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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY OCT. 27 1913 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Memorial to the President of the United States. October 18, 1913. Honored Sir: In the name of the Constitution League of the United States, (Incorporated), composed of Citizens without regard to Race, Sex, Creed or Party. I beg respectfully to make representations to you in regard to the unfair, humiliating, degrading and, I think, unlawful treatment which your colored fellow Citizens are receiving under your administration. Colored men were members of the Convention which nominated you. Colored Citizens were generously admitted to the Convention Hall and some sat on the platform. You were elected to your high office through the united efforts and votes of both your white and colored fellow Citizens. The distinguished gentlemen having charge of your Campaign, made special appeals to colored voters, and in order to accomplish results, they established special Headquarters in Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago and Denver. Every assurance was given of fair, just and equal consideration for colored Citizens in the event of your election. The collection of your Campaign was hold of every sign or token of discrimination on the ground of Race or color. There was the heartiest, most friendly co-operation between the white and colored men who championed your Cause before the American people. In your letter to the Rt. Rev. Baldwin Alexander Wallace, President of the National Colored Democratic League, you, yourself, specifically pledged 'just,' 'fair,' and 'equal' treatment to your 'colored fellow Citizens.' During the progress of the Campaign you gave similar assurances to other colored men. It seems conclusive that the elimination of the Race Issue achieved your elicitation. I long respectfully to say that many white and colored Citizens believed, that as you were a man of Southern birth and Northern opportunities, posing the broadest scholarship and culture, with the gift of Statesmanship, that you would bring to bear, on the Race question, the best and most patriotic thoughts of both South ern and Northern life. And also, that you were ideally circumstanced to wipe out the Negro question as a factor in American politics by the faithful recognition of the mandates of the Constitution of the United States, and by their fearless and impartial execution and enforcement. At the moment when all should be 'quiet on the Potomac.' I do not think it is necessary to force the people for me to say that the colored people of the United States, are more wrought up and alarmed, at this time, over their rights and liberties than at any period since their Emancipation. This is due: 1. To the removal of competent colored men from offices, in several of the States, which they had filled by National appointment for years. 2. The removal of competent colored men from offices, held under the National appointment, in Washington. 3. The refusal to appoint colored men to Diplomatic Posts, which had for more than a generation been held by members of the Race. 4. The degradation imposed on colored men and women in several of the Departments of the Government, through the practices of segregation and "Jim Crowism." Colored clerks being taken from desks and from rooms and segregated. Colored clerks being denied equal use of the lunch counters, the lockers, toilers, etc. Such discriminations against equal Citizens are extremely humiliating and degrading and destructive to the fundamental law. The letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States prohibit discrimination on account of Race and color. Discrimination then, whether against white on colored is unlawful. These discriminations and degradations, so fragrantly imposed on the Negro people, have brought the Race Issue again before the country, in its most acute form. The great body of the people of the Nation will not stand for such gross injustice and oppression. If continued, the Race question will again become paramount in National politics and revive the bitterness of Sectionalism. I respectfully submit that this question can never be settled until it is settled right. In the name, then, of the Constitution League of the United States, and I may venture to say, in the name of the Liberty-loving, Christian and Patriotic people of the Republic, I would most respectfully appeal to you, as the President of the whole people, to take such steps as in your good judgment, would remedy these torrible wrongs against the Negro people. A people whose loyalty, faithfulness and service to their country in Peace and in the stress of War have never been questioned. A people whose life is always on the altar of their country. With assurance of our most high regard, I beg to subscribe. You're most obediently, WM. A. SINCLAIR. Nat'l. Field Secy. Dr. Woodson Lectures at Howard. On the fifteenth of this month Dr. C. Woodson of the M Street High School delivered before the Faculty of Howard University an unusually interesting and instructive lecture on the "Early History of the Education of Negroes." The discourse was a brief but scholarly survey of this field, in which he has been making researches during the last two years. Dr. Woodson is sending to press this year a volume in which he has traced the development of the eductor of negroes from the time of their emancipation to the first European settlers to the outbreak of the Civil War. He has made a large collection of original material which in the organized form he has given it, reads like beautiful romances of a people in an heroic age. --- Injured in Automobile Wreck. Running full tilt against a telegraph-pole on the Peterburg Turnpike, about four miles from Richmond, an automobile containing six colored passengers was overturned Friday night. October 17th and all were caught underneath. The car was driven by Wallace Hock, of 233 St. James Street. Two automobiles, one of them belonging to W. L. Johnson, colored, and the other having been rented from J. L. Lang, were returning to Richmond together when the accident happened. Johnson's car was following, and the men in it lifted the wrecked car from the others, all of whom were fatally hurt, and brought them to Richmond. Lang's automobile came in with twelve passengers, and at Fourth and Cary Street a tire was punctured. Policeman Jennings went down to investigate, and learned of the accident. He found that William Ellis, of 109 West Leigh Street, was seriously hurt, and summoned the city ambulance. Dr. J. M. Cofer took Ellis home. Hock was also hurt and all the others in the wrecked car were badly shocked and shaken up. Rev. Dr. Walter H. Brooks Here. Rev, Walter H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the 19th Street Baptist Church Washington, D. C. was in the city this week. He conducted services at the Moore St. Baptist Church last Sunday and Monday nights where he preached to large and appreciative audiences. Sunday School Room of 3rd St. A. M. K. to be Reopened Sunday. Special Services all day. Special Services all day. Preaching 11 A. M. and S P. M. by Rev. O. T. Day D. D., Presiding Elder of the Richmond District. 3:30 P. M., Platform Service. Mrs. O. T. Day, president of the Woman's Mite Missionary Society of Virginia will deliver the principal address. 7 P. M., Christian Endeavor League led by Miss Alice E. Smith. Monday night Trip Thru Two Hem japheres and Globe Circling Tour. Tour of the location of foreign nationers and customs at the culmination of the trip. Public Invited. Benefit Building Fund 3rd St. A. M. E. Church. PLATFORM SERVICE PROGRAM Hymn, congregation; prayer, hymn choir; recitation. Miss Pearl Mint; solo, Miss Mamie Dickens; introduction of speaker, Mrs. M. M. L. Morris; address, Mrs. J. E. Day, President B. J. H. Society; Society; solo, Miss J. M. Royall; collection; recitation. Miss Alice Sampson; solo, Mno. F. P. Clark. Fetally Burned Madeline Faller a four year old coloured child was fatally burned Sun day morning, 19th inst, at 6 o'clock, when her clothing caught fire while she was playing in the back yard of her parents' home, 739 N. Ninth St. While her mother was asleep in the house the child in some unknown manner got held of several matches. The flame from one of them evidently set fire to her dress. The mother was awakened by screams and she ran to the yard and smoothed the blaze, but not before the child had been burned over her entire body. Physicians were summoned, but their services were of no avail. She died at 2 o'clock. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1913. A Racial Parallel. Rev. A. J. Carey Wires Approval o Jews' Mass Meeting in Washing ton and Calls Attention to Wrongs of the Afro- American People. A great mass meeting was held in Washington City, Sunday night to protest against the action of the Russian government in prosecuting Mendel Bellis, a Jew of Kiev, charged with "ritual murder." Although it has many times been proven false this ritual murder lie has persisted against the Jews for hundreds of years. Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D., pastor of the Institutional A. M. E. Church, Chicago, sent the following telegram to the Washington mass meeting, ap proving the protest and calling attention to the similarity of the treatment of the Jews in Russia and the Colored Christians in the United States: "Greeting. May your protest prove effective. May God aid you in disproving for all time the infamous ritual murder lie. Caucasian Christians in this country have treated Colored Christians in about the same manner as Russian Christians have treated the Jews. Just now efforts are being made in some parts of the country to revive a form of the medeval ghettos from which your race has just emerged., and compel Colored Americans to reside therein. Ghettos are also active operation of the Government Department in Washington. Whole army are protesting against the wrongs of your race in Europe kindly say a word against the oppression, persecution, denial of civil rights, segregation, disfranchisement and mob murders of Colored Christians by Caucasian Christians in the United States." Tuskegee, Inst. Ala., Oct. 6, 12 To the Editor, The RICHMOND PLANET: As is often the case, I find that in my recent address before the National Baptist Convention in Nashville, I omitted the most important part. May I take advantage of your generosity to state that which I meant to have said in Nashville. It is this: Our race suffers immensely because of the constant repetition in the daily press of Negro crime and misfortune. In most cases when any member of our race is mentioned in the daily press it is usually because of some crime committed against that individual, or because of crime committed directly or indirectly by that individual. We should seek to overcome this hurtful influence by having in every community an organized effort in churches, business leagues and social and literary organizations that will fill the object putting into the daily press accounts of the progress of our people in material, educational religious and social directions. Some individual should be appointed in every community whose duty it is to give to the white press day by day and week by week in concrete, readable form the news concerning our race that indicates our progress in constructive directions. This will overcome the hurtful influence of the constant repetition of news relating alone to Negro crime. I am convinced that the daily press in the majority of cases publishes criminal news because of the absence of something better. We can not rely upon the reporters of the daily press to get this news. We must prepare it and give it directly to the papers ourselves. In all my experience in connection with the public press, I have never seen a case where a meeting of a Negro organization was so well and widely reported as was true of the National Baptist Convention recently held in Nashville. Each of the three daily papers in Nashville had a colored reporter present at all the sessions of the convention, and these colored reporters were given all the space in the newspapers that they wanted, in some cases four and five columns were printed for them. In this regard due credit should be given to the colored men who are making a business of reporting the proceedings of colored organizations. Due credit should be given to that persistent and worthy band of young colored men who have worked themselves up to the point where they have been designated as regular and paid reporters on the daily press. We should have such a reporter on over some newspaper or on some one whose duty it is to keep before the public the best that occurs in our race. All this will help immensely to change public opinion. (Signed) Booker T. Washington. To Probe Discriminations RACIAL PLOT VEILED Effort to Drive Negro From U. S. Service, Ruggers Heads (Wash., D. C. Post, Oct. 17.) Basing his action on "persistent and apparently authentic" statements that Norro employs of the Treasury and Postoffice departments are the victims of an "organized though naturally veiled" attempt to drive them from the government service. Representative John J. Rogers, a Republican of Massachusetts, yesterday asked the House to investigate the alleged discriminations. He introduced two privileged resolutions, which in a statement he described as "purely inquiries for information," one calling upon Secretary McAdoe and the other upon Postmaster General Burleson to give information as to any orders they may have issued looking to the segregation of the races in their respective departments. Mr. Rogers, in his statement, said that reports of attempt to drive Negroes from the service by subjecting them to humiliations and indignities had been brought to his attention for several weeks. "These reports," said he, "have not emanated exclusively from colored people, but from white employees of the government." SAYS METHODS ARE GUARDED. "Nomo six weeks ago," said Mr. Rogers, yesterday, "I prepared a resolution designed to bring out whether or not the colored employee of the departments were being discriminated against. Before I introduced this I was informed, apparently credibly, that the situation had been greatly ameliorated. A day or two ago, however, I was emphatically told it was still unchanged in its essence, though the methods were even more guarded than before. "The Treasury and the Postoffice were said to be the two departments where the alleged discrimination was most extensive. Omnials of the for mer with whom I talked did not enlighten me as to the facts. "I ought to say that it is far from my wish to prejudice the case. It may be that nothing worthy of civilism is going on. But we ought to know the facts, so that each may judge for himself whether any change is needed." Settling Church Row. Judge Jesse F. West, of the Third Judicial Circuit, was designated by Governor Mann yesterday to hold a part of the October term of the Hustings Court of the city of Petersburg to hear and determine the case of James Avery against Ell Tartte and others. Judge Mullen decided that it was improper for him to sit in this case, which involves the title to colored church property in Petersburg Judge West has before presided at preliminary hearings. The congregation has split into factions and the joint at issue is which one insists the church building and property. The church regulations provide for a majority rule in such contingency. This raises the question as to who is eligible to vote, and both sides charge that the church rolls have been padded, and that members who now claim the right to vote have at some previous time been expelled.—Times-Dispatch. Oct. 22. Harvest Home Coming Festival at Ashbury M. E. Church. The Great Harvest: Home Coming Festival will be celebrated one week at the Anbury M. E. Church, Twenty Fifth Street, between N and O Streets from October 27 to 31. The public is hereby cordially invited to a varied program nightly, and to view exhibits of bountious nature also to the privilege of purchasing at booths. President, Mrs. Ada Glasgow; Secretary, Mrs. Annie E. Epps; Treasurer, Mrs. Annie Polke; Door keeper, Ms. J. J. Williams. Rev. I. H. Carpenter, Pastor. Dr. Tsurrell's Great Work Rov. B. Tyrrell, A. M. the able pastor of the Diamond Hill Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Va. has succeeded in paying off the indebtedness of the church and has celebrated the event with a jubilant banquet. WHI Go to Moundsville Prison. Israel Edmunds the robbed letter carrier convicted of robbing the United States mallia was sentenced to four years in the United States Penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia; Thursday, October 16th by Judge Edmunds Waddill Jr. First Baptist Church of Newport News Calls Rev. Dr. James H. Burks of Roanoke, Va. The First Baptist Church of Newport News, Va. in regular meeting unanimously called to its pastorate, Dr. James H. Burkgs of Roanoke, Va. The church is to be congratulated upon the wisdom of its choice. Dr. Burks is a minister with a message, vision, power and conviction. He is able, consecrated, progressive. He is a highly respected minister in his city, the State and denomination. He was called pastor of High St. Church of Roanoke, Va. in 1902. During the eleven years of his pastorate the progress of this church has been phenomenal. He has added hurdles to the church, built up a strong influential presence for good is felt, by all the citizens of Roanoke. He has encouraged business enterprises and business and professional men have found in him a real friend. He has during his pastorate erected one of the finest church edifices and paraphrases of Virtinia. The church and paraphrase compile cost more than Forty thousand dollars ($10,000.00) and more than Twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) have been raised and paid. The members of the church are devoted to him and his family and his separation from them is a matter to be gravely considered. He is comforterly located, has the sympathy and co-operation of his congregation and the people of other congregations; so it will be a matter of grave consideration, he leaving Roanoke and High Street Church. It will be well to note that High Street Church is one of the leading churches of the State. Dr. Burke, Chairman of the Trustee Board of Virginia Theological Seminary and College and has done constructive work in his office. He is also Moderator of the Valley Baptist Association and as such has made it one of the most progressive Associations of the State. A Great Meeting. Bible Parade and Missionary Meeting Sunday, Nov. 2nd, at City Auditorium, 3 o'clock P. M. Every per son should be present and hear ad dresses by some of our best speakers both white and colored, off subjects touching our social, political and religious life. MEN WILL MARCH Every man is requested to meet at First and Leigh St. at 2:15 sharp with his Bible in hand and fall in line. The match will continue up Leigh to Hancock, to Broad, to Shafer, to Cherry, to Cary to the City Auditorium. 