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VOLUME XXX, NO. 28 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1913. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. struggle 'in de de, Mintzborne, Hit looks on an 'lets 'im drown But of hit sees he's determined, Dat success he's gwine ter win, Ev'y feller wants ter he'p 'im Win de race he's runnina' m. —Henry Allen Lalno MR J. E. BRUCE SPEAKS PLAINLY The Antipathy of the Negro to the Negro. Is It Here Prejudice? It is really astonishing how particular some people are about the color of a man's face. The Washington dispatches announce that the Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, is having the time of his life with the "Fair Play Association" because he has a white stenographer in his office. The white people in that ballwick are getting red in the face every minute as they ponder over this unnatural(?) condition(!) But how en tirely different in this respect are some of the leading professional and business men of color of New York City. They have absolutely none of this foolish prejudice to color. I append herwith a list of these gentlemen, most of whom do a large business with their own race who employ white stenographers, notwithstanding the fact that there a well organized colored stenographers' association, in Manhattan, composed of some of the swiftest and most accurate stenographers and typewriters in the big city. It really seems hard on these young men and women of the race who have difficulty in finding openings in white firms, to be turned down this way by business and professional men of their own race. Among those who employ white stenographers are: J. R. Gleed, Progressive Leader; Phillip A. Payton, "Pioneer Real Estate Man;" Douglass Wetmore, Attorney at Law; Rufus L. Perry, Negro Hebrew, Attorney at Law; Counsellor Toney: Gilchrist Stewart, Attorney at Law; John William Smith, Attorney at Law Counsellor Edmead Blayn; J. H. Smythwick, Attorney at Law; James C. Thomas, Jr., Attorney at Law; D. Macon Webster, Attorney at Law. New York could be raked with a nine tooth comb from the Battery to Hartem and from the East to the North Rivers and there could not be found in any white Real Estate or law office a single colored girl stenographer or typewriter and I doubt that there could be found a colored person of the male gender serving in such capacity. What on earth is the use of colored girls and boys learning stenography and typewriting if colored business and professional men deny them the opportunity to show what is in them? Why not be practical and consistent? There can be no just criticism of any colored man in business or the professionals whose clientele is all white, who employs white help if he can get it. But when he draws his support from the black race, its bright young men and women who are competent should have the preference over white people. This is the lesson white folks have been teaching us for years, but we have not seemed to learn it. John Mittrall has, however, and he is not ashamed nor afraid to match his office force with that of any business success, controlled by Negroes or white men anywhere in this country. The success of the Mechanics Bank is a flattering tribute to the executive and the administrative ability of its founder and his very capable and efficient corps of bright young men and women assistants. Memorial Day was observed here by George A. Custer Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and the William A. Hankins Post, Spanish American War Veterans. They assembled at Second and Laugh Bit, and were escorted by the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, N. A., B. A., B., A., A. and A., Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr., commanding. The First Regiment was under command of Col. Thomas M. Crump and the First Battalion under command of Captains Edmund Smith. The Cadet Battalion was under command of Captain Jerome Davis. Eureka Co. No. 1 was under command of Lieut. Isaac Bray and Planet Co. No. 8 was commanded by Capt. Leroy Brown. The Israelis organization and their Uniform Bank were out and made a most creditable showing. The parade was the best that has taken place here upon such an occasion. The Municipal K. of P. Band had just secured their new uniforms and made a fine showing. Many carriages followed the parade and one large wagon contained children. The party reached the National Cemetery just as the rain commenced to fall. There was scant shelter. Some took their places under the trees, in the grand stand and in the houses on the outside of the cemetery. The exercise were abandoned. The exercises at Hollywood were also abandoned and the Richmond Light Infantry Blues were drenched on the line of march, which line of march was finally abandoned. The colored parade however reformed after the rain was over and returned to the city, paraded the streets, and showed scenes of the experiences at the National Cemetery. PUBLIC SCHOOL BASEBALL Tuesday's Results Navy Hill, 11; Maury, 8. Moore, 25; Buchanan, 3. Baker, 10; George Mason, 4. | W | L | P. C. | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Baker | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | | Moore | 2 | 1 | .667 | | Navy Hill | 2 | 1 | .667 | | Maury | 1 | 2 | .333 | | George Mason | 1 | 2 | .333 | | Buchanan | 0 | 3 | .000 | Buchanan, vr. George Mason at 33rd and Q Sts. Baker vs. Navy Hill at 1st St. Flats L. T. JONES, President. B. L. ALLEN, Secretary. BASEBALL Blackstockings of Newport News. Va. were defeated by the strong team All Stars of Norfolk, Va.. Friday morning May 30, 1913 at Cunningham Park by score of 8 to 4. Afternoon game the tide changed, Blackstockings won the second game by score of 2 to 0. This game was one of the greatest games ever played in Cunningham Park. On Saturday, May 31, All Stars returned to play the tide game off and were defeated by the Blackstockings by score of 7 to 6. This game was fought a hard battle. Hard hitting caused the Blackstockings to win out SCORE BY INNINGS. RHE B. S....0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0.0—4 8 4 A Stars.0 0 2 0 3 0 1 1 0—8 12 2 Batteries, Smith and Grant-Thomas and Cason—Time, 1:55—Umpire, Nelson. RHE B. S....0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—2 7 2 A. S....0 0 0:0 0 0 0 0 0—0 5 2 Batteries, Monroe and Grant, Morris and Cason—Time, 1:50—Umpire, Nelson. RHE B. S....1 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 x—7 11 8 A.'S....0 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 0—6 8 4 Batteries, Smith, Monroe and Grant, Thomas and Cason—Time, 1:58— Umpire, Nelson. At His Best. "Brown, the Photographer", won at his beat in photographing the graduating theological class of the Virginia Union University. The specimen shown us does credit to this interprising and programmed business man of our city. His studio is still at 600 N. Second St. The best claim of our people so there. JOHNSON GETS A YEAR. Chicago, June 4.—Jack Johnson, colored, heavyweight champion, to day was sentenced to one year and one day in the State penitentiary at Joliet and fined $1000 for violation of the Mann "white slave" act. Sentence was pronounced on John son after Federal. Judge Carpenter had denied a motion for a new trial made by counsel for the Negro. Johnson obtained two weeks' time in which to prepare a writ of error, and the bond for $30,000, on which he has been at liberty since his conviction, was allowed to stand. MARSHALS READY FOR TROUBLE Half a dozen deputy United States Marshals who had grouped themselves about Johnson in anticipation of resistance when the prison sentence was given, left the room when Judge Carpenter announced that the fighter could continue temporarily at liberty. The sentence to the State penitentiary is the result of a recent order from Washington that all persons convicted in the Federal court in this district should be sent to the State prison, owing to the crowded condition of the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. Johnson left the courtroom declaring he would not give up his fight for liberty, and that if the writ of error were denied he would make further appeals. ARGUMENT WAS UNEXPECTED. The arguments for a new trial came up as a surprise late this afternoon. The case had not been set previously, and the proceedings began with the unexpected appearance in court of Johnson and his lawyer. "It has been hard to determine what punishment should be sent out in this case," said Judge Carpenter in passing sentence. "We have had many cases where violations of the Mann act have been punished with a fine only. We have had other cases where defendants have been sentenced to one or two years in the penitentiary. LIFE WAS NOT MORAL ONE. "The circumstances in this case have been aggravating. The life of the defendant, by his own admissions has not been a moral one. The defendant is one of the best known men of his race and his example has been far reaching. "The sentence shall be that the defendant shall be confined to a year and a day in the Jollet penitentiary, and that he shall be fined $1,000." The court denied a request of counsel for Johnson that the pugilist be allowed to serve the term in the city bridewell instead of the State's prison. Johnson was convicted May 10 of having paid for the transportation of Belle Schrelber from Pittsburgh to Chicago. President Hovey Closes a Successful Year. The Commencement of Virginia Union University took place in Coburn Hall, University Grounds, Wednesday evening, June 4, 1913 at 8:15 P. M. When the President, faculty, the alumni and guests march ed into the hall, the scene was inspiring. President George R. Horovy, under whose skillful management, the University achieved its success, presided The order of exercises was as follows: Music, Invocation, Music, Quartetto J. E. Wright, H. G. Brown, C. S. Johnson, C. W. T. Barnes; Addresses: The Fate of the Unprotected James Madison Bracy; Purity the Badge of Noble Manhood, Adolphus Hobbs; Philosophy Applied to Life, James Hugo Johnston, Jr.; Interest necessary to Progress, Henry Burgharde Tallferro; Music, Plano Solo, J. L. Nixon; Addresses, The Joy of Remembrances, John Early Wright; The Conservation of Mankind, Lucius Lee McGee; Certain Ten dencies of the Ages, John Evern Briggs; The Church a Social Centre, James Abraham Baten; Music, Quartette; Address to Graduation Class, Judge J. C. Prilchard; Presentation of Diplomas by the President; Hymn: Benediction. The addresses were unusually creditable and showed careful train ing and much ability. Judge Pritchard's address was a feature. He was specific in emphasizing the necessity for character building and the love of country. President Hovoy announced that the Board had conformed the title of D. D. upon Rev. T. M. Allon of Ashland and Rev. J. H. Bendelgh of Portsmouth and Washington. Deacon Benjamin Jackson, who has been ill at his residence is much improved. The wife of Mr. Edward J. Cook is out again after her recent indisposition. She is looking as well as ever. Don't forget the excursion to Newport News, Va., Wednesday, June 18th. The fare is only $1.25 for the round trip. Mr. Theodore Drury, operatic singer and tragician scored a decided triumph in Boston recently according to the report of the Boston Reliance. Rev. Robert L. Bradby, pastor Second Baptist Church, Detroit, Mich. was in the city last week. He called on us in company with Rev. S. E. Ellison, pastor First Baptist Church, Sandwich, Ont. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. the well known Philadelphia divine was in the city this week. He reports that $1200 more has been paid on his church making $6000 paid since his pastorate. —Mrs. Elvira Nash of Philadelphia. Pa. is visiting Mrs. Ellen Coy in East 15th St., Southside. Mrs. Nash is one of the old residents of this city and she is looking the best of health after a stay in the "City of Brotherly Love." Dr. Dayla Recovering Rev. D. Webster Davis. D. D. is a familiar figure on the streets again after his protracted illness. He attends his church but is unable to go into active service as yet. Tennis Tournaments at Hotel Dale Cape May, N. J. --- Tennis players seeking a suitable place for the enjoyment of their favorite sport should hall with acclaim the novel attraction offered for the week end, by the management of the Hotel Dale. During July and August tournaments in singles and doubles will be arranged for each Saturday and handsome cups will be awarded as prizes. Eureka Literary Closes The closing exercises of Eureka Literary took place at Pythlán Castle last Monday night. Eureka Co., No. I was out in full to meet the ladies and take part in the exercises. A good time was enjoyed by all. May Abolish. Laureateship. The late Alfred Austin may have the honor of being England's last poet laureate. It is said King George considers the post of poet laureate as 'obsolete as that of court jester, and that he will name no successor to Austin. The honor of poet laureate therefore will lapee and become one of the traditions of the British court. Foul Tip Kills a Catcher. Fritz Greenwald, twenty-one years old, catcher of the Holland base ball team, died on a train from a fracture of the skull caused by a foul tip in a game in Buffalo, N. Y. Silver Service For the Pennsylvania. Senator John O. Shea of Philadelphia, introduced a bill in the Pennsylvania senate to appropriate $25,000 for a silver service for the battleship Pennsylvania. Choked to Death by False Tooth. Miss Angelina Schefer, of Chicago, choked to death on a false tooth that became loosened as she was laughing at a story told by her gance. Confession Murder David Everist made a written confession to District Attorney Streets in Bunbury, Pa, that he murdered Henry R. Miller, in that place, last year. When on trial for his participation in the crime he placed the blame for the murder upon Frederick Nye, who was his companion, and Kye was sentenced to be hanged. Everist receiving a sentence for manslaughter. The case was taken to the supreme court, which declined to sentence, and an appeal is now pending before the garden bench. Bunbury was the native for the murder. The President Stands Firm For Party Policy, Placing Raw Materials and Their Products on Free List. Reversing its former action in voting to place wheat, flour, oatmeal and fresh meats on the dutiful list, the senate finance committee sub-committee in charge of the agricultural schedule voted to place live stock, wheat and oats on the free list. This action, it was authoritatively said, was taken to meet the views of President Wilson, Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, and other administration leaders, who disapproved the decision to tax meats 10 per cent, compensatory to a duty on cattle in the underwood bill, and to assess a compensatory duty on both flour and oatmeal. The vote to reconsider was taken in the sub-committee on a motion made by Senator Simmons, ex-officio member of all the sub-committees handling the various tariff schedules, when he returned to the capitol from a conference with the president. In this enlargement of the free list President Wilson is known to have taken a leading part, as he did in the matter of raw wool and sugar before the ways and means committee. As he still is standing uncompromisingly for the wool and sugar schedules, so, it is declared, he will stand firmly for free cattle, sheep and hogs, and free wheat and oats now that this has been determined upon as the party policy. Senator Simmons conferred with the president last week about his views on the method of equalizing the Underwool bill with regard to those raw materials and their products. When the sub-committee's tentative action was announced the senator went immediately to the White House, "I told the president," he said later, "that members of the finance committee in informal conference had agreed that there should not be a tax upon meats and flour. It was true that the sub-committee had taken different action, but I informed the president that the majority of the finance committee felt and said we would vote instead to place cattle and other live stock and wheat and oats on the free list. This President Wilson agreed to and said it would be all right." After leaving the White House Simmons called on Senator Williams, the chairman of the sub-committee, and told him of the sentiment for free cattle and free wheat. Then the sub-committee was called together and its former action reversed. "The matter is settled now," said Senator Simmons, "and that is the way the schedule will go to the senate." BIGAMIST HAS NO WIFE But Pleads Guilty and Gets Not Less Than Year in Jail. Despite the fact that he has no wife, Jonathan Webb, of New York, was sentenced to serve not less than one nor more than two years in Sing Sing for bigamy. Webb pleaded guilty to bigamy on May 26 leet, but immediately afterward announced, to the surprise of the court, that while he was accused of having two wives, in reality he had none. "Yen see, your honor," Webb explained to Judge Swann, "when my first wife heard that I had married another woman she procured a divorce, naming my second wife as a correspondent. Then my second wife learned of my first marriage and she had her marriage to me annulled." THIEVES GET $50,000 LOOT New York-Jeweller Robbed in Brood Daylight. During jewel robbers robbed the office of J. B. Theise, on the eleventh floor of 47-49, Maiden Lane, in New York, in the heart of the richest jewel center in America, of a mitchel of uncut diamonds, worth $50,000. The gems had just been brought from a safe deposit vault, where they had been kept after business hours. Mr. Theise made the trip to the vaults to insure the safety of the jewels. When he reached his office he set the guard on his desk and left the room for several minutes. When he returned the money was gone. DEPRESSION IN LONDON American Stocks Freely Offered—The German Loan Looked Upon as Unwelcome London—American houses in this market are freely offering your stocks wherever the market is broad enough to take them. The new German government loan is considered most unwelcome, and is responsible for heavy German selling of Canadian Pacific and also some Continent al selling of issues not well digested like Brazilian railway and Brazilian traction stocks. This has influenced Continental bourses generally. There is an uneasy feeling of possible financial trouble, but nothing of the kind can be traced. Our own railway stocks sold off on unsettled labor conditions. The congested state of the market for new issues and the underlying tightness of money are both important influences in the present state of public sentiment. The Christiansburg Summer Normal Teachers who are planning to attend a Summer Normal are recommended to attend the one to be held at Christiansburg. First, it is in the mountains. The climate is delightful and one who wants to study could not find a location Better suited for study than Christiansburg in the Summer time. Second, instructors and lecturers are men and women of wide fame and acknowledged ability. Among them are Dean L. B. Moore of Howard University; Mr. John B. Pierce, Colaborator with the United States Department of Agriculture; Miss Virginia Randolph, Supervisor of Schools Prof. T. Phillips, A. M. Ll. B., Head of Department of English at V. N. and I. K. The rates are reasonable Board is excellent. For further information, address E. A. LONG, Conductor, Cambria Va. Attention, Knights of Pythias The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythas 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, Lynchburg, 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. 