Richmond Planet

KIEF MILD PLANET The Old Year And the New WATCHED the old year fade, And with its dying light. The gloom at first a shade, Turned into darkest night, And then I said: "This gone The old year is no more, And memories now alone, Lit gar along the shore" I watched the old year ply, And with its fading day There came the thought that by Its death a brighter way Open up, and all things bright, Well have surcease at last From specters dark as night, They'll live, but in the past. THE OLD YEAR'S FLIGHT. I watched the old year's flight And then said, with a smile, "All now the new year bright Will hold with its awhile" The rest of the day I have to tell one day Is dead and passed, it seems It will be lost to decay. They all along the way Grace times must mark the miles. And in spite of day, A tour of tears and smiles. So we leave the town (The end are we've begun) To tell a saying, too. With the first setting sun But it will not be always There comes a living day. And all things new and we Shall see in endless May. No joyous days then will mark The end in where dead hopes lie. No joyful sorrow dark Creep in changeless sky James Daniel Cleaton Lost Money. On Friday, December 19th, N. T. Cowherd, a contractor, was relieved of more than $500 by pickpockets and Saturday morning, 20th inst. George E. Guvernator, of 7 East Marshall Street, had his pockets picked of $71 in bills, and checks to the amount of $11.75. Mr. Guvernator told the police that he boarded a street car at Main and Fourteenth Streets. He noticed four men, he said, acting in a suspicious manner. They fistled him, and as the post-office was reached, the quartet alighted. Because of their strange behavior, Mr. Guvernator decided to follow them. He also got off. Two of the four started toward the Federal building, and the others walked up the street. He started to follow them into the post-office, when they suddenly separated. He quickly decided to keep his eye on one of them, and went into the post-office. The man he was purging darted in and out of the several corridors and doorways and in a few minutes vanished. When Mr. Guvernator turned to look for his companion, he, too, had disappeared. Unaware that he had been robbed, Mr. Guvernator started up Main toward Eighth Street, when he suddenly missed his cash. He went straight to police headquarters, reported the crime and accurately described the thieves. All of the parties are white. COUSINS—HARREY Mrs. Martin Harris announces the marriage of her daughter, Minnie C, to Mr. Junius Cousins. The reception will be held on December 38th, 1913 from 9 to 11 F. M. at 413 N. Price Street. All friends invited. 8160 CASH and 612.50 per Month will buy a nice two-story, five room, furnished home house, with city im- mortgage on South Lombardy St. Broadway, on Ct. 600. Rd. 800. To D. Webster Davis Gone! Thou sable scion of a back ward race. Humanity thy likeness long eto yield Through embryotic days, infinity thy presence feel; Wherever wrong sita gloating on the throno And right disrobed unmantled seeketh for her own; Resounds thy clarion voice awhile. Prophetic power, to shuffle the chains by Vulcan blown, oppression to beguile. Gone' succeeding ages shall attest, Deucalian virtues and a heart of steel To truckling compromise too brave to yield. Thy higher mission, set, thy race to save from every form of slavery Nor didst thy native genius stoop to petty spite, or knavery—thy purpose to maintain Thine was the victory, thine the glory gained. --J. THOMAS BUTLER, LL. B. The New South and Negro Education. Fifteen members of the Southern Commission on the Race Question visited the Trade School and classrooms of Hampton Institute on December 19. Following a reception in the home of Dr. H. B. Frissell, the principal, the members of the Commission were acquainted in a friendly by the members of the Hampton Faculty, after which the Commission met in session at the office of the principal. Chairman C. H. Brough, of the University of Arkansas, called upon Doctor Frissell, Doctor Phenix and Major Moton for brief, informal remarks on Hampton's work. Professor Josiah Morse, of the University of South Carolina, Professor W. O. Seroggs, of Louisiana State University, and Professor Chas. W. Bain, of the University of North Carolina, emphasized the growing interest of the Southern white university men in the educational progress and civic improvement of the Negro. The members of the party included, besides those already mentioned: W. L. Kennon, University of Mississippi; James M. Farr, University of Florida; James J. Doster, University of仁bamn; W. S. Sutton, University of Texas; R. J. H. DeLoach, University of Georgia; James D. Hoskins, University of Tennessee; W. M. Hunley, University of Virginia; Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va.; Chancellor Barrow, University of Georgia, and James Hardy Dillard, Charlottesville, Va. Held Up the Driver. A colored driver was held up at the point of a pistol last Saturday night, 20th inst. at 8:25 o'clock in Davia Avenue, near Kensington St. by two unidentified colored men, who robbed him of about $60 in cash and provisions worth $40. Loud clashes of distress were heard by Captain George W. Eppa, who was two blocks away, and Police Sergent Keros, who was visiting his son, T. P. Keros, of 408 Davia Avenue. Other also heard the calls for help, and in a few minutes a crowd surrounded the wagon. In which the man who gave his name as Julign Robinson, said he was robbed. He was employed by the Heroy Tea Company, of 423 North Sixth Street. Robinson was so excited that he could barely tell what had happened. Captain Eppa finally learned that he was on his route making deliveries and collections. He had his cash in a satchel, which was slung about his neck. In his wagon he had a small quantity of precisions. He said that he was about to drive away after leaving a package at a residence when he was confronted by the highwaymen. One of them held a revolver and ordered him to throw up his hands. He obeyed, while the second took the satchel from him and then the provisions in the wagon. Both robbers ran, and Robinson began calling and sbrisking for help. However, the robbers had apparently made good their escape. Eastern Star Chapters to Meet. The Eastern Star Chapters of Richmond and South Richmond will hold "Star Day" Exercises at the Sharon Baptist Church, Sunday, December 28th in honor of St. John's Day, (December 27). Mrs. Ida R. Harris of Petersburg, Va., Grand Lectures of the Order of Eastern Star of Virginia will deliver an address. A very interesting program has been prepared. All lessons and their families are invited. Admission, Free. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913. HAPPY NEW YEAR Influence of Southern Sentiment It is certain that it has been clearly shown to fill, even, the most dense or optimistic, that the South and its sentiments and views now dominate the United States Government and will continue to do so absolutely, for at least two of the four years of the present administration. The country therefore being under the absolute control of the South, for after all disguise the matter in every way possible the fact still remains that the South and Southern sentiment dominate every act of legislation and administration. It is not the purpose of this writer to enter into an elaborate discussion of the probable effects upon either the country as a whole or upon the various sections and peoples and interests that go to make up the whole, it is only to draw attention to dark clouds that are over-shadowing the sky of at least ten millions of the people who compose one-tenth of the country's population, viz., the colored people. The dominating influence of Southern opinion has already crushed out as far as possible every sentiment which tended to grant equal rights to those people before the law and an equal chance to earn a living in the country, this is seen in every Southern State, where these sentiments have become law, and now this dark cloud is under the present administration spreading over the entire country. The tendency of the prevailing and controlling influence of Southern sentiment as it relates to the colored people is to reduce them to a state of serfdom and dependence. This is not the sentiment however of all of the Southern people, but it IS the sentiment of a large class of the Southern people and that class is and has, so far, been the dominating and ruling class which shaped the legislation and controlled the thought and action of the South and largely the thought and action of the Democratic Party since the days of Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun even forget, or said the never even thought of the Negro' when drafting a law affecting the rights of the people of the United States. That highest and best class of Southern people who like Washington, Jefferson, Gen. Lee and Gen. Longtreaset and Gov. Mann and the beloved and lamented Dr. J. L. M. Curry and a host of others, both men and women, than whom none higher, nobler, broader and purer ever lived in any country or clime save one and He lived in Palestine. This class does not control the sentiment of the Southern people so far as the Negro and his rights and liberties are concerned. The other class composed of men like Mr. Calhoun, Judge Taney, Mr. Lamar, Senator Morgan Bacon and Smith of Georgia, Senators Tillman and Vardaman and Newlands; is the class whose, influence creates and shapes the sentiments which are developed into public opinion and finally crystallized into the laws that tend to deprive the colored people of their rights under the Constitution and the expertise manifested, by some of the Judiciary in dodging some of the plain clauses of the Constitution have done much to aid and abet that class of statesmen in the persistent and unholy effort to crush out every scintilla of manhood the colored people possess. All of the disfranchising legislation and all of the "Jim Crow" laws, and all of the nongregation laws and all of the miscognition laws have, the one supreme object in view, viz., the humiliation of the Negro race. No matter what other reasons may be assigned, the real, true and chief object is to impede the Negro's progress and as far as possible degrade and discourage him in his efforts to rise to the highest degrees of manhood civilization and citizenship. The methods adopted and, many of the means used by those now shaping sentiment concerning the colored people of the country would if submitted to a fair investigation reveal an ignorance as to the real, true condition of the Negro as to his efforts, programs, aims and methods of thinking that would certainly lead to shame from the people if such would reveal a condition 'of race prejudice and race hate that would throw ancient Rome in the shade.' To illustrate, not many years ago a speech was delivered in Washington City in which columns of figures were produced intended to prove the large per cent of colored people who lived in degradation, poverty, immorality and shame in that city, yet not a word was said so far as I saw about the large per cent of white people who lived in those same regions of that city, right among those colored people, many of them living in a condition of morals even worse than the Negroes. Neither did that speaker show by figures or any other way that in that same city there were hundreds if not thousands of nice, orderly, decent pure colored homes: no, the object clearly was to by unfair, unjust, misleading and in a large measure misrepresenting the Negro life in Washington, create sentiment against the whole race throughout the country and thus pave the way in such national legislation concern the colored race as Southern sentiment has already produced in the States of the South. But the most brazen and glaring, if not daring utterance were those lately made in Washington by a gentleman who is reported to have stood up and solemnly declared that the Negro "could not be educated" and the sad part, is that such worn out sentiments and similar abuses and misrepresentation of the race could receive applause from a Washington audience. Attention will be drawn, to but one other of the multitude of hypocritical arguments presented by this class in their frantic efforts to crush the Negro and that is the pretentions to fear the misrepresentation of the races if the Negro is permitted to enjoy his rights under the Constitution. One has only to look at the number of States in the United States where the colored people have enjoyed equal political rights for many years and where the races live near borders and yet marriages between the races are exceedingly rare and the mixing of the races to the extent of producing offspring is ninety percent greater in the States where disfranchisement reigns supreme than it in the States where all men are free the Constitution provides. This mixing seems to be due not to the love of white women for colored men but, is due to the love of white men for colored women. All laws made or to be made having for their object the prevention of the mixing of the races in view of what has occurred and what is still happening, clearly a reaction upon the strength of character, intelligence, firmness and con- a sense of the white women of Africa and it would seem that this is and cry about keeping the race race is not prompted by a desire to keep the race pure but more by a desire to keep some body in office and, keep a certain Party in power. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING. 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 8:30 o'clock sharp, for the purpose of meeting 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 therein 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., Pres. THOMAS M. CRUMP'S Secy. Information Wanted. I would like to know the name of the tribe of Indians that inhabited the region around the Chastache River in South Carolina. Any information will be thankfully received by J. P. LEACH, 90 WILLIAMS ST., Fayette, Ga. Courta of Calanthe of Richmond Pass Resolutions of Condolence and Present Marble Tablet in Honor of Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell. The following are the Resolutions of Condolence that accompanied a Marble Tablet in honor of Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, mother of Mr. John Mitchell, presented by the Courts of Calanthe of Richmond: "There is no death! An angel Walks over the earth with silent troad And bears our best loved ones away, And then we call them dead." Deep sorrow reigns in the hearts of the members of the Courts of Calanthe and Order of K. of P., as we bow in sincere sympathy with our dearly beloved and highly esteemed Grand Worthy Counsellor, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. in his great affection—the loss of his sainted mother! We know that human words and sympathy are weak and ineffectual in healing the wound that seems to never the very heart-strings that intertwine the heart of a mother to her child and yet as frail mortals born to die and be separated from each other for a time, we know of no other means than words, prayers and acts of kindness when the heart is thus aching, for— We share our mutual woes. Our mutual burdens bear And often for each other flow: The sympathetic tear. While we know that God hath wonderfully blest our Grand Worthy Counselor in sparing his devoted mother for long years of seaside counsel and comfort to him and for her to see him come to years of maturity and all positions of highest honors and fame, causing her face to beam with smiles at the mention of his name and her heart to swell with pride and gratitude to God that God had spared her to share his honors and see the "fruits of labors and prayers," for such a character to be emulated as a leader and guide for the Negro race; yet the blow is no less keenly felt by him than if it had occurred years before—such as frail human ambition and love to desire to keep our dear ones here below but God will otherwise and we are compelled to take, "What he sees fit to send, and trust its good." Because He knows the end." Therefore, we, representatives of the Courts of Calanthe of Richmond, assembled desire to record our sympathy for our Grand Worthy Counselor, hoping some word may be of comfort in his bereavement. Whatever, The Great and Sweet Ruler of the universe has in it infinite wisdom and all the pleasant even fit to send the Revered death into the home of our dearly beloved Grand Worthy Counselor to instantly hear away his devoted and idolest mother from his bosom to the Court of Heaven, and Whereas, The long, useful life of Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, as a faithful mother in her home and her Christian influence in the church, community and the Courts of Calanthe, besides the intense love and reverence shown for her indulgent son as she leaned upon his strong arm in her weak, declining age, are eminently holding and worthy of our appreciation of her worth: Therefore, Be It Resolved. That the sudden removal of such a Christian mother from our midst leaves a shadow and a sorrow that are deeply felt and a vacancy in the home that can never be filled, as nothing can efface the wound in the heart of her son. Resolved. That we deeply sympathize with him in his heavy affliction and pray that God will bear him up and give him comfort in this his greatest earthly sorrow and strength, for his future labors. Resolved. That our G. W. Counsellor also find comfort in knowing that in his life-time devotion and honor shown to his mother, he has full-filled the commandment which promises long life to the child who thus—honors his mother—and looking beyond the present gloom; try to feel that his love is her gain and with an aching heart and tearful eye say—"Thy will be done." Resolved. That we shall ever honor and emulate the memory of his mistreated mother and pray God's guiding Hand to lead the son upward and upward through his life's journey, yield they meet around God's journey. solutions be sent to the family and published in the colored papers of Richmond. Respectfully submitted in F. H. & L. MRS M. L. CHILES MRS KATE S. THOMAS MRS H. E. THOMSON MRS LUCY SCOTT MRS LUCY CROSS MRS LIZZHE TAYLOR MRS LUCY PETERS MRS EVA G. DANIS MRS R. E. WESLEY MRS SARAH A. STEWARD MRS ANNA TAYLOR. District Deputy G. W. C. Whereas, We have learned with the deepest regret of the demeis of Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, the plough, beloved, devoted mother of our honored Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. Resolved, That in her death, the Richmond Delegation, Chancellor Commanders of the various Lodge Representatives, of the Grand Lodge and Supreme Representative, assembled, mourn the departure of a life that borned so illustrious a son and gave such a glorious inspiration to his every act which has made him a tireless and ardent race defender. Resolved, That in the demeis of Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, our Order has indirectly lost a guiding star, for it was she who shaped his destiny and guided his course by her devout Christian character and constancy with her God for the success of her beloved and faithful son. Resolved, That during a long and useful life, as a mother and grandmother, having been brought by kind Providence in the fullest measure of human life to the grave, she leaves a record of humility, patience and devotion to home, examples worthy of emulation. Resolved, That no token of affection can be too prefuse in her demeis and no mark of respect to emulate in our sympathy for our Grand Chancellor Resolved. That a copy of these re- lationships be transmitted to John Mitchell, Jr. the son of the honored dead and to the press with every assurance of our profound and most respectful sympathy. Committee: LAWRENCE WILSON, C. C. OLD Dominion Lodge, No. S. WILLIAM THOMAS, C. C. Capital Lodge, No. S. GEO. R. BURRELL, C. C. Crispus Attucci Lodge, No. 117; F. H. HOLMES, C. C. Ren Hair Lodge, No. 26 R. E. RUTLER, C. C. Samson Lodge, No. 16, THOS M. CRUME' Supreme Representative E. R. JEFFERSON, D. D. G. C --- Lexington, Va. December 16. Whereas, R. K. has pleased Almighty God in the Alliance Providence to call from labor to reward the mother of our beloved Grand Chancellor and head of our Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythia of Va., John Mitchell, Jr., Resolved, First, "That we bow in humble submission to the will of those who death all thanks right. Resolved, Second, That we extend to Sir John Mitchell, Jr., and family our heartfelt sympathy. Resolved, Third, That our chart be draped in morning for 30 days. Resolved, Fourth, That a copy of these resolution, be sent to The Richmond PLANET for publication Done by archist Levinson Lodge. No. 10, K. of F. R. R. ALEXANDER, C. C. J. B. RONE, K. of R. & S. Mr. Gray's Denise The funeral of Mr. Thomas Gray who departed this life Sunday morning about 1 o'clock, took place last Tuesday afternoon from the First Baptist Church of South Richmond, Va. at 3:00 o'clock. Rev. T. J. J. Mosby preached a pathetic sermon as he had known the deceased over since childhood. Rev. Dr. Binga spoke few counseling words. The Dr. has been indisposed for several days. The interment was made in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. "May he rest in peace." --Mr. Lemuel Gray and Mrs. Jessie Herndon arrived in the city Lab week to attend; the funeral of their brother, Mr. Thomas Gray. Pythian Cadet Examinations. The final examinations for 1911, in the Pythian Cadet Battalion, have been completed. The results will be announced soon: The officers for the enquiring year will be chosen from the Cadets who have passed the required marks. Baby Wanted. Wanted—A Girl Baby, between the ages of 3 and 6, to raise. Light completion. Send picture of child to JAMES PURNELL. P. O. Box 23, Morton, Bd. Co., Pa. DEC. 1913 CONSTANT, VANS. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. OUR FORTUNE To Editor T. THOMAS FORTUNE, now Lecturing in the South. Thy grateful people welcome them, Who once proclaimed from sea to sea With tongue of fire and caustic pen The doctrine of the rights of men, Our Fortune. The mute, thy voice has still rung on In grateful hearts which thou hast won Whose living eyes, on thou they train As thou dost like it once again Our Fortune. Intrepid sane of Cedar Street, Again thy stalwart form we greet, Thy battles waged thou fading years Recall we now with thankful cars Our Fortune. Breasting the storm on eagle's wings, While in thy cars defence rings, We see thy mount against high Thy race's apple foes defy Our Fortune. We love thee still, thou warrior hold On to the conflict as of old! Thy shield and buckle in the fight. The cause of justice and the Right Our Fortune. JACK THORNE. 25 Overlook Terrace, Yonkers, N. Y. Rev. L. B. Goodall, pastor of Mt. St. Baptist Church at Earlsville, Va., called on us. He states that his work is prospering. —Mr. Robert Gadson is spending the Christmas in the Southside. A Mother's Death (St. Luke Herald) In the midst of life, we are in death. it matters not where it is, be it at the bedside of the centenarian or at the cradle of the infant of a few days when death comes, we are heart stricken and bowed down in that painful brief, and that mysterious dreaded sorrow, for which the world has not yet found "than in Gilead." There was no real creation until God made Mother; no plan by which all that has been done and will yet be done, and could have been done until Mother came God's climax in Eden. There is no honor that we can give Mother; it matters not what she is, what her status, the name Mother absolves her from sin so all that she has given breath; and no act of the offspring no attempted honor bestowed no so called sacrifice made can measure up to our repay Mother for what she has done for the child. So great did Our Heavenly Father feel the importance of the place that Mother occupied in the divine economy of the New Dispensation, that when he gave the world the Ten Commandments. He wrote therein only one promise and that promise gave length of years to those who did paragial honor. When the news of the death of the Mother of our contemporary, John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of the Planet, elected our city a thousand hearts were throbbed with sympathy and a thousand tones beckoned our Heavenly Father to comfort the Bricken son, whose obedience to the Fifth Commandment was known in every home of his native town. The St. Lake Herald sorrows and sends a message of sympathy to the bereaved son. Words, resolutions and conventional affectations on such occasions to the behemoth heart that has lost the best friend it ever had, and the breast to whom it owed existence. But, when the flood gates of grief have emptied themselves and the aching heart has ceased to swell and throb, in the after moments which come when the tempest of sorrow has passed and the storm of grief has spent its natural force, may some word said herein bring added value for Kindness by secret sympathy is tried. For earthly souls in nature are able Wife Murderer Escapes Quite a sensation was caused by the announcement that James Goodo, alias Rogers, had escaped Sunday, December 14, 1913 from the Richmond, Va. City Jail. Goodo had deliberately shot down his wife near the mouth of the alley on First St. near Marshall. He had been sent on to the grand jury and it had been ascertained that he had killed his former wife. He is alleged to have secured his freedom by sawing the bar with back-saws. That he was aided to escape does not admit of any question. WHY, We Can Sail You a Home on very small terms. If we haven't got it we can get it. Gail and my BRAGG BROOK, B O., 600 R. W. SYNOPSIS Mary Turner is the present store clerk, is sentenced for three years for a theft she did not commit. Edward Gilbert is one of the department store, commissary and Mary before she goes to prison, except for confess. Mary possesses the permission to clutter and here she later waives to the clerks to save the store for legislation. After three years in prison Mary is freed, but she is given the power to hold positions. She is sent to the river to end her life, but is sent to the river to a forger. Mary forms a partnership with the clerks and his wife, and with the victim within the law. Mary is waited by the police to leave town after she is sentenced for another player's remand. Helen Mary tell the one fairly fairly fairly Joe Davis agree to teach home Edward of the tribe to battle when he convicted Imperial him night a steel ber king Garden and home told of the are there Garcia has been arrested and handed put into custody and is being held in with her husband and brother in the arrival in custody by Mary and Lois with Gringer body. Mary and her husband arrested after Mary saw book and was taken to burial; further members of the family are arrested and "awarded to their families." Imagined interviews with Angie Lynch and her husband of Mary's great and Mary, in which she gives little information Within the Tails THE gaze of carson left the room death still. Iok turned to Mary and took her hand in his. His arm swept about her in a protective embrace just in time or she would fall down. A whisper came from her pursive lips. Her face came to his face. He could not bear the sight of the earthly murmuring all over his face twisted. She stood and looked at him as if he had lost all strength of body or soul. Yet in the intensity of her attention, the fader was spooked like a slaughter. "I I must say someone had landed for me." Before he could utter the softening words that made his lips, I was interrupted by a slight sound at the door. Initially he was an alert to meet the expressions of the situation. He stood by the bench, biting for ward a little as if in a posture of lustful fondness. He heard the news again present a new so near that to make sure of being overheard, so at once he spotted with a forced cheerfulness in his collection. "I tell you, Mr. May," he declared, "everything's going to be all right for you and me. It was kind of you to come here to receive this." The girl made no response. Dijk, in nervous apprehension as to the pose, sought to bring her to realization of the new need that had come upon them. "Talk to me, he commanded very softly. 'Tell me he is in a minute. When they come in pretend you just came here in order to spice me.' Try, Mary. You must, dearest.' Then again his voice was to hopliness as he continued. 'Way, I've been trying all day to see you. And now here we are together, just as I was beginning to get really discouraged. I know my father will eventually.' He was interrupted by the swift swirling open of the hallway door. Hurke stood just within the library, a revolver pointed menacingly. 'Hands up, all of you.' The inspector's voice fairly poured the command. The belligerent expression of his face vanished abruptly as his eyes fell on Dick standing by the couch and Mary reclining there in limp helplessness. "What are you doing in this house at this time of night?" Dick demanded. "I recognize you, Inspector Burke. But you must understand that there are limits even to what you can do. It seems to me, sir, that you exceed your authority by such an intrusion as this." Burke waved his revolver toward Mary. "What's she doing here?" he asked. "You forget yourself, Inspector. This is my wife. She has the right to be with me—her husband." "Where's your father?" he questioned roughly. "In bed, naturally," was the answer. "I ask you again. What are you doing here at this time of night?" "Oh, call your father." Burke directed. "It's late," Dick objected. "I'd rather not disturb him, if you don't mind." Suddenly he smiled very winningly and spoke with a good assumption of humour. CICS: I've persuaded my wife to go away with me. She's going to give all that other sort of things up. Yes, we're going 'away together. So, you see, we've got to talk it over. Now, then, inspector, if you'll come back in the morning"— As he spoke the white beam of the flashing searchlight from the tower fell between the undrawn draperies of the getangual wind bow. The light star tilted the inspector against it had done once before that same night. His gaze followed it instinctively. So within the second, he saw the still form lying there on the floor. There was no mistaking that naval motionless, crumpled posture. The侦察师 leaped to the switch by the door and turned on the lights of the chandelier. In the next moment he had reached the door of the passage across the room, and his whistle sounded shrill. His voice, followed soon forement to the birt "Cassidy' Cassidy" Cassidy came rushing in with the other detectives "Why, what's it all mean, chief?" he questioned "They've got Griggs' Burke answered. There was exceeding rage in his I "Hands up! All of you!" voice as he spoke from his kneeling posture beside the body, to which he had hurried after the simmons to his girls. "I'll break, you for this, Casidy," he declared thereby. "Why didn't you get here on the run when you heard the shot?" "But there wasn't any shot. I tell you, chief, there hasn't been a sound." Burke rises to his feet. His heavy face was set in its sternest mold. "You could drive a horse through the hole they made in blim" said Casidy. Burke whored on Mary and Blick. "So? he shouted." "Now it murdered." Well, hard it over. Where's the girl? He looked toward Dekas as he pawed at Blick. "Search him!" Dekas took the camera from his pocket and At 08:00 a day to go out of the sombre house and go to the park. He had to go home to the library. He was so tired by the time he went to a good was evidently greatly. What is the best word? It's like a person that has was no non-working job. You are not a person but a solid person for the day he had to be a remote "N" and a very new one that is now in the life of a person. It comes now. It has about no order for does the "What" is the non-workman both daytime? That isn't. The comrade had pleased Dick to re-mopstrance against such indignity to ward the woman he loved. "Not her! he cared imploringly. 'You don't want her, inspector! This is all wrong!'" "Dick," Mary advised quietly, "Don't talk, please." "What do you expect?" Burke inquired trifurcently. "As a matter of fact, the thing's simple enough, young man. Either you killed Griggs or she did." The inspector with his charge made a careless gesture toward the corpse of the murdered stool pigeon. Edward Gilder looked and saw the ghostly, inanimate heap of flesh and bone that had once been a man. He fairly resolved "You could drive a hearse through the hole they made in him." "You could drive a hearse through the hole they made in him." at the spectacle, then tumbled with an outstretched hand until he laid hold on a chait, into which he sank helplessly. "Either you killed him," the voice repeated gratingly, "or she did. Well, then, young man, did she kill him?" "Good God, no!" Dick shouted, nghest. "Then it was you!" "No, no! He didn't!" Mary's words came frantically. Burke reiterated the accusation. "One of you killed Griggs. Which one of you did it?" He scowled at Dick. "Did she kill him?" "I told you no!" "Well, then," he blustered to the girl. "Did he kill him?" "I'm talking to you!" he snapped "Did he kill him?" The reply came with a soft distinct ness that was ? a crush of destiny. "Yeah." Dick turned to his wife in repreach- ful amazement. "Mary! he eries incredulously." "You'll swear he killed him!" Burke asked briskly. "Why not?" she responded listlessly. At this ludicrous assertion as he deemed it Edward Glider sat rigidly erect in his chair. "God!" he eroded desperately. "And that's your vengeance!" "I don't want vengeance—now!" she said. "But they'll try my boy for murder," the magnitude demonstrated, distraught. "Oh, no, they can't!" came the rejoinder. "What's the reason we can't?" Burke stormed. "Because my husband merely killed a burgher. He shot him in defense of his home." In his office next morning, Inspector Burke was firming over the failure of his conspiracy. He had hoped through this plot to vindicate his authority, so sadly flamed by Garson and Mary Turner. Instead of this much to be desired result from his schenching the outcome had been nothing less than disastrous. Some people had murdered Griggs, the steel prison. The murder could not be unpunished. The slayer's identity must be determined. To the discovery of this identity, the inspector was at the present moment of detecting himself by adult questioning of Dacey and Chicago Red, who had been arrested in one of the three customer haunts. "Come across now!" he admonished. His voice grilled forth like that of a bail of Bishan. He was on his feet, facing the two thieves. His head was thrust forward menacingly, and his eyes were savage. "I don't know nothing!" "Chicago" "Red's voice was between a snarl and a whine." "Ain't I been telling you that for over an hour?" Batke gave Tracy, who chanced to be the narrator of the two, a shore whist sent the fellow staggering halfway across the room under its impetus. "Tracy, how long have you been "I doey, how long have you been out?" "A week." "Want to go back for another stretch?" "Girl, no?" "Who shot Griggs?" "The reply was a chorus from the two." "I don't know - honest, I don't!" In his angerless Chicago Red moved toward his questioner. "Honest to Gawd, I don't know noth in about it." The inspector's first shot out toward Chicago Red's law. The thief went to his knees under the blow. "Now, get up and talk!", Burke's voice came with suspense and noisiness against the skinned man. Critically Chicago Red owed me far as the getting on his feet was concerned. While he got slowly to his feet he took care to keep at a respectful distance from the official. Critically entered the inspector's office to announce the arrival of the district attorney. "Seal 'Em in." Burke directed. He made a gesture toward the doorman and added "Take 'em back." "I came as soon as I got your message," the district attorney said as he soiled himself in a chair by the desk. "And I've sent word to Mr. Glider. Now, then, Burke, let's have this thing quicky!" The inspector's explanation was concise. "Joe Garron, Chicago Red and Dacey, along with Griggs, broke into Edward Glider's house last night. I knew the trick was going to be pulled off, and so I planted Cassidy and a couple of other men just outside the room where the hand was to be made. Then I went away, and after something like half an hour I came back to make the arrests myself. When I broke into the room I found young Glider alone with that Turner woman he married, and they were just talking together. "I found Griggs lying on the floor—dead. The Turner woman says young Glider shot Griggs because he broke into the house. Almost that the limit?" "What does the boy say?" "Nothing. We've got Chicago Red and Bacney, and we'll have Garson before the day's over. And, oh, yes! They've picked up a young girl at the Turner woman's place. And we've got one real clew-for one!" He opened a drawer of the desk and took out Garson's pistol, to which the silencer was still attached. "You never saw a gun like that before, oh?" he explained. Demarest admitted the fact. "I'll bet, you never did." That thing on the end is a Maxim silencer. There are thousands of them in use on rides, but they've never been able to use them on revolvers before. That thing is absolutely nihiless. I've tried it. Well, you see, it'll be an easy thing—easiest thing in the world" to trace that silencer attachment. Cassidy's working on that end of the thing now. FOR a few minutes longer the two men discussed the details of the crime, theorizing over the bullying event. Then Cassidy entered. "I got the factory at Hartford on the wire," he explained, "and they gave me Mr. Maxim himself. He said this was surely a special gun, which was made for the use of Henry Sylvester, one of the professors at Yale. He wanted it for demonstration purposes. Mr. Maxim said the things have never been put on the market, and that they never will be. I got this man, Sylvester. Cassidy went on, "on the phone too. He says that his house was robbed about eight weeks ago, and among other things the silencer was stolen." "Is there any chance that young Older Sir stumbled Orlando, about Herman "You can search me!" the inspector answered. "My men were just outside the door of the room where Eddie Griggs was shot to death, and none of 'em heard a sound. It's that infernal silencer thing. Of course, I know that all the gang was in the house." "Did you see them go in?" "No, I didn't, but Griggs—" "Griggs is dead, Burke. You're up against it. You can't prove that Garson or Chicago Red or Dacry ever entered that house." "Well, then, I'll charge young Glider with murder and call the Turner woman as a witness." "You can't question her on the witness stand. The law doesn't allow you to make a wife testify against her husband. No, Burke, your only chance of getting the murderer of Griggs is by a confession." "Then I'll charge them both with the murder," the inspector growled violently. "Ask, by —, they'll both go to trial unless somebody comes through. If it's my last act on earth, I'm going to get the man who shot Eddie Griggs." Burke, after the lawyer had left him watched the door expectantly for the coming of Angie Lynch, whom he had ordered brought before him. But when at last Dan appeared and stood inside to permit her passing into the office, the inspector gasped at the unexpectedness of the vision. The next instant the inspector forgot his surprise in a sincerely almost ardent admiration. The girl was rather short, but of a slender elegance of form that was rawishing. Her costume had about it an inubtableable air, a quality of perfection in its kind. But another it might have appeared perhaps the merest trifle garish. But that fault was made into a virtue to the correcting innocence of the girl's face. It was a childish face, childish in the exquisite smoothness of the soft pink skin, childish in the wondrous stare of the blue eyes, flow so widely spotted in dismay, childish in the wistful drooping of the rosebud mouth. "Now, then, my