Richmond Planet

PLAYFIELD A Prosperous Year—Directors Elect-ed—Officers of the Bank Tak Office. The stockholders of the Mechanics Savings Bank met last Tuesday night at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third St. Previous to the business, President John Mitchell, Jr. invited the stockholders to go, with him to the Mechanics Savings Bank building and inspect the same. The special point of interest was the 3rd floor recently leased to The Anglo-American Finance Corporation. The elevator was soon in service and the throng was easily transported to the palatial apartments. The main office room has been gorously freecoated, the metal ceiling with its golden embellishments being a feature. Here is a magnificent mahogany rail, table for ladies and a roomy desk of the same material for the Secretary. MAGNIFICENT QUARTERS. The windows have been lettered in gold leaf and the English flag marked "Union Jack" and the American flag marked "Old Glory" con situate a feature on the two end windows. The next room adjoining is the office for the Secretary and the Treasurer. It is carpeted and padded. The white curtains at the windows in two sections add to the beauty of all of the rooms. The next room is for the Directors. It has been magnificently papered and decorated. On one wall is the coat of arms of the British Empire and on the other the American Eagle. OTHER OFFICES. The next office is that of the Man- aging Director or President and the next is his consultation room. All of these rooms have expensive mahogany furniture. The consultation room is fitted up in parlor style and is a place of magnificence and beauty. The next office is that of the Attorney. The next is his consultation room. Then comes the room for the stenographer and the one for the book-keepers. The visitors were delighted and outspoken in their commendation of the arrangements made. The party returned to the Concert Hall at the Pythian Castle, where President John Mitchell, Jr. assumed the chair and invited Rev. W. F. Gramm, pastor of the Holy Trinity Church of Phil- adelphia to offer prayer. THH REFORTS OF OFFICERS The roll of stock-holders was called and more than two thirds responded to their names. The Cashier, Thomas H. Wyatt made an excellent report. FINE SHOWING. The report of the Cashier showed that the aggregate amount of deposits last year was $882,367.35. The report of the President was exhaustive. He dealt with the "run" on the institution and also with the prospects for the future. He told of the aim and purposes of The Anglo-American Finance Corporation and completed his report amidst applause. The stockholders then repaired to the dining hall below where a hountoous repast had been spread. FINE BANQUET. It was a joyous throng that filled into the spacious dining hall where the Committee of Arrangements had prepared a magnificent repast. The tables were beautifully decorated and the electric lights which beamed over them from the ceiling added much to the magnificence of the affair. It may be well to state that the election of Directors resulted in the meeting as follows: John Mitchell, Jr., H. F. Jonathan, Thomas H. Wyatt, Thomas M. Crump W. F. Graham, D. J. Chavers, A. D. Price, R. W. Whiting, John T. Taylor, Thomas Smith, John R. Chiles, P. B. Ramsey, J. J. Carter. It was about 2 A. M. when the guests departed. The following was the Committee on Banquet: Mrs. N. C. Johnson, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Mrs. Louise Payne, Mrs. George Bolling, Mrs. Loye Crom, Mrs. A. G. Thompson, Mrs. Jillie Ragland, Misa Senora Lawrence, Mrs. Harriet Thompson, Mrs. Kate S. Thomas, M. L. Chiles, Chairman, Rebecca T. Mitchell, Secretary. The Board of Directors and Wednesday at 6:30 P. M. The election of editors resumed on follow: President, John M. Middleton, Vice-President, Thomas M. Ward, Secretary, Thomas M. Greene, John ier, Walter T. Davis; Paying Teller, Albert V. Norrell, Jr.; Recolving Teller, Leroy Ragland. Executive Committee, H. F. Jonathan, Thomas M. Crump, D. J. Chavers, John T. Taylor. Real Estate, Thomas H. Wyatt Thomas Smith, John R. Chiles Auditing, Thomas M. Crump, J. J. Carter, R. W. Whiting. In Memoriam. ROBERTS—In sad, but loving remembrance of my dear husband and our dear father, Henry Roberts of Culpeper, Va. who departed this life January 5, 1912, one year ago: Dearest papa, thou hast left us, And our grief is hard to bear— We miss you, oh, we miss you More than ever words can tell. We miss your loving counsel, We miss your smiling face. We miss you everywhere. Sleep on, dear papa, so free from all pain, Wake him not, sweet Spirit, to suffer again. He is resting so peacefully—oh, let him sleep on. His sufferings are over, his troubles all gone. His loving wife, Celce Roberts and Children. RANDALL—In loving, but sad reemembrance of my dear friend, Frank Randall, who departed this life Dec 6, 1912, one month ago today: When the Master came and took him My! it was an awful blow. And the grief and pain it caused me Earthly friends can never know. From Jetersville, Va Mrs. J. L. B. Clarkson is getting on nicely in the millinery business. Mrs. Lucy S. Johnson is visiting Mrs. Clarkson at Deatonsville, Va. Mr. Churchel Booker is at home from Goodland for good. He is going to farm this year. Mrs. L. B. Clarkson is expecting Rev. W. B. Trant, D. D. of Ports mouth, Va. to visit her a few days. Mrs. Mary Branch and husband of Deatonsville, Va. went to Chester Grove Church yesterday, Jan. 5th. They heard a wonderful sermon by Rev. Randolph. Mr. David Branch of Amelia is getting on fine digging his new well. Dr. W. F. Graham in the City. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist Church of Philadelphia was in the city during the week attending the annual Stockholders meeting of the Mechanics Savings Bank, the monthly Board meeting of the American Beneficial Insurance Company and circulating among his thousands of friends in Richmond. A special banquet and ovation were given him last Thursday evening at 613 N. 2nd St., which will be reported in our next issue. Dr. Graham was in Peterburg on Friday evening where he preached one of the installation sermons of Rev. S. A. Brown, the new pastor of the great Giffield Baptist Church. Dr. Graham reports his church work in first class condition in Philadelphia. He has been there now fifteen months, during which time nearly 600 members have joined the church under him. He has to bap tise often as he did last Sunday, both morning and evening. He will bap tize tomorrow. The financial condition of the church is greatly improved. Over $10,000 have been raised in these fifteen months and $560,000 paid on the debt of the church. The church has a regular attendance of more than 1500 people every Sabbath and no Sunday passes without somebody joins the church. Even on watch meeting night, just five minutes after the New Year had made its appearance, fourteen new members joined the church and $54,006 was taken up for missions and the poor. Dr. Graham's Christmas presents for himself and family were numberous, among which was the gift of nine tons of coal, three big turkeys, two hams and a wagon load of groceries and other necessaries for housekeeping. Every member of the family was richly remembered by Santa Claus. On last Monday the Minister's Conference of Philadelphia, composed of over 100 presbyteries usually voted Dr. Graham, President of that distinguished body. Dr. Graham left for Philadelphia Saturday morning, but will return this afternoon might to attend the annual meeting of the Christian Homeschool Insurance Corp. Many Students Enrolled. Work at Va. Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg, Va. Virginia Theological Seminary and College resumed class duties January 2d. The enrollment prior to the holidays had about reached the three hundred mark. Following the vacation of the holiday season, the Institution has received to date twenty new students, and applications enough have been accepted to bring the enrollment up to three hundred and fifty. DORMITORY SPACE FULLY TAXE] As this number fully taxes the Institution to the limit, several applicants have been turned away. While we regret that such is the case it is under present conditions, absolutely necessary. The Institution had had in this condition, presented to it, the splendid opportunity to pass fully upon the general fitness of all applicants and thereby able to maintain its excellent record of having a "select student body." STUDENT BODY. While the student body is large, it is of exceptional, make-up on the whole. They come exemplifying good home and community training, coming as they do from good Christian homes. They represent more than 15 states, coming from North East and South. We have this time several graduate students, who are doing special work at our Institution. The Institution has possibly its largest number of High School and Academy graduates who have entered to take more extensive courses. Some to pursue work in Theology others to specialize in pedagogy and still others to do further classical and college work. In every instance the students are of an advanced class in moral and intellectual attainment. HOPEFUL, SIGN OF PROGRESS. When a splendid company of more than three hundred young men and women enter an institution of learning for classical training of the race it is indicative of the fact that all losers of the higher training of the race are not dead. Further it is a real inspiration to any lover of his humanity to witness the picture of such a company in search of knowledge, Earnest, sacrificing, obedient, dutiful, responding to the demands of the higher claims. Evincing every sign of the higher touch and of the nobler undertaking. Sixty of these persons, are young men preparing for the ministry. Most of the students are preparing them solves for leaders, in one line or the other. The most hopeful fact is they are thoroughly acquainted with the peculiar conditions and needs of the race, and are righteously imbued with the spirit to go to them and administer to their needs. OTHER GENERAL CONDITION. The health and sanitary conditions are good. Some labor and means have been spent to get the physical condition of the building in good shape. Many necessary improvements have been made in this particular line. The faculty has also been enlarged Mr. Jacob Ashburn, A. B.. a graduate of Hillsdale College is Professor of French and assistant in Greek. Prof. Ashburn makes a good addition to our very strong faculty. The members of the faculty are working faithfully and concertedly for the progress of the work. The classroom work is in praiseworthy shape. FINANCIAL CONDITION. While institutions are always in need of money for maintenance and enlargement, we are pleased to state that our financial condition is in a most hopeful plight. We are soon to make now our quarterly report to the Executive Committee, which will show the present administration enitely free from debt. Not one cent owing one way or the other. It will also show that since May, when we made our annual report to the Board of Trustees, that we have paid several thousand dollars on old bills. So to-day the financial condition is hopeful. OUR NEEDS As we make progress, numerically and otherwise our needs also increase. We need, and that body, a new Dormitory for girls. Also a reception hall, a new chapel and Theological Library. We fully appreciate that we can not get them all of them, also do we appreciate that we are getting in better shape in every aspect by our them. Whether we are or not, the still small numbers that we need all that we have mentioned. Now the good women of our Women's Convention are working faithfully to give us the secretary, and we trust that they will begin work on it this year. Our consultant Chair man Dr. Burks, has said out an urgent appeal to the Board to authorize at once the building of the Reception Hall. Many have responded and favor at once the work. One of these buildings will not interfere with the other, for what is in one will not have to go in the other. If no recitation hall is built, then some of the space in the newitority will have to be taken for class room purposes. So either way the cost and accommodation will be practically the same. You will relieve the work of a great concession and also meet a crying need. NORTHERN TRIP. During the vacation week, I visited ed and met engagements in Yonkers, N. Y., Providence and Newport, R. I. The weather forced us to cancel our engagement at White Plains, N. Y. In Yonkers we were with Dr. King who has a great people, and they do great things, through the work for the work. In Providence we were with Dr. Smith. He made it pleasant and profitable for us and the work received a good hearing. In Newport we were with Dr. Reed. He outlived himself in the interest of our educational work. He truly has a great people and he is a great leader. We thank these Christian workers for what they did for us in every respect. We count our trip a very successful one. The student body has been praying for Dr. Bowling and Deacon Humbles. We are glad to say Deacon Humbles is out again and that Dr. Bowling is improving. WILL INSTALL OFFICERS The Installation of the officers of the lodges of Knights of Pythias and Courts of Culanthe will take place on the First Baptist Church. Tuesday night, January 21, 1911 at 9 p.m. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. assisted by District Deputy Robert Gray and District Deputy Anna Taylor will conduct the exercises. Social and Whist Party. On Monday eve, December 30th, there was a grand social and whist party given by Mrs. Ella A. Finney at her residence, 314 E. Preston St. in honor of her sister, Mrs. Maggie Bailey Stumns of Waynesboro, Va. and Miss Evelyn Wilson of Philadelphia, Pa. The dining room was beautifully decorated, where the guest went in to satisfy the inner man. At a late hour the guest left having enjoyed the festivities of the evening. Temple Baptist Church to Hold Services at Price's Hall. The Temple Baptist Church will hold its regular services at Mr. Price's Hall, 212 East Leigh street, Sunday at 11:30 A. M. and at 8:30 P. M. REV. W. H. DOBBINS, D. D., Pastor. New Lodge of Old Fellow. M. V. P., S. O. Johnson, P. S. of Henrico Lodge, No. 1994, G. U. O. O. F. and M. V. P., R. Beecher Taylor, Supervising Deputy were in Beaver Dam last Sunday and examined 25 members of Beaver Dam Association, which will soon be initiated into a Lodge of Odd Fellows. Rey. R. Beecher Taylor attended Union Baptist Church, Dr. C. H. Phillips, Pastor and delivered an enthusiastic sermon from the text, "Beaming What You Sow." Without Sufficient Evidence. Frank Johnson, colored, was acquitted on the 3rd inst. in Police Court of entering the store of Benjamin Jackson, also colored, holding him up with a revolver and stealing $13. Two colored men entered Jackson's place, and while one held up the proprietor, the other rised the cash drawer. Johnson was arrested a few hours later, but the police have been unable to connect him with the robbery. Mr. Jackson could not positively identify Johnson as one of the men. —Rov. B. A. Brown of Frederickburg, Va. has been installed as pastor of the Gilfield Baptist Church of Petersburg, Va. —Rov. J. W. Brown of Chester, Pa. was in attendance at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the mechanics Savannah Bank. Officer Shoots Fugitive Man. Detective Kellam Forced to Use Pistol on Desperate Bank Thief. After a terrific struggle, in which the life of the detective was imperilled at a revolver's muzzle, Webster Morton, the colored fugitive bank runner of Washington, D. C., who escaped from Detective Sergeant Wiley and Kellam early New Year's morning was arrested early yesterday afternoon only after Detective Sergeant Kellam had been forced to shoot him down in self defense. Even after collapsing on the floor in the house in which he was captured, the man still struggled and made vain endeavors to reach the revolver with which he had just tried to kill the officer. Three men were then required to carry him from the house and to place him in the automobile patrol of the First Police station, in which he was rushed to the City hospital. The wound is in the left side and is so serious that the internes of the hospital say that he may die. Sergeant Kellam was working on another case, and had just telephoned to Sergeant Wiley to meet him, when, as he reached Twentleth and Broad streets, he learned that Morton was in hiding at 628 North Seventeenth street. Fearing that his man might escape, the detective ran all the distance. FINDS FUGITIVE IN BASEMENT He was informed that the fugitive had just entered the basement of the house through the rear. He followed close behind. The room was dark and half a dozen colored men were in the place. Turning on big heels Kellam recognized Morton whom he had seen only once before, and then at night sitting on a couch between Frank Fitzhugh and Nellie Johnson. As the detective wheeled Morton hung his head, but Kellam grasped him by the arm and said, "I know you and I want you. Come." The