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. 16 Haven Road. Now 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. Lawrence. 36 Ruggles Street. Suite 2. Roxbury, Mass. : bend. Us A. Pair. Too. (Martinsburg, W. Vg. Pioneer Press.) So erudite an editor as the Hon. Harry C. Smith of the Cleveland, Ohio Gazette in writing anent the National Association for the Advance men of Colored People should not mask his writings so ambiguous and expect a backwoods editor like the one who runs the Pioneer Press to read between lines and get the kernel out of the shell. But when so able an editor as John Mitchell, Jr. of The Richmond PLANET saw it as we did, we can't see but way clear to make a correction, or see through it as our confere seems to wish we should. If, however, Bro. Smith will send by parcel post, his editorial glasses, we shall put them on and reseat it, and it may be we shall see it in a different light. Week End Arrivals at the Hotel Dale June 1, 1915.—Mr. H. A. Wilson, Mr. J. B. Jones, Mr. Charles R. Bowie, Mr. and Mrs. G. Grant Williams, Dr. V. Pinckow Bailley, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Harper, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. M. G. Stelly, Maryannville, N. J.; Mr. N. I. Trower, Dr. Beverly Burdick, M. J. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAE Another New Lodge at Newport News Nowport News, Va., June 2 — Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., and Dr. E. R. Jefferson arrived here Saturday afternoon for the purpose of organizing a lodge of Knights of Pythias here. They were located at the We Us Hotel for the night but wore the guests of Sir Phil Brown and Grand Lecturer T. J. Pree. The club was organised at the Pythian Castle on 23rd Street and will be known as Hampton Roads Lodge. No. 195. After the initiation the following officers were installed, by the Grand Chancellor: Chancellor Commander, I. C. Whitehead; Master of Work, John Moore; Vice Chancellor, J. E. James; Keeper of Records and Seal, J. H. Wright; Master of Exchequer, Samuel Turner; Master of Finance, William Brooks; Master at Arms, C. H. Davis; Prelate, Joseph Minns; Inner Guard, G. D. Simpson; Outer Guard, Moody Baxley; Trustees, R. Lane, Haley Bonds and William Cook. This lodge was organized by District Deputy Grand . Chancellor C. G. Davis and the Grand Chancellor commended him highly He said that another lodge was being instituted at Houston. Va. that night by Past Chancellor R. C. Mitchell, it being impossible for him to be at both places. Great preparations are being made to entertain the Grand Lodge here June 17-21st. The sessions will be held at the First Baptist Church. The great military display drill will take place Wednesday night. The Grand Public meeting will take place Tuesday night at the First Baptist Church. The banquet will take place Thursday night. Leesburg, Va., June 1.—Miss Julia Glenn had an operation performed on the neck this week. We hear she is much improved. Miss Irene Bailey has returned to Middleburg again, looking after some of her sick folks. We are sorry to hear of the illness of Rev. Dr. S. P. Fisher, D. D. of Lincoln, Va. where he has been pastoring for a number of years. We pray for his early recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blue of Washington were visiting their parents today. Miss Helen Butler, a Mr. Sales and a young lady of Washington were visiting her mother, Mrs. Moses Webb, today. Quite a large crowd has attended the Chautauqua this week. They told the ladies some things about hobble skirts. They looked like they had been slipped in a pillar sill. Mr. Samuel Jackson has been in for several days with a fractured rib. Mrs. James Allen is somewhat indisposed from rheumatism. Mrs. John Dean and two little triplets of Sycill, Va. are visiting her sister, Mrs. James Thomas. Mrs. John Bryant of Washington was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lankford. Services at Mount Zion M. E. Church all day Sunday. The District Superintendent took charge. As he rose in eloquence, we listened till we were forced to say, Surely, the Lord, is in this place. At 8 o'clock Rev. Dotson ascended the stand and after singing and reading Luke 19, he took for text Luke 19:29-30. We listened to an elegant discourse. After collection communion was administered. Other churches all closed up at night to attend the Chautauqua under the tent. Mr. Roy, the bushelman man, was visiting, in Falls Church and Washington. Wednesday in honor of his birthday. He didn't tell us how old he was. Mr. Paul Pinkett was the guest of Mr. James Thomas Sunday while Mr. Aucas Chinn walked off with the game. Ha! ha! Rev. Bimford Hbnored. The Afro-American School of Correspondence of Washington, D. C. has conferred the title of D. D. bn Rev. J. H. Blinford of this city. Rev. Blinford is well known in this community. ATTENTION — ANY ONE WHO wants to make Money easily, rapidly, steadily and honestly. Investigate. Send self-addressed on envelope to A. DIER, Box 215, Cape Charles, Va. WANTED—A reliable, man to act as our representative in his town, all or spare time, good pay. Send stamped envelope for repay. THE DON GRAVE CO., 1711 Bargum St., Brooklyn, N. Y. . 3Y¥NOPSIS . Martey 8 sine te in love with Coc weeticter 1 “ftiend Arnold. Amew ter Mmelderiy Vn at rhe Avolunas tea roans he ls Cm H's Aunt Octavia, an oven fete womans <f senlthy “She tnvtten ae LS aopencin Scanwe, “Ames te fascinate Sy Bramcerca, a ton room eet ‘Aimee eeve. Vicia roreting Cecile ve qreciy at Moceseid Manor Aunt cnn Serer bevever inthe potenti 32 ene SE No ‘Auneo vin mirtortits miemiwatchine the Bae Te er ern ae tater. Wiesine valle vien Genii Ts Siniey ences Seon he Dour in naid to have a ahoat 1 sei alle Aree shen in ice rose ae) Sits Sun (o'Urce Wiretnn wet to'vest uses Senin Wlesine couarin Ames ana rial Ast Octatie aunines Whetinn beesure tis eee ee rae Cree ie Tia bate ern ant teenth, ee ce Be bine suticrs ‘Athen tects FUGERSGR cee aga and bare that oat Te Sennen ee ae ee eae CHAPTER IX. Cocitie’s Silver Neotedook. BB and 7 entered the Norary & eit Cowtttn aleting alone the Ore, She put axide wm book abe ba! Been reading and, xeeing that ber aun had not followed me, aakesl at once m1 to ms Sleit to the tno. “I conveyed your message.” 1 an fewered, “but you have neem Mr. Wig gina nince, unless 1 an greatly mis taken.” “Yen: be called thin afternoon, We had screral callern at the ten bour. | had rather expected you back” “The fact in” 1 replied, “that afte I bad takeo Inpcheon at, the Prescot ‘Arua [ gut lost among the bills, an¢ while to the act of robbing an apple orchard I cxtne mort unexpectedly pon your ainter.” “Deeekian:” “The same And, oddly enough. 1} had met ber before. though I didn't realize it wan aye until the meeting tn the orchard. 1% was Ip the Asolando that I aw het: abe was at the canh: Sera wicket the afternoon I met your ant there.” “You hate given me information. Mr; Ames, | did not know that Hexe Xia bad ever been connected with tbe Aaolando.” “Ob, It was only that ong bistoric Gay. ‘Bhe anys the place was unbear- able. She jarred the holfest chords of the divine irre by barab comments oo the pre-Raphaelite proaie. One of the Gavotees was 20 xbocked that abe drop- ped a plate or something and. to put Me coareely, Herekiab ot the bounce.” ‘My description of Mezeklab'a brief tenore of office at the Asolando seem edi to amuse Cecilia greatty. “There {sn one ike my slater.” she ald, “There never waa and there never will be any one half vo charm Ing. Herekind te an original who Dreaks alt the rulet and yet always wands the bail over the’net. And tt le Decanse she tn 20 Inexpreasibly dear apd precioun that J ar snzlocs thet mething sball ever bart her-oothiog mar the-swect, beautifel child spirit to "TE wae my'tarn to Meoxh now. Co <ilia's manifestation of maternal solic!- todd for Hesekiah seemed absurd, for Hresetian tp ber way was older. Heer. kia bad raced witb Dlapa and plack- €4 arrows from ber girdiesbe bad beard Hémer at the roadside sioging of Achillen’ shield... * “Herekinh “1s reasonably safe, 1 abould aay. because ube ts 60 amaziog- iy switt of foot 20d ese and so nimble of speech. She is not to be cangbt Ip @ Det oF tripped With « word.” “I snppose that ie #0,” remarked Ce- cilia soberly. “You thought ber bappy when you met Ler'today? Bhe did oot strike sou as being a xirh with a wound, ta her heart? She waso't particularly ead “Not more so than sunlight on Hp- pled water or the song of the lark as eeodiog.” “Of covree you made no reference to Mr. Wicxios?’ If 1 bad-imagined you woald meet ber I abould bave"— de ended with’ an embarrassment that I now understood. and I broke {0 cheerfully. “We did mention him, She asked me| f I-bad seen him. and ft was the] phowsht of him that eroked ber mer- feat langeter.” fie shook:ber bead and sighed, then per manner changed abruptly. “Ten Gelivered my message to Mr. Wiens?" : “1 Gid. He f badly cat of sorts and) wee nothing clearly. He is very tAtter] ewerd your'aust. He thinks sbe has peated kim ontregeousiy.” “puat Octavia bas dene opthing of Oe Kind,” she repiicd with apirtt. .“Mr. Piagios bes ve radi to speak of Aust jatatin-anve in terms of Kindpebs. *3f iar wits are harper thaw bs, ic m wot. er Geukt,'thet | can see. But there are The Siege : of the Seven Suitors wt MEREDITH NICHOLSON Copyright, 1918, by Meredith Nicholson matters here that 1 do not underatan Mr. Ames. 1 trust you, as iny aun eridently does, oF 1 rhould not be tall ing to you as 1 am, nud I am moved t jak a favor of you, a favor of consid erable welxbt, in view of the fuct thn Fou are a professional man, with Gourtions, many pressing cally upos your tine.” LT bowed bumbiy etore this compl ment, My time hid won Ughtly sp pmiscd hy Mive Octavia and again bi Wiggins, A tong telegran from a nsnistaut that rearhed mie while 1 dren od for Aluner had nesed my tramedint Fattendance opin my alllee, Some a Toy best ellenty, tae reopening (hel hones for the whiter, were fy desper nte teats. Mut, Gettin Holisters de net ore In the Ufe of etary Senne man, amt both Cecitiy and Mezekiil kad taken strong held upen my tmast nation. Wirgies plaice among the dea huitle personae would tn Mteelf have conpetled = wy “Spinpathetle attenthon apd the nine SC hate mat Phat seen Hobbing over the atte NU danced be fore my eyes. ; Mise Hollister.” P xatd, my time ts yours te command. My office f wel organizes, and 1 nin sure that any ny sistant fe equal te any demande that may be made uzen him, Pray state to what mianier avis serve you." YL am gotus far} know, Mr. Ames. But P beg that ser Will not be Ja baste to leave ty auet's house. She wast have Peet vinensly prepidiond $n sone favor or ste wenld net have ashet You here on ne stert acquaintanes. fm cwatdent that she hae ue thousht of your teatlug, She exprewsel her Rreat liking fur sou at Mucheon, aud Trin sure that ste witleree to tt Giat Fon do wot tack for ectertalnment, 1 Agate that Nou wast bare gatherest from what Mr Wizitia tuld yeu of tis acqwalutance with hin the peculiar PUNE In whieh Jam placed.” L bowed. If she groped to the dark. and newled iy help in nding the Ught, I wan nut the man to desert her. T bad dropped my plumb line into too many dark chfinexa not to feel the fancination of inrater. An 1 express ed agaln my entire willingness to ablde at Hopetield Maver aa long an whe wished. the footman announced Mr. Hartley Wiseins, We had hardly exchanged greetinas pefore anotlier wan war anhaunerl, and then another, I should ay that It was at tnterralx of about three min ates that the slate xerrunt appeared in the curtained doorway and announe- ad @ caller until nine bad been admit: red. My xpirite soared high as the gen Hemen from the Prewcutt, Atme op peared one after the other, The ear- Her aerivnix rose to greet the Inter anes, and us they were all In evening other F experienced, az when Thad ween the nate Kexitlemion in thelr ater: 2ooD ralment crossing the etile, a KeNKe of Romething fantastic apd cerie In em. In the thterext of bretity ant © avoid confiivion, I tabulate them jere WAY n Notation ax to thelr rest lence atid occupation, taking auch data rom the notebook io which, ne atime hent dates, 1 xt cown the facts rhich are (he baxis of this chrontcte. Hartley Wisgins, lawyer and farm. 1, Hare ant Tortoiae club, New York. Linnaviin 18, itenderwon, planter, Hoa: joke, Va. : Cecil Hugh, Lord Arrowood, no oc pation. Arrowool, Hants, England, Daniel P. Ormsby, manufacturer of mit goods, Utica, N.Y. B. Forrest Hume. lecturer on Scao- inarian Irorature, Occidental univer ity, Long Trail, Okla. Joho Stewart Dick, pragmatint, Ome-{ a, Neb. Pendennts.J. Arbntbnot, banker and | orseman, Lexington, Ky. Percival B. Shallenderrer, noveltat | Bd smal! fruitn, Sycamore, Ind. I George W. Gorse, capitalist, Red- | nda, Cal. : We rose and stood 1p our several}, Igces when a moment later Mins Oc | vin entered. She greeted the suttors f, raciourly and then in her most charm: } f TADPNr called one after the other |; y ait beside ber oo a long davenport f a time apportioned being weighed | tth nicety. so that none might fee! imecit alighted of preferred. These |’ nerviews consumed more than half ' 1 boot, and the mogg'eot ‘thus occa. > oned gave constde: MM. animation to emcee, * ’ It may seem ridicuious that nite |} tlemes thn paring court to a) yang woineo should call upos ber at 4 ¢ same hour, but { must-say that the 1 erity of the sultors and the entire briety of Cecilie did not affect me 1 imorously, por did I feel at al} out of r ace in thix strange company. I found yeelf agreeably engaged for several ’ inutes tn discussing Ibeeo with the ‘ kiaboma professor. who preved ta be 1 éelightful fellow. Bis experience of fe was apparently wide, apd be told] , e with an engaging frapknees of hie § eeting With tbe Bollistets in Fraoce ‘ 13 of his ptisealt of them over many] ¢ sary milea the previous summer. As} § J one bed elected his cowrnes in the] | EN ee re a opicit, «Even Wiggins opemed 5 wholly pleaned to find we there agai hoveh be bad asked me to remal ‘The wanner of the otbers expresse Gadata, svspicion or ferce bostility. ‘Whea the last man rose from tb Gavenport Mim Octavia called me | ner aide. She seemed contrite at ba’ Ing neglected me during tbe day, bu agrored me that later abe hoped 1 place an entire day at my disposal. A we talked the ulno suitors ant in semicircle about. Cecilin, while th group iiatencd to an anecdotal ¢% change between Professor Hume an Henderson, tho’ Virginia planter. M. opinion of Cecilia Hollister as n rie of bigh spirit. able to carry off any a! uation no matter how dificult, roxe t new altitudes as 1 watebed her. f thla atennge woolng was not to her tk ing abn certaluly tinde the best of tt Bbe caked Henderson’w peat ator; with # better one fo negro dialect. nm no profersional entertainer could bay improved upon her rectial, As sho Sh ished we all Joined tn the genern laugh, Lord Arrowood's guffaw boom tng out a trifle boisteronaly, when Mix Octarla quietly rore and excuse) her self. About five minutex later, when the company bad. phunged Into another x= Flex of anecdotes, 1 suddenly became consclonx that the fireplace, near white Toxat, had all nt ogee begun to act strangely. Much In the mauner of Sts ‘performance the prevtoun night, it al» ruptly gaxpeed aid choked, the anoke Vallooned In a great xutel and. then poured out tnte te ren, After my exntutnation of the ues tn the morning Thad digmtased thers from iny tld, aod this extrienliuars behavior of the Mbrars flreplnee 9s founded me. It be not Io reaxon that A perfectly normal fireplace, tulle in the most approved faetlua and wit chimness that Fine tuto aw clear an ether ax October can bextow could act $0 monrtrously without the Interven tion of aoine malign agency. We had Ainconted ull the porsthilities the pre sioun night, and 1 was not anxtous te hear further Ins opinions, ‘The chim Bes'a conduct wan annoying, the mare fo that to wy profeasional cus I was fnexpiicable, Lord Arrowood had retrented dls crvetly toward the door, and the otter Dad riven ntud toot clone behind Cu cilia, whoxe gaze wan bent rather a¢ cuxingly upon ine x A dark thought had-eroued my mind. Ax our exon ict 1 felt that she had rend toy xuvpiclous and did not wholly reject them. Henderwon was yallantly, poking the lngw, while one of two of the other men gave him the beneftt of thelr alvice, IL rrinwed tho hall to the drawing nim, into one was there. J went buck tei the billiard room, bnt AW Hothing af Mine Octavia, Cecilia hnsk rung fer thefootman, and I passed! tity fn the hail oo bix way to answer! her muMiONE. 1 stopped Him with ap Iuquiry on iny thy, but 1 could not ask be question Exen tn toy perplexity nF to the cause of the chiuines's re- markable performances 1 dik not #9 at forzet self ax Co communicate Wy uspiolon to a Rervant “Nothing, Thoway” 1 sald, and the pat fussed on” It way penstble, of coume, that Miss etavia Knew tore than she cated to il nbout the ermtic wayx of the Ik Jrars chitines. of nhe might indeed be he cxuxe of ix vagaries, Suffictent ime tind elapedl after retirement trom he library to allow ber to gain the oof nnd ela a wfonper on the cbim- °F pot. This did not, howerer, ac] cunt for the fact that op the previous wenlig she hind been present in the| Porars when the same chimney bad nanifested x almilar sulkinets. T wns till pondering thene things when’ 1] eard loud laughter from the Mbrars| né.on returning found the logs again lazing in the Grepince, from which the| § moky' rone demurely tn the Sue. 1 “Tbin Greplace ts ike a gerser, Mr.| men," anid Cectita, “and aparts amoke| t regular interrata As I remember. | be clock on the-stalr was striking O} at night wen the smoke poured out, nd there—it fs atriking 9 now!" ; be tosned her head slightly, and thin ‘as, 1 thougbt, in dindaio of the wus-| jclon thet must atill have sbown ttxclt] + ite stobborniy In my face. I withdrew again in a few minutes nd followed the great chinmey‘a| § yorse upward. Mins Octaria’s apart: |’ ents were at the front of the bouse, er sitting room windows looking out} ! pon the Itailan garden, Her doors} § ere closed, bat 1 knew from my ex- mination in the morning that the ue | ' r her fireplace tapped the chimacy | at rose from the Grawing room and ia nothing whatever to do with the| ¢ prary chimsey. al From the fourth Goor I gained thé | < ot by the reage followed on my 10: 7 ection of the heese tn the morning | f pe poke femme We Mbrary chimney | } as rising tn the criap, Will afr biitbe- . I leaned upon the crenslations, s csioncmag ge ey. 8 acs g the jovettmens of a e planets Guetted ‘seperdiy, There} ! aa nothing €9 Be learned here, 20d 1/ * ae Mm ow reseed” sf tebe Rand on inte met ler - . 