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PLAYS VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 18. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913. PRICE, FIVE CENTS HUNDREDS P DROWNED Dam Eursts Carry- ing Destruction. HEAVY LOSS IN INDIANA Scores of People Perish in Other Ohio Towns. THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS Floods swept over Ohio and Indiana, taking heavy toll of life and property. Hundreds were drowned and the monetary loss will reach millions. The swirling currents were still rising in many places Tuesday night and only meager communication was possible, so that further information may show the storm to have been the last in constructive those states have ever experienced. The greatest loss of life and property occurred at Dayton, O., which was inundated by the breaking of the Lowstown reservoir, causing millions of gallons of water to be sent down the Miami valley over the prosperous city of 100,000 inhabitants. There were persistent reports that sixty persons were drowned at Dayton, but it was impossible for any one to tell accurately and many more than that may have perished. The property loss at Dayton will easily run into millions. At Delaware, O., nineteen persons are known to have been drowned and many more are in peril. Sixteen persons are said to be dead at Hamilton, O. Coke Otto, a hamlet near Hamilton, is reported to be wiped off the map. At Youngstown, O., the Mahoning river and Crab creek are over their embankment. An engine and one car of a Pennsylvania railroad train rolled down an embankment washed out by the flood of Mad river at West Liberty, O. Columbus and Middletown, O., were almost completely cut off and suffered heavy loss. Hundreds of persons living in Indianapolis, Ind., were driven from their homes by the rise of Eagle creek and White river. At least four persons were drowned in Indiana and thousands of head of live stock in the state perished. At Fort Wayne, Ind., the St. Joseph, Maumee and St. Mary rivers are on a rampage. It is the highest water in twenty years. Kokomo, Ind., is flooded, and the use of the militia was authorized. At Mansfield, O., it was reported that two feet of water is running in the streets, and at Akron a report estimates the flood damage at more than $1,000,000 and 500 families are rendered homeless. Governor Cox, of Ohio, called out the militia to aid the suffering and to help preserve order. Governor Cox notified the Red Cross society that aid would be welcome. Governor Cox received a long distance message from Phoneton, six miles northeast of Dayton, saying that twenty-three bodies had been sweep, through Troy in the Great Miami river. This report tends to verify the heavy loss of life at Sidney, Shelby county, which was reported as partly wiped out by the flood, as the bodies floating past Troy are believed to have been from Sidney. A telephone message from Dayton to Governor Cox said that 20,000 people in that city are homeless and that four suburbs, including Edgemont, North Dayton, Riverdale and Dayton View, are inundated. The message said that no estimate of loss of life was possible, but only a miracle could prevent it going to large figures. Dayton's Fate in Doubt. No one can tell the number of lives taken by the terrific storm that swept away the lavees of Dayton, Ohio, nor can the amount of damage be estimated, except that it will run into the millions. Crowded in the upper stories of tall office buildings and residences, two miles each way from the center of the town, are hundreds of persons whom it is impossible to reach. PROBABLY IN DAYTON At Wyoming street, three miles from which has heretofore been considered the danger line, water is now running eight feet deep. Hundreds of fires, which are impossible to fight, are burning. The rescue boats are unable to get farther from the shore than the throw line will permit. They cannot live in the current. The Lewistown reservoir broke, hurling millions of gallons of water into the swollen Miami. John Hadkins and James Honay, private of the Ohio National Guard, were drowned while in acts of rescue. The body of an elderly woman floated down near Wyoming street, but the current was so swift that it could not be recovered. Unconfirmed reports say that sixty persons were drowned along the levee at North Dayton. 19 LOST AT DELAWARE, O. 400 Families Are Homeless and Scores Are Marooned. With nineteen persons reported as dead—swept away in the flooded Olen-tangy river—many others missing and unaccounted for and between 300 and 400 families homeless, the town of Delaware, Ohio, of about 10,000 inhabitants, with the exception of a crippled telegraph service, is cut off from surrounding territory. The flooded condition of the town makes rescue and relief work difficult. Mayor B. V. Lea, who was reported drowned, and who saved himself by catching hold of the roof of a shed in a lumber yard, estimates the number of dead anywhere between twenty-five and seventy-five. Scores of persons were marooned in trees, on housesets and other poles above the water line as their would-be rescuers were wounding words of encouragement to them while making futile efforts at rescue owing to the swift current. Swiftly floating debris adds to the hazardous task of rescue by boats. A wall of water seven feet high brushing through the main section of the city, and as the five bridges connecting the East and Main sections have been washed away, accurate estimates as to the number of dead and damage done is impossible. DESTRUCTION IN INDIANA Four Dead, Many Missing and Thou ands Are Homeless. The flood conditions throughout Indiana are the worst in thirty years and it is estimated that more than 5000 families have been forced to leave their homes. So far four deaths by drowning have been reported, but a number are missing and may have been swept away with their homes. Governor Italton received a frantic appeal from Connorsville for aid, saying that the Whitewater river had broken over its banks, with a great loss, of life. The fallroad station has been carried away and the citizens are in distress. Fifteen hundred families in Indian apolls have been forced to leave their homes by the high water, caused by incessant rains. White river, Eagle creek and Pleasant run are rising at the rate of six inches an hour. Only one of the thirteen interurban lines is running, and traffic on the steam railroads is at a standstill. The flood loss at Peru, Ind., is estimated at $500,000. The water is flowing in many streets deep enough to swim a horse. The factory district, there is flooded and the stocks in many plants destroyed. The winter quarters of a big circus are under six feet of water. In South Peru the water is twelve feet deep. The business district and the south and west sides of Loganport are under water. VISCOUNT WOLSELEY DEAD Famous British Soldier Had Distinguished Career in Arms. Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley, British soldier and writer, died in Mentone, France, aged seventy-nine years. He fought in the Burmese, Crimean and Ashtane wars, saw service in China and India and was one of England's most distinguished soldiers. Five-Year-Old Boy Drowned. John Smith, aged five years, son of James Smith, Jr., of 215 North Second Street, New Castle, Del., fell from a wheel bar at the Narrow Dyke Mulot and well drowned. President Gilbert to Lecture Here. President Matthew W. Gilbert, A. M., D. D. of Selma University, Selma, Alabama will deliver his famous lecture, "Lossons From Negroes of the Past" at Virginia Union University, April 11, 1913 under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. Dr. Gilbert ranks among the strongest leaders of the race, both as an accomplished scholar and especially as a public speaker. A Brutal Lynching. Albany, Ga., March 23.—Riddled with bullets and with a rope twisted around the neck, the body of Will Washington, a colored hackman was found near this place late last night. Police express the belief that the man was lynched by a party of white men who first forced the driver to drive them to the place where the body was found. A coroner's jury held an inquest soon after the finding of the body, but ordered no arrests. Southern Railway Installs Block System. Washington. March 21.—President Finley, of the Southern Railway Company, announced today that work will be commenced at an early date on the installation of automatic electric block signals on the line between the Company's Alexandria terminals and Orange, Va., a distance of seventy-eight miles. This system will connect with the automatic block system of the Washington Terminal Company, so that the entire line from Washington, D. C. to Orange, Va. will be operated under automatic electric block signals. --Mr. C. H. Green of Newport News, Va. called on us last Monday. --Mr. C. W. Jordan of Suffolk, Va. called on us. A Man Wanted. An Insurance MAN, one that can fill the bill, broad experience, wide awake Man. Wages guaranteed satisfactory. Apply Mechanics Savings Bank Building, 4th Floor, W. E. WHITFIELD, Manager. 3t FOR REST. 3 room flat, West Leigh Street. 3 room flat, North First Street. 3 room flat, St. Luke Bank Building. 2 room flat, Hancock Street. 5 room house, North Third St. Corner store, West Jackson Street. 3 room flat, State Street. 2 room flat, East Leigh Street. B. A. CEPHAS, Corner Second and Leigh St., Phone Montrose 588. An Appreciated Tribute. John Mitchell's Travel Articles in The PLANET are interesting and make good reading. We have read with keen interest last week's issue of The Richmond PLANET containing Hon. John Mitchell's account of the railroad tragedy in Virginia. Truly it was a kind hand of Providence that saved him and his companion, Dr. Jefferson. He who rules the universe has more work for this honorable man, a veteran journalist and financier. A Card We take this as a means of thank- ing our many friends for the kind- ness and sympathy shown us during the illness and death of my husband and our mother. We pray God's richest blessings may rest upon them. MRS. CORA G. JONATHAN. MR. CLAREN E. ROBINSON MISS MOZELLE C. ROBINSON. BROWN-NELSON. Mrs. Martha D. Nelson announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Lois H. Nelson to, Mr. Gilbert F. Brown of Jersey CITY, N. J., February 22, 1913. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Walters of Jersey City at the residence of Mrs. Lincoln Clarke. T12 Kearney Avenue. the marriage was very quiet on, account of the recent death of her sister. Asphalt Fifth Sunday Services at 8:30 Street A. M. K. Church. 11 A. M.. Sermba. Dr. George R. Hovey, President) Union University.. 3:30 and 8 P. M.; Sermon, Dr. George D. Jimmerson, Presiding Elder, Portsmouth District. 7:15 P. M.; Allen Christian Endeavor League to be addressed by Rev. R. Beecher Taylor. DRAKES BRANCH (VA.) NEWS. A meeting will be held at St. Michael Church Sunday to consider the advisability of splitting the Blue Stone Association. As the day approaches people are becoming more interested and now, on the streets, in stores and everywhere, the matter is being freely discussed. Some things to think about before you vote: 1. Charlotte is represented by a few churches forming a sad minority. 2. Churches with which the association has met have found it difficult and sometimes impossible to accommodate the large number of delegates. 3. The Keysville School is in Charlotte County. If a new body is formed the next question of importance is the new officers. If you remember that the schools are supported largely by the Associations you will doubtless glide smoothly along this line. Come out and be counted, don't stay at home. Greetings From Leesburg, Va. Mr. Westwood Walker of Washington, D. C. paid his family a visit this week, returning to Washington, D. C. Friday the 14th. The wets and drys are fighting again. The outlook is the town will continue dry. Rev. Dr. Tyler arrived in town yesterday. Mr. G. W. Rust is painting his property he recently purchased. Baby Street is looking up. Rev. Washington Murray will soon leave for conference. We hope this early return. Mr. John Johnson is spending a few days in Washington, D. C. Rev. Dr. E. D. Tyler was in the pulpit at eleven o'clock, took his text, Matt. 26:46, "Vice and let us be going." Subject. Called to Action. At 2 o'clock the Sunday School assembled with Bro. William H. Roberts as Supt. Easter exercises with Prof. R. H. Tyler at the organ. At 7:30 P. M., Rev. Tyler took for his text Mark 16:6. The Empty Tomb. The congregation was hold spellbound for 45 minutes. Collection, $18.00. Prof. A. W. Ricks was in town this week on educational business. Mr. G. Valentine of Washington. D. C. spent Sunday in town with his better half and father. The fair given by No. 1 Club last night was quite a success. Miss Agnes L. Dorsey of Washington. D. C. is spending Easter in town. Mrs. Emily Douglas of Washington. D. C. is visiting friends. MIDDLESEX (VA.) NEWS. Harmony Village, Va., March 23.—Easter was appropriately observed at the Grafton Baptist Church, Harmony Village, Va., Rev. R. J. Langaton, Pastor. The church was beautifully decorated in keeping with the occasion. The services of the day were begun with a full and enthusiastic Sunday School, which was followed by the regular preaching service at 11 o'clock A. M. The Easter spirit was everywhere in evidence. This was manifest in the large congregation which had assembled at an early hour. The Pastor took as his text Matt. 28:6, subject The Significance of the Empty Tomb. It is enough to say that the subject was admirably handled. The choir was at its best with special Easter music. A collection of $31.75 was raised. At the conclusion of this service communion was served to 242 communicants with rare intelligence and Christian dignity. At 2 o'clock P. M. the pastor officiated at the marriage of Mr. Cophas Powell and Miss Edith Jackson. At the First Baptist Church, Harmony Village, Va., of which Rev. W. B. Carrington is pastor; there were three services held during the day. The pastor preached in the morning to a full house. At 3 P. M. Rev. J. A. Martin of Urbanna Va. preached a strong sermon to a large, appreciative and responsive congregation. At 8 P. M. the pastor preached a special sermon to the young men. The offering for the day was $59.26. BUSAN GLEANINGS Easter Sunday was quite a lively day at Antelope. Sunday School was well attended. Eleven o'clock service was largely attended. Rev. C. H. Morton was present and filled the pulpit. Quite a good collection was raised and more than $50 on the rally. In the afternoon the B. Y. P. U. held its services. The leader, Mrs. L. B. Hudgins had prepared a special program on David Livingstone which was nicely rendered by the children. At night Rev. Morton gave a special warning to parents about theearing of their children. Too much can not be said on this subject anywhere. Quite a number of visitors were here Sunday' from Norfolk; Mrs. Funny Thomas' daughter and friend, Mrs Mary Billups' daughter, Miss Mary Singleton who is attending Correy Institute and several others. John Tolliver Singleton, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Singleton died Monday A. M. Interment in Good Samaritan Cemetery Tuesday afternoon. On Monday night, the public school gave its closing exercises at Antioch Church. The entertainment consisted of tableaux, showinf the steps in education. First, a little white girl giving a slave girl her first lesson. Second, A secret night school in the woods. Third, the colored soldiers singing around their camp at night. Fourth, the first colored public school 1868. Fifth, scene at Hampton School when first started with its 15 students and 2 teachers. Sixth, Booker T. Washington's examination as told by himself. Seventh, the midnight arrival of the first Indiana at Hampton. Eighth, the school of today. This entertainment was for the purpose of raising some money to help the school. The principal, Mrs. L. B. Hudgins taught two weeks after the term had ended, giving one week and hoping to raise enough to pay for one week in each room. Mrs. Hudgins usually gives her children at least one week each term since the terms have been made so short. The total amount that has been raised during this term for school purposes is $16.00. This sum includes the amount raised and used by the teachers in attending and representing the school in the State Association. From this the public can readily see that all told was not enough to extend the term even two weeks and pay the two teachers. The children were favored with an egg hunt Wednesday afternoon. It was postponed from Tuesday on account of the burial of the infant above mentioned. The sick mentioned in our last news are not much improved with the exception of Mr. Shorts who is out. Mrs. Clara Forrest is here on a visit to her mother. She is looking well and her friends are glad to see her. Mrs. Hudgins thanks the young men who assisted her in her entertainment. To them she owes credit for a part of her success. She thanks the public generally for their attendance, etc. and to the few patrons who are interested in the school. Mr. W. B. Weaver of the Weaver Orphan Home, Hampton, Va. was with us Sunday. REPORTER Dr. W. F. Graham Speaks to the Baptists. Members and Friends of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, located at Lynchburg, Va.