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The funeral of Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, the honored and beloved mother of Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. took place from the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Sunday, December 2, 1913 at 1 P. M. From the funeral arrangements were Rena, John Gush, W. H. Briggs, S. C. Brennan, A. R. Thomas, Jacob Turner, W. H. Staben, S. C. Brennan, the pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church. Rev. S. C. Burrell read the 14th chapter of Job. Rev. A. S. Thomas prayed a deep sympathetic prayer that touched the hearts of all as he pictured the heartful Christian character of the deceased and asked special benediction, strength and comfort for the heart-broken pen—he look beyond the dark cloud of agitation and feel that R is God—He dooth all things well. Mr. Thomas H. Wyatt read the resolutions of sympathy that accompanied a handsome floral design brought down by Sir George W. Riseon, representing the Courts and Lodges of Dumfville, Vt. Rise. Susie Boiling read the letter from Old Dominion Court, No. 180 of which the deceased had been a member for 17 years. The letter ended with these words: "Not now, but in the coming years. It may be in the better land. We'll read the meaning of our tears. And there sometime we'll understand." Sometimes with tearless eyes we'll see Yes, there, up there, we'll understand. "Then trust in God, through all thy days. Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand: Tho' dark thy way, still sing and praise: Sometime, sometime, we'll understand." Rev. Dr. Manuel then read the following letter, sent by her heart-broken son and few eyes were dry when he ended: "Richmond, Va., Dec. 13, 1913. 'Rev. S. C. Manuel, D. D.' "Pastor of the 5th St. Bapt. Church. 'Dear Sir: I desire you to presch the funeral of my mother, Rebecca Mitchell, who died at her residence, 515 N. Third St., sometime between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock under the most distressing circumstances. She evidently caught fire from the cooking stove, while busy preparing dinner. No one was in the house at the time and her last moments of agony must be left to the imagination. She was a member of the 5th Street Baptist Church and had been for many years. "She was originally a member of the First Baptist Church and held a membership there for more than forty years. Her Christian character and upright conduct were the subject of comment by all who know her. She is survived by one son, one grand-son and one grand-daughter and one half-sister. It is nothing that I can say or do to add to the great reputation for honesty and upright living. "It is said that she is better off, but I would have been happy to have had her spared to us a few more years yet. In keeping with a Christian's fortitude, we bow to the Divine will and promise to make the efforts of a life-time to meet her on the other shore." Respectfully and mournfully submitted "JOHN MITCHELL, J.R. The Choir's sang sweetly, "Oh Where shall Best Be Found." Dr. S. C. Manuel then took a two-fold text: Job 5th chapter and 30th verse,—"Thon shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of corn comes to his season." In beautiful language he portrayed the long painful, honorable life of the decemnd and the fulfillment of the above prophecy in her having reached "Full yawn" before she was called from her directly labors to her reward. He direct upon the fact that the family most find comfort in her being a faithful Christian and jolly to go when God saw it to call her when her TIME should come and not the MANNER in which she was to go, so the Bible so where tells how a man shall do. "For we know that M our earthly house of this tabernacle were disavowed, we have a building of that house not made with hands, clear and in the heavens."—II Ocr. Sir Barker, 1st version, was the second book of the text. In an old and ancient manner he preserved the body. so Him. - He dwell upon, the one being the same in Heaven so great which way God may lift it to earth from the earth when your TIME OUT. He congratulated the first God knows from the beginning when you are to come to the grave and perish it to be that way. Never in Ridgemont has a funeral woman been so beautifully honored to being able to comforting she a distressing suffering death that this one of her, Mamuel's and all his comforting and安慰ed on thee even been killed in tears during his abn. and stirring discourse. Mr. Joseph Matthews sang in his personal touching hymn, "The House of the Soul." As the choir sang softly and sweetly the song, "My Dear Ade Gilding Swimly By." The funeral cortege seemed out pleasantly and simply bearing the moved attention of the congregation and two to its high respect above the congregation. The service there were very interrupted. Old Dominion Court performed its burial ceremony led by Jim Grace Belling. Dr. Manuel committed the body to the grave and banding it was presided over by Rev. Al. Thames and in the shadow of a beautiful square mural, the mortal memorial of him. Marian Mitchell were both until Representation word. Although he singing was done at the graveside, unlike some appurtenants to the writer: "THE CHRISTIAN'S GOOD-NIGHT "Bleep on, beloved, sleep and take thy rest; Lay down thy head upon thy sawlou's breast; We loved them well, but Jesus loved them best— Good-night! Good-night! Good-night! "Until the shadows from this earth are cast; Until the gathers in Him answered by last; Until the twilight glom be overgast- Good-night! Good-night! Good-night! "Until we meet again before His throne, Clothed in the spotless robe He gives His own, Until we know even as we are known— Good-night! Good-night! Good-night!" The floral offerings were costly, beautiful and numerous, attesting the love and esteem in which the deceased was held. The following gentlemen acted as ball-bearers: Honorary: Means, Floyd Rose, Thomas M. Crumip, John T. Taylor, Lewis R. Chiles, Willis Wyatt, J. J. Carter, Thomas H. Wyatt, P. Thomas Hewin, B. H. Peyton, E. R. Jefferson, B. P. Vandervall, George W. Rison, Daville, Va. Active: Messrs. R. W. Whitting, A. V. Norrell, Benjamin A. Graves, Thomas Smith, J. E. Byrd, D. J. Farrar. Mr. A. D. Price, Funeral Dirctor, officiated. RESOLUTIONS FROM LODGES AND COURTS OF DANVILLE, VA. Daville, Va., Dec. 12, 1813. Wheras, The Great and Supreme Ruler of the Universe has in His Infinite wisdom removed from our midst, Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, the mother of our beloved and highly estimated Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., and Wheras, The long and intimate relation held with her during her long stay, makes it eminently befitting that we record our appreciation towards her: Therefore, Be It Resolved, That the sudden removal of her from our presence leaves a vacant space and a shadow that will be deeply felt by all who know her. Resolved, Second. That with deep sympathy with the bereaved family of the deceased we express our hope that even so great a loss to us may be unwarranted for good by Film who should all thiam well. Resolved. Third. That a copy of these resolutions be carried upon our records and a copy printed in the local papers and a copy forwarded to the herverved family. MRS. S. J. HOLBROOK, D. D. GEORGE W. RISON, D. D. G. C. Baby Wanted. Wanted—A Girl Baby, between the ages of 3 and 8, so rules. Light compromises. Send picture of child to JAMES PURNELL. P. O. Box 33, Baskin, Del Co., Pa. At Thing R. A. M. R. Church Sunday at 5:30 P. M. the Organs Attend murped and Sound Club will have sessions by Gin, grand, Mrs. R. H. Brown and entertaining their audience with a musical performance. RY OMAS DECEMBER 20, 1913. MADONNA OF THE HARPIES Revolutions Whereas, On the 8th day of December, 1913, God the Supreme Reuler, Maker and Creator, saw fit in His infinite wisdom to remove from our midst Sir James W. L. Carter, who was a beloved brother, and an obedient worker, a wise friend and a devoted brother in Lodge. Do It Resolved, First. That in the autumnity death of our brother, Sir Carter, that his step-mother has lost a loving and devoted son, his sisters and brothers a grateful, loving, upright brother, with sympathy for all who needed careening and maze. Resolved, Second. That on the death of our beloved brother, Sir James W. L. Carter, his brother Pythianus have undergone a heavy loss and a much missed, brother and we have not an irreparable loss in one whose life was always that of cheerfulness, willfulness of heart to assist wherever needed and unexcelled in manners to every one. His cheerfulness could be patterned after by all. be preserved in their sacred vault, and a copy of same be sent to the boreeed family, and be sent to paper. Signed—Committee on Revolutions F. D. WASHINGTON, Chair. G. EMORY SMITH, M. of F. JOHN D. CHANDLER, M. at A Planet Ladies Anniversary Celebrates Brevon Amounty Planet Ladies Auxiliary, Mm. Lucy Cross, President, hold their seventh anniversary and installation of officers at Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third St. Monday night, December 8, 1913. It was a brilliant affair. The ladies added splendor to the scene by being attired in the most beautiful evening gowns and latest creations in the dressmaker's art. Members of Planet Co., No. 8, U. R. K. of P. were out in large numbers. The observers were grand. The officers were insulted M. a most impressive manager by Col. Thomas M. Crump, former english of Planet Co. He gave minute instructions to each officer so to her smooth duties. 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mary Brown. Miss Cora Epps Hill sang sweetly, "That's How I Need You." accompanied by Miss Rebecca T. Mitchell. After the exercises an excellent banquet was served in the dining hall by the following committee: Meadames, Lillie Hardy, Mary Lizzie Brown, Cora Epps Hill, Emma Beas, Hattie Wella, Fannie Jones, Mamie Mason, Julia Ragland, Miss Ella Clatborne, Miss Remora Lawrence, Mrs. Lucy Cross, Chairman. Information Wanted. I would like to know the name of the tribe of Indians that inhabited the region around the Chautauqua River in South Carolina. Any information will be thankfully received by J. P. LEACH, 89 Wilkerson St., Putnam, Conn. WHY, We Can Sell You a Home on very small terms. If we haven't got it we can get it. Call and see us. BRAGG BROS. & CO., 506 N. 2d St. We have five splendid North Second St. stores for rent, and several centrally located residences with modern improvements. BRAGG BROS. and CO., 506 N. 2d St. A Word for Our Advertisers. This is a season of buying and of selling, but OLD VIRGINIA CORN MEAL is good at all seasons. The Knox Crutchfield is inviting the attention of the public to a VIRGINIA product. The corn is water-grown and the mills are in Hanover county. Va. This should cause you to eat his kind of corn-bread and be happy. THOMAS T. JEFFRIES knows what you need and keeps it on hand for your accommodation. His Cough Mixture No. 1 will do a world of good in keeping you out of the grave yard. If you wish to see your friends smile, give them one of the useful presents that he is offering at attractive prices. Remember the place, 215 E. Broad St. BRAGG BRQ8. ★ CO are Real Estate Agents and Brokers. They will invest your money for you! If you wish to sell property, see them. If you wish to rent property, see them. They may be found at 506 N. Second St. and police and courteous service is a feature. THE MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK looms up as the place to keep your money. It is under conservative management and has a great financial backing. When a concern owes one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of unencumbered property you do not have to worry about its reliability. Its assets are in a form that can readily be converted into money. Grant a safety deposit box. You can start an account with ten units. Almanacs are there. Free for the asking and for special patrons informative calendar and there for the admission. See the fault. This speaks for itself. THE GRAND LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, N. A., S. A., E., A. and A. of VIRGINIA tells its own story. You can join if you are of good character for $6.00. New lodges are organized for less. Dr. E. R. Jefferson is Deputy Grand Chancellor for this District. Nearly thirty eight thousand dollars in death claims have been paid since January 1, 1912 by the Endowment Department. Pythians belong to the brigade of doers and not to the alley brigade of knockers and croakers. Go and join the Pythians if they will let you do so. L. J. HAYDEN'S Remedies are too well known to need any commendation here. If you are well, they will prevent sickness. If you are sick they will make you well. Call at 220 W. Broad St. Richmond, Va. and tell him your troubles. A Female Embalmer may surprise you but Madam LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT does the work to the complete gait fraction of those who employ her. She will embalm your beloved dead or she will take all of all of the funeral arrangements. You'll find her at 1015 St. James St. Telephone Madison 6619. Her husband is an Undertaker, too. SEEBY DRUG COMPANY of New York are famous for their hair specialties. Send for their celebrated preparations and be happy. THE POPULAR PRICE TAILORING CO., INC. is certainly alive to the needs of the people who wish the greatest value for the least money and who need some time in which to pay the bill. Their display of goods will please the most fastidious Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond Va., Banking House, 214 East Clay Street. Notice is hereby given that the next regular meeting of the stockholders of the Mechanics Savings Bank will be held at Richmond, Va., 727 North Third St. on Tuesday night, January sixth, 1914 at 3:30 o'clock sharp, for the purpose of electing the Board of Directors of receiving the annual reports of the President and other officers of the Bank, and taking such actions respecting the matters thersin as may to the Stockholders seem best, and for the purpose also of transacting any and all other business that may properly come before such an annual meeting. By order. Board of Directors. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Press. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Secty. Harvard Colored Man Is Class Orator Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 11.—The Harvard seniors have elected a colored man, Alexander L. Jackson, of Eaglewood, M. J., their orator for class day, 1914. Jackson has won a track "H" several times and is famous for his hurdling and sprinting. He was elected by six votes over M. C. Pinson, the head secretary of the class. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. ON THE HEIGHTS Dedicated to Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Tis grand to stand on some tall cliff, That looms above the wreck-strown shore. And feel secure from angry waves, That down beneath you foam and lake. But it is greater, still in silence, That some small mark of Trouble. Along Life's bleak and rugged coast, Strown round with breaches of bleap youth. To take a stand on such high ground, Is the great privilege of all; Up where Life's gentlest breeze blow, And softest dows of heaven fall. Why stay below amid Life's fogs, Where floating clupe their shadows race? —HENRY ALLEN LAINE WHITE—In loving remembrance of my sister, J. VICTORIA WHITE, who departed this life 3 years ago, the 17th day of December: Dear Sister, Thou hast left me And my loss I deeply feel. But 'tis God who has bereft me, Hc can all our sorrows heal. Yet again I hope to meet thee When the day of life is fled. When in Heaven with joy to greet thee, Where no far well tear is shed. Her sister, BILLA WHITE. GIBBS—The funeral of Mr. DAVID GIBBS, who died December 11th, from a serious accident took place at 1 o'clock, December 14th, from the Fourth Baptist Church of which he was a member and for a number of years was the Choir Leader. He was buried with the honors of the National Ideal Benefit Society. COUSINS—HARRIS Mrs. Martha Harris announces the marriage of her daughter., Minnie C. to Mr. Junius Cousins. The reception will be held on December 30th, 1913 from 9 to 11 I. M. at 613 N. Price Street. All friends invited ROBINSON—HAYDEN Mr. and Mrs. William Hayden request the honor of your presence as the marriage reception of their daughter, Annie B. to Mr. George E. Robinson, Tuesday night, Dec. 23rd, 1913 at 118 W. Leigh St., Richmond Va. from 8:30 to 11:00 o'clock. Friends are invited. No cards. Personals and Briefs Mr. Daniel J. Farrar, Jr., who has been indisposed in out again. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Muntford will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary Xmas night. Mrs. Thomas S. Blackwell will leave during the holidays for Raleigh N. C. where she will spend her vacation. Mr. Charles Robinson returned to the city last Friday from Suffolk, Va., where he was a delegate to the State Grand Lodge of Masons. Mrs. Sylvia L. Mitchell, of Mt. Clare, N. J. was called to the city on account of the death of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Robecca Mitchell. She will leave for home to-morrow. Miss Marie Hall is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Cora Hall Giles of Wallingford, Conn. and friends in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn. Cadet Sylvester Giles will spend Xmas with his mother in Wallingford Conn. Mrs. Amanda Brooks, mother of Miss Rosa B. Brooks was taken suddenly ill last Thursday. She is now somewhat improved. I have received a strange letter from a stranger. No address was given. I am willing to receive a confidential letter from him. $150 CA8H and $12.50 per Month will buy a niced two-story, five room, detached frame house, with city improvements, on South Lombardy St. BRAGG BROS. & CO., 506 N. 24 St. Mrs. H. C. Miller and Mr. Pollard M. Miller of Montgomery, Ala. are in the city visiting their son and brother, Mr. L. C. Miller, 704 N. 1st Street. Mr. Pollard Miller will remain in the city where he will be associated with his brother in the publishing business at $12 N. Second St. WITHIN THE LAW MARVIN DANA FROM THE PLAY OF AYARD VEILLER SYNOPSIS Mary T. was a sturdy store clerk in pasture and farm for a short time before she married. Mary was a sturdy store clerk in pasture and farm for a short time before she married. After her freezing, she married a woman of her life but her life was forever. Mary married a woman of her life but her life was forever. Mary is waited for by the police to leave town after her marriage of life and to return to play a role. Helen Mary is waited for by the police to leave town after her marriage of life and to return to play a role. CHAPTER XIII. The Burglary at Gilder's. THE entrance of the butter brought the house out, thought back to the matter in hand. "My man," he sold authority tively, "I want you to go up to the roof and open the sentrie. You'll find some men waiting my there. Bring 'em down here. They to get off cers. You get 'em down here and then you go to bed and stay there till morning. Understand!" The butter looked at his master for guidance. Receiving a tool, he said. "Very well, sir." "How do you know they're going to break into the house tonight?" Gilder demanded of Rurke, "or do you only think they're going to break into the house?" "I know they are, I fixed it." "You did?" "Yes," Burke agreed; "tooot pigeon in the police name for him. Really, he's the vistest thing that clawls" "But, if you think that," Gibber postmilated, "why do you have anything to do with that sort of person?" "Because it's good business," the inspector replied. "We know he's a spy and a traitor and that every time he comes near us we ought to use a dis-infantar. But we deal with him just the same because we have to. Now, the stoot pigeon in this trick is a swell English crook. He went to Garson yesterday with a scheme to rob your house. He tried on Mary Turner, too but she told Garson to leave it alone. But he met Griggs afterward and agreed to pull it off. Griggs got word to me that it's coming off tonight, and you see, Mr Gibber, that a how I know." "I see!" glitter admitted without any enthusiasm. "But why do you have your men come down over the roof?" "It wasn't safe to bring them in the front way. It's a chitch the house is being watched. I wish you would let me have your latch key. I want to come back and make this collar myself." "But why not stay, now that you are here?" "Suppose some of them saw me come in. There wouldn't be anything doing until after they saw me go out again." The hall door opened, and the butter reentered. The room glittered. came. Crassly and two other detectives in plain clothes. At a word from his master the disturbed. The is with drew. "Now!" Jake went on briskly as the door closed behind the servant. "where could these men stay out of sight until they're needed." There followed a little discussion which ended in the question of a storeroom at the end of the passage on the ground floor. "And now Mr. Glader" the instructor for said energized all. "I'm going to give you the same tip I gave you now. Go to bed and stay there." "But the instructor Glader gave." "What about him?" He's the one thing of importance to me. "If he says anything more about going to Chicago just you get him go that's all." The best piece for him for the next few years. "You're in charge here!" Barke said to Cressly. "I'll tell you respectable. I'm coming back to get the bunch house and I will tell you when you're warred. You'll want in the gloriously cold and don't make a move to you in that success by any chance with us writing and you get a call from Glenn. He's got a whistle and he needs of necessity got their scream!" Cressly declared an entire episode of the drivers. As the man belt the team Barke turned up to Glenn. "Most one thing you see is said, 'Mt or I have gone I want you to stay up for a half hour today, with the tables burning. Do you want I want to be sure to give the Terror woman time to get home when that going is at work.'" Gilbert's speech followed the all restless of the house respected. It was easily he had trained in the library until the abolished time was elapsed. He obliged the place to place his mind heavy with distress under the shadow that the desired to light the life of his chief boss son. Finally, with a sense of relief he got out the lights and went to his chandler. His thoughts were most with his son, and over as he thought of Dick his fury wavers against the woman who had enveloped the boy in her plotting ```markdown ``` Mary Was Utterly Wretched. For vengeance on himself. And into his thoughts now crept a doubt, one that alarmed his sense of justice. A horrible suspect that he had misjudged Mary Turner crept into his brain and would not out. He fought it with all the strength of him, and that was much, but ever it abode there. Mary Turner herself, too, was in a conflict utterly wretched, and for the same cause 18th October. That source of the father's suffering was hers as well. She had with her gambit of years revenge on the magistrate who had sent her to prison. And now the joy of it was a texture, for the pauper of her plans, the son, had suddenly become the chief thing in her life. She had taken it for granted that he would leave her after the time to know that her marriage to him was only a device to being shame on his father instead he loved her. That fact seemed the secret of her distress. He loved her. More, he dared believe, and to assert belief, that she loved him. Had he acted otherwise the matter would have been simple enough. But he loved her-loved her, still, though he knew the shame that had exceeded her life, knew the motive that had led her to accept him as a husband. More-by a sublime audacity he declared that she loved him. There came a thrill in her heart each time she thought of that that she loved him. The idea was monstrous, of course, and yet. Here, as always, she broke off, a hot flush leazing in her cheeks. Mary Turner was just ready for bed, quite eager by a messenger who waited for her answer, as he told the yawning maid. As Mary read the roughly scrawled message, she was caught in the grip of terror. The man who had saved her from death had yielded to temptation. As he had availed her so she must save him. She hurried into the gown she had just put off. Then she went to the telephone book and searched for the number of Tilder's house. A few moments before Mary Turner received the note from the hands of the silent maid one of the leaves ```markdown ``` Dacey With a Ferret Face. of the octagonal window in the library of Richard Gilder's town house awung open under the persuasive influence of a thin rod of steel, cunningly used, and Joe Garron stepped confidently into the dark room. For a space he rested motionless, listening intently. Reassured, he drew out an electric torch and set it glowing. A little disk of light touched here and there about the room, traveling very swiftly and in methodical circles. Satisfied by the survey, Garron crossed to the hall door, where he listened for any sound of life without and found tone. The door into the passage that led to the storeroom where the detectives waited next engaged his businesslike attention. And here again there was naught to provoke his suspicion. It seemed to him that everything was in readiness for the coming of his associates. There remained only to give them the signal in the room around the corner where they waited at a telephone. He sent himself in Gilder's chair at the desk and drew the telephone to him. "Give me 120 Bryant," he said. There was a little wait. Then an answer in a voice he knew came over the wire. Garson picked up a penholder from the desk and began tapping lightly on the rim of the transmitter. It was a code message in Morse. In the room around the corner the tapping sounded clearly, ticking out the message that the way was free for the thieves' coming. For a final safeguard Garson searched for and found the telephone bell box and unscrewed the bellis, which he placed on the desk. He then took his pistol from his hip pocket and threw it into the right side pocket of his coat. Once again, now, he produced the electric torch and lighted it as he exited gushed the lamp on the table. He then went to the door into the hall, opened it and, leaving it ajar made his way in silence to the outer doorway. The doors there were freest of their bolts, and one of them swung wide. So nicely had the affair been timed that hardly was the door open before the three men slipped in and stood mute and motionless in the hall while Garson refastened the doors. Then Garson walked quickly back to the library. Rebelled him, with steps as noiseless as his own, came the three men. When all were gathered in the library Garson shut the hall door, touched the button in the wall beside it, and the chandelier threw its radiant light on the group. Griggs was in evening clothes, seeming a very elegant young gentleman indeed, but his two companions were of grosser type as far as appearances went-one, Diney, thin and wry, with a ferret face; the other, Chicago Red, a brawny ruffian, whose stoild features nevertheless exhibited something of half suilen good nature. "Everything all right so far," Garson said rapidly. He turned to Griggs and pointed toward the heavy hangings that shrouded the octagonal window. "Are those the things we want?" he demanded. "Tom," was the answer. "Well, then, we've got to get busy." Before he could add a direction he was halted by a soft buzzing from the telephone. For an instant he hesitated while the others regarded him doubtfully. "We've got to take a chance." Garson went to the desk and put the receiver to his ear. There came again the faint tapping of some one at the other end of the life, signaling a message in the Morse code. An expression of blank amazement, which grew in a flash to deep concern, showed on Garson's face as he listened tensely. "Why, this is Mary calling," he muttered. "Mary." Griggs cried. "Yes, she's on." Garson interpreted a moment later as the tapping caused for a little. He translated in a loud whisper as the irregular tickling noise sounded again. "I shall be there almost at once. I am sending this message from the drug store around the corner. Have some one open the door for me immediately." "She's coming over!" Griggs cried incredulously. "No. I will stop her." Garson declared firmly. But when after tapping a few words the forger paused for the reply no sound came. "She don't answer!" he exclaimed. "On her way already." Griggs suggested. "I'll let her in." He drew a small torch from the skirt pocket of his coat and crushed to the hall door as Garson nodded assent. "God! Why did she have to come? Garson muttered filled with forebodings. "If anything should go wrong now!" He turned back toward the door just as it opened, and Mary darted into the room, with Griggs following closely at her head. "What do you want here?" he demanded, with peremptory savageness in his voice, when was a tone he had never bitherto used in addressing her. There was only tender pleading in Mary's voice, though her words were an arrangement. "Joe, you had to me!" "That can be settled later!" the man snapped. His jaw was thrust forward obstructedly, and his clear eyes sparkled defiantly. "You are fool, all of you!" Mary cried. "Yes, fool! This is burglary. I can't protect you if you are caught. How can I? Oh, come!" She held out her hands pleadingly toward Garson, and her voice dropped to breeching. "Joe, Joe, you must get away from this house at once, all of you! Joe, make them go!" "It's too late," was the stern answer. "We're here now, and we'll stay till the business is done." "Joe, for my sake!" "I can't quit now until we've got what we came here after," he declared roughly. "Boys, let's get away! Please, oh. THE MASTER OF THE MASTER "This is Mary calling." Garson muttered. "This is Mary calling." Garson muttered. please! Joe, for God's sake!" Her tone was a sob. "I'm going to see this through," said Garson doggedly. With a gesture of despair she turned away toward the door by which she had entered. "You can't go." Garson said sharply. "You might be caught." "And if I were," Mary demanded in a flash of indignation "do you think I'd tell?" "Of course not. Mary I know you. You would go up for life first. Just the same, you can't take any chances. We'll all get away in a minute and you'll come with us." He turned to the men and spoke with swift authority. "Come," he said to Dacey, "you get to the light switch there by the hull door. If you hear me snap my fingers, turn 'em off. Understand?" With instant obedience the man went to his station by the hall door. "Red," Garson ordered, "you get up that door." He pointed to the one that gave on the passageway against which he had set the chair tilted. As the man obeyed Garson gave further instructions. "If any one comes in that way get him and get him quick. You understand? Don't let him cry out or make a sound." Chicago Red hold up his huge hand, widely open. "Not a chance," he declared proudly. "with that over his tug." "Now, let's get to work." Garnon continued eagerly. Mary spoke with the bitterness of defent. "Listen. Joel. If you do this I'm through with you. I quit." "If this goes-through," he countered. "We'll all quit. That's why I'm doing it. I'm sick of the game." RED suddenly made a slight blinking noise that arrested the attention of the others and held them in moveless alliance. "I hear something," he whispered. He went to the keyhole of the door leading into the passage. Then he whispered again, "and it's coming this way." At the words Garson snapped his fingers. The room was plunged in darkness. There was absolute alliance in the library after the turning of the switch that brought darkness. Long seconds passed, then a little noise—the knob A "I hear something," whispered Chicago Red. of the passage door turning. As the door swung open there came a gasping breath from Mary, for she saw framed in the faint light that came from the single burner. In the corridor the slender form of her husband, Dick Gilder. The next instant he had stepped within the room and Chicago Red had pounced on his violet, the huge hand clapped tight over the young man's mouth. There came a sound of scuffing feet, and that was all. Finally the big man's voice came triumphantly: "I've got him." "It's Dick." The cry came as a wall of despair from the girl. At the same moment Garson flashed his torch, and the light fell swiftly on young Gilder, bowed to a kneeling posture before the couch, half throttled by Chicago Red. Close beside him, Mary looked down in wordless despair over this final disaster of the night. Garson retired a step farther before he spoke his command, so that, though he held the torch still, he, like the others, was in shadow. "Get away. Red." The fellow let go his grip. Fried of that strangling embrace, Dick stumbled blindly to his feet. Then, mechanically, his hand went to the lump on the table back of the couch. When the mellow light streamed forth he uttered an excitation of stark amazement, for his gaze was riveted on the face of the woman he loved. "Good God!" It was a cry of torture wrung from his soul of souls. Mary awaived toward him a little, palpitant with fear, fear for herself, for all of them, most of all for him. "Hush, hush!" she panted warningly. "Oh, Dick, you