girl," Burke said coughily, "I want to know." There came a change, wrought, in the twinkling of an eye. The tiny, trimly shoul foot of the girl rose and fell in a wrathful stamp. "What do you mean by this courage?" she stunned. Her voice was low and rich, with a charming roundness that seemed the very hallmark of gentility. "I demand my instant release." "Wait a minute!" Burke remonstrated. "Wait a minute." "You wait!" she cried violently. "You just wait! I tell you, until my pupa hears of this!" "Who is your pupa?" "I shan't tell you," came the petuant retort from the girl. "You would probably give my name to the reporters. If it ever got into the newspapers my family would die of shame." "Now, the easiest way out for both of us is for you to tell me just who you are. You see young lady, you were found in the house of a notorious rook." "How perfectly aboard! I was calling on Miss Mary Tiffner!" "I was introduced to Miss Turner by Mr. Richard Golder. Perhaps you have heard of his father, the owner of the Emporium." "Oh yes, I've heard of his father and of him too." "Then you must see once that you are entirely unmistakable in this matter." "You see, young old, the facts that even if you were introduced to Miss Turner by young Mr. Golder this same Mary Turner herself is an ex convict, and she just been arrested for murder." "Murder?" the girl gospel. "Yes. You see, if there's a mistake about you you don't want it to go any further, not a nite further, that's sure. So, you see, now, that's one of the reasons why I must know just who you are." "You should have told me all about this horrid tiding in the first place." Now the girl's manner was transformed. She smiled wistfully on the inspector and spoke with a simplicity that was peculiarly potent in its effect on the official. "My name is Helen Travers West," she announced. "Not the daughter of the railway president?" "Yes," the girl admitted, "Oh, please don't tell any one," she logged prettily. "Sorry, sir, you see now quite plaintly why it must never be known by any one in all the wide, wide world that I have ever been brought to this perfectly dreadful place—though you have been quite nice. Please let me go home." She plucked a minute handkerchief from her hand bag, put it to her eyes and began to sob quietly. The barely inspector of police was moved to quick sympathy. "That's all right, little lady," he exclaimed cheerfully. "Now, don't you be worried, not a little bit. Take it from me, Miss West. Just go ahead and tell me all you know about this Turner woman. Did you see her yesterday?" The girl's sobs crashed. After a final dab with the minute handkerchief she leaned forward a little toward the inspector and proceeded to put a question to him with great earnestness. "Will you let me go home as soon as I've told you the twenty little I know?" "Yes," Burke agreed promptly, with an encouraging smile. He added as one might to an alarmed child, "No one is going to hurt you, young lady." "Well, then, you see, it was this way," began the brisk explanation. "Mr. Glider was calling on me one afternoon, and he said to me then that he knew a very charming young woman who"— Here the speech ended abruptly, and once again the handkerchief was brought into play as the sobbing broke forth with increased violence. Presently the girls' voice rose in a wall. "Oh, this is dreadful—dreadful" in the final word the wall broke to a mess. of one so young, so fair, so innocent. But his well meant attempt to assuage the stricken creature's woe was futile. The sobbing continued. "I'm afraid!" the girl asserted dismally. "I'm afraid you will—put me—in a cell!" "Pooh!" Burke returned gallantly. "Why, my dear young lady, nobody in the world could think of you and a cell at the same time—no, indeed!" "Oh, thank you!" "Aro you sure you've told me all you know about this woman?" "Oh, yes! I've only seen her two or three times," came the ready response. "Oh, please, commissioner! Won't you let me go home?" The use of a title higher than his own flickered the inspector, and he was moved to graciousness. "Now, you see," he said in his heavy voice, yet very kindly, "no one has hurt you—not even a little bit, after all. Now, you run right home to your mother." The girl sprang up joyously and started toward the door, with a final reviving smile for the pleased official at the desk. It was at this moment that Cassidy entered from the opposite side of the office. As his eyes fell on the girl at the door across from him his stolold face lighted in a grin. And, in that same instant of recognition between the two the color went out of the girl's face. The little red lips snapped together in a line of supreme disgust against this velsitude of fate after all her maneuverings in the face of the enemy. "Hello, Aggie," the detective remarked, with a snirk, while the inspector stared from one to the other and his jaw dropped from the stark surprise. The girl returned deliberately to the chair she had occupied through the interview with the inspector and dropped into it weakly. It was after a minute of silence, in which the two men sat starling, that at last she spoke with a savage wrath, against the pit into which she had fallen after her ardour efforts. "Ain't that the —est luck?" "Cussidy, do you know this woman?" asked Burke. "Sure I do!" came the placid answer. "She's little Aggie Lynch—con woman, from Buffalo—two years for black-mail—did her time at Burning." For a little time there was silence, she while Burke sat staring at the inverted face of the girl. Then he set his features grimly, rose from his chair and walked to position directly in the front of the girl, who still refused to look in his direction. "On the level, now," the inspector demanded, "when did you see Mary Turner last?" "Early this morning. We slept together last night because I had the willies. She blew, the joint about half past 10." "What's the use of your lying to me?" "So help me." Aggie continued with the utmost solitude. "Mary never left the house all night. I'd swear that's the truth on a pile of libles a mile high." "Have to be higher than that. Mary Turner was arrested just after mid- J503 "On the level, when did you see Mary Turner last?" night. Young.woman, you'd better tell all you know." "I don't know a thing!" Aggie retorted. "Oh, then it's *Garson*'s! "I don't know whose it is." Agnes replied. "I heyer laid eyes on it till now." "How should I know? What do you think I am—a fortune teller?" "Now, Aggie Lynch, you listen to me, Tell me what you know, and I'll see you make a clean getaway, and I'll slip you a nice little, piece of money too. Now, what do you say?" "I say you're a great big stiff! What do you think I am?" Aggie wheeled on the detective. "Say, take me out of here. I'd rather be in the cooler than here with him!" blow a kiss from his thick finger tips in mocking reverence for her as an artist in her way. Then, when he learns that Edward Tilden had art the district attorney be admitted and that the son also be sent up from his cell. "It's a bad business, sir." Burko said with hearty sympathy to the shaken father after the formal greetings "that followed the entrance of the two men. "It's a very bad business." "What does he say?" Glider questioned. "Nothing!" Burke answered. "That is why I sent for you. I suppose Mr. Demarest has made the situation plain to you." "Yes, he has explained it to me. It's a terrible position for my boy. But you'll release him at once, won't you?" "I can't." Burke replied reluctantly, but bluntly. "You ought not to expect it; Mr. Glider." "Inspector," the magnate crieved brokenly, "you—don't mean—" "I mean, Mr. Glider, that you've got to make him talk. That's what I want you to do for all our sakes. Will you?" "I'll do my best," the unhappy man replied. A minute later Dick, in charge of an officer, was brought into the room. He was pale, a little disheveled from his hours in a cell. The father went, forward quickly and caught Dick's hands in a mighty grip. "My boy!" he murmured huskily. Then he made a great effort and controlled his emotion to some extent. "The inspector tells me," he went on, "that you've refused to talk—to answer his questions. "That wasn't wise under the circumstances," the father demonstrated hurriedly. "However, now, Denarest and I are here to protect your interests, so that you can talk freely. Now, Dick, tell us. Who killed that man? We must know. Tell me." Demarest went a step toward the young man "tick. I don't want to frighten you, but your position is really dangerous. Your only chance is to speak with perfect frankness. I pledge you my wont I'm telling the truth. Dick, my boy, I want you to forget that I'm the district attorney, and remember only that I'm an old friend of yours and of your father's who is trying very hard to help you. Surely you can trust me. Now, Dick, tell me: Who shot Griggs?" "I shot Griggs," said the young man. Demarest realized that his plea had failed, but he made an effort to take the admission at its face value. "Why? he demanded." "Because I thought he was a burglar." "Oh, I see!" he said, in a tone of conviction. "Now, let's go back a little. Burke says you told him last night that you had persuaded your wife to come over to the house and join you there. Is that right?" "Yes." "Now, tell me, Dick, just what did happen, won't you?" There was no reply, said, after a little interval, the lawyer resumed his questioning. "Did this burglar come into the room?" Dick nodded an assent. "And he attacked you?" There came another post of affirmation. "And there was a struggle?" "Yes." "And you shot him?" "Yes." "Then, where did you get the revolver?" I click started to answer without thought: "Why, I grabbed it" - Then, the sig illumination of this crashed on his consciousness, and he checked the words trembling on his lips. "No," he said with swift hostility in his voice, "so, you're trying to trap me, too! You! And you talk of friendship. I want none of such friendship." But Burke would be no longer restrained. "You don't want to take us for fools, young man," he said, and his big-tones rumbled harshly through the room. "If you shot Griggs in mistake for a burglar why did you try to hide the fact? Why did you pretend to me that you and your wife were alone in the room when you had that there with you, eh? Why didn't you call for help? Why didn't you call for the police as any honest man would naturally, under such circumstances?" "We're trying to save you," the father pleaded tremulously. Burke persisted in his vehement system of attack. Now, he again brought out the weapon that had done Eddie Griggs to death: "Where'd you get this gun?" he shouted. "I won't talk any, more." Dick an answered, simply. "I must see my wife first." His voice became more aggressive. "I wait to know what you've done to her." "Did she kill Griggs?" Burke questioned roughly. Dick was started out of his calm. "No, no!" he cried, desperately. "I won't say any more until I've talked with a lawyer whom I can trust." He shot a vindictive glance toward Demarest. The father intervened with a pitious eagerness. "Dick, if you know who killed this man you must speak to protect yourself." The face of the young man softened as he met his father's beseeching eyes. "I'm sorry, dad," he said, very gently. "But I well, I can't." Again, Burke interposed. "I'm going to give him a little more time to think things over. Perhaps we'll get to understand the importance of what we've been saying pretty soon." He clicked the button on his desk, and, as the doorman appeared, addressed that functionary. "Dan, have one of the men take him back. You wait outside." Dick, however, did not move. His voice came with a note of determination. "I want to know about my wife. Where is she?" Burke choreographed the question as survivor by R.N. had not been open. A "I gird went on speaking to the doorman, with a suggestion in his words that was effective. "He's not to speak to any one you understand." Then he condescended to give his attention to the prisoner. "You'll know all about your wife, young man, when you make up your mind to tell me the truth." Dick turned and followed his custodian out of the office in silence. As the doorman repaired Burke gave his order, "Dun, have the Turner woman brought up." The inspector next called his stenographer, and gave explicit directions. At the back of the room, behind the desk, were three large windows, which opened on a corridor, and access this was a tier of cells. The stenographer was to take his seat in this corridor, just outside one of the windows. Over the windows the shades were drawn, so that he would remain invisible to any one within the office, while yet easily able to overhear every word spoken in the room. When he had completed his instructions to the stenographer Burke turned to Glider and Dearnest. "Now, this time," he said energetically, "I'll be the one to do the talking. And get this; Whatever you hear me say don't you be surprised. Remember, we're dealing with crooks, and when you're dealing with crooks you have to use crooked words." Then the door opened, and Mary Turner entered. She paid absolutely go attention to the other two in the room, but went straight to the desk and there hatted, gazing with her softly penetrant eyes of deepest violet into the face of the instructor. Under that intent scrutiny, Burke felt a challenge and set himself to 1920 "You ought to-know, since you have arrested him." match craft with craft. His large voice was modulated to kindness as he spoke in a casual manner. "I just sent for you to tell you that you're free." "Then, I can go?" "Sure; you can go." Without any delay, yet without any haste, Mary glanced toward Glider and Demarest, who were watching the scene closely. Then, she went toward the outer door of the office. Burke waited until she had nearly reached the door before he shot his bolt. "Garson has confessed!" Mary turned and confronted the inspector, and answered without the least trace of fear, but the firmness of knowledge: "Oh, no, he hasn't!" "What's the reason he hasn't?" furke roared out wrathfully. "Because he didn't do it." "Well, he says he did it." Mary, in her turn, resorted to a bit of finesse. In order to learn whether or not Garron had been arrested. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913 verted to his familiar bullying tactics. "Who shot Griggs?" he shouted. "My husband shot a burglar," Mary said loudly. "Was his name Gertrude? "Oh, you know better than, that." Burke declared, truculently. "You see we've traced the Maxim silencer. Garson himself bought it up in Hartford." For the first time Mary was caught off her guard. "But he told me"—she began, then checked herself. "What did he tell you?" Burke questioned. "He told me that he had never seen one. Surely, if he had had anything of the sort, he would have shown it to me." Burke pressed the button on the desk, and when the doorman appeared, ordered that the prisoner be returned to her cell. "I suppose," Mary said, "that it's useless for me to claim my constitutional rights, and demand to see a lawyer?" "Yes," Burke agreed, "you've guessed it right, the first time." Cassius came hurrying in with a grin of satisfaction on his stoild face. "Say chief," the detective said with indication, "we've got Garson." Burke asked Gither and the district attorney to withdraw, while he should have a private conversation with the prisoner. "Now," he said when they were alone together. "I'm going to be your friend." "Are you?" Mary's tone was non-commital. "Yes," Burke declared, heartily. "And I mean I. Give up the truth about young Gilder. I know he shot Griggs, of course. But I'm not taking any stock in that burglar story—not a little bit. No court would either. What was really back of the killing? Was he jealous of Griggs? Well, that's what he might do then. He's always been a worthless young cat. A rotten deal like this would be about his gait, I guess. I tell me, now, why did he shoot Eddie Griggs?" There was consciousness a plenty in the inspector's pretence, but it possessed a solitary fundamental virtue; it played on the heart of the woman whom he questioned, aroused it to wrath in defense of her mate. In a second, all told fled from this girl whose soul was blossoming in the best realization that a man loved her purely, unselfishly. Her words came stumbling in their taste. "He didn't kill him! He didn't kill him!" she fairly kissed. "Why, he's the most wonderful man in the world. You shunt hurt him! Nobody shall hurt him! I'll fight to the end of my life for Pick Gilder." Burke was beaming joyously. "Well, that's just what I thought," he said, with smiling content. "And now, then, who did shoot Griggs? We've got every one of the gang. They're all crosses. See here, he wont on, with a sudden change to the respectful in his manner, 'why don't you start fresh?' I give you every chance in the world. I'm dead on the level with you this time." By now Mary had herself well in hand again vastly ashamed of the short period of self betrayal caused by the officials' artifice against her heart. As she listened to the inspector's assurances, the mocking expression of her face was not encouraging to that institute individual, but he persevered magnificently. "Just you wait," he went on cheerfully, "and I'll prove to you that I'm on the level about this, that I'm really your friend. There was a letter came for you to your apartment. My men brought it down to me. I've read it. Here it is. 'I'll read it to you.' He picked up an envelope, which had been lying on the desk, and drew up the single sheet of paper it contained. Mary watched him, wondering much more than her expression revealed over this new development. Then, as she listened, quick interest touched her features to a new life. This was the letter. I can't go without talking you how sorry I am. There won't be a time that won't remember it we met you. You didn't bring flowers to my apartment. I don't go to friends' houses. I awer I'm going straight to yours. Your true friend. HELEN MORRIS For once, Burke showed a certain delicacy. When he had finished the reading, he said nothing for a long minute. Mary's eyes were luminous in the joy of the realization that for her, after all, rehabilitation might be in a measure possible, though nothing could ever repay the degradation of years infinitely whose last Burke's harsh voice, endowed to a singular sympathy, broke in on her reverie of pleasure and of pain. "You knew this?" he inquired. "Yes, two days ago." "I told you told old Glider?" he asked. Mary shook her head in negation. "What would be the use?" she re reminded him. "I had no proof. No, the would believe me." "They'd believe this. Why, this letter sets you clear. If old tilderetter see this letter, there's nothing he wouldn't do to make amends to you. He's a square guy himself. If it comes to that, even if he was hard on you Why, this letter wipes out everything." Then, the insistent question bearing at his brain forced him to speak roughly, building hope on the letter's inestimable worth to the woman before him "Who killed Griggs?" There was no reply. And, presently, he went on, half ashamed over his own intrigue against her "Bay," he said, and, for once, his yolko was curious; suppressed "you tell me who shot Griggs, and I'll show this letter to old Glider. Now, listen," he cried eagerly. "I give you my word of honor that anything you say in here is just between you and me." Unconciously his eyes darted to the window, behind him the stenographer was bony with his notes. That single involuntary glance was enough for the keen instinct of the woman to make a guess as to the verity. "Just tip me off to the truth," Burke went on in ingratiatingly. "and I'll get the necessary evidence in my own way. Now, there's nobody here but just you and me. Come on, now—put me wise." "Are you sure no one will ever know?" "Nobody but you and me." Burke declared, all noggy with anticipation of victory at last. "I give you my word!" Mary met the gaze of the Inspector fully. In the same instant, she flashed on him a smile that was dazzling, the smile of a woman triumphant in her mastery of the situation. Her face was radiant, luminous with honest sulphur. She spoke in a most casual voice, despite the dancing delight in her face. The toes were drawn in the matter of fact fashion of statement that leads a listener to answer without need to the exact import of the question, unless very alert indeed. This is what she said. "I'm not speaking loud enough, am I, stenographer?" And that industrious writer of short-hand notes, absorbed in his task, answered instantly from his hidden place in the corridor. "No, mann't, not quite." Mary laughed about, while Burke sat dumfounded. She rose swiftly, and went to the nearest window, and with a pull at the cord sent the shade flying upward. There was revealed the busy stenographer, bent over his pad. A groan of distress burst from him, and he fled the place in ignominious rout. The smiling Mary was returned to her cell. {TO BE CONTINUED.