fugitive rose hesitatingly, and then suddenly wrenched himself free drawing a revolver from his pocket at the time. Kellam closed in, and clatched him again, and a long struggle ensued. Grasping the man by his right arm, Kellam attempted to throw it behind him but Morton was so powerful that he slowly turned his arm, and brought his revolver against the detective's body. Kellam in the meanwhile had had difficulty in reaching his own gun. FIRES JUST IN TIME But he pulled it out just as the man's weapon pressed against his body. He fired on the instant and Morton's gun scattered on the floor. With blood spitting from his wound the fugitive settled slowly, dropping on top of his own revolver. "You've got me," he exclaimed, and then attempted to reach his pistol. Not wishing to hurt him further, Kellum called on two colored men to aid him and it took the combined strength of the three to subdue him. Cattle Price was one of those who went to the detective's aid. "If he gets away," said Price, he'll have to kill me, too." When the patrol wagon arrived, Morton still fought, and was literally dragged into the wagon. CROWD IN UPROAR Morton was the first to draw his revolver, and when the shot resound ed after the scuff all the people in the house thought that it was the detective who had been shot. They shrieked in alarm, and several ran out into the street, fearing that the firing might become general. A blind man hovered in the corner, unable to grope his way out and shivering in fear. Rosa Fitzhugh, who runs the place, a lodging house, said afterwards in the presence of Major Werner and others that Sergeant Kollam acted "like a gentleman," but she felt sure he had been shot. Kollam stated afterwards that he tried to shoot Morton in the hip, but it all happened so quickly that he had to shoot as best he could. He had some difficulty in drawing his own revolver, and did not shoot until he felt Morton's pistol pressing against his body. It is supposed that Morton failed to fire because he had his finger on the guard instead of on the trigger. MAJOR WERNER ON SCENE. Major Werner was notified immediately from the City hospital, and rushed there in his automobile. Bargerian Wiley, who had been trying to reach Kellam, was notified to go to the hospital to take a dying statement, as it was thought then that 'Morton was dying. He did not know until he arrived that the man was' Weberian Morton. Much roaring nixed the other on the instant. "I don't want to talk to you," said Morton. ton. "You've done enough for me, and I'm in no condition to talk." Then he covered his face with his hands and turned over on his side. A second visit to the house in which Morton was captured was made by Major Werner and the two detectives. The new clothes which Morton bought here on his arrival from Washington were found and confiscated. It was learned that Morton went to the Pitfallough house immediately upon escaping from the two detectives. He was not known in the house. He went out occasionally, under cover of darkness, to buy food, all wearing old clothes and an overcoat belonging to his father, Richard Morton. The two detectives learned that he had been seen on Seventeenth street, and had been lying in wait for him since Saturday night. Positive information of his whereabouts came yesterday after noon and shortly after 2 o'clock he was arrested. MORTON'S CRIME Morton stole $6,000 from the Washington and Southern Bank, 1413 G street, Washington, D. C., by whom he was employed as gunner on the morning of December 31st. He was arrested here early New Year's morning at the home of his father in old Jackson Ward, the detectives finding $5,000 in a suit case and $490 on his person. He was taken to the patrol box at St. Peter and Baker streets, where, while Sergent Kellam was calling to the signal operator to see if there were another call, Morton knocked Sergent Wiley down and escaped in the crowd. Several shots were fired at him, but the crowd obstructed the officers' aim. The money recovered was expressed the Washington bank and a reward of $100 came as a reply. There is also another reward of $100 for the capture of Morton dead or alive. He is safely guarded in the City hospital now by Policeman Dunn, and has little chance to escape. Both Major, Werner and Captain McMahon congratulated Sergent Kellam on his escape and his capture and the arrest was the talk among police circles. EXPECTED TO RECOVER. According to a statement made last night by the internes of the City hospital, Morton has a good chance for recovery. An operation performed on him by physicians attached to the hospital showed that the intestines had not been touched as was first thought, though several small arteries in the vicinity of the abdomen had been severed by the course of the bullet. One of the main arteries had been scraped, but was not injured. Profuse internal bleeding had resulted, but the flow of blood was stopped by the operation. The bullet is supposed to be lodged somewhere in the muscles of the back, though its location was not definitely ascertained last night. Morton rallied from the anesthetie, but was unable to talk rationally. Unless complications set in, he is expected to recover. In that event, he will be sent to Washington to answer to the charge of grand larceny. No charge was lodged against him here yesterday, it being thought, ap parentely, that the charge against him in Washington would fully cover the case. The Washington authorities were notified of his arrest. Virginian, Jan. 7, 1913. Struck on Head and Neck Broken. Petersburg, Va., January 3.—John Carter, a well known and well-to-do colorist butcher, long engaged in business in this city, was instantly killed January 3rd about 9:30 A. M. by a peculiar accident at his meat store, corner of Halifax and Byrne streets. He was standing at the Byrne street entrance loading his wagon with meats for his customers, when the top of the skylight to the store was blown off by the high wind which had been prevailing for hours almost with the force of a gale. A piece of the falling timber struck Carter on the back of the head, fracturing his skull at the base of the brain and breaking his neck. Death resulted very quickly. Carter was one of the best known colored men in the city. He was the proprietor of two meat and vegetable stores and enjoyed a large business. —Timor-Dispatch. WANTED—A Youth, well versed in mathematics and well recommended. Apply at The PLANET Office. WANTED—A LIGHT COMPLEXIONAL Barber. Must be Sober. Gaurantee $10.00. I will send ticket. Address GEORGE L. MOXLEY, Martinsburg, W. Va. 75 miles from Washington, D. C. MOORE FOR LIBERIAN POST. Negro Editor Will Be Named as Minister, But Must Resign Soon. Washington, January 3.—The President has decided to appoint Fred R. Moore Minister to Liberia. Moore has been employed for sixteen years in the Western National Bank and the National Bank of Commerce in New York City, where he had charge of the vaults of registered mail and the shipments and transfers of money. Since 1907 he has been editor and manager of the Colored American Magazine and the New York Age. Moore presented his application while calling at the White House a few days before Christmas. President Taft laughingly told him he would hardly have time to get to his post before he would by etiquette be required to tender his resignation and come home. Moore in turn flunged and said that would be all right and no more than he expected. Resolutions. Richmond, Va., Dec. 25, 1912. To the Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Greetings: Whereas the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences has seen fit to award you membership in their Society, we the members of the Fulton Lodge, No. 42, K. of P, do hereby present you these resolutions of respect in token of your honor. Resolved, Int. That we recognize in you the leadership essential for the success of our race. Resolved, Second. That in your leadership we pledge our hearty support. Resolved, Third. That as the head of our Grand Organization, we pledge you our support and best wishes for your continual leadership. Resolved, Fourth. That a copy of these resolutions be added to our minutes and a copy sent to you our Grand Chancellor. Respectfully submitted in F. C. & D. A. R. POWELL, C. C. JAS H. JETER, K. of R. & S. Committee James H. Klinney, R. W. Writing J. O. Dawson, M. D. Mr Edward Bunn died suddenly Thursday, January 9, 1914. Mrs. Martha Harris of Peters burg, Va. was in the city this week. Mrs. Maggie Bailey Simms of Waynesboro, Va. spent the Xmas holidays' with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bailey, 1106 N. 1st St. She left January 4th to resume her duties as teacher of the Public Schools there. NOTES FROM NORWICH, CONN. Surprise Party for Rev. E. C. Thompson, D. D. and Wife. On Monday evening, December 23rd a large party of friends invaded the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Green, 42 Baltic Street, Norwich, Conn. and pleasantly surprised Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Thompson, who make their home there. The visitors were ladened with packages containing all kinds of good things and a purse of money was presented to Dr. Thompson on behalf of the assembled company by Mrs. Virginia Anderson who in a neat speech attested to the sterling qualities and high regard in which he and his esteemed wife are held in the hearts of his many friends. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson, though overwhelmed with surprise and pleasure, responded in a befitting manner. Refreshments were served, after which an old fashioned candy pull was indulged in by the young people. There was vocal and instrumental music. The party broke up at a late hour, after having spent a most delightful evening. The following persons were present: Mrs. Virginia Anderson, the promoter of the affair, Meadames Jane Simons, Bertha Lewis, Martha Jackson, Rosa Mallison, A. F. Dowry A. Wilson. Wants to Find Them. I am very anxious to know if any of the family of Quilters still survive. My father Emanuel McPherson Quilters wife yet a slave was Furnished at the Tredonar Iron Works on the Isle. Father had a sister by the name of Sarah M. Kemp. She died in Bisham, Va. about 13 years ago. My first cousin, Stephen Kemp was Postmaster of Bisham after the war. Any information that can be furnished will be gladly received. By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART SYNOPSIS Margery Fleming asks John Knox, attorney, to find her father, State Treasurer Robert Fleming, who insulted Adele with 112 on it has been found pinned to Fleming's pillow. Fleming, whose dishonest work drove the former state treasurer to suicide, has been held by Kaitlin Little and Jade Maitland. Margery aunta CHAPTER II. Unsasy Apprehensions: I AM afraid it was a queer bodge-podge of clews and sentiment that I poured out to Hunter, the detective, when he came up late that afternoon. "They're rotten clear through." Hunter reflected. "This administration is worse than the last, and it was a peach. There have been more suicides than I could count on my two hands in the last ten years. I warn you--you'd be better out of this mess." "What do you think about the eleven twenty-two?" I asked. "It might be that many dollars or the time a train starts, or it might be the eleventh and the twenty-second letters of the alphabet--k-v." "K-v." I repeated. "Why that would be the Latin cave-beware." Hunter smiled cheerfully. "You'd better stick to the law, Mr. Knox." he said from the door. "We don't use Latin in the detective business." Plattsburg was not the name of the capital, but it will do for this story. The state doesn't matter either. We will say that my home city is Manchester. I live with my married brother, his wife and two boys. Fred is older than I am and he is an exceptional brother. On the day he came home from his wedding trip I went down with my traps on a hansom in accordance with a prearranged schedule. Fred and Edith met me inside the door. "Here's your latchkey, Jack," Fred said as he shook hands. "Only one stipulation—remember we are strangers in the visibility and try to get home before the neighbors are up. We have our reputations to think of." "There is no hour for breakfast," Edith said as she kissed me. "You have a bath of your own and don't smoke in the drawing room." I had been there now for six years. I had helped to raise two young Knoxes—bully youngsters, too (the oldest one could use boxing gloves when he was four—and the finest college pup in our end of the state. I wanted to raise other things. The boys liked pets, but Edith didn't care for animals. On the day that Margery Fleming came to me about her father I went home in a state of mixed emotion. Dinner was not a quiet meal. Fred and I talked politics generally, and as Fred was on one side and I on the other there always was an argument on. "What about Fleming?" I asked at last when Fred had declared that in these days of corruption no matter what the government was he was "for nistr" It "Hasn't been frightened into reform?" "Bad egg," he said, jabbing his potion to as if it had been a politician, "and there's no way to improve a bad egg except to hold your nose. That's what the public is doing—holding it nose." "Hannot he a daughter?" I asked causally. "Yea—a lovely girl, too." Edith as sented. "It is his only redeeming quality." "Fleming is a rustic daughter or no daughter," Fred persisted. "Ever since he and his gang got poor Butter into trouble and then left him to kill him self as the only way out I have felt that there was something coming to all of them—Hansen, Schwartz and the rest. I saw Fleming on the street to day." "What?" I exclaimed, almost jumping out of my chair. Fred surveyed me quizzically. "Hannot he a daughter?" he quoted. "Yes, I saw him, jack, this very day in an unromantic four wheeler, and he was swearing at a policeman." "Where was it?" "Chestnut and Union. His cab had been struck by a car and badly damaged, but the gentleman refused to get out. No doubt you could get the details from the corner man." "Look here, Fred." I said earnestly. "Keep that to yourself, will you? And you too, Edith. It is a quiet story, and I'll tell you some time." As we left the dining room Edith put her hand on my shoulder. "Don't get mixed up with those people, Jack." she advised. "Margery's a dear girl, but her father practically killed Henry Butler, and Henry Butler married my cousin." "You needn't make it a family affair," I protested. "I have only seen the girl once." But Edith smiled. "I know what I know," she said. "How extravagant of you to send Hobby that enormous bobby horse!" "The boy has to learn to ride some time. In four years he can have a pony, and I'm going to see that he has it. He'll be sight by that time." Edith laughed. "In four years" she said. "Why, in four years you'll be forty, Jack! And it's a mighty unattractive man who gets past forty without being sought and won by some woman. You'll be buying"— "I will be thirty-nine," I said, with dignity. "and if I marry—if I do—it will be some girl who turns and runs the other way every time she sees me." "The oldest trick in the boy," Edith smiled. "What's that thing Fred's always quoting: 'A woman is like a shadow; follow her; she dies; from Pierre Mau her, she follows." "Upon my word." I said indignantly. "And you are a woman." "I'm different," she retorted. "I'm a wife and mother." In the library Fred got up from his desk and gathered up his paper. "I K. I Saw Him Put a Leg Over the Low Fence. can't think with you two whispering there," he said. "I'm going to the den." As he slammed the door into his workroom Edith picked up her skirts and scuffled after him. "How dare you run away like that?" she called. "You promised me" — "The door closed behind her. I went over and spoke through the panels. "Follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows." Oh, wife and mother! I called. "For heaven's sake, Edith!" Fred's voice rose irritably. "If you and Jack are going to talk all evening go and sit on his knee and let me alone. The way you two first under my nose is a scandal. Do you hear that, Jack?" "Good night, Ellith," I called. "I have left you a kiss on the upper left hand panel of the door. And I want to ask you one more question. What if I fly from the woman and she doesn't follow?" "Thank your lucky stars," Fred called in a murmled voice. I had some work to do at the office, and half past 3 that night found me at my desk. But my mind strayed from the papers before me. After a useless effort to concentrate I gave up as useless, and by 10 o'clock I was on the street again, my evening wasted, the papers in the label case of the Star against the Eagle untouched and I the victim of an uneasy apprehension that took me, almost without volition, to the neighborhood of the Fleming house, for it had occurred to me that Miss Fleming might not have left the house that day, as she had promised, might still be there, liable to another intrusion by the mysterious individual who had a key to the house. It was