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One of the greatest sessions in the history of the State Convention of Virginia was held at Hampton, Wednesday, May 14:17. Delegates representing the churches throughout Virginia and from fields as far North as Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington were present and added greatly to the success of the work. Such able men as Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, W. T. Hall, W. F. Graham, A. R. Robinson, W. B. Reed, W. Hunt, A. Gordon, James Moss, C. Scott and others from the North lent their efforts to the work. Great sermons were preached and great plains laid for the year 1914. The reports touching Home and Foreign Mission, together with the Educational report were far reaching and inspiring. The Virginia Theological Seminary and College, under Dr. R. C. Woods came in for full discussion by the brethren as to its most excellent success for the past twelve months. The Convention with one accord expressed its thankfulness. --- Nearly $4000 were raised for the furtherance of the work. Fervent and earnest prayers were offered for the speedy recovery of the Chieftain, Dr. R. H. Bowling. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. R. H. Bowling; 1st Vice-President, Dr. A. A. Galvin; Recording Secretary, Dr. C. E. Miller; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. T. H. White; Treasurer, Mr. A. Humbles. The Board of Trustees of Virginia Theological Seminary and College had a most excellent session, completed its work making strong recommendations to the Convention for more tangible work for the ensuing year. The following officers were elected for the Board: Chairman, Dr. James H. Brown; Secretary, Dr. W. R. Brown, Roanoke, Va.; Treasurer, Prof. B. H. Peyton, Richmond, Va. The great Queen Street Baptist Church, pastored by Dr. T. H. Shorts and its people deserve great credit in entertaining the Convention. The Convention closed to meet next year in the great First Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va., Dr. W. R. Brown, Pastor. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Grand Chancellor Mitchell Organizes a Lodge and a Company. Norfolk, Va., May 28.—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. arrived here last evening from Richmond. He was accompanied by Dr. I. D. Burtell, Grand Medical Register and Sir W. Henry Jones, Grand Master at Arms. They were met at the C. and O. wharf by District Deputy Grand Chancellor W. R. Henry, who had an automobile in waiting for them. They came to set up a new lodge of Knights of Pythias which Sir Henry had succeeded in organizing. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythia (white) has been in session here this week and Judge D. C. Richardson, who is Supreme Representative came over the same route from Richmond with his party. Grand Chancellor Mitchell was soon on the way to Sir Henry's residence in Hunterville, where supper was served. Col. Archer Drew, Sir George Williams, Dr. Frank G. Elliott and others met there and greeted the visitors. It was a late hour when the new Pythian Castle on Church street was reached. The Grand Chancellor was delighted. He paid a glowing tribute to Sir Henry for his great work. King Davil Lodget, No. 193, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. was instituted with the following officers: Chancellor Commander, James Melantree; Master of Work, Pleasant Harvest; Vice Chancellor, Peter M. Bismons; Keeper of Records and Seal, D. Gilbert Jacox; Master of Finance, Thomas Langford; Master of Exchequer, James McAdoo; Master at Arms, Thaddess Venable; Duter Guard, James R. Moore; Infer Guard, Andrew McCannan; Presta Edward J. Adams; Trustee, Hunter, James Luther, Brent kott. Mr Henry announced that the work had been accomplished in three weeks. He announced that a company had also been organised. It will be knows as King David Co., o. 25 and will consist of the following officers: Captain, James Millentree; First Lieutenant, Thaddess Venable; Second Lieutenant, Edward J. Adams; porcer, D. G. Jacox; Treasurer, James McAdoo; First Bargent, New Hunter; Second Bargent, James McAdoo; Quartermaster, Pleasant Harvest; First Corporal, James Lams; Second Corporal, Andrew McAdoo; Third Corporal, Jumis Lams. A She repast will spread at the institution of the curricula. THE SPINGARN MEDAL A Gold Medal for Negro Achievement Offered by a White Man. A white man, interested in the welfare of the Negro, has offered a gold medal to be awarded annually to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who has made the most distinguished achievement during the year in any field of worthy human endeavor. This announcement was made at the fourth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization composed of both races, which met at Philadelphia last week to discuss the progress and welfare of the American Negro. This association, among whose officers are Moore field Storey, Oswald Garrison Villard and Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, has some three thousand members and fifteen branches scattered all over the country. The donor of the prize is the President of the Association's New York Branch, Prof. J. E. Spingarn until recently a professor in Columbia University, New York. His object was not merely to encourage and reward the colored man or woman, but also to remind the white people of the nation, that the American Negro does splendid things every year; that he is not merely a criminal, as the newspapers would appear to brand him, but a man with high ideals and with noble and effective achievement. He has promised to hand over $100 every year for this gold medal, the award of which will be in charge of a committee of five to be appointed by the directors of the National Association. The first award will be made at the fifth annual conference of the Association next April. The Association will welcome all suggestions in reward to this medal and its award. If any of our readers would care to make any such suggestions, or to propose any man or woman as worthy of the prize, they should write to Ms May Cline Norney, Secretary, 26 Vesey Street, New York, N. Y. Dr. G. H. Sina Appointed by Gov. Sulzer as a Commissive of the 50th Anniversary of the Enamulation Proclamation The appointment was, made May the 16th. The members and friends of the Union Baptist Church were overjoyed when the news reached them on Sunday morning, that their pastor had been honored by the Governor. This appointment came to Dr. Sims, without any volition on his part whatever. On returning home Saturday evening he found the notification of his appointment, and also the statement of the appropriation of the sum of $25,000 which the state has appropriated. There is not a man more worthy of such honor than the Dr. We beg of him to accept the congratulations of the people of New York City, with whom he has labored for the past fifteen years as a preacher—M. R. 26rd Anniversary. The 23rd Anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church, eor. Catherine and Monroe Sts, will be celebrated beginning June 1st to 9th. The Anniversary Sermon will be preached Sunday, June 1st at 11 A. M. by Rev. J. G. Harris, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Petersburg, Va. There will be exercises each night during the week, as follows: Monday night, June 2d, will be Presbyterian Night. Rev. C. Stewart, D. D., pastor of The Church of the Covenant, Richmond, will preach Tuesday: Interdenominational Union. Wednesday night: The True Reformers. Thursday night: The Baptist. Wednesday bikes. Mrs. Maggie Walker will deliver an address. Special music each night. Silver offering will be taken each night. Drew Outdoes Them All. Amherst, May 17.—Howard Drew the Olympic sprinter, can rightly be said to have won the interscholastic track meet at Amherst today. Correctly speaking Springfield High School won it with 27 points, but of these Draw scored 21. He alone made more tallies than the combined athletes of any other of the 21 schools represented than his own. He won the 100 yards. 220 yards and 220 yard hurdles and took second for the high jump and broad jump. Leesburg, Va., May 25.—We were very sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Pamela Anastia of Middlesboro, Va., who departed this life on Wednesday in full faith of her Deeomer, Quite a concourse of friends were present at the funeral. Rev. Dr. R. P. Dawson and Dr. M. W. Williams officiated. It was quite a large funeral. Sleep on, Sister Austin, we will meet you in the great beyond. At Mt. Zion M. E. Church Rev. Sidney and Rev. Swan took charge of the service as it was the pastor's day at Gloucesterville. Mrs. William Wheems of Waterford, who departed this life on Friday was buried Sunday. She was 56 years of age, had been a member of the church 34 years. Mr. Guss Valentine of Washington and Mr. John Johnson were visiting in town on Sunday. Mr. Edward Gray has returned home from a short visit to friends down the mountain. Mr. Calvin Neal came to town early Sunday morn, from Alexandria, to bring some heroes. Of course he spent the day with sister, as usual. On Sunday, our pastor, Rev. Dr. E. D. Tyler ascended the pulpit at eleven o'clock. After singing, prayer was offered by Bro. Charles Randall. Isaiah lst chapter was read. How Best to Reach the Masses, Tim, and Ephesians. Speaking the Truth of Love. At 8 o'clock Rev. Tyler was in the pulpit. The choir sang an anthem to the enjoyment of all. I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord, etc. Read 55th Isaiah. Hymn. Take time to be Holy, etc. Subject. 119 Psalms, 6th verse; Psalms 32:17. Hymn. Fear Though Not, etc. 35 minutes were taken. As Rev. Tyler rose higher and higher in eloquence we listened with our hearts aglow. All felt they had been benefited. Mr. William Roberts is making some new improvements on Market St. by building a new porch. We are glad to see pride in our folks. Public School Baseball. On the evening of May 16, 1913, representatives from the Colored District School, Grammar Grades, met at Baker School to consider plans for the formation of a baseball league. It was decided to form a league for the present composed of Moore, Maury, Buchanan, George Mason, Navy Hill and Baker Schools. A set of rules was drafted, and a schedule of the first games arranged and sent to each school. On account of the short time which remains for playing during the present session it was agreed upon to begin the first games on Wednesday evening, May 21st, at 3:30 o'clock. You are kindly invited to foster this spirit for athletics among our school boys. The results of the first schedule were as follows: Navy Hill vs Buchanan—9 to 4 in favor of Navy Hill. George Mason vs Maury—13 to 4 in favor of Maury. Bakor va Moore—10 to 6 in favor of Baker B. Baker. L. T. Jonce, Prez. B. L. Allen, Sec. A Card of Thanks Mrs. Julia E. A. Johnson and sons wish to thank their many relatives friends and acquaintances who turned out in large numbers May 18, 1913 to pay the last tribute of respect to her deceased husband and their father, Deacon J. P. Johnson. We wish to thank the neighbors for their most beautiful floral designs and fine resolutions, read by the popular Miss Rose B. Johnson. We wish to thank the Rev. A. P. Pritchett who conducted the funeral services assisted by the Rev. Lee R. Prayser and the Rev. McGray. We thank the choir of the Trinity Baptist Church of which Rev. Pritchett is pastor, who so willingly renamed music for the occasion, and Mr. Joseph Matthews, who sang, "Angels Get My Mansions Ready." Mr. A. D. Price funeral director, carried out the entire wishes of the family. True Reformers' Hall for Sale. The News has information that the True Reformers' Hall, 822 W. Walnut street, will be told at auction next week. It is in the receiver's hand but no public notice of the sale is up. It is a good proposition for colored investors - Louisville, Ky. News. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Davis wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Sarah V. to, Mr. Dayton L. Mayo. The marriage was seized by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler Thursday evening, January 9th, 1913, at his residence, 113 B. Lodge St. The couple will leave for the North Sea, Browns Bay, A. 1913. New York Civil Rights Law AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to equal rights in places of public accommodation and providing penalty for violation thereof. Became a law April 11, 1913, with the approval of the Governor. Passed three-fifths be present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section forty of chapter fourteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and ninee, entitled "An act relating to civil rights, constituting chapter six of the consolidated laws." is hereby amended to read as follows: 40. Equal rights in places of public accommodation. All persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages and privileges of any place of public accommodation resort or amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons. No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any such place, shall directly or indirectly refuse, withhold from or deny to any person any of the accommodations, advantages or privileges thereof, or directly or indirectly publish, circulate, issue, display, or mail any written or printed communication, notice or advertisement, to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages and privileges of any such place shall be refused, with held from or denied to any person on account of race, creed or color, or that the patronage or custom threaten, or any person belonging to or purporting to be of any particular race, creed or color is unwelcome, objectionable or not acceptable, devised or solicited. The production of any such written or printed communication, notice or advertisement, purporting to relate to any such place, and to be made by any person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent or manager thereof, shall be presumptive evidence in any civil or criminal action that the same was authorized by such person. A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within the meaning of this article, shall be deemed to include any inn, tavern or hotel, whence or conducted for the entertainment of transient guests, or for the accommodation of those seeking health recreation or rest, any restaurant, eating-house, public conveyance or land or water, bath-house, barbershop, theater and music hall. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the mailing of a private communication in writing sent in response to a specific written inquiry. 2. Section forty-one of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: 41. Penalty for violation. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing section, or who shall nid or incite the violation of any of the said provisions shall for each and every violation thereof be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the person aggrieved thereby, or by any resident of this state, to whom shall assign his cause of action, in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the plaintiff or the defendant shall reside; and shall, also, for every such offense he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof of shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; or shall be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment. 3. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred and thirteth. COLORED MAN IN PULLMAN MOBBED Supreme Chancellor of Colored Knights Rescued by Sheriff. New Orleans, May 27.—After being taken off a train by a mob at Milton, Fla., Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green of the Colored Knights of Pythias, who was returning home from a session of the Grand Lodge at Ocala, Fla., was put under bond today for violating the Jim Crow law and sent on his journey to this city. Only the Sheriff's interference saved him from lynching. He was riding in the stateroom of a Pullman. Green locked himself in the room yesterday morning. It was not discovered that a colored man was in the car until five hours later, when the train rescheduled River Junction. Green was put out of the car and went to the colored day coach ahead. A crowd of white boarded the train and searched for Green, who was not identified, as every colored man in the car denied being the man wanted. When the train rescheduled Milton, Fla., at a crowded night another mob entered and seized Green. The Sheriff at Milton finally got the man from the Making Progress. Manager W. E, Whitfield of the Virginia Beneficial Insurance Co. has issued a circular giving detailed information of the claims paid in the city. The progress shown is commendable. His offices are in the Mechanics Savings Bank Building, fourth floor. WANTED—A reliable man to act as our representative in his town, all or spare time, good pay. Good stamped envelope for reply. THE DON GRAVE CO. 1711 Bergen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Wanted There is a great demand for property in the colored section; if you have anything to rent or sell, I would like to have you list it with me. We make no charges until we get results. B. A. CEPHAS, Cor. 2nd & Leigh Sts. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pyth fas of Virginia, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A. will convene in its annual session, Tuesday, June 17, 1913 at Newport News, Va. and continue in session four days. The Grand Court will meet at the same time. The encampment will be a feature and companies from Staunton, Lynch- burg, Danville, Petersburg, Richmond Charlotteville, Suffolk, Portsmouth and Norfolk are expected to take part in the grand parade, Wednesday June 18, 1913. An excursion train will leave Richmond Wednesday morning, S.A. M. The fare is only $1.25 for the round trip. AMERICAN CREDITORS ANXIOUS They Want State Department to Get Their Money, Too. The success of Hon. John Phillips of England in securing a settlement of the ten million dollars debt due by Guatemala seems to have aroused the American creditors of that Republic to action. They have been left with "the bag to hold" so to speak. The following report explains itself: Washington, May 23.