} SHE GOT THE INFORMATION. Showing Up Wily Woman in the Per- son of Maude Marie. JOHN HENRY, who for many women had been carrying her cream and chocolates to the home of the beautious Maude Marie, at last tenderly asked the dear one to change the style of her visiting cards, all of which made Maude Marie stop, look and listen. The dear one didn't know the size of John Henry's bank account, and in a matter of this kind it was important she should know before committing herself. So she baited a hook and began to tangle. "I don't think I ought to marry you, John, dear," said the maid, ever so softly. "I am afraid we wouldn't get along well. You are too dreadfully extravagant." "Extravagant!" exclaimed the young man. "On the contrary, dearest. I am very economical. I have to be." "Then," very emphatically declared Maude Marie, "I can never be your wife." "Why?" gasped the astounded John Henry. "Because I am economical!" "No, John," replied Mande Marie, bowing a coolful sigh. "Because you have to be." Washington Star Natural Query Miss Muftif had recently joined the Band of Sisters for Refreshing Burglaries and was being shown over a prison for the first time. One prisoner, evidently a man of education, interfaced her more than the others. He rose and bowled to her when she entered his cell, appologizing for the position of his apartment. Miss Muftif could not help wondering how this refitted man came within the clutches of the law. In fact, as she was leaving his cell she said "May I ask why you are in this distressing place?" "Madang," he replied, "I am here for robbery at a seaside hotel." "How very interesting!" said Miss Muftif. "Were you or the proprietor?" - Linda in Answers. Expert In Handwriting Mother was fair, but she wished to be fairer still. Admitted by nature, she sought further beautification. Loveliness was her great goal. Invited out to dinner, she stood before the mirror, and having made her yellow looks a title yellower, she proceeded to apply the ponytail to her eyebrows. This, it may be remembered, is an age of artificity, and mother had reached the age. The little daughter stood by and wondered. "Mother, what are you writing on your face for?" Popular Magazine Lookiag Forward. Visitor. Aren't you glad you are a little girl? Little Girl. No. I'd rather be a little boy. Visitor. But little boys generally have to wear their father's leftover clothes. Little Girl. Mother is a suffragette, and she says pretty soon it won't make much difference. Youngstown Telegram "GOING TO LAW." When a written contract is made do not allow the other party to carry it away. Have it made to duplicate, so that each party may keep a copy. A final court is required to travel his court in its entirety each day on which service is to be performed unless it is absolutely impossible for him to do so because of externality, weather or conditions. Completion of irregularities is the surest will service when appointed to the postholder, but with all the fees in the case will result. BOWSER'S PICKUP. A Gem, but Mrs. B. Has No Sou to Appreciate Such Things. Admits Her Deficiencies and Invites Instruction In Art—Her Suspicione Anger Mr. B., but He Retains His Dignity While Ladies Are Present. Bv. M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1913, by Associated Literary Press] "W WHAT have you got there? asked Mrs. Bowser as Mr. Bowser came home to dinner the other evening with a package under his arm. "It's not to be shown for an hour yet," he replied. "Is it a package of dried catnip? "What would I be bringing succum stuff home for? Just let it alone till I get ready to exhibit and explain." As they sat at the table during the dinner hour he chuckled many times to himself and smiled in a triumphant way, but it was not until they had reached the sitting room that the mystery was solved. Then he untied the package with the greatest of care, and after removing half a dozen wraps he tenderly lifted up and hold aloft an old blue platter and proudly exclaimed. "Bobble the gem, Mrs. Bowser?" "It's a platter," she said after a long book. "Yes, It's a platter, and to your eye It probably appears to be nothing but COTZY "IT'S A PLATTER!" HIKE MAID. a platter. I presume if you saw this thing out in the back yard, a would kick it useless worthless? "Well, I shouldn't be much stuck on an old platter with seven nicks and two cracks in it. Did you bring it home to feed the cat on?" Righteous Indignation. "To fost the eat out," schwed Mr. Bowser as he backed off and waved the platter around his head. "Woman, haven't you an lot of sense in your head? An idiot fresh from an asylum would not have asked a tom-foul question like that." "Then what is it for?" "What is it for? What are rules and diamonds and master paintings for? Why do people pay fabulous prices for goldin tapestry and old books?" "Gobelin tapestry, my dear," she corrected. "Gobblebob nothing! I said gobble, and I meant it. Don't make any mistake about me, Mrs. Bowser. If I don't know what I'm talking about I'll keep my mouth shut. I was admiring gobble in tapestry while you were in short dresses and eating bread and butter with sugar on it. There'd be a piece of it lying around now if you hadn't taken it for an old stocking leg and burned it up. To feed the cat unhumply." And he tenderly placed his gown of a platter on the moutset and went walking around with a glare in his eye and the family set baked out at him from under the potion and made up her mind that Mr. Bowser would be lucky to get out of it without a A Proclras Gem There was silence for three of four minutes, and then Mr. Bowser hated in his promise to take a long look at the platter and to examine very softly. "By John, but she's a beautiful princess good! I don't get resented by lucky I am. These descriptions simply met into another, and the stress over all is like the most of a cold morning. If I only had a wife with a soul to appreciate such things." "I will do my best to appreciate it if you will explain things to me," said Mrs. Bowser. "That is more to sombre in you. Not being born with a soul for the beautiful, you cannot fit apples such a week of art as this, but I am and you all I can. This platter to begin with is the most of old china." "Who said it was?" "There you go the first thing!" Cree you take my wad for it! If you can then let me tell you a man who didn't in a brace for the last thirty years has assisted me that there are not a dozen other persons like this in the known world. This platter was once the property of Mickie Antinette." He said that did he? "Of course he said it and what object could he have had in lying about it? If he was deceived the might be as well brace and that it belonged to Susan B. Anthony. Yes, the ill-fated queen used to eat her dinner off this platter." Mrs. Dowell's Discovery. "I wanted to see inside those plexks with her breasts," he immediately queried. Mr. Lawrence as she examined the reels what more interest "She proclaims old" replied Mr. Row ser, strung on the new ideas and rails fing the value of his gem 50 per cent in consequence. "Did you have to pay a pretty high price for it?" "Well, pretty stiff, but I got it for less than its value. I had helped the dealer to sell Green an old tenpot once used by Queen Elizabeth, and he felt he owed me something." "Was the amount of the tenpot missing?" "No, of course not. Why do you ask such a question?" "I didn't know but Queen Elizabeth bit it off some day while drinking cold tea." Mr. Hawser turned red and white and breathed hard as it was all he could do to hang on. He himself. He wanted to talk plain to some one however, and have some one reface with him over his head, and so he swallowed hisinger's cold. "As soulless as you, you can see that it's worth 50 cents." "As sullen as you that it's worth $50, so "You don't mean it Bowser. gaspard Mrn. "Of course I meant it I paid $20 for a plat- three times that I known that I would - $75 our house could of would be leavers" "It would be deci- der didn't turn out cents" observed Mrs turned away that is, I mean with twice of if it was this roller for hold the rush of the old platter with 15 lower as she "Women what the men?" demanded Mr jumped around. "Do note that I paid $50 worth powder bobs. At that moment I and a neighbor was tappens I that she was of an old弟. She'd did so when she is glorious. I'm to get some of some please of Mr. Bousier. " She of my pro-life life said: " my I can't. " "I'd I? " "No, I can. Who samples? with "Well I hope you get a bargain." "A decided bargain! paying $50 for that platter I bought I paid half its real value." "My stars, Mr. Dusen! I explained the woman 'that you' meant to say that you paid $40 for that." "And why not?" Unshaken Density "Because it's a cheat, it a fraud. There's no old chinna at it. That man came into my house, coffee one day a week ago when I there and tried to sell this ver. to us for $15. He sold it to belong to George III, and that's the dog meat off it. He sold it for $5 when he got through. I'll sooner have a platter picked up somebody's yard. I wish I had had you had a liking for such things. I could have saved you from being sold." "Thank you, you unintentionally replied, 'but I am well satisfied with my bargain.'" "You believe it valid,?" "I know it is." "And worth what a paid for it?" "Two or three times over." "Then, of course, there's nothing more to say." Alone With the Platter and the Cat. The woman prepares a wait staff to talk over spring dressing, and Mr. Brower and the Marie Autonnette George's platter we left alone. The cat at the assumed innocent, solitious reason of tenance, but Mr. Brower was not to be deceived. After swiftly taking at her he made a sudden up for the man and soaked the glass gem with both hands and a wild whip he sought to bring down on the fence head. It stole the back of a chair however, and I delivered into a hundred places up and down on the tray, and the cat escaped into the." "For instance, what is that?" asked the writer, who heard the whip and the cree. "I think the has knocked down a vase," Mrs. Brower as her heart stopped tingling for a moment. They both listen was she below sat down on the whispered self com Omitting the The Mother It Deer, add have have, and marry discreetly satisfied. Twelve. Then I detain. Detail that Plain Dealer. are polite, my taste in dress I shall be per daughter oged and an educator yale I will be the one Throwing Light on Crawford. How daughter and her made up their quarrel. Mrs Crawford. He turned up in high judge. Procuring A "How's it, Mr. quite wealthy now still living with the half-moon, but not for a doctor." FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. Cheerily your friends and avoid making enemies whatever the number of a man, friends, there will be times in life when he has one to few, but it has only one enemy he is lucky if he has not one too many fellows. Very Close. They were discharged certain no quantitaries when I was inquired. "Samuel's and Birds are close friends aren't they?" "Yes, neither can borrow a cent from the other." came the reply. W. I. Johnson, 10 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia. LARGE CAPACIOUS WARE-ROOMS, FILLED WITH THE LATEST DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MANUFACTORING IN THE UNITED STATES. PROMPT AND POLITE 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. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice Entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. 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. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT—Men on Duty All Night. THE END OF THE STORY. THE END OF THE STORY. THE clerk was at a loss, and a floorwalker minced and took a part in the conversation. "Now, how about my money back?" demanded the red faced lady. "We return money when cases so justify. What is it, ribbons, shoes?" "Naw; it's a book." "Has the book been read?" "Of course." "Um! We can't return money on books, you know." The red faced lady grew purple. "You aim to have only satisfied customers. That's the way you advertise, ain't it, now?" "Yes, madam." "Then why can't you take this novel back and return my money?" "Is the book damaged in any way?" "Spared the floorwalker. 'Print imperfect or anything like that?' "Why, I don't like the way it ends" -Judge High and Dry. A Cleveland with a sense of humor met a Cleveland who is a rather pompous and aristocratic and who therefore has no sense of humor. And the first Cleveland said "I see that you have your grip with you. Are you coming back or going somewhere? "I am going. I dread the journey, too, but business requires me to visit two or three other river towns this week? "What you afraid of trouble? I hear they are expecting severe floods down there." "No. I don't think I need fear. I always stop at the best hotel and these floods and all the stories of that sort are always scared to the power quarters of the town." Cleveland Plain Dealer Back of It All An Fronto to it, while vending friends in the city, is to come very friendly with others only if he and was invited to the to of the nonoffroom. The reason of the general began for the first of the consolidation took a more personal form: You are one of us, have not such hearty access to the same hope," said the English writer. I can't understand why we're being to be a fony to you, while he is. "It isn't even a bit of that at least there may be a lot of the access." It's an example of: "It's a lot of Cruelty. "I had to be the last to get up at 5 o'clock and take the bus to the house," said Farmer Curtis. "I had to do it." "No, but he had a right good excuse. He had to be told named the S.P.C. and we had to be no boss up at 5 o'clock in the morning." Washington State. What Money Will Do. Ethes Brother Do you love my sister Ethes Ethes Steady Company Why Will be that I have a good question Why do you want to know Ethes Brother She will last night she will be able to know, and Ethes Brother love her Park. Fine Air. Fine Aire W. I. JOE FUNERAL DIRECTOR, LIVERY 10 West Leigh Street, LARGE CAPACIOUS WARE-ROOMS DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MANU THE PLAYWRIGHT'S DREAM. "W WHEN my play goes on," the author said. His checks with cagerness flushing tol. "When my play goes on—it's sold, you know. It'll be produced in a month or so—" I'll marry my girl and get a car, And we'll try a farm, and we'll travel far, For the manager says it's sure success. And I am going to be rich and great, I guess! "When my play goes on!" the author girl! (Now the reader. Ten years have fled.) "We'll move downto a river flat. And my wife shall get her a brand new hat." And some nifty gowns and shoes and such. And won't have to adjust and nave so much. For years we have been tarnation pour, But the manager says this winter, sure, our worries and fret will all be gone When my play goes on." "When my play goes on," the author said As he nodded his age and silvery head, "My royalty money will be the source Of my youngest grieves' college course, And mother and I will take the test And lay on a city country nest. Where Lilly and Sue and the kids and John Can visit us When the play goes on." "When my play goes on," the author said As he lay and gaped on his dying bed, "You can send that manager, I now, A gift mother to the show. At this time the residue Of the royalty money that may accrue And build me a bombastic, plain and white. With this inscription revealed to sight: He died awaiting the opening night. But he wrote in peace, and his doubts are The Servant Problem. "The Cleveland and Pal Dealer quotes this telephone conversation "Is this Mrs. Ethering Brown?" "Yes. Who's talking." "Mrs. Benjamin Green Is Mary Jane Rooker cooking for you now." "She's Cooked for you, didn't she?" "Yes, and you look her away from me" "Oh, no, I didn't." "You say you didn't Then who did?" "Why, I was to that was the Homine society Goodly dear." A violent clash of encounters Quick calls for the report department Subscribe to the Richmond Planet. THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE. Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the Lever at the Right Kind of Stimulant. Special Price. We Have All Grades of Good Liquor, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and See Us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO. 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia hnson, Virginia RAILROADS ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORWOOL Schedule in Kfost September 28, 1918. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond, FOB NORFOLK: °9:00 A.M., °10:00 P.M., °4:15 P.M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WYST: 6:30 A.M., °9:50 A.M., °3:00 P.M., °9:20 P.M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: °11:00 A.M., °10:00 P.M., °11:30 P.M. From the West: °9:40 A.M., °12:10 P.M., °11:40 P.M., °10:00 P.M., °9:00 P.M., °9:00 F.M. Daily sDaily Kx. Sunday, Monday Only. W. B. BRVLII. Pass. Traf. Mev. W. 