2000 men are expected to be in line. The Sunday School Children will be on the rostrum and sing to the delight of all. Special, solos and quartettes will be rendered by some of Richmond's best talent. Women are especially invited to attend this meeting and see that your husbands and sons attend. Special collection for missions. Usheres will be furnished by the Usher's Union of Richmond. Under the auspices of the Sunday School Union, W. P. Epps, President; Douglass Edwards, R. H. Thurston and Charles H. Hooper, Committee. Real Estate For Sale. I have just recently added to my sales list some very desirable properties that would make nice homes. The prices are right, and terms can be arranged. Inquiries invited. B. A. CEPHAS, Cor. 202 & Leigh St. Passed Away. Little Vera Murchison departed this life on Friday, October 14th at 3:30 P. M. after an illness of about 12 days. She was devoted very much to her mother. Vera was born August 30, 1912. She was bright in knowledge. Now she is very still and resting in Jesus' arms. She was much loved by many friends and neighbors. The home is in grief for the missing one. Her dear father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Murchison and four brothers, J. John, Peter, Samuel and Earl Murchison. She was buried from their home 2815 Gravier St. HARRIS—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother, Martha A. Harris, who died on July 22 1913, three months ago today. "Gone but not forgotten." —Children. Instantly Killed. C. A. Smoot (white), a car repairer, whose home is at Gladstone, Va. was struck and run over by a yard and 2 yards. Death was instantaneous. Grand Work at Lynchburg. Grand Work at Lynchburg. Virginia Theological Seminary and College has Largest Opening Enrollment. Virginia Theological Seminary and College began its twenty-fifth year with the largest enrollment in its history. The opportunity of this great institution to serve the public has not been equaled. Students come from far and near to have their mental, moral and spiritual life enlarged, bettered and conditioned to the higher and nobler activities of a progressive Christian civilization. They select Virginia Theological Seminary and College for what it offers, in unexcelled moral, mental and spiritual tone; in facilities, equipment, experienced and well prepared instructors and for what they get in racial ideas and ideals. All the departments of the institution are largely attended. The students represent good Christian homes, with good ideals and in each and every instance come highly recommended. The per cent. of former students returning, is above the average, while the per cent. of new students, is also above the average. The future holds great things in store for this institution. Students love the spirit of the institution; its tenets and doctrines are conducive to race building on the highest scale, fashioned after the highest ideals. They see both the opportunity to be educated and made useful in the best sense of the term usefulness. They are not educated in one environment and expected to serve in another. They do not have to start at the bottom when they go out in active service, and there and then learn racial ideals and conditions; but they are kept in vital touch with such, during the years of their training at Virginia Theological Seminary and College. This coupled with other numerous advantages offered by the institution at the training camp for racial leaders. The Faculty is well organized and doing splendid work. Three new members have been added. The building has been painted and other additions made which add materially to the physical appearance of same. The inside has also been renovated and generally repaired which adds to its comfort. GIRL'S DORMITORY The new dormitory for girls is now in progress. This building will have all the modern equipments: steam heat, electric light, hot, cold and shower baths. It will accommodate one hundred and fifty girls, contain in connection an auditorium with a seating capacity of seven hundred (770) people. The Virginia Baptist State and The Woman's Educational Conventions are working together to erect this magnificent structure. SUMMER DONATIONS The Summer vacation just closed has been a vigorous, attentive and successful one in the interest of Va. Theological Seminary and College morally and financially. The moral progress is attested in the large student body and again reflected in financial progress and general interest of the public. The financial success is shown in the following figures: Total amount raised from June to October 1st was Two Thousand. Three Hundred, Thirty-three Dollars and forty-two cents ($2,333.42). This does not include the money given by the Virginia Baptist State Convention in May nor the New Jersey Convention in the present month. The organizations donating and their amounts are as follows: New England Convention $150; Woman's Ed. Convention (of Va.); $140; Corner Stone S. S. Convention; $21.25; Mattaponi District S. S. Convention; $15.85; Central Baptist Church Dr. Howard, Pittsburgh); $21.25; Mattaponi District S. S. Convention; $31.87; Penn B. Y. P. U. Convention; $16.25; Valley Baptist Association, $15.30; Otter River S. S. Convention; $25; Rockfish Association; $34; Peaks of Otter Association; $106.12; Corner Stone Association; $70; State S. S. Convention; $677.50; State B. Y. P. U. Convention of Virginia; $102.50; Prof. Per- The amounts reported as coming from Prof. Pepton, Treasurer of True Board, includes the amounts sent up by the Tidewater Peninsula Association, and Tidewater Peninsula District S. S. Convention and other bodies that reported through Dr. Galvin. President of Virginia Baptist State Convention. We wish to thank; for our Board, PRICE, FIVE CENTS. all these organizations, their officers and members for their liberal contributions. We wish to thank, also, for our Board, all the agencies that helped in any way to raise this amount Deacon Adolphus Humbles, met as many of the organizations as possible and represented the work, we thank him, Dr. Galvin, President of State Convention, Dr. Burks, Chairman of the Board, and all the Board members for their aplendid aid in the cam pals. These above named brethren did excellent work to further the interest of our work. Thanking all and praying God's blessings upon you, I am Your humble servant. R. C. WOODS, Press, Vae, Theo, Scol. & Col. —Mrs. C. Braxton of Orange Va. has been the guest of Miss Nannie Price. —Mr. Samuel Taylor of Ruther Glen, Va. who has been very sick is improving. —Mrs. L. G. King of the Southside left the city last Saturday for New York to spend a few weeks. —Deacon Armuatead Washington has been confined to his residence at 1117 N. 5th St. He is improving. Correspondent Wanted. A Western boy, rich, handsome, dapper and debonair, who's "awfully lonesome," desires correspondence with a pretty, vivacious and accomplished girl, who is graceful, can sing dance, play piano and cook. Widows wall-flowers, firts and coquets brush by. State age, height, weight and send photo first letter to receive reply. Photos exchanged. Write to a lonesome boy 'way out West, girls, and send photo: you'll receive a long sweet, lovely letter. Address, J. G. J., Box 631, Detroit. WANTED SEVERAL INTELLI- GENT Colored Girls to distr ective circulares and talk up our prepa- rations. Address. MANIFACTOR- ELRS, P. O. Box, No. 24, Station B, City. 2t LOST—STRAYED FROM 604 EAST Grace Street October 11th, Lemon and White Female Pointer, wearing locked twisted steel chain collar, answers to name of LOU. Initial reward if returned to above address, or any information of her whereabouts. Phone Madison— 2442. R. E. For Rent. I have a long list of renters who are looking for suitable quarters. If you have any vacant property, or any that you expect to become vacant, I can fill it for you. I rent anything from a mansion. HA CERAMICS. (800) 222-6600. Notice. I hereby tender my resignation as Manager of the Branch Office of Virginia Beneficial Insurance Company to take effect 19th day of November next, 1913. W. E. WHITFIELD. Church Notice Rev. E. H. Polzin 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. HOME COMING WEEK! . And One Thousand Dollar Rally.. 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 Stockholder 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. A PERSON OF SOME IMPORTANCE By LLOYD OSBOURNE 5YNQPSIS Matt Broughton serves the service of John Minton on a Pacific Island to attempt to America. Mott is also a valuable ring-brougler, providing to his wife the white band of a ring that he wore in a pandion. He is also a skilled and more realist in San Francisco on the theatre. Raising Ruth on the ring is to be remembered. Broughton returns to the old home of Manawan. He throws up pieces into the mule business with Walter Dempsey, the manager of the farm. He is satisfied by the local editor, who calls his ring "ring." CHAPTER IV. "Always call me Chris." UT Mr. Doty was more to be trusted than Matt had thought; of a sudden he came bustling up like a rushing little tug towing two staterie ships. Browling introductions ensued. Matt found himself shaking hands with an imposing gentleness in with a white mustache; shaking hands with a young lady in blue foulard, whose dark, soft glance fingered curiously on his own. Matt hardly knew whether she was pretty or not-or at least very pretty. His first impression was more of graciousness, youth and breeding; of rather an impudent little mouth, parting continually on perfect teeth; of delicately penciled eyebrows, a nose slightly aquiline, and an abundance of glossy hair, which under the lamplight appeared darker than it really was. "I've met a considerable number of kings in my time," said the general genially, "but always glad to add another to the list you know. It's rather a reproach to us. I'm afraid, that we let the papers discover you first." "Oh, those papers!" exclaimed Matt. "But really, general, what is one to do? I might as well run after an express train as try to deny all that rubbish." "Nobody is safe in this country," agreed the general, with great good humor. "You can go to bed at night an honored citizen and wake up in the morning an alliterative outcast—Merciless Marshall Murders Maid or something equally surprising and unpleasant." "It's the smudgy pictures I hate most," put in Mia Marshall. "I've had mine stuck all round with little cupids shooting arrows into an unfortunate foreign nobleman." The general, still laughing at his own sally, was greeted and diverted by a passing acquaintance, affording Mitt the opportunity of asking Miss Marsh should if she would not like to make the round of the booths with him. Her face showed her pleasure at the proposal, and in her answering look so arch and eager, Matt seemed to read something that made him dizzy. She was more than pretty; she was exquisite, and the sudden realization of her beauty was not without a dart of pain. They moved about, talking-or, rather, trying to talk, for the noise and jostle caused constant interruptions, talking and hoping for chairs and sliding the general like a pair of trunches, all the white looking into each other's eyes and laughing. But there were no chairs; there was not an empty spot in the whole church except in the pulpit and that was set inaccessibly in mildair like a wooden lily on a long, twisted stem. Matt gazed at it much as a castaway sailor might gaze at an airship—an unmanned airship' drafting high above his head. But as he gazed his resolution grew, and he announced it rocklessly. "But they'll all see us!" cried Miss Marshall, against. "Only the tops of our headdress and they won't recognize us," said Matt. "And Mr. Doty will be scandalized- everbody will." "Oh, someone," said Matt. "It's the dickens to stand up here, with people digging into you and pestering you to buy beadwork pincushions, when you'd give everything in the world for a cozy talk." "A cory talk would be nice, wouldn't it? Though it would take an elephant to get through all"— "Come along. I'll be the elephant." The pulpit was reached by a spiral stair—or, rather, could be reached by pressing apart a stout lady gabbling to another stout lady, sweeping through five gauzy little girls and disturbing a mounting tier of sweethearts, two to a step. Had Matt not been in evening dress he would never have succeeded in dislodging these lovers, but his swallowtail was an awful unpleasant authority. Moreover, with quick pressure of mind that convulsed his companion, Matt announced that he was going to give a rendition, which alligned treatment Pierre "I'm almost sorry I came." and filled every one with delighted anticipation. The blockade was broken, and Matt had the supreme satisfaction of leading Miss Marshall into the pulpit. He would have put her on the chair—there was a chair—but she preferred the hassock, insisting at the same time that he should sit on the floor, they covered out of view, trying to join their laughter. "Now, I am more about those five times," said Matt. "What five times?" inquired Miss Marshall, provisionally insincero and with that pretty parting of her lips. "Oh, you know—what you said over the phone." "I'd rather hear about your first time." "That's easy. I came here expecting to find you adorable, and you are." "Mom say things like that just as little the boys say 'Get a horse, get a horse,' when you're stuck in a motor." "But you really and truly are, and—" "And what?" "In all seriousness, I'm almost sorry I came." "Oh, dear! Why? Isn't the great, splendid, swaggering king happy in his little pulpit?" It became Matt to look grave—became his strong features and well cut mouth. "I might like you too well," he said simply. "Would that be so dreadful?" "I'm afraid of life—afraid of deep emotions." "But you're got over them before?" "Not without scars." "Isn't that what life is, Mr. Broughton?" "Getting hurt and getting mended?" "No-looking for that other half of one." "Have you looked?" Miss Marshall nodded with an air of great seriousness. "I found him, only he was the wrong half—somebody else's half, you know—anyway, not mine. You mustn't think me so young. I am nearly twenty-three and have broken an engagement." "I suppose it would be horribly presumptuous to ask if I have any of the other half question?" "Oh, you want to make sure of a doughnut before trading in your cooky. My other half could never be so cautious." "But you do like me, don't you? You would scarcely have telephoned to me like that if you hadn't." "That's true. It was perfectly crazy of me and almost entitles you to think everything." "Everything? What's everything?" "That I meant more than I did." "What exactly did you mean?" "Oh, how you pin me down! It's so impossible to tell you! You never could understand." "Why not? I'm not so conceived as that. I am quite capable of under standing that a woman might like me m cents' worth, but not a dollar." "It's that very literalness that make it so impossible. Men-oh, how can I express it-men are everything so clearly, can express everything in different kinds of symbols and chart them in their mind like a barometer record or immigration statistics. We are hanker have more unformalized, all instinct with a tingle where you have a fact." "That's awfully clever. Go on." "Is it clever? You see, we're ever clever in the same haphaesar sort of way and hardly know it when we are. You came and I saw you and didn't think anything much about it except that you stayed in my head. Stayed and stayed, you know—not right out in front, but in a corner, like a hatbox your maid has forgotten to take away. And every time I saw you the hat box grew bigger and more worrying, till finally—" She broke off with a smile, adding lightly, "Oh, well, there's your doughnut, and now, please, I want my cooky." "It's a darling little doughnut," said Matt. "and instead of eating it I'm going to put it away in silver paper and keep it just to look at. And as for cookies—all I know is that the sweetest voice in the world said, 'Come to the church social tomorrow night,' and I came to the church social tomorrow night, where I found the sweetest voice in the world belonged to the sweetest girl in the world, and then everything seemed to go round and till till the sweetest girl in the world, who is also the cleverest girl in the world, suddenly became the only girl in the world, and—and—" "Yes, you'd better stop there," said Miss Marshall. "That isn't frankness, that's conventionality. A second later you'll be saying 'Love me and the world is mine.'" "Would that be so awfully ally?" asked Matt. "Not only silly, but bromidian." "Broadman? What's broadman?" "Repeating commonplaces, like a parrot." "Mayn't anybody say I like you without being called a parrot—or that bro-name?" "In good society Mr. Anybody never says that to Miss Somebody after an acquaintance so very brief as ours." "No short cuts allowed; is that the idea?" "Yes." "What's the most I could be permitted to say, then?