—Pressure is being used with Secretary Bryan by American creditors of the Guatemalan Government to bring about some settlement of their claims. The policy of the Knox administration was to urge the Government of Guatemala to make a general loan which would rehabilitate its currency system and refund its entire indebtedness. Now that, Great Britain, however, has stepped in and made a special arrangement for the satisfaction of Guatemala's indebtedness to British creditors, the hopes of a loan are vanishing and American creditors are complaining that they have been discriminated against. C. M. Jones, president and general manager, and H. G. Childs, secretary and treasurer of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, called today at the State Department and laid a complaint before Mr. Bryan. They charged that in 1895 their company under contract with the Government of Guatemala, prepared plates in Spanish. More than 450,000 copies of geographies, arithmetic and readers for the elementary schools were printed and furnished to the Guatemalan Government. The company paid the expense of transportation to Guatemala with the agreement that as soon as the books were sold by the Government to the school children the Government would pay the company from the proceeds of the sales. The representatives of the Press Publishing Association charge that the Government sold the books to the children but never paid for them. In 1899 the association sent a representative to Guatemala to try to collect the debt. After remaining there two years he was constrained to accept as security a number of bonds, back of which was the assignment of a certain percentage of the internal revenue taxes and import duties. These pledges, however, were ignored, it is charged, and the Government converted its revenues to its own use and defaulted on the bonds. Virginia Union University. We have received announcements that the university will have ip closing exercises from June 1st to 4th. The encomnate sermon will be preached in the Chapel, Sunday after noon, June 1st at half past three o'clock by Rev. J. A. Maxwell, D. D., Philadelphia District, Secretary, A- american Baptist Home Mission Society. Monday night, June 2nd, at 8:15, the graduating exerci es of the academy will take place. Tuesday, June 3rd, will be alumni day. There will be a business meeting at three o'clock and the an- nual supper of alumni and former students and friends at six o'clock. Wednesday morning, June 4th, at 10 o'clock the Social Study Club will hold its annual meeting. A paper will be read by Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. of Richmond on "Agencies and Methods Effective in Church Work." At 8:15 o'clock at night the an- nual commencement exercises, with the conferring of degrees, will be held in the chapel. It is expected that Judge Pritchard of the United Stats Circuit Court of Appeals will address the graduating class. All old students and all friends are especially invited to attend this com- mencement and to inspect the new building which is now nearing com- pletion. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of the Census. E. Dana Durand, Director, Washington. VIRGINIA Total number of bales of cotton ginned, counting round bales as half bales and excluding linters, for the crops of 1910 to 1912, inclusive: County ..... 1912 1911 1910 The State ..... 25499 31099 16095 Brunswick ..... 3425 4534 3336 Greenville ..... 2989 3974 2708 Mecklenburg ..... 2216 2872 1628 Nansemond ..... 5286 5248 1553 Norfolk (1) ..... 2164 Southampton ..... 7601 10069 4894 Sussex ..... 1499 1755 833 All other ..... 409 2647 1993 (1) Includes "All other" for 1911 and 1910 Brilliant Recital. Mrs. Rosa K. Jones, Musical Instructor of Hartshorn Memorial College presented to the public Monday, May 26, 1913, Missinnie Hayes and Mabel Turner. The young ladies gave a brilliant recital to the delight of all present. Miss Hayes is the daughter of the late Gregory W. Hayes, Va. Theological Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Va. and Miss Turner is from New Haven, Conn. Do You Know Them? The Richmond PLANET. Dear Sir: Will you kindly inform me of the whereabouts of my brother Alfred Hill, or his daughter, Mary Hill. When I last heard from my brother, he was living at No. 10 Haven Road, New Richmond. Since then I have written three letters and can't get an answer. I am an old pension veteran and my brother is all I have living and I wish to hear from him. Yours truly. RICHARD HILL. Answer in care of Mrs. M. L. Law- rence. 26 Rugles Street, Suite 2. Roxbury, Mass. Independents Take Another. The Richmond Independents defeated the Peterburg Tremos last Monday evening at Brond Street Park by the score of 12 to 2. —Mr. Junius A. Smith of Washington, D. C., was in the city this week. —Mr. Nathaniel Banks of North Eighteenth St., who has been slick for the past two weeks, is much improved. Unless first plated with nickel soft metals, such as load, tin and zinc, will absorb plattings of copper, silver or gold until the superior metal entirely disappears. Not In "You appear to find the observation of persons interesting." "Yes, I am very successful in finding people out," said the stranger who had been watching the crowd. "What is your business?" "A bill collector." - Buffalo Express "Did you tell her when you proposed to her that you were unworthy or her? That always makes a hit with them." "I was going to, but she told it to me." *Illustration text* PRICE. FIVE CENTS. PRINCESS LOUISE A ROYAL BRIDE Kaiser's Daughter and Prince Ernest Married in Berlin. King of England, the Czar of Russia and Other, Crowned Heads, With a Small Army of Princes and Princesses, Attend Wedding. The wedding of Princess Victoria Louise, the only daughter of the emperor of Germany, and Prince Ernest Albert of Cumberland, took place in Berlin and was one of the most gorgeous in the history of royal marriages. The guests included King George and Queen Mary of England, the earl of Russia, scores of princes and princesses of the ruling courts of Europe, representatives of the leading nations and admirals and generals. The civil ceremony took place in the new marble palace of Potsdam and was attended by the emperor and empress and the parents of Prince Ernest. The ceremony was performed by the minister of the royal house. While the civil ceremony was taking place the guests were gathering in the chapel of the cathedral for the religious ceremony. The First Field Artillery was stationed outside, its band playing a wedding march. The bride's train was carried by four bridesmaids. The bride's mistress of ceremonies walked on her right and the princess's court marshal on his left. After them followed a number of court functionaries, who will be attached to the future court. Then came the emperor, escorting Princess Thyra of Cumberland, the bridegroom's mother. After him followed the empress with the Duke of Cumberland. King George followed with the crown princess. The czar escorted Queen Mary, followed by the king and queen of Romania. Then came the princes, admirals, generals and so on. As the procession entered the chapel the cathedral choir sang a double quartet from Mendelssohn's oratorio of "Elijah" Then the famous silver trumpets (the Kosteck Trumpet Corps) accompanied the hymn "Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him." After the address by Dr. Dryander, the court chaplain, the customary questions were put to the couple, and as Dr. Dryander handed them the two rings the artillery in the Lustgarten fired a royal salute. A chaperon, Commit Thy Way Into the Lord, followed, and immediately after it the artillery from Ruth l., 16:17, "Whither the artillery I will go and thy God shall be God," to the old setting of Allot Jocker. The silver trumpets then played a final couple, the procession left the chapel preceded by two heralds in white coat slaked with gold and embellished with the royal arms of Hohenzollau, Russia, the German empire, Braunschweig and Cumberland, quartered with the English leopards. As would be imagined, the wedding gifts are fabulous. Their value is estimated close to $3,000,000. The kaiser's gift to his daughter consisted of a number of articles of jewelry, among them jewelry of his own designing. Many German cities appropriated sums ranging from $5000 to $50,000 for the purchase of gifts. The great courts Europe sent costly and beautiful pre-ents. Training an Oriental A Canadian woman wanted to show her Chinese servant the correct way to announce visitors and one afternoon went outside her front door, rang the bell and made the man usher her into the drawing room. The following afternoon the bell rang, and, not hearing him answer it, she went to the door herself. To her surprise, he was standing waiting outside. "Why. Ring." she asked, "what are you doing here?" "You fooles me yesterday. I fooles you today," was his reply. Judge. Net Discriminating "Oh, thank you," exclaimed an elderly lady to a laborer who surrendered his seat in a crowded car; "thank you very much." "That's all right, mom," was the rejoinder. As the lady sat down the chivalrous laborer added: "Wet I may is a man never or to let a woman stand. Bound man never or to us woman she's pretty; but you are man. It don't make no difference to me!"—London Ontario. JOKERLAK 5YNOPSIS Hurley Wiggins is in love with Cecilia Ballister. His friend Arnold Ames meets an elderly lady at the Ascoland tea room. She is Cecilia's Aunt Octavia, an eccentric woman of wealth. She invites Ames to Hopefield Manor. Ames is fascinated by Francesca, a tea room girl. Ames sees Wiggins meeting Cecilia security at Hopefield Manor. Aunt Octavia is a great believer in the potential influence of No. 1. Ames sees mysterious men watching the house. He bears of Heskiah, Cecilia's Wiggins calls upon Cecilia. The chimney smokes mysteriously. The house is said to have a ghost. Cecilia tells Ames she is in deep trouble and calls him to urge Wiggins not to call upon her again. CHAPTER VI I Deliver a Message WAS aroused at 6 o'clock the next morning by the sound of gun shots, and, springing out of bed, I beheld in an open pasture behind the stable yard the indomitable Miss Hollister engaged in the pleasing pastime of breaking clay pigeons with a fowling piece. Her Swedish maid stood by with a formidable pad of paper, keeping score. A boy pulled the trap for her, and she threw up her gun and blazed away with a practiced hand. Her small, slight, tense figure awaiting the launch of the target, the quick upbring of the gun as she sighted, and the pause following the firing of the shot, in which she beut forward rigidly watching the result; were features of a picture which I would not have missed. I will write it down here and be done with it, that it had been my good fortune to know many delightful women, but I have never known one more interesting or charming than Miss. Octavia Hollister. The spirit of deathless youth was in her heart, and youth's grey pennants fluttered about her as the reports of her gun fell cheerily upon the crisp morning air, a rebuke and a challenge to all indolent souls. I made myself presentable as quickly as possible and went forth to report to her. She nodded pleasantly as I greeted her immediately after she had scored a capital shot. A second gun was produced, and I knew that it was without satisfaction that she observed my lack of prowess. One out of five was the best I could do, whereas she smashed three with the greatest ease. "If I had known you would be up so early I should have sent coffee to your room," she remarked as we walked toward the house. "Very likely your lack of luck with the birds is attributable entirely to the impoverished state of your stomach." Breakfast was served on a delightful sun porch that I had not before seen Cecilia appeared promptly, having, in fact, been gathering fall flowers for some time. I judged, from the considerable armful of chrysanthemums, ants, dahlias and marigolds which we found her arriving for the table. She seemed in excellent pliars and greeted us most amply. The mall arrived and was placed by Miss Hollister's plate before we left the table. She opened first a bulky envelope containing cuttings from a clipping bureau, and she mused aloud upon these as she read: This persistent story of a unknee gallen of the Bolivian coast sounds plausible, but I fear it is the work of some bright young journalist. Our minister in that benigned country doesn't take any stock in it. I had a cable from him yesterday." She handed Cecilia a number of letters, which the girl opened and then to my surprise weekly turned over to her aunt. Miss Hollister surveyed them critically. "I thought," she remarked, "that that young Henderson who was no attentive to you at Sandilid was an imposter, and this note settles the matter. He flirted outrageously with Hezekiah behind your back. He asks if he may call upon you here. If he were the nephew of Colonel Abner Henderson of Rokh smoke, as he represented himself to be; he would not ask if he might call upon you, but would have appeared at once in his proper person to pay his ad, dresses. As for these other gentlemen, we need not discuss them. Their actions must speak for them." Miss Hollister, having thus dismissed her mace's correspondents, rose and led the way to the library. Cecilia seemed in no wise depressed by her mans's fing at Mr. Henderson, who ever he might be, but threw the notes upon the names that blasted merrily in the fireplace. I regimented immediately that as I bad come to Hopeful Manor to inspect the time I should now be about my business, but to my surprise Miss Hollister enforced no interest whatever in the matter. Her tone and manner implied that the condition of her chimneys was utterly negligible. "There is no baste, Mr. Amen. I have suffered all my life from the ill considered and hurried work of professional men. As for my chimneys, I bag that you give me the result of your most serious deliberations. At this hour I ride. Cecilia, will you dress immediately and accompany me?" She disappeared at once, and I stared mutely after her. I am by no means an idler, and this cool indifference to the value of my time would ordinarily have engaged me, but I believe I laughed, and when I turned to Cecilia I found her smiling. "I'm glad, Mr. Ames, that you are a person of humor. It is no joke that my aunt is a believer in thoroughness, and one of these days when she is ready to talk of chimneys she will subject you to a most rigid examination." "One of these days? Why. I have looked at the timetable, and it is my present intention to take the 12:00 into town. I have appointments at my office for the afternoon. I assure you, Miss Hollister, that I'm a man of engagements, particularly at this season." I remembered what Jewett had told me of Forther, the painter, and "blind detention at Newport by Miss Octavian Hollister. I had no intention of being immured in any such fashion, and I was about to protest further when Cecilia took a step toward me and after a glance at the door spoke in a low tone and with great earnestness. "Mr. Ames, I have every reason to believe that you are a gentleman, and in that confident belief I'm going to ask a favor of you. You have said that you know Hartley Wiggins well. "I know no man better. You might not have inferred it from his manner last night, but he was undoubtedly surprised and embarrassed by my presence and did not let quite like himself." "I think I understand the cause of that. If I should ask you to see him today and give him a message for me could you do so?" "It will be an honor to serve you and a very simple matter, as I should see him on my own account if he is still in the neighborhood." "He is doubtless at the Prescott Arms. My message is a verbal one. Please urge him not to make any effort to see me and not to call here again. But at the same time, as the chimpmy smoked just as we were about to be left alone last night, I think—"she hesitated a moment—"you may say that his interests have not been jeopardized by his temerity in calling." In her pause before concluding this curious commission her eyes searched mine deeply, and I felt that she had not lightly intrusted me with this singular errand. Her dark eyes held mine an instant after she had spoken. Then she smiled, and her face showed relief. "Ask for anything you want. Aunt Octavia despares motors, so there's no car here, but you will find plenty of horses and traps. Order whatever please you. I shall expect to meet you at dinner if not at lunchroom, and so—"she smiled again—"will Aunt Octavia." She nodded to me from the door, and I heard her running lightly upstairs. Left to my own devices I rang the bell and ordered the library are extinguished and the hearth cleaned. This required a little time, but the house man obeyed me readily, and soon clad in my professional overalls and jumper. I was going carefully over the two whose behavior had been uncountable the previous night. Guided by the servant, I inspected the three fireplaces in the upper chambers that were served by flues in this chimney and finally dropped my torch and plumb line from the chimney pot. Never in all my experience had I seen better flues. But I had the ashes thrown out of the dump in the cellar and found the chute in perfect order I learned by inquiry that the other flues worked perfectly, but I nevertheless scrutinized them carefully. My freedom of the house afforded an excellent opportunity for a study of its beautiful construction. It was modern in every sense, with no dark, mysterious corners in which goblins might lurk. My professional laborers were finished. I was quite ready for Mia Hollister's most searching inquiries. As for the library fire, I had decided that a little care in piling the logs in the hearth would oblate the possibility of any recurrence of the difficulty. And I thereopen hurried to my room and after a tub (my vacation encouraged frequent tubbing) chose from the sta- ble a neat trap for one horse. Thus equipped I set out to find Wiggins at the Prescott Arms. As I drove into the entrance I saw Wiggins pacing the long veranda. He waved a hand and came out to meet me, and when I had rid myself of the farm he suggested that we take a walk love affair. When we bad, withdraw a little way from the fan he turned on no sharp... A *Your presence there is not a laughing -matter.