn't one in ten that a girl with any sense or self respect could force herself to marry if she ever saw anything better. Do you begin to see my drift?" "I do not. Shut go on drifting." "No? Why, the demand for eligible males is 300 per cent in excess of the supply. Don't you know-no, you don't. I got to that first—that there are twenty times as many old mails in small country towns as there are in the cities? It's a fact, and the reason for it is because when they were young they couldn't lower themselves to accept the pleck of the local matrimonial market. Now, do you see?" "You're as interesting as a magazine serial. Please continue in your next I pant with antipatience." "You're an ass. Now take a young chap from a city, with a good appearance, more or less a gentleman, who doesn't talk like a yap or walk like a yap or dress like a yap or act like a yap, and throw him into such a town long enough for the girls to get acquainted with him. He simply can't lobe, can't fall to cog out the best look, ing girl with the biggest bank roll in town. I tell you, there's nothing to it!" "It's wonderful to listen to you. Harry." "I'm talking horse sense, my son. Now consider yourself—down on your luck, don't know how to earn a decent living, refusing to accept anything from your friends, ready (you say) to do almost anything to get some money. And think of the country heirces with plenty of money for two, plining away in—in innocuous desutecte—hundreds of them, one, straight, good girls, girls you could easily fall in love with, sighing their lives away for the lack of the likes of you. Now, why not take one Nat—when you come to consider it—its your duty—marry her and her bank roll make her happy, make yourself happy and live a contented life on the sunny side of Easy street for the rest of your natural born days? Can't you see it now?" "Yes," Duncan admitted, half persuaded of the plausibility of the scheme "I see, and I admire immensely the intellect that conceived the notion, Harry, but I can't help thinking there must be a catch in it somewhere." "Not if you follow my instructions," Duncan drew a deep breath, sat back and looked Kellogg over very critically. "If I didn't know you so well, Harry," said Duncan slowly, "I'd be certain you were mad. I'm not at all sure that I'm same. It's raving idiocy, and it's a pretty darned rank thing to do to start deliberately out to marry a woman for her money. But I've been through a little hell of my own in my time, and it's not alluring to contemplate a return to it. There's nothing mad enough nor bad enough to stop me. What've I got to do?" Kellogg beamed his triumph. "You'll try it on, then?" "I'll try anything on. It's a contemptible, low first piece of business, but good may come of it; you can't tell. What's I got to do?" Hipping back, Kellogg knitted his fingers and stared at the ceiling, smiling faintly to himself as he enumerated the conditions that first appealed to his understanding as essentials toward success. "First pick out your town, one of 2,000 or 3,000 inhabitants, no larger. I'd suggest at a hazard guess some place in the interior of Pennsylvania. Most of such towns have at least one rich man with a marriagable daughter—but we'll make sure of that before we settle on one. Of course any suburban town is barred." "How so?" "Oh, they don't count. The girls always know people in the city—can get there easily. That spoils the game." "I'm coming to them. Of course there isn't an open or close season, and the hunting's always good, but there are a few precautionary measures to be taken if you want to be sure of ```markdown ``` "I KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH IN IT SOME WREAK." bugging an lieress. You won't like most of 'em. "I like 'em! I'll live by them!" "Like 'em! I'll live by them!" "Well, here come the things you mustn't do. You mustn't swear or use "YOU'LL TRY IT ON, THEN?" slang; you mustn't smoke and you mustn't drink" "Heaven's Are these people as inhuman as all that?" "Worse than that. It might be fatal if you were ever seen in the hotel bar. And, to begin with, you must refuse all invitations of any sort, whether to dances, parties, church soclables or even Sunday dinners." "Why Sunday dinners?" "Because Sunday's the only day you'll be invited. Dinner on weekdays is from 12 to 12:30, and it's strictly a business matter, no time for 'guests'. But you needn't fret. They won't ask you till they've sized you up pretty carefully." "Moreover, you must be very particular about your dress. It must be absolutely fanatic, but very quiet. Clothing alone, dark grays and blacks and plain, but the very last word as to cut and fit. And everything must be in keeping, the very best of shirts, collars, ties, hats, socks, shoes, underwear"—Kellogg caught Duncan's look and laughed. "Your laundress will report on everything, you know, so you must be impeccable." "I'll be even that, whatever it is." "Be very particular about having your shoes polished, shave daily and manicure yourself religiously, but don't let 'em catch you at it." "Would they raid me if they did?" "And then, my son, you must work." Kellogg paused to let his lesson pink in. After a time Duncan observed plainly, "I know there was a catch in it somewhere. What kind of work?" "It doesn't make any difference, so long as you get and, hold some job in the town." "Well, that lets me out. You'll have to sic some other poor devil on this glittering proposition of yours. I couldn't hold a job in"— "Wait! I'll tell you how to do it; in just a minute." "I don't mind listening, but" — "You'll clutch the whole business by going to church, without a break." Don't ever fall—morning and evening, every Sunday; Don't forget that." "Why?" "It's the most important thing of all." "Does going to church make such a hit with the young female Jasper—the Jasperette, as it were?" "It'll make you more solid than anything, else with her popper and mommer, and that's very necessary when you're a candidate for their duties as well as their daughter. You must work and you must go to church." "That can't be all. Surely you can think of something else." "Those are the cardinal rules—church and work until you've landed your befress. After that you can move back to civilization. Now, as soon as you strike your town you want to make arrangements for board and lodging in some old woman's house, preferably, an old maid. You'll be sure to find at least half a dozen of 'em willing to take boarders, but you want to be equally sure to pick out the one that talks (the most, so that she'll toll the neighbors all about you. Don't worry about that, though. They all talk. When you've moved in stock up your room with about twenty of the driest looking books in the world. Lawbooks look most imposing. Fix up a table with lots of stationery—pens and pensils, red and black ink, and all that sort of thing. Make the room look as if you were the most sincere student ever. And by no means neglect to have a well worn Bible prominently in evidence. You can buy one second hand at some bookstore before you start out." "I'd have to, of course. I thank you for the dinner." Process with the program of the gay, mad life I must lead. I'm going to have a swell time; that's perfectly plain." "As soon as you are shaken down in your room make the rounds of the stores and ask for work. Try to get into the dry goods emporium if you can. The girls all shop there. But anything will do, except a grocery or a hardware store and places like that. You mustn't consider any employment that would soil your clothes or roughen your lily white hands." "You expect me to believe I'd have any chance of winning a millionaire's daughter if I were a ribbon clerk in a dry goods store?" "The look in the world. The ribbon clerk is her social equal. He calls her Mary, and she calls him Joe." "Done with you. Me for the ribbon counter! Anything else?" "The storekeepers aren't apt to employ you at first. They'll be suspicious of you." "They will be afterward, all right. However"— "So you must simply call on them, walk in, locate the boss and tell him, 'I'm looking for employment.' Don't press it. Just say it and get out." "No trouble whatever about that. It's always that way when I ask for work." "They'll send for you before long; when they make up their minds that you're a decept, moral young man, for they know you'll draw trade. And every Sunday"— "I know—clueh!" "Absolutely! Pick out the one the rich folks go to. Go in quietly and do just as you do—stand up and kneel, look up the hymns and sing just when they do. Be careful not to sing too loud or anything like that. Just do it all modestly, as if you were used to it. Better go to church here two or three times and get the hang of it." "Hero, now"— "Nearly all the wealthy codgers in such towns are deacons, you see, and, though they may not speak to you for months on the street, it's their business to, waylay you after the service is over and shake hands with you and tell you they hope you enjoyed the sermon and ask you to come again. And, you can bank on it, they'll all take notice from the first." "It's no wonder Bartlett made you a partner, Harry." "Now, behave. I want you to get in right. If you follow the rules I've outlined, not only will all the girls in town be falling over themselves to get to you first, but their fond parents will be egging them on. Then all, you've got to do is to pick out the one with the biggest bundle and"— "Make a play for her?" "Not on your life! That would be fatal. Your part is to put yourself in her way. She'll do all the courting, and when she scents the psychological moment she'll do the proposal." "It doesn't sound natural, but you certainly seem to know what you're drooling about." "You can anchor on that, Nat." "And are you finished?" "I am. Of course I'll probably think of more things to wise you to before you go." Duncan lingered shortly and tilted back in his chair, selecting another cigarette. "And, you're, the chap who wanted me to go to some bromidle old show tonight! Harry, you're immense. Why didn't you ever let me suspect you had all this romantic imagination in your system?" "I imagination be blower, son. This is business." Keilog removed the stopper from the decanter and filled both glasses again. "Well, what do you say?" "I've just said my say, Harry. It's amazing. I'm proud of you." "But will you do it?" "Everything, else aside, how can I? I've got to live, you know." "But I propose to stalk you." Duncan came down to earth. "No, you won't—not a cent. I'm in earnest about this thing—no more sponging on you, Harry. Beidlea"— "No, seriously. Nat, I mean this, every word of it. I want you to do it, to please me if you like. I've a notion something will come of it. And I believe from the bottom of my heart there's not the slightest risk if you'll play the cards as they fail, according to Hoyle." "Harry, I believe you do." "I do firmly. And I'll put the proposition on a business basis if you like." Go on. There's no holding you." "You start out tomorrow and order your war kit. Get everything you need, and plenty of it, and have the bills sent to me." You can be ready in- "TO THE FORTUNE HUNTER." side a fortnight. The day you start Till advance you $500. When you're married you can repay me the amount of the advances with interest at 10 per cent and I'll consider it a mighty good deal for myself. Now, will you? " "You mean it?" "Every word of it. Well?" For a moment longer Duncan hesitated, then the vision of what he must return to otherwise decided him. In desperation he accepted. "It's a drowning man's straw," he said, a little breathlessly "I'm sure I shouldn't, but I will." Kellogg funga a hand across the table, palm uppermost. "Word of honor, Nat?" Duncan let his hand fall into it. "Word of honor! I'll see it through." "Good! It's a bargain." Kellogg lifted his glass high in air. "To the fortune hunter!" he cried, half laughingly. Duncan nervously fingered the stem of his glass. "God help the future Mrs. Duncan!" he said and drank. CHAPTER IV THE List of June was a day of memorable triumph to me, a day of memorable events for Hudville. Only the evening previous Will Bigelow and I had indulged in amicuous argument in the office of the Bigelow House, the subject of contention being the importance of the work to which I am devoting my declining years—to wit, the recording of the history of Hudville township, Westerly county, in Pennsylvania, Will maintaining with that obstinacy for which he is famous that nothing ever had happened, does happen, can or will happen in our community, insisting gently, but firmly, that it knows no day unmarked by important occur- 5 "THE MYTHOLOGIC STRAIGHTEN" rence (for it, would ill become me, as the only literary man in Hadville, to give a point in dispute with the pre- printer of the town tavern. Besides, he was wrong, even as I was indisputably right, only he had not the grace to admit it. We ended vulgarly with a bet. Will wagering me the best five cent clear Havana in the Bigelow House sample room that nothing worth mentioning would take place in Radville before sundown of the following day. I left him, returning to my room at Miss Carpenter's (Will and I are old friends, but I refuse to eat the food he serves his guests), warmed by the prospect of certain triumph if a little appalled by the prospect of winning the stake and sympatizing a little with Will, who, for all his egregious stubbornness, has some excuse for upholding his unreasonable and ridiculous views. At 6:45 the evening train arrived in, bearing the mysterious stranger. Tracey Tanner saw him first, having driven down to the station with his father's survey on the off chance of picking up a quarter or so from some drummer wishing to be conveyed to the Bigelow House. Only outlenders pay money for backs in Hardville. Everybody else walks, of course. Naturally Tracey took the mysterious stranger for a drummer. He had three trunks and a begy packing box, so Tracey's misapprehension was perfunfable. Antisintactly he drove him to the Bigelow House. Will now and again makes Tracey a present of a bottle of sarsaparilla or lemon pop, with the result that Tracey calls Tanehill, who runs the opposition hotel, a skinfint and never takes strangers there except in their express desire. The mysterious stranger merely asked to be driven to the best hotel. This is not like most commercial travelers, who, as a rule, know where they want to go, even in a strange town, having made inquiry in advance from their brothers of the road Will Bigelow was dozing behind the desk, lulled