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Editor Simmons Heard From. "Memphis, Teen., Dec. 29, 1913. "My dear, John Mitchell." "instead, you are the 'gentleman from Virginia.' It is not often that a man is permitted to read so great and so kindly an eulogy of him as appeared in your PLANET of last week, following my supposed taking off. I cannot thank you for the eulogy, certainly not, but I do sincerely thank you for the spirit of your compliment to such powers as I am told I possess by your facile pen. I present you the one case where the dead comes to life in response to the praise of the historian. I shall hope constantly to measure up to your opinion of my labours in the field where untogether sometimes I feel, I came mercy-kissed by my God, who yet spares me myself to reach a higher state of perfection and to do some good in the places where I may stand. "The report in the Defender was a malicious slander from capital to period, and was written in defiance of all truth and honor. I had thought to appeal to the civil courts for redress, but I shall first appeal to the supreme court of Colored Journalism. That I am deed is upon the face of it not altogether true, and days and months will establish that I still live. The accusation in the Defender that I had ever dealt falsely with them is wholly a gross misrepresentation of facts. I have never represented myself as having authority to transact business of any nature for them, and there isn't a living soul who can testify truthfully that I have been guilty of such. The Editor of the Defender has never in his life written me a letter, and I have never written him a letter. "The animus of the Defender. I think, grows out of the simple correction made by the Sun of the Defender's report that the will of the late R. R. Church had been broken. By way of recollection they killed me by sound, buried me by faith and applauded me through and through without a sign of bliss. "Again accept my thanks. I hope so to live in the days to come that when again you 'take your pen in hand' to assign me to my place among those who strived, not only will you incorporate the generous praise of the talents you fatter me in saying I possess, but also that it will not be necessary to 'draw the mantle of charity.' And yet we are all sinners, aren't we? Ever yours, "ROSCOD CONKLING SIMMONS." 25th Marriage Anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Jeter. Newport; Rhode Island. The 35th marriage Anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Jeter was celebrated by the members and friends of Shiloh Baptist Church which he has served as pastor for 39 years on Wednesday, December 24th, 1913. Thirty-five years marriage calls for Coral but by unanimous consent of the church it was made a Greenback Anniversary instead. The musical program was furnished principally by the children of Dr. and Mrs. Jeter. Mr. J. O. Banks rendered a solo. Mr. Andrew Tate and Dr. Jeter's oldest daughter, Mrs. Dash rendered a duet. Rev. A. W. Puller, D. D., LL. D., the faithful and much beloved Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Boston was master of ceremonies. Drs. T. W. Henderson, C. N. Gibbons and Revs. C. L. Miller and O. Paul Thompson were the speakers of the evening. Dr. and Mrs. Jeter made closing remarks. Mrs. J. W. Perry is worthy of much praise for the beautiful decorations. A purse of $85.91 was presented to Dr. and Mrs. Jeter, besides several valuable gifts from friends away. Since then a gentleman of Switzerland, who knew of Dr. Jeter and the work that he has done sent him a very encouraging letter with three brand new $5 bills, making the amount $109.91. December 30th, there was reserved in the Shiloh Baptist Church a fine Dramatic Cantata entitled "The Christ." This was arranged by Mrs. Jeter. This Cantata was largely attended and it was a success in every support. The participants were members of the Junior and Juvenile choirs and Sabbath School of the Shiloh Baptist Church. On December 21st Dr. and Mrs. Jeter gave a reception and supporter to the members of the church and congregation. There were many present and after the supper a religious service was held which lasted until the date of 1912 went into eternity. Special revival services will be held the Bishop Baptist Church conduct- ed by the able and singing Evangelist D. Paul Thompson, now of West Park, Mant. The meetings began early 11th. We ask the prayers of people for these meetings. The Committee on Aniversary. opening of the new Home building of the American Post- Reserves Company who held Wednesday, January 14, 1914 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Brown were the recipients of a visit and presents from their many friends at a Birthday Party, Friday night, Jan. 9, 1914. Mr. Brown was presented with a handsome gold watch-bracelet and Mr. Brown with a pair of gold cuff-bbuttons. They were over-joyed at this evidence of personal esteem and extend their heartfelt thanks to the givers. The following contributed: Rev S. C. Manual Ray, W. F. Graham Doons Coons T. Colehan, J. W. Howard, George Lee, John Beard, B. H. Peyton, John Moss, Mrs. S. C. Manuel Mrs. Mary Hamm Harris, Mrs. Nann Jones, Mrs. Barbara Lowis, Mrs. Cora Polindexter, Mrs. Martha Towne Mrs. Julia Board, Mrs. Carrie Peyton, Mrs. Lizzie Mason, Mrs. Bettle Mason, Mrs. Virginia Hawkins Johnson, Mrs. Heuletra Brown, Mrs. Ida Harland, Mrs. Julia Robinson, Mrs. Jemima Moss, Mrs. Addle Lemus, Mrs. Ella Johnson, Mrs. Cora Shepherd, Mrs. Anna Chaffin, Mrs. Nellie Horn, Mrs. Ida Mills, Mrs. Caroline Coles, Mrs. Madeleine Moss, Mrs. Martha Seay, Mrs. Rose Robinson, Mrs. Annie Fry, Mrs. Adlaena Carter, Mrs. Clara Robinson, Mrs. Ida Booker, Mrs. George Williams, Mrs. Pocahontas Randolph, Mrs. Charlesanna Hill, Mrs. Sarah Cooke, Mrs. Clara Anderson, Mrs. Ethel Cosart, Mrs. Martha Anderson, Mrs. Florence Wallace, Mrs. Rosa Jackson, Mrs. Lillie Hardy, Mrs. Maggie Phillips, Mrs. Lizzie Howard, Mrs. Yetta Walker, Mrs. Mella Hill, Miss Goldie Loe, Mrs. Mollie Lewis, Messrs. Joseph Shepherd, C. K. Royster, Richard Hewlett, J. H. Crutchfield, J. F. Anderson, James Chiles, J. W. Johnson, John Holmes, Thad Brown, A. J. Walker, Walker Gray, Mrs. Mildred Matthews, Miss Emma Jones, Mrs. Sarah Ford. The officers of Detroit Branch of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People entertained Dr. Joel E. Spiagarn at luncheon in the Hotel Ponchartrain, Thursday, January 5th. Those present were: President, William C. Osby; Treasurer, Walter D. Johnson; Secretary, J. Charles Price; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Dr. R. W. Bagnall; Chairman of Mass Meeting, Hon. Alfred J. Murphy; Chairman Executive Committee, Francis H. Warren; Secretary Executive Committee, Crummlin Lam bert; Members Executive Committee, W. J. Fields, A. C. Beuzard, Dr. A. H. Johnson, Thaddeus E. Taylor, Sew. R. L. Bradby, Dr. Edward L. Moore; Guests, Frederick F. Ingram, Prof. R. L. Landrum, Dr. Alexander Turner and Editor of Detroit Times, James Schmerhorn and Guest of Hon or, Dr. Joel E. Spiagarn. This luncheon in the Ponchartrain marked a new epoch in social affairs in Detroit. This is the finest hotel in this part of the country and when it displaced the old Russell House, for many years Detroit's leading hotel, colored waiters and assistants were also displaced by white help. It was generally supposed that colored people would not be entertained at this swell hotel but the Executive Committee of Detroit Branch had no difficulty in securing the service of the luncheon to Mr. Spingarn. "A NOBLE OUTCAST." The Powerful Drama, Colored Players, Friday, January 20, 1914, Academy of Music, Petersburg, Virginia. By the Imperial Dramatic Club of the V. N. and J. I., under the direction of Miss Frances J. Ransom, for the benefit of St. Stephen's P. E. Church and the Y. M. C. A. This play is one of the most thrilling ever produced on the stage, and never fails to excite the keenest interest wherever played. Music by the Band and Orchestra of the V. N. and J. I. Doors open 7:30 P. M., curtain 8:15 P. M. Popular prices, 15, 25, 50 and 75 cents. Seats on sale at the Popular Drug Store, (successor to. Wm. S. Fields) Hallfax Street, Petersburg, or address R. R. MAXWELL, Mgr.. Petersburg, Va. (Cash Must accompany all requests for seats.) Two Colored Men Lynched. Tampa, Fla., January 12.—Authorities here to-day received reports of a double lynching near the Mulberry Phosphate Fields, a short distance from Tampa, late last night. The victims were Lewis Peck and another colored man, whose name has not been learned. They were suspected of a murderous attack upon a white citizen of Mulberry. THE WRIP Washington Bee on The Crisis. Washington, D. C.—Protesting against the policy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to make and maintain The Crisis the only voice of and advocate for the race, the Washington Bee this week carries the following editorial, under the caption "Booming The Crisis." "It was the Negro weekly newspapers, more than two hundred in number, whose strong, every week protests against the injustice heaped upon, and the segregation aimed against the race which prompted into existence the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For thirty-one years courageous Harry Smith has thundered against injustice through his Cleveland Gagette, for many years John Mitchell, through his Richmond PLANET, Ben J. Davis in his Atlanta Independent, and Editor King through his Dallas Express. Night in the heart of the South, have been protesting against the restrictions hedged about their race. "Uninterruptedly for thirty-three years The Bee has stood on guard here at the Nation's capitol, shelling each week, the cladet of Race Prejudice with facts and figures. Chris Perry's Tribune at Philadelphia, John Murphy's Afro-American Ledger at Balto, The Freeman at Indianapolis, The Defender at Chicago, and two hundred other Negro weeklies, North, East, South and West, have been a unit, for years, in defending the race and demanding justice for it. But the N. A. A. C. P. ignores the splendid, vitalizing work of the race newspapers already established, and established and financed by their editors, and concentrating its efforts and giving of its funds exclusively to make The Crisis, a very late comer, the real and only organ of the race. "The editor of The Crisis enjoys a salary of $2,500 a year for simply reprinting and reprinting what has appeared in the more than two hundred Negro weeklies, two or four weeks previous to its issuance, while, the editors of the Negro weeklies have a hard time to make expenses for the season they are steadfastly defending the race each week. The only thing new which appears in The Crisis, a monthly publication, is the dense assemblage of words — beautifully coined words, Oscar Wilde atomized sentences, which the editor indexes as "editorials." If the N. A. A. C. P. was as much concerned about the Negro newspapers that have for a quarter of a century, more or less, been weekly, and consistently fighting the race's battle as it is for that infant prodigy of reprint, The Crisis, whose narrow, epistolical editor draws $2500 for a liberal use of the shears and paste pot, the horizon of, usefulness of these weeklies might have been more extended. "In every part of the country money is being solicited to support only The Crisis, which does nothing more than reprint, once a month, that which has appeared previously in the more than two hundred Negro newspapers. The Negro weekly publications have borne the brunt of the battle for years, are bearing it now, and will continue to bear it, but they are forgotten by the very organization we inspired into existence, without money and without price, by our strong, verile, fifty-two weeks in a year protests. "The Negro weeklies have more than 500,000 bonade subscribers; more than 2,500,000 readers, while The Crisis, accepting its own padded statement, has not more than 25,000 circulation. Alas for gratitude!" State Teachers' Association to Meet in Alexandria Virginia, February 20th and 27th, 1914. The State Association of Colored Teachers will meet in Alexandria, Va. February 26th and 27th. President E. A. Long is sending notice to all teachers in the State urging their attendance. An interesting program is promised Among the speakers will be Dr. Jas. H. Dillard, President Slater Board and the Jeane's Foundation, Prof. Rocose C. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent Public Schools of Washington City and Dean L. P. Moore of Teachers College, Howard University, Superintendent R. C. Stearns has given orders that all teachers who attend this meeting may count the two days as if they had taught. Every county and city is requested to form a county or city organization and send a delegate. The President is urging that statistics from every local league in each Division be collected by the County League and summarized in a general report and brought to the State Meeting. The cry is "On to Alexandria." Let every teacher get ready to answer the call. The officers of the subordinate lodge, Knights of Pythias and sub- ordinate courts, Order of Ocunahte, will be installed Tuesday, January 20, 1914 at the First Baptist Church. A home attendance is required. News From M. Liverpool, O. East Liverpool, O. Jan. 14, 1914. To the Editor of The PLANET TO THE EDITOR OF THE PLANET. Please allow me space in your valuable paper to say a word of the doings of the Crockery City. Services at the Second Baptist Church. The pastor preached a great sermon, "The World/ in Search for Men." The S. S. was largely attended on the first Sunday in the New Year. The officers for the year will be appointed one week hence. Master Clarence King, the subagent for the Freeman, Planet and Courier has returned home from a pleasant visit with relatives and friends in Barracville, Ohio. He will take up his work. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Brown are with her sister in Columbus, Ohio. The rumor that Bro. J. A. Spead is dead is false. The pastor has received a letter from him since that time. Bro. J. H. Porter has just returned home from a pleasant visit to his relatives and friends in Philadelphia, Pa, and Washington, DC. Dr. J. R. Hall was invited with his people, to preach at the A. M. E. Church on Sheridan Avenue on Tuesday night. He will also preach to the people of Fredericktown, Ohio, at Christian White. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Thomas entertained a number of their friends on Thursday night, January 1st at their home on Pudson Ave. The evening was spent in music. An orchestra was the feature of the evening. Mrs. E. A. Pann, Mrs. A. Holmes were the prize winners. Those present were Rev. I. R. Hall, Rev. and Mrs. John Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. William Kinner, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Law Mr. and Mrs. Iris Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Barrant and Mrs. Loisie Fuller, Mrs. A. Holmes. The home was decorated with holiday colors. A beautiful lunch was served. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Snowden, of Willeville, Ohio entertained a number of friends Wednesday, December 31st at their home on Main Street, in honor of their fifteenth year of their marriage. They received a number of valuable presents. The evening was spent pleasantly. Rev. John Jackson sang a solo, which was much enjoyed by all. Mr. William Kinner was toastmaster. Best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Snowden. R. S. BREEDLOVE. General Agent. Master C. King. Sub Agent. "THE WHIP" Commences this week on Page Two. Spanish War Veterans Elect Officers The following officers for the en- suing year have been duly elected by William A. Hankins Camp, No. 6, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of the Potomac. Commander, W. H. Anderson; Sen- lor Vice Commander, Frederick Ward Junior Vice Commander, Richard Stewart; Officer of the Day, James E. Jefferson; Officer of the Guard, I. T. Mathews; Trustees, Maj. J. B. Johnson; B. F. Turner, Joseph How- ard; Adjutant, James H. Brown; Quartor Mantor, Lt. Fred E. Mang- rum; Chaplain, P. W. Logan; Histori- ian, L. J. C. Smith; Sergeant Major, William White; Q. M. S. Sergeant, Caesar Roane; Color Sergeants Joseph Brown and Emmet Folkes. Usher Board Installs Officers The Installation of the officers of the Usher Board and their Ladies' Auxiliary of First Baptist Church took place Monday night, January 5, 1914 at said church. The officers were installed in an impressive style by Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson. The following are the officers for the next term: Usher Board: Charles W. Robinson President; W. H. Jones, Vice-Pres.; John Bland, 1st Vice-Pres.; Spencer Harper, Secretary; Walter Johnson, Asst. Secretary; J. H. Taylor, Treas.; Isaac Parker, Chaplain; Richard Bice, Sergent at Arms. Ladies' Auxiliary: Mrs. Lula Vandervall, President; Mrs. Mary T. Jackson, 1st Vice-Pres.; Mrs. Eva Fields, 2nd Vice-Pres.; Miss Susie A. Boiling, Secretary; Mrs. Missouri Jones, Asst. Secretary; Mrs. Nellie B. Scott, Treasurer; Mrs. Pannie E. Johnston, Chaplain. Supper was served by the ladies. The Deacon Board was out in full. Returns Thanks. The Young Women's Christian Association feels very grateful to Mr. John H. Brusten's Sunday School Chair of the Brownsburg Baptist Church for so kindly donating one ton of coal for the Association. We thank that others may follow Mr. Brusten's remarks. Officers Remembered. Officers, clerks and agents of the American Beneficial Insurance Company assembled at the office on last Thursday evening, occasion being last agent meeting in the old building. After routine business, Chairman R. W. Moss called upon Rev. W. D. Ball who in choice language presented tokens of appreciation to the officers, President, Dr. W. F. Graham; Prof. B. H. Peyton, Secretary and General Manager; Genl. Superintendent, J. W. Howard; Genl. Sleek Inspector, R. H. Fauntleroy; Genl. Route Inspector, R. W. Anderson. The officers responded in hearty words of acceptance. Mrs. Ida K. Mills on part of the clerks of the office presented to the president a box containing useful articles and to the Secretary and General Manager, a leather traveling bag. The president Jr. W. F. Graham in his usual way addressed the large force. He commanded them for the past year's work and urged upon them to do greater work for 1914. Prizes were presented to the successful agents by the Secretary and General Manager. Refreshments were served and all passed away well pleased with the evening's entertainment. Killed Him. The dead body of Arthur Battle, an ex-convict was found at the mouth of the alley on Third Street between Leigh and Jackson Streets, on the East side of the street, last Tuesday morning after 4:30 o'clock. It was thought at first that he was frozen to death, but subsequently it was found that he was shot in the breast. Later George Perry was arrested, charged with killing him and Laura Temple, was held as a material witness. It is said that he received at 1990 Third Street and that the trouble between the two men was over a woman. The body was removed to A. D. Price's Undertaking rooms, where an impost was held. Mr. Nam'l. Hopkins Died Suddenly. The funeral of Mr. Samuel Hopkins, who died suddenly Thursday, Jan. 5th, took place last Sunday. He was a member of Crystal Lodge and Eureka Company, Knights of Pythias. Y. M. L. and V. Installation. On Monday night, January 5, 1914, the Young Men's Love and Union Club, No. 1 of South Richmond, Va. held their annual meeting and installation in their hall on Turpike and Decatur St. and a grand time was spent by all present, the ladies especially enjoying themselves to the fullest extent. A short program was arranged by President James Johnson, which proved a great feature to the occasion. Mr. Robert L. Haden spoke in glowing terms of the success of the Club from its infancy and presented Mr. Thomas Mayo $5.00 as a New Year present. His remarks which were punctuated by enthusiastic hymns were well received and he was rapturously applauded. Mr. Richard Newby's solo was applauded as were also the remarks of Messrs. J. E. Height and J. R. Cogbill. Mr. Frank Gibson, Sr. prayed a fervent prayer. Mr. William A. Lewis installed the officers in a dignified manner, and seemed to have been at home as he beautifully pictured the duties of each. The officers are: President, James Johnson; Vice President, Matthew Dixon; Financial Secretary, Robert L. Haden; Recordkeeping Secretary, John R. Cobgill; Treasurer, Albert T. Cheatham; Sub-Treasurer, Charles Thompson; Sick Chairman, Alley Byrd; Inner Guard, Thomas Munford; Conductor, Alexander Pryor; Chaplain, Bert. Owens; Marshall, Richard Newby; Janttor, John Langhorne; Banking Committee, Richard Dixon, James Johnson, Ally Bird; Trustees, Rev. L. A. Green, John Jones, John Mason. The guest were served at three tables, which were heavily laden with all the delicacies of the season prepared by Messrs. James Seats, Chairman; William Tucker, William H. Mosby and Richard Dixon. The committee acted well its part and deserves special mention. As the small hours of the morn crept in, the guests departed for their homes with words of praise for the boys of Y. M. L. and U. Five Months Old Baby Badly Burned. Little Charles, the infant son of Mr. and I Mrs. George Washington of North 13th Street was horribly burned last Tuesday. The carriage, in which the baby was sleeping in, some way caught fire. In the room at the time were two or three small children and the mother was in the yard. The child is now in the City Hospital with slight churns for its recovery. HOLMES—In loving remembrance of my daughter, Rosa Holmes, who departed this life two years ago today. "Farewell! My loving daughter has gone from this world of care, Gone to the beautiful Heaven to meet her Saviour there. Gone from all sorrow and sickness, gone from all grief and despair. Waiting for friends and loved ones, waiting patiently there. By her mother. LUCY HOLMES. In Memoriam. MARTIN—In fond and loving remembrance of my dear mother, who died (10) ten years ago to-day, January 15, 1904, at Jefferson, Va.: "I will meet thee where no far-well tears are shed." In Memoriam. COGBILL—in sad, and loving memory of our dear husband and father, Richard T. Cogbill, Sr., who passed away one year ago, to-day, January 16, 1913: "One year has passed and still we miss you. And the world is sad and drear. For we miss you, dear father. Every day and everywhere. "Your busy hands are folded. Your work on earth is done; Your trials are all ended. Your heavenly crown is won. "Friends may think we soon forget you. And our wounded hearts be healed. But they little know the sorrow. That's within our hearts concealed." His wife, ROBINETTA COGBILL, and Children. "THE WRIP" Commence this week on Page Two. Leeburg Personal. Tuesday, January 6th, Mr. Charles Gaint was laid to rest at Lincoln, Va. Rev. William Sidney, officiating, He leaves a wife, sister, mother, one brother and a host of friends to mourn their loss. On January 7th, Mrs. Janie Tolbert Gaint was laid to rest at the same place. She was 90 years old. On Friday, Mr. Charlie Lucas, after about a week's illness, was buried from the M. E. Church at the age of 75. Rev. J. E. Dotson officiated. It was a large funeral. A good man is gone. Peace to his ashes. Sleep on, brother Lucas, take thy rest. Mrs. Emily Roberts is on the sick list. Mrs. Francis Hinton is on the sick list. Rev. Dr. E. D. Tyler came Friday as usual. On Sunday he was at his post preaching morning and evening. In the morning, subject, "Progress. Again at 8 o'clock, Job 16-19, "But my witness is in Heaven and my record is on high." Our hearts were made glad. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robinson of Waverly Heights were with us all day. Mrs. Roberson was the guest at dinner with Mrs. William Roberts. Rev. W. R. Manley was also present, having just returned from an extended visit in North Carolina to his parents. Mrs. William Roberts just returned from D. C. after a ten days' visit, looking well. She reported a good time. Mr. Bernard Harrison of Bumpass, Va. arrived in town Saturday, January 10th inat., to the enjoyment of the Madam. Mr. Thomas Taylor of New York arrived in town January 5th and supplied the public school with clothes, candies, oranges, nuts, cape and many other things we haven't space to mention. He made the heart of the children happy. Mr. Taylor, come again. Our old friend, Capt. C. F. Sims of Mount Vernon paid a flying trip yesterday, looking well as usual. All amies. REPORTER. Leonard Apperson—William Mundin, 1884-1914. On Wednesday evening, January 21st, from 8 to 11 o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. William Mundin will hold an informal reception at their residence, 635 N. Sixth Street, the occasion being the Fifth Anniversary of their marriage. No cards will be sent out. They take the means of attending a personal invitation to all friends in and out of the city. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY JAN 19 1914 LAVENGE, MA 02571 PRICE, FIVE CENTS. PERSONALS AND BRIEFERS Mr. Luther Medley of News Perry, Va. is in the city. Dr. I. D. Burrell of Roanoke was in the city this week to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary A. P. Grey. Mr. J. J. Brooks of Newport News, Va. spent several days in this city. Mr. Samuel Price, accompanied by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Eliza Lindsey of Ridgeway, Va. spent the holidays with his daughter, Mrs. Robert Alexander and were welcome visitors to this office. H. M. Williams, Jr., A. B. O. G. of this city left last Thursday morning for Burkeville, Va. to do optical work for the students of Ingleside Seminary. The final of the Whist Series for 1913 between Messrs. E. R. Whittley of Richmond, Va., Ed. Ieaves of Franklin vs. J. H. Fowkes and Chas. Cook of the Magic City was played at Byrd's Cafe last week, resulting in a pretty slide against Whittley and Reaves. They are now discarded from the Big League for three months. Took Pantair Treatment. Mr. Samuel Bell of Emporia, Va., who has been taking the Pasteur treatment for a mad dog bite, has completely recovered and returned to his home Saturday the 10th last. Mrs. Louisa Bell passed through the city last Sunday night, enroute to the Eastern Shore to take charge of a school there. AWAIT FREE SALE OF CUP VENDORS. Board Will Not Require Individual Cups Until Manufacturers Are Reasonable. Richmond, Va., January 14, 1914. (Special)—As soon as the dealers in individual drinking cups will sell their machines freely and without enacting lease requirements, the State Board of Health will advocate that the common drinking cup be abolished in public places. Until that time, the Board does not intend that the people of Virginia shall be forced to pay tribute to the manufacturers of the devices for vending drinking-cups. --- Annual Stockholders' Meeting The annual meeting of the Stock- holders of the American Boneol Insurance Company will be held Wednesday, January 28, 1914, 8 P. M., Price's Hall, 212 E. Leigh St. .W. F. GRAHAM; President. WANTED—A GOOD ALL AROUND Cook, and two waitresses. Cook's pay $10.00 per week with room; waitresses' pay $5 per week with room. MRS. B. F. MORRELL, Jamestown, R. I. Information Wanted. I would like to know the whereabouts of my brother, if he is dead or living. Any news of him will be gladly received. JESSE STRANGE. I have Profitable work for the readers' of this paper. Prove it by sending self-addressed, stamped envelope to A. DUER, Box 315, Cape Charles, Va. FOR SALE — PIANO. CABINET Grand, in perfect condition, sweet toned. Orchestra Expression. Man- dolin Attachment. Original price $550.00, sacrificed. Also Antique Mahogany bedstead. 634 N. 8th St. Housekeeper Wanted Wanted—A Housekeeper to take charge of my home, my wife having died. My house is brick and lighted with natural gas. I have horses and pigs. A good home for the right party. Address, REV. C. THOMPSON Rondeau, Ontario, Canada. I don't know to know the whereabouts of my brother, Patrick Tatehn. He is 55 years of age. When last heard from he was in Norfolk, Va. THE WHIP Novelized From the Exciting Play of the Same Name By BERTRAND BABCOCK Copyright, 112 by Cecilia Talgeth and Hamilton by arrangement with the Drury Lane theatrical arts and Arthur Collins, managing director of the Drury Lane theatrical arts of London. PROLOGUE. When a sinisterly designing nobleman and a clever, unscrupulous adventures match their wits against three thoroughbreds—a man, a woman and a horse—with the object of bringing about their downfall and confusion there is certain to be a series of dramatically interesting renouncers. Who will win eventually depends largely upon the accident of chance, upon the latent possibilities that lie in the ever variable unknown quantity that exists in human affairs. And so it is with The Whip, a great race horse, about whose history are woven romance, tragedy and comedy in equal measure and who in the end becomes the deciding factor in the war of wits around her. CHAPTER I. O Lady Diana Sartorla, "the cleanest sportswoman in all England" - the orators of the hunt breakfasts of the Heverley hounds would have it so - a fence was merely an obstacle. And so after this morning with the Beverley pack Lady "D" on her return to the kennels of her grandfather, the Marquise of Beverley, found a defiant pleasure in putting her hunter over every such obstacle. Though the day was one of those perfect Yorkshire days, when rural England seems made for the sportsman, Lady Diana's gallop at the heels of the pack had not been altogether of pleasure. To begin with, her grandfather, the pompous and morally blemish Marquis of Beverley, had been in no good humor. Although Falconhurst, the most secluded and retired of the several country seats of the family, was filled with the members of a house party for Lady Diana Sartorius, Beverley had carefully warned them away from the Downs, and indeed had sent all of them otter hunting with Captain Greville Sartorius, Lady Diana's cousin. "And otter hunting of all sports in the world!" Lady Diana had breathed sarcastically to her maid. "One might quite as well hunt a bally mouse as an otter, you know." The reason Lady Diana knew of race in the great stakes of Beverley, was being exercised on the Downs that morning, and although this expected successor to the Newmarket winners, Silver Cloud, Falconhurst and Beverley's Hope, had not had her trial and was not likely to have for some time, the racing marquis was determined that no strange eyes should learn any thing of the speed pet of his declining years. Stable secrets had been leaking of late in regard to some of the others in the string, but none should respecting The Whip. This prohibition had extended to Lady Diana herself. It was not that through her there was danger of the betting ring getting advance information, but the young girl who shared almost equally in Beverley's affection for The Whip, could not have been with the promising flirt and her contemporaries without being upon the back of the speeches. For the girl role The Whip or any of the other roles in the Beverley stables, as Diana of old hunted, with divine inspiration. "But the little filly's growing up, or rather, my granddaughter Lady Diana is growing up," the marquise had said more than once. "and a filly isn't a colt any more, rather a young woman of position and rank isn't a girl, and she really can't ride with the lads of my stable." So Lady Diana, in the warm rebellion of youth, at the first transmitting appearance of that, convention, which ultimately molds us all until we lose our little distinguishing essence and be come as many pigs was irritated by this abrupt separation from the things of her childhood. Hence this study strong, perhaps ordinarily too emotionless, young Englishwoman took the highest and roughest of the obstacles in her course as she followed in the wake of the Berley hounds, for the bounds were not the features of a hunt, but merely out on one of their everlasting expeditions, when to "keep their scent in" they were permitted to range for trails under the guidance of whips. One of the obstacles which Lady Diana took that morning was a stone fence that separated the hands of Fall's conubiat from the property of the Earl of Bramster, in the midst of which stood the old stone tower. He 1 "The little fifty's growing up." vers. As her hunter cleared well with all four fences and for a moment trespassed" upon the lands of one regarded by the simple folk of Yorkshire "as the wicked earl," the girl looked toward the rocky heights accentuated by the feudal tower, continuing to the eyes the long ascent of stone upward. To her mood of the moment, while lifevers appeared less barren and more the anode of a human being, still there was the sinister atmosphere of a place of ill omen, which was not decreased by an open window and the movement of a hanging at one of the casements in the more modern port of the structure. Even with the evidences of a homelife about the tower, which there were not, the place would have worn its air of fallen tragedy, its seeming appearance of a center radiating newhole some forces. Then as she entered along over a level expanse skirting the eminence upon which Blevers stood and cast a glance upward occasionally, Lady Diana thought of what her grandfather had told her when she was a child. It was shortly after the death in the service of her father, and the death of his comrade, Robert, the Earl of Brancaster, li the same Indian engagement Her father and Brancaster, sire of the present Brancaster, had planned that the little Lady Dunn' and the young Hubert should unite the fortunes and lands' of the two almost princely houses. But her father had been killed and his father too. The young earl, without the repressing authority of a parent, had begun life as a boy with too much money and no sense of responsibility. His mother had died soon after he was born. He had not been a bad neglected but, as a little boy he had been excused. What, under proper training, would have been clean, clean, more prosperous than through his lot Kathy Diana herself became in him a more moving spirit. He gambled with more observance of etiquette and of honor, but still he 'deleted chance. As a result he got into the 'hands of the money lenders, and what wasn't entitled was mortgaged. There were women, too. In this young man's life, but of these Lady Diana knew nothing. But, though they came and went, they never seemed to have penetrated to the core of the young Hubert to infect him with the virus of diseased imagination. The boy seemed sleep and too good matured to put his house in order. His friends predicted that if he ever really aroused himself he would rid himself of them effectively, cleanly and finally. Damplising the supposedly dissolute young earl from her thoughts, Lady Diana came to the last fence which separated her from the glen in which the Falconhunt, kennels and stables stood. From the level phateon immediately above the glen there flonded down to her the shouts of the lads on the backs of the prides of the marquis' stables. Beverley had held the for