Richmond Planet

PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE TRIALS OF THE TRUE REFORMERS The Indictments in Bank Cases Quashed--Commonwealth's Attorney Folkes Immediately Gives Notice--Will Indict All of Ex-officers Again Next Monday. Other Indictments Not Affected--Will Cause Delay of Two Weeks. Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross Here--Deacon Adolphus Humbles Reaches the City Too. VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 18. THE TR The Indictment wealth's Att Notice Other Indictments Grand Worthy The Hustings Court of this city was in session last Monday and a large number of persons were present to witness the calling of the cases against the officials of the defunct Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers and the felony cases in connection with the wrecking of the institution. Judge E. H. Wells, who is an official of a most pleasing personality, presided, Mr. H. M. Smith, Jr. and Speaker R. Evelyn Bryd represented the accused. Ex-Governor A. J. Menague appeared to assist Commem- nial Health Attorney Missrete Polkes. WITNESS PRESENT. Grand Worthy Master Floyd Rose Director - A Member of Lighthouse Grand Worthy Master - A Member of Smith and Grand Worthy Secretary J. Frank Douglas were there to look after the interests of the Grand Fountain. Every eye was upon Judge Wells he ascertained the bench so long occupied by Judge Witt, who is ill at his residence and who accordingly will be unable to sit in these cases. He decided to place Director W. P. Burrell on trial first. Before this was done, Attorney H. M. Smith Jr. entered a demurrer to the indictment of all of the defendants on the charge of receiving money. Knowing the bank was involvent. ATTORNEY SMITH'S DEMURRERS. This included William L. Taylor, J. C. Robertson, Edward Ellis, Jr., A. W. Hobson, R. T. Hill and W. P. Burrell. R. T. Hill is still a fugitive from justice. Attorney Smith set up the plan that the indictment was defective in that it did not specifically specify that the bail was inconvolved, although it charged the defendants with wrecking it and used the language of the statute. Counsel argued this point. The Judge reserved his decision until Tuesday morning. The section of law under which these officials were indicted reads as follows: A PENITENTIARY OFFENSE. "Any officer or employer of any bank, banking institution, savings bank, savings society or savings institution, who shall take and receive money from a depositor with the actual knowledge that the said bank, banking institution, savings bank, savings society, or savings institution is, at the time, insolvent, shall be guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine. Double the amount so received and imprisoned not less than one or more than three years in the penitentiary for each offense. Any officer of any bank, banking institution, savings bank, savings society, or savings institution who shall permit money to be received from a depositor with the actual knowledge that the said bank, banking institution, savings bank, savings society or savings institution, insolvent, shall be guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine. Double the amount so received and be imprisoned for not less than one or more than three years in the penitentiary for each offense. A PLRA OF "NOT GUILTY." The one went over until Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. Counsel were promptly in their seats. Attorney R. Lynch Manogue was absent. Among the other attorneys present as spectators were Glen R. Jepkens, D. Robert Tumlinson and R. A. Randolph. The preliminary incident to the opening of the court were proceeded with. Attorney R. M. Smith, Jr. was alert. All of the indicted officials were told to stand up and plead to the judgment. Attorney Smith interposed as objection, calling for a ruling upon his deputy, pence. Judge Walt Schmidt that he would render his sentence at the proper time. All of the defendants pleaded "net guilty" and resumed their seats. HIS HONOR'S COMMENT. Judge Wells announced that he would over-rule one of the demurrers. Attorney Smith had demurred the entire indictment and to the counts therein. Judge Wells stated that the subject had given him much thought. He found that the commonwealth attorney, and literally followed the language of the statute. He had examined the authorities submitted by counsel for the accused. He had found that generally the language of the statute was insufficient. "Every thing necessary to conduct crime was necessary to conduct it," it insisted that the insufficiency of the bank be stated as a necessary fact to conviction, although it may be implied by the language used that the bank was insolvent. INDICTMENTS QUASHED. In this particular case, I have so much doubt in my mind that I think that as this is an essential part of the indictment. I would proceed with this trial with a most essential feature in the case not sufficiently and positively stated in the indictment. For this reason, the demurrier of the counsel for the defendant is sustained and the indictment quashed." Judge Wella had hardly concluded his remarks before Commonwealth Attorney Minetree Folkes was on his feet calling for the roll of witnesses that they may be recognised for their appearance before the Grand Jury next Monday, in order to cause ex-officio W. P. Burrell, J. C. Robeson, Edward Ellis, Jr. Rev. William L. Taylor might be re-indict- WILL BE INDICTED AGAIN. They were given until Wednesday, 11 o'clock to renew their bail bond. Counsel filed out and soon the court room was deserted by all spectators. Thus ended the first sparring between counsel for the defense and counsel for the prosecution. It would have been better for the accused officers, had Judge Wells ordered the motion as this would have given them one more exemption, provided they had been convicted and had taken an appeal to the Supreme Court. As the master now stands, the Grand Jury will return indictments against them for the same offenses next Monday and they will be rearrested upon those indictments. There was much disappointment among the witnesses who had come to thealmond from other cities. ATTORNEY NEWBOME READY. It has been published that Attorney J. Thomas Newcome cannot be located and that his presence is essential to the trial of the case. Communication has been received, showing that Lawyer Newcome is in Newport News, Va., and that he is ready and willing to assist in the prosecution. The assertion that he cannot be located in causing much damage in his home city where he is much respected and beloved. It is also stated that Speaker R. Browlin Byrd is retained only to defend Mr. A. W. Halmes and no one else. He took no part in the case last Tuesday, but was an interviewee monitor. FOR SALE—The Phantom Colored Bar best Shop in the City, with a fine trade of the best clothes. Located in N. W. section of city. Games going in California. Apply to write to 1433 Pamela Ave., Burl more, like W. W. MOHL: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1912. HE WANTS THE PLANET. No better evidence of the world wide reputation of The PLANET is needed than the following extract from a letter received from Mr. W. H. Edley, who is now a resident of Hong Kong, China. He says: Hong Kong, Feb. 9th, 1912. To Editor of The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Sir:—I would like to ask you to kindly let me know the price of subscriptions for one year of your paper. I would like very much to subscribe for an American colored newspaper. I am here in China and it is very hard in fact, in connection with a colour choice of me over to see America again. I would like to get a list and price of some good colored paper or magazine. I have heard a good deal of The Richmond PLANET being a good newspaper from friends in Manila. If you will oblige me, I will enclose postage for a reply to my letter and a copy of your paper. Bex. Austin's Great Work. Staunton, Va., March 14.—In all that constitutes a church we believe the Mt. Zion Baptist stands exemplary before God in its present and past. We are truly glad that the immediate work, vacated by the resignation respectively of Rev. Drs. Moses and Wood, devolved upon such able shoulders as Rev. J. C. Austin, B. D. The latter's pastoral charge with us dates from January 1, 1912. As the result of a two weeks' revival conducted by him 118 converts were added to the church by baptism, something like one hundred persons joined the church upon watch-care and full membership application from sister churches, application for restoration to membership and by applications from other nomination, by baptism. About 100-then in two weeks were added to the church. To these are to be added much more, whose role in the church by watch-care and full membership application and observance that preceded the revival. The ministerial call for volunteers to enter the spiritual army, has been appealingly pronounced by the pastor at each greeting service. From the above named revival went a score or more converts to join other churches of the same faith and order, or to unite with different denominations. For fourteen nights in succession people of every Christian persuasion vied with each other as to which should do the most to swell the occupancy of this 1000 seating capacity auditorium to its uttermost. What marvels hath God wrought. 16 candidates were baptised last day by Rev. Austin and Phillips, in the presence of probably the largest colored congregation ever witnessed in Stanton. Activity is a jewel in Rev. Austin's personality, admired with wisdom. One hundred and ten homes have been visited and all the dwellers have been sought. Hundreds of admirers have been hosted. There are thirty candidates yet to be baptised and received into the church. These meetings were attended by Rev. R. C. Pumgall, C. H. Phillips, A. Brown, M. Johnson, M. Robinson, W. Washington, Bates and Winder. Rev. Austin did the principal preaching and it was simply magical. From point Rev. Phillips was passing through town, witnessed with us during the latter part of the last week of the ordination. He presented them immediately auditory. Rev. Buntington's person was a shab wound. Phillips preached, with emphasis of Rev. Austin in a wavy chant. herd of a worthy book feeding in green pastures. The general acclaim is we have coldest, keen it on this wise. Now, Angela is well pleased with all of the organizations in the church but his resourceful, generous individuality looks to still more vigorous advancement. An uncompromising calendar of the Baptist faith, yet he has a palm of friendship and co-operative hand for all. He now enters upon an arduous educational and financial effort, under normal contributions, $600 has been collected since January last. The fifth of May is not for our semi-annual grand rally. In all that has been done here, Angela has have the greatest impact on the church, in pleased if God can seem to use him as an humble instrumentality in effecting His purposes. He would pray deliverance from the burden of any friend, who would at any point magnify his personality. Still we admire his libernality, judgement, inspiration, conservatism, progressiveness and achievements. May God continue His lavish blessings up on Zion's congregation, up upon all Gospel missions here and upon our city, Solah. J. H. BEOKS, Church Editor. 24 Tamis Street, Staundon, Va. Murri—Lawson Nuptials. The wedding of Rev. S. S. Morris of Richmond and Miss Mary H. Lawson of Danville, Va. Thursday, April 4, 1912, will be one of the leading social events of the season because of the prominence of the contracting parties in society education al and church circles. Rev. Mr. Morris, who is one of the prominent young ministers of the Va. A. M. E. Conference is a native of Portsmouth, Va. a descendant of an old and sturdy family who trace their residence in the Tidewater section of the old Dominion for quite a century and a half. His mother has been a native church, Sunday school and missionary worker for more than forty years. Rev. Morris is a graduate of Morris College and Gamma Theological Seminary and has earned degrees of A. B. B. D. He is the pastor of the Third Street A. M. E. Church, Richmond, Va. He is trustee of Kittrell College and delegate to the General Conference of his church, which convenes in Kansas City, Mo., the coming May. Miss M. H. Lawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Madison Lawson, completed the public and high school of the city of Deuville, afterwards graduating with high honors in year 1908 from the V. N. and I. Institute of Petersburg-Ya. She is also an accomplished musician, being organi- ist of the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Receptions will be tendered the young couple at the residence of the bride-groom, northern. Thursday even- ing; April 4th; at A. M. E. Paragon- ism, Richmond, Friday evening, April 5th; at residence of Mrs. Lestada Merrie, Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday evening, April 16th. Bishop S. J. Coppin of Philadelphia will be the celebrant, assisted by Rev. W. B. Spraatler, B. D. and Dr. A. A. Galvin. The friends are invited. No cards. Salem, Va., March 16, 1912. To the Midwives, Members and Bene- givers, accompanying the Va. Repres- tative State Convention, kindly help meen. Those of us who import to al- ter the 45th Annual Session of the vacation so be held with the United Republic Church, Salem, Va., March 16, 1912 with kindly and patient to the Pastor, G. R. Milliken, Salem, Iowa. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIA ANNIVERSARY. Rey, Dr. Davis and Rev. Dr. Stokes Deliver Ables Sermons. The rain and dark clouds of last Sunday did not materially interfere with the anniversary of the Knights of Pythias, N. A., B. A., E., A., A. & A. and the Order of Calanthe in this sky. A heavy downpour of rain in the morning was followed by no rain and a leaden sky in the afternoon. One of the largest assemblages of knights was seen at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third street. The Uniform Rank was out in full force. When Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. reached the Castle, they were ready and a few moments later, beamed by the Pythian Band, better known as the Military Pal Bend, under the leadership of Capt. Mosa Johnson marched to the First Baptist Church where the exercise were COMPANIES IN LINE. Accompanying the Brickadler General were Col. John R. Chiles, Col. Roosec C. Mitchell, Col. E. W. R. Glenn, Col. R. S. Nelson, Capt. B. H. Peyton, Capt. Richard Thompkins, Capt. R. H. Fauntleroy, Capt. W. H. Willis. Major W. F. Wever was in command of the battalion. Eureka Co., No. 1 was commanded by Capt. Edmund Smith. Planet Co. No. 8 was commanded by Capt. Adolphus Jackson. The Pythian Cadets made a fine showing under the command of Commander James Ammons. The subordinate lodges were in charge of District Deputy Robert Gray and his marshals. FINE EXERCISES. Just before 2:30 the marching delegates entered the church. A large crowd had gathered. The devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. W. T. Johnson. D. D. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. in fellowship language introduced the panel, center Rev. Dr. D. W. Davis, who delivered an excellent sermon. He thoroughly exhausted the audience and it was with difficulty that the hand clapping feeling was restrained. The Fifth Street Baptist Church Choir rendered appropriate selections and Leader A. Coy was complimented upon the excellence of the music furnished. A FINE BALLAD SINGER Mr. Joseph Matthews was indeed a "star." He rendered three selections with telling effect. He has a voice of bewitching sweetness and charming melody. He takes time and his enunciation is very good. He takes high rank as a ballad singer and his unpretentious manner makes many friends for him. After a selection by the choir and an action was rendered by the Manchester quartet. Just before he delivered his sermon, Rev. Dr. Davis had asked that the Manchester quartette be permitted to sing. It was apparently to furnish him with inspiration. THAT MANCHESTER QUARTETTE The appearance of three little girl and one little boy, attired in the plainest costume attracted attention, but when they began singing, it was followed by amusement and everybody smiled or laughed. They created unbounded enthusiasm. At the conclusion, a collection of $7.40 was lifted for them. Another feature of the entertainment was the decorations upon the rostrum. They consisted of a prefusion of cut flowers and palms. A note of thanks was tendered to the First Baptist Church Rev. D. W. Dayyat, D. D. the Rev. D. W. Dayyat, Church Rev. D. W. Dayyat, Church Rev. D. W. Dayyat, Mr. Joseph M. Beecher and the Committee of Arrangements, Miss M. L. Chiles, Chairman, Mrs. Anna Tayiot, Mrs. Lacy Cross, Col. Wilma Wyatt, Col. W. Henry Jones, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Mrs. Clara G. Pervall, Mrs. Kate Thomas. After the benediction was an anecdote, the Uniform Rank filed out and marched back to the Pythian Castle. THE COURTS THERE TOO. The anniversary exercises of the Order of Catharine took place immediately afterwards. The preliminary exercises over, Gov. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., pastor of the Blessed Baptist Church was introduced and he presented an able sermon to the female department of the Order. His remarks elicited approval. The Sect and Baptist Church Chair purchased works for the occasion under the leadership of Ock Thomas M. Crump. They rendered several selections to the delight of the audience. Ock Thomas M. Crump, in a voice rich and mellow sung a sode, which brought forth communication and aid to an intercession, he was induced to answer by special request. "There were for the Water." cause of much favorable comment. They were the finest ever seen in this city for such an occasion. Mrs. Anna Taylor, District Deputy Grand Worthy, Counsellor sat on the rostrum. A vote of thanks was tendered the Order by the First Baptist Church and all retired well pleased with the afternoon's entertainment. PYTHIANS IN HANOVER CO Anniversary exercises were observed last Sunday afternoon by Georgetown Lodge, No. 159 and Georgetown Court, No. 152 at the Nasarine Baptist Church. The knights marched from the Castle to the church. Rev. J. L. Brown, the pastor delivered a fine anniversary sermon. Sir James Fells of Newport New was present. Sir R. H. Tinsley was master of ceremonies. A WORD FROM SOUTH BOSTON. At South Boston, Va., District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor Famille L. Coleman was in charge of the courts. The sermon to the Order of Calanthe was preached at the First Baptist Church at 2:30 P. M. by Rev. C. S. Coleman. Zion Traveller's Court was out and enjoyed the exercises. AT CHATHAM, VA. Ebenezer Lodge, No. 116 of Chatham, Va. observed the anniversary of the Order of Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. at the Main Street Baptist Church last Sunday. Chancellor Commander A. M. Martin was in charge of the lodge and District Deputy Grand Chancellor William Lacy, Jr. in charge of the exorcises. Rev. J. E. Harris delivered an able sermon. K. of R. and S. Haskins stated the condition of the lodge. Miss G. E. Banks and Miss Emma Robinson delivered the offering. Chancellor Commander Martin also spoke. Knoxville, Tenn., March 19, 1912. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor of the PLANET. Richmond, Va. My Dear Sir:—East Tennessee, the greatest Republican stronghold in the South, deeply appreciates the interest you are taking in giving publicity among our people, to the heroic stand taken by our great big hearted Attorney General Wickersham with respect to the un-American effort to unseat Mr. Lewis in the American Bar Association. I wish there was some way by which you could let the Attorney General know how grateful: the colored citizens of the country are to him. In my opinion the appointment of Mr. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General and the position taken by his chief with respect to his membership in the American Bar Association are the two epoch making events of Mr. Taft's administration in regard to the advancement of the colored people of the country. Mr. Taft has certainly gone all Republican Presidents "one better" in giving us the Assistant Attorney General. The appointment of Mr. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General has strengthened the local status of every colored lawyer in the country. The stand taken by Attorney General Wickersham is as significant as the appointment itself. It was a joy to look over the colored exchanges last week to see the last man of them right out on the fine line—Even our old friend Trottier, who questioned the motive of the administration in appointing Mr. Lewis—goes to his rescue when principle is involved. After all is said and done, these Negro Editors of ours can be depended upon to fight the battles of the race—God bless—and may we give them better support. 2ed St. A. M. K. Church Notes. Men's Day will be observed Sunday, 11 A. M. Palm Sunday Sermon, Theme: "The. Triumphal Entry." Special services, $120 P. M. Interesting program all day. Appropriate music. A "Name Social," will be given at residence of Mrs. Sudele G. Denny, N. Third Street, Monday evening, April 1st. A "Pie Social," will be given at residence of Mrs. M. A. B. Smith, W. Jackson Street, Tuesday evening, April 2nd. Shakespeare (A. J. Coppen, D. D. will present the Baster. Sunday service, 11 A. M. at 3rd St. Church. The Schoows of the 3rd B. A. M. B. Church invite the members and friends of the church to a re- ception to be held on the third day, Nov. 8. Mr. Harris and his wife, Dr. R. B. Harris and his wife, Dr. Frady would be April 6th of the parishage. 