by the sound of Ili Nutt's voice in the barroom as he explained to all and sundry just how he had in advertently permitted Watty the tailor to best him at checkers that morning, otherwise the office was deserted Tracey waked Will by stamping heavily across the floor, and Will mechanically pushed down his spectacles and dipped a pen in ink, slewing the register round for the guest's signature. He says he knew at a glance that the mysterious stranger was no travelling man. But this is a moot point. Tracey's memory being minutely accurate and at variance with Will's assertion The mysterious stranger was a young man, rather severely clothed in a dark suit which excited no interest in Bigelow's understanding, although I, when I saw him later, had no difficulty in realizing that it had never been made by a tailor whose place of business was more than five doors removed from Fifth avenue. He was tallish, but not really tall, and carried himself with a slight stoop which took away from his real height. Tracey says he has a way of looking at you an if he was smiling inside at some joke he'd heard a long time ago, and I don't know but that's a fairly apt description of his ordinary expression. He had a way, too, of nodding jerkly at you—just once—to show he recognized you or understood what you were driving at; at other times he carried his head a trifle to one side and slightly forward. He was a man you wouldn't forget, somehow, though what there was about him that was remarkable nobody seemed to know. He nodded that jerky way in answer to Will Bigelow's "Giderenin", and without saying anything took the pen and started to register. He bad to stop, however, for Tracey was pressing him so close upon the right that he couldn't get any play for his elbow, and after a minute or two he asked Tracey politely would he mind stepping round to the left, where he could see just as well. So Tracey did. Then he wrote his name in a good round band, "Nathaniel Duncan, N. Y." "I'd like a room with a bath." he told Will, "something simple and chaste, within the means of a man in moderate circumstances." Will thought he was joking at first, but he didn't smile, so Will explained that there was a bathroom on the third floor at the end of the hall; though there wasn't much call for it. "I could give you a room next to that," he said, "but you wouldn't want it. I guess." "Why not?" asked the mysterious stranger. "Because," said Will, "'taint near the sample room." "That doesn't make any difference. I'm on the wagon." The only sensible Will could get out of that was that the young man was traveling for a buggy house and hadn't brought any samples with him. "I thought," he allowed, "as how you'd be wantin' a place to display your samples, but of course if you're in the wagon business"— "Oh," said Mr. Duncan, "I thought you, meant the sample room" over there." He nodded toward the bar. "That is what you call the disposables of intoxicating liquors in this part of the country, is it not?" Will made a noise resembling an affirmitative and as soon as he got his breath explained that traveling men generally wanted a sort of show room in theirs and that that was called a sample room too. "But I'm not a travelling man," said the mysterious stranger. "So I shall have as little use for the one as the other." "Then the room on the third floor'll do for you," said Will. "How long do you calculate on stayin'?" "That will depend," said Mr. Duncan, "a day or so, perhaps longer, until I can find comfortable and more permanent quarters." In his amazement Will jabbed the pen so hard into the potato beside the ink well that he never could get the nib out and bad to buy a new one. "You don't mean to say you're thinkin' of coming here to live?" he gasped. "Yes, I do," said the young man apologetically. "I don't think you'll find me in the way. I shall be very quiet and unobtrusive. I'm a student looking for a quiet place in which to pursue my studies." "Well," said Will, "you've found it, all right. There isn't no quieter place in Pennsylvania than Ridville, Mr. Duncan. I hope you'll like it," he said, sarcastic. "I shall endeavor to," said the young man. "And now may I go to my room, please? I should like to renovate my travel skilled person to some extent before dinner." "You'll have time," said Will. "Dinner's at noon tomorrow. I guess you're thinkin' about supper. That's ready now. Here, Tracey, you carry this gentleman's things up to No. 43." I have never been able to understand how we failed to hear of it at Miss Carpenter's before: 7 o'clock. That was the hour when, having finished supper and my first evening pipe, I started down to town to the Citizen office, intending to stop in at the Biglow House on the way and confound Will with the list of the day's happenings. Main street was pretty well crowded for that hour, I remembered noticing, and most of the townfolk were grouped together on the corners, underneath the lamps, discussing something rather excited. I paid no particular attention, realizing that between Cagar, Pete Willing, Roland Burnette's suit and the chequer game they had enough to talk about. So it wasn't until I walked into the Biglow House office that I either heard or saw anything of the mysterious stranger. Will Bigodow was in his usual place behind the desk and looked. I thought, rather disgruntled, His reply to my "Howdy. Will?" sounded somewhat snappish. But he got out of his chair and moved round the end of the desk just as the young man came out of the dining room door. Then Will pulled up, and I realized that he was calling my attention to the stranger. Will grabbed my arm without saying anything and pulled me into the bar. "Hello!" I said as he went round behind and opened the cigar case. "What's up?" He took out two boxes of the finest five-cases in town and placed them before me "Them's up," he said. "You win Have one." It staggered me to have him give in that way. I had been looking forward to a long and diverting dispute. "I guess you've heard everything worth hearing about today's history," I said, disappointed, as I selected the least unpleasant looking of the cigars. "No. I haven't," he said. "I didn't have to hear anything. What earned you that smoke took place right here in this office. Here," he said, striking a match for me. I had been trying to put the cigar away so that I might dispose of it without hurting Will's feelings, but he had me, so I recklessly poked the thing into the automatic clipper and then into my mouth "What do you mean?" I asked, pulling. "Come long outside," said Will, and we went out on the porch just in time to see Mr Duncan going wearly upstairs to his room. "I mean," said Will, "him." And then he told me all about it. "But things like that don't happen every day," he wound up defensively. "I'll go another cigar on tomorrow." "No, you won't," I said indignantly andfurtively dropped the infamous thing over the railing. (To Be Continued.) sometimes effectu- "What will stop a scandal?" "Stop a scandal?" "Yes." "Well, a big burly, two fisted than going after the purveyors of it is about as good as anything." Taking No Risks. "Why do the girls on the street all look so much prettier on a rainy day?" "The ugly ones all stay indoors." All in the Family, "What are you going to get your wife for her birthday?" "I think I'll get her a pipe?" "She doesn't smoke does she?" "No, but I do." Named by Taft as Chief Justice of Supreme Court. GREAT BRITAIN Nominated by President and Confirmed by Senate. William Van Devanter and Joseph R. Lamar Named For Associate Justices — New Court of Commerce Created. The nomination of Associate Justice Edward Douglas White, of Louisiana, as chief justice of the United States supreme court, which was sent to the senate by President Taft, was confirmed at once. The other nominations sent in will be confirmed later. They are: To be associate justices, United States supreme court—Judge Willis Van Devanter, of Wyoming, and Judge Joseph Rucker Lamar, of Georgia. To be judges of the new court of commerce. Marlin A. Knapp, now chairman of the interstate commerce commission, for a term of five years. Robert W. Archbold, of Scranton, now United States district judge for the middle district of Pennsylvania, term of four years. William H. Hunt, now a judge of the court of customs appeals, term of three years. John Emmett Carland, of South Dakota, for a term of two years. This is a change from the original state, Arthur C. Denison, United States district judge for the western district of Michigan, having been selected for this place. Julian W. Mack, now judge in the appellate circuit court of the first Illinois district, term of one year. To be members of the interstate commerce commission—B. H. Meyer, of Wisconsin, and C. C. McChord, of Kentucky. The appointments to the interstate commerce commission are to fill the vacancies caused by the elevation of Mr. Knapp to the commerce court and the forthcoming retirement of former Senator Francis M. Cockrell, of Missouri. The commerce court is a court created in the amendment in the interstate commerce act, passed in June last by this congress. The law provides for the appointment of five additional circuit, judges by the president, who are to constitute the court. The judges so appointed are to serve on the commerce court, and after being relieved from that service are to be assigned to work on the circuits as circuit judges. The law requires the president to designate in the first appointments the term of years during which the judge appointed shall serve on the commerce court, and the judge designated to sit for five years on this court is do act as presiding judge. Thereafter the court is to be composed of five judges to be designated by the supreme court from the circuit judges of the United States. Mr. Knapp is named as a judge for the second judicial circuit; Mr. Aarchbold for the third judicial circuit; Mr. Hunt for the ninth judicial circuit; Mr. Carland for the eighth judicial circuit, and Mr. Mack for the seventh judicial circuit. Temple Company Enjoined. The Temple iron company, of which George F. Baser is president, was declared an illegal corporation by the United States circuit court in Philadelphia. The other features of the position, which involved the railroads, serving the anthracite regions, and alleged agreements for the burrow of areas ing a pool for the control of the anthracite coal mining business, as well as the tonnage, were dismissed. The decision was discharged from by Judges Lanning, who hold that the entire petition should be dismissed. The suit was directed against fourteen anthracite railroads and forty-five other companies, and operators, controlling about 90 per cent of the anthracite coal lands of Pennsylvania, and three quarters of the output of hard coal. The case was argued in the United States circuit court last February by James C. McRoynolds, for the United States, while a dozen or more prominent lawyers appeared for the various defendants. Philadelphia Clubman Shot by Wife. Herbert Mason, Clapp, a wealthy clubman of Philadelphia, is in a hospital with bullet in his head and likely to d, and his young wife is under arrest, charged with having shot him. She was released on $2500 ball. According to the police, the couple quarreled in their bedroom, and Clapp struck his wife. She jumped out of bed, got a pistol and shot twice at her husband. One bullet went wild, smashing a mirror, but the other crashed through the man's mouth, emerging near the left ear. At first the family and physician attempted to conceal the facts, saying Clapp, who had been drinking and was suffering from nervousness, had accl dentally inflicted the wound. When physiclang at St. Joseph's hospital notified the police that the condition of the wounded man was serious, Mrs. Clapp was taken. There. As the woman appeared before Clapp he cried: "Take hor away; take her away!" "Take hor away; take her away!" "She said she would get me and she did," he added. "She is the best one I know with a six-shooter: She is not afraid of a gun, man or the devil. Her name was Marie Leakell, and she was a manicure, in a Market street hotel." Carry Ballinger Row to Congress. The majority members of the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee absolutely cleared Secretary Ballinger of the charges of misconduct made against him by Gifford Pinchot and others and sustain his administration of the interior department in every respect. The majority report., which was submitted to congress, is in striking contrast to that made last September by the minority members, who held that Mr. Ballinger was unfit for office and ought to be dismissed. The sight over the two reports will now be carried into the senate and the house. The minority members of the investigating committee had a meeting and decided to maintain that the report issued in September is the bona fide report of the investigating committee and that the document submitted by the majority members is without official standing. Barrier Wins Prize and Makes Records. Rene Barrier won the $5000 price offered by a newspaper for a flight over the city of Memphis, Tenn., to President's island and return, a distance of sixteen miles. Barrier's time was 10 minutes 55½ seconds. John B. Molsant also competed for the prize, making the first flight in 18 minutes 16 2-5 seconds. He drifted out of the course and thus loat to Barrier. Barrier flow at the rate of 87 and 93-100 miles and hour, establishing a new world's record for the distance. His average height was 4000 feet. Molsant, who covered a longer distance, flow at an altitude of about 7000 feet. Charles K. Hamilton was painfully bruised when he made a rapid glide of 200 feet to earth, his motor falling at that height. The machine was completely wrecked. 