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PLANEVAL Dr. I. D. Burrell Stricken Suddenly Dies in Washington after Operation to Save His Life. "The House Upon the Hill"-Graphic Description of the Scenes at His Home in Roanoke. Ronnoke, Va., March 23.—The most palatial mansion in this city, rosting upon the brow of a hill in all of its transcendent loveliness, exceeding in cost and beauty, anything in this section ever owned here by a citizen of color, is without a master to-day. I made my way to this spot in the early morning after I had spent the night on a Pullman sleeping car. In the porch were two mammoth boxes of flowers, that I had ordered shipped the day before from Richmond as a testimonial of my personal bereavement and that of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia of which I, D. Burrell, M. D., had been an influential and honored member. performed. On Tuesday, he was doing well. The doctors were hopeful. The operation was a success, they said. But Dr. Burrell wanted to see his wife. He wanted to talk with her confidentially. He did this. He told her of some private matters and about—the widow hesitated then as she told the story and I never heard just what that last information was. He told her that he could not live. After the conversation had been ended, he said simply, "I waited until it was too late. Now I am ready to go." An acute attack followed. The physicians and the nurses hurried to the patient as he collapsed. In tell- THE WORLD MOVED ON. There was one of a smaller size from Washington, D. C. I tried the front door and I rang or attempted to ring the bell. The door was locked and the bell had been allenced. I paused to look around and I saw in the valley below a "steady stream" of colored humanity hurrying to work. But the master of this mansion was dead, and—the world moved on. This place was in striking contrast to what it was upon the occasion of my previous visit. The garage was to the right, and in there was a fine automobile used, almost exclusively for the pleasure of the mistress of the house and sometimes for the master when he took the notion, but he had taken his last jaunt in the machine.—its throbbing motor would interest him no more. THE SCENE IN THE REAR. I passed to the rear of the house and below saw the carriage house and the stable,—no signs of life here, save the Horse's movement as the animal at his morning meal oblivious and ignorant of the calamity that had overtaken the inmates of the house upon the hill. I wandered down the hill to the stable, in search of some living thing, somebody who was awake, some one who could give me some information as to how Burrell died. An old hostler was working behind the fence at the stable. He looked up at me surprised. "John Mitchell," I said simply. "I thought it was you, Mr. Mitchell. I'll go to the side door and see if I can get somebody up." He did so and in a few moments I had been admitted. MANY KIN FOLKS THERE A glance showed me that kid folks had come to town. Beds and couches improvised, showed that the cry of distress had brought a really response and that every available space in that palatial structure had been occupied by those who had come to shed a tear and extend sympathy to the stricken family. A few moments later I was unhered into the bed-room of the charming widow, who Jeepite her great sorrow had borne up manfully under the strain. A word and a glance and a hysterical outburst followed, while I sat down until the "storm" passed and I could learn what I wanted to know. WAS TAKEN ILL. Briely stated, it seemed that Doctor Burrell was taken ill on Tuesday, March 10th. Mrs. Burrell advised him to remain indoors. He diagnosed his own case, as indigestion. She watched the symptoms and she became alarmed. Two colored physicians, personal friends of the doctor, came in the afternoon and they accepted Dr. Burrell's diagnosis of his own case. As he grew worse they examined him closely and they and Doctor Burrell decided that the alliment was gallstones. The usual remedies failed. "Well," said Doctor Burrell, "they have done all for me that I would have done for any one else who might be in my fix, and there is but one hope and that is in an operation." HE COULD NOT COME The doctors tried to get Dr. Carson of the Freedman's Hospital at Washington, with whom they talked over long distance telephone to come to himnausea, but he said he could not leave there. He told them to bring Dr. Burrell to Washington. Accompanied by his wife, and Dr. J. H. Butternut, the party left Sunday, 14th inst., for Washington. The $250 mile trip was made without incident. The boat was compiled and the operation performel. On Tuesday, he was doing well. The doctors were hopeful. The operation was a success, they said. But Dr. Burrell wanted to see his wife. He wanted to talk with her confidentially. He did this. He told her of some private matters and about—the widow hesitated then as she told the story and I never heard just what that last information was. He told her that he could not live. After the conversation had been ended, he said simply, "I waited until it was too late. Now I am ready to go." An acute attack followed. The physicians and the nurses hurried to the patient as he collapsed. In telling it, she said, "They did everything—they used saline solution,—they did enough to kill him in the effort to save his life." Her grief overcame her and she indulged in weeping. She felt that all that could be done had been done and her aim and purpose were to show that the surgeons at the Freedmen's Hospital had resorted to herole treatment in the vain effort to retain that spark of life. LEAVING TIME. The story is soon told:—a body accompanied by a sorrowing wife reached Roanoke; a casket with its silent occupant across a corner in the front parlor; the scene of "the house upon the hill," and a funeral sermon at the Probystorian Church, of which he was a member. I had to leave at 12:10 P. M. Tues day the 23rd last. for Danville to fulfill an engagement previously arranged three weeks before. I had stopped with Mr. John H. Fowkos, 30-4th-Ave., N. W. and I left instructions with Col. U. S. G. Patterson of Lynchburg, District Deputy Grand Chancellor D. C. Johnson of Povahon tas, Va. and Rev. Thomas H. White, Grand Prelate, Clifton Forge, Va., all of whom I had summoned by telegraph. They were there to do their duty. I bid farewell to Mrs. M. H. Burrell and her associates and a few moments later was on my way to the station, meeting Rev. James H. Burke whose wrecked church was a sombre monument of a fire disaster. JOHN MITCHELL, JR: LOOK FOR HILL IN CALIFORNIA CITY Missing True Reformer Bank Cashier Said to Be Posting as Physician. Search for Reuben T. Hill, the defaulting cashier of the True Reformers' Savings Bank, is being quietly carried on in Los Angeles, Cal., it became known here today. So far as known in this city the Los Angeles police have not been asked to aid in the search. Thus far the search has been in the hands of investigators who are reporting their progress to private detectives here. Hill is reported to be masquerading in Los Angeles as a physician. Hill vanished from Richmond several years ago, when the bank of which he was cashier, an institution for colored people, closed its doors. Examination of the books showed, the police said, that Hill had misappropriated large sums of money from time to time. His peculiations were reported to be in the neighborhood of $40,000 or $50,000. Since his disappearance the Negro fugitive has been reported as living in a score of cities. A number of the rumors as to his whereabouts were carefully investigated by the Richmond police. At one time it was confidently believed he was in New York and a local police detective spent considerable time in that city investigating with the aid of New York detectives. Several months ago news was received by the police that a man positively identified as Hill had been arrested by a private detective in a small town near Louisville, Ky. The report resulted in the immediate dispatch to Kentucky of Detective-Sergeant Bailey. When Bailey arrived in the village he found a Negro in the calaboose under heavy guard. One glance at the prisoner who enough to convince Bailey that a miracle had been made. He reported that, aside from being sighted in one eye, the Negro under arrest here no resemblance to the missing criminal. Rewards aggregating several themes and dollars have been offered from time to time for Hill's arrest.—Richmond, Vt. News-Leader, March 16, 1914. The Late DR. I. D. BURRELL. Editor Clifford Speaks Plainly. (Martinaburg, W. Va., Pioneer Press) Anyone who knows John Mitchell, Jr., editor of The Richmond PLANET is well aware of his glitting proclivities which assailed, therefore no surprise is evinced by his intimates when they note the great victory he has won over Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green of the Knights of Pythias, and those who follow his dictates. The injunction granted our brave friend, by the U. S. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, through Mr. Justice Gould, goes clearly into all of the questions involved in the controversy, and shows fully to any "The House Upon the Hill." The residence of the late Dr. The residence of the late Dr. I. D. Barrell, Reenoke, Va. fair minded man that had the Supreme Lodge of Pythlians dealt justly with Mr. Mitchell and the Virginia Pythlians, there would have been no necessity for any recourse to a court of justice for a final adjustment of matters. Congratulations, Brother Mitchell, and may you continue to win renown along all lines in the future as you have in the past, is the wish of the Pioneer Press. Tatum the Great in So. Richmond. Wanted A Packed House, to hear and see Tatum the Great, one of the finest and most popular Magicians of his race, at the Second Baptist Church South Richmond, Monday night March 26, 1914. Admission 10 seats. Come and bring the children. Great things to be seen. Come early and secure good seats. Benefit Second Baptist Church. Sacred Concert. Hamlin's Council, I. O. of St. Luke will give a sacred concert on the first Sunday in April at Hamlin's Hall, Washington, Va., under the auspices of the Ladies' Auditorium. LEWIS—Dl04 at her residence 811 1-2 N. 7th Street, Friday night, March 6, 1914 at 10:11 P. M., Mrs. Annie C. Lewis, the beloved wife of Mr. Charles H. Lewis Sr. and mother of Messrs. C. H. Lewis, Jr. and Leroy S. Lewis. She had been in declining health for many months, her funeral took place from the Ebenezer Baptist Church of which she had been a faithful member for a number of years. Tuesday, March 10th, at 3 P. M., Rev. W. H. Stokes preached a very touching sermon. He was assisted by Rev. C. H. Phillips, pastor of the Union Baptist Church. Beaver Dam, Va. Mr. Joseph Matthews sang very sweetly, "Angels Get My Mission Ready, I Am Coming Home." The remains were followed to their last resting place, Greenwood Cemetery, by the Good Men Council, I. O. St. Luke, Pianet Auxiliary to the Uniform Rank, K. of P., Royal Order of King David, Amanda's Fold, Improved Order of Shopherds and Daughters of Bathlehem, all of which she had been an active member for a number of years. The profession of beautiful flowers were silent testimonials of the loving regard in which the deceased was held. How blest the righteous when she dies, When sinks a weary soul to rest. How mildly beam the closing eyes. How gently heaves the expiring breast. —Her Husband and Sons. Card of Thanks We desire to thank the many friends for their kindness to my wife and our mother, Mrs. Annie C. Lewis during her illness and our bereavement. Hampton Institute Summer School Hampton Institute, through its Summer Session for Teachers, which will be held this year from June 16 to July 14, offers colored teachers in Virginia and other states the opportunity of securing free instruction in courses leading to industrial certificates. Dr. George P. Phentx, vice principal of Hampton Institute, will be the director of the Summer School, which will be held under the auspices of the Virginia State Board of Education and The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. The Summer School staff will include thirteen of the regular Hampton workers and the following persons: Edna L. Avery, State Normal College, Albany, N. Y.; Benjamin G. Brawley, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.; Caroline W. Hotchkiss, Horace Mann School, New York; Mabel I. Jenkins, Dana Hall, Wellsley, Mass.; Mary E. Kelton, Ely Court, Greenwich, Conn.; John B. Pierce, Wellsville, Va.; Frank E. Sanders, Washburn College, Topeka, Kan.; John C. Stone, State Normal College, Montclair, N. J.; and Laura E. Turner, Washington, D. C. COURSES OFFERED. Ambitious colored teachers have twenty-five courses from which to collect their summer course of study. The industrial courses are: Chincreaning and upholstering; elementary and advanced cooking; primary and advanced manual training; poultry-keeping; elementary and advanced sewing. Other courses leading to industrial certificates are: American history; arithmetic (primary and grammar grade); civics (with reference to community life); English composition; geography (primary and grammar grade); hygiene; methods of teaching reading; and principles of teaching. Dr. Sanders will give a course in Bible in which he "will discuss the important problems of religious education and of pegagogy, whose solution underlies the right use of the Bible as the principal tool in the hands of a wise teacher who is face to face with the problems of social and moral uplift." Dr. Sanders, who is now president of Washburn College, was formerly dean of the Yale Divinity School. William S. Dodd, who is in charge of the Hampton Institute business course, will give a course in practical business matters which "will embrace the study and discussion of notes, deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, wills, taxes and tation, usury, savings banks fraternal orders, health and life insurance societies." Miss Ida A. Tourtellot, of Hampton Institute, will conduct a course in community work which "is intended to give a larger knowledge of Negro life in the South, to take a survey of the Negro's progress, and to suggest lines of activity for the future." Other courses will deal with drawing; English grammar; home gardening; literature; elementary science; and singing. SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR NEGROES. Of fourteen summer schools for colored teachers, reporting 2121 students to the U. S. Commissioner of Education in 1912, four were held in Virginia and had 57 men and 609 women in attendance. Hampton with 346 students and Tuskegee in Alabama with 305 handed the list. VALUE OF VOTES 2 Months, 25c. 10 4 Months, 50c. 30 8 Months, $1.00 90 12 Months, $1.50 150 H. L. Jackson II. Mr. H. L. Jackson, the well-known merchant of Blackstone, Va has been dangerously ill. At one time, he was totally blind. He has since recovered sufficiently to encourage his friends. His eyesight is much improved. It will be gratifying information to his boat of acquaintances to know that he is slowly but surely recuperating. POLLARD—WHITE. Mrs. Kate White announces the marriage of her daughter, Leslie M. to Mr. M. T. Pollard, Thursday morning, April 3rd, 1914 at 7 o'clock at the bride's residence, 1400 North First Street, Richmond, Va. Reception, Thursday, April 9th, 1914 from 8:30 to 11:30 P. M., 1400 N. First Street. Friends are invited, no cards. Only the names of things who have had more than 50 bullets hurt for them will be published in the journal THE MASTER OF THE MUSIC Memoriam. In sad, but loving remembrance of our dear and loving mother, Martha A. Harris, who died on July 25, 1913, eight months ago to-day: Mother, thou art gone to rest— Thy toils and cares are over, And sorrow, pain and suffering, now Shall never distress thee more. Yet we hope to meet thee, dear mother When the day of life is fled, Then in Heaven with joy to greet thee Where no farewell tear is shed. Husband and Children, L. H. HARRIS. MATTIE RAINE. WILLIE HARRIS. ISAAC HARRIS, JR. INEZ HARRIS. MABEL HARRIS. Woman's Day at 3rd St. A. M. E. Woman's Day at Third Street A. M. E. Church, Sunday, at 11:00 A. M. Rev, S. S. Morrina, the pastor, will use as a theme, "Woman's Work and Wages." Special program will be rendered at 3:30 and S. P. M. Public invited. HON. HARRY S. Who speaks at the City A Sunday, at 3 Mr. Cummings to Speak Here. Harry S. Cummings, Esq. of Baltimore will be the speaker at the anniversary 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. In Memoriam. In memory of my beloved grandmother, Caroline. Wooldridge, who entered into Heavenly rest March 30, 1912, after a long life that was rich in Christian plenty and deeds of love and mercy. By one whom in patient devotion she reared from infancy to womanhood. CARRIE CALLOWAY MOSES, Danville, Va. Spelling Bee and Musicale. Spelling Bee and Musicale at City Auditorium, Friday evening, April 17, 1914. Selected pupils of the Armstrong High School and the District Schools of the city will compete for valuable prizes. Auxpices of Young Men's League, 1rd St. A. M. B. Church. General admission, 15 cents, School children, 10 cents. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. PERSONALS AND BRIEFB. Mrs. Parrish, wife of Deacon Luther Parrish, Westwood, Va. continues sick. Mrs. Amelia Jones is very sick at her residence, 209 West 21st St., Southside. Mrs. James Robinson, wife of Deacon James Robinson, Sr., Westwood, Va. is still confined to her bed. Mrs. M. J. Locklear of Raleigh, N. C. was called to the city on the account of the death of Mrs. Annie Lewis. Miss Leone H. Holmes has entered the course for trained nurses at the Douglass Hospital, 16th and Lombard Streets, Phila., Pa. Mr. Leroy S. Lewis of 811 1-2 N. 7th St., who has been critically ill for the last four weeks with pneumonia, is much improved. Mrs. Fannie Friman of Spring field, Mass. was in the city this week. In company with Mrs. Elliza Monroe, she visited the Mechanics Savings Bank building and the Planet Office. She was outspoken in her praise of the enterprise of the colored people of this city. S. CUMMINGS, Auditorium (to-morrow) at 3:30 P. M. FOR RENT. FOR RENT. 4 room flat on St. James St. Small store room on Roanie St. Large house on Ashland St. 2 room rear house on No. Fifth St. 2 small houses on South Lombardy St. 3 room flat on Taylor St. 4 room house, N. Harrison St. 4 room house on N. Third St. 2 rooms on St. James St. 4 room house on Fairfield St. 4 room flat on N. Fourth St. Apply to B. A. CEPHAS, Corner Second and Leigh St. Moving Pictures Extraordinary Cherry Kearton's Wild Life and Big Game in the Jungles of India and Africa will come to The Hippodrome Theatre Wednesday and Thursday, April 1st and 2nd. These pictures have been unanimously and universally endorsed by the highest authorities on Natural History and the foremost sociological institutions. Ex-President Roosevelt, America's most distinguished hunter of big game, voiced the following unanimated approval of Mr. Kearton's work: "It is a really phenomenal record of a really phenomenal feat, and I congratulate Mr. Kearton with all heart on what he has done." This exhibition promises to be educational as well as interesting, and should be seen by old and young. The writer on making to the Management of The Hippodrome was informed that Kearton's Wild Life and Animal Plant Pictures in the Greatest exhibition of its kind ever brought to this city. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet..... By Burton E. Stevenson. Copyright, 1912, by Burton E. Stevenson. SYNOPSIS Apparently by mistake Philip Vanantine an antique Beau cabinet from Paris. A strange Frenchman is mysteriously killed near it. Pulson inserted through two wounds on the chest of the case of death. Vanantine's friends, Lester and Godfrey, a reporter, are greatly interested. Vanantine himself is killed in the same supernatural manner while liberty after commending the Beau cabinet. Began, a servant, accuses a woman who wished to kill Vanantine's murder. Rogers acts suspiciously. With the aid of Parks, Vanantine's valet Lester makes plans to carefully guard the Beau cabinet from marauders. "M. Pena Armand," claims the Beau cabinet for the Paris firm and takes it away, followed by Godfrey and Lester. "Armand," captured by a giant Frenchman, kills the giant with a poison barb, but escapes from Godfrey and Lester. The Beau cabinet is locked in a police cell as a bait for "Armand," who is really Creechard, a great French criminal. Crochard adutiously notifies Godfrey that he will claim his property, the Boule cabinet, at the police station the following Wednesday. Godfrey and Lester conclude that the drawer drawer was by a mechanism which locks and pops. White Godfrey calmly searches for the drawer with a steel grounded on his hand Lester sees two burning eyes watching them through a shutter. Lawyer Hornblower, representing "Mima X" nails Lester for a packet of her letters hidden in the Boule cabinet, which has been stolen fresh her. She calls upon Lester, says there is no deadly mechanism in the cabinet and gets her letters from a secret drawer. "While X" mild, Julia, showed Vantine Brown, the Good Frenchman, who sought the letters for blasphemian purposes. NOW, I perceived that the drawer was filled with little rolls of cotton, which, had been pressed into it quite tightly. M. Pigot removed the first of these, unrolled it and spread it out upon the desk, and instantly we caught the glitter of diamonds—diamonds so large, so brilliant, so faultlessly white that I drew a deep breath of admiration. Even M. Pigot, evidently as he prided himself upon his imperturbability, could not look upon those gems wholly unmoved. A slow color creep into his cheeks as he gazed down at them, and he picked up one or two of the larger Z. "This is the original." ones to admire them more closely. Then he unfolded roll after roll, stopping from time to time for a look at the larger brilliants. "These are from the famous necklace which the grand duke inherited from his grandmother." he said, calling our attention to a little pile of marvellous gems in one of the last packets. "Not one of these brilliants would be marketable in Europe for many years. Each of them is a marked gem. Here in America your police regulations are not so complete, but I fancy that even here he would have had difficulty in marketing this one." And he unfolded the last packet and held up to the light a rose diamond which seemed to me as large as a walnut and aglow with lovely color. "Perhaps you have stopped to admire the Mazarin diamond in the gallery of Apollo at the Louvre," said M. Flotz. "There is always a crowd about that case, and a special attendant is installed there to guard it, for it contains articles of great value. But the Mazarin is not one of them, for it is not a diamond at all; it is porte-a-paste facsimile of which this is the original. The directors of the Louvre, needing money, sold the original to the emperor of Russia, who had a crane for prickles of stones and who at her death put this remarkable collection to her favorite dog, who had inherited her problem. And now, he added, with a gully, toward the gifting heps, "what shall we do with all their?" "There's only one thing to do," said Granny, awaking suddenly as from a piggy, and that's to get them in a TWO CHAPTER XVI. safe deposit box as quick as possible. There's no police safe I'd trust with 'em." "Can we find a box of safe deposit at this hour of the night?" asked M. Pigot, glancing at his watch. "It is almost I o'clock and a half." "That's easy in New York," said Grady. "We'll take 'em over to the Day and Night bank on Fifth avenue. It never closes. Wait till I get something to put 'em in." He went out and came back presently with a small value. "This will do," he said. "Stow 'em away, and I'll call up the bank and arrange for the box." Simmonds and Pigot rolled up the packets carefully and placed them in the value, while I sat watching them in a kind of daze. And I undid the temptation, which would assault a man in the presence of so much beauty and value. "There they are!" said Simmonds and closed the bag with a snap as Grady came in again. "I've arranged for the box," said Grudy, and one of our wagons is at the door. Slimmonds, you go along with Moosecree Piggitt and put an extra man on the Seat with the driver. Maybe that Crickard might try to hold you up." The same thought was in my own mind, for Crockard must have learned of M. Piggitt's arrival. So I was relieved that Grady was wise enough to take no risk. "You'd better get a receipt," Grady went on, and arrange that the value is to be delivered only when you and Moosecree Piggitt appear together. That will be satisfactory, moosecreer? he added, turning to the Frenchman "Entirely so, sir. Au revoir, monieur," and with a bow to me he followed Slimmonds into the outer room. Grady sat down, and got out a fresh cigar. "Well, Mr. Lester," he said as he struck a match, "what do you think of these Frenchmen, anyway?" "They're marvelous," I said. "Even yet I can't understand how he knew so much. For instance, how did he know about those letters?" "Fact is," broke in Grady, "that's the first I heard of 'em. What is that story?" I told him the story briefly, carefully suppressing everything which would give him a clue to the identity of the velled lady. "There were certain details," I added, "which I supposed were known to no one except myself and two other persons, and yet I knew them. Then, again, how did he know so certainly just how the mechanism worked? It seemed to me that he handled that mechanism as though he was familiar with it. Of course, he may have prepared himself by analyzing the drawings which no doubt accompany the secret memo. He may even have had a working model made. He is an extraordinary man." "And a great actor," Grady supplemented. "Hello, who's that?" The front door had been flung open. There was an instant's colloquy with the desk sergeant, then a rapid step crossed the outer, room, and Godfrey burst in upon us. He cast n-rapid glance at the Boule cabinet, at the secret drawer standing open, empty, and then his eyes rested upon Grady. "So he got away with it, did he?" he inquired. "Who do you think you are?" aboutted Grady, his face purple, "coming in here like this? Get out or I'll have you thrown out." "Oh, I'll go." retorted Godfrey coolly. "I've seen all I care to see. Only I'll tell you one thing, Grady--you've signed your own death warrant tonight." You won't last an hour after the story of this night's work gets out." Grady's color slowly faded as he met the burning and contemptuous gaze Godfrey turned upon him. As for me, an awful fear had gripped my heart. "Do you mean to say it wasn't Piggot? stammered Grady, at last. Godfrey laughed scornfully. "No, you bilthering idiot!" he said. "It wasn't Pigot. It was Crochard himself!" And he stalked out, slamming the door behind him. Almost before the echo of that slamming door had died away Grady was beside the sergeant's desk. "Get out the reserves," he ordered, "and have the other wagon around. Phone headquarters to rush every man available to the Day and Night bank, and say it's from me!" In a moment the reserves came tumbling out, struggling into their coats: There was a clatter of hoops in the street as the wagon dashed-up. The reserves piled into it, permitting me to crowd in beside them: Grady jumped to the seat beside the driver. I clung to the hand rail as the wagon awayed back and forth or bounded into the air as it struck the car tracks, and stared out into the night, struggling to understand. Could Godfrey be right? But of course he was right! Some intruded me that. At the bank we found timbones lying on his back, his eyes open and staring apparently at the pellet. Grady elbowed his way savagely through the group. "Where's Kelly?" he demanded. At the words a white fused man in uniform arrose from a chair into which THE RICHMOND, PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA he had plainly dropped embarrassed. "Oh, there you are!" and Grady glowed at him ferociously. "Now tell me what happened—and tell it quick!" "Why, sir," stammered Kelly, "there wasn't anything happened. Only when we stopped out there at the curb and I got down and opened the door, there wasn't nobody in the wagon but Mr. Simmonds. I spoke to him and he didn't answer—and then I touched him and he kind of fell over—and then I reached in here and phobed the stables; but they said you'd already started for the bank; and then we went out and brought him in here—and that's all I know, sir." "Mr. Simmonds had a little value with him. Did you notice it?" "Yes, sir. And I looked for it in the wagon, but it turned there." Grady turned away with a curse as four or five men ran from the street the men from headquarters. I told myself. I could hear him talking to them in sharp, low tones, and then they departed as suddenly as they had come. The reserves also hurried away, and I concluded that Grady was trying to throw a net about the territory in which the fugitive was probably concealed. But my interest in that neuer was overshadowed for the time being by my mother for Simmonds. I picked up his right hand and looked at it. Then I drew a deep breath of relief, for it was uninjured. "Has any one sent for a doctor?" I naked. "Yes, sir." one of the bank attnchener answered. "We telephoned for one at once. Here he is now." he added, as a little black boarded man entered, carrying the inevitably identifying medic case. The newswoman glanced at the body, waved us back, fell on one knee, striped away the clothing from the breast and applied his ear to the heart. "Let's have some water," he said. "He's had a taste or wilt of some thing that has stopped the heart action." With a quiver, creepy feeling over my scalp, I remembered the little mash half full of blood red liquid which Crochard carried in his pocket. But he had not meant murder this time. I remembered that Godfrey had said he never killed an adversary. The doctor worked away briskly, and at the end of a few minutes Simmonds drew a long breath and sat erect. Then his eyes opened, and he sat swaying unsteady and staring amazedly about him. "Where am I?" he gasped. Then his eyes encountered mine: "Lester!" he said. "Where is he—Piotz?" Scarcely knowing what I did I groped my way to the telephone and asked for Godfrey's number, hoping against hope absurdly, and at last, to my intense surprise and relief, I heard his voice, not a very amenable voice. "I tried to get you," I explained, "as soon as Simmonds told me they were going to look at the cabinet. I phoned the office. The city editor said he had sent you out into Westchester." Golfrey laughed shortly. "It was a wild goose chase," he said, "cooked up by our friend Crochard. But even then I'd have got back if we hadn't punctured a fire when we were fire miles anywhere. I knew what was up, but there I was. Oh, he's made tools of us all, Lester." "But, Godfrey," I said. "I can't understand even yet how he did it. Where is Pigot?" "He's on the Savoy, bound and gagged under the berth in his stateroom. I could only gasp. "And to think I didn't suspect" added Godfrey bitterly. "We stood there and saw that yacht with the French flag walk away from us. We saw her put a man aboard the Savoy. We saw that man talking to Pigot." "Well, that man was Crochard. He got Pigot into his stateroom; gave him a whiff of the same stuff he used on Gimmonds, no doubt; put him out of the way under the berth, got into his clothes, made up his face, put on a wig—and all that while we were kicking our heels outside waiting for him. Crochard is an artist in that line, and he was, no doubt, thoroughly familiar with Pigot's appearance. He took the papers of Pigot, set his bag outside the stateroom door and then came out calmly to meet his dear friends of the press. You remember he said he would come today?" "Yes." "There's one consolation—it will break Grady." "But Godfrey," I said, "if you could have seen those diamonds—those beautiful diamonds—and to think he should be able to get away with them from right under our noses." "It's pretty bad, isn't it? But there's no use crying over split milk. Lester," he added, in another tone, "I want you to be in your office at noon tomorrow—at, rather, today. I have got one more bomb to explode, Lester, and it's a big one. It will make you jump! Good night." CHAPTER XVII. HERE, were a number of things at the office demanding my attention next morning, and I was so late in getting there and the morning paused so rapidly that when the office boy came in and announced that Mr. Grady and Mr. Simmons were outside and wished to see me I did not, for a moment, connect their visit with Godfrey. "I'm glad to see you are better. Simmons," I said, making hands with him. "That was a close call." "It certainly was," Simmons agreed, sliding into a chair. "If I had got a little more it it, I'd never have waked up." "Do you remember anything about it?" "Hey a thing. One minute we were sitting there talking together as nice as you please—and the next thing I was, when I woke up in the bath." "I know that man Doodling F, butte- in tandy. "I wop't wait for him. He "What a mistake." I broke in, as the outer door opened. "Pothaes their Goddess now." And so it happened. He came in as accompanied by a man whom I knew as an Arthur Howar, chief counsel for the Record. Godfrey nodded all around. "The object of this conference, Lester, is to straighten out certain matters connected with the Michaelovich diamond—and incidentally to give the Record the biggest scoop it has had for