11. M. B. Church Street, June 20th BASKET BALL Monticello A. A. Defcata Howard. Howard University Basket Ball team with their full strength to Che front journeyed to Pittsburgh, Friday March 8, and were defeated by the Monticello A. A. team of that city by the score of 24 to 19 in a clean yet furiously played game. Howard seemed shot to pieces in the second half of the game after two long shots were caged by Hall and Powey from back of the center of the floor, these shots easily featured Monticello's end of the game. Gilmore, Howard's crack center and always sure goal shooter was held even by Hall. a novice at the game. Howard was no woofly off in her foul shooting and only made a showing when Gilmore was called on to do the shooting. The first half ended 9 to 8 in favor of Monticello. In the second period Monticello seemed determined to carry the game to Howard and fairly swept them off their feet. Grey the famous guard, Nixon and Sykeg the fast forwards could do nothing with Monticello's play and Howard was, completely drastically, their reputed team work was nowhere near. C. Powey the former State College star fifteen of the Monticello's polite Dorssey Clark and 9. Powey played brilliantly, breaking up most of Howard's plays. The backbone of the Monticello's feel safe in claiming the Colored Basket Ball Championship of the country and stand ready to defend it against all comers. —Mrs. Amelia Jones of 200 West 21st Street is confined to her home on account of sickness. —Mr. R. T. Cogbill, Sr. continues very sick at his residence, 1017 Hull Street, South Richmond, Ya. —Mr. H. L. Jackson of Blackstone Va., who has been quite ill, is improving. —Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist Church Philadelphia, Pa., called on us this week. He is arranging to remove his family to Philadelphia, Pa. MOVES FROM BROAD STREET TO 300 N. SECOND STREET. Just Around the Corner from Broad. We invite our friends and patrons to call and see us. You will have money by doing so as our rent is much cheaper and our expenses are much less, therefore we can give our customers the benefit on their purchases. Hoping that you will not, forsake us because we are on a side street. J. L. MULLER, Pron Removal Notice. Miss Rutherford has moved from her old location, 324 E. Broad St. to 900 W. Broad. She will carry a nice line of Millinery, Notions, etc. Will be glad to see her old customers. An Interesting Debate A most interesting debate was held at Howard University Friday night, March 16th when the Virginia Union Academy met the Academy of Howard to debate the subject: "Resolved That Capital, Punishment Should Be Abolished." Union had the affirmative, while the negative was excused by Howard. The unanimous decision of the judges declaring for Union supplanted even some of her most ardent supporters. Union completely outcashed her opponents in argument and oratory, while Howard developed considerable strength in rebuttal. For Union, Mr. E. Eugene Smith of Croset opened. Mr. Smith was at his best and in a clear, poignant way convinced the audience of the impracticability of the death penalty. Mr. A. M. Walker of Northumberland, captivated his audience by his frequent outbursts of oratory, also with artificial references to his opponents. Mr. Ashby F. Stephens of Drowryville deserves praise for his well-polished匀animity in rebuttal. Howard was represented by Moyen George Washington, N. O. Goodloe, and George Hall, while Mr. H. C. Mirazon served as alternate. A reception was tendered the visiting team after the enclosure, at which Union's alternate, Mr. Thomas C. Williams of Lynchburg spoke on "The Hope of Peace." Saw, J. K. Harper of Chesapeake, O. will preside at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday at 11 A. M. and 9 P. M. The public is invited Splendid Hazard. By Harold MacGrath [Copyright, by Bobbs-Merrill Company.] In Prineville, he meets Karl Brettman, a man in a dark adventurer, and sees a beauty in a girl, who interests him. Brettman dreams of securing 400 francs. Pearaud, a French detective and butterfly collector, is shadowing Brettman for a crime. He is also interested in Brettman. In New York Fitzgerald meets Catha. Fitzgerald on a wager poems as if inlaid the vender of plaster statuettes. A beautiful young woman asks him to call at a house in Dalton. The house is owned by Admiral Killigrew. The beautiful young woman, Miss Laura Killigrew, asks him to become her father's secretary and clear up a mysterious taping in the house. The burglary alarm wires have been tampered with. Brettman instead of Fitzgerald is engaged as the admiral's secretary. Hunting pirate treasure is the admiral's hobby. His ancient home had been owned by a French sultan. Laura tells Brettman about the strange tale in the big chimney of the house. Fitzgerald is intrigued by the intruder who is seeking something in the chimney. Some one has been tampering with Brettmann's trunk. Fitzgerald and Brettmann find loomed brick in the chimney and a chalk diagram. The admiral partly dismantles the chimney, and Brettmann finds papyrus describing a treasure hidden in Coralica by soldiers of Napoleon to aid his return to power. The admiral plans to take his daughter, Fitzgerald, Brettmann and others to Coralica on his ship. Cathews and Hildegarda von Mitter are invited. Ferraud meets the admiral and gets an invitation. Fitzgerald learns that Brettmann has led to him. Both are in love with Laurel. Fitzgerald accuses Ferraud of having explored the chimney. Ferraud admits to a French detective Hildegarda still loves Brettmann, who has jilted her. Cathews loves Hildegarda. Brettmann and Cathews quarrel over Hildegarda, of whom Brettmann speaks in complimentary terms. The admiral party calls for Coralica on the treasure hunt. Ferraud discovers that one of the foremost Orientists of France is on the point in disguise an Ibard. Laura becomes interested in Fittigerdal. Brettmann plots to secure the treasure Laura refuses to marry him. Ferraud promises Fittigerdal that he will reveal Brettmann's secret. Ferraud tells the entire party that a young man, a descendant of Napoleon, is planning to invade France. Brettmann threatens Ferraud with death. CHAPTER XVIII. THE FIXES OF AITONK BEFORE sunup they were on the way again. The two young women rode in the same carriage. Occasionally the men got down out of the theatre and walked on either side of them. Whenever an abrupt turn was forward Fitzgerald put his hand in his pocket. From whichever way it came he at least was not going to be found unprepared. Sometimes when he heard M. Fitzgerald's laughter drift back from the admiral's carriage he longed to throttle the agravating little man. Yet soon the weight on Fitzgerald's shoulders Bightened. If M. Ferrand could laugh, why not he? "Ian't that view lovely?" exclaimed Laura as the Capo di Rosso glowed in BILL JONES "MEN'T THAT VIEW LOVELY!" EXCLAMED LAURA. the sun with all the beauty of a fabulous ruby. "Are you afraid at all, Hildegarde?" "No, Laura; I am only sad. I wish we were safely on the yacht. Yes, yes; I am afraid of something, I know not what." "I never dreamed that he could be dishemet. He was a gentleman somewhere in his past. I do not quite understand it all. The money does not interest my father so much as the more sport of finding it. You know it was agreed to divide his share among the officers and seamen, and the balance to our guests. It would have been such fun." And the woman who knew everything must perfume remain silent. With what eloquence she could have defended him! "Do you think we shall find it wholly." "No, Leave." A carriage came round one of the pneumatic collection. It was empty. M. Personally excited the number. He was put together. He had been waiting for the train until it gave Pneumatics, and just for them to arrive. It was not the man who had driven it out of Ajacello. He was an Evanson. A small butterfly fluttered alongside M. Ferraud jumped out and swooped with his hat. He decided not to impart his discovery to the others. He was assured that the man from Evia knew absolutely nothing and that to question him would be a waste of time. At this very moment it was not unlikely that Brettmann and his confederate were crossing the mountains, perhaps with three or four sturdy duckies, their panders packed with precious metal. And the dupe would go straight to his fellow captivators and share his millions. Curious old world! They saw Erika at sunset, one of the seven glories of the earth. The little village rests on the side of a mountain, nearly 3,000 feet above the sea, the sea itself lying miles away to the west. V shaped between two enormous shafts of burning granite. Even the admiral forget his smoldering wrath. Had he been given his way the admiral would have gone out that very night with lunarets. "Folly!" To find a given point in an unknown forest at night impossible. Am I not right, Mr. Carbone? Of course, Brettmann's man know Allone from his youth. Suppose," continued M. Ferraud, "that we spend two days here? "What? Give him all the leeway?" The admiral was amazed that M. Ferraud could suggest such a stupidity. "No. In the morning we make the search. If there's nothing there well return at once." M. Ferrand spoke to the young woman who waited on the table. "Please and Carlo, the driver, and bring him here." Ten minutes later Carlo came in, hat in hand, curious. "Carlo," began the Frenchman, leaning on his elbows, his sharp eyes boring into the mild brown ones of the Corleian, "we shall not return to Carghose tomorrow, but the day after." "Not return tomorrow?" cried Carlo, dismayed. "Ah, but the gentleman does not understand. We are engaged day after tomorrow to carry a party to Bonifacio. We have promised. We must return tomorrow." Firguald saw the drift and bent forward. The admiral fumed because his Italian was an indifferent article. "But," pursued M. Ferrand, "we will pay you 20 francs the day, just the same." "We are promised." Carlo shrugged and spread his hands, but the glitter in his questioner's eyes disquieted him. "What's this about?" growled the admiral. "The man says he must take us back tomorrow or leave us, as he has promised to return to Ajacelo to carry a party to Bonifacio." M. Ferraud explained. "Then if we don't go tomorrow it means a week in this fortnaken hole." "Then you will return tomorrow without us." Carlo's face hardened. "But"— "Come outside with me," said M. Ferraud in a tone which brooked no further argument. The two stopped out into the hall, and when the Frenchman came back his face was animated. "M. Ferraud," said the admiral felly, "my daughter has informed me what passed between you. I must say that you have taken a deal upon yourself." "M. Ferraud is right," put in Fitzgerald. "You too?" "Yes. I think the time has come for M. Ferraud to offer full explanations." The butterfly hunter resumed his chair. "They will remain or carry on to Corte. From there we can take the train back to Ajacello, saving a day and a half. Admiral, I have a confession to make. It will surprise you, and I offer you my apologies at once." He paused. He loved moments like this, when he could resort to the dramatic in perfect security. "I was the man in the chimney." The admiral gasped. Laura dropped her hands to the table. Catheve sat back stiffly. Coldfeld stared. Hildegarde shaded her face with the newspaper through which she had been idly glancing. "Patience!" as the admiral made as through to press back his chair. "Mr. Fingerald knew from the beginning. Is that not true?" "It is, M. Ferraud. Go on." "Brittmann is in the great-grandson of Napoleon. By this time he is in traveling over some mountain pass with his inheritance snug, under his hand. You will ask. Why all these subterfuges, this dodging in and out? Then. Could I have found the secret of the chimney—I worked from memory—none of us would be here, and one of the great, construction of the time would have been slipped in the end. What do you think? Britmann proposes to go into France with the mouth of an enemy to his hand, and if he does he will be shot. The polygon is in divide this theory coming his construction when, with their guiding fall of gold, will desert him the day he leaves." Francon. Do you recount the year on the maple? It was not made by a cowher. It is the mark of a bullher. It recounted it while a correspondent in the Bulgarian. Well, it has a mark on his brain also—that is to say, he is conscious of what he does, but not why he does it. He is a cowher with an obsession. This wound, together with the beast of Germany, brutal policy toward him and France, indifference, has made him a kind of monomaniac. You will ask why I, an accredited agent in the employ of France, have not stepped in and arrested him. My evidence might bring him to trial, but it would never convict him. Once liberated he would begin all over again, meaning that I also would have to start in at a new beginning. So I have let him proceed to the end, and in doing so I shall save him in spite of himself. You see. I have a bit of sentiment." Hildegarde could have reached over and kissed his hand. "Why didn't he tell all this to me?" cried the admiral. "Why didn't he tell me? I would have helped him." "To his death perhaps," grimly, "for the money was only a means, not an end. The great-grandson of Napoleon—well, he will never rise from his obscurity, and some time when the clouds lift from his brain he will remember me." And this whimsical turn caused even the admiral to struggle with a smile. He was a square, generous old sailor. He stretched his hand across the table. M. Ferraud took it, but with a shade of doubt. "You are a good man," M. Ferraud. "I'm terribly disappointed. All my life I have been goose chusling for treasures, and this one I had set my heart on. You've gone about it the best you could. If you had told me from the start there wouldn't have been any fun." "That is it," cagely assented Mr. Ferraud, "Why should I apoll you innocent pleasure? For a month you have lived in a fine adventure, and no harm has befallen. And when you return to America you will have an unrivaled story to tell, but I do not think you will ever tell all of it. He will have paid in wretchedness and humiliation for his inheritance. And who has a better right to it? Every coin may represent a sacrifice, a deprivation, and those who gave it freely gave it to the blood. Is it sometimes that you laugh at French sentiment? "Not in Frenchmen like you," said the admiral gravely. "Good! To men of heart what matters the tongue? "Poor young man!" sighed Laura. "I am glad he has found it. Didn't I wish him to have it?" "And you know all this?" said Cathewe into the ear of the woman he loved. Thinly the word came through her lips, "Yes." Cathleen chin sank into his collar, and he stared at the crumbs on the cloth. "But what meant this argument with the driver?" asked Coldfield. "Yes, I had forgotten that," supplemented the sailor. "On the way back to Carghene, we should have been stopped. We were to be quietly but effectively suppressed till our Napoleon set sail for Marseille." M. Forraud bowed. He had no more to add. The admiral shook his head. He had come to Corsica as one might go to Piccé, and here he had almost toppled over into a gulf. The significance of the swift glance which was exchanged between M. Ferraud and Fitzgerald was not translatable to Laurn, who alone caught it in its transit. An idea took possession of her, but this idea had nothing to do with the glance, which she forgot almost instantly. As Laura was of the disposition to walk down by the cemetery, to take a final view of the sea before it melted into the sky, what was more natural than that. Fitzgerald should follow her? They walked on in the peace of twilight, unmindful of the curiosity of the villagers or of the play of children about their feet. The two were strangely allot, but to him it seemed that she must presently hear the thunder of his insurgent heart. At length she paused; gazing toward the sea, upon which the 'purples, of night were rapidly deepening. "And if I had not made that wager!" he said, following about his train' of thought. "And if I had not bought that statu- site" pickling up the thread. If she had laughed nothing might have happened. But her voice was low and sweet and ruminating. The dam of his reserve broke, and the great current of life rushed over his lips, to happiness or to misery, whichever it was to be. "I love you, and I can no more help telling you than I can help breathing. I have tried not to speak. I have so little to offer. I have been lonely, so long. I did not mean to tell you here, but I've done it." He ceased, terrified. His voice had diminished down to a mere whisper and finally refused to work at all. Still she stared out to sea. He found his voice again. "So there isn't any hope? There is some one else?" He was very miserable. "Had there been I should have stopped you at once." "But"— "Do you wish a more delicate answer, John?" And only then did she turn her head. "Too!" his courage coming back full and strong. "I want you to tell me you love me and while my arms are round you like this. May I kiss you?" "No other man save my father shall." "Ah, I haven't done anything to deserve this!" "In English, I have never heard it in English." "No," panging back. "Don't like, 'you have heard it in Italian.'" "Looks, I didn't think that. There was error may any one else. Buy it." He do need it anyway. He suggested it on through the witness who was Bernard burying his son in the cemetery. And then, for the day that he became embalmed in his grave, with his chest twisting, the bury in his head they together wrestled, but did not die the final conquest of the day. "And I have just the courage to ask you to be my wife!" It was wonderful. Napoleon, his husted great grandson, the treasure, all these had ended to exist. "John, when you lay in the corridor the other night and I thought you were dying I kissed you." Her arm tightened as did his. "Will you promise never to tell if I confess a sinner?" "I promise." Two millions of shining money, gold, silver and English coins. And he hugged again or he resumed it. For "You never would have had the courage to propose if I hadn't deliberately brought you here for that purpose. It was I who proposed to you." "I'm afraid I don't quite get that," doubtfully. "Then we'll let the subject rest where it is. You might bring it up in after years." Her laughter was happy: "He raised his eyes reverently toward heaven. She would never know that she had stood in danger. "But your father!" with a note of sudden alarm. And all the worldly sides to the dream burst upon him. "Father is only the 'company.' John." And so the admiral himself admitted when, an hour later, Fitzgerald put the skirt before him briefly and frankly. "It is all her concern, my son, and only part of mine. My part is to see that you keep in order. I don't know; I rather expected it. Of course," and the admiral, shifting his clear, "there's a business end to it. I'm a rich man, but Laura isn't worth a cent—in money. Young men generally get the wrong idea that daughters of wealthy parents must also be wealthy." He was glad to hear the young man laugh. It was a good sign. "My earnings and my income amount to about $7,000 a year, and with an object in view I can earn more. She says that will be plenty." The course of true love does not always run so smoothly. A short distance up the fond Cathete was grimly fighting for his happiness. "Hildegarde, forget him. Must he spoll both our lives? Come with me. Be my wife. I will make any and all sacrifices toward your contentment." "Have we not thrashed this all out before, my friend?" sadly. "Do not ask me to forget him; rather let me ask you to forget me." "He will never be loyal to any one but himself. He is scathful to the core he has not proved it." Where were the words he needed for this last defense? Where his arguments to convince her? He was losing. In his soul we know it. If his love for her was strong, here for this outcast was no ease. "I have never wished the death if any man, but if he should die"— She interrupted him, her hands extended as in pleading. Never had he seen a woman's face so sad. "Arthur, I have more faith in you than in any other man, and I prize your friendship above all other things. But who can my must to the heart? Not you. Not I. Have I not fought it? Have I not driven to forget, to trample out this fire? Have you yourself not tried to banish me from your heart? Have you succeeded? Do you remember that sight in Munich? My voice broke miserably, and my public career was ruined. What caused it? A note from him saying that he had tired of the role and was leaving. It was not my love he wanted, after all—a slip of paper—which, at any time, would have been his for the asking. But I cannot argue more." Wearily. "He will tire of you again," desperately. ...I know it. But in my heart something speaks that he will need me, and when he does I shall go to him." CHAPTER XIX. THE DUTR. THE next morning Fitzgerald found Cathewe's note under his plate. He opened it with a sense of disaster. My Dear Old Jack - I'm off. Found a pony and shall jog to 'Alacio by the route we came. Please take my luggage back to the Grand hotel, and I'll pick it up. And have my trunk sent ashore too. I shan't go back to America with the admiral, bless his kindly old heart! I'm off here for emergencies. There for emergencies. I suppose you'll understand. He kind to her and help her in any way you can. I hope I shan't run out Brettmann. I should kill him out of hand. Happiness to you, my boy. And make I shan't leave the ark sing. Explain my departure in any way you please. CATHEWEK The reader folded the note and stowed it away. Somehow the bloom was gone from things. He was very fond of Cathewe, kindly, gentle, brave and chirrious. What was the matter with the woman anyhow? How to explain? The simplest way would be to state that Cathewe had gone back to Ajacio. Flitgerald was gloomy till that moment when Laura joined him. To her, of course, he explained the situation. Neither she nor Hildegarde cared to go up to the forest. They would find nothing but a hole. And, indeed, when the men returned from the plains, weary, dusty and disheartened, they declared that they had gone not with the expectation of finding anything, but to certify a fact. M. Ferrand was now in a great hurry. Forty miles to Corta. Night or not they must make the town. There was no discussion; the spell of the little man was upon them all. Racing his horse all through the night, scorching for fresh oats of dawn and finding them, and away again, climbing, turning, climbing round this point, over that bridge, through this cut, out the few branches, the passers of horse open but. As this troughside pace no longer in driving at driven before the animal had covered both the distance to thorns. How strong and how the spirit was on an impatient a thundering horse gliding up to the public bench the same troughside building a spike up the shaft of the trough; once the entrance the old number may come. The day of London dripped and tainted. On the morning of the 12th of December, the general secretary of the party met with a few friends. The general secretary then met with his daughter in an elegant banquet. But he was obstructed by three who were a point of shame on the occasion when his secretary that and be asked and which he gave them the coup of power the first hour of their morning. Somewhere in Bishkekabad van Kissar my servant the spirit of heaven. He had made a mistake. Two millions of shining money, gold silver and English coins. And he hugged again or be resumed it. For real, sought in a trap. He was dwarf, but not dwarf enough. What a stroke-to make princesses of the party on their return, to carry the girl away into the mountain. Would say of them think of treasures, of one admirer, with her as a hostage? He thought not. In the bus and cry for her three elements in the game would fall to a minor place. Well he know m. Ferrand. He would call to heavens for the infidel of Laura. Love her! Yes. She was the one woman. But men did not make captives of women and obtain their love. He knew the futility of such coercion. He had committed two or three secondly acts, but never would be or could be stalk to such a level. No. He meant no harm at all. Frighten her, perhaps, and terrorize the other, and mahap take a kisse as he left her to the coming of her frides. Nothing more serious than that. Two millions in gold and silver and English notes! He would have his revenge for all these years of struggle and failure, for the cold and calous policies of state which had driven him to this piece of rogues. On their beads he be! Two thousand in Marsellieu, ready at his beck and call, a thousand more in Avignon, in Lyonna, in Dijon, and so on up to Paris, the Paris he had cursed one night from under his mansard. In a week he would have them shaking in their boots. The unemployed, the idiots, thieves, his to a man. If he saw his own death at the end little he cared. He would have one great moment, pay off the score, France as well as Germany. He would at least live to see them harrying each other's throat. To declare to France that he was only Germany's tool, put forward for the sole purpose of destroying peace in the midst of a great military crisis. He had other papers, and the prying little Frenchman had never seen those—clever forgeries, bearing the signature of certain great German personages. These should they find at the selected moment. Let them rip one another's throats, the dogs! Two million of france—enough to purchase 100,000 men. "Ah, my great-grandma, if spirits have eyes you will see something presently. And that poor little secret agent thinks I want a crown on my head! There was a time— Curse these infernal headaches." On, on, burry, burry. The driver was faithful, a some time brigand and later a harbor boatman, and of all his confederates this one was the only man he dared trust on an errand of this kind. Evisa. They did not pause. They ate their supper on the way. With three Sardinian donkeys, arrong and patient little brutes, with lanterns and shovels and sacks, the two fared into the phae. Alone was all familiar ground to the Corsican, who, in younger days, had taken his illegal tithe from these hilla. They found the range soon enough, but made a dozen mistakes in measurements, and it was long toward midnight, when the oil of the lanteran ran low, that their shovels bore down into the precious pocket. The earth slew. They worked