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Interesting Exercises. LINCOLN BENEFICIAL CLUB The twenty-fifth anniversary memorial exercises of the Lincoln Beneficial Club took place last Sunday, S. P. M. at the First Baptist Church. The First Baptist Church choir rendered selections and the religious exercises were conducted by Rev. W. T. Johnson and Rev. John H. Fauntleroy. Evans Quartette rendered selections to the satisfaction of the audience. Mr. William Banks sang a solo. The President, Mr. R. T. Jackson made an address. He was in a happy frame of mind over the good attendance. Miss Elizabeth Taylor: sang a solo with charming sweetness. Mr. Benjamin P. Vanderwall: the Secretary made a most interesting report. BELIEVES IN RACE ENTERPRISES Although the Club was one of the unfortunate depositors in the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers and had over one thousand dollars in that institution. it still held faith in the race and continued to deposit in colored institutions... The singing by the Club was a feature. Mr. Joseph Matthews greatly pleased the congregation by the rendition of one of his favorite melodies. Rev. Joseph E. Jones read a portion of an address which he had previously delivered on "Lincoln." It was very interesting and made a most favorable impression. MR. MITCHELL, SPEAKS, TOO. John Mitchell, Jr., M. R. S. A. delivered an address which was listened to with rapt attention and for which he was warmly commanded. Mr. H. G. Carter "titled" the collection, after which the beheaded tion was announced. Thus closed one of the most successful public displays in the history of the Club. From "The Queen City of the Valley." Staunton, Va., January 14.—There was a great revival at Mt. Zion Baptist Church lasting several days and has just closed, and last Sunday the converts were baptised after a sermon at 3 o'clock by Rev. R. C. Pannell. 'Rev. J. C. Austin, B. D. is pastor. January 5th marked the pastor's first anniversary with these good people and to date under his pastor ate 250 souls have been added to the church and more than $4,800 raised, not promised, during the past year. $250 was contributed to the education and mission. The Baptist denomination needs to say amen to this when it realizes that fact, that Staunton is void of factories and shops which afford financial chances for the Negro. The motto for 1913 is "More Work For Jesus." All the churches of the city, are in fine condition and seem to be getting on nicely. You know that Rev. Thomas resigned as pastor at the Methodius Church. Rev. J. W. Jack son of Lurray, Va. has been assigned to fill his unexpired time until the Washington conference meets. Rev. Thomas went to Baltimore, which they claim is the preacher's "heav en." Mrs. Powers the sister of Rev. and Mrs. Jackson has opened a nice grocery store on North Augusta St. in a brick store house of B. A. Blakemore with fine prospects of good business. Miss Emma Leech has returned home from your City where she has been visiting friends and relatives. J.H.4. The Anglo-American Finance Corporation. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. of Richmond Va., announces in his newspaper, The Richmond PLANET, the incorporation of The Anglo-American Finance Corporation, a trust corporation with a capitalization of $125,000. "The loaning power will be practically unlimited, and money can be obtained upon good collateral in any amount up to and exceeding one million dollars," says Mr. Mitchell, the President. Mr. Mitchell has hadattering success as president of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond. He is the only member of the American Banker' Association. As such he was brought into touch with certain English bankers who were interested by him in the incorporation and promotion of the Anglo-American Finance Corporation. The foreign interest will be adequately represented in the control and management of the company. Flyers in place of advertisers in the questionnaire please contact the company on the telephone. so fortunate as to father. There is no reason why it should not be very profitable to its promoters, and help ful to those in whose interest it is promoted.—Port Gibson, Miss. Lever The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Negro Race Conference is to Meet in Columbia During the Corn Show. The Sixth Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Negro Race Conference, of which Rev. Richard Carroll is President, and has been since its organization, will meet in Columbia, Tuesday, January 28th and continue until February 1st. The great American Corn Show will meet in Columbia January 28th. Reduced rates will be granted from all parts of the United States to Columbia, and great crowds from everywhere are expected to take in the Race Conference and attend the Corn Show. Prof. J. D. Eggleston, Superintendent of Education in the State of Virginia; Bishop Clinton of Charlotte N. C.; Dr. C. T Walker, of Georgia; Dr. John H. Eager, of Baltimore; John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of The PLANET of Richmond, Va. and many other prominent men will be among the speakers. Mr. Porter on Pensioning Ex-Slaves Editor of The PLANET: In regards to the question asked by Rev. Dr. R. R. Jones, Box 206, Homestead, Pa. I endorse the question asked by him in regard to the ex-slave pension. How are we to get it. By sitting still? No, the only way is to organize as our freedom was brought about. Let's start and build it upon the same foundation. The question of slavery was raised in the churches. So we believe if every minister of the gospel and every white man of the church begins at the same foundation and call the people together in all church es and school houses. Then ask of those who own us and those who didn't own us to sign the petition that it may go before Congress and the Senate, is the only refuge that the ex-slave can be helped. When the Rev. said in his question after the freedom of the Negro was granted him, he was turned loose as the beast of the forest. Didn't our Saviour say the birds of the air built their nest and the foxes had holes, but He himself had no where to lay his head, so it was with the ex-slaves. They had neither food nor shelter and if the Southern white people had not cared for us we would have starved and frozen to death. So to day some of them still live. Now is the time to appear before Congress and the Senate and ask for a morsel of bread. By so doing the hearts of those people cannot and will not refuse us. They know that the slaves stood by their families, made bread and meat, clothes and shoes, when the husbands faced the gun and the bayonet. When night would draw near, so would the slave draw near to the door of his mistress and little children, they watched over them and protected them until the rising of the sun. Then they were ready to take on the daily task. The Negro who stood in the breast works in mud and in water and was willing to take his shortest of food and do his task though it was against him. Whatever his master told him he believed it to be right. So how could a man of the South and the lady of the South, refuse to sign a petition when asked by some one of our race to sign it. It would be no disadvantage to them. They would spend it with them all they would get out of it. The short time of life would be comfort by a few dollars to spend for food and for raiment. The Southern and the Northern white man or lady who had those articles to sell would reep the benefit of the few dollars given the slave. Mr. Editor, let's not wait. We are willing to contribute to your press or some other press to publish articles calling the race together as I mentioned above. To call together in every church or school house that we may get together and wait upon the Congress and the Senate of the United States and ask for morsel of food and saliment. WANTED! A Widow between forty and fifty for Housekeeper—with prospect of matrimony—for able bodied hard working bachelor of 59. Must have some knowledge of carving and a little pride about you, but none too much. No objection to one child of school age. A good home and kind treatment would a good woman. ADDRESS: HOMELESS BROTHERS 1000 BROAD AVE. MIDDLEBURG CITY, MO. Knights of Pythias. Six Hundred Officers Installed—Fire Exercises. The installation of the Knights of Pythias and Couris of Calanthe, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. at the First Baptist Church last Tuesday night was a grand success. A large crowd had gathered there and promptly at 9 o'clock, Rev. J. J. Carter, assisted by Rev. L. Morris began religious exercises. The officers present had been listed. Mr. Joseph Matthews sang one of his pathetic and soul stirring selections and after a brief intermission again entertained the audience with another solo. FINE SINGING. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. then installed the officers of the courts and lodges. There were six hundred inducted into office. He was assisted by District Deputy Grand Chancellor Robert Gray and District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellor Anna Taylor. Grand Master-at-Arms W. Henry Jones also officiated. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Thomas M. Crump performed his usual services. The new candidate for public favor in the realms of music appeared in the person of Mr. Richard Beverly and with smiling countenance he sang himself into the favor of the audience to such an extent that applause was elicited. GRAND CHANCELLOR SPEAKS. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell Jr. delivered an address to the officers. He explained their duties and to the presiding officers gave information which would simplify their duties and to assist in advancing the work. He discussed finance and dwelt at some length upon the obligations of a Pythian. The officers were officially declared installed and the benediction announced by Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., but not before Mr. Richard Beverly had sung another one of those enthusing selections and then another to the infinite satisfaction of all present, Mrs. Nannie Cobb presided at the organ. It may be well to state that the rostrum was beautifully decorated and the colors of the Order and flowers were in evidence. The large portrait of the Grand Chancellor on an easel was a prominent and attractive feature. A vote of thanks was tendered all who participated and the Committee of Arrangements was also the recipient of much commendation. Committee on Installation—Mrs. Anna Taylor, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Mrs. N. C. Johnson, Mrs. Licey Crossa, Mrs. Kate Thomas, Mrs. Clara Pervall, Col. Willis Wyatt, Col. W. Henry Jones, Miss M. L. Chiles, Chairman: Pastor Entertains His Deacons. Rev. T. J. J. Mosby, B. D., pastor of the New Baptist Church again gave his annual dinner to his deacons. Rev. Mosby says it has been his custom since in the pastorate to have his officers with him once a year in a social way. The idea seems to be one of his own, but an excellent one it is. The pastor said in welcoming his guest that he was delighted to have them present to break bread with him, that he had not thought of the expense, but the extreme pleasure of having them with him as his guest. The dinner was all that anyone could wish and was greatly enjoyed by all. The following persons were present and delivered eulogies. Deacons S. M. and W. E. Wilson, Thomas Trent, J. H. Moore, Spencer Henry, T. L. Beverly, William Woodson, James H. Hogan, W. E. Randolph, John P. Graham, Sully Watson, J. A. Brown, Chorister W. H. Coy and Clerk A. W. Dandridge. Mrs. Mattie Redd of North Third street is indisposed. Mrs. Emma Gray, the adopted daughter of the late Richard T. Cogbill is critically ill at her home. 105 E. 16th St.. Southside. Dr. J. M. Vaughan of East 16th street. Southside is reported very ill at this writing. Mrs. Susan Clarke is indisposed at her residence, 728 N. 1st St. Mr. W. P. Burrell, formerly of this city is now located in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he is engaged in the insurance business. Dr. C. S. Morris to President. Dr. C. S. Morris, Minister of Bank Street Baptist Church New York, and newly elected President of The Smallwood Memorial Church, Claremont, will lecture in the Third St. A. M. B. Church and Tuesday night, January 28th. The lecture, which will be given today, the ans pieces of the Dunbar Library and Historical Society, will be the first of the series of entertaining to be given by the Society before the next four months. This will be Dr. Merry first ap pearance before the public since his election to the presidency of the Smallwood Memorial Institute. As the institution has many stunnack supporters in Richmond, R is antil cipated that there will be one large turnout to hear the consequent orator and scholar. Dr. Merry will be introduced by Dr. R. D. Brown. Subscribbers to the Bumbar Entertainment Course, friends of the late Dr. John J. Smallwood, founder of the work at Claremont and the general public are cordially invited to be present. Admission will be free Ida Bell Goodman Phot. Ida Bell Goodman was colored, 16 years old, was shot and dangerously wounded Sunday morning by a man said to be Raymond Smith, colored, who escaped. As Raymond could be learned there was no native for the crime. The girl and man were said to have been friends for years. The shooting took place in the room of the girl at 100 Pallium St. Smith, who lived near door, went into her room while she was dressing and without warning drew a revolver and fired one shot. The bullet struck her in the right breast. When persons in the neighborhood who heard the shot were an investigation and found the wounded girl Smith had been shot, H. T. Washburn responded to a hurry call and removed the girl to the City Hospital. Timse Dwight, Instructor 20 In Remembrance. In sad, but loving remembrance of our beloved husband and father O. M. Steward, Sr. who departed this life a year ago, January 19, 1912: Faded away like the stars of the morning. Lost his bright light in the glorious Son: HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN RICHARDSON—Died at her residence in Columbia, Va. at 3 A. M. January 14, 1913. Mrs. Matilda Richardson. Well done, good and faithful servant By her devoted grand daughter, MRS. CORA RICHARDSON VALENTINE. Injured Youth Hides in Bushes Knowing a warrant charging him with grand larceny had been sworn out for his arrest, Comolles Cook, a colored youth, attempted to leave the city Monday night aboard a freight train. He lost his balance while boarding one in the Chesapeake, and Ohio Railway yards. Fulton, fell upon on the rails and his right arm was cut off at the shoulder. The crew of a passing train about daybreak yesterday morning saw his prostrate form and upon reaching the station reported a man dead alongside the tracks. Dr. J. Fulmer Bright, coroner of Henric County, was notified, but when he went to the designated point the "dead man" had vanished. A searching party was organized and several hours later Cook was found lying unconscious in a clump of bushes. It was at first thought he was dead but he rallied to emergency treatment and was removed in the City Hospital by Dr. H. T. Hawkins, ambulance surgeon. Cook is allowed to have robbed his employer, Edward Palmer, a grocer, of 701 West Cary street of 854. He was employed as a driver, and on Monday was sent out with a wagon to deliver a quantity of goods and collect for them. He get the money and after delivering all of the groceries left the house and wagon in the West End and started to leave the city. After the accident Clock did not seek medical or surgical attention for fear of arrest and that was the reason, he explained to Dr. Brigham, why he crowded to the bushes to hide. While his condition is serious, he ingest not only beer but milk, emplaced to the heart, poisoning night. It was thought he would recover. —The Times, August 1999. Verdict Against Town Officials Norfolk, Va., January 18 — A verdict of $3,500 was rendered by a jury in the United States Court today in the $100,000 suit brought for all alleged racial conspiracy by Samuel L. Burton, colored, formerly of Omancock, now of Baltimore, accused of the murder of Omancock and certain of its officials. A motion for a new trial will be heard by Judge Wadillin on Tuesday next. The Court ruled that the town of Omancock could not be held liable and the verdict of $3,500 was rendered against Leonidus R. Doughy, Mayor; John West, town servant Lee B. Kellum, county sheriff; Upur Q. Sturges, citizen and Tank Kellum, county constable. MR. COGBILL PASSES AWAY. Dr. Binga's Pathetic Sermon. "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."—Ps. 37:37. The First Baptist Church of South Richmond, Va. (old Manchester) was packed to its capacity last Sunday evening, the 19th inst. by white and colored people to pay the last tribute of respect to one of its oldest, most highly respected, Christian gentlemen in its community.—Richard T. Coghill, Sr. He was well known throughout the city and bore a reputation worthy of emulation. The news had been spread broadcast, that Richard T. Coghill, Sr. had "Passed the way of all the earth" on Thursday morning, 16th inst. at about 4:00 o'clock. He had been a sufferer for more than fourteen months and bore it all with that Christian fortitude which only marks those who trust "Him who doeth all things well." The funeral services were held at three o'clock. Rev. Dr. A. Blinga conducted the services. The many resolutions and testaments were read by Prof. J. H. Blackwell. They testified to the worth and good character of the deceased. Dr. Binga preached a powerful sermon from the text: "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; Nor the end of that man is peace." Pealins 27:37. The Doctor's treatise on this text was beautiful. "Al times the entire audience was bathed in tears as he told of the many good traits of this Christian man whom he had, known for more than 40 years and who had been a Deacon of his Church for more than twenty years. During his discourse Dr. Binga led in singing "Amazing Grace How Sweet It Sounds, etc." the favorite hymn of the deceased and "I'll Overcome Some Day." It was very impressive. When he spoke of his conviction and of his confession, when exclaiming "How can I sink with such a prop." he had to pause for a moment as the picture seemed too vivid before his eyes. Dr. Binga's sermon was a gem and together with the pathetic scene presented will long be, remembered by the great gathering of sympathizers. Burrell's Lodge of Good Samaritans, of which the deceased had been a member for more than 46 years preceded the funeral cortex through out the procession, marshalled by Mr. Charles Robinson. The Honorary Pall-bearers were Deaconas G. W. Archer, Henry Robinson, Sidney Hilton and George Cunningham, Mr. John H. Jones Mr. Roscoe C. Mitchell and Mr. J. W. Thompson, G. W. Secretary of the Samaritans. The Active Pall-bearers were furnished by Burrell's Lodge. The deceased was a member of Burrell's Lodge, Good Samaritans for over 46 years; member of Fenenda Council. No. 25. True Reformers; Earnest Workers and Church Aid Society and Binga Foreign Mission Society. The floral tributes were many and beautiful. The interment was made in the family plot in Mt. Olivet.