a relief, consequently, when I reached its corner to find no lights in the building. The girl had kept her word. Assured of that, I looked at the house curiously. It was one of the largest in the city, not wide, but running far back along the side street. A small yard with a low iron fence and a garage completed the property. The street lights left the back of the house in shadow, and as I stopped in the shelter of the garage I was positive that I heard some one working with a rear window of the empty house. A moment later the sounds ceased and muffled footsteps came down the cement walk. The intruder made no attempt to open. the iron gate, and against the light I saw him put a leg over the low fence, follow it up with the other and start up the street still with peculiar noiselessness of strides. He was a short, heavy shouldered fellow in a cap, and his silhouette showed a prodigious length of arm. I followed. I don't mind saying, in some excitement. I had a vision of grabbing him from behind and leading him or pushing him, under the circumstances, in triumph to the police station, and another mental picture not so pleasant of being found on the pavement by some power with a small penetration mark ending up one tangle of life. White Cat Merrill Co. Lighted a cigarette, and the odor of a very fair Turkish tobacco came back to me. He glanced, back over his shoulder at me and went on without quickening his pace. We met no policemen, and after perhaps five minutes' walking, when the strain was growing tense, my gentleman of the rubber soled shoes swung abruptly to the left and—entered the police station! I had occasion to see Davison many times after that during the strange development of the Fleming case. I had the peculiar experience later of having him follow me as I trailed him that night, and I had occasion once to test the strength of his long arms when he helped to thrust me through the tranSM at the White Cat, but I never met him without a recurrence of the sheepish feeling with which I watched him swagger up to the night sergeant and fall into easy conversation with the man behind the desk. Two or three roundmen were sitting against the wall lazily, helmets off and coats open against the warmth of the early spring night. In a back room others were playing checkers and disputing nobly. Davidson's voice came distinctly through the open windows. "The house is closed," he reported, "but one of the basement windows isn't shuttered, and the lock is bad. I couldn't find Shields. He'd better keep an eye on it." He stopped and fished in his pockets with a grin. "This was tied to the knob of the kitchen door," he said, raising his voice for the benefit of the room and holding aloft a piece of paper. "For Shields," he explained, "and signed 'Della.'" The men gathered around him. Even the sergeant got up and leaned forward, his elbows on his desk. "Read it," he said lazily. "Shields has got a wife, and her name isn't Della." "Dear Tom," Davidson read in a mincing falsetto, "we are closing up unexpected, so I won't be here tonight. I am going to Mamie Brennan's, and if you want to talk to me you can get me by calling up Anderson's drug store. The clerk is a gentleman friend of mine. Mr. Carter, the butler, told me before he left he would get me a place as parlor maid, so I'll have another situation soon. Della." The sergeant scowled. "I'm goin' to talk to Tom," he said, reaching out for the note. "He's got a nice family, and things like that're bad for the force." I lighted the cigar, which had been my excuse for lottering on the pavement and went on. It sounded involved for a notice, but if I could find Anderson's drugstore I could find Mamie Brennan. Through Mamie Brennan I would get Della and through Della I might find Carter, and so I made the first note in my new business of man hunter. It was late when I reached the corner of Chegway and Union streets, where Fred had said Allan Fleming had come to grief in a cab. But the corner man had gone, and the night man on the heat knew nothing, of course, of any particular collision.' I went home to bed. I had made no headway. I had lost conceit with myself and a day and evening at the office, and I had gained the certainty that Margery Fleming was safe in Belfwood and the uncertain address of a servant who might know something about Mr. Fleming. I was still awake at 1 o'clock and consulted the telephone directory. There were twelve Andersons in the city who conducted drugstores. When I finally went to sleep I dreamed that I was drifting Margery Fleming along a street in a broken taxicab and that all the builduits were pharmacies and numbered eleven twenty-two. After such a night I slept into. Edith had gone out with Fred when I came downstairs. I have a great admiration for Edith, for her tolerance with my uncertain hours, for her cheery breakfast room and the smiling good nature of the servants she engages. I have a theory that, show me a sullen servant and I will show you a sullen mistress, although Edith herself disclaims all responsibility and lays credit for the smile with which Katie brings in my eggs and coffee to largeess on my part. On that particular morning Katie brought me a letter, and I recognized the cramped and rather uncertain writing of Misa Jane Malftain. Dear Mr. Knox-Sister Lettia wishes me to ask you if you can dine with us tonight informally. She has changed her mind in regard to the Colored Orphans' home and would like to consult you about BUSAN JANE MATTLAND. It was a very commonplace note. I had had one like it after every board meeting and one after every home, as Mattland being one of the people aggressive minority; also, having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn. I came across Miss Jane's letter the other day when I was gathering the material for this narrative, and I sat for a time with it in my hand think-ing over again the chain of events in which it had been the first link, a series of strange happenings that began with my acceptance of the invitation, and that led through ways as dark and tricks as vain as Bret Harle's Jonathan Chines ever dreamed of to the final spine at the White Cat. With the letter I had dived away a half down articles, and I ranged them all on the deck in front of me—the letter, the bit of paper with almost twenty-two on it that Margery gave to the first time. I saw her, a notorious girl with jerky characters that looked like Arabic and with newspaper, a cathedral, a cathedral, a little tin. Bret Harle's himself; a little shinged piece of cloth, which I he built in his pear with a window and hairdresser "Walter," and a small gold beak from a hairstyle, which I—of which I did not shave. I did not need to make the clicheness of my story. I lay before me. At 11 o'clock I hinter called up. He said he was going after the affair himself, but that it was hard to stick a dip not into the political puddle without pulling out a lot more than you went after or than it was healthy to get. He wanted to know if I had come across any more K. Vz. Whereupon I put away the notes I had made about Della and Mamie Brennan. CHAPTER III Ninety-eight Pearla. WENT to Hollywood that evening. It was a suburban town a dozen unless from the city. Street cars had so far failed to spill it tree-buried streets, and it was exclusive to the point of stagnation. The Maitland place was at the head of the main street. Miss Letitia, who was seventy, had had sufficient commercial instinct some years before to cut her ancestral acres—their ancestral acres, though Miss Jane hardly counted—into building lots, except perhaps an acres which surrounded the house. Thus the Maitland ladies were reputed to be extremely wealthy. And as they never spent any money, no doubt they were. I had taken dinner at Bellwood before, and the memory was not hilarious. Miss Letitia was deaf, but chose to ignore the fact. With superb indifference she would break into the conversation with some wholly alien remark that necessitated a reassembling of one's Idea, making the meal a series of mental gymnastics. Miss Jane, through long practice and because she only skimmed the surface of conversation, took her cerebral flights easily, but I am more unwieldy of mind. Nor was Miss Letitia's dominance wholly conversational. Her sister Jane was her creature, alternately anubbed and bullied. To Miss Letitia, Jane, in spite of her sixty-five years, was still a child, and sometimes a bad one. Miss Letitia gave her expurgated books to read and forbade her to read divorce court proceedings in the newspapers. Poor Miss Janel. She met me with fluttering cordiality in the hall that night, safe in being herself for once, with the knowledge that Miss Letitia always received me from a thronelike horsehair sofa in the back parlor. She wore a new lace cap and was twitteringly excited. "Our nieces is here," she explained, as I took off my cont--everything was "ours" with Jane; "mine" with Letitia—and we are having an ice at dinner. Please say that ice are not injurious, Mr. Knox. My sister is no opponent to them, and I had to beg for this." "On the contrary, the doctors have ordered ice for my young nephews," I said gravely, "and I dote on them myself." Miss Jane beamed. Indeed, there was something almost naturally gay about the little old lady all that evening. Miss Lettila received me, an usual, in the back parlor. Miss Fleming was there also, sewing by a window, and in her straight white dress, with her hair drawn back and, brushed around her head, she looked even younger than before. There was no time for conversation. Miss Lettila launched at once into the extravagance of both molasses and butter on the colored orphans' bread. "You have had no news at all?" Miss Fleming said cautiously, her head bent over her work. "None," I returned, under-cover of the table linen to which Miss Lettita's mind had revered. "I have a good man working on it." As she glanced at me questioningly, "It needed a detective, Miss Fleming." With every movement of the girl I could see the gleaming of a diamond on her engagement finger. "If I didn't watch her, June would ruin them," said Miss Lettita. "She gives 'em apples when they keep their faces clean, and the bills for soap have gone up double. Soon once a day's enough for a colored child. Do you smell anything burning, Knox?" I sniffed and lied, whereupon Miss Lettita swept her black silk, her color orphans and her majestic presence out of the room. As the door closed, Miss Fleming put down her sewing. "I do not dare to tell them, Mr. Knox," she said. "They are old, and they hate him anyhow. I couldn’t sleep last night. I have bernamed tea towels for Aunt Lettia today until I am frantic, and all day I have been wondering over something you said yesterday. You said, you remember, that you were not a detective, that some men could take nineteen from thirty-five and leave nothing. What did you mean? I was speechless for a moment. “The fact is—I—you see,” I blundered. “it was a merely a figure of speech, a-speech of figures is more accurate.” And then dinner was an nounced. Miss Lettia presided in garrulous majesty. The two old ladies picked at their food, and Miss Jane had a spot of pink in such withered cheek. Margery Fleming made a brave pretence, but left, her plate almost untouched. As for me, I ate a substantial masculine meal and half apologized for my appetite, but Lettia did not hear. She cove the board of managers to shred with the roast and denounced them with the salad. "Please do eat your dinner," Jane whispered. "I made the salad myself And I know what it takes to keep a big man going. Harry eats more than Lettia and I together. Don't be, Margery?" "Harry!" I asked. Miss Jane leaped forward to me as or a smiling glance at her face across "Harry Wardrop, a cousin's son self—she posed Margery's hand with her rims—to be so something else." The girl's face colored, but also returned Miss Jane's pale pressure. "They give up an iron brace," Miss Lottie replied confidently to her friend, "what a woman one would be mad." It made overwhelming, refuse commendation. "I always stays with so when he is in Manhattan," Mimi Jane went on, nodding heightly across at Letitia, as if she, too, were dancing the executive hand. "Lately he has been almost all the time in Pittsburgh. He is secretary to Margery's father. It is a position of considerable responsibility, and we are very proud of him." I had expected something of the sort, but the remainder of the meal had somehow lost its flavor. There was a bell in the conversation while dessert was being brought in. Mimi Fleming sat, one hand on the table, staring absently at her engagement ring. "You look like a fool in that cup, Jane," volunteered Letitia, while the plates were being brought in. "What's for dessert?" "I ice cream," Mimi Jane over the table. "Well, you needn't," snapped Letitia. "I can hear you well enough. You told me it was junket." "I said ice cream, and you said it would be all right," poor Jane shrieked. "If you drink a cup of hot water after it, it won't hurt you." "Biddie." Lettia snapped unpleasantly. "I'm not going to freeze my stomach and then thaw it out like a drain pipe. Tell Hepple to put my ice cream on the stove." So we waited until Miss Letitia's had been heated and was brought in, sickled over with pale hues, not of thought, but of confectioner's dyes. Miss Letitia ate it resignedly. "Like as not I'll break out, I did the last time," she said gloomily. "I only hope I don't break out in colors." The meal was over finally, but if I had hoped for another word alone with Margery Fleming that evening, I was foredoomed to disappointment. Lettia sent the girl, not unengily, to bed and ordered Jane out of the room with a single girdle gesture toward the door. "You'd better wash those cups yourself, Jane," she said. "I don't see any sense anyhow in getting out the best china unless there's real company. Besides, I'm going to talk business." When the door had closed behind her, Miss Lettia listened for a moment, got up suddenly and, crossing the room with amazing swiftness for her years, pounced on the knob and threw it open again. But the passage was empty: Miss Jane's alim little figure was disappearing into the kitchen. "I didn't want to see you about the will, Mr. Knox," the older sister began. "The will can wait. I ain't going to die just yet—not if I know anything. But although I think you'd look a heap better and more responsible if you wore some hair on your face, still in most things I think you're a man of sense. And you're not too young. That's why I didn't send for Harry Wardrop. He's too young." I winced at that. Miss Lettia leaned forward and put her bony hand on my knce. "I've been robbed," she announced in a half whisper. "Indeed!" I said, properly thunderstruck. I had always believed that only the use of the fourth dimension in space would enable any one not desired to gain access to the Maitland house. "Not the pearls?" I asked. She answered my question with another. "Not quite a hundred. I think—yes, ninety-eight." "Exactly," she corroborated, in triumph. "They belonged to my mother. Margery's mother got some of them. That's a good many years ago, young man. They are worth more than they were then—a great deal more." "Twenty-two thousand dollars." I repeated. "You remember, Miss Lettita, that I protested vigorously at the time against your keeping them in the house." Miss Lettita ignored this, but before she went on she repeated again her catlike pouncing at the door, only to find the hall empty as before. "Yesterday morning," she said gravely, "I got down the box—they have always been kept in the small safe in the top of my closet. When Jane found a picture of my niece, Margery Fleming. in Harry's room I thought it likely there was some truth in the gossip Jane heard about the two; and, if there was going to be a wedding, why, the pearls, were to go to Margery anyhow. But I found the door of the safe unlocked and a little bit open, and ten of the pearls were gone!" "Gone!" I echoed. "If ten, why not the whole ninety-eight?" "How do I know?" she replied, with asperity. "That's what I keep a law yer for." "But you need a detective," I cried. "I will not have the police," she persisted inflexibly. "They will come around asking impertinent questions and telling the newspapers that a fool ash old woman had got what she deserved." "Then you are going to send them to a bank?" "You have less sense than I thought," she snapped. "I am going to leave them where they are and watch. Who ever took the ten will be back for more, mark my words." "I don't advise it," I said decidedly. "Stuff and nonsense!" the old lady said, with spirit. "Then—what do you want me to do?" I asked. "Have Bella arrested and her frank searched?" "Her trunk!" she said scornfully. "I turned it inside out, this morning. I want you to stay here for three or four nights. When I catch the thief I want my lawyer right by." It ended by my consenting, of course. Miss Letitia was seldom refused. Lit the Miss Jane lighted me to the door of the guest room. Her that gray