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KULISHTAN Colored Business Enterprises The Southern AMI Society has a record which will prove a source of inspiration to the average struggling business organization. It seems to have commenced business at 506 H. Broad St. This place was then occupied by Mr. S. J. Gilpin, dealer in boots and shoes and doing at that time a general repairing business. HUMBLE QUARTERS Upstairs was the home of the company. Then it removed to Eighth Street between Broad and Marshall Streets. As strange as it may seem, Mr. Armstead Washington, a butler, was the moving spirit in this concern. The company was unfortunate in the selection of its officers and matters went from bad to worse. Often, only the financial resources of Mr. Washington kept it from absolute bankruptcy. Mr. Washington was a good judge of men and he succeeded in obtaining the services of Mr. Thomas M. Crump, who at that time was employed at The PLANET Office as book-keeper. A WISE CHOICE. The success of the Southern AM Society dates from the time that Mr. Crump took charge. Mr. A. Washington became President and the business grew with leaps and bounds. The result was soon evident and the financial standing of the Southern Aid Society became recognised in financial circles. Mr. Crump had been trained in the school of race pride and the Society's motto has ever been to patronise colored people in business. RACE PRIDE A FEATURE. To a great extent this has been the underlying cause of the popularity of this great institution and the influence of the Secretary and General Manager. The work of arrangement, mathematical exactness training of agents reached its zenith with the advent of Mr. B. L. Jordan, who takes pride in the work of auditing accounts and training agents. Mr. William A. Jordan had outstripped all other agents on outdoor work and finally a department was created for him. ANOTHER PRESIDENT Finally, "another king arose, who knew not Joseph" and it was deemed expedient by this Board to elect a President, a citizen of greater influence and of recognized business standing. The choice made brought Mr. A. D. Price, the well-known liveryman and funeral director into the limelight and he was elected President. The Society has been growing with leaps and bounds. It has erected a palatial two story building at 527 N. Second Street and is rapidly outgrowing these quarters. It gives a practical demonstration of what may be done by our people in a united effort for material and financial success. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. COLORED LAWYER GUILTY. Given Six Months on Lancey Charge Preferred by Client, On a charge of appropriating in client's money to his own use, N. J. Lewis, a colored attorney was last Monday sentenced to serve six months in the county jail and to pay a fine of $50, by Magistrate 8. H. Sunday of Henrico county. An appeal to the upper court was noted. The accused was admitted to bail in the sum of $500 pending the rehearing of the case. Lewis was accused of accepting $70 from Julia Anderson, colored, which he later refused to refund. He was arrested on a warrant in which she was the complainant. Upon advice of Commonwealth's Attorney Frank T. Sutton, Jr., a felony charge was withdrawn and a case of larceny made out of the offense. Lewis conceived his own defense. Rev. Dr Morrla Speaks Here. Rev. C. S. Morris, D. D., pastor of the Bank Street Baptist Church and President of the Smallwood Memorial Institute spoke to an appreciative audience last Tuesday night at the Third St. A. M. E. Church. He came to fill one of the engagements of the lecture course of the Dunbar Literary and Historical Society. The meeting was a success and the audience enjoyed the oratoryal flights and telling "hit" of the accomplished poet creator. The audience wrote a chorus. 16-YEAR-OLD BOY ACCUSES FATHER. Charges Him Wide Murder of Negro and Artist Follows. Asheville, N. C., January 28. Charged with the murder of John Allen, an imbecile coloral man, on the night of August 11, 1911, Joseph Price, a white farmer, formerly of Marion, thirty-eight miles from this city, was today lodged in the county jail at Rutherfordton. Price's arrest followed a confession by his son, Ernest, aged sixteen, who told the solicitor that the skeleton found in the woods near Marion last March was that of the colored man. Allen whose mysterious disappearance has heretofore baffled the authorities. Young Price, in his confession, relates that on the morning of August 11, 1911, his father reused him from bed and compelled him to aid in burrying the man's body in a patch of woods near the Price home. The boy further alleges that his father declared that he had killed the man with an axe while the boy and his mother were attending a revival meeting because he (the father) wanted to "get the sugar's gold." Colored Man Stabbed to Death. Lynchburg, Va., January 23—Late today Lacian Brown, colored, was fatally stabbed in the heart by a colored woman named Betty Reed. Brown lived five minutes. The woman escaped. Jessany is thought to have been the cause of the murder. Southside Pastor Receives Call. The Ebenezer Baptist Church of Flushing, N. Y. has extended a call to the Rev. W. J. Lucas, Pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Chesterfield. Rev. Lucas is a graduate of the Virginia Union University leaving that institution with the degree of bachelor of arts. He has also completed much of the work in the Theological Department in the same school. He was ordained in 1906, his first pastorate being that of the First Baptist Church of Lexington, Va. whence he was called to his present charge. He is now living at 1106 State Street, Richmond, Va. It is expected that he will accept the call Resolutions of Condolence Passed by the Board of Directors of the American Beneficial Insurance Company upon the death of Mr. Lewis P. Cheatham, one of its Board of Directors: Whereas, it has pleased the Almighty in His Wise Providence to remove from our midst our fellow Director and associate, Mr. Lewis P. Cheatham; and Whereas, on account of his sterling qualities as a man, a citizen and true to this Company, it behooves us to place upon record some expressions of our personal esteem as well as his official connection with the Company. Now, therefore, be it Resolved, First: That in the death of Mr. Lewis P. Cheatham, the American Beneficial Insurance Company has lost an honest, conscientious and upright Director. Second: That the city, the church and community at large lose a man whose worth to the community can not and will not be easily replaced. Fourth: That we extend to his family, friends and sympathizers our heartfelt sympathies. Fifth: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family and that a copy be placed upon the records of the Company and a copy be published. Dore by order of the Board of Directors of the American Beneficial Insurance Company. W. F. GRAHAM, President. B. H. PEYTON. Secty. and Genl. Mgr. Committees: J. THOMAS HEWIN. B. H. PEYTON. JOHN W. HOWARD. Mrs. Robinette Cockbill and children wish to thank their, many friends for their kindness and sympathy during the sickness and subsequent death of her husband and their father.-Richard T. Cockbill, Sr. A. Card. Mrs. Virginia Cheatham tenders to the many friends her sincerest thanks for expressions of sympathy and kindness shown her and her husband Mr. Lewis P. Cheatham, during his late life and at time of death. M.CARTY MAY MEET JOHNSON. White Champion field to be Ready to Take on Negro in Bout to a Pink. New York, January 27.—Luther McCarty is weakening on his opiof line declaration. After all, he may light Jack Johnson if there is a public demand for such a contest. Luther is evidently becoming ambitious but if he follows the advice of well meaning friends he will let the big Negro alone for a time at least. At best McCarty is a comparative novice it would be bad management to stack him against Johnson without a little more experience. While it is just possible that he could beat Jeffries' conqueror right now, it would be a bad betting proposition. McCarty has done remarkably well in less than a year, but he hasn't fought any Johnsons, or Sam Langfords or Joe Jeannettis. He would be a 3 or 4 to 1 shot against any of the black trio in any kind of a bout just now. In another year, if McCarty shows as much improvement as he has shown in the last twelve months, his chances of beheading a clear claim to the heavyweight title might be favorably considered. There isn't anything terrible in the ranks of the white hopes at the present time, and there is no use dodging the fact that any white man with championship aspirations must wipe out the black heavyweights to be regarded supreme in his class. TWO CLAIMANTS FOR MATCH. Both Al Palser and Joe Jeanneette are claiming the match with Jack Johnson June 24, the night before the Grand Prix. Al Lappe writes from Paris that all details have been arranged for a meeting of Palmer and Johnson, and Dan McKetrick is in the way to the new French ally to fix up things for Jeanneette. McKetrick exhibited letters and cables before sailing indicating that the match was on, and has been on for weeks. The only difficulty would seem to be Johnson's troubles with the Federal authorities here. If he can get away, Johnson will doubtless jump at the chance of meeting Palmer, but may not be so anxious to clash with Jeanneette. The Hoboken Negro has had almost as much ring experience as Johnson and experience counts in any kind of an argument. Youth and strength are very desirable possessions in any athlete, but there are other things necessary in the makeup of a successful fighter. That may be seen at any of our nightly boxing shows, where the recruit with nothing but youth and strength is usually heaten up. Mrs. Coppin's Funeral. The capacity of Bethel A. M. E. Church, Philadelphia, was taxed last Monday by a vast throng of sympathizing and admiring friends from various states and many cities who joined with the oldest and best residents of the City of Brotherly Love in honoring one of the most distinguished women of the race, Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin, the beloved wife of Bishop L. J. Coppin, presiding bishop of the Second Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Church, which district embraces the states of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. The sermon was preached by Bishop B. T. Tanner of Philadelphia and a unique program under the direction of the pastor Dr. C. C. Dunlap was beautifully and impressively executed which included ministerial representatives from the various denominations. Quite 50 ministers from Bishop Coppin's district were present, eleven of whom were from the Old Dominion. Among the number we mention Drs. G. D. Jimmerson, E. H. Hunter and A. J. Nottingham, former A. M. E. Pastors of Richmond and Rev. S. S. Morris, the present pastor. A number of ladies prominent in Missionary circles were also in attendance to honor the deceased who stood at the head of the Missionary work of the Second Episcopal District, Mrs. Jennie E. Day, President of the Virginia Conference Mite Missionary Branch was among the num Mrs. Coppin had spent quite 50 years in the work of racial uplift along educational and missionary lines. For 35 years she served as instructor and principal of the Institute for Colored Youth at Cheyney Pa. and for two years she lifted the torch of wisdom and reflected the life of Jesus in South Africa in company with her distinguished husband, She was a graduate of Oberlin College. Truly a great woman has fallen and generations yet unborn will rise to call her name blessed. The prayers and sympathy of a host of friends and admirers go out in heap of the bereaved husband and eminent prebate. After raising, all the day, week the people were surprised to find on an awaking this morning (Wednesday) the ground white with snow. Services were held at Wheeler Press byterian Church Sunday and Rev. K. D. Leak praised, a wonderful sarmon from Pasture 35-61. He said "There are many poor people suffering in the rural districts, poor people fome and starve but for the unfortunate condition of the weakest. We vised the people who are able to go out and look after them. After quarrelling over a matter that was not settled, Buck Nash willfully set fire to a hay stack belonging to Alex Wilkin. Nash left for parts unknown to, owe the law. Miss Dora Hodge has gone to Richmond where she is employed. Miss Amanda Whitehead is at home with her parents. Mrs. Nannie Lee has been confined to her bed this week. Richard Brown is out again. He was streck on the head by one of his playmates at Crowd Point School last week and has been in indoor under care of the doctor for several days. Mrs. Sue Cary Hodge is quite sick The beautiful day Sunday drew large attendance at both services of the First Presbyterian Church, corner Moorce and Catherine Bus. The pastor, Rev. J. E. Harper was at his best and preached two sermons at the eleven and eight o'clock services. The church is doing good work and the members are very much encouraged. There were other additions during the past month. Next "Sunday, February 1d, is Christian Endeavor Day," a special service will be presented at 11 A. M. Subject, "Make Jesus King." An excellent program has been arranged by the president of the C. E. Society, Miss Cora Lytle for the eight o'clock services. Two of the special interesting numbers on the program will be music by the Geo Orchestra and a quartette composed of Messrs. J. H. Braxton, W. D. Jones, Mrs. Lucy Spotwood and Miss Cora Lytle. The public is invited. All were glad to see Dr. P. B. Ramsey at church Sunday morning. Charged With Murder. According to information obtained last Wednesday by Patrolmen J. J. Smith and Galbraith, the colored youth who cut the throat and caused the death of Edward Pegram, colored. Tuesday night at Adams and Leigh Streets, in Macao Neal, thirteen years old, who lives with his parents at 414 1-2 West Baker Street. It was learned that he had been at home Wednesday morning, but when the officers ascertained he was accused of the murder and swore out a warrant he was not to be found. His capture was confidently predicted. Pegram, who was seventeen years old, was murdered as a result of a quarrel over fifteen cents. Immediately after the crime was discovered and until a late hour Wednesday the police were at sea as to the identity of Pegram's assistant. Witnesses, however, were located by Galbraith and Smith and they are said to have placed the blame on several, who, though only thirteen years old, is said to be well-grown and the size of a youth of seventeen. Do You Know Her? Richmond, Va., Jan. 27, 1913. I would like to know the whereabouts of a friend, Mrs. Mamlo Lee (Her maiden name was Mamlo Gates) she formerly was of Richmond, Va., but left and went to Cincinnati, Ohio. She was married about June 27, 1907. She was living on Marlon Avenue. I think her father and some position in a hotel. Anyone knowing of her whereabouts notify. MRS. INDIA PRYOR FOUNTAIN, 1708 Carlton St., Richmond, Va. 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 H. BRAXTON. 112 West Leigh St., Richmond, Va. tf DO YOU WANT EASY AND PRO- fitable Home Work, a Business that Pays Well! Send self-addressed stamped envelope to A. DUER, Box 315, Cape Charles, Va. From New York. From New York. Dr. Mayes says the Church Must Go in the People—Bundamental Pasteur of Mr. Olivet Baptist Church Believes the Churches are Not Reaching the Mission—Brittany Young Viviparous Paster Stacey Wendling—as Mr. Olivet—Major Boston in the Metropolitan—Co-communion of Hampton Institute Sparks Brew fair the Island—Dr. Olivet Cunning—President of Soha University to Make Brief Visit to the City—Mass Meeting to be held in the Interest of the Evening Gather, the Colored Dell—Negro Daffy Filling Long Pelt Want—General Notes. (Alba's). National News Bureau 232 West Fitty(f-third street.) In an interview with your correctponent last week Rev. Dr. W. P. Hayes, the eminent and scholarly pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church stated that the churches were not reaching the masses of this city as effectively as they should, and that for the influence of the church to be felt it must go to the people. He stated further that he would have been pleased to see a general revival in this city in which all of the churches could join and which would sweep this city in a religious campaign. "I believe," said Dr. Hayes, "that the churches of this city are not reaching the masses of this city who live in the questionable communities as they should. In order for the churches to be effective it must go to the people. I would like to have seen a general revival in this city in which all of the churches would join and which have for its mission the cleaning up of this city. The revival should be held in certain communities, and the aim should be to reach the unsaved of those communities. There should be appointed from these churches a special Missionary committee whose business it would be to make a canvass in the neighborhood and find every winner and bring him or her to the church. In this way the church would be going to the people." Manning, Dr. Hayes said: "I am especially concerned with the lower section of the city, like 37th and 40th Streets. The Sunday Schools of this district must be as vigilant as the Coraline sellers who lure young girls to disorderly houses and commit outrages upon them." Commenting upon the revivals now in session, Dr. Hayes said: "I want to praise the good work of Dr. Brooks and Dr. Powell in uniting in a unified revival. It was a splendid step in the direction of a general revival of which I would like to see." Dr. Hayes came to Mt. Olivet Church about two years ago, succeeding Rev. Dr. Gilbert. He has done much for the church since his pastorate and has brought together the congregation in a strong, well-united body. Dr. Hayes came to the church at a particularly critical time, which it was passing through a most crucial period. With the exercise of rare executive ability, Dr. Hayes soon got to the bottom of the trouble and Mt. Olivet stands "today as one of the most influential churches in this city." Dr. Hayes is one of the most schoolarly pastors of the race, and represents the progressive and new school of the Negro minister. He is a convincing and pleasurable speaker and is rated as one of the most prominent men of the connection. He has had a large career, and before coming to New York was an instructor in the Virginia Union University at Richmond. Since coming to the Metropolis Dr. Hayes has become identified with every movement having for its aim race betterment. Mrs. Hayes is an accomplished young Matron and is a pleasant helpmeet to Dr. Hayes. Major Moton in the Metropolis Major R. R. Moton, Commandant of Hampton Institute and one of the most prominent character of the race has been in the Metropolis since last week speaking in the interest of Hampton. He has appeared be fore some of the best white citizens of this city, in which he told