—the colored section of Maury's Cemetery. He leaves to mourn their loss, a wife, Mrs. Robinotte Cogbill. one brother, seven children, one adopted child, thirty-two grand children, six great grand children and a host of relatives. "Sleep and take thy rest." Among those who came to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased, were: Mr. William R. Cogbill, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Richard Draw, Washington, D. C., Mr. L. L. King of New York; Mr. James Cogbill of New York; Mr. Charles Coles. Charlotteville, Va. and Mrs. Willie Lewis of Des Moines, Iowa. . Mrs. Evalina Epps of North 3rd St. who has been indicted for some time is convicting. GHEE-THOMPSON. One of the most brilliant affairs of the season was the marriage of Miss Julia Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Thompson, to Mr. George Ghee of South Boston, Va. The marriage took place at Quincipson Baptist Church. The ceremony was per formed by Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Caurch, Richmond, Va. The church was beautifully decorated with ferns and evergreens. The bride wore a handsome dress of spangled net over white moccasine with a long train and a bride's veil and orange blossoms. First to enter were the bodyguards, followed by the bride and groom. The next to enter were the bride's malds, followed by the flower girl and ring bearer. The bride came in on the arm of her father and the groom on the arm of the bride's mother. The bridal party was conveyed to the church in Mr. W. I. Johnson's automobile. The reception which was a most brilliant affair was given at the home of the bride. The bride was the recipient of a great many beautiful presents. After the reception they were taken in the automobile to the station where they left for their future home, South Boston, Va. A grand reception was also given at the home of the groom on their arrival. Mrs. Dr. Wood, sister to Mrs. W. D. Thompson, Mr. Ghee's two brothers and sister-in-law accounted the groom from South Boston and also waited on the bride. While here they were entertained in the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Thompson. The church and home were both filled with friends, of the bride from Richmond and elsewhere. A beautiful solo was sung by Mrs. Dr. Wood of So. Boston, Va. Mrs. Fannie J. Coppin Passes Away Philadelphia, Pa., Jae. — Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin, wife of Bish on Levi J. Coppin and for many years principal of the old Institute, Sr. Colored Youth, died here late last night. She was born in Washington and was graduated from Oberlin College a half century ago. She was regarded as one of the best educated women that the race has produced and was an eloquent platform speaker. Funeral services will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church next Monday 11:00 A. M. 1914 Line Here. We have now for inspection our new line of 1014 Calipers from the well known J. W. Butler House of Chicago. We shall esteem it a favor for you to come and inspect this line. No obligation to place an order. We wish a live, active convasser, male or female. January 17, 1913. Special Ahow telegram to the entire world. I. Prophet Joter, whilst passing East Broad street, reaching city hall 21 minutes past nine, heard the voice of God declaring: Today I will with my own strong arms of power blot out the stormy Winter days, with turning wheel burning register heat of the sun. I am God from everlasting to everlasting and my dominion has no end. Burning above telegraph message from city hall. --- BOLLING-- Departed this life Saturday, January 11, 1913 at 3 o'clock P. M., Mrs. George A. Bolling loving wife of John A. Bolling. The funeral took place Tuesday, January 14th from First Baptist Church. Rev. W. T. Johnson officiated, assisted by others. The flowers we lay upon her grave May wither and decay. But fresh and green her memory Within our hearts shall stay. And troll on the memories Of joys that have been. By her loving Husband and Children. Dr. Ramsey Retiree. Dr. P. B. Ramsey, owing to his continued indisposition has been forced to retire from practice temporarily and give up his palatial offices in the Mechanics Savings Bank building. With returning health, he will resume his practice again. Mr. John A. Bolling and children wish to thank their many friends for their kindness during the short illness and subsequent death of his wife and their mother. Mr. H. P. Jonathan has been indispensable during the past week. He is improving. Washington Park. It has come to our notice that a new, beautiful and highly improved residential addition, which has no unsightly or objectionable sanitary conditions anywhere near it, is now being subdivided into lots to be sold to colored people and it is learned at the office of this Company that this property is very near Ginter Park and adjoins the Northampton addition and is within two city blocks of St. John's Church. This property has easy access to the car line at corner of Chamberlayne and Laburnum Avenue in Ginter. Park and will be offered for sale to colored people sometime in February, on easy terms of $10.00 down and $5.00 per month without interest and without taxes until paid for. The Company has been at work all the Fall making street improvements and now has a large force of men at work putting down wide granolithic sidewalks in front of these lots. A reporter for this paper, who has visited the property, finds the streets are wide, nicely graded, shade trees set out in front of each lot, and cement sidewalks being laid; and it is learned at the office of the Washington Park Land Corporation, owners of the property, whose office is at 124 E. Broad, corner of Second street, that these lots will be ready for sale in the near future, at which time notice will be given through this paper in advance. Parties wishing to select choice lots, so as to avoid the rush on the opening sales day, may call at the office, or telephone Madison 5150. This Company deserves much credit for affording our people an opportunity of buying lots of modern substantial city improvements in the most beautiful and growing section of Richmond; and doubtless the colored people will appreciate the opportunity which is offered by a Company of high standing, where each purchaser will receive alike courteous treatment, and we bespeak a rapid sale of these lots at the reasonable price and terms on which they will be offered.-ady. --- Mocha Temple Shriners Holds Reception Illustrous Potentate Robert M. Clarke called the Nobles of Mocha Temple on at their Mosque, Monday night, 20th inst. in honor of Illustrous guest visiting our city, viz. Grand Imperial Recorder John R. Murphy of Baltimore, Md. and Illustrous Noble C. C. Johnson of Atlantic City, N. J. Unfortunately the Imperial Record or John R. Murphy was unable to be present, but sent a letter expressing his profound regrets at not being able to be with us owing to conflicting engagements but expressing his intentions to do so in the near future. Ill. Noble C. C. Johnson was present and was introduced to the Temple by District Deputy Potentate M. R. Barrett in a most appropriate manner, taking occasion to acquaint the Nobles of Mocha of the thrift, generosity and advancement of Azure Temple of Atlantic City, from whence Noble Johnson halls and to compliment Az re Temple for the magnificent manner in which they entertained the Imperial Council in August, 1911. Noble Johnson was enthusiastically received and his address was of the highest order, teeming with wit and humor, and advice of a nature that was timely and appropriate. He also complimented old Mocha on the most magnificent appearance of the Nobles—enhanced in their spotless regalia (fulldress and Yoz)—which was really inspiring. Among the many Nobles present who also addressed the Temple were Past Imperial Potentate Jacob F. Wright; Past Potentate Cant Benk A. Graves; Past Pot. Prof. Nelson S. Harris; Past Pot. A. C. Coleman; Past Pot. James H. Barrot and others; until the Ill Pot. Robt. M. Clarke in his usual dignified and courteous manner, reminded the travelers of the hot sands that so much (hot air) had dried the throats of the camels. He thence led them to an oasis, where each and every thirst was quenched and each pouch was filled with other delicacies and substantialities, ad much to their delight, that the camels voted a special invitation to all visitors and may they come often. Attention! That fine suite of rooms on the mezzanine or second floor of the Mechanics Savings Bank building is now for rent and may be seen by applying to me. Admirable location for a professional man. Alry, Light and convenient. JOHN M. BRAXTON, 112 West Leigh St., Richmond, Va. SYNOPSIS Margery Fleming asks John Kearny, attorney, to find her father, State Treasurer Fleming, who is missing. A paper with her been found plained to Fleming's pillow. Fleming, whose disobscort work drove Henry Butler, former state treasurer, to suicide, has been seen alive. Knox visits Lottia and Jane Maitland, Margery's aunt. Margery is engaged to Harry Wardrop, Lottia-selie, Knox ten of her pearls have been stolen. Knox watches for burglaries. During the night Wardrop's value belongs to Jane Maitland, mysteriously disappears. Murder is suspected. In her room is found another paper with 112 on it. Wardrop is under suspicion. Detective Hunter shows that Wardrop is lying. One of the missing pearls is found in a closet beside his fountain pen. Knox is in love with Margery. He and Detective Hunter find Fleming shot dead at the White Cat, a political club where he has been hiding. A note left by Fleming returns to 112. Wardrop, Fleming's secretary, is suspicious. Wardrop is a friend that Fleming thought he had taken into custody was in Wardrop's value. Wardrop says he does not know what the figures 1123 mean. He also discovers that his value was carried away and another left in its place. Only One Eye Closed "I AM-I was-Allan Fleming's private secretary." Wardrop began. "I secured the position through a relationship on his wife's side. I have held the position for three years. Before that I read law. For some time I have known that Mr. Fleming used a drug of some kind. Until a week ago I did not know what it was. On the 6th of May Mr. Fleming sent for me. I was in Plattburg at the time, and he was at home. He was in a terrible condition—not sleeping at all—and he said he was being followed by some person who meant to kill him. Finally he asked me to get him some cocaine, and when he had taken it he was more like himself. I thought the pursuit was only in his own head. He had a man named Carter on guard in his house and acting as butler. "There was trouble of some sort in the organization; I do not know just what. Mr. Schwartz came here to meet Mr. Fleming, and it seemed there was money needed. Mr. Fleming had to have it at once. He gave me some securities to take to Pietzberg and turn into money. I went on the 10th"—"Was that the day Mr. Fleming disappeared?" the chief interrupted. "Yes. He went to the White Cat and stayed there. No one but the caretaker and one other man knew he was there. On the night of the 21st I came back, having turned my securities into money. I carried it in a package in a small Russia leather bag that never left my hand for a moment. Mr. Knox here suggested that I had put it down and it had been exchanged for one just like it. but I did not let it out of my hand on that journey until I put it down on the porch at the Hellwood house while I tried to get in. I live at Bellwood with the Misses Maltail, sisters of Mr. Fleming's deceased wife. I don't pretend to know how it happened, but, while I was trying to get into the house it was riffed. Mr. Knox will bear me out in that. I found my grip empty." I affirmed it in a word. "What was in the bag?" the chief asked. Waldrop tried to remember. "A pair of pajamas," he said, "two military brushes and a clothesbrush, two or three soft bloomed shirts, perhaps a half dozen collars and a suit of underwear." "And all this was taken, as well as the money?" "The bag was empty, except for my railroad schedule." "Go on, if you please," the detective said cheerfully. I think Wardrop realized the absurdity of trying to make any one believe that part of the story. He throw up his head, as if he intended to say nothing further. "Go on," I urged. If he could clear himself he must. I could not go back to Margery Fleming and tell her that her father had been murdered and her lover was accused of the crime. "The bag was empty," he repeated. "I had not been five minutes trying to open the shutters, and yet the bag had been riffed. Mr. Knox here found it among the flowers below the veranda empty." "The chief eyed me with awakened interest. "You also live at Bellwood, Mr. Knox." "No; I am attorney to Miss Letitia Maitland and was there one night as her guest. I found the bag as Mr. Wardrop described, empty." The chief backed to Wardrop. "How much money was there in it when you left it?" "A hundred thousand dollars. I was afraid to tell, Mr. Finning, but I had to do it. We had a stormy some this morning. I think he thought the natural thing—that I had taken it." "The struck you, I believe, and knocked you down!" asked Hunter smoothly. Wardrop finished. "He was not himself, and—well, it meant a great deal to him. And he was out of contact. I left him raging, and when I went home I learned that John Jane Moltland had disappeared, been abducted, at the time my mother had been emptied. It's no wonder I question my motility." Tiger lion—tiger lion! The chief pet tiger. "Thank you! I felt that, you one would happen to look after Mr. Pleasant. I was able to be proud till himself. Steve was a little ill when to write Mike Jone was Pierre --- PABLO "What was in the bag?" the chief asked, missing. But when I got to the White Cat I found him dead. He was sitting with his back to the door and his head on the table. "Was the revolver in his hand?" "Yes." "You are sure?" from Hunter. "Isn't it a fact, Mr. Wardrop, that you took Mr. Fleming's revolver from him this morning when he threatened you with it?" Wardrop's face twiltched nervously. "You have been misinformed," he replied, but no one was impressed by his tone. It was wavering, uncertain. From Hunter's face I judged it had been a random shot and had landed unexpectedly well. "How many people knew that Mr. Fleming had been hiding at the White Cat?" from the chief. "Very few—besides myself, only a man who looks after the clubhouse in the mornings and Clarkson, the cashier of the Borough bank, who met him there once by appointment." "The chief made no comment. "Now, Mr. Knox, you heard no shot while you were in the hell?" "There was considerable noise. I heard two or three sharp reports like the explosions of an automobile, engine." "You are right about the automobile." "Hunter said. "The mayor sent his car away as I left to follow Mr. Wardrop. The sounds you heard were not shots." "It is a strange thing," the chief reflected, "that a revolver could be fired in the sipper room of an ordinary dwelling house, while that house was filled with people, and nobody hear it. Were there any powder marks on the body?" "None." Hunter said. "The chief got up stiffly. "Thank you very much, gentlemen. Hunter, I would like to see you for a few minutes." I tinkled Wardrop was dazed at finding himself free. As we walked to the corner for a car or cab, whichever materialized first, he looked back. "I thought so," he said bitterly. A man was loitering after us along the street. The police were not asleep; they had closed only one eye. The last train had gone. We took a night electric car to Wynton and walked the three miles to Bellwood. Neither of us was talkative, and I imagine we were both thinking of Margery and the news she would have o bear. It had been raining, and once Wardrop turned around to where we could bear the detective splashing along. The detective was well behind, but after juvenile Wardrop stood still, while I plewed along. They came up together presently, and the three of us trudged on, talking of immaterial things. At the door Wardrope turned to the detective with a faint smile. "It's rainy, again," he said. "You'd better come in." You needn't worry about me. I'm not going to run away, and there's a courthouse in the Murray. The detective grinned, and in the light from the fire I recognized the man I had followed of the police option two nights before. "I know I will" be still holding spreads of air at his mouth clothes "This thing is only a matter of time, norward." I broke the news of her brother-in-law's death to Mr. Lattin. After that the apparently dismembered bits from her mind, and we killed of her mind, were regretted that under the circumstances I would not rest in the final rest. "We are going to," she said, "several of us, rejoining my sister Mary's husband, although she didn't properly belong, and I always said we would have had it if we were reunited." White Cat But he didn't lie down on the couch. He took a chair in the hall near the back of the stair, and we left him there with the evening paper and a hamp. Wardrop looled, so snatched that I asked him into my room and mixed him some whisky and water. When I had given him a cigar he began to look a little less hopeless. "You've been a darned sight better so me than I would have been to you under the circumstances," he said gratefully. "I thought we would better arrange about Miss Margery before we try to settle down." I replied, "Will you tell her about her father?" "I believe it would come better from you," he said finally. "I am in the peculiar position of having been suspected by her father of robbing him, by you of carrying away her saint and now by the police and everybody else of murdering her father." "I do not suspect you of anything." I justified myself. "I don't think you are entirely open, that is all. Wardrop. I think you are damaging yourself to ablade some one else." His expressive face was on its guard in a moment. He ceased his restless pacing, pausing impressively before me. "I give you my word as a gentleman I do not know who killed Mr. Fleming and that when I first saw him dead my only thought was that he had killed himself. He had threatened to that day. Why. If you think I killed him you would have to think I robbed him, too, in order to find a motive." I did not tell him that that was precisely what Hunter did think. I evaded the issue. "Mr. Wardrop, did you ever hear of the figures eleven twenty-two? You never heard Mr. Fleming use them?" He looked now. "Probably," he said. "In the very nature of Mr. Fleming's position, we used figures all the time. Eleven twenty-two. That's the time the theater train leaves the city for Bellwood. Not what you want, eh?" "Not quite," I answered noncommittally and began to wind my watch. He took the hint and prepared to leave. He opened the door and stared ruefully down at the detective in the hall below. "The old place is queer without Miss Jane," he said irreverently. "Well, good night, and thanks." He went heartily along the hall, and I closed my door. I heard him pass Margery's room and then go back and rap lightly. "It's Harry," he called. "I thought you wouldn't worry if you knew I was in the house tonight." She asked him something, for— "Yes, he is here," he said. He stood there for a moment, hesitating over something, but whatever it was, he decided against it. "Good night, dear," he said gently and went away. The