— We all know that the Virginia Baptist State Convention will soon be in session (Land Wednesday, in May) in Hampton, where it is expected glorious reports will be made for our work. Dr. R. H. Bowling is sick and has been for sometime, but we are praying and hoping for his recovery. Virginia Seminary belongs to the Negro Baptists of this country, and its constitutional and official territory includes Virginia, Washington, D. C. Maryland and all the Northern States. This truth is emphasized in the fact that a large number of the trustees live in the Northern States. It is further intensified by the Baptist Associations and Conventions from Virginia to Massachusetts. This is the work which we started out to make a success of nearly thirty years ago. It can only remain a success by the Baptists sticking to their first love. It is a mistake for us, as a great denomination to begin good works and leave them off to start something new; let us make the institutions that we already have a success. Notwithstanding I am now pastoring in Philadelphia. I have lost no interest in Virginia Seminary. It is to be my life long work, especially so long as I live, upon its legitimate territory. Therefore brothel, let me beg if you renewed, vigorous active interest in Virginia Seminary. Under its present management the school is in a flourishing condition with over three hundred students, sixty-three of whom are preparing for the ministry. More than eighty of these students are from the North ern states, some from Africa, some from the West Indies. Shall we turn from the work of our first love and allow it to drag and fall? Come brethren, meet us in May or if you cannot meet us, send us some money for the work. We need new buildings and better accommodation for the large numbers who seek learning from our great school. Yours for the work. W. F. GRAHAM. 1631 Christian St., Philadelphia, Pa. KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS. 'Charlotteville, Va., March 24.—A company of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., B. A. A. and A. A. was organized here tonight by Col. Roscoe C. Mitchell. Assistant Adjutant General. Twenty seven knights were mustered into service. Sir O. G. Conn. assisted by Sir George Jones, has been the moving spirit in this affair and they have been complimented on the work. The following officers were installed; Captain O. G. Conn, First Lieutenant 'W. F. Coles, Second Lieutenant 'J. B. Lightfoot, First Sergeant, Charles Goffney, Recorder, S. J. Rollins, Treasurer George Jones, Guard T. A. Spinner, Sentinel C. S. Allen, Standard Bearer L. W. Jones. Interesting Exercises Tomorrow. The public is invited to attend the exercises of the Knights of Pythias at the First Baptist Church at 2:30 P. M. tomorrow. The Uniform Rank and members of the Order will assemble at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. 3rd St., 1 P. M. and it is expected that there will be a fine showing by the members. The Pythian Band under the leadership of Capt. Moses Johnson will furnish music. The ladies' exercises will take place at 4 P. M. Mr. Richard Beverly and Mr. Joseph Matthews will furnish music for both occasions. Summer Normal at Virginia Union University. The third session of the Summer Norma at Virginia Union University will begin June 18th and close at the end of the examinations August 1st. The very best preparations will be given to teachers who desire to pass the State examinations July 30, 31 and August 1st. Thorough training will be given for both grades of the summer school professional certificate. Classes in methods and in all of the required subjects will be formed for those who desire the professional certificate of the primary or grammar grade. The summer school professional certificate, advanced grade or high school grade as it was called last year, calls for six subjects of high school or college rank, one of them to be Education, another English. These will be provided and other subjects from which those desiring this certificate may select the course which they prefer. Indication points to a large attendance at this session of the summer school. Board and room for six weeks and three days will cost $17; $3 additional will be charged for tuition. Every teacher who cares for the highest welfare of the race and who desires to make the most of his or her powers, ought to take advantage of such an opportunity as will be given at Virginia Union University this summer. The schools of Virginia are far behind those of most civilized states. The colored schools of Virginia are far inferior to the white schools. Each teacher who reads this announcement can do something toward bringing up the schools of Virginia in comparison with those of other States and especially can he do something to improve colored schools. - Signa Anti-Elcpement Act. Governor Miller, of Delaware, has signed the new marriage act which was recently passed by the present bill of lature. It requires non-residents to remain within the state, ninety-six hours before the marriage ceremony is performed. The new law has been known as the "new elopement act." PULLMAN CAR PORTERS WANTED Earn as much as $125 to $150 per Month. We train reliable colored men by mail to become Pullman Car Porters in 30 days; positions everywhere; big income in salary and tips; a chance to see the country; if you're making less than $25.00 per week write to day for free, booklet; learn during spare, time. AMERICAN SERVICE SCHOOL. Dept. O, 30 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 4t PRICE, FIVE CENTS. Pharmacist Jackson Injured. What seemed to threaten serious consequences occurred last Sunday afternoon on a Clay Street car, near Brook Avenue and Clay Streets. The conductor was somewhat rough in his manner towards some colored children, who were alighting from the car. Miss Fannie Williams was on the car and also Pharmacist James E. Jackson of 825 W. Leigh St. They exchanged remarks. The conductor W. J. Harrel overheard them and asked Dr. Jackson what he had to do with it. Dr. Jackson alighted and the conductor struck him, on the head with the switch-bar cutting an ugly looking gash. He struck the conductor in the face with his fist and wrenched the switch bar from him, taking it with him to the residence of his mother-in-law Mrs. Kerney, Price and Leigh Sts. He was treated by Dr. Bower. Later the conductor and the pharmacist swore out warrants for each other. In the Police Court last Tuesday the case was postponed until the 29th inst. Street car traffic was tied up for awhile as a result of the fight. Dr. Jackson was represented in Court by Christian, Gordon and Christian. Band of Calendic Organized. Another Band of Calanthe was or organized by G. M. Mrs. Anna Taylor Thursday, March 20, 1913 at Pleas- ant Grove, Va. at 2 o'clock P. M. They also have a large club of boys on hand. Matron Miss Dora Galine and Mrs. Bessie Galine, the Mother are deeply interested in the work and have great hopes for the future. All were well pleased with the work accomplished. Mr. Chappell Stricken. Mr. John H. Chappell, the well-known barber was stricken with paralysis last Sunday on his way home from the Third St. A. M. B. Church where he had attended services. He is critically ill at his residence, 617 W. Main St. Do You Know Them? Denver, Colo., Jan. 24, 1913. To Whom It May Concern, or the Pastor of the Church: Dear Sir; I am trying to locate a Mrs. Vicky Powell or some of her children. I wish to inform them about her son, Daniel Laurence Powell. If you can find any relatives of Daniel L. Powell in Richmond, Va. please let them communicate with me immediately. I know his relatives live in Richmond but I don't know their addresses. I wish to inform them of something important. I am respectfully yours. DANIEL LAYTON. 3526 West 6th Ave. Denver, Colo. . Services Wanted. An investigating agency in New York City, desires the service of faithful Colored Men and Women in each community. Write in plain envelope stating your age and qualifications. Where employed now or in the past. If we are favorably impressed with your letter we will communicate with you; if not it will be destroyed. INVESTIGATING DEPARTMENT, Room 7, 158 Lawrence St., Brooklyn N. Y. Entertainment at City. Auditorium. The Grand Plantation Jubilee and Flags of all Nations, which was to have been rendered February 24th, 1913, will be given April 7th at the City Auditorium for the Benefit of the Friend Orphan Asylum. Admission 15 cents. Mrs. Lula B. Vandervall, Mrs. Lizzie G. Brown, Managers K. OF P. EXERCISES. The anniversary exercises of the Order of Knights of Pythias, N. 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. E. Thompson, 104 W. Jackson St. Riermond, Va. Single badges, 75 cents each; between 12 and 25, 65 cents each; 25 or more 69 cents each. Past Chancellor's badges $1.50. Copyright, 1922 by C. P. Putnam's Bons. SYNOPSIS Bouregard is ready to fire on Fort Sumter. Frank Haverill, General Haverill's seaport race son, is hiding in Charleston. Edward Thornton annoys Mrs. Haverill. Leutnant Kochvival West protector comes to a duel. Fort Sumter is fired upon. Haverill unjustly suspects West. He sends Frank a miniature of Mrs. Haverill to help reform him. Frank enlists in the Union army. Captain Robert Ellingham, Confederates' Madeline West. Leutnant Kochvival. The Union army is routed at Bull Run. Ellingham is with "Stonewall" Jacked in the valley of Virginia. Gerritude decides to return to the Ellingham home at Bell Bosquet, in the valley. She gets through the Union lines as compained by Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy. They meet Thornton, who is a prisoner. Thornton escapes, captures Leutnant Kochvival takes from him Mrs. Haverill's miniature. Bedison is Frank Haverill. He is taken to Libby prison. Marie Mason finds her lover, Cox. Six Union officers selected as hostages to protect Confederate prisoners threaten death are returned to Libby unarmed. Reduce violence from Libby prison, McClellan, Burnside, Battelle and Hooker are successively beaten by Lee and Jackson. "Stonewall" Jackson is killed. Grant takes supreme command of the Federal Sheriff and invades the valley of Virginia. CHAPTER XIII. Signals From Three Top Mountain. "PARDON me," murmured General Haverill, finally turning away from the youth. "Now, Colonel West, speaking of young officers, we have an adventurous piece of work for some one of them" here Frank stopped to hear the rest—a dangerous mission, so much so that I shall not order any individual to undertake it. A volunteer to lead the venture is what we want. "Oh, sir, general, may I have the chance?" cried Lieutenant Bodlede. "I thought you had passed on, sir," returned the general, looking keenly at him again. "If it is a scouting expedition, sir, the young man went on with irresistible cagerness, "I beg to say that I have made myself thoroughly acquainted with the region behout, in fact, I was hoping to qualify as a scout. Please refuse not me, sir. General Haverill could not help show far that he was pleased. "That is the right kind of talk," he declared, turning to the other officers. "Our young friend shall listen while I tell you what is required. We want the key to the enemy's cipher and signal code. They have a signal station on Three Top mountain yonder and another somewhere down the creek that is a nest of mischief to us. Every night we see their messages in fire on the mountain top, and we can't read them. What we want is a hold dash inside Early's lines and a sudden attack upon the station, with seizure of the papers and dispatches. If there is a practicable way of approach from this side of the mountain the thing might be risked with the right sort of a leader." "I know of a path, general, and I believe I could accomplish the undertaking," argued Frank. "Very well. Major McCandless of my staff here will take you to Young's THE ROCKET by Review of Reviews company. headquarters. He will furnish account, then and homes—and Confederate uniforms if needed. Now, bestman—here General Haverill took out his pore-book—"give me a few partisans about yourself. Have you parents living?" "I have the participants regarding Lieutenant Bedog and his parents, general," said Heartsease, hastening to goor Frank's room. "Very well. I will not yoy for them if money may. Goodbyy, my bed," he added, turning to Frank and greeting his head. "Do the best you can—no man can do more. Keep a brave heart and some back to us." The young man bowed, scolded and The young man bowed, saluted and shrugged away. Heartbeat met him at he end of the vermuda, and they exchanged a whispered word. Then Heartstone returned, saying: "Colonel West—aw—it's desecedly confronting, you know, but I shall have to ask leave of absence and go with him." "Good boy. Heartstone! Well, ask the general. He can hardly refuse you." "That's all right, but I've got to ask Miss Bucktown, too, and the thought of that so writes my emotions, that—well, an revolt, colonel." The day began very early at Belle Booget that golden October season in that resilient year of war's alarm. It was sharply an hour after sunrise when Colonel Ellingham and Madeline West, returning from their favorite walk to the neighbororing hilltop, met Jenny Bucktown, who had already been down to the camp to meet her father. "It's all up with na. Madeline," she said. "You know papa only gave us our passes. It least sounds, because we all thought the fighting this part of the valley was through with. Now it looks as if it were just beginning. Anyway the