the moment jockeys in stern repression, but the stimulating air, the vast tonic of nervous horsefish beneath their knees and the thrill of mad motion could not keep the lads entirely silent. In revolt the things that she dimly sensed as governors of her whole after life Lady Diana set her mount at the stillly rallied fence before her. As the pack, scenting the food waiting in the kennels, swept through the fence Lady Diana went over it. In midair she saw a picture, vividly and anxiously. Under the royal oak sat an artist sketching, though far on one side the pack streamed through. So intent was he on his outline of the kennels and mushroom stables that he gave no attention to the hounds and apparently was not conscious of the approach hurting through the air—of the lady on her paffrey. The original impetus of Lady Diana's leap would have carried woman and horses squared into the person of the artist. But the moment the girl had seen him a paralyzing inhibition had stayed the force of horse and girl almost in the air, and both lost their carrying power, making a very bungling finale of what had been originally a very fine movement. But, as it was, the caesel, made on the moment by the artist-out of twigs and dead branches, had been shattered by a movement of one of the hunter's sleek legs, and, worse, an iron shot hoof had made an ugly mark upon the artist's left wrist, which had laid at rest on the moss while his right hand sketched. In a trembling hurry Lady Diana awung from the saddle. Her mount, disregarded, was allowed to amble away and browsed without restraint. "Oh, I'm so sorry! Pray, tell me that you're not hurt—seerely!" she said and raised her eyes to the stranger's face. She saw clean cut features, black eyes with just a shade of amusement, of whim. In them, though there must have been pain in that wrist, and waxy, black hair. The man was in rough tweeds, and a cloth hat of his suit's pattern lay a little way off. "Not a hit," he returned garrellessly. "It was really very stupid of me not to have noticed a pack in full cry for its kennel feeding and so inspiring an object as their mistress." He had covered his hurt with his handkerchief and knotted and twisted it before the girl could offer to minister to him. "Such absorption can only be excused in a very great artist, and such I assure you I can scarcely hope to be." His depressing motion brought his open sketch book nearer the girl and her eyes fell upon its pages. "Why, there's the knoons!" she exclaimed. "Oh, I mustn't think of your sketches, but your hurt! I am profoundly sorry. If I could do anything"— "A little thing that I can attend to easily after a hit," he said. Then, in courteous anxiety to turn the current of her thoughts, he wont on: "It really gives an idea of them, doesn't it? See, here are some of the dogs." In the girl's hand now was the book. "I've noticed you about sketching for the past four mornings," she confessed, turning the pages. "And, ah! See, here's Dido!" With a laugh the artist answered: "I'm glad it's good enough to recognize." "I draw a little myself, you know, went on the girl, "and dogs and horses are rather my strong point." "And you don't think they're mine!" the stranger said, amusement in his eye, but his voice perfectly serious. "I don't say that," required the self confident girl: "but, you see, it isn't quite right. Look, just here—the turn of the head." Again there was a joyful light in the stranger's smile. "Would you put it right for me?" Lady Diane caught the bridle of her home and strode toward the stilts. "Come along, then," she said impressively, "and we'll see what we can do." In the level bit of ground before the stables she was greeted kindly and affectionately by burrying stables. "Take my horse, one of you, will you? And some one bring out Dido, she ordered in a tote that seemed gracious enough to the English groom about her, but which would have jarred upon an American waiter. A kennel man carried out the hound in his arms and deposited her pet Lady Diana. With the sketchbook on her knee she indicated with her riding crop Dido. "Can you manage to hold her?" she asked. The stranger, taking the hound, seated himself on the corner of the stone bridge that spanned a little stream and was a link in the highway that ran by the stables. How's that? be asked. "Just a little more round," she returned, "so that's capital!" then handed herself with her pencil. "Do you exhibit" she ended, turning up, "him for a second on ubiquitous leather, then another upon the drawing. ```markdown ``` Under the "Royal Oak Sat an Artist Sketching. "Very little," be said, with marked hesitation. "Whose—whose name am I to look for?" she inquired, a trace of personal knillness in her glance. "I'd rather not give my name until I've done more for my reputation," he said a tride nwckwarly and in some concern. "Oh, as you like!" she said. Then, holding out the sketch toward him, she went on. "There, look: how's that?" She made him a little bow, with something not hostile in it, and began quickly to turn the pages of the book. "Oh, you paint landscapes, too," she said. "and they're very good too! That's a delicious little bit, and that's the splimp where we killed last fall and I got the brush. And, oh, the old half fortress—half tower sort of place! It took us though it might be"— She was looking toward the seat of the last Enlir of Brancaster in the distance, dimly visible up the glen. "The Ilevers?" the stranger finished her sentence. "It is. Haven't you ever been there?"— "Nobody about here goes," returned Lady Dianna. "You'see, it belongs to Lord Brancaster, and he hardly ever visits it. though I've heard his here now. Did he give you permission to sketch it?" The stranger nodded. "I shouldn't have thought he would have had much sympathy with artists or art," she said. "Why not?" he asked, his glance for the moment falling. "His tastes are rather—notorious. I'm afraid he's rather a byword—about here. Even the country people call him 'the wicked ear.'" "And because a lot of yokels give a man an adorned nickname," he said tersely, "you judge him unheard. What do you know of him?" "Nothing, thanks," said Lady Diana. "Don't it a bit rough on him to believe—on mere heartway?" asked the artist. "I don't, but my grandfather, who has a kind word for every one, says that his grandfather was a soldier, his father a soldier and a gentleman, but he hopes the son will never darken his doors. And all the words say he fritter away his life and is digging away his fortune." The stranger smiled with a sense of pain reflected in his face. "What the world says is often malice," he said, going to the rescue of Lord Branchaer. "But I'm sorry to hear what Lord Beverley said. 'Nobody's all bad. Perhaps it's because Lord Beverley doesn't know him that he thinks so ill of him. Perhaps if you knew him you might find—some little good'— "I'm sure I hope so," said Lady Diana. But the stranger continued: "I'm sure he'd hope so. If he has played invoc with his life may not be repent his folly? Perhaps in a sense he never had a chance—perhaps he never had a father or mother in his youth to direct him—and perhaps he'll turn out all right now. Perhaps no good woman—" A softly, insidious voice thrust itself into the intimacy, that seemed about to begin between these two young people. "Ah, there you are." it said. CHAPTER II. The Woman and the Car. OTH the girl and the man looked up and saw in the road a motorcar with a chauffeur and a woman stepping opt from it. For the briefest space the two women measured glances. Lady Diana saw a tall, rather dark and foreign appearing young woman of an uncertain age whose black hair and sharp features gave her, in the estimation of any one seeing her for the first time, a certain aspect of power. A moment later she was walking toward them. The artist was not pleased at this intrusion, and Diana saw that upon his face was that tragic mask she had noted when they saw one another for the first time, not so many minutes ago. "So this is where you come to sketch so often," went on the woman from the motorcar. "Delightful place! Pray. introduce me." The artist interposed himself between the two women, almost as though he feared harm to the younger of the two. "I'm only a stranger here," he said, while Lady Diana, with perfect and cold breeding, ignored a situation that to one of another nationality might have been a trifle embarrassing. The intruder again swept Lady Diana with her eyes. "Indeed," she said, a subtle menace in her toes. "Well, it's lucky I found you. If we are going for our usual spin together Francois wants to tell you something about the car—the brake doesn't act properly." Lady Diana was not pleased with her亲生性 of the other woman. She was too young to have expected the other fact that she was a Baby about the tall and dark trunk that appended this young English woman. She be continued, though the other talked at her, to include herself in her British reservation. The situation appeared to the artist to need relieving very much. So to create a diversion he walked toward the road where the car and chauffeur were waiting. "We'll take it down to the village and look for a blacksmith," he volunteered. But the woman who had come for him in the motor didn't move. She was still in hope that Lady Diana would recognize her existence. "Can't it be done here?" she asked, still crying the young English noblewoman and anxious for some offer of aid that would enable her to make Lady Diana's acquaintance. "Certainly not," returned the artist, almost roughly, "and, besides, here are the horses. The car may frighten them if we leave it in this neighborhood." The woman of the motorcar looked down the road and saw the Beverley string being led and ridden from the exercising on the Downs. "Dear things," she said for Diana's bonnet. "How splendid they ```markdown ``` There Was Something About Her That Repellent. look! Race horses too. I should have loved to see them. I'd no notion that there were any so near to us. To whom do they belong? "Lord Beverley," said the artist very shortly indeed. "Come along." "Lord Beverley! Really," exclaimed the woman, and then, made bolder by this revelation, she spoke directly to Lady Diana: "I am so sorry we were in the way. Pray tell Lord Beverley I'll take great care it doesn't happen again." But this gracious speech won from the girl only a nod of the head and the singularly British irritating "Thank you," with a rising inflection at the end. "Please make haste; they are here," the artist cautioned her. "Too, you dear," the dark woman returned, and then smiled at Lady Diana. "Good morning." Another little nod of the blood head and a "Thank you" were her only rewards. The artist bowed very imperiously and, with the woman who had come for him, rode down the road. Musingly Lady Diana looked after them. "I wonder who he is," she said, "and what hold she has on him." But thoughts of the two were out of the mind of Lady Diana before she had formulated any conscious conclusions, for the whole "string" of her grandfather was now led into the yard of the stables or ridden by the boys. Though Tom Lambert, the trainer of the stables, was nominally in charge of all of the horses he paid no attention to any save the nervous, skittish creature covered with her horse "clothing" and wearing over it all a horse ring. Lambert in person was leading her. The girl made some remark to the middle age trainer, who had been a boy in the Beverley stables, and he answered as to the condition of the pride of the Falconhunt stables; "The fitter she gets the worse she gets, and when she, fairly copes the needle I believe she'd charge a battery and try to ent the guns." Though the racer was dancing about in a semicircle, held by Lambert at the head and Harry Anson, her jockey, in the saddle, Lady Diana went to the rescue, resenting any stir upon the reputation of her pet. "She's a dear, isn't she?" she enclaimed to the jockey. "With you, my lady," he answered, "and she's all right with me. But a stranger would have a better time trying to tackle a tiger." The nervous, prancing horse was put in the stables and Tom Lambert, her trainer, turned to his young mistress. "The marquis won't let me try-her out, my lady," he said, "but I believe The Whip's about the finest filly as ever looked through a bridle. But the very noblest ship is no good without the man at the wheel." "Sorely Harry's good enough," said Lady Diana. "When he's himself, my lady, but just now at times he's a hangdog, successful sort of beginner, with no aspiris and no nerve. Whatever he gets on his mind I don't want it on The Whip's back. Light heart moves light weight, but a baby boy with the blue shirt barely raising a humper hose. Why I don't speak to your husband? I love your just now, my lady; he I intruded about the mable secrets leaking out, and he saw a tint in every memory. We mustn't worry him more. I'll find out what's the matter with Harry." The Marquis of Beverley, with the Hon. Mrs. Beamish, the middle aged distant cousin of Lady Diana, and her companion, rode into the yard, and the marquia, who had seen the artist and his companion in the motorcar, was quite sure that the artist was a tont. Lady Diana told him of her encounter with the artist and that he had been sketching in the yard. "Well, I won't have it!" he exclaimed. "Give orders. Tom. For all we know the fellow's a tont-confounded toot of the worst possible description." "Tee, my lord, quite right," answered the trainer. "There's no use in having a dark horse if all the world knows it. But, my lord, we don't know that we shall have a winner for sure until we try the horse, my lord. I do wish"— "Plenty of time for that. Tom." returned the marquis, who now, with Mrs. Beanish, was out of the dog cart and about the yard. "We don't want to leave the Two Thousand Guinea race on the trial ground. But we'll have no touts and trespassers on my grounds." "Well, grandfather, you needn't trouble about this trespasser," said Lady Diana. "I know he's an artist. He showed me his sketchbook. And we talked about art and scenery and the hounds." "But not about the horses, my lady T" put in Lambert. "We never mentioned the horses." said Lady Diana. Mrs. Beamish, who was a dry voiced satirist with a purposely rasping inflection: "What a dull conversation." "I race for myself and not for the crowd," said Beaverley, "and don't forget our old saying, 'A Yorkshireman's house is his friends', but a Yorkshireman's horse is his own." I don't bet myself, and I never let our horses be turned into public betting machines if I can help it. So no more talk with strangers, DI. Lady Diana and Beaverley passed into the kennels and Mrs. Beamish and Tom Lambert were left alone. The middle aged pair had a strong mutual attachment, and Mrs. Beamish certainly intended some day to marry Lambert, who had been the sweet-heart of her youth, but she was determined to die rather than admit it. And now the portly trainer turned to her with the lovestick eyes through which he had regarded her these many years. And just now Mrs. Beamish was jealous. She had seen Tom in conversation with Myrtle Anson. Harry's sister. Their talk had been perfectly innocent and Tom had merely tried to find out from her what was making Harry fall off in his riding. But Mrs. Beamish, who wouldn't admit that she had any affection for Lambert, wouldn't admit either that there was any good in his character. She seemed prone to think that her old lover was now at the age when middle aged men leer at young girls. In the midst of their conversation about The Whip she turned upon Lambert to shake her finger with: "I saw you talking with Myrtle Anson." "Mrs. Beamish—honorable madmom—you're jealous!" exclaimed Lambert, joyous that it was so and yet fearing her dry temper. "Of you? I? Never!" returned the flame of his mouth. "Not now perhaps," he returned, temporizing "But in the old days don't you remember how wild you was with me about little Suele Dobh—when you and me were keeping company"— "We never kept company," returned the Hlon. Mrs. Beamish, furious. "Well, if we didn't then we ought to have kept company," answered the literal Tom. "with me walking out with you and kissing you." "Once only and by accident," cut in the elderly name of days when the Beverley stables were smaller. "Well, I suppose a collision's an accident, but I liked it and so did you," said Lambert. "I didn't." dented Mr. Beamish. "You and I were happy," went on The Whip's master, "till Beamish came along and you got taken with him. I can't forget you, Betty, and what might have happened. Don't you ever remember, Betty, before you was a great lady!" "The air of the woman was kinder than it had been for some time to Tom. "I'm not a great lady, Tom," she said gently for one of her vigorous personality. "I'm a poor relation, though Lord Beverley doesn't treat me like one. But I am! I'm Lady Dl's companion and distant cousin by marriage. I'm sort of female major domo of the household, and I'm very happy. Tom. I'm not a snob, but I've got to remember that I the Hon. Mrs. Beamish; that I Lord Beverley's cousin by marriage; that he looks upon me as one of the family; that I mustn't disgrace it by—by" "Thinking of the likes of me," said Tom sadly. "All you think of is that you're married into a noble family—not that you came out of—of—him"— "Out of a shop. Oh, you needn't mind saying it! I'm not ashamed of it." "Why should you be?" went on Lambest. "Ah, they don't make shops like that nowadays. I can see it now so if it was yesterday and smell it—And what applies your mother did self! Many's the