Richmond Planet

PLANET WHO CARES? (Southwestern Christian Advocate.) A beautiful woman, a bride of two months, was brutally murdered a few days ago at Houston, Mississippi. It was an atrocious crime, worthy of the severest punishment that civilized society could inflict. May the merciful God be gracious to the bereaved family, and to the outraged community. Following this tragedy a search was made for the guilty party. The community was aroused and the spirit and work of the Grand United Defiant Order of American Savages held away in the peaceful town of Houston. Candidates were to be made in the blood degree. Race hatred was the password that answered from heart to heart. At first two, white men and ten Negroes were arrested. Two Negro women testified that a certain Negro was guilty of the murder. (A mob gets what it goes after, and these two helpless, women, no doubt excited and intimidated, gave the testimony.) The Negro accused was arrested and when a concession was asked, he replied: "It don't matter what I would say, it would not change what you are gain to do with me." That dying statement was calm and logical and an impeachment of the mob spirit. The man, soon to die, knew it did not matter what he said. The mob knew it did not matter. He know what every Negro knows, that once in the hands of a mob, guilty or innocent, there is no escape. His vindication came sooner than expected. Next day—the Summon of guilt pointed to another Negro. So there was another lynching for the same crime. Lynching, did we say? No. It was not even decent lynching. The accused was bound by chains to an iron pump in the center of the town, hot tar poured over his quiver ing head, inflammable material placed all around him—and, in the sight of children, women and men—he was broiled to satisfy the passion for blood, to satirize and to quiet the rise of race hatred. Before this second Negro had gone hence, he was quizzed carefully and he assumed full responsibility for the deed, absolving entirely the Negro lynched the day previous. Here we have, in these two instances, the mob unmasked. An innocent man is killed. A thousand men, more or less, are as clearly murderers. In the sight of the law and in the sight of all decent men as any man who maliciously and deliberately shoots another in the back. But this thousand of men, more or less, enraged, aroused, excited, stained their hands with innocent blood, and upon the door posts of Houston, for time immemorial, the blood of the innocent will cry aloud. Does it mean nothing to civilization that this thousand men, more or less, must govern the helpless? Does it mean nothing to civilization that from windows women and children looked on as the second victim was offered up on the altar and the death blow given by the hand of the father of the young woman who was murdered? There is not the least excuse for this outrage. The entire court system in Houston Mississippi is in the hands of white people. They are honorable men; they love their race, and would punish crime as readily as would men anywhere. It may be safely counted upon that, with the evidence in hand, with a white jury, with a white judge, with laws enacted by a white legislature and upheld by a white governor and a white Supreme Court the Nego had no escape. He deserved none. Nor need there have been any unnecessary delay; as was shown in Gulfport, Mississippi the other day, when a willful murderer was tried, convicted and sentenced to death within seven hours. But this outbreak, as atrocious and unwarranted as it was, concerns us much less than another situation, which is connected with it. It is not that a Negro is lynched here and there—and often an innocent one—but it is the general disregard for the life of the Negro and the petty offences that are often made the occasion for the killing of Negroes. As a matter of fact, every Negro walks upon "sinking sand" and can scarcely count a day his own. Even the most conservative and possessive and the most humble, if they were to recognize insults and infractions, would be the chief cause for headlines in the daily press. It is against this stifling, threatening atmosphere which we breathe, that we utter a protest. We impart a secret of the Negro's heart-life when we say that, in spite of the Negro's accumulation of property, which aggravates now more than seven hundred million of dollars, no little of this has been accumulated with mischief. Often in family council the debate is whether it is worth while or not to purchase property, and if property is purchased may it not have to be sold at a sacrifice on an order to move out; and under the most distressing circumstances. It is the atmosphere of lynching, and the absolutely reckless disregard of the Negro's life and the powerlessness of the government to protect the Negro, that concern us. Let our readers listen while we make good our contention: We know of a Methodist preacher who desired a change of appointment because he preached against illicit relations between white men and colored women. A dare-devil of a white man placed his hand upon the shoulder of this man of God and threatened him with death if he dared open his mouth on that subject again. And this was not the first Negro to be intimidated at this particular place. A good friend of ours was bullied and his life threatened the other day by an underling in a ticket office, simply because this friend of ours, when questioned concerning a mileage book, answered "not" instead of "yes sir." This friend was not at all impolite or ill-mannered in his speech, for he is a polished, Christian gentleman. But the underling wanted it understood that a "nigger" must say "yes, sir" or pay the cost. And this is not an isolated instance of the kind. We have on our desk, a note signed by one of our ministers, which tells of the shooting of. two Negroes: one was seriously wounded and the other killed outright because. It was claimed by a young white man, the Negroes had driven a buggy wheel over the foot of his dog. They plead "not guilty," but that was of no avail. They saw trouble coming and fled and both were shot in the back. We reserve the name of the pastor and the place for the protection of the pastor. (Think of it.) We do not let it be known that he reported the case. He might not be accured. Another instance along this line: The last week's dispatches told the story of a Negro lynched near Shreveport Loudlinn, supposedly by members of his race. He was reported in the original dispatch as a quiet unoffending Negro. A subsequent dispatch states, that he was not lynched by Negroes, but by white men. And for what? Because it was said that this Negro preacher had been talking too much about the violation of the prohibition laws in that section. Evidently this Negro preacher was chastising his congregation for visiting blind tigers and for their drunkenness and rowdyism; doing what he conceived to be his duty to his God and his people. But, this sort of preaching interfered with some man's dollars, and the preacher's life paid the price. These and other instances available are summed up in an illustration which came under our observation in a "Jim Crow" car, where there literally sat a white youth who,iring a cap platoi, said: "I got him. I got him. I shot a soldier in the head." Add to the incident at Houston, Mississippi, the general tendency toward rockless boating and killing of Negreros, and there is a slight suggestion of the terror that strikes the heart of a helpless people striving against great odds to make their way upward. But the saddest part of the story has not yet been told. WHO CARES? The great moral forces of this country remain silent while the lives of men are imperilled. Now and then a voice cries out against the evil of lynching, as did Dr. J. W. Moore, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church (South) of this city last Sunday. But it is an individual note rather than a mighty sweep of public sentiment. Even our own great Methodist Episcopal Church remains silent. Its battles turned in another direction, heeds not the cry of an imperilled and of a helpless noon. During the last General Conference, Dr. H. W. Key, since gone to his reward, offered a resolution against lynching. It was poorly drawn in many participants, but its spirit and purpose were commendable. This revolution was finally referred to the Committee on the State of the to the Committee on the State of the Church. It was painful to note at the close of the Conference and we recall it now with added humiliation—that no word came from this, the general council of the greatest Protestant body in this country against this increasing crime of wilfully taking life without indigny or injury. The General Conference entered its protest against many things, and in favor of many reforms, but failed to record itself unequivally against lynching. Not even Report No. 11. of the Committee on the State of the Church, on Church and "Social Relations" answered a word against lynchings. Nor does Report No. 14. of general non-concurrence any attention whatsoever to the Key resolution. Subsequent to the presenting of by American Press Association. WOODROW WILSON this Key resolution, another resolution was conservatively and carefully drawn, avoiding religiously the sectional and the racial questions in consideration of mob violence, and yet the Conference, delegation having that resolution in charge was fold by some leaders that the resolution would provoke unnecessary discussion and advised against it. This illustration, taken out of the heart of the Church that is foremost in its activities for the Negro, and is to-day beyond question the Negro's friend, serves but the more to show the attitude of this Nation on the question of lynching. The truth is this: An attack upon lynching has been made to mean, in a way, a defense of the nameless crime against womanhood (as if lynching generally was for this crime). There is a sort of feeling that however brutal lynching may be, that there is in it an element of justification. In the meantime the mob spirit grows and a defenseless people struggle against unnecessary handicaps. We are not unmindful of the fact that the criticism may be made that the columns of this paper too often strike hard against this evil. But neither our spirit nor our motive will be misunderstood. This is not a defense for the victims of the mob, except in the cases where they are innocent of crime, and yet, in no case is the mob justified. This is a plea in the name of government and of civilization for a civilized man's chance in the foremost civilization of earth. It is a plea for life, for liberty, for breathing space. It is a protest against intimidation. It is a plea for security for protection. Well did Doctor Kay say in his speech supporting his resolution before the General Conference: "We sometimes down there think we are a people without a country; that we are a people without a flag." Is there not some masterful spirit yet true to the Anglo-Saxon dominating sense of right and wrong, who will cry aloud against this increasing will? We are absolutely powerless. We are helpless, and nothing but faith in God and the ultimate triumph of right keeps our hearts above the waves and prevents us from sinking into utter discouragement. We have done all we can. God help us! Lynched by Mob. Cornelia, Ga., Foh, 24.—Two un- identified colored tramps, obedient with killing Policeman John Gibby, of Cornelia, were taken from a pound and brushed hard. bone tonight by a mob of masked men. Both the men were strung up to a telegraph pole in the presence of several hundred persons from Cardella and Clarksville, Ga. The colored men came into Cornellia this morning on a freight train and were arrested by the policeman. As Gibbly was handeaching one of them the other took the officer's pistol and shot Gibbly twice. Death was instantaneous and both the men escaped. Posses immediately were organized and with the assistance of blood-hounds the fugitives were captured late today. While they were being taken to the Clarksville jail a mob of masked men overpowered the posse and lynched the colored men. Resolutions. Richmond, Va., Feb. 19, 1913. This is to certify that Sir Knight Edward, Clay, who departed this life Monday, February 17, 1913 was a good and faithful Sir Knight of Planet Company, No. S. U. R. K. of P. He has been a member since the organization of the Company. He was our third corporal up until the time he died. We found him to be a quiet and peaceful Sir Knight and a Christian gentleman. One by one our hopes crow, brighter. As we near the shining shore. For we know across the river Waits our loved ones gone before. But why should we mourn When our loved ones at rest. In the bosom of Jesus the mansion supreme. For death is only a dream. Done by order of Planet Co., No. 8. U. R. K. of P. ADOLPHUS JACKSON, Capt. JOSEPH BROWN, Recorder. The anniversary exercise of the Order of Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A, and the Order of Calanthe will be held at the First Baptist Church, College and Broad Sts. Sunday afternoon March 30th. All members will be required to wear the regalia of the Order. Badges are furnished by Mr. H. B. Thompson, 104 W. Jackson St. Riverside, Va. Sharie badges, 75 counts wear; between 13 and 25, 65 counts wear; 25 or more 60 counts count. Christopher D. Dale. Attention Brethren! Attention Brethren! Clifton Forge, Va., March 1, 1913. To the Churches and Friends comprising the Virginia Baptist State Convention—Greetings: Dear Brethren: Our beloved President, Dr. R. H. Bowling has sounded the alarm of the coming session of The Virginia Baptist State Convention, which will be held in the Queen Street Baptist Church, Hampton, Va. of which Rev. T. H. Shorts, D. D. is pastor, May 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 1913. It has been twenty years since this "Grand Old Body," met in that historic city by the sea. And many have been the changes along all lines since that memorable session, when Hampton was in gloomy meditation over the demise of that generous friend and benefactor, General Armstrong of the Hampton Normal School. The appearance of our brethren in Hampton at that time seems as if it were to sing the solemn requiem of the dead, while our lamented, peerless leader, Prof. G. W. Hayes, the nester of the race, consolled the sorrowing thousands with the pathos of his cloquence. Yea, since that time, many of the brave warriors of the cross and noble fathers in Israel who were with us there, have closed their career on earth and gone home to rest. But through a divine providence, those remaining have been augmented by a host of younger sons, who are on the walls of Zion warning Israel of her sins and the house of Jacob of her transgression. Then let the redeemed host of the Lord, in answer to the call of our noble ablesthief, Dr. R. H. Bowling, who like Hosekiah rises from his bed of affliction to do service for the Lord, come to Hampton with a more concerted effort along all lines to do the work committed to our hands. Come brethren, with faith in God and hope in the race. Come with increased sums of money to enlarge and enhance the noble work entrusted to our care. Our educational work must be fostered and maintained. Our foreign mission work must be supported by what we do on the home field. Our home mission work is suffering for the lack of funds. Then let us rise to the dignity of the occasion at brave soldiers of the cross, and push the battle to the gate. Charge the ramparts of sin and press the claims of our Lord and His Christ through the impenetrable fortress of iron-rance and superstition, so the remotest parts of heathendom. Come! Let all come! Come old and young, great and small. Come from far and near and meet the Lord at Hampton in May, that His name may be glorified and His work prosper under the administration of the Holy Spirit. Yours for a successful meeting. THOS. H. WHITE, Cor. Sec. Mr. R. D. Davenport of Newberry S. C. called on us. Mrs. Mattie Redd is able to be about her room, after a severe illness. Mrs. W. W. Hill is quite ill at her residence, 1007 1-2 N. 7th St. Rev. C. D. Cooley, the traveling evangelist was in the city last week and called on us. Mr. John H. Jones of 200 West 21st St. Southside has been somewhat indisposed this week. Rev. R. C. Woods, A. M. D. D., President Virginia Theological Seminary and College was in the city last week and called on us. Rev. G. H. Sims, pastor of the Union Baptist Church, New York who has been conducting a revival at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church has had 147-conversions up to February 27, 1913. He has since returned home. Mrs. J. W. Stewart and Miss Ruth Stewart of New Haven, Conn. called on us in company with Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Jones. They have been visiting Jonesboro, Va., the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. They were out sight-seeing and visited many places of interest. Do You Know Them? I desire to know the whereabouts of Billy Gilles, the mother of Susan Gilles. She lived in Petersburg, Va. She belonged to Billy Moody. Her husband's name was Henry Gilles. She had four other children. Their names were Johnna, Rachel Jane and Martha. Any information will be thankfully received. R. D. DAVENPORT, Newberry P. O., S. G., R. P. D., No. 4, Box 27. No Place To Go. That the young colored men of this city are greatly in need of some decent place of amusement to which they may go, is a fact which I am sure our best thinking citizens have had brought to their attention more than once. We have heard preachers and social reformers talk themselves hoarse condemning - the gambling houses, pool rooms, theatres and such places—and they were right—but the best way to cure this evil is to put something good in its place. A properly equipped Y. M. C. A. has done much to improve conditions in other communities and I believe there never was a more fruitful field for a building of this kind centrally located, well equipped and in the hands of good managers, than Richmond. Of course, we have a Y. M. C. A. but the name is almost all there is to it in the way of amusement. I do not believe a person can be too devout. I do not believe that good spiritual songs, prayers and sermons such as they have at the Y. M. C. A. can be other than beneficial. But it must be remembered that, to improve the lives of our young men (and young women, too) there should be provided some amusement aside from spiritual worship. I sincerely hope that some one who has the interest of our boys and young men at heart will in the very near future launch some plan of innocent amusement and sport for us, so that when the work of day is done, and on holidays we may enjoy ourselves and go home with a Light mind, not feeling that we are the wobble of sinners as when we leave the dance hall or pool room or obscene vaudeville show. C Vice-President of the United States Planet Company Installe Officers. The officers of Planet Co., No. 8, U. R. K. of P. were installed last Wedne day night at the Pythian Castle. New candidates were initiated into the mysteries of the Fourth Rank and enjoyable time was had by all. Much praise and commendation was voted the rotting Captain, Adolphus Jackson, who had served the Company for many years, but on account of his business was compelled to retire from the leadership. The following officers were installed by Col. Roscoe C. Mitchell: Captain Leroy Brown, 1st Lieutenant Charles McClainborne, 2nd Leutenant James H. Ammons, Jr., Q. M. Sergt. J. M. Griffin, Recorder, Joseph Brown, 2nd Sergt. Marshall Turner, 3rd Sergt. Petor J. Harris, Corporals J. T. Hughes, John Parker, Fred. T. Frge. Col. W. Henry Jones and Mal. W. F. Weaver were present and spoke. Baugh—Jenkins Nuptials. The marriage of Misa Robena Jenkins to Mr. Alexander Baugh took place Thursday night, February 27, 1913 at the home of the bride, in Decatur street, Southside. The event was a brilliant affair. The presents were many and costly. The couple received the congratulations of their many friends. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. Corpse in Carriage. TOOK DYING MAN TO UNDER-TAKER'S. Driver Was Urged to Find Doctor, but Passenger was Dead When He Reached Billoy's. Leaping into a back after he had been shot twice, James Lawson, colored, twenty six years old, proprietor of an Eighteenth Street cook shop, last night yelled to the driver to take him to a doctor, but instead he was driven at breakneck speed from Fifth and Balnbridge streets. South Richmond, to the J. W. Billoy Company, undertakers. 