* "Oh, you needn't take that tone about it! Your being here is something that requires explanation, and your being there"—he dug out his arm toward Hopefield Manor—"your presence there is not a laughing matter." "My dear Wiggins, I came here in a spirit of friendship, and you treat me like a pikpocket. I must say that if you had not acted like a clam the other night at the club, but had told me what was in the wind we might not be meeting now like ancient enemies instead of old and intimate friends." He vouchsafed no reply, but threw himself down under a scarlet maple and began to whittle a stick, while I went on with my story, concluding with: "And now I have finished my work and after, I have made my report I shall probably not meet her again. As for Miss Cecilia Hollister, I can only say, my dear Wigginia, that she is a rarely beautiful woman, and that if you wish to marry her you have my very best wishes for your success and happiness." "It struck me that you were pretty well established there," he blunted. "I confess that I took it for granted you were not there wholly on a professional errand, and I won't deny. Ames, that I was not pleased to see you." "You honor me in assuming that I might aspire to the hand of so splendid a woman as Cecilia Hollister; but my dear Wigginia, I tell you I never laid eyes on her until last night." "But you had been to the Asolando, he perished, hacking away doggedly at his stick. "Of course I had. I told you I had I told you the whole story. But I did not see Cecilia Hollister there. She wasn't there. I fancy that after you saw her there last spring and became infatuated with her and followed her to Europe instead of going to Dakota to harvest your blooming wheat—after that bit of history she never returned to the Asolanda. Your lack of frankness in all this has pained me, and you left it for a gossiping chap like Jewett to tell me the whole story. He threw the stick at a sparrow whose chirp irritated him from a stone fence beyond him and turned toward me a countenance on which dejection, humiliation and chagrin were written large. "Hang it all!" he bellowed. "I believe I'm losing my mind. I don't know what I'm doing. That old woman up there is responsible for all this. She's as crazy as a March hare—crazier. And she's made a prisoner of that girl. I tell you Cecilia Hollister is the greatest girl in the world." "Go it, son! Those descendants of Caesar's legions at work in the road down there are pausing to listen. Try to affect calmness if you don't feel it. I agree to all you say of Miss Cocilia, and please get it into your mould that I have no intention of becoming your rival for her hand. But I must beg of you also not to speak in such terms of her aunt. She is the most delightful woman I ever met." "Mad. I tell you, quite mad! I tell you, Ames, that woman is a malevolent being. She's perfectly fandish." There is no way of answering a man in this humor save by laughter, and I laughed long and loud, to the consternation of the Italian road laborers, who were now swallowing their lunchmeats a short distance away from us. Wiggins suked awhile and then addressed me seriously. "I didn't tell you I was going abroad because the situation made explanations difficult. I could hardly tell you that I was about to race over Europe after a waitress I had seen in a tea room. You're always so confoundedly suspicious. It, would have an odd sound even now if she were--well, if she were a waitress instead of what you know her to be. And my antimony toward Miss Octavia Hollister is due to the fact that after I had been as courtesans to her all summer long as I could and thought myself tolerably established in her mind as a decent person and a gentleman, she suddenly shuts Cecilia up in that house-bought it on purpose. I fancy—and Cecilia herself is compelled to take on an al of mystery, warning me to keep away, suggesting the darkest possibilities, but giving me no hint whatever of the reason for her conduct." "Let us confine ourselves to Miss Otaiva for a moment. While you were acting as cavalier to her party abroad she was friendly—then she suddenly changed. Now heps must be some explanation, of that." "Well, for one thing; she flew off at a tangent about my ancestors. We were Subscribe to The Richmond PLAN BT. Only $1.50 per year in advance whale. I open my wristwatch to it, but they sound and say twice of him. He was really amused by the air transgression from his people, and though he had a heart in this very neighborhood someone—I've thought some time I'd look it up and try to get hold of it—he never mentioned his military experiences even to his own children. Usually Miss Molliater changes front if you give her time. I've heard her say that we'd have been better off if we'd never broke with England, but she persists in prodding that weak place in my armor. "From what you say Cecilia has not repelled you. On the other hand, she has frankly given you to understand that you must not press your suit at this time for reasons she sees fit to withhold. A little more patience, a little calm deliberation and less violent language, and in due course the girl is yours. Now, what do you fancy is the cause of Cecilia's abrupt change of attitude?" He refused to meet my eyes, but turned away as though to conceal an embarrassment whose cause I could not surmise. When he spoke it was in a voice husky with emotion. "Am I a cad? Am I beneath the contempt of decent people?" "It's possible. Wiggy. that you are. Go on with it." "Well, you know," he began diffidently, "Cecilia has a sister." I grinned, but his scowl brought me to myself again. "Yes. And her name is Hesekiah. The name pleases me." "She was with Mias Octavia in her gallop over Europe, so I saw a good deal of her necessarily. She is younger than Cecilia. She's a good deal of a kid—that sort that never grows up, you know." "Just like her Aunt Octavia." "Rah! Don't mention that woman. Hercklab is when you prey girl, and I suppose—well, when you are thrown with a girl that way, seeing her constantly. I clapped my hand on his knee as the light began to dawn on me. "You old rascal! You don't need to add a single word. I dare say you are gullity. I can see it in your eye. After waiting till you reached years of discretion before beginning an attack upon womankind you began mowing them down in platoons. So they come running now that you've got a start. Oh, Wiggy! And I believed you immunel. And you're trying to drive 'em tandem. "That, you shameless wretch, would be a sufficient reason for Miss Octavia's aloofness—your double faced dealing with her nieces. You confirm my impression that she is a wise woman. And Cecilia, I take it, may be deeply embarrassed by her sister's infatuation for you. You certainly have made a tangle of things, you heart wrecker, you conscienceless delceiver! But where, may I ask, do this Hezelkah keep herself?" "Oh, she's with her father. They have a bungalow over the hills there, several miles from Hopefield Manor." "Well, I hope you are no longer toying with her affections. Of course you don't see her any more?" "Well, he mumbled. "I did see her this morning. But I couldn't help it. It was, the most chance. I met her in the road when I was out taking a walk. She's always turning up. She's the most unaccountable young person." He rose and fung up his arms despairingly. It was much easier to laugh at Wiggin than to be angry at him, but I delivered the message which Cecilia had intruded to me, and this, I thought, might give him some comfort." "She told you to see me?" "She certainly did. I confess that my message doesn't seem luminous, but I have a feeling that she meant to be kind. It may be that she is giving you time to disentangle yourself from the detectable Heskelah's meaher. I can't elucidate. I merely convey information. But answer honestly if you can, has Cecilia ever refused you?" "No," he replied grimly; "she's never given me the chance." CHAPTER VII. W IGGINS asked me to lunch eon, and on the way back to the fun, after inquiring my plans, on returning my plans for returning to town, be proposed that I delay my departure until the following day. What he wanted, and he put it bluntly, was a friend at court, and as I had seemingly satisfied him of my entire good faith and of my devotion to his interests he begged that I prolong my stay in Miss Hollister's house, giving as my excuse the condition of the chimneys of Hope- field Manor. He brushed aside my plea of other engagements and appealed to our old friendship. He was taking his troubles hard, and I felt that be really needed counsel and support in the involved state of his affairs. I did not see how my continued presi- ence under Hollister's roof could materially assist him, and the thought of remaining there when there was no work to do done was repugnant to my sense of professional honor, but he was so persistent that I finally yielded. While we ate lunchon I sought by every means to divert his thoughts to other channels. After we were seated in the dining room four other men followed, exercising considerable care in placing themselves as far from one another as possible. A few moments later a motor hummed into the driveway, and we behead its owner ordering his chauffeur to return to town and hold himself subject to telephone call. This latest arrival appeared shortly in the dining room and, surveying the rest of us with a disdainful air, sought a table in the remotest corner of the room. Others appeared, until eight in all had entered. The presence of three men at I am not so much interested in the business for a magazine issue I would like. Then it dawned upon me that he was the third man I had not in the field overseeing the garden when my caredropping experience the day before. I thought it as well, however, not to mention this fact, or to speak of the man I had seen no grimly posted in the midst of the cemetery. I was an observer, a looker on, at Hopedale, and my immediate business was the collecting of information. "Will you kindly tell me, Wiggy, who these strange gentlemen are and just what has brought them here at this hour?" "I know them—they are guests of the inn. Most of them were more or less companions in our procession across Europe last summer. The one in the inn suit in Henderson—you must have heard of him. The short dark chap of straithless countenance in John Stewart Dick, who preends to be a philosopher. As for the others— He dismissed them with a jerk of the head. My wits struggled with his explanation. It is my wish to reduce information, to plain terms. "Are these gentlemen, then, your rivals for the hand of Miss Cecilia Hollier? If so, they are a solemn band of sultons, I must confess." "You have hit it, Amos. They are sultons, assembled from all parts of the world." "Nice looking fellows, except the chap with the monocle, who has just ordered rather more liquor than a gentleman should at this hour." "That is Lord Arrowood. I have feared at times that Miss Octavia favored him." "Possibly, but not likely. But how long is this thing going to last? If you fellows are going to hang on here until Miss Cecilia. Hollisher has chosen one of you for her husband I shudder for your nerves. I imagine that any one of these gentlemen is likely to begin shooting-atross his plate at any minute. Such a situation would become intolerable very quickly if I were in the game and forced to lodge here. "I hope," replied Wiggins with heat, "that you don't imagine these fellows can crowd me out. I've paid for a month's lodging in advance, and if you will stand by me I'm going to win." "Spoken like a man, my dear Wiggins! You may count on me to the sweet or bitter end, even if I pull down all the superb chimmys with which Pepperton adorned that house up you-ser." He silently clapped my hand. A little later I telephoned from the inn to my office explaining my absence and instructing my assistant to visit several pressing clients, and I instructed the valet at the Hare and Tortoise to send me a week's supply of linen and an odd suit or two. At about 3 o'clock I left Wiggins in first rate spirits and set out on my return to Hopefield Manor. I made a wrong turn on leaving the Prescott Arms, and I came out presently near Katonah Village. I got my bearings of a shopkeeper and started again for Hopefield Manor, but the midafternoon was warm, and the hills were steep, and as Miss Hollister's admirable cob showed signs of weatness. I drove into a fence corner and looked the mare's check. On a sunny slope several hundred yards above the highway lay an orchard, advertised to the larcenous eye by the ruddest of red apples. Not in many years had I robbed an orchard, and I felt irresistibly drawn toward the grazed trees, which were still, in their old age, abundantly fruitful. I drew down a bough and plucked my first apple, tasted and found it good. At my palate's first responsive tittification something whizzed past my ear, and, following the slight of the missile, I saw an apple of goodly size fall and roll away into the grass. I had imagined myself utterly alone, and even now as I looked gullily around no one was in sight. The apple had passed my ear swiftly and at an angle quite un-Newtonian. It had been fairly aimed at my head, and the law of gravitation did not account for it. As I continued my scrutiny of the landscape I was addressed by a voice whose accents were not objurgatory. Rather, the tone was good matured and indulgent if not indeed a trifle patronizing. The words were these: Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! It was then that, lifting my girl, I beheld, sitting lengthwise of the wall, with her feet drawn comfortably under her, a girl in a white sweater, bareheaded, munching an apple. There was no question of identity. It was the girl whose head behind the cashier's grill of the Asokando had interested me on the occasion of my second visit to the tea room. In collecting my attention by reciting a line of verse she had, merely followed the role of the tea room in like circumstances. The casting of the apple at my head possessed the virtue of novelty. While I fried to think of something to say I pecked at my own apple, but kept an eye on her. She concluded her repeat calmly and fung away the core. "I mentioned soup," she remarked. "The courses are mixed. We have partaken of fruit. Are you fish, Seah, whal or good red herring?" "Daughter of Eve, I will be anything you like. I am obliged for the apple, and I apologize for having entered Moe uninvited." "It's not my Eden. Nobody invited me. But it's not too much to say that these apples are grand." "I'm glad we're both in the same boat. I'm a treasurer myself. I don't even know the name of the owner. But if you have had only one apple two more are coming to you if you follow Amatha's precedent." "So it's not your orchard?" she asked. "The thought matters me. I own no hands nor ships at sea. I'm a chimney doctor, and if necessary I apologize for it." "You needn't submit testimonials. I take the swallows out of my own chimneys." "That requires a deft hand, and I'm sure you're considerate of the swallows." "You may come up here and sit on the wall if you care to. I saw you driving in a trap. I hope your horse isn't afraid of motors. Motors speed scandalously on that road." "I am not in the least worried about my home. It's borrowed. As you remarked, this is a nice orchard. I like it here." "If you are going to be silly you will find me little included to nonexistence." "Shall we talk of the Apolloade? I haven't been back since I saw you there, and yet let me see, isn't this your day there?" She seemed greatly amused, and her laughter rose with a fountain-like spontaneity and fell, a splash of musical sound, on the mellow air of the orchard. She had changed her position as I joined her, sitting erect and kicking her heels lasily against the wall. "Mr. Chimney Man, something terrible happened just after you left that afternoon. I was bounced, fired. I lost my job." "I incredible! I'm sure it was not for any good cause. I can testify that you were a model of attention—you were surprisingly discreet. You repelled me in the most delicate manner when I intimated that I should come often on the days that you made the change." "The end part of it was that that was not only my last day, but my first. I had never been there before, except for a nibble now and then when I was in town. But I couldn't stand it. It was like being in jail—in fact, I think jail would be preferable. But I'm glad I spent that one day there. They dispensed with my company because I remarked to one of the silly girls who are making the Ansoiano their lifework that I thought the English pre-Raphaelites had carried the dish face rather too far. The girl to whom I uttered this heresy was so shocked she dropped a teacup—you know how brittle everything is in there—and I came home. You were really the only adventure I got out of my day there. And I didn't find you entirely satisfactory." "Thank you. Francesca, for these confidence. And having lost your position, you are now free to roam the hills and dream on orchard walls. Your scheme of life is to my liking. I can see with half an eye that you were born for the open and that the walls of no prison house can ever hold you again." She nodded a dreamy acquiescence. Then she turned two very brown eyes fall upon me and demanded: "What is your name, please? I mentioned it. "And you doctor chimneys? That sounds very amusing." "I'm glad you like it. Most people think it abused." "What are you doing here? There's not a chimney in sight." "Oh, I have a commission in the neighborhood, Hopeful Manor. You may have heard of Miss Hollister's place." "Of course, every one knows of her." "And now that I think of it, it was she about whom you asked in the Aslando that afternoon. You wanted to know what she said about the tea room." "I remember perfectly." She was quiet for a moment, then she shew back her head and laughed that rave-laugh of her. "You might let me into the joke." "It wouldn't, mean anything to you. I have a lot-of private jokes that are for my own consumption." "Your way of laughing is adorable. I hope to hear more of it. In the Ansoando you repulsed me in a manner that won my admission, but I venture to say now that, if you roam these pastures, I am the grass beneath your feet, and if yonder tuneful water be enriched to you I sit beside the brook to learn its song." "You talk well, sir, but from your tone I fear you can't forget that we meet first in the Asoloando. That day of my life is past, and I am by no means what you might call an Asoloando. I don't seem to impress you with that fact. I am a human being, not to be picked like a red apple, or trumped upon like grass, or lamented as though I were a foolish little break. I am greatly given to the highway, and I prefer mercadona. I like embalm, pavements, too, for the matter of that. I should love a motor, but lacking the coin I pedal a bicycle. My wheel lies down there in the bushes. You see, Mr. Chimney Man, I am a plain spoken person and have no intention of deceiving you. My name was Princesa for one day only. It may interest you to know that my real name is Hesekiah." "Hesekiah? Then you are Cecilia's." "Over there somewhere beyond that sligh." And she waved her hand vigorously toward the village and laughed again. "Pray tell me what this particular She in. It must be fortunate. Public I would, strangling with these tears, say: "We Are Ortega! She will be the founder of the red. You know the sheer woe we are. Data that the company will all these artifacts commemorate will be a financial, and she will never give her birth, with the greatest gift that Apostle Ortega had asked for a candle." That laugh rippled out and came to carry joy along the plains made above us. "But you know," she reasoned, "that Apostle Ortega never drank a cocktail in her life and wouldn't. She doesn't know a cocktail from something else. She places for adventure. She is just like a boarding school girl who has read her first romance of the young American engineer in a South American republic shooting the insurgents full of tortillas and marrying the president's dark eyed daughter. She reads pirate books and is crayed about buried chests and pieces of eight. And they say I'm just like her. She is the most perfectly killing person in the world." Hezekiah laughed again. CHAPTER VIII. So this was the child whose devotion had rendered Wiggins a miserable and the sister of whom Cecilia Hollister and her aunt had spoken so strangely. - I had not suspected it. She was as unlike Cecilia as possible, and the difference lay in her independent spirit and bubbling humor. She jumped down from the wall, shook three.apples from a tree and sustained them in the air with the defences and certainty of practiced juggling. Her absorption was complete, and when she weared of the sport she fung the apples away, once after the other, with a boy's free swing of the arm. Herrick would have delighted in her. Dobson would have spun her bright hair into a rudeaue, but only Aldrich, with a twinkle in his eye, could have brought her up to date in a dozen chiming couples. She had gone on up to the crest of the orchard and stood clearly limned against the sky, her hands thrust into the pocket of her sweater. She appeared to be intent upon something that lay beyond and half turned her head and summoned me by whistling. I liked this better than the quotation method of address. It was a clear, shrill pipe, that whistle, and she emphasized it further by a peremptory wave of her arm. When I stood beside her I was surprised to find that the site commanded a wide area, including the unmistakable roofs and chimneys of Hopefield Manor, half a mile distant. "You will see something funny down there in a minute. They are out of sight now, but there's a little, the kind with steps, just beyond those, treas. it's in a path that leads from the Prescott Arms to Aunt Octavia's. Look!" My eyes discovered the stile. It was set in a wall that was, she told me, the boundary dividing Hopesfield. Manor from another estate nearer our position. Buddenly a silk hat bobbed in the path beyond the stile. It rose as its owner mounted the steps. It paused an instant when the top of the stile was reached, then quickly descended and came toward us, a black blot above a black coat. I was about to ask her the meaning of this