don't understand." "I understand this," he said brokenly at last. "Whether you ever did it before or not, this time you have broken the law." A sudden inspiration ```markdown ``` Dick Gilder-Throttled by Chicago Red. on his own behalf came to him. For his love sake he must seize on this opportunity given of fate to him for mastery. "You're in my hands now. So are these men as well." Unless you do as I say, Mary, I'll jail every one of them." "Who's this, anyhow?" Chicago Red demanded. "I'm her husband." Dick answered. "Who are you?" "Don't speak any of you." Mary directed. "You mustn't let him hear your voices." Dick was exasperated by this persistent identification of herself with these criminals in his father's house. "You men back there!" he cried. "If I give you my word to let every one of you go free and pledge myself never to recognize one of you again, will you make Mary here listen to me? That's all I ask. I want a few minutes to state my case. Give me that. Whether I win or lose, you men go free, and I'll forget everything that has happened here tonight." There came a muffled guffaw of laughter from the big chest of Chicago ited. "Your safety depends on me," the young man warned. "Suppose I should call for help." "You would only call once," Garson said grimly. His hand went to the notiseless weapon-in his cont pocket. "Once would be quite enough." "You win," Garson said, with a half-laugh. He turned to the other men and spoke a command. "You get over by the hall door. Red, and keep your ears open every second. Give us the office if you hear anything. If we're rushed and have to make a quick getaway see that Mary hag the first chance. Get that, all of you? Garson turned to Dick. "Make it quick, remember." Dick spoke at once, with a hesitancy that betrayed the depth of his emotion. "Don't you care for me at all?" he asked wistfully. The girl's answer was uttered with nervous eagerness, which revealed her own stress of fear. "No, no, no!" she exclaimed. "I know you do, Mary," he asserted confidently; "a little anyway. Why, Mary, can't you, see that you're throwing away everything that makes life worth while? Don't you see that?" There was no word from the girl. Her breast was moving convulsively. "Mary, Mary!" he cried. "You've got to change. Don't be so hard. Give the woman in you a chance." The girl's form became right as she fought for self control. "I am what I am," she said sharply. "I can't change. Keep your promise, now, and let's get out of this." "I can't change. Keep your promise now, and let's get out of this." "You can change." Dekw went on in petuously. "Mary, haven't you ever wanted the things, that other women have—after and care and the big things of life, the things worth while? They're all ready for you now, Mary. And what about me? After all, you've married me. Now, it's up to you to give me my chance to make good. I've never amounted to much. I've never tried much. I shall, now, if you will have it so, Mary. If you will help me, I will come out all right. I know that; so do you, Mary. Only you must help me. I need you, and you need me. Come away with me." "No, no." I married you not because I loved you, but to repay your father. THE "Don't you care for me at all?" the wrong he had done me. I wouldn't let myself even think of you, and then I realized that I had spilled your life." "No, not spilled it. Mary! Blessed it! We must prove that yet." "Yes, spilled it," the wife went on passimtey. "If I had understood, if I could have dreamed that I could ever care. Oh, Dick, I would never have married you for anything in the world!" "But now you do realize," the young man said quietly. "The thing is done if we made a mistake It is for us to bring happiness out of that error." "Oh, can't you see?" came the stricken laugh. "I'm a bitted!" "But you love me you do love me, I know?" The young man spoke with joyous certainty, for some inflection of her voice had told the truth to his heart. Nothing else mattered. "But now, to come back to this hole were in here. Don't you understand at last that you can't beat the law? If you're caught here tonight where would you get off-caught here with a gang of burghers? Why didn't you go to Chicago, as you planned?" "Planned? With whom?" "Why, with Burke?" "Who told you that I had arranged any such thing?" "Burke himself did." "Who? Mury was standing right now, and the rare color damned in her cheeks. Her eyes were blazing." "Less than an hour ago." "Where?" "In this room." "What was he doing here?" "Talking to my father." The seemingly simple answer appeared the last straw to the girl's burden of frenzied suspicion. Her voice cut fiercely into the quiet of the room. "Joe, turn on that light! I want to see the face of every man in this room." The blaze of the chandelier flamed brilliantly over all. Griggs moved stealthily a little nearer the door into the passage. But Mary's next words came wholly as a surprise. "Dick," she cried. "what are those tapestries worth?" She pointed to "Oh, $200 or $200, I suppose," he answered. "Why?" "Never mind that. How long have you had them, Dick?" "Ever since I can remember." "And they're not famous masterpieces which your father bought recently from some dealer who smugged them into this country? "I should say not!" "It's a trick! Burke's done it!" Mary's word came with accusing he hemenet. There was another single step made by Griggs toward the door. Mary's eye caught the movement, and her lips soundlessly formed the name: "Griggs!" The man strove to carry off the situation, though he knew well that he stood in mortal peril. He came a lit the toward the girl who had accused him of treachery. "He's lying to you!" he cried forcibly, with a scornful gesture toward Dick Gilder. "I tell you those tapestries are worth a million cold." Mary's answer was virulent in its sudden burst of hate. "You stool pigoon! You did this for A Gilder Leaped Toward Garson. Burke 64. "I swear it didn't: I swear it!" "It's framup." Garson broke in forename. His tones came in a dead ended tone of wrath. On the instant, aware that further subterfuge could be of no avail, Griggs swaggered defiance. "And what if it is true?" he drawled, with a resumption of his aristocratic manner. He plucked the police whistle from his waistcoat pocket and raised it to his lips. He moved so slowly. Garson had pulled the pistol from his pocket, had pressed the trigger. There came a spout of fire. There was no sound save perhaps a faint clicking noise. But the man with the whistle at his lips suddenly ceased movement, from bad health and in the next instant rushed to the floor dead. In the first second of the tragedy Dick had not understood. But the falling of Griggs before the leveled weapon of the other man, there to be in that ghostly immobility, made him unaware. He leaped toward Garson would have wrenched the plot from the other's grasp. In the struggle it fell to the floor. Before either could pick it up Clea go red eyeslight warning. "Somebody's opening the front door!" Garson spring to the octagonal window as Dick took possession of the pistol. "The street's empty! We must jump for it!" Came on Mary, her cry Already Chicago had snapped off the lights of the chandelier, had spring to the window, thrown open a panel of it and had varnished into the night, with Dacey at his heels. As Garson would have called out to the girl again he was interrupted by Dick: "She couldn't make it, Garson," he declared coolly and resolutely. "You go. I'll take care of her." "If she's caught" — There was an indescribable menace in the forger's half uttered threat. "She won't be." "If she is, I'll get you, that's all." Garson said as he dropped out of sight. [TO BE CONTINUED.] It was getting late at night when the servant girl returned from the shops with various domestic purchases. As she exclaimed the transaction to her mistress she cried out suddenly, "There if I haven't forget the 'am an' eggs for breakfast!" "That's a pity," observed the mistress, but added, with kind philosophy: "Never mind. The shops will all be shut now. We shall have to manage in the morning with bread and butter and marmalade." The girl started. "And what shall I have?" she inquired. "Well, Ellen, I suppose you'll have the same as we do," replied the mistress. "Yes, Mrs X." responded Ellen, with some severity. "but let me tell you I can't do my work unless I'm properly fed."—Manchester Guardian. Religion Versus Business. Two brothers living in southern Illinois run a country store, and they have a large trade in wood, on barter. One of the brothers joined the church and became extensively religious. He soon got a habit of talking to his brother about the beauties and comforts of religion and tried to persuade him to join the church. "Yes, Brother Jim, I know that it must be comforting and altogether helpful to body and soul to be a good church member," said John, "and I would like to join. But, just look ye, Jim, there has got to be somebody here of the firm to weight this yere wool." —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Training Down Daddy Ethel-1 declare, Elsie, how well you father looks! He belongs to that downtown business men's gymnasium, doesn't he? Elsie-Not daddy. Dad's more up to date than that. Mother and we girls talked him into joining Miss Martin's tango classes, and the improvement has been simply wonderful.-St. Louis Republic. Utterly Mistaken. "What do you mean, sir, poking your umbrella in my eye?" "I insure you, sir, you are mistaken." "How can I be mistaken?" "Yes, you are. This is not my business." "I've just borrowed it from a friend." "Littalburgh, I am." ```markdown ``` Christmas Dinners MANY are the opportunities for culinary triumphs afforded by the Christmas dinner. For a much better fare, focus it. week before the reast it is likely the housewife's kitchen will exhale hints of the dainties that are to attest her skill on the memorable day. For the Christmas feast there may be all sorts of dainties, but that royal bird, the turkey, is the piece de resistance. Typical Christmas dinner consists of a soup—any cream of celery—with oysters, roast turkey, onions, potatoes, cranberries, a lettuce salad, plum pudding, wafers, cheese, mince pie, ice cream, fruit cake, candy, nuts, raisins and coffee. To prepare oyster cocktails make sauce by stirring together a tablespoonful of tomato ketchup, one-half tablespoonful of grated horseradish, one-half tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, a dash of tabasco sauce, a tea spoonful of lemon juice and salt to taste. Set in the ice until chilled through. Into chilled small glasses put five little oysters and pour in this sauce; then put the glass in the center of a plate of cracked ice. Scald the turkey instead of dry picking it. Clean and wash the fowl nicely. Select a turkey of about fifteen or sixteen pounds. It takes from three to four hours to roast one of this size. A very rich turkey requires to be offset with an acid jam or jelly, and cranberries supply about the cheapest and most satisfying relish of this sort. Put the following ingredients into a large dish and mix them thoroughly together for the plum pudding: One pound of seeded raisins and the same amount each of auet, currants and flour; one-fourth pound of citron, one-fourth pound of preserved ginger, a grated nutmeg, a desertspoonful of alpipec, eight eggs, one pound of dark brown sugar and one winegrainful of brandy. Cook until done. If you care to make your own quince meat here is a good recipe: Two pounds of cooked lean beef chopped, two pounds of beef auet chop MENU CREAM OF CLEART SOUP OYSTERS ROAD TRAMPT-BLESSING STUART OWNING PASTEER POTATOES - PLAS CHAMBERS LITTLE BALLOON WITH PAPERBACK JAM PULPING MILK CHEEK + MILK CHEEK ICE CREAM - FRIT CAFE CANDY COFFEE WHAT TO EAT ped, three quartes of apples chopped, three pounds of raisins needed and chopped, two pounds of currants, one pound of citron peel chopped, half a pound of orange peel chopped, one pound of lemon peel chopped, half a cupful of lemon juice, half a cupful of orange juice, one tablespoonful of salt, four cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of moonsauce, one cupful of coffee, one cupful of boiled cider, three cupfuls of brandy, one upful of sherry wine, two teaspoonfuls ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful allspice and one teaspoonful cloves. Mix all the ingredients together except the sherry and brandy and cook slowly for two hours. Add the liquors in place of the brandy and sherry the same quantity of elder may be used. The mincement should be allowed to stand a month before it is used. *When ready to make the pie line the pie lines with pastry, fill them with the mincement and cover with the paste. Brush over with beaten egg and bake in hot oven. An economical fruit cake: Cream together a cupful of sugar and half as much butter. Add two beaten eggs, a cupful of molasses and one half cupful of strong, cold coffee in which you have dissolved a scant tea spoonful of baking soda. Have ready three cupfuls of sifted flour, one cupful of mixed raisins, figs and dates, chopped fine; one cupful of cleaned dried currants, one-quarter pound of citron, cut very fine, and the name of blanched and shredded almonds and a teaspoonful of mixed spice, cinnamon, clove, maca, nutmeg and ginger. When the batter is mixed flavor with the strained juice of a lemon. Bake in a moderate oven one hour. Line the baking pan with buttered paper. This cake will remain moist for some months if kept in a tin box. Still Looking. "Alfred, have you got everything? I tenderly inquired Baron Southmount's wife as he started off on a journey. The billionaire burst into tears. "There you go!" be exclaimed. "All ways saying things to give me pain You know very well, in spite of all my efforts. I haven't yet succeeded in getting everything."—London Tibbitt. * CHRISTMAS AND THE DARKEST DAY EVERY day the sun grows colder. Riding lower through its arc. Will it, as the year grows older. Leave us always in the dark? But we know that science teaches 'Gwill begin its upward climb When its lowest point it reaches. At the solstice—Christmas time. Earth to all her utmost regions Shuddered 'neath the march of Rome. Whose triumphant, pagan legions Dragged their loot and captives home. Must her rule go on, unceasing? Would her armaments be harled. With an insolence increasing. Were Rome's gods alone undying? And must other nations crook To her Caesar, deifying THE CITY OF MONTREAL O 2 Sultane and Beards. Mohammed never abaved, and his board was considered sacred. His namesake, the conqueror of Constantinople, is described as having had "punctuosity like leaves over two rose --- RY day the sun grows leading lower through it, as the year grows and we always in the know that science to will begin its upward or lowest point it reach the solstice—Christmas to all her utmost regi- dered 'neath the march riumphant, pagan leg- aged their loot and cap- er rule go on, unceas- ed her armaments be- insolence increasing, just a servile, helpless home's gods alone unde- must other nations of Caesar, deifying with suppliant word seemed her ruthless ling on the earth cou- saddest, darkest hour it was born at Bethle buda, and every hair of his beard was as a thread of gold." It was he who in reply to a question as to his plans for a campaign said, "If a hair of my beard knew them I should pluck it out." Great was the acacade when one of his successors, Sollim the Grim, took his shaving: "I have cut off my beard O ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` in order that my vizier may have nothing to lead me by," he replied, and Sellin's viziers knew better than to bandy joke with him. Cash and Credit. "You deserve a great deal of credit young man." "Maybe I do, but I alwave have to pay'cash." W. I. Johnson, 10 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia. LARGE CAPACIOUS WARE-ROOMS. FILLED WITH THE LATEST DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MANUFACTORIES IN THE UNITED STATES. PROMPT AND POLITICAL SERVICE. ORDERS RESPONDED TO DAY OR NIGHT. Determined to furnish the very BEST service at the LOWEST Rates possible, the Patronage of the Public is Solicited. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Phone, Monroe----2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET----SHOP IN REAR 'Phone, Monroe----2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or tele- phone. Halls rented for meetings and also Entertainments. Flenty of room with all necessary compacences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carriages, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. CHRISTMAS ICES Delileeau Desserts With Which to Round Out the Feast. Iced desserts make delicious features of the Christmas dinner. They may be in the form of plait ice cream or one of the elaborate lices which are served under fancy names. The dessert should come to the table in an attractive form. It may be frozen in a fancy mold and decorated with candied or glace cherries, with nut meats or sprigs of holly. The following delicious lices were suggested by that authority in culinary lore, the Boston Cooking School Magazine and are illustrated here: Chestnut Bavarian Cream.