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PLAYFIELD MOOR'S ST. BAPTIST CHURCH'S SUCCESSFUL RALLY. Resulta Largely Due to Efforts of Mrs. Ella Ounley Waller. Sunday, July 20th, Dr. R. O. John son and his great earch pade a new record for themselves, having collected over $1500 in one day. It had been published that Dr. R. V. Peyton, now of Washington, D. C. but formerly pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, would preach morning and afternoon. This caused hundreds of people to wend their way to the church, before 10:00 o'clock and by 11:30 o'clock every inch of space in the building and around the doors and windows had been taken and hundreds were turned away to return for the afternoon service. Dr. Peyton seemed to have been at his best and when he entered the pulpit, he faced a multitude of eager faces. The sight of so many of his former members seemed to have inspired him and made him feel at home. He delivered, at both services a masterly sermon in that manner, peculiar to himself, that has made him the idol of thousands. Preceding each sermon a program of the highest order was rendered. At the morning service, following Scripture lesson and prayer by the Pastor, Mrs. Emma J. Washington read a paper giving a history of Mrs. Waller's efforts in bohalf of the church, after which, Miss Lee Lewis sang a very appropriate solo. This was followed by a splendidly prepared paper by Mr. William I. Hopkins. At the afternoon service music was furnished by New Baptist Church Choir, following Scripture lesson and prayer, Mr. A. W. Dandridge read a very strong and timely paper, then Richmond's nightingale, Madame C. Bernard Gilpin sang to the delight of the vast assemblage. After this service, Mrs. Phila Ondey Waller—the moving spirit in this rally and to whose untiring efforts must be attributed the great success achieved—made her report. It showed that her friends in the Moore St. Church as well as other churches, many from distant cities, had contributed over $500. At the night service Dr. Johnson reported over $300 from clubs presided over by himself, wife and daughter. Then followed splendid reports from clubs of Sisters Pollard, Houston, Washington; Deacons Randolph, Pollard, Vaughan; Usher Board by Bro. Wyatt and Supt. Kyles of Sunday School. Other clubs reported to Mrs. Waller's club. Mrs. Waller was ably assisted during these services by Mesdames V. H. W. Giles, Thomas Rock, Mary H. Mabrey, Carrie Granderson, Annie Goosby, Victoria Bassett, Emma Peyton, Minnie C. Wyatt, Olivia Robinson, Lizzie Crymes, Mary B. Mosby, Eliza Berkley, Ida K. Mills, Lillian H. Payne, Warner Carter, Estelle O. Alexander, Morgan Marlon, Emma Cooper Lewis, Frances Hamilton, Hat tie Crump, Sallie Nicholas, Mattie Howin, Mabel Davis, C. Drewett, Ida Morriweather; Messrs. W. B. F. Thompson, W. A. Kyles, Harry Johnson, Deacons Quinn Shelton, Irvin Enat, A. G. Rose. Mrs. Waller is very grateful to everyone that helped in any capacity in this rally. At the close of these services, the church passed unanimously a vote of thanks to Mrs. Waller, all friends and members of the church for their great help. Dr. Peyton and family stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Waller while in the city. A. G. ROSE, Church Clerk. BLACK TROOPS FOR PARIS. Regiments From the Colonies Called In Under the New Law. Paris, July 27.—Black regiments of the French colonies will henceforth be quartered in Paris during their enlistment. M. Etienne, the minister of war, has announced the change of plan in putting into operation the government's three-year military service bill. The innovation promises to be popular as Negroes, especially black troops, are well liked in France. Regiments of Negro soldiers will be brought in for service in the mother country from the colonies of Martinique, Guadaloupe, Reunion Island and Guinea. SHOOTING AFFRAY CAUSE OF DEATH OF SECOND VICTIM. Indignation Because of Release of Colored Man Tampa, Fla., July 26.—Ernest Chanay, the second man to die as a result of the shooting affray at Port- Tampa City Wednesday morning, died at the Marine hospital at Port Tampa today. The first man to die was T. B. Austin, who passed away early yesterday. The third wounded man. Walter Chaney, is resting easily at the Marine hospital, and there is some hope of his recovery. He is wounded in two places. The people of Port Tampa City are up in arms against County Solicitor W. H. Jackson, who on yesterday allowed Columbus Holcombe, the Negro who shot-the three men, to go out of jail a free man, without having been arraigned. Mr. Jackson conducted an investigation as solicitor and says all the circumstances go to show that the Negro told the truth when he said that the three men and a fourth man, G. S. Mead, drinking, came to his house at 1 o'clock in the morning and shot into it when he told them that Charles Hall, from whom they were seeking to collect a debt for Austin, was not there. Hall, who was also arrested, has been released. Public sentiment here is that while the prosecutor acted rather hastily, the Negro had sufficient provocation to shoot. The Negro was wounded in three places, but none of the wounds are serious—The Sunday Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. Negro Gray is Wrong Man, Saya Milliner. '(Jacksonville, Fla. Times-Union.) That the authorities arrested the wrong man in connectoin with the assault upon a young white woman near Green Cove Springs, when the Nogro, George Gray was captured, is the statement made in a letter to Sheriff W. H. Dowling by Col. Robert Milliner, a well-known lumberman and highly esteemed citizen of Madison. The letter from Col. Milliner was received here yesterday and said that Gray, who at present is held in the Duval county jail, charged with the affair, was in his employ from June 7 until the day he was arrested, and was never in Clay county during that month. He stated that he could prove that the Negro was on his payroll during the time the assault was attempted and could not possibly have been in Green Cove Springs. Col. Milliner says he can show where the Negro drew his money, and purchased supplies from him, up to the time he was arrested. When Gray was first arrested about the middle of June, he was taken to Green Cove Springs. The citizens there threatened to lynch him and he was secretly brought here for safety. A few days ago the young woman in the case came here and is said to have identified Gray, Gray, however says he was in Madison during all of the month of June and is innocent. Sheriff Dowling says in view of the fact that Col. Milliner states that the Negro was with him it will be well to investigate the case thoroughly, as Col. Milliner must be positive of what he says, also he would not make the statement. Ideal Nursery Anniversary. The First Anniversary of the Nursery Department of the National Ideal Benefit Society was held at 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday afternoon 3:30 o'clock. A great course of children gathered at Headquarters of the National Ideal Benefit Society at 2 P. M., in company with the Guardians of the several Nurseries of Richmond District. It was a beautiful sight to behold, Guardians and Children all dressed in white, marching in a body to the Church, where they were greeted by a large number of members of the Society and friends. The very excellent programme that had been arranged by the Committee in charge of the exercises, was carried over to the delight of all present. Ladies and children were congratulated on their splendid appearance on this their First Anniversary. Entered Into Rest. HARRIS—Died on Friday morning July 25, 1913, at her late residence, 109 W. Charity St., Martha A. Harris. She was a beloved wife and devoted mother. She died in the full triumph of faith. The funeral was held on July 27, 1913 at the Fourth Baptist Church, of which she was a faithful member. She leaves a husband, five children and a host of relatives and friends. Oh, how we miss you, dearest mother, 'Tis God who can only tell. Your place, dear mother, in our home is vacant. And it never can be filled. Her Husband and Children. DO YOU WISH TO INCREASE YOUR Present Income? Send for particulars of a Clean Legitimate Business. Our specialty is a big seller. Address: NOVEMBER, 38 West 134th St., New York City. Mayor Ainslie and the Colored People After Bettering Living Conditions. The Establishment of More Parks. Wanted Colored Citizens to Meet Him. REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATION ANSWERS "HURRY CALL." FULL ACCOUNT OF THE CONTROVERSY. A delegation of colored citizens waited on Mayor George Ainslie last Wednesday at 12 o'clock. The apacious reception room presented an appearance long to be remembered. At the head of the long table sat His Honor, the Mayor. Seated and standing around this palatial chamber, with the mute oil painting of the many city's chief executives on the walls as mute witnesses were: J. Thomas Howin, lawyer; John G. Smith, merchant; J. R. Pollard, lawyer; A. A. Tennant, physician; J. E. Byrd, lawyer; George W. Bragg, real estate agent; Bepjamin A. Grayes, book-keeper; R. H. Fauntleroy, general inspector; American Beneficial Insurance Co.; Benjamin H. Peyton, secretary-manager, American Beneficial Insurance Co.; D. P. Bragg, real estate agent; William A. Jordan, air-purintendent, Southern Aid Society; William H. Jackson, general contractor; Thomas M. Crump, secretary-manager, Southern Aid Society; Benjamin Jackson, merchant; J. W. Thompson, grand secretary, State Grand Lodge of Good Samaritans and D. of S. Rev. Thomas H. Briggs; Willis Wyatt, J. A. Lewis, physician; Giles B. Jackson, lawyer; John Mitchell, Jr., president, Mechanics Savings Bank. "providing a public park for the exclusive use of colored people," and that there should be one park in the east and another in the west end. While I am sure that the gentlemen of the Council feel that this will be of real benefit to the colored people, and their purpose is for good; yet, Mr. Mayor, representing us I do the very best people in our city. I beg leave to say that the establishment of a public park will do a great deal of harm and will retard the efforts greatly of those of us who are trying to lead our people to a higher and more desirable plane of citizenship. I fear that such a course will add to our criminal list; for the industrious and thrifty negro does not have the time to spend in the parks of the city which are already established. A visit through the parks will reveal this condition, viz: That those negroes found in them are there in their capacity as nurses, or perhaps you might find a few hotel waiters who run into the parks between meals to catch a few minutes of fresh air before returning to their work. The parks would cater to the shift less and vagrant classes of negroes and would be a movie for public playgrounds for negro children proper supervision, which would them off the streets, than Again the thing which is pretty needed is the establishment public work-house. This is needed to clear our streets, class of undesirables which I must upon us as a people. I tell you that this is needed, earnestly wish that the Council establish one. Respectfully yours, (Signed) WM. H. S. Pastor Ehrenzer Baptist Church Richmond, Va. Residence, 1619 St. John St. City. MAYOR AINSLIE'S REP Richmond, Va.; July 15 Rev. William H. Stokes, 1019 St. John St. City. Dear Sir: You certainly give the surprise of the year in the letter you took in your letter 12th in regard to the proposal for colored people, and I was shocked to hear from you that the best element of colored people regard the public park. THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES. Mr. Mitchell had been selected as chairman and he served in the capacity of master of ceremonies. Mayor Alnistle stated that he had received a letter from Rev. Stokes protecting against the establishment of a park in the colored section of the city. It had surprised him as he regarded such an improvement as a benefit to the colored people. Rev. Stokes had asserted that it would afford a resort for the shifttless and idle and result in disorder, and the colored minister had advocated that the money be expended for a workhouse for Negroes. He had spoken of the other needs of the colored people. His Honor asserted that the money to be expended was for parks and could not be substituted for anything else. There was no thought on his part or on the part of the patrons of the movement to segregate the colored people by law. NO FOUNDATION IN FACT The idea that if a park, were established in the colored section colored people would be excluded from the other public parks in the city had no foundation in fact. It would not be lawful to do so. Rev. Stokes in his letter had not based his opposition on this ground. Mayor Ainallie said that if parks were good things for white people, he saw no reason why they should not be good things for colored people. Upon resolving Rev. Stokes' letter he had called up John Mitchell, Jr. over the telephone and had requested him to call and see him. He had informed him of the facts in the case and read to him the letter which he had addressed to Rev. Stokes in which he had expressed his surprise at his attitude and had requested him to bring a committee of colored citizens to see him and talk over the subject and that he had named John Mitchell, Jr., Giles B. Jackson, Geoff W. Bragg, D. Webster Davis and other colored citizens. DR. STOKES' VISIT Rev. Stokes had called to see him, but he did not see fit to bring any one of the citizens named although he had brought others. The correspondence was read by His Honor and is as follows: REV. DR. STOKES' LETTER Richmond, Va., July 12, 1913. Hon. George Ainsalib, Mayor, City of Richmond. Dear Mr. Mayor:— I noticed from an afternoon paper yesterday that a, sub-committee of the Council will recommend to the Council the establishing of two parks "for colored people." The same news item states that the chairman of the sub-committee favored the idea of "providing a public park for the exclusive use of colored people," and that there should be one park in the east and another in the west end. While I am sure that the gentlemen of the Council feel that this will be of real benefit to the colored people, and their purpose is for good: yet, Mr. Mayor, representing as I do the very best people in our city, I beg to say that the establishing of a public park will do a great deal of harm and will retard the efforts greatly of those of us who are trying to lead our people to a higher and more desirable plane of citizenship. I fear that such a course will add to our criminal list; for the industrious and thrifty negro does not have the time to spend in the parks of the city which are already established. A visit through the parks will reveal this condition, viz: That those negroes found in them are there in their capacity as nurses, or perhaps you might find a few hotel waiters who run into the parks between meals to catch a few minutes of fresh air before returning to their work. The parks would enter to the shift less and vagrant classes of negroes and would be a menace to public health and morals, not to say anything about property and life. The negroes who infest the parks (as a rule) are those who will not work and just spend the time there in idleness. I also saw the other day where the police commissioners could not provide a traffic officer at Fifteenth and Main streets because the present force is inadequate. Do you know that if the parks are established that you will need a third more of policemen; for the people who will find time for the parks will also need the strong arm of the law to make them maintain order and respectability? We feel that the criminal class among us is entirely too large, and we feel that if the criminal class is to be reduced we must, in addition to changing the character of the individuals, remove the causes. To establish a park would mean, in my opinion, an increase rather than a decrease of this class. While I regret the idea of a park, yet I am glad to note that the Council is attempting to do something for the batterment (as it thinks) of our people, and with this in view permit me to call your attention to some pressing needs of our people in this city and to thank you for any influence you may be able to use to supply these needs. Among the first things I would call your attention to is the poor condition of our streets many of them unpaved; gutters unpaved; road bed in poor condition. Just today the wind has filled our houses with dust and as you know the dust is an excellent vehicle for carrying germs of disease. May the Council not appropriate, the amount of money it would need to establish parks to the already street fund and give us better streets? Will it not be possible to put down cobble stones in the road bed of our streets and help remove the dust nuisance? I note from your annual message that the death rate among our people is enormously large, and especially those who die from tuberculosis. The Council could help us greatly by establishing a tuberculosis camp for our people. That the negro section needs better police protection is acknowledged by most of the public officials themselves and I am sure the Council would benefit the negroes greatly by giving us more police protection. You can walk most any night for several blocks through the negro territory without meeting an officer of the law. It is not my purpose to criticise unjustly our police department; for I am of the opinion that we have in Richmond the best police department in the country when we take under consideration the number of policemen and the large territory which they must cover. I am simply calling to your attention that we need better police protection (more policemen) rather than a park. playgrounds for negro children under proper supervision, which would take them off the streets, than a park. Again the thing which is pre-eminently needed is the establishment of a public work-house. This is greatly needed to clear our streets of that class of undesirables which is a stigem upon us as a people. I need not tell you that this is needed, but we earnestly wish that the Council would establish one. Respectfully yours. (Signed) WM. H. STOKES. Pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church. Richmond, Va. Residence, 1619 St. John St.. City. MAYOR AINSLIE'S REPLY Richmond, Va., July 15, 1913. Rev. William H. Stokes, 1019 St. John St. City. Dear Sir: You certainly gave me the surprise of the year in the posi- tion you took in your letter of July 12th in regard to the proposed parks for colored people, and I was really shocked to hear from you that the best element of colored people would regard the public parks as a menace to their efforts to uplift the members (Continued on 10th Dec.) (Continued On 5th Page.) A Colored Park Since 1909 The News Leader has steadily urged the building and dedication of a park for the use of the colored people of this city. In its campaign The News Leader has acted not only upon its own opinion, but also upon the earnest appeal made to it by citizens of all ranks who have seen and felt the need of proper breathing spaces for the colored people. Under the segregation ordinance house rents have advanced in the Negro quarters, and every available bit of space is being occupied. Along with this leasing of home sites for the colored population has been a rapid increase in the white population of Richmond, and the park facilities, which were already too small have been sadly overcrowded. In response to a request made by The News Leader, a resolution was introduced into the council looking towards establishing a colored park, and the question was referred to the subcommittee, composed of John J. Mitchell, Harvey A. Atkinson and J. J. Pollard. This committee has been looking into the question, and has been offered a satisfactory site in the East End. But the committee is of the opinion that nothing should be done until the Negroes of both sections can be cared for. And so, pending the selection of a West End site, the whole matter of a park for colored people has been held up meanwhile, a great number of little chil dren of that race are deprived of access to the absolutely essential opportunity for light and air. The death rate of the colored peo ple is double that of the white, both in Richmond and Petersburg. If we were only concerned with the more money loss, the city of Richmond could not afford to withhold this demand for a colored park; but Richmond has a bigger view than more money. We have in this city the best colored people on earth, and we feel that some of their loading, citizens do the race a great wrong when they declare that the colored parks would reflect discredit upon the race by the disorder they would permit. If the police of Richmond and the good sense of the colored people combined have been sufficient to keep the colored population orderly and law-abiding in the main, the same spirit will be shown in the parks, and it is an admitted truth that good health makes for good morals. Take it as you will, from the standpoint of money, morals or plain humanity. Richmond should give the colored people adequate park space and this debt ought to be paid while the sun is hot and the demand for fresh air is so apparent and so pressing! (News-Leader, July 26, 1912.) From New York AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS. Dr. C. T. Walker champions Industrial Education—Noted Preacher and Black Spurgeon defends dignity of labor—President Wilson makes first appointment—A. E. Patterson of Oklahoma heads Black Cabinet—Victory for Bishop Walter—A brilliant young lawyer—C. A. Smythwick rising to a foremost place in the profession—Dr. M. W. Gilbert, not barred, from Mt. Olivet Baptist Church—Rumor denied—Newspaper Men to hold weekly meeting—Local Pressmen getting ready for Annual Meeting—Virgin in Union University Students Active. (Allen's National News Service 252 West Fifty-third Street.) One of the largest meetings held in the interest of the Y. M. C. A. for colored men in this city was held last Sunday afternoon at St. Mark's M. E. Church in West 53rd St. It was the regularly monthly meeting of the Association, and the auditorium was crowded with a large gathering that filled the beautiful edifice. The members of the Association marched to the church in a body, and the mid-row of the church was reserved for them. The young men presented an inspiring sight, and the appearance of such well set up young men could not but help give hope. Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church presided. The meeting was called to order by the assistant secretary, Elzie Elmendorf and began with hymn, "He Leadeth Me." Rev. T. F. Blue of Louisville, Ky, gave the invocation. Before the principal address, there were several short spice addresses made by the members of the Association and prominent visitors on, "Why I am a Y. M. C. A. Man." Those who made short addresses were Prof. L. M. Hershaw of Washington, D. C. Prof. Nelson Williams of Richmond, Va., Rev. David D. Conee of Philadelphia, G. W. Moore instructor of Morehouse College and J. M. Coleman. The principal address was made by Dr. C. T. Walker of Augusta, Ga., who while a pastor in this city several years ago founded the Y. M. C. A. for colored men in this city. Dr. Walker is well known in this city, and is popular with the Y. M. C. A. members. He made a telling address and said in part: "I want to defend the dignity of labor. A great many people of my race especially in Augusta, Ga. are trying to look down upon the men and women who toll with the hands. I want to denounce that kind of thing. There is no disgrace in being a carpenter, brick-layer or to have any trade. We should look upon whatever work we do as a Business, and should seek to dignify it. Christ has given us our first lesson on the dignity of labor, for He Himself was a carpenter." Dr. Walker continued by saying, "That the race is pleasure mad, and is giving too much time to the light and frivolous things of life. The time is at hand when the Negro must give more thought to the serious things of life." The address of Dr. Walker brought forth frequent applause. It was declared the most telling heard in this city. President Wilson Makes First Appointment. Information reached this Bureau early Saturday that President Wilson had sent to the Senate the name of A. E. Patterson of Oklahoma for the Register of the Treasury to succeed J. A. Napier, who resigned last week. Mr. Patterson who is a successful lawyer of Muskogee, Oklahoma, is the first Negro to be appointed to office under the Administration. The appointment of Lawyer Patterson, is a commendable one, and puts at rest the question of where will the Negro come in under the new regime. The appointment of President Wilson shows him up in the truest light, and backs up his statement to the colored citizens during the campaign, that they need not fear anything from his hands. With the appointment of a Negro to the Register of the Treasury, it is now evident that the other offices held by colored men will be tendered members of the race. It is thought that the appointment of James A. Ross, that loyal Democrat of the West as Recorder of Deeds will follow soon. The appointment of the President marks a victory for Bishop Walters who all along has contended that the administration will prove fair. A Brilliant Young Lawyer .. One of the most promising young lawyers of the race and one who is destined to take a high place in the profession is C. A. Smythwick, who PRICE, FIVE CENTS Rev. E. C. Thompson, D. D. of Norwich, Conn. was in the city last week. Mrs. Mollie Robinson is sick at her home in East 20th St. Southside. Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson has as her guest, Mrs. C. W. Jordan of Suffolk, Va. Mr. James Johnson is reported sick at his home, 2302 Old Dominion St., Southside. Mrs. Cora Martin accompanied by her two little children is visiting Mrs. Julia Bland in Glimor St. Mrs. W. W. Thomas of New York City is the guest of Mrs. Bertha Wilson in North Fourth St. Rev. P. H. Graves, who has been pastoring for more than fifty years, passed away at his home in Fred ericks Hall, Va. last week. Mr. Samuel P. Brown was called to Charles City last Wednesday on account of the death of his sister. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. has been attending the World's Congress of Christian Endeavors at Los Angeles, Cal. He reports a delightful time there. —Prof. Martin A. Harris returned to the city last Monday after attending the Summer Normals at V. N. and I. L. Petersburg and St. Paul N. and I. L. at Lawrenceville. While away he delivered several lectures and speaks in high praise of the good work carried on by these schools. —Lieut. John Wilkerson of Eureka Co., No. 1. is indisposed at his residence. His many friends wish him a speedy recovery. Lewsburg. (Va.) Notes. Leesburg, Va. July 23.—Mr. Thom as Edinburgh of Washington, D. C. left for home on one of the late-trains having received the sad news of one of his painters had fallen and injured himself very much. At this writing we are glad to note that Rev. Dr. S. P. Fisher is up and a going again. In a ball game between Leesburg and Purcellville, Leesburg was the winner by the score of 12 to 10 at the Odd Fellows' Plunge at Gleedsville. At this picnic one Harry Sims was arrested and brought to jail, while Thomas cut the rope and made his escape. Mrs. Thomas Dorsey spent several days in Baltimore, Md. visiting her sister. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Walker entertained a party of friends at the Bear's Den, Blue Mount, Va., July 27th. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Thompson of Washington, D. C. and Va., Meadames Mollie Moton, Gertrude B. Dorsey, Misses Clara V. Walker and Cora Wright, Messrs. George H. Russ, Wm. B. Taylor, George Dorsey and Noble J. Adams. The day was delightfully spent. Providence Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. came to town Friday as Saturday was business meeting. On Sunday at eleven o'clock the Dr. was at his host. 42d Isaiah. Subject, The Unknown path but the Sure Way. At 8 o'clock, 4th chapter, first Epistle of John; Gen. 5th chapter, 23rd verse. And Enoch Walked With God and Was Not. We had a delightful service. Mr. John C. Walker is putting on a fresh coat of paint. Mr. James Edmonds has put in a new concrete porch floor. Royal St. is looking up. We love to see pride in our folks. Miss Tenor Jackson is very ill. On to the Association at Front Royal, Va., 19, 23, 21. FOR RENT. St. Luke's. Bank Bldg. 3 room suite, $15.00. North 2nd St., store, $25.00. North 2nd St., store, $20.00. W. Clay St., 2 rear kitchen rooms, $3.50. N. First St., 3 rooms, second flat, $10.00. N. First St., 3 rooms, second flat, $9.00. N. 5th Street, 1st flat, 4 rooms and bath, $12.50. W. Leigh St., one office room, basement, $4.50. Corner Leigh and Mozelle Street, 6 rooms and bath, $20.00. Corner Leigh and Mpzelle Street, front store, $35.00. Corner Leigh and Mozelle Street, rear store and one room, $30.00. N. Bowe St., 2nd flat, 3 rooms, $8.00 B. A. CEPHAB, Agent, 538 North Second Street. The Argyle Case A Novelization by J. W. McConaughy of the Successful New Play by Harriet Ford, Harvey J. O'Higgins and Detective William J. Burns, in Which Robert Hilliard Is Appearing. Copyright, 1912, by Journal - American - Econ. James Argyle, wealthy and eccentric, is found shot dead in the library of his New York home. His only son, Bruce, an artist, and his wizard, Miss Mary Mazuret are suspected. Asche Kaytop, a detective of repute is called in. He is given certain blanche as to expense and told to run down the murderer. The library where Mr. Argyle was shot is opened. Kaytop and his assistant, Manning, arrive at the Argyle mansion. They question Yukir, the butler, and search finger prints in the hope of finding a clue. The detective finds a woman's fingerprints on the library table. Mrs Waxart, Miss Mazuret's companion, tells Kaytop that the girl's mother was a Mrs. Nellie Marsh of San Francisco. Kaytop learns from the servants that Miss Mazuret was awake and about at the time the crime must have been committed. In the desk's mute desk he finds an unusually counterfeit 100 bill MR. HURLEY threw a swift glance at the detective's impassive face as if to see what hidden meaning lay back of this last speech, but he made no comment. "You were the last person known to be with your father on the night of his death," pursued Kayton gravely. The new head of the family looked very serious. "Yes, that's true," he said; "I was. I had dinner with Mary and him." "Was that unusual?" inquired the detective. The young man hesitated a bare instant. "Well, you know, I suppose that father and I didn't hit it off any too well together," he replied uncomfortably. "You see, he was that kind of a man—he couldn't stand any one around who wanted to do any thinking for himself. He had his own ideas about things, and if you stood up against them there was trouble all along the line. I broke away—about a year ago—when" he hesitated again in some embarrassment—"when he objected to my marrying Miss Thompson, and Mary has been trying ever since to bring us together. That night"—his voice trembled slightly—"that night we had a fine time. She was as happy as could be about it, because father and I were on good terms again. She went to her room early and left us here to have a talk." Kayton's face betrayed absolutely nothing of any impression he may have gained from this little tale. "Did your father seem worried about anything?" he asked. Bruce thought for a moment and replied: "He had a telephone call that disturbed him a good deal while I was here." wire right here." Agylee indicates the desk phone. "What did he say?" "I can't remember," replied the young man slowly, "except that it was 'he' and 'yes' and 'no.' I thought it was some of his business affairs, and he seemed to want to think it over, so I left soon after." "Where did you spend the night?" Inquired the detective. "In my studio, where I live." "Rain!" echoed Argyle. "I didn't know it did rain." "Did any one see you go into your studio?" "Any one drop in on you during the evening?" "No." Kayton studied the floor gravely for a moment and then asked: "Is there any one in the surrounding apartments that could have seen you or your light?" "Well," said Argyle doubtfully, "you know I have the rear of a top floor in an old Twenty-third street house with a skylight." "Didn't you hear the rain on your skylight?" demanded Kayton swiftly. "I tell you I didn't know it rained," declared the young man, with some SYNOPSIS CHAPTER VI. "Why, about 10." "Did he receive it himself?" "How did you get there-a taxi?" "No; I walked." "When did it begin to rain?" ```markdown ``` Hurley Threw a Swift Glance at the Detective's Impassive Face. prevailiness. The best nerves and clearest conscience feel the effect of this sort of an examination. "I go to best early," he explained, "and I get up as soon as there's light enough to work." "Mr. Kayton," interposed the lawyer, "do you see anything significant in that telephone message?" Kayton stared at the lawyer for a moment or two as if he had never seen him before. His abstraction seemed complete. Then his eyes slowly returned to Argyle's and he said slowly: "Then you don't know of any way in which you can corroborate your statement that you left about 10 o'clock and spent the rest of the night in your studio?" Bruce was silent, and Kayton waited. "No—no, I don't," said the young man in a low voice. "Nobody saw you, you think—nobody saw you leave here?" Again there was the barest hesitation and the low voice. "No—no." "You didn't see Finley?" Kayton's eyes were on the young man's face with piercing keenness, as if to read unspoken answers. "No, I didn't see Finley at all." This answer came swiftly, as the detective expected it would. He shrugged his shoulders and half turned away. "Mr. Argyle," he said violently, "I don't want to be put in the position of cross-examining you. If you are not going to give me your confidence it would be better for me to drop the whole matter right here." Argyle flushed slightly and his eyes shifted. "Well—1"—he began. "As a matter of fact," broke in Kayton abruptly, "just who was it that you thought you saw?" Argyles unanimously increased. "Well, I don't want to say that I saw any one, he said reluctantly. "You understand," said Kayton, with a stern frown, "that it might be very important that some one should have seen you leave this house." "Oh—I see—well," the young man declared with the air of a man doing an extremely unpleasant duty. "I thought as I was going out that I saw somebody looking over the banister rail." "What made you look up at the banister rail?" demanded Kayton, suppressing any trace of elation. The young man winced. "It might have been one of the maids." he paried. "Why didn't you speak to her?" "I wasn't sure—and she drew back. Look here. Hurley!" He wheeled on the lawyer with a glare. "You needn't give this to the paper. God knows what they'd make of it! They'd have Mary up there just waiting to—" "Now, my dear fellow, don't be absurd!" Interrupted the lawyer tautly. "The thing that strikes me as most significant is the telephone message. Don't you think so, Mr. Kayton?" Kayton faced about on him. "What do you see significant in it?" he inquired brusquely. Mr. Hurleyidgeted slightly. He did not like the way in which his words were caught up every time. "Well, now, I'll tell you about that," he declared. "You see, the person who called him up must have known his private telephone number. That would indicate some one who was familiar with the house and—" "Yeah" said Kanyon encouragingly as the lawyer paused. "And the fact that he was disturbed by the message, but said nothing of it. A might argue that it was some one known to him who was in a position to annoy him—possibly an old servant." Kayton made no comment on this theory. "Had he any business enemies?" he inquired. "Well, now," began the lawyer again, and Kayton made a movement of impatience. "I'll tell you about that. You understand, of course, that I've only recently been associated with Mr. Argyle, and he didn't consult me about everything, but naturally a man of his many interests must have made enemies." Brune had been walking impatiently about the room while this conversation took place, and he now came for ward. "Mr. Kayton," he said desperately, "you may not be able to prove who did this. We'll be satisfied if you'll only prove that Miss Mazuret didn't." "Well," replied the detective gravely, "the best way to prove who didn't kill your father is to prove who did kill him. Is this Miss Mazuret?" A tall slender girl with great masses of deep brown hair and great dark, serious eyes came slowly into the room. Her cleanly cut, oval face was as white as her negligence gown, and she was plainly strangling to keep her compo-ure. "Yes," she said. "Mr. Kayton?" "Yes," he replied with a bow. Bruce went swiftly to her and put his arm about her. "You oughtn't to be down here, Mary," he reproached tenderly, with the air of an affectionate big brother. "There's no need for it. You look awfully ill, Mary. It's too much for you. Please go back." "I sent for Miss Mazuret," interposed Kayton quietly, his gaze on the girl's pale face. "But, Mr. Kayton," protested Bruce, "you don't understand. It's too much to ask her to come down here. It's the first time the room has been opened since"— "No, no, Bruce," the girl interrupted gently: "it's all right now, please!" "She's had enough to bear!" he declared angrily. "I'm not going to have her put through any third degree." The detective's lip came together in a razorlike line. "Just a moment, Mr. Argyle," he said fielly. "Before we go any further with this investigation I want you to understand clearly that I am in sole charge of it." "This is nonsense, Bruce!" exclaimed Mr. Hurley, coming forward. "Mr Kayton has got to question Miss Mazurret if he's going to be of any help to her or to us. Come along with me." But the young man refused to budge. "Mary, don't you want me to stay here with you?" he asked. The girl took his arm and gently pushed him toward the door. "No, no; thank you, Bruce," she replied steadily. "It's all right; please go." He led her to a chair and made her sit in it and then reluctantly allowed Hurley to lead him out. Rayton sighed wearily, drew up a chair near to the skirt and sat down. BILL I am going to clear up these suspicions I must have the co-sponsor of everybody in the house and especially you." "Tom you!" amused the girl, with a pathetic experience that stirred the man beneath the expert's professional exterior. "I want to do everything—anything I can." He nodded and smiled gratefully. "Now, let's see," he began in the friendliest tone. "Where were you born?" "In San Francisco," replied Miss Masuret. She began to feel strangely at home with this masterful stranger. "Do you remember your mother?" "No." She shook her head. "I don't remember either my father or my mother very well. I was too young when they died." "And you have no relatives? There was a moving quality of sympathy in the gentle voice. "None that I ever heard of." "There is no one who would inherit this money from you or have any other reason for wishing you to get it?" "Oh, no!" gushed the girl, horrified at the thought. "Did Mr. Argyle ever object to your intimacy with any friends?" "Why," said the girl wonderingly, "our life was so retired I met hardly any one." "No man wished to marry you?" "Oh, not!" was the quick reply. And Knyton vaguely wondered why he should have felt a sense of personal relief. "Mr. Argyle wrested Bruce to-to," she went on with hesitation, "but we couldn't. That was impossible. We were like brother-and sister." "Then you have no reason for auspecting any one!" This question was accompanied by an unusually keen gaze. The girl trembled violently and put her hand kerchief to her lips. "Oh, no, not!" she gasped. Then she stared wildly about, nose to her feet and burst into hysterical sobs. Kayton was beside her in an instant. "What is it—what's the matter?" he demanded, and felt an impulse to put his arm about her as brass had done. "I don't know—I"—sobbed the girl. her face buried in her hands—"I don't—seem to be able—to control myself—any longer." Kayton touched a slender arm with clumsy solitude. "Wait—wait a moment," he urged her kindly. "It's horrible," sobbed the muffled voice. "It's all so horrible! It's worse down here! I can't help thinking of him—on the floor—this floor—" "Won't you try to put it out of your mind?" begged Kayton. "I want to help you." The girl struggled bravely for self control and lowered her hands, disclosing a lovely, tear stained face. "Yes, I know that," she said tremonously, starting him a look. "I haven't been like this before. I haven't talked about it to any one—I couldn't. I've tried to keep from reading the papers, but I had to! I read them all, and they're getting worse about me every day" until it seemed as if the whole city—How is it possible they can make it all so probable?" she cries pitiously, the tears streaming on checked down her face. "Shall I have to go through a trial?" "Oh, I think not," he said reassuringly. "We'll hardly let that happen. Now, tell me, he went on with gentle insistence. "You went to your room rather early that night? About 9:30." "Yes." The word came out uneartly, but the storm was evidently over Kayton, with almost womanly kindness, placed her in her chair again and sat beside her "Leaving Mr. Argyle and his son alone?" he went on encouragingly. "Yes." "You heard the son go?" "Yes." "You