of the work Hampton was doing for the uplift of the race, and brought before the attention of the opposite race the work the Negro was doing for good of civilization. While here Major Moton spoke before the students of Horace Mann School and Central and Lafayette Presbyterian Churches. He was accompanied by the well known Hampton Quartette. Major Moton has long been identified with the interest of Hampton, and for 22 years has been the executive officer of Hampton which has to do with the disciplining of the large number of young men of Hampton. He has done much in shaping the lives of young men who have come under his influence, and your correspondent has come in contact with a large number of young men who have expressed high praise for the rigid discipline of their lives as taught by the folks at Hampton. Before leaving for the South Major Moton expressed to your correspondent that the work of Hampton was progressing and that there were a large number of students enrolled. Major Moton praised the good work of his assistants. Captains Alan Washington, S. H. Benson, and K. Harrison. He said these men were giving him the assistance. Major Moton has long been in the national eye and is the Secretary of the Jeanne Fund. He was a delegate at the Universal Races Congress held in London. Some time ago Major Moton contributed a series of articles to the World's Work Magazine, entitled "A Negro's Uphill Climb," which attracted wide attention. Major Moton's whole life is centered in the work of Hampton and he is pleasantly associated with that Institution. Dr. Gilbert Coming. Information has reached the Metropolis that Rev. Dr. M. W. Gilbert President of Selma, University at Selma, Alabama, and one of the most foremost educators of the race is due in the city soon. Dr. Gilbert will come to the Metropolis to conduct a series of meetings at the Church of the Refugee located in Harlem, and to look after business pertaining to the work of the University. Dr. Gilbert is well known in the city and his coming is watched with much pleasure. He was formerly pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in this city and did much good for the race in this city. Main Meeting to be held for Knitting Gagette. A mass meeting in the interest of the Evening Gazette, the only colored daily paper that has been mounted in this city about a month ago, will be held at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening, February 4th. The purpose of the meeting will be to acquaint the people of the city with the object and aim of the movement. Since the beginning of the daily in this city it has already begun to fill a long felt want, and is beginning to take up the fight for the race. The colored citizens of the Metropolis are rallying to the new enterprise and they realize the need of a daily paper owned and controlled and managed by the race. Cleveland G. Allen, the well known correspondent and staff correspondent of the Gazette will preside. The speakers will be Mrs. M. C. Lawton the well known writer, Lawyer J. L. Curtis, Reva A. C. Powell, W. H. Brooks and the entire staff of the Gazette. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN, Correspondent. FROM LEESBURG. Rev. Tyler, pastor of Provident Baptist Church is still confined to his bed. Miss Margaret Jones Woodson died at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Frank Collins Saturday, January 25, 1913 at about 3 o'clock after a brief illness. She leaves to mourn their loss, a fond father, one sister, four brothers, eight aunts and four uncles many cousins and friends. Miss Jannie L. Adams after a short illness died Monday, January 27th in her 23rd year. Mrs. Jane Tolbert and Mrs. Harriet Tolbert, wife and mother of Mr. French Tolbert, near Leesburg, are reported to us as being very ill. Mr. Keely Norris, after successfully undergoing a very serious operation is getting along nicely at the Leesburg hospital. Miss Clara V. Walker is improving rapidly. Mrs. Lizzie Tolbert of Boston, Miss is home for the remainder of the Winter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Berry. Miss Fannie Washington returned home recently after a prolonged visit to relatives and friends in Washington, D. C. The marriage of Miss Fannie Waters and Mr. William West of Washington, took place in Washington the early part of this month. Miss Mary Catherine Miles and Mr. Harrison W. Willis were married earlier in the month in the capital city. The wedding took place in St. Augustine's Catholic Church. Rev. Father Griffithen officiated. The hap py pair were favored with a most elegant reception at the bride's home 1421 Columbia St., N. W., where the bride and groom will remain. Notice! I would like to talk with anyone who has property to rent, whether it be large or small. I think I have a proposition that will interest you. B. A. CRIPPAS, Cor. 232 & Leigh St. Addie Pegram Murdered. For no known reason, Eddie Pegram, colored, whose home was said to be in Henry Street, had his threat out with a knife or renter last Tuesday night at 9:45 o'clock, at Adams and Leigh Streets, by an unidentified colored man, and died at 11 o'clock on the operating table at the City Hospital. When Policemen Howell and Matt arrived on the scene, no witnesses to the murder could be found. Though the police and surgeon did everything possible to get an antemortem statement from Pegram, they were unable to do so. —Mrs. Louisa Payne is out again after a severe illness. The Third St. A. M. E. Church is preparing to rebuild their edifice. Mrs. Sarah Lewis of 816 Roane Street, who has been indisposed in much improved. Mrs. Sarah Wilson and Mrs. Mary Winston, who have been indisposed are much improved. All persons desiring to go to Washington, D. C. during the inaugural period, may get information as to places to stop, rates, etc. by writing to the Subcommittee on Public Comfort, 1816 13th St. M. W. Washington, D. C. President R. C. Woods proposes to hold a Chaupanaquia Conference at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, February 17-19, 1913. He has invited many leading citizens to attend the exercise. WANTED—I have a tenant who wants to rent a five room house in Sydney. Owner will please communicate with me at once. B. A. CEPHAS, Cor. 2nd & Leigh Sts. WANTED—I have a number of persons who are looking to buy homes. If you will offer yours, and make the price right, I think I can sell. We make no charges unless sale is made. B. A. CEPHAS, Cor. 2nd & Leigh Sts Mrs. Margarett Scott No More. After an illness which was of short duration, Mrs. Margarett Scott passed peacefully away at her residence, 1411 W. Leigh St., Friday, January 17, 1913 at 7:45 o'clock A. M. By her Christian qualities and lovable disposition, she enjoyed the respect and esteem of a large circle of admiring friends who were deeply affected by her death. Her connection with the Ebenezer Baptist Church was that of a useful and conscientious Christian member. The funeral services were held at the church Sunday, January 19, 1913 at 11 o'clock A. M. Rev. W. H. Stoken, Ph. D. preached an eloquent sermon extolling her virtues. The various organizations of which she was a member were out in large numbers and all attested to her worth at home and abroad. Costly and beautiful flowers were in profusion as mute tokens of sympathy and love. Mrs. Scott is survived by her husband, Andrew Scott, one daughter, Miss Mary M. Scott and four sons, W. C. Andrew, George and Ambrose Scott. The remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. A. D. Price officiated. Colored Catholic Priest Dead. Father Plantvigne is reported dead Funeral was held, Wednesday Jan 29, 1913 at Baltimore. Father Plantvigne was ordained in Roman Catholic Priest of the Epiphany Apostolic College. He was stationed in the Catholic diocese of His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore. Father Plantvigne visited St. Joseph's colored Catholic Church prior to the completion of the Van De Vyder College. In Remembrance In sad but loving remembrance of my beloved grandmother, Lucy A Jefferson who departed this life five years ago January 27, 1908. Years may go but you are not for gotten. Fresh my love will ever be For as long as there is life and memory I will always think of them. The flowers I lay upon your grave May wither and decay. But always fresh your memory Within my heart shall stay. By her grand-daughter. ROZMIA B. ELAM. The Window By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART $YNOPSIS Margery Fleming asks John Knox, attorney, to find her father, Slate Treasurer who is missing. A paper with 112 on it has been found pinned to Fleming's pillow. Fleming, whose dishonest work drove Henry Butler, former state treasurer, to suicide, has been all alive. Knox visits and Jane Maitland, Margery's aunt. Margery is engaged to Harry Wardron. Lettia tells Knox ten of her pearls have been stolen. Knox watches for burglars. During the night Wardron's value jumps. Jane Maitland mysteriously disappears. Murder is suspected. In her room is found another paper with 112 on it. Wardron is under suspicion. Detective Hunter shows that Wardron is lying. One of the missing pearls is found in a closet beside his fountain pen. Knox is in love with Margery. He and Margery are in love with a political club, where he has been hiding. A note left by Fleming refers to 112. Wardron, Fleming's secretary, in suspicion of the murder. Wardron admits that Fleming is the killer of 112 which was in Wardron's values. Wardron says he does not know what the figures 112 mean. He also discovers that his value was carried away and another left in its place. Lightfoot, Fleming's cashier, tells Knox Fleming killed himself. Lightfoot wants Fleming to be arrested and that he hears an intruder in the Fleming house. Margery declares that her father was murdered. The police influenced by politicians, say Fleming killed himself. Burton, reporter, declares that he has awarens taken of the state money taken by Fleming. Sizzling Metal BURTON took out his notebook. "You are the fourth today," he said. "Hunter himself, Lightfoot from Plattsburg and McFeely here in town. Well, Mr Knox, are you willing now to put yourself on record that Fleming committed suicide?" "No," I said firmly. "It is my belief that he was murdered." "And that the secretary fellow, what's his name?—Wardrop?—that he killed him?" "Possibly." In reply Burton fumbled in his pocket and brought up a postboard box filled with jewelers' cotton. Underneath was a small object, which he passed to me with care. "I got it from the coroner's physician, who performed the autopsy," he said casually. "You will notice that it is a thirty-two, and that the revolver they took from Wardrop was a thirty-eight. Question. Where's the other gun?" I gave him back the bullet, and he rolled it around on the palm of his hand. "Little thing, isn't it?" he said. "We think we're builds of creation until we see a quarter of a biflorate tablet or a bit of lead like this. Look here." He dived into his pocket again and drew out a roll of ordinary brown paper. When he opened it a bit of white clark fell on the desk. "Look at that," he said dramatically. "Kill an army with it, and they never know what struck them. Cyanide of potassium—and the druggist that said it ought to be choked." "Where did it come from?" I asked curiously. Burton smiled his cheerful amile. "It's a beautiful case all around," he said as he got his hat. "I haven't had any Sunday dinner yet, and it's 5 o'clock. On the candle? Clarkson, the cashier of the bank Fleming ruined, took a bite off that corner right there this morning." "Clarkson!" I exclaimed. "How to he?" "God only knows," said Burton gravely, from which I took it Clarkson was dead. Burton listened while he ate, and his cheerful comments were welcome enough after the depression of the last few days. I told him, after some hesitation, the whole thing, beginning with the Maitland pearls and ending with my drop down the dumbwater. I knew I was absolutely safe in doing so. There is no person to whom I would rather tell a secret than a newspaper man. He will go out of his way to keep it. He will lock it in the depths of his bosom and keep it until seventy times seven. Also, you may threaten the rack or offer a larger salary, the seal does not come off his lips until the word is given. If then he makes a scarehead of it, and gets in three columns of space and as many photographs, it is his just reward. Burton ate enough beersteak for two men and missed not a word. "The money Wardrop had in the grip that's easy enough explained," he said. "Fleming used the Borough bank to deposit state funds in. He must have known it was rotten; and Clarkson were as thick as thieves. According to a time booored custom in our land of the bravo and home of a state treasurer who is crooked can, in such a case, draw on such a bank without security on his personal note, which usually is worth its value by the pound as old paper. "And Fleming did that." "He did. Then things got bad at the Borough bank. Fleming had had to divide with Schwartz and the Lord only knew who all, but it was Fleming who had to put in the money to a crash, the word crash being synonymous with scandal in this case. He scrapes together a parky hundred thousand, which Wardrop gets at the capital and brings on. Wardrop is sobbed, or maybe is: the bank columns and Clarkson, driven to the wall, kills himself just after Fleming is murdered. What does that sound like?" "Like, Clarkson!" I exclaimed. "And Clarkson knew Fleming was killing at at the the White Cat "Now, then, take the other theory, he said pushing aside his cup. "War drop goes in to Fleming with a story that he has been robbed; Fleming gets frighty and attacks him. All that is in the morning - Friday. Now, then, War drop gets back there that night. With in twenty minutes after he enters the club he rushes out, and when Hunter follows him he says he is looking for a doctor to get cocaine for a gentleman upstairs. He is white and trembling. They go back together and find you there and Fleming dead. Wardrop tells two stories. First he says Fleming committed suicide just before he left. Then he changes it and says he was dead when he arrived there. He produces the weapon with which Fleming is supposed to have killed himself and which, by the way, Miss Fleming identified yesterday as her father's but there are two discrepancies. Wardrop is really admitted that he had taken the revolver from Fleming, not that he, but the morning before during the trial." "And the other discrepancy?" "The bullet. Nobody ever fired a 52 bullet out of a 52 caliber revolver unless he was trying to shoot a double compound arrow. Now, then, who does it look like?" "Little Wardrop. I confessed." "My Jove, they didn't both do it." "And he didn't do it himself for two good reasons. He had no revolver that night and there were no powder marks." "And the eleven twenty-two and Mrs. Maitland's disappearance." He looked at me with his quizzical smile. "I'll have to have another stock if I'm to settle that," he said. "I can only solve one renter on one stock. But disappearance are my specialty, perhaps. If I have a piece of cheese." But I got him away at last, and we walked together down the street. "I can't quite see the old lady in it," he soffeed. "Burton, who do you think was in the Flaming home last night?" I said. "Nightfood," he said sincerely. He stepped under a street lamp and looked at his wath. "I believe I'll run over to the capital tonight. While I'm gone-I'll be back tomorrow night or the next morning—I wish you would find Rosie O'Grady or whatever her name is, and locate Carter. That's probably not his name, but it will answer for you. Then get your friend Hunter to keep him in sight for a while until I come back anyhow. I'm beginning to enjoy this. We are going to make the police department look like a kindergarten playing jackstraws. "And go to Bellwood and find out a few things," he added. "It's all well enough to say the old lady was a meek and timid person, but if you want to know her peculiarities go to her neighbors." We separated at the station, Burton off to Pittsburg. I to take a taxiab and armed with a page torn from the classified directory to inquire at as many of the twelve Anderson's drug stores as might be necessary to locate Della's gentleman friend, "the clerk," through him Della and through Della the mysterious Carrier. I had checked off eight of the Andersons on my list without result, and the taximeter showed something over $11 when the driver drew up at the curb. "Gentleman in the other cab is hailing you, sir—the one that's been following us." A duplicate of my cab stood perhaps fifty feet behind, and from it a familiar figure was slowly emerging. The figure stopped to read the taximeter, shook his fist at the chauffeur and ap proached me. It was Davidson. "That liar and thief back there has got me rung up for $10," he said, ignoring my amazement. "Nineteen dollars and forty cents!" He surveyed my expense account at the driver's elbow, then hit the meter a smart slap, but the figures did not change. "Nineteen dollars!" he repeated, dazed. "Nineteen dollars and—look here," he called to his driver, "it's only 30 cents here. Your clock's 10 cents fast." He borrowed $8 and crawled in with me. The next address on the list is the right one," he said. "I'm going to tell you something. There were eleven roundheads as well as the sergeant who heard me read the note I found at the Fleming boose that night. You may have counted them through the window. I doose plains chapel里 White Cat read it before morning. When the news of Mr. Fleming's mur-de-fath came out I thought this fellow 'Carter might know something, and I trailed Delta through this Mamie Brennan. When I got there I found Tom Branigan and four other detectives sitting in the parlor and Miss Delta in a blue silk waist making eyes at every mother's son of them." I hugged in spite of my disappointment. Davidson closed the window at the driver's back. "Understand me, Mr. Knox," he said. "Mr. Fleming killed himself. You and I are arrested on that. Even if you aren't just convinced of it I'm telling you, and—batter it let drop, str." Under his quiet manner I felt a threat. It served to rouse me. "I'll let it drop when I'm through with it," I asserted and got out my list of addresses. "You'll let it drop because it's too hot to hold," he retorted, with the suspicion of a smile. "If you are determined to know about Carter I can tell you everything that is necessary." The chauffeur stopped his engine with an exasperated jerk and settled down in his seat, every line of his back brushing with irritation. "I prefer learning from Carter himself." He leaned back in his seat and produced an apple from the pocket of his coat. "You'll have to travel some to do it, son," he said. "Carter left for parts unknown last night, taking with him enough money to keep him in comfort for some little time." "Until all this blows over," I said bitterly. "The trip was for the benefit of his health. He has been suffering and still is suffering from a