2 Spot pes Soler w ‘te Qemee card wae © ight cord and she te $i oo @ notation ef game Rind on a leat ¢ the sitver ‘besklet. Mven afte he bed "mp and omiled at m her ayes the page before her Then abo the covers aad clasp ed the pretty’ tey tn her hand A: though to @ieet my attention abe re corred at ones to the chimpdy tn 8 vein of Nght wea. - “Tou see.” he said. “there fs ample reason for your remaining here. You ‘would bardiy fad ans where-else so In teresting © test’ of your profeasigon! Powers am Hopeteld Manor offers. ‘The house f4 baupted besoud question. and T can sce that you are not » man to Jenve two defeoreless women to the mercy of a ghost who drops down chim: nese ut will.” T suffered ber eal for rerern! mip- tutes, tbo I asked polnt blank: “Pardon ine, bat hare you the sligbt- ent Idea that Alles Octavia ts bebind this? It Js not possible that she was reaponaible Inst bight. But sbe was not on thia foor awhile ago when the xmoke poured tn here. I sbould be glad to hear sour opinion.” “f raw that yo wuspected ‘her Lefore you left the room, Mr. Ames, and } mmuet say that the fea tn fu Ro was creditatite to you, If you entertain aneb a suspicton son must Huppls a motive. and Just what motive would you ately tite to ms Aunt Octavia fa thy tn stance? Her tone aud manner piqued. me or 1 nieuld not Rave answered ax 1 ald. “It Is posatble f sald, “that robe of these gentlemen who came ticte tohlght were Nor to ber liking, and i may have] eecurred to her to 'ket rid of then by’ the obviously xuccesmful method of acueiibug theun out” ‘ She rove, sll ciasping the little nit ter backed notebook, and looked me over with amuncment in her face and eyes “You are'ainiont too ingenious, Mr. Ainex. I bape that by breakfast time Fou will hare swine sure plausible 1 ution of the problem, Good night.” And no, tightly claping the ittte rook, mhe left the Amt, 1 followed Her to the door, and at the turn of the alr me ganced down and nodded, Her face an it huns above me for an mxtAnt acemed tramstigured with hap daha: CHARTER xX. {Mesto Plaxtul Ghost. diudayed at the thouxht of being left to wy own devices In thls bl country fonse, at an hour whet the talk at the Hare aud Turtolse usu ally Weeame worth while, 1 ant dowt and began fo turn uter the pertudteal on the Hurry table, but f was in uc tnood for reading, : The butler npieured and offered me rink, but dw thought of drinkin, alone aid not appeal to me, J repelled the suxgestion culdly, but after 1 bad Grupped myMeyen to the Engtiel review IL tind taken up Irsvax conscious that he stood bbe round. “Reg pardon, ste." welt? “Hie 9 bit hod about the chimney, air" ‘The profensional wan in me wan at ‘once alert, The chiltunes's conduct was inexpitealiie enoush, but, twas tn no hUMoF to brook the Cheurles of a arupd werrant dill, tie misht kuow sine thing, x0 1 ooxdded for Wun to go on. He giauret over tis abouter and catne 2 rtep earn. “They wig th the vittige, alr, that the ‘ouse tx “aunted.”” “Who aay tt, dies?" * “The liveryian told thé coachmnn, and the ‘ounemald cot ht from a seta stress, Ulta werry queer, wir.” “Rubbish, James. Mm mmized that 2 person of soit tation xhould tsten to m Uversuinn’s goxsip, ‘There's the ehirones, ita working perfectly. Some slite of ulr currents causes §t to putt 2 Ittle sivoke tnte this room occasion ally, but those things are nut related to'the supernatunut, We'll find nome way of correcting Ito n day or two" sWerry goad. nie. Mut begging par: don, the cbimnes bxin't hall. Hit walkn, $€ 1 nay no bexprens bit.” + Walke?"f exclalmed, sitting up and throwing’ down my revlew. “What walks “You ‘car hit, str, bio the walla. Hit goes right through the solid brick— Most honscconntabie” 0! “You bear « mouse in the walls and think it'a a gbowt! But you forget James. that thie is a new house, only @ year or s0 old, and spooks doa't fre- quent such places, If it were an ald place tt might be possible that ‘the creaking of foors and the settling of walle woold cause uneasiness in tery: ons people. ‘The Kbost tradition uaual- ly rests on some usly fact. Bot bere} Bothing of the kind is present.” “Hit was ove of ‘ta majesty’s hort cars, rir,” be apawered bosreely. It fesbed over me that thie big stor id fellow: was out of his head; but, sane or mad be wes clearly greatiy dis, tarbed. It was best, I thought, on either hypothesta to speak to'bim per- ecaptorily, and I rose, the better to den) with the sttuation. “What nonsense is this you have in your bead? You're in the Ualt States, and there aren't any majesty's| poldlers to deal with. You forget tbat} you're not in England now.” “Bot ‘this “ere country used to be Henglisb. you may recall, str. Tbe} story the coechman got’bin the villaxc| goes back to the bold times, slr, when he, colonies was bin rebellion: 1f may po call bit, sir, and ‘la majerty's troops wan puitin® Gown tbe rebellion io bese pnrta. Some, American rebels chased, Britiah soldier from borer néaz White Plains to these ‘ere wood 1s they ‘wan then. and they ‘anged ‘Im, fr, right where this ‘ere ‘onse stands, f{ may mate so fee” , “You'd better go to bed. Jamea Ana lov't encowrege tnlk among the other] errants about this hort 1 keow| omething about.the Dulifting of hovese, 24 I'll xtvg Cree walle a 700d lookiog| rer, Good aight.” 1 made myself. comfortable for anf. - gik we he Wey \ |i = 7 7, seth | | SS . “ouse ie ‘aunted.” >} dur, stoking a cigar over an artic -| on Kastixts poitties, and white 1 read ‘| big log placidly burned itself to aabe: I found the switch and snapped o¥ the Morary Uchts. AVhen I bad caine }] the xecoud Moor T tured off the lett io the hall’ below, and, as I looke | down the well to mike wure 1 ha | turned the riht kes, the third goo | Ughtx suddenly died and 1 was lett ji darkness. ‘This wan the lease Wit dls | concerting. 1 was quite ure that th upper lsbta had remnlaed burnin brightly after the darkening of th | lower ball, no that ft wan hardly po J albie that the one switch bnd cut, of both Ngbta Standiys by the raf! Chat guarded the well, 1 peered upward, thinking thr some one nbore me wae manipulattn another aviteh, bat tbe silence was a complete as the bincknem 1 was about to turn from the rail to the wal t find the awitch, but at this moment as my taco wax atiil Ufted tn the tn tentness with whieh I was lxtentox. something brushed” my .cheek—nonie: thing aoft of touch and swift of move ment As l tipped the full 1 felt thi touch once, twice. thrice. Then m) band wodxbt the wall madly, and with 0 bad an aim that ft waa quite a min- ste before I found the-awitch plate and unnpped all the keya. The atnir and the halle above api below me sprang Jato being mxaln, and I xtood blinking etupidiy upward. Though 1 was in a modern house thoroughly lighted by electricity I can: Bot deny that this incident, following 20 quickly upon the butlers atory, oc enstoned a momont’s acute bair raiaor. Accompanted by an uncomfortable! tremor of ‘the legs. As already hinted| Flay no claim to great valor. As for} ghotta-I am half peranaded of their exiatence, and, after witnessing a pres- entation of Hamlet. always feel that Bhakeapeare te an ante a culde tn auch matters ax the destructive sclentife eriticn, There were varions plaurible exptn- nations of the failure of the Ughtx Some switch that I did not know of. perhaps tn the third floor hall, might have been turned. or the power honse in the villaxe might bate been abift- ing dynamus, Either solution of the Fiddle wns credible, But the ghostly touch on my face conld vot be ac: counted for mo rendily. . Leaving the Ughta on, 1 cofitinued, to the third floor nm! exanined the awiteh and songht In other wayn to expialn these phenomena Sy compusure returned more alowts than I care to confeas and I think { wae probable In my mad tbat the ghost of King Geonxe’s Gead sridier might be lying in walt for me, but I saw and heard nothing, The doora of the unused chambers op tbe third floor were cloned, and I did not feel justited tn trying them, The kerrants were housed on this Door at the rear of the onse, and a door that cut off their quarters proved oD es amination to be tightly locked. ‘The fourth door wan dnly @ half sto- ry, ured for mtoraxe purposes. The roof was gained, 1 recalled, by an tron ladder and a.batchway in @ trunk room. I ran down to my roam and, found a candle, to be armed agaiont any fulther- fickieness of the lights. and set out for the fourth foor. I had changed my coat and with a couple of candies ard a box of matches started}, for: the roof. My courage hed risen}. pow, and I was ready for any further}: adventure that the night might hold] for me Mise Hollister and Cecilial were both in their, roome, presumably || neleep. The servants doubtless had) their Goors barred against gbostiy vis-| | Worn, and the house was mine to ex-| ; plore as I pleased. 5 I think I was humming stightly as-1] moninted the stair, which, tn keeping] ; with the general lurertoosness that). characterised the furnishing of the | bones, was thickly carpeted even tol ; the fourth floor. I wes slipping my} pend along the rafl and mounting. 1| , Bare ony, a little jaunty as I screwed my courage t.an unfamitier notch] ; when soddenly, midway of the fret] patt and Just before I reacted the} mm where the stair broke, the tighta| | failed again with starting abroptness. Ns fhe was carrying the Joke pretty far.t ; wad instantly: clapped my hand tol , my pocket for the Box of safety] ; matches, dug it out and then in my] , jacte dropped the td expential to tgnl-| | $om and stooped to find ft. hj ’ ‘The stair had marrowed ca this} | Might, and as I sought: with fotile| | agernees to regain the box i I could] ave sworn thet some cue passed me. | MMM half stooping, | stretched out my) 1 yms ond clasped empty air, and oe] | mddeniy bad 1 throws myestt for}: yard that I lost my belanes and roi) 4 downward the spate of balf 2 pen treads before I tevovered my-{ | eit. I wee badly scared andi berdiy| ' pas angry st having misced “threegs| ! ay own clusmatnens the fey of grep-| ! ping. with the grout of.ape of King) : oldie” west tone Samat Gartnaes ‘cand. 2 coal | ‘Bearing qqnia onty. by caging te the stair val eat I Seund the epeend Suse witch YegouM any that two, fyll minotes hed Damned Detweon the loan of the matcher sel: my fashiag ca ef the hemos Trew top to: bottom the lights shoes Wightty. But no coe Was visible, and T:beard mo sound tn any part of the aot eran to analyze my thon: may semen @urtng the temporary eclipse of tht lights I was couscioes of two things he being. homan or other, that had passed ime had been light of step and Set of motion There had been some thing wocanny In the ease and speed of that passing. I was without con: viction as to Ita direction, whether up or down..tMugh I taclined to the for goer notion for the reason that’ the em- ployment of a concealed witch above seemed the more reasonable argument. And a falot, an almost imperceptible ecent, as of a flower, had seemed to be a part of the passing. Mine is a sensitive nostril, and I was coufdent that {t did not betray me in this, I gatbered up my matches and start ed again for the roof. The trunk room door opened readily, as on my morn. ng inspection of the chimneys pots but as 1 glanced op I saw that the hatch was open. Throvgh the aper co a) = ah Gas Cee s 4 bE & fai N NS eh: CG | I aiiaaiaoialaais scien haiitdis a tare shone the heavens, a square | etars anit bright with the moon's ra | diance. Tocketing my matches, f ra | Bimbly up the Indder. Thad been surprised to fod the hatct J open, but ft 1s not too much to aa; that I was greatly astonisbed by wha T saw on the moon Gooded roof. ‘There midway of a fat arce that Lay betwee the two larxec chimney pots. two per sons werd intently engaged. not ir Ebowtly promenadiog cr posturing o feren th andible conversation, bat 1D « spirited Dout with foils I stood with ead spd aboulders thrust throogh the ‘opening, ktaring at this unusual spec: tacle and not nure but that after all my yen were tricking we, “Touche!” |. It was a woman's voice, taint from breathlessness. She threw off her mask and dropped ber foul and wit. & most bumen and feminine gesture put op her bands to adjust her har. It was Cecilis Hollister in a short skirt end fedcing cost: ve Her opponent was & man. and as be, too, flung of his mask I paw that be was a gentleman of years, T was about fo withdraw when the stranger swung round and saw me. His sudden er- elamation cnveed the giri to turn, and as a reasooable frankness has always seemed to re ementia! to 4 nice discre- ton I crawled out on the roof. “I beg your pardon, Miss Hollister, but if 1 bad known you were bere I aboold not have introded. ‘The vaga- ‘lea of the library chimbey have’ been oa my mind, and J was about to have another peep tnto yonder pot” Bho stood at ber ease, with ove band resting lightly against the inexplicable chimney in question and still some what epeat from her éxerciee. “Father,” abe eaid, turning to the stranger who mood Dear, “this ie Mr. ‘Ames, who fe Aunt Octavia's, guest.” ‘The tight of the gitbows moon 2e- abled to diecerh pretty clearty.the form and features of Mr. Basaford Hoitte- ter. And' Ord, fm looking over my, Botes, that I accepted ao 2 matter of coarse the singular meeting with my, hosteer’ brother. I ad grown fo weed to the ways of the Holtisters I already’ Kaew thatthe meeting with anether| muecaber of the family at 12 o/cleck ef might on the roof of thin remarkable] house gave me 20 great sherk. of our priea, He.wee tall, slender and dart, with fine eyes that enpeeetad Cocitia’s. His close trimmed beard was stightiy| gray, bot be bore himecif erect, apd I) hed already meen that be was alert of} erm and eye and nimble of foot. ‘Father and 1 bave fenced together] for years.” maid Cecilia. “My steer] Henekiah does not care for thi sport. As you bare alresdy soeb that my Avat Octavia fo an unesea) women, given to many whims, I wil! not dey te you that at preseat my father ia persctia non grata in this house. 1 beg aswere you thet pithing to his aid credit or mice has coutributed to the airoation, nor cai our meeting bare to- might be construed’ es’ detrimental to] him or to se. Ip meeting my father] tn thie way I hare to a seose broken fatth with my Aunt Octavia. but I ae pore you. Mr. Ames, that {t fs only ‘the petural affection for daughter that led my. father to seek-me here tn this danéestine fsahioo.” Cocttia bed epoken eteediyy. Dut ber] velco brobe s0 she coctuded. and rbe| walked quickly toward the bated way, Her father supped before we 19 give] ber bts haod threagh the opening. J withdrew to the efge of the root] While a few words pened between’ thom that socered aS an | SILA ENS ; ‘ent pica. :Me x Sacgns beanies Sere me. “I hed lenreed frees ‘both gry daumty- tere of your premece'ta ay dleter’s Dense, an | bad expected te meet y00 nooner of later. “Thin Ie a strange busi: Rees, a strange bopiness.” He had drawa out a pipe, which.be filled apd lighted Gextetoasly. The flawe of bis match gave me better ac- quaintance: with bis face. He leaned against the serrated roof gvard with ‘the reatent composure nod drew bis pipe toa glow, I had not forgotten my encounter wit the ghost om the etatr, and as 1 waited for him to speak I was trying to Identify bim with the mys- terioun agency Uint bad tampered with: the lights and passed so ghostly a hand across my face in the stair well, 1 could bardiy say that there had not been time for citber Rassford Hollister or his daughter to bave reached the roof after wy experiences on the stats, and yet they bad beep eogaged #0 earn: eatly at the thowent of my appearance at the hatchway that it was Smproba- bie that either could have played ghost and flown to the roof before I reached it. And. cliroloating the ghost altogeth- er, I had yet to learn bow Daasford Hollister hnd guiow) entrance to the houne. It acemed best te drop apecula- ous and walt for bim to declare bltn- ef. CHAPTER i. My Befuddlement Increases. AB both of them. are very den to me." sald Bassford Hollls ter. “It in the great grief of my If that, owing fo mattern beyond my con trol, I have ten unable to entre fo them ag 1 should Ike to do. ‘Thin be Ing the enxe, 1 have been oblined to al low them to accept many favors fron tuy only ainter Octavia. ‘This, 0 ord) nary citeutustancor, would not be re Hugnant to my pride. but my alster {1 Avery unusual person. She mast d for uiy clilldren in ber own way. anc while Iwas prepared, In greeting that they should accept ber bounty, for some whimsical unnifestation of -be eccentric character, 1 did not Imaging that aho would co 80 far as to shut me out from all-knuwledge of ber pinny for them. ‘That, Mr. Ames, In what baw happened * Hix colee rose and fell mournfully. Be pitted his pipe for a moment and continued: “There ta pow something forward bere which I donot understand. 1 have an idea that Octazin bas contriv- €4_ some preposteroun scheme for choosing n huxband for Cetilin that tn fn keeping with her odd faxhlon of transacting all her Duniners. 