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Editor Mitchell Travels. The American Bankers Association. Grand Times There—Hon. Wm. H. Lewis and President Wilson—Zieg feld Follies Without Bert Williams I visited ex-Assistant United States Attorney General William H. Lewis at his offices in the Old South Building. A white attorney is associated with him. His desk was of the large est size. A peculiar part about it that I had entered the elevator and a moment later some one else entered. I had not noticed who it was until he addressed me. It was Attorney Lewis. ON THE CHAUTAUQUA CIRCUIT. When we reached his offices, he closed the door and then we discussed the political situation. Mr. Lewis had just completed his course of lectures on the Chaundnauqua circuit, where he had been well received. "Attorney General McReynolds was not responsible for my retirement from office," he said. "President Wilson requested him to ask for it." This was interesting information to me. "When Attorney General McReynolds made known to me the President's wish, I tendered my resignation at once. This was March 7, 1913. PRESIDENT WILSON'S LETTER. "Here is the letter which I received from President Wilson and you will observe that it bears the date of the letter that I sent him showing that he accepted it at once." I read the letter. It was as follows: "The White House, "Warbington, D. C. "March 7, 1813. "My dear Mr. Lewis: "Your letter of March 7th, in which you tender your resignation of the office of Assistant Attorney General charged with the Defense in the Indian Depredation Claims has been received, and I hereby accept it as tendered. "Will you not allow me to express my appreciation of the valuable service you have rendered in the discharge of the duties of your office? "Sincerely yours, "WOODROW WILSON, "Hon. William H. Lewis, "Assistant Attorney General." EX-PRES. ROOSEVELT ANGRY. It will be seen then that this letter is written in the language of diplomacy. We returned it to Mr. Lewis and then we discussed the present outlook. Mr. Lewis stated that verbal messages had been conveyed to him that ex-President Roosevelt regarded him as an ingrate because he (Lewis) had supported President Taft and the Republican ticket. A few moments later we bid him good-day and passed out to the street below. We had visited our friend, Attorney John M. Burrell. He has a fine practice and war sad over the retirement of Attorney Levi P. Benjamin, who was arranging to go abroad and engage in business. Tuesday morning, I went to Copley Hall where the sessions of the Savings Bank session were being held. There was a large attendance. The following programme was observed: Tuesday, October 7—Morning Session, Ten O'clock: Invocation, Rev. William Herbert Dowart; Address of Welcome: President's Address, R. C. Stephenson, Vice-President St. Joseph County Savings Bank, South End, Ind.; Report of 'Executive committee,' W. E. Knox, Chairman, Comptroller Bowery Savings Bank, New York; Report of Secretary, E. D. McWilliam, Five Nassau Street, New York; Report of Membership Committee, George E. Edwards, Chairman, President Dollar Savings Bank, New York; Address, The Relations Between Fixed and Fluid Credit, Edmund D. Fisher, Deputy Controller, City of New York; Report of Law Committee, John H. Sturgis, Chairman, Treasurer Franklin Savings Bank, Boston, Mass.; Discussion of Savings Department Clause in Currency Bill; Appointment of Nominating Committee; Adjournment. Afternoon Session, Two-thirty O'clock: Report of Committee on School Savings Banks, N. F. Hawley, Chairman, Treasurer Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, Minneapolis, Minn.: Report of Committee on Methods and Systems V. A. Lerner, Chairman, Assistant Cashier Williams burgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y. Report of Committee on Segregation Clinton T. Rose, Chairman, President Onondaga County savings Bank, Syracuse, N. Y.; Address, The Postal Savings System, Carter B. Keone, Director Postal Savings System, Washington, D. C.; Report of Committee on Postal Savings Banks, E. L. Robinson, Vice-President Eutaw savings Bank. Baltimore, Md.; Dia- sessment of proposed bill removing staff deposits in Postal Savings Banks; Report of Nominating Committee; Election of President, Vice President and three members of Executive Committee to serve three years; Installation of Officers; Adjournment; Meeting of Executive Committee immediately following adjournment. TWO WASHINGTON BANKERS. During all of this time, I sat there an observant listener. Prior to the opening of the afternoon session I had engaged in a conversation with two bankers from Washington, D. C. One was president of a national bank and the other was cashier of a savings bank. They began discussing the currency bill with me and then the reserve associations and the income tax. Members began to file in. I moved up to the front after exchanging cards with them and soon was deeply interested in the discussion. The Postal Savings Banks and the proposed increase of the amount to be received on deposit was the subject of a warm debate. HEAVY DEPOSITS: The amount already deposited in these banks aggregated twenty-one million dollars and one of the bankers drew attention to the fact that one savings bank in Massachusetts had more than fifty million dollars on deposit. With the election and installation of officers came the end of the season. Mr. J. F. Sartori, President of the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, Cal. was elected President; Mr. William E. Knox, Comptroller of the Bowery Savings Bank, New York was elected Vice-President and Mr. E. G. McWilliam, Secretary. Mr. McWilliam has proved himself to be a worthy successor to Mr. William Hanhart, being both efficient and popular. TEMPLE THEATRE. That afternoon, I returned to Young's Hotel tired, but finally decided to go to Temple Theatre to see Ziegfeld Follies. This company formerly had in its casts the well known and popular colored comedian Bill Williams. I had heard that he was no longer connected with the company and I found this to be correct. The play was fine but it would have shocked the average moralist. The theatre was packed, with seats ranging from 50 cents to $2.00 and the boxes selling for $15.00 per night. It is impossible to fully describe the scene. About thirty or forty white females in scant attire danced and vaunted about the stage. They wore tights and carried what appeared to be their graceful attire in their arms. LIKE MOTHER EYE. With the exception of these tights they were about as naked as they were when they came into the world. The audience seemed delighted. The star performer was Louis Ehrol, who always performed with Bert Williams. He was a fine dancer and one of the females danced with him while he danced all over her, but she kept moving all the time. In one act he wore a pair of breeches almost as wide as they were long. As he danced the suspenders in front became unbuttoned and those breeches began to slide down. Just as they reached the centre of the back side, of his anatomy he hauled them up again to the infinite amusement of the audience. BERT WILLIAMS NOT THERE The management was rid of Bert Williams, the colored man but they substituted another done up in burnt cork to imitate him and he amused the audience. But his nasal twang and white lips showed plainly the imposition. A horse rigged up with two men on the inside was also a source of merriment, especially as the man in the hind part of that horse frequently disagreed with the man in the front part. Then the horse leaned up against a horse monument with both front and hind legs crossed, while the female on the motionless horse on the monument above remonstrated and declared that they would frighten her horse. HUMOROUS ALLUSIONS As her horse was a statue, the hit was obvious. Then came the police scene. The New York curfew law was the subject of ridicule and the making love by one man with another man's wife: whose husband had alternately gone hunting with a fishing pole and fishing with a shot-gun added to the interest and amusement of the evenings entertainment. JOHN MITGHELL, JR. Stockholders Meeting Stockholders of the American Beneficial Insurance Company are called to meet at the office of the Company. 613 N. 2nd Street at 8 P. M. Wednesday, October 29th, 1913. W. F. GRAHAM, President. B. H. PETTON, Secretary. AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS General Notes (Allen's National News Bureau 252 West, 53rd Street) L. H. Jackson has returned to the city after a trip to Petersburg and Hot Springs, Va. On returning he visited the Y. M. C. As. of Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Visitors from Richmond to this city during Exposition week who desire first class room and board will do well to write your correspondent who will secure such places for them. Henry Allen, of Stamford, Conn. was a visitor to this city for a few days last week. The Cief Club a musical organization of this city will begin a tour of several cities beginning November 4th. They will include Richmond in their tour. Your correspondent has been engaged to speak in the coming campaign for Tammany. Hall, an organization that is a friend to the Negro. Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University is due in the city next week. He will speak at the Beecher Memorial Exercises Monday evening. Your correspondent will write about the work of the literary societies in future issues. It is believed that the retention of Collector C. W. Anderson in this city by Mr. Mitchell the Fusion can didate for Mayor, is a political stroke Miss Emma Baker of Straight University, who spent the Summer in this city is now at her desk at the University. Exposition visitors to the city will do well while visiting in the Metropolis to call at the Standard News Company of 131 W. 53rd street where they will find an up-to-date news emporium, where all the leading race journals, as well as books and other information pertaining to the Negro will be found. The News Emporium is the head quarters of many prominent men who pass through the Metropolis, and on the registration books of the store will be found the names of the leading men and women of the race, including Dr. Booker T. Washington. The proprietor is Charles Gary, one of the most enterprising young men of this city and who is ever willing to give to patrons the politest attentions. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. In Memoriam. In loving remembrance of our dear son, H. Endon Jodies, who departed this life one year ago, October 17, 1912: "Ever near us, though unseen. The dear immortal spirits tread: For all the boonless universe: Is Life - there are no dead." His Mother and Father. Real Estate for Sale Several pieces of choice brick property just put on the market. Inquiries invited. Terms can be arranged to suit purchaser. B. A. CEPHAS, 2nd and Leigh Sts. Y. M. C. A. Notes 3:30 P. M. at the Richmond Ben official Auditorium, corner Jackson and Second streets, a great meeting for men by the Y. M. C. A. Rev. W. A. Mitchell by special request will address the men. Subject, Leave the Crowd. The Municipal Band. K. of P. will play special music. Free for all men. Come to this new place. Women and men are invited to hear-Governor William Hodges Mann deliver the annual address of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday, November 2nd. 3:30 P. M. at the First Baptist Church. Subject, The Y. M. C. A. and Her Works. Lawyer J. Henry Crutchfield will introduce the Governor or. Music by the Malo Chorus of the First Baptist Church. Be a com- mittee. Everybody is asked to come Card of Thanks New Baptist Church Mr. Editor: Permit me, please, through the PLANET to thank, the many Societies and various Clubs, and friends for the help they have rendered and the encouragement given me and the New Baptist Church these three years. I am very grateful to one and all. May I ask, please, for your continued co-operation and good wishes in extending His kingdom and may I ever appreciate the same. I am humbly yours. T. J. NOSBY Pastor. Rev. H. M. Chapman Called to Centralia Baptist Church. Centralia Baptist Church of Chesterfield county, Va. has recently called Rev. H. M. Chapman of this city, formerly of Culpeper, Va. to its pastoral charge. The installation services began Sunday, October 5, 1913. Rev. Nelson B. Brown, B. Th. preached the installation sermon from Hebrew xiii. 5, with much in structure. Dr. George R. Hovey, president of the Virginia Union University, made some timely remarks which every one seemed to have enjoyed. The services continued in the after noon. At 3:30 o'clock Rev. J. E. Jones, A. M. D. D. delivered a wonderful discourse from Paul's charge to Timothy II Timothy iv. 1-5 The services continued through the week, the participants responded with much interest and the chief Wardened grand music applicable to the occasion. Friday night, Dr. Evans Payne of Fourth Baptist, made some touching remarks in reference to the past history and future hope of the church, after which a fine purse coming through the official board was presented and a delightful reception given in behalf of the pastor. Centralia Baptist Church is one of the leading churches of Chesterfield. It is located on the electric ar line between Richmond and Petersburg. It has a very large member tip and the entire congregation seems to have taken on a new life; everybody is working with a willing spirit and many improvements are now being made. ANNOUNCEMENT Mrs. J. R. Jordan of Pettsburg, Va. announces the marriage of Mirez Inez I. Clements to Mr. Spiswood W. Robinson, Jr. on October 9th, 1913. Petersburg, Va. At home November 4th. to 11 P. M. 18 W. Lehdr. street. No cards. Friends invited. Chaylin—Simms. Mr. Joe Chayirs and Mr. Ida Simma were married very quietly, October 12, 1913, at First Baptist Church, Waverley, Va. Rev. M. Chapman of this city performed the ceremony. Reystor—Crozart. Mr. Peter Royster and Miss Lillie Crozart of this city were quietly married Tuesday morning. October 7th at the residence of Rev. Dr. A. S. Thomas. HOME COMING WEEK! . And One Thousand Dollar Rolly. Effort! First Baptist Church, corner College and Broad streets from October 26th to November 10th, 1913. The 12th Anniversary of the Pastor and 133rd Anniversary of the Church. An excellent program each night. Able speakers and excellent at each service. Our members and friends at home and abroad are urged to be present at these services. Rev. W. T. Johnson, pastor, Mr. B. P. Vandervall, clerk; Mr. W. S. Morgan, chairman. 2t Services at 3rd St. A. M. E. At the Third St. Church Sunday A. M. the pastor. Rev. S. S. Morris will use as a theme, "Preparation Essential to Crooks Jordan." The service will be preparatory to the re-opening of the remodelled Sunday School room on the fourth Sunday, as which time the Presiding Elder, Dr. O. T. Day will preach. Govtrnor Mann and Dr. Washington To Speak. Gov. William Hodges Mann and Dr. Booker T. Washington will speak in the Richmond City Auditorium, November 7, before the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, at its first annual meetings. "Better schools, better health, better homes, better farms,"—this is the motto of the organization which aims to federate all interests that tend to promote Negro welfare. An interesting program has been arranged for November 6 and 7. Cooperation with the Virginia State Health Department in reaching masses of colored people in the rural districts and in the cities; health care paligns waged through four counties of Virginia; popular education for better health and better homes; improvement in rural schools—these topics will be discussed by men and women who have taken an active part in the work of the Negro Organization Society. Delegates from many organizations will represent the health and educational interests of religious bodies, Sunday Schools, secret societies and civic associations. All organizations are eligible to membership in the Negro Organization Society and may send delegates to the Richmond meeting. Delegates who expect to attend the meeting are asked to notify (not later than November 1) Prof. John M. Gandy, State Normal School at Petersburg, the executive secretary; or Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, St. Luke's Bank, Richmond; or Mr. O. B. Stokes, St. John street, Richmond. The Virginia State Negro Business League will hold its annual meeting in connection with the Negro Organization Society. The officers of the State Business League are working among the local leagues for a large attendance at the Richmond meeting KENTUCKY BANK WITHSTANDS RUN. President of Louisville Institution Declares Funds Are Ample. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 7 - A run on the Kentucky Title Savings Bank and Trust Company, which was started here yesterday, developed larger proportions today, although causing scarce more than a ripple in financial circles. The institution is owned and operated by virtually the same officers and directors as the First National Bank. Its statement of August 9 last showed deposits of $1,637,624, more than a million of which was in savings. According to President Emory L. Swearingen, the bank has ample funds to pay all depositors. Bank officials estimated that probably $1,000,000 had been paid out up to late this afternoon. President Swearinger stated that the run was caused by the misunderstanding of a foreigner, who appeared at the bank Saturday after banking hours and was informed he could not withdraw his money because the bank was closed for the day. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES The many friends of Mr. Eldred Lewis, the popular letter carrier, are glad to see him about again, after a serious operation. Mrs. Roberta Miller of the Southside returned to the city last week after spending ten days of enjoyment in Philadelphia, Pa. Prof. M. A. Harris left the city last week to, take charge of a high school. We wish him success in his efforts for the elevation of his race. Rev. S. S. Morris was called to New York City this week to attend an executive committee meeting of the Board of Missions of the A. M. E. Church. Miss Fanny Overton Boissacau was called to Camden, N. J. on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Maggie M. Williams. We are glad to know she is much improved at this writing. —Miss Desale Stewart, one of the popular clerks of the Home Office of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia. Inc. returned to the city last week from a three week's pleasant visit to her nunt and friends of Bridgeport, Conn., also visiting her niece, the Rev. William Morton and friend of New York City. —Messars, Thomas Grey, Jr. and William H. Robinson, Jr. of the Southside visited Philadelphia last week and witnessed two games of the World's Series at Shibe Park. While there they were the guests of Mrs. Mollie Robinson Booker. These baseball enthusiasts are star players on the Southside Cubs and their trip to the "City of Brotherly Love" was beneficial as well as delightful. Editor: As you know, this is the Fifthth Anniversary Year of our freedom. I very much hope that there may be a general disposition on the part of our people everywhere to fittingly celebrate this occasion. Some time ago, you may remember, I published the statement which follows with reference to this matter, and beg again to bring it to your attention. What I wrote at that time was to this effect: "After consultation with a number of the leading men and women of our race, I have taken upon myself the responsibility of asking our people to devote the week of October 19 to 26 to the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of our freedom. "Something has already been done however, in several parts of the country, towards carrying into effect the plan already suggested for local celebrations. In order that these various local celebrations may be carried out harmoniously and in such a way that each local celebration will contribute to a national total, the following recommendations are submitted: "(1) That October 19-26, 1913, be known as Fiftthth Anniversary Week. "(2) That schools, churches and all other societies and organizations in every part of the United States, where there is a considerable number of our people, unite and cooperate for the purpose of holding local集体的 that shall recreate our progress in commercial, professional, intellectual, moral and religious directions. An effort should be made to secure the strongest and most representative men obtainable as speakers." It is my earnest hope and desire that the above suggestions be read before the various churches, lodges, and other organizations of our people to the end that the Fiftieth Anniversary Week of Freedom shall be generally observed everywhere. We must depend, of course, upon our newspapers to bring this matter to the attention of the colored people. If any large number of them is to be troubled, I very much hope you will heartily cooperate with, and give full publicity to this effort. Sincerely yours, (Sirene L. Boomer T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. October 11, 2013) Lesburg (Va.) News Mr. P. Birkles, Creeg of Phillips Lake, Pa. arrived in town Saturday evening his old friends, Mr. William Calley and others for a few days. Rev. D. E. D. Tyler was at his last all day Sunday. At 11 o'clock he mounted the stand, assisted by Brother Charles Randall, the Recendant. After singing 71N, Scripture lesson, 11 Prophet Isaiah was read. Subject, Trusting, in the Shadow. Text, Egypt and Israel. We were held spellbound 45 minutes. At 10:00 he was again at his post with Bro. R. H. Tyler at the organ 12nd Psalms were read. 11st chap ter Joshua. 