little familiarity made me wince. Every unattached man has the same pang now and then. I have it sometimes when Edith sits on the arm of Fred's chair, or one of the youngest leaves me to run to "daddy." And one of the saintest men I ever met went to his office and proposed to his stenographer in sheer craving for domesticity, after watching the wife of one of his friends run her hand over her husband's chin and give him a reproving slap for not having shaved. I was ready for bed when Wardrop rapped at my door. He was still dressed and had the leather bag. "Look here," he said excitedly when I had closed the door. "this is not my bag at all. I never examined it carefully." He held it out to me, and I carried it to the light. It was an ordinary eighteen inch Russia leather travelling bag, tan in color and with gold plated mountings. It was empty save for the railroad schedule that still rested in one side pocket. "Don't you see?" he asked excitedly. "Who stole my bag had this one to substitute for it. If we can succeed in tracing the bag here to the shop it came from and from there to the purchaser we have the thief." "There's no maker's name in it." I said after a casual examination. War- A Glance Down the Staircase Reveals Shortness. Young, their self, and her book like a boy I was in the house when it was woke and I saw the woman sitting and talking. She had been a much older woman for the whole week and still talked with me. I got up early and sat in the porch, got into my window and sat in front of a burning government and proposed to me. My door, when I had left open, I found closed. Nothing else was disturbed. Theather bag not just inside as Wardrobe and left it. Through Miss Maltaghry transom were coming certain wriggled and irregular sounds, new insecto, now deep bean, that showed that worthy lady to be a sleep. A glare down the staircase revealed Dustin. "You didn't happen to be up there a little while ago, did you?" I questioned. "No. I've been kept busy trying to sit tight where I am. Why?" "That's funny," he said. "Anything in the room disturbed?" "Nothing, but some one had been in the room." I reiterated. "The door was closed, although I had left it open." "I've got only one business here, Mr. Knox," he said in an undertone, "and you know what that is. But if it will relieve your mind I'll tell you that it was Mr. Wardrop and that to the best of my belief he was in your room, not once, but twice, in the last hour and a half." "What could he have wanted?" I exclaimed. "But with his revelation Davidson's interest ceased." "Search me," he said and yawned. "I went back to bed. I deliberately left the door wide open, but no intrusion occurred. Once I got up and glanced down the stairs. For all his apparent drowsiness Davidson heard my cautious movements. "Have you got any quinine?" he said. "I'm getting my head off." But I had nosed. I gave him a box of cigarettes. I was roused by the sun beating on my face, to hear Mim Letitia's tones from her room across. "Nonsense," she was saying queriously. "Don't you suppose I can smell? Do you think because I'm a little hard of hearing that I've lost my other senses. Somebody's been smoking." "It's me," Hepple shouted. "I—" "You?" Mim Letitia snarled. "What are you smoking for? That ain't my shirt; it's my." "I ain't smokin'" yelled Hepple. "You won't let me tell you. I spilled vinegar on the store." "Vinegar?" said Mim Letitia, with scorn. "Next thing you'll be, telling me it's vinegar that Harry and Mr. Knox carry around in little boxes in their pockets. You've pinned my cap to my scalp." I hurried downstairs to find Davidson gone. My blanket lay neatly folded on the lower step, and the horsehair chairs were ranged along the wall as before. I looked around anxiously for telltale ashes, but there was noose at the edge of the apothess register, a trace. ARDROP did not appear at breakfast. Margery looked tired and white. W I saw the glaring headlines of the morning paper, laid open at Wardrobe's plate. She must have followed my eyes; for we reached for it simultaneously. She was nearer than it and her quick eye caught the name. Then I put my hand over the heading, and she dashed with indignation. "You are not to read it now," I said meeting her astonished grate. "Please let me have it. I promise you I will give it to you almost immediately." "You are very rude," she said without reallignishing the paper. "I saw a part of that. It is about my father." "Drink your coffee, please," I pleaded. "I will let you read it then, on my honor." "How can you be so childish?" she exclaimed. "If there is anything in that paper that it will hurt me to learn, in a cup of coffee going to make it any easier!" I gate up then, and feeling that erosion would be uneasl. I told her what had, happened, breaking the news as gently as I could. I said that he had been accidentally shot. "Accidentally" she repeated. The first storm of grief then, she lifted her head from where it had rested on her arms and looked at me, acclining my subterfuge. "He was murdered. That's the word I didn't have time to read. Murdered! And you set back and let it happen. I went to you in time, and you didn't do anything. No one did anything." I did not try to defend myself. How could it? And afterward she she up and pushed back the damp strands of hair from her eyes she was more reasonable! "I did not mean what I said about your not having done anything," she said, almost dishishly. "No one could have done more. It was to happen, that's all." But even then I knew she had trouble in store that she did not suspect. What would she do when she heard that Wardrop was under grave suspicion? Between her dead father and her lover, what? ```markdown ``` "I have talked with Miss Fleming. I said as clearly as I could, "and she came to attend from various people. The only friends she cared about are in Europe, and she tells me there are no other relatives." Hopee condensed this into a vocal couple and thrust it into Miss Lottik's ear. The old lady nodded. "No other relatives," she corroborated. "God be praised for that anyhow." "I was going to suggest," I put in, "that my brother's wife would be only too glad to help, and if Miss Fleming will go into town with me I am sure Edith would know, just what to do. She isn't cusions, and she's very capable." Margery threw me a grateful glance, grateful, I think, that I could understand how, under the circumstances, a stranger was more acceptable than curious friends could be. "Mr. Knox's sister-in-law" interrupted Hopee. "When you have to say the letter 'w' turn your head away," Miss Lettia rebuked her. "Well, I don't object if Knox's sister-in-law don't." She had an unnayable way of expending Hepple's tabloid speech. "You can take my white silk shawl to lay over the body, but be sure to bring it back. We may need it for Jane." If the old lady's chin quivered a bit while Margery drew her arms around her she was mightily ashamed of it. But Hepple was mute of weaker stalk. She broke into a sudden storm of sobs and left the room to stick her head in the door a moment after. "Kidneys or choppe?" she shouted almost belligerently. "Kidneys," Miss Lettia replied in kind. Wardrop went with us to the station at noon, but he left us there with a brief remark that he would be up that night. After I had put Margery in a seat I went back to have a word with him alone. He was standing beside the train trying to light a cigarette, but his hands shook almost beyond control, and after the fourth match he gave it up. My minute for speech was gone. As the train moved out I saw him walking back along the platform, paying no attention to anything around him. Also I had a fleeting glimpse of a man loading on a baggage truck, his hat over his eyes. I had arranged over the telephone that Edith should meet the train, and it was a relief to see that she and Margery took to each other at once. We drove to the house immediately. "Do you know that you have not been to the office for two days?" said Edith to me. "And do you know that Hawes had bysteries in our front hall last night? You had a case in court yesterday, didn't you?" "Nothing very much." I said, looking over her head. "Anyhow. I'm tired. I don't know when I'm going back. I need a vacation." "The biggest case you ever had, Jack! The biggest retainer you ever had"— "I've spent that!" I protested feebly. "A vacation, and you only back from Pinehurst." "The girl was in trouble—is in trouble. Edith." I burt out. "Any one would have done the same thing." "Of course it's your own affair," she said, not looking at me, and "goodness knows I'm disinterested about it. You ruin the boys, both stomachs and dispositions, and I could use your room splendidly as a sewing room"— "Edith! You abominate little liar!" She dabbed her eyes furiously with her handkerchief and walked with great dignity to the door. Then she came back and put her hand on my arm. "Oh, Jack, if we could only have saved you this!" she said, and a minute later, when I did not speak, "Who is the man, dear?" "A distant relative, Harry Wardrop," I replied, with what I think was very nearly my natural tone. "Don't worry, Edith. It's all right. I've known it right along." "Pooh!" Edith returned sagely. "So do I know I've got to die and be buried some day. Its being inertable doesn't make it any more cheerful." She went out, but she came back in a moment and stuck her head through the door. "That's the only inevitable thing there in" she said. That Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock the body of Alan Fleming was brought home and placed in state in the music room of the house. Miss Jane had been missing since Thursday night. I called Hunter by telephone, and he had nothing to report. I had a tearful message from Hawes late that afternoon, and a little after 5 I went to the office. I found him offering late editions of the evening paper to a couple of clients who were edging toward the door. His expression when he saw me was pure relief, the clients' relief strongly mixed with irritation. I put the best face on the matter that I could, saw my visitors, and left alone, prepared to explain to Hawes what I could hardly explain to myself. "Ah, but mother's how to dead." "The people are full of it." "There were no one to do anything, please. I was obliged to stay." I apologized. "I will understandfully plan your my history and the world that would I worked up at the old estate, and by locked down at my. Not a matter." "Dear sir with星星 I would gently, and be kind but bad would not. Ivy him of his little sign association. The size of his smallness told me I had my biggest one go by my light that they the formed life of the light that I was previously summery the very light with which he called the cow-bitch, his "Good night" Some around the door, that he knew there was a presence at the bottom of it. As he Pierre "I have been here six times since now." closed the door behind him I put down my letters and dropped my face in my hands. Hawes was right. I had not heard the door open: "I forgot to tell you that a gentleman was here half a dozen times today to see you. He didn't give any name." From around the door Hawes' nervous eye was winking wildly. "You're not sick, Mr. Knox?" "Never felt better." "I thought I beard"— "I was singing," I lied, looking him straight in the eye. He backed nervously to the door. "I have a little sherry in my office, Mr. Knox—twenty-six years in the wood. If you—" "For God's sake, Hawen, there's nothing the matter with me!" I exclaimed, and he went. But I heard him stand a perceptible time outside the door before he tipped away. Almost immediately after some one entered the waiting room, and the next moment I was facing a man I had never seen before. He was tall, with thin, colorless beard trimmed to a Vanityhe point and pale eyes, blinking behind glasses. He had a soft hat crushed in his hand, and his whole manner was one of subdued excitement. "Mr. Knox?" he asked from the doorway. "Yes. Come in." "I have been here six times since noon," he said, dropping rather than sitting in a chair. "My name is Lightfoot. I am—was—Mr. Fleming's cashier." "I was terribly shocked at the news of his death," he stumbled on, getting no help from me. "I was in town, and if I had known in time I could have kept some of the details out of the paper. Poor Fleming—to think he would end it that way!" "End it!" "Shoot himself." He watched me closely. "But he didn't." I protested. "It was not suicide. Mr. Lightfoot. According to the police it was murder." His cold eyes narrowed like a cat's "Murder is an ugly word, Mr. Knox. Don't let it be sensational. Mr. Fleming had threatened to kill himself more than once—ask young Wardrop. He was sick and dependent; he left his home without a word, which points strongly to emotional insanity. He could have gone to any one of a half dozen large clubs here or at the capital. Instead, he goes to a little third rate political club, where, presumably, he does his own cooking and hides in a dingy room. Is that same? Murder! It was suicide, and that puppy Wardrop knew it well enough. "I have seen the police," he went on. "They agree with me that it was suicide, and the party newspapers will straighten it out tomorrow. The Times-Port, which is Democratic, of course, I can not handle." "Burkeid!" I said finally. "With no weapon, no powder marks and with a half-finished letter at his elbow." He dismissed my interruption soon. "Mr. Fleming had been careless," he said. "I can tell you in confidence that some of the state funds had been deposited in the Borough bank of Manchester, and—the Borough bank closed its doors at 10 o'clock today. "I arrived here just night, and I searched the city for Mr. Fleming. This morning I heard the news. I have just come from the house; his daughter referred me to you. After all, what I want is a small matter. Some paper-state documents are missing and so doubt are among Mr. Fleming's private effects. I would like to go through the papers and leave tonight for the capital." "I have hardly the authority," I replied decisively. "Miss Fleming, I suppose, would have no objection. His private secretary, Wardrop, would be the one to superintend such a search." Assessing for bias in experiments prior to any questioning. If the study contains bias information, I should have used that information to improve my behavior. I should not use that information if it is too useful to me. I should not use that information if it is too useful to me. I should not use that information if it is too useful to me. A man was wounded in the head and still wounded in the back (bones) at the department. He was taken to the hospital and we were told he was bleeding and being hurt in his head. After the paint it was pulled up on his forehead and fell down that I would not find Warpole, that there were no pains at the house and that the office side would have to walk Warpole was bound to open. He was dispatched and Fortune. From that minute in the struggle that was coming, like Fred, I was "for- ment" the government. It was arranged that Edith should take Margery home with her four the night. I thought it a good idea. The very sight of Edith racking in her ballet and sitting down inside the library lamp to embroider me a scorpion holder would bring Margery back to normal again. Edith in the nearest woman I know. I recognised it at the dinner table, where she had the little girl across from her planning her morning hats before the dinner was half finished. When we rose at last Margery looked toward the music room, where the dead man lay in state. But Edith took her by the arm and pushed her toward the stairs. "Get your hat on right away while Jack calls a cab," she directed, "I must get home or Fred will keep the boys up until 9 o'clock. He is absolutely without principle." CHAPTER X. WHEN Margery came, down there was a little red spot born in each pale check, and she ran down the stairs like a scared child. At the bottom she clutched the newel post and looked behind fearfully. "What's the matter? Edith demanded, glancing uneasily over her shoulder. "Some one has been upstairs. Margery painted. "Somebody has been staying in the house while we were away." At the door of a small room next to what had been Allan Fleming's bedroom we paused. It was filled with feminine knucklecks and magogny lounging chairs. Wherever possible a pale brocade had been used, on the empire couch. In panels in the wall, covering cushions on the window seat. It was evidently Margery's private sitting room. The linen cover that had been thrown over the diran was folded back, and a pillow from the window seat bore the imprint of a head. Margery had been right. Some one had used the room while the house was closed. "Might it not have been your father?" Edith asked when we stood again at the foot of the stairs. "I don't think so." Margery said wanly. I put them in a cab and saw them start away. Then I went back into the house, as I had arranged to sleep there and generally to look after things. Whatever scruples I had had about taking charge of Margery Fleming and her affairs had faded with Wardrop's defection and the new mystery of the blue doolah. The lower door of the house was full of people that night, local and state politicians, newspaper men and the usual crowd of the morbidly curious. Whatever panoply the death scene had inked, Allan Fleming was lying in state now. At midnight things grew quiet. I found Bella in the basement kitchen with all the lights burning full, and I stood at the foot of the stains while she scooted to bed like a scared rabbit. She was a strange creature. Bella—not so stupid as she looked, butullen, more ominous—"amoudering" about expresses it. A guest room in the third story had been assigned to me. The telephone bell rang just after I got into bed. "This is the Times-Foot. Is Mr. Ward-drop there?" drop there?" "No." "Who is this?" "This is John Knox." "Mr. Knox, are you willing to put yourself on record that Mr. Fleming committed suicide?" "I am not going to put myself on record at all." "Tonight's Star says you call it still side and that you found him with the revolver in his hand." "The Star lies! I retorted, and the man at the other end checked." "Many thanks," he said and rang off. I wore back to bed, irritated that I had betrayed myself. Loss of sleep for two nights, however, had told on me. In a short time I was sound asleep. I waked with difficulty. The wind was blowing hawk and a shattered banging somewhere below. I looked down into the wall-like space beneath me. It was one of those apparently chance movements that have vital consequences. Below me on the wall across was a rectangle of yellow light, reflected from the library window of the Fleming home. There was some one in the house. My first thought was burglars. My second Lightfoot. Luckily I had brought my revolver with me from Freds that day, and it was under my pillow. To get it, put out the light and open the door quietly took only a minute. I was in pajamas, barefoot, as on another almost similar occasion, but I was better armed than before. I ran into a heap of folding chairs that had been left by the undertaker. The light was out to an assistant, and with counselment at its end, I broke for the door and threw it open, flashing there with my revived invader. We—the man in the room and I—were both to stumble defensively. "Who to have?" I demanded. Only