apparition when a second silk hat bobbed in the path and then rose like its predecessor, descending and keeping on its way until hidden from our sight by shrubbery. A third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth followed. Nine gentlemen in silk hats crossing a stile in a lonely pasture between woodlands; so much was plain to the eye from our vantage ground. But I groped blindly for an explanation of this spectacle. The Bobbing hats and dark costs suggested wanderers from some dark Plutonian cave, bent upon mischief to the upper world. Their step was jaunty—them moved as though drilled to the same cadence. We waited a moment, expecting that another figure might join the strange progression, but this was the correct count. I looked down to find Hezekiah checking them off, on the fingers of her slim brown hand. "Has there been a funeral, and are they the returning pall bearers?" I inquired. "Not yet" she replied. Her face showed amusement. The twitching of her lips encouraged hope that another of those delightful laughs was imminent. She said: "Those are Cecilia's sultons. They have been to Aunt Octavia's to tea. They're staying at the Prescott Arms probably." "They're terribly formal. I can't get rid of the impression of sembernness created by those fellows. You'd hardly expect them to tramp cross country in those duds. Such grandeur should go on wheels." "Oh, they are afraid of Aunt Octavia. She won't allow a motor on her grounds, and I suppose they're afraid they might break some other rule if they went on any kind of wheels. She's rather exacting, yed know, my Aunt Octavia." "I was at the Prescott for lunchon today, and I must have seen these gentlemen there." "Oh, you were at the recessory." Almost for the first time her manner betrayed surprise, but mischief danced in the brown eyes. With Wiggin's confession as to "the havoc he had played with Hezelkian's confiding heart from in my memory, I felt a delicacy about telling ber that it was to see Wiggin that I had visited the inn. Det to my surprise she introduced the subject of Wiggin immediately and with laughter struggling for one of those fontain-like splashes that were so bequiling. "Oh, Wiggin is staying there! Do you know Wiggy?" "Know Wiggy, Hezelkiah? I know no man better." "Wiggy is no end of fun, isn't he? I've heard him speak of you. You are his friend the chinney man. He was the last man over the site. Did you notice that he lingered a moment longer at the ter, than the others? From --- his being the ninth man I imagine that he was the last to leave the house, and he probably felt that this set him apart from the others. Wiggy is nothing if not shy and retiring." A heartbroken, lovelorn girl did not speak here. She whistled softly to A Nine Gentlemen In Silk Hats Crossing a Stile. herself as we descended. The air was cooling rapidly, and the west was hung in scarlet and purple and gold. The horse neighed in the road below, and I knew that I must be on my way to the manor. "Hesekiah," I said, when I had drawn her bicycle from its hiding place, "you'd better leave your wheel here and let me drive you home. It's late, it's some frost in the air. I imagine it's some distance to your house." "Thank you, Mr. Chinmey Man; it is much farther to Aunt Octavia's. But tell me this: What do you think of Wiggy's chances." "Of winning your sister? I should say from my knowledge of Wiggy that he is a man much given to staying in a game once the game are shuffled." "Then you think be knows the game!" There seemed to be something beneath the surface meaning of her words, but I answered: "Wiggy's affairs have been few, and, while he may not know the game in all its intricacies, he has a shrewd if father slow mind, and, besides, he has saked my help in the matter." "One of these speak-for-yourself John situations, then? Well, I should say, Mr. Chimney Man, I should say—" She made ready for flight, looking ahead to be sure of a clear thoroughfare. "I should say," she concluded, settling her skirts, "that that indicates considerable intelligence on Wiggy's part." The tires rolled smoothly away, the gravel crunching, the pebbles popping. The white sweater clasped a straight back angly; then suddenly, as the wheels gained momentum, she bent low for a spurt, and her rapidly receding figure became a gray blur in the Miss Octavia was in the gayest spirits at dinner that night, and struck afield at once with one of her amusing dicta. "Human beings," she said, "may be divided into two groups—interesting and uninteresting, but idiotics abound in both classes." Octavia and I discussed this with more or less gravity, until we had exhausted the possibilities. Miss Octavia following with apparent interest and setting us off at a new tinge when our enthusiasts lagged. She referred in no way whatever to her chimneys, nor did she ask me how I had spent the day. I felt the plumbing of Octavia's eyes that I should accept the situation as it stood, and having already agreed to Wiggin's suggestion that I abide in Miss Helldier's house as a spy—for this was the impossible fact—I felt the threads of conspiracy blinding me fast, so far as my hostess was concerned. I was now less a guest than a member of the household. The variety of subjects that Mise Octavia suggested was amazing. From astronautics to the marro question, from polar expedition to the political As we rose from the table Mimi Octavil declared that she must show me the pile pantry. I was now so accustomed to her ways that I should not have been in the least surprised if she and proposed opening a steel vault filled with a mummified Egyptian dynasty. "The gentleman who built this house," she explained, "had already grown rich in the manufacture of the famous ribbon umbrella, before he acquired a second fortune from a monarch warranted to cure dyspopia. He was inordinately food of pie, and in order that this form of poetry might be about from his house, he had acquired a pillow built to which he Small adjoins at his pleasure with all his fair of spelling the cupboard here." He jot the way through the better kitchen and into a small cupboarded room, adjoining the table lines closest to her command the butter throw open the doors and dislatch lines of shelves as arranged as to accommodate in the small compact and orderly form imagineable several dozens of plen. These partition, in the pans as they had come from the oven, prepped out invitingly. Miss Octavia explained their presence in her usual impressive manner. "It was one of the conditions of the sale of this house to me by the original owner's executives that the pie vault should be kept filled at all times, whether I am in residence here or not. He felt greatly indebted to pie for the success of the dyspnea cure. It had widened and, steadily increased the market for the cure, and pie was to him a consecrated and sacred food. It was his habit to eat a pie every night before retiring, and on the nightmares thus inspired he had planned the strategy of all his campaigns against dyspnea. The man had elements of greatness, and these shelves are a monument to his genius. In order to keep perfect my title to this property it is necessary for me to maintain a pantry cook, and as I do not myself care greatly for pie the total output is distributed among the people of the neighborhood every second day. The station agent at Bedford is a heavy consumer, and a retired physician at Mount Kisco has a standing order for a dozen a week. My niece Hezekiah, of whom you have heard me speak, is partial to a particular type of pie, and one only. It is the gossipery that delights Hezekiah's public, and under G in file S. in the corner behind you. there is even now a gossipery pie that I shall send to Hezekiah, who, for reasons I need not explain, does not now visit here." "But the drapespeal man--you speak of him as though he were dead." "Your assumption is correct, Mr. Anne. The builder of Hopefield died only a few weeks after he had established himself in this house. Having entered upon the enjoyment of his well earned leasure and made it unnecessary that he should ever go pleasures to bed, he gave himself up for a fortnight to a mad indulgence in meringues and died after great suffering, steadily refusing his own medicine to the end." We still lingered in the pclept after this diverting recital, while Miss Octavia entertained me with ber views on ples. "The soul color of pies varies greatly, Mr. Ames. It has always seemed to me that apple pie stands for the homelier virtues of our civilization. It is substantial, nutritious and filling. The custard and lemon varieties are feminine and do not, perhaps for that reason, appeal to me. Cherry pie at its best is the last and final expression of the pie genus, and where cooks have been careful in eliminating the seeds and the juice hasn't made sodden dough of the crust a cherry pie meets the soul's highest demands. In the gooseberry I find a certain reactness or, if I may use the expression, stip, that is highly stimulating. Bottl qualities you will observe in Heskelah if you come to know her well." "I have already formed a high opinion of Miss Heskelah, and I should deal harshly with any one who ventured to criticize her in any particular." I replied. "Will you kindly inform me just when you made the acquaintance of my younger niece? I should greatly dislike to believe you guilty of dissimulation, but when Hezekiah was mentioned in the gun room last night your silence led me to assume that she was wholly unknown to you." "She was, I assure you, at the dinner hour last night. But I met her quite by chance this afternoon in an orchard at no great distance from this house." Miss Octavia paused in the hall and bent her head in thought for a moment. "May I inquire whether she referred in any way to Mr. Wiggins in this interview?" "She did, Miss Hollister." I repiled. And I could not help smiling as I re- J. "The soul color of pice varies greatly, Mr. Ames." membered Hesekah's laughter at the mention of my friend. My smile did not escape Mine Octavia. "Just how, may I ask, did she refer to Mr. Wiggian? "As though she thought him the funniest of human beings. She laughed deliciously at the bare mention of his name." "It was not my impression, then, that she was deeply enamored of him; that she was eating her heart out for him." "Dearly not. Near Wollinder. After "You roller me greatly. Mr. J. great sense of humor in the situation and I should not in the least faint him for Heoklaik. And blinded, I am not yet ready to arrange a marriage for her." She held the slightest stress on the final procnon. It was a fair inference, then, that Miss Cocilia's affair were being "arranged;" when they had been determined a husband would be guard for, Henkish. I did not doubt that Miss Hollister's intentions toward her nieces were the friendliest, no matter what strange devices she might employ to bend those young women to her purposes. HOW TO LOOK PRETTY EVEN THOUGH SEASICK. Many women wear the smart steamer coat and hat only at the beginning and end of a voyage, loafing about the deck between times in the comfortable knitted sweaters and caps which are just now the fad. These knitted caps are ideal for ocean wear, as they keep the hair from blow- ing untidily about and, unlike the chiffon veil, do not them- selves whisk about in the breezes. The quality bonnet cap matches the white sweater with blue border trimming, the cap being of white worsted with a border of blue and blue ribbon rosettes and ties. There is a babyish suggestion about such a knitted bonnet with its big ear rosettes that is charming on just the right type of face, and, of course, the girl with the big blue eyes is ravishing in a blue ribboned baby cap. One sees these capes in lovely soft shades of tan and brown, matching knitted sweaters in the same colors, and one pretty, fair haired girl, crossing recently, wore a well fitting knitted coat of sage green worsted with a bonnet in the same shade, tied with deeper green ribbons. NOVEL JABOTS. How to Make Smart and Becoming Neckwear. A pretty embroidered linen jabot can be made from a handkerchief. You will have little difficulty making the jabot if these directions are closely followed: Place the handkerchief flat on the table and turn one point under to form a straight top for the jabot. Now, using the point opposite as a center, fold the sides into plats until the jabot is the desired width. Baste the plats in place and press with a heated iron. When the bastings are removed you will have a jabot pretty enough to please any one. The embroidered handkerchiefs with edges of handmade lace are especially lovely when used for jabots. Four handkerchiefs can be joined to form a dainty ten apron. When these are sowed together by hand they form a large square. Arrange this with one point forming a bib and run a gathering string across the front, so that the apron fits properly at the waist line. Stitch a band of lace insertion over this and run ribbon through to form the apron strings. The apron is finished by a narrow edging of valenciennes lace. Attractive bureau scarfs and a table cover for the bedroom can be made by using the handkerchiefs as medallions and pointing them together. Border these with an edging of lace. HOW TO WHITEN THE THROAT Lemon Juice or a Ripe Tomato Will Remove Any Discolorations Remove Any Chemicals Shapoliness is not all that is necessary to the making of a throat beautiful. The texture of the skin must be fine and soft, white and unblemished. Cleanliness is the first essential. A good thorough scrubbing with a not too soft brush, hot water and soap once or twice a week will do no harm, the threat of the time using the ordinary cloth. Apply lemon juice or a ripe tomato to any discolorations that may appear, and unless the pores are enlarged use cold cream freely. Alcohol will harden the flesh. As for the various bleaches, there are some that are harmless, except in so far as they invariably are drying, which ultimately leaves the skin harsh and brash. Here is one that can easily be made a home; but, like the others, it is drying, so be sure to counteract this effect by applying cold cream after using it. Mix an ounce of peroxide of hydrogen, six ounces of witch hazel and half an ounce of lactic acid. Apply this with a soft cloth. How to Economize on less. A ten cent piece of ice every other day is a more economical purchase than a five cent piece every day. Healing twice as large and solid, it will last not only twice as long as a five cent piece, but it will give double as much chill to the refrigerator, and this chill will last twice as long, so that when a new cake is put in it will not melt as soon as it would have done otherwise. In fact, a ten cent piece of ice will often keep a refrigerator so cold that, except in very warm weather, one can get along very well if one only buys it every three days instead of every two. It is well to buy a new cake before the last one is entirely gone and the chill, of the kebox gone with it. Mew to Open Head of Lettuce. To open a tight head of lettuce with out tearing the delicate leaves hold the top of the head under the cold water thawers, allowing the water to run at moderate force. The closely wrapped leaves will should slowly under the motion of the water and there will be no inflated leaves. When thoroughly opened and white water wet plums in a soft steel rod keep in a cold place until emptied. JOHN WINCHESTER A penny caved is a penny earned— Benjamin Franklin THERE is a deal of so called economy that is senseless extravagance and defeats in itself the purpose of economy. Too many women in their effort to save everything throw away a large amount of material that could be expended or used in a much better way and in the end attain a result that is far from gratifying. There is more than the mere saving of 5 cents' worth of leftover food to be considered in the practice of economy, notably labor, the cost of fuel, time and the final result of the whole. The desire to save half of a five cent loaf of bread, which causes some women to use a quart of eight cent milk and four eggs at 4 or 5 cents apiece, halt an hour's time and 10 cents' worth of fuel in order to produce a dish that no one likes and that the whole family refuses to eat, is the result of a mistaken idea of economy. Far better would be the purchase of a quart of ice cream at 60 cents, which would save her time, labor and fuel and give the family the pleasure of a luxury and add to the value of the menu. If, to offset the expense of the ice cream, she could be taught to buy less bread, cut it carefully, just what was needed for each meal and no more, to use half alices and broken pieces for croutons, there would never be any more stale bread left in her bread box than she would need for breeding croquettes or chops once or twice a month. If, in spite of careful buying and cutting, she should some day find herself with part of a loaf of bread to dispose of she might much better throw away the 3 or 4 cents of food than expend 30 or 40 cents to save it. If a tablepoonful of peas suggests no other dish than an omelet which calls for six eggs to be garnished with the peas they had better be thrown out. If they can go into the stock pot, together with three or four other bits of palatable vegetables which will give a good flavor to soup, they will have been well utilized, but it is an extravagance to build up a new dish around them. There is wretched waste in saving the little piece of fat which is left from the steak if it takes a bourne's time to render into clear white drippings for frying. If there is a large amount of fat that can be used in such a way and it can be done without taking time from other necessary tasks it will be a real economy to utilize all such fat, but there are many other things besides the cost of land to be computed when figuring the amount saved by this process. The real beginning of economy is to study the demands of the family and to learn to buy carefully, just enough and not too much nor too little, and the woman who masters this phase of the problem will not find any difficulties in understanding the rest of the subject. How to Make Jama Attractive It is an excellent idea in doing up jellies, either for home use or for a woman's exchange, where the neatness and attractiveness of a glass, often intended as a gift to the skirt, count for much, to fasten around the edges of the white paper used on the top the narrow strips of colored and already gummed papers which are sold for use in the passport of frames for pictures and which may always be bought of any up to date stationer, the expense being insignificant. These bands, in addition to the gain in neatness and pretiness, also give greater security in the matter of air tightness and when a light color is used may also bear the name of the jelly, jam or conserve within. How to Bottle Green Peas. Green peas that are to be bottled should be gathered on a dry day, and only peas that are perfectly sound should be used. Shell them carefully and dip them in boiling water in which a spray of mint has been soaked. After blanching dry the peas and put them into wide necked bottles with mint and salted boiling water. Cover the bottles and put them, wrapped in hay, in a pan of water. Bring the water slowly to the boil and allow the peas to cook gently for an hour and half. Set the pan aside till the peas are quite cold; then lift the bottles out and lay them on a damp cloth in a warm place. Hermetically seal the bottles, dry them carefully and store till required. How to Be Healthy and Beautiful. Never come to the table with a mine full of worries and troubles or in an irritable state of temper, nor again should you attempt to eat when very fatigued. Both these states tend to diminish the blood supply to the digestive organs and therefore to hinder digestion. Do not read or study when eating, but also do not sit gloomily silent. A little pleasant conversation is helpful and favours one's getting into the obnoxious and disgustful habit of eating one's food. How to Prevent Plot Tea. Always empty out any water left before filling the tankettle. Very frequently the flat taste of tea is caused by using water that had already been bottled. How to Kill Paintbrushes. A browmish who does not like to have his hands painted by the hand opener a few days after the paintbrush gets to each paint with a spatula, grinding it directly into the base of the paint. One should be careful to move that a dropper were used for the paint, not just pouring the paint. HOTEL DALE CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service, and refined patronage. Orchestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS' BAYINGS BANK BUILDING Phone: 512-757-8577 RESIDENCE: 6101 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 Specialty. A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Livcryman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and also Entertainment. Phantasy of room with all additory conveniences. Large Picnic or Bed Wingem for hire of reasonable men and nothing but first-class accommodation. Bunting, etc. Keep community on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 Belfast Street. (Address Great Street) WHERE ALL DAY AND NIGHT LIVE ON Bury All Night. 