Richmond Planet

PLAYA A mild sensation was caused here by the announcement of the marriage of Mrs. Eliza A. C. Forrester, widow of the late William M. T. Forrester to Mr. Thomas Wickham at New Orleans, La. Saturday, February 1pt. 7 P. M. at the St. Luke Episcopal Church. The bride is 63 years of age and the groom 65. There is a romance of early life in the affair as Mr. Wickham was a author at the time she married her first husband. The happy couple will reside in New Orleans. The 153rd Birthday Anniversary of Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, the founder of the A. M. E. Church and the 12th Anniversary of the Allen Christian Endeavor League will be celebrated at the Third St. A. M. E. Church Sunday eve at 8 o'clock. An appropriate program will be readied At 11 A. M. the pastor, Rev. S. S. Morris will presach a special sermon, subject, "The Growth of the Church." The public is certainly invited to be present. Colored Business Enterprises. I have cited facts showing that an humble colored butter of far-seeking judgment and "mother-wit" ability, by his determination to win finally "naved the life" of the Southern Aid Society and drew to his support a young man of business ability and they together laid the foundation for the present prosperity of the colored insurance corporation. In this, the names of Armistead Washington and Thomas M. Crump stand out in bold relief, while the perfection of the system inaugurated is due to the tireless energy of B. L. Jordan who also wrote a text book for agents. ANOTHER CHAPTER. I am to deal now with another chapter in this insurance organization plan and with a different type of man. It will hardly be questioned when I assert that Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist Church of Philadelphia and for many years pastor of the Fifth St. Baptist Church of this city is one of the greatest and most successful organizers in the country. He had and has educational ability and organization experience, in striking contrast to the type of leader before cited. A SMALL GROUP Rev. Dr. Graham seeking the busi- ness needs of his people undertook the financial leadership and founded The Richmond Beneficial and Insur- ance Company. To name him is to name John T. Taylor, Secretary and General Manager and J. J. Carter, the Cashier in conjunction with St. James Glipin and others. Success came to this small group of men and 725 North Second Street was purchased. Of course it is need- less to speak about disagreements in colored folks' organizations. With the retirement of Dr. Graham cane E. F. Johnson upon the scene of action and he was succeeded by St. James Glipin. ADVANCED STEADILY. During all of this time the Company has steadily advanced until last year its magnificent office building on the north-west corner of Second and Jackson streets, put a climax or capstone to its endeavors. It ranks among the leading colored insurance companies of the State. I can hardly do justice to these great racial enterprises in a space so limited, but if it shall tend to inspire others to go and do likewise, my time shall have been well spent. The story of the organization of The American Beneficial Insurance Company will next be placed before the readers. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. --- Leesburg. (Va.) Notes Service were well attended at the Methodist Church yesterday. Service by the pastor morning and evening. Roy. Tyler is improving. Quite a nice little party headed by Mrs. Mahala Glenn went to Gleedsville to surprise Mrs. Gleod's sister. Mrs. Bettle Valentine. Mr. Henry Craven of Ashburn was in town Monday on business. Miss Naomi Blay of Ashburn was in our town last Saturday on business. Mr. Sam Taylor went to Washington. D. C. last week on business. Mr. Charles H. Ashe went to Washington last Saturday on business. Miss Clara N. Walker continues to improve. Mr. Kelly Norris continues to improve at the hospital. Port Haywood School's Good Report Port Haywood, Va., Jan. 31.—The enrollment and monthly report of the Hambug School No. "C" for the month of January with Miss Clara F. Wilson as teacher: The total enrollment of pupils, 35. Those present every day during this month, viz.—Morris Digua Robert F. Dourglass, James H. Taylor Lora B. Brooks, Ethel Dourglass, Georgia Dourglass, Lucy Dourglass, Adlaide Hunter, Edna V. Hunter, Mary I. Hunter, and Lottie V. Digua. Those present each day of the school term, viz.—Morris Digua, Ethel Dourglass and Georgia Dourglass, Punctual each day—Morris Digua. If you wish a home and on easy terms, you can not do better than to see us BRAGG BROK & CO. 906 North Second R. Want Kite Slaves Pendoncl. Newbern Va., January 30, 1913 Dear Sir: I have written you before anent the subject of pensioning the ex-slaves and I beg the indulgence of your readers again while I talk again on this subject. I urge, again that our race proceed to organize at once throughout the State as well as throughout our fair Southland and proceed to circulate petitions to the Congress of the United States praying that they grant from the Treasury of the United States such sum, annually as they may deem necessary to sustain the few remaining, old ex-slaves in this, the declining years of their lives. Mr. Editor, I would suggest to the members of our race, through the columns of your paper that every township be first organized and delegates be chosen from these to attend a Stat. organization to be held at some convenient point, and from these State conventions, delegates be chosen to carry from each respective State the petitions gathered and assemble in Washington on some given date and in a body wait upon the Congress of the United States with our petitions. To initiate this movement we have organized at Dublin, Va. the Freedmen's Pension Club the object of which is to circulate these petitions. I have also had some correspondence with former Governor J. Hoge Tyler in which he congratulates us in this movement and assures me that he is much interested and that in his judgment no more worthy object could be brought to the attention of Congress than the pensioning of the old, faithful exalves. Mr. Editor, let us urge you to take a hand in this movement and through the editorial columns of your paper, endeavor to arouse our race and stimulate them with the desire to organize. We feel sure that your influence will aid us greatly in forwarding this movement. Very respectfully. MOSES PORTER. Press Correspondent for the Freedmen's Pension Club. No. 1 of Dublin, Va. Prodinger's Pension Club Organized at Dublin, Va. The organization of the Freedman's Pension Club of Dublin and Newham Va was held at the First Bandit Church of Dublin, Va., January 29, 1913. Mr. J. R. Fleminga was elected as President; Miss Ruth Monroe, Secretary. Committee appointed as leaders.—Messrs. John Fortner, Thomas Hendricks, Henry Banks, J. T. Carr, Abraham Meadows, Willie Russell. Motion carried that Mr. Moss Porter would have the communication with the press also the organization of the Freedman's Pension Club. The steps which have been taken with Rev. R. R. Jones and Moss Porter endorsed it. J. R. Fleminga, President; A. B. Meadows, Vice President; Miss Ruth Monroe, Secretary. Transferred to Baker School. Rev. D. Webster Davis has been granted a furlough by the public school authorities and Mr. Abram L. Morton has been transferred from Moore School to Baker to take charge of Rev. Davis' school. The latter continues to have severe attacks of sickness and his condition is so variable that it is difficult to definitely note permanent improvement in his condition. His many friends hope for his complete recovery Mrs. Forrester Wels. Celebrate Founders Birthday ```markdown ``` Prominent Merchant Passes Away H. F Jonathan Answers Last Rol Call—Dies Suddenly Surrounded by His Family. H. F. Jonathan, the well known wholesale and retail dealer in fish, oysters and game filled suddenly while sitting at his supper table last Wednesday at about 5 o'clock. He was surrounded by his family, when he suddenly threw up his arms and fell back. He was hastily removed and laid on the floor and H. F. JONA Who Died Suddenly on nesday Night, F every effort made to revive him, but he had passed away. MANY VISITORS Within a few moments after friends had gathered from all quarters and then came the undertaker and the work of shrouding him was soon under way. Mr. Jonathan was one of the best known colored men in the State. His sociable manner made for him many friends and he was a member of many organizations. Until January 8, 1913, he was Vice-President of the Mechanics Savings Bank, having served in that capacity since January 1, 1902. He was a member of the Board of Directors of that institution and was much thought of by all who knew him. FUNERAL TODAY He was also Grand Master of Exchequer of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A., E., A. A., and A. He has served most creditably in this position for many years. The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the First Baptist Church where he held membership. Mr. Jonathan's palatial residence was indeed a place of mourning where weeping children and friends are mourning over the untimely demise of the loved one. ORDER OF CALANTHE: Court Organised in Halifax County Syracuse Court, No. 164, Order of Calanthe was organized at Meadville Hallafax county last Tuesday through the efforts of District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Fannie L. Coleman. Dr. E. R. Jefferson subjected the candidates to a medical examination and afterward with the District Deputy organized the Court. District Deputy Grand Chancellor White was also present. The officers are Laura Easley, Worthy Counselor; Elizabeth Lewis, Worthy Inspector; Mary Owens, Inspector; Sam, Plieny, Orator; Saran Plienty, Register of Docents; Carrie Plienty, Register of Accounts; Annie Catheus, Caps, Receiver of Deposits; Mary Lee, Series Directions; Hearstia Chappell, Judior Directions; Purdue Lena, Conductors; Ellen Robinson, Assistant Conducteur; Priscilla Bruce, Escort; Phoebe Barkedale; Herald; Elliana Bruce, Protector; Trustees, Pleaseant Barka dale, Rebecca Bruce, Thomas Howerton: A countenance report was served and all enjoyed themselves. Mrs. Coleman was congratulated upon her good work. REAL ESTATE RIIGAH 6 Room House on St. Peter St. with wide lot. Price only $1100.00. Small house on Seventh Street be between Baker and Preston. Small cash payment required. Price $1500.00. B. A. CEPHAS. Corner Second and Leigh Sts. Phone. Monroe 588. ONATHAN, only at His Home Wed- ht, February 5th. FARMVILLE (VA.) NEWS Farmville, Va., February 3.—Our sick list is on the increase. Drs. Baker and Mason soon to be on the go looking after their patients. There will be an "Age Party" given Tuesday, Feb. 4th at the residence of Mrs. Amanda Branch on Race street by the slaters of Pastor's Aid Club. A number of sisters and brethren presented to the First Baptist Church on Sunday morning, a set of collection plates. Deacon P. H. Hilton was the spokesman. They looked like silver. This list was headed with the name of Mrs. Catherine Palge. Revs. Adams and Frank Ellise drove seventy miles last week in two days over the rough roads of Buckingham county looking up the Woolriche, who are heirs to a large fortune in California. On January 28th Mrs. Mary Pettitt of Ely street entertained at dinner in honor of Miss Minnie B. Woodson. The dinner was called "Bull Moose." Those invited were: Mr. and Mrs. George Allen. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carter. Mr. and Mrs. E. Stanley Clerke. Meedames Ida Bolling and Lilie Smith Brown. Misses Pearl Hilton. Ida Hughes and Minnie B. Woodson and Schuyler Bland, Drs. Baker and Mason. Moress, Henry Anderson and "Mike" Mosley. On January 31st, Mr. and Mrs. George Allen gave a "Progressive" Dinner in honor of their sister, Miss Minnie B. Woodson of New York City. Those receiving invitations were: Dr and Mrs. R. G. Adams, Roy, and Mrs. P. M. Robinson Mr., and Mrs. J. C. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Chorne, Meadames Lille Smith Brown, Ida Bolling, Sarah Mc Dantel and Mary Pettitt, Missen Schuyler Bland, Pearl Hilton and Minnie B. Woodson, Mr and Mrs Ed. Stanley Clarke, Drs. Baker and Manon, Measers, James Ghee, Jackson Glaze and "Mike" Mosley. The sisters of First Baptist Church organized themselves into a "Willing Worker" Club after the morning service looking forward to the grand rally in April. Mrs. Louise Cotes, president: Mrs. Mattle Allen, vice-president: Mrs. Maria Racv secretary Mrs. Mary B. Paige, treasurer. The brothers are to be The horton are expected to organise themselves into a club on next Sunday. Greetings from Staunton, Va. Mrs. Mary Keys, formerly of this city died Friday night at her home at Cedar Green, Va. Her funeral took place from the Augusta St. M. E. Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock Interment was at Fairview Cemetery. The young ladies of this city organized a Sewing Circle Club January 17, 1913 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allen. On Friday, Jan. 24th they had their first meeting at the residence of Miss Emma Leoch. After the hour of work closed they were invited into the dining-room where a beautiful repast was served, after which they bade them charming hostess good evening. Who were present are hoping they will soon be there again. Mrs. Nannio Marshall has been sick for some few days. We are hoping she will soon recover. Miss Sarah Jackson arrived in the city from New York off a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Jackson. Miss Virginia Brooks arrived in the city from Harrisonburg, Va. to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. H. Jones. Mr. Thomas Ewell is on the sick list we are sorry to note. Mrs. J. H. Allen is confined to her bed with sickness. We hope she will soon recover. Mr. Luther Kinney arrived in the city some time ago from Tampa, FL, visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Sam Bowles, who has been in Philadelphia for some time, returned home last week on account of the illness of his mother, Mrs. Stinna. Mr. Will Bowles after a flying trip to Philadelphia to visit his family has returned to the city. Mr. Albert Jackson left the city Friday morning for Pittsburgh. Penn. after a stay of several weeks. Mr. Fred Scott after several weeks visit to our city left for his home in Illinois. Mrs. M. F. Dawsey, after several weeks visit to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington came home last week accompanied by her husband Mr. James Dawsey, who had been staying in Baltimore for some time. Miss Maggie Cabell left for her home in Venusville, Va., where she will spend some few days. Mr. James Anderson returned home after a visit of several days to his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Eugene Dickerson, whose husband is a practicing physician in that city. SUSAN GLEANINGS Susan, Va. Feb. 1. We are glad to report at this writing that need Billips is much improved after a long and severe illness of a very peculiar nature. For a while his case baffled the skill of the physician but he is now able to get about nicely. On Sunday, January 26th death entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Johnson and claimed their infant son. He was laid to rest on Monday, 27th in the True Reformers Cemetery. Measles became so prevalent that Room One of the Antioch School had to close for a few days. We hope that the children will soon be out. Antioch pulpit was filled Sunday by Rev. J. C. Williams of Cheapside, Va. He preached two very excellent sermons which were highly enjoyed by all present. We are glad to report that Mrs. J. F. Johnson is much improved and able to be out. Mrs. Clara Davia is improving slowly. Sunday seemed to be a very cold day. It was quite a contrast to the preceding one. The following named children were present every day during the month of January: Thomas H. Brownley, Thomas M. Brownley, Wilbur Brownley, Vincent Brown, John L. Forrest, Archie Forrest, Laurence Hutkins, Randolph Hawkins, Donald Johnson, Georgia Borum, Fanny G. Forrest, Annie N.