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GREENHILL PLANET VOLUME XXXI, NO. 16 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914 PRICE, FIVE CENTS The PLANET has been keeping tabs on two of the most successful Revivals that have been conducted here for many years; and it is said by a goodly number of those who have attended them, that the meetings were unlike any that they have ever witnessed here. First. The sermons were short, practical, very pointed and convicting. Secondly. The songs were uplifting, inspiring and led by one who knows how to sing and how to make others sing and how to sing anything, so much so, until the old, middle aged and young could join in very readily. Thirdly. The spiritual interest was kept up from the beginning to the end and hasn't as yet ceased. Surely it must have been a wonderful and successful meeting. Those meetings were conducted by the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, the International Preacher and Singing Evangelist of Philadelphia, Pa., formerly of this city. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., pastor. It was through this pastor and intrepid leader that the Rev. Skipwith was engaged and brought to the city and too much praise cannot be given to a good shoplord who is always on the lookout for his people, seeking to bring before them, if possible, some of the very best men and women. This is real unselfishness, and would to God that we had more pastors like him. Dr. Johnson in speaking of his meeting "says" it was the most helpful and one of the most inspiring meetings that he has ever had during his twelve years of pastoral work in this old historic church. "For three weeks the battle against sin, flesh and the devil raged, the bulwark and fortress of holl were bombarded and one hundred and ninety souls were happily converted and declared to the world that they will ever 'follow Jonus.' The effects and results of those meetings have not as yet ceased. The special meeting which was held for women, only by the 'Evangelist' "seemed to have" been the climax when fifteen hundred women packed our building and others turned away. Our collections during these weeks were $450.00. This shows that we were helped both spiritually and financially. We have already examined one hundred and twenty persons for baptism and others to oceme. "We feel very grateful to the editor of this great paper for the part which he took in publishing the news to the world of the good things which were going on in Zion. We also pray God's blessings upon our dear Bro. Skipwith who well deserves the title of an International Preacher and Singing Evangelist. MOORE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. R. O. Johnson, D. D., pastor. For nineteen years we have been the honored pastor of this great church and people, during which time we have had splendid revivals, and most excellent results, but have never had an Evangelist before, although we have been knowing our Brother Skipwith for some time for when he was a student at the University he preached many acceptable sermons for us, but during his many years of touring the country in this special work we lost trace of him until we heard that our friend and brother Dr. W. T. Johnson had secured him for his meetings. Then we sought Bro. Johnson and it was through him that we were able to secure the services of Rev. Skipwith. For two weeks or more our church was packed to its utmost capacity, during which time sixty-five and eighty anxious sewers bowed every night. At the meeting for men only, nine hundred were present. Fifteen came forward and nine went away happily converted, a most wonderful meeting, such as we have never had before. At the close of our brother's sojourn there were 198 conversions, and they are still coming. Thus far we have examined about one hundred and thirty for baptism and others are waiting to be. We are very grateful to our members and friends for having responded so nicely and also to the editor of this organ who has never failed to publish every line of our notes. Our meetings were a success spiritually and financially. Our offerings for the two weeks, and a few days over were $385.00 so you see the meetings were of no extra expense at all to the church. We are looking forward to having our brother with us again. MITCHELL WINS COURT FIGHT. U. S. Court Favors Virginia Knights of Pythias. Washington. Thursday—The Virginia Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias will not be dissolved, says the U. S.-Supreme Court in the case of the Supreme Lodge and the Virginia Grand Lodge which was suspended at Baltimore last August, at which time Grand Chancellor John Mitchell and the Virginia delegation were not admitted. - Legal proceedings were started by the Virginia Grand Lodge to present the dissolution of their jurisdiction. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green then began proceedings to have the case thrown out. The court in refusing to grant the plan of the Supreme Lodge, declared, that the action revoking the charter of the Virginia Grand Lodge and ordering its dissolution was unconstitutional and unlawful. It issued, a sweeping injunction restraining the Supreme Lodge from interfering.—Memphis, Tenn. Colored Citizen. Alabamian Warned Them. The Alabamian warned the Supreme Grand Master of the Knights of Pythias of America and his followers to be very careful how they entered into a fight with John Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond, Va. Now we can say, "We told you so!" They took the matter into the courts and the first contest was decided in favor of John Mitchell, Jr., and the K. of P's of Virginia. He is now getting ready to meet them in the next round and if they don't wake up, he will beat them again. If he beats them in the next round; then there is going to be general rebellion in the order; for if the Supremo G. Master can't make the K. of P's of the Old Dominion pay the special tax, then there will be others to rob. We are watching the outcome with interest.—Montgomery, Ala. Colored Alabamian. Fire Destroys Residence of Pastor and Mrs. K. J. Judkins. Last Monday, March 2, at about 2:30 P. M., fire destroyed the residence of Pastor and Mrs. R. C. Judkins on Tatum Street. It is not known how the fire started, but in a few minutes the great north wind that was blowing caused the flame to cover the house. In a short while numerous members and friends had gathered to render any help in their power. Several offered rooms for the pastor, and his family. White and colored frien a have made inquiry and offered assistance. They are now located at the home of Deacon and Mr. E. M. Lewis, 47 Sey St. phone, 3050. They hope to rebuild their residence coon. The pastor and his family take this opportunity to thank all who came to their assistance and all who have expressed sympathy. —Montgomery, Ala. Colored Alabamian. Leesburg. (Va.) Items. Miss Ocle Groy of Aldic, has been visiting her brother, Clifton Grey, at Celdom, for three weeks. She also stopped with her cousin, John Helms, Wet Liberty Street. She has now returned to her home, Aldie Vn., assisted by her brother, R. E. Grey. Mr. Drexoll Washington of Chorter, Pa. was in town this week, visiting his sick mother, Mrs. Leana Washington, King Street. He returned home on Friday. It was very bad under foot Sunday. Our pastor, Rev. Dr. Tylor, didn't got to town, having been sick. But a few folks found their way to church. Our Bro. W. R. Manley preached for us from 1st Cor. 6th chapter, 19-20th verse. He impressed upon us that our body was the temple of God for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Sister Henry Robertson of Waverly Heights worshipped with us. We are always glad to see Sister Robertson. At 2:30 the Sunday School was in session. The Bible class was taught by Bro. Manley. Our prayer meetings are progressing nicely every Wednesday evening. At eight o'clock Bro. Manley again ascended the stand. He selected Math. 20-21, The Parable of the Talents. He urged upon his hearers to make good use of their talents as God gives them to them. Owing to our pastor net being with us the congregation was small. Miss Mary Ferrel and Miss Agnus Dorsey were the guest of the Minnesox Fox at Dinner on Sunday at 6:30. After enjoying the good things we went to church. Mrs. Mary K. Davis is still on the stock list. The sister of Mr. Philip Harris was brought on from Chicago and buried. Mr. William Gilmore of Washington was in town Sunday visiting his sister, Mrs. James Dove. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914. Seminary Vindicated Seminary Vindicated Va. Theological Seminary College, Forced Into the Courts. There has been much prominence given to a case brought by Ella J. Williamson against Virginia Theological Seminary and College for $10,000.00. Again many misleading statements have been made to the public both through the press and by constant talk. This has been in process now for more than one year. The Institution has been misrepresented in toto by some and misunderstood by others, because the College was abiding its time. Now that the Circuit Court, of the City of Lynchburg, presided over by Judge Barksdale, has passed upon the facts in the case, exonerating the Institution, in every particular, we will state our side of the question. Miss Williamson charged through her lawyers that the school was guilty of negligence, in that through its agent, a professor, it had left upon a desk from a chemical experiment, sulphur and iron filings, which entered her eyes, causing the loss of sight and paralysis in the right side. Expert witnesses were introduced, Dr. Walters, eye specialist; Dr. Perrow, City Chemist; Dr. Tallaferoer, City Physician and Dr. Fawcett. Dr. Walters stated that iron filings and sulphur were no more injurious to the eyes than dirt; and further, that he could not conceive of anything that could get in her eye, that would affect her in the way she claimed. Dr. Perrow, who is a professional chemist, also stated that sulphur and iron filings could not injure anyone, more than dirt. Dr. Tallaferoer stated that he would not be afraid to put the same things in his eye. Again that he saw the girl once during her sickness and that she was suffering from hysteria. Dr. Fawcett, who has been their family physician as well as school physician, stated that the girl had suffered with like attacks of which she complained for years. As to her eyes and hand, he stated that ever since he knew her, she had suffered with weak eyes, and since 1910, had suffered with the hand and arm. Any number of witnesses were introduced, who had known the girl since 1908, that testified as to her condition, among them Mr. Adolphus Humbles, who has known her for about eighteen years. It was clearly proved that she was not injured in any way at the College. In fact, she is better to-day physically, than she has been for a number of years. Her suffering and present condition were occasioned by other diseases as was brought out in the testimony. The jury was composed of able, experienced, far-sighted business men heard the case carefully and rendered their decision in less than five minutes, which was in favor of the College. The Institution, was represented by noted and able attorneys, Meursa, J. E. Edmunds, S. G. Hamner and Aubrey E. Strode. Dr. Bugg, a colored physician, was the only expert witness whose testimony was construed to be against the College. Many who heard it felt it was more from his feelings than his medical skill. The College endeavored to adjust this difficulty out of the courts but it was threatened by the other side, intimidated in different ways and finally forced into court. Right has prevailed and truth had a hearing. We still say to the public, that we did this lady absolutely no harm. R. C. WOODS, President Va. Theo. Sem. & Col. Wanted! 200 Men, Beadles Women and Children To hear the eloquent and popular Presbyterian Divine, Rev. F. T. McFaden, D. D. on the subject, "Christ, the Sympathizer," Mr. James W. Poo will introduce the speaker, Sunday, March 15, 3:30 P. M. at First Presbyterian Church. Special music for the occasion. Come and bring your friends. Rev. J. E. Harper, Pastor. Mrs. Rachel Harris Pames Away. Mrs. Rachel Harris, wife of Mr. Richard L. Harris died at Hermitage Golf Club. February 26, 1914 at 7:40 A. M. after an illness of seven weeks. Proliminary exercises were conducted at the Club by her pastor, Dr. W. T. Johnson assisted by Rev. S. C. Burrell. Pray. r by Deacon A. W. Holmes, duet by Mrs. Alice Kemp Burrell and Mrs. Ella J. Johnson. Complimentary remarks and praise by the President of the Club, Mr. James Lewis Anderson. The body was conveyed to Cumberland county, where the funeral services were memorialed at Little Park Church by Her, Scott Hudson, interment in the family cemetery of her husband. THE MOST POPULAR MINISTER. "It Costs You Nothing to Vote." Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday. Rov. L. J. Morris . . . 40 Rov. W. F. Graham, Phila. . . 25 Rov. R. V. Poyton . . . 20 Rov. R. G. Adams, Farmville. Va. 20 Rov. W. H. Stokes . . . 15 Rov. S. C. Manuel . . . 15 Rov. A. S. Thomas . . . 15 Rov. T. J. J. Mosby . . . 10 Rov. W. T. Johnson . . . 10 Rov. A. Binga, Jr. . . . 10 Rov. S. S. Morris . . . 10 Rov. Z. D. Lewis . . . 5 Rov. Evans Payno . . . 5 Rov. R. O. Johnson . . . 5 Rov. E. M. Mitchell . . . 5 Rov. James E. Churchman . . . 5 Rov. Nelson B. Brown . . . 5 Wm. Skilney Harlowe Oatherina S. Hueley 1889—1914. 1889----1914. Mr. and Mrs. Silney Barlowe will celebrate their Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary Friday evening, March 27th, 1914 at their residence, 720 Munford Street. Friends are invited. No cards. Sent to the Pealtentary. Mattie Osborne, charged with attempting to set fire to the house of Mrs. Rosetta Crane, 703 N. Sixth St. was convicted in the Hunting Court last Monday and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Shot In the Leg. Andrew Polindexter of N.W. Pegg Street was shot in the leg while standing on the corner of St. James and Baker Streets last Tuesday night. He did not hear the report of any weapon and it is not known who fired the bullet. Card of Thanks In our hour of leavement and sorrow, we wish to thank our many friends and acquaintances for their sympathy and kindness, during the sickness and death of our husband and father, J. Marshall Williams. MRS. RACHEL, WILLIAMS POWELL, B. WILLIAMS. A Beautiful Home Marriage. The marriage of Miss Mary E. Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Proston Taylor, to Mr. William Henry Holley took place at the residence of the bride, 120 W. Hill Street, Wednesday, February 18, 1914, at 9 o'clock P. M. The parlors were artistically decorated with cut flowers and under the shaded lights, the bride handsomely gowned in white chiffon, the little flower girls in their dainty frocks, the bridesmaids becomingly attired in pink, presented a lovely scene. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., with his usual grace and dignity performed the ceremony. A reception to the bridal party and guests followed immediately. The gifts received included a variety of useful as well as costly presents. Mr. and Mrs. Honly are located at 722 N. 9th St. Birthday Party. A triple birthday party was celebrated at the residence of Mr. John Nixon, Westwood, Va., Friday night, March 6, 1914. A swell time was had. Mr. John Nixon, Mr. Monroe Nixon and Mr. Joe Price were the happy participants. It was the grandest affair ever held in the history of Westwood. They were showered with presents and congratulations from many friends. REV. T. J. J. MOSBY WIN8. Popularity Content Closes. The Popularity Contest between Rev. S. S. Morris, pastor of the Third St. A. M. B. Church, and Rev. T. J. J. Mosby, pastor of the New Baptist Church come to a close Tuesday night, March 10, 1914. The closing feature was a sacred concert at the Third St. A. M. B. Church. The music and solemnities were fine. Rev. T. J. J. Mosby was the successful constant having received 1394 votes; Rev. S. S. Morris received 1198 votes. Dr. E. R. Jefferson Dr. J. M. G. Ramsey Dr. A. A. Tennant Dr. W. H. Hughes Dr. M. B. Jones Dr. R. E. Jones Dr. J. E. Merlweather Dr. O. B. H. Bowers Dr. D. A. Ferguson Dr. I. D. Burrell, Ronnoke, Va. Dr. R. O. Tawson Dr. H. L. Harris, Sr. Dr. J. A. Lewis Dr. J. R. Griggin Dr. J. C. Carper Farmville (Va.) News. Farmville, Va., March 9, 1914. Mr. Editor. All of those who believe in the ground hog story are satisfied he saw his shadow on the second day of February and now they have had enough cold weather to purify the atmosphere, kill the insects, thereby giving us Spring and Summer with less disease, plenty of vegetables and fruits in abundance. The many sick who have been continued to home for several weeks are convulsing. There will be a debate at the First Baptist Church, Friday night, February 13th, Burksville near Farmville. Subject, "Who Was the Greatest Leader, Moses or Joshua?" This is a subject which, has been discussed in almost every community of Virginia by the leaders in each section. Mr. Rambler said he heard this subject discussed last Winter not far from here in one of the school houses in the District. Upon this occasion many mis-quotations of the Scriptures were indulged in and many wrong things said concerning both leaders. We learn there will be another debate in town in the near future by Rev. J. W. Harmon of the A. M. E. Church and Rev. R. G. Adams of the First Baptist Church. These two pastors promise to make it lively for each other and both are thinking they are going to win. The subject is, "Resolved, That It is Prejudice Against the Color and not the Condition of the Negro Which Dobars Him from Enjoying Equally the Civic, Political and Religious Rights In This Country." Many of the other race have expressed their desire to be present at the debate. Quite a feeling was created here last week among many of our people on seeing and hearing of a policeman using his billy freely over the head of a colored boy or man, who was at that time had on too much "booze." It is said the policeman knocked him down and when the poor drunken, stupid fellow attempted to rise he was knocked down again and then, struck afterwards over the head while down. It is said the poor fellow was no drunk he was not able to put up a fight and did not attempt to resist. Notwithstanding there were several standing near and eye witnesses, not one appeared before the court next morning to testify in behalf of the poor fellow and the cruel treatment of the officer. There are a large number of good, sober and respectable colored citizens here who are lovers of their race and law-abiding citizens and we are looking to the many Christian men of the white race here to see to it that no inhuman action is performed upon any citizen, be he drunk, or sober. An officer of the law is privileged to summon as many as he desires to assist in arresting any one. Now, there is another side to this, relative to the conduct of our people. I will write later. Found Dead. Anderson Cooper was found dead in bed in his room in the rear of 311 E. Grace Street Tuesday, March 10th. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander who occupy an adjoining room had not heard him since the Thursday preceding. As he came in and went out of his own volition, nothing was thought of his absence until his employer made enquiries about him. The looked door was broken open and his body found in an advanced stage of Decomposition. Mrs. Anna Lewis Gone The funeral of Mr. Anna Lewis the popular wife of Mr. Charles H. Lewis, took place from the Blessen Baptist Church 2.P. M. last Tuesday. Her son reached the city from Detroit last Monday. "It Costs You Nothing to Vote." Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday. Mr. A. D. Price ..... 25 Mr. W. L. Johnson ..... 20 Mr. A. Hayes ..... 15 Mrs. L. E. C. Scott ..... 15 Mr. J. H. Cunningham ..... 5 Mr. J. M. Wilkerson, Petersburg ..... 5 Mr. Cummings to Speak Here Harry S. Cummings, Esq. of Baltimore will be the orator at the annual exercises of the Knights of Pythias, at the City Auditorium, Sunday afternoon, March 29, 1914 at 3:30 o'clock. The seats are free and the public is invited. Music will be furnished by the choir of the Second Baptist Church, Col. Thomas M. Crump, leader. It will be an enjoyable affair. Mr. Cummings is at present a member of the City Council of Baltimore. He distinguished himself in seconding the nomination of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. For Rent. A new brick building with 12 rooms, situated on the car line. Will rent as a whole or in part. Persons desiring only one or two rooms can be accommodated. This is something new in the building line, and must be seen to be appreciated. We have several other vacant properties that we will be glad to show. Apply to B. A. CEPHAS. Corner 2nd and Leigh Streets. Dr. Anderson in Europe. Dr. Payton F. Anderson of Shelton Coun. is at present taking a post graduate course in medicine in Baja Germany, after spending two months in Vienna, Austria. Hon. Ralph W. Tyler Here. Hon. Ralph W. Tyler, ex-Auditor of the Navy, arrived in the city last Thursday at about 12 o'clock. Mr. Tyler is the Organizer of the National Business League. R. E. Jones, M. D., founder of Jonesboro, had charge of the arrangements. Messrs. John Mitchell, Jr., Floyd Ross and E. R. Giles were designated to meet Mr. Tyler. They performed the service. The dt tinguished guest spoke at the Richmond Beneficial Hall last Thursday night. Dr. R. E. Jones was master of ceremonies and John Mitchell, Jr. introduced the visitor. He delivered a fine address and his remarks made a profound impression. At their conclusion, the party retired to Miller's Hotel where luncheon was served. Money to Loan. If you want money we can accom modate you to any amount. BRAGG BROS. & CO. In Memoriam. In memory of our loved one, Thornton Ready, who departed this life March 6, 1913: Dearest father, you have left us. Left the home you loved so well. But some day we hope to meet you. And together we shall dwell. Farewell, alas! our dear kind father, Thy form lies cold and still. Thy death has caused a vacant place This world can never fill. I miss you from my home, dear husband. I miss thy kind and willing hand. Thy fond and earnest care; My home is dark without thee, I miss you everywhere. —His Wife and Children. Money to Loan. If you want money we can accommodate you to any amount. Watch for our next serial, "THE ABYSMAL BRUTE," by Jack London. The best installment will appear on Page Two soon. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE MOST POPULAR LADY. "It Costs You Nothing to Vote." Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker . . . 20 Mrs. Floyd Ross . . . 20 Mrs. Eva P. Evans . . . 15 Mrs. Ella O. Waller . . . 15 Mrs. Rosa K. Jones . . . 10 Mrs. Artemia Miller . . . 10 Mrs. E. V. Kolley, Norf Ik, Va. . . 10 PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Mr. C. Henry Jones of Washington, D. C. was in the city last week. Mrs. Willie McCormick Jones of Washington, D. C. is visiting relatives and friends in the city The many friends of Mrs. Charles H. Gibson of Tuskegee, Ala. will be glad to learn that she is slowly recovering from the effects of her recent fall. Rev. E. L. Baskerville, Editor of the Church Herald has been appointed Archdeacon for the work among colored people in the Diocese of South carolina. We return thanks for an invitation to the 34th Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. Brown at their residence, 1216 W. Green St., Louisville, Ky. Wednesday March 25, 1914. Mrs. Della V. Johnson, of Cape May, N. J. was in the city this week. She is agent for the Cape May Beach Land Co., and is promoting the sale of lots on the New Jersey waterfront at Cape May, N. J. She was enroute to Washington, D. C. Mrs. Robinson, the wife of Deacon James Robinson, Sr., of Westwood, Va. is still confined to her bed. Rev. A. L. Phillips, D. D., treasurer of the United Christian Endeavor Society of the World, will address a Young People's Mass Meeting at the Third S. A. M. E. Church, Sunday, 7:30 P. M. under auspices of the Allon C. E. Longue. The Civic Improvement League of Richmond will meet Wednesday night at Richmond Beneficial Bldg. Men invited. S. S. Morris, Pres.; E. C. Burke, Secretary. Mr. M. Trent, the well-known farmer of Highland Springs, Va. who has been very ill for one month, is able to be out again and was in an usual with his load. He was very weak but his devoted wife was with him and assisted him in waiting on his customers, who were also glad to see him. --- The Fight Is On at Second Baptist Church, So Richmond, Va. Last Sunday, March 8th, the church organized under the title of Gilden's Army, made its first special effort in the attempt to raise $3,000 by the middle of May. Although the idea has been before the people less than a month, they came "up to the help of the Lord," in splendid numbers, both at morning and evening services, when they were thrilled and inspired by the discourses from the Rev. O. G. Jenkins; while at 3:30 in the afternoon an appreciable audience was deeply edified by a characteristic and scholarly discourse from the Rev. Anthony Binga, Jr., D. D. And all together, notwithstanding the scarcity of means and shortness of time, in which to prepare laid on the Altar the next sum of $219.15. The officials and membership of the church are very grateful to the visiting clergy, the press and friends for their kind assistance in this great undertaking, which we believe will end triumphantly. Having begun so well, we are hoping to actually reach the $1,000 mark in our second effort on the 3rd Sunday in April, when the Rev. William P. Lawrence, D. D., Ph. D., of Orange, N. J. will be with us all day. This will surely be accomplished if each one who reads our appeal will remit only $1.00, which we are confident a great many will do as a memorial to their gifted and illustrious teacher, preacher, lecturer and leader, the late D. Webster Davis, who was for seventeen years the most highly esteemed and beloved pastor of this church. JAMES B. CHURCHMAN, Minister. 21 W. 19th St. South Richmond. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet..... By Burton E. Stevenson. Copyright, 1913, by Burton E. Stevenson. SYNOPSIS Apparently by mistake Philip Vantin receives an antique Boule cabinet from Porte. A strange Frenchman is mysteriously killed near it. Painton inserted through two wounds on his hand is the cause of death. Vantin's friends, Lester and Giffrey, a reporter are greatly interested. Vantin himself is killed in the same mysterious manner while or shortly after examining the Boule cabinet. Rogers, a servant, accuses a woman who visits Vantin of Vantin's murder. Rogers acts suspiciously. With the aid of Parke, Vantin's valet, Lester himself is placed in guard the Boule cabinet from the outside. When the valet arrives, the guard is taken away. Lester sees the valet and watches them through a snitter. Lester hoods down, representing Vantin. Xlx asks Lester for a picture of his tars hidden in the Boule cabinet which has been stolen from him. The calls open Letter, says there are deadly men in the cathedral and her letters from a doctor. "Mine, my husband, Jim, we loved Vittoria he had a wonderful life. Drouet, the dead Drouet, who asked the letters for a backpack purpose." 1: Part With the Boule Cabinet THE company's impetus was held next day. The police had discovered practically no new evidence, most certainly which abled any light on the way in which Drouet and Philip Vantine had met death. Police Commissioner Grady did not go on the stand. He was not at the inquest. The case had been placed in Simmons' hands, and it was he who testified on behalf of the police, admitting candidly that they were all at sea. But he had not abandoned hope and was still working on the case. The end of the hearing was that the jury brought in a verdict that Philip Vantine and George Procter had died from the effects of a poison administered by a person or persons unknown. Godfrey joined me at the door and I was leaving. "I was glad to hear Simmons can feel that the police are up a tree," he said. "Of course Grady is trying to speak out of it. I'll see that Simmons gets a square deal." "We're all up a tree, aren't we?" I said. "Since my theory about the Beau cabinet exploded I have given up hope. By the way, I'm going to turn the cabinet over to its owner to morrow." "To its owner?" he repeated, his eyes narrowing. "Yes I thought he be around for it, though I hardly thought he came so soon. Why does it happen to be Easter?" "Why," I said, a little impatiently, "you know as well as I do that it belongs to Armand & Sue." "You've seen their representative then?" he quipped with a little flash of excitement. "He came to see me yesterday. I'd like you to meet him, Goffrey. He is Felty Armand, the Son of the firm, and one of the most flashed gentle men I ever met." "I'd like to meet him," said Godfrey, smiling quietly. "Perhaps I shall, some day, I hope we anyway. But how did he explain the blunder, Lester?" "In some way they shipped the wrong cabinet to Vantine. The right one will get here on La Provence to morrow." "It is all most interesting," Godfrey commented. "Godfrey," I added, "I felt yesterday when I was talking with him that perhaps he knew more about this affair than he would admit. I could see that he guessed in an instant who the owner of the letters was, and what they contained. Do you think I ought to hold on to the cabinet a while longer? I could invent some pretext for delay, easily enough." "Why, no; let him have his cabinet," said Godfrey, with an anxiety that surprised me. "If your theory about it has been exploded, what's the use of hanging on to it?" "I don't see any use in doing so," I admitted, "but I thought perhaps you might want more time to examine it." "I've examined it all I'm going to," Godfrey answered, and I told myself that this was the first time I had ever known him to admit himself defeated. "Perhaps I'll see you tomorrow," he added, and we parted at the corner. But I did not see him on the morrow. I was rather expecting a call from him during the morning, and when none came I was certain I should find him awaiting me when I arrived at the Vantine house, in company with M. Armand. But he was not there, and when I asked for him Parks told me that he had not seen him since the day before. I confess that Godfrey's indifference to the fate of the cabinet surprised me greatly; besides, I was hoping, that he would wish to meet the fascinating Frenchman—more fascinating, if possible, than he had been on Monday. There had been less delay than he had anticipated in getting the cabinet off the boat and through the customs, and it was not yet 2 o'clock when we reached the Vantine house. "I haven't seen Mr. Godfrey," Park insisted, "but there's others, here as it TWO CHAPTER XI fair breaks my heart to see." He motioned toward the door of the music room, and, stepping to it, I saw that the inventory was already in progress. "The cabinet is in the room across the hall." I said to M. Armand, and led the way through the anteroom into the room beyond. Parks switched on the lights for us, and my companion glanced with surprise at the heavy shutters covering the windows. "We put those up for a protection," I explained. "We had an idea that some one would try to enter. In fact, one evening we did find a wire connected with the longer arm on end, later on saw some one posting in through the hole in that shutter youder." "You did?" M. Armand quotted quickly. "Would you recognize the man, if you were to meet him again?" "Oh, no! you see the hole is quite small. There was nothing visible except a pair of eyes. You might know them again, for I never before saw such eyes. So I never so boring." Mr. Armand was going at the cabin, apparently only listening "Will you show me how the secret drawer is operated, Mr. Lester?" he said. "I am most interested about it." I placed my hand upon the table and pressed the three points which the velled lady had down on. "The little handle fell forward with a click, and I pulled the drawer open. He examined it with much interest pushed it back into place and then opened it himself. "Very clever, indeed," he said. "I have never seen another so well concealed." "My friend and I went over the cabinet very carefully and could not find it." I said. "Your friend I thank you mentioned his name." "Yes. His name is Geoffrey." "A man of the law like yourself?" "Oh, no, a newtownman. But he had been a member of the detive force before that. He is extraordinarily keen. But that combination was too much for him. M. Armand stopped the drawer back into place with a little tremor. "I am glad at any rate, that it was discovered," he said. "I will not concern from you. Mr. Letter, that it add not a little to the value of the cabinet." "What Is its value?" I asked. "Mr. Vantine wanted me to buy it for him and named a great extra gift for us as the first he was willing to pay." "Really," Mr. Attmand answered later an instant objection. "I would not care to make a figure. Mr. Letter without further consultation, with my father." "What Is it, Parks?" I said as that worthy amount at the door. "and a couple of men are uploading a piece of furniture. Is it all right, sir?" "Yes." I answered. "Have them bring it in here, and ask the man in charge of the inventory to step over here a minute. Mr. Vantine left his collection of art objects to the Metropolitan Museum." I explained to Mr. Armand, "and I should like the representative of the museum to be present when the exchange is made." "Certainly," he assented. "That is very just." Parks was back in a moment, piloting two men who carried between them an object swathed in burp, and the Metropolitan Museum followed them in. "I am Mr. Lester," I said to him. "Mr. VanTaste's executor, and this is M. Felix Armand of Armand & Son of Paris. We are correcting an error which was made just before Mr. VanTaste died." That cabinet yonder was shipped him by mistake in place of one which he had bought. M. Armand has canned the right one to be sent over and will take away the one which belongs to him. I have already spoken to the museum's attorneys about the matter, but I wished you to be present when the exchange was made." "That is a very handsome piece," said the Metropolitan man. "I am sorry the museum is not to get it." The two men meanwhile, under M. Armand's direction, had been stripping the wrappings from the other cabinet, and it finally stood. revealed. It, too, was a beautiful piece of furniture, but even my untrained eye could see how greatly it fell below the other. "The other cabinet is yours," I said to M. Armand. "I shall hope to see you again, Mr. Lester," he said, with a cordiality which flattered me, "and to renew our very pleasant acquaintance. Whenever you are in Paris I trust you will not fail to honor me by letting me know." "Thank you," I said. "I shall certainly remember that invitation. And meanwhile, since you are here in New York" "You are most kind," he broke in. "and I was myself hoping that we might at least dine together. But I am compelled to proceed to Boston this evening, and from there I shall go on to Quebec." Then he signed to the two men to take up the cabinet and himself laid a protecting hand upon it as it was carried through the door and down the steps to the van which was backed up to the earth. It was litted carefully inside, the two men clambered I beheld it, the driver spoke to the horse, and the van rolled slowly away up the arena. M. Armand watched it for a moment. then mounted into the cab which was waiting, waved a last farewell to me and followed after the van. We watched it until it turned westward at the first cross street. "Mr. Godfrey's occupation will be gone," said I parks, with a little laugh. "He has fairly lived with that cabinet for the past three or four days. He was here last night for quite awhile." "Last night?" I echoed, surprised. "I was sure he would be here today." I added. my hands to me. When I left mounds, were stair, receive them, but I knocking thing wizard going on and voiced of a man thing about triumphant. Godfrey peed stair head. He moved can an open door seemed to come same time to The next instant I was jumping down the steps two at a time, for a cab in which two men were sitting came down the avenue and rolled slowly around the corner in the direction taken by the van. One of its occupants turned toward me and waved his hand, and I recognized Jim Godfrey. It was with a certain vexation of spirit that I found myself racing after Godfrey's cab, for I realized that he had not been entirely frank with me. Certainly he had dropped no hint of his intention to follow Armand. And it suddenly dawned upon me that even I did not know the cabinet's destination. M. Armand had volunteered no information. I reached the corner in time to see the van turn northward into Sixth avenue. At Sixth street it turned westward again, and then northward into Seventh avenue. What could Armand be doing in this part of the town? I asked myself. Did he propose to leave that pristine cabin net in this dingy quarter? And then I paused abruptly and slipped into an archway, for the van had stopped some distance ahead and was backing up to the curb. Leading up discreetly, I saw the cab containing Armand stop also, and that gentleman climbed and paid the driver. The other cab rattled on at a good pace and disappeared up the avenue. Then the two porters lifted up the cabinet and, with Armand showing them the way, carried it into the building before which the van had stopped. They were gone; perhaps five minutes, from which I argued that they were carrying it upstairs; then they reappeared, with Armand accompanying them. He tipped them and went out also to tip the driver of the van. Then the porters climbed aboard, and it rattled away out of sight. Armand stood for a moment on the top, looking up and down the avenue, then disappeared in debris. An instant later I saw Godfrey and another man whom I recognized as Simmons come out of a shop across PADER. I Saw the Cab Containing Armand Stop. I Saw the Cab Containing Armand Stop. the street and dash over to the house into which the cabinet had been taken. They were standing on the doorstep when I joined them. It was a 'dingy' building, entirely typical of the dingy neighborhood. The ground floor was occupied by a laundry which the sign on the front window declared to be French, and the room which the window lighted extended the whole width of the building except for a door which opened presumably on the stairway leading to the upper stories. Godfrey's face was flaming with excitement