101.100.000 Live Under Flag. In the United States and all its possessions the Stars and Stripes protect 101,100,000 souls. This enormous number is the official estimate of the United States bureau of the census, announced in connection with the population statistics for the country, as enumerated in the thirteenth decennial census. It includes the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the Panama canal zone. Within its borders on the North American continent, exclusive of Alaska, the United States has a population of 91,972,266 inhabitants. Within the last ten years the states of the Union had an aggregate increase in population of 15,977,691, which amounts to 21 per cent over the 1900 figures. Boys Steal $60,000. The Merchants' National bank, of Manchester, N. H., on last Sunday was robbed of $60,000 worth of collateral. The affair was not made public until Thursday. The bank's postoffice box, which had been left unlocked, was robbed of checks and drafts. The postoffice inspectors suspected Arthur Bagnon, a French youth of eighteen, and when he was questioned he said that he and Ernest Harnols, aged sixteen years, had taken the contents of the box. The drafts and checks, with the exception of an $18 check, were found in Harnols' room. Both bops were held for the grand jury. Addresses Xmas Cards Then Ends Life With gaily decorated Christmas cards about him, the body of Fordi- nand Sauer-a watchmaker, was discovered in a room at a hotel in Bali- more. Sauer had committed suicide by shooting. He had employed the last two minutes; before ending his life in directing the cards (to his friends in Hungary. New College Head." Dr. George B. Vincent, of the Uni- versity of Chicago, was elected presi- dent of the University of Minnesota at Minnesota. He has accepted the place. SANTA CLAUS Skill With Tools and Brush Will Make Child's Clothes Rack and Hanging Lamp. If you are clever in turning out art crafts work the making of the hanging lamp illustrated will hold no terror for you. Given a black iron kettle, with four little foot, get a blacksmith to help, tell him just what to do. Have also a kettle, a dispain, a tin plate, and some iron chain. Have the smith fasten around the rim of the kettle on the outside at equal distances four iron places with holes through which the link of a chain can be passed. In each of these fasten a piece of iron chain about three feet long, shorter if the ceiling be very low. Now take a tin dishpan without handles, but of good size, and paint it dull black on the outside and a soft shade of green on the inside. Cut a round hole in the middle of the bottom, with space for a lamp chimney to go through. At four places around the rim equidistant cut holes large enough for a link of the chain to slip through, or it may be simpler to separate the chain here, fastening a hook to the lower length of chain and running the hook through ```markdown ``` HOMEMADE HANGING LAMP. the hole in the pan, catching the upper length to the hook on the other side. By slipping a small piece of iron through the link or the end of the book on the under side of the pan it will be kept from slipping down unevenly. For the upper part of this lamp a pie pan would do if it were heavy enough. But it would perhaps be better to have the blacksmith or hardware man cut a round plaque of iron or brass. If the latter it too should be painted black. This should be fitted at the edge with four heavy rings, very firmly placed, to which the four chains are fastened. In the center, on the upper side, is a heavy hook by which the lamp hangs, another hook being screwed through a painted pan pan into the ceiling. This inverted pan protects the ceiling from the smoke of the lamp. Child's Clothes Back A useful and attractive gift for a child is a clothes rack which may be hung on the nursery wall. A piece of wood twenty inches wide and five inches deep will do nicely for the foundation of the rack. Cut a piece of white linen one inch larger than the board. Lay it on a GIRLD'S CLOTHES BACK. table over a piece of blotting paper and fasten down with thumb tacks. Next transfer the design on the material by means of light blue carbon paper. Then that the drawing with water color paints. When the embroidery is finished place the material on the board and paste the edges on the back. Cover the edges with a piece of lining paper, tack on the ribbon and screw in the hooks. WRAPPING OF PRESENTS. Dainty Coverings That Render Gifts Half Again as Acceptable With the approach of, the holiday season, those who are thrifty and forehanded, in the little matter of their gifts and the giving of them will buy a suitable box for each new present their select, or they will, upon collecting all their gifts together, meaning And make a list of their sizes and then, upon some delightful afternoon or evening, will be the pleasant business of decorating them. They will be plain white to begin with, and they will no doubt be of varying shapes—square, round, oblong and even perhaps heart shaped or tri- D. A. DECORATION FOR BOX LIDS. angular—for the box of today is an interesting little article and the correct boxing and wrapping of gifts a science that renders the gift half again as acceptable. The designs in holly and mistletoe are intended to be traced upon the box lids and touched with a quick dash of opaque water color. No art is required, but only a deft touch and neatness, besides the little pans of vermilion, green, black and white, which may be had in opaque paint, and a small camel's hair brush. The round design, a conventional holly wreath, may be used on the round and the square box and even on one end of the oblong shape. Either of the smaller ones belongs to the smallest boxes of almost every shape, and they may also be repeated upon the paper that wraps the box if this method of decoration is preferred to a spray of actual holly. An Attractive Card Case Some very interesting color effects are obtained in Japanese embroidery, which is very easily done, the major part of the work being satin stitch. A little care in the plating and slant of the stitch will give an iridescent effect as the glossy embroidery silk catches the light. A design is given to be applied to a cardcase of linen, pongee or moire silk. This design would be very striking done on pongee, embroidered with brilliant blue and green peacock colors and lined with a bright peacock blue JAPANESE CARD CASE DESIGN. satin. It adds to the Japanese, effect to introduce glints of gold threads, which may be crocheted on. Cut a piece of ponge ten inches long and four and one-half inches wide. Place the design two and a half inches from one end. The design may be transferred on the material by means of carbon paper. When the embroidery is finished baste the material on a piece of crinoline nine and a half inches long and four inches wide. Baste the lining on the other side and turn in the edges. Then stitch across both short ends and turn up two inches on each end to form the pockets and stitch down the sides. The Simplest Fan Bag. Just to throw together in a burry and yet to accomplish the most dasy and effectivo of presents, here is one of the most fascinating of fan bags for the young girl party goer or for the matron who never stirs without her fan. It is merely a finished strip of Chinese embroidery on satin, the kind ripped from a royal mandarin's old jacket and sold in our country as a curt. The embroidered strips run to blues and yellows and are about thirty inches long. Double one together, wrong side out, and fell the sides with perfect stitches. Face the top with its least obtrusive color in a plain satin or china silk, draw the bag with ribbons of its darker shade run through a casing and put the fan inside or not, according to the dictates of your conscience or your purse. For Sold Handkerchiefs A handkerchief bag is fashioned from half a fringed towel twenty-three inches long and twelve inches wide. This is first embroidered in with small flowers, such as violets or forget-me-nots. Damp and iron on the wrong side, then sew it up and stitch across the bottom. The hoop at the top is half of an embroidery frame six inches in diameter, which is hemmed in by hand. To suspend it use inch wide satin ribbon. --- Tight Shoe Costs a Leg. Robert Shapple, of Pottyville, Pa. lost his leg as a result of wearing a tight shoe. His right foot was rubbed to a blister and the new leather polished it to such an extent that gan grenre set in. His leg was amputated below the knee. --- A modification of the service pension bill so as to provide for a minimum pension of $15 is proposed in a bill introduced by Senator Dick, of Ohio. The present rate is $12. Pin Stuck in Her Lung. While helping her mother sow Grace YoungWish, of Shamokin, Pa., was seted with an epileptic fit and swallowed three pills, one pleasing the lunar. Don't Ruin Your Hair with poisonous pomades—hot irons— hot combs and other harmful hair lotions. Use ZOTINA FOR THE HAIR Original and Only Scientific Remedy Guaranteed to Straighten the Hair Make it soft and pliable, easy to comb, glossy and beautiful Used by the Entire Profession Price, 60c. and $1.00 by mail AGENTS WANTED Manufactured only by the ZOTINA REMEDY COMPANY Tampa, Fla. Dept. 29 People who buy whisky, brandy and gin malt always send the money to the distillery. The money is delivered to the most arrive, the buyer, if not pleased, prefers to dunk it into the admirably-watered "still" rather than go to the friddle of a re-shiping and demanding the money. The distillery is always ready to accept an amalgam and misrepresentation and demand value received for every dollar invested. To show what we can give in exchange for your hard work, we have a sample of 24 Sample Bottles—only 6 each) prepaid to any place in the U.S. B. 24 Sample Bottles—only 6 each) are delivered on the first lot of whisky ordered from our regular price list. Resumes distance is no object and that we are distillers and the largest malt whisky booth. HAIR-VIM CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. (Successor to Columbia Chemical Company, of Newport News, Va.) Manufacturers of HAIR-VIM, HAIR-VIM SOAP, LIQUID HAIR-VIM, BEAU-TE-VIM CREAM AND OWL CORN SALVE. Boware of Imitations and Imposters Advertising the Goods from Newport News, Va., the Old Home Office. Good Agents Wanted. Liberal Commissions Paid. Write to-day. MRS. J. P. H. COLEMAN, Phar. D., President-Manager. 643 Florida Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Long Distance Phone, North 3259-m. Time Is Flying. Buy Your Fun You still have time in which are ready to supply you this week. The great final rush is com for a Parlor Suit, Book Cases, W at once. Buy Your Furniture Now You still have time in which to make your selections, and we are ready to supply you this week at once. The great final rush is coming, so why not put in your order for a Parlor Suit, Book Casos, Writing Desk, or some other article at once. WRITE RIGHT NOW. Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-711-713 E. Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. Furniture For The Home Beautiful. Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-711-713 E. Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. Furniture For The Home Beautiful. Italy to Get Wife Murderer. Porter Charlton, the youth who has conceived that he murdered his wife Mary Scott Castle Charlton, last June, thrusting her body into a trunk and sinking it in Lake Como, Italy, and who is now locked up in Hoboken N. J., will be extradited to Italy for trial. The announcement that the United States will honor the requisition of the Italian government was made at the state department by Secretary of State Knox. It came as a decided surprise, the general impression having been that this government would decline to surrender Charlton because of the construction which the Italian government has placed on the extradition treaty between the two countries. on the event of the state department having refused th the requisition, Charlton, although a self-confessed murderer, would have walked out a free man, because the United States courts have no jurisdiction to try the case. Now the young man will be turned over to the Italian authorities as soon as papers can be made out, provided the extradition isn't attacked in the United States courts on habeas corpus proceedings. It is practically certain, however, that counsel for Charlton will take advantage of their legal opportunities to oppose extradition. The usual procedure would be to bring him into court on a habeas corpus writ, by means of which not only the merits of the murder case, but also the points involved in the extradition, could be reviewed. Charlton having confessed to the murder, will have to confine his opposition to the legal points involved in the extradition. In any event, life imprisonment is the severest penalty that may be imposed upon him, as the laws of Italy forbid capital punishment. National Museum Gets Peary Medals. Civil Engineer Peary, the Arctic explorer, has deposited in the. National museum at Washington the series of sixteen gold and two silver medals that have been awarded to him. * Farmer Nearly Killed by Hog. Benjamin Holt, a farmer of near Union Church, Md., four miles west of Elkton, narrowly escaped being killed by a hog. Mr. Holt was driving the hog from the barnyard into a pen, when the boar attacked him, knocked him down and tore his ear. Holt got up, but was again felled by the hog. His clothing was torn and he was badly injured by the hog's tusks. Holt cried for help and a farmhand, coming to his rescue, shot the hog with a gun. Furniture Now to make your selections, and we at once. ing, so why not put in your order writing Desk, or some other article Hundley, Inc., RICHMOND, VA. Home Beautiful. Always Losing His Boat. A colored man calling himself, "Captain John E. Simpson" and at times sailing under other names has been persistently swindling both white and colored people in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport, News and Phobus. His plan has been to represent that he has money in a colored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write, to John Mitchell, Jr., President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some amount at once to the person who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Richmond. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Thimble Light of Buckroon Beach and as he has been carrying on this kind of swindling for about two years, that boat is presumably wrecked every two or three weeks. He asks that the letter he sent to him in care of the person who advances the money. He never comes back to see if the money comes as he directs. We have written continuously to the people, who send these letters, but we have had quite a time to keep up with him. Keep clear of Captain John E. Simpson or anybody who looks like him. ____ Very Low Rates Account Christmas Holiday Via Southern Railway. Southern Railway announces very reduced fare tickets from all points on sale December 15th, 16th, 17th 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th and 31st: 1910. January 1st, 1911, limited to return until January 8th, 1911 account Christmas Holiday. Ticket good on regular trains. Excelbn schedules. For full information, fares, etc. apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or write, S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A., 920 E. Main Street, Rlhomdon, Va. Industrial Union Training School and Orphanage for Boys and Girls. Normal, Preparatory and Orphanage Departments. We have a vacancy for a few smart girls in our Domestic Department where they can earn money while going to school. Write at once to INDUSTRIAL UNION TRAINING SCHOOL, Box 205, Southern Pines, Moore County, N.O. STRAIGHT DISTILLERY WHISKEY 3 GALS. $450 4½ GALS. 675 EXPRESS PAID. AT DISTILLERY PRICE When we say Discovery Whiskey, we mean it. We do not handle compounds and chemical mixtures. If the goods you buy are not so reputable and better than you ever bought at the price, return them and we will REFUND your money. YOUR CHOICE OF CABIN ATE OR GIN. 3 GALS. $4.50 4½ GALS. $6.75 6 GALS. $8.00 12 GALS. $5.50 Express Paid to any office of Adams or Southern Express Company. STONEWALL,DISTILLING CO. 1453HULLST..RICHMOND,VA. RAILROADS. N. & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. EFFECTIVE APRIL 11, 1808. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A.M. and 7:20 M. For New York: 8:09 A.M. 8:00 P.M. and B P.M. For N. and W. Hy., West: 8:00 A.M. 15:12 and 8:00 P.M. For Petersburg: 8:00 A.M. 15:16, 8:00, 8:28 P.M. 6 P.M. 8:06 P.M. 7:15 and 11:13 P.M. 8:06 P.M. 8:06 P.M. 7:15 and 11:13 P.M. Trains leave Richmond daily: 8:18, 8:00 A.M. 8:28 11:45 A.M. 8:18 A.M. 8:18 T. M. 8:06, 8:10, 9:00 and 11:13 P.M. *Stopped briefly on duty* Time of arrival and departure and concessions not guaranteed. Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N B.-Following schedule Squares published as information and not guaranteed. 6:10 A.M. At Dariville, Charlottes Durham and Raleigh. 10:45 A. M.-Daily. Limited. For all poles South. Drawing Room Buset Stopping Car to Memphis, via Asheville and Chatt 8:00 P.M. M.-E. Sunday. Local for Durham and Intermediate stations. 10:45 P. M.-Ez. Sunday, Keysville Local. 11:00 I.ads 11:45 South, Pullins area 9:30 P. M. YORK RIVER LINE. 4:30 P. M. K. Ex. Boundy. To West Point, con- necting for Baltimore Mon., Wed. & Fri. 6 00 A. M. K. Ex. Sun. and 2:15 P. M. - Mon. Wed. and Fri. Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the South: 6:50 A. M. 8:05 P. M. daily. 8:46 A. M. Kk. Sunday; 12:56 P. M. Kk. Sunday, 12:56 P. M. From West Point: 9:00 A. M. daily; 11:55 A. M. Wed. and Fr.; 4:25 P. M. Kk. Sunday. B. K. BURGERS D. P. A. 900 East Main Street. Phone: Madison-456 C & O. 6:00 A (Daily, First train to Old Point. 7:40 A (Daily, Local to Newport News. 7:40 A (Daily, Local to Old Point. 8:00 P. Daily, Locatville and Ocknell. 11:56 P. (Fulham) 8:115 P—Work days. Locals in Gordonville. 8:116 P—Dolly. To Lynchburg. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. Local from Brow-8135 A. M. 7:08 P. M. Through from Brow-11:26 A. M. 6:58 P. M. Local from West-8:30 A. M. 8:00 A. M. Brow-11:26 A. M. Your subscription to The FLADENF is due. Have you paid it? If not, what not? 5 RS Va OS ae dell? a Spl See OUR ia lnen iene eae ; REE ASHER a fine < Ey a ‘ % / Y oe ar ee tke Sher pay wey oy Joan TOME, Suet AIR, Tour out, Rlchooad Ye JOMN MITOHELL, Jit, - EDITOR. All commynicationsctntended for publicatlos Saould be erat 40 ea Gh evtcl: at by Wedmeasa. tne Sl . ‘TERMS 18 ADVANCE iors. Oot Copy, eight most, - - - > +m oes Sarre seem) So 2 Ge cee ge mee oe can tee us ss a Ser ere ee ara oe ADVERTISING RATES. oe one (cb, one foaertion sesieeee seed oe For one loch each subsequent inecrtica. 48 Foe two facbra Thrve moothe.ceceneesees O68 Yor two tocbes, ef mothe. ccscees 10.00 For two inches, ele moathe s.r sccecees 600 For two. Inchra, twelve onthe... cc.ss- 30.00 Biicioge and Funeral Notiows, ove iach... 20 Beanling and Tracalect Notices per lae.. TP Postage STAMTS OF A INGER DENOMING- TION THAN TWO CENTS NOT RECEIVED ee ON BUBSORIPTIONS. * ‘THE PLANET ts terved weekly. The subscrip- “ign price 88 per rar fa hance, Shere are four ways by which cromey can be scat by sl at out akan Powe Ocee ome? Falen’ uy Gaok Check or. Drath or aa Raper SON; Guar, tad wbes, woor st three aan be Peoccred Tea Meguternd Letuer, Worst Onbehs—Yoo can buy « Maoey Orde at jour Peet Of, payab AY the iskead Pend Orten a0) we’ will be reaponaible fori Tite are. “sPitias MONEY ORQERS can be obtained at cay bce of Ue araestcan Expreet On. the Gasted Sates Exprom es nbd tee Well'e Fargo Sa Oe Eyres Compeay., We will be repoee ioe fr mony enh oy any Of hon coun The’ urpeee Mocey Order to w ele and opaves fot way Tor forwarding tee. RMQISTEKED LETTER its Money Oréer rent Oars of an Ripees Otice Ie ook, wlin cf Loos geod wo oo parent of oe Sat ee Sk to rad on OD permet erate Then if the ‘etter ts lost or eaken, i Slo be traced. ‘You ‘ean srod, money in thls Sanoer at oor rake ‘Se cannot be reepooable for monty wh, Io etre ‘Uo any oler way. Ahan one ot tbe text Migr weetoued shores it Jou ead your coe aay ctber way, Tou Suk doh ar your ome RYNEWALA, ETO,—Ul roa do act wast TOR PLANET contiourd for, soother year after your ibecriplon bas up outs you thza-sotliy cs by Foti! Capt to discostioos Tk. Toe court bare Scud that ‘wtecribers to ‘sewmpepers whoo Sci" order Ue! paver, dlecontinors at Ue fatlon of tise for which Tt bas been peld. are Ee udbe for tbe payaec. ofthe wabecription fps, dae when Wey e's the paper dave COMMUNICATION. ~Woro writes to to sew Jou qumetion ot te dicotiao, Jour Bey ae ad tee Joa Tub ‘otbeewoe ‘we caxoet Bod Jour same, oo CHANGE OF ADDRERS—Ie onder to. change he lives ofa mbecriber, we ‘nore be seat Oe fGrmer as well ar the peoseat adden areal atered at the Fost Oflce ab Bichmond, Ye. a See oe SATURDAY DECEMBER 17, 1010 ——— + TNE TRUE REFORMERS. It tw hoped that a sympathetic public will continue to aid the True Reformers In thelr effort to Ket again into a stauding posture. It may be that the Jojury 1s not unto death and that a loyal followlng shall be able to snateh success from disuster This can only be done though by the most careful and con- servative management. The péople of the country are gomianding an to yestigation, and only awalting the -evort of the Recelvers fof the Sav- ings Bank, Grand Fountaln, United Order of Teue Reformers to Insist upon thts demand. ExGrand Master Wm, L. Taylor Insists thet bé is not to blame for the troubles which have overtaken the Order Then, who fe to blamer Ht fa but fulr to Rev. Taylor that judginent be suspended fo this case nnul the Investigation has taken plnee and the blame placed where It belongs. As the matter now: stands, ex-President Taylor. is being made the scapo-gont for all of the sins of the brotherhood. He pleads not gullty. Now tho Grand Fowntaln and ‘the courts are the only tribunals bo- tore which this matter can be ad- Judicated. and tt Is but fair tbat ono or the other, sad perhaps both, should be called upon to decido those embarrassing questions. In tho meantime, let everybody help to movo the wheels of progress for the Order nnd then-iet us placo the blame for tho wreck upon tho parties responsible for the monu- mental disaster. | ‘THE BALTIMORE SITUATION. It is strange that the only city In the United States, which has gone 0 ta¥ ax to placo upon Its ord! nanco books a law xegrogating the races, should bo located north of the ‘Mason and Dizon Lioo, while thore 4a no record, 20 far as wo have over heard, of apy élty. In the Southland encumbering' its records with euch a nzcloss plece of legislation, The reason for this has, boen that auch peculiar and unconatituttonal actions ywere’not nooded; ‘The .bettér clase of White wind colored people sh thé sunny..clinte In which we lve seem to understand: each, other much bet Yer than. s6in@/other people suppoxe. . We ‘cannot =balleve but what: the wiastaken to aldreil estate promo- Leta and speculators and, unload juson ‘udauapecting whlto people property that they woild not otherwiso pur chase on account’ of Its close: prox injty to’ Negro nelghborhvody, Can I leglalative “body” dlacriminate tn favor of one citisen as against ano- ther elttzen with agual rights and privileges Can a Iaw-making body ‘say to Jobn Jones (white) that you sffalt mot five upon fant owned by John Jones (whlfe)t Can It lew- fully say to Jobn Smith (colored) ‘that you shall not live in a house ‘owned and pald for by John Smith (colored) t | If It can do this, then 1% can dle- eriminate against the Jew, who" 1s an Anrorican citizen, of agalost an Htallan, who Is an American citizen. Te can say to all Hebrews that you aball live fn this nefghborhood and that you shall not moro out. The ridiculous natére of the proposition Ja apparent upon Its face, Wo do not seo my need of worrying over tho Baltimore situation The white people whe own PFoperty have tho remedy {n thelr own bands. They can refyse to nell, but when they, do cell, thers Ix ho Inw to prevent an American citizen from taking pos: session of wut bo bas purchased, the ordinance on the ordinance books to the contrary notwithstanding, In tho Nght of presont evpnts tc will not be long before the rich ele- mént will take steps lo prevent tho poorer whites from invading tbetr netghvorhoad: They will ba able to see to it by legislation that thay cannot intrude tn their exclusive 'o- callties “There is only one clas of people who can be lawfully segregat; ed, and they are tho criminal cinsses and the alfons—persons who are not Amortican citizens. When the effort is mado In othor directions the trou- ble which will toflow the effort to enforce tt will maxe all such legisla- tlon a dead letter long before the cBurts have been called Gpon to ad- minister tho “knock-out blow," THAT PROMISED APPOINTMENT. It {8 aunounced that Dr. Booker T, Washington called on Prealdent Wm. MW, ‘Taft to urge the appointment of Attorney Wm H, Lewis as Assistant Attorney-General ' of the United States. Just why such a course whe necessary, in vlew of the heralded announcements before the election that he would aypoot kim, deponent sayeth not, It would seein to in- dleate that our President has shown 4 disposition to back down in this matter. It Is nlso stated that Sponk- er Cannon went to the White House 1n opposition to the nppotntment, not on the basis of color—oh, no—but only on the ground that tho olfice Js unnecessary and should bo abolish- ed on the ground of economy, al though the congress can find money for woll-nigh overything undor tho sun a This whole business places Dr. Waxhington ngain in tho political Hme-lght a8 a wYltica) reforee ond a4 a virtual dispenser of patronage It Is thle phaso of Ss activity which jm open to so much adverse crit! cism. He {4 In the educational fold of public endenvor, and the svoner he makes up bis mind to stick to thle chosen fleld of labor and the one for which ho im espectally fitted, tho hetter it will be for him, his friends and hin army of indepeadont admirers throughout the country. As for President Taft, ff be can do anything with bim from a racial standpoint, well, tre 8 welcome to tho Jov. A Negra 10 get offico undor the present administration needs only the endorantion of the white South. With these recommendations {0 his hande ho can prepare to enter upon the duties of his office, evon before his commission has boon banded down trom tho President. The South in In tho snddlo at Washington, and A man is blind Indeed who cannot seo {t. For gotting, thero and get: ting a pfenty of what ts wanted, tho present corp of Democratic leaders have mot bocn surpassed in tho his. tory of the world, PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE + SUPREME COURT. Prosident Wm. H. Taft has earned the titic,at boing tho greatest Demo- crat Reffibiican that this country bas over produced, Ho has tho unt- quo distinction of having - rejected the selection of Hon. Charles, H. Hughes, @ Republican of Now York, and accepted tho solectton of Hon. Baward Douglass White, of Loute. tana, & Democrat and an ex-Con- federato, a8 Chief Justice of a trib- anal which can untonxe any Inw that the Legfalitive Departmont of the government can onact and the Bzoo- uttve Department of the xoveroment ean approve... ‘Ho has gono further ‘and named Hon, Joseph N. Lamar, of Georgia, a Demodrat, as Asaocinte Juatles. Theze can bé.but two deductions to draw tions ‘this remarkable action: One Ia. that the other Republican’ HE RRCH MOND Be ART; er Set nein Vy rmciere: 4 THE RICHMOND PEAR TPAC Iaaanees) TENIENGLA “the United’ States, -lncludiog Mr tus ‘tod Harladi, St Ocontuehert ald a3 mediure up tovthe Judicial. standard ‘or that President Taft was over persuaded by his ardent friends'?*tn tthe “Southland, who can give ‘hin inners defare election} day, butne votes on election day, If te over moré surprising In view of the re lturns from the, Inst election, untem bo wanted tobe {ri Ine with the rest ‘of, tho country and ‘go Democrat," It will bo noticed that every Southern State went egainst ‘him ang bis party and West Virgials, which had broken away from the Democratle party in the past ro turned to ite frat, love.