time she's give me one when I was a nipper. Lord! I wish Captain Beamish had never been quartered in our town—never set eye on you." "I made him a good wife. Tom," said Betty, a share of regret in her voice. "I'll be bound you did! But you'd have made me a better, if only you hadn't been educated above your eyes—I mean above mine. Ain't it no good my boring. Betty?" "No good. Tom! If ever I feel want I take down the postage and look up Dorothy - Gigley - Vanderville Dale Gwala Goshen Jordan, both masters of —and it strengthens me so he does my duty in that station of life"— "To wha it did not please God to call you." Supplemented Tom Lambert decisively when she backfired. CHAPTER IIL Wit Get the Stable Secrets and How. LLl the morning Captain Greville Sartoris, the cousin of Lady Diana and the hair to the Baverley tail, though the fortune would go to the marquis grand-daughter, had led the greater part of the house party in an other hunt. Now, with the bounds that they had taken for their rather sane hunt in full cry, they were perishing, a large she otter the bounds had started. Through the open the little creature fled, followed by the yelping pack, not that, of course, with which Lady Diana had run, and the party of men and women on foot with their savage otter spurs. The animal, had found its course along the little stream no longer in their accustomed solitude, so now the animal seemed to feel that there would be safety in going toward the spot never deserted. In any event she broke cover completely and made for the kennels and stables, still, however, keeping close to the east bank of the Bourne. "Across the stable yard the small pursued object went in an effort to get far enough away to make a dive into a deep pool there." Over the retaining walls and other obstacles in their path leaped the men of the party. Sartoris was first, but after he had made one frenched lunge with his spear he realized that the otter had escaped. With an exclamation of anger he buried his spear in the ground and then looked up to find the amused but more scornful eyes of his cousin upon him. "Don't. Greville, it's horrible!" exclaimed he strongly, while her grandfather was showing the fox bounds and some of his famous racing string to the visitors. "What is?" Sartoris asked, not realizing that the girl was condemning in pastime that he regarded as sport. "Otter killing-like that—otter hunting," she answered. "But you like for hunting," went on Sartoria in the blank tone of surprise of the Englishman of his wiry type, with his wip of a machette and his weak appearing figure, which hid considerable skilled strength. "You like to see a dragged, beaten fox torn to pieces alive." "No, I don't," interrupted the girl. "But it's done," went on the man. "I know," said the girl. "That's why if I were a man I'd ride nothing but steeplechase. I love a man best when the fox gets clean away. I love a man with neither clean whip nor spur. I love sport—and in the best sport there's no pain." "I was for such speeches as that—actions, too—that they called Lady Dunn "the cleanest sportswoman it all England." "Not if you're beaten?" questioned the cousin. "Not if you played rater." said the girl. Her cousin was moved to reveal, almost unconsciously, some of that queer sporting philosophy which sustained him in the somewhat questionable practices which were already being commented upon in his London clubs. "I confess I have a weakness for winning," he said with an air of frankness. "Whatever the odds in your favor, there is a certain pleasure in pursuit—in getting home." As to give emphasis to his words he drove the head of his spear into the ground. He raised his eye and, with a start, found Myrtle Anson, the young sister of Harry Anson. The Whip's jockey, near him. She had come quietly into the yard and, as if moved by an impulse of her budding woman's heart that she could not entirely control, had gone straight toward Sartoria. Lady Diana had not seen the girl, for the back of the marquis' granddaughter was turned to the more humble young woman. For a moment Sartoris regarded the girl, then with a slight move of his shoulders he turned away. Myrtle Anson, seemingly cut to the heart, sniff on a rock at the edge of the stream and continued to watch him with eyes of love. This little bit of byplay had taken but a moment, and while it was taking place and Sartoris was still eyeing the sister of the jockey she was replying to his last observation. "There's pleasure in getting home? On a weak thing that can't defend itself-or strike back?" Her words seemed to the sick conscience of Sartoris. to hold a double entendre and he looked sharply at his cousin. "Eh!" he exclaimed, suspiciously and expectantly. But Lady Diana, who had not noticed nipthing and was but speaking of the immediate object before them, went on: "I mean a weak thing like an offer. In sport there must be a fair chance." It was with genuine relief that tartuors answered: "I know, but I prefer lowest weight in life's handicap—a shade of odde in my favor, when I'm trying to win. But you're a girl and mix sentiment with your sporting." The women of the house party now claimed the attention of Lady Diana, and they called upon her to explain from her stores of "horse wisdom" the points of some of the races. About them during this time hovered the anxious murmurs. He had ordered The Whip but飞 a locked box stall, and not even the most charming estimates of the fatest of his guests could do him to unlock the door. With a fervent glance about her torks walked toward Mr. Blythe, smiling like a karly man of among the florine. This young man of torks was by no means a friend for he knew that the tork would be might possibly accompany her pretty sister of the florine, cancer, any compass, but not of limit. There was a fervent tork and glance. sportsman who took care to win when he could without causing too much of a scandal, and his rapid survey of the positions of his equals was his tribute to his own caution. But the first words he spoke to the girl were ordinary enough. He disliked "emotion and all that sort of nonsense, you know," and he did not often exhibit it. "Morning, Miss Anson. Been hotting again!" he asked, lifting his hat and pointing to a leather case she carried slung over her shoulder. "Yes," said the girl in a dull monotone. "Up on the wold!" he asked, lowering his voice with that cautious instinct, though there was no one to hear them. "Where I could see the wold," said the girl, meaning creeping between her words. "With glasses?" he persisted. For answer the girl showed him a pair of field glasses concealed in the case. "Anything worth seeing?" Bitterly she replied: "No: opponents Silver Shoe, Bever and The Whip- a striding gallop, but nothing like a trial." There was, that is her voice which would have told an expert in human nature that the girl desplaced herself for what she was doing, but that she could not resist the demands of this man. But the cousin of Lady Diana did not honor the girl with the alightest concern for her feeling. He was thinking only of the horses and of how many times he had won handily because of some bit of stable information he had been able to extract from the girl. "I wonder if their dark horse is worth anything?" he went on his gam- ber's some playing in and out of a series of calculations as to odds and weights. "What a pile one could win if one knew! Twenty to one. Look here. Myrtle, you can pump your brother, if you like. If we must know." "He won't tell." said the girl, al- most sully. The tone of the captain was kinder now that he had found something that the girl could do for him. "You can make him," he said. "I can't," she answered, her breast rising and falling. "I believe he suspects—" "You!" "You." "Me!" exclaimed Bartoria. There was self, leathing, pornation and defence of all the world in the girl's face. "You and me," she said slowly, but almost savagely. But if he felt any impending danger at her words Bartoria did not show it. There was almost banting humor in his face, which gave place to stupor as the girl hurried on in little panting pace. "My brother used to tell me everything. When he told me stable secrets I told you. I have been a traitor to him—and a traitor to them all. I have betrayed Lady Dli. di whom I love. I have sold out Lord Beverley, who gave us a home and everything we needed. I have forgition all that and have sold him sold him out for nothing at all, nothing in the whole wide world. A girl only does that for one reason, and my brother knows that." With white fury Sartoris turned upon her. For a moment it seemed as ```markdown ``` any Arygle held him bravely, but in a moment her head drooped. "No. I haven't turned traitor to you, Graville," she said brokenly. "Into the whole manner of the captain there came a great change. He waven as near to pity as his shallow nature ever permitted as he said fevently: 'Of course you haven't, little Myrtle.' Instantly the jockey's sister moved closer to him. He took one quick stop backward, and his tone became lighter as he hurried on to bridge the gap of emotion: 'But, come now, don't talk heroics—about traitors and things. Boverey never bets. If the wilde world knew his stable secrets it would do no harm. If you give me a tip, or two—heaven knows I want it badly enough—who's hurt?' "I am," said the girl, much of her resistance gone because of the few kindly words of the moment, too soon passed. "And I shan't do it again." "Nonsense," You Will tell me when The Whit's tried." "I shall be here to see." "No?" "No. I can't stay here much longer. I dare not." "Nosemee: Where will you go?" "I can't that for you to say? Haven't you promised?" Sartorts sartured his shoulders and then became aware that Harry Anson was staring near the main door of the stables with anxious, speculative eyes upon him. The left Mirtle and the right wounded him. His eyes for a moment looked keenly into the face of the boy, and then with a sudden, unwilling movement of his head, he turned aside, unbleed, despite his wonderful customary self control, to face the brother of Mirtle. Lord Beverley was worried over something the women of his grand-daughter's house party had told him. They had described, the course of the otter hunt, and this description had displeased him exceedingly, though he was at much-pains not to let the women see it. But straight to Captain Sartoris, whom he instinctively disliked, though he tried to overcome that feeling, he went. "Greville," exclaimed the marquis, "I'm afraid from what I hear that you went treaspassing this morning." "Oh, did we?" exclaimed Sartoris lightly, not attaching much importance to the opinions of the racing marquais upon any subject. "Yeas, from beyond the bond where the Bourne winds through the Brancaster property." Beverley continued in modified tone. "Of course it does," answered Sartoris. "Well, we didn't go far. Surely it doesn't matter. As a nobilibor Brancaster wouldn't object." Beverley frowned as he went on in his ponderous and bombastic tone: "It's a neighbor to whom I object." One of the women of the house party, Lady Antobus, had overboard the two men use the name Brancaster. Of Lady Antobus it had been said that "she rubbed in where—well, you know, my dear." Her shrewd curiosity made her anxious to know what they were saying of Brancaster, so, despite the breeding of her line, she interjected herself into the conversation. "Lord Brancaster will have to sell the Heilers for a song if he goes on racing so desperately," she said. She was an old neighbor of the marquis, and her chance touching upon a hobby of Beverley aroused his fire. "Pardon me," said he, "betting so desperately. Gambling is not racing." "He's a wonderfully cool gambler," went on the chatty tongue of his fine neighbor. "I saw him at Sandown last autumn betting over the rail with all the bookmakers on the other side ranging at him like a pack of wolves." Sartoris himself had taken the other end of some of these bats and his smile was rueful as he put in: "With Kelly, the Leviathan, leading them, hurling the odds at his head in thousands." It was plain that Lady Antrobus, who had known of Brancaster since he was a boy, had rather a sort of admiration for him. "And be never turned a hair," she went on. "I believe he loves the excitement." The failure of the plan of the father of Lady Diane and of Brancaster had left a deep bitterness in the heart of Beverley, though his bark was woreer than his bite. The marquis felt that a man of his own position and morality owed it to the world to point out every "horrible example," even if that example were the son of an old family friend, "for how otherwise can the rising generation get the proper moral perspective" he had asked more than once. So now he did not hesitate, though he was well aware that his utterances would place him in the light of seeming rather loss of a gentleman than he was in the minds of those who might not understand his real feeling in this and related matters. "He won't love paying for it," he said, and for his other follies—Ivan Beverley felt that he was going too far. But the mind of Lady Antrobus was alert for any bit of gossip. "Are they so very costly" she continued, hoping to open the doors of the mournful indignation. She glanced at Lady Diana, not very far off. Then he coughed as he returned hesitantly: "Hmm—I have heard so." Fred to what he felt was a flame about to empire the voluble neighbor of Phaedon added. "I've only met him once," she said, with the air of one contradicting the suspense. "and I should be darning him and me quite good looking like a pimp, someone smack me like wild and you know, my dwarf muggle." the escapades of Brancaster, but I did express his own opinion more freely, though in his somewhat elitist phrase. "Certainly, let him sow all the wild cane he wishes," he said, "but not in my garden. If you women of position in social England did your duty a boy like Brancaster, would be cut. Yes, and we men are just as much to blame, too, for we should cut him for your sake. We smile too much and look the other way in these days. Many a youngster would be saved from perdition if his elders only spoke out as men and gentlemen should speak, as I myself would speak to Brancaster, if he ever came near here. We two acted, and should in regard to the expenditure, boys and these wrestles more than half of them would turn from their folly and become worthy of their ancestors. If Brancaster ever came to Falconhurst I would not hesitate to say to him. While my women folk live in my house you are not welcome within it." Lady Antrobus sighed at thought of the young earl, who was so unwelcome in the home of the friends of his father. She might have returned to the attack, but at this moment a load cry came. Antrobus, the housekeeper of the house party, drew the attention not only of her, but of Boverley and all of the rest. CHAPTER IV An Old Acquaintance. RAYNER was standing near the highway, which passed not very far from a corner of the stables, and he was looking upward along the tortuous course of the road as it steadily mounted to the highlands. Down that road from the plateau above a large touring automobile was rushing, swaving from side to side as the man at the wheel took rockily the many turns in the course. There was a woman beside him. Suddenly she arose and screamed. A moment later she had jumped from the car and was standing in safety in the road watching the terrifying descent of the automobile. Not all of the women in the group at the Falconhurst stables saw the woman after she had left the turching vehicle, as some of them were too occupied with their own fears and terrors, for gradually, after their first moments of amusement, they realized that the car was beyond control. After the woman jumped the man looked backward for just a fleeting instant as though measuring himself that she were safe. Then he doubled over his wheel. To the autumn among the watchers it was soon apparent that the man in the car possessed no means of checking its momentum. Plainly his brains were disabled, he came nearer and nearer to them they could see that he was fumbling with his change gear lever in an effort to throw into mech the reverse and check the car, but something stuck and the gear did not engage. Then Lady Diana moved closer to the road, her face white, but self possessed. She thought that she recognized the stanch figure in the car that through some deep seated instinct of sportmanship did not and had not attempted to leave its seat. Making a megaphone of her hands, she called up: "Throw in your first; throw in your first! That'll slacken you." But even before she spoke the man in the car had been attempting to do so. The lever shot forward, and then, before he could try to mesh the gears, the car literally carcened on two wheels. The rider's hand was forced to quit the lever and with his other hand grasp more firmly the wheel. He rounded the curve and literally car and man, down the last descent that separated him from the bit of road beside the Falconburst stables. Now he seemed to have clear sailing, for the road ran straight, and half a mile beyond the stables there was a slight rise that would be more than sufficient to check the speed of the car, intense though it was. As car and man blurred past Lady Diana she thought she caught from the car the words, "Thank you," and the flash of a hand waved in the air. The next instant there was a thunderous crash, followed by the manifold and multitudinous sounds of separate mechanisms of metal being rent saunder all in one second, yet following one another