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Buckner, one of the leading colored men of Chicago, died December 17, 1913 in that city. His death removes from the public one of the most powerful characters in that section of the city. We congratulate the management of the Va. Norfolk, Va. Journal and Guide upon it the Christmas tradition. It presents its readers with a 25 page edition and it must have been an expensive and exhaustive undertaking. We wish it abundant success for the New Year. Such an entertaining spirit should be encouraged by a bloodful financial support. Dr. Ronier T. Washington's high regard for Col. Theodore Roosevelt was well known and when the recent presidential election took place and he was allowed to later President William Howard Taft for reelection there was surprise in some quarters. His work, "My Larger Education" is in the nature of a narrative, telling just what he has learned from "men and things." His speaking of "Some exceptional men and what I have learned from them," "My experience with reporters and newspapers," "What I have learned from black men," "The mistakes and the future of Negro education" are subjects which he handles with ease. All that he says is intensely interesting. Whether or not Dr. Washington in connection with the politics referee-ship has raised his hands above his head with the exclamation, "Never again!" remains to be seen. SIMMONS GONE, TOO. It is announced that Roscoe C. Simmons, "right-hand man" and press correspondent for Supreme Chancellor, S. W. Green and, the Supreme Lodge, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. was buried at Memphis, Tenn. December 21, 1912. Simmons was unquestionably one! of the most brilliant orators in the country, regardless of race or color. He had a hypnotic influence over an audience which was intensified by his flights of transcendent oratory. He had his faults, but he will be sadly missed by a large number of people who admired his remarkable ability. He was editor of the Memphis Sun at the time of his death, which journal he founded. We draw here the veil of charity and say, "Peace to his ashes." THOSE BIG COLORED FOLKS. The Savannah, Ga. Independent Needs to have just become acquainted with a class of colored folks, facetiously called "Big Neuros," but who are really the "sensible potatoes in the bill." It has prepared for them an overcast and it reads as follows: "There is a class of would be big Neuros that put in about all their time trying to sell Neuro enterprises. They belong to the free-riding, free-doms class, which take all and give nothing. They produce nothing but faces of hard brass and a tinkling sound, and are parasites on the good honest, hardworking classes. They continually are becoming themselves or including some silly fool to do it for them." They watch and promise upon every Negro newspaper that they may use it as a stopping stone to something higher. They pay for nothing and do no good to anything or anybody. They spice and deadheat their way through life in winter and live on garbage, soup and kitchen offals in the summer. They do to cheer in the winter to get warm and snack to the parks in summer to get cool. We know our contemporary is "that of the collar" our advice is "don't let them worry you." Keep cool and you will live to see the day when each one of them will not have a change of clothing and at death, but few people to follow them to the grave. When that time comes, don't give them a death notice. A REMARKABLE CASE. That was a singular case reported from Danville and which caused Gov William Hodges Mann to issue a full pardon, Saturday, 20th Inst. to George Wilson a colored man. Wilson was sentenced at the December term of the Corporating Court of Danville, Va. to serve a term of one year in the penitentiary upon the charge of having formed a number of orders on a tobacco warehouse. Since Wilson's conviction, three men under arrest have confessed that he had no part in the crime. The identification of Wilson was only partial and the man who identified him has since sought out the trial judge and expressed his doubts whether he was the man who caused the order. Gov. Mann, in granting the pardon, to the selected man, Wilson, endorsed the order. This pardon granted because since the trial of Wilson in evidence has been granted to the judge and Commonwealth attorney which satisfied both of them that Wilson should not have been convicted. In a personal letter to the Governor, Judge R. W. Peabody, goes into detail in the case, expressing the opinion that the wrong man was convicted through a partial identification, which he has been republished. "Changing one's Attorney Thomas Harold wrote Gov. Mann, and among other things, said: "For the first time in my experience in Changing one's Attorney I am confident that I have completed a man for the commission of a crime which he did not commit." This is an easily way to state it. There are many humble prisoners over the hill to the penitentiary upon similar evidence. The law is a number-one and expensive piece of machinery. Given prisoners with financial backstones from its embrace penniless and broken in spirit, it has become a popular thing now to require a prisoner to prove his innocence rather than demand that the prosecution prove his guilt. The result is to drive deep the iron rod of deprivacy and desperation and the felon emerges at the expiration of his time limit an enemy of society and the law that has so unjustly punished him. God grant that more officials like those in Danville may come to the front and that Justice may be re-enforced in many parts of the Southland. That Terrible Cow. She was even more afraid of cows than most girls, so when she spied a placed animal roundabout under a tree peacefully chewing its ear she at first refused to go through the pasture at all. Her husband colmed her fears to some extent and they started by, when the cow slowly commenced to get up, blind logs first, as they always do. At this the little baby whisked with terror and said: "Oh, Bob, hurry, hurry! He is getting ready to spring at us!"—New York Globe. NEW YEAR'S DAY. THE dawn is gray and chilly with the frost. The old year's pulse now nuttera now is still. And all our twelvemonth's deeds, for good or ill. bility. Sun jour- urity Pass into shadow, silent, one by one. While from the night wherein we wander, lost. The new year rises with the rising sun. A new year? Nay; it is but the same old year. The same remembrance round of sun and rain. Of seasons in their order, joy and pain. The final end of all remembered things Earth ago, and the very mountainous With years, and we who crawl upon their breast Faces at the leading sands' benign belief Hate father, great fools, just crumble into clay. And there are left but love and faith and God. To whom a thousand years are as a day - Reginald Wright Kauffman A New Year Proposal "What I feel these days I wanted to keep Come, sit beside me, garden fair, and strange way you shall hear I've picked out a child to choose one, girl from out of those gay And I love her with whom I love forever and all of life "I'll wear for her with brown and brawn, and I'll wear for her with brown and brawn." Until later, the writer that honors their memory will be THE FOLLOWING ARE THE LIST OF THE LIFE OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE. And well we will be in the woods and hearts we will be in the woods and hearts the required in But I can't help try to help On the Track of the New Year NEW YEARS was a long time in setting upon Jan. 1 as the proper time for its celebration. Even now in Greece and Russia, where the holiday calendar is in force New Year's does not arrive until twelve days after the 14th year is well on its way in the test of the civilized world. The ancient Egyptians and Persians began the 11th year at the annual equinox, Sept. 22, and the rhinos of Soon's time at the winter solstice, Dec. 21, but in the time of Perseides the date was changed to the summer solstice, June 21. The Romans began the year from the winter solstice until Caesar changed it to Jan. 1. With the Jews the new year began in September in civil affairs, but in their ecclesiastical reckoning the beginning of the year date from the vernal equinox, March 22. And, as this is astronomically the beginning of spring, the date is logical and that of the 26th of March 22 being a more fully rounded number was accepted generally by Christian natives in medieval times as New Year's. In England Dec. 25 was New Year's until the time of Widow the Compuser or his concession happened to fall on Jan. 1, and accordingly the year was ordered to commence on that day. But the English gradually fell into union with the rest of Christadelphian and began the year on March 25 When in 1582 the Gregorian calendar was promulgated and definitely located New Year's on Jan. 1 most Catholic countries adopted it at once, but England did not repopulate until 1752. In ancient Rome New Year's day was given up to feasting and frolic- ling. Sacrificed fires burned continually on the altars of the twelve gods. All litigation and strife were suspended. (1) reconciliations took place. New Year's calls were made and New Year's gifts bestowed. There also originated the New Year's resolution, for every Roman resolved on New Year's day to so regulate his conduct that every word and act should be a happy augury for all the days of the ensuing year. On account of the orgues which marked the New Year's arrival not only among the Romans, but among the Tentonic races, the early Christians looked with scant favor upop the whole season. By the fifth century, however, Dec. 25 became the fixed festival of the Saturnity, whereupon Jan. 1 assumed a special sacred character as the octave of Christmas day. The giving of gifts on New Year's day has been superadded largely in Anglo-Saxon countries by the living of Christmas gifts, but the custom gift is retained in France. This custom was one of the most ancient and universally observed of New Year's day. The drums, distributed branches of the sacred maltagete. The Roman emperors exacted gifts, and so did the English rulers down to the time of Cromwell. The world over on New Year's it is a custom to drink to the beech of one's friends. The custom of making New Year resolutions and "turning over a new leaf" is universal and like political platforms, as is much honored in the breach as in the observance. But the temptation which surrounds frail human beings in this wholly world are many and indulgent. --- THE FARMER'S MOTOR. We may talk of the convenience and pleasure of owning an automobile—and they are important—but its greatest service to the farmer has been in destroying his isolation, says the Nation at Stockman and Farmer. The farmer no longer is limited to one market in the purchase of supplies. Every city or town inside a fifty mile radius is within easy reach. Formerly his only associates were the neighbors of two or three miles in each direction. Now it is just easy to spend Sunday with a "neighbor" in the next county. No longer is his observation limited to one community. It has been widened to a hundred communities in a dozen countries. No one can fail to be impressed by the tremendous influence of this wider vision upon the farm family upon their happiness, their work and their ain billions. -FARMERS' INTEREST RATES. Why Farmers Pay More For Money Than Other Men. To Farm and Fireable, Judson C. Welliver contributes an article showing how farmers have to pay high rates of interest in this country because they have no system of collective credits such as they have for the benefit of farmers in certain foreign countries. The substitution of community credit for individual credit is what always reduces rates of interest. Cities borrow their money at lower rates of interest than individuals because they act as a community. Following is an extract from Mr. Welliver's article showing the rates of interest farmers pay in this country at the present time: "Recently the department of agriculture investigated interest rates paid by farmers, all over the country. It was found, through statements made by several thousand banks in answers to questions, that on all loans to farmers, secured and unsecured, the average rates run from a trilune under 0 per cent in most of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, up to 10.57 per cent in Oklahoma, 10.57 in New Mexico, 10.15 in Arizona, 10.13 in Montana, 10.70 in North Dakota, 9.97 in Texas, 9.18 in South Dakota, 9.98 in Georgia, 8.81 in Florida, 6.23 in Ohio, 6.47 in Indiana, 6.21 in Illinois, 6.89 in Michigan, 6.21 in Wisconsin, 7.93 in Minnesota, 7.21 in Iowa, 7.28 in Missouri, 6.86 in Kentucky, 8.28 in Tennessee, 8.26 in Mississippi, 8.23 in Louisiana, 9.67 in Arkansas, 9.37 in Wyoming, 9.21 in Colorado, 8.61 in Utah, 9.08 in Nevada, 9.22 in Idaho, 8.90 in Washington, 8.32 in Oregon and 7.44 in California." Protective Hive Entrance Very often injury is done by mice entering bodies, especially such hives as are left on their summer stands during the winter. 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For nearly a year the two lots have been fed the same sort of ronghagalalfa, corn fodder and pasture. One lot has been fed colts every day, and the other has had a combination ration consisting of 70 per cent corn, 20 per cent bent and 5 per cent oilmeal. These pigmentaries are based upon weight, not coline. One pound of this mixture contains the same digestible IN YOUR TALK and reading at home on the radio and school you likely question the meaning of words, know how word, make sense, that makes sense, the location of Leah Katrina or the presence of Judaism. What is said in some questions. This New York edition of questions in Language, History, Biosophy, Fiction, Foreign Words, Tricks, Arts and more. Science, with final authority, 400,000 Words. 600,000 Pages. Cost $400,000. 2700 Pages. The only dictionary with the new divided page,—char- acterized as "A Stroke of Custard." India Paper Edition: On thin, opaque, strong, India paper. What a sat- faction in form. 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Dicky's New Year DICKY sprawled ungracefully on the floor, and at times he be stewed a sly and naughty klick upon the unresisting legs of a chair that stood near him. His first impulse was to feel sorry for doing this, his second to look around and see if any one had noticed this little outburst of tempt. It may that the Christmas festivities of a new days before had been too out of place for him, but whatever it was, Dicky was certainly cross and inclined to weep easily. However, neither his mother nor his Agur Gertrude noticed how he kicked the chair no the way he scrawled upon the world in general under his 22 CHARMING LITTLE HOUSE GOWN. fawny curls. "They were absorbed in their preparations for entertaining the guests of that evening, and for once Dicky was forgotten. "If I was going to have a party and invite all the people in the world I'd invite my own little boy Dicky, too I wouldn't leave him out," quoth Dicky out of the silence. "What's that?" asked his mother curiously, absorbed in her own thoughts. "No, no, Dicky; this is a party for mother's and father's friends. You wouldn't enjoy it." "Oh, but I do want to come," persisted Dicky. "I've heard you all talking about it, and I want to see the new year come in the window." angled his hunt. "The new year. It's coming in the window, and I heard mother tell how you were all going to open it to welcome it in." replied Dicky, somewhat impatient at his aunt for not understanding so obvious a meaning. "Nothing will come in at the window, dear." said his mother gently. "It's just a pretty custom. There will Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business 2 Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Books, Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Handbills, Placards. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. ```markdown ``` AN ORIENTAL BOLERO AND GIRDLE. not be anything for you to see, and you will be much happier upstairs in your nice warm bed." Dicky kept a little at the time, and when the hour came for bed under the stern eye of his father he rebelliously consented to be tucked in by his nurse, although not without further remonstrances. Finding them of no avail, he sobbed his woes into his pillow, while his father and mother went below to resolve their guests. By making a brave resistance to the drowsiness that was stealing upon him Dicky managed to keep awake until the party had assembled in the parlor below. Then he crept out of bed and hung over the banners, eagerly trying to catch sight of the brilliant people in the gathering. A man passed along the hall. Dicky thought it might be his father and scampered back to bed again as fast as his little bare feet would carry him. And then without more ado he soon fell asleep, "the world forgetting, by the world forget." Downstairs the hours passed merrily, and the old year drew to a happy close. First there were only fifteen minutes of it left; then there were only ten. Finally the old year had but five THE MICHIGAN FLANEY, MICHIGAN, VIRGINIA. You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. short perpiscis, count, each to live. The r gathered together sh the solitude that oriment of all such minutes, three minute old. They turned to in surprise to see to the doorway. He was not dresses and his little negligence protection against a lower room. He was the party, either, an on his father's face was not even woken considerations might an adult guest, but to do狄ky. He did not look over Ordinarily his father's have sent him with a the protection of his Turning together to the left, he went to the though his eyes were hands unlocked the hat it and opened the without a mistake or His mother, closing a furred wrap and we His father looked, halt brother, who was star "Be careful not to wily" said Dr. Tom, of his sleep." He raised the child and held him in the great chapelier, but eyebolds never quilvered struck against them. When he opened to amazed to find himself after all surrounded by men, who all cheer New Year to you, he was too drowsy but as his father carried the child heard the city calling out to Profiting by Ex Little Johnne had 1 day At last, to cap slapped his small sister When father came to the mother told it mischools. "The next time you to you go to bed without the father and strenu- The ladies set in so moments. Then out of turned to his father. "The next time I was I'll wait until after a marked. New York Ti Naturally. 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A QUARRETTED THAT STRECK THE AND PACE DUM the living skofeton, with the mixed knives and sword with all the colors of the rainbow. A large board bearing the legend "How's the Rainbow?" T. Barnum was tasted in the animal's head. It was the best ad of all. It screwed, but it cost less thanched, or the laws to square things. Don't Not Lose the day and start the new start. Tomorrow and the next day will be Thus today and the next day will be And days and the next day will be Are you ready for the next day? What you can do to dream you can be Courage has power and magic to Only courage and then the mind grows beautiful. Begin it and the work will be completed. Having Fun With a Bostonian. A Hoise City clubman tells of a poker game in that town wherein there sat "to good things" in the person of a little young man from Boston. Now, as the players were professional gamblers, there did not seem to be much chance for the Hubbite. The latter, however, did pretty well. So well, indeed, that the gamblers were puzzled on one hand, there was bet $2. This the binder for promptly raised $12. ```markdown ``` I'll just list that stuff noted one of the problems ```markdown ``` p. front. p. back. p. front. p. back. p. front. p. back. ```markdown ``` Aveul in the laure. G was in the form of H-T A. Jones was a man who had a first of a point way, and the two of the part he had had to do was to be. Notother good at the one of the men who was a man who had a first of a point way, who had a first of a point way, and the two of the part he had had to do was : Would you like to be a part of the team? Sure of His Man. One afternoon, strange, extended store in a westerly town and sold the young man clerk for $20.00. While trying the clerk, the pro- spective customer said he had seen him and asked if he could be trained to the balance of $20.00 until the next day. The young man agreed. After the clerk had seen trained and the customer had gone the pro- priator of the store shortly took the clerk to talk. "What in the world did you do in think, like that for?" he possibly exclaimed. "You don't know the man, and he will never come back with that $20.00." "Oh, yes, he will be back all right," was the smiling assurance of the youthful clerk. "You seem very certain of it," eried the displeased boss. "What grounds have you for thinking so?" "The boots that I wrapped up for him" responded the foxy clerk, "are both for the left foot."