someone knows that I needed to hear much more. "What do you think?" I ask, not willing to be busy enough to answer the question but rather pleasing the questioner with my reply. I am not sure if he is right, but I am confident that he is the best. ```markdown ``` switch, and turned it. The room was empty, but a porch in a doorway at my right was shaking. I lapsed for the curtain and dragged it inside, have a door just close in my face. When I had jerked it open I found myself in a sport hall, and there were footsteps to my left. The foot steps seemed only beyond my reach; and at the other side of the room the swinging door into the pantry was swaying when I caught it. I made a milestone in the pantry and brought up against a blank wall. It seemed to me I heard the sound of feet running up steps, and when I found a door at last I threw it open and dashed in. The next moment the solid earth slipped from under my feet, I throw out my hand and I met a cold wall, smooth as glass. Then I fell-fell an incalculable distance, and the blackness of the night came over me and smothered me. When I came to I was lying in darkness, and the stiffness was absolute. I managed to make out that my prison was probably the dumbwalter shaft to the basement kitchen. I had landed on top of the slide, and I seemed to be tied in a knot. The revolver was under me, and if it had exploded during the fall it had done no damage. I had fallen feet first, evidently, and then crumpled up, unconscious, for one of my ankles was throbbing. It was some time before I could stand erect, and even by reaching I could not touch the doorway above me. It must have taken five minutes for my confused senses to remember the wire cable and to tug at it. I was a heavy load for the slide, accustomed to nothing weightier than political dinners, but with much crunching I got myself at last to the floor above and stopped out, still into darkness, but free. I held the revolver, and I lighted the whole lower floor. But I found nothing in the dining room or the pantry. Everything was locked and in good order. A small alcove off the library came next; it was undisturbed, but a tapeture lay on its side, and a half dozen books had been taken from a low bookcase and lay heaped on a chair. In the library, however, every- PARKER "Speak up or I'll sheet!" I said. thing was confusion. Desk drawers stood open, one of the linen shades had been pulled partly off its roller, a chair had been drawn up to the long magabay table in the center of the room, with the electric dome overhead, and everywhere, on chairs, over the floor, beeped in stacks on the table, were papers. After searching the lower floor and finding everything securely locked, I went upstairs, convinced the intruder was still in the boon. I made a systematic search of every room, looking into closes and under beds. I gave up at last, and, going down to the Hairy, made myself comfortable and I could and waited for morning. I heard Belia coming down the stair after I some time; she came slowly, with snagging footsteps as if the night out sound would send herarrying to the upper regions again. A little later I heard her rattling the range in the basement kitchen, and I went upstairs and dressed. I was too tired to have a theory about the night visitor. I was impressed with only one thing—that the enemy or enemies of the late Allan Plowing evidently carried their antagonism beyond the grave. I had my girdle murgged with some scree that plunging by my doctor, and I gave up on some trouble. But I caught him holding anxiously in the blue brunette on my barechest where Wardrobe had帕我 me with the chin and at my neck, no longer problem, but mustered yellow at the ladder. ```markdown ``` "Well," said Fred, "what was it? Junk! Suicide!" I said seething of Mr. Lightfoot and his visit to the office, but I made a mental note to see the Times-Post people and learn, if I could, what they know. "I cannot help thinking that he deserved very nearly what he got," Edith broke in, looking much less vindictive than her words. "When one thinks of the ruin he brought to poor Henry Butler and that Ellen has been practically an invalid ever since, I can't be sorry for him." "What was the Butler story?" I asked. "Henry Butler was treasurer of the state and Mr. Fleming was his cashier," said Edith. "I don't know just what the trouble was. But you remember that Henry Butler killed him self after he got out of the position thiry, and Ellen has been in one bowl after another. I would like to have her come here for a few weeks, Fred," she said apparently. "She is in some sanitarium or other now, and we might cheer her a little." "Have her if you like, petty," he said realgredly. "What about this young Wardrop, Jack? It looks to me as if the Times-Post reporter had a line on him." "Hush," Edith said softly. "He is Margery's dance, and she might hear you." "How do you know?" Fred demanded. "Look at her engagement ring." Bith throw back trumpetly. "And it's a perfectly beautiful solitaire too." I caught Fred's eye on me and made my escape as soon as I could, on the plane of going out to Bellwood. In the hall spatients I met Margery. "I saw Bella today," she said. "Mr. Knox, will you tell me why you stayed up last night? What happened in the house?" "I—thought I beard some one in the library," I stammered, "but I found no one." "Is that all the truth or only part of it?" she asked. "Why do men always evade issues with a woman?" Luckily, womanlike, she did not wait for a reply. She closed the nursery door and stood with her hand on the knob looking down. "I wonder what you believe about all that?" she said. "Do you think my father-killed himself? You were there; you know. If some one would only tell me everything!" It seemed to me it was her right to know. I told her what had happened at the White Cat. She beard me through quietly. "And so the police have given up the case," she said deeply. "And if they had not, Harry would have been arrested." The police have not exactly given up the case," I told her, "but there is such a thing, of course, as stirring up a lot of dust and then running to cover before it settles. By the time the public has wiped it out of its eyes and anneced it out of its nose and coughed it out of its larynx, the dust has settled in a heavy layer, clews are obliterated and the public lifts its skirts and chooses another direction. The no thoroughfare sign is up. "Whoever killed, my father—and it was murder, Mr. Knox—whoever did it is going free to save a scandal. All my friends"—she smiled bitterly—"are afraid of the same thing. But I can not sit quiet and think nothing can be done. I must know, and you are the only one who seems willing to try to find out." So it was, that, when I left the house I had been commissioned by the girl I loved-for it had come to that-to clear her lover of her father's murder and so give him back to her, not in so many words, but I was to follow up the crime, and the rest followed. And I was morally certain of two things-first, that her lover was not worthy of her; and, second and more to the point, that innocent or guilty, be was, indirectly implicated in the crime. I had promised her also to see Miss Letitia that day if I could, and I turned over the events of the preceding night as I walked toward the station. Bella had told Margery that I had been up all night: Could Bella—But I dismissed the thought as absurd—Bella, who had scuttled to bed in a panic of fright, would never have dared the lower floor alone, and Bella, given all the courage in the world, could never have moved with the swiftness and light certainty of my midnight prowler. But, after all, I did not go to Bellwood. I met Hunter on my way to the station, and he turned around and walked with me. "So you've趴 down on the case," I said. He grumbled something unintelligible. "Of course," I persisted. "being a simple and uncomplicated case of suicide, there was nothing in it anyhow. If it had been a murder under persecuted circumstances"— He stopped and gripped my arm. "For 10 cents," he said gravely. I would tell the chief and a few others what I think of them, and then I go out and get full." "Not on 10 cents." "I'm going out of the business!" he screamed. "I'm going to drive a garage wagon. It's cleaner than this job. Suicide? I never saw a cleaner case of"— He stopped suddenly. "Do you know Burton of the Times 'n'out?" "No; I've heard of him." "Well, here's your meal. They're dred against the ring, and Hurston's head gives the ear. You two not impatient." The gesture of a murder. "Monday, he said discreetly, 'I'm off to hunt some pigs that grow, now shatter." over, before he had gone many miles and then back. "Whatever has been missing since presumably afterward," he said. "That is his children born missing. We've got him all right." "I want to the Times Post office. Burton, come be in a moment, a red shirt young fellow, with a short black coat and a muggy skirt. He was rather clunky in build, and the pugnacity of his features did not hide the sheenness of his eyes. I introduced myself, and at my name his perfunctory man was changed. "Knox? he said, "I called you last night over the 'phone." I Mixed Burton. There was something genuine about him. After Wardrop's kid glove finish, he was a relief. "Hunter of the detective bureau sent me here." I proceeded, "about the Fleming case." [TO BE CONTINUED.] AUTOMOBILE NOTES. How to Keep Your Car in Good Condition at All Times. To wash a car properly with soap first dissolve in a pull of water sufficient soap to make a good suds. Then in the washing operation use the suds, supping it on from the sponge instead of rubbing the soap on a wet sponge or, what is worse, rubbing it on the surface of the car. Before applying the suds the car should be rinsed thoroughly with water, using a gentle stream. This is important, as all particles of grit and dirt must be removed from the surface before applying the sponge. Apply the suds liberally where the parts are dirty; then rinse off with clear water and a fresh sponge. Slowing the water below the sponge to insure that any grit and dirt that may be left on the surface are washed away before the sponge has a chance to pick it up and scratch the surface. After the final sponging the surface should be dried with a clean wet chamomile. In washing the chassis the same method is in order, except that it may be necessary to use stronger suds. Whome cars are in use over oily or muddy roads frequent washing is necessary, and this washing should be done as soon as possible after the car leaves the road, as when the oil or mud drives on the car it is very difficult to remove and will damage the varnish, it being impossible under certain oil and mud conditions to remove all the stains. In this connection it is important that neither the bonnet nor radiator is washed while it is hot, as to do will dull the luster, running it in a very short time. Another point which should be given attention is that the same sponge should not be used for washing both the body and the chassis. Both sponges should be of the best quality, care being taken at all times to keep them clean and in proper condition. AT THE TELEPHONE. How to Make Conversation Over the Wire a Success. First.—Never pick up the receiver until the bell stops ringing. In so doing the bell on your other party's wire rings, and be will answer it, which causes a babble of voices and much confusion. Second.—Do not place your mouth too close to the mouthpiece. This causes a vibration and thus prevents your being heard distinctly. Third.—When you call a party, give central the district, number and letter slowly and distinctly. Fourth.—When you get the party your question should be, "Is this so and so?" not "Who is this?" which is neither a pertinent nor a time saving question. Fifth.—Speak in as moderate a tone as you would if the person were right beside. To shout also makes a vibration, which is very annoying, and eyes a deaf person can hear a moderate tone over the phone. Sixth...Don't mention names or tell all you know over the phone. This is a very unwine policy, and unless you have a private wire you have no right to monopolize it indefinitely to the exclusion of those on your wire. A hostess who entertained for a card club had these unique invitations. The meeting was on Feb. 14, so in bright red envelopes she placed hearts of lurid hue, on which she wrote: "Hearts are trumpet. No previous attachments considered." The date, hour, name and address followed. She served ice cream hearts, made by using a heart shaped cooky cutter, some liced with pink and some with white, pale green and lavender, all from harmless colorings. The scene was kept by dropping candy motto hearts into a giften bag, cut out heart shaped and made with a drawstring at the top. Gilt hearts were glued on the outside of bags in the way of ornamentation. Capes dressed in red tulle, with gilt wings, were the place favors, and red carnations were the flowers used for the centerpiece, and one for each guest was laid by the plate. --- How to Dress For Work The women who have a daily task before her needs to be neatly dressed and to present a good appearance; to be well dressed—that is, suitably and be cosmically—in part of her stock in trade. A good figure and well cut clothes are often more present than a pretty face. Clean smart clothing. We bapt. much jewelry, and the face are a bar to useness, as are the latest modern interpretations to a second class style. 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Since gulpes and yokes of net, and all over lace are used a good idea is to place a piece of lawn under the button holes to be worked. This is just best suited and the button holes cut and worked through laws and heat. Afterward the lawn is cut away, and the result is a firm button hole that has been quite easy to make. Some women use books and eyes for closing yokes, but this method is not very durable. Buttons and button holes will last longer, also look newer. Time and trouble may be saved by this plan. Before buttonholing scallops, or, in fact, any edge that has to be cut, run over the line with a very small stitch on the sewing machine. It will be found not only easier to cut out by the edge, but will not fray. Every woman knows how annoying these little bits of threads are that present themselves every time the cut out article comes from the laundry. Supposing one wishes to work a but toshole on the bias of the cloth, just stitch back and forth, say, from four to six times and then cut the button hole between the stitchings. When this is worked the buttonhole will be very firm indeed. Few persons realize the efficacy of apples in throat disorders and indigestion. Apples contain more phosphoric acid than any other fruit, and everybody ought to know that the best thing to do to promote the action of the liver and thereby secure sound sleep is to eat an apple before going to bed. Apple puddings of all kinds, apple sauce or salad of apple and celery for lunch. baked (with cream) for breakfast—any and all ways the apple is the old sandal. --- How to Text Serge. If those who are punished to determine which is the right side, of merge will follow this rule: the difficulty, will vanish. Whenever there are diagonal lines in the weave, as in curved, or in the pattern, as in some outlining, these lines run from the upper, side hand corner to the lower left hand on the right side. In many materials other than merge these diagonal lines may be seen, such as marino, zebrastone and even broadside, though not so evident in the latter. How to Use a Garter Instead of using a wooden egg dava or try putting the worn clothing over your own short trous. Then you will be able to see exactly how the dressed place will sit on your foot and can make it loose or tight as beautifully so quite. When selecting a daring egg at ways got a white one, so that what meeting black or colored clothing you will be able to see the work more plainly. How to Make Monday Bath Electranean step to reach part of the bedroom of barnyard with clothes will prevent them from being caught in the head room or any other. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. 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Internally take a good tonite containing sargentia for the nerves and iron for the system generally. For supper try his cups and a cup of cocoa made with cream or plint of milk. Sleepiness may generally be overcome by taking a warm bath just before going to bed. Congresman Leaps Off Ship Congressman William W. Wede-meyer, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who suddenly went insane while on a visit to Colon, Panama, at the time of President Taft's recent visit to the lathmus, jumped overboard from a ship on which he had been taken at Colon. His body has not been recovered. Mr. Wede-meyer went to the lathmus with a congressional party at the same time that the president visited there. On the voyage from New York he collapsed and was taken to a sanatorium in Panama, and later was placed in confinement in a hospital, where he became violent and raved about his defeat at the recent election. He developed a suicidal tendency and was closely watched. D. J. 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Sr. Bd. 6,400 P. B. H. S. Pudderdorpburg Loreto Bd. Sr. Bd. 7,400 A. B. P. H. P. B. H. S. Ackhams Arvore Bd. Sr. Bd. 8,400 A. B. P. H. P. B. H. S. Arvore Bd. Sr. Bd. 9,400 A. B. P. H. P. B. H. S. *Daily, 7 WEEKDAYS, 5 BANDUNG ONLY. To or from Bd. Street Station at Blvd. at Blvd. and departures but guaranteed. Read the sign. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO MOSCOLL. Schedule in Effect May 14, 1981. Lovey Bldg. Street station. Richmond. PUB NORWALK. A. M. 8:00 P. M. M. 8:10 P. M. 8:10 P. M. FOR LYMNEBURG AND THE WEST: 8:00 P. M. A. M. 8:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norwalk: all 8:00 P. M. A. M. 8:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. P. M. From the West: all 8:00 P. M. M. 15:15 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Daily, a daily except Sunday. Monday only. Pollman. Pinter and Pierce. Queen Cobble ATLANTIC COAST LINE For Florida and South Carolina: 8:125 A. M. and 8:125 B. M. for Charleston. For North Carolina: 8:125 A. M. and 8:125 B. M. 8:125 C. M. for P. K. 8:125 D. M. for 7:000 P. K. 8:125 E. M. for 7:000 P. 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Daily—Paul Bruns to Old Punts. 9:00 A. Newport News and Norfolk. 7:40 A. Daily. Local to Newport News. 8:00 A. Daily. Local to Old Punts. 9:00 A. Daily. Local to Levittsville and Chandosmith. 13:00 P. Pilman. 6:00 P. Daily. "St. Louis-Chicago St." Pilman. 6:00 A. Downtown Charlestonville. Work super- Hlson. 8:50 P. Work 4 p.m. Local to Gardenville. 10:00 A. Daily. L'burg, Lz., O. Punts. 6:10 P. Daily. L'burg, Lz., O. Punts. TRAINS ARRIVE HORNBOUND. Local from Road-6:25 A. M. 7:00 P. M. Through from Road-11:55 A. M. 8:50 P. M. Local from West-9:00 A. M. 8:50 P. M. 7:20 P. M. Through-7:00 A. M. 8:50 P. M. James River Line-9:00 A. M. 8:50 P. M. SEABOARD AIR LINE. Goat-bound train scheduled to leave Blackmond daily: 0:10 A.M.—Local to Norling, 1:10 P.M.—Sleeper and coach, Atlanta, Bupeng host, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida patients: 0:12 P.M.—Florida Limited, daily, except Bumday. 11:56 P.M.