months." "I can't here to fix up no scoop for the Record," broke in Grady. "That paper never did trent me right." "It has treated you as well as you deserved," retorted Godfrey. "I'm going to talk plainly to you, Grady. Your goose is cooked. You can't hold on for an hour after last night's getaway becomes public. I understand you wouldn't let Simmonds telephone for me last night." "That's right. It wasn't none of your business." "Perhaps not. And yet if I had been there the cleverest thief in Paris, if not in the world, would be able behind those chrome metal steel bars at the Twenty-third street station instead of at liberty to go head and rob somebody else. You might to have seen through his disguise. That's your business, Grady. I haven't anything against you personally, and I admit that it was so of me to stand there talking to Crochard and never suspect, he was, but that's all beside the mark. You're at the head of the detective bureau, and you're the man who is responsible for all this. You're energetic enough and all that. but you're not it for your job. It's too big for you, and you know it. Take my advice and go to the phone there and send in your resignation." "Was it to tell me that you got me over here?" "No," said Goffrey; "I got you here to meet!" "The outer door opened again, and Goffrey looked toward it, smiling. "Mooseer Piggott!" announced the office boy. And then I almost bounced from my seat, for I would have sworn that the man who stood on the threshold was the man who had opened the secret drawer. He came forward, looking from face to face; then his eyes met Godfrey's, and he smiled. "Behold that I am here, monsieur," he said, and I started anew at the voice, for it was the voice of Crochard. "I hope that I have not kept you waiting." "Not at all, monsieur," Godfrey assured him and placed a chair for him. "I went down the bay this morning and met the Snook," he said. "I related to M. Pigot last night's occurrences, and begged him to be present at this meeting. He was good enough to agree. I assure you," he added, seeing Grady's book, "that this is M. Pigot, of the Paris detective bureau and not Crochard." "Oh yes," said M. Pigot, with a depressingly string. "I am myself and greatly humiliated that I should have fallen so readily into the trap which Crochard set for me. He is a very clever man, but some day I will get him; every pitcher to the well goes once too often. There is no hope of finding it here in New York?" "I am afraid not," said Godfrey. "Don't be too sure of that," broke in Grady proudly. "I don't done get—not by the number of means." "Pardon me for not introducing you, M. Pitford," said Godfrey. "This gentleman is Mr. Grady, who has been the head of our detective bureau; this is Mr. Shimonda, a member of his staff, this is Mr. Lester, an attorney and friend of mine; and this is Mr. Shearow, my personal counsel, Mr. Grady, Mr. Shimonda and Mr. Lester were M. "There are the Michaelovitch diamonds." present, last night," he added blandly, "when Crochard opened the secret drawer. "Is it true that the theft of the Michaelovitch diamonds was planned by Crochard?" asked Godfrey. "Undoubtedly. No other theft in France would be capable of it. He arranged the affair so cleverly that we were wholly unable to convict him unless we should find him with the stolen brilliants in his possession." "And you were not able to do that?" No, we could discover no trace of the brilliants, though we searched for them everywhere." "But you did not know of the Brute object and of the secret drawer!" "No, of that we knew nothing. I must examine that Brute object." "It is worth examining. And it has an fascinating history. But you don't know, of course, that Creechard would drink a market for the diamonds here in America." "We know that he would try to do so, and we did everything in our power to prevent it. We especially relied upon your customs department." "The customs people did their pirt," said Godfrey, with a chuckle. "They have quite upset the country! But the diamonds got in in spite of them, for, of course, a cabinet imported by a man so well known and so above medium as Mr. Vantine was passed without question." "Creechard won't try to sell them," said Godfrey. "Won't try to sell them?" echoed Grady. "What's the reason he won't?" "Because he hasn't got them," answered Godfrey, smiling with an ardently deep enjoyment of Grady's dazzed, countenance. "Oh, come off!" said that worthy disguisedly. "If he hasn't got 'em I'd like to know who has!" "I. have," said Godfrey, and cleared my desk with a sweep of his arm. "Spread out your handkerchief, Leather," and as dazedly obeyed he picked up a little leather bag, opened it and poured out its contents in a sparkling food. "There," he added, turning to Grady. "are the Michaelovitch diamonds." "But I don't understand!" Grady gaped. "Have you got Crochard too?" "No such luck," said Godfrey. "Do you mean to say he'd give these up without a fight." "I my dear Grady," said Godfrey, "I haven't seen Crochard since the minute you took him off the boat. I'd have had him, if you had let Simmonds call me. That's what I had planned. But he was too clever for us. I knew that he would come today." "You knew that he would come today?" repeated Grady blankly. "How did you know that—or is it merely hot air?" "I know that he would come," said Godfrey, curtly, "because he wrote and told me so." M. Pilgot laughed a dry little laugh. "The trouble was," continued Godfrey, "that I didn't look for him so early in the day, and so he was able to send me on a wild goose chase after a sensation that didn't exist. There's where I was a "fool. But I discovered the secret drawer ten days ago--while the cabinet was still at Vantine's—the evening after the velded lady got her letters. It was easy enough. I am surprised you didn't think of it. Lester." "Think of what?" I asked. "Of the key to the mystery. The drawer containing the letters was on the left side of the desk; I saw at once that there must be another drawer, opened in the same way, on the right side." "I didn't see it," I said. "I don't see it yet." "Think a minute. Why was Droust killed? Because he opened the wrong drawer. He pressed the combination at the right side of the desk, instead of that at the left side. The fair Julee must have thought the drawer was on the right side, instead of the left. It was a mistake very easy to make, since her mistress doubtless had her back turned when Julee saw her open the drawer. The suspicion that it was Julee's mistake becomes certain when she shows the combination to Vantine, and he is killed. Too. Besides, the villed lady herself made a remark which revealed the whole story. She said she was accustomed to opening the drawer with her left hand, instead of with her right. After that, there could be no further doubt. So I disgusted the drawer very simply." "Yes." I said "and then." "Then I removed the jewels, took them down to a dealer in paste gems and duplicated them as closely as I could. I had a hard time getting a good copy of this big rose diamond." CHAPTER XVIII M. Pilot smiled a dry smile. "It is the Mazarin. he said, "and is worth three million francs. There is a copy of it at the Louvre." "Well," continued Godfrey, "after I got the duplicates, I rolled them up in the cotton packets, and placed them back in the drawer, being careful to put the Mazarin at the bottom, where I had found it. Crochard knew that the game was up the instant he opened the first packet. Do you suppose he would be deceived? Not by the best reproduction ever made." And then I remembered the slow sunsh which had crept into Crochard's checks as he opened that first packet. "I didn't expect to deceive him," Godfrey explained. "I just wanted to give him a little surprise. And to think I wasn't there to see it." "But if he knew they were imitations, I protested, "why should be go to all that trouble to trouble them." "That is what pummed me last night," said Godfrey, "and, for that matter, it pummes me yet, but I'm ready to turn these diamonds over to you. I should like you to count them, and give me a receipt for them." "And then, of course, you will write the story," sneered Grady, "and give yourself all the credit." "Weil," asked Godfrey, looking at him, "do you think you deserve any?" And Grady could only crimson and keep silent. "As for the story, it is already written. It will be on the streets in ten minutes, and it will create a sensation. Please, count the diamonds. You will find 210 of them." "That is the exact number stolen from the grand duke," remarked M. Pigret and fell to counting. The number was 210. "Mr. Shearrow has the receipt," Godfrey added. And Shearrow took a pearly row his pocket, unfolded it and paid the receipt. It provided to me not only a receipt, but a full statement of the facts of the open, without mentioning the failure of the retaliary and the刽子 that the blamed for the recovery of the diamonds. George's grew rudder and rudder as the rudder presented. "I won't sign me such testimonial as that," be blunted. "Not on your life I won't!" "Your resignation was accepted at noon today by the mayor," said Godfrey. "My resignation!" asserted Grady. "I never wrote one." "Tell the public that, if you want to," reverted Godfrey, coldly. "That's your affair. You ought to have pleased it in, I told you to. Now, Jimmoads." Grady crushed his bat upon his head, strode to the door, jerked it open and banged it behind him. "Now, Simmons," Godfrey repeated, as the echo died away, and Simmons came forward and signed. I witnessed the signatures, and Godfrey, with more eagerness than he had shown in the whole affair, caught up the paper and sprang with it to the door. "Get that down to the office as quick as you can," he said to a man outside. "Till phone instructions. That," he added, closing the door and turning back to us, "is my reward for all this, or, rather, the Record's reward. And now, gentlemen, Mr. Shearrow has his car below, and I think we would better drive around to some safe deposit box with this plunder." It was perhaps ten days afterward that Godfrey dropped in to see me one evening. "Lester," he said, "I am going to claim that cabinet." "On what grounds?" I demanded. "Because the man who owned it gave it to me," and he got a paper out of his pocketbook and handed it across to me. I opened it and recognized the delicate and feminine writing which I had seen once before. My Dear Sir—I find that I made the mistake of underestimating you, and I present you my sincere apologies. Total service for one time may be my privilege to be again engaged with you. The result is certain to be most interesting. But at present I find that I must return to Europe by La Bretaigne, since I have been in Europe for a while. I may be possible that I should consent to part with the brilliants of his highness the grand duke. As a slight souvenir of my high regard I trust you will be willing to accept the cabinet Boula, which I am certain that you show him this letter. The cabinet is not only interesting in itself, but will be doubly so to you because of the part it has played in our little comedy. And I should like to know that it adorns a corner of your home. In the deer sir, believe me my admirer, The Invincible. "He's a good sport, isn't be?" asked Godfrey, as I silently handed the letter back to him. "What do you say about the cabinet?" "I suppose there is no doubt that Crochard bought it." I said. "So that it is mine now?" "Yes; when, did La Bretagne call?" "A week ago today. She is due at Havre in the morning." "Did you warn them?" "Warn them of what?" "That Crochard is after the diamonds. They went back on La Bretagne, I suppose?" "Yes, and I forgot with them. So why should I warn any one? Surely they know that Crochard will get those diamonds if he can. It has become a sort of point-of-honor with him. I imagine. It is up to them to take care of them." "That couldn't to be difficult," I said. "The strong room of a liner is about the strongest place on earth." "Yes." Godfrey agreed and blinked a meditative glare toward the ceiling. Two weeks later a black headline caught my eye: MICHAELOVITCH JEWELS FALSE: French Detective Takes Back Paste Im- tiations From America. Fraud Discovered When the Grand Duke Michael Sends to a Jeweler to He Reset. I had no need to read the article which followed, for I saw in a flash what had occurred. I saw, too, why Crochard had retained the paste jewels—he had use for them. How or where the substitution had been made I could only guess. Who, wondered, had bought the Mazarin? Surely there was a diamond most difficult to sell. It could, of course, be cut up. But that would be suerlieve. One morning in the personal column of Le Matin appeared a notice, of which this is the English: To M. the Director of the Museum of the It has been my good fortune to come into possession of the rose diamond known as the Mazarin. It is my wish to restore it to your collection in order that it may no longer be necessary to delude the pub with an limitation of colored glass will make it look more beautiful this brilliant to you with my compliments provided his highness the Grand Duke Michael, who preceded me in possession of the diamond, will join me in the gift of a diamond ring. I am ashamed duty to cleave the diamond into a bar of smaller stones, as it is too large for my use. But I hope that he will not refuse. CROCHARD. What could the grand duke do? To have refused, would have made him the butt of the boulevards. Besides he was, after all, losing nothing which he had not already lost. Be, with a better grace than one might have expected, he consented to join in the retaliation. Two days later, the director of the Louvre discovered a packet upon his desk. He opened it, and found within the Mamam. When you visit the Louvre, you will see it in the place of honor, in the glass case in the center of the gallery of Apollo, with an assistant on guard beside it. And Cheerbier? I do not know. Each morning, I read first the news from Paris, searching for the "lavincible" in some new incarnation. Subscribe to the PLATFORM CLASSIFIED Authorized Personnel Only Telephone: 212-755-1234 Another White House Wedding. President and Mrs. Wilson issued a formal announcement of the engagement of their youngest daughter, Miss Eleanor Wilson, to William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury. The announcement came in the following brief statement from the president's secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty: "The President and Mrs. Wilson announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Eleanor Ralpholde, to Hon. William Gibbs McAdoo." The announcement did not come as a surprise to official and social Washington because of the fact that informal confirmation of the engagement had been previously made by Secretary Tumulty. It was then stated that the formal announcement would be made in a few days. While no formal announcement of the date for the wedding could be made because of the haste with which it was decided to make known the engagement, it is understood unofficially that the ceremony will be performed in two or three months. A day early in June is expected to be chosen. "Mother" Jones Deported. That-she was deported from Trinidad, whence she went to Denver, Colo.; that she never asked to see Governor Ammons, that she was accompanied to Denver by militia off she had been released, and that she expected to return to the strike zone soon, were points emphasized in statement made by "Mother" Mary Jones, noted strike leader, who had been a military prisoner at the San Rafael hospital, Trinidad, since Jan. 1. 