-worrying? You said worrying, yourself." "It isn't quite fair to steal my word." "How clever one has to be—to like you. One mustn't say this; one mustn't say that; it's like a complicated game, and terribly beyond a poor sailor like myself. You must forgive me for being blundering and stupid. I hardly know anything about young white ladies." Miss Marshall laughed outright at being this described. "I never thought of myself as a young white-lady," she said, much entertained. "It sounds as funny to me as though you called me a young pink lady, or a young blue lady. Oh, dear," she went on softly, "I don't want to be too hard on my poor sailor, who's awfully nice and winning, even if he is stupid, and doesn't know the right word. Let's just admit that I like you and that you like me—and that perhaps in some queer way it was all inevitable." This unexpected admission made Matt's heart leap: again there was that dart of pain, that sense of overwhimming and somehow elusive happiness. The fragrance of that echancing young womanhood was in his brain. For a while he remained silent, as though under a spell he was lionth to break, "I don't believe I can laugh any more," he said at last, looking up strangely at his companion. "I don't believe I can even go on talking as we have done. I would like to go away as I did yesterday, and think, and think, and think." "That's what I did, too," he returned in a voice that was almost a whisper. "When great things happen one wishes to be alone, doesn't one? "Tell me your name," he said, still in that wondering tone. "It's incredible, but I do not know it." "Christine, though they call me Chris—always call me Chris." "And mine such a horrible one—Matthew—and it's always Matt, you know, which is even worse." "I like it. Matt and Chris—it sounds old fashioned, doesn't it, like one's Mayflower ancestors? And ye aforesaid Matthew was a young man of noble presence and of signal worth and understanding, withal sober and upstanding in the fear of God, ye whilof all ye pilgrim mails he chose one Christfino Marshall, avowing for her"—"Go on—don't stop there." But she did stop there, looking down at him with eyes like stars, all wonder and tenderness and shining, girl-like, with just a quiver of the pretty mouth. Alas for the lie that came back to roost, accompanied by a peremptory knocking on the pulpit panels, and the apparition of a very impatient young man in a high collar. "Say, brother, aln't you ever going to give us that there recitation?" "It has been unavoidably postponed," said Matt brazenly, rising, as Ms. Marshall did the same. He pleaded with her to remain a little longer, but she would not. It seemed that by this time the general would be as a nursing lion, and prudence dictated a return. They found him not exactly poising but certainly fretful, not to say empathy and his recognition of Matt was of the scantiest. "For heaven's sake let us get out of this place," he said, anothering an expletive. "You might have had some thought of the homes even if you hadn't for me. Come along." "Oh, papa, wait. I've invited Mr. Broughton to have tea with us tomorrow—about 4." Then she added to Matt. "Please come, won't you?" "Shall you forward to it," anapped the general, with the manner of a per son temporarily blocked in a burning THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. FTNE TAILORING CLEANING BYRING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE; inct. t." building. "Good night, good night." And with that and the pressure of a slender, gloved hand. Matt was left alone—more alone, so it seemed to him, to judge, rode and hiked, even of t. building. "Good night, good night." And with that and the pressure of a slender, gloved hand. Matt was left alone—more alone, so it seemed to him, to judge, rode and hiked, even of t. CHAPTER V. Heart Brook Hill. He rose the next day a very different man from the night before. A pitiless consideration of his circumstances, begun at dawn, and carried to the bath hour, had shown him facts as they wore—the dismalest facts imaginable and as gray as the first peep of that gray morning. Who was he, to be calling on aristocratic young ladies and whispering things in pretty pink cars? He whose fortune amounted to less than $1,500 and who had need to strive very energetically to keep his own somewhat large red cars above the engulfing waters. His business was industrially mules—not to linger in fools paradises, waste money and time, and drift into the most heartbreaking of false positions. He tried to put that sparkling face out of 4.5 mins; tried not to linger on those girlish admissions that made blip-police beat; called himself, oh, so many times, a fool a crazy, silly fool—and vowed all sorts of tremulous things. He would excuse himself from that ten; would leave the next day for Kentucky; would get back to dry land and mules and saddly. But he did not wish to appear rude. He would hate to have his action misconstrued. The would go at 4 after all, and if the occasion presented itself would tell her the truth quite frankly that he had hardly any money, no profession, and a long, upbill fight in front of him. Though how hilarious he was to take it all seriously—himself and her and the whole affair as though it were any more than a passing flirtation. It was just the innervable way he had of exaggerating everything—of making mountains out of molehills. He laughed at himself a little forlornly. What an ass he was, to be sure! What an ass! After breakfast he made it up handsomely with Dagmencourt, expalting on mules with much ardor and enthusiasm and gradually recovering the mulatto's serene shaken confidence. He proved his sincerity by providing to leave for Kentucky on the morrow. They shook hands on it, and any lurking grudge that Victor might still have felt disappeared in that hearty clap. But there was still a weight on the mulatto's mind. He starred out something about the San Francisco money hope that it was all right—hoped that it had come. "Excuse me, mentoring it," he said, "but you know we'll be needing it pretty soon, and I rather not sell the garage till." "Oh, that's all right," returned Matt. "It ought to be coming soon, and if it doesn't I'll telegraph. Don't you worry about that," he added reassuringly. "It's one of those spiadic jewelry stores with diamond necklaces in the window and is good for a hundred times the money." But Victor's concern required. He had kept better tally on the dates than Matt. It was exactly twenty-four days since the latter had written, a song while surely, Victor asked for the receipt and examined it closely. "That's all right as for as it goes," he said, handing it back with a relieved expression. "though they don't have to buy the ring if they debt want to or change their minds." "If people like Smool & Hargreaves offered $5,000 for the ring it's pretty sure to be worth it," replied Matt. "Even if they backed out we could sell it somewhere else." "Yes, that's true," said Victor, resuming his cheerfulness, and made for a better price, considering you took the first bid they made. Depending upon it, you could have raised them a few hundred dollars." They ingested an awful longer, talking about the $50) commission. Victor hoped to get on a secondhand car and as to the adaptability of taking $100 cash for the garage or a thousand down and another thousand on a nine months' note. Perhaps Matt kept closer to the veranda that morning than usual, for it was warm and sunny and likely to tempt the presence of Mrs. Sattane with her rocking chair, her darning and her interminable tongue. For once Matt was eager for Mrs. Sattane, and when at length she appeared he was very arrestable and friendly, drawing up beside her, with his pipe, instead of dropping off the end rail, as he ordinarily would have done. After a few false starts he got her on the subject of the Marshalls, and, though as a narrator she was as uncertain as a rabbit and not to give conversational jumps in the most random directions, Matt always contributed to bring her back and running again in the way he would have her go. The general when a young cavalry officer, hardly indeed more than a boy, had made a runaway match with a Miss Koeig of Philadelphia, who was so rich that people used to call her Miss Killmanskog. He had thereupon given up the army and taken to law instead and from law had graduated into politics and congress. After seven or eight years his wife had died, leaving him with two little boys, who were now middle aged men, one a traveler and writer of some reputation and the other an ironmaster on the lakes, with a railroad of his own and fleet of ships. The general had taken his bereavement terribly to heart and for awhile went all to pieces until his friends made interest for him and had him appointed minister, to some faraway and insignificant post, more with the idea of benefiting him by the change of scene than launching him into what was to be a distinguished career. He rose rapidly, was constantly promoted and was one of the first American ambassadors when that grade was inaugurated by President McKinley. In the meanwhile he had married again, losing his second wife many years later in a carriage accident. His daughter, Christine, had narrowly escaped the same fate, and for several years had been a helpless invalid, nobody ever thinking she would be well again. But at last she recovered, and was as strong as most girls, or stronger, to judge from the daring way she rode and her much talked of flights on skis. On the Spanish war breaking out, Marshall had thrown diplomacy to the winds, and returned to Connecticut to help organise the state's quota for the national defense, receiving his commission as a brigadier general of volunteers, and earning much local renown by his energy and patriotism. It was not his fault that the enrolled citizens, never saw a Spanish, or burned anything more deadly than mosquito powder. The picnic stage was hardly past before the war was over and the general reappointed to his former post. Since then he had definitely retired, more on his daughter's account than his own. It was said, to let her see something of her own people, and marry in her own land, his regard for courts and court life being none of the best. He kept up three establishments—one in Washington, another at Bar Harbor, and the third, his big, comfortable old colonial house at Fair Oaks, about four miles out of Manawan—moving from one to another as the humor seized him. Fair Oaks was his favorite, as he had owned it ever since his first marriage, and had never closed it, partly from sentiment and partly from the political advantage of preserving a roof tree in his native state. He was a Connecticut man, and there was the proof of it for all to see. It was a very dragging afternoon for Matt. He was restless, could settle to nothing, was both stirred and depressed at the prospect of his call at Fair Onks. He had dressed with such care that he was afraid to sit down, or to leave the porch lost his immaculate shoes might suffer, and was horribly conscious of the crinkling figure of his fresh white wabestout. No girl could have been in more of a tremor. Periodically he went upstairs to look at himself in the glass, to make sure there was not a hair on the neck of his coat, to brush and brush and worry again that his hands were so large and so sunburned. He held ordered a buggy for half part a buggy, and a man to drive it, for he meant to take no chances of missing his road. It came too early and caused him renewed agitation in consequence a quarter of an hour too early, when, as a matter of fact, he would not dare to start before the half hour—giving him a whole fifteen minutes, therefore, to be dawdled through, with more crinkling of white wistlefat and more risk to shoes and a whole new access of that suffocating feeling, which he supposed to be pleasure, but was in reality much nearer agony. Punctually to the minute he took his seat in the buggy and was just starting when of a sudden he was bailed from behind. The driver pulled up and Matt turned to see an obliterant in a slik hat, still breathless from running, who had evidently been exerting himself to overtake them. "Hold on there," he exclaimed, "Hold on shop" and, relaxing his pace, came on Matt's aide. P. "Hold on there!" he exclaimed. "Hole on—stop!" and steadied himself a moment with his hand on the wheel. He was an important looking personage, with a crisp, gray, pointed beard and heavy lidded, penetrating eyes. His abunded yet faultless costume suggested a judge or a banker or some one of equal standing—certainly not one who was accustomed to run or shout upon the public highway or to hold on to buggy wheels to recover his breath. "I beg your parlon," he said in a decisive, arresting sort of voice. "I am looking for a gentleman named Broughton—Mr. Matthew Broughton—and as you somewhat conform to his description and were driving from the house to which I was directed— "I am Mr. Broughton," interrupted Matt, surprised, a trifle alarmed and most of all impatient. "What do you want?" "I've come a long way and on very hurried notice to have an interview with you," explained the stranger, gazing at him fixedly. "a very important interview, indeed, and you will oblige me greatly by postponing this little extension of yours and affording me your undivided attention for half an hour. In private," he added, with a glance at Matt's companion. "I cannot be more explicit here." "I am sorry, but it'll have to wait," said Matt. "I haven't a minute to spare. Please let go my wheel." "But it can't wait!" exclaimed the stranger with indignant animation. "You do not realise, what you're saying or the same there is at stake. I simply must insist, Mr. Broughton—you, air, I must insist." "No must I," returned Matt angrily. "Tell me what you want in two words and I'll give you an answer in one." and let go my wheel." Mart fully thought the stranger would take fire at this, but he did not. Instead anxiety spread over his upturned face. "Where are you going?" he asked. "A short drive—to pay a call." "Then let me take his place," pledied the stranger, indicating the driver. "We can talk on the way—and on the way back. For God's sake, young man, don't go on thwarting me like this! I can't tell you how pressing it all is, how peremptory and urgent. Only half an hour—if you knew what was at stake you could not refuse half an hour." Matt was thunderstruck. Such importance was startling, yet he had not a moment to spare if he were to be on time at Fair Oaks. Nothing should come between him and Fair Oaks, and the delay already incurred put him in a fever, "Go on," he cried to the driver, and with that the expulsating gentleman was deserted. In the middle of the road, with his message still unsaid and his arms waving madly after the retreating carriage. Matt was very much thrilled and titalized, but at last came to the conclusion that he had been mistaken for some one else. Nobody could want to see him on a matter so secret that it could not be divulged except in private. Though possibly and here was an idea he was again the victim of those newspaper lies, the "Kannaka king" and all the rest of it. He put his vultter out of his mind and settled back to dream of Miss Marshall with nudged torment and joy. They passed through a stone gate way of a massive and towering design that reared its head like a mansoleum in the lonely woods. The winding road led through move, and was so narrow that the trees met overhead and the air turned chill in the doline below. It was a very big place, the driver said - miles and miles of it, and he flicked his whip in the direction of unintelligible local landmarks. It hadn't been worth taxes till the wool pulp business began, and now even the stumpage would be being all of $10 an acre. "A stroke of luck for the general, wasn't it. what with pulp getting dear every day—though he just let it lie like it was, and did nothing. Thousands and thousands of dollars in wool pulp and stumpage, and as good as money in the bank." Matt suffered under these reflections it made him feel more of an intruder than ever, pisser and of less account. Who was he to be driving through such unimaginable acres of wood pulp and daring to lift his eyes, however simply, to its owner's daughter? It emphasized his presumption, and every tree became a pew barrier, abhorrent to look upon. It was in a very crushed humor, indeed, that he approached the laws and shrubberies, the tortuous brick walls, and at last the house itself — a stately off-door structure, with that dignified frontage of classic white columns so dear to our forefathers and so expressive of their lives and aspirations. Matt descented, dismissed the convoyage, with the thrifty intention of walking home and travel to mourn the wide, high steps. He was greeted at the top by Miss Marshall, who seemed to sit up from nowhere, spilling and radiant and bowtching to look at in her booth riding costume. Her father and she had just got back, and, oh, so afraid that he might have been made to walk, pops having met a long lost lovely friend in a test tent and a tiger coat and wanting to remain the rest of the week to tell to her. But they must go right in, or paper would be at the muffins and disgregating bliss. Fapa was terribly elemental about muffins. Amid this laughing capability Matt found himself being guided through a lofty hallway, final with books and engravings, to a large, low ceiling room, where the old general, also in riding dress, was standing before a log fire and refraining in the most exemplary manner from any premature oustanding on the tea table. This in spite of the fact that it stood temptingly near by, gleaming with old silver and set about with red roses. What were Matt's associations as he sat beside Miss Marshall on the sofa, balancing a tenon on his knee and stealing little silhouette looks at her? The dismalest imaginable, it must be confessed. She was prettier than he had remembered her—maddeningly pretty, and every mark of her consideration came as a fresh stash, as a fresh realization of the gulf between them. He was constrained; he knew he was not appearing at his best; he seemed to feel her artifacts to draw him out, to overcome his awkwardness, to display him to some advantage before her father. But those old, profound eyes were not to be deceived and had the look of wondering at her trouble. An ex-embassador could read a young man like a book—even while eating muffins and joking about tiger skin ladies in teen-fetts. It appeared that a teen-fetu was an automobile, Matt's ignorance of the word seemed to stamp him as a book. What a misfortune he had never heard of it before. He made an anxious note of it for future occasions, and then it came over him with despair that there would be no future occasions. He would never see Christine Marshall again. Thus altogether daunted and depressed how hard it was to affect fireless, to talk about the islands, to try to hide that grinding sense of failure. He hoped afterward that he had not talked too much about the islands. It was all he knew to talk about. Cannabis, fighting, pearl diving and the abduring. Nobody business of the bark Morora—things that people usually liked to hear, especially from a survivor of the last. The general with a big laugh called him Captain Othello—a sally that induced Chris to repeat with a whimsical acceptance that made Matt's heart beat: "That it was strange, most passing strange; twas pitiful, 'twas a dumbrouse pitiful'—caming him to dun and feel very self-conscious indeed, though thrilled, too, as those fey eyes turned on him so kindly and with such small significance. How little she realized their havev on a poor devil who, then and there, could have knelt down and kissed the hem of her skirt with such reverence and adoration that it would Have been an added rarepare to include a pair of trim, small raiding boots as well and the very bit of carpet on which they stood. These thoughts, however, were not good for sustained and conventional conversation. Such as it was, it languished terribly at times, and the general's mouth could be seen to pursue under his mustache as though concealing-yes-a yawn. Captain Othello grew bluer and bluer and more abstracted and constrained until finally an unmistakable yawn brought him to his feet. CHAPTER VI. Lovers. THE end had come; he was holding out his hand; he was saying goodly; all over and forever. No, not quite forever. Learning that he had sent away his buggy, Miss Marshall offered to walk with him as far as the tennis courts. She volunteered this in spite of rather a sharp look from her father, and a request that had the quality of a command, not to stay out too long. Side by side, Matt and she walked together, both silent till the house was left behind. "What's the matter?" Miss Marshall asked at last. "You've been so different