saw him go?" A pause, and more slowly, "Yes," very slowly, as if to be sure of each "Oh, no—no!" she gasped. word, "and I was a little alarmed. I got up—and opened my door." "You heard volce?" suggested the detective as she paused. "Yes!" "Mr. Argyle's?" "Ye-oo!" "Did you know who was with him?" The question came swiftly on the heels of her answer. It brought a new expression to her dark eyes—terror. "I-I wasn't sure," she replied with a desperate effort. "Did you hear anything that sounded like a struggle?" "No. They had closed the door." "But you did hear angry volce?" No reply. "Didn't you?" insisted the detective sharply. There was a very faint and reluctant "Yes." CHAPTER VII KAYTON leaned forward until his face was less than two feet from hers. "And you thought that Bruce and his father were quarrelling?" he declared in a low, tense voice. With a smothered scream the girl sprang to her feet. "No, no!" she gasped, clutching his arm frantically as he, too, rose. Her eyes were wide with horror and ter- "No, no! Afterward what I what had happened, I know it entirely have been bruised. You won't attack any importance to it, will you? You won't! I had no reason to think it was he—no real reason!" The detective, or rather the man in the detective, touched her hand with pressure that was gently reassuring. "Of course," he said gravely, "I understand that you concealed this because you were afraid it was Bruce." "No, no!" The denial was an outright. "I was afraid some one might think it was Bruce." "You were looking down from the upper hall?" went on Kayton. The girl gasped and gave him a startled, frightened look. "Yes," she whispered. "Why didn't you speak to him?" "I-I didn't want him to see me." She was crushing her handkerchief in ```markdown ``` "Here are the finger prints, governor, her fingers, and her face was turned away from him until he could barely see the line of the cheek. "Why not? he deminanded instantly. "I-I don't know. It was just instinctive," she stammered. "I thought afterward that I should have spoken to him." "What did you do after he had gone?" "I went back to my room and went to bed." Kayton paused for a moment. "You went right to sleep?" he suggested. "Well, after awhile." "And heard nothing more?" "No," very faintly. Again Kayton was silent for a few seconds. "Why couldn't he stay all night instead of going away in a storm like that?" he asked slowly. "Why?" exclaimed the girl, with a start of surprise, "It didn't begin to rain until after midnight." "Then you heard it rain," declared Kayton quickly. "Oh, yes!" she said and then, as she saw the trip, added falleringly, "Yea-a." Kayton was silent until his gaze had forced the girl to raise her eyes to his. His expression was a mixture of boredom and impatience. "I can't help you unless you trust me," he said, with gentle but none the less intended reproof. "What woke you up? Miss Muzuret stared at the handkerchief she was twisting in her fingers. "It was a door-I heard a door close," she faltered. "Yes?" said Kayton encouragingly. She molested her lips, and he could see the white throat working and straining in the effort to control her voice and the emotions that threatened to wreck it. "It-it seemed later than it really was," she wert on. Again he touched her hand to let the girl know that he understood and sympathized, and she permitted him to lead her back to her chair. When he was again seated beside her and the girl was once more comparatively calm he recalled the inquiry. "Did you hear any one go out?" "I heard the door," Miss Muzuret replied, with more firmness than her rote fore. "But I didn't go down—I was so unhappy." "And you heard nothing more, so you went to sleep?" "The rain kept me awake for a long time," she replied mournfully. Kayton was silent for a brief space as if meditating new questions, and in the pause Manning returned. "Here are the finger prints, gover nor," he said. "One moment, Miss Mazuret," said Kayton, rising and going to meet his assistant. "Did you get them all, Joe?" "All but"—Manning nodded toward Miss Mazuret's back. Kayton took the sheets of paper and glanced over them. "Miss Mazuret," he said almost pleasantly, "did you know that you were to be Mr. Argyle's sole bear under the willy?" The girl turned and looked directly at him. "Yes," she said. If this was the answer he had or had not expected the detective's face gave no sign. "Did you speak of it to any one?" he inquired. "Mr. Argyle asked me not to." They were looking steadily into each other's eyes. "Did you know that he contemplated changing his will the day before his death?" he asked slowly. "Yes." The answer came simply and promptly. "I had been urging him to do it." Manning suppressed an unprofessional start and stared at the girl curiously. Kayton laid out a sheet of paper on the desk and a pad of ink and courtlessly motioned Miss Maxur to approach. "We've taken the sugar prints of every one in the house except you," he said. "Finger prints?" asked the girl wonderingly. "What do you mean?" You understand there are no two alike in all the world," he explained. "They're needed for identification purposes." Miss Maurest looked at the paper and pad and at Kayton and back again. "What do I do?" she asked. "Just lay your fingers on this ink pad," he replied, showing her the method, "and then make the impression on this paper." The girl imitated him. "I can't hold my hands steady," she said pathetically. "That doesn't matter," he smiled. Mary looked at the print on the white paper and drew back with a little shiver. "What is it?" asked Kayton collectiously, glancing about. "Oh, it's so grewsom!" murmured the girl. Kayton looked at the paper as if he had never seen it in just that light before. Then he smiled and handed it to Manning, after which he went to the door and called Bruce and Mr. Hurley back into the room. He told Manning in a swift aside that he wanted to leave Bruce and Miss Mazur together. "Mr. Hurley," he said when the gentleman said entered, "will you do me the kindness to show me Mr. Argyle's bedroom?" "Certainly, Mr. Kayton. Bruce?" "I'll show you," began the young man when Miss Mazuret interrupted. "I want to speak to you, Bruce," she said quickly. Hurley bowed to her and, taking Kayton's arm, walked out into the hall. A few seconds later Manning followed unostentationally, leaving the door slightly ajar. At the foot of the stairs Kayton remembered something important and sent Manning on with the lawyer to inspect the bedroom. He softly approached the crack of the door and listened. "I told the detective," he heard Miss Mazuret say in a low strained voice. "What?" Inquired Argyle. "Oh, Bruce," cried the girl tearfully, desperately, "can't you prove that you didn't come back here that night?" "Mary," exclaimed the young man, his voice low, shocked. "I don't know what you mean!" Kayton could hear the girl draw her breath, and he felt extremely sorry for her. "I was awake. I heard your father go to the door," she said brokenly. ```markdown ``` "I can't hold my hands steady," she said pathetically. "I can't hold my hands steady," she said pathetically. "Oh, I never meant to tell any ones! But he made me. I don't know how. I told him I wasn't sure. Can't you prove that it wasn't you?" The next instant he had seized her roughly by both arms. "Mary," he cried harshly, "what are you saying—that you heard father let me in?" "Oh, Bruce," she ploaded piteously, "I thought I heard your voice—I thought I heard you quarreling!" Tears were streaming down her face, but he hardly saw them. His voice was almost a scream. Kayton had no difficulty in hearing the words. "What have you been thinking—that I came back here and quarreled with my father—and how could you think such a thing?" "What did you think?" he fairly bellowed, shaking the girl roughly. "He was always so—so violent when so got angry with you"—every wont cost the girl an effort—"I thought he did something—made an attack on you and you had to defend yourself! Of course"—she clung to him piteously—"of course I knew it was an accident. Bruce! Don't look like that! Oh Bruce!" There was an instant of dead allence, and then Argyle spoke in tones of barely suppressed grief and rage beyond mere words. "Have you bellowed all this time that I killed my father?" "I tell you, Bruce;" she pleaded, wringing her hands. "I thought it was an accident. I didn't blame you. "I— "An accident!" he broke out fiercely. "Why, if such a thing had happened wouldn't I have called you—roused the house—got help? How can you think such a thing, Mary—Mary? Do you think so now?" "No—no, Bruce!" she choked. "You couldn't have!" "You do!" he cried harshly. Miss Mazuret pressed her face to her hands and swayed in a paroxysm of grief. He stood, hard and accusing, and made no more to soothe her. "Oh—I don't know—I don't know!" she sobbed. "I'm afraid I'm losing my mind! It doesn't seem possible—that your father was killed! But he was—he was!" Argyle waved his clinched fists wildly above his head. And at that moment Kayton slipped quietly into the room. "Come in, come in, Mr. Kayton!" roared the young man in a frenzy. "We've got hold of something at last to give out!" she—his sister, stabbed Of the girls disturbing them, the hand me come here! That might not satisfy the public—that might to clear her! Give that out! I can stand it! I didn't come back! And he shone himself from the room as Ms Maxrette outspelled in a chair. But as Kayton approached she staggered to her feet and all but fell in his arms. "Help us, help us!" she implored feverishly. "Don't say he came back here! I was wrong—I am sure I was! He says he didn't come! Please don't tell any one! What have I done? What have I done?" Kayton took a firm grip on the slender shoulders with his two strong hands, straightened the girl's clinging form and gazed into her face gravely, but kluddy. "I want you to pull yourself together," he ordered in a tone of authority. "I'm going to need you—I'm counting on you. We need—you!" "Oh, I can't, I can't!" moaned the girl. "Yes, you can!" he interrupted grimly. "You're not that sort of a girl. You want to clear him, don't you, as much as he wants to clear you?" "Oh, yes, yes. Oh, I!"— "Well, then, that's all right!" he declared heartily, giving the shoulders a rather vigorous put as he released them. "You go to your room. I'll let you know when I need you." He turned abruptly away as if to indicate that the matter was closed for the present, and Miss Muzuret dragged herself slowly, uncertainly to the door. Just before she passed out he called her by name, and she turned miserably toward him. He walked up swiftly and again placed his hands on her shoulders. "Before you go," he said gravely, "I want you to promise me that you won't worry any more. I can't say definitely as yet who is responsible for all this, but I can tell you this much—I know that neither you nor Bruce had any thing to do with it." It is given to few men to win, with a few mere words, the reward in overwhelming joy and gratitude that leaped to the eyes of the miserable girl. "You do!" she gasped incredulously. He nudged slowly and smiled. "I do." "Oh, oh!" There was a rush of sobs. "Thank you, Mr. Kayton." And she was gone. When Manning returned some minutes later he found his chief starring vacantly up the deserted hall. He coughed and gained no attention. "I'm!" he repeated a little more loudly. "Have you got anything yet I can work on, governor?" Kayton came back to his job with a start "Wh-what?" he demanded, with a frown. "I say," repeated Manning deliberately, "have you got anything I can work on?" "Yes," replied Kayton, with a swift change to his wonted alertness. "Cull up Wilkie, Joe." "Chief Wilkie, Washington?" exclaimed Manning in surprise. "Yes," annaphed his chief sharply. "Did you think the secret service had moved? 6400 Main." While Manning was deep in a subdued but heated argument with the long distance operator Kayton busted himself with the finger prints. "Did you get the woman's thumb prints under the edge here, Joe?" he called out. "Yes, sir," replied the young man, with his hand over the mouthpiece. "The right hand one came out fine-perfect! Is it the girl?" he added as his chief subjected sheet after sheet to a close scrutiny under his powerful pocket lens. "No," replied Kayton curtly. "Is she in the bunch?" inquired Manning after another minute's wait, in which he awore fluently but guardedly at the telephone company, its works, equipment and operating staff. Kayton dropped the sheets of paper on the table and looked up with a queer light in his eyes. "Joe," he said, "this woman came from the outside." Manning whistled into the telephone and hastily clapped his hand over the mouthpiece again. "Gee!" he grunted. "That's a big order. Hello! Is the chief in? Mr. Kayton wants to speak to him. Here he is governor. Just a minute!" "Cover the door! Joe!" ordered Kayton, taking the phone. Manning swiftly and quietly opened both doors. peered about, and then stepped into the hall. "Hello, chieft!" said Kayton distinctly, but in a somewhat guarded tone. "Oh, hard at work! Have you any record of a counterfeit $100 gold certificate—E072? E-9-7-3—Don't you get it? I can't very well. A, B, C, D, El Yes, that's it. Series of 1007. Yeen, that's it. You haven't? Well, I've got one here that I thought might be bad. No-o, but it's a little light. If it's counterfeit it's the best one I've seen. No. They must must have bleached to get the paper. The head's a corker. Well, I'll turn it over to the New York office. Oh, no! It's a little murder. No, thanks. Thank you very much, chief. Goodby." [TO BE CONTINUO.] The late Sir Wilfred Lawson, well known as an English temperance reformer as well as a witt, invariably took a cheerful view of life and conduct. In conversation with him one day an ardent person rallied forcibly against the practice of christening vessels with champagne before being launched. Sir Wilfred did not altogether agree and said a good temperance lesson might be learned from the practice. "How can that be?" demanded the other. "Well," replied the baronet, "after the first taste of wine the ship takes to water and sticks to it ever after." New South Wales. More than half of all the dwellings in New South Wales are built of wood. --- Scrap Book Couldn't Stick Him. Again. A bishop, accosted in Fifth avenue, New York, by a neat but hungry stranger, took the needy one to a hotel and shared a really fine dinner with him, yet, having left his episcopal wallet in the pocket of a different episcopal jacket, suddenly faced the embarrassment of not possessing the wherewithal to pony up. "Never mind," exclaimed his guest: "I have enjoyed dining with you, and I shall be charmed to shoulder the cost. Permit me." Whereupon the stranger paid for two. This worried the prelate, who insisted, "Just let me call a cab and we'll run up to my hotel, where I shall have the pleasure of reimbursing you." But the stranger met the suggestion with, "See here, old man, you've stuck me for a bully good dinner, but I'll be hanged if I'm going to let you stick me for car fare." ```markdown ``` A little child with flaxen hair And night eyes so sweet and fair, Who knits when twilight darkens all And from those loving lips there fall The accents of this simple prayer: "God bless—God bless my mother!" A youth upon life's threshold wide, Who leaves a gentle mother's side, Yet keeps embroidered within his breast Her words of warning, still the beat, And whispers when temptation tries, "God bless—God bless my mother!" A white hatred man who gazes back Along life's weary, furrowed track And sees one face—an angel now Hears words of light that led night, And prays with resveratrol brow, "God bless—God bless my mother!" Hit Him With the Text. "On a visit to Scotland I went to the old United Presbyterian kirk at Savoch," said a clergyman, "and I heard a good story about a former minister. His name was the Rev. David Caw, and he was very diminutive, standing only about five feet two inches. He led to the altar a strapping, handsome lass some five or six inches taller than he, and her name was Grace Wilson. "The Sunday after the wedding he got a neighboring minister to preach for him, so that he could sit with his bride on the first Sunday. The minister was a good deal of a wag, so Mr. Caw made him promise faithfully that he would not allude in his sermon to himself, his bride or the fact of the marriage. The wag gave the promise that in his sermon he would make no allusion of that kind whatever, but Mr. Caw nearly sank through the floor when the text was given out—Ephesians ill. S. "Into me, who am less than the heart of all saints, is this Grace given." Poor Defensezs Men. A certain painter in New York, though he is still a young man and looks younger, has a way of winning prizes at National Academy exhibitions and such; also he has a studio near Central park. The other day he went into the park with the sort of paraphernalia artists use when they go sketching. He picked out a place to suit him, set up his workshop and fell to very earnestly. Presently he was aware of something behind him—something with eyes. He looked up. There stood a smartly dressed young lady, aged five or thereabouts. She was frankly interested in what he was doing and met his gaze without embarrassment. "Do you mind if a little girl looks over your shoulder?" she said. "Not if she is a good little girl," replied the artist politely, and went on with his painting. It was some time before he looked up again. The young lady of fire was still there. She caught his eye and bent toward him with an anger, coaxing smile. "What do the naughty little girls say to you?" she whispered.—New York Post. Mme. Loubet's Cornet Mystery Miss. Loubeta Cornet Mystery. A capital story is belgled in Paris of M. Loubet. The other afternoon a friend saw the ex-president naked in his carriage on the boulevards. Quite two hours later the friend happened to pass again. Loubet was still there. Approaching the carriage, the passerby inquired: "Well, Emile, you have more leisure nowadays than you know what to do with. And madam!" "Mme. Loubet," echoed the ex-president—"soo's quite well. She's in there—has been for two hours." pointing to the shop. It was "Au Cornet Mystere." "It will be a mystery to me," added Loubet, "if she gets fitted by dinner. She certainly won't after."—New York Sun. Slayer and Bleigher. In the first number of the Atlantic Monthly Ralph Waldo Emerson had a poem called "Brahma," which puzzled both critics and common readers. Some said it was the greatest poem of the century. Some said it was non-sense. The first verse ran as follows: If the red player think he plays. Or if the slain think he is slain. They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again. That winter it happened that a relative of the poet Longfellow, living in another state, bought a sleigh, and in a family letter to the cousins in Cambridge there was a wall lost the January thaw which had followed the purchase should keep them from enjoying the gay cutter that season. When the batter was answered. Longfellow contributed this verse: TO --- ON THE PURCHASE OF A SLERICH. If the red sleigher think no sleighs, Or if the sleigher think it is sleighs, They know not well the subtle ways Of snow, that comes and goes again. MARK TWAIN AND O. HENRY. Hummer of Their Column Writing in the Old Days. In the old days writing columns was a noble business. It was generally regarded as a preface to literary achievement. Mark Twain and O. Henry were columners and were working along the good, old safe lines years ago. They were both particularly strong for answering imaginary correspondents. Here is sample from the work of each, so you may judge how far the columning art has backed up. The first paragraph is Mark Twain's: Arithmetic, Virginia City, New.