Richmond Planet

A VOLUME XXX. NUMBER 23. NEGROES MAY LIVE IN WHITE BLOCKS Judge Elliott, finds the West segregation Law in indefinite—Charge is Dismissed Against Colored Man. Through an opinion by Judge Elliott, handed down today, a colored lawyer has knocked out the West segregation law in the first round. Judge Elliott, sitting in the Criminal Court, decided in favor of John H. Garry, the defendant in an indictment found against him last year, charging that as a colored man he unlawfully moved into"a residence at 581 Laureus Street. The ordinance was knocked out on its lack of definition of what is a white and what is a colored block and the question of the constitutionality of such a law was not touched upon. ATTORNEY HAWKINS' GREAT EFFORT W. Ashby Hawkins, a colored law yer defended the demurrer whila Gurry made to the indictment and Assistant State's Attorney Horton Smith represented the state. The best of the City Council's skill in framing a law to protect the interest of the whites was not good enough to withstand the first attack upon it. The court also does not hesitate to ridicule the framers of the bill when it says that, while the court does not concern itself with the considerations which may have suggested the enactment of the ordinance. It is possible the evident difficulty of securing the objects which the framers may have had in view, that in the endeavor to please certain interests they have overlooked the rights of the citizens generally. SUSTAINED DEMURBER. The court sustained the demurrer, it declared, because there is no such reasonable interpretation of the ordinance now before it as to make amenable to its penalty the defendant who, admitting the facts sent out in the indictment, denies any liability thereunder. It is necessary, said the court, that when it is proposed to make criminal an act not so at common law it must be defined and limited in such a way that there shall be no doubt as to what is meant by the provisions of the prohibition. Therefore, a "colored block" and a "white block" must be defined beyond possible dispute. The law merely says it is unlawful for any colored person to move into or use as a residence any house situated in a block used as a residence "in whole or in part by white persons." The phrase "in whole or in part" is, therefore, the limiting or defining clause, and as such is not held by the court to be definite o-nough. A RIDICULOUS PROPOSITION "It is needless to remark," said the court, "that the same block could be, as a great many blocks now are, occupied at the same time in part by colored persons and in part by white persons and by the law it would then be unlawful for either white or colored persons to move into or remain in the block. So that every block in the city containing at the present time both white and colored persons would become depopulated upon any enforcement of the ordinance. When then by definition of the ordinance a block can be at the same time both a white block and colored block, it would seem unnecessary to say that the ordinance is invalid and unenforceable to punish either white or colored persons."—Baltimore Star, April 24, 1913. DRAKES BRANCH (VA.) NEWS. R. G. D. Leak preached a vory impressive sermon at Wheeler Prophterian Church Sunday to a large congregation. All felt benefited by turning out. The high school building at Charlotte C. H. will soon begin. It is under the skillful management of Rev. Leak and plans are to open school in it rather than the church the coming Fall. Willie Wilson, son of Mrs. Francis Gaines of this place, whose home is in Dayton, Ohio cannot be heard from since the recent disaster in that city. He had lived there a number of years and was employed in an automobile shop. Any information concerning him will be gladly received by Mrs. Gaines. The teachers' examination commenced here last week and many applicants as well as old teachers were examined. Claims Ten Million Dollars Hon. John Phillips, the distinguished Englishman and patron of The Anglo-American Finance Corporation of this city, who has been in Holland and sailed recently for this country has succeeded after two years labor in having the British government take up the matter of a ten-million dollar, loan made to Guatemala by the British capitalists which he represents. Mr. Phillips will soon be in Richmond again. The matter will prove to be of special interest at this time. The following telegraphic report to the New York Sun explains itself: Washington, April 28.—Guatemala made an appeal to-day to the United States against British reprisals for non-payment of debts. This appeal puts squarely before President Wilson the necessity of deciding whether he will stand between the debtor Central American republics and their foreign creditors or turn them over to Europeans and let the latter do as they please. Guatemala's appeal for help was made by Minister Mendez and Antonio Bates Jauregny special envoy to the United States for the Presidential inauguration and other matters, notably the negotiation of a loan. They informed acting Secretary of State Moore that Great Britain had delivered to their President, Manuel Astrada Cabrera, an ultimatum demanding immediate action. The British demand is in effect that the Guatemalans take some steps at once to settle the long outstanding indebtedness to British subjects or else for trouble from the British government after May 1. The appeal of the Guatemalan representative was that the United States Government take up the matter with Great Britain and prevent the humiliation of Guatemala by her creditor. The Guatemalans believe the United States should do this for them under the Monroe Doctrine, and to prevent Great Britain from establishing herself in a Central American country through the collection of debts. The situation involved in the appeal of the Guatemalans for help against Great Britain is one of the most notorious of all the financial histories of the little Southern republic and it is one which has been a cause of constant concern to the Government of the United States and Great Britain for many years. Guatemala owes more than $10,000,000, including principal and interest in a years, on her foreign debt alone the bonds of which are held in London. In 1895 Guatemala floated these bonds to pay off her debts and guaranteed the interest by levying a special tax of $1.50 mquintal on coffee exportation. This interest was paid for three years, but not since December, 1898. Likewise the coffee tax, which was fixed irrovocably, has frequently been changed, and it has also been pledged to secure other financial obligations. The British Government for years has been pressing on the Guatemalan Government the necessity of making a settlement. The United States has assisted the British Government in these representations and has several times interfered with Great Britain on behalf of Guatemala. This interference has been the result of promises made by Guatemala that a loan would be negotiated in an amount sufficient not only to pay off the British claims, but also to reform the currency and pay for certain much heeded public works. For more than three years this has been the status of the situation, the United States keeping British hands off by assuring that Government that Guatemala was about to make a new loan. Proposals for a loan were laid before Guatemala in 1910 by G. W. Young and Co., J. W. Sellgman & Co., and Minor C. Keith, all of New York, but no loan contract has been signed after three years of dickering. As a result of this long delay in the face of repeated promises that the loan would be negotiated, charges have been made that Guatemala has been acting in bad faith and that President Cabrera did not intend to make any loan or meet his Government's obligations as long as he could play the United States and Great Britain against each other. The Taft Administration became wearied by Guatemala's repeated de faults and delays. This was made clear in Mr. Taft's message to Congres last December, when he wrote that if the Guatemalan Government did not take advantage of the way open to her to satisfy the just British claims "it may become impossible for the Government of the United States to escape its obligations in connection with such measures as may become necessary to enact justice to legitimate foreign claims." This was interpreted in Guatemala as a threat that if a loan was not made and the financial finances reorganized the United States would cease to stand as a buffer between Guatemala and her long suffering creditors. Great Britain this time apparently is intent upon drastic action in the event or further delay. Rev. N. S. Morris Returned to Third Street A. M. E. Church. Rev. S. S. Morris has been returned to the pastorate of Third St. A. M. E. Church for another year to the defight of his parishoners and the citizens of Richmond generally. During the past week Rev. Morris attended the annual meeting of the Missionary Board of the A. M. E. Church in New York City as the representative of the Second Episcopal District. ($27,000) Twenty-seven thousand dollars were reported by the Missionary Secretary, collected by the Department the past fiscal year. Appropriations were made for the work in South and West Africa, West Indies, South America and the home missionary fields. Rev. S. S. Morris was placed on the Executive Board, for a term of four years. Mrs. S. S. Morris, one of the delegates to the Rose Bud Convention of the Grand Fountain, U. O. T. R., which recently met in Norfolk has returned after a two weeks' stay in Norfolk and Portsmouth, visiting relatives and friends. The Fifth St. Baptist Church Chef will present to the citizens of Richmond. Madame Sivilla Ellen Briggs, a star Soprano of Louisville, Ky. at Fifth St. Baptist Church, Wednesday night, May 21st. Lemburg (Va.) Notw. Leesburg, Va.. April 28.—Mrs. Sallie Moton was called to New York very recently to visit her sick son, who was in the hospital there. She returned Saturday bringing him home and putting him in the hospital here. We are in much sympathy for her and wish him an early recovery. Mr. W. L. Jones took a flying trip to Washington, D. C. Thursday visiting his daughter, Miss Mary G. Jones. Mr. William J. Glenn of Fort Meyer is visiting his mother this week, returning on the 29th. Mrs. Sarah Whiting is visiting Washington, D. C. this week. The grand rally that took place at Providence Baptist Church yesterday was quite a success. At eleven o'clock Rev. Dr. H. H. Waring of Alexandria, Va. and Dr. E. D. Taylor, our venerable pastor entered the pulpit notwithstanding the inclement weather. We were with eager hearts to hear him. After singing and reading, prayer was offered by Dr. Waring. He took for his text, 89th Samuel, 15th verse. Subject Blessed are the People who Know the Joyful Sound. He preached a soul stirring sermon. At 2:31 o'clock we reconvened at Sunday School. The whole school was turned over to him and he discussed Jacob and Joseph, causing us to open our eyes. At 8 o'clock we were again at church. After singing, read 36-47 Samuel. Text 719 Samuel. 59-60 verses. Subject, Personal Reflection We were all glad to hear him for we were spellbound one hour. At the close of the service the collection of $12.00 was taken. As it was rally the two clubs had to report with our hearts in our mouths. Club No. 1, $91.00: Club. No. 2, $95.00. Grand total $187.31. Mrs. Sarah Pinkney white on her way to church last Sunday was taken .J and fell on Mr. Richard Stevenson's porch. The Doctor was called in. He pronounced it asthma. It was once thought she could not be moved. Later in the night we secured a carriage and took her to her residence where she was well cared for by her granddaughter, Carie Minor. Miss Louise Helms and Mrs. Jannie Davia and little daughter, Mary B. Helms went shopping in Washington, D. C. Saturday. Mrs. Ada I. Hughes is on the sick list. Raby Day There will be a Grand-Baby Day at Second Baptist Church, Sunday May 4th at 10 o'clock A. M. Friends and public are invited. We have a constant demand for houses and flats. If you have anything to rent or sell, let it with me at once. B. A. CEPHAS. Corner 2nd and Leigh fits. Discussed "Who Gures?" Richmond PLANET, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Editor: I have been waiting long and patiently for a reply to Editor Jones' Inquiry, Who Care? and it appears that no one care since there has been nothing said. But the fact remains that the people in most rural places at once admit all Editor Jones says is true. I want to ask who cares for other conditions that are very humiliating to say the least. We were in a certain little town just a few days past and after two or three hour hours we went to the station to await the train. After purchasing our ticket, being very tired we next sought a seat to rest but had noticed some friends of ours strolling on the outside and when I turned to sit down in the little room marked "Colored" behold the baggage and express had half the room and something that gave an odor very much like bad fresh fish-made it well nigh impossible to remain, therefore nearly all the colored passengers walked around outside. This is the most important passenger station in the county so far as colored people are concerned. We were at a certain station in the Winter to wait the train and the room marked "Colored" was not opened at all. White folks warmed by the fire in their side. Now., Mr. Editor, I want to ask, "Who Care?!" and is there no remedy for this evil? Now we notice you said the Civil Rights Bill passed in New York would grind out Negro Democrats. Well, if our people have a love for human privileges, which some have, it will grind out population for the State as well. Respectfully, the voice from the back woods. E. B. JOHNSON Mrs. Matilda Jones Lald. to Best. The funeral of Mrs. Matilda Jones, who departed this life Tuesday, April 22, 1913, 7:10 P. M. at her residence. 2 W. Baker St. took place from the First Baptist Church, Friday, April 25, 1913, 3:00 P. M. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. dissolved by Rev. S. C. Burrell. Rev. Dr. Johnson preached a very able sermon, using the Christian life of the deceased as a shining example to those who follow. It was mingled at times with paylons. Madam Carrie Hawkins and Mr. Joseph Matthews sang beautiful solos. Resolutions were read from Planet Court, Order of Calanthe Samaritans, I. O. St. Luke, Tents True Reformers, Auxiliary Y. M. C. A. and neighbors. The pall bearers were: Honorary, Col. Thomas M. Crump, James W. Thompson, Robert W. Whiting, John A. Brown, Dr. J. Milton Newman, Jack Hicka. Active, Messrs. Sydney Stanford, Charles Bricke, Joseph Myers, Peyton Johnson, Joseph Ragland and P. H. Smith. Flowers and designs in profusion had been sent by her many relatives and friends. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Mr. W. I. Johnson, the popular undertaker having charge of the remains. She leaves to mourn their loss, three brothers, two sisters, four daughters one son, sixteen grandchildren and many relatives and friends. The Hippodrome. The Hippodrome, near the corner of Second and Leigh St, is a place of beauty. The magnificent building fitted up for the colored people is one of the most palatial ever erected in this city. The electric sign on the front is a marvel of beauty and a flood of light, illuminating that neighborhood tells the whereabouts of this modern playhouse as far as the eye can reach. The programme each night with its many variations is on modern lines and will continue to induce patronage. The management has taken a long step forward and the colored people of this community should appreciate the effort. New President Graded to Preach at Third St. A. M. E. Church, Rev. O. T. Day, D. D., the newly appointed Presiding Elder of the Richmond District will hold his first quarterly conference and preach at Third St. A. M. E. Church Sunday. Dr. Day is one of the most eloquent preachers of the Virginia Conference. It is hoped that a large audience will greet him. Cradle-Roll Day at 8th St. Bapt. S. S. Cradle-Roll Day, Sunday, May 4th. 5th St. Bapt. S. S. 10 A. M. Mothers are asked to send the little ones. On Tuesday evening, April 14th, Miss Hattie Johnson conducted a concert at Antioch Baptist Church rendering the following program: *Singing.