today—so changed. I couldn't make it out, and—" "And what?" I inquired Matt. "It hurt me a little. I thought you might be glad glad to come, you know." "I was glad to come." "For follow I suppose you have to say that." "I knew I was dull and disappointing, and the more I tried the duller I got, and that's it, if you want to know." She moved closer to him, and an nounook with a shade of relief in her voice that he was a very foolish person. He hadn't been a bit dull, nor disappointing the idea! But did not seem himself, that was all, and mopy. Dreadfully mopy. "It's because I'm going away tomorrow," he said. "Because" and he faltered at anything so outright "because I never see you again." There was a pause. "You mustn't" she murmured at last. "I don't want you to go away." "But I have to" "Oh, you have to" she repeated questioningly. "To do things to start seriously." He could not say unless Mules stuck in his throat. "But how does that mean never seeing me again?" That's what you said, wasn't it? "It's hard to explain; you wouldn't understand." No. I don't suppose I would" she assented. "I was foolish enough to think that you - that you" "That I loved you" "Oh, no, no, not that; that would be absurd." "But I do" . He walked along, grinily, stillly, in a fury with everything. "That's why I was on such pins and needles up there," he books out passionately. "I had no right there, and I knew it. Every look at you drove it home the utter happiness of it. I have to go away with the few thousands I have and try to do something—work earn money. But if I succeeded beyond all my expectations you would be as inaccessible as ever as unattainable. I am nothing, nobody, the dirt under your feet. You wonder why I was so dull, so stupid. I was grinding to please, if you want to know, yes, grinding to places and almost hating you." "If I felt like that about anybody I'd stay," she exclaimed breathlessly. "I wouldn't give an answer else a chance. I think if I really loved anybody I would kill them first." Matt turned and caught her squirrel by the shoulders, those shoulder, grishaw shoulders, and held her out at army's length in a vise. "You would, would you?" he crisel. "Don't tempt me, or I will! I give you your choice. I told you I would go. It's for you to choose, the one way or the other. Choose, choose." But his recursion was as swift as his act. He let her go, stricken at her pallor, her grasp of pain-appalled and incoherently remorseful. He smoothed her dress with his big hands; he was a brute, a crazy brute, he quavered conclusively: he saw her through a blue, trembling, swaying, obtinently averting her eyes and giving them little dabs with her handkerchief. As she recovered he waited for his sentence, his doom. He had transgressed the last law and might be thankful if she even spoke to him again. Perhaps she would turn away without a word, and that would be the end. When she did speak it was not to annotate him at all. It was all her own fault, she said, tremulously smiling. "That's what always happened when you gouged elemental people-great, big, rough, elemental people. They grabbed you in their great, big, rough, elemental way and shook the curl out of your hair, wanting you to choose. As though anybody could choose while being shaken like a rat. And what was she to choose, anhow? Would he please tell her like an ordinary, grownup, unelemental person?" Matt was more abashed than if the heavens had opened with thunderbolts. He had expected thunderbolts, and in a sort of way had braced himself to receive them; but he had no armor against these teasing shafts. He colored to the ears and was acutely embarrassed, wining at every allusion to his outrageous conduct. She acceded to enjoy making him whine—found a wicked zeit in it. Everything he said was gently ridicule. That he should be in love with her was apparently the most ridiculous thing of all. She referred to his word "choose" and tangle up all his blinding explanations. "Men are all culpable," she said crudely, "and the complaint you have for us is really dishettening. To you were all littleinnies without the least will of our own—just did out on the sideboard the prize at a bridge party. It has never dawned on you that I have any courage, any individuality—now, has it?" 3111. rehemerly protected that she --- had both—lots of both—till he was ab ruptly cut short. "No, no," she said. "To, you I'm just a charming little drawing room ornament, sparkling in the freight—just a dear little noodle that you'd like to put in a crate and take home with you—and you're horribly misbehave because you can't and somebody else may noodle having no voice in the matter at all, only rather hoping that the crate will be padded with pink silk—that being the limit of her poor little noodle intelligence. The last thing to occur to you is that I'm a woman, with a head of my own and a heart of my own, able to take my place at a man's side and work and fight with him." She stopped, flushing and overcome. "That's what I meant when I said you mustn't go," she added pleasantly. "Can't you see?" Matt was less backward than stunned. He must have misunderstood; he could not believe it. It was only when her hands went to her face and her head bowed in an extremity of shame that comprehension really flashed on him. He pulled away her hands, incredulous still, yet mad with joy—pulled them away and kissed her on the lips, her burning, averted lip—again and again and again, insatiable of her young beauty, and inflamed by a resistance that was no resistance at all, but the printing, shaking and almost terrestrial surrever of a woman to the man she loved. --- "I hold you to it," he whispered. "I hold you to every word you said. I love you, and you love me, and nothing on earth shall ever separate us." Then, obeying her stiffened currently, he released her, and the pair gazed at each other in the deepening dusk, awed, stink to silence, and somehow at one with the trees, the sky, and all nature of which they, too, were one, and at whose after they viewed themselves to each other and received the bounce of the stars. Matt would have clipped her again in his arms, but she gently resisted. He was to go, she said. Had he not taken enough already? Was she not so spent that to take more would kill her? Besides, she wished to be alone—to nestle to her heart the sweetest moment of her life, without even that great big him to disturb her. He was such a disturber! He would kiss her again and she would lose all the others—those precious first ones that would always be the dearest. No, he was to go. Please, he was to go. Plaine, it was a favor. He perceived that she was in earnest, and something told him, moreover, that she was with difficulty holding back boy team—those teams which it would be a sacrifice for him to share. So, manfully, and with a quickening perception, he made no further demur, but turned and left her, looking back once to wade his hand, and to take one last look. But she loved him. That was all his dizzy head could hold. She loved him. Christine Marshall loved him. She was willing to strip herself of everything to follow him the wide world over. Noth. B. W. W. "It's for you to choose." ing could matter now, nothing could hurt him. Chris loved him! He had completely forgotten the frock coat person, he of the alk hat and the beard and subtuded masterfulness, who had clung to his front wheel with agitated pertinacity hardly three hours before. Matt was reminded of his existence by finding him on Mrs. Sattamea's front porch, wearily blocking the road to supper. By all rights the stranger should have been excessively annoyed, but on the contrary he was sanguity itself, rising at Matt's approach and greeting him with formidable politeness. Might he take the liberty of repeating his request to see Mr. Broughton in private? Might he, without undue insistence, remind Mr. Broughton of the very serious issues at stake and the need—the very great need—of expedition? After three hours of waiting was he not entitled to an immediate interview—an immediate interview in private? No. It need not be long. In some aspects it was a very simple affair—a proposal on the part of certain principals, an acceptance—it was to be boped, on Mr. Broughton's. Apologizing for having no better place to offer, Matt led the stranger attain to his bedroom, where, after hitting the single gas jet, he offered him a chair and himself took a seat on the bed. "Now, what's your name?" asked Matt, lighting his pipe and throwing out his long legs. The stranger somewhat stammeringly replied that he might be called Mr. Kay, though whether he mehtut K-a-y or merely the letter K was left obscure. "Well, Mr. Kay," continued Matt, "let's get one thing understood right off. I am not a Kakabu king, and I haven't any islands, or money or subjects, or docts, or pearling beads or anything. If you have the least misconception of that kind about me the sooner you get rid of it it better." "You refer doubts to those newspaper accounts?" inquired the stranger. Matt nodded. "Yes, all that rot." he said. "I'm familiar with them," observed the stranger, drawing up close to the bed. "Perhaps I'm also more familiar with the actual facts than you will credit. Circumstances have forced me to acquaint myself with them—to separate the wheat from the chaff, from a vast deal of chaff." he added unbendingly. "Well, well, now to business." With that he produced from his pocket a small-felt object wrapped in tissue paper. Diverting it of its covering, he passed a little ivory miniature to Mutt. "Do you happen to recognize that person?" he asked. Matt took it with surprise, for it was rimmed with diamonds and backed with gold like an unwieldy brooch—with a surprise that charged to consternation as he behold the unmistakable face of John Mort. It was a face younger by twenty years than the John Mort he had known, smoother and more rounded and with the hair altogether black; a flattering picture, much too plak and pretified and youthfully handsome for even the original at the age it represented him. But it was John Mort just the same. He could have picked it out of a roomful of miniatures, a whole gallery—John Mort, staring up at him from a circle of diamonds, with an imperious air that somehow had been caught while all the rest was falsified by the obsoulous artist. Chills ran down Matt's back. It was as though he were detected in a crime. He was thankful for the poor light this must have screwed his expression of dismay, for all Mort's warnings were now upon him in a torment and his own promises, his own pledged word. Here was what John Mort had foared—the "wolves," he had called them—in a voice he had lowered even there, apprehensive still on that lost roof, in those lost and lonely seas. The heavy lidded eyes took on a new and omnious significance as Matt felt their glance on him. What evil were they meditating? What was their sinister purpose in seeking him out to betray his friend? He returned the miniature, speaking as he did so with his pipe in his mouth—a sutterfuse he had found useful before, especially when under fire—real fire—bullets. It is the mouth that tells secrets, and that in other ways than words. A pipe is a help. It hides agitation and suggests unconcern. "Well, what about it?" said Matt through his teeth. "I asked if you recognized him?" "See this person before, do you mean? No. I don't know who he is. Why, do you expect me to?" The strangely was not at all nonpluaded. It was disconcerting how coolly he took the announcement. He carefully replaced the miniature in his pocket, remarking that it was "a pity." on your recollection," he went on, producing a wallet, and from the wallet a thick roll of notes. Pulling up his chair so close to the bed that his knees touched it, he began to spread green backs on the curvier as though engaged in a singular game of patience. A row of six, another row of six, a third row of six, and Matt, amazed, persecuted that they were in denominations of $1,000 each. "My God!" he cried. "What are you—a mint?" The stranger, with a gleam of yellow teeth and the first smile he had permitted himself, completed a fourth row from a packet that was far from exhausted. Then he stopped and said: "No, not a mint. Morely a person who seeks a little information, and is very willing to pay for it." Matt eyed the serled notes: $1,000, $1,000, $1,000 in a green and overwhelming profusion: $1,000, $1,000, $1,000 up and down, with more (tough spied in those stubby fingers. If anything, the sight stimulated all the obstinacy in him, enhancing his loyalty and determination in proportion to the bribe. But it would not do to affect unconcern. It would be bad policy to convey the impression that he could talk if he would. Excited innocence was the port that he ought to play-eager, covetous, astounded, innocence. "Twenty-four thousand dollars!" he exclaimed. "Would you really give me that for recognizing a man? Just for looking-at his picture and saying, That's Walter Jones or William Riley? Why, bless you. I'd do it for a quarter of that--for a single one!" He picked up one of the greenbacks he spoke and smoothed it out lovingly on his knee. "Even that would be pounacious," he said. "People aren't paid for that kind of thing." "They will be in this instance," returned Mr. Kay. "We are desirous of finding—et—Walter Jones and are willing to go to considerable lengths for any information regarding him and his present whereabouts. That money there, Mr. Broughton, is but the half of what I am authorized to offer you. Think it over a bit, Mr. Broughton. Fifty thousand dollars for five minutes of sincerity." "My dear man," observed Matt, "why not make it fifty millions while you are about it? I haven't the faintest notion whom your picture represents—not the slightest, believe me. I wouldn't know him from Amir if he "It's all I know, if that's what you mean." "Oh, come, comel! What's the use of denying you could tell if you wanted to? I'm not a child to be boodwinked. There isn't a visit of yours to Sydney or San Francisco that we haven't traced. You were no trader. You were in the employ of—well—that individual we are seeking. You have to admit it, and, once admitted, we have a bask for negotiations." Matt puffed on his pipe and finally remarked that it was all Greek to him. "The ship, was Temblok's," he went on. "old Temblok's, the king of Apemain, you know, and he sent me off in her originally to buy rifles at something like a white price. But I was honest with hip and made her pay, carrying corpulil shell and that, and so he kept me on till I lost her this winter." CHAPTER VII. R. KAY gathered up his notes and returned them to his wallet. "Think it over," he said. "Fifty thousand dollars is a lot to lose. Perhaps it may occur to you that you you're acting rather precipitately, for, after all, a man's first duty is to himself, and you selflessly seem to be in- or very efficient circumstances. If you should care to place a small flag in your window—a tie, for that matter, or any bright bit of color—we shall accept it as a sign that you have or—changed your mind. Don't forget that, will you? It is quite conceivable that the sum might be increased if we were assured of your active co-operation, but it would be superfluous to go into that at this stage. Just a little flag at your window, and within six hours I shall be promptly at your service." Matt burst out laughing. "Is that your usual method of communication?" he asked. "But why not a skyrocket R. B. "Fifty thousand dollars is a lot to lose." while you are about it, or a blue light, and masks, of course, and a puss word. 'It say 'Walter,' and you answer Jones 'or perhaps a single mysterious word, like 'gurgle.' Gurgle's rather good. How do you like gurgle? The other's face darkened at this decision. When he spikes it was with perceptible humiliation and embarrassment. 'I'm only an agent,' he murmured. 'Such theories are none of my making, though in this affair they seem unavoidable. Laugh all you like, Mr. Roughton. A man who has thrown away a fortune for a whim is entitled to, though some day when you older and learn how hard a world this is it may seem considerably less humorous. Good night.' he continued, holding out his hand. 