—Sleeper and coach, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Bupeng host, Northbound train scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 5:00 A.M., 6:00 A.M., except Monday, 8:00 P.M., 9:00 P.M. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Office and Warehouse: 2000 M P Street. Office Thome, Bristol 2007-L. Residence—1016 St. James Street Ashleigh, Madison 6018. LADY ATTENDANT. Richmond, Virginia. OLD PAPERS PLANET OFFICE. Food where in need. JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS Agriculture & Mechanical it has been British success to be and properly quite the hand of kennelmen and designated Catted dogs, housed at 1440 The Royal Hospital as the Working Woman's Industrial Home and Day Nurse, from 1838 to 1918. In 1918, in order to make the woman perpetual and purchase we must appeal to the gesnergus public for help. Pamela Smith, Jan. 16. —The two sons of Adele Woodhill, named Mott or Macdonald and Thomas Woodhill who at one time lived in Buckingham Co. Va., will be another Annie Woolloth left there twenty odd years as a teen. He once for several years, but left and lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. He list the three for partnicks to us. A motion to not aside the verdict was over-ruled by Judge Waddell on last Tuesday. The case will be appealed. This brings to mind the infamous treatment to which S. L. Burton, a well-to-do merchant at that time has been do-merchant. Some people are now charing that President Wilson is talking too much. This may be true, but his talk now is not half as much as it will be when he gets into the White House. There is one consolation. He will never be able to equal Col. Roosevelt. ```markdown ``` Five Star Shoes - Purple Shoes for Girls (12,500,00) three thousand. He hundred dollars of payment. Darton the coloured complainer, formerly of Chaiseok. Va. on last Saturday, in a suit brought by him for one hundred thousand dollars change. 欽定四庫全書 COLLEGE OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND. FOR SALES ONLY. Profession Unassigned. Strung Faculty. Practical Course. Strung Lectures and Tutoring by month. WINTER TIME BOOKS DURING BER 3, 1912. White today for ea- log or free tickets. JAMES R. DUDLEY. Professor. All interested in this work can help by contributing freely through the Mile Bees and can evangelize already distributed, which will be used for a committee wearing a mage containing the words "Children's Heart," Contributions can be sent directly to Mrs. I. Calvin Stewart, 1981 West Grace street, boston, in the Treasurer's raid. it will be remembered that he 'was' arrested and incarcerated in the jail at Norfolk and was finally released. The story as told is one of the most remarkable exhibitions of race prejudice ever seen in this country. Gov. Mann 'replaced the 'Allen outlaws until March 7, 1913 and by this stroke of objectionary has been to secure much needed rest. Some people seem to think that all things considered, his Excellency has been more worried than the Allens. Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL, M. ed. in H. F. French Street, Minneapolis, V. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., . . EDITOR all commissioned, licensed for public刊登 should be read to us to reach us by Wednesky. 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 apprehended by Gov. Mann; Maryan Dr. Dr. Martin, Rav. James Buchanan Jr. Mahoney and a Committee of Ladies the work is also enlisted by the Colored Minister," Conference of the City. The following compose the Colored A telegram was received here announcing her death in California. She left several thousand dollars in bank with a will make to these sons, Kitt and Katteron and Thomas Woolrich. If you know of their whereabouts, please inquire. R. G. Adams, 213 South Street; Parnell, Va. Kenny, a lawyer, The mob burned Burton's store, together with all of his stock of grocerys and he spent several nights in the woods in order to save his own lMc. He surrendered to the military authorities and was incarcerated for months in the Norfolk jail, although a person of responsibility Our good friend, J. R. Clifford of the Merrinburg, W. Va. Pioneer Press left the Democratic Party on the eve of its success and cast his fortunes with its Progressive Party. He is unquestionably one of the best rightsors for what he believes to be right in the country. Subscribe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. Virginia street have been added to the sick list. The child of Mr. and Mrs. While was buried from their home on Ely street last week. Rev. Adams conducted the service. J D. Drewen and Charles Holmes of South Bend and Gilbert Mission of Virginia street have been added to the sick list. The child of Mr. and Mrs. White was buried from their home on ELY street last week. Rev. Adams conducted the service. Miss Marion Hawkins is sick at home on Radford street. Miss Minnie B. Woodson of N. Y. City is spending her vacation with a sister. Mrs. Mattoi Allen of Ely street, Mrs. Annie Carter of Ocea Cayp, per year ..... 1.10 Ocea Cayp, acidic milieu ..... 1.10 Ocea Cayp, 45 months ..... 1.10 Ocea Cayp, four months ..... 1.10 Ocea Cayp, libre milieu ..... 1.10 Mang Ocey ..... 1.10 It will be seen then that the verdict as rendered while a signal victory, was grossly insufficient to in even a measure compensate him for his great loss and expense of counsel. Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins, the able colored attorney of Baltimore seems to have been the leading legal figure in this case and it is primarily due to his skill and energy that the final results have been stated. ```markdown ``` QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFT The "Teddy Bear dances," the "Bunny Hug," and the "Turkey" are no longer coupled and to "John" are no longer coupled and to "Crawford." dict as rendered while a signal victory, was grossly insufficient to in even a measure commensal him Miss Marion Hawkins is sick at Manager of the Home; Mrs. Ackelade home on Radford street. Mrs. Mattie Hewin. Mrs. Harpert Page, Mrs. H. R. John. City is spending as necessary. G. Klompson, Mrs. Mattie Hawin, Mrs. Harriett Mrs. M. H. R. John soon, 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. 1031 West Grace street. We thank the Public School Chil- dren. Mrs. Rebeker Violet Crawford Manager of the Home; M. Adelahde C. Thompson; M. Mattie Hewin; Mrs. Harriott Page, Mrs. H. R. John som, Mrs. Anna Hunter. Will you be on the two-thous- and to tenth grade $1 or more? I. C. Stewart, 10.33 Grace Street. We thank the asl school Children for $5 as an offer. We have heading our colored conjunction 1st. Dr. R. M. Jones $70 and Mr. Wilson Williams, $2. WHO WILL BE NEXT? "Dunny Hug" and the "Turkey Trot" are no longer confined to kol- (ord) folks and those who live or, "Easy Street," for the Richmond Light Infantry Blue' Major has been forced to announce that the mus- The "Teddy Bear dances," the "Bunny Hug," and the "Turkey Trot" are no longer confined to colored folks and those who live on "Easy Street." for the Richmond Light Infantry Blues. Major has been forced to announce that the musicians will leave the stand. If the white dancers start any of these prohibited waiters. Oh, those white folks. 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A large congregation was present. At 7:30 P.M. another very enthusiastic congregation assembled to listen to Thomas of Cumberland Co. Va., who gave an excellent discourse. kins, the able colored attorney of Light infantry Blues' Major has been forced to announce that the music leading legal figure in this case and the clans will leave the stand, if the It is primarily due to the skill and white dancers start any of these energy that the final results have been attained. Attorney W. H. Land, also colored, folks. *ORTAGE STAMPS OF A HIGHER DENOMINATION TEAN TWO CENTS NOT RECEIVED ON BURBOMPOTOR. THE PLANET is issued weekly. The subscription price is $1.00 per year, is advance. There are four ways by which money can be sent by mail at our rank: In a Post Office Money Order, by Bank Check or Dust, or an Expert Money Order, and when none of these can be secured. In a Registered Letter, MONET ORDERS—You can buy a Money Order at your Post Office, payable at the Richmond Post Office, and we will as responsible for its initial QUINASOAP The ideal shampoo soap thoroughly cleans the scalp and is especially adapted to be used in connection with Quinade. SEEBY DRUG CO., NEW YORK Quinade 25c. Quinacombs 50c. Quinasoap 25c. At all drug stores CURE YOUR COUGH There is nothing more likely to lead to Consumption and other serious complications than a neglected cough and Cold. Special reasons why you should take many members of the First Baptist Church have taken on new life at the beginning of the new year and the devotion more time to the Master Cause. God will not bless any people who treat his house with contempt. We are sorry to learn that Mr. "Tamberber" is suffering with the "Grippie". Dr. Baker thinks he will be O. K. In a few days. Attorney W. H. Land, also colored, ably assisted him, while the firm represented I. W. Eason of Norfolk, did yooman service and that white attorney is said to have made the speech of his life. The Balkan States say that they have a war debt of two hundred million dollars which they want Turkey to pay. They have lost one hundred thousand men in the encounter and the country conquered is luded with debts which they are conquered must assume. The outlook in bright for the Turks and the outlook for the Balkan States. As Turkey has nothing with which to pay, the prospect of collecting payment is about an amusing use it is gloomy for the Balkan States collector. Work of Carnegie Hero Commission. At the ninth annual meeting of the Carnegie hero fund commission in Pittsburgh. Pa. President Charles I. Taylor's report showed 1956 haw cases were submitted in 1912, an increase o. 4 per cent over 1911. Two gold, forty-five silver and 105 bronze medals were awarded. During the year $169,025 was awarded to heroes: $25,000 for disasters and $90,000 in special appropriations. The commission since it was established EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS can be obtained at any office of the American Express Corp. in the United States. Express Money Order is issued by an American Express Company. We will be responsible for money order and conveyance. The Express Money Order is a mail and conveyance order. BOOKED LETTER - it is a Money Order, Post Office or an Express Office is not within your office, nor is an Express Office will be required of you when you send a money order or a money order. The Letter is lost or stolen, it can be irradiated, you can send money in this manner or be responsible for money sent. It belongs in any other way than one of the four money notices, above. If you need your money in any other way, you need send it in your own money at the office. NO.1 TRADE MARK Josee Crawley, today, whose skull was fractured last Sunday when he was hit on the head with a force-paling died last Sunday morning at the City Hospital. James Fleet, also colored that woman was arrested at the assault in the city with the assault is now in jail. A friend of facing an assault charge will be tried for murder, a warrant accusing him of the capital crime being sworn out by Patrolmen 'Tanner and Gooden after Crawley's death. College, JEPPRIES' NO.1 James Fleed. Held. For Number of Jones Crawler. Colored Democratic office speakers are not in line with the white office seekers, for the reason that before President Wilson got one-fourth of the way down the white line, there would be no offices to give out to them. They have drawn the color line and have a line of their own. Bishop Alexander Walters is expectable to pass the plaque after Mr. Walters. commission since it was established hawed for heres, $616,206,90; disasters, $1746,206; special appropriations, $200,006; a grand total of $1,018,668,96. Pensions on Dec. 31, 1907, amounted to $840. This has increased to $18,280. The money goes to 82 widows, 170 dependent children and 14 other dependents of deceased heroes. Eighty-two education awards have been made. colored, who was arrested at the time and charged with the assault, is now in the City Jail and instead of facing an assault charge, will tried for murder, a warrant accusing him of the capital crime being sworn out by Patrolmen Tanner and Goode out by Crawley's death. —Times-Dispatch, January 20. COUGH MIXTURE. For hortes, $18,269.90; disasters, $17,462.06; special appreciation, $10,196.56.96; Pensionation Dec. 31, 1907; amounted to $840. This has risen to $68.50. The money goes to N2 widows, 170 dependent children and 14 other dependents or deceased heroes. Eighty-two education awards have been made. There are twenty-four students in technical schools at N2 colleges in technical the commission. There are in art schools and twelve in academies and high schools. Ten have completed their studies, and twenty-two are not yet able to attend schools. Colored Democratic office-seekers are not in line with the white office-seekers, for the reason that before President Wilson got one-fourth of the way down the white line, there would be no offices to give out to them. They have drawn the color line and have a line of their own. Bishop Alexander Walters is expected to pass the plate after Mr. Wilson has put in those official containers, which he has reserved for his colored followers. BENEFIT ALSO, YOU DO NOT NEED QUESTION. THE FLATTERED BILL IS YOUR FIRST AND ONLY QUESTION. IF PAYMENT Card is used, you then qualify by PAYMENT Card to discover how much the experts have provided. If necessary, the experts will determine the cost of the item for which it has been paid and the option of flow for which it has been paid for the payment of the subscription to make when they order the bigger discount. North 1st St., Richmond, Va. Reopens September 16, 1912. COMMUNICATION—When writing to us to resume your subscription or to discontinue your subscription, we please give your name and address on our behalf. We should give your name and address on our behalf. In order to "change the address of a subscriber we must be told the former as well as the present address. Enclosed at the Post Office at Richmond, Vt. is second-class mail. NATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913. If the foundation is not right and firm, the structure upon it cannot be made secure. COUGH MIXTURE. - TimesDispatch, January 20. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand College of Virginia, Knights of Pytha in N. A. E. A., A. A. and A. A. (150.000) in payment and Fifty Dollars in payment for the death of Brother Daniel W. Almanya, who was a member of Virginia Locks No. 5 of Richmond Va. New York For Direct Senators. New York State went on record as favoring the proposed amendment to the federal constitution providing for the right of United States senators by the people. The resolution, which was adopted by the assembly, was approved by the senate. We have not as yet heard where our brilliant editorial friend, William Montrez Trottier wants to go. He should be able to secure a paying appointment. Dr. Booker T. Washington no doubt would cordially approve his transfer to either Africa, South America, China or the Cannabis island. By the way, that last "ent" of Dr. Washington, which Brother Trottier has been publishing seems to be the worst of his collection. Joking aside, Mr. Trottier did woman service for the Democratic ticket and we hope that he may be recognized. Because it is Guaranteed, Safe, Pure, Kindred, It never fails, Will relieve the Throat Chest and Lunge immediately. It has no equal, and is gentle. Especially recommended to Nurses and Sisters. 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Senator Ellina Koeh, the great constitutional lawyer known to have at least awakened to the danger now threatening this decapitalize, due to the disregard of vital right principles and the enthrancement of commercialism in the temple of human rights. His address on "The Spirit of Self Government" and his great speech delivered in the United States Senate this week relate to the action of the Government of the United States in its dealings in the Panama Canal in controversy show how far this government has strained from the habits of settled. L. J. HAYDEN Medicines. TO CURE ALL DISEASES, OR NO CHARGES. Pure Herb JURGEN'S SON MARY E. MOSBY, 526 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell Jr. Reqd. Chancellor of the Grand Library of Virginia, Knights of Pith In. N., S. A., A. E., A and A. (4110.000). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathalm in payment of the deathalm of Brother W. H. Harvey, who was a member of Planet Lodge. 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It is not necessary, either, to go to war. It can paralyze the industrial arteries of this government and induce business stagnation of a kind and character, which will more than compensate for the inconveniences to which it is now being subjected. Senator Root sees the danger and is awakening his sleepy colleagues to a sense of their responsibility. --- ```markdown ``` calved. BRAANUEL, QUIVERS, P. O. Box 591, Bodson, Cal LIVE Stock Markets PITTSBURGH (Ulson Block Funds) CATTLEBURGH (Chase, $25.00) prime, $8.10 SHIPP, study, prime owners, $10 $15.00 culs, culm, $20.00 $15.00 veil, calm, $11.00 11.00 QHQB higher, prime heavies, $7.00 workers, $0.50 bien, $0.50 bien, $7.00 workers, $7.00 15.10 $15.00 $15.00 workers, $7.00 the British Empire is able to protect himself but the British Empire is able to protect itself. It is not necessary, either, to go war. It can paralyze the industrial arteries of this government and induce business stag protect itself. 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Coupled with Bison and Pride on short routes. Strengthening and strengthening a Specialty. Strengthening, Cereals, Groceries for the East, Groceries and preparation for the city. Groceries Region-4974 and R. JAMES GROCERY. A REMARKABLE DECISION. "Justice may sleep, but never dism." A white jury of Virginia, in the District Court, at Norfolk, Virginia, with Judge James Waddell Jr., praising awarded a symbol of We have received a most interesting medical selection entitled, "What Keeps," When I Fall in Love, "What Keeps," with words by Mr. Geo. L. Stephens and made by Mr. Giese W. Stephens, (D. H. Kearns Daniels) O. Stephens, (D. C.