in minute fractions of that second. The age of the rider must have deviated from his course in that brief point of time when he had waved his hand and called his thanks to the girl, who had the presence of mind to shout to him the only thing possible in that crisis. His car, devolving ever so slightly in that instant, had rushed into the stone corner of the bridge just at the side of the footpath. It lay in fragments and twisted bits of metal. The man, hurled to the middle of the highway, sprawled there, bleeding and unconscious. For a long moment men and women stood without moving. Then Raynor and Beverley, broke the spell, and a half dozen of them darted forward, took up the form in the road and carried it into the stable yard. Lady Diana on her arm received the limp, hanging head as they put the man upon the ground. "Quick, Lambert, some brandy!" ordered Beverley to The White's trainer "Grandfather; he's dying!" exclaimed, pityingly, Lady Diana. Then she looked long into the face. "It's the stranger, my artist," she said, a vast sadness falling upon her as she saw the wrist think there limp upon which not so long before her hunter and set its mark. He had laughed so bitterness and had taken no good natured, what had seemed to her a matter of so much concern, and here he lay dead or dying. Poor stranger! Poor artist! But a step from laughter to death she reflected madly. New, Lambert had brought the brun d. But he did not hand it to the war girl so he removed sight of the poor 1 Captain Greville Sartoria. jule face. "My lord, it's the man we thought aunt, he said to his captain, "I can't help that" answered Berlay imputationly. "The pony cart, pikik! The man's heart. We must take him to the castle at once—at once." Captain Sartorius had been looking into the face of the last stranger on the ground for several moments in a puzzled fable. "Say that he knew the man, but the buttament of consciousness had made such a difference in the features that he could not recall. Suddenly he made an exclamation. "Good heavens, cousin." Do you see who this is? " came from him as memory cleared. The marquis looked at the man on the ground and then into the face of the captain, an unapologetic in his own eyes. Sartorius, took a deep breath, the better to subdue his own likely astonishment. For six days now Lord Brancaster had lain in one of the old lofty cellled bed chambers of the ancient castle of Falconhurst. He had not regained consciousness for a moment since the day he had been buried out when his automobile struck the stone bridge. Despite the words of consure the Marquais of Beverley had spoken of the Earl of Brancaster there was nothing for him to do now save to try to offence him in every possible way. Beverley had done more than the situation demanded. It was as if the injury which had fallen upon the ear had wiped out all the past and half brought to the old racing nobleman a renewed consciousness of the brotherhood of man. The most noted physicians and surgeons of London had been summoned by him, and Sir Andrew Beck, whose very retiring cast a distinction upon the families able to induce the great surgeon to visit them, had been sent to London with some half dozen of the kingdom's greatest surgeons. There was a question as to whether they would try an operation in the hope of collecting the pressure upon the brain, but the consensus of opinion was against it. The chamber in which Brancaster lay had been the shade of more than one fujitite nobleman in the days of the commonwealth, which had followed the ascendancy of the Puritans after the execution of Charles I, and there was a well authenticated legend that "Bonnie Prince Charlie" himself had once sheltered there when there was a price upon his head. But certainly never had the old apartment occupied by the unconscious Brancaster had a more lovely aspect. There were flowers everywhere, but not in the profusion that would have meant announcement to the man had been concocted of them. There were illies of the valley in the old stone vase built into the old disused fireplace. Their white loveliness was accentuated by the long trailing vines which formed their background, for Lady Diana, had seen to the comfort and the decoration of the apartment of the man she was sure could not be all naked. The accident to this young man in the prime of his life had done much to soften her pride of the very young, and she realized that her judgment was harsh. In these days she accepted nearly everything without question. When the woman she had seen with Brunauer on the day he was known to her merely as the artist called at Falconhurst and asked to be allowed to sit by the side of Brunauer the girl had led her without question to the bedchamber, though her grandfather had subsequently seen that a footman performed that office. 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So she had dispatched a note to the vicer, innocently unmindful of the fact that "Sporting Jack" Thorpe rode far better to bounds than he did to grace and that even then he was taking the cure for gout far from the village, the great name of which was Boverley. Today just as the sun was about to set she was waiting on the terrace of the Italian garden for the appearance of Thorpe in answer to her summons. As she walked to and fro along the terrace, with many glances down the little path known to her friends, who did not wish to drive three miles along the road through the acres of the marquels before they reached the castle. She was joined by her cousin, Captain Greville Sartoria. The captain was, as usual, "devilishly hard up," and he wanted to evolve a way to make a "killing." To him Lady Diana expressed her fear that Brennacle might die before a clergyman could see him. "My dear Dl," exclaimed Sartoria, "he just as likely to come to himself and wake up as he is to kick off, and when he does wake up, mind you, Dl. he won't ask for any person. He'll ask for the indy who is sitting by him now." The birth of what may have been leaony began in Lady Dinnan. It was not strong and merely manifested itself at this moment by a curiosity not usual with this gentle though self-contained English girl. "Greville, who is Mrs. DAquila?" the naked suddenly. There was not attentiveness in her cousin's face as he realized that the ordinarily self-sufficient Dinnan, who usually was content with the personal knowledge that her own senses conveyed to her, had skipped him a question on a plane with the skipped by the ordinary member of her sex. Nevertheless he did not pursue in his answer. "Oh, you know. Did she was staying at Rivers when the smash came staying there with a very tame chapron, oh, she does everything very correctly." "But who is she, Greville?" "She was a married woman moving in good society," said Sartorius. "She is—er-si-ly received in some society. She is exactly the sort of woman who suits the Emancipator sort of man. She is not the sort of woman. However would me to illusure with you. He stepped and looked into her face. She seemed abstraction, missing upon something very far away. He thought that there was a look of tenderness on her face. Perhaps this wasn't the right moment, but he was rather hard up, you know, and they were alone. Who could tell when they would be so again, and the girl was heir to much. It was worth trying. Sartorius cut in on her thoughts with: "The more I see of women like Mrs. D'Aquita, the sweeter, the fresher, the dearer seem the natural, real, true girls—the girls like you, DJ. You've been an awfully good pal to me, and I want to see you. I've never talked nonsense and love to you, DJ, and all that tally hot, but I've learned to love you for yourself and because I've seen the world and know your worth in it. I'm not a saint, but every hour with you makes a man better, makes him the best, makes you the most impossible. Think, DJ. I am the hide to the title, and with you as my wife the Beverley fortune and the Beverley title would be brought together." Not all of this speech Lady Diana beard. Now she slightly smiled and made a commonplace gesture. She re- A "Graville, it's quite impossible," she said. Tused to be moved by what she unconsciously felt to be another of the constant attempts of her cousin to reduce life odds more in his favor. "Graville, it's quite impossible," she said, "and for the sake of friendship and courtship, I hear nothing farther about it never." To the relief of Lady Diana this distasteful conversation with her cousin was ended by the appearance upon a lower slope of a youngish man in clerical dress. She went to greet him, and he explained that he, the Rev. Vernor Haslam, was taking the place of the wear during the latter's absence. During this explanation of the stranger, who had received Lady Diana's note, Sartoris, who apparently had recognized Haslam, quibled slightly. Lady Diana was about to lend the stranger to Brameston's apartment, after her explanation of the incident and the unconsciousness of the ear, when she saw that the clergyman and Sartoris were exchanging strange looks. Sartoris broke the silence as he said with a sneer: "I feel that the poor sufferer will be benefited by the ministrations of so goodly a divine as the Rev. Verner Haaslam." The rudeness of it all shocked Lady Digma and she could not relieve the situation by perfunctory inquiry to the man in charge: "You know my cousin?" 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Siinmons of Un Memphix Sun ha. hd the time o him Ife convincing the public that h {# nelther dead nor sleeping ax wa announced by the Chicago Defender He has addressed a letter to Edito’ A. S. Abbott asking him to retrac hin, statements, but that publixhe: herainte in his course of having made him dead, wo far as bia journal 1 concerned. he shall remain no. ‘The Chicago, Mitnotx Idea, in dis. cussing the qfair and {n reproducing that caustic editorial from Editor Simmons says: : Lant weck the Chicago Defender carried a news article accusing the editor of the Sun of having turned hin back on the world and his eyes towards glory. Aluo the Defender prepared an obituary notice which wag not at all complimentary to the Sun editor. It said that he was a bad. bad man The telegraph and telephone wires werp kept buxy all week denying the “report.” The Defedder wil) doubt- lew nay thin week that if the Sun editor fsn't dead ho ought to bo. “Death f9 the Teast penalty that thoxe whose bamboo “journaliam” the Sun Ix alwayn exposing will paax on the chief of tho staff. Howbelt, Memphix fn uned to death. reports of deaths und expectations of death, and re- fused to become excited over the Fe. port. : : We have no recollection of evor having heard of a rimitar ease. “The only apparent excuse for the cunard acoms to appear in the original qrtl- cle, published by the “Defender, in which st fn alloxed that Mr, Simmons said upon Ieaving Chicago that if he id not return in xix months he would be dead. Editor Abbott, xeemed to Wave taken the idea that at tho expiration of that time limit! and the {allure of the oratorical | luminary to appear, hé wan justified in going ahead with the imaginary funeral obsequies. ‘The latest roports justify the atate- ment that Bdfior Simmons has not} only refused to’ commit auictde, but} nha inslsted ‘that he bas not been! fead and accordingly he dees not in-} end to stay dead. The embarrass-| ng part of the businces fs to got this} formation to the Defender's read-, rs, -many of whom, zo doubt stiltit relieve that he has-been duly in-}! erred six foot within the bosom of ether. Barth ant who may be. pa-i; ently waiting. for the call for a contribution for the erection of a monument to Roscoe C. Simmons’ memory, Cee DI, WASHINGTON AND NEORO LABOR. ; Dr, Hooker T. Washington i alwayx an Interesting writer, He _Jusually deals with tix own exper fences and observations and for. this “| reason he fs never at u loss for some. {thing to write about. ta the Phite. delphia, Pa, “Country Gentleman,” Rlof January 3. 1914. he alvcusmed, [Two Million Farm 1bunde: The Right JJand Wrong Way to Handle Negro "| Labor.” J] flix dixcuspion ef thls subject te the ork of u master mind tn this Jrartivular teld. After reading the sJarticle, we are of the opinion that [there ix ne room for disagrecment PSith whut he ways, and that Jel Mtiuply necenmary to quote some of Hix tryly interesting recitals,» He mays: | “OT Just can’t Jearn to work free JNexrors.” Thirty years ago, when 1 {Mas estabiiaing Tuxkexee Institute, Jihtx was the paint made to me by a wegtithy planter In Alnhama who lind formerly owned and wérked waves, and In this Kentence Ix the erux. of the problem of Negro Jaber. In Slavery the Neggo could be workel. Tn freediin he inust be tnduced to ote, There 16a vast iferenne be tacen being worked and working, Hut the problem ta neqely every eounty In the South In how to use Necro Labor snceessfully.on the farm, "OF the nearly. v.aue.v0e colored peuple Uvins fn the Southern stater fe ts safe to xay that tore than 2.- cunwud: work on farms as hired hands, ax Indepindent farmere oF steppers. ty renters or as independ: Satennere Inehide! fa this num- berate a great many gles and women |) fer Mt must be kept in mind. that || especially in the eottofiexrowing |) States 1 ix ae cgmmon Citas for stele! and Goinen to Sark in the tele | Me continues: | ff SPonpite all theary aad academe! } Wiscusston as to Une value af the Negro in the econmte ite bf the | , South, it Ix true the cotton-crowing | states that a hinge part af the tank |) ing business has for’ite baste the]; Nese and the mile. Tf a planter |, Wants to horraw money the deciaton | } sf the bank will binge largely on the] 5 Jrestion of the number of reliable Negro tenants he ‘enn control. “Here then, is a tremendouw ae] mount of labor, and fu it there are |" femendane possi Milities These more han 2,200,000 people are not, Hkely o jeave the Southern states, Where] f hes remain fn large numbers no] Wher class of laborere Ix Wkely te] ¥ ome te kerse numbers, and t atso | Ind that the majority of Southern | ™ cite lantowners de npt want any | ther. wi hi This then 12 an open dectaration’ hat «large part ef the banking bus-|? ness haw for Ite busie the Nesto.] ey hy in it. then, that the intottgent | ch exroen of the Harvard and Yale afd ) 9 loward University type and of exter | mila Inetituttons do not Ht these! cople up to the polnt where they in reales thelr own Ananelal im- srtance to the extent of doing biB-| pe exe with exch other fet and | m lereby compel the renpect of the i hity Southerners, who regardless «| aw ih a movement will eventually Ket! xq Lof the business, bot not before the af Jared people have themrelven pro-|to ed by thie Anancial bualness? —*/ 20 The anawer Is In racial {nSdellty,' wo presved In plato language. —lack of he fidence In each other. Hux Dr. [ch ashington done all that he could, Ca! inspire race confidente? Has he me prexned upon his large black con-/ hir tuency the necexslty of patronfzing Pla ch other? If ho har, no well and) 7 od. If be han not, let him begin| 9 movement now, The National ero Muniners League of which’ he; the commanding Agure Is the great | tO eof organizing —mochantam | *h ‘ough which It can be accomplished. ! on Dr. Washington says: Tats : Jans “To put the matter In another form fun ty per cent of the tillable fand in ant ) Southern xtates tn Jo thoshand» cer colored people in one form or hol ather. The large number of col- of, d laborers and the vast territory kno it they occupy make up a serious of | Interesting question for the South thor 1 for tho whole coustry. In my, fen njon, {n thin mana of Negro labor kno aii nndiacovered gold mine.” peo se opp Ua conclusions are abscintely thre : ache rect. He continues: fens Retore T attempt to auggert how 1nd uno Negro labor successfully let f°! tell how not to succerd with it, IFO, an bost do thin by uaing some [5ne strations that have come under Cach COFFETE.. Sh@ CONTIBGES. _ “Refore T attempt to suggest how to use Negro labor successfully let me tell how not to succerd with it. J can bost do thin by uaing some Mustrations that have come under my own observation, “Some yearn ago, when I was io Missiasipp}. a planter asked me to visit his farm. I found ho had a large number of colored tenante, but I was surprised at the amall acreage auitgned to each family. In one cave 1 happen to remembor a family that had threo or four. strong personn at work every day that was allowed to rent only about ten acres of land. When I asked the owner of tho plan- tation why he¢did'not let this family havo more land he replied that the soil wha so productive that 4f he al- lowed thom to rent more they would soon bé making such @ profit that they would be able to buy land of their own and he ‘would lose them as renters. This is one way to make the Negro inefficient as « Iaborer— attempting to discomrage him instead of encouraging Him. “azother tilustration: In one of the cotton-raising counties of Ala- bama a colored tédant brourht #ix beles of cotton. and delivered. them o the merchant from. whom ke Had peem renting and who had been furn- * e . ms hee . Tey for og Ferree a pews =) — es id 7 it E f - S: OA ( Se i . oe BY oO . 1 W G | \ | em, * eS oy - — og yy Se 2 “BS bills bitte—nothing but bills frequently is the complaint.of the head of the family. No man would think’of running nis busi. ness WITHOUT A CHECK BOOK. How about YOUR tome? The running of the home today is a BUSINESS PROPOSITION ” | Open a CHECKING ACCOUNT With Us at Once The Mechanics Savings Bank, i North-West Cor. Third & Clay Streets. tr o North-west . }isbing bin ‘advances.’ The colores farmer had kept pretty good aecoun Jor his purchases and of the rent due {When ie entered the store be tok the merchant he theight he ha made enongh eotton to settle ail hs Jowed. Mtter looking over hin boos: the merchant agteed with Im that he We bales would “bring hin out clvar. Hut before the colored mat Jett the store the merchant learned that he bad not brought in all the cotton he had’ grown, having two aore bales at note. Iamediately the storekenper catled the farmer anide and toll him that he was sorry ho bad made a inixtake tn the ae- counts, and in going over hix Looks again he found enough — omitted charges eanetly to cover the tee halen the Nesro tenant had Weft at home, “Hery Ix another, method of how not to Kuecent with Nero lubo?. Of courne thin Negro tenant war not long in putting an accodnt of how he had been treated an the “Krape- vine telegraph. and oon every Ne- kro In the nedshberhood knew abont 1" Dr Washington diplomatteally “Through such practices, tn not a few wegtlons of the South, Negro) tenants have been thoroughly con- vinend that no matter how much they economize or hpw hard: they may work they aro going to come out tn debt-at the end of the year, and (hey have become x0 dixcouraged and hopetess that they try to go only sWOURh WOTR to “IMAKe a showing’ 1D order to get thelr ‘advances. If hey worn ttle they get nothing at Ihe end of the year. they vay. and If hey work hard they get the same nesthing.."* ‘ He ives the following Interesting; nformation: : i eNotie years ago A rather wreeel wroux and Intelligent farmer axkedl no to send him a mart from Tue | exer Tnntitute to work round the | ure and take charge of the ‘kardens 1 Ve went a modest, hard-working, '; onaibly young man who wax not , fraid of any kind of work. He wan 0 be pald no much m month, with | ard and lodging, The young mar eached the place In the morning and! rorked hard all day. At night, after! © had milked the cows and done the | horee avout the houre,.the amployer , ! alled him to the house, handed him ¢ wo pieces of bread and nome fat 4 joat fromthe kitchen door. and told tm he thought he could find a copa lace to slecp in the loft of the barn. he boy left the next Jay.” ‘ t And agnin: | “Ono more example as to how not|' ) ntieceed: I know a white man|° ho owns thousands of acres of the}c “st lad In his state. He ts a high: ned Keatleman and would not cheat| , ja Negro tenants out of a cent for] > y consideration. Ha means to be nt to hin hundreds “of Negro ten-|o ts, but the trouble fa here: To my} g rtain knowledge thix-largo land-;p Ider has not seen the greater part! 0 _ hin land for twenty years, He jown nothing of the personal needs ® hia tenants, nothing of tho condi- » yn of the tenant houses, of tho 2, nex, ditches, and what not. He own nothing of tha morals of tho — ople or to what extent they have = portunity to improve themsclvon rough the church and the ’ day nool.- All this landlord knows is \t he {x expected-to make ‘advances") V d recelvo 90 many bales of cotton! © rent. His tgnorant Noxro tenanta| It > loft absolutely to themselves,.Hin| in dg and houses depreciate in value +h yoar. Under theso ‘conditions re cannot be.much success, and en failure comos the Negro 1s iike-| +) to be blamed. ote "In brief, I am almply trying to say] CY t'If one would auccead with Seero| or there must be the constant man touch maintained between: | 94 ant and landlord. With all his] skneas there is no-laborer in“tho| 4. rid who Js more responstye to this sonal and human touch than the] pn ro. When rbghily treated he Joos] matim@fain that cold-blooded “‘dol- ui vand-cente’ relation .to his om-| }/' yor that the foreign laborer does; | (7: manifests deep interest and even] * 1 to in the succeas and happiness of; 1 employer.” ir rr. Washington is speaking. plain- when he says: _ : ‘ea : Sot mt Another Way not to aucceed with | rou To. labor, 1s, constantly to cures} » ‘abuse the Negroes who work for| 2:4 both ip pubiie and in private. 1} ore w mon whose. évery. mea! ie]. # tad by bisck persons, whoee chil-ti!¥ I wloxe garments are taundered by | hinek partons, who are nursed wher Mek by Diack persons, whone Innd fp cultivated by black perans, whone Shounen are, buflt by black. persons, whove gravew will be dug *by tack persone, Who Rave been able to ue. cimulute tmmense fersunes through {the labor of black hams. yet who tn spite of all thin never seem to think they are doing any jujustion to. the colored sin “or dissouraginye. hin when In private conversation and pitb Me print they delight in damning tho Nexo, T know, however, that fully half of what fe aa in condemnation jSome employers atmp:y have the bale iL of swaking diaparavinzls of Negro |tniior, afd beenume ties thine Ie Ie Popular thes don't step. He clincher hie utteraness by the following remarks: “Not long ago Tread an editorial in a prominent Boutiern dilly paper tat contained tix sentence: “It fs & welpknown fact that Negra labor cannot 6 depended upon, and that Negroes are mbiftiess, lazy and din honest.” Now a seeping general statement ko thiy xmply renulte In dixcouraxing somo of the beat colored Invor in the South. What the writer meant wan that rome colored people cannot be depended upon to Igbor faithfuky, and that nome colored peo ple are worthieas and dinhonext. “FP wish T might Imprens upon em- Hoyeru of Negro labor tho fact 1 have learned by personal experlence apd obsorvasion:y ‘That onacan xet more out of mambera, of my race, whether they work on the farm, in the shop or in the kitchen, by mixing © bit of praise when it can be hon- ently Riven than by constant con- ivmnation, which tends to make In- norern dincouraged.”. Dr. Washington then proceeds to} Hincunn how to nucceed with Negro] abor.. We hive cited enough for]. his Week and In our next inane wo’ rope to conclude our Wincuxsion of his mont Interesting aubject handled | 1% st 4 by tho most prominent colored ‘tizen In all of this world. } Tho State Board of Health an nounces that as soon ax dealers it Individual drinktng-cufie will sel ‘thetr machines freely without exact fu lease requirements, the State Board of Health will advocate: that the, common drinking-cup bo abol: iwhea in public places. Until that te, the Board does not intend that the people of Virginia shall be forced e pay tribute to the manufacturers of tho devices for vending drinking. cups. : This ts certainly a commendable position for the ‘Board to take. There haa been « vague suspicion that much of thin outelde agitation wan instt- Eated by compantes who hoped to profit by rigorous rules and reguia- Hons estabiislind, by: health boards and this firm stand of our State may woll be emuluted by «liflar organt- tations fn othct parts of the country. 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B., through a blinding snow storm, the Royal Mall - steamer Cobequid strack on a ledge at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, and it is feared she has sunk. After sending out wireless calls for assistance the vessel's wireless apparatus apparently failed and it has not been possible to restore communication with her. Fear is exressed that the 150 persons aboard her have lost their lives in the storm. It was first reported that the steamer was ashore off Brier island on the east side of the bay, but the light-house keeper there later reported that he could not locate her. It was then thought that she might be on one of the ledges at the western entrance to the bay. The Cobequld got off her course when bound from the West Indies and Bermuda, for St. John, N.B. Reports state that the steamer reported that her forward hold was filled with water and that she was listing badly. The Bay of Fundy was swept by a terrific northwest gale, accompanied by thick snow, which made difficult the task of locating and assisting the steamer. The first news of the Cobequld plight came in a dispatch to the department of marine and fisheries from the Cape Sable wireless station. The message said: "Five a. m. Cobequld reports being on the rocks off Brier Island, Bay of Fundy. Have advised Kronprinzessia to please assist." It was subsequently learned by telephone from Westport, the nearest port. Brier Island, that no sign of the island could be seen from there. The Brier Island light house keeper arrived that he could not locate the island on the rocks off the island and western entrance to the bay. He then thought that the captains of the ship L having lost his bearings J. M. Hayward, was mistaken in giving the Brier Island as the home. Cobequid became known, C. H. Harvey, agent of the department of marine and fisheries, sent wireless instruction to the government steamer Lady Laurier to proceed to the steamer's assistance. When the Cape Sable station sent out the radio call for help the message was picked up by the Kronprinzessin Cecile, New York for Bremen, and the Belovede, Belfast for New York, and both steamers are believed to have gone to the Cobequid's assistance. Six other steamers are also known to be fighting their way through the storm to the aid of the distressed vessel. These picked up her first wireless calls for help. TO HOLD REFUGEES 2000 Mexican Feerate to Be Detained In United States All of the Mexican Federal soldiers now in the custody of the United States border patrol forces at Presidio, Texas, will be transferred to Fort Bliss and interned there indefinitely. Secretary of War Garrison ordered the transfer, with permission for the refugee women and children to accompany the soldiers if they desire. 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Sentences of three and a half years imprisonment and $100 fines were imposed upon the seven convicted mutineers of the bark Manga Reva by Judge Bradford in the United States district court in Wilmington, Del. Prayer Before Lynching. After being permitted to sing a hymn and pray, Louis Peck and Waldo Jones, norgroen, were lynched in Tampa, Fla., for an attack on Cass Toorikins, a white plaster. Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business & Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Handbills, Placards. We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. THOUSANDS DIE IN JAPAN QUAKES City of Kagoshima Buried Under Ashes From Volcano. TIDAL WAVE ADDS TO HORROR Hundreds Drown While Trying to Escape Burning Hall From Roaring Crater—Several Villages Burned. A "tidal" wave added its terrors to the earthquakes and volcanic eruption which struck Kagoshima in southern Japan, according to official advises. It is believed in Tokio that the Kagoshima disaster will prove to be one of the most serious in the history of Japan. The loss of life and property increases with fuller news from the scene. The full extent of the disaster would not be ascertained, as all communication was cut off from the stricken district south of Kumamoto, eighty or ninety miles north of Kagoshima. Ashes to the depth of six inches have fallen in the seaport of Miyazaki, on the east coast of Kushu. A postal employee, who fled from Kagoshima, states that the big postoffice building there collapsed during the earthquakes and tidal wave, and that a great number of residences were ruined, while many people and animals were killed or injured. The navy and army departments are hastening succor and supplies to Kagoshima. Indications are that the death list from the earthquakes and volcanic disturbances around Kagoshima will run into thousands. Government authorities declare that any official estimate of the extent of the disaster will be impossible for several days. The population of the city of Kagoshima, which is almost completely buried in volcanic ashes and stones, was 60,000. The population of the adjoining island of Sakura, the center of the disturbance, is given at 15,000. On this island hundreds are reported to have perished beneath the streams of molten lava from the volcano of Sakura-Jima. Many more were undoubtedly drowned while attempting to escape. The violence of the eruption at Sakura-Jima is so great that showers of dust are falling in Nagasaki, although the distance between Nakasaki and the island of Sakura is about sixty miles. A refuge from Kagoshima gave the following account of the dis You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. The earth started out only with columns of the black, smoke and fane troop of the water of Kagoshima. Hundreds of the inhabitants of the small island in the Gulf of Kagoshima, where Kagoshima is situated, rushed to the beach and leaped on board junks and stenmers, which carried them across three miles of water to Kagoshima, ashes, stones and particles of white hot lava falling all the while on the decks. "At Kagoshima the heat was intense. The constantly increasing heat of glowing cinders made it impossible for the citizens to remain. The horror was increased by the incessant shocks of earthquake, which rocked the houses all day. More than 250 earthquake shocks were recorded before nightfall. "The people fled in disordered droves along the highways, leading west and north of the city. They had abandoned everything in their flight and soon they were suffering also from lack of food and drink. "When I left Kagoshima the volcano resembled an enormous setpiece of fire works, glowing from the foot of the mountain to the summit. During the night the glowing lava illuminated the entire district. The volcano constantly emitted thunderous explosions." The burning rock and ashes set fire to several villages. At Mogi, on the Klushuf railway, 100 persons were killed. Several villages along the foot of the volcano were buried in streams of lava. One loaded railway train which left Kagoshima with refugees was wrecked by an earthquake shock, which ripped out the rails. At least 100 persons were killed in this disaster. It is estimated that nearly 100,000 persons, in and around Kagoshima, were made homeless. The force of the eruptions was terrible. Stones were thrown hundreds of feet in the air, some falling twenty miles distant from the volcano. The eruption began with thunderous explosions and the volcano became a roaring furnace. Escaped Convict Shot by Police. William Smutzer, said to be an escaped convict from Indianapolis, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded in a house on the South Side in Chicago. Charles Freebon and Albert Bebee, city detectives, went to the house to arrest Smutzer. When he saw them coming, Smutzer opened fire. Didn't Recognize Queen. Queen Mary, unrecognized, was held up by the keeper of a Norwich museum in London because she insisted upon entering the place with her umbrella. Preferred fall to Music. Declaring that he preferred fall to music, Charles P. Phillips, of Chagos, broke a band over his son's head. Shortly days. 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After starting breakfast she went to the front of the house, pulled up shades, gathered up papers and scrap baskets and carried them back to the kitchen with her. Then, breakfast over, the diving room and kitchen were quickly in order, the refrigerator and closets put to rights, dinner and lunch plants made and the needs of the day decided upon. Then she started to the front of the house with the compiled scrap baskets and placed a chair at the foot of the stairs. Everything that went upstairs was placed on that chair, and after the dusting was done the things were carried up. A chair was placed in the upper hall, and as the rooms were done up for the day everything that went down was placed on the chair. Next the lamps were all filled and put back in their breakers, range fire shut down and the furnishings also closed down, and then the little lady dressed and went to market. All this had been done, and it was only to 30 o'clock. In one hour she was back, a half hour she devoted to light mending and a half hour to getting her lunch. At 130 o'clock she was free until dinner time. All the heavy work was done on the two days that she had help, and on the other days her system worked perfectly, and the housework went without a jar, and not once did one ever hear a complaint of overwork or unhappiness. She had accumulated every convenience to work with and by using her head never took a step that did not count. A house where the work is kept right up to the mark every day is always in order and causes not half the work that slipshed methods make for the housekeeper. WEDDING BOXES. How to Make Receptacles For Bride Cake at Home. It is quite possible to cover small boxes for weeding cake at home if you have clever fingers and are willing to spend the time necessary to do the work well. A wedding cake box should, of course, always be simple. White is the only color permissible on it unless a small bunch of flowers, with green stems—the flowers must be white—is used as decoration. If you would make these boxes buy small boxes of the desired shape and size and then buy paper to cover them. White crinkled paper can be used. A good way to put the paper in the cover, which is the only part that shows when the box is closed, is to paste it only on the under side. Cut two strips of paper, one the width of the box, another the length, both running with the grain of the paper. Paste the end of one strip to the under part of one end of the cover, draw it out over the end, the top and the other end of the cover, and then cut it off, allowing an inch of paper to paste on the under part of the other end of the cover. Faste the crosswise piece to the same way. Make thy tiny paper flowers and fasten a little bunch of them to the cover with a small bow of baby white satin ribbon. These boxes are daimy and can be made at little cost. The cake which is