* Tonnessee was practically Domeoratic, Ever his own State, the great Commion: wealth of Obio, went agalost him, ‘This would ecom to us to, inal that President Taft, from a social standpoint, the most Jovablo states: man over in the White House, 4a, from a political standpoint, tho wok. est Chief -Executive who has oxor rerit S€TH6" presidential chair, Ho ecoms Jesiroua of winuing the ‘ap plause and favor, regardless of the disintegration which Ig takitig place In the ranks of his own party as the resuit of his unfortunate al. Mances and appointments, As 8 Southerner, we aro greatly pleased and well satisfed with his Judicin! selections; as x party man, we are disposed to criticize him so severely that in tho future wo would hardly be on speaking torms. Thore eee thing about it, though, and that 1 ho bas afforded ampte justi fiention for every citizen of color who voted the Nomocratie ticket dar. lng tho last election. Cortatoly if tho head of the Republican party can ‘lrt with and,support tho Democratlo party and Its candidates, then the ‘rak and file have the privilege of doing the eame thing. ‘Tho Buprome Court of tho United States will not be materially changed in its attl- tude tomate the cielggn of eal, fo It ix already heavily"Toaded against him and the selection of the Louts- fina jurlet wilt not materially affect the ,ettuation, ss We aro partially of tho opinion that an “all Democratic Supreme Court of the United States would be moro Yberal in many of Its dects- Jons than {t has been fn somo of them handed down of late from that “Temple of Justico” at Washington. Certain it is we are blessed with un- usually falr decisions from most . of the Supreme Courts of the States of the Southland. We are ready now to take olr chances and trust our Interésts with the Democratic jurlats of this sunny clime. ‘There {s ono thing about them—thoy do . rot “lll” you with suspense. You know whether they are for you or “agty’ " you. and you do not be led Into tho crror of supposing that you wilt got a falr show from a presiiing officer because he js a Republican, and then awaken to find that you havo heen woofully disappointed, We fear that President Taft In much Hko some of these lattorday Republican appointees They aro too fearful of Democratic public sonti- ment. They wont thelr families to move In the best soctotics and they fear tho odlum that might bo at- tached to a pro-Negro decision, If they favor the Negro in ono caso, they will lean so 4ar over tht other wny In the next ono tbnt the rank Injustice of tho decision fs apparent to eVerybody, As for a truohiuo Southerner, when he makes up his mind to stand by tho colored man, he will do ft in thd face of all kind of ridicule, and hoe {s backed up by A Wevoted wife aid children, who kmow tho value of colored folks of the right type, andewho do not ahirk-tho responslbility of standing by thom, ‘Theso Supremo Court appoint- ments aro all right*thank God, but God help the Republican who made thom. . ! Lamp Shade and Pincushlon. The lamp whade and pincashion 1 Ipatrated ase both easily made in a day. The little cantte shade is mado by gntbering one and one-balf inches from each edge of a piece of ribbon. Bew the gathered ribbon orer a candle abade and concen! the stitches with A Gold cord. 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RAMP sHADR.AND ETwoUiMION, sprays in natural colors anda plok satin edge Is most effective: “The plae cushion Is of white taffeta ribbon, hat ing.a red éaito atripe ant Sgures ‘and: red ‘sitin. ribbon tower. with,. tiny, green tatfeta ribbon:foaves.: This'te 4 Galigbttul Clirletrons: present,” As’ ft‘ le. biade of that season's gay olathe." 5-: > asm ws eh Oe oa Fa aan dt CHRISTMAS GIFTS TREE aI Ratan Peat alts ESSE AD OTE 14 gba aaoRU ETE Saye 1 SES Nagar af eed 3 Xt 45, }waya:siuch ‘egsler! to, choose aur accepiabias presgat for. a: sroinai than: peso she ceeds of the stera~ er aex“bolng;ioto‘Umited: wind. praetls cal utllity"belig-favored father. than more'decorativences in Aji those things. of which .théy}Ate-prepared ‘to ‘minke: nso ‘With any ‘Dreteuse Of* pleasute, ‘The main Wiolatokes will be genainoy fy pleased.it‘goide one presedte bint this. Christursas+with" ono, of the ‘now, tobacco-canes ii“ Whose: ailver “sheltat fourteen: Ittlo’ cartridges of ‘the, fraz, grant, abd fivoritil wned. afro, compact? ly stowed:away-pad Accompahied:by./a: suk on fis ar ser Le eid a Neer a bed Sern eRe 2H Pee ee i ee pags iS CONVENIENT Topacoo Glee 2 - ler which, without any of tho ‘asus! trouble or untidiness, adjusts thie com tonts of the beloved pipe, =, ~For the avtomobilist of for the man who travely—indord, for the smoker everywhero—this iltile gitt Is Just the thing he'll want. When Gift Hunting. For tho exqultite, the book lover and the traveles in one, whether oan or woman, » gift par excellence would be & beautiful book rack of raro+ wood with much fine Inlaid work, whic comes from Florence. “Birds and rcrolis in intricate designs are deftly shown {n woods of varying bues, or the man or womui bridge flend there are bridge score pads supptied with covers of Chinese embrotdery, Belt pis and buckles are-welcome offerings. Givg Her « Placque. If Fou give your best gitl a pendant she will be charmed, but should you sclect .tho jatest ornament from gay fo) ’ — i Be toe Pans ae Po A a Pe eS i Pee aD Ms 3 ! Bae een: ee a puaaete Guicee ese. Paree, “Ia playque,” whe will love you dotter than evle, for It's the smartest thing we've hed ip Jewelry for many moons, ‘This novelty ts a round medallion about the nize of a aflver dollar and ts of platinum or aflver. but uever of gold “Pearts, gold oF colornd ntones Are Incrusted 06 the eurface, and de- Nghtful color comblontions are secured by enamels. The Mttlo oranment ts worn argund tbe teck suspended on a ne xold ebain or @ narrow selret ribbon with Jeweled wlides. ‘The Smart Vanity Set. All girla tke dangling trinkets, and here's an tovéntion that 19 both swag: ker and conveniedt. It conajats of a Dumber of tollet uccessorirs made of soll gold of sliver daagling from bracelet, In the sct pictured the ar Uclor reading from left to rigbt are lip saive bolder, coin purse, powder box and eyebrow pene!l. To these Is sometimes added for tho very up té ee Se aes fess tees itag US Ay SRS parite Cae ee 2 Coes eee ees CER ass NS: ee PAS As a Bae Arse a oe pe erie) ee ene pi eas pe y: eG i: Nav Ua asd 2 9. Le Ly ae TA ia ce ~ eee ses. eunteus, date girl a cigatette case, with, of eotrse, a tiny, receptacle for matches, Those ‘sets won't do for tho nervous ‘oman, for their Jangling and tinkling aro very progounerd ax -the Weurer walks, wo ‘The Watking Stick tn Again, «Titre ure seam when tho walking stick 13 not eakried by men, but this {shot an ‘off season, ao why not bay the ‘man 4 stunning stick of meer achaum woodswith the ever populer seaigat handle tipped ‘with sitver ou ‘Which the monogrnth of the prospec: tive owner Is engraved? ‘ afilt Wer Atlarovon Ten Hosts woman (who “servex, afternoon. toe aah applets tug tl of bay Patina at Sony saveaticuite SThis* iy) inthe! cénventiodal "shaps, bat teiesa cofghe etnbrokeres of tam ey Cover. adolta; body le weed. 4, {The doll Hi’ clothed: tnja gray drese ptr the, Privetitas type SA white) Apron aha 'tehn ‘are adiiedy nnd with awh{te, ‘Duteti-eay thorepatwmnd be Somplesas’ RAS a of is MMAR NOT LSU NTE AP GOH tS AA SO ORE TED LU SUR neU cua a een ey on & oe ae —~- ; ENS a oh i neg Si NS pe ae | a oe Bat ae ace IN ens end Pepe scene git SVEN Ae pear atime RET Ss eS ae oe amen We aE See Mee ere Ae a Res A or ie oa : FO gee Bee oh Bees S- OF NEW-AND USED $ es “ S glee mm. git ft PIANOS¥¢ | ' and Organs to Make Room. . ‘We have rediiced Pri-} ces on all New Piatios . : a oo , and Organs for this Sale and in addition have the}. | Following Bargains in sSecondzhand Instru- : ments: Pa se =——— : , SQUARE PIANOS, : | One Weber, modern in every way and a bargain ate oes $125 } One Worcester .....ceececeeeseseeeeeeeceeee g2Btt ++ 6$50,00 ; One Chinchester®. occ cceeececevereeer geese ren $45.00 One Knabe, full size.......eeceeeesetece wees e eee ee $90.00 y One Chickering’ sissvesssesccuseseereenertecesereeee$ 48,00 y One Dunham oes secireeesseeeeceererereeees eases $50,00 One Knabe and Gable ......eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ee cee + $65.00 ; And Others from $20.00 Up. : , a an, ORCANS, ©. 7 ; One Shoninger Seeedececevteneemeesseeatereseee see $35.00 , One Horace Waters... 20... eee ee ee sreteeeeeeeee + 1$32,50 | is One Kintball, with Mirror .....000veeeeeeeeeeeee eee $5000- One Commish .... eee. eee eeeepeeseeseeesseenee ces +0$27,50 }Qne Wilcox and White .....ececeeeceereeeeenes ony $3750 y One Kimball ..........0.06 steer ee eee eeee nese eee «40,00 One Helmont, High Top, with Mirror.............+..-$60.00 : Many Others fram $18.00 Up. 2 E +n emereengrener ane | tar We Can Anshun Temas on tue Anove Insteumtwrs : 8 Low As $3.00 Pex MoxTu.ath / In Used Upright Rianos, Which Have Been Thoroughly Renewed, Case Polished, &c. 3 One: Lester, mahogany case, former price, $375, price now $245. , One Haines & Co, slightly used —$350.00, now........ + -$260. One Bollman—$450.00, NOW... eee ee ceeeeeee eee eee $210, One Chilton—$37§ 00, now... 6... vee eeeeee eee eee $220. One Shubert—$375.00, NOW... 6.0 .ssceceeeseeeeeees + $230, iT WILL PAY YOU TO CALL EARLY, AS THESE GOODS WILL HAVE TO BE SOLD THIS WEEK. PAYMENTS ARRANGED TO SUIT YOU. * AND COMPANY. . : “OLDEST MUSIC HOUSE IN ViRGINIA.” | 103 E. BROAD STREET. + Open Evenings From December 12th until Nine O'Clock. Pt ODOEE HOSE OEHISOSOeOsEoesorooororonereoeresoeeco ees RASH TAN HALEN Rinks ‘Aree niin Aten , Lg et ro es fh Cg ao | a Bes a 5g i a rae | , FIGHT LEWIS’ APPOINTMEN Gppounion Sevsiops to Colored Lawyer For Assistant Attornoy. General. Objections to the proposed appoint ment by Prosident Taft of William H. Lew!s, cojored, former football star of Harvard, and now an attornoy of Boston, as an asolstant attorney. gcu- eral, are bolng- prosonted to Attorney General Wickorsham. Prealdent Taft's Inteation to appoint Lewis was lonrned semtofictally at tho Whito House several weeks ago. Booker T Wrabloxton, tho colored ed: ucator, called upon Mr WiekGrebaci to urge his approval of tho appolat ment, A New Double Bac. . Boge ore always acceptable, sod each weaxon nex designs are brought out for the boltdays Tho newert Is a double bag—that ts one placed orer the other. ‘The inner one fs vsually of plain afl or ribbon, the outer of brocade or thud embruld- ered fabric, ‘Tue Uret bag In mnde to the asunl was—tbnt tH, the sides scar ed und the top Unlsbed with x drow string. ‘The unter bag wivst also be pewed at the afrn, but iu the centet IY Is slasbed frow the top down threo lnches or more ung the corners turned back, revers faxbion ‘These are faced reith plain gouds. One vorucr may dis- play an Juitial, or all four may be dew orate) with scqulus or any device the ewer pleases. ‘The baga are pifced one wi'hin the otlier und Orinly secured at tte eada, Tho Inver bez will hold tue opera glasses, while the outer pockets serve a8 receptacirs for the baudkerehlef, powder puff, ete Thin Is another ex- ample of a dainty preseut that can bo made with snull eort and for litle expento. ‘Clulétnien Oenamens; To make little dangles for Christmas trees fusion popworn Into little balls, thread with dark green allkateen, dip into gum arable and caver with avs of the colured dye powder This makes a preity ornament Silver or gold dust ray nine by used. A quar ere worth of dye In blue, setlowe, red anid the tke silt make a erent quan: ity of balla, If threats are spend ed Inu glans for contulning water aod 10 coats’ worth of alum tt will ad bere to the trends and muke lirtle feteles for the tree, Contipne to udd alum until the strings are Hg desired thicknesn, Place‘ in a winlow or warms piace. : To tho Colored Ministers of Tuch x mond, Virginia. Doar Brothren: | Havo you lost sight of the fac that ovory dollar you carn comes from the colorod people of Richmond Isn't It fafr that you should spond some at yoar monoy with tho? Thero are colored enterprises In Ric mond that are gapping for daancin breath on accouat of yqur trade an your influonce. You are largoly ro sponsible for our condition here it business. You fail to toll Sam to d becauso you don't yourself. You have forgotton that thord 1 & Clothing Storo on Brond *Strost, owned and controlled by colored poo ple. Whero do you buy your gro certes; clothing, hats, shoos aod un derwear? We aro sure you do no trade with us. Out of 36 or 40 Ministers tn Rich mond wo do not get 6 por cent. of thelr trade, I am sorry to havo tho pedple out of Richmond to know this Wont you please atop and think and see your mistake? All bf the: color ed business houses In Richmond know this fs true but somo how thoy have heon @ little timid to tell you. "Stop findiog fault and saying wo eanuel ploato Jou and wa do Hot keep what you eat and wear but call and examine dur goods bofore spending your money witli other racos and try and build up your own first. If we fall to anit’ you ty our stock, we can make your'clothing to metanre In any stfle you with ne wo make pulls and overcoaté ranging in prics from. $15.00 to $76.00 It ‘thore {8 any race, problem Yo solve: this fa-tho only ey, 8 do It Agno rhce of people wilhevér tite oF amount to ‘anything without being In totioh .with the Snasiclal’ conditions oF LR NOE ory eee vy Hoping thabmaftor réating this thet you will:sive-ws-more\ of your trade and nsiusnoes 2 Perini: See $k Nt ee Respgoteally, Youre. 5. i+ Nie Eye Erde MTEEINY ‘es 214 2; Broad: treats Pilchmond/-Va Young Man, Have You a Trade? “WANTED—600 YOUNG COLORED MEN TO LEARN = BARBER'S TRADE, Good Barbors earn from $16 to $25 woekly. We havo the largest and best school in thd world. Good Barbers are always jn demand. Wo furnish a full set of tools, including two razors, palr of shears, razor strop, neck duster, clippers, razor hohe, cemb and brush and two fack- ets and & case for your tools, which ate yours at the end of your course, and also give you a Wiploma and help you secure a position, All for $45. How can wo do‘lt? Big saslea and small profits. We turn out a thousand students yearly andbhave & pay department in which a student may onter on hisadcond ‘month aud-recolve in cash one-half money taken fm on his chair, ’ X ? TRADE TAUGHT IN ELGHT ‘WEEKS, “Q n WISE. & COSTELLO, \. New York Barber School, - ‘ ‘ ‘215 Bowery. | OFFICES FOR RENT. } WELL LIGHTED, WELL VENTILATED OFFICES ; FOR RENT IN THE NEW MECHANICS’ a -SAVINGS BANK BUILDING.. ‘ 4 Lion, HEAT AND-JANITOR. SHRVIOH INCLUDED AT A- } RENTAL OF FROM $6,00:P5R MONTH UPWARDS, THIS 18 ONE’ | OF THE MOST. PADATIAL AND CONVENIENT STRUCTURES IN THE,OITY AND THe SERYIOR RENDERED, 'FingTOLASS, * ' Apply,toihe AGENTS: orto" TT kg! (NROHANICS SAVINGS. BANK, oe : 206'East Clay Street." Richmond; Virgliiia: Bla test Clay slreets Rlchniond, Virgin, Ns at teats : Ge SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1010 water, coming up with the money in their mouths. DIVING INTO OCEAN FOR MONEY. Would you believe it? They would get that money before it reached the bottom and then place it in the boat to prove it. One man would row and the other dive and then one would dive and the other row. They seemed never to get tired. They were veritable human fish. It was a sight well worth the trip to see for at times every boat was emptied of their occupant, in the wild scramble 'for the money, none of which' ever remained at, the bottom of the ocean. We were now at the wharf at Avalon. It was a resort for tourists and fishermen. We look ed down in the water.Save for its blush thge, it was as clear as a crystal and one could readily see the rocks at the bottom. Millions of fish of all sizes could be seen. THE VILLAGE OF AVALON. Here, too, were the glass-bottom boats tied at the wharf ready to receive the bankers after funcheon. We were on shore now and we looked at the surroundings in this village. The tall mountain loomed just above us. Near the wharf were many stores, with curios of every description. There was a hotel, too. Then the word was given, and all of us took up our march to the park, where a