like madmen, with nervous energy and power of will, and when the chest finally came into sight, rotten with age and the soak of earth, they fell back against a tree, on the verge of collapse. The hair was damp on their foreheads, their breath came harshly, almost in soba. Suddenly Brettmann fell upon his knees and laughed hysterically, plunged his blistered hands into the shining heap. It played through his fingers in little musical cascade. He rose. "Pleter, you have been faithful to me. Put your two hands in there!" "I, master!" stupefied. "Go on! Go on! As much as your two hands can hold is yours. Dig them in deep, man, dig them in deep!" With a cry Pietro dropped and burrowed into the gold and silver. A dozen times he started to withdraw his hands, but they trembled so that some of the coins, would slip and fall. At last, with one desperate plunge, the money running down toward his elbows, he turned aside and let fall his burden on the new earth outside the WILL JONES "Honor, my Lord name is mary." showered off. He asked briefly to leave him. In a shouting voice, Brunelman laughed widely. "You must be here for them. For it is here long past." "What is it that caused you to leave? "Because you were doing your best for them." But to be brief. "What is it that caused you to leave? "Because you were doing your best for them." But to be brief. "What is it that caused you to leave? "Because you were doing your best for them." But to be brief. The following are examples of how to use the function `floor` in Python. ```python floor(3.5) # returns 3 floor(10.5) # returns 10 floor(25.5) # returns 25 floor(30.5) # returns 30 ``` "Would you then?" replied Hammond, luggage-boy he raised to his head with whose the hand. "What, all that?" He wiped his face and pouted, pouted his eye down firmly, tugging a grip, bring, stroked the rear daundry, and the harmonious journey began. Seven men more or less young, with a general air of disdain about their age and a varied degree of restlessness, furling at the corners of their mouth, seven men sat around a table in a house in the late 18th Century. They had been eating and drinking rather curiously for Alcock. The Rise St. Charles is neither spacious nor elegant as a thoroughfare, but at that point where it turns into the Place Latitude it is quiet and unfrequented at night. A film of tobacco smoke wavered in and out among the gathering candies and streamed round the empty and part empty champagne bottom. At the head of the table at Brettmann, still pale and weary from his horrice labor. His face was immobile, but his eyes were lively. "Tomorrow," said Boltmann, "we leave for France. On board the moxy will be equally divided. Then for the work." His voice was cold, authoritative. "Two million!" mused Picard from behind a fresh cloud of smoke. He picked up a bottle and gravelly filled his glass, beckoning to the others to follow his example. At another sign all rose to their feet. Bretmann alone remaining seated. "To the day!" Bretmann's lips grew thinner. That was the only sign. Outside, glancing obliquely though the grilled window, stood M. Ferrand. He had not seen these worthies together before. He knew all of them. There was not a shoulder among them that he could not lay a hand upon and voice with surety the order of the law. Courage of a kind they all had, names once written gloriously in history, but now merely passports into dubious traffic. Heroes of boulevard exploits, duelists, card players—could it be, possible that any man, man should be their dupe? After the strange toast be bearded many things—some he had known, some he had guessed at and some which surprised him. Only loyalty was lacking to make them feared indeed. Presently he saw Brettmann rise. He was tired; he needed sleep. On the morrow, then, and in a week the first blow of the new terror. They all bowed respectfully as he passed out. The secret agent followed him till he reached the Place de Palmira. He put a hand on Briettmann's arm. The latter, highly keyed, swung quickly, and, seeing who it was (the man he believed to be at that moment a prisoner in the middle country), he made a minister move toward his hip. M. Ferraud was in peril, and he realized it. "Walt a moment, monster. There is no need of that. I repeat, I warn you well, and this night I will prove it. What? Do you not know that I could have put my hand on you at any moment? Attend. Return with me to the little house in Roe St. Charles." Briettmann's hand again stole toward his hip. "You were betraying!" "You. Be careful. My death would not change anything. I wish to dislodge you. I wish to prove to you how deeply you are the deeps of those men. All your plans have been remarkable, but not one of them has remained unknown to me. You clamp the hand of this duke who plays the sailor under the name of Picard, who halls you as a future emperor and stakes you behind your back. How? Double face that he is, have I not proof that he has written detail after detail of this conspiracy to the Qual d'Ormay and that he has clung to you only to gain his share of what is yours? Come back with me and let your own ears testify. The fact that I am not in the mountains should convince you how strong I am." Brettmann hesitated, wondering whether he bad best shoot this merler then and there and cut for it or follow him. "I will go with you. But I give you this warning: if what I hear is not what you expect me to hear I promise to put a bullet into your modding head." "I agree to that," replied the other. He did not underestimate his danger. Neither did he undervalue his intimate knowledge of human nature. With what emotions Brettmann returned to the scene of his triumph his self appointed companion could only curse. He had determined to save this young foe in spite of his mood, and never had been told to bring his encounters to their forestrung end. And there was sentiment between all this unfortunate he would not have been attenuated to grow. Open crenn, then, State investment crenn, depressed the sorrow of the seven years later. If by this time the wiser had not learned their ingenues or if they had disappeared! But fortune favors the president as jean than the brave. The predicates were still at the table, and there were brush bottom of wine. They were haughty and talking. In all no more than three minutes and elapsed since Brutoneman's departure. M. Purnell attributed him by the window and kept a hand lightly upon the arm, as one should play a guitar on a trumpet. This scene will up. The touch of it bore heat and irritation. They were beholden into pitch the light and questioned quantity of with. And he, paint that, had believed them to be his dragon, whispered he was them. Gently he disengaged himself from M. Fornard's group. "What are you going to do?" whispered the tutor of butterflies. "What and do." Brittmann walked admirably round to the entrance, and M. Fornard sent sight of him for a few minutes. Picard was on his feet, unbending his legs by summing a Napoleonic pose. The door opened, and Brittmann stood quietly on the threshold. A bush full on the revolver. There was something hungly in the contempt with which Brittmann swept the startled face. He stepped up to the table, took up a full glass of wine and threw it into Picard's face. "Only one of us shall leave Corvica," said the daze. "Ocasionally it will not be your majesty," replied Picard, wiping his face with a serviette. "His majesty will waive his rights to meet me. Tomorrow morning I shall have the pleasure of writing this to this Napoleonic phase. You foot, you shall die for that." "That," returned Brettmann, still unruffled as he went to the door, "remains to be seen. Gentlemen, I regret to say that your monetary difficulties must continue unchanged." "Oh, for fifty years ago!" murmured the little scene shifter from the dark of his shelter. CHAPTER XX. THE END OF THE DREAM. T took place on the road which runs from Ajaccio to the Cap de la Parata, not far from Iles Sainte guitarines; not a main traveled road. The sun had not yet crossed the mountains, but a crisp gray light lay over land and sea. They fired at the same time. The duke lowered his pistol, and through the smoke he saw Brettman pitch headforemost into the thick white dust. Presently, nay almost instantly, the dust at the left side of the stricken man became a creeping blackness. The surgeon sprang forward. "Dead?" asked Picard. "No; through the shoulder. He has a fighting chance." "The wine last night; my hand wasn't steady enough. Some day the pool will curse me as a poor shot. The devil take the business. Not a sou for my pocket out of all the trouble I have had. But for the want of a clear head I should be a rich man today. Who thought he would come back?" "I did," answered M. Ferrand. "You?" "With pleasure! I brought him back. Thank me for my empty pockets, monsieur. If I were you I should not hand at Marseille. Try L'Avrano, by all means Lirarne." "For this?" asked Picard, with a jerk of his head toward Breitmann, who was being carefully lifted on to the carriage seat. "No; for certain letters you have not sent to the Quai d'Ormay. You commend me!" "What do you mean?" truculently, for Icard was not in a kindly mood this morning. But the little Bajard of the Quat laughed. "Shall I explain here, moonseur? Be wise. Go to Italy, all of you. This time you overreached. Moonseur is Duc. Your ballet dancers must wait." And, with rais insolence, M. Ferrand showed his back to his audience, climbed to the seat by the driver and bade him return slowly to the Grand hotel. Silldagarde refused to see any one but M. Ferraud. Hour after hour she sat by the bed of the injured man. Knowing that in all probability he would live, she was happy for the first time in years. He needed her; alone, broken, wrecked among his dreams, he needed her. He had recovered consciousness almost at once, and his first words were a curse on the man who had aimed so badly. He could talk but little, but he declared that he would rip the bendages if they did not prop his pillows so he could see the bay. The second time he woke he saw Silldagarde. She smiled brokenly, but he turned his head aside. "Has the yacht gone yet?" "No." "When will it sail?" "Tomorrow." Her heart swelled with better pain. The woman he loved would be on that yacht. But toward Laura she said nothing but window tinged with a wooering cry. Was not she, Hilderidge, so beautiful? And Laura more tainted than she, more compliments) Also, you see. She had the unconscious power of making this man love her. To and fro she waved the fan. For swaddle, at any rate, he would be bored and when M. Ferraud said that the others wished to say themselves she declined. She could look some of them in the face again, nor did she care. She was sorry for Carfawne. She would be in broken anborn, but a man has the world under his feet,冠 of action, changes to untouch the his heart. A woman has little to but her needs. All through the day and all through the night she remained on guard, corresponding her visit only to M. Ferrored. With cool oceans she kept down the fores, wiping the hot face and bends the world poll through the oceans night, but he would have no power to speak. There was something about the man the captain did not understand. He loved as if he did not give up. The morning signal for all of the crew. Forcibly brought the man and accompanied him in the water. He was taken into custody. SATURDAY ... MARCH 20, 1912 pillow till be could see outside. Only two or three fishing boats were visible. "When will the yacht call?" "Always that question. Go to sleep I will wake you when I see it." "I've been a soundrel, Hildegarde;" "and be closed his eyes." Where would she go when he left this room? For the future was always rising up with this question. What would she do? How would she live? She too shut her eyes. The door opened. The visitor was M. Ferrand. He touched his lips with a finger and stole toward the bed. "Better!" She nodded. "Are you not dead for sleep?" "It does not matter." Bretmann's eyes opened, for his brain was wide awake. "Ferrand?" "Yes. They wished me to say goodbye for them." "To me? incredulously." "They have none but good wishes." "She will never know?" "Not uncle Mr. Fixingerald tells her." "Hildegarda. I had planned her abduction. Don't misunderstand. I have swank low indeed, but not so low as that. I wanted to harry them. They would have left me free. She was to be a pawn. I shouldn't have hurt her." "You do not care to return to Germany?" "Nor to France, M. Ferrand." "There's a wide world outside. You will find room enough," diffidently. "An odytown?" "Of a kind." "Be easy. I haven't even the wish to be buried there. There is more to the story, more than you know. My name is Herman Stupler—if I live. There is not a drop of French blood in MARTIN JONES MILDEGARDE YKED TERM IN WONDER my veins. Brettmann died on the field in the Sudan, and I took his papers." His eyes burned into Ferranda. "Perhaps that would be the best way," replied M. Ferrand pensively. "What shall I do with the money? It is under the bed." "Keep M. No one will contest your right to it. Herman Stuler; and, be- side, your French, fluent as it is, still possesses, the Teutonic burn. Yen. Herman Stuler; very good, indeed." Hildegarde eyed them in wonder. Were they both mad? "Will you be sure always to remember" said M. Ferrand to the bewildered woman. "Herman Stuler; Karl Brettmann, who was the great-grandson of Napoleon, died of a gunshot in Africa. If you will always remember that, why even Paris will be possible some day." Hildegarde was beginning to understand. She was coming to bless this little man. "I do not believe that the money under the bed is safe there. I shall, if you wish, make arrangements with the local agents of the Credit Lyonnais to take over the sum without question and to issue you two drafts, one on London and the other on New York, or in two letters of credit. Two million! It is a big sum to let repose under one's bed anywhere, let alone Covins, where the amount might purchase half the land." "I am, then, a rich man; no more crumbs, no more stale bread and cheap tobacco, no more turning my cuffs and collars and clipping the framed edges of my troUSER. I am fortunate. There is a joke too. Plead and his friends advanced me 6,000 francs for the enterprise." "I am sorry that I was rough with you." "I hear you not the slightest ill will I never have. Herman Stainer; I must remember to have them make out the drums in that name." Brustmann appeared to be sleeping again. After waiting a moment or two his guardian angel tipted out. An hour went by. "Hildebrande, have you any money?" "Beauty for my needs." "Will you take half of it?" He advertised this so frank, and kindly didly his name became fixed on the buy. A white white ship was passing out to me. "There are bearing Karl," she said, and the murmur in her eyes beats down the pips on her breast. "I am our own leader. British ships on sea." As we could only only the right ship, paid their bill painfully, he made the slightest paper and board in his And he would send pigeons. The children of his grandchildren died and with them those that dropping them the three fell. Now he himself had gone upon them. He could not help the south hemps of air, and the stab which glued his shoulder made him faint. He began to refold them. "No," he whispered. "Tear them up; tear them up." "Why, Kari!" "Tear them up, now, at once. I shall never look at them again. Do what Gee it matter? I am only Hermann Stuier. Now!" With shaking fingers she ripped the tattered sheets, and the thars ran over and down her chest. "Now, toss them into the grate and light a match." And when he saw the reflected glaze on the opposite wall he sank deeper into the pillow. The woman was openly sobbing. She came back to his side, kneel and laid her lips upon his hand. There was now only a dim white speck on the bjorison, and with that strange son magic the hull suddenly dipped down, and caught but a trail of smoke remained. Then this, too, vanished. Breitmann withdrew his hand, but he laid it upon her head. "I am a broken man. Hildegarde, and in my madness I have been something of a racal. But for all that I had big dreams, but thus they go, the one in flames and the other out to sea." He stroked her hair. "Will you take what is left? Will you share with me the outlaw, be the wife of a disappointed outcast? Will you?" "Would I not follow you to an land? Would I not share with you an miserior? Have you ever doubted the strength of my love?" "Knowing that there was another? "Knowing even that." "It is I who am little and you who are great. Hildegarde, we'll have our friend Ferrand seek a priest this afternoon and square accounts." Her head dropped to the coverlet. After that there was no sound except the crisp metallic rattle of the palms in the freshening breeze. ```markdown ``` Rear Admiral Melville Dias. Rear Admiral George W. Melville, retired, famous as a hero of the Civil War, Arctic explorer, scientist and student of naval affairs, died at his residence, 620 North Eighteenth street, Philadelphia. Although Admiral Melville suffered an attack of heart failure about a month ago, he recovered, though he was left in a weakened condition owing to his age. A week ago he visited Washington on official business and seemed to be improved. Last Friday night he suffered a stroke of paralysis and soon sank into a comatose condition, from which he never rallied. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, when the body will be taken to Washington, there to be buried in the magnificent and yet simple sarcophagus in the Arlington National cemetery, which the admiral caused to be built for himself ten years ago. In the seventy-one years of his life Admiral Melville had done such things as made him one of the great naval figures of the century. Honors with out number were heaped upon him. He had stood on the decks of shell swept battleships in the Civil War and felt the breath of death upon his cheeks. He had fought his way, step by step, into the heart of the crucifix and frozen north. He had applied his genius for naval construction to the problems of the United States navy and had wrought wonders. It was he who designed the navy with which this country defeated Spain so handily. He got to the proof in that war the fact that armor plate battleships can stand the test of modern warfare. Dr. Wiley Was Formed Out. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has resigned his position as the chief chemist and pure food specialist of the department of agriculture after twenty nine years of service for the govern ment, because he feels that his hands are tied in the fight for the enforce ment of the pure food law. In a statement to the public Dr. Wiley announces that the fundamental principles of that law have one by one "been paralyzed and discredited." Dr. Wiley, it is understood, will be at the head of the "health department" of Good Housekeeping, a magazine. Despite the fact that rumors had been current for several weeks that the government's pure food expert was about to leave the service, the actuaries of his resignation came as a big surprise to official Washington. Made Wooden Keys; Kumped Jail. John Phonish, under sentence of two years for attempted murder, and John Crawley, under sentence of two year for forgery, broke jail at Sparta, WI, and occupied. The two opened thro- ests with boys they had made up. Good. Delirious That Concessions Be Made in the Interest of Peace and May Follow Roosevelt's Example. It became known while President Taft was on his visit to Boston that, while the president has not sought to intervene in the anthracite deadlock, he is keeping in close touch with both sides and will see John Mitchell at the White House this week. This followed the receipt of news from Chicago, in which it was asserted that the president might take a hand in the dispute in an effort to avert a strike. The Chicago dispatch stated that the president, alarmed over the political possibilities of a general strike, of the coal miners, is said to be preparing to follow the precedent set by his predecessor in office, in 1902, and bring pressure to bear on the anthracite coal operators to make concessions in the interests of peace. To gain information on the subject, President Taft has called on John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers, to come to Washington for a conference, it is said. While Ma. Mitchell does not at the present time hold any official position in the miners' organization, he is the confidant of the loaders and is in as close touch with the situation as any man in the country. President Taft is said to have great respect for the opinions of the former leader of the mine workers and believes he can give him better advice on the situation than any other man. Action on Mediation Bill. The house committee on interstate commerce has appointed a subcommittee to consider and report Representative Lee's bill to extend the Erdman arbitration and mediation act to apply to coal mine owners and operators. Representative Lee, who is pressing the bill, believes it would avort the threatened strike of anthracite coal miners. No action in connection with the threatened strike has been taken by the house labor committee. Chairman Wilson said nothing could be done until after April 1. "Personally I believe agreements will be reached to avert a coal strike," said Mr. Wilson, "but the public seems to lose sight of the fact that should there be a strike of the anthracite miners, numbering 165,000 men, there would also be a strike of the bituminous miners, 450,000 in number, with whom no agreements have yet been signed." COLLIERY RAISES WAGES Union May Combat Offer; Constitution Don't Permit Private Settlements. The Pine Hill Coal company, at Minersville, near Pottsville, Pa., operated by Scranton capitalists, posted a notice announcing that the employee would be granted an increase of wages of 10 per cent, to take effect April 1, and that other working matters will be satisfactorily adjusted by the company with the men. The company agrees to give a 10 per cent increase, starting April 1, and in the event of the men being awarded a 10 per cent increase or more, should a strike take place, the men will also be given this additional 10 per cent increase as a bonus during the time of the suspension of other mines. The constitution of the United Mine Workers of America does not permit settlements of this kind, so that the organization, men among the miners will combat any effort made to accept the offer of the company, although the union has very few members at this colliery. The operation employs 600 hands and has an annual production of over $00,000 tons. PAYS BIG RANSOM Chinese Oil King Gives Brigande $100, 000 to Return His Son. By paying $100,000 to a band of brigands, Sheng Kung Pao, of Shanghai, known as the Chinese Rockefeller, ransomized his only son, who was kidnapped last week. The money was paid in time to prevent the mutilation of the boy, as the bandits had written that for each day the payment of the tribute was delayed they would amputate a member and send it to the father. Officials assert that the general muttay is suppressed and that from now on the situation may be expected to become quieter. The warships now in Chinese waters, it is said, are amply sufficient to protect all foreigners. Willing to Oblige, Friday--You only came to see the where you need money. Sunday--Mail I come often?