11th verse. Subject. The Boat Over Jordan. The Rev. being one of those fearless preachers he talked as never before. Mr. and Mrs. Robert White of Sweirlin, Va. came up to hear him on his return here. In two weeks, the 4th Sunday, he will open up his series of meetings. All are cordially invited to be present. Rev. E. D. Tyler has returned from the St. James Baptist where he has just closed the successful meeting run by his son, Rev. W. E. Tyler of Portsmouth, Va. Additions, 15. The Trustees will give their second entertainment Saturday at Odd Follows' Hall. Come out and help us. The Masonicks gave a very successful entertainment last Friday and Saturday nights. Mrs. Henry Berry is still confined at the hospital. Mrs. William Roberts, they say, is improving a little. Hawkins is on his way to get your Winter wrap. Israel Edmunds Pleads Guilty. Israel Edmunds, the colored letter carrier indicted for robbing the mall pleaded guilty in the United States District Court before Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr. last Tuesday morning. Sentence was suspended until the Judge can review his case. On two separate indictments against him, he could receive a sentence of 106 years. Edmunds is now in the Heartbeat county jail. Found Dead. Captain Joseph R. Herndon, a passenger conductor on the C. and O. R. R. was found dead in the bath room at his home 920 N. 25th street. Just before the time for him to take out his train. He had been in the service of the railroad company 38 years. HARVARD COLLEGE L OCT 20 191 CAMBRIDGE PRICE. FIVE CENTS. EDUCATIONAL NOTES: Philadelphia provides free eyeglasses for nearly 2500 school children every year. Required home study has been abolished in the schools of Sacramento, Cal. Five hundred and fifty-five persons attended the evening classes in academic subjects at the University of Cincinnati last year. About $15,000 is earned annually by the boys in the co-operative industrial course in the high school at Fitchburg, Mass. Atten ten years of service a teacher in Schenectady, N. Y., may obtain a year's leave of absence for study or travel abroad, receiving one-third payment of salary. A comparison of 625 star athletes of the Naval Academy with 580 non-athletes, in both cases from the classes of 1892-1911, shows that apparently the non-athletes are in better physical condition that the athletes. Medical inspection is a business proposition. In a town with 250 children, it is said for instance, there would be an annual saving of $5,250 if by thorough medical inspection the curable physical defects that handicap school children could be remedied. There are now about forty "psychological clinics" in the United States, according to Dr. J. E. Waltin, of the University of Pittsburgh. The first of such clinics, for the purpose of studying and classifying mentally unusual children, was established at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. School officials in Beverly, Mass., recently calculated the money gain for their pupils in vocational education. They found that an expenditure of $600 per boy in industrial trapping had raised the capitalization of the boy's economic value from $6,000 to $15,000 or $18,000. We are destroying the eyes of a large number of school children by the burden of continuous near work to which they are subjected," says Dr. F. Park Lowis, of Buffalo. He suggests as a remedy, in addition to the use of eyeglasses, reduction in the amount of work dependent directly upon the printed page. "Lot us have more thinking and fewer books," he declares. DEAD MAN HAD A HISTORY Convicted 27 Years, Restored to Citizenship by President Taft Frank L. Minor, who dropped dead Tuesday noon when he was shucking oysters in his little shack at 207 Indiana avenue, northwest, was one of the few neeros, who, after serving a sentence for crime, have applied for restoration to citizenship, and have received it at the hands of the President. Thirty years ago Minor, then about 25 years old, shot and killed his wife. After two trials, Minor was sentenced to be hanged, but his counsel, the late Polly Judge Thomas F. Miller, appealed to President Cleveland, and the latter commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Minor had served 77 years without a single demerit in his prison record, when the pardon board recommended him to Prestident Taft, and the latter issued a pardon. Minor returned to Washington and joined his mother, who still lives in the house in which the murder occurred. Then he looked for work and got a job as porter in a department store. But at the end of his first week when he drew $9, his employer told him he needn't come back, though his services had been excellent. The reason was that somebody had told the employer that Minor was a former convict. His aged mother told him to try the oyster trade, and he did, invest- his half a dollar in a bushel of oysters and borrowing a bucket and knife. From the first day his trade grow steadily until he was able to rent the shack in which he died and in which he did a prosperous bus- ness. Just a year ago Minor made application for restoration to citizenship Detective Sergeant Evans, who knew his history, was assigned by Major Sylvester to investigate. To Evans who asked him why he had made the application, Minor said: "I want to die as a man and not simply as an ox-conset." The application was passed favorably by the Department of Justice and President Taft restored Minor to full citizenship. Alexander Coleman, white, who lives at 1120 N. 26th street had his right leg so badly mangled while trying to board a freight train in Fulton last Tuesday night that it was necessary to amputate it at the thigh. His eye was also injured. Rev. E. H. Polisin Ev.-Lutheran Pastor of Meherrin, Va. will hold divine services at Johnson's Hall Every Sunday night at 8 P. M. You and your friends are welcome. Leg Amputated Church Notice A PERSON OF SOME IMPORTANCE By LLOYD OSBOURNE PROLOGUE Lovers of Romance, attention! Here's a story you will like. It tells of mystery under the dreamy moon of the Pacific islands and of love in the shady lance of New England—and what more can a story reader want? The mystery, of course, is introduced early in the tale, and the love follows close after. Together they go hand in hand through the pages of the story, never parting company until the final chapter. There the mystery departs, but the love remains. You know, of course, about the author, Lloyd Osbourne. He learned how to write in a worthy school, for he is a stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. And no greater story teller than the latter ever lived. CHAPTER I Who is John Mort? THE moonlight streamed through the palms of the Pacific island of Lotoalofa, outlining on the beach a vivid tracery of friends and stems. Across the lagoon, Softened and melodied by the stretch of glassy water, came the sound of a mouth organ and the rhythmic beat of a wooden drum as the crew of the North Star raised the chorus of "Goodbyy, My Friend." At intervals there was a deeper note as some mighty camber flung its might against the coral and burst with ?lay on the seaward reefs. In all those lonely seas there is no loner island than Lontoufa, on some Pacific islands it is called the "four crowns of Quiros," with a ques form mark after it. On others, when it is nodded at all, it figures variously as "Melanius reif, p. d.," "Winslow shoals, p. d.," or merely "Island, e. d.," p. d., signifying "position doubtful," and e. d." "existence doubtful." In the fifties its handful of inhabitants was carried away usually by Permanian slavers. In later years it attracted the attention of Baily Hayes, who had had the intention, never to be carried out, of making it into a sort of plrate stronghold, and to this day there stands his battery of six small, rusty iron cannon, commanding the anchorage. Here, leaning against one of those venerable guns, were two men in close and earnest conversation. One of them was about forty-four, tall and thin, with high cheek bones and a narrow, ugly, withered face, whose usual expression was one of sardonic melancholy. But it was not a commonplace face nor a weak one. The pale blue eyes were masterful, the nose pronounced and the general air distinguished. Whatever else he had been in the past Jay Mort, as he called himself, was ineradically a cavalry officer, with an underlying military hardness that on occasions could fame up like a volcano. His companion was Matthew Broughon, a man of thirty one, sobered, hardened and somewhat worn by eleven years on the outspite of civilization. He was an American, alone in the world. He had had two years at Annapolis, from which he had been discharged for hazing. Later he had drifted to the Indies. He had thrown himself wholeheartedly into the life of danger, during and romance of the south sea islands, and all he had to show for it were a few scars, a smallering of half a dozen outandair dislocations and the memory of some deeper chances taken and lost. At thirty one he had achieved nothing more tangible than $100 a month and the command of John Mort's schooner, and even these he was now abandoning, to begin again with nothing. "But my friend, is there anything you complain of?" Mort, was asking his slight foreign accent more marked than usual as the result of his concern. "Oh, no, drifl." "Money? Shall I double your salary, —treble it? That is simple." Matt shook his head. "It is here," he said, laying his hand to his heart. "I don't know what's the smatter with me; but I'm tired of it all; homestick, perhaps, disatisfied, depressed." "And you are determined to leave me" "Do not reproach me, sir. I told you this before my last trip, not wishing to take you away." Copyright, 1911, by the Bobbie-Merrill Company. "I'm sorry," said John Mort with emotion. "Sorry for myself at losing one I liked and admire, who for six years has always been so faithful, so loyal. Sorry, too, for you, my friend, that you should choose to go back among strangers-back to that accused civilization where none fares so well as the greedy and unprincipled. Is it that you prefer? So, is it that for which you will surrender this?" Mort raised his hand to the tropic moon. "What a choice!" he murmured. "What a choice." "It is an impulse stronger than I am," returned Matt after a silence. "After all, I am a white man, and those are my people. Have you never felt that sudden longing to get back that overpowering, irresistible, unreasoning-longing." "No," returned John Mort savagely. "No, no, no." To me it is a hell I have left forever." "I wonder at myself," said Matt. "There is not a soul in the world I respect more, admire more-yes, love- than I do you. Yet I am going." John Matt's eyes glistened, and he put out his hand, which the other grasped. "Well, so it," he said. "Then, may I call tonight with land breeze?" "Yes, you may call." "And my accounts, my vouchers, and all that!" You ought to pass them, sir, as well as arrange about the North Star's return. Pardon my insistence, but you have put it off and off—"What amount have you in the ship's safe?" "Nearly 1500, sir, in French, English and American gold, besides the chest of Chile silver." "My friend, it is yours, and the schooner also, it is yours. It is small enough return for such loyal service. Ah, indeed, much too small, and I will increase it with this"— As he spoke he drew from his finger a superb ruby ring and forced it on Matt, whose stammering words of thanks were cut brusquely short. "There's another matter much more pressing," he exclaimed, "a pledge to be given and by you sacredly kept and—" "But, sir, how will you manage with out a vessel?" expostulated Matt, altogether bewildered. "You can not alway yourself to be marooned here utterly cut off from all—" "Oh, I fear not that. We are self sustaining now, and besides in a couple of years I look forward confidently for your return. Isolation has no torrs for me—rather a charm, a picture sequences and a greater sense of security." John Mort paused on the last word, peering strangely at his companion. "Do you realize, Broughton, he continued at last, "that during our six years' close association, intimacy, you have never asked me a question; that you have never betrayed the least in qualiteness; that you have seen me draw forth whole packets of Bank of England notes, often thousands and thousands of pounds, and never once have you disturbed me by even a look." "Your private affairs were none of my business, sir. I have always made it a point of honor to keep my curtility to myself." "And even now, when you are going away, perhaps forever, with the riddle still unsolved, are you not tempted to ask." "Well, I suppose it's just this, sir; if you wished me to know you would tell me." John Mort mused as though, indeed, he were very near to making a consultant of his companion. The spell of the moon, the beauty and stillness of the tropic night, the faint, mellow throb of the wooden drum timing a barbarian far far across the water; all were conductive to an access, of friendship, of affection and trust, that might sweep away the last barriers of reserve. He struck a match on the comrade's cannon, lit a cigarette, and, with an appearance of some indecision, took a few whiffs before he spoke. "It is enough for you to know that I am a ghost," she said oddly. "Mort means dead, and the fancy pleased me to take it for my name. Before I died I was a person of some importance; of sufficient importance, in fact—were my existence here ever to be known—for the news of it to shake the world. Broughton, I ask no promises, no oath. I simply tell you that my life, my happiness, all that is dearest and most precious to me, hang on your dis- election. Vaster majors are as stable than you to throw off, and today you have hundreds on the track. Chance remark of yours, an ungranted word, the most innocent of confidence—and those bloodhounds might sense a clew that would destroy me. Broughton, I rely on you to guard my secret." "I shall guard it, sir." "And you appreciate, even in this half told way, its supreme, its vital importance?" "I do, sir." "Then let us go back." In silence they walked up the path to the broad veranda of the house—the house that had taken three years to build, whose massive walls were timbered with whole trees—a low, red tiled, Spanish structure, in appearance half fort and half monastery, with a collateral court where a fountain played. It had taken the North Star a dozen voyages to furnish it with a splendor almost incredible, considering the remoteness of the island and how recently its only inhabitants had been crabs and seaworms. Noble pictures, Venetian carvings and old brooches, Flemish tapestry, exquisite furniture still showing the faded glid of medieval Italy—nothing, so it seemed to Matt, could sie in taste and luxury, in grandeur delicately modernized, softened and restrained—with this coral palace that sheltered Mort in exile. But of all the beautiful objects with in its walls, none could compare with its mixtress, that radiant, gritish Mirova, who shared John Mort's fortunes and engrossed his entire heart. As fair as he was dark, with crisp golden hair more red than yellow, with captivating blue eyes and a mouth all wantonness and dainty impudence, she could hardly have been more than twenty when Matt first remembered her in Gundulaanar. Who she was or what she had been—actress, dancer or exalted lady, Pole, Russian, Albanian or Magyar—all was a mystery she shared with her mother husband, Matt knew nothing save that she was one of the most adorable of women. Her carousing and pretty friend-bill meant much to him, and he repaid it with the profound regard of a man that had no other woman in his life. But all that was over now, to meet forever in the swirl of receding years. He was probably soiling that familiar room for the last time and those dear faces of his friends. Matt's heart was very full and he faltered under Mirvana's questioning gaze. "I cannot persuade him," said Mort, with affected lightness, stooping to kiss his wife's hand, "the captain abandons us." "There was no reproach in Mirvana's face, rather concern and regret. "We have been fortunate to keep him so long," she said, enveloping Matt in a book of tender scrutiny. "And, oh, for six years, always so good, so loyal, so true hearted gentleman—surely never was another like our captain." "I have one favor to ask before I go," said Matt, somewhat hunkly, "just one friend. Ome" he went on. B. B. He Played as Matt Had Never Heard Him Play Before. addressing Mort by his Kanaka title, "will you, not get your violin—that wonderful violin—and you, Masofo Mirovna, take your seat at the piano so that my last picture of you both may be as I have always loved you best, with your music following me out into the night?" John Mort gloved at the request, the poetic fancy of it touching him to the quick. He drew the violin from its case, his face transfigured, his eyes scintillating and impassioned, as he gave a few swift strokes of the bow to test the tuning. "Music is the only language—the divine language," he exclaimed, "and how far surpassing the stupid commonplace of words! Captain, you are a thousand times right, and all our affection for you, all our sorrow, all our unuttered hopes and prayers for you will find their voice in what I play." When once the violin had touched his chin John Mort became a different man. He was strangely ennobled; the glamor of his genius lent dignity and beauty to his gaunt frame; his thin, haggard, deeply lined face took on a new expression, so rapt, so inspired, that he might have been in communion with another world. That night he played as Matt and never heard him CLEANING PYTHON AND BREPAIRING. Sily before, with an lateness, a fire, an unendurable pathos that wring the soul. He had taken as a motive one of those simple, pinnative German folk songs, pacing from improvisation to improvisation till it seemed the cry of all suffering, deserved humanity. Mirowna, herself a brilliant musician, was quick and apt in following and to Matt's untrained ear marvelously re- sponsive and marvelously perfect. An hour later he was aboard the North Star, and the rustling land breese was bearing him out of the lagoon on the long slant north. Six years of his life were sinking with the palms behind him. Extract from the San Francisco Chronicle of January 24, 1904: "BESCUE AT SEA. "Among the passengers yesterday on board the incoming Oceanic Steamship company's Marliposa were Captain Broughton and nine south sea islanders, of the schooner North Star, capsizeed in north latitude 34, west longitude 132, during a heavy squall. Captain Broughton was below at the time, and hardly managed to scramble out of his cabin before the ship went over. The disaster is ascribed to the carelessness of the Kanaka crew, who were all asleep at the moment the squall struck the vessel, which was lying beached with her sails up. "The crew, none of whom drowned, contrived to perch themselves on the ship's bottom, and after four days of intense suffering were picked up by the W. H. Hall of this city, in lumber for Suva, Fiji. The Hall, in her turn, transferred them to the mall steamer, which was fortunately intercepted a week later. "Captain Broughton cannot speak too highly of the extreme kindness of Captain Hayward. Pursuer Smith, and the officers and passengers of the Marlpon toward himself and his crew. A concert was given in aid of the ship wrecked mariners, and the sum of $218.75 realized on their behalf. "The North Star was of seventy-four tons register, built at Bath, Me, in 1884, and carried no insurance. It was learned from Captain Broughton that she had been employed in the copra trade for many years, and was on her way to this port for dry docking and repairs. Western bound ship masters are warned to look out for the derelict, which was still afloat when last sighted." The loss of the North Star, together with the coin in the ship's safe, cost Matt between $18,000 and $20,000. The vessel had not been insured, owing to the troublesome and prying questions that would have been asked, which, if truthfully answered, would have invalidated the policy. Had it not been for the ruby ring on his finger and his portion of the small sum raised by the passengers of the Marlboro he would have landed in San Francisco utterly penniless. As it was his crew and he became dependent on a woman's charitable institution. While others had talked and telephoned and promised vague assistance, leaving the poor castaways abliving on the wharf in a circle of newspaper men and photographers, it was the Rev. John Thompson, crisply English and hostily practical, who descended on them, checked off their names in a notebook and led them away like so many sheep. After a night under this kindly but somewhat mistletoe roof Matt sneaked away in the morning to try to pawn his ring. He hated to part with it, yet what else he was to do? He had not even an overcoat, and here it was January and pleasingly cold. He had nothing - not a toothbrush, not a spare shirt. His chief presupposition, however was more to avoid being cheated in the disposal of the ring, for, though he had little knowledge of Jewels, the stone seemed to him of unusual fire and purity and evidently was very valuable. He determined to pick out the biggest and most fashionable jewelry store and, explaining his position, ask the favor of their expert advice. They might be obliging enough to tell him what the gem was worth and thus help him materially. Matt knew San Francisco well and accordingly chose Snook and Hargreaves for his objective. His entrance, which he attempted to make as inconspicuous as possible, caused an undercurrent of commotion in this granddish establishment. As he paused in a case of napkin rings, nerving himself for a further advance into the glittering stronghold, he was bumped into by his passing gentleman, and as he was receiving the apologe of the passing gentleman a hand from behind felt for a possible revolver or bomb in his rear pocket. It was all as quickly and coolly done that Matt had hardly time to realize he was under suspicion. A large, imposing mirror gave him the cleav, for there, at full length, he saw what a deeply tanned, wild haired, ragged desperado he appeared and saw also with the tail of his eye a scurry of pale employees to guard the exits and block his escape. Flushing to the eyes, more with shame than anger, and still closely followed by the store detective, he made his way to the nearest clerk. CHAPTER II. The Ruby Ring I AM Captain Broughton of the shipwrecked schooner North Star," he explained. "All I had went down with my ship except this ring, and I should be glad to get some idea of its value so that the pawnbrokers can't cheat me." "It's hardly in our line," snapped the clerk. "Expert valuation is a business in itself, and—" The conversation was interrupted, by a bald, old man, who, with an air of authority, demanded to know what was the matter. On its being explained, he took up the ring, looked at it with some surprise and asked Matt if he belonged to the people that had been rescued at sea by the mail streamer. "Yey," said Matt, smiling, "and though appearances are against me. I am neither one of the James brothers nor a handit." The man thawed at this and requested Matt to step into his private office "I am Ms. Snood." he