-Smith. Miss Webater and the children at the Weaver Orphan Home, wrote letters of thanks to the children for the Thanksgiving barrel. They all seemed to be highly pleased with their fish. They said they were a real treat to them. Supt. E. C. Perefull visited the school Monday, February 3rd. In Remembrance In sad, but loving remembrance of our dear mother, Mrs. Sarah F. Johnson, wife of John W. Johnson who left us December 2, 1911: The flowers we laid upon her grave Have withered away and died; But fresh and from her memory, With our hearts ablaze, Our loving daughter. From New York. AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS Pre-Lenten brings out Brilliant Assemblage—Palm Garden Pictorialogue Scene of Prominent Society and Professional Folks—Brilliant Program—Proof. Walter Creug, promoter of Pre-Lenten Presents Classic Program of Gifted Artists from many cities—Mine. Constantha Beckling Brown, Pre-Lenten Prima-donna—Baltimore Singer gets Ovation—J. Thomas Butler, the Race's Most Gifted Reader Delights Pre-Lenten Throne—Butler Well Received in His Delightful Reporter—Holand Hayen, Boston Tenor and Mina Helen Blake Smith Other Artist—Dr. Dulcosa Warne Colored Press—Ursge Editors Thru the Crisis not to Submit their Paper—Noted Scholar Holds Up Ethical Side of the Profession—Thomas Jubilee Company in the Metropolis—Gifted Jubilee Singer pass thru enroute to the West—Bishop Walter back from Birmingham, Ala.—Churchman Attends Meeting of Zion Bishop—Metropolis Becoming Center of Neuro Journalism—One Daily and Four Weeklies Being Published Here. (Allen's National News Bureau, 222 West Fifth Third Street.) The ninth annual Pre-Lenten at Palm Garden last Thursday evening brought out as usual a brilliant assam blaze of prominent men and women of the race. The pictureone throng represented the very highest life among Afro-Americans of this country. The Pre-Lenten is the crowning social event of the Metropolis, and to the one affair where the most exclusive set of the race look forward to. Beautiful Palm Garden was so personally decorated for the occasion and presented a picturequeue throng of prominent professional and social folks who came from as far away as Washington Boston Baltimore Philladelphia and this city. The Pre-Lenten is a stilling departure from the average social event of the race and clients only the attention of the best element. Prof Walter Craig who for nine years has been promoting the Pre-Lenten shared no pain in making this year's event one of special brilliancy. The program was one of high class excellence and tested the curriculty of the artists to the highest degree. The Pre-Lenten program is always a brilliant feature of the event and the one this year measured up to former years. Prof Curtis followed his usual plan of presenting artists from other cities, many of whom make their Eastern debut at the Pre-Lenten. The Petina done this year was Mine Constance Rocklin Brown a gifted sluger of Baltimore whose appearance delighted the cultured audience. She was supported by Roland Hayes the well known Tenor of Boston. Miss Helen Elise Smith of the Musical School Settlement of this city and J. Thomas Butler the gifted reader of Philadelphia. The program opened with Mr. Hayes presenting "Onaway Awake Bolovev" taken from S. Coledeley Taylor's Hiawatha Miss Helen Elise Smith, an accomplished musician, offered a Sonata from Beethoven. The difficult selection was played with grace and was well received. J. Thomas Butler the most gifted reader your correspondent has met, and whose appearance last year was one of the most delightful features of the Pre-Lenten measured up to his usual excellence this year. His reporters included works that show up to advantage the trained reader. He presented effectively Rosa (Italian dialect). Encouragement from Dunbar, Gunge Din from Kinling, and impersonation of how Best Will Haime would retitle "Let It Alone at the Pre-Lenten." The latter was an original competition from Mr. Butler and was a pleasant departure. In each of his selections this gifted reader delighted the last cultured Pre-Lenten throng. He is doubtless the most gifted reader of the race today and shows a fine appreciation for his work. His remarkable versatility is seen in his varied retorture. Mme Brown closed the program by offering Blu to Walmata an Irish Love song, and His Lullaby Mme. (Continued on Flight 18.) (Continued on Eighth Page) Eureka Company Installs Officers. The installation of officers of Eureka Co. No. 1 took place Thursday night. January 30th at Pythian Castle. Refreshments were served under the direction of Quartermaster F. H. McKenzie. Many ladies were present. Among the guests were Cols. R. C. Mitchell and W. Henry Jones, Major W. P. Waver, Lt. A. A. Tennant and Sir Henry Stokes. Sir Sumptor Roose is connected to his room with staircase. PRICE, FIVE CENTS "Where the Trail Divides" Robert Edison's American drama, "Where the Trail Divides" under the direction of Mossars Killim and Cazole, is next week's offering at the Bijou Theatre. This great drama revolves around the romance and ambitions of an Indian youth, "Me Wa Cha Sa" known as How Landor, among the whites, with whom he has been raised and educated. The locale is in the early territorial days of South Dakota, and the principal characters represent the pioneers who blessed the way across the broad prairies for the settlement of the new State. "Ma Wa Cha Sa" and Bone Landor, the adopted daughter of Colonel William Landor, were the only ourvivors of a massacre by the Sioux Indians a dozen years before "the opening of the play," and are ap proaching young manwood and young womanhood, "as members of the family of the wealthy ranchman in whose home all of their lives have been spent." Despite the bitter feeling and race hatred that the prospect of such a union arouses, the white girl deter mines to marry the Indian, and the action of the play is based upon the unhappiness and tragedy that result from the union of members of alien races. Because of unforeseen circumstances and the mechanisms of Clayton Craig, Bone Landor leaves her Indian husband.—ady DIED—At the home of her parents Vermont ave. and T St., Washington D. C. Little Adelie Middleton, Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913 at 8 P. M., the oldest child of R L. and T. A. Middleton and granddaughter of W. L. and M. C. Johnson. She was five years, nine months and two days old. Funeral services were held at their residence Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 P. M. Interment in the Harmony Cemetery. DRAKES BRANCH (VA.) NEWS L. G. Galmore was called to the Eureka Baptist Church the first of January last. The church was at that time in debt. Under his management it is now clear of debt. Mr. Galmore preached Sunday from Rev I. L. Subject, "Be Loyal to Thy God." The sermon was very interesting and instructive. Mrs. Margaret Marshall is a subject of much sympathy at this time. She buried two daughters since last Summer. Two of her sons are being buried at this writing and she is too sleek herself to attend the burials. The passing of a star this morning at 6 o'clock has caused much talk here. The star came from the North passed over this town. It was seen about three minutes. The earth was brilliantly lighted up, although it was dark at the time. A roaring noise accompanied it and people on the way to work declared it was judgment. If you have property to rent or sell, we can give you the best results. We are making a specialty of this among colored people. BRAGG BRO6. CO. 506 North Second St. Mr. Hill Gone The funeral of Mr. John Hill, who departed this life Sunday, January 19th took place Tuesday, January 21st from his residence on Old Do minton Rt., Southside, Rev. R. R. Graham officiated. The deceased was one of the oldest residents of the city and was well known and respected by all. He had been a long sufferer, which he borne with patience and fortitude. Female Physician Person. Miss Lydia B. Ashburn, colored of Portsmouth, Va. and a graduate of Howard University passed the medical board in this State and will practice medicine. —Mrs. Mattle Redd is slowly im- proving from a very severe illness. —Sir Algernon Frost is sick at his residence in North Seventeenth St. Miss Cora Bright has been indi- posed during the past week at her residence, 902 N. 7th St. —The Capitol Shoe and Supply Company at Second and Jackson St. has decided to file a petition in bankruptcy. —Funeral Director Alphonse Scott has been extremely ill at his resi- dence, 1015 St. James St. This con- dition is somewhat improved at this writing. --- myself, and into that afternoon the three of us use the doctor, Burton and myself met in my office and went over the doctor's record. "When the answer comes in four fifths of a second" he said before we began, "it is hardly worth comment. There is no time in such an interval for any mental reservation. Only those words that showed noticeable hesitation need be considered." We worked until almost 7. At the end of that time the doctor leaned back in his chair and thrust his hands deep in his trousers pockets. "I got the story from Burton," he said after a deep breath. "I had no conclusion formed, null of course. I am not a detective. Things looked black for Mr. Wandrop in view of the money lost, the quarrel with Fleming that morning at the White Cat and the circumstance of his leaving the club and hunting a doctor outside instead of raising the alarm. Still, no two men ever act alike in an emergency. Psychology is as exact a science as mathematics. It gets information from the source, and a man cannot lie in four-fifths of a second. 'Head,' you noticed, brought 'hair' in a second and three-quarters, and the next word, 'ice,' brought the 'blood' that he had held back before. That doesn't show anything. He tried to avoid what was horrible to him. "But I gave him 'traveling bug,' after a pause he responded with 'train.' The next word, 'lost,' showed what was in his mind; instead of 'found' he said 'woman.' Now then, I believe he was either robbed by a woman or he thinks he was. After all, we can only get what he believes himself. "Money—letters," another slip. "Shot—staircase." Where are the stairs at the White Cat? "I learned yesterday of a back staircase that leads into one of the upper rooms." I said "It opens on a side entrance and is used in emergency." The doctor smiled confidently. "We look there for our criminal," he said. "Nothing hides from the chronic scope. Now, then, 'staircase—swar Isn't that significant?' The association is clear. A scar that is vivid enough disgusting enough to be the first thing that enters his mind." "Schwartz?" Burton said with awe. "Doctor what on earth does 'eleven twenty two C' mean?" "I think that is up to you, gentlemen. The C belongs there without doubt. Briefly, looking over these ships I make it something like this. War drop thinks a woman took his traveling bag. Three times he gave the word better, in response to gate, 'guest' and money. Did he have a guest at the time all this happened at Hollywood? "I was a guest in the house at the time." "Did he give you any letters to keep for him?" "He gave me the bag that was substituted for his." "Locked?" "Yes. By Jove. I wonder if there is anything in it? I have reason to know that he came into my room that night at least once after I went asleep." "I think it very likely," he said dryly. "One thing we have not touched on, and I believe Mr Wardrop knows nothing of it. That is the disappearance of the old lady. There is a psychological study for you! My conclusion? Well, I should say that Mr Wardrop is not guilty of the murder. He knows, or thinks he knows, who is He has a theory of his own about some one with a scar; it may be only a theory. He is in a state of object fear. Also he is hiding something concerning letters and from the word 'money' in that connection I believe he either sold or bought some damaging papers. He is not a criminal, but he is what is almost worse. He is a weakling." Burton looked at his watch. "By George!" he said. "Oh, by the way Knox, where is that locked bag?" "I'll drop around in the morning and assist you to compound a felony," he said easily. But, as it happened, he did not. I was very late for dinner. Fred and Edith were getting ready for a concert and the two semi-invalids were playing plectro in Fred's den. Mrs. Butler always was pale and Margery had been so since her father's death. The game was over when I woken into the den. As usual, Mrs. Butler left the room almost immediately and went to the piano across the hall. I had grown to accept her avoidance of me without question. Fred said it was because my overwhelming vitality on pressed her. Personally, I think it was because the neurasthenic type of woman is repulsive to me. No doubt Mrs. Butler deserved sympathy, but he open demand for it found me cold and unresponsive. I told Margery briefly of my visit to Bellwood that morning. She was as puzzled as I was about the things Hepple had found in the chest. She was relieved, too. "I am just as sure now that she is living as I was a week ago that she was dead," she said, leaning back in her big chair. "But what terrible thing took her away? Uncleen—" "Uncleen what?" "She had lent my father a great deal of money." Margery said, with heightened color. "She had not dared to tell Aunt Latilla, and the money was to be returned before she found it set. These things were wrong with the Borough bank, and the money did not come back. If you know Aunt Jane and how afraid she is of Aunt Lottie you will understand how terrible it was for her. I have wondered if she would go to Plattsburg and try to find father there. "The Eagle man is working on that theory now," I replied. "Margery. If there was a better C added to eleven twenty-two would you know what it meant? She shook her head in the negative. "Will you answer two more questions?" I asked. "Yes, if I can." "Do you know why you were chloro-formed last night and who did it? "I think I know who did it, but I don't