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THE RICHMOND PLANET Editor Mitchell's Long Journey. AN EMBARRASSING PREDICA-MENT. Could Not Eat in the Dining Room. A Waiter's Story—Colored Men Married Morman Women—In a Japanese Barber Shop—Rules Suspended for the Colored Banker. Morning came and we went down stairs to the lobby of the Culen Hotel. We saw the sign "Café," and we went in there for breakfast. To the right sat a white lady cloak, and we took a seat at the nearest table. We saw the colored waiters in evident commotion, and the head waiter, a tall, fine-looking colored man, whom we afterwards learned was originally from San Antonio, Texas, approached us, apparently much embarrassed. We made known our wishes "I would be fired," he said, "If I served you in this dining room." "But," we remarked, "I am a guest in this hotel." "I know" he said, then, as if vainly endeavoring to find a way out, he said, "I will serve you in your room—what is the number?" We told him "I will send up a waiter and take your order." A PECULIAR FEELING We wont out, thoroughly embarrassed, and in a great measure humiliated. Our readers, can readily appreciate and understand our predicament. Here we were in a hotel and yet not in it. Here we were a guest, and yet not a guest. Then came to our mind like a flash the peculiar statement of the porter on the sleeping car going into Los Angeles when we showed him our letter of assignment to a white hotel in that city. "They may take you in there, but air they don't want you." In Los Angeles we had not detected the slightest disposition to draw on us the color line, but here we were in Salt Lake City where a few years ago a colored man could secure our accommodations in any of the white hotels for the asking, and Dr J S Outlaw of Los Angeles evidently be allowed that similar conditions existed, then now. AN EMBARBASSING PREDICA MENT But all of this had changed. There was no excitement. None of the white guests in the dining room showed any feeling or interest in the matter. We were here the guest of Mr. Lawrence Marsh and his associates and we were not here upon our own motion. Lawyer Marsh in unquestionably one of the most energetic practitioners at the bar we ever met and, he insists upon any and all of his rights as a citizen of Utah. We were here, though. In this hotel and we wowed our way to our room and sat down giving ourselves up to bitter meditation FROM A MAILED FIST We had been dealt a blow between the eyes by the mailed fat of race prejudice and at a time when we least expected to receive it. We rallied, and in a short time recovered. It was an object lesson to us—the demonstration of the difficulties with which persons of our race have to contend, and after a few moments, instead of cowing us or causing us to retreat, we made up our mind to press forward, to see this new revolution of conditions in Salt Lake in all of its hideousness and to say absolutely nothing to Mr. Lawrence Marah and his committee of the conditions which at that time confronted us. If anything, we lifted our head higher and met with unusual boldness the glance of every person in that white hotel in that great Mormon City. THE WAITER'S STORY: A tap on the door told us that the head waiter had kept his word. A waiter came in with evident embarrassment, and touch sympathy. He seemed to feel our predicament as keenly as we did ourselves, and he expressed regret that such conditions should exist in a city so far northward and westward. He passed to us the menu card and awaited our order. He retired, and when he returned with the steaming breakfast served in choice, he proved conversely that proved interruption. "You see," he said, "colored man have been largely responsible for the race prejudice here. Many of them came here from the South, and they got to sage up with these white women. The Mormons have no race prejudice, and so these colored Bitterly Denounces Dr. Booker T. Washington. Washington, D. C. J. · 18.—Booker T. Washington and his Jim Crow race policy were denounced in bitter terms to an immature audience at the Metropolitan A. M. E Church in this city Tuesday night, and overly utterance of the speaker was applauded to the echo The speaker was Hon Edward H Morris, former member of the Illinois Legislature, author of the Illinois Civil Rights Bill and foremost lawyer of the race in the country Mr Morris lives in Chicago, where he has made several hundred thousand dollars in the practice of his profession. He is now serving his third term as National Grand Master of the Grand United Order of Odd Follows. Mr Morris' subject was "The Passing Show," and Booker T. Washington was likened to the ring master of a circus, while his many small calibre imitators were depicted as the aerobats, tumblers and clowns that made up the aggregation of talent It was the most powerful address ever delivered in Washington along 'Booker T. Dues, and for nearly two hours Mr Morris hold the interest of his immense audience Hon J Milton Turner, ex Minister of Liberia, the first colored man to enter the Diplomatic Service in the United States, having been appointed by President Grant during his first administration, who was present, arose and enthusiastically endorsed Mr Murra's utterances. He said he regretted that there were not nowadays more men of the Morris stamp. He recalled the days of the great Negroes and great white men who fought and won the great battle for freedom. As he named Sumner, Delaney, Phillips, Ward, Garrison and a host of other valiant warriors there was tremendous aplause and the climax came when he uttered the magic name of Frederick Douglass. Men and women sprang into the fighting with the handkerchiefs Rushing to Mr Turner they hore him by main force to the platform so that all might see the venerable apostle of liberty. The outburst showed that in spite of all the efforts of Washington and his puppets to suppress the spirit of Liberty that some of the sparks still remain in the breasts of the people Rev Carrothers pastor of Galbraith Methodist Church Lawyer Ormond Scott and others uphold Mr Morris in the general discussion which followed Judge Terrell and Lawyer Colb attempted to defend Washington's policy of race misrepresentation but in rebuttal Mr Morris ribbed their arguments and made them both feel cheap. The meeting was opened with an eloquent and impressive prayer by Rev Charles Brooks pastor of Nassau Street Therapeutic Church and on the platform were seated pastors of many city churches leading Odd Follows Federal officials lawyers doctors and prominent bus men of the race Following the meeting a banquet was given by several hundred of Washington's leading citizens in honor or of Hon H. L. Johnson, Recorder of Deeds Henry P. Shannon, editor of the Odd Fellows Journal, and Grand Master Morris. An excellent menu was served. Among those present were Judge M. W. Gibbs, of Arkansas, Hon. Harry C. Gummings, of Maryland, Hon. Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor for the Navy. Hon W. T Vernon, Register of Treasury; Dr A M Curtis, Hon John C Dancy, ex recorder of Deeds, Mr Louis G. Gregory, Rev John Hurst, Dr. W. Lofton, J C V. Todd, Pro Garnett Wilkinson, Rev. B F Watson, Mr L M Hershaw, Mr J. C Burlis, Mr Daniel Murray, Prof Murray, W. Cook Mr Robert Polham, Mr. F. H. M Murray, Mr. Shelby J. Davidson, W. I. Houston, A. T. Shirley, George W Hays, W D. Brown, J. C Johnson, J. Needham, Ben J. Davis, W. H. Davis, A. Fleetwood, James W. Gray, J W Muse, J. H. Stewart and others, in all nearly three hundred. $100.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond, Va., Jan. 21, 1911. This is to certify that we have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00), One Hundred Dollars in payment of the dothalm claim of Sister A. E. V. Ramsay, who was a member of Venus Court, No. 47 of Richmond, Va. Long it seems, the journey, and yet the next limit is far the rest and the far: In the stormy weather, still we see a star Still the light is shining back of clouds of gray. We'll get there, where the dreams are, and rest in peace some day Still we find a song there in the Vale of Night: Even in the darkness a memory on Light. We fancy in Life Winter, we reap the blooms of May— Oh we'll get there where the dreams are and rest in peace some day 111 Don't you hear the bells ringing? Don't you see the journey end. With the peace which a enduring— with Silence for a friend* The tears of years the crosses that were burdens by the way. Will be memories of music with the sweeter dreams some day* Frank I. 'Stanton, in The Atlanta Constitution. Something New Under the Sun at the Fifth-Street Baptist Church. Professor Dupont La Fountaine from the Holy Land and Jerusalem, will lecture Monday night, January 30th, at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. This distinguished foreigner scholar linguist and most beautiful expounder of the 23d Psalm, will appear in his native costume as a shaphrod. 'He will expalte' Oriental courtship, marriage custom and costumes. Everybody who has heard him once is anxious to hear him again. There will be no admission at the door, but a silver offering is expected. The Fifth Street Baptist Church choir will render music must be used. The Webster has been expected to introduce the speaker. Let Richmond turn out in full to hear this grand and rare treat. A M C A NOTES. Last Friday evening at the Y. M. C A the Literary was well attended. The membership meeting was a good one Prof J. W. Barco explained the Sunday School lesson last Saturday, and all who attended were helped for service and Sunday was a live day with the Y M C A The workers were out to the meeting 9 10 Y M at the Y M C A Pro. J. H. Rhoer spoke to the boys at the Y M C A at 4 P M The committee reports a good day a service at the City Home. One inmate was won for Christ Twelve prisoners of the city jail were led to accept Christ by the work of the committee In the great central evangelistic meeting the First Baptist Church was the climax of the series of meetings which have been held under the auspices of the church and the Y M C A Dr D Webster Davie put the hour straight before men Subject Harding Hearts" Every man was put to thinking Col Thomas M Crump made a great bit for the Lord. He knows how to help the other fellow by song The meetings have been a great blessing at the Watch on the date of the Greater Meals (Gregorian retary S C Burrell thanks everybody for helping to bring about this great success The work of the Y M C A has led 66 souls to Christ during this month. It pays to work for the Lord. The Y M C A is to help the boys and men to get the right foundation for life, and there will be no failure. You and your friends are invited to the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson today at 5 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Man, be on time Sunday ready for hard work, and the other man: 100 M. at the Y. M. C. A. Workers' Meeting. A special meeting for boys at the building at 4 P. M. Mothers, send your boys. Lawyer P. J. Henry of the Virginia Union University, will address the men Sunday at 6:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Bufolding. Subject: "Lessons From the Life Of Joseph." The Y. M. C. A. chorus will sing, bring the other man. Be on time. Watch for the date of the Greater Meetings. Do not stop praying for the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Fumble. Waddy is indisposed at any residence. 13 1-2 South Lans- dau Street. IN GOOCHLAND AND HENRICO COUNTIES. Many Killed.—Jury Blames Company A Colored Man's Narrow Escape. "in the county of Hendrick, to wit, depositions taken at Carbon Hill, in the sold county, on the 21st day of January, 1911, before me, 4. Palmer Bright, coroner, upon the body of Louis Cyrinaki came to his death, upon their own doxy that he came to his death upon January 20, 1911, at 7:15 o'clock A. M. as a result of an explosion in the mines of the Old Dominion Development Company. "This explosion, in the opinion of the jury, was due to negligence on the part of the man agement of the mines property to inspect the mines and proper to inspect the mines of the man pounding danger. (Nigredor), M. D. coroner; Hobert Taylor, foreman; O. N. X. Nuckols, C. J. Nuckols, J. S. Levella, W. S. Jones, C. D. Cotrell." After a reassessment, lasting six hours, the coroner's jury summoned yesterday to inquire into the cause of the death of Louis Twinkel and five others who were killed by an explosion in the Carbon Hill Mines, Henrico county, early on Friday morning. Inad the responsibility on the Old Dominion Development Company owners whom it charged with negligence in the destruction of the mines and in killing the miners of the dower house before them. Six men were killed and the one case was used to cover the whole list the circumstances surrounding the deaths of all being the same. The case will probably be put before a grand jury on January 11. The grand jury in Henrico county of the state has been adjourned over that date. It is not yet certain as to how hardly probable that question as to jurisdiction as between Henrico and Goodland counties may arise because that part of the mine in which the men were killed is in the latter county. But as the main shaft lies in Henrico county, where the company has offices, it is thought that there will not be a legal tangle arising from this cause. ELEVEN WITNESSES EXAMINED Should the grand jury return an indictment against the Old Dominion Development Company, prosecution for criminal intelligence will result. Eleven witnesses among them William G. Woolfok, vice-president of the company, were examined yesterday by the coroner's jury. Much of the evidence was contradictory, and two witnesses were recalled to explain certain parts of their testimony which had been contradicted by others and to give other information which the jury desired. The officials were unable to secure the services of a stonographer, and the statements had to be taken down in longhand by Deputy Coroner Bright and Commonwealth's Attorney Julien Gunn, who took turns in the various labor. Both the Coroner and the Commonwealth's Attorney took a heading in the examination of the witnesses, and they were assisted by the jury, especially by Robert Taylor himself once a fire boss in large mines. He displayed expert knowledge, and his rapid fire of questions and the harsh criticisms he occasionally launched against the officials and bosses before him, often caused them a deal of uneasiness. At times he lectured, and at other times he explained how measures should have been taken to prevent the men from going to unexpected doom. SIT AROUND IN GLOOM The mine was not worked yesterday, the day shift being engaged in cleaning away the debris left by the explosion. Mary of the men hung around the main offices in which the jury sat, curious to learn what was going on within. But it took much time getting the witnesses together, and two of them—Joe Bardina and Ralph Deiter, who were injured in the explosion, had to be visited in their homes. To Honnii, night, foreman, who was examined, resisted year- day, and left for his home in Ala- hama yesterday afternoon. He had been in the company's employ only since January 1, and the others, too, were recent arrivals Coroner Bright and Commonwealth's Attorney Gunn arrived at the times shortly after 11 o'clock, and found the jury waiting for them. The jurors were first taken into the presence of the six bodies, lying in a row in the wash house only a few vards from the mouth of the mine. It was a ghastly sight. They were blackened and charred from the forts of the fiery explosion. Most of the clothes were burned from the upper part of the bodies and the flesh was gored and scorned. They lay just as they had been taken from the death hole. HOLD FUNERAL SERVICES Services were held one, the body was in the settlement hall about a mile from the scene by Rev John Konecki pastor of the New Hobokenian Congregation of Petersburg who had been sent by his bishop to aid the strained families of the dead men. Five will be laid to rest to Jas in the rear of the hall in a new cemetery in which they will be the first to be. The body of Frank Berger will be shipped to his relatives in Mt Carneau Pa. It was taken as far as Lorraine yesterday afternoon, but some one had neglected to provide transportation and it got further on its journey. Since a drowned yesterday before the coroner a jury the accident seems to have resulted from a broken air pipe in crosscut No. 11 into which the six sturdy Poles unaware of the fact that the breast was filled with gas walked to their death. On their cans they were open lamps, which Vice President Woolfok said yesterday. In his testimony, are the only kind allowed to the ordinary winners. Only the foremen, the officials and the fire bosses, the latter of whom are supposed to discover danger use the safety lamp. The explosion must have occurred as soon as the open lamps flickered against the mine dump. Five were killed instantly. Frank Burger was still breathing when Day Foreman Louis Wilson rushed his side. But he suffered only a few moments. The body of a boy unhurt which the searchers had lead in their first inspection was found late in day afternoon. It was long after that the foot from where the mine fell FIELD VOLTAGE FIELD VOLTAGE The show of the exhibition was felt for feet away for the man which was kind and was told that it was on another love, from the sense of the need. Other parts of some whom had adorned the dead man on the foot, who felt the shoes for feet away. H. Collier M. After the former bodies as he laid him and William Winston was left feet from the man. They felt the hidden truss of gas, their lights went out and the deform in loins of them to the collar of blood from harm by joining hands in a coal car. Winston whose lamp did not glow, saw it out for a second so slown and threw himself flat on the ground. They said that the after damp was no disease that they could hardly breathe and fight their way out from the gasified gloom. When finally they could light their arms in safety they could not use each other a hand's distance. FOUND GAS IN CROSSCUT It was brought out in the evidence that Louis Wilson discovered gas in crosscut No. 31 shortly after 4 o'clock only a short time after Night Foreman T C Hopkins had made his last inspection and had failed to discover it. Wilson wrote the word "gas" on a small log in front of the small aperture through which the man had to crawl to get into the crosscut, meaning that as a danger signal it failed, evidently to act as a barrier. It was stated that though the Poles could speak they could not read the English language. Both Wilson and Hopkins knew of the broken air line, but neither gave personal warning to the miners as they entered to go to their work. It was never