—Christian Endeavor World. . . . The Son's Answer. After his sons great success withtert "Dame aux Camellias" Alexandre Dumas wrote to him in though a stranger, congratulating him on the book and expressing a desire to make the author's acquaintance. "I myself am a literary man," said he in conclusion, "and you may have heard my name in the author of 'Monte Cristo.'" Dumas fils was equal to the occasion. He wrote immediately in reply, as pressing the great pleasure he would have in making the correspondent's acquaintance, principally on account of the high terms in which he had always heard his father speak of the author of "Honte fristo." MADE A SECRET PACT. Yet In Some Way the Story Was Pried Loose, and Here It Is. Homer Croy, the humorist, was visited the other day by Frank Smith, who had sold a story to a magazine and wanted some money right away. It was a $300 word word. Croy figured it would bring 2 cents a word, so he loaned Smith $50 and Smith gave Croy the following agreement: "Whereas, Indent, and Know all men by these presents: "L, the under-signed, Frank L. Smith, being, to the best of my belief, in my right mind, to do hereby bequeath, bostow and otherwise make a free, gratis gift of any and all menneys that may be paid to me for a history entitled, 'Breaking Up the Punch.' The facts of the case being as follows. Me, L, the party of the first part, having received written info that the man has decided to fall for my story, and, being broke, I have decided to discount my claim for fifty $20 bears, each money, to be paid me by said H. Gray. It is understood that if paid more than fifty I am to turn it all over to Gray without a murmur, yeah, I must never spar nor advertise to the world that Cray has made this soft money. And, likewise, and by the same token, if paid less than fifty bears Cray is to keep his treasury closed and make no reference in any way, shape, form, manner, language on being the Sandmylan, or dislike, to the fact that he has made an error in judgment." "Will you be satisfied with $50?" gled Smith some weeks later. Gray thought in midnight and then said, "Years." Before witnessing the money was paid over, but they still being about. Finally he asked, "Would you need telling me what you got for that war?" "Sure you are satisfied," asked Smith "Yes," said Crow "Well, I got $50 for it," said Smith - New York Discourse. What kills more is the management. It is sitting down to trouble that destroys them, it is stalking up and meking trouble that enables them to go through it without harm. Too Rich For Hue Blood. During the street or strike in Boston a few years ago the cars were put in charge of candles who were far M. N. GARRY. York signaled to the Broadway and of a ship she sent to the condo. "Do you want to be the Savell hotel?" "No, most of you be "that a gring "I can't afford to." And he gravel started the Ratonawal leaving the lady agree with establishment. Yeetth's Concession. The intercal Crc He is still stared at by her. In fact, he attentively toward women is almost that of a man. His particular attention to women is a characteristic of his nature. He has not yet to take the stare of the other boy, but now he is at the stop and is now how he was before he was said. You are not yet convinced. Ah, I know. You are thinking of the one woman. I am not sure what he is still retaining. You know you are done. He has your skier shear. I know the object of your skier shear and that night. It isn't to try to. But every one to be skier. I want to any one. Finally. And before he could today she was gone. When he bearded he beamed to his stare. "What girl's photo, did you show Miss Bunk to her right?" "Not grit. The old girl I showed her was one of ourself." "That it dressed up him what Miss Bunk was wearing at London Strap." By Counsel An old gentleman, now deceased, never met the law, but solicited he had several cases pending in court. The old gentleman had first won a case in the juvenile court, when the loser, in a combative frame of mind, exclaimed, "I'll law you to the circuit court!" Old Gent. I'll be thar. Loser And I'll law you to the supreme court! Old Gent. I'll be thar. Loser I'll law you to tell! Old Gent. My attorney 'll be thar.—West's Docket. Busy Windmill A windmill is employed in England to light a church and parsonage and pump the organ. QUEERED THE BANQUET. A Change In the Bill of Fare That Was Not the Cook's Fault. Colonel Goethals, who as chief engineer of the Panama canal has become world famous, recently told in Washington a canal zone story. "We had in Anno," he said, "an engineer who was in constant dread of disease. He was also a crank on the subject of interiors. "Holl everything you drinks no matter where you get it. This was his creed, and he made his raw native cook observe it rigorously. "One day while on a tour of inspiration the engineer was presented with a bottle of champagne by a sea captain. Managing also to pick up a piece of ice on his return to town, he hurried back to quarters with his trisex "A temperate chap, this was the first wine that had come his way since his arrival in Panama. He said to his native cook as he hambled over his precious burden. "Tie up something extra good today, for I have asked a few friends in CORNER to dinner to help me drink this superb wine? "The guests arrived. The cook served the stewed beef and potatoes. "Now the wine" criss the host, rubbing his hands. "The cook disappeared, then stalked back, carrying a steaming sausagepan nearly full of a hot, muddy yellow liquid. "What in thunder's that, you rascal? "That's the wine, senor, replied the cook gravely. I boll him good, and he must all go to way. Cooling to your or ders, senor." Baltimore American. Real Courage There are men who will pluck the very spear out of their own wounds and turn round and slay their adversaries with the same weapon. James T. Fields. Wrong Attraction. President Wilson has a fund of good stories, and that he tells is of a little boy who he considered at Stuartan. Va., the president's birthplace, Mr. Wilson was speaking to a good-sized crowd from the steps of the Ralphwin Summary For Girls, when he discovered a little seven year old lad pushing and shoving his way through the crowd. The boy finally landed in front of Mr. Wilson and shouted excitedly, "Where is it? Where is it?" Mr. Wilson stopped his speech and, with boundless joy and good naturally, "Well my love, I guess I'm it." "oh, policy," responded the young story with a look of disgust. "why, I thought it was a dog fight." So Unlike! The perfect baby had reached the age when he could conceive an accomplishment in which he included himself most of the time when not otherwise engaged. "He is the most welcome visitor I ever had," said the mother proudly. "He was lies and talks to me by the hour." "Isn't that nice?" replied the caller. "So make the most citizens, they just talk and he to win by the hour." She Comforted Him This incident was related by Mark Twain with great glory about a certain little girl friend who "shone as an authoress". One day she handed her devoted, sympathizing the sheets of a story which read thus: "A man was seated in a chair by the fireside breaking over his troubles. He was sad because his wife was dead. Suddenly a specter appeared by forsake, and it was his wife. She said, 'There I could not bear to see you so sad and discontented, so I have come to comfort you. You must not be sad. You must be bright and happy. It was best that I should leave you when I did, because I was going to get a divorce.'" Followed the Style A rather fussy diplomatist called upon an admiral of the foot and left his card, in the corner of which the letters E, P, were inscribed. Meeting the officer a few days later, the officer inquired whether he had got the card. "Oh yes!" replied the officer. "I got it all right. But what was the meaning of the E, P?" "Why so personable of course. Perhaps you did not know that I left it myself." In due time the diplomatist received the admiral's return card, with the letters S, E, N in the corner. Having handed it around to all the members of his staff, a show could give any idea of how much he was attached to the spyder. "Send it back!" was the reply - Cincinnati! One Office Bounded Lawyer- Now, sir, tell me, are you well acquainted with the prisoner? Witness. I've known him for twenty years. Lawyer- Have you? I must now ask, ever known him to be a disturber of the public peace? Witness- Well, or he used to belong to a drum and lice hotel- Stray Stories UNCLE ELI SAYS. Saving a Comparison Between Lofty Ambition and Realization—The Impudent Proposition of a Burglar With a Great Mind For Reasoning. By M. QUAD. Copyright, DIX, by Associated Literary Press A old gray Gander had long lived as boss of a flock, and he was so wise in his worldly ways and his rule was so just that he was respected and obeyed by the Seese and well spoken of by the Farmer. Even the Fox, who had tried many times in vain to circumvent him and who had sworn by, the board of his father to ent him some day, was fair minded enough to say: "He sure is a wise old guy, and no sobtiled. Weasel need spend any time trying to get the better of him." After years of mentorship conduct and just as he was about to have a statue erected to him and his many vir carey "THE EAGLE IS SOME PUMPKIN." the inscribed on the pedestal there came into the neighborhood an Eagle, and soon there was much talk of the event. "What a grand flight he has!" explained a Glove. "And how high he can ascend" added the Duck. "He hasn't got my plumage, but he's about all right" put in the Peacock. "I thought something would come along to take the starch out of the old boy," remarked the Rooster as he strutted about and crawled three times. A Resolution. The old Gander not only overheard these remarks and many others, but could not fail to observe the change of attitude among the fools, and he went out behind the barn and said to himself. "They want me to play second fiddle to the Eagle, do they? He's the bird for their money, is he? Well, I don't like a back seat for anything on this earth with wings, and they shall goon know it." And thereupon, in order to get a day off and consult the wise, he gave out that he was going to the county convention to keep the graffits down. "Hello, judge, but how does it go?" was the situation he got to see he found the sage so tall under a hostt tree. "Oh, wise man, they are threatening to cook my goose back home," was the reply. "But, why? I thought you were all cold there." "I was eight enough to a blamed old childhood. Eagle came swaggering about it." "Ah, I see!" "They can't praise him enough, and I am too bigger than him." "Well, the Eagle is some pumpkins!" "And a lot!" "And I did it." "Yes, of course, but you were hatch ed a Gambler." "That's what I came to see you thought. I want to be an Eagle." "But who will join the barrage? If you go converting abroad among the clouds?" "Let the Gobbler do it." "But he has no timeless of character and will soon have things in a jungle." "I hope he will. The fowls have got stuck on that emblem of liberty and let them have a trial of it. I have borne my best, but they don't appre- date it. Yes, I want to be an Eagle." Flying in the Face of Danger. "I would advise against it." said the sage after a sloth. "The position that one is born to be will come into. As. Gambler you are a success; is an Eagle you must be a dismal fall- ture." "Then you don't want to do me n infer the first I ever asked of you?" "Well, I remit the Gander And the Gambler went calling into the blue ogren and for a time he considered to myself the whole show and the ticket wagon codes. After awhile, however, he thought he would descend and get the most situations of the fowls, and he had no near to earth when he caught his throat across a telephone who saw his head off. As the spy well intimated, the johde was not the idiot to boss a barnyard and open the death of the Gambler the fowls scattered, to the great loss of the owner. Moral: The village cooper may turn out a beautiful work barrel and yet not be a mayor of his town. The Burglar and the Lawyer. A lawyer whose wife was in the country on a vacation and who had no one to dig him in the ribs and declare that burglar were about was awakened one midnight by a hand abaking him, and he set up to find a strange man in his room. "Who are you?" he asked. "Names are of no account here." was replied. "But what do you want?" "To retain you in my case." "What is it?" "Burglary." "Do you mean"— "Yes, right here." "You rob me and then want me to defend you!" shouted the lawyer in indignation. "It may at first, and I think it has struck you as a case of gall, but wait a bit. I am an educated and cultivated man. I was attracted to your house by the style of architecture. I paid you a compliment in selecting it above all others. I rightly, judged that a man of solid substance dwelt here. Something told me that he would be a man to listen to argument and reason. I could have awakened you an hour ago, when I first got in, but I felt that something was due you as the owner of the house I was plundering. I could have come with a pinchcart and made a complete haul, but I am satisfied with a fair share. And last, but not least, I have done no damage to your locks or burglar alarm." "And you expect to be arrested and desire me to defend you?" "I may be arrested-yes. For your retainer you will please accept your wife's pony skin coat, which I could have carried away, but shall not. Is there anything more to be said?" "Simply a word or two. Let me ask what profession you followed previous to this?" "Oh, the law, of course! Good night!" Moral.—There are honest lawyers, and there are conscientious burglars. The Hare and the Tortoise: One day as the Hare was galloping across a meadow he came upon the tortoise dragging his weary way along and halted to say: "Well, old 1776, how goes it?" "Oh, I'm getting there," says the reply. "So's molasses." "But we can't all be hares, you know. Indeed, I sometimes think I overdo the pace. Yesterday I crawled all of ten rods." The bare laugh in contempt and then said: "We might have a little wager if you are game for it?" "State, your case." "It is forty miles from here to Blankville. I'll wager you a new hat that I can get there two years and a day ahead of you. Do you call my hand?" The tortoise thought for a moment and then answered that he did. "He was a slick guy of a turtle, and, as nothing had been said as to how he was to reach his destination, he schemed to crawl to the nearest water tank and enter Blankville on the trucks of an express train. "I believe I could make it three years and then win," said the hare as he started off, "but two years goes. By, old stick in the mud!" The hare gallopped off at the rate of twenty miles an hour and punched his destination in two hours. He was resting a bit when he heard talk of a rear end collision down the road, with many killed and injured, and he galloped down to the spot to see about it. The engineer had failed to see the danger signal. The coaches had been reduced to splinters. The coroner was promising "the most rigid investigation." The railroad officials were laying the blame on a cow. The tortoise was among the dead. "Gee!" exclaimed the hare when he found him. "I always thought legs beat brains, but where would I have been if this train hadn't been wrecked by a set of heaven?" Moral - And that's where the coworkers' jerky held the blame. Unavoidable. "I hope you know enough to keep your wife's relatives at a distance." "Ham! My wife's maiden aunt is going to live with us." "Good greetings! Send her away." "I can't. She's going to live with us fa her house." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Darling," he murmured, as soon as they were seated in the high priced restaurant, "you can have anything you want on the menu. Shall I read it to you?" "No," replied the dear girl, "just read it to the waiter."—Exchange. Anticipating Events. Damsel—You must ask mahma. Sultor—But your mother is away from home. Damsel—Yes, but she's left an informative answer in the graphophone. Meggendorf Blatter. Inspiration Miss Summit—I must answer his letter, and I want to write something that doesn't mean anything. Miss Palinende—Why don't you tell him you love him?—Puck. Self Congratulation. "Have any luck on your hunting trip?" "Yes. I missed three guides I shot at for deer."—Detroit Free Press. Running Chances. "Your honor," began the lawyer, "the defendant is about to throw himself on the mercy of the court." "If he does," replied the hard hearted jurist, "he shall be held for attempted suicide."—New York Sun. Literally. She—I'm sorry that you and I disagree on the subject of spooning. He—Yes; I wish we could get together on that point—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. You Geese. You Goes. "My half brother is engaged to my wife's half sister." "When will they be made one?"—Ex. change. PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and Most Artistic Photos, at a More Moderate Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. Enhancing and Copying Interior View Work. We will also be pleased to Quote you Prices on Exterior and from Old Photos. A Specialty. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. 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Of the several types of lothools in general use the sunken or pit type is all things considered, the best for the raising of early plants from seed. This style of bed is constructed by exchanging a pit six feet wide and two and one-half feet deep and as long as necessary to accommodate the number of 3 by 6 foot sushi it is desired to use. The sides of the pit are boarded up with rough lumber nailed to posts which may be placed three feet or more apart. If some degree of permanency is desired good material will need to be used. Chestnut lumber is very serviceable and reasonably cheap; spruce comes next in point of durability and cheapness. The sides of the pit should be raised above the surface of the ground twenty inches at the back and twelve inches in front. This will provide ample pitch to the sushi for shedding rain and also be of sufficient angle for good construction of the sun's rays and heat. Good sushi should be used. The location of the hotbed should be chosen where the natural drainage is good and, if possible, where there is a good windbreak at the north side. If a suitable sheltered spot is not available then tight board fence six feet high and extending several feet beyond each end of the hotbed should be THE FIELD HOTHEPS IN CONSTRUCTION. erected to break off the cold north whisk. Without a shelter winforeak it will be almost impossible to raise early plants successfully in the hotbed. The winforeak should be about five feet away from the north side of the frame. The heating material for the hotbed should be horse manure fresh from the stable, to which should be added, when accessible, one half its bulk of forest leaves. If these are not available straw or hay may be used. The manure and added material is to be thoroughly mixed and formed into a central heap to undergo fermentation. In the formation of this heap it should be trodden down in suspensive layers of a foot in depth until the heap is four feet or more in height. The base of the heap should be of soft but diameter to insure good fermentation in the severeest winter weather. All the material used for heating should be well dampened before putting it in the pile or the fermentation will not be evenly distributed. Care must be taken that no frozen material is put in the heap or fermentation will be slow and may greatly interfere with the operator's plans of an early sowing of seed. -Rural New Yorker. Celery Storage. Hotbeds and cold frames are quite satisfactory for storing celery. They may either be dug out deeper or have another set of boards on top to give the required height. The plants are set in the frame close together and then covered with boards lapped to shed rain. In very cold localities such frames are covered with sash, over which are mats covered with boards. Ventilation must be given on warm days by blocking up the sash. Celery is also stored satisfactorily in trenches, with the boards used in blanching mailed in V shape and placed over the top. If warm weather follows the troughs are blocked up to admit air. When frost comes a light fallow is thrown MAILED ANY WHERE IN U.S. $100 POSTAGE PAID SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER Address all letters to Mask Shampoo Drier C Minneapolis. Minn. not to individuals. LADY'S CROWNING GLORY. And every lady can will dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and also stimulate its growth. The Aluminum Comb can direct, but takes its heat from the heating bar which is heated. We advise the use of Hayes' Hair Poms in cooler heaters, pale face. Liberal terms to agents, or literature today. MPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA up along the boards and later manure is thrown over them, but this trench plan is usually adopted when the crop is to be sold early in the winter. Tops of celery should always be dry when it is stored, and some soil is lifted with the plants. It must be stored before hard freezing. Good Idea. DIAMONDS First Jeweler—Are't you afraid to leave those diamonds in a front window at night? Second Jeweler—Not with my scheme. Just before I go home I put in a little sign on them reading, "Anything In This Window to Cents."