said, "the managing partner of this concern." As seen as they were inside the office and sated, Mt. Snood examined the ring carefully. "Where did you get this?" he asked suddenly, raising his keen eyes to Matt's face. "It was given to me." "Permit me to inquire by whom?" "My employer—the gentleman whose ship I toot." "Why did he give it to you?" "I was leaving his service. I had been associated with him for years." R. R. "We'll advance you $4,000 on it." He held me in very great esteem and made me a present of the ring on my departure." "He's a very rich man this employer?" "Oh, yes; very rich indeed." "Then you have no reason to doubt that this ring was—er—legitimately acquired?" "No one who knew him could ever doubt that. Why, it would be utterly incredible." "You must pardon me for asking these questions," went on Mr. Snood in a kinder tone. "It's a good plan to be careful, you know. After all, it is to your own interest as well as ours, isn't it?" "Quite so," assented Matt, hoping that Mr. Snood would soon come to the point. "I'll tell you what I will do," said the latter, hesitating and examining the ring again with evident admiration. "Mind, I'm not saying you mightn't get a better offer elsewhere, but this is the best Snood and Hargreaves can do for you. We'll advance you $4,000 on it at 7 per cent interest, and we'll engage to buy it outright, now or later, for $4,000." This was so much more than Matt had ever dreamed of that he could only gasp. Fifty-five hundred dollars. He had thought vaguely of a couple of thousand, trebling at his own presumption. Fifty-five hundred dollars. Why, that was a fortune-not that he wished to sell the ring except in the last extremity, nor, as he bewilderingly considered the proposal, did he care to take so large an advance as $4,000. The interest charges would soon grow beyond his powers to meet them, and the ring would be treivieously lost. Explaining his periphrases to Mr Snool, it was finally agreed that he was to be advanced a thousand dollars only, with the privilege of selling the ring at any time he wished for the larger sum. A little later he left the store with fifty twenty-dollar gold pieces weighing down his pockets and the following memorandum pinned carefully in side his waistband: San Francisco, Jan 24, 1941 Messner Snood & Harregraves hereby are knowledge the receipt of a politic rub ring, of an antique, original set, from its owner, Captain John Houghton, who, in 1939, advanced to him today by Messner S. & H. on security of said ring and facet by Captain Houghton hereby acknowledged, agrees to pay S. & H. 7 per cent interest continually on said loan (GHH) to Messner S. For Rnoed & Harregraves MATTHEW IHROUGHTON. Matt returned to the windy street in far better spirits than he had left it. He had $1,600 in his pockets; $4,500 more to draw on if need be; and best of all he could now "go home." It war a strange instinct that called him back to Mansawan, in the east, for there was not a single tie that bound him to the place unless it were his parent's graves. But after years of wandering, of contented exile, of acquiescence in the life he had made for himself, something within him had at last revolted. Homesick, heartick, weary of palms and reefs and naked savages. Manaswan appeared to him as the solution of this subtle malady of the soul. At Manaswan a miracle would happen, and he would be happy. The first use he made of his money was to buy his ticket. He gave the clerkyman $500 to assure the safe return of the natives to their various islands; and that afternoon the honest, devoted fellows, in charge of nine-year-old Master Thompson, accompanied him across the bay to cheer his departure on the Overland. Standing there in a line of nine, marshaled by that little white boy, they presented a singular spectacle on the platform, what with the earrings in their ears, two with tattooed faces, and all weeping copiously. Nor was the effect diminished by their singing a resounding hymn, and then listening, with bowed heads, to the prayer Tanleh, the Toqan, offered up amid the jostle of trunks and passengers. Matt's own eyes were dim as the train moved away, and there was a very real jump in his throat. Why was he going to Massewan while everything he valued lay behind him? Why was he leaving Dried and tree friends for strangers! An island fairyland for a prim little pocket town? Yet did not have land and was inquired by the thought that in five days he would be "home." Matt was keen disillusioned by his birthplace than might have been expected. The snowy landscape, the slurry river, with its frozen shallow, the ice-cold and silent place, the delight of hearing sleigh bells and watching the bright animation of scenes so long marshmil- all were satisfying to the craving that possessed him. On the human side, however, Manaswan was disap-pointing. No one seemed to care particularly whether he had come back or not. The most cordial greeting he received came from an old gentleman who mistook him for some one else. In fact, Matt remembered Manaswan a great deal better than Manaswan remembered him, and when he wrote to Washington and learned that both his uncle and aunt had long been dead he felt lonelier than ever. Matt took up his quarters in Mrs. Sattane's boarding house on Jefferson avenue and fell into an匀less, drifting sort of life, in which the dinner bell was the most important part of the day. He took long trampa, assiduously read the daily paper, interested himself in the other boarders and vaguely turned over schemes for his future. With $4,500 he could surely make some kind of start somewhere. But what precise form of "start" and what "somewhere?" Meanwhile he smoked his pipe and made friends with the other boarders. The principal of these was Hunter Hoyt, a genial, fat old scamp of fifty, never altogether sober, though varyingly drunk, who in his palmy days had been a sensational journalist of some celebrity in the newspaper world of New York and San Francisco. Drink had been his ruin, and he was now doing reporter work for the local Mannawan paper, the Banner. Shabby, jolly and always with a flower in his buttbone and a pleasant (if often inarticulate) word for everybody, Hoyt was one of those irresistible nuisances who are popular when better men are not. He never paid Mrs. Sattane more than half his bill; his engagement with the Banner was almost in the nature of alms to fallen greatness; the liquor dealers allowed him to find them an incalculable number of bottles of whisky. Even the flower he was so particular about was never paid for, except by an amiable condescension that Signor Tony Fremdo perforce accepted in lieu of cash. There was everywhere a contemptuous affection for the old scallawag, whose courtly ways and husky compliments made him an especial favorite of the women. Hunter Hoyt took an instant fancy to Matt and in many ways, some of them pathetic enough, sought to win his regard. In spite of his decadence there were often times when Hoyt could be both clever and entertaining. When with the right level of whisky in his soilden old carcass he could regain his former powers and astonish one with his mocking, humorous, brilliant flow of talk. It was then that contempt changed to admiration, and intimacy followed. Except in regard to John Mort, Matt kept nothing back from the old fellow, who was insatiable in his questions and as fascinated by the younger man's past as any boy. Matt had no conception of what a picturesque figure he was to those watery, bleared old eyes, nor how sincerely Hunter Hunt adored him. As for his own books, he had long ceased to give them much thought. At thirty-one most men have outgrown that. He was seerly aware that his fine, sensitive fay was recovering the color it had lost in the tropics or that his vigorous frame and broad shoulders and wavy, clustering black hair were likely to attract favorable attention. The key to his whole character and the underlying cause of his charming manners could be found in the most estimate he had of himself. The principal endeavor of the naval academy is to teach the midshipman he is a person of very small importance, who is to do what he is told, keep his mouth annt and respect the flag, and Matt had not wholly outlived this youthful training which had been put in his bones to stay. In contrast to Hunter Hoyt the rest of Mrs. Sattane's boarders seemed commonplace indeed. One of them was too humble a creature to call himself a boarder at all. Matt lived a week at Mrs. Sattane's before he even discovered the man's existence—a grave, elderly mulatto of a kindly, open face and ingratiating manners, who was something in the nature of the boarding house skeleton. His name was Daggancourt, a possible corruption of Be Goncourt-Victor Daggancourt—who, although he paid $7 a week, while the others paid only $5, had what might be called a furtive position in the house. He would wait unobtrusively about the porch until the rest had finished their meal, when a second tinkle of the bell would summon him to the disordered table. Here color prejudice forbade that he should be served by Bridget, who placed the dishes near his plate and left him to shift for himself. The sitting room was, of course, forbidden to him, though he might linger for a moment in the doorway without impropriety and listen to the superior race. He was the owner of a small garage and machine shop—"Victor's garage" it was called—and was a wildower without children. "This is a hard world for a colored man, air," he said once to Matt. "especially if he's better educated than the most of his race and is given to thinking a little. Hiko I do. The majority of them are no company for me, with their common ways and cheap ideas; and, of course, I am personum non gratio to white folks. Here I am, stuck middleway between the two." Matt conceived a sincerer regard for the old fellow, whose lowly, effacing life was not without a certain tragedy. There was a fine strain in the malatto and an innate dignity and kindness that commanded respect, not to speak of a whimsical humor that glammed out even in his most earnest moments. "You're a man," he once said to Matt, "while I have the misfortune to be a problem. That's a bigger difference between us than color blind. The darky can't go anywhere and do anything; but right off, he's a problem. When we eat, we a problem; when we go to a hospital, we a problem; we can't bop on a trunk, but there again we're a problem; when we die, we're a problem, for. Lord save an black bones mustn't lay next to white. "Nothing could be got from the boarders except warnings. Each one ran down his own business. On Matt's appealing to Victor the latter foretold the swift finish of the garage business. "Owners are getting to know too much," he said. "You can't sell a ten dollar pair of gas lights for sixty like you did once. If I was you, Marce Broughton, I'd try mules. There never has been enough mules, and there never will be." Matt accordingly, though rather slackly, it must be confessed, began to look into mules; the accumulated stacks of mule information; he wrote to Washington and got for nothing the concentrated wisdom of a whole mule sub-bureau. All this was very accouraging, and was made more so by Victor's request to come in as a partner. He thought he could out his garage for $1,400 or $1,000, and volunteered to be Matt's man Friday. "I won't be any trouble to you," he pleaded earnestly. "I know my place, and I'll keep it, no matter how close we have to live, and I'll cook and wash, and do everything till we're on our feet." Matt did not commit himself; it was so much easier to dawdle along and A "And so you are a real live king?" coquette with imaginary mules, and work out imaginary mule profits, than to beatir himself with actualities. One day, after breakfast, while he was in his room, he was called down to the parlor by the only visitor that had ever sought him. The grizzled smiling man who rose to greet him was a stranger. "I'm the editor of the Manassaw Banner," said the stranger, introducing himself deferentially. "Tom May nard, my name is, and a very injured man, Mr. Broughton." Yes, sir, a very injured man, for surely the local paper had the first call on a local boy? Oh Lord! he ejaculated in the same key of pretended indignation, "to think you were hiding here all this time, and I didn't know a thing about it!" "I don't understand," said Matt smiling too. "What's this all about anyway?" "And so you are a real live king" went on Mr. Maynard, ignoring the question, and gazing at him in humor one awe. "What a lot of stick in the muds it makes us feel that one of our boys could go out and do that, while we stayed at home with the chores." CHAPTER III ING?" cried Matt. "I don't know what you're talking about. You're mistaken—who said I was a king?" "Now, it's no good putting 'me off like that,' said Mr. Maynard. 'If it's in the New York Clarion first, it has to be in the Manaaswan Banner second. It wouldn't be fair if you didn't give us second place, considering you were born and raised here, and owe that much to the town. I've got a cracker-jack stenographer waiting in the office, two typists, and the operator's holding the wire for the Associated Press, so get your hat, and come along quick, like a good chap." "I wish you would tell me what you're talking about," exclaimed Matt, growing impatient: "Is your office in a lunatic asylum or where?" "Then you haven't seen it!" asked Mr. Maynard, offended and incredulous, searching the younger man's face. "Been what!" "The big front page Sunday story of the Clarion-the New York Daily Clarion?" "Of course I haven't." The editor, recovering his good nature, drew a newspaper from his overcock pocket, and flattened it out with his hand. "There it is," he said. The staring scare heads swam before Matt's eyes. HAIL TO THE KING! ROYAL BROUGHTON RETURNS TO CHILDHOOD'S HOME. KING OF THE KANAKAS HERE. PEARL ISLANDS AND DEEP WATER SHIPS FLY HIS FLAG IN FAROFF JEWELLED WHILE COPPER HUED SUBJECTS JOLT LOW TO MATTHEW FIRST. ROMANTIC STORY OF MANASWAN BOY SHIPWRECKED IN LABYTRINTH SEAS AND HIS AMAZING RISE TO GREATNESS. Would Murder Him For His Teeth-izes Where Old Men's Heads Bare Pam as Currency Walmart Wine Jaga, With Ten Thousand Savages on the Nink-How the Christian Half of Tapetus Massacred Heather Half-Heechnoom, Phi co aba ee ns rats eT A See SU Cady HATURDAY, ‘OCTOBER 18, 101: Fetee and yaterlous Characlere-VTo Waist, Who lieid Attacking Canssbat Rpatbound TN Wind Saved the Be calmed Veesel—Biack Pearia and Got Lapped Bhell—Funsvs, Beachdamar, Am ergria and Sharks Fins—Vast Lagooe Awalting Modern Exploitation, bat Mat thew, First Wout Leave Them as The) Are-His Majesty Only Smiles at Ques tions and Remarks Significantly Tha Via Te satigped—Suaeeo Worth of Pearl In a Matchbex—Royal Plans Uncertain But WI Probably Remain Here a Fev Momthe—Say, Oirla, Don't Any of Yo ‘Want to Be a Queen? Matt bad scarcely reached the en< when (there was a violent commotior ‘outaide—horses gatloping, men descend ing excitedly, the porch abaking with the tramp of feet, and pull, pell, pol mt the bell as though the house were om Bra A second later 2 crowd of newspaper gien and photographers warged into the room. spattering the carpet with mod and snow; a nelay Joutling throng in heavy overcoats, al ewanding “the Kenaka king.” “Me Gret, gentlemen,” cried May- nerd, grabbing Matt as though be were = bale of goods. “The king’a mine tl neon!” “The dickens he ia! exclaimed one ef the mob, elbowing up to, Matt “We're all in On this, aren't we, boys?" “You bet wo are,” came from a dozen seedy throats, ‘Matt rose, speechless with rage, and, tearing himself clear, atrode to the oor and up to bls bedroom." Hero with a Dang he locked Iitmpelf in, the whole pack pounding at his beels lke echog! boys after » ronaway. “I'm not a king,” be roared through at them. “Thero's not a word of trath tn that Miotic article. ‘The first fellow that breaks down iny door will get hie heed ponchear’ 1t was fully half an hour before they Avacended, disheartened and growling, to bundle into their leizbs nnd depart. “Three hots for thie king!" cried one ‘of thers, trying to lead off, but bla suggestion met: with no response, and the jlugling Uells drowned bis solitary effort. A Uttle later there was a sbuMing.. lumbering sound outside Matt's door. and Hoyt'a huaky voice came through the keyhole. “Bhay, ole man, you aren't angry with me, are you? Good Joke. Dreah ft up a dit and git AF dollars! Didn't mocan any barm—nhole and honor, didn’t mean any harm, Great newspaper staff, abat story. Itoyal Broushiton re- turnah te childbood's home, and I got ff doMarsh for It. Come along and patna town rel Come slong, you old ser’ . ee ee ee ‘The Mananwan Nauner printed the Crarien tale to fit and by that one ts w0e lifted Matt from obeeurits to loca! sreatnese. Matt's own appearance. contributed not a littdto the deception. Men who have led adventurous Ives op the fron Uern of ctrilicntion oeualtly get 2 pe -entiar atamp—a pecollar and marked individuality. MatP was not only geod looking, but thero waa something un: cwoal, attractive and even distingutsh: od about him. It wan impossible for any one to “piace” Matt; the Sheriack ‘Holmewes ‘were always bated: be ft- - ted into no clans and yet bad an “wir.” ‘This capacity to rouse Interest, favora- Die interest, is = buian posscasion of great valve. It has also, of course, itr drawbacks. When the Banner raiscd Matt to kingsbip Manaawan was thrill. 4. bot not altogether surpriacd. Mansawan bad long been aware “that be was somebody ont of the way.” Dne result of the groteaque. fiction was to bring Mutt Into contact with}. wome of the better families of the’ place. The Cleghorna. the Randalls, the Ruséells and the Backn—all tc} pome manner or other ¢ontrived to| scrape acquatitamco with hii. These woctal overtures, made frat out of sheer curloaity and {pn moat instances | jagpired by the women, opened to Matt | A pumber of pleasant, If somewhat | Mf and eld fashioned, households | , And be was led finally into the extray- | \pance of baying evening ‘clothes and yegan to cot a modest dash in Mana- ywron society. $ Tt wasn't the best society, however. | , There waa an upper crust still, to] ( which the Clegbéras, the Randalls, the Rossells and the Bucks were as houris | , atatde the gates. In this higher realm | ¢ rere the Marshalls, the old general | , nd his daughter, who rode- thorough- red horees and lived within = vast |» ark; the Derwent, owners of the hoe factories; the Bells, and’ otbers— | ° p artatocracy of wealth and compact. | ° y exctosive. The off general bad been | ¥ merican minister to half the courts 7 f Kurope and was described as very grand.” : Matt enjoyed the bomespun gayetion) y » which he was now 20 often Invited— | » pe candy pulllogs, the partion. where | ;, ey played games, the jolly. sicighing | 1 des end suppern. They offered btm more enlivening compantenship than | ., » found im the boarding house, which | 5. . ¢omtrest crew Grearier every day | _ Se, ee eee ee ee | terest’ tad accrued. It was not with ot a pang that be Cropped: this lette into the bex. It marked the asl! o those easy going days at Mrs. Sat tame’, It had now to be mules in ear Next, with hard work and frugal living and evening clothes put away perham forever. Me. apt out bis farewell calls, dilly dalled. beld back all be coal, bui at lant the inexorable morning arrived Dagsmncoart was there in an automo. bile, Matt's sult cove, packed barsting, stood ready on the porch, together with a large brown papar package of thy overfow. tis pockets bulged with hard bolled eggs and sandwiches, and never was 2 man more apparently des- tined for instant departare—when the telephone bell suddenly rang and Brid- get came rushing out to say’ that Mr Doty wanted Mr. Broughton on the wire. At the moment {t seomed an into!- erable infliction. Mr. Doty was a clergyman. a mild creature of an anx: foun cordiality, whose acquaintance with Matt was of the slightest. Matt took up the receiver with the inten tion of making abort work of the rev: erend gentleman. an intention empha aized by the honk of Victor's born, tw perfoualy bidding him to hurry, “Bello,” be malt “Ob, Mr, Broughton.” returned Doty, “thi ty Just t6 remind you of our cbureh nocial tomorrow pight tickets 23 cents, Including hat check. and to eay i simply canndt take a re fusal Please tell me thet you will come.” . 2 “Come! cried Mutt “Why, I'm lear Ing this mloute for Kentucky!” “Put It. off, then." protested Duty “I bave ® special ireason—a very ape celal reason—for. wishing you to come. | Indeed, | wmust make my request im. perative. Oh. Mr. Krougbton, refuse me If you like, but do not aay no to one of the aweetest and most gracious of our young patrictans.” “Can't help it." excinimed Matt curuy. * “Sorry to dlxappoint you, but really" — “Mayn't I try to permuade sou, Str Broughton?" xaid a new voice tp bls cara xiflish rolce with the Indescrtl able cadence of good breeding. “I'te Leen counting no much on inecting you tomorrow night—in fact, I only agreed to come for that reagon.” Matt's own tone noftemed “Do tell. me who you ure," he asked “1 oughtn’t even to walt for that. but I'm too finttered nut to.” “Um Mixe Marshall" she replied. "General Marshalls daughter, you know—or I suppose you don't know, hough"— “Mins Marsball™ erted Matt. dazzled at the mame. “I had no iden To wan alking to ancels tinawares. Of courne [| know you. in « faroff. cat looking at sing sort of way. Who down't? “I know you better than that” she, returned gayty. “let me count—yen. t's five times I've even you, and emce | Was so Close to you tn the music tore that I might hare touched you. 1 ma sorry I didn't now—bold out my and, I mean—but it's 9 world where cople are too enaily misunderntood. nn't It? And herw we are, like abipa bat pawn in the night—with you fo og to Kentucky. Must you really go. 0 Kentucky, Mr. Broughton?” : “I'm afeatd I have to.” “Does that mean you've found Sfana- wan horribly dull? Bot of course tt oer. Teople only atay bere who have like barnacies on a rock.” “I don't know. [U've liked It well nough.” atammered Matt, “though on make me ashamed to admit tt 1 ink I'm sorry to leave the old place. elially now.” “That setties It, Mr, Broughton. You miply must come!” exclaimed the pung lady. “Please tell me that you war 7 Matt Istened eagerly us she taughet min and then atruck bis fag. The und of bis volce startied him with s earnestness. “Certainly, if you wish it.” be sald. t's too charming an invitation frow] | o charming a person for me to re- a0." 