1 Immediately after giving out the statement she left for the state house to call on Governor Ammons. General Chase stated that "Mother" Jones would be rearrested should she return to Trinidad. Church Choir Strikes Reproved from the pulpit by Rev Edward Gallinger, their pastor, who assorted their whispering and gossiping disturbed the service, the choir members of the Ryland M. E. church in Washington went on strike. Following the morning service, the twenty-four members of the choir went to the pastor and demanded that he apologize. They were additionally scored instead. Miss Mary C. Brewer, organist and choir leader, announced that there would be no more music in the church until a new pastor is appointed. She claims that the entire congregation is supporting the choir. DID YOU EVER READ YOUR OWN LETTERHEAD? Look it over. Is it old fashioned and out of date, or does it look "right?" If it doesn't to you, how does it look to other folks! Let us get up nice, bright, business getting letterhead for you The More Formality Wom. "You, sir," said the pale, youthful author, "I have come to ask you for your daughter's hand. She is fair as an illies, charming— "In that Mary you're talking about?" asked papa. "You, sir. It is a mere formality, I know, this asking for your daughter's hand, but we thought it would be pleasing to you if it were observed." Mary's papa stiffened. "And may I inquire, he asked, "who suggested that asking my consent to Mary's marriage was a mere formality?" "You may, sir," replied the young man simply. "It was Mary's mother." On the Safe Side. If you want to be pretty sure of clear weather up for a rainy day—"I'll硬盘取 Record. Marion--Sir, man washes his hair awful short, don't be? View--Yes, the reward--judge. SATURDAY.....MAR 26, 1914. ESSENTIALS FOR FARMING. Columella. a Spanish-Roman traveler and writer of the first century A. D. said that for successful farming just three things were essential—knowledge, capital and love for the calling. As true today as it was when written, the fact that knowledge is essential is too often lost sight of. Men who have succeeded in other lines of work or in none enter agriculture and fail for the lack of it, then christen it "hard luck." Had Columella been inclined to be a maker of epigrams he would probably have added to his statement that knowledge, capital and love for the calling are essential, the no less true statement that lack of the first in apt. to result in loss of the second and third.—Better Farming. --HELPS TO AGRICULTURE. Many Animals and Birds Are Good Friends of the Farmer. Predaceous animals and birds have an important function to perform in their capacity as natural enemies to crop destroying insects and pests, according to the biological survey of the department of agriculture. The annual damage to crops by insect and mammal pests in the United States now amounts to many millions of dollars, which is the result largely of the encroachment of new insect enemies and rodent pests and the destruction by man of the natural enemies of these crop destroying pests. If meadow mice were always present the red tailed hawk would rarely touch other food. It is when their normal food is source that predatory birds and animals are from necessity forced to take what they can find and thus become trespassers on man's property. The coyote and great horned owl in rabbit infested regions and in vineyards, orchards, meadows or gardens overrun by field mice are among the best friends of man, but on the other hand in thickly settled regions comparatively free from rabbits and mice both have to be summarily dealt with, as does the coyote in sections where sheep raising is an important industry. The mink is indefatigable in its search for meadow mice and other marsh loving rodents. The weasel, while individually it has acquired the poultry habit, is one of nature's most efficient checks upon the hordes of meadow mice and other rodent crop destroyers. The skunk readers important service by destroying immense numbers of mice, white grubs, grasshoppers, crickets, cutworms, hornets, wasps and other noxious forms. The badger is valuable in destroying ground squirrels, prairie dogs, gophers and other burrowing animals, and farmers should bear in mind that hawks and owls feed largely on noxious rodents and the larger insects, such as grasshoppers, crickets and May beetles. There are two kinds of hawks that should be kept in check—namely, the sharp skinned and Cooper variety, which feed almost entirely on wild birds and poultry. Device For Feeding Hogs. The illustration shows a handy hog feeder which will save the farmer much trouble. Make a tube with inch boards about three and a half feet. RANDY FOR FEEDING HOOS. high. Place this at middle of trough. Four swill through this tube, and you will not be bothered by the hogs in their eagerness to get the swill—American Agriculturist. Protable Chickens Chickens hatched out in February and March are the chickens that fill up the pocketbook. It is such chickens, too, that make the early fall pullets and lay eggs in November and December, when eggs soar in price. The Bister States. A curious inquirer wanted to know "What are the sister states?" and the brilliant country editor answered: "We are not quite sure, but we should judge that they are Miss Ourl. Ida He, Mary Land, Callie Fornia, Allie Bama, Loulas Anna, Della Ware, Minnie Seta and Mrs. Sippl"—Ladies' Home Journal. DO RIGHT NOW. "There are none so 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 enlist 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 classes. 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 officer of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., last 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 lodges and the members attached to the same, although he had no power over any but the Grand Lodge. The new constitution which requires a two-thirds vote to adopt was alleged to have been adopted. One test vote disclosed the fact that there were 51 ayes, 14 nays with 53 members of the Supremo 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 22 Supreme Representatives out of an elected membership of 90, all of whom had been in Baltimore to attend the session, but they were tired 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 $100. It was changed to $1440.00, an increase of $1340.00 per term. Arkansas' biennial tax was $100.00. It was changed to $1,126.20, an increase of $1,026.20. California's biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $65.25, an increase of $15.25. Colorado's biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $46.50 a decrease of $5.50, but as the membership increases will pass the $100 limit. The District of Columbia's biennial tax was $50.00. It was changed to $53.35, an increase of $8.35. Copy of Injunction. y of the Injunction granted the Grand of Virginia, at Washington, D. C., erred Monday, February 2, 1914. COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. an Equity Court. 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 Deeroe Was Entered Monday, February 2, 1914. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding an Equity Court. Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, a corporation, Plaintiff, vs. The Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, and others, Defendants. Equity No. 32281. to be heard upon the bill of complaint, therefore, the rule to show cause, and the operation thereof, this second day of art— ED and DECREED that the defendant their officers, agents and attorneys, if, be and they are hereby restrained, suit, or until the further order of the creating the fraternal chatter of the locked and from declaring or treating of Pythias, of the jurisdiction of from declaring or treating the lodges of the State of Virginia and the member not entitled to the rights and priver of the defendant corporation, and elsewhere to regard and treat such members as not so entitled; and from decree or enactment of the Supreme the charter of the plaintiff and to judge, of the jurisdiction of Virginia; declarations or letters addressed to the lodges and members of the order, dated or intended to carry into effect revocation of the plaintiff's fraternal Grand Lodge; and from setting to set up, within the State of more than the plaintiff, of the Knights the defendant corporation; and from on the assumption that the said Virginia has been dissolved or that revoked. ASHLEY M. GOULD Justice. Clerk. 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, 1914 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 tendency 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 disclosed; 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 the order of the defendant corporation, and from calling 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, importing 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. assessed biennially ($9,258.75) nine thousand, two hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents and the District Deputy Supreme Chancellors are not assessed as much as a penny. The new 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-estate, 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 acquire 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 us to the action of the majority at that time, but I feel my solemn duty to begin 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 with the sanction proves at Baltimore you will find an enormous deficit, you can only be met by who is interested and proper completion of the Order." (Seal) A TRUE COPY—Test J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. by F. E. Cunningham, Asst. Clerk. 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 Indianapolis, 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 pass-word. 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, Tennessee, Tennessee and Alabama. These six children, according to the figures above, will be W. I. Johnson, FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN. 10 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia. LARGE CAPACIOUS WARE-BOOMS, FILLED WITH THE RATING DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MANUFACTURING IN THE BEST STATES. PROMPT AND POLITE SERVICES. ORDERS REQUESTED TO DAY OR NIGHT. Determined to furnish the very BEST served at the LOWEST Rates possible, the Patronage of the Public is Solicited. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICIAN SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Tufton, Monroe—3087. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN SHAR Tufton, Monroe—3146. Special Attention Paid to the Talking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. has been hired and over-announced, 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. Haa 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 auspended by the Supreme-Chancellor and their charters 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 metes 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, when 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 Bunyan: "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 mos shall grow over my eyebrows, rather than violate my faith and my princlips." Reminded Hlm. Walter-Haven't you forgotten something, sir? Restaurant Patron-I'm glad you spoke of it. My wife told me not to spend any money foolishly, and I was just going to give you a tip.-Chicago News. Long Island. Long Island deserves its name. It is 130 miles long and twenty miles wide at its greatest breadth. Now, a hen will scratch around Over forty leagues of ground And holler, "Come and look at what I've found, found, found!" And a man is much the same With his thirst for empty fame, But a big jig fills his stomach, car- ing naught for praise or blame. Making an impressing front Is the human's favorite stunt. While a big dismises pretence with a grunt, grunt, grunt. No, his figure isn't trig. His mentality's not big. And he's apt to be untidy- still I always like a pig. — Lippincott's A Sinking Fund. "John," said the member of the Houewives' league, "what's a sinking fund? "A fund that isn't big enough to keep you about," answered John gloustly.— Buffalo Express. "You look annoyed. What's the matter?" "Else told me a secret the other day, and now I can't tell you what it is." "Why not?" Not Alone. "Dear me, Uncle Ephraim," exclaimed the bright western girl as she met the old gentleman in the hallway, "you don't know how surprised I am to see you. Did you travel all the way from the east alone?" "Naw," he replied, deeply offended at the question, as he put his carpeting down. "There were forty or fifty people on the same drain."—Exchange. Origin of "Bonfire." Stow, referring to the "beneffords" which the citizens of London were wont to make on the streets on "the vigils of festival days and on the same festival days in the ecuentas after the same setting every man bestowing" wword or labor towards them" and which were an occasion of feasting and merriment, says that "those were called beneffords as well of good amule amongst neighbours, that, being before at contourne, were there by the labours of others, reconciled, and made of bitter enemies, lounging friends, as also for the vertue that a great dread hath to purge the infection of the nyre" "London Globe. White and Negro. By natural increase the white population about triples itself in forty years, while the black doubles itself. Hence the latter must form an ever diminishing fraction of the whole population.—New York American. KIND WORDS Cross words are not as effective as kind ones. Would it not be wise if we cultivated more the art of kindly and gracious speech?. 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The vote to submit to the States a constitutional amendment to the Constitution of the United States, permitting women to vote was lost by a vote of 35 ayes and 34 noes. It required a two-thirds vote of the membership of the Senate to secure favorable action upon the resolution. This meant the affirmative vote of 64 senators. It will be seen then that the Woman Suffragists had 29 votes less than the number needed. Senator Vardaman of Mississippi did not lose the opportunity to emphasize his hostility to the colored people of the country. He offered an amendment to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment. This amendment was offered for the purpose of disfranchising the colored people of the United States. The vote on Senator Vardaman's amendment was rejected by a vote of 48 to 19. The Senators, voting in favor of repealing the Fifteenth Amendment included Senator Martin and Senator Swanson of Virginia. Their names are: Bryan, Florida; Gore, Oklahoma; James, Kentucky; Lea, Tennessee; Lee, Maryland; Martin Virginia; Myers, Montana; Overman, North Carolina; Ransdell, Louisiana; Reed, Missouri; Sheppard, Texas; Shields, Tennessee; Smith, Georgia; Smith South Carolina; Swanson, Virginia; Tillman, South Carolina; Vardaman, Mississippi; West, Georgia; Williams, Mississippi—19. Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi offered a resolution providing that only white women be permitted to vote. It was lost by a vote of 44 to 21. This ended the contention. It brought into the limelight the race question and showed just how many United States Senators were ready and willing to wipe from the Constitution the practical results of the War between the States. The colored folks may have a breathing spell for it has been demonstrated that with the Democratic Party in absolute control of the government, they are not able as yet to do positive injury to one of the kind, most paces of people on the face of the globe. ROANOKE (VA.) NEWS. Rev. C. D. Henderson, pastor of the Jerusalem Baptist Church has been called to 25rd Street Baptist Church, Newport News, Va. He preached his farewell sermon Wednesday, March 20th and will leave to take his charge the last of the week. Rev. W. K. Brown was called away Tuesday on the account of the illness of his brother. Dr. I. D. Burrell, the District Deputy Grand Chancellor, Knights of Pythias of Roanoke, Va. departed this His March 21st, at the Freedman's Hospital after serious illness of 11 days. His death was a shock to the community. He was quiet, peaceful citizen, always ready to give advice. He was the founder of Pythians here and member of Roanoke Lodge, No. 51, of which he was Master of Exchequer for about six years. He was devoted to his ledge. A chair is vacant in our lodge room which will never be filled. We bow in humble submission to Him who does all things well. He leaves a widow, father and two brothers. His funeral was prescheduled Tuesday 24th at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, by Rev. L. L. Downing, which will long be remembered by his hearers, in which he portrayed his life. Music by the choir. The profession of the beautiful flowers were silent testimonials of the loving regard in which the deceased was held. Funeral director W. F. Hughes Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. made a hurry call to Romansk in honor of Dr. L. D. Burrell. We regret that he could not stay to the funeral but on the account of previous engagement in Dauville he left at 12:10. Rev. Thomas White, Grand Prelate, of Clifton Forge, C. C. S. G. Paterson of Lynchburg, D. C. Johnson, D. G. C. of Peachtree, Va. were here to attend the funeral of Dr. L. D. Burrell. All Knights of Pythias are requested to assemble Sunday even. 2 P. M. at Pythian Castle, Sunday, March 29th. All the Courts will meet in the basement of First Baptist Church. Moser Frank Dalyon and John W. Jerrifles are at their bed at Boston Theatre with sons. Don't Tease the Boys." Colorest Man Lynched by Mob Accused of Attacking White Woman Sixty Years Old. Clanton, Ala., March 21. Charles Young, a Colored man, was lynched to night two miles from town by a mob of caruged citizens, and several bullets were fired into the swifling body as the crowd dispersed. Young was accused of attacking Mrs. Anderson Wilson, a white woman, sixty years old, early to day. It is charged he afterwards robbed the house, beat the woman and threaten to kill her. The negro escaped. Bloodhounds failed to follow his tracks, as he used turpentine to kill the scent. Young was captured this afternoon near Mapleville, Ala., by a posse of officers. The local people were immediately aroused and threats of lynching were made openly. A call was sent to Governor O'Neal for troops, and a company was hurried from Montgomery by special train. Before the posse of officers with the colored man could reach Clinton, and before the troops' arrived the mob of citizens took possession of the colored man and lynched him. Mrs. Wilson is in a critical condition. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Another Court in Danyille—Grand Worthy Counsel Mitchell Org anize—Fine Initiation. Danyille, Va.; March 24.—Grand Worthy Counsel John Mitchell, Jr. organized a Court of the Order of Calanthe here this afternoon. There was a full attendance of members at Clalborne St. Hall, where the initiation took place. Dr. A. A. Tennant of Richmond examined the candidates while Col. Thomas M. Crump performed the clerical work for him. There were many visitors present. The officers filling the chairs were: Grand Worthy Counselor, John Mitchell, Jr., or Richmond, Va.; G. W. Inspector, Mrs. S. J. Holbrook; G. W. Orator, Mrs. Rachel Pritchott; G. W. Regist r of D., Mrs. P. M. B Hodge; G. W. S. D., Mrs. Iabella Betts of Sutherllins, Va.; G. W. J. D. Mrs. Fannie Coleman of South Boston, Va.; G. W. Conductress, Mrs. Mabel Hill; G. W. Aset, Con., Mrs. Rosa Robinson; G. W. Escort, Mrs. A. H. Lee; G. W. Herald, Lottie L. Wade; G. W. P., Mrs. Mary Oliver. The initiation was quickly performed. At its conclusion, the Grand Worthy Counselor installed the following officers: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Frances Kirby; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Atha Cunningham; W. Inspectrix Mrs. Fannie Wilson; Worthy Orator, Mrs. Maggie James; Registrar of Doeds, Mrs. Salilie C. Taylor; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Fannie Hampton; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Ella Carter; Sonior Directress, Mrs. Annie Wilson; Junior Directress, Mrs. Martha A. Hill; Conductress, Mrs. Carrie Palmer; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Dorra Burton; Escort, Mrs. Fannie Carter; Herald, Miss Lila James; Protector, Mrs. Carrie Neal. Trustees, Sir Thomas Wade, Mrs. Maud Mitchell, Mrs. Rachel Day. Grand Worthy Counselor Mitchell commended Miss L. Lockott and Mrs. Florence L. Wilson highly for their work in organizing the club. He appointed Mrs. Wilson District Deputy for North Danille. Refreshments were served and the party left for Loyal St. Baptist Church to attend the grand mass meeting. Massage of Progress Mr. T. C. Williams of Lynchburg in the March number of the Virginia Journal of Education: Because of the countless number of steps in the ladder of program, there are many whose preparations from a vantage point, up the ladder it may be discerned, is not complete. They embody themselves in the great work of uplift, and respond to the emergencies that call them forth. And a glance beneath them will not maintain their inability to supply the needs of those whose demands equal the measure of their attainments. The community in which they labor, as well as the special part of it to which they devote themselves are co-debtors to messengers of progress, for while they are rendering service for the advancement of the one, their work of correction and amelioration is lessening the burdens of the other. The Mechanics Saving North-West Cor. Third Messengers of progress, really reconcile those qualities in those with whom they labor deserving praise, and with the same liberality of judgment, quickly consider those tendencies worthy of djadain to the realm of toleration until discretion dreams an unpleasant feasible. Obstacles are found to be an asset. The waits of opposition which to the uninitiate appear insurmountable are to them opportunities for testing their stamina, for they are compelled to caccour them and thus turn them into blessings. Teachers in the rural districts benefit mostly through opposition. It is they who must bear the burden which becomes lighter as the method of rectification which they disseminate makes them grocer. It is they who fortify themselves with the weapon of responsibility, which successfully resists and finally vanquishes the obstruction monster which at times becomes formidable. It is they who hold themselves responsible as accessories before the combination of deeds, which give pleasure, and after the commission of deeds which give pain. It is they who recognize accountability by manner of speech, way of carriage, and oftentimes by the painful severance of tendons which while not, perhaps, personally degrading, are yet of doubtful assistance to those whose institutions are not fixed. Financial remuneration is of secondary importance in comparison to the emountment received from a sat-liked confidence. These messengers yearn for service that will afford the greatest good to the greatest number. Their sympathy is with the uneducated muses in whose interest they summon all their powers to accelerate the march forward. Forsooth, they should be emulated rather than piloted for through the public spirit be apathetic and the sphere of action isolated, through perseverance they find ample scope for the exercise of their real. The majority of messengers of progress enter the field of uplift for what they consider their life work, while others use it as a vehicle to趴伏 of higher service. But to all is given a talent, and it behooves them to enlarge its influence so that when the good man returns, he will hostow upon each one the ancient bondedion of gratitude: "Well done, then good and faithful servant." Zlontown Lodge Celebrates Anniversary of the Order. Full report of the anniversary exercise held by Zlontown Lodge, No. 184, held at Quichon Baptist Church will be printed in next week's issue. Mrs. Alice Edwards of Pen Hook Va. is here in the Memorial Hospital. She is improving. Mr. J. S. Burton of Oberlin, O. is in the city this week. He called on us. Great Fire in South Richmond. First Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. Blinga, pastor, for eight days or more we have been in midst of a great revival conducted by the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, better known as the "Singing Evangelist." For nearly forty-two years I have been the honored pastor of this church and people and have had a number of brethren to help us in these special meetings, who rendered most excellent services but never have we had a more efficient helper, than this our Brother Skipwith. And as an "Evangelist" I have never heard a more scriptural, preacher in my life, he is really an orthodox. The fire of the Holy Spirit is really burning in and about our church; thus far there are more than sixty conversions, with seventy or more anxious souls. "Crying Lord save me." Our brother proaches his farewell sermon for us Sunday night next, March 29th, after which we hope to be able to report more than one hundred conver-ions. Farmville (Va.) News. Rev. Adams received the intellige- gence from Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. of the death of Dr. J. D. Burrell of Roanoke, Va. Medical Register of Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia. The said intelligence was quite shooting to the K. of P. Courts of Calanthe and the many friends here. The Public School term here will be extended six or eight weeks longer this year than it has been for several years. This speaks well for the princi- cal. Mr. H. Coleman, his teachers and patrons. Our people are begin- ning to learn if their children are to be educated in the future; they are to do more along the financial line. They can see the affairs of the government are rapidly passing into the hands of the young white man who does not seem to take the same interest in our people as did the white man years gone by. Something must be done by us to show this young white man of to-day that we are worthy of his consideration and that he should see to it that we get the proper consideration before the law in this country. Now, the question is, what should we do? In answer to this we would say, we should better our condition morally, mentally, financially and spiritually. When this is done it will not be so hard to get the proper consideration along all lines in every avenue of life as well as before the courts of the land. Rev. J. W. Harmon of the A. M. B. Church will preside his farewell harmon on 19th of April. PAYING TELLER A DOLLAR BANKED IS A DOLLAR SAVED UNTIL YOU NEED IT CHANCE OF A LIFETIME presents itself. All that is needed is a little cash. It is the man who has BANKED HIS SAVINGS who can take the immediate advantage. START AN ACCOUNT TODAY. If you already have an account add to it and be prepared for the business opportunities that are often offered you. Hippodrome THEATRE Week March 30th. Wednesday and Thursday, April 1st and 2nd BIG FEATURE PICTURES ORIGINAL RAGS. Extemperancee Comedian. MURIEL RINGGOLD in Comedy, Songs and Dances. THE HILLMANS, Refined Singers and Dancers. Two Performances each, evening. Deers Open at 7:30. Come early ADMISSION, 10 and 20cats. ORIGINAL RAGS. MURIEL RINGGOLD In Ceme THE HILLMANS, Refined S Two Performances each evening. Dale ADMISSION, 10. home on last Sunday P.M. from Pittsburg, Pa., where she has been visiting friends some time. The citizens are anxiously awaiting for the date when the Two Reverends, J. W. Harmon and R. G. Adams shall discuss the question, Resolved. That It is Prejudice Against Color and Not the Condition of the Negro. Which Debars Him From Enjoying Equally the Civic, Political and Religious Rights in This Country." Rev. Harmon's members are quite jubilant when they think what a walk-over their pastor is going to have. Rey. Adams' flock is just waiting so they can say, "We came, saw and we conquered." The writer of this article is going to wait and hear what the judges say. It looks like one of the judges will be from Lynchburg, Va., another may come from Richmond and the third one from Farmville. However, we will wait and see. Nogro in American History. Traces status of the Negro from discovery, colonization and settlement to the close of the Revolution. Evolution of Citizenship to 20th Century. Also biographical sketches of eminent men and women as illuminating sidelights. 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Federal reinforcements sent out from Torrion to help the troops, attempting to hold Gomez Palacio have been driven back in utter rout. Villa's forces are starving Torrion under cover of a heavy artillery fire directed by General Fellpe Angles, minister of war in the Constitutionalist cabinet. It is believed that more than 1500 men have been killed or wounded since the battle began, though accurate figures are unavailable at this time. Several of the Federal trenches around Torreon have been taken by the rebels. All of General Villa's 12,000 men are assailing General Velasco's troops, which number 2000. General Villa is in personal command of the attacking troops. The rebels suffered heavy losses when they attacked the retreating Federals as they crossed the Nazas river to get behind the fortifications of Torreon. Trying to outflank General Argomedo's troops, the rebels were checked by a heavy fire from machine guns stationed on the south bank of the river. 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Colonel John Seely, British secretary of state for war, promised in the house of confederation in London that he would lay on the table all the material and written documents having to do with the recent movement of troops in Ireland, which would clear up the whole mystery of the crisis among the officers of the army. Colonel Seely, for this promise, when he was asked by a member to confirm or deny the statement that a written assurance had been given to Brigadier General Hilbert Gough that the troops would not be used to force home rule upon Ulster. Premier Asquith announced that the documents would include the written instructions to General Sir Arthur Paget, commander-master of the royal forces in Ireland. This action, said Premier Asquith, would give the members of commons an opportunity to discuss the army situation from all angles. 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The Unionists agree with the Nation allists that danger of an armed clash has passed for the present at least, and they attribute the pacific conditions to the wholesale resignations of army officers. King George has assumed a role of activity and authority in the present situation unknown in the limited monarchy for many decades. It is reported that the king has placed the following program before the cabinet for the concentration of all factions in Ireland: That Ulster counties be given an additional six years, making twelve in all, during which they might be set closed from the operations of the home rule bill. THE RICHMOND PLANET; RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. That all army officers who resigned when civil war in Ulster seemed invitable he taken back without loss of merit. BOY BATTLES WITH POLICE Lad Found in Gun Shop Fights Until Badly Wounded. After a battle with the police, during which more than fifty shots were exchanged, Ernest McWilliams, aged fifteen years, of Terre Haute, Ind, surrendered when his clothing was saturated with blood from his many wounds. The boy was caught in the gun shop of Edward Hazel, and when he was called upon to surrender replied with shots. While the police armed themselves McWilliams barricaded himself in an automobile in the store, and kept up a continuous fire. All the windows panes in the store were broken and the automobile was riddled with bullets from the policemen's riot guns. After being wounded many times, McWilliams screamed that he would give himself up, and staggered out of the store. He was sent to a hospital and his condition is serious. Five loaded revolvers were found in the boy's pockets and he had placed a number of loaded rifles and shot guns in the automobile. Negro's Head Is Bullet Proof. 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A lone automobile bandit hold up the Union bank, in the center of Altoona, Pa. shot the cashier and a patron of the bank, jerrotized the people passing by and escaped in his car with $2882. It was at the noon hour, when scores of people were on the streets, that the bandit, a young man, rode up in an automobile and entered the bank. There was no one at the paying teller's window, and he walked up to it as though to cash a check. Suddenly he drew a revolver and shoved it into the face of Teller Burton, and demanded the bank's money. Burton ducked behind the counter. The stranger climbed to the ledge of the counter, valued over the iron screen and landed inside. Cashier A. P. Rupert turned in his chair just as the robber fired, the bullet striking him in the abutton. Ruport and a bookkeeper, Mrs. Oscar Shaffer, escaped through a door to the cellar, while Burton lay concealed in a corner. The robber was gathering into a satchel the loose bills he found on the teller's counters when Mr. Blackburn, a patron of the bank, came in to have a check cashed. The robber heard the door close and fired. Blackburn fell with a bullet through his thigh. Apparently fearing to remain longer in his search for money, the bandit opened the door to the teller's cage from the inside and walked boldly into the street. Many persons were passing at the tide. They were thrown into a panic when the robber opened fire in every direction, chasing everybody to cover. Then he jumped into his automobile and dashed off Eighth avenue, disappearing before any attempt could be made to stop him. The robber is described as being about twenty-five years old, of medium height and with a smooth face. He wore no mask. Prior to his raid upon the bank the bandit entered the garage of the Mountain City Taxicab company and, jumping into a taxicab, drove it out the door while the chauffeur was at dinner. 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Dutton, sixty-two years old, professor of mathematics and civil engineering at Allegheny college in Meadville, Pa., fell dead in the street from heart disease. Dr. Dutton served as president of Allegheny college in 1909-10. Didn't Like His Head. Manager - My stock in trade is broken. Principal Girl - You've got a funny looking sample case. C. I. M. Professor Peck Commits Suicide. Harry Thurston Peck, a former professor of Columbia university in New York city, who was sued for $50,000 for alleged breach of promise by Miss Eather Quinn in 1910, committed suicide in Stamford, Conn., by blowing out his brains with a revolver. Professor Peck, who was formerly an authority on the romance languages and literature, had been living in Stamford for some time. Peck retired to his room immediately after luncheon. His landlady heard a shot and upon investigation found the educator lying in a pool of blood, white revolver at his side. Professor Peck had been ill for a considerable time. 