understand. I have been trying all day to think it out. I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight." "You need not be." I assured her, "If necessary we will have the city police in a ring around the house. If you know and don't tell, Margery, you are running a risk, and, more than that, you are protecting a person who ought to be in jail." "I'm not sure." she persisted. "Don't ask me about it please." "What does Mrs. Butler say?" "Just what she said this morning and she says valuable papers were taken from under her pillow. She was very ill, bysterical, all afternoon." I took Margery's sonic band between my two big ones. "Why don't you tell me?" I urged. "Or you don't tell me. I know what you think. But there isn't any motive that I can see, and why would she chloroform you?" "I don't know." Margery shuddered. "Sometimes—I wonder—do you think she is altogether same?" Fred and Edith came down the stairs, and the chance for a quiet conversation was gone. "Watch the house," said Fred. "And, by the way, I guess—he lowered his voice—'the lady's story was probably straight. There are fresh scratches on the porch roof under her window." It was a relief to know that, after all, Mrs. Luther was an enemy and a dangerous person to nobody but herself. She refried to her room almost as soon as Fred and Edith had gone. I was wondering whether to tell Margery about the experiment that afternoon, debating how to ask her what letters she had got from the post master at Bedwood addressed to Miss Jane and what she knew of Bellia. At the same time—bear with me—if I hold back the account of the terrible events that came that night, to tell how beautiful Margery looked as the implumple fell on her brown hair and pure profile and how the impulse came over me to kiss her as she sat there and how I didn't, after all, and only stooped over and kissed the pink palm of her hand. She didn't mind it. Speaking as nearly as possible from an impersonal standpoint, I doubt if she was even surprised. You see, the ring was gone and it had only been an engagement ring anyhow, and everybody knows how binding they are. And then an angel with a burning sword came and scoured me out of my Eden, and the angel was Burton, and the sword was a dripping ambrella. "I hate to take you out," he said. "The bottom's dropped out of the sky, but I want you to make a little ex-periment with me." He caught sight of Margery through the portieres. "Don't be an ass," I said angrily. "I don't know that I care to go out tonight." "Let's go and take a look at the staircase you fellows have been talking about," he said. "I don't believe there is a staircase there except the main one. I have hounded every politician in the city into or out of that joint, and I have never heard of it." "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place," said Margery bravely. "I will ask Katie to come down with me if I am nervous, and I shall wait up for the family." I went without enthusiasm. Margery's departure had been delayed for a day only, and I had counted on the evening with her. Burton's idea was to go over the ground at the White Cat again. "I don't hang so much to this staircase idea." Burton said, "and I have PADAMS a good reason for it. I think we will and it is the warehouse, yet." "You can depend on it. Burton," I maintained, "that the staircase is the place to look. If you had seen Wardrop's face today and his agony to mind when he knew he had associated staircase with shot, you would think just as I do. A man like Schwartz who knew the ropes, could go quietly up the stairs, unbelt the door into the room, shoot Fleming and get out Wardrop upstairs Schwartz, and be afraid of him." *Suppose the plate open, into the back of the room.* He was sitting for ing the window. Do you think backwards would go in, walk around the table and shoot him from in front? Pooh! "He had a neck." I retorted. "I suppose he might have turned his head to look around." We had been walking through the rain. The White Cat, as far off as the poles socially, was only a half dozen blocks actually from the best residence portion of the city. We had stopped near the arched gate where I had stood and waited for Hunter a week before. Suddenly Burton darted away from me and tried the gate. It opened easily, and I heard him splashing through a puddle in the gloomy yard. "Come in!" he called softly. "The water's fine." The gate awung to behold me, and I could not see six inches from my nose. Burton steered me toward the building. "If it isn't locked too tight," he was saying, "we can get in, perhaps through a window, and get upstairs. From there we ought to be able to see down into the club. What the devil's that?" It was a rat, I think, and it scrambled away among the loose boards in a frenzy of excitement. Burton struck a match. It burned faintly in the dampness and in a moment went out, having shown us only the approximate location of the heavy arched double doors. A second match showed us a bar and a rusty padlock. There was no entrance to be gained in that way. The windows were of the eight panel variety and in better repair than the ones on the upper doors. We found one unlocked and not entirely closed. It shrieked hidesously as we pried it up but an opportune clap of thunder covered the sound. While Burton held the window I crawled into the warehouse and turned to perform the same service for him. At first I could not see him outside. Then I heard his voice, a whisper. "Duck," he said. "Cop." [TO BE CONTINUED] "Biggins says he owes everything to his wife." "That isn't true," replied Biggins' father-in-law. "His wife quit lending him anything years ago, and then he started in owing me."—Exchange. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. To: Bimexo Callosities To Remove Callositis. Callositis on the soles of the feet are often produced by the skin being thrown into ridges by a too narrow sole. They should not be allowed to remain untreated, as the overgrowth of epidermis will probably continue to increase in hardness, causing much discomfort. The feet should be soaked every night in hot water both to prevent and to help cure this affection, and when it has gained headway some form of salicylic acid should be applied. Dr. Alexander Bryce recommends the following formula: Salicylic acid, one dram; extract of cannabits indica, one dram; flexile collodion (three-fourths strength), one ounce. This should be painted on night and morning, and the hard parts, occasionally scraped or filed with the putrefied glass file sold in drug stores. Care should always be taken that the soft flesh of the foot be not cut into or injured. After paring the part may be painted again, and soon the hardened epidermis will come off. The hot foot baths should be discontinued while the salicylic acid is being applied until the fourth night. If the thickened epidermis does not come off then start the treatment again. Hawkins-Johnson MANUFACTURING CO., Hair Grower and Restorer, 616 H. 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 Mfg Co's Hair Grower and Restorer is now being used in this State and other States with phonemal success. Its reputation for growing and restoring hair 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 hair 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. --- -R++N=? MART MILJURGER Add and subtract according to picture and you will then be able to find out the founder of Philadelphia. HOW TO ARRANGE PARTY FOR CHILDREN ON FEB. 22 For a children's Washington party decorate the room prettily with flags and pictures of Washington and Mount Vernon. Have a paper batten in which there is a pin for each child. Ringfold each child, one at a time, and have him pin the batten on the nose of Washington. A large cheap print may be obtained for this purpose. This will make lots of fun. Aware a cherry log cabin box filled with candied cherries. Then have those riddles—children just love to guess them: What holds all the snuff in the world? No one knows (none). What makes a man baldheaded? Want of hate? Why is it impossible for a bare headed boy to cut down a cherry tree? Because he hasn't a hat yet (hatechet). In what age do we find the happiest man? Marriage. To what island should women be banished? The Isle of Man. What is the name of the most popular ship in the world? Courtship. Where is a good place for a hungry man? Sandwich islands. Where should a person go to find happiness? To the dictionary. What would you do if you were caught with a stolen watch? Give it up. HOW TO IRON.A SHIRT. Plain Directions For a Task That Many Girls Declare is hard. Shirts must be frondish, but every one hates to do it. Most women will agree that next to dishwashing this kind of fronding is the worst task in the house. There are three or four shirts every week. You can send them to the laundry, and they generally look well when they come back too. Of course it costs money, and lots of it, and then the shirts don't last nearly so long. Much has been said about the man who makes two blades of grass grow where before there was one. But how about a woman who can make one shirt last where before two were needed? She deserves honorable mention at least. A woman who will not make an honest effort to be economical is a disgrace to the generation in which she lives. If all women know how easy it is to iron shirts the laundries would have to close up. The irons must be clean and hot and the shirt clean and damp. Begin on the sleeve, not on the cuff. If the sleeve is ironed first the garment will not be mussed over doing the sleeve later. If you iron the cuff before the sleeve the cuff will get broken when the sleeve is ironed. It isn't hard to iron the cuff. Just read the directions on any starch box to learn that. If you cover the cuff with a cloth it will not become so scratched so easily. Next iron the neckband. They fold the back of the shirt lengthwise through the middle and in it detach. Telephone, Madison-4601. love all Dandruff and cure the Hair on clean Temples and head. GUARANTEED. PRICE, JOHNSON M'Tig Co's Hair Group and other States with phenomenal hair leaps into prominence where NS-JOHNSON is known as the Haired that she can do all that she claims to sell the best hair for less moct. In ordering Hair, send $6.00 to $20.00. Braids, $2.50, $3.00 P. C. Money Order or Express +N=? OLD TWO-IN-ONE PUZZLE. there is a puzzle and you will then be able to PRICE, 35 CENTS PER BOX. Hair Grower and Restorer is now nominal 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. Transform- 2.50, $3.00 and $4.00. Express Money Order. THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING D. J. 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Go over the picture (which should have the picture side down with a soft cloth so that drops of water will not wrinkle the work when it is finished, pressing gently and firmly. Pour in the plaster of paris, which should be of a creamy consistency, and leave until it hardens. Just before it hardens slip in a little hook a piece of string or make a hole for the picture to hang up by. In the morning shake gently, turning the plate inside down, and it will be ready to hang upon the wall. An oval meat platter makes a nice shapped picture. How to Increase Lung Power. Men and women can increase their lung power by best expansion it is called technically by five minutes' exercise morning and night. Stand up straight on the balls of the feet, head thrown back, and inhale deeply, first inflating the lower part of the lungs and then the upper. Then exhale slowly, letting the chest sink fast and then the lungs. Do this fifteen times morning and evening and you'll spend less money on colds and catarrhs. A Great Capacity. "Mr. Guizzett, have you any rivets in your skirt?" "No. Hobby. Why do you ask me such a question?" "My father said you were a human tank." Brimingham, Age Herald. How to Clean a Percolator. When the percolators in a percolator become clogged the coffee requires more time, and it is quite apt to be muddy. Use a teaspoonful of oxalic acid crystals to a plot of water and let it percolate about twenty minutes. Then clean with a stiff brush. Lye or any gritty substance cannot be used on aluminum. How to Clean Coat Collars. When the coat collars becomes wilted it may be cleaned by rubbing it well with a mixture composed of one part of salt dissolved in four parts of alcohol. CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE. Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the Lover on the Right Kind of Stimulants. 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For Florida and south: 8:15 A.M. and 7:35 P.M. 1:00 A.M. Charleston. For Norfolk: 8:10 A.M. and 8:30 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 7:30 P.M. For New York: 8:15 A.M. 10:00 A.M. 7:30 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. For Petersburg: 1:00 A.M. 8:15 A.M. 7:30 A.M. 6:15 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. 7:30 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:05 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 7:35 P.M. 8:30 P.M. 11:05 P.M. For Goetzeville: Pyterbiller: 8:15 P.M. Thrine arrt: Rochford 8:17 A.M. 6:40 A.M. 6:48 A.M. 8:37 A.M. 8:00 P.M. A.M. 7:14 A.M. 7:14 A.M. 8:00 P.M. 7:15 P.M. 6:05 P.M. 6:25 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 10:35 P.M. 11:30 P.M. Peter Sunday. *sunday only. Time of Time of arrival and departure and acceptance not guaranteed. C. G. CAMPFIELL, P. B. P. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ham and Raleigh. 10:45 A. M.—Daily-Lunch- ing—For all pointsouth. Drawing Room Bed- ing Sleeping Our to Asburyville. 8:00 P. M. Excursion Rundown. Local for Du. 4:00 P. M. Stateate Lake. M.—Daily—For Drawing Atlanta and Birmingham. 4:55 P. M. Drawing Room Sleeping. 4:55 P. M. Limited-For all point. A.—Pullman resort at 9:00 P. M. YORK GR LINK. 4:20 P. M. Monday—To West Point, con- sulting for Baltimore on Sunday. Wednesday Friday. 8:00 P. M.—Except Sunday and 8:00 P. M.—Monday. Wednesday and Friday—Loc- al to West Point. TRAINING ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the south: 6:00 A. M.; 8:00 A. M. 6:00 P. M. 12:00 P. M. 12:00 P. M. M. daily. From West Point: 8:00 A. M. 11:00 A. M. Wednesday and Friday; 4:00 P. M. Except Sunday. S. E. BIRGESZ. D. P. A. 947 East Main Street. Photos. Madison-458 C. & O. 9:00 A. Daily-Foot trains to Old Point. 10:00 P. Newport News and Norfolk. 12:00 P. Daily-Local to Newport News. 14:00 P.-Daily-Local to Old Point. 16:00 P. Daily-Lodderville and Clarksville. 18:00 P. Pollman. 19:45 P.-Daily "St. Louis Chicago Sp." Pollman. 2:00 A.-Daily-Charlotteville. Week days. 3:00 P.-Week days. Local to Gordonville. 10:00 A.-Daily 'L'burg, Lea. C. Forgwine. 10:00 P.-Week days. Lea. Lynchburg. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. Local from East -8:25 A. M. 7:25 P. M. Through West -8:25 A. M. 8:25 P. M. Local from West -8:25 A. M. 9:00 P. M. 7:25 P. M. Through - 7:00 A. M. 2:00 P. M. James River Line - 7:00 A. M. 6:10 P. M. SEABOARD AIR LINE Bouthound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 12:18 A. M. - Local to Norfolk. 