15 To Probe Wage Cuts Under New Tariff Manufacturers of the United States had painted for them by Secretary of Commerce Redfield a word picture of what they might expect in cases where the federal government felt obliged to "walk into their offices" to inquire into wage cuts under the new tariff bill. This was disclosed by Secretary Redfield before the National Association of Employing Lithographers, now in session in Washington. This association had warned congress that the lithographers would have to reduce wages if the Underwood bill became a law. Secretary Redfield told the lithographers that he had spoken thus frankly because he had received from their association a circular referring to the reduction of duty on goods in which they were interested as producers. He warned them that statements based on averages would not be accepted as final. "We should want to know," he continued, "the best and the worst, for averages may be misleading." Four Cornell Students Drown. Four Cornell students, two men and two women, all members of the sophomore class, lost their lives in Cayng lake, at Ithaca, N. Y., according to all the evidence, when a canoe up to all the evidence, when a canoe up set somewhere between Willow Point and the Renwick pier. The students were: Miss Mary C. Mollett, of Middletown, N. Y., a student in the college of arts and sciences; Miss Martha M Cornickell, of Troy, N. Y., a student in the college of law and editor of the Cornell Sun and Relphart C. Zimmner, of Rochester, a student in the college of mechanical engineering. All four put out in a canoe from the C. B. Stainton cottage at Willow Point intending to paddle to Ithaca. Nothing has since been seen of any of them. The canoe was found upside down in the middle of the lake about eight miles north of the cottage. Near the canoe floated the paddles and not far away were the two cushions. The Cut and Dried Life. We are born into a world that is an inexhaustible store of ready made ideas, stored up in tradition, in books and in every medium of communication between our minds and others. All we have to do is to accept this predigested nourishment and ask no questions. We could live a whole life without ever making a really individual response, without providing ourselves, out of our own experience, with any of the material that our minds work on. Many of us seem to be just this kind of spiritual parasites.-Atlantic Monthly. Jose Sticka Jose sticks are made in vast quantities in China and other countries of the east. They consist of bamboo rolled in stems in different odoriferous drugs, two of which are aconite, which serve to protect the sticks against the attacks of rats and mice, and camphor, which causes them to burn steadily without being periodically extinguished. Mt. Vernon Will Not Be Open Sundays. Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, will remain closed to visitors on Sundays, as heretofore, as the result of resolutions adopted by the council of regents of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, now in an extension in Washington. N. & W. WORLOW ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORPOLK. Schedule in Effect September 30, 1912. Levittown Station Station: NORPOLK FOR NORPOLK: 9:30 A. M., 10:00 P. M., 11:40 P. M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST: 6:15 A. M., 9:50 A. M., 9:30 P. M., 9:20 P. M. Arte Richmond from Norfolk: 11:20 A. M. 11:10 A. M., 11:10 P. M. From the West: 9:30 A. F., 9:20 P. M., 9:10 P. M., 9:00 P. M. Daily. ally Em. S. Sunday. Monday Only. W. D. BREVIL, Pill. Tref. Mr. W. C. SAUNDERS. O. P. A., Roanoke. Va. H. C. BOSSEY, L. D. P., Richmond. Va. ATLANTIC GOAST LINE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Founder Currier of the South. TRAIN LEAVE C. & C. Clinton Forge. *12:00 Noon-Express-Daily-Norfolk, Old Potest. *12:10 P. Express-Daily-Norfolk, Louisville. *12:10 P. Express-Daily-Norfolk, Old Potest. *12:00 P. Local-Daily-Newport News, Old Potest. *12:15 P. Local-Kx. Sunday-Gorlenville. *12:15 P. Local-Kx. Sunday-Lynchburg. *12:15 P. Linnigan-Cincinnati, Chicago. *12:10 P. Express-Daily-Cin., Louisville. *12:10 P. Express-Daily-Cin., Louisville. *12:10 P. Parlor Car. TRANS ARRIVE RICHMOND—London from Euston; 11:30 A. M. 2:05 P. M. 8:30 P. M. from Euston; 11:30 A. M. 2:05 P. M. 8:30 P. M. from Euston; 8:20 A. M. *9:56 A. M. at 8:20 P. M. from Euston; 8:20 A. M. 11:35 A. M. and 8:20 P. M. James River Line: *46* A. M. 7:10 P. M. *Daily Except Sunday* SEABOARD AIR LINE OLD PAPERS PLANET OLD. Send when in need. JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINE, LIQUORS and CHARS. PURE OGGER, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Pamphlet Street. (New Old Market.) ggg aR Rae oe ‘ Guy ° a re SS eae — pOEN MITCRELL, mm. .. 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MONEY ORDERS—You can buy « Moory, Onier et tyoee Dent Otoe, paysnle at ibe Ricans Poel "Oace eed we will os reapoesible for Ite SP aerteai, EXPREME MONEY ORDERS can be sbtalon! wt day emee of the. Amerions, Tire Oo, the Untied tates Exprem On, and the Walls Parwo Santee Sopa. ye cil be repee oe 7 ay of theme companion Bee em ond S rrast ean woot_way fee forwarding meney. TeOmTEanO LATTER ite Meary Orie, pest Omer or an Bxgrem O@ce la wot, withis TOR. Fue, Pecemnaner will Register, the Toe Fou win te ered ws on payment of te coon Toms mths Lotter be lent ox ctolen, It Satin Tecedl "Tow con cvod mower tm thle Sineee ot oor tet ‘We umwet bv respensbie for mown ovet, te sate es may eta wny, seinen othe tot ways weetionad shorn. Ki you ened Jour mone? ley caer way, Jou mun do af your owe = | RENEWAL, RTO.—u you 60 met weet THD PLANET coctinend fee enctber year after Tout ‘Sheaription bee ran wat, you thre eotlty wt DY Focal “Ourd to Gieseations UL The courts bare Sica tees “ccteerteere te mrwepagere who Se sen, ke pore, serie st Os oe fe See es Miehle tor the, payment of the vebeciztion co te Gute when they enter the pagwr discee ot. Comme mnCATION. whee, writing tes te crore yout caearigtion ot te Gewentions SST TS Sah ee le Oth "echerwies we euseet Bad your same on oe beck : CHANGE OF ADDEMEE.—ie ercer to changn the addrwmt of 8 cobearibet we west bv ovat tbe ai Ee re Katee’ at the i Fost Oser a Risdmond, Ya, BATURDAY........MAY 31, 1913 te Wo return thanks for a reserved neat ticketx to the Seleka Bateon Choral Soctety'a ‘entertainment lant Monday night at the City Auditorium, We hare received a most {nter- eating poat-card from Mr, Wilton BR Brown of Los Angeles, ‘Cal, It tows himself and nine interesting nowsboys with the various news— papers handled by him.. Standing high above the others Is ono with a copy of The Richmond Planot. The curd 1s interesting and instructive. Wo hare recelred ‘Some Ele: ments Necessary to Race Develop ment.” a pamphlet by Major Ro- bert R_ Moton, Commandant of Cadets, Hampton Institute. . The subject matter ike {ts contents {s excellent. Ho tells us what to be. Ob, if the great majority knew how to do ft. s yt Tho Cotbred Regiment {n New York f now. certainty. The legislature has pessed the law and Gov, Bulger has signed tt The colored folks are mow happy. There ts nothing that so appeals to the average colbred drother as the right to wear uniform and to fight for the country. ‘MONS BRACE PREJUDICE, _ & petition alleged to contain the pignatwres of over eight thousand white rallway. mail clerks asking for the segregation of white und ‘colered rativay mat! clerks has bees, Sled with Postmaster General Bur- Yeson, .This shows the extent of! rece prejudice, These white men have besa fraternising with . thesp estored mail clerks ever simce the] cles of ‘the war and no complaint, hep Been beard. . te the. lend und: encther scheme tring ehowt fricttin between the! wpeus spent be devised: Wheat patt.mow ts penme and harmony. Qsteped vane. should treat with ever ene vacir. white hoe Be ama i need be, go out thetr wiy te do them &@ favor and vice-verss, @ Only by muteat helptalsess on the part of Doth races cam thie qountry be made all that It should be. We hope that Preaifeat Wilson like President Cleveland will discountea- ance this kind of agitation. It can do no good and it will do much harm, Let us have’ peace. “A COMPLAINING MEMBER, . "| Rev. Rodney C, Fox, D, D. o s] Pittsburgh, Pa... writes a length: communication to the Pittsburgh, Pa Courter alleging: that the prinelple of the Order of Knights of Pythias a Jexpoundéd by the Grand Chancello Jars not regutded by those in charge of affa!:4 In Western Pennsylvania. J slo cites the fact that althougt | there are xix or eight able, Inteltigen' [Christin miniatera. of tho gospel, | whose character and moral status are Above reproach and whorate members of the Order, the knighthood Ignores every mininter of the Order and sé curen the services of a minister who has never contributed to the financial tana nt morieal strength of Pythfan- fom. - | Our dingunted Kulght will not have to remain In the vicIntey of Western aso to find these conditions existing, The oblisations of Kalxht- hood, Odd Fellowship and even Ma, fonry inmin Hittle or nothing to the average colored leader and his sup porters. Thoy get inén tnto the ‘Order not to help them but to keap them from fighting them. They “only fear and renyect a colored inn who can strike back. If they have a, Joh of work, they wit! seck A man not a member of tho Order, If they hear of a financial deal which would prove profitable, ' they will, nine times ont of ten give a person not a member of the Order the preference. | We have found this to be true, not only of the rank and file But among the hinisters. physicians, bud | Inesn mon, lawyers, tn fact {t is 0 ractal wenkness. There {¢ inore race pride and "Order pride” tn a wagon’ load of Isiterate; hard working cal-' red Inborers than there Ix {na trata load of educated professtonal peopl» of the same race, Rev. Dr, Fox hat found It necessary to go Into the public press to alr his erievances and tIndicates that lean drastic methods | nave already failed, se Pythians are obligated to support | Pythians and colored people should | upport colored peopln, In the Beantime those who Me complaints honld practice what they preach and ‘ ot be Rullty themselves of the same | Monkees that thes condemn tn othern, | tev, Dr. Fox ts right thourh and no * uecrasfut defense can be made to | fs allegations {f the Knightx of ‘ Ittaburgh have.teen guilty of the ! muduet ascribed ta them, i* EDITOR SMITICS CRITICISMS. '} Editor H.C, Smith of the Clere land, O. Gazette inainta that we did [act tead his editorial carefully and 1 COFFectly. Ho claims that. he said and intimated (hat the organization under Dr, DuBois’ leadership was frittering“away valuable time and the Deoplo'n hard-earned money. doing Uttle things when there were two great bis propositions that concerned all of our -pwoplo’ untouched by the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colormt People. Hoe Te— ferred to the “grandfather cladse” and tie ‘im crow" ear lawa. | Wo understood Hon. 51. C, Smith to say and mean this very thing. We proceeded to cite some of the things which the distinguished editorial writer regarded as “little things.” Boiled down, the entire discussion fs: & matter of opinios until tho organ- fzation comes forward and submits tho facts on which a conclusion can be reached without prejudice to the Associstion. 4 It acems to ux that the “long and short” of the whole business {s that Editor Smith fs of the opinion that the Association should proceed to teat the “grandfather” Jaws and the {ro crow” car laws, and ff tho mon- oy {8 not available the salaries should ; be reduced in one department to/ furnish the fees in the other. We! muspect that our friend will not accept : the last alternative as being in his’ mind and if so we withdraw it tn advance, i Of course Dr. DuBojn {n'a scholar —s veritable “book worm” and be | js not calculated to make friends by | personal contact, He is “ley” in his demeanor and distant in his habits, | rat his greet ability ts luminous and. ends to counteract the effect of his’, Kher echolerly peculiarities. 4, - As we understand it, Hon. #.,C, | banith is not opposed to the’Nationai, baseciation fer the Advancmment of | Detered Poopie but in fact favors it.‘ fle euly dectres that extend the | mepe of tts usefulness to the extent < e Santing che tve great racial ques | sous ~confreatiag aad ember. | weefag the colored ‘people of the centry. Geile. “~. - 1 THE OCOLOR-LANE AT WASHERS TON. "It cam no longer be dented thel President Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, the scholar and statesman hee put-his deal of approval upon the racial discrimination now in vogue in the Southland and extended its operations wRhin the confinog of the national capital itself. It foreshadows too as plainly as anything can do 60, bis carly ap- | proval of “Jim Crow streot car” lava tn the clty of Washington and racial etecrimiaxtions ‘tm overy government batiding in thie country whore there aro Nogto-haters onough:to volco a protest or to raise a voico in Sts favor. The following from the Washing— ton, D. C. Post wlll be of tnterent: Ordors scgreRating the white and Negro cmployes in the oifice of the recorder of docds were issuod yen torday, following an tnvostiration brought dbout by the activity of the National Democratic Fair Play ANo- ciation, ° Prior to this timo, no ae Unction has been mado ax to color, and thero have always been one oF more Negroce at work In each of; the rooms, For soma ttine, there haa been considerable friction be’ tween the racex in thix oMlée. Hen-| ry Lincaln Johnson, the recorder, :6, a Negro, und his deputy ts former Chief Dution, of the fire department Here ts a case where a colored wcorder of Deeds In made to taue in order discriminating against hiv wn people, He Is dog this too, prior to hia own offical decapitation, or he can wing with crnth, "My daya re ifling mweiftly ty." It wil} be diMealt: for the colored lemocrats of, the North, East and Vest to explain why there fe nach a wutlead difference between the Cleve.! and administration and the Wiixoal. administration on thls all {mpottan: uention, That it Iya discrimination noaceount of race sand ‘color and tn ot one whit relieved of Its objec jouable qualities because white peo iy are alae among those subject to iit discrimination. A COLORED MAN'S PREDICAMENT 1; ‘The announcement that S. 0 W "Green, Supreme Chancellor, Knight of Pythias, NL A. S.A. Be An a. "and A, wax hunted from one part 0 ‘the train to another apd finally " nouxht pepe nthe “Jim Crow’ part of the train, where he wai (felted. placed under arrest and per mitted to leave the state of Florida only after he had given bond will be noted with’ tntereat. Itte asserted that be narrowly cmaped with bis Ute, This show: the tisk that a colored man taker In exercising the rights and privileges accorded hii jg tho federal constt~ tution and the fater-staty laws. Afr, Green was clearly within his rights fn occupying a Pullman car fn Inter. state travel. . | Under the recent construction of the laws, DOL state and federal a leolored elttzen {8 entitled to first clasw accommodations 1a travel with- Jin the Hmita of 0 state, even though it be separate, It must be equal. | Woe had a thrilling experience some twelve years ago on the Central of Georgia road while enroute to a meeting of the Supreme Lodge at Jackronritie, Florida, We wore or- dered out of the sleeper by tho train conductor, soon after leavfhg Atlan-| ta, asserting that’to ride to a Pull- man was in violation of the laws of Georgia. We simply announced that Wo were an inter-state pasmenger and accordingly were not mubject to the state lawn. "¢ We said no more and ye remained in that Pullman although we were again and again ordered to go to the “Jim Crow” car coach ahead. We felt that our time bad come and had made itp our mind as to how we would “cross tho river,” We took the risk and rode back vor that name line in a Pullman.car, We aru alive toSay to tell the story, put {t shows the diMculties and om- yarranamants to which colored peo— yo are subjected and the risks tak- vn in travefling. We should be olite and obliging, showing no rude- ess and oxercising 0 bracing pirit, but when the test comes. de- ond.oursolves and ‘go shouting |! jome to, glory." _ THE TROUBLE IN BAT/TIMORE. | | The colored people of Baltimore aro making a vigorous and persist~ ‘ont fight against the segregation or- dinance of Baltimore Conncflmaz Curtis bas oWered atdther ordinance designed to meet the objections ‘of Judge Eisott who declared the West ordinance unconstitutional, Counctiman Harry 8 Cummings, the colored attorney {2 rendering yeoman service. In his speech he eald:’ g “That this ordinance applies to white and cofored alike is no answer to Its injustice, for it & a violation, of the white man's property ‘rights as well ss the colored man's property rights, and two wrongn never have tendo a right.” : ‘Site bs thn Deka Rowen? acces 1 ta ponstionDy ap. cune, mace oF religtees preju- dies ¢ } bave ne cxtstense in claiea to fesdom and equally Relers the law, =: v . . Colored men can go a long Way towards Winning their battles “by being extré polite to” white and col- cored peopte.. We should patronize raco eater prises ama read race journals. ——<—or | Dodging ono’s obligations {s a sure way to reach the poor house, You will soon be in a predicament where né one will trust you. . | When you practico what you preach, you will win tho respect of your friends. ——=———— | vtypoeriay {a “all the go" in’ thts country ‘and square dealing Js at a promjum.. | Some’ folks bolleve fn ving “any old way." They will dio “any ol¢ way," too. 4 | Some folks marry for convenience und separate for the samo reason. a | Teach your children politeness and remember that ax a rule colored folks iar their own worst enemies. 