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MAY 18 1914 Police Loss Interest. (Richmond, Va. Evening Journal, May 12, 1914.) "It was established today that Miss Chenault, after 11 o'clock, attended Sunday School at the New Bridge Baptist Church, half a mile from her home, Sunday morning. She slipped away without the knowledge of her family. When she returned her hair or was shocked at her action, Dr. C. T. Collins, the family physician, had not for a moment thought that Miss Chenault should arrest herself to any extent. In answer to the questions of her family and physician, Miss Chenault replied that she considered it her Christian duty to be with her ideas that morning. Asked today whether Miss Chenault's action in going to church was extraordinary under the circumstances, Dr. Collins replied: "I did not for a moment think of her doing such a thing. It should be said, however, that she was in better physical condition Sunday than yesterday, the stiffness not setting in until the second day after the crime. Her nervous condition was better Monday than on Sunday. The excitement of her mind and nervous system had cooled down by the second day, and this allowed the physical effects upon her to become more apparent. The bruises on her face and throat are slight. Those on the threat would seem to indicate that some one had tried to choke her while those on the face appear to be the marks of the finger-nails of a hand clamped over her mouth. They are none of them in any anyway serious." Following the failure of Miss Fannie N. Chenault to identify any of the numerous suspects held as the colored man who assaulted her Saturday night, and in view of the evident indiscretion in her conduct when she contracted the man yesterday, Hancock county officers and authorities today are taking decidedly less intense interest in the case. Miss Chenault could not identify any of the four men held by the county, nor did she believe the city's prisoner guilty, nor did she see in the dead face of Samuel Thompson the features of her brutal assault. Miss Chenault still says that she can identify the man. She states that he lit a match to look for money in the thicket, and that he smoked many cigarettes, which he naturally must have lit. She could see his features perfectly, she says, when the matches flared up, and also says she saw her assistant in the road in the falling dust. If the young woman, on confronting the men yesterday, had said quickly that she did not recognise any of the suspects as the guilty man, the officers would not have counted her attitude as one of indecision. She did not do this, but even went so far as to have Commonwealth's Attorney Sutton of Henrico county, question some and cross-examine some of the colored men before saying that she believed them innocent of the crime. Miss Chenault says she questioned the man in the thicket with a direct view to his later identification. Having been with the man for three hours, she says she knows his features well and the fatigue about him. In the meantime, as a result of Miss Chenault's harrowing recital on entering her home at 11 o'clock Saturday night, one colored man is dead resisting arrest, and another in fall twelve months for carrying a pistol. The suspects held in Newport News and at Scottsville will not be brought to Richmond today, but are kept in custody pending further instructions from authorities of Henrico county. Perry Hinton, colored, answering the description given by Miss Chenault of her assistant, was brought this morning to the Henrico county jail; where he is being held pending possible identification. Hinton was seen in Broad Street at 1 o'clock Mon day morning wandering about with a suitcase in his hand. He told Oicer A. M. Smith, of the city police force, that he was looking for a boarding place, after having left his old one. Smith later saw the man coming from the Byrd Street Station, where he said, he had missed an outbound train. Hinton says he can prove an alibi, and gave the authorities the names of several witnesses whom he wanted summoned. The man was lodged in the Second Police Station charged with vagency before being brought to the county jail. BIDDICK FINED AND JAILED. A. D. Ridgick, who seems to accord most nearly to Miss Chenault's description of her namillant, was tried in Police Court today on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, and was given a fine of $100 and a sentence of twelve months in jail. His gun was worth $20, being one of the finest makers. MISS. CHENault CONFRONTÉ COLORÉD MEN. men at the Hearoe county jail and another man, A. D. Riddick, at the First Police Station, Miss Fannie T. Chenault yesterday afternoon was unable to identify any of the men as her assailant on Saturday night near her home on the trolley line to Seven Pines. The men held by the county were immediately released. She also went to the morgue to view the body of Samuel Thompson, the colored man shot by Detective Bargent Krangle in Rivierview Cemetery Sunday afternoon, and who died of his wounds yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock in the City Home Hospital, but said that she did not believe him to have been the man wanted. Miss Chenault was accompanied to Richmond by her father, Wallace W. Chenault, and by two women, neighbors and friends of the family. She seemed perfectly composed and remarkably collected in mind. The bruises and cuts on her cheeks and neck appeared somewhat healed since Saturday night. Miss Chenault seemed to have more difficulty in making up her mind about Ridickk than any of the others, but finally said that she could not identify him beyond question. He is held on the charge of carrying a concealed weapon, Patrolman Duke having taken a .35-caliber revolver from his hip pocket at the time of the arrest. DEATH OF THOMPSON. Except for repeated protests that he knew nothing of the crime, Samuel Thompson died at 3:45 yesterday afternoon in the City Home without an aute-mortem statement of any kind, despite vigorous efforts to rouse him to something more. At noon yesterday it became apparent that he would not live. Sergeant Krengel, who shot the colored man three times in taking him into custody, following the resistance of the fugitive was placed technically under arrest yesterday afternoon after Thompson's death by Detective Sergeant G-W. Atkinson. SERGEANT KRENGEL BAILED. When the case was called in Police Court this morning he was held in $2,000 bond for his appearance on Saturday, A. W. Bennett, former court climman, going his security. Sergeant Kreengel has not been formally suspended from the force, but will not perform duty again until after the trial. Miss Chenault's Story. Miss Fannie F. Chenault, stenographer, is victim of brutal assault. Police notified at 1:45 o'clock Sunday morning. Miss Chenault was victim of assault by a colored man on Sat rday evening near stop number 23 on the Richmond, Rappahannock river car line. Enraged citizens began to scour the country, but it was believed that the assailant had boarded a car going to the city. Miss Chenault is employed as stenographer with the Clarence Wyatt, transfer, and was on her way home when the assault was made. She left the car at stop No.23 and was walking along the road in the direction of her parents' residence when she was seized by a man who came running up behind her, clasped her about the throat, throw her to the ground and threatened to kill her if she hollered. After which he immediately dragged her into the nearby shrubbery. The assailant took what money she had, which was a very small amount. This, happened shortly before eight o'clock and, under threats of death, Miss Chenault was kept captive until after 11 o'clock, at which time her assailant left her to go out to the road, stating that he would whistle for her when the car came, then she must come out. Instead he took to his heels. Miss Chenault, fearing to come out once, stayed in the bushes about twenty minutes. She then walked up through the bushes and came directly in front of her home, which was about a square from where she was first knocked down. .Mise Chenaut described her assistant as being about 5 feet, 7 inches in height. He was dressed in a blue overall suit and had the appearance of a laboring man, also wearing a black slouch hat. Miss Chenault in her statement, although frightened in a way, states that after finding she was in her assistant's hands remained exceedingly calm, never giving him a cross answer or speaking rough or uncouth in any way whatever, and at times would engage in conversation with him. In the beginning she called upon her Heavenly Father, whom she knew had always guided her and in whom she had great faith. "Without faith it is impossible to please God." God's will be done, not ever. She realised, too, that she was nearer home on that night than she had ever been before, and the earthly dwelling place even within a stone's throw and yet so far. Subscribe to The PLANET. THE VOTING CONTEST. Rev. Morris, Displaced Last Week Decided to, "Come Back." Have you voted? You have every opportunity so to do. The boys and girls will now be after your PLANET too, for there is the Dunlap Poay Contest now for them. The Ministerial Contest took on new interest when Rev. W. H. Skipwith; the Evangelist, went to the head of the column last week for the first time and thereby displaced Rev. L. J. Morris, who has made a most remarkable run and who remarked, with a disgusted look on his countenance, when he saw that he had been outrun by this divine. "I am coming back." REV. MORRIS DETERMINED. To make good his statement, he came forward last Tuesday with just 1205 ballots. This shows that all the ballots in the hands of the contestants have not been voted in this office. Mrs. Emma V. Kelly, of Norfolk, continues to hold first place. It was hoped that other ladies would enter the contest and make it livier as the best prize has been reserved for the ladies. Miss M. L. Chiles has gone to second place, displacing Mrs. Ella O. Waller, who may be expected to "come back" at any time. Mrs. Waller held the lead for many weeks. CHARLOTTESVILLE ANXIOUS Dr. George R. Ferguson of Charlotteville, has sturdy friends working for him and he continues to hold first place with Dr. Albert A. Tennant, of Richmond, in second place. Dr. E. R. Jefferson holds a position similar to Mrs. Whiler, for he formerly led in the context. The funeral directors are lagging and they do not seem to be very popular with the general run of people. Undertaker William Lease John son was the only one for whom votes were being cast. Then Undertaker A. D. Price forged ahead of him just a little and then came Undertaker Robert C. Scott, who now heads the list by a flying-leap, so to speak. THE CHILDREN'S CONTEST. Whether they win or lose, the advertisement is worth something to each and all of them. Some of our newdealers are clamoring for a prize. When fateen of them express such a desire and agree to enter the race, we shall arrange a schedule of prizes for them. In the meantime, the boys and girls under 16 years of age must register in order to enter the Pony Contest. Only 200 will be entered. The books are open now. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HERE. Grand Lodge to Be Entertained. Great Preparations. Arrangements have been about completed for the entertainment of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, which convenes in this city, with the Grand Court, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday, June 16, 17, 18 and 19, 1914 at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. A large attendance is expected. The delegation will aggregate 700, as Richmond is the place that all wish to visit. The Hippodrome Theatre has been leased for Tuesday, June 16th to entertain the Grand Lodge and Grand Court. THE PUBLIC MEETING. The public will also be admitted at regular prices, but the members of the Grand Lodge and Grand Court will be admitted free of charge. Wednesday night, the City Auditorium will be the scene of a grand public meeting. A fine programme has been arranged. Admission will be free and the public is invited to be present. The programme will be announced later. Thursday will be the scene of one of the finest parades ever seen in this city in connection with a state organization. Companies from Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Danville, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Roanoke, Charlottesville and Staunton are expected to participate. PARADE AND BANQUET. The parade will take place at one o'clock and a fine dress parade and drill will follow at the Base Ball Park. A game of base-ball will take place at four P. M. Thursday night the four floors of the Pythian Castle will be the scene of the banquet. Admission will be 50 cents. Delegates will be admitted free of charge. Arrangements are being made for one thousand. AGENTS—EVERY NDORO WANTS our Celebrated Negro Pictures. Published expressly for Negro trade. Sells like hot butter. Cut- disease Free. PROPLUS FOR- TRAPT. Dept. 111, Chicago, IL. Great Missionary on Foreign Field Rotarians; Dies on Field. Clifton Forge, Va., April 27. —The late Rev. J. H. Presley, D. D., a Missionary to Africa, was driven from the field by African, Fever, returned to America, where skillful physicians battled with this fever six or more years. Paralysis followed and he died in his home in this city, in full triumph of the faith, survived by a wife and three children. Rev. Presley was held in high esteem by both white and colored of this city and