14:30 A. M. - Coach, Atlanta. Birmingham, Bavahan, Bavahan. 16:15 P. M. - Florida Limited, daily, except Sunday. 11:26 P. M. - Elsepens and coaches, Bavahan. Jackville, Atlanta, Birmingham and public buses scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 12:18 A. M. - Local to Norfolk. 14:30 A. M. - Coach, Atlanta. Birmingham, Bavahan. 16:15 P. M. - Florida Limited, daily, except Sunday. 11:26 P. M. - Elsepens and coaches, Bavahan. --- ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer 8006 % P Street Office 'Phone, Madison 8027-L Residence—1015 St. James Street telephone, Madison 8019. LADY ATTENDANT. Richmond. Virginia. OLD PAPERS PLANET BASE. Send what you need. JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. 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Gardner is Director of Physical Training at the Virginia Union University and looks after the health of the students of that great institution. --- We have received Woods' Directory for 1913, published by Allen T. Woods of New Orleans, La. It is a credit to the publisher and the community in which he lives. --- The Washington, D.C. Bee announces that there will be three inaugural balls for the colored folks in Washington, including the one being engineered by Col. Giles B. Jackson. This division of interests and finance is just like Washington Some married folk's seem to find their greatest satisfaction in other people's company Richmond, (Va.) Planet. Now, Editor Mitchell, you are trying to attend to other folk's business — Palestine, (Tex) Guide. No name, no blame, yet the point is well taken and we shall "come off." --- The Durham, N. C. Reformer has ascertained that the colored people of that State pay taxes on (429,952,328) twenty-nine million, nine hundred and fifty-two thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight dollars worth of property, both real and personal. The Illinois Bankers Association is reported to have acted upon the application of the colored private banker, Jesse Blinga of Chicago, and to have unanimously elected him to membership. Twenty years ago, this would have occasioned no surprise in a State like Illinois. Today it is the subject of comment. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. D., if we are to accredit the columns of the Washington, D. C. Bee is anxious for the same treatment that T. Thomas Fortune and Fred. R. Moore of the brilliantly edited New York Age received. He is receiving in a much milder form the same kind of treatment that was accorded them. Whether or not President-elect Wilson will adopt the Taft policy and appoint Dr. Waldron to office is a question which only time can decide. The Hampton, Va. Southern Work man is still being kept up to a high standard of excellence, both as to the matter it contains and the typographical arrangement of its pages. In the January number, Monroe N. Work reviews in a masterly, manner "Fifty Years of Negro Progress." The information given is enlightening and instructive. The financial plan under contemplation is not to corner Southern Negro money, but to permit the Southern Negro and the Northern one, too, for that matter, to "corner" some of the English capitalists' money. All they want is security for the principal and a guarantee of the interest charges. The only "rumor" we have heard from Birmingham, Alabama, has been two applications from "two well-known colored gentlemen there who desired the local agency. The Age is right in its conclusions and we congratulate it upon the liberality of the position taken not only in this but with reference to all other matters. The plans under contemplation when thoroughly understood will astound the country. We are in business and have no desire to engage in a controversy upon a financial subject of this kind and character. Pardon us for the remark, but we are of the opinion that we have done too much talk already. Finance moves in quiet waters and the turmoil and strife incident to public life are not conducive to the success of financial ventures. --- Now comes the information that the brilliant E. C. Brown of Newport News, Va. has removed to Philadelphia. At this rate a Virginia convention can easily be called in Pennsylvania without any Virginia being required to go from this State to attend the sessions. Pennsylvania is getting many of our best men, too. Is it possible that we do not recognize ability to the extent of giving the men possessing it adequate financial support? If the magnificent testimonial has quiet of the Jefferson Club of Buffalo N. Y. tendered James A. Ross January 19, 1913 be accepted at its face value, President elect Wilson has been relieved of any embarrassment with reference to the selection of a successor to Henry Lincoln Johnson the present Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, Mr. Ross has "won his spurs" in support of the Democratic Party thorough civil report as well as good and a strong plea is made for him by his tenure people. From a partisan standpoint Mr. Ross looks up an chief applicant From a standpoint of capability, he must undergo a searching examination under the Wilson microscope. His friends confidently assert that he can read the text. Dr. Larry P. Hourne, dropout of Albany City, N. J. was appointed a member of the Board of Education from the Third Ward of that city by the retiring Mayor, Harry Bathaugh. This appointment was declared to be illegal by the white members, and Dr. Hourne was denied admission to the meeting of that body. The State Board has recently confirmed the legality of his appointment but he is still on the outside. Sydney L. Rosenbaum (white) was appointed at the same time but he declined the appointment. The context has now developed along racial lines. It is unfortunate that colored folks in New Jersey should be meeting the bandcamps of the Southland in an even more aggravated form. The Charlotte, N. C. Star of Zion charter that the New York Age is visting around to the support of President elect Wilson's policies and now being announced, although it has been a ranting Taft advocate. It should not be forgotten that it has been alleged that the New York Age is the official mouthpiece of Dr. Booker T. Washington, and that distinguished educator has the knack of coming "right side up with care" with all administrations, regardless of party, religion or policies. From a diplomatic standpoint, this is the best thing for both that journal and himself to do. We are disposed to recognize merit in any leader regardless of his political affiliations. We intended to emphasize one fact and that is, that the wise diplomat at Tuskegee has not lost his ability to so adapt himself to circumstances as to come up snapping in support of a chieftain whose cause he had opposed and whose policies had found no abiding place in the political recesses of his store-room. If we are in error in our conclusions we make an apology before-hand. --- WE STAND CORRECTED. --- Our good friend, J. R. Clifford of the Martinsburg, W. Va. Pioneer Press left the Democratic Party on the eve of its success and cast his fortunes with the Progressive Party. He is unquestionably one of the best fighters for what he believes to be right in the country. John Mitchell, Jr., Editor, Richmond Planet. Brother Mitchell, you are mistaken. Never was, and never could be a Democrat. I was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, and have only fought the supposedly Republicans, who enjoy what I helped to gain for them, they enjoy and in turn deceive me. In principle, I am an Abraham Lincoln, and U. S. Grant Republican, but since they combined on the dollar to the destruction of my rights, I have voted for men, not parties, and finally joined with the human salt of the earth, the Progressive Party. Come over and join us, will you?—Martinaburg, (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. Not yet. We shall wait and see. We are about ready to adopt the policy so plainly enunciated in the clipping cited. The Dallas, Texas Express says that it has had much complaint made on account of the delay in the delivery of that journal to its agents and subscribers and it intends to publish the paper twelve hours earlier. We are of the opinion that it is endowing to remedy the trouble in the wrong office. The post office employees can hold up that small twelve hours longer without serious inconvenience to themselves. We have had so many complaints made to us about the non delivery or the late delivery of the Planet that we have ceased to worry about it. General Daniel E. Sickles, ninety-two years of age, Gettysburg veteran, who is charged by the state of New York with a shortage of $23,476, was arrested at his home in New York by a sheriff of the county of New York. General Sickles did not have to go to jail, because his counsel furnished a bond of $20,000. When the officers entered the general's home they found the old warrior sitting in front of a cook. It took a copy of the Planet just four days to reach a subscriber who lives about eight miles from the Planet Office and it took a bundle of mail for an agent, who lives nine blocks from our place of publication, just five days to be delivered to him. We have a subscriber in Texas and it took two months to get a Planet delivered regularly to him from Richmond to Del Rio and we finally had to invoke the aid of the Post Office authorities at Washington to do it. Twelve hours earlier, Editor King? Why, the very suggestion makes us smile. We failed to remark that we have been forced to set up a substation to the Post Office in our own office. In which substation we furnish help and distribution free of charge for the benefit of the Post Office Department and carry a cash balance on deposit in the Post Office Treasury here to pay the postage and the privilege of serving the United States Government. It will be a "cold day in August" when we go to press twelve hours earlier to remedy existing conditions for we tried that sometime ago and it didn't work anybody but ourselves. Solah A QUESTION OF FINANCE. Our esteemed and ably edited contemporary, The New York Age, in its issue of January 20, 1917, in an editorial "broadside" under the caption of "Splendid Growth of Negro Banking Interests," said: Mr. John Mitchell J. Jr., President of the new Negro financial corporation in the South cays in his news paper, the Richmond Planet. Work on the palatial apartments of The Anglo American Finance Corporation is still under way. The new system of intercommunicating telephones is now being installed. Secretary H. Wyatt has now taken charge and may be found in Room 200. Nearly all of the furniture has been installed. The book keeper's desks have not yet been received and this delays matters somewhat. We have already quoted The Planet to the effect that the financial backlog of the corporation is well nigh limitless that its "spatial apartments" should be elaborate and costly is therefore a matter of course Mr Mitchell does not say anything in The Planet about the rumor enambling from Birmingham Ala. to the effect that the Anglo-American Finance Corporation is a 'movement intended to corner the Southern Negro money interests by white men For our part, we do not fear any thing of the sort, but positively encourage rather than discourage the partnership of whites and blacks in business onprise. Mr. Mitchell has already made a success of it as a financier as founder and president of the Mechanies Savings Bank of Richmond and should make a success of it as founder and president of the Angle American Finance Corporation. He has our best wishes and encourage in his large efforts in a large way. The management has not said anything about "the rumor emanating from Birmingham, Ala." for the reason that it does not deal with rumors and it had not heard this rumor. Inasmuch as our able contemporary has dignified the rumor to the extent of mentioning it, we have but to remark that the absurdity of such a rumor appears upon its face. Alliee' Troops Engage Turks In Many Places and it Is Reported Scutari Has Fallen. We also sell straightening comba hair nets and cut hair by the pound. Our prices are lower than those quoted elsewhere. Send two cent stamp and we will send you absolutely free our Illustrated Catalog. Agents Wanted. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. Dept. A, 23 Dunn St., N. Y. City. Some quarters of Adrianople are in flames as the result of the bombardment by the Bulgarians and Servians which was resumed with even more tenacity, according to advises receive in London. A full division of Bulgarian infantry advanced to the attack of Adrianople under cover of a fierce bombardment, according to this dispatch. The result of the assault is not known. Although no serious fighting has occurred along the Techatalja lines, the Bulgarian troops are not idle. The village of Techatalja, which has hitherto marked the limit of the Bulgarian lines, is in flames. Its destruction was apparently decided on for tactical reasons. An encounter between Bulgarian and Turkish troops also took place at Mahtope, near Gallimell. The bombardment of the fort around Adrianople was begun by the Bulgarians and Servians surrounding the city almost at the moment of the conclusion of the armistice. Siege guns and field guns from various points commanding the forts opened fire. Nor even the residential portion of the city was spared. There is considerable difference of opinion as to how long the fortress will be able to hold out. One disputed from Muntapha Pasha concluded with the prophecy made by the Bulgarian staff that two weeks would suffice to the besiegers to force the Turks to capitulate. Military men, however, who know something about the several lines of forts which form the defences of Adrianople look for a prolonged defense by the besieged garrison. Shukri Pasha, the Turkish commander, who is defending Adrianople, declared that he will not surrender the fortress until the last of his allies has been killed. While they have been some desertions from the ranks of the garrison, chiefly Civil soldiers serving with Turkish regiments, Shukri Pasha still has 40,000 men. It is possible that the allies may attack Gallipoll or Tetatakla, or both, if these positions, where most of the allied forces are, if they could attack Gallipoll of Turkish troops and attack the Dardanelles Straits this would give free passage to the Greek coast, which would then be able to tender some asistance at Tetatakla. On the other side of the Italian peninsula Seatark, where the Monte nests are besieging the fortress, I is reported through the correspondence of a Dutch newspaper to have fallen. There is no confirmation of this report from any other source. British and German warships pass through the Dardanelles for the protection of the foreign residents of Constantinople, and a fleet of warships is longing to other powers is anchored in Beilka bay, ready for any emergency. STANDARD OIL DIVIDEND Stockholders to Get $10 a Share. Total of $40,000,000. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey declared a dividend of $4 a share. It is explained that this dividend represented money owed to the company by its subsidiaries at the time of the dissolution. "The companies have made payments" a statement says, "from time to time, as able to do so from money raised by the realization of assets or increase of capital stock." The dividend is payable Feb. 15. It rounds figures the total payments to stockholders will amount to $20,007,000. Pinds Mother Dying in Burning Home Leading his company in response to an alarm, Fire Chief Patrick Curran found the blaze was in his own home on West Maudon street, Washington Pa. Grabbing a chemical extinguisher he rushed through the smoke filled doorway and, running through the hall enced the room of his aged mother Mrs. Bridget Curran, eighty-four years old, where the flames were burning fiercely. The fire chiff stumbled over something on the floor and, reaching down, picked up the terribly burned body of his mother. He carried the woman into a neighboring house, where she died soon afterward. The aged woman's daughter, Mrs. Mary Curran, who attempted to save her mother, sustained fatal burns while a son, Michael, was terribly injured by the flames. The fire had its origin in an open- conal grate. 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Check Showing Lincoln's Kindness. ```markdown ``` WE cannot pay the honor due To Freedom's captain; longages are imminent When they attempt to link due praise Unite the marrieded Lincoln's name We halt impotent, petalied, dumb. Our swelling hearts alone can sense The weakness of our spoken words. The eminence of innocence. THE FAMOUS LINCOLN=DOUGLAS DEBATE MORE than fifty years have passed since the famous debate occurred between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, and yet they constitute to this day the greatest forcible struggle of the kind in the history of the nation. Douglas at the time was United States senator, and was not only the bios of his party, but was generally regarded as the most brilliant politician and the foremost debater in the land. Lincoln was little known outside of Illinois. While he had the unanimous support of his party in the state for United States senator, his friends had misgivings that he would not be able to meet the great Douglas. Lincoln himself brought about the debates, however, because he wanted to reach the Democrat with his arguments. There were seven of the debates, the first occurring at Ottawa, seventy miles southwest of Chicago, on Aug. 21; the second at Freemont, in the extreme north of the state, six days later; the third at Jonesboro, in almost the extreme south, on Sept. 15; the fourth at Charleston, in the east central portion of the state, three days later; the fifth at Galesburg, in the western part of the state, on Oct. 7; the sixth at Quincy, on the banks of the Mississippi, Oct. 13, and the last at Alton, a short distance north of St. Louis, Oct. 15. The arrangements were that Senator Douglas should open with an hour, Mr. Lincoln following with an hour and a half and Douglas closing with half an hour on the first day. Lincoln opening with an hour. Douglas following with an hour and a half and Lincoln closing with half an hour on the second day and thus alternating regularly. All of this is now a twice told tale yet it is one in which the interest is perennial. Historians are generally agreed that these debates not only gave Mr. Lincoln the Republican nomination for the presidency, but forced Douglas into a position where to win the senatorship he had to alienate southern support, thus dividing the Democracy in 1840 and making Lincoln's election possible. The debates naturally created tremendous excitement, and the crowds were record breakers for that day. Douglas began in a jaunty vein, and his references to Lincoln were patronizing. His opponent responded with straight and serious argument, refusing to resort to the wit for which he was famous. Mr. Lincoln's chief weapons were "logic and clarity of statement, and before the struggle was over he had his antagonist worried." The "Little Giant" lost his templet on several occasions, indulged in personalities and on one occasion charged Lincoln with attending a convention and helping frame a radical set of resolutions with which he had not the remotest connection. When this trick was exposed it brought condemnation on Douglas throughout the land. His [Copyright 1982 by American Press Association] Lincoln and Twain Compared. At the great memorial meeting in New York to Mark Twain Colonel Henry Watterson of the Louisville Counter journal drew the following to interesting comparison between Abraham Lincoln and the great American hero, Speaking of Twain, he said: "With the fine, unmerging phrasing of his penetrative insight Mr. Howeisely him the 'Lincoln of our Literature' HE stood with calm, unflinching faith. When resisted the office of state. When chase threatened and the skies were blocked by the clouds of hate. And, ruded by love of God and man. With naught of malice in his heart. He stayed the ruthless hands that sought To read the Nation's soul apart. personalities also gave offense. On the whole, the moral effect of victory was with Lincoln. The ability with which he presented the Republican position challenged motion wide attention. The contrast between the two speakers was no marked as to be almost ludicrous. Douglas was as short and heavy as Lincoln was tall and lean. Douglas' voice was deep, and his enunciation slow and somewhat ponderous. Lincoln's voice was pitched rather high but had great carrying power. Douglas sometimes attacked his audiences, made bitter remarks about the "Black Republicans" and on at least one occasion talked about fighting his opponent. Lincoln was always good natured, eminently fair and personally respectful in his attitude. Douglas was bolsteredly cheered for his oratory, yet his hearers could remember little that he said. Lincoln usually won less partisan applause, but his points stuck in the minds of his audiences for years afterward. He attempted no dights of rhetoric, no appeals to passion or prejudice, but depended on straight, hard reasoning. All the meetings were very large with the exception of those at Jonesboro and Alton. One of the biggest was at Galesburg, where the stand was erected in front of Knox college. Here the crowd was with Lincoln. At nearly all of the debates the farmers drove in for fifty miles around, camping out on the prairie where accommodations could not be found. Reporters were present from the big papers, one or more of the New York dailies and nearly all those of Chicago being represented. The debate that has taken the chief place in history was that at Freport Here Lincoln propounded his famous second question regarding the right of the people of a territory to exclude slavery before the adoption of a constitution. Douglas had asked Lincoln a number of questions at Ottawa, and at Freport, which was the next meeting point, Lincoln said he would reply to his opponent's interrogations. If Judge Douglas would answer an equal number. When asked directly if he would accept the terms Douglas remained silent. Lincoln then said he would answer his opponent's questions whether Judge Douglas reciprocated or not. He thereupon proceeded to do so, after which he propounded his own questions to four us. The second of these, it is claimed, lost the senatorship to Lincoln, but lost the presidency to Douglas. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OF JAN.1,1863 FIFTY years ago on the 1st of January, 1863, the emancipation proclamation was issued. This was the culminating act of Abraham Lincoln's life, the one for which he will be longest remembered. There is abundant evidence to show that he contemplated SUPREMELY great, we of this time His value cannot estimate. Tis only by the distant view the step long before it was taken. After his careful manner, he renounced the question out from every possible standpoint, weighing the effects of his action. The processes of the great emmanuel pator's mind were revealed to his friend Leonard Swett, whom he sent for to call at the White House. There Mr. Lincoln read to him several letters concerning emancipation, then argued out the whole question in the presence of his hearer, as if thinking aloud. He then terminated the interview. This was in the summer of 1852. Shortly thereafter, on July 22, he called to gather the cabinet to consider the subject. To Frank I. Carpenter, the artist who painted "The First Reading of the Emmanuel Proclamation," Mr. Lincoln remarked. "I said to the cabinet that I had resolved upon this step and had not called them together to ask their advice, but to lay the subject matter of a proclamation before them—suggestions as to which would be in order after they had heard it read." It was two months to a day, how ever, before this preliminary draft was given to the public. Secretary Seward urged that it should not be given out until there was a Union victory. This appended to the president as good tactics, so it was withheld till after the battle of Autetium and was published on Sept. 22. In effect it proposed that after 100 days the slaves of all those remaining in rebellion should be freed as a war measure. The hundred day period expended on Jan. 1, and the final emancipation proclamation was issued on that day. "For this step Mr. Lincoln took the sole initiative and the undivided responsibility. Freeing the slaves as a war measure was a strategy, move Metley as president of the Conflict States Mr. Lincoln had no power to emancipate the slave. But, as commander in chief of the army and navy during a war he had unquestioned power to take the property of the enemy, a right that had been recognized from time immemorial. LINCOLN'S USE OF SIMPLE LANGUAGE I REMEMBER how when a mere child I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. I can remember going to my little bedroom after hearing the neighbors talk of an evening with my father and spending no small part of the night walking up and down and trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their (to me) dark sayings I could not sleep, although I tried to. when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it, and when I thought I had got it I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me, for I am never class now when I am handling a thought till I have bounded it north and bounded it south and bounded it cast and bounded it west.—Abraham Lincoln --- ```markdown ``` WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Nothing on earth is so valuable for worth polishing at great trouble a boy or young man worth all the time. The best education is not too good; choose a poor physician to save a life. And who would choose an inferior better school will increase the stress life and prepare one for a larger life. LECTURE Virginia Union Offers the Best High COLORD YEAR It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE who have completed common school. Its COLLEGE COURSE is Broad standing are as high as those of an State, according to the rating of the Its THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for colored Baptist Schools. 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The genius of Clemenus and the genius of Lincoln possessed a kinship outside the circumstances of their early lives—the common lack of tools to work with, the pivots and hardships to be endured and to overcome, the way ahead through an unblazed and trackless forest, every footstep over a stumbling block and each effort saddled with a handicap. But they got there, both of them—they got there, and mayhaps somewhere beyond the stars the light of their eyes is shining down upon us here tonight." 19 and 21 N. 18th St., Richmond, Va. FREEDOM. THOSH, who deny freedom for others deserve it not for themselves and under the rule of a just God cannot long retain it. We must make this a land of liberty in fact as well as name. Let us appeal to the sense and patriotism of the people and not to their prejudices. Let us spread the floods of cathism aroused here over all the vast prairies no suggestive of freedom. There is both a power and magic in popular opinion. 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Sports were engaged in to the extent of an occasional briefed game among the students or with a none from a neighboring town, a foot race or two in the autumn and some beat running. Wilson played a little baseball and took long walks through the pleasant country lying at altitude, often alone though sometimes with a favorite companion. At Pitt then Greek better trainiers were illegal, but they existed with the support of the faculty at the University of Virginia, and Wilson was instituted into the PHL Kappa Pst. He joined the closed circle and the glee club. The latter circle of harpists spent their evening on the country roundabout two or three times a week, whoring up his playing career with a grand comedy in the town hall. Will on many a hill, troubled along the rocky road, with his fellow glories to arrive at the water under the balcony of some driest field, and his fine voice in "Shake, Shake, My Lady Sleep," and "Speak Away." At the grand concert, which was given on the evening of the final day, a brilliant Auditor that crowded the late behind the preacher and preacher, writer step down to the footlights and render a touching tribute. Wilson is best remembered as a sliver however, by the thrilling effect with which he was usually allowed the high tone near the end of "The Star Stunted Rocket." Wilson did a good deal of writing while at Charleston's office. From while in front of Dawson's room persuasion would see him sitting at the window in the southern corner of "House 11" shortly engaged with ink bottle out of which he had conjured before a year was up the writer's prize. In March, 1857, the University Magazine printed an article by him John Bright in the following month another on Goodhue. The young man's mind still rose as it had run Perceton, on the personality of the great political leaders. The John Bright article was really a revision of an article which Wilson was delivering that month. So great had his reputation grown in six months that there was a considerable demand from outside the university for admission and the occasion was thrown upon to the public. At Charleston, as he at Princeton, the student body was divided into two literary and debating societies to Washington and the Jeffersonian in the common tongue. "Wash" or "Jeff." The fortunes of each alternately waxed and wounded. "Jeff" was the stronger in 1838, and Wilson joined it. His talents at once won recognition but he found a competitor to respond in another "Jeff" man, William Caleb Bruce, a young orator of extraordinary ability. The chief annual event at Charlotteville was a debating contest in the Jeffersonian society, at which two gold medals were awarded, one for debating, the other for oratory ability. Bruce was given the debater's gold medal, while the orator's prize was to Wilson. The opinion of pretty