--Friday. LITTLE simple in the dish It may mean "the dove, within" "Chuck he care in full of him" My baby! Chubby hands and Chubby feet, Checks that Cupid couldn't best- Gooh, but that kid's a sweet sweet- My baby! Hair all fuzzy, on his head— May be brown, but now it's red. Pahaw, he's my kid—"nuff sed"— My baby! Laugh? You ought to hear that kid! Cry? Oh, no; he never did! Sleep all night there in his crib— My baby! Jove, I tell you no one knows How I love that tiny nose And those little wiggly toes— My baby! Growing fast, though 'I won't be long For that much will be all wrong; 'Twon't be right to aid my song My "baby". Soon he'll be a roping boy, Full of laughing, childish joy. Playing "train" and "ship ahoy"— That baby! By and by. I sort of see He'll be nearly big as me. No more stinkin' on my knee. My baby! But I'll put him on the back, And I'll say: "Go to it, Jack! Hit the world a good, sound crack, My baby!" He'll know that I'm not to blame If I call him by that name, For he'll meet the same— My baby! And he'll never grow so old Nor so beastly mean and cold That I don't say right up bold, "My baby!" Gee, it's great to think that you Own a bouncing younger, too— Almost too good to be true— That baby! Gosh, I love that chubby baby! Got the others in the shade! Sweetest thing was ever made— My baby! - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. HOUSE PASSES EXCISE BILL Eighty Republicans Vote For Act to Tax Incomes: VOTE WAS 250 TO 40 Cheering Greeted Result When Measure to Extend Corporation Tax Law Goes Through. The Democratic excise bill to virtually tax the income of everybody when it is $5000 or more a year, passad the house. 250 to 40. The Democrata voted solidly for it and carried eighty Republican votes with them. Forty regular Republicans woke the opposition. An outburst of applause from the Democratic side accompanies the announcement of the vote, and this was renewed when it was learned that the greater number of the Republicans present had voted for the measure. There were no Democratic votes against the passage of the bill. The bill would extend the provisions of the existing corporation a tax law to include a tax of one per cent on the yearly net incomes of all firms or individuals in excess of $5000. The Democrats declare the tax is one on "doing business," despite the fact that it would include salaried people and claim it would bring in sufficient revenue to offset the estimated loss of $60,000,000 resulting from putting sugar on the free list. The free sugar bill already has gone to the senate. The Democrats contend that, because it is a tax on the "doing of business" and not on incomes, from whatever source derived, the bill gets around the objection that a tax on incomes is unconstitutional and has been so held by the supreme court of the United States. As a result of this distinction between the excise tax proposed and an actual income tax, it is pointed out that "tittle wealth" will escape taxation. In this way the large fortunes of Andrew, Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and others will be exempt. Under the provisions of the bill the president of the United States would pay annually a tax of $700 on $70,000 his salary being $75,000 and, as in all cases, the "first $50,000" of an individual or firm's earnings not being subject to the tax. Only one change was made in the bill from the form in which it was introduced, and that was a committee amendment proposed by Mr. Underwood, chairman of the committee, on ways and means. Only one other amendment received consideration, that offered by Representative Towner, of Iowa, seeking to exempt the salaries of the justices of the supreme court from the operation of the tax. After the first roll call it was found that sixty-three Republicans had voted for the bill, and the second roll call added sixteen. Shot at With Magazine Rifle Shot at With Magazine Rifle. Shot at by an amateur hunter armed with a powerful magazine rifle and less than forty foot distance. Adelphine Raymour of Tupper Lake, N. Y., in the Adirondacks, is congratulating himself that he is alive to tell the story. Raymour had shot a rifle deer, had thrown the animal over his shoulder and had started for home. The weight of the deer made it necessary for Raymour to be very cautious about his shooting, and he kept his eyes on the ground as he walked. Suddenly he heard the click of a rifle, and looking up, saw a shining gun jumped directly at him. Adelphine instantly there was a flash and a signal. She saw above Raymour hold the bullet of the hunter word shining among the trees, missing the bullet which was the door on Raymour's treasure. The arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France were agreed to seventy-six to three, by the senate by a vote of seventy-six to three after the disputed clause 3 of article 2 relating to the joint high commission had been stricken out and amendments had been adopted barring from arbitration questions affecting the Monroe doctrine or other territorial integrity matters, admission of allions into the United States and educational institutions and state indebtedness. The result was a complete upset on the administration's plan for quick action on arbitration, as the treaty now have to go back to Great Britain and France. The amendment of the British treaty as first proposed by the foreign relations committee, to strike out clause 3, was adopted 42 to 40. This clause was 'attacked' on the ground that it delegated the senate's constitutions treaty making powers to the joint high commission and thereby bound the senate. The two treaties are identical. AGENTS FOR THE PLANET. 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As we before stated, we have all along been of the opinion that Col. Roosevelt's primary purpose is to defend for re-election the distinguished Ohioan and thereby deliver a crushing blow to the interests which he represents and which interests are responsible for President Taft's "back-sliding" in his loyalty to his old friend of Oyster Bay, New York. The result of the primary elections held in New York last Tuesday has already been discounted and it is admitted that the electorate was not permitted to express its will at the polls. It seems that if another election is held an enraged constituency will attempt to visit its wrath upon those believed to be responsible for this remarkable innovation. The ballots were from twelve to fourteen feet long and it also seems that a month's course at school would have been essential in order to master the intricacies of this remarkable system of voting. Ex-President Roosevelt's Columbus speech has caused him no end of annoyance, but he is making no mistake now. The platform upon which he is standing is so substantial and simple that a child can understand it. He will produce a revolution at Chicago. His "blood is up" and we would not be surprised to learn that he would忍耐 the convention in person. Anyone who thinks that a citizen of Col. Roosevelt's character and standing can "be whisked down the wind" will be slightly mistaken. He will cause unkind trouble and will either discipline the Republican leaders or wreak the party. We have never then how he could誓 the association of Chicago with the powerful machine operating him. Weighed before and we believe now that it would be a miserable establishment. He now Pudsey. —President Taft—whom he left in charge "to remain until I come again." has gone back, on him and with his enemies now occupies a position upon the ramparts of the Roosevelt fortification. Col. Roosevelt is about to blow up the whole fortification with dynamite and he demands a surrender or he will carry out his threat on destruction. For our part, we have no tears to shed. The colored people have been sacrificed for more than eight years and the present struggle is the logical result of abandoning great and eternal principles. The Democratic leaders are maintaining their equilibrium, although Hon William J. Bryan is showing signs of a disposition to perform the same wrecking act for the Democratic Party that Hon, Theodore Roosevelt has in store for the Republican Party. the logi- treat and democratic or equit- illian J. a dispo- wrecking You are your own Your enemy— Whate'er your ch Are fixed upon Your soul is fashi The Mind of N Look up! there is But downward Weep not! there's But what there Above the wintry May laughs wit On July 2, 1888, he bought the first parcel of land for the normal school at a cost of $1000, giving his own notes therefor in payment as he had not a dollar in hand for the purpose nor a coat promised. Oddnesses were left for lumber and building material. Three days after the first contribution of $16 cents. September 24th, 1864, the Normal School was opened to the Chief Building or Parish School House, with 8 At the present time, three statesmen hold the destiny of the nation in their hands.—Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, Hon. William Howard Taft of Ohio and Hon. William J. Bryan of Nebraska. With two Bills and one Teddy on its hands, God save the Republic! 670,000 MINERS READY TO STRIKE Contracts With All Operators Expire at the Same Time—There Is Still Hope For Compromise. The country is facing face with the great coal crisis in its history. Uses the most fuel爆响, and the operators and miners arrive at some comprimises in the mine, Hope additions to miners will pull work on Saturday of this week, and according to President John P. White of the United Mine Workers of America, miners will work out with them. The demands of the billionmine miners will be taken up again by the joint conference in Cleveland, where the opposing sides were deadlocked last week. The agreement under which the antitrust attorneys have been working for the last nine years expires at noon on March 31. It no new agreement is reached by that time the strike will begin automatically, unless all negotiations between the representatives of operators and miners are broken off entirely beforehand, in which case the strike will be directly and definitely ordered by the union officials. Antitrust operations awaited with much interest the result of the deliberations in Cleveland of the policy committee of the United Mine Workers, representing both the antitrust and bituminous mine workers, which purposes to act on the refusal of the demands of both the soft coal and hard coal miners. While the operators are giving out no information concerning their purposes or plans, it was learned that inferences were at work to force them and their employees to come to some agreement. The operators have heard unofficially that the hard coal miners would be quite satisfied to waive most of their demands if they could secure an increase in wages, but to raise the wages, the operators say, will make it necessary to increase the price of coal, which they expressed themselves as being unwilling to do. A coal strike of only a few weeks would mean the paralysis of every industry dependent upon coal, including railroads, factories, steamboats, electric light, power and gas companies, entire cities will be plunged into darkness, and business in general will come to a standstill. In the event that the strike should last for any number of months the total loss to miners, operators and business in general would amount to close to the almost unbelievable sum of $100,000,000. All of the demands of the hard coal miners for changes in the existing agreement have been refused by the operators, who on their part have offered counter-propositions that amount practically to the old agreement. The miners demand a 20 per cent increase in wages; recognition of the union and that the operators collect the union dues from the miners by deducting them from their wages; an eight-hour day's payment by the ton instead of by the carload; abolishment of the conciliation board, which is composed of both miners and operators, and that the new agreement be for one year, instead of for three, as the operators insist. What is true of the anthracite field in eastern Pennsylvania is also true of the bituminous fields in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as well as in the twenty-eight states in which soft coal is mined, because for the first time the agreements of the hard coal miners and the soft coal miners end on the same day. Hereofore these agreements expired a year apart, and therefore when the hard coal men were striking the soft coal men were mining coal, and vice versa. Consequently the situation was nothing like as serious as it will be in the event that the strike now threatened eventuates. The bituminous miners are, like the anthracite miners, also fighting for higher wages. Recently they asked for a 10 per cent increase in wages, and wear met with a cut of 10 per cent. Their document in some quarters against the operators is greater even than that of the anthracite workers. Weep not! your tears avail you naught, They cannot heal the wounds of wrongs; Rise on your boundless wings of thought To brighter skies and sweeter songs. That which you seek is seeking you. You are apart of God's Great-Plan: The place you fill, the deeds you do Are all your own,—no other can. Weep not! the worldly thing that grieves Your heavy heart of heaving sighs Shall wither as the autumn leaves, Oh, dry those tears—those weeping eyes! Thirty Years in the Ministry Lawrenceville, Va., March 19 The 9th of this month marked the 50th anniversary of Archdeacon Russell's ordination to the diaconate and the 16th, the beginning of his ministry here as minister in charge of St Paul's and masonry for Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties. Great and far reaching have been the changes since he came. Lawrenceville was then just a small county seat town. The nearest railroad station, Emporia, was 22 miles distant. The present site of the school and church was a barren hill, covered with a sparse growth of stubby pines with a few oaks interpersed here and there, plenty of rocks and full of gullies and deep gulches. The space in front of where the Chapel now stands was occupied by an old neglected grave yard with its usual tangle shrubbery and rank undergrowth. On the whole it was as desolate and unkempt looking a place as one would wish to see. The congregation, small, poor and struggling, had no house of worship. Except St. Stephen's, Petersburg, there was no other Church building for colored in the diocese. The number of clergy but three and about two hundred communicants. That was thirty years ago. Today there are thirty three chapels, churches and proaching gloats, 10 colored and 5 white clergymen. These congregations hold church property valued at nearly $100,000. In the counties of Brunswick, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg, more directly the field of the Archdeacon and where he has done the major part of his work, there are now flourishing churches, schools and congregations where none existed when he began his work. The Church was little known and even less understood when he began his labors. To-day it numbers its communicants by the hundreds in these counties and its influence is an ever growing and increasing factor in the life and ideals of the Negro people of these counties. GROWTH AND EXPANSION The Archdeacon is thankful that God has been able to use so humble an instrument as himself as the means of doing something for the advancement of His kingdom and the uplift of His people. During his ministerry he has delivered 2500 sermons and addresses, baptized 900 infants and adults, presented for confirmation over 809 persons, performed 150 marriages and conducted over 250 funerals. In connection with his ministerial work the Archdeacon founded and is principal of St. Paul's School, the largest missionary and educational work under the auspices of the Church and the third largest school in the country for the normal and industrial education of Negro youth of both sexes. The Normal School had its inception in the parish school started by Archdeacon and Mrs. Russell, January 1st, 1883. At first taught in the vestry room of the chapel, one of his first acts being to induce the Council of Virginia to give $300 for the erection of a chapel, the school soon outgrew its quarters. A new building was put up mainly through generosity of the late Rev. Dr. Shailor of Philadelphia, Fa. By 1884 the parish school building had become too small. For some time the practical eye of the Archdeacon had seen the necessity for some school of a higher school where teachers could be prepared and books and trades taught. After much thought and prayer he decided to do this. WEEP NOT. teachers, and less than a dozen boarding scholars, and no money or resources of any kind except the abiding faith of the Archdeacon in the promises of God and the generosity of friends whom He would raise up. From this insignificant beginning the school has, under God's protection and blessing, grown and prospered so that today there are over 25 large and small buildings, all electric lighted from the school's own plant, which also supplies the town and some of them steam heated; 500 students, 55 officers, teachers and instructors, 400 graduates, over 2500 undergradates, 25 trade and literary divisions and departments, 1600 acres of land, students from twenty odd states of the union and even far off Africa, with a total plant and equipment worth $200,000. Most of the buildings, including the splendid Memorial Chapel, were put up by student labor of bricks and lumber manufactured on the school grounds. A BLESSED RECORD This is truly a blessed record of thirty years work for God and humanity. More important even than these material evidences is the social religious and economic influence of the school upon the people it serves. For the thirty years the Archdiocese has been among us his life has been an open book. His influence has ever been on the slide of progress, upliftment and the highest social and moral standards and pure religious ideals. No man can point to aught in his long residence among us that is not creditable to him both as a man and a Christian minister. The community on the occasion of his thirteenth anniversary wishes him and his excellent wife and co-laborer many friends of life, happiness and glorious endings. God and humanity. 'As the Arabs saw, May their shadows never grow less.' DRAKES BRANCH, VA, NEWS It has been the general claim, but from those who see at a distance that the people of Drakes Branch are on the good-time order and that they know nothing about saving. No less educational advantages are concerned, it is true our people here have not been aroused. But compared with other towns of its size, while there is room for improvement, they have made use of their opportunities along the lines of saving and below are the names of some who own properties that are rented: It will be seen from this that the people here are not entirely shiftless and those who make such statements are not familiar with the facts. Mrs. Jennie Shapperson, who has been visiting her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Shapperson of Charlotte Courthouse, returned this week to join her husband in Atlantic City. She was accompanied by her sister-in-law, Miss Ellen Shapperson. Talk of joyful wedding is uppermost in Brownsville. No name has been called. Miss Alan Bedford is a mighty busy man. Well, April will tell the tale. "A Bunny Jim" social was given at the hall Monday night by Mrs. Lissie Milos, at which gathered a large number of people who enjoyed themselves up to a late hour. Mr. Henry Daniel of Newport News is visiting his parents here. Dr. Porgeson, Dunstell, Moves Office. Dr. D. A. Porgeson, Dunstell, has removed his home from 699 M. and street to The Sixth High School Building corner First Street, Newport Plains, (Third East Side) and to-date with the district cloister appointed with the police to be better prepared to continue to give his grandson first-class housing. Other hours by appointment. Phone: 618-222-2222. FROM FARMVILLE, VA. Farmville, Va., March 25, 1913. — The weather was not very good on Sunday, notwithstanding the regular churchgoers were out three times. The Lord's Sapper was spread in moderately an early morning service. In the afternoon the members of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe held their Thanksgiving Services at the First Baptist Church. Rev. R. G. Adams delivered an address. At 7:30 service was a large attendance. Mrs. Fannie Watson has returned from her visit to Radford, Va. Mr. F. B. McKinley of Waterbury, Conn. is here visiting his friends and looking after business matters. Misses Blanche and Lottie Page are home for a few days to attend the marriage of their sister, Miss Ethel Paige to Dr. G. L. A. Pogue of Bedford City, Va. Mr. Daniel Brown. Also Mrs. Lillie Brown of Ely street are confined to bed. The Public School here closed on Friday and held their closing excerises at First Baptist Church, Prof. A. C. Griggs, Principal. Dr. J. A. Baker had a narrow escape for life. Returning from the country, he attempted to cross a creek while the water was high. The abutment of the bridge had washed away. He and the horse were washed down the stream and lodged against a tree. He climbed the tree and remained three hours. He was successful in cutting the horse loose saving both lives. Our people have had plenty of work since the storm. Prince Hozanna from Africa lectured Monday night at Ely Street Hall to a large audience. Mrs. Margaret Weber has returned home from her Northern trip. The Committee which has been on the lookout for "Mr. Rambler" saw a stranger in town last week moving up and down the streets, was about to decide that, he was the man sought. They learned that this man would lecture to the Ely Street Hall on Monday night, so the entire committee turned out to hear him hoping to be able to get something definite so that they can hands on him. This man certainly told us the truth in many instances, relative to our condition here in this community. We are satisfied that he is not "Mr. Rambler" but we do not think "Mr. Rambler" will tell more truth than we heard from this man. The writer of this article is very anxious to learn just who "Mr. Rambler" is. He believes that the gentleman who found the note book has been in touch with him. He tells us that "Mr. Rambler" is going to say some things concerning the parents that will open the eyes of the public and then he will discuss the condition of the young people. The committee believes they can find out just who "Mr. Rambler" is by first finding who the good citizen is that seems to know so much about "Mr. Rambler." The last the writer of this article learned of them the Committee was on the lookout for the gentleman who found the note-book. I will tell you more next week. Begging a Question. John Mitchell, Jr. is the Negro editor of The PLANET, a Negro newspaper published in Richmond. On the front page of the current issue of that journal is displayed with striking prominence this correspondence: EDITOR MITCHELL'S QUERIES. Richmond, Va., March 12, 1912. Hon. C. Bascom Promenade, M. C., House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.; Dear Sir, I note that it is stated in the daily press that Mr. Melvin Plegginger asserted that it is the rule of the Republican State Committee that white men must rule and govern the affairs of the Republican party in this State. Please advise me if this is the actual position of the present party management and whether this is the policy of the organization of which you are the official head in its movement now being made against the Democratic organization and its policies in the Old Dominion. Very truly yours. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. CHAIRMAN SLEMPS REPLY Balkton, D. C., March 19, 1912 Mr. Jolli Mitchell, Jr., Richmond, Michigan Dear Sir..h have your letter of the 13th instant, and note what you have to say. I think Mr. Flegelholder must have been misquoted by the press, as I do not know of him having made any such statement as you indicate. The Republicans of Virginia operated under the call of the National Republican Committee, and no far as I have been advised all the calls were made in pursuance of the national call. I know of no effort to exclude colored people from participating in the meeting and I have never favored any such policy. I happen to know that in some situations of the State the colored voters did participate in the meetings and delegates at some of the conventions. As I have before stated, we have endeavored to strictly comply with the call of the National Republican Committee. I hope this explanation will be satisfactory to you. The above correspondence shows that Mitchell, after questioning the reported apperages of the Mr. Flegelman, "that it is the rule of the Republican State Convention that when most men rule and govern the affairs of the Republican party in the state," said, "it is in the natural position of the present party management." Does Mr. Stuart answer this question? First do you respond to the first man who did show that he was a member of Stuart. Stuart responds to a question which Mitchell did not, and surely fails to meet the main inquiry that Mitchell pursued. This Martin Mitchell Convention that Mitchell did not commit himself. 