curious lapse of memory." Davidson smiled at me engrossedly. "He has entirely forgotten everything that occurred from the time he entered Mr. Fleming's employment until that gentleman left home. I doubt if he will ever recover." With Carter gone, his retreat covered by the police, supplied with funds from some problematical source, further search for him was worse than useless. In fact, Davidson strongly intimated that it might be dangerous and would be certainly unpleasant. I yielded ungratiously and ordered the cab to take me home. But on the way I cursed my folly for not having followed this chytrous claw earlier, and I wondered what this thing could be that Carter knew, that was at least surmised by various headquarters men and yet was so carefully hidden from the world at large. The party newspapers had come out that day with a signed statement from Mr. Fleming's physician in Plattsburg that he had been in ill health and inclined to malaria for some time. The air was thick with differences with his party. The dust cloud covered everything. Pretty soon it would settle and hide the tracks of those who had hurried to cover under its protection. Davidson left me at a corner downtown. He turned to give me a parting admonition. "There's an old action in the unmade around here. Never sit down on a piece of metal until you spit on it. If it stiles, don't hit." He grinned. "Your best position just now, young man, is standing, with your hands over your head. Confidently, there isn't anything within expectorating distance just now that isn't pretty well hot up." He left me with that, and I did not see him again until the night at the White Cat, when he helped put me through the transom. Recently, however, I have met him several times. He invariably mentions the $8 and his intention of repaying it. Unfortunately the desire and the ability have not yet happened to coincide. I took the evening train to Bellwood and got there shortly after it in the midst of the Sunday evening calm, and the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection. Prosecution, inquiry was not adviable. So far Miss Jane's disappearance was known to very few, and Hunter had advised caution. I wandered up the street and turned at random to the right. A few doors ahead a new red Jack building proclaimed itself the postoffice. It occurred to me that here inside was the one individual who, theoretically at least, in a small place always known the idiosyncrasies of its people. The postmaster proved to be a one armed veteran of the civil war, and he was sorting rapidly the contents of a mail bag, compiled on the counter. "No delivery tonight," he said shortly. "Sunday delivery to 8." "I suppose, then, I couldn't get a dollar's worth of stamps?" "We don't sell stamps on Sunday nights," he explained. "But if you're in a burry for them"— "I am." I lied. After he had got them out, counting them with a wrist knicker, and tearing them off the sheet with the dolibération of age. I opened a general conversation. It was when I asked him about his empty sleeve, and he had told me that he lost his arm at Chancellerville that we became really friendly. When he said he had been a corporal in General Maitland's command my path was one of ease. "The Maitland ladies! I should ask I do, he said warmly. "I've been fighting with Lettia Maitland as long as I can remember. That woman will scrap with the angel Gabriel at the resurrection, if he wakes her up before she's had her sleep out." "Miss Jane is not that sort, is she? "Miss Jane?" she's an angel—she that. She could have been married some times when she was a girl, but Lethic wouldn't miss it. I was after her myself forty two years ago." "I suppose from that the Maitland ladies are wealthy," I said. "Wealthy." They don't know what they're worth—not that it matters a mite to Jane Maitland. It's a shameful thing that a woman as old as Jane should have to get her letters surreptitiously. For more than a year now she's been coming here twice a week for her mail, and I've been keeping it for her. Rain or shine, Mondays and Thursdays, she's been coming, and a sight of letters she's been getting too. "Did she come last Thursday?" I asked overaggressly. The postmaster all at once regarded me with suspicion. "I don't know whether she did or not," he said coldly, and my further attempts to beguile him into conversation failed. I pocketed my stamps, and by that time his resentment at my curiosity was falling. He followed me to the door and lowered his voice cautiously. "Any news of the old lady?" he asked. "It don't generally known around here that she's missing, but Hepple, the cook there, is a relation of my wife's." "We have no news," I replied, "and don't let it get around, will you?" He promised gravely. "I was tellin' the missus the other day," he said, "that there is an old waited up cellar under the Maitland place. Have you looked there?" He "That woman will scrap with the angel Gabriel." was disappointed when I said we had and I was about, to go when he called me back. "Miss Jane didn't get her mail on Thursday, but on Friday that niece of hers came for it. Two letters, one from the city and one from New York." "Thanks," I returned, and went out into the quiet street. I walked past the Maitland place, but the windows were dark and the house closed. Haphazard inquiry being out of the question, I took the lock to lock train back to the city. Why had Margery gone for Miss Jane's mail after the Little Indy was missing? And why did Miss Jane carry on a clandestine correspondence? CHAPTER XII It the funeral occurred on Monday It was an ostentatious affair, with a long list of honorary pallbearers, a plowed corps of city firemen in uniform ranged around the casket, and enough money wasted in floral pillows and sheaves of wheat tied with purple ribbon to have given all the hungry children in town a square meal. Amid all this state Margery moved, striken and isolated. She went to the cemetery with Edith, Miss Lettis having sent a message that, having never broken her neck to see the man living she wasn't going to do it to see him dead. The music was very fine and the ecology spoke of this patriot who had served his country so long and so well "Following the flag." Fred commented under his breath, "as long as there was an appropriation attached to it." And when it was all over we went back to Fred's until the Fleming house could be put into order again. Mrs. Butler arrived that day, which made Fred suspicious that Edith's plan to bring her far-anticipated his consent. But she was there when we got home from the funeral, and after one gimplet at her thin face and hollow eyes I begged Edith to keep her away from Margery, for that day at least. Mrs. Butler was exhausted by her journey and retired to her room almost immediately. I watched her slender figure go up the stairs, and with her black trailing gown and colorless face she was an embodiment of all that is lonely and helpless. Fred closed the door behind her and stood looking at Edith and me. "I tell you, honey," he declared, "that brought into a cheerful house is such intense cause for divorce. Isn't it, Jack?" "She is ill." Edith maintained voluntarily, "She is my cousin, too, which gives her some claim on me, and my guest, which gives her more." From somewhere above there came a sudden crash, followed by the anouncement made by a scared homemaid that Mrs. Butler had fainted. Mrs. Butler was really ill, and Margery insisted on looking after her. It was an odd coincidence, the widow of one state treasurer and the orphaned daughter of his successor. Both men had died violent death, in each case when a boiling under the political灯 had threatened to blow it off. The boys were allowed to have their dinner with the family that evening in honor of Mrs. Butler's arrival, and if was a pliotson color, Margery got back a little of her color. As I sat away from her and watched her expression change from sadness to resignation cill even gradually be investment at the boys' anton, I we wondered just how much she knew or suspected that she refused to tell me. I was firmly embarked on the case now, and I tortured myself with our ideas. Suppose I should Bad Wardrop guilty and I should find extensating circumstances, what would I do-publish the truth, see him hanged or imprisoned and break Margery's heart or keep back the truth, let her marry him and try to forget that I had had a hand in the whole wretched business? Prove Wardrop innocent, I reasoned with myself, get to the bottom of this thing, and then—it would be man and man, a fair field and no favor. I suppose my proper attitude romantically taken was to consider Margery's engagement ring an indisoluble barrier. But this was not romance, I was fighting for my life happiness, and as of the ring—well, I am of the opinion that if a man really loves a woman and thinks he can make her happy he will tell her so if she is strung with engagement rings to the ends of her fingers. Dangerous doctrine? Well, this is not propaganda. Tuesday found us all more normal. Margery went with me along the hall when I started for the office. "You have not learned anything?" she asked. "Not much," I evaded. "Nothing definite, anyhow. Margery, you are not going back to the Monmouth avenue house again, you? "Not just yet. I don't think I could. I suppose later it will have to be sold, but not at once. I shall go to Aunt Letitia's first." "Very well," I said. "Then you are going to take a walk with me this afternoon in the park. I won't take no; you need the exercise, and I need—to talk to you." When she had agrived I went to the office. Burton was there. He had struck up an acquaintance with Miss Grant, the stenographer, and that usually rigid person had melted under the warmth of his red hair and his smile. She was telling him about her sister's baby having the whooping cough. When we had gone into the inner office and shut out Miss Grant and the whooping cough he was serious instantly. "Well," he said, "I guess we've got Wardrop for theft, anyhow." "Theft?" I inquired. "Well, larceny, if you prefer legal terms. I found where he sold the pearls in Plattsburg, to a wholesale jeweler named, suggestively, Cashdollar." "Then," I said conclusively, "if he took the pearls and sold them, as sure as I sit here he took the money out of that Russia leather bag." "I'm not so darned sure of it," said Burton calmly. If he had any reason he refused to give it, I told him, in my turn, of Carter's escape, aided by the police, and he smiled. "For a suicide it's causing a lot of excitement," he remarked. When I told him the little incident of the postoffice he was much interested. "The old lady's in it somehow," he maintained. "She may have been lending Fleming money, for one thing. How do you know it wasn't her hum dred tions and that was stolen?" "There's only one thing to do, and that is find Miss Jane. If she's alive she can tell something. If Miss Jane is dead well, somebody killed her, and it's time it was being found out." "It's easy, enough to find her," he exploded. "Make a noise about it. Send up rockets. Put a half column ad in every paper in town or, better still, give the story to the reporters and let them find her for you. Describe her how she walked, what she liked to eat what she wore; in this case that she didn't have seen in a hundred different places, and one of them will be right. It will be a question of selection—that is, if she is alive." The publicity part of it I left to him, and I sent a special delivery that morning to Bellwood asking Miss Letta to say nothing and to refer reporters to me. I had already been besieged with them, since my connection with the Fleming case, and a few more made no difference. Burton attended to the matter thoroughly. The I o'clock edition of an afternoon paper contained a short and vivid scarlet account of Miss Jane's disappearance. The evening editions were full and, while vague as to the manner of her leaving, were minute as regarded her personal appearance and characteristics. To escape the threatened inundation of the morning paper men, I left the office early, and at 4 o'clock Margery and I stepped from a hill car into the park. "I wish some one depended on me," she said pensively. "It's a terrible thing to feel that it doesn't matter to any one—not vitally, anyhow—whatever one is around or not. To have all my responsibilities taken away at once and just to drift around like this—oh, it's dreadful. Besides my father, there was only one person in the world who cared about me, and I don't know where she is. Dear Aunt Jane." The sunlight caught the ring on her engagement finger, and she flushed suddenly as she saw me looking at it. We sat there for a while saying nothing. The long May afternoon was coming to a close. The paths began to fill with long lines of hurrying home-seekers, their day in office or factory at an end. Then impulsively she held out her hand to me. "You have been more than kind to me," she said hurriedly. "You have taken me into your home—and helped me through these dreadful days—and I will never forget it. Never." "I am not virtuous," I replied, looking down at her. "I couldn't help it. You walked into my life when you came to my office—it was only last week! The evil days are coming, I suppose, but just now nothing matters at all, save that you are you, and I am L." She dropped her veil quickly, and we went back to the car. The present world wrapped us around again. There was a heavy odor of restaurant coffee in the air. Peanut bacon and tuna. pun me, so we very well take away. The real world was a girl in black and myself, and the girl were in a hematrical ring which was not mine. Mrs. Butler came down to dinner that night. She was more cheerful than I had yet seen her, and she had changed her moorful garments to something a trite, less depressing. With her manes of fair hair dressed high and her face slightly animated, I realised what I had not done before, that she was the wreck of a very beautiful woman. She used a cane when she walked, and after dinner in the library she was content to sit impassive, detached, propped with cushions, while Margery read to the boys in their night nurseries and Edith embroidered. Find had been fussing over a play for some time, and he had gone to read to some manager or other. Edith already was spending the royalties. "We could go a little ways out of town," she was saying, "and we could have an automobile. Margery says their wife be sold, and certainly it will be a bargain." Near me Mrs. Butter had languidly taken up the paper. Suddenly she dropped it, and when I stooped and picked it up I noticed she was trembling. "It is it true?" she demanded. "Is Robert Clarkson dead?" "Yes," I assented. "He has been dead since Sunday morning—a suicide." "I'm glad, glad," she said. Then she grow weak and semi-bysterical, laughing and crying in the same breath. When she had been helped upstairs-for in her weakened state it had been more of a shock than we realized-Margery came down, and we tried to forget the scene we had just gone through. It was strange to contrast the way in which the two women took their similar bereavements. Margery represented the best type of normal American womanhood, Ellen Butler the neuronistic; she demanded everything by her very helplessness and timidity. She was a constant drain on Edith's ready sympathy. That night while I closed the house-Fred had not come in-1 advised her to let Mrs. Butler go back to her sanatorium. At 12:30 I was still downstairs. Fred was out, and I waited for him, being curious to know the verdict on the play. The bell rang a few minutes before I and I went to the door. Somebody in the restituiate was tapping the floor impatiently with his foot. When I opened the door I was surprised to find that the late visitor was Wardrop. His eyes were sunk deep in his head, his reddened lids and twitching mouth told of little sleep, of nerves ready to snap. "I'm glad it's you," he said, by way of greeting. "I was afraid you'd have gone to bed." "It's the top of the evening yet," I replied perfunctoryly as I led the way into the library. Once inside, Wardrop closed the door and looked around him like an animal at bay. "I came here," he said nervously, looking at the window, "because I had an idea you'd keep your head. Mine's gone; I either crazy or I'm on my way there. Knox, there are people following me wherever I go; they eat where I eat; if I doze in my chair they come into my dreams!" He stopped there, then he laughed a little wildly "That last isn't sane, but it's true. There's a man across the street now eating an apple under a lamp post." "Suppose you are under surveillance." I said. "It's annoying to have a detective following you around, but it's hardly serious. The police say now that Mr. Fleming killed himself. That was your own content." "Suppose I say he didn't kill himself?" slowly. "Suppose I say he was murdered? Suppose—good God—suppose I killed him myself?" I drew back in stupefaction, but he hurried on. "For the last two days I've been wondering—if I did it! He hadn't any weapon, I had one—his. I hated him that day. I had tried to save him and couldn't. My God, I might have gone off my head and done it—and not remember it. There have been cases like that." His condition was pitiable. I looked around for some whisky, but the best I could do was a little port on the sideboard. When I came back he was sitting with bent head, his forehead on his palms. "Ive thought it all out," he said painfully. "My mother had spells of emotional insanity. Perhaps I went there, without knowing it, and killed him. I can see him, in the night, when I dawn before, toppling over on to that table, with a bullet wound in his head, and I am in the room, and I have bls revolver in my pocket". "You give me your word you have no conscious recollection of hearing a shot fired." "My word before heaven," he said fervently. "But I tell you, Knox, he had no weapon. No one came out of that room as I went in and yet he was only-awaying forward, as if I had shot him one moment and caught him as he fell the next. I was dazed. I don't remember yet what I told the police." "Wardrop," I asked, trying to fix her wavering eyes with mine, "do you own a 32 caliber revolver?" "Tea." I was startled beyond any necessity, under the circumstances. Many people have 82 s. "That is, I had," he corrected him self. "It was in the leather bag that was stolen at Bellwood." "I can relieve your mind of one thing." I said. "If your revolver was stolen with the leather bag, you had nothing to do with the murder. Floating was shot with a 82." He leapt first incredulous, then relieved. "Now, then," it pursued, "suppose Mr. Fleming had an enemy, a relentless one who would stoop to anything to compose his ruln. In his position he would be likely to have enemies. This person, let us say, knows what you carry in your grip and steels it, taking away the funde that would have helped to keep the lid on. Fleming's management for a time. In the grip in your receiver. Would you know it sooner?" He posted affirmatively The room—this