nearly everybody, aside from the judge, was that the award should have been reversed. Bruce was orate in style. Wilson simple, direct and logical. In a wholly different vein from his speeches in the "Jeff" society was an notable effort in which the university's favorite apperiod when he delivered medals to the winners in athletics. Having excelled to make the presentation, Wilson was very much exercised as to what to say and imparted his perplexity to an intimate friend, who rattled off two pieces of nonsense which he suggested would about suit the taste of the audience in the gymnasium. Neither piece contained the slightest allusion to athletic sports. Yet the orator worked them in. The gymnasium speech represents one of the few occasions in which the young student bent very far from idignity in public, but in private he fairly bubbled with humor and wit and was very much given to monkey chin. As he had done at Princeton, Wilson at Charlottetville also organized a smaller group of thinking chaps for WOODROW WILSON The Story of His Life From the Cradle to the White House Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Doubleday, Papers & Co. debate. A member of that group members Wilson's unsuspectable design when they chose as the subject of tonight's discussion the question whether there be any fundamental difference between right and wrong. The law professors of the University of Virginia were Mr. Scatthall, who held the chair of international common law, in easy going and misbelieved him, and Dr. John B. Mison who taught everything else in the course and was in fact the college law. Dr. Mison probably infiltrated Wilson more than did any other teacher he ever had. He was indeed an able and fortunate man in really great teacher, who grounded his pupils beyond all possibilities of ever getting adrift in the broad principles of law. As a young man Wilson suffers from myelogram in all what later be entitled outgrew. Just before Christmas 1852 he found himself all that he left Charlestownville. The next year he spent at home in Winston, N.C., nursing his health reading. In May 1852, Wendell Wilson went to Alabaster to enter on the position of law. Alabaster was chosen to this experiment simply because it was the most rapidly growing city of the south. The young man knew nothing there. He met another young man like himself a stranger in the city, whither he be, had come to practice law. Ireland Reckitt 1852 two agreed on a partnership on the tual Kisky beekle proved to be slightly the older, so that the single was lettered "Benkek & Wilson." It was hung out of the window of a room on the second floor, facing the old street, of the building is Winston street. Atlanta beekle did not rush on muse to 14 Montana street. In fact, they never came. When she idea had been to me the law as a stopping stone to a political career. Most of the public men of the south fall come from the rank of the law. In Chicago, perhaps in Atlanta he learned that it was impossible for a man without private subjects to support him of long enough in law to get into public life, impress the certainty to establish a position without giving up all his plot of study and writing and striving to connect with the profession. The law was a fashion in the press. He had begun writing a book on congress, and government, and he found the work full of joy. But the Madia experiment was not without its good fortune. During the summer of 1855 Mr. Wilson found time to make what turned out to be a momentous visit. His old playmate and cousin Jussie Woodrow Rose, with whom he had played in clan on the sand hills near Augusta was now living in Rome, Ga. To Rome had come also another family with whom the Wilson's had been intimate in Augusta—the Axons. The Axons were a Georgia lowlands family. The Rev S. Edward Axon's father was a discharged clergyman in Savannah, and his wife's father, the Rev Nathan Hoyt, was long pastor of the Presbyterian church at Athens, Ga. The calls upon his time not being entirely occupying, as has been blunted, young Wilson went to Rome to see his cousin, and stayed to see more of Miss Lilley Louise Axon. The meeting was on the plaza of the Bones home in East Rome. To be accurate, it was not quite the couple's first meeting. He had been a passionate admirer of the lady when he was a key of seven and she was a baby. The sentiment of these days, beyond the recollection of either, received. He took her home that evening. She lived in Rome across the river. She must have been captivating, for as he came back near the bridge he clenched his hand and took a silent oath that Ellen Louise Axon should be his wife. Which also in due time came to pass. They had seen each other eleven times before he had persuaded her to say "Yes." There was no idea of an immediate marriage. Already, percepting that the practice of law was not the path for him, he had settled upon the plan of going to Johns Hopkins university to spend two or three years more studying the science of government. The partnership of Redek & Wilson was dissolved. The young man to whom the people of Atlanta gave so little encouragement, but who had won what made him inestimably happier than anything else Georgia could have given him, went north in September. About the same time Miss Axson, too, went to New York to develop her all ready recognized talents in painting, as a member of the Art Students' league. The next two years of Woodrow Wilson's life were spent at Johns Hopkins university as a student of history and political economy. Here he was one of an unusually interesting group which included Albert Shaw and E. R. L. Gould, John, Franklin Jameon, the historian; Arthur Yager, pow president of Georgetown college, Kentucky, and P Rev. Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Father of Woodrow Wilson. Rev. Dr. Joseph Ruggle Wilson, Father of Woodrow Wilson. Thomas Dixon, who writes novels. The advantages enjoyed at John Hopkins by Wilson has not so much in the hearing of lectures as in the opportunity of making researches. Here he got a valuable impulse in the direction of the careful and exact ascertaining of facts. Though always priding himself on dealing with actualities, Wilson was never a grubber after fact and, indeed, never became one. But he undoubtedly did get here a training that balanced the natural tendency of his mind to work from within outward. He remained two years, the second year as holder of the historical fellowship. The time was brightened by occasional visits to New York and his fiancée and to Philadelphia, where lived an uncle of hers whom she some times visited. There was no glee club at Johns Hopkins, but Wilson set straightway about organizing one. When it was proposed to give a concert at Hopkins hall and charge for admission in order to pay some expense of the organization, the grave gentlemen who at the time provided over the destines of the university denounced. President Gilman offered to donate the necessary money provided the club would give its concert without admission fee. In the slight controversy that followed Wilson appeared as an insurgent, protecting that the glee club had its dignity to consider as well as had the university. The concert was given as originally planned, and no gue felt that the dignity of the university suffered in the least from the performance. One piece of writing that Wilson did at this period, a study of Adam Smith, was recognized by all as exceptional in felicity and power of expression. It was given magazine publication and later gave the title to a volume of essays—"An Old Master." Early in 1855 was completed and published the result of the suggestion made by the perusal of the Gentleman's Magazine articles ten years before and of constant thought and study ever since a book, "Congressional Government—A Study of Government by Committee by Woodrow Wilson." It was the first account of the actual working of the constitution of the United States; an inspection of our government, not as it is theoretically constituted, but as it actually works. The book met with instant success. A serious work soldom makes a sensation, and that word would be too strong to apply to the impression produced by "Congressional Government," but it is quite true that it received an enthusiastic reception at the hands of all interested in public matters. Of its merits it is enough to say that Mr. James Bryce, in the preface to "The American Commonwealth," acknowledged his obligation to Woodrow Wilson. It was a great moment in the life of the young man—indeed, a great moment for two young persons. Success like this meant that life was at last to begin. On the heels of the fame won by "Congressional Government" came invitations to several college chairs. There was more work still to be done for a Ph. D. But the Johns Hopkins faculty was to accept the book as a doctor's thesis, and the author accepted one of the calls—that from Bryn Mawr, which wanted him to come as associate in history and political economy. Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson were married at her grandfather's house, in Savannah, on June 24, 1885. In the autumn they came to the pretty Welsh named village on the "main line" near Philadelphia, and a new chapter of life began. A SCHOOLTEACHER'S existence is not. In the narration, a thrilling story. The first seventeen years of Woodrow Wilson's life after he left Johns Hopkins university were spent in teaching. They were years of usefulness. Thousands of students will testify to the still enduring inspiration they owe to them and to him. They were years of delightful living, of cultured and genial companionship. It was with the uninspired purpose of having his part in the public life of the nation that Woodrow Wilson entered upon the profession of a teacher of law and politics. It can hardly be said, however, that his first position was one which gave promise of any large immediate influence on public affairs. A number of Johns Hopkins men on the opening in 1885 of Bryn Mawr college accepted as their first professorship places in the faculty of the new institution for women. The vulgar even referred to Bryn Mawr as "Johanna Hopkins." Some were so brevant as to suggest that the young professors were "merely trying it on the dog." Professor Wilson, though called to Bryn Mawr primarily to give instruction in politics and political economy, taught a good deal besides these subjects. Classical history and the history of the remembrance fail to him. His lectures are said on high already so have been "marvels" of scholarship, profoundly improving his classes. Professor Wilson worked very hard to make his lectures interesting. One of the faculty who lived next door testified that the light in his study window was invariably burning long after everybody else had gone to bed. From the start of his professional career Mr. Wilson appears to have realized the necessity of imparting vacity and reality to his lectures. There is some ground to suspect that the intense young ladies who sat under him did not always appreciate the lighter side of his discourses. At all events, it is remembered that he appeared one day in the lecture room without the long mustache which had up to then adorned his countenance—a sacrifice when it was hinted, he had made in the hope of being thereafter better able to suggest to his classes certain delicacies of thought and fancy which they had shown little signs of apprehending. Bryn Mawr college opened with forty-three students. Three houses at the edge of the campus were occupied by the dean and professors, many of the latter being bachelors. Later Mr. Wawr leased a pretty cottage, the parsonage of the little Baptist church on the old Gulf road, in the midst of a lovely countryside. In this, their first home, the Wilsons took great pride and satisfaction. In vacation time they went back south among old friends. It was in the south that the first two children were born. In June, 1894, Professor Wilson took his Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins, the university accepting as his thesis his book "Congressional Government." During his third year at Bryn Mawr Professor Wilson accepted a lectureship at Johns Hopkins. This took him to Baltimore once a week for twenty-five weeks. Social life at Bryn Mawr was most agreeable. An invitation to an older in larger institution was reverent, not to be declined. Amherst opportunity opened in a school attended by young men, and in 1855 Professor Wilmson accepted an election to the chair of history and political economy at Westleyan university, Middletown, Conn. From the start Professor Wilson's courses were extremely popular. And well indeed they might be, for New England and rarely heard such instruction as was given in the lecture room of Wesleyan's professor of history and political economy. While at Middletown he continued his lectureship in Johns Hopkins. Now, however, instead of going down once a week he founded his twenty-five lectures in a month of vacation allowed him by the Wesleyan trustees. His fame as a popular lecturer, also was growing space, and he was frequently called to give addresses in New England and the eastern states. It was while at Middletown that he wrote "The State," a volume which, with less pretentions to literary form than his other work, involved an enormous amount of labor. Mr. Wilson was a member of the athletic committee of Wesleyan and took the keenest interest in the college sports. One student of the time remembers how incensed he became as the limited ambition of the Wesleyan boys, who, when they played against Yale, were satisfied only to keep the score down. "That's no ambition at all," he used to cry. "Go in and win. You can lick Yale as well as any other team. Go after their scraps. Don't admit for a moment that they can beat you." Life at Middletown was pleasant. But Mr. Wilson's growing reputation would not permit him to remain there. When in 1800 the chieftain of jurisprudence and politics in Princeton college became vacant through the death of Professor Alexander Johnson the trustees elected to it the Princeton graduate, who had so quickly distinguished himself as a student of politics. September, 1800, then, found Woodrow Wilson again domiciled in the Jersey collegiate town. He was now a man whose renown had begun to spread in the world, an author, a public speaker of enviable repute, the head of a family, a figure of consideration, a doctor, if you please, both of philosophy and of law. The Wilson rented a house in Library place. After a few years they built a home for themselves on an ad joining lot, an attractive half timber bed house designed by Mrs. Wilson. The new professor stepped at once into the front rank, as indeed became a Princeton graduate; a member of one of the most famous classes the old college had graduated, a man thoroughly trained with the best traditions of the place. But his lectures—Princeton had no tradition that accounted for their charm. They instantly became popular, the attendance mounted until it surpassed that ever before or since given any