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Van De Vyver College, North 1st St., Richmond, Va SIX DEPARTMENTS THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Will Prepare Its Student Medicine and Journalism THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Offers a Thorough Truth Law, Scenography and T THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPART Will be in charge of the Military, Homekeeping. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT Will Embrace Vocal Culture AUTOMOBILE INSTRUCTION I Will fit a limited number SPECIAL NIGHT CLASSES in the Grassman and Acad men and women for a Fri For particulare and terms apply. REV. CHARLES I 709 North Mr. Flegenheimer must have been misquoted. But Mitchell didn't ask whether Mr. Slepem thought Mr. Flegenheimer had been misquoted. Mr. Slepem goes further and says he does not know of Mr. Flegenheimer having made any such statement Mitchell didn't ask whether Mr. Slepem had ever heard Mr. Flegenheimer express himself upon the subject. But he did ask Hon. Bascom Slepem, chairman of the Republican State Committee, whether the statement embodied in Mr. Flegenheimer's reported utterance that "white men must rule and govern the affairs of the Republican party in this State" reflected the attitude of the present party management. Mr. Slepem didn't answer that question—he not only side stepped it, but he got clean out of its way, and geloped to cover under a thicket of words. Such a proceeding, we take it, will scarcely prove acceptable to the white Republicans of Virginia.—Lynchburg News. THE RIDICULOUS' CAMORRISTS "The Camorrists in their huge cage in Italy, grooming and weeping and shouting all manner of anomoe- there is something ridiculous about that Camorrist trial." The Censors are always diligent. One of my patrons at Punjab was walking one dark night out the fortress road when three Censors sat upon him. The people high in the money, watch, examine and plight. They even took his apportment. But he objected shortly to this. The sight was mild, by mild, and without his end he would seem. Then one of the Censors drew off his shirt, hugged overcoat and made my patron get to an. MENT ents to Take up the Study of Law, MENT Menting in Book-keeping, Commercial Typewriting. DEPARTMENT the Best Teachers in Dressmaking, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. mure, Piano, Vocalion and Flute Organ. DEPARTMENT of young men as Changurn. EDUCATIC Graden. We prepare young Professional Course in our night school HANNIGAN. President, n First Street, Richmond, Va. "There you are," said the scoundrel. "You won't freeze new." "And the Camorrista, laughing heartily over my assistant's ridiculous appearance in the rugged coat, hurried off into the night. "My assistant in his turn hurried off, and then, putting his hand in the torn coat's pocket, he hurried very much faster, for the coat that had been forced upon him contained all the booty of which he had just been robbed."—Washington Post. An Honest Confession. The Friend—Well. I see you have your sign out. Getting any practice? Young Doctor—Yes, a little. There goes one of my funerals now.—Chicago News. The Unseen Ear A mother was washing the neck and ears of her little son before sending him to school. He said, "Now, mamma, you don't need to wash this car, for it comes next to the blackboard, and no one can see it." A Canary Boat. Mr. McTavish—I hear yet, wife's in a terrible crustal condition. Mr. McDougains—Aye, aye. You're sick, but she's better the day. I do not she's gain the battle us yet!—Everybody's Weekly. For a Change. The follow who is always getting into a peek of trouble should resort to other means—Philippine News. The Hardy Tough. Miss. Browning will pervade me and I am encouraged to fight myself. Miss. Browning will stand off a little longer than you yourself and see how important you both are. _ Sant wee ¢ 2 4 © cee a v Pe al . eee 1 3 sh PU TR eg be at ae a sibs s : x pe feenst tc ome tecs fF, — «a ey eee meee wees. tt a wiVe ae cl MRT rea eee ” efi eles : _— y ic SATURDAY.....MAROH 90, 191 ——— _ From New York . s : — Building Up & Tuskegee in Missivolp nw. B Motaclow Well Keown Kdecator Building Up Mroag Bew. cational Obater im Utica, Mims.—De Vrooks Adked to Resatn at Gt. Marks Charch—A Bustwoed Woman Mra. Edith Green, Formerty of ‘Weshington Conducts Handsome flair Dressing Partor—in Musical Circle), W. Wellingvom Delivers Notabte Addrees on “! of Wo mannhood.” — Now in Pamphlet Form—Negroes Hold Rally for Roosereit—General News. (Allen's National Newn Bureau. 252 W. S3rd Street) Prof. William H. Hotsclaw, Pria- cipal of the Normal and Industrial Justitute at Utica, Mississippi, and -s ‘Tuskegee graduate, is building up a Tuskexee in Mlsaissippl. The schoo! of which Prof. Hotsclaw is principal and founder, so closely re- vembles Tuskegee until it {fs often called Tuskegee the Sccond. ‘The ‘school haa bad a rapid growth, and during {ts existence In the section where It Ia located It wialde wide In- fluence and according to‘ statement made by Prof. Hotzclaw, “It hes com- pletely chaingd the face of the com-| munity.” Prof. Hotsclaw who $s one of the ‘most prominent of the younger edu-' cators of the race and one whose! credit is good for $35,000 im the com. munity where he restaen was edu- cated at Tunkegee, graduating from the clamy of 1593. Dr. Brooks Asked to Hemain in the) Metropolia, Rev. Dr. W. H. Brookn*for fifteen years pastor of St. Marks M. E. Church and whose announcement a few weeks ago of hin intention to resign his eharge has created a stir In church circles of the Metropolis, \n belnK Nooded with letters by the members of his church and other In- fMueotial organisations to reconsider his resignation aid remain in the Metropolis. Since Being In the city Dr. Brookn hae made a deep Impression upon the spiritual and intellectual life of toe Metrepolls.. He han been identified with the various orgenizations bav- ing for their alm the general bet- terment of the race. In the opinion the going of Dr. Brooks at this par- Ucalar the would. be. keenly felt amt touch premure is brought to bear to persuade the distinguished divine to reconsider his intention to resign. Dr. Brooke will leave for his an- 1 uual early next woek and the Metro- polia is up In army over tie porslbdil- ity of losing him, Mrv, Greca Conducts Handvome Hair DrewJog Parior, Mrx. Edith Green, formerly of}; Washington. D. C and wife of tho | late Counsellor Green of Washington | haa now taken up residence_in the! Metropolis and is engaged in the: ongenial Lusiness of hair dressing’; and manicuring. Mrs. Green {= an{y expert atthe (rade and is buflding|; ap & good trade among the beat peo-| ple of both races in the Metropolis, |; “Mra. Green conducts an up-to-date! s nd inviting Hair Dressing and Man-| i curing Parlor at 174 West 135th St, a the beart of the business section of the race in the Metropolis. Mra. Seen has ample facilities for the uctessful caring of ber work and'c ceeps on hand the latest models in‘o air goods, like switches, puffs. trans|a ‘ormations snd other accessories. © Mrs. Green has made a thorough! F tudy of the profession and is pre-|a ared to give to-her customers the A ery deat service. She is anxioue to ‘xtend her business and bulld up a trong out of town trade. Mrs. Green offers all kinds of hair joods at the lowest prices. Her pri-|t! on are as follows: cluster puffs, $1/” p; traneformation natural loag wa. {tl Y Bair, $1.5@ up: awitches of long .t! ravy walr, $2.00 up: together ‘with |}! cher specially quoted prices: fex-|2 jes of heir must accompany all or-!*! ere. jp Mrs, Crees is constantly in demand |“! a a hair dreaser in the Metropotia| * nd her hamisowe haic dreasing por-|* or ks always the scese of activity: |” Hetore comiag to the Metropolis Mrs jreem comducted a large cstabiieh- vent in Washington where abe hes large member of friends. She hea! raveled extensively and bas « wide § asiness ‘experience. Her many- 4 reads throughost the country will 2 © gied to know of her entrance into ‘4 usinees In the Metropolis. a In Masteal Ctrcies. ” | A large gatberiag of music lovers! rested Prof. Pastor Poualver, last A large gathering of music lovers rected Prof. Pastor Peusiver, last Friday evening in hie azaval riots recital at New Ceatral Hall in West Stra Gtreet. The cocasion wes 2 musical treat and breaght ot some ef the most prominent musicians of the yesa. Pref. Pesaiver wiie is weil ksown to the mustoal life of thy Metropetio fe regarded as the most tefilisnt violinist im the race, and his. public sopsarances are alwsfs the eomalel Ger a. large gathering. The Resita) wee well arranged and come of the MGR prominent musicians appeased. sencng {hore to appear wee Mitts a Ries, the promising young artict of 9 years, Mrs. deus, tae Nears cotetet; Mra. A. C. Meets wal keews 3 cee Pentre lr ote es Pref. Pumalver bes éeu0, week for prametian asd agvancemem of jeanete tm the race. Me ccadacts. & te {tae Metropol and hes {erouaht out epme.of the wost prom. talent im the race. | \ Jqeepl Wellington's Address. Among the ‘addresses ” recently «fa the Metropolis was the adarese recently delivered by Joseph Welllagton, one uf she promintat and brilliant young men of the race. The address is a magaificent tribute! to the powers of woman. and gives) woman-a large aud honorable sphere. The language used in portraying the magnificent qualities of woman {6 choice and Mr. Wellington shows a high appreciation for the opposite sex. ‘ : The address subject of which is “The Power of Womanhood” made’ such an {mpressjin that he has been requested to place It in pamphlet form waich has been done. Copies of the address cau be had for twenty-five cents and cag, be had by addressing Allen’s Natlotial News Bureau. ‘The little pampbiet.in the hands-of girle and young’ women would do much towards faspiring them. Fur- ther reference to the book will be made in snother issue of The PLANET. 4 eran SPETS Reese Tee MOONe re Soveral notable meetings buve been held during the week in the interest lof the candidscy of Theodore Roore- volt. The meetings were largely at- tended and were cnthuslastic. Judg- ing from the interext manifested in the meeting the entfre colored pop- ulace has declared for the. Colonel. ‘The “Inrgext of the mpeting war held at Bethel A. M. E. Church in West 25th Rreet, «Some of the most promtnent men of the race were the aptakers and the virtues of the: Col- onel were greatly extolled. Your correspondent will doubtless become attached to the Roosevelt, Press Bureau but ag newspaper man his atm {s to-be fair and impartial and wit write about the doings of| the other candidates with ax much Intereat. General Nowx, Bishop G. W. Clinton of North Car jolina is expected In the North soon to hold his annual poonference at Atlantic City. Preperation In belng made to hon or Bishoy Walters with an elaborate entertainment, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Blahop Waltera an a Bishop, The occaaton WIN be fn Hoxton at the Columbus ‘Zion Church. Prof. W. HH. Hotzclaw of Utlea, Mien, win in Che Metropolis recently In the Interest of his achool, Dr. Washington teft for the South lant week. « 3 CLEVELAND G. ALLEN, *" Correapondent, —_—»—_—_ j PROM TENNESSRE, : Holidcal Conditions lu the Volunteer State.—General Conferences of Many Churches, Ete. Editor PLANET: —It tx with some degree of misgiving that we view the political situation of the country at this time. Your editorial under the Jeantion “Facing Hie Own Artillery.” portrays In no uncertain tones the ‘condition of the Republican Party at thin early stage of the political game. This with apparent disposition upon the part of the ly-white Republicann of the South, actuated by « greed for |Wederal offices alone, to unload the ‘Negroes, maken the sailing of the po litical bark look dublout indeed SIMILAR CONDITIONS, Wh ure meeting with the same condition ‘of affairs out here In the old “Volunteer State." Tho Negroes are setting up @ howl of political ostraciam and prorcrimion. but the Republican chariot moves steadily on and few, if any Negroes aro having A Kay oF Move upon the chess board. | A GOVERNQR'S PREDICAMENT. | Gov. B, W. Hooper. tacitly tx of the Rooseveltian class, yet fearful of his political scalp he has straddled the fence and in “sitting steady in the boat,”"—"sawing wood and say- ing mothing.”” But the Negroes are threatening dire vengeeace- to him and his party. The Independent Democrats have refused to be recon cfled and go back isto the camp of the reguisrs and Gov. Hooper is stil] coquetting with them to the exclusion of the Negroes.- | ‘The Religions Morement. | In church affairs, the “Men and Religion. Forward Movement,” which was receatiy pulled off in this city, didn’t seem to have shueh’ affect a- mong the Negros, The new: way of finding Christ didn't take with “Aunt Galiy’s children.” ‘The Gaseral Conferences ct the A. M. B Chureh ia Kansas City, A. M. M. Eiea im Charlotte, N. C. abd the M. B. in Minneapolis, al! seem to be holding the beards. There are delegates galore cat of all of these churcbes from this city, sich going with an ax to grind. ” Ye scribe ls on the inser tircle of the ‘“‘Upegniastit Cleb" bat . will tare up'if sething happess ‘top side up with tare” and thea—well we will see, Mesntime jet ws" alk pray that pesce may cyme out of confus- joa—polttically. : %. M. ARGYLE, No. 1 Park Avease, =~ Chattancegs, Teas. fos WANTHD—A good religious indy ‘with @ tatr education — look after Say Otte tnd Go ihe Bee to ene” with 2 re RW. C ; Quterie, Cunnte. RAM WAYS REFUSE TO RAISE WAGES Hoje Demands Presented Oy :- EASTERN LINES AFFECTED! Requested Increase Amounts to $7, 553,792 Annually or Over 18 Pa Cont . . The reply of the eastern, rxllroads to the demands of the lovomottye et Eineets tor a general Increave 10 faxes, which was handed to the coa ference commitice of the engiuerrs by the: committonse. tnelve ra:ioas managers In Néw .York, was a cenia! of the demands: + * Figures were giveu to ahow that a Jetandardization of the wages on all the roads, which was demanded vy ‘the engineers, was impracticable, and te was stated that these demanis, 11 they could be granted, would be ful lowed by demands by the other rail road employes, which If granted wonte he disagtroun to the rallrouda them: selves. They say that the proposed {ucrease jn wages and changes in working conditions would -total $3. 053,782.74, or 18.63 per cent annually. ‘When the committes of the tocomo- Uve engineers came back to the Broadway Central hotel, Warren S Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhoo of Locomotive Engincers, who Ix the spokesman for the committee, cailed @ mecting to act un the reply of the railroads. He was asked before the meeting If the committee bad the power to call a atrike. "It cumnot call acatrike,” he nsid “but {t ean order that. a referendum vote be taken on the question of call Ing @ strike.” He alno said that the engineers were In good condition for a strike. * The demands he sald effected 23. 700 engineers who were in tho Broth erhood and some 20%) non-unton en sincere, The rallraads on which they worked did more than half the trams of the United States. : ‘The quecting of tho enxtueers’ com mittee lasted about two hours. At the conclusion of the meeting Grand Chief Stone nent out a committee to sec the reporters. The spokesman of the (oz: mittee aald that a reply bad been sen othe committee. repreaepting the railroads, atating that the engiucers committee had repected the propos! on of the rallronds. ae The reply of the euxinearn as ry setved by the railroad managers wan bat {f the -conference committee of be rajitoads hed nothing further to navise the entire question would de ubmitted to the engineers employot ya the roads represented for final ac toa. Grand Chief Stone sald It would take . twothirds vote of all the m@ in olved to declare a strike. Even thew Je had power ta veto a strike if a trike wore declared, It was sald that mediation under the Srdman act wonld be.provably resort 4 to ig cane of w attike vote... Thir ct cantiot be appealed to untit w crivin s reached. Such a crinix would be exched If the engineers voted for a trike. fotor Bandits Slay Three Near Paris Tho antomobile bandits, who in Fob uary terrorized many districts of vance Dy carrylng out an: extraord) ary series of crimer, during the past gw days bave perpetrated a frenh ne | jen of daring crimen, renulting fo the], eath of three men near Paris. ; On the public highway between Vil‘ | satuveSt. Georges and Paris, a gang { four bandits, In an automobile, or- ered the chauffeur of a private motor ar to atop. When he refured the ighwaymen stot him dead and also| ‘ ounded the occupant of the car. ' After throwing tho chauffeurs body to the ditch by the roadside the] | andite entered-their automobile and] | rove toward Paris. A band of brigands bearing all the] | ppearances of being the authors of! ¢ morning hold-up arrived in an an- mobile at Chantilly, the racing cen yr. Four of the me, armed with re olvera, entered the local branch of @ arla bank, where they shot the casb-| 3 rand another employe dead and|! ogerously wounded a third man. | ‘The four rufflans thom seized a port. lio tontalning 98000 in notes. A Ath dit wax in the meantime keeping} j aard at the door of the bank with a aded carbina, while a” sixth stood, ady. at the steering wheel of the mo) } r car. The murderers dashed out, mped on the motor and started at|3 Henpeed in'Sbe direction of Paris.- |» The alarm bed meanwhile deen rails , Dut pursalt was warded offspy the| p ndite with repeated shots. TRS sub quently abandonéd the automaniie hich was discovered, at Aanlered, & both Just onteide pf Faris ‘Thete Is] ¢ He doubt that wb automobile had] p en-stolea by them. z ‘Vs Nine ‘Dead In Gee Kxptesion. Ia a gas explosion, probably cauned mine settlings, nine persose wer t led and"two Injured In Dunmore er Scranton, Pa. gee Two women and seven chilirea were har Down to pleces im ihe exphy m or burned In the fre that followed | t In @ gas explosion, probably caused by mine settlings, nine persone wer Killed aad*two ipjured in Duamore Bear Scranton, Pa. on ‘Two women and seven chilirea were ether blown to pieces In ihe expr sion or burned In the fre that followed ané destroyed three houses. ‘Tha dead are: Mrs. Jota Caveile and ber five childrea, Rove, ‘aged three years: Domisick, eight: Lucy, eleven; Lassie, fourteen; Wiliam, twenty. tire. ‘Vito Summa Mra Chrel'ay Gnagbter, sng her two ehiitren, Mary, pget sures, ond Frank, far, ‘The body of Mary Summe was Me covered 1a the, Wpbe of = treo Stty fest from the stows of the exgtnaiog, bat a0 hour otter Ge. ‘Mave then twenty a demaged by the eee ont ie Grieg timbers, cad muy pomecdh tony Gievirn-oat of tnetr beds and severely bretesd. + ‘ ‘The Dunmore police, after an inves tigation of the explosice, say tbat ges from a broken misin, caused probably by the mine settling, lqaked tato the collar of the Cavella home: where it was ignited by an ofl lamp that was burning in the. house. / Gives Three Sens $10,000,000. Hoary Phipps. Sr. of Pitteburah, Pa, has transferred to his three sons, Joka 8. Henry and Howard, all of Na#sau county, N. Y.. property in Al- Jegheny county value? at over $10, 090,000. _ ‘The property fochwled in vss muint- ficent gift embraces the Fulton, Bre: semer and Manufacturers skyscrapers, the NcElveen Furniture company's Building, the Phipps model tenements on the North Side, besides other valu; able parcels of downtown property. In addition to the city property, Str, Phipps also conveys to bls sons two farms, one tn Rone township and an- other In Jefferson towevbip. He thus gives to them all of hin Allegheny county holdings for a conalderation of one dollar. : This Is the second largo gift dtr. Phipps has Bentowed on bly sone. Only A fow weeks ago he Kave them Chi- cago property valued at $3.990,009. Vicloue Gander Bites Child. ‘Florence, the three-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Paul, who own ond jive on the Elkdate farms, along the’ Elk river, near Elkton, Md.. while playing In the yard at her homo wap attacked by @ viclous gander, knocked down and bitten om the face several times. One wound was about a half Inch from one eye, making @ very ugly wound and closing the exe. At the time the child was wearing [a red Jacket. ebich tx supposed (0 ‘Dave caused the gander to aflack her. ‘But for the timely arrival of the Itttle one’s mother ft is probable that her Anjuries would have been more nor! ous. : Tied Himself to'a Bull, When George Kresaly. a butcher, started to lead @ Dull from a farm to the slaughter houre In Allentown, Pa, ho made the mistake of tylnx to bia wriat the rope by which be was, leading the animal. On the way the bull became uniuly. The rope wan attached no txbtly to| the man that he wan unablo ) let x0| ahd he was dragged nearly a aaile. When he eventually succeeded in freeing bimacit be had” been -almost stripped of Lis clothes. Ho ls un tor the care of a doctor for numerous brulsex-aind ‘abrasions and a broken floger. The bull fe still at large. Convict Killa Guard; Lynched by Mob. ‘A colores convict named Homer Bush wan lynched after be bad killed Guard Joseph Coody and attempted to shoot two other quarda fn the con vict camp a mile distant from Coch yan, Ga. Bueh and sixty other men fn the camp, it le sald, bad plotted to esecape. Bush killed Coody with a ahovel and, sexing the revolver from the de.4 guard, opened fire on the two other quarde. "Neither wan (nfared and both returned the Are. Richeson's Life Fight Started. Efforts to save Clarence. V. T. Riche- non, the confensed murderer of Misa Avix Linnell, from.death In the elec: trie chair, began when bls counsel. Willlam A. Morse, conferred with Gorernor Fora in Bonton. ‘The dato for the execution Im May 19. Riche son's friends bope to obtain a life aen- tence for him Find Rich Potash Lake, A tich find of soluble potash malts was mado in the Mojave Desert in| Southern California by fletd represen- tatives of the bureau: of soils and the geological survey. The potash was found in a partially dried up lake. The government oxperte who found tt deo clare that there are Indicationx of mil- Uonn of tons of potash. Plikde Cow of Second Piock: When Janitor Barton, of Delaware college, In Newark, Del.. reported’ for doty for the day he found a cow ted to a desk In the oMce of one of the professors at the wctond tloor of the administration bullding How the atu- ‘dents took the cow up two fights of stairs ta purziing the janitor, who munt get her down, GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR steady; winter clear, $3.35@4.10; city ‘ilk, TST on aes ulet, at $4.90 WHAT com a ", fa rm; No. 2 red, $1¢1.01'4. CORN steady! No: 3 yellow. een = OATS frm; No. 2 white, S9%c.: Tower grades, tac. ae POULTRY: Live, frm bess. “15¢ 1$6.; Of roostera, Lic; turkoss, 16 He. presed steady;. choice fowls. lc.; old roosters, 33c.; turkeys, 22c. agBUTTER. aulet; creamery. ‘fancy, REGGE iieady: selected, 26 @ 216. , Ben western, FotATois Steady, at $1.45@1.50 per bushel. ; Sowa Kee Geek: Gack: = | PI BURG (Unioe Stock eee & ears. choles, $7.90@4,25: 38; and jompaos. Fiss yf eer pigs beavin, e pc Fee Rane age >. Fewghs, tere: . . : ———s Meare Murderer te HMancad. - . Hoary Brest, 6 satrs,, wae, beeen tm the comnty fail at Somerset, Pa. (he murder of Charles Lansley, at Zi mermen; Jen. 26, 1911. Brent said b. was éreak and dragged snd keoe mothiag Of the crime. *: : waapenets the Burgiar, Au apgarttes that wit! ring 6 bers Ine aR/EP nad tude 0 Sasdiight pe ture ofthe vergier bas peun patiere: fy Rev, Puthor Emidio Orisstt ae ation Catholic prisut of Rakimets Gnees Poverty in Retighen: - Gongs Maanars gave up 2 pweiticn garing $7000 2 year, Yo severt a'pee qunthe fan avenel