—Homemade chestnut preserve, either whole or broken nuts, in the best form in which to use chestnuts for this dish. Decorate the bottom of the mold with slices of candied or marischino cherries and chestnuts. Cook one-third cupful of raisins in boiling water to cover until the raisins are tender and TWO DELICIOUS ICEA. the water is nearly evaporated. Cut a dozen cherries in pieces, add the pieces left from decorating the mold and the raisins. Add one-fourth cupful of chestnuts in small pieces and one-fourth cupful of the chestnuts pressed through a sleeve and enough of the chestnut syrup to make in all a generous cup of material. Let heat and in it dissolve one tablespoonful of granulated gelatin, one fourth package, softened in one fourth cupful of cold water. Set the dish into ice and water and stir till it begins to thicken, then fold in one cupful of cream beaten very light. When the mixture will "build its shape" put it into the mold by spoonfuls. When unmoulded surround with pieces of preserved chestnut in syrup. If the preserve has not been flavored add a teaspoonful of vanilla before folding in the cream. Ice Cream With Raspberry Sherbet Pack vanilla ice cream into a ring mold, cover securely and pack in four measures of crushed ice to one of salt. When unmolded fill, the center with canned or preserved penches. Pour half frozen raspberry sherbet over it. ROAST BEEF DINNER. Oysters on Half Shell Colery Hadishea Considine Deviled Crabs Roast Beef Potatoes Roasted in Pan Spinach Mangrunt au Gratin Roman Punch Chicken He Lettuce and Tomato Salad Cheese Tunnel Wafers English Plum Pudding Hard Sauce Oranges Nuts Raisins Coffee It Should Be Merely a Preparation For Dinner. 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In some families it is the custom to distribute Christmas gifts at the break fast table, placing them at the plates of those for whom they are intended before they enter the room. A nice gift for the housewife is something ornamental or useful for the table. If an egg dish like the one illustrated here is chosen it may be brought on as a surprise containing the Christmas breakfast eggs. Some persons like to eat a boiled egg from its shell instead of having it turn BREAKFAST DISHES ed out into a cup. For these there come egg scissors that cut evenly around the top of the egg, leaving the orifice large enough to insert a spoon. These scissors are miniature chickens with eyes of ruby and the steel handles glided. The finger loops are left natural color for the sake of the contrast, and the whole affair is not more than five inches long. A handsome platter for the accommodation of eggs served on toes may be presented. A nice way of serving the Christmas breakfast eggs is to set two small slices of toasted bread. Well buttered, on a dish; above arrange about eighteen hot, cooked impinger tips; above the tips set two pancake eggs. Your over the whole a scant coolful of Madeira sauce, in which six or eight peeled mushroom cups (peeled or not) have been simmered about ten minutes. Rich and Poor. "After all, it was the poor woon who won the dress." "Yes, and wasn't it hard to take?" Exchange. CLEANING DYING AND REPAIRING. CBITMAN M. WHITE. Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. Will Satisfy the Lover on the High Kind of Stimuli. Special Price We Have All Grades of Good LS quarts, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and Pace Us. t... RAILROADS. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Schedule in Effect September 30, 1918. Leave Hyrd Street Station, Richmond, FOR NORFOLK: "0:00 A. M. "3:00 P. M. "4:10 P. M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST": 6:15 A. M. "0:00 A. M. "2:00 P. M. "9:20 P. M. 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Zion Quarterly Review is now a popular candidate for public favor. L. W. Kyles, A. M. D. D., the editor and manager is the right man in the right place. The Review is a credit to the demonstration that it represents. We received a catalogue of the Southern Railway entitled "Autumn and Winter in the Land of the Sky." The publication is in line with the admirable descriptive production of the advertising department of this great corporation. We have received Mann's Afro American Business Directory for Greater New York, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and Yonkers. It is a creditable production and may be obtained from E. M. Mann. 2227 Fifth Avenue, New York. A specimen page with views of Richmond, Va. is a feature. We have received a photograph of the Mound Bayou Oll Well and Mt'Gg. Ok. It commenced business October 2, 1912. The mammoth structure marks the beginning of a new decade in the history of Mound Bayou, Miss. Mr C. W. Burd is the photographer. --- We received, "Training for Citizenship," an article on the Winston-Salem Plan of training for citizenship by Mr. Leroy Hodges and presented in the Senate of the 63rd Congress, September 18, 1913 by Mr. Swanson. It is a most interesting and instructive treatise upon a subject which forms the basis of American citizenship. TKNNNGER KNIGHTS WIN. We note with pleasure that the Supreme Court of the United States on last Monday, December 15th, handed down an opinion in the cause Orang Lodge, Knights of Pythias, North America &c et al versus Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, et al (white); in error to the Supreme Court of Tennessee reversing the judgment of the lower court with costs on confession of error by the white defendants. The cause was remanded for further proceedings. We congratulate the Tennessee knights upon their success in this case. We have never understood why this case was not made to stand on the same basis as the Georgia case which was decided in favor of the colored defendants. It seems to us, too, that this contention should prove the basis of settlement of the Ella's cases and all other contests of a similar character. As to what further proceedings the courts of Tennessee can take other than to correct their records and make them conform to the previous decisions of the Supreme Court is a mystery to us. EDITOR WRIGHTS CASE IN EQUITY. We have read with interest the statement of Rev R. H. Humry, P. E., member of the Publication Board of the A. M. E. Church with reference to the dismalal of Manager Lowe and Editor Wright. We are frank to admit that we are disappointed. We had in a measure reserved judgment on the case presuming that the action of the Publication Board was justified by the facts. We are frank to say now though that in the light of Presiding Elder Bumry's admissions Editor Wright's complaints against the action of the Publication Board seem to be well founded. Rev. Bumry states that Manager Lowe was permitted to make charges against Editor Wright prior to his conviction for his own misdeeds. It looks as though Editor Wright had a copulative case against Manager Lowe, due to his own conduct and that Manager Lowe's friends did not lose any time in punishing Editor Wright for his untimely exposures. The whole affair is unfortunate. According to Rev Bumby's statement, the Publishing Board had the power and it arbitrarily used it regardless of the well defined provision that every man has a right, whether admitted guilty or innocent, to a fair and impartial trial by "due process of law." As Rev Bumby is apparently opposed to Editor Wright, even upon his statement of the case the Publication Board would not injure itself in the estimation of the public by reversing itself and according to Editor Wright the heating the trivial that every principle of right and justice demands. We are frank to say that while the Publication Board may and a just cause for the removal of Editor Wright, this removal should only come after all the ecclesiastical forms of law have been observed. What we have stated is without prejudice and it may be after a hearing has been accorded, the same result may be achieved. But he is entitled to the hearing and it will no doubt save trouble to observe a plain constitutional custom which terms the foundation and the basis of American citizenship and which is reflected in every representative organization, both secular and religious upon this part of the American continent. DR. WASHINGTON'S "LARGER EDUCATION." We have received, "My Larger Education," by Booker T. Washington. The book contains a new but characteristic portrait of the district guided educator. This interesting narrative will prove to be intensely interesting and it may form the basis of many speeches in the next presidential campaign. Viewed from any angle it seems to us that Dr. Booker T. Washington in looking over the field of possible aspirants for the presidency has asked himself the question, "Who, but Roosevelt?" While interested in all that he has said, we are especially absorbed in the chapter entitled, "Colonel Roosevelt and What I Learned From Him." He says: "Some years ago, and not so very many, either. I think that I shouldn't have been perfectly safe in saving that the highest amount of the average Negro in America was to hold some sort of office, or to have some sort of job that connected him with the Government. Just to be able to live in the capital city was a sort of distinction, and the man who ran an elevator or merely wasbed windows in Washington (particularly if the windows or the elevator belonged to the United States Government) felt that he was in some way superior to a man who cleaned windows or ran an elevator in any other part of the country. He felt that he was an office holder!" He continues: "There, has been a great change in this respect in recent years. Many members of my race have learned that, in the long run, they can earn more money and be of more service to the community in almost any other position than that of an employee or office-holder under the government. I know of a number of recent cases in which Negro business men have refused positions of honour and trust in the Government service because they did not care to give up their business interests. Notwithstanding, the city of Washington still has a peculiar attraction and even fascination for the average Negro." Bringing the subject matter "home," so to speak, he says: "I do not think that I ever shared that feeling of so many others of my race. I never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were genging most of their time, thought, and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. So, for the greater part of my life, I have avoided Washington; and even now I rarely spend a day in that city which I do not look upon as a day practically thrown away." He makes an open confession when he says. "I do not like politics, and yet, in recent years, I have had some experience in political matters. However, no man who is in the least interested in public questions can escape some sort of connection with politics. I suppose, even if he does not want a political position. As a matter of fact, it was just because it was well known that I sought no political office of any kind and would accept no position with the government, unless it were an honorary one, that brought my connection with politics about." He might have remarked that "politics does not like him." He then tells why he has an antipathy to politics for he says: "One thing that has taught me to distaste politics is the observation that as soon as any person or thing becomes the subject of political discussion, he or it at once assumes in the public mind an importance out of all proportion to his or its real merits. Time and time again I have seen a whole community (sometimes a whole county or state) wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement over the appointment of some person to a political position paying perhaps not more than $25 or $50 a month. At the same time I have seen individuals secure important positions at the head of a manufacturing house or receive an appointment to some important educational position that paid three or four times as much money for perhaps purchase a farm), where just as much executive ability was required, without arising public attention or causing comment in the newspapers. I have also seen white men and coloured men resign important positions in private life where they were earning much more than they could get under the Government, simply because of the false and mis-taken ideas of the importance which they attached to a political position. All this has given me a distaste for political life." This is a good reason. When Dr. Washington was tempted to overcome and forego the antipathy of a life time to become the political referee at Washington, he injured himself without materially helping the political cane that he espoused. He continues. "During President Roosevelt's administration I was asked to go as a Commissioner of the United States to Liberia. In considering whether I should accept this position, it was urged that, because of the work that I had already done in this country for my own people and because my name was already known to some extent to the people of Liberia, I was the person best fitted to undertake this work that the Government wanted done. While I did not like the job and could ill spare the time from the work which I was trying to do for the people of my own race in America, I finally decided to accept the position. I was very happy, however, when President Taft simply decided to relieve me from the necessity of making the trip and allowed my secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, to go to Africa in my stead." Dr. Washington facetiously remarks. This was as near as I ever came to holding a Government job. But there are other ways of getting into politics than by holding office." The above may be declared "as true as preaching." No one will question the accuracy of the above conclusion. "In the case of the average man, it has seemed to me that as soon as he gets into office he becomes an entirely different man. Some men change for the better under the weight of responsibility, others change for the worse. I never could understand what there is in American politics that so fatally alters the character of a man. I have known men who, in their private life and in their business, were scrupulously careful to keep their word—men who would never, directly or indirectly, devise any one with whom they were associated. When they took political office all this changed." But enough for this week. We shall discuss further Dr. Booker T. Washington's admiration for Col. Theodore Roosevelt. THAT NATIONAL DAILY. We have received from Editor L. W. Kylen of The A. M. E. Zion Quarterly Review, a copy of his editorials on "A Daily Negro Newspaper Needed as a Conservation of Racial Honor and Racial Rights." The position occupied by our brilliant contemporary is not new. The subject was discussed from that angle many years ago in the city of Washington and a plan was formulated for the floating of the stock. This great national daily in the interest of the colored people was to have been published at the National Capital. The need, of such a publication is admitted. The possibility of the successful launching of such a project admits of no discussion. It is doomed to failure from the start. A race of people that has been free for 60tyears and as yet is without a great recognized, wealthy national organization to protect its rights cannot be expected to support such an enterprise as Editor Kyley suggests. The best evidence that a national daily for colored people can succeed. At Washington is that a national daily has succeeded somewhere else. It would be well to consider the project of establishing a great national weekly in the interest of the colored people, one that could truthfully claim a circulation among a quarter of a million readers. This kind of support to one of our weekly journals would enable the management to consider the proposition to establish a great national daily. As a matter of fact, when we shall see a colored daily, operating successfully in Dallas, Texas, New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., Atlanta, Ga., Raleigh, N. C., Nashville, Tenn., Chicago, Ill., Cleveland, O. J., Washington, D. C., Tichmord, Va., Baltimore, Md., or New York, then we will see the dawn of a demand for publications of this kind. The three hundred and