the bereaved family has their sympathy. His funeral and interment took place at Shady Grove Baptist Church, Orange County, Va. Dr. R. B. Hardy of Charlotteville, officiated. The Mala Street Baptist Church, Clifton Forge, the last pastored by Rev. Presley, now pastored by Rev. H. A. Stevens presented a most beautiful floral design, also the Ladies Aid Society of the said church presented flowers. Pall-bearers: Reva. T. H. White, W. D. Scott. W. W. Wilson, D. W. Hill, L. D. Brower and H. A. Stevens. In Memoriam in memory of our darling son, Alden Caruso Martin, who entered into Heavenly Rest one year ago today, May 10th, 1913, age six months, twenty-eight days. We love thee well, but Jesus loved thee best. Good-night." —His Parents. Urbanna, Va The True Reformers Hold A Big Meeting in Philadelphia. One of the largest meetings ever held by the True Reformers was held on Monday evening at Holy Trinity Baptist Church, corner 18th and Bainbridge street. This is the first grand meeting held in Philadelphia since the failure of the bank in 1910. More than five hundred people turned out to meet the Grand Officers from Richmond, Va. After the literary part of the programme Rev. Dr. Graham introduced Hon. Floyd Ross, G. W. M., who made a masterly address. He said, "The Order now is in better condition than it has been in ten years, new members are joining all the time, the people have implicit faith in the present officers and with the help of God we will make it greater than it ever was." The next speaker was Hon. Maurice Roussele, G. W. Secretary, who spoke fully an half hour, after which he handed over to Mr. Allen D. Purnell, the Philadelphia Deputy, several accounting to $225.00 for death claims, one claim having stood for ten years. A reception followed, during which the following ladies were introduced to the audience, Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Roussele, Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. B. G. Cousins, Mrs. M. E. G. Taylor, Miss Lucinda Smith. An enjoyable time was had, and during the meeting the dispensation was lowered to $1.00 and a large number joined. The Rose-bud Convention was held in Wilmington, Del. P. G. M. Turpin Tenderol Reception E. A. Turpin, P. G. M. of the State of New Jersey, F. and A. M. was tendered a reception in honor of his 46th anniversary at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Spaulding, 727 Kaighn Avenue, Camden, N. J., April 23rd and presented with a unique gold charm, representing all the degrees of the Masonic fraternity from the first to the thirty-second, inclusive, by his fraternal friends, as a token of esteem and respect for his sterling worth in promulgating the principles of Masonry among the members of the craft. The handsome decorations in the dining room by the host and hostess, are worthy of comment, being repledent with all the delicacies of the season, the repeat was marked by the menu which was prepared by a master in the culinary art. The presentation speech was made by W. L. Stevens, W. F. Turner, toastmaster. The following guest were present: James Allison, G. J. W., H. A. Bean, D.D.G.M. E. W. Dale, Cape May, N. J. J. Branach, Atlantic City; Walter Miller, P. G. M., "Lawnside, N. J.; W. F. Powell, G. M., C. A. Polk, D. G. M., Anthony Robinson, P. M., James M. Pinnock, Eugene Carter, Walter Wilson, R. L. Young, Irns Hall, C. R. Menes, P. M. T. A. Short, Chelse Little, George Farrow, Joseph Haywood, George Stout, Edward Lawn, William Harding, George Worm, J. J. Morrell, P. G. M., Camden, N. J. A Welcome Guest. Danville, Va.—On Sunday last, our city was most wonderfully blessed with the presence and first appearance of one of the most distinguished preachers and singers of our race, in the person of the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, B. D., better known as the International Preacher and Singing Evangelist. It was not because our brother hadn't been invited to come to our city ere this, but because he couldn't make it convenient, as our own Rev. Dr. A. A. Galvin, the honored pastor of the great Loyal Street Baptist Church and the President of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, gave him an invitation three years ago and Rev. Dr. G. W. Goode, the efficient pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church invited him two months ago, so long looks came at last. Rev. Skipwith's first sermon was delivered at Loyal Street Baptist Sunday last at 11:30 A.M. from Matthew 3:16. "And Jesus answering said unto him, suffer it to be as now." The hard-hearted ones, and the skeptical ones, both saints and sinners were lifted off their feet, as our brother unfolded the overlasting Gospel, while sixteen or nineteen anxious believers were sitting with their garments on awaiting baptism. After a wonderful sermon he sang "Where He Leads Me I Will Follow." which added more fuel to the fire, so much so until he had to stop in order that the candidates might be baptized, thus ending a most glorious morning. In the afternoon our brother took dinner with Dr. Galvin and family and then went to Shiloh Baptist, pastored by Rev. T. P. Johnson, an old friend of Rev. Skipwith, and with whom he used to work while in Philadelphia, Pa. It was Rev. Johnson's communion, so after a number of song and testimonies had been given, the Evangelist was called upon to speak and sing. Rare we were met and blessed again with the power of the Holy Ghost, which ended in a unanimous call of pastor, members and friends for Rev. Skipwith to come and conduct the revival at Shiloh, October next. Revs. Johnson and Skipwith were then invited to take an auto ride in a car owned by the Rev. Mr. Betts, the leading and only Negro merchant of Almagro, Danville, and the only colored Postmaster in this auction. This invitation of course, was readily accepted as Rev. Skipwith had to meet another appointment. Therefore the car was driven by Rev. Betts's son, while the three Drives Johnson, Betts and Skipwith sat back and looked the landscape over. They soon arrived at the home of Mrs. Logan, where they found, the Rev. Dr. Goode with his horse and buggy waiting patiently for Rev. Skipwith. The exchange was very agreeable and the Evangelist was soon found in the palatial home of Dr. and Mrs. Goode, seated at the table enjoying the delicacies of the season. From here he went to the Calvary Baptist Church, of which Rev. Dr. C. W. Goode is the honored pastor and has been for eighteen years. The services were opened in the usual way after, a few brief remarks, the pastor introduced Rev. Skipwith the speaker of the hour. His text was taken from St. John 8:32 and I John 3:14, Theme, "What We Should Know." And here we received another blessing. A very large and appreciative audience, was moved to tears, so much so, until sinners were forced to say "Men and brethren, pray for me." After which our brother took us into the realm or land of songs, where we enjoyed ourselves so immensely until we were sorry when he stopped. Our pastor then in a few chosen words said, "No, wonder our brother's engagements are five and eight months in advance and no wonder he meets with such wonderful success wherever he goes. It is because he is a God-sent man and knows what to say and how to say it and an Evangelist of the highest order and can reach the learned as well as the unlearned." A motion was put and our brother was unanimously elected to return this Fall in a two weeks' meeting at Calvary. The only things that give Calvary the preference, i. e., for the first meeting is because Dr. Goodo negotiated with Rev. Skipwith last Spring for his meetings, but owing to other engagements he couldn't make it, but we shall pray for a pentecost this Fall, please God he lives to come. Yes, all of Danville is talking about those two wonderful sermons, preached by our brother Sunday last. Come again, Rev. Skipwith, and the whole city will turn out to hear you. Such a guest is worth having. I am offering several houses close to the Locomotive Works and the C. and O. Shops for rent at reduced rental. Apply to B. A: CFPHAS, Corner Second and Ladd Street. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Another Court Near Portsmouth. Bowers H. Va., May 14, 1914. Grand Worthy, Counselor John Mitchell, Jr. came here yesterday afternoons at about half past two o'clock for the purpose of organizing a Court of Calanthe. He came in a picnic wagon with about twenty ladies accompanying him from Portsmouth, Mrs. Archer Drew, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor and Mrs. Fannie Ash, the organizer, were in the party. The initiation took place at Love and Charity Hall here. The candidates were delighted. OFFICERS INSTALLED The following officers were installed: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Luis Long; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Arrean Chappell; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Phillies Richards; Worthy Orator, Mrs. Cherry Edmonds; Register of Deeds, Miss Rachel Perry; Reg of Accounts, Miss Pearline Brown; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Mary Faulk; Senior Directress, Miss Lizzie Jones; Junior Directress, Mrs. Mary Digge; Escort, Mrs. Elimira Rogers; Conductress, Mrs. Maggie Jones; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Lizzie King Herald, Miss Easie Pair; Protector, Mrs. Mollie Harris; Trustees, Mrs. Edith Shaw, Mrs. Geneva Rogers, Mrs. Mary Faulk. ALL ENJOYED THEMSELVES. After the initiation refreshments were served. Dr. Frank G. Elliott examined the candidates. Addresses were delivered by Grand Worthy Counsellor Mitchell, District Deputy G. C. Drew, Special Deputy Ash and Special Deputy Wright. It was about five o'clock when the jolly party left for Portsmouth. Sir Mitchell left Norfolk last night for Richmond. He conferred with Major W. H. Tyler and Col. Archer Draw before leaving. Oratorical Contest. The rhetorical classes of the Academy of Virginia Union University, gave an Oratorical Contest in the University Chapel last Friday evening. The classes were represented as follows: First Academy, Mr. J. W. Kemp; Second Academy, Mr. U. G. Shelton; Third Academy, Mr. O. Simma; Fourth Academy, Mr. J. M. Burrell. The judges awarded the first prize of $5.00 in gold to Mr. O. Simma for excellence in delivering his oration on, "The Future of the Negro;" the second prize of $2.50 in gold to Mr. J. M. Burrell for his oration on, "America's Debt to the Negro." All the orations were well delivered and the judges found it a difficult task to declare the winners. Dr. J. E. Jones, A. M., the professor in charge of this work, asks that the citizens of Richmond encourage the continuance of these contests in speaking by offering prizes each year. At Leigh St. M. E. Church, Sunday, May 17, 1914. 10:00 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., Sermon to the Ancient Order of Kickers, by the Pastor. 2:30 P. M., Services of the Junior Epworth League. Subject. Seeing or Believing, by the Rev. S. Nash 7:00 P. M., Services of the Senior Epworth League. Subject, Our An- niversary, by Rev. J. C. Moore. 8:00 P. M., Sermon by the Pastor. Special singing has been arranged for morning and evening services. All are welcome. Mrs. E. C. Eldridge, Supt. Junior League; Mrs. M. M. Bunn, President of League; The Rev. E. M. Mitchell. Pastor. A. Musical Treat A musical treat is in store for those who would hear the celebrated choir of the First Baptist Church (white) of this city, at the First African Baptist Church, 14th and Broad Streets, Sunday, May 24th at 3:30 P. M. Accompanied by their organist, the choir will render some of their choice selections. This choir is considered the best in the South. To hear them is to be convinced. Don't miss this chance to enjoy an hour of delightful music. An offering will be taken for local missions. First African Baptist Church, Cor. 14th and Broad Sts., Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Pastor. Rev. Skipwith at Sharon Church. Rov. W. H. Skipwith will preach and sing at the Sharon Baptist Church, May 18th at 8:20 P. M. WANTED—A GOOD COOK. GOOD home to the right person. Apply at 10) W. Clay Street. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. Rev. Joshua Moore Pauses Away. Rev. Joshua Moore, pastor of Westwood Baptist Church, who was struck en with paralysis on just Saturday, died Tuesday, May 12, 1914. He had been on a fishing trip and was on his return home when the attack came. He was near a neighbor's house when he fell and they rushed to his assistance. He never rallied. Sheffield, (Ala.)- Notes. Special to The Richmond PLANET. Dear Editor: I wish to say that I am a regular reader of your paper and also a former citizen of Richmond, Va. and to say among many papers I've read, I enjoy The PLANET the best and will do all I can as assisting your agent in way of adding more readers to your paper. THOMAS GIPSON. Mr. Lowie Irwin, a prominent young man of Decatur, was in our city last Sunday on a pleasure trip. The Minister's Union met at the C. M. E. Church Sunday evening, the 16th, at 1:30 P. M. The meeting last evening was enjoyed by quite a number present. PERSONALS AND BRIEFERS —Rev. Dr. C. N. Grandison was in the city this week. —Mrs. Robinette Cogbill continues sick at her home in Hull St. —Mrs. Amelia Jones of West 21st St., Southside, is improving slowly. —Mrs. Alma Fitzgerald of East 11th St., Southside, is convalescing. —You should read The PLANET. Not to have it in your home is to be behind the times. —We have received an invitation to attend the 33rd anniversary exercises of the Tuskegee N. and I. Institute, May 24 to 28, 1914, inclusive. Mrs. Susie Robinson is somewhat indisposed this week at her home in East 17th St., Southside. —The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. William Truman at Westhampton a few days ago and left a bouncing baby boy. Both mother and son are doing well. —We have received an invitation to attend the Commencement Exercises of the Christiansburg, Va. Industrial Institute, May 17th to 21st, inclusive. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hickman on Decatur St., Southside, on the 7th inst. and left a beautiful, bouncing baby boy. Mother and son are doing well. Rev. J. J. Woodson, pastor of the Providence Baptist Church has been called to the pastorate of the Hickory Baptist Church of Brunswick Co. Va. Rev. Woodson is considering the call. We have received an invitation to attend the annual commencement of the Graduating Class of the Richmond Hospital Medical School and Training School for Nurses, Friday evening, May 15, 1914 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Also an invitation to the Reception of the Richmond Hospital Alumnae Association at Price's Auditorium, Saturday evening, May 16, 1914 from 8 to 12. Mrs. Cephas to Market Salvo Mrs. Salille S. Cephas, of this city is now marketing. Salille's Pain Cure, a wonderful salve, the recipe of which is over one hundred years old. This salve has been used in the best families, white and colored, well-nigh a century, but has never been marketed before. It is now guaranteed under the Pure Woods and Drug Act and on sale at leading druggists. It is excellent for rising breasts, wounds, etc. Jeterville (Va.) Notes Joteraville, Va., May 4.—Robert Anderson was tried before Squire Southall Lacy to-day for allowing fire to get away and burn a house that belonged to William Dehaney. He was found guilty and had to pay a fine of 034.00. My son, George Pitchford, left home about twelve years ago. When last heard of he was in West Virginia. If any one knows of him, please write me. CHARLES PITCHFORD. Joteraville, Va. NE'ER-DO-WELL A Romance of the Panama Canal BY REX BEACH COPYRIGHT. 1940. 1961. BY HAXPER & BROTHERS SYNOPSIS. Kirk Anthony, son of a rich man, with college friends, gets into a fracture in a New York resort. A detective is hurt. Jefferson Locke insists himself into the college men's party. Locke, added by Kirk's friend Higgins, with think it a job drama and puts him into a job he does or Colon. Kirk is on the passenger jet as Locke. Pamena Next Step. SAY! Anthony raised himself self excitedly on one arm, but was forced to lie down again without delay. "If this is a ship I must have come aboard. How did I do it? When? Where?" " "You came on with two men, or, rather, between two men, about 8:30 this morning. They put you in here, gave your ticket to the porter and went aboard. The slim fellow was crying, and one of the deckhands had to help him down the gangway." "That was Higgins, all right. Now, doctor, granting just for the sake of argument, that this is a alp and that I am Jefferson Locke, when is your next stop?" "One week." "What? Kirk's eyes opened wide with horror. "I can't stay here a week." The physician smiled heartlessly. "You must have been drinking pretty heavily, but I guess you will remember everything by and by." "I can't understand it." groaned the bewildered invalid. "What ship is this--if it is really a ship?" "The Santa Cruz. Belongs to the Consolidated Fruit company. This is one of the bridal suits. It is 11:30 p.m. Nov. 21. We are bound for Colon. Good night. That capsule will make you sleep." When the officer had gone Kirk turned over and fell asleep. Morning showed him the truth of the doctor's information. He awoke early, and, although his beard still behaved queerly and he had moments of nausea, he stressed himself and went on deck. A limitless, olly sea stretched out before his bewildered eyes. He touched the rail with his hands to verify his vision. He felt as if he were walking in his sleep. He realised that a great fragment had suddenly dropped out of his life's pattern. Although Anthony was a youth of few responsibilities, he broke suddenly to the fact that there were a thousand things that needed doing, a thousand people who needed to know his whereabouts, a thousand things that were bound to go wrong. For instance, there was his brand new French car, standing with motor blanketed beside the Forty-fifth street curb. What had happened to it and to the urchin he had left in charge of it? He owed $1,000 on its purchase, which he had promised to pay yesterday. That remittance from his father had come just in the nick of time. Suddenly he recalled placing the check in his bill case, and he searched himself diligently, but found nothing. It was simply imperative that he get some word abore. He let his eyes rove over the ship in desperation. Then a happy thought came to him. "The wireless!" he said aloud. "Bonehead! Why didn't you think of that long ago?" A glance at the rigging showed him that the Santa Cruz was equipped with a plant, and a moment later he was hammering at the operator's door. "I want to send a message right away!" he cried excitedly. But the "wireless" shook his head, with a smile. "We're installing a new system. The old apparatus won't satisfactory, and it's being changed throughout." "Then you - you can't send a message - possibly?" "Nothing doing until the next trip." Kirk strode forward and stared disassociately down upon the freight deck in a vain endeavor to collect his thoughts. He recalled the incidents of that wild night and began to have a disquieting doubt. Did that chance meeting with the chap from St. Louis have anything to do with his presence here, or had he really decided in some foolish, drunken whim to take a trip to Central America? He recollected that Jefferson Locke had not impressed him very favorably at the start. The sound of a bugle, which Kirk interpreted as an invitation to breakfast, reminded him that he was famished, and he lost no time in going below. Upon his appearance the steward made it plain to him in some whimsy manner that the occupant of suit A needed nothing beyond the mere possession of these magnificent amenities to ensure the most considerate treatment. Kirk was placed at the public table, where his hunger was been suppressed, and his outcook grew more cheerful with the complete reunion. TWO CHAPTER III S "One week." "You will have to." location of bodily comfort. "Getting your see legs, Mr. Locker?" quired the man at his right. "My name is Anthony." "I beg your pardon! The passenger last said—" "That was a mistake." "My name is Stein. May I ask where you are bound for?" "I think the place is Panama." "Going to work on the canal?" "What canal? Oh, of course! Now I remember hearing something about a Panama canal. Is that where it is?" "That's the place," Stein replied dryly. "Oh, I've heard it mentioned." "Well, you won't hear anything else mentioned down here. It's the one and only subject of conversation. Nobody thinks or talks or dreams about anything except the canal. Everybody works on it or else works for somebody who does. See this fellow coming down the stairs?" Anthony beheld a slender, bald headed man of youthful appearance. "That is Stephen Cortlandt. You've heard of the Cortlandts?" "Sure! One of them pitched for the Cubs." "I mean the Cortlandts of Washing ton. They're swell people, society folks and all that"—He broke off to bow effusively to the late comer, who seated himself opposite. Then he introduced Kirk. Mr. Cortlandt impressed Anthony as a cold blooded, highly schooled person, absolutely devoid of sentiment. He seemed by no means effeminate, yet he was one of those immaculate beings upon whom one can scarcely imagine a speck of dust or a bead of perspiration. "By the way, we're getting up a pool on the ship's run." Stein told his new acquaintance. "Would you like to join?" "Yes, indeed. I'm for anything in the line of chance." "Very well. I'll see you in the smoking room later. It will cost you only $5." Kirk suddenly recalled his financial condition and hastened to say, a trifle lamely: "Come to think about it, I believe I'll stay out. I never gamble." Chancing to glance up at the moment he found Mr. Cortlandt's eyes fixed upon him with a peculiarly amused look and a few minutes later he followed Mr. Stein to the dock above. Once in his own stateroom search showed Kirk that even his watch was gone and that his only asset, evidently overlooked by the hilarious Higgins and his co-partner in crime, was a modest three stone finger ring. He had neither baggage nor money. He was regarding his ring speculatively when the purser knocked, then entered at his call. "I've just heard that there's a mistake about your ticket," the newcomer began. "It is made out to Mr. Jefferson Locke," but the doctor says you insist your name is something else. "That's right. My name is Anthony." "Then how did I get this ticket?" "I'm sure I don't know." "Have you any baggage?" "I don't know." "What is your destination?" "I don't know. You'll pardon my limited vocabulary?" "But I don't understand." "Neither do I. But I must have some luggage. I need a clean shirt and collar." "If you are not Mr. Locke the ticket is no good." "Hurrah! Put me off." "You don't understand—the ticket is good, but"— "Pardon the personal nature of the question—but—what else shirt do you wear?" "Seventeen." "Saved! Let me have about six, will you?" "Certainly not," returned the other. "I need all I have. I will have a look for your luggage. Mr.-Anthony, and I will see the captain about this ticket also. I'll look you up later." He departed, shaking his head as if this were a form of insanity he had never before encountered. A moment later Kirk followed him and made a round of the deck, staring at each man he met and mentally estimating the girth of his neck. Then he made his way toward the smoking room, determined to enlist the help of his new acquaintance, Stein. Midway alt he paused. A girl had emerged from the deckhouse ahead of him, whose appearance was sufficiently striking to divert him, momentarily at least, from his quest. She was well above the usual height, quite blender; yet of an exquite rounded fullness, while her song sitting tailor made gown showed the marks of taste. Kirk let his eyes follow her, then retraced his way around the deck in the hope of meeting her face to face. But when they had met and passed he went his way vaguely disappointed. Instead, of a girl, as the first sight of her youthful figure had led him to suspect, he had seen a woman of pariage THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA body. She was certainly not so handsome as he had imagined from a distance. Yet the face was attractive. The eyes were wide set, gray and very clear, the mouth large enough to be expressive. Her hair shone in the morning sun with a delicate brown luster like that of a tattoo's wing. He glimmed her from his thoughts and continued his search for a number of avenues shirt and collar to match. But he did not fare well. He found Mr. Stein in the smoking room, but discovered that his size was fifteen and a half, and there was no one else to whom he could apply. For a second time Stein importuned him to buy a chance on the ship's run, and falling in this, suggested that they have a drink together. Had not Kirk pleased in time his inability to reciprocate he would have accepted eagerly, for his recent dissipation had left him curiously weak and nervous. At the cost of an effort, however, he refused. Stein laughed. "Don't get sore. All ships are alike. We have to talk about something. Sorry I can't help you with the shirt question. Denied careless of them to lose your luggage." "Yes. It makes one feel about as comfortable as a man with a broken arm and the prickly beat. Something's got to be done about it, that's all." He glared enviously at the well dressed man about the room. Over in a corner, propped against the leather upholstery, was Mr. Cortlandt, as pale, as reserved and as saturnine as at breakfast. He was slipping Scotch and soda, and in all the time that Anthony remained he did not speak to a soul save the waiter, did not shift his position save to beckon for another drink. Something about his sour, introspective aloofness displeased the onlooker, who shortly returned to the deck. The day was warming up, and on the sunny side of the ship the steamer chairs were filling. Two old men were casting quoits; a noisy quartet was playing shuffleboard. After idling back and forth on deck for a time Kirk selected a chair and stretched himself out. "Do you wish this chair for the voyage, air?" asked the dook steward. "Yes, I think so." "I'll put your name on it." "Anthony, suit A, third floor front." "Very well, sir." The man wrote out a card and fitted it to the back of the chair, saying, "One dollar, if you please." "I haven't got a dollar." The steward laughed, as if to humor his passenger. "I'm afraid, then, you can't have the chair." "So I must stand up all the way to Panama, eh?" "You are joking, sir. I'll have to pay it myself if you don't." "That's right. Make me as uncomfortable as possible. By the way, what size collar do you wear?" "Sixteen." Kirk sighed. "Send the, purser to me, will you? I'll fix up the chair matter with him." While he was talking he heard the rustle of skirts close by and saw the woman he had met earlier seating herself next to him. It annoyed the young man to realize that out of all the chairs on deck he had selected the one nearest here. Then the purser