300 Mason Marshall street. When the driver, Clement Slaughter, opened the door he found Lawson sitting upon the seat dead. Believing there was some chance of resuscitating him, a call was sent for the City Hospital ambulance, and Dr. O. C. Page responded. His services were not needed, however, and Coroner Taylor was called by Bicycle Policeman Reid, who had been summoned from the Second Police Station. In the meantime the murder had been reported at the Third Police Station. Captain Wright and Patrol man Waymack visited a house at 21 West Fifth street where the shoot ing had taken place. All of the inmates, two colored men and two women, were arrested. C. H. Taylor one of the men accused of shooting Lawson, was charged with murder. The others. Richard Friend, Mary Christmas and Lillian Simonton, were held on the charge of disorderly conduct and will be detained as witness. Slaughter was taken in custody by Policeman Reid and turned over to the South Richmond police. Coroner Taylor directed that Assistant Coroner Brodnax take charge of the investigation, and he will probably hold an inquest today. DENIES THAT HIS KILLED LAWSON. Taylor denies that he shot Lawson. He said that the Simonton woman screamed that Lawson was killing her; that he grabbed his revolver and fired twice into the ceiling. No bullet holes could be found, and Lawson was wounded twice. According to the police, Taylor was jealous of Lawson's attentions to the woman. Lawson is said to have been a frequent visitor at the West Fifth Street house. Last night he is said to have visited it, riding over in the back in which he later died. His attentions were said to have been unwelcome, and he became mad and made threats. It was at this point that Taylor appeared with his gun and fired twice. Yelling, "I am shot; take me to a doctor, quick!" Lawson ran from the house, jumped into the carriage, and Slaughter whipped up his team. The shooting had greatly excited him, and hardly knowing what he was doing, he drove the wounded man to the Marshall street undertaking establishment. Efforts were made to stop the back before it had crossed the Free Bridge but when the police were notified of the shooting Slaughter was well on his way to Billey's. Times-Dispatch, March 4, 1913. Church Notice Revival meetings will begin at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Monroe and Catherine streets, Sunday, March 3rd to the 32nd. The meetings will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. J. P. Harper, assisted by the ministers of the Interdenominational Union. Inter-Scholastic Debate There will be an "Inter-Scholastic Debate" in the University Chapel of V. U. U. between The Rureka Literary Society of Howard University of Washington, L. C. and The DeBolls Literary Society of V. U. U. on March 14, 1913 at 8:15 P. M. The subject of this debate is: "Resolved That the President of the U. S. be elected for a term of six years, and will be ineligible for re-election." Both teams have been carefully trained and the public is guaranteed a highly beneficial exercise. Tickets are on sale at B. A. Cephas" Real Estate office on Leigh and Second Sts. Admission 15 cents. Reserved seats, 20 cents. FOR BALK Some very desirable properties that will make good homes, or pay nicely as investments. Ask to see my HI- B. A. CEPHAS, Cor '2nd & Leigh Sta. INDOAH A Stirring Story of Military Adventure and of a Strange Wartime Wooing. Founded on the Great Play of the Same Name Beaugrard is ready to fire on Fort St. ter. Frank Havillard, General Haven scapegrace son, in his place, Edward Thornton, King of West Protec- tion. Lieutenant Kearlal West protec- tion. Wounds Theodore in a duel. Bunner in a duel. GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON-the ranking Confederate officer, but who had intrusted the immediate command to Beaugard on account of the latter's familial arty with the country—was able to keep-from his headquarters something like a general outlook over the field and received intelligence just as a final attack was preparing that "Federal army" had come up, and was advancing upon his rear. This should have been the Union reserves from Centerville, but it was not. It was General Kirby Smith of the Army of the Shenandoah arriving with 1,700 fresh infantry. The whole southern line now advanced to the charge, and the combined attack upon the Federal flank and front was decisive enough to turn the tide of battle from uncertainty to sudden panic. The lines of blue wavered and broke, fell back from the plateau, across the Warrenion pike and on toward the Bull Run fords. The repulse became a rout, the ront grew into an appalling avalanche of defeat. The Federal advance on the southern side of Bull Itun had seen a regiment. The Republic Became a Rout, an Ava-lanche of Dufest. moving toward them, but were told it was a New York regiment which had been expected for support, and the artillerymen withhold their fire. Subduely there came a fearful explosion of musketry, which in an instant changed the scene into one of hideous carnage. Death at ten men with dripping wounds were clinging to cabins, which frantle horses dragged pill mell through the infantry ranks and over the prostrate bodies of the fallen. A calsson blew up and three horses galloped off with the burning wreck, dragging a fourth horse, which was dead. Cannons lay limp across their guns, with rammers and sponges and lanyards still in their hands. Whole batteries were annihilated in a moment, and organization command was wiped out. Those who could run, walk, limp, or even crawl, waited no longer, but dropped everything and got away from there. On his hall at Manassas, after the final victorious charge, General Jackson had come nearer to the actual truth of possibility than he or any other Confederate then knew when he cried out crumulantly: "Give me 10,000 men and I will be in Washington tonight." The dawn of Monday came, but the sun did not shine. In the hot, sullen, drizzling morning the defeated troops poured into Washington over the Long bridge. Some good citizens—but they were not in the majority—put out steaming wash kettles filled with coffee or soup for the forlorn boys. Among these good Samaritans was Jenny Buckthorn, surrounded by a staff of colored servants. Her father, severely wounded and captured by the enemy, had been recognized by his former comrade, General Beauvigard, and as a personal courtesy had been exchanged for a wounded Confederate officer and allowed to proceed to Washington in an ambulance, attended by Colonel Harperl. "Where is Heartsease?" was the first THE FIELD Whole Batteries Were Annihilated. spoken to him asked for father's help, having realised that that storm present was not dead. "Do not say," muttered the old warrior, "it is no time for plums and dating parties." One especially miserable looking object drifted along about me and stared as if dazed at the food of food and drink and compaction. His uniform glight have been blue or it might have been gray mind and smudge were the prevailing lines. His shoes were beaten brogans tied with twine, and his muck and sore ankles showed that he was without socks. An old shovel but we put over his face, and a tobacco bag from a button of his pocket, to collar of which was turned up to chin, evidently to conceal the condition of the shirt or the lock of one. "You just fell well, dear Jenny," Tome, were you in the country? "Are Miss Batteries, is it possible you do not require it? I must apologize for my apologies, but." "Great heavens," he said with a little shriek. "Please, it is very severe to handle me, and be shown to the master's inner reception, and a packet, which proved to be a very useful bundle for enveloping a dirty item." Heartbeat received this captain's commission at the dinner table that game evening. After all, as the old general said, he was a regular and had COLONIAL WARS General George B. McClellan, fought before he ran, and that was a contrast to many of the postfortress- ready made shoulder rifles who had betrayed the brave volunteers and lost the fight for them, and who were now standing about unabashed, bragging in the barroom. Kerchbival West, shortly after his arrival at St. Louis, was assigned to the army of southwestern Mignour, where in a short title he saw hard service in almost every line except that of actual fighting. A large addition had been made to the regular army and to fill vacancies in the new regiments rapid promotions among the officers already in service had occurred. In a few months' time West rose from second lieutenant to the rank of cap tain of instability—no advancement which a year before could only have been gained as a reward of perhaps fifteen years of continuous service. Ab weeks and months passed on it was possible to find a certain encouragement in the fact that the defeat of McDowell's army, while not utilized by the Confederates to its full military effect, nevertheless flattered them into a feeling of strength and security, resulting in comparative inactivity in the field for the better part of a year. At the north the effect produced was exactly the contrary. While the south was planning the organization of a new republic and even putting up the name of General Bean regard as a candidate for the presidential succession in such a way as to by Review of Reviews company. Increr for that officer the cordial distrust of Jefferson Davis forever afterward, the Federal government and the people of the northern and western states set to work with furious energy to counteract the revenues suffered to the beginning. Congress thotized the establishment of half a million of men for three years, an increase of the navy and stipend loans with which to strengthen the sinews of war. Leutnant General Scott, now seventy years of age, hung up his laureated sword and yielded the command of the Federal armies to a younger and more active officer, General George H. McClellan. With two Federal armies ready to move into Virginia—that of McClellan at Washington and that under General Banks opposite Leedsburg—to say nothing of considerable losses of troops harassing the northern counties about the headwaters of the Potomac, the Confederate prospects for the spring of 1822 were decidedly threatening. To protect this portion of the state and to guard the lower Shenandoah valley against General Banks, the Confederate government determined to send a force to Winchester. This force, organized under the official title of the "Army of the Monongahela," was placed under the command of "Stonewall" Jackson, now advanced to the rank of major general. This was great news to the Eling hams, not only for the native reason that it seemed to them like throwing an impregnable guard around Belle Bosquet and the whole valley, but also and especially because of Captain Robert Ellingham's part in the growing press of the "Stonewall" beagle. The valley of Virginia comprised within that section of the Appalachian plateau bounded on the east by the Blue Ridge and on the west by a range of the Vleigendes, called there the North Mountains, stretches from the headwaters of the Shenandoah near Steamboat on the south to the Potomac on the north, a distance of considerably more than a hundred miles. At the upper end this valley is more than forty miles wide, while at Stirrup, fifty miles south of the Potomac, the extreme width is scarcely twenty-five. A blood macadamized road, the famous Valley pike, traverses the entire region from north to south, with lateral roads extending to the mountain boundaries on either side, those toward the Blue Ridge connecting through various gaps with the railroads of eastern Virginia. This beautiful and fertile region called for protection for its own sake as well as for that of its patriotic population of which the Ellinghams were a fair sample. Its numerous black slaves and the rich supplies which its lush meadow lands and broad plantations furnished. It was especially important from a southern military viewpoint that the valley should be held intact by a Confederate army. No portion of the region could be given up without serious detriment to operations north of Riksmond. "If this valley is lost Virginia is lost," was Jackson's watchword. Early in January, 1852, Captain Bingham wrote to his sister in Richmond: "We have only conjecture as to our destination. General Jackson keeps his secrets so well as to deceive not only the enemy, but ourselves." Without having any time Jackson now set out with Gerrer energy than ever to surprise the Federal garrison under General Kelly at Romney. The weather was fearful, even for ordinary travel, to say nothing of forced military movements. Men and horses fell on the key roads, their guns going off all along the line, the knees and muscles of the animals incarcerated, the men lumping along, leaving trails of blood on the frozen snow. The march was comparable to Napoleon's passage of the Alamo and not alone in its hardships, but likewise in its results, for before the lapse of February General Kelly had evacuated Romney, and for the moment there was no Federal force left in the entire low or valley. With the opening of spring four Federal armples under Fremont, Banks, M. Dewell and, McClellan respectively were ready to close in upon Richmond Fremont and Banks in the north on were expected to unite their forces and drive Jackson up the valley, cutting the Confederate communications and then sweeping down upon Richmond from the mountains, while McClellan marched up the peninsula between the James and York rivers, and McDowell advanced from Fredericksburg. Early in March "Stonewall" Jackson was back in Winchester with Banks and an augmented Federal force at his becks on the north, and Shields with another army reported at Strasburg to the southward. Here Bob Ellingham first made the acquaintance of Colonel Ashby, commanding Jackson's cavalry—a war drums cavalry from Fauquier county mounted on a milk white bluest horse, the most disliking rider in the whole state of Virginia, and as a leader of partisans destined soon to arming the foremost of his contemptuous Ashby looked like a Moor man had the chivalrous soul of a Saladin. They struck Shields near Woolson堡 some forty miles up the pike, and on March 23 attacked hip, at Kernstown, and were repulsed. This was one of few sothacks Jackson encountered in his campaign, and the furious police of his rebelfound that followed he mediately after made it a costly victory for his opponent. A frenzy called "Old Stonewall" and his men are made them invincible, freestable. The thinness resources of the now ungently aroused Washington government were brought to bear in earnest upon this hold accesslist. The whole valley was alive with punching and countermarching, avenging and retreating ardues. Jackson's desperate game was to present men's front in several directions at once, while awaiting reinforcement safely needed. General Banks came over from Manassas, bent upon his destruction. At the same time Blencox his way with 10,000 men to J. Promont, was instructed to report like as he followed Jackson up the valley. Jackson stood at bay at Swat Rap in the Rye Ridge mountains with the Shenandoah river in his front and his troops protected by the foot nubs. Ewold with a handy Confederate force was not far away, but on the other side of the mountains in J. Swat's rear, at Gorlebenville. In this tight place Jackson calls. upon General Lee at Richmond to reinforce him with 5,600 men. Lee could apprise any from the defense of Richmond, but suggested that a union might be effected with General Edward Johnson and his 3,500 troops at Stuarton. Ewell was expected to move eastward against McDowell's Federal army at Gradeford's堡. Meanwhile, Banks, with his large force, was watching General Edward Johnson at Hartleburg. The Fedele, General's Milroy, and Schuck had Ashby Looked Like a Moor, moved up west of the mountains, in front of Johnson, awaiting the arrival of Freight from the north. It was now the end of April, and "Stonewall" Jackson started in to do the theoretically impossible. Ending Banks and Harrisonburg, he moved with incredible swiftness to Staunton, joined his force with Johnson's and defeated Mitos and Schenk at one fell blow. This great advantage had to be followed up, so Ewell marched over into the valley from Gordonville compelling Banks to fall back to Sturburg. Having disposed of the two Federal commanders, Jackson, with Ewell, now bootfooted it to Front Roya where the north and south forks of the Shenandoah river unite, at the northern end of the Massanutton ridge. CHAPTER V Grand Old Jack. THE stealing successes of Jackson at Front Royal and subsequently at Cross Keys and Port Republic, on the Shenandoah, wrote a achieved by a startling series of maneuvers. Little understood by the world at the time, gave that in a general war they mean that he "hold one commander at arm's length while he hammered the other." "I have seen grand Old Jack rattled, for once." Captain Ellingham wrote his silver from Front Royal. "We were opposite Port Republic and the general, with a part of his sign had crossed over the bridge into the town when the enemy appeared in force, with the evident design of attacking the town, destroying the bridge over the Shenandoah and thus cutting off our army and getting in our rear Jackson sent some hurried orders to Talferro and Winder for the defense of the bridge, but before these could be executed the advance Federal batteries had opened dug and their cavalry, crossing the South River, had swept into the town and taken position at the southern entrance to the bridge. "You see, the general had not recrossed the river and so he was completely cut off, and we didn't know it. They do say he met the emergency with the most audacious display of brave and presence of mind that you ever heard of—actually rode toward the bridge and, riding in his sturm, called got to the Federal officer commanding; the artillery: 'Who ordered you to pool that gun there, ard? Bring it over here! It fooled them long enough to enable Jackson to put spurs to his horse and dash on to the bridge at full gallop. "Three hasty shots followed him, but they flew harmonely over his bead, and he reached our quarters on the northern bank in safety. And was he rattled? Well, at the moment of the scare I saw young Bob Lee (youngest son of General Lee, you know, who is only fifteen and left the university to join the "Stonewall" brigade as a private) going down to the bank of the stream to fetch up some water. He had the big camp kettle slung over his shoulder, and I suppose the general in his ex citement thought it was a drum, for as he flow past he shouted to Bob "I'll, there, drummer, beat the long roll!" "That was a close shave, dear Sir. I believe—and so do we all that our Stonewall Jackson lives a charmed life while he has this job of clearing the valley to perform, and nothing can stop him. Do you know what the Yankees call him? The ubiquitous Presbyterian. It seems like a wild dream, as I look back upon what has happened since you and I parted at Richmond. Our great commander, whom we were rather inclined to poke fun at in the beginning, and whose recklessness many distrusted a long while after that, bowled over the Federal commander as fast as they could be hurled against him—Banks, Fremont, Shields, Milton with subordinates like Blender. Sieg-Stelweir and other able soldiers defeated and the whole upper valley regained. "Why, think of it—in three months he—unny I say we?