1 do pot Know fu pature, and by the terma ot her agreement Cecitia lx not tw dis- lone the method to be emplosed to me—not ereo to ine, her own father. You must agree. Amen, that that (x rather rubbing.tt tn." “But you doo't armume that your @anghter is oof xo be a free agent in the matter? You dont believe ttiat gers Goworthy and Improper man’ is to be forced upon her?" “That. air, te exactly what { fear.” “You will pardon me, but I cannot for n woment Delleve that Sfiss Hol Mater would rik ber niece's happiness even tm satisfy ber own-peculler bo- mor. Your alnter ts « sbrewd womnp, and her best. 1 am convinced, is the Kindest. Among tbe suitors now camped at the Prescott Arma there must be some one whom your daugh- ter approves, and I see Do reason ‘why be should not ultimately be her choice. Now that you bave broached the mat- ter, 1 make free to say that one of these-sultora is an oki friend of mine, Hartley Wickins by name, kod that be fa a man of tha highest character apd a gentleman ip tho atrictest sense.” ‘Be bad been listening to me with the greatest composore, but at the mention of Wigxina’ name be started and uerrously clotched my arm. That man may be all that you say.” he cried chokingly, “but be bas acted. infamourly’ toward both my dacgh- ters. He is & rogue and a most deepic- able fellow. [le has firted ontrare- ously with Hezekiah while at the same time pretending to be deeply inter ented {n Cecilia.” “But. my dear air, is it not possible that you do him a great wrong? May It mot be the other way rewnd that Hostiah ‘a trifing with Wiggins’ af- tectione? He's a splendid taliaw, Hart- ey Wiggins, but be's a little slow, that’s all. ADd between two superd young women Hike your daughtew a man may be pardoned for doubts and pesttation. Tbe thing is bouad to straighten itself out.” Be toned bia bead impatiently. “Hes it occurred to you that Oc mavia's iateraet in this Hartley Wigxias may be due to a trifing and immate- fal tact 7" “Nothing beyood hls tndubttable ligibality.” “Theo ket me tell you what I ove pect. Both bis names contain seven eters. My sister is tightly cracked - wa to the number seven, I swear to you my belief that the fact thet bie parses contain seven letters each is at he Bottom of all this Incredible, my lear vir, but wholly possibie! “Thea, such deing the case why joeen't ‘abe abow ber band’ openly? fou send conjecture far when once ou entertain so absard an idee.” “You thiok my assumption uolike y7" he sacked eageriy. - “I certainly do, Mr. Hollister.” You pay an well amsume that, as Wigsios a speciatty favored in the nember of ettere in bis alngolariy prosaic and un- emantic name, 11 is Miss Hollister's dain td Keep him Aallying seven years.” He selsed me by the arm and forces pe back against the battlements, then toed of and eyed me fercely. “Yon opesk of pervihe and of service! Ul you tall we just why you are here- ad what Drisgs x00 tnto thie affair? What are yoo deion in my sister's gese, where I. bave to come Hie-a bef in the. night to see one eof my wn-chikiren?” . : 1 Uaatened to declare my profession ed that } had been sammened by Mise joliiater to examine her thimeeys. J SATURDAY.....JUNE 7, 1918. could not, however, tell him that until my arrival the chimneys had behaved themselves admirably. "You've admitted your friendship for this. Wiggins person—that's enough." he said when I had concluded, "I advise you to leave the house at once. I tell you he's got to be eliminated from the situation. Understand that I do not threaten you with violence, but I will not promise to abstain from visiting heavy punishment upon that fellow. And you? A chimney doctor? I am a man of considerable knowledge of the world, and I say to you very candidly that I don't believe there is any such profession." "Then let me tell you." I replied, not without heat, "that I am a graduate in architecture. I am your sister's guest, and as she is perfectly competent to manage her own affairs I shall stay here as long as it please her to ask me to remain. And now, one other matter: How did you gain this roof tonight, when by your own admission you are not on such terms with your sister as would justify you in entering it openly?" The moonlight did not fall to convey the contempt in his face, but I thought he grinned as he answered quietly: "You don't seem to understand, young man, that you are entitled to no explanations from me. You strife me as a singularly fresh young person. It would be a positive gift to me to find that my conduct had displeased you. And now, as the night grows chill, I shall beg you to proceed me into the house by the way you come." "But first," I permitted, "let me ask a question. It is possible that you yourself have some preference among your daughter's several suitors, Mr. Hoffner. Would you object to telling me which one you would choose for Miss Cecilia!" "Beyond question the man for Orcilia, if I have any voice in the matter, is Lord Arrowood." "Arrowood!" I exclaimed. "You surprise me greatly. I saw him at the inn, and be seemed to me the most insignificant and uninteresting one of the lot." "That proves you a person of poor gifts of discernment, Mr. Ames." And his tone and manner were quite reminiscent of his sister's ways, and his further explanation proved, him even more worthy the brother of his sister. "As I was obliged," he began, "owing to an unfortunate physical handicap, to abandon my art, that of a marine painter. I have given my attention for a number of years to the study of the Irish situation. I met Arrowwood by chance in the highway yesterday, and I found that he holds exactly my ideas, which favor Irish Independence." This certainly had the true Hollister touch. "And so," Bassford Hollister concluded; "I naturally incline toward Arrowwood, though he is so poor that he was obliged to come over in the steerage to continue his wooing of my daughter." He let himself down into the dark trunk room, waited for me courteously and walked by my side to the stairway, both of us maintaining silence. I was deeply curious to know how he had entered and whether he expected to go down the front way and out the main door. We kept together to the third floor hall. I could have sworn to that. Then suddenly, just as we reached the stairway, out went the lights, and we were in utter darkness. I smothered an exclamation, clutched my matches and struck a light, and as the stick flamed slowly I looked about for Basford Hollier. But he had vanished as suddenly and completely as though a trap had yawned beneath us and swallowed him. I found the third floor switch, and it responded immediately, flooding the stair well to the lower hall, but I neither saw nor heard anything more of Hollier. Astounded by this performance, I continued on to the lower floor to have a look around, and there, calmly reading by the library table, sat Mise Octavian: "Late hours, Mr. Ames!" she cried. "I supposed you had retired long ago." "Pardon my troubling you, but may I inquire, Miss Hollister, how long you have been sitting here!" The clock on the stair began to strike 12, and she listened composedly to a few of the deep toned strokes before replying. "Just half an hour. I thought some one knocked at my door about an hour ago. The lights were on and I came down, saw a magazine that had escaped my eye before and here you find me." "Some one knocked at your door?" "I thought so. You know, the servants have an idea that the place is haunted, and I thought that if I set here the ghost might take it upon himself to walk. I contend to a slight disappearance that it is only you who have appeared. I suppose it wasn't you who knocked at my door." "No," I replied, laughing a little at her manner, "not unreason it was you who switched off the lights as I was coming down from the fourth floor. I have been studying this chimney from the roof. I know something of the ways of electric switches, and they don't usually move of their own accord." "Your coming to this house has been the greatest joy to me, Mr. Amos. I should not have imagined in a chance look at you that you were psychical, and yet such is clearly the fact. I assure you that I have not touched any wounds since I left my room. It was mannerless, as I found the lights on But I never ask you or asking you to ask my chamber door. It gives me the greatest satisfaction to assume that the home is haunted, and at any time you find the ghost I beg that you will no time in presenting me." She were a remarkable lavender dresser and a nightcap such as I and never seen outside a museum. As she concluded her speech, spoken in that curious lifting tone which from the beginning had left me in doubt as to the seriousness of all her statements, she rose and, still clasping her magazine, made me a courtesay and was soon the stair. I heard the door close a minute later, and then, feeling that I had earned the right to repose, I went to my room and to bed. I slept late and on going down found the table set in the breakfast room. Miss Octavia entered brakely, her slight figure concealed by a prodigious gingham apron. "Good morrow, merry gentleman," she began blithely. "The most delightful thing has happened. Without the slightest warning, without the faintest intimation of their dissatisfaction, the house servants have departed, with the single exception of my personal maid, who being a Swede and therefore regularly devoid of emotion, was unbaken by the ghost rumors that have sent the rest of my staff scampering over the hills." She lighted the coffee machine lamp in her most tranquil fashion and begged me to be seated. "I have already breakfasted," she continued, "and Cecilia is even now preparing you an uncleet with her own hand. I beg to reassure you as my guest that the departure of the servants causes me not the slightest annoyance. Cecilia is an excellent cook, and I myself shall not starve so long as I have strength to crack an egg or lift a stove lid. And beheads. I still retain my early trust in Providence. I do not doubt that before nightfall a cope of excellent servants will again be on duty here. Very likely they are even now bound, for this place, coming from the wet coasts of Ireland, from Liverpool and from lonely villages in Baskinville. I hope you will testify to the fact that I faced this day in the closest and most hopeful spirit." "Not only shall I do so. Miss Hollister," I replied, trying to catch her own note, "but it will throughout my life give me the greatest satisfaction to set your cause alright. To that extent let me be Horatio to your Hamlet." "Thank you, miloed," she returned with the utmost gravity. "And may I say further that the incident gives the stamp of authenticity to my ghost? I was obliged to pay those people double wages to lure them from the felicities of the city, and they must have been a good deal alarmed to have left precepts city. You must excuse me now, as it is necessary for me to do the pastry cook's work this morning, that individual having fled with the rest, and it being incumbent on me to maintain my fee simple in this property, to make a dozen pies before high noon. But first I must visit the stables, where I believe the coachman still linger, having been prevented from joining the strapdeep of the house entrusted by the painful twinges of gout." With this she left me, and I began pecking at a grapefruit. It had been in my mind as I dressed that morning to play truant and visit the city. It was almost imperative that I take a look at my office, and I had resolved upon a plan which would, I believed, give me the key to the ghost mystery. If Pepperton had built that house he must know whether he had contrived any secret passages that would afford exists and entrances not apparent to the eye. It would be an easy matter to run into the city, explain myself to my assistant and get hold of Pepperton. My mind was made up, and I had even consulted a time table and chosen one of the express trains. [TO WE CONTINUED.] I GIVE THEE ETERNITY. How many paltry, foolish, painted things That now in coaches trouble every street Shall be forgotten, whom no poet sings. Ere they will be wrapped in their winding sheet. Where I to thee eternity shall give When nothing else remaineth of these days And queens hereafter shall be glad to live? Upon the slims of thy superfluous praise Virgins and matrons, reading these my rhymes. Shall be so much delighted with my story That they shall grieve they lived not in these times To have seen thee, thy sex's only glory. So shalt thou fly above the vulgar throng. Still to survive in my immortal song. —Michael Drayton. LITERARY QUALITIES When in any nation an individual is born who is capable of producing a great thought another is born capable of comprehending and admiring it. Between esteem and contempt there is in literature a path which offers success without glory and is also obtained without merit. It is worth a hundred times more to adapt a work to the nature of a human mind than to what is called the state of society. In man there is something immutable; therefore it is that in the act and works of art there are fixed rules—beauties that will always please or also confrainces that will please but for a short time—Johort. The Scrap Book A Royal Kiss and a Yankee Kick. Kissing has always had its thorns mingled with ruses. Even a royal prince has been known to be sorry for himself after kissing "not wisely, but too well," as when the Duke of Clarence (later our fourth William), while traveling in America, stole a kiss from the pretty wife of the barber who had shaved him. - "There, now," he said boastfully, "tell your coun KICKED HIM OUT. said boastfully, "tell your countrymen that the son of the king has given a royal kiss to a Yankee barber's wife. Scarcey had the words left his lips with the knight of the army lifted a vigorous foot and kicked him out of the door, with the remark, "There, now, go and tell your countrymen that a Yankee barber has given a royal kick to the son of the king of England."—London TH-Bits. Doing Good. Let me do good and never know To whom my life a blessing brings. Given as a lighthouse freely sings Guiding the ships, which to and fro Flit by unseen with their white wings Let me do good and never know To whom my life a blessing brings. As thirsty travelers come and go Where some fresh money fountains springs. It is their lips and sweetly sings and glides away with heedless slow. Let me do good and never know To whom my life a blessing brings. -Canon Wilson. Getting His Goat A well known piano salesman, who would risk his life for a woman in distress, had an opportunity of proving his heroism one afternoon recently. C. B. He was passing up! Hilurod avenue when he happened to observe a fair creature who was frightened by a fierce goat in a lot near the street. Hastening to TUSSING IN THE STREET. the rescue, the piano salesman grabbed the goat by the horns. Up and down, back and forth, he wrestled with the animal until the two were tussling in the street in the middle of the car tracks. When the first car came along the motorman put on the brake, and the conductor came running to see what was wrong. "Here, here!" he cried. "You can't get that thing on the car!" "I don't want to get it on, doggone it!" cried the hero. "I want to get it off!"-Youngstown Telegram. At the Exhibition. A girl and a young man valuing the recent Futurist exhibition in the Sixty-ninth Legion armory painted before a painting by Henri Rousseau; a canvas fairly crusted with slathers of every color of the prism. "This is in Henri Rousseau in his later manner," explained the girl "He died two years ago. Do you get his message?" "Not exactly," said the young man, "but I bet $4 he died of painter's colic."—New York Post Work For a Grasshopper. When the late Senator Taylor of Tennessee was making his second campaign for governor he was forced to stop overnight at a small town in Kentucky on the way to one of his river appointments. There was but one vacant room in the hotel. The governor and his secretary were told they would have to put up there. The bed was parrow, and the straw mattresses full of knots and lumps. In the morning the host inquired: "Well, governor, how did you rest last night?" Taylor bedded. "Are you ever worried by those chronic kickers coming round?" he asked the landlord. "Sometimes I get one of them," he replied. "Well," said the governor, "next time a good kicker comes along I wish you would do the suffering public and myself the favor of sending him up to that room where I tried to sleep last night and let him kick the knots out of that straw tick"—Saturday Evening Post. An Unprofitable Success. Bounders Norvell told this one on himself to the state-hardware dealers in convention at the Coliseum: "When I was in the jobbing business I used to pass on the street car the store of one of my customers who did not have his windows arranged in the best way to sell goods. One day I got off the car and went in and told him how to fix up the window. He listened to my arguments, but became angry with me. However, I watched his store window closely for the next week to see whether he would adopt my suggestions. He adopted them completely, but he did it with goods that he purchased from one of my competitors."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. INTERVIEWING CARUSO. A Persistent Reporter's Experience With the Great Tenor. A reporter who had orders to interview Erikko Caruso of the golden voice went to the Knickerbocker hotel the other day about noise. He was told by the singer's valet that his master was taking a nap, but would probably go. shall I explain to you would give notice by telephone. As I check the reporter went to a telephone. The man who answered said, "About what do you wish to talk with Mr. Caruso?" The reporter could hear the strains of "Colote Ade" pealing through the room back of the man at the telephone. He had the assurance, therefore, that the tenor was at home. "I will tell Mr. Caruso himself when he is at liberty to come to the telephone," he said. "But I am Mr. Caruso," said the man at the other end of the telephone. "I know better than that," said the reporter. "It is just because mutton-head servants like yourself lie like that that it is impossible to give messages through you with any satisfaction. Get off that line and ask Mr. Caruso to come to the phone or I'll come up there and make you into a salad dressing." "But, sir, you must not talk to me like that. I am Mr. Caruso himself, no one else, and you are insulting me when I am trying to do you a favor." "Hay," roared the reporter in exasperation, "are you so stupid that you can't understand that I can hear Mr. Caruso singing right in the room with you—you spaghetti filled goat!" "Ah! I see," said the voice, "Come right up." The reporter went up with a vast feeling of triumph. Signor Caruso opened the door himself, smiling wickedly. And on a stand in the center of the room was a phonograph from which were still issuing the strains of "Odelea Alda" in the singer's own voice. One of his favorite amusements is to bear himself slag. The reporter went away wondering if he had really apologized enough—New York World. Every Day the Best Write it in your hearts that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is doomsday.-Emerson. A Bit of Chinese Porn. The love of fun is not unknown among the serious looking Celestials who during the last decade have been collecting in the Australian colonies. A storekeeper, wishing to advertise his wares in the Chinese language, engaged a Chinese to paint a sign, expecting, of course, that it would be a very enticing one. It did not answer his expectations, however, for the only perceptible effect it had on "the relatives of the sun and moon" as the Chinese term themselves, was to exeize a grind of broad dimensions. At length the storekeeper, by a considerable bribe, obtained a translation in English of the advertisement and found that it read as follows: "Don't buy anything hero-storekeeper is a rogue." That sign came down in a jiffy, and the storekeeper spent the next week looking for the ingenious sign painter Patti's Burning Admirer. Once in Italy n-card was brought to Mme. Patti from a man whose name she did not know, but who was so very anxious to see her that she allowed him to be shown into her room. When the unknown came in he proved to be a little old man who was quite red and speechless with nervousness. Suddenly Patti noticed smoke coming out of his cost, so without saying a word she seized a glass of water and D. J. JOHNSON MERKED A GLASS OF WATER AND THREW IT OVER HIM. ENRIDA A COLLEGE OF WATER AND TREWIT OVER HIM. threw it over him. It turned out that the old man had put his lighted cigar into his pocket when he entered the room and so had set fire to his coat. "Sir," said Mme. Pattit, "I have had many admirers who professed them selfs burning with admiration for me, but I have never before met one who went so far as to set himself on fire to prove it." Newton's Apple Tree. It is impossible to say at this late day how tree or how false is the old story about Newton's apple tree at Woolthorpe, from which he is supposed to have seen the fall of the apple which gave him his first thought of the attraction of gravity. Voltaire is the authority for the well known story. He claims that the story was told to him by Catherine Barton, Newton's niece. How much truth there may be in the tale will never be known, but it seems to be certain that tradition marked a tree as that from which the famous apple fell till 1820, when, owing to decay, the tree was cut down—New York American. Second Upon the Knee There is a story told of Grammont, who one day dined in state with Charles II of England. Charles held the count to notice that the servant knelt while they served the dinner, a mark of respect to guests of the king not commute at other courts. "I thank your royalty for the explanation," he answered Grammont. "I thought they were gentle persons for giving you as a host a dinner." A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.