1 Apparentix Miss Marnball was a tft-| | » taken aback. There seomed a ado leas cordiality ip ber tone as she plied, “Ob, if you would mach rather , you kpow-If {t's inconventent or ything—plelfe don't let me pat yoa u "Oh, bot I'd love to come. Really d truly 1 would.” With an"even more ambiguous: “Ob, anks! Then we will expect you odby!” the phone was closed. Poor Daggancourt waa terribly cast wo at the news and expostulated mobiingly, with tears in his eyes. He eo Gumble,. so quaveringly re- ained, that bis reproaches were rder to bear than if they bad been re cotspoken. Mra Sattane and the ers were merely surprised, very ch surprised indeed, and listened th the greediest of ears and the wt evident incredulity tw the tale of PTR ROTMNTUP FEANRE MH Viease promenade between. Ovec all, bere, there. and erery. where: was Mr. Doty. feverishly cor dial, perspiriagly, gay. gimleting hk way through the crush. to make sare that every one was having “a goed UUme.” . It.was all very Mid@ty_a0d simple and good astured and geauina and had ft not been for a devouring ‘aus- pense} and a restlessness that hept Matt pver on the.alert, he would have entgred into the affair with bis usual bility... But at the moment it was ddentng. | He bed to laugh avd chatter; to eat Chings be didn’t want to eat; to bay things he didn't want to bay; to be hilurtous when’ arrested by the comic policeman—infiction after infliction to one whose beart was in a tumult, and whose eyes were ever on the watch, . Right Back at Teacher. Profexwor—You neem to be very dull. When Alexander tho Great was your age he had already conquer the world, Student—Well, you we, be bad Aris: tothe for a teacher. Vhiadelphia tp- quirer . Why Mother Smiled. Georze — Didu't yen notice uot presnc! your foot it diuner tonlzht? Ethel- Way. (0 wasn't wy Coot soo Dressed Ob, Georse. | wouter why mother was KinliInz su sweetly at the minister! Judge. Zn ES (QO tg oe eS 4 { (2 ieee Vd y V LS > ¢ — ALS Kind Lady—Wobat {» your name, lite Boy -Jeshan Shadrack Lemue) Totts. Kind Ludy—Well, well! Who ‘gave Boy-1 dunne yet, but Im on their eee . His Vocation. | i (7 fo | icy iis , a “ . a eg i 4s Nf, i Bt y/o Ne rN : ah \ : ZZ me =, Young Timsew! —This term I am yo jug to undertake the study of Latio aud Greek, Old Hantfax-Il im! fo soppese thew dead languages dow need an under| taker, - Boston Globe : = . > 3 —_ wees s, Ta ba — . . Co a a Mr. Tunewhavker—I've Just had ao baby grand sent up to my house Mr. Newpop—That'n nothing; ‘re Promising. (| cs) eA iy? | re wy 4 YW, i, il £ AR Ove, : Y AS “7 Ge oe aw 4 The Kuffrnkette Mother—How esplen- Gid! She's gutog to grow up a‘ real militaut.—London Opinion.,. ‘ a & Se / Labs D1 mee Me SEN 7, a oe} : ise (a a am! aa i € NE & of «Bo eho is aning to have her bow band’s will net askle?~ . "Yea, she got the habit while be was etive.” -Fortiand Oregosian. i + PARADISE FLATS O'Sullivan Goat Latest Trial of Ailing Janitor. SOGIAL EVENTS IN ORDER. Much Compatition Foliowing Water- melen Party, at Which Barber's Wife and the Countess Divite were Conesicyous by Thelk Absenas, “Ry M, QUAD. (Copyright, 022, oy Ansclated Literan 7 Freaa) BBM the mother of ux children." “Dot vhas heathy. mAnd they are wi at home wit J ApEURER on ‘eu! sDet vas healthy.” : “And. they want fie egge every meal” “tnt thes shouldn't de so." Slant ease are 10 eens a dozen, Sum wink ef tate . Hew uany fried cz for each ebtid ST we UE tue a fal doen te make foto ines Dear tie, bit Ie Just Fass fut” Madan EWC some cces bere at 1S cents a dere Dey rts badd eee If eur ehthtren eat wae dagen dey fefes Why vecy uch Des Ike old treats af bread ‘Try once and dee DEM ot of being sas aolwed ut The woman bad her mouth open te shaken indisiant rejosder when the Janitor of Paradice Flity entered the Star SY hell whet sali the grocer as he ates Goewant with ettendet hand, Shut tbexin to peltet sou hat seren iueree finds eet asthma Ne uv getting aon: with three Ble. at present” was thee reply. “but Poke Meet aethe. y weaker and fame at ona Imes ts graddally: shes wetter uate” "bed gen vis Hale te drop dead nny tie?" “Well, fantty Pm scanty Hable not fo carey ay ats coal es atey ent any astes ths whiter Its *taevantiag te haw a jandte tins oer kiow, If Fab tse Whe sou Je ters. Td have Been Wrekin! tee obeatths fatare this Sind son thet de Sous hard work, SHY baastead thes ero: ay tne trled to, Mink wasd fale! tu get ihe eye efosed Threw Out the Goat. S Pte haptest thims bee dohe for a Werk Was te thew Mes O'Sulvantn Ket ent af a seem sy whidew for cating up the fost eae tae E abtak Lveren best iat eck oot bali have to be more caress Mer ops ICs ax well to lotea get ove the ces of the halls, Some folks cht I shee a place uniqueness Your know whet untqne wess.t4, dont woo, Mi Wasxertuan?* SPOR, toa tan ee eomre don: barrel: a % ¥ ‘Eg ; , , yy &. ORULLIVAN's wOaT OUT.” but L-haf ue rem to keep him. Un docs suinetiags ulweys bappenlog?” “You know. I toil you about Mrs O'Sullivan's waternion party?" “To be aure De:*melons vhes al Breen, and eaferypety bas colle." “Yes, but neither tho barber'a wit nor the Cuuntess Uivite found thal out. ‘They looked ujom ft as the great est social event of the season, and of courxe they wanted ‘0 return the anub At was the countess who made the Grxt move. She got op w straw ride.”. “Und vunt vhay I? queried ‘the | grocer, + “Well, you fll a wagon box with frush straw ‘nud thea Ol up with peo: ple. They wt on tur straw, you know. It's nupposed to be the barvest dance. & busking er, an apple pariug and apelliug Lew ail in one and ts consider ed very swaxcer You know what sragcer Is, of coun?" “It vhas sou xwell oudt und be werry emart.” “That's it. Woll, the countess gave @ straw ride and invited twenty peo- ple. The barber's wife was one, but Mrs. O'Sullivan was left out, and It almost broke her heart. Sbe came to se with tears in be: eyes and said: “Bot the Idea of ft Mr. Sprocket. a2d me’ brovgbt up under # atraw, atack, anit were? ‘Crowd Became Hilarious, “The guevts were treated 6 root deer before they started. and then the! wagon drore op an! down twenty-sev- en different alloys =nd passod all the bolter shops and x'aughter hese to. town. Thes stopped somewhere and loaded up with pop. and they ware « hilarious crowd when they get home at midnight You know what an on-| qoalided xuccese Is, don't your" “Of course. He thea a success mit. et any water In It”? “Exactly. Thnt'x what this was ane (rs. O'Rallivan lambasted ber goat,” valloped: ber tan aud iicke@ her chil- ren before inking to Her bed. The tram, rile was the (alk of the block, mil It got nto the papers amobg the Rtent novtit events, Even the onder aker urooud the corner, who: never otices unybody unlewt there's a casket Ore with It. came around’ In « couple t days tu conertilte the countona.” “Un diag chaw all?" anstyasly qoe _ D. J. PARRAR, Contractor ano Buivper. .% ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS’ 6A VINGS BANK BUILDING ‘Phone, Monroe—2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR : '. ‘Phone, Monroe—3166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Ballding of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. Be gS Oe re Oe ce ae gee cee ea A ts a ica 577. Richmond, V: _A. D. PRICE, | Funeral Director, Embetmer and Liveryman:, All Orders PrompUy Filled at Short Notice by totegrapt or tel- ephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice Batertainments, - “Pheaty of room with all mecemary conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wascis for Hire at reesuable rates and nothing bat Sret-clags } Garringns, Bussise, ote. op constantly on hand See funeral ospp! i. q + ——“Stypy No. 252 East Leigh Strest. go | (Rahim Toms Dever, OPEN ALL DAY AND TiStra—tten = Dey An Wiget, | hed the grocer.’ * “Ob, no.” replied the Juoitor. “You eee, the barber's wife inl a score tc Pay off. She felt that abe must doa |e O'Sullivans @ second bard’ blow. I Wouldn't do to bate another straw tide, and euchre parties and high teas Were not startling enough for her. She tust pot ber bead to work, and you can oovor guess what happened.” “Maype: she clopos?” “No."- “Or tries to bang herscit?” “No “Und sbe dom't jolu the Salvation Army?" Barbers Wife Starts Fire. “NO, alr, Sho Juot pltes # ot of things {nto one of the closets In the oventox, sete fire to thom and takes a walk. In about Gftven minutes we bad alx Oro engines out and more than 1,000 peo ple. It waan't mitch of a fire, but what there was of It was swagger.” “How could Le be swazger?" “Why. the woinan camo ruoning back and faloted away on the stepa~most elegunt faint you ever naw—equal to any of the Four Hundred, That was point No. 1. An xoott ax ybe recoveredt abe tried to rush pust the fremeu, and two of them Uad to put (hele urins around ber. Thut was polnt No, 2. When the fire wax out. she cutured her room and clainied to have beet robbed. of $600 In cold cash and fre dlumond dogs. That was potnt No. 3. aml the four reporters made balf column art. clow about It and called her a heroine. By George. vir. tut Mrs. O'Sullivan went Into ftw and bnd thirty-four of them before the doctor could knuck | them out. She's tring en her back tn bed todas, looking ap at the ceiling. | and ouce In awhile abe fetchee @ groan | Uke a dying horse” “Und wo lt vhs troubles troubies, | troubles?” oe “Well, when Unree wonten set aut to down eaeb other, somebety ie zis 10, ket hurt. you knew | What are temuun | sellinng at wadaer” « i The grocer pl bet ont citer whieh , Had xeon thet best atiys and pected | cot Chewssetyaee tind tated ciety to this entertainer with the renirh 7 “Done Slum free to you, und feeb vou coutd dy nomet ings by duse pew feles Alt of ‘em shall die some day.” “Very Ukely. If not sooner.” “Cit pate of “ear goes to beafen?? "A Barrel of Tracts. SNot a, tesxed one, tut they ‘don't hick [F Weinen ent get the. Det of Me another th tis workd, they) don't are ou continental about tthe other. However, Pir going te empty a barret vf trata Ite thie thtllee tomarcon, aetat Af He O'Saliiv an goat dent eat then Alb nay be sume ing gel Will vom out 3" : “Do yon keow, you thas a grand, sod Man? sul the graeer, and Ais ace termed with adttulratton MH have been calles a meconl Wash nestan.” was the inodest reply “You vhas tere ash dot, You vhaw Vashlngten aut Cuptaia Khbls all ne. You vbas ready te help der whole vorMl If T vhay so*snre of going to eaten ayb yun vhas 1 nell cold ator ee exey for frévh laid every day in ler week Ash It vhux, buf {o put in Dive fresh ones tu efry down Must ou Ke? : “Yes. you can't tell what way pap. en at the Gace with the Janitor away. ‘bey tay bulld a toboggan from the pof down nty the street, or turn my. arlor inte a skating rink. Good zt." 'Vhat a mans! Vbat a mans! ex. Jained the grocer ax he threw a bad non back with the good ones. “If sme angels don't come after bin hen be ities, den dis grocery sends ef pricw of cabbage up,to 9 cente a ead and keeps t right dere til! pecs exe vhas bunted.” Why Willie Wept. Mother (to Willie, entering the hous weeplug)—What's the, matter, Willie? “Tho bos acrons the way bit me," be replted. "Ob, well. 1 wontdn't ery for that” abo returned. “Show that you can bea Mtdle mnan.” x “1 ain't crylug for that.” he retorted “Then what are you eryiug for?" “He ran Into the house before I could get at bim."—Detroit Free Press ee Pay Day. Creditor—I should like to know when you are guing to pag this bit, fean't come here every das In the week, Debtor—What- day would ault you Bent? : Croditor—Snturday. Debtor—Very well ‘Thea you cam call every Saturday —Londow Opinion, Made a Hit. “Wombat made a big hit at the ban: janet last nize” tflow'x thar? | | “FBree mlnute apeeches were billed, and be finixbed within the time lcalt." —Vizaborgh Pont. A Poar Remedy. Loutse—Her burband's diseaxe plain laziness, Julin—What does be take for it? . Loulse—Vaeation.—New York Times, His’ Fear, . “Are yon atruld of an unloaded ple tor “No, Unt 1am of « loaded motorcar driver."—Indiannpolis Btar, RELE DISCIPLINE. Av occaniunal effort, even of an ofdinary bolluess, may ac complinh great nets of uancrifice or bear suvere pressure of up- wonted trial, ewpecially if it bo the subject of observation. Hut conmtant discipline in un- nuticed ways and the bidden spirit, silent onselfubness bo comlug the biddea babtt of the Hfo. give to Mt true saintly beau- ty. ‘and this ts the rexult of care and lowly love in Mttle things Vorfection 4 ttained mont read: ty by this comtancy of religious faithfulness to alt witnor detalls of hfe. tn the thow ef duty which Hit nye wit romAlne to conplete the Hkenw« to our Lord conse: ritlug the dally efforts of welt forgetting bite T. T. Carter, MY CASTLE IN SPAIN. fOMy eaistte Ite Shani te a wattrone ati TS tnniete Gower mene tr the | sha. Mol day after ey how 1 torus to Lhe there, Where Une Geasines of huppl tesa hho By eastle af corse, Inn thing of uy heaee A wish, fer at sorrow apd woe. A hope that some day Pany yet have x part Tn that frvedemn from vant, which some know, My cavtie ta only a fancy, @ dream ‘The Raat ot n futile destew To be nafe at Inst from the. de of Hfe's stream, The glare. and the burn of P tes tire. —Itrana Sheldon, Who’ Yas John Mort? ; V Ne 4 Wh ; A: Bi ei i: | ear wt + Dt g AMF. Ths Pegaating mgetey is “A Person of Some Importance” OUR NEW SERIAL STORY; STRAUS! SPECIAL Old Yacht Cle, ‘Wt Settity the Lover ot the Right ‘Wind of Btineniant. Gyesial Price ‘We Havo AH Grates of Good Ub quers, Cigars am4 febnece. Onli |, and Bee Us. | ISAAC SFRAUS & CO.. -|: 422 E. Beoad St., Richmond, «Vix ginis comone — Ningie | 3 13 ea ur FO Be | SEPT APP . Ibeotecerel Ogee ee Ste aaa Hae eat ee Sere eee tenn ee ee Ene eeer ee N. & W. "rye ONLY AIL BAM, LIER TO WOMOLE. Schednle in Kieet September 58, BRiR. | Leave Byrd Stet Station, Richmond, Fay MORFOLK: ‘0:00 2. ML, °0:00 P.M. “400 Fm FOR LYKCRBURG AND THR War: eas A. 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Rogers, 55 Massachusetts is rendering the colored people of this country a lasting service and inviting the commendation of justice-loving people everywhere when he proposes to introduce a resolution enquiring into the segregation of the races in the various departments at Washington. The action of the administration in this matter is a disgrace to the republic. The disturbing of existing conditions by a return to a system of racial discrimination should be condemned by citizens everywhere. --- ANOTHER ONE GOES FREE. George W. Still, the white watchman on Mayo's Bridge who struck George Washington, an aged colored man September 20, 1913, which blow resulted in his death was discharged from custody last Tuesday. He had been charged with murder. The testimony of Coroner Taylor that Washington was afflicted with heart disease and that the excitement caused his death, resulted in securing the freedom for Still. One thing we know. Washington would have been alive if he had not been assaulted by Still. It is also evident that he was guilty of assault and battery. But he is now free and his own conscience can alone be his indign and mote the punishment. The killing of colored men now seems to bring no punishment whether it be at the hands of white men or colored men. Our death rate is on the increase by natural processes and it is being augmented by those useless slaughter. THE TAX AND THE VOTE The Order of Knights of Pythias is so constituted that even should the futu Supreme Lodge go out of existence the subordinate lodges under their respective Grand Chancellors would continue to exist. They enjoy state rights. They pay their own endowment and they have their own state treasuries. This is why we joined the Order many years ago. The present national officers have been trying to change all of this. In their desperation they resorted to the expedition of waiting until many delegates had left Baltimore last August and then put through their plans. They unconstitutionally levied a tax of ten cents on each member of the Order. This amount if collected, would average over $15,000 per term in the national organization alone. An interesting fact in this connection is that the vote stood 51 ayes. 14 noes and 53 absent. Add the 53 to 11 and you have 67. A minority vote of 16. These leaders of Pythalaism seem to think that they can win at this kind of business. We shall see. --- THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. That there is a steadily Increasing friction between the National Negro Press Association and the National Negro Business League seems to be quite evident. Our contemporary, the Norfolk, Va. Journal and Guide seemed to be over-sensitive about the designation of the opress association as the "National Negro Business League Press Association" and the National Negro Press Association of the National Negro Business League. It seemed destruss of emphasizing its Independence of the National Negro Business League. The Amsterdate, N. Y. News says. To day it can be con-ervatively estimated that there are fully four hundred colored newspapers, magazines, publications and the trails. These being called into evidence by a most pressing and urgent need, have fought out their respective battles courageously and successfully. Their main reason for existence has been the proper dissemination of wholesome news matter, religious, educational, gratitudinal, financial and central. The purpose of the N-volunteer is to unify and solidify the larger interest of the newspapers in so far as the press is concerned which have not been attempted herefore "other plans," according to President Thomas, "will be the forming of a plate and reciprocal news service and standardization of advertising matter for the colored press and newspapers throughout the United States." "Underlying all of this," declares Secretary Boyd, "before many years chaple will come the daily newspaper for the black man with a complete news service that will handle the news for the colored daily press as is being handled now for the white daily newspapers." The National Negro Press Association is now part and parcel of the National Negro Business League. Since the Association has made such wonderful and marvelous progress why could it not now safely divorce itself from the National Negro Business League." The rapid progress and growth certainly warrant such a step, aside from the dignity that would assuredly be created by such a divorce. Besides, the time of the conventions of the Business League are not always convenient for members of the Press Association and they are consequently placed at a disadvantage. To our mind, Mr. Henry Alleg Boyd is the motive power behind the whole business. He is responsible for the present rejuvenation of this defunct organization. But how can the National Negro Press Association divorce itself from its foster parent, the National Negro Business League? To our mind, Dr. Booker T. Washington and his associates conceived the idea of having one great national race organization in the National Negro Business League, around which the National Negro Bankers' Association the National Negro Press Association, the National Negro Real Estate Association, the National Negro Bar Association and other similar organizations might revolve. To swing into space now with any one of them upon an independent mission would he to dissipate the hopes of the leader and founder. We have watched with interest the discussion of Editor W. Calvin Chase and now he is being joined by the Amsterdam News and some other influential journals. What is the cause of this unrest? Where does President J. H. Murphy stand on the question? As we are not connected with the National Negro Business League it may be presumption on our part to pry into its affairs or middle in its plans and future policy. PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE FILIPINOS. The following extract from the Washington, D. C. Post of the 16th inst. will no doubt prove to be interesting reading: President Wilson and Secretary Garrison yesterday selected the following Filipinos to be members of the Philippine commission: Victorino Mapa, Jalme C., do Voyra, Vincento Hustro and Vincente Singson. Mapa will be secretary of finance and justice. The fifth Filipino commissioner will be Rafael Palma, who, since 1908, has been the only native on the commission. His resignation was not accepted. The designation of five natives to majority control of the commission of nine marks the first step in the policy of the Wilson administration, aiming at self-government and ultimate independence for the Philippines. Governor General Harrison recommended the native commissioners, stating that they were among the most prominent and best educated of the islands. Here then is a case of President Wilson's appointing to high office members of a dark race who fought against the American government and declining to appoint to high office members of a dark race in this country who fought for the American government. It is a sad compendium upon that species of justice as practiced at Washington. We are of the opinion that in this matter of Filipino recognition, President Woodrow Wilson has taken high ground. Why should he take low ground in dealing with the citizens of color in this country: If, as he alleges, he cannot secure the confirmation of colored nominees, why not retain in office those efficient colored men now serving in the diplomatic service abroad and in the governmental service at home? He says that he will deal fairly and squarely with us. Let him do so in the manner described and God will be praised and an array of humble colored folks pleased. To Establish A Lutheran Church. Kevin H. H. Potkin of Merterrish, Va. has been in the city for the purpose of establishing a Lutheran Church for colored people. Divine services are held every Sunday night at John son's Hall on West Leigh Street. All are welcome to these services, regardless of denomination, and any instruction or information concerning the principles of the religion will be cheerfully given by the pastor in charge. Car Line to Jonesboro. It has been decided by the people along the road to Fort Lee that they must have a car line. The route has been surveyed and $1500.00 subscribed and the terminal will be at Jonesboro where we have three thous and beautiful lots for sale for cash or easy terms to suit your convenience. You can buy one of these lots 20 by 100 feet as low as $20. We have other lots better located 50 by 150 feet for $100 to $1.00. We can also sell farms in blocks from four to ten acres under the