as he turned the knob of this door gently—gently. The door was locked. He stooped and applied an eye to the keyhole. "The key is in the lock," he whispered. Rimmons took from his pocket a pair of slender pliers and passed them over. Godfrey inserted the pliers in the keyhole, gramped the end of the key and turned it slowly. "Now!" he said, softly opened the door and allipped inside. I followed, and Simmons came after me like a shadow, closing the door carefully behind him. Then we all stopped, and my heart, at least, was in my mouth, for from somewhere overhead came the sound of a man's voice talking excitedly. Even in the selfdarkness I could see the look of astonishment and alarm on Godfrey's face as he stood for a moment motionless, listening to that voice. I also stood with ears a strain, but I could make nothing of what it was saying. Then suddenly I realised that it was speaking in French. And yet it was not Armand's voice—of that I was certain. Pruning us was a narrow stair mounting steeply to the story over- head, and after that moment's amused hastiness Godfrey set down on the bottom step and removed his shoes gently, motioning us to do the same. Diagnosis obeyed phlogistically, but my hands were trembling. When I leaped up Godfrey and Simmons, we were glancing slowly up the stair, receiving in hand. I followed them, but I questioned my knees were knocking together, for there was something weird and chilling in that voice going on and on. It sounded like the voice of a madman. There was something about it at once ferocious and triumphant. Godfrey paused an instant at the stair head, listening intently. Then he moved cautiously forward toward an open door, from which the voice seemed to come, motioning us at the same time, to stay where we were. And as I knelt, bathed in perspiration, I caught one word, repeated over and over: "Revenge, revenge, revenge!" GOODFREY, on hands and knees, was peering into the room. Then he drew back and motioned us forward. In the middle of the door stood the Boule cabinet, and before it, with his back to the door, stood a man ripping savagely away the strips of burlap in which it had been wrapped, talking to himself the white in a sort of savage singsong and coiling from moment to moment to games at a billed bundle lying on the floor against the opposite wall for a time I could not make out what this bundle was. Then, straining my eyes, I saw that it was the body of a man, wrapped round and round in some weblike fabric. And as I stared at him I caught the glitter of his eyes as he watched the man working at the cabinet—a glitter not, to be mistaken, the same glitter which had so frightened me once before. What was the meaning of this fervorous scene? My heart leaped into my throat, for Golffrey, with a shattery of "Stop!" springing to his feet and dashed into the room. Slimmounds at his heels. I suppose two seconds elapsed before I reached the threshold, and I stopped there, staring, clutching at the wall to steady myself. There was the catnet with its wrappings torn away, but the figure on the floor had disappeared, and before an open doorway into another room stood a man, a giant of a man, his hands above his head, his face working with fear and rage, while Golffrey, his lips curling into a meering smile, pressed a pistol against his breast. Then, as I stood there staring, it seemed to me that there was a sort of licker in the air above the man's head, and he screamed silently. "Death!" he shook. "Death." For one dreadful instant longer he stood there notices less, then, with a strangled cry, he pushed forward heavily at Godfrey's feet. I have a confused remembrance of Godfrey stooping for an instant above the body, staring at it, and then, with a sharp cry, hurrying himself through that open doorway. In a moment Godfrey was back in the room, crossed it at a bound and dislushed to the door opening into the hall, just as it was slammed in his face. I saw him tear desperately at the knob, then retreat two steps and hurt himself against it. But it held firm, and from the hell outside a burst of mocking laughter that early from my blood. Simonads was quieter than I, and together they threw themselves at the door. It crashed unanimously, but still held. Again they tried, and this time it split from top to bottom. Godfrey kicked the covers to either side and slipped between them. Simonads after him. I reached the stair head in time to see Godfrey try the front door and then turn along the lower hall heading to the back of the House. An instant later a chorus of freaked women's shrieks made my half stand on end. How I got down the stairs I do not know. But I, too, turned back along the lower hall, expecting my instant to come upon. I knew not what horror, I reached an open door, passed through it and found myself in the laundry in the midst of a group of excited and indignant women, who greeted my appearance with a fresh series of screams. Unable to go farther, I sat simply down upon a box and looked at them. I was still sitting there when Godfrey came back, breathing heavily, chagrin and anger in his eyes. "A crime has been committed upstairs," he said to the manager. "This gentleman with me is Mr. Simmonds of the detective bureau," and at the words Simmonds showed his shield. "We shall have to notify headquarters." Godfrey went on, and I would advise that you keep your girls at their work. I don't suppose you want to be mixed up in it. "Sure not," agreed the manager promptly, and while Simmonds went to the phone and called up police headquarters the manager had the girls back at their work in short order. Godfrey came over to me and laid his hand on my shoulder. "Why. Lester," he said, "you look an though you were at your last gasp." "I am," I said, "I'm going to have nervous prostration if this thing keeps up. You're not, looking particularly happy yourself." "I'm not happy. I've let that fellow kill a man right under my nose—literally under my nose—and then get away." "Kill a man!" I repeated. "Do you mean—" "Go upstairs and look at the right hand of the man lying there," said Godfrey curtly, "and you'll see what I mean." Mammonds joined us with a twisted smile on his lips, and I saw that even he was considerably shaken. "I got Grady," he said, "and told him what had happened. He says he's too busy to come up and that I'm to take charge of things. The ambience will be around at once. We'd better get our shoes on and go back outside and see if anything can be done for that fellow." 5. Minonds kept beside the body. CHAPTER XII. held up the lamp right hand for me to see. Just above the knuckles were two they indulged, with a drop or two of blood coming away from them, and the flesh about them swollen and dark colored. "I know what it was the instant he yelled 'Death!'" and Godfrey quietly. "And he knew what it was the instant he hit the stroke. It is evident enough that he had seen it used before or heard of it and knew that it meant instant death." I sat down, staring at the dead man, and tried to collect my senses. I saw a man roughly dressed, with bushy black hair and tangled beard; a very giant of a man. A sudden thought brought me bolt upright. "But ArmandS" I cried. "Where is Armand?" Godfrey looked at me with a half pigty smile. "What, Lester!" he said, "don't you understand even yet? It was your fascinating M. Armand who did that," and he pointed to the dend man. I felt as though I had been struck a heavy blow upon the head; black circles whirled before my eyes. "Was it Armand," I asked; "who lay there in the corner?" "Certainly it was," Godfrey answered. "Who else could it be?" "Godfrey!" I cried, remembering suddenly. "Did you see his eyes as he lay there watching the man at the cabinet?" "Yes; I saw them." "They were the same eyes?" "The same eyes." "And the laugh-did you hear that laugh?" "Certainly I heard it." "I heard it once before," I said, "and you thought it was a case of nerves?" "I fell silent a moment, shivering a little at the remembrance. "But why did Armand lie there so quietly?" I asked at last. "Was he injured?" Godfrey made a little gesture toward the corner. "Go see for yourself," he said. Something lay along the wall, on the spot where I had seen that figure, and P. "Was it Armand who lay there in the corner?" as I bent over it I saw that it was a large net, finely meshbed, but very strong. "That was dropped over Armand's head as he came up the stairs," said Godfrey, "or flung over him as he came into the room. Then the dead man yonder jumped upon him and trussed him up with those ropes." Pushing the net aside, I saw upon the floor a little pile of several cords. "Yes." I agreed; "the would be able to do that. Have you noticed his size, Godfrey? He was almost a giant." "He couldn't have done it if Armand hadn't been willing that he should," retorted Godfrey curtly. "You see he had no difficulty in getting away," and he held up the net and pointed to the great rents in it. "He cut his way out while he was lying here. I ought to have known"— He threw the net down upon the door with a gesture of disgust and dispair. Then he stopped in front of the Boule cabinet and looked down at it musingly, and, after a moment, his face brightened. The burlap wrappings had been almost wholly torn away. "But we'll get him, Simmonds," said Godfrey, and his lips broke into a smile. "In fact, we've got him now. We have only to wait, and we'll walk into our arms. Simmonds, I want you to lock this cabinet up in the strongest cell around at your station, carry the key yourself and give your reasons to nobody." "That'll be easy," laughed Simmonds. "I haven't got any reasons." With Armand; so frightened, so not pelled, so distinguished, in my mind, and the body of his intent victim before my eyes, I nodded gleamily. "But, Godfrey, who is this man?" I asked. "Why did he kill that poor fellow up there? Why did he kill that innocent and Virtue? How did he get the Virtue he knew? What is it all?" "He said he easily fell in with me as a friend. "What is the important question what is it all about? If I can, I'll drop in tonight to see you; and we can穿透 it out. Will that suit you?" "Yes," I said; "and for heaven's sake, don't fail to come." That night I had begun to fear that Godfrey was going to disappear me, so late it was before his welcome knock came at my door. I hastened to let him in, and I could tell by the aigh of relief with which he sank into a chair that he was thoroughly weary. "If you have an explanation, Godfrey," I said. "for heaven's sake tell me. Tell me first how you and Simmonds came to be following Armand." "Simply became I had found out he wasn't Armand. Felix Armand is in Paris at this moment. You were too credulous, Lester." "Why, I never had any doubt of his being Armand." I stammered. "He knew about my cablegram; he knew about the firm's answer"— "Of course he did, because your cable was never received by the Armands, but by a confederate in this fellow's employ, and it was that confederate who answered it." "Then you still believe that the cabinet was sent to Vantine by design and not by accident?" "Absolutely. It was sent by the Armands in good faith because they believed that it had been purchased by Vantine, all of which had been arranged very carefully by the great unknown." "Tell me how you know all this, Goffrey." I said. "I cabled our man at Paris to investigate. Our man went at once to the older Armand and learned a number of very interesting things. One was that the son, Felix Armand, was in Paris; another was that no member of the firm knew anything about your cable or the answer to it; a third was that had the cable been received it would have been understood, because the Armands' books show that this cabinet was bought by Philip Vantine for the sum of 15,000 francs." "Not this one!" I protested. "Yes, this one, and it was cheap at the price." "But Vantine told me himself that he did not buy that cabinet." "Nor did he. But somebody bought it in his name and directed that it be sent forward to him." "And paid 15,000 francs for it?" And paid 15,000 francs to the Armands. "Certainly. And paid 15,000 francs to the Armands." "Rather an expensive present." I said feebly, for my brain was beginning to whirl again. "Oh, it wasn't intended as a present. The purchaser planned to reclaim it, but Vantine's death throw him out." "But what was his object? Was he trying to erade the duty?" "The other cabinet is the one which Vantine really purchased. It was, of course, sent forward to this other fellow's address here in New York. His plan is evident enough- to call upon Vantine as the representative of the Armands or perhaps as the owner of the Montespan cabinet and make the exchange. Vantine's death spilled that, and he had to make the exchange through you." "And he accomplished all this by means of a confederate in the employ of the Armands." "No doubt of it. The clerk who made the supposed sale to Vantine and got a commission on it resigned suddenly two days ago—just as soon as he had intercepted your cable and answered it. The Paris police are looking for him, but I doubt if they'd that him." "That's all clear enough." I said, "but what is there about that Boule cabinet which makes this unknown willing to do murder for it? Does he think those letters are still in it?" "He knows they are not in it now—you told him. Before that he knew nothing about the letters. If he had known of them he would have had them out before the cabinet was shipped." "What' is it, then?" I demanded. "And, above all, Godfrey, why should this fellow hide himself in Vantine's house and kill two men?" "I see no reason to believe that he was ever inside the Vantine house," said Godfrey quietly. "That is, until you took him there yourself this afternoon." "That's nonsense. He must have been in the house or he couldn't have killed Vantine and Drouet." "Who said he killed them?" "If he didn't kill them, who did?" "Well," Godfrey answered, "now I'm going to romance a little. We will return to your fascinating friend, Armand, as we may as well call him for the present. He is an extraordinary man. In my opinion, he is the greatest criminal of modern times." "If he is a criminal at all he is un doubtedly a great one," I conceded. "But it is hard for me to believe that he is a criminal. He's the most cultured man I ever met." "Of course he is. That's why he's so dangerous." CHAPTER XII. "Crechard the Invincible." Godfrey. "is a great criminal and has, of course, various followers, upon whom he must rely for the performance of certain details, since he can be in but one place at a time. Abject and absolute obedience is necessary to success, and he compels obedience in the only way in which it can be compelled among criminals—by fear. For disobedience there is but one punishment—death. And the manner of the death is so certain and so mysterious as to be almost supernatural, for deserters and traitors are found to have died, inevitably and inyariably, from the effects of an insignificant wound on the right hand just above the knuckles. "It is by this secret," Godfrey continued, "that Armand preserves his absolute supremacy. But occasionally the temptation is too great, and one of his then deputies Armand sends this object to America. He knows that in this rime the temptation is very grant indeed. The force transforms and he converges in his solitude a perforation, weight will halt death until the traitor in presumably still slain may try to which he himself indulges in—by means of a poisoned club in the right hand. Imagine the effect upon his pants. He is nowhere near when the act of trichery is performed; and yet the traitor dies instantly and empty! "But," I questioned, "what set of treachery was it that Armand feared?" "The opening of the betrot drawer." "Then you still believe in the poisoned mechanism?" "I certainly do. The tragedy of this afternoon proves the truth of the theory." "I don't see it." I said helplessly. "Why, Lester," protested Godfrey. "It's as plain as day. Who was that boarded giant who was killed? The traitor, of course. Do you suppose, for an instant that Armand was ignorant of his presence in that house? Do you suppose he would have been able to take Armand prisoner if Armand had not been willing that he should?" "I don't see how Armand could help himself after that fellow got his hands on him." "You don't? And you saw yourself that he was not really bound—that he had cut himself loose!" "That is true," I said, thoughtfully. "Let us reconstruct the story." Godfrey went on rapidly. "The traitor discovers the secret of the cabinet. He follows Armand to New York, shadows him to the house on Seventh avenue, waits for him there and seizes and blinds him. He is half und with triumph. He claims a crazy singings about revenge, revenge, revenge! And in order that the triumph may be complete, he does not kill his prisoner at once. He rolls him into a corner and proceeds to rip away the burlap. His triumph will be to open the secret drawer before Armand's eyes. And Armand lies there in the corner, his eyes gleaming, because it is really the moment of his triumph which is at hand. The instant the traitor opened the drawer he would be stabbed by the poisoned mechanism! It was for that that Armand waited!" I lay back in my chair with a grasp of amazement and admiration. I had been blind not to see it. "It was not until the last moment," doffrey went on, "when the traitor was bending above the cubbed feeling for the spring that I realized what was about to happen. There was no time for hesitation. I sprang into the room. Armand vanished in an instant, and the gaint also tried to escape, but I caught him at the door. I had no idea of his danger; I had no thought that Armand would dare linger. He had to kill that man; there were no two ways about it. Whatever the risk, he had to kill him." "But why? I asked, "Why?" "To seat his lips. If we had captured him do you suppose Armand's secret would have been safe for an instant? So he had to kill him, he had to kill him with the poisoned barb, and he did kill him and got away into the bargain." "Perhaps he knew that we were there all the time." "Of course he did! assuaded God freey grimly. "To think that I was fool enough to suppose that I could follow him about the streets of New York without his knowing it! He know from the first that he might be followed and prepared for it." "But how about Armand? I protested. "Aren't you going to try to capture him? Are you going to let him get away?" "He won't get away!" and Godfreey's eyes were gleaming again. "We don't have to search for him, for we've got our trap, Lester, and it's hated with a bait he can't resist—the Boule cani net!" "And you really think he will walk into your trap?" "I know he will! One of these days he will try to get that cabinet out of the steel cell at the Twenty-third street station in which we have it locked. The only thing I am afraid of is that he'll get away with the caçadin in spite of us." Days passed and nothing happened—nothing, that is, in so far as the caboft was concerned. There was an inquest, of course, over the victim of the latest tragedy, and once again it was forced to give my evidence before a coroner's jury. The Bertillon measurements of the victim had been cabled to Paris, and he had been instantly identified as a fellow named Morel, well known to the police as a daring and desperate