—George Elliot. With soft persuasive prayers woman wields the scepter of the life which she charmeth.—Fried, rich Von Schiller. The weaknesses of women have been given them by nature to exercise the virtues of men.—Mine. Necker. Devotion in the last love of women.—Charles do Saint-Evremond. It is the male that gives charms to womankind: that produces an air in their faces, a grace in their motions, a softness in their voices and a delicacy in their complexions.—Joseph Addison. WORSHIP IN SPRING Now, at her fruited birth tide, the fair green field flowers out in blowing roses) now on the boughs of the colonnaded cypresses the crank, und with music, hula the binder of sheaves; the careful mother swallow, having finished houses under the eaves, gives barbage to her brood in the mod plastered cells, and the sea stumbers, with sephyr wooing calm spread clear over the broad ship trunks, not beckoning in signals on the stone posts, not voilting foam upon the beaches. O sailor, burn by the altars the glittering round of a mastlet or a curtainship or a social scarce to Pisouker, paler of ocean and giver of anborough, and so go fartherly on the seafaring to the bounds of the lionian sea.—Theocritus, Fourth Century B. C. METAPHYSICS That the spirit of man will ever wholly give up metaphysical investigations is just as little to be expected as that in order not always to be breathing bad air, we should stop breathing altogether. Metaphysics will always exist in the world and, whatever more exist who every one, but more especially with reflective men, who, in default of public standard, will each fashion it in his own way. Now, what has hitherto been termed metaphysics can satisfy no acute mind but to remonise it entirely is impossible; hence a certain of pure reason itself must be at last attempted and when obtained must be investigated and subjected to the universal test, because otherwise there are no means of relieving this pressing requirement, which means something more than mere thirst for knowledge - Immunel Kant. HOTEL HOTEL DALE ```markdown ``` CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located beautiful seashore resort in the high improvement, superlative in device, and refined patronage in houses, tennis, etc., on pre- to ladies and children. Send E. W. 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When, therefore, the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart let us look around and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, life without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied there remains little to be sought with solitude or desired with engrenage—Samuel Johnson. THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. TAILORING CLEANING DYING AND IMPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE, Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will satisfy the Lover at the Night Kind of Sensation. Special Prison We Have All Grades of Good LB quern, Oigners and Fulmen, Call and Sue Lc. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 R. Broad St. Richmond, Virginia DALE tated in the heart of the most world; replete with every mod- construction, appointments. Orchestra daily. Garage, mises. 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MADAME SCOTT, Embalmer for for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. OLD PAPERS JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CREARS. FOR OCCURS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MARKET. 1610 East Pembrokeshire Street. (Three Old Martins) a ee _o- wee a i RSE TT eee ne > a. TL eRe ee or fe taeet So. ag ed se ed Cet co f Ser Se ———_———— pOMN MITORELL, aA, .. EDITOR ———<— cmeneatetions inte’ atic Sree ons 8, Ree _—— venme 1 ADYAROR ° yen Coes par Fed sssneemscsseersee AS SOE SO. BE ees SSIES Bg SS Oar A Se SS) See EES s ERs aerethermeentes ws apranrmrd EATER roe one inch, ome tneartbon ness Ser cee ees ieeertions Bee oe eee meee anes Fee twe BO an meet nen Lee Set ire ND ie mantis snensesn Shee See te {eae fenive senate ss) ee We toe Seep eral Motioms, omy (GSR Mercy 5S qrassices Motions, pat Uaeeees eqwr nce STAXr8 OF A HIOHIER, DENCET Sion THAR THO, CENTENGE ‘BORED : we enya 2 Foy ne SM OS hy wei one, eS ny as ok eee resin ws Pot, Oe Mol FE yack Teme oe Draft, ons ee gee eat eee eee of ee me OS Sage acer. rei acy tmp sony, nl aap, Tom, Cae paren as tae, Biers Pet Olce, sad we - le Sa aa REXPRuEn MONET ORDERE me be sttetert onET sie Sete Bors Wales oe See wae hee Steee nee Seed art rrr seo Tepre ar a Mower Order, “ecard rprae gas, Bee Sats ee Se Se TE ee eat on ermretot t Se Te Se ae ma be ‘treced. You con cond coomey to the See et oo “ae conace be responsible for mors erat, te SRS er it Se Se ton os pes bey Sree LE Tee ot ers sci eri pin soa tm PREVA rot re at Tat Te Coe eS FRETS Wo aioceanee Te Tee ewes bare, Sr ONS “Cueribers to srenmoere who de Soe eos Se Sint tee pre Seen i Se wae SSeS e es Cat ret oats ttewed. . COMMUNIOATIONS.—When writing we to _eoeeoonnone Ws se a Sr FE SST oer “nares aime Eira Cohan we cana nd oor mene oe oc ssimaw cok an TE Fie ceeecrtber we micst be ovat te! Sit I ecctet arene S| pepper as wee tolene mation 3 — eae sata as ! ee ae i SATURDAY........JUNE 7, 1913. ee Our exteemed contemporary, Tht Southern Reporter of Charleston, C. understands how (0 conduct Aircusston within the Hmits of a refined debate. When it says though that’ po far meoing man can perceive any dle crimination against the Negro tn Col. Roosevelt's attitude at Chicago, {t demonstrates that It Ix too blind Jn Me admiration for the distin- Rulkhed leader w sec and too deaf In {ts advocacy of the Progressive Party to hear. os ‘The race leadors can Ko ahead with thin compromising system of lesder- ship. but the peopte they lead will pay dearly for it in the end. Man- hood {x what {s-wanted and broad leadership and patriotic statesman- shin alone can enable our people to fench the goal of equal rights and full American cltizenabip, which they should reak. aes DRL WASIBNGTON AND THE | LABOR UNIONS. Dr. Rooker T. Washington con- tributes an article to the June num. ber of The Atlantlé Monthly. Tho mudject In "The Nexto and the Labor Vntons,"" Ho declares that (hore {8 prejudice agatnat colored people &- mong the members of labor unfous and there fs prejudico against labor unlons among colored people. In response to onquiries be says fifty-one nafional Inbor organtzations replied that thero wae nothing fa thelr constitutions probibiting the admittance of colored people, Only ‘wo labor organizations asterted that colored men did not make good unfon men. Dr. Washington ‘asserts: #80 fer as the tnbor unions ate concerned, 1 am convinced that these organisations can and will tecome an important means of doing away with the prejudice that now exists in many parts of the country against the Negro lahorer.” | As eeal Dr, Washington tokes an optimistic view of the situation and seems to.be of the opinion that the Teoult oF outcome. of the situation | will reoult 1m the betterment of the eendition of -the colored people of ee ~ ee med YEN FOSTAL samvice. Hon. Frank H, Hitebeock, former Postaaster General, and’ unquestion- jably the ableet one who ever held that portfollo Is indignant on sctownt Jot the crmclam of the present man- agement of the Post Office Depart: ment. While he proved himself to ‘be & master in curtailing the expen- inca of bis department, {t must be admitted that much of this wgs done at tho expense of tho efficiency of tho Post Oftico Department. "His statements ax quoted are hardly borno ous by tho facts. He nald: “The statement Ia as Inaccurate as It ts gratuitous—for tho public well Knows that never was tho postal sor- ‘vice, condueted more officlently, or malj handled with groater precision and dispateh, than in tho closing years of the Taft administration.” Thoso of us who vxporienced tn- convenience then and aro auffertig from poor'service now witl hardiy.bo willing to subseribo to his atatoment ‘of th conditions at the time noted. The postal xervice has been minors bis bad for mare, It tx doplorably awful now JUDGE CARPENTER'S DECISION, Judge Carpenter on Wedneaday. June 4, 1915 at Chicago, I, naw tt to overrule Jack Jobawon's plow to tet aside the verdict and proceeded to Kentenee the prisoner at tbo bar to pay a flac of one thounand dollars And to serve one your and a day Io the peiltentiary. * Counsel for the Champion of the World noted an apiwal and Jobson announced that be would continge the fight, Wo havo bolloved all along that Johnson's eucmios had made up thofr minds that he should wear the atripen of a ponvict. Under Feteral aw, the Judge can reloase the oprivoner under’ n aurpended 802 tence. Jislke Curpentur's romarks tudicate that he wit not do thie. | Inck Johnkon can reduce hs time of {ncarcaration by gool conduct oF he ean’ bo roleaned 03 paroly after nix inonths, The feoling agatast kim in no Inteans that there {9 ilttle hope that ke can win by an apiwal to a Mgher court. Every branch of the government In permeated with aco prejudice and the Iatext reporta froct the Whita House show that it has found an abiding place there There hay twen no ‘colored man In (he Listory of the country who has done moro to tnjure himself In par: Heular and tS cotored pmople ts Feneral than Mr. Jack Johnson. Ho agitated Cita debilitating race ques tlon, thls Inter marriage Df the races. Juet when the country was last pre paret for {t. Coming from Texan, tle hotbed of racial antipathy, he vielated every rile of decency and looked wf" screpteton upon erery pale of rigkt Hin never convdered that “every: (hing lawful Is not expedient” and he proceeted ta do the wrong thing at the wrong time. Us associates ARM Loon compantona are largely sesponsibte for his unioing. Still, we TyEret to seo a man of bis type | and calibre enter the walls of the penitentiary. The champlonship belt Koos with | iim. ‘The keepers there, fn all pro- | pability will eo arrange {t, that when ne comen forth at tho" oxptration of ix term, he will he an “oasy mark era third rate heavy-welght. "The | ray of tho tranagronsor 1s hard.” | Money that comes cary, Koes caster. Fohnxon han sowed the wind: he 1s | eaping tho whirlwind. Thero are nad hearts {n this coun: | ry today among tho colored people. ; rhédr {dol fa xhattered. The man hat stirs the tnnermost recesses | {their hearts Mes prostrate tn | he dum a Settan tacile pentane | ansion and appotite. Tt is paintal , o contemplate. There is mourning | n the Southland. ' Farewell, Jack Johnson! 3 MAYOR AINSLIE'S COMMENT. Masor George 4. Ainsle's report as nubdmitted to tho Council of the City of Richmond constitutes one of the ablent and most exhauative déc- uments ever {asued from the Mayor's office. Of special interent to us ia hix remarka concerning the mortality of the white.and colored races. His lasiguage ts of a kind devold of of- fenso and tho words chonen are cal- culated to’ elicit praise on the’ part of the colored people of this com- munity. _ Ho Is quoted as follows: Attention tx called to comparative mortality betxeen the white and col- ored races, showing the colored death rate toshave been 68 per cent bigher than the white, . Comprising daly 37 per cont of the population. the race tarninhed 51.8 per cent of all'deaths, The colored death rate from cousamp tlon was 315.8 per'100.000, and from other diseases of the respiratory sys tem, 426 per 100.000. which’ the Mayor says, “evidences a serious situation.” “Your attention ts called.” sage the report, ‘to the importance of the board's recommendation of a searching {nvestization of this watire question. which should be welcomed and assisted by all members of the colored race who are gedutaely {a- terested {n {ts preset condition and future welfare. The avemage age of All decofents at time of death wag: $7.40 years; of white decedeats, 44.26 years, and of colored decedent 30:40 yeara. a 1k seme to us that the efforts 0 the Board of Health and ite admit tediv 2d'e Cnlef hire been misds Teoted 20 far a2 the colored peopl are concerned. This department 0 ‘our elty gorerament Js about as ex pensive as any other, and save for the cleaning up days, 09 practical efforta have been madogy Alloriate these distressing conditiohe. During the palmtest days of the Oppenbetmer regime and the so-called alipahod methods, thea In rogue colored people were not dying Fibs rate that this report disclosos.! Pvo- ple are desirous of sooing” practical results. "To chock typhoid or to make an offort to stop the ravages of consumption is not all. The great thing Is to lower tbo death rato. We havo boun dumbfounded kd surpeised at the apparent heip- Iesaneas of tho average physician {x the presence of the average pationt. Treating {Ils moms to bo primary Importance and ‘chocking the death rato of | secopdary consideration. Our leaders should certainly consider all that Mayo Alnsi{o has sald, ond somo stops xhould be taken to ascor- tain tho cause of this mortality and radical romedien accured to cheek t, It ta a fact that too many of our Wwonte aro adiictel to riotous living, dinrokarding tho Inws of health ant slolating tho rules of society. A large proportion of tho quarter eet apart for colored peopto is 1g: nored. It {@ without sowgrage and tho advance in the cost of foodatuts and the noceastios @f Ifo make it Impoentblo for a largo proportion of he colored prople to, wocure the propor nourishment. An & Fovult | chair vitality {g lowored and whea Nincane attacks the aystem, the body weonie anable to wiihstand the rain and death follows. Tha most popular past-time now Is Hing In carriages to the cometorion iad covering np ta the ground costly ankota fn solninn rvmombrance of he tine when those peaple once ved. A deal colored pornoa ts xbrth mutch more than « Ile one. ‘An “army” of colored folka wit ontribute eighty-aight cents for a wat in a carriage tq follow a dead member to the graryard who would wot contribute wight eente to Reap in name meinber from the poor oun... Wo hoy to nee a change In hone vonditions EDITOR SMITIC IS, PERSISTENT. The Cleveland. Q. Gazette Is alte eether right wien’ IC says that we Tartenteyped” Ih coxamenting Upon ine crittetsa ef Dr. UsToin’ eondiert Or the NOAA CP. We did this tevgune Me were forent se to do, Fae Tquestions asked could onty bo cuowered fon the beadgrarters tn New York of by the distinguishes lealer Mimeetf und we wokld have hee no mateh for our distingulebed conternieraty In a contest of thls hind, The Planet's editor may not have Indicated that It saw the point bus he wevertholewm aw {t fuat tie rane, Wie thought thea and belies now that the questions xubsmitted Mer intended for DuBola and New York and not Mitenel! and Rfchmond. Our esteemed contemporary has con- firmed our conclusions. —'.!chaiond, Va. Planet. Again The Planot ts “aldestep- ping.” While certain questions might be passed over for the reagon our contemporary girs. there ts nothing ‘to. prevent hin giving hia opinion ax to the wisdom of Tbe Gazette's suggestion that DuNols und the N. A. ALC, PL pay some atten tion to the two Rreat! bls problema — Uisfranchisement and “jim crow * raflroad cars—that concern all of our people, ax well an tmportant casos Involving practleally individuals on- ly. The two big. problems are: Distranchixement iaws, especially those Uaxed on the “grandfather clause: and: “Jimerow"" car lawn, at least a far as they affect {atar-niate passenswre. Como now, Editor Mitchell. what say you as to this? —Cleveland, 0. Gazette. 7 We do not think that there {a any doubt but what tho two Mg problems now confrogting un aro the Dinfran- chixement 1awe eapecially those based on the “grandfathor clause” atd the, “jim crow car laws’ Wo belleve tho third grent problem {x tho se gregation Iaws as relating to proper- tr, This problem or question affects the vital rights of a citizen for It 1s now belng exercised to the point, of endangering our.property rights, - Property right are on a par with “Wite rights and “Uberty rights.” The Axsociation in tho Baltimore sc- creation. canes 1s teating this Inst named proposition and up to this writ ing, thanks to Attorney W. Ashble Hawking and his axsociates, has won yhus Tar in the struggle. 5 Wo plead xulity thourh to “sido stepping” for the roason that we do not belleve in rendering an opinion on aslexparte ¢ase. The tralning of . Hfetime demands that we hear both | des before rendering an opinion. | The “milk in the cocoanut," the vital , point dt fenie is not so touch ss to | phother the Gasatte's two vital prob- | eis have been taken up by te At | ciation, Mut whether the present: anngement has done all that ft | ould with the financial means at its | teporal. Hes It expended too mach 1 soney for malsries, offch expenses. id travelling Dfils and too little fm 5 ho: ROE A tall Ganlagt chs sreat sl {ebieh are’ wader~ mining” Site ln: grocal ‘and Injoring. Mh Atrenamertons ta per. tewlart, "2" = Tn cumming: this up, we aver that a0 opinion Syisered prigr to the sub- mission: to. ‘Whis ‘court all ot Ths evidence sééaced by both sides would be = rask’ fifustice to one or: the other of the perties to the controversy and would gince. us. in- the sime category wih these “jughandle tribunals of the Southland where the colored man's sldé-of the controversy 1s fully, dlewanted and the verdict decided wpoa Jong before he takes tho witness sand.* OF course if the National Associa tlon for the Advancement of Colored Peoplo and Ite officers refuso to com Into court” then the “cas” must Ko against them by default and tho pennant of a Journalistic and legal victory can be pinned upon the lapel ‘of the coat of the expanding breast of Hoo. H. C. Smith, editor und proprietor of The Gazette of Cleveland, Oblo, Side-stepplng a- cain? Oh-yes. Rondoring a decis- jou now {n favor of our sontempor- ry? Ob, no. DEMAND FOR BEEF — EXCEEDS SUPPLY Wams Country That Meat Crisis in laminent | The Gamani for beet tar exceeds the supply, and high prices are the result, mys a bulletin Lasued dy the deparumebt of aericukace at Wash: taxton. 