20 OO A a ‘ FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLET | | eS See hla atvaple aitk tonne with Rober plerro collar and dre gored eponge: akirt are excelient tn xtyle, For the medium nlze the blouse will require three and seven-elgbths yarde of twenty-seven Inch material wh a quarter of & yard, twenty-one tochea| wide for the collar, Oreelghths elgbt- e0n laches wide for the chemisette and ‘a half yard of piaited ruMing for the 3. ae , a b: . Vi . t Ray EW SLOUES xD SKIRT. sheven, For medium size the skir takes four and three-quarter yards of material twenty-seven inches. pie with a balf yard eighteen tncbes wide tor the panel, These May stanton patteras are cut tn tise for the blowen trom Be to 4 laches Bust mature and fer the skirt 32 to 3 Inches wast measure. 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[f (n haste wend an addivuna: two cent stamp for letter postage Wher. ordering uv counun “Killa Wife on S*reet: Frank Schuable, a carpenter, abot and. killed hin wife, Lydia Schnable, on the street in Reading, Pa. Schna Bie then tried to KI bimmaclt, but was prevented, The traredy followed the wife's refusal to ttwe with: ber hus band because ¢ bia alleged {ltreat- ment of her GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR stoady: winter clear, $415¢4.40; clty mails, fancy, $5.50 5.60. = ote FLOUR firm; per barrel, $3.50 WHAT frm: No. 2 red, $1.92G 1.03, CORN firm; No, 2 yellow, 6614 Wiie. OATS firm:.No. 2 white, 40g aoiged lower xraden. 446. POULTRY? ‘live steady: neoe, 17 Pires old roosters, Ile. | Dressed rm: choice fowin, 14c.: old roomers, Tatee, BUTTER quiet; fancy creamery, 30c. per Ib. EGGS steady: selected, 24 @ 26¢.; nearby, 2te wenterty, ZAC, POTATOES ateady: old er bush, 9 USI: Dew, $2475 por barrel. ore eerie eve wee nee. 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N., an aviator. The acctetaty remained aloft about five minutes. circling above the wa- tors of the arbor at ap avorage betght of about 560 fant « FOOLING HER STERN PAPA | More Than One Way to Gain « Maidens Objective Point. ‘WOU kuow, dear.” anid the young man nervously to the pretty girl, -"I'm really frightened about speaking to your father, He's ‘ve nwful sare of himself, you know.” “Ia. that all that’s causing the de fay?" inquired tbe modern mies dryly “If that’s 20, Just leave it to me I'll manugo: father.” Accordingly next morning she ap- proached” paterfamilias as be potted Plants to the accompaniment of a cholce Havana and carpet slippers. “Papa.” she gurgled, with felgned mirth, an she took bis arm, “whet do you think? That young fool Perkins has propowed to me! Just fancy! 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Newett, a newspaper publisher, of lish-peming, who in an editorial charged him with drunkenness. During direct examination by his counsel, Mr Pound, Colonel Roosevelt related briefly the history of his life, and then in detail related his daily mode of living and habits for many years past. He declared that he is not an intemperate user of intoxicating liquors; that he does not like the taste of most liquors and abstained almost entirely from their use. He emphatically stated that not since he had become of age had he ever been in the slightest degree under the influence of intoxicants. Severe cross-examination of an hour failed to shake his direct statement as to the extent of his drinking. The leading points in his testimony were: "I have never drank a cocktail or a highball in my life. With exceptions noted I never drank whiskey or brandy except under the advice of a physician. I don't care for the taste of either. "I don't smoke and I don't drink beer, because I dislike smoking and dislike the taste of beer. I never have drunk whisky or brandy except when the doctor prescribed it, or possibly on some occasion after great exposure, when I was chilled through. But it has been certainly fifteen or twenty years since I have drunk it because of being chilled. "I have never drunk beer nor do I drink red wine. The only wines that I have drunk have been either white wines, Materia, champagne or very occasionally a glass of sherry. "At home I often, at dinner, will drink a wine glass or two of Materia. In summer, instead of the Materia, I will often drink a tall glass of white wine and appollinaris water. "At public dinners I sometimes drink a glass of champagne, or perhaps two. I think that on the average this means that I will drink champagne about once a month. "Mint juleps I very rarely drink. In the White House we had a mint bed and I should think that on the Average I may have drunk half a dozen milks a year. "Since I left the White House four years ago, to the best of my memory, I have drunk mint juleps twice, one occasion at the country club at St. Louis, where I drank part of a glass of mint julep, and on another occasion at a big lunch given me at Little Rock. Ark, where they passed around the table a loving cup with the mint julep in it, and I drank when the cup was passed to me. "The only other occasions on which I have drunk whisky have been when it has been prescribed by the doctor. During the last fourteen years I do not believe I have drank whisky straight, or with water, more than half a dozen times." The colonel at another stage of his testimony said that he preferred tea to brandy and milk and doughnuts to champagne. Jacob Rifa, a social worker, was also a witness. "The statement that Colonel Roosevelt was a drinking man is a monstrous life," he said with emphasis, in answer to the question "Does he drink any whisky or brandy?" Dr. Alexander Lambert was the next witness. He said that had the colonel been an excessive user of alcoholic liquor he never would have survived the shock when he was shot at Milwaukee last year. Dr. Lambert has been on numerous hunting trips with Roosevelt in North Dakota, Colorado, Louisiana and Wyoming and has known him personally since 1891. The witness said he was an expert on alcoholic cases and had treated 40,000 of them. "From your personal experience with Mr. Roosevelt on trips and in official life at Washington, would you say he was a man who drank to excess or not?" Dr. Lambert was asked. The witness replied with emphasis that the expresident was extremely temperate. Dr. Lambert said that the first time he was called upon to give his professional services to Colonel Roscoe was when the latter was at the Mercy hospital in Chicago suffering from the wound he received from the bullet at Milwaukee. Dr. Lambert was asked his opinion as to Colonel Roosevelt's chances of recovery had he been a constant user of alcoholic liquor. "He would not have recovered," was the reply. "To his splendid physique unpoisoned by alcoholism, he eyes his recovery from the wound." BULK OF FLAGLER ESTATE TO WIDOW Henry M. Flagler's will was filed in St. Augustine, Fla., and under it J. R. Parrott is to retain the head of the Florida East Coast railroad as long as he may desire. This provision, it is stated, is in recognition of his long and faithful service. The estate is estimated to be worth between $60,000,000 and $70,000,000, and most of it goes to the widow. The son, Harry, will receive 5000 shares of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, J. R. Parrott, W. H. Beardsley and William Koenan, a brother of Mrs Flagler, are named trustees under the will, which includes among other bequests a gift of $75,000 to the Memorial Presbyterian church, of St. Augustine; $60,000 to the University of Florida and $75,000 to Stetson university. To J. R. Parrott Mr. Flagler has left $100,000. HELD FOR ASSAULT ON CHILD Brother of Six-Year Old Girl Identifies Support-Based From Learning SUSPECT—Saved From Lynching. John Chevittski was placed under arrest at Hudson, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. by Chief of Police Thomas Kelley, of Plains, charged with abducting and assaulting Angelina Succinta, six years old, who lives in the Italian settlement at Plains. One hundred men of the settlement, armed with stilettos and revolvers, awaited the arrival of the prisoner. Chief Kelley, knowing the feeling of the Italians, spirited his prisoner to the office of Squire Ayres, at Miners Mills. He held Chevittski there until John Succinta, eight years old, brother of the girl, was taken to the office of the magistrate and identified the prisoner as the man who lured his slater away last Tuesday by promising to buy her candy. The prisoner was then taken by a roundabout way to the county jail in Wilkes-Barre, where Chevittski is now lodged. Angelina Succinta is still in a critical condition. She was assaulted three times, choked and beaten and was held a prisoned for three days in a clump of bushes along the Susquehanna river without food. SUBMERGED IN TUB: ROBBED Girl Thrust Head Downward in Water and $22 Stolen. Viola Wilson, twenty-three years of age, is at the home of her employer, Joseph Bailey, in Newark, N. J., in a serious condition, resulting from sub mersion. She was seized from behind when bending over a washub, thrust head downward into the tub and $22 was stolen. Irving W. Crane is under arrest. He is employed by Bailey, and says he found the girl lying unconscious on the soor. The police found the missing money lying, water-soaked, in a trunk in the girl's room. Separated For 54 Years. Mrs. David Stecker, of Bangor, Pa., and Mrs. Anna Williams, of Philadelphia, met in Bangor for the first time in fifty-four years. They are sisters, but became separated when young and lost track of each other. - Subscriptions to The FLAMET. $1.00 per year in adresses. 1 Photo by American Press Association. Cut Rates Uphold by Supreme Court. Patented articles sold under price restrictions by manufacturers may be resold by retailers at cut rates. The supreme court so hold in the cases of a newly-patented nerve tonic, Safety razors, talking machines and thousands of other patented articles are affected by the decision. The court's decision was five to four, with Justices McKenna, Holmes, Lurton and VanDevant disentangling. Justice Day announced the majority decision, which held that while the patent law gives the owner the exclusive right to "vend" articles, that was not the same as a right to "keep up the price." That, the court hold, was not granted by the patent law. Many manufacturers had joined the manufacturer of the nerve tonic in his fight to sustain the contention that his patent gave him a right to sell or use his patented article under any conditions as to resale price he might see fit to impose. All decisions in the lower courts with the exception of one have been in favor of the manufacturers. Under the cloak of the legal monopoly granted by the patent laws many industries, it is contended, control the price of patented articles to the ultimate consumer. The department of justice has contended that once a patentee sells his patented article he loses all control of it, and is powerless, especially in view of the Sherman anti-trust law, to establish re-sale prices. Polished Banker Dies After Fight. B. Sandera Walker, the young banker, whose fight against death aroused national interest, following the accidental taking of a highhorde of mercury tablet, died at his home in Macon, Ga. Up to the last Walker refuser to allow any skins of grief about his home. His last words were endearingly addressed to his wife, who sat at his bedside holding his hand when the end came. In his last minutes of consciousness, when he roused from a heavy stupor, in which he had lain, Mr. Walker pressed his wife's hand and said sadlyly, "I love you, Marie." He never spoke again. Walker's death occurred almost seven days from the time he accidentally swallowed the corrosive sublimate tablet, lacking only one hour and a half. As long as he enjoyed clarity of mind his mental state was such that he materially co-operated with the physicians in their heroic efforts to save him, but when uracmic poisoning developed and his brain became clouded he began to sink. Hanged Himself In Bed. Bedfast for the last two months with paralysis, Aaron Grover, seventy years of age, a Main township farmer, near Bloomsburg, Pa., committed suicide. A rope was attached to the bed to enable him to raise himself. This he twisted around his neck three times and after passing the other end over the bedpost and attaching it to a door knob, allowed himself to drop. He was dead when found. Shot Saves Woman Lion Tamer. Hurled to the floor of the den by the paw of a large African lion, Mile. Florence, animal trainer with a carnival company now showing in Altoona, Pa., was saved from being torn to pieces by Colonel Ferard, owner of the show, who quickly shot the animal five times. The Lion had been acting strangely for several days. When she stooped to pick up a riding whip the brute sprang upon her. The lion was valued at $2, 000. Anhut Gets Two: Years. John N. Anhut, the young New York lawyer convicted of bribery in connection with a plot to free Harry K. Thaw from the Matteawan Insane saylum, was sentenced to not less than two years not more than four years in prison. Insane Man Kills Flv An insane patient at the blightfoot saylum at Boise City, Idaho, for the insane ran amuck and killed five other patients, according to a message received by Governor Halnes. Brave Boy Saves Child Ernestine Kramer, six years of age was saved from death by drowning in the Sasquatchana at Wilkes-Barre Pa. by George Tidotson, aged fourteen years, who, although he could not swim, dived deep water and brought his little playmate to shore. The Immediate Cause of Action is the Railroad's Inability to Meat $2,250, 800 Obligation: Thomas J. West, chairman of the board of directors of the St. Louis Trust company, and B. L. Winchell, president of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad company, were appointed receivers for the "Frisco" railroad system in the federal district court in St. Louis. The receivership proceedings were decided on at a conference of large bondholders of the railway and a number of the directors, including B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the board; James Campbell, Thomas West, Featus J. Wade, B. L. Winchell, president of the company, and Murray Carleton. The petition was made in the name of Mr. West and other directors. It was based on the inability of the railroad to met a maturing loan of $2,250.00 on short time 5 per cent notes, due June 1. Soon after his arrival from St. Paul Judge Sanborn went into consultation with Frederick W. Lehmann, attorney; Henry S. Priest, attorney, and Mr. West. The St. Louis Union Trust company heretofore has been taking care of the important financial obligations of the "Frisco system." A director, who would not allow his name to be used, speaking of the company's affairs, said: "The Frisco has been under a severe handicap for some time. Operating expenses and fixed charges have continued to offset large gains in gross earnings, due to increased wages for trainmen and the high rates prevailing for money. In the southwest floods a year and two years ago the "Frisco suffered losses running into the millions." The total bonded indebtedness of the system is $237,972,162. The total mileage, including the subsidiary lines, is 7544 miles. Shortly before the appointment of the receivers for the Frisco system the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, which is controlled by the St. Louis & San Francisco, was also placed in the hands of receivers. The complaint was filed by the Railway Steel Spring company. William L. Jackson; vice president of the road, and Edwin W. Winters, of New York, were named receivers. In the bill of complaint it is said that the road has $70,000,000 of bonds outstanding, on which there is an annual interest due of more than $3,000,000. The outstanding indebtedness of the road was placed at $3,372,050, of which $2,600,000 is in accounts payable. PELKY AND BURNS HELD Prize Fighter and Promoter Accused of Manlaughter in McCarty's Death. Arthur Pelky was put under arrest in Calgary, Alberta, upon a charge of manlaughter arising from the death of Luther McCarty, though Pelky was exonerated by a coroner's jury. Tommy Burns also was taken into custody on a manlaughter charge. Both are out on bail. "Referee Ed Smith, of Chicago, and Billy McCarney, McCarty's manager, have been ordered not to leave town until the trial, which may be held under the fall assize. Following is the verdict of the coroner's jury: "We, the coroner's jury, find that Luther McCarty came to his death accidentally, the immediate cause being a subluxation of the cervical vertebrae, at the Burns' arena, May 24, but there is no evidence to show how this injury occurred "We, the jury, therefore exonerated Arthur Pelky from all blame whatsoever." Dr. H. H. Moshler, who conducted the autopsy Sunday night, was one of the first witnesses at the inquest. He testified that a blow on the edge of the right jaw, the dislocation of the fourth cervical vertebrae, the hemorrhage of the brain that followed, and the forcing of blood into the spinal canal, were the causes of McCarty's death. He was on the stand for more than an hour and was questioned closely by Attorney A. Smith, who appeared for Pelky and Burns. Referee Smith testified that not one hard blow was struck during the battle. His testimony was brief. Misses Mum: Kills Student. A fatal initiation of William Tells arrow shot at the apple on his son's head was given by two university students in the city of Halle, Germany. A student named Kruskopf, who was with some of his comrades in a beer saloon, placed a beer mug on his head and a fellow student shot at it with a revolver. The first ball struck Kruskopf in the center of the forehead, killing him instantly. Contemporary History. The teacher in the country school decided to have each one of her pupils draw some of their lessons, that they might have some practice in this direction. She therefore recited the story of the landing of the pilgrims, and after she had finished she asked that each pupil draw from his or her own idea a picture of Rhymouth rock. The majority went to work, but one little boy hesitated and finally raised his hand. "What is it, dear?" "Please, me, am, which do you want to draw, a hen or a rooster?"