fifty journals now being published by self-sacrifice officers and managers all over the country are wielding a great influence and they are doing a great work, but to minimize their influence by presuming that a daily could take their place is, to our mind, a mistake. When we sink our petty differences and organize a great national organization to defend the race and each other, the racial daily will come as a natural result. Still, we endorse Editor Kyles position only we favor starting at the bottom rather than proceed to build from the top. Can the leaders of the colored people get together and stay together? On the answer to this question will depend the solution of this great question. REBELS REPULSED FROM TAMPICO Are Said to Have, Lost 800 Men Killed. United States Warships Protecting Foreigners. Firing has ceased in the vicinity of Tampico, Mex., the rebels having retired evidently to avoid the continuous cannonade of the Federal gunboats. This was the report sent to Vera Cruz by Rear Admiral Fletcher, commander of the America nwar vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. The distance to which the rebels had withdrawn was not stated. Military men regard it as probable that the rebels discontinued firing on the outskirts of Tampico pending the arrival of artillery from Victoria. The Mexican gunboat Progreso received orders to hurry to Tampico with reinforcements for the garrison at that place. Unofficial messages corroborate the government's report of the rebel defeat at Tampico as a result of a heavy and sustained bombiment by two Federal gibbons and Federal field artillery. The dispatches do not bear out the government claim that the repulse was a rout. In possession of the railroad yards throughout the battle, the rebels, when they retired, remained sufficiently cool in the face of the furious fire to take away with them every locomotive and most of the rolling stock. That the rebel loss was great is emphasized in these advice, which add that the buzzards which inhabit the Mexican coast and which for generations have been protected by law, hovered over the battlefield in numbers so great as to present the appearance of low-flying black clouds. According to the Federal report 800 rebels were killed before they could get out of range, and this would mean many other hundreds wounded and possibly left on the field. It is regarded as probable that the relief of Tampaico is only temporary, and that before many days the rebels will resume the attack in great numbers, although the long battle has materially cut down their supply of ammunition. This may delay operations for a time. Reports do not indicate that the property loss was large. The transfer of American refugees to the battleships while the fighting was at its height was attended with considerable difficulty. 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Many of the children, some of the infants in arms, suffered severely from exposure upon the crowded decks of the little guibboat, but now they are receiving attention from the naval surgeons. WORKMENUNEARTHSKELETON POLICE BELIEVE Man Was Murdered and Buried in Quarry. The finding of a human skeleton by workman employed at the Potomac Valley Line and Stone company's plant at Pineauburg, eight miles west of Magerstown, Md., threw the employees into a state of excitement as the bones were uncovered. One of the workmen found a leg bone protruding from the ground, and excavations revealed more bones, and when they were assembled the skeleton was found to be that of a young man, six feet tall. His skull behind the ear was fractured, as if made by a blunt instrument. The police believe the skeleton is that of a man who was murdered by a blow on the head and that the murderer buried the corpse. Making an Actress. 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Satisfaction is a part of every order leaving SALOMON'S. --- ```markdown ``` SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1943 * Franklin Press * The Christmas Guest Whose shall come any way to the night, He must be ill before night. For him the night shall be night, For him the night shall be night. (Oh, Mary, grant my son this night, Though mine eyes be in tears. My heart is so cold my Vale get him, My heart is so cold my Vale get him. For any who we meet in the street, Are warm and we will friend (Oh, Mary, grant my son this night, He beamed and I could cry). Bid, baned or begged come for guest, My heart shall be his wife. And on his head my hand shall rest, To bless him he be given (Oh, Mary, grant my son this night, That blessing and request). This night for thy one Son's dear sake, Wake light and warmth and white, Oh, Mary, grant my son this night, That blessing and request. And this I do for thy sweet Son, Wit thou not do for mine? A Song of Christmas TWINE the bittersweet and holly Arched above the heartstone's knot Joy not unlucky, Cone not inflicting the snow. In each face the frosty attitude. A jubilant flying wing Comes the slighbella rhythmic single Tringle December journeying Set the board and ask the blessing For the countless spread In the silent words expressing What a loving Father said "Take on earth" for it is nearest When the sunny with its abide And the winter air is closest In the hush of Christmas tide. 1920 MIN REINDER HYDEEN ARE PHANTOMING. Bring the old mumboan a fiddle. Bell the of the goose days. Had the fetted down the middle Wait for the fetted down the middle Light of fire upon the laver. Swing the dancers, be and need. As they pass of follow after In the quiet Virginia reel. Make a welcome for the stranger. Should his footstep cross the door. Hly the memory of the manger And the Christ that was of yorn Gather children and a new boy. As he gathered them long yne. If it be the years have crowded you With their distance doing. Deck the free and light the candles. Let the stockings all be bung. For a saint with furry sandals At the housepoet high has awung And his saint with a sweeping Through the star beepang frines And the moonbeams pale are glancing In the merry Christmas time — Freet McOaffey. The Barber Bluffed. "The barber never annoys you about tonic rub or sea foam?" "Never." "Never tries to sell you a shampoo or a massage that you don't want? What's your secret?" The First Christmas The First Christmas It often has been stated that the birth of Christ must have occurred four years before the date fixed on for the current chronology and that it is probable the event befall at some other time in the year than a few days after the winter solstice. The reason for the confident assertion is the ascertaining of the fact that Herod died about four years B. C. The basis of this supposition is the report that at the time of the birth of Christ "there were shepherds abiding in the field, watching their flocks by night," a circumstance not natural in the attitude of Baltham near the shortest day. That is the height of the rainy season in Judea, and the date does not appear to have been observed generally before the fifth century. Many students of Biblical history have argued that the story about the star of Bethlehem points to a date for the Nativity not later than May 8. B C C C on that date the planets Venus and Jupiter were so closely in conjunction as seen from the earth that the apparent distance between them was equal only to the breadth of the full moon. These planets were L. B. B. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. then visible in the east a couple of hours before sunrise and must have produced a strikingly beautiful appearance and have been spoken of as one object. That was about fifty days less than two years before the death of Herod, a fact which harmonizes well with other conditions of the narrative, for it is probable that the mandate for the daughter of all the children two years old and under was issued some months before his death, and the limit of two years would leave an ample margin for any uncertainty as to the time of the appearance of the star, as related by the might, and there were no possible full means on a Friday between the years B. C. and A. D. 33, and no other following that till A. D. 60. From this it would seem to follow that Christ was thirty eight years old at the time of the crucifixion, and this would vindicate the urgency of the Jewish doctors who affirmed that he was not yet fifty (fifty's) years old. It is remarked, too, that in the spring of the same year there was a triple conjunction of planets—Saturn, Jupiter and Mars; and that the first two named were in conjunction as soon from the earth no less than three times in the next preceding that is, 67.7 Another theory about the star of Bethlehem which has been advanced is that the star seen by the magi is Spen, the leading brilliant in the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin. For many years before and after the Christian era the star was changing its place until it was then directly a "star in the east" and its movement in that direction may have been the very fact noticed by the wise men of some centuries preceding who expected that the prophecy about the Virgin would be fulfilled when its principal star reached the position noted. If this were so the view of the magi from Bethlehem, in the far east, is easily explained, and the chief difficulty attending the explanation lies in the fact that such an important search as they undertaken is noticed by only one out of the four evangelists. The uneasiness of the centuries in regard to the date of the Nativity in year and month may never be cleared up. Its existence has been unfairly cited as reason for disbelieving the whole narration. The people of 2000 years ago attained little importance to dates, except certain ones, and it may be reason belied that the destruction of Jérusalem occurred between the time of the Nativity and the writing of the gospels, at least in the shape in which it has come down to us. Ancestry of Santa WHAT is Santa Claus' age? The jolly, rostering, pot-bellied, ever young old fellow that we know has made his appearance on earth in so many guises that the secret of his first coming threatens to remain forever relied in the midst of antiquity. No one can say with any certainty just when he first made his appearance among prehistoric men, for merry old Santa in one form or another delighted children's hearts in many a pugnish household centuries before the commencement of the Christian era and prior to any recorded history. The name of Santa Claus, by which he is known in America, is the Dutch pet name for St. Nicholas. The name Krisa Kridgite, by which he is known in England, is a corruption of Christ Kindlein or the Christ Child. But the festivities that distinguish Christmas existed long before Christianity, and a jolly god of good cheer appears as the personification of the period from the earlier pagan times. Now the Santa Claus of today is simply that old jolly god soaked up, washed and purified. The Dionysia of the Greeks, the Saturnalia of the Romans, the Twelve Nights of the old Norsemen and of the Teutons all celebrated the coming of the winter solstice. People then gave themselves up to all sorts of luxury and excess. In the Dionysia the representative figure was not the young Dionysus or Bacchus, but the aged, cheery and disreputable Silenus, the chief of the Satyrs and the god of drunkenness. In the Saturnalia it was Saturn; in the Germanic feasts it was Thor, both long boarded and white hulled gods like Silenus. Now, although the central figure of the Christian festival is the child God the Christ Kindleh, the fulfilment of long pagan custom was too strong within the breasts of the early Christians to be easily superseded. The tradition of hoary age as the true representative of the dying year and its attendant celebrations still remained smothering under the ashes of the past. It burst into new fame when the past was so far back to be looked upon with the fear and antagonism of the church and those second no longer any danger of a release into paganism. At first, however, the more dignified representative was chosen as more in keeping with the occasion. Saturn was unaccentedly rehabilitated as St Nicholas, the name of the saint whose festival occurs in December and who as the patron of young people is especially fitted for the patronage of the festival which he has come to be looked upon as especially that of the young. At first St Nicholas did not supersee the christ child, but accompanied him in his Christmas travels, as indeed, he will do in certain rural neighborhoods of Europe where the modern spirit has been least felt. St Nicholas, according to the burgologist, was a bishop of Myrn, who flourished early in the fourth century. He is the patron of children and schoolhouses. It is strange that everywhere St. Nicholas is most honored and his feek-day most observed the most poets and instructed among the common people know little of the legend of the saint. He is treated with that mixture of solemnness and frivolity which becomes a dying myth. In southern Germany and Australia a youth garted as St. Nicholas and accompanied by two angels and a whole troop of devils in hollow masquerade, with blackened faces and clanking chains, on box 5 (St. Nicholas' festal day) makes a round of certain houses where the little ones of the village have been collected. To the good children he brings gifts of nuts and apples, while the naughty ones are left to the devices of the satanic followers in his train. In many places the biggear over shadows in importance both the Christ Child and St Nicholas. He appears under different names and in different guises. In Lower Austria he is the feightful Krampus, with his clanking legs and horrible devil's mask, who notwithstanding his glided nuts and apples, gingerbread and boys, which carries in his toeset, is the terror of the nursery. In Hainau, Hohstein and Mackelburg he is known as Clas. In Shiekh his name is Joseph. Sometimes the biggear was a female. In Lower Austria she was called the Rudolfron. In Sambia it was the Berthold who classified children that did not spirit differently, with rods, but rewarded the industrious with dried pears, apples and nuts. The female body survives especially in Russia and in Italy. In the former place she is known as the Rabobshka, in the latter as the Befana. Befana is a corruption of Euphemia or Euphemia for it is on Epiphany, Jan. 6, that the Italians make presents to their children in commemoration of the gift given by the three wise men to Christ on that date. BEGGAR SAVED $200.000 Blind Man and Wife Arrested In Philadelphia. Prevailing upon the sympathy of Christmas Scoopers for alms, "Al Bernstein, a blind man, who is reputed to the 'richest beggar in the world," was arrested with his wife in Philadelphia as they were grinding a hand organ. The man was recognized by a New York social worker, who told the police the mendicant had been driven out of New York six years ago by the charitable societies. It is estimated that Bernstein is worth at least $200,000 and is the owner of tenement houses and other real estate in New York city. Bernstein and his wife, Yetta, were held under $300 bail for a further hearing. A social worker is going to New York to ascertain how much property the beggar owns and how many times he has been helped by charitable institutions. The blind man made a plea to have his wife discharged when they were arraigned. Beam Saves Man's Life By catching a cross beam as he fell into a blinding light kiln at Groves near Frederick, Md., Solomon Fogle a workman at the kiln, saved himself from being burned to death. His clothes were burned off his body, and his face and hands were fearfully scared. Fogle's cries for help were not answered, and he finally drew himself to the level of the cross beam and crawled to the side of the kiln. Missionaries In Danger Many foreign missionaries are in peril from a revolt in southeastern China. British officials were notified that hundreds of native have armed themselves and, led by agitators preaching "death to foreigners," are burning isolated villages. Mines in U. S. Killed 449 in October. Coal mine accidents in the United States in the month of October resulted in the death of 449 men, according to reports from state mine inspectors to the United States bureau. Priceless Masterpiece, Stolen Two Years Ago, Recovered WAS TAKEN FOR REVENGE Italian Who Stole It Says He Took Painting to "Avenge Thefts Napoleon Committed in Italy." Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, "Mona Lies," the mysterious disappearance of which from the Louvre, in Paris, in August, 1911, threw the art world into consternation, was found in Florence, Italy. The man who stole it was arrested. He is an Italian. It was found when the picture was offered by an Italian resident of Paris to an antiquary of Florence. Both the picture and the Italian are now in the custody of the police of Florence. "I stole the picture," said the man, "in order to avenge the thefts Napoleon I. committed in Italy." "Mona Lisa"—more properly known as "La Jaconde"—is one of the world's most famous paintings, and is regarded as priceless. Lacourde Vinci took as his model for the picture Lisa Del Giocondo, a woman of Florence, he worked on the picture for four years, from 1500 to 1547. It was bought for France by Francis I. The value of the work can only be imagined, since all offers to buy it were refused, among them one reported to have been made by the British government of £200,000. Since the disappearance from the Louvre of the picture the search has been worldwide. It has been reported found in Germany, Russia, England, Spain and even in the United States. It was widely believed in Paris and throughout France that the picture was not taken by thieves, but rather by some demented art lover, who wished to be able always to gaze upon it. The famoos paletting had hung in the place of honor in the Louvre in a room which was supposed to be all always watched. It disappeared on the morning of Aug. 22, 1911, and its absence from its customed place was not noticed by its guardians until some hours later. At first a quiet search was made in every nook and corner of the museum, and distinct questions were asked of the hundreds of copyists and photographers who daily crowd the museum. The questioning was all without result. It was impossible even to establish which of the museum employees had last seen the picture. When the police authorities had been informed they immediately ordered the museum closed. A thorough search by detectives followed. They found the empty frame lying on a stairway in the museum building. Telegraphic information of the disappearance was sent to every town in France and to the police headquarters of many nations. Skips were searched as they left French ports and traps as they crossed the frontier, while every package taken out of France and looking anything like a picture was closely scanned. Hired Man Shoots Farmer Lewis Snyder, a prosperous farmer of Howertown, near Allentown, Pa., died in the Allentown hospital from the effects of consonant wound, inflicted when he was attacked, it is alleged by Clinton Steinmetz, a farm hand in his employ. Steinmetz was arrested. It appears that Snyder and Steinmetz engaged in a conversation after returning from Sloggfried, where they had gone for two horses which the farmer had purchased. Steinmetz it is reported, started a quarrel when they reared the Snyder farm. Snyder told him to wait at the barn until he went into the house to get a lantern. When Snyder came from the house he found Steinmetz standing about ten feet away, with a double barrel shotgun in his hands. The farmer asked his hired man what he wanted to do with the gun. Steinmetz answered in a loud tone "You owe me a quarter." Snyder replied, "I know I do," but the words were scarcely uttered before Steinmetz, it is allowed, fired, the charge of shot blowing off Snyder's left thumb and part of his hand. Snyder stacked toward his assailant, and the latter fired a second load, which tore a large hole in Snyder's abdomen, and probably pinned the intestines. Dynamite Used to Poison Miner. Leo Goldwilla is in a critical condition at his home in Shamokin, Pa., as the result of an attempt by unidentified persons, it is charged, to kill him by poisoning his coffee with dynamite while he was at work in the mines. When physicians first attended him his legs and arms were paralyzed and he was unable to speak. Although unable at first to determine the cause of his illness the doctors administered remedies and after two hours succeeded in reviving him sufficiently to say "Dooley," which he repeated over and over. It was surmised that he referred to dynamite, which is termed "dualin" by the miners, and that in some mysterious way way the deadly explosive had something to do with his illness. Investigation revealed that some one had put a piece of the explosive in his canteen, and that he had drank the contents. Physicians said there was enough nitrolycerine in the can to kill a team of horses. Value of 1913 Cream. With the most valuable crops of corn and cotton ever produced and the second most valuable oats crop, the THE "MONA LISA." Famous Picture That Was Stolen and Recovered. value of the nation's fourteen principal farm crops this year aggregate the enormous total of $4,940,301,000. This was the announcement of the department of agriculture in its final estimates of acreage, production and value. This is an increase of $128,553,000 over the value of the same crops last year, and of $350,772,000 over those of 1911, based on the prices paid to farmers on Dec. 1. The acreage of these crops is equivalent to a farm one-seventh the size of the United States. The avail area planted to these fourteen crops, which is more than 95 per cent of the total of all crop area, was 299,153,000 acres, an increase of almost 5,000,000 acres over last year's area and of more than 2,000,000 over the 1911 area. More than one-third of the total acreage was planted to corn. Approximately $9,000,000,000 is the grand total of wealth production on farms through the soil and farmers' live stock during the year. For the crops as a whole the average production per acre was valued at about $16.50. The corn crop averaged $15.96 per acre; cotton, $22.19; sugar beet, $59.64; wheat, $12.14; oats, $11.14; sweet potatoes, $68.60; rice, $26.68; potatoes, $21.19; tobacco, $100.39; and rye, $12.84. New Steel Plant For Easton. New Steel Plant For Easton. The Taylor Wharton Iron and Steel company, of Philadelphia, whose main plant is at Highbridge, N. J., has just purchased through the Board of Trade of Easton, Pa., a tract containing fifty acres adjoining the city and will erect a plant at a cost of $2,000,000, in which it will carry on the work now done at its subsidiary plants in Philadelphia, namely, the Toga iron and Steel company, the Philadelphia Roll and Machine company and two plants of the William Wharton, Jr., company. Fined For Hugging His Own Wife. Gilbert Little was fined $10 by Judge Naarx in Trenton, N. J., for kissing and hugging his own wife. The man admitted that he was drunk when he did it. He pleaded his good intentions and the wife pleaded for him, but inasmuch as he had hurt her and she cried out from pain during the hugging, coupled with the fact that Little threw his father-in-law out of the house when he objected to his boisterous love making, the court had to impose the fine. Two Dead In Auto Smash Mrs. Harry Pearce, forty-five years old, of Wilmington, Del., and L. J. Moore, forty-two years old, a cigar salesman, of Salt Lake, Mo., were found dead under an overturned auto-mobility on the road a few miles from Newark, Del. Mrs. Pearce was the widow of a cigar salesman, who killed himself in Wilmington with gas last August. Moore is survived by a wife and one child. No one saw the incident, and how it happened is unknown. Aged Woman Murdered. Mrs. Mary Gould, sixty years old, of Bayville, N. J., was found dead in the woods at Barnegt Park. The coroner, David Parker, says Mrs. Gould died from exposure after being attacked. Prizes For Young Growers of Crops. Secretary of Agriculture Houston presented diplomas of merit to the eighty-two prize winning boys and girls from all parts of the United States who raised big crops of corn and potatoes and canned the largest quantities of tomatoes. Eloped to Escape Church Wedding. To avoid the church wedding being planned by the parents of the bride, Miss Marie Joyce, a Baltimore society girl, daughter of Thomas Joyce, and Edward McDowall, a New York artist and former Baltimore, eloped to McNair, Md., and were married. Baby's Fatal Play With Stove. Little one-year-old Caroline Rother was burned to death in New Haven, Conn., when she put a broom into a stove and then pulled it out, setting fire to her dress. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter white, $3.75.€16; city mall, fancy, $4.00.€10. PHILADELPHIA 2rm. at $3.50.€3.00 PHILADELPHIA steady; No. 2 red, new, 93¼.€1c. WORK week; No. 2 yellow 78.€0c. OATS 2rm. 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Droosel firm; choice fowl, 18c; old roosters, 13½c; turkeys, 2¾c. BUTTER firm; fawn creamer, 19c EGGS steady; selected, 39½c12c nearby, 37c; western, 37c. Live Stock Prices CHICAGO - HOGS weak; bulk of sales; $7,000.00 light; $7,440.75 mil.; $7,000.00 plus; $7,440.75 push; $7,000.75 plus; $7,440.75 CATTLE weak, with a few fares Christmas yearlines strong at $2,500 10.25; boxes; $3,690.90; Towels $3,690.90; Towels; $3,690.90; $4,990.75; cows and alfes $3,490.75; cows; $9,112.50 SHEEP steadily, james lower, pa two sheep $40,145, james lower, $3 6.85; lambs, native $10,145, 7.95. Root Wins Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel peace prize for 1912, worth $40,000, was conferred on Sator Ehilu Root, of New York, and lent for 1913 on Senator Heart La Fontaine, of Brussels, Belgium, who was formerly president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau of Berne, Switzerland. The Nobel peace prize was not awarded in 1912. It was the first time since the establishment of the Nobel Foundation, the first award of, which was made in 1901, that the committee of the Norwegian parliament had found no person worthy of this award. The committee, in explanation of its action at that time, stated that it had decided that there had been "no work deserving of the prize." It was recommended that the prize approximating $10,000, shall be retained for the benefit of the Foundation fund. The award now indicates a change of mind on the part of the storring. --- Mine In School Cellar Two veins of rich anthracite coal were discovered under the site to be occupied by a new $15,000 high school building in Shamokin, Pa. The fact that the larger vein runs directly through the cellar of the proposed new building led to the spring in golf a novel idea by Superintendent Joseph W. Howerr, which will likely be adopted by the board of education. Howerr proposes leaving a portion of the vein exposed, and cementing the cellar in a manner to prevent persons from falling into the vein. Expert mining men will be asked to timber the vein and make miniature breasts, headings and gangways to show how coal is taken from the earth. The exhibit would be used as a practical demonstration of mining methods for the students. Urgent Frozen and Dried Eggs Urges Frozen and Dried Eggs. Dr. Mary E. Pennington, in charge of food research work of the department of agriculture, told the house agricultural committee that frozen and dried eggs would solve the problem of high prices and cold storage corners. "Frozen and dried eggs," said Dr. Pennington, "soon will be marketed in small packages so as to be available to every household instead of for the bakers and other manufacturers, at present. Hard frozen eggs will keep a year, and there is no question but what dried and frozen eggs will ultimately displace the cold storage variety." Eggs cannot be kept in cold storage and be fit for food longer than ten months, she asserted, and added that dried and frozen eggs did not lose any of their nutritive value. Man In Sheet Hugged Girls Several hundred girls living in various parts of Shimokin, Pa. have been hugged and kissed the last month by a man attired in a sheet. A man wearing the same kind of garment was caught trying to embrace a girl on her way home. Citizens pursued him and were held at bay with a revolver and a stunton Police finally overpowered him. He gave the name of Charles Bruce, and it is thought he is the person who terrorized so many women lately. Bandita Make $1700 Havil Robbins blow the safe in the general store of the Hinton and Land Street company, at Weaver, a mining hamlet nine miles from Elkins, W. Va., and stole $1700. They also procured a quantity of stamps from the postoffice in the same building. The explosion awakened the residents, who chased the bandits into the mountains, but they escaped after a running battle, which lasted several hours. Woman Fined $2000 as Smuggler. Mrs. Ella Fleming, of Los Angeles, Cal., was fined $1006 Wednesday in the United States district court at Trenton, N.J. for smuggling $3500 worth of wearing apparel. Mrs. Fleming arrived at Hoboken on Nov. 24 on the steamship George Washington. -The fine said. A Change in Representation Has Been Agreed Upon and Will Be Submitted to Republican Voters. There will be no special Republican national convention in 1914. There will be at the 1916 Republican convention a reorganized system of delegate representation, the idea being to base the apportionment among the states on the Republican vote. This will affect a material reduction in the number of southern delegates. The committee will determine the new basis for representation and refer it to the Republican voters in all states for ratification. These were the two big questions decided at the meeting of the Republican national committee in Washington. In determining them individual opinion alone prevailed. There was no distinct line of cleavage, and a glance at the vote shows the oldest sort of agreements between men whom the public thought, to be wholly at variance in their opinions. The states which voted for the convention were Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia. Two proposals for reorganization of the party and to find a basis upon which discordant elements can unite confronted the national committee. Foremost was a proposal for the special national convention to readjust the system of delegate representation. The other was that no convention be called, but that the national committee fix a plan for reapportionment for ratification by state conventions. Both resolutions provide recognition of the primary laws of the various states, and agree that certificates of election from proper state authorities should be sufficient ground for placing the name of a delegate on the temporary roll of the convention. The second resolution also recognizes the methods adopted in 'call' ornia and other states where all delegates are elected at large, and only declares that the total number named in the call must be chosen by any state which has such a law. A resolution for a special convention was prepared by a committee, which also framed another resolution in accordance with a compromise suggestion by Charles B. Warren, of Michigan, chairman of the law committee, proposing that after the national committee fixes a basis of delegate reapportionment, the plan be ratified by two-thirds of the states which cast Republican pluralities for president in 1908. Informal discussion among committeemen developed a somewhat general opinion in favor of the proposal for the committee to change the basis of representation and refer it to state conventions which meet next year. On the special committee drastizing the resolution were Committeemen Warren, of Michigan; Horah, of Idaho; Hadley, of Missouri, who also holds a proxy from Louisiana; Smoot, of Utah, and Howell, of Nebraska. Reassured Him He was a young man—n candidate for an agricultural constituency—and he was sketching in glowing colors to the audience of rural voters the happy life the laborer would lead under an administration for the propagation of sweetness, and light. "We have not yet three acres and a cow, but it will come. Old age pensions are still of the future, but they will come." Similarly every item of his comprehensive program was indored by the same cry. Then he went on to talk of prison reforms. "I have not yet personally," he said, "been inside a criminal inactive anuml." Then there was a voice from the back of the hall. "But it will come."