7 ‘The sbertago in the supply obiica! preducing animals, tov, la steadily be comfnx greater, and the country 1s warned that It ls facing a period of short productios of meat. In the lawt alt years there has beco a decline of moro than 30 per cent in the mamber of boot carve in the Unit- ed States, accorting td the department, and already during the first throe montha of this year there has been an approximate decrease of 13 per cent fn the aumber of meat animals killed ander government suparrision as com: pered with the sume three months of 1912. Estimates of the department xive the number of beef cattle In the Unit ed States on Jan, 1, 1907, as 61,666,000, and at the Derisning of the present year aa 36,030.0), Prices pald for cat Ue, sheep, lambe ang hogs last year] were,much higher tka the proceding year. “The year 1912" eays the depart: ment, “was @ year of high pricos for ail lagere of fond ania.” Write the dtmiass production tn. the home market, the department aaserts, there ls no longer a surplun for export. The me hare 4," ft says, “when, we must conterro ‘meat supply.” JEALOUS BABY KILLS INFANT: Blow of 20MontheOid Boy Caused Death or TwoDayOld Girl. An unusual case of alleged preen clous violence 18 mported {n Nowark, NJ. ‘The authorities decided that the feath of the twoday-cld daughter of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Perano was duo to a fist blow on the brad dealt by tho In. fant’s tweaty-moutholg brother, An Felo. | ‘The bog bed provtonaly exhibited fealousy tOWwards his new sister, and bad scratched her face in tha presence of witnesses. The baby died shortly after being alone with her brother, from a hemorrhage at the base of the brain. * [= = Conselation. Stout Party called me a colossnt ae Friend—Well, you are large, you know.—Londob Mall * $3.50 Recipe Free, —— _ For Weak Men. Send Name and Adérens To-~tiay— You Onn Have It Free aad Be Bereng and Visorows, 1 have tm may possesion @ preserip- tion for nervous debility, lack of vis ‘or, weakened mamh0o.. falling mow ory and Jame Back, brought om by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured 00 many wore and nerrous men right fa thelr owm hewes—*ithout any addi. onal help or medicine—that J think every man who wishes to regain his maniy power and virility, quickly aad quietly, aheuld Rave'a copy. Bo I Reve Seterminet te cane 8 coor the preserfption free Tee, s plain ordtaary scaled envelope to aay man whe will write me for ft. 7 ‘Thin preseription comes from & physician Whe hed made a special cindy of men and Lm convineed tt ts the curpetecting combaation the cure of Gefictest manhood and vigor faflere ever pst together. I think J owe it te my fellow mas to send them & copy im confidence os thet amy men anywhere whe is Weak and Cieouraged wit repeated fail- itrmfel’ guest meeiotean sorere harmful covers cee iaeacan SaTe cmtoradive, epbaiidiag. NO ever devieed, and 08 care, % heme quietly ané, guickiy. ine 4 line MBe| this: £ r, . 5908 Les m wc ond | wil come cee ad Cale opined yestpe i 6:pisin ertinary envdieps, SEE to sory = pecan his —but § eeed & epuieaty *" K tae pabeee, we Neneh . ent out tee bekel Bee ‘The president was ascompanied’ by Mus. Wicen, Miss Margaret Wiles fund , bia ‘two comsias; Miss Haled Weetrew Bones and Fitewilllam Mc Master Wootrew. |, ‘The preaiéenttal party came eatirely ameapounced aad fra attempted to get thelr meal: at a North Charles Stroct resteurant, but were unable to obtain service through lack of accom modaiionn i “Have you a table for our party?” Mise Wilsce asked of one of the wait resses, ne she entered the restaurant. Reoelyisig no repiy, according to those who were within hearing, she repeat- ed the question, With no better re sults. Thea the president’s daughter turned on ber heel and walked from the room. s ‘The proprietress of the restaurant was stijl Guttering with chagrin and embarrassment belt an hour later. “Yes, I know that it was the president and bis, party-In the auto,” sbe sald: “but what could Ido? The room was packed.” * : ‘The president spent the afternoon om = run throuxh Greon Springs Val ley and returned to Wasbington, Roessevelt Gets Vindication. Editor Newott, of tho Ishpeming Iron, Ore, took “back in open court Ip Marquette, Mich., all of the things that he had’ maid ‘about Theodore Rooporelt, and told judgo, jury and everybody elso that he was sorry be had sald them. ‘Therefore the colonel loft for Now York with @ the satistaction he want ed and six coats beaides, the nomioa! damagea he asked for sfter Nowett retracted and apologized on the wit ness stand. Each‘side will pay its own ‘The colonel and Editor Newett did not meet after the verdict. The editor, after bis trial-st ouce went to bit bome in Ishpemlag tn his automobile. Woman Polsoned by Pineapple. | Mra. Catherine Tourtellot, of Syra- curse, N. ¥., ls dead from potsontag that’ was caused by scratching ber thumb with « plece of pincapple which ake was peeling about a weok ago. ‘Twelve hours afterward her bani ewelled and tho swolling extended up her arm. Sho was taken to the hot pital, whero {t was found thnt the pol son hed spread so far through her sym tem that tho physicians could not save ter. Sho wan alxty yeu old. BRYAN’S EDITOR TO PANAMA R.-L. Metcalf, of Lincoin, to Be Ap- pointed Governor of Canal Zone. Richard L. Motcalf, of Lincola, Neb, ‘editor of the Commoner, Is to be ay pointed as governor of tho Panama canal zone. Metcalf succeeded. Bryan as éditor of the Omaha World-Herald, and when the latter started the Commontr be made Mr. Metcalf tts editor. The sal ary at Panama te $14,000. Mr. Motealt succocds W. W. Thateber, of Kea tueky. < $1,250,000 Railway In Recelver's Hande The Richmowl & Henrleo Stree? allway, capftalized at $1,250,000, was pinged in the hands of a recelver Ip Richmond, Va., at the instance of the ‘Uplon Truxt company, of Toronto, Can, named as trustee In mortgages on the property, % Eleven-VeanOld Would-Be Sulcide. Preparing for wutetde, Rose Mutten, elevon years of age, of Jackson, Mich, rathered atout her @ butcher's knife, & loaded shotqua and rifle, some paris green and carbolic acid. She swallow: #4 the acid, but may live, W. G. Lee, of Cloveland, 0, was re nn oes Sections of he Beak erbood of Raliroad Trainmen in Sap Francisco, Cal.. by @ roto of 445 to 394 for A. F. Whitney, of Chicago, third vice president. Gaines S -| | | Way) | t fy Ware ao | | Cae ||| (| ae v ® * —a f. «* * Major Radgatick (of Indian army) Tell your scontmanter that.pow I'm home I shall be pleased to help tim, ‘$f he'd Mko tt, with field work aod 20 00, p Horace~Thanks, awfully, dad, bat— @r—are you quite up to date? Drilt's altered a lot nlace you were home last. —Punch. Flippant Flings. Sbamrock 1¥. will. pot be so bad Det what will the poor beadiine writ ore Go-when Rhamrock XXVIII. cone: over?—Cleveland Leader. If the June bdeide wants to abow bev eentempt for superatitions this yru: she can choowe Friday. Juve 13, fu: ber wedding day.—Ruston Globe. Bévcation « grand good thax. 20: pecpls are beginning te eppreciate tt A good achecttescter cam make £50 » Geath for seven or sight months ever yene.—Poiledciptia Pubite Ledger. 3 wrt i peli mallee Po OO a age ga Olgas | p . 4 i ee - JN uy gs ee ca -. 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Not oaly do’ you eave big money by making your purobase at this ale but when you get your Ohristmas presents of us you are string some- thing sensible and useful.’ Our furn- iture is noted for its lasting qualities. ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS SATURDAY... JUNE 7, 1918 Farm and Garden They're Fine With Greasy—Here's How You May Grow a Crop. Plant a few sweet potatoes in your garden this spring. They aren't hard to grow, and what is richer to eat than brown sweet potatoes with gravy? Besides, this vine is very ornamental, and its thick, dark foliage helps to make your vegetable garden more attractive. Sweet potatoes are grown by means of seeds or sprouts which grow from the root buds. It is best to get them from seed growers or gardeners. They require warm, moderately rich, sandy land. If the land is too fertile there will be a large growth of top at the expense of the root. The plants may be set out from the middle of May until the list of July or after the late frosts are over. The potatoes may be grown on the level, but a ridge usually is preferred. In the garden ridging may be done with a hoe, making the ridge about eighteen inches broad and six inches high. The rows should be from three and a half to four feet apart. But the plants along the center of the ridge they should be about two feet apart—and if the soil is moist it is only necessary to dip the roots in water before setting. But if it is unusually dry at this time it will be advantageous to apripose the plants occasionally. When the plants are small they should be cultivated often enough to kill the weeds and keep a mellow surface. Later on the vines themselves will cover the ground; then cultivation is impracticable as well as undesirable. After the vines are too large to cultivate they should be lifted occasionally or they are likely to take root at the joints and keep or forming more vines with no roots in the hill large enough for use. The vines should be lifted once a week. Every vine should be loose from hill to tip. This lifting may be done very rapidly with a pitchfork, but some care must be taken. -Kansas Industrialist. FOLKS OUT, STOCK IN. Here's a Simple Gate That Will Help to Solve the Problem. It is often inconvenient to pause and unlatch and then latch a gate between the barnyard or some other place where stock is kept and the garden or a field from which it is desired to keep animals away. To obviate such difficulties the plan illustrated will be found, very convenient. As will be seen, the fence is made to end at two stout posts, be- [From the American Agriculturist.] STOCK STOPPING GATE tween which is a rather larger opening than is usually allowed for a footpath gate. From one of these posts the daring lines of fence are built to posts so as to form a V shaped opening, each ending at a post. On the other large line post is bung the gate, which swings each way and either comes against the V shaped sides when pushed or may continue so as to strike the smaller posts. In either case animals cannot get past, and yet the gate is always open for human beings.—American Agriculturist. OLD; AND TRUE. The old English farmers put their advice about keeping barn-yard manure into two lines; Keep it moist and tread it tight. And it will well year ear require. That is pretty much the whole story.—Rural New Yorker. FARMING WITH BRAINS. Never venture upon an old bridge with team or machinery without sowing that it is firm and safe for heavy weights. If the fertility of the soil is to be maintained it must be supplied with vegetable matter. Turn under cover crops and increase the humna supply. According to the Iowa Press bulletin No. 12, sodium arsenite is the only chemical that will entirely destroy the Canada thistle. It is applied at the rate of one and a half pounds to fifty-two gallons of water. Do not expect the hired man to feel entfured if you bear him alone with all the chores while you are away clitting unless you are willing to do the same for him occasionally. Hired men are human beings and will, as a rule, appreciate fair treatment. A soil that dried out quickly is loose and sandy and tender, is also This limited tradition from our past will remain a source of interest. While not used to proverbate this in adjective terms of motion, given motion, the use of figure in motion and through the paraphrase, cultivation. STOCK, LEBUMES AND NU- MUS. These three go along together for any adequate element at farming. Growing grain for marketing in its raw state means impoverishment of the soil, as all experience shows. Growing live stock of course means grain to feed them, and a wise rotation means growing of clover or vetch or cowpea, alfalfa or some other legume to secure the soil nitrogen, and with this combination of legumes and barnyard manure that greatest organic soil element, humus, is secured, which also aids in holding moisture in plant growth. Farm Progress. IT'S A MISCHIEVOUS MOTH. Culling Species One of the Most Destructive in American Orchards. The culling moth is perhaps the worst enemy with which the apple grower must contend. It has an enormous tax upon the apple growers of this country, not only in the destruction of fruit, but in the cost of sprays, for this pernicious pest has made spraying a necessary part of orcharding. It has been estimated that the culling moth destroys fruit annually in the United States to the value of $12,000,000. Trees must be sprayed for this pest when the petals of the flowers close and before the catkins lobes close and Photograph by Ohio agricultural experiment station. CODLING MOVE. the apple turns down. Much depends upon doing it at the right time and in the right manner. The best way is to begin just as soon as the blossoms fall and get over the orchard as soon as possible. Arsenate of lead or paris green is the poison used. This may be combined with bordeaux or time-sulphur for summer spray to destroy fungi. About three pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of water or fungicide or about one-third of a pound of paris green should give satisfactory results. It may be necessary to spray two or three times, in which case the second spraying should follow the first in about ten days—Farm and Banch. FROM THE HEN DOCTOR. Remedies That Restore Health to All Environments Homemade Hones ing Powder-Homemade Hopper. Condiment feeds should always be avoided except in cases of sickness, when they should be used as a medicine and the supply stopped as soon as the bird recover. Instead of paying three prices for these combinations, supply the duck with a hopper of charcoal and occasionally clean out the digestive tract by putting epom salts in the mash. Half a teaspoonful to each bird can be given without danger. In feeding the mash dry and keeping a supply of oyster shell, grit, charcoal and so on before the birds at all times a hopper or feeding device of some sort is necessary. To supply this want a varied assortment of devices has been invented. The merits of some would warrant their use if the price were not beyond the farmer's pocket-book, but that is just where the difficulty lies. Every time the farmer pays a big price for something he can easily manufacture at home he is robbing himself of just that much clear profit. A hopper that can be built any length desired and have as many compartments as the feeder has need for is five feet long, eight inches wide and twelve inches high to the square. The board which forms the front of the trough is five inches wide. The laths are placed two inches apart, inside measurement. The top strip, to which the laths are nailed, is two and a half inches wide. The top may be given any slant desired. When raised from the floor a platform must be provided. With these simple directions and some odd pieces of lumber a cheap, efficient hopper may easily be made in a few hours. Summer Pruning In, theory summer pruning has a strong tendency to check the superabundant growth of the tree, to encourage the formation of fruit buds and to make the tree generally more fruittful. When the work is done carefully it doublest has this result. It is quite possible, however, by summer pruning to force a week growth from side buds which might otherwise develop into fruit buds, and such a course naturally tends to diminish the fruitiness of the tree. It often happens that trees are damaged by pests or broken down under heavy loads of fruit. Such injuries have to be remedied as far as possible by pruning.—Country Gentleman. For Helter Pullers. Stretch a small rope across the stair behind a horse that is inclined to pull at the baler. Many a bad case of baler pulling has been cured in this way. - Subscribe to The PLANET. $1.50 per year in advance. Was it the dead man's beautiful ward, who had millions to gain? ONLY THE FINGER PRINTS CAN TELL "The Argyle Case" successful play Harvey J. O'T tective Wil Soon to Begin JOHN PURROY MITCHEL Appointed Collector of the Port of New York. 4 Cancer has been proved to be a contagious disease, caused by a parasite, and it can be healed, according to Dr. Otto Schmidt, a cancer expert, who reported at a meeting of the medical society in Cologne, Germany, the results of his investigations. Dr. Schmidt said that he had produced a vaccine with which he had healed serious cancer cases. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR steady; winter clear, $1.45@4.40; city mills, fancy, $5.60@5.60. THE FLOUR firm; per barrel, $3.50 @2.75. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, $1.08@ 1.10. CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, $67@67½c; OATS firm; No. 2 white, $46@46½c; lower grades, 44c. POULTRY; Live steady; hens, 16@ 17c; old roosters, 11@12c; Dressed choice, fowls, 11@12c; old roosters, 18½c. BUTTER quiet; fancy creamery, 31c, per lb. EGGS steady; selected, 24@26c; nearby, 28½c; western, 23c. POTATOES steady; old, per bush, 8½c, new, 22@25 per barrel. Live Stock Markets FITTBUGHG (Ubal Stock Yards) choice, $8.40 $8.40 $8.40 SHEEP lower; prime wethers $5.15 $6.60; culls and common, $2.50 $3.50; lambs, $4.72; veal calves, $10.50 11. HOGS strong; prime heavies $3.95 $8.85; mediums and heavy Yorkers, $8.90 $8.65; light Yorkers and plum $8.95; rogals, $7.00 $7.75. Higgins and De- william J. Burns. In This Paper HOUSE FAVORS COMMISSION RULE Passes Senate Bill Which Affects Third Class Cities. GOES TO GOVERNOR SOON The Measure. Abolishes Present Form of Government and Vests It in Hands of a Mayor and Four Councilmen. The Clark third class city commission government bill, which will affect twenty-five cities in Pennsylvania, was passed by the house in Harrisburg after a battle of an hour, in which it was attacked as too radical and subversive, of present day government ideas. The opponents of the bill, who came chiefly from Harrisburg, which has worked under the new law, and Williamsport, made a poor showing, getting only 14 votes, while 146 wore cast for the bill. The bill went to the senate for concurrence, and it is expected that it will soon reach the governor, who will sign it. The bill abolishes the present form of government and vests it in the hands of a mayor and four commissioners, who are to be the members of council, the present salaried officers to serve out their terms. The first election will be held this fall. More than an hour was occupied in debating the bill, which was attacked by Mesra, Wildman, Harrisburg, and Ulman, Williamsport, as having ripper features, being expensive and burdensome in certain features, the Harrisburg member declaring that it wipes out checks and balances, and the Williamsport member that it centralized government by combining the executive and legislative. Mr. Spangler, York, explained the bill at length, and speakers for the bill included Mr. Kitts, Erie, who said that 90 per cent of the twenty-five third class cities of the state favored the bill, and that it would do away with the present cumbersome councilmanic system, with its delays, and have men who would devote their time exclusively to the city government; Mr. Miller, Allentown, who declared that there was an almost universal demand in the small cities for the change, remarking that the small council bill had been abandoned and that in his home city councilmen and civic organizations had asked for a change. After voting down an amendment to reduce the appropriation for the state's