'Permit me to apologize for my persistence, and to thank you for your good nature under the infliction. You will let me hear from you, will you not?' And remember that the amount ought be materially increased. Good night, good night.' Matt accompanied him down the stairs and to the front door, where with a renewed grasp of the hand and another cordial farewell, the stranger walked briskly away. It almost looked as though an automobile had been awaitting him, for a second later there was a clash of gear, a need of blind light and a magnificent limousine swept heading into the night. Matt turned indoors again, eager for his delayed supper and in a state of extreme perplexity and exhilaration. It was not everybody who would have refused $20,000. The fact that he had done so put him in a glow of self esteem. Though why had it been offered—good God, why? And who was John Mort, and what could they possibly want of him? How strange it all was, how insoluble? And, strangest of all, that he, Matt, the obscurest of mortals, should be caught up in anything that could conceivably "shake the world." That was what Mort had said—"it would shake the world." Well, it shouldn't shake if he could help it. He was loyal through and through. The "wolves" were chasing the wrong sleigh if they thought they could get a bite out of him. The next morning turned out a veritable black Monday. Not only was it raining a sleety, dimmal rain—Matt could have endured that—but he was assailed, beheaded, by a succession of disasters. First of all, there was no letter from Snook & Hargreaves. Somehow he had fully counted on getting it, and the firm's delay in writing began to take on an omnious aspect. With scarcely $80 in his pocket and part of that owing here and there, he felt uncomfortably pressed for money. Then there was Daggencourt, whom he had completely forgotten in the now & larger events—Daggencourt, effusively expectant of that immediate departure for Kentucky. To make a man weep is a painful experience, and it was in this manner Daggin- Court received the news of a second postponement. "I'd set my foolish old heart on it," he sobbed. "I believed you were in earnest. It's a terrible blow." "But it's only put off a little while," said Matt. "For heaven's sake, don't think I've given it up, Victor. In fact, it's more of a life and death thing to me now than ever before." Dagcancourt shook his head. "I was willing to go my last dollar," he said. "I could have worked for you with both hands and starved and stitched—not for the money in It, Marse Broughton—but because you are you, because it is the colored man's instinct—his curse to love and serve a master. Say no more, sir. I shall not trouble you again. I am like the Psalmist who put his trust in princes and verily was he dispatched." Matt was conscience stickier; he had been on Victor, he had found comfort and a sense of safety in the old follow's rugged affective. It was hard to see it go, and it appeared doubly valuable, now that it was host. Matt telegraphed to Snoop & Harpernews; Please give me an email to my letter and result in my feeling by express. Telegraph reply saying: I may export to receive! When this was not enclosed he encountered the unending disaster of that whole disasters' warring. His telephoned request to speak to Miss Marshall was received by a maid, who said that her mistress was ill and could not come down. Nor could a message be carried to her because she was asleep. One might be left, however. Did the gentleman wish to leave one? Matt, wrestled badly, perished, could think of nothing else in that Miss Marshall was to be informed that he had ring her up "Bougainville, not Button - Her onighthose and please tell her he still calls the afternoon in the house of seeing her and perhaps take her for a drive if the weather clears and she's well enough." All he was at Fair Oaks in a worse deprep than ever, one to find himself relafied. Half sound, he stood in the threshold and was told that Miss Marshall found so no one and that the doctor had given her some sleeping stuff. The general, too, had interrupted himself against callers. Matt climbed into his body and drove off, slick with despair. Splashing above the mildly road, he wondered at himself for refusing that Saturn. With the money they had off-faced him this was not what it amounted to. With Saturn in his pocket he might go on to that big house and take her body away, marry her, have her for his own? Ninety-nine was a out of a hundred would have taken the money would have jumped at it. Fifty thousand dollars. It might be years before he would be worth a quarter as much. And here he was throwing it out of the window like a quirky fool. It was not in him to betray John Mort. It was simply that he was incapable of it. He almost wished that he was not. It was not principle nor religion nor anything, but a fact. He himself was quite helpless. Veltion as altogether beyond him. It was something he could not do, that was all. At home there was a telegram awaiting him. It read: Matthew Broughton, Mrs. Battane Matthew Broughton Manawan, Gom. He was a boy, only five and twelve, and was only a little made up of adults and children. If accepted interest he had plenty of paid disclosure of that at end of statutory period. Telegram Postcards SNOW & HARGREAVES It was a blow to make any man starger; defends his first instinct wanted to bide in his mouth. Matt looked the door and with desperation read the telegram again. Good God, all he had then was the money in his pocket! Were it not for this he would have been less unmiserable. The sea is a hard master, but it will always food and clothing a man has made it his trade. He couldn't starve-it wasn't that. But it meant being Chris-ab- andoning all thought and dreams of her as his wife. How did he know that he wasn't being cheated? There was no flaw in the ruby. Everythi. Mort had was of the last, of the finest. "Experts promote rule flaws!" The chap would have paid him $5,000 then and there for the ring. He was an expert himself, that bold man. He hadn't dillydallied to anything, but had been eagerly itself to clench the bargain. It was more acceptable that he had been mistaken. He was a thief that was what he was, a low, contemptible thief, who had discovered how to get the ring for a thousand—the thousand originally advanced. He raged up and down the room in impotent wrath. People knocked and spoke through the keyhole, but he disregarded them. One, alone, could have been of the least source to him, and she was lying in that creat. grim house beyond those miles of dripping woods. But she would know soon enough—too soon. A few days and they would say goodly for the last time, forever, unless an miracle happened. The general was the only person capable of figuring in a miracle. But Matt built no hopes there. It was impossible to associate "bless you, my children," with that keen, proud face—rather, a withering sentiment and a glance that would strike like a knife. The miracle would be how to get out alive—how to escape with the last shred of self respect. No, with $1,690, with Daggancourt and the aid of Christ's intrepid spirit, it had been within the bounds of reason. The rose could have been plucked, general or no general, and carried in triumph to that Kentucky farm. But $80 was eighty—nothing. By supper time he had somewhat recovered his composure and, though very pale, contrived in other respects to conceal the crushing nature of his fortune. He announced gravely that he had received bad news and egged that he might be accused from living the particulars. After supper he got his overcoat and fitted himself in a dry corner of the canda, where his reflections were addicted arrest by the stoppage of a automobile at the gate and the de- D. J. PARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 406. MECHANICE SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Phone, Monroe----2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR 'Phone, Monroe----2166. 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"I gave you my decision last night," Matt said. "Or rather I told you I hadn't the information you wanted. You surely can not have my better proof of it than this. What man in his senses would refuse a hundred thousand dollars? I know I wouldn't. I was only joking when I rushed you. It was only to see how far you would go. Mr. Kay, you are trying to buy something I haven't got, and there it is in a mushroom." "Then who was the violinist you referred to in that newspaper account? The man who played on the ship, and quelled the swages when they were ready to attack you? Answer me that, please. It is very important it is the key to everything." Matt started; he had completely forgotten that choice reference to John Mort; the telltale sign of it now took his breath away. What mass he had been ever to let Hunter Hoyt extort it from his lips! "Answer me that," continued the stranger, with a gleam of his yellow teeth, and clutching at Matt's arm again. "Oh, the violinist?" returned Matt, pretending to laugh. "He was nothing to get excited about. In reality, he wasn't a violinist at all, but played the concertina, and he didn't quell anybody. That was all the newspaper men's work, like most of the interview. It was simply that we had a scare once down in New Britain and kept him playing till we could get at our pitches." "Then there was nothing in it?" "Well there had been a massacre in the next bay, and"— "But no violinist? No one at all resembling the miniature I showed you?" "No no! He was a Dutchman named Van Tassel, and had been a waiter in a Sydney restaurant. He was a hot tempered little tolter and had hit somebody over the head with a bottle. That's how we came to take him paid us $20 to struggle him out of his plate." "Tame you can't help me," said Mr Kav after a prince. "It's disgusting to be so to admit it. I wish I could postpone you to go before my principals and tell them what you'll told me. They blame me for my fall are not convinced, you know think they could have got this information out of you this information that isn't there. Peghaps I might make it worth your while to come out of my own pocket, you know out of my own pocket. Would you can alter it?" "Where do you want me to go?" "Only to the railway station, to a private car we have able tracked there. You could show them that we are on a wrong scent-support me in what I have already reported. I should be glad to pay $50. Surely that would be worth half an hour of your time? What do you say?" Matt hung back. He was confused, undecided and not unconscious of a vague apprehension. Yet the $50 was terribly tempting. It would allow him to extend his stay in Manawan; to put off his departure for a couple of weeks; to be near a bird—to see her, to talk to her, to finger in paradise before he would be cast out of it forever. Nor would it be any disgrace to John Mort, but merely a repetition of evasion and falsely, possibly even helpful now that he was better forewarned. As to their doing him any harm that was preposterous. Threaten, perhaps? Well, let them threaten! One could stand a lot of threatening for $20. "Yes, I'll go for $20," he said. "Only if you don't and I rather have it in advance." "Mr. Kay hastened to count out two twenties and a ten, and then seemed to find it an illusion that Matt should suggest my further delay. It was only to run misprints and leave the money and his purse under the pillow, but Mr. Kay hated and demurred, and Matt his return found him waiting with ill suppressed impatience. "Come along!" he cried, and gripping Matt's arm as though not to allow him to escape him, hurried down the board walk to the automobile. A moment later they were both inside and the car swiftly moving. [TO BE CONTINUED.] BALKEN For Florida and South: 8:17 A. M. 1:00 7:36 P. M. 1:00 A. M. Corlisson. 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Can an official of the United States sworn to recognize the civil and political equality of all men before the law and sworn to make no discrimination on account of race, color or province condition of servitude, discriminate against an employee, discriminate against a person of the government, because persecution his face is white or black or yellow? This is the least pure and simple, but President Wilson must it. THE TROUBLE AT RON AIR. Another instance of the district's result of pandering to race, population is shown in the case of the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Incorporated white girls. This school is located near Jim Air in the tertied county, Va. This village is about eight miles from this city. Mr. Light the matron and practically the superintendent in charge had employed Beverly Banks, a colored farmer of the ante-bellum type. He worked in the field with the girls showing them just how to farm. As some of these girls were good looking, some white men took good books at them and lingered longer than was permitted by the rules of the institution. Beverly thinks so to it that they did not fatty, and his services were well well invariable in preserving discipline in the school. His activities attracted these Neotruthing white people and they took the position that he was over these white girls, and was busy with them. "This was paled in the newspapers and a horrified constituency with upraised lands asked, 'Can these things be?' His Excellency William Hodgson Mann, Governor of Victoria was approached and appeals made. An investigation was ordered. The result of the investigation was that it was shown to be only 'A tempest in a tea pot'. It was proven that Beverly Bank's was a model farm hand and servant. But the Executive Committee did not have the moral courage to do equal and equal justice. It could not stand public criticism. It rendered a report criticizing the management in general and Beverly Banks, the colored man in particular, and recommended that the colored employee be no longer retained in the service of the School. A white farmer from Henrico county applied for and got the job. When he went to work, it was found that he could not satisfactorily perform the duties. The white girls liked Beverly Banks, the colored farm-hand and they did not like the white farm-hand. To make a long story short, they threatened him and Ion hung away from the School. They caught him during a drenching rain, and put him in a wagon and dumped him out many miles from the school grounds. Instead of starting back to his post of duty, the white man started away from it and came to this city, finally reaching his own home. He tendered his resignation. The Executive Committee, composed of such distinguished citizens as Rev. George W. McDaniel, Dr. H. D. Maclachlan, Samuel P. Waddell and Robert Lecky, Jr., upon being informed that the management had employed Beverly Banks as a laborer passed a resolution prohibiting the employment of any Negro on the premises. Viewed from any standpoint, this action was surprising. It was a concession to the Negro-haters who had caused the trouble and in doing this right principles were forgotten. These gentlamen, or at least some of them, turned their backs upon the Holy Scriptures which they had been expounding for nearly a life-time. It has been said, "The best laid plans of misc and man gang agley." It was so in this case for troubles multiplied to such an extent that they feared to place any white man on the premises unless he was a camuuch and so it was reported that they decided that no male employee should be permitted upon the premises. They had interfered with the management and then could not suggest a remedy for all of the trouble that they had caused. It has been said, "God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform." The girls were admittedly of a criminal character, designated as incorrigibles. The citizens of Ben Air organized under the name of The Citizens Association of Ben Air decided to insist upon the removal of the school and as a periminary step appeared before the grand jury of the Circuit Court, Judge Robert G. Southall presiding. Who was indicted? Not any of the incorrigible girls; not the superintendent of the School, not Beverly Banks, the colored farmer; but the Executive Committee, which body had passed a resolution that no Negro should be employed by the School, although the institution is in a locality where Negroes have been employed by white folks for more than two hundred years. The grand jury indicted the Virginia Homes and Industrial School and the members of the Executive Committee consisting of Rey, George W. McDaniel, D. D. pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va.; Rey, H. D. C. Mackahate pastor of the seventh St. Christian Church of Richmond, Va.; Samuel P. Waddell, clerk of the Hennessey County Circuit Court and Robert Locky, Jr., upon the charge of maintaining a common outlaw in the Hennessey county, Va. No one likes to be indicted by a grand jury and in view of the prominence of the position named this action of the special grand jury must be especially distasteful to them. But we are might to remember that part of the Scriptures which says, "What what impuree must the same shall be required to you." Raven'i knocks, the colored man had committed no crime. He had performed no duties to the satisfaction of the commission, that he was summarily disposed by order of the Executive Committee. Now, "the tables are turned" Rey, George W. McDonald D. D., Roy, H. D. C. Macchio, Mr. Samuel P. Wadhill and Mr. Robert Lochy, Jr., members of the Executive Committee had committed no crime. They had performed their duties to the satisfaction of the Governor, yet they were summarily disposed as common felons by the special grand jury of the Chesterfield Circuit Court and must stand trial unless this indictment is quashed or more prosecuted. It will not do to deal injustice to your fellowman, and to offer the rights and privileges of the meek and lowly because you have the power. The late Pork Miller, the great Southerner, now "stark and stiff" in death protected at the time against the discharge of banks and said many kind things of a race that had no representative to speak for it during these trying days of investigation in Chesterfield county. But God will bring all things right in his own time and these distinguished. Virginians now under indictment would do well to ponder the action of that special grand jury with point to themselves and as a swift retribution for their action in wronging not only Beverly Banks, but the race with which he is identified. There will be none and the public will languidly read the announcement and forget it. Oh, the pity of it. Killeenself and Children Dear and kindly, the wife and husband Mr. F. J. Johnson dropped her last child I met the day she made at the home in Chester, MA, and over the five years died with her two children. He is survived by a volume of tabernacles at a andrew. Newtown. Some the mother's stuff in a chair, with her head bowed over a volume of Browning poems. Dear Battles With Bull. Hired men on Edwin Gerber's farm near Pine Dorge, Pennsylvania, witnessed a desperate fight between a large deer and a dehorned bull. The deer had the advantage and sank its antlers into the bull's head and sides. With pitchforks the men drove the deer away, and leaping a five-foot stone fence it ran toward Monocacy. $^4$ Woman Killed Four Step-Children. Mrs. Ellen Etheridge, the second wife of J. D. Etheridge, a farmer, of near Waco, Texas, has confessed that the murdered two of her step-children last June, and two on Oct. 2, by administering poison, according to a statement given out by the prosecuting attorney. She said she was jealous of her husband's eight children. Girl Dice of Griet. Grief because her only sister was being married killed Anna Cowlaw, ten years of age, of Chicago. The girl began crying several hours before the wedding ceremony and her death from physical exhaustion interrupted the wedding dance. Deposed as Governor of New York by impeachment Court. ```markdown ``` 1912 by American Press Association SULZER OUSTED; NOT DISQUALIFIED Deposed Governor, Who Is Not Barrac From Holding Office In Future, Declares He Will Continue Fight. William Salzer, a national account of New York, the high court of peachment in Albany, by a vote of 43 to 18 removed him from office. Governor Wendle and Judge Collen perceived themselves from voting. The proposition to disqualify Salzer from ever again holding a place of honor or trust in the state was voted down unanimously, with the exception that Judge Collen again earned him self from recording his vote. Prior to the vote on his disqualification and removal the last four articles of the impeachment charges, five, six, seven and eight, were unanimously decided in his favor. Martin H. Glyap, of Albany, the acting governor, became governor. Robert F. Wagner, of New York, majority leader of the senate, became lieutenant governor. Glynn was sworn in, Judge Callen administering the oath of office. No official notice of removal was given Sulzer. A record of the decision of the court was filed with the secretary of state. This complying with all the legal requirements to remove the governor. Palde and hancard, Sulzer sat in the executive mat, on awaiting impatiently the vote of the high court which stripped from him the roles of his office of power or and made him William Sulzer, private citizen. He has annuiced to friends that "the fight has just begun," and declares he will continue the battle for vindication, carrying his cause before the people, who he believes are still with him despite the verdict given by the impeachment court. After the proceedings Mr. Sulzer would see only a few personal friends. Friends who were with him when he received the news