—Kansas City Times. Sticking to the Styles "This" said the curator, displaying a mummy, "was an Egyptian princess." "Poor thing!" exclaimed the conversational girl. "She insisted on being buried in her hobble skirt, didn't she?" -Stray Stories. Dolly—Mean thing! You said you wouldn't give away that secret I told you! Daisy—I didn't. I swapped it for another secret and an ice cream soda. —Exchange. Going Some. "Does your wife make your money go far?" "I judge so. None of it has ever come back that I know of."—Buffalo Express. Economics Drawbacks Madge—Do you think a girl should marry an economical man? Dolly—I suppose so, but it's awful being engaged to one.—Liverpool Mercury. Clerical Humor. When the Rev. Dr. Snow rose to address his evening congregation, his voice was slightly husky. "My friends," he said, "I have already preached one sermon and made two long speeches to societies in different parts of the city, and before I have finished this evening you will think I am like a wheel—the longer the spoke, the bigger the tire." Only a few wanted to see the point, however, and the good doctor wanted to furnish a diagram—Chicago Tribune. Between Two Fires "Your legal department must be very expensive." "Yes." sighed the eminent trust, magnate, "it is." "Still, I suppose you have to maintain it." "Well, I don't know. Sometimes I think it would be cheaper to obey the law."—Harper's Weekly. An Emergency Call Breathless Urchin (to constable in the alums) You're wanted dahn our court—and bring a blamble. Policeman—What do you want the ambulance for? Urchin—Muvver's found the lily wet pinched our doormat!—London Tit-Rits. Obedient Patient "The doctor told Hobbs that he must take a long rest, so he bought himself a racing automobile." "Did that bring him right?" "Oh, yes. He's in a nice quiet hospital for three months now."—Boston Transcript. From Another Viewpoint. "That political enemy seems likely to leave footprints in the hands of time." "Perhaps," said Senator Sorghum; "but, on the other hand, he may be leaving thought prints at police headquarters."—Washington Star. Advance Information. "The first time I ever saw him I knew we would not be friends." "Why so?" "Well, to tell the truth, he was shaking his hat at me."—Birmingham, April. --- --- Making the Little Farm Pau By C. G. BOWSFIELD ```markdown ``` MANY city women have shown in recent years that they are capable of running a farm. In the numerous little farm enterprises which are observed around every large city women are conspicuous as owners and managers. It is evident that they are determined to grasp the new problems which surround agricultural life. A number of chrengo women have given practical demonstration of the success which may be attained by their sex in the lighter class of farming and country home management. The tendency which is now so apparent toward rural life is likely to reverse the flow of population. This has a sociological as well as a commercial aspect, and the results will be largely credited to woman. Her work is of ever increasing importance in farm life. It is her province so to shape social conditions in the country that young people will be attracted to agricultural pursuits rather than repelled therefrom. Women are showing that there are large profits to be made from honey, poultry, onions, cucumbers, sweet corn, flowers and many other commodities which they are capable of handling in a manner demanded by the best trade. The certainty that prices will remain high for such products comes from the rapid growth of towns and cities. The market for flowers and general produce seems to be unlimited, and satisfactory returns are assured where proper attention is given to cultivation. Choice asters are selling in the wholesale market at $4 per lot, and as this has become the favorite product of many of Chicago's women for cultivators it is North white to consider what one can earn on an amount of food. An aster is distinctly an out of the plant. It is hardy and the most free from insects of any garden product. It is exceedingly popular. With land fairly well fertilized an ore will produce at a moderate estimate $1,200 worth of aster. A yield of $1,400 would not be at all phenomenal. Garden products may seem more practicable as a family enterprise. On a tract of twelve acres which she is handling with the hope of enabling her husband to give up city employment a woman makes this showing. Five acres of acre land 150 Eggs from acre land 40 Seed from acre land 150 One acre of acre land 150 The five boxes of onions brought in market upward of $1000, but there was a large item of expense. Obviously hired help Still another example is given in the following table: In this case $500 was paid out for wages and the increased value of stock almost equaled this sum. GREW SPUDS IN BARREL Wonderful Example of Intensive Potas- tic Culture Recorded by Former A few years ago an ingenious gardener near one of our eastern cities was inspired to test the possibility of growing potatoes in a barrel. The barrel had formerly contained lime, but not much of this remained. The experimenter placed in the bottom of the barrel, from which the head had been taken out, five or six inches of rich soil and embedded in this a single whole potato. As the vines grew fresh earth was added from time to time and the plants were watered whenever the soil appeared dry. No insects or blight troubled them, and early in the fall, when the vines seemed to be dry, the contents of the barrel were turned out and 125 large fine tubers were found, all attached to the dead stems, besides a half peck of small potatoes not of marketable quality. The experiment was claimed to be a great success, and it was said that 5,000 barrels were immediately ordered for the production of the next year's crop. For this very little seed comparatively would be required, very little labor in preparing the bed, no weeding or cultivating except the occasional addition of a few inches of soil, no pests growing for poisoning or hardening without for it, and the bringing them in. merely picking up the tubers from the overturned barrel. - Farm Progress. A Land Mark Your land will never again be what it was if you do not do something to keep it what it is...Farm and Ranch. A HOMEMADE STERILIZER. One For Canning Purposes Can Be Easily Made at Home. In all methods of canning some form of sterilizer will be found very convenient. To be able to do with the things she already has on hand is an important item to the housewife. Almost every housewife has a tin clothes boiler, and this can be easily converted. THE CLOTHES BOILER CONVENIED IN A STERILIZER Into a convenient sterilizing vat. The only things necessary are a tight fitting cover and a false bottom. The false bottom is absolutely necessary in order to prevent the loss from coming in contact with the bottom of the sterilizing vat, causing them to break during the boiling. For this purpose an ordinary No. 16 wire netting of half inch mesh, which is cut to fit the bottom of the boiler, can be used. If the netting is not available thin piece of wood or almost any thing of this kind will answer the purpose. A patent open door steam cooker is even more convenient than a clothes boiler. If neither of these is available a deep samepan or bucket tightly covered will answer the purpose. Oat Straw For Feeding. Good bright out straw is very good substitute for hay for winter feeding. If there is too few push dirt about it horses will be allowed out for the rough age part of their ration. Those who felled to stock their out straw well this year will have reason to be sorry for it before spring. Homestead. MUTUAL INTERESTS No man can stand alone. One thing ought to be aimed at by all men—that the interest of each individually and of all collectively should be the same, for if each should group at his individual interest all human society would be dissolved.—Cicero. Proved It. Mrs. Brown arrived late at the regu- lar meeting of her card club and ap- peared quite flustered, undie her usual calm, well polished self. Upon being asked the cause of her apparent per- turbation, she explained that while waiting for the street she had been greatly injured by a strange man, who is accused of putting to her "What did she do?" she replied her symptoms for the sake. "Well, to be sure, she was a lady, I shaped her face." --- Rayfulie Frank A somewhat fresh onsite couple in Edinburgh has and a friend toddler with them on a Monday, and when the child was had on the table it proved to be the remains of Sidney's roost heated up, where on the guest remarked that this appeared to be "fun" and friend with a "wife" figure. This, however, did not prevent his doing business to the family, and in time departing he said, "Well good night. I've had an excellent evening, and you have also a wonderful solution that it haven't cost much." A Spirit of Royalty "As a matter of fact," said Mr. Cumar, "letter testy, "the value of this picture depends on the signature of the old tester." "I must stick it." "Well, the signature is just as valuable as the original, but it takes me any thing like we have to write a check as if they like to put a picture." Washinton Star T t For T a t "We think it would rather move than clean house." "An original idea." "Not so much. It had also occurred to the people who accepted the abode we leased." The Cumbersman's Unhappy Lot "I don't want you," she asked the comedian, "often find it irksome to make people laugh." "Yes," he sadly replied. "Frequently it is so irksome that I don't do it."—Chicago Record Herald Prompt. Post - A beautiful garden party was given yesterday under the auspices of Lady Black. Mrs Newrich - I'll have our landscape architect plant some auspices on our lawn once. Billiards Why is ballads an amatory game? Because it includes so many kisses and misses. Sting of a Bee. When a bee stings it gives its victim a hypodermic injection of an irritant poison. This is the bee's defense against its enemies. In the abdomen of the bee lies a gland which secretes the poison. This passes down to a double bulb in which it is stored until needed. From the bulb a slender tube passes through the sharp sting which lies in a smooth. When the bee stakes its sting into the skin of the man the sinuses squeeze the bulb of poison and a drop of this is ejaculated from the oment—New Book World. 1 1 EVENING WRAP OF PLUSH AND FURL Adding to His Pleasure An angler was fishing contentedly in a stream near an asylum when one of the inmates appeared upon the scene. Sport had been poor, and the sportman was overjoyed when at last he laided a beauty. He was gazing with pride at his catch when the visitor from the asylum asked: "Do you sell them fish, mister?" "Sell 'em?" responded the angler. "No fear. I'm a sportsman, not a fishmonger. I fish for the sport of catching 'em." "Oh, you do, eh?" remarked the visitor as he kicked the capture back into the water. 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Watson, Venus Lodge, No. 16... 150.00 J. M. Vanishan, Manchester Lodge, No. 11... 150.00 Joseph Ack, Puritan Lodge, No. 101... 150.00 Edward Mangrum, Jonathan Lodge, No. 20... 150.00 Peter Dinkleston, Richmond Lodge, No. 1... 150.00 Henry Butler, Planet Lodge, No. 23... 150.00 Daniel W. Poore, Son of Lowmoor Lodge, 125... 50.00 Lennard Burley, Scotland Lodge, No. 119... 50.00 Sarah Johnson, Manitoba Lodge, No. 109... 50.00 Correl J. W. Lumberley, East Lodge, No. 26... 150.00 $24,000.00 Pursuit Forward... $ 6,900.00 Jan 15 Elizabeth Johnson, Martha Court, No. 106... 150.00 Feb 15 Emma Lee Macbeth, Purple Court, No. 142... 100.00 Feb 15 Rachel A. Barker, Green Court, No. 76... 100.00 March 7 Martha Brunel, Arrowhead Court, No. 72... 100.00 March 22 Charlotte Yearly, Pride of East Court, No. 56... 150.00 April 4 Charlotte Boorer, Plain Court, No. 137... 100.00 April 9 Carrie Martin, Victoria Court, No. 52... 100.00 April 17 Emily Allison, Narcissus Court, No. 229... 50.00 April 21 Martha Hall, Plymouth Court, No. 132... 100.00 April 22 Tatler Smith, Golden Rule Court, No. 86... 100.00 April 28 Elizabeth M. Roth on Unity Court, No. 132... 100.00 April 28 Minnie Johnson, Sarah's Court, No. 246... 100.00 April 28 Cora J. Jrston, Putton Court, No. 244... 100.00 April 28 Maggie Mosby, King's Daughters Court, No. 70... 100.00 April 28 Margaret Leffwich, Old Dominion Court, No. 114... 100.00 April 28 Ella Shepherd, Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85... 100.00 April 28 Sallie Taylor, Putton Court, No. 244... 100.00 April 28 Rebecca Banks, Blooming Lily Court, No. 142... 150.00 April 28 Sarah Burwell, Suffolk Court, No. 63... 100.00 May 2 George Bolling, Old Dominion Court, No. 114... 100.00 May 10 Celtia Brown, Pride of Farmville Court, No. 144... 100.00 May 24 Margaret Scott, Venus Court, No. 47... 100.00 May 24 Lovie Ann Prunty, Jupiter Court, No. 80... 150.00 Winter Term Begins December 1, 1913. 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, Greenaboro, N. C. May 24—Annie Johnson, Pride of the East Court. No. 56 100.00 May 24—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court. No. 229 25.00 June 11—Lula Lewis, Zion Traveller's Court. No. 96 130.00 June 12—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court. No. 229 35.00 June 12—Jane Wingfield, Martha's Court. No. 138 150.00 July 23—Martha Douglass, Arria Court. No. 43 100.00 July 23—Laura Johnson, Violet Court. No. 152 100.00 July 29—Caroline Clements, Josephine Court. No. 228 100.00 July 29—Bettie Powell, Venus Court. No. 47 100.00 July 29—Allie Burrows, Ivy Leaf Court. No. 85 100.00 August 4—Emily Mosby, Friendship Court. No. 143 100.00 August 7—Matilda Jones, Planet Court. No. 137 100.00 August 15—Eliza Jam a. Julia's Court. No. 235 100.00 August 16—Lula C. Hall, Bristol Court. No. 162 151.00 $37,025.00 FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CON. SIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK $21,500.00 Jan. 15 Elizabeth Johnson, Martha Court, No. 106 Feb. 8 Emma Lee Marshle, Darling Court, No. 142 Feb. 10 Rachel A. Lewis, Victoria Court, No. 76 March 7 Martha Brunel, Arlene's Court, No. 72 March 22 Charlotte Yearly, Pride of East Court, No. 56 April 4 Catherine Booker, Planet Court, No. 137 April 9 Carrie Martin, Victoria Court, No. 52 April 17 Emily Allan, Nar尔斯 Court, No. 229 April 17 Martha Hall, Fifty Court, No. 132 April 22 Tatiana Schmitt, Golden Rule Court, No. 86 April 25 Elizabeth M. Robinson, Entry Court, No. 132 April 25 Marianne Johnson, Sarah's Court, No. 246 April 25 Cora Jastron, Fulton Court, No. 244 April 28 Margie Mosby, King's Daughters Court, No. 70 April 28 Margaret Leifswich, Old Dominion Court, No. 114 April 28 Ella Shepherd, Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85 April 28 Sallie Taylor, Fulton Court, No. 244 April 28 Rebecca Banks, Blooming Lily Court, No. 142 April 28 Sarah Burwell, Suffolk Court, No. 63 May 2 George Bolling, Old Dominion Court, No. 114 May 10 Colla Brown, Pride of Farmville Court, No. 144 May 24 Margaret Scott, Venus Court, No. 47 May 24 Lovie Ann Prunty, Jupiter Court, No. 80 May 24 Annie Johnson, Pride of the East Court, No. 56 May 24 Emily Allman, Nar尔斯 Court, No. 229 June 11 Lula Lewis, Zion Traveller's Court, No. 96 June 12 Emily Allman, Nar尔斯 Court, No. 229 June 12 Jane Wingfield, Martha's Court, No. 138 July 23 Martha Douglas, Arria Court, No. 43 July 29 Laura Johnson, Violet Court, No. 152 July 29 Caroline Clements, Josephine Court, No. 228 July 29 Bette Powell, Venus Court, No. 47 July 29 Alice Burrows, Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85 August 4 Emily Mosby, Friendship Court, No. 143 August 7 Matilda Jones, Planet Court, No. 137 August 15 Eliza Jam a, Julia's Court, No. 235 August 16 Lula C. Hall, Bristol Court, No. 162 August 23 Susan Dobson Planet Court, No. 137 Sept. 2 Mary Galine Keys, Star of the Valley, No. 87 Sept. 10 Pattie Carter, White Rose Court, No. 118 Sept. 10 Rosa Stratton, Victoria Court, No. 52 Oct. 1 Anna Archer, Mildred's Court, No. 242 Oct. 4 Ella Lightfoot, Lily of the Valley Court, No. 247 Oct. 4 Louisa D. Myers, Martha's Court, No. 138 Oct. 4 Sarah Brogdon, Mossingford Court, No. 155 Oct. 4 Bettie Thomas, Golden Crown Court, No. 122 Oct. 28 Mary Graves, Olivette Court, No. 88 Oct. 28 Christian A. Williams, Merchapies Court, No. 46 Nov. 1 Marinda Fitzgerald, Evening Star Court, No. 77 Nov. 21 Carrie Powell Vernon Hill Court, No. 154 Nov. 21 Florence Christian, Beulah Court, No. 49 Nov. 26 Hearrietta Dawson, Venus Court, No. 47 HOT SPLENDER From South Carolina. Florence, S. C., December 29. —As we approach the end of the year 1913 we think of many things. When quite a lot I thought more of the coming year than the one that was quite spent. I thought of the balmy days of Spring when we would go in search of wild flowers and watch the hummingbird beat its little wings against the soft air, while it placed its condens shaped bill into the throat of the bird. Again I would think of the topi water of younger bloom where I might puddle and dive like a duck. I wished my time to hasten so that I could reach out my little hand for the ripe pipe, before it kissed the second. I wanted the Summer to draw nibbles from the cold night lighted our house in sand casting the picture of our busy little hands. And after that we looked and intended for the announcement of the people or Sunday School celebration where, all might assemble together at the old meeting house in the old wreaths and there others abide. I can see a group of boys and girls down the hall at the spring with youthful faces sparkling with affection for each other. I would be standing off separately where I could see the girls and boys eye each other, and as my little heart beat, had I spoken I would have said: 'Boys, one of those girls is mine.' And from this point as I advanced in years my mind turned towards education and religion from whom there has been no negotiation, those of these requirements were held up in my objects. My parents constantly reminded me of their importance, the unanimity the unanimity of the level, the mutual need for objects and is attracted to them under certain conditions. I was on the streets on yesterday the business street and apparently people were all looking around them when suddenly they looked up. It was just a balloon floating in the water. But it was an object for the mind. Sometimes we close our letter with the word "Affectionately yours." All who have met Mrs. Ayles she is an affectionate mother. We should not allow our affections to touch her. We should not allow our affections to fall on the young beautiful and beautiful queen of Egypt, who already had a living husband. Some men spend the greater part of their earnings annually for which they because they have allowed their affections to hover around wholly within the city, but then to columbus. She was to the maked savages who thought columbus felt more bolder than the sea. The previous one referred his affection from home and its surroundings, casting it upon an "Unknown sea." Not until many days after in the field among the same, late in the afternoon did he realize what a sad mistake he had made. Those who have cast our affection into the yearly tide, we are able to look back with pleasure and not shame, having done those things that merit the approval of the master. The solution between our affections and our habits is quite similar to that of cancer to result. Once I took from a quantity of postcards two or six of the coal shaped "hickory" carpings them with me, we were amazed at how affectionately attached we had to the person. On closer examination of my stock in store I found them to be beautiful but I loved them. In this world we cherish that which is false and labour or dislike the purer and simple. As John the Baptist stood on the banks of the Jordan, realizing as he did the sinful nature and headlessness, disgionation of his heathers, he beckoned to them with his hands to turn from the false and impure to the true and living God and be saved. From early morning till late at night when we are fast sleep that old adversary, the devil, with his host of demons down his level heat to control our affection so that our actions from day to day will be pleasing in his sight. His ghost sleeper, he was Judas, when he was the cross of Christ at night on the way to the woods to hang himself, wishes to direct our affections to B he first points out A, then reasons with us hypothetically. In his way and manner the devil is a great fearer. When I was quite a lad he told me to help myself to watermelons from the field to the farmer. The melons were green and the ower was in close range. He understands logic to his purpose. He is shrewder than the money shark of Wall Street and the wheat speculators of Chicago when compared to him, are but as chaff in the wind. Dr. F. R. Roberts, State Supad School Missions, the State quite slick, after spending a few weeks in Jacksonville, Fla. is almost himself again. Lena May Webster has returned to Benedict College. Ruth and Ruble. Webster after spending a month or so visiting relatives in North Carolina are home again. Prof. Williams of Hampton, Va., trustee of the Jeannie Punds pawned through city 18th stn, traveling Northwest. We are having ideal, weather, and people are doing their Xmas shopping early. Webster are up against it at the city Graded School. Graded School. Mrs. Marie Addison Crawford, formerly of Columbia, N.C., passed through the city recently enroute for Boston, Mass. Miss Marie married a Mr. Crawford, one of Boston's lead law attorneys. Ms. Crawford invited her to be the first lady when the Mr. Will convened, told her that I was alone and asked her to induce come of Boston's best girls to visit our State so that I could see them. She said there are plenty in Boston but I must come in September and see for myself. Surely I will do my best to be on board. Mrs. Crawford is an entertaining business-like woman. We chat tol at least 20 minutes on train 50, northern. KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS. New Court Organized. A fine court of the Order of Companionship in New York. Bucknell Va., December 15, 1995, by Dr. E. K. Jefferson, noting Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor, Sir John Mitchell, Jr. was to have done the work but was prevented from doing so by the trade death of his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell. Country folk forlorn around here come to see the work but are not appointed when informed that he would not be present. Resolutions of sympathy, were passed and ordered sent to Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr. Dr. Jefferson delivered an address to the officers of New Court Organized. Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Angie Risonon, Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Mary L. Andrews, Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Angie Thomas, Orator, Mrs. Martha Anderson, Registrar of Dodds, Mrs. Amanda E. Andrews, Recorder of Deposits, Mrs. Rosa P. Vest, Senior Dirctress, Mrs. Martha Ey, Junior Dirctress, Mrs. Mary D. DeWitt, Assistant Conduit, Mrs. Silene Colman, Essex, Mrs. Catherine Johnson, Heyald, Mrs. Martha Thompson, Protector, Mrs. Jina Waddley, Trustees, Mrs. Eileen Johnson, Mrs. Blanche Johnson, Willey Burkner A boutonnet report was served and all heartily enjoyed themselves. The candles are authentically over the new body. Canada's Lean Failure. The clothing from the Canadian government loan of $200,000 paid on the London Stock Exchange to emphasize the nervous and constrained attitude of the erstwhile bond and confident investor. Canada secured $110,000 million gold in New York a week, or two weeks without any apparent effort or unsettling results, to permit the banks to comply with the higher reserve requirements of her new currency law and great concern over the queries of the London institution, the terms of which made it an attractive investment, it was thought. Canada has been shipping her gold, now housed in surplus wheat with great expedition, thereby strengthening her position abroad materially, and reducing an advertisement trade balance by many millions. Nevertheless, the London market merely hobbled at the bait, having a percent of the new balance in the hands of the underwriters. Various explanations are current. failure due to the deadlock over the big French army loan. "Still, counting that factor, which ought not to have entered largely into the disposition of the comparative intelligence and military differing from the antithesis, when surface indications fail to afford a solution, underlying causes must be looked for what the curiosity would know. That the ebb and flow of confidence which buffers judgment as regards its rise and fall is the principal factor in the Canadian instance, supports in the quick shift of sentiment regarding the pending issuals of Berlin and Paris, which aggregate $1.4 million. " These have been presented intently, a circumstance that should have made three ways possible to be addressed, public confidence has owed out entirely. The Canadian operation was a 4 percent cost both and was offered at 57. Washington, D.C. Post, Dec. 19, 1933. Lassburg, (Va.) Ioris The birthday party given by the Progressive Club on Tuesday evening at the Presidency Baptist Church was quite in success. Rev. W. B. Johnson of Washington, we gave us, he spoke on the bright side of the Negro, what he had accomplished. We were so impressed that he caused us to open our eyes. Dr. come again, we are always glad to bear our of this type. Dr. Tyler, our beloved pastor and Rev. J. E. Jinton, Rot. Sidney and Rev. W. R. Manley were with us, but after we had gone to where the ladies had prepared the table, our stomachs were made glad. Then we repaired to our homes, feeling that we had been well benefited. Mr. Dr. Thompson deserves great credit for her earnest work in helping the ladies, although she lives in Washington. Miss Winnie Cocks who died in the hospital here this week with fever was taken to Hamilton and buried Owling to the contagious disease, the undertaker couldn't let the body go in church. Mr. James C. Walker and wife spent Saturday in D. C. shopping. Mr. John C. Walker took a flying trip to D. C. this week. Mr. John Lankford is on the sick list, though much improved at this time. Mr. William Taylor of New Jersey is in town visiting his Madam. Rev. J. E. Dotson and wife will start for Charlestown to spend the Xmas. Mr. Roy, the Rushnet man, will leave for his home this week. The Frivolite Baptist hold a snee fee morning, Sunday, Elder Brown THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Boys, don't get scared. The Win-State, Minnesota, Wilberforce and ter isn't going to be so hard. The Lincoln. girls will wait.—Reporter. The Alpha Alumuni Chapter is very The Church Will. From the alarming pages of the very few of our esteemed contemporaries edited by concerned men, particularly the Chicago defender, and the Birmingham Wide-Awake, we are astounded to learn that the will drawn, made and left by the late R. K. Church of Memphis, has been ordered or decision of a Memphis Court. "The Sun is a Memphis newspaper, and its editor is a citizen here. We are alive to the Jappiness of these environs, come to chance, by gossip free and anxious tongue, or through chambers of responsibility. We are somewhat informed upon the business and the findings of the several have followed with double interest the legal skirmish with respect to the affairs of the late R. K. Church. We wish our word: 'She will let by Mr. Church has not been broken by any act of the courts of Tennessee nor nor but, that his will be in question before any court in Tennessee or in any commonwealth. News to the contrary is false and misleading. The facts are that he is permitted to adjudicate an opinion we will say that she has stood that document, now the tattler's toy and the gossip moral, will not continue either by direct binding of decisions of the courts of law of Tennessee now for ever. This republican journals edited by co-authors that are evidently a paired with respect to his reading and the truth powers of R. R. Church with the moment of his taking off and that gained to discern an account of the stream of ambition, loves our respect and also consideration upon their truth to print as news what is exactly not the truth and what is in open contact with the truth.' Memphis AN OPEN LETTER. National W. C. I. U. Department of Work Among Colored People. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union has launched a national campaign in 1822. We believe in ourselves, but infinitely more in the wife said. "We not afraid not dismissed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not youth but God's. We note that it would be disresponsible to the slave in the final triumph of virtue over vice, the church over the liquor traffic, our women were found poorly represented in the great organization of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which knows no woman by her color, but such a calamity, we are calling for volunteers all over the nation. January 1, 1914, has been set apart as our first day, on which day all who are interested in the well-being of the race are called upon to unite in the awakening of our women to this the opportunity time to fall into line and help save our race from this vile form of slavery which the white man's civilization has forced upon us. At our National Convention in August Park, N. J. in November, Ohio, the nation in making a great gain in medicine, York is next. The whole nation must tally. The major traffic shows no race, section, nor condition in its work of evil. We must be on duty when the last blow for liberty of home, race and hatten is struck. Texas will rally for 1,000 paid memorials. Tennessee and Arkansas 500 each. Mrs. George E. Haynes, Tisk University, Nashville, Tenn. has been chosen as our Secretary of Advisory Committees of College Work. Miss Mary A. Lynch, Livingston College, Salisbury, N.C. is Chairman of Committee Press Work. I cheerfully tell them they will help lead our ranks to victory over the greatest enemy we have known since emancipation. We believe in the press as one of the great means of helping to establish truth and justice. We believe that our may will rally to help us as they discover the earnestness of our enemies and the therefore humble ask that you will grape space in your valuable column of the next issue for this letter. We further beg that you will let appear in a later issue if not along with this letter, the enclosed copy of excerpts from Dr. Booker T. Washington. Prof. Kelly Miller, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; Dr. C. V. Roman, Mcharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Sutton E. Griggs, Memphis, Tenn.; Bishop C. H. Harris, Salisbury, N.C., Jr. R. E. Jones, New Orleans; Dr. J. H. N. Waring, Washington, D.C. This letter goes to not less than 200 newspapers and we call upon all to help by praying with us on January 1 for this special blessing that 1914 may be a year of jubilee for the womanhood of the race in achievement for "God and Home and Native Land." ELIZA E. PETERSON, Toxarkana, Tex., Nat. Supl. AMANDA SMITH, Sebring, Fla. ELLA SHEIPPARD MOORE, Alpha Phil Alpha Praternity Active at Virginia Union University. Gamma Chapter Has Prom..... Using Future. Alpha Phi Alpha Praternity Active at Virginia Union University. Gamma Chapter Has Prom... using Future. The Alpha Phi Alpha Praternity inter-collegiate Greek letter society possesses a prominent member in the Gamma Chapter of Virginia Union University. Little is known here of the existence, serious intent and influence of the Gamma chapter for the brotherhood of Negro college men. The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, which was established at Cornell University in March, 1906 by twenty men of high blood and ambulatory stamina, Howard, Union, Towson, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Minnesota, Wilberforce and Lincoln. The Alpha Alumun Chapter is very prominent in New York City. As off- ficers of the general organization are: officer of Garvin Hospital, dentist; Henry Johnson, Ohio State, secretary; and William I. Norcum, Michigan; Treasurer. The past year has been one of signal progress in the Fraternity. The Gamma Chapter of Union has started the present school year with re-creation of the chapter's Gilding. Its mission is blinding together the representative college men for common ends. Emphasizing the social, intellectual and fraternal aspects of the organization, those who compose the Gamma chapter are men of high ideals and aspiration. The Gamma Chapter numbers among its members many honor men in athletics as well as in scholarship. The religious life of the men is an important feature of the Chapter. With its honest purpose and lofty aims, Gamma is filling a specific life of the representative college men in Virginia Union University. As officers of this branch of the Prateronomy are: W. N. Colson, President; G. L. Miskins, Vice-President; K. C. Manning, Secretary; N. D. Ayerfinde, Treasurer and E. D. Coffee, Chaplain; Other active members are, Messrs. W. W. L. Clark, V. E. Miles, W. L. Mays, A. Lindus, L. E. McGee, W. Nash, A. Grant, Dr. J. E. Jones is an honorary member, while Professor J. Milton Sampson and Mr. T. A. Hill are two of the alumni members of Richmond. At a recent meeting the following facts were infiltrated: Messrs. G. W. Bicknacom, G. W. Brown, A. A. Barton, W. A. Daniel, R. N. Lawson, A. D. Manning and J. L. Nixon. Chapter 15 is designated to the 25th Annual convention, which is to be held at the seat of the Beta Chapter, Joggard University, on December 28-29, Messrs. J. Clifton Grant and William Nelson Colson. Bank of England Return Points to an Early Rate Reduction. (Wall St. Journal, Dec. 20.) The Bank of England furnished another very satisfactory return this week, which as the end of the year comes all the more resurging to the money market. A portion of reserve to liabilities of over 55 per cent indicates a very fortified position of the central institution. More than this, it points to an abundant supply of funds in the money markets of the world after the turn of the year. It is therefore, to be expected that both the Bank of England and the Banks of France will be in a better position to their official discount rates, which in the present situation appear to be anomalous. There is nothing now in regard to the local money market. Money rates are held on an even keel, and there is little disposition among the banks to make any concessions until January 1 'disbursements' are out of the way. Call money continues at the ruling rate of 3.1-2 per cent, and is no doubt being benefited by the temporary offering of funds on call prior to the end of the year. Nothing which the banks are not inclined to consider very readily just now and for that reason the rates quoted seem to be abnormally high. After the first of the year both collateral time loans and commercial paper will probably show a market decline in rates. It is of interest to note that Montreal exchange on New York, instead of pointing to gold shipments from here across the border, as was the case last month, is now in a movement of the metal in this direction. As compared with the heavy discount at this time a month ago, Canadian exchange has moved up to 3-64 of 1 per cent premium. It only needs to go another 1-32 of 1 per cent to make it profitable to ship the gold this way. The difference from this is that Canadian banks have either doubled their balances here to some extent or are no longer destruing of calling their credits home. The latter is probably the true explanation, the crop movement being practically over, and this means that the banks there are reducing their circulation. $3.50 Recipe Free. For Weak Men. Send Name and Address Today— You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. We have in our possession a pres- cription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling memory and lame back, brought on by stress, and the follies of youth, that has cured many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any addi- ditional help or medicine—that we think every man who wishes to regain his many power and virility, quickly and quickly, should have a copy. So we have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write us for it. This prescription comes from a prize coin that has made a special study of the nervous system, and it is the surest-sweet, combination for the cure of deficient manhood, and vigor failure ever put together. We think we owe it to our fellowmen to send them a copy in confidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure that we believe in the quality of our products, and spot. POUCHING Remedy over devised, and so care himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop us a line like this: INTEREST TRENDY REMEDY CO. 2995 Lock Building, Detroit, Mich. and we will send you a copy of this extended page in a plain ordinary envelope, free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.90 to $6.90 and monthly writing out a procedure. We will send you a copy of this Old Virginia Corn Mea Glimbell Bros., Philadelphia. Mitchell Fletcher Co.; Philadelphia. Thos. C. Fluke Co., Philadelphia. J. J Pletcher & Bro., Germantown. Sliegel Cooper Co., Chicago. Aaron Ward's Sons, Newark. Chas. M. Deeker & Bros Stores, Orange. New Jersey. 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. No.1 TRADE MARK This Store for the best and most Up-to-date CHRISTMAS GIFTS 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; Badies' TOILET SETS; Cuff, Collar and Handkerchief Cases Com- bined; Mantraure Sets; Fine Lino Box Candles, Especially Put Up for Xmas Gifts; Toilet Soap in Boxes and other things not mentioned. GENTLEMEN'S LIST Excellent for Coughs, Colds, Honeur- ness, La Gripe, Bronchitis, Sore Throat and all affections of the Throat and Lunge. You can depend on it—guaranteed. If coughing at night one dose will relieve you and enable you to rest and sleep well. Three sizes, 25c, 50c, $1.00. If your dealer hasn't it write to THOS. TABI JEFFREIDS, Manufacturing Chamist, 214 East Broad Street Richmond, Va.; and enclose 25c in stamps and the goods will be sent to you by parcel post. 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 Jars Pipe Tobacco and other things not mentioned. From now until after Xmas I will give to each purchaser of $ 0.00 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. S Richmond. Virginia COME AND SEE US. Its Free to Every Customer. Come and see us for REAL HAIR Wigs. Transformations etc. and CARRIES The Bank of the People BECAUSE The People are Supporting it. 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. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ELECTRIC BRUSHES Is second to none of its size in equipment. Safety brings Confidence and Confidence brings Business. for Straightening and ' Beautifying the hair and Stopping its Falling Out. Come and See Us. We sell so Cheep and we give a bottle of Perfume Free to every Customer. ```markdown ``` 607 East, Broad St—Upstate, Mall Orders Receive Attention 1OUND TRIP CHRISTMAS TICKETS VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY At greatly reduced fare 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 ic 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. H. L. BISHOP, Div. Pass, Agt., 907 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. Nearly Right. 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. 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 burglaries. Our Building is insured and the bulk of our funds invested in desirable Real-Estate. Our Tellers are under Bond. Our Banking Hours are from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. and Saturdays from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. "Did you wake up No. 44? No, air. Couldn't wake him. But I did, the nearest I could."