appeared. "Did you send for me?" he inquired. "Yes." There was a strange man around just now, and he wanted a dollar for this chair." "Well?" "I want to establish a line of credit." The purser grunted. "And, say!" Kirk ran on seriously. "I've been all over your little ship, but the passengers are boys' size. I can't wear this collar any longer." "And I can't find any baggage of yours. I've seen the captain about that ticket matter," he went on, "and he says you must buy another. If you are joking, you've carried this thing far, enough. If you are really strapped, as you say you are, how does it happen that you are occupying the best suit on the ship?" "It is a long story." "Humph! You will have to give up those quarters and go forward." "Why? You have your money for that ticket?" "Yes, but you don't sir. Locke. "Well, sir, now that I come to think it over, I believe my name is Locke, after all." He grinned. "Anyhow, I love my little room, and I think I'll keep it. Please don't be peevish. I want you to do me a favor." He removed the ring from his finger and, handing it to the purser, said: "I want you to get me two diamonds' and a ruby's worth of shirts and collars and also a safety razor." The officer managed to say, with dignity: "You wish to raise money on this, I presume. Very well, I will see what can be done for you, Mr. Locke." CHAPTER IV. New Acquaintances A he turned away. Kirk became concessions that the woman in the next chair had let her book fall and was "These people are money mad, aren't they? Worst bunch of gold diggers I ever new." Surprised, she half raised her book, but Kirk ran on: "I hope you don't mind my speaking to you. I'm awfully losesome. My name is Anthony, Kirk Anthony." Her face showed that the name carried no significance. "I understood you to tell the purser your name was Locke," said she in a very low pitched, well modulated voice. "I couldn't help overhearing." "But it isn't really, it's Anthony. I'm the unsigned bett to the stocks and hands of an old party by that name who lives in Albany." "Darwin K. Anthony?" questioned she grimly. "Is he your father?" Her face lighted with a sense of genuine interest. "Bob said," "You shouldn't it. will all be the most I ever get a shirt I got up a dress shirt?" "Too are jerking, are you not?" "No, indeed. I didn't know to take this trip. I didn't even know I had called. When I woke up I thought this was a hotel. I've got no more language than a robe." "Really? How did it happen?" "Well, to be perfectly honest, I got drunk—just plain drunk. I didn't think so at the time, understand. For I'd never been the least bit that way before. Hope I don't shock you." His new acquaintance abugged her shoulders. "I have seen something of the world. I'm not easily shocked." "Well, I was perfectly about the last I remember, and then I woke up on the Santa Cruz. You see, it was a big night-football game, supper and dill that. I remember everything up to a certain point, then-curtain! I was 'out for twelve hours and sick. That's the funny part! I'm still sick. What I can't understand is this: it took all my money to pay for the supper, and yet I wake up with a first class ticket to Panama and in possession of one of the best suits on the ship. It's a problem play." "You say you were sick afterward?" Kirk turned his eyes upon the speaker mournfully. "My head isn't right yet." "You were drugged," said the woman. "By Jove!" He straightened up in his chair. "I'm beginning to see it." Pierre "Is he your father?" was Locke. That's how I got his name. This is his ticket. Oh! There's going to be something doing when I get back." "You did not impress me as a college student." said the stranger. "And you have never been to the tropics?" "Not since I had my last row with the governor. Have you?" "Many times. It will prove an interesting trip for you. At least you have that consolation." "What is it like?" Evidently the artless offenrory of the young man had not offended, for his neighbor talked freely, and in a short time the two were conversing as easily as old acquaintances. When at last she rose, after an hour that had swiftly sped, she was gratified at the look of concern that came into his eyes. She looked at him with genuine approval as he bowed and said: "Thank you for the pointers about Panama. I hope I may have the pleasure of talking to you again." When she had disappeared he murmured admirably: "Jove! She's a corker! And she's not so old, after all. I wonder who she"— He leaned over and read the card on the back of her stenner chair. "Mrs. Stephen Cortlandt, Suite B," it was lettered. Straightening up, he grumbled with genuine disappointment: "Just my blamed luck! She's married." By pleading his one article of jewelry Kirk became possessed that afternoon of several hairs, collars and handkerchiefs, likewise a razor, over which he exercised a sort of leashhold privilege. The purser made it plain, however, that he had not sold these articles, but merely loaned them, holding the ring as security for their return, and this arrangement allowed Kirk no spare cash whatever. Even with all his necessaries paid for, it surprised him to find how many channels remained for spending money. He suffered most, perhaps, from the lack of tobacco, but even in the matter of cigarettes he could not bring himself to accept favors that he could not return. Kirk was of a peculiarly sanguine temperament that required much to ruffle and looked upon the whole matter as a huge joke. It was this perhaps that enabled him to make friends in spite of his unaccented habits, for the men liked him. As for the women, he avoided them religiously, with the exception of Mrs. Cortlandt, whom he saw for an hour or two morning and afternoon as well as at meal times. With her he got on famously, finding her nearly as entertaining as a male chum, though he never quite lost his dislike for her husband. Had she been unmarried and nearer his own age their daily intimacy might have caused him to become self conscious. but under the circumstances no such thoughts observed to him, and he began to look forward with pleasure to their hours on work. The White Owl was here three minutes before Cordwain jigged them, and when he did he immediately needed counsel to Kirk, then, after contending a public word of love with his wife, ignored him his summertime absence, while like Cordwain continued her conversation without a second glance in her husband's direction. The man evidently possessed a wide knowledge of current events, a keen understanding of men and things yet he never opened up. He listened, spoke rarely and continued to spend nine-tenth of his time in that isolated corner of the smoking room, with no other company than a long glass and a siphon. One day when Kirk had begun to feel that his acquaintance with Mrs. Portland was well established be said to her: "Born told me today that your husband is in the diplomatic service." "Yes," said she. "He was consulted general to Colombia several years ago, and since then he has been to France and to Germany." "Are you diplomating now?" "In a way. We shall be in Panama for some time. Colonel Jolson will be interested in you." "I don't see the point." "Your father is one of the most powerful and aggressive railroad men in the country. Perhaps you know something about the railroad opposition to the canal?" Kirk smiled. "Well, to tell you the truth," said he, "the governor doesn't consult me about his business as much as he ought to. He seems to think he can run it all right without me, and we've only been speaking over the telephone lately." "One of the strongest forces the government had to combat in putting through the canal appropriations was the railroads. Colonel Jolson has no reason to love your father." "By the way, when are you going into business with him?" "I? Oh, not for a long time. You see, work doesn't really appeal to me, anyway. I suppose if I had to hustle I could, but what's the use?" Mrs. Cortlandt let her eyes dwell upon him curiously for a moment. Then she said: "Have you no ambition? Is there no—girl, for instance? Have you never been in love?" "Oh; see here, now!" Anthony blushed in a manner to excite the envy of any woman. "I don't like 'em. I'd rather play football." "You lack stimulus. If you should meet the right woman"— Then, seeing the amusement in his face: "Be believe me, I know what I am talking about. I know what a woman can do. Your life has been too easy and placid. You need some disturbing element to make it ferment." The Santa Crus was now rapidly drawing out of the cold northern winter and into a tropic warmth. The nights were perfect, the days divine. The passengers responded as if to a magic draft, and Kirk acknowledged to a reluctant enjoyment of the change and found himself less eager to go back. Mrs. Cortlandt joined him as usual on deck after dinner, and they did a mile around the promenade, chatting idly of many things. The evening was too glorious to permit of early retiring, and a late hour found them leaning over the rail, side by side, while Anthony bewailed the fact that he knew nothing of the country just beyond the dark horizon ahead of them. They talked about the canal. "It is a big task, Mr. Anthony, and the mere digging of the ditch is the smallest part. There is a great deal more to be done. You see, as men attain culture, they require more than mere food and drink and bedding, and in the same way, as nations attain to greatness, they require more than mere territory—the reach out and absorb power and prestige. Our decision to build the Panama canal is like the landing of another Columbus; the conquest is to follow. After that will come—who knows what? Perhaps more wars, more pillage, more injustice, just as in the old days of Central and South America." "You talk like a man," Anthony said adamingly. "I had no idea you looked at things in such a big way." Mrs. Cortlandt heated slightly as she changed the subject. "I heard you tell the purser—the other day about your financial troubles, and it occurred to me that Mr. Cortlandt might assist you." "Thanks, awfully." Kirk hastened to say, feeling himself flush uncomfortable. "But I shaltn't need anything The old gentleman will wire me whatever I ask for. 'Does-Mr. Cortlandt know how I am fixed?' "No." "Please don't tell him. I—I'm a little bit, ashamed of myself." Mr. Cortlandt was awaiting his wife and rose contreouly as she entered their suit. "Did you send Annette for me?" she inquired. "Yes. I thought you had forgotten the hour. We rise at 6." "My dear," she returned coolly, "I was quite aware of the time. I was talking to Mr. Anthony." "By the way, some of the passengers are remarking about your friendship for him." Mrs. Cortlandt abrugged. "I expected that. Does it interest you?" The man favored her with his grintry smile. "Not at all." "If he should need assistance while in Panama I should be obliged if you would accommodate him." "Don't you think that is going a bit too far? You know I don't fancy him." Mrs. Cortlandt, frowned slightly. "We won't discuss it" she said. "I assured him he was at liberty to call on us for anything, and naturally that ends the matter." "Naturally," be agreed, but his coloured cheeks flashed dully. When Kirk came on deck early the following morning he found the Santa Cruz nursing her way into Colon harbor. A land fug observed his view somewhat, but through it he beholded a This prairie is the heart of the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The hills along the prairie border of a point upon which is located a large high point behind buildings and long rows of houses. Buildings half hidden behind smaller gold farms. Beyond were washrooms and baths with the funnels of many things. On either side of the bay was a quaint lighthouse wilderness. "Will you go over to Pamunkey city or will you stay in Ocala?" asked Cortlandt. "I think I'm remain on the ship. Then she can't get away, without me." Kirk answered. But when he explained his desire to the passer that worthy replied: "I'm sorry, but you'll have to arrange that with the agent. We make a charma you know, just like a hotel." "I'm going to table my old man for money." The officer shocked his head with fear. "Nothing doing. Mr. Locke. If you want to stay aboard you'll have to pay in advance. I don't intend to be stuck for your bill." "All right, then. I shall throw myself upon the mercy of strangers." Leaving Vera Cruz to Locate Position of General Mass. AIRPLANE 1814 by American Press Association. Not since the invention of the aero plane has been put to such a severe test that Vera Cruz proved the efficiency of air craft in time of war. Navy aviators keep a sharp lookout over the troops of Gen. MacArthur of American Navy, cognizant all the time of the exact location of the enemy. This picture shows an American aviator flying over Vera Cruz harbor. He is directly above the British cruiser Essex. Vincant Arctor Wade Miss Huntington. Vincent Actor, great-grandson of the first John Jacob Actor, and master of the Actor militias, and Miss Helen Dinsmore Huntington were married in Staatsburg, N. Y., at Hopeland house, the home of the bride. Only members of the families of the contracting parties and their intimate friends witnessed the ceremony. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles H. Duncan, of St. Margaret's Episcopal church. The bride was attended by Miss Alice Huntington, her sister, while Herman Clerichs, a long time chum of Mr. Actor, was beat man. Get Many Bodies From W. Va. Mines. Over one hundred of the bodies of miners who perished in the gas explosion in the mines of the New River Collieries company at Eccles, W. Va. on Tuesday, were found piloted in heaps at the foot of shaft No. 5 by a government rescue party. As most of the bodies were burned beyond recognition, mining experts have abandoned all hope of finding any of the 172 men entombed by the explosion alive. Pottaville Girl Ende Life. Prevented by her father from sloping. Margaret Disc, eighteen years of age, ended her life by sending a bullet through her heart. The girl left her home near Pottsville, Pa., on Friday to meet her sweetheart. Before she reached the trysting place she was overtaken by her father, who compelled her to return home. The girl locked herself in her room, obtained a revolver and committed suicide. Young Morgan Betrothed. Announcement of the engagement of Junius Spencer Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan, of New York, to Miss Louise Converse, daughter of Frederick Shepherd Converse, of Boston, was made by the young woman's parents. The announcement was not unexpected, although a few days ago Mrs. Converse said that a report of the engagement was unauthorized. Young Morgan is a senior at Harvard. Caucasian Operation Restores Sight. Caucasian Operation Restores Sight. A remarkable case of the recovery of a woman from blindness was reported by Dr. William Posey, at a lecture at the Wills Eye hospital in Philadelphia. The blindness was caused by a kidney aliment. After the performance of a Caucasian operation the woman recovered her vision and became entirely well. 4008 Banks in Reserve System. Advices to the United States treasury department indicate that 4008 national banks have subscribed to the federal reserve banks in their respective districts. The increase was 215 banks and $818,721 in subscriptions. The total subscriptions of stock in reserve banks to date are $44,900,990. THE MEETINGS OF AN MID at Mugara Falls, Canada. GARRANZA IS ELIMINATED Mexican Rebel WHI Not Be Represented, Because They Refused to Agree to an Arrest. Secretary of State Bryan announced in Washington Tuesday that the three South American mediators in the Mexican difficulty would meet at Niagara Falls, Canada, May 18, to receive representatives of the parties to the controversy. The sessions of the mediators continue with the three Huerta delegates now named and understood to be on the way, the United States delegates not yet named and Carranza definitely eliminated from mediation so long as he persists in his present attitude. The destination of the Huerta delegates was not clear. It became known that Huerta wished the negotiations to take place in neutral territory, suggesting Canada as a suitable location. It was said that ten days might elapse before definite work on a settlement could begin with the arrival of the Mexican delegates. The text of the note from the mediators to General Carranza stated definitely for the first time that "all the difficulties which contributed toward the present situation in Mexico bear either directly or indirectly on the solution of the pending conflict between Mexico and the United States." The mediators therefore announced that all these difficulties "should be made the subject of consideration in the negotiations." They also informed Carranza that they considered a suspension of hostilities as "indispensable" to his participation in the mediation. Provisional President Huerta cabled to Senator Riano, the Spanish ambassador, who is acting in Washington for the Huerta government, that he would be represented before the mediators by four men. The fourth representative, whose name has not been mentioned heretofore, is Rafael Eguero. The other three, whose names already have been made public through the mediators, are Louis Eguero, Augustin Rodriguez and Enilio Rabasa. The mediators consider it essential that there be an avoidance of hostile acts, and so long as there is no resumption of hostilities they will continue to feel that their efforts are tending in the direction of a peaceful settlement. Outside of the mediators, some of the foreign diplomats took the view that the elimination of Carranza and the limitation of negotiations to amends for indignities to American sailors and marines at Tampico and Vera Cruz, would be a step in advance. They pointed out that President Wilson and Secretary Bryan had insisted that the troops were sent to Vera Cru solely to redress these indignities. If, therefore, the mediators could furnish a formula for this redress there was no reason, they declared, why the troops should not be withdrawn and the present crisis as between Huerta and the United States ended. Other diplomas, familiar with European procedure when foreign territory has been occupied, were doubtful whether the troops, once at Vera Cruz, would, or could be withdrawn until a complete settlement had been effected. MEXICANS MINE RAILROAD General Funston Said to Favor Advance on Mexico City. Information has come to Washington from Vera Cruz that the Mexican Federal troops have mined the railroad tracks from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in preparation for the utter destruction of the road if the American forces attempt a march on the capital. No confirmation has been received of reports that the San Francisco bridge on the Inter-Oceanic railroad had been damaged. The mines are reported to be located a half mile apart, and Mexican soldiers have been detailed to touch off the fuses. These preparations and the throwing up of defenses by the Mexican Federal troops are known to be a source of worry to General Funston, and it is understood that he would welcome orders to start for the Mexican capital at once. Admiral Mayo at Tampico has informed the navy department he would have no trouble in taking Tampico with his present forces, and it was learned that he has more than once hinted in his dispatches that it would be advisable to take such action. Refugees from Mexico City bring conflicting reports concerning the purposes of Huerta. Some say that, realizing the hopelessness of the situation, he has agreed to retire from the presidency Thursday. Other reports declare that Huerta, instead of yielding, has determined to play the game. A number of prominent Mexicans of Vera Cruz held a meeting to give impetus to the organization of certain subsidiary, civic departments and to assist generally in the reestablishment of municipal institutions. White House Bag Hert. Nichelson, a pet cottle belonging to Miss Moeer Wien, daughter of the president, came to print at the White House. White running hear an automobiles the dog slipped, and one of her kind bites was engulfed by the machine. A veterinary was examined and set the furgurtle hot. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is Accused of Preventing Peace and Trying to Shift Responsibility. The arrest and imprisonment of the militia heads declared responsible for the deaths of women and children in the Colorado strike horrors is regarded as the outcome of the findings of the coroner's jury and the statement of Secretary of War Garrison, which, based on the findings of federal officers, declares the state troops committed excesses and had made conditions worse instead of better in the strike districts. The coroner's jury returned a verdict holding the state militia and the mine guards responsible for the deaths of the two women and fourteen children in the Ludlow tent colony. As a result of the burning of the colony and the resultant cremation of helpless non-combatants, it is expected that criminal actions will be lodged against Major Hamrock and Lieutenant Linderfelt, of the Colorado state militia. Members of the Colorado state legislature openly threaten to impeach Governor Ammons for his seeming acquiescence in the outrages perpetrated by the troops under his command. Indignation against John D. Rockefeller, Jr., already at fever heat, has been greatly increased by the publication of copies of telegraphic correspondence between that individual and Chairman Foster, of the house committee on mines and mining. In this correspondence Rockefeller refuses to accept arbitration and tries to shift the responsibility. Rockefeller's attitude throughout the whole terrible situation has deeply incensed the federal authorities, and the latter are determined to exert pressure to force a settlement. According to reports from Colorado the president's proclamation calling for the laying down of arms is being obeyed throughout the strike zone. Two more troops of United States cavalry are already on their way to Colorado from Fort Robinson, Neb. General Sickles Dies in New York. Major General Daniel E. Sickles died at his home in New York. He had been quite ill since March, when he suffered a hemorrhage. About two weeks ago there was another hemorrhage and the aged general was confined to his bed. Mrs. Sickles and her son, George Stanton Sickles, moved into the house two weeks ago, and while they are reticent, it is understood that a complete reconciliation was effected. The last rites of the Roman Catholic church had been administered on Saturday by Rev. Father Avard, of St. Joseph's church. Daniel Edgar Sickles, major general, was the last of the great commanders of the Civil War. He responded to Lincoln's first call for volunteers. He raised regiment after regiment. He led them into battle, always with commissate bravery and distinction. At the last he turned the tide at Gettysburg and earned a soldier's immortality. MAD SON SLAYS HIS FATHER General Duryea Was Sleeping When Attacked. Says He Received a Message From George Washington and Then Shot 'His Father'—Fired Seven Bullets Into Body. General Hiram Duryea, millionaire starch manufacturer, was shot and killed by his son, Chester Duryea. General Duryea, who was eighty-one years old, was attacked as he slept at his home in the Hay Ridge section of Brooklyn. Seven shots were fired into his body. The murder occurred on the porch at the rear of the Duryea home, where both father and son were in the huddle of sleeping. Chester Dyerson, who is forty-three years old, slipped from his seat into the house, where he kept a number of rifles, revolvers and shotguns for housing purposes. He collected an ammunition plant and a small theatre, both of which he headed, and retained by the open arms perch, standing within a few feet of his shipping father he drove Photo copyright 1914 by American Press Association. Searching Mexicans In Vera Cruz For Dangerous Weapons The American forces in Vera Cruz, after the capture of the city, confiscated over 6,000 guns, kalves and other weapons from citizens. Even children and women were forced to surrender firearms. The whole city seemed to have been thoroughly armed. A house to house search was made, and often suspects were held up in the street, as was the case when the war photographer snapped this scene. The guards frisked through the suspects with little ceremony, and no doubt the lives of many Americans were saved by this vigorous method of disarming. fired from the rifle and then emptied the revolver. After his arrest and detention in the Fort Hamilton police station, Chester Duryea kept muttering to himself, "I was justified." The crack of the shots, fired in rapid succession, awakened the housekeeper, Anna Lewis, and two maids, Delta Hallaran and Anna Hallaran. They hurried to the room and found Chester Duryea sitting in a chair, at the side of his father's bed. The general's body, face downward; was upon the bed. As the frightened women fled, Duryea walked to the telephone and called up the Brooklyn police headquarters. After identifying himself, he said: "There has been a serious accident at my home." When policemen arrived, Duryea did not deny shooting his father and made no protest against going to jail. All the way he kept repeating to the policeman that he felt he had been justified in shooting. Although servants said there had been no quarrel between General Duryea and his son before they retired for the night, an overturned table, a broken screen and books scattered about the floor of the sleeping porch led the police to believe that Chester had awakened his father and that a struggle had ensued before the shots were fired. In his cell at the police station Duryea talked incoberently of the events leading up to the shooting and gave evidences of being stark mad. While talking he dug his fingernails into the palms of his hand until they bled. He said he shot his father when he received a "spiritual message from George Washington." Before his arraignment in court Duryea became violent and beat on the doors of his cell with his bare knuckles. A policeman was stationed outside the door to prevent him from injuring himself seriously. Chester's mental condition, said a cousin, was due to overstudy. For two years, he said, the prisoner had been constantly engaged in the study of a formula by which he believed the process of the manufacture of starch could be revolutionised. Lately he had been brooding over a suit that he had brought against the Corn Products company, charging infringement. Oleo Maker Jailed and Fined. John F. Jeike, the oleomargarine manufacturer, of Chicago, was fined $10,000 and sentenced to two years in jail, the maximum penalty, for conspiracy to defraud the government of taxes on illicitly colored oleomargarine. Seven other defendants in the oleomargarine cases, most of them connected with the John F. Jeike company, were fined $2500 each by Judge Gelger in the United States district court. The government charged all the defendants with entering into a conspiracy to violate the internal revenue laws by selling white oleomargarine to retailers and teaching them how to color it illicitly and with selling it at retail without paying the federal tax of 10 cents a pound. "Mothers' Day" National Holiday. "Mothers' Day," the second Sunday in May, will be a national holiday, and the president is directed to see that the day is observed as such through out the United States by the raising of flags on all government buildings. The joint resolution providing for the observation of Mothers' Day as a national holiday was passed by the senate. It already had passed the house. Killed by Mine Care Knoch Locosky, twenty years old of Kulipment, employed at the Scoot shirt at Shamokin, Pa., was killed when he stepped in front of a trip or wagons. Plane $20,000,000 Bank For Cuba. President Monetar sent to the Cus- tom sends a message recommending the creation of a bank capitalized at $20,000,000, with power to have him tank and burrow. THE FIELD TYPES of fighting Mexicans are here shown. At the top is a view of several rebels as snapped in one of the big engagements during the revolution. The other shows a group of Huerta's federalists taken after the battle at Torreon. United States Troops Ready For Long Service In Mexico THE MARINE FULLY 20,000 regular troops of the United States were prepared to take the field against Huerta the moment the blockade developed into real armed conflict. The top picture shows artillery leaving Texas City. Two, for the transports at Galveston. The lower picture shows American soldiers using rapid fire gun. THE MORE YOU ADVERTIZE THE MORE YOU GET THE MERCENARIES WHO ADVERTIZE HAVE THE FIRST OPERATION Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts' for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. 