—have marched a surprise, 600 miles, fought four pitcher battles and seven minor engagements to any nothing of the regular skirmishes. And we have defeated four armies, captured seven pieces of artillery, 10,000 stand of arms, 4,000 prisoners and any amount of stores besides fabulous sums (as 1 boat) of cash money. "What our adversaries' losses in killed and wounded foot up I don't know, but they could not have been small. Ours were less comparatively but, oh. Gertrude, we have lost and Ashby. He fell in a moment of tumph, and his last words ware, 'Virginians, charge!' I am sure his man will always be remembered and honored by the people of Virginia. "He was not a Presbyterian, like Old Jack, but he was devout and childlike in his religious faith and a regular attendant at the services of the Episcopal church, which was the church of ancestors. He may have kept himself a bit aloof from the vulgar camp or moments of abandonment, though no man was more frank and gay on the march or in bivouac. "Is it worth these sacrifices? Gertrude, in spite of all our successes I wish this nightmare of civil war were over and well over. But who can tell how when we shall be out of the woods?" Washington, remembering Bull Run had nervous prostration whenever "Stonewall" Jackson was reported to action anywhere within a hundred mile of the Potomac. For this reason it is probably historic truth to say the "Stonewall" Jackson saved Richmond to the Confederates in 1852—in the place by diverting McLowell's army to the valley, in the second place to marching fresh from his own victories in that same valley to John Lee in the seven days' battle around the Confederate capital. "I am going back home," said Gertrude Ellingham with determination. "I long to see the valley once more and I can do just as much good as Belle Bosquet as I can here, perhaps more, now." It was not because of the anxious outlook in Richmond, with McChelan's army almost within gunshot. On the contrary, that in itself would have kept her in the threatened Confederate capital had not stronger ties of both duty and sentiment drawn her home ward. As Gertrude read in northern news, papers the accounts of the desperate fighting and of the suffering of Jackson's troops who exclaimed: "Let then, send the whole population of the north down here if they will, but they can never conquer us." When they have killed off our men we will ahed the last drop of our own blood." Captain Kercival West of the Union army of southwest Missouri, as he read the account while alternately burning and shivering in the ague stricken camps of the lower Mississippi valley around Corinth, thought in fever-lab fancy that he could hear Gertrude saying just such words as these. Her hate, as he imagined it, was like his love—no unreasoning, all consuming passion. He felt himself omnibiously fortified with the double strength of hope and despair, for love is a fainne that feeds upon despair and takes a jurid halo of glory most of all when invaded wildly and in vain. One sovereign solace he had, that he was wearing the blue and fighting loyalty for the old flag in a campaign sufficiently remote from the valley of Virginia. After all, fate had been kind to him, he thought, as he recalled his farewell words with Bob Elling ham, at Charleston—was it ages ago or only a little more than 2 year back? "All right. Bob. I only hope we never meet in battle, that's all." And then they both saddened as they added: "Who knows?" Who knew, indeed? What a tangled skein of lives it was, anyway! One thing was certain—he may have been glad he was not fighting in Virginia, and yet his heart was there, all the time. Meanwhile Gertrude's decision to leave Richmond and go home to the valley was put into execution with characteristic impulse. It was a bad time for such a journey. That made no difference about her embarking upon it, but it did lead to some very complicated Ibid-roundabout arrangements for the accomplishment of the trip. Her Confederate war officer friends, her persons essentially their own, do ```markdown ``` by way of Baltimore and Harriet Ferry. For the last named barrer, Federal pass would be required, this is be presented at Baltimore. And to go to Baltimore, by water, of course, was necessary to run the Lehigh blockade. But this would be comparatively easy under the plan agreed upon by when Jeremiah was to have a traveling companion—a mysterious southern lady who knew the routes intimately and who seemed to be rather closely in touch with the executive departments at Richmond for one who confidently promised to arrange the little matter of Federal passes at Baltimore. This young person—she seemed not over twenty—was introduced some vaguely as Mrs. Smith. She was well dressed, fairly good looking and a bright talker, particularly with the men. Her golf confidence was perhaps a tride excercise; but then this would not come amiss for two unprotected females abroad in Pixie in wartime. On the first stage of the journey over land as they stopped overnight at Petersburg Gertrude said to her fascinating roommate: "Mrs. Smith, I have told you what little there is of interest about myself and my plans. I do so wish you would tell me something of your own adventures." "I don't mind, my dear, now that we are off and on our way," laughed the other as she saturated a handkerchief with can do cologne and washed her face with it. "By the way, my real name is Belle Boyd." "Belle Boyd of the secret service?" "Yes, honey child. That's what we are on now." "But if they should suspect us after we cross the lines they would arrest and detain us, would they not?" "They hang spies," Miss Boyd replied. "But I don't reckon they will get us. Of course I won't be Miss Boyd and you won't be Miss Ellingham from now on." A civilian met "Miss Pago and Mrs Smith" at the Light street, wharf in Baltimore. He took them to a Federal captain, and the captain sent them to his superior officer, General Fisher Belle Boyd. now "Mrs. Smith," stated their case. "We are southerners, general, and we wish to go south by way of Harper Ferry," she said, handing him a note which the captain had given her. He read the note, looked at the pair with a quizzical expression and then nodded his head. "Very well, ladies. I will make out your passes, which will take you to General Kelly at Harpers Ferry. My jurisdiction ends there, but you will find General Kelly a courteous and considerate gentleman. Beyond that I can make out promises for him, you understand. If everything is all right ```markdown ``` * by Review of Reviews company. "My real name is Belle Boyd." why-you will be all right. You will have an exert as far as Harriet Ferry, and an officer will be sent this afternoon to your boarding place to examine your baggage. Brilliantly there was a risk going on in the little south town at the end of the long railroad bridge across the river where the old prison and the engine house which had been John Brown's fort ly close upon the railroad tracks, with dwelling houses, barracks and taverns straggling up the hill streets behind. They held a consultation in the parlor of a "botel" full of drunken soldiers and decided to go out and make inquiries of any one who might be sober enough to answer as to where they could hire a vehicle to forward them on their journey. All uncle falsity was promptly dispelled—the could not get out of Harpers Fort that night. Meanwhile they had discovered that General Kelly's office adjoined the place where they had been magnified as it were. They sought out the road-manding officer, who received their courteously, heard them with wonderful patience—under the circumstances—and on the whole was quite sympathetic. But what could he do? "I can give you your passes," said he "but I don't see what you are going to hire to travel in, unless an ox or a broken down wagon, and the roads are almost impossible, even for stunnethicles. Besides, it is unsafe for you to travel without military resort, and that I have no authority to furnish. If you indies were prisoners, now, I might send you through our lines under escort all right." "That may happen to us before we get home," whispered Gertrude the patty, though she text like crying. "And this is hardly a fit place for ladies to spend the night in," continued the general, in his role of Job's comforter. "Do you mean that we ought to go back to Baltimore?" asked Bette Bockenbergally. "Well, you see, ladies, you are in the difficult position of southerners south. The present policy of the government is to send all southerners below the line to stay, but they must be well vouched for. I am only explaining the situation to you. I can't very well send you back without authority. You have the best thing for you to do is to [Image of a man in military uniform with a star on his chest]. General Joseph E. Johnston. hold out at the hotel until I can telegraph to General Fisher. My ordery will notify you as soon as I hear from him. "We will go back and wait," said Gertrude's companion determinedly. They nodded among the grims throughing the lavender in a half dozen gray coated Colonel who had been captured the day before. (One of them, dentily an other, paced restlessly up and down the room, while the guard kept an eye on him. He peered closely at the two girls as he passed them, and they returned his gaze with interest. Gertrude was wondering if she had not seen that fare somewhere before, when suddenly, without stopping or turning his head, the man stopped these words in a stage whisper: "Are you going south?" "Yes." answered Bowie Boyd like a flash. At the next turn he muttered: "Take a word." Another affirmative. "Get message to General Johnston at Richmond" across the room again "that you saw Captain Thornton here a prisoner" Captain Thornton! Then it was he Edward Thornton, Gertrude's Charac- gin acquaintance of a year ago last spring. "What shall you do?" she whispered Belle Royd. "That will depend on what they are going to do with us here." was the non- chaint reply. "I know this officer. He is an important man. If I can help him out I shall do so." CHAPTER VI Shenandoah's Daughter PRESENTLY an orderly came in with a telegram from General Fisher to General Kelly the purport was that the ladies had been sent south at their own request, and no further intervention would be practicable. "A pretty plight we're in!" exclaimed Gertrude, more tolerably than she was aware. "We can't go south, we can't return north, and we can't remain here." "I'll tell you how you can get sent on," said one of the Federal guard. "You just holler for Jeff Davis, and you'll get sent on quick enough." "Hurrah for the Confederate flag!" cried Helle Boyd in shrill, sheer bravado. Then, as nobody came in response, she led the way back to General Kelly's office. "It was just as I feared, ladies," said that officer gallantly. "Now, the only thing I can suggest is that maybe you would be willing to take the oath of allegiance. That would simplify matters. What do you say?" They said nothing, but followed the general into an adjoining room, where a couple of staff officers sat at a writing desk. Federal soldiers were lounging all about, smoking and police make- SATURDAY.....MARCH 8, 1913. Ing. A man of the desk started to read the earth about. Before he had finished the first sentence Belle Rayd cried out: "Great point! He has the thunder!" Great scene. It's the front end. "We won't listen to it," declared Ger- rande promptly. With that the two turned and mar- ched out of the room. A loud rear of laughter weed up, in which General Kelly joined. "Just as I expected," said he. "I thought you were game." "Now, what next, general?" asked Belle Boyd cheerily. "If we must be hung, please notify us," added Gertrude. "Another alternative presents itself," the general went on, seriously en鸣ing now. "Strange to say, there appears to be a Washington end to this affair, and I am expecting shortly to get word from headquarters. In any event, you will have to stop here over night. So if you will make yourselves as comfortable as circumstances permit we will hope for the best and await developments." It was late in the evening when next they saw General Kelly. He handed them a telegram which he had just received from Washington. It read: Miss Page and Mrs. Smith are friends of mine. See them through if you can. If not, will send on an officer to Harper Ferry tonight. Answer. "It is from Major General Buckthorn," explained General Kelly. "And here is a copy of my answer to him: Will see them through. You need not send. KELLY. As soon as they were alone together Belle Boyd asked Gertrude: "Who on earth is Major General Buckthorn? I have never heard of him." "I have," replied Gertrude, "and he is an influential Federal commander, as you may well believe. But how he ever knew of my being here in a scrap at Harpers Ferry and why he comes to my rescue as a friend in time of need, seeing we have never met personally, I can't for the life of me understand—unless, unless—Oh, I wonder? But, tell me—I am dying of cancer that Confederate prisoner who spoke to us was not not." "Yes, you know him?" "The Edward Thornton whom I knew in Charleston did not have that horrid scar on his face." "It comes in very well as a disguise, then," laughed Belle Boyd, "for Captain Thornton is in the secret service. He is a courand of mine, and I am going to help him. This meeting has changed my plans, so you won't mind going on alone, from Berryville, will you, dear? I mean Miss Page." "No, except that I shall miss your companion ship and the confidence you inspire in me Mrs. Smith." Here General Kelly's orderly came to announce that an ambulance would be ready to take the ladies at daybreak, and would they mind sharing their room for the night with a lady and her three children on their way to Charleston? The commander of Gertrude's journey was comparatively uneventful, though it did seem odd at one point to have the Federal cavalryman who escorted the ambulance called into requisition ```markdown ``` by Patriot Publishing company. Sick and Wounded Soldiers Who Filled the Wards. Sick and Wounded Soldiers Who Filled the Wards. to protect her against southern struggers as they neared the lines. She was still nominally a Federal prisoner. Nearing Winchester, a sentry demanded the young lady's papers. "I have no papers and need none," she answered. "I am at home now. I am Miss Ellingham, and I am going to Delle Bosquet. My brother is in General Jackson's first brigade." The Federal captain who had escorted her opened his eyes at this and said, "I am sorry to release you, Miss Whata-your-name. You might have more chance for enjoyment if you were to remain north. I mean," he added, catching a dangerous gleam in Gertrude's eye. "that you must find it dull in the south, with no beaut nor nothing." "Our beaux are in the field, where they belong, air," retorted the girl laughily. The captain bowed gallantly and made his adieu. Then Gertrude asked the gray garbed sentry where General Jackson's army was located at the moment. knows. He might be in Richmond by now or he might be in Washington. They do any no bow a letter come along here address to General Jackson, Somewhere, and he got it at Woodstock But that was way back two weeks ago. Mrs. Haverill, the colonel's wife, had an anxious and busy time of it in Washington. Seeing little of her husband and that little at moments when he was overworked and morose, she found congenial distraction in the companionship of Edith Haverill, Frank's wife, for what the fugitive had told Kerchival West at Charleston was confirmed when the elder Mrs. Haverwent to New York and found the unfortunate young woman suffering in silence, full of loyalty, courage and gratitude, but in reality knowing no more about Frank's wherenbouts than any one else did. At the warm insistence of the Haver- llis, Edith came on to Washington and took up her home with them. Here her baby boy was born and they christen- ed him after his father, so that the name of Frank Haverill should still be familiar spoken in the household. Then the two women, like so many others both of gentle birth and of lowly station, but above all sisters in affection, engaged in the work of min- istering to the sick and wounded sol- ders, who filled the wards of the low- provided hospitals in the patent office building and elsewhere. At irregular intervals during the year Edith had received some of money from an anonymous source, carefully concealed, but somewhere in the army. She knew it was from her husband, but the only time any word accompanied the envoy was shortly after the birth of her baby, when a brief loving message filled the young mother's heart with joy and gratitude. This communication afforded no tangible clue as to the writer's whereabouts, but it was the means of setting on foot a systematic search on the part of Colonel Haverill, who beneath the mask of Spartan indifference had bi reality rejoiced at bearing of his son's resolution to make atonement by enlisting as a soldier, as reported by Kercival West after the farewell secret interview at Charleston a year ago. Knowing that Columbia college, New York city, had furnished a large number of recruits to the local volunteer regiments at the first call of President Lincoln, Colonel Haverill directed his inquiries among such of Frank's former classmates as he could locate in the army. He was successful to the extent of ascertaining that his son had taken special patals, in enlisting, to avoid any possible comradeship with those who knew of his disgrace. Under an assumed name he had in all probability gone south and joined the Union army of the Missouri. With slinking heart Colonel Haverill thought of the unknown dead of the great battle of Shiloh, on the far Tennessee. And, then, remembering that all evidences of his son's existence in so far as the anxious young wife and mother in Washington were concerned, had ceased some months back, he only abook his head when Edith and Mrs. Haverill asked him daily if he had learned any tidings. The colonel and his wife were none the less fond of their southern wards. Gertrude and Robert Ellingham, now that of necessity they no longer stood toward them in loco parents. Whatever stern military abloffness the Federal military officer may have felt obligatory upon him was compensated by a new tenderness on the part of Mrs. Haverill, particularly toward Gertrude, whom she regarded as the innocent victim of a most unfortunate political misunderstanding. This feeling Gertrude resplendeced and equally without a suspicion of resentment. Mrs. Haverill and Gertrude, as has been intimated, maintained a practically continuous correspondence. Gertrude wrote regularly to her Confederate brother, Robert Ellingham. Madeline West, on the other side of the Mason and Dixon line, also wrote to Robert, her "robel" sweetheart, in a nonpartisan way, which also was quite different from sisterly. Of course, Bob wrote to both the girls, and it would have been highly embarrassing if he had ever got the epistles mixed. Madeline answered the copious letters and inquiries of her brother, Kerchival West, as best she could. Jenny Buckthorn was heard to remark that Captain Heartsease's pen was mightier than his sword, so there must have been some epistolary interchange between these two also when the captain was away from Washington. As for General Buckthorn, still at home abwildly recovering from his wound, and Colonel Haverill, procupled with active military responsibilities, these two old soldiers stuck doggedly to their respective duties and kept their own counsel. Ruch was the complicated, unorganized system of "grapevine telegraph" which in civil war time practically did the service of what in latter days would be called the wireless. Gertrude had been home in the valley perhaps a fortnight when she received the following illuminative epistle from her brother: Charlotteville, June 15 Dearest Sister--We have left the valley I suppose to join in the defense of Rich- mond. You know what that means under Jackson. This is the first moment I have found to write to you since you decided to quit for home. I know what you have passed through, but do you know how it came about that you got through as luck- ly as you did? Probably not. Now, I will tell you. It was all very well for the Richmond department to send you in certain company by way of Baltimore, but I don't know where you are. Ferry Influence at Washington had to be brought to bear. Whose influence? General Buckthorn's General Buckthorn must have acted at the prompting of some other Federal officer, presumably Colonel IL. And how did our dear colonel happen to be so alert in behalf of a couple of southern women traveling at their own risk? Gortrade Kerkhalv W. Ik. or what in Washington either on sick leave or on some confidential mission. He must have moved heaven and earth and even strain at a point or two of discipline for you anka. I don't know the exact circum stance, but I do know old Kerkhalv God bless him: He can't help it if he is Teak. Now you know what he did (for you ankara) you will understand (the next it must have taken for him or W. Bington when I tell you that your dinner our traveling companion took advantage of the situation to wheedle the Federal guard at Berryville into making an ex change of prisoners, with our guard and thus rescued a certain secret service officer whom you and I know only too well and who is now back again in the Confederate service. What is to come of it all don't know, but, sir, be careful. Keep your yourself and yourself from target. When you will next hear me and what you will hear no mortal can predict—except that I shall be found in the line of duty. Stay heaven bless and keep all is the constant prayer of your certain brother. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Best Hours For Sleep. Experiments made recently at Columbia university have shown conclusively that sleep is more profound during the fore part of the night, the best sleep being obtained between 2 and 3 o'clock. The hours before 2 are better than those after 3. 