criminal; in fact, M. Lepine considered the matter so important that he cabled next day that he was sending Inspector Pigot to New York to investigate the affair further and to confer with our bureau as to the best methods to be taken to apprehend the murderer. Inspector Pigot, it was added, would call at once from Havre on La Savoye. Meanwhile, Grady's men, with Simmonds at their head, strained every nerve to discover the whereabouts of the fugitive; a net was thrown over the entire city, but, while a number of fish were captured, the one which the police particularly wished for was not among them. Grady asserted confidently that he had left New York. The Boule cabinet remained locked up in a cell at the Twenty-third street station, and Simmonds kept the key in his pocket. I was much amused at the pain which Godfrey took to inform the fugitive, as to its whereabouts and as to how it was guarded. Over and over again, while the other papers wondered at his imbecility, he told how it had been placed in the strongest cell at the Twenty-third street station; a cell whose bars were made of chrome-nickel steel which so saw could bite into; a cell whose lock was worked not only by a key, but by a combination, known to one man only; a cell isolated from the other, standing alone in the middle of the third corridor. In full view of the officer on guard, so that no one could approach it, day or night, without being instantly disarmed, a cell whose door was confirmed, with a bell ```markdown ``` alarm over the sergeant's desk in the front room. Of the bouie cabinet itself Godfrey said little, saving his story for the denouement which he seemed so sure would come. But the details which he have given above were dwelt upon in the Record, until, happening to meet Godfrey on the street one day, I protested that he would only succeed in frightening the fugitive away altogether, even if he still had any designs on the cabinet, which I very much doubted. But Godfrey only laughed. "There's not the slightest danger of frightening him away," he said. "This fellow isn't that kind." "But a man would be a fool to attempt to get that cabinet," I protested. "It's simply impossible." "It looks impossible, I'm free to admit," he agreed. "But, just the same, I wake every morning cold with fear and run to the phone to make sure the cabinet's safe. You don't appreciate this fellow as I do. He's a genius. Nothing is impossible to him. He disdains easy jobs. When he thinks a job is too easy he makes it harder, just as a sporting chance." "You know who he is, then?" I demanded. "I think I do—I hope I do. But I am not going to tell even you till I am sure. I'll say this; if he is who I think he is it would be a delight to match one's brains with his. We haven't got any one like him over here, which is a pity." I was inclined to doubt this, for I have no romantic admiration for gentlemen burghers, even in fiction. However picturesque and chivalric, a thief is, after all, a thief. I pointed out to Godfrey now that, if his intuitions were correct, he would soon have a chance to match his wits with those of the great unknown. "Yes," he agreed, "and I scared to death. I have been ever since I began to suspect his identity." It was while I was sitting moodily in my room one night that a knock came at the door, a knock I recognized, and I arose joyfully to admit Godfrey. I could see by the way his eyes were shining that he had something unusual to tell me. "I know who the great unknown is," he began, "and I am going to tell you presently. Day after tomorrow, Wednesday, I will know all the rest. The whole story will be in Thursday morning; fing's paper." "Godfrey," I protested, "I wish you would pick out somebody else to practice on. You come up here and explode a bomb just to see how high I'll jump. It's annoying to you no doubt and perhaps a little instructive, but my nerves won't stand it." "My dear Lester," he broke in, "that wasn't a bomb, that was a simple statement of facts. Before I answer any questions I want to ask you one. Did you by any chance mention me to the gentleman known to you as M. Felix Armand?" "Yes," I answered after a moment's thought, "I believe I did. I told him you were a genius at solving mysteries." Godfrey nodded. "That," he said, "explains the one thing I didn't understand. Now go ahead with your questions." "You said awhile ago that you would know all about this affair day after tomorrow." "I have received a letter which acts the date," and he took from his pock- PANCELS I Read This Extraordinary Epistle. at a sheet of paper and handed it over to me. "Read it." The letter was written in pencil in a delicate and somewhat feminine hand, on a sheet of plain, unruled paper. With an establishment which increased with every word I read this extraordinary epistle: My Dear Mr. Godfrey: I have been highly flattered by your interest in the affair of the cabinet Boute and admire most deeply your penetration in arriving at a conclusion so nearly correct regarding R. I must thank you also for your kindness which have been taken upon guard the control and with thought out. I have valued you and the station and impressed the call and I find that in every detail you were finally. It is because I am so earnest you as an adv- vener that I tell you in confidence that in my intention to regain possession of the property on Wednesday next and that. having done so, I shall buy you to accept a small souvenir of the occasion. I am my dear sir, most cordially yours. I am dear sir, most cordially yours, JACQUEN CROCHAND, The Invincible. I looked up to find Godfrey regarding me with a quixical smile. "Of course it's a joke." I said. Then I looked at him again. "Surely, Godfrey, you don't believe this is genuine!" "Perhaps we can prove, it," he said quietly. "That is one reason I came up. Didn't Armand leave a note for you the day he failed to see you?" "Yes; on his card: I have it here!" and with trembling fingers, I got out my pocketbook and drew the card from the compartment in which I had carefully preserved it. One glance at it was enough. The penclled line on the back was uniquely written by the same hand which wrote the letter. "I have been certain from the first that it was he!" said Godfrey. [TO BE CONTINUED] THIS PAPER Reaches Nearly Every Family In This Town Every Family :: It It's Its Wants. :: Secure New Customers by Advertising. ARE YOU A BUSINESS FARMER? Farming is a business, and the successful farmer must first of all be a business man. He follows his vocation primarily for the money he can make and, like other business men, should aim to get the greatest possible returns for the money and labor involved. It is not enough to simply grow crops, but they must be so produced as to yield a profit on the capital invested. To succeed he must be thoroughly acquainted with every detail of occupation and must strive to stop all leaks and prevent needless waste. At the same time he must bear in mind that it is a good business principle to spend a dollar whenever he can see that it will come back to him with interest. PORTABLE FEED RACK. Roughage Should Always Be Fed In Racks and Mangers. Here is a portable manger that, one reader has found very beneficial in feeding roughage about the farm. Roughage should always be fed in racks and mangers. Waste results from feeding on the ground. Such a rack FREEDING BOUGHAGE as shown by Better Farming will pay for itself in one season in feed that is saved or that would be wasted from feeding on the ground. Any kind of boards may be used for making the rack, but it will last much longer if made from wood that resists the action of the weather. The runners are 2 by 8 inches, fourteen feet long, shaped at the ends like a sled runner. Six inches from each end is a 2 by 8 three feet long, set inside the runners. A third 2 by 8 is set inside the runners at the center. On the top of the end and center pieces are nailed 2 by 4½, flat side down. In each corner a 2 by 4 upright three and a half feet high is made stationary, also one at the center of each side. Three four-inch boards are nailed to the uprights. Holes are bored in the ends of the runners and heavy wire inserted, to which a singletree is attached whenever it is desired to move the rack about the farm. Every farm ought to be equipped with a crowbar and a ten foot foot tipped wooden spike for moving heavy objects. They save time and take the place of muscle. --- Light Cart For Quick Work Light Cart For Quick Work. For this light running cart two discarded bicycle wheels can be used, with a steel rod for an axle. The axle is fastened to a piece of 2 by 4. which serves to fasten the floor of the cart and as a shoul- restrained to a piece of 2 by 4 which serves to fasten the floor of the cart and as a shoul-der to keep the wheels in place. The frame is made entirely of strips of flooring. This cart has been in use eight years and found good for moving anything about the place. It will carry quite a load. A cleat on both ends of the bed keeps articles from sliding off. That Letter- You never received a reply to it, and you wonder if it was delivered or if it was lost. If your name and address had been on the envelope it would have been returned to you if the address could not be found. Let us show you how cheap we can print 500 or 1,000 envelopes. We will also print letterheads. The material workmanship and price will be right. Some Thing One Way. "To be murdered good." "No. Just making money."—Donatella Pruzzo. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Copy of Injunction. The following is a copy of the Injunction granted the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Virginia, at Washington, D. C., Friday, January 30, 1914. The Deerce Was Entered Monday, February 2, 1914. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding an Equity Court. Plaintiff, vs. The Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, and others, Defendants. Equity No. 32281. This cause coming on to be heard upon the bill of complaint, the affidavits in support thereof, the rule to show cause, and the answer, it is, upon consideration thereof, this second day of February, 1014 by the Court— ADJUDGED, ORDERED and DECREED that the defendants and each of them and their officers, agents and attorneys, and all others on their behalf, be and they are hereby restrained, during the pendency of this suit, or until the further order of the Court, from declaring or treating the fraternal charter of the plaintiff corporation as revoked and from declaring or treating the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the jurisdiction of Virginia, as dissolved; and from declaring or treating the lodges subordinate to the plaintiff in the State of Virginia and the members attached to the same as not entitled to the rights and privileges of members of the order of the defendant corporation, and from calling on members elsewhere to regard and treat such subordinate lodges and members as not so entitled; and from attempting to enforce the decree or enactment of the Supreme Lodge, purporting to revoke the charter of the plaintiff and to dissolve the said Grand Lodge, of the jurisdiction of Virginia; and from circulating any proclamations or letters addressed to the Grand Lodges, subordinate lodges and members of the order, calling attention to or calculated or intended to carry into effect and enforce the attempted revocation of the plaintiff's fraternal charter and dissolution of said Grand Lodge; and from setting up or attempting or purporting to set up, within the State of Virginia, a Grand Lodge, other than the plaintiff, of the Knights of Pythias of the order of the defendant corporation; and from doing any other act or thing on the assumption that the said Grand Lodge of the State of Virginia has been dissolved or that its fraternal charter has been revoked. ASHLEY M. GOULD Justice. Travel With the Procession ADVERTISE In This Paper Jones- Do you know, since she's joined this vote for women business I've hardly had a chance to ask her. She has no many meetings to attend that she is only at home about an hour every day. AN ARTFUL DODGER. Bringgly-Great Scott, you have my sympathy! Ballantry on the Bargain Counter at a Critical Juncture. Jones -Oh, I don't mind. An hour moon slips away.-Stray Stories. WE have just been wired to the tale of how a nice young man tale of how a nice young man saved the life of a dandy little girl at a fire two nights ago. Without giving names or addresses, adds the Cleveland Plain Dealer, we are tempted to tell all the rest of it. The Price of a Distinction. "Now, sir," said the persuasive philanthropist, "we want you to be the chairman of the big meeting which we are to hold." "How much?" required Mr. Caylusius Chex, wearily. The nice young man is well dressed, polite, and reputed to be worth money. The girl is pretty, but getting on in years. Her papa is an unsuccessful man with an eye out for the main chance. The young fellow saved the girl under rather melodramatic circumstances, and the father rushed up in time to make a pretty scene. "How much is the delft that you expect my subscription to meet?"—Washington Star. Net So Much Changed Either. "I believe our climate is changing." "Think so?" "Sir," said the father, in tears, "you have saved for me the most precious thing in the world. She is still unconscious, so I cannot introduce you—but is she not beautiful? The situation is romantic! What can I do for you, sir—name your own reward!" "Our winters seem to be getting warmer." "Well, the women wouldn't wear enough clothes. The climate had to change. The women wouldn't."—Louisville Courier-Journal. The rescuer looked at his unconscious burden, then at the too conscious father thereof. He drew a long breath and answered: That Held Him. "If I had a wife who would do some sewing for me I wouldn't lose so much money out of the holes in my bockets" growled Mr. Gabb. "Well, about $2, if you're sure you can spare it." "The only hole in a man's pocket that he loses money out of is the hole at the top," replied Mrs. Gabb.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Man For Her "The man who wins me for his wife," she said, "must be well educated and have an income of at least $10,000 a year." Social Advancement. "Ian't it too bad!" said Mrs. Eckes, "that American cabinets don't resign often, like foreign cabinets?" "What's important, Mrs. Ecke?" "Are there any other quantifications," he asked, "that you insist upon?" "He must, of course, be high minded and free from all olimoxious habits. He must be willing to get along without going to places where he would not wish me to go. I should not marry a man who was likely to have any wild onts to sow. I should want him to treat me as kindly as if I were his daughter, and I should want to be sure that he would never be likely to insist on bringing his mother to live with us." "Because then there would be some chance for Washington society women to be occasionally promoted."—New York Press. Offering an Apology Travers (phoning tallor)—What do you mean by sending a bill with my new suit? I consider it an insult. Tallor (tneekly)—Very sorry, air. It's the new bookkeeper's fault. He evidently got you mixed up with those who pay.—Boston Transcript "I know just the man for you." "Who is he?" "My grandfather He has been a wildower for ten years."—Chicago Record ord. Herald. "Young Ravencliff is taking a course in elocution." Humiliating. "Does he expect to become a lyceum lecturer?" Harry—I understand Gertrude Gadolte married a man who made a big fortune by a lucky speculation in soap. "No; he expects to become a barber." -St. Louis Post Dispatch. Grace-Yes, and he diagraced her while they were on their honeymoon. Harry-How did he do it? Bacon—I see it is said the strength of two horns equals that of fifteen men. Grace-Gertrude wanted the other passengers to think an ocean voyage was an old spy to them, when her husband, the first crack out of the box, pointed to a row of life preservers and asked the captain what was the idea of all the extra three—Judge. Ebert - And yet a pretty woman has more drawing power than all of them. - Eastern Mistleman. 10 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia. LARGE CAPACIOUS WARE-ROOMS, FILLED WITH THE BEST DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MANUFACTORING IN THE UNITED STATES. PROMPT AND POLITE SERVICE. ORDERS REFRESSED TO DAY OR NIGHT. Determined to furnish the very BEST service at the LOWEST Rates possible, the Patronage of the Public is Solicited. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. A HAPPY FUL SEAD OF HAIK IS A LAFFY GROWTHING GLASS—And every body you have N't even will quite the Music. The single will dry. She had, after a strenge or both, and strenge from another hand of hை. It will also promote the growth. The Alemontan Cumb. can't stop the hை, Manning is to never hosted, but before he kept from the heading bar which is bound at only a limited Hance, or any other haste. We either the one of Bipop Shei Pansin. She've written that, "Flying for Me, We. Ahead of Hailyagyle: No. Liberal terms to open. Write for Employee Index HAGC BY ALPCO BONUS COMPANY, BONUS IN FUL SHIPPING Farm and Garden TREES AND FARM SUCCESS. Exponent of New Agriculture Believes Another Eden Possible. Restore the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve lived, easily in the garden because it was full of harvest yielding trees, and the curse that fell upon man was the fact that he had to grow small stuff like grain and vegetables, the herbs of the field, by which means he ate bread in the sweat of his brow. The man who thinks this possible is Dr. J. Russell Smith, professor of industry in the Wharton school of finance and commerce, University of Pennsylvania, who told 500 of the leading pomologists of the country that the cost of living rests in their hands. He gaye the American Pomological society some of the results of an 18,000 mile journey he has recently completed for the university, studying the possibility of a new agriculture. "Trees are the great engines of food production," he said, "and we should at once begin their extensive utilization. Europe and Africa are showing us the way. Portugal has orchards of acorn bearing oak trees that are far more valuable than farms within forty miles of Philadelphia. The great trouble with the American pomologists is that they are too aristocratic. They have been too proud to think about feeding a pig, yet the pig feed problem is one of the big problems of America, for the pigs eat more than we do. There are too many to bank for." "There is evidence in both Europe and America to indicate that properly THINGS ARE THE GREAT ENGINES OF FOOD PRODUCTION. selected and propagated oak trees can be made as productive of pig food as is corn and do it much more easily and for a great deal longer time. The suckers that arise from the stumps of two varieties of Pennsylvania oaks have produced good crops at the ages of three and seven years respectively. I have seen acorn orchards bearing well in Spain on rocky slopes so steep that the farmers only permitted the little pigs to go in, because the big ones might fall and break their necks. The tree offers, the best means of utilizing rough and broken lands, also arid lands and in some cases the best of lands. Since we have learned how to breed plants we are now ready to develop as food for man or beast denses of new crops which can easily double our productive area. At present harvest yielding trees cover but one-fifth of our productive area. Some of these possible crops are the walnuts, pecans, shagbarks, almonds, olives and dates for human food and the chestnut and persimmon for pigs and to a lesser extent for man, the honey locust bean, the mesquite bean (of the weevil and the mulberry and the many varieties of oak fororage." Appropriation For Hog Chelera. The United States senate has passed a bill providing an emergency fund of $500,000 with which to fight hog cholera, which threatens the country with a pork famine. Seventy-four from the middle western states said that if something is not done to stop the ravages of cholera the loss this year will aggregate $200,000,000. It was pointed out that at least 90 per cent of the hog deaths in the United States come from cholera. It is the purpose of the department of agriculture, which naked for the passage of the bill, to fight the disease when first it breaks out in any place. "From a practical standpoint," say experts of the department, "the important thing is to recognize hog cholera as soon as possible. Good serum may be depended upon to protect well hogs and even to cure a large percentage of those in the earliest stages of the disease, but it will not be of much avail when used upon hogs that are already visibly sick." Care of Maries. In mild weather mares must be kept in the open sheds outside, both day and night. Each mare should have a special place where it is tied to receive its grain feed. If fed from an ordinary trough, "be more vicious mares may kill the cows and gobble most of the feed. Roughage may safely be fed from racks in the yard. Removing Mulch. When growth begins in the spring the mulch is removed. Part of it may be worked around the crowns of the plants to form a clean bed for the fruit to rest on, thus keeping it out of the dirt. The remainder is removed to allow fertigation and cultivation LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. More cows are needed on our farms. No animals are better for soil improvement and the conservation of human food than cows. More cows should be kept and more homes abundantly supplied with milk and butter. A few pounds of butter a week or a few hundred pounds of butter per month would mean more cash in the home. Milk cows will need succulent food this spring and next winter. Plant crops for early grazing and build a silo and fill it for winter feeding. Succulent food is indispensable to economical milk production. Grain is a very important crop to sustain and fatten animals. Corn is the staple in the humid belt and Kaffir, milo and feturia in the arid and semiarid belt. Plant liberal acreage in grain. Carrots, disregarding their cost, make the best succulent feed that may be given to a horse. They are very palatable to almost all horses and do much to tone up the system. This is particularly noticeable in the thrifty condition of the skin and hair of horses which are fed carrots regularly. Carrots are particularly prized by fitters of show horses, which are being fed heavily on grain. Ten pounds per day is generally accepted as the maximum feed for an old horse of average size. Half as many pounds will suffice for the worker. Unless one has an unusual supply three or four carrots thrown in the feed box will suffice. If large they should be split lengthwise or pulped. THREE ACCOUNTABILITY TRANS—WEEKLY MATS. Loews Byd St. N., 6.00 P. H. for Frederickshaw. Loews Byd St. N., 6.00 P. H. for Frederickshaw. Arrieta Byd St. N., 6.00 A. H. from Frederickshaw. Arrieta Byd St. N., 6.00 A. H. from Frederickshaw. *Daily* | Weekdays | Sundays only. All trained to or from. Byrd Street Station step at Eka. Times of arrivals and departures not guaranteed. Read the signs. N. & W. MOSCOW ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORSEBOLL. Schedule in Effect September 28, 2022. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond, PNOR NORTH BROOKLYN AND PARKS. FOR LYRONBURG AND MILTON, A. M., "0:00 P. M., "0:00 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk! "11:00 A. M., "0:00 P. M., "11:00 P. M. From the Winds "0:00 A. F., "12:00 P. M., "14:00 P. M., "0:00 P. F., "0:00 P. M. *Daily*: A. Daily, Ex. Sunday, Wednesday Only. *W. B. RYVILLE*: Pam. Tref. May. *W. O. SAUNDERS*: G. P. A. B. Bremen, Fau. *C. H. BLOODY, D. P. A. Bremen, Fau.* ATLANTIC COAST LINE For Florida and South: 8:27 A. M. and 7:35 P. M. 1:00 A. M. Churlwood. For Norfolk: 8:30 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:00 P. M. 4:10 P. M. 11:00 P. M. For N. A. W. R. W. 1:00 A. M. 10:00 A. M. 11:00 P. M. and 9:00 P. M. For Peterburg: 1:00 A. M. 10:00 A. M. 11:00 P. M. A. M. 0:15 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:00 A. M. 11:00 P. M. 12:00 P. M. 13:00 P. M. 14:00 P. M. For Goldsboro and Payvilleville: 1:00 A. M. 10:00 A. M. 11:00 P. M. 12:00 P. M. 13:00 P. M. Time arrive Richmond daily: 9:00 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 1:00 P. M. 1:00 P. M. 1:00 P. M. 1:00 P. M. Time of arrival and departure and sentinelity not guaranteed. G. G. GARTNERA, B. V. N. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Currier of the South M. R.-Following schedule figures published or information and not guaranteed; TRANS LEAVE RICHMOND. For this day P. M. A. M.-Local 10:30 P. M.-Eprom. 6:00 P. M.-Eprom. Electric Lighted Roofer Ours for Atlanta and Birmingham. 11:45 P. M.-Eprom. Week Day 9:00 P. M.-Eprom. York HOME SERVICY 4:30 P. M.-Daily-Local for West Point. 5:30 P. M. ex. Sunrise (Steamer Train) - Limited for West Point, connecting with York River Line for. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and the East. 7:50 P. M. ex. Sunday. TRAINE ARRIVE RICHMOND From the South: 6:30 A. M. and 8:30 A. M. From: 7:00 M. 8:00 P. M. 12:00 y. 12:30 Ks. Sum. From West Point: 8:30 A. M. ex. Sunday (Steamer Train) and 9:30 A. M. daily: 6:30 P. M. ex. Sunday. H. L. BISHOP, D. P. A. C. & O. 7:16 A.—Local-Daily-Newport News. 8:10 A.—Local-Daily-Charlestonville. Except Sunday Thursemond. 9:00 A.—Eugene-Daily-Norfolk, Old Polk. *10:00 A.—Local-Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Clifton Fargo. *19:00 Noon—Euprom-Daily—Norfolk, Old Point. 4:00 P.—Euprom-Daily—Norfolk, Old Point. 5:06 P.—Local Daily. Newport News, Old Fish. 6:15 P.—Local—St. Sunday. Charlottesville. *2:00 P.—Euprom-Daily—Cincinnati, London. 6:15 P.—Local-Week days except Saturday to Warren. Naturally not. *6:00 P.—Limited—Daily—Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis. *11:00 P.—Euprom-Daily—Cincinnati, London. Lynchburg, Natural Bridge. *Sleepers. *Farley Ours. TRAIN ARRIVE RICHYOND—Local from East: 9:56 A.M., 7:60 P.M. Through from East: 11:30 A.M., 1:30 P.M., 6:30 P.M. (Local) from West: 8:15 A.M., 9:65 A.M. and 7:30 P.M. Through: 8:15 A.M., 11:56 A.M. and 8:36 P.M. James River Line: 8:35 A.M., 4:56 P.M., week days. Sundays 6:56 P.M. Daily except Sunday. SEABOARD AIR LINE Southbound trains extended to have Richmond daily; 9:00 A.M. - Laredo to Richmond; 1:10 P.M. - Glendora and southwest, Albuquerque, Birmingham, Bavaria, Jandersheim; 1:15 P.M. - Ripley and southwest, Albuquerque, Birmingham, Bavaria, Jandersheim; 1:20 P.M. - Norwalk and southwest, Norwalk; Northbound trains extended to arrive in Richmond daily; 9:00 A.M. - Vickie A.M. - 5:05 P.M. - 5:50 P.M. Laredo. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND HOURS. Office, 2006 P. St., Phone Mad. 2837 Residence, 1015 St. James St., Phone Mad. 6018 Paraphernula, Material and Service of the Best, Religious Service, Moderate Rates. MADAME SCOTT, Embalmer Funer for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. JOHN M. 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If you need your money in any other way, you must do it at your own 趾. REWALLE. BTC. All you do not want THIS FLATLET contains the information mandatory on one line. You then notify us by mail card to dimension it. The notice have seemed that subscriber to accompany who do not order their paper dimension at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are able for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discom- posed. COMMUNICATION—When writing to us to review your subscriptions or to disclaim your rights to comment, we must and your name on our brochure. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—We want to change the address on our brochure so that we will be the first to receive the formats on the proper pages. SATURDAY...MARCH 14, 1914. The Dallas Texas Express asks, "Is Villa a Negro?" The last information we received was to the effect that he is a Mexican and we hope he will remain one. He is charged with murdering William S. Benton, an English subject. Our race has a heavy enough load to carry now, without piling Villa on top of our present troubles. Villa is a Mexican and, for God's sake, let him remain one. --- Chief Sam, who has been arousing the colored people of Oklahoma to the necessity of going back to Africa has not last sailed with about seventy colored people from New York. They wajit to go to Africa, but instead, they have sailed for a ship-yard in Maine, where the old steamer must undergo extensive repairs in order to make it sea-worthy for the trip across the ocean. It may be weeks and months before they leave these shores. The outlook is gloomy. They are leaving a country with its millions of arable lands for one where disease and death are the constant companions of the newcomer and where money to finance ventures is as much needed as it is in the United States of America. We note with regret that the Philadelphia, Pa. Christian Banner has openly attacked Rev. W. P. Graham, D. D. pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist Church. Rev. G. L. P. Talliaferro, editor, of the Christian Banner was former pastor of the Church that Rev. Dr. Graham is now pastoring. Dr. Talliaferro is one of the most inveterate workers in the country. He is widely known and has great influence. On the other hand, Rev. Dr. Graham is one of the ablest pulpit orators in the country and as a "money-raiser" stands at the top of the ladder. He is also a great revivalist. It will be seen then that such aignment is to be desired. If Philadelphia is tiring of the distinguished theologian, let it send him back to Richmond. Virginia will receive him with open arms. Whether in the church or out of it, Doctor, come on back to Richmond! NEGRO-HATERS BUSY. It is inconceivable that Congressmen should openly contend for discrimination on account of race and color, in view of the plain provisions of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibit such discrimination. Congressman James R. Atwell of Louisiana and Congressman Charles C. Edwards of Georgia appeared before the House committee on reform in the civil service Friday 6th inst. in support of segregation bills offered by themselves. Mr. Awell declared that out of 190,000 Federal employees, 22,500 are colored. This shows that but a little over four per cent of the employees of the United States are colored people and get an effort is being made to reduce this member. It formal strange, too, that these gentlemen should have used such ridiculous argument, when they asserted that members of Congress would not care to sit with colored colleagues. As a matter of fact, if they are from the Southland and are "worth their salt," they all have sat with colored people. They do not ride in a buggy without having a colored driver at their side. They do not sit in a nursery with their own children without a colored female at their side. They do not dress for an evening's entertainment without a colored violet to serve them and they do not take their morning "toddies" without a colored batter to prepare the conductive connotations. When these hypocritical Negrohaters talk, it makes a thoroughbred colored Southern tired and disgusted. If these Congressmen cannot find any way to benefit their constituents, a large proportion of whom are colored folks, they should "go way back and sit down." Archbold H. Grimke, that veteran race defender was on hand and actually "ridden" the pernicious argument of the Negro-haters. Representative Madden of Illinois based his opposition upon a legal basis and won high favor. Mr. Grimke's concluding remarks may well be adopted by every colored leader in this country. He said "Give the colored man a chance. If he can rise, let him get up. If he cannot rise, let him slink. The colored people are not going to be your equals. If God did not make them so. The laws of nature settle that." Who is it that cannot subscribe to those utterances? The colored people of the United States rest their case upon that plea and await the soler judgment of the American people. SOME STARTLING INFORMATION. There are none to blind as those who will not see." Colored men must observe high ideals and act in accordance with fundamental right principles in order to maintain self-respect and not the sympathy and support of the best people, regardless of color in this country. They cannot properly complain of unfair treatment of themselves by a certain class of white people, and then when vested with power, practice upon each other the very injustice of which complaint is made in others. The opportunities afforded colored men of intelligence and learning in the fraternal organizations of the country should be used to demonstrate our ability for self-government. The best class of white people should be imitated and not the worst class. When we observe the actions of some of our educated people their conduct is disheartening. Yet, we know that the great body of the colored people is all right. We were induced to make these remarks after observing the attitude of the officers of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., at Baltimore last August. In a wild scramble for money, they threw discretion to the winds. Let us see. Under the laws of the Order each Grand Lodge has exclusive, original jurisdiction over the subordinate lodges and the members attached to the same. The Supreme Lodge or its officers cannot tax the members of a lodge in a state having a Grand Lodge. The Constitution provides a representative tax of $25 on each Supreme Representative to the Supreme Lodge. As no State has less than two Supreme Representatives or more than four, the tax was not less than $50.00 per term or more than $100.00 per term. For this the only return is the password. The salaries and traveling expenses of the Supreme Chancellor and other officers had been increased. The Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal warned the Supreme Lodge of these reckless expenditures and for this he was put out of office. The Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia protested and for this the Supreme Chancellor suspended and put out of the Order, not only the Grand Lodge, but also the subordinate lodge and the members attached to the same, although he had no power over any but the Grand Lodge. The new constitution which remains a two-third vote to adopt was allowed to have been adopted. One test vote disclosed the fact that there were 51 ages, 14 noses with 68 members of the Supreme Lodge absent. Of the 51 votes, 20 were office-holders, and 8 Deputy Supreme Chancellors appointed by Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, with the power to vote. This loft 23 Supreme Representatives out of an elected membership of 90, all of whom had been in Baltimore to attend the session, but they were fired out, for the Constitution was finally "adopted" after 9 o'clock Saturday night, after a week's deliberations. All that a Grand Lodge receives from the Supreme Lodge is the password. The password is a word, framed and promulgated by the Supreme Chancellor. In order to pay high salaries and running expenses, for each Grand Lodge pays its own endowment and defrays its own expenses, the Supreme Lodge with a majority of the elected Supreme Representatives absent made an increase in taxation. It was done under the guise of a ten cent and a five cent tax on each member. As it was only for a password, the value of a password may be estimated from the following statement of facts: Alabama's biennial tax was $10.0 It was changed to $141.00, an in- crease of $121.00 per term. Arkansas' biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $112.20, an in- crease of $1,026.20. California's biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $52.25, an increase of $15.25. Colorado's biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $16.50, a decrease of $2.50, but as the mem- bility increase will pass the $100 limit. The District of Columbia's biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $58.35, an increase of $8.35. Florida's biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $662.00, an increase of $662.00. Georgia's biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $2,160.00, an increase of $2,300. Illinois' biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $295.50, an increase of $295.50. Indiana's biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $269.00, an increase of $269.00. Kansas' biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $137.70, an increase of $137.70 Texas' biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $1,500.00, an increase of $1,400.00. Virginia's biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $861.90, an increase of $761.90. West Virginia's biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $375.00, an increase of $275.90. What is the amount of this taxation? ($18,520.50) Eighteen thousand, five hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents. How much increase is this new taxation over the old taxation? ($16,124.00) Sixteen thousand, one hundred and twenty-four dollars. What will the Grand Lodges and subordinate lodges receive, in return for this large amount of money paid over to Supreme Lodge officers? The pass-word. This is not all. At the session of the Supreme Lodge at Injianapollis, the Supreme Chancellor appointed 25 Deputy Supreme Chancellors, giving them the power to vote and extending to them the voting strength of six states, some of which paid as high as $2,400.00 per term for the password. This was in violation of the Constitution of the Supreme Lodge. The records show that 24 Deputy Supreme Chancellors were appointed by the Supreme Chancellor at Baltimore last August. He had previously ruled that they had the right to vote. These twenty-four deputies, if present at the next session of the Supreme Lodge will have the voting power equal to that of Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and Alabama. These six states, according to the figures quoted will be assessed biennially (89,253.76) nine thousand, two hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents and the District Deputy Supreme Chancellors BANKING the ULWARK of BUSINESS CONSIDER what business would be WITHOUT BANKS. No man should think of starting an enterprise before he arranged to OPEN AN ACCOUNT. HOW DOES HE STAND AT THE BANK? is a question asked at some time about every business man. A good WORKABLE BANK BALANCE is essential to every successful business man. are not nassaged as much as a penny. The now constitution alleged to have been adopted at the last session requires all Grand Lodges to surrender their present state charters of incorporation and to reincorporate in the name of the Supreme Lodge. This would place all of the real-cateate money in the treasury and other property under the direct control of the Supreme Lodge. It can now be seen why Virginia and her Supreme Representatives were not wanted in the Supreme Lodge. It may be well to enquire how will the Supreme Representatives who were present explain all of these things to their constituents? What induced them to support these measures? Were they asleep, hypnotized or absent when these things took place? Who can defend it? In fact, how can anybody explain it? If the taxation is increased, then the benefits should be increased. But what did Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal C. K. Robinson, who knows more about the internal affairs of the Supreme Lodge than any other person in the United States tell the Supreme Lodge? In his report, he said: "At the last session, I warned you of the condition which confronted you and urged you to prepare to meet the crisis. The conservative men of the convention saw the impending danger and sought to correct it by presenting remedy after remedy, all of which efforts failed. I have no criticism to offer as to the action of the majority at that time, but I feel it my sole duty to again call your attention to the deplorable condition of your treasury at this time. The salaries of the officers of the Supreme Lodge have not been paid since September, 1912 and when the session convenes at Baltimore, you will find an enormous deficit, that can only be met by wise legislation, and proper regulation of expenses.