proved that they knew anything at all of the impending danger Wilson testified that one of the night shift men told him that the airline had been broken for three hours. Hopkins stated that it, was broken at 3.15 o'clock, that he removed the minors then working there, and seet a man to fix it. That man was Clarence Bread, who failed to repair the break. Sneed testified that he told him that Hopkins that he would fix the break without a tipple, and that Wilson said: "Damn It, I'm up against it again. It can't be fixed until the day men come on, and you go ahead." . BREAK NOT REPAIRED. Yat, all agree that had the break (Courquoud, On, Fifth Page). The True Reformers. NO REPORT YET FROM THE RECEIVERS. Outlook Gloomy—Grand Fountain Alone Can Save Great Organization The Old Folks' Home Department. New Property Still Mortgaged. No Financial Ability Shown by Leaders. To the many inquiries made as to the True Reformers, the only reply that can be made at this time is that the outlook is gloomy. There is only one star of hope upon the horizon and that is the Grand Fountain which will assemble here February 21 1911 at the direct expense of the Fountain or the representatives themselves. There have been vague rumors as to conditions at the Sea and Street and in and that body will be in a position to proclaim all of these rumors and to let the public know just how much truth there is at the bottom of them. THE Cause OF THE DELAY That the downfall of the Order has been due to an argument of the grossest kind is now being generally conceded and people who know and who cannot be expected to talk and their heads omniously it is about conceded too, that the day in making the report to the Chamber Court as to the condition of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers is more an act of charity and kindness to the organization than anything. Everybody has been obliged to follow in the last favor and thus in the last favor that can be granted by the conscientious officials who have been mounted by the Court. THE CAVAL OF THE GRAND FOUNTAIN Of course there are some bitches which may well account for the delay but after all is said the outlook will be seen to be of a kind and character to carry down to the rank and file of the order. The official call for the meeting of the Grand Mountain is significant. Here it is its order of Grand Worthy Master A W Holmes a special session of the Grand Mountain is called to meet at Richmond Va. February 21 1911 for the purpose of taking up deliberation and setting upon proposals to better the financial condition of the order to restore confidence throughout the Rt. Rotherham and to make such changes in office or business. It may be described best to have an assessment and for the transition of any and all business necessary designed an connection to the result. MUST PAY OWN EXPENSES Every benefited Fountain in the Brotherhood is hereby notified to elect a qualified delegate at once to thisatta session. The expenses of said delegates to be borne by the Fountain closing them. This is an important session, and no Fountain should be without representation. Delegates must be qualified Past officers and benefited members in the Class Department Every Fourth meeting a delegate must have all assessments paid through Jan 14th. CAN BOARD WHERE THEY PLEASE. All delegates are at liberty to secure their own boarding place while in Richmond, and any nother suit Mr. Joseph Ward Chief, as to place of board will be looked after. Done by order of the Grand Worthy Master of the Grand Fountain U O T R W P BURRELL G W B HAS DONE ALL THAT HE COULD This means that Grand Worthy Master A W Holmes has done all that he can for the Order and that the Grand Fountain must do the rest. That there will be a wholesale outing of officers happily admit of a question. It is well known that there has been a wide divergence of opinion in Mr Holmes' cabinet and the position which he has taken to bring the Order back to his office. The plan of secrecy which has characterized the organization since its foundation is now the basis for its most radical undoing. THE OLD FOLKS' HOME TROUBLES The investigation of the old Folke's Home affairs will prove of interest. Here is a case where nearly one hundred thousand dollars were realized from the sale of the property at Westham, the place where most of the aged True Reformers sent money, expecting to apend their last days of Old age there, and yet another purchased for life. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. thousand dollars, and there are rumors that this property has indebtedness hanging over it. The truth of this statement is admitted. MAY REVOKE LICENSE. If the report of the receivers for the True Reformers Savings Bank does not show that the money derived from that source is not a sufficient amount to equal the requirements of the State law bearing on such insurance companies, the Commissioner, Button, will be left no recourse to to revoke the license to do business. This would mean the end of the True Reformers in this State. They could reorganize under another name, but all of the property of the Order would be sold to satisfy the outstanding claims against the Order and the bank, and after the creditors received their pro rata share the amount might be twenty cents on the dollar, or more or less. WOLLD LOSE ALL Members who had paid in for years would lose all and their polite ties in the class department and the subordinate fountains would be worthless. In other words they would necessarily be required to start life over again, so far as the Order is concerned to avoid the stress that Grand Worthy Master A W Holmes has convened to Grand Fountain. That body must agree to levy a sufficient taxation on each member to pay all of the debts of the Order. If a tax of fifty cents of one dollar, payable every three months for five years, is levied and the members remain payable at the Order, the member supremacy in financial affairs. The trouble is now as to whether the slump in membership will be large or small. A NEW REGIME TO BE INSTALLED. If it is large the taxation upon the remaining member will be heavy if it is small the taxation can be borne without embarrassment or suffering Viewed from any angle it is evident that there be no unloading of that than a demand will be made for a new reine to conduct affairs. Can new men improve upon the work of the old ones? This is the question and time alone can give the answer --- WILLIAM NOEL PASSES AWAY. William Noel died Jan 11, 1911 at his home on Willamstown Road Hepworth County, Va. He was a faithful member of Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, also a past officer of Mt. Kinn Lodge, No 1829 G U O of Old Fellows. He was a dutiful member a quiet citizen and always ready and willing to do what he could for others. His lodge and church are bereft of a lovable member. Funeral services were held at Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Rev Daniel James offending. He leaves a wife, one sister and four brothers many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. A precious one from us is gone. A voice we loved is still A place is vacant in our home. That will be hard to fill. His older Mrs. Edward J. James Nersey In Lynched Avera Ti, Jan 23 — Wm Johnson a negro charged with the murder of Brankeman Humphreys, white was lynched early Sunday, his body riddled with bullets, and, it is said, later burned in shooting Humphreys when he left the train to go to his home Johnson tried to escape, but surrendered and was placed in jail Within an hour a mob of fifty men overpowered the guard and took the negro several miles out of town, stringing him up to a tree. The body was then riddled with bullets it is reported a fire of brush was seen and the body had reaped sufficient infliction, it said, the body was hurried into them and almost totally consumed —Mr H. M. Williams of 617 N. Second St. is an eye specialist. Read his advertisement and call and see him. Wants To Find Him. I would like to know the whereabouts of my brother, Robert L. Carrinton, kingsfargo cetal etao Carrington. He was last heard from in 1908 in Guntersville, Alabama. His TITM meetandgoal is a etao etao. His mother's name is Polly Carrington, South Boston, Halifax County, Va. If any one knows of his whereabouts, please write his sister, Lusie C. Love, at 1209 U Breathe W. Liberal reward program for such information. ```markdown ``` Synopsis Mas Duncan, discharged for incompetency by his empire, goes to the home of his friend Kellogg, who has helped him in the past. Kellogg sympathetic with Duncan, who meets some of his old time acquaintances at the home of his friend. Kellogg wants to help Duncan, who is old and can play a novel scheme whereby Duncan can repair his shattered fortune. The scheme is that Duncan should go to a country town, dress well, go to church, and marry the wealthiest girl in the town. Duncan declies to follow Kellogg's suggestion and with an array of newly made clothes departs for and arrives at Old Sam Graham runs a disillusioned, out of date little drug store in Radville. He has for years wasted his time on variegated inventions. Betty Graham, the old man's pretty but modest writer, works in the store, or LittleJohn, the Radville editor, becomes acquainted with Duncan. "Blinky" Lockwood is the richest man in the village, and Duncan is interested in what the old miser has a daughter, Josie. Duncan obtains a position in old Graham's drug store without pay, for he learns that the village girls, including healthy Josie Lockwood, are very fond of Duncan advances money to buy a new stock of drugs and soda sirups, so as to enable Graham to compete with the rival store. Lockwood and Angle Tuthill visit the store and make Duncan's acquaintance. They flirt with him and buy soda water. Duncan meets Betty Graham, who, very and suspicious of the world, wants to buy a new barn and sleeper. Roland Barnette, in love with Josie Lockwood, introduces to old Graham a New York awindier, Hurmham, who tries to get for a low price a sensational gas machine that Bam has invented "Blinky" Lockwood has a note of old胜利 which he wishes to threaten Betty as to the consequences of nonpayment. Betty raves at her father because of his poverty. Duncan comes in and gently reasserts, with the girl. The affair comes to the store to demand payment of Graham's note. Duncan almost his last cent to pay the sum, 130. Duncan meets "Blinky" Lockwood and also saves old Sam from being victimized by Burmuth, much to Roland's disgust. Under Duncan's management the store is the result of evidence to the young man's real ability. The acquaintance of Betty and Duncan progresses, though the latter sees that he would wed Josie Lockwood and gain her fortunes if he so desired. Duncan corresponds with Kellogg and Sears of the great possibilities of Sam's. Duncan borrows enough money, from Colonel Bohun to send Betty away to college. Tracey Tanner is mildly in love with Tushill. Kellogg comes to visit Duncan. CHAPTER XVIII. OSISE LOCKWOOD came home again for the Easter holidays, but she didn't return to finish her term in the New York school—just why we never discovered." The Lockwoods furnished us with no really satisfying explanation. They said that Josie didn't like New York, but I've always doubted that, especially since Josie married and insisted on moving straight away to that metropolis. I suspect she didn't get along with the class of young women with whom she was thrown at school, and I'm pretty certain she was uneasy about Nat all the time she was so far away from him. It was during this period, between the Easter vacation and the end of the spring school term, that Roland Barnette's antiquity toward Duncan became virulent. Josie, of course, was prompt to oust Angie Tutthall from her place in the choir. After that she sang with Nat on Friday nights as well as Wednesday and twice per Sunday. Between whiles she was a pretty constant patron of the store. There was no longer the least doubt in the collective mind of the town as to the inclination of Josie's affections. The culmination came the day before Betty was to return—a day late in May, I remember, and a Friday at that. It began along toward evening Duncan, alone in the store, was busy behind the prescription counter. Absorbed with his task, he thought himself quite alone until a well knitted voice reached his ear "Well!" it said unctuously with appreciation of the sight of him. "Old Dr Duncan." He let the postie fall from his hand and jumped as if he had been stuck with a pin. His jaw dropped and his eyes bulged "Great Scott!" he cried and in a twinkling was round the counter, throwing himself into the arms of a man whom he halled castefully. "Harry, by all that's wonderful!" He fairly danced with delight "Henry Keilings, Esq.quirre" he cried, holding him at arms' length and looking him over "What in thunderdare are you doing here?" "On my way to Cincinnati on business. Thought I'd drop off for a night and size you up. How are you?" "Me? Look at me—picture of health Harry. you've made a new man of me." Duncan praised round his friend in a mild frenzy. "No booze, no smokes, no airfare—work! I feel like a two-year-old. I could do a Marathon without turning a hair. Watch me kick up my beels and night. And listen!" Nat crowed. "I'm a business man. Didn't you believe it? Pipe my shop!" Kellogg turned to obey the admonition of Duncan's gesticulations and took a long look round the stairs. "Had! said he. 'I'm blowed if it isn't cruel. It was hard to credit your letters. But it's great, old man. I congratulate you with all my heart.'" "Just wait and I'll tell you all about FORTUNE ```markdown ``` "THOUGHT I'D DROP OFF FOR A NIGHT" it. But first tell me how long you're going to be here. "Well, I plan to hang around with you a couple of days. My business in the west isn't pressured." "Good! I wrote you about taking a new place for the Grahams?" "Yes, and I'm mighty keen to meet 'em. The girl here?" "Betty? No; she's coming home tomorrow. But Graham himself is upstairs in the laboratory. Take you up in a minute, but not before I've had a good look at you." Kellogg found himself a chair "Well," he inquired, twinkling "how's A JOSEPH WAS UNAINTY ABOUT RAY WHILE SHE WAS AWAY the scheme working out? Are you really living up to all the rules?" "Every singlery one" "You have got a strong constitution. Even prayer meetings?" "The church thing? Honest, Harry, I own it." "Bully for you, Nat. But how does it work? Was I right?" "I should say you were. It's so easy it a shame to do it. If this thing ever should get into the papers there'd be a swarm of city men outgrowing for the country so thick you wouldn't be able to see the sky." "I knew it! Trust your Uncle Harry" "Kellogg waited a time for further particulars, but Duncan seemed stuck. "And you've made a strong play for the fond affections of Lockwood's daughter?" "Certainly not!" "Not!" "You forget your rules." Nat grinned, whimsical. "I let her to make a play for me." "Of course. My mistake. But how has it worked?" "Oh, immense!" Duncan's tone, however, was wholly教父 of enthusiasm. He stuck his hands in his trousers pockets and half turned away from his friend, looking out of the window. Kellogg smiled secretly. "You mean you've won her already? Then you're engaged?" Kellogg had understood perfectly, you see. "No, not set. I've got two months left—almost." "So you have. And since she's so strong for you there's no hurry. Let her take her time." "I only wish she would." Duncan removed one hand from the pocket the better to tug at his macheta. It's got beyond that—to the point where I have to keep dodging her." "You don't mean it! That's splendid." Kellogg got up and slapped Natus shoulder heartily. "But don't override the dodging. She might get her back up." "Not a bit. She's a cat out of my hand If I don't let her. You don't understand." "What's the matter, then? Aren't THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. you strong fGF her'' "I wish I were." "But why! Is there another"— But why is the book about "No." Nat abook his head, honestly believing he was telling the truth. "Only I don't look at things the way I did once." "Just what do you mean by that?" Nat, squaring himself to face Kellogg, was very serious now and troubled. "See here, Harry," he said, "do you really want me to carry out the rest of the agreement?" "Most certainly do. Why not?" "Because I'm pretty well fixed here. The business is making good, and so am I. It won't be long before I can pay you back, with interest, as we agreed, without having to usurry that poor girl and draw on her money to make good to you." "You want to go back on your agreement?" dedunded Kellogg, with a show of disappointment and disgust. "Yes and no I won't break faith with you, if you insist, but I give a lot if you'd let me off—let me pay back what you advanced and cry quits. When you outlived this scheme I was down and three times out, willing to take a chance at anything no matter how contemptible. Now—well, it's different." "Good heavens! You don't mean you'd be willing to live here." Nat smiled but not muffrithy. "I don't know" he hesitated. "I'm afraid I'm beginning to like it." "You Nat?" Kellogg's amazement was unfeigned. "You ready to spend your life here shaving away in this measly store?" Duncan grunted indignently "Hold on, now Don't you call this a mea-sly store. There isn't a more complete drug store in the state." "Do you hear that?" Kellogg appealed rehearsely to the universe at large. "Is it possible that this is Nat Duncan, the fellow who hated work so hard he could not earn a living? Gad, I believe I've arrived just in time!" "In time for what?" "To save you from yourself, old man. Here's the heleness you can come here to cop out, ready and anxious, everything else coming your way, and—and you're more than half inclined to back out. You make me tired." "I suppose I must. But I can't help it. I can't make you see how the thing looks to me. You know—I've written you all about everything—what this place has meant to me. Until I came here I never realized it was to make good anything. But here I have. I'm doing so well that I'd actually have some self-respect if I wasn't bound to play this low down trick on Josie Lockwood. I've worked and succeeded and been of some service to people who were worth it"— "Who? Ram Graham?" "No and his daughter"— "Oh, his daughter" "Now, get that foolish idea out of your head. There's nothing in it. Betty's just a simple sweet little girl who's had a pretty hard time and never a real chance in life—until I managed to give it to her. And I'd feel pretty good about that if—Oh, there's no use talking to you" "No, go on. You're very entertaining." Kelleglo mockingly "Well, I have tried to keep to the terms of our understanding. I singled out this