curly-hipped as she examined the water pitcher, saw to the towels and felt the bed linen for dampness. At the door she turned around timely. "How—anything happened to disturb my sister?" she asked. "How—has been written to all day." "This is warranted about her school mphasis," I credited. "This does not ap- pose of黛薇 for them on the Fourth of July." I fell out the light and cut down beneath the window, with my cigar out my thoughts. I had flushed my mouth out clear. There was a sound of fume blowing at one of the windows below. With Mike Lettis's story of the pearl brush in my mind I felt at once that the third, finding him a prize, had come back for more. I found on the mental a heavy brass candlestick, and with it in my hand I stepped into the gloom of the hallway and felt my way to the stair. I had kicked off my shoes, a fact I regretted later. I went into the library, which was beneath my room, but the sounds at the window had ceased. I thought I heard steps on the walk going toward the front of the house. I wheeled quickly and started for the door when something struck me a terrific blow on the nose. I reeled back and sat down, dizzy and shocked. It was only when no second blow followed the first that I realized what had occurred. With my two hands out before me in the blackness I had groped, one hand on either side of the open door, which, of course, I had struck violently with my nose. My candlestick had rolled under the table, and after crawling around on my hands and knees I found it. For all her boasted watchfulness Miss Letitia must have been asleep. I got back into the dining room. Some one was fumbling at the shutters there, and as I looked they swung open. It was so dark outside with the trees and the distance from the street that only the creaking of the shutter told it had opened. I stood in the middle of the room, with one hand firmly clutching my candlestick. But the window refused to move. The burglar seemed to have no proper tools. He got something under the ash, but it snapped, and through the heavy plate glass I could hear him swearing. Then he abruptly left the window and made for the front of the house. I hindered in the same direction, my unshod feet striking on projecting furniture and causing me agonies, even through my excitement. When I reached the front door, however, I was amazed to find it unlocked, and standing open porches, an inch. I stopped uncertainly. I was in a peculiar position. Not even the most ardent admirers of antique brass candle-sticks indorse them as weapons of offense or defense. But, there seeming to be nothing else to do, I opened the door quietly and stepped out into the darkness. The next instant I was flung heavily to the porch floor. I am not a small man by any means, but under the fury of that onslaught I was a child. It was a porch chair, I think, that knocked me senile. I know I folded up like a jackknife, and that was all I did know for a few minutes. When I came to I was lying where I had fallen, and a candle was burning beside me on the porch door. It took me a minute to remember, and another minute to realize that I was looking into the barrel of a revolver. It occurred to me that I had never seen a more villainous face than that of the man who held it—which shows my state of mind—and that my position was the reverse of comfortable. "W WHAT did you do with that bag?" demanded the man with the gun, and I felt his knee on my chest. "What bag?" I inquired feebly. What bag? I inquired leeily. "Don't be a fool," he perilized. "If I don't get that bag within five minutes I'll fill you as full of holes as a cheese." "I haven't seen any bag," I said stapidly. "What sort of bag?" I heard Pierre my own voice, drunk from the shock. "Paper bag, laundry bag"— "You've blidden it in the house," he said, bringing the revolver a little closer with every word. "Go in and look." I responded. "I don't know anything about a bag, but if you will give me your word there was nothing in it belonging to this house I will take you in and let you look for it." The next moment he had lowered the revolver and clutched my arm. "Who is the devil's name are you?" he asked wildly. I think the thing dawned on us both at the same moment. "My name is Knox." I said coolly— "John Knox." "Knox!" He snatched the candle from me and, holding it up, searched my face. "Then—good God—where is my traveling bug?" I am Harry War drop, and I have been robbed. Mr. Knox. I was trying to get in the house with out walking the family, and when I came back here to the front door, where I had back my wrist, it was gone. I thought you were the third time you cled out, and we were all the time finallyly had followed me and robbed me. "What's in the bag?" I cried. "Telephone system." he said it. "You are certain you left it here." "Where you are standing." "Sometimes glimpsed beneath the step, and I discovered a small brown leather traveling bag, apparently quite new." "Here it is." I said, not no grievance so I might have kept. I had not received cold adversely for that traveling bag. The sight of it restored Wardrop's poten. "By Joe, I'm glad to see it," he said. I can't explain, but tremendous things were depending on that bag, Mr. Knox. I don't know how to apologize to you. I must have nearly brained you." "You did," I said grimly, and gave him the bag. The moment he took it I knew there was something wrong. He hurried into the house and lighted the library lamp. Then he opened the traveling bag with shaking fingers. It was empty! "It's a trick!" he said furiously. "You're hidden it somewhere. This is not my bag. You're substituted one just like it." "Don't be a fool," I retorted. "How could I substitute an empty satchel for yours when up to fifteen minutes ago I had never seen you or your grip elfther?" He dropped into a chair, and after a pause: "I was followed in Plattsburg. Two men watched me from the minute I got there on Tuesday. I changed my hotel, and for all of yesterday Wednesday, that is-I felt secure enough. But on the way to the train I felt that I was under surveillance again, and by turning quickly I came face to face with one of the men. I thought he was a detective. You know I've had a lot of that sort of thing lately, with election coming on. He didn't get on the train, however." "But the other one may have done so." "When we drew in at Bellwood station I distinctly remember opening the bag and putting my newspaper and railroad schedule inside. It was the right bag then. My clothing was in it and my brushes." I had been examining the empty bag as he talked. "Where did you put your railroad schedule? I asked. "In the leather pocket at the side." "It is here." I said, drawing out the yellow folder. For a moment my companion looked almost haunted. "The whole thing is impossible. That valise was heavy when I walked up from the station. I changed it from one hand to the other because of the weight. When I got here I set it down on the edge of the porch and threw the door. When I found it locked— "But it wasn't locked." I broke in. "When I came downstairs to look for a burglar. I found it open at least an inch." He stopped in his pacing up and down and looked at me curiously. "We're both crazy, you," he asserted gratefully. "I tell you I tried every way I knew to unlock that door and could hear the chain rattling. Unlocked! You don't know the way this house is fastened up at night." "Nevertheless it was unlocked when I came down." The sound of a smothered exclamation from the doorway caused us both to turn suddenly. Standing there in a loose gown of some sort, very much surprised and startled, was Margery Fleming. "What is the matter?" she asked uncertainly. "I heard such queer noises." Mr. Wardrop was trying to break in. I explained, "and I came down. On the way I had a bloody encounter with an open door." I don't think she quite believed me. She looked from my swollen head to the open bag and then to Wardrop's pale face. Then, I think, womanlike, she remembered the two great brides that hung over her shoulders and the dressing gown she wore, for she backed precipitately into the hall. "It is only half past two," I said, glancing at my watch. "We might look around outside." Reflect as he was, his feverish excitement made me think that something vital hung on the recovery of the contents of that Russia leather bag but we found nothing. 'As I look back on that night the key to what had passed and to much that was coming was so simple, so direct and yet we missed it entirely. It was some time before we learned the true inwardness of the events of that night. I was almost unrecognizable when I looked at myself in the mirror the next morning, preparatory to dressing for breakfast. My nose boasted a new arch like the back of an angry cat, making my profile Roman and feroce, and the lump on my forehead from the chair was swollen, gassy and purple. I turned my back to the mirror and dressed in wrathful irritation and my yesterday's linen. Miss Fleming was in the breakfast room. I have carried with me during all the months since that time a mental picture of her as she stood there in a pink morning frock of some sort. But only the other day, having mentioned this to her, she assured me that the frock was blue. So I amend this. Miss Fleming in a blue frock was facing the door when I went, into the breakfast room. Of one thing I am certain, she held out her hand. "Good morning," she said. "What a terrible face!" "It isn't mine," I replied meekly. "My own face is beneath these excrecences. I tried to cover the bump on my forehead with French chalk, but it only accentuated the thing, like snow on a mountain top." "The purple peaks of Darien," she quoted, pouring me my coffee. "Do you know, I feel so much better since you have taken hold of things. Aunt Letitia thinks you are wonderful." I thought nurefully of the failure of my first attempt to play the sword, and I disclaimed any right to Miss Lettie's high opinion of me. "Before any one comes down, Miss Fleming," I said. "I what to ask a question or two. What was the name of the uncle who helped you search the house that night? "Anaa." "What other uncle did you any there who?" ```markdown ``` Where they came from or where they went? She smiled a little. "What does one know about new servants?" she responded. "They bring you references, but references are the price most women pay to get rid of their servants without a fuse. Rose was fat and old, but Della was pretty. I thought she rather liked Carter." Carter as well as Shields, the policeman. I put Miss Della down as a sirt. "And you have no idea where Carter went?" "None." Wardrop came in then. The two elderly ladies, it seemed, had tea and toast in their rooms when they wakened. Wardrop looked haggard and worn, avoided Miss Fleming's eyes, and, after ordering eggs instead of his chop, looked at his watch. "I want to get the 9:30, Margie," he said. "I may not be out to dinner. Tell Miss Letitia, will you?" He turned to go, but came back to me and held out his hand. "I may not see you again," he began. "Not if I see you first." I interrupted. He glanced at my mutilated features and smiled. "I have made you a Maitland," he said. "I didn't think that anything but a prodigal nature could duplicate Miss Letitia's nose. I'm honestly sorry, Mr. Knox, and if you do not want Miss Jane at that bump with a cold silver knife and some butter, you'd better duck before she comes down. Goodby, Margia." I think the girl was as much baffled as I was by the change in his manner when he spoke to her. His smile faded and he hardly met her eyes. I thought that his aloofness puzzled rather than hurt her. When the house door had closed behind him, she dropped her chin in her hand and looked across the table. "You did not tell me the truth last night, Mr. Knox," she said. "Something has happened to Harry." "He was robbed of his traveling bag," I explained on Fred's theory that half a truth is better than a poor lie. "His traveling bag!" she repeated acronutically. "Mr. Knox, something has happened to my father, and you and Harry are hiding it from me." "On my honor, it is nothing of the sort," I hastened to assure her. "I saw him for only a few minutes, just long enough for him to wreck my appearance." "He did not speak of father." "No." She got up and crossing to the wooden mantel, put her arms upon it and leaned her head against them. "I wanted to ask him," she said drearily, "but I am afraid to. Suppose he doesn't know and I should tell him. He would go to Mr. Schwartz at once, and Mr. Schwartz is treacherous. The papers would get it too." Her eyes filled with tears, and I felt as awkward as an man always down when a woman begins to cry. "I didn't sleep much," she explained, dabbing at her eyes. "Mr. Knox, are you sure it was only Harry trying to get into the house next night?" "Only Harry," I repeated. "There was some one moving about upstairs not long before I came down," she said slowly. "You heard me. I almost fell down the stairn." "Did you brush past my door and strike the knob?" she demanded. "No. I was not near any door." "Very well," triumphantly. "Some one did. Not only that, but they were in the storeroom on the floor above. I could hear one person, and perhaps two, going from one side of the room to the other and back again. "You heard a goblin quadrille. First couple forward and back," I said facefously. "I heard real footsteps—unmistakable ones." I was more impressed than I cared to show. We crept past the two closed doors behind which the ladies Malinda were presumably taking out their crimps and taking in their tea. They up a narrow, obtusively clean stairway to the upper floor. It was an old fashioned sling roofted attic, with narrow win doors and a bare door. At one end a door opened into a large room, and in there were the family trunks of four generations of Malinda. One on an other they were all piled there—little bear trunks, squab topped trunks, bear mannequins of the period when the two malden ladies were in their late town—and there were handsome, modern trunks too. For Miss Fleming's satirical I made an examination of the room, but it showed nothing. We gave up finally. Part way down in the attic snare Margery stopped, her by. Fixed on the white curved rail. Following her gun, I stepped, too, and I felt a sort of call go over me. No spot or blench, no dirty finger paint marked the whitehead of that stair well except in one place. On it, clear and distinct, every time of the palm showing, was the redish imprint of a handi Hurry and turn very quick. When the first revision had passed, I reached over and touched the stitch. It was quite dry, of cotton, but it was still rubbing brown. Hunter and afterward it must have been about the brown old, and as things happened, he was right. The stitch showed a band somewhat short and broad, with wounded finger tips, marked in life. It would get bare above and so aniline, perhaps, but then, the stitch would against the white wool. It would be lost. On It Was the Reddish Imprint of a Hand! she looked shaken, and found I bad missed my train. "I am beginning to think I am being pursued by a malicious spirit," she said, trying to smile. "I came away from home because people got into the house at night and left queer signs of their visit, and now, here at Bellwood, where nothing ever happens, the moment I arrive things begin to occur. And—just as it was at home—the house was so well locked last night." I did not tell her of the open hall door, just as I had kept from her the fact that only the contents of Harry Warding's bag had been taken. That it had all been the work of one person and that that person, having in some way access to the house, had also stealed the pearls, now was my confident belief. I looked at Bella—the maid—as she moved around the dining room, her stoild, face was not even intelligent, certainly not cunning. Hepple, the cook and only other servant, was partly blind, and her horton was the diameter of her largest kettle. No-it had not been a servant, this mysterious intruder who passed the Maitland silver on the sideboard without an attempt to take it, and who foundered around an attic at night, in search of nothing more valuable than patchwork quilts and winter suns. It must have been after 9 o'clock when Bella came running into the room. Ordinarily a slow and elusive creature, she almost few. She brought up against a chair, and a cup went flying. The breaking of a cup must have been a serious offense in Miss Lottis Maitland's house. "Miss Jane," she gasped, "Miss Jane, she's—she's gone. She's been run off with." [TO BE CONTINUED.] A LINCOLN FETE. How to Celebrate the Birthday of the Famous Emancipator. February is certainly the gala month of the year for special days. Now Caupid is busy sharpening his arrows for conquests on St. Valentine's day, and school children are experiencing thrills of patriotism as the stories of Lincoln are retold. His birthday on Feb. 12 will be celebrated with reverence and honor not only in schools, but in private homes. For Lincoln's birthday this year a clever hostess