-If it would take a cannon ball three and one third seconds to travel four miles and three and three-seconds seconds to travel the next four and if its rate of progress continued to diminish in the same ratio how long would it take it to go 1,000,000 miles? I don't know. Follows O. Henry's: Who was the author of the line, "Breathes there a man with soul so dead." This was written by a visitor to the state summerfest of 1853 while converting with a member who had just eaten a large slice of limberwood cheese. Both Mark Twain and O Henry were writers of bourke too. They burlesqued novels. Dexter Glynn and Arnold Bennett would have been sauage and wheat cakes for them if they had been unknown columners when the two last named got into the strong literary light. Chicago Post. Enthusiasm Let us beware of losing our enthusiasm. Let us ever glory in something and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life—Phillips Brooks. Did His Beat Anyhow. Mrs. D'Oyley Carte used to tell this story of the olden days at the Savoy, in London, when her husband was staging Gilbert and Sultan's operas. A seedy looking individual applied to Mrs. D'Oyley Carte so persistently for work that at last she referred him to her husband. At the moment the latter was busy trying some candidates for the chorus, but this did not prevent the applicant from interrupting to ask him for work. Mr. D'Oyley Carte waved him off impatiently, but 3. after the applicant had repeated the request once or twice he gave in and handed him the words of a song. "Sing that." he said, and he motioned to the pianist to play the accompaniment. "Go on!" After some hesitation the stranger lifted up his voice and sang, and the result was so awful that the manager interrupted hurriedly. "Stop, stop!" he shouted. "What do you mean by this tomofoilery? You have the confounded impudence to ask me for a job?" The stranger looked hurt. "Well, I didn't want to sing." he said with an injured air. "I ain't no singer. I'm a stage carpenter, an" I only sang to please you, cos you asked me to" Came Out Uphurt A Kentucky colonel of the old school had made a proud bonst that he hadn't drunk a glass of water in twenty years. One day as he was riding to Nashville on the old L. and N. the train was wrecked while crossing a bridge and plunged into the river. They pulled the colonel out with a boat book, and when they got him on shore one of his friends rushed up, crying. "Colonel, are you hurt?" "No," he snorted. "Never swallowed a drop!"—Everybody's. Turning the Tables Here is a West Point story, told about one of the new inspiring sentries who halt everybody who approaches after 11 o'clock at night. Old black Rob. the servant of one of the academy instructors, gave his version of it thus: "Mis' Margaret, yo' knows dat culled girl wint works fo' Captain Smiff. Wasl, she were comin' home late last night from der city, an' when she climb up to der top ob dis yere tall hill one ob dem dere little sentry boys yell out loud to be an' say: 'Halt! Who comes yere?' Josephine; she's not a bit feared on anything, so she jee' speaks up sorta quick-like an' say 'Now, don't you be waistl' honey. No body ain't going to hurt yo'!"—Wom an' Home Companion. GEMS FROM SHAKESPEARE There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life. -Julius Caesar. He jeets at scars that never felt a wound.—Romeo und Juliet. True hope is swift and files with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings. -Richard III. If all the years were playing holidays. To sport would be as tedious as work. -King Henry IV. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.—Twelfth Night. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Mails are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.—As You Lake It. A jest's prosperity lies in the car Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that tones it. —Love's Latour's Lost. THE FATHER'S DUTY. The father should have a working knowledge of a boy's body, its physiology, the pathological conditions that from time to time arrive, and the relation of these both to mentality and morality. He should understand the effect of normal growth upon the boy's character development, particularly during the period of adolescence. He should be able to give instruction in sex hygiene, knowing just what to tell and how much and just when to tell it. He should understand the supreme worth of muscular coordination in relation to self control and how, through manual training, gymnastics and athletics, these are developed. Fathers should understand enough of psychology to discover whether their boys are motor or sensory minded, enough to know why it is that at a particular time the boy begins to think and act for himself, and why it is the youth so often questions all authority and darkening doubts so easily boost his soul. It should be the business of the father to acquaint himself with these facts, that he may intelligently and sympathetically guide and control his boy. Here is where even a little knowledge is a helpful, not a dangerous thing—Franklin Matthews. NOT TOO STRAIGHT. Paths that are both straight and narrow Keep the feet that long to stray. Let your course be like the arrow. Holding to the certain way. Yet, my brother, walk not blindly In your tense and righteous pride. For the deed that's fine and kindly Never fear to turn aside. If a brother, weak and willful, Stumbles from the heaten path. Though your steps are firm and skilful, Do not turn from him in wrath. Stretch a hand and raise and cheer him. Do not scorn him, do not chide. If the straight path isn't near blim Never fear to turn aside. -W. R. Rose. THE ARMY. The Americans are a shrewd, wise people, usually gifted with foresight, but they have not shown it in their attitude toward the army and navy policy. Congress continues to be reluctant to maintain an adequate army. It's easy to get money for a militia, for a militia has votes and friends, but a regular army is far different. There is a saying that the Lord looks after children and drunken men. This certainly ought to be extended to the United States. Of course our separation from foreign countries by oceans is cause for not assuming too heavy a burden, but we are very, very much nearer Europe and Asia—many times nearer—than we were in Washington's time. Occasionally we get a jar and notice our position, but luck has been with us in the past, and we cannot assume that it will always continue thus—W. I. Taft. The Laziest Cham He wouldn't help the tollers That plowed the held for bread, "And landing a fish every minute Is too much like work," he said. And if ever he gets to glory, Where many an angel sing, Will tell 'am, "I'm just too tired To tap the water." — Atlanta Constitution A Picture. "Where on earth did you get this hair oil?" "That's not hair oil; it's liquid glue." "Great Jupiter! Then that's why I can't get my hat off!" - New York American. A Paradox. Husband--Why, dear, are you putting on all that makeup? Wife--Going to have my picture taken and want to look natural--Chicago News ? Ad - She's pretty much irides. If I only know whether or not she is fools! Bo - Why don't you propose to her? If she accepts you may be sure she's not very bright. Philadelphia. La Press. Two and Two. Miss Young: yes, you tell your sister-in-law I wore four shoes? H. Tully—Certainly; two on each foot—Boston Globe. The Family Goat. Tabitha the Cat-Which would you rather live with, a married woman or an old maid? Rags the Dog-A married woman for mine every time. When things go wrong she'll take it out on her husband and let me out. Appropriate Food. Mistress (in awel voice)—Nora; my husband is just raving over those chops you sont up. He says they are raw, and he is acting like a wild man—The Cook (placidly)—Thin shure, mum, if he is acting like a wold mon raw meat is just the food for hip.—Philadelphia Ledger. The Limit "My husband," said Mrs. Weekly, "has passed the limit." "What has he done?" "He was ill last night and made me get a mustard plaster for him, and after I put it on he turned reproachfully and said to me, 'Your mustard plasters do not hurt like those that my mother used to make.'"—Pathfinder. Magenta, a red or johnson dye, derived from aniline, was first brought into use near Magenta, Italy. CIVILIZATION. It has long been a matter of dispute whether civilization has been a blessing or a curse, and in this city we cannot always say that it is a success. We have libraries, churches, schools and all else and that knowledge of science for which man has been striving, but the point be: Are we individually greater than were our fathers of a hundred years ago? Have you higher ideals and thoughts and determinations than did your father, who did not have all these advantages of the advance of civilization? You cannot do what your father did because you are not made of the stuff. We are cutting, drinking, working too hard and not getting rest enough nor enough play. We are breaking down in this day of civilization, morally and intellectually.—Rev. Dr. Charles A. Eaton of New York. Dress makes the man and also makes the woman. Good dressing need not be expensive. Good dressing is dressing in good taste, and good taste is more a matter of judgment than of purse. Good dressing is being so dressed that no one can tell half an hour after meeting you how you were dressed, so complete was the fitness of the habit to the inhabitant. Like the best wished dress, dress should never call attention to itself—Chaplain. Flying What is a habit? "Tis a fetring that is the struggling spirit in the earth. A bighorn weight that clogs earth with And a brightest vision in the earth. A big horn where midnight dreams abound. And a glowing fervor at the earth. A serpent within whose mon- strous mouth. Is crushed each nocturnal impulse of the brain. What is a habit? "Tis a silver throat. That links the soul to possibility; A mine stone that turns the lazy lead. Of exalted to golden tenacity. A precious stepping stone from low to high. A Jacobs ladder stretching to the sky. -J. Lorsyth Smith in Nautilus. HOTEL HOTEL DALE THE HOTEL CAPE MAY. N. J. This magnificent hotel, located beautiful seashore resort in the world, improvement, superlative in service, and refined patronage, in houses, tennis, etc., on premises to ladies and children. Send for E. W. D This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service, and refined patronage. Orchestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE, Owner D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Phone, Monroe----2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET----SHOP IN REAR 'Phone, Monroe----2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embelmer and Liverman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and also Entertainment. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picnic on Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carrington, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. DRESS. HABIT. The Love of a Woman. If I loved a man I should love him so completely that I should never think of anything in which he had not the first and greatest shine. I should see his kind looks in every ray of sunshine. I should hear his loving voice in every note of music. If I were to read a book alone I should wonder which sequence in it would please him most. If I plucked a flower I should ask myself if he would like me to wear it. I should live through him and for him. He would be my very eyes and heart and soul - Marie Cocell. In the beginning of the eighteenth century the now so powerful German empire was nothing more than the little kingdom of Prussia, having just dropped its title of duchy of Brandenburg. The country was very poor and the military discipline very harsh. Frederick William I. was hard, cross and silky and did not even know what it was to make a present. His reputation was so widely spread that it became a byword to say that a man had worked for the king of Prussia when he had done an unprofitable task. The earliest successful locomotive in England was completed a century ago. It was named Fulling Billy. The owner was warned that "If the noise of a machine disturbs the cattle grazing the tracks used to the wagon so as to pick them off it may be considered a nut." THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. TAILORING CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE. Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the Lover at the High Kind of Stimulation. Special Prices We Have All Grades of Good Liquors, Cigars and Refiners. Call and See Us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO. 422 E. Broad St.. Richmond, Virginia DALE C. 7:30 A.—Loc. 8:15 A.—Loc. Budget 9:00 A.—Exp. 10:00 A.—Loc. Cliff *13:00 Noon—Exe. *2:15 P.—Exp. *2:40 P.—Exp. 6:00 P.—Loc. 8:45 P.—Loc. 6:15 P.—Loc. 6:40 P.—Lim. *11:00 P.—Exp. *Sleeper. *P. TRAINS AR Land: 9:45 A. Road: 1:30 A. Local from W. and 7:30 P. M. M. and 8:30 P. James River **Daily Except SEABOA ed in the heart of the most world; replete with every mod- construction, appointments, Orchestra daily. Garage, uses. Special attention glv- for booklet. ALE, Owner N. & W. NORFOLK WESTERN ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. EFFECTIVE JULY 8, 1821 TRAINE LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:11 A. M. 7:28 P. M. 1:00 A. M. Charleston. For Norfolk: *"10:00 A. M." *"10:00 P. M. 4:10 P. M. *"7:00 P. M. For New York: *"10:00 A. M. *"10:00 P. M. A. M. *"10:00 P. M. *"10:00 P. M. For Petersburg: 1:00 A. M. M. *"10:00 A. M. A. M. 1:05 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:00 P. M. A. M. 6:10 P. M. 6:05 P. M. P. M. 7:05 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 11:05 P. M. Goldberg and Payettville: *"10:00 P. M. Trained by Richard daily: 8:11 A. M. 6:48 A. M. 9:54 A. M. *"10:00 A. M. A. M. *"11:46 A. M. *"11:46 P. M. *"11:46 P. M. *"11:58 P. M. 8:05 P. M. 8:08 P. M. 8:08 P. M. 9:00 P. M. *"10:20 P. M. 11:00 P. M. *Knapp Sunday. *"Sunday only. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Premier Carrier of the South. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. B. Follies schedule figures published in information and not elsewhere. 6:10 A. M.-Daily-Local for Charleston, Ham and Raleigh. 10:30 A. M.-Daily-Limited-for all points South. Drawin' Room Buried. Sleeping in Amarville. 8:00 P. M. Except Sunday-Limited for Durham and intermediate stations. 6:00 P. M. Atlanta and Birmingham. 11:45 P. M.-Daily-Drawing Room Sleeping Car. 11:45 P. M.-Daily-limited-for all pots South.-Follman ready at 9:00 P. M. YORK RIVER LINE. 4:00 P. M.-Kn.-To-West Point, meeting for Baltimore Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 4:00 P. M.-Except Sunday and 9:00 P. M.-Monday, Wednesday and Friday-to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the South: 6:10 A. M.; 8:00 A. M.; 8:00 P. M.-Daily-11:30 Except Sunday; 8:00 P. M.-Daily-From West Point: 8:00 A. M.-Daily-to Friday; 11:30 A. M.-Wednesday and Friday; 11:30 P. M.-Except Sunday. S. R. BURGESS D. P. A. 207 East Main Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53701 C. & O. 10:00 A. -Express -Dalry -Norfolk. Old Fife. 10:00 A. -Express -Lyndsburgh. Lexington. Clinton Fife. Citrus Forge. *12:00 Nope-Express-Daily-Norfolk, Old Point. *12:00 Nope-Express-Daily-Cincinnati, Looserville. *12:00 P.-Express-Daily-Norfolk, Old Point. *12:00 P.-Express-Daily-Norfolk, Old Point. *12:00 P.-Local-Daily-Norfolk, Old Point. *8:15 P.-Local-Ex.-Sunday-Gordonsville. *8:15 P.-Local-Ex.-Sunday-Gordonsville. *8:15 P.-Local-Ex.-Sunday-Gordonsville. *8:15 P.-Limited-Daily-Cincinnati, Chicago. *8:15 P.-Express-Daily-Ola., Louisville. *Southern Pair Car. TRAINS RICHMOND-Blocal from East: 9:45 A.M. 7:40 A.M. Through from East: 11:30 A.M. 8:05 A.M. Local from West: 8:20 A.M. *9:28 A.M. and 7:20 P.M. Through: 8:30 A.M. 11:58 A.M. and 8:30 P.M. James River Line: "**:18. A. M., 7:10 P. M.** "Daily Except Sunday. SEABOARD AIR LINE Southbound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 9:00 A.M.-Local to Norfolk. 1:10 P. M.-Sleeper and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Favannah, Jacksonville. 11:25 P. M.-Mepher and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis. 1:00 A. M.-Sleeper and coaches, Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily: 8:35 A.M., 7:40 A.M., 5:05 P. M., 6:50 P. M. Local. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURSON HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Office, 3006 P St. Phone Mad. 2337 Residence, 1015 St. James St. Phone, Mad. 6619 Paraphernalia. Material and Service of the Best. Reliable Service, Moderate Rates. MADAME SCOTT, Embalmer for for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. OLD PAPERS PLANTS JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street. (Near Old Market) RICHMOND - VIRGINIA. A. Stingy King. Puffing Billy. Virginia RAILROADS. Schedule in Effect September 30, 1912. Leave Hyrd St. Station, Richmond, FOR LONDON. "9:00 A.M. "2:00 P.M. "4:10 P.M. FOR LONDON. AND THE WEST: "6:15 A.M. "9:00 A.M. "A.M. "10:00 A.M. Arrive Richmond from Northport: "11:40 M. "9:35 P.M. "11:30 M. From the West: "10:40 A.F. 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RENEWALS, ETC.—If you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your subscription has run out, you then notify by Postal Card to discontinue it. It could have been made as well as newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are able to for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address to full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our book. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscription be not the same as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. on ground address. SATURDAY...AUGUST 2, 1913 PRESIDENT WILSON'S RECOGNITION. It seems to us that we are about to witness the dawn of a new day in the political affairs of the colored people of this country. When His Excellency, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, a Virginian by birth and a Jerseyman by adoption sent to the United States Senate, the name of Hon. Adam E. Patterson of Muskogee, Oklahoma for confirmation as Register of the Treasury of the United States we see or think we see the streaks of this political dawn in the distance. It has caused us to recollect our prediction that President Wilson hailed from that section of Virginia where white men are of the highest type and noblest mold. It also brought to mind, too, the declaration that we would sooner trust an outspoken Southern white man than we would a vacillating Northern white one. The additional information that Mr. Patterson was recommended and is backed by Senator Gore of Oklahoma, "a dyed-in-the-wool" Democrat and that Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia has declared his intention of supporting him in his fight for confirmation emphasizes the fact that in the Southland, the citizen of color is "coming unto his own." He has been in a large measure formakon by his Northern friends upon the demand of the Negrohating contingent in the Southern States, and just as the stygian darkness is at its worst a star of hope is seen and Woodrow Wilson. Democratic President of the United States sends to the United States Senate the name of a citizen of color and he now proposes to back him with the ponderous and all-powerful machinery of the national government. Viewed from any angle, it is a long step forward in the matter of our political recognition. It is the highest position as yet held by a colored citizen in this country. That the recognition is appreciated goes without saying. Garged by party ser- vice rendered by colored Democrats. it is a much greater recognition in proportion to service rendered than a similar appointment by a Republican or Progressive President could possibly be. It should not be forgotten that colored office-holders, named by Republican Presidents are now serving under this Democratic President. If this policy is continued, it is not difficult to predict the outcome. Colored citizens from the Southland will again be given the ballot and Southern white men who profit by it will see to it that they vote untrammeled and undisturbed. When a Southerner, a Democratic President nominates a colored man as Register of the Treasury of the United States and a Southerner, a Democratic Senator stands sponsor for such a nomination, let us all join in that good old hymn, "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow." President Woodrow Wilson has taken a long step forward. Where is the colored leader in the United States, irrespective of party who will say one word in dispatagement of this official recognition? A PUBLIC PARK. --- We have not deemed it either necessary or advisable to discuss the question of the propriety or impropriety of establishing a public park in the connected district where colored people now reside. They have already been segregated in "a shoe string" district, formerly known as Jasoe Ward. The plan to purchase contiguous territory to that occupied by our people is not a new one. It has been armed and supported by us for 29 years. We have not swerved one peta from the position taken. Mayor Apple will say that if parks are good things for white people, they should be good things for colored people. Liberal-minded public spirited white citizens are interesting them selves in the improvement of our civil conditions and this action is not taken from a mercenary or selfish stand point. Colored men who see or think they see some sluder motive in every effort made in our behalf should first investigate and assert the facts before they jump at conclusions, else they may injure themselves and others. It is absolutely true that the Northern section of the city has been neglected, but no delegation of colored citizens has waited on the Committee on Streets which has charge of this matter. The