* "It's just like His great love"; prayen-chant, "The Lord's Prayer." Duet, "Singing and Trusting." by Misses Annie B. White and Cora Chase; Recitation, Fanny Johnson; Solo, Mr. William Hudgins; Recitation, Ethel Forrest; Duet, Mrs. M. C. Thomas and Miss Annie B. White; Recitation, Miss Cora Singleton, "The Party" from Dunbar's poems; Solo, "Holy City," Miss Ella Hudgins; Recitation, Miss Beulan Johnson; Recitation, Miss Holeen Johnson; Duet, "Reapers are Needed," Mrs. Amy Toliver and Miss Georgia Borum; Recitation, Miss Fanny Douglas; Solo, Mr. Taylor; Duet, Miss Annie B. White and Mr. Wm. Hudgins; Quartette, Miss*Cora Singleton, Miss A. B. White, Mr. William Hudgins, Mr. Robert Singleton, Jr. and Mrs. L. B. Hudgins, Mrs. L. B. Hudgins presided at the organ. NUPTIALS On Wednesday morning, April 23, Mr. Carroll Diggs and Miss Annie B. White were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at Antioch Church by Rev. A. C. Brownley. The bride was attired in a beautiful gray travel suit with hat to matte and white veil. The groom wore the conventional black. The couple was taken immediately from the church to Diggs Wharf and left for a bridal trip. They have the best wishes of their many friends. Quote a number from this vicinity went up to the Wayland Wednesday night to the entertainment given by the ladies known as the "Old Malda" Convention. It was truly a success and all who saw it speak in highest praises of its rendition. It is announced that Dr. Booker T. Washington will speak at Mathews C. H. on May 5th. We hope that every Negro man, woman and child in this community will go to hear him. Let nothing stand in the way. Davenon John L. Forrest who is the most aged deacon on the board had the misfortune to lose his horse last week. Raphael Forrest, Jr. met with the same misfortune two days later. Mrs. Lula Johnson is somewhat improved in that she can sit up every day and get downstairs occasionally. Little Miss Ellen D. Hudgins is home from Portsmouth, where she has been attending school this Winter. The Old Mands' Convention intimated that the unmarried women are on a hunt for husbands but judging from the actions of the bachelors and widowers, they are on a hunt. We don't know when we'll be able to report another marriage but "the signs of the times" are hopeful in that direction (2). The B. Y. P. L. held its meeting Sunday afternoon. It was well attended an unful. The subject was, "Baptist Bible Work." The reader, Mrs. L. B. Hudgins had secured pamphlets on the subject and after redding and teaching the Bible lesson from Nehemiah 8:1-8, had extracts read on Bible needs, Bible facts, Etc. There was a quartette by Miss Beulah Johnson and others and singing by the Cecilia Singing Club. REPORTER Home Improvement Assn. Will Meet. The Home Improvement Association will hold their first public meeting on Monday night, May 5th at Soclock, at the True Reformers Hall. Among the prominent speakers will be Mr. G. A. Weber, Secretary of the Society for the Betterment of the Housing and Living Conditions of Richmond; Lawyer Geo. W. Lewis, Rev. Charles E. Hannigan, pastor of the St. Joseph's Catholic Church and Dr. O. B. H. Bowser. An excellent musical programme has been arranged. The public is invited, come and help arouse interest in this much needed work. John H. Braxion, President; Dr. Anna B. Cooper, Secretary —Don't Fail to hear the Jubiles "A Great Camp Meeting in the Promised Land," by Harmony Quartette led by Mme. Stilla Ellen Briggs, of Louville, Ky. at 5th St. Baptist Church, WEDNESDAY, AUG 2187 I have for sale some very choice properties that will make desirable homes, or sale investments. I invite inquiries to B. A. CMPHAR Corner Second and Leaf. Florence, S. C., April 28. — Whole some and impressive lessons are conveyed to the mind by means of pictures. Again and again the lawyer pictures to the jury the awful condition of an innocent man in prison. And as soon as the idea is planted in the minds of his hearers the learned, counsel points to his client and says to the foreman of the jury, "There is the innocent man." Doubtless many a man who is today enjoying life at home, would have been numbered among the outcast of the world had it not been for the fact that they saw the picture of the guilty in prison. In order that the crown heads of Europe might aid him financially Christopher Columbus pictured to their minds the advantage in having closer connection with India. He Christ pictured the word of God as a seed and likened the faithful Christian unto a sower that went forth to sow. On another occasion He pict red the Jews as a hen and her brood out in the storm. In order to impress upon us the importance of being ready the Master tells the story of the ten virgins who were invited to a marriage. With our mind's eye we can see the picture with five persons having empty vessels and a sad countenance in hearing distance of the marriage. The expression, "No gains without pain" can be applied to the mind as well as to the increase of our flocks and herds. The world is groping in darkness and ignorance for the lack of individual effort in the right direction. Years ago I was in the city of New York. I went by rail but decided to return "ocean-wine". When I reached the pier I found an immense quantity of "commerce" such as dry goods, teas, spices and drugs ready for shipment. It was after the hour of midnight when we steam ed past the Statue of Liberty. The entire afternoon was spent in storing away these goods. But smugly they were tucked away and between one and two o'clock A. M. our frail bark glued swiftly southward twelve hours to the bad. To the close observer almost at every turn in life within reach are to be found valuable information, noble ideas and friendly suggestions. Those are to be gathered here and yonder as the bee gathers for honey, to be stated away in the mind so that we might be able to reason correctly and act in a manner pleasing to our maker. Once I read a story concerning two boys whose picture and employment were on the opposite page. They were sitting down on the seashore on a long Summer day with their little coats and hats in the sand, sleeves rolled up. They were intently watching their little vessel as it struck out to sea. The author told us what they were thinking about. They thought of the construction and durability of their vessel, where would it land, would it reach the shore in safety, would it withstand the storm, would it land on a rock? They watched it, says the pictures until it disappeared beyond the horizon on the bosom of the trackless deep. We do not spend all our time sowing, at a time we begin to reap. After the building is finished it is occupied. The farmer scatters his grain broadcast, later he returning to reap what he has sown. The engine is steamed and oilled, then the journey. The soldiers disciplined and equipped, then the march. During our life time we are found down by the seashore of time building the frail bark in which we must sail. After the completion we begin our voyage. Happily we may return bringing glad news from the undertaking as did Columbus on his return from America, or we may suddenly disappear in the night as did Str Humphrey Gilbert. I was once sailing upon the high seas and before I retired that night I gazed upon the peaceful waters that fondly lashed themselves against our liner. It was approaching the hour of midnight when I was by the angry billows whose purpose seemed to be destroying our vessel. capped billows rose higher than above our heads. I saw nothing but sudden destruction and when at there was a calm At first the sea was there was a smooth sailing. At later the wind shook. Judas, who betrayed Christ has易 construct a trail dark and commenced his journey. There was at once an up- val and Judas was no more. He called meeting for the purpose binding money with which to erect saw church, with the pastor, "Brethren, we must get together." Not long after that lumber was seen on the yard. Then the pastor said, "We are together." What a good thing it is, says the Scripture, for Brethren to dwell together in unity. "The young men of Florence came together and agreed upon the one thing, i. e., the formation of the O King Lodge, No. 127, Knights of Pythias. At the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening, April 17, 1913 a banquet was given. It proved to be one of the grandest affairs yet witnessed in the city. The choosest of the stock were there. During the day the rays of the sun penetrated the boughs of the rosemary. The atmosphere was dry and invigorating. As we moved along we saw here and there a butterfly. At night the glistening rays of a silver moon kissed the sleeping earth enabling the pedestrian to step clear and firmly. The hall was beautifully decorated with bunting. After the guest were seated the toastmaster, Mr. Robert Bowler rapped for order. The following program was then rendered. PROGRAM Invocation, Rev. C. *P.* Taylor, A. B.; Duet, "Rock of Ages," Hastings, Miss Ham, Mr. Buchanan; Welcome Address, I. W.; Cherry, C. C.; "Till We Meet Again," Bailey, Miss Marshall, Ham, Means, Johnson, Buchanan; "Character, The Flower of Knighthood," Mrs. L. Fordham Holmes; Instrumental Solo, "Lorley Seeling, Mrs. E. C. Humbert; "What of Tomorrow!" J. R. Levy, M. D. "Ship of My Dreams" Soloman, H. Brown; "The Young Man of Today," R. M. Marshall, V. C.; "Thy Sentinel Am I," Watson, Mr. J. B. Buchanan; "The Battle of Life," R. J. Wilson, M. D.; Selection, Mrs. J. R. Levy, W. F. Holmes, M. D.; "God Be With Us Till We Meet Again," Assemblies; Benedict F. W. D. Humbert; Reporter, E. H. Webster. INVITED FIRST GUESTS Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Thompson Mr. A. A. Dorkan, Miss Mabel Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Levy. Mr. J. E. Coleman, Miss Ruth Webster, Mr. I. W. Cherry, Miss Naomi Burnette, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Scott Rev. C. T. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Buchanan, Mr. Hozekhlam McIntyre Miss Dorn Powe, Bennettville, S. C. Miss Rumble Webster, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Singleton, Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Holmes, Mr. R. M. Marshall, Miss Charlotte Bradford, Mr. R. F. Bowler, Miss S. E. Bowler, Mr. Ivory Smalls, Miss Ruble Howard, Mr. J. Johnson, Miss H. Marshall, Miss G. Ham, Mrs. Hawkins Brown, Sedalia, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. H. Douglas, Mr. Henry Brown, Miss Minnie Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross, Dr. Tobian Gallant, Miss S. W. Moore, Mr. J. A. McWhirter, Miss Mabel Pelot, Mrs. C. Godbold, Miss Birnie, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Williams, Mrs. E. H. Howe, Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Williams, Miss Eulina Vance, Cape May, N. J.; Rev. N. H. Cornell, Mrs. E. H. Wilson, Mr. E. Dozier, Savannah, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Gates, Mrs. Eula Purvis, Mr. H. H. Perry, Miss Mabel Purvis, Mr. and Mrs. Joe McLever, Mr. W. H. Gary, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Singleton, Mr. Joe Johnson, Miss Lillian Tindal, Mr. Leroy Allen, Mrs Sarah Rhone, Mr. John Buchanan, Miss Mabel Rhone, Rev. and Mrs. M. S. McLeod, Dr. R. J. Wilson, Mr. W. H. Richardson, Mr. Washington Brown, Miss Ella Brown, Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Stratton, Mr. Eugene Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright, Mrs. Henry Melver, Mr. and Mrs. V. Kenny, Mr. P. Smith, Mr. M. Butler, Mrs. W. Holmes, Mrs. Pailton, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cohen, Walters: Mr. Cooper Andrews, Mr. Glasco Davis, Mr. W. Black, Mr. Bennie Jones Quite an interesting, meeting relative to the colored Graded School was held at Cumberland Methodist Church on Tuesday night, April 22d. Among those present were, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Levy, Dr. W. F. Holmes Revs. W. S. Thompson, Willie Howard, W. C. Rush, Lem Mullins, Robert Marshall, Esq., Prof. N. H. Singleton, Eugene Williams, B. P. Scott and E. B. Webater. Our while methodist brethren have begun the erection of a fine brick office on Court. St., West Florence. The city Graded School, colored closes on Friday, May 2d, 1913. Killed Himself. William T. Leibs (white) age 28 years committed suicide last Tuesday about 5 P. M. at the home of his mother 708 South Pine Street. He fired a load of bird shot from a shot gun into his stomach. Death was instantaneous. If you want the best rent collector, Try CEPHAS. Office, corrier and Leigh Sts. Phone: Monroe 588. SATURDAY.....MAY 8, 1913. here. Do you know what my business is? Slaking money." "Yes he makes it himself, out of any old stuff he may pick up along the wayable," said the prince, in a vain attempt to make thawthorne look ridiculous in the eyes of the crowd. "Is that so?" was the American's reply. "Blake, bring in that pot." Blake immediately appeared with a big melting pot on a large iron tray. Beneath the pot was an oil fire. "Now we'll see what my money is made of," said thawthorne. "Give me a Borrovine gold coin?" he asked of the crowd. The senator, who had come in but a few moments before, offered one, but thawthorne said: "No, senator. We want a native of Borrovina to produce the coin." "Now watch this mail, and while it is melting I'm going to tell you something, people," said Hawthorne. "Do you know why I came here and have been keeping under cover till now? Simply because I saw a working good chance to put this country on its feet and at the same time take in a few more millions for myself. You've got one grand little chance here to clear up a lot of fortunes. And you're making toadple of that chance with your silly six for a quarter revolution. I warn you, right here and now, boys, if you carry this thing any further I'm going to pack up, leave you sat broke and go home. "Gee, but I could make a pot of money for all you chase if you weren't so busy with this revolution. And I guess you could all stand having a little cash." Great wealth can usually command a bearing. So can brazen assurance. And the bleed of the two was enough to hold the conspirators spellbound. The mob, by giving ear to common sense, suddenly ceased to be a mob Hawthorne knew this, and he weet on more pleasantly: "Sure you could use cash. You've gotten out of the habit, but you could soon get the hang of it again. The only reason you haven't got money is because you've spent more time on revolutions than on business. That's what you here for—to start you chap on the road to fortune. Anybody who doesn't care to have a plump wad doesn't bother to listen to me. "General," he went on, singing out Holbenoe as the keystone of the revolution, "how'd you like to have a palace of your own, a baxine buggy and a bank account? All that'd be kind of bad, hey? You, Mr. Hotelkeeper, how'd you like to have people flocking from all over the world to your hotel, you'd have nothing to do but wear clothes and count your winnings? How'd all your others like to have steady jobs at good pay and to have this town connected by railway with all the big centers, mililions with fat stock and you follow learning the coupon cutting routine? Break your hearts, wouldn't it? You soldiers, how'd you like all your back hands handed to you and an assistance that there'll be no more arrests?" By this time the Borgovina coin had been meted out and was removed from the amulet and one of Hawthorne's coins replaced it. Then Hawthorne continued. "Well, I tell you all those