-Argonaut. Asphalt. The origin of the material taken from the various asphalt lakes is still a mystery. SISTINE MADONNA WITH FRAME RAPHAEL REPRESENTING the Virgin, not as a mother, but as the all powerful queen of the heavens, descending from clouds which are themselves composed of thousands of cherube, Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto, more commonly known as the Sistine Madonna, ranks, by universal consent, as the greatest painting in the world. In the Virgin's arms there is the Christ Child, whose thoughtful eyes make it appear that he is fully conscious of his destiny as Saviour of the world. On either side St. Sixtus II and St. Catherine kneel in adoration of the queen of the beavens and the Christ Child. St. Catherine is looking down at the two cherubs, which form the base of the picture and which are familiar in popular reproductions. Sixtus II, was blasphed of Rome from 257 to 258 A. D. and was martyred under Valerian. Raphael Sanzio or Santi was born in 1483, and this picture, his masterpiece, was completed two years before his death in 1520. Thus the artist was thirty-five years old when the greatest picture of all times was completed. It No place in all the world has a greater interest in the Christmas season than Bethlehem. The normal population of the town where Christ was born in less than 5,000, but during Christmas week it becomes a great cosmopolitan center of 50,000 or 60,000 souls, all longer to pay homage to the place hallowed by the Saviour's birth. In Bethlehem people are brought face to face, with the wonderful scenes which are but feebly, known to the rest of the world. Here they may see the place where the three wise men of the east halted after their long journey. Here they worship the shrine including the manger in which Christ was born They walk along the same road followed by the Virgin Mary in her journey to the ancient city. They see buildings and ruins which the eyes of the infant Christ rested upon. The tiny city, crescent shaped and beautiful to look upon, teems with the realities which the rest of the world celebrates. IN FRENCH CHURCHES. Christmas Mass Always Wall Attendance—Services Are Unique. In Paris Christmas day is kept as a religious festival, and many who never dream of going to church on any other day in the year make it a point of attending mass on le Jour de Noël, and the blaze of the tapers falls on crowded congregations, men, women and children, kneeling, sitting and standing in the wide area of the Madecine and Notre Dame. Midnight mass is held on Christmas eve. A waken image of the infant Saviour lies upon a little hutch of real straw in a cave built of miniature stones. The Virgin mother kneels over the child, and to quote a verse from one of the quintestion old carols: St. Joseph, too, is near to guard the child, To watch him and protect his mother mild. Often the three wise men are added, bearing offerings in their hands. ROAST TURKEY DINNER Oyster Cocktails Cream of Tomato Soup. Roast Turkey Onion Dressing. Mashed Potatoe Apple Bacon. Cauliflower Cranberry Ice. Oatly and Nut Salad Cheese Sticka Mince Pie Flour Pudding. Coffee. --- was his last Madonna, although he painted others prior to this time. The Madonna was the favorite theme of painters in the renaissance era in Italy, starting with Fra Angelico, Fra Bartolomene and others of the first painters in this period and reaching its height with the completion of the Sistine Madonna by Raphael. This Madonna was painted as an altar piece for the church of San Sisto at Piacenza. In 1754 it was purchased by the elector Augustus III. from the Benedictine monastery and is now the property of the Royal gallery at Dresden. Raphael, the artist, died of a fever at Rome when but thirty-six years old. He was the son of an artist and studied at one time under Perugino. In 1608 Raphael went to live in Florence, where most of his Madonna were painted. His fame rapidly spread until he was called to Rome to decorate the Vatican. Toward the end of his life, about the time the Sistine Madonna was completed, the artist developed his own style and did his greatest work. Anode from his ability to paint, Raphael was a talented architect. CHRISTMAS IN OTHER LANDS. Many American children of foreign parenting know something of Christmas customs in at least one European country, having been told by their elders, but for the most part our boys and girls know little of the day except in their own land. In Spain it is the custom to let out of prison many of the short time prisoners on Christmas eve, also to permit a few of the soldiers to go home on forough. Only blood relations eat in the house on Christmas eve or Christmas day. It is a general belief that ere midnight on Christmas eve the Virgin comes, bearing a blessing. There is a midnight mass in the churches, and other masses follow. A few years ago in England it was the custom after the Christmas dinner to pull bonbon crackers and to wear the grotesque caps and masks that came with them. In other ways the celebration is very much with us. Good cheer is the rule in Ireland, and holly and ivy are seen on every hand. A midnight mass is celebrated, and masses follow through the night and morning, all of which are largely attended. The religious element predominates. Rich and poor alike have goose for their Christmas dinner. The day following Christmas is devoted to athletics, fun and grocer. The celebration of Christmas is not general in Japan, yet the Nipponese have a Santa Claus of their own. He is the god Hotel, and he is supposed to give good things to the children not on one day alone, but the year around Christmas Fortune Telling. Bachelors and splinners in Bohemia destroys of seeing the features of their future matrimonial mate cut a hole in the ice of a river or pond at midnight of Christmas eve and peer into the black water beneath. It is the belief that 'the face of the one the experimenter is to marry' will then become visible as in a mirror. A combination of faith and imagination is necessary to make the spell work successfully. Proved by the Proprietor Stranger (in a strange restaurant)— Say, waiter, I can't eat this stuff. Take it back and bring me something decent. Waiter—Sorry, sir, but that's the best we can do. Stranger—it is, eh? I'll show you. Where's the proprietor? Christmas Dawn By EDWIN L. SABIN. [Copyright, 1913, by American Press Association.] HOW sweetly reats this winter night Upon a waiting earth! Until the lift of Christmas light Shall spread the Christmas birth. The curtain of the dusk be drawn, And sleeping hosts afar Shall wake to read in radiant dawn The message of the star! The dawn goes marching from the east Across a joyous world. To usher in the Christmas feast Neath Christmas fronds unfurled Now swiftly on the glory spreads, The miracle fulfilled. To bless a myriad hended heads And souls by Christmas thrilled. Behold it swep a mighty land, Long leagues of listening snow; From whitened fire to where must sand The polistesias glow On English thatch and tile it lies. Chateau and but forborn. And frozen steppes and tropic skies Accclaim the Christmas morn. No region too remote for this. Too difficult no tongue. The Christmas wreath, the Christmas kiss. This Christmas music sung No heart with grace so incomplete No held with age so gray. No hearth so poor it does not greet The dawn of Christmas day. THE CHRIST CHILD'S MANGER. Pretty but Obsolescent Feature of the Latin Christmas. All through the Italian and Hungarian quarters in New York city may be found traces of the manger at Christmas time. The Italians call it the "presepio," which means manger; the Hungarians the "Bethlehem." The manger is an exceedingly old and interesting devotion in the Catholic countries of south Europe. St. Francis of Assisi, who was born in 1182, introduced it into Italy, and it is still the sign of Christmas in south Italy, as much as holly in the windows is the sign of it in New York. It is not many years since a carpenter could not be had for weeks before Christmas in Naples or Rome. They were all busy putting up mangers in the houses of the quality, while the poorer folk were busy fabricating their own. This quaint old devotion is fading out of the cities of the mainland, but in conservative Sicily it remains in full force. Every family there still erect its prespice some time from the 1st to the 15th of December. It is not a manger alone, but a whole mountain side, made of the rough, flexible bark of the cork tree. Perks and crags and precipices abound, with winding trails, houses and castles of colored cardboards, forests of evergreen twigs and sometimes tiny pipes to furnish brooks and lakes. In the center is the grotto, with the holy family within, surrounded by the cattle. A sky of blue paper is stretched above, with the star of Bethlehem upon it. Over the hills come shepherds bearing gifts to the infant, and, though they are in Sicilian costume and carry good Sicilian cheese and wine upon their donkeys, they are all the more interesting for that. Sometime the presepio fills only a corner, sometimes the whole side of a room, according to the means of the family. It is kept year after year until worn out, but it needs to be freshened up each year, always a welcome task to the mother and daughters of the house. FIRST CHRISTMAS FEAST. The first feast, to be celebrated on Dec. 25 was established by Commodus, emperor of Rome, who reigned about 185 years after the birth of Christ. After that there are many references in history to meetings of the new sect called Christians, who gathered on this day to celebrate the birth of the goddman. It is not until a century after the time of Commodus that we find a particular reference to the persecutions that the Christians underwent at the hands of the pagan emperors, culminating in a Christmas day massacre. When home was no longer a pagen state the feast began to be celebrated in Christian style, and those who observed the birth of Christ in those days did so in widely separated countries and frequently at widely different periods of time and according to no set program. The ancients agreed on one thing, however—that the festival commemorating the birth of Christ should be the most magnificent of the year. In some cases it was kept up for days. Origin of the Yule Log The Yule log in England is a relic of druidism. Its name is believed to be a corruption of the wheel log, a wheel in druidical symbolism typifying the march of the sun. The lighting of the Yule fire is reminiscent of the sacred fires kindled by the druids at midwinter in the round towers which yet remain in many parts of Great Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. "They are impossible people, aren't they?" "Well, I should say they were! Why, they are the kind of people who, when they economize, actually save money?" —Life. One Use For a Vacuum. It is said that documents and newspapers may be preserved indefinitely in a vacuum. QUINADE QUINASOAP QUINACOMB SHEPHERDS COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. Come to see us in our New Home No. 310 E. Broad St. (Next to Weisberger's.) We Make Your Clothes AND TAKE Your Promise to Pay. Popular Price Tailoring Co. Inc. 'Phone Monroe 1028. HAIR PARLORS. To the Friends, Customers and MRS. ROSA E. WATSON B. St. James Street. You can be formations and Pompadours. O on short notice. 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WIGS, PLATS, BRAIDS, TRANSFORMATIONS, Puffs, Etc.—All Shades, Guarantee to Wash and Comb. All Kinds of Straightening Combs, Pomades and Skin Preparations. Send two cent stamp for new 1913 Catalogue. The Largest Manufacturer of Hair Goods in the United States. E. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM, and 85th Street) New York City. HUMAN HAIR STORE 712 7th St., Washington, D.C. Great Hair Store in the South. R IF YOU WANT IT. this $1 size "Queen" Electric Comb mailed to you for 60c in 2c stamps. SPECIAL THIS WEEK Creole Switches 22 inches long—Wavy and Full. Made with 3 stems. Brown or Black. We have crimped hair if you prefer it. Special... 08c Agricultural & Mechanical COLLEGE. OPEN ALL THE YEAR. Winter Term Begins December 1, '13. Best Opportunities for Negro Youth. Board, Lodging and Tuition $7.00 per month. Write today for Catalog or free tuition. Address. JAMES B. DUDLEY, President, A. AND M. COLLEGE, Greenabord, N. O. A. Hayes, Office and Ware-Rooms. 727 NORTH SECOND STREET. Residence, 726 N. 3rd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of All Descriptions. I have a Spare Room for BODIES when the Family have not a suitable Place. All country Orders are Given Special Attention. Your Special Attention is called to the New Style OAK CASKETH Cowl and See Me and You shall be Waited on Individually. Theatre, Madison Street. $37,025.00 FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CONSIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK Brought Forward.....$13.050.00 1913 - Total..... $24,800.00 Brought Forward..... $ 6,900.00 1913 RIGHT RESCUELNET A Word for Our Advertisers. (Continued From First Pace) and their methods of dealing with their patrons will surely hold the customers. To be continued, call at 310 E Broad St and see for yourselves. CHAS G JERGEN'S SON CHAS G JURGEN'S SON is too well known to need even further comment here. The large brief structure on the collar of Adams and Broad St. is always kept filled with the best and most tasty household furniture and furnishings. Rare skill is displayed in selecting from the worldly markets, those designs that please the eye and become a time of beauty, which is a joy forever. Families of moderate income can have their desires satisfied at the most desirable price. The wealthy or well to do have no further to offer. The most furnishings are there to be them. You can make even more to do. invite you to be hair parade, who is prepared to give you the greatest amount of service for the best amount of money. Even ladies who are not beautiful can be made atractive and they who are beautiful can make radiant under the still full man motion of the hair dress art. Call and see her and see my model. Shares at 921 N. James Street. MME RALM'S HAIR IMPORTMENT OF THE Ninth Woman New York too well known to keep an audience here. People who have come joined with this first have received prompt response and the parations finished have received all that the management has claimed for them. HELLER'S HUMAN HAIR STORE OF MI. STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. is the oldest hair store in the South. To call the name is to express a con- tent of service. The preparations and the will give satisfaction. That he electric comb is a wonder and will do all that is claimed for H. Seed for these preparations and be happy. WEBSTERS NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY is standard. You should be one in your library. Send to the G. and C. Merriam Company. Springfield Mass. for a prospectus. A postal card will bring one. Monto. The PLANET. When you stretch of day AGRICULTURAL A MECHANICAL COLLEGE at Greensboro, NC we are teaching about one of the best institutions for colored youth in the country. Prof James H. Dudley the able President has had extended experience and the practical result of the training under his management is in evidence all over the country. Young men who wish to make something of themselves should write to him at once, board, tuition and lodging for $75 per month. This is at a cheaper rate than one can live at home. A. HAYES is a General Director. You have to die, put you in have to live. He will serve you at the most reasonable prices. He gives his personal attention to all orders. Sad times come but he can lighten the burden. He has office warerooms, and stable at 727 N. Second Street. S. W. BOLINSON & SON operate a mail-order house. They do service in "wet" territory and "dry" territory. You can send your supply by wagon, tractor, horseback, train, freight or directly over the counter. You get from "SpotIt" just what you "pay for". He places is at 10:00 a. M. 19th Street or a 31st call to Moreno 2017 will bring the article. GEORGE W. BROWN the young photographer of 563 N. Second Street has done so well that everybody praises him. His sister has acquired skill in retouching and holds a diploma from one of the best correspondence schools. Call there and have your holiday photographs taken. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER CO. of Minneapolis sells a comb that they guarantee. These mechanical contrivances work wonders and do no harm. Write them for other information. THE PLANET is an ideal holiday present. Have it sent to your friend or make us a present of $1.50 and we will see to it that the paper goes to the address named by you for 52 weeks. To say that you owe it to yourself to support a reputable journal of the character and standing of The PLANET goes without saving. A. D. PRICE is a Funeral Director, Emhalmer and Liverman. He has "the last word" in all of these departments. His large barns, stables and warrooms will startle you. If you have not seen this kind of enterprise before, Polite attention. He takes care to look after the most minute details and that's why he gives satisfaction. No funeral is too cheap or too costly for him to handle. He is at 212 E. Leigh'St. CHITMAN M. WHITE has had an experience in the cleaning, drying and repairing business that enables him to handle the most delicate fabrics with no danger of injury, while at the same time making them "look like new." ISAAC STRAUS & CO. are well known to the trade. Their brands of "cheer-me-up" are known all over the city. Call there and load up your Christmas supply. The Straus' are fine people and you know it. P. J. FARRAR the Contractor and Builder is well- known for his artistic ability in erecting dwellings and public structures He is blessed almost with the gift of "second spirit" in knowing what you want. He will furnish you with esti- mates and give you the lowest prices consistent with good service. JOHN M. HIGGINS old stand near The Old, Market, to be exact. 