general says this is no place for women, and he has ordered us to Winchester." "But surely time will be allowed us to say goodbye." Inquired Madeline anxiously. "I can't help feeling worried at Gertrude not having returned last night, though Rob—that is. Colonel Ellingham—says she has stopped at the house of one of the neighbors down at the ford, where she and I have a class of school children." "She may be home for breakfast," added Rob reassuringly. "I hope she will," rejoined Jenny, "not only on our account, but because a certain officer here is just as good as bors de combat as a result of her ab- sence. She knew Colonel West was coming, and it seems very funny for her not to be here to receive him if only as a sort of 'dearest foe,' you might say. Gertie is no cold, cruel, marble hearted thing, you know." When they reached the house they found Kerkelvall West already there, racing the veranda. "Have you any word from Miss K Lilgham?" he asked as soon as they came in sight. "Not yet. Kerchitnil." replied Bob, "but my sister is as well able to talk care of herself in these poses as you and I are, and she sure to give a good account of herself before much longer. Depend upon it. Kerchitnil, old chap the never left this house with any idea of being absent when you arrived." "Colonel West." spoke up Jenny Burkittnil, "I understand my father to say that General Haverill was coming up from him to have a talk with you." "Do you know if they have further orders for me that will take me away from here today?" asked Kerchitnil. "Not that I heard of, colonel. But they seem to be nuffly worried about those signals from Thirty Top mountain and about that expedition just want to try to get the key. I have had to let Heritseum go out on the job. It seems General Sheridan wants to run over to Washington, and we are afraid there's mischief brewing if he does." At this moment General Haverill himself approached. He asked Colonel Ellingham about the latter's sister, Gertrude, and then immediately entered into such a serious conversation with Colonel West that the other young people discreetly withdrew. "We have reason to expect a movement on the part of the enemy," began General Haverill, "and we must be able to read their signal dispatches if possible. Captain Lockwood of our own signal corps will report to you here with officers and men. In the meantime Colonel West"—Here the general took from his wallet a newspaper clipping and a letter envelope, which latter he hastily returned to his pocket. It bore the address of Colonel West in Mrs. Haverill's handwriting, being, in fact, the one which had inclosed the missive from Washington received the day before and shown to Frank, who in his earnestness had dropped the envelope on the rustic table on the veranda, where the general had chanced upon it and reserved it without comment. Now he continued: "Perhaps you can help me in explaining a personal matter about which I am curious. Here is a paragraph copied in the Richmond Dispatch from a South Carolina paper which interests us both." He handed the clipping to Kerchlyal. 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. JEFFRIES NO. 1. NO.1 TRADE MARK Get Joffrey No. 1 Courage Mixture Today. It's a guaranteed remedy. It never falls. Will relieve immediately. For throats and lung trouble it has no equal. A sure preventive for annuities. who read: "Captain Edward Thornton of the Condebrate secret service has been assigned to duty in the Shenandoah valley. Our gallant captain still bears upon his face the mark of his meeting in 1831 with Lieutenant (now Colonel) Kerrchival West, who is also to serve in the valley with Biberdan's army. Another meeting of these two men would be one of the strange coincidences of the war, as they were at one time, if, indeed, they are not at present, interested in the same beautiful woman. The scandal connected with the name of the lovely wife of a northern officer at the opening of the war was of course overshadowed by the attack on Fort Sumter, but many Charlestonians will remember it. The lady in defense of whose good name Captain Thornton fought the duel is the wife of General Haverill, who will be Colonel West's immediate commander." "General," exclaimed Korchival, redening and riling to his feet, "this is an abominable outrage. But I think we both know its source, and it is fortunate indeed that I have the opportunity to nail it now that the matter is raked up in such a scurrulous way. The article states the truth in one particular, however—I did strike Mr. Thornton after a personal quarrel." And what provoked the blow? Evidently there is something in this affair that has been concealed from me, set which I have a right to know. I need hardly say that I refuse to accept the statement of this scandalous paragraph. At the same time I feel justified in asking you to tell me the whole story frankly as man to man. "You are right, general. I shall be more than glad to tell you all—as soon as we can be by ourselves for half an hour without interruption." The latter proviso was occasioned by the abrupt appearance of Sergeant Barket, the body servant of General Buckthorn ever since the Mexican war. "Colonel West," he sputtered, "adjustant Rollin wishes to report a prisoner just captured." "For the present, colonel," said General Hauverli, rising, "we both have THE LIFE OF JOHN W. HARRIS "Worse, sor—a petticoat." our duties. We will meet tonight after taps, when the camp is at rest. Kerchitual bowed ascent and saluted. "Now, then, Barket. I thought you were to wait at Buckton's ford with a fresh horse in readiness to watch for the return or tidings of Lieutenant Bedioe's party and bring the first news posthate." "Right ye are, colonel. Sure, wasn't I there? And that's where we cup tured the prisoner." "Guerilla or spy?" "Worse, sor—n petticoat." "What? erled Kerchitual, aghast. "Ya, sor. I towld the boys yer honor wouldn't thank us for the catchin' of her. She's a lady and a party one." "Well, tell Major Williams for me to let her take the oath and everything else she wants, with the United States government's apology and an order for a new bouquet." "The young lady to take the onth. is it? An' she's after saying she'll see us do—first." "Did she say that?" "Well, she didn't use thin exact words, but she looked at me to that effect. Oh, she's a spanker, sir. She was ridin' lekety split through the woods on a gray horse, and we bad the devil's own chase before we caught up wid her by the bend in Oak run. And at the same tome we saw the gray back of a Confederate officer skedaddling off on the other side of the creek." "Hm! Have you found any dispatches on the prisoner?" "Colonel West, I'm a bachelor, an' I don't be after pretendin' to any familiarity with the jaygraphy of women's clothes. What could we bye da, your honor?" "Sure enough. Tell them to send the prisoner here. Barket, and then you hurry back to your post at Buckton's ford and stay there until you get news of Bedice." The Irish trooper departed, and the fair prisoner was brought in by a corporal and two soldiers. Dressed in a dark green riding habit and hat with sweeping plume, after the approved antebelism fashion of the fox hunting Diana of that section of Virginia, she looked indeed a dashing type of self-resistant womanhood. Kerchyval could not see her face because, ere he had time to look up from his map, she had proudly turned her back to him. "Will ppg be seated, madam?" said the young colonel, who had risen from the bench and now stood by rather beautifully, wondering how he should proceed. CHAPTER XIV. THE lady drew herself up dis- covered, folded her arm and remained silent. Korechival abrugged his shoulders and do a new start. I am very sorry, madam, but the harmonious are such that I can take the stairs confidently with my Baby. You have been captured while the lines of the army, and there is reason to believe you are the bearer of impending deportees. If so, I must not put you into this up. I trust that you will give me whatever "you have at once. It would be of no advantage to you and extremely awkward for me if you were to appeal me to adopt the extreme—the very disagreeable—solution for both of us of having you—well. I hesitate to use the word as a warning threat, madam, but the military law compels that you shall be"— "Searched? Is that what you mean? If you dare, Ophent-West!" Here the prisoner turned upon him quickly enough, disclosing a sunken face and flashing eyes, framed in rebellious hair of warm bronze color. One look at this splendid spilt picture and Kerkhval West sprang forward with arms extended, exclaiming: "Gertrude, my dear Gertrude! Is it possible?" "Not dear Gertrude to you-my jailer" she retorted, drawing back. So this was their meeting! "Enemies" still, and drawn up in line of battle. "Pardon me. Miss Ellingham," said Kerkchival humbly. "I feel that I am your prisoner now." "We must both face the painful realities of war," she answered coldly. "Believe me. Gertrude, my position is more--more regrettable than yours." is more regrettable than yours. "Do not forget your paramount duty as a military officer on my account," she pursued taintingly. "Will you please hand me whatever dispatches or other papers may be in your possession?" "And if I don't choose to? You can threaten me with force. I suppose, I am only a woman, going about my business—my military duty, if you please—in defense of my home. I—I did not know, Colonel West"—here her voice wavered a little, but she recovered himself instantly—that you were coming in this threatening attitude. Well, I am in your power. Order in the guard! Call up your whole regiment! Repeat the long roll and then see if I give up? "Hello. What's all this?" demanded a grunt voice as the imposing form of General Buckthorn loomed up behind them. "Is this your prisoner, Colonel West?" "Yes, general," stammered Kerchival, who nevertheless felt relished at the sight of his senior commander. "I wonder if he will recognize me?" "I fine young woman, eh?" and the old general in a boarse whisper, at the same time giving Kerkhalv a sly punch in the rita. Then he turned and bowed gallantly, removing his hat, but as suddenly resumed his air of military sternness, held out his hand to Kerkhalv and demanded, "Let us see the dispatches." "She refuses to give them up," answered the young officer. "Oh, she does, does she? My dear young lady, kindly let us have those dispatches without any further pains vering." "I have no dispatches," replied Gertrude spiritedly, "and I, would not give them to you if I had." "What! You defy my authority! We'll see about that. Colonel West, search the prisoner!" Kerkhalv stood againt. "General Buckthorn, I cannot obey that order." "You--you refuse to obey my order?" "That is the woman I love, sir." whispered Kerkhival aside to the general. "Oho! Why didn't you say so? I'd have to take matters in my own hands then." "Don't do that, General Buckthorn!" said the young officer, facing him with determination. "Blast your eyes, sir! I'd court marital you if you did let me search her but Duty is duty. Consider yourself sworn at, sir. Young woman, Colonel West here has sacrificed his life to protect you." "His life!" cried Gerritude. "I must have him shot for inauthentication in front of the enemy," continued the general, giving Kerkhival a huge吼. "Oh, sir! General Buckthorn! I have told the truth. I have no dispatches. I haven't a scrap of paper about me, except." "Ah, 'except' Except what?" "Only this letter," taking it from the bosom of her riding habit. "Here it is. Upon my honor, it is all. I have truly, it is." General Buckthorn took the letter and glanced it over quickly. "Washington—ho, hid! I see—Colonel Kerchval West"— "Don't read it aloud, general, please." interrupted Gerritude. "Very well, I won't." He read on, anide, mumbling to himself—"had 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. heard you my, say, an I did—you—you loved him with your whole heart—this is important—fitted. Conscience Har- —Him—my dear dwarves. Are you my dear Grottrude. Miss Grottrude. "Thunder and Mare! Then this is your house, and my daughter Janny is your guest!" "Way, of course! Jenny is here all right." "Well, of all the dangerous little sabre! Here the general checked him under the chain before turning to Kerkival to say: 'Colonial West, I have this suspicious young person in your charge. If she attempts to escape or is surely in any way read this letter. Here, take it—but not fill them.' "Oh, let me have it back. It's mine, pleased Gertrude. "I shall obey orders," said Kerkival, putting the letter into his pocket. "Meanwhile a disturbance down the road had attracted the attention of the group. They now saw that it was caused by the approach of a squad of men bringing along a prisoner in disarranged Confederate uniform and who evidently had not been captured without putting up a desperate resistance. "It's Thornton, by"—was Kerkival's astounded exclamation. "Then the little witch has been communicating with the enemy, after all," said General Buckthorn. "I don't deny that," replied Gertrude calmly. "They are not my enemy. But I wish to say that when I went across the lines I did not know that the Confederate officer I was to meet would be Captain Thornton." "Miss Ellingham," said Kerchival, "if you will give me your parole of honor until next we meet you may be excused now." "You have my word. I am your prisoner," she replied, turning to cast one scornful glance upon the glowering Thornton as she entered the house. "Now we shall probably find the dispatches we have looking for, general," said Kerchival. Two of the guard held Thornton's arms, none too gently, while the cor- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. "The corporal began a minute search." "The corporal began a minute search," poral threw open his coat and began a minute search. He found first a paper, which he handed to Kerkhvalt, who gave it to his general. "General Roosier will rejoin General Early with all the cavalry in his command," read the old warrior eagerly. Here Corporal Dunn gave Kerkhvalt a small packet, which, when unwrapped, proved to contain a miniature picture. "A portrait of Mrs. Haverill!" muttered the young officer with a start. He motioned the corporal to retire and taking his place, asked Thornton in a low voice. "How did this portrait come into your possession?" "That is my affair, not yours." "Anything else, colonel?" called General Buckthorn, who had seated himself on the garden bench to pore over the captured dispatch. "Nothing," answered Kerkhvalt, putting the miniature carefully away in his breast pocket. "Curse you, you'll give that back to me yet." kissed Thornton. "and we have an old score to settle before I'm through. Don't think you are going to escape me so easily as thin." "Corporal, take away your prisoner," was Kerkchival's only reply. "Just as I thought," said General Buckthorn, reading. "The enemy has a big movement on foot. Listen to this: Watch for signal from Three Top mountain." "We are still in hopes that we may be able to read that signal ourselves," said Kerkchival. "Yes, I know. It is pretty near time for Basket to be back with some tidings of the expedition. Be on your guard here. I will speak with General Haverill and then ride over to General Wright's headquarters. Keep us informed." It was twilight—the soft, lingering, creasing twilight of that idyllic valley time—when next