of the verdict said that he appealed to be relieved that the suppression was over. Mrs. Sulzer, who has been suspended at times in the last week, was also said to have brightened perceptibly. Everything at the executive mansion is in realness for the Sulzer's departure. They will leave Albany on Sunday afternoon not to return. Their immediate destination, it was said, would be some quiet hotel, probably in the Adrondack, for a few days. Where they will make their future home they have not decided, but Mrs. Sulzer insists that it shall be within an hour's ride of New York. The court's disposition of the articles of impairment follows: Article 1—Charging the governor with making a false statement of campaign receipts and payments; guilty, 29; not guilty, 18. Article 2—Charging him with perjury in swearing that the statement was true; guilty 39; not guilty, 18 Article 3—Charging him with bringing witnesses to withhold testimony from the Frawley committee; not guilty by unanimous vote. Article 4—Charging him with "practicing deceit and fraud and using threats and monies" to suppress testimony desired by the Frawley committee; guilty, 43; not guilty, 14. Article 5—Charging that he dissuaded Frederick I. Colwell from testifying against him before the Frawley investigating committee; not guilty; vote unanimous. Article 6—Charging that he committed larceny in speculating with funds contributed to his campaign; not guilty; vote unanimous. Article 7—Charging that he bartered his political influence; not guilty; vote unanimous. Article 8—Charging him with using his official position to influence the price of stocks in which he was inter- caled; not guilty. Two Girls Accuse Fire Chief. Fire Chief John L. Decker, thirty- five years old, Darnmore, near Scranton, Pa., is confined in the quaint jail, following charges of two young schoolgirls that he contributed to their delinquency. Khaled Davis, twelve years old, whose dresses scarcely reached below her knees, sat with bowed head and told how she had been attacked by Decker five times, once in the private room in the house house of the borough of Dunmore. Margaret Selger, daughter of William Selger, told of witnessing the other attacks and being subjected to the same treatment at the hands of Decker at various times within the last few weeks. The girls testified that when the mother of one of them went to Decker to explain his actions he gave them each $1.25, to go to Walton, N. Y., where they were captured by the police and sent back home. Decker was committed to prison without ball, pending further hearing. He was suspended by Hurgess Gilligan. Stroll Reveala Gastly Murder. One of the most brutal murders in the history of Bridgeport, N. J., came to light when George Ganges, while he was strangled through a clump of woods at East Bridgeport, found the body of Tom Grace, about twenty-five years old, the face battered almost beyond recognition. A Rive-foot iron lying near was the murderer's weapon. He had crushed Green's skull. One site of the dead man's face was pounded to a pulp and one ear torn off. There were cuts on the face, which the officials declare, must have been made with a knife. It may be taut there were two assailants, one armed with the iron bar, the other with a knife. Coroner Simpson, County Physician Charlesworth, Prosecutor Fithian and Detective Lore are at work on the case. As a result three colored men, Arthur and Walter Reed and Irving Carter are in custody. The wives of two of the men are also detained. The murder may have been caused by a woman Detective Lore and a brother of the murdered man have gone to Millville seeking an Italian, whom the brother has reason to suspect. It is said he was with the murdered man until late Saturday night. County Physician Charlesworth says the murder was committed only a few hours before the body was found. Tax Office Flooded With Pennies. Several taxpayers of Hopewell borough, near Oxford, Pennsylvania, the smallest borough in the state, paid twelve thousand three hundred pennies to Samuel Russell, borough tax collector, because he refused to accept checks. It is said that thousands more pennies will follow. Russell was chosen recently as collector. He read the law and found that the tax must be paid in currency. When several checks were sent he refused to accept them. Several persons sent for pennies and took them to Russell's home. James Bunting, Jr. was the first to arrive. He carried a twelve-pound flour sack. Soon afterward Granville Coats brought him in a bran bag; Ralph Conolly followed with a milk pail partly filled with pennies, and James Sloan carried his in a coal scuttle. 25 U. B. Soldiers Killed in Wreck Twenty-five culled men from Fort Morgan, Ala., were killed and more than two were injured, when the cars of a special train in which they were traveling went into a deep raftine of the Burkatona trestle, sixty miles north of Mobile, Ala. The soldiers were enroute to Meridian, Miss., to give an exhibition at the Alabama-Mississippi state fair. None of the officers in the train were hurt. A telegram sent to Major Burgess, in command of Fort Morgan, states that several bodies were pinned under the wrecked cars and that the wreck- ing crew, with the aid of the soldiers who escaped unhurt, made desperate efforts to get them out. Smallest Woman in Iowa Dead. Miss Ruthie Howers, who is dead in Abilin, Iowa, at the age of sixty-six years, was reputed to have been the smallest perfectly formed woman in the state of Iowa. She was thirty-seven inches tall and weighed sixty pounds. Miss Howers was a remarkably beauti- ful and attractive woman. She was a school teacher and a muddlein of con- siderable ability. Sulzer For Assemblyman William Sulzer impached as Governor of the State was nominated for the Assembly by the Progressives of the Sixth-Assembly District in New York. Mr. Sulzer in 1889 began his public career as a member of this branch of the State Legislature. Predicts Drop In Beef. 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WILL WORRY TAMMANY Sulzér, It Is Believed, Will Put Up Hot Fight For Assembly. What will be the outcome of William Sulzer's race for the legislature? was the question foremost in the minds of politicians around the capitol in Albany, N. Y. It was generally agreed that he will make a great deal of trouble for the organization in New York. His fire will be directed especially against Aaron J. Levy, a candidate for municipal judge, and Alfred R. Smith, the speaker of the assembly, who seeks to succeed himself. Sulzer intends to invade their districts and attempt to square accounts for the active part they took in his impeachment. And, of course, in that night he will oppose the Democratic organization candidates generally. Even Sulzer's worst political foes conceded him victory in his own assembly district, the Sixth New York. They were inclined to regard the withdrawal of the Republican candidate as a trick intended to damage the Democratic party a great deal at the cost of a small concession. There was no doubt expressed that the Republicans will work hard for Sulzer. Speculation was rife as to just what Tammymany would do. It is known that all of the unused evidence in the impeachment trial is in the hands of the Tammymany leaders and rumor has it that this material soon would appear in pamphlet form. Two Linemen Killed. E. C. Thompson and G. W. Wiley, linemen, were instantly killed at Ebenburg, Pa., when a telephone line they had thrown over a pole came in contact with a highly charged electric light wire. Alvin Adams, freeman of the gang, was seriously injured when, in an effort to save the men, he wrapped his cont around the wire and removed it. Adams' recovery is in doubt. National Bank Closed. The Traders' National Bank of Lowell Massachusetts, was closed by or order of the omptroller of the currency, the closing of the bank followed a sport from Norwin S. Bean, nationalank examiner, that the institution is First Photograph of the Blowing Up of Gamboa Dike ```markdown ``` THE blowing up of the Gamboa dike rendered possible the passage of any sort of light draught vessel through the Panama canal. Big dredges were floated into the cut from Gatun lake and commenced eating into the slides in Culebra cut and cleaning up the remains of the dike. In a few weeks vessels of heavy draught will be able to make the journey from ocean to ocean. Dynamite Completes the Work at Panama The image provided is too blurry and pixelated to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a grayscale abstract with a rough texture. With an explosion which abook the surrounding hills and threw huge rocks high into the air eight tons of dynamite were set off at Gamboa, in the Panama canal zone, by President Wilson touching a button in Washington, more than 4,000 miles away. Gamboa dike, the last obstruction in the Panama canal, was swept away and the Panama canal, the dream of centuries, became a reality. The image shows a serene lake with a small boat docked on the left side. The water is calm, reflecting the surrounding trees and hills. The sky is overcast, suggesting a cool or cloudy day. WHEN the Gamboa dike disappeared under the blow of eight tons of dynamite the waters of the oceans were married and the way was cleared for the passage of vessels through the Panama canal. Only dredging remained to be done. It was the actual completion of the work of American engineers begun a decade ago, following the unsuccessful effort of the French to dig the canal. Involvent, Harold G. Murray has been appointed receiver. G. F. Williams For Minister to Greece, George Fred Williams, of Boston, has been selected by President Wilson for minister to Greece. KILLS GUIDE BY ACCIDENT Eugene Debronkart's Guests Were Starting to Hunt Deer. The second Adirondack hunting fatality within two days occurred at the lodge of Eugene Debronkart, a wealthy New Yorker, near Little Moose lake, N. Y. His guide, Frank Holmes, of Boonville, received a bullet in his hip that passed through his abdomen. He died three hours later. A large party of New Yorkers were just starting on a day's hunting trip for deer and Debronkart was loading his rifle, when it was accidentally discharged. Holmes was about twenty-five feet away. Find Snakga In Bag. Finding a leather traveling bag on a street corner in Altoona Pa., Patrol man Sherlock took the bag to the central station. When it was opened all hands, began a grand rush for the exits, as half a dozen rattlesnakes in aide began to uncoil. 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FIRST REAL TOUCH OF WINTER IS HERE Gale Whips the Coast, Flooding Maryland Towns. The season's first touch of wintry weather was general east of the Mississippi on Tuesday. Shifting gales which whipped the middle Atlantic coast and the lake region had booted their way to sea, leaving crisp, cool areas behind and promises of light snow in some sections. General frosts touched the south Atlantic region as far down as Florida and there was freezing weather in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. The eastern shore of Maryland was visited by a furious storm of wind and rain. Practically every town along the water front suffered severe damage from high water, the tide being the highest experienced in twenty years. In many places the water covered the streets from twelve inches to five feet in depth. A new $20,000 concrete bridge near Easton was carried away, and during the height of the storm the Metropolitan Life Insurance company's building, in Easton, caught fire and was destroyed, with a loss of about $5000. Crisfield reported the water front flooded to a depth of three feet and persons were using rowboats to reach their homes. Fish and crab houses were destroyed and boats sunk or heated to photos. Houses were flooded at Elkton, obliging the occupants to move out. At Salisbury several men, women and children living in huts near a canning factory were rescued with difficulty in rowboats. At Seaford, Del., the tide was such a height in the Nanticoke river during the storm that some small buildings and hundreds of cords of wood floated away. The stored stock in several of the factories was damaged and several hundred hops were drilled. The loss is several thousand dollars. Fire Sweeps Heart of Mahanoy City. Fire in the heart of Mahanoy City. Pa., caused a loss estimated at $250,000. The Kaler Opera House, on the corner of Main and Water streets, and a number of business places were destroyed. The Kaler estate alone will suffer a loss of at least $150,000. Its buildings destroyed are; The Kaler Oera House, $75,000; saloon and dwelling of Leo Valenetti; saloon and dwelling of John Glabrafa. A loud explosion gave first notice of the fire in the opera house, and flames were found to be eating through the material in the fly balcony. The entire fire department of the Nothing on earth is no 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? 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High winds fanned the flames and they spread through the structure and soon it was a furnace. Three of the walls fell, the rear wall crushing the frame wheelwright shop and smithy. A side wall crumbled next, shattering the rear end of a frame dwellings. Then the front wall fell. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and iron office building checked the flames. Three companies of the Shenandosh fire department came early to aid. Two collieries near the city suspended operations and workmen with mine fire fighting apparatus lent valuable assistance. Hotfoot. Yes, she what we were amused shushed we got out without using a man, a housewife or woman. "A minute" she looked at me, small, thin volar. "Oh, I did not." NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION. Knoxville, Tenn., September 1st to November 1st, 1913. For this occasion SOUTHERN RAILWAY offers extremely low round trip fares to Knoxville and return. Convenient train service, Sleeping Cars, Dining Cars. 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The Largest Manufacturer of Hair Goods in the United States. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM. and 35th Street) New York City. is a Human Mind. If a diamond is old cost, 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 a length of character and of mind for usefulness? SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1915. Farm and Garden PREPARATION FOR WINTER. Work Which Can Be Done Now to Insure Next Crop. Although in climates where zero temperatures are expected, late fall or early winter pruning of fruit trees is not advised, as making wounds that do not readily heal still, after the fruit harvest, even in the best card for orchards, considerable cutting out of branches that cracked or broke under their weight of peaches, apples and pears is necessary. Branches that have been broken or broken off about half way would, in most cases, be best treated off as close to the main trunk as possible without injury to the bark of the latter. If desirable to save the basal part of a broken branch, make the cut just above a strong upward growing branch. Clip off all twigs that are hanging merely by their bark, also take out all blighted wood that had not previ- ously been removed, cutting this well below the diseased portion, not omit- ting to dip the pruning shears or knife V APPLE THREE CAREFULLY PRUNED, SCRAFTED AND PAINTED. Into a weak solution of carbolic acid and water or into a vessel of alcohol after making each cut. The best mixture for coating the cut surfaces is a preparation made by boiling one ounce of liturage in one pint of lined oil for two hours and then stirring in sifted wood ashes until the paint is of the proper consistency. This is applied with a brush after the edges of the bark have been pruned smooth, and just enough should be used to coat the cut. All the mummied and undeveloped fruits and excreences should also be taken off and decayed fruits and broken branches cleaned up and buried as well as many of the fallen waves as possible to destroy the germs of disease and the like; natting cavos of fruits that may be being used. Newly set trees may need some cutting back of too prominent or unsymmetrical growth and the young trunks ought to be carefully examined from the base to top for indications of lower work, which can be easily checked by killing the young grub just under the bark with a pekinife or counted wire. Where it is convenient to do so a couple of short furrows may be plowed between each two rows in both the old and new orchards—Farm Progress. STUDY YOUR SOIL. Over 400 types of soils are listed in the United States. To farm properly on these various types demands clear thinking and good judgment, for it pays best to grow our staple crops only on soils to which they are adapted or on soils similar to or nearly identical to those on which they have been developed." Early Pasture For Hogs If a patch of rye seeded last fall is available for siring hog pasture the cost of producing pork can be considerably reduced. If green rye cannot be had, then sow at the earliest possible moment a mixture of oats, field peas and rape. Now two or three lots of this and change from one to the other. The oats will provide earliest grazing, the field peas next and the rape. If not overpastured, will carry the animals well along through the summer. Hogs do especially well on green forage of this kind. It keeps them in good health, results in rapid gains and is the cheapest kind of feed. Ordinarily farmers depend altogether too much upon grain, the most expensive kind of ration. Why not utilize these green crops and reduce the cost of raising pigs? Manure the Asparagus. MATURE THE ASPARAGUS. Asparagus is a bards plant. It does not need a winter mulch to keep it from being killed by freezing, but it pays to put on three or four inches of coarse manure because it will result in asparagus eight or ten days earlier next spring and better stalks as well. And this means a great deal when you are, waiting for something fresh from the garden in the spring. MOVING THE BULL. One of the best ways to handle an animal or to move him long distances is to place a heavy sack or covering of some kind over his head. When an animal is blinded it is an easier thatter to load him into a wagon or to lead him. It is not always easy to get an animal to walk into a wagon when he has no opportunity to see it, but by blindfolding him it is, as a rule, an easy matter to get him into it.—Honard's Patryman. SIO INSIDE OR OUTSIDE? Some of the Advantages of Each Plan Place Near Barn Anyway. Silos are sometimes put inside of barns on account of the following adv antages: First.—Some men desire to build a square silo and find that they can do so by the use of the timbers of a joint or band in the barn to support the walls. Second.—A silo inside the barn should freeze less than one outside. Third.—A cheaply made silo may last longer if it is inside and not exposed to the weather. Fourth.