Committee on Grounds and Buildings has no more to do with the improvement of the streets than the trustees of a Baptist Church have to do with the communication services. To argue that colored people would be disorderly in a public park, in the colored section is to argue that they would be disorderly in a public park in other sections of the city and can be used by those having an antipathy to us in favor of excluding us from all city parks. As a matter of fact when the city establishes a public park, the guarantee of order goes with it. A keeper is placed there night and day to insure order. Private parks are different. The private owners often fear to offend the lawless elements who are among their best patrons, bringing dividend-paying friends with them and tolerating *peak easels*, which attract and hold the disreputable classes, who patronize such places. We believe the citizens who registered their protest against this improvement meant well, but they had not fully investigated the facts in connection with the project. They did not set up segregation as the basis of their objection and they did not urge that the establishment of this park would lead to the exclusion of colored people from the other parks of the city. There is certainly at present no legal basis for such an assumption. A public park is virtually a public street. It is well, too, to know the white gentlemen back of these movements ascertaining before hand whether they have any sinister motives in the promises. Despite statements to the contrary there are thousands of well-meaning white people in this city who wish us well. Much good is done for us among the better class of white people by the colored servant class. They come in contact with the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the better class of white people and their very presence is a living protest against anything which would tend to our injury. It is this kind of contact that has maintained the friendly feeling between the white and black people of the Southland. Segregation changes all this. The white man looks at the black belt through darkened glasses, and the colored man regardless of his standing or ability looks like a brute to him. The colored man looks over at the white section through his darkened glasses and the white citizen regard. less of his motives looks like an oppressor to him, who is seeking every opportunity to further humiliate him and to make every effort to deny to him any and all of the rights of every other citizen. This brings about a mutual distrust and tends to injure the community for the reason, that unity of action so essential to municipal prosperity is lacking. If the Committee on Grounds and Buildings, which has charge of the money for parks is willing to establish a public park for citizens in our neighborhood, why should we protest against receiving it, simply because the Committee on Streets which has charge of the money for streets will not expend more money for the streets in our neighborhood. Rather let us take the money from the one, with thanks and then go after the money from the other in the proper spirit. There is no need of any "Jim crow" park of any park exclusively for us. The very fact that the park is established will bring colored people to it and relieve the congestion in the other parks of the city. Colored people of this city do not force them selves upon the white people. They have never desired so to do. Those colored people who should be segregated are of the lawless kind and they should be segregated in the Jails, penitentiary and lunatic asylums of this commonwealth. The trouble with us is that we do not take concerted action, but act too much upon our own initiative. The recent organization of a Cycle League here can provide a power for good under the project management. Leadership is needful. Competent sensible leadership embracing all of the fundamental principles of common sense. There should be no reocriminations in this matter no bitter criticisms. If a mistake has been made by any of us, let us connect it. A park is needed, let us have the park. Better streets are needed, let us have the streets. As for a work house, let the churches and fraternal organizations get together and organize one of our own. As to police protection, let us organize a violence committee and forget out the criminal classes, handling them over to the police. As to a tuberculosis camp, let us establish one of our own, and at our own expense. We should not ask either the city or our white friends to do anything that we can do for ourselves. One plot of self-help is worth two quarters of outside help. As to our living conditions, the better classes of us, those best off in this world's goods, should organize to better them. There are numbers of devoted, painstaking Christian colored women who for a more pit-tance will take up the work of visiting the homes of the indigent colored people and who will distribute any funds we may provide to better the conditions of the inmates. We stand ready to aid any such movement and our colored Young Men's Christian Association and our colored Young Women's Christian Association can be utilized as "first aid" in this direction. Certainly this park will improve our living conditions. We regret that we have become the "storm centre" in this agitation. We took this step for the betterment of the condition of our people and we stand on the led rock principles which we have just enunciated. Selah: Rush Postal Cards In Paris In Paris you can buy for half a frame at any postoffice a postal cowl which will hold 200 words of snail writing and which will be delivered to any address in the city in about fifteen minutes, projected to its death nation through a pneumatic tube. Minutes of Molecules If we try to count the number of molecules contained in one cubic millimeter of hydrogen gas, first arranging them in groups of a billion cack it would take a thousand years to count these groups. So writes Mr. Boll, a French physicist, in illustrating the powerlessness of figures. Wide 6part In Horses The Argentine has as many horses as people, while Switzerland has only three horses to every hundred inhabitants. Cork Paper Half a million dollars worth ofork a year is used for very thin paper. This is supplied in sheets about four inches wide by six to ten long, and nearly all of it - about 100,000,000 sheets - is used in automatic machines for applying as tips to cigarettes. A Little Bird Told Me The words "in little bird told me" have their origin in Eckleinaster x. 20. "Curse not the king-no, not in thy thought-and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." His Bad Plight. The Clergyman-I had no idea profanity was so prevalent till I began to drive a car. His Wife-Do you bear much of it on the road? The Clergyman Why, nearly every one I bump into awaits frightfully.-Puck. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Sleeping in Hot Weather. Nothing to fortify ones against hot weather as a good night's sleep, and for lots of people nothing is harder to get. If you haven't taken a reasonable amount of exercise perhaps you don't deserve much sleep. If you are troubled with indigestion eat a night fruit supper or omit sugar entirely. If your room or your bed is hot or If you are too warm to go to sleep quickly on a hot night take a cool bath just before retiring. A cool bath is excellent, but a cold ral down with a cloth or sponge is almost as good. After thus becoming thoroughly cleansed and cooled by such a bath, it is comparatively easy to get a good night's sleep in spite of the hot weather. . HEALTH HINTS FOR TODAY Deep Breathing. Every regular breathing expiration and respiration the lungs and hearts them clean and healthy. Deep breathing too, is an excellent health virtue. The exercise of taking deep breaths with a slight latent on the local thrombosis causes lesions of the head and neck and causes one a totally good effect and an invaluable power to the head. This exercise is best done by walking up and down for ten minutes or with the arms folded behind the back and the weight still balanced over the head. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Lemon Juice. Cure a sore throat of cough Curse a feln Drink away a sick headache Cure malaria Beautify the complexion Make the hair dyffy For a sore throat, margle with pure, unmiluted, unsweetened lemon juice For a cough or cold mix equal parts of lemon juice and strained honey, and take a tablespoonful every hour For a sick headache mix one part lemon juice and two parts boiling water and slip a teaspoonful as hot as possible every two hours. For malaria mix the juice of half a lemon with two tablespoonfuls of water and a little sugar and drink three times a day. For a lemon cut off the end of a lemon, stick the finger into the hole and bind it on. Let it stay for a day or two, when it will be ready to lance. For the complexion mix equal parts of rose water and glycerin and dip a cut lemon into this and rub the face with it. After it dries rub with cold cream. For the hair add the juice of a lemon to the last rinsing water of a shampoo. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. For either moist or dry dressings for wounds glucose may be used. For the former, the surface of the wound is first then roughly cleaned with sterilized cotton swabs moistened with 4S solution of glucose in water. This forms an absorbable acetone "serum". It is then covered with dressing soaked in the solution, which is secured in the insulated pan with sterile wool and lintages. For the dry dressing powdered gluconeis dusted over the surface of the wound. Is some few cases this is painful, although the most dressings seen on the pain. The dressings are renewed every day for infected wounds and thoroughly cleansed at each dressing. When nearly disinfected the dressing is changed only on alternate days, and then less frequently as healing progresses. Glucose appears to facilitate granulation and cleaning. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Uneven shoulders make many a girl fear to wear a bellroom dress or low necked gown, because it makes this defect painfully conspicuous. For such corrective exercises are needed to remedy the trouble. Here is a hint that will prove valuable if persisted in daily: Stand erect with the arms of the lower shoulder raised above the head, grasp a heavy flatten in the other hand and let this arm hang at the side. Now push up vigorously with the upraised arm and at the same time press down with the hanging arm, keeping the body and hips still and doing all the movement with the shoulder muscles. 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Prince D'Arenberg, for many years president of the Suez canal council, has resigned, but his connection will not be entirely severed, as he is to be made honorary president of the council of administration and will also remain on the directate. Galland Hunt, official heraldist of the United States government, has devoted forty years to the study of his art and has produced most of the government works and designs usually seen stamped on official documents. He is also a historian of international reputation. George Anderson Cooke, recently elected chief justice of the Illinois state supreme court, succeeding Frank A. Dunnne, is in point of service the youngest chief justice in the history of the state. He was elected to the supreme bench to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Guy C. Scott, with whom he had been a law partner. He was a member of the Illinois house of representatives for four years, beginning in 1802. Flippant Flings. We are disgusted at the criticisms of statuary hall in the capitol. It is perfectly beautiful and is a great credit to the stone mason's trade—Houston Post. According to Miss Anna Summer of Chicago every human soul has a tree affinity. There may be something in it. The porticity men have for the pench has often been noted.—Kansas City Journal. A man went into a Kansas City restaurant and ordered a meal. While the waiter was filling the order the guest walked away with the cash register. Some men will take almost any thing in preference to a restaurant meal.—Kansas City Times. Current Comment. A medical publication says that gambling results from a diseased mind. In a short time there will be no victims. There will be only aliments.—Washington Star. At home and abroad there is much complaint that the are not as lavish as they used to be. Unfortunately for the practice, the public has learned how seldom the tip is held by the man that earns it—Boston Herald. They have an official playmaster in Chicago, and he proposes to teach boys to be good boys, which he says American boys are not good. If that is so it must be because they do not often toss—Philadelphia Press. Forest Notes. Cannond's forest area is about 800,000,000 acres. Four branches are used in patrol and transportation work on national forests in Alaska, which include many small islands and mills. On the best German forests the annual expense is $13 an acre, but the gross returns are as much as $24. Thus they yield a net return of $11 an acre each year. Motion picture companies are making films of all of the activities of the federal forest service, including planting cutting timber patrol and lookout work. Already at least two fire fighting "movies" are being exhibited. Three Strikes Any American boy might become president, but many of them know from experience that there is no hope of their becoming baseball pitchers. St. Paul Ponder Press. Perhaps one reason why it has rained so sadly in St. Louis this summer is the real nobody cares whether the little game is interfered with or not. St. Louis Times. A New Jersey baseball fan has nine career pages, which bring him the returns of distant games by innings in case of extra timing games the poor fellow will to wait till the papers come out. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Equal Rights. Speaking of reversals of form, shall we now begin to write it "wife and husband?" Chicago News. What will be the status of the right to all men when lovely woman secures perfect equality with man in all things? Cincinnati Enquirer The entrance of women into politics may work changes in phrasology Hereafter the "dark horse" candidates have to tie, referred to as the "bombshell" Kansas City Journal African Proverbs. The dawn comes twice to no map. It is easy to cut up a dried elephant. The sword shows no respect for its maker. Covetiness is the mother of un attested desires. character goes with him A one word story is always right May, then to the other side. He is a fool who can't lift an ant yet tries to lift an elephant. From the Yoruba, an African Tribe. LAUGHTER Laugh if you are wise.—Mortal. Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow.—Feittham. The jost loses its point when he who makes it is first to laugh.—Schiller. And extinguished laughter shakes the skies.—Houler. Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore So much the better—you may laugh the more. —Pope. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.—Goethe. FREE SPEECH I believe in freedom of speech, first, last and all the time. I know and understand that there is a class of people who cannot hire a hall to present their views to the public, and there is no reason why they should be kept from telling their story to all who want to hear. There is a limit, however, to which such people should go, and there is a limit which they will not be allowed to exceed. This limit is the bounds of desecency. When a street speaker becomes indecent, the use or unreasonably abusive of any person or class it is time to call a halt. Such speakers do more to hurt any cause than they do to benefit it, and they are intruding on the rights of the majority. As to strikes, I realise that the working class has a right to make its demands; but I object to the use of violence or force in setting any problem. I object also to persons who have no interest, directly or indirectly, except to disturb and abuse, interfering in any strike or labor trouble. It is enough for one directly interested to fight the battle fairly and not call in disinterested disturbers, who do not know the bounds of desecency or civility or fairness.—Mayor Albess of Portland, Ore. CONTENTMENT. A wife, good and true, And a baby or two, A welcome for friends at the door, Some press in bloom Just to scatter the gloom— Now, tell me, what man can have more? A home that is bleast With contentment and rest— This is mine when the long day is over. Love and laughter await There for me at the gate. Do you think, Mr. Rich, you have more? —Detroit Free Press. THE PANAMA CANAL The canal was built as a great international waterway, but it was also built for our own national profit to afford a strategic position for our navy where it might operate in either the Atlantic or the Pacific. We have a right to fortify the canal against hostile nations. We are foolish in the extreme if we do not. Such a course is not in consistent with arbitration. W. H Taft. ABOU BEN ADHEM. Ahn ben Adhem may his tribe the house. Swoke one night from a deep dream of peace. And saw within the moonlight in his room. Making it rain and like a lily in breath. An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem lead. And to the presence in the room he said. "What wrote thou?" The vision raised its head. And, with a look made of all sweet accord. Answered. "The names of those Mayor Ainslie AND THE Colored People. (Continued From 1st Page.) or their race, and not a help. I imagine it is possible that you know much better than I do the sentiment among your people in this regard, but I sincerely hope that you have misinterpreted it, for I cannot understand how parks can be good things for white people and bad things for colored people. If you will trouble to go through Monroe or any of the city parks on Sunday or a holiday, you will find that practically every bench is occupied by colored people, and from their appearance I cannot believe that they constitute the shiftless, criminal class. They prove their need and desire for a park by the way they use those now in existence. However, if it be true that public sentiment among the better class of digroes is against the establishment of these parks, now in the time for it to be made known, and I will be obliged if you will bring, say, half dozen of your prominent men to see me in regard to it. I would suggest such men as John Mitchell, Webster Davis, the Braggs, Giles Jackson, and others whom you see fit to bring. Very truly yours. (Signed) GEORGE AINSLIE. Mayor. THE CHAIRMAN'S EXPLANATION. These remarks concluded, Chairman John Mitchell, Jr., having introduced each member in person stated to Mayor Almsee in the presence of the visitors that he had spoken only for himself in the matter of a colored park, not for others and he had invited the gentlemen present to meet His Honor, the Mayor and speak for themselves. He had stated to them that it was not his wish to select only those who favored the park in the colored section, but simply to get the opinion of representative colored citizens. He had favored a public park in old Jackson Ward for twenty years, and during the time he was in the Board of Aldermen had endeavored with Alderman James Bahn to secure this much needed improvement. Besides its practical advantages, the establishment of a public park in this section would increase the value of every house and lot owned in old Jackson Ward. THE PETITION READ The following petition was read by Vice-Chairman J. Thomas Hewin: Richmond, Va., July 20, 1912. Hon. George Almslie. Mayor of the "City of Richmond. Dear Sir: We, the undersigned citizens of Richmond, Virginia, having been informed that you desire to be advised as to our opinion, concerning the establishment of a public park on the North side of the City, now take this means of acquaintin you with what, in our opinion, is proper in regard to that matter. (1) We feel that it would be a matter of discountey to you, personally, whether we favored the establishment of a park or not, to fall to make a reply, after having been requested to do so. (2) We need a park upon the grounds of public policy; we need a park upon the grounds of public health; we need a park because the conditions created by the establishment of Chimborazo. Libby HILL have Marshall parks on Church HILL have brought health and happiness to the hundreds of residents of that section, reduced doctor's bills; saved the expenses of Summer outings and funeral bills. In addition thereto, it has brought joy to the hundreds of lads and ladies who gambol every afternoon on the beautiful green sward of these ideal spots of nature within the City's boundary. Sunshine is God's blessing to man. City parks are man's blessings to his own children. The question, of disorder should not enter into the discussion of this matter. From the time when the first slave landed in this country and the multiplication of the colored people began, our race has been noted for order, and not disorder. The establishment of a City parish, but apart from the residential section of the colored people carries with it a guarantee of order. The City officials, including Your Honor, the law abiding citizens of color coupled with civic pride, will insure order. We take this means of expressing to you our appreciation of your patriotic efforts in benefiting a section of this community which seems to have been a long time forgotten. We realize that when you better the conditions surrounding any one section of the City, you benefit the whole: We conclude with a ratification of our approval of the course of Virginia's of your type and standing, and we include in the hope and belief, that we can trust our civic interests in your hands, feeling assured that humiliating conditions and compromising methods will not follow as a result of the confidence which we now in you propose. This petition was signed by all those present. COLORED CITIZENS SPEAK Mr. William A. Jordan spoke and stated that a public park was needed in the Western section, in the neighborhood of Brook Avenue and the Seaboard Air Line tracks. He declared that in this section was an ideal spot for a public park, a part of it being located in the county. He asserted that white and colored people now go there to get a breath of fresh air during these sultry evenings. Attorney J. Thomas Hewlin was introduced. 