participation in the Panama-Pacific expedition from $450,000 to $300,000, the house passed an amendment to out it to $300,000. The bill was the subject of a debate for an hour and a half, and attack upon the proposition to make a larger allowance were made on the ground that the ENRICO CARUSO. Noted Tenor "Called Down" For Starring at a Lady. money should be devoted to charities. DYING FROM LAUGHTER Old Theater Joke Throws Man Into Nervous Convulsions. Milwaukee, Wis., Jano 4. — Jultus Jewelin is dying from nervous convulsions due to a laughing fit he suffered while in a vaudeville theater. He laughed for sixteen hours, and when the laughter had been stopped by the hospital physicians he was in such a nervous condition that they said he probably could not live. Here is the joke, not a new one, which worked the havoc: "If you were my husband I give you poison," said one of the performers, the feminine member of the team, and the retort was, "If you were my wife I'd take it." Jewelin shrieked with laughter and an usher requested him to leave the house. He did so, but kept on laughing. After ten hours he was taken to the Emergency hospital. DRINKS GASOLINE AND LIVES Woman Who Tried Suicide Surprised She Didn't Die. Dependent because of sickness, Mrs. Pannie Maylum, of Pottsville, Pa., attempted to commit suicide. In a medicine closet she solicited from among a number of vials one which she supposed contained a deadly plosion. She emptied the bottle at a draught and then became very ill. A physician was summoned and he found that she had taken gasoline. She was greatly surprised that she did not die. She was removed to the Pottsville hospital, where she was soon pronounced out of danger. Carnival Performer Shot Edward Liddy, of Boston, Mass., an atache of a carnival company now playing for the Erie Order of Moose, in Erie, Pa., was shot by J. Warner, of Middleport, O., following an argument. Physicians assent that Liddy will die, the bullet having entered his head at the back of the right ear. Warner is under arrest. Free to All Canal Bill Introduced. Representative Steenerson, of Minnesota, introduced a bill to allow the use of the Panama canal free of tolls to vessels of all countries and thus prevent a monopoly of the coastwise trade. England Has Cheese-Eating Record. The British nation consumed 210,000,000 pounds of cheese last year making John Bull the champion cheese eater of the world. Jagiselle University. The University of Jagtelle of Cracow, Poland, where Copernicus received his education, was founded in 1364 by the Polish king Kazimier the Great and endowed by a later Polish king, Jagtelle, in 1400. Alfred Austin Dias in England. Alfred Austin, British post laureate since 1896, died at the age of seventy-seven years. He succeeded Lord Ten nyson, who died in 1892. The post laureate died at his home, Swinford, Old Manor, Ashford, Kent where he had been ill for some time. Recover Cannon Boy Swallowed. Physicians have removed a toy cannon from the stomach of Coleman O'Shaughnessy, three years of age, of Chicago, who swallowed it while celebrating Memorial Day. The cannon was one and a half inches long. Wilson's Brother Accepts Job. Joseph R. Wilson, brother of the president, has accepted a position with a bonding company, whose headquarters are in Baltimore, Md. 1913 JUNE 1913 EX T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Kind. If a child is worth painting at great severity and cost, which might be the kind of a boy or young man worth all the painting that the nation can afford it. The best education is not too good for a preschool child. The world choose a poor popular to save a few cents when the school is closed! And who would choose an inferior school if given 50 dollars when a better school will increase the strength of discipline and be kind for life and prepare one for a larger mankind? ```markdown ``` Virginia Union University. Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN It has a Five ACADEMY COURSE including manual training for those who have completed common school subjects. Its COLLEGE COURSE is broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegie Board. Its THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for years been the standard course for colored Baptist schools, Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are given here. One hundred students for the Ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. Its NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, its finely equipped science laboratory, its library of 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its full courses of study enable Virginia Union University to offer colored men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of other races. BROWN BROTHERS, Successors to JUNIUS T. BROWN. FUNERAL DIRECTORS, EMBALMERS AND LIVERYMEN. Hall for Rent $1.00 per meeting. Hacks for Balls, Marriages, and Christenings, day or night. Place for Storage of dead bodies. COUNTRY ORDERS A SPECIALTY. MAN ON DUTY ALL NIGHT. WAKERROOMS: 339 N. 17th St. Residence: Cor. Fell & St. John Sts. Phone, Mad. 2478 RICHMOND, VA. Phone, Mad. 2168-J HAIR PARLORS. To the Friends, Customers and the MRS. ROSA E., WATSON in St. James Street. You can be a formations and Pompadours. Co- on short notice. Straightening Straightening Combs, Ornan and preparations of all kinds for 812 ST. JAMES STREET. TO THE FRIENDS, CUSTOMERS AND THE RULE IN GENERAL. MRS. ROSA E. 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All representatives to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pyllas 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 Avenue, Newport News, Va., Chairman of Home Committee. If You Want Your Call up LEONARD CBPHAS, Phone Madison 1687, or Leave Orders at 917 NORTH FIRST ST NEW 1918' CATALOGUE: We are the largest importers and manufactures of colored people's hair and the most reliable in this line. We make wigs, Swiss hair braids, transformation and all styles of hair that can comb the same name on your own. We also make haircuts and cut hair by the pound. We guarantee all our hair and our prions are lower than those quoted elsewhere. Read two-count stamp and we will send absolutely free our illustrated catalogue. Agnieszka wanted. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. Dept. D. 2. Diane St. New York City. Simplified Spelling. Simplified smilies include "money" in their hat. 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Try Ford's Hair Pomade for hard stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Shine Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonized Or Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. S. W. ROBINSON & SON DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE LIQUORS. PHONE MONROE 2113. 19 and 21 N. 18th St., Richmond, Va. --- The Continued Misunderstanding of the Public Greves Him Greatly. His Experience While Exhibiting at Jump Off the Reverse of Felicitus. By M. QUAD. AM making 50 per cent profit on my various remedies for the cure of what ails mankind, but there are those when I grow weary. I can draw a man back from the yawning grief, but when my remedies won't grow a new leg to replace the wooden one I am called a friend. I can save the child dying of fever, but because I can't substitute something for his red hair mothers drive me from the door as a faker. I take a tintype of man or woman at half price and in nine cases out of ten am blamed that it looks homely and natural. I have man or woman from a suicide's grave when laboring under dependency, and hope returns to them only to blame me for butting in. I smile as I count my profits, but I shed tears when I think of the injustice of this world. . Besides lifting up the lofty, encouraging the murrowing, selling my remediation taking thispost and ablowing my COREY TINTYPES AT HALF PRICE moving pictures as I travel about the country. I also collect statistics for the agricultural bureau at Washington and keep tab on human nature as I find it in various societies. It grieves me to say that in carrying out this latter duty I have been forc to the conclusion that human nature gradually but surely losing its rever ence for sacred things. Not a work goes past but what I find a dozen in stances of it, and it hurts me more than I can tell. The Town of Jump Off. Two years ago I exhibited my moving pictures at the town of Jump Off, which was founded as a future rival of Chicago and had seven murders and nine ejections the first year. When I showed the picture of General Washington at Valley Forge-emancipated, starved, discouraged and almost ready to trade American independence for a pumpkin pie there was a breathless silence in the audience for a minute, and then sobs and tears broke forth from every point of the hall. Men who had not shed a tear when their mothers in law died now broke down and had to be led from the hall and in some cases, as I afterward learned, did not take a hand at poker for the next two weeks. I was told of women that went home and wept for three days and could not be comforted and of little children that wanted to send their food to the starting patriots. Last week I got around to show my pictures in the same town again. There was a still larger audience, and I thought I observed an increased look of reverence on their faces. After collecting my statistics as to the number of cucumbers per area raised in that part of Kunawa this year I mounted the platform and started the show with the same old pictures. It was Washington sitting in his dog house in Valley Forge. He was the most norowful looking skeleton over exhibited to the public outside of an anatomical museum. I expected great results, and I got 'em. Instead of tears and silence and sobs, the picture no sooner appeared on the canvas than irreverent voices called out: "Fat him up!" "Feed him pudding and milk!" "Give him chop away!" "Hay, George, old boy, where's your fried oysters?" my grief and astonishment can hard be imagined. As I looked at the audience in a reproachful way the audience continued to boot and gry, and I had to take the picture off. The audience even booted me. I then exhilted a picture of Satan walking arm in arm with a Boston alderman that had said his vote for $2,000, and there was applause lasting seven minutes. I Mad Great Hopes. The next picture was Faith eliciting. to the cross. I had great hopes that this would bring the audience back into the straight and narrow path, but was doomed to disappointment. He was advised to go home and go to farming stocking, and when I would have expressed my surprise at such sacrilege some one throw a turnip and hit me on the jaw. From the theme on I exhibited only pictures showing that the wages of all are from four to ten dollars a day, with board and washing and theater tickets thrown in, and the audience went wild with enthusiasm. I could not close my eyes to the fact that the drift of the times was toward wickedness and that the traveling agents of family Bibles must be living on onious and sleeping in fence corners. Next day, while I was driving over the highway from Jump Off to Stop Here, I met a cavalcade. My innocent face, tenderable whiskers and bearing insure me respect. In most cases the cavalcade removes its hats and bows low before me. In this case as a sign of the degeneracy of the times the cavalcade hated, and the leader asked me what I would take for my whiskers. I had not yet recovered from my astonishment when another man dismounted and climbed up on the wheel of my wagon and actually gave a tug at my whiskers to see if they were false. Then they called me old man and old boy and old hoos, and one of them tried to split tobacco juice in my fighting dog's eyes. As I drove on it just did seem to me that the end of the world was at hand. In imagination I could see the destruction of Sodom and bear the yells of its perishing inhabitants. A Spirit of Lovity. Having reached the town itself, I observed that a spirit of levity and gayety permeated the place; but, though it might be owing to the fact that there was a man in town from Denver trying to sell folding bathtubs and hairbrushes, I opened my show by introducing Pilgrim Joan Alternative, which is a well known remedy for drawing folks back from the grave. I had scarcely announced that the prison still remained 21 cents, notwithstanding the pains, when a crowd began to hoop. In selling this alternative I usually told a little story. It is about a food mother who sunny baked little boys in the way of a brick house and is crushed to a pulp. The mother sits grieving over the remains and wailing out that there is no more happiness for her on this earth when an angel comes flying down with a bottle of my justly celebrated remembrance in her hand. She puts the grieving mother on her head and then sprinkles some of the alternative over the remains of the child. In five minutes he is chasing grasshoppers and the mother is laughing in glee and wondering when the next circus will come along. Seeing that the crowd at Stop Here was a little out of humor, I started in to tell this story, but it brought misstiles instead of fears and smiles. A majority of those misstiles collided with my mired body, and for the only time in thirteen years, I was somewhat embarrassed. I passed the picture along and substituted "The Discovery of Amerien." No good. They threw tobacco cuds at Christopher as he stood and gazed upon Amerien. I substituted "Two Orphans," but the ragged and starving little girls, wandering around in a snowstorm at night in search of fodder and sympathy, were advised to cut it out. In desperation I changed to the most sacred picture in the collection, which represents a field of battle at right, after the fighting. There are dead and wounded scattered about, and instead of being on their posts and asleep thousands of buzzards are hovering over the scene. There are angels there weeping over the dead or praying with the wounded and other angels with clubs whacking away at the buzzards. Produced Tears and Sobs When I exhibited this picture in the towns of Step High, Go On, Merry L and Who Cares there were such tears and soles as produced a wave of infidleness all through the state, and hundreds of men rode from ten to fifty miles to tell me that they would not enlist in the army if Japan licked us ten times over. On this occasion, however, the picture was received in frozen silence. This lasted about a minute, and then the audience began to guy. The sacred angels were advised to try this or that breakfast food and to put on tailor made gowns and wear "Merry Widow" hats, and when I stepped to the front and protested against such arrogance there were shouts for me to pull down my vest and get off the earth. I have no desire to pose as a discoverer or explorer or to make my fellow man out worse than he is, but my convictions are: First.-Sacred things are gradually losing their sacredness. Second.-A spirit of lovility is abroad in the land. Third.-This world will eventually be a mighty tough place to live in. Fourth.-If you have a pain anywhere in the family or among your distant relatives take Pilgrim Joe's Annihilator. Fifth.-If you haven't got a pain, but are slowly dying from grief, old age or disappointment, take Pilgrim Joe's Alternative. It will bring back to youth and oyster stakes and give you a chance to start creew with the world. There is no other. If your family druggist tries to get you to take a bottle of hair dye in its place call him a horse thief and walk out. The Word. "He pleaded with her to say the it the word that would make him happy for life." "Tell me quick! Did who say it?" "the did. It was 'No.'"—Birming ham Ame-Herald. "What did they give youse at dat lost houses?" FASHION HINT FASHION HINT The simple frock closed at the front is a favorite one for girls. This one has set in sleeves that can be made M GIRL'S VOILE DRESS. longer or shorter as liked. This frock is made of black and white checked voile, with collar and cuffs of handkerchief linen embroidered in bright red. For the twelve year size the dress will require six yards of material twenty-seven inches wide, with three quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide for the collar and cuffs. This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes for girls from ten to fourteen years of age. Band 10 cents to this office, giving number, 100 and it will be promptly prepared for use. 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Helen, didn't you promi- me at the altar to love, honor and obey me? "You, dear." "And didn't I positively forbid you to pay more than $35 for a new hat?" "You, dear; but I found I simply could not love or honor you if I obeyed you"—Fun. Decayed teeth are one of the worst injuries to health and are the causes of many ill, according to Dr. M. L. Rhelin, in an address before the convention of the National Dental association, in session in Washington. "Many diseases are caused by the septic poisoning which begins in the mouth or at the roots of the teeth," he declared. In his discussion of "Mouth Infections" Dr. Rhein declared that the teeth which were neglected or treated improperly by unskilled or unscrupulous dental operators offered a fertile field not only for suffering through dental cavities or tooth decay, but that poisons generated by defective teeth pass into the human system, and by the slow process of their continued absorption the channel is opened for any and all diseases which are common to mankind. HEALTH MINT FOR TODAY. Liver Spot. The probable cause of "Tiver apote" is chronic derangement or sluggishness of the liver. Their presence indicates the necessity for improving the condition of the alimentary system in general, and this can usually be done best by a diet of buttermilk or apples or grapes for some weeks. Such a diet must be adopted gradually, never suddenly. One meal should be changed at a time, and in returning to the normal diet the same precaution should be taken. It is impossible to give precise instructions for any case without having the necessary information about the patient, and it is best to consult a physician. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Shallow Breathing The trick of shallow breathing is a habit, like others, and can be overcome by persistent effort. A good way to start the habit of proper breathing is to take a few long, deep breaths several times daily. These should be taken preferably in the open air, but if that is not practicable take them any way in almost any other circumstance. The object of a deep breath is to fill the lower lobes of the lungs and force all of the cells into activity. The blacksmith's arm becomes strong by use, and the same is true of the lungs. Disuse allows thousands of the minute air cells to become inflamed and ultimately to fall into decay. By the monuse of these cells they are not alone injured, but others in order to do the work of the inactive ones are overexposed and in turn become diseased, and consumption or other serious lung impairment results. To keep the air cells healthy they must be kept constantly in use, but not overburdened with work. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. How to Keep Well. Get enough sleep. Sleep with windows open. Sit and stand erect. Practice deep breathing. Breathe through your nose. Don't eat or drink when over-beated by exercise. Avoid tobacco and liquors. They are especially injurious to the young. Alcohol is a preservative, but not of the health. Don't neglect coughs or colds. Never cough, speeze or breathe into another person's face. Don't split on doors, sidewalks or street.cars. Admit plenty of sunshine into your houses and into your lives. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Sour Stomach. Sour stomach, a very common alliment, is a symptom rather than a disease. It is due either to excessive secretion of acid or to deficient secretion. If the secretion is excessive, starch and sugar fruits ferment readily, causing often serious irritation and derangement. If the secretion is deficient the food ferments from lack of a proper supply of acid, which prevents the formation of lactic acid from starch or sugar fruits. In such cases it is important to use a diet that will avoid fermentation. Often meat exclusively or with turpina, which contain no starch, is the most appropriate. In many cases an exclusive buttermilk diet is best, and in some cases fasting is beneficial. But it is impossible to lay down an invariable rule for each case. The avoidance of fermentation is, however, important in all. When a Tornado Corners. It is instinctive to shut up a house tight against an approaching storm, but this is the worst possible course, for the gregating borne brings with it an area of relative vapour and when it passes a thickly closed house the home is in danger of being burst aerodrily by the pressure of the combined air. The safe course is to throw everything wide open and then move for the eater. A Lumbini Dentist (at first sight of patient)— You ought to have come to me before. Patient (delighted and darting for the door)—Ah, I was afraid I might be too late. Good morning—Pusch. That's Different. Possi—Saman, I heard you using great sanity to the horses this forenoon. Oeschman—No, suh; no, suh! It's very careful ob de housis, suh! I wus talkin' to my wife, suh—Chicago News. Bruce Fennell Book Canvasser—In these volumes you have the whole sum of human knowledge in convenient form. Mr. Meek—Thanks; it's no use to me. B. C—But your wife, perhaps—M. M.—Oh, she knows it all already.—Sydney Bulletin. Insinuation. Mr. Bloard—I've contributed a pile of money to my home town. Mr. Candid—In the way of fines, I suppose.—Chicago News. A Barometric Tragedy. "What became of the money you had saved up for a rainy day?" "It was borrowed by a 'fair weather' friend"—New York Evening World. "My husband told me a mouth ago that I could pay any price I wanted to for my spring hat." "What had he been doing?"—Chicago News. PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and New Arrival Photos, in a New Richmond Figure Box plus one additional Special Appointment Field to Children. Enlarging and Staging Intended View Work. We will also be Pleased to Quote you Photos on December and from Old Photos. A Speciality. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. SATURDAY NIGHT SERMONS BY REV. SAMUEL W. PURVIS, D.D. SHOULD THE OLD PREACHER BE SHOT? Text: "The laborer is worthy of his bear" of Tim. v. 14. Sometimes it seems to pay better to be a faithful horse when to be a faithful minister when old age comes on. I know a wealthy family in the suburbs who have retired their faithful old horse Dobbin. Two new horses, Firefly and Wireless, do the honors for the family when company comes from town. Time was when Dobbin was the pride of the community. His black glossy body and magnificent head always caught a second glance from every horse lover. Now he's retired; the pasture is his. The children bug his face affectionately. An occasional trip to town marks his only duty. One day he was found in the posture corner, leg broken—no one knew just how it happened. "Doc" Briggs, the veterinarian, was sent for. He shifted his cigar, shrugged his shoulders and said something to the horse. The mother suddenly remembered a visit the children had to make to town. A pistol shot was heard in the direction of the orchard. When the children returned Dobbin was gone. Be Dispose of the Old Preacher. So Dispose of the Old Preacher. An eminent divine of the last century, now dead, proposed, with definite treason, that it would be an act of humanitarianism, when the old minister had passed his usefulness and become a burden to himself and others, he should be taken out to some excluded place and shot. This would relieve many an embarrassed congregation quickly and cheaply. An unpleasant business, of course, but in the language of a busy world, "business is business." When a minister passes fifty or fifty-five years of age, if he had any some of propriety, he would die. After a short and pathetic illness any congregation, no matter how unintentional, would gladly stop in its course for half a day, preferably Sunday, and give him a funeral that would be worth while. Beautiful flowers and complimentary resolutions would give a tone to the obsequies not easily galvanized and would be a proof of the final devotion of even those who had been likewise during his incumbency. When the pulpit committee would stand, hat in hand, before some popular young minister giving him aattering call their kind manner of concluding the pastorete of his predecessor would be impressive and carry great weight. Some clever person has recently said that at thirty the minister is idolized, at forty criticized, at fifty martyrized, at sixty osterized, as seventy unfortunate. The Seven Ages Another very pertinent pamphlet gives the minister's seven ages. First the divine summons. Young Samuel in the temple. The awakening voice calling to lay aside other ambitions. The next days of preparation, sharpening the sword. Hard work and much sacrifice—rich men's sons do not enter the ministry. Seven to ten years of the best days of his young manhood must be given in preparation. Christ took thirty. Then he's on the firing line at a small salary, possibly in debt for his education. Books must be bought, and they're expensive. There is a continuation of hardship and sacrifice, but youth doesn't care. At the fourth period he's in the heat of conflict. The sun's at meridian, the battle foresee. He's busy raising money for church, but not for himself. He's not allowed to dabble in outside business. Rigid self denial is still the rule. Children are to be educated, appearances to be kept up. There's a thousand charitable demands on his income. What of the rainy day to come? That's the nightmare! Then comes the turn in the tide. Scarcely perceptible, but surely going out. Hair is turning gray. Church committees turn away—"Too old." Now the shadows are lengthening. Nerves are strained to keep up with younger men. Voice is broken, brain is jostled. Other men are forging ahead—be can't keep up. At last Gethsemane—he's pushed out! The church gives him a pitiless, about $3 a week, possibly $4, which he tries to supplement by paddling life insurance. "U. S. A. Retired." Say, church of God, wake up! You are not fair! The secular United States government takes care of its old soldiers; we neglect ours. It is a pretty severe defeat which compels an army to leave its wounded to die on the field. The church is thrilled by the paternity appeals for the salvation of the heathen, education of the negro, education of colossus, building of new churches, until amid danger of appeal, exhortation and entreaty the trembling voice of its old ministers is unheard. Manna doesn't fall nowadays; no raven to carry food; no fish comes with coin in mouth to preachers not. A mansion in the sky will not cover a defenseless head on earth. The church is the earthly bank where God's promises to his faithful servants must be cashed. These men have scattered the seed. The church is enjoying the harvest. These are the canes that carried the gold and silks and grims of the church across the desert while they fed on brambles. The crime is not that the old minister isn't allowed to preach, but that he is not taken care of when ineffective. No worsom minister has a right to kill a church may more than a church has a right to kill a minister. Retire the generals at a comfortable support and put young men into the field. "Going to the Dome." The phrase "going to the dog" has puzzled the explainer of metaphorical expressions rather needlessly. It has even been suggested that it is a profane perversion of "going to the god." Shakespeare's "Throw physic to the dog" and the Scriptural "Give not that which is holy unto the dog" have been quoted in connection with the expression. But it seems a fairly obvious reference to the fate of the wormout horse, condemned to be slaughtered. The old Greek curse "Go to the crowns" may be compared, referring as it did to the Greek's horror of having his body left unburied as food for cardon birds—London Spectator. 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We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manilla Paper, Envelopes. Card Board. Wedding Stock. in fact. Every thing in the Printing Line. The Endless Chain. "What became of the little paragraph the paragrapher wrote?" "The joke writer swiped it and weaved it into a comic story." "Then what?" "A skit writer tinkered it over and it made a vauderville team famous." "And there it ended?" "Not on your life. Next year it was three acted out into a musical comedy." "That settled it?" "Nope. An English playwright by obscuring the theme a bit turned it into a problem play." "Now it's dead?" "Nope. The dramatic critic roasted it in such a way that the paragrapher felt called upon to write a paragraph about it." "I see. And then"— "And then the joke writer swiped it and weaved it into a comic story!" (And so on ad lib. year after year.)— St. Louis Republic. The Hatpin Law. "By jingo," the policeman said, "This saw job ain't no fun! The copper's lot has got to be A most unhappy one. I never thought 'twould come to this, That I should have to pinch A lady when her hatpin shows For more than half an inch!" He walked, dejected, down the street, Absashed his haughty pride, His gait in doleful contrast to His usual lerdy stride, While modish maidens tripped along Without a sign of awe, And half the pins that held their hats Stuck punctures in the law. He took his helmet in his hand And wiped his swattering brow. "St. Patrick and the seakers!" said he. See that one coming now!" Three inches clear the pin stuck out— A menace, all would say— And gallant Michael Mulligan Just looked the other way! The Proof. "Well, George," said the president of the company to old George, "how good it?" "Fair to middlein', sir," George an awered. And he continued to curry comb a bay horse. "Me an' this here hoon," George said suddenly, "but worked for your firm sixteen years." "Well, well," said the president thinking a little guiltily of George's seven dollar salary. "And I suppose you are pretty highly valued, George, eh?" "H'm!" said George. "The both of us was took sick last week, and they got a doctor for the home, but they just docked my pay."—Woman's Home Companion. Spirit of Reignation. "I did my best," said Uncle Jim. "No one can say I shirk. I started in with earnest vim To get a chance to work. I didn't sit in calm content Nor indict him. I wrote straight to the president And asked him for a place. "The sun is plining on the stream That shook my eyes so hard." And underneath the waves that gleam Are fish that youarn to bite. In spite of disappointment said I do not sigh nor sob. To tell the truth, I'm rather glad I didn't get a job." —Washington Star. Precision. President Wilson at a dinner party in Washington said of a statistician: "His figures are so precise that one inclines to doubt them. He is like the American sugar planter in Hawaii who, taking a friend to the edge of a volcano, said: Precision. "That crater, George, is just 70,004 years old." "But why the four? George asked. "Oh, I've been here four," was the reply. "It was 70,000 years old when I came." —Philadelphia Bulletin. race. A man who can stand up in any old place Who holds his own when things go wrong And solves life's riddles with a song. A fellow like that is so full of good cheer Everybody feels that it's good to be near He tackles work as if 'twere play. His happy smile drives-care away. He is not afraid that he cannot come back He smiles at his fears, and his face doesn't crack. crack. While others fret and slink in the shade He retires with his fortune made. -Buffalo Express Higher Mathematics "Dad, you're pretty good at mathematics, ain't you?" asked the hope (and despair) of the family. "I—I used to be," confessed old Bill Payne, scenting danger. "Well, where a sidetrack and a main track join they form an angle, don't they?" "Yes." "Well, if a wreck should tear up the track right there would. It be a rectangle?"—Kansas City Star. Her Ways She smiled and smiled and smiled and smiled. And sometimes, for a change. She laughed and laughed and laughed. He thought. Her ways were rather strange. But when he told his love and asked Her * * * it gladly crept Into his own * * * And then she wept And wept and wept and wept! —Madeline Bridges in Exchange. Starting to Disputa. "I'm afraid I'll disagree with you, remarked Jonah as the whale awal loved him. "Festapa," replied the whale, "but I won't be a circumstance to the way the theologians will disagree when they come to discuss the incident." Railway and Locomotive Engineering Fier Ideal. Nell — Miss Antique says the only season she has never married is because she has an ideal. What do you suppose her ideal is? Belle—simply a man who will propose—Philadelphia Record. 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The following method of killing fowls is a neat and proper one: Set a square post about two feet in the ground and about two and one-half or three feet (or as desired) above the ground. After clip SATURDAY.....JUNE 7, 1918. MEXICO LOANS $100,000,000 Cash Is Needed to Pay Railroad Notes Which Are Due—New York Bankers Participate in Loan. Finance Minister Esquival Obregon of Mexico, has signed the provisional contract for the $100,000,000 loan to cently sanctioned by the government with the Banque De Paris et Des Pays Ban. The participation of Speyer & Co. New York bankers, will extend to about $20,000,000. This action completes the loan which will take the form of ten-year amortizable six per cent bonds of 90. Congress has adjourned to September. The National Railways of Mexico the great system that blinds the republic together with its 7800 mile sof line and is controlled by the Mexican government through ownership of $115,049,400 of its $224,000,000-outstanding stock, needs $10,000,000 at once. An issue of $42 per cent two-year notes matures. The financial needs of the big railway system are in a peculiar way interlocked with those of the federal government, because of the government ownership of the railroad. There has been pending in Paris with the Paris bankers, with whom are associated English and United States financiers, a loan to the Mexican government under the Huerta administration. Failure of the United States and the consequent delay of European nation in recognizing the Huerta government was a large factor in causing, a hitch in a speedy conclusion of the loan. The hitch reached the railway system, bringing it to within a day of the maturity of its $10,000,000 notes without a final agreement providing for them. The situation of the railroad, which was regarded as entirely temporary, has been unique. Financial men said it is the first time in their experience that a great national railway system has had its affairs so concerned in the development of international politics. Bankers in New York understand that if the French government has not recognized the Huerta government formally it will shortly do so, despite the absence of recognition from the Wilson administration. Speyer & Co. have been prominent in the financing of the National Railways of Mexico in the United States and have been frequently associated with French bankers in Mexican railway affairs. --- New York Bars Friedmann's Cure. The board of health of New York city adopted a resolution forbidding the use of living bacterial organism in the inoculation of human beings for the treatment of disease unless permission is first obtained from the board. Although Dr. Friedrich F. 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Representative Britten, of Illinois, sought President Wilson's views on his measures to provide a six-year single-term tenure for the president and the vice president of the United States, the abolition of nominating conventions, the nomination for president and vice president at presidential preference primaries and direct elections without the use of presidential electors. Mr. Britten said on leaving the White House that the president favored the abolition of national conventions for nominating purposes, but thought them necessary to draft party platforms. He declared that Mr. Wilson approved of presidential primaries and direct election, which would shorten the ballot. On the six-year proposition, Mr. Britten said, the president refrained from comment. only recalls himself as unable to do wrong because he has so long been the idol of the public, received a jolt in the lobby of a hotel in London, Eng. and a few minutes later the tenor's secretary and "Jack" Wilson, brother of George T. Wilson, vice president of the Equitable Life Insurance society, came near to engaging in flatulence because Caruso had made a woman who was with Wilson very conspicuous in a large crowd, and was sharply called down in consequence. Caruso, his chest sticking out, at least as far as usual, walked into the lobby, and, pointing at a striking looking woman guest at the Savoy, who was standing with Mr. Wilson, laughed and gurgled loudly. Mr. Wilson told Caruso he should be ashamed to make a woman conspicuous, even if he did know her. "I can do anything I want. I am Caruso," exploded the Italian. 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VIRGINIA-In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 14th day of May, 1918 Florence Edwards.....Plaintiff vs. In-Chancory Joseph Edwards.....Defendant The-Object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii, by the plaintiff against the defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an amdavit having been made and filed that the defendant Joseph Ed- wards is a non-resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that the said Joseph Edwards appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to pro- tect his interest herein. A Copy, Teste, P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. You'll take notice that I shall on the 10th day of July, 1913, at the office of Phil B. Shelds, Room 701, Travellers Insurance Building situated on the North side of Main street, between (11) Eleventh and (12) Twelfth streets, in the city of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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