—Nursurer's Honor. Two Negroes Assault Young Girl. Two unidentified negroes, who were mashed, attacked Mary Burgin, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Charles Burgin, of Coatesville, Pa., while she and Charles Clayton, an electrician, were on their way home from the circus. One of the negroes drew a revolver and, pointing it at Clayton, told him to "beat it." Then they dragged the girl into a nearby woods, stifling her screams with a handkerchief as a gag. Clayton succeeded in finding Henry Miller, a policeman, and they returned to the spot of the attack on a run. The girl was found in an unconscious condition, with her clothing cut to pieces with a knife, and it was apparent that she had made a desperate struggle before the negroes overpowered her. When she gained consciousness she became historical, and it was some time before the men were able to get a description of the assailants. One of the men was short, wore a dark colored silt, and a soft brown hat. The other was very tall, dressed in black and wore a black slouch hat. The girl is said to be in a very serious condition. The police thus far have not been able to give a clue to the whereabouts of the men although a thorough search is being made. Hrid For Customs Fraude Robert W. Millerer, formerly an examiner of merchandise in the Philadelphia customs service, was held in $5000 bail by United States Commissioner Craig for a further hearing in the federal building on a charge of "unlawfully and fraudulently passing valuable and dutiful merchandise imported from abroad and consigned to John Wannmaker, of Philadelphia, as goods of no value." Sensational disclosures, showing how the government has lost thousands of dollars through the alleged fraudulent passing of imported goods into this country without payment of duty are promised by the government. The arrest of Brierley is the first prosecution in an investigation started two weeks ago by Henry N. Arnold, assistant to United States Attorney General McReynolds. Mr. Arnold was sent to Philadelphia from Washington to investigate the payment of $100,000 by John Wanamaker to the United States treasury department on March 3 last in settlement of claims of the government upon importations alleged to have been undervalued at the Philadelphia port. --- Applied Match to Wife. Seth Lucas, a farmer, has confessed that he murdered his wife with a "billy," poured kerosene over the bedding and set fire to his home, near Williamsburg, Ind. last September, according to an announcement by Chief of Police German, of Richmond. Lucas, in his signed confession, said that he killed his wife because she was always nagging him and "because she had threatened to put a spider in my cup." He said they had been having trouble over money matters for two years. Lucas said he hit his wife with a "billy," then poured kerosene on her. "The first match I lighted," continues the confession, "my wife blow out. I then lighted another and set fire to her. My wife shrieked and made a loud outcry." He said he struck her again with the "billy." $58 Love Talk by Wire. It will cost Gottlieb Huebner, the owner of a confectionery store in Bethlehem, Pa., $58 for another's love message. Mary Smak, a pretty Hungarian domestic, not knowing what the telephone charges were, called up her sweetheart at Cleveland from the booth in the candy store. For fifty-eight minutes she billed and cooled over the wire, establishing a long distance love making record in eastern Pennsylvania. After the girl stopped talking Huebner went into the booth to call for the amount of the toll. To his consternation he was told it was $38. When he told the girl she fainted. As she earns only $250 a week Huebner will have to foot the bill and trust to the girl paying him a few pennies at a time as she gets the money. Culebra's Earth Cut Through. When two steam showers mot at the Culebra cut on the Panama canal, one working from the east and the other from the west, the first through cut of the Panama canal at grade, from ocean to ocean, was completed. The whistle, blew and hundreds of workmen quit their jobs to cheer when the big engines scooped out the last thread of earth that joined the two contingents. There is still excavating to be done in broadening the canal, but less than 8,000,000 cubic yards of earth remains to be removed to bring it to the necessary width. The amount of excavating however, will be increased more or less by slides. Received by the Title In the titles of books lie at times pitfalls for the unwary. An almost classic example was afforded by John Ruskin when in 1851 he wrote a short pamphlet on the text, "There shall be one fold and one shepherd," This, which treated of the reunion of the Protestant churches, was published as "Meets on the Construction of Sheep-Shed"—a title which, appealing rather to the agricultural than to the clerical mind, insured a brisk circulation among farmers. Jeff Davis' Capter Tries Suicide. With a gold medal, awarded to him by emigrant, chapped in his hands, Capar Knobel, seventy years old, the last of the hand of fourteen cavalrymen who captured Jefferson Davis, proclaimed the Condemnedry, was found unconscious in his room in Philadelphia. Can you flowering frump several jelly beans and ruined to the hospital? Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Kind. If a student is worth painting at great height and age, much more is worth of a boy or young man worth all the painting he will do. The best education is not too good for a painting student. You would choose a poor painting to save a few cents when you want it. And who would choose an inferior school if you are a better school will incur the strength of a student and of life and prepare one for a longer condition. ```markdown ``` Virginia Union University. Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN. It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE including manual training for those who have completed common subject subjects. Its COLLEGE COURSE is Bread and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegie Board. Its THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools, Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are given here. One hundred students for the Ministry are enrolled in different Departments of the school. 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M You Want Your CHAIRS CANED NEATLY, Call up LEONARD CEPHAS, 'Phone, Madison 1687, or Leave Orders at Do You Know Them? Denver, Colo., Jan. 24, 1913. To Whom It May Concern, or the Pastor of the Church: Dear Str: 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 rela- tives live in Richmond but I don't know their addresses. I wish to inform them of something important. I am respectfully yours, DANAL LAYTON. 3526 West 6th Ave. Denver, Colo. . Noelcet All representatives to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Prysia which will meet in Newport News, Va. in June. 1913, will please communicate with District Deputy Grand Chancellor C. G. Davis, 617-27th St. Newport News, va. or W. F. Clarkson, 753 Hampton Avonue, Newport News, Va. Chairman of Home Committee. 912 NORTH FIRST ST. Satisfaction Guaranteed. and after surgeons had worked over him they expressed the belief that he might recover. Only last Saturday Knobel was the central figure in the celebration of the forty-eighth anniversary of the day he called upon the Confederate president to surrender. He was believed to have become despondent on account of lack of money Discouraging. Miss Rockway—What makes you think that papa has no idea of letting me marry you? Young Seada—So far he's given me three wrong tips on the stock market. —Life. Sounded Like It "Father, my watch is mentally deranged." "Why, my son, a watch can't be mentally deranged!" "Mine is. The jeweler told me it had lost its balance."—Judas. Beams Net Sbo-Grace spends an awful lot of money. He-Not a saving grace, then. -Boston Transcript. Mad It In Large Doose. Doctor-Yes, what You want is a change of climate. Er-what is your profession? Patient-I'm the second mate of the Lester Ann, just home from Australia-London Oxford. H.M.WILLIAMS.JR. 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Hayes of Pineville, S.C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for hard stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the gummie (Ford's manufactured, by the Ozonized Og Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. S. W. ROBINSON & SON DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE LIQUORS. PHONE MONROE 2113. 19 and 21 N. 18th St., Richmond, Va. --- SATURDAY NIGHT SERMONS BY REV. SAMUEL W. PURVIS, D.D. STORM, TOSSED SEAS AND SOULS. Treat. The wind ceased, and there was a great calm."—Mark iv. 32. "The man out of whom the devils were cast was sitting at the feet of Jesus clothing and in his right mind — Luke ix. 8. Christ performs two great miracles on the same day—one with the insanity of forces, the other with the madness of a human spirit, the wild disorder of nature and a demon harassed mind await their master—and he sleeps in the stern of a fishing boat! This autumn evening will witness a Treatalar on the Gallic a Waterloo in Gahara. The creature and the Creator will meet on the wave. The tiger will cower before her keeper on the rock bound hill. Heaven and earth and hell will stand in fearful alignment. The "earnest expectation of the creature" will wait for "the revealing of the sons of God." Out of the discord of lake storm and brain storm must come harmony. But the power that can control the music of the spheres, the Lord of wind and water, is wrapped up in a piece of sleeping clay, five feet and some inches in height, one hundred and some pounda in weight, possibly dreaming just now of a sunny afternoon when a boy at play in Nazareth years ago. The divine and the human in the Nazareth! Mighty Lord God omnipotent! Mary's babe of Bethlehem! The God and the man, the divine and the human in one! Mystery of the ages! The Story of a Storm Tossed Sea. The day of the healing is done. Sight less eyes, distorted limbs, sickening sorces, the cry of the funnatic, the most of the anguished, all the white pouring out of his strength, left the man—Jesus—weary as a child. Simon's boat is pushed out from the shore. The Master is not a partner. He will rest. The vessel rocks, the must creaks, the sails flap. There is mutter of distain thunder. Lightning flashes its banner across the darkened sky. Simon and Andrew exchange foreboding glances. James tightens a rope. John pushes the rudder a point starboard and looks down at the sleeper. The man is asleep. Only the God is awake. "There's an eye that never sleeps." This is it. Now the lake is lashed to the sudden storm, the boat is driving before the gale, the disciples are becoming panic stricken, and yet he lashesleep. The sea grows bold and dashover the boat. What do the waves care for the person of the Christ? Here is brute force—Indiscriminating mullen, eyeless—ready to crush human lives and kick the bloody foam from itjowla. Snap gown the mast. ShoutSimon. "John, waken him!" Tenderly the beloved discipline calls. "Master, beloved one, carest not that not we perish?" The God-man awakens. As a mother speaks to her child frightened to its dreams he answers. "Why are you fearful?" He cums first their fear and then the waves. "Peace, be still." And the sighting and the sobbing cease. They marveled, saying, "What manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey him?" You and I, Christian, want to trust more and worry less. Good people get very much frightened sometimes. The signs of the times look bad. How cold and dark it is! As is the Pilot of Gallilee on board: The Story of a Storm Tossed Soul. Up the beach of Godara walk Master and disciples to encounter a tempest of another kind, a soul driven before a rage of madness and all fury. They see that sadden of all sights, a human wreck. Miserable, loathsome object, with naked, befouled body. Say, poor, wretched, brain racked, frenzied bed lamite, frantle with disbollom. Oh listen, outcast, quick among the dead to thee has come the chance that comes at least once to every sinnten soul-Jesus passeth thy way. There's a double consciousness, a dual personality dwelling there. Joak now the impure, the unholy, the deftling spirits are regnant. They are disturbed by the presence of Christ, like bats in a care duttering and beating against the light. "Thou Son of God art thou come hither to torment us before our time?" There is a moment of conflict, a strange battle with principalities and powers of darkness "Send us anywhere into lowest beast, bird or reptile into yonder swine wallowing in the fifth, but not back into the abyss of hell." It is done. Unclean spirit into unclean animal. A reincarnation. They rush down the embalm into the sea. Done by Christ's right of eminent domain. Is not a man of more value than many bones? American society is asking that question today. The Heman and the Domena in Un- They brought him to leave their country. To have demoniacs restored is one thing—to lose your bogs and other. Mine that pay rent are not easily put out. And the demoniac. He whose soul had long been born and driven and hated, like some poor ship in the wilde storm of a brightest, abhorrent sea—the red fire starting, from sky like to sky him, blinding specters fitting across his vision, and horrible laughter of demonic ringing through the corridors of his whirling brains. To his soul's tumpet, he has heard a voice saying "Pence be still." Now he sits safe and secure on the shore of Christ's presence. The glorious sun shines in his sky, the fields are kerned, the birds are singing, the waters of the blue Gallier dance with joy. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Cure For Quinney. It is stated that the juice of the fresh pineapple has been successfully used in quinney. When the abscess has formed and the overlying tissues have become damaged the juice readily digests them, opens the abscess without pain, oblates the use of a surgeon's knife and shortens by several hours or days the period of misery often cured by the mildid person who is afraid, of a surgical operation. In cases where a boll has come to a head and the patient is afraid of the knife the application of fresh pineapple pulp will cause the tissues to dissolve and give relief in a short time. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Care of Babies. Dr. William Howard Griggs of the Children's hospital of New York has issued the following list of "dont's" in the care of babies: Learn how to pick up your baby properly and carry it right. The mental treatment of an infant is just as important as its physical treatment. Tensing has ruined the disposition of many a child. Don't permit everybody to fiddle and kiss your baby. Nothing is more important for the welfare of your child than it should be happy. Never tell your child an untruth. Whatever you say to your child should be enforced. When you say "Don't" or "No" to your baby mean it. Don't allow your baby to put in its mouth everything it picks up. Anger and threats have no place in the discipline of a child. Don't feed the baby every time it crises. You must be the boss, not the baby. Don't handle your baby all the time. Every mother should study her baby's own individuality. Remember every child inherits certain traits from its parents. Tell your child wholesome fairy tales. Imagination is a big factor in the life of a baby. It won't hurt the child to tell it of Santa Claus. That a child should have a healthy mind is no less important than it should have a healthy body. It is a good sign when a child asks questions, and the habit should be encouraged. To frighten a child with stories of "the bogyman" ghosts and hobgoblins is very pernicious. Treat your child in the same way you would like to be treated. It is dangerous to punish your child too frequently. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY Yellow-White Hair. When the hair becomes yellow and streaked in changing color all you can do is to take as good care of it as possible and wait for nature to whiten it. Any bleach is rinsous to the hair, and nothing will bleach hair white. A little blue water used for rinsing the hair after a shampoo may improve the color slightly. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY Operation Not Always Needed In Appendices The test opinion now is that an operation is not necessary in every case of appendicitis. Jurgen says in International Textbook of Surgery. "The dictum that every case of appendicitis should be operated upon as soon as a diagnosis is made is not to be accepted." Treves, an eminent English authority, says: "In a fair proportion of cases no surgical interference is called for, and in many of these cases much can be done by diet, attention to elimination and by placing the patient under favorable conditions. Randera, a well known authority, records more than 90 per cent of recoveries from appendicitis without operation." Appendicitis should be prevented by proper diet and exercise. The diet that most favors appenditis is fine, fresh white bread and cake with meat. A liberal use of powdered charcoal and bran will aid materially in preventing it. When appendicitis is suspected the stomach and bowels should be promptly evacuated, followed by a fast from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, followed by an exclusive fruit diet for several days. The practice of removing the appendix whenever the opportunity occurs is not advisable, for good authority holds that the appendix has an important use. Subscribe to The PLANET. ```markdown ``` Economy Hints a penny saved is a penny earned Benjamin Franklin. WHEN mothers object to their daughters' mushing up the kitchen they never seem to think that they are interfering with a possible future livelihood," pouted the girl whose mother had just sent her out of the kitchen in digust at the sight of the array of sticky dishes and saucepans that were everywhere in evidence. This was an entirely new viewpoint to the only sympathetic listener who had memories of former bad half hours of dishwashing on similar occasions and had felt very much on the mother's side of the argument. But she was forced to admit very much to herself that there was something in the daughter's way of looking at it, and when one stops to think of it, isn't there? Think of the Mary Elizabeths, the Virginia Lee and all the other girls whose names are identified with pure candy throughout the country; can't it more than probable that they began their work as judgingmaking schoolgirls? "Any one doubling that 'sweet-meats,' as the English call all candy made by girls, have a commercial value should look about at the next church luncheon, bazaar or social attended and notice the popularity of the little bags of candy, contributed almost invariably by the younger members of the congregation. The candy booth is usually the first to report itself sold out. There is no appreciable reason why the same success should not be met with commercially. We are constantly being told by the 'show to reduce your weight overnight' artist or doctor that American women are the greatest candy eaters in the world, so that it would seem there is always a good field for such a business enterprise, even though it sometimes appears this business is overcrowded. There is an especially good opportunity for any one who can work out original ideas or just even an old or standard commodity up in a newer and more attractive form than it has hitherto been got out in. It is an age when the public willingly and consequently pays for the form and style of a package, especially when it contains a food product. The shops—those dealing in sweets especially—refuse to allow us to overlook a single holiday; consequently the production of a different kind of Easter egg or rabbit, a valentine heart or a St. Patrick's day shamrock or a variation of the time honored Fourth of July dreadlockers meets with instant recognition and naturally, financial success. Go over our list of holidays, you girls who are interested in the making of fudge and fondant and want to earn money, and consider the opportunities here. How to Quiet Noisy Boys Have you never wishful you could think of something to keep those noisy boys quiet Sunday mornings when nobody but boys thinks of rising as early as upon other days? A maden aunt—always a blessing to any household—has devolved this plan: Every Sunday morning, when the obstreperous ones awake, their eyes rest upon two mystic packages tied with many strings. After much undoing of knots they find within the big-brown paper bags animal crackers, bits of candy, fruit and some pictures for their scrap books or any of the thousand simple things it takes to entertain a child. It takes many minutes to unearth the treasures, and by that time the grownups are astir, having enjoyed their last morning's doze undisturbed. How to Make Delicate Perfume Some of the richest and most expensive perfumes can be made in the following way: Select your blossoms, whatever essence you desire, pluck from the stems and drop into a jar half filled with almond or olive oil. Allow these flowers or leaves to lie for twenty-four hours in the oil; then squeeze through a cheesecloth bag into a perfectly clean glass dish. Repeat this operation until you have procured the strength you desire. Pour this essence into a new jar, and thoroughly mix with an equal quantity of pure rectified spirits. Let this mixture stand for three weeks, shaking and mixing it thoroughly every day. After this process it must be again strained, and then it is ready to be bottled for use. How to Repair Derby Hate If you are ever unfortunate enough to smash a new derby hat, so that it cracks and in spite of rubbing and brushing refuses to resume its praline smoothness of surface, try the simple expedient of holding a lighted match inside the hat close to the broken spot. By the time the match has half bulked out you will find the hat has become soft. If you will then brush it vigorously with a stiff brush for a moment it will regain its former smoothness and look as if nothing had ever marred its surface. How to Improve Hard Sauce. When making hard sauce beat in a little sweet-cream. It is a great improvement. The sauce will not be quite so true to its name of "hard sauce," however, as the cream suffers in a little. The Family Poster "What would you say of a man X he should hang the portrait of his family on the outside of his house?" asked a builder who has put up some of the finest residences in the city. "I might say he was crazy," responded his friend. "Betty, softly." The man I have in mind is far from that. He's only in Vaking a Risk. Vincent—Emerson and I slipped cents to see which would pay his party call on you tonight. Beatrice—How romantic! And you won? Vincent—Er—no. I lost. —Chicago News. Warfare. Clarence—I'm the left wing of the Invaders, and you are surrounded and captured. Surrender!