Lockwood girl and worked all the degrees—didn't say much, you know—no lovemaking—just let her catch me looking sadly at her once in awhile." "That's the way to work it." "Yes, that's the way." Nat assented glouely. Kellog laughed with delight. "Nat! he cried, 'my poor crazy friend, listen to me. This working and church going and helping old Graham is all very noble and fine, and I am glad you've done it. This drug store is a monument to the business, ability that I always knew was latent in you. And clean living hasn't done you any harm. But now you're due to come down to earth. This place pays you a neat profit. Well and good. That all it ever do, it's new to you now and you like the novelty and you're having the time of your life finding out you're good for something. But pretty soon you'll begin to stale on you and before long you'll find yourself hating it and the town, and then you'll be back where you started. Now I'm going to hold you to our bargain for your own sake. If you're stuck on the town and just as well after you're married, but when you do begin to the fire of it you'll want that fortune to fall back on and do want you like with. Don't let this chance slip on your life." "But. Nat argued feebly, "think of the injustice to the girl. From the way I've behaved since I struck this burg she thinks I'm closely related to the salutation." "Very well, then; I'll concede a point. If you really think you're taking a mean advantage of her, when she proposes to you tell her all about yourself—just the sort of chap you've been. You needn't mention our agreement however. Then if she wants to drop you'll have nothing to say." "Thank you for nothing," said Dun can bitterly. "A bargain's a bargain. I gave you my word of honor I'd go through with this thing, and I will sit to it. But I tell you I don't like it." "Oh. I know how you feel, Nat. But I know that some day you'll come to me and say, 'Harry, if you had let me back out I'd never have forgiven you.'" "All right," said Nat impatiently. "I grimme you know best." 5 "OH, I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL, NAT." CHAPTER XIX CUSTOMER came and went after "Keilogg had gone upstairs to meet Sam Graham, and then Nat noticed that twilight was beginning to darken the store. Tracey returned to look after the store during the supper hour, but was delighted to hear that he need not remain but could go back to his beloved Angie. Now Nat moved to the windows and switched on the bulbs behind the huge glass jars filled with tinted water. Returning, he was about to connect up the remainder of the illuminating system when Josie, entering, stayed him. Later he was gld of tlma. "Nat." He knew that voice. "Why, Josie" he explained in surprise, swinging about to discover her standing on the threshold, very dainty and fetching- ```markdown ``` AMACRY WAS DELIGHTED. Indeed, in one of the summery frocks she had brought back from New York. She moved over to him, holding out her hand. He took it with disguised reluctance. "I'm so glad." She sighed. "I wanted to see you—to talk to you alone." He bit his lip in his annoyance, shivering with a presentiment. "What about Joale?" "About Wednesday night, after prayer meeting. Why didn't you wait for me?" "Why—I had to get back to the store, you know. There were some checks to be made out and sent off, and I'd forgotten them. Besides, he added on inspiration, "you were talking with Roland, and I didn't want to interrupt you." "So you left me to go home with him?" "Why, what else?" "You're making me awful, unhappy." her voice trembled. "Tek knew I didn't want to walk home with flounder." "How could I know that?" "I should think you ought to know it. Nat, unless you're blind. Besides, I told you once." "True" he fenced desperately, "but that was a long time ago, and how could I be sure you hadn't changed your mind?" Besides, you know, I mustn't monopolize you. If I do"— "Well?" "Why. If I do—ah"— "If you're afraid people will talk about us, seeing us so much together, you needn't worry. They're doing that now." "Why, Josie?" "Yes, they are. We've been going to together so long. And even now you don't seem glad to see me." "You should know I am." "You don't act like it." "It's so unexpected," he muttered wretchedly. "You didn't really think I wanted Roland Barnette to go home with me Wednesday night, did you, Nat?" "It seemed so, but that's all right. Why shouldn't you?" She turned to him, trembling a little tle. "Must I tell you, Nat?" "Oh, no!" he cried in dismay "Please don't!" "I see I must," she persisted. "You're so blind it!"— "Josie, don't say anything you'll be sorry for," he entreated wildly "I can't help it, I've got to. It was—it was because I wanted to be with you. There" she gasped, frightened by her own forwardness. "Now I've said it!" Duncan grasped frantically at straws. "But you don't really mean it, Josie. You know you don't," he shoudered. "You're just saying that because you—you have such a kind heart and—ah—don't want to hurt me—ah—because"— "Nat," she said gently, looking up into his face, "would it make you hap py to know I really meant it?" "Why-nh-why shouldn't it, Josie?" "Then please believe me when I say it." "But I do believe it. I'— He stammered and fell still "Because I do like you. Nat, very much, and-and it's very hard for me to know that folks think I'm pursuing you and that you're trying to avoid me." "Josie" he exclaimed reproachfully "Well, that's the way it looks," she answered politely. "You don't affirmed plaintively. "You don't want it to, do you?" "Why, no; of course I don't." "Then why don't you stop it?" She watched his face, her manner coy and yielding. "Nat," she said in a softer voice, "if you like me as well as I like you." He moved away a pace or two. "Ah, child," he said, with a feeling that the term was not misapplied somehow, "you don't know what you're saying!" "Yes, I do," she pouted. "I don't believe you care anything about me." "Oh, Josie, please"— "Well, anyway you're never told me so." She turned an indignant shoulder to him. "How could I?" "Why couldn't you?" "But don't you see that I shouldn't Josiel?" He turned back to her side looked down at her, pleaded his defense with the fire of desperation "Just think, you are an only daughter"—just what this had to do with the case was not plain even to him "an only daughter," he repeated—"ah not only your father's only daughter but your mother's only daughter Your father ah—is my friend How unfair it would be to him to"—But the girl interrupted with decision. "But flapa wants you to. He told me so." He could only pretend not to understand. "But consider, Josiel. You are rich, an honest. I'm a poor man Would you like it to be said I was after your money?" "No one would dare say such a thing," she asserted, with profound conviction. "Oh, yes, they would! You don't know the world as I do. And for all you know they might be right. How do you know that"— "Nat!" A catch in her voice stopped him. "Don't say such horrid things; I could tell—a woman always can. I know you would be incapable of such a thing. Papa knows it too. No one has ever got ahead of papa, and he says you are a fine, steady, Christian man and he, would rather see me your wife than any—" "Joel!" The interjection was so imperative that she was silenced. "Why, what, Nat!" she asked, rising. "The time has come," he declared. "You must know the truth." "Oh, Nat!" "I'm not what you think me," he continued dramatically. "Nor what your father thinks me, nor what anybody else in this town thinks me. I'm not a regular Christian—it's all a bluff. I didn't know anything about a church till I came here. I smoke, and I drink, and I swear, and I gamble, and I only cut them all out in order to trick you into caring for me!" "Oh Nat. I don't believe it!" "Ala, Jolie," he protested violently, "It's true, only too true!" "But you dig it to win. my love. Nat!" "Toe-" He saw suddenly that he had made a fatal mistake. "Then I will be gone merry." "These. Nat. I will be your wife in spoils of all." He found himself suddenly caught about the neck by the girl's arms. His head was drawn down until her cheek carressed his and he felt her lips warm upon his own. "Josie!" he gasped. "Nat, my darling!" With a supreme effort he pulled himself together and embraced the girl. "Josie," he said earnestly, "I'm going to try to be a good Punaband to you. And that," he concluded, sotto voce, "wasn't in the agreement." She held him to her passionately. "Decarest, I'm so glad!" "It makes me very happy to know you are, Josie," he murmured miserably, and to himself while she still trembled in his embrace: "What a cur ```markdown ``` FOUND HIMSELF CAUGHT BY THE GIRL'S ARMS. you are! But I won't rengee now I'll play my hand out on the square with her." Upon this tableau there came a sudden intrusion. The back door opened, and Graham came in. Kellogg at his heels. It was the voice of the latter that told the two they were discovered, a hearty "Hello! What's this?" that rang in Nat's ears like the trump of doom. In a dash the girl disengaged herself, and they were a yard apart by the time that Graham, blundering in his surprise, managed to turn on the lights at the switchboard. But even in the full glare of them he seemed unable to credit his sight. "Why, Nat!" he quarered, coming out toward the guilty pair "Why, Nat!" Duncan took a long breath and Josie's hand at one and the same time. "Mr. Graham," he said coolly, "I'm glad you're the first to know it. Josie has just ask—agreed to be my wife." Old Sam recovered sufficiently to take the girl's hand and pat it. "I'm mighty glad, my dear," he told her. "I congratulate you both with all my heart." "And so will I when I have the right," Kellogg added, smiling. "Oh, I forgot!" Nat hastened to remedy his oversight. "Josie, this is my dearest friend, Mr Kellogg, Harry, this is Miss Lockwood." Josie gave Kellogg her hand. "I-I, she giggled—I'm pleased to meet you, I'm sure." "I'm charmed. I've heard a great deal of you. Miss Lockwood, from Nat's letters, and I shall hope to know you much better before long." "It's awful nice of you to say so, Mr Kellogg." "And Nat. old man"—Kellogg threw an arm round Duncan's shoulder—"I congratulate you! You're a lucky dog!" "I'm a dog, all right," said Nat glumy. "But we mustn't disturb these young people, Mr Kellogg." Graham broke in nervously. "They'll—they'll have a lot to say to one another, I'm sure, so we'll just run along. I'm taking Mr. Kellogg up to the house, Nat. You'll follow us as soon as you can, won't you?" "Xen-sure." "I've got some news for you, too, that'll make you happy." "Never mind about that; it'll keep till supper. Mr. Graham." Kellogg laughed, taking the old man's arm. "Goodby, both of you—goodby for a little while." "Goodby." "Wam't that terrible?" Joste turned back to Nat when they were alone. "I think it was real mean of Mr. Graham to turn on all the lights that way," she simpered. "Somebody also might 've seen." "Yes," agreed the young man, half distracted, "but of course I don't turn them off again." "Never mind. We can wait." Josie blushed. "I'll just sit here and wait. We can talk till Tracy comes, and then you can walk home with me." "Yes, that'll be nice," he agreed, but without absolute ecstasy. Fortunately for him, in his temper of that moment, Pete Willing reeled into the shop two-thirds drunk, with his face smeared with blood from a cut on his forehead. "Becta," he "mattered huskily." "Kin I see you a minute doc." He reeled and almost fell—would have fallen had not Duncan caught his arm and guided him to a chair. SUBSCRIBE To the PLANET. 1789 A "THE A DOG, ALL NIGHT," SAID MAX "Great Scott, Peter" be cried. "What's happened to you?" "M' wife." I note explained thickly. PERHAPS I'd better go." Josie, buttering with alarm and a little pale, went quickly to the door. Duncan followed her a pace or two. "I can't leave just now," he stammered. "I don't mind one bit. I don't want to be in the way. I'll telephone from home. Good night, dearest." On tiptoes she drew his face down to hers and kissed him. "I'm so happy." Half dazed. Not stared after her until her tightly moving figure merged with the sunbends beneath the trees and was lost. Then, with a sigh, he turned back to Pete. The sheer bad undoubtedly suffered at the bands of that militant person. Mrs. Willing. "Great Scott!" Duncan examined as he examined the two inch gush in his head. "That's a bird, Pete." "M' wife done it." Willing muttered briskly. "Sh' throw side 'rth' house at me, I think." . "Wife, eb." The coincidence amuse Duncan with redoubled force. He shivered. "Well, she certainly gave it to you good." He went behind the counter to prepare a dressing for the wound, which, if wide, was neither deep nor serious and gave him little concern for Pete. The latter ruminated on the event, breathing startorously, while Duncan was fixing up a wash of peroxide. "She'll kill me some day," he announced suddenly, with intense conviction on his tone. "Oh, don't say that." Opposition roused Pete to a fury of assertion. "Yea she will, sure!" he bawled. Then his emotion quieted. "But I'd 'bout as soon he dead's live with her, anyway." "Him." Nat got some absorbent cotton and adhesive plaster "Been drinking again, hadn't you?" "Yesh." Pete admitted with a leer of drunken cunning "But she drived me to it." He was quiet for a moment. "Mish't Duncan," he volunteered cheerfully, "you ain't got no idea how lucky y' are y' ain't married." "Is that so?" Nat returned with the dressings. "No idea 'tall." Pete surrendered his [Image of a statue of a man with a beard and mustache, wearing a robe and a sash, with a crown of thorns on his head.] head to Nate's ministrations. " 'Nd I hope y' won't never haye." "Oh not" he expropriated. "Don't Miah' Duncan. Don't never do it. Take warnin' from me." "But I'm engaged. Peta." "Match no dillrush-break it off!" His voice rose to a howl of alarm. "Gaww's sake, break it off-now, before it's too late! Do anything ruth- like? Think it great,腻腻,腻腻, still don't care what, only how" "you're going to do." THE STREETS OF LONDON "Hero," said Duncan, laughing, "at back there and let me attend to your head." He began to wash the wound with the peroxide. "There; that'll siting a bit, but not long. But suppose, Pete, I'd get a lot of money by marrying? "No matter how much y' get, 'ain't enough." "I'm inclined to think you're about right, Pete." "You bet I'm right. I'm married, and I know." Nat finished dressing the cut, smoothed down the ends of the adhesive tape and stood back. "That's all right now. Go home, wash your face and sleep it off. Let me see you sober in the morning." "Hub!" Pete chuckled derisively. "Ain't goin' home 'tight." "You've got to get some sleep—that's the only way for you to straighten up." "Well," agreed Pete, rising, "then I'll go over to the barn 'nd sleep with the horse." "Aren't you afraid he'll step on you?" asked Nat, amused "Maybe he will." Pete replied fairly, "but I'd ruther risk that 'm wife." He swerved and inched toward the door. "Thanks, doc. 'nd g' night," he ```markdown ``` mumbled and incontinently collided with Roland Barretta. 0 Roland was working under a full head of steam apparently. His naturally sanguine complexion was several shades darker than the normal, and he was seething with repressed emotion—excitement, anticipated trumpet, jealousy, envy and hatred, all centering upon the hapless head of Nat Duncan. Pumping along with his head down, his thoughts wholly occupied with his grievance and its remedy, he bumped into Willing and caromed off, recognizing him with an angry growl. The result of this was to gat Pete's departure. He gramped the frame of the door and steadied himself, glaring round at the aggressor. "Io, Roland!" he said, focusing his vision. "Whaah masser!" Roland disregarded him entirely. "Say, you tell" he snorted; catching sight of Nat. "I want to see you." "Oh!" Nat drawled exasperatingly. He had never had much use for Roland, and now, with hidden joy, he read the signs of passion on the boy's inflamed countenance. Happy he would be, thought Nat. If Roland were to be delivered into his hands that night. He owed the world a. grudge just then and needed nothing more than an object to wreak his vengeance upon. "Well, I'll stake you to a good long look," he add, sweetly. "Ah-b, don't you try to be so funny! You might get hurt." Pets seemed to be suddenly electrified by Roland's manner. "Here!" he interposed. "Wha juh mean by that?" And, relinquishing his grasp on the door, he reeled between the two and thrust his face close to Rolanda, "Who're you talkin' to, an anyway?" he demanded, truculent. Nat stopped forward quickly and grabbed Pete's arm. "That's all right, Pete." he soothed him. "Don't get nervous. Holy wont hurt anybody." The diminutive stung Roland to exasperation. "Why, curse you!" he screamed and promptly became inarticulate with rage. "Ah, ah, ah!" Nat wagged a reproving forsender. "Naughty word, Holy! Careful or you'll sour your chewing gum." "Now, say! Do you think?" At this juncture Pete drowned his words with an incobereent root, having apparently reached the connotation that the time had now arrived when it would be his duty and pleasure to eat Roland alive. Nat saved the young man by the barest inch. He grappled with Pete and drew himself aside just in time. "Brandy, Petel!" he said quietly. "Stady, old man. Let Roland alone." "Awr, I ain't afraid of him!" spluttered Peta. "Neither am I." Out, out, weren't you, and faded his trimmer. "Right?" Pete, because more salm. "I'll leave him, you, but in the home I was." Instead, he included Alias Jimmy Valentine The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale illustration of a hand reaching out to touch something. A Most Thrilling Story Teaching a Great Moral Novelized by Frederick R. Toombs from the play by Paul Armstrong. Thousands Have Gone Wild Over the Play. You Will Have the Most Exciting Time of Your Life Reading the Story. To Appear in These Columns Soon. REKICKED ROLAND OUT INTO THE STREET "I knick any man in town 'ceptin' my wife. G' night, everybody." He gathered himself together and by a supreme effort lunged through the door and into the deepening dusk. "Well, Holly?" Nat asked, turning back. His ironic calm gave Roland pause. For a moment he lost his bearings and stammered in confusion. "I come in to tell you that me and you've apt to save Arethic" he concluded. "Oh? And are you thinking of starting it?" "You bet I'll start it, and I'll start it" "quick if you don't leave Joan's Lockwood alone." "So like's the trouble, is it?" commented Net, thoughtfully. "You like's the trouble, how Yes, that's the treble. Even now on I want you to let her alone, and you'll do it, too, if you know what's best for you." A suggestion of menace in his manner, unconnected with any hint