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This team will see to that Bishop Alexander Walters is kept busy with his political duties at Washington. But little can be said of President Wilson's inaugural address. It dual in generalities and time alone can tell just what is meant in the matter of specific performances. The spirit of this address is all that could be desired and the thoughtful citizen is led to believe that President Wilson means well and will have the hardihood and courage to squarer his actions with the laws as handed down to him by our forefathers and with the most recent constitutional declarations of the Congress of the United States. --- DR. PERRY'S ACHIEVEMENTS. --- We do not believe that there is any one in this country who would seriously dispute the intellectual superiority and transcendent ability of R. L. Perry, Ph. B., LL., B. of Brooklyn, N. Y., who took the time to examine and peruse his literary productions. They amaze as well as please us. We have before us his pamphlet entitled "La Situation Actuelle en Haiti." It is written in French. We have examined the pages and at every step have become more and more convinced that we have forgotten well nigh all of the French we ever knew. Mr. Perry sends us also "I. Homme. Dapram in Science et le Talmud." We are keeping these pamphlets as curiosity, telling as they do of the possibilities of our race and emphasizing the fact that we have a brilliant magistrate in the person of Rufos L. Perry amongst us. President Woodrow Wilson has been elected and inaugurated. The following statement issued from the White House will be read with interest and will no doubt cause "cold shivers" down the spinal columns of many of the faithful: "The President regrets that he is obliged to announce that he does it his duty to decline to see applicants for office in person, except when he himself invites the interview. It is his purpose and desire to devote his attention very earnestly and very constantly to the business of the government and the large questions of policy affecting the whole nation; and he knows from his experience as governor of New Jersey (where it fell to him to make innumerable appointments) that the greatest part both of his time and of his energy will be spent in personal interviews with candidates. Soapies he gets an invariable rule in the matter. It is his intention to deal with appointments through the heads of the several executive departments."—White house statement. The office-seekers will now proceed to swarm through the offices of the several executive departments. The evident conclusion is that if they find the greatest part of both their time and energies devoted to personal interviews with the office-seekers it will be at right. This action would seem to bar the distinguished Bishop Alexander Walters from the White House and to suggest to Chief Wood that he will best promote the peace of the Chief Executive of the nation by remaining in New York. There is a loop-hole through for Bishop Walters. He can go to the White House when President Wilson invites the interview. In the light of the recently published correspondence of President Wilson with the distinguished clerical political chiefstaff, who can doubt but what he will be invited? It may be that the invitation to Bishop Walters may not reach him until next Fall, but this will give him and his family time to become familiar with Washington, although he may have become "fanned out" by the importunities of the office-seekers long before that time. He may find too that his religious duties may call him to his circuit and he may keep going his rounds until he recuperates sufficiently to stand another bombardment at the hands of his political supports and seekers after office. Bishop Walters now has our sympathy and six-months hence he will be entitled to the commutation of the public. He is not a seeker after office for himself, but for others. Is it possible that he must devote his musical voice and hypnotic smile upon the heads of the general executive departments? It would seem so. THE WARRING FACTIONS The United Democracy of New York under the leadership of Chief Robert N. Wood was a feature in the inaugural parade. It alleges that it made possible the present position of dignity and influence which the Colored man occupies in the National Democratic Party. It names among its membership and supporters: James D. Carr, Ferdinand Q. Morton, Cornellus A. Hutches, J. Frank Wheaton, Edward E. Lee, Capt. William H. Jackson, Eventt T. Chapell, William H. and Edmund O. Austin, Dr. Gustavus Henderson, Napoleon B. Marshall, Anthony McCarthy, Clarence Johnstone, William E. Gross, George W. Royall, Walter L. Herbert, Charles P. Stinson, Dr. Valentine Thomas, Moses Corbill, J. L. Jefferson, A. J. Brown, Dr. James S. Williams, Walter Powell, Rufus L. Perry, Dr. Owen M. Waller, D. Macon Webster, James A. Jackson, John B. Sphrax, Robert N. Wood, Jr., George W. Queen, W. W. Hanley, Jacob Cisco, John W. Dhadin and James H. Anderson. The New York Colored Democracy in a statement issued says: It has all along been charged that there was implacable enmity between the New York organization and Bishop Walters. President of the National Colored Democratic League. This charge has been persistently denied by the New York Democrat, whose leaders have maintained that they were thoroughly in sympathy with Bishop Walters in all his efforts to promote the interests of the race by creating a more friendly feeling for it in the Democratic Party, and by encouraging the anarchy of colored men to the party's ranks. The Bishop's peculiar fitness for this work has received unquestioned recognition, due to his wide acquaintance among Democratic leaders, and to his eminence in the church, and to his national reputation among colored men. For these reasons the New York organization has constantly modified its willpower, is not now nor has it ever been, disowned to deny to him any personal honor or distinction he may win as a result of services to the race, which his peculiar position thus enables him to perform. This position is modified by the following utterances: It is understood, however, that the New-York Democracy is naturally opposed to political dictatorship on the part of Bishop Walters, or on the part of any other man. It takes the position that autonomy is of the very essence of Democracy, and openly announces that it will make a most determined right not only to maintain involable its own autonomy, but also to hold the principle that the Colored Democracy is institution in the several States shall be the sole authoritative agencies for the intermediation with the party on 'behalf of individuals. The New York leaders assert that Bishop Walters and his friends are proposing, that the Democratic Party shall treat with the Negro precisely as the Republican party treated with him, namely: through the agency of designated colored leaders, and not selected by the Negro himself. The fatal defects of such a system were manifold during the campaign. The Republican party was unable effectively to reach the great bulk of Negro voters, simply because it had to rely on men, who were, in the last analysis, merely agents of the party, and not regularly chosen and accredited leaders of the race. This is strong language, but it is made stronger. Here it is: The New York organization, then, as it maintains, is fighting for the vital principle that colored men in the Democratic party shall have the right to select their own leaders, and not be compelled to accept leaders designated for them. Although Bishop Walters enjoys the title of President of the National Colored Democratic League, the New York Democrats contend that he has never received the authoritative endorsement of colored Democrats for leadership, in the sense of dictatorship. The New York Democracy further contends that there is no satisfactory evidence that the Bishop was ever elected to the position of President of the League; or, if he ever was nominally elected, the body which elected him was not representative and lacked authority, being improperly and inadequately called, and composed for the most part of the Bishop's personal friends and dependents in Washington. Q. C.: many of whom do not possess the elective franchise, or, if they possess it, either do not exercise it, or have no influence in the communities where they legally reside. It is true that there was no general election held at the Baltimore convention of the League, and it is said that the Bishop refused to submit to one This then is the beginning of a long and bitter fight among the colored contingent of the Democratic Party. It will not be many weeks before this unpalatable dish of discussion, will be served to President Woodrow Wilson. Will he recognize as absolute the dictatorship of Bishop Alexander Walters or will he adopt the democratic policy as outlined by the New York Colored Democracy? There is middle ground though. Will he call in counsel that elusive, diplomatic "right side up with care" Dr. Booker T. Washington as the least of three evils, or will he exclaim in disgust "The plague upon both houses." BISHOP WALTERS BLUNDER. It is reported from Washington that the Democrats, composed of citizens of color are jubilant over the outlook. They believe that President Wilson will outst colored Republicans from office and install colored Democrats in their places. The telegraphic report to the Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch is as follows: Washington, February 27.—Local leaders of the colored race are elated over reports current here today that Peter J. Smith, a colored chiroptodist originally from Boston, Mass. will be appointed deputy registrar of the treasury in Washington. Autographed letters from President-elect Wilson to Bishop Alexander Walters, colored, of New York, president of the Colored Democratic National League indicate that the colored race will receive greater recognition from the Wilson administration than from any other in the past. In order to be near the White House, Bishop Walters has moved his family to Washington and established headquarters at the home of Bishop J. W. Smith, colored, at 1309 R. Street, N. W. He announced today that he will remain here indefinitely after the new President is inaugurated, and that he intends to get in touch with the executive as soon as the latter can find time to consider appointments. This sounds "mighty good" to the average colored Democrat, but to our way of thinking it indicates that there are "brokers ahead" for the colored Democratic pilgrims, who have journeyed so Washington with the hope that they may receive favorable consideration at the hands of the distinguished pedagogue, who has been so recently elevated to the presidency of the nation. The Bishop today proudly exhibited three letters bearing President-elect Wilson's signature and written on New Jersey State House letter paper. The first contains antecedence assurances of Mr. Wilson's good will toward the colored race. The second acknowledges receipt of suggestions from the Bishop, while the third was sent in especial reference to an invitation to a meeting of aspiring colored citizens submitted by the Bishop. The letters as published are as follows: "I have made it an absolute rule not to indicate what I am going to do about appointments because I am not now making promises of any kind, but I am sure you will not yourself feel uneasy after the general assurance I have taken pleasure in giving you from-time to time. "Sincerely yours, "WOODROW WILSON." The second, dated December 21, 1912, reads: "My dear Bishop Walters: I read your letter of December 17, and the suggestions you quote Congressman Burleson as making with the greatest interest. You may also see these matters will have my most earnest and friendly consideration. The first is as follows: "My dear Bishop Walters: "It is a matter of general disappointment, to me that I shall not be able to be present at my meeting on Saturday night, but inasmuch as I have cancelled every possible engagement in view of the distressing assault on Mr. Roosevelt, I do not feel that I can properly add others. I am fulfilling only those to which I have been bound for many weeks. "It would afford me pleasure to be present, because there are certain things I want to say. I hope that it seems superfluous to those who know me, but to those who do not know me, it is unnecessary to assume that I will follow cessions of my current wish to see justice done in every matter and not more grudging justice, but justice executed with liberality and cordial good feeling. Every guarantee of our law, every principle of our Constitution commands this, and our sympathies should make it easy. "The colored people of the United States have made extraordinary progress toward self-support and usefulness, and ought to be encouraged in every possible and proper way. My sympathy with them is of long standing, and I want to assure them through you that should I become President of the United States they should deal with us carefully, dealing and for everything I can assist in advancing their race in the United States. "Cordially and sincerely yours, "WOODROW WILSON." Bishop Alexander Walters may "know his business," but to our mind, this is the first tactical mistake and political blunder. He has done three things: Attracted the attention of every Negro-hater in Washington and in the country and thereby collisted his bitter opposition to the political preferment of the colored leaders; drawn to himself a horde of political office-seekers, who desire the ear of the President, and embarrassed the Chief-Executive of the nation in his desire to accord fair treatment to the representatives of one of the kindiest races of people on the face of the globe. Bishop Walters was evidently in good humor for he is quarred as saying: "Mr. Wilson is just filled with good will for everybody," said Bishop Walters to The Times-Dispatch representative. "We are confident that he will treat us fairly. If he should make any changes, I feel there is more than a chance of securing the appointment of some good colored men to the government service. Dr. Peter J. Smith I hope to have appointed deputy registrar of the treasury. If any chance should be made, someone is now in position as a colored man. In the treasury is also a colored man. Both are Republicans, appointed by Mr. Tatt. I think Dr. Smith is a Howard graduate. I am not positive. But he is one of our league organizers." It would soon then that Bishop Walters has openly and smilingly undertaken the job of naming all of the colored leaders who are to be considered by President Wilson as applicants for governmental positions. In this, he will receive the condemnation for failure to "land" coveted positions. Instead of either the President or the white Democratic houses in the respective States. We look with interest for the time when Bishop Alexander Walters' popularity among the rank, and file of his Democratic colleagues will wane like the rays of the setting sun. Already, there are "growls" loud and deep and remarks that are unprintable emanating from Chief Wood of New York. In the meantime, we see or think we see signs of the return of the Dr. Booker T. Washington regime as political referee if we are to accredit the following remark from the distinguished, but wily chieftain: Nashville, Tenn., March 1.—Booker T. Washington, the colored educator, in Nashville today enroute to the State of Washington, where he will conduct a speaking tour, discussed the attitude of President-elect Woodrow Wilson to the colored race. He said: "Mr. Wilson is in favor of the things which tend toward the uplift improvement and advancement of my people, and at his hands we have nothing to fear. My belief is that the next President of the United States is one of the best friends of Negro education that has ever occupied the presidential chair." We take this to mean that Dr. Washington can "come back" when President Woodrow Wilson has become "stick and fired" of the "whole bunch" of office seekers named by Bishop Walters and the feeling of disgust has been intensified by the attacks made upon the distinguished Bishop, by the rank and file of his own colored Democratic organisations then he will demonstrate to Dr. Washington's satisfaction that he "is In favor of the spirit which tend toward the spirit, improvement and advancement of my people," by requesting him to give advice in the premises. That advice will either "spell" the elevation of friends of Dr. Washington to political office or the enunciation of the well known Washington doctrine that colored men should leave politics alone and not aspire to political office. We are of the opinion that Bishop Walters has hindered his case rather than helped it by his indirect utterances and by his publication of the Wilson letters at this time. With reference to Dr. Washington, we are of the opinion that he has helped his case rather than hindered it by his timely deliverances at Nashville, Teen. We did not need to be told that President Woodrow Wilson was a friend of Negro education. His whole life shows that. We might make the statement with reference to hundreds and thousands of white Democratic educators in the Southern States. As the matter now stands, Bishop Walters declares that President Wilson is the friend of the Negro Democratic politician and Dr. Washington declares that President Wilson is the friend of Negro education. We expect to see both of these great leaders in a grapple for recognition and influence at the White House. We shall be able to hear and see Bishop Walters as the struggle goes on, but as for Dr. Washington, he will work behind a masked battery and only the manner and method of his fighting will disclose the identity of the leader behind the breastworks. NOTICE It has been found necessary to buy and properly equip the home for homeless and dependent Colored children, located at 1513 Taylor street known as the Working Woman's Industrial Home and Day Nursery, that moved from 516 Third street in July, 1910. In order to make the Home perpetual and purchase it, we must appeal to the generous public for help. All interested in this work can help by contributing freely through the Mitte, Boxes and envelopes already distributed, which will be called for by the Board of Directors, containing the words "Children's Home" Contributions can be sent directly to Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart, 1031 West Grace street, who is the Treasurer of the Building Fund. No fund can be too small to help. Please do not give money to anyone except those soliciting and wearing the "Children's Home" badge. This work is approved by Gov. Mann. Mayor Almale, Dr. J. T. Mastin, Rev. James Buchanan, Judge Richardson and a Committee of Ladies. The work is also on jorand by the Colored Ministers' Conference of the City. The following compose the Colored Committee for soliciting Funds: Mrs. Rehaker Violet Crawford. Manager of the Home: Mrs. Adaldea G. Thompson, Mrs. Mattie Hewin. Mr. Harriett Page, Mrs. H. R. Johnson. Mr. McCormick. Will you be one of the two thousand to contribute $1 or more? If so, please forward it to Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 1031 West Grace street. We thank the Public School Children for $65 as an offering. We have heading our colored individual contribution list, Dr. R. E. Jones, $5.00 and Mr. Nelson Williams, $2. WHO WILL BE NEXT? JURGEN'S SON JURGEN'S SON EVERYBODY BE COMFORTABLE. 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"Do you think we are really making any bedway in spreading culture in this country?" "There is no doubt of it. I attended the grand opera the other night, and I didn't see any one who chewed gum during the performance." — Chicago Record-Herald. 1 ```markdown ``` Sworn In as Governor of New Jersey to Succeed Wilson. ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. James Fielder Governor of New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson completed his work as chief executive of New Jersey at noon Saturday, when his resignation took effect, and for three days he will be a private citizen. James F. Fielder, president of the senate, was inaugurated governor, taking the oath in the state house. President-elect Wilson and many prominent officials of the state were present. In his inaugural address Governor Fielder promised to continue the policies started by Governor 'Wilson and lend his aid to have them enacted into law. One of the last acts of Governor Wilson was the signing of twenty-four bills passed by the legislature. With his family and a large escort, of Princeton students Mr. Wilson will go to Washington on Monday. Swallowa Gem: Pump Finds ff. SWANDEW Gem, Pump Pins It. A drink of sherry and egg cost John Britt, chief engineer of the North Side pumping station in Pittsburgh, Pa. $150 temporarily. When Britt came home from work he prepared his accustomed sherry and egg in a glass, in which he had left his diamond ring. Not noticing the ring, Britt smallened it, along with his eye-opener. With the aid of a stomach pump the sparkler was removed from his stomach. Four Burned to Death. Four persons were burned to death and one fatally burned in a fire in an Austrian boarding house at Mayburn, near Warren, Pa. There were fifty persons sleeping in the house at the time of the confi-ration. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp. The building was two stories high, and by leaping from the secony-story windows most of the inmates were able to escape from the flames. Arbitrators Can't Agree. The third member of the board of arbitration to settle the differences between the eastern railroads and their firemen will have to be chosen by the United States commissioner of labor and the chairman of the interstate commerce commission. W. W. Atterbury, representing the railroads, and Albert Phillips, representing the firemen, announced that they were unable to agree within the fire days required by law. . $mothered to Death by Sand. John Walah, twenty-eight years old, a plasterer, was caught under a pile of sand in the rear of a Forty-second street building in New York and was amothered to death. The sand was separated from a pile of coal by a fence and when the fence gave way the sand and coal followed. Taft Ousta Two Customs Appraisers President Taft summarily glammed from office Thaddeus S. Sharretts and Roy H. Chamberlain, members of the board of United States general, appraisers at New York, "because of malfeasance in office." State Song For Indiana The state song of Indiana will be "On the Banks of the Wabash," if a bill to this effect introduced in the legislature by Senator Curtis is enacted into law. Tumulty Reaches Capital. Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President-elect Wilson, reached Washington from Trenton, N. J., to prepare for taxing up his work at the White House. Grieving Brother a Suicide. Grieving over the death of his brother, William Reeder, a wealthy farmer of near Williamsport, Pa., hanged himself. One of the Responses. "I think one of the principal reasons is that they can't put their feet up on decks and smoke good cigars"—Christine Brown, Record-Harvard. THOUSANDS CHEER AS WILSON TAKES OATH Marshall Sworn in in Senate. BIG GUNS ROAR SALUTE Imposing Spectacle When New President is Inaugurated. REVIEWS THE BIG PARADE Woodrow Wilson, former governor of New Jersey, was inaugurated on Tuesday afternoon as the twenty-eighth president of the United States, the eighth son of Virginia to rise to that office and the first Democrat, since the second election of Grover Cleveland, twenty years ago, to receive the highest office in the gift of the American people. Just one hour before the oath of office as vice president had been administered to Thomas Riley Marshall, former governor of Indiana. Thus for the first time in sixteen years the Democratic party came into control of the government again, amid scones of stirring animation and with impressive ceremonies, marked in the main by simplicity, and yet retaining that degree of dignity, with some of the pump and spectacular display that inevitably attaches to the induction of a new chief executive of the nation. The elaborate ceremonies followed a fixed program covering over five hours. It began in the morning with the drive of William Howard Taft, the retiring president, the president-elect and the vice president-elect from the White House to the capitol, where until noon Mr. Taft was occupied with the measures passed in the closing hours of the Sixty-second congress. The inauguration of Vice President Marshall was practically coincident with the assembling of the new senate and the awaering in of the new senators. Following this, came the chief ceremony of the day, the inauguration of President Wilson, before a crowd of many thousands at the east front of the capitol. Then came the return of the presidential party to the White House and the review of the inaugural parade of 30,000 or more marchers, military and civic. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Marshall had remained with their families at their hotels through the night. As the hour approached for opening the ceremonies they were joined by the inaugural committee of congress, made up of Senators Crane, Bacon and Overman and Representatives Rucker, Garrett and McKinley. To this committee was assigned the first function of importance in the proceedings, that of conducting the new president and vice president to the White House for formal greetings, with President Taft, followed by the drive of the presidential party to the capitol. First in the order of the proceedings was the administering of the oath of office to Vice President Marshall. Arising from his seat among the senators, the new vice president was escorted to the senate rostrum, to the right of the presiding officer. The office of vice president being vacant by reason of the death of James S. Sherman, the administration of the oath to the new vice president fell to the lot of Senator Gallinger. This brief ceremony was followed with impressive silence as the oath was slowly repeated by the new official, standing with upraised hand. The appearance of the incoming president upon the portico was the signal for round after round of cheers arising from the throngs of these thousands who had stood in the broad plaza in front of the capitol for many hours. The shouts continued while the inaugural party was taking seats on the platform Applause came from the crowds near the entrance of the capitol door or former Speaker Cannon emerged. It swelled into larger volume as William J. Bryan came forward with the other guests comprising the membership of President Wilson's cabinet. Governor Fielder, successor to President-elect Wilson as governor of New Jersey, came out to stand with Senator Martine. Mr. Bryan, Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Redfield, Mr. Burleson, Mr. Daniels, Mr. Lane, Mr. Wilson, Professor Houston and the others of the new cabinet were escorted to seats as the crowd voled its approval by cheers. Mrs. Wilson and her daughters took seats close to the square platform at the left. At Mrs. Wilson's request Mrs. Marshall took a seat beside her. The two women walked forward to the rail to look at the crowd. The Misses Wilson joined them. With this setting of animation all attention was directed to the two central figures of the assemblage—the president-elect about to take the oath of office and the chief justice of the supreme court, ready to administer the oath. Then there came a bush as these two, rising from their seats, stood together at the center of the platform, the chief justice with the Bible open in his hands—the same Bible on which Mr. Wilson took the oath as governor of New Jersey—the president-elect with uplifted hand. Slowly the chief justice repeated the oath as it is prescribed by the constitution: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president." deat of the United States and will to ```markdown ``` 1812 by American Press Association PRESIDENT WILSON. the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States." Word for word, in the same slow measure set by the solemn chief justice, the oath was repeated by Woodrow Wilson. This was the transition from president-elect to president. The nation now had a new chief executive and the government had passed from Republican to Democrat. With the closing words of the oath a presidential salute of twenty-one guns boomed out the news that a new chief executive had been inaugurated. President Wilson at once began his inaugural address, again being roundly cheered as he stepped slightly forward to speak. The presidential party were then escorted to the White House, where lunchon was served, shortly after which Mr. Taft said goodbye to Mr. Wilson and left with Mrs. Taft for Augusta, Ga. The army of inauguration, 30,000 strong, swinging with measured tread to the blare of a brigade of bands, marched in review from the capitol to the White House, a magnificent tribute of welcome to the administration of Woodrow Wilson. High on either side of the avenue, its buildings, and reviewing stands were packed with humanity, rising from the solid masses along the curbs to the dense throngs in balconies, windows and store tops. And through this valley of humanity and color a martial host undulated and rolled along with the steady sweep of a great river. PRESIDENT WILSON'S VIEWS First Obligation of Law is to Keep Society Sound. The inaugural address of President Woodrow Wilson in part is as follows: There has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. The senate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of president and vice president have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the question that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question I am going to try to answer, in order, if I may, to interpret the occasion. it means much more than the mere success of a party. The success of a party means little except, when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with which we had grown familiar and which had begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them with fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped their disguises and shown themselves alien and sinister. Some new things as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of things long believed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions. But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded. With riches has come inexcusable waste. We have squandered a great part of what we might have used and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of pature without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent, zorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not bith; erto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives sauffed our, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spl- factual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitlessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet, reached our ears, the solemn, moving understone of our life, coming up out of the mines and factories and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat. With the great government went many deep secret things which we too long deceived to look into and scrutinise with candid, fearless eyes. The great government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who need it had forgotten the people. We have itemised with some degree of particularity the things that ought ```markdown ``` and here are some of the elements. A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just princi- ple of taxation and makes the gov- ernment a facile instrument in the hands of private interests; a banking and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell it bonds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to concentrating cash and re- triciting credits; an industrial system which take it on all its sides, financial as well as administrative, holds-capital in leading strings, restricts the lib- or or fee and limits the opportunities of labor and exploits without renewing or conserving the natural resources of the country; a body of artificiai at activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should be through the instru- ncienalty of science taken directly to the farm or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; wae courses undeveloped, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded wae heaps at every mine. We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should her or ours of industry, as she cames or as individuals. Nor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity in safeguarding the health of the nation, the health of its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty. The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control or singly cope with. Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. The first duty of the law is to keep sound the society it serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are intimate parts of the very business of justice and legal efficiency. These are some of the things we ought to do and not leave the others undone, the old fashioned, never to be neglected, fundamental safeguarding of property and of individual right. This is the high enterprise of the now day: To lift everything that concerns our life as a nation to the light that shines from the hearth fire of every man's conscience and vision of the right. It is inconceivable we should do this as part-and-it; it is inconceivable we should do it in ignorance of the facts as they are or in blind taste. We shall restore, not destroy. We shall deal with our economic system as it is and as it may be modified, not as it might be if we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon, and step by step we shall make it what it should be, in the spirit of those who question their own wisdom and sook counsel and knowledge, not shallow self-satisfaction or the excitement of excuses whither they cannot tell Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here must not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fall to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fall them if they will but counsel and sustain me. Gabe Toots Say Don't judge nobody by the front bedroom furniture that ain't paid for yet.-St. Louis Republic. WILHELMA CUNY The Old Hand—This'll give you an idea of wot things is coming to. Why a few years ago a girl like this would 'ave and a couple of sardines in p'ap's three,—Punch. Luck "There's a and case," said Mrs. Jones, as she laid the paper on her knees and wiped her spectacles. "A bride struck dumb after leaving the alter, and by last accounts she hadn't recovered her speech." "It's the way of the world, my dear," said old Mr. Jones, with a sigh. "It's the way of the world. Some men have all the lock."—P. I. P: Sir L. Friendship Bethth-Did you sing for Mr. Borelgh night? Ada-Yes, indeed, I sang almost a whole hour for him. Bethth-I'm so glad to hear it! I've always had the greatest aversion to that man! CONSUMER HIT IN COAL STRIKE Operators Cleared $9,450,000 and Miners $4,000,000. PUBLIC THE REAL VICTIM Were Made to Pay the Wage Increase, Huge Profit Added and Deprived of Discount. A gross profit of approximately $13, 450,000 was reaped by the anthracite coal operators of Pennsylvania last year as a result of the lifting of prices that followed the settlement of the strike of 1912. This result is shown by a report sent to congress by the secretary of commerce and labor in response to the resolution of Representative Difen- derfer, which was passed in the house several weeks ago. As the minors wages were increased only about $1, 000,000, the strike netted the oper- ators something like $2,450,000. The average increase in wholesale anthracite prices following the wage agreement of March 20, 1912, was 28 cents a ton, as compared with the prices prevailing in the previous year, while the increase in the wages of the miners was between 8 and 10 cents a ton, the report says. It also asserts that the coal companies reaped a double profit, because they not only raised the prices, but suspended the discount usually allowed purchasers in the months of April and May. The gross profit of $13,450,000 in includes both the above sources. Of the total about $10,900,000 was derived from higher prices and the remainder from the suspension of April and May discounts. In addition a large number of operators made big profits through the sale of coal at prices made possible by the shortage of shipments. As an offset to these apparent profit the operators contended that since 1902 the cost of mining had in increased largely as a result of increasingly difficult conditions of mining, more stringent mining laws and increases in taxes. As to the contention that there has been a considerable increase in the cost of mining, the report says that this has not been with out a great many exceptions, and that the increased price to wholesalers more than compensated companion with respect to whose operations the greatest increase in cost has obtained. Retailers of anthracite, said the report, took the fullest possible advantage of the increased cost pronounced by the operators. In many communities, in fact, the retail prices in 1912 increased in greater proportion than the circular prices of the operating companies, particularly in New England. In all companies included in its findings, the report says, there was a common control of the coal mines and the railroads, as a result of which the capital invested derived its income from both the mining and transportation of the coal. A failure to realize profits in mining may be and often is compensated by the profit in the operation of the railroad on account of the coal tonnage, the report pointed out. Coal for domesticate use increased a fraction over 31 cents a ton, that on pea coal and the smaller steam sizes 16 cents a ton. These figures were based on comparison of net receipts by the operators after the agreement of May, 1912, with their receipts during the same months, June to September, 1911. As a result of the suspension of the discount many purchasers who were unable to buy their usual supply of coal in April or May were forced to buy it in June, July or August, when the discount rates were smaller, or in September and later, when full circular prices were charged. The report did not estimate how much more the public paid for its coal last year than if 1911 rates had continued, although it is said that the increase in wholesale prices affected retail prices directly, and that in all communities these advances were felt. The retail increases averaged 25 cents a ton on stove and 40 to 50 cents on chestnut coal. The report showed that all the operators, most of the dealers and the miners all gained by the increase following the wage agreement and that the consuming public alone paid higher prices without any compensation. Three Entombed Miners Rescued. Woak and numb from cold, the three miners entombed for fifty-eight hours at the Draper collery, a Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron company operation, near Mahanoy City, Pa., were rescued alive. Two of the men were completely exhausted. They had to be dragged through the small aperture which had been made during the last ten feet of digging through the wall which separated the entombed men from liberty. During all the time the men were imprisoned they were without food or water. Their clothing being soaked with water, they suffered great hardship. Immediately upon their rescue they were burried to their homes in ambulances. Their physicians do not anticipate any serious results, although they are being kept perfectly quiet and interviews are denied. The rescuers, after getting through the wall of muck anser rock which imprisoned the three men, were forced to walk through water and slush up to their armpits for a distance of 150 feet. After a search the three men were found, almost unconscious, buddied in an air heading. They had to be carried, and dragged to safety. Money Prebere Urge Legislation. The Pulo committee's report and two bills embodying most of its radical and comprehensive recommendations were introduced in the house. The bills if enacted into law will valuable as a Human Mind. If a diamond be troubles and cost, much more is the mind of it; all the polishing that the schools can give it too good for a promising youth. Who would save a few cents when health is in danger? inferior school to save a few dollars when the strength of character and of mind feel a larger usefulness? LECTURE HALL. Union University. Best Higher Education to MRD YOUNG M. COURSE including manual training for these school subjects. Is broad and complete. Its requirements and one of any college for white youth in the king of the Carnegie Board. USE has for years been the standard course. Hebrew. Greek and all the regular subjects are given here. One hundred students for in different departments of the school. WEDINGS, its finely equipped science laboratorium volumes, its able faculty and its full course Union University to offer colored men anoyed by the favored of other races. address the President. Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Mind. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the schools can give it. The best education is not too good for a promising youth. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger? And who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger usefulness? Virginia Union University. Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG M. It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE including manual training for those who have completed common school subjects. Its COLLEGE COURSE is Broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegie Board. Its THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are given here. One hundred students for the Ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. Its NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, its finely equipped science laboratories, its library of 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its full courses of study enable Virginia Union University to offer colored men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of other races. For further information, address the President. VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ros. & Company BANKERS & BROKERS ANS NEGOTIATED, ESTATES MANAGED. at 6 PER CENT PER ANNUM. US. 506 N. 2nd St. Bragg Bros. & Company REAL BANKERS & ESTATE BROKERS RENTS COLLECTED, LOANS NEGOTIATED, ESTATES MANAGED. $100,000 TO LOAN at 6 PER CENT PER ANNUUM. COME TO SEE US. 50G N. 2nd St. Artificial Flowers. ALL KINDS MADE TO ORDER. ALSO ARTIFICIAL PALMS AND MOSSES; GRASSES AND PERS. MARY E. MOSBY, 526 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Subscribe to The PLANET. MARKETING Nothing on earth, is so valuable to worth polishing at great trouble a boy or young man worth all the. The best education is not too good; choose a poor physician to save a. And who would choose an inferior better school will increase the street life and prepare one for a larger t. LECTURING Virginia Union Offers the Best HIGH COLORD V It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE who have completed common school. Its COLLEGE COURSE is Broad and standing are as high as those of an State, according to the rating of the. Its THEOLOGICAL COURSE has five for colored Baptist Schools. Hebrew given in Northern Seminaries are given the Ministry are enrolled in different. Its NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, lies, its library of 12,000 volumes, of study enable Virginia Union University equal to that enjoyed by the. For further information, address the VIRGINIA Bragg Bros. REAL ESTATE RENTS COLLECTED, LOANS NEG $100,000 TO LOAN at 6 COME TO SEE US. not only revolutionize the great banks systems of this country, but will work far reaching changes in the management of the New York stock exchange and clearing houses through the United States. The security issues of Interstate railroads are placed under the supervision of the interstate commerce commission, and in the disposal of the securities of these corporations competitive bidding is to be invited as in the sale of state or municipal bonds. The committee seeks to impose public reports on J. P. Morgan & Co. and other private bankers. A limitation is recommended upon the proportion of its capital and surplus which a national bank may invest in state, municipal and corporate bonds, and national banks are prohibited from engaging in underwriting securities. The stock exchange is to be incorporated and stringent regulations complied with, or it will be denied the use of the mails and the use of the telegraph wires in interstate commerce. Also clearing house associations are to be subjected to enforced incorporation. C. O. D. For Parcel Post. On July I next the collect-on-delivery feature will be added to the parcel post department of the postal service of the country. An order putting this into effect has been signed by Postmaster General Hitchcock. Under the approved regulations a parcel bearing the required amount of parcel's post stamps may be sent anywhere in the country, and the amount due from the purchaser collected and remitted by the postoffice department. The regulations provide that the parcel must bear the amount due from the addresses and the collection will be made provided the amount is not in excess of $100. The fee will be ten cents, to be affixed by the sender in parcel post stamps. This also will insure the parcel to an amount not to exceed $30. Collector Loeb Quilts. The resignation of William Loeb, Jr. collector of the port of New York, has been sent to Washington, it was announced. Mr. Loeb's withdrawal from office was forecasted recently. A position as managing director of the Guggenheim companies has been created for him. Had Her Third. "If you do not want to marry Mrs Elma why do you not appeal to the courts to protect your legal rights?" "But what rights have I under the law?" "A widow is not entitled to more than a third, and this woman has been married three times already."—Buffalo Press Fancy and Assorted Cream in every style. All Fruits of the Season, Foreign and Domestic. Special Attention to Weddings, Festivals, Church and Sunday School Picnics. Give us a trial and be convinced. N. WINSTON, 537 BROOK AVE. Nichmond, Va. 'Phone Madison 2253 CURE YOUR COUGH The quicker you rid yourself of your cold, cough or grip the better—because many times they are the fore runners of more serious illness. TRADE MARK COUGH MIXTURE. Get Joffries' No. 1 Cough Mixture to lay. It's a guaranteed remedy. It never falls. Will relieve immediately. For throat and lung trouble it has no equal. A sure preventative for pneumonia. SEE the trade-mark on every bottle. Price 25c. Sold by all druggists. If your druggist hasn't it phone, write or call Thos. Tabb Jeffries, 214 E. Broad .. Street, Richmond, Va. S. W. ROBINSON & SON DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE LIQUORS. PHONE MONROE 2 3. 19 and 21 N. 18th St., Richmond, Va. 1915 in Australia Press Association I wide attention to him and led to the general discovery of his group of political problems, the vigor and stigmatity of his thought and his devotion to the cause of emancipation by the people. In all parts of the Union, from its populace, a term often used to remove corners of the west people seemed suddenly to be become aware that there was a man named Wilhelm who looked more like a great new than any who had been seen of his days. The time soon came when invitations to speak to the citizens to see and hear grew a question that it would have been with people longer to discuss theirs. A few friends took it up themselves to arrive on their trip among some of the cities that wanted to see New Jersey governor, and be put himself in their hands to the tent of attending to get on a train with the filtratory in his seat. Before he returned he had travelled 800 miles, in the twenty five spaces addressed thousands of people, and been mobilised in eight states as the next president. That was the beginning of it. On his western journey Mr. Wilson had replied to all questions by saying that the presidency was too big a thing for any man to set about to capture, as it was too big for any man to return. Now, however, there set in a spontaneous movement which overnight made him a candidate, willy nilly, and which within a few weeks had put his man apparently ahead of all others in popular favor, for the movement was clinically a movement rather of citizen than of politicians, rather of the people than of party leaders. Early in January, 1912, Governor Wilson was present as a guest at the Jackson day banquet, attended by all the members of the Democratic National Committee and the most prominent members of the party from all over the country gathered in Washington, and they made an address so commanding in power that he early swept the seat of their foot with the vision of duty and opportunity which he became the party of the people in this hour of national crisis. Upon that day, Mr. Wilson's life has been lived in the full light of publicity. The press has given a daily record of his acts and words and has brought to unend of the work of this biography, whose purpose it has been to trace the course of that widely known event which, to be way not unusual in our political history, has significantly equipped Woodrow Wilson for a chief part in the political life of the nation. The constitution for the nomination developed during biltowns. Private letters were published and private conferences and in the effort to beat Mr Wilson. Despite these betrayals of confidence he steadily gained before the people. A combination of the fall against him was the last resort of his enemies. When the convention met Baltimore, however, he had more than 200 delegates, and these never wavered! On the forty-seventh ballot, after the longest string of ever witnessed in American political conventions, Woodrow Wilson was named for president of the United States. He had gained constantly from the beginning, pro-100 mark, for the 500 mark, until last there was a scramble to get ahead the low-wagon. The mounting of the vote like that of the mercury warmed by the breath of popular demand throughout the nation. The election campaign was a repetition of that seen two years earlier in New Jersey. Everywhere the candidate spoke he proved a revelation to his audiences. In the result he achieved one of the greatest triumphs in American history—more than 2,000,000 popular, plurality and 435 electoral votes out of 531. The "schoolmaster governor" had arrived. So brief a narrative as this could reveal but imperfectly the personality whose development it essayed to trace, per could any assessment of it, in closing, do much to remedy the imperfection. Some few matters of fact might be added a little to round out the picture. Mr. Wilson's face photographed in papers is familiar, but it is not the same face animated. His photographs show the man whom his friends WOODROW WILSON The Story of His Life From the Cradle to the White House By WILLIAM BAYARD HALE Copyright, 1811, 1812, by Doubleday, Page & Co. know. The lines of softness which mark the photographs disappear in conversation in public speech. A set fusion of kindness we allow this combination the money his attention is drawn. Swift play of expression marks the interest with which he lectures. He laugh, like that of the people he whispers. Mark Twain engages to applaud doing his first lecture, is lying on a lit trivier. Mr Wilson is of good height, still built, with superior shoulders. He stands erect on his feet. If you want manners, you note that his hands seek his trousers, perhaps that he changes his glasses with much ease when he looks down at a document or up from it; that every time he has used his pen he wipes it carefully with a cloth taken from a drawer, into which he painstakingly replaces it, closing the drawer. There is a certain trust in the ability of habit in matters of posture and a free spontaneity in others. There would be a gray grimness about her expect for the pocketed hands, a frequent sunburst of a white and a yellow like musc. You would learn if you watched him an hour or two that a man with a stiff jaw and a seated mouth is pretty wise to be master in any situation. Woodrow Wilson is a man of positive opinion, removed by an eager sense of humor. He speaks with unfailing ease, with good natural curiosity of his life. The prime thing is that he is real, real all through, from top to bottom. There isn't a sham anywhere in his neighborhood. His mind is continually incapable of operating morality. It revolves against it like a new-seated stomach. He is checkful of energy. He likes not hugely, though he'd remark at the end of one evening day "After all life is not conventually running to a life." Conversation with him is a delight. He talks to his alma-mater, illustrated from broad personal and spiritual marvel by a web running swag of interest and thought. It ought to be mentioned that Mr. Wilson's family consists of his wife and three daughters, Margaret, Jessie and Elaine. New Jersey having no residence for its executive head, the government out-throated to reside at Princeton in a pretty house on a quiet street. Woodrow Wilson is an influential worker, need to long hours at the desk. During his last year in office he marched the state house. It was bad enough in the speech, but worse when sumper came and the governor was still 1 Photo by American Press Association. Mrs. Wilson and Her Sundial. to be found during the hottest weather constantly at the capitol in the burning city. Passersby on the street caught glimpses of the governor in his shirt sleeves working hard away into the night. This biography has found no time to dwell, as it would have liked to dwell, on many of the enlarging and curricling though undramatic events of the scholar's life on holidays in Europe, on the preparation for the writing of books such as the "Life of George Washington" and the monumental "History of the American People." It could not tell of the happiness of his family life. It has not blighted at his shyne that love of retirement, inherited with the strain of his mother's blood, which had to be overcome with agonizing before he could commit himself to the path of public life. It has not told of his passion for crowds, of his fondest habit—the stealing off somewhere to move unknown among big throngs and to drink in in silence the sense of human striving; to look into the faces of multitudes and listen to their voices, one to another; to feel the heartbeat of men as they go about life's business or its pleasures. It is a rare and an arresting combination of traits that this man presents. Perhaps nothing sums it up more vividly than this—he reads Greek and he writes shorthand. That was one of the first things that amazed the people at Treston, the old timers who deemed themselves the only "practical" politicians. But every day for a year was a further amazement to them. They found in this strange newcomer a man who didn't believe that a good cause was rendered any less likely to succeed by the employment in its behalf of the carnal, exploit of practical politics, a man who said, "Even a reformed need not be a fool." A new era was ushered in when this quiet gentleman who had just emerged from the detachable groves of Princeton's academy, his garments odorous with the vapors of Parmissus, his lips wet with the waters of Helicon—this long haired bookworm of a professor who had just laid his spectacles on his dictionary, came down to the Trenton statehouse and "liked the gang to a frazzle." Of his manner of public speech something more ought to be told. With the advent of Woodrow Wilson on the political stage came a new type of man and a new type of oratory. Mr. Wilson has been known as an exquisite master of English prose. He speaks as he writes—with a trained and skillful handling of the resources of the language, a sureness, an accuracy, a power and a dolicacy surpassing anything ever before heard on the political platforms in America. It was felt by some of his friends that Mr. Wilson's classical habit of language would militate against his success as a politician. The first appearance of the candidate for the Jersey governorship disdicated these doubts. Mr. Wilson knew how to talk to the people, knew how to win them. He changed his manner very little, never stooping, as if he had to, to make the people understand. No matter where or before what sort of audience he spoke, his speeches were on a high plane, but they were so clear, so definite, that every man understood and wondered why he had not thought of that himself. Woodrow Wilson is, not only the most individual speaker that the generation has seen on the stump; he is the most engaging. A friendly smile is almost always on his face, always in beginning, at any rate. His words come with vigor, but with a gentle good nature, too not a good natural tolerance of the bills he is opposing, but a good natural confidence that they will soon be overthrown. A serene faith in the outcome is one of the characteristics of Wilson's attitude. He is an optimist, and his speeches have the invigorating charm and power of a call to join an army which is marching to glorious and certain victory. Mr. Wilson is a great story teller. In private he keeps his friends in housings, gables of laughter. He has simple words and strong words, but golden slang. He loves nonsense verse and limericks and often reels them off while he is getting acquainted with his audience, for he talks with an audience, not to it. Mr. Wilson, as he has said, has a strongly individual face. Some people would call him homely. He was under no illusion about that matter himself. He told the people during his campaign for the governorship that they might as well prepare themselves for a busy governor, for the Lord never intended him to be ornamental. "Yes," he remarked once: "For beauty I am not a star." "Is the people in front that I far." He speaks without notes. His voice is full rich and far carrying. He gestures freely. His utterance flows easily in clean cut channels and goes home in clear, strong sentences. He is a master of statement. His brain works as if it had been taken out, cleaned and oiled that day. That he enjoys it is clear. A man in the audience at Lakewood called out, "Oh, you're only an amateur politician." "Yes. That is too bad, isn't it? But I have one satisfaction—a professional plays the game, you know, because it pays him. An amateur plays the game because he loves to play it, to win it if he can by fair means in a fair field before the eyes of all men. I'm afraid I'm only an amateur. But I'm having a most interesting time of it." No one can listen to Woodrow Wilson and see the emotions of the audiences of earnest men who bring upon his words without feeling that he is witnessing the beginning of a political revolution and that its prophet and captain stands before him. This is a new language, but one for which the people have an instinctive, pentecostal understanding. It is surely an interesting prospect held out by this taking of the center of the stage of national politics by a man made up of the combination of qualities which Woodrow Wilson possesses. It is the combination of the gentleman and scholar and the practical politician. Imagine a student of government, one of the most enthused that Alpera has produced, a man of rich literary and cultural culture of the fine fiber and melow spirit that our anesthetic sisters will occasionally shelter and develop; a man of humanity, with a heart not unstilled by emotions, who is yet able to go into the world battle of politics, face the "mean knights" like a Law clot, keep his temper, crack his joke and win. Imagine a type of culture in its finest flower and then add to his endowment tact, method, efficiency, a shrewd knowledge of men, a sense of humor, a passion for facts, a test for constructive work and an instinct for leadership—and you begin to get something like a picture of the remarkable man whose history, now but entered upon, this biography has no inadequately narrated and whose personality it has no imperfectly portrayed. Lunar Mountain Peaks. There are twenty-eight mountain peaks on the moon (that we know of) which are higher than Mount Blanc. No. Indeed. ignorance of the law does not prevent the losing lawyer from collecting his bill.—Pnack. A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin. THE present high cost of living reminds one of the housewife who, looking at Nagara falls for this first time, said, "Oh, this big splash of water reminds me that I left the kitchen tap running." Like this visitor to the falls many women keep a weather eye out for big economies and leave the tap of little savings running. Taking care of clothes is a means of much saving to the woman who will spend time and thought upon her wardrobe. Every woman knows the rumbles it costs each season to have her evening frocks, light suits and silk blouses and other unwashable materials cleaned. Where gasoline is possible as a removal she may sometimes try the experiment of doing a little of her own cleaning, but it is so seldom successful, and it is as hard to lose the color of gasoline as it is to acquire the color of sanitary. Also it is disproportionate. Therefore high knowledge of some simple moths is of great cleaning that can be done in dry and that leave no trace of the process would have many occasions due to the woman who is moving to the kitchen for the allowance for dress. The material required are very simple felt-like earth, block rugs, borne in calcium powder, flour and linen or even paint, cornmeal. The last three can be bought by the corner of palm farm any driest, and the others are always in the pantry or store chest. Begin a while, and then it is perfectly safe to use the tools of the table to clean the counter. A table will for example be used so easily cleaned by putting the dishcloth on the clean cloth and covering it with communal slightly gritled. The cloth will be rubbed with the hand wash if it were in soap soils, the most appropriate rubbing naturally being given to the spots which are most soiled. After it has been thoroughly gunked over the meal should be thrown out and the grown pet back into the tub and covered over with clean meal. It should be left there for two days, with a cloth over the tub to keep out the dust, and then shaken out and brushed with a perfectly clean brush. LENTEN·COOKERY. How to Make Japanese Dishes For Penetential Fare. Soy, the national sauce of Japan, made from the soy bean, is used in most of the popular dishes of the milk kudos realm, the recipes for a few of which are quoted. "Ni sakuma," which being translated means "fish cooked in soy," is well worth trying. Bring to a bell in a sauerkrabe one cupful of soy, one quarter cupful of water and one heaping transpelled of sugar. Then add a small turkey, or any other fish of your choice. Cook until the pot is thoroughly done, and serve it to the pluper in which it was cooked. The dish is good whether hot or cold. "Hachi sakunu" means baked fish and the Japanese method of preparing it is interesting. They soak a garange, and the fire of their choice comes from a bed of roast charcoal. First of all they broil their fish in hull and as they broil it spiked over it occasionally a little salt and a few dishes of the almost complete soy Salmon is particularly appetizing after having been subjected to this treatment. If you care to take the trouble to grate half a dew large, firm ribs and mix with them one table spoonful of soy you will have an excellent sauce for the fish. A somewhat novel way of storing vegetable is to boil or steam them. The latter them slimmer for a quarter of an hour so a sauce made of one ounce of being white which has been diluted with a small amount of water. Squash, carrots, salty, sweet or white potatoes