eotery oC. ER & ietteest Pack. WD ‘. TAFT URGES cur IN COTTON DUTY Upholds Trt Board In Pre- Seating Report DISTRIBUTION IS EXPENSIVE MR ae one I ee eRe ct Re CREE TTS, Ste to the Consumer Despite Equal Fac tory Coats, “ President Taft transiizted to cou grens the writ board's report on the cotton schedule, with the, recomine tt dation that thie. section of the tari3 law be taken up with a view to te Vision and reduygtions ta the rates et duty. He advises couztens that the bear’? fnvestinations ave. shown that Ut dution on some cotton parny ts two and three tines fu excess of the dt ference between coxt of productiow 7a the United States and abroad. The dutica fmpowed Lecante of Antsbly: Droceates are {2 oxccns of the Ul.te: ence in the extra cost due to thnint.t and are often iu excens of the toi! domestic vost of Aniahing. | Prices paid by consumers tn the United States are higher than abroad even when priven received by minaw facturers in both pincen are the same Thia {s said to be duo to the htkhe coat of dlatrivution here. Plain cit.» aye an cheap bere as anywhore, bu on fancy fabricn the duties are In es cean of the difference In cost, and 1 many cases the dutles are ten c than the conversion costa in the mith of the United States. “The report of the board shown th dimeulty of stating An general fern differences in costn of production (1 2 great varlety of cotton manula: tures," the president wrote. “Tus differences vary widely according the character of the particular fattl “The report shown that the, cont o! spinning cotton yare ta hia countess fe xreater than in the tyeding compet fog country. In the case of ondiusry warp and filiug yarns, forming the bulk of the production of the domestl Jadontrs, the toreign coat of tarmns cotton inte yarn tn ahown to be abut 70 per cent wf the domvaic cont. “The duty on there yarne Is O80 0: three times tn excens’of the differens+ in coat of production. On some bigot apecialized yarnw and on yarns of th highest count--that Is of reates fineness — the duty in some canes about equalizes the difference tn con} Fersion coate, In many casey, ho | ever, on the highor grados of yarn which are prodiiced fx this country the dity te tn excean of the difference: im the cort of production, though by much lesa amount than in the case of ordinary warp and filling Yaron, “The éifference In the cost of weas Jag yarne into cloth as between thir rountry and ite chilef competitor varies according (0 the character of the f: pr ware of many cloth« 0° stain tbe American cont o! envin: to be lower than Ce areign comBeMie to the greater nun yer of loomn tended per weaver i: Bis country. Thin redacen the liber Ont per yard deaplte the higher can — ngs of the American weaver. In prev portion, however, ax the fable be | ‘ores more complicated (and there | | ore permits of fexer looma pel | ceaver) the American coxt of prod || fon Increaxer. In the cane of mox fancy fabrics of complicated wear: he cost of weaving Is higher In 1! ountry, but on auch Cbefex the pre mt duties are tn eacese ‘oP any olf erence iu cost. and In many cans 2-4 2 @xcraR of the total vonvernion casts a thle country.” : Tn the cost of raw matirtal, tine oard reports, there { pretleally a Avantake possessed be efther on Fy. Comparing all thy yarns golovt vt y y the beard ar manples, the Cagis, bor caxt* wan found to be on an verage practically xeceneighthy of ne American in (wo milla select). by ‘The report gives some figures show: b wg the difference in cont of cotton o} sbric at the mill_and the cost to the th onsumer. Cloth sold at the mill at or 9 cents a yard reaches the con amer at 15 cents. Some examplé: ™ re_xiven. A “In 1908 9 quilt sold at the mill for © ba centa wan old to the customer O! $1. [0 1910 the mill tncreaned the fy rice to 76 conta and the price to the msumer went up to $1.50.” 'p The board argues, however, that In ¥ me cases a.reduction in the mill th rice might have no reduction for the of yneumer. A atudy of comparative ac attatics seems to abow that the Enx Dé gh consumer buys cheaper becaurc eer fs lose proft between the mili, 4 aa and the retatler, {= Ovtlaw Captured In Mountain. Bidns Edwerds, a nephew of Sida Aliem, and one of the Allen gaag that took to the mountains after the court Bouse assassinations at Hiltsville, Vs. wae arrested ot Lambsbarg, Va, near the North Carolisa line, without re Gietanoe, by a poses of detectives. + Bdwards reached Hillsville !2 tho cumody of detectives and was imme- Gately placed in jail. He would make ne statement. Jasper Alles, knowa #6 Jack, a prother of Bldza Allen, joined young Bawards and the detectives os the reed.and came fate town with then. Méwarda wee act bentouffed and appeared very decile. _ Btwaree at first objened to being ane a 0 cal bet Oe ile tmatoted, and be cubenitied. The evisoner anid be bad vetencuriiy sur ‘rendeved to-the setheridies bevaaes hp “hed tals no part in the sbect Mgr” Bis is under indictment, bowyrer, or murter. | “Lagitleter tanep Oriiery Oherge: Jum after the Maryied hewse te Gamopeis tnd votes to wade up. tbe oe Ee OM. Siew 8. Soe a trem Préscs Chena WARREN 8. STONE, 4. Chiet ef the Brotherheed of ° Lecometive Engineers, he e ¥ oS i e ae a an es county, arose and charxed tha: Joar F. O'Malley, state auditor a J pol!'t cal Meutenant of Senator Gorman, bad offered bins $2500 to vote against the bul. O'Malley, Smallwood declared, tad Informed bim that he had made a sim Nar offer to D. F. Clentenin, of Cer county, and he had accepted. Becanay of the prominence of the man accu the annionocement caused a tremen doux rennation. Delegate Cook, Democratic foot leader, and leader uf the anthloral op tion forces, promptly moved tho ap pontment of a tveutisatiog commit tee, which was done. © See Too Much Money. Ap epidemic of “canhitix,” a new malady attended by vertigo, sbary headachen and nif uecke, caused by eyestrain In the glace of sinehtnie atd | electric lights on plien of new gold and allver colna, bas boken out auens treasury clerkr anit has reaultest fn the establishment of an emergancy horn tal room fn the treasury bullding {1 Washington ’ a a ac While attending the funeral of & frlend in. the Culvary cemetery a! Cleveland, O, Mrs, Mary Metarths -xhot and. prohably fatally wounde John Gallaxher, aged twenty-niyrht Gallagher fell at the edge of the Krave with a bullet fm lily lott broast Mrs “McCarthy san arrested, Police nay ‘the told them that Gallagher bad arate remarks about her. + Became Rich In Jail, Levi H. Kloeckner, who hay been sorving a sentence tn Jail In “Allen town, Pi, after being convicted 9° embeczlement, was relvaned, richer $36,000 than when he was REKed Ap Aifieen monthn ago Kleckner ts a rel entate dealer, ard while In prison te put through a rea" entate deal whieh netted him a for ture Gypsies Robbed of $6000. | The Stanley family, the famon Rypey band of hore traders, 6a Tobe) of $6000 1p Rold.near Providencs R.L The money bax been arr e About by members of the family ane the death of the hend of the how Weowas in the evllar of the Sins © bomt, at 254 North Main atreet, in rantan bag, bo you KNOW HIM? Consul Genera) Crum‘s Letter. ‘ May 1. 1911. John Mitchell, Jr, Editor of Rich. | mond Planet, Richmond, Va.: , My Dear John Mitchell,—I aave been trytog to locate John Richmond brother of William Richmond, « col- ored American who dled here about three weeks after hin arrival of ma- Mgnant malaria, called the black wa- ter fever out here. ‘William “Rich- mond regiatered in thin office as an American citizen, giving an his'near- est Xin. John Ricbmond, whore post offico addrepa in America was given at. Pembroke Store Postomice, Camp- bell county. Va. _ taddrensett a dispatch to the State Department. reporting the death of William Richmond, requesting that they aadlst me In locating the brother Of the decessed. The department acknowledged tho receipt of the dis- pate. I wrote Jobn Richmond, sending. the letter to the abare..ad- dress. The letter was returned marked uncalled for. The property of the teceased, con sisting of traveling bag, clothiag, money and dank book are in my’ possession. I am eaxiovs that his ofects reach hin brother, or if he| be deed, satisfactory proof of the| came must be furnished fn order that, I can proceed in settling the estate. I know no ome better qualified than voursalf to whom I ean tere ax sistance. Will you help mo 8: heir of William Richmondteeeeese I take ‘thie eppertanity to coa- gratalate you upen the splendid showing of the Meclanice’ Bank ta Ita achievements tm the Sold of 8 mange. If tadustry, honest endesy- or, perseveranes, determination and. tine of sevyes (an4 they are) then your tuture snd the euccess of the grent Suanetal tnetitation of which yeu afe the heusted head fo ssvaved. ‘Meny Americans, white and. ost- ered, come ont bere and lead care- lean ‘even, anereserding s¢veso oo te the epre of thelr ad yay the ponghy te om certy grave, cee T om, ot, zs 2s ‘Your cbstiont sovvent. ai, Wh, D. CORUM, echeote Afvien =. COLORED PROPLE'S HAIR. We are the Largest Manufacturers ‘ef Colored People’s Hair in the coua- ‘try. 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MODISH JABOTS Oftentimes the Prices Are Prohibitive but With Little Trouble They Can Be Made at Home. Many of those who admire the fancy neckwear and dainty jabots with frills and lace to be seen in the shops may not know that some of those designs can be copied quite easily. To make one of white and pale pink linen take a triangular piece of pink linen and apply to the white by means of a row of buttonhole stitching. Groups of coin spots are then worked on the linen, and a narrow lace edging is sowed around the linen, which is then laid in narrow plaits and stitched in place. An oblong piece of fine white cotton vole with a pointed cind has three tiny thread tucks on the point run by hand. Wide lace is then sewed fast to the edge, with the corners mitered where the point turns. This is then laid in a triple box plait, the straight edge turned over and sewed down and a row of small black satin buttons sewed down the center. From the topmost button two little inverted rows of black satin extend halfway to the point. This makes a novel looking jabot. The jabot of embroidery, not and Irish turtle is very elaborate, but with little trouble it can be made at home. SPRING HATS. The New Style In Millinery Is Much More Sensible Than the Winter Modes. The new spring hats are much more sensible and attractive in shape than many of the modes we have been wearing. The sprightly spring style illustrated here is of blue hemp with a draped Praying Spring Hat of Blue Hemp and Velvet velvet crown, which is enriched with a high wired bow of velvet ribbon. The hemp facing of the hat is enriched with a wreath of silk roses in various shades of gray, mauve, pink and red. The Lace Jacket The short coat of lace has returned at the bidding of fashion. The popularity of chantilly lace recalled this dainty garment. The coat is usually made in the sleeveless style and is bordered with fringe or bound with satin, according to taste. Another design has kimono shaped sleeves. It is caught in front above the waist, while it falls to the back in a pait or is divided into two parts, one falling at either side. These are worn with indoor frocks. The material may be chiffon, gauze or marquette. Any color to tone or contrast with the gown is in good taste. The coats are pretty and graceful and are a charming addition to any costume. Salt Mackerel. Soak a salt mackerel in cold water overnight. Be sure only salt enough remains to make it palatable. Dry well with a cloth and put the flesh side down in hot butter in a frying pan. When brown turn, adding more butter if needed. When well cooked pour half a cupful of hot milk into the pan, bring it to a boil over a slow fire, simmer about two minutes, remove from the fire, put the fish on a hot platter and pour the sauce over it. THE NEEDLEWOMAN. When sewing lace at the top of collars hold it against the wrong side of the collar, so that the stitches will come on the right side, drawing the thread moderately tight. To whip lace on a garment without rolling the edge of the material piece, the lace nearly two-fourths of an inch from the new edge of the material and whip slowly. This will roll the material into a neat and even hem, which will wear and which as well as if hemmed approximately. This is particularly useful for lace or chiffon edges. Bullet beginning to embroider the edge of lace or chiffon with a needle which dances up the garment contour. The embroidery covers the attaching perfectly and gives a firm edge that is unobtainable in any other way. When padding scalloped edges for toweling use tiny rolls of raw cotton instead of the usual darning cotton. This is sewed in place with fine thread. It makes a satisfactory and thick padding. CHILDREN'S PARTIES Their Success Depends Largely on the Refreshments. A Few Good Suggestions For the Puzzled Mother—Decorations Must Be Dainty and Pretty—Have Simple but Attractive Dishes. Perhaps the success of a children's party, depends more on the refreshments than on the entertainment, for if the little ones appear irritable or out of sorts the next day their mothers invariably puts it down to something provided by the hostess having disagreed with them. The dishes should be of the simplest description, and, although nourishment should be aimed at, it must be served in the most attractive form. If the entertainment is for very young folks and begins with tea lot plentiful plates of thin bread and butter, with a dusting of pink sugar, be served, and when cakes take a place in the menu they should be mostly of the sponge variety, not a dry sponge, but cakes made with butter. The decorations may be dainty and pretty, but startling colors may be well avoided. The prettiest devices can be designed with crystallized rose leaves and angelina or plasterio nuts, and slices of crystallized fruit will help to make the cake appetizing without detracting from its wholesomeness. Cochineal may be employed for giving a pink shade to feng, but greens and yellows, however innocent the source of coloring may be, give rise to suspicion where children are concerned. A good sponge mixture to be baked in a shallow tin. Three ounces of butter, eight and a half ounces of sugar, eight ounces of flour, four eggs, one tablespoonful of sour milk or water, one teaspoonful of orange flower water, a pinch of baking powder. All the ingredients should be warm, and the butter must be beaten till white, then beaten again with the sugar. Whip the eggs until very light and then beat them for twenty minutes with the butter. Add the water, flour, baking powder by degrees and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes. This quantity will make about two dozen small cakes to be feed and decorated. The trimmings can be used for trifles. Various candied fruits cut in small pieces may be mixed with the cake and a good boiled custard poured over. Decorate with more pieces of candied fruit. One or two of the whites of the egg may be left out when making the custard and whipped up stiffly with or without cream. They should be laid over the custard and a little pink sugar lifted over all. Ice cream, in whatever form it is served, will always please the childish appetite, but let the flavoring be vanilla or fruit juices or the fruit itself when in season. Never flavor with the essence of almond or lemon. Fresh fruit when served should be prepared before being placed on the table. The oranges should be peeled, with pith removed, and the fruit divided into sections. The pits can be taken out with the point of a knife. Fears and apples if peeled and cut up lose their color, but this objection can be overcome by making them up into fruit salads. Grape should always be skinned and seeds carefully removed. Very little in the way of meat is needed, and such meat dishes as are served should take the form of meat molds—that in chicken, veal or even beef pounded and molded with meat jelly or a good white sauce affixed with a small quantity of allspice. Small molds may be made in various pretty shapes. The little ones will enjoy the novelty of what will appear to them a very grownup supper, and yet one which will be entirely suited to their small requirements and which cannot possibly give them any untoward consequences. High Waist Line Dosed There are signs that the quite high waisted dress will soon be a back number, but it is a question if the really full skirt will come back with any degree of popularity. One of the model gowns which foretold fashions for the coming season was in beige silk, made with lots of narrow sounces from feet to waist, each sounce edged with black velvet. Down the left side the round line of every sounce was caught with a small mother-of-pearl buckle fastening a tiny velvet bow. The corsage had a fish of creamy net and an over one of beige silk trimmed with sounces like those on the skirt, only a little narrower. Attractive party frocks of sprigged mansis with wreaths of roses and a folded pink sash are also to be seen. Yinna Bolls Bake one pint of milk and drop into it two ounces of butter and lard mixed. Add one teaspoonful of salt and when cool add it in one pound of flour and a well beaten egg and one-half cake of yeast dissolved. Beat well and stand in a warm place overnight. In the morning form into little rolls, handling as little as possible, adding very little flour. Place each roll in a roll pan and stand in a warm place three quarters of an hour and bake in a quick oven about fifteen minutes. It Sees Trouble Haven't Troubles. To keep paper in place in bottom drawers, use little stickers or knobs, the smaller the better, sticking half on the side of the drawer and the other half on the Holder paper. This will keep the paper smooth and prevent it from slipping about. The Republican Party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote/into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more and without reservation for the enforcement of the letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land.—From the Platform of the National Republican Convention adopted at Chicago, June 18, 1908. I note that it is stated in the daily press that Mr. Melvin Flegenheimer asserted that it is the rule of the Republican State Committee that white men must rule and govern the affairs of the Republican Party in this state. Please advise me if this is the actual position of the present party management and whether this is the policy of the organization of which you are the official head in its movement now being made against the Democratic organization and its policies in the Old Dominion. I have your letter of the 13th inst. and note what you have to say. I think Mr. Flegenheimer must have been misquoted by the press, as I do not know of him having made any such statement as you indicate. The Republicans of Virginia operated under the call of the National Republican Committee and so far as I have been advised, all the calls were made in pursuance of the national call. I know of no effort to exclude colored people from participating in the meetings and I have never favored any such policy. I happen to know that in some sections of the state the colored voters did participate in the meetings and had delegates at some of the conventions. As I have before stated, we have endeavored to strictly comply with the call of the National Republican Committee. I hope this explanation will be satisfactory to you. Ion. C. Bascom Slemp. M. C. House of Representatives. Washington, D. C.. Dear Sir:-- I note that it is stated that the rule of the Republican State of Republican Party in this state. I agree and whether this is the proper movement now being made against Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Richmond, Va. Dear Sirs: I have your letter of the 13 must have been misquoted by the p indicate. The Republicans of Vir and so far as I have been advised, of no effort to exclude colored pro such policy. I happen to know th the meetings and had delegates at ored to strictly comply with the cal will be satisfactory to you. WAR ON THE CHINCH BUG. Burn Him Up With His, Hiding Place if You Want to Save Coming Wheat Crop. In a circular on "The Chinch Bug," describing the habits and work of this post, which is blamed for the light crop of wheat obtained in many Ohio fields, the Ohio agricultural experiment station says In late fall, about the time of Indian summer, the insects commence choosing their winter quarters, collecting in great numbers among the weeds, grass and leaves that are found along road sides and in angles of worm fences among the leaves lying in brush patches and woodlots, beneath shocks of corn folder, under newly spread manure and straw, under blits of board and stones and beneath all sorts of similar protection. They will be quiet until spring, beginning to fly about in April, unless told weather is prolonged until late. The appearance of the insects will be scattered over several weeks and the first eggs may be laid before all of the bugs have left their winter shelters. The insects fly considerable distances and generally settle in wheat fields, the plants being of suitable age to be inviting. The bugs which later escape from their hibernating quarters may find corn, oats or barley reaching an inviting stage of development. Either the clearest kind of culture should prevail over, the farm in late summer, all grassy and weedy borders around fields and along fence rows being kept closely mowed to prevent the development of suitable hibernation quarters, or else those should be allowed to grow vigorously so as to entice in late fall as many of the insects beneath the shelter as possible. In early winter after the insects are nicely settled, or else in early spring before they have wakened into activity, burn over all such retreats. If it is impossible or undesirable to burn over woodland retreats, the leaves and trash on the ground may be collected and burned if the prospective damage by the insects exceeds the value of the humans that would be destroyed by burning. If a bushel or so of leaves are collected and carried into a warm room, keeping them covered with chenecoth, a day or two will determine if many clutch bugs are hidden among them, since the insects will crawl out and show themselves as soon as the chill has passed from them. The wheat stubble in young clover fields can be burned when the ground is frozen hard without injury to the clover, but probably insufficient heat would be developed to kill the over wintering bugs. However, with their shelter removed it means probable that alternate frozing and the wing might destroy many of them. Rohne and Old Ropes Together and Burn Thorns to Kill Plants, Bays Agricultural Export. Drygasser H. A. Murfara, state procto Richmond, Va., March 13, 1912. Mr. Melvin Flegenheimer asserted that it then must rule and govern the affairs of the is the actual position of the present party man of which you are the official head in organization and its policies in the Old Dominion very truly yours. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. CHAIRMAN SLEMP'S REPLY. House of Representatives. Washington, D. C., March 19, 1912. the 13th inst. and note what you have to do the press, as I do not know of him having been Virginia operated under the call of the Bri reised, all the calls were made in pursuance of people from participating in the meetings now that in some sections of the state the c oms at some of the conventions. As I have the call of the National Republican Comm what you have to say. I think Mr. Flegenheimer know of him having made any such statement as you under the call of the National Republican Committee made in pursuance of the national call. I know in the meetings and I have never favored any of the state the colored voters did participate initions. As I have before stated, we have endeavored Republican Committee. I hope this explanation Yours very truly. get. Harrisburg, Pa., calls attention to the importance of promptly destroying the remnants of garden plants and truck crops rather than leaving them in the gardens or fields until spring. If destroyed now many of their pests are destroyed with them. If allowed to remain until spring many of these pests have opportunity to escape. The vines of potatoes, cucumbers, aquashes, melons, etc. should be raked together and thrown on dry straw or brush and burned. This gets rid of both the insects and fungus diseases lurking therein. The old asparagus plants should be cut off and burned and straw spread over the asparagus bed and burned thereon at once, to get rid of the asparagus beetles, and then the soil containing the asparagus roots can be well mulched with the cover or litter of any kind to protect them during the winter. It is especially important that the stalks of cabbage plants and the imperfect heads should be removed and fed to swine or cattle or kept in storage in a cold place to feed to poultry during the winter. Even the old stalks from which heads have been cut should be removed from the soil and treated as directed above or burned. Several kinds of pests are liable to be found upon those old stubs or the leaves clinging thereto. The best way to destroy them is to feed to livestock or burn them. Right Kind of Grafting Seedling apple trees, unless of unusual merit, are of no value until they are grafted. Lots of them are in fence rows, where they do no good. They may be made to yield profitable crops in a few years by grafting to desirable varieties. The operation is very simple. Any one can do it. It can be done shortly after growth starts in the spring.—American Agriculturist. CULTURAL NOTES It does not pay to crowd trees in planting. Root grafting may be done any time now until April 1. The damage done by rabbits does not stop with the trees they girdle. The pear and plum are short lived trees. The pear and apple are long lived. Young orchards are injured by boron, rabbits and mice and should be protected against these pests. Common Core For True Paste Carson Cove For First Press Some specimens in electronizing two pages, paid to be the first crop media, were recently conducted in the state of Washington by W. H. Pratt and S. J. Lawrence, says the County County Commission. In a six-year-old many moved across bread media. C. B. SLEMP. green aphids were killed in a few minutes. The apparatus consisted of a storage battery and incandescent light globes of six candle power, netted with fine steel wire, coated with copper and then alternately. The globes were placed in the trees, at the ends of covered wires, and the moths flying against them completed the electric circuit, were killed and fell into receptacles beneath the globes. Mr. Frost estimates that one battery to an acre of trees will keep the moths under control, dispensing with the usual spraying and saving many dollars. He is preparing to wire the orchard of ten acres, containing 700 trees, and some neighbors will do the same. Several thousand acres of bearing apple trees will be thus equipped by spring. If commercial electric wires are extended to orchards the expense of batteries may be saved by making direct connection with them. Taking a Liberty. "Oh, perdon me. Mt. Hedgehog, I merely wanted to borrow a pin for the lady."—Harper's Weekly. A farmer returning home late at night found, a man standing beside the house with a lighted lantern in his hand. "What are you doing here?" he asked savagely, suspecting he had caught a criminal. For answer came a chuckle and "It's only me, sure." Another chuckle. "I'm a coortin Ana, sur." "And so you've come courting with a lantern, you fool! Why, I never took a lantern when I courted my mis trees!" "No, zur, you didn't, zur," Joha chuckled. "We can all see you didn't sur."—Answers. Shortly after the return from their hoymoon a young couple of Cleveland undertook housekeeping, the bride being especially desirous to put into practice the lessons she had taken in cooking. Returning home one evening, the husband found his wife in tears. Between such he managed to learn from her that something terrible had happened. "There all right, my love, and the baggage, putting buy on the shoestring. We'll pay you another and right away." Michael's words. Emily Required. DAIRY DAIRY CALVES. Care in Discarding Unpromising Material Will Result in Building Up Good Hard. The practice of buying hoifers for furnishing new members of the dairy hard is not as profitable a plan as some may think. It is seldom that really good blooded calves that are likely to develop into valuable cows can be had at a price that will allow their being brought to maturity with profit. There are a great many dairymen who consider raising calves a mental task that is beneath their dignity. That is where they make a mistake that has something to do with lowering the producing standard of many hards. No task should be more interesting and of more profit to the dairyman than watching over the calf from the time it is born until it becomes a cow to take a place in the herd. By the rearing of the calf itself the dairyman can give the proper care and attention at the time they are required to help nature develop the calf into a good cow. It is seldom possible to take a scrub calf of mongrel blood and make a good cow of it, but it is always possible to take a fine, blooded calf and develop it into a scrub cow. A great many people seem to follow the latter plan, for the country is full of scrub cows for sale at almost any price; while good cows are scarce and command an almost prohibitive price. A large percentage of the calves are practically spoiled during the first days ```markdown ``` Woll Kept Calve of their lives either by not feeding them enough or by feeding milk that is too rich for them. The calf may have a strong constitution, but it is not best to put it to any great strain at this time. Just enough food to satisfy the calf's hunger and not enough to allow overeating is what is necessary to provide health, growth and normal development. Feeding the calves by hand is the method that is to be recommended. It is then possible to know just what the calf is getting and how much. A great many seem to look upon calf feeding as a terrible test; but, while it may be a little disagreeable during the first few meals, if gone at in a proper way it is no great task to feed a whole drove of them. If they would go at the work in a common sense way probably it would not seem like such a disagreeable task, after all. Fatience is the key to success in calf feeding. It seems as if the higher bred a cow is the more nervous and excitable is her calf. The nervous system seems to be more highly developed, and the calf is not likely to be so robust, which would seem to require additional care and attention to bring the youngsters to proper maturity. Use of Silage In Summer The New York experiment station, after lengthy and carefully recorded trials, bears testimony to the value of the silo for supplementing the pastures which dry up in July and August, causing a large shrinkage in the milk flow, which is difficult to get back, and very costly. Succulent summer feed is essential in sustaining the milk flow, and the silo is the most reliable method of securing such food. Oat Hay For Cows. Oat hay put up at the right time, when it is not too ripe and hard, makes an excellent roughage feed for cows. The proper time to cut oat hay is when the grain is in the dough and the straw not over ripe. If the grain is allowed to develop fully the straw will be top ripe to make good hay. If cut too green there will be little if any strength in the grain. Increasing the MHz Frequency Increasing the Milk Flow When cows have been milked for several months it is generally a waste of feed to attempt to increase the flow of milk. About the best that can be done with an animal after she has established her milk flow is to continue a system of feeding that will keep her from shrinking in milk production abnormally fast. The Why of the Generator The cream separator is a means of saving time and labor in the dairy. This on account of the loss of time and labor required to handle the milk, also economy of room for setting the milk for the cream to rise, which is necessary with the old fashioned methods. In all cases of emergency, and in the event of unavailability of the supply shown it should be used in the place or otherwise be brought to the office. In questionable and Poisonous this supply does not prevail. This means that in the treatment they supply the conditions that must provide in summer. Some study of the education and a better knowledge of the conditions that control the coming of the butter would often help things along a great deal. So far as my personal observation goes, the average housekeeper in very apt, when she has a home of her own, to churning and other things as her mother did them, says a writer in Farm Progress. But scientific methods in milk and cream management and churning have been adopted quite generally now, and the best butter in the world is made in the creamier. The uniformity and high quality of the butter are due to the scientific management of the cream and the best possible manner of doing the churning. This involves proper control of the temperature, atmosphere absolutely free from odors and the best methods of churning that dairymen have been able to devise. Quite often complaints are made that there is difficulty in getting the butter to come. In summer one soldons heart of such a thing, but in very cold weather it is quite common in farmhouses, because it is impossible to provide the necessary continued heat to cause the proper changes to be made that are suited to the making of the heat butter. If it is possible to keep the cream in a room where the temperature shape at about 70 to 75 degrees the milk will turn in far less time than if it is down to 50 or below, and it may be taken for granted that the longer the milk and cream are kept before churning the harder will be the churning and the poorer the butter. Under the present condition on most farms the almost universal custom is to help the milk and cream intended for churning in the living room. I don't think the best butter can be made when kept in a room that always has a number of people in it and the atmosphere far from pure. I think any one handy with tools can make an outfit that would help a great deal in getting the milk to sour up to the point of acidity necessary to produce the best butter. The conditions needed are more pure air and sufficient warmth. In very cold climates it is almost impossible to get cream to sour in winter, and some heating device is absolutely necessary to get heat enough to cause souring. A writer from a far northern locality says that she has no trouble in getting cream to sour. She has adopted a simple device. She has a good sized key in which the milk can sit and also a bucket of hot water. By renewing the water and keeping it hot the temperature will stay high enough to sour the milk in a reasonable time. Any way you fix it the milk and butter question gives trouble in winter. If one does his best the butter will be as good as if not equal to that made in June. Great Difference In Milk Every person who has never milked cows, as well as some who have only witnessed this interesting process at a very safe distance, realize that there is not much variation in the quantity of milk from certain cows in the hind and on the same feed, but to most people "milk is milk," very few having any correct idea as to what is commonly called the "richness of it." Co-operation A sarcastic old farmer once remarked that the reason farmers did not cooperate more was that there were too many of them who would rather lose a dollar than to see another make two. That may be true of some jealous, narrow minded farmers, but we do not believe it is true of the majority by any megan—Hoard's Dairyman. Belting the Dairy Heifers Salt the dairy heifers as they grow up and handle them frequently. The more you handle the heifer before she becomes a producer the less trouble she will give you with the first milking. DAIRY NOTES One cannot judge the size of the feed for the calf by the vigor of its appetite. If this is to be the measure the calf is apt to be dangerously overfed. If the cow's pedigree tallies with the milk pail, then it is consistent and a good foundation or a poor one, as the case may be. Many of the details in buttermaking can only be looked after by experience. Much of it must be learned by doing the work. No one can begin where the other follow left off. A daily record should be kept of each cow in the stable. In a year's time a dohrman will know by practical demonstration what cows are paying him and those that are not. "Going to move again" "You" replied the patient name. "We've bought a lot of handmade furniture, and we want to give the public a good look at it." - Washington Post Then Traveler "Called" Story of Simple Minded Muscovite Driver and Negotiations Were Off Until the Terms Originally Agreed Upon Want Into Effect. IN Dr. Fred Burnaby's celebrated book, "A Ride, to Khiva," the following amusing tale of an adventure in Russia is told: A tall man came out and asked my business. Said that I wanted three horses to go to the next stage and asked him what he would drive me there for, the regular postal tariff being about 2 rubles. "One of noble birth," replied the fellow, "the roads are bad, but my horses will gallop the whole way. They are excellent horses. All the people in the town look at them and envy me." "I have no doubt about it. They are excellent horses," I replied, "but what will you take me for?" "Let us say 4 rubles, your excellency, and give me 1 on account—one little whole silver ruble." "All right," was my answer. "Send the horses to the Tsarskoe-Selo immediately." "Come Again," Said the Driver. Presently the fellow rushed into my room and, bowing to the ground, took off his cap with a grandiose air; then, drawing out the money I had given him from some hidden recess in the neighborhood of his skin, he thrust the ruble into my hand and exclaimed: "Little father, my uncle owns one of the horses. He is very angry. He says that he was not consulted in the matter and that he loves the animal like a brother. My uncle will not let his horse leave the stable for less than 5 rubles. What is to be done? I told him that I had agreed to take you and even showed him the money, but he is hard hearted and stern." "Very well," I said. "Bring round the horses." In a few minutes the fellow returned and exclaimed, "One of noble birth, I am ashamed!" "Quite right," I said. "You have every reason to be so. But go on. Is your uncle's horse dead?" "No, one of noble birth, not so bad as that, but my brother is vexed. He has D. D. B. "COME AGAIN," SAID THE RURALIAN. a share in one of the animals. He will not let me drive him to the next station for less than d rubles. What shall we do? I said, "You have a grandmother?" "Yes," be replied, much surprised. "How did you know that? I have—a very old grandmother." "Well," I continued, "go and tell her that, fearing lost she should be annoyed if any accident were to happen during our journey-for, you know, misfortunes occur sometimes-God sends them." I added plainly. "Yes, he does." interrupted the man. "We are simple people, your excellency." "And, not wishing to hurt the old woman's feelings, should the four leg of your uncle's horse or the blind leg of your brother's guller on the road I have changed my mind and shall not go with you today, but take poor human tomorrow." Missan Okeo to Yewen. The man now becomes dizzed, thinking that he was placed in the fire he rushed. He dwindled violently and then continued. "I will take your assistance for 4 polls." "No," I answerd. "I shall wait—the polls are beautiful honour. I am not going to give up going into the truth. All I am going to do is prove back of them, and prove them." "Not all day a rubbish, your excellency." "But your lady might hurt you. I should not like you to be hurt." "So," was the answer. "We will go." And the honest point being thus settled, we drove off. WHO DIDN'T WANT HIS PICTURE TAKEN. Showed Disapproval by Charging Photographer. According to his "Camera Adventures In the African Wilda." A. Raillyffe Dugmore's chief delight is in snapping an animal just at the moment when another, man would be saying his prayers. Once or twice only is he driven to the stern necessity of killing. He writes: "Directly before us, not twenty yards away, lay a large rhinoceros, his big gray back showing above the waving grass. For some reason or other we had not loaded our weapons that morning, and the importance of rapidity of action was very conspicuous. "C, my companion, loaded the shotgun with a charge of buckshot and a ball. He also had his revolver. No sooner had I grabbed the camera and moved a little to one side so as to ob GO DAVID NOT TWENTY YARDS AWAY DAY A RHINOOK HORN. tain a better view of the animal in case he charged than he was up and at us. It seemed incredible that so large an animal could move with such rapidity. I focused on him as he rushed toward C. and the Masal and the two thoroughly scared boys who were behind them. Almost unconsciously I released the shutter, when at the same moment C. was trying to turn the animal with a charge of buckshot. The attempt, however, was futile, and the creature came on without even hesitating. C., realizing that the shot had failed, fired a twelve bore ball from the left barrel and then, grabbing his revolver, began firing right into its head as it rushed past him not six feet away: "It made straight for the Masal, who stood quietly awaiting the onrush and who actually jumped aside when within touching distance of the big horn. It next turned toward me just as I was endeavoring to put a second plate in position so that I might get a picture of the actual encounter. In my hurry I did not put the plate holder all the way in, as I afterward found to my disappointment. But for the moment the camera became less important than the angry beast, when to my relief the Masal with wonderful coolness drove his spear into the side of the rhinoceros. "That turned him toward C., who quickly put another shot into his head, and that decided the bewildered animal to leave us alone, and off he went." Changed Point of View. A man who protects against losing a half hour's sleep with the baby would eagerly sit up all night with his wife before marriage.—Puck. --- Unruly Patient. Expecting a patient in the medical ward of a local hospital one evening recently, one of the nurses told an orderly to be on the watch for the man and get him undressed and into bed. Soon afterward a man came into the room and stood looking about him. "You may sit here," said the orderly, going up to the man and pointing to a chair beside a bed. Then the orderly brought a screen and placed it about the newcomer. "The nurse said you were to undress," the attendant remarked. "But I don't want to undress," said the man. "Oh, but you must," replied the orderly. "A bed is all ready for you." "I will not undress, and you can't make me undress!" exclaimed the man. "Oh, that's all right," soothingly answered the orderly, who thought the one must be one of mental disorder. "We'll soon fix you all right," and he stepped down to exhaustion, the man's shoes. In the struggle that followed the "patient" managed to tear himself loose and jump to his feet. "What's three kinds of love knows you / w up against!" he yelled. "I didn't come here for the kind of treatment I often use a sick friend."—Youngman, Twitter. The wildest automobile ride perhaps ever witnessed in any American city took place in Chicago into one afternoon recently. The story is told by the New York Sun. Jack Johnson, the necro pugilist champion, was at the wheel of his machine, and Chief of Police McWeney was the lone passenger. Johnson drove the officer from the central station to the stockyards station in record breaking time. He left in his wake hundreds of scared pedestrians, angry teamsters and street Bernard Rudolphe HE LEFT IN HIS WAKE HUNDREDS OF SCARRED PEDESTRIANS. car conductors. No one perhaps was madder than Johnson's passenger Chief McWeeney. "I ought to have killed him," said the chief later. "I ordered him to stop a hundred times, but he would not do it. I thought he would kill some one every minute. I was too busy holding on for my life to do much but holier at him. He only grinned and put on more juice. I be- lieve he made it from the central po- lice station to the stockyards at the rate of 100 miles an hour." Johnson, describing the trip, said: "I went to the chief's office to ask him for a permit to do a little boxing on the west side. He denied me thi- s and said, 'I've got to be at the stock- yards station in two minutes.' "I'll take you right there, chief I've got my machine right outside. And I knew I had him right where I wanted him. When he got in, I just threw her wide open and let her rip. Then he couldn't do nothing but holler The chief he hollered, "I'll shoot you!" I yelled back: 'Go on and shoot! This is the first time I ever had the chance to drive as fast as I pleased in a big city, and I'm certainly going to do it now." Chased by Wounded Buffalo. A wounded buffalo is about as ugly an antagonist as a man would care to meet. Twenty years ago the buffaloes were still plentiful in Texas, and the present major of one of the leading cities in that state vividly recalls one day when, instead of hunting buffalo, the buffalo hunt...him. He got within range of a small herd and brought down a big bull. Away scampered the rest of the herd, and the hunter advanced with his knife. When within ten yards the bull, with a terrific below, staggered to its feet and charged the hunter. His gun was empty., and he ran away as fast as his lags could carry him. A buffalo can run faster than an ordinary horse, and in a few minutes the man realised that it was only a question of time when he would be trampled down. But he kept on running, and just when he felt the hot breath behind him he heard a dull crash and, looking back, saw the buffalo lying struggling on the ground. Faint with loss of blood. This time the hunter relished his gun and finished the animal for sure.