the anxious heart of Kerkchival West was thrilled with the sight of Gertrude. "You are still on guard, Colonel West?" she said, but her tone had something of the old delicious, friendly intimacy in it. "I am giving you no end of trouble." "I like it. If you don't mind, Gertrude," he replied, somewhat languishing for a stern faller. "I am posted here, you know. The signalmen will report to me at this spot—may be along an minute. We are watching for signals from the mountain." "Your men might not, have caught me this morning if I had had Jack, my own pet horse. But I lent him to Brother Robert for a cavalry mount, and the enemy captured him at Winchester." "If he is in our cavalry ill get him back for you, Gertrude. I will give one of my own horses to the government or I will buy him outright at any price and bring him back to you. Anthing that, is mine, dear Gertrude, you know." "Oh, thank you, my dear Kerchival! I could almost" "Almost confirm that that you don't ```markdown ``` 欽定四庫全書 卷一 卷二 卷三 "I have dreamed of a meeting like this." hate me?" be cried joyously, grasping her hand. "Oh, Gertrude. I have dreamed of a meeting like this. You are silent?" "Kerchival," she began, with pathetic half yielding—"oh, is this your whole regiment coming up?" "It's the signalmen. Don't go, I command you!" Before the signalmen reached the house Coriordan Dunn game hurrying ahead of them to announce that his prisoner, Captain Thornton, had escaped. "He had a knife hidden in his boot, air, and he shaken two of the guard and got away while my back was turned for a minute. He's like a mad dog, air." A flash of fire on the dusty mountaintop was the "call" or opening of the enemy's long awaited communication. It brought Captain Lockwood up precipitately. While they were watching the signals through their glasses General Haverill arrived, accompanied by two staff officers. "Can you make anything of it, captain?" he asked. "Nothing, general, until we get the key," was the reply. "It should be here. If Lieutenant Bed-ha has succeeded." A shot rang out from the direction of the gate--followed by a cry of "Halt! Who goes there?" "Och, ye murthernth' signpeen!" cried the voice of Sergeant Barket. "Pass on!" called the sentinel. "He didn't give the countersign." said Kerkivah. "Must be news from Lieutenant Bedelee." "Here's the papers!" panted Barket, running up, covered with dust and with one arm limp. Captain Lockwood took the code book he brought and hurried up the elevation back of the house. "What of Lieutenant Bedelee, sergeant?" "Badly wounded, sor, an' in the hands of the lipimy. But he fit off the whole gang until we came up an' got the papers." "And Captain Heartsease?" "Shot, down at his side, mor. May be dead—I dunno. But please don't say anything to Miss Jenny yet. She'll found out soon enough. Och! Me arm is hurt. Sure, I forgot the sentry entirely, but he didn't forget me." "12-22-11" a signalman on the knoll called, reading the torch wigwagging on the distant mountain top. CHAPTER XV. "It's Only a Battle!" COLONEL WEST," said the general, "we must get Lieutenant Bedoe in exchange at any sacrifice if he is still alive. Let's see—why, there is Colonel Robert Killingham, our prisoner. We might offer him in exchange if he would go." " Surely! Bob will go in a minute; I know he will. I will find him and ride to the front with him myself, general." "At once, then! Can you follow the dispatch, Captain Lockwood?" "Perfectly, general. Everything is here in the book." "11-22-1-12" shouted the signalman. "General Longstreet is coming!" "Longstreet! I feared that." "1-21-3!" "With 18,000 man." "Longstreet with his "22-11-1-12-1-1" "We will crush Sheridan's army." "We will crush Sheridan's army." "Aha!" cried General Harvill, stirred to deadly energy. "Now, man, signal that dispatch up the valley to our own station. Tell them to send couriers and catch Sheridan with it at Front Royal. They must catch him, so that he can hasten back with the cavalry. Major Burton, order our horses. We will ride to General Wright's headquarters at once." General Harvill, while awaiting the horses, watched Captain Lockwood and his man lighting pine wood torch as attached to long poles to flash their signals up the valley. Another minute and Barret returned with Robert Ellingham, the two supporting between them Kernchival West, white faced and with his coat thrown open, a crimson stain on his shirt front. "There, Bob, I'll be all right now," he was meauring falsely. "It's only the loss of blood that upset me. I got a scratch of the knife, that's all." "Go for a surgeon, somebody," said Colonel Ellingham as he helped Kerchival to the sent. "The fellow has killed him. But they've got the wryness." Colonel Duns and his guard dragged in Edward Thornton for the second time that day. "We were leaving the house together," applauded Ellingham, "when the little man jumped out upon us from the "This is unfortunate, and WOOF, unfortunate, unfortunate Thomas, blinding to Thornton, him by the old school, torn and disheveled, wielding a discompoet picture of discompoetism." "If you have killed him." "Oh, what you like with me. My present is settled," returned Thornton, blinding with an evil smile as Killingham headed to General Havelir a waiter and a miscreant cane, saying: "I took these from Kerkhval's breast pocket when he fell." "My wife's portrait" muttered the general, with an involuntary gesture of despair. "You recognize the precious keepsake, general?" answered Thoraton. "So you see, if I have killed him, your home will be buried in the same grave." Gertrude Ellisgham ran out from the house, she had come to bid her brother Robert goodbye. She saw him 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. "I love you! I have loved you all the time!" Now in the lurid glare of the pike knots, beading over the prostrate form of the wounded Union officer. "Robert!" she cried. "I heard them calling for a surgeon. Who is hurt? You are safe, aren't you—ah, Kerech vali!" With a scream she fell on her knees by his side, uttering tender words as she stroked the dark hair from his pallid forehead. "Oh, Kerechval, dear, I never meant those bitter words I said to you. But get them and forgive me, won't you? Do you bear me? I love you. I have loved you all the time." General Haverill heard no more. He did not look around as Thornton was hustled away in irons, but sprung into his saddle and dashed off down the black road after the staff officers, who at his own impatient order had preceded him. The night of Oct. 18 was full of inquietude and alarms for the inmates of Hells Bouquet. A Federal guard was posted there, and Basket served as courier. Neither Jenny nor Madeline West would think now of going on to Winchester, with Kerkhival West in a precarious condition and the fate of Captain Heartsease still uncertain. General Inverill did not return to the house, but Joined General Buckthorn at the trout, where, it was understood, General Wright was making every possible preparation pending the return of Sheridan, for guarding against and resisting an attack upon his right, which was the only point at which he apprehended immediate trouble. Before daybreak on the morning of the 10th Madeline and Gertrude, who occupied a room together, were awak ```markdown ``` "You love me!" ened, by flying in the distance up the valley to the southward. Jenny Buckthorn, in an adjoining chamber, heard their voices and joined them for companionship and sympathy. Alas, what a changed, subdued Jenny within the last twenty-four hours! The girls dressed hurriedly in alliance and came downstairs. Already Kerchival West, haggard and excited looking, was pacing the veranda like a caged animal. Barket had been down to the pike for reconnoissance and now came back with startling news. "It's a battle, sure!" he said. "Ah, Sheridan away, the civil only knows where. Bogoh, they must have attacked by surprise before the screech of dawn, judgin' from"— "Who has attacked? Who is surprised? demanded Kerchival with furious impatience. The immy has attacked on us, or an, what's more, they seem to be drivein' things before 'em. By the direction of the drif' it should be our left flank they have pounced upon instead of the right, where, they were dextrity, expected. Sure, thim rebel have no patience nowhere"— "Do you mean to my our troops, are falling jack?" ```markdown ``` gampon' down the plike, but whether it was ours or theirs or only Mosby's gorilla, that I can't tell yet." "Then I'll go and find out for myself." Kerkhival cried fiercely, making a move into the hallway for his hat. The sudden exertion proved too much for him, and he sank into a chair, clutching with one hand at his breast. "Hark! There is the firing again, worse than ever, and it is coming nearer," said Gertrude, unconscious of a certain exultation in her tones. "If General Longtrest only has—I mean, if really be"— "He can never drive General Sheridan back—of that I am certain," spoke up Madeline with unwonted spirit. "Let us go—oh, perdon me, Gertrude—ladies—I beg," said Kerkhival, starting up, then at once seating himself again. But they all had risen, as impatient as he was, and hurried out. Kerchival and Gertrude took the path up the elevation to where the big cottonwood tree overlooked the valley. Jenny and Madeline lingered on the veranda. "Go on, go on!" muttered Kerchival, instinctively feeling for his sword and looking loweringly in the direction from which came the roar of the guns. "Fight to a finish and have it over. Keep the battle to yourselves. I'm out of it." "Kerchival," said Gertrude, "your sister Madeline says that now she must pray for the man she loves, enemy or no enemy." "And she is right." Anything else would be worse than treason. I can't pray. Can you, Gertrude?" "Yea. Ah, Kerchifall" He leaned against the tree, his band clutching at his breast again: "Your wound! Let me call the surgeon, Kerchival." "Wound! I have no wound to bother about now. You love me?" "Look! There are soldiers running through the woods. Oh, what shall we do?" The firing, very close now, was faster and more furious than ever. It seemed to have given Kerchival West new breath of life. "Never mind that!" he cried deliriously. "It's only a battle! Say that you love me!" "Be quiet, Kerchival, dear. I do love you. I said so last night before every one, only you didn't bear me. I said the same thing at Charleston when first we met. And some one I told wrote it in a letter—that letter which General Backthorn gave you and told you not to read unless I became unruly. I am not unruly, am I, dear!" "No, my precious girl! Nothing can separate us now. That letter"—he searched in his pockets, but could not find it. "Ah, I remember! They must have taken it when I was laid out by Thornton's dagger. And—a miniature I had—that's gone too!" Josephus Orangebloomson on a mule without saddle dashed up from the direction of the pike, shouting: "Miss Gertrude, Marse Bob he done get a gyard aroun' its house, but 'tain't no use now, for de Yankis is runnin' away. We's got 'em licked, missy; we she 'has' "Begob, the mygur's right," confirmed Sergeant Harket. "The gray-back divils have sprung up out of the ground. They're pourin' over our lift flank like Noah's own food. Our camp is wiped out, an' they've got our guns an' wagons an' wounded an' prisonars, an' the whole Union army is a startin' to beat it down the pike for Winchester, worse luck! Colonel West, yonder is your own regiment in full retrate." "My regiment!" roared Kerchival, jumping up. "Great God, not! Get my horse, Barket! I'll stop that or—" "Ter harse, is it? Hooroo! I'm wid ye, colonel! There's a row at Finnegan's ball, an' we're gun' to be in it!" "Kerchival," pleaded Gertrude, throwing her, arms wround him, "you must not go! You may be dying!" "Dying nothing! I'm all right now, Gertrude, my life! My regiment won't retreat any farther unless it retreats over my dead body!" "Here's yer horse, colonel! Now give me that smile, ye black contraband naygirl!" called Barket, wild with joy, to the rolling eyed Josephus. "Goodby, Gertrude, darling! Tell Madeline 'Gray for us!' And two flying figures hurried themselves down the hillside into the roaring mealtom of battle that filled the valley. CHAPTER XVL "Tell how I died, not how I lived." BUT before the events of the preceding chapter—before the avowal of Karchival's love and his dash into the battle—had ensued a scene which threatened to change several Nys, a scene which made West's rush deed rank insubordination against his commanding officer. Bright and early the morning after the exciting combination of events at Belle Bouquet—the reading of the signals, the exchange of Colonel Robert Blindman for the wounded Lieutenant Biond and the murderous attack of Captain Edward Thornton of the Confederate secret service upon Outland Karchival West—a turnoff of action itself in the Union regiment camp at that point. As a result of the night's conference of Gen- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. by Patriot Publishing company. Wartime Photograph of General George A. Custer. erals Buckthorn and Haverill with General Wright Colonel West's regiment had been ordered to the front. "Ah, Haverill," said General Buckthorn as that officer came out on the veranda. "maybe Sheridan is right, after all. The reconnaissance this morning show no hostile force on our right, and Crook reports that Early is retreating up the valley. But General Wright is making some changes in our line this afternoon, and in the meantime I want to warn you to order General McCuen to go into camp on the right of Meadow brook, with the Second division. Jenny, girl, don't bother me about Heartsease now. Order the Third brigade of cavalry, under Colonel Lowell, to occupy the left of the pike. We'd better hold Custer on the second line, at Old Forge road, until further instructions. That is all for the present. Goodby, Jenny, my darling. General I bid you good day." General Haverill, who had carefully written the foregoing orders in his notebook, watched General Buckthorn off, then asked Jenny as she re-entered the house if she would send Gertrude to him. "Gertrude, my child," he said with unwonted gravity, "the surgeons tell me that Kerculval West will get on well enough if he remains quiet; otherwise not." "That is what is worrying me, general." Gertrude replied. "Colonel West insist upon preparing to join his regiment at the front. I hope you will order him to remain here—compel him to be prudent." "He should not look for the honor of death on the field under present circumstances," muttered the general, with peculiar significance. "What do you mean, sir?" inquired Gertrude unclearly. "You have a right to ask me that as your father's old friend, once your own guardian, Gertrude, child, you have a warm, true heart. I could not bear to see your happiness destroyed through very loyalty to your heart's affection. Listen. Last night I saw you kneeling beside Kerkalvist Weat, speaking to him, ministering to him with all the tender passion of a southern woman. You told him that you loved him. But those fateful, words fell upon unconscious ears. Tell me, has he ever heard those words from your own lips? Have you ever confessed, your love to him before? "Never—since you ask me. But why, General Haverill, do you ask?" "Never mind. Only do not repent it. Keep your heart to yourself, my girl." "But, general, at a moment like this, when