***The Order has been taxed and over-taxed, until the patience of the membership has almost reached the breaking point." What was the reply to this common sense, business plea? C. K. Robinson was put out of office and the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia, that backed up his plea for retrenchment and reform was put out of the Supreme Lodge. Was the Grand Lodge, K. of P. put back into the Supreme Lodge? Yes, by the Supreme Court at Washington. How was this done? Because the Supreme Lodge, being incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia is subject to the courts there. This Supreme Court is higher than the Supreme Lodge. Han Virginia paid the unlawful tax levy? No, but it has tendered all of the money for lawful tax levies, which amount was $100.00. Can the Supreme Lodge officials disregard the injunction and keep the Grand Lodge K. of P. of Virginia out of the Supreme Lodge? No, not during the pendency of this suit or until the Supreme Court revokes the restraining order or injunction. What will be the result if other Grand Lodges refuse to pay the unlawful taxes? They can be suspended by the Supreme Chancellor and their charter revoked by the Supreme Lodge. Can they get back into the Supreme Lodge again, without paying the unlawful taxes? Oh, yes, they can come back by the "injunction route," just as Virginia has done and at much less cost. In fact, it would be cheaper to get the injunction than it would be to pay the tax. What is the penalty for violation of an Injunction? Fine or imprisonment or both. The Supreme Court usually motes imprisonment, commonly known as "jail punishment." What is the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia's contention? That it has paid all taxes lawfully assessed against it. It refuses to pay any taxes unlawfully assessed against it. How shall the question be settled? By the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, at Washington, which upon the plea of the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia is investigating the facts and will render a decision in keeping with its findings. Can the facts herein cited be verified? Yes. Where? By examining the minutes of the Supreme Lodge at Baltimore and by reading the Supreme Statutes, alleged to have been adopted at the same session, Is the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia in favor of peace? Yes, and it believes this is the surest way of getting peace. We conclude with the words of Dunyan: "I have determined: the Almighty God being my help and my shield—yet to suffer; if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow over my eyes, brows, rather than violate my faith and my principles." Money to Loan. If you want money we can accom modate you to any amount. "Poor Bill has only two months to live." "Sure, these doctors make mistakes, ye know." "But it wasn't a doctor said it. It was a judge."—New York Times. Hoarseness, Coughs & Colds LA GRIPPE, BRONCHITIS, PNEU MONIA, ETC. PROTECT YOURSELF from th great danger of contracting ther serious complications which offer lead to CONSUMPTION. 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In fact, it represents the vanguard of the denomination. It is the Mecca of great preachers; and the field a great preaching. You can find a good preach or anywhere at any time in Virginia. Especially so, if he has attended the Virginia Baptist State Convention, and thre meet the diviners who are demonstrating the purpose of Gospel, preaching. Again it is the dynam of supply. Virginia has supplied Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. New York and other states North and south, with their greatest preachers leaders and most potent factors in religious and civil life. Echoes from all parts of the State are to the effect, that church life is peaceful and prosperous. The winter has not been such a severe one and finances have been more easily obtained. Surely the Lord of the harvest is providing bountiful for the interests of His Kingdom. The. educational work, at Va. Theo. Som. and College goes on magnificently. The faculty is earnestly and systematically engaged in the great work of preparing young men and women for their life's work. The members of the faculty are highly cultured, refined, experienced, pious, upright Negro men and women whose future is to rest in the outgrowth of the students being tutored by them. They are laboring to prepare the students, just as audaciously as one can labor for any cause or interest. They are making their investment in the mental moral and spiritual worth of the Negro as represented in college life hero and on the field. With faith in God and faith in the Negro, the outcome must be glorious. To-day is not the only one, nor the decisive, not yet the inevitable one. Thank God, there is a tomorrow. True, it is shrouded in impenetrable darkness; only the indications are seen, but God, who is the God of the Negro as well as any other race or nation, has the future in his hand, and all will be well. The tomorrow will assuredly be brighter in all that is worth while. The student body is a splendid one, representing good homes, and excellent rearing. They are loyal with lofty ideals. They are interested intensely in the Kingdom of Christ, and humanity. They are imbued with the spirit of racial uplift. The world will hear from them, as they are going to account for themselves in the future. Doacon Adolphus Humbles, Manager and Treasurer, who has stood loyally by the work for twenty-six years, is now jubilant and highly gratified as he notes the continued pro-gress of the work. He is a man of great worth, surely of great soul property. By frugality, industry, and rigid honesty he has amassed a fortune, but he is seeking to glorify God with it, by blessing a race. He delightls in work and is over on the stir. The College atmosphere presents a healthy, happy, prosperous condition to the honest observer. The Girl's Dormitory is now taking on an imposing attitude. The builders are on the third story. COMING CONVENTION. The meeting of absorbing interest and of vital importance to Negro Baptists the country over, is the Virginia Baptist State Convention. This Convention will convene with the First Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va., Rev. W. R. Brown, LL. D., pastor. Dr. A. A. Galyja, the Honorable president, is beading every effort to make it the most notable meeting in the history of the Convention. He is unceasingly anxious to hear from the brothers everywhere so as to determine just what may be expected financially. He has sent out pledge cards, and urge most correctly that the brothers respond at once. The members of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, have a history of gentle achievement and a traditional high sense of right and loyalty, and they will be heard from. From the mountains to the sea, of JACK LONDON, AUTHOR OF The Abysmal Brute ```markdown ``` This Newspaper Has Succeeded In Securing the Serial Rights of Jack London's New Story, and It Will Be Published Soon Read "The Abysmal Brute" the Old Dominion, responses in per- son and in finance will be made. Pennsylvania, where our distinguished leader of men, Dr. W. F. Graham, died. is located will be heard from in no uncertain tones. Drs. Howard, Brown and Fox and others of the Western part: Drs. Hall, Parks, Goff, Moses, Robinson, Scott, Crediti and others of the Eastern part, will make the welkin ring from Pennsylvania. Washington will be in the vanguard of this great Baptist Army. Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, the stirring, eloquent leader will be with the forces. Drs. Brooks, Norman, Willis, Tyler, W. A. Taylor, J. A. Taylor, Wibanks and others will stand for the Baptist of the nations capital. New York will send, down its loyal sons in the personnel of Drs. Simms, King, Timms, Hunt, Epps, Boddie, Brown, Booker, Hucles, Brown and others. Rhode Island will be represented by her distinguished minister Dr. Reed and possibly others. Come on, Boys, Virginia will meet you with a solid front. We will tell you the line up of Virginia in our next letter. Yours humbly. R. C. WOODS. President V. Theo. Sem. and Col. Roonoke (Va.) Newn. Attorney A. J. Oliver, having returned from a business trip to Washington, D. C. is ill at his residence 165 High Street. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Calloway, 4 Ninth A. C., S. E. were presented an eleven pound baby girl. Mrs. Green Penn of 119-3rd Ave. is reported, much improved after three weeks' illness. Mr. W. B. F. Crowell, Deputy Grand Master of G. U. O. O. F. delivered a grand address at Pulskil. Va. He was highly entertained by Messrs. Thomas Milner, J. M. Buford and Lewis. The Insurance Agents organized a Club March 5th for the purpose of trying to promote the idea prompt ness, politeness, being prompt to collect and to pay. Their remarks were brief and strengthening to all present. Those present: Messrs. A. L. B. Robinson, president; H. C. Johnson, vice-president; S. D. Mitchell, secretary; C. A. Wright, asst. secretary; W. H. Elridge, G. H. Smith, G. W. Robinson, W. H. Michlo, C. B. Richardson, T. Faulkner, C. C. Williams, J. H. Fowlkes. Light refreshments were served. Dr. P. C. Cobbin of Pulaiski, V. visited Roanoke. He accompanied the nephew of Mr. James Buford to the Hospital. Mrs. L. J. White's Millinery Parlor now open with latest styles. Also cleaning and pressing. 408 Com monwealth Ave. Givow her a call. Ims Irene Clarke returned to the city after visiting her mother and father at Ficwkes. There will be given an Entertainment, "Trip Around the World." Tuesday, March 17, 1914, arriving at first station., Mrs. J. H. Fowlkes, 30 Fourth Ave., N. W. at 7:30 P. M. Benefit High Street Baptist Church Mrs. Sarah C. Fowlkes, manager. Rev. J. H. Burks, Pastor. Admission 15 cents. Scarlet Fever Killie Twelve. Aid was sent by the New Jersey board of health to Florence, N. J. where an epidemic of scarlet fever has cost the lives of a dozen persons. In addition to closing all the schools, moving picture shows, games and pubs gatherings. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Statement of the Financial Condition of METHANICS SAVINGS BANK OF Richmond, Va., Located at Richmond in the County of Hearne, State of Virginia, at the close of business March 4, 1914, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES Loans and discounts..... Overdrafts, secured, $37.21 unsecured, $54.25 Bonds, securities, etc. own ed, including premium on name Banking house and lot. Other real estate owned. Furniture and fixtures. Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings. Other cash loans. Due from National Banks. Paper currency. Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents. Gold coin Silver coin 84.67 2855.00 573.00 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in . . . $23770.00 Surplus fund . . . 7000.00 Undivided profits, less at mount paid for interest expenses and taxes . . . 17609.65 Individual deposits includ- ing savings deposits . . . 140129.08 Time, certificates of deposit . . 100.00 Certified checks . . . 1748.80 Cashier's checks outstanding ing . . . 19.81 Bills payable . . . 4000.00 Reserved for accrued inter- ests on deposits . . . 545.04 Reserved for accrued taxes . . . 208.60 TOTAL . . . $205 420.98 TOTAL I. Walter T. Davis, Cashier, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, located at Richmond, in the county of Henrico. State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 4th day of March, 1914, to the best of my knowl dge and belief. Correct—Attest: WALTER T. DAVIS, Cashier THOS. H. WYATT JOHN T. TAYLOR *D. 4. CHAVERS Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by Walter T. Davis, Cashier, this 10th day of March, 1914. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Notary Public. My commission expires the 11th of April, 1914. The same of perfection in the way of fun, hilarity, frolic, song and humor seems to have been reached in the new offering "The Wrong Mr. President," which comes to the City Auditorium for one night, March 17. The piece, which is described as a musical comedy in three acts is the work of Salem Tutt Whitney and T. L. Corwell, a composer of ability. Supported by the famous "smart Set" Company, an organization of capable colored artists, Mr. Whitney will assume the leading role, that of a Negro of uncertain and unknown origin who poses as the President of a South American Republic. The situations are said to be many and varied and the fun of the public entertainment, brand. The production besides containing forty plays, will also have the services of Hugh Tutt and Bingham. The poem, a prime source of universal Life among him (fated) men is Jack London's text, and no sticks to it. He tells of his sister, and of men as he has, found them—from the Bering sea to the sea in the sea islands. The experiences of his characters have been his own. That is what makes them real men. Add to his contact with life and his capacity of keeping vivid impressions of it a power to make his readers feel with him a joy to catch hold of the secret of his great power over his readers. Few living men equal London in "getting down to facts." He has the ability of making the word fit the scene, of telling a story in a phrase, of revealing a life in a chapter. When you finish a London story you have lived with the characters. They are not men and women of straw, set up to fill out an idle hour. They are living, breathing, feeling, suffering, triumphant human beings. Jack London is only thirty-eight years old. In twenty years he has crowded more real life than most men do in a long lifetime. He left college to go to the Klondike, and his farewell to book schools was permanent. Since then he has learned his lessons before the meet, in Japan, seal hunting in the arctic, tramping through the United States and Canada and as a war correspondent in the Ruseo-Japanese war. Thousands of men and women have heard him lecture and have felt as they heard his strong, sincere voice that they were listening to a real man among men. In "The Abyaul Brute" he has chosen a novel theme and handled it with an art that holds the reader's interest from first word to "finia." During the Serial Rights Will Be Published Soon nal Brute" ```markdown ``` VERGARA FAMILY SEIZED HIS BODY Cabinet Gets Reports of Raid Info Mexico. NO EVIDENCE OF TORTURE Friends of Murdered Ranchman Restored His Corpse to American Soil, Not Texas Rangers. No conflict will arise between the federal government and the state of Texas over the recovery of the body of Clemente Vergara, the American ranchman slain by Mexican Federalists. Further steps, however, demanding the punishment of Vergara's assassins will be taken. That was the status of the case after a cabinet meeting. The officially accepted view was that Vergara was lured across the border and murdered and his body was subsequently recovered by his own friends, not Texas rangers—who crossed into Mexico as private individuals and not as an armed expedition. After the cabin meeting, at which the report of A. B. Garrett, United States consul at Nuevo Laredo, Mex. was read, Secretary Bryan gave out the following paraphrase of Garrett's telegram. "Consul Garrett went with Captain Sanders, of the Texas rangers, and a deputy sheriff to Palafox, Tex., last Saturday for the purpose of making further investigation in the Vergara case. 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"Reading on, he came to, 'She touched a button, and a footman appeared. His marginal note to this was, 'Alas! She will never touch a button!' "And now he came upon the sentence, 'She decided to meet her ways. And again he wrote, 'Hopefully! She'll never meet anything!'" Be Not Afraid. The word word has two vowels. Is it made up of the true and strength Alto or low? It is not made up of strong vowels. The mists Do not afraid, young life. The words that fail to fear your life Effort to the heart of your because That are awake and young. Do not afraid, young heart. The hope When all your dreams begin Strong enough to choose a goal And be able to win. Tale of a Tub In "A Motor Tour Through Canada" the author tells this story, as it was told him at the club in Regina, of a man who had been caught by a cyclone while taking a bath. His bathroom was instantaneously demolished, and before he could scramble out of his tub he found himself sailing over the city on the breeze at a fifty knot slip. He was always a man of quick resources and ready expedition. That's why, no doubt, the cyclone picked him out of the crowd. Anyhow, he never once lost his presence of mind in spite of his Lady Goldie appearance, but he bezzled hold of the "hot and cold" taps with both hands and started steering his craft. Would you believe it, he found it an aweed the heim like a catfish, and he at once turned it a point or two as he brought him to the waterworks. There he descended, mind the tub again and calmly finished his interrupted bath. Chinese Humer Two Chinmen, Chung and Kung were warming themselves before an open store. Chung, who was remarkable for his coolness and impatience, said to Kung, who was an expressly hot headed person: "My dear Kung, there is something that I should like very much to say to you. It relates to a circumstance I have observed for a little time past and have desired to mention to you, but, bearing in mind the somewhat fiery and spurred disposition that is commonly attributed to you, I have hesitated to express myself. However, I have it last resolved that if I do not mention the matter to you I shall do wrong, and I have consequently determined to ask your permission to speak to you about it." "Well, what is it?" "Your coat, my dear Kung," said Chung quietly, "on fire." "For plays' sake," exclaimed Kung angently, jumping up and finding his cost nearly burned off. "Why in the world didn't you tell me before?" "There it goes. What a frightful temper!" Chung murmured as he moved away. "Folk told me quite right about you." Kept to the Rule. When James Tufts, now managing editor of the San Francisco Evening Post, was news editor of the old morning Call of that city he had a two paragraph rule that was one of life's little irritations for his copy readers. Mother one paragraph or three or more was his editor, and we to the copy reader who let a story slip into the paper with two. Finally one of his copy readers who was leaving handed in his resignation. It read: Dear Mr. Tufts-This is to give notice that I wish to leave at the end of the week. I wish to thank you for your courtesy and kindness while I have worked for you. WILLIAM SWARTHOUT. F. 6.