of physical correction, caught Nat's attention. He frowned over it. "Just what do you mean by this line of talk?" he inquired blandly, stepping nearer. "I'll tell you what I mean." Roland clinched both bats and thrust his chin out pugnaciously. "I'd been a goin' steady with Joose Lockwood for more a year before you come here and thought that on account of her money you could sneak in and cut me out." "Was her money the reason you were after her, Holly?" "What?" The question brought Roland momentarily up in the wind. "Taln' none of your business if it was!" he snapped, recovering. "But here's what I'm gettin' at." he tapped his breast pocket with a sneeer of bucolic triumph "Just about ten months ago," he continued meaningly. "they was a cashier skipped out of the Longacre national bank in Noo York, and they ain't got no trace of him yet." So this was why Roland had been so ansiduous a student of the back files in the Citizen office! "Indeed?" "Yes, indeed. I had my suspicions all along, but didn't say nothin', but just today I got a description of him, and the description just fits, Mr. Mortimer Henry" "Just fits Mr Mortimer Henry? But what has that?" "Ah, don't you try to seem too darn innocent," Roland snarled. "You can't fool me!" A light dawned upon Nat, and laughter flooded his being, although outwardly he be remained imperturbable—merely mildly curious. But his fingers were fitching. "So you think I'm the absconding cashier, eh, Holly?" "You keep away from Josie 'r you'll find out what I think." Nat's placidity delicately delicated Roland, who drew the wholly erroneous conclusion that he had succeeded in frightening his rival, and consequently dared a few lengths further in his tirade. "Why, if I was to go to Mr. Lockwood and tell him your Mortimer Henry, alias Nat Duncan—" "That will do," felly. "That will be all for this evening, thanks." "Are you gone" to quit chasin' after Josie? "I'll begin chasing after you if you don't clear out of here." "What better move?" excellent agree Just there the storm burst. Ten seconds later Roland, with a confused impression of having been kicked by a mule, picked himself up out of the dust in the middle of the street and stared stupidly back at the store. "Here's your hat, Rolly," called Natt. Tossing him the hat, Nat turned contemptuously. He paused in the middle of the store and felt of his neckle. It proved to be a little out of place, but otherwise he was as immaculate as was his wont. He reviewed the encounter and laughed quietly. "There's no cure for a fool," he mused. The telephone bell roused him from his reverie. He went over to the instrument, sat down and put the receiver to his car. "Hello!" he said. "Oh, hello, Jostie. What's that? That's right, but I'm not used to it yet, you know Well, I'll try again. Now-ready!" He schooled his voice to a key of heartbending sentiment. "Hello, darling. How's that? Told your father? Told him what? Oh, about the engagement? Was he angry? Oh, he wasn't, eh? What did he say? Wasn't that nice of him!" Conscious of a slight noise in the store, he looked up. A young woman had just entered. She paused just in side the door, smiling at him a little timidly. Without another word to his fiances Nat put down the telephone and hooked up the receiver. "Betty?" he cried wonderingly. [TO BE CONTINUED.] How to Mark Clothing The nicest way to mark clothing is to embroider one's initial on every garment. The letters should be small and can be done in solid embroidery, or, if time be scarce, in chain stitched outlines. 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Below the opening this should be a receptacle to catch all grease and dirt and with it a grit chamber. These should be carefully locked after, so as to guard against any obstruction A good thing to keep the garage floor clean is a hot, saturated solution of common washing soap, which can, if wanted for use frequently, be made up in large quantities and stored away. If this is done, however, the solution must be reheated to about boiling point before making use of it. This will, of course, be too hot for the hands, so that an old broom or brush should be utilized to spread it around. Another preparation as good, if not bitter, that can be used for this purpose is trisulphate of sodium, which can be procured from several chemical companies, priced at from 4 to 5 cents per pound. This solution, although strong enough to remove paint, can be frequently used for the hands with impunity. It is more convenient than the first solution in that it can be used cold For cleaning the body of a car the use of needlessly strong alkali soap should be condemned. This, with neglect to wash off the soap and failure to dry the varnished surface perfectly, is responsible for a great deal of the injury done to a car's paint. As a matter of fact, neither soap nor water should ever be used on a car above the undersides of the mud guards, except in cases where the mud isaked on the body in large quantities. In most cars the first signs of wear of the painted portion invariably show on the varnished surface of the engine bonnet. This is due to the fact that it is frequently covered with mud on the return from a run and is then washed with soapy water while the metal is still hot. Soap should not be used on the bonnet until it has cooled and even then should be carefully washed off. After a number of washings while the bonnet is still hot the injurious effect is quite noticeable, and within a short period the car has to be repainted long before its legitimate time. The problem of clean hands is frequently a difficult question with owners of autos who do any of their own driving or repairing. The use of a mixture of soap powder and powdered pumice is recommended. The proportion of the ingredients can only be determined by use, as it varies with the individual. This last fact, of course, precludes its being kept in stock any length of time. How to Remove Blood Stains A mother whose children have a reprehensible habit of putting their fingers and spotting with blood their least frocks has found a method of removing blood stains, and she says that the finest white fabrics will not be injured if "If the stain is dry," she says "molsten it and cover it with dry starch, putting it into a thick crust and molstening whenever necessary. Let this stay on for two or three hours. If this does not absorb all the stain repeat the whole process. A wet stain should be taken out as much as possible by allowing lukewarm water to run through the part. After the stain has been reduced in color by the meth od the starch may be applied as described. No ugly stain will remain after this treatment with starch." How to Wash Bedolothes To wash heavy bedclothes make a warm suds with good soap and let the comfortables or blankets soak in it for awhile. Then take a new clean hose for a pounder. Pound well and pound again in another suds. Rinse thoroughly and hang on the line without wringing. If a hose is handy spray plenty of water over them when on the line. The cotton comfortables will not mat when washed in this way. Gems In Verse A BUMMER GIRL. She wears a saucy hat And her foot go pit a-pat As she walks. And the sweetest music slips From her easy lips When she talks. She fascinates the street With her herre tion and neat, Made of kit. For they twinkle as they pass Like the fillets in the grass, Halfway hid. Her skin is soft and white, Like magnolia buds at night On the bough. But for fear she shud to too fair There is a freewheel and there On her brow. Dimples play at hide and seek On her apple blossom cheek, Shyly beckoning to you "Don't you think it is a time to woof? Pray begin. Then her wigmee witching eyes Flash like bits of summer skies Oer her fan As if to say "We've met. You may go now and forget- YOU CAN TRY. EVERY day that comes to you You can try Something worth the while to do. You can try Only give the plan a trial Test it with a hopeful smile. Something that is worth the while You can try Even though the day be dark You can try For at least one credit mark You can try At misfortune never fail Though you often fall and fall Rise again and in your sail— You can try - loveland Plain Dealer. THE THERMOMETER. OOR old thermometer, Hangin in the sun, Never gettin any rest; Allus on the run! Have a cup in trainin' For a promenade. From something less than zero To a hundred in the shade! You're one of those companions Who think it up to you To tell us without finchin' Just what you think is true. Poor old thermometer For you to rub in the umbanda. We praise your sense of duty. But you have a any friends. —Washington Star. RECESSIONAL FOR SUMMER. SUMMER is ended the daffodil dies; The rose is turned to dust and mold. Hark! How the solenum trumpet cries, Heralding winter a time and cold! Dreams of the summer lingering yet Bring deep regret, bring deep regret. THE thrush has flown to fairer skies. The wrinkled hills are gray and old. The poppy with her fanning dye, Is reigned and host her royal hold. Dreams of the summer lingering yet Bring deep regret, bring deep regret. A FAR the bloom hung Maytime lies, And June a sweet story has been told. The visions of the summer rise On moor, on fen and somber wold. Dreams of the summer lingering yet Bring deep regret, bring deep regret. THE violet has closed her eyes. In brown the foliage is darkly stolied. The purple leaves are wide. As wide the gales of fall unfold Dreams of the summer lingering yet Bring deep regret bring deep regret. The summer fades in sober guese. Her pausing bell is calmly toiled In hidden dells by butterflies. In gold and gold. Dreams of the summer lingering yet Bring deep regret, bring deep regret. TREATMENT OF CURTAINS. How to Launder the Lace and Muslin Varieties. To launder lace curtains soak them overnight in a tab of inkwarm water to which are added two tablespoonfuls of ammonia and one-quarter cake of laundry soap shaved fine. Drain off the water but do not lift out the curtains, as the water will make them heavy and liable to tear. Pour in another amount of slightly warm water prepared in the same way. Move the lace about and squeeze it, then drain and put in a third suds. Drain and lift carefully into a rinsing water and then into a bluing water. Pass through a wringer, lay over a line, then fasten into curtain frames to dry. To launder muslin curtains wash them carefully, starch and tron on the wrong side to make them look like new cloth. THOPA STRAIGHT DISTILLERY WHISKEY 3GALS. $450 4½GALS. 675 EXPRESS PAID. AT DISTILLERY PRICE When we say Distillery Whiskey, we mean it. We do not handle compounds and chemical mixtures. If the goods you buy us are not we represent and better than you ever bought at the price, return them and we will REFUND your money. YOUR CHOICE OF COGNATE OR GIN 3GALS. $4.50 4½GALS. $6.75 6GALS. $3.00 12GALS. $5.50 Express Paid to any office of Adams or Southern Express Company STONEWALL DISTILLING CO. 1453HULLST..RICHMOND,VA. RAILROADS. ACCOMMODATION TRAINS - WEEKDAYS. Leave Kissimmee 7:00 A.M., 8:00 A.M., 5:00 P.M. for Mishawaka. Arrive Kissimmee 8:15 A.M., 9:15 A.M., 10:15 A.M. for Preserve- ing. Daily: 7 Weekdays, 5 Sundays only. Daily except Monday. All trains to or from Bryd Street Stations (10am to 5pm) or 10am to 5pm (10am to 5pm) is 50 night) stop at Elm. Time of arrival and departures not guaranteed. Read the sign. N. & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK Schedule in Effect June 12, 1910. Leave NORFOLK at 8:10 A. M. 9:00 A. M.; 8:00 P. M., 4:10 P. M. 8:00 P. M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST—6:10 A. M. 8:10 A. M. 8:10 Nocci a 8:00 P. M., 2:00 P. M. Attive Richmond from Northfork -b 11:25 A. M. a 11:43 A. M. "8:50 P. M. b 10:25 P. M. "9:18 P. M. b 10:25 P. M. "9:18 P. M. b 10:25 P. M. b 11:14 P. M. "8:50 P. M. "9:00 P. M. "Daily, a Daily accept Sunday. b Sunday early Fallman, Parlor and Sleeping Cars, Cars Dale D. W. G. RYLUW. D. P. A. Hedgehog. Wa 7. B. BEVILL, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. O. P. A., Reno, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. # PW207203 APEX, IH, IH TRAIN, TRAINING FOR Florida and Booth: $125 A. M. and $250 M. FOR Northfolk: $190 A. M. $190 F. M. and F. M. For N. and W. Ky., West; 8:49 A. M., 18:26 and 9:08 P. M. For Petersburg; 8:09 A. M., 18:28, *8:58* P. M., 9:08 P. M., 8:48 A. M., 17:18 and 11:18 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily; 8:18, 7:08 A. M. , *8:58* 11:46 A. M., *8:28* A. M., *7:18* P. M. , *8:08*, 8:30, 8:08 and 8:18 P. M. *Except Sunday.* *Sunday Only.* Times of arrival and departure and commu- nations are guaranteed. H. R. GARFIELD, B. P. M. Southern Ry Southern Ry TRAIN LEASE BIGHOND. N R.-Following schedule figures published as information and not guaranteed. Davis, Danville, Charleston, Durham and Raleigh. 10:46 A. M.-Dalley Limited. For all pots South, Drawing Room Buffet Sleeping Car to Memphis, via Asheville and Chambanaoga. 3:00 M. -P.R. 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We have received an invitation to attend the second annual banquet of Williams Lodge, No 11, I B O P E W, at Prices Hall, January 27, 1911. We return thanks for an invitation to attend the entertainment of the Independent Beneficial Club at Price's Hall January 13, 1911. It was an affair admirably handled and the committee was commended for its work. Quite a large number of persons were in attendance. ---0--- DID HE MAKE THE PLEDQK? We are not ready to accept as correct the following report sent out. Washington D C Jan 16 - A committee of Negroes, headed by Edward H Morrison, of Chicago, Grand United Order of Old Fellows, to day called on President Taft and pledged to him and his administration the hearty support of the 760,000 members of their organization Such a thing would be impossible for the reason that the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows is not a political organization, and if it were such no man or set of men would have the authority unless specially deputized so to do, to make any such plodge We are, therefore, inclined to believe that the correspondent let "his zonal outrung his judgment" Hon Edward H. Morrilla is too able an attorney to indulge in such "sky rocket callolery," and we will not even wait for him to deny the language imputed to him. In the present unsettled condition of affairs among the Odd Fellows, no one man and no one hundred men could tell what that great body of disregeling debaters would do. SOUND TALK ON BANKING. The editorial writer of the Louisville (Ky.) American Baptist understands the banking question almost well enough to be a member of the profession, if we are to judge by the following article which appeared in its columns: Banks are very helpful and benevolent enterprises under proper condition, but every community cannot support a bank, even if the people have thousands of dollars on deposit in other banks. Unless the business and commercial enterprises are sufficient to use deposits and capital in the regular way and under the usual restrictions it will be a difficult problem to sustain a bank in a community. Sentiment and race pride will not operate a bank successfully among any people. A prominent race leader not long since declared with pride that he had never borrowed a cent from a bank and yet he is interested in nearly every movement for the uplift of the people but he would be a very poor patron of a bank. The laws are more rigid in some of the States than in others and it is more difficult on that account to establish banks. A recent bank statement which had been in operation several years showed that it had a paid up capital of less than $5,000 while in this State the law requires capital of $15,000 $7,500 must be paid in when the bank opens and the remaining $7,500 within a year. Under these conditions the bank referred to could not operate in this State. There is not a National Bank in the chain of banks operated by our people in this country because the law requires a paid up capital of $25,000 and the other restrictions are more rigid. It would be a good idea to strengthen the banks already established and make haste slowly in establishing additional banks until the demands of business make them a necessity. THIS is a clear concise statement of the facts and every colored, fluenter in the country might well set his gauge in accordance with the principles and standards outlined 0 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The Old Fellows Journal announces that the Subcommittee of Management has decided to remove that publication and we presume its plant at Washington, D.C. and will be issued from that point hereafter. It also announces a change in its management. This action is revolutionary in its character and yet it may make for the betterment of the service. It is now located at Philadelphia. Mr Henry P Slaughter, the newly elected editor and publisher, plainly announces that his plans for rear organization were turned down upon the plea that they could not be carried out. This is not a very encouraging prospect for success in the new field of labor. The removal of the journal to Washington would seem to indicate that it will now be controlled by the politicians and states men and that it will be a means of bringing money into the financial department of that publication. The Odd Fellows Journal contained another very important item, which in connection with its anounced removal to the National capital may be taken as a barometric indication of what may follow and the policy that will be observed by that very influential journal. Here it is. A delegation of prominent Odd Fellows, consisting of Edward H. Morris of Chicago, who is Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of the United States, Henry P. Slaughter who is editor of the Odd Fellows Journal W. L. Houston member of Odd Fellows' supreme court. Harry S. Cummings, of Baltimore, at attorney general of Odd Fellows, Supreme Court George Sheehy, of Florida and George W. Hayes, of Cincinnati grand directors, were presented to President Taft Monday by Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds for the, District of Columbia who is deputy grand master of the Order. When the delegation called at the Postoffice Department they were received by Chief Clerk Weed. Mr. Mock being out of the city the member of the jury pleased with their visits to the White House and the Postoffice Department. They say that "straws show which way the wind blows". What does this citation show? It would be well for the followers of Dr Booker E. Washington to "sit up and take notice". The Odd Fellows Journal's policy can well be gugged by what is therein contained. Hon Edward I1 Morris' bitter and merciless attack upon the distinguished "stage of Tuskegee" and leader of thousands of colored people in this country as uttered recently in his