are very good when treated this. For vegetables other than squash or sweet potatoes it is well to boil a boiling teaspoonful of sugar to the water. How to Fresen Hair Ribbons. When you are frightened, such ribbons become faded and discolored in spots try freshening and brightening them up with dye made from scraps of crepe paper. If you may have used for house or tree decoration's sometime, the plenty of hot water, and when having hot water in the paper and stir with a stick, the water is about the shade you wish the ribbon. Have ribbons previously washed clean in hot pots and mixed in clear water while still wet, and be sure the dye is boiling. Drop them in and with a stick keep lifting and stirring till the desired shade is obtained. If too light remove ribbons, add more paper and repeat process. How to Make Military Salad. In a salad base from the officers' mess at West Point that once tried will not thereafter be neglected: To a can of poised mackerel (freed of bone and skin and broken up) and double the quantity of celery cut in quarter inch pieces and a suspension of onion chopped fine. Mix thoroughly and heap on lettuce leaves, then cover liberally with the mayonnaise which should really be a tartare sauce, with mustard (English), chopped pickles and capers. Affectation All attention is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich—Lavater. Eagles and Condors. An eagle can fly twenty-eight days without food, while a condor is said to be able to fast for forty days. THE ACME OF COMFORT. HOW TO USE BOOK REST. To read a book is to rost more often than to learn, and the same name of comfort in this direction has been reached by an invention which holds the book open and upright or at any angle one desires and may itself be attached to any chair; or the same principle is brought out in a floor book rost. This is recommended for school children, as it helps them to att erect, and lessens the strain on the eyes, but it is convenient for any one. They cost but $2 or $2.50 or for the floor stand $3.75 or $4. Their weight is light, about one pound, and the metal of which they are constructed is either brass or copper oxidized. The pages of the book are easily turned without removing the book from the stand. It is an ideal little fixture. --- BEAUTY CULTURE. How to Become "Divinely Fair" With Little Trouble. If you are destroys of being "most divinely fair," then ather to the beauty program given below, as it will be the means of giving you a healthy body and a comedy face. If you are skeptical of this way of living, at least reserve your opinion "until you have had an opportunity to try it out. There can be no question what your decision will finally be. The day of the woman who craves health and beauty should be laid out as follows: When you arise in the morning run to the window, which should have been open all night, and take twenty deep full breaths. Practice some simple all round exercise for five minutes. Take either a warm or a cold stumble bath or both. If you do not react well after a cold plunge, omit it in the future, as it is not for you. Go downstairs, and twenty minutes before you breakfast drink two glasses of hot water, not so warm that it scends the mouth nor so cool that it nauseates. Eat a light breakfast, refraining from meat. Take a short walk for a mile or more, walking along briskly with chest thrown up and out and head held erect. Work Twenty minutes before lunch drink two glasses of hot water. Eat a simple lunch. Rest for half an hour. Work. Toward evening walk for an hour if you feel so disposed. Twenty minutes before you sit down to the dinner table drink two glasses of hot water. Dinner. Rest or recreation Twenty minutes before creeping into bed drink two glasses of hot water. Sleep for nine or ten hours. HOUSEHOLD LINEN: How to Be Up to Date In Your Table Appointments The large damask tablecloth has given way to the vogue for sets of them mats, including large oval ones to be placed beneath the dishes, small circular ones for the meat plates and still smaller for use with cheese and salad plates. The change in fashion is all on the side of the decorative, for not only are the mats extremely beautiful in themselves, but they afford an opportunity likewise for the display of a fine dining table, the darkness of the wood showing up to advantage the silver and cut glass arranged upon it. The mats themselves are usually placed upon others of this wicker or of closely twisted strings in order to obviate the possibility of harm to the table through the heat of the dishes. Some especially choice sets of these dinner mats are of handmade linen richly embroidered in an openwork pattern of leaves and flowers executed after the manner of the "broader anglace." Into the worked design is introduced a number of Italian fillet face squares, also band worked and displaying in their design all manner of quality beasts and birds copied from antique models. The edges of the mats are finished with a narrow border of thread lace, and although the effect is elaborate in the extreme, the materials employed are sufficiently substantial to withstand much wear and tear. How to Treat Shrunken Woolens. Wool union suits which have shrunk until it is an impossibility to squeeze into them may be made wearable by ripping the shoulder seams and fitting in a three cornered piece, one corner of which should be placed at the end of the shoulder seam at the top of the sleeve. This will give as much length to the body of the garment as the size of the piece set in. How to Tear Carpet Rags. Snip across the end of the cloth for as many strips as desired. Tear each one down just far enough to make it easy to grasp the ends. Take every other strip end in one hand and the alternate ones in the other, and pull vigorously. In this way a wide piece of cloth can be torn into strips with only one motion. How to Season Oyster Slow Some housewives like to add a pinch --a very small pinch--of nutting to an oyster slow. Others use a little ground mace or a brible of mace, taking it out before serving. One per cent of the wealth of the United States is invested in church property. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Laxatives act in different ways and some are more harmful than others. Saline, for instance, impose heavy burdens upon the kidneys, besides irritating the bowels. When long used they produce an obstinate intestinal catarrh. Laxative drugs increase the condition which they are supposed to cure, while it is almost universally true that the most difficult cases to cure are those in which laxative drugs have been used. There are few physicians who will deny the truth of this statement. Many people use cathartics because they produce an immediate result without considering the injurious reaction that must follow. Many who have learned this from experience are led to believe that the use of the cinema will overcome the injurious effects of constipation, but constant use of the means, good for occasional relief, is almost as harmful drugs, the natural action steadily lost. It is a mistake to suppose that mild laxatives are harmless. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Eating Fruit. The prevailing notion that fruit should be used rather as a dessert or eaten between meals and that it cannot serve as a substantial diet is an error. Much harm is done by the mixing of fruits with heavier foods, especially with meat and beans and milk, and acid fruit with milk and cereals and potatoes. Good physical as well as mental work has been done on an exclusive diet of bananas and apples. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Supers and Diet "Alcohol stimulants should be avoided. They make the voice heavy and irritate the throat. A hard drummer almost always has a hoarse, harsh voice. Never sing directly after eating. A singer should not eat greasy meats. No dishes made with flour should be eaten. If one does not observe this regimen it will be found nearly impossible as they should be sung." This is the opinion of a well known singer. One prime demand is a vegetarian. Her diet is consisted wholly to vegetables, fruits and bread occasionally. She drinks only water. Another singer avoids sweets and pastry and never touches coffee. She never allows smoking if possible. In her presence, for she has decided opinions on the injury it does the voice. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. A Remedy For Bills The region around a ball should be washed with soap and water, dried, and a drop of the following solution should be placed on the center of the ball: Iodine, one dram; acetone, three drains. Let stand a week before using. The mixture becomes blackish and stirrup and no longer irritating. Later, if the ball does not recede, a dressing of glycolate of starch and boric acid (1-10), on absorbent wool, should be applied. THRIFT. The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue. He that would be beforehand in the world must be beforehand with his business. It is not only ill management, but it discovers a slothful disposition, to do that in the afternoon which should have been done in the morning.—BENjamin Franklin. Every lady can have a beautiful and luxurious head of hair if she uses a MAGIC. After a shampoo or both the Magic dries the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will straighten the curliest head of hair. Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota. DAY. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Improving Toe Nails When ingrowing toe nails are genuine they may prove troublesome to cure, as well as painful. Trim the toenail at the alling corner very lightly, but fully at the opposite corner, but if both sides are affected chip them lightly and then scrape the center of the nail as thin as possible from the tip to the root. If adopted when it is first felt that the flesh is crowding the nail this method seldom fails to effect a cure. However, if the trouble is an old one, cut a piece off the top of a lemon and gradually work the toe into the lemon. There will be only one treatment of lemon required, and this may be given at night. When the toe is worked well into the lemon, bandage the toe and retire. This treatment detaches the nail from the flesh more quickly than any other method. In the morning gently lift up the corner of the nail with some blunt instrument and push underneath it a piece of carboated cotton. Let the toe remain so for three days; then remove the cotton for a larger and clean place, removing the cotton every three days for six changes. For some time after keep cotton between the Cush and nail and trim the toe nails straight across. Rapid An Irishman and an Englishman had foregathered and were beating of their respective Islands. The Englishman said: "We are a jolly lot more rapid in England than you are in Ireland. Why, by Jove! I left for me other one morning, just as the workmen were laying the foundation for a new building next door. And when I returned to dinner that evening the structure was entirely completed." "And ye call that quick work," answered the Irishman. "Why, th' same thing happened to me in Ireland wance. When I started in th' mornin' they were layin' the foundations, but when I got back in th' avelin' they were evkin' the family for not payin' th' last month's rhat." — Cleveland Plain Dealer Exposivo Remorse Eyepensive Remorse. "Some men can't get much done," said Uncle Eben, "because they puts in second half ob de week feelin' remorseful about de way de way leafal de first half." Washington Star. The Psychological Moment. Growler (to distressed barrier)—Keb. air?—Punch. The Ante of the Himalayas. In the Himalayas, on the side facing India, the limit of perpetual snow is about 12,000 feet higher than in the Alps. One result of this is that various forms of life are found in the great Asian mountain at an elevation which seems extraordinary. Among these are many species of ants. Up to nearly 10,000 feet the ants are very abundant, and even at the elevation of 12,000 feet four species have been found, and it is believed that more careful investigation would show that they exist even at 13,000 feet or more. Coal Shaves a Mose Off. Falling coal at the Stanton colliery, at Mahanoy City, Pa., completely se- ered John Hajowel's nose from his face. HIGH GRADE JOB WORK In Fact Printing of All Kinds Executed Promptly. THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. 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"If Mr. Clark or any other man made the statement that Thaw's release would be pleasing to me, it is absolutely untrue," said Governor Sulzer. On Feb. 15, Dr. Russell said, Dr. May called him on the telephone from Albany, saying he had seen the governor, and that Mr. Sulzer would issue no order and "the case would have to take its regular course." "I told Dr. May," continued the witness, "that if the governor wanted this thing done he would have to give a written order." --- "A Tempest In a Teapot." The expression "a tempest in a tempot" is one of great antiquity. Its first historic appearance is in the "Le Legibus" of Cleoero, who quotes it as a common saying, "Gratitudus raised a tempest in a lable, as the saying is." The French form, "Une tempete dans une vorre deau" (a tempest in a glass of water), was first applied to the disturbances in the Geneva republic near the end of the seventeenth century. England the word "tempot" was substituted for the sake of alliteration. It is said to have been popularized by Lord North, who employed it to characterize the outbreak of the American colonists against the tax on tea. Prevailing Hard Luck. The dear old gent, was evidently a gatherer of statistics and with a beaming smile was gaxing down the street. Suddenly he stepped up to a gentleman who was waiting for a train and, tapping him lightly on the shoulder, said, "Excuse me, but did you drop a five pound note?" at the same time holding out in his hand the article mentioned. The gentleman questioned gazed a moment at the note, assumed an anxious look; made a hasty search of his pockets and said, "Why, so I did, and I hadn't missed it!" holding out an eager hand. The elderly hunter of statistics slowly drew forth his notebook and said, "I thought so." He then took the pane and address of the lower and, putting the note in his pocket, turned away "Well," said the other, "do you want it all as a reward?" "Oh. I did not find one," returned the benevolent one with another begin "but it struck me that in a big place like London there must be a quantity of money lost, and upon inquiry I found that you are the one hundred and thirty-first man who has lost a give pound note this morning."—London Ideas HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Turnips For Diabetes Turnips contain little nutriment in proportion to bulk, but are for this reason desirable in many cases where the cereals are not suitable on account of their greater tendency to fermentation. Turnips contain no starch and are therefore suitable in diabetes. They combine well with sweet potatoes, which are more easily digested than the ordinary potato, parsnips and carrots. Such a combination forms a suitable meal for those cases in which sugar fruits and bread and potatoes are undesirable on account of being much heavier and more liable to ferment. Huxley's Larger View. James Hannay, once a member of the staff of the Hall Mall Gazette, was a typical man of letters. And Huxley as everybody knows, was a typician scientific man. Hannay had been a midshipman when Huxley was a naval surgeon. Years after the two met each other on the steps of the British museum, "Huxley," said Hannay, "I care nothing for man except as a creature of historical tradition." "Nor I," answered Huxley, "for him except as a compound of gas and water. "But," he added, "if we were each of us better educated men than we are we should know how to respect each other's studies more." Post Salaries of Actors A number of autograph letters Edmund Kean supply some interesting information about the salaries of actors early in the nineteenth century. On relates to an offer by Mr. Ellison offering Kean £3 a week as acting manager of "the new theater in Wyrstreet." Later this rose to £25 a month. In 1826 Kean was offered £12,000 year to go to America. 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RICHMOND VIRGINIA. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Both Badge A Specialty. Bam- Free of Cost or Obligation. SATURDAY.....MARCH 8, 1913 Smallpox. SMALLPOX CASES WALKED STREETS. Health Authorities Concerned in Neglect of Precautions in Some Localities Where Disease Has Appeared. Richmond, Va., Feb. 26. (Special) With fresh reports of smallpox cases every few days and with the alarming intelligence that smallpox patients have in some cases walked the streets unhindered, the State Board of Health is much alarmed at the situation and is fearful that the disease may be scattered in communities which have been exempt from its ravages. During recent weeks, the Board has received report of smallpox in Roanoke, Culpepper, Glue, Henry Halifax, Mecklenburg and Pennsylvania counties and in the cities of Danville and Roanoke. While the disease has received prompt attention in some of these communities and has been made the occasion for a general vaccination, it has been neglected elsewhere. Quarantine has been inefficient, active cases have been found in public places and serious opposition to compulsory vaccination has been encountered. In one instance reported to the Board, the head of a family refused to be vaccinated and would not allow the health officers to protect his children. As a result, smallox attacked the man in question and threatened the life of his family. Prompt vaccination saved the children of the household, but the father was subjected to all the illness, discomfort and loss incident to quarantine. He is now regarded as one of the most active agencies of vaccination in the locality where he lives. In a baby born today on the subject, the Board of Health says Further need of vaccination and the acquirement of smallpox in many localities is caused the danger of a general type of the disease. Persons have come at large in a dangerously insecure condition and have infected those persons who were not at all susceptible of them. In addition, the local boards of health have met with opposition in their efforts to stamp out the disease. Some of the boards of supervisors have properly complied with the requests of the health authorities, but in other countries there have been delays, misunderstandings and a lack of cooperation. "The State law authorizes the State Board of Health to take charge of the work where the local officers decline to act and the statute stipulates that the costs in such cases shall be charged against the counties. We have been forced in the last year to invoke this law only once, but unless conditions are materially improved, the health of adjacent communities must be protected. This will involve heavy expense and serious inconvenience, but it will be necessary where the local authorities do not quarantine and vaccinate. "North Carolina faced for many years a situation similar to that now confronting us in Virginia and there the health authorities finally were forced to a radical policy. They refused to quarantine smallpox cases and allowed the patients to go about unhindered, merely announcing to the public the existence of smallpox and warning all citizens that they could be protected by vaccination. Pres. Bowling's Call to Arms. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 1, 1913. To the Brotherhood of the Virginia Baptist State Convention— Dear Co-workers: There remain both yet three months in which to make preparation for the Forty-sixth Annual Session of our Great Convention which is to meet in the historic city of Hampton, with the Queen St. Baptist Church, Dr. Thomas H. Short pastor, Wednesday after the second Lord's day in May, and it is hoped that we will be able to report the greatest year's work of our history but in order to do this it is necessary that we begin now an aggressive campaign, arounding the people and interesting them for the work of our Convention, is a work for the people by the people. First of all I thank the Blessed Lord for my present condition. I have passed through a terrible ordeal. He brought me as it were to death's door, but I waited patiently, and he has delivered me from the grave. Physically I feel practically well. My greatest trouble now is from nervousness and this I think is well under control. The Star of Hope still hangs before me and I feel that the Lord will spare me to do further service for his Kingdom. The many letters of sympathy that I received from the brethren during my illness and the interest manifested were a source of much consolation and I assure you all, that they were greatly appreciated. CHANGES I notice that several of our brethren have changed fields during this conventional year and I regret that some of them have left the State, but this need not work any ill to our Convention nor the principle for which it stands for we realize that neither membership nor interest in our Convention is limited to Virginia. but we look with pride, to our brethren, both North and South who delight in the work that was so dear to our Fathers. Two special features claim our attention this year, viz., Foreign Mission and Education. Dr. L. G. Jordan, Foreign Mission Secretary, is continually making appeals for funds to further prosecute the foreign mission work. Let there be no falling off in interest. Our brothers and sisters across the waters are groping in darkness, ignorance and sin hungering and thirsting for the word of life. Let's not forget them. Our Foreign Mission Board has moved its headquarters from Louisville, Ky. to Philadelphia, Pa. and this should not only serve as a convenience to us but as an incentive to greater effort. EDUCATION. Our school at Lynchburg is in splendid condition. Dr. Wood is indeal bringing things to pass. Its greatest need is more money not to bring the school up, but to keep it abreast with the times. Dr. Wood has injected in the work the progress I've idea and this must be lived up to by the use of modern conveniences and improvements throughout the buildings and groom's. I appeal, therefore, to the constituency of the Convention. Let's march on to Hampton prepared to meet the situation for we are well able. I write unto you fathers because you have known from the beginning. I write unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abdish in you, not only so, but providentially the Lord has so distributed you that you have become the special representatives of the State. Deake and others at Harrisonburg, Highbard at Belford City, Wynn at Cree, Austin at Staunton, Bell at Lynchburg, Jones at Newport News, Moses at Dandville, Brown at Petersburg, and others at Ronnoke, Charlotteville and in the host city and country churches in the state and our big hearted Graham and Hall with their associates in the North will play their part as they have always done. Let the entire brotherhood rally to the flag. The Battle Cry is Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000). Every individual who gives as much as one dollar will have their name appear in our minutes. Trusting that I shall see you all at Hampton I am as ever. Yours for the work. R. H. BOWLING, President. Per J. H. Ashby. Parcel Post Has Special Delivery. Extension of the original delivery system to apply to all parcel post mail was ordered by Postmaster General H. H. Browne on March 1. The regular form of the parcel has special delivery or regular postage will be charged. Job For Negro Who Went to Pole. Matthew A. Hinton, the negro who was with Hinton in his final dash to the North Port, will be assigned to the parcel post office with his driver to deliver the parcel to the parcel post office. LONG LIST FOR PYROMANAC. I have always believed that he was the most important man in New York City and Philadelphia. He was a great painter in Hoboken and New Jersey. He was not less than six and a half inches tall. He was a very fine artist. Buc Fee at Celluarwood. Places are beyond the central portion of the cottage, near Candlen N.J., destroyed six buildings, including the position, and partly destroyed three buildings. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Salvatore Lombio of Hartford, Conn. was sentenced in New York to two years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., under the Mann white slave law. --- Lesto Varner, a Hungarian, of Tronon, N. J. shot and killed his wife while in a drunken rage. He then shot himself and is in a critical condition. Agricultural Bill Passes. The senate passed the agricultural bill. The measure carries an expenditure of approximately $18,000,000. CENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; vinter clear, $ 58.80; city mills, at $ 4.25; RYE FLOUR steady, at $ 65.80; 3.75 barrel. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red. $1.021½ 4.03. CORN steady; No. 2 yellow, 57¢ 57¼¢ c. OATS firm; No. 2 white, 39¼¢@ 40¢; lower grades, 38¼¢ c. POULTRY Live steady; hens, 115¹ ¹616³c; old roosters, 111³c; dressed firm; choice fowls, 1714c; old roosters, 183¹ BUTTER steady; fancy creamery, 28c per lb. EGGS steady; selected, 25¹¹³c; nearby, 23c; western, 23c nearby 23c: **wrather**, 23c **ATOES** steady, at 70¢/73c, per bushel. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURGH (Union Stock Yards) —CATTLE steady; choice. $8.50 $8.55 prime. $10.10 $4.00 $6.00 prime. $10.10 $4.00 $6.76; culls and commons. $3.76; lambs. $6.9; coal calves. $10.50 $11.17 HOGS strong; prime heaves. $4.80 $4.80 mediums, heavy Yorkers, light Yorkers and pigs. $8.80; rough. $7.50 $8.00 1913 MARCH 1913 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 And After Sampling the Meat Man's Peach Brandy Goes Home. In High Spirits—Calls the Cook "Old Girl" and Weeps For Cousin Joe. BY M. QUAD By M. QUAD. Copyright, 1913, by Associated Literary News 1 DURING the panic of four years ago Mrs. Bowser lost the sum of $250 that she had in a bank. Since that time every time that Mr. Bowser has happened to come home a bit early or late she has held her breath for fear he would an nounce that the bank in which she has $250 on deposit had gone up the spout. He was home an hour ahead of time the other afternoon, and as he entered the house she cried out: "Don't tell me! I can't bear it!" "Tell you what?" "That the Double Security, Fidelity and You Can't Lose a Cent Here bank has busted." "I guess the bank is all right. There was an old woman scrubbing the steps as I came along, and she didn't seem at all excited." "Thank heaven for that! But what brought you home so early?" "The beef trust." "But how?" "They are going to raise prices again, and I have come home to write out a warning in behalf of the Ameri- C. D. R. V. THIS IS OVERFINLY XXXX can people "The dead line has been reached at last. Another rise and the people will cry for blood." "The people are always crying for something, but they never do anything." "They will now, with Bowser to lead them." When the Bowserers sat down to dinner there was a fine steak, starting them in the face, and Mrs Bowser looked for words of apprehension. After it had been tested the enemy of the beef trust said, "I don't say this isn't a fair steak a fair to misonm steak, such as one can buy anywhere, but I'm convinced enough to think I can select a better." After the Butcher "The butcher said it was his best," replied Mrs. Bowser. Then he died, and I will go over and tell him so! I've got to have a row with him about so often to keep him halfway honest." "I shouldn't go over and raise a fuss. We have very little to complain of." "But he needs some plain talk." Ten minutes later he entered the butcher shop with blood in his eye but before he could explode he caught sight of a gallon jug tagged with the butcher's name, and the man of meat explained. "I just got that jug from my brother in law up the state today. He went into the manufacture of peach brandy three years ago and has sent me a sample of his oldest. He are posted on wines and such, and I wish you'd tell me what you think of it." "It must be ordinary stuff if made in this country," observed Mr. Bowser as he toyed with the cork. "We have the peaches, but we don't seem to know how to use them. I'll taste it, however." He lifted the jug and took a swallow and then stood for a minute smacking his lips. That peach brandy was not so ordinary as he had looked for. "Is it pretty fair?" asked the butcher. "I should say," replied Mr. Bowser as he took a long swig and looked very wise over it. "That is at least XX stuff. Your brother-in-law has done very well—very well indeed. With a few more years experience"—He took another drink, looked wiser than before and continued: "With a few more years' experience he can almost hope to compete with the French in the manufacture. Ahum!" "I'd like to send him back a pretty good report," said the butcher. "Would you mind tasting again?" The Brandy is All Right. "Not at all. Hin! I find the slickness of it fully equal to the best French brandy, though it may lack a trifle in body. You can tell your brother-in-law that the slickness is all right. A gallon of it would slip down a man's throat while he was winking his eyes." "Thanks air. My brother-in-law will be highly pleased. Won't you taste again and see if the body isn't up to time? Let it linger on your tongue a little louder." Mr. Bowser lifted the jug for the fourth time, and the gurgle in his throat had the sound of a brook running away. When he finally choked off he sighed. . . put on in and said: "The body is all right. You can write to your brother-in-law that this is at least XXXX peacefully and that he Frenchman has ever made better. He has only got to keep right on to make himself famous. Tell him that "Mr. Howser says so." "I will, sir, and thanks to you again. You will probably receive a jug of it yourself next week." When Mr. Bowser got his beakfleek under his arm and started for home he felt soft and oily and good natured. A street car passed, and he nodded and smiled at the motorman. A grocer's boy came along with a basket of potatoes, and he was patted on the back and told to keep right on if he wanted to be president of the United States. Mr. Bowser entered by the basement door and called the cook "old girl" as he hauled her the steak. He was laughing as he went up to the sitting room, and after a long look at him Mrs. Bowser asked: "Well, did you meet with a funny adventure while getting your meat?" He Laughs at Home. "I did, Hn, ha, ha!" he laughed. "Say, what is the blamed old owl of a cat looking at?" "At you, probably. She hasn't heard you laugh like that for six months. What was the fun?" "Why, I-ha, ha, ha! It was just too rich for anything. I can't talk of it without almost choking. By George, but I wish you had been there!" "But what was it?" perished Mrs. Howser. "It was in Chicago ten years ago-ha, ha, ha! I was going along State street just behind an old rooster when all of a sudden he ha, ha, ha! Say, I can't tell it! It's too funny!" "What was the rooster doing on the street?" "He was ha, ha, ha! -walking along. Don't ask me to tell you the rest. I can't do it without choking." Mr. Bowser rocked back and forth and snapped his leg and grew purple in the face, and the cat sat up and looked at him, out of eyes as big as saucers. Kitten and eat, she had been in the Bowser family for years, and she had never seen the head of the family so affected before. Mrs. Bowser was also looking, and as a suspicion began to grow in her heart she inquired: "Did the butcher ask you out to drink when, you bought the meat?" "Course not-ha, ha, ha! I wish you could have seen that old rooster. No. The butcher didn't ask me out to drink. He had a jig of peach brandy, and when he struck an levy spot that old rooster's heels, ha, ha, ha!" Mr. Bowser Weeps. "And he treated you to peach brandy" she asked. "I had to taste of it to tell him whether it was NXXX or not. When his heels flow up that old rooster spread his wings and clawed the air and yelled out and saluted around and -ha, ha, ha." For a minute Mr. Bowser was in danger of a stroke of apoplexy. Then his laughter died away in a long drawn gown and he looked at Mrs. Bowser in a pitiful way and asked. "Isn't it too bad that my Cousin Joe is dead? Joe was a mighty good fellow good good. I can't think of him without crying." "Do you realize" she asked, knowing the truth at last, "do you realize that you are fatuated?" "Me indicted!" he replied as he straightened up. "Never, sir never! That old cat's as drunk as a lord, but I'm all right, all right. What makes you think, I'm devoted? Mighty funny you can't see that I'm sober and the cat has a jag on. Shay, Mrs. Low ser, and you sorry for my poor Cons in Joe." "I'm more sorry for you. You ought to be ashamed of yourself." "What should I be? Shamed? Don't? Don't soild me darling. I don't think I'm going to live very long, and then you won't have any bubbly. You won't marry again if I die first, will you?" "I'll help you up to bed," she said as she rose up and took him by the arm. "Yes, help me upstairs. 'enuse I won't live long. I'll die to live a hundred years. Mrs. Blower, but that old cat won't let me. Call me hubby and say you love me." There was a procession down the hall. It was composed of Compassion Bowser, his indignant wife and the wondering cat, and their progress was slow and eccentric. The procession had difficulty in getting' upstairs, as Mr. Bowser halled on every step to weep, but it was finally accomplished, and two minutes later he fell forward upon his last and whispered as he closed his eyes: "That brandy is XXXX, and you tell your bruiser in law Mr. Bowser says to Mr. Bowser never makes no mischief." Everyday Logic. To know anything you must know everything - New York World. Natural. Mary Mild - Cholly says he has great will power. Curtie Catstique - All donkeys have. -London Telegraph. A Safe Bet. A Burhams farmer was traveling to London to consult a lawyer when the fear struck him that he had left certain important papers behind. He made a hurried search of his bag. "If I did leave those papers," he remarked, "I'm a fool!" The search proceeded; and a moment later he said: "I believe I'll turn out I'm a fool!" Just as he was examining the last bundle of papers he exclaimed: "Well, I'll bet I'm a fool". A man on the other side of the compartment lowered his newspaper for a moment and said slowly and deliberately: "Oblige me, sir, by laying a little money the same way for me." - Tit-Bite. The Earth's Area. area of the earth's surface is collected at 106,712,000 square miles, of which 144,712,000 are covered by the oceans and 52,000,000 or about two- fifths, is land. The circumference of the earth at the equator is about 24,902 miles. The density of the earth is com- puted at five and a half times that of the water. The visible land of the earth's surface consists of six great continents and many islands. Only one of the continents-Australia-is entirely in the southern hemisphere; North America, Europe and Asia are entirely in the northern hemisphere; South America and Africa lie partly in both north and south hemispheres. Eats About Coffee Coffee originally came from the island of Mocha, whence in the year 1618 coffee trees were transported to Holland. This article of diet was first scientifically cultivated at Surinam by the Dutch in 1718. Though coffee was not known either to the Greeks or Romans, it was used as a beverage by the Persians in early times. The first coffee house of which there is any record was opened in Constantinople in 1511, and coffee was first brought to France in 1602 by Thevenet, the famous traveler. An Eccentric Wager In the old betting books of the Jockey club and White's in London are to be found many curious records of wagers. There was once a young man who made money on spider racing. "He wagered that a spider which he would produce would cross a plate quicker than a spider to be produced by a friend. Each spider was to have its own plate. His opponent's spider, however, on being started would not stir, while his own ran with immature speed. The bet was consequently lost and the lover soon found out the reason why. Our young friend had a hot plate." This is told by Ralph Nevill in "The Man of Pleasure." ```markdown ``` The Heads on the Rails Viscount Hardinge, brother of the Indian viceroy, in a lecture in London on the Delhi durbar referred to a much criticised statement which he maintained was absolutely true. Whenever the viceroy traveled in India policemen were stationed along the railway at intervals of a hundred yards. The policemen, he said, often became sleepy and lay with their heads on the rails to listen for the approach of the train. On one occasion no fewer than fifty lost their heads. Lord Curzon asked him where he gave the yarn. He replied, "I got it from my brother, and I do not think he would tell a cracker."—"New York Times. On the Job. Pablo Picasso Small boy to doctor about to assist elderly lady in fainting it off - Stand aside, please, and don't be alarmed. I'll attend to this. I'm a boy scout. Punch Nothing Unusual Lord Cromer when ruler of Egypt made himself hateful to all sorts of insults in that country, but he worked wonders of reform there and left it more contented frame of mind than it had ever known previous to his arrival. While Lord Salisbury was British premier a member of the ministry complained that Lord Cromer had told him to go to the death. "Dear me, said Salisbury, "he tells me that every time he comes to London."—London Tit Bits. 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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HAT The Tariff Talking Parent Had Blank Where He Wanted Him. A CLERGYMAN says, that he has witnessed some amusing incidents in connection with marriage ceremonies, but that of these none was quite so upsetting to the dignity of all concerned as that which occurred in a wedding of his own mukking. When the ceremony had been completed and the usual congratulations had been offered the pastor turned to the assemblage and said: "We have all known these young people. We have seen them grow up from children, and now that they have entered the holy state of matrimony perhaps some of their old friends and neighbors may have some special word to say to them." For a moment there was no response to this suggestion. Then from his position emerged the father of the trunk who delivered himself as follows: "I don't certain that I can add any thing important to what has been said. Then, after a solitum and uncomfort able glance about him which betrayed his embarrassment, his eye fortunately, foil upon a neighbor, a political opponent, who would never give heed to the old man's views on certain matters relating to tariff reform. The father's face brightened, and in an inspired way he exhaled: "But this seems a good chance and one which could not be neglected, now that Blank is here, and I should like to say a few words on the subject of tariff reform." Harper's Bazar. It was white on maneuvers and a soldier was being tried for the shooting of a chicken on prohibited ground. "Look here, my man," said the commanding officer to the farmer who brought the accusation, "are you quite certain this is the man who shot your bird? Will you sweat to him?" "No, I won't do that," replied the man, "but I will say he's the man I suspect it doing it." "That's not enough to convict a man," retorted the C. O., considerably netted. What failed, your suspensions? "Well, sr. replied the sturdy farmer, as he slowly mopped his forehead with his handanna, "it was this way. I see I'm on my property with a gun; then I heard the gun go off; then I see I'm putting the chicken into his knapsack, and it didn't seem sense, nohow, to think the bird committed suicide."—Answers. The Welsh have a particularly interesting solution to account for the red breast of the robin. They believe that the songster is delegated by a "hither power" to quench the fames of burning souls. While employed in such a procedure the feathers of his breast accidentally took fire, and before they could be extinguished were scored a deep red. FORDS HAIR POMADE FOR FORMULA FOR FURNITURE AND DESIGN OF SING LESSON OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR IT IS 25-ADD IN-线 SINGLE COMMENTS FOR IT IS SINGLY PACKED. TRY POOR'S REAL WASTE SEKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION. MAKES THE SINN WYDER IMPLEMENTLY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT INSTATE THE MAKED Solicitate SHIN, WHISSEALED FOR SCREENOL. 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And an amdavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Melvin Taylor, is a non resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy—Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk, GILES B. JACKSON, po. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of March, 1913. Fannie Tabb.....Plantiff. vs. In Chancery. Thomas Tabb.....Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonily by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Thomas Tabb, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that the said defendant Thomas Tabb, appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy—Teate. P. P. WINSTON, Clerk J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, 99 To Thomas Tabb: You'll take notice that I shall on the 23rd day of April, 1913, at the office of Phil B. Sheld, room No. 701, Travellers Insurance Building, situated on the North side of Main street between (11) Eleventh and (12) Twelfth streets in the City of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. of that day proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if, from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if, commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from ady to day or from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. 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