-This is just to make three paragraphs. -Everybody's. Money In His Voice One of London's smart young men, besides being of the spendthrift order, is an excellent mimic and can imitate his father's grunt voice to a plecice. Not long ago he wanted without delay an amount of money, and he knew that the father would treat a 'request for it with cold contempt. Waiting till he was sure that his father would be away, he went to a telephone call room and rang up his parent's office, calling for the cashier. The cashier was forthcoming. "I say, Blank," said the young man, "that if appearance of a son of some common round white I am out and asks for fish, don't give it to him. Only give him fish and tell him to make that do." The cashier promised that he would faillil his command. Not long after the son called at the office and demanded £20. He was refused by the conscientious casbier, and, apparently in anger, the young man contented himself with the ten. When the parent reached the office there was trouble. CALVE'S CALVES. There Was a Starting Transformation Between the Acts. When I went to the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1851, mine, Calve, I made my debut as Marguerite. My second performance was to be Cherubino. At that time I was very slight. My neck and arms were thin, and so of course, were my legs. I did not think I could possibly appear in braces without something to make me look a little plumper, so I went to the costumer of the theater and told him I wanted some jaws. He made them according to his own ideas of what beautiful legs should be and sent them to me so late that I had no time to try them. I don't know what I must have looked like when I stepped on the stage thin and girlish from the waist up, provided with the most enormous jaws. After the first act (the manager pushed around to my dressing room) "My 60 "TAKE OFF THE PADS" heaven's, he was called, "where in the world did you get those legs? They certainly are not your own." I admitted that they were not and said I thought I was too tired to dispense with pads. "Don't you know," he said to me, "that a young girl with straight shoulder legs is far better suited to the part of a page than when she disguises herself with such things as these? Take off the pads and go out in your own logs." I decided to follow his advice. When I got on the stage again I was thin, but at least symmetrical. The effect on the audience was startling. The conductor of the orchestra stared at me as if his eyes would pop out of his eyes. After a couple of two minutes of the astonishing alteration in my looks seemed to be understood, and there was a titter of laughter through the audience. Since that time I have never worn pads. Strand Magazine. Life's Bank Life will give us back whatever we put into it. In a way it is like a bank. Put joy into the world, and it will come back to you with compound interest. Music and Milk The story that milking cows to musle means more milk for the dairyman is a familiar bit of news by now, and one of the Washington correspondents queried Secretary of Agriculture Houston about it. "Mr. Secretary," he asked, "has the department investigated the matter?" "Whather it was," answered the secretary, "It must have been written in beef fat." Washington Star. A Kindred Spirit Hearing a noise in the street before his house one morning, Robert Browning, the poet, went to his window and saw a great crowd gazing at some Chinesemen in gorgeous costumes who were just leaving their carriages to mount his steps. Presently they were announced as the Chinese minister at the court of St. James and his suit. A solemn presentation having taken place, Browning said to the interpreter, "May I ask to what I am indebted for the honor of his excellency's visit?" The interpreter replied, "His excellency is a poet in his own country." Thereupon the two poets shook hands heartily, Browning then said, "May I ask to what branch of poetry his excellency devotes himself?" To which the interpreter answered, "His excellency devotes himself to poetical engender." At this Browning recognizing fully the comic element in the situation, extended his hand most cordially, saying: "His excellency is thrice welcome. He is a brother indeed." INDUSTRY Exertion, whether called labor, recreation or amusement, is essential to health, and, as the body was made for labor, work is its natural and honorable duty. An idle man or woman is a discredit to the race and unusually able to fall into disease, while an industrious person adds to the wealth of the country and is more likely to be healthy and happy. The "Arabian Nights" The "Arabian Nights" did not become familiar to Europeans until 1914, when Galatians translated it into French. Scholars can't much doubt on the authenticity of some of Galatians work. accessing bliss like Fitzgerald with Omar Khayyam of inventing ruthen than translating, but with the pals the success of the tales was impossible and immense. Gallagher used to complain that the students returning home in the early hours of the morning, would knock at his door and demand the revitalization of a tale—Chicago News. THE OBLIQUE METHOD In Which Masculine Diplomacy Succeeds a Victory. "I WANT to engage the next cook myself," I said to my wife. "Why?" she asked. "Chiefly," I said, "because I am the only person in the house who minds what is placed on the table. If the food is dislustful I complain of it; you defend it, and we lose our tempers. Now it is perfectly clear that you cannot guard against certain culinary mistreaties when you engage a cook. I can." "Yes, but can you do them as I like them," I wonder. "My idea of an apple tart is that there should be so much lemon in it that it tastes of lemon rather than sugar." "Must you she said," I always put a lot of lemon in. "And," I want on, "whenever the tart doesn't taste of lemon I like it to taste of cloves." "I was just going to say the same. I always put in plenty of cloves." "I in short, the whole duty of a cook who is given an apple to cook is," I said, "to see that every scrap of the divine of the flavor of the apple is another and killed." She looked at me a little in perplexity. "Not it!" I asked. "Yes!" she faltered. "Well," I said, "I've recently been to see my doctor, and he says that there are two things I must never touch again, at least in an apple tart; lemon and cloves. Will you help me to avoid them, Will you!" She was a woman with a kind heart, and she promised She has leapt her promise Apple tarts in our house are worth eating. Punch. A Retail of Today She glanced at him carefully, but not originally. "You must stay in this evening. John. Your cooking class must do without you. I need your services while I fit my new walking costume." "But!". The husband of the New Woman falted. "Didn't you have a dress form for such purposes?" "Dress" form?" She froze him with a glance. "You forgot yourself." But he remembered, as he dunned them, unfathomed as they were, and stabbed for half an hour while she debated as to whether they were being worn baggage at the knees. Buck 4. Bothersome Problem "I suppose you intend to have your son start in at the bottom of your business and work up?" "No. I’ve tried to induce him to start that way, but he will not consent to it." "Well, what do you propose to do with him?" "That isn’t the point. The thing that I’m worried about is that I can’t get him to explain what he proposes to do with me." Chicago Record Herald. Lifting the Embace The beauties Mexican senator met her American lawyer just across the border. He notched with a gird heart throb that her ownness had vanished. Tossing her cigarette aside she smiled illuringly. "At most, senator," she said in her rich Abilene accent. "I permit an empire." The embargo on American arms has been lifted."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Consolation. The Ingenee They all say my face is my fortune The Soubrette Never mind. Poets can't no crime. Chicago News. Not Girl-like. "This is your very arrived little girl sister, Tommy," and the father. "I don't believe it is a goth popa" "Why not?" Mrs. Cashit-Mrs. Do Style has so much aplomb about her dresses. Mrs. Compen-Then I'm going to ask my dressmaker why she don't put none of it on mine--Baltimore, American. Deserve Congratulations. 'Silicus-When is the proper time to congratulate a bride and groom?' Cynicus-After they have lied together for at least a year and are still happy--Philadelphia Record. Professional Quiz "And has this famous doctor cured your friend's hallucination that she was sick?" ```markdown ``` WHEREHER gardening is conducted for profit or merely for exercise and pleasure, one needs to do the right thing at the right time. It may be taken for granted that a majority of those who take up the work desire both profit and pleasure. A common source of failure is sourness of the soil, which is found in some of the places that are almost wholly shaded during the months which interveine between the growing seasons and which also lack a free circulation of air. Wood ashes and slaked lime are good for this and are also a most excellent fertilizer. A peek of ashes well mixed with a wagon load of soil is the gardener's rule, but for small beds spade the ground deeply, and after breaking up the lumps and raking thoroughly scatter ashes or lime evenly over the surface until it is as white as after a light snowfall; then rake it well. This should be done before planting time or as soon as the ground can be worked. It is best to have the planting done in the fall. Success in the vegetable garden depends largely upon thorough and frequent tillage. The tillage should begin as soon as the plants can be seen and should be repeated at intervals of about one week throughout the season. Much labor will be saved by substituting a wheel hoe for the hand hoe for stirring the soil close about the plants while they are small and by using a horse for cultivating between the rows wherever there is sufficient space. If these methods are employed the most irksome features of vegetable gardening—the weeding and tending hand tillage, the eliminated weeding, the heavy trays are over and the ground is tillable we may plant onions, lettuce, spinach, radishes, beets, parsley, carrots, parsley and peas. The normal season for planting these crops is when the farmer is sowing his own. The warm season crops are subject to injury by frost and cannot safely be planted until the weather is comparatively warm. The different crops in this group, however, differ in respect to the intensity of heat they require. Thus sweet corn and string beans are usually planted early in May; lima beans, tomatoes, cuminers, melons and squashes are planted from one to two weeks later, while sweet potatoes and eggplants should be kept in the hottest until the last of May or the first work in June. Lettuce can be grown successfully on porous soil, but butyure the early spring and the late fall, as the ground becomes so hot that it will burn in the head, and then it is ruined for market. On rich land there is always a certain amount of moisture that cuminus in the soil, and then the evening dews help to keep the ground cool. Keep the land free from weeds. Where garden peas and beans are grown earliness and tenderness are greatly desired as well as flavor. These qualities will be found where a good supply of nitrogen and phosphoric plant food is available. A suitable fertilizer for these crops is 600 pounds per area carrying 4 per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 10 per cent potash. Tomatoes, corn and potatoes enjoy a medium long season of growth; therefore it is necessary that they have a sufficient supply of the correct food elements to satisfy their requirements throughout their growing season. The market demands a smoothly formed, solid, well colored tomato and juicy get well lilied corn. Potato growers of the famous Apso-took district of Umlie practice a three year rotation of corn clover and potatoes. By this means it is evident that the organic matter of the soil is maintained. When the potatoes are planted it is the custom to apply as high as 1,500 to 2,000 pounds per acre of a fertilizer analyzing 4 per cent nitrogen, 6 per cent phosphoric acid and 10 per cent potash. --- For Gows and Galves Strong brine thickened with soft soap makes a good mixture to rid cows and calves of lice. A QUESTION OF BREEDING. Pure, breed chickens are all right, but the question is, Shall the farmer make feathers and fancy points of primary or secondary importance? It is not worth while to talk about fancy points unless the farmer can be shown that there is some connection between them and productive qualities. He is not concerned about such things, but he is concerned about supplying the market with poultry and eggs. BUILDING POULTRY HOUSES American pottery. Mexican agrarian tumel experiment station. Poultry houses are generally divided into two classes, the small cage, home and the large cage house. Outside houses are usually built in sunshine and can be easily moved from place to place. They are used where the beds are allowed free range, when them are clean range and supplies an abundance of fresh green food. The large stationary houses are used where a considerable number of birds are to be kept on a small area of ground. As sunshine is very necessary to the health of the population, the houses should be arranged so as to admit the greatest possible amount. Ventilation is another very important factor to be considered. It makes little difference how the poultry house is ventilated so long as it is thoroughly done and a draft does not blow on the fowl. The straw loft furnishes a very con- vent and successful method of ventilation. Its greatest drawback is that the straw collects a large amount of dust and dirt. If straw is used it should be cleaned every year or two and the house thoroughly disinfected before the clean straw is put in. In ventilating a house with straw, boards or poles are laid loosely across at the desired height and about two or three feet of straw is laid on these poles. There should be a window at each end of the loft and these should be left open at all times. The dirt floor is the cheapest and, some authorities claim, the best. It is, however, easily contaminated by disease, is hard to keep clean and fresh, and unless thoroughly drained it is damp in addition to the other disad- A SEMI-OPEN FRONT HOUSE vantages. If the dirt floor is used, from four to six inches of the surface should be removed every year and replaced by fresh earth. In addition, it should be spaded up at least once each year and sprinkled with lime. The concrete floor is the most expensive, but when once built it is permanent. It is easily cleaned and disinfected, but is very hard on the feet of the birds. This disadvantage may be easily overcome by covering the floor with a thick coating of dirt, which should be cleaned out and removed at least once a year. If a concrete floor is to be built the foundation must be very firm. In making it the dirt should be removed to the depth of about one foot, the excavation filled from six to eight inches with large stones, then covered with coarse gravel and about four inches of cement laid on this foundation. This gives a good drainage and keeps the cement floor dry. Wood floors are more commonly used since they are cheap and easily laid. With such floors the building should be set on a foundation of rough stone or cement or on posts one to three feet above the ground. Helping Indian Farmers Agriculture among the Indians is being made a feature of the work of some of the county agents in the western states. In Thurston county, Neb., the local agent has brought about cooperation between his association and the local Indian department. The Indian farmers come to him with their problems and are accorded the same treatment as the white men. BEEs AND POLLINATION. It has been a matter of doubt until recently as to just what agencies were responsible for cross pollination in apple orchards. It was thought that the wind was a factor as well as the honeybees and other insects. It has been proved, however, that the wind has very little to do in adiing cross pollination and that honeybees, wild bees and other insects are very necessary for the transference of pollen. To determine the importance of the honeybees and other insects as factors in cross pollination an experiment was carried on by the Kansas experiment station under the direction of James W. 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Broad St., Richmond, Virgin'a The Order of Feels On Nov. 12, 1381, the Order of Fools was instituted by Adulphus, count of Clever. Members were not by any means blobs, however, for the word had a different meaning then. They were the prototype of our modern fraternal orders, doing a similar benevolent work. Their insignia consisted of a mantle, upon the left shoulder of which was embroidered a jester, or fool, in cap and bellow, yellow hose and silver vest. So these cheer, useful jokers had a bright, happy outlook upon life and met together to dispense the earnest of their healthful existence at stated intervals, the chief day of which was Nov. 12. Advantage of Being Dull. There is a quality in certain people which is above all advice, exposure or correction. Only let a man or woman have dullness sufficient and they need bow to no extent authority. A dullard recognizes no better; a dullard can't see that he is in the wrong; a dullard has no scruples of conscience, no doubts of pleasing or succeeding or doing right, no qualms for other people's feelings, no respect for the fool himself. How can you make a fool perceive that he is a fool? Such a person can no more see his own folly than he can see his own ears. And the great quality of dullness is to be unalterably contorted with itself—That's easy. Between Tears and Laughter. "Do you ever think, George, dear, said she, and her voice was soft and low, as beaten the perfect beauty of the night—'do you ever think how closely true happiness is allied with tears?" "I don't believe I ever do," admitted George dear, "but I will, if you like." "Yes," she went on, gazing up into his face, and her lips were very close to his. "When one is truly and wholly happy, George, dear, there is but little to divide a smile and a tear." "Well, that's a fact," assented George dear, "But I never thought of it before. After all, there's nothing but the nose." - London Answers. The Dilemma. How can I ever learn to understand that girl? "You can marry her, but when you have done that it will be too late for your understanding of her to be of any benefit to you."