戴德贝勒) ```markdown ``` From New York. National Negro Press Association to Meet at Philadelphia. N. B. Debron, Chairman of the Executive Committee Issues Call to the Oral to Meet in Mid-Winter Session February 1st. A Negro Daily in the Metropolis — Evening Gazette Makes its Appearance — Metropolis Ready to Support New Venture Flaces Correspondence with Daily News Worship Group in Harlem — Captain W. H. Jackson Open Presentation Emporium where the Latest Course of Parking Design May Be Seen — Promising Young Zion Pastor Hero — Rev. J. W. Eason of San Bernardy, N. C. Looking Over the North, A Word to Negro Journalists — The Profession Lowered when Personalities are Indulged in Through Editorials — Bishop Waters in Birmingham will Attend Meeting of Zion History — General Notes. (Allon's National News Bureau, 252 West Fifty-third Street.) N. B. Dobson, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Press Association, and one of the foremost Journalists of the race, is sounding a clarion call to the craft to meet in Philadelphia, February first. The sessions will be held in the Emancipation building on Lombard street, and a large number of the newspaper men will be present. The purpose of the call is to discuss vital matters pertaining to the profession, a feature of which will be discussing methods of news service of the Negro journals. The meeting will also serve to get the men in line for the annual session of the league which meets next August in Philadelphia in connection with the National Negro Business League. Chairman Dobson is very anxious that a large number of the press men be on hand and join in the discussion that will come up relative to the interest of Negro journalism. Mr. Dobson is much interested in the National Negro Press Association and is anxious to see it develop into a strong influential organization. He is one of the most active and best prepared writers of the race, and in the establishment of the Afro-American Page of the American Association. He has done much for Negro journalism. As an evidence of his work for race uplift as a journalist a movement is on foot to tender him a banquet. A Negro Daily in the Metropolis. For the first time in the history of the race in the Metropolis a Negro daily is being published here and judging from the enthusiasm which the race is lending to the new movement it bids fair to be a permanent institution. The Metropolis is all up in arms over the enterprise and it has already begun to take up the fight for the race in this city. The name of the daily is the Evening Gazette which makes its appearance regularly in the afternoon. The editor and publisher is Edward Allen, a well trained newspaper man who is putting his wide experience in the new venture to a remarkable degree. The number of World Class at number 9 Woolwich 185th street in the city of the Negro section of the Metropolis. With 40,000 members of the race residing in the district the new venture is assured if every man, woman and child would buy a cow each afternoon. Among the staff correspondents of the Gazette is Cleveland G. Allen, the New York Correspondent of The Richmond PLANET. The Gazette is already beginning to take its place in the life of the Metropolis. The beginning of a daily paper of the race in this city marks an advance step in Negro journalism. In no other city of the Nation is a Negro more needed than here, and it will doubleless fill a long felt want in the Metropolis. Editor Allen deserves the hearty endorsement of the race throughout the country for his invasion into the daily field. A Fashionable Woman's Shop Opens An artistic dressmaking emporium and fashionable woman's shop where the latest gowns of Parisian design may be seen on exhibition is the latest venture of the race in this city. In the opening of the woman's shop at 2283 Seventh Avenue the race has entered the highest artistic side of the dressmakers' art in this city. The purpose is to produce the best in women's wear and keep in exhibition the latest style gowns of every design, in connection with a dressmaking establishment, where gowns of the latest creations will be made and altered. There is a ladies' reception and rest room, where they may dress and be fitted for ceremonial balls, etc. and stand the most appropriate gown for evening wear. The emporium is a model of artistic excellence where the most elegant women may have her tastes in the design of evening dresses. When your correspondent called at the emperor last week he was enveloped in by Mr. W. H. Jackson, a charming and enlightened woman who explained that. They stopped him and went on to explain that the emperor was working empire where the best woman's wear will be seen. Then, the emperor put on a garment of the same hue and made him stay and enveloped the emperor. appreciate gown exhibited. Mrs Jackson who is a member of one of the most prestigious families of Charleston, S. C. is a graduate of Army Institute of that city and came to New York about eight years ago. She married Captain Jackson about three years ago. She is an attentive gowns that may be seen at the establishment were designed by Mrs. C. Miller, sister of Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Miller, in the creation of the artistic gowns now on exhibition, gives evidence of the very highest developed genius in her art. She is a graduate of the Lattimer School of Designing in New York and like her sister is an accomplished woman. Captain Jackson who is the proprietor of the shop, is well known by the public. Captain in the Spanish-American war. He has traveled extensively and needs to be congratulated on the successful opening of the fashionable shop. Promising Young Zionite Here. It is always a pleasure to your correspondent to see the young men of the race entering the higher callings which call for the highest training and character. The men who are now at the helm will soon pass off the stage of action and there must be prepared young men to take their places. Among the promising young men whom your correspondent has met and one, who is destined to take a place in the profession which he has chosen, is Rev. J. W. H. Eason, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church at Muckville, N. C. Rev. Eason among the youngest pastors in the Zion connection will pastor the most successful. He has been praised of Zion-church at Muckville for three years and has just completed a new church. He has a membership of 609 realous Zionites, and is doing splendid work in that section of the South. Rev. Eason is a young man with scholarly leanings, and is well prepared for his work. He is a graduate of the class of 1912 of Livingstone College, and took high rank as a student in that institution. He was a Livingstone as an orator, having won several medals in contests, held at the college. Rev. Eason while pastoring is taking his Theological course at Livingstone. Rev. Eason is making a brief visit to the Metropolis to see his brothers and other relatives. Last Sunday evening he preached at the Fleet Church in Old Chicago. Rev. Dr. G. W. Johnson is pastor, Rev. Eason is a young man of pleasant demeanor and has before him a brilliant future. A Word to Negro Journalists. My attention was called to an editorial which appeared in a recent issue of the Washington Bee of which W. Calvin Chase is editor, and which had for its subject Moore and Fortune. The editorial which was a column and a half long took to task in stinging language Mr. Moore and his editor, W. Calvin Chase, for their support given to the banquet tendered Bishop Walters in this city a few weeks ago. Bitter words were used in which the editors were referred to as ignorant, and of which entered into the past lives of the men in which the writer of the editorial and the referred to half figured. It is to be regretted that Mr. Chase saw fit to lower the profession to the position of his editorial page to a personal attack upon two men who have contributed much to the race. To dig into the personal lives of men and attempt to show up personal weakness, is to say the least, child play. An editor's vocabulary should always be sufficiently replete as to give the necessary grace of impersonation to the tactics which bring him at times lower than those upon whom he seeks to attack. Your correspondent is the last writer to make excuses for lack of character in men, and is not offering any excuse for Mr. Moore and Mr. Fortune. He stands for all time best character and integrity, but am simply contending that there was a better way to get back at Mr. Moore and Mr. Fortune than that resorted to by Mr. Chase. Whatever we say to the contrary we must place Fortune at the head of Negro Journalism and give him first place among the journalists of the race. He will always be romembered as the pioneer writer of the book *The Black Prince* by the York Age a fearless race champion, which was often quoted by the Metropolitan dailies. It would be a hard thing to find a man of stronger character than Mr. Moore, whose fine uplift work for the race in this city is well known. He was recently appointed Minister to Liberia to fill on the position of Minister of the Crum. No one will doubt that he is an honor to the race. An attack upon such man of the Moore stamp whose personal character has stood the test falls short of its weight. An editorial to be influential must instruct, and inform and enlighten the mind. If it falls short of that it falls of its true mis-ness. To read a column and a half of abuses about two images of not furnish much feed for thought. I want urged upon Negro editors to make their editorial page attractive and dignified and not lower its tone by personal attack through your organs. Bishop Walters in Birmingham. Bishop Alexander Walter left for Birmingham, Alabama last week where he goes to attend the meeting of the Board of Bishops of the A. M. B. Zion Church which is to meet in that city. The Bishop will be once a week works during which time he will transport woch business for the Zion canon. At the meeting of the Zion Bishops much business will be transmitted pertaining to the work of Zion Church, and the probate doublens for the first time will have an opportunity to see the new financial benevolence recently opened by the connection in that city. General Note: Secretary R. B. Hammond of the Zion Bishops M. C. A. presented your correspondent with a neat attractive testament last Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the Sunday afternoon meeting. Springlike weather is provoking in the Metropolis. The Metropolis at this time is usually covered with snow. The churches are, having great revivals at this time and many are coming into the fold. The assistant Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. who was coached to his room last week is out again much improved. OLEVELAND G. ALLEN. Corres. U. S. TO FIX TELEPHONE RATES WILL DROP TRUST SUIT Government Ownership Hinges on Revolutions of Federal Inquiry in $400,000,000 Concern. Regulation by the Interstate commerce commission of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, and not the compulsory competitive provisions of the Sherman ant-trust law, will be the means of solving in large measure the so-called telephone "trust" problem, according to Attorney General Wickerham, who announced in Washington that he had referred the whole question to the commission for investigation and action. This move terminates the investigation by the department of justice of the alleged $400,000,000 telephon- "trust" against which independent telephone companies have made the charges of unfair treatment and of the employment of methods destructive of competition. The commission's investigations will be farreaching in effect and out of it is expected to grow the outline of a government policy with respect to the telephone and telegraph. It must be determined, according to the officials, whether, in the interest and convenience of the public, a telephone or telegraph monopoly under rigid regulation should be tolerated by the federal government; or whether the government should take over utilities or finally whether competition should be enforced under the Sherman anti-trust law and monopoly prohibited. Chairman Lane, of the interstate commerce commission, formally announced that "in response to information submitted to it by the attorney general, the interstate commerce commission will make an investigation into the oporations, rates and practices of the various telephone companies. Calling the commission's attention to the imminency of the subject, Mr. Wickerman said: "There are said to be some 20,000 independent telephone companies, representing investments aggregating many millions of dollars, which to gether operate somewhat more than 4,000,000 telephones. No one of these companies represents capital or business comparable in size with that of the American company or any of its principal subsidiaries. "The American Telephone and Telegraph company, either directly or through subsidiary companies whose stock it owns, operates what is known generally as the Bell Telephone system, which reaches upwards or 70,000 places, distributed among practically all the states of the Union, having some 450,000 telephones in use, and operating the principal long distance lines between the states. "It has an invested capital of a book value of nearly $600,000,000. It also is the owner of a large block of stock of the Western Union Telegraph company, through which it practically controls the operations of the telegraph and cable lines of that corporation." Has Bill to Pension Mothers State Senator John O. Sheatz, of Philadelphia, has introduced a bill in the legislature at Harrisburg on Monday, providing monthly payments to indigent, widowed or abandoned mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes. The measure is made applicable to cities of the first, second and third class through Pennsylvania. It proposes a state appropriation for the maintenance of such children, the cities benefiting to contribute an amount equal to the allotment by the state. The payments for the maintenance of such indigent children at their homes would be made direct to their mothers by the state treasurer on warrants drawn by the auditor general. The allotments for the support of each child and other provisions are referred to as follows in the bill: "The trustees shall in no case recommend payment to any widow or abandoned mother until they are then strongly satisfied that the recipient is worthy in every way, and that in order to keep her children in her own home a monthly payment is necessary, but then only upon satisfactory report from a teacher of the district school stating that the child or children of the recipient of this fund are attend school; provided they are of prop or age and physically able to do so. The combined total maximum payment shall not exceed $12 per month for one child, $99 per month for two children, $36 per month for three children, and $5 per month for each additional child. These payments to continue at the will of the trustees, but not beyond the limit that the law will permit a child to secure employment." Diligence Diligence towards the fruit of试 A diligence made written with inscr Husband WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. WILSON PLANS DRASTIC REFORMS New Measure Makes it a Misdemeanor to Acquire a Monopoly or Promote Trusts. A sweeping program of changes in the corporation laws of New Jersey was announced by Governor Wilson in Trenton. Not only would it be a misdemeanor, under the proposed law, to acquire a monopoly or interfere with freedom of competition, but jail sentences are contemplated for those who promote or organise trusts. To effect these changes, seven voluminous bills have been drafted by Governor Wilson, Chancellor Walker, and Judge Van Syckel. The first of these bills provides for a punishment not exceeding three years' imprisonment and $1000 fine for any corporation, firms or individuals who may agree to any of the following: To limit production or increased prices. To prevent competition in manufacturing, transporting or selling any commodity. To fix any standard or figure whereby prices to the public shall in any manner be controlled. To make any agreement which shall directly or indirectly preclude a free and unrestricted competition among themselves or any purchasers or consumers. To make any secret oral agreement whereby the same thing is accustomed. The other bills rule that corporations shall not issue stock upon fictitious values of property, but must make a 'fair bona fide valuation'; provide punishment by fine had imprisonment for those who organize a corporation in restraint of trade; prohibit holding companies; and prevent merger companies from acquiring stock of other corporations. It also is provided that the consent of the public utilities commission must be obtained when two or more corporations desire to merge, and there is a prohibition against improper discrimination by corporations in prices of commodities in different communities. Governor Wilson's bills were introduced by Senator J. Warren Davis, of Salem, majority leader of the senate. The revenue derived by the state from these corporations annually is approximately $2,000,000. If the bills introduced disturb this income in any way there is sure to be considerable opposition to them, as the amount thus derived would have to come from some other source, and there is none in sight just now save the taxpayer, who is already protesting against his burdens. The trust evil in New Jersey will be attacked in the legislature also by Senator Carlton B. Pierce, of Union county, a Republican. Senator Pierce will introduce a bill making the federal Sherman antitrust law applicable to New Jersey. WILL BE NO INAUGURAL BALL Committees Decides Officially to Do Award With Social Features Away With Social Feature. There will be no inaugural ball in Washington in connection with the ceremonies of Woodrow Wilson's induction into the presidency. The committee in charge so decided officially and was informed by telephone from Trenton that should a public reception be planned in it stead the wife and daughters of the new president should not be expected to attend. It was decided to leave the reception feature to congress. COLT NEW R. I. SENATOR Federal Judge is Elected as Successor to George P. Wetmore. Judge Le Baron Bradford Colt, of the United States, circuit court appeals, a Republican, was elected to the United States senate by the Rhode Island legislature. Judge Colt will succeed George P. body Wetmore. Only one ballot was taken. The new senator is a native of Dedham, Mass., and is thirty-seven years old. He has been on the federal bench thirty years. Norris Sent to U. S. Senate. George W. Nurris, Republican, was elected United States senator at Lincoln, Neb., to succeed Senator Norris Brown. The vote was unanimous in both houses. Norris was the choice of the voters in the state primary. The Democrats have a majority of the legislature on joint ballot. Bouvier Nadeau Re-Eligible Elizabeth Kelman, by the vote of 19th constitution of the Illinois Legislature, was referred to the United States Senate. Fancy and Assorted Creams in every style. All Fruits of the Season; Foreign and Domestic. Special Attention to Weddings, Festivals, Church, and School Picnics, etc. Give us a trial and be convinced. N. WINSTON, 637 BROOK AVE. Richmond, Va. 'Phone Madison 2253 ate. Nelson received the unanimous Republican vote. Owen Stays in Senate. The re-election of United States Senator Robert L. Owen was assured when the two houses of the Oklahoma legislature voted. Senator Owen received a large majority of the votes on sega rate ballot. CHARLES R. MILLER. New Governor of Delaware Takes Office. THE MUSEUM OF THE PHARAOHS DELAWARE'S NEW GOVERNOR IN OFFICE Charles R. Miller, Republican, was inaugurated as governor of Delaware in the Dover Opera House. Chief Justice James Pennewill, of Dover, administered the oath of office A Latin Bible of the sixteenth century, owned by the state, and which has been used on all such occasions since before the Revolutionary War, was utilized. The legislature was in joint session at the opera house during the ceremony. President pro tempore of the senate, George W. Marshall, Republican, of Milford, presided. There was a large attendance. Prior to the induction of Governor Miller into office, the new lieutenant governor, Colen Perguson, Democrat of Blackbird, took the oath of office in the senate chamber. This also was administered by the chief justice. The governor's wife, his daughter and two sons witnessed his inauguration. The governor in his inaugural address made reference to the "anomalous condition" that exists of one party (Democrats) controlling all the state offices except governor and having a majority on joint ballot in the legislature. 