barbecue dinner was to be served to the members of the American Bankers' Association of the United States, and, we were counted among the number. We carried our heart as high as our fellows. If we were a member of the deplased race, all thought of it was banished, and we soon found ourselves inside of the enclosure. A FISH BARBECUE The attendants did not even ask for the ticket we carried. The button was enough. Rough board tables had been placed in this large apotamic enclosure, and plates, knives forks and cups and saucers provided. White ladies and white men served the guests. We looked from one side to the other, and no where did we see a black face. We were in another world, so to speak. At times we thought we saw a member of our race, a closer observation revealed the fact that we were looking at what appeared to be a Japanese female of unzilling beauty, even in her garb of waitress for the wealthy people of the country. REMARKABLE ARRANGEMENTS We sat down to a repeat that would have been "fit for the goda." The fresh fish, just caught, were about a foot long. They were placed in cloth bags or pockets and laid in a pit over a slow fire and when served the fare was something superb. It brought hunger where there was none before. They served rich milk, coffee, barbecue beef and other eatables and fruits. The cry was "Have some more!" There was no question of color here. Our embarrassment in being virtually forced to this table soon disappeared. We had lost our identity and a few moments later we looked up at some late arrivals and found that they were bankers from the Old Dominion. It was like camping out. It was a return to that home hospitality when white and colored friends meet behind closed doors with no poering politician to stir up race strife and mar the security of the scene was to be in evidence. EVERYBODY HAPPY We ate as only a hungry man can eat, and we got up from that table "a new man." If there were any frowns on the faces of the guests, we did not see them. If there were any antipathy to our presence, we did not notice it, although we are super-sensitive upon this phase of the subject. Everybody had a good time and we were counted in with everybody. We had been careful of our conduct. God knows, and we had demonstrated our ability to make ourselves agreeable and at the same time avoid the pitfalls that would have handicapped some other citizens of color. ONE OF THE WORLD'S WONDERS Luncheon or rather the barbecue dinner over, we were ready for the trip on the Pacific in the Santa Catalina harbor of Avalon. We boarded one of the glass bottom boats. When you go down the gang blank you step into one of these steam boats, and sit around a pit or opening in the bottom of the boat. Then you look down through the centre of the boat, you find that this boat aptly has a large hole in the bottom, twelve or fifteen foot long and about four feet wide. You wonder why the boat does not sink, and you are told that there is glass between you and the water beneath. You can see the bottom of the ocean, or that part it near the shores. The attendant explained We could see the bubbles of water as the boat moved and then, we began to think what if that glass would break. All of us would go to the bottom of the sea. But then there were divers—men who lived in the water more than half their time of wakefulness. THE SUBMARINE GARDENS. Now we could see the submarine gardens—that is, gardens in the bed of the ocean, with their rich green foliage. We could see vines and tendrils and then the dwarf explained that certain things that we saw on the leaves in some places were of a parishic origin and destroyed the plant. We could see millions of sardines. They moved about in schools. We saw larger fish. It was a sight worth going ten thousand miles to see. The boat stopped and then there was a splash by the side of the glass bont. The diver had disappeared from amongst us, and now we could see him swimming about below. He was a human fish. He went down to the bottom and he piked up beautiful shells and placed them on the side of the bont, where he handed them out to the astonished bankers and their wives at twenty-five cents aplace. DIVERS ON THE OCEAN'S BED. We parted with twenty-five coins, too, and we brought that souvenir away to show to the admiring people of Old Virginia. We started back to the wharf, witnessing these wonderful sights beneath and finally we were at the wharf again. There were seals floating or swimming around in the harbor of Avalon. They are sometimes called sea dogs, and they are as tame as dogs. We saw a fisherman call one and he came to him out of the water. If a fish is offered him, he will come out of the water on shore and follow you around, with a hopping motion as the two fish will not permit of anything else. A;PARADISE FOR SPORTSMEN. For an hour we strolled around this remarkable place. Fisherman would there ready to take out visitors on fishing tours. This was one place in the world where success could be guaranteed. Even the Islands abound in game, and no huntsman, worthy of the name will return with an empty bag. We have never in all of our lives witnessed such a slight. The air was balmy and pleasant. We was neither too hot nor too cold. Still, except for the colored folks that we had seen on the stamina, there were no Song of Ham in sight. We bushed ourselves in purchasing trinkets and souvenir cards, mailing many to friends and acquaintances. THE RETURN JOURNEY We tired of even this pastime, and finally we were ready to board the steamer for our return trip to Los Angeles. We changed steamers on the return and we were soon on our way back to San Pedro. The band discouraged lively airs and then the jolly bankers, who had been patronizing the "good time" department of the vessel joined in singing patriotic airs. As the night came on a chilly feeling pervaded the throng which waited patiently for the arrival at the mainland. We soon disbanded and boarded one of the suburban cars, and after a pleasant journey reached the station in Los Angeles. From that point we went to our temporary quarters thoroughly tired out after the day of pleasure. The big red C on rent signs means careful selection of tenants and courteous treatment to all. Both property owners and renters receive the best service under the big red C. B A CEPHAS, Agent. $3.50 RECHIP CURES WEAK MEN—FREE. Send Name and Address To-day You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling, memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his many power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a study of man and I am convinced it is the surrest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vikor failure ever nut together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicine, secure what I believe is the quickest-acting restorative: upholding, SPOTTOUCH ING Remedy ever developed, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me at a line like this: DR. A. E. ROBINSON, 1895 Luck Building, Detroit Mich., and I will send-you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope, free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $0.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it, entirely free. VANTED—Colored Farmers for good bottom land, within fifty miles of Memphis, in Mississippi and Ark ansas. Good teams, good houses, and good treatment. Apply to W. B. COX, caret.Planters.Cotton Co. 64. 8. Front St., Memphis, Tenn. SUBARTE IN THE PLANET SOME WORTH WHILE GIFT-TIPS. An Apron Set That Will Delight the Needleworker -- Raffla Work Always Acceptable. Here is a set which will delight the heart of the needle worker, and the eyes of her less energetic friends. One often bestows a workbag on one busy cousin, and perhaps an apron falls to the lot of another. But the latest idea is to give a working set. The set is of the finest mull, with a touch of pale blue on the apron and the same in the silk lining hints of the possibility of using any favorite shade for your friend. The main part of the apron is rounded. A double plaiting of lace edged point d'esprit gives a fuzzy outline. Just at the line of attachment hinton APRON OF POINT D'APPRIT. braid is used to define the edge, and this was so dainty that the maker over in Paris applied a second row quite close to the edge. The casing is similarly edged with the braid. Blue ribbons are used for drawing strings, carrying out the color scheme of the bag. Flowers form a wreath on each side, and the center of each circle is point d'esprit, just to carry out the idea of the ruffle. The remaining portion of the design is worked in solid and outline stitch. It is the prettiest apron that you can imagine. Round Bag to Match Apron. The round, full bag is not unusual. The stiff bottom may be any shape, and there must be a lining of soft silk to match the apron strings. The same design should be embroidered on the white sides before sewing to the bottom. Cut the top frill in petal forms and hom. Use the honton braid and edge ```markdown ``` BOUND DAG TO MARQU APROM. with lace. Silk ribbon is again appropriate for the double drawing strings. This handmade set may be bad for $25 or for a comparatively small expenditure of time and money. Which are you going to use when you make this attractive set for your dear friend? Gifta of Raffia. A pretty Christmas gift which a local artist has made for a friend this season has a marmalade jar for foundation. Around the jar raila is tightly woven in a good pattern. Above the neck of the jar the shape flares out somewhat, and interwoven, in the ecru raila is a slight pattern of red. The jar jar filled with earth-in which an ivy plant is growing. Another woven gift is a holder for an inkwell on the pyramid order. The bottom of the raila receptacle is woven separately, and the well is slipped into this and the flat, rounded piece securely tied to the other section. A woven top fills over the well when it is not in use. A. Linen Shopping Bag It is not at all out of the way to embroider a white linen shopping bag as a Christmas gift, even though the time for the white linen suit will have passed. White linen will come back to us, as it always does, and the grateful recipient, of the bag, for next year will be in partial readiness, for a coming season. This is never objectionable and is to the provident fur more comfortable than the floating joy of the momentary gift. During swimming D. Swimming pods offer fifteen feet at the Brooklyn, Meas. natatorium recently. Miss. Milldon Wyman, seven years of age, has undoubtedly set up a record for a swimming of her age. She has been swimming for two years and knows all the strokes of the fancy performers. FOR THE MERE MAN. When, In Doubt, Make Him a Pocket Stamp Case. The stamp case for carrying in the waistcoat pocket will prove an acceptable little present for a man and should be made in two pieces, the upper portion holding the stamps being slightly smaller in size than the other part of the case, into which it may A POCKET STAMP CASE. be slipped. The case can be made from any small romantics of silk, and when complete it should measure not more than two inches by one and a half. The back portion of each part should be stiffened with a piece of thin cardboard, and an ordinary visiting card cut to the size required will answer the purpose very well. A small loop of narrow ribbon is sowed in the center of the upper part of the case by which it may be pulled from the lower part when a stump is required. The sketch so clearly shows the nature of this little article that further description is scarcely necessary. A Lawyer's Bag. One hears it at every turn, "Men are so difficult to buy for." And it is the Christmas present for Bob, Jack or Tom that some devoted woman is hunting. If she were just once to get away from the idea of "drivels" the road would be straighter and she might walk right up to the very thing she seeks—for instance a lawyer's bag made of dark bottle green kerosene cloth, exactly the size of the old one, unless there has been complaint of its awkward proportions. These bags usually are drawn up with mohair braid, two strings of it, and the ends sewed together by a flat lapping process, admitting of easy pulling open and shut. Neither bows nor knots are allowable, and in order to insure the easy working of this convenient gift the casing must be of generous width. A Happy Bungestion There never was a man who didn't enjoy having a match stretcher handy when he wanted to light his pipe. Take a heavy card 7 by 8 inches, either white or cream, and gild the edge by putting on gold paint in little irregular splashes; also gild a clay pipe to hold matches, the diagonally across the center of card by punching two holes close to the bowl, one each side of the stem and again near the end of stem, run ribbon through and tie in bow. Cut large heart from sand-paper, gild and paste to lower corner. In the upper corner letter with gold paint, "A Striking Proof of My Affection." Make two holes at center of top, run ribbon through and tie in a bow on the right side. He'll Find It Useful. A pretty worker's companion either for a man or a woman is made in the following manner: Take a skewer or an odd knitting needle (a wooden one) and put a few spools of cotton on it. HANGING SPOOL HOLDER. To a bow of ribbon on each end. Then make a long loop of ribbon with another bow at the top. After the first spool at each end of the skewer attach a ribbon to hang down. Two small dolls are then seated on this novel swing and are dressed very prettily, to be used as placushions. A Brush of Velvet For the wearer of the silk hat, whether he be father or grandfather, there may be made by one of the little ones at home a soft pillow of plush. Plush will make a better bat smoother than velvet and, whether it be of soft blue, of glaring scarlet, of vivid purple or merely a quiet gray, will depend on father's taste on his previous expressions as to color. Some men want the brightest, others the dullest tones possible, but few of them want those shades that lie between. When finished the plush pad will measure three inches by six, and it is filled with cotton to a desirable softness and pliability, but not stuffed. Church Gals Bulk of Eddy Fortune. The will of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, which will be made public in Boston within a few days, it is said, leaves practically the whole of her $50,000,000 estate to the Christian Science church. The board of directors of the church is to have the final decision as to the form the bequest will take: it is