empty find the reviewer, pockets it and at the first opportunity, having ruined Fleming, proceeds humanely to put him out of his suffering, is it fretched? "There were a dozen—a hundred—people who would have been glad to ruin him." His gaze wavered again suddenly. It was evident that I had renewed an old train of thought. "For, instance?" I suggested, but he was on guard again. "You forget one thing, Knox," he said after a moment. "There was nobody else who could have shot him. The room was empty." "Nonsense," I replied. "Don't forget the warehouse." "The warehouse!" "There is no doubt in my mind that he was shot from there. He was facing the open window, sitting directly under the light, writing. A shot fired through a broken pane of one of the warehouse windows would meet every requirement of the case—the empty room, the absence of powder marks, even the fact that no shot was heard. There was a report, of course, but the noise in the clubhouse and the thunderstorm outside covered it." "By George!" he exclaimed. "The warehouse, of course. I never thought of it." He was relieved, for some reason. "It's a question now of how many people knew he was at the club and which of them hated him enough to kill him." "Clarkson knew it." Wardrop said, "but he didn't do it." "Why?" "Because it was he who came to the door of the room while the detective and you and I were inside and called Fleming." CHAPTER XIII. PULLED out my pocketbook and took out the scrap of paper Margery had found plined to the pillow in her father's bedroom. "Do you know what that means?" I asked, watching Wardrop's face. "That was found in Mr. Fleming's room two days after he left home. A similar scrap was found in Miss Jane Maitland's room when she disappeared. When Fleming was murdered he was writing a letter. He said, 'The figures have followed me here.' When we know what those figures mean, Wardrop, we know why he was killed and who did it." He smock his head hopelessly. "I do not know," he said, and I believed him. "You can help this thing in two ways." I told him. "I am going to give you something to do; you will have less time to be morbid. Find out. If you can, all about Flamingo's private life in the last dozen years, especially the last three. See if there are any women mixed up in it, and try to find out something about this eleven twenty-two." "Eleven twenty-two," he repeated, but I had not missed his change of expression when I said women. "Also." I went on. "I want you to tell me who was with you the night you tried to break into the house at Bellwood." He was taken completely by surprise. When he had gathered himself together his perseverity was overdone. "With me," he repeated. "I was alone, of course." "I mean—the woman at the gate." He lost his compassure altogether then. "There was a woman." I persisted, "and, what is more, Wardron, at this minute you believe she took your Russia leather bag and left a substitute." He fell into the trap. "But she couldn't," he quarered. "I've thought until my brain is going, and I don't see how she could have done it." He became sullen when he saw what he had done, refused any more information and left almost immediately. Fred came soon after, and in the meantime I had made some notes like this: (1) Examine warehouse and yard; (2) attempt to traco Carter; (3) see station agent at Bellwood; (4) inquire Wardrop's immediate past; (5) take Wardrop to Dr. Anderson, the specialist; (6) Send Margery violet. Burton's idea of exploiting Miss Jane's disappearance began to bear fruit the next morning. I went to the office early. Jane had been seen in a hundred different places. One perhaps was right. Which one? It was not until noon, however, that anything concrete developed. Two men walked in almost at the same time. One was a motorman in his official clothes, brass buttons and patches around the pockets. The other was a taxicab driver. Both had the uncertain gait of men who by occupation are unused to anything stationary under them, and each eyed the other suspiciously. The motorman claimed priority by a nose, so I took him first into my private office. His story was as follows: On the night in question, Thursday of the week before, he took his car out of the barn for the 11 o'clock run. Barney was his conductor. They went from the barn at Hays street downtown, and then started out for Wynton. The controller blew out, and two or three things went wrong; all told they lost forty minutes. They got to Wynton at 2:06; their time there was 1:25. The car went to the bad again at Wynton and he and Barney tinkered with it until 2:30. They got it in shape to go back to the barn, but that was all. Just as they were ready to start a passenger got on, a woman, alone—a small woman with a brown veil. She wore a black dress or a suit—he was vague about everything but the color, and he noticed her especially because she was fidgety and excited. Half a block further a man boarded the car and sat across from the woman. Barney said afterward that the man tried twice to speak to the woman, but she looked away each time. No, he hadn't heard what he said. The man not out when the car went into the barn, but the woman stayed on. He and Barney got another car. --- and took it out, and the woman went with them. She made a complete round trip this time, going out to Wynton and back to the end of the line downtown. It was just daylight when she got off at last, at First and Dny streets. Asked if he had thought at the time that the veiled woman was young or old, he said he had thought she was probably middle aged. Very young or very old women would not put in the night riding in a street car. Yes, he had had men who rode around a con- PADKIN On It Was Written in a Pencil the Figures, "C 1122." ple of times at night, mostly to sober up before they went home. But he never saw a woman do it before. On the night of the previous Thursday the chauffeur had been engaged to take a sick woman from a downtown hotel to a house at Bellwood. The woman's husband was with her, and they went slowly to avoid jotting. It was after 12 when he drove away from the house and started home. At a corner—he did not know the names of the streets—a woman hailed the cab and asked him if he belonged in Bellwood or was going to the city. She had missed the last train. When he told her he was going into town, she promptly engaged him and showed him where to wait for her a narrow road off the main street. "I waited an hour," he finished. "before she came I dropped to sleep on I would have gone without her. About half past I she came along, and a gentleman with her. He put her in the cab, and I took her to the city. When I saw in the paper that a lady had disappeared from bellwood that night, I knew right off that it was my party." "Would you know the man again?" "I would know his voice, I expect, sir. I could not see much. He wore a slouch hat and had a traveling bag of some kind." "What did he say to the woman?" I asked. "He didn't say much. Before he closed the door he said, 'You have put me in a terrible position' or something, like that. From the traveling bag and all, I thought perhaps it was an elopement, and the lady had decided to throw him down." "Was it a young woman or an old one?" I asked again. This time the cabby's tone was assured. "Young," he asserted, "slim and quick; dressed in black, with a black veil. Soft voice. She got out at Market square, and I have an idea she took a crossstown car there." "I hardly think it was Miss Malt land." I said. "She was past sixty, and besides, I don't think she went that way. Still, it is worth following up." He fumbled in his pocket and after a minute brought up a small black pocketbook and held it out to me. It was the small coin purse out of a leather handbag. "She dropped this in the cab, sir," he said. "I took it home to the missun—not knowing what else to do with it It contained only that bit of paper." I opened the purse and took out a small white card without engraving. On it was written in a penell the figures, "O 1122." When the cabman had gone I sat down and tried to think things out. Of the two stories the taxicab driver was the more probable, as far as Mile-Jane was concerned. Knowing her childlike nature, her timidity, her shroking and shamefaced fear of the dark, it was almost incredible that she would walk the three miles to Wynton voluntarily and from there lose herself in the city. Besides, such an explanation would not fit the blood stains or the fact that she had gone, as far as we could find out. In her night clothes. Biff, she bad left, the village that night, either by cab or on foot. If the driver had been correct in his time, however, the taxicab was almost eliminated. He said the woman got into the cab at 1:30. It was between 1:20 and 1:45 when Margery heard the footsteps in the attic. I think for the first time it came on me, that day, that there was at least a possibility that Miss Jane had not been stumped, relaxed and injured; that she had both been voluntarily, under threat of prison enforcement. But it also had I was not proud of the part I played. So far I had blundered. it seemed to me, at every point where a blunder was possible. I had been a half hour too late to save Allan Fleming. I had been up and awake, and Miss Jane had got out of the house under my very nose. Last and by no means least, I had waited thirty-five years to find the right woman, and when I found her some one else had won her. I was, in the depths that day when Burton came in. He walked into the office juntily and put something on the desk in front of me. It was a Rusalka leather bag. "The leather bag!" he pointed proud. The teacher bag: he pointed proudly. "It was found in Boston." It was not locked, and I got it open in a minute. As I had expected, it was empty. "Then-perhaps Wardrop was telling the truth." I exclaimed. "By Jove, Burton, he was robbed by the woman in the cab, and he can't tell about her on account of Miss Fleming. She made a haul, for certain." I told him then of the two women who had left Bellwood on the night of Miss Jane's disappearance and showed him the parue and its inclusion. The O puzzled him as it had me. "It might be anything," he said as he gave it back. "from a book, chapter and verse in the Bible to a prescription for rheumatism at a drug store. As to the lady in the cab, I think perhaps you are right." he said, examining the interior of the bag, where Wardrop's name in ink told its story. "How on earth did you get the bag?" I asked. "It was a coincidence. There have been a shrewd lot of baggage threw in two or three eastern cities intely, mostly Boston. The method, the police say, was something like this—one of them, the chief of the gang, would get a wagon, dreses like an expressman, and go round the depots looking at baggage. He would make a mental note of the numbers, go away and forge a check to match, and secure the pieces he had taken a fancy to. Then he merely drove around to headquarters, and the trunk was rified. The police got on, resided the place and found, among others, our Russia leath er bag. It was shipped back, empty, to the address inside, Bellwood." "At Bellwood? Then how?"— "It came while I was lunching with Miss Letitia," he said easily. "We're very chummy—thick as thieves. What I want to know is"—disregarding my astonishment—"where is the hundred thousand." "Find the woman." "Did you ever hear of Anderson, the nerve specialist? he asked, without apparent relevance. "I have been'thinking of him," I answered. "If we could get Wardrop there on some plausible excuse it would take Anderson about ten minutes, with his instruments and experimental psychology, to know everything Wardrop ever forgot." "I'll go on one condition," Burton said, preparing to leave. "I'll promise to get Wardrop and have him on the spot at 2 o'clock tomorrow." About 4 o'clock a woman came who refused to be turned away. She was of medium height, quietly dressed and fairly handsome. My first impression was favorable. She moved with a certain dignity, and she was not faced crimped or made up. I am more so philathetic now. The lady who tells me things says that the respectable women nowadays outrue, outcimp and outface the unrespectable. However, the illusion was gone the moment she began to speak. Her voice was heavy, throaty, expression less. She throw it like a weapon. I am perfectly honest in saying that for a moment the surprise of her voice outweighed the remarkable thing she was slygl. "I am Mrs Allan Fleming;" she said, with a certain husky delilance. "I beg your pardon." I said after a minute. "You mean the Allan Fleming who has just died!" She nodded. I could see she was unable just then to speak. She had norced herself to the interview, but it was evident that there was a real grief. I saw now that she was in mourning. "Do you mean," I asked incredulously, "that Mr. Fleming married a second time?" "He married me three years ago in Plattsburg. I came from there last night. I couldn't leave before." "Does Miss Fleming know about this second marriage?" "No. Nobody knew about it. I have had to put up with a great deal, Mr Knox. It's a hard thing for a woman to know that people are talking about her and all the time she's married as tight as ring and book can do it." "I suppose," I hazarded, "if that is the case you have come about the estate?" "Estate?" Her tone was scornful. "I guess I'll take what's coming to me, as far as that goes, and it won't be much. No, I came to ask what they mean by saying Allan Fleming killed himself." "Don't you think he did?" "I know he did not." she said tensely. "Not only that, I know who did it. It was Schwartz—Honry Schwartz. You don't know Schwartz. I was married to him for fifteen years. I took him when he had a sallow in the Fifth ward, at Plattsburg. The next year he was alderman. I didn't expect in those days to see him riding around in an automobile, not but what he was making money, for Henry Schwartz is a money maker. That's why he's boss of the state now." "And you divorced him?" "He was a brute," she said vindictively. "He wanted me to go back to him, and I told him I would rather die. I took a big house and kept bach-sley outta for gentlemen. Mr. Fleming lived there and—be married me three years ago. He and Schwartz bad to stand together, but they hated each other." "Schwartz?" I meditated. "Do you happen to know if Baculor Schwartz was in Plattsburgh at the time of the man-of-Mr. Fleming's death?" "He had already tried- to kill him the day we were married. He stabbed him twice, but not deep enough." I looked at her in wonder. For this woman, not extrordinarily handsome, two men had fought and one had died—according to her story. OPPOSE FREE MEAT PLAN Bermuda and Bahamas Ask For Lower Tariff—Other Requests Before House Committee. "Free meat," proposed by the house Democrats at the last session of congress, but blocked by a presidential veto, was indicated as part of the extra session of congress tariff revision program at the hearing before the house committee on ways and means. Members of the committee emphasized the majority sentiment in favor of free meats and a strong trend toward free cattle, in accord with the general policy of the Democrats last year to transfer the necessities of life to the free list, including free sugar and free lumber. Protest against putting cattle and meats on the free list was voiced by S. H. Cowan, of Fort Worth, Tex., as spokesman for the cattle industry west of the Mississippi river. Mr. Cowan said that such a plan would mean a flood of cheaper meats from the South American ranges and pictured ruin for the industry in Texas. He urged the committee to maintain a fair preferential in the American markets, and said that any importations of foreign cattle would come from Mexico and Canada and Argentina. Berumda and the Bahama Islands registered a protest against the pres ent tariff rates. Lorenzi George Brice, representing the Bahama Islands, urged a reduction of the duty on sponges, pineapples and grapefruit. T. H. Uterbridge and S. S. Purling, representing Bermuda officially, wanted the tariff reduced to help their people, whose trade, he said, depended on the United States. "Why, you had one million dollars worth of advertising from President-elect Wilson's going to Bermuda," smilingly suggested Representative Palmer. "Yes," replied Mr. Purling, "and we are proud of his visit." John L. Slattery, of Chicago, warned the committee not to put a duty on cantelope. E. F. Webater, of Wellington, Fla., said that a reduction or removal of the duty on onions would strike a blow at Florida. W. B. H. McFadden, of Bemont, Tex., advocated retention of the press rates on rice and dressed meats, and J. B. Samson, of Leroy, N. Y., asked to have the present tariff on salt retained. Harry Hartley and F. W. Hobbs, of Boston, the former representing the National Association of Wool Growers, advocated an increased duty on wool grease. A delegation of Massachusetts fisher folk, headed by Representative Gardner, urged retention of the tariff on cod, herring, haddock and other fish. "Give us free hay," asked John T. Donovan, of New York. Antonio Zucca, of New York, wanted reduction on Swiss and Roman cheese, which he said were Life necessities to the poor. He urged putting lemons on the free list. CHECKED HER DEAD BABY Woman Left Satchel Found to Contain Infant's Body in Railroad Station. A satchel containing the body of a child several weeks old was discovered in the parcel room at Broad street station in Philadelphia. The satchel was checked at the place eight days ago by a woll dressed, middle aged woman. The coroner is investigating. The discovery of the contents of the satchel resulted from an effort of the employees in the parcel room to locate the cause of a peculiar odor, noticeable for several days. The nuit cases, satchels and parcels were all examined carefully, and the trail led to that one uncalled for since Jan. 13. The satchel was pried open, and the body of an infant, dressed in white baby clothes, was discovered. There were no marks of identification found. One of the employees remembered having received the parcel from a woman who had appeared nervous, and excited. Bhe—Be frank with me. He—I can't My name is James—Harvard Lam- poon. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. The best way to treat colds is to prevent them. This involves the so called process of "hardening." It means fresh air every hour of the day, winter and summer. It means avoiding exposure to direct drafts and wet feet. It means getting the skin to react promptly and properly to different changes of temperature by correct clothing and by cold baths. It means the right diet and nourishing food. It means plenty of sleep and an orderly routine existence. It means the child must be free from adenoids and enlarged tonsils. Hawkins-Johnson MANUFACTURING CO., Hair Grower and Restorer, 616 N. 1st Street. Richmond, Va. Will positively remove all Dandruff and cure the scalp of all impurities. It will restore Hair-on clean Temples and Bald Heads where the Roots are not dead. THE HAWKINS-JOHNSON M.'fig Co's Hair Grower and Restorer is now being used in this State and other States with phenomenal success. Its reputation for growing and restoring nair leaps into prominence wherever it is used. MADAM HAWKINS-JOHNSON is known as the Hair Grower. Give her a fair trial and be convinced that she can do all that she claims, or money refunded. We are now in a position to sell the best nair for less money than ever before and can match all hair perfect. In ordering Hair, send sample. Transformations, $3.00, $4.00, $5.00 to $20.00. Braids, $2.50, $3.00 and $4.00. Please remit by Cash P. C. Money Order or Express Money Order. Tea in Russia. Tea is the national drink of Russia extending all over the empire and into Siberia. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Acquire a protective immunity from tuberculosis by the establishment and maintenance of sound health. If you are a frequent victim of nasal catarrh or tonsillitis look to the plumbing system of your body. It is defective and requires attention. An inflamed nasal membrane forms an ideal culture ground for the growth of tubercle bacilli to which the city worker is so often exposed. The tonsils are the guardians of the throat. When distressed the portals are left unattended. Maintain a high nutritious standard. Do not impair your bodily resistance by excesses, physical, mental or emotional. Avoid dead air, sunless apartments, damp garments, irregular hours and postponed meals. Consult your physician if you find that you are the victim of an intractable cold, a hacking cough or progressive loss of weight. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Red Hands. Red hands and prominent veins in the hands and arms are often the effect of poor circulation, the heart not carrying back the blood. The various exercises of deep breathing if practiced systematically and regularly will prove beneficial and in many cases often a complete cure. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Sprains In the Back. A prominent St. Louis physician in an address on treatment in cases of contusions and sprains in the back said: The treatment must be directed in the first place to the control of hemorrhage and the relief of pain and shortly afterward to the repair of the damaged tissues, whether they be muscle, nerve or joint, so as to restore them, as far as possible and as possibly as possible, to the normal condition. A preliminary stage of rest is essential, and the hemorrhage may be checked or limited by firm pressure, either by strapping or by the fixing of a pad of tissue, two or three layers thick, over the injured part by means of a soft flannel bandage. But after a day or two massage must be started and movements begun as soon as possible. Good results can only be brought about by early functional treatment. By the application of massage pain will be relieved, effusions absorbed, the blood supply of the injured part improved and the nutrition of the tissues increased, but to be effective this treatment must be carried out by people specially trained for the purpose and under medical supervision. The type of massage, the mode of pressure, the sensations of pressure and nerve stimulation, all play an important part, and obviously they can only be appreciated and properly applied by those who are highly trained and experienced. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Blood Purification. To purify the blood try the old fashioned remedy of sulphur and molesseen, a teaspoonful of sulphur to two tablespoonfuls of molasses every other morning for nine mornings. Skip three mornings and take again for nine mornings. Telephone, Madison-4601. ove all Dandruff and cure the Hair-on clean Temples and head. GARANTEED. PRICE, JOHNSON M'f'g Co's Hair Group and other States with phenomenal hair leaps into prominence where INS-JOHNSON is known as the Haired that she can do all that she claim to sell the best nair for less moct. In ordering Hair, send $5.00 to $20.00. Braids, $2.50, $3.00. P. C. Money Order or Express PRICE, 35 CENTS PER BOX. Hair Grower and Restorer is now monumental success. Its reputation is wherever it is used. as the Hair Grower. Give her a she claims, or money refunded. or less money than ever before and or send sample. Transfor- 2.50, $3.00 and $4.00. Express Money Order. THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. PURE WHISKEY D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR ALL KINDS OF CAFE OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS Thomas Monroe- RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET Phone, Monroe- Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Any Style of Architecture, Job CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. CARPENTRY. MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Monroe-2687. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Monroe-2160. The Taking of Contracts for Building of Structure. Job Work a Specialty. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Thomas Moore-2087. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Phone, Moore-2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. 'Phone, 577. Richmond, Va. A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and also entertainments. Flatty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Plants or Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but Broadside Carriages, Duggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Park Road.) OPEN ALL DAY AND MONDAY ON DAY ALL HOURS. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Care of the Foot. The proper care of the feet is of much greater importance to the preservation of the health than many people imagine, says Dr. Edith B. Lowrey. Many of the minor diseases, as well as those of a more serious character, can be traced directly to the improper care of the feet. Wet feet were regarded by our parents as an almost certain cause of colds, more throat and kindred lilies. They wore thick soled shoes or goloshes that protected their feet. In our race for the beautiful we are inclined to neglect the utility of some of our wearing apparel, especially the shoes. It is very common even in winter to see youthful malaise standing on a cold corner well wrapped in furs, but with their feet poorly protected by thin silk hose and light oxford. The feet and ankles should be well protected in cold and damp weather if one would avoid slackness. Corns and bunions, although usually laid to tight shoes, are also more to ill fitting shoes, especially to pointed foot shoes. The natural, foot does not merge to a point at the toe, but is nearly as broad there as at the ball, get the majority of shoes are so constructed that they crowd the toes together and throw the foot out of shape. Cold feet are the bane of many, especially of the elderly. These usually can be remedied by wearing proper shoes that do not constrict nor bind and by giving some attention to the hose worn. One never should go to bed with cold feet. Many people lie awake for hours because their feet are cold. Such persons should take a hot foot bath before retiring. Some elderly people are much troubled with cold feet. In several cases a hot foot bath relieves the condition. This gives better results if a little mustard is added to the water. It probably will not be necessary to take the foot bath more than once or twice a week, for the stimulation to the circulation from the heat and mustard seems to give permanent results. And George would have escaped in vain If the neck was a hydrophone And then no.1 of the Ark No landscape would have seen It, with his cargo, he had been Down in a submarine "My wife hasn't any sense of humor." said one man. "She won't laugh at anything I say." "Neither has mine," replied the other. "She laughs at everything I say." -Washington Star. A Striking Monument Nowhere in the world can be found a more striking monument than that erected on the shores of Lake Isay-Kul, in central Asia, in honor of the Russian General Prjevalski, a famous explorer of that region. The tomb is hollowed out in the summit of a jutting cliff on the eastern margin of the lake, and the monument consists of an enormous rough bough block of gray granite, twenty-five feet high, over which is thrown a chart of central Asia. Nose Cut On by Emery Wheel. Charles Leader, of Columbia, Pa. was at work on an emery wheel when the wheel burst and one of the fragments cut off the end of his nose as clean as a surgeon's knife would have done it. Another piece struck him on the left arm, breaking it near the wrist. CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. CBITMAN M. WHITE, Proprietor. Will Satisfy the Lover at the Right Kind of Stimulant. Special Press We Have All Grades of Good LA quora, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and See Us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., H. F. JONATHAN. FISH OYSTERS PRODUCE 114 N. 17th Street, Richmond, Va. All Orders Will Receive Prompt-Attention. Long Distance 'Phone, Madison-762. RAILROADS. *Daily. 1 weekdays. 1 Sundays only. All trains to or from Bryd Street Station stop at Eibu. Time of arrivals and departures not guaranteed. Read the signs. N. & W. NORFOLK ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Schedule in Effect May 14, 1921. Leave Richmond to Richmond, WVN NORFOLK; 8:10 A. M. 8:20 A. M. 8:30 A. M. K. 8:40 P. M. 8:50 P. M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST: 'WBW' A. M. 8:50 P. M. 8:50 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk; a11:40 A. M. b11:45 A. M. 8:20 P. M. b11:50 P. M. b11:50 P. M. From the West: 8:50 A. M. 8:50 P. M. Daily, a daily except Sunday; holiday only. Pullman, Parlor and Sleeping Ours, Ours Burring Ours. B. O. BOLLEY. Dally, a Daily except Sunday. Monday only. Pulman, Parlor and Lice Hospital Cars. Odd-Beating Cars. D. P. A. Richards. W. B. BVILL, F. Q. A. Richards. ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE JULY 8, MIL. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A. M. and 7:25 P. M. 1:00 A. M. Charleston. For Norfolk: 8:10 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 4:10 P. M. 8:00 P. M. For N. W. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:00 P. M. For N. W. M. 8:00 P. M. For Petersburg: 1:00 A. M. 8:10 A. M. 8:00 A. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 20:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 4:10 P. M. 6:05 P. M. 7:00 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 11:45 P. M. For Goldsboro: 8:00 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 8:15 A. M. 8:00 A. M. 6:25 A. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:00 A. M. 11:45 A. M. 11:45 A. M. 7:00 P. M. P. M. 6:25 P. M. 6:25 P. M. 8:00 P. M. P. M. 11:45 P. M. Except buses: *no shuttle only. Time of arrival and departure and commuter not guaranteed. C. S. CAMPBELL, P. R. P. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. E. K. BURGER, D. P. A. 967 East Main Street, Phone: Madison-688 C. & O. 9:00 A. Daily—Post trained to Old Post. 4:00 P. Newport Newport, Newport. 7:40 A.-Daily. Local to Newport News. 5:60 P. Daily. Local to Old Post. 7:00 P. Daily. Louisville and Cincinnati. 11:90 P. Pullman. 6:55 P. "St. Louis Chicago Rail." Pullman. 8:00 A.-Daily. Charlotteville. Week days. HIllson. 6:15 P.-Work days. Local to Gordonville. 10:00 A. L'burg. Laz. O. Forga. 6:15 P.-Work days. Tynn'sburg. TYNN'Sburg. TRANSFORMER NICHICHLORN. Local from East-11:30 A. M. 7:00 P. M. Through from East-11:30 A. M. 8:50 P. M. Local from West-8:30 A. M. 8:50 A. M. 7:30 P. M. Through-7:00 A. M. 8:45 P. M. James Eider Lies-8:00 A. M. 8:15 P. M. SEABOARD AIR LINE. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Office and Warehouse: 2008% P Street. Office 'Phone, Madison 2887-L. Residence—1015 St. James Street 'Telephone, Madison 6819. LADY ATTENDANT. Richmond, Virginia. OLD PAPERS PLANET EARTH Send what you want JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, WINE, VALUE FOR THE MARKET. 1610 East Franklin Street. (Florida St. Boston.) NY Sashnemeg seery Goturday by JOGN MITOUELL, fa, at 11) N, Fourth Btreet, Richmoed, Va —_———————— JOHN MITCHELL, JR, .. 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The courte have Telit that eubecrniere to sewspapers, bo Jo mite “ite pater "ducoatinged at the oo Pinta ot time for stich Ht Bas been paid are seer iede We" tne vapaueat of the wibeenption See Sarees omer tae paper teen POMMESICKTIONN Whee writing to un to renee tout aterm ple se be Mecetinae pout SRI Fou Sent eres some une emt at iow sed otherciae we rannot Smt your namie oo or eon Cltsuk OF SGIICBEN te scien te etanee Bo Dien cea tobe taber we tnuat te wot fle Poet le welt ae Uke pevermt e6.irvee a ees Snuies a te Ie Ome at Micuoved, Ve. a matter _— SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 191. oo We received a qagnphtet entitin’ SHisurical Researet réad before the Negro Soeety for Hi ters! Keser, Youners, NY by Yark Russell, MoD. of New Yorks Tp wit richly repay a perusal The Mame Protective Assoeiston nends ux an attractive calendar of fis work. The Central Regalia Co of Cincinnatt, Ohio hax a very at tractive and bantnesslthe cabendat for its patrons.” The Pacite Commoerriat Auvertier of Honotutu, Hawalt! tells of an able addrem on Lincatn, delivered at the Central Union Church by Hon, Cann, A. Cottritl, It prononnees tt a masterly production In reply to the Cleveland QO) U0 pette’s query {t maty be well to state that while Sion Ernest Lyon war correctly quoted In these cotumis, hie remarks were dn a humorous vein and bridently Intended to tacite Jaughter. It hakits effect The Aurora, Mo. -Menace syn that Prexident Taft whould be Impenched Ganged by the clection returns of last November, ft reems that the people of the country ‘were of the same opinion and “impeached” hin Tt gore Into wffect March 4.1912 Tt is now announced that Fdltor Jamon A. Roxas ts a candidate for Reoomler of -Deedu of the Dintrict of Columbia, An Mr. Kons can ny claim lo baving been x persintent and oon- alxtent Democrat, tt te preaumed that hia aspirations tn thix direction 1 he gratified. ) Wonders will never coase, Rev 4. Milton Waldron, D. D, and Mr R R. Horner, well known: colored lead ers have ‘heen appointed .on the Inaugural Committee, Rev. J. Mil ton Waldrom. D. D. did yeoman ser vioe for Mr, Wiisoa and the national ticket and eedured many hardships. Whether he will receive any other oficial resegmitios is an open ques tien. He enjoys the contkfence of the optere@ people, who believe he ia eatucted by pure motives. Although President Wilson has como out fint-footed against the Inauguration Ball on account of the expense to the Kovernurent, Col. Giles. Jackson has come out tn favor of a colored folks’ Inauguration Ball at no expense to the Kovernment Homey ax well be known bow ay at any other Umorthat President Wilton Will not attend Col, Ciles Bt. Juckson's Ball and Col Jackwen doesn't want him te attend St. either, * . The Louisville, Ky. News says that the word ‘Nesro" has togleally led fo the xe of the worl “Nesress.” We have recentty come to thin view ourselves. We admit that we can “stomach” Negros but when you hand over a dish of “Negros? we balk at the dish belnz served.up to mx and deian! that the enthe meal be carried away fiom the table Setab. | We bate: tecetved. “Is the Negra Having oa Bair @hanee? by Dr. Rooker To Washineten, We have hastily persed Ite panes and we are of the opinion that this is dae of the best dissertatens on the Tace ques: ton as yer inured Ny the distinguished ednentor, — Witlle he preachor tio Hoctrine of hope he skillfully {axerts evilenees of unfair treatment aK Uaited noon the colored paople of Chis tinny eline: The pamphlet will da much Rood und while It answers generally tho question In the negative, it maken a reply as compared with dther por- Hons of the world tn the amirinative. Thy Dallas, Tevan, Express pub: Hashes a fine portrait of Dr, Hooker T Waxhington an calla upon Pres Ktenteleey Wilwon to give hie a place What place? From past In. Mieations, the only place he wonld want wonld be that of Referee,” which he held unter the Roowvel and ‘Taft's adimintetrations, This position is practteally Aled hy Rishop’ Aleran fer Walters and If he doesn't want ft. there fo ew Dr, J. Mitten Waldron “looking tn at the ant deer Ne. Dr, Washington has about the aply job te eares to hott and Mr Andtew Carnerle and the Trustecw of the Tunkegee That fate Mave anaes foo pees ble far fim to sree the renin der af bis days auheur works ME WANTS To Go, We Teara Chat Franefa 1H. Warren ef Detrot hax derided (hat he wants th ye Ge Libera Tt dots not neem that be wit have much treutte in wearin “the wish of hte heart” Pee ote come things we do net Sat unt this sone of then Weowit Mr Warren toot inex ef orniet happess fer awe ean ave Bo Tease Whe Mrecdent Wien Leuht net osse to ius the commie. en fer tee wo hinae huawine well that he has fangbe bard and made Hane cant otees fer the Barty of hte Hotes, ’ DEPLOKABLE CONDITIONS. Kev. HO. dueris weites an ope: fetter te lus Hishop amd the Confer eee dn the Bhi Cry News, com Cotas alleged conditions in Couao HMA CoUREY, Missiscippd,! He asnerss HEAL Harty say enlored: people have heen openly murtered during he Peteten montis And the white grur- eters Nave tet ever been arrested, Ite deelates that a specten of sert dom exists in this section whieh ix clonely akin to slavery, He ‘nserts that the cotton crop ralned by col oted tenants ts virtially contlnated by the white bundlords, “These state fients confirm what waa told ae by a Baptint preacher upon the occaston our trip ta Callfornia We are satafled though that Rev, Harrin will fad other rections of Wie Southland more congenial for ists wernonnl and spiritual welfare than Poatonia county, Miastedprd. QUICK aUsTIcE. | | Within seven hours afte Re had shor and killed Chief “of Police Charles Dickey, Perey Newkirk, a rolored than hadsheon Sndtered, tries and sentenced to be hanged at Golf. port, Misainulpp!. Thin in record ume. ‘The only surprising part about it Ix that the final act. rhe hanging, wax not Includod In the performance, Stil, §¢ In a remarkabte showing for that section of the country and It Indicates that the Southern omcifis in that nelghborhood are determined to let the law take {ts course, Col ored mon cannot set up any lexitt mate argument against tho procedure In a cane of this kind. “We belteve In puntshing tho quilty by due process of'law. Colored men of the type noted do the law-abiding members of the race much harro by thetr pnlawful practices. White men can better afford to be burglars, than can colored men; who bave| inade a record for honesty that has astounded the workd, We-are of the opinion that the white oMictals of Guifpert need to be congratulated upen doling their daty. —— cae Bhunmen riba, mu Vie. Nothing on curch ts so valuable as a Human Mind, If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more {a the mind of a boy or Sounz man worth all the ‘polishing that the schools can givo It. Tho best education is not too Kood for « promistat youth. Who would choose « poor physician to save a few cents whed health ix in danxor? And who’ would choose an inferior school to'saye a few dollars when n better school will Increase the strength of character and of’mind for Nfe and propare one for a larger usefulness? a te = 3 ‘ LECTURE HALL. , Virginia Union University. Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG ML». Pee ee Sis, alia J ce er wae Bh Pe P DORMITORY. ~~ It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE fneluding manual taining for those who have completed common school subjects. Hx COLLEGE COURSE tx Broad and completes’ Itx requirements and Standing ate at high aa those of any collee for white south in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegic Board. Is THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for years been the xtantard couree for colored Baptist Schoolt Hebrew, Grens and all the regular eubje te given in Northern Seminaries are given here. Ono hundred students for the Minivtry are enrolled {i affferont Yopartments of the xchool. Iw NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, [tx finely equipped refence laborator (es, tts Worary “of 12,000 volumes, tte able faculty und tte full courses of study enable Virginia Union University to afer colored ten at education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of othor races. ee i ae aS a i es DINING HALIL * Por further information, address the Preatdent, : VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY. * RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. To the Friends, Customers and the Pablic in Gémeral:— : - MRS. ROSA E. WATSON invites you to her Halr Parlors, 812 St, James Street You can be supplied with Bralds, Pads, Trane formations and Pompadours. Combiogs made fm Bralds and Putts on short notice. Straightening and Shampogiee & Bpectalty. Straightening Combe. Ornaments for thé Hair, Hair Greases and preparationn of all kinds for she skin. ‘Phone Monroe-3376. 412 8ST, JAMES STREET, ~ RIGMMOND, . VIRGINIA. ‘Af Newkirk {s guilty and he says that ho {¥, tho sooner he ts out of this world the bettor for hin and the other coloret folks whom -he {a loav- Ing behiud. We want guilty colored folkx punished, but let the Innocent ones FO free, EDITOR CHASE AS A “BOOSTER.” W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Washington, D.C. Bee de ugquen Honably the most vituperative, ve trlatic, merciless writer among tho colori Journalists In this country today. Hin recent atuick upon Fret. R. Moore and T. Tpomas Fortune proves thts, Of Mr. Moore, he says Fred Moore fa native of thie elty, who ts well known to the people as the tnessenger to Che late Seeretary Manuingn of the Treasury Depart- ment He never went higher than the primary rate in our public xchoots = he wan appointed In the Treasury Depaftioent Fred. Moore cannot write a dozen Unes geamat! cally thet fo save tis lfeleeeert We hardly care to repeat what he vald of Editor Fortune, He was kind to Friend Moore tn comparison. Now comes Mr, oN. RR. Dodson, with fits synilicate] news rervice and announ- HAIR PARLORS. To the Friends, Customers and the Pa - MRS. ROSA E. WATSON fnvites St. James Street. You can be suppl formations and Pompadours. Combit on short notice. Straightening and Straightening Combe, Ornaments and preparationn of all kinda for yh AI2 ST, JAMES STREET, - Let HusLand Wed Another, | Wien his wife became homenten| four yearn ago, ul Steinberg, of New | ~A York city, with her consent, married a '’-" younger woman and used the $40 Jr! dowry she brought him to ‘send bis |* first wife back to Russia. . $50 ‘This was the story Steinberg told Sut when. arraigned {p court on a bigamy PFO charge, The plan promised woll un il. ™¢ the frat Mrs. Steinberg decided to re turn to New York . Here abe bed trouble supporting ber, five children and sought ald from the *°¥' father. Stenberg grew tUred of thin N8* and stopped the payments. Then bis or first wife bed bim arrested. bas ‘The court thought Stetabers’s story 7° pe mnewus) that mentence was post “' pened to permit further Investigation. coe thet Preai¢eat ‘Taft bas'appolated Mr, Fred. Minister Real dent and Be Geagral to the Republic of Liberia. Mr. Moore wilt havo the opportan ity Of going out to. Africa on oge steamer and coming back on the next ‘ove sailing for this country for as it tnkes a momth to go over there, ho will only have an opportunity to reach-the legation {n time to write Mis reatgoation to President Wilsou. Anyway, -Raitor Chape seoms to havo “kicked Mr, Mooro, upstairs,” but ho 1s smiling grimly over the fact that Preatdent Wilson will “kick bim down again.” It may .bo that other offcescokera may “throw a brick or two" at Editor Chaso with the hopo and desire that he, will “akin thom alive too” and thus enablo them to secure, an appointment at the hands of the Incoming Democratic administration as a result of thin remarkable notoriety. . Te seems to ux that (nnsmuch as Mditor Chaso js a supporter of: Dr, Rooker T. Washington ant Mr, Fret. Rt. Moore ie a devotee of the sane ‘hieftain, that the distinguished ‘ducator might no arrange rmattera 18 to enuse A cessation of thin ‘Kilkenny cat business,” which has on attracting the attention of tho yu dle. ‘ wefauiter Surrenders. “| 8 ~A. L. Meavers, defaulting carh'er of the . First. Nation@ bank, of High Itridge, N. J., who dinappearod recen - ly after confessing to @ sbortase o $59,090, surrendered himself to federal authorities at Jersey City and war browight back to Newark for arraign| — ¥ meat. : ote Veterans In Fats! Fight, ton A fixht with canes between twe| COM soventy-fiveyearold inmates of the. .0 National Soldiers’ home at Leaven| Our worth, Kan., Joseph Guyer and Heprs| cua Frank,: was the cause of Guyer's | pens death, -accoPiiag to the verdict of the! tate coscnar’s jary, In the Gsnt Guy ert) Age eke was fractured. | it has been found necessary to by and properly equip tae home [61 homeless and dependent Colored chi! dren, located at 1613 Taylor ctreet, known as the Working Woman's In- dustrial Home and Day ‘Nuvsery. that moved from 616 Third street in July, 1910. In order to make the Home perpetual and purchase it, we must mppeal to the generous, public for holp. , 7 All Interested In this work can help by contributing freely through the Mite Bozea and envelopes already dixtributed, which will be called for by a committee wearhig a badge con- talning the words “Children’s Home.” Contributions can be sent directly to Mre. J. Calvin Stewart, 1031 West Grace rtrect, who 1s the Treasurer of tho Building Fund. No fund can be too smalj-to help. Please do not give money to anyone except thone solic.ting and wearing, the “Children’s Humo™ badge. This work Is approved by Gov. Mann, Mnyor Ainallo. Dr. J. T. Mastin, Rev. Jamex Buchanan, Judge’ Richardson und n Committeco of Ladies. ‘Pho work I* also enloraed by the Colored Mininters’ Confereneo of tho City. The following compose the Colored Fomanittes for sollelting Funds: Mra, Robeker Violet Crawford, Manager of the Homo: Mra. Atelalde 3, Thompson, Mra, Mattle Hewin, Mire. Harrfott Page, Mrs, H.R. 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EXPERT STUDY OF PROBLEM George J. Kneeland, Who Directed Chicago Vice, Inquiry, and Abraham Flexner, Medical Examiner, Preparing Reports—Social Hygiene Organization's Fight on Social Evil. Among the foremost men of the country who have given serious and critical consideration of the social evil with a view toward its humane and scientific abatement is John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York. Ever since he sat as foreman of the grand jury in New York about two years ago Mr. Rockefeller has been keenly interested in discovering a sensible plan for curtailing the white slave traffic. He was largely instrumental, both financially and personally, in the organization of the bureau of social hygiene, started with the deep and earnest purpose of thoroughly investigating the present conditions of the social evil and of eradicating them so far as possible. Mr. Rockefeller now makes public the following interesting and important statement as to the origin, work and plans of the bureau: "The bureau of social hygiene came into existence about two years ago as a result of the work of the special grand jury appointed to investigate the white slave trade in New York city which served during the first half of the year 1910. One of the recommendations made by it in the presentment handed up at the termination of its labors was that a public commission be appointed to study the social evil. The foreman of that body subsequently gave careful consideration of the character of the work which might properly be done by such a commission and the limitations under which it would operate. "So the conviction grew that in order to make a real and lasting improvement in conditions a permanent organization should be created, the continuation of which would not be dependent upon a temporary wave of reform nor upon the life of any man or group of men, but which would go on, generation after generation, continuously making warfare against the forces of evil. "One of the first things undertaken by the bureau was the establishment at Bedford Hills, adjacent to the reformatory, of a laboratory of social hygiene under Miss Davis' direction. In this laboratory it is proposed to study from the physical, mental, social and moral side each person committed to the reformatory. "Arrangements were made, there fore, in the early part of last winter to secure the services of George J. Kneeland, who had directed the Chicago vice commission investigation Since that time Mr. Kneeland, with a corps of assistants, has been making a thorough and comprehensive survey of the conditions of vice in New York city. "At the same time the bureau was fortunate in securing the services of Abraham Flexner, whose reports on the medical schools in this country and in Europe are so well known, to study the social evil and the various methods of dealing with it in the leading cities of Europe. "Based upon all of these studies which will probably be published by December of this year, it is the hope of the bureau that there may be devised a practical plan for dealing with the social evil in New York city, a plan which public opinion can be brought to support." Jim Thorpe a Professional. James Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian school athlete, who distinguished himself self at the Olympic games at Stockholm, Sweden, last summer, has admitted that he is a professional. Word was received in Philadelphia that the confession was contained in a letter received by the committee of the A. A. U., sitting in New York. The committee consists of James S. Sullivan, Bartow Weeks and Gustavus Kirby. The letter came from Glenn Warner coach of the Carlisle foot ball team. He wrote that Thorpe had admitted playing professional base ball in the Eastern Carolina league. It was stated that the authorities at Carlisle knew nothing about Thorpe's professional career until the Indian made a statement several days ago. Warner wrote that the trophies won by Thorpe in the decathlon and pentathlon events at Stockholm would be placed at the disposal of the A. A. U. They will probably be forwarded to the Olympic committee and they will then be given to the second man in each event. Roy Mercer, the 1012 U of P. foot ball captain, who was fourth in the decathlon, will not get the prize for third place. No Insurgent Reception There will be no insurgent reception in Washington marking the induction COHEN'S GREAT FEBRUARY MARK DOWN SALE. An Event Planned to Make a Very Quiet Month Extremely Active will Occur Monday, Feb. 3rd. We shall be ready for you punctually at 8:30 A. M. Hundreds of Lots Bonght from Factories, Manufacturers, Importers and Wholesalers AT SWEEPING SACRIFICES AWAITS YOU. THE SLOGAN IS: More For Your Money in This Clean Up Sale We shall have an Unique Window Display--Be Sure You See It. NOTE:—Further particulars will Sunday Virginian, but the entire list of date. Don't ask us why, but be sure t NOTE: Further particulars will be given in the Evening Papers of Saturday, February 1st, and the Sunday Virginian, but the entire list of MONEY SAVING ITEMS will only appear in the JOURNAL of that date. Don't ask us why, but be sure to read it. Into office of Woodrow Wilson. The Democrats of the senate are charged with the responsibility of blocking the suggested public reception which was to be a substitute for the inaugural ball. Mr. Wilson's inauguration will be marked by Democratic simplicity. There remains now only the inaugural parade, and some of the Washington people are fearful that this may be eliminated. While the senate Democrats individually and collectively assume the responsibility of blocking the public reception, the fact is that tooverror Wilson is indirectly charged with this also. His statement at Trenton that he would be "perfectly content" to have the reception cut out of the program is believed to have caused the Democrats in caucus to vote unanimously against the use of the capitol building for a reception. The caucus also reaffirmed their determination to permit none of President Taft's nominations to be confirmed at this time, with the exception of army, navy and diplomatic appointments. $100,000 Theft: Closes Bank. The High Bridge National bank, at High Bridge, N. J., has closed down temporarily as the result of a confession by Abram J. Beavers, cashier of the institution, that he had taken approximately $100,000 of the funds of the bank. J. Henry Rose, vice president of the institution, said Beavers has turned over all his property and other assets, about $25,000, to the bank. Beavers has not been arrested and is said to be in New York. Beavers made his confession to the bank officials and a meeting of the directors was called immediately. The comptroller of the currency at Washington has been notified. Fear of being found out is believed to have caused Beavers to confess. A. L. Fowler, bank examiner, recently visited the institution. Percival Chrystie, president of the bank, is in California, where he went to spend the winter for the benefit of his health. In his absence Vice President Rose issued a statement in which he declared that no depositors would lose a cent. Eugene V. Doba Arrested. Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate for president of the United States in the last election, was arrested in Terre Haute, Ind., on an indictment against him in the federal court for the third district of Kansas. Debs was charged with obstructing justice. The warrant was served in Debs' office, and he accompanied the officers to the Office of United States Commissioner Orpb N. Hall, where he furnished $1000 bond for his appearance. Debs wrote an expose of alleged conditions in the Fort Leavenworth prison for the Appeal to Reason, which caused a government investigation. The matter printed in the Appeal was considered improper by the federal grand jury, and action was then brought against the editors for sending it through the mails. The witnesses in this case, it is alleged, Mr. Delta encouraged to leave the jurisdiction of the court. 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He forsook in mind the streets of the commonplace town and the dreary banks of the Congaree and adventured forth in search of exploits in faroff lands. All loops do something of the sort, but there can be no doubt that in the case of this young dreamer the exercise of imagination was constant and vivid and that during a great part of his days he lived, far as his mind was concerned, in one or another of the various characters which he had invented and assumed. Thus for many months he was an admiral of the navy and in that character wrote out daily reports to the navy department. His main achievement in this capacity was the discovery and destruction of a nest of pirates in the southern Pacific ocean. It appears that the government, along with all the people of the country, had been terrified by the mysterious disappearance of ships setting sail from an expected at our western ports. Admiral Wilson was ordered to investigate with his fleet. After an eventful cruise they overcook one night a praticial looking craft with a black hat and rakish flag. Again and again the chase eluded the admiral. Finally the pursuit led the船 to the neighbor boat of an island uncharted and littleerto unknown. Here lay the ships of the outwaked enemy and the dismused hulls of many of their vicious. And it may be believed that the brave American tarps, under the leadership of the rehabilitated admiral, played truly hepic part in the destruction of the pirates. There are two things worth noting about this story. First, the length of time—several months—in which the toy lived the greatest part of his living hours in the character which he had invented, and, second, the very similitude with which the details relating to the great adventure were set forth in the daily "reports." About this time Woody was reading Cooper's sea tales and Margaret's yarns, and, though he had never seen a ship in his life, never even seen the ocean—he knew every particular of every class of type of sailing ship, the name, place and use of every spar, aheet and shroud. At Columbia Woody was as began now to be commonly called, attended the school kept by Mr. Charles Heyward Barnwell. But his real education continued to be conducted by his father. He was now approaching the age for college. In spite of his late start at books, he had rapidly qualified in the ordinary preparatory studies, and at seventeen, in the autumn of 1873, he was sent off to college. Davidson college in famous Mckleenburg county, N.C., is a prosperous institution now and forty years ago was a stanch school. The fact that Dr. Wilson had been approached in connection with its presidency may have had something to do with its choice for Wostrow. Living was rather primitive; the boys kept their own rooms, filled their own lamps, for they had only kerowne, out up and brought in the wood for their own fires and carried in water from the pump outside Wilson's room was on the ground floor, luckily; it was rather a job to carry arm loads of wood to remote rooms on the upper floors. There still lingers at Davidson the tradition that Tom Wilson established a record in the minimum time necessary to dress, cross the campus and be in his seat when the before breakfast chapel bell stopped ringing. Instruction at Davidson was rather better than was common at small colleges in those days. Still, it can hardly be said that Wilson received much intellectual impulse here, although he probably added something to his stock of knowledge. His collegemates included a score or more who afterward made reputations in the world, perhaps the most eminent being R. B. Glenn, who became governor of North Carolina. His classmates remember nothing unusual about Wilson when at Davidson college. They say he had an open, engaging face, pleasant manners and was very generally liked. They agree that he was not very much interested in games, which then consisted of baseball and tennis. However, he