address in Washington, was the beginning of a new, systematic attempt to dethrone Dr Washington and his associates as political quantities It will no longer be necessary to secure the Washington "O K" at the White House in order to have an application for office considered Hon Henry Lincoln Johnson, the able Recorder of Deeds, is now on the field of action, and to those who wish the tip, it may be the part of wisdom to see him and his colleagues first before applying to Tuskegee for the letter of endorsement to get office. The organizers against the Washington regime are in the saddle and President Taft is now about to turn his face in the opposite direction from that position occupied by the "Negro wizard of the New World." Now, we may be mistaken in our conclusions, but we think we are correct in our estimates and right in our statements. The Du Dols movement, the Walfers crusade, the Waldron campaign, the Trotter agitation, the Milholland circular letter to Europe and many other minor events have tended to change the course of affairs and will now lead to the political retirement of one of the most popular and influential leaders of color this country has ever produced. One great leader will be eclipsed by many minor landers. They will win for a time and then a "Kilkenny cat fight" will follow, we fear, and it may be that all of them will go down to rise no more. get the best results and succeed without having any money spent on him to make him a more successful farmer, while thousands of dollars are being spent every year throughout the South in the education of the white farmers. In the interest of all concerned, I potchbeen in bed. There was no fire in the stove, and the half empty pipe offers the only plausible theory as to how she died. All the clothes were consumed, and the body itself was burned almost to a crisp. Edward Kellon, the husband, was away at work, at the We shall not regret, though, to see Dr Washington retired as a political referee. He was never suited for the job anyway, and he has seriously embarrassed and has disappeared him in other lines of political endeavor. He stands head and shoulders above any other colored leader in this country having secured that prominence by the aid of white and colored men and it is to be regretted that he did not see fit to relinquish this part of his great work. In the interest of peace, harmony and his own great reputation. We are now assuming the role of the watchman upon the wall, and we are endeavoring to be strictly impartial in our deductions. To the masses of the colored people, we can cheerfully answer, "The Morning Cometh." ---O--- DR. WASHINGTON AND THE FARMER. Dr Booker T Washington delivered an address at the Twentieth Annual Tuskegee Negro Farmers Conference, Jan 19, 1911, and his utterances there were characteristic It shows him to be an economist and a philosopher. He said Colored farmers throughout the Southern States and especially those in the cotton raising States might as well understand from now on that the old methods are passing away and new ones are to take their places. I refer especially to the old habit of mortigaging the crop animals, etc. for the money on which to live while the crop being raised. The Negro in the South has been free for more than forty five years and it ought not to be necessary much longer for any proportion of those colored farmers to be treated as though they were children instead of men. But to speak more plainly, the people, whether they are bankers or merchants or land holders, who have been carrying the Negro farmer by the old mortgage system, are slick and tired of that method of doing business. It has proved in the highest degree too expensive to the banker, to the merchant to the landholder. There is no more difficult problem to solve than that which faces the owner of land in Alabama when a farmer comes to him to rent his land but is absolutely empty handed practically naked has no horse or mule, has no farming implements no food upon which to live a single month and is without even proper clothing for himself and his children. Such a man has no credit in his community. Under these circumstances, the land holder must find a way to furnish this farmer with the necessities of life for a year or he must let his land go I repeat that the time has come when the Negro farmer should be so shriffy so industrious so full handed that he can live for a year or longer without having to go to somebody to supply him with food, clothing animals and implements to be used while he is making his year's crop. If the Negro farmer does not save enough during one year to support him during the coming year,, the South will soon begin to look out for a class of farmers who will save enough to enable them to live during the following year without having to be "run" or advanced to The old crop lien, or mortgage, system has proven disastrous and costly, both to the white man and to the black man, and the only way to get rid of this system is for every colored farmer to be so industrious, so shriffy and saving that he will save enough out of this year's crop to live on during the next year without going into debt This is plain talk and sound doctrine, but it applies not only to the farmer, but to the wage-earner in every field of legitimate endowment as well. The rule and practice among thousands of our people is to spend all they make this week and a part of that which they are to make next week. They observe faithfully the rule of "come day, go day, God send Sunday." When Sunday comes they sleep all day or loaf, and many of them discuss other people's business. Then there are thousands of others who are thrifty, frugal and industrious. Dr Washington skillfully shows the other side when he says Some people seem to have the idea that the white farmers need all the training they can get in farmers' institutes, in agricultural schools, through lectures and otherwise, but the same class of people seem to feel that the Negro farmer is born into the world with so much natural intelligence that he can succeed in farming without having any training whatever, without having a single dollar spent for his education. This is all a mistake and it is a short-sighted policy. This is an instance of appealing to the white man's cupidity, the touching of "the pocket nerve," so to speak. He' emphasizes this in the following manner: The time has come when, in my opinion, the white citizens of the South should realize that a very liberal policy should be pursued in connection with the education of the Negro as a farmer. It is too much to expect that the Negro farmer will get the best results and succeed without having any money sponsorship him to make him a more successful farmer, while thousands of dollars are being spent every year throughout the South in the education of the white farmers. In the interest of all concerned, I repeat, that those entrusted with the government of the Southern States should try to secure libern] allowances for the training of the Negro farmers. Dr. Booker √ T. Washington is about "the shrewdest proposition that ever came down the pike." 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THE EAST INDIAN HAIR POMADE CO 273 Morris Ave. COLORED WOMAN With her head and arms, shoved into a bureau drawer, as if she had been searching for something before she died, Lucy Kellon, a colored woman, forty years old, living at 318 East Preston Street, was found burned to death yesterday when Captain Meadowa of Engine Company, No. 9, and several of his men, who anewed a still alarm of fire, burst into the room. The woman's room was on the second floor. Early in the day she had complained of feeling ill, and told the people living below that she was going to her room and lie down. None in the building knew of the fire until neighbors came in to say that the house was in a blaze. In the excitement the woman was temporarily forgotten. But the fire did not gain great headway and Capt Meadowa extinguished it with the use of chemicals. LOCKED IN ROOM Some one called the firemen's attention to the fact that people lived upstairs, and Captain Meadows went up to investigate, carrying the chemicals with him. Both doors leading into the room were found locked, and were broken open with axes. The room was ablaze, but the flames were extinguished without trouble. A search for the woman was made, and she was found between her bed and a bureau, in a half-standing and half-reclining position. Her head and arms were down in one of the drawers. How she caught fire and why she did not call for help is a mystery. No sounds were heard; there were no cries for help. On the floor was found a half-empty tobacco pipe, and it is thought that, perhaps, she might have been smoking and see her clothing on fire from the sparks falling from the pipe. She was said to be subject to fainting fits and Doroner Taylor, who examined the body, said that she might have fainted when she saw her clothes on fire. She had notheen in bed. There was no fire in the stove, and the half empty pipe offers the only plausible theory as to how she died. All the clothes were consumed, and the body itself was burned almost to a crisp, Edward Kellon, the husband, was away at work at the time, but was-notified later of his wife's tragic death — Times-Dispatch, Jan. 26, 1911. BURRIED BENEATH CARLOAD OF COAL Buried beneath several tons of coal, Herman C. Irons, twenty-four years of age, a brakeman on the Southern Railway, was crushed to death early yesterday morning as engine No 368 left the rails at Virso, near the crossing of the Southern and the Virginia railways. Engineer G. E. Wilkinson was painfully scalded and bruised, and his fireman, G. S. Rowlett, whoump his fireman, G. S. Rowlett, who jumped, was hurt in both ankles. Both were able to walk to Moeherrin, three miles away, and report the accident to the operator there. When they arrived there about 1:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon, they went to their homes without assistance. Iron's body was carried to the home of his brother, L. O. Irons, who lives at 718 McDonough Street South Richmond. His parents were not nollt at once and reached the city last night, and company the body - to Chula, Amelia county, where the interment was made in the family burial ground DUE TO SPLIT SWITCH Though the cause of the accident will have to be determined by an investigation, it is thought by the officials and members of the crew that the derailment was due to a broken or "spill" switch. The train was to have gone in the sliding at Moherrine, three miles further on, and probably was going at its average speed of about twenty-five miles hour. As the wheels left the rails, Moherrine Rowlett jumped and Engineer Kirkinson was thrown clear of the car. Irons evidently followed Rowlett, but as he struck the ground, the tender with the weight of twelve cars behind it, "buckled" and its entire contents were dumped upon him. The engine turned completely over and was followed by fire cars that went over the embankment. Conductor John Glenn, who was riding in the cabose, was unhurt and lay mediately called the roll of his crew, from only was missing. At first he was thought to be under the engine, but a closer examination showed that this was not true. While Wilkinson and Rowlett walked to the station the rest of the crew dug beneath the coal and found the body of frons with his life crushed out. WRECKING TRAINS ON SCENE The extra was made up here to follow the regular freight. No 75, as there were too many cars going South to be pulled behind one engine. Orders were out for the train to meet another at Moherrin, and when the accident occurred it was passing along the switched recently constructed to accommodate frame at the junction with the Vittelgrub. Wrecking trains were called at once to the scene of the accident, and in about three hours the track was sufficiently clear for trailing pass very slowly. Luckily the engine, as it turned over, cleared the track and did not hage to be involved in order to allow the passage of trains. The funeral arrangements for Mr Iron have not yet been completed, but the burial probably will take place tomorrow. He was unmarried and boarded with his brother who is in conductor on the Southern Wilkinson and Rowlett are expected to be back at work in a few days.—Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jan. 25. Robbed the House. Birklegra entered the home of Mrs Agnes Pitcher, 104 Harrison Street. last Tuesday and atole all of the jewelry and silverware. The appraised value is $600. There is no clue to the thieves. All of the inmates of the house were absent, and the thieves worked undisturbed. HEART BROKEN Entranged from his home and immediate family, John Allen, nearly seventy-two years of age, was found dead yesterday morning about 10 p.m. in an upper room of the store of A. W. Duke 2020 Bast Broad Street. Investigation by the coroner showed that he had died from asphyxiation. He was found in a crouching position, as if he had got up and tried to help himself. But a broken gas tube in his room told the story. Old age had weakened his mind, and his first, but futile effort was to help himself. When found his head was hanging over a bucket, and the position of the body showed that he had been dead only a short while. Mr. Allen had been ectranged from his family, according to common report, about seven years. He was cared for by Mr. Duke, who not only allowed him a room above his store, but also gave him three meals a day in his own house. 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There was slight increase in the number of white inhabitants over the number of negroes as compared with their number in 1900, the percentage of the total population which is white being 62.9 per cent., compared with 62.2 in 1900, and the negroes being 37.1 per cent., compared with 37.8 in 1900. Following is the population of the city by wards, with the number of whites and negroes: | Ward | Total | White | Col. | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Clay | 23,560 | 19,287 | 3,381 | | Henry | 14,988 | 6,572 | 3,831 | | Jefferson | 16,196 | 13,405 | 2,785 | | Lee | 14,290 | 8,823 | 7,472 | | Madison | 14,290 | 8,084 | 6,543 | | Marshall | 18,021 | 11,655 | 6,082 | | Monroe | 14,565 | 6,536 | 8,229 | | Washington | 10,276 | 7,248 | 3,121 | GEORGE C. JEFFERSON. W GORDON HARVIE. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. OF CARRIEENTRY. BANANCE'S SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Harbor-2067. BUT STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Harbor-diag. Making & Contracts for Building of Inc. Job Work a Specialty. PORTUNITY. 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WILLIAMS, Jr., Optometrist, a graduate from the National Optical College of St. Louis, Mo., also a Theological student of Virginia Union University. Office: 817 M. Second Street. Hours: half day-hatday and from 8:30 to 10:30; clock-other week days. Photo: Madison, 8577. Died in a short year 1911. Ordinarius medii sed his thee the best that money can be. ```markdown ``` Editor Mitchell's Long Journey. (Continued From First Pago.) When those white Gentiles came here and saw this they were bitter, and it has increased the race proju- dice." IT INCREASED THE FRICTION. In many instances colored men married some of the worst white women in the town, and now colored people are treated here in a bad way. Conditions here for colored people are awful. It is a shame that gentlemen of your kind are treated in this way in Salt Lake, but it has not been always so. Then, too, the worst elements, of our people, in some instances have come out here and they have made matters worse by their gambling, dissolute tendenclies and habits. We listened to the statements with interest as we procecd to consume the breakfast that had been sent up to our room for our benefit. NOTHING UNPLASMANTE FROM THE WHITE FOLKS At times we gazed out the window at the tops of the neighboring buildings and we felt that we wanted more information concerning conditions in this truly remarkable city. The break and our feelings. We were the elevator and decended to the lobby below. Barring our morning's experiences, we noted no sign of dislocation on the part of either the hotel officials or the guests. The blow that had been delivered came from the hand of our own color. The day and night clark's said absolutely recognize the existence of color line. It soon became known, though that we were in Negro bank president, and the booklets describing the insultation were in immediate demand. EVIDENCES OF MORMON PROG RESS Even the colored waiter begged for another one to give to some friend in the hotel. We sauntered out of the doorway alone to get out first experience in Salt Lake City, Utah. Practically all of the streets are 120 feet wide, and there is no evidence of crowding. The city is laid off square and neatly down high mountains. It is an ideal spot. We had never seen a business woman with more business women for its size. It was a source of satisfaction to us to look in the windows and then we went to the store of the Mormons, where practically everything can be purchased. They have a bank, too, and the Church is in the controlling figure. THE FORMENTERS OF RACE PREJUDICE The street scenes are similar to those in other cities. There are Mormons all around you, and yet they look like other people, and there not distinguishing characteristically by which you would know them. We learned something of the conditions existing in Salt Lake City. The race prejudice is not due to the Mormons, but to the Gentiles or Americans, who have located in this place and who are bitterly opposing the Mormon Church and its teachings. These people have banded themselves together under the name of the American Party, and this party controls the city government, while the Mormons control the county and State government. The county courthouse is in the heart of the city. MORMONS NOT DEMOCRATS The Mormons are allied with the Republican Party and Attorney Lawrence Marsh is the recognized leader or among the colored people and holds absolute sway with the influential party leaders of the county and State. We found that we had reached a point where we had political contest for supremacy and that we were booked to speak to a white and colored audience that night at a hall to which colored people had never been admitted. Our predicament can be better imagined than appreciated so we will doal now with the sights of the great city of Brigham Young, the Macaulay of all True Mormons. We have now New Mormons in Salt Lake City. There are colored men married to white Mormon women, but no one could name a man who was identified with the work of the Church. A JAPANESE BARBER SHOP Our good friend Marsh was a Roman Catholic, and there seemed