—Chicago 'Record-Herald.' Fierce Fight Between Elephants. Describing a fight between elephants staged for the amusement of the mahrajah of Barao, a writer in Pearson's Magazine says: "Two of them, genuinely mad and rendered still more crazy by the administration of intoxicating drugs, each with its hind feet tied together, flanked on either side by an army of attendants carrying long spears, are brought and, after their bonds are removed, turned loose in the arena. The big brutes dash at each other full tilt, their trunks waving in the air and thrashing against each other's head and body as they fight for supremacy. The 'sport' is stopped before it becomes veryanguinary. A rocket is lit by one of the keepers. The thick, steamlike smoke and hissing noise it produces startle the beasts. Their trunks disassemble instantly ankles flung with sharp pointed spikes are snapped about their hind legs, hurting them so excruciatingly that they at once kneel and permit the chains to be put on them." Hopes Have Five From Bain. When the barge, Starting of New York, India with coal conglusted from Philadelphia to Boston, spring a leak and cank five miles southwest of Black Island, Rhode Island, Captain Edward Olsen, with the crew of four men, jumped into the sea with ropes about their bodies thrown from the sea Puritan G. H. The Sterling was being towed with a barge. When the leak was discovered Captain Olsen and his men worked at the pumps to save the craft. They were preparing to abandon her, however, when a heavy sea struck the barge and she foundered in twenty-five fathoms of water. Quick work on the tug saved the men's lives. OUT OF HANDS OF CANNIBALS Shlpwrecked Doctor Didn't Wait to Be Eaten. SAW COMPANIONS BURNED. Slight Gave American Cast Away In Patagonia Courage to Break Bonds and Escape—Made Other Party of Natives Happy With Gold Washed Watch Chain. R. GEORGE G. LUSH of New York, who, according to the New York World, has had cannibals in Patagonia, tells in that newspaper the following story of his adventures when he was shipwrecked on the South American coast: A party of naked savages, mostly undernized men, who had seen our ship and who had three big fires on the beach, at once attacked us. I was knocked down by a native, and as I fell I kicked one savage in the face. I know I kicked out some of his teeth. I still distinctly remember his bowl of pain. Tied to Ground by Cannibals. I was forced to the ground by several natives, and two minutes later I was lying face down, with stakes driven close to my body on either side of me, holding me as in a vise. My feet and wrists were then tied with tough grass. Just before nightfall I saw two of my former companions, dead or alive. I could not tell, thrown on two huge fires. The sight sickened me, and at the same time it gave me the courage of desperation. It made me realize that I was in the hands of cannibals and I did not desire to be eaten. Before my comrades were tossed into the fames I had been carried to a stump near the edge of the woods which skirted the beach and was there fastened. I freed one hand from its grass fastening and reached a nail which was in my trousers pocket. Through South American Jungle. With this nail I severed my bonds of grass and crawled into the deepening shadows of the woods. Doubtless my terror gave me temporary strength. From noises I heard an hour later I felt sure my escape had been discovered. D. good, but I was not disturbed. I crawled as far as I could through the strange woods until I fell asleep from exhaustion. The next day was for advanced when I awoke. For three days and night I traveled as rapidly northward as I could, subsisting on each fruit and berries as I knew to be edible or which looked as if they might be safely eaten. Finally I reached an Indian but, where an old Indian seemed to be living alone. He fed me and gave me abster. I awoke in the night, and without stopping to bid adieu to my host I filled my pockets from his corn supply and went again into the woods. Two days later I emerged near a little settlement where some cattle were corralled and where there were a dozen huts occupied by Indians. I ventured among them. Made Them Happy With Watch Chain They discussed me in a language which was a mixture of Indian dialect, Portuguese and Spanish. Half hour later I tasted there the first meal I had eaten since the wreck. I stayed there three days. An Indian girl who wasn't half his booking served my meals. The only object I had left from my former possessions was a washed gold watch chain. The watch went down with the ship. I gave this chain to the duckmalden, and I think it pleased the whole camp as much as it did her. On the fourth day they sent two boys with me to guide me to Pizza From there I was guided by others to Ocata. From Ocata I went in five days to the coast. I next went to San Jose. From there I was taken on a little steamer up the river to a small settlement where I met some one who could speak my own tongue. Had to Save Her Picture. William Arthur Paulina is a ruthly cheeked English lad seventeen year old, an apprentice on board the Prince Einer Royal Prince, in which there was a fire recently—when she was lying on her pier in Brooklyn. The fire was in the room occupied by Apprentice Paulina and was due to the Royal Prince bumping into a wave that shook the vessel from stern to stern. In the shaking one of the oil lamps in William room tumbled to the floor and broke. The lamp was lighted at the time and in an minute the room was filled. William was not in the room but all his letters and a photograph of Miss Gertrude Elliott were there. Miss Elliott, like William, is seventeen year old. They have been sweethearts for years. William darted through the smoke and fire and recovered all letters and the photograph. The blaze was soon put out. Merchant Found Dead. H. Kennard Wasson, president of the H. P. Wasson company, operating one of the largest department stores in Indianapolis, Ind. was found dead in his bed. "Why was Jonah thrown overboard? "I'm not sure, but I've always thought he was the first man to rock a boat"--New York Press. His Sad Fate. "You heard that story about the poet that got home too late, didn't you?" "No. What about him?" VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. Under a costly canopy The village blacksmith sits. Before him is a touring car Broken to little bits, And the owner and the chauffeur, too, Have almost lost their wits. The village blacksmith smiles with glee As he lights his fat cigar, He tells his helpers what to do To straighten up the car, And the owner and the chauffeur, too, Stand humbly where they are. The village blacksmith puffs his weed And smiles a smile of cheer The while his helpers pump the tires And weeps the weeds And the owner and the chauffeur, too, Stand reverently near. Behind the village blacksmith is The portal of his shop. The shop is very large in size; With a tiled roof on top, And the owner and the chauffeur, too, At it were glad to stop. The children, going home from school, Look in at the open door. They like to see him make his bills And hear the owner roar. And the chauffeurs wear as they declare They never paid that before. He goes each morning to the bank And mails away his cash. A big stick hat and long frond coat Keep him to eat a fish. But the owner and the chauffeur, too, Their teeth all vainly gnash. The chauffeur tree long shines has died. The muth does not regain. His hammock she has grown into A building big and fine. And it bears "Garage" above the door On a large chestnut side. -Chicago Breeding Post. A colored LAN calling himself "Captain John H. Simpson" and at times mailing under other names has been persistently settling both white and colored people in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport, News and Phoebe. His plan has been to represent that he has money in a colored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr., President and tells 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 mailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Thimble Light off Buckroe 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. 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ROBINSON 19 & 21 N. 18TH ST. Dearer to Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars, &c. ALL STOCK SOLD AS GUARANTEED. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your Patronage Is Respectfully Solicited. --- REY, DR. GRAMM PURCHASES A HOME. Tell His Congregation He Is With Them to Stay—His Great Ability as a Leader Becoming More and More Manifest—His People Happy and Contested—A Remodeling Fund Rally On. (Philadelphia, Pa Sold Rock Herald) The editor attended services at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church last Sunday morning. The large audience present listened to a most excellent sermon by the Rev. Mr. Hall, a visiting divine. Prior to adjournment the pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham spoke to his congregation as follows: "It is seldom that I speak of my private business in public, but I think it necessary at this time in view of some things being said and done. It has been talked around that my stay in Philadelphia was uncertain because my family still remained in Richmond, Va. That Rev. Dr. Walker stayed at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City, four years, but never brought his family there, and went back to his old church at Augusta, Ga. The same might be my case. BUYS A HOUSE ON CHRISTIAN STREET. While it was my intention from the first to remain in this city, I never before attempted to correct assertions to the contrary, and as an evidence of my sincerity, I purchased a property yesterday (Saturday, March 16) at 1631 Christian street, and have notified the tenants that I must have possession by the first of May coming. I expect to have my family all settled down in our new home by or before the first of June and will be at home to my members any time it is their pleasure to call on us. It will be so much better for me to have my wife and family here, and then you won't have to be wondering, as you have been, why I go to Richmond so often. "It has also been whispered about how did he get able to buy a house so quick? Well, I thought it best to buy my house before our great spring rally now coming on, for it might get falsely rumored that I was using the church's money for the purpose. In such matters I live above suspicion. I can report to God when I get to heaven that I have never taken a cent from anybody wrongly in all my life. Brother Jackson here (president of the trustee board) went with me to the bank and saw me deposit enough money and more to purchase my house. That was shortly after I came, and I have been with you now near on to seven months. "While I is true that the Rev. Dr. Walker did remain in New York four years as pastor, he never gave up his church in Augusta. He was pastor of both churches all the while. The church I left at Richmond has got a pastor now. I am not only your pastor, but I have my membership here with you also. In our rally to beautify our church, my wife and self are going to contribute $10 each, and I want you all to do the very best you can, so that our house of worship can be beautified before the fall, and without hampering us with our other payments." The audience sat perfectly still while the Rev. Dr. Graham spoke, but seemed intensely interested in every word he said. Sighs of relief were noticeable all over the house when he emphasized that he was here to stay. IN A FASHIONABLE NEIGHBOR HOOD The house purchased by the Rev. Dr. Graham is nearly opposite Cherry Memorial Baptist Church, formerly Cherry Street Baptist Church, of which the Rev. Dr. Wm. A. Creditis pastor. It is in the most fashionable section of the city downtown, and prior to the building of Rev. Creditis' church on its present site there were few if any colored families living in this exclusive residential section. A LEADER OF RARE ABILITY. Though not much over, a half year's, residence here, the Rev. Dr. Graham has proved himself a leader of rare ability, not only among his own stock, who love him dearly, but also in the great Baptist community in which he lives. The Baptist Ministers' Conference here is composed of members of both white and colored churches, which meets every Monday foroon at Seventeenth and Chestnut streets, and as a member of that body, the Rev. Mr. Graham makes himself heard and felt whenever occasion arises. He has also become a forceful character of the Colored Baptist Ministerial Union, which meets at Twelfth and Barbridge streets every Monday afternoon, and a place in the front ranks of this body is disposed him by none of the brilliant lights of its make-up. His rare ability as a lead or becomes more and more manifest, whenever he enters into discussion of serious affairs of the Union. His people are happy and contented, under his leadership, and the Holy Trinity Baptist Church has modeled the phenomenal record of being embedded from what appeared to be a hopeless financial wreck a few months ago—during about spiritually dead as well—and now enjoys the best commercial significance of day church in the city. The church is thoroughly spiritually around, and each service, whether Sunday or week day, is attended by large audiences full of spirit and seal. Though the present church edifice was built about ten years ago, and was then supposed to be ample to answer all purposes of accommodation for years to come, its inadequacy has been apparent ever since the Rev. Dr. Graham took charge, and this more than anything else is inspiring the officers and members to work like a hive of bees to make the remodelling fund rally a great success. It is a worthy church with a worthy pastor, and well deserving of the great financial support they will receive under his stalwart leadership. LOS ANGELES, CAL. NEWS Pulpit Needs Race Pride. My four years in Los Angeles as a business man has brought me in direct contact with the business men of our city. In this I have had an opportunity to study him and to note his success as well as his failure. We have in our city about 18 grocery stores, 1 bakery, 5 butchers, 1 drug store, 1 well equipped laundry 15 restaurants, 1 first-class tailoring establishment and several small tailoring establishments, 12 barber shops 1 department store, 5 furniture stores, 2 hay, grain and feed dealers, 15 real estate dealers and 1 ice cream parlor. These places of business are located principally in the various Negro settlements. The grocery dealers have been looking with some regret for his respective pastor to give his support, but the pastor fails to come around to purchase. After careful investigation we find that the pastors fail to see the necessity of patronizing his brother. It is a part of his religion to believe that he is, at liberty to deal where he may see fit and his brother is not to be considered in the business world so far as he is concerned. In many cases our pastors only visit our business places on and about the time for a Rally at his church. Before and after this time he is so deeply engaged in his church duties that he doesn't have time to call. One of the leading pastors of the city in making an address a few days ago said that his reason for dealing with white business houses was that they were able to carry their customers from one pay day to the other. This brother seems to have forgotten that if his own race creditor received the recompense of his goods that he could carry his customers just as easy. In discussing this matter with the brother, in part he said: "I am glad I have gotten to the place where I can recognize all men as my brother and I treat them all the same. I do not believe in racial differences, and there ought not be any if a man is born again. I have always been against using the church for advertising center." This held good of course, until rally day came, and this brother, from his own pulpit heralded the news that each member and friend was requested to give a certain amount to help pay off their old debt and circulars were also issued out to each person. Mr. A and Mr. B., who chance to be in this audience is referred to also, as the leading business men of the city and who are well able, as it may be suggested to start this collection with five or ten dollars. At this time he is distinguished as a great business man. If the pastor would at all times be as thoughtful for the business men as they are on rally day they would not have such a hard time to exist. In this I do not mean to charge the ministry falsely or put upon him any disadvantages or to retard his progress with his respect we charge. But I earnestly believe that if the ministry encouraged business among their own people there would be a bright future for the Negro. Not only by words should this be done but he ought to make it convenient from time to time to visit the business men and by all means trade with them. He owes this to the layman for the loyal support he renders to his church aside from the many things that are done to make the pastor happy. It is also to be remembered that he is in a large measure responsible for the layman's condition morally, spiritually and financially. What would the ministry do if it were not for the layman? I hold that if the pulpit would lift up their voices in encouraging business men and thereby teach the people their racial duty it would help the entire race through out the country. We need this kind of religion also. It seems to have been forgotten. The Juvenile Choir of Wesley Chapel M. E. Church, rendered the song service Sunday morning, March 17th. This was in keeping with the fact that it was Children's Day and their sweet melodies were enjoyed by a large audience. Rev. Peck, pastor of A. M. E. Church, preached a special sermon for the Railroad Porters and Walters. A special collection was lifted. A. D. LACEY. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, J.K. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythiae, N. A., S. A., R., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother John R. Brown, who was a member of Crystal Lodge, No. 156 of Richmond, Va. Signed—A. D. Price, Per R. H. Thurston. Assignee. Witnesses: R. C. Mitchell. Robert Gray, D. D. G. C. 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Bruce, assistant superintendent of schools, was the opinion expressed yesterday by the colored members of the board, all of whom voted to reject the report of Supt. Davidson, which was favorable to Mr. Bruce. R. R. Horner contends that the color line has been drawn by the white members. On the other hand, James F. Oyster, the president of the board, denies his assertion. "The colored members of the board may be disafflicted with the decision," said Mr. Oyster last night. "but all the colored people are not. Thirty prominent and influential colored citizens called me up yesterday and expressed their pleasure at the decision of the board. There has never been a time in the history of the board of education when the color line has been in the slightest degree discernible. While I do not care to discuss the matter from this angle, I can only deny that the color line had anything to do with the votes of the members. WILL APPEAL, MR. HORNER SAYS "We have always done our best to administer the affairs of the schools in the best possible way for the children of the District, and if we have ever taken cognizance of color, it was in favor of the colored children." "We shall certainly take an appeal from the decision of the board," said Mr. Horner yesterday. "To whom we shall appeal or our method of procedure in the matter we have not yet decided, but I feel certain that the matter has not reached fls final settlement. At the meeting Wednesday day I asked for a polled vote in order to ascertain whether or not the color line was being drawn by the white members of the board." Dr. W. V. Tunnell, of Howard Uni versity, another of the colored board members, said that while he hore no personal animosity toward Mr. Bruce he is not satisfied with the decision. POINTS TO CLERGYMAN'S CHARGES. "I do not think that both sides have been given a fair hearing in the matter," he said. "I, for instance, have a letter written by a prominent and reputable colored clergyman, in which he accuses Mr. Bruce of un truthfulness in personal dealings with him. This man was never heard. I believe that the entire case should be re-opened, and both Mr. Bruce and his accusers allowed to face each other in the open. "In case an appeal is taken it shall probably be in the nature of a request to Congress that the body take up the matter and probe it thoroughly." Henry P. Blair, who voiced the sentiments of the white members of the board, all of whom voted in favor of the report submitted by Dr. David son, said: "I feel that the report of the au perintendent was made after a thorough, conscientious and unprejudiced investigation, and that the report was an absolutely fair one to all. I have no desire to enter into a conspiracy and do not believe that such a discussion would be productive of any good. Personally I am satisfied with the action of the board."—Washington, D. C. 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I never heard anything an entrancing. What was that last song? Second Cat (instrumentally)—"If I had 0,000 lives to live I live them all for you."—Woman's Home Companion. 1. Goffin—do well. I suppose. This rule will raise a movement and the name will raise the children—Goffin. BROWN'S SUBMISSION. 5 Minutes Walk: From Our Laundry. Own your own home and stop paying rent. I have 42 beautiful lots located at the head of 28th Street. $100 each to be sold on easy terms. $5.00 each, 50 cents per week, no taxes, no interest. After the lot is paid for we will build you a home. You pay for same in rent until house is paid for. For further particulars call and see M. BROWN, 920 E. MAIN STREET. Second floor front $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., March 25, 1912. This is to certify that we 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 H. C. Smith, who was a member of Manchester Lodge, No. 11 of South Richmond, Va. Signed—Mechanics' Sav. Bank, Thor. H. Wyatt, Cashier, Assignees. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va. March 22, 1912. 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. A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Brother W. B. Harris, who was a member of Christian Hope Lodge, No. 43 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Catharine F. Harris. Witnesses: Beneciary. R. C. Mitchell. Robert Gray, D. D. G. C. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., March 20, 1912. This is to certify that I 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 death-claim of Sister Frances Swan, who was a member of Josephine Court, No. 228 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Alice E. Cook. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Anna Taylor. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., March 25, 1912. 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 death-claim of Sister Laura Williams, who was a member of Virginia Court, No. 166 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Mechanics' Nov. Bank. Thos. H. Wyatt. Cashier. Andrew. Do You Know Else? Columbia, Va., March 16, 1913. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr.. Richmond, Va. I see published in your volume paper the letter of General General Orum May 1, 1911 stating the death of William Richmond, any trying to locate John Richmond. I wish to say that I had a brother by the name of William Richmond, born in Oumberland, Va. and repaired in Columbia, Va. He went to Richmond, Va. and lived there many years. He left Richmond, Va. on the 21st of September, 1904 and I have not heard of him since. I would not tell if he was dead or alive. He had a stay on the right chest and he had a new ear the right eye and one on the left. All three of the arms and elbows and will have been to the groin. He was always the best hunter and weighted about 57 or 159 pounds when I saw him last. I also will you like photos that I should send your power or the Shadow. Please send them to me on Friday. Address: Columbia, Pennsylvania 1926 Two Expensive Mine Settlings. The plant of the Grass Furnace company at Scranton, Pa., manufacturers of store sand ranges, was practically formed by a settling of underground workings. The building, of concrete and wood, 400 by 200 feet, is cracked and twisted out of shape. The door has fallen four feet and all of the machinery is out of commission. The plant employees 100 molders. In the same vicinity is the monastery of the Passionist Order. The monastery, which is of brick and stone, is showing cracks and nagging walls. The monks have taken the matter up with the coal company, and if mining under the building does not cease the building will be abandoned. The monastery was built about eight years ago and cost approximately $225,000. With the grounds of many acres the property represents a value of $500,000. Burned to Death by Morton Metal. Edmondson Upman, thirty years old, an ironworker, was killed and several others were injured when a huge hull containing more than twenty-five tons of molten metal collapsed at the Gary Steel works, at Gary, Ind. The flood from swept down upon the new beneath it and Upman was burned to death. Surge $1999 In Price Albert Fetting, a farmer of near Richmond, Mich., committed suicide after he had drawn all his savings, $1000, from a bank card, had burned the money. Fetting had shed his wife unsuccessfully for divorce and burned the money for fear she might get it. Silk Mills Bury at Avoca, Po The Avoca, Pa., silk mills, owned by Anshley & Co., at Hackestatown, N. J., were totally destroyed by fire. The loss is $135,000, and 500 hands are thrown out of employment. U. Hayes, Office and Ware-Rooms, 727 NORTH SHOUND STREET. Rebilden, 755 N. Bed St. First-class Main and Controls of All Descriptions. I have a Squire Room for BODIES when the Family have not a suitable Place. All country Orders are Given Special Attention. Your Special Attention is call Sir Giles GARMENTS. Carl and Sue No and You shall be Waited on Individually. THE WORLD OF THE WEST W. CARTER