has planned what she calls a patriotic luncheon. The dining room is to be decorated with flags, the centerpiece being a representation of a southern scene, with a realistic log cabin and darky dolls dressed in blue gingham plafores. A saucy little mule draws a cart loaded with bales of cotton. Over the table there is to be a farm-ball in which small silk flags will be thrust, to be taken out by the guests for their hair. The place cards are to be ornamented with a picture of Lincoln having the United States shield beneath it. At either end of the table there will be large bows of red, white and blue. The menu is unique. First comes cream of corn soap with bread sticks tied with tricolored ribbon. Tiny stars cut from cold boiled beans will be on top of the whipped cream which tops the soup. Next there will be broths of chicken with cannellou ball potatoes cut with a small round cutter that is obtainable at any kitchen furnishing department. Red and white radishes and green peas are the vegetables. Then a patriotic salad follows, made of tomatoes on white lettuce hearts, with mayonnaise served on blue plates. The dessert will be ice cream form, made by taking cones of vanilla cream, placing candied cherries on them, like gun sights, capping all with a flag. The cake will be cut and lead to look like American flags, blue cane dies being used for the star. Drum-shaped boxes will hold nuts and boon beans. Cards will furnish the pastime after lunch, the score cards being enamored with patriotic symbols. For prime the hostess is going to use some of the recent books upon the great encyclopedias, of which there are many admirable for gifts. Metallic Symmetry. On the death of the Duke of Welling, tou the birth of Trim, near Dangan castle, his father's seat in Ireland, for which when a young man Wellington had set in the Irish parliament, rang a smilled seal, when the tower, a beauty- ly tamed bell, suddenly broke. It was found by a curious recollection to have cost in 1708 the year of the daughter's birth. The Impression He gave The learned English jurist, Judge Willis, was a very democratic and general sort of a man. On one occasion going home in an onibus which landed him at an inn known as the Green Man, he as usual passed the time in friendly discourse with the passengers. To one housewife who had been marketing he delivered a well meant lecture on the purchasing power of money, the tariff, free trade and domestic and political economy. To other passengers he talked freely and dispensed counsel and advice indiscriminately. Arrived at his destination, he intimated to the conductor, "I want to get out at the Green Man." Accordingly the onibus slowed down, but as he was leaving his seat a lady touched him on the sleeve and earnestly inquired, "My good man, don't you think you've had enough?" The Humble Here. He was not of the royal blood, He did not seem to know his worth. But in our common brotherhood He was a hero of the earth. God gave him grace to work and wait And strength and patience to endure And faith and hope which, soon or late, A crown of triumph would insure. He looked not to the heights for fame Nor walked where wild ambition leads. Content on earth to wreathe his name With kind and helpful little deeds. The world seemed brighter for his smile, And hearts were glad to have him near Broadening life's sober scope the while He moved within his humble sphere. Clear Case of Madness. John Blank of Ohio is a politician of considerable influence in his state. One evening when he was in Washington he was invited to dine at the home of John R. McLean, who dabbles in Ohio politics and costly tapestries. Every time Mr. McLean bears of a tapestry sale in Europe he peels off a section of his bank roll, hands it to an agent and tells him to blow it in on the hangings. Blank's appetite was very poor that night. Apparently he was in great physical pain or felt the gnawing clutch of a secret sorrow. When he got back to Ohio he made this mournful anouncement: "I've always heard that John R. McLean was a wise old guy. It's a mistake. That old fellow is an crazy as a loon. He took me in to dinner in room where there was absolutely nothing on the door and all the carpets were bruising on the wall."—Popular Magazine. Well Confirmed The Rev. Joshua Kimber, in his reminiscences in the Living Church, tells the following anecdote of the late Bishop Horton Porter: "He had been journeying up the east bank of the Hudson river, stopping for confirmation each day at adjoining parishes. When he reached Poughkeepsie he saw a woman at the rail waiting for confirmation whose face he was sure he recognized and was somewhat familiar with. He was also certain that she had been confirmed within the week at another place. The bishop whispered to her to remain after service and said: 'My dear madam, what do you mean by coming for confirmation? I am sure I confirmed you Monday at such a place. Did I not? She said: 'You certainly did. I have been following you up the river and have been confirmed every day this week.' He astonished, said: 'Why did you do that?' Whereupon she replied: 'Because I heard it was good for rheumatism.' Reeves and Tools. Sima Reeves told this story in his "Reminiscences:" "I was playing the part of Tom Tug in company with my excellent friend J. L. Toole, who was also a member of the cast. In 'The Waterman' a word or two of gag is held to be permissible, and, partly to amuse the audience, partly to satishn my excellent fellow actor, I said to him in a certain scene in reply to his question: "What's the meaning of all this?" "The meaning of it is that you've been made a tool of, and I'm a happy fellow." "Johnule looked very much surprised, and, as a popular comedian does not if he can help it allow himself to be scored off, after a moment's reflection, during which he must have suffered the keenest agony, replied: "So it alms." Fierce Cheese Esters. A noted writer was aboard a steamship at Montreal and just before the vessel left on her trip for Liverpool was watching the loading of an enormous quantity of Canadian cheese. A number of schoolteachers were on the boat bound for Quebec, and these young Indians were very much interested in the loading of the cheese. One of them asked the writer how many there were. "The ship takes on from 15,000 to 25,000 cheese every trip," he truthfully informed her. "How—how many people—and there on board?" she asked. "About 1,200 this trip." For a moment the young lady regarded him in establishment; then she looked at the cheese being loaded by the hundred. "It's truly wonderful!" she gasped. "I never would have believed it if I had not met them with my own two eyes. And only 1,200 people! Goodness me, they must be force cheese enthrall—Judean." Ted—What because, of his summer hotel that failed because the prices were so unhealthy? 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"We don't mind drinking it straight." "Honton Herald. Fine Legal Quibble. Here is a queer case for an action. A man was insane and determined to throw himself out of the window of the airy屋. He made several attempts and was prevented by the servants. Put in a new apartment, he tried it again, jumped out of the window, fell on the lawn, injured himself seriously, but, strange to say, the shock cured his mental disorder. At once he said the officers of the airy屋 for negligence. The printiff was consulted. There is a delightful legal quibble about this, for the pros and cons are many.—Argonaut. Striking a Bargain. Barnley's car was hud deep in the sands, and the title was rising fast. "Hi, there!" he cried to a farmer who was engaged in filling a wagon with seaweed. "What'll you charge to pull me out of this?" "Oh, $50, 1 guess," replied the farmer. "Fifty dollars!" roared Barnley. "Jerusalem, man, isn't that rather high?" "Waal, I dunno," said the farmer, resuming work on the seaweed. 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The king's equestrian made a motion as if to prevent her, but the king stopped him. "Never mind," he said; "she's not in the way." The lady, having noticed the attempt to stop her progress and overhearing the king's remark, glared haughtily at the two men, elevated her shape, eyebrows and tilted her posture more high in the air as the two gentlemen peek their necks. The ombushes started, and after a minute or two the king addressed some MADE A MOTION AS IP TO PREVENT HERE remark to his equerry. The latter replied, using the term "Your majesty" rather more emphatically than usual. The lady suddenly realised who they were and, hanging on the door, tried to attract the driver's attention, apparently with the idea of making a hurried exit. "Oh, what have I done?" she wailed. "Heaven, what have I done? Stop, stop! Let me out!" "Calm yourself, madam, I entreat you." King George said reassuringly. "Even a king is not an epidemic disease." An Art Aristocrat In "German Memories" kidney White man tells these delightful stories of Leambach, the famous portrait painter: "Once when asked his price for a portrait Leambach answered: "That all depends; from 20,000-mark, which I may ask, down to 5,000, which I may be willing to pay for the privilege of painting an exceptionally interesting face." If he did not want to undertake a commission Leambach would quote an extravagant price as a simple way out. This happened in the case of a bionn banker. "But surely that is too much," said the close listed millionaire. "I bought a portrait which you painted of Prince Blamarck for less than half that price." "That may be," replied Leambach quietly. "It was a pleasure for me to portray him. But surely, Herr X. without offense, you do not imagine that it would be an equal pleasure to me to paint you?" 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We received a pamphlet, entitled "A Lecture on the Book of Matthew" by Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D. It is an able discourse and will richly repay a perusal. The price is fifteen cents. Rev. E. C. Morris, D. D., President of the National Baptist Convention is a unique and forceful character. His executive ability and sound judgment have endearled him to the Baptist brotherhood throughout the country and made him a tower of strength in this great racial struggle which now confronts us. One of the most remarkable pamphlets ever produced by a colored scholar is now before us. It is entitled "L'Homme Dapres la Science et to Talmud" by Rufus L. Perry, Ph. B. LL. B. If there are any of our readers who want to know what it means, they must ask Dr. Perry and they need not stop at this office to ask questions. We rank "mighty high" but when we don't know a thing, we just don't know it and that's all. We have gazed on these pages with awe and but little wisdom and our powers of intuition tell us that this is truly a remarkable work for it has undoubtedly fallen in the hands of scholars, who are as brilliant as the distinguished author and they have not unfavorably criticised it. We congratulate Dr. Perry. --- That Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his supporters intend to either capture the Republican organization or continue the present organization of the Progressive Party hardly admits of a question. Under the caption of "Eyes Front," the issue of the 14th alt. contains an extract from an address of the distinguished New Yorker. He is quoted as follows: The "conservatives" of today champion an interpretation of the constitution which perpetrates indiscriminate slavery for white women and children. One is led to ask, what about the influential slavery of colored women and children? He seems displeased as yet to draw the color line that his wrath upon one of the --- It is much to be regretted that this great statesman perishes in his course of bitter antagonism to us as a race of people and that those colored men in direct contact and close affiliation with him and his managers have been unable to bring about a change of feeling in one who at one time was the greatest citizen in all of this world. AFTER COLORED (FRATERNAL SOCIETIES). Now comes the information that the Protective Committee of White Fraternities, located at South Bend, Indiana, a Northern State, is inaugurating a crusade against colored orders, to the end that they shall be forbidden to use the name of any white Order in the organization of their fraternal societies. The letter as quoted was sent to us by Gen. B. G. Stollier of Pennsylvania and reads as follows: Protective Committee of White Fraternities. "South Bend, Indiana. 'Dear Brother: All organization like the Masons, Old Fellows Knights of Pythias, Elks, Moose Eagles, Owls, etc., are threatened from time to time with the organization in their localities of Negro bodies who will take their names. This is something which all of us should attempt to avert. At the time there is no legal means presenting it. The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to protect the Knights of Pythias. The Supreme Court of Mississippi has ruled against the Masons. Therefore it is proposed that we should Congress to enact a measure or our protection. I enclose three copies of the proposed measure, and I request that you, on behalf of your organization, write to your Congressman and two United States Senators requesting each that he introduces and press the passage of such a Bill, and send to me any replies that you obtain from them. "You can readily understand this work costs money and if your lodge feels it can afford to do so, we would appreciate a contribution of $1.00 or any other amount you can give. "Yours fraternally, "G. E. SWISHER, "Society." "A BILL." Making it unlawful for any society order or association to send or receive through the United States mails, or to deposit in the United States mails, any written or printed matter representing such society, fraternal order or association to be named or designated or entitled by any name thereafter adopted, any word or part of which title shall be the name of any bird or animal is already being used as a part of its title or name by any other society, fraternal order or association. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That it shall be unlawful for any society, fraternal order or association to send or receive through the United States mails, or to deposit in the United States mails any written or printed matter representing such society, fraternal order, or association to be named or designated or entitled to any name hereafter adopted, any word or part of which title shall be Masons, Odd Fellowen, Pythias, or the name of any bird or animal the name of which bird or animal is already being used as a part of its title or name by any other society, fraternal order or association. The district Courts of the United States of America shall have jurisdiction on the petition of any person or persons to restrain the unlawful use of such name as heroin forbidden. We have read the above bill with interest and we are at a loss to know what lawyer considered and drew up this measure. Besides being unconstitutional, it is ridiculous. After all, the Northern Negro-hater is worse than the Southern Negro-hater and his antics are much more grotesque and amusing. Leeburg. (Va.) Notes Leeburg, Va., Dec. 30. Mrs. Ellen Banks, one of the oldest citizens of this town died at her home on North Worth street Friday morning at 3:30 o'clock. She was an old member of the Providence Baptist Church of Leeburg. She was 89 years of age and leaves three sons two daughters-in-law and three grand children. She will be missed by both white and colored people of this town. The funeral took place from the Providence Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and was conducted by Rev. P. S. Fisher of Lincoln, Va. Mrs. Lizzie Williams of Ashburn, Va. spent Monday in Leeburg, shopping and her friends were glad to see her. Mr. Tom L. Robinson of Washington and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Berry of Alexandra', Va. spent Sunday in Leeburg, Va. visiting friends. Bishop Walsh Will Not Accept Appointment—Tulsi Pitot Conspondant that Bishopless of His Church is Sufficien—Susan Ferry Will Go to the Black Cathedral—Xima Notable in the Metropolitan. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Taylor Given Bafflent Christmas Party in Honor of Their Daughter — A Young Bishop Man Making Good—General Notes. (Aleen's National News Bureau, 252 W. 53rd Street.) Bishop Alexander Walters, the new national leader of the race, cleared up all doubt of his accepting an appointment should it be tendered him by Wilson, when he announced to The PLANET Correspondent last week that under no circumstances would he accept an appointment of any kind. The Bishop said: "I feel that the Bishopric of my church is a high enough office for me, and that my mission in life is higher than that of a political appointment. I want it thoroughly understood that under no circumstances will I accept an appointment." For some time speculation has been rife among the politicians that Bishop Walters would consider a splendid post of dignity in the event of it being tendered to him, but the strong and emphatic words of the Bishop dispel any doubt along that direction. Among the strong and influential element of the race, however it has never been thought that the Bishop would sacrifice his high office of Bishop for any appointment. While the Bishop is giving the make-up of the "Black Cabinet" grave consideration, he is silent on the question. The PLANET Correspondent has learned however, that there are several prominent men who are high up in the confidence of the Bishop who will be favorably considered when time comes for appointment. Perry Named for the Haitian Post On what has been learned as good authority, Rufus L. Perry, the brilliant and successful criminal lawyer of Brooklyn, and one of the most prominent figures in the United Colored Democracy of King's County, has been named for the post of Minister to Haytl. Mr. Perry, who is one of the most highly trained men of the race, and a man of wide attainments is considered fine timber for this post. His fine executive ability and wide legal training will stand him in good stead for the office. He has the soil id endorsement to the man of the United Colored Democracy of King's County of Brooklyn and is the only man thus far named for office. Many influential citizens would like to see Mr. Perry get this fine appointment as his experience would assure the two countries of a safe, wise and capable diplomat. Christmas Notable in the Metropolis Christmas, the one great day of the world's history was celebrated in true Christmas style in the Metro polls. The proverbial snow, which tradition always associates with an old fashioned Christmas was here in plenty. Unusual preparation was made by the various charitable institutions for the proper feeding of the poor and there were many poor families of the city whose hearts were gladdened. The most unique feature of the Christmas celebration in this city was the large Christmas tree donated by the city, which was placed in Medison Square. It was one of the largest Christmas trees ever seen in this city and presented an enchanting sight lighted with electricity. The tree was formally opened to this city Christmas, eye with a special musical exercise. A Pretty Christmas Social. Among the pretty Christmas socials of the holiday season, was the Christmas party of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Taylor of 244 W. 53rd St. tendered to their daughter, Miss Mary Magdeline, in honor of her eleventh year birthday. The parlor was beautifully decorated with Xmas mimitlton. The guest included many of Miss Taylor's playmates, together with many well known men and women of the city. The evening was pleasantly spent and each and every one had a jolly Christmas time. The feature of the evening was the music furnished by Orphan Band of Huntington. W. Va., under the direction of F. G. Williams with Mick J. M. Crabble at the piano. Miss Taylor, who was attired in pink silk dress with cream silk lace, proved an excellent little hostess and she was assisted in receiving by her little friend, Miss Edith Dudley. She received many handsome presents, among them a gold watch, comb and brush set and necklace. Refreshments consisting of the delights of the season were served. The guests were Rev. Dr. W. H. and Mrs. Brooks, Rev. Howard Brooks, Lucious Baton, Charles Tailley, S. M. Bostick, William Jonkins, S. F. Fernando Brea, Richard Winsted, Misses Amanda Place, Margaret Dudley Elise Reno, Lydia Mason, Mary Ana Mason, Mrs. M. C. McClung, Miss J. M. Crabbe, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hart, Alfred Fred, G. E. Robinson, of the Amsterdam News, Master George Taylor and Richard Hart, J. M. Crabbe, Mrs. O. A. Pollard, Cyril Miller, Mrs. O. Wanda Mrs. Una Rhoe, Mrs. and Mrs. B. F. Thomas and G. Allen, the PL. This question is often asked and the author of the book, "Eyes of the World are Upon Me," will explain it to all who are interested as follows: First, Object is to see that every child gets an education. Second, That every good person gets a home that is suitable in which to live. Third, That when you organise the Union, let it be open to all in every community, and the whole aim of these Unions should be to name a committee, who shall look over the states where. Who people are in need of just help especially the children who want an education. But how will this move or suggestion be put on foot? The answer is that we should raise $50,000 with out delay by July, 1913. Let the North, South, West and East unite that the children of Ethiopian families shall have an education and the poor of our race shall have homes. This is the answer, yet nothing can be done unless we are willing to help and why not show all the world how we can help our people. The money raised by these unions is to be kept at home until your committees report to you as to what can be done. But in raising whatever amount of money for these causes you will favor the public by sending to the papers to your progress. It is hoped by July that the $50,000 will be band and this will allow each Union to send their committees out to look at the fields over in order to start those who are unable to attend other schools and as stated above, all the money that is raised by your organization is not to be sent from your city, town or state without your consent. This will be when your committees make their reports to you and please bear in mind three facts: we are our brothers' keepers. It matters not the thousands or the millions of miles we are apart. for whatever wrong or good you do will be felt the worst over. But here is the good opportunity to you and if you love your race the 2000 will surely be on hand by July and respectfully be the following those Union, pastors, teachers, leaders of societies, people of note, also special privileges to the editors who want to see some good done for all the race. Will you place this article before your readers and in doing so will cause a new inspiration with every reader. To the editors we, of the Ethiopian race owe to you our future success. If we are to have any for it in our power to pull us down or up. Therefore, it is hoped that you gentlemen will unite in making Lincoln Union that it should be and to those who are not purchased: a copy of "Eyes of the World are Upon Me" send 50 cents in swamps or post office order to R. H. HALL, 28 Franklin St., Lawrence, MA. POCOMOKF CITY. (MD.) NEWS Rev. James W. Wintera Passes Away Pocomoke City, Md., Jan. 6.—Rev. J. W. Winters, pastor of the Trinity and St. James M. E. Church, died on Friday night, December 20, 1912. He was one of the oldest ministers on the circuit and will be remembered for many years. He died at his home near Pocomoke City, Md., and was buried at his home in Queen Anne Co., Md. Sillas Waters, colored, was struck by a northbound freight train on Sunday, December 15, 1912 and thrown from the track, right arm broken and fatally hurt. The accident happened about 5:30 o'clock on the section where he was employed at New Church, Va. Lula Northan, the daughter of Mrs Ida F. Northan, the wife of Sir Leonard J. Northan, died on December 25, 1912. She was 18 years and 7 months of age. Funeral took place at the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church near New Church, Va. Acomac Co. Rev. J. W. White, pastor, officiated. Rev. J. W. White, pastor of the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and the Deacons are doing well in rebuilding their church. They are getting on nicely. The Ladies Auxiliary Circle has done much to help this cause. Senator Reclave Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas who sang his "swan song" last week resigned from the United States senate. This action was expected, although Mr. Bailey said that he might not offer his resignation for several days, so that it would not detract from his speech in which he defended the constitution and assailed the plan of direct legislation as proposed in the initiative, referendum and recall. Five Children at Birth Five male children, all of them per- fectly formed, were born to Mrs Audrey Lange, the wife of a carpenter, of Abbottle, L. Two of the child- ren were dead at birth, but the other lived intervals of from five minutes to more than an hour. The smaller of the children weighed twenty ounces and the largest tipped threesales at slightly over five pounds. It has both small temporary to buy and properly doing the home for housing and department Colleague shall drive, licensed at 1818 Turber street, known as the Working Woman's Industrial Home and Day Nursery, that moved from 510 Third Street in July, 1910. In order to make the Home perpetual and purchase it, we must appeal to the general public for help. All interested in this work can help by contributing freely through the Mite Boxes and envelopes already distributed, which will be called for by a committee wearing a badge containing the words "Children's Home". Conributions can be sent directly to Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart, 1081 West Grace street, who is the Treasurer of the Building Fund. No fund can be too small to help. Please do not give money to anyone except those soliciting and wearing the "Children's Home" badge. This work is approved by Gov. Mann, Mayor Almine, Dr. J. T. Mastin, Rev. James Buchanan, Judge Richardson and a Committee of Ladies. The work is also joined by the Colored Ministers' Conference of the City. The following compose the Colored Committee for soliciting Funds: **Ohio Funds:** Mrs. Rebeke Wich Crawford, Manager of the Home; Mrs. A. A. G. Thompson, Mrs. Mattle Howin, Mrs. Harriett Page, Mrs. H. R. John. son, Mrs. Anna Hunter. Will you be one of the two thou- and to contribute $1 or more? If so, please forward it to Mrs. J. C. Stewart. 1021 West Grace street. we thank the Public School Children and an offering. We have heading our colored individual contribution list, Dr. R. Jones. $5.00 and Mr. Nelson Williams, $2. WHO WILL BE NEXT? Coughs Colds Hoarseness And Why? You Should Take Jeffries No. 1 Cough Mixture. TRADE NO.1 MARK Because it is guaranteed safe, pure, efficient. It will relieve your cough soon after taking. For throat and lung troubles it has no equal. You can depend on it—has been thoroughly tested and found to contain the best properties and produces the best results. 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In order that we may provide a seat for you, fill and mail, or bring the.- attached ee WS vee Aran cbs Mes ade coupon to our office at least a day prior to the one on whtch you wish to leave. First car leaves ourvoffice at the St. Luke Bank Building, Myrtlo Grove, but simply furnishes an opportuul First and Marshall Sts., at | o'clock each day. No seats reserved unless applted for. > Shane TEE ae Re ee ARSE ay ips : " : 38 T. A. HILL, Sales Agent, . Respectfully. Myrtle Grove Park & Land Co,, Inc, $iisresenk Bice: 4 marenan sie. | som WITNESS DEFIES MONEY PROBERS fatuses 10. Gre Watcas of _ Banks In Stock . Decl CONTEMPT “THREAT FAILS Committee's Power to Inquire Int Business of Nations! Banke Raise Again. The house “money trust” inveatigat ing committee got far enough into th stock market affairs of the Califorass Petroleum company to develop teact mony that twenty-four officers of na tonal banks in New York, Chicago Detroit and Milwaukee participated 11 & syndicate formed to market {ts bares at a profit of $50,000, None was required to put up any money. ° ‘When the commitise tried to draw from the witness, George G. Henry, ot the New York firm of Salomon & Co,, the names of the banks and their officers, ft struck @ snag and the ques tion of the committee's power to in- quire into the ‘business Sf national banking associations was yaised again. Mr. Henry flatly deciined to give the mames despite the assurance from Rep- resentative Pujo, the chairman, that the Investigators woald recommend to the full committee and to the, house hat Henry be held in contempt. | ‘The witness couched: his refusal in) the form of » statemagt prepared by former Senator’ John C. Spooner, as follows: . - - Tt “t decline to answer the question] wpon the advice of counsel that the committee {a without furfediction te require the Information called for upon the ground: i . “That the subject Is one fm reeppet| of which the congress Is without pow- or to legislate; =. 4 “That the question iy aa unlawful futruston into the private affaire of} the citizen uader the fourth sad afth amendments to the cemstitation of the! United States; : “Generally, that the committes ts) not lawfully eatitied to compel the [= formation cated fer.” - Henry Mkewtee retuecd to give the! name of the fourth’ rm sesociated in the original synéicate with’ Salemce 2@'Co., Haltgarten & Os. gad Lewteoka| Brothers, ‘ ag Before the stock was Neted, Bo bio firm, Hallgarten & On, La Brothers and « fourth Ore, Mhéeh ‘Rad! @ 12% per cent Interest, bgt. geld all] thelr stock, Whee Seen he neerd, Lewteohit =, for: fata’. eccount of of Gp Seng “made 8! market for (he stork. . “How was that done!” “By giving buying orders on a seale down anc selling orders on a scale up.” | “That wax done to xive appearance of activity In the atock?? “No,{t was done to steady the price of the stock.” ~'Wann't that manipulating the mar. ket?" Mr. Henry thought {t was not, “How high did the stock go under this operation?” “ft went to 72 and al fraction from 40." ‘SWEAR ROCKEFELLER 15 ILL Physiciane Telt Money Probera Life Would Be Endangered to-Testity. AMdavits to the effect that Wiillam Rockefeller was suffering with “gouty inflammation of the larnyx and wind pipe, which had necessitated ala operations, the last of a “serious na. tre," were recorded with the bouve “money trust” investigating commit. tee as evidence why the Standard O11 Magnate. whose home recently was be Sleged by process nervers, nhould not appear before the committes. * : The first aMidavit, by Dr. Waltor F. Chappelle, Rockofeller's physician, sald Rockefeller could not speak above & whisper and = must take the “alent treatment.” Dr. Chanpelle swore that to force Mr. Rockefeller to teatify “would not only be an act of inbu- manity, but actually would endanger Ris lifv." Another afidavit, by Dr. Sam- Gel W. Lamont, was to the same cf- fect: | When the affidaritn were put into the record, Representative Pujo an- pounced that the committee would {m vestigate the situation “through Its own agencies.” KILLS MOTHER; CUTSTHROAT Young Musician Gees Mag When Par. ent Won't Let Him Play. ‘When his mother refused to let him have bis mandollz, Harry Harrison, s young musician, ‘of New York, jumped eat of bed and slashed ber to death with a razor. | ‘Then be locked himself in tha bath. Fooms of their apartment in Brooklyn amd cut bis throat, He cannot re cover. eS ‘Thought Cow Mad; Hatpin In Tongue. A cow apposed to be affected -with the rables, Velonging (0 Gouncliman W. H. Peteraon, of Dover, Del, wae found to be suffering from a brokeg hatpin in.lts tongue, pene:raiing om Urely through the fatty. part of the ‘tongwe. As scce as the pin. was. re moved by a local vetertaartan the cow shoved: signs of improvement. : . : a é HA80 Porects Post Poshagye. Odiutel retures from sab-ctetions ia: ow York ctty proper show ther 1aay| 889 gackeges were bestied during rg, Gust three Garé of the parcels pest. | | Srecgoctoateatoafocteaioatostectesteatoatodie stesso POOP We RENT and SELL anything from a STABLE to a MANSION. Bring your business here, whether largé or small. You will find my service the best.<aDg . JOSEPH R. WILSON. Have Your Perscriptions Filled ie Vaughan’s North-Side Pharmacy, 5Tt_s saner sts. | MaDICeNus PRUSIESS AND POKFST. —CLURKS RMCISTERED. — "PHONE MADISON-9877> a President-Klect’s Brother May Be U. 8. Senater From Tennesses. ee Ps : ae ae Here is a True Friend of the . Ethiopian Race. ; | gl MR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN om Because He Dared to bo a Daniel, Ho Dared to Stand Alone, He Dared to have a Purpose Firm and Dared to Make It Known. “EYES OF THE WORLD ARE UPON ME," Copyrighted 1907, Has a Chapter in his Favor, Title, Lincoln Union. 