said, Econgressman Henry M. Baker of Anderson's Carpets AND RUGS Tapestry Brussells RUGS 0x12 feet, for $15.00, are a mong the big values in this Stock. Big Values IN Lace Curtains GEO. W. ANDERSON AND SONS 215 E. BROAD STREET. How, N. H., a relative, it is understood, is named as administrator The will was drawn in 1904, in Stonecord N. H. Not a dollar is left, it is said, to George W. Glover, of Land, S. D., or to Dr E. J Foster Rudy, the son and adopted son, respectively, of Mrs Eddy Both recently received substantial sums from her catale. Bequests of from $1000 to $10,000 go to Mrs Eddy's household staff Calvin Frye, one of her advisers, gets $18,000. It is said, and Rev Irving C Tomlinson and Mrs Laura E. Surgent also are beneficialaries. Members, of the board of directors and other leaders of the mother church are not mentioned in the will CONGRESS CONTEST NOTICE IS FILED White Alleges 6000 Votes For Heald Were Bought. The first formal move made by Robert C. White, of Georgetown, Del. the Democratic nominee for representative in congress at the last election and who was defeated by Congressman William H. Heald, in protesting against the seating of Congressman Heald in the Sikty second congress as a representative from Delaware, was made when Mr. White went to Washington and filed two notices of his proposed contest, oree with the clerk of the house of representatives and the other was left with his representative to be served upon Mr. Heald. In his notice Mr. White alleges that about 6000 votes were bought for Congressman Heald at the election on Nov. 8. Mr. Heald has thirty days in which to file his answer, after which the matter will be referred to the committee on elections of the house to gather with the testimony in support the matter will be referred to the com of the petition. The taking of evidence in this state will be started at once. The other plans of Mr White have not been made public. He is allowed $2000 for expenses and so far he has retained as his attorneys Thomas F Bayard the chairman of the Democratic state central committee, and former State Chairman Willard Sailburst, both of Willington, ex United States Senator R. R Kenney, of Dover, and John M Richardson, of Goorgetown He will also retain counsel in Washington. TAFT GIVES MEDAL TO HERO South Bethlehem Man Who Saved county in the state. Bavar Bluejacket's Life is Honored. President Taft presented to William E. Snyder, chief electricians, attached to the scout cruiser Birmingham, a medal of honor for saving the life of a bluejacket who fell overboard in Hampton Roads last January. The thermometer was near zero at the time and a strong tide was running, but Snyder dived into the water and, after some difficulty, succeeded in saving his shipmate. Snyder is from South Bathlohem, Pa. He appeared at the White House just prior to the cabinet meeting. Man Pawns Dwn Coffin The high cost of living has forced M. L. Breman, of Atlanta, Ga., to pawn his coffin. Some time ago Breman bought a coffin for his own use he causes he could "pick it up at a bar gain." He needed money, and not having anything else to "soak" he had the coffin carried to a pawnshop. Felt Slighted. "Didn't I see you at the show last night?" "I think not." "But you were there?" "Yes." "Then why didn't I see you?" "That was what I wondered at the time, but I guess it was because I had my old clothes on." Paid For it. 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Re at Once fa. and Learn How You Can Become a a Skillful Mechanic or an Exporie Board, Lodging and Tulldon, tion or Further Information, Add PRES. JAMES B. DUDLEY, A. PERT PARAGRAPHS. REMEMBERING how his wife best him out in the high school, man may fear to trust her with the bullet less he should have to take the consequences. Some men seem really to like work, but they can't give a reason for it. If the man who thinks there is no place like home will visit the neighbors he may find there conditions quite as jarring. When a man's wife stretches his income in her imagination it doesn't seem to pay any more bills. As hell is a place of negations the people who have learned to say no ought to be happy there. Those people are esteemed the best talkers who listen attentively and say nothing. The trouble is that people who have a past seem never able to train it so that it will be docile and keep out of sight. If the shoo fits it is so apt to pinch. It is said that poverty is no crime, and we have yet to be shown practically that riches are other. Death is sure there are people who can dodge taxes. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE strong; choice, $6.25/$6.50; prime, $6.00/$6.30; $6.40; culls and common, $6.20; veal calvars, $9.50/$10; lamb, $6.50/$8.50. HOGE active! prime beavers and mammals; heavy Yorkeans, Yale $7.85; light Yorkeans and plum, $7.85; 1805 E. Main St., RICHMOND, VA. TRACTOR AND BUILDER. OF CARPENTRY. NICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Prose-2637. STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Prose-2160. Binding of Contracts for Building of Job Work a Specially. COLN POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEANED WHOLESOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUSTROUS THER HAVE YOUR HAIR—SOFT AND TOP IN THE LATEST STYLE IT AND KINNY. BEST PRIDE IS HERE OPEN OUT THAT KINKY, CURLY GIT IN THE MOST PERFECT TO BE COMBED INTO ANY OF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE. On earth to equal Lincoln Hair Fruit) Hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is promoter of growth and naturally and combable condition; but also sheen and gloss. No matter how how, no matter how hard or curly Hair Pomade will give you hair that Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only for this purpose on the market. You want, so refuse weak and in- anything that is claimed to be just the genuine. 5 CENTS. RETURNED BY Pomade Co. VA., U. S. A. Write for particulars. If your Work is in stamps or silver to THE LIN- D, Norfolk, Va., and we will send PORTUNITY. GRAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE. Unity Knocks at Your Door to-day. Of the Rich Blessings Opportunity the A. & M. COLLEGE for Catalog independent as a Scientific Farmer, nured Teacher. $7.00 Per Month. For Free Tu- cres. and M. College, Greensboro, N. C. Suggestions For Women With the "Put Off" Habit. "Only a day until Christmas and not one-half of the presents ready!" This is the exclamation one hears every year, and usually with the addition of, "Next year I will begin in plenty of time," and usually this promise is broken; consequently many women will be glad of new ideas for holiday gifts that may be easily made in a day. With a bit of ribbon and a few scraps of lace a woman can easily make the most adorable little bit of fancy work in an amazingly short time. The color and texture of the ribbon go a long way toward the beauty of the finished article. Hibbon has many advantages over silk for most fancy work articles. It is easier to work on, as there are no edges to be hemmed: the whole design may be used, where with silk the figures may come out anywhere. There is more variety in color and design from which to choose, and more neatness is possible, as flatter edges may be kept. Why Not Make a Hatstand? Both serviceable and datiny is the hastand of blue flowered taffeta, with a blue satin bow by way of decoration. The wopden stands ready for covering are to be bought in the shops. When silk is not desired chintz or cretonne is a good substitute. For the small girl a bobson cracker muff of shirred white silk trimmed in the shops. When silk is not desired chinis or cretonne is a good substitute. For the small girl a bonbon cracker muff of shirred white silk trimmed with bands of swanand a little necklet to match will be a deligift, while the time and expense involved are not great compared with the charms of the gift. ```markdown ``` SATURDAY DECEMBER 17, 1910 M'KINLEY'S NATAL DAY IN DOUBT May be February 26 Instead of January 29. CONGRESS' OATA CONFLICTS Directory Issued While He Was President Gave Birthday as Jan. 29. But Six Other Directories Give the February Date. January 29 is known from one end of the United States to the other as "McKinley day," but the admirers of the martyred president in his native state of Ohio and elsewhere throughout the country will be astonished to learn that Jan. 29 is probably not President McKinley's birthday anniversary at all. It is true that in one of the congressional directories issued when Mr McKinley was president the date of his birth was given as January 29, 1843. But in all the directories published during McKinley's six terms as a member of the house of representatives the "Date is given as Feb. 26, 1844. The first sketch of Mr McKinley's life which appears in the directory issued at the beginning of the first session of the Forty fifth congress Mr. McKinley wrote himself. There are two or three editions of the directory each session, and before each edition was printed a proof of this sketch was sent to him for revision. He must have seen it dozens of times after he originally wrote it, and a man is usually supposed to know the date of his own birth, but there was never a suggestion that the date was wrong. The same can be said, howoyor, of the date of Jan. 29 published in the directories during Mr. McKinley's term as president. It was commented upon by members of the Ohio delegation as remarkable that up to this time the question has never been raised Stuart Dick, Representative Keifer, of Ohio, who says he has talked birthdays and ages with President McKinley dozens of times, Representatives Cassidy and Howland, of Cleveland, and other members of the delegation seem to accept the date of Feb 26, 1851, as correct. One thing is certain, the members of the Ohio delegation are sufficiently interested in the proposition to make a thorough inquiry. If McKinley day is really Feb 26 they don't want Jan 29 celebrated as such, but that is the date-accepted for some reason or other, and they propose to find out why. The discrepancy was discovered by Representative Burke, of Pennsylvania, who had received an invitation to a McKinley day banquet, had lost the card and undertook to dig up the date in a congressional directory. WOULD ADOPT BAPTISM Change in Presbyterian Book of Discipline is Proposed. At the meeting of the Pittsburg, Pa., Presbyterians Rev John D Schaff, of the Western Theological summary, reporting for a committee of which he is chairman, recommended the elimination of the words 'sprinkling and pouring' from the book of discipline, and the use of the word 'baptize'. The adoption of the overture would mean that Presbyterian churches then could immerse members just as they are immersed in Baptist and some other churches. Dr. Schaff urged its adoption as being a means of bringing the churches closer together. PLANS MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN Bill Introduced by Senator Cullom Provider. $2,000,000. For Monument. Vice President $200,000 for monument. A national memorial to—Abraham Lincoln, to be erected in Washington at a cost of $200,000, is proposed in a bill introduced by Senator Cullom, of Illinois. The bill names a permanent commission, to be composed of President Taft, Senators Wetmore, of Rhode Island, and, Money, of Mil. "si"appl; representatives McCall, of Massachusetts, and Champ Clark, of Missouri. The sum of $100,000 is to be immediately available under the bill. EXPLOSION KILLS TWO One Was Blown to Atoms by a Premature Blast. Two men were killed by a premature explosion in the mine of the Charierol, Pa. Coal company's works. The dead are: Job Williams; thirty years old, driver in the coal mine, and Angelo Bernardo, thirty years old. It is supposed that while Bernardo was testing his cable an electric spark in some manner reached the explosive. Bernardo was blown to atoms, while Williams, who was standing about twenty feet from the explosive, was hurled against the side of the mine and instantly killed. City of Rome Buys Beef. Acting on the initiative of Mayor Nethan, the municipality of Rome is negotiating with the Swift company, of Chicago, for the importation of 6000 tons of Argentine meat early in 1911. The object of the movement is to compel the lowering of the present high prices of fresh beef. SIXTY MEXICAN REBELS KILLED Federal Troops Oefeat Seditionists Near Chihuahua. MANY OTHERS WOOKED General Navarro's Forces Are Pursuing Rebels — Passengers on Trains Heard Firing at Pedernales. Senor De La Barra, the Mexican ambassador at Washington, has received the following dispatch from Enrique Creol, Mexican minister of foreign affairs. "The remainder of the seditionists are in flight and the federal troops are pursuing them." Fighting at Pedernales. The passengers arriving at El Paso, Texas, on the train from Mexico declared that Chibunba was full of reports as they passed through that fighting was taking place between the rebels and regulars at Pedernales, where skirmishings took place several days ago. Persons coming from Madero, on the Mexican Northwestern road, said that as the train passed through Pedernales the firing could be heard and that the women and children were crying in the streets. FOUND SLAIN IN HIS ROOM Former U. S. Commissloner Nathan Hyde Murdered in Chicago. Nathan B. Hyde, former United States commissioner for the southern district of Wisconsin, and at one time a member of the New York bar, was found dead in the apartment house in which he had a room on the Chicago West Side. His head was cut by a blow from a crowbar, which was found near the body. The room had been ransacked and the police say that robbery was the motive for the murder. Mr Hyde, who was the grandson of a governor of Massachusetts, was seventy-six years old, and had lived in Chicago 1903. His wife died before he came to Chicago, and since then he has lived alone. Neighbors declare he was wealthy. The authorities are searching for Matthias Emil, a Mexican cornet player, who, the police think, may have knowledge of the murder Mr Hyde was struck down, apparently while writing a letter at the dictation of the slayer The Mexican, who had a room in the house, was said by other lodgers to have been seen pacing the hall outside Mr Hyde's door shortly before the discovery of the body $153,615,000 FOR PENSIONS House Passaee Bill After Reducing Agencies to One. The pension appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1912, carrying $153 615,000 or $73,000 less than when reported from the appropriations committee, was passed by the house. The