course of study at Princeton. Before long very nearly 40 students, almost the total number of juniors and seniors combined, were taking Wilson's courses, and they were no "clinches" either. Widely informed, marked by a mastery of fact even to slight detail, inspiring in their range and sweep and spiced with a pervading sense of humor, Professor Wilson's lectures were further marked by the great freedom with which he delivered himself of his views on current events. It was his custom to put students on their honor not to report him; there were always likely to be in attendance students who had connections with city news papers who might frequently have made good "stories" out of the professor's lively comments on the politics of the day, but none ever took advantage of the opportunity. The classes, were now so large that the work of a professor consisted at most entirely of lecturing. As we shall see later, it was not then the Princeton idea to give the students any particular overnight or inspiration elsewhere than in the classroom. Yet the Wilson home became and always remained a resort hugely popular with the young men who were so lucky as to be admitted to it, and its doors were hospitally hung. Professor Wilson, in short, stepped into the position THE MONUMENT OF THE FIRST MEMORIAL OF THE WORLD WAR II Illustrated With Actual Wartime Photos This thrilling novelization by Bronson Howard and Henry Tyrrell, of the noted play of the same name, is the literary sensation of the hour. of first favorite alice with the col lengthes of the faculty and with the undergrads. The grave at Princeton a way of voting at the end of each year for all possible sorts of "popular personages." For a number of years Professor Wilson was voted the most popular professor. He was able, he was genial, he was active, a member of the faculty committee on outdoor sports and of the faculty committee on discipline. In faculty meetings Mr. Wilson soon became one of those most attentively listened to. During the twelve years, 1800 to 1802, Mr. Wilson continued to fulfill as Princeton the duties of professor of jurisprudence and politics. They were twelve years of steady yet pleasant labor-years of growth and of growing influence both in the university and in the country. Four new books were added to the list signed by this man who wrote history and politics with so much literary charm—"Division and Reunion," "An Old Master," "Mere Literature" and "George Washington." He was heard now in occasional addresses in many parts of the land—discussing public questions before commercial, industrial and professional bodies. The vigor of his views on questions of the day, as well as his readiness, graze and power on the platform, gave him place among the recognized leaders of nation- WILL APPLY Illustrated Wit This thrilling novel Henry Tyrrell, of th the literary sensatio thought. He had for a time continued going down to Johns Hopkins, and now he gave occasional lectures at the New York Law school. At the end of a decade in his chair Mr. Wilson had attained, naturally and with the good will of all, a position of unchallenged supremacy in the university town and of marked distinction in the country. With such brief summary, this biography must dismine a period the external facts of which were of little dramatic value. Incommensurate altogether with their importance in the development and strengthening of conviction and character which were to have play in the time-which we now approach. As one looks into those twelve years what chiefly impresses him in the man is the growth in virility of his social sense, his love of humanity expressing itself most commonly in terms of patriotism. It is clear, too, that he is winning some wise insight into the mystery of the unfolding of the minds of young men, acquiring much skill in the craft of the teacher and reaching withal some conclusions respecting principles and methods of education. But, beyond and above all other convictions that ripened during these twelve years in the enlightening companionship of students in the joyful exercise before them of his gift of speech and in the lonely stillness of a heart, that pondered the history of human institutions and the laws of progress, there grew up in Woodrow Wilson a farvent devotion to democracy. Prisceton. Like other American colleges, had been going through a period Subscribe to The PLANET. PHOTOS. 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It appears to have been the most natural thing in the world that it should fall to the Princeton man who had made a great name for himself in the world of books and of scholarship, who had been one of the most active members of the faculty and who, above all, by his oratorical powers could best represent the college in the great world Wilson, therefore, was chosen, and the announcement was made on commencement day. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Arrested at Close of His Sermon. Just as Fred W. Randall finished a sermon on "Salvation" before the Bible Student's association in Albany, N. Y., he was arrested on a charge of deserting his wife and two children. Nominee to Congress Killed. Harry L. Billey, Republican nominee for congress from the Ninth district of Kentucky at the last election, was shot and killed by Newton Arnold at Cynthiana, Ky. 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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. GEN. SICKLES OBTAINS BAIL The Aged Soldier Is Under $3000 Bond. Widow of General Longstreet Wires She Will Help Raise Money to Pay Shortage. General Daniel E. Sickles, ninety-two years of age, Gettysburg veteran, who is charged by the state of New York with a shortage of $23,476, was arrested at his home in New York by a sheriff of the county of New York. General Sickles did not have to go to jail, because his counsel furnished a bond of $30,000. When the officers entered the general's home they found the old warrior sitting in front of a deck. Hardly had the formalities of the arrest been completed and the sheriff walked down the steps of the old Fifth avenue home than there confronted the old colored servant of the general's the son of the warrior, Stanton, and his mother. They demanded an audience. The keeper of the outer portals disappeared into the gloomy halls of the big house. Presently he was back again with the word that the general would not see his wife and son. The two swung upon their beels and went back to the Hotel Albert. Stanton said: "The whole affair will be straightened out very, soon. When the claim of the Bowery bank against the general's Fifth avenue properties is foreclosed in a week or so my mother need only to bid the amount of that claim to become the owner." Counsel for General Sickles, Dan P. Hayn, telephoned the sheriff's office that he had procured a bond for his client's release. Thereupon the sheriff thrust his papers into his pockets and hastened to the Sickles residence. When the sheriff arrived at the house he walked up to the veteran and said: "I am very glad to see you, general." "And I," said the general, courteously, "am glad to see you. Did you receive the letter I sent you—the one from Mrs. Longstreet?" The sheriff said that he hadn't received any letters from Mrs. Longstreet, and the general thrust forward a telegram. It read as follows: Olmerville, Pa., Jan. 26. My soul is corroded by your trouble. Am writing the attorney general of New York that I will raise the battery during the regurgit, institute and adjourn witnesses who followed Leo to the city shipping commanded N. New York officials will allow sufficient time. We are not writing into our history the story of degenerate descendants of hero-role lives. The republic whose battles you fought will not permit your degredation. "HELEN D. LONGSTREET." The general received the order of arrest and tossed it on the table without looking at it. He told the sheriff that it had cost him $600 to get the surety bond required. The procedure of arrest and release was short and formal. TO ARREST OIL OFFICIALS Texas Judge Says He's Determined to Get Accused Standard Man. Get Accused Standard Men. Federal Judge Meek, of Dallas, Tex., has mailed to New York warrants for the arrest of three Standard Oll officials. He announced that if any difficulty is encountered in making the arrests he will send Texas officers after the men, who are wanted in the Untied States district court in Dallas. The three men charged with violating the Sherman anti-trust law in Texas are John D. Archbold, H. C. Fogler, Jr., and W. C. Teagle. MISS TAFT'S CHUM HURT Miss Martha Bowers' Horse Is Struck and Killed. Miss Martha Bowers, the daughter of the late Sollicitor General Lloyd Bowers, white horseback riding in Sixteenth street, Washington, in company with Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, was seriously injured when her mount was struck by a street car. Her horse was instantly killed. Miss Taft, who escaped injury, aided in carrying her injured companion to a physician's office. Penney Akses Blds For 12,300 Cars. The Pennsylvania railroad system requested bids from freight car builders for 12,200 cars, involving a probable expenditure of about $16,000,000. Of these cars 10,000 will be additions to the system's equipment, while 2300 will represent replacements. As these replacements, however, will in all cases be cars of 100,000 pounds capacity, whereas the worn out cars had only an average capacity of 60,000 pounds, there will be an addition to the carrying capacity of the company of about 40,000 pounds per car, which will bring the total replacements and additions to about $46,000 tons. How to Drive a Task. When a tack has to be driven in an inconvenient corner, force the tack through the end of a strip of paper and hold the paper instead of attempting to hold the tack. This will save the finger and thumb from the hammer and the recording angel from making an entry on the wrong side of your page. 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The Finest Sta- nywhere in apply Mourn- ntry mostly solicited. you can go else- If our prices nd, Va. Doing Them Up. "I wonder what that Chinaman is doing up so late." "Shirta, I suppose."—Exchange. Former Congressman Elected by Separate Ballot in Jersey Legislature. The two houses of the New Jersey legislature in Trenton, voting separately, elected former Congressman William Hughes, Democrat, of Paterson, United States senator, to succeed Frank O. Briggs, Republican, whose term expires March 4 next. Mr. Hughes won the senatorship in the Democratic primaries last fall and received the full Democratic vote in each house of the legislature, 63 against 17 cast by Republicans for Senator Briggs. In the house Mr. Hughes polled 51 votes and Senator Briggs 8; in the senate Hughes 12, Briggs 9. The legislature in joint session elected E. E. Grosa cup, Democratic state chairman, as state treasurer, to succeed Daniel S. Voorhoes, Republican, whose term is about to expire. L. Johnson, RISON ST, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. P EVERY DESCRIPTION. Ruth Badges A Specialty. Sam- Free of Cost or Obligation. RIGHT Splendid Growth of Negro Banking Interests Mr. John Mitchell J. Jr. President of the new Nexto financial corporation in the South, says in the new paper, the Rockmond Planet. Work on the palatial departments of The Margo American Finance Corporation is still under way. The new systems of intercommunicating telephones in new being installed. Secretary Thiggs. H. Wyatt has new touchscreens and may be found in Roost. Nearly all of the furnishings have been installed. The local hotel does have not a wall house and head office delay in the construction. We have already quoted The DP to the effect that the financial back taxes of the corporation are well paid. In the case of the political agen- ment it should be elaborate and conciliatory to the general attitude of coun- Mr. McBall does not say anything in the Plan. About the ration organising from Bristolham Ma to the effect that the Atlantic American Wholesale Corporation is a movement intended to counter the Southern Nation company in what they For our part we do not fear any things of the sort that may possibly affect our work. If our company partnership of whites and blacks brings us in conflict with Mr. M. M. Harris we are always in a position of influence in the community and provid- ence of the Midwest. Hard to believe and should not be a source of a founder and the client of the World Vision Foundation Corporation. We are not aware of any impor- tance in the larger efforts in a business way. The Philadelphia Tribune states that the C. Brown Real Estate and Bank Company of Newport New York has opened its offices in Philadelphia at 137 South Broad Street in Philadelphia at 137 South Broad Street in investment bank and bank in Southern California The Brown Real Estate Bank in Newport New York in the Brown Savings and Bank in the Port of New York The Brown Real Estate Bank in Newport New York in the Brown Savings and Bank in the Port of New York Mr. Brown real estate bank is a president of the Virginia Petroleum and Insurance Co. The Brown real estate bank with the white bank of Newport New and Norfolk bank with the origin of that bank in Philadelphia. We have some of banks, the Ministry of group being the largest. They are all doing a prosperous and growing business. This shows that the Negro people are learning to trust their own business men on the one hand and recovering the faith in banks betrayed by the failure of the Freedman's Aid and Trust Company in 1872. President Royal thinks the time is not far distant when "Nero banking institutions of Nashville alone will show banks clearings from citizens of Nashville alone of from $2,000 one to $2,600 one annually." Larger places will, of course, show a larger clearance, where we have a bank or group of banks. It should not be overlooked that all of our banks are comparatively young and that their officers have not yet got the full hang of the banking business. This knowledge will come slowly to those who grow up in and with the banking business. Business education is worth more than capital in business success and development. Neurosis can only put this business education in their own banks and other business enterprises of theirs that serve as feeders for the banks. The more business enterprises we have, both great and small, the more money will our bank handle during the year in deposit checks and loan accounts, and the more credit will they have with the white banks and the more credit can they extend to white banks, for in this way banks are nutritionally helpful to each other, as individuals are. Indeed no other agency is calculated to give the race a closer and more sympathetic touch with the strongest influence. In any other community than the growth and development of its banking interests, as banks are the reservoirs of the people's life energy, transmitted into a circulating medium by their industry, frugality and self-deal, and indicates more than any other one thing the intelligence