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Official representatives of Provisional President Huerta, of Mexico, passed through martial lines of Americans on Mexican soil at Vera Cruz, enroute on a mission of peace to Canada, a new national nation, that the lingering dispute which threatens war between the United States and Mexico may be composed. While the Mexican jurists were taking leave of their revolution-torn country, welcomed and given God speed by an American general waiting with armed forces of the United States at Huerta's gateway, the United States government officially announced its representatives in mediation negotiations before the South American triumvirate at Niagara Falls, Ontario next Monday. Justice Lamar, of the United States supreme court, and Frederick W. Lehmann, former solicitor general, were chosen by President Wilson. From Huerta are hastening forward August the Rodriguez, Emilio Rabasa and Luis Elguero. General Carranza and the Mexican rebels who seek Huerta's overthrow will not be represented. They will continue to make war in Huerta's territory while the truce between the international disputants proceeds. Disturbing elements continued to arouse interest throughout the day. General Funaton, at Vera Cruz, was appealed to by the Brazilian minister at Mexico City to release some South Americans, including three Brazilians who had been arrested and are awaiting trial for "sniping" American soldiers from the refuge of a tramp steamer in Vera Cruz harbor. An appeal was made to Secretary Bryan by the mediating envoys on behalf of General Huerta because of the report that American forces had seized a Mexican lighthouse on Lobos Isla, off Tampico, an act which Huerta's agents maintained was aggressive and in violation of the armistice. This government maintained that Huerta had violated the armistice in ordering lighthouses closed on the Pacific coast, to the porl of abolishing. REBEL VICTORY NEAR Defeat of Federale at Tampico is Al ready Reported. 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They place supreme confidence however, on the handling of the artillery by Major Manuel Prieto, who is in charge of the rebel guns. Major Prieto is expected to open the way for a dash by robel infantry. The Federal position, it is said, is strong. Protected on one side by the Panuco river and on the other by the Laguna, the entrenchments are safe to command what is virtually the on-ly approach to the center of the city. If the position is carried, however the Federals will be cut off from re-treat except by boat. Many buildings, it is reported, have been set on fire by the rebels' heavy bombardment. Oil weels in the neigh borhood are burning. The fires at the oil wells outside the city are the result of the Federals' an tillery fire. Those in the city were caused by Constitutionalist shells. Eats Eggs and Dies. After eating several eggs for breakfast, Edward Wigmore, of Minerva Pa., was found dead on a porch on one of the main streets, a victim of acute indigestion and hemorrhage of the brain. Unnamed Heroes. When war with the Indian tribes of the northwest was out in 1780 the white settlers loved the army of Governor Artuf the elder, who was appointed general. Among these were about a hundred women who accompanied the troops rather than stay at home. The prospect of being surprised led by savages. The recourse was of them were killed, but not a single man was preserved. Detroit Free. HE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR COLORED-TEACHERS OF Agricultural & Mechanical College, GREENSBORO, N. C. Will begin JUNE 29, 1914, and continue five weeks. In addition to the regular work, an attractive lecture course has been arranged; in which will appear some of the most distinguished white and colored educators in the country. Board and Lodging for the entire session $12.00. 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JOHN MITCHELL, JR. . . EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Rich mond. Va. an second-class matter. A woman, who can take care of a husband comfortably will not find much trouble to find one. --- When Judge R. H. Terrell was confirmed, the "door of hope" flew open for the colored folks. Whiskey and women are destroying our young men and gambling and men are destroying our young women. --- Talking to some folks is like pouring water upon a duck's back. You see the water and the duck and that's all --- Colored folks, who patronize each other have learned the fundamental principles of economic prosperity so far as they relate to the colored people. The Reserve Bank system will make money more plentiful for the borrower and restore confidence in finance. They are mighty slow starting it, though A man who has to pay interest on the money, he owes on a home that he is buying is much worried sometimes, but not as much as he would be, if he had to pay house-rent --- It seems to us that Police Sergeant Fred Krengle should go to Mexico and join Gen. Villa's army. He seems to want something to shoot and kill and we have no more colored folks up here to spare for that kind of practice. --- The dove of peace is reported to have flown out of Secretary of State Bryan's window when his private secretary and a visitor got to fighting. Mr. Bryan could stand more than his employee could stand. --- The death of General J. E. Wright of Chicago, Ill. removed from the scene of action one of the best known Pythians in the country. He passed away Monday night. April 20th at twelve o'clock. His death came suddenly and a devoted wife and a host of relatives and friends mourn their loss. We knew him well. Peace to his ashes. Colored folks, who are single continue to get married and colored folks who are married continue to hunt for the lawyer who can get them unmarried. The only time a couple will proceed to raise as much money as they did when they got married is when they have been living together a few years and want to get unmarried. --- The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias of the World (white) does not use any semi-annual password any more. They have a continuing password that always remains the same. The colored folks have more "sense" than the white folks, for the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, (coloro.) continues to have the Supreme Chancellor change their password every six months and charges the members of the Order eighteen thousand dollars for the use of it. Some of the colored members have white folks' sense and are refusing to pay it until they have had time to think as to where the fool in the affair is located, whether "up yonder" or "down here." OUR FRIENDS ARE HELPING US. The better class of colored people have always condemned wrongdoing in colored people. They realize that the most friendly relations should exist between the two races. the Southland and to this end many of them have "gone out of their way" to cultivate this friendship. They have inconvenienced themselves to help their white neighbors and when illness came; they have lingered around the bedside of the white person, doing acts of kindness making a deep impression upon the hearts of that constantly increasing number of white folks, who count on the average colored person as their friend. This fact has been emphasized by alleged recent happenings in our midst. Except for one daily journal, alleging to represent the highest moral issues and the greatest reform principles, the white press has been silent editorially on the Chonault assault case. They knew that every colored man in this community felt deeply the odium of such an outrage and stood ready to hunt down the miscreant, if he belonged to either their race or to the white race. The type of colored men who leer at or hanker after white women do not frequent this neighborhood and could hardly be expected to come from States South of us where even the attempt to commit such a crime is death. We advise all colored men to pass as far away from a white female as possible and to speak to them only when addressed the second time. Let the white men of the Southland know that we neither want nor care for females of this type, except to serve them in any honorable capacity. Thanks to the last and cupidity of many white folks, they have furnished us with white colored folks that defy detection except by those who have known them for a lifetime. They are companionable and white limbs of this type make good wives and compassionable helpmeets, inconvenience the average "husband in black" on account of the envious eyes of white men, who are wondering if he is one of those Northern colored men, who has had the temerity to marry a white woman. Still, we must continue to improve our condition and trust in God and the friendly white men, knowing well that our final undoing can only come from our losing confidence in ourselves and in our losing faith in the promises of the Almighty. AN OFFICER'S BLUNDER. Is it a crime punishable with death to resist a Police Detective Sergeant, attire in citizens' clothes? Is it a crime punishable with death to hurt stones at an officer of the law, who is attired in citizens' clothes? Is a Police Officer competent or qualified to remain in the service of any branch of the Police Department, who does not know how to arrest an unarmed man, without taking his life, especially when this unarmed man has committed no crime and at the time is not engaged in violating the law? These questions naturally arose when we read that Police Detective Sergent Fred Kreingle had made another notch on his gun, had killed another colored man in making an arrest. The only excuse given by him is that the colored man, Samuel Thompson, who is dead and who will never have an opportunity to live in this world again, had refused to be arrested when he had committed no crime and who resisted a white man attired in citizens' clothes and who is alleged to have asserted that he was an officer of the law. That Samuel Thompson did not believe him, goes without saying. To argue that a man, white or colored, would throw rocks at a man, whom he knew to be armed and whom he knew would kill him for so doing is to argue that Samuel Thompson was a lunatic. On the other hand, all of the surgeons and nurses are outspoken in saying that Thompson was not a lunatic. To men of upright conduct and with nerve enough to look an ordinary man in the face, Police Sergant Fred Krengle's act was that of a coward. He did not have the hard-flood and the spirit of fair play to give an unarmed Negro a chance for his life. Gauged from any angle, Samuel Thompson dead, has proven himself to be a braver man than Fred Kruengle living. But by what scheme of reasoning and reward for moritious services is it possible to elevate white men of this kind and character over reputable men on the police force of this city? There are police officers in the service who have made hundreds of arrests and who have never had to seriously injure any one of their prisoners. Is political pull that elevates such men over their fellows like Police Sergeant Philip Neelz and Police Detective Sergeant Fred Kruengle? There was an effort made to have Samuel Thompson confess to a crime that he never committed and a "stool pigeon" was presumed to have extracted this confession. This was finally denied. We are not asking the punishment of Freck Kroegle. The contempt of the populace is about all that he will get, but it does seem to us that distinguished police leaders like Major Louis Werner; and others should have enough influence to stop this useless slaughter by bringing official pressure to bear to prevent this elevation to positions of responsibility, of men who do not know how and when to use a revolver. Granting that Samuel Thompson had been