reduction was made when the house, on motion of Representative Ralney, of Illinois, reduced the number of pension agencies from eighteen to one, that located in Washington. An amendment by Representative Smith, of Iowa, was also adopted providing for a simplification of method and consequent economy in the payment of pensions. MORE FOR U. S. JUDGES Depew's Bill Makes Salary of Chief Justice $18,000. To increase the salaries of the United States supreme court justices $6000 and also to increase proportionately the compensation of all federal judges is the purpose of a bill introduced by Senator Depew, of New York. The salary of the chief justice is fixed by the bill at $18,000, and those of associate justices of that court at $17,500. These salaries are now respectively $13,000 and $12,500. It is proposed to increase circuit judges' salaries from $7000 to $10,000; and federal district judges from $6000 to $9000. Hle Broken Back Cured. William Sindle, twenty two years old, of Bloomfield, N J., who fell from a tree he was trimming and sustained a broken back five weeks ago, was discharged from the Mountainside hospital in Now York, cured. Sindle says he feels pretty well, but is somewhat stiff and weak. Dr. Wiley to Wed. Dr. Harvey G. Willey, the government pure food expert, who heads the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, and Miss Anna G. Kelton, of Washington, will be married next spring. Miss Kelton is an employee in the library of congress. Mrs. Taft's Aunt Diss. Mrs. Hannah J. Jack, aunt of Mpr. William H. Taft, and sister of Judge John W. Herron, of Cincinnati, died at Decatur, Ill. of pneumonia. She was eighty-nine years old. Sale So Far. "Is he an honest man?" "Well, he has never been investigated." Mr. Royall Says That if Declaion An To Non-Conveyance of Prop- erty to Negroes Is Not Sustained We Will Have An Alien Race. (Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch) William L. Royall, one of the attorneys for the People's Pleasure Park Company (inc.), in the suit against John Worsham, of Philadelphia, in which Judge Nathan Goff, in the United States Circuit Court for Eastern Virginia, held that clauses which appear in many deeds precluding subsequent conveyance of property to negroes are invalid, said last night that if this decision is not sustained in the higher courts this nation will have an allon race in its midst. He maintained that if negroes are not permitted to buy property that their present holdings will eventually return into the hands of the white people, and if the opinion of Judge Goff is not sustained the practice of inserting the clause against eventual sale to colored people will become general. With these ideas in mind Mr. Royall believes that the ruling of the lower court will be affirmed when carried to either the Circuit Court of Appeals or the United States Supreme Court. Because of the widespread interest which Judge Goff's decision has brought about, Mr. Royall last night gave out the following statement: "The three amendments to the Constitution of the United States, adopted after the war, changed the whole nature and theory of our government I have always said that the fourteenth amendment was the most radical and the most valuable piece of legislation ever adopted by any people since Magna Charta. From the time those three amendments were adopted I have been a most devoted student of them and of their relation to our other institutions, and I feel myself master of the subject that they relate to and capable of speaking with intelligence upon them. "The first authoritative exposition made of those amendments by the Supreme Court of the United States was in what are known as the Slaughter House cases, in 16th Wallace. When that decision was announced I at once saw the decision was wrong in cutting down the scops of the fourteenth amendment below what it was intended to accomplish. It was decided by five justices against four. On looking into the opinions and the briefs I found that not one of the eminent lawyers who tried the case had gone to the debates in Congress at the time the amendment was before Congress to find out what that body intended to accomplish by it. The debates were very elaborate, but I found one idea running through them all. MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK A Successful Place Institution That Occupies Its Own Fine New Building. (Cleveland (O.) Gazette). The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipts of a finely illustrated catalogue of the Mechanical's Savings Bank of Richmond, Va., of which Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet, is president. The bank occupies its own line, four-story new building, completed last June—an up-to-date structure in every respect. The bank's aggregate deposits last year were nearly $500,000. Capital stock, $100,000. The bank building fronts on Clay street. There are two storerooms fronting Third street, 28 office rooms on the three upper floors, and on the roof a "roof-garden," covered with tile. The catalogue is a work of art and a credit to our friend Mitchell's splendid printing plant. This is encouraging. Member of Mob Fatally Injured in Fusillade. Columbus, Ga., Dec. 11.—Irving Kent, aged twenty-two years, a cotton mill operative, allied to have been a member of the mob which last night stormed the Muncogee county jail to get Henry Taylor, a negro prisoner, charged with assaulting a young white woman one night last week, died today from a wound received in the attack. More than a hundred shots were fired. Seven arrests were made today. Jailor Phleis was seriously injured, but will recover. Congratulations Offered. We offer congratulations to Hon- John Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond, Va., editor and banker, on his splen- d testimonial given to Matt Henson, "of Polar," fame—Philadelphia Dr. H. D. Williams, M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city and will spend the holidays here. FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURLY HAIR, IT USES MAKE STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE FRIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO GROB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAYY. BEST PONADE ON THE MARKET FOR BANDRUP, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25*LARGE SIZED BOTTLE,50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. 107, CHICAGO,ILL. 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The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Course Is the Female Department of thirty persons to organize a Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bequest. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for all information concerning John 3 Nothing on earth is so valuable as a great trouble and cost, much more is polluting that the schools can give it. The youth. Who would choose a poor physician And who would choose an inferior school Increase the strength of character and usefulness! Dormitory, Virginia Va. Union Offers the Best Houses COLORED VIE IT HAS A FINE ACADEMY course in coopling of dormitory schools can give it. ITS COLLEGE COURSE is broad and as high as those of any college for white of the Carnegie Board. ITS THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for many Basket Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the are given born. One hundred students for the of the school. ITS NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, its of 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its University to offer colored young men as of other races. For further information, address the Press VIRGIN ISHAM MA Undertaker, 9 E. Durham First Class Service. High Grad All Orders Attended From Phone, Monroe 5400. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. Nothing on earth is so valuable as a human mind. 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The calf that is intended for the dairy should not be forced to maturity as rapidly as the one intended for beef purposes. It is an established fact that animals when young acquire the habit of taking on fat and maintaining it, which is not a desirable quality for cows in the dairy herds. However, do not allow the calf that is to be grown for meat to lose any part of its "calf fat," which, if maintained by proper feeds and feeding, will be quite sure to make a desirable as well as profitable feeder when matured. The young calf should be fed three times a day on milk that is fresh and sweet and warmed to blood heat or 98 degrees. This is important. Irregular feeding with milk that is too cold or too warm is sure to cause serious stomach and bowel troubles, which in some instances cannot be corrected in weeks or possibly months of treatment. Care should be exercised as to the amount of milk given the calf. Small quantities, with regular intervals between feeds, will secure best results in gains. Many make the mistake of not allowing the calf to take the first two or ```markdown ``` three days' milk from its dam. This contains colostrum, an element which is necessary and is provided by nature in the mother's milk to move the bowels and establish a normal action of the digestive organs. This element is only secreted by the mother in her flow of milk during the first days after giving birth to her young. The calf must have it, or it will suffer for the loss in spite of good care and feeds. A healthy calf on proper feed should make an average gain of two to three pounds per day for the first month or six weeks of its life, especially where the animal is intended for the block, and should attain a weight of 800 pounds when twelve months old. Such results are secured in many instances where the calves are given good care from the beginning and the feeds are properly balanced growing ration. Whole milk with its expensive tuber fat is too costly as present prices Jersey Halfer Calf. OUR JOB DEPARTMENT. to feed calves after they are a week or ten days old. New milk contains a trifle less than 4 per cent of its weight in a fat or oil, which may be substituted in a measure with a combination of grain that contains fat producing elements. There are a number of milk substitutes or calf meals on the markets that may be fed in combination with skim or separator milk, which will replace the butter fats that are naturally secreted by the cow. Flax meal is sometimes used for this purpose. These milk substitutes should be fed in very small quantities in the beginning, say one tablespoonful and gradually increased to two or three tablespoonfuls at each feed, as the animal safely digests and assimilates the same. A properly prepared milk substitute will make separated milk equal to whole milk in the elements of growth and fat and will cost less than one half the price. This has been demonstrated again and again by the best stockmen in this and other countries. Send butter fat to the creamery and substitute it with a well balanced grain ration for the calves. VALUE OF CREAM SEPARATOR Does Away With Large Number of Recaptacles For Milk, is Easily Cleaned and Takes Up Very Little Space. Those who have never used a cream separator do not know of its actual value in dairy work. One great economy in using the cream separator in summer is the small space required to keep the product to be saved. The separating is done immediately after milking, and all of the skimmilk not wanted for household use is fed to the calves, pigs or poultry. There is no trouble in storing it away for the cream to rise and no large number of milk vessels to clean and handle. The separator, of course, must be cleaned, but the work of cleaning is not nearly so great as the work of cleaning all the milk vessels necessary for holding the milk it takes care of. There are brushes for cleaning which make the work easy, and there is no drying, as scalding water is used and the heat from this dries the parts without the use of a drying cloth. PAVEMENT PHILOSOPHY. No one can ever make good by making bad. A soft answer turneth away discouragement. Tomorrow never comes; neither does yesterday. There are no great men, in their own estimation. Lots of good advice is wasted simply because it is free. Time will tell, and therefore time must of course, be feminine. Home folks put their shoulders to the wheel and then don't push. Although actions speak louder than words they can't be heard so distinctly. If a man was "made to mourn," then woman was made to make him mourn. 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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We Have Just Closed a Big Deal With THE WEERLY TIMES-DISPATCH, of Richmond, Va.; The Progressive Farmer and Gazette, of Raleigh, N. C.; Mothers' Magazine—all live ones—and, in addition, the above combination has secured the exclusive privilege to use THE FARMERS' FAVORITE JACK KNIFE in this Offer. $3.05 VALUE FOR $1.75. THE WEEKEY TIMES-D The Progressive Farmer and O Mothers' Magazine, 6 months Farmers' Favorite Jack Knife THE RICHMOND PLANE (This Offer Only Apply SEND YOUR ORDER TO-D JOHN 3 (Out Out and Send this Advertisement) PHOTO We offer you, the Latest and Moderate Figure than you can ob- Special Attention Paid to O Interior View Work. We will also be Pleased to from Old Photos, A Specialty. Geo. O. Brown 603 North 2nd St., KEEKEY TIMES-DISPATCH, 6 months. Progressive Farmer and Gazette, 6 months. Magazine, 6 months. Favorite Jack Knife (postage prepaid). RICHMOND PLANET, 6 months. (This Offer Only Applies to New Subscribers.) 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The man with the fading fringe of hair in a sort of a featoon from ear to ear across the back of his head stood in a hairdresser's and watched a woman purchasing braids, switches and so forth. Turning sadly away he mused: "Unto her that bath shall be given, but from him that bath not shall be taken even that which he bath." THE DIFFERENCE. The country writer for the press, He has a happy way Of getting by When news is shy And he has naught to say. He simply states that "news is scarce" And has that item sent. The means are made To thus evade A sad predicament. I would we incleess humorista, We alleged funny men. Could try the ruse Upon a muse That's baiky now and then. We cannot say that jokes are scarce That we have nothing new. We must reblock our musty stock And furblish up a few. PHOTOS. We Have As large and as fine a line of calendarprinting concern in the State. We exception. We take orders for Engraiding Plate jobs, and we guarantee sat in all of our work. 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