same terms as lots. The property is high and dry, on one of the best roads and only five miles from the city. You will make no mistake in buying one or more of these lots now, delay is dangerous. Call to see us to pay and make your selection before the choice of them are gone. See I. J. Miller, our General Sales Agent, 104 E. Leigh St. or at our Secretary's office, 112 West Leigh street. JONESBORO LAND AND IMPROVE MENT COMPANY. New Game Laws Are More Uniform. Hiders are big litter plate bear ing the hunting license numbers of the wearers, must be worn by sportsmen when they take the field in Ohio on Pennsylvania, white gunners who cross the Canadian line into Manitoba or Saskatchewan must go clad in immaculate white. These are some of the peculiar requirements set forth in a synopsis of the game laws issued by the department of agriculture. The department's analysis of the game laws of the various states and Canada discloses the fact that virtually every state and the provinces across the border has undertaken to protect both big game and migratory birds. Even Wyoming, recognized as among the last of the big game hunters' havens, has enacted drastic laws to safeguard the elk and other game and has shortened the hunting season, besides limiting the size of the "bag" that may be made. Greater uniformity of laws is the general trend of state legislatures in the matter of reasons. A marked feature of the legislation of the year, it adds, was the rapid progress made in the establishment of game and bird refugees. In addition to the creation of four such refugees by federal order, many of the states have established immunity zones by prohibiting hunting in certain sections. The Champion Hen. Upon hen "C-543" the Oregon Agricultural college in Corvallis, Oregon, has conferred the title of "the greatest hen in the world." She has just laid her 282d egg within a year, making what is said to be a world's record. "C-543" was hatched April.29, 1912, and began laying at the age of five and a half months. The former record was made at the Oregon college farm in 1911, when a hen laid 282 eggs in a year. Flashes Signal Dynamiting Last Barrier in the Canal Flashes Signal Dynamiting Last Barrier in the Canal 4000 MILES IN 4 SECONDS The Greater Part of Panama Waterway is Now Ready For Light Draft Vessels. A little electric spark, which originated when President Wilson pressed the button in the White House in Washington, was the silent agent which sped more than 4000 miles over land and under the water and ignited the immense charges of dynamite that practically removed the last obstruction in the Panama canal. Electrical experts calculated that within four seconds after President Wilson pressed the button in Washington the current, threw a small switch on an apparatus at the Gamboa dike, which in turn set in motion other apparatus which furnished the current for exploding the charges. Just before sending the signal President Wilson dispatched this message to Colonel George Goethals, chief engineer on the canal zone. "My warmest congratulations." Practically no ceremony accompanied the giving of the signal. The president, immediately after lunch, went to the office of the chief usher, L. H. Hoover. In the executive mansion, where the instrument was waiting, the chief operator, K. W. Smithers, tested the line and sent four data flashing through to Panama, as the signal that the president was ready. Mr. Wilson stepped forward just as the hands of the White House clock touched the hour and pressed the button, flashing to Panama the current which was to send tons and tons of the Camboua dike flying heavenward and perform practically the last act in connecting the waters of the two great oceans. The destruction of this dike permitted the waters of Gatun Lake to flow freely into the Culbertson cut, which after nine years of the greatest digging the world has ever seen is now almost complete. While it was not an official holiday in the canal zone, everyone who could be spared from work journeyed to the scene. The darner zone was guarded by a strong cordon of police. Fourteen units of the Atlantic dredging fleet were successfully passed through the Gatan locks on their way to the Gamboa dike and began operations as soon as the barrier was shattered. The lockage took two hours and a half, some time being lost through maneuvering the vessels into position. The lock mechanism worked perfectly. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans were not actually united when the Gambona dike were destroyed and the waters of Gatun lake were allowed to flow into Culebra cut, as lake and cut are, at the normal surface of the water, eighty-five feet above the level of the sea. The destruction of the Gambona dike, however, removes the last obstruction to the navigation of the greater part of the canal by light draft vessels and opens up direct connection between the great Gatun lake, which already is practically ready to discharge vessels into the Atlantic through Gatun locks, and the Pacific division. The waters of the lake, rushing through the broken dike at Gatunba, sweep through the greater locks at Pedro Miguel, which mark the beginning of the descent from the top level of the canal to the Pacific. The first craft to enter will be the great steam dredges, whose work is to clear and deepen the channel. The presence of small craft in portions of the canal, however, does not as yet mean ocean-to-ocean navigation. Bankera Honor Pennsylvaniaans One of the most signal honors ever paid to Philadelphia financial institutions was conferred by the American Bankers' association in Boston when assembled in a convention representing every city in the United States. William A. Law, first vice president of the First National bank, of Philadelphia, was elected first vice president of the organization. Arthur Reynolds, president of the Des Moines National bank, Iowa, was promoted from vice president to president of the body. Both elections were unanimous. The election by the Pennsylvania Bankers' association of B. M. Marlin, treasurer of the Union Banking and Trust company, of Dubois, as the Keystone State representative in the executive council, and of Charles H. Dickerman, president of the First National bank, of Milton, a vice president for Pennsylvania, were approved. Dentist Fain Dead Treating Patient. While treating a patient in his office in Willis-Barre, Pa., Dr. Albert C. Hayen, a dentist, fell over dead. He had shown no sign of illness, and when a patient came to his office he began work, talking as he worked. His conversation suddenly ceased and he fell to the floor. The frightened patient found the doctor was dead and then called for help. An Unusual Operation Ralph M. Armstrong, a clubman, of New Haven, Conn., is recovering at a local hospital from the unusual operation of the crafting of a place of his shibbone line his spine. A year ago he injured his spine by falling into a bathtub at his home. He apparently recovered, but some months later he again suffered spinal injuries while playing base ball. Five Suffecated In Home. Bolomon Schlasser and four of his children, Samuel, twelve; Bessie, aged seven; Goldie, six, and Herman, three There old, were found dead in the Schlumberger apartment in New York, overcame by gas. The mother and a daughter were removed to a hospital in an unconscious condition. Both Dualists Are Blaise. W. B. Burnett, of Athena, Ark., and Fred Storer, of Bonham, Texas, shot each other to death on Wednesday. Storer's eleven-year-old daughter looked on during the fight, and when her father called for more cartridges to reload his revolver the child carried them to him. The bodies of both men were riddled with bullets. New Tretting Record. Uhlan, driven by Charles Tanner and paced by a running mate, trotted a mile in Lexington, Ky., in 1.54%, a new world's record. The former record was 1.58, made by Uhlan at this track on Oct. 8, 1912. GENERAL MARKETS alted that truc- that dent ash- mall obson other rent eas- lage en- PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR dull; winter clear, $3.75@3.90; city mills, fancy, $5.25@5.60. RYE FLOUR quiet, or barrel, $3.50 @3.60. WHEAT meat, No. 2 red, new, 89½ @90. CORN steady, No. 2 yellow, 79½ @80c. OATS steady, No. 2 white, 47¾ @47¾c.; lower grades, 46c. POTATOES steady, at 75@90c. per bushel. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 16c; old hens, 12¾15c. Dressed firm; choice hooks, 20¾ old footers, 13¾c. BUTTER steady; fancy creamy, 84c. per lb. EGGS steady; selected, 35c.; nearby, 83c.; western, 22c. Produce Markets CHICAGO - HOGS 5c. to 10c. lower; bulk of sales. $10.18; 8.10; $8.10 @ $8.10; mixed. $7.90; $8.80; heavy. $7.85 @ $7.85; rough. $7.85; $8.05; plugs. $4.50 @ $7.10. CATTLE strong to 156 higher; beeses, $7.20/60: Texas starch, $78; cornmeal and feeders, $25/68.83; corn and feeders, $62.65/75: calves, $7.60/11.50. SHEEP steady to 15c higher; na $80; $100; $150; $200; $250; $300; $350; $400; $450; $500; $550; $600; $650; $700; $750; The world's supply of emery comes from Greek islands and from Asia Minor, near Siava. "The Littlest Rebel." If you think all dramas are alike, go to the Rijou next week and see "The Littlest Rebel" - it is different. It is exciting and thrilling just as most dramas are, but it has a different appeal. It will twist your heart settings more effectively, for it deplets not the love of a Northern soldier for the Southern girl, but love between a dear little girl for her rebel daddy, who saw her mother die, and their home burn. lives alone and hungry in a little cabin on the mountain side a few miles from Rijhmond. Her father comes on one of his hunted visits to see his child; he has been pursued and is wounded. A detail of cavalry men under the com A mund of Leut. Colonel Morpison surround the cabin, and the scout hides in a loft. The door is battered down and the Northern soldiers, instead of finding the dangerous scout, discover a little girl sitting alone at a table playing with her rag doll. With arch baby talk and adorable courage she fools the "Yanks" but she is outwitted by the gentlemanly Colonel who discovers the hiding place of her father. Through the plea of the little girl the Colonel relics and furnishes Cary with a pass as escort for the little girl through the Federal lines in Richmond. Later in the day a battle ensues in which Cary saves the life of the Northern Colonel. They are betrayed and brought to headquarters as prisoners, Cary as a spy and Colonel Morrison as a traitor, and sentenced to death. The Littlest Rebel as Virgile is called, appears before General Grant and pleads for the life of both men. So clever and sympathetic is her plea that the General becomes interested and makes a personal investigation of the case upon which the men are pardoned. WANTED—ANOTHER GOOD LIN otype Operator. Apply at The PLANET Office. NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION. Knoxville, Teen., September 1st to November 1st, 1918. For this occasion SOUTHERN RAILWAY offers extremely low round trip fares to Knoxville and return. Convenient train service. Sleeping Cars, Dining Cars. For fares, reservations and other information, consult nearest SOUTHERN RAILWAY Ticket Agent, or write S. E. BURGESS, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. We have in our possession a pro- scription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, failing memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worm and nervous men right in their own homes—without any addi- ditional help or medicine—that we bink every man who wishes to regain his manly power and vitality, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. 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Captain Francis Inch, of the Volturno, sent his story of the disaster which cost 136 lives by wireless from the Kroonland, on which he is being brought to New York, to the officers of the Uranium line. "At 6.50 a. m.; Oct. 9, 1913 latitude 49.12 north, longitude 34.52 west, fro was reported in hold No. 1 by the chief officer." Captain Inch's narrative roads. "At 6.55 a. m., flames wore burning through No. 1 hatches, setting fire Commander of Burned Velturno Was Last Person to Leave Ship. SIR JOHN HENRY BURTON Late reports indicated that Captain Imbos of the Volturno was the last person to leave the burning vessel, summoning at his post until all vessels of hope of saving the lives of the immigrant beetles that 250 persons were saved, while revived estimates of the number dead is placed at 18. The sole survivor on board the Carmania tells a terrible story of panic, cowardice, heroism and self sacrifice during the immigrant by the "international rescue squadron." To the forecastle and all deck fittings. I slowed the ship down and kept her before the wind to enable us to put the steam extinguishers in operation, also three fire hose from deck connections. The flames were gaining rapidly, reaching the height of the foremost light and imprisoning the watch below, who were burned to death in the forecastle. "A series of explosions now occurred, wrecking the saloon and hospital amidship, the compass and steering gear being also damaged by the explosions. I gave orders to get help by wireless as soon as the games burnt the hatches. "It seemingly being impossible to save the ship, I had boats provisioned and swung out. The ship was rolling heavily. Boats Nos. 13 and 5 were amashed, but No. 2 was lowered in the water with cabin passengers and stewardess, in charge of H. P. Miller, chief officer. After this boat left the ship she capsized, throwing her occupants into the water. She afterwards righted herself and several of the crew got back into the boat, the chief officer being one of them. "The No. 6 boat was lowered and got away safely, filled with steerage passengers, in charge of Fourth Officer Langsell. The No. 7 boat on being lowered was caught under the stern of the ship, the boat being wrecked." "Meanwhile the chief engineer, two seamen and myself fought the fames. I gave orders to send no more boats away, as I had received word from the Caramania that she was hoping to be with us by 11 a. m. Life belts were put on each passenger. The passengers now became calmer. Food was served to them. "At 9 a. m. the bunker was found to be ablaze. It being impossible to stop the fire in the bunker on account of gases, the water tight covers were closed, and water poured down the No. 2 hatch into the fire, but the fire was gaining all the time. "At 11 a. m. the Caramania arrived and lowered a boat, but could not coach the ship on account of the high seas. I asked the Caramania to look for No. 2 boat. The steamship Saydilts arrived and lowered boats, which could not reach us. "Several steamships had arrived by dusk. The Kroonland put away boats, which made four attempts to come alongside, but were swept away each time. "At 9.30 p. m. the saloon and chart house were blazing. The deck, bridge and all before the canal were burning fiercely. Our puppa and dynamo stopped for want of steam. The Marcelon operators were working with the accumulators until 11 p. m., when the magazine on the bridge blow up, carrying the aerial away. "Several boats by this time were lying off the ship. They induced passengers to jump and they were rescued by boats. The fire meanwhile worked through the women's steerage to the after end of the ship, but we kept the knowledge of this from the passengers, who were quiet throughout the rest of the night. "The chief engineer, the Marconi men and seamen and myself passed the night making small rafts in case the fire burned through the deck before daylight. "At 5.15 a. m. the first boat arrived. Weather and sea having moderated, boats were enabled to come alongside the ship, which enabled passengers to embark quickly. All the steamships around the ship sent boats. Now we were enabled to load three boats with passengers at once. The passengers left in an orderly way and there was no panic, women breaking down and crying when help was alongside, and all about 400 passengers, were off the ship by 5 a. m. I searched the ship myself and found no one else on board, so decided to abandon her, as the No. 3 hatch was well alight by now, with remainder of the crew I embarked on board the Kroonland. "The ship was abandoned in latitude 49.30 north, longitude 34.57 wont." Jilted; Nailed Cross to Girl's Home. Following Miss Anna Solla's refusal to wed him him, Vinconzo Nenchila palled a cross, draped with crepe, on the door of the Solla home in Garfield, N. J. The girl declared it was a sign of a vendetta threatening death. Nenchia was arrested. Scalded to Death In Bath. Henry W. Judd, a wealthy retired business man and a director in several local corporations in Cleveland, Ohio, was scaled to death in his bath tub. It is supposed he fell into the tub and was unable, because of his enfeebled condition, to climb out. BOMB THROWERS LURE FARMER FROM HOME Is Critically Wounded and Wife and Sultor Is Held. Jerome Rose, owner of one of the most prosperous farms near Montrose, Pa., was called into his yard at midnight and two dynamite bombs were hurled at blim. Both of the bombs exploded, and one inflicted injuries which probably will result in the death of Rose. His wife, Mrs. Clara Rose, and Leon Granger, of Montrose, who was said to have been a frequent caller at the Rose homestead in the absence of Mr. Rose, were arrested. A man rapped at the front door of the Rose home, and when Mr. Rose opened the door he was informed that an old friend of his wanted to see hurt out at the road gate. Mr. Rose walked down the path with the stranger, and when he was near the road the caller suddenly ran to cover. A bomb was hurled through the air at him. He dodged to one side and the bomb fell on the grass and exploded. The conclusion knocked Mr. Rose down, and as he regained his feet he haggedward tward two persons, whose shadows he saw in the dark. As he did so another bomb was thrown. He ducked his head, and as it passed him he heard the fuse missing. The second bomb exploded before it touched the ground. This tore great wounds in his chest and face, ripped one leg open and so severely injured his face that if he recovers he probably will lose the sight of one eye. The persons who threw the bombs ran down the road, escaping in a carriage. HUERTA IS DICTATOR Declares He Will Rule Mexico by Decree. Copies of a proclamation issued by Provisional President Huerta announcing himself as dictator over Mexico were received at the state department in Washington and considered at the cabinet meeting at the White House. Washington, Oct. 15.—Copies of a proclamation issued by Provisional President Huerta announcing himself as dictator over Mexico were received at the state department and considered at the cabinet meeting at the White House. Huerta declares suspended that provision of the constitution which grants immunity from arrest to members of congress and announces that he will from time to time issue executive decrees because of the dissolution of congress. Huerta's decree, dated Oct. 11, says in part: "In view of the fact that the chamber of deputies and senate of the congress of the Union have been dissolved and inhabitated to perform their functions, and in view of the powers which I hold in the department of gobernacion, according to decree of Oct. 11, this year, I have seen fit to decree that article 1, the constitutional exemption from arrest and judicial action, which the citizens, which form the twenty-sixth congress of the Union, enjoyed in view of their functions, is hereby repealed, and consequently they are subject to the jurisdiction of the tribunals corresponding to the case in the event that they are guilty of any crime or offense." New York Political Leader Who Died of Paralysis. PETER M. Timothy L. Woodruff Plas Timothy L. Woodruff Dies. Timothy L. Woodruff died in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Woodruff was stricken with paralysis on Sept. 9; while he was speaking at the meeting held in Cooper Union to formally notify the fusion candidates of their nominations. Timothy Lester Woodruff, lieutenant governor of New York for three terms (1857-1903) was born at New Haven, Conn., on Aug. 4, 1858. He took up his residence in Brooklyn in the spring of 1881 and entered politics in the same year, when he joined the Brooklyn Young Men's Republican club. At the Republican national convention in 1908 Mr. Woodruff made the speech nominating the late James S. Sherman for vice president. He Murders Three in Religious Mania In a fit of religious mania a youthful church worker in Liverpool, England, William McDonald, killed three of his fellow church workers. He then committed suicide. McDonald paid a round of visits to the residences of his colleagues in the church work and shot them down in turn and afterward battered their bodies with a bludgeon. Apparently there were no witnesses of the series of tragedies. The empty reveller and the bludgeon were clashed in McDonald's hands when his body was discovered. The four young people were active workers for a sect known as the "Church of Humanity." One of the victims was Miss Crompton, daughter of the late Rev. Henry Crompton, a former pastor of the "Church of Humanity." She was the leader of the "Liverpool Positivists" and was McDonald's religious tutor. It was in her room that the mantac committed suicide after killing his instructress. Wilson Rebukes Editor. For the first time in the history of the United States a newspaper editor has been officially rebuked by the president. Mr. Wilson sent the following communication to the editor of the Washington Post: "Sir—I am quoted in your issue of Wednesday as saying that any one who does not support me is no Democrat but a rebel. Of course, I never said any such thing. It is contrary both to my thoughts and to my character, and I must ask that you give a very prominent place to this denial. Vory truly yours." "WOODROW WILSON." Embezzled His Son's Money. Matias Stiebel, a building association official of Altoona, was convicted in the Blair county court in Holidayburg, Pa., on a charge of embassing $15,000 belonging to his minor son, John H. Stiebel. The prosecutor was a bonding company, the surety on Stebler's bond as guardian for his son. The jury's verdict contained a recommendation for mercy. Stebler confessed on the witness stand that he had squandered $75,000 of other people's money in real estate speculations. New Postmaster For Reading. President Wilson sent to the senate the nomination of Charles N. Salitz ingress the postmaster at Reading, Pa. Selzinger is a prominent labor leader and by trade a cigarmaker. He was one of sixteen Democratic candidates for the position to succeed A. M. High, who died two months ago after holding the office nearly fifteen years. 