put in them should be daimly wrapped in waxed paper. How to Warm Wrapped Bread. Many persons who are fond of fresh baked and even warm baker's bread have, it seems, been opposing the modern sanitary methods of baking all bread wrapped and sealed cold and not handled by clerks or exposed to dust, germs, and glitter on counters or in wagons. The bureau of counsellry of the department of agriculture regards the wrapping of bread as so important that it has caused the plant chemistry laboratory to make a series of experiments to determine whether those who like fresh or warm bread cannot get what they want in wrapped form. Bread fresh from the oven if wrapped while warm becomes moist and clammy and of unpleasant flavor. Leaves therefore must be allowed to cool thoroughly before being wrapped. After some experiment the expertise found that if a cold wrapped loaf is unwrapped and placed in a pan in the oven in good medium heat for ten minutes it will be as good as fresh, crisp without and tender within, and at the same time will be free from any pollution it might have gained if unprotected from baker to consumer. The bureau believes that if brews of warm bread will try this plain too, then will become 'ardent' advenues of the clean, wrapped method of universal bread. HOW TO RENOVATE The revival of the pegged skirt has brought about the use of four or five ruffles of graduated depth, the deepest beginning at the waist. This fashion should instantly suggest to a woman what she can do with one of last winter's gowns that is in need of renovating. Lace or net or chiffon or tulle can be used for those ruffles. The one requirement is that they should be so draped and gathered that they steadily diminish toward the foot line. As the entirely plain satin or velvet skirt is not in first fashion this winter, any woman may be glad to know how she can use what she has. It may not be an expensive proposition to lay lace or any other fabric sufficiently to supply these ruffles, but only the woman herself can tell whether the experiment is worth the price. EXOTIC STUCCO How to Make the Plaster House Look at Home. There is an exotic look about many stucco and plaster houses built in many parts of the world today, and it is because the plaster house is really a product of the tropics transplanted. When it is built in cooler climates it lacks the environment which it was made to fit and therefore lacks something essential. Take a plaster cottage on the bleak New England sea coast or a stucco cabin in a western desert or a plaster and stucco house in any of a hundred suburbs in temperate climates. They do not look as if they belonged where they are. And this is the reason: In their native home, the tropics, they are covered with vines and hidden with shrubs a few months after they are built, and the comfortable covering which Mother Nature gives them soon cloaks their barkiness. They immediately become a part of the landscape, just as frame houses merge with the trees about them. The stucco bungalows of California, covered with roses and flowering shrubs, look as if they had stood where they stand since the beginning of civilization. So the thing for the owner of a stucco or plaster house to do is to plant quick growing vines and shrubs about it and so acclimatize it. Hardy evergreens banked at the corners will help make the house look comfortable in the winter. In the summer honey-suckle, ramble roses, hollyhocks, gelia and other quick growing vines and shrubs and plants can be used to make the stucco house look better. Certain forsakes are survived on a special memorial card for the introduction of a debilitant. An enriched card is used, having the name of the daughter bornmilh that of her mother, with the date, the hours for receiving and the address. In the lower left hand corner of the card may be the words, "Fridays in January," too tidicate other days during the winter for receiving more informally. Cards are about five inches long by three and a half wide. The usual style of engraving is script. According to recent fashion the form is: Mrs. Archibald Robinson and Miss Edith Robinson Will Be At Home on Tuesday, December from four until seven o'clock at Seven East Seventy-third Street. Cards for large two or days at home are sent out two weeks in advance; small teas a week or so in advance. Invitations to teas are in the name of the hostess, not in the united names of husband and wife. At a large tea or reception for a debutante music for dancing is a feature. An orchestra is in the hall or in a room set up for dancing. The musicians may be screened off by palms. ```markdown ``` How to Renovate Worn Sweaters! When woven sweaters may show on examination some dangerously thin places, round the pockets, beneath the arms, etc., which may soon wear into a hose, procure some wool exactly like the coat, if possible, or the very nearest to match. Buy an amuce or two more than is required for the actual knitting of the coat, and then when renovations are necessary it is in readiness. Knit a piece in the pattern of the coat somewhat larger than the thin part, lay it in with the right side to the wrong side of the garment, matching the pattern as you would a patch, and darn invisibly into position with the same kind of wool. As the thin parts wear through if they do, draw all ends of wool through to the underside of patch and darn in. How to Eat Onions With Impunity. Many people who are fond of onions in one form or another are deterred from eating them because of their "residual perfume." Self denying onion lovers may now indulge their appetite with perfect impunity if they observe the following prevention: After eating onions take a generous teaspoonful of granulated sugar. A few minutes after taking the sugar the breath will cease to be offensive. Seats of the Mighty, Tommy—What are the seats of the mighty? Father—The end ones. Jodre. Not Silence, but ADVERTISING, is Golden to the Business Man. Farm and Garden POULTRY BREEDING. An Oregon Hen Lays Three Hundred Eggs Within a Year. The 300 egg hen has arrived! At least Oregon claims to have bred, says the Country Gentleman. This appears to be the world's record for fowls. The Oregon champion deserts the ribbon for America, and her record is all the more convincing since she was one of a pen in which another hen held 201 eggs. The best five hens of the flock are said to have exceeded 220 eggs each, while the entire flock of forty hens averaged more than 210 eggs each a year. While it is true that high records achieved by special breeding and feeding, may have little significance to the commercial poultryman, they do give more grounds for the hope that the commercial hen with the ability of producing 200 eggs or thereabouts each year may some time not be rare. Of course the 200 egg hen is no more the commercial standard today than is the cow that can produce 1,000 pounds of butter in a year, but no one will deny that the 1,000 pound cow has had a lot to do with the formation of heels that average 700 pounds a year. Likewise, with the 300 egg hen ```markdown ``` SPECIMEN OF INTELLIGENT POULTRY DREEDING. SPECIMENS OF INTELLIGENT POULTRY BREEDING. a fact, there is more reason to suppose that the 200 egg commercial hen is coming. This achievement with the hen is of more significance because it has come so early in the history of intelligent poultry breeding. Improvement of the dairy cow dates back almost a century; improvement of the hen for egg production is a matter of less than a generation. The case with which conditions surrounding the fowl can be controlled and the rapidity with which generations may be produced have, of course, made this quick improvement possible. Yet we know so little of the principles of breeding with respect to fowls that the optimist is justified in predicting some startling records for the future, when the real utility hen is developed. The poultryman must be faithful to his task. He needs to stick to a plan of breeding with the samp tenacity that the early stockmen used, and results will be just as surely forthcoming. The hen is no more subject to chance than other live stock. The up to date farmer is always busy laying his plans for the next season's work, no matter whether it is summer or winter just ahead. Make Flats In Winter. Make a lot of flats this winter for use in the garden. A flat is a shallow box of convenient also used for starting seedlings, for rooting cuttings or for carrying potted plants, pots, soil or other material. Many uses will be found for the flat; and it is advisable to have a good supply on hand. Soap or other boxes obtained from a grocer cut down to two and a half or three inches in depth make good flats. A quantity of flats will be found very useful when gardening operations begin next spring. FRUIT AND SHADE TREES. Now is the time to attend to old fruit and shade trees that are overgrown with moss and lichens, which harbor a horde of injurious insects. Make a compound of commercial caustic soda, one pound, and an equal quantity of crude potash. Mix each separately with water; then mix the two solutions together, stirring in a pound of soft soap and adding sufficient water to make ten gallons of the complete mixture. Smaller quantities can be made in the same proportions. Care must be exercised in using this mixture not to get it in the eyes or on the clothes, and gloves should be worn in preparing and using it. Apply the compound with a syringe, brush or sprayer to destroy the moss, lichens and inhibiting insects such as the woolly aphid, codling moth, caterpillars and scale, clearing out any other insects that may be lurking in the trees. Fresh paint may be taken out of white goods by washing the article in sweet milk. This has been tried suc- cessfully with paint a day old. An invitation. He's I've half a mind to kiss you. She's in the other half out of commis- sion. - Boston Tranzer riff. To produce pork profitably hogs must feed and grass continuously on pastures and crops, particularly planted for them, is the advice of experts of the farmer's co-operative branch of the bureau of plant industry, department of agriculture. Very seldom is the growing of hogs for slaughter a source of profit unless proper grating and feeding methods are followed. In the spring, summer and fall there are many crops for pasturing hogs, but during the winter the crops to select from are limited. On most every farm the production and keeping of hogs in winter is expensive and generally it is not profitable; for the reason that large quantities of corn are fed without products of green crops. More winter grating is needed, for which many crops are adapted. The most reliable are, however, rape, oats, wheat and barley. For grazing purposes these pasturing crops for hogs should be sown on specially well drained and prepared land that is either rich or has received a liberal application of manure. Good winter pastureage is not obtained except on the best drained lands. The seeding should be heavy to insure a thorough planting. The young plants will grow slowly in the winter and many plants will be needed to furnish plenty of pasture. Crimson clover will do well with rape, rye, oats, wheat and barley and will mean an improvement on the land. CROPS DURING 1913. Report of Secretary of Agriculture Shows That They Have Fallen Off Shows That They Have Fallen Off. Very brief space is allotted this year to a discussion of the crops in the United States in the report of the secretary of agriculture. Special emphasis is laid on the fact that the figures quoted are estimates, and it is pointed out that this fact should be constantly kept in mind. From the estimates at hand it appears that the production of crops in 1913 was materially below the average, the yield per acre of all crops combined being smaller than in any year in the past decade with the exception of 1911. The corn crop, the most valuable product of this country, according to the estimates, fell below 2,500,000,000 bushels, which is smaller than any crop since 1903. Wheat production, with an estimated total of 753,000,000 bushels, is the largest ever recorded in this country. This crop was matured before the drought became effective. Brief mention is made as to crop conditions throughout the world. From the estimates it appears that there were increased areas sown to wheat, oats, barley, rye and corn and that the wheat acreage has probably yielded a record outturn. Barley, oats and rye are boundless crops, but corn will probably give the poorest result in twenty years. A DURABLE STACK COVER. Will Be Found Convenient to Use For Many Purposes. A very durable stack cover can be made of boards in sections about four feet wide by six feet long. Place four boards one inch by four feet by six inches side by side and fasten together with braces. Point joints on upper side and paint bats before covering the joints. Do not run bats way to the top, but run one bat along the top, extending over about two inches on half of them and pot no bats on the other half, so that the bat will cover them both. Put bats on right side tongling over about two inches on half of them and put no bats on the other half, so that the bat will cover them both. Put bats on right side of each section so that it will cover the edge of next section. Place bats on the bats so that they will fit staples on the companion section. Care should be taken to get these bats and staples right located. These covers will be found to be very convenient to use as a stack coops and for machinery, chicken coops, pig shade, cattle shade, etc. Being light and movable, they can be put to a great number of uses and, being rigid, are not easily blown away, nor will they sag—Iowa Homestead. Winter Care of Peach Trees. Pench trees are especially subject to the attacks of the San Jose scale. The bark of infested trees is covered with a crust of graffiti scales, the insects multiplying rapidly and finally killing the tree. The remedy is spraying with lime-sulphur during the winter. When trees are badly infested, it may be necessary to prune them back severely before applying the spray. Take care to turn all the wood cut from the trees. Electricity: For Chickens. Before the London Royal Society of Arts, Thorne Baker, the electrician, advocated the application of electricity to chicken farming. Experiments, he said, had proved that chickens could be grown under electric stimuli at about double the normal rate and with a mortality practically nonexistent. An infusion collating a one inch spark could successfully treat 1,000 chickens. Force of Habit "No matter what trouble he gets into, cur neighbor seems to put a good face on the matter." "That's his business. He's a beauty doctor." - Buffalo American. Papa Children There are in the workhouses of New land and Wales over 9,000 children be tween three and nineteen years of age. A That's what our printing is doing with the business men of this town — making a hit. Try us when you need a dose of printer's ink. Uncle Luke sometimes has the job of accompanying visitors about one of the South Carolina cotton mills near Columbia. One day the party under his care come to a room where all the employees were men. "I see you don't employ any women here," said one woman in surprise. "I need we ain't ma'am," answered Luke proudly. "Mr. Parker done order dat himself, ma'am—nothin' 'cept manual labor in dish yer room."—New York Post. RAISING HIS WRATH. The Floormwalker Jets Down Another Aggravating Experience. THERE are times when the ingenuity of even a floormwalker is taxed to the limit. The other day a man, evidently just over from the tight little isle, walked up to one. "I beg your pardon," he said, "but where can I find the raisers?" "The cutley department is in the basement," replied the floormwalker and gave directions for finding the stairs. "Oh, but I don't want the cutley department: I want!" Well, come to think of it, the safety raisons are in the men's furnishing department this week," said the floormwalker, who then told how to get to that department. The Englishman was flustered. "I want to find the raisers." "And I'm trying to tell you where to find them." "But I mean misers." insisted the Englishman. "Exactly. I understand you. You want a rator." "Not to shave with," said the customer, "but to go up in." "Elevator?" asked the doorwalker. The Englishman breathed easily. "Yes, that's it. I knew you didn't call them lifts, as we do, and I thought I'd made myself plain." Then he received directions as to how to get to the elevator. - New York Times. A. Minor Consideration The young man to whom this really happened was calling on a young woman one evening not so very long ago, and as he was leaving, he said: "I could get a car right here on the corner, but I have a very important letter to mail, so I must walk to the nearest drug store and buy a stamp." "You shouldn't do anything of the sort, answered the young woman cordially." "I have a stamp right here in my desk which I will lend you. If you have any compunctions about it you can return it to me the next time you call, which I hope will be very soon." The fatnoun youth was so pleased that he smiled all over his face. "But suppose I'd get run over by a street car before I returned it?" he burbled. "Well, even then, it wouldn't be any great loss," said she. "She meant it well, but it was a sad blow to him when he came to think it over—Cleveland Plains Dealer. ·A Cardial Resolution Mrs. Clay telephoned to a friend that she would come down and spend the day. "Well, here I am!" she exclaimed shortly as the little daughter of the bottom opened the door. "Yes," replied the child; "I'm glad to one you, and I know mother will be glad, for she said the morning when you phoned that she was thankful she was going to have the visit now with."