—When the silo is placed in the center of the barn there is less dis- tance to move the feed. At the present time the majority of them are being built outside the barn First.—The inside location is not an economical use of barn room. The man who is working his plant to its full capacity will need that space for storing materials which will not go into the silo. Second.—The average silo usually does not need the protection of an inside location. Third.—Often the inside silo is unhandy to fill, while a silo on the outside may be reached easily. Fourth.—The location keeps the colors from the barn. Nearly every outside silo has a door between it and the barn, and if this is closed one of the chief objections to the use of silage is removed. The outside silo should not be over four feet from the barn and located so that the clute or communicating passageway lends into the feeding alley. The silo should be so placed in respect to other buildings that there is room to run the enclosure cutter and for teams to reach the cutter with their loads. Professor R W. Redman, Maine Agricultural College. HOMEMADE GATE LATCH. A Convenient, Economical and Time Saving Device. In the drawing is shown a handy gate latch made at home from hard wood and oilled as as to prevent the absorption of water by the wood. The following description will aid a handy man to make it: The latch a slider base and forth and locks in it when the gate is closed. It is connected by a pin with b, which extends above the gate, where it forms a handle and is connected to the gate below at c. A spring, c, of stout wood, fastened be- HOMEMADE LATCH ON GATE low to the same panel of the gate as b is fastened. A piece of wood, d, hollow on one side of the handle b to move back and forth in. Nails may be used for fastening the various parts to the gate, but screws are preferable except where there is motion. In such cases short bolts should be used. The lower end of the spring at e should have a large staple driven over it and a nail through it to prevent both cracking and slipping. It may be a good plan on some gates where the panels are not too far apart to have a second staple in the part e, either in the lower panel, or if the panel is narrow, in the one above. This gate latch has been found to work very satisfactorily and to last a considerable time where the wood has been oiled well at first and once or twice a year afterward.—Orange Judd Farmer. NOTES FROM THE HOG LOT. Fine hair denotes good quality in a pig nearly as much as in a horse. Don't feed the young pigs intended for breeding purposes altogether on corn. Ashes have good effect on the pigs' digestion, besides killing intestinal worms. A hog that can be fattened while young will be the most profitable one to breed. It is well to have a trough in the boghouse in which are kept wood saws, salt and copperas. A hog needs all his time to make pork and should not be expected to spend any moments fighting lice. Hogs require attention regardless of condition, age or sex, but the management of the brood snow is the surest test of the breeder's skill. - Subscribe to The PLANET. Legitimate. Customer-Look, here, tailor! This suit you made for me is too short. Tailor-Well, mister, I told you that I was giving you 10 per cent discount—Kansas City Star. Inconsiderate. Speaker--His wife has applied for a divorce. Plugge-Well, of all the nervel Doesn't she know the price of tires? 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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 those 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. Sir and Brother—As the time approaches Lodge Session, I feel that the representatives now our true financial condition, in order plan for the betterment of those condoned at the Supreme Lodge Session, are only important questions, is not sufficient to become thoroughly familiar with care. At this time I feel it highly important you, believing as I do that the hearers are true to the principles of our all the years that I, by your trust and K. of R. and S., the desire nearest to beloved Order established on a firm basis, end, the records will show that I have attention to much needed reforms in all of the funds, but as stated above, the carefully consider my suggestions and caused the representatives to look in but has brought about the present crisis face of the record of my frequent contact our financial system, as well as to add a honest member of the Order will do live. the time approaches for it that the representatives and condition, in order that the out of those conditions. To the Lodge Session for the cons, is not sufficient to per form familiar with conditions—it highly important to let I do that the hearts of the principles of our great instill by your trust and confidence to desire nearest my heart on a firm financial basis will show that I have time and good reforms in the handled above, the shortness my suggestions and investigatives to look lightly upon the present crisis. If my frequent efforts to re as 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 nearest 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. further trust that you will take the time to given in the following statement before the, in order that you may be fully fair final report submitted to the Supreme in 1911. I presented to you a very showing your general expenses; salaries 400 for the term of two years ending A allowing table which will be found on a shows the amount of salaries paid funds they are payable: S. of Officers: Out of What Fund S. L. Fund. U. por term $5,000 $1,250 por term 2,400 600 S. por term 3,000 1,500 per term 600 600 per term 1,200 por term 2,000 2,000 Totals. $15,200 $3,250 $ ove table shows the proper divisions expenses of officers as recommended and adopted by the Supreme Lodge at will take the time to carefully ing statement before discuss may be fully familiar with to the Supreme Lodge at to you a very carefully pr expense; salaries alone ame to years ending August, 197 will be found on page 146 of salaries paid to officer role: 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 $3,250 $1,000 proper divisions of expens has 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 Officers: Out of What Fund Payable. S. L. Fund. U. R. En. Fund. S. C. per term $5,000 $1,250 $3,750 Clerk—S. C. per term 2,400 600 1,800 S. K. of R. & S. per term 3,000 1,500 1,500 S. M. of Ex. per term 600 600 Sup. Atty. per term 1,200 1,200 Maj. Genl. per term 2,000 2,000 1,000 Totals. $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 00 of this amount, according to your ha- vie Supreme Lodge fund, $1,000,00 out of the $8,250,00 out of the Endowment fund. not include the general expenses for o- nery, traveling expenses of officers, etc. amounted to $13,203.39 to be paid fro- the receipts for the Supreme Lodge counted to $5,272.02, which left your follows: bursements $13. elections $8. left in S. L. Revenue $4. that Uniform Rank Department sho- Receipts in that department now co- preme Lodge receipts, see Major-General reason why the Supreme Lodge should be salary and carrying other expenses of t bording to your law, is paya 000.00 out of the Uniform Endowment fund. The for- mal expenses for office rent. of officers, etc., which f 19 to be paid from the Su- ne Supreme Lodge fund to which left your Supreme ..... $13,203.39 ..... $8,272.02 ..... $4,931.27 Department should be se department now equal if no Major-General's report. Lodge should be burdened her expenses of that depart $5,950.00 of this 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 amounts 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 $5,272.02, which left your Supreme Lodge treasury as follows: Disbursements ... $13,203.39 Collections ... $8,272.02 Defect in S. L. Revenue ... $4,931.27 Douett in S. I. Revenues 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 Pursuements and collections of the Endow- ment Supreme Lodge, were as follows: * Endowment expense disbursed. $26.00* * Endowment collected. 14.00* * Crit in Endowment Revenue. $12.00* * Total deficit as follows: * Crit in Supreme Lodge. $4.50* * Crit in Endowment. 12.00* * Total Deficit in both. $17.50* Formous deficit was met by the Emerger- ment permit the expenditure of more than the fund collected annually for opera- tion, you will observe for the last term w also incurred against that department w * General expenses. $2.80* * Series. 8.10* * It. 3.00* * Total expense. $11.30* * With claims. 15.60* * Total. $26.90* An emergency fund now from which the $00 was loaned out of the Pythian Templ- ern. actions of the Endowment D has follows: Cursed.....$26,981.00 .....14,550.00 Revenue.....$12,431.00 Rew: .....$ 4,936.00 .....12,431.00 .....$17,367.00 set by the Emergency fund. are of more than 25 per ce annually for operating exp or the last term was $14,55 that department was .....$ 2,807.81 .....8,181.00 .....337.50 .....6.00 .....$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.....$17,367.00 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. ou of the conditions which 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 of your treasury at this supreme Lodge have not been the session convenes at Baltic that can only, be met by of expenses. been forced to protest again remains for the Representatives their very best wisdom in all as the question of giving our finances, either issuing our revenue by several departments of ing. There is no other or why that is successfully oper- ed by our Supreme Lodge. formers should be a suff 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 the officers 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 or has been taxed and over-taxed, until the top has almost reached the breaking point to page 292 of the minutes of the following resolutions presented by the S. C. of Michigan to be acted upon by Baltimore session this year. "Paragraph 1. To provide a revenue for the Superintendent on each member of the Order, and chal by it, and taxes from Subordinate Jurisdiction." To be amended to read as follows: "The shall pay to the Supreme Lodge, by an ordinate Lodges thereof, a tax not to be paid each Grand and Subordinate Lodgesums as may be fixed in the by-laws of work or supplies so ordered must be date of delivery." over-taxed, until the patience of the breaking point, and I was presented by Sir Francis be acted upon by the Supervise year. "Paragraph 6. of Artvenue for the Supreme Lodge the Order, and charges for from Subordinate Lodges usad as follows: "Each meme Lodge, by and through of, a tax not to exceed 10 of subordinate Lodge shall pay in the by-laws of the Superordered must be paid for 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. S. 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. resolution proposes to amend your Suit works to relieve our financial straits and To amend your Supreme Court financial straits and give to The above resolution prophesies to amend your Supreme Constitution and seeks to relieve your financial straits and drive to the PHOTOS. We offer you, the Local and Most Artistic Photos, at a More Moderate Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Field to Children, Enlarging and Copying Interior View Work. We will also be pleased to Quote you Photos on Interior and from Old Photos, A Speciality. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER MAILED ANY WHERE IN U.S. $100 POSTAGE PAID SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. not to individuals. A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR IS A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY.—And every lady can have it if she will use the Magic. The Magic will dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and straighten the cuticle head of hair. It will also stimulate its growth. The Aluminum Comb cannot injure the hair, because it is never heated direct, but takes its heat from the heating bar which is heated on our Alcohol Heater, or any other heater. We advise the use of Harver Hair Pens to Bed on the market. Price per box. $6c. Alcohol Heater, price $6c. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Supreme Lodge its proper authority to receive a Per Capita tax upon the membership. If this resolution prevails there will be no further need of extra taxations. It will produce a revenue of about $15,000 annually that with the sale of supplies and the control of a regalia and printing plant, with proper regulations will place the Supreme Lodge on a sound financial footing. Article X of the original laws as 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 Seal with same." The collection of $25.00 biennially, is inadequate and there should either be an increase in representative tax of 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 Soal, 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 Recoris 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, ns is the case at present. FINANCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE ALTERED 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 his 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 Just session without reports, some with their books and vouchers missing, acknowledging their caroliness 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 heartlessly as Gqd gives me wisdom to see the right. SHOULD BE FREE TO ACT If your Finance Committee would not possibly exist and your position to enforce the law and mittee whose duty it is to rigidly the expenditures without fear or in the Officers and The Supreme will believe the above suggestions if any laws to meet the present demand. With the facts I have plainly rise to the full stature of your name and assist in taking such steps beloved organization, and thus of their interests to say: "I shall not He holds no parley where duty blinds, he faces a thousand days And, trusting in his Yours in C. 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 stores: 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. Rainfall and Earthquakes. Professor Omori points out an apparent, relationship between the frequency of earthquakes at Tokyo and the amount of rainfall and snowfall in northwestern Japan. Professor Omori does not, however, attempt to explain it. The periods when earthquakes are infrequent (but severe) coincide in a striking manner with those when rainfall is deficient at Nigata and Akita, while the periods of frequent (but not violent) shocks coincide with excessive rainfall at those places. It may seem strange, says a London paper, that murders could possibly increase the dividends of gas companies, but that happened at the time of the notorious "Jack the Ripper" crimes. It would be no exaggeration to say that the whole east end of London went in fear of death. These ghastly murders were all committed in dark spots, like unlit doorways, and the immediate result was that people used much more gas. The sale of cannies and paraffin oil, too, went up amazingly all over the east of London. Nothing Like Knowing Why. Nothing Like Knowing Why. The sweet young thing was being shown through the Baldwin locomotive works. She was an up to date young lady and at once became interested. "And why do they boil engines?" she inquired again. "To make the engine tender," politely replied the resourceful guide.—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. "You know, my dear, men are quite impossible. If I accept Jack's proposal, he will expect me to marry him, and if I refuse it he will expect to be allowed to marry someone else."—London Bystander. Crime and Light. Unreasonable. as free to act, the above conditions for Supreme Chancellor would be in the recommendations of the Com- examine the books and determine favor to any one, then confidence Lodge would soon be restored. I improved will sufficiently amend our s. my put before you. I trust you will manhood at the Baltimore session, as will secure the future of our enable those who trust you with not fear." with unmanly fears. o confidently stoers; angers at her call. God surmounts them all. F. C. & B. K. ROBINSON, S. K. of R. & S. Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica, and was by breed and instinct an Italian. He never was, except to the extent of language and politics, a Frenchman. To his dying day he was a dear lover of his native land, and while life lasted he remained true to the little island that gave him to the world. It was while he was a charity student in France that Napoleon got his first knowledge of the land that was to assist him to his large and lasting fame.—New York American. Portuguese Bursal Custom They have an unusual mode of burial in Portugal. Instead of headstones and monuments of the graveyards of other countries the cemetery of Lisbon shows rows and rows of tiny chapels, ranged in long avenues bordered by cypress trees. The Portuguese are reluctant to bury their dead out of sight, and these chapels serve as mortuaries for the coffin, which are placed on shelves within. Through the iron grilles the eye discerns small altars and flowers gleaming through the subdued light of the interiors. "Hello! Is that Dr. Glizzard's office?" "Yes." "I'd like to speak to the doctor." "He's busy just now." An hour passed. "Hello! Dr. Glizzard?" "No; this is his office, but he's busy." Lapse of another hour. "Hello! I want to talk to Dr. Glizzard." "He's busy!" "Buzz! What keeps him so busy?" "He's playing golf."