418 MEN KILLED IN WELSH MINE Explosion Shatters Collery After 931 Men Enter. ABOUT 500 ;ARE RESCUED Blast Was So Terrific That Country For Miles Around Was Shaken as Though By an Earthquake. More than 400 Welsh miners perished, it is believed, from fire and afterdamp in the University colliery near Cardiff, Wales. After the explosion shattered the works, they after 531 men had deserved in the pit. About 500 were brought to the surface alive by rescue party. The rescued miners, the members of the lifesaving gangs and the officials of the mine declared that they could hold out no hope for the miners still below. The men brought to the surface were found on the east side of the mine, where the ventilation remained fairly good. On the west side, where the explosion occurred, fire soon added its terrors and the rescue parties were unable to make any progress. All the men in the east side of the mine reached the surface, but 418 were still in the workings in the west side, which were on fire. Colleen Pearson, chief inspector of mines, giving this information, added: "The fire is in the intake airway and everything is being done to cope with it. We are hoping to the last." Most of the rescued men presented a pititable appearance. Nearly all were suffering from burns, shock or the effects of poisonous gases. It is feared a number of them will die. So violent was the explosion that the country for miles around was shaken as though by an earthquake, and it was feared at first that all the entombed men had been burned to death or blown to bits. Cardiff trembled from the shock. The day shift of 331 men descended the shafts in the cages. An hour afterwards a deafening report brought the residents in the vicinity of the mine running to the pit head, where they found that the ventilating and holisting machinery at the top of the shafts had been blown to atoms by the explosion. A man who had been working sixty feet away had been decapitated by the force of the blast. Rescue parties of miners were soon on the scene making preparations to save their comrades. The fury reputation of the mine, however, gave little hope that any of those below could be rescued alive. The families of the miners rushed to the mouth of the pit, grief in their grief and anxiety and determined to sacrifice their own lives if necessary in an attempt to save those penned in the shaft. Hundreds of others, led by curiosity or the desire to give aid, clustered about the pit mouth. Special trains and automobiles bearing rescue apparatus, medical supplies, doctors and nurses sped to the scene. A first aid hospital and a temporary morgue were erected side by side not far from the shaft opening. The excitement grew to such an extent that hundreds of constables were placed on duty around the head of the mine. Lines were formed to keep the grief-striken relatives of the penned-up miners from danger. When the call was given for volunteers to enter the mine at the risk of their own lives, hundreds of miners dashed forward and begged to be allowed to join in the relief work. The owners of the mine express the belief that a blast exploded the coal dust. Rate Effective Dec. 1 The now express rates recently prescribed by the interstate commerce commission will become effective on Dec. 1. A request for extension by the companies was granted, but a request that the new scale be revised was refused. Hanged Himself in Cell 13 on Oct. 13. James O. Vreeland hanged himself in cell 13 in the county jail in Paterson, N. J., using three black bordered handkerchiefs and a heavy black sheetstring. In Jigtime! DANCE Procrastination is the thief of time. If you need good printing and put off getting it you're robbing YOURSELF. Don't fiddle over it. Order what you want NOW. There will be no procrastination on our part in delivering the goods. MISSING GIRL DROWNED Mme Hellman Believed to Have Committed Suicide. The body of Miss Mame Hellman who disappeared from the home of her nunt, Mrs. Abdel Hellman, in Albentown, Pa. early last Friday morning, was found in the lohigh river by three employees of a local manufacturer. From the appearance of the body, Miss Hellman leaped from the Hamilton street bridge and landed in three feet of water, fifty feet below. One leg was broken and there were many continuous. The finders will receive a reward of $500 offered by her nunt. The young woman's suicide is believed to be due to melanochelia induced by a nervous breakdown. FALLS 200 FEET AND LIVES Loose Coal at Bottom of Centralla Mine Prevents Death in Plunge. Fred Clappin, engineer on a mine locomotive at the Continental colliery at Centralla, Pa. stepped from his engine, lost his footing and plunged 200 feet down a chute to a counter gangway, where he lodged in loose coal from the strippings. Reguers hurried into the mine, expecting to find his mangled form in the pocket of the chute. They found him crawling through a heading. He was considerably cut and bruised. : Girl Killa Her Father Shot through the heart and lungs during a family quarrel at his home, 22 North Mississippi avenue, Atlantic City, N. J., Nicholas Muncheri, a Pennsylvania railroad employee, died in a few minutes. Margaret, the man's twenty-three-year-old daughter; two younger brothers and three sisters were seen flying from the house after the shootout. Margaret admitted to the detectives that she had done the killing. At the city hall the children stated that their father had an ungovernable temper and had frequently abused them. When he returned from work, they said, he seized his sixteen-year-old son, Anthony, by the throat. Margaret interfered to protect the boy, and the father, turning on her, declared he would kill her. He drew a knife, they said, and darted toward the girl, who ran to a closet and procured a revolver and shot him. Please on His State's Needs BEACH ON His State's Needs. "I want plenty of good horse hacing, chicken fighting and honest poker playing in my state," said Governor Cole L. Blosse, of South Carolina, in Washington on his way back home after a business trip to New York. When asked if he was going to pay his respects to President Wilson in Washington, the governor said: "Since he appointed Genesee as minister to Cuba I've lost faith in him." Cut This Out Paper. ATTENTION Colored Citizens-Petition!!! NATIONAL PETITION AGAINST JIM CROW AND COLOR SEGREGATION BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Read Citizens, Sign Your Name and Address and Mail to the Editor of This Paper. Get several names. Return At Once. To the President of the United States, Hon. Woodrow Wilson, White House, Washington, D. C. Sir: This is to certify that we, the undersigned, are surprised and indignant, that under your administration there should be any rules made by members of your cabinet to segregate employees of the national government by race or color. We protest against this as a plain insult, public degradation, and insufferable injury to Colored Americans, the establishment of caste in this free-republic. We petition you to reverse, prevent and forbid any such movement by your bureau chiefs, in accord with your promise of fair, friendly, just and Christian treatment of your Colored fellow-citizens. N. B. By pasting on sheet of paper any number of names can be put on, can be used in churches, lodges, societies, etc.—Sign on one side of sheets only. Return to THE PLANET, 311 N. 4th Street, RICHMOND, VA. Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Mind. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the schools can give it. The best education is not too good for a promising youth. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger? And who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger world? L. P. HALL. Virginia Union University. Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN. It has a Fine ACADEMY COURSE including manual training for those who have completed common subject subjects. IH COLLEGE COURSES in Broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the ruling of the Carnegie Board. IH THEOLOGICAL COURSES has for years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Below, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Southern are given here. One hundred students for the Ministry are enrolled in different Departments of the school. IN MIDNIGHT GRANIT BUILDING, the study equipped science laboratory, its Library of 13,000 volumes, its able faculty and its full course of study enable Virginia Union University to offer colored men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of other rooms. For further information, address the President. VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY. NEW 1913 CATALOGUE. We are the largest importers and manufacturers of colour paper, matt paper and the off-deliable in this line. We make well-behaved brads transfer coat n and all stains of hair that can embell the same as your own. We also sell the lighting c mule hair nets and cut hair by the pound. We guarantee all our hair and our prices are lower than those quoted. We bear our stamp and we will send absolutely free our duly rated catalogue. Agents warrant. BUMANIA HAIR COMPANY, Dept. D. 24 Dune-1 New York City A. Hayes, First-class Hacks and Caskets of All Descriptions. I have a Spart Room for BODIES when the Family have not a suitable Place. All country Orders are Given Special Attention. Your Special Attention is called to the New Style OAK CASKETS Call and See Me and You shall be Waited on Individually. 'Phone, Madison-2728. All Kinds of Straightening Combs, Potades and Skin Preparations. Send two cent stamp for new 1913 Catalogue. The Largest Manufacturer of Hair Goods in the United States. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM. 401 51th Street, New York City. SUBSCRIBE TO THE RICHMOND PLANET. S. W. ROBINSON & SON DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE LIQUORS. PHONE MONROE 2 3. 19 and 21 N. 18th St., Richmond, Va. TEACHERS WASTED! We have a great demand for Colored Teachers for both Public and Private Schools in this and other States. We are making a specialty in securing teachers for Virginia Schools. Those holding certificates in force will communicate with us at once. VA. TEACHERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, 14 East 13th St. So. Richmond, Va. Branch Office, 718 N. 2nd St. As a Human Mind. If a diamond is cut and coat, much more is the mind of a polishing that the schools can give it, for a promising youth. Who would few cents when health is in danger? School to save a few dollars when it --- 18 A penny saved a penny earned.— Bishop Franklin I HEARD, told a woman recently, an amusing debate between two men. One was the father of three daughters, and the other was the proud possessor of six. The latter contended that it was less expensive for him to travel than it was for the father of three, for the father of six could buy things in quantity. When he went to the hold he could get special rates, and in Paris he could buy hats and frocks by the half dozen, and be sure that each daughter would find among these the hat of gown she wanted. At any rate, treats are economical in laying simple goods and household supplies on large quantities. Whether financial conditions necessitate it or not, it is the duty of every housekeeper to plan and prepare properly and with the aid of quantity and quantity before he always. Camned vegetables are often advertised at a slight reduction when purchased by the dozen. flour and sugar may be bought in large packs, and be blessed the saving. the kills will be the excellent tea towels it is wise to store in blinding, soap, search and supplies in bulk. Soap creatively improves with age, and other family depends will keep indiscretely Bounties on the management of household affairs is an important fac- tive in fighting the high cost of living it matters on whether a man furnishes title or much for his family. If there is a continued leakage in his kitchen the money puts away in spite of his in- come. It is the husband's duty to going into the house and the wife's tuty to see that nothing goes wrong fully on it. The husband's interest should be the wife's care. It is not the money carried that makes a man wealthy. It is what he saves from his earnings. The greater part of his sup- sus in this respect depends upon the wife, for she can "make or break" it. THE NEW SKIRTS. How to Make a Fashionable Autumn Costume As a change from the much draped and decorated skirt come the new straight models in two and three tier effects. They keep to the silhouette effect of the carier tight skirts and are very youthful in their effect. Sometimes the skirt is in two sections, as why the French model noted in a shop recently, which had a plain straight planted effect at the top, which reached to the knees and bottom that was crossed in the front and draped. But many many of the skirts are very straight to life with no drapery whatever. Another Paris idea is to have the skirt perfectly pin somewhat high waisted and decorated with trills, two or three inches wide. One smart model had three of these trills or ruffles at the line of the knees, but quite simply fitting above and below that. Still another very fetching skirt had three rows of falls at the knees and three at the hems. This was very quiet and picturesque and was composed of soft figured foulard in one of the attractive patterns. But she is a wise woman who adopts the style that is most becoming--that gives her the best lines, regardless of whether it is the "newest" or not, for never were fashion more varied and broad, and it should be easy for a woman to find something which just suits her. How to Make Elder Flower Water. Did you ever use elder flower water? Even if you never have had any yourself, haven't you heard your grandmother tell how popular it was when she was young? The recipe used to be a favorite one, and it is very simple. Strip from their stalks enough elder flowers to fill a pint measure. Over these pour two quarts of boiling water, and let it infuse for a hour. Pour it into a clean kettle and let it boll gently for a quarter of an hour, then set away to cool. When cold, strain through a piece of fine mulin into bottles and cork them up securely. How to Eashen Delicate Ribbon How to Fashion Denim Ribbon. Save the water in which pared potatoes have been cooked and when tepid carefully wash the ribbons in ft. A certain amount of suds will be made, which washes the ribbons free from dirt. They must be carefully rinsed in several waters, dried and ironed between two pieces of muslin while slightly damp. Satin ribbon may be ironed on the satin side and male fresher than when ironed between muslin. How to Make Traveler's Bag. About three-quarters of a yard of cretonne, with cord or ribbon for a drawstring, is needed to make it. Make like any ordinary bag, filled on to a round cardboard piece for the bottom. On the outside have a series of pockets to hold the smaller toilet articles. The inside of the bag may be How to Get Bug Out of Ear. Have some one hold an electric light or candle or even a burning match in front of your car and the intruding bug will crawl out. SWEET POTATO HARVEST. How to Care Successfully For This Valuable Crop. The sweet potato harvest begins about the middle of August. The main crop should not be dig until just be- fore frost. In locations where fronts do not occur until late the sweet potato ripen and the vines show a slight tinge of yellow when ready for hand- ling. The soil should be comparatively dry at the time of harvesting. Bright, dry weather is essential to the proper handling of the crops. While sunlight does not easily injure the sweet potato, at the same time it must not be un- duly exposed to hot suns. Neither should they be exposed upon the sur- face of the ground during the night. During the handling in the field it should be the purpose to remove all soil and surface moisture from the potatoes. Warmth and a dry atmosphere are needed while in storage. The home supply may be placed in crates and stored in a loft over the kitchen part of the dwelling, but should never be stored in bags or barrels without ventilation. Sweet potatoes should not be handled oftener than is strictly necessary, the essential to good keeping being a reasonable degree of warmth, a dry atmosphere and careful handling. The storage house should be ventilated during the winter months, the outside air admitted only when quite dry and when its temperature is lower than that of the air in the storage house. If warmest air is admitted considerable moisture will be deposited upon the potatoes thus injuring their holding qualities. Under proper storage conditions sweet potatoes will drink from 6 to 10 per cent, but the loss in weight will be greater if the temperature of the house is carried too high. If the potatoes are not matured when dug from the field the loss from shrinkage may be as much as 15 per cent, and immature stock should be marketed early in the winter. HOW TO TEST DIAMONDS. Several Ways to Distinguish Genuine From Imitation Stones How to tell tell tell from fine diatoms is briefly explained as contributed to a Victoria journal, the Washington Post observes. In the first piece, the says 'real brilliants may be recognized by their great hardness and high refractive index which are not found together in any imitation stone. The diamond stays brilliant because it is hard, while other stones and imitations become scratched and dulled by friction. For an experienced eye it is not difficult to divide the appearance of the facets whether a stone is genuine or not, those of real diamonds are solid on regular as those of fine imitations. With the latter the greatest care is taken in grinding to smooth and polish not only the facets, but also the whole form into such a shape to avoid differences in the reflection, refraction and scattering of the rays. In the grinding and polishing of real bristles on the other hand, effort is made to keep the original size as nearly as possible, and some little irregular lattices in the facets and angles are preferred to any distortion in weight. In the imitation's the superfluity of cheap material, which may be wasted without making any difference, enables a perfect counterfeit to be made. If a person looks through a diamond, as through a lot of glass, at a black dot on a sheet of white paper one single point will be seen clearly. If several points appear or a blur is seen it is an imitation. The white sapphire, the white topaz and rock crystal are commonly sold as diamonds, but more often imitations are made of glass. To recognize those glass imitations treatment with acids is also recommended, which removes the polish on the facets, while it does not affect the diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald. However, an imitation imude of glass yields to the hardness test, so that a chemical test is super- --- How to Make Smooth Graviest. First have the liquor to be thickened ready to boil; then take a spoonful of flour and with a little milk or water work free from lumps; then thin so that it will pour easily. With a stirring spoon in one hand stir the boiling liquid vigorously, with the other hand pour in the batter. The secret of having it free from lumps is to have the liquid hot enough to cook the batter at once and to keep stirring it until it is well cooked. Never try to stir raw flour into hot liquor nor to make smooth graviest in lukewarm stock. How to Remove Spots on China. The beauty of old china is often destroyed by brown spots which appear on the surface. An effective way to remove these is to bury the dish in the earth, covering it completely. The darker spots require more time to remove them than the lighter ones. This method will not harm the most delicate china. How to Prevent New Shoes From Hurting. To prevent new shoes from hurting lay a cloth moistened in hot water across the place where the pressure is most felt, changing the cloth as soon as it becomes cool. This will make the leather shape itself to the foot. How to Oust the Fly Set an open bottle of oil of winter green on the window sill; the files will not come in. A bunch of asparagus grass has great attraction for files. If placed in a room the files light upon it and gradually become stupefied. Subscribe to The PLANET. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE. A DRAMA IN SIX ACTS. - Le Jilme. An automobile manufacturer had a bright young man in his employ who came to him not long ago for a raise in pay. He was a valuable workman, but he was already getting what his employer considered a fair salary. "How much do you expect and what do you want it for?" he asked. "You have no family responsibilities and should be able to give money on what you are getting now." "That's the point," said the young man, with a smile. "I am engaged to a girl. I only want enough so that I can get married and live comfortably." "Great Scott, man," crised the boss. "There ain't too much salary. I'll give you enough to get married on, but that's as far as I can go."