—Lincolnite. THE NEGRO FARMER A Paper That Helps People to Become Better Farmers is an Aid to the Church, the School and to the Secular and Religious Papers It has been decided to publish at Tuskegee Institute Post Office, Every-Other-Week for the present, a national farm paper to be known as THE NEGRO FARMER. It will be published in the interest of Negro landowners, tenant farmers and of those who employ Negro labor. There is no other strictly farm newspaper in the world devoted to the interest of Negro farmers. Many of the white farm newspapers enjoy huge circulations and there is no reason why a farm paper in the interest of Negroes should not prove equally successful. In fact, occupying an exclusive field it should enjoy a success far beyond that of the usual farm publication. It is proposed to circulate this paper among the 2,000,000 black farmers of the United States. The paper will be eight pages, of about the size of "The Country Gentleman." DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON STATES The Tuktakege, Institute has no financial interest or control over this new publication, but some of the active officers of the institution are interested in its success and believe that it will not only accomplish great good but will be a paying investment. The paper is backed by a strong organization and funds have been provided in advance to assure its publication. Those in active control of THE NEGRO FARMER have my entire confidence and good will. —BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. The success of this project is assured because of the solid and sensible lines upon which it is being laid out. All the capital stock has been subscribed for. The subscription price is $5 vertisements are invited. Clubbey papers will be arranged for on the ready to receive Subscriptions and The first issue of the paper. Address all communications to: THE NEGI TUSKEGEE I PHOTO We offer you, the Latest Modern Figure than you can offer Special Attention Paid to Interior View Work. 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Auto Manufacturer Given Reasons For Gift to Employes. Photo by American Press Association. Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer, in making known his reasons for giving away $10,000,000 to his employees, said: "I will be about the oply fact there is in life. A man can win almost anything, and if good will doesn't come with it it won't amount to much. He can lose all he has, but if he keeps the good will of those he has been associated with he still will be rich. He can be in the plan. If men will work better in the hope of something, how will they work with that something actually in hand? "We start our women in at $40 a month. Those who have families dependent upon them will get the $5 a day a month. "We will obey, and, anyhow, we would have the satisfaction of making 20,000 men prosperous and contented rather than making a few slave drivers in our plant millionaires. "It's a sound thing economically and socially, that we have done, and the fact that we are distant when none can tell so realit "For years we have been as familiar with the home life of our men as have been with their factory life. They will not abuse this good fortune." Gored to Death by Deer. In a desperate fight with a hord of weather-maddened deer, led by a huge antlered buck, Patrick Horan, a keeper in the deer park on the late Edwin Hawley's estate at West Islip, near Babylon, I. I., was gored to death. No one saw the battle, but a blood-stained pitchfork, a broken club, the ground torn up for many rods and blood dripping wounds on the door themselves, were mute witnesses to the terrific struggle the aged man put up for his life. Horan left his home for his duties in the deer park. When he did not return for lunch his body was found at the gate leading into the park. His body was go out by hoofs and antlers that he could scarcely be recognized. Father and Daughter Ask Divorce. With different grounds of action in each suit, a father and daughter instituted proceedings asking absolute divorces in Baltimore, Md. The father is Hutch Campbell. His daughter, Mrs. Ella Evera Dunn, who brought action through him, is a minor and lives with him. Mrs. Florence E. Campbell is named defendant in the father's suit. According to the bill, she deserted him. After three years of married life, his daughter, a child bride, married when she was sixteen years old, so she a divorce from William Dunn. She alleges unfaithfulness. Snowpile Saved Three. With a child in each arm, Austin Philhainer, who occupied the old Cobb house on the Eagle Rock road, near Roseland, N. J., leaped from a secondary window of his home as the flames rushed through the building and eventually entirely consumed the house. A small pile of snow which Philhanner had previously piled beneath the window, without any thought it would be so useful, broke his drop and all three escaped without serious injury. Autos in U. S. Double Since 1911. The number of automobiles registered in the United States has more than doubled since 1911. In that year, according to compilations just made public by the secretary of state in Albany, N. Y., the number was 628,000. First year, 1,128,000 cars were registered. New York state loads with a total registration of 135,000 and Nevada brings up the rear, with 1141. First Steamer: Through Canal. The first steam vessel has passed through the Panama canal. It was the Alexander tavalley, a crane boat, and it carried no passengers. It had been operating on the Atlantic side, and gradually made its way through during the course of its dredging operations. Goes Blind at Meal, Regains Sight. While he was eating his dinner, Charles E. Gilbert, a constable, of Mount Holly, N. J., was stricken with blindness. After being confined in a dark room his sight was restored. It is thought he was stricken with paralysis of the eye, caused by the strain of wearing a pair of cracked gloves. A Little Boy's Letter. Richmond, Va., Jan. 7, 1914. Mr. Editor: My father and mother takes The PLANET every week. I hope you a Happy New Year. My name is Precious A. Stewart. My father's name is William Stewart, my mother's name is Milford Stewart. My grandfather's name was Peter Stewart. He died April 1, 1913. May he rest in peace. I had a lovely Christmas. If Grandpa had lived I would have had a better one. But old Santa Claus THE WINTER COAT PRECIOUS A. STEWART. Just tried himself with me. I hung up my stockings and he filled it up with all kinds of things. Santa brought me horns, pop-crackers, two Christmas morning my Christmas Christmas morning my Christmas tree was loaded down with all kinds of things and I and my little friends had a lovely time. My friends were coming and going all day. We liked to have worried papa and mama to death. Pretty near all of my friends gave me a present. Mrs. Fannie Donati, Mr. Humbert Donati, Mr. Andrew Donati, Aunt Ater, Mrs. Martha Colos and many more I could call. I don't want to spend all my little change to pay for advertising. Hoping all of my friends a happy New Year and luck and prosperity. Yours truly. J. S.—Mama says if I live and she and papa live, she wants me to be a lawyer or a doctor. Hai Hai! But papa says, "Give him an oyster-knife and let him shuck oysters, and handle fish for a livelihood. It is healthy." Papa has a lot of friends, so called. He has two preachers, one is Mr. Frencha Howard and the other one is Mr. John Brown, the barber on 18th St. Good-by, from Little PRECIOUS A STEWART, 709 N. 29th St., Church Hill, Richmond, Va. Safety, Comfort, Stability, Ample Power, Econmux, Beauty Power, Economy, Beauty, What More, Behind, in an Automobiles $000 With All Special Equipment. Not Claims, but Facts and Figures. 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Crackmen broke into the Academy theater, in the heart of Buffalo, N.Y. and bound and ragged the watchman, blow open the safe and escaped with $1800 in currency. The robbers left a satchel of safe-blowing implements behind them. Man and Woman End Lives in Hotel. A man and a woman, who registered as "Jack Peterson, Jr., and wife, New York," were found dead in a hotel room in New York. A revolver was found in the dead man's hand, leaping the police to believe the couple died as the result of a suicide pact. HARRY THAW IS FOUND SANE Members Unanimous That Stayer's Release Would In No Way Menace Public Peace and Safety. The commission appointed by Judge Aldrich, of the United States court, to reach a finding as to whether it would be a public menace to liberate Harry K. Thaw on bail, pending a final decision of his case in the federal court, has reached a conclusion and filed the same in writing with the clerk of the United States court in Concord, N. H. The report of the commission was made public and its conclusion is couched in these words: "In our opinion it is reasonably probable that Harry Kendall Thaw's liberty under ball would not be dangerous or a menace to the public peace and safety." The commission further states by its written report that its members have formed an unanimous and positive opinion as to the state of Thaw's mind at the time of the homicide, but refrains from expressing that opinion, because the scope of its inquiry does not permit of a finding or an opinion on this point. The report is addressed to Judge Aldrich and signed by all the members of the commission. In its opening pages of the somewhat exhaustive report the commission says that they went carefully over the case book of the Maittewan hospital covering the period from Feb. 1, 1908, to Aug. 17, 1913 when escaped. It also examined transcripts of all other legal proceedings, including the various clique and direct examinations of Thaw and all evidence submitted at the two trials of Thaw for homicide. The commission refers to the public hearing which it gave on Jan. 7, at which only witnesses in favor of Thaw appeared, and then concluded its report as follows: "To determine the immediate question before us, our inquisition was necessarily directed to four points: "First—Careful physical examination to determine the presence or absence of structural or functional disturbance of the nervous system. "Second—The conduct of Harry K. Thaw since he committal to the Matewan State District on Feb. 1, 1908, up to the present time." "Third—Whether he is now suffering from such a disease of the mind or whether his present condition of mind, whatever it may be, is of such character as to predispose to acts of violence, independently of the narrow question whether such acts actually have been committed since his confinement or not. "Fourth—The circumstances and conditions which outwardly and inwardly led to the homicide on June 25, 1908, and the probable condition of mind of Harry K. Thaw at that time. "In its studies and deliberations the commission has in the main confined its attention to facts, preferring to attach little importance, for its purpose, to the conflicting opinions of expert and other witnesses. "In our opinion it is reasonably probable that Harry K. Thaw's liberty under ball would not be dangerous or a menace to the public peace and safety." Elopers to Fight White Slave Law. Shocked as Mobile, Ala., society was to learn that the "Mr. and Mrs. Foster" it had entertained lavishly were a girl stenographer and her married employer, it was even more agitated to learn the more startling details of the romance. With Jool M. Foster, forty-two years old and wealthy, held for an alleged violation of the Mann white slave act, and Miss贝蒂哈 Bradley, seventeen years old and pretty, under guard in her fashionable hotel as a material witness, many a fashionable hostess in Mobile fears she may have to appear when Foster is brought to trial. With the arrest of Foster for a technical violation of the white slave law, the story of their elopement from Pemberton, N. J., came out. After his arrest both Foster and the girl admitted that they were not married, but intended to be as soon as the man could be divorced. Both have so far maintained a defiant attitude. It is said he will test the power of government agents to arrest any man under the Mann law, unless they can prove the suspect is actually a "white slave." Foster and Mias Bradley eloped from Pemberton, early in December, where the girl was Foster's stenographer. He was the general manager of one of the largest chicken farms in the world there, and his father is the head of the Seranton, Pa., correspondence schools. --- That William Lechtenfeld, whose body was found riddled with bullets in Bidar Creek township, near Berwick, Pa., Dec. 19, had paid $25 for his own murder, is the conclusion announced by officers who have been working for wocks on the case. Lechtenfeld furnished the revolver, that he borrowed from another. He bought the cartridges that were to penetrate his own body. He then hired the assassin to commit the deed and stood in the business while the fellow aimed and fired, is the theory of the police. To prove this the state constabulary officers have much evidence. The motive of the crime was lacking from the first. There was every indication of suicide, with the impossibility of it. We have in our possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the tolls of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that we think every man who wishes to regain his manly power and virility, quickly and quietly, 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 physician who has made a special study of men and we are convinced it is the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood, and vigor failure ever put together. 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The conscience fund was enriched by a contribution from Staunton, Va. the birthplace of President Wilson. It consisted of $2.70 in cash and was not accompanied by any communication whatever. The Return of Lost Sh Will be Given at the CITY AUDITORIUM Under the Suspices of LEIGH ST. M. MOND BENEFICIAL INDUSTRIAL CLU Stage. Thrilling Scones, Beautiful Ren- tumes, Beautiful under the bewitching Lights installed for the occasion. Will be Given at the CITY AUDITORIUM, MONDAY EVE, JAN. 19, 1924 Under the auspices of LEIGH ST. M. E. CHURCH and the RICHMOND BENEFICIAL INDUSTRIAL CLUB OF VA. 200 Volces on the Stage. Thrilling Scenes, Beautiful Rendition of Songs, Gorgeous Costumes. Beautiful under the bewitching influence of various Calcium Lights installed for the occasion. EXECUTIVE STAFF Representing Leigh St. M. E. Church Mr. R. B. Sampson, Chairman; Mrs. M. M. Bunn, Assistant; Mrs. Florence M. Mitchell, Secy.; Mrs. E. C. Eldridge, Supt. J. E. L.; The Rev. E. M. Mitchell, Pastor. SLAB W BLOCK LENGTH $4.50 ANYWHERE I H. C. JONES & S He had threatened suicide by poisoning and shooting, but feared to do so. In a saloon, he offered money to a man to kill him, and it has been established that he left the saloon with a strange foreigner, although nothing was thought of it at the time. The fact that he paid for his own murder is indicated by the fact that he had money above the amount he offered for the killing when he left home, and there was little money on his person when the body was found. Killa Teacher and Himself In the presence of a score of terrified kindergarten pupils in a school building in Madison, Wit., John C. Spooner, a nephew of former United States Senator John C. Spooner, and an insurance agent, shot Miss McConnell, the teacher, dead, and then killed himself. Spooner, although married, was long infatuated with Miss McConnell and killed her because she would not cope with him. She was a member of a prominent family of Madison and had been a teacher in the public schools fourteen years. Spooner had been drinking heavily for several weeks. Suffering from poison believed to have been contained in varnish taken by mistake. Ann Muller, fifty years of age, was taken from a house in Philadelphia and died at the Hahnemann hospital. The office believe she drank from a bottle containing varnish, believing it held Hour. A national bank examiner was assigned by the comptroller of the currency to take charge of the Marion Kan., National bank, which closed on Monday because of lack of funds. Gave Her a Tip... General Admission, 20 Cents --- Druka Varnish and Piles Kenawa Bank Closed 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 & Tilford, New York. JEFFRIES NO. 1 COUGH MIXTURE. THE WINNER. 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His imperial majesty the kaiser is daily cutting half a cord of wood in Sans Souci park, one of his estates near Berlin. With a hired laborer at the other end of a huge cross-cut saw, the emperor saw his daily stint of timber, and then proceeded to chop it into stove size. Nearby the Empress Augusta sat on a rustic bench and coached the war lord, between gusts of laughter. The wood choping is the imperial physician's prescription for insomnia and nervousness. Thomas Noto, twenty-three, years old, was murdered at Mayfield, near Scranton, Pa., his slayer using either an axe or butcher's cleaver in chopping off his head. A trail of blood led three blocks away, and the belief is that another man was also wounded in the struggle. Noto came from Brooklyn three years ago and the belief is that a Black Hand gung killed him. Sheets Turkey With 10-inch Beard. Old Tom, a wild turkey gobbler, well known to hunters in the vicinity of Hagerstown, Md., has been shot by R. W. 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