to be an affinity or similarity between the churches; but there the whole aspect changed and the comparison ceased. We had an engagement with Mr. J. E. Johnson, colored, at the Culen Hotel, and when we returned from our wandering we found him and he told us to come a shivo and he told us to come his shop, the one in which he was foreman. He explained that it was conducted by a Japanese, and he introduced us to his proprietor. As with Mr. Johnson doing tonsorial work on the face of the Negro banker from Virginia. A SPECIAL FAVOR. Customers came in, but they were all white, and then we realized that in addition to stopping at a white hotel, our gracious friend had extended to us the honor and courtesy of shaving us in this white shop with the tacit assent and consent of that Japanese proprietor. One of Mr. Johnson's white customers readily consented to wait until we were through shaving, and then he took our place. We had our shoes shined by the colored boot-black and then strolled out, promising to meet Mr. Johnson in about fifteen minutes at the corner above. We looked in the show windows at and stood boon our wont and strolled in, and we anxiously awaiting our arrival. We were to see the Mormon Tabernacle and other places of interest and so we wended our way in that direction, being joined later by Mr. Lawrence Marsh, the able attorney, but little realizing the astounding nature of the scenes which would soon confront us. Terrible Mine Explosion. (Continued From First Page.) been repaired the gas would not have accumulated and the explosion would not have taken place. It was generally agreed, too, that the night foreman or the first boss should have personally notified the miners in the day shift. The three men who went down with the night shift, but who wont no further than the first level, testified that they were not notified, that they knew nothing of the danger. So it seemed that the failure to notify the incoming miners of the break in the air pipe and the accumulation of gas which resulted was the direct cause of the accident which cost six lives, and that some one failed to do his duty in notifying the men as they came in the mine. T C Hopkins, night foreman, who has been with the company since January 1. was the first witness ex-amined. He said that it was his duty to see that the mine was free from gas and to direct the work laid out by the day foreman, and to look after the safety of men and property. He stated that he made his last inspection at 5 o'clock on the morning of the accident, and found no evidence of danger. He makes two inspections a day. There was no accumulation of gas at 5 o'clock. He stated that he had never had any experience as a fire boss, but staked afterwards, when recalled, that he had mined mine, which contained him to act as fire boss. Juror Taylor asked him if it was his duty to examine all parts of the mine. He replied that he examined all except the unworked portions. Juror Taylor said that gas accumulated in unworked portions, and that it was as necessary to examine them as the regular workmen. REPORTED IT TO DAY FOREMAN He stated that compressed air was used to ventilate the "pocket" where the explosion took place which, under question ng, he admitted was a bad method of ventilation. He stated that he found the broken air line at 4 45 o'clock, and that he reported it to the day foreman. But he failed to observe the rules of the company in not making a written report of the break. His written response was that he had evidence also said that as soon as the air line was broken there was no way to prevent the accumulation of gas. He admitted also that unworked pockets should be tested for gas. Louis Wilson, day foreman and assistant boss, was called up from the bottom of the mine to go on the winkens stand. He came up, black and grimy, with his cap and lamp. He said he was assistant boss to George W. Sloves, day foreman and general foreman. He on entered the mine shortly after 6 o'clock on Friday morning, while the night was still working where the six Poles were. He said, went on between 6 and 7 o'clock. He said it was his duty to inspect all the working parts, not the unworked parts, as he had been in structured by the company. Wilson testified that he found a "pocket" of gas in Broescoat No 31, and the air line broken at the tee. He detected the gas with his safety lamp. He told the night mon not to go into that place any more. He said he asked how long the air line had been broken, and one of the men told him it had been broken three hours. Then he wrote an chalk the word "gas" as a danger signal on a board of the point of the breast. He said that the board could叫 english, but he didn't know whether they could read it, and he thought they should be examined to see if they could read english. He stated that the night boss should have mentioned the broken pipe. STORY OF EXPLOSION. Then he told the story of the gas explosion, of the fight for life by the maimed and injured, and of his part in the rescue. He was some distance away when he heard the explosion and felt the shock. He rushed back and found men wounded and screaming in the pitchy dark, struggle and exits. All the air batteries were bare out. All the curtains on the batteries to get the air back, and then he went to the aid of the injured. Others came to his aid, and, one by one, the wounded were dragged to fresh air. Frank Borger was found first. His heart was still beating, and William attempted to resuscitate him by artificial respiration. But he was extinct within a few minutes. Five others were dead, and he left them to care for the living. It was at the risk of his life, he modestly admitted, and the jury seemed to behove his ally as he shadda-dingly held it. He resisted to the broken air like he said that the fight, formam, Hopkinson had said to him that he didn't have time to fix THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. it. But he couldn't swear that the explosion occurred in the gas "pocket" he discovered, as the dead men were lying out in the main tunnel, and none was inside. HAD NO PERSONAL WARNING. He agreed with Juron Taylor that the miners should be kept out until the mine is announced clear, and he thought miners should be ventilated with natural air. No personal warning had been given to the miners, he testified, and he didn't know whether or they had ever before seen the word "gas." He declared that the night foreman could have repaired the break in five or ten minutes, and that, had it been repaired, the explosion would not have occurred. He, too, was asked whether "unworked portions of the mine should be tested for gas." They examined unworked portions in my part of the country," he replied. A. B. Bautro, the hotelkeeper, was called to testify as to whether all the men had been brought out it had been rumored that some were still buried beneath the debris. But it was only Jaranisch the he had not heard from, and his body had been found. MR. WOOLFOLK TESTIFIES William G. Woolfolk, vice-president of the company, was called He was still in his work clothes. He described the management of the mine. There are a day and night shift, and about 175 men in all are employed. The mines are in charge of W T Sullivan, who reports to him, and Sullivan has under him Gee A. Stoves, nine foreman He thought his men were competent. He makes a personal inspection of the mines and controls them, there are strict printed rules, violation of which means discharge and that every precaution to prevent accident is taken "We take these precautions," he said "not only from human motives, but because as you see, of the money we have invested. In the past thirty months we have invested more than $475,000 in Henrico and Goochland counties, and we must take precautions to protect life and property." He said that he had been looking for gas for two years for he did not believe that bituminous coal can be mined without generating it. As to the ordinary miner does not use them, as the others are safer. Only the bosses have safety lamps and they are used to detect gas. A place found with gas, he declared, is immediately marked dangerous, and the gas is removed. He said that the mine had not three places making gas. FIRST AID TO SAFETY As showing how strictly the rules must be adhered to, he said that four anarchist men had been recountedly discharged for carelessness, and that any one guilty of creating danger for his fellow-laborers will be prosecuted. Then he told of how difficult it is to prevent men from becoming careless and from violating the rules even at the risk of self-harm. He said that squirrels that squirrels that firing of black powder, which is tabooed in the mine, were found in the pockets of one of the dead men, showing that the man had gone in with black powder. He said he didn't think the unworked places dangerous. It was his opinion that the body of gas in crosscut No 31 was inflicted by the open lamp of Miner No 200. Then he told of his care in collecting his foremen and bosses, saying that they are the best obtainable, and that they receive salaries equal to those paid in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. He was asked the usual question as to the personal notification of the men, and said that Wilson should have personally notified the miners before they went down into the mine SHOULD HAVE REPAIRED IT W P Sullivan, a graduate of Georgia Tech manager of mines and railroads, described his duties. He said that the night foreman makes a written report to him, and declared that he should have fixed the broken air pipe, no mention of which was on the report received by him on Friday. He said that if the pipe had been imminent damage the appliance would not have taken place and that it was the duty of the foreman in charge to repair it. He said it was not customary for the foreman or fire boss to notify the men at the foot of the slope in the mine, but he agreed that the foremen should have personally notified the men before they went to the dangor pocket. He said that the most of the old workings, finned up again though he had not been able to examine all, as he had been there only about two weeks. AGREES WITH OTHERS G. A. Stoves, general foreman, who was not present on the day of the accident, testified to his duties, and agreed with the other witnesses that if the air line had been repaired the accident would not have happened. He said that he had attended the accident, because the men of gun, as there had been so little gas found in the mine. But he had instructed the fire boss to fence off all dangerous places. He didn't think that the method of ventilating the mine was the most practicable, but said that the mine had not been underway long, and that it contained many things which would be remedied. Then came Ed. Collier and M. C. Allen, who went down with the day shift the morning of the accident. Collier works as a helper under Allen, expert miner. The expert miner is known as his helper's "buddy," and Collier constantly referred to Allen as his "buddy." Both told the same story, how they had gotten not quite to their shovels when the snow fell, but got their lamps, and how flying debris fell about them, and how they fought through the midnight darkness to air and safety. The smoke and afterdamp were so dense that they were unable to see each other. And they were about 400 feet away from the scene of the explosion. HOW HE SAVED HIMSELF William Winston, colored; saved himself by blowing out his lamp and throwing himself face downwards on the ground. Winston was the only one of the three who saw Foreman Wilson, and Wilson gave them no warding of the "pocket" of gas. Clarence Snead, whom Hopkins said he ordered to fix the broken air pipe, was called. He testified that both foremen were present when he was ordered to mend the break, but that he couldn't fix it without a tiple, and that Wilson, saying "d—nit, I'm up against it again," told him to go ahead, that the break couldn't be mended until the day shift came on. The jury then went to the homes of Joe Berdina and Ralph Dolter. two of the injured. They told a story similar to that told by Collier and Allen. The jury was not long in reaching its verdict — Richmond Times-Dispatch Jan. 22, 1911. MR. CARTER SPEAKS. Much Pleased With the Financial Progress. Mr John Mitchell, Jr. Editor of The Planet, Richmond, Va. My Dear Sir—In renewing my subscription for the 'Planet, permit me to thank you for the handsome illustrated booklet of the Mechanica' Savings Bank, as well as to congratulate you on the success of your financial codewriters. The Negro race is now coming to the position in the world's civilization where they will command a greater national respect of the same principles of material advancement which have made other nations great and powerful in the world's history. A REFERENCE TO THE PAST. For there is nothing to the writer's observation that commands a greater respect than the material possessions of nations as well as of individuals. The Negro race is now 46 years out of the institution of slavery—came out of ignorant and poor had no domestic comforts but the earth for a hope, and the canopy of heaven for encouragement would warm by the bright of the sun in the day and sight by the glimmer of the moon in light—a nation not recognized abroad and scorned at home with, wtih, by push and is slowly, but surely, gaining that recognition in the wealth and mercantile world and for manhood worth for which in the past years we have been contending, making opportunity where there was none, and putting courage and determination in the face of defeat PUSHED HIS OWN WAY In view therefore of our previous condition it is of concession and of the highest degree of encouragement to the writer, as it should be to others of the race, that one from among them has pushed his way in the face of obstacles and of unmitigated prejudice to the position of editor bank president an honored member of the American Bankers' Association and a recognized leader of his people. This association of American Bankers is perhaps the richest and greatest of the world's banks and to be represented among the country's great financiers and to be counted in the membership at their annual conventions should animate our spirit and increase our disposition to take the most hopeful view of the coming years. Confidence of the followers and an honest report of the leaders will yet make the Negro race a mighty people. Like the Negro, the Jews are disliked and ill treated but their united efforts in business of different kinds, in finance and in the mercantile world, make them a mighty force in the advancement of progress of American civilization ROBERT W CARTER Brookline, Mass Jan 23, 1911 $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Berkley, Va. Jan 23, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N A, S. A. E. A, A and A ($150 00), One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Brother George Chandler, who was a member of Charity Lodge, No 32, of Berkley, Va. Signed — her BUNNIE X CHANDLER. mark Beneficiary. Witness Jas Z. Wiggles, C C T H Walker, K of R and S W. G. Parker, M. of F Wim A Scott, P C M Jabell, D. D, G C Ak to see my list of properties for the market, have the best that's on the market The many friends of Miss M. L. Chiles will be glad to know that she is again at her post of duty, after an absence of three weeks. She is grateful to Baker School teachers, pupils and friends for flowers, fruits, delicacies and kind wishes during her illness. We received an invitation from Mr. Elizabeth Deas, of Boston, to attend the marriage of her daughter, Anolda Gertrude Gillis, to Mr. Lawin Lewis Summerett, of New York. Mrs. Captain W. H. Carter, Sr., of 1223 Taylor Street, has been confined to her bed by sickness for about three weeks. She is now slightly improved. Her daughter, Mrs. Rev. W. H. Spurlock, of 24 W. Jackson Street, spent a part of last and this week assisting the other children to comfort their sick mother. There are those who deride me As one very old, And kicked out of business By one young and bold, An old man with sickle And hourglass in hand, Half mute and despair, Scarce able to stand A lifetime in business And nothing to show For the time he has spent ere He's called on to go Yes, thus they describe me, As slinking away, Appalled by the night, and Ashamed of the day. They've praise for the young man Who steps in my place. Because there are no wrinkles Nor frowns in his face. They do not remember And fail quite to see That I've been as young and As handsome as he His dimples, his smiles and His curls that entwine Are but the reflection Of what once were mine As to what I can show For the time I have spent.— The short space of twelve months. In my moving tent My hands have been liberal In welding much power. For millions in fortunes I gave every hour. I gave the four season, and many a bright day. When he laid girls danced a The gay Queens of May' The moonlight and harvests I gladly did give, And my heart did rojoice To see you all live.— In great peace and plenty. As through the glad year You speeded and reveled In gracious good cheer' I saw that your malnets And beaux were well wed And all the dear babies I coddled and fed. The wilde their season And flowers gale And laughing gay brooklets Through mendons to flow And all the new fads and Inventions I brought. And the added momentum I gave to bright thought' I own that as others Some failures I've made, That I've said many things I now wish unsaid But thats a misfortune That's common to all So why I am scoffed at I don't see at all Just waft but a twelve month And ye shall all see That as I've been treated, This young man shall be I know my Jeutennants' Pain, Sorrow and Death. Have reaped a great harvest of Life and of breath. And loved ones they've parted At brink of the great Good wishes have arrived on earth But that was predeclined - One greater than I Decreeed that in this world All creatures should die. Beside, you'll remember. My great captain, HOPE With his aids, Love and Faith Were able to cope With the might of those others And thus did rescue And the great joy Where Pain reigned before So now I say, farewell! Give kiss your New Year Me once you kissed likewise And called me a "dear" Tell me what you want in the Real Estate Line and I shall get it for you. Miss Lillian M. Chiles, daughter of Lawyer James A. Chiles, has recovered from her recent illness and helped her studies at Hirthora College Dickerson Crump Present Presented. The directors of the Southern Aid Society on Tuesday forwarded by express to Mrs. Robert F Dickerson, at her new home, in Stainton, Va. a splendid alver service. The handsome present was selected by a committee and was purchased of, and beautifully engraved by the well-known firm of Schwarzkold Children. The same committee prepared a letter, expressing the sentiments of the directors. Miss Nannie Crump had been if not the first Society for ten years and was head of dookeeper and a very proficient clerk. Her waverance is keenly felt by her former employers, and all with whom she came in daily contact. She carries with her their best wishes and congratulations. Killed By Automobile. Dr. G Tyrter Hundley, of 403 East Franklin Street, while in his automobile, ran down an unknown white female of advanced age at the corner of the street Wednesday. She became bewildered and the 'accident' was unavoidable. Need of Haste "Haven't you changed the labels on these egg hatchers by mistake?" asked the inquisitive clerk of the intelligent grocer. "The ones marked 'artificly fresh' have been in longer than the other." 