his life"— "Leave that to me—huah!" The voice of Colonel West himself, heard outside, giving orders to a sergeant to get his horse ready, silenced them. He then came up in full uniform and wearing his sword and saluted. His face was pale, but he presented a brave front. "Are there any orders, general, for my regiment?" he asked, "beyond those given to Major William in my absence this morning? I am going to the front to resume my command." "It is my wish, colonel, that you remain here under the surgeon's care," said the general quietly. "Oh, my wound is a mere trifle. I could not rest here. I must be with my men at this perhaps critical moment in the campaign." "I have told you my wish is to the contrary." repeated General Haverill. Kerchival knew only too well that eminous, quiet reserve. He knew the inflexibility of that proud, intolerant mood. He could not wholly fathom its cause, but a troublesome recollection suddenly occurred to him. "General," he said, with grieved earnestness, after looking around to see that Gertrude had silently withdrawn. "I was unable to keep my appointment with you last night for an unforeseen reason, which you know. I am ready and willing to explain certain matters, as you requested me to do yesterday. But meanwhile a crisis has developed, and whatever there may be between us personally you are now in the position of interfering with my duty and my privilege as a soldier. It is my right to be at the head of my regiment so long as I am physically able." "You have my positive order, sir!" "Then I protest!" "You are under arrest, sir!" said the murder without changing his tone. general without changing his tone. Kerchiyal started as if he had been shot. There is a deliberate, dened way he misappell his belt and offered his sword. "No; keep your sword. I have no desire to humiliate you," the general continued in a low voice. "But you will hold your subject to further orders from me." With these honorable words he turned away, while Kerchiyal, as if suddenly a sick man ignite, started to roar the house. He met Gortérde at Doe door, all gentlemen and commiseration. "Did you hear what the general said?" he asked feebly. "No matter what he said or what any one says now, Kerchival," was her impulsive response. "You have my perfect faith—there! Now you must go to your room and rest until the surgeon comes again." He obeyed in silence. What words could he find? Looking out from her window a few minutes later, Gertrudo was startled to see a number of men-emerging from the woods by the path leading up from the ford. Then she perceived that they were Confederate soldiers under a flag of truce, following an escort of Union troops and carrying some burden. It proved to be a stretcher, on which lay the unconscious form of a young man, evidently a wounded Federal officer. A surgeon walked beside the stretcher, giving directions to the bearers, who rested a short distance from the reranda steps. Gertrude ran to the door, followed by Madeline West and Jenny Buckthorn. Sergeant Barkot also stood, wonder struck, on a sort of improvised sentry guard. "I am Major Hardwick of the Confederate service," said the surgeon, hat in hand and losing no time. "Is General Haverill here?" "He left but a moment ago"— "He's just after mounting his horse," put in Barket, "an I can cut across an stop him for yes." "Please say to him that we come from Colonel Robert Eillingham, who instructed me to bring this young officer in exchange for himself, as agreed upon between them last evening." "Is he unconscious or sleeping, ally asked Gertrude, looking with tender solicitude upon the pallid face on the rude rustic litter. "He is between life and death, I fear The removal has been too, much for him, yet it seemed for the best under the circumstances. He was no anxious-ah, he is waking. Here we are my boy," placing his canteen to the lips of poor Lieutenant Bedloe, for he it was in such grievous plight. "We have reached the end of our journey." "My father"—gasped Frank. "He is thinking of his house," said Major Hardwick. "I have obeyed General Haverill's or dera," murmured the young man faulty, "and I have a report to make." "He will be here in a moment," an aweed Gertrude. "Is not this—Miss Gertrude Eillingham?" he asked, looking wistfully into her face. "Yes, you! You have seen me be fore." "Long ago. You know Mrs. Haverill, the general's wife?" "She is one of my dearest friends on earth." "Then you can give her a message for me, to my poor little wife. She will know. Will the general be here soon? I—somehow I feel that I have not much time left. Doctor, my notebook." The surgeon took the notebook from an inner pocket, and at the same time a blood stained handkerchief fell out. The dying soldier saw it and with an effort said: "Ah, yes; a message from Captain Heartsease. He was by my side—he had a Confederate uniform—so they didn't send him back with me." Gertrude, kneeling by his side, took the handkerchief and silently handed it to Jenny Buckthorn, who turned suddenly pale as she saw it, then hid her face in her hands and hastened away. Still General Haverill did not arrive. "Please writer!" Frank whispered to Gertrude. "To-my wife—Edith. Tell our little son, when he is old enough to know, how his father died, not how he lived. And tell her who was a mother to me that my father's portrait of her, which she gave to me in Charleston, helped me to be a better man. And-don't forget to tell them I haven't it with me now—it was taken away from me while I was a "Tell our little son how his father died." prisoner in Richmond"by Captain Edward Thornton—Confederate secret service. Let-me-sign-that"—Gertrude, with tears streaming down her cheeks, held the poor boy's hand while he made a feeble scrawl on the page, then fall back lifeless. The surgeon gently laid the fold of the blanket over his face. He was dead. "Present arms! Carry arms!" commanded the officer of the Federal guard as General Hayer will come up, returning the salute as he pamed. "Ah I too later!" he asked. "I'm sorry, general," replied the Confederate surgeon. "His one thought, as we brought him through the lines, was to see son before he passed away." "Poor boy-brave boy," muttered the general, turning back the fold of the Manket a moment to gaze upon the calm, sleeping face. "I am in the place of your father today. We will every him to his command at the front, he shall have a guardian in the --- Hawkins-Johnson MANUFACTURING CO., Hair Grower and Restorer, 616 R.1st Street, = Richmond, Va. Telephone, Madison-4601. remove all Dandruff and cure the Store Hair on clean Temples and not dead. 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Lewis has the rare distinction of being the first and only colored man to hold the position of Assistant Attorney General under a Republican administration and the first and last colored citizen to hold that office under a Democratic administration. He has resigned the office the said resignation to become effective. April 1st, 1913 at which time the office will be abolished. FAULTY DIPLOMACY. The resignation of Assistant Secretary of State Wilson followed by the report from London, that the "Great Powers" were without official information with reference to the change of policy by the present administration seems to indicate that diplomatic procedure is being disregarded by the Chief Executive of the nation and portends the beginning of a series of diplomatic blunders. It will be remembered that acting Secretary of State Wilson became disgusted and immediately tendered his resignation, when he learned that President Woodrow Wilson had given to the newspapers of this country diplomatic information before consult ing him. In this connection, the following cabled information from London will prove to be interesting: London, March 24.—The house of commons was astonished when informed today by Francis Dyke Ackland parliamentary under secretary for foreign affairs, that the British government had been left to glean from the newspapers its only knowledge of the change in the American government's attitude toward the Chinese regime. Under Secretary Ackland, who spoke for Sir Edward Orry, said that as late as March 2 the American Minister at Putin, acting on the instructions of his government, joined the "Friends, I am as you know a are looking to the future. In this Ministers of the other six powers in presenting to China proposals regarding the loan. He continued: "The British government has since then had no intimation of any kind from the government of the United States that the American official attitude toward the Chinese loan has undergone a change, and I have no information about the matter except what I have read in the newspapers." The following comment will prove to be interesting: State Department officials were surprised yesterday to learn that there had been comment in the British house of common on the failure of the British foreign office to receive official notice of President Wilson's announcement of policy toward the proposed six-power loan to China. Assistant Secretary Adee, acting head of the Department in the absence of Secretary Bryan, said there was no reason for giving official notice to any foreign government; that the attitude of the government toward this proposition was a matter between President Wilson and the group of American bankers concerned. The President, he said, had told the bankers that the administration would not request them to continue their negotiations for a share of the loan, and that ended it as far as this government was concerned. People of the announcement, however, could send to the American Minister to China and to the American representatives to the five other powers interested for their information. At the White House yesterday it was said that a copy of the President's statement had been sent to the State Department, and it had been assumed that whatever diplomatic action might be necessary would be taken by the department. On the day the statement was issued, Secretary Bryan had started on his Western trip Huntington Wilson, then Assistant and Acting Secretary, sent in his resignation upon learning of the statement, and quit the department the next day. The statement has been raised in Washington since the administration's new policy toward the loan was announced, whether the Taft ad ministration had taken any official cognizance of the loan. Persons familiar with State Department procedure, however, declared last night that there had been official participation in the preliminary conferences in Peking. Even a tyro in foreign diplomacy should be able to observe that the State Department is being grossly mismanaged and that the actions of the previous administration and the records thereof have been neither scanned nor studied. Secretary of State William J. Bryan should be thoroughly familiar with the acts of Secretary of State Philander C. Knox and he should either stand by his policy or officially repudiate it. It begins to look as though the Department of State is entering upon a series of "Comedy of Errors" and if the published statements are to be accredited, President Wilson is the chief offender. MANY OFFICE SEEKERS. Bishop Alexander Walters, after establishing temporary headquarters in Washington for two weeks has abandoned the same and returned to his home in New York. The Washington, D.C. Post's statement in its issue of the 25th inst., may tell the reason. It says: So much has been said about the multitude of Democrats who have been seeking jobs under the Wilson administration that it is reassuring to learn that only one person out of every 47 who voted the Democratic ticket has asked for reward in the form of public office. The percentage of unselfishness is pretty large for politics. It is one of the axioms of politics that for every person appointed to office at least ten enemies are made. There are on file at the ten executive departments of the government 131, 153 applications for jobs, according to a computation recently made. Only 10,324 jobs are available and when all these have been filled there will be 121,146 disappointed applicants. Still, there is no reason for the administration, he discouraged. There are more than 6,000,000 other persons who voted for President. Wilson who have naked for no jobs, and who will view the failure of the 121,146 to obtain office with a spirit of complete resignation. Bishop Wallers' candidates are on this list. We shall have a practical demonstration of "Many are called; but few are chosen." Only about seven per cent. of the office-seekers can be appointed to office. The outlook is gloomy. DR. WALDRON'S DECLARATIONS. Rer. J. Milton Waldron, D. D., of Washington, D. C. lectured in this city at the Third St. A. M. E. Church last Tuesday night. He was the guest of the Dunbar Literary and Historical Society. His subject was "The Political Emancipation of the Colored Man. Why and How?" Dr. Waldron is President of the National Independent Political League which organization supported the Democratic candidates during the last presidential campaign. This able leader made some statements of facts, which no one having a respect for truth would care to deny. He said: Southern colored, men, born in Virginia and brought up in the South. I believe in the white people of the South; they are as a class, our best friends in everything essential except politics; they will do business with us as no other white men will; they help us build our churches and school houses, bury our dead and take care of our skel and aged ones; we buy our homes and aid us in buying our homes and in getting a start in business. The white.bankers and merchants in the South readily lend us money, cash our checks, sell us their goods on time, defend us when in trouble and sympathize with us when in distress; why should we remain the political enemies of these people? Common sense, our own interests and the Bible—all teach the colored men of this country the duty of making friends along every right line with the people among whom they live, and I for one have been teaching this doctrine to our people for forty years. When I lived in Florida I advocated this doctrine and set my people the example by voting for the best men running for office whether they were Democrats, Socialists, Prohibitionists, Populists or Republicans. "As I see it this is the only course open to a Christian—white or black. God commands his children to be lovers of good men and that means that they are to vote for good men, it matters not to what party they belong." We can see no objection to this position based as it is upon common sense. It is the supporting of competent men, rather than incompetent political parties. He said further: "I am not a Democrat. I never have been a Democrat, and I am not advising our people as a race to become Democrats, but to be independent in politics, and divide their votes with every existing party which stands for equal rights and opportunities for all the people." This sounds "mighty good" to the average colored man who wishes to vote for a Democratic white man without being chargeable with being a Democrat, but how does it dovetail with the position of Chief R. N. Wood of Tammany Hall United Colored Democracy and that of Bishop Alexander Walters. President of the National Democratic League? What we desire to know is, how can the distinguished pulpitcher and leader square his actions with his statement? Does