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Three hundred and five students last year, representing fifteen States. So, and W. Coast Africa. So, America and British West Indies. Strong, efficient experienced faculty. ROBERT O. WOODS, President. is because they believe that if you have a public park in the colored section, you will segregate them there and then exclude them from the other parks of the city." He did not believe this to be correct. He favored a public park and he believed it would prove to be a benefit to all the citizens. NO EXCLUSION OF COLORED Mayor Anselm said that he had not heard that view of it advanced by any of the promoters. It was not the intention to exclude the colored people from the other part of the city. It was true, though, that a park was a natural segregation. If colored people had parks in their neighborhood, it was natural to suppose that they would go to the parks in their own neighborhood rather than go to parks located further away. If the city had purchased the property of Richmond College, he and other residents of that section would be segregated to the extent that they would prefer to go and sit in that park to going to others further away although they had a right to go to any of the other parks. Attorney J. E. Byrd gave his reasons for favoring a park in the Northern section of the city. He declared it to be an improvement much needed and he believed the residents there wanted it. Mr. George W. Bragg declared that a public park was needed. It would improve the health conditions and he believed that the gentlemen who opposed the park, in the light of the present discussion and disclosures would now favor it. Excouncilman Benjamin Jackson stated that he had always favored a public park in the Northern section. He had at one time been appointed on a committee of the Council to select a site. Mr. J. W. Thompson stated that he thought a park would be highly beneficial to the colored people of that section. Attorney J. R. Pollard then analyzed the objections to a park and gave a resume of the benefits. He declared himself unqualifiedly in favor of the park and announced that a majority of the colored people wanted it. COL. JACKSON EMPHATIC Attorney Giles B. Jackson, then arose and in a humorous veil ruffled the opposition to a park. He declared that a bare-footed man might as well refuse a pair of shoes which were offered to him as to refuse the white folks' offer of a park. He explained how Jackson Ward got it name and he declared that at one time, shortly after the war, he was known as a "white folks' nigger." When the park division were made, Gen. Grant looked it over and the part set apart for the Negroes was named after him. He declared that while other improvements were needed, it was the part of wisdom to now take what they could get. He had no intention to reflect upon the other gentlemen who opposed the park, but he believed it was to the interest of the colored people of old Jackson Ward to have a park. Rev. T. H. Briggs declared himself in favor of a park. "If one is established, the colored people will go there," he said. WOULD INSURE STREET IM Mayor Alhalle stated that he did not doubt but what street improvements were needed, but it seemed to him that the one of the quickest and best means of getting them would be to have a city park, as it was a well known fact that when a park was established the city is necessarily bound to improve the streets adjacent and leading thereto. He was much impressed by what had been said and he would transmit the letter of Rev. Stokes and the petition of this delegation to the committee having charge of the matter. He emphasized the fact that the money of question was for parks and could not be diverted to the improvement of streets. A VOTE OF THANKS. Mr. Willis Wyatt moved that a vote of thanks be tendered His Honor, the Mayor. Chairman Mitchell declared it unanimously carried after the vote had been taken. The sub-committee of the Council Committee has recommended the establishment of a park in the Northern section of the city and, if adopted PEOPLE. PROVEMENTS. ROBERT C. WOODS. President. the question of location will then be determined. Those sites under consideration are in the neighborhood of Leigh, William and Moore streets, the foot of St. Peter street, the land bounded by Fifth street, Hospital street, taking in Smith Hill and extending around to Eighth street or Navy Hill, and land adjacent to Oakwood. The committee led by Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., which called on Mayor Alnside last week was composed of Mr. John T. Taylor, Rev. Evans Payne, Rev. N. B. Brown and Rev. J. J. Carter. Banking and literature made an unthankful combination a century of sage. A banker had the dignity of his calling to uphold Samuel Rogers, how ever, was baker and poet. With he was dissect. His "Pictures of Memory" was issued as by the author of "An Ode to Superstition," and only with the fifth edition were his initials allowed to appear. Lord Eldon on hearing of the authorship of the book at once spoke the old fashioned view "If Old Gozzy' closing was his banker" even so ten hays as a good thing, let alone writing. I will close my account with him the next morning"—London Spectator So ingrained were the habits of economy with the old Emperor William that even after he had assumed the imperial crown they never deserted him. The emperor gave the example. He always extinguished the candles himself and lowered the lamps before he left any row. When on villaigurture at Ems or Raden, guests invited to join the emperor at dinner at some restaurant were often embarrassed at the end of the meal to discover that it was a "pay parry." -Paul Mall Garette. Stockwell was at one time famous for its ghost, which set all London in an uprare in 1772. Making the furniture dance and the crockery fall was the ghost's specialty, though by way of variety an egg once flow across the room and hit the cat. Having excited London and frightened Stockwell, the ghost retired, leaving behind a firm belief in his supernatural origin, until many years later a servant admitted that long in solitude, attached to the eagle, and wires to the furniture had enabled her to play the ghost so successfully that frightened beholders never even detected such open feats as throwing the egg at the cat—London Answer. Gope is often tarnished to protect it from the weather. This is a somewhat doubtful practice, as the field in the far westminster the rope to such an extent that engineers estimate tarred rope to be only two thirds as strong as clean, new rope. No kind of oil or other preparation has so far been found that will not tarnish the rope, except tallow. Tallow and graphite are used in making transmission rope and for lubricating it when in use.—Exchange Curious Wedding Ring Custom. There is an old tradition at Tours to which brides adhere strictly, according to Countie Austin de Croze, who delivered a lecture on French folklore in London. When the ring is being put on her finger at the altar the bride takes care that it does not pass beyond the second point. Otherwise she would never hope to be absolute sovereign in her new home The United States is the world's greatest importer of hides and skins, notwithstanding the fact that it has a larger number of cattle than any other country except India, and it draws upon every part of the world for some of the numerous kinds of hides and skins which it requires. Cattle, horse, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, kangaroo and even fish skins are included in the material of this character imported, and several other animals would be included in the list if the tanned skins imported were taken into consideration. Frogs survive a pressure of 300 atmospheres, but at 400 atmospheres their muscles become disorganized. Bacteria are killed by a pressure of 3,000 atmospheres. Banking and Literature A Thrifty Emperor Stockwell's Ghost Story Tar Weakness Rope Hides and Skins Frogs and Bacteria Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Mind. If a child is worth polishing at great breadth and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the school can give it. The best education is not too good for a preschool child. Who would choose a poor physician to cure a few cuts when health is in danger? And who would choose an inland school to care a few dollars when a better school will inerase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger endeavor? It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE including manual taining for those who have completed common subject subjects. Its COLLEGE COURSE is Broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegie Board. Its THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are given here. One hundred students for the Ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. Its NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, its finely equipped science laboratories, its library of 13,000 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. Right on the Beach THE BAY SHORE HOTFL. OPEN FROM MAY TO OCTOBER. The best summer hotel with the most delightful surroundings. Situated on Chesapeake Bay, RIGHT ON THE BEACH, three miles from Fortress Monroe, Virginia. A charming location, a fine and safe fishing beach and good fishing. Thirty-two bedrooms, spacious porches, broad pizzas and a large pavilion The hotel has just been greatly improved by the addition of several bedrooms, baths, patrons and an up to date kitchen. Our patrons will be delighted with "Dear Old Bay Shore" enlarged beautiful. No restless nights here for the breeze blow while you sleep. TERMS MODERATE. Address: The Bay Shore Hotel Co. P. O. Box 364, Hampton, VA. J. HENRY ROBINSON, M'G'R. Good trolley car service between the hotel and Hampton, Fortress Monroe and Newport News. Denver, Colo., Jan. 24, 1913. To Wrom It May Concern, pr the Pastor of the Church: Dear Sir: I am trying to locate a Mrs. Vicky Powell or some of her children. I wish to inform them about her son, Daniel Laurence Powell. If you can find any relatives of Daniel L. Powell in Richmond, Va. please let them communicate with me immediately. I know his relatives live in Richmond but I don't know their addresses. I wish to inform them of something important. I am respectfully yours, DANEL L LAYTON. 3526 West 6th Ave. Denver, Colo. NEW 1913 CATALOGUE. We are the largest importers and manufactures of colour people's hair and the most reliable in this line. We manufacture boutique brushes, transfer nation and all styles of hair that can comb the same as your own. 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BROOKHILL HALL Union U Best Higher I BRED YOUNG COURSES inclui sacral subjecti is Broed and com- pose of any college in the Carne UBS has for years is Hebrew, Greek ies are given here in different depart LDINGS, its finely volumes, its able Union University to绣 by the favor address the Prede Union University. Best Higher Education to BRED YOUNG MEN. COURSES including manual taining for these sea school subjects. is broad and complete. Its requirements and one of any college for white youth in the ing of the Carnegie Board. US has for years been the standard course Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subject ties are given here. One hundred students for in different departments of the school. EDINGS, its finely equipped science laborator volumes, its able faculty and its full course Union University to offer colored men an abody by the favored of other races. address the President, VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY. 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Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, wife of Vice President Marshall made forty-five calls in ninety minutes recently, noting the social space record for Washington. Mrs. Stuart G. wife of the new governor of Alaska is quite a cultivated woman, having been made head in Europe five years after her graduation from the university of Seattle. Sarah Browne it is already decided upon, the new play in which she will appear in Paris in October or No November. It is by Tristan Bernard and will give the actress a fantastic role his named is not yet been announced. Mine McKenna is not for herself a lighthearted actress. That one of theatre's best actresses is Sweeney the New Yorker. She has blunted the actress's world seem to be a bit more polite. She is the best actress in the current theatre and has played in many shows. Electric Sparks. A few hours ago, a young child is being lighted. One of the following, said to be the first to enter a side. For the time the housepowered that is in the local office is a power output. The 2-year-old student, in the second place. Reading: The writing in consulting a class of 2000 of Blockton, says the school is a well-planned storage location. He has invented a single box with storage battery of 2000 hours per hour. He has a lot of time, more powerful than a book. It is in weight than any battery box. Aerial Flights. The international commission of scientific institutions will hold its next meeting in 1915 in London. The roof of the new German hanger is made to two sections, which are swinging apart, providing a dribble balloon to raise directly from its anchorage. Aeroplane manufacture in Germany is far from a flourishing condition financially. At present there are thirty-five aeroplane construction works, not counting their construction, but in the outfall of ten cases the orders come from the government and go to only two or three leading firms. Town Topics. "A city in overall" says a New Zealand visitor in Pittsburgh. Yep. The other kind have gone on to New York - Washington Post. A New York paper speaks of Brooklyn as a "baby carriage suburb" of Manhattan. Then the aptitude of Brooklyn is a myth. Louisville Courier Journal. The mayor of Chicago is puzzled to decide what sort of new uniforms to select for his policemen. From all that we have heard of the Chicago force it might be well to equip some of them with the kind now being worn by a number of New York's ex-fine*t. Philadelphia Impress. Pert Personals. Though Mrs. Carl was re-elected president of the international suffrage today, no one was trade enough to say that she came back.—Chicago News. When Miss Sylvia Parkhurst is in prison the officers can't get her to open her mouth, and when she is out of prison the officers can't get her to close it.—Kansas City Star. Sarah Bernhardt says that she has "aimed her youthful appearance because she always did just as she would. Her chief pleasure seems to have been to come to the United States on farewell tours.—New Orleana Press." Tributes to Mother. A mother is a mother still—the holl- er thing a mother can do. All that I have come to be I owe to a teacher in life. A Lincoln. Make most of it while you have that first gift of all good gifts—a lov- ing mother. Normally. A man never sees all that his moth- er has been to him till it's too late to let her know that he saw it—W. D. Howells. Women and Pockets. Pistol pockets in skirts are the newest. Next we suppose there will be half pint pockets. - Pittsburgh Dispatch. The promise of a return to pockets for women is sensible, especially when accompanied by the paradoxical specification that they are called "pistol pockets," because the women will not carry pistols in them—Exchange. Science Siftings. Apparatus by which gas lamps can be lighted and extinguished by wireless waves is a German invention. For testing the structure of metals in German scientist has invented a micro-photographic apparatus which magnifies 240 times. According to experts, the force of the rotation of the earth on the geosynchronous compass which has been adopted by the United States navy is 14.21 times as great as the force of magnetism on the magnetic needle. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. For Slight Burns Put the part instantly in cold water, or cover it with moistened baking powder and then with a wet cloth. When the skin is destroyed the point to be attained is to exclude the air. Do this by covering the burn with sweet oil, cream, carrot oil, hard or with flour spread thickly on a linen cloth or on cotton batting. Any excellent covering for burned surfaces is made by mixing common whiting (used in kitchens for polishing purposes) with sweet oil, olive, cottonseed or other oil, or seven water, into a thick paste. With this the burn is carefully covered by means of a feather, taking care not to break the blister, then the whole part is covered with cotton cloth and kept clean and moist. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. To cure bie coughs all a glass tumbler with clear, cold water and place on a table. Then have the patient stand where he or she can look directly into the glass and it the attention about the center of the bottom of the glass for about a minute, when the patient will find the bie coughs have entirely disappeared. This has been known to cure the most violent crises of this uncomfortable disorder when all other remedies have failed. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY: Curative Properties of Salt. For certain a filtrative solution of salt and milk should be supplied up the reservoirs three times in a day one fourth of a teaspoonful of the salt being used in a half part of milk. Chronic sore eyes should be bathsed frequently with water in which a small amount of salt is dissolved, while it is applied very strong to sprites and brushes. Molestened salt should be bound upon burns, and if applied in time it will prevent all blistering. Mixed with the white of an egg it will absolutely prevent felons, the tea-powder of salt in a teaupeful of cold water will at once relieve the pain from colic. A cure for cholera morbus is one tablespoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of black pepper dissolved in a half tumblerful of water and a half tumblerful of vinegar, the dose being two teaspoonfuls until relieved. A small sack loosely filled with salt and thoroughly warmed is good for neurigia, as the salt adds its curative properties to the warmth. A peculiar use of it is to bind it dry upon the back of the neck, as this is said to be an unfalling cure for hives. Gargle your sore throat with it, eat a pinch of it to stop a cough and wet your head with salt water to eradicate dandruff and stimulate the growth of the hair. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Lactated Milk. A lactagal milk diet is one of the best systems to reduce weight. It causes one to lose about two pounds of flesh every week. Purchase a lactic leaven, which comes in the form of tablets and is sold at all drug stores. Crush one tablet and add as much salt as will lie on the point of a knife blade. Add these two ingredients to a quart of boiled milk after it has become cool and get away until it is perfectly cold. Pour into stoppered bottles and let stand for two thirty-four hours. Dispense with solid food and live entirely on the lactated milk. The amount to be taken in a day is one ounce for every two pounds of your weight. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Food For the Nervous. As a fine salt meat is not adapted to the requirements of the nervous, as nutritious juices go into the urine to a good extent. Fish of all kinds is good for them. Raw eggs, contrary to the common opinion, are not as digestive as those that have been well cooked. Good bread, sweet butter and lean meat are the best food for the nerves. Those troubled with insomnia and nervous starting from sleep and sensations of falling can often be curled by limiting their selves to a diet of milk alone for a time. An adult should take a plait at a meal and take four meals daily. Those with weakened nerves require frequently a larger quantity of water than those whose nerves and brains are strong. It aids the digestion of food by making it soluble and seems to have a direct tonic effect. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Regulate your diet to fit the season. In hot weather leave off meats, fats, gravies, butter and other heat producers and cut fruits and vegetables in abundance. By drinking an abundance of water you can keep your system flushed out. Remember, you never will be comfortable, particularly in hot weather, if you are constipated. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Foreign Matter In the Eyes. Foreign bodies, such as particles of dust, bits of steel and emery, frequently get into the eyes. On a windy day dust from the street is liable to blow into the eyes and at once set up an irritation. The natural tendency is to rub the eye and this only adds fuel to the fire and causes more irritation. In many cases if the eye is left alone for a few minutes the irritating material will be washed out by the flow of tears, which its presence causes. If it was washed out by tears it usually may be found under the upper eyelid and its removal is not a difficult task for the who has had some practice. The patient should be directed to look downward, then the upper eyelid should be everted. This can be done by pressing a match or small penal against the lid and then catching hold of the eyelid, then rolling the edge of the lid back. Similarly this will bring the forehead body into view and it will be removed to lay down. To further aid with the removal or the position of the forehead body in a few minutes the forehead body lodges on the lower eyelid. From this position it can be removed readily by pressing the patient to look upward and then evering the lower eyelid. Good eyesight is essential to comfort, good health that can never should neglect the eyes. Dam and neglect are signs of irritation. If not due to a foreign body it can be removed a physicist should be consulted and the cause removed. The irritation may be due to disease germs which have entered the eye. Good kind is so virulent that it can destroy the eyesight in a few days. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Daliness. Men get bad hair frequently than women because they wear hard, heavy hair, they cut their hair too short and they eat more than women. The scalp is like wet and the hair like the vegetation that grows upon it. When the scalp is ingested the hair does not grow and its roots die, just as grass dies when the soil is poor. A heavy, hard hair constricts the blood vessels that nourish the scalp. Clipping the hair short leaves its tender roots at the mercy of cold, heat and dust. The oil that exudes from around the roots of the hairs and keeps them nourished is conglobated by the cold and chokes up the matrix in which the hair is formed. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Value of Fruit. Fruits are valuable adjuncts to the daily menu, especially when cooked. Of raw fruits, oranges, grates, bananas, melons and lemons are the best. Raw apples are very well digested by some folk, but by others are quite the reverse. The old proverb that "an apple is old when eaten in the morning, silver in the afternoon and lead at night" has more than a medium of truth in it, but a baked apple is one of the most convenient and effective fixatives we know. Rhubarb has a peculiar effect on the stomachs and skins of some persons, causing indigestion and a violent eruption of nettle rash to result. It also seems to provoke an attack of rheumatism in persons subject to that complaint. It contains a powerful acid which probably produces this effect, but to those fortunate who feel no ill effect after taking rhubarb it is a useful spring medicine as well as a printable dish. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Danger In the Can. No vegetables or meats should be left in a can after it has been opened. This is one of the most frequent causes of potlime poisoning. If the contents of the can are not used immediately after the opening it should be emptied into jars. Leaving meats or vegetables to cool in the cooking utensil is another source of infection, because the foods stick to the pot and provide a good medium for bacteria. A Mint Julien. To wonder cost of living high And people have to stint. They make the doggone money; Then they keep it in the mint. And they keep it there for years and And try to get our goals. By circulating all around Those little paper notes FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLET Everything that has a peplum effect is essentially fashionable this summer, and a dress of this sort is equally suitable for street and house wear. Such a model is pretty made from silk or pongee or any of the this woolen materials. All more effects will be smart in the fall, and this style would be very good carried out in this silk. For the medium size the gown will require six yards of material twenty- THE NEW YORK TIMES seven inches wide with one yard extra for the waistband and collar. The width of the shirt at the lower edge is one and a half yards. This May Market pattern is cut in sizes from 24 to 28 inches best to measure. Send 10 cents to the mailing number, TAY and P will be promptly forwarded to you by mail. If I were read on additional two card stamps for letter postage. When ordering use coupon No..... Size Name...... Address..... FASHION HINT By JUDIC. CHOLLET Little boys pre-wearing a great many stills made with long trousers. This one is closed to the shoulders. Russian fashion, and given a very masculine effect, but at the same time it is simple and childlike. For the four year size the suit will require three and one-eighth yards of 1 MATERIAL, twenty-seven inches wide, with one extra yard for trimming. This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes for boys of two, four and six years of age. Send 10 cents to this office, giving number 7323, and it will be promptly forwarded to you by mail. If in haste send an additional two cent stamp for letter postage. When ordering use coupon No. Size Name Address Persian Carpets The wool of which the Perian carpet is made is taken from the lustrous wool of a special breed of sheep or from the goat, which is dyed by means of certain plants and shrubs. It would be a criminal offense for persons to weave a carpet according to a European design, for a law has been made by the shaw especially for bidding this. FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLET The skirt with just a slight drapery is one of the best liked for daytime wear, and this one is both simple and easy to make. The front and back ```markdown ``` POUR PIECE DRAPED SKIRT. edges are overhappened, and the closing is made at the front, but there are seams at the sides and below the straps, and there are extensions which are folded over to form inverted plates. The straps are arranged over the seams above the plates. When a slightly open effect is liked the left front can be curved at the low or oblique and either the high or natural water line used. For the medium size the skirt will require two and a half yards of material twenty seven inches wide. The width at the bottom is one yard and three quarters when the plims are laid. This May Master pattern is cut in sizes for 18, 20, 22 and 24 inches waist areas. Sheets 18, 20 and 22 need to be this size, giving number 18, and it will be promptly forward to be used by mail. If in haste send an additional two cent stamp for letter postage. When ordering use coupon No.....Size Name.....7 Address..... FASHION HINT By JUDIC CHOLLEY Here is a pown that includes all the newest features. The bouse is closed on a diagonal line and is cut with elongated shoulders. The skirt is 1910 GOWS FOR YOUNG GIRL slightly draped, and there is a peplum that can be made plain or finished with, plaiting. If something new is wanted to finish out the summer wardrobe this model would be good made up in foulard. For the sixteen-year-old size the dress will require five and one-half yards of material twenty-seven inches wide with five-eighths of eighteen inch material for the collar and cuffs and one and one half yards extra for the plaiting. This May Manton pattern is cut in sizes for girls of sixteen and eleven years of age. Reed in crests to this office, giving number. 100, and it will be promptly for- warded to you by mail. If in haste send an additional two cent stamp for letter postage. When ordering use coupon. No..... Rize..... Name..... Address..... He Know. He Know. A teacher in a big elementary school had given lessons to an infants' class on the Ten Commandments. In order to test their memories she asked: "Can any little child give me a com mandment with only four words in it?" A hand was raised immediately. "Well," she taught. "Keep Off the Grass!" was the title of New York Globe. 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MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA BUSINESS AND POLITICS. The bigger all the great interests close their headquarters in Washington, cease the practice of multitasking representatives at the capital, the sooner will it be possible to get business down to a basis that will enable every man in trade to conduct his affairs with a minimum of anxiety, yet with a maximum of profit. If they will only figure out how much money they are spending in influencing campaigns, how much they are putting into organization and how much the Washington business cost, and if they will only then sit down like sensible men and compute the amount of worry and how they are shortening their lives by this continuous turnaround, they will agree with me that they will be far better off if they will take their business out of politics — Vice President Marsetz. SONG OF THE FAIRIES. We, the fairies, bithe and antie, Of dimensions not gigantic. Though the moonshine mostly keeps us, Off in orchard's frisk and peep us. Stolen sweets are always sweet- er. Stolen kisses much completer; Stolen looks are nice in chapels; Stolen, stolen be your apples. When to beel the world are bob- bing. Then's the time for orchard rob- bing. Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling. Were it not for stealing, steal- ing. - Thomas Randolph. RELIGION. Religion is the greatest thing—one might say, the only thing. The relation which one bears to the Supreme Being is the most important. It is the background of life, the sky of destiny. Now, so many people do not get much out of their religion, and religion certainly does not get much out of them. I want you to get much and to give much. Interpret life in the terms of the personal creator, sympathize with life in terms of righteousness, will life as a personal goal. Charles F. Thwing. THOUGHTS ON EATING. The true essentials of a feast are only fair and food.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.—Proverbs xv, 17. He was a bold man who first ate an oyster.—Swift. Reason should direct and appetite obey.—Cleero. Does not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure (in his age—Bhaksepeare. No man can be wise on an empty stomach.—George Elliot. WORLD'S PEACE We hear much of peace today, but let me tell you the peace of the world is maintained by the great governments of the world. It is not the governments, but the peoples, from whom the danger of war comes today and will always come so long as they fail to exercise proper self-restraint and the courtesy that the peace of the world demands. We in America must learn that we cannot continue a policy of peace with infault. We must learn civility. We must learn that when an American sovereign speaks of the affair of a foreign nation he must observe those rules of courtesy by which alone the peace of the world can be maintained. - Penetrator Eilou Root. LULLABY. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea. Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea. Over the rolling waters go; Come from the dying moon and blow. Blow me again to me. While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to the soon. Rest rest on mother's breast. Father will come to the soon. Father will come to his labe in the nest. Sweet all out of the west Under the silvery moon. Sleep my little one, sleep, my pretty one, Sleep - Tennyson BLANK PAPER BLANK PAPER Conveys no message. Poor Printing is almost as bad. OUR PRINTING TELLS YOUR STORY AND TELLS IT CLEARLY Our Job Work is worth inspection. Shakespeare Autographs. Shakespeare Autographs. There are only six genuine Shakespeare autographs in existence, yet one of these—appended to a deed of purchase—recalled bert $255 when sold at auction a few years ago. It was bought by the corporation of London for the Guildhall library, much to the indignation of a number of the city fathers. One number of the common council described the transaction as "most wasteful and prodigal" and another member said that it was quite ridiculous to think of voting $145 for a few doubtful, illegible, almost obliterated scratches of a pen." A motion to disallow the expenditure found thirty-one supporters on the council. Late Trial For Witchcraft A trial for witchcraft and sorcery occurred in England in 1881. This was the trial of the Fletchers, who were famous clairvoyants, crystal gazers and messuerists, who gave seances to which the whole fashionable world flocked. They induced a Mrs. Hart Davis to give them jewelry and lace to the value of £10,000 and when proceedings were taken against them fled to America. The husband managed to escape arrest, but Mrs. Fletcher was brought back to England, indicted under the old statute of witchcraft and sorcery and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor. -London Spectator. Crate's Long Siege Crette endured the longest siege on record, howdle which Troy's ten years seem but a skirmish. In 1048 the Turks, attempting to conquer the island, laid siege to the capital city of Candia, which, however, did not surrender until September, 1060, after twenty-one years. Again in 1821, when the Cretans revolted, the defended Turks were able to hold the fortified cities against all attacks, and many of them were still uncaptured when the powers intervened nine years later. Say a kind word to the groom. It is nobody suit of black. Don't forget he is in the room. Say a kind word to the groom. 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It is safer to commend anything more than it deserves than to discommend a thing so much as it deserves, for commendations meet not so often with oppositions, or at least are not usually so ill resented by; men that think otherwise, as discommendations, and you will insinuate into men's favor by nothing sooner than seeming to approve and commend what they like, but beware of doing it by comparison.—Sir Isaac Newton. ABOUT FOOD. Go to your banquet, then, but use delight. So as to rise still with an appetite. —Herrick. He who feasts every day feasts no day.—Simmons. One should eat to live and not live to eat.—Benjamin Franklin. The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of a man than the discovery of a star.—Brillat-Savarin. Eat at your own table as you would eat at the table of a king.—Confucius. Enough is equal to a feast.—Fleiding. Trade Formula. Woman (to drunkist)—Are you sure this rat poison is good? "Certainly. It's cheap, palatable and very nourishing."—Fliegende Blatter. They Couldn't Either. She was a charming English girl, but she could not see the point of a joke. Her classmates at college, jolly, fun loving girls, regretted this serious defect in their dear friend and determined upon a reform. So they made up a little joke with a very broad point to spring upon Evelyn that night. Accordingly when they had all met in Evelyn's room Clara propounded the joke, which was really a riddle. "Maud," she said, "can you tell me the best way to make a Maltese cross." "No," replied Maud after due thought. "How do you make a Maltese cross?" "Pull its tail," said Clara promptly. The other girls tittered obbligingly, but Evelyn sat solemn as an owl with a puzzled frown on her classic brow. "What's the matter with you, Evelyn?" cried the girls, justly indignant. "Can't you see the point?" Evelyn shook her head. "Girls," she said regretfully. "I know it's awfully stupid of me, but I can't for the life of me see how any one could make a Maltese cross out of a pullet's tail."—National Monthly. Gains For All Our Loans. Gains For All Our Losses. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain, But when youth, the dream, departa It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger and are better Under manhood's sterner reign. Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth with flying feet And will never come again. Something beautiful has vanished, And we sigh for it in vain. We behold it everywhere, On the earth and in the air, But it never comes again. Insulted His Patron Phil Morris, the eminent portrait painter, who died when his fame was at its zenith, had a very unpleasant experience while visiting a wealthy merchant who had commissioned him to paint his wife and baby for the sum of 1700. The first evening Mr. Morris and his "employer" were discussing the "pose," and the artist, thinking that he had hit on a brilliant suggestion, said it would be effective if the child were lying on the hearth rug with just a single garment on and his mother leaning over, playing "this little pig went to market." "How dare you, sir? Do you wish to insult me? I've half a mind to countermand my order!" roared the frate wealthy magnate. Poor Phil Morris couldn't think what harm he had done until a few days later he learned that his patron had made his money in "port" and was known as the "bacon king."—London Tit-Bits. Where It Did Most Good. There was cause for an eruption in a downtown office one morning that, instead of causing a flow of lava of Vasuvian quality, will no doubt pre- Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business 2 Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Handbills, Placards. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. duce a lather of Vesuvian quantity. A large soap manufacturing firm sent a box of fine soap to the manager of the office, who handed it over to his dainty, well groomed stenographer, with the regulation "Here, do you want this?" Later in the day Mr. Manager remarked that he wished to dictate a letter of thanks to the manufacturer and began, "My Dear S.—I want to thank you for the box of soap, and you may be sure I have put it where it will do the most go"—But the stenographer had fainted.—Indianapolis News. A Boomerang Speech. The last time William Jennings Bryan was campaigning for the presidency Colonel C. W. Bolen of Michigan was on a train that was delayed by a washout in the southwestern part of the country. Bolen's remarkable personal resemblance to Bryan soon resulted in the circulation of a report that the Nebraskan himself was on the train. The people from the nearest town had congregated about the rear coach and were shouting instily for Bryan. Colonel Bolen tried to persuade them that he was not Bryan and added that he was a stanch Republican, both of which facts were true. These announcements, however, brought forth only laughter, cheers and renewed requests for a speech. Finally Bolen yielded and delivered to the crowd a hot Republican speech, thinking that in this way he would do much damage to the Bryan cause. A few weeks later Bolen got up a speaking acquaintance on the train with a man from the town in which he had made the speech. "Our town was not much for Bryan," remarked the stranger, naming the town, "until he happened to pass through there one day and, after pretending that he was not Bryan, made a rattling good speech from the platform of the car. As a result of that accident the town has flopped over to Bryan completely." — Detroit News Tribune. All Invalids Father Bernard Vaughan is still telling Londoners good stories of his experiences during his recent tour in America. At St. Louis a bonafide American said to him: "Look at our Mississippi and Hudson rivers! Why, compared with them your Mersey and Severn and Thames are sleepy, sickly streams." "I think yours are just as sickly as ours," observed Father Vaughan. "How do you make that out?" demanded the other. "Well, they are all confined to their bedal" Father Vaughan replied. Sometimes when a man and woman wed "They are an ill matched pair," the said A fallacy, say I. 