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Thousands are flocking to see this wonderful lady daily. Her powerful consultation when heeded has sent sunshine to the homes of all who called. Don't put off, but call at once, if you wish to enjoy future happiness. You may call at all hours, also Sunday, and delay. Highly endorsed by all the press, teachers, preachers, lawyers and endorsed by all the recommended by four of the leading lodges, the B. M. T. U. United Orchid. True Reformers, also the Calishan Court. The church society of her home, known by the name of United Sisters of Charity of the Missionary Church, and loved by all. God has endowed her with an unaspable blessing to aid humanity. She deals in nothing to be ashamed of. She wants to hear from all that are in trouble or distress. Address MADAM MCNAIRDEE, 1103 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Positively no attention paid to letters without one dollar inclosed. Subscribe To The RICHMOND PLANET. ```markdown ``` Handsome Combinations That Are Appearing This Season. Styles Are Growing In Grace and Skirts Getting Wider. While Blending of Colors Is Extrava gant. Yet Beautiful In spite of all that has been said and written against the present styles, no person with a love for the rich and really beautiful can see a gathering of really fashionable women this winter and not be struck with their extreme gracefulness. Since the bad for skirts of hysterical sentiment passed skirts have been growing more and more graceful. Skirts are still narrow and a woman might not wish to be compelled to take a step that is over long in her best gown but they are far from being an overt, to good taste if they are in a cozy suit with the present made. The woman in the drawing is an excellent example of the fashionable silhouette. The skirt is of cloth banded with trim and the tunic is velvet caught together at the sides with passementerie cords and frogs. A cool knit is an old finish for the girdle. Word and cable trimmings are very popular. The waist in the sketch is of chiffon over satin and the velvet collar and the sheers are banded with crimson. The butt hairstyle has a band of crimin. The bag of crimin is part and parcel of the cosmetics. An acquaintance toilet recently was of warm bright yellow the that that reminds one of sunlight. This was velled with white chiffon trimmed with gold and far praise. With it was worn by the little blond girl an old fashioned pendant of pearls and brill flants hung from a shades gold chain. This wearing of yellow by a fair haired girl is one of the things which our ancestors would have held up their hands against at. But the modern girl knows that yellow in the evening gives a blond girl of beautiful complexion a veritable fairy-like look. Many of the color combinations used now would have shocked women of 1 old. Violet and green, blue and pink and green and blue josie each other everywhere. Those old brooches of the past are in the best style so far as color is concerned, but their stiff texture makes the old fabrics something of a problem to the dressmaker. That skirts are growing slightly wider is certain, but the change is slight. Of course there are the usual predictions that since one extreme may always be expected to follow another the other is surely coming. Coats for the spring are going to be short, and the bolero is coming to its own again. Next season is going to be a little jacket period. So much is sure. The rest is still hidden with the other of 1811's mysteries. Vellings and Fabrics New rollings show interwoven circles as large as half a dollar and close rows of latticework with a thick spot at each intersection. One of the loveliest fabrics for dressing yarn is the more insimoneal in quite new designs of waterings, shot in skirts of chameleon colors, which used to be called pigeon's wing, blue by the receding waves. They are all far removed from the old fashioned watered silk. Incandescent Mantles When lighting turn on the gas for a few seconds, then hold the match one inch above the chimney. It is through applying the match too quickly that so many minutes are destroyed. ONE PIECE BUSINESS DRESS. Plaited Waist and Skirt Is Newest Development For Garments of This Kind. Nowadays every woman recognizes the concurrence of the southerness dress and also the adaptability of this style of both short and shoulder figures and the continence to women of all ages. For the business woman such a freak in one place is impossible and if the model is simple like the one pictured there is no reason why the THE LADY'S DRESS garment cannot be made at home as satisfactory as a shirt waist and separate skirt. In reality this design is the same as a separate waist and skirt, with the exception that the two pieces are joined at the waist line, which is arranged after each article is completely finished. This model is one of the newest and has a platted waist and skirt. The sleeves and body portion are cut in one. The pattern provides for a square yoke and fitted undersleeves. The latter can be finished any length desired. For these parts of the frock a pretty effect can be obtained by using contrasting material. It will be satisfactory to have both the sleeves and yoke detachable so they can be hasted in position. Arranged in this way, they can be removed and cleaned when soiled without going to the expense of having the whole dress cleaned. There are any number of pretty trimmings that can be used for the handings. Among them is braid, which is inexpensive and effective. To develop such a garment for the average woman eight and three-eighths yards of thirty-six inch material or six and five-eighths yards of forty four inch goods will be needed. The Retort Courteous. A young w. man had fallen upon the ice-covered pavement and a man stepped forward to offer his services. "Allow me—" he began, but his feet slipped and he fell flat upon his back. "Certainly," responded the young woman, gravelly. The Reverse. "Do you believe in humoring husbands?" "Well, my dear, when you have been married as long as I have, you will find that if you begin by humoring husbands, you will soon find them husbanding humora." Always Losing His Boat. A colored man calling himself, "Captain John E. Simpson" and at times sailing under other names has been persistently swirling both white and colored people in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and Phoebus. His plan has been to represent that he has money in a colored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write Dr John Mitchell, Jr., President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some like 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 Buckrope 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 dislike to keep up with him. How to Care For Libraries So Volumes Will Be Preserved, Books are frequently ruled through carelessness. This is less in the handling often than upon the shelves. Many a reader who would scorn to bend a book back when open will put it to worse strain on the shelves. Books should not be packed tightly on a shelf. It rules the backs and causes them to tear loose with the strain of putting in and pulling out. Often it forces the leaves to sag to the shelf when pushed unduly. It is just us as bad for books to be too loose on a shelf, as they warp and the spreading leaves encourage dust. A bookcase with the contents at every angle is not a pleasing sight. There are some housekeepers who think a yearly dusting of books at housecleaning time sufficient. This is bad enough when they are kept under glass; when on open shelves it means rule to valuable books. It takes little longer to dust the backs and tops of books on each shelf every day. Use a soft cheese cloth or silk duster and shake it frequently. Many valuable books are ruined at housecleaning time. This should be twice a year and is not a burden if systematically done a shelf at a time. The old plan of heaping the contents of a library lids-reminately has nothing to recommend it. See that shelves are dried after washing, as books are ruined by dampness. In dusting the book itself clap the banks lightly together, then dust the outside. Never use a damp cloth on a book. If it has been wet absorb most of the moisture with a blotter and soft cloth, then dry under pressure to prevent warning. Forbid young people to handle books until they know how to protect them. It is well to use covers to protect a book when held by grisly young hands. These can now be bought in different sizes to fit almost any book and can be used repeatedly. CARE OF UNFRAMED PICTURES How to Keep Them Where They Can Be Seen at Any Time. Often you will see in the magazines or in old calendars pictures copies of famous paintings perhaps, or attractive photographs which you would like to keep. And yet one walls get so cumbered with pictures, every one of which must be framed at no small expense, that especially when space is at a premium one hostesses to add another to the collection. To keep such pictures where they can be seen always and yet will not be in the way make a book of embossed linen. Purple is the best shade to show off all kinds of colorings in the pictures. Cut the leaves a little larger than the largest picture you are likely to cover and paste or sew a narrow hem all around. Make covers of thin wood or leather or thick gray cardboard, such as is used for photograph mounts, and hold all together by punching cymels and stringing ribbon through them. Then paste a picture on each leaf, in the center, using library paste. Of course a leaf can be added each time you see a picture you want to keep, for the embossed linen is very inexpensive and can be bought in large quantities. To add still further to the attractiveness of the book paste on the outer cover some especially pretty, yet unfading picture or print its title in india ink How to Clean p White Sweater. Is your white sweater soiled and mussy looking since you returned from your vacation? Take a pan of clean, sifted wheat flour and submerge the sweater, then pat and souse it for ten minutes, shake it well and put fresh flour on it. Let stand about thirty minutes, shake it out and let it hang where he air can blow through it, being careful not to stretch it. This is also good for white feathers. If it is really dirty shake out all dust, drop it in slightly warm water and stir around. Place in clean, warm, warm water with a teaspoonful of borax in it, gently upse up and down, and if there are any greasy spots rub soap on your hands and manipulate the sweater, but do not allow a bit of soap to come in contact with the wool. Rinse in three clear warm waters and add a few drops of bluing to the final water. Press the water out, place in a large pillowcase and suspend the four corners by "bank" pins over the tub for three days, then spread on a sheet on the grass in the sunshine for a day or two until dry. This method was given by an expert cleaner. How to Hold a Vell Brunly. How to Hold a Veil Snugly. A number of clever expedients have been devised to hold a veil snugly under the chin without giving an ugly line. Here is one method which saves the veil also and involves hardly any trouble. Get the narrowest kind of round elastic, the same color as the veil (paint the white elastic with water colors for a colored veil) and whip it over the extrime edge of the veil, taking up only a single thread all around. Include any cut edges, but afterward pare them off neatly with a small pair of scissors. Eastern in back with a tight knot. The veil is slightly gathered on the elastic, fits nicely under chin and over hat and stretches when it is raised. It seems the best solution of a vexing problem of dress. How to Clean White Marble. A nice wash for white marble is a paste made from equal parts of salt and fine pumice stone added to twice the quantity of washing soda. This is mixed with water into a paste after being first finely sifted. Rub well on the marble, especially on discolored parts, then wash off in water to which a little salt is added. Do not use much ammonia on marble, as it yellows it. How to Seal Bottles With Wax. Melt eight ounces of beeswax and four of rosin, in a tin pail on book of range. Stir until well sifted. Put cork in bottles, press firmly. Then insert the top of cork in the best position. FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURLY MAILLERY USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO CMB AND UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT, WRITE FOR TESTINONES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE BENEFIT MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POWDER ON THE MARKET FOR DURABILITY, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE CONDUIT, NUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S HAME 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 KENAGO, ILL. AGENTS WANTED. 'Thons, Monroe-2636. Office Hours: 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. DR. P. B. RAMSEY, SURGEON DENTIST. Office: Mechanics' Savings Bank Building, Rooms 201-5, 2nd Floor. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Nelson's Hair Dressing can be secured from the agent, Mr. Joseph Evans, 2602 Webster Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Getting it by Proxy. "He must be a great traveler" "He has never been ten miles from home." "But he seems to know the whole world." "He never misses a moving picture show" Without the Attachments. "I have just been in the football game" "Any one, killed?" "No." "Must have been fully as exciting as a game of checkers." Some Harmony. "I had a load of wood stolen from my lot last night." "Musical thieves, evidently." "How do you make that out?" "Isn't it the lost cord?" Embroidery Apron A very simple apron for embroiderers is made of a big square of lawn or dimity turned up about a third of its length and feathersitched into four pockets. Three of these hold embroidery pieces. The fourth is again feathersitched into five divisions, each for a separate color of silk. The hem on these pockets is lined with canton flannel before being turned down and feathersitched and is used as a needlecase. The rest of the goods is hemmed all around and provided with ribbon drawing strings, so that it can be worn as an apron. This is especially pretty in some light color, such as pink, with deeper pink embroidery and ribbons, or in white with some such dainty shade as baby blub or nile green. The silk and ribbon should both be washable, so that the whole apron can go in the tub when necessary. It is a pretty gift to an embroiderer and one that will come in handy during afternoon neighborhood calls or in winter evenings spent at home. Artificial Flowers The exquisite blossoms produced by the skill of Parisian workers are at present slightly put in the shade by the return to the old fashioned flowers formally modeled with ribbon or silk pieces in the manner cherished by our grandmothers; hence the real rococo ribbon. work is revived in all its peculiarities, together with large padded blossoms modeled with interlaced bits of silk, leaves gathered in the center, with an occasional interlugling of filigree work. These are used either in tufts or wreaths to ornament millinery creations and fancy notions of every kind. Bouquets of this style are often tucked in the belt of evening gowns, while huge poppies, for instance, with buds, modeled in light colored leather, have made their appearance on plum-quee hats as a reminder of the leather blossoms once in fashion to decorate-looking glasses, caskets and so on. If when drying curtains they are hung double over the line they will not stretch at all, as is so often the case when hung up by the edge. Unexpected interference. "Charles Brightley is an exceedingly promising young man." "No has been borrowing money from them, so." knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. 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 Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for it. For all information concerning John 3' Nothing on earth is so valuable as a b at great trouble and cost, much more is the polishing that the schools can give it. The youth. Who would choose a poor physician And who would choose an inferior school to increase the strength of character and of usefulness! Dormitory, Virginia Va. Union Offers the Best H COLORED V IT HAS A FINE ACADEMY course in completed common school subjects. ITS COLLEGE COURSE is broad and as high as those of any college for white of the Carnegie Board. ITS THELOGICAL COURSE has for many Baptist Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the are given here. One hundred students for the school. ITS MINE GRANTITE BUILDINGS, for six 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 JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCKERIES, WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street. (Near Old Market.) BIOHMOND, VIRGINIA 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. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the schools can give in. The best education is not too good for a promising youth. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger. And who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger newfulness? ITS THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for many years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Browne, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are given here. One hundred students for the ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. ITS HOME GRANITE BUILDINGS, its family equipped science laboratory, its library of 14,000 volumes, its this faculty and its full courses of study enable Virginia Union University to offer colored young men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of other races. For further information, address the President, VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY. RUCIMOND, VIRGINIA. Alpheus Scott Church Hill FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EM BALMER Open Day and Night. Office and Warerooms: 8006¼ P Street Office 'Phone, 2337-L Residence 'Phone, 6019; 1524 St. John Street. RICHMOND, VA. E. Hayes, S. W. ROBINSON 19 A.21 N.18TH ST. Sister Adelaide Hicks and Custards of AR Description, I have a Space Room for BUDDIES when the Family have not a entitlement Place. AR education, where are Glenn Ephialt Attention. Your Special Attention is given to the Sister Oak CAKERY, Cali and the No. and Fen. Also be Warmed on Admittance. KNIGHTED FRIARS 65 1800 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGN Dorwinion AO. 