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Mail Orders receive prompt attention. Beau's Hair Emporium. 1812 by American Press Association CHAPTER I. I was four years more than a century ago that a restless youth of twenty, to whose care had come amazing stories of the opportunities to be found in a new land, forewake the home of his Scotch-Irish fathers in County Down and sailed forth toward the paths of the western stars. Perhaps he had board of the fame of a Scotman of his own name and without doubt his own kin who, having migrated to America only a generation before, had become one of the founders of the new nation, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a member of its constitutional contention and a Justice of its first supreme court. At all events, it was on a ship bound for the city of Justice James Wilson that young James Wilson sailed. The later emigrant may have been destined to no such eminence as was the earlier, yet young James, too, found his opportunity in the new country—found it in a little shop full of the smell of printer's ink and mysterious with the apparatus of the preservative art—the shop at 15 Franklin court, formerly the home of Benjamin Franklin, essence issued to the enlightenment of the good people of Philadelphia William Duane's daily paper, the Aurora. To their enlightenment, it is to be hoped, certainly very much to their entertainment and their agitation—and not only their, but the whole country's as well. William Duane was the earliest muckraker in American journalism. Wilson now became nominally publisher of the Aurora. Duane, when the war of 1812 broke out, was made ```markdown ``` Judge James Wilson, Paternal Grand-father of Woodrow Wilson. adjustant general of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and it seems that he left the management of the paper to Wilson. With the peace of Ghent a new movement westward set in. Wilson determined to try his fortunes in the hinterland. He went to Pittsburgh, just growing into a city. Then his fancy was taken by the little town of Lisbon, just across the line in the new state of Ohio; but soon he found a better location in Steubenville. Here he started a paper of his own—the Western Herald it was called—and it was destined to a long and memorably influential career. Joseph Wilson, first and last, must be responsible for a goodly portion of the printed windows and lobby of the early nineteenth century. He printed in Philadelphia. He founded a newspaper in Sturgeonville, and in its office he obtained every one of his seven sons to be an expert compainer. In 1821 he founded a paper at Pittsburgh—the Pennsylvania Advocate. Mr. Wilson started the Advocate with the all of four of his sons and two apprentices boys, but when it was taught on the fact he left it in the immediate change of his silent son. Joseph Wilson was a man of outsmartly positive opinions. Furthermore, he was very expatriate in them. His paper was a very vigorous publication indeed, discussing the questions of the law and how he published his WOODROW WILSON The Story of His Life From the Cradle to the White House Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Co. question. In the first half of the nineteenth century—with fearless conviction and bluntness. The editor was a justice of the peace and was ordinarily addressed as "Judge" Wilson. He was for a term a member of the Ohio state legislature. During his absence at Columbus his wife, with the aid of the sons, edited the paper and boarded the hands. Judge Wilson died in Pittsburgh during a cholera epidemic in 1837. He had ten children, seven boys and three girls. The daughters married well, and the sons all attained considerable distinction. Judge Wilson's youngest son was Joseph Ruggles, through whom runs the special current of this story. Joseph was born at Steubenville or Feb. 28, 1822. He got his first schooling in his father's shop. Like all the other sons, he learned the printer's trade. Not one of them but could to the day of his death "stick type" with any journeyman. Joseph from the start was marked for the scholar of the family. There was a good academy at Steubenville and he attended it. At eighteen he went to Jefferson college, a Presbyterian institution at Canonsburg, Pa. where he was graduated in 1944 and valedictorian. He engaged in teaching for a year, taking charge of an academy at Mercer, Pa. But the call was clear to a higher life work. Before he had left home for college he had made a public profession of his faith in the First Presbyterian church of his native town. Now he took his way to the Western Theological seminary at Allegheny, Pa., remained a year and then went to spend another year at Princeton seminary. He went home and was licensed to preach, although not yet ordained. He taught for two years in the Steubenville male academy. To the fact that there was another Steubenville academy is due the necessity of telling this story. There was another, not for males, and to it there came among other girls of the Ohio valley a damsel from Chillicothe, the pretty town which was Ohio's first capital. Janet Woodrow was her name, though most people called her Jenelle, and she was the daughter of a great and famous Prebysterian minister of the day. One afternoon, the lessons at Dr. Beattie's school being over, Janet Woodrow took a walk. Passing by the Wilson house she aplied through the pickets of the garden fence the young theolog raking in a pair of kid gloves. On the 7th day of June, 1840, Joseph H. Wilson and Janet Woodrow were legally joined in marriage by Thomas Woodrow, minister of the gospel. We have another immigration to observe. The Woodrows are an ancient family originally out of England, who trace their Scottish history back 600 years. Among them flourished ministers, scholars and men of substance, with a Presbyterian martyr or two. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Woodrow, born at Palaisy in 1793, a graduate of Glasgow university, recessed the Tweed to become minister of the Independent Congregation at Carlisle. England After having served there sixteen years and begotten eight children he felt the call to become a missionary in the new world. Two weeks after his marriage with Jesse Woodrow, Joseph Huggles Wilson was ordained by the presbytery of Ohio. It was several years, however before he undertook a pastorate of any consequence, serving for a year as "professor extraordinary" of rhetoric in Jefferson college and for four years as professor of chemistry and natural sciences in Hampden-Sydney college, Virginia, in the meantime supplying small neighboring churches. The liey Mr. Wilson had become the father of two daughters, Marion and Annie Jo sophine, before he was called as pastor to Staunton, Va., in 1855. Staunton where he remained for two years, was a town of 5,000 population, beautifully situated in the famous valley of Virginia. Here it was that on Dec. 28, 1854 Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born The infant Wilson will spend a moment reviewing his parental history was born to an auspicious heritage. His blood was Scottish-Irish, a strain perhaps the most vigorous physically the most alert mentally, the most best morally of all those that have made clin in the shaping of the American character. His forbears were men and women who had comprehensively displayed the qualities of a睿智 man; they were people imaginative, helpful, virtuousome, stubborn, shrewd, industrious, inclined to learning, strongly fractured with platy, pet practical and trifity. On one side they were an ancient family who had preserved the memory of a part in large affairs, who for generations had carried the banner of religion and learning—the paramount concerns of British men. On the other side they had had their share in the public affairs of a more modern nation. The newborns were depended from Chumney and edith; many of strong opinions, many Moravian movements to give free, have to their ogr But. They were Professionals in gown and in patient medical treatment great benefited broad. Each was the principal preacher for the life of the little son of the Freemason brown pastor who came into the world Christmas week, 1904, in the dawn of an example day of national evolution and conflict. the father was to be pastor of the Freebysterian church for the next four years. With his entrance upon the Augusta pastorate, the Rev. Mr. Wilson became one of the most noted ministers of the south. Thoroughly equipped in the theology of his denomination, a pulpit master of great power and a personality of extraordinary force, he early reached and long maintained a position of much influence. When the war came on he embraced with all the strength of his character the southern side. At the division of the Freebysterian church into northern and southern branches he invited the first general assembly of the latter to meet in his church and became its permanent clerk. In 1803 Dr. Wilson was styled "stated clerk" of the southern Prebystrian general assembly, and he continued to be such until 1869, when he resigned, being then seventy-seven years old and having kept the southern Prebystrian records for nearly forty years. He was moderator of the assembly in 1879. He died at Princeton, N.J., in his eighty-first year. Mr. Wilson had been a professor of rhetoric, and he always remained one, taking very seriously and practicing with a sense of its sanctity the art of words. He read his sermons, every one of which was marked by high literary finish, although in no sense unduly rhetorical. Mr. Wilson used to speak with contempt of the florid style of oratory, and even early in life his son was trained to consciousness of the aburdity of highlighting rhetoric. Tommy Wilson's earliest recollected impression had to do with the breaking out of the civil war. On a certain day, in November, 1800, the little boy, playing on the gate before his father's house, saw two men meet on the sidewalk and heard one of them cry, "Lincoln is elected, and there'll be war." This is the earliest recollection of Woodrow Wilson. Something in the shrill tone of the speaker struck for the first time a chord of lasting memory. Yet Woodrow Wilson remember's little, almost nothing, of the war. Augusta was on as island around which flowed the current of the conflict. It was never occupied by Federal troops until reconstruction days. No refugees ever did it. The man does remember that the boy saw a troop of men in every sort of garb-mounted on every sort of horse ride past the house one day on their way to join the Confederate army. They were not a terrifying or glorious spectacle. The boy cried after them in a slang exclamation of the day, "Go get your mole." He does remember the scarcity of the food supply that came on as the war progressed—not that there was not enough food, but it was greatly restricted in variety. There was another war event that made its impression upon the boy—in the summer of 1805 he saw Jefferson Davis ride by under guard on his way to Fortress Monroe. After 1865 Dr. Wilson's church was occupied temporarily by Federal soldiers. However, such hardships as the city of Augusta suffered through the war were nothing compared with those endured in most parts of the south. It is to this fact that is to be attributed the small part in Woodrow Wilson's education played by the passions of the great conflict. He was only nine years old when the war ended. He was, too, apparently a boy who somewhat tardily developed strong convictions. In short, he was a real boy while he was a boy, more concerned in the games of his crowd than in the principles of a war of which they saw little. The Wilson boy was, his companions say, an active little fellow. It was a peculiarity that he was always running. He seemed incapable of proceeding from point to point otherwise. He can scarcely be said to have walked until he was fourteen or fifteen years old. One of the thrilling moments of the boy's early life was the day and evening when the first street car came down the streets of Augusta. The cars were of the bobtail variety with a box for nickels up in front. By night—the electric light had not then turned night into day—the glimmering red, purple and green lights carried by the cars afforded endless pleasure as they approached and receded. The boys, too, made friends with the drivers and went along with them on their trip. being allowed sometimes to work the brakes and to turn the switches. A little later Tom learned the delight of the middle. Dr. Wilson kept a big black buggy horse, which Tommy need to ride—"conservatively," says his old playmate. Pleasant A. Stovall, now editor of the Savannah Press. The stable or barn and the lot included by the paragon office were favorite resort for all the boys of the neighborhood, among whom Wilson was a natural leader. Do and Pleasant Storvall organized a club among the kids and called it the Lighthouse club. The chief activist of this fellowship team to have been the playing of hour ball with other men of town boys and the holding of meetings characterised by much nicety of parliamentary procedure. Every one of the little chapes knew perfectly, well just what the "prevention question" was; knew that only two amendments to a resolution could be offered; that these were to be voted on in reverse order, and the, rest of it. In the neighborhood of the town was a faithful suburban spot, then known merely as the "sand hill," where Will might catch, James Fayne, who had ```markdown ``` T. H. Brower of Chicago, was a great tomboy and idolized her cousin, and the two spent many a long, happy summer day at play in the woods. Leon brower she knew a letter he had filled her mind and imagination with the "Leather Stocking Tales," and what he read to her or told her in the twilight on the veranda they acted out in their play next day. Casting aside all the encumbrances of civilization except that which conservative authority in the shape of the aunt and mother required, they stained their faces, arms and legs with pokeberry juice and with bindweed of feathers and armed with bows and arrows crept out of the house and stationed themselves by the side of a lonely road leading from August, to a negro settlement in the piny woods. Here they would lie in wait until chance brought their inexact victims in the shape of little darkies on their way to town with bundles of lightworms on their heads. Then, with bloodcurling warhoops, they would dash out upon the unsuspecting prey, brandishing wooden tombhawks in frightful fashion. On other occasions the little girl had to enact the part of various kinds of game. Once she was supposed to be a squirrel in the top of a tree. So good a manwoman was her cousin that she was 'killed by an arrow and came tumbling to the ground at the feet. The tortured little hunter carried her limp body into the house with a conscience torn as it probably never has been done; crying; "I am a murderer. It wasn't an accident. I killed her." Leaping houses are supply, and the little girl had hardly sustained no injury. Mr. Bonez' house stood next to the United States armada, which after the close of the war was occupied by the Federal troops. Tommy and Jesse never fired of going to the guardhouse, at the entrance to the armada grounds, to look at the soldiers and talk with them. One day, however, Jesse, mother explained to her that these friends of the were Yankees and had fought against the south. It was a great blow to the couple, and they often, discussed the feasibility of converting the Yankees into Presbyterians, all good people being Presbyterians and all wicked ones Yankees. Tom Wilson, for one reason or an other, was not taught his letters until long past the date at which most youngsters have learned to read. It may have been that his mother, who had been strenuously taught in her young years in England and who used in later life to speak feelingly of the folly of having to learn Latin in one sixth year, had ideas of her own about forcing the young intellect. It may have been his father, who was a man of very great positiveness and originality of opinion, was averse to having his son get his first glimpse into the world of knowledge otherwise than through himself. But, however it came about, Tom Wilson was not taught his alphabet until he was nine years old. There was a great deal of reading aloud in the family, not only his father and mother, but his two sisters, frequently reading him choice extracts from standard books. Sir Walter Scott and Dickens were made familiar to the lad in this way. He members still the pleasure which his father showed in "Pickwick," reading the installments aloud, with Mrs. Wilson as the special audience, though even at the early age of eight the boy remembers that he appreciated much of the humor of the young author. The lad attended the best schools Augusta offered. Public schools were either nonexistent or so poor as to be worthless, so the boy was put at an institution kept by Professor Joseph T. Derry, with a habitation over the postoffice. Later, Professor Derry moved his school to a building on the river bank next to some cotton warehouses. Here the boys made the warehouses their playgrounds, exploring and playing hide and seek among the cotton bales. Joseph Rucker Lamar, now an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, was a pupil of Professor Derry at about the same time. Joe Lamar was the son of another minister in the city, the Rev. James S. Lamar, pastor of the Christian church, who lived in a house on McIntosh street next to the Wilcox. Professor John T. Derry, much beloved of all his pupil, had returned books from four years in the Condeleague away to teach. He is the author of several books and is now in the agricultural department of the state of Borough. Mr. Derry says that Tom Wilson was a quick, studious boy, and he enjoys with the greatest delight of the Anglo-Saxon days. Best young Wilson's real instructor during the Anglo-Saxon days was his father. Long before the age at which boys are learning knowledge from books he was already receiving from the father, an education course started, there practical and sound ideas that could otherwise have been him. he was once taken to the hospital, and he was given a few hours of rest. He was then taken to the hospital and all the system of his treatment, nursing and thought. He was given of gold information on the condition of the wounds, a judge of good literature, a master of the queen of the academy, the theologian, and a man of much imaginative power. Above all, the older Wilson had a clear working mind. He had a way of recognizing facts, and the process of his thought dealt with them in the light of reason. If the boy had been and nothing else he would have been happy indeed to have been guided from the beginning into the ways of clear, cold thinking. And Dr. Wilson was a master of the English language. He believed that nobody had thought until he could put it quickly and definitely into words. This he did himself, and this he taught his son to do. On Mondays the father would almost without exception take his son out with him excuse excursion in the city or neighboring country. On a Monday the two would visit the machine shop. Teen would be shown furnaces, boilers, machinery, taught to follow the release of power from the coal to the completion of its work in a finished product of steel or of cotton. He remembers to this day the impression made upon him then by the gigantic engine, the rear of furnaces or the darting up of sheets of fame. He remembers great forgets presided over by sooty faced imps. In this fashion by a continual round of visits of inspection in which the sight of visible things and visible processes was the text of running lectures on the principles of nature, chemistry, physics and of the organization of human society the boy learned what he would have had great difficulty in learning from books alone. [TO BE CONTINUED.] HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Danger of ice Water. Don't apply ice cold water to a redhot stomach. Water should be cold enough to be palatable that is, to taste good—but never ice cold. Also don't gulp it. Drink slowly. This is important, especially if the water is cold and you are both hot and thirsty. But don't forget to cultivate the habit and drink plenty of water every day. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Efficient Eating. The following rules for efficient eating have been laid down by Eugene Lyman Flake, M. D.: Eat regularly in the pleasantest attainable circumstances, when the mind and body have had at least a brief rest. Chew all starry foods—cereals, bread, pastry, potatoes and other vegetables—thoroughly by the "tasting" method. Within certain limitations eat such foods as please the palate on thorough tasting and avoid foods that are displeasing. Do not form the habit of prolonged, timorous nibbling and excessive chewing of small quantity of food. At any or debility of the digestive organs and lowered nutrition may result from such practice. Pay some attention to the "balance" of a meal. Milk, eggs and meat at the same meal give an enormous excess of proteid. Bouillon, lettuce and fresh fruit are woefully lacking in proteid. The addition of a sandwich or custard supplies this lack. An excess of salt or sugar should be avoided. Sugar is valuable fuel food, but taxes the digestive powers, especially when concentrated and is apt to cloy the appetite. It should be well diluted. By proper methods of eating, insalation, etc., the amount of food taken will usually be limited to the body needs. The principle of less work, less food, however, should be remembered. Water should be taken freely before meals and moderately during meals. There is no need to carry the "floating out" process to an extreme. People with heart disease or dropy may be injured by excessive water drinking, and the average man positively needs no more than two quarts of water a day. Remember that the value of food in calories is no measure of its digestibility. Nuts and baked beans have a high food value chemically, but many people cannot digest them; in which case their poison value is higher than their food value. The safest rule is: Mind and body being rested, a well balanced mixed diet, moderate in quantity, varied according to the work dose, thoroughly tasted and cheerfully eaten. Three Boys Drowned. Four little boys while playing on the ice near their homes in Boardmanville, near Olean, N. Y., ventured out upon some thin ice and three of them were plunged to death in the water. Charles Pitch, the lone survivor of the quartette, ran frantically up and down the bank while his companions struggled for life in the stream. Before assistance could be obtained the water had claimed all three boys. The bodies were subsequently recovered and taken to their hometown. The drowned are: Raymond Faith aged eleven; Homer and Kilo William, twelve and fourteen years old respectively. Thirty-five years ago Mukahy dispensed both booze and politics in the Fourth world. New York. A visitor found him civil, but doofish, his very soul rent with grief over the persecutions of his barkeepers. Faith, and I've tried all sorts of thin—Catholism, black Protestants and Jews. Divil a bit, and I ever tell which shuttle the most, but I have thin now. I'm either buy-in this new invitation; his called a cash register, and divil barret the man who can altruise. "Faith, and I've tried all sorts of thin—Catholics, black Protestants and Jews. Divil a bit and I ever tail which abtle the most, but I have thin now. I'm ather buy in this new invtion; his call a cash register, and divil harret the man who can shit from that thing. It was more than two weeks before the visitor called again. He found him tending her himself, raising his probots for a till." while the cash register stood forbear and bequeathed and cobwebby on its shell. He was calm, but there was that in his air that told of blighted hopes and the fall of an ideal. However, the Celtic variety of expression awoke at some vague reference to the cash register. I "Ah!" he exclaimed. "The curse o' Crumil me be on it, on thin that made it and on thim that told me it would prevent shtealing. Thim barkeepers had it hate the first week; they wint 'trough it like the divil wint 'trough Athlone—in ahtanding lepa." Today. So here hath been dawning Another blue day.. Think, wilt thou let it Hip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born. Into eternity At night will return. Bahold it afortetime No eye ever did. So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here bath been dawning Another blue day. Think, wilt thou let it Mip useless away! —Thomas Carlyle. Awkward Congratulations. When James F. Smith, former governor general of the Philippines and new a member of the court of customs appeals, was practicing law in San Francisco just before the Spanish war he was famous for the pugnacity with which he fought in court for his clients. On one occasion a judge, considering him a trite too emphatic in his pugnacity, contended Smith to serve twenty-four hours in jail. It happened that on the same day there was made the announcement of Smith's selection as prisoner of the First California militia. Just as he reached the jail the following telegram was handed to him: "Congratulations. The right man is the right place."—Minneapolis Journal. "I see that 180 men control the financial affairs of this country." "They don't have anything to do with controlling mine." "Yes, they do. The fact was brought out in the money trust investigation in Washington." "That's all right. The money trust investigators haven't interviewed my wife."—Chicago Record Herald. Seven Killed When Bridge Falls. The first day of the new year brought to the Chosapeake & Ohio railroad disaster. An engine of the heaviest type, pulling westbound freight train No. 9, plunged through a temporary bridge spanning the Ogunyu river at Guyandotte, on the eastern edge of Huntington, W. Va. Fugues may have hurried to do so and half dozen more were seriously hurt. The dead are: F. E. Weber, engineer; Henry White, watchman; Emmet Wood, bridgeworker; Charles Haddle, bridgeworker; James Crawford, bridgeworker; Charles Coyner, bridgeworker, and J. G. Wheeler, a bridgeworker. As the Maid Saw It In her book, "Thirteen Years of a Busy Life," Mrs. Alec Tweedie tells this story on herself: Before she started on a journey from New York to Mexico she packed away her jewelry, including her rings and watch chain. Her maid was sitting opposite her in the train, and suddenly she noticed they were missing. "I put them away." Mrs. Tweedle replied. "I never travel off the beaten track wearing jewelry of any kind." "Oh, dear, what a pity!" commented the maid. "They make you look such a lady." HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Relaxation Every woman should learn to rest if she is anxious to keep her good looks. The one who leads a very busy life should acquire the habit of awaiting herself of every few spare minutes for this purpose. Let her analyze the art of relaxation and practice it in this way: Hang the arms loosely at the side, and then begin to move them slowly backward and forward from side to side. Now open the fingers wide and shake the hands loosely from the wrists and after this practice the same exercise with the legs and feet. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Insempia. When one is overdried or worried and cannot sleep, being gently rubbed all over with a towel wrung out of hot salt water generally has the desired effect. Deep breathing in fresh air through the nostrils is also excellent. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Light Morning Exercise. It is a good babbit, says Dr. J. A. Hubakb, to go to bed early enough to rise in time for a little exercise preliminary to the bath. For the normal individual a little simple exercise either with simple apparatus like the chest weights or without any apparatus at all will be sufficient to start the circulation and to create an appetite for the morning meal. Make it a rule to practice callabank movements each morning. It is better to do that regularly than to take a rigorous course, of exercise for a short period of time and, then take the exercise at all. The simple procedure will keep the heart and muscular system in a fairly normal condition. SORROW AND PAIN. SORROW AND PAIN. However well and honest and successful we may be, sorrow and pain are never far away, and the world pain in everywhere, and there is no peace or joy for us at any time if we cannot feel that in and through and over all the sorrows, sorrow, pain and hurt and throw and sit there in the stern moods. John W. 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President-elect Woodrow Wilson, in his capacity as governor of New Jersey, sent his second annual message to the legislature in Trenton, which has convened. It was his last formal appeal to the legislature for the completion of the program of progressive legislation for which he declared himself when he took office. Foremost among the laws advocated are a radical revision of the statutes governing corporations and better laws in the matter of drawing juries. The governor recommends the commission form of government for cities, and speaks strongly in favor of economics in the state administration. In conclusion he expresses the hope that New Jersey will ratify the constitutional amendments providing for a tax on incomes and the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The governor's message was written while the president-elect was in Bermuda and constitutes his only political writing since the presidential election. At the outset of the document there is a personal note of regret at leaving New Jersey and an expression of gratitude and obligation to those who stood by him in carrying out reform. Almost without preface, however, the governor calls attention to the lacky of the state's corporation laws. With the hope that New Jersey shall never again be called "the mother of trusts," the message is addressed to a legislature that is for the first time during his administration Democratic in both branches. The corporation laws of the state interiously stand in need of alteration, the governor says. They are manifestly inconsistent with the interests of the people in the all-important matter of monopoly, and as they stand, far from checking monopoly, they actually encourage K. The whole country has set the face against this method of limiting vast combinations and creating monopoly, Governor Wilson declares. "I am sure that the people of New Jersey" be courteous, "do not disentangle from the supreme judgment that our law must prevent these things and prevent them very effectually." vent them very effectually. The governor says the statutes of the state should be amended to provide some responsible official supervision of the whole process of incorporation and provide, in addition, salutary checks upon unwarranted and factitious increases of capital. No legitimate business will be injured or harmfully restricted by such action. These matters affect the honor and good faith of the state and should be acted upon at once and with clear purpose. After arguing that the state should enact legislation to protect its people from irresponsible persons who offer for sale securities of every sort, the governor turned to the question of jury drawing. "Why has no legislature ever seriously and earnestly set itself to correct this condition?" he asks. "The drawing of grand juries, and even upon occasion the drawing of petit juries, is notoriously subject to political influence and control in this state, and this can and should be remedied. Firecrackers Tied to Pigeon Cause Fire Thorough investigation of the reported attempt of incendiaries to compel the Reading's big kitto colliery at Branchdale, near Pottaville, Pa., to shut down by burning the large stables, has revealed the fact that the destruction was due to a pigeon. The bird was part of a consignment for a shooting match. One of the handlers, in order to make it too active for the opposing gunner, tied a pack of firecrackers to its feet. The pigeon got safely away and flew to the stables, with part of the burning crackers still attached to it. When the bird alighted in the haymow the hay was ignited, causing a loss of $6000. Prison and Fines For Editors. R. S. Sheridan and C. O. Broxon, publisher and managing editor respectively of the Boise, Idaho, Capital News, and A. R. 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It is alleged that Betts in recent years has been abusive to the woman in many ways, and of late, she says, the abuse has grown almost unbearable, resulting in blows, kicks and curries. It was during one of these abusive turns that Mrs. Smith, believing her life in jeopardy, Betts having knocked her down and choked her, called for help. Her cries were heard by her seventeen-year old son, George, who rushed into the room in time to see his mother lying on the floor and at the mercy of Betta. When the young man entered the room Betta released his hold on the woman and made for young Smith with a chair, raised as if to strike him. The lad, realizing the danger he and his mother both were in, picked up a revolver lying on a table in the room and fired at Betta, the shot mortally wounding the man, from which he soon died. Fireman Confesses Arson. Fireman Conference Area. Harry Swartz, a member of the fire department of Ashland, confessed to Justice of the Peace Frank Froeller in Pottsville, Pa., that he set fire to a building on Walnut street, Ashland, on Saturday night. After starting the fire Swartz walked to the headquarters of the fire company; of which he be a member, and was the first to respond to the alarm of fire. The fire started by Swartz did considerable damage and was one of the number of fires which have occurred at Ashland for some time past, always on Saturday night. These fires were all of incidentary origin, but Swartz denies that he was responsible for any of the others. Allen & Granted Replite Governor Mann announced in Richmond, Va., that he would again resplite Floyd and Claude Allen, under sentence of death for the Hillsville court house shooting. The resplite is until March 7. The governor informed the friends of the men that he will, on Feb. 1, hear further reasons and arguments for the commutation of the sentences. The Allens were to have been put to death Friday in the electric chair. Slide Which Were at Polea in Museum Two battered slids, which have journeyed, to opposite ends of the earth, occupy a place of honor in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Captain Reold Amundson, the discoverer of the South Pole. presented to the museum one of the three sleds used by his expedition, and it was placed beside a sled which Admiral Peary used when he found the North Pole. Hunter Finds Headless Bkeleton. Somerset, Pa., authorities began an investigation of the finding of a decapitated human skeleton in the wood-near Garrett by hunters. That death was due to murder was evinced by the fact that the skull was found hidden several yards from the body. The sheriff is checking up a list of the persons reported missing in the past two years. PLEA OF COAL TRUST Ask Supreme Court to Modify Decree Against Them. The anthracite coal carrying railroads affected by the United States supreme court's recent decision in the "hard coal trust" case, have petitioned for a modification of the decree to permit them to continue the so-called 6 per cent contracts with coal companies which have leased coal lands from the railroads. The supreme court held these contracts to be in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Milton Man Dies of Starvation. Charles Deltrick, who was buried from his home in Milton, Pa., died of starvation. A strong and healthy man. he developed a growth in his throat which prevented him from taking food and he gradually wasted to a skeleton Labor Leaders Released W. M. E. Reddin, of Milwaukee, and W. Bert Brown and W. J. McCain, of Kansas City, labor leaders, convicted in the dynamite conspiracy cases, were released at Leavenworth, Kan., on $20,000 bond each. Two Skaters Drowned. Miss Alice D. McGrath, twenty years old, and Earle W. Portoas, seventeen years old, broke through the ice while skating on a pond at Worcester, Mass., and both were drowned. ENVY Shun the vice of envy. The soul that is envious cannot be noble. Envy should no more be allowed to enter the heart than a hyena should be let into the living room. Nothing undermines and destroys the character more than the indwelling of envy. Jell Term For Firebug Edward Kepp, the self-confessed firebug, who on Christmas night in South Bethlehem, Pa., within a space of two hours, set fire to four stables, was sentenced to a term of nine years and six months at the county court at Boston. A Test Far Beneath His Capacity. The young son of a lawyer who lives out south has just made his first appearance at kindergarten. The other day his teacher asked the children to look over the room and any who could count to rise and tell her the number of children in the room. The young south sider arose and, looking about over the heads, remarked with great aplomb: "Hub! I can't count these children, because I can count to a hundred, and there ain't that many here."—Kansas City Star. Mad aa a Wet Hen "Billy," exclaimed Mrs. Brown. "why are you carrying that big pail of water down to the chicken yard?" "Why, mamma, I'm goin' ter pour it on that old speckled hen." "You naughty boy! What are you going to torture a poor dumb creature for?" "Quitcher kiddin' me, ma. I only wanted to find out how mad you'd be if papa went to the banquet of the Tough Knut society tonight. Papa said over the phone that you'd be as mad as a"— He didn't need to finish. The poor kid found, out right then how mad his mamma would be.—Boston Journal. Prologues and apologues. Garrick tried to abstain prologues and apologues, but the audience of his day would not consent. 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Since when a shark a pintermute finds it takes him under with a swish. Why don't all talk with the thoughtful minds? Call it the understated fish? And maybe some among the strong. Who read them blithely penned remarks May when it would not be so wrong To call the understated shark.