—Ruxhage. THIS TOWN Welcomes New Industries and Supports House Institutions ADVERTISERS Are In Good Company Name She Forces What Will Happen, But Her Lige Lord In Scornful and Pro- cedures With His Exercise—Mrs. B. & Witness to the Awful Squelch. By M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1914, by Associated Literary Press.] WHEN Mr. Bowser came home there was an air of blandness about him which indicated to Mrs. Bowser that he had bought stock in a rain producing company or was going into goat farming. He kept her guessing until after dinner. Then he said: "You, know how I've been bothered with rheumatism this winter? Well, I was talking with a doctor today and he gave me a remedy for it." "I don't believe you've got rheumatism!" declared Mrs. Bowser. "You've met somebody who has put a new fad into your head and probably sold you something. It's a wonder to me you don't kill yourself." "Let me ask, woman, if you are addressing yourself to me?" queried Mr. Bowser, as he drew himself up with dignity. "Of course I am." "Then I will remind you that I am your husband and the boss of this house. When I say that I have rheumatism—that I suffer excruciating torture—that I have a remedy, it is not for you to question the statement." "But you are so full of fads," protested Mrs. Bowyer. "Never had a fad in my life. On the contrary, I have always kept blear A cat is sitting on a chair in a room with a window. The cat is wearing a scarf and has a long tail. The room has a wooden floor and a wooden door. SOMETHING HAPPENED. of them. Perhaps you are hoping that my rheumatism may strike my heart and leave you a widow? "Well, what is the cure?" "Ah! That is more sensible. It's an simple as A, B, C. It's to exercise an hour every evening." "How are you?" Bowser on Roller Skates! "On roller skates, up in the garret. I brought a pair home with me this evening." "You on roller skates!" gasped Mrs. Bowser, as she glanced at his bulk. "The same, madam, and should my glide be displeasing to your royal highness you are at liberty to leave the house. I am not going into roller skating to get up a willowy motion, but as a cure for rheumatism." It was useless to say another word. Mr. Bowser got his skates from the front hall and climbed to the garret. He had never had a pair of skates of any sort on his feet, but he hadn't the slightest doubt in the world that he could put on those rollers and cut all sorts of pigeon wings and Greek crosses right off the reel. --- "Singular, how that woman opposes me!" be mused as he made ready. "If I was dying for the want of water she'd call it a fad. Let's see how this thing goes. I must first stand up sort of carelessly on both feet... Then I shoot out the right foot—then the left, and away I go. It won't take me over two minutes to get the hang of it." His Confidence begins to Wane. Mr. Bowser started to get, out of his chair, but something happened to his legs which warned him that it was safer to creep over to the nearest post and pull himself upright. He felt a weakness and a waddle in his knee after he was on his feet, and he was a long time casting loose from the post. A big doubt had begun to creep into his mind, when he suddenly sought it back and made a fresh start. His right foot moved without the slightest trouble. It seemed to him that it moved five yards before the left one started to follow. Then he felt the house fall down on him and partly lost consciousness. He was trying to make out whether he was down cellar, upstairs or on some vacant lot, when he heard Mr. Bowser's voice: "Does that go in graft with the mammary?" Mr. Bowser had not down. One of his feet was way off to the right, 'I h His way off to the left, while all of the flesh seemed to be leans and his arm in his mouth. He looked at him and he moved to a stupend, penned way, and he had made up his mind that soon her somewhere before she appeared. It took him another five seconds to rally. Some men would be plaited off the skates and dotted with embellishments to do its worst, but power was game. "so how it was," he whispered to me. "I made too long a stride on my right foot. I'll try a sort of gride until I get the hang of the way." he motion or other his feet behind a door with him, and he instantly decided that it would be a good plan to have his body follow after. Un- known to him, Mr. Bower was look- ing through the door, and for a mi- nute time he heart stopped beating. Mr. Bower went backward a few feet and then took up gymnastics. He clawed the air with both hands, jumped clear of the floor and made the most (predi- dence efforts to catch up with his feet. When he found he couldn't do it he been yelling "Police!" but at the third yell his Teet shot up and his head shot down and he landed on the back of his head. After a few minutes the rest of his body came down with a crash; and he knew no more. In a dim, uncertain way Mr. Bowser realized that snarehists had blown up the house to wipe him off the face of the earth, but he was powerless to lift a finger. Agnes seemed to pass before he heard the voice of the family cook. "Why, man'am. It was such a far that the pots and pans in the kitchen jumped all about. I always said he'd kill himself, and now he's gone and done it! It will take fear policemen to get the body downstairs." Wheels began to whirl in Mr. Bowser's head, and as they grew larger and whirred faster he smelled camphor and felt water strike his face, and he opened his eyes to find Mrs. Bowser kneeling over him. When she saw that he had recovered consciousness she quietly asked: "Do you feel better of your rheumatism, dear?" Trying to Fix the Blame. "Who stuck a broom handle between my feet and flung me down?" he hoarsely grilled. "No one dear. You were practicing the glide all alone when your feet got away from you. Can you tell how many bones are broken?" "But some one surely kicked me!" "Only the skates. 'Shall the cook and I drag you downstairs now, or do you want some more of the remedy?' Mr. Bowser choked and gnashed and stuttered and pointed for them to be gone. When they had disappeared he sat up and found that his skates had been removed. He did not fasten them on again. After awhile he got up with grunts and groans and painfully made his way down to the bedroom, and two hours later Mrs. Bowser found him in bed and last asleep. There were no bones broken, but even in his sleep he was muttering, "Follies!" and had the look of a man falling over a precipice. Inspired Confidence. In a certain family the wife never could see things when they were under her very nose, while the husband had a positive genius for finding not only his own but other people's things. This gift seemed to have impressed itself on the children; for one day his three-year-old, came rushing downstairs to exclaim: "Oh, daddy, mother's lost something! Where is it? - New York Post." Social Opportunity. "There seems to be a contest for your position." "Yes," answered the Mexican jail warden. "It is very much prized because of its social opportunities. Sooner or later you get'd chance to meet all the country's best people."—Washington Star. "It seems to me," she said, "that geniuses are always terribly self conscious." "Oh, I don't think so," he replied. "I frequently become so absorbed in my work that I forget all about myself."—Chicago Record-Herald. Reasonable Conjecture Waverly-I'll bet a cooky the bride wasn't pretty. Marcella-Why do you think that? Waverly-Because newspaper accounts of the wedding put so much stress on her fine character and sweet disposition-Judge. Man to Man. "She gets very little candy and few flowers these days." "How's that?" "Seems her three beaux got together and formed a gentlemen's agreement." —Louisville Courier Journal. All That's Left. Mrs. Goodsole (feeding tramp)—You need to have a good appetite. Hungry Illgins—Ah, mum, dat's all I have left in the world dat I kin rightly call me, own. — Boston Transcript. Obeying Orders. Mistress -Idiot! What on earth are you doing? Servant-Madame asked me to take the spots off her armine stole, and I was just doing it-Pole Mott. "You know there's more in this world than money." "If there is my wife hasn't thought of it."-Detroit Free Press Much Admired. "I've always admired that character, Report of Houtman," remarked Mr. Twinklebury; "he had such a Gigander!"—Christian Register. Farm and Garden WINTER SPRAYING FOR TREES Bermant Spraying is the Only Method For Destroying Certain Paste. There is long list of tree pests, one miles of fruit yields and actual destroy- ment of the trees, that should be vigor- ous cultivated in winter, seed or writer in Brazil. Progress. So far the only method discovered for controlling them is winter spraying. Late winter is the time for "raining mischinning" in the orchards. The list of conditions that can be checked or entirely wetted out by winter or dis- tant spraying is rather long and included the San Jose sage, anthracose, aphis, woolly aphis, coiling moth, brown mite, red spider and powdery mildew. When you spray, spray thoroughly. Winter spraying is no exception to the rule, and the spray material should be put on with force enough to reach all the lurking enemies. Thorough spray- ing brings up the question of proper equipment. All the bark must be wetted. At least 100 pounds of pressure is necessary, and in some cases I have found 150 to 200 pounds of pressure giving the best results. It must be driven into the bark cracks and crevices. The man who is just beginning to take up the question of winter spray ```markdown ``` SPRAYING THINGS FROM THE ROADWAY. ing ought to be able to distinguish the different kinds of enemies found on the trees in winter. He ought to buy a good pocket lens, costing about 75 cents, and carefully study all the parm- alites, scabs and fungi he can find. In battling with mildew, mites, epipods and moths all infected trees should be pruned and the dead and decaying parts removed. All wounds should be cleaned out and the faking, scaling bark ought to be scraped away from the trunks. Let this work precede the spraying with lime-sulphur. All rubbish should be burned at once. This will expose all the hibernating pests so the spray will reach them easily. Every part of the tree ought to be bathed in the film of spray even to the tiniest twig. The best time for applying sprays to the pests mentioned is a short time before the buds show signs of swelling. Bordoux 04-50 is the spray used most in late winter spraying, when the time-sulphur is deemed inadequate. It is very effective in dealing with an thoracine and incipient cases of peach leaf curl. To be really effective the spray should be put on at a dry time, as a fall of rain will wash off much of the spraying material and lessen its effectiveness. The one pest that ought to be fought hardest by the winter sprayer is the San Jose scale. Look for the round, grayish and black, button shaped bodies with a pimple-like elevation in the center. This elevation is about the size of a pin head and is often surrounded by a red ring. Lime-sulphur solution properly applied will kill the San Jose scale at any date between the falling of the leaves and the leafing out in spring. There are three rules that I think every man should apply in going about spraying, whether he is doing the work in winter or in summer. They are: When you spray, be sure you are do- When you spray, be sure you are doing it at the right time. If you don't know the reason why you are spraying, don't spray at all. The only way to know the reason for spraying is to study up on every insect or fungus that is causing you trouble now or may trouble you in the near future. Men no longer argue about the value of spraying. That has been settled for all time. The scabless, sound and smooth skinned fruit of the sprayed orchard has settled that question. All that remains for us, to know is the when and the how. Bernyard Manure. Barnyard manure is indispensable as a fertilizer on this and sandy land that is to be farmed. It supplies biomass as well as nitrogen, and the effect of the humus is often more desirable than the increase of plant food, though both are surely needed if the land be thin. As She In Words In Sentence As one is written in England, A correspondent sends to the British Weekly a rare bit of English. It was written by a woman in exceeding but prodigious in answering an inquiry that had been addressed to her: "I would have written before, but I have been left with a dog bite on the arm. 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THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO MINISTERS, PHYSICIANS, DENTISTS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LADIES EITHER IN RICHMOND OR ELSEWHERE Find enclosed $.....for which send The Planet for months to Place.....Votes to.....credit. (Rev., Dr., Fun. Dir. or Lady's name) PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES --- PLANET PRIZES You m Each Coup Any Cash Subse scription o a Cash Sub panied by To the To the THE CONT THE PL 311 Find months t Name..... Street City Place.... Oklahoma Oil and Gas Leases Now Subject to Revenue. Oil and gas leases in Oklahoma, estimated to be worth from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000, were rendered subject to assessment and taxation by the decision of the state supreme court upholding the state board of equalization's valuation of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil company's property for the year 1911. Tax experts have calculated the value of omitted lease properties since 1908 and have taken steps already to place more than $100,000,000 on the tax rolls in the oil counties on the east side of the state. Ownership by the state of the bed of the Arkansas river to high water mark was also declared by the state supreme court in an opinion by Justice R. H. Longborrow. The decision gives the state complete title to the oil and gas deposits beneath the Arkansas and other政 MUST PAY TAXES THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICH --GIVEN AV PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES 10-Offers COSTS YOU FIRST PRIZES. Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver watch to the Minister who receives the L Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver watch to the Physician or Dentist, who receive of votes. Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver watch to the Funeral Director, who receive of votes. Round Trip Ticket to the Panama Exposition the Lady receiving the Highest number of ABOUT or Ballot cut out of The PLANET will be two months (25c) twenty-five cents will count as (of $1.00) one dollar for eight months will description of ($1.50) one dollar and fifty cents. Those Pastor is successful in securing the Those Pastor is successful in securing the OPEN TO MINISTERS, PHYSICIANS, DENTALS. SUBSCRIPTION VOTING BLANK. Date.....191 North Street, Virginia. for which send The Planet for... State. (Rev., Dr., Fun. Dir. or Lady's name) PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES gable streams in Oklahoma, besides sand and gravel, to which the state also has asserted its rights. The decision is worth millions of dollars to the schools of the state, since the state land commission will control the river beds for the benefit of the permanent school fund. SERUM KILLS PATIENTS Vietims Were Inmates of County Hospital—Crime Hinted At. "Toxic poisoning" caused the death of seven men who were treated for blood disease at the county hospital in Los Angeles, Cal., recently, according to a report post-mortem surgeons submitted to Coroner Hartwell. A serum was administered to the male patients at the county hospital last Saturday. Four died that night and three more on Sunday. Coroner Hartwell said he hoped the county grand jury would begin an investigation and determine if any criminality were involved. States deputy marshal, is dying, and D. W. Beavers, a deputy sheriff, and T. H. Hickey are seriously wounded as a result of a platoi battle on a Norfolk & Western train between Iaeger and Berwind, W. Va. Puts Ban on Cigar Licking. Notice was given by Commissioner John P. Jackson, of the Pennsylvania department of labor and industry, in Harrisburg, that the persons in charge of cigar factories must immediately stop the practice of cigarmakers placing tips of cigars in their mouths during manufacture. All Candidates for Prizes must poll not less than Ten Thousand Votes in order to be Eligible for prizes. The Contest ends September 1st, 1914 and there is ample time for persons to secure that number. Make a canvas among your friends for copies of the PLANET. Cut out the coupons, for "it costs you nothing to vote." ABOUT THE VOTING Would Honor Colonel Goethals. A bill for the thanks of congress to Colonel George W. Goethals and to authorize the president to appoint him a major general in the army was introduced by Senator Lodge. Stain in Gun Battle on Train. R. L. Taylor, a deputy aheriff, is dead; A. D. Beavera, a former United States deputy marshal, is dying, and D. W. Beavera, a deputy aheriff, and T. M. Hickey are seriously wounded as a result of a pistol battle on a Norfolk & Western train between Iaeger and Berwind, W. Va. Puts Ban on Cigar Licking. Notice was given by Commissioner John P. Jackson, of the Pennsylvania state department of labor and industry, in Harrisburg, that the persons in charge of cigar factories must immediately stop the practice of cigarmakers placing tips of cigars in their mouths during manufacture. SECOND PRIZES. offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Minister the Highest number of votes. offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Physician the Second Highest number of votes. offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Funeral the Second Highest number of votes. offer a Silver Service to the Lady who reist number of votes. It poll not less than Ten Thousand The Contest ends September to secure that number. A number of the PLANET. Cut out of your friends are active, you can do of The PLANET. TING. Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET and votes. Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET and votes. Any Coupon cut of The PLANET and real votes. Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET as (150) one hundred and fifty additions will make a Donation of ($15.00) Fifteenth PLANET will make a Donation of ($10.00) Ten DORS AND LADIES EITHER IN RICHMOND We Offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Minister receiving the Second Highest number of votes We Offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Physician or Dentist receiving the Second Highest number of votes. We Offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Funeral Director receiving the Second Highest number of votes. We Offer a Silver Service to the Lady who receives the Second Highest number of votes. THE PLANET VOTING CONTEST. COUPON OR BALLOT. FOR THE MOST POPULAR ONE. (State whether a Minister, Physician Dentist, Funeral Director or Lady.) This Coupon is good for Five Votes and will not be good after Sept.1,1914. CITY AUDITOR'M TUESDAY, March 17 HURRAH, Your Favorite SHOW IN THE BIG SENSATION "The Wrong Mr. President" MUSICAL COMEDY All new. The hit of the year. Hear the Smart Set Rat. See Them Tango.