the Democratic Party as now constituted and managed stand "for equal rights and opportunities for all the people"? It may be that President Woodrow Wilson stands on this platform, and if he does, then Dr. Waldron is justified in supporting him. The action of those pioneers of ability in politics is still open to question and the action of a Democratic President, Vice President, Senate, and House of Representatives alone can furnish proof of the correctness of Dr. Waldron's contention. To our mind, he and his organization are traveling with a loose rein and in detachable harness, ready at any campaign to automatically unhitch from one political wagon and hitch again to another. This is a unique position and the policy adopted can easily be explained along lines which will not result in a sacrifice of principle. But Bishop Walters is enlisted in the Democratic army, and he cannot desert his post without meriting the contempt visited upon a renegade. Chief Wood, too, is carrying Democratic colors as a seasoned veteran and these two were supporting the Democratic nominees from a different standpoint, far removed from the one occupied by this able theologian. Dr. Waldron can speak in the hotbeds of Republicanism without sacrificing his racial standing. Dr. Waldron said: "To have the colored people become solidly Democratic would be just as bad as to have them remain solidly Republican. "I believe the disfranchisement of our people in most of the Southern States is more largely due to their want of wisdom in the use of the franchise than to any other thing, or all other things combined. The white people of the South tried for many years to get the colored people to vote with them, but try as they might, they did not succeed, so they decided that they would put the Negro voter out of business since he was determined all the time and everywhere, as it appeared to them, to be their political enemies. I do not say this was right, but I do mean to say the colored man brought upon himself his own disfranchisement by being solidly Republican all the time and in all elections." Whether the colored citizens were right or were wrong to stand by their friends, time alone, and the Good Shepherd alone can determine. Surface it to say that this fidelity to Party has awakened an admiration for them among every "true blue," honest, liberty-loving Democrat in the Southland. Colored men faltered only when they were deceived and deserted by certain Northern Republicans for whom they had suffered, bled and died. Standing today in the full glare of the Twentieth Century progressiveness, we would not have it otherwise. The colored men have the reputation of having been true and faithful to the Southern master and true and faithful to the Northern emancipator. History of both sections will sing the praises. The past is gone. We are looking to the future. In this age of the people in many countries, expedient to treaty, give us the black man's sympathy, square dealing, be the man what it may. Rev. Dr. Waldron declares that the colored people have nothing to fear at the hands of President Woodrow Wilson. He comes from the higher type of Virginians and we agree with Dr. Waldron's statement. But what about President Wilson's Party? Can he control the wave of race prejudice which is now sweeping over the country? Can he block and prevent the agitation of Negro-hating legislation, the very discussion of which will tend to arouse the bitterest racial antagonisms? We shall wait and see. If Dr. Waldron, Bishop Walters and their followers can check all of this, and effectually stamp out the antagonism to our progress along political, commercial and industrial lines, then this new movement and this new "gospel" will not have been in vain. Residence Section of Nebraska Town Swept by Wind and Fire—Troops Guard Rulns—Many Killed or Injured at Other Places. Fully 100 persons were killed, 200 badly injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property was destroyed by the tornado which swept through Omaha, Neb., and its suburbs in a path four to six blocks wide and more than eight miles long. The streets are filled with wreck age of houses, uprooted trees and tangled electric wires. Street car movement is impossible, wagon and automobile travel almost so. More than 150 residences were destroyed and 250 badly damaged. The list of dead, although already a long one, is believed by those who have been over a good part of the devastated territory to be but a be glinning. Fire, which broke out in many of the wrecked buildings, added to the horrors of the situation. All fires have been put out. The first and main storm struck Ralston, three miles west of South Omaha, and moved in a northeasterly direction through the city of Omaha. The only point at which the force of the storm struck the business section was Twenty-North and Lake streets. Here the Diamond theater, a moving picture concern, well filled, was wrecked. According to the beat available figures at least thirty of the patrons were killed. Between forty and fifty more were killed in the wreck of a pool hall nearby, which was patronized by negroes. The well defined path of the storm ended at Carter lake, near the Mississippi river, north of the city. Fire broke out in the ruins and wrecked buildings. The fires burned themselves except in instances where flames were brought under control of volunteer "bucket brigades." The second storm swept across the Missouri river, doing considerable damage in Counsel Bluffs. Figures compiled place the number of known dead in Council Bluffs at nine, with a score injured. Omaha's suburbs suffered heavily from the storm. Ralston, southwest of Omaha, was raked and a half score or more are dead. East Omaha, which felt the tail of the "twister," reported houses demolished, but no lives lost Council Bluffs, lowe, suffered nine dead, a score or more injured and great damage to property. The worst damage was done and the largest toll of lives was exacted in the western part of Omaha and in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth and Lake streets, and from there northeast to Sixteenth and Blinney streets. This is the residence portion of Omaha, and the destruction wrought was great. Whole blocks of houses were picked up and danked into a shapeless mass. Street cars were hurled from the tracks and demolished. From the Field club, which is in the western part of the city, to the Carter Lake club, situated at the northeast extremity, is one mass of debris from two to six blocks wide. Federal soldiers from Fort Omaha as slated the police in keeping looters and morbid curiosity seekers at bay. The presence of the soldiers gives the city the appearance of being under marital law. Ten person are known to be dead, and it is believed the list will reach fifteen, at Yutan, about thirty-five miles northwest of Omaha. Valley Shill, a town north of Yutan, was reported hard hit, with ten or more persons missing and many others injured. Terre Haute Hit Hard. Twenty-four victims of the tornado that awept the southern part of Terre Haute and Vigo county, Ind., have been identified and more than seventy-five injured were being cared for in improvised hospitals. Several more bodies are expected to be found when the ruins of 206 homes, leveled by the storm, have been cleared away. At the request of Mayor Gerhardt, Governor Ralston ordered out Com pany B. of the Indiana, National Guard, to patrol the devastated district and help in rescue work. coefficial appropriated 2300 to start a relief fund. Telephone message from Prairieview, also miles south of Terre Haute, state that nearly every house in the town has been destroyed and that many homes between Terre Haute and that place have been leveled. Torrential rains accompanied the tornado and probably saved many persons, planned under the wreckage, from burning to death, as electric wires and lightning set fire to several parts of the ruins. Schoolcirc: See President. President Wilson shook hands with 1600 schoolkids and teachers at the White House. They were visitors to Washington from girls' schools in many sections of this country and Canada. Mayor of Omaha, Who Is In Charge of Relief Work. 151,154,158 Catholics in United States There are 15,154,158 Roman Catholics in the United States proper, as according to the advance sheets of the 1913 edition of "Kennedy's Official Catholic Directory." "According to the same authority there are 23,239,047 Roman Catholics under the protection of the United States flax. This latter figure includes the 7,131,983 Catholics in the Philippines, the 999,539 in Porto Rico, the 11,510 in Alaska, the 42,168 in the Hawaiian islands and the 999 in the canal zone. The figures in this directory are supplied by the Catholic bishops and the chancellors of the dioceses concerned. There are 14,312 Catholic churches in continental United States, 8903 of which have resident priests, the other 4809 being mission churches. There are 37,945 Roman Catholic priests, three cardinals, eleven active archbishops, three titular archbishops, 101 bishops, two archbishops and fifteen abbots in the United States." 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 Mito Boxes and envelopes already distributed, which will be called for by a committee wearing a badge containing the name of the Contributions can be sent directly to Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart, 1051 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 "Childrens Home" badge. This work is approved by Gov. Mann Mayor Ainsale, Dr. J. T. Martin, Rev. James Buchanan, Judge Richardson and a "Committee of Ladies." The work is also enforced by the Colored Ministera' Conference of the City. The following compose the Colored Committee for collecting Funds Committee for soliciting Funds: Mrs. Rebecker. Violet Crawford, Mrs. Rebecker. Violet Crawford, G. Thompson. Mrs. Mattie Mrs. Hartlett Page. Mrs. H. R. John sons. Mrs. Agna Hunter. Will you be one of the two thousand to contribute $1 or more? If so, please forward it to Mrs. J. C. Stewart. 1021 West Grace street. We thank the Public School Children or has offered an offering. have received our dividend contribution list, Dr. R. R. Jones. $5.00 and Mr. Nelson Williams. $2. WHO WILL BE NEXT? COLORED PAPER MARK We are the largest manufacturer of colored people's hair. We make wigs, switched, brunette, transformations and all styles of hair that can comb the same as your own hair. We also sell straightening combs, tapered and cut hair by the pound. Our hair is allotted a spotlighted appearance. Find the most stump and we will send you absolutely free our Illuminated Curling Agenda Wanted. BUMASHA HAIR COMPANY, Bever, D, 32 Dune St. N, Y, Y. City. Agricultural & Mechanical COLLEGE. STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR COLORED TEACHERS of Both Sexen. 14th Annual Session will begin June 28, 1918 and continue five weeks. Board, Lodging and fees for the entire session $14. 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J., probably were shot to death before the blaze. Examination of their bodies was made by Coroner Stultz, of Gloucester county, and the coroner's physician Dr. Dumfeld. Part of Wharton's heart was shot away, and the top of his head either had been blown or burned off. The woman had been shot through the back with a gun. Three ribs were broken. A flattened bullet was in the child's brain, a lung was punctured, ribs were caved in, and the body crushed. Hemphill had a bullet in his heart and the body was riddled with gunshot. Both Hemphill and Mrs. Wharton were wounded in a way to indicate that the assailant had stood above them when he fired. The officials have two theories. The first is that Wharton, enraged to the point of insanity by the belief that Hemphill had been too attentive to his wife, attacked the man, bringing on a gun duel in which the woman and child were either purposely or accidentally shot. The other theory is that burglars broke into the farmhouse, were surprised at their work, shot the occupants of the little dwelling and then set the place on fire to cover up the crime. Had there been a duel between Wharton and Hemphill, the fire might have been started accidentally by the men in their struggle overturning a stove. Or a chicken incubator in the kitchen might have exploded, the investigators point out. Mrs. Wharton and the child, fragments of a night dress still clinging to the girl's charred body, were found under a twisted heap of bedsprings. Wharton was found in that part of the cellar which had been under the dining room. Hemphill's body was found under what had been the kitchen. Hemphill was dressed, and, from his position, apparently had been trying to get out of the kitchen door when the collapse came. The barrel of a 22-calliber rifle and the double barrels of a shotgun, containing a recently exploded cartridge were found in the cellar. About the middle of last week Hemphill announced that he was going in to Williamstown on Saturday. On the afternoon of that day Mrs Wharton and Hemphill drove in to Williamstown in Wharton's carriage. Wharton was noticed about his place in the afternoon, although it had been said that he had been observed in Williamstown. Still another rumor had it that Wharton told his wife at noon Saturday that he was going to New York and would not be back until Sunday night. There are some who say that Wharton was seen to alight from a late train at Williamstown Saturday night. Marshall Scoffs at Business Fear. Vice President Marshall, who is in Boston, is not worrying about the business outlook. "That score has got to stop," he said, "and stop soon. This country won't stand for it. "A man came to me the other day in Washington and said: 'Mr. Marshall, I'm one of a group of men who represent $75,000,000 which is waiting to be invested.' 