guilty, the law provides that he shall be placed in the electric chair and be electrocuted after he has been accorded a fair and impartial trial. We fluid nowhere in the statute that he shall be executed in Riverview Cemetery by Police Detective Sergeant Fred. Krengle, because he lost his temper, and this man Thompson threw rocks at him. To Officer Krengle, we say. "Thou wearst a lion's hide. Doff it for shame and hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs." May Queen of the Season. One hundred handsomely gowned women and pretty misses will appear at the City Auditorium, Monday night. May 18, 1914 in a May Queen. The entertainment is to benefit the Home School for Delinquent Girls, of which Mrs. Maggie L. Walker is President and Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, Secretary. This May Queen promises to be the finest ever given in this city. It is interpersped with beautiful catchy songs to be sung by some of the leading local singers. Mrs. Mildred A. Cross will appear as Queen and Mrs. Fannie Cris White a Parisian Model. Remember the date. Monday, May 18, 1914, so as not to miss this rare treat. Watch for the characters on circulators. Admission 10 cents. Mrs. Carrie Coleman Hawkins, Manger. Leeburg (Va.) News Notes. Mrs. Clifton Hatcher, who underwent an operation here, is now at her home much improved. Bro. R. H. Tyler, who was stricken very suddenly at Irine. Va., is much improved at this writing. We are praying for his early recovery. Another sad death in our town. Miss Mary Gilbert, after a brief illness of a week, departed this life Thursday night. She was taken to the hospital on Thursday for an operation. She died in the faith. Funeral will take place Sunday morning at M. E. Church. The remains will be interred in the cemetery at Lincoln, Va. She leaves a mother, sister and brother to mourn their loss. Mr. Hue Woodson, after several weeks' illness departed this life Tuesday, May 5th and was buried from his late residence on the 6th. He leaves a wife and brother and host of friends to mourn their loss. Miss Charlotte Randall, late of Baltimore, paid her mother a visit this week. Our pastor, Rev. E. D. Tyler was at his host all day. At eleven o'clock his subject was, Dividing the Last Meal, 1st Kings, 17-12. Our Sunday School was well attended. At 7:30 the Odd Fellows filled our church to Hate, to a sermon from Dr. Tyler. It being our rally day, at 7:30 the Dr. was at his post. The Odd Fellows were there with all their pretties on. Our church was packed. Standing room was at a premium. The Dr. spoke from Hebrews 13-1. Lot Brotherly Love Continue. Collection $75.24. Mr. James C. Walker spent two days in Washington the week end. Mrs. James C. Walker returned home from Waterford, Va. Saturday. Mrs. John L. Sims has returned home after several weeks' visit to her parents in New Jersey. Rev. Dotson addressed the Old Fellows at Gleeblake, Sunday. He reported a grand time. Rev. W. R. Manley and Rev. James Swane were on the rostrum with Dr. Tyler, last night. All went away, saying the Lord was, in His holy place. Mrs. George H. Rust has returned home after a week's visit to friends at Mt. Gap, feeling much improved. Mrs. Martha Carter; we are told, was married May 6th to a gentleman of Herndon, Va. Roanoke (Va.) New^H. Thanksgiving Day with the Odd Fellows. Sunday, May 10th the Roanoke Odd Fellows, consisting of Roanoke City Lodge, No. 3225, Kibar Lodge, No. 3935, P. G. M. Coun- ll. No. 199 and Roanoke Patriarchie No. 110 in full dress, under com- mand of Capt. G. W. Smith, marched to the First Baptist Church for their Annual Thanksgiving Services. The body was met at the church by the household of Ruth and they all fled in the beautiful auditorium, where the program was carried out. P. N. F. Nathan Betts was Master of Ceremonies. A paper by Mrs. C. A. Davis, District Grand Director of the D. G. Household; a solo, by Mrs. Charles Lockayer; an address by Major W. B. F. Crowell, Deputy Grand Master and the sermon by Col. L. L. Downing, made up the program. You Can Know Your Future. 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The crush began just as the last notes of the bugles, blowing "taps," dled out, and the party on the speakers' stand, with President Wilson as the central figure, had started to leave the yard. Until that time the great throng had stood motionless, silent and uncomplaining in the heat. As though at a signal, there was a general surging of the crowd and the line of guards was pushed inward. Persons near the speakers stand wore crushed helplessly against it. Bluejackets, sensing the danger, rushed to the center of the little cleared space in which the caskets lay, joined hands and formed a resolute circle around the dead. Marines, sailors and the police then forced the crowd back. The injured were taken to the marine hospital, in the navy yard, where they were treated for minor cuts and bruises. No one was seriously hurt. The demonstration, which was one of the most remarkable ever held in New York city, came to an end with the departure of the bodies of the heroes for their homes amid scenes replete with drama, tragedy and comedy. Prior to that the city, state and the nation had paid an eloquent tribute to the fallen callers and marines. For four miles, through the city streets, the funeral cortège passed. There were seventeen caskets, mounted on seventeen calssons. Perhaps a million persons saw the caskets borne from the Battery, in lower Manhattan, to the navy yard in Brooklyn. The procession was nearly two hours in passing. Planet Will give votes on sald valuable outfit for paid on back subscriptions, advertising name entered ask us all about the contest Start to-day having your names entered as contestant the coupon may be found in an Mayor John Purroy Mitchel delivered a eulogy upon the dead when the procession reached the city hall. The Mecc North The religious ceremony at the navy yard was more impressive, if possible, than was the sight of the slow moving cortege. "I was never in a battle or under fire," said President Wilson in his brief address, "but I fancy it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you, for when they shoot at you they take your natural life, and when, they sneer, at you they wound your heart." "We have gone to Mexico," he said in another part of his address, "to serve mankind if we can find the way. We don't want to fight the Mexicans; we want to serve them. "A war of aggression is not a thing in which it is proud to die, but a war of service is a war in which it is a proud thing to die." Throughout the procession mounted police closely surrounded the president, in a hollow square, a secret service man rode on the box with a gray haired coachman, and others marched behind and beside the vehicle. Seated in the carriage with Mr. Wilson were his secretary, Joseph P. 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Other Tales. of the Big League" Copyright, 1912, by Small, Maynard & Company M IKE MCLUSKEY might have known something was wrong with Rick Keene when that high selected artist asked for might salute at the table for an advance on his first month's pay. It was nothing new for a bosh league recruit to join in the spring a financial ruin, but for a thousand dollar a month man—well, McCluskey should have been warned, and after that he might have kept his eyes open. And Keeney's excuse was the very Methuselah of all excuses. "I guess I've lost my check book, Mike," said Keeney. "Can I tap you for a couple of hundred?" "A couple of hundred!" bowled McCluskey. "If I had that much money do you think I'd speak to you? Doggone if I believe I'd speak to myself." Then, as he saw the look of real disappointment in the face of the pitcher, he hastened to add: "I was only kidding. Hick. Will a couple of hundred be enough? I'll get it for you tonight." For a man who could think as fast as McCluskey when directing his cans paligners from the bench Mike was singularly thick about other things. He never looked beneath the surface, and when he had formed his opinion of a man's character nothing short of an earthquake would budge him. McCluskey had known Keene for six years; he had always been steady and reliable, hence, by Mike's reasoning, he would always be so. If Mike had been the man to notice little things off the diamond as well as on it he would have seen that Mike's ring and pln were missing. Kieene was a fixed star in the baseball firmament. For three years he had led the Nonpareil pitchers in the winning column, and whenever the "old ice wagon" went into the box the home rooters sat back, unloosed their belts and ceased their gloomy predictions of defeat. The same feeling extended to the team. If McCluskey was blind there were other eyes on the team. Tim Finch, the bullet headed little second baseman, observed the absence of the outward signs of prosperity. "I say Rick 'blew in without the ice." Finch remarked the next afternoon as the ball players were removing their soggy cannails and roaring for the services of the overworked rubber. "If it had been Burchard here, with his dope sheets and his method of boasting the races, I'd say that the ponies on some winter track had been snatching the old boy." Peg Foster, the mainstay catcher of the club, also had his eye on the star L "I wanted to talk to you about Rick." [Posed by Frank Chance, New York Americans.] pitcher. He gave his opinion to O'Hara, team captain and third baseman, at the end of the second week of training. The men had been discussing the "aquab squad," as the recruits were called. "They look all right," said O'Hara. "Good thing old Rick can do his two games a week right through the season if he has to. How is the old boy, anyway?" Pog towed away his cigar and lowered his voice. ways got that control. He hasn't done much so far, but when he cuts loose with his speed he doesn't know where the ball's going. He'd got so he won't call them to me any more. I suppose he'll warm out of it, all right, but he ain't like he was to be." If Pug could have sped through the keyhole of his bedroom at that precise moment he might have been unharmed. The thing would have the star pitcher was the same thing which has driven so many brilliant performances out of the big leagues and back to the mansion. In Rieker's painting it is very a brown quart bottle with a red and yellow label on the side. During the winter the habit gained strength. Locking the check of training and hard exercise, Keene hid himself in a small southern town and gave himself up to self indulgence. Keene hoped that with the beginning of the spring training the appetite would desert him and he'd set himself about the annual task of "unlimbering the old soup bone." The arm was as strong as ever, but the steadiness and the control which made him a great pitcher wore missing, and nobody knew it better than Keene himself. Rick believed that when the strain of a game was put upon him he would find his old control. It was because of this that he asked McClunkey to let him pitch one of the first gains against the cold team. He was driven from the box in the third inning. "Little wild today, old horse," said Peg. "Little wild. You'll be all right in a few days." Rick did not answer, but gloomily slipped on his blanket coat and trudged toward the dressing room. That evening he did not join in the usual "fanning bee," which is an institution of the training camp. Ball players, like all other performers, talk shop at every opportunity. The Nonpareils opened the season against their old enemies, the Gamecocks, McCluskey, anxious to win the opening game, watched his old pitchers as they warmed up and selected Fargo. The crowd had been yelling for Kisue. They pelled still louder in the fifth inning, when Fargo gave two bases on balls, and Rick, on the bench found himself wondering what they would say to him, if he went into the box without the control which had enabled him to win from the Gamecocks the last seven times he had faced them. Fargo won his game by virtue of a heavy bombardment in the eighth inning, and the Nonpareils trotted to the clubhouse with an inaugural victory to their credit. That night, nided by the bottle, Keene decided to call for a showdown: "If I can get out there and beat a club or two," he thought to himself: "Till get over this nervousness." The next day he asked McCluskey to send him into the box, and in warming up he showed remarkable speed and his old time control. The roar which greeted Keene when he entered the diamond went to Keene's nerves like a tonic, and when the first shot twisting over the inside corner of the plate and the umpire's right hand went into the air the entire Nonpart infeld began to bark: "The old boy's there!" "Glt at 'em, Rick!" It was this sudden yelping behind Keene which informed the big pitcher that his teammates had not sure of him. They were encouraging him just as they encouraged Delaney and the other doubtful ones. It was a shock to Keene's professional pride. He set his jaw at a fighting angle and began to find the corners of the plate with his curve ball, and for six tinnings he made the Gamecocks wear a path from the visitors' bench to the plate and back again. He would show 'em that there was nothing the matter with him. In the seventh inning Rick bogan by missing the plate with his first ball. He followed with two more curves which went wide; tried a fast ball and just grazed the batter's shoulder. The Gamecock coaches whooped dridely as their man jogged down to first base. "You know what they said about this fellow?" they shouted. "No