things are possible in fact, they're all dend easy. They're the things I came here to do. But they can't be done while you're running around in a circle making a noise like thunder wreckers. Out on the revolution and get sense. What's the use of shooting up a lot of perfectly good people and changing one ruler for another? Make Borrowina a real country, not a comic opera land. "Now, then," he resumed, backdoing to Blake, who obediently came forward with the suit case, "gentlemen, here's my secretary, Mr. Rodney Blake. Here. Rod, put the suit case on the desk. I realize what you people are thinking. You're thinking: "All this American's talk intens fine. But how are we going to make money without some capital to start on? Well; I happened to articulate that question. Hard to answer." He opened the suit case as he spoke and displayed to the godling eyes of the revolutionist for the first time the closely wended mans of gold and banknotes. Carelessly he rippled a thick leaf of notes. He angled a thick bag of gold and poured a glittering yellow stream of its contents from one bead to the other. "People," shouted the prince, making his last appeal, "I bag of you not to be foiled. It isn't real money." "In't it?" mild Hartwortha, turning toward the prince. Then he showed them the implied. American coins "Don't that look real?" Just a little bit more realistic than the genuine Borrowin coin, isn't it? Pretty bad, obly, he observed, as the collectors stared, with the eyes of famished dogs who basked a jersey stock. "Real money. And enough of it to buy a dozen soups. I understand the army is in retirement of pay. Here enough cash to settle the hard money of every officer in Borrowin. And I'll make that cash settlement right here and now." A boss of wondering joy from the self-referent contempt of the crowd broke in upon him. It not to raise his voice and continued: "Work will be started at once on the development of your roads, the building of a railway, the world wide advertising of your great advertisers and retailers. There will be good work for the undertaking, money for the se Gina. In short, I'm going to put her gown on the map. In the spontaneous dirt clear up this matter of back pay. Present Ribevolo, how much salary is his pay? "Haven't thousand francs," answered the general, speaking like a man in a dress. Hawthorne with nimble fingers counted out the sum and handed it to the bewildered flummox, taking rapidly to the rest as he did so. "Yes, gentlemen," said he. "all I've told you can be realised. Borrowin' can be made a thriving prosperous nation. But—there's one stumbling block: we must remove at the very end. And that stumbling block is Prince Vladimir. You've got to take Vladimir out for a walk and lose him. Borrowin' will be no good while he's mixing in its affairs, and you may as well know it now." "It is an outrage," spluttered Radulli- ski, who had noted with dazed horror the sudden shifting of his adored masters' hopes of kingship and who now found his voice for the first time. "I tell you it is an outrage!" I— "It it is," asserted Hawthorne. "But it isn't going to be any longer. For we're going to send him packing. Step up, gentlemen! You came here for a settlement of your difficulties. I'm the man to settle them all, as I've just explained to you. What shall it be? Revolution and rule or prosperity and loyal allegiance to his justice? Speak up! Do I pay you your money or do you thy dead broke? Now's the time to answer. Last call for the dining car, gentlemen! Which shall it be? "Long live the king!" yelled one money loving patriot. And the cry was taken up. "Revolution's over!" curtly announced Hawthorne. "Come along now everybody, and get some." SAYINGS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare; and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not. Passions are likened beat to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Cowards may fear to die, but courage, stout. Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. If she undervalue me. What care I how fair she be? Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall O eloquent, just and mighty Death, whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded. What none hath dared thou hast done, and whom all the world hath flattered thou only hast cast out of the world and desplaced. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words: Hie Jacet. IN OLD JAPAN. There, in the dim blue death of day, Where white tea roses grow. Petals and scents are strewn astray. Till night be sweet snow; The lovers wander, whispering low. As lovers only can. Where easy paper lanterns glow. Through streets of old Japan. —Alfred Noyes. Stopped the Funeral. The "funeral" at Zenta, in Hungary, of a man named Peter Hirti proved a sensation. The cortege was approaching the cemetery when the lid of the coffin was forced off, and Peter Hirti, alive and well, stepped out of the hearse onto the road. On seeing him the mourners were seized with panic. When the excitement subsided Peter Hirti related that he had made a bet that he could feign death and keep up the deception until the coffin in which he was placed was taken to the cemetery. The want of air compelled him to force the coffin lid before the cemetery was reached, and he therefore lost the bet. Y10R00000 A teacher in one of the public schools thought she had reason to doubt the word of a certain boy in her class who said he had been to a dental clinic of the department of health to have one of his teeth treated. The tooth in question had been the cause of much complaint on the part of the youngster. When the boy saw that there was decided doubt as to his statements be fully blurted out that he could tell the teacher just who fixed his tooth. "And who did?" she asked. "The board of health's wife." quickly answered the boy. He was referring to the nurse in the clinic. The teacher took his word after that—New York Tribune. An Extraordinary Biography. The most extraordinary biography in existence is neither written nor printed. It is painted. It contains the life and adventures of Charles Magnus, a noble Wizard. Having been calumniated, he determined to set himself right in the eyes of his contemporaries and employed Paul Veronese to paint his biography. The volume has eight pages of cellum. Each has a larger central picture, surrounded by ten smaller, each having its appropriate inscription, the whole accounting the most notable events in his life. Kissing Nobody can get abend by kicking he can to stand will to do it - l'bila depuis l'abbic ledget. FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLET The blouse that is made in lingerie style is an important feature of the warm weather wardrobe. This one is charming when developed in the fashionable crepe de chine, volle or marquette and the familiar batiste and lawn. In the illustration there are bits of handwork that greatly enhance the A. TUCKED BLOUSE effect, but these are not necessary. The blouse without them is equally correct. For the medium sized waist two and five-eighths yards of material twenty- seven inches wide will be required, with ten yards of banding and three yards of edging. This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust measure. Send 10 cents to this office, giving number 700, and it is promptly forwarded to you small. It is handwritten and an additional two cent stamp for letter postage. When ordering use coupon. FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLET Semiprincess dresses will be found in the young girls outfit this season in generous numbers. This one is both smart and simple in effect, and it would be quite easy for the girl to make it herself, and it may be utilized in a great many fabrics. In the ple- THE WORLD'S FASHION GIRL'S PRINCESS DRESS. ture eponge is used, trimmed with linen, and the little chemisette is of daimity net. There is a simple blouse with set-in sleeves and a dive skirt. The dress is closed to the left of the front. For the sixteen-year-old size five and a half yards of material will be required, with a half yard extra for collar and cuffs and three-eighths for the chemisette. This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes for misses and small women of sixteen and eighteen years of age. Bend 10 cents to this office, giving number, TEN, and JET. Then tie the waistband with two bands, if in haste send an additional two cording stamp for letter postage. When ordering use coupon. No. Size Name Address Often Noticeable. Women have no sense of humor—an it is their choice of husbands. Judah. Camele' Hair. Waterproof tents, bags and rags are made from camel's hair, which is plucked out in the spring. Vee Ma a Great World. Mm Bogpoghe and just returned from a fortnight's visit to old friends. "Well," she said to her daughter-in-law, "this world's a queer place, not to my contrary. Out to Ellie Thomas me an 'Henry dressed all up in his best black suit' an 'my new green tailard. An' they went an 'sad behind our backs that we was a tryin' to show off our superiority. So at our next stop a hundred miles farther on, to the Perkinson, Henry wore his old hauback gray an' me my plain brown poplin. An' they said there that we didn't act 'a if they was worth dreamin' up for. It is queer."—Woman's Home Companion. Reem at the Top. Once upon a time there was a man who went a-courting, and he courted a widow. And the widow thought well of him; but, behold, she refused to accept a second chance. "But why will you not marry me?" persisted the sutor. "I love my first poor, dear husband from the bottom of my heart!" wept the widow. "But." persisted the man, "ain't there always room at the top?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Swords and Squirters The scimitar of the Saracens was the most effective sword for cutting purposes ever devised. It will be remembered how, according to the story of Sir Walter Scott's "Tallman," with such a weapon the pagan Saladin chopped a soft cushion in two at one blow, to the amusement of Richard Coeur de Lion. With a straight sword one can make a hack or thrust, but to slice an adversary one must saw with it. The scimitar, being curved and wide and heavy toward the end, slices by the mere fact of striking. Diplomatic Reticence The social reformer was paying a visit to the convicts in the penitentiary and asking them various questions. "And what are you doing here, my friend?" he said to a good looking man in the shoe shop. "Making shoes," was the reply that discouraged any further imprisonment in that direction. What He Really Needed A young man very fond of the girls, but very cautious as to his dealings with them, recently went to a poetical friend and asked him if he would help get up a birthday sonnet to a certain young lady. "Well," said the poet friend, "what do you want me to say?" "Why, you ought to know about what's the proper thing?" said the young man, "something rather tender, but at the same time, remember, I don't want to commit myself in any way." "Well," said the poet, "you don't want a poet to draw up your birthday verse. You want a lawyer"—Ladies' Home Journal. curred to him that he had forgotten something. "Here, boy," he called to a negro bell boy, "run up to 48 and see if I left a box on the bureau. And be quick about it, will you?" The boy rushed up the stairs. The ten minutes dwindled to even, and the railroad man spiced the office. At length the boy appeared "Yes, suh." he painted breathlessly, "Yes, suh; ye left it, suh."—What to Eat Dancester Race Track A race track plays a prominent part in the collection of the taxes of Doncaster, England. It was constructed in 1716 by Colonel St. Lager, and ever since his day Doncaster's famous race course has yielded a rich revenue, amounting to as much as $50,000 a year, to the great relief of the borough rate. Other towns, such as Chester, Lincoln and Ayr, draw substantial income from a similar source, but Doncaster stands supreme in the harvest it reaps from its races. Logic. Tallor-Young Bikini has sent us an invoice to his welding. Shall we send him a present? Partner-Certainly not! That poor chap can't buy any more clothes now. -Chicago News. Called For Blood. "Sandy looks as if he had been fight ing." "He has been fighting. A fellow and something in his presence about 'musicians and bagpippers,' and Sandy sailed into him." - Chicago Tribune The Howler Howled. The small boy was playing cowboy, more to his own satisfaction than that of his nervous father. "I am the Wild Wolf of Bitter Creek" he yelled. "And this is your night to bowl," said the exasperated parent, appearing with a stump. And Willie bowled.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Clothes and the Man. It is doubtful if Uncle Joe Cannon ever owned a milk hat. Nobody around Washington remember seeing him wear one. Next to his cigar, nothing is quite so familiar to his Friends as the type of black soft hat which he has made famous. It recalls an amusing incident that occurred in the old Arlington hotel a few years ago. Mr. Cannon strolled into the place one evening with his secretary, I. White Bunney. Now, it happened that Bunney was always a good deal heavier on dream than his chief. This particular night he was immaculate. A man in the lobby was showing a visitor the lights. "There's little Joe Cannon," he said, audibly the strimmer. "You don't tell me," he continued the visitor, looking at Bunney. "Who is that old man with him?" Warrior Tom War. D. J. PARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Phone, Monroe----2637: RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET----SHOP IN REAR 'Phone, Monroe----2166: Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Speciality. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or tele- phone. Hells rented for morgues and also Entertainment. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Piece or Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but brushes Carriages, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand. No funeral supplies. THE LAST STRAW. Circle Bar Bill We Converted, but His Meekness Had a Limit. In the old Dodge City days the cowboys were hard citizens. One time a travelling evangelist came along and converted Circle Bar Bill, the toughest cow waller of the lot. Circle Bar Bill decided to convert his old companions, and he determined to convert them with the illustration of the necessity and the value of patience and long sufferingness. He hired a dance hall for an evening, and the cowboys all stocked in to hear his discourse. "Now," said Circle Bar Bill, "I'm goin' to show you leather skinned geezers the long sufferingness and patience a man gifts when he is really and truly converted. I stand up here, and you fellers kin heap any indignity on me you feel like, and I won't kick, although C. F. R. R. BILL FOLDED HIS ARMS ACROSS HIS BREAST AND THE PUN BEGIN. you know before I was converted they weren't any cowpuncher on the range who was handler with his gun or his dhines than me Circle Bar Bill, who is now here personally in meekness and lowlines in the hopes of winin' some of you unregenerate sons of the devil to the proper made of life." Bill folded his arms across his chest, and the fun began. The cowpuncher threw potnets, tobacco quids, dead prentie bens and other things at Bill, and he made no move, but smiled sweetly. Then Greater like of the Ox-bow outfit produced an old and time worn wild turkey egg and let Bill have it smack in the face. The egg exploded, and its contents spread over and obliterated that sweet smile. Bill jumped down among the crowd, shouting, "Fellers, there is now gain to be an intermission in this here long sufferin' business until I kick the everlastin' tar outten the white livered, bow legged, chicken stealin' coyote who thrum that egg. I ain't lost my faith in religion none, but they ain't no Scripture that forlids me to whip blazes out a man who would trump a egg like that." Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post Happiness Neither wealth nor rank will insure happiness. Without love and charity and peace of mind you may be rich and great and powerful, but you cannot be happy—Lord Avelybury. Pollinier and the Genocide In "Potted Pelissier" H. G. Pelissier relates that his voice has got him into a lot of trouble. "I remember on one occasion," he says, "being left alone in the house with a brace of camarades belonging to my sister, of which she was very fond. Now," thought I, "I am at last be certain of a really appreciative audience, I will sing to them." So I sang to them. "My sister never forgave me the loss of her camarades. It was the only authentic case I ever met with of killing two birds with one's tone." The Kiss She Sold. They held a charity bazaar in Paris not long ago, where one of the most beautiful of the French actresses offered one of her kisses at auction. The blinding sound higher and higher amid a fever of excitement until it reached 20,000 frames. "Any advance on 20,000 frames" asked the fair auctioneer, finished with pride at the value placed on one of her kisses, of which she had any number in reserve. "Then, amid a silence that was almost painful in its intensity, the dainty hammer fell. "To you, monsieur!" she said, smiling bewitchingly at an old gentleman. "Madame!" was the answer, "I am profusely honored. But such to the go. N. & W. MONTROY A. M., 1:50 P. M. and 9:50 P. M. For Peterberg: 1:00 A. M., 6:35 A. M., 10:00 A. M., 12:00 P. M., 14:00 P. M., 16:00 P. M., 18:00 P. M., 20:00 P. M., 22:00 P. M., 24:00 P. M., 26:00 P. M., 28:00 P. M., 30:00 P. M., 32:00 P. M., 34:00 P. M., 36:00 P. M., 38:00 P. M., 40:00 P. M., 42:00 P. M., 44:00 P. M., 46:00 P. M., 48:00 P. M., 50:00 P. 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M., station and not guaranteed. 4:10 I.M. to Charleston, South Bram and Raleigh. 16:45 I.M. ad—For all palate South. Dawntie—Brown Bram to Adriatville to Adriatville. Knoxport—Davant A station station. 6:30 I.M. M. Atlanta and Birmingham Boston to Boston. 6:30 I.M. Limited—For all palate limited at 9:00 I.M. 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING 4:30 P. M.—KK. Aimy—KK. West Point, meeting for Baltimore Beach, Wednesday, meeting for P.M.—KK. West Point, meeting and 9:30 P. M.—KK. West Point, meeting and Friday—head to West Point. MARSHAL ARTHUR BROWNHOUSE From the South: 1:00 A.M. 8:00 P.M.; 1:30 A.M.—12:30 West Point; 9:00 A.M. 11:30 P.M.; 1:30 West Point; 9:00 A.M.; 11:30 A.M.; 12:30 West Point; 4:00 P.M. Except Sunday. S. K. BURGERS D. P. A. 207 Hart Male Street, Windsor, WI 53031 C. & O. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY A. Daily. - First班 to be Old Pupet. B. Daily. - Second班 to be Old Pupet. C. Daily. - Local to Newbury. New. D. Daily. - Local to Old Pupet. E. 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ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer All Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention. Since Phone. Madison-152. TRACTOR AND BUILDER. CARPENTRY. MICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 000-2637: STREET—SHOP IN REAR 000-2166. ing of Contracts for Building of Job Work a Specialty. OPEN DAY AND WEEK. Office, 3006 P St. Phone Malder. 2337 Residence, 1015 St. James St., Phone, Mad. 6619 Parmphernalla, Material and Service of the Best, Reliable Service, Moderate Rates. MADAME SCOTT, Embalmer for for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. OLD PAPERS JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCHRIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street. (Noor Old Market) MONTBROD VIRGINIA. prices are not for old age, so with madame's gracious permission I will depute the honor to my grandchild," and raising a sweet little boy in his arms, he received his kis by proxy amid thunders of cheers and delighted laughter. Way Out of It. "We are worried about Julia. 'She got out of a skibbed to go to the matinee." "How could she?" "She had to go; she had a ticket."—Exchange. Where He Gets His Orders. "My friend Jinks says he can't catch up with his orders." "Is he a manufacturer?" "Oh, not; just a married man with five grown daughters."—Louisville Courier Journal. Considerate. "Pick you do anything to try to save the professor when he fell off the observatory roof?" "I indeed did." When I saw him going I begged him not to take any precipitate action." Baltimore American Knew Letter "Eryz," said Former Cortossel rec- erdy to his youngest. "you're enting like a pig" "I gavin, you" answered the boy: "you ain't got a pig on the place that kid eat as much as I kni." Chenglo News Our Nearest Approach. "Have you any decorations in America like the Victoria cross, for example?" "Er—or—well. I think perhaps the double cross is our nearest approach to it." New Orleans Times-Democrat. Hard Indeed. Woman I gave you 10 cents last week, and you look as displeasant as ever. Beggar - Well, lady, it's deuced hard breaking into the smart set with 30 cents - Washington Herald. No Romance. "You remember that note I put in the pocket of one of the coats we shipped out?" said the first presswoman. "Get an answer?" requested her chum. "Yes, got a letter today from the man who bought the coat. He in clapped a needle and requested me to thread it." Said the buttons were not sewed on very well." Kansas City Journal THE ECONOMY CLEANING DYING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE. Proprietor. Will Satisfy the Lover on the High Kind of Stimulation. Special Primer We Have All Grades of Good LS quers, Oignar and Robinson. Onl and See Us. H. F. JONATHAN. FISH OYSTERS PRODUCE 114 N. 17th Street, Richmond, Va. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Schedule in Effect May 14, 2011. Love, Bryd Street station, Richmond, 500 NORFOLK, A. M., 8:28 P. M. K., 8:18 P. M. K., 8:18 P. M. FOR LYNNORGAN AND THE WEST: 8:28 P. 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MONEY ORDERS—You can buy a Money Order at your Post Office, payable at the Richmond Post Office, and we will be responsible for its late arrival. EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS can be obtained at any office of the American Express Co., the United States Express Co., and the Wells Fargo and Oo's Express Company. We will also for money new and of these companies. The Express Order is a sale and convenient way for forwarding money. REQUIRED LETTER—If a Money Order, Post Office or an Express Office is not within your reach, your Postmaster will Register the letter you wish to send us as payment to the cash. Then, if the Letter is not paid, it can be treasured if you can send money in this case. We cannot be responsible for money sent in letters in any other way than one of the four ways mentioned above. If you send your money is any other way, you must do it at your own趾. KENKWALE, ETC.—If you do not want THE PLANET sentenced for another year after your letter, you then modify us by Postal Card to discontinue it. The courts have ordered that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are held liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS.—When writing is to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our book. CHANGE OF ADDRESS.—In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent the letter as well as the present address. Eastern of the Post Office at Richmond, Va., special postmaster. SATCRDAY. MAY 8, 1913. Hon. George H. White is being endorsed for one of the judges of the Common Pleas Court Gov. Tenner has the power to appoint. The Philadelphia Tribune professes to know enough about Gov. Tenner's antipathy to the coloured brother to guarantee that the distinguished lawyer's ambition will not be gratified. Well, we'll wait and see. The death of Rev. William J. White, D. D., editor of the Augusta, Ga. Baptist, April 17, 1911, at his home at the age of 80 years, 2 months and 23 days, removes from the field of action one of the most powerful and influential public men in this country. He was a man of stetting worth and unquestioned integrity. His loss to the community in which he lived is great but to the country at large it is greater: We knew him well and we pause to tender this testimonial to his worth, this eulogy to one of the greatest leaders our race has yet produced. Peace to his ashes. --- SEGREGATION LAW UTSET. Judge Elliott of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Maryland handed down a decision April 24, 1913 declaring the segregation ordinance of that city unconstitutional. Attorney W. Ashble Hawkins, the colored lawyer won a signal victory. He certainly deserves credit for his skill in handling the cases. Judge Elliott says: "While the court does not concern itself with the considerations which may have suggested the enactment of the ordinance. It is possible the evident difficulty of securing the objects which the framers may have had in view, has the accet of confusing them not in the endeavor to. please certain interests they have overlooked the rights of citizens generally." This gives up the situation wherever this confessory, and unconstitutional ordinance has been enacted. The further comment of this parish shows that to enforce the ordinance would be to depopulate certain blocks in Baltimore city and thereby destroy the value of the residential property therein. In order to comply with Judge Elliott's ruling, it would be necessary to specify and label every block in Baltimore as either a white or a colored block. When this is done, the same attention would present itself as is observable upon many of the railway trains in the Southland, where one coach is for colored people and another coach is for white people. The carrying capacity of the white coach with its one hundred passengers is about sixty and the carrying capacity of the colored coach with its twelve passengers is about sixty. The railway company is required to haul an extra coach at a loss or continue to inconvenience the white passengers. A colored block in Baltimore might be overreceded and a white block might be practically vacant, because it is adjacent to a colored neighborhood. In this case the loss would fall on the white people who owned the property. They would either be required to reduce the rent below the profit bearing limit in order to attract white tenants or to continue to lose as a result of the experiment. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has done and is doing a great work in battling against these species of discrimination. We have little to gain and all to lose by supine submission. Our protests against wrong should be made in a way to command respect and factious opposition should have no part in the contention. Elliott has evidently given the subject careful thought and we has analyzed it from every legal angle. It is alleged that an appeal will be taken from his decision by the city's representatives, and that other legislation will also be framed in order to conform to his ruling. Either way, the colored folks have the best of the attention, and the white folks are the greatest sufferers as a result of Baltimore city's folly. Earthquake Jara Canada. A slight earthquake shock was experienced in Montreal, Can, but no damage is reported from any section. The inmates of a hospital in the west end of Montreal, where the movement was most pronounced, were considerably excited. The earthquake was felt at Ottawa. Houses were badly shaken, but no one was killed or injured. The dome of the Ottawa Dominion Observatory collapsed during the earth shock, destroying appalatus valued at $100,000. Charged With Cutting Girl's Hair. William E. Bennett, in lodged in the city jail in Long Branch, N. J., under $1000 hall for a hearing, charged by Miss Ella Bennett with entering her home and cutting off part of her hair. There is considerable mystery about the affair, as young Bennett denies having been in Miss Bennett's home and declares he is being made a scapegoat. Baby Washed 300 Feet Through Pipe. Edna Newman, aged two years, was rescued and resuscitated after being washed through more than 300 feet of sixteen-inch culvert pipe near her home in Windler, near Johnstown, Pa. The child was playing near a creek and fell into the water a few feet above where the creek entered the culvert. --- Berry Appointed Collector of the Port. President Wilson appointed William H. Berry to be collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia. Edward D. Hearne, of Delaware, was appointed auditor for the state and other departments. --- Church in Row Over Easter Dues. In a dispute over which faction should take up the Easter collection in St. Mary's Catholic church in Unlontown, Pa., one person was seriously injured and twenty were bruised and This Office Goes to a Veteran. Secretary Lane told Senator Kern that no one would be appointed commissioner of pensions who was not a Civil War veteran. This would eliminate many candidates. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA —, FLOUR firm; winter clear, $415.440; city mills; fancy, $5.500.5.60; RYE FLOUR steady, at $350.375 por barrel. WHEAT firm; No. 2 red, $1.030.1.04 CORN quiet. No. 2 yellow, 63%@ 64c. OATS firm. No. 2 white, 42%@.12c; loaf storage. 40c. POULTRY: Live steady; hena, 18 @.19c; old roosters, 12%@.12c; Dressed firm; cake fowls, 19%@; old roosters, 14c. BUTTER quiet; fancy creamy; 33c. per lb. EGGS steady; selected, 22 @.21c; nearby, 21c; western, 21c. POTATOES easy; bush, 65%@.70c PITT BURGH (Union Stock Yards) —CATTLE LOWER; choice, $8.50 & $8.60; prime, $8.25 & $8.60. SHEEP steed; prime weathers, $6.10 & $8.25; culls and communa, $2.50 & $5.00; lamba, $4.50; veal calves, $9.60. HOGS lower; prime heavies, $8.90 & $8.00; mediums and heavy Yorkers, $15.50; light Yorkers and plum, $9.90 & $8.25; roughs, $7.50 & $8.00. —Theft. (Walter—Dutch or Swiss chenna, sir? Jon—Tuba the Dutch, father. The heir is, since—Fligagee Batter. JOHN MITCHELL Appointed State Labor Commis- sioner by Governor Suizen PETER H. John Mitchell, one of the most prominent labor leaders in America, achieved celebrity as president of the United Mine Workers of America during the coal strikes in 1900 and 1902. He was asked to accept the nomination as vice president on the ticket with William Jennings Bryan in 1905, but refused. Hangman Bungled. Due to bungling on the part of some one, John Harris, a colored man, on demanded to death, was not executed in Unjontown, Pa., with the humanity that is supposed to characterize hand ing. Harris was placed on the scaffold at the county jail, and when it was springing the rope was about three feet too long. The victim fell to the ground beneath the scaffold, and with the rope around his neck, he landed on his knees, where he remained motionless for several minutes. It was thought the drop had broken his neck until he started to rise to his feet. Then the sheriff and his deputies jumped to the scaffold; pulled up Harris' body by the rope until his feet weed clear of the flooring. For eighteen minutes the condemned man struggled and twisted, his contortions evincing the intense agony of strangling to death. Harris shot and killed a colored man last May. Style $30,000 In Brass Indictments charging embezzlement and grand larceny were returned by the county grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, against Peter F. Selas, a $60 a month stock clerk at the Cleveland Furnace company. The company charges that he stole $30,000 worth of brass from it, secreting the metal in loads of junk sold to junk dealers. In connection with the case Nathan Komito, a wealthy junk dealer, was indicted on a charge of receiving stolen property. Selas has been living in luxury in a fashionable apartment for the last two years. --- Friedmann Said to Have Sold "Cure." Dr. Friedmann has arranged for the sale of the American rights in his antituberculosis vaccine for $125,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in