'What are you waiting for?' I asked. "He said: 'We're waiting for congress—to see what congress is going to do.'" "I said: 'Well, if I had my way, I'd see that $75,000,000 baked, boiled and fricasced and shoved down the throats of the men who own it. Capital that can't stand a square deal isn't much good to anybody. Capital that has no initiative isn't much good, and capital that wants government assistance in its investment isn't much good to the country." "We might well face this scarce business now as any time. It was bound to come, any way. It won't amount to anything, for this country prosperity is do too solid a bag to be easily scared." The intricacies of parliamentary law are bothering Vice President Marshall more than the problem of tariff revision. The vice president, who spent the day in Boston, told callers of his troubles as presiding officer of the United States senate. "So far as I know," he said, "I'm the only person except Mr. Roosevelt, to occupy the vice presidency without previous national legislative experience. I do not know very much about parliamentary procedure and often I am afraid that my ignorance of subject may cause me trouble." retary in the absence from Washington of Secretary Bryan, has resigned and insisted upon immediate acceptance. The resignation is based upon his radical difference of opinion with the administration regarding its Chinese policies. President Wilson immediately accepted the resignation. Mr. Wilson consented to do so to accommodate Secretary Bryan, who desired to make his present visit to Lincoln, Jeb. This action involved the abandonment of reservation which Mr. Wilson had made on a steamship sailing for Europe last Tuesday. The issuing of the statement from the White House defining the administration's attitude regarding the $125,000,000 Chinese loan negotiation is believed to have been regarded by the assistant secretary as sufficient to justify him in requesting to be relieved at once from duty. See Papa Kill Mamma. Angered by a remark made by his wife, George Douthett, Jr., of Tarentum, Pa., drew a revolver from his pocket and fired four bullets into her, killing her almost instantly. He then turned the weapon upon himself and fired the remaining bullet in the chamber through his trample. It is likely that the self-inflicted wound will prove fatal. The Douthetts were eating supper, when the husband and wife had some words. Without warning Douthett flashed a revolver and fired four shots in rapid order, and the wife rolled from her chair to the floor, dead, then the husband shot himself. The shooting was witnessed by two small Falling Knife Kills Man. Roy Claybaugh, aged about twenty-five years, was accidentally killed in a peculiar manner while cutting straw on a stack at the Dern farm, near Detour, Md. Falling from a ladder on which he was standing, he landed safely on his feet, but the straw knife, weighing six pounds, fell from the top of the stack and struck him in the back, penetrating his body to a depth of nine inches and entering one lung. Claybaugh, with great nerve, reached around and pulled the knife out of his back and started towards the house, but when he had gone half way there he fell over exhausted from the loss of blood and expirited shortly afterward. Robbed of $45,000 in Subway. W. A. Hall, president of a magazine company, was robbed in the subway in New York of $15,000 worth of negotiable securities. The theft became known through an advertisement in which Mr. Hall offered a large reward for the papers with "no questions asked." Mr. Hall was on his way from Wall street to the Grand Central station to deliver to a man the securities, which he had just indorsed. He had placed them in an inside pocket of his cost, which he had buttoned, but when he stepped off the train he found that one of the buttons had been clipped off and the securities were missing. He remembered three men had foiled him in the train. Joseph Toblinsky, head of the East Side gang of horse poisoners, or the "Ylddische Cammora." In New York, a sit is sometimes called, was sentenced to the full ten years in Sing Sing by Judge O'Sullivan in general sessions. Smallpox at Sellinaorve Seven cases of what a state health inspector diagnosed two weeks ago as chickenpox in Sellna Grove, Pa., have proved to be smallpox. All places of public resort have been closed and the town is isolated. A free dispensary has been established. Gas Wipes Out Family. 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"But I stand ready to assist any one else." "You'd better not fool away your time." "I don't propose to. But for the awful temperature around the pole men could easily overcome the other difficulties. When the thermometer registers hot degrees below zero the lifeblood of the strongest man congeals. He must either retreat or die." "Well, what of it?" she asked. "What of it?" he repeated with a chuckle. "If you overcome the cold you discover the pole, don't you?" "And you have found a way of overcoming the cold. I suppose. It is two weeks since you had a fad, and I was wondering what would come next. If you are going to visit the north pole with a lot of hot water bags strapped around your body to keep your temperature at summer heat let's hear about it." "Being as you are a woman and being as every woman is about half idiot, I can overlook your sarcasm. Your way of encouraging a husband to seek for fame is to be little every plan he originates. Had Columbus had a wife CAKO "THE MUST KEITH BETHEAT OR DIE" like you this American continent would have continued to be a paradise for woodchucks. Expecting nothing but ridicule and sarcasm in reply, I will, however, ask you a question or two. Suppose that a man going out in a temperature of 20 degrees below zero raises the temperature of his body 20 or 40 degrees? A. New Plan. "That would affect the cold," replied Mrs. Bowser. "Your head is not filled with sweat after all. Yes, it would work that way, and don't you see my plan? To meet the cold of the north pole we simply keep on raising the temperature. It's the simplest thing in the world, and yet nobody seems to have thought of it. Mrs. Bowser, consider the north pole as rediscovered. Consider it discovered by Mr. Bowser." He stepped back and bowed before her, and the cat came out from under the lounge and squatted at both and wondered whether it was a question of science or monsieurts. "Yes, but how are you going to raise the temperature of the body a hundred degrees or more?" queried Mrs. Bowser. "Just an easy as lifting up your foot. Do you see these lozenge? They contain no leaks than six different redot ingredients, including cayenne pepper. Two of them are warranted to make the blood fairly boil and cause the temperature around the pole to seem like an August day in America. I shall at once consult the government about sending out an expedition. The government provides the ship, and Rowan's lozenge do the rest." "But you haven't tried them yet." "But, I am glad to do so. I wonder if our cook wouldn't eat one and then sit on a snow bank in the back and see how it worked?" After a break in "Well, there are others. I'll find a couple of trump who'll sit at the night for a quarter apiece. I'll run a pair of them in an ence and get the arrangement under way." "You'd pour better well!" she filmed as he stepped for the door. "They want!" he asked. "It's a cold night, with snow and frost at hand for your purposes." be sent out it will have to start in the sorting." "But it will end in a cow." "But it will end in a row. 'It will end in making the name of Bowser better known than that of Columbus. You just keep quiet and let me run this thing.' He put on his hat and overcoat, and it did not take him five minutes to find a couple of trampa who were soiling about between the house and the coffer. When he explained what he wanted and his willingness to pay they both cheerfully accompanied him. As they stood with their backs to the range in the kitchen and hugged eyed the remains of dinner he took their temperature and pronounced it normal, and then escorted them to the back yard. There were snow banks against the fence, and he selected positions and sat them down. It was a keen, cold night, one made to order for such an experiment. "Now, then," said Mr. Bowser as all was ready, "I take it that you feel cold." "We'd do" replied the gen in chorus through their chattering teeth. "That is splendid." I estimate that there is a difference of at least 40 degrees between your temperature and that of the weather. You will now each of you take a lozenge in your mouth and let it slowly dissolve. In two minutes your blood ought to be the same temperature as the weather. In fire you ought to imagine that robbins are singing and daisies blooming around you." The Experiment As Mr. Bowser wasn't experimentin on himself, he discretely retreated to the 'warm atmosphere of the kitchen and took his stand at a window. He had scarcely begun his observations when one of the tramps rolled over and began to kick like a horse tangled up in his harness, while the other sprang to his feet and spat and splattered and couched and crummed his mouth full of snow. "What are you follows up to?" abouted Mr. Bowser, as he rushed out. They gave him no heed. They seemed to be acrobats let loose, and they went through more antics than as if they had picked up a dozen hot horse shoes. It was five minutes before either of them could speak, and then one cooled his mouth with an efelie hanging to the clothline and stuttered: "B-boss, what is a sort of a g-g-game in this?" "Yes, what sort of a g-g-game?" added the other as a snowball melted in his mouth. "It's no game at all. It's an experiment as I told you. What have you done with those lozengees?" "S: a split 'em ont, durn xc!" "Yes, I split 'em out!" "But you mustn't do it. These are to raise the temperature of your blood until it equals the temperature of the atmosphere. If you'd kept on sucking the lazenges you'd have been perforating by this time. Sit down and try it again." Bowmur Is Bested "Bill," said the first as he continued to eat snow and draw in long breaths of the frosty air, "does it look like a cold blooded attempt to burn up the vitals of two respectable gents?" "It do, Sam, it do." "And by burnin' up our vitals take away our appetites?" "That's the game!" "If I was playing my game would I promise you a quarter apiece?" asked Mr. Bowser "It's my solemn, opnynn that ye would!" "That's our solemn opnynn!" Mr. Bowser was about to protest and increase his cash offers when the two gentlemen with burned vitals fell upon him. The three went down together, and Mrs. Bowser, looking from a back window, and the cook and cat, looking from a back door, could see nothing for the next two minutes for the cloud of snow in the air. Then the two tramps detached themselves from the circus and climbed the yard fence, and the household went out to look for Mr. Bowser. There were thousands of traces of him at hand, but it took three minutes to discover his actual presence and dig it out from under the snow. He had been thumped and kicked and choked, but life had not departed. He soon rallied and sat up, and after being helped to his feet he made his wooxy way to the kitchen and thence upstairs. He did not ask what had happened, and Mrs. Bowser gave him a rest of fifteen minutes on the lounge before she said: "I suppose the government ought to be notified at once, and if you don't feel well I can do it myself." An ugly glove, followed by a gritting of his teeth, and it was ten minutes before she observed: "I've told the cook to heat some witch hatz to wash off the blood. Do you wish for any temperature." But Mr. Powser had grown weary of north pole weather and fallen asleep. Right With Us. As a sticker a porous plaster hasn't anything on a bad habit— Chicago News. Nothing to Lose Subbube-No: I'm always pretty sure my wife's been through my clothes during the night--Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Reason. Teacher--And now who can tell me why we should always be neat and clean? Little Lizzie--In case of accident, team--Continent. 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There will be only articles of paper for sale, which will include shaving balls, pantry shelf papers, napkins, flower pot holders, drawer sachets and paper dolls with definite wardrobes. Then they will have all sizes of dolls, candle shades, almond and bonbon holders, lemonade straws (really made of paper) and all the Japanese novelties. The booths are to be decorated entirely with paper, and the attendants are to wear cups, aprons and collars of various colored crapo tissues. Subscriptions will be taken for magazines and orders, taken for place and score cards. Talking of score cards reminds me of a charming little luncheon party given by a friend of mine recently in honor of a bride elect whose name was Rose. The centenary was of bride roses, and each guest had a long stemmed bridesmaid's rose at her place, and the place cards were rose shaped, with "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" done in gold letters above the name and date. Afterward they had this contest, and the prizes were rambler roses in pots, which were set in rose colored wicker baskets. What rose is never seen on a rolling stone? (Moss rose.) What rose blooms in a girl's cheek? (Malden's blush.) What rose can you drink? (Tea rose.) What is the wandering rose? (Rambler.) What is the aspiring rose? (Climber.) What rose is like a popular book? (Red.) What rose flashes in the sky? (Meteor.) Which rose is the principal, feature of a wedding? (Brides rose.) What rose is a vegetable? (Cabbage rose.) Which rose bears the name of a country? (La France.) Which two roses were famed in history? (Red rose and white rose.) Which rose should Americans honor? (American Beauty.) Which rose bears the name of a spice? (Cinnamon rose.) Which bears the name of a city in America and the name of a popular beauty? (Baltimore Belle.) Which rose is a perfume? (Musk rose.) Which is a beautiful linen? (Damask.) Which is a brave general? (Marechal Niel.) Which is the rose of the Democratic administration? (Nell rose.) It was lots of fun guessing the different names and a still greater pleasure to take home the lovely rambler rose souvenir. Another Lenten occupation that is very popular with me is bargain hunting these midseason days. Men laugh at woman's penchant for bargain sales, but where is the man who will not approve when his wife comes home from one of these orgies with a neat little tub dress bought for 38 cents or thereabouts? There is nothing most men dislike so much as seeing a woman look "sloppy" about the house in the morning, and there is no denying that even a pretty dressing sack looks anything but trim unless the wearer has nothing to do but sit still and be waited upon. And few women nowadays, even if they can, are willing to be nothing but dressed up puppets. Until tuil dresses invaded the department stores the problem for the buoy housewife as to what to wear in the morning was a difficult one, but a trip to any good shop today reveals pieces of charming little dresses of gingham in pale blue or pink, with elbow sleeves and rolling collars, costing about $2. Just such dresses as these enable some women to keep the regard of their husbands. Now I am going to sidetrack and talk about the "barometer" girl. Do you happen to know her? I do and she changes her moods almost as fast as the weather has been doing lately and quite as disastrously for every one around her. The worst of it all is that this girl so often stays "stormy" or "gloomy" for a long while. If you are her mother she is sure you do not understand her, and if she has a lover she is sure he does not care for her as he needs to Let me whisper a word of advice in your ear, kla, dear. Don't worry about her moods too much. Behave toward her as usual and refuse to notice that anything is amiss, and play the girl heartily, for she really needs it whether she deserves it or not. How refreshing it is to turn from these uncertain people to the jolly, sweet tempered girl, who is always a good companion! No one minds if she does have a little grumble every new and then at things or is a triste henry. When the clouds roll away there is her nice, attractive face again, with all the good nature is place. You, Elm, are one of these nice, jelly, girl, and I'm sure you'll be the jettiest kind of an old lady, too, is the motion of years devotedly. "No, that victory is credited to Washington. Mr. Johnson didn't retain his seat above the elephant king."—Lyndon B. 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We will also be pleased to Quote you Photos on Suburban and from Old Photos. A Speciality. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER 603 North 2nd St., - Richmond, Va. The cut shows a delightful suit for early spring wear carried out in tan colored rattle, which is a fashionable material and a good one for hard service. Every woman knows that rattle or epope, which is the French for sponge, is a fabric that resembles nothing more than our roughest bath towels. The arrow buttonholes on the cutaway coat is an effect that is modish just now. The narrow collar and shawl shaped reverses are novel, and the cuffs are oddly cut affair. The skirt has sectional panels, with the lower portions plaited. This gives greater freedom of movement to the wearer. There are two main portions of the skirt, which are lapped on the panels, and the closing is made in- THE WORLD'S FASHION MATINE SUIT FOR EARLY SPRING visibly at the left alud. The nillin can be made at either the high or paternal waist line. 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If in haze and an additional two cent stamp for deter- postage. When ordering use coupon. No. Size Name Address Curiosities of Ducks Many of the ducks in Hyde park and Kensington gardens, London, prefer the trees as resting places to the low lying thickets, where dogs and boys might molest them. The mystery was how in a hollow branch twelve feet above ground, and the spectator saw the mother fly up and carry down successively twelve little ducklings in her beak, and as each one was deposited in the grass it waddled toward the water. Of course she must have carried them up to the nest in the same way. Big Letters. Big Letters Briggs—Say, did your wife ever find any letters in your pocket and raise a row? Briggs—She's found X's and V's there, but she always kept quiet about it—Baltimore American. Diplomacy. Always forgive your enemy when he has you down.-Cincinnati Enquirer. There Are Others. "Mrs. Mortimer says she derives more pleasure from the education of her children than anything else." "Yes. She's never happy unless they're at their kindergarten."-Fun. Who Can Tell "Well, I'm kind of sorry it's a girl" "Nonsense. She may be president of the United States some day."-Fun. Ended Life Beside Funeral Flowers Standing beside a floral piece which had been saved since the funeral of his wife five weeks ago, William Welt, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., forty-three years old, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. To End Death Sentences. The house bill abolishing capital punishment in the state of Washington was passed by the senate Governor Lister probably will approve the act. STAGNATION No stagnant life is a wholesome life any more than a stagnant pool is a good neighbor. There must be stir and action to keep things pure and well aired. There must be motion. If forward, we gain; if backward, we lose. Beoma Likely. "Does your husband drink to excess?" "I don't know about that, but I suppose he does. Any excuse is good enough for him to drink to."—Detroit Free Press. It Was Seeked. "Yes, I was out in all that storm. My raincoat was soaked, and"— "But you can't speak a raincoat, you know." Farming. Nothing will take the various metal discoverers which the city and grid like have broad out of a man like like direct and loving contact with the soil. It draws out the plains. John Baworthen. HIGH GRADE JOB WORK We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. We have a full line of the Finest Stationery to be obtained anywhere in the United States. We supply Mourning Paper and Envelopes. THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We have a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manilla Paper, Envelopes. Card Board, Wedding Stock. in fact, Every thing in the Printing Line. COMBINED TEXTURES. This Mode Offers Unlimited Opportunities For Remodeling Gowns the per formatting down. There is one feature of summer frocks that one can depend upon to materialize—that of the use of combination of or more fabrics of contrasting texture and color for a suit or dress. It is not a new idea, for last spring the foreign designers attempted to introduce it, but somehow it did not catch on at that time. There are three really new ideas which have been exploited this season in this scheme of combining fabrics. I CARE AND USE OF SOAP. Buy In Large Quantities, as This Com- modity Improves With Age. As water alone cannot render grease soluble, it is impossible to cleanse most clothes without the aid of an agent which is capable of so doing. The cleaning and solving properties of soap are entirely due to the alkaline constituents, the fatty acids being employed only to modify the injurious property of alkali. When buying soap it is desirable to procure that made by a well known, reliable manufacturer, as one is less likely to get an inferior article. It is also better to buy it in large quantities, as large quantities are usually sold at a considerable reduction in price, and soap improves in quality and durability by keeping. Soap may be used as a solid, or it may be dissolved and used as a liquid. In whatever form its action is that of a grease solvent and purifying agent. It is used in the solid or hard state for strong material without color, when its strength may be concentrated by rubbing it on the particularly dirty parts, so that they may be more easily and thoroughly cleaned. Soap powder is principally composed of soda and water, and as washing soda does not cost more than one-fifth the price of soap powder, it would be more economical for the housekeeper to use that substance with the addition of a little soap solution to the water, which would form a lather equally as well, and the work of cleaning would be as effectual as when soap powder is used. Magic Cleaning Fluid. For cleaning delicate fabrics, this method is said not to fade or injure the finest color: Grate raw potatoes to a pulp, add one pint of water to one pound of the potato pulp, stir and wash between the hands, then drain the water from the pulp through a fine sieve or cloth. Let it stand in the vascular until the fine white starch settles to the bottom, then pour off the clear water, which is what you use for cleaning. The settlings are used for potato starch for stiffening fine materials. For cleaning, sponges with the liquid, applying until all soil is removed, rinse in clear water and iron on the wrong side. For white silk, which may be pummed through the water as through mud, add a very little hexax to the water. Party dresses and white customers clean beautifully by this method. Arsen Trust Man Guilty. Henry C. Preston, accused as a member of the "arsen trust," which revealed by the confession of Arsen the Painter," was found guilty in New York. He obtained the verdict was read. Presented an insurance adjustment, built up by a amount of $60,000 a year, from which he had an income of $60,000. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. Davis and Co., 2912 Chestnut Ave. J. C. Allen, 2107 Marshall Ave. Charles G. Davis, 504-25th Ft. You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. 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The Casino Espanol at Santiago de Cuba, before the capture of the city, was the clubhouse of the Spanish officers and aristocratic civilians. Among other sources of amusement was a gramophone, and one of the musical alps it produced was a great favorite among the Spaniards. They did not know the name of the tune or its composer, but they caused it to be ground out on all occasions. When the American flag was raised in the town they heard with amazement the same air played by the regimental band of the Sixth United States cavalry and were informed when they asked that it was "The Star Spangled Banner." L. Johnson, RISON ST. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. F EVERY DESCRIPTION. Rath Badges A Specialty. Free of Cost or Obligation. Fun at WASHINGTON PARK. GREAT FREE GUESSING CONTEST. FOR OUR COLORED PEOPLE. APRIL 3rd and 4th. CASH PRIZES GIVEN AWAY FREE!!! $50.00 "IN GOLD" $50.00 HOW TO REACH WASHINGTON PARK: Take Ginter Park Car, get off in Ginter Park at Chamberlayne Avenue and Laburnum Avenue, walk three blocks East and one block North and you will see the big sign on the property. Widow of Rear Admiral, Who Is Charged With Murder. THE WOMAN Mrs Jennie May Eaton, widow of Rear Admiral Joseph W. Eaton, U S N. retired, was arrested in Hingham. Maa. charged with the murder of her husband, whose recent death under myterious circumstances has been under investigation. District Attorney A. F. Barker announced the arrest in the following statement. "Mrs. Eaton is under arrest, charged with the murder of her husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton. "Admiral Eaton did not die a natural death. This fact was communicated to me on March 10 by Professor Whitney in a preliminary verbal report, and has been known to the officers working on the case since that time. "Death was due to arsenical poisoning. Peculiar features which are involved have prevented the authorities from communicating them to the public. "We have been unable thus far to ascertain where the poison was obtained. "Mrs. Eaton was arrested at her home at Ansteympl." Rarked in Gaumnia, John Bath hitt, promineth in business and poli- cal circles of Wheeling, W. Va. reported to soothing, swup and wen- into a death sleep. HOTEL DALE ```markdown ``` CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, lo beautiful seashore resort in the ern improvement, superlative service, and refined patronal bath houses, tennis, etc., on pre en to ladies and children. S E. W. This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service, and refined patronage. Orchestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE, Owner $3.50 Recipe Free. 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I think I pwe it to my fellow man to send from a copy in contagious so that any man anywhere who is weak and diseased will repented failures may stop dragging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure ocated in the heart of the most the world; replete with every mode in construction, appointments, age. Orchestra daily. Garage premises. Special attention given for booklet. DALE, Owner what I believe is the quickest-acting restorative, upbuilding, SPOT-TOUCH ING Remedy ever devised, and no cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: DR. A. E. ROBINSON, $895 Luck Building, Detroit Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope, free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. Boy 12 plus Man 28 Benjamin Rake, fifteen years old, in jail in Flemington, N. J., charged with the murder of Harvey Marshall, aged twenty-eight years, whom the boy says he killed because he terrorized his mother. The police story is that Marshall while drunk, tried to enter the home of Mrs. Aratella Rake, and that the boy, after having uselessly warned him away shot him dead with a rifle. The accused had refused to make a statement. Hanged in Meb in Town's Center. Johnson Manson, colored, accused of murdering Samuel McClure, a white man, way uped in Union City, Tenn., by a mob in a prominent street corner in the presence of a thousand persons. --- REMEMBER IT WILL COST YOU NOTHING TO ENTER THIS. Don't fail to visit WASHINGTON PARK either April 3rd or April 4th, and make your guess in this very unique contest. Guesses can be made on the ground only, but not later than 5 P. M., Friday, when the drawing for the school site will take place. Remember there will be only SIX, HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO guessing tickets given away for this free contest and we would advise you to come early on either day as these tickets will not last long. Only one ticket given to each person. You know the early bird catches the worm. Our salesmen will be on the ground all day Thursday April 3rd and Friday April 4th, and they will issue free tickets to all persons over twenty-one years of age wishing to guess as long as the tickets last. Come out. Make your guess. It will cost you nothing. Visit our beautiful park and enjoy yourself. Some day you may live here. THIS PARK WAS BOUGHT FOR YOU. 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 oth 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, arousing 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 ordend. 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 the 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 greeted in darkness, ignorance and stagnation and thirsting for the life of life. Let's not forget these Foreign Mission Board has moved headquarters from Louisville, Philadelphia, Pa. and this should not only serve a convenience to us but as an incentive to greater effort. EDUCATION. Our school at Lynchburg is in splendid condition. Dr. Wood is indeed bringing things to open. He 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 progressive idea and this must be lived up to by the use of modern conveniences and improvements throughout the buildings and grounds. 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 abideth in you, not only so, but providentially the Lord has so distributed you that you have become the special representatives of the State. Drake and others at Harrisonburg Hubbard at Bedford City, Wynn at Crow, Austin at Staunton, Bell at Lynchburg, Jones at Newport News, Moses at Danville, Brown at Petersburg and others at Roanoke, Charlottesville and in the boat 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. R. H. BOWLING, President Per J. H. Ashby. WANTED—A YOUNG MAN, WITH some Business Experience, desires a position of responsibility, pre- ferably in Richmond. Corresponde- nce solicited. Address W. R. W., care Richmond PLANET. WANTED—FIRST CLASS COLORED Shoemaker. Write S. E. MONROE 775 So. 20th St., Phila., Pa. Notice All representatives to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Columbus which will meet in Newport News, Va. in June, 1913, will please communicate with District Deputy Grand Chancellor C. C. Davis, 617-27th St., Newport News Va. or W. P. Clarkson, 783 Hampton Avenue, Newport News, Va., Chairman of Home Committee. SUBCORRETO THE RICHMOND PLANET. 124 East Broad St. --- I desire to know the whereabouts of Bedtle Giles, the mother of Susan Green. She lived in Petersburg, Va. She belonged to Billy Moody. Her husband's name was Henry Giles. She had four other children. Their names were Jogun, Rachel Jane and Martha. Any information will be thankfully received. R. D. DAVENPORT, Nowberry P. O., S. C., R. F. D., No. 4, Box 37. RUPTURE CURED FREE Trial of PLAPAG have successfully treated themselves of home without hardness from work and conquered the most subt�imate mass of the work. For some of recovery is natural, so, no further type of work. 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The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vincuolo Matrimonii 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 the order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. P. P. WINSTON, Clerk J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. To Thomas Tabb: You'll take notice that I shall on the 28th 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 b'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. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. Office: 1215 E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. Send us your society, lodge or club constitution and by-laws. First-class Blacks and Onakats of All Descriptions. I have a Spray Room for BODIES when the Family have not a suitable Place. All country Orders are Given Special Attention. Your Special Attention is eql up to the New Style OAK CASKETS CNS and the New and You should be Wanted on Individuality. Do You Know Them?