1610 East Franklin St. has been known for a decad. You need Christmas cheer. Here is where you can get it with an absolute guarantee of quality. Call and see the management or phone for what you want. ALPHEE'S SCOTT of Good P Street is able to serve you in times of sadness. His place is open night and day. He can furnish all work at the most reasonable价 ce. Call and see him and be con- victed. W. L. W. JOHNSON & SON will hire you now. They have the latest design to funnel draperies and a supply of the finest caskets, pots and sculpture attention. The livery department is in first class condition. A phone call will insure service. The plating water room is one of the finest in the NS. Remember the place to W. L. W. JOHNSON & SON H. SALOMONS am at all plan of our rate upon during the holidays may be found in another column. If you cannot find bargaining among these bottles and prices it will be our fault. Read the advert and see for your self. When letters to Job Work, OUR PRINTING DEPARTMENT is here to serve you. Our plant strictly modifies. Our prices are the most reasonable in the city when quality of work is good and goods are considered. We shall be pleased to quote prices. The prices who have extended to our office are welcome to return them. Lessburg (Aa.) Items Mr. Leonard H. Holliday and W. W. Willey wrote the Wash. District was happily occupied in work last YTD, continuing. New William Salmon and Latimer. The sad end of Roy Dr. Tilberger con. Marrying wife, she are identifi- ably shot at Warrenton, Va. Sister has, be- come with wife, she has a look to her many friends. He was a close friend and was teacher in the public school at that place. He was also insurance agent for the American Bilt lumber Company of Reimond, Va. He was buried on Wednesday. He will be memorialized on the day Mr. William Gilmore of Wash. Va. today the gravest of the latter. Mr. Larson, Dear of Amherst Hall Sunday She came on the train. Netball and gardening. Re- Tyler was at his best playing tennis and volleyball. At church he co- nferred after reading the Corinthian prayer was offered by Rev W. R. Marley Subset. The Sore Foundation and Rapti Building. The day was four the people turned out very nicely. At 7 o'clock after reading 14th Reading Subset. Why Worry? Text. 1919-1920. Be still and know that I am God. The day seemed to be full of the Sister. He spoke as never before. How our hearts burned when he talked with us by the way as he beamed hither in sequence. The among caste from all parts of the church Collection $2,221. Capt. C. Sims of Mount Vernon poured in a glass with yesterday. The Corinthian building well. W. J. 10N. Death Claim Paid Richmond, Va. December 20th To the National Legal Institute of You will please accept my many thanks for the amount of money paid me on the account of the birth of my wife Katherine Dickerson who was a member of Twilight Lodge No. 1. I am a member of the Or- ganisation and shall work for it progres. Fraternally, MATTHEW DICKERSON Death Claim Paid. Holmesburg, Pa., Dec. 6, 1913. This is to certify that I have received from the Supreme Lodge, National Ideal Benefit Society, $40.00, death benefit of my daughter, Margaretta Washington, who was a member of Bud of Hope's Nursery, No. 9. The same was paid to me by the Ideal representatives, Brother Lewis Thompson, State Deputy and Sister Rosa Thompson, Northern Lecturer. I take this means to thank our Supreme Master A. W. Holmes and his officers for the settlement. : God bless our Order. Yours in F. L. and P. Stuned. JOHN WASHINGTON. Father. Witnesses: Mary J. Jones, Senior Guardian William Clark, Councillor Howard D. Smith, Secty. ROUND TRIP CHRISTMAS TICKETS VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY At greatly reduced fares from December 17th to 25th, inclusive. December 31st to January 1st, 1914. final return limit to reach original starting point January 5th, 1914. Make your arrangements now for spending the Christmas and New Year Holidays. Inquire of nearest SOUTHERN RAILWAY Agent, or write to H. L. BISHOP, Div. Pass., Agt., 907 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ADMIRAL FLETCHER. American Lives and Property at Tampico Guarded by Warships. S. Dispatches say that Rear Admiral Fleetier, commanding the American warships, Tacapo B. Hau, forbade the Federal gunnels to open fire on the town, as this would endanger the lives of non combatants. MOB HANGS TRIPLE MURDER CONVICT Man Sentenced For Life Is Lynched From Bridge. Close Colbertton, recently convicted of murder, three members of the Pilton family at Bay, N.J. was taken from the Williams county jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge near Wilton, N.J. The killing part, which consisted of a large number of mailed men, battered down the doors of the jail with a heavy fire. Despite the warnings of Sheriff Erie, the men resisted into the jail, tore the door from the cell or occupied by the prisoner and dragged him out. He was taken to the Middle Muddy river, a mule and a half from town, and tainted from a wagon bridge. The body was then riddled with bullets. Colbertton while being taken from the jail pleaded for mercy, but was met with the repent. "You did not show any mercy to the bullets, and well show me to you." Policeman Lancaster and James Johnson, a laber, attracted by the shoofs of the mask, attempted to interfere and were badly beaten. After the compilation of Culbertson had work, with a carried a prison sentence for the dissatisfaction was expressed because the death penalty had not been imposed, and threats of lynching were freely made. Victims of the murder were Mr. and Mrs. Bollon and their daughter. Two Colored Neon Lynched. Two cohort men, Kristen and Frank William, were blinded by a mob at Bluebark Hill. They had confessed to killing Valerie Ballard, whose body was found locked to pieces in his store Saturdays morning. THIEF RETURNS PURSE Pickpocket Sends Christmas Greetings With Wallet to Man He Robbed. The spirit of Christmas cheer struck some pickpocket so fortify that Ronald L. Quillen of Broad Creek hum- dred, near Goronto,斗迪. It now just $1 to the door he hit the pick- pocket returned by the conscience striken thief. Quillen was visiting in Philadelphia, and while traveling about the city had hit his pickpocket, placed and a wallet containing $1 and some valu- able papers, removed. Quillen made no complaint, but he wrote home of his loss. The next day his brother, Raymond Quillen, went to the postoffice and was handed a letter addressed to "Holland Quillen." In the package was the lost wallet and conti- nts, with a slip of paper on which was written. "A Merry Christmas." The package was post marked "King- nessing Station, Philadelphia, Pa." RECORD REAL ESTATE DEAL Duke of Bedford Sella 19 Acres In Heart of London. Millions of pounds sterling changed hands in a record real estate deal, involving the transfer of nineteen acres of freehold property on the Duke of Bedford's estate in London, Eng. The sum is said to be upward of $50,000,000. The purchaser, who is said to have paid millions of pounds more than any other piece of property ever fetched, was Harry Mallaby-Deely, Unionist M. P. for Harrow, and director of the Norwich Union Life Insurance company. Big Fire In Lynchburg, Va. 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A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this--but we send it entirely free. STORING VEGETABLES. Store ones in a loft rather than in a cellar. In the latter they will be spouted to their injury. A few passages for winter use may be baited and stored in sand in the cellar, but as freezing sweets them it is best to leave many of them outdoors for later use. Store potatoes in blues one foot or eighteen inches deep, raised some what from the floor. Do not leave or they will be likely to get roots in the nature of safety and horseradish freezing does not hurt, so the main lot may stay out where grown, but some should be dug and put in earth in the cellar for winter use. A few heads of cabbage may be kept heads down, in a barrel in the cellar. PROPAGATING SHRUBS Garden Work is Never Over—It is a Continuous Performance. When the late flowers have been cut down by the frosts it might be presumed that the time for garden activity is over. But as a fact, garden work is never over. It is one continuous performance that anticipates seasons by months, and to this early preparation is due the success of our summer gardens. When the tulips are put into the ground the winter is marching along fast, but there is work to be done just at this time which will bear fruit the next summer. Just before the ground freezes hard cover up a piece with leaves or litter or anything that will keep out the frost, for it is in this ground that any of the shrubs for which you may have a fancy are to be propagated. Do you want hydrazones of weight or privacy or dogwood or forsyth? If you care for these now is your chance to get a great many for almost nothing. With a sharp knife make as many cut things as you want plants and throw in 20 per cent for good measure. Bury the soaking all that two inches and by spring they will be young plant ready to plant out. This is what is called "eating" or making little sticks into large berries under the snow. The question of getting stock is simple. No one would believe you permission to take a few sticks off their by drangas or other stains in the middle of the wicker. Stock is possible if on has a shiny life. The handiest and most satisfactory way to proceed is follows. Make a trench about four teen mite deep, and long enough to accommodate all the cuttings you make. Make the cuttings a little long er than the trench be deep and put them in the trench either singly or in bundles, and pack the earth hard about them. Cover well with enough leaves to keep out the frost. When the front has gone out of the ground throw back the blanket from your cuttings and take them out. On the ends of fully 90 per cent of all you put in the ground will be found swollen rings, and from these will start the roots that are to make, plants of the sticks. Now separate the cuttings and plant them in their proper locations, and it will not be long before you have the pleasure of seeing leaves sprout. This is profitable whiter work, making possible a stock of choice things for which there is always use about / a house. Country Gentleman. Telescopes and the Horizon. In answer to a question, "Can a telescope extend the horizon of the eye?" Edgar Lunnel Larkin in the New York American says: "No; the horizon is a circle on the earth's surface having the eye for the center. Where sky and earth appear to meet the contour, dust and vapor greatly hinder the seeing in all telescopes. In fact, no good view of any cosmic body can be had while it is within several degrees of the horizon. But in free space the telescope greatly extends the power of vision, but not the horizon. The telescope with sixteen inches diameter of the object glasses brings millions upon millions of distant stars into view." Old Virginia Corn Meal. Water Ground. Mills in Hanover Co., Va. IN 2 POUND AND 5 POUND BAGS. R H. Macy & Co., New York. Greenhut Siegel Cooper Co., New York Onell Adams Co., New York. Acker Merrall, Condit, New York. Charles & Co., New York. 14th St. Store, New York. Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn. Park & Tillford, New York. JEFFRIES NO. 1 COUGH MIXTURE. THE WINNER. No1 TRADE MARK Excellent for Cougis, Colts, Horns, Horns, LaGrippie, Bronchitis, Sora Throat and all affections of the Throat and Lungs. You can depend on it-guaranteed. If coughing at night one dose will relieve yon and enable you to rest and sleep well. Three sizes, 25c, 50c, $1.00. If your dealer hasn't it write to THOS, TAMI JEFFRIES, Manufacturing Chemist, 214 East Broad Street Blennond, Va.; and enclose 25c in stamps and the goods will be sent to you by parcel post. 8 Grape Vines, 6 Current Brushes $1 All best 3 year old stock. If plants ed now or early spring will fruit next Summer. Should ground be frozen we tell you how to project and keep them dormant ready for early spring planting. Grapes are Wordo, Naja- gara, Iona, Concord, the best early medium and late varieties. Large cherry currants. Surprise free gift —Roses, shrubs or plants with every order. THE LANDSCAPE GARDEN CO., Newburgh, N. Y. 29 We have a client desiring to purchase a seven or eight room house centrally located, from $3000 to $3500, Brick or frame, BRAGG BROS and CO., 506 N. 2nd St. the only guaranteed remedy in the United States as a Hair Grower. It has no equal. .25c bottle WE MAKE WIGS at any price desired also, TRANSFORMATIONS, POMPADOURS SWITCHES, CHEGNONS &c. We sell Straightening Irons, Electric COMBS ELECTRIC BRUSHES for Straightening and Beautifying the Hair and Stopping its Pauling Out (Come and See Us. We sell so Cheap and we give a bottle of Perfume Free to every Customer. 607 East Broad St.—Upstairs. Mail Orders Receive Special Attention Giving Away Jewelry and Watches. One Dollar Grab bag lots for only 27 cents, postpaid. Packages contain valuable and attractive articles. Will only mention a few: Ear Drops, Rings Knives, Bracelets and Necklaces and the packages will sell for one dollar anywhere. Now is the time to get a good watch for less than half value, $1 75. Address. C. G. GONOND, Kate, Arkansas. Mides in Penitentiary Sixteen Days After hiding from the guards for sixteen days within the walls of the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing, Kan. Dan Carney, whose escape from the prison was reported Nov. 30 last, was dragged from behind a condenser f the engine room and retraced to the cell. "Carney had been seized in foot and deprived of serving a slave Gimbell Bros., Philadelphia. Mitchell Fletcher Co; Philadelphia. Thos. C. Fluke Co., Philadelphia. J. J Pletcher & Bro., Germantown. Slegel Cooper Co., Chicago. Aaron Ward's Sons, Newark. Chas. M. Deeker & Bros Stores, Orange We Have Just Received a Big Line of XMAS GOODS Suitable for Everybody and Prices Very Attractive. LADIES' LIST Xmas Suggestions as follows: Mirrors from 25c up to $3.00; Brushes and Combs from 25c up to $3.00; PERFUMERY in Xmas Boxes; PERFUME ATOMIZERS; Latest Design; Fine Box Writing Papers; Xmas Styles; Cup and Saucer, Special Design for Xmas Gifts; Ladies' TOILET SETS; Cuff, Collar and Handkerchief Cases Combined; Mannequin Sets; Fine Line Box Candles, Especially Put Up for Xmas Gifts; Toilet Soap in Boxes and other things not mentioned. GENTLEMEN'S LIST Razors, Strops, Lather Brushes, Lather Mugs, Safety Razors, Shaving Outfits with Mirrors Combined, Pocket Knives, Fountain Pens, Match Safes and Clipper Combined, Gentlemen's Cup and Saucer, Special Design, Military Brushes in Cases, Pipes, Cigar Holders, Cigarette Holders, Cigars in Boxes, Large Jarg Pipe Tobacco and other things not mentioned. From now until after Xmas I will give to each purchaser of $5.00 worth of Xmas goods at one time, a beautiful bottle of fine perfume that retails for one dollar. Call early and inspect our stock. We will take pleasure in waiting on you. The Bank of the People BECAUSE The People are Supporting it. THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Is second to none of its size in equipment. Safety brings Confidence and Confidence brings Business. WHEN WE WERE BUYING A VAULT, WE BOUGHT THE BEST FOR THE REASON THAT WE BELIEVED THE BEST WAS NONE TOO GOOD FOR OUR PEOPLE. If our people had failed to patronize the Bank, it would have been their fault and not ours. When we were selecting a New York Correspondent, we chose the National Park Bank of that City. Our actual assets, based upon the present value of our real estate holdings are over fifty thousand dollars above the amount on deposit with us. This guarantees the safety of every dollar on deposit with us. We invite correspondence and urge upon every one to bring us their money for safe keeping. Amounts in sums of ten cents and upwards received. Interest paid on sums of $1.00 and over. Our President is under Bond. Our Cashier is under Bond. Our Vault, although Burglar-proof is insured against loss by burglars. Our Building is insured and the bulk of our funds Invested in desirable Real Estate. Our Tellers are under Bond. NORTH-WEST CORNER THIRD & CLAY STS., RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.