—Chicago Tribune. "What are you in such a great hurry for?" "I am going to the funeral of my blief, and there is nothing he hates in unison reality." — London Telepath. Napoleon and Italy. Force of Habit HIGH GRADE JOB WORK In Fact Printing of All Kinds Executed Promptly. THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Long Distance Telephone, Monroe-2213. We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manilla Paper, Envelopes. Card Board, Wedding Stock. in fact, Every thing in the Printing Line. Making the Little Farm Pay A BRANCH of farming that affords more than ordinary pleasure and profit is that of studying out schemes for succession crops. It is quite feasible to raise two or more crops in one season on ordinary soil. ```markdown ``` It will be found that this kind of intensive farming is good for the soil. There has to be free use of barnyard fertilizer, and the plowing, disking, harrowing, rolling and perhaps boeing must be in proportion to the amount of production required of the land. Such treatment will build up instead of wear out a plot of ground. These examples may be varied as circumstances suggest. Lettuce, radishes, onions, peas, carrots and string beans may be grown and supplied to customers between the 1st of May and the middle of June. The ground can then be prepared in a few days for the succeeding crops, and it will be found that between the 1st of July and the 1st of October a full crop of these products can be grown: Celery, sweet corn, late potatoes, beetles, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, onions and turnips. At first glance it would seem that there are not many vegetables on the list that could be sown successfully as late as midsummer, but those tested form quite an array. Bush beans, carrots, lettuce, beetle corn, parsley, peas, radishes, spinach and turnips all give satisfactory results when sown as late as August. They should be put in as near the lst of July as possible to make all growth possible before frost. The hardy ones cause no anxiety, as they endure light frosts. The tender sort, such as beans, cucumbers and spinach, may be saved from the cold by a covering of old rugs and similar material. As the gardener cannot duplicate the cool, moist conditions of spring for the germination of August seeds, he must do the best thing and firm the soil well after sowing. This helps to draw the moisture in the soil where the seedlings can use it. When they have made a start the surface is to be stirred to form a mulch. Bush beans sown as late as Aug. 10 have been successfully harvested by Oct. 15. In another case an Aug. 1 sowing of penn yielded full sized pods in less than seven weeks. These were an extra early sort. The crop, however, was not so heavy as from spring sown seed. Lettuce planted in early August bore leaves large enough to use before the middle of September and well formed heads from the first week in October until the ground was cleaned. This is only a suggestive outline of the scheme of growing succession crops. There are wide possibilities along that line, and it is feasible to go still further and sow rape as soon as the vegetables are off in September and October. By Nov. I this will be in condition for forage. Hogs and sheep can feed from this field of rape for several weeks before winter sets in, and it is again ready for them in the spring. So far as the effect on the soil is concerned, it is possible to continue the double cropping of vegetables independently. The land will most likely show improvement under such methods of cultivation, but a rotative scheme is advisable on small tracts as well as large ones. The quicker an acre is capable of paying for itself in what it produces the more that acre is worth. --- LEGAL TIPS FOR TILLERS. In all the states a man becomes of age at twenty-one, but in some states a woman becomes of age at eighteen. A landlord is not liable for a nuisance created on the premises by the tenant during the tenancy and without the consent of the landlord.—Schlitz Brewery Company versus Shiel (Ind.), 88 N. E. 967. 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Usually it is put up in such strength that the proper dilution is one part of the concentrate to eight or ten parts of water. If the dilution is not indicated on the container or if you want to be certain about it buy a hydrometer. Test the specific gravity of your concentrate. It will register SAN JOSE SCALE ON PEACH TWICE. from 82 to 35 degrees. The dilution for the 82 degree stuff is one to eight, that for the 35 degree one to nine. The man with extensive orchards may wish to make his own concentrate. The job is not pleasant, but if the right method is followed it is entirely feasible, and there is a saving in cost. A steam or open fire cooker must be provided, preferably the former, with a capacity of 100 gallons, and an additional arrangement for an abundant supply of boiling water. Fifty pounds of lump lime is slaked in twenty gallons of hot water and 100 pounds of sapbur added while the slaking is going on. Then more boiling water is added until the cooker is filled up to the seventy gallon mark. This is kept boiling slowly until all the sulphur is in combination. This can be determined by dipping out a tinful and letting it stand a moment. It is a clear, rich red in color when finished. More boiling water must be added from time to time, while the cooking is in progress to keep the total volume at seventy gallons. A measuring stick marked at the seventy gallon line is handy. About half an hour is required for the boiling. You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. The substance thus prepared is of lower concentration than the commercial kind, but otherwise it is the same. It should be diluted about one to five. If only a few shrubs in the dooryard are scale infested while oil soap is often used, dissolving two pounds in a gallon of hot water. This material is rather more pleasant to handle. Spraying for San Jose scale must be done when the plants are dormant, either in the fall or just before the buds begin to swell in the spring. The substances used will injure or kill plants in leaf or if too much diluted will not penetrate the waxy covering that protects the scale.—Country Gentleman. How Tin Foil Is Made. Tin foil, which is extensively used for wrapping tobacco, certain food products and other articles of commerce, is a combination of lead with a thin coating of tin on each side. First a tin pipe is made of a thickness proportionate to its diameter, proportion not given. This pipe is then filled with molten lead and rolled or beaten to the extreme thinness required. 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TimesDispatch, Oct. 22, 1913.) With prominent colored citizens apearing for and against the project, the Council Committee on Public Buildings, Properties and Utilities voted unanimously last night for the establishment of a park to be located in the colored quarter in the northern section of the city. The matter was before the body in the form of a report of a subcommittee composed of Alderman Mitchell and Councilmen Pollard and Atkinson, recommending that the city acquire for park purposes the Smith's Hill property, bounded on the east by Seventh Street on the west by the alley between Fifth and Sixth Streets, on the North by Hospital St. and on the South by Federal Street and Federal Street, extended. Adopted a motion made by Alderman Billey, the committee recommended to the Council a resolution directing the City Attorney to acquire the property. The plot has an area of about four square blocks. Much of it already belongs to the city. The remainder, according to Alderman Mitchell, can be acquired for about $30,000. OPPOSED BY STOKES. Dr. W. H. Stokes, pastor of Elbezer Baptist Church, presented a petition signed by 200 colored citizens protesting against the location of a park at that point. He supplemented the paper with a statement of his own. The majority of the race, he said, had no time to spend in parks and needed cleaner streets, better蓄水区和 better policing. The site, he thought, was particularly objectionable because of the open power of Shoeker Creek, the adjacent city dumps and the smoke from the Loco motive Works. Dr. James E. Jackson and E. Payne elaborated on the crowded and unsanitary living conditions in Jackson Ward, and urged that instead of spending money on a park which only the less industrious element of the race would use, the Council install street improvements and construct public baths and tuberculosis camps. Dr. Jackson touched also upon the objection that the founding of a park at the location proposed would wield another link in the chain of segregation. GILES B. JACKSON FOR PARK. Attorneys Giles B. Jackson and J. R. Pollard indicted the park proposal without qualification. If Jackson Ward is overcrowded, they hold, there was, all the more reason to provide an open place in which its residents could breathe. The placing of a park in that location, they agreed would help property values in the visibility and would tend to improve conditions generally. Attorney Pollard thought that most of the opposition to the park came from those who feared its bearing on segregation. He was opposed himself to the segregation idea, he said, but did not see that the proposed park would impair any of the colored man's rights. Giles B. Jackson thought that if colored citizens would show as much zeal in appearing before the Council in behalf of street and power improvements as they have shown in opposing this park, they would eventually get the facilities they asked for. W. C. Carpenter, representing the Highland Park Citizens' Association, opposed the placing of a colored park in the Smith's Hill locality, on the ground that it would congest the Seventh Street car line and make travel inconvenient for residents of northern white suburbs. --- Leesburg (Va.) Notes. Mrs. Cecilley Dandridge of Washing ton was the guest of her mother, Mrs. E. P. Diggs on Loudon St. W. on Saturday. Mrs. Robert Walker and Mrs Wright spent Friday and Saturday in Washington. Mrs. Walker returned home Saturday night. Miss Cora Wright continued her trip to Richmond where she will spend two weeks vacation with relatives. The trustees of the Providence Baptist Church give a successful entertainment on Saturday. Glad to see some of the older people out as we are expecting to open a series of meetings next Sunday. We hope they are beginning to bestir themselves. Miss Mary Adams is full of smiles that the gentleman is on hand every Saturday. Mr. William Webster of Lock Heaven. Pa. is visiting his brother, Mr. Joshua Williams, West Loudoun St. after 40 years absence. Miss Tona Jackson of Royal Street started to Washington Sunday morning on the electric line. She was caught in a wreck. One car ran into another one. She was knocked down and otherwise bruised about the head and eyes to the extent of calling in a physician. She went as far as Falls Church and had to return home. The railroad followed her home and satisfied her with a check. The case was dropped there. Mrs. Henry Berry is still on the slick list. Mrs. William Roberts is still on the sick list. Farmville (Va.) News. Farmville, Va., Oct. 20,—The revival at the A. M. B. Church conducted by Rev. Jacob Randolph, pastor of several Baptist Churches near here closed with success. Rev. Harm is pastor. The revival at First Baptist Church Rev. R. G. Adams pastor began on second Sunday and is being conducted by Rev. P. Monroe of Danville, Va. There were eighteen conversions last week. The meeting is in full blast. The people of Farmville will remember the preacher and the gospel he preached for many years. We are praying that this week may bring much success in saving souls for Christ. Rev. A. Bland, assisted by Rev. C. H. McDaniel conducted a revival meeting at Mt. Mariah Baptist Church. Several were brought to the knowledge of Christ. Rev. N. Jordan will leave this week on thirty days' vacation. He is expected to visit several Northern cities. Ravs. Paul Monroe, P. M. Robinson and wife Rev. R. G. Adams and wife accepted the invitation to dine with Mr. and Mrs. George Allen of Elly Street. Mrs. Thomas Jeffress of Virginia Street is still confined to house. Miss May Moore of Grove St. is on the mend. Revs. Adams, Monroe and Robinson have visited during the week many homes where prayers were needed. The result has been felt. The PLANET is the only newspaper in all this world that tells the good things concerning our people in and around Farmville, therefore this paper should find its way into every home in this community. Get it, pay for it, and read it. 27 DIE WHEN AIRSHIP EXPLODES German Dirigible took Fire While Up 900 Feet ONLY ONE FOUND ALIVE New Filler, Carrying Military and Naval Officers, Crashes to Earth a Mass of Flames. The newest and largest of the Zeppelin war airships, the LLI, was destroyed in midair by an explosion near Berlin. All except one of the twenty-eight military and naval men on board, including the engine admiralty trial board, were killed. Shortly after the disaster to the navy aviation men came news that three army officers belonging to the flying corps were killed in aeroplane accidents. The disaster to the LLI occurred just above the main street of the city of Johannesburg while the big dirigible, 500 feet long, was making a trial trip preliminary to its acceptance as the flagship of the new German air navy. The shattered bulk of the airship, a mass of blazing canvass and crumpled aluminum, dropped 900 feet into the public highway. Hundreds of persons, who had been watching the flight from parks and houseops, resided to the scene. There was nothing to be done except to take out the bodies of the victims from the mass of twisted wreckage. The dirigible, just before she left the balloon hall, at Johannisthal, took on board her regular naval crew and a number of officers. She headed for Berlin, a short distance away, in a light wind. About a doren aviators were circling the aerodrome at the time in airplanes. Everything was apparently in good order on the airship. She was gradually getting up speed when suddenly an explosion was heard by those on the ground, evidently in one of the motors in the centre gondola. A flash shot out and the next instant the entire ship was afire and plunging downward. Every inch of canvass covering and the balloons disappeared in a moment. A second and more violent explosion was then heard, the fire having reached the gasoline tanks filled with about two tons of liquid fuel. Before the echoes of the explosion had died down the wreck of the most modern of Germany's dirigibles lay a flaming mass on the ground. The six inmates of the flaming gondola had been blown through the sides of the car by the first explosion and their bodies fell a quarter of a mile away from the wreck of the balloon which was traveling at forty miles an hour when the accident happened. All the others, except two, were apparently killed by the explosion of the gasoline tank, and were probably dead before the wreckage reached the earth. The commander and members of the admiralty trial board were seated in the officers' gondola. After the fire started they were caged inside a network of red hot girders. REPORT SCHMIDT WAS SANE Allenjaite Say Slayer Was In His Right Wind When He Slew Girl Hans Schmidt, who confessed to the slaying of Anna Aumuller and dismembering her body, was sane when the murder was committed, according to the report of four allenists who examined him in New York. The report of the alienists was made public by District Attorney Whitman who is preparing to bring Schmidt to trial. Schmidt ploned guilty when arraigned before Judge Malone. His counsel, A. G. Koolib, said his client would plead not guilty with the plea of insanity at the time of the crime, and this plea was entered on the record. Schmidt told his counsel after the court proceedings that he is getting tired of the delay in sending him to the electric chair. a. THE RICHMOND PLAYGROUND, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. LAKE STEAMER LOST IN GALE Eighteen Men. Saved After a Hard Fight. After battling for hours in a terrific gale in Lake Erie, when his steamer, the Elphicke, owned by the Buckeye Steamship company of Duluth, Minn., sprang a leak, Captain Collins was forced to run, her ashore off Long Point. He had barely done so when the steamer broke in two. The entire crew of eighteen men were saved after hard work by the Long Point Life saving crew. The steamer carried 160,000 bushels of wheat. Wilson In Politics Three Years. Just three years ago President Wilson left the academic life he had led for twenty five years and entered the political arena. On October 20, 1910, "President Wilson" for he was so titled as the head of Princeton University, appeared before the board of Trustees and read his letter of resignation, inspired, as he said, because "the Democratic party of New Jersey nominated me for office of Governor of the State and I deemed it my duty to accept the nomination. After presenting his resignation Mr. Wilson started on a wildweeping tour of the State. That evening he went to Flushing, N. J., where Joseph Patrick Tumulty, then an assemblyman, spoke from the same platform. It was Mr. Wilson's first meeting with the man who was to become his secretary. Town Honors "Humble Hero. Flags were at half must in Wheeling, W. Va., and business was at a stand-fill for two hours while the funeral of Jacob Bille was held. Bilz, a crippled electrician, sacrificed his life for a small child in the path of a railroad train. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA—FLOUR steady; winter clear, $3.75 (1.30); city mills, fancy, $4.99 (6.25). KYE FLOOR quiet; per barrel, $3.50 ¥3.50 WHEAT steady; No. 2 roll, new, 80 lb. COTEN steady: No 2 white, 45½ 46½: lower grades 41¾ OATS steady: No 2 white, 46½ 47½: lower grades, 45½. POTATOGES steady, at 70¾80¾, per bushel. POULTRY: Live standy; bene; 16c; old roosters; 12c, 13c. Dressed firm; cinder fowl; 12c, old roosters; 13c. BUTTER standy, fancy cinder; 12c, 13c. Fancy cinder. EGGS standy, selected; 33c; near by; 3c, western; 2c. Produce Markets CHICAGO: HOGS loc to the lower- bulk of stores. $7.50 x 10, light. $7.50 x 10, mid. $7.50 x 10, heavy. $7.50 x 10, rough. $7.50 x 10, plus. $4.75 x 10. CATTLE steady; bovines $5,859.9 Texas cattle $5,657.90; stockier and feedler $5,657.65; cows and buffers $5,657.65 SHEEP steady to the lowers; natives $465; wartlins $5,100.55; lambs, native $5,657.15 Wanted PERSON WITH $3,000 TO GO INTO THE SEWING MACHINE MAIL ORDER AND CLUB PLAN BUSINESS with me. Have a full line of Machines to start with at once. Do not answer unless you mean business. Address, PRED. W. ERNST, 20 Livingstone St. Detroit, Mich. Do You Know Her? I would like to know the whereabouts of Frances Taylor. I am her sister, Lucy Ewell. When I last saw her she had two children, the older girl's name was Betsey 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 Rev. Ewell, who was pastor of a church in Richmond, Va., about thirty years ago. Any information concerning Frances Taylor or Rev. Ewell will be appreciated. Address, MRS. LUCY SIMON, 2222 Toladona Street, New Orleans, La. Wants to Locate Her Father. Miss Dalay Taylor is very anxious to locate her father or some of her relatives. Mr. Phill Taylor, her father, was a resident of Lynchburg, A. She has been from Lynchburg, W. Any information will be thankfully received. WILLIAM T. JORDAN, 1760 Pacific street, Brooklyn, N. Y. DO YOU KNOW THEM? Died in Oklahoma. A. B. Johnson, formerly of Mecklenburg county, Va. is reported to have died at Nowata, Oklahoma, Sunday, August 24, 1913. 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, Nowata, Oklahoma. Do You Know Them? I had a mother and two sisters, in Richmond. My mother's name was Mnhala. She is dezd. The oldest sister's name is Merenda, the other's name is Margaret or Maggie. We used to belong to Jacob Woodson. When I saw them 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 the paper. Yours truly, GEORGE CRAWFORD, Robertson Co., Hearno, Texas. THE CLEF CLUB of New York City, the Largest Negro. Orchestra in the World will give a CONCERT at the Kelly Miller's Monographic MAGAZINE. No. 1 Education for Manhood. No. 2 The Political Plight of the Negro. No. 3 Social and Industrial Capacities of Negroes. (part 1). No. 4 Social and Industrial Capacities of Negroes. (part 2). 10 cents a copy. Annual subscription (12 numbers) $1.00 Agente Wanted Everywhere. Address; PROF. KELLY MILLER, Howard University, Washington, D. C. 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