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A recent investigation at the state supreme court for the blind showed that at least 25 per cent of the children would not be blind had they been properly treated at birth. 20 Years For Woman's Assailant. Merrine W. Elzey, the seventeen-year-old colored boy, who was charged with attempted assault on Mrs. Horace Messick, a white woman, of Nantucket, last October, pleaded guilty to the court in Salisbury, Md., and was sentenced by Judge. Stanford to serve twenty years in the Maryland penitentiary. Susan Indian School Clerk as Embazierie B. J. Nori, chief cherk of the Carlisle Indian school, was arrested in Carlisle, Pa., Friday on a charge of embezling $1000 from the school. Mr. Friedman, superintendent, of the Indian school, brought the suit. Wilson Must Go to Prison, Says Court. That E. Graham Wilson, a wealthy farmer of Charleston, W. Va., must serve fourteen years in the West Virginia penitentiary, was decided by the supreme court of appeals in Charleston. Wilson was convicted of a crime against Miss Kate Turner, who was a guest at his country home. SIX SATURDAY.....MARCH 28, 1914. Scrap Book Wise Old Dad. The young fellow felt moved to protest to his father. He had a sneaking ambition to be a rounder himself, but he didn't think that a chap's dong ought to be in for that sort of thing, and what he had heard was worrying him a good deal. He approached the subject diffidently. "Sure, old fellow. Sit down and have a cigar. Now fire ahead." "Well, I bear that you have put your name up for membership in the Afraid to Go Home club." "That's right. It's a fine club, everybody tells me—comfortable, congenial, and all that." "Um! But way, didn't you know that it was the sportiest club in town?" "Well then, excuse me, dad, but what do you want to join for?" "I'll tell you. I want to be a member so that I can blackball you when you apply. And I'm on the list ahead of you. Do you get me? Have another cigar? Goodbye!" - Cleveland Plain Dealer The Second Mile. Has it been a year lot of time? One who greets you kindly and sweet, One who greets you on the street With a smile Have you found a friend, expressed, Oliving all at love a heart? And who goes without request One more smile Do you give that extra touch? Have a favorite smile? But a pleasure wished for much And worth, while Do you add sweet grace and charm, Lend refusal something tame. Go in spirit, arm in arm. One more smile 'Tis the little acts my friend Simple arts which offenses blend Happiness with decis and lend Grace and style. Wealth and fame are poor beside Such a charm, and valu is pride. Love will ever prompt and guide One more mile. *Charles L. H. Wagner.* Too Many For the Bear. One of the bosses at Blank's Locomotive works had to lay of an argumentative Irishman named Pat, so he saved discussion by putting the discharge in writing. The next day Pat was missing, but a week later the boss was passing through the shop, and he saw him again at his lathe. Going up to the Irishman, he demanded merely: "Didn't you get my letter?" "Tia, sur, OI did." said Pat. "Did you read it?" "Sure, sur, OI read it inside and OI read it outside," said Pat. "and on the inside yes said OI was tired, and on the outside yes said, 'Return to Blank's Locomotive works in the days.'"—Lipincott. Talking Shoes Like the native Africans the south sea islanders are very proud if they can get hold of a pair of European shoes. They are especially gratified if they acquire a pair that squeak, or, as the Africans call them, shoes that talk. A story is told of a south sea islander who went into church with shoes merrily a squeak. He walked proudly to the front and, removing the shoes, dropped them out of the window so that his wife might also have the pleasure of coming in with "talking" shoes—East and West. They Got In. Thoroughly convinced that he was a man about town in the most terrific sense of the phrase, he was wont to act accordingly. "Yes, Jake's joint is closed," he remarked one night to a friend from out of town, "but—follow me! I can get you in there, all right, even though it is long after hours. Just follow me, and don't say a word." Butably impressed, the tenderfoot fell into step. They paused before the dark, hidden side door of a well known restaurant. From within came jinking of music, popping of corks, laughter-all the assorted, expressions of night life in a great city. The man about town, cautioning his friend to stand back and be very quiet, tapped on the side door. No answer. Another tap. Then a wafter threw the door open. "Say, Jim," whispered the man about town. "Just go and tell Jake to come here a moment, will you?" Exit Jim. "It'll be all right," murmured the man about town. The tenderfoot felt convinced that he was seeing metropolitan life in its brutal rawness. Jake, the proprietor, presently appeared from somewhere in the fascinating interior of his restaurant and stepped to the side door. "It's me, Jake. Can we get in?" asked the man about town in a hoarse, horrible whisper. "Burn," answered Jake, "but for the love of Mike why didn't you walk right in through the front door? It's open." Brake Up the Game. While finally persuaded his aunt to play train with him, the chairs were arranged in line, and he issued orders: "Now you be the engineer, and I'll be the conductor. Lend me your watch, and get up into the cab." Then he hurried down the platform, timepiece in hand. "Pull out, there, you met Braided, pale faced Jay!" he shouted. "Why, Willie!" his aunt exclaimed in amusement. "That's right; chew the rag!" he retorted. "Pull out! We're five minutes late already." They have had to forbid his playing down by the tracks.—Everybody's. HIS FIRST HONORS. They Were Political and Came With a Queer Sort of Compliment. At a dinner party in Washington the other night Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, told how he came to receive his first political honors. "I had been a worker in the vineyard for a long time," he said, "and had never sought or expected any preferment from the party organization. I was just a good working Democrat. When Mr. Bryan began to encourage a public man and as a Democratate leader I got interested in him and became one of his champions and supporters. I became an ardent free silver man and a believer in unlimited collage at the table of 10 to 1." "When it was time to select delegates to the Democratate national convention at Chicago in 1881 there was a fellow in my town who wanted to be sent as a delegate mighty badly. He went around to the state chairman to see what he could do. "Jim,' he said. I want to be sent as one of the delegates to Chicago. "Well," said the chairman, "how do you stand on free silver? "Oh, well. I guess I rocked. I be have in it all right, but I didn't no fool about it. "Well," answered the chairman, "you can't go." "So they sent me," concluded Daniels. "New York Post." Fight On. Let the man who has to make his fortune remember this maxim. Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it best you sometimes dare it again, and it will succumb. The way. One Enough For Him Cubbins in London are laughing over a recent conversation between a weather expert and a cabinet minister. The minister complained about the other's weather forecasts not always being reliable, and the reply was that weather forecasting would be much easier if it were known more definitively the sort of weather that was happening in the Atlantic. "Now," said the apt. "If only we had fortified out in the Atlantic, another island like Ireland." "Heaven forbid!" calculated the minister, who had been greatly harassed over the home rule dispute. Brought Phil May to Time Phil May, the most geniuses, was erratic, and it was not easy to get him to deliver his drawings on time. Our Michael Thomas, who had commissioned some special drawings for the Lon- PHIL MAY IN THE SPECIAL NUMBER of the GRAPHIC HE GOT ANOTHER JOLT. don Graphic, secured their delivery in a strikingly original and highly successful way. When May woke up in the morning he found a company of sandwich men pacing up and down before his sat carrying boards that announced Phil May drawings in a special number of the Graphic. Wherever May went that day the sandwich men followed him. When he chartered a hammock they chartered hammocks, and finally, as May told the story, he was driven to taking the first train down to the seaside. When he arrived there he got another jolt, for the first thing that met his eyes were the Graphic sandwich men parading outside his hotel. He went inside, sat down and finished the drawings. Thus 'importunity and Carmichael Thomas conquered.' As Innocent Victor Watson, on information and belief, alleges that Frank Thompson, son of the late Kennan Thompson, is singularly unspotted by contact with this more or less soulful world. The other night Thompson was approached upon the street by an old friend of his father. "Ah, air," said the stranger, "many's the time I've seen your dear old dad play in 'The Old Homestead.' Greatest actor that ever lived, air! Don't deny it." "He and me," said the stranger earnestly, "were the greatest jaws." Mr. Thompson was politely interested. The stranger contained at some length. Then he bade Thompson goodby. "Er," said he after shaking hands, "I hate to mention it, but could you slip me a buck?" "A buck!" queried Mr. Thompson vaguely. "Certainly. But how much is a buck?" "Three dollars," said the stranger.—New York Gold. FURY BROKE LOOSE. Tourists in Milan Thought It Means Wholehearted Appreciation. "There is something most reckless to the colder northern races in the exoticable and volatile Latinas," said George Hamlin recently. "We had a delightful exhibition of this quality when we first reached Milan. We entered a café celebrated as much for the artists who frequent it as for its excellent culine and had badly given our order when our attention was attracted to a nearby table, where two others were engaged in what was evidently a very serious discussion. "Presently the voices grew louder and more passionate, and the two men looked positively violent as they half rose from their seats and glared at each other feriously across the table. We became decidedly unasy. Vendettas, stilters and such Italian术enomies are all picturesque enough in grand open, but we did not care to have our dinner punctuated with deeds of commerce. "In the meantime all the other dimers had stopped eating and were gazing with interest toward the scene of education. Gradually they abandoned cell phones altogether and came over to take photos with the disputants. I loved the waiters forks their posts and after bed themselves to one side on the other. Surely we thought anxiously 'this quarrel must involve the house of the whole nation.'" "By this time the din was fearful. A sense of more of excited men were shouting at each other across the small table, brandishing furious fists in each other's faces and looking like blood-shed and murder. Our soup cooked un-tasted before us; our appetite had vanished. We clung to our chairs, too terror strained to the fire for our lives, even though we felt a desperate convulsion that a massacre was at hand and our minutes were numbered." "Finally one of the crowd pounded on the table vigorously and yelled some insults which sounded like a puck of the jackets exploding. There was an instant's science, and then the whole lot of them, waiters and all, bolted out the front door. "We breathed an immensurable relief. At least the scene of slaughter was transferred and our skins were safe. Just then our waiter reluctantly returned, though he made it plain that his duty to us was a decided bore. "Way it a fond, a vendetta? we asked, and can't the police stop them before they kill each other? "And the waiter replied in his own poggy brand of English. 'It be onew that they not agree which be the shortest road to La Seal, and so half they go one way and half they go the other to make it prove.'" Argonaut. True Success Is Unselfish. It is indeed one of the highest rewards of success if one understands what success means to be in the way of putting others on the same road.—H. W. Mabie A Great Catcher. Big Em Gross was once the star catcher of the National league and perhaps the heaviest hitting catcher that ever denounced a glove. Em was a great catcher, a wonderful thrower and a grand hitter, but he had his weakness, and that was in catching foul flies. He tried for everything in sight, ran circles around the ball and sometimes speared it, but he never felt at ease when one of those tall twisting tools went up. He was catching in Providence one day when a Philadelphia batter poked up a gry that looked 500 feet high. There was a wild blowing, and the B. BLAIR ball begin to twirl around in circles, with IAm doing a merry go round under it. Finally, soothing that it was escaping, he made a desperate effort to turn quickly and fell flat on his back. Instinctively he threw up his feet and hands to protect his face. The ball struck the side of his shoe, then it bounded up into the air, and as it fell again Em reached out and caught it. And next morning the Providence papers had the nerve to say he did it on purpose. Chicago Tribune ORCHARD OCCASIONALS An Orange range bidge is an ideal breeding place for San Jose scale. Judicious pruning is one of the secrets in growing good grapes. Pears are adapted to a clay soil, peaches to a sandy soil, while apples do best on a light loamy soil. If you have a poor seedling pear or apple tree it may be entirely made over by top grafting. The young trees should be banked with earth, which will keep water from settling about them. An orchard will live longer, bear better and be more profitable by being well cultivated and enriched. Keep the orchard land in good tilth. The trees can be set as soon as the front leaves the ground. 14222 Collet, the mattress of draperies, has made a new skirt, plaited into fullness over the hips and then held down with tassel trimming, which bids fair to become a bird's fad. It is shown here with a short jacket with kimono sleeves to the wrist. The suit is in grape brown nocturne satin. ```markdown ``` MANDARIN CRAPE FROCK Papain designed. this afternoon rock of mandarin crape, with collar of selin folded about the neck in cowboy fashion, and the flounces ultra Parisian of 1816. The back girdle is draped, while the upward flare and the full back of the skirt are also in the mode. GAY COLORS FOR SPRING. As it should be with spring fashions, bright colors are popular. This may be due to the crise for futurist innovations, this school of art being the advocate of gayey in attire. Under these circumstances it is likely to be a trying time for the woman who has no eye for color, for some of the combinations are bizarre in the extreme and must be adapted to suit individual requirements. Speed of Birds According to C. A. Mitchell, the speed of birds is often greatly overrated. The swift, for instance, has been credited with a speed of 180 miles an hour, and the popular imagination compares the flight of a sparrow hawk with that of a cannon ball. Independent of aid from the wind, Mr. Mitchell thinks forty miles an hour is about the fall speed of a good plane flying a long distance. The homing pigeon can be raised on under fairly easy conditions to make sixty miles an hour, considerably more. On a short course a sparrow hawk can catch a booster, but the sparrow hawk frequently falls to catch smaller birds that form its prey—London Express. ```markdown ``` This dainty dance frock is frilled with lustrous pussy willow taffeta in bermuda pink, velvet with shadow face. Fink is used in the chiffon of the corsage, deeper pink in the velvet girdle, with pink on the twinkling feet. OF MISSISSIPPI LAKE This hat is made of net lace inter- mixed with a fancy braid of horse- hair. A single ribbon band' and two leaves emphasise the tilt to the side. ```markdown ``` BACK TO FLOORCER Old fashioned doubles have come back with the mode of the spring, and what material is ideal for this use is machine embroideries? Have built it combined with roes. BROWN BROWN Speakers at Jubilee Funeral Director, Embassy RICHMOND, Warwickshire, 829 N. 17th St. Boudreaux Bay, Richmond, Hall Per Rent, $1.04 Per Meeting. Mesh Service, Tea. Hooks for Bath, Marriages and Occupations. Residence Phones, Monroe-847-2. White Phone, 829 429-Man On Duty All Night. PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and Most Artistic Photos, at a Mime Midwife Figure then you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. Behanging and Copying Interior View Work. We will also be Planned to Quote you Private an Interior and from Old Photos, A Specially. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. THE CURSE OF DRINK. THE Prohibitionist with me With pain his breakfast viewed. "I cannot stay here, air," said he "For all these prunes are stewed." —Cincinnati Enquirer. At luncheon I was very sure His palate would be tickled. Said he: "Such aights I can't endure. These wretched beets are pickled." —Seattle Post-Intelligence. When dinner came I felt at ease. With good things we were housed. But he refused some nice hair cheese. Because the stuff was soused. —Indianapolis Star. I took him to a night cafe To make him drink a cup Of coffee, but he ran away. The place we will hit up. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I took him to the seaside gay He said, "Even though I paints, I cannot take a dip today. For fear of diphonania." —Birmingham Age-Herald. I took him home to dine one night. He left us on the run. Exclaiming: "What a dreadful sight! The butter's on a bun!" Detroit Free Press. He entered in a restaurant. But from it quickly shrank. Explaining to the waiter, "Mr. Your coffee isn't a link!" Kansas City Star. Wings of the Bat. The wings of bats are merely hands. The fingers are very long and joined by a membrane similar to that of a duck's foot, only thinner. This membrane is extended up the arm, along the body and down to the legs and tail. The thumb is very short and its nail is extended to form a hook or claw. Why Firemen Hurry Little Ross, aged seven, had been around the corner inspecting the fire station. He came home to tell his mother of what he had seen there. He said: "And, mamma, even if they are just in the middle of sweeping the floor, they drop the broom and rush off to the fire, and even in the night time when they are in bed if the bell rings they jump up and dress and go to the fire, 'cause if they didn't do that when they got there the fire would be all out.'" - Dblineator. Clute 50. "Here's a girl says college students should be treated as if they were weak minded." "There goes the old mistake of judging a man by his clothes."—Louisville Courter-Journal. Reached Too Far. "Tea," said the bankrupt, "I lost my fortune receiving for an ideal." "Very interesting And what was your ideal?" "A bigger fortune than I had"—Philadelphia Leader. But He Didn't Go, Even Then. "I wish I could read your thoughts," he said. "So do I," she replied, with a half stifled yawn. "It's so unpleasant sometimes to have to say what one thinks."—Chicago Record Herald. As He Saw It. "What's most liable to get broke about your automobile?" "The owner" replied Chuggins. -Livingstone Lance. in the Matter of Living. In the matter of living. Two economical persons can easily live as cheaply as one spendthrift—Toledo Blade. BE NEIGHBORLY BUY A HOME AND KEEP YOUR MONEY HERE A Dog's Life. Some men would be perfectly content to lead a dog's life if they could pick the dog—Albany Journal. Love and a Lawyer. Love will push a man into maternity, but it takes a lawyer to pull him out—Chicago News. Cause For Tears. "Do you ever weep over a story?" "Sometimes—when I got it back from the publishers."—Houston Post. You Know What You Are Doing. Other People May Not. Tell Them Through an Advertise-ment In This Paper. A Light View. Willie—Pa, what is a luncheon? Father—The feminine for lunch, my son. Woman's Home Companion. Different. "Has your wife gone shopping?" "Ana, I'm afraid not! I'm afraid she's gone buying."—Boston Transcript. CHITMAN M. WHITE, Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Bustily the Lover on the Biggest Kind of Biltmore. Special Pride We Have All Garden of Good Lig ngeen, Figure and Fashion, Call and See Us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 R. Broad St., She Suggested a Reason. A noted Sunday school worker living in Kansas was once asked to talk to the children of a Sunday school on the subject of temperance. He is very earnest in the cause and wear a bit of blue ribbon as a badge of his principles. Riding before the school, he pointed to his bit of blue ribbon and said "Now, can any of you children give me a reason why I am not a drunkard?" There was no reply for a moment. Then a childish little voice in the rear of the room piped out, "Cause this is a prohibition town." HAPPY THOUGHTS Make for yourselves needs of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fair palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts, proof against all adversity, bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts.—Ruskin. All the Same to Him. It was the husband's afternoon off, and he thought he would take the children for a little outing. "My dear," he said to his wife, "suppose we take the children to the zoo today." "Why dear, you promised to take them to mother's." "All right, if all the same to the children, Lolita's Home Journal. The Echo Willie- Paw, was Lobo a woman? Paw- Yes, my son. Echo always has the last word. Tearful. Many a friend will shed a tear who will not shed a dollar.—New Orleans Picayune. A Famous Old English Church. The Church of St. Botolph in Boston, England, is a long, low, decorated building, with, a high perpendicular tower surmounted by an octagonal lantern, locally known as Boston Stump. The tower is 300 feet high. The light and spacious interior has very lofty arches resting on slender pillars. The church is said to have many doors as days in the week as many windows, as weeks in the year, as many pillars as months in the year and as many steps up to its tower as days in the year. The Milliner-Run fast, boy! Get that delivered before it's out of style!—Life. Sailor and Soldier. What is the difference between a sailor and a soldier? One tars his ropes, and the other pitches his tent. Conscience. Conscience makes almost as many cowards as the dread of being found out—Philadelphia Record. Knowledge. Before venturing to give an excuse consider whether you would take it—Alhany Journal. Uncompromisory. Howell—I'm a man of paris. Powell—Most of them seem to be missing. Exchange. George Westinghouse Sucumbs to Heart Trouble. Was President and Founder of Great Electric Company and Inventor of Air Brake. George Westinghouse, sixty-seven years old, president and founder of the Westinghouse, Machine and Electric company, with home offices in Pittsburgh, Pa., died in New York. He had been confined to his bed for some time. A member of Mr. Westinghouse's staff said that he had been suffering with a heart complaint for over three months. Later it grew worse, and on Monday last he had a relapse, that left him weak. Had George Westinghouse achieved nothing more than the invention of the airbrake, his name would have taken rank with those of great American inventors. But he has done more—much more—along the lines of controlling electrical current, utilizing various natural forces for commercial purposes, both generally and specifically, and has built up in the course of a long lifetime of intense activity so vast a business, here and in Europe, that his name is written indelibly on the world's tablets of fame. Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1846, the son of George Westinghouse and Emmeline Vedder Westinghouse. His father was the proprietor of the New York Agricultural works, at Schenectady, and from almost the age of ten George, Jr., was an earnest and eager "worker" in his parent's shops. When the Civil War broke out young Westinghouse enlisted in the United States volunteers, with which he served from June, 1863, to November, 1864. He then became an assistant engineer in the United States navy, in which capacity he served until August, 1865. He experimented first with a railroad frog, which turned out a success. The air-brake came next. It is said the idea dawned when he personally saw two freight trains collide head-on, although this point is not definitely anthenticaed. Westinghouse next applied the compressed air principle to railroad switches and then to signals with such success that even the unwilling Commodoro Vanderbilt was forced to recognize the value of "wind" properly applied. Vanderbilt Riches to Wife and Child The will of George W. Vanderbilt as filed for probate in New York city, leaves his entire estate, estimated at $20,000,000, to his widow and only daughter, Cornellia. Minor bequests providing anputter agregating $5500 a year are made in favor of certain relatives. Theor are no public bequests. Biltmore, Mr. Vanderbilt's world is mous estate in North Carolina, is left to his daughter, Cornellia, who is now twelve years old. She also receives $5, 000,000 in cash and is made residuary lazes. Mrs. Vanderbilt, the widow, receives the estate at Bar Harbor, Me.; the Vanderbilt home in Washington, $250,000 in cash, a life interest in a trust fund of $1,000,000, which she may dispose of at her death as she sees it, and patr of the real estate in North Carolina, known as Pigag Forest, containing about $8,000 acres, together with the contracts for the sale of timber therefrom, estimated to produce about $50,000 a year. Girl "Mindspend" and New Married. The Edition, Md., dispatch that Joseph Graceen and Jennie Picard, of Norristown, Pa., had been married, marks the climax of events following the abduction of the girl in Norristown on Feb. 7. Either Joseph Grancee or his cousins were believed to be responsible, but nothing could be proved. It is said that the marriage of the couple was opened by the girl's father. Jennie Picard, seventeen years old, was kidnapped after her young brother was frightened away from her side on a road near Northtown. When the boy told his father that he recognized the wagon as belonging to Grantee, the father sought out the man, who denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of the girl. Picard stabbed him in the groin and fled. He was captured by his victim's father, who pursued him with a shotgun. Picard later was liberated on ball. Body Buried. Three Years Not Father's. Charles N. King, of Bittererville, near York, Pa., left home three years ago, leaving his wife and eight children. Shortly afterwards word was received by the family that he had been killed on the Pennsylvania militia near Harrison and that the body --- known word from Akron, Ohio, that the fighter was alive and that city, correspondence has been started. It is more than likely that the father will return in a short time. Where body was buried for that of Charles N. King is a mystery. U. S. Army Air Corps The headquarters of the United States Air Force company, voted in New York by the up to its affairs and have it out of business. Stockholders in the other business companies are already anxiously inquiring how long it will be before they follow suit. The first direct result of the government's competition and the reduction of 15 per cent in express rates therefor will be to have thrown 15,000 employees of this company out of work by the time its liquidation is completed. Its yearly payroll is about $1,000,000. "We could have stood the competition of the parcel post as originally planned," said President Roberts. "But we cannot stand it as at present constituted, when it is carrying parcels of almost unlimited weight." Saya There is "Fortune Telling Trust." According to "Professor" John Brenner, in Allentown, Pa., there is a "fortune telling trust" in New York city, which establishes, necromancers in various cities and exacts commissions from the proceeds they are able to gather from a fleeced public. "Professor" Brenner, who several weeks ago established himself next door to the home of Chief of Police Bernhart, pleaded guilty. He said he did not know that fortune telling was contrary to law. Brenner had been in Allentown only a few days when he was arrested by Chief of Police Bernhart. In giving him the limit, $100 fine and nine months in jail, Judge Groman remarked that he was sorry he could not impose a heavier sentence. Prepares Poison For Baby; Killle Self. After mixing carbolic acid with the milk in the feeding bottle of her infant baby, Mrs. Richard Hancock of Harney's Corners, near Trenton, N. J., swallowed the poison and died while being removed to the hospital. A friend came in to find her writting on the floor and she summoned as made ill. The bottle contained enough prepared for the baby, and being distrustful of it, she tasted it and was made ill. The bottle contained enough poison to kill the child. Earthquake in Japan, Killle Many. A serious earthquake occurred in the prefecture of Akita, island of Hondo, Japan. Many persons in the city of Akita were killed and many houses were destroyed or damaged. In the village of Kowakubi, which was ruined, there were many casualties. The disturbance also badly damaged the railroad and telegraph lines. The volcano Asuma-Yama, ninety miles northwest of Tokyo, is in eruption. Theater Stage Falls Fifty musicians of the Apollo, Pa. churches, including men and women, were thrown in a heap in the cellar of the theater there when the stage on which they were seated gave way. A score of persons suffered apraxia and bruises in the twelve-foot drop. A panic was narrowly averted. The musicians were from the various churches and were rehearsing a musical play. Cave-In Engulfs Bodies in Cemetery. A cave-in at the No. 2 mine of the Pennsylvania Coal company at Pittston, Pa., permitted several bodies, which rested in St. John's cemetery, to drip into the mine. Just how many bodies have disappeared is not known. John A. Collier, the cemetery sexton, found the cave and was startled when he found several caskets protruding through the rough boxes. Gat $105,000 Verdict Against Navy. William Cramp & Sons' Shipbuilding company has been awarded judgment for $105,617.33 against the United States by the United States court of claims in Washington. The ship concern asked $363,905 damages for alleged delay by the navy department in the delivery of armor and armament for the new battleship Maline. Unveil Goebel Monument The monument to Governor William Goebel, who was assassinated fourteen years ago, was unveiled in Frankfort, Ky., under miserable weather conditions. Miss Margaret McChord, the daughter of Interstate Commerce Commissioner McChord, dres wte cord. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter, clear, $2.85¢4.10; city mills, fancy, $4¢5.25. KIE FLOUR firm; per barrel, $3.50 ¢5.25. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, $1¢ 1.00¢. CORN quiet. No. 2 yellow, 70½¢ 71¢. OAT quiet; No. 2 white, 46¢ 46¢; lower grades, 44¢. POTATOES steady; per bushel, 75¢ 75¢. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 17¢ 18¢; old roosters, 12¢13¢. Dreared birds; choice fowls, 18½¢; old roost- 18¢. BUTTER quiet; fancy creamery, 29¢; per lb. BOGS quiet; selected, 26¢ 29¢; beary, 23¢; western, 25¢. LIVE PREMIUM OHIAGO-HOOE active; bulk of miles. $7.70@8.50; light. $6.00@8.50; $8.40@8.50; heavy. $4.00 $8.25; rough. $4.00@8.50; plips. $7.25 @8.50. GATTLE steady; heavier. $7.80 @8.50; Texas storm. $7.15@8.15; stocking heavy. $8.95@8.15; cowy and snow. $8.75@8.55; calvain. $8.80 HEEP steady; positive. $4.80@8.50; $8.60@8.50; western. $6.80@7.85. $42,025.00 Paid out from January 1, 1912 to March 6th, 1914. FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CONSIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK January 19—John L. Lester, Summit Lodge, No. 50. 50.00 January 19—John L. Lester, Monroe Lodge, No. 116. 150.00 January 19—John H. Kidd, Rescue Lodge, No. 4. 150.00 January 26—Joe Fountain, Douglass Lodge, No. 69. 60.00 Feb. 3—E. H. Armfield, Friendship Lodge, No. 3. 150.00 Feb. 3—William Kee, Lovely Mt. Lodge, No. 57. 150.00 Feb. 4—Daniel Reid, Jonathan Lodge, No. 20. 150.00 Feb. 7—Andrew McClannan, King David Lodge, 193. 50.00 February 16—D. W. Davis, Planet Lodge, No. 23. 50.00 February 17—Andrew William Jackson, Pride of Dante, 187. 50.00 March 6—Henry Williams, Venus Lodge, No. 46. 