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THE BOWSER EYE. It Tamed the Cat, but Couldn't Hold the Tinker. HE ABANDONS HYPNOTISM For the Less Pleasant Occupation of Convalescing—The Tin Peddler Disappears After Doing the Bowser Family a Great Favor. By M. QUAD. (Copyright, 1921, by Associated Literary Press) W WHEN Mr. Bowser came out of the office the other evening he glared at a new鞍, and the boy delivered and backed away. On the street car he looked at a man, and the man turned pale. As he got off at the corner he looked at a dog, and the canine sat down and bowled. When dinner had been finished Mrs. Bower noticed that Mr. Bower was looking at her hair a strange manner, and when he had continued this for several minutes she asked: "Have you got a headache or a sore throat this evening?" "Not a bit of it," he answered. "Are you puzzled over anything?" "No." "Well, your countenance looks as blank as if you had fallen from a hay, stuck and struck on your head. I didn't know but something had happened." "You needn't worry yourself about my blank countenance, Mrs. Howser. As a matter of fact, you are not competent to tell when a man's whole soul is in his face or when he has no more feeling than a cabbage head." It was policy for her to maintain silence, and be walked up and down for five minutes with his hands crossed under his coatings before he continued: A Discovery. "A rather queer thing happened at the office this afternoon. A man named Gilbert came in on some business, and THEN CARRY IT OUT ON SOMEBODY ELSE. the minute I caught the eye I hypnotized him. He was like one in a trance. When I told him to sit down, stand up or walk around he obeyed me like a child. He would have flung himself out of the window if I had told him to. It's the first time I ever knew that I had hypnotic powers, and the idea rather upset me. Did you ever aspect that I bad this power? "Never!" replied Mrs. Bowers, with a laugh. "What in thunder are you giggling about?" he demanded as his ears began to twitch. "About your hypnotic powers. Did you take this Mr. Gilbert out after the show and treat him?" "Of course not! What do you mean?" "I didn't know but he was working you for the drinks." "Bay, woman, you ought to be sent to an asylum for fools!" shouted Mr. Bowser as the blood reddened his face and neck and took away all the blankness. "If I ever start to tell you anything you always twist it around to make out that I haven't brains enough to chew gum. Did you ever see a case of hypnotism?" "I don't think so." "Then don't try to be too funny. I say I hypnotized that man. More than that, I have discovered that I have a great power that way. I can hypnotize you, the cat, the cook—almost any one else. Just watch that cat for a minute." A. Demonstration He cut down with his hands on his knees and fastened his eyes on those of the cat, which was sitting on the floor a few feet away. He glared back at him for a few seconds, and then her eyes began to grow green, her tail to become bushy and her back to arch. "Don't go mad if you don't stop!" instructed Mrs. Beware. "Keep quiet. Don't break the spell," whispered Mr. Bower as he continued his plains. "She came under the influence sooner than I expected, and it will be a complete success. By George, look at that back! Now watch her stride. I tell her to jump down and fall on the floor." He gave the order, but the cat meowed and spat at him. He repeated it, and she uttered a long drawn out cry. od him, Bowser as she runs up to them. "What! Now, How, out, you jump to the floor and roll over. Jump, I say!" She jumped to the plane, clawed off the cover, bounded to the door, and after a "spit" and a blow she ran down the basement stair, and scared the cook out of her seven sisters as she whaked out into the back yard. "Didn't I tell you I could do it?" exclaimed Mr. Bowser in great glee as he rose up. "That cat will be a beautiful subject to work on, and in less a week I'll have her standing on her head and playing all kinds of circus. I will now exercise my powers on you." "You won't do anything of the kind," protested Mrs. Bowser, "and you'd also better let the cat alone. She was scared instead of hypnotized." "Nothing of the sort. She was under the influence as plain as day. Look me in the eyes for a moment." "I wasn't do it." He Tells it on Mrs. B. "Look me in the eye. Now raise your right arm." Mrs. Bowser turned her back on him "Now lift your left foot." No lifting took place, but Mrs. Bowser started down the hall to go up stairs. "Woman, I command you to return," aboutted Mr. Bowser, but she did not feel the "influence" and passed on out of his sight "I'll bring her to it!" I'll bring her to it!" he muttered to himself as he turned away. "I've got the power, and she feels it, but I'll take her unaware next time, I'll go down and hypnotize the cook." The cook promptly objected. He had scarcely explained his errand and asked her to fix her eyes on his for a minute when she said: "I'll do nothing of the sort, and if you don't get out of this kitchen I'll throw up my job!" "But, my dear woman, I wish to carry out an experiment," he pleaded. "Then carry it out on somebody else. I'm here to do the cooking at $20 a month, and nobody can make a fool of me. I had a brother who was fool enough to look a man in the eye and he went to the hospital with bleeds all tied up in knots." He hurped up curled way with a sigh. But luck was up for him. Just at that moment the basement bell rang, and he went to the door to find a travelling tinker who wanted to mend any old tinkerware. Enter the Tinker "Come right in!" was the hearty greeting. "I don't think we have any thing to mend, but I like to explain a matter to you. You have heard of hypnosis, of course?" "It's where a feller glaces at you?" replied the tinker. "Yes, something that way." "And you lose your mind, and he makes you do as he will!" "No fooling, sir! I'm a hardworking man, and I don't stand for any non-essence!" "Look me in the eye," whispered Mr. Bowyer. "I'll do it, sir, but"— "Now let yourself seem to sink away as if going to sleep. Keep your eyes on mine." "Don't get me mad, sir, because when I'm mad I'm dangerous!" "Keep quiet, tinker. Now, then, you are in a burning building and must escape by the window. Do you see the fames around you?" "I do." "Do you feel the heat?" "I do." "Do you realize your pain?" "I do, sir, and dom me if I'll let any man make a Punch and Judy out of me! Here's for you!" It was the cook's yells that brought Mrs. Howser downstairs, and she found room door in a semiconsolous condition. The tinker had swiped him one on the jaw and got out. "It was the hypnotism, the hypnotism, missive!" explained the cook as she stood with arms uplifted. "Yes, it was the hypnotism," whispered Mrs. Howser as she bent over the recumbent form. "He's got it, and got it bad, and while I'm making a poulice for his jaw you get the camphor and take off his shoes and collar." "And will he live, mum?" "Oh, yes, but he won't be a hypnotist any more. He'll probably turn to phrology." It was ten minutes before Mr. Bow ser sighed and grunted and sat up to ask: "Where am I?" "Still in the United States," replied Mrs. Bowser. "But what's happened?" "You came home with a hypnotic eye." "Y-yes." "You tried it on a tinker who came along." (A grunt.) "You got him into a burning building." (A groan.) "And the only way he could get out was to swipe you one on the jaw and walk over you. For further particulars see small bills." Mr. Bowser was a humbled man. How It Woe "Hoo it is it, Jeems, that you make so an enormous profit ay yer potatoes!" Yor price is lower than any lither in the soon, and ye make extra reductions for per friends." "Weel, ye see, I knock off two shells it a ton because a customer is framed o'mine, an' then I just tak two boudertweight off the ton because I'm framed o'mine, Punch. YOU will help THE FRAUST, so when answering our advertisement, you mention our company. Professor Armenian Vanity of the despatches twenty languages. Nicholas Pashitch, premier of Surva in sixty-four. He is a small man, of retiring mappers. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago confesses that he occupies an usher in a theater. Angelo Saro, aged seventy-six, brother of Pope Plus X. is a small carrier in the village of Conxio, Italy, at 50 cents a day. Jacob H. Schiff of New York will contribute $5,000 annually to the American Red Cross to aid in the work of establishing rural nurse corps in the United States. Charles N. Richards, superintendent of the stationery room in the United States state, has held his position for eight years. Mr. Richards is seventy-one years old and a war veteran The British army has a General Grant; he is lieutenant of the Tower of London, and as such it is his duty to receive the keys of the fortress every night from the sergeant of the "beef eater." Jacob A. Rills, the famous philanthropist, is a Dane by Birth. He came to New York, learned the English language, obtained a position as a police reporter on a daily paper and continued his upward climb until the present time. Aerial Flights. Few nine-year-olds have caused as much damage as the airplane, which has been celebrating its anniversary.—New York Sun. The men who are experimenting for safe and anne aliphies may succeed in preventing the aviation news from merging so habitually into the obituary column.—Washington Star. Walter Wellman probably would be glad to give a few useful pointers to the entertaining young man who is preparing to make a little flying trip across the Atlantic ocean.—a monobola.—Chicago Record-Herald. Place aux Dames. A woman may say that she will forgive and forget, but she will never let you forget that she forgave.-Woman's Home Companion. A Viennese anthropologist has discovered that nature intended woman to be man's superior. Well, who accuses nature of failure? - Cleveland Plain Dealer. Any man who doesn't believe woman capable of making laws has only to see her driving an automobile in a crowded street and making new traffic regulations as she goes along-Chicago Inter Coast. Timely Tips. A chimpanzee has been educated to smoke and drink. The rest of us have to be educated not to—San Francisco Call. The supreme court of Ohio has decided that a man may whale a boy for snowbelling him. Which reminds us of the recipe for cooking a hare—Chicago Inter Ocean. A Hannibal man shot himself recently after a squabble with his wife. If some man shot themselves after each fuss with their wives they would look like slaves—Carthage (Mo.) Press. Science Siftings The average man has twenty pounds of blood. An instrument has been invented for determining the intensity of heat by listening to it. The inventor of a new nail puller claims it will draw a nail perfectly straight every time. As would be expected from its fiery brilliance, King Sirius is the brightest of all the suns of night as visible from our little earth. Fashion Frills. Hetty Green advises girls not to overdress. They won't if they follow the modern fashion—Exchange. One good thing about being a woman is that no matter how large she may get she can always find a hat that will shatter her—Dallas News. Wizard Burbank has produced some queer results in horticulture, but he isn't responsible for what the women are carrying around on their hats—Philadelphia Star. Graft In Gotham "Graft in the building department" —yes, and in probably every other department. Turn on more light —New York American. Graft conditions in New York were never so bad as at the present time, any denizens of the underworld. Considering that they are furnishing the money, they should be competent witless —Milwaukee Gentleman. Cost of Living. In India the cow is sacred. Looks like the beef trust is trying to make it the name here.—Baltimore Star. Commodity prices have reached a new "highest on record." But, like the greatest battleships, the high cost of living in a progressive game—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Sumner. Bacon says he is going to plant a tree in the capital grounds. If there is one thing we need to beat the high cost of living it is a Bacon tree.—Washington Post. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Sarah Bernhardt's voice is to be photographically preserved to future generations. Mother Fletcher is one of the police stations of Philadelphia, and recently the embattled the twenty-sixth and ninety-fourth among the police forces. Mike O'Connor Church, Governor of Miss Priscilla Killick, daughter of Captain J. M. Milcott of the armored guarder Maryland, is the first woman who has been a passenger on a seagoing man-of-war for thirty-one years. Formerly the wives and members of the captain's family went to see with them, but the privilege was stopped in 1881. Dr. Mary E. Pennington, chief of the government's food research laboratory at Philadelphia, is one of the highest salaried women under civil service and in the only woman who has been placed in charge of one of the research laboratories used for pure food investigations. She receives a salary of $3,000 a year and has a corps of fifteen assistants. Pen. Chisef and Brush. Dr. Gerhard Hauptmann, the famous German dramatist, was born in Sakbrunn, Bilsela, on Nov. 15, 1862, and it was on his dithief birthday that he heard the 1912 Nobel prize for literature had been awarded him by the Swedish academy. Charles Yardley Turner, the new director of the Maryland institute, famous as a painter, longs to be a sculptor, and on the recent occasion of his sixty-second birthday announced his determination to take up the art which he has long admired. He is a native of Baltimore. Frank Brangwyn, A. R. A., who recently received from the German embassy in London a gold medal given to him by the kaiser in recognition of his work, is the first British painter on whom such an honour has ever been conferred. The artist is of Welsh extraction. He is a member of the Societe Nationale des Bénix Arts and of many other famous societies. The Royal Box Prince Victor Napoleon of Brussels is a candidate for the kingship of Albania. The melancholy and eccentric carina of Russia is a great lover of flowers, and her favorites are the orchid and the iliac. "The glorious old eagle of Montenegro," as King Nicholas has been termed, is a warrior to his finger tips, as well as a diplomatist and wiser ruler. He is not only head of the Montenegrin troops, but is a field marshal of Russia. He is over seventy years of age, but has the bearing and the spirit of a young man. Town Topica. Washington is fast becoming the most beautiful city in the world. It ought to have no rival a generation hence—Magazine of American History. A smart Philadelphia woman studied law to save legal expenses and succeeded. Eugene Philadelphia has long been the home of the smart lawyer.—New York American. Dr. Wiley says the molasses Boston puts in her brown bread in N. G., and Boston on the brink of a bean famine too! True it never rains but it pours tribulation—Memphis Commercial Appeal. Current Comment. One swallow doesn't make a summer, but it breaks a New Year's resolution — Life. Washington in Westminster Abbey: The world certainly does move, doesn't it? — Chicago Record-Herald. If J. P. Morgan himself admits he cannot control money, what hope for the rest of us? — Boston Herald. It's mighty queer how the grand juries keep right on going after the railroads for rebating when (1) there never was such a thing and (2) it was discontinued long ago. — Indianapolis News. Dodging the Autos. A French physician says that walking on all four shoes will cure indigestion but what's the use of curing indigestion if you can't dodge automobile-Hartford Times. If automobiles, as a St. Louis physician says, are decreasing the muscular strength of the feet of those who ride in them they are likewise increasing the pedal elasticity of the large element of the population which has to dodge them.-New York World. Good Natured. Young Man-1 shall soon pay you my landlady, for I am going to be married. Landlady-Ob, you need not marry for the sake of the few marks you owe me. Hert Eller. - Meggendorfer Blatter. MiniTools Compiler The celebrated "king's vines" at Fontainebleau, planted under the reign of Henry IV, grow against a wall in the park not far from the castle, and the grapes are highly esteemed by gourmet. Since the republic was established the grapes have always been sold by auction, the proceeds going into the coffers of the minister of finance. Sporting Notes Floyd Jones has been started proud dept of the Northwestern lager for a term of three years. The Athletics of the American an association are to play exhibition games in Memphis March 19 and 19. Now that England has won the Dvie cup ambassador of the laws training championship from the Austrian It would not be surprising to have America, France, Germany, Australia, Belgium, South Africa and Poland among the challengers next year. Five Rules of Health. Prepar food. Fresh air. Proper physical and mental exercise. Keep the digestive and intestinal tracts in good order so as to get rid of waste products before they begin to undergo chemical change and produce autolactation. An adequate amount of restful sleep. Occupational strain and conditions of occupation which mean lack of exercise and fresh air and breathing dust The use of alcohol Worry.-Dr. Stephen Smith, New York's Oldest Physician. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. The Greek Bath. When the skin is dry and harsh it shows a lack of natural oil, which the ancients are said to have supplied in the following manner. To seven ounces of pure oil add one ounce of lavender water. Shake well and rub it well over the entire body with rotary motion. The body should first be bathed in hot water and the oil applied while the body is still warm and moist. The effect is soothing and it makes the skin soft. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Food. That food has much to do with the increasing frequency of chronic diseases, such as rheumatism, Bright's disease and the like, is well recognized. When taken in connection with the use of intoxicants and tobacco a large majority of the chronic alliments may be traced directly or indirectly to the things that enter the stomach. Diets too rich in protein disorder the alimentary system. Diets showing an overupply of fats likewise are ill suited to health. A balanced ration is regarded as half the battle in defending the race from chronic diseases. Not only are the chronic diseases produced by foods, but many a case of germ produced disease has come via that route as well. In fact, a large percentage of the contagious and infectious diseases find lodgment in the human system through the mouth. Typhoid fever is almost wholly a disease carried to a victim through milk and water and food. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Removing Callous For calcous on the foot soak in hot water containing a little washing soda, after which cover the calcous with ointment. This may be repeated several nights. Or you may paint the calcous twice a day for several days with a solution of flexible collodion and salicylic acid, thirty grains of the latter to an ounce of the former. Do not apply this solution to the healthy skin. After this treatment the foot should be soaked in hot water and the surface scraped with a dull knife. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Curing a Bunion It is not a hard matter to decide upon the treatment of a bunion. First procure a pair of shoes that do not squeeze the toes together. The inner side of the sole of a shoe should be nearly straight, not slanting toward the middle at the toe. The "manlah" cut of shoes usually has this shape sole, but they can be procured in all weights of leather. The next thing is to relieve the pressure on the sore joint and also try to replace the great toe in its original position. The latter can be sided by placing a piece of cotton between the great toe and the second toe. This tends to throw the big toe back into a straight line with the foot and the joint to resume its proper position. To relieve the pressure a small piece of cotton with a hole cut in the center laid directly over the bunion should be worn during the day. If the bunion has not existed a great length of time this treatment will be all that is necessary. However, in some cases the bunion has become infected and pus has formed. Then it may be necessary to remove the burn. In extreme cases the infection has extended to the joint cavity and the side of the bone has become necrosis (dead). In this case it will be necessary to remove a portion of the bone before the bunion can be relieved. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Deep Breathing. Air we breathe is one thing that cannot be affected by the high cost of living. Normal air contains slightly more than one-fifth oxygen, the only part of it essential for breathing purposes. The nitrogen acts only as a diluting agent. If we reduce the amount of oxygen in a given quantity of air by one-fifth it thereafter becomes incapable of supporting life. Passing into our lungs, the air there has extracted from it one-fourth of its oxygen. Carbon dioxide is given to it in exchange. The lungs are never entirely filled with pure air after the first inspiration following birth, since they are never wholly emptied, and what remains is vitiated. The upper part of the respiratory tract is the only part that receives strictly pure air. It has been demonstrated that if an animal is forced to breathe through a long tube it will die of asphyxia. The amount of oxygen used, of course, varies with age. An average adult inhales thirty-four pounds of air a day, about seven pounds of which is oxygen. He uses about two pounds of the oxygen and exhales the rest. --- HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Neeabled. Nosebleed occurs both in anemic and full bloomed persons. When one suffers from it all excitement should be avoided. Care should be taken not to blow the nose or to cough. Unless there is fatness the sufferer should sit up quietly. As a rule, there is no cause for alarm. A lump of ice held against the bleeding mastell and against the back of the neck and a bit of ice in the mouth will often serve to stop the flow. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY First of all, do not whisper in the sickroom nor in the adjoining room. This is very annoying to the patient. Some people seem to be so impressed with the idea that they must not talk out loud in the sickroom that they go around all day, talking in whispers. All necessary conversation in the sickroom should be carried on in a low, well modulated voice, but distinctly enough so that the patient can understand what is being said. If the nurse or member of the family wishes to talk with the physician about the patient's condition she should plan to meet him out of hearing and sight of the patient. Don't sit on the bed. Choose a chair near the bed in such a position that the patient can see you without turning her head. Don't ask the patient what she will have for diet. A sick person does not want to be bothered by thinking. Plan something that will be dainty and nourishing and carry it to her. If she has any special desires she will ask for them, but do not compel her to work by planning her own diet. Surprises are more delightful. Do not sit around and watch the patient eat. If she is able to feed herself see that everything is convenient and then leave her alone. Do not discuss her condition with the patient. Do not tell her of other cases similar to hers. Do not allow her to talk about her aches or pains except enough to give you and the physician the necessary information. Troubles grow by discussing them. Do not by your conversation keep her troubles constantly in the foreground of her thoughts. Try to divert her mind to something pleasant. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. For sick headache Drink hot water, make slightly salty, on an empty stomach. Keep drinking it all day and next day, if necessary, until you feel better. Why Not Now? Eventually. Imported & Domestic LIQUORS S. W. ROBINSON Mail Order House, Richmond, Va. THE FOUR SEASONS. Spring. Amid the branches of the silvery bowers The nightingale doth sing. Per chance he knows That spring bath come and takes the inter snows For the white petals of the plums sweet flowers. Summer. O lotus leaf, I dreamt that the wide earth Held taught more pure than thee, held taught more true! Why, then, on when thee rolls a drout of dew Pretend that it is a gem of price-less worth? Autumn. A thousand thoughts of tender, vague regret Crowd on my soul what time I stand and gaze On the soft shining autumn moon and yet Not to me only speaks her all-very haze. Winter. When falls the snow, lo, every herb and tree That in seclusion through the wintry hours Long time had been held fast breaks forth in flowers That never in spring were known upon the sea. -From the Old Japanese. EFFECT OF EQUAL SUP- PAGE ON DIVORCE Equal suffrage, in my opinion, would tend toward increasing divorce, which is a social blot on the United States and is the greatest evil of the day. If woman had equal political rights with men there is a probability that on the slightest provocation she would seek divorce. Given such equality, they might overstep the bounds. Women under the present conditions are too prone to go to the divorce courts, and political equality might make them more so. 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"So the lady sent him back and then watched him through the toyshop window. The shop was full, and she saw the salesman approach and say something to him, whereupon, with a look of terror, he darted forth at full speed a second time. "The lady caught him by the arm. 'I'll go in with you now,' she said. "And the two entered together. The salesman, in the midst of his work, nodded as he passed them and said pleasantly to the little boy: "Don't be impatient. I told you that I'll tend to you in a minute.'"—Los Angeles Times. When a Small Boy Talks Be it ever to the credit of the passengers of a south bound Rockhill car a few afternoons ago they did not laugh-out loud. A woman, and her small son, the stereotyped Algernon style in dress and just the opposite in disposition, boarded the car at Twelfth street. Boats were scarce. The mother was pretty, so a young gallant offered his place, and the small son took it. Then he began to entertain the passengers with these remarks fond parents and foolish relatives think "cute." He directed his questions to a young woman seated next to him until the car passed Twenty-second street. "In that the Milwaukee station" the boy asked. "Yes," she replied. "Are you going away?" "Uh-oh, we're going to New York." The mother took hold of her son's hand and started polling him for the door as he added: "And someone's going to spray a ball of paint"—Minnesota City Times. A Difference. It is necessary to distinguish somewhat between courage and character. Spineless cucumber is as cool as any.—Iuck. The Exclusive Bawl. Night after night the famous baseball pitcher solemnly walked the bedroom door, bearing in his arms the youngest of his family. Instead of improving, the affliction with which he was bothered became worse, the hours of his night watch increasing rather than diminishing. One night, in the middle of his perambulation, he calmly awakened his wife. 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For further information, apply to the President orto | | The humble and the lowly; the thrifty and the unexcitable citizen will find this table place of refuge in time of trouble. . a , ” | sO | sO ~ JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. fadictment of Patton in Cotton Deal Declared Valid - MUST WOW FACE TRIAL United States Supreine Court Lays Down Principle Affecting Speculs tion In Interstate Commedition. ‘The supreme court of the - United Mates laid down the far-reaching prin- ciple that “corners” of interstate com- modities, such aa clothing and food, are fm violation of the Bherman sati-trust law, and held that, as far as the Sher- man act was cogcerneé, the indict, meat in the New York federal court of James A. Patten, Kugene G. Searies, Freak H. Hayne aad Wililem P. Brown Ser “conspiring to ren an alleged cot- { eurner” was valid. The case oe ee o * a aa ss - Tae , +? ‘ weet ~~ a jen, FEST OS : .. = - § Se pee SaTS ro See : —_ =a =. : Pe RES ep . EE OT OT eo = z= 2 We Te Bey . 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Cn a ot SAS? ange \ a a) Cad Bas yf rr i Suse STS es) '/ Za 2 * 79 i A ia Sai Yet i ieee a ee 4 . ee Pe.” ‘i ne are % re rs eh ne SAC 5 . oe) i of . aah “Weg FI é, : é a! Ms ce . PON. oma A d ih Be . Z Me 2 LF E b My rl tee a . aay 2 a Ate: | pee oy Dares on ma i Fae |e pegs § f oa x iad we (eB ir hed i i tea? — " aye J an 5 A eh ae ri 1 a? . my ard 1’ j a Pm Ph ree and i —_ a - ye i , _ oo el cae ee Lali ie ee wp OO sue _ fo wig es a o- od eal id : ee “ a 5 : a s — ae ee, ee a : aa a aa —— Pe omen wr ee iaonent ere fo a. tend . be oo eT ee, a — eee ene = ee ie ae ii nn : er ey SS See tice Holmes concurred, The majority of the court beld that the cireutt court for southem New York had decided that the indictment! | ghatged 2 “withholding” of the cottor ofp the market, a necessary clomea! Of a corner an adinitted by the Rov: ernment. The minority held that the eiteuit court Tound the indictment did not so charge and for that reason the Jodict, ment wan faulty According to all the justices the cor: Tecinesa of the holding of the circult court aa to the indictment charging a vwithhosding.” and as to the aufficien- ey of the indictment on other techni cal points hied to be accepted at thin time without Queation by the supreme court. . The pointa thus left undecided may be made the basis for bringing the case to the court again, If the defend: nats are convicted upon trial. Solicitor General Bullitt, who pre- sented the government's side of the case, issued.a statement after. the je diston in which he said that at last a way had been found to stop the res ming np of prices by men who sought ® corner the market, act only of oat- tam, bet wheat, cots, lard and other Som mositios. : In his oplaton, Justice Vandeventer og at lagth with the em oe Secwsed: meen wore not engaged @ “The frst sectica of the act, ann Wich the cowste sre forndog,” mnie. be “le act confined te velasherr fj straint xs where gersona engaged In Interstate trade or commerce agree te Supprens competition among them pelvea, but includes as ‘well Involun. tary restraint, as where persena not go engaced conspire to compel action By others, or to.create artificial condi. Uonk, which necessarily impede or burden the due course of such trad» or commerce or reatrict the common Mberty to engage therein.” The Standard ON case was quoted im support of this doctrine. Govern: ment offictala declare that this lar guage will materially atrengthen thelr Aight against combinations violating the law. . DELANEY’S SUCCESSOR Gevernor Tener Appoints C. V. Hart Zell Factory Inepecter, : Cc. V. Hartsell, chief clerk unde Captain Jotn C. Delaney In the Penn syivania state bureau of factory in opection, was sppolated chief of thé Dureau by Goversdr Tener, to succeed Delaney, who wes Glamigeed from the fo Harrisburg : . on 062, os o-' thie others. edt wil heave fell charge of ue os ORANGE CROP: FREEZES. Loss tn Callfornia fe Piaced at $20, 2 000,000, From San Bernardino to Los Ange len, Cal., every: acre of oranges and lemons han become frozen. = : This was the statement ‘that. come from Pomona, the center of one of the heaviest produping sections of the cit. rus frutt belt. Only a @fth of the crop may be sal- vaged, It waa asserted. If this be true. the total lows on 160,000 acres of frul! will amount fo close to $40,000,000. More consttvative eatimates have fiz: ured the total damage at $20,000,000. According to the growers @ sudden return to dhe warmth of normal winter conditions would irreparably damage frolt, which “might be still ja such con- ditfon that a gradual rise of tempers- tare would leave it in marketable con- dition, This additional toes would mean practically the ruin of the citrus crop, the value of- which has been placed at 950,000,000. : A temperature of sit degrees above sero was recorded at Canfleld, Kern county.-16@ feet above the sen Kivel | SHOUTS BENEFACTOR DEAD Tramp Whe Gots Night's Lodging tap Thewes a ata: set, ead billed Otte Cottnger, » éruasien of Mew York, wre bed befriended Sts. | Kelly wan permitted to spend the night in Octinger’s atore, but objected because he was awakened too early, and fn his rage shot Oetinger. William Kolbe, an employe, had a narrow ee ape. ee “Every increase of one cent a gal- Jom In the price of gasoline means a Joss of $10,000,000 = year to the anto- mobile trade,” according to a protest jseued by sixty-five garage owners of New York city,-who are campaign. jing against the Increased price of gas : cline. The garage men hope to Interest automobile owners to devise’ waya and Tears of comballog the high prices. Babe Dice From Sciesors Wound. Playiag with a pair of scissors in &@ room where her mother was sewing, Margaret, the three-yearold diugh‘er of Thomas aad Mary Birely, of Sa- Pillasvifie, near Frederick, Md:, fell @a4 the ectmsors plorced ber neck, eer. @rtng the jugular vein. She died ten miluvtes later in her mother’s arms. . $0080 FOR A KINDNESS Sot Remeweernd. Oy Sed: Manian Seiged en ‘volley Pe Weer wéare «,.. Margaretta Jen Brows. aapneen, rons. ott. Barr rg, ReOEE ae Ah eer ane waren eu, aeana toe oe *T will remember you well some day for your kindness (6 an old nian.” ‘The gir! haa become Mrs, Ray Ma soa Knesel, and long since she forgot the incident. In her mai} ou Monday, however, she found a check for $8000 and « note addressed: “To the little girl who helped me o nthe trolley car four years ago.” ‘The note and the check came from Valentine R. Cortles and were mailed from CaMfornia. - Trein Engineman Killed. |W. O, Miller, a Peanuylvania freight -eugineman, and formet member of the Harrisbutg, Ps. school board, wae “Milled by a train In ‘Harrlaburg. He ‘was olling bis engine when struck by | am oxpresa. | Like Spring In England: England {6 enjoying the mildest ‘winter since 1868. Flowers are bioom- ing and birder singing sa in spring in Koat. Three Burned in Motel Fire, ‘Three men wore burned to denth and a member of others marrewly os | enped with their lives when the four, Gury Wilecs hotel ia Keystone, W. ‘The dead ‘ure: lames L. @ hembermas. of Rusheean ceusty, ‘Ve. and two enidentiged. lumbermen. ‘The wes ware ale mm the Mire stacy of tho etet UPet the fra, Giga 2 winews, ot of Oa . a eT r ; Te hy ee <a ma TES PLN. So eee are ge ana, ts aes ae cae Ss a. » ase es bea: Jewish Meee Por Tat. Preaideat Taft recetved « gelg me dal for bis championship of enuse tm the diplomatic wits cae eee emacs Of the treaty of 1688 with eseatry. ‘The moda! fe the gM ef the BNa! awe. 7, i. 701 New Vi to Gtu Stowte, Ghip valtding 3 the United Suter @uriag: the lest ‘cin menthe of 1612