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Gems In Verse THE HOME HILLS. Whilst the sun was white and calls of the wind were far away, the sun was down till twilight when it fell through night and day. Hearts in the air with the sun, And the stars in the sky. But when the sun with never stray - The cold breeze are loud. Regions to come with summer queen. Ringed the light of the year, Crowned with a crown forever green. And touched by a bloom and heart. There come the plurations from far and sore, Soothed by a hard harvest. Put bountiful fruits their gray parks silver. The old home hills are feet. Ever the puffs await the feet Larger feet seems their own Fair and feet are their winding feet, Loving from far to close But when they have fallen and weary grown Backward they turn to rest Where hearts find peace and love, its own The old home hills are feet. - New York Sun RETURNED. SHE turned away. Her fragrant, wind brown hair Glinted darkly golden in the yellow skins. And along the palpitating air There ran the subtle, trailing rose's musk A SOUND of muffling garments on the grass. And the was gone, an passing breath of May. And darkness fell. I saw the last beams haze. As if she drew with her the light of day. I NEVER saw her more, and all the years Of waiting, longing, brought from her beach. And yet with ardent vows and raining tears. She declared her heart and soul were filled. LAST night she came—came to me in a dream. And all her love rushed back a thousand feet. Her poor, resplendent as the morning first beam. Turner will have a dress and shoes into gold Bhe had turned to me! It was no dream! 'I knew before they told me she was dead!' —Will Lisette in Amelie's A SONG IN YOUR HEART. KEEP a song in your heart, my heart. Whatever may be the weather-- Or sunshine or rain or pleasure of tide. Or sunshine and shower together. Keep singing, no matter how goes it, my dear: Keep singing when data are surpassingly dear. Keep singing; the skies will tomorrow be clear Keep a song in your heart, my lassie. Keep a song in your heart, my lassie. Whatever the years may bring you, Or vantage or loss, a crown of a cross Or roses or thorns to sting you. Keep singing, no matter how goes it, my boy. Keep singing mild shadows a carol of joy; Keep singing, no matter what troubles annoy. Keep a song in your heart, my lassie. —Thomas Curtis Clark! SHEEP HERDER TO HIS DOG. Till sheep are scattered far and wide; The night, black night, incom' tigh. The sheep wagon is warm inside. The cook stove's sendin' sparks on high So bunch 'em, boy. That's right; you're hep Go round 'em, Shep! THE shadders fall like blobs of ink. The wind from of the hills is cold. We're near the bed ground now, I think. And soon, our coach will be unruled. Well have 'em bounced, and then we'll up. Go round em, pop! THE day's been long, old pal of mine: The work's been hard you've had to do. But I don't ever heard a white Ascend from the lips of you. So hold ten close you've got the pop Go round em, Stop! - New York Sun RUTH. SHE stood breast high amid the crowd. Chapel in the golden light of moon, like the sweet out of the sun. Who wakes a growling a kid won ON her chest a stunned flush Doug up and sticks a blush In the midst of brave was born Like red peppers grown with corn ROUND her eyes her treasures fell. Which, were blackest bops could tell But long lashes veiled a light That had she been all too bright. AND her hat with shady bum Made her treasy forehead dim. Thus she stood amid the stools, Praising God with sweetest looks SURE. I said, heavin'd did not mean Where I reap thou shouldst but glean. Lay thy sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. -Thomas Hood. Bark For Tanning Quebracho bark, one of the chief exports of the Argentine, will tan leather at least three times as fast as the bark of the oak or the hemlock. Nearly a million tons of the wood or the dry extract are sent to the United States and Europe annually. The growth of the tree is of the slowest, and it is estimated that a thousand years are required for it to reach maturity. PRESIDENT NOMINATED A COL ORED MAN AS REGISTER OF THE TREASURY. Name Sent to the Senate—Will Sue need Another Colored Man— Vardaman Starts Protest. (Richmond Evening Journal.) Washington, July 26.—War on two appointments sent to the Senate yesterday by President Wilson is today promised by Democratic Senators. The nominations which will be opposed are those of L. E. Pinkham, appointed to be Governor of Hawaii, and Adam E. Patterson, of Oklahoma to be Register of the Treasury. Mr. Pinkham, it is alleged, is a Republican, though he was favorable to the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson, for the presidency. He is said to have been suggested by Representative Kent of California. The nomination of Patterson is opposed by Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi, on the ground that he is a Nero. Washington, D.C. July 26.—President Wilson sent to the Senate yesterday afternoon the nomination of Adam E. Batterson, colored, of Muskogee, Okla., as Registrar of the Treasury. He will succeed James C. Napier of Tennessee, also colored. Indications last night were that a storm of protest will be raised by Southern senators when the name is brought before the upper branch of Congress for confirmation. The first gun in the warfare upon the appointee was fired last night by Senator James K. Vardaman, of Mississippi, who is indignant at the action of the President, and who will fight vigorously against the nomination. Protest against the appointee will be vowed next Thursday evening at a meeting to be held at Old Masonic Temple. Senator Vardaman will be the principal speaker. "The appointment of Patterson is a most fortunate thing," said Senator Vardaman last night. "Two races cannot mix; it is contrary to the laws of nature. I am not acquainted with Patterson. It is not he personally I am fighting; it is the principle involved. Such recognized political equality is bound to lead to social equality; social equality is bound to lead a race amalgamation, and race amalgamation means race deterioration. "I do not think that any government office should be held by a Negro and I have Abraham Lincoln on my side in making this assertion." The senator took from the table a little booklet prepared by Lincoln himself, containing newspaper clippings on speeches delivered by him on the question of the Negro. VIEWS OF LINCOLN In a debate with Douglas in 1955 continued the Senator, finding the page. Lincoln spoke as follows: I am not, for ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of macking voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which, I believe, will forever forbid the two living together on terms of social and political equality. That is the way I feel, exactly I think that the defeat of this appointment of a Negro is of more importance than the passage of the tariff bill and the enactment of currency legislation. It rises like a mountain peak above the other questions of the day. I shall use every effort to defeat the confirmation. Every senator from the South I have spoken to on the subject has expressed his intention of opposing the confirmation. OPPOSED THE NOMINATION "I made a trip to the White House to oppose the nomination, and I also spoke with Secretary McAdon concurring it. It seems that the appointment was made in view of Patterson's Democracy. I don't think much of the policy that pays party obligations at the expense of the purity of the greatest race on the globe. I shall fight every Negro appointment that is made. If a Negro Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbus is appointed, my protest will be still more vehement." The position of Register of the Treasury, which is about the best plum in the Federal service at Washington regularly bestowed upon a Negro, was awarded to Patterson on the recommendation of Senator Gore. Patterson is a leader of the Negro Democrats in Oklahoma. He is a lawyer, and is said to have written number of campaign pamphlets which were circulated among the Negroes of his State in the last cageagin. From'New York (Continued From 1st Page.) has offices at 203 Broadway. In the heart of the business section of the city. He stands for the best in his profession, and by sheer ability he is making a place for himself among the ablest lawyers of this city. He is uncompromising in the stand for equal rights for his race. In a recent address at the Y. M. C. A.. Mr. Smythwick said that he believed the time would come when the Negro would have to fight. If he would get his civil and political rights He urged the leaders of the race to be more frank in dealing with the problem. Mr. Smythwick made his mark while a student at Yale University. It was the Parker Memorial Prize given for oratory in the Yale law school. This is one of the most coveted prizes offered by Yale. While at Yale he was made Fellow of Kent Club one of the most exclusive organizations, and was the first Negro to be made a member of the club. He was born in Warrenton, N. C. and is a graduate of Shaw University. The promise that Mr. Smythwick gives in the profession, should be an inspiration to the youths of the race contemplating entering the profession Dr. Gilbert Not Barred from Mt. Olivet The rumor that the Rev. Dr. M. W. Gilbort, President of Selma University at Selma, Ala., and former pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in this city was not allowed by the trustees of Mt. Olivet Church to preach in that church, caused your correspondent to make investigation to get to the bottom of the rumor. Your correspondent sought the information from several of the leading officials of the church, who emphatically denied the rumor. In an interview with one of the prominent trustees of Mt. Olivet last week relative to this rumor, the state ment was severely denounced, and that it did not have any foundation of any sort. Ever since Dr. Gilbert left the city, several years ago, there has been much talk emanating from a certain disgruntled element. A large number of the members of Mt. Olivet did not favor the Gilbert regn and as a result a faction was brought about which resulted in many of the influential members of the church withdrawing and forming a new church in Harlem. Under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Hayes things are going lively at the church, and everything indicates that a new era will begin at the church. 1Qchmond Students Active The Metropolitan is thronged at this time with a large number of students who make this city their headquarters during the Summer. These ambitious young men who are making their way in life are an earnest set of young men. During the Summer they may be found on the Pullman cars and boats, getting school funds. Among the students from the Virginia Union University whom your correspondent saw last week were Jordan Davis, Everett Smith and V. B. Scarnage. Newspapermen to Hold Monthly Meeting The newspaper men and women of the Metropolis will hold a public meeting at the Y. M. C. A. under the auspices of the Summer Forum, Tuesday evening, August 12th. Interesting phases of newspaper work will be discussed by prominent quill pushers of this city. The meeting will be held for the purpose of getting the writers in line for the annual meeting of the Press Association in Philadelphia. The meeting is being called by Cleveland G. Allen, and every indication points that the meeting will be a success. N. B. Dodson of the American Press Association, Mrs. M. W. Lawton, the brilliant space writer of the Brooklyn dailies and representatives from the New York Age and Crisis will be present. Some of the most active writers of the race may be found in the Metropolis. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. Open The Whole Year Around. VIRGINIA BUSINESS COLLEGE 210 E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. WE TEACH Shorthand, Typewrite in and Book-keeping, Commercial Law, Domestic Science and Music, and such other branches as are taught in Business Colleges. Course in five months. Our Good Work has kept our doors open for more than six years. OUR EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. 59 E. Lee St., Bauttmore, Md. Write or apply to M. F. JOHNSON, Principal, mo. --- Ladies. 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When we were selecting a New York Correspondent, we chose the National Park Bank of that City. Our actual assets, based upon the present value of our real-estate holdings are over fifty thousand dollars above the amount on deposit with us. This guarantees the safety of every dollar on deposit with us. We invite correspondence and urge upon every one to bring us their money for safe keeping. Amounts in sums of ten cents and upwards received. Interest paid on sums of $100 and over. Our President is under Bond. Our Cashier is under Bond. Our Vault, although Burglar-proof is insured against loss by burglaries. Our Building is insured and the bulk of our funds invested in desirable Real Estate. Our Tellers are under Bond. Our Banking Hours are from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. and Saturdays from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. NORTH-WEST CORNER THIRD & CLAY STS. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Established 1856. Oldest Hair Store in the South. YOU CAN HAVE STRAIGHT HAIR IF YOU WANT IT. SPECIAL THIS WEEK CORONET BRAIDS,--Black or Brown, 36 inches long--made from Real Fine Human Crimp Hair. We pay the postage--Special.....50c. HAVE YOUR HOUSE PAINTED We will paint your house and wait for the money. You only pay one third cash and a little each month, thus giving you a plenty of TIME to FIND out as to QUALITY OF MATERIAL used before paying for same. COLGIN COMPANY, 1426 Floyd Avenue, Phone, Monroe-4513. This Watch FREE In order to introduce our newly- welcome, we will sell our beautiful, gold, glittered, enrained American Indian stone mind, alum with a beautifully guaranteed for two years. For pet bottles a bottle af con- dor. For Rikkei Jewelry. When mild and C, and we will send the match. Under the medal. The Champion Bikery Remedy Co., Springfield, Ohio FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. Great Opportunity for Colored Students. The Saint Emma Industrial and Agricultural College at Belmud, Va. is doing a great work. Free school arships in agricultural training have been established and arrangements have been made to feed, clothe, train and educate ten colored students. Trained farmers are in demand and agricultural courses will tend to increase the productive value of the soil. Applicants should write at once to BROTHER GORDIAN, Saint Emma Industrial and Agricultural College Belmud, Va. A first class colored Hotel and Cafe largest in the City, centrally located; up-to-date, newly built; all modern improvements, telephone in each room, located at 423-26-27 South 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa.; doing a business of $1,200 monthly. Will sell entirely, or one-half interest in the business. If desired will sell the building and business in its entirety. Reason for retiring from business. Ill health. Known as the "Hotel Woodson." Terms arranged to suit purchaser. Address John Woodson, 425 So. 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa. For Sale—Cheap. HUMAN HAIR STORE --- MRS. S. E. JONES EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Wants First Class Cooks (both sex) Male and Female Waitress, Chamberma- inals, Housekeepers, Laundress, Farm-hands, and Laborers. Apply at West Point House, 39 E: Lee St., Baltimore, Md., 1-2 square from Richmond boat landing, where you can also get Boarding and Loo- king at Reasonable Rates by Day or Week or Month. A. JONES, Proprietor. ```markdown ``` VIRGINIA—In the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, the 18th day of July, 1913. Minnie Young.....Plaintiff vs. Calvin Young.....Defendant Carvin Young. Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interests herein. A copy—Teste: SAMUEL P. WADDELL, Clerk. SUPERIOR TO COPAIBA & INJECTIONS SANTA! RELEVING IN 54 HOURS Phone, Madison 83. Phone, Madison 84. TRY US ONCE AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SATISFIED. Crump & West CoalCompany COAL AND WOOD. 1811 E. Cary St. RICHMOND, VA. FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CONSIDER VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK Jan. 7—Sir J. W. Chatman, Blue Ridge Lodge, No. 120. Jan. 21—Sir W. H. Harvey, Planet Lodge, No. 23. Jan. 21—Sir Daniel W. Adams, Virginia Lodge, No. 6. Feb. 7—Sir George Harris, Old Dominion Lodge, No. 8. Feb. 8—Sir Joseph Wright, Jonathan Lodge, No. 20. Feb. 8—Sir W. D. Carter, Natural Bridge Lodge, No. 124 Feb. 8—Sir Wallace Parker, Suffolk Lodge, No. 5. Feb. 8—Sir Frank Walker, Rising Star Lodge, No. 106. Feb. 16—Sir George Barber, Sons of Lowmoor, No. 125. Feb. 19—Sir Henry Conner, Friendship Lodge, No. 3. Feb. 19—Sir George Baysmore, Widow's Friend, No. 122 Feb. 19—Sir Albert Pope, Zenith Lodge, No. 111. Feb. 19—Sir David Bradford, Zilontown Lodge, No. 184. March 5—Sir John Evans, Friendship Lodge, No. 8. March 7—Sir Green Hampton, Macedonia Lodge, No. 59 March 13—Sir Benjamin Johnson, Fulton Lodge, No. 42. March 26—Sir Richard Ferguson, Mc. Ararat, No. 134. March 26—Sir Fred Spolghts, Empire Lodge, No. 37. March 26—Sir George H. Wills, Staunton Lodge, No. 62. March 26—Sir C. J. Owens, Cavalier Lodge, No. 56. March 29—Sir John T. Morgan, Pocahontak Lodge, No. 41 March 29—Sir R. B. Pace, Ebenezer Lodge, No. 116. April 4—Sir Marshall Taylor, Unity Lodge, No. 24. April 8—Sir W. F. Stepney, Rescue Lodge, No. 4. April 16—Sir William Dandridge, Virginia Lodge, No. 6 April 17—Sir Granderson Smith, Independent, No. 75. April 21—Sir Andrew Taylor, Orange Lodge, No. 150. April 28—Sir Lewis Wingfield, Virginia Lodge, No. 6. April 28—Sir Henry Trummell, Fulton Lodge, No. 42. April 28—Sir E. D. Carter, Buckner's Lodge, No. 149. April 28—Sir Roland Young, Virginia Lodge, No. 6. April 28—Sir William W. Hill Royal Lodge, No. 26. April 28—Sir George E. Lipacombe, Capital Lodge, No. 31 April 28—Sir Jesse Murphy, Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15 April 28—Sir C. C. Lottier, Peak Knob Lodge, No. 64. May 10—Sir Jake McFarland, Unity Lodge, No. 24. May 10—Sir J. D. Hagan, Damon Lodge, No. 12. May 17—Sir G. H. Mason, Crescent Lodge, No. 151. May 23—Sir Solomon General, Pythias Lodge, No. 21. May 23—Sir John H. Martin, Ebnetzer Lodge, No. 116. May 23—Sir Joseph Parson, Charity Lodge, No. 32. May 24—Sir Charles Lee, Rescue Lodge, No. 4. May 24—Sir John R. Cannon, Rescue Lodge, No. 4. June 2—Sir Isham Morris, Scotland Lodge, No. 119. May 10—C. L. English, Pocahontas Lodge, No. 41. June 3—Wilson Hunt, Natural Bridge Lodge, No. 124. June 10—Edward Clay, Planet Lodge, No. 23. June 12—Robert L. Brown, North Star Lodge, No. 52. June 25—William E. Winston, Mt. Ararat Lodge, No. 134. June 26—Ell Wilson, North Star Lodge, No. 52. July 10—John H. Chappell, Maco Lodge, No. 35. July 15—A. J. Foster, Crescent Lodge, No. 151. July 19—David Womack, News Ferry Lodge, No. 157. July 22—Andrew Jackson, Dunbar Lodge, No. 110. Jan. 16—Elizabeth Johnson, Myrtle Court, No. 106. Feb. 8—Emma Lee Marable, Fearless Court, No. 142. Feb. 19—Rachel A. Burns, Staunton Court, No. 76. March 7—Martha Branich, Arneta's Court, No. 72. March 22—Charlotte Yearby, Pride of East Court, No. 66 April 4—Courtney Booker, Planet Court, No. 137. April 9—Carrie Martin, Victoria Court, No. 52. April 17—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court, No. 229. April 21—Mattilda Hall, Unity Court, No. 132. April 22—Tahlien Skinner, Golden Rule Court, No. 86. April 28—Elizabeth M. Robinson, Unity Court, No. 132. April 28—Minnie Johnson, Sarah's Court, No. 246. April 28—Cora Presston, Fulton Court, No. 244. April 28—Maggie Mosby, King's Daughters Court, No. 70 April 28—Margaret Leffscht, Old Dominion Court, No. 114 April 28—Ella Shepherd, Ivy Lily Court, No. 85. April 28—Sylie Taylor, Fulton Court, No. 244. April 28—Rebecca Banks, Blooming Lily Court, No. 142. April 28—Sarah Burwell, Suffolk Court, No. 63. May 2—George Bolling, Old Dominion Court, No. 114. May 10—Colla Brown, Pride of Farmville Court, No. 144 May 24—Margaret Scott, Venus Court, No. 47. May 24—Loxie An Prunty, Jupiter Court, No. 80. May 24—Annie Johnson, Pride of the East Court, No. 56 May 24—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court, No. 229. June 11—Lula Liew, Zion Traveller's Court, No. 96. June 12—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court, No. 229. June 12—Jane Wingfield, Martha's Court, No. 138. Amount Paid by Grand Lodge..... $30,600.00 Amount Paid by Grand Court..... $9,750.00 Total Amount Paid..... $39,350.00 Subscribe to The Planet