—London Weekly Telegraph. Naturally. "In a race between an airship and an automobile which would win?" "Barring accidents, the airship ought to come out on top."—Chicago News. Next Best Thing. Medical Officer—What did you do first of all? Ambulance Man—Gave 'im some brandy, sir. Medical Officer—Quite right, but what would you have done if you hadn't any brandy? Ambulance Man (promptly)—Promised 'im some—Punch. MORE MONEY It is proposed to increase the duty on diamonds and fur, but this should effect no hardship, even upon the rich. The added tax will mean additional value, and the pawnbroker will advance more money.—Chicago News. Explaind. Willie—Why did the boy stand on the burning deck when all but him had died? Tonny—if suppose he was the hero in that movie film, so he was paid to plough there—Mr. Paul Digges. FASHION HINT This pretty overthehouse costume is cut to give a whiteout effect at the front. It is made of pink and figured milk. For the medium size, the blouse will require one and one-eighth yards of material, thirty-six inches wide, with one and three-eighth yards of material for the facing and sleeves. The overwet will take two yards twenty- 2 OVERLOUGE CUSTOMER seven inches wide, with a half yard eighteen inches wide for the chem- sette. The skirt will require five and one-quarter yards twenty-even inches wide, with one and one-quarter yards eighteen inches wide for the panel. These May Manton patterns are out in sizes for the overloubes 14 to 42 inches bust measure and for the skirt 22 to 32 inches waist measure. Send 10 cents each for the patterns to this office, giving num- ber overloubes TKI, skirt TKI, and they will be promptly forwarded to you by mail. If in haste send an additional two cost stamp for letter postage. When o- rdering use coupon. No..... Size..... Name...... Address..... FASHION HINT FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLET For this simple shirt walt linen linen menn, drus, etc., are suitable. For the pattern with the open neck and fancy sleeves volle or crape may be used. 1 For the medium size the waist will require three and a quarter yards of material twenty-even inches wide. This May Manton pattern is out in sizes from 34 to 44 inches bust measure. Send 20 cents to this office, stating number, 308, that will be postage forwarded by mail. If in hand send an additional two cent stamp for letter postage. When ordering use coupon No..... Size..... Name..... Address..... Secret. "May I make a considant of you, old man?" "Try, certainly. What is it?" "Well, to tell you the honest truth." "I'm desperately hard up and want to." "I can trust me. I am so silent to the glove. I have heard nothing." "Thanksgiving, Christina." Farm and Garden Austrian or Black Pine Has Advantage Over Some Other Trees. The Austrian pine, often spoken of as the black pine, is commonly planted throughout the United States east of the Rocky mountains for ornamental and windbreak purposes. Under favorable conditions it will attain a height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of fully two feet at the stump. It is pleasing in appearance, grows erect with a straight, heavy trunk and regular whorls of heavy limbs. The leaves are from five to seven inches long, very dark green and retain their greenness throughout the year. In keeping with the general appearance of the tree the foliage is dense and heavy, which makes it one of the very best of the pines for windbreak purposes. It is readily propagated. Photograph by Kansas State Agricultural college THIRTY YEAR OLD AUSTRIAAN, PINES ON KANASFARM. from seed, but the seedlings are tender and susceptible to several fungous diseases common in nurseries. The seedlings transplant with much difficulty, and there is usually a heavy loss in the first transplanting, but only a small per cent of loss in the subsequent plantings. Only trees that have been transplanted once or twice should be bought for permanent plantings, and these should be from fifteen to twenty inches in height. The Austrian pine is generally propagated by all nurserymen handling coniferous stock and can be obtained in any desired numbers. The tree requires special care in the seedling stage. It is impracticable for any except skilled nurserymen to attempt to grow it—Kansas Farmer. --- THE FARMER'S PROBLEM. According to Former Secretary Wilson, every day in the crop growing season is worth $30,000.00 to the farmers of the United States. This wealth, however, represents the work of nature as well as of men. The big problem for the farmer is to so arrange his affairs that he can keep nature working for him all the time. --- The land for an asparagus bed must be well drained, warm, rich soil and thoroughly worked. For a house patch deep spading do that, but care must be taken to get the manure well mixed with the soil if best results are desired. For larger beds the manure should be turned under with a plow. Deep plowing is advantageous in most cases. The first plowing should be done late in the fall, the second early in the spring. Good, strong one-year-old rooms are the best. A long bed, single row for the home garden, is better and more easily managed than a short bed of a number of rows. The plants should have plenty of space—American Agriculture. Let Out the Gee In severe cases of statutory or wind rolls the life of the horse may be saved by prompt tapping for the removal of gas. The tracer and coulson need for the purpose are thrown into the most distended part of the right flank, up near to the rib and at the edge of the fathom of how white rights the appurtenace way of how of the flank, long tapping in down the side flank. 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He cut trenches about 500 feet long and 20 feet wide across the mendow, the bottoms of which were covered with gravel, and diverted the spring water into them. A stand of watercress was then started, and by fall it covered the trenches, and the owner began to cut and ship it to the Philadelphia markets. As cold weather approaches the cress is protected from frost by rough houses built over the trenches. The north sides of the houses are of inch boards, against which corn fodder is stacked to keep out the wind. The south sides are of glass. The heat of the sun and the warmth of the spring water are sufficient to keep the cress growing rapidly all winter without resort to artificial heat. A portion of the beds is cut over each day, and in about ten days it is again ready for cutting. The returns the first winter were about $100 a day from the cress. A narrow strip of soil between the back of the house and the edge of the trench is devoted to violets and has proved very profitable. On the reminder, of the farm French illacs are set about four feet apart and kept well cultivated for four years. The bushes are then taken up and forced to bloom about the Christmas holidays. A handsome profit is realized each year, and steady employment is given to a large number of men. The former owner "couldn't make it pay."—Country Gentleman. Killing the Country Agriculture on the newer sections is carried on at the expense of the fertility in the soil. A twenty bushel crop of wheat removes from the soil in the straw and grain $0.20. worth of plant food per acre, or 40% cents per bushel in sealing wheat and burning straw this is actually removed. Last year's crop of wheat—180,000,000 bushels—removed from the soil $70,000,000 worth of plant food. In other words, the state of North Dakota is worth less on a crop factory by $70,000,000 than before the past season's crop of wheat was grown. 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SATURDAY NIGHT SERMONS BY REV SAMUEL W PIPEROS D D REV. SAMUEL W. PURVIS, D. D. THE BRANDED SLAVE Text, "I bear branded on my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."—(R. V.) Gal. vi. 17. They've been treating Paul shamefully. He's one of the most modest, self sacrificing sort of men, but they've been hagging him, stinging him with petty criticisms, disputing his authority and making light of his work. Finally he turns, not with reproach, but as a father might to an ungrateful child, and with drawn face and pained voice dismisses all their ingratitude and petuliness and insinuations with the words, "From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear branded on my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Twenty centuries have been speculating his meaning. Was it the right of circumcision? Did he refer to the marks which were branded on slaves by their owners? Was it the scars upon his own body, the acourging at Philippi, the stoning at Lystra, the wild beasts at Epheus, the hunger, the shipwreck, the weariness which had put their imprint on his bowed frame or lines on his face? Or were the marks spiritual, not only scars and welts and ridges left by lash, rock and lion's claw, but the brandings on the body of tremendous mental and spiritual struggles—marks the magistrates, centurions, lictors, procurators, bings and emperors were not powerful enough to stamp there, but which as a slave of Jesus Christ he bore as the brand of ownership? Honerable Scars A scar, a cicatrix, may be honorable or dishonorable. Paul's were those of honor. They were diplomas from the school of Christ, credentials with the authority of heaven. He was not ashamed of them. Attorney General Browster had the most bleached, deeply scarred face ever seen in public life, but he got it saving his little sister's life from a fire. Scars of honor. Our profession puts its mark on us. The scholar becomes nearlighted or blind. Like Albert Barnes; the student's face shows study lines; the apprentice's hands are callused; the machinist has broken nails and oil stained skin; the merchant's face is worried. I remember a New England town where I saw so many one armed and one lioned men. "Powder works," explained the bus driver. But they were not ashamed. At the last G. A. R. convention I listened to the old soldiers tell of their martins—saber cut at Chancellorville, butler cut at Antietam, but led at Gettysburg, but none were ashamed. I recently heard Anthony Chancellor, New York vice crumpled and United States postal inspector, tell of his work. He laughed over his injuries, broken ribs, bullet wound, a scar across his right cheek from the knife of an assasin, infernal machine sent by express, small box by mail; Ingersoll split in his face and broke his cane over his head, but he was not ashamed. Who Owns You? I've seen the cattlemen out on the great prairies take their blaxing horse branding iron and stamp their mark on ownership on horses and cattle. For ever afterward, east or west, city on country, no matter where I meet them, they still bear on their body the mark of their owner. As a lad of sixteen on board a man-of-war in Philadelphia harbor the writer had a great American coat of arms tattooed over the muscle of his right arm. Until his dying day, on land or sea, under any flag, he must bear, willingly or unwillingly, the seal of the great republic. Christ asked two signs of discipleship—self surrender and self sacrifice. Matthew surrenders his tax booth, Simon his fishing boat. Paul is a brilliant Roman of the Jews he's a Pharisee; he has a tremendous hatred of Christ. Then comes a change! At midday on the road to Damascus he becomes the slave of Jesus Christ. What was it—stunstroke, epilepsy, hallucination? He, the peerless intellectual giant, says it was the Lord Jesus. From that day he calls himself the "servus"—the slave—of Jesus Christ. "I am no longer my own! I am branded with the mark!" "Whose servant are you?" I asked a purse proud fellow one night. "My own!" "You look it!" No man can have two owners—he cannot serve God and Mammon. The Mark on the Forehead 'All true human life and love are a surrender and sacrifice. And the mark is speedily stamped on us. A maid loves a man. She gives up her home, her father's honorable name, her liberty of maidhood. From that June day she no longer lives her own life. The adjustment to another's will, the cares of household management, the babe put in her arms, the responsibility, place lines of care on her face. These are the brands of love, borne gladly for love's sake. She's not ashamed of the marks. The Roman slave had his own's mark branded on his forehead. It was an outrage, cruel, damnable. 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SATURDAY.....MAY 21, 1918 SATURDAY NIGHT SERMONS BY REV. SCHUELZ W. PORTES, D.D. THE FACE ILLUMINED. Text: "And he was transfigured before them."-Matt. xvii. 2. One flash of lightning reveals the landscape thenceforth a memory. The traveler's road leads over a high hill. From the summit he can see sparkling river, many shaded green of foliage and, above all, the flashing spires of the distant city, his goal. It is a foregasm that finds his eyes and memory. Then he descends the valley, the plains and lowlands of his journey. But the vision of the city's glory is forever in his mind's eye. It is afternoon on the side of Mount Hermon. The Nazarene is taking three of his most sympathetic disciples, the crown, the flower of the little apostolic band, up to the heights. Not many words are spoken. A climax is evidently at hand. Men talk on levels, not much in ascents. In the distance a caravan of camels is coming from Joppa. Back of them the mountains of Palestine rear their heads. In front the sky and sea seem one at the far horizon. At sunset summit is reached, 0,200 feet above sea level. The western sky changes from scarlet and purple to yellow and gold and ivory. The light trembles—and then darkness. A few lights flash like fireflies in distant Caenarea. It is how night. Night is the time for vision. Isaac goes out into the fields at eventtime to meditate. At night David prostrates himself before God. By night Nicodemus comes to the Master for conference. Jesus is soon at prayer. The three disciples also pray, but are soon heavy with sleep. The Face Illuminated. While they slept Christ prayed. They woke with subconsciousness of spiritual nearness. Possibly the Master's clothing first caught their drowsy eyes. Garments are incidental in God's sight but Christ's ralment was shining on lightning. No linen could compare with its dazzling whiteness. The outward ward is minor, not major. Dress may proclaim the man, but there must first be a man. A second glance shows "his face did shine." Luke adds, "as he prayed." Prayer alters the face, illumines the features with "a light that never was on sea or land." There is a beauty not of the earth. The body is the lantern; the soul is the light. An inner and an outer light differ. Put the light within an alabaster vase or marble bust, place the electric bulb within the exquisite Farrille glass lamp shade, hold the candle behind the hand-flesh is translucent to inner light. Stephen's face looked like an angel. Pray in order to look. Spiritual beauty is the chiseling of God. The human face is lighted by joy, darkened by sorrow. It is not only a doorplate on which is written our name, but the window through which one's soul peers. A Heavenly Triumvirate. "Then appeared unto him Moses and Elijah." Like attracts like. Each one a man of prayer, fasting and holy mount vision of God. Three Minks in the chain-law, prophecy, gospel. After many centuries-Moses 1,500 years. Elijah 1,000 years—they meet as though contemporary. What about the theory of nonconscious existence between our death and Christ's second coming? It must go to pieces on this rock. How about recognition of the dead? If we could recognize those we have never seen in the flesh, how much more those of our own flesh and blood! "Talking with him." You may talk with rare souls on the mount of congeniality or with low spirits on the plain of the commonplace—that rests with you. Great men talk of great themes. Men may be measured by their governing thoughts. Walk with Milton rather than Zola. Commune with angels, you will learn the language of heaven; go with wolves, you will learn to bowl. Christ's approaching death was their theme. "Peter answered." Always Peter! Ever see a young greyhound leaping with his paws against everything? "Let us make here three tubernacles." That's impossible. Already the light is dissolving like the colors of a sunset. We lose by attrition. The Cloud's Linfng. A voice in speaking from the clouds "This is my blessed Son." That's something to remember in dark days to come when men are shooting "blasphemer." "dewl" and "cricify him." Clouds are dark only on their under side. In every cloud listen for God, Jehovah dwell above the tabernacle in a cloud. It was a cloud that received the ascending Savior. The disciples will never forget that experience. In all probability the reflected light shone from them for many a day. I've seen folks who aforetime were heavy and hopeless featured. Then some night they went up into the mountain with their Lord. From that day their lives were different. It often takes some great experience to teach us that we are not only citizens of time, but of charity. Requires events that will make the experience of either market place or graveyard insufficient accept as they move us to consider they are but plums to higher things. 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VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 14th day of May, 1913. Clara Williams.....Plaintiff va. In Chancery Harrison Williams.....Defendant The Object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an avidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Harrison Williams is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that the said Harrison Williams appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. Harrison Williams: You'll take notice that, I shall on the 11th day of July 1913, at the office of Phil B. Shelds, Room 703. Travellers Insurance Building situated on the North side of Main street, between (11) Eleventh and (12) Twelfth streets, in the city of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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