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JURGENS BON, ABANS AND SHORE SHORES SATURDAY ... JANUARY 28, 1911 NO CENTRAL BANK IN ALDRICH PLANS Monetary Commission Hopes For Reserve Association. Proposes National Bank, Combine With $30,000,000 Capital, as Fiscal Agent of Government. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich's long awaited "plan for the revision of the national bank legislation," as he calls it, was made public in Washington. It does not contemplate the establishment of a central bank. It is so far from what most people have expected from Mr. Aldrich that it may come to many as a notable surprise. The plan was submitted to the national monetary commission, but Senator Aldrich was not at the meeting. Far from recommending the institution of a central bank, Mr. Aldrich expresses disclaims belief in it as calculated to meet the needs of the situation. What Mr. Aldrich does propose is the establishment of the "Reserve Association of America," representing what might be called a federation of local associations formed by national banks. The Rhode Island senator declares the belief that the association, organized as he proposes, cannot be "controlled by ambitious monetary interests or dominated by political influence." Some of the Provisions. So well-knit is the scheme proposed that it is difficult to state briefly the provisions of the plan; but these seem to be the essentials: At bottom, local organizations of representatives of banks, formed by not less than ten banks, each bank holding stock in the association in proportion to its capital. Directors would be elected by these to the board of "branch" associations, one branch for each of the fifteen financial districts into which the United States would be divided. Each "branch" board would include a certain proportion of men not banks, but representing industrial, agricultural, commercial and other interests. The "branches" in turn would elect to the reserve association proper directors, forty-five in all, among whom must also be a proportion of men representing interests other than banks. There would be also six ex-officio members of this board, namely, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of commerce and labor, the controller of the currency, and the governor and two deputy governors of the association. The governor and deputy governor of the association would be appointed by the president of the United States and would be removable by him for cause. The association would be the principal fiscal agent and repository of the government, would fix from time to time the rate of exchange or discount, and eventually its notes would replace those of the national banks. Prime commercial paper, passing up from the banks through the local associations and branches, as well as bonds of the government, could be used as a basis for currency issue. New Scopa For Banks. The plan contemplates also two new classes of national banks, or departments of banks, to receive savings and make loans upon real estate and also to be in effect national trust companies. The system of mutual support by which the associations' members would most currency emergencies is detailed at length. It is proposed to charter the Reservoir Association of America with an authorized capital of approximately $800,000,000. The length of the charter shall be fifty years, and the head office shall be in Washington. A national bank having a minimum capital of at least $25,000 may subscribe, to capital stock of the reserve association equal to 20 per cent of the stock of the bank and not loss, and each of such subscribing banks shall become a member of a local association. Fifty per cent of the subscriptions to the capital stock of the reserve association shall be called in cash; the balance of the subscriptions will remain a liability of the stock-holders, subject to call. Share of the capital stock of the association will not be transferable, and under no circumstances may they be owned by any corporation other than the subscribing national bank. The earnings of the reserve association shall be distributed in the following manner: After the payment of all expenses and taxes the stockholders shall receive 4 per cent. Further earnings shall be divided, one-half to go to the surplus of the reserve association, im- one half to go to the government. After the stockholders receive 5 per cent per annum and the surplus amounts to 20 per cent, all excess earnings shall go to the government. The mint mum dividends to the stockholders shall be cumulative. Sunken Submarine Rescued The German submarine "U 3" sank in Holkendorf bay, harbor of Kiel. The commander communicated with the rescuer by means of a buoy telephone and said there is no immediate danger, as the supply of oxygen would last forty-eight hours. The sinking was caused by the accidental filling of the water bunkers. The submarine was raised later and the crew rescued. 8 MEN KILLED ON THE DELAWARE NO OFFICERS WERE INJURED Dispatch Says All Were Victims of Steam, BUt Details Are Lacking. One Badly Hurt. A serious accident occurred in the fireroom of the battleship Delawar, en route from Guantanamo, Cuba, to Hampton Roads, Va., killing eight enlisted men and badly injuring another. No commanding officers were hurt. The accident was reported to the navy department by Rear Admiral Marshall, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, who forwarded a wireless message from Captain Charles A. Gove, commanding officer of the Delaware. The dispatch said the men were burned by steam. The names of the dead follow: Charles Henry Harp, of Violet, KY., fireman, first class; William Morris White, of Vickaburg, Miss., fireman, second class, Columbus Porter Watts, of Fairmont, Ga., fromman, first class; Herbert Anderson Brower, of Hortitage, Tenn., fireman; Lewis Addison White, of Beaver Dam, Wils., coal passer; Clarence Dewitt, of New Florence, Tenn., coal passer; Christen Jensen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., water tender, and an unidentified man. Badly injured: Eugene Phillips, of Washington, fireman. The cause of the accident was not reported. Captain Gove promised to send a more complete report later to the navy department. Captain Gove asked that a tug be sent from the Norfolk navy yard to Hampton Roads to take off the bodies of the victims of the accident and to transfer Fremont Phillips, the only man injured, to a shore hospital. The victims of the accident suffered from burns caused by escaping steam. An unusual series of accidents has befallen the vessels of the navy within the last few days. The South Carolina, Michigan and Dubuque best port propellers within a few days of each other. The Delaware had been detached from the Atlantic fleet and ordered to Hampton Roads to transport the body of the late Sonor Don Anibal Cruz, former Chilean minister at Washington, to his native country. She was scheduled to leave about Jan. 31 for Valparaiso with the body, returning to the Atlantic coast next May. It is not known at the department whether the ship has been damaged sufficiently to make it necessary to choose another battleship for the trip to Chile. SHOTS FOR BRIAND IN FRENCH CHAMBER One of Would-be Assassin's Bullets Wounds Colleague. The French chamber of deputies in Paris was thrown into a panic by an attempt made upon the life of Premier Briand. Two revolver shots were fired upon the ministerial bench from the public gallery in the chamber, but the premier was unharmed. One of the shots entered the leg of Leon Mirman, director of the department of public assistance in the ministry of the interior. The wound is not a serious one. The would-be assassin is a man named Gisolme, who was formerly a clerk of the courts of Bayonne. He was pounced upon by policemen before he could use his weapon a third time if he had such an intention, and was hurried from the place. M. Briand was quickly surrounded by others of the ministry, and by the deputies and heartily congratulated upon his escape from death. There is no doubt that he was the intended victim, and only the poor marksmanship of Gisolme saved the minister from death or injury. For a time the greatest confusion prevailed. The proceedings of the chamber had been going on as usual, and there was nothing to indicate that the crowd of spectators in the gallery included one who had designs upon the life of the head of the cabinet. Mind Blank Six Years. Gaston Ketcham, fifty-two years of age, a wealthy real estate operator of Wassale, Dutchess county, returned to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., after wandering about the country with his mind a blank for nearly six weeks. Ketcham dropped out of sight while visiting relatives in Hoverhill, Mass., on Dec. 5. It was while he was waiting to have a check cashed in a bank that he was recognized and detailed. Ketcham is almost a physical weak but his mind seems to be entirely clear and his keys are ready to take the business where he left off. Access Senator of Buying Sales Charges of bribery, attempted bribery and other corrupt practices, both in the senatorial primary election and in the election of a United States senator by the legislature of 1909 were preferred against United States Senator Isaac Stephenson at Madison, WI. The charges are made in a statement filed with Governor F. E. McGovern by the committee appointed in 1909 by the state senate to investigate the primary campaign and the charges. preferred while Stephenson's election was being fought out in the joint convention of the two houses of the legislature. The committee declares that, in its opinion, both the nomination and election of Stephenson, who is a multimillionaire lumberman, were fraudulent and void. It urges that a copy of the report be sent to the United States senate, with the request that that body make a full investigation of Stephenson's right to retain his seat. Senator Stephenson is charged with violating the statute which requires that an account under oath of campaign expenditures be filed, and it is also charged that such violation was premeditated. Seven Dead In Gas Explosion. As the result of an explosion of natural gas in the basement of the five and ten cent store of J. C. McCrory & Co., at Connellsville, Pa., seven persons are believed to have perished. Five charred bodies have been recovered, only one of which was positively identified. The second body taken from the smouldering ruins was declared by the parents to be that of Miss Christabel Smith, aged nineteen years. Mabel Wagner, fifteen years old, and Minnie Mulae, aged fifteen years, are known to have perished. Of the bodies recovered four are girls. The fifth is that of an unidentified man, supposedly a customer. Attempting to choke meters without shutting off the gas at the curb is held responsible for the tragedy, and Coroner Bell promises a thorough investigation to fix the responsibility. That any of the twenty-five persons in the atorc escaped is regarded as miraculous. Within a few moments the entire two-story brick building was a mass of flames. Within fifteen minutes after the explosion the walls collapsed. Famous Picture Slashed Rombrandt's most famous picture, "The Night Watch," was badly damaged by a discharged naval cook by the name of Sigrist, who entered the Rijks museum, at Amsterdam, and with a knife deliberately slashed the masterpiece. Sigrist, who was arrested, declared that his vandalism was an act of vengeance against the state because of his discharge from service in the navy. The cuts traverse the principal figures of Captain Franz Banning Cocq's company of arquebusiers, but art experts express the opinion that the damage is not beyond repair. Didn't Speak In Fifty Years Philip Burkhart; ninety years of ago, is dead at English, Ind. Burkhart had been insane for about fifty years and had not spoken a word in that time. During the Civil War he lost his mind and became superstitious on the question of witches. He believed witches were always trying to put burs in his horse's mane and tail and he kept his gun loaded with needles to shoot the witch. Clarks In Their William A. Clark, one time United States senator from Montana, is now living in his $7,000,000 mansion at Fifth avenue and Beverly-seventh street. New York, which has been under construction for the last eight years. It is said that the palatial dwelling is the costliest private residence ever built in America. Mr. Clark moved from the Majestic hotel to his new home, as did also Mrs. Clark and her two children, Andre. Seven, and Huguette, four years old, who have just returned from Paris. Due Up $40 In Pennies Guided to a field cast of the suburb of Irvington, near Indianapolis, Ind., by Ben Deory, twenty-three years old, the police dug up $40 in pandens taken from the state bank of New Palestine on Doc. 20, when the bank was robbed of $6400. Deory confessed the robbery, and Cordia Martin was arrested with him. The two young men had spent all the money except the coppers. Carrie Nation a Nervous Wreck. Friends in Kansas City, Mo., have learned that Mrs. Carrie Nation, formerly a resident of Kansas City, Kan., has suffered from a nervous collapse at Eureka Springs, Ark., and it is believed that her career as a saloon smasher is ended. Boy of Elva Kille Grandmother After-his father had been arrested in connection with the shooting to death of his grandmother, a five-year-old boy at Daniville, Ky., confessed that he had shot her accidentally while pointing an old shotgun at her in fun. He hid in an outbuilding all night. Japan Buys Mexican Oil. The Mexican Eagle Petroleum company, of Mexico City, Mox., of which Lord Cowray, of England, is the head, has just closed a contract with Japanese interests for the delivery of fifty million gallons of refined oils during the next three years. New Locomotives For the P. & R. It is announced that the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company has placed an order for twenty-three new Atlantic type of passenger locomotives to be built in Reading, Pa., during the summer. John Paul Jones' Crypt. At a cost of $125,000 the senate proposes to provide a permanent resting place for the body of John Paul Jones a crypt in the naval sanctuary at Annapolis, Md. A bill to this effect was passed by the senate and now goes to the house. SURE TO TICKLE THEM. "That's a queer-looking typewriter, Jigga!" interrogated the friend as he dropped into the workshop. "Yes, that is one I have just patented," responded Jigga proudly. "It is sure to have a phenomenal sale among the girl typeplates of the town." "What's the indulgence—extra stars for kisses and all that kidd of thing?" "No, but over here is little compartment for hairpins, under here is a holder for sachet powder and on the side there is the cutest oil-proof abelf for chewing gum. Talk about genius!" Disappointed. Franklin—What makes Spudler look so downcast—the death of his father-in-law? Benjamin—That is the indirect cause; the direct cause is the fact that his father-in-law failed to disinherit him. Franklin—Failed to disinherit him? Why, I should think a failure of that kind would make Spudler rejoice. Benjamin—It would, ordinarily; but his father-in-law left nothing but debts for Spudler to pay. Different "She was very complimentary to mo last night." "In what way?" "She called me a human comet." "And you consilier that a compil meant." "Sure; meaure I'm a hustler." "Not exactly; she told me yesterday that she had just learned that a comet is composed of millions of feet of gas." Mean. Irate Barber (to customer, as he seats him in the chair)—You see that guy going out of the door? Customer—What of it? Irate Barber—He's the meanest man on earth. Customer—What has he done? Irate Barber—Why, the scoundrel sat in my chair for half an hour and never told me he was deaf. HIS IDEA OF THE GOOD. 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For All Information, Apply to JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. EIGHT --- WE HAVE THE BANK SAFES FOR YOUR OWN HOME, IN WHICH YOU CAN SEE THE MONEY GROW. Persons who have LOST their MON EY in Other Institutions, which were not so Sound as Ours, can BORROW MONEY HERE. We Receive Money On Deposit, and We LOAN MONEY On Demand. Polite Attention Prompt Service We are Members of the American Bankers' Association of the United States. Our Correspondents are the National Park Bank of New York, with Deposits Aggregating Ninety nine Million Dollars, and the American National Bank of Richmond, Va. with Deposits Aggregating Four Million Dollars. We are Conducting Business on Modern Banking Principles, and We Have the Backing to Ensure Success. ```markdown ``` A Lin JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. E. R. JEFFERSON. JOHN R. CHILES. R. W. WHITING. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. N. W. CORNER THIRD AND CLAY STS. The image shows a large industrial building with multiple levels, including a factory floor and a warehouse. The factory floor is equipped with various machinery and equipment, while the warehouse has a high ceiling and is likely used for storage or distribution of goods. The building is surrounded by a fence, and there are trees visible in the background. The overall appearance suggests a busy industrial facility. VIEW OF THE INTERIOR OF THE BANKING ROOM.—Seen from the top of the Vestibule. The Vault Door Closed. The metal in the Vault weighs 33 tons, outside is 12 inches of concrete including porcelain brick. The white Italian Marble Clock has United States Observatory Time, being electrically set and adjusted from Washington, D. C. No Wild-Cat Banking Here. OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS: D. J. CHAVERS. W. F. GRAHAM. JOHN T. TAYLOR. THOMAS M. CRUMP. THOMAS H. WYATT. Cashier. J. J. CARTER. A. D. PRICE. P. B. RAMSEY. H. L. JACKSON. ```markdown ``` THESE FIGURES TELL THE STORY. Gross Resources, as Shown and Reported to the Banking Department State Corporation Commission November 10, 1910, $214,085.20 September 1, 1910 188,820.10 Increase in Two Months, $25,250.07 DEPOSITS. November 10, 1910, $173,868.33 September 1, 1910 153,050.10 Increase in Two Months $20,812.11 For All President. S: ```markdown ``` THOMAS. M. CRUMP. Secretary THOMAS H. WYATT. H. F. JONATHAN. THOMAS SMITH.