stock in thirty-six Friedmann institutes to be organized in as many selected states, with a total capitalization of $5,400,000, according to the New York Times. A large wholesale drug firm is named as the purchaser. It was stated at Dr. Friedmann's hotel apartments that all the plans had been made for the distribution of the vaccine, but that the contract has not yet been signed. All the details, it was announced, would be given out by Dr. Friedmann very soon. Senztor Herbat Stricken. Dr E. M. Herbst, state senator from Berks county, was stricken with apoplexy at his home at Friedensburg near, Reading, Pa., when he was found unconscious in his library. Senator Herbst is still in the same condition, and his physicians say that he will not be able to return to Harrisburg this session, even if he recovers. His condition is critical. Railroads Killing Fewers The Pennsylvania railroad commission report on railroad accidents for the rat quarter of 1913 shows 279 persons killed and 2885 injured on the railroads of the state, and forty-seven killed and 727 injured on trilley lines. Painting Brings $100,800. Thomas Gainsborough's -painting. "The Market Cart," out of Sir Lionel Phillips' collection, was sold at auction in London for $100,800. The price establishes a record for a Gainsborough. Canal Zone to Be Dry. It was announced that no liquor licenses will be issued in the Panama canal zone after July 1. At the presenptime there are thirty-five saloons in four towns. Bryce Starts Homeward. British Ambassador James M. Bryce laid, down the office he has held in Washington more than six years and left for New York to begin his trip home. A man armed with a revolver and wearing a machete over the lower part of his face shielded the Peabody Cooperative bank in Peabody, Mass. held up John A. Teague, the treasurer, and escaped after obliterating the contents of the cash drawer, amounting to $900. HEALTH HINT. FOR TODAY. Deep breathing, Exoralea. Breathing exercises develop the expansion of the lungs and thus increase the girth of the chest. They also develop the chest muscles and in this way thicken the flesh of the chest walls. They will not, however, increase the size of the mammary glands. There is no special method of deep breathing that is absolutely essential. The best form of deep breathing is that sort which is produced by natural exercises. Those who need chest expansion should take every morning a cold rub in a cold room. Throwing off everything first, in the morning take a rough towel and rub all portions of the body fiercely. Industriously. This will produce labored breathing, simply because the exercise requires it. The breathing should be accomplished through the nose. HEALTH HINTS FOR TODAY Boiling water will in half an hour destroy microbes which are most active. A high temperature is the most efficient disinfectant. Not only does a moist, high temperature destroy germs, but it is also a deodorizer. If nervous, people eat lettuce and celery it will soothe the nerves and promote rest and sleep. Hot milk, sipped slowly, is efflencious for relieving the throat irritation that frequently follows a severe cold or is an accompaniment of a bronchial cough. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Foreign Objects in the Ear. When a foreign object has been in some way introduced into the ear do not become panic stricken. Allay the patient's fears at once. The object, whatever it may be, is prevented from reaching any vital parts, such as the drum, by the wax, which catches and holds it. If the object happens to be a bug it is best to introduce a little warm oil in order to kill the insect immediately. After this it may be removed with a syringeful of warm water. Any object may be so removed unless it be a pen or bean or other object which is likely to swell with the introduction of water. In such a case the patient must be taken at once to a surgeon or doctor, who has the proper instruments with which to extract the object. In no event should the non-professional attempt to probe after the article with improvised instruments. The delicate membranes lining the auditory canals are almost certain to be injured, and there are many cases on record of rupture of the drum through this indisction. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Sulphur For Dightheria. Sulphur for Diphtheria. Powdered sulphur is one of the most infectious remedies for diphtheria. Put a teaspoonful of powdered sulphur into a wine-glass of water and stir it. with the finger instead of a spoon, of course first cleansing and disinfecting the hand. Sulphur kills every species of fungus in man, beet or plant in a few minutes. Instead of splitting out the gargle, it is better to swallow it. The gargle alone may be used in the first stages, but where the throat is too nearly closed to permit of the gargle use a quill to blow the powder into the throat. After the fungus shrinks the gargle may be used. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Arm Strengthening Exercises. George Bothner, the wrestler, gives the following rules for strengthening the arms: Bring the left arm in front of you, elbow against the waist and palm turned upward. Grasp the left hand with the right and while holding down with the right draw the left up to the shoulder. Relax the muscles and return the hand to its original position. Repent: this five times in the morning and ten times at night. Reverse the position of the hands and exercise the right arm in the same way. Place the left hand in front of the chest, palm turned outward, and grasp bands as before. While opposing the motion with the right hand straighten the left arm to its full length. Repeat this five times in the morning and ten times at night. Reverse the position of the hands and exercise the right arm in the same way. Wanted to See the President. Dearing 10000, and bound for the White House in Washington to see President Wilson, Nim Abbie Brisman, of La Salle, Ill., was arrested and remanded to a hospital for observation. When she was searched bills are grasped 10000 were found. She is allowed to examine her mission to the White House. HAPPINESS To be unhappy is to blame life unjustly. These who understand this and realize that happiness is of their own making know that paradise is to be found here on earth. It should be the duty of the governments of the world to destroy the anguish and terror felt by living creatures toward nature, life and death. Be happy in love. We must recognize that disillusionment is not always caused by the other person, but from lack of clear sightedness. We must have the courage to be mistaken twenty times and, so far from despairing, disappointment, must understand that it can be useful in educating us.—Henry Marx. SONG OF LONG AGO. A song of long ago. Sing it lightly; sing it low; Sing it softly, like the lisping of the lips we used to know. When our baby laughter spilled From the glad hearts ever filled With music glad us robin ever trilled! Let the fragrant summer breeze, And the leaves of locust trees, And the apple buds and blossoms, and the wings of honeybees. All palpitate with glee Till the happy harmony Brings back each childish joy to you and me. Let the eyes of fancy turn Where the tumbled pippins burn Like embers in the orchard's lap of tangled grass and fern. There let the old path wind In and out and on behind The elder press that chuckles as we grind. Blend in the song the moan Of the dove that grieves alone. And the wild whir of the loost, and the bumble's 'drowsy drone. The landscape fades away at evenfall. Then, far away and clear, Through the dusky atmosphere. Let the whisp of the kiddee be the only sound we hear. Oh, sad and sweet and low, As the memory may know, Is the glad, pathetic song of long ago! —James Whitcomb Riley. SAID ABOUT WOMEN. Nothing displeases women more than an nustere and self contained character. They see that they have no hold upon it. Its dignity nues them. Its pride rebels. Its occupations keep them aloof.-Hippolyte A. Tatne. No woman is so bad but we may relocate when her heart thrills to love, for then God has her by the hand.-J. M. Barrie. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.-Alfred Tennyson. Flattery is their nature. To coax, flatter and sweetly befool some one is every woman's business. She is none if she declines this office.-William Makepeace Thackeray. MARRIAGE. No encouragement should be given to elopements. They are too often the precursors of unhappy unions that end in the divorce court. They are undertaken by very young, irresponsible persons and are frequently due to impulses of the hastiest and most trivial nature. A thing as serious as marriage should be undertaken only after the most careful and deliberate reflection and should be surrounded with all proper dignity. My views about marriage have been criticised as interfering with true love and the spirit of romance. But I cannot feel that to be the case. True love implies a desire for the well being of the beloved. No man who loves a woman's going to ask her to marry him if he understands that their union may result in death or lifelong invalidism for her. But it will take a certain amount of education and regulation to bring home this understanding to everybody. Why should we do less to safeguard the business of begetting life than we do for all sorts of vastly less important business? For these enterprises we require licenses or reputable financial backing. But if any man wants to get married he goes to the county clerk's office wholly unknown there or unwounded for as to character, responsibility or anything else. 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They have cured clinicians and the best hospital physicians given up to die, and said there was living Disease:—Heart Disease, Constricture, Piles in any form, Varigae, Indication, Constipation, Rheumatics of any kind, Oculitis, Bronchial stching scatations, all Female Genes, Carburetion, Bath, Cancer in the life, for instruments, Boston, Fleshles and Bright's Disease of the Hips, so matter of what nature. Specially, foryll particulars, send, write or call Bryan Persuades Legislators to Postpone Action. Secretary Admits Right of State to Pass Law, But Urges That Japan's Trade Be Retained. Secretary of State Bryan held two long secret conferences with members of the legislature in Sacramento, Cal. Even the attaches of both houses were excluded. At the first conference Bryan asked that allen land legislation should be postponed until some committee of investigation selected by the legislature should determining that such legislation was an actual necessity at this time. Legislators who were seen after the close of the session expressed the conviction that Bryan's visit will result in the postponement of the enactment of any allan land legislation at this session, and that a commission from both houses and made up of all parties will be named to investigate the necessity of legislation at this time. If this commission reports that such legislation is needed then a special session of the legislature will be called. Secretary Bryan on his arrival was received by Governor Johnson. He also shook hands with many Democratic legislators who were at the depot to welcome him. For three hours Secretary of State Bryan pleaded with the legislature in secret session to delay passage of an anti-alien land bill for two years and to give the state department an opportunity in the meantime to accomplish the same results of excluding Japanese from the soil by diplomacy. Bryan acknowledged that the pending bill does not conflict with treaty rights, but he questioned the assumption that the people of California demanded such a law. He pointed out that only the Democratic platform contained an anti-alien land law plank. "If the people want this legislation," said Bryan, "why did they not elect more of the candidates of the Democratic party?" Senator Boynton, floor leader of the senate, told Bryan that the legislature is prepared now to pass an anti-alien land bill. "If you have any message from the president," he added, "of a protest on the part of a foreign nation let us have it now, as we would like to hear of it." Nothing further was said by Bryan on this point. Senator Birdsaall, joint author of the bill, said that if the legislature does not pass the bill now before the legislature, that the people would immediately pass one more drastic by invocation of the initiative. Secretary Bryan told the legislators that if they were bound to pass an alien land law at this time that he was authorized by President Wilson to request them to pass one modeled on the Illinois law, which was the least objectionable. Bryan said: Wants to Retain Trade. "This is not an issue paramount with the whole state. It is not a question of immigration and land owner ship alone. Friendly relations exist between the United States and Japan. Commerce is increasing, and the commerce of the Orient was of such value to California as a whole that it would offset present harm by Japanese land ownership." Senator Sanford, Democratic leader, said: "The keynote of the question is one of how to word the bill to suit the people and still make it effective as to present needs—to prevent Japanese from encroaching upon American communities and conserve farm lands for our own people." Senator Boynton, administration floor leader in the upper house, desired that specific objections to pending legislation be pointed out. "I intend in no way to overlook the necessity which forces it in certain parts of the state." Secretary Bryan said. "I have come to gain first hand information and to co-operate with you. There is no question of the power of the state to enact legislation, but I do desire to confer with you with the idea of presenting the national side." Secretary Bryan asked that the leaders state their views as to the methods to be employed to reach any end the legislature deems desirable, and Senator Boynton assured him that the legislature desired his advice in the matter. Assemblyman Bradford, Democrat and author of the first anti-allen land law to attract attention this session, stated the viewpoint of the California ranchers, who resented the influx of unassailable allies in neighbors. Secretary Bryan, in his final speech, suggested four methods of relief for California. One to delay immediate action and permit the state department to frame a new treaty with Japan; or to appoint a commission to investigate all land ownership and act with President Wilson; or to enter a law similar to the six-year land law. Bir Cecil Springer-Rice, New British Ambassador, Arrives. ```markdown ``` NEW AMBASSADOR HERE Sir Cecil Spring-Rice Arrives to Succeed Mr. Bryce. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the now British ambassador to Washington, won the good will of a shipload of Americans who arrived at New York with him on the Cunarder Carmanla from Liverpool. Sir Cecil is not a big man physically, but the impression of his fellow voyagers is that his intellectual height is unequaled by any other man in the diplomatic service and his democracy is unimpeachable. He sat at the table of Captain J. C. Barr, presided at the ship's concert on Friday evening and made a little speech asking for the customary contributions for the seamen's charities. GUNMEN MURDER SQUEALING GANGSTER Shot to Death in New York by Five Men. Suspected of "squealing" to the district attorney, Jerry Malda, known as "Jerry, the Lunchman," met his appointed death on Forty-first street, near Broadway, New York. He was shot down by gangsters, who sent five bullets into his body. The shooting occurred only a couple of blocks away from the scene of the murder of Herman Rosenthal last July, but the gunmen had less luck than the Rosenthal murder crew. Five policemen who were in the immediate vicinity heard the shots and pounced upon five men, whom they accused of the killing. The police allege that the men they caught are members of the Paul Kelly band of gangsters, of which Jerry was an adherent. They say that Jerry had fallen under suspicion, however, and that he was thought to be revealing the gang's secrets to District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. None of the men caught was armed, but witnesses said they had seen them throw their revolvers away, and three of the guns were found in a garbage can nearby. James Jeste, one of the prisoners was severely beaten by the officer who caught him. The police say that "Gulnea Sam," another prisoner, was under arrest two years ago in connection with the murder of another member of the gang under similar circumstances. MUST GIVE U: S. LAND Court Orders Southern Pacific Re turn Grant Land stipulated to be worth $30,000,000, and estimated by experts to have a value of $40,000,000 to $60,000,000, was ordered taken from the Southern Pacific Railroad company and returned to the federal government by Judge Wolteron In the United States district court in Portland, Ore. The Oregon-California land grant case, involving more than 2,300,000 acres, will be carried to the circuit court of appeals, sitting at San Francisco, and later to the United States supreme court for final adjudication. Mother III. Two Children Dead Chief Burgesa Strolla, of Shenandoah, Pa., and Health Officer Haverley Tuesday found Mrs. Mary Ullertil, a widow, very ill at her home and her two children, one seven and the other four years old, died from scarlet fever. The authorities took charge of the case and will see that the children are buried properly and the mother caretor. Discharging the Cook "Well, cook's gone at last, John," said Mrs. B. "Good. You must have bad more courage than I gave you credit for to charge her." "I didn't do it. She discharged her. I fattered her so about her cook that she thought she was too good at play with me, and off she went."—I change. THE OUTLET SCUTARI TAKEN AFTER LONG SIEGE 8000 Killed in Final Attack on Turkish Fortress. MAY INVOLVE ALL EUROPE Albanian City Falls Before a Desperate Attack by the Montenegrin Troops. It is officially announced in Cettinje, Montenegro, that the Montenegrin forces have occupied the Turkish city of Scutari. The loss on both sides was heavy. After a final desperate attack lasting twenty-four hours the Montenegrin troops forced their way into Scutari. The fortress for six months, since the middle of October, 1912, had offered a stubborn and heroic defense. Three thousand Montenegrins were killed in the final assault on Tuesday and 5000 Turks fell. Twenty-two thousand Turkish prisoners of war were taken. Since the siege began 10,000 Montenegrins have been killed or wounded. The assault which gave the Montenegrins possession of the city, which has been the sole object of their war against Turkey, began on Monday night. The Montenegrin army took the offensive along the entire front. They completely surprised the Ottoman defenders by pushing right up to the Turkish positions, where they engaged in close bayonet fighting. The Ottoman soldiers made a number of counter attacks and tried with their utmost energy to drive the attacking force out of their works, but they were finally compelled to fall back and leave their positions in the hands of the besiegers, who received constant reinforcements. It was midnight Wednesday night when the Montenegroins obtained their footing in the fortress, and detachments of the besiegers entered the city at 4 o'clock. According to one report, Essaad Pasha, the Turkish commander-in-chief, recognized the uselessness of further resistance after the outlying key position of Tarakosch had fallen. He is said then to have ordered his troops to cease their defense of the fortress. Another report says that the Montenegroin commander-in-chief had been negotiating since Monday with Essaad Pasha for the surrender of the place. Although the Servian troops did not participate in the final attack, their artillery was used by the Montenegrin gunners, and it is said that to this fact their success was largely due. The act of capitulation was signed by the Turkish commander shortly after the Montenegrin troops had reached the center of the city. Arbitrators Grant. Firemen a Raise. The award of the arbitration board appointed under the Erdman act in the case of the firemen on the eastern railroads, was made public by the arbitrators after it was first filed in an ordinance with the law with the clerk of the United States court in New York. While the firemen are not granted the demand for an extra fireman on engines weighing 200,000 pounds and over and the request that the award be made retroactive and not conceded, the award on the whole is considered favorable to the firemen. The advances granted in the award average from 8 to 10 per cent on present wages, footing up in the ngregate between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000 extra expenses in running the roads, while the increase granted in the arbitration of the engineers' demands on these roads was calculated at about 5 per cent, counting changes in working conditions under which the engineers are able to earn more money. The firemen also won their contention that the rates of wages should be based on weight of loros, olives on drivers. Schwab Gets Bio Shloyard. It was announced officially in Quincy, Mass., that the Fore River Shipbuilding company, which is building a gigantic battleship, nine submarines and two destroyers for the government, has just been sold to the Bothelemh Steel company, of which Charles M. Schwab is the head. The Schwab interests are said to have elaborate plans on foot to enlarge the plant at Fore River and to increase activities there. Experts interpret this sale as the opening gud in a steel war. They say it means that Schwab has resolved to "face it alone" in a defined attempt to smash the "billion dollar steel trust." The Fore River plant comprises shipbuilding and engine works covering 110 acres of ground. The company was incorporated in 1904 as a successor to the Fore River Ship and Engine company, with a capitalization of $2,400,000 common stock and an equal amount of preferred. This makes the fourth shipbuilding plant acquired by the Bettleshem Steel corporation. Its other plants are located at Wilmington, Del.; San Francisco and Elizabethport, N. J. Woman Accused of Killing Father. Mrs. Bertha Hummel Patrick, a divorcee of Tower City, was arrested, charged with the murder of her father George Hummel, of Tower City, and was committed to the Schuylkill county jail in Pottstown, Pa. She admits that she owned the gun with which the shooting was done. Her brother, Edward Hummel, was held as a witness. Hummel was found dead in bed on March 29 with a bullet wound in his head. There were powder marks about the wound, indicating that the platoat had been fired at close quarters. The belief at the time was that death was due to suicide, and a coroner's investigation resulted in a verdict to that effect. Miss Hummel is twenty-six years of age and was formerly married, but is now divorced. She says that on the evening of the murder her father was alone in the house, reclining on his back on a lounge in the sitting room and fast asleep. "I went out to do some shopping with Mrs. Jack Wolfe, and when we returned at nine o'clock we found the front door unlocked, as he left it. In going through the sitting room to open the kitchen door we stumbled over my father's feet, but at the time only thought he had rolled off the lounges. When we opened the kitchen door, found evidence of a struggle, pet being disturbed." Left Wife $40,000 of $5,000,000. W. L. Sheafar, who died in in Pottsville, Pa., leaving valued at $2,000,000, left $40, wife, according to the will Register H. H. Saltzer. Men. Sheafar also receives the annuity of $2000 and becomes the owner or the handsome "Sheafar mansion." Two sons, each left an annuity of $2000, and $2500 is bequeathed to the Pottsville hospital, with smaller sums to other local charities. The fact that all the vast property he inherited from his father is to be kept intact in the estate as long as his brother's and sisters live is doubtless the reason for the small sum loft by Mr. Sheafer to his wife and sons. The Poolina of Ireland. In poplin making Ireland is said to lead the world. None but the Irish seem able to produce the softness of tint and brilliance of coloring which are characteristic of the best poplins. The fabric is so woven that the surface is all silk, while firmness is given the material by wool in the interior. The various processes of poplin making require great skill and watchfulness, which are, perhaps, some of the reasons for the peculiar custom in regard to its manufacture. The Dublin poplin makers will not allow any one to work as a weaver who has not served a seven year apprenticeship or who is not the eldest son of a poplin maker.—Kansas Agricultural. BANK'S CASHIER MISSING Funds of Institution $4000 Short, as Are Those of Building Association. J. Frank Best, cashier of the Citizens' National bank, of Netcong, near Stanhope, N. J., is missing. The accounts of the bank, according to its president, are $4000 short. The accounts of the Muscontecong Building and Loan association, whose funds Best handled as secretary, are short the same amount, it is alleged. The treasury department at Washington has been asked to send an examiner to go over the accounts of the bank. Best is forty years old and has a wife and two children. He has been prominent socially and inherited a considerable estate from his father not long ago. BABY'S BODY IN SUIT CASE Was Found Behind a Fence on Street in Pottsville. The body of an infant, which was healthy when born, was found in a dress suit case by Frank Getilling, a laborer, on Schuylkill avenue, near Union street, in Pottsville, Pa. The location is near a large cemetery, and the body was found behind a fence nearby. This leads the police to believe that it was the intention of the persons who disposed of the child to throw the body into the cemetery. All indications point to murder, and Coroner G. H. Moore is investigating. TARANTULA BITES WOMAN Wife of York Grocer In Serious Condition From Polson. Mrs. George, H. Helges, of 740 West York avenue, York, Pa., whose husband keeps a grocery store, was bitten on the hand by a tarantula and is now in a serious condition. The wound was cannized, but the crown has spat and the ear is in collars. The insect spread from a bunch of bananas which Mr. was handling. Elephant Tosses Marrow an elephant reached his trunk beneath a recess in tent in Oakland, near San Francisco. Cal. picked up G. J. Gardner, a circus employee, dragged him into the tent and hurled him through the canvas walls. Gardiner's wrist was broken, several ribs were fractured and he is so seriously injured he may die. Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Mind. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more is in the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the original can give. The best education is not too good for a preschool pupil. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger? And who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger usefulness? 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"And, what is better than the chickens like me. Why then have got so that when I snuck into the bedroom they all begin to cook. I wish I was in Dixey." —Lippincott's The Castle In the Air The Castle in the Air. Like the miracle of the desert. With its pristine fairy fairs, Like the treasure of the rainbow, In the castle in the air. Diesel put the sentient dionysus in the castle in the air. High your craft should be built, with Know your craft in the air. The Whole Truth When the Duke of York, now the king of England, was making his tour of the British colonies, there was an Indian prowow for him in British Columbia at which several Indian chiefs appeared. The Indians made speeches. The only interpreter was a cowboy who had lived in that country, and who volunteered his services. The cowboy told the royal party what an Indian chief was talking about for a few minutes and then stopped, while the Indian continued spouting "What is he saying?" asked one of the princesses. The cowboy made no reply. "But we must know what he is saying," the princess persisted. "Tell us immediately. I insult." "Well, malam," replied the cowboy, "if you must know, he is asking whether it is possible that little rant with the whiskers ever will be king of England." - Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. Will Against Will A certain proxy professor of physics is so great a misanthropie that he deliberately announces his features for the days when he has reason to think that his students will least want to attend. He commanded their presence on an election day once and drove them nearly wild by delivering a tithouss essay on will power. "If he wills it a man may accomplish anything," he droned. "Let him make up his mind not to die and he will live in spite of disease; let him decide that life is not worth living and the will drop peacefully out of it. I challenge any student to cite an instance in which the power of the will has not triumphed over everything." Up shot the reproducate of the class, a youth beloved by all his companions for his daring humor. "Sir, I accept your challenge. You are wrong," he said. "Pray mention an example," retorted the professor dryly. "With pleasure, sir. An hour ago I willed that this lecture should be brought to a speedy conclusion. I've willed the same thing sixty times since, but up to now it hasn't come off." "Nor will it," said the professor, "for I have not only willed that this lecture should last another hour, but am perfectly willing that it should do so." And it did Slightly Sarcastic. When James B. Reynolds was assistant secretary of the treasury Senator Root sent for Mr. Reynolds one day to discuss with him some matters concerning a trade conference in Paris which Mr. Reynolds had been selected to attend. "I suppose," said Mr. Root, "you speak French." "Well, yes," responded Mr. Reynolds. "I know a little French. I have no trouble to make the waiters and the cab drivers understand me." "I see," said Mr. Root. "But, Mr. Reynolds, suppose there should be no waiters and cab drivers in the conference." - Judge. A Puzzled Author When Alphonse Daudet brought out "Hapbo" an American publishing house that issued religious books, not knowing its character, offered M. Daudet a large sum for advance sheets of his work. He accepted the offer, and he advance sheets were sent. When the publishers received them they deified that they could not issue the out, and they cabled to the author "Hapbo" will not do." This disqualified Daudet. He consulted the members of friends, and this was the motivation at which they eventually agreed: "Hapbo" in French is spelled like his name "-" "Hapbo." after the Greek edition. In English it is spelled with an equally acute friend point. all this out to lander, which much re- flected the novelist, and be called back to the publisher. "Nspell it with two pun." It is goodness to state that the publisher were more automobiles at Davies's reply than he had been at their cable dispatch. IMMIGRANT DISTRIBUTION. The real problem which confronts us is not restriction of immigration, but the distribution of the immigrants. America has not yet been discovered by most Americans. Millions have never penetrated beyond the Atlantic seaboard. What we need are more people who have the ready and venturesome spirit of the pioneer. Instead of a hotter skelter, haplazard migration of the natives let us have a carefully directed distribution of the people to the edge of self support and independence, and we shall have less need of sustaining charities for those who become helpless and fails for those who become worthless. In the present scenario, Henry Bork owitz SPRING'S AWAKENING. On posteon a glamourned sheen Of waning light. Vibrating bright. Shimmered on, downy grasses green. And laughing waters danced in play. Dashing and darkling. Purling and sparkling. Over white pebbles on their way. Soft and sweet from the river banks. Like an school swing. Of bird's rustling wing. Music from tiny roos' proud ranks. On glistening sands I did discern The prist of a hoof. And on the woof. Of tangled fringe of moss and fern. Lo, there, half hid and pling, stood On the quick'ning soil Pam, the merry god. Hive music of field and wood! Blue beamed the skies, and, whispering From boulding lilies, Light winged airs Proclaimed sweet spring's awak eating! Augusta Wall. MAXIMS OF MARCUS AU- RELIUS. Then will find rest from vain fancies if they doest every act in life as though it were thy last. As for life, it is a battle and a sobbing in a strange land, but the fame that comes after is ob- bion. The lot assigned to every man is suited to him and suits him to itself. The universe is change. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Nothing can come out of nothing any more than a thing can go back to nothing. THE WISDOM OF EPICTETUS. When you make any charge against providence, consider, and you will learn that the thing has happened according to reason. Yes, but the unjust man has the advantage. In what? In money. Yes, for he is superior to you in that he falters not, is free from shame and is watchful. What is the wonder? But see if he has the advantage over you in being faithful, in being modest, for you will not find it to be so, but wherein you are superior there you will find that you have the advantage. If a man has frequent intercourse with others, either for talk or drinking together or generally social purposes, he must either become like them or change them to his own fashion, for, if a man places a piece of quenched charcoal close to a piece that is burning, either the quenched charcoal will quench the other or the burning charcoal will fight that which is quenched. Side then the danger is so great we must cautiously enter into such intimacies with those of the common sort and remember that it is impossible that a man can keep company with one who is covered with soot without being partaker of the soot himself. One man must keep watch, another must go out as a spy, and a third must fight, and it is not possible that all should be in one place, nor is it better that it should be so. But you, neglecting to do the commands of the general, complain when anything more hard than usual is imposed on you, and you do not deserve what you make the army become as far as it is in your power. If all imitate you no man will dig a trench, no man will put a rampart round nor keep watch nor expose himself to danger, but will appear to be useful for the purpose of war. Subscribe to the PLANET. VALUE OF GOOD BOOKS. VALUE OF GOOD BOOKS. Good books make good cli- seps. The man who has a col- lection of books for his home no matter how small it may be in actual volume, is paying the way for his children to become useful men and women. If I had my way no home would be without its quota of books. And they should be the property of that home. I cannot too strongly emphasize the importance of owning good books as well as reading them. There is no feeling quite so satisfactory as the pride one takes in the posses- sion of one's own library, even if not large, and it gives to the home a distinctive atmosphere which could come from no other source. In these days of popular prices and expert production, when well bound books by the best authors are within reach of all, there is little reason for the failure of every home to have books, own these books and read them. That is the advice I give to all. As I polled out in the beginning, good books make good citizens. That means that you must first have them and then read them. Just as the newspapers, keep man in touch with the work of the world day by day, so do books bring him into broader touch with the progress the world is making in art, liter- ature and the sciences.—Rudolph Bankenburg. THE RING OF WORDS. Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them. Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said; on wings they are carried. After the singer is dead And the maker buried. Low as the singer lies In the field of heather. Songs of his fashion bring The swains together. And when the west is red With the sunset embers The lover lingers and sings And the maid remembers. — Robert Louis Stevenson. UNCERTAINTY OF BOND INVESTMENTS. Our jurisprudence and our business customs proceed on the theory that trustees for the funds of widows and orphans should, for the most part, avoid investing these funds in stocks because "dividends are uncertain" and should invest them in bonds because "interest is certain." But interest is not certain when the dollar is uncertain. Interest insures a fixed number of dollars, but it does not insure any fixed value in these dollars. Most widows and orphans whose funds have been invested in bonds during the last decade and a half have suffered from the high cost of living more than they could possibly have suffered from uncertainties in the dividends from ordinary standard investments in stocks. No wonder the world is full of unrest from the rising cost of living...Professor Irving Fisher. BENTENCE SERMONS. Let us lie low in the Lord's power and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.—Emerson. Three things are great— Concequence and will, And courage to fulfill The duties they create. —Anon. In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do worthily a piece of work the doing of which is of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.—Roosevelt. Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here. Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord.—George Macdonald. THE UNSEEN MIRACLE The angel of the night, when night was gone. High upon heaven's ramparts cried "The dawn!" And wheeling worlds grew radiant with the one And undiminished glory of the sun. And angel, scroph, saint and cherubim Raised to the morning their exultant hymn. All heaven thrilled anew to look upon The great recurring miracle of dawn And in the little worlds beneath them men Rose, yawned and ate and turned to toll again. —Theodora Garrison. Youth Gets Life Term. Harold B. Page, nineteen years old, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Burpee in New Haven, Conn. for the murder of Harold J. Ford eighteen year old. Page shot Ford in Madison in March, 1911. Bobbery was the motive. HEALTH. HINT FOR TODAY. Grooming Nose and Threat. A lioness throat doctor who cares for the vocal organs of many of the greatest of our operers singers makes the unqualified statement that if throats and noses were systematically cleaned many illnesses, including bronchitis, catarrh and consumption, would be averted. A salt water douche and gargle to cleanse the throat and nose thoroughly should be used, he declares, at least twice a day. "Fill a wide mouthed bottle," he advises, "holding a plint, with boiled water and add to it a teaspoonful of common soap salt. When you rise in the morning and when you retire at night, after gargling the throat with the solution, fill the hollow of the hand with it and draw it up the nose, throwing the head back. This last should be done carefully. It will cause coughing, but will completely clear all the little spaces and intricate passages of the nose and throat." HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY Animal Food. Letting alone its inadvisability when you are ill, there is no doubt that in the case of the majority of healthy persons the less the quantity of animal food in the diet, when this is replaced by suitable nonanimal food, the better do the qualities of mental and muscular endurance become and the less the tendency to organic disease of every description. This is no evidence that a small quantity of animal food will directly cause organic disease or that nonanimal food will prevent it. But it would seem to indicate that harm, from overeating is more likely to be caused by animal foods than by nonanimal, foods, and that if the body is toothless from any cause nonanimal foods are better. This is especially true as one becomes older and the body less efficient from that cause. One of the main arguments against meat, as a staple diet provided that it is fresh and clean, is that it gives the internal organs, liver and kidneys, much more work than is necessary, who not improving one's health and strength in a corresponding degree. So if you are not as healthy as you might be and you want to make everything favorable to improving yourself, or if you are healthy and want to live long and do the best work you are capable of, then abstain from meat, or at least cut it down so that it is but a flavor in your staple diet. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Teeth Powders Unless one knows of what they are made tooth powders must be used with caution. Precipitate chalk is good, and it may be performed as one choice. There are several excellent tooth powders on the market, and chalk, variously "doctored," is the best of some of them. It is admirable for the teeth. Persons who have trouble with softness of the teeth are often advised to wash the mouth out night and morning with milk of mungels. It is said to have a very good effect upon the teeth and gums. Washing the mouth with a weak solution of salt and water is also excellent. The breath may be sweetened and the teeth helped by washing the mouth two or three times a day in water to which has been added a tablespoonful of limewater. Tartar can occasionally be removed from the teeth by rubbing them with a stick dipped in lemon juice, and a stick dampened and dipped in powdered pumice is good for taking spots from the teeth. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Sleeping In the Open. It is better to sleep on a sleeping porch if it is screened in than it is to sleep inside of a room, however wide open the windows may be kept. But it is still better to sleep on the porch which is not screened in at all or on the roof under the open sky, where the air may circulate most freely about the body. The poison who becomes accustomed to sleeping out will find that he requires no more coverings than he would in the house. In fact, on a chilly night he will be likely to find himself much colder in his chamber than he will be in his porch or roof bedroom. The free circulation of air about the body is instrumental in creating warmth. The warmth is also greater inside of the body by reason of a large absorption of oxygen. An Important Question. Professor Bills Perry likes to tell this story about a suffrage meeting which a friend of the attended. After considerable business had been disposed of by the suffragette one of their number made a motion that the women living in the town where the something was held should endeavor at the next election to place a woman on the school board. The presiding officer said, referring to the motion, "is there any question?" For a few moments there was silence. Then a shriek voice far up in the gallery said sweetly, "Will you please tell us how you get that smooth effect over the hip?" HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Inflammation of the Skin. medically, "red hands" are a form of erythema, or local inflammation of the skin. Now, there are a great many kinds of erythema, due to a large number of causes, from some infectious disease like scarlet fever to more prolonged exposure to cold or heat. The question arises. What can be done to prevent the first stage of erythema—namely, the increased blood supply to a part—or hyperacmia, and what to prevent the first stage from developing into subsequent ones? This question is more easily asked than answered, but still it is not answerable. In the first place, those who have a sensitive skin must protect it as much as lies in their power. They must keep from it every irritation—say, washing with either hot or cold water. The water should always be tepid. Particular attention must be paid to the soap used, that with an excess of alkali being particularly injurious. As to further treatment, when once the hands have begun to show signs of more or less permanent redness they should be rubbed dry in an upward direction and afterward amused with some animal fat, as cod liver oil or lanolin, several times a day. They should frequently be held high and joined above the head so as to facilitate the escape of blood. At the same time it is advisable to go in for suitable exercises, walking, gymnastics, cycling, golfing, etc., which can only help to improve the general circulation. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Acid in Rheumatism. It is said tomatoes augment if they do not cause rheumatism. The acid in them, while it adds to the flavor of the vegetable, is very injurious to gout, and many think it is better not to eat them Rheumatism is beyond doubt an acid disease, and any acid, save citric, as found in the lemon and orange, may give rise to it. Strawberries and peaches are familiar examples of the acid giving rise to this disease. Meat, too, acts as a generator of little or uric acid, as every one knows. Do not eat tomatoes if troubled with gout or rheumatism HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Treatment of Catarch Sometimes catarrh is the result of a wrong diet or injudicious mode of life. Persons in the habit of indulging freely in alcohol are more or less subject to a chronic state of inflammation of the throat and back of the nose, which often extends down to the larynx, causing huskiness of the voice. In these circumstances abstention from intoxicants and exercise in the open air are soon followed by a marked improvement. Others of a more or less gouty disposition and relief in diminishing the amount of animal food they eat, at the same time taking regularly every morning a dose of aperient water. Anaculeate young persons whose diet is not rich enough in fats are often troubled with chronic catarrh. Here the best treatment is a probined course of cod liver oil, preferably with iron. A suitable combination is to take the oil in the form of emulsion, with the addition of citrate of iron and ammonium, five or ten grains to the ounce. Then there are the old and delicate persons, to whom nothing does so much good as a change of residence to some more suitable climate. But in nearly every case local treatment of the noatrils and back of the throat is doubling, spraying or gargling is capable of doing some good. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Oxygen Bath: For the general state of the nervous system no remedy has proved so valuable as the oxygen bath. The oxygen is much more effective if gradually produced in the bath at the time of administration than when charged by oxygen from a cylinder. By mixing in the bath sodium perborate and manganese borate from thirty five to forty pints of oxygen are steadily evolved during fifteen to twenty minutes. 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That to which darker hours gave birth Still more and more we cherish It looks beyond the clouds of time. And through death's shadowy portal Made by adversity sublime. By faith and hope immortal. — Bernard Barton PROFIT SHARING LABOR. There must be a motive back of all labor which will make the laboring man take special interest in his work. He must have something to look forward to besides the actual daily wage which he receives. The workman's idea forty years ago was not to avoid work. Now, when more pay and shorter hours receive almost constant attention, the men are likely to come to think of these things all the time. Some of them probably constantly are thinking of ways by which they can do as little work as possible rather than ways by which they can do as much as possible. With more pay and shorter hours not resulting in happiness, it becomes necessary to plan some other means by which the great mass of laboring people may get their enjoyment while working. The system of profit sharing will keep the employees interested in their work and consequently content. A certain company is a splendid example of my profit sharing ideas and gives each of its employees a certain per cent of the profits annually and has done so for twelve years. I believe the plan is one that can be adopted generally, except in cases of absentee ownership.