—Cleveland Plain Dealer The Remains A negro died without medical attendance, and the coroner went to investigate. "Did Samuel Williams live here?" he asked the weeping woman who answered the door. "Yussah," she replied between sobs. "May I see the remains?" asked the coroner. "I is de remains," she answered proudly—Los Angeles Herald. Fronting Metals The sandblast, working on the same principle as the big outfits used to clean the stone fronts of begrimed city buildings, is now being applied to jewelry. By means of the delicate frosted appearances can be given to gold and silver, "satin finish" for silver being one of the results. Powdered pumice is used in place of sand, and the blast pressure is very small. The Mysterious Battleship In the Pacific 1 READ OUR NEW SERIAL It commences this week on page two. Don't miss it. Supreme LodgeK.ofP. A Copy of Supreme Keeper of Records & Seal C. K. Robinson's Timely Report: To the Officers and Representatives to the Sixteenth Biennial Session to be held at Baltimore, Maryland, August 25th to 30th, '13. Greeting: St. Louis, Mo., July, 1913. Dear Sir and Brother--As the time approaches for the next Supreme Lodge Session, I feel that the representatives and officers should know our true financial condition, in order that they may think and plan for the betterment of those conditions. The very short time allowed at the Supreme Lodge Session for the consideration of vastly important questions, is not sufficient to permit the members to become thoroughly familiar with conditions as they really exist. At this time I feel it highly important to lay these matters before you, believing as I do that the hearts of the majority of our members are true to the principles of our great institution. Mr Sir and Brother--As the time approaches Lodge Session, I feel that the representa- tions show our true financial condition, in order to plan for the betterment of those con- dition be allowed at the Supreme Lodge Session, most important questions, is not sufficient to become thoroughly familiar with cost. At this time I feel it highly impor- before you, believing as I do that the heart members are true to the principles of our work all the years that I, by your trust and S. K. of R. and S., the desire nearest me to beloved Order established on a firm basis end, the records will show that I have our attention to much needed reforms in the of the funds, but as stated above, the need to carefully consider my suggestions and as caused the representatives to look doubt has brought about the present crisis the face of the record of my frequent off of our financial system, as well as to add to our honest member of the Order will do motives. that the time approaches for the that the representatives and the condition, in order that the ent of those conditions. The Lodge Session for the con- sions, is not sufficient to per- familiar with conditions and it highly important to last. I do that the hearts of the m principles of our great insti- by your trust and confidence desire nearest my heart be honed on a firm financial bas I will show that I have time and needed reforms in the handi- stated above, the shortness of my suggestions and investiga- tives to look lightly upon the present crisis. If my frequent efforts to ra- nas well as to add to our so- the Order will dare accuse During all the years that I, by your trust and confidence, have served as S. K. of R. and S., the desire noarest my heart has been to see our beloved Order established on a firm financial basis, and to attain this end, the records will show that I have time and again called your attention to much needed reforms in the handling and disbursement of the funds, but as stated above, the shortness of time in which to carefully consider my suggestions and investigate conditions has caused the representatives to look lightly upon them and no doubt has brought about the present crisis. In the face of the record of my frequent efforts to raise the standard of our financial system, as well as to add to our source of revenue, no honest member of the Order will dare accuse me of impure motives. CAREFULLY STUDY. serely trust that you will take the time th is given in the following statement before one. In order that you may be fully fai- nancial report submitted to the Supreme L. in 1911, I presented to you a very c showing your general expenses; salaries .00 for the term of two years ending A following table which will be found on notes shows the amount of salaries paid at funds they are payable: Out of What Fund S. L. Fund, U. per term $5,000 $1,250 C. per term 2,100 600 & S. per term 5,000 1,500 x. per term 600 600 per term 1,200 per term 2,000 2,000 Total $15,200 $5,950 above table shows the proper divisions and expenses of officers as recommended and adopted by the Supreme Lodge at I will take the time to carefully ing statement before discussion may be fully familiar with to the Supreme Lodge at 1 to you a very carefully pr expenses; salaries alone amo o years ending August; 1911 will be found on page 146 of salaries paid to officer d: Out of What Fund Payable S. L. Fund. U. R. En. 000 $1,250 000 600 000 1,500 000 600 000 2,000 1,000 $5,950 $1,000 proper divisions of expense as recommended by the F supreme Lodge at Kansas C I sincerely trust that you will take the time to carefully study the figures given in the following statement before discussing it with any one, in order that you may be fully familiar with them. In my biennial report submitted to the Supreme Lodge at Indianapolis, Ind., in 1911, I presented to you a very carefully prepared statement showing your general expenses; salaries alone amounting to $15,200.00 for the term of two years ending August, 1911. The following table which will be found on page 146 of the 1911 minutes shows the amount of salaries paid to officers, and out of what funds they are payable: Salaries of Office Out of What Fund Payable. S. L. Fund. U. R. En. Fund. S. C. per term $5,000 $1,250 $2,750 Clerk - S. C. per term 2,400 600 1,800 S. K. of & S. C. per term 3,000 1,500 1,500 S. M. of Ex. per term 600 600 Sup. Atts. per term 1,200 1,200 Maj. Gen. per term 2,000 2,000 1,000 Total $15,200 $5,950 $1,000 $8,250 The above table shows the proper divisions of expenses for salaries and expenses of officers as recommended by the Finance Committee and adopted by the Supreme Lodge at Kansas City in 1909. FURTHER EXPLANATION. 9,00 of this amount, according to your law Supreme Lodge fund, $1,000.00 out of the $8,250.00 out of the Endowment fund, do not include the general expenses for o cery, traveling expenses of officers, etc. amounted to $13,202.39 to be paid fro 1. The receipts for the Supreme Lodge amounted to $8,272.02, which left your follows: Subscriptions $13. Collections $8. effect in S. L. Revenue $4. ave that Uniform Rank Department sho the Receipts in that department now o Supreme Lodge receipts, see Major General reason why the Supreme Lodge should be salary and carrying other expenses of t bording to your law, is payable $00.00 out of the Uniform Endowment fund. The fore- nal expenses for office rent, s of officers, etc., which for 9 to be paid from the Sup- the Supreme Lodge fund to which left your Supreme L $13,203.39 8,272.02 $4,931.27 It Department should be set department now equal if not see Major General's report. Lodge should be burdened other expenses of that depart- $5,250.00 of the amount, according to your law, is payable out of the Supreme Lodge fund, $1,000.00 out of the Uniform Rank fund, and $8,250.00 out of the Endowment fund. The foregoing amount do not include the general expenses for office rent, printing, stationery, traveling expenses of officers, etc., which for the last term amounted to $13,203.39 to be paid from the Supreme Lodge fund. The receipts for the Supreme Lodge fund to July 31, 1911 amounted to $8,272.02, which left your Supreme Lodge treasury as follows: Disbursements $13,203.39 Collections 8,272.02 Deficit in S. L. Revenue $4,931.27 I believe that Uniform Rank Department should be self-sustaining. The Receipts in that department now equal if not surpass the Supreme Lodge receipts, see Major General's report. And there is no reason why the Supreme Lodge should be burdened with paying the salary and carrying other expenses of that department. THE ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT Missions of the Endowment De- vas follows: Cursed. $26,981.00 14,550.00 Revenue. $12,431.00 Yes. $4,936.00 12,431.00 Not by the Emergency fund. are of more than 25 per ce- nually for operating expere- por the last term was $14,55 that department was $2,807.81 $1,181.00 337.50 5.00 $11,331.31 15,650.00 $26,981.31 low from which the deficiency the Pythian Temple fund for The disbursements and collections of the Endowment Department of the Supreme Lodge, were as follows: Endowment expense disbursed.....$26,981.00 Endowment collected.....14,550.00 Deficit in Endowment Revenue.....$12,431.00 This left the total deficit as follows: Deficit in Supreme Lodge.....$ 4,936.00 Deficit in Endowment.....12,431.00 Total Deficit in both.....$17,267.00 This enormous deficit was met by the Emergency fund. The law does not permit the expenditure of more than 25% per cent of the Endowment fund collected annually for operating expenses; your collection, you will observe for the last term was $14,550.00, yet the expense incurred against that department was There is no emergency fund now from which the deficiency can be met. $5000 was loaned out of the Pythian Temple fund for this purpose this term. FACING A CRISIS. last session I warned you of the condition and urged you to prepare to meet the citizen of the convention saw the impending correct it by presenting remedy after remedial it. I have no criticism to offer as to that time but I feel it my solemn duty to the deplorable condition of your treasurer of the officers of the Supreme Lodge have member 1912, and when the session convened an enormous deficit, that can only be and proper regulation of expenses. For one Grand Lodge has been forced to us unjust taxation, and it remains for the more session to exercise their very best wish this question as well as the question the manner of handling our finance our expenses or increasing our revenue in order that the several departing degree may be self-sustaining. There is no such broad country today that is successive financial methods used by our Supreme evidence of the True Reformers should call. you of the conditions which we are to meet the crisis. The saw the impending danger, remedy after remedy, all of which to offer as to the action of my solemn duty to again call on your treasury at this Supreme Lodge have not been the session convenes at Baltim, that can only be met by of expenses. It has been forced to protest again at remains for the Representative, its very best wisdom in a call as the question of calling our finances, either ceasing our revenue by several departments of mining. There is no other or any that is successfully operated by our Supreme Lodge. Reformers should be a suffra At the last session I warned you of the conditions which confronted you, and urged you to prepare to meet the crisis. The conservative men of the convention saw the impending danger, and sought to correct it by presenting remedy after remedy, all of which efforts failed. I have no criticism to offer as to the action of the majority at that time but I feel it my solemn duty to again call your attention to the deplorable condition of your treasury at this time. The salaries of this officer of the Supreme Lodge have not been paid since September 1912, and when the session convenes at Baltimore, you will find an enormous deficit, that can only be met by wise legislation, and proper regulation of expenses. Already one Grand Lodge has been forced to protest against what it terms unjust taxation, and it remains for the Representatives at the Baltimore session to exercise their very best wisdom in dealing with this question as well as the question of adjusting the manner of handling our finances, either by reducing our expenses or increasing our revenue by wise legislation, in order that the several departments of the Supreme Lodge may be self-sustaining. There is no other organization in this broad country today that is successfully operating upon the loose financial methods used by our Supreme Lodge. The recent experience of the True Reformers should be a sufficient warning to all. ORDER TAXED AND OVER-TAXED order has been taxed and over-taxed, until his ship has almost reached the breaking point on to page 292 of the minutes of the the following resolutions presented by the D. G. C. of Michigan to be acted upon by the Baltimore session this year. "Paragraph ended. To provide a revenue for the Supra- tax on each member of the Order, and cla- sed by it, and taxes from Subordinate the jurisdiction." 10, to be amended to read as follows: or shall pay to the Supreme Lodge, by an Subordinate Lodges thereof, a tax not to be and each Grand and Subordinate Lodge sums as may be fixed in the by-laws of all work or supplies so ordered must be on date of delivery." over-taxed, until the patient and the breaking point, and I the minutes of the 1911 seas ons presented by Sir Francis be acted upon by the Supre year. "Paragraph 6, of Art venue for the Supreme Lodge the Order, and charges for from Subordinate Lodges. u read as follows: "Each men mee Lodge, by and through coef, a tax not to exceed 10 c subordinate Lodge shall pay in the by-laws of the Supre ordered must be paid for w The Order has been taxed and over-taxed, until the patience of the membership has almost reached the breaking point, and I call your attention to page 292 of the minutes of the 1911 session, which bears the following resolutions presented by Sir Francis H. Warren, D. D. G. C. of Michigan to be acted upon by the Supreme Lodge at the Baltimore session this year. "Paragraph 6, of Article 1, to be amended. To provide a revenue for the Supreme Lodge by means of a tax on each member of the Order, and charges for supplies furnished by it, and taxes from Subordinate Lodges, under its immediate jurisdiction." Article 10, to be amended to read as follows: "Each member of the Order shall pay to the Supreme Lodge, by and through the Grand and Subordinate Lodges thereof, a tax not to exceed 10 cents per annum, and each Grand and Subordinate Lodge shall pay for supplies such sums as may be fixed in the by-laws of the Supreme Lodge, and all work or supplies so ordered must be paid for when ordered, or on date of delivery." THAT PROPOSED AMENDMENT. have resolution proposals to amend your S weeks to relieve our financial strains and to amend your Supreme Co nancial straits and give to The above resolution proposes to amend your Supreme Constitution, and seeks to relieve our financial strains and give to the PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and Most Attractive Photos, at a Nine Midwestern Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Appointment Field to Children, Holding and Cropping Interior View Work. We will also be Planned to Quote you Prices on Interior and from Old Photos, A Specially. Geo. 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It will produce a revenue of about $15,000 annually that with the sale of supplies and the control of a rogalia and printing plant, with proper regulations will place the Supreme Lodge on a sound financial footing. Article X of the original laws, adopted, amended and published in 1880 in 1886 read as follows: "Each Grand Lodge shall pay to the Supreme Lodge the sum of $125 annually for each representative to which they are entitled, etc. and to make annual returns to the Supreme Keeper of Records and Beal with same." The collection of $25.00 biennially, is inadequate and there should either be an increase in representative tax or a new law enacted creating a per capita tax upon the membership as outlined in the foregoing paragraph. Since I have been your Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, I have built up a splendid revenue from the supply department, and made several efforts to direct your attention to the advisability of operating a National Supply and Regalia House, and I again urge here, there is no good reason why certain officers should be operating Regalia Houses for their personal benefit when the Order needs the revenues from sales for its maintenance; that if you are not in a position to start a plant equipped and owned by the Supreme Lodge, you should at least control the sales of supplies and regalia to Grand Lodges and members of the Order, through the office of the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, in order that the Supreme Lodge may receive its just portion of the revenue derived from its influence and membership, by private concerns, as is the case at present. FINANCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE ALTERED. he should be some alteration in your financial system, amount of revenue coming into the organization, investment fund, and if the Supreme Chancellor is this fund as at present, collecting and paying it, certainly not good business sense to permit him Finance Committee to audit his own accounts, and indent, and subject to removal by him at any time, to render the Supreme Lodge honest. This is a burning issue and ought to be remedied once to the last session without reports, some vouchers missing, acknowledging their careless make proper reports for two years, while the overseeking all these flagrant violations of the attempting to find flaws in the books and a Keeper of Records and Seal, which after all, admit were properly kept, an examination by her shown. Supreme Lodge owed $13,000 and had only $2 pay it, and it was paid, my books must show me from to pay it with, if I am to live up to my and honored officer of the order. I refuse to continue to perform my duties fearlessly as God are the right. There should be some alteration in your financial system. The largest amount of revenue coming into the organization is through the Endowment fund, and if the Supreme Chancellor is to continue handling this fund as at present, collecting and paying them out at will, it is certainly not good business sense to permit him to appoint its own Finance Committee to audit his own accounts, as they are not independent, and subject to removal by him at any time, which of course unfit them to render the Supreme Lodge honest, efficient service. This is a burning issue and ought to be remedied at once. Officers came to the last session without reports, some with their books and vouchers missing, acknowledging their carelessness and failure to make proper reports for two years, while the Finance Committee, overlooking all these fragrant violations of the law, were losing time attempting to find flaws in the books and accounts of the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, which after all, they were forced to admit were properly kept, as examination by experts had previously shown. If the Supreme Lodge owed $13,000 and had only $8,000 with which to pay it, and it was paid, my books must show where the money came from to pay it with. If I am to live up to my obligations as a man and honored officer of the order, I refuse to conceal it and shall continue to perform my duties fearlessly as God gives me wisdom to see the right. Our Finance Committee was free to act, the above possibly exist and your Supreme Chancellor will to enforce the law and the recommendations of one duty it is to rigidly examine the books and documents without fear or favor to any one, then orders and The Supreme Lodge would soon be rest above suggestions if approved will sufficiently meet the present demands. The facts I have plainly put before you, I trust full stature of your manhood at the Baltimore in taking such steps as will secure the future organization, and thus enable those who trust me to say: "I shall not fear." If your Finance Committee was free to act, the above conditions could not possibly exist and your Supreme Chancellor would be in a position to enforce the law and the recommendations of the Committee whose duty it is to rigidly examine the books and determine the expenditures without fear or favor to any one, then confidence in the Officers and The Supreme Lodge would soon be restored. I believe the above suggestions if approved will sufficiently amend our laws to meet the present demands. With the facts I have plainly put before you, I trust you will rise to the full stature of your manhood at the Baltimore session, and assist in taking such steps as will secure the future of our beloved organization, and thus enable those who trust you with their interests to say: "I shall not fear." He holds no parley with unmanly fears. Where duty bids, he confidently steers; Faces a thousand dangers at her call. And, trusting in his God surmounts them all. Yours in F. C. & B., C. K. ROBINSON, S. K. of R. & S. nock Evelyn wore a little chain and locket. In it y pearl. It's a beautiful pearl," said daddy. "I wonder e pearls come from?" Evelyn thought they came from the jeweler's. "That's where we buy them," he said. I want to know is where the jeweler gets them." Evelyn looked at one another. They did not know. N her neck Evelyn wore a little chain and locket. In the locket was a tiny pearl. "It's a beautiful pearl," said daddy. "I wonder if you know where pearls come from?" Jack and Evelyn thought they came from the jeweler's shop. Daddy agreed to this. "That's where we buy them," he said. "But what I want to know is where the jeweler gets them." Jack and Evelyn looked at one another. They did not know. "Since you do not know, let me tell you that the lovely pearl comes out of the ugly gray oyster. "The pearl is really made by the oyster. As the little shellfish rests on the bed of the ocean bits of sand sometimes get into the shell. "The grain of sand annoys the oyster, for it rubs against its soft skin. So the oyster covers the grain of sand with a watery stuff which its skin sheds whenever anything hurts it. "Now, the watery stuff soon hardens, and when it hardens whatever is coated with it has a nice white shell over it. Each day the oyster puts on another coat until the grain of sand had grown to be a large round pearl. "Then one day the fisherman comes along with his net, and the little gray oyster is dragged from his ocean home and cast into the bottom of the fisherman's boat. When the shell is fried open by the fisherman he sees the lovely pearl inside and carries it away to sell to the jeweler. "Then the jeweler takes the pearl and places it in a piece of jewelry, perhaps into aocket. "Now that I have told you what makes the pearl, let me speak of a little tale the Petalans tell about it. They know that the pearl really comes from the oyster, but have a pretty account for its being in the shell. "They say that the oyster is a very good little shellfish, and every night when the sun goes down and the moon rises the oyster comes up and floats on the top of the water. "There it opens its shell so that one side stands up like a sail, and as it drifts along the oyster says its prayers." "Way up on high where the angels are watching the world and listening to the prayers as they float up in one angel that is there to listen to the prayers of God's dumb creatures. "And as the poor little oyster, the humblest of created things, thanks God for the food that he has given it and the home he has made for it in the waters of the great ocean a tear falls from the angel's eye on to the shell of the oyster. And that tear becomes a pearl." It Malta Concrete, Concrete "runs" undef the action of he oxyacetylene torch, the beat of which is intense. There should largest amount of the Endowment for handling this fund will. It is certainly our own Finance not independent, of course unfit the service. This is Officers came to books and vouche failure to make Committee, overlie losing time attend the Supreme Keep forced to admit w previously shown. If the Supreme which to pay it, money came from as a man and host and shall continue wisdom to see the. If your Finance could not possibly a position to enforce the expenditures in the Officers and believe the above laws to meet the face rise to the full st and assist in taking beloved organizat their interests to the He Wh Face And The Man Placed It In Jewelry. The Man Placed it in Jewelry. N her neck Ea a tiny pearl. "It's a b where pearls Jack and Evelyn agreed to this. "That "But what I want Jack and Evelyn l "Since you do not the ugly gray oyster. "The pearl is really bed of the ocean blits o some alteration in your financial system. The revenue coming into the organization is through and if the Supreme Chancellor is to continue at present, collecting and paying them out at good business sense to permit him to appoint committee to audit his own accounts, as they are subject to removal by him at any time, which to render the Supreme Lodge honest, efficient writing issue and ought to be remedied at once a constant session without reports, some with their missing, acknowledging their carelessness and our reports for two years, while the Finance all these flagrant violations of the law, were to find flaws in the books and accounts of Records and Seal, which after all, they were properly kept, as examination by experts had theodge owed $13,000 and had only $8,000 with it was paid. my books must show where theay it was paid. my books must show where the officer of the order. I refuse to conceal it perform my duties fearlessly as God gives me it. SHOULD BE FREE TO ACT. committee was free to act, the above conditions put and your Supreme Chancellor would be in the law and the recommendations of the Com- to rigidly examine the books and determine out fear or favor to any one, then confidence in Supreme Lodge would soon be restored. I questions if approved will sufficiently amend our present demands. have plainly put before you, I trust you will be of your manhood at the Baltimore session, much steps as will secure the future of our and thus enable those who trust you with "I shall not fear." Yours in F. C. & B., C. K. ROBINSON, S.' K. of R. & S. Daddy's Bedtime Story Where the Little White Pearl Comes From. wore a little chain and locket. In the locket was ful pearl," said daddy. "I wonder if you knew e from?" right they came from the jeweler's shop. Daddy here we buy them," he said. now is where the jeweler gets them." at one another. 