played baseball for while on the college side and had the pleasure of hearing the costa city, "Wil WOODROW WILSON The Story of His Life From the Cradle to the White House By WILLIAM BAYARD HALE Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Co son, you would make a daddy player. If you were not so daddy lazy," He was, a great walker and at times seemed to like to be alone, walking the country about apparently wrapped in thought. Still he was, as a rule, a very social animal and a great talker in congenial company. When the fellows required to his room they would generally find him curled up on the bed with a book in his hand, reading. He joined one of the literary societies, the "Fumenean." Once a year, in February, a holiday was given to every student on which he was to plant a tree, so, whether Wilson did it to get the holiday or because he wanted to do something useful, he planted an elm on the campus at Davidson, and it stands there strong and upright today. Early in the year a small incident, in class fastened upon him a nickname. The rhetoric class being engaged upon that well known part of Trunch's "English, Past and Present," which sets forth (much after the manner of the Wamba in the opening chapter in "Ivanhoe") how good Saxon beats like Norman names when they come to the table, the professor asked Woodrow, "What is cafea' meat when served at table?" and received the hasty reply, "Mutton." Wilson was "Mondeur Mouton" for the rest of the year. Indeed, he did not finish the year, for he fell ill just before the examinations came on and was taken to his home, then at Wilmington, N. C., to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church to which city Dr. Wilson had just been called. Woodrow remained in his father's house at Wilmington throughout the year 1874-5. It had been determined that he should not return to Davidson, but should go to Princeton, and he spent the year tutoring in Greek and a few other studies. In truth, there was a good deal of play done that year too. The boy had grown too fast and was hardly fit for the rigid schedule of college life. So he "took easy" Wilmington was an old and historic place. It was a seaport; for the first time Woolrow saw a ship and caught the small of the sea. Talk was still full of the adventures of the blockade runners of the war later ended. Wilmington having been a favorite port of the deserate men and swift ships that then made so many gallant chapters of sea history. What imaginative youth from the interior but would have hugged the docks and made an occasional trip down to the cape, to return with the pilot of an outgoing ship. For the first time here, too, the young man began to take part in the social life which is an important element of existence in the south. He was really too young for the associations into which he was now thrown. Dr and Mrs Wilson immediately achieving devoted popularity the personage swiftly becoming a social readout of the city. It was a city of gentlemen of good company and women who would have been esteemed brilliant the world over. It was a chap very different from the raw youth of Davidson who one day in September, 1875, took the "Washington and Weldon" train for the north to enter Princeton college. CHAPTER IV. A Student at Princeton. HEN Woodrow Wilson got on the train at the little station in Princeton carriage in September, 1875, one of 134 new- comers, he found himself in a charming old town of maples, elms and catapas, among which stood the college buildings, dating, one of them, back to 1756. The place, full of traditions of the Revolutionary war, had been a favorite resort of southern students up to 1851. The first war had battered the front of Old Nassau hall, and the second had done more substantial if less picturesque damage in withdrawing from the institution a large part of its southern patronage. The south could ill afford to send its young men far away to college now. This year, indeed, there came twenty men from the southern states. It is remembered that some of these youths needed reconstruction. Wilson is remembered in no such way. He was known as a democrat of stout opinions from the day he first opened his mouth on the campus, but no recollection remains of his having displayed any sectional passion. A classmate remembers, however, that on one occasion when a group of fellows were talking of the misfortunes that follow in the wake of war Wilson, who was in the group, cried out, "You know nothing whatever about it!" and with face as white as a sheet of paper abruptly left the company. All testimony goes to indicate that Tom Wilson immediately took his place as a leader in the class. He appeared as a young fellow of great maturity of character, blended with unusual freshness of interest in all things pertaining to college life. He had the members of a young aristocrat. His speech was cultured. He soon won the reputation of already wide reading and sound judgment. There is abundant evidence that he was from the start a marked figure among the men who now constitute the "famous class of TRY." There have been more famous Princeton graduates than these, but there has never been a class of so high an average of ability. Robert Bridges, one of the editors of Serifer's Magazine, the Rev. Dr. A. S. Halsey, secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions; Charles A. Tulcott, M. C.; Mahlon Pitney, Justice of the supreme court of the United States; Robert H. McCarter, ex-attorney general of New Jersey; Edward W. Sheldon, president of the United States Trust company; Colonel Edwin A. Stevens of New Jersey and Judge Robert R. Henderson of Maryland are only typical members of a class of unusual mental capacity. Among such men Wilson from the start ranked high. Not as a student perhaps. He was never a bright particular star in examinations. Princeton graduated as "honor men" much students as had maintained throughout their four years' course an average of 90 per cent. Not less than forty-two out of the 122 graduates of "70 were honor men." Wilson barely got in among them. He ranked forty-first. The fact is that this son of clergymen and editors hadn't come to school to pass through a standardized curriculum and fill his head with the knowledge prescribed in a college catalogue. He had come to prepare himself for a particular career, and before he had been at Princeton three months he had finally determined on what that career should be. The class historian, Harold (Pete) Godwin, celebrating the advent in Princeton of the members of the class that graduated in 70 declares that on arrival "Tommy Wilson pushed to the library and took out Kadits.' Critique of Pure Reason." To the Library Tommy Wilson unquestionably did rush, but not to read of pure reason. If ever there was a student who demanded facts, concrete subjects, applied reason, it was this same Wilson, even in his college days. The truth is that, proving in the archives of the Chancellor Green Library, new then, one day early in the term the boy stopped at the head of the south stairs, where the bound magazines were kept, and his hand fell upon a file of the Gentleman's Magazine, that ancient and respectable repository of English Literature which Dr. Samuel Johnson helped to start away back in the middle of the eighteenth century, with his reports of parliamentary debates. When Johnson lay on his despatched he declared that his only compulsion was those parliaments, purses, for, of course, they here "takes." Now, it happened that in the seventies the editor of the day, feeling round for an attractive feature, hit upon the idea of reusing the parliamentary reports. Accordingly there began in the number for January, 1774, a series of articles entitled "Men and Manner In Parliament," by "The Member For the Chiltern Hundreds." Thomas Woodrow Wilson happened to pick up this volume of the Gentleman's Magazine and to turn to the pages occupied by "Men and Manner In Parliament" and from that moment his life plan was fixed. It was an era of brilliant parliamentary history. There were giants in those days—John Bright, Disraeli, Gladstone, Earl Granville, Vernon Harcourt. The personnel of the house of common had never been more picturesque, the atmosphere more electrical. Nothing could have better served to awaken in a young reader a sense of the picturesqueness and dramatic interest of politics, and Mr. Wilson has said to the writer of this biography that no one circumstance did more to make public life the purpose of his existence nor more to determine the first cast of his political ideas. The young man turned back to the first volume of the Gentleman's Magazine. Then, going to other sources, he took up in earnest the study of English political history. He became saturated with the spirit of the life and practices of the British parliament; the excitement of political life enchanted him. The characteristic thing about Wilson's undergraduate days at Princeton was that his work was done in practical independence of the ordinary college routine of instruction, at which even in those days he was sometimes board to rail. His mind had now settled definitely upon a public career. His purpose in Princeton was henceforth the clear and single one of preparing himself for public life. Always he was reading, thinking and writing about government. He was in no sense a "dig" and seemed to have no particular ambition in the college studies, but he devoted every energy to the furnishing and the training of his mind as an authority on government, the history of government and leadership in public life. He began to practice the electric system ten years before Princeton did. His most intimate classmate, Robert Bridges, says of him that his college career was remarkable for the "indigent selection" or his work and his "easy indifference" to all subjects not directly in line with his purpose. His business in college apparently was to train his mind to do what he wanted it to do, and what he wanted it to do he knew. And he already made himself proficient in stenography, finding it of great value in making digests of what he read and quotations which would otherwise have occupied him long. Princeton was not then remarkable in the teaching of English. But the men trained themselves in literary societies. The body of the students was divided into two "halls" so called secret societies, but really debating clauses—the American Whig society and the Chloeophic society. Wilson belonged to Whig Hall, an organisation whose constitution had been written by James Madison. Here the young man was in this story. He entered eagerly into its traditions and became almost immediately one of its leading spirits. To read ```markdown ``` Rev. Dr. Thomas Woodrow, Maternal Grandfather of Woodrow Wilson. fing and writing day and night upon his favorite themes he began to add practice in education. One of his classmates troubled with a weak throat, who was sent down to Potter's wood to practice exercises, often saw Wilson in another part of the woods declaiming from a volume of Birkle. On occasions he was known as a good deal of time reading about and declaiming in his church at Wilmington, another debating society or ganzer by Wilson himself, called the lateral Debating club, was fashioned after the British parliament. Wilson does not appear as a great prize winner. However, he did sour as second sophomore crater in the White Hall contest and was one of the litterary men of the class, an oration on Cobden and an essay on Lord Chatham being extensively recorded. Connected with the two big prizes of the college are two stories which throw light upon Wilson's character as a student. The English literary prize of $125 bld classmates thought that Wilson might easily win, but when he learned that to compete meant to spend time studying Ben Johnson and two plays of Shakespeare he refused to go into it, saying he had no time to spore from the reading that interested him. The other big prize, that of the Lynde debate, had been founded the year of Wilson's entrance to college and he had undoubtedly looked forward to winning it throughout his course. The Lynde was an extremely discussion participated in by three representatives from each of the two halls. The halls' representatives were thus chosen, a subject was proposed by a committee, and candidates were required to argue on either side, as was determined by let by universal consent Wilson was now the star debater of the Whig society. He was quite in a class by himself, and there he would represent the hall and win the prize. The subject for the preliminary debate in Whig Hall was "Free Trade Versus Protection." Wilson put his hand into the hat and drew out a slip which required him to argue in favor of "protection." He tore up the slip and refused to debate. He was a convinced and passionate free trader, and nothing under heaven, he swore, would induce him to advance arguments in which he did not be believe. It will not be supposed that life was all work even for this rather serious-minded youth. Princeton was famous for the pranks of its students. On one occasion they had taken a donkey to the cupola of Nassau hall. Every class considered itself disgrieved unless it had made way with the clapper of the college bell. The 78 class were the mortarboard; the 79s did not. Wilson ridiculed 79s headgear. Wilson lived first at the house of Mrs. Wright. One of his classmates, Bob McCarter, who also lived at Mrs. Wright's, tells of a certain evening when the two were engaged in Wilson's study in a quiet game of encherea forbidden pastime in those days. On the table, as it happened, lay a Bible. A knock was heard at the door. McCarter swiftly swept the cards out of sight under the table and went to the door. Before he opened it he turned his head for a moment, the thought flashing over him that the conscientious Wilson might have put the cards back in plain view on the table. But what he saw was-Wilson reading the Bible. At this time it is recorded that he weighed 155 pounds and stood five feet eleven. While without particular inclination or ability in athletics and while back in '75.9 athletics did not play the part in college life that it now plays, Woodrow Wilson was a leader in the encouragement of sports and in '78.9 was president of the athletic committee, at another time of the baseball association. His classmates and schoolmates concur in describing the college lad as a fellow of dignity, yet perfectly democratic. The picture is that of a youth of unusual mental, and moral maturity—a well polished fellow, never a coaster, yet always of life and interested in everything that was going on. He was popular—that there can be no doubt. The young man had a certain charm of manner and sweetness of soul that forbade anybody's disliking him, although he was generally felt to be "a little above the crowd." He never belonged to a clique. He was a normal college boy, not a prig nor a "dig" nor a "grind," but a healthy, hearty, all around chap, interested in everything that was going on, mingling with everybody, though cherishing some particular friendships that have endured. The years passed. Rectifications were attended, examinations duly passed. The library yielded up its secrets to the mind; life in the little commonwealth of young man matured the character; intercourse with kindred spirits awakened generous enthusiasm. In 1774 Tom Wilson went on the board of editors of the Princetonian, the college newspaper, then a biweekly. In "It he became its managing editor. Under his management it continued about as before—not overwhelmingly interesting to the outsider, though here and there is discernible a little brightness scarcely to be found in earlier issues. A department headed "Here and There" was the Princetonian's best feature. Once, in awhile its writer broke into rime—not always so tragically sad as this: Of his beautiful golden hair. During his senior year Wilson threw into the form of a closely reassured essay the chief-results of his thinking on the subject of the American contrasted with the British system of government. This article he sent to what was regarded as the most serious magazine then published in America, and it was immediately accepted for publication. The author was twenty-two years old and an undergraduate. In the files of the International Review, issue of August, 1873, may be found an article entitled "Cabinet Government in the United States," signed by Thomas W. Wilson. It was an impeachment of government by "a legislature which is practically irresponsible" and a plea for a reformed method under which congress should be again made responsible and swiftly responsive in some such way as is the British parliament. The author's quarrel is with the practice of doing all the important work of congress in secret committees. Secrecy, he says, is the atmosphere in which all corruption and evil flourish. "Congress should legislate on the presence of the country—in open free debate." (These words were written thirty-three years ago.) He attributes the growth of the committee system to the lack of leaders in congress, and his plan for the creation of leaders is that of giving cabinet ministers a seat in congress. He quotes Justice Story to the effect that the heads of departments, even if they were not allowed to vote, might without danger be admitted to participate in congressal debates. With this achievement of breaking into a high class magazine Woodrow Wilson closed his undergraduate days at Princeton. During his senior year he had concluded that the best path to a public career lay through the law. In the autumn, therefore, he matriculated in the law department of the University of Virginia, that seat of liberal learning organized by Thomas Jefferson. [TO BE CONTINUED.] HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Fall Fly Fighting. The Ashville (N.C.) campaign against typhoid consists in a protected watershed, a protected milk supply, a nursing service associated with registration of cases and a campaign against flies. Some of the fly facts developed by them are these: Fly eggs buried several feet underground in loose soil will develop larvae, and these will find their way to the surface. A lawn covered with manure and spudded in less than two feet deep will develop fillet as well as a stable. Fillets need oxygen and the off easily when they are deprived of an abundance of it. Fly larvae do not develop where there is little protein in the manure. They do not develop well in manure from grass fed animals. Cow manure is a poor breeding place for them, because it does not furnish enough protein and also because it does not let enough air get to the eggs. If the cows are grain fed the manure is a better "fly breeder." HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. For the Anaemic Never go to work nor stay at work with an empty stomach. The anaemic woman particularly should avoid parsimony in nutrition. Correct a sluggish digestion, and appetite will grow more brisk with increased assimilation. Take chest expanding exercises daily. A simple one is to walk slowly through an ordinary doorway, presaging the advanced hands to the inner surface of the door frame with some force and holding them there as the chest expands and fills with air until you have passed the threshold. This exercise, taken in a well ventilated room and combined with deep breathing, will force the residual air from the pulmonary tissue and suck in oxygen to the most remote and starring air cell. The exercise also develops the bust in women and the muscular tissue of shoulders and upper arm in both men and women. Anemia apella impaired efficiency. Impaired resistance to disease and impaired joie de vivre. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. To ventilate a room place a pitcher of cold water on a table in your room and it will absorb all the gases with which the room is filled from the respiration of those eating or sleeping in the apartment. Very few realise how important such purification is for the health. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Cow's milk is the only good substitute for mother's milk. It should come from healthy, consumption free and clean kept cows and be promptly cooled. It should be milked in a clean stable by clean milkmen and bottled in clean bottles. It must be kept continually on ice until used for the baby. If you cannot afford the best milk get the best you can from a milkman whom you know to be clean. Place in a clean dish and boil the milk from five to ten minutes. Cool as quickly as possible by placing the dish in another filled with ice water. As soon as the milk is cooled prepare the food as directed by the doctor, using clean dishes. The food is then poured in the nursing bottles, and clean cotton batting is used for stoppers. These bottles are kept on ice if possible. The bottles should be cleaned immediately after feeding by first rinsing with clear water and then soaking in soap water. Then clean well with a clean brush and rinse with boiled water. They should be filled with boiled water until ready for use. Use only nipples which are slipped over the neck of the bottle. Nipples with tubes are convenient for a lazy mother, but they cannot be cleansed thoroughly and may mean death to the baby. After each feeding cleanse the nipple thoroughly inside and outside. Boll the nipple at least once daily and keep it dry in a clean covered cup or glass. Shake the bottle before using. Never put the nipple in your own mouth to find out whether the milk is warmed enough. Try it on your wrist. Hold the baby in your arms while feeding it and do not allow the baby to drink from the bottle longer than twenty minutes. If he does not take the whole feeding throw it out and do not save for the next time. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Hygienic Clothing. For Young Girls Young girls particularly, says a writer in Physical Culture, are subject to the harmful effects of unsuitable, unhygienic and constricting garments. The sensible mother will under no circumstances attempt to give the dress of her twelve-year-old daughter the semblance of a mature woman. True it is that since the world's history began girls of juvenile years have sought to clothe themselves in the same manner as mature members of their sex they have admired and envised, but in years gone by parents were possessed of too much common sense to acquiesce in such demands on the part of their daughters. It is not too much to say that the difference that exists between the latter day American woman—and even the wife and mother of today—and the women of a generation post is due largely to the different methods which are followed in their training and in their clothing before their sixteenth year. --- A Freak Maud-She's quite a linguist! Rha has eight tongues at her fingers' ends. Bill-Is she in a museum? HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY: Rough Skin The rough red skin caused by exposure to winds and sun may be removed by the persistent use for a few weeks of a good skin food. The face should be bathed with warm water at night, and the skin, food should then be gently rubbed in with a circular movement of the finger tips for some fifteen minutes. In the morning remove any excess by wiping over with a ruff of cotton wool and then washing the face with a good mild soap and cold water. This treatment soon makes the skin smooth and soft and improves the color. MAILED ANYWHERE NUIS $100 POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY OR POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER. Every lady can have a beautiful and luxurious head of hair, or wear a shampoo or bath the Merge dress the hair, removing the dandruff, and it will enhance the airlifted head of hair. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Egg Economy. It is well to remember that it is not necessary to boil a whole egg to get the yolk for garnishing. Separate white and yolk without breaking the latter and poach it hard in salted water. The white can be saved for other uses. Law of the Pendulum. In the latitude of New York a pendulum must be 39.1 inches to vibrate every second. Neuer to the pole such pendulum would vibrate more rapidly and neuer to the equator more slowly, for the reason that the pull of the earth is less, since at the equator the pendulum is farther from the center of gravity of the earth.—Christian Herald. GOOD INTENTIONS Good intentions are not always wise intentions. It is not enough to desire to be helpful without taking the trouble to find out how. A resolution to be kind to the poor is well enough as far as it goes, but it will never go, very far unless the one who makes it determines also to learn what kind of poverty is within reach of his aid and how that aid can best be given. Be sure your good intentions are really good. Bill Collectors Blessed are the bill collectors, for they keep things moving. Man left to himself is naturally lazy. He dawdles and procrastinates and asks what's the use. He keeps on dawdling and procrastinating and asking what's the use until the bill collector knocks at the door. Then he realizes that something must be done. His pleasant "what's the use" philosophy is forgotten, and he bushes himself about the tasks that await him. He keeps at it until he satisfies the bill collector. Then he goes back to his philosophy. Blessed are the bill collectors, for they shall get action—Judges' Library. A Daring Critic. Among rash literary critics, says the Argonaut, we may now number Frederic Harrison. In his "Among My Books" we find a confession that "I care for Plato and metaphysics as little as I care for the rhapsodical gammon of Professor Bergson or Miss Marie Corelli." Goldsmith, we are told, was "a poor creature, and so were Sterne and Lamb and De Quincy." Farther on we are told that "nature has denied Merelthil an ear for music or verse" and that "all he bad to say in poetry could have been more truly said in verse." Swinhoener's verse he describes as a "tartanula of alliteration, assonance, consonance and artful concentration of sounds." The Number Three: Three, which since the days of Pythagoras has been the divine number, is not invariably fortunate, for, though the fates are three, so also are the furies. The graces are three, but so also are the judges in hades and the heads of Cerberus. Then there are the records of three disloyal tribes in Welsh history; there are the three robbers in Orion's belt; there were the three trynants at Athens, and three in mythology is as unlucky as it is divine. Policnare Wins French Presidency. Premier Raymond Policnare was elected president of the French republic by the national assembly at Versailles, after he had threatened to fight a duel with Georges Clomenceau, a noted political leader. The premier went so far as to appoint Aristide Briand, minister of justice, and L. L. Klotz, the minister of finance, as his seconds to arrange a duel. The incident between Polincare and Clemencea arose out of a letter sent by the former premier to M. Polincare, the contents of which were considered offensive by M. Polincare. The premier promptly sent his two seconds to ask for an explanation. During the proceedings of the national assembly M. Clemencea made a satisfactory explanation to M. Briand and M. Klotz relative to the letter. The incident is therefore considered closed. The national assembly met to choose a successor to Armand Pallierre, whose term expires Feb. 18. Polincare was chosen on the second ballot, amid scenes of the wildent commission. HIGH GRADE JOB WORK In Fact Printing of All Kinds Executed Promptly. THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Long Distance Telephone, Monroe-2213. We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manilla Paper, Envelopes. Card Board, Wedding Stock. in fact, Every thing in the Printing Line. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Varicose Veins. Operation is necessary in very severe cases. In simple early cases treatment consists of applying suitable bandages and paying attention to regularity of the bowels and general health. The bandage, which should be of channel, about two inches wide and a yard or so long, is wrapped spirally, round, the limb affected, commencing well below the prominent veins and taken well above them. It should be adjusted firmly, but not too tightly, and each layer should slightly overlap the last. It should be put on while lying in bed in the morning and not taken off again till lying down in bed at night. Never massage or rub the parts. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Those who are inclined to suffer from rheumatism should try the effect of drinking half a glassful of water with the juice of half a lemon squeezed into it every morning instead of the early morning cup of tea. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. The treatment of superficial burns, or at least of those that are not very deep seated, may generally be limited to these very simple practices: In the first place, do not pierce the blisters; but, on the contrary, carefully protect them with gauze, and if despite every attention there are some points at which epidermis has been removed these should be minutely cleansed with a slightly antiseptic solution or with boiled water. The blisters should not be emptied of their contents and cleansed until the underlying skin is definitely formed and there is no further risk of infection. This requires about eight days. Steel Wages Go Up. Employees of the United States Steel corporation will receive increases in wages aggregating $1,000,000 a month, beginning Feb. 1, according to the announcement made in Pittsburgh, Pa. by Judge Elbert H. Qary, chairman of the board of directors. The increases will go to the workers earning the lowest wages, and a conservative figure estimates those to be offered at $20,000. The Retort Legal. Sir John Maynard, who died in 1600, when lord commissioner, was taunted by Jeffreys with having grown so old as to forget his law. Maynard replied, "I have forgotten more law than you ever learned, and I haven't forgotten much." Congreve and Sheridan regarded this as the best retort in the English language, and it is in common circulation today. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. How to avoid "house disease" ailments due to impure and vitiated air, caused by keeping living rooms closed unduly, is pointed out in a bulletin issued by the New York department of public health and charities, which says: With the approach of cool weather comes the tendency to be shut up indoors. At the same time, diseases due to the breathing of foul, vitiated air, such as the common "colds," bronchitis, induenza, pneumonia, etc., show a rapid increase. Avoid as far as possible places that are not provided with fresh air and sunlight, the best agents in the destruction of germs which cause "house diseases." Particularly avoid poorly ventilated places where a number of people are congregated together. Let fresh air and sunlight enter your living rooms through open windows as much as possible. Expose the bedclothing to the open-air and sunshine for some time each day. Sleep with the bedroom windows open. The old superstition that the breathing of night air is conducive to disease is entirely false. If there are children in the family do not be afraid of their "catching cold" during the night if they are properly covered and out of drafts. Bear in mind that overheated rooms are just as undesirable as poorly ventilated ones. In clean, pure air, although cold, there will be less "catching cold" than in a warm, vitiated atmosphere. Even when there is a sufficient amount of air, with fair ventilation, the excessive dryness of heated air irritates the delicate membrane of the air passages. Moisture may be added to the air in various ways, depending upon the character of the heating system. The ideal room temperature for the maintenance of healthy atmospheric conditions is 68 to 70 degrees F. At this temperature, according to high authority, the humidity factor is practically negligible. 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THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN UNION ORDER WARSHIPS TO TURKEY Powers to Guard Following Revolt in Constantinople. WAR MAY BE RESUMED A Resumption of Hostilities With the Dalkan States Is Inevitable Unless Europe Intervenes. Kallian, British and others warships have been ordered to proceed immediately to Turkish waters, according to dispatches from Mediterranean ports, to be read for possible trouble following the political upheaval in Constantinople. The confirmation of the news of the complete revolution of feeling in Constantinople against the proposed surrender to the allies has created the impression among the peace delegates that war will begin again almost immediately. There are, however, two currents of opinion among the representatives of the Balkan league. One of these is in favor of asking Sir Edward Grey, as --- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Start the New Year Right. honorary president of the peace conference, immediately to convoke a session at which the resumption of hostilities will be declared. The other urges that the powers should first be allowed to deal with Turkey. The revolutionary outbreak in Constantinople, which led to the overthrow of the Klamil cabinet and the killing of Nazim Pasha, the former minister of war and commander-in-chief of the Turkish army, has precipitated a crisis in the affairs of Turkey that may have far-reaching consequences. A resumption of hostilities with the Italian states is regarded as probable, and the intervention of European powers to prevent this and to maintain order in the capital, if necessary, is already being talked of among close observers of the situation. Thousands of troops are said to have been moved from the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus into European Turkey upon orders from Enver Bey. Troops have been placed about the sultan's palace and the sultan is virtually a prisoner. The new cabinet, under Shekfet Pasha, as grand vizier, it is reported, has decided to recall the Ottoman peace delegates from London. The government is said, to also have requested its ambassadors as Vienna and St. Petersburg to return to the Turkish capital. Talant Bey, the new minister of the interior, informed the European embassies that all measures necessary to insure the security of the city had JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. been taken. He also addressed circ lars to the provincial governors explaining the reasons for the change in the government and calling upon the people to lend their aid to the government. "We are determined," he said, "to defend the interests of the country, now face to face with the prospect of a resumption of hostilities." Envey Rey, who has taken such a prominent part in the overthrow of Kiamil Pasha's cabinet, is the popular hero of the day. He was appointed chief of the general staff of the Turk. ish army. Nazim Pasha's death by a shot from the revolver of Enver Boy or Talam Bay, is beloved to have been accidental. The two officers, in order to protect themselves from the fire of Nazim's alde-de-camp, who had shot at them from a window, drew their revolvers and compiled them at him. A bullet struck and killed Nazim Pasha who was seated inside the room. Dr. Louis B. Ballie, the oldest active practicing physician in Allentown Pa., died in his eighty-first year. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1854. $ 4 0, 8 0 0, 0 6 0 $ For Waterways The house passed the annual river and harbors appropriation bill, the big seat of the so-called "pork barrel measures. It carried appropriations of $40,800,000. ELABORATE DEFENSE SCHEME FOR PANAMA Special Army Board Makes Report to General Wood. Proposing guards against any land attack that might be made upon the rear of the great fortifications to be erected at the terminal of the Panama canal, as well as to protect the locks and dams and the line of the canal it self from an enemy which might land above or below the protected zone of the seacoast fortifications, a report has just been submitted to General Wood, chief of staff, by a special army board. The board has prepared an elaborate scheme of land defense, involving the construction of roads for military operations and provision for the rapid movement of troops of the garrison of the canal zone to any threatened point. Detail of the project are withheld but as soon as the report has been approved by the general staff orders will be sent to the canal zone to begin at once its execution. Prussic Acid. The quickest acting poison is prussic acid. It causes almost instantaneous Kavanaugh to Represent Arkansas. Judge W. M. Kavanaugh was chosen United States senator from Arkansas for the short term by a separate vote in the house and senate. Wyoming Re-Elects Warren. Francis E. Warren, Republican, was re-elected United States senator in the two houses of the Wyoming legislature. Fall to Represent New Mexico. Senator A. B. Fall was chosen senat- ir by the two houses of the New Mex- ico legislature, which voted separately. Rev. Daniel Fisher Dies. Rev. Dr. Daniel W. Pfahor, father of Secretary of the Interior Fisher, died in Washington of heart failure after in illness of several months. He was seventy-five years old. As a Preabyterian minister he had seved churches in New Orleans and Wheeling, W. Va. and was a member of the committee which revised the Westminster Confession. Hammond, inventor of Typewriter, Cie James Barlett Hammond, invenor of the typewriter that bears his name and president of the company manu- facturing it, died suddenly at the Hotel Alkazar in St. Augustine, Fla. 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My father Emanuel McPherson Quivers while yet a slave was Porman at the Tredegar Iron Works on Belle Isle. Father had a sister by the name of Sarah M. Kemp. She died in Richmond, Va. about 33 years ago. My first cousin, Stephen Kemp was Postmaster of Richmond after the war. Any information that can be furnished will be greatly received. EMANUEL QUIVERS, P. O. Box 501, St. Stephen, Cal.