—Charles W. Elliot MARTHA A little girl. Barefoot, ragged, with neglect- ed hair. Eyes full of laughter, neck and shoulders bare. A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon. Sure to be rounded into beauty moon; A creature men would worship and adore. Though now in mean habiliments she bore A pull of water, dripping through the street And bathing as she went her naked feet. It was a pretty picture, full of grace— The slender, form, the delicate, thin face; The awaying motion as she hur- ried by. The sliding feet, the laughter in her eye That o'er her face in ripples greamed and glanced As in her pail the shifting sun- beams danced. -William Wadaworth Longfellow. THE EVIL OF DIVORCE It is the home that contains the vital principles of human happiness, that is the nation's strength, and it is the foundation of private as well as public well being. The state is only the sum of the families that compose it. Relaxation of the marriage tie endangers the integrity of the family and therefore imperils the foundation of the state. Alarming evidence of the influence upon our riding generation of the social curse of divorce, which strikes at home life, is everywhere at hand and shows the great injury done to society, to the husband and wife themselves and to the children. Every child has a right to a mother's heart, to a mother's arms and to a father's love. Every child has a right to a home with its father and mother. 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For the tree to be healthy the sap must flow freely from the root through the trunk to all the branches. So must it be with the men who are going to affect vitally public opinion and political action. They must spring from the bosom of the people. The state-man is a man of uncommon ability, with common opinions. His heart must throb responsively to the multitude, for, as Emerson said, great ideas incarnate themselves in the multitude. In suggesting that we need schools for statesmen, as we have had schools for prophets, for physicians, for engineers, for lawyers, and for journalists, it may be asked whether any definite career awaits the publicist as a certain door opens to the physician, lawyer or engineer. Can the publicist expect a career? Democracy is government by influence rather than by office. Under a monarchy one must hold office to exert influence, and his influence is the more effective the nearer he stands to the king. 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Prof. I. S. Moore, 26 Rua dos Capitans, Bahia, Brazil. A Mean Trick. Peter the Great particularly delighted in drawing teeth, and he strictly enforced his servants to send for him when anything of that sort was to be done. One day his favorite valet do chambre seemed very melancholy. The clar asked him what was the matter. "Oh, your majesty," said the man, "my wife is suffering the greatest agony from toothache, and she obstinately refuses to have the tooth taken out." "If that is all," said Peter, "we will soon cure it. Take me to her at once." When they arrived the woman declared that she was not suffering at all; there was nothing the matter with her. "That is the way she talks. your majesty." said the valet. "She is auf- "Hold her head and hands," said the ear. "I will have it out in a minute." And he instantly pulled out the indicated tooth with great dexterity amid profuse thanks from the husband. What was Peter's indignation to discover a little later that his valet had used him as an executioner to punish his wife, who had never had an un-sound tooth in her head. LET US BE:MEN. Let us devote ourselves to those great objects that are fit for our consideration and action; let us raise our conceptions to the magnitude and importance of the duties that devolve upon us; let our comprehension be as broad as our country, our aspirations as high as its certain destiny; let us not be pygmies in a case that calls for men.—Daniel Webster. ```markdown ``` Base Ball Gossip for Fans Base Ball Gossip for Fans On Monday, April 21 the Richmond Independents, in charge of Manager Mayo Stevens journeyed to Portsmouth, Va. to open the season with the Whiting Giants. The Independents took both games. Monday's battery was Ayres, Brown and Kenney! The score, 11 to 7. Tuesday's battery was North, and Kenney. Score, 10 to 7. The following players took part in the series: George Kenney, Blunt, Clarence Thomas, Clarence Harges, Walter Cheatham, Lewis (North) Murray, Robert Ayres, Ollie Brown, Judge Watkins, Frank Williams, Willie Trent. Manager Milton Threat and his aggregation of ball tensions, The Athletics of the Southside, have commenced the season with a boom, having won, the game of the 26th ult from The Independents, and the one of the 22th from the Petersburgers. The scores were 12 to 6 and 6 to 5 respectively. Junius Fowlkes as the new short stop for the Athletics is making a great headway in that capacity. The Invincible East End Brownies will swat the raw blade today, (Saturday) with the Athletics in the Southside at 1:30. Great game promised. Steps should be taken by the youngsters to organize an amateur baseball league in this city. They have the material, why not the league? COLORED GIRLS' WIN LARGE ESTATE. Will of, William B. Williams Is Finally Probated in the Court. --- The long drawn out litigation over the property of William B. Williams colored, came to a close yesterday, when Silas H. Shackelford qualified in the Chancery Court, as administrator with annexed. Williams died in 1909, leaving tainteen small houses on Leigh, Jackson, Duval and other streets. Personal property and money in bank brought the value of his estate to $20,000. G. Carlton Jackson and R. T. Hill were appointed as curators of the estate in 1909. Mary P. Brown a sister, claimed to be the sole and only heir and distributor of the decedent. It appears that a will once made by Williams had been destroyed, but after some delay, what purported to be his last will and testament, was produced, bequeathing certain property to Gerritude Jackson, Lizzie Jackson and others, making no bequest whatever to Mary Brown. The Chancery Court in 1910 refused to admit this will to probate awarding the entire estate to Mary Brown, as next of kin. On behalf of Gerritude Jackson, then under legal age, application was made for appointment of a guardian ad litem, and John B. Lightfoot was appointed by the court. He appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court, where the lower court was reversed, the will recognized as valid, and the case remanded for further proceedings in accordance with that opinion. Mr. Lightfoot has received many congratulations on his conduct of the case, in which he was opposed by Hull Carter and other distinguished attorneys. - Times-Dispatch. April 29, 1913. NO. 4. H.M.WILLIAMS.JR. OPTICIAN MERIT TALKS. NO. 4. So, Just Ask Others About Our Service. Nothing Succeeds Like SUCCESS—WE-SUCEED. OUR MOTTO—"A satisfied Patron Means More Patrons." Eyes-Tested, Glasses Fitted. The best of everything—Optical. Private visits made upon request. HOURS—From 7:30 A.M. to 2:30 P. M.; from 3:30 P. M. to 7:30 P. M. THE H. M. WILLIAMS OPTICAL CO., 508 N. Second Street. (Bet. Leigh & Clay Sts.) Phone Mon. 2755 Richmond, Va. There was a certain critic whereof a certain critic wrote: "At this point in the moon obscured a cloud." The copy editor took the critic to task for this. He said: "Look here. You mean a cloud obscured the moon, don't you? "No, sir; I don't," the critic replied firmly. "These were amateur theatricals, and I mean just what I say. The moon slipped and came down over a white cloud, totally obscuring it." ATTENTION, DELIIGATES! To the Delegates and Friends who will attend The Virginia Baptist State Convention at Hampton, Va., May 14, 1913: Take notice to final instructions. Please send in your names at once to Rev. T. H. Saports, D. D., Box 75, Hampton, Va. that he may arrange for your homes. HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS. Reduced rates over all of the railroads in Virginia and the District of Columbia have been granted on the certificate plan, that is, the delegates will purchase their tickets paying the regular fare one way to the Convention receiving at the office of the purchaser, a certificate which will be certified at the Convention and this will entitle them to the reduced rate on the purchase of their return tickets. Tickets will be on sale from May 10th to 16th and the final limit for the purchase of return tickets will end at midnight May 22nd. Let the Clergy use the rate granted for this special occasion and not their permits. A dullure on their part to do this may work a hardship upon the lay delegates. The reduced rate is granted upon the condition, that a certain number of delegates attend the Convention: which number if augmented by the Clergy purchasing through the same channel will not only help the lay delegates to this coming session, but will in the future make reduced rates more easily obtained. Should any ticket agent fail to have the certificate, secure from him a receipt as a delegate to The Virginia Baptist State Convention, which receipt will serve the same purpose of securing the rate. Now, Brethren, do not wait until train time to purchase your tickets; for the Agent, will not be able to perform his regular duties and issue tickets on the certificate plan in a congested moment. You will have from May 16th to 16th in which to purchase, so please get your tickets on time. All delegates North of Washington, D. C. can secure the rate only from Washington to the Convention and return. Yours for a successful meeting in Hampton, THOS. H. WHITE, Cor. Sec. P. 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Robinson, Unity Court, No. 132. $100.00 April 28—Minnie Johnson, Sarah's Court, No. 246. $100.00 April 28—Cora Preston, Fulton Court, No. 244. $100.00 April 28—Maggie Mosby, King's Daughters Court, No. 70. $100.00 April 28—Sargaret Lowwich, Old Dominion Court, No. 114. $100.00 April 28—Kline Shepherd, Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85. $100.00 April 28—Salle Taylor, Fulton Court, No. 244. $100.00 April 28—Rebecca Banks, Blooming Lily Court, No. 142. $150.00 April 28—Sarah Burwell, Suffolk Court, No. 63. $100.00 Amount Paid by Grand Lodge $ 4,000.00 Amount Paid by Grand Court 2,000.00 The subject of this sketch saw the first dawn of day in Laurence, Kansas some forty years ago. Suffice it to say he completed the public and high schools of his native state. He received his degree of D. D. in the West Virginia Seminary and College of which Prof. J. M. Arter is now President, Red Star, W. Va. To pursue his ministerial career minutely would require too much space. Implicit faith in Providence, backed up by ample preparation, endowed with the power of the Holy Spirit, he has risen from the humble pastorate to the Metropolitan Church. A few of the churches pastored: First Baptist Church, Charleston, W. Va., 1100 members, at a salary of $1100. A church in Wilmington, N. C. was pastored by him previous to his advent into this city. He pastors Scott St. Baptist Church, recently burned. Planning to build a $10,000 edifice for the Lord. Ere this is published the excavation for new building will have been started. As a preacher, platform orator and lecturer he ranks among the best. Twice he was invited to preach in Vormont Avenue Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. He preached for the Vermont Ave. Church on the day they raised $2975.83. If the invitations received from schools, fraternal organizations and churches were accepted by him he would constantly be on the go. A logical preacher, a prepared and seasoned scholar with a powerful physique make him a perfect specimen of a real man. Notice All representatives to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pyllas which will meet in Newport News, Va. in June, 1912, will please communicate with District Deputy Grand Chancellor C. G. Davis, 817-27th St, Newport News Is. or W. P. Clarkage, 752 Hampton Avenue, Newport News, Va., Chairman of Home Committee. H You Want Your CHAIRS CANEID NEATLY. Call up LEONARD CEPHAS, Phone, Madison 1037, or Leave Orders at 915 NORTH FIRST ST. Satisfaction Guaranteed. TO the Brotherhood of the Virginia Baptist State Convention Dear Co-workers: There remain ath 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 ordeal. He brought me as it were to death's door, but I waited patiently and he has delivered me from the grave. Physically I feel practically well. My greatest trouble now is from nervousness and this I think is well under control. The Star of Hope still hangs before me and I feel that the Lord will spare me to do further service for his Kingdom. The many letters of sympathy that I received from the brethren during my illness and the interest manifested were a source of much consolation and I assure you all, that they were greatly appreciated. CHANGES. I notice that several of our brethren have changed fields during this conventional year and I regret that some of them have left the State, but this need not work any ill to our Convention nor the principle for which it stands for we realise that neither membership nor interest in our Convention is limited to Virginia but we look with pride, to our brethren, both North and South who delight in the work that was so dear to our Fathers. Two special features claim our attention this year, viz. Foreign Mission and Education. Dr. L. G. Jordan. Foreign Mission Secretary, is continually making appeals for funds to further prosecute the foreign mission work. Let there be no falling off in interest. Our brothers, and sisters across the waters are groping in darkness, ignorance and sin hungering and thirsting for the word of life. Let's not forget them. Our Foreign Mission Board has moved its headquarters from Louisville, Ky. to Philadelphia, Pa. and this should not only serve as a convenience to us but as an incentive to greater effort. EDUCATION. Our school at Lynchburg is in splendid condition. Dr. Wood is indeed bringing things to pass. Its greatest need is more money not to bring the school up, but to keep it abreast with the times. Dr. Wood has injected in the work the 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 Peter- burg and others at Roanoke, Char lottesville and in the best 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 Tea Thousand Dollars ($10,000). Every individual who gives as much as one dollar will have their name appear in our minutes. Trusting that I shall see you all at Hampton I am as ever. Yours for the work. R. H. BOWLING, President Per J. H. Ashby. The Christiansburg State Summer School—Up in the Mountains. If you plan to attend a Summer School this year lot us recommend that you go to Christiansburg: It is noted for its fine climate; excellent location, strong faculty, good board, reasonable rates, pleasant surroundings—an ideal place for study. Just opened a fine new building with modern conveniences, electric lights, steam heat, and cold baths. The State Examination at close of Normal For further information address E. A. LONG, Conductor, Christi- sburg Summer Normal, Cambria Va. 4t Denver, Colo., Jan. 24, 1913. To Whom It May Concern, pr. 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. 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