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Prayer girds buman weakness with divine strength, turns hue man folly tnte heavenly wisdom and’ gives to troubled mortals the peace of God.-Spurgeon, ALL manner of good deeds, good exainples. religious forms and Instiutions—all these, in thelr Aifferut wags, xo to swell the current of our good thoughts, Tue atl! to us Christinus there fre twe sources, two springs more especially sacred and im- “portunt, and these are the foun- tains of morning and ertning Drayer.—Dean Stanley. Yea, every morning ax day + breaks over Olivet The holy name of Allah ‘comes from every minaret, At ctery eve the mellaw call « fonts on the quiet alr: . “Lo, God ts God! Before tim come, hefore him come, for prayer!" " + +Joho Plerpont. AN IMMORTAL. E tckied with a straw the hind legs of a mule that kitked; Me ate a lot of mushrooms that he went alone and picke, He sayly blew into the muzzio of am emp: ty gun And went oug in a motorboat ne hadn't learned to run. . Ue monkeyed with a awarin of bees ere they were anfely hived, Ue dida’t find the depth of muddy water ere he dived; ‘ He spent his winters in the north, hin | mummers Sn Ue south: He petted a strance dus that had white foam abaut ite mouth: He moked before hin breakfast, an} be ‘rank before he diped: : Cucumbers and ico cream were the dest funcheon he could find; Ha slept behind closed windows Ia a fully feather bed, And he lived to be a hundred, and today he fan't dead. . - His eye ie clear, his step ts firm: he'n + sound tn wind and iimb, Death thinks ‘twould be a shame to take an idiot like him —Ted Robinzon in Cleveland Main Dealer. © She Supposed Richtly. She was a little girl, and-would ask queations. . > “Ma,” she beran. “what does franz atinatic mean: . “Aerees the ocean.” replied her long wefering mother tery shortly. A long silence. broken only by the feritgting round of a book's leaves be Ing turned rapidly backward and for. ward. Then? - > “Ma, docs ‘trans’ always mean acronsT’ : 3 : “Yes, {t docs. always,” answered the Mttle girl's mother, and added aternty: “Rot if yoo ask mo another question Taball send you atraight to bed. 80 re member!” : The second. silence was complete and ‘Iaited quite three neconds. Te wax broken at iist by a plaintive small “voice, which commented rumingtively “Then 1 suppose transparent means a croxa parent?"~Weekly Telegraph, He Know What He Wanted. 0 ee vg <a oF mE +1 Cy , es fe FS \. A A Nal a : “Telephone I want some. milk." — Greater Than King. Mra, Do Timid tat swell hoteh—TI ber pardon, but did you not ray you were ptesonte] to the King qurtug your tour abroad? Her Neighbor—Yer, madam. Mra, Do Timid—And you spoke of other experiences of a lke nature? Her Neighbor—I was presented to several of the crowned hends of Eu- rope, talked with many of the great Senerals and noted diplomats and was RYANted An audiénce with the pope. Mrs, De Timid—Weren't you scared? Her Netghbor—Not at alt Mrs. Do Tiinld—Then. if you are not afraid, 1 wish you would tell the head walter that this*salt box. is ‘empty.— Birmiugham News Money- Versus Lives. . “Tho julze of a Texas county: wan also cashier of’the town: pank. One day.n stranger presented a check for Payment, aud his evidence of {dentit- cation was not, satisfactory, “Why, judge." said the man. “I've known you to sentence men to prison for fe on no better evidence than this.” * | “Ehat may be true." replied the Jadge, “but when It comen to handing out ‘coll caxb we havo to be mighty careful."~Raltimore San. . ‘ The New Modes. “Tnele Henry," aska the sweet crea- tore appenring before that gentieman in ono of the newert “creations” {n the way of frocks, “how do you Nko my wew, Kown * “ “Well.” grombles the erizied old taizanthrone. “son're anfe in one ne spect. Nobwly cin hate you arrested for carrying concealed wepona”— Life. _- How to Make Comfort Protector. 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How ho came. to love the other in chikthood fs tok! by a writer: “It uppears that Gambetta had noch a dislike to Kolng to school that he said to his father that unless he were taken from schoolhe would poke one of hin eres ont His father in aixted-on hia remaining on at school, whereupon Gambetta did as he bad threatened to do, and on bis father remonatrating with him he said that if bin father sent him back again to schoot he would pokp the other eyo quot Such a Getermined ebaracter was he that hin fatber had finally to give way to bim.” | * Didett irritate Him. | Bere ts a glimpse of the seamy she of Hfe tn Cornwall from the Cormtat Magazine: “(Um afratd, Jenny, you trritute your huaband with your long tongue.” “Aw, no, my dear Migs Vivian, I'd never say nawthen toen Tother day T was ‘ome waltini-for'n to come ‘ome to supper. -Elght o'clock come, an’ no Jan; 9 o'clock come, atit no Ink; 10 o'clock come, an’ no Jon I put up mo bonnet an’ shoal an’ went to crery kiddly wink tn town thout Dyke Win. sors, “When TI come there, there wal dan. 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Gurry, invoking the validity of the passage by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City of what is generally known as the segregation ordinance. The opinion was written by Judge Constable and is supplementary to the per curam opinion which declared in brief terms that the ordinance was invalid, but indicated the character of ordinance on the subject that would not be declared invalid by the Appeal Court. In part the opinion in the lower court says. There can be no question that this being a penal ordinance must be strictly construed, but this rule is open to the limitation that the construction must not be an unreasonable or forced one." In the opinion of the court we find this language: "In an effort to interpret these rections (1 and 2) we are forced to the conclusion that the thing prohibited is the residence of a white person in a block occupied, in whole or in part, by colored persons, or the residence of a counted person in a block occupied in whole or in part, by white persons." From which and also other portions of the opinion it is apparent that the words "in whole or in part" were taken to modify the word "block." But this is a construction to which we cannot accede. Although the casual reading of these two sections the language does apparently admit of this construction, nevertheless, upon close scrutiny it is clear that the words "in whole or in part" were used to modify the words "residences or places of abode." Therefore, the meaning of the language of the sections is plain that the thing prohibited is, that when the buildings on a block "so far as the same are occupied or used as residences or places of abode" by the members of one race, that no member of the other race shall occupy any building on that block as a residence. Although language could have been used to make the meaning clearer, we are of the opinion that these sections are free from uncertainty, and therefore it was an error to have declared the ordinance void for that reason. CONFLICT WITH CHARTER The applier contends that the ordinance is in conflict with sections 221 of the City Charter where it is provided: "Every ordinance enacted by the city shall embrace but one subject, which shall be described in its title etc." This has been declared to be and adaptation of article 2, section 29 of the State Constitution. There have been so many adjudictions upon that section that there can no longer be any doubt as to its correct interpretation and what was said in Gans vs. Carter, 77 Md. 1, seems to be applicable here. "We have but a word to say and that is to repeat what we have so often said, that the object of this chapter was to prevent the embodying into the same act distinct and separate matters of legislation, having no connection whatever with each other and matters not referred to in the title." The main question in this case arises over whether the provisions of this ordinance are in conflict with article 23 of the Bill of Rights or the Constitution of Maryland, and the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Upon whether or not this ordinance is a valid exercise of the police power must depend upon its enforceability. That the city has the power under its charter to pass ordinances in the exercise of police power, equal to legislative enactments, must be regarded as settled in this state since the case of Rossberg vs. State, 111 MdL., 354. The legislative grant is a grant of all the power commonly known as the police power, to the same extent as the state has or could exercise said power within said limits. If then the legislature could pass a statute under the police power of the state, providing for the segregation of the races, as we think it could there would seem to be no doubt that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore can pass a valid ordinance having the same end in view. It is true, however, that some distinction is made between statutes passed by the legislature and ordinances passed by the municipality under the police power, as the court must undoubtedly take into consideration reasonableness of the ordinances and determine whether any of these are so unreasonable or oppressive that the legislature did not intend to empower the municipality to enact them as they stand. SUPREME CUURT ACTION. "The Supreme Court has, times almost without-number been called upon to pass upon laws enacted, by the states upon matters relating to their internal government, and has given expression to the meaning to be ascribed to the police power. In the slaughter house case, 16 Walls, 62, which were the first cases involving a construction of the fourteenth amendment, the court said: "This power is and must be from its very nature incapable of any exact definition or limitation. Upon it depends the security of social order, the life and health of the citizens, the com- fort of an existence in a thickly populated community, the enjoyment of private and social life and the beneficial use of property." It is not, nor can it be contended that the fourteenth amendment took from the states the police power they possessed at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. They now possess the power to the same extent, subject, of course, to the fundamental principles of civil rights. It does not deprive the states of the rights to preserve order within their limits, to pass laws against crimes and punish offenders, to regulate relations between individuals, to control for the public good the use of private property, to protect the health, life and safety of the people, and to that end, not only to enact suitable legislation, but to destroy property that is dangerous to the well being of the state. There is, however, the constant warning present that the exercise of the power must not be unreasonable, but must be enacted in good faith for the promotion of public good, and not for the oppression of any one or any particular class. As we have seen the avowed object of the ordinance is to preserve peace, prevent conflict and ill-feeling between the two races and thereby promote the welfare of Baltimore. The means employed are that blocks which were occupied by colored people exclusively should continue to be occupied by them exclusively, and that blocks occupied by white people exclusively should so continue to be occupied by them. NO DISCRIMINATION. The ordinance does not legislate on what were "mixed blocks," those occupied by members of the two races, and it cannot be truly said that there is any discrimination in the ordinance against the colored race. Indeed, in its practical operation it would be more burdenome on white people than on colored people, for it is well known that white people own the great bulk of property in Baltimore city, and alike where the property of one colored person would be adopted by such an ordinance, those of many more white people would be. If the welfare of the city, in the minds of the council, demanded that the two races should be thus, to this extent separated and thereby a cause of conflict removed, the court cannot declare their action unreasonable. It was acknowledged by counsel for the appellee that for years there has been more or less friction resulting from the occupancy by colored people of houses in blocks herefore occupied wholly by white people. In this state, as well as in a number of others, there has been a statute in force for many years prohibiting marriages between white and colored persons. The Supreme Court of the United States has recognized the right of a state to pass such a law and also the right of a state to establish separate schools for white and colored children and to require the segregation of the white and colored races in public conveyances. The first five sections of the ordinance do not depend for their validity upon the remaining sections which legislate on subjects permane- but, not essential to, sections 1 and 2. As the indictment is for alleged violation of Section 2, which is in the proper language of Section 1 (excepting the latter is applicable to white persons and the former to colored persons) these two are the most important sections for consideration. The serious objection to them is that they wholly ignore all vested rights which existed at the time of the passage of the ordinance. Prior to that time any white person had the undoubted right, not only to own, but to move into and use as a residence or place of abode granted by what in Section 1 is made colored block, and a colored person had the same right. If the traverser on May 15, 1911, when the ordinance was passed, owned a dwelling in what was made a white block he could not under the ordinance move into it, although it was perfectly lawful for him to own it when he became owner, and to use it as a dwelling. He might be unable to rent it to a white person and as a colored person was prohibited from moving into it, he could not rent it to a colored person, and he could not under the ordinance move into it himself. CONTROL OF PROPERTY. We do not lose sight of the fact that the absolute control of property by an owner may be subjected to reasonable regulations under the police power of the state. An owner of a house cannot establish a hawdy house or other nuisance because he is the owner of it. He may be prohibited from selling intoxicating liquors in it and from doing a great many other things, although when he acquired it he had, under the Constitution and laws of Maryland, a right to do some of these things. It might be that a white person had a valuable and attractive house in a block which was otherwise occupied by colored persons, yet if, at the passage of this ordinance it was unoccupied, he could not move into it himself or rent it to white persons. This would be practical confiscation of his property, for his house might be of the character that he would not rent it to a colored person. The same condition might arise where the owner of the house was colored and the rest of the residents of the block white. Under section 1 and 2 of the ordinance the most serious consequence might follow their adoption, and rights, which have always existed be taken away by the action of the municipality. Without considering the question of whether it would be possible for the legislature itself to take away these rights, we deem the provisions as they were passed too unreasonable to permit us to assume that the legislature intended to confer the power to thus affect the vested rights. A practical difficulty in the enforcement of sections 1 and 2, which occurs to us is the lack of any provision in the ordinance for some sufficient public notice of what blocks are affected, which are to be white and which colored. Unless there be some record giving the necessary information there would probably be great confusion in the examination of titles and passing on the rights of purchasers, even if no difficulties arise in the enforcement of such section. We do not understand why in section 3 the exception was limited to domestic servants or just how comprehensive that term was intended to be. It would be difficult to include caretaker, chauffeur or janitor in the term "domestic servants," but as the validity of the ordinance is thereby affected we will not discuss that further. As the case before us does not involve the provisions of Sections 6, 7, 8 and 9 we will not discuss them separately, or pass upon the validity vol non of such provisions as the delegation of power attempted by Sections 6 and 7 to property owners, etc., but for the reasons stated we will affirm the judgment. AN ACTIVE PERSON To purchase 1/2 interest and assist in the management of the Hotel DALE; the largest, and most modern equipped Negro Hotel in the country. For particulars write E. W. DALE, Cape May, N. J. A Battle Scene which is Realistic. Burning of the Cary Homestead. A trial by Court Martial in Which the famous historical personage figures General U. S. Grant. FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CONSIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK FIFTY PEOPLE ON THE STAGE--FIFTY. The Greatest Battle Scene ever Produced on the Stage. Do You Know Her? I would like to know the whereabouts of Frances Taylor. I am her sister Lucy Ewell. When I just saw her she had two children, the older girl's name was Betsy Ann Taylor. This was about thirty years ago. I would like to know of the pastor of the Second Baptist Church if he knows of a minister by the name of Roy Ewell who was pastor of a church in Richmond, Va. about thirty years ago. Kelly Miller's Monographic MAGAZINE. Any information concerning Frances Taylor or Row Ewell will be appreciated. Address, MRS. LUNY SIMON, 2:22 Teladona Street, New Orleans, La Want to Locate Her Father. Mrs. Daisy Taylor is very anxious to locate her father or some of her relatives. Mr. Phil Taylor, her father was a resident of Lynchburg, Va. She has been from Lynchburg Va. about twelve years. Any information will be thankfully received. WILLIAM T. JORDAN 1560 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. DO YOU KNOW THEM? Dial in Oklahoma. A. B. Johnson, formerly of Mecklenburg county, Va. is reported to have died at Novata, Oklahoma. Sunday, August 24, 1918. He was 76 years of age and it is desired to know the whereabouts of his children. He had not heard from any of them for many years. He spoke of one of his children as Etta Johnson. He left some property. Send information to J. J. Rose, Novata, Oklahoma. Do You Know Them? I had a mother and two sisters, in Richmond. My mother's name was Mahala. She is dead. The oldest sister's name is Merenda, the other's name is Margaret or Marigle. We used to belong to Jacob Woodson. When I saw them, just it was in 1862, fifty years ago. If they are not living they may have children and if I find them it will be through colored people taking in, paper. You're truly, GEORGE CRAWFORD Robertson Co., Hearne, Texas. Is second to none of its size in equipment Safety brings Confidence and Confidence brings Business. Do You Know Him? A young colored man whose name is Henry Thompson was found dead at Nicholson, Pa., Monday, September 8th, 1913. In his pocket was a letter addressed to his mother, Mrs. Mary Thompson, 126 Forston Ave. East of the city of Richmond, Va. The authorities are dearths of finding her. His remains are in the morgue, awaiting the action of his relatives. ```markdown ``` J. H. CARLTON. P. O. Box 232. Nicholson, Pa. Jan. 15—Ellizabeth Johnson, Myrtle Court, No. 106....1 Feb. 8—Emma Lee Marable, Fearless Court, No. 142 Feb. 19—Rachel A. Burns, Staunton Court, No. 76 March 7—Martha Branch, Arneta's Court, No. 72 March 22—Charlotte Yearby, Pride of East Court, No. 56 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—Matilda Hall, Unity Court, No. 132 April 22—Tahilon Skinner, Golden Rule Court, No. 86 April 28—Elizabeth M. 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