150.00 January 26—Clarkie Bell, Victoria Court, No. 52. $ 100.0 Jan. 31—Josephine Western, Christian, Light, No. 157 Feb. 3—Ola Wagstaff, Zion Travellers Court, No. 96. $ 150.0 Feb. 3—Frances Carton, White Rose Court, No. 118. $ 100.0 Feb. 3—Annie Clegg, Magic City Court, No. 83. $ 100.0 February 17—Bettie Stewart, Randolph Court, No. 150. $ 100.0 February 17—Carrie Ridley, Silver Key Court, No. 75. $ 100.0 February 17—Maggie Riddick, Victoria Court, No. 52. $ 100.0 February 15—Heurletta Brown, Pleasant Grove Court, 151 $ 100.0 TOTAL. $14,475.0 Amount Paid by Grand Lodge. $27,850.0 Amount Paid by Grand Court. $14,475.0 The Bank of the People BECAUSE The People are Supporting it. THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Is second to none Safety bring Confidence cond to none of its size in equipment Safety brings Confidence and Confidence brings Business. Is second to none of its size in equipment Safety brings Confidence and Confidence brings Business. ```markdown ``` WHEN WE WERE BORGHT THE BEST SON THAT WAS BEST WAS NOT FOR OUR If our people had failed to pat their fault and not ours. When we went, we chose the National Park based upon the present value of our thousand dollars above the amount. This guarantees the safety of our invite correspondence and urge upon for safe keeping. Amounts in sums Interest paid on sums of $1.00 and so. Our President is under Bond. Our Vault insured against loss by be insured and the bulk of able Real Estate. Our 7 Our Banking Hours are and Saturdays from JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President THOMAS H. WYATT WALTHER NORTH-WEST CORNER RICHMOND WE WERE BUYING A VAULT, WE RIGHT THE BEST FOR THE REA- THAT WE BELIEVED THE BEST WAS NONE TOO GOOD FOR OUR PEOPLE. He had failed to patronize the Bank, if would have been not ours. When we were selecting a New York Correspond- dent the National Park Bank of that City. Our actual assets, present value of our real-estate holdings are over fifty above the amount on deposit with us. We see the safety of every dollar on deposit with us. We encume and urge upon every one to bring us their money. Amounts in sums of ten cents and upwards received. Sum of $1.00 and over. Resident is under Bond. Our Cashier is and. Our Vault, although Burglar-proof is in against loss by burglar. Our Building is and the bulk of our funds invested in desir- Estate. Our Tellers are under Bond. Long Hours are from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. Saturdays from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. L. JR., President. THOMAS H. WYATT, Vice President. WAL/TER T. DAVIS, Charger. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Secretary. BEST CORNER THIRD & CLAY STS., RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. WHEN WE WERE BUYING A VAULT, WE BOUGHT THE BEST FOR THE REASON THAT WE BELIEVED THE BEST WAS NONE TOO GOOD FOR OUR PEOPLE. If our people had failed to patronize the Bank, if would have been their fault and not ours. When we were selecting a New York Correspondent, we chose the National Park Bank of that City. Our actual assets, based upon the present value of our real-estate holdings are over fifty thousand dollars above the amount on deposit with us. This guarantees the safety of every dollar on deposit with us. We invite correspondence and urge upon every one to bring us their money for safe keeping. Amounts in sums of ten cents and upwards received. Interest paid on sums of $1.00 and over. Our President is under Bond. Our Cashier is under Bond. Our Vault, although Burglar-proof is insured against loss by burglars. Our Building is insured and the bulk of our funds invested in desirable Real Estate. Our Tellers are under Bond. Our Banking Hours are from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. and Saturdays from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. NORTH-WEST CORNER THIRD & CLAY STS. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Macauley was not the first man to frame the famous image of the man of a new civilisation standing amid the ruins of that which we know today. Long before he wrote of his traveler from New Zealand meditating upon London bridge Mrs Barbauld and used the same image, with the differences that she applied it to Blackburn bridge. An earlier reviewer had used it in an article published in 1907, we are told by an English commentator, and Horace Walpole says in one of his letters, "At last, some curious traveler from Eme will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's." Build the Dirt to the Quail. A quail, being shot at by a hunter and purposely accepting with her face hunting a quail, returns in a flurry. From a tree overhanging an owl, locked down upon her sardinically. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` 1 "You are very sly," he remarked, "to allow yourself to be hunted so when you have the means of defense ready at your hand. If you were to stop killing the insects that prey on the wheat and the corn man would speedily perch of starvation. The quail thanked him civilly for his advice. "However, if you don't mind," said she, "I think I prefer to go on doing what is so evidently, my duty, let others do as they may."—Farm and Fireside. Plenty of Meaning Dinks—I see itstone has bought an automobile. I didn't think he had sufficient means to do that. Winks—Oh, he has all sorts of means of browning money and just as many means of speeding it. Myriad Philosophy First Fly--There will always be a wait. Second Fly--Yes. There can never be a foolish Fly--New York Bay. Old Virginia Corn Meal. Water Ground. Mills in Hanover Co., Va. IN 2 POUND AND 5 POUND BAGS. FOR SALE R. H. Macy & Co., New York. 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The counterblast is to the effect that when an Athenaeum man, while his club was still the guest of the other, asked for the librarian, the answer was, "Please, sir, he is in the dining room carving the roast beef"—London Standard. Applauded the Lightning. In "The Country of Sir Walter Scott" Charles S. Gloeck tells a story of Scott as a tiny boy of three or thereabouts. He was staying at his grandfather's farm at Sandy Knowe, under the shadow of the old feudal tower of Smallholm: One day he was missed during a violent thunderstorm, and the household set out in search of him. He was found lying on his back on the rocks, kicking his heels in the air and clapping his hands with delight as he watched the vivid lightning, and as one flash followed another, each more brilliant than the one before, he would shout: "Bonnie! Bonnie! Dae it again! Dae it again!" The Gift of the Sex Jones was telling what an excellent cook his wife was. Smith bonusted that his wife was a splendid dressmaker. and Robinson proudly stated that his wife was an unusually clever artist. Brown was not to be outdone, so he remarked: "My wife is a great linguist." No one seemed impressed. There was a moment's silence; then Robinson spoke up. "Humph! he exclaimed. "They all are!"-Youth's Companion. Her Limitations "These plums look too cheap," said the young woman, her brows contracting slightly. "Show me some of the best you've got." "Yes, amm, amm," said the salesman. "May I ask how high you care to go?" "Me? Oh, I only go to G, but I want one with all the octaves just the same." — Chicago Tribune. Wrong. A man recently entered a restaurant and ordered a steak. When the waiter served hini with it the customer said, "I'm afraid you'll have to take it back, for I find I've come out without my"—"Purse," of course interrupted the waiter. "No," replied the man, "my false teeth." Light Work. "What are you doing now, Bill?" "I'm collecting." "Collecting what?" "My thoughts." "Gosh, you always were lucky in striking an easy job."—Exchange. More Important: Tesas-Bess doesn't seem so quick to deny her age as she used to be. Jesas-No. She's got very stout lately. Tesas-What has that to do with it? Jesas-It takes all her time now to deny her weight.-Philadelphia Press. A Chinese Story A Chinese barber while shaving a customer's head drew blood and put one of his fingers on the place. Again he made a cut and put down another finger, and so on until he had no more fingers free. "Ab," said he as he paused in his work, "a barber's trade is difficult. We ought to have a thousand fingers!" YOUR CHANCES. We all have to learn in one way or another that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances till the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances, and the great—the very great—difference between one person and another is how he takes hold of and uses his first chance and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.—Thomas Hughs. Gimbell Bros., Philadelphia. Mitchell Fletcher Co.; Philadelphia. Thos. C. Fluke Co., Philadelphia. J. J. Pletcher, Bristol, Cermantown. Silver Coomer, Oyster. Aaron Ward's Song, Newark. Chas. M. Deeker & Bros Stores, Orange QUINADE QUINASOAP QUINADEMB HAIR PARLORS. To the Friends, Customers and the F MRS. ROGA E. WATSON invites St. James Street. You can be supra formations and Pompadourn. Combi on short notice. Straightening and Straightening Combe, Ornament and preparations of all kinds for the 812 ST. JAMES STREET, To the Friends, Customers and the Public in General: MRS. ROSA E. WATTON invites you to her Hair Parlor, 818 St. James Street. 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Winter Term Begins December 4, '18 Best Opportunities for Negro Youth, Board, Lodging and Tuition $7.00 per month. H. Hayes, Office and Ware-Room, 777 NORTH BROADWAY, Bristol, 796 N. and S. FIELD-GATE, Bristol and London. THE PLANET 10-Offers Ten Prizes-10 "IT COSTS YOU NOTHING TO VOTE." You must reach the Ten Thousand Class in order to Compete for Prizes. If you and your friends are active, you can do this in one week. Each Coupon is good for FIVE VOTES. The Ballot or Coupon is printed in this issue of The PLANET. Any Coupon or Ballot cut out of The PLANET will count (5)Five Votes. Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET and accompanied by a Cash Subscriber for two months (25c) twenty-five cents will count as ten additional votes. Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET and a Cash Subscription of (50c) Fifty Cents for four months will count as (30) thirty additional votes. Any Coupon cut of The PLANET and accompanied by a Cash Subscription of ($1.00) one dollar for eight months will count as 90 additional votes. Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET and accompanied by a Cash Subscription of ($150) one dollar and fifty cents for one year will count as (150) one hundred and fifty additional votes. To the Church whose Pastor is successful in securing the First Prize, The PLANET will make a Donation of ($15.00) Fifteen Dollars. To the Church whose Pastor is successful in securing the Second Prize, The PLANET will make a Donation of ($10.00) Ten Dollars. THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO MINISTERS, PHYSICIANS, DENTISTS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LADIES EITHER IN RICHMOND OR ELSEWHERE PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES 00.00---GIV PLANET TH 10- “IT COS We Offer a Suit of Clothes Cup or a Gold Watch to the Man number of votes. We Offer a Suit of Clothes Cup or a Gold Watch to the Phi Highest number of votes. We Offer a Suit of Clothes Cup or a Gold Watch to the Fur Highest number of votes. We Offer a Round Trip Tic San Francisco to the Lady rec We Offer a Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver Loving Cup or a Gold Watch to the Minister who receives the Highest number of votes. We Offer a Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver Loving Cup or a Gold Watch to the Physician or Dentist, who receives the Highest number of votes. We Offer a Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver Loving Cup or a Gold Watch to the Funeral Director, who receives the Highest number of votes. We Offer a Round Trip Ticket to the Panama Exposition at San Francisco to the Lady receiving the Highest number of votes. "It costs you nothing to vote" PLANET PRIZES You m Each Coup An Cash Subs scription o a Cash Sub panied by To the To the THE CONT THE PL 311 Find months t Name..... Street City Place.... You must reach the Ten Thousand Each Coupon is good for FIVE VOICES. Any Coupon or Ballot cut Cash Subscriber for two months (2 subscription of (50c) Fifty Cents for for a Cash Subscription of ($1.00) one panied by a Cash Subscription of ($1.00) To the Church whose Pastor is To the Church whose Pastor is THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO MINIMIZE. (Use this Blank in sent SUBSCRIPTION VOICE Date THE PLANET, 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia. Find enclosed $...for v months to Name. Street and No. City Place...Votes to (Rev., Dr., N.) (Use this Blank in sending in subscriptions.) SUBSCRIPTION VOTING BLANK. Date.....1914 THE PLANET, 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia. Find enclosed $...for which send The Planet for...months to Name..... Street and No..... City.....State..... Place.....Votes to.....credit. (Rev., Dr., Fun. Dir. or Lady's name) Leesburg (Va.) News Briefs. Miss Jannet Edmonds left on 20 for New York where she will visit her sick sister, Mrs. James Davis. Mr. and Mrs. John Mason on Liberty Street are all smiles over that ten pound girl. Mr. Henry Roberson of Waverly Heights was called to Washington on account of the death of an uncle. The school at Cylonia will close the first Saturday in April. of an uncle. Miss Lealee Taylor of Washington line will close the is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mril. Frederick Taylor, the week end. and Mrs. Robt. Miss Agnes Dorsey spent Saturday day from New- in Washington with friends. w weeks visit to Our sick are all improving. We were glad to see Stater Charles Davis wars of Pittsburgh, out again at church. Mrs. Thomas Smith and Mrs. Robt. White arrived Saturday from Newport, R. I. after a few weeks' visit to friends Mrs. Lena Sommers of Pittsburg, Pa. paid a visit to her father, Mr. John Domee of Syracuse, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Burr Jones have closed up their house at Sylvestine and gone to Morven Park for awhile. Our old friend, Capt. C. F. Sturge --- THE RICHMOND PLANET, NOVEMBER --GIVEN AW PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES 10-Offers COSTS YOU FIRST PRIZES. Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver Latch to the Minister who receives the Hair Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver Latch to the Physician or Dentist, who receives of votes. Suit of Clothes, made to order, a Silver Latch to the Funeral Director, who receives of votes. Sound Trip. Ticket to the Panama Exposition the Lady receiving the Highest number of ABOUT or Ballot cut out of The PLANET will cover two months (25c) twenty-five cents will count as twenty Cents for four months will count as (30 of ($1.00) one dollar for eight months will description of ($1.50) one dollar and fifty cents whose Pastor is successful in securing the Fifth whose Pastor is successful in securing the Sixth. OPEN TO MINISTERS, PHYSICIANS, DENTISTERS is Blank in sending in subscriptions.) SUBSCRIPTION VOTING BLANK. Date.....1914 North Street, Virginia. for which send The Planet for... State... (Rev., Dr., Fun. Dir. or Lady's name) PLANET PRIZES PLANET PRIZES ABOUT THE VOTING. of Mt. Vernon, Va. paid us a flying visit Sunday, 23rd. Do you want to get a good shave and hair cut? Yes. Go down to Manley's, corner Market and West St. He can do it. Mrs. Charles B. Ash is convalescing Pastor, Rev. Dr. Tyler, after six weeks' illness, arrived on the scene Friday evening, to the pleasure of us all. He was not feeling the best, but however, he was at his post Sunday. The day being fairly good, many souls found their way to the house of God. He preached morning at 11 o'clock, he took for a subject, Madame, On receipt of $1.00, I will mail you. A Bottle Earle's Princess Hair Oil A Bottle Earle's Violet or Lilac Water A Jar, of Earle's Princess or Cold Cream. Goods shipped by return mail. JAMES T. BARLE P. O. Box 390, Newport, R. I. All Candidates for Prizes must poll not less than Ten Thousand Votes in order to be Eligible for prizes. The Contest ends September 14,1914 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." At 8 o'clock our pastor was again on the rostrum. Text. Ex. 17-6; lst Cor. 10:4. Subject. The Spiritual Rock and that Rock was Christ Jesus. He preached to an appreciative audience. All went away saying he didn't talk like a sick man. Marie's Princess Hair Oil JAMES T. BARLE P. O. Box 300, Newport, R. I. 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. (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. SECOND PRIZES. A Gold-headed Cane to the Minister at number of votes. A Gold-headed Cane to the Physician at second Highest number of votes. A Gold-headed Cane to the Funeral at Highest number of votes. A Silver Service to the Lady who r at number of votes. All not less than Ten The the Contest ends September to secure that number. In the PLANET. Cut out our friends are active, you can do the PLANET. NG. Coupon cut out of The PLANET and Any Coupon cut out of The PLANET Any Coupon cut of The PLANET and Notes. Any Coupon cut out of The PLAN has (150) one hundred and fifty add make a Donation of ($15.00) Fifteen will make a Donation of ($10.00) Ten AND LADIES EITHER IN RICHMOND THE PLANET VOTING CONTEST. COUPON OR BALLOT. FOR THE MOST POPULAR ONE. (Name) The MILITARY MINSTRELS EMPIRE THEATRE, FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS, March 27—28th, 8:30 P. M. The largest minstrel show ever staged in Richmond. 71 PEOPLE!! 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