and moral character of the people What the race needs in largest measure is the closest and most sympathetic touch with the intelligence and property interests of the community the state and the nation. This can be most effectively secured and enforced by the growth and the velopment of its banking interests, in which their aggregated savings can speak for them as the heat emanates of their intelligence, industry, caring habits and moral well being. Every dollar in circulation is known and registered in its denomination and can be accounted for. EARLE S. ROSS IN "Where the Trail Divides." BIJOU Next Week. and located, as being in the Federal Treasury, in the banks or in circulation among the people. The 10,000,000 Negroes of the United States have less of it per capita to their credit than any other race element of the citizenship, but that must be accounted for by the Limited education and industrial and business preparations they began with fifty years ago, as an inheritance from slavery. Their 61 banks, it is estimated, have a capital of $1,600,000 and $600,000 deposits. It is a fair assumption that they have $60,000 own deposited in white banks, where their fathers grandfathers and great grandfathers be can putting it before and since the war, and from which the present owners have not deemed it wise or prudent to transfer it to their own banks, where this could be done. This condition provably occurred in Northern cities like Philadelphia and New York where the largest cities of the wealthy old towns have banked with white corporations, for a hundred years. Of the 61 North banks only 4 of them are located in Northern and Western States. The district of the North Yorkshire is governed by district of North Yorkshire in the following county: Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North Carolina and Tennessee. Georgia, Illinois and Maryland. From which and New York will be a work district between the two that will be added to the district in the state that which could not be in the district the district would be available for work in the district. This will come with the district of the land and the district of the taxation. New York, especially in the Harlem district, will be one and only upon the authority of the honorary president of the University of their own where their own interests and that of other students have the highest and the surplus provisions of the war warranted and gathered in one place for the normal working advantage of all of the concerned. Five to ten dollars per person could be paid together in cash at Harlem Bank and it would be available for the common use and advantage. Weather from the New York Book for 1915 that there have been only four fallows of New York with Mr. McKinley when the New York State Bank and Trust Company was founded by Art of Commerce in 1875. In the year of 1875 the State Bank of New York granted a loan of $7,000 of debt to be used for the building of the library. BABIES ENGAGED TO MARRY Born In Same Flat Within Four Heart of Each Other. Mr. W. Carter, M.A., and W. lett Carter, in the same day. K. S. S. in the same day. employed in the city. The children are each day classed and the children are enrolled in the place there with them. It seems to be suitable to the po- entence of the instructions that the should be attended to, times within hours that the agreed to home up children in the premises that they were to attend to another. ```markdown ``` Kids Children and Self Mr. H. B. the proprietor of farmland in Mo. where he has a number of children attached. A daughter in seven years old was about to have a child married. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. TAX ON INCOMES NOW ASSURED WYOMING AND DELAWARE ACT The Bill Is Already Unde Consideration and Probably Will Be Enacted at Extra Session. The states of Wyoming and Delaware are to the tone and made the provision for levying an income tax part of the constitution of the United States by ratifying the amendment submitted to the states by congress. Thirty-five states previously had taken similar action. As to whether Delaware or Wyoming will be accorded the honor of being the state completing the taxes counties necessary to make the amendment part of the constitution properly will depend upon the similar action of New or Wyoming states, which was the first to reach Washington. I will not disclose any personal information about the individuals or entities mentioned in the text. The information provided is strictly for informational purposes only and should not be used for any other purposes. "Atlantic NM. The compulsory law have passed by the House and the Senate, and have been passed by the House and the Senate, with respect to amendments to the state and system to allow more support to the system." The change in the fundamental law marks a new epoch in the Atlantic tax system. All previous efforts for a tax of the land have been withdrawn, plight and severity of a constitutional provision. The change also marks a broad development of the economic and social system of the United States, nutturing the means to be a backbone for action on the system now in force in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and various other countries. Raise For 18,000 Ohio Ironworkers About 150 men employed in the pendent fire and flood mill in Your town, O. were notified of a deep rent increase with wages, which goes to effect immediately. Free Lunches Barred. The Missouri, but not required a bill to provide for the fire and flood mill. THE LINCOLN CABIN Lincoln BY James A. Edgerton E worship heroes only when they're dead. In life we stone or censure or neglect. We know them not till over them is shed The tinsel halo of a world's respect. And thus it was with Lincoln. He was decked In such a homely semblance that the race Of human jackdaws at his great name pecked And shrilled derision at his grief worn face. It needed a new age to find his rightful place. THE modern Pharisees, the slaves of form. The Mammon worshipers, the self deemed wise. Saw not his mighty heart with man-love warm. Nor the great soul behind his patient eyes. These never know a prophet till he dies— Not even then unless the world's acclaim Distends his figure to gigantic size And so creates a fashion of his fame. Then the lip servers come with tributes to his name. ET this, too, is a blessing—that the good In him so soon has overcome dispraise: That he is known and loved and understood Who was misrepresented all his days. It teaches us that Truth has power to raise Her standard far aloft for all to see And that so fair she is the whole world's gaze Returns to her throughout the years to be. Thus all the Truth at last all men shall render free. OUR qualities did Lincoln body forth. The first was this same truth, in him so strong He sought it as the needle seeks the north; It would not let him advocate the wrong. The second was his faith. Through all the long Dark years he felt at last would come the light. Beneath the sorrow in his heart a song Sang ever of the triumph of the right. He held to God, the source of every great soul's might. IS third strength was simplicity. He sought The heart of every question, stripped it free Of all confusions, then in clearest thought And plainest speech he made all men to see. His last great force was love. In mercy he Outstripped all men this stern old world has seen Since one who taught and wept in Galilee. Between these two no love like theirs has been, and this it is which keeps their memories so green. LINCOLN MEMORIAL CONTAINING LOG CABIN IN WHICH HE WAS BORN One Man Clubs Strike. Close to 1300 men are now idle in the colliery in Williamstown, Pa., going to the refusal of one man to join the miners' organization. Triality man were reported last week and clining to become members. Since the time all but one have been enrolled The miners have refused to work in till the man joins the organization or in dismissed. Hunters in New York state will be required to wear a bright red cap while in pursuit of game if a bill introduced in the legislature by Assoc. Sieman Doty becomes a law. KLIMT AND GAZZOLO PRESENT Week of Feb. 17th.-Dave Lewis in "Don't Lie to Your Wife." Would You Marry an Indian? From New York (Continued From First Page) Brown is well known in Baltimore, and is supervisor of music of the public schools of that city. Melville Charlton, the accompanist is well known in musical circles. Prof. Craig needs to be praised for insisting upon the highest excellence at the Pre-Lenten. Prof Craig is well known to the musical life of the country, and has done much to stimulate first class musical events in this city. Dr. Dukols Warns the Colored Press Writing under the caption of "ents" and "Write Up" Dr. DuBull calls attention in a significant editorial in the current Crisis to the danger of colored Journalist sublizing their papers, and warns the editors of the race not to resort to this procedure. He calls attention to the many requests from reader to the Crisis, of how much will it cost for a "write up" with the use of a "ent" to appear in the Crisis to which Dr. DuBulls strongly replies that the columns of the Crisis are not for sale, and that space in the Crisis is given only in the case of merit not for monetary considerations. He condemns the new paper of the race that open their commissio for paid matter as a violation of the highest ethical rule of the profession and makes no compromise even to the approach of the border line. Dr. Dallier writes as follows: "Kindly inform me what will be your price to publish my cut and a brief write up." The Crisis receives so many requests that we are going to answer all with these emphatic statements. The news columns of The Crisis are not for sale. The news columns of no honest, reputable periodical are for sale. No honest man who realizes what he is doing will ask a reputable periodical to sell film space anywhere except in the plainly marked advertising section. The dishonesty of foisting paid matter on readers as news lies in the fact that the reader can never know whether a person or dead is commented because of its real worth or because somebody had money enough to pay for flattery. So far as The Crisis is concerned, the public may be absolutely certain that whenever a person is commended in our columns, the reason therefor is that in the editors' judgment (poor and fallible as it may be) the person deserves commendation. In no single case has any article appeared in The Crisis because of any consideration, monetary or otherwise expressed or implied, and that this will continue to be the case as long as The Crisis is under the present management. The public is not wholly to be blamed for not understanding clearly this code of ethics. Periodicals of all kinds are continually selling their influence and columns for direct or indirect birthery. Among colored papers two widely circulated wreckles are openly and notoriously for sale; there is no person or project which cannot at any time, for money, buy in their columns prominent mention or editorial support. Under such circumstances it is not natural that some men should as some that all periodicals devoted to the colored race have a similar code of morals. This is not true of The Crisis and is not true of scores of other colored papers. We may be poor and struggling, but we have not yet lost our self respect. Concluding his editorial. Dr Du Bois writes: "There are of course many practicesthe approach the border line of debatable action in the matter of news and editorials. Suppose a man wishes a hundred copies of the number in which his cut appears? Suppose an advertiser is worth mention as a man? Suppose that the periodical will undoubtedly be helped by giving timely notice to some man or measure? "Here is dangerous borderland, but the narrow way is clear and straight. The editor must ask, (a) Is the matter news? (b) Is the man commendable outside all consid erations? If the answers are 'Yes,' the article should go in; if not, it should stay out. This is our code of editorial ethics. We commend it to our brother editors. We especially commend it to those who poster our souls with requests like the above. It is a good policy. In the end it pays." CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. JOU Matinees Tues., Thurs. and Sat. NG MONDAY NIGHT. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS GAZZOLO PRESENT EDESON'S INDIAN DRAMA. A Better Play Than "Strong Heart" AIL DIVIDES ere They Love, Hate and Fight 7th.—Dave Lewis in ur Wife." Castro Released From Ellis Island. Opriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, walked the streets of New York, temporarily a free man, unde- writ of habea, copies issued by Jolg Holt in the federal court A survey company gave $500 bail for the general. The case was brought before Judge Holt as the result of the refusal of the department of commerce and labor to admit Castro to this country. His lawyers pointed out that Castro had already been held at Ellis Island for several weeks, "in a manner sufficiently outrageous to satisfy the vindictiveness of any one," and asked that he be admitted to bail immediately. United States District Attorney W. opposed the application for bail. "I seem to me," said the court, "that his is a case for bail." Mr Wise argued that granting liberty to Castro, even temporarily, at this time would defeat the purpose of the department of commerce in the steps it has already taken. The court, however, customarily the 'application and fixe next Friday for hearing argument'. Followed by a curbers crowd, Castro went to a hotel he was all smiles and beaming with happiness as he invited photographers to surround him as he posed. Before the hawk corpus procured the Venezuelan issued a statement bitterly attacking the authorities at Washington for excluding him. --- Saundbury Elected Delaware Senator. Wilard Saundbury, Democrat national commissioner from Delaware, was elected to the United States senate, when the death toll broke and he received a majority of the votes of the legislators meeting in joint session in Dover. The censor of the anti-Saundbury men came on the march ballot. It was the result of a conference held by Senator Williams and Representatives Cummins, Houston and Schneider. The four Democrats who had returned to support the nominee nominee. In this conference all the regularrants except Williams velded to the pressure brought to bear by party leaders and agreed to vote for Saundbury. The Vote was as follows. Willard Saulstbury, Democrat, 28, Republicans, Senator Harry A. Richardson, 11, Alfred I. DuPont, 2, former Governor S. S. Penney, 1, Ruby R. Vail, 1, and Alexander P. Corbitt, 1. Attention! Attention! That fine suite of rooms on the mozzanine or second floor of the Merchants 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. 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My father Emanuel McPherson Quilvers while yet a slave was Foreman 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 gladly received. EMANUEL QUIVERS, P. O. Box 591, Stockton, Cal.