control! Goin' to be a bad year, Rick, a b-a-d year!" "Make those 'fellows shut up'" Keeno growled to the umpire, whereupon the coaches, seeing that they had hit the mark, redoubled their efforts. Keeno waited as long as he dared in the hope of standing himself and then fashed Foster the sign for a straight, fast ball. Peg nodded and dropped into position. Rick put all his speed on the ball and let it fly like a bullet. He knew when the ball left his hand that he was taking a gambling chance on getting it over the plate, but Hennessy, the batter, stood still until it was too late. Hennessey was an old timer. He had batted against Keene for several seasons. Very few pitchers ever bit a batter purposely and then usually with a curve ball, and Keene's control was so well that batters stood up to the plate without fear of him. This was Hennessey's undoing. Rick saw him drop his bat and dodge, but the ball caught him on the side of the head, and Hennessey went down like a log. It was two minutes before he received consolation, two minutes of agony for Keene. This finished the last shred of his nerve. When the game began again Keene walked the next man with four balls in reception and had thrown two wide oats to the next batter before McClure sent Delaney running to the reuse. The blanchess received the blow in wondering silence. Rick Keene taken out of the box for wildness! "Pretty tough luck," said one of the blanchess pitcher. "You had a so hit game going too. Keene did not answer. "Too bad," said McCluskey. "If you hadn't hit that fellow you'd have been all right. But I had to do it. Rick." Keene slipped along the bench to the water bucket, took a big drink of cold water and squared his shoulder. "Mac," said he, "the next time I get at these fellows I'll be right or." He left the sentence unfinished and started for the clubhouse. Before he reached the gate the Gamecocks had completed their work of annihilation, and Keene's three presents had turned into runs at the plate. Next morning Keene did not appear at breakfast, and McCluskey, who lived at the same hotel, went up to Keene's room. Rick's bed had not been disturbed, and all his belongings had disappeared from the room. An envelope lay on the dresser. It was addressed to McCluskey, and the manager ripped it open with nervous fingers. There was little enough of it: Dear Mac-I've got to go away for it! There is anything coming to me take it in part payment of that two hundred. KEENE McCluskey dropped the sheet of paper with a low whistle of amazement. Then he picked it up again and spelled out each word. It would not have surprised him more to have received such a communication from his wife. Rick Keene gone? Where? What for? It was unbelievable. McCluskey hurried down to the desk. "Where's Keene?" he asked. "His key's gone," said the clerk " isn't he in his room?" "His key was in the door," said McCluskey. "Where's his trunk?" Some of the players, lounging about the lobby and reading the morning papers, gathered around the manager. "Rick's gone?" said McCluskey. "Gone!" said Fitzpatrick. "Mike, you're crazy!" McCluskey produced the note. At the same time the hotel porter arrived with the information that at 7 o'clock the night before Keene had asked that his trunk be taken to the storage room, to be left there until called for. The unnw had taken the trunk was exhaustively cross examined. "There was nothin' strange about his manner that I seen, sir," ran his testimony. "He's always quiet like. No, sir, he didn't say anything else besides tellin' me to not put his trunk in the storage room." No one had seen Keene leave the hotel. The afternoon papers "played the story" on the front pages. Some brilliant imaginations were loosed upon the disappearance of the star pitcher. The city balloed with excitement, for a great baseball player is almost as great a personage as a president and twice as popular. For a week the papers were full of the Keene case, and then it gradually died away into the paragraphs headed, "Notes of the Diamond." The affair remained as much of a mystery as ever, and among the players from one end of the league to the other there was but one topic of conversation. The Nonparellis, upset by their bereavement, fell into a slump and were forced to fight hard to win games from teams which held permanent leases on second division positions. "I don't know what this country's coming to," said Mr. Obadiah J. Hoskins, agriculturist. "Ten years ago a man could hire all the hands he wanted at $50 a month and vittels. Now you can't get a man for love nor money. They all want to live in the towns and starve." Mr. Hoskins resided five miles from Centerville, which is ninety miles from anywhere and 100 miles from somewhere. "Father," said Mrs. Hoskins, "there's a man coming in the front gate. We don't want to subscribe to nothln!" A tall young man walked up to the porch and lifted his hat. He wore a neat brown suit of a pattern and style strange to Centerville and environs. "I heard you wanted to hire a man." said the stranger. "You're hearin' it's good," said Obadiah. "Have you got the man with you?" "Yes," said the stranger. "You?" said Obadiah. "Git out!" "I want work," said the stranger. "I don't care what it is, and it can't be too hard to suit me. The harder it is the better I like it." "You're a city chap. ain't you?" asked Obadiah. "I was raised in the country," said the man. "I know the difference between a horse and cow. If that's what you mean. It won't cost you a cent to try me out. If I don't make good you won't have to ask wailers on me." "Hey!" said Obadiah. "Wim's that?" "No work, no pay," said the young man. "How's that?" "It sounds all right," said Obadiah cautiously. "Where'd you come from?" "East," said the young man. "What for?" "For a chance." "U-m-m-m-m!" said Obadiah. "You look healthy, all right." Obadiah retired into the house, where he held a whispered conversation with his wife. "Something's wrong with him, mother," he said. "He ain't no farm hand. Like's not he don't mean any good." "He looks honest enough," said Mrs. Honkins. "Anyway, there ain't a thing he can steal. Give him a chance." Obadiah came out and moved down the steps. "Show me your hands," he said. The young man spread a pair of brood brown paws palm upward for inspection. "Ummm!" said Obediah, touching the colonne with his forefinger. "I was mistook. You have worked some lately, isn't you? What's your name?" "Brown," said the stranger—Henry W. Brown." Obediah thought a moment: "All right," said he at last. "When do you want to begin?" "Now," said the stranger. "In them clothes!" asked Obediah simultaneously. "They're all I've got with me," said Henry W. Brown. "I left my suit East St. Louis Sets Pace For Go to Church Movement—Great Enthusiasm Shown EAST ST. LOUIS had a banner GO TO CHURCH Sunday. Eight two per cent of the population went to divine service. "How did you do it?" was the question asked by hundreds of other cities throughout the country. The answer came: ALL CITY OFFICIALS ASKED THEIR EMPLOYEES TO GO TO CHURCH. THE CHIEF OF POLICE ASSEMBLED ALL THE POLICEMEN AT ROLL CALL AND ASKED THEM TO GO TO SOME CHURCH. JUST BEFORE GOING HOME SATURDAY NIGHT HE REVISED THE PATROL SCHEDULE OF ALL THE PATROLMEN AND DETECTIVES SO THAT THEY COULD GET AWAY TO SOME CHURCH SERVICE SUNDAY. IN THE PRESENCE OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS HE HANDED THE SCHEDULE TO THE SEGERGANT IN CHARGE. The chief of the fire department just after returning from a fire run Saturday afternoon assembled the entire fire department and told the men the schedule would be arranged so they could GO TO CHURCH. The superintendent of public instruction assembled all the teachers and asked them to GO TO SOME CHURCH. He also instructed them to tell their pupils to GO TO CHURCH. THE RETAIL MERCHANTS ENTERED THE SPIRIT OF THE THING. THEY INVITED THEIR PATRONS TO ATTEND SERVICES. WHEN A WOMAN WENT TO A STORE TO MAKE A PURCHASE THE GROCER WOULD ASK HER IF SHE WOULD BE IN CHURCH NEXT DAY, OR HE WOULD SAY PLEASANTLY, "WILL I SEE YOU IN CHURCH TOMORROW?" THE DELIVERY BOYS ALSO EXTENDED CHURCH INVITATIONS. "SEE YOU IN CHURCH TOMORROW!" WAS HEARD. IN MORE HOMES IN EAST ST. LOUIS THAN EVER BEFORE. THE STREET CAR COMPANIES CARRIED SIGNS GRATIS ADVERTISING THE MOVEMENT. That's low East St. Louis did it. Other cities and towns are planning the same kind of a campaign. case at Centerville, but I haven't any working clothes in that—nothing but shirts and things." "U-m-m-m" said Obadiah. "I'll get mother to fix you up some of my old overalls and a shirt. There's a right good room in the barn. You won't mind sleepin' there." "Not at all," said Brown. "Hold on!" said Obadiah sharply. "Youn't ask me how much I'll pay." "I don't care!" said Brown shortly. Then he went toward the barn. "I can't make him out." said Obadiah to his wife. "Did you hear what he said about wages?" "Kind of heavy maybe," said Mrs. Hookins charitably. "I'll hurry up and git him there things. It would be a shame to spill that nice suit." The new hired man put in a busy afternoon. There was a great deal of work to be done, and Obadiah wondered at the graceful ease with which the "city feller" swung through his tasks. "He's as strong as an ox," said he admirably to his wife. "Took right a halt too. Supper ready, mother?" The hired man had been sitting on the back stage looking at the sunset. Obadiah had to call him twice before he raised his head. Henry W. Brown ate his way into the good graces of Mrs. Hookins at once. He could have found no surer road to that kind and motherly heart. The hired man sat on the edge of his bed and stared at the lithographs on the wall. "It's a finish fight," said he between his teeth. "Either I'm going to beat it this time or I'll kill me." He had expected a restless night, but twenty minutes after he blew out his candle the hired man was snoring. The afternoon's work had not been without its effort. In an incomvelvably short time Obadiah was pounding at the door. "Breakfast!" he said. The hired man sat up, rubbed his eyes and stared about him. "I slept like a log." he said to himself. There was a tone of surprise in his voice. That was the first round of the fight to a finish. Obadiah was still wondering at the end of two weeks. "Sometimes," said he. "he nots as if he was possessed. I never see a man work so hard in my life. He wears me out finding things for him to do. I told him today he'd better let up and take it easy. What do you think he said? He turned on me like a flash and kind of split it out like he was mad. I want to work hard, he says. That's my only chance?" What do you think of that? You glaze he got into trouble before he come here?" "He's got something on his mind," said Mrs. Hoskins. "I don't know you're noticed how nervous he's been the last few nights. He jumps when you speak to him, and then he kind of hangs around as if he didn't want to go to bed. Father, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if he'd been crossed in love." Out at the barn the hired man was sitting in the doorway fighting an enemy which he could not see. Day after day he drove his body to the point where it seemed he could go no farther; night after night he lay awake, his seat set, his eyes staring into the darkness, driving against the craving which seemed to run through his veins like liquid fire. At any rate, he had not surrendered. That was something gained. For a full month the agony continued, and then gradually began to die away. "Not yet!" said the hired man. "I've got to know this time!" At the end of six weeks "mother" wondered if the hired man was forgetting his love affair. "He's a lot friskier," she remarked. "Don't you think so, father?" "U-m-m-m" said Obadiah. "He tells a lot of funny stories now. Funny stories you ever heard." At the end of three months the hired man went to Caddisville and returned with a square package from the express office. It contained several red pearlboard boards. Brown opened one of them the next day and took, put a round object covered with glittering tinfoli. Later he chalked a circle on the side of the barn about three feet. From the ground and, carefully stepping off a certain number of paces, he built a ball at the mark. "Land of love!" said Mrs. Hoskins. "What all the mare that she's kicking so?" Obadiah went out to see and returned chuckling to himself. "What do you think Brown's doing?" he asked. "Standing out there throwing a baseball against the side of the burn. Go look at him through the window. It's as good as a circus!" This strange performance happened several times a day. Obadiah asked a thousand questions. "Oh, it's good for the arm," said the hired man. "Um-m-m!" said. Obadiah thoughtfully. Then commiserately: "Too bad you don't git enough exercise! I'll have to see to that." "It's a fool thing," said Obadiah to his wife. "I don't know what his the fellow, but the way he throws that ball around in a caution. I watched him ten minutes, and he didn't miss that circle once. Maybe it's the way he heks his right leg that does it. And the way he can make that ball twist around. It don't seem possible!" Later Obadiah slapped his thigh. "I've got it!" he said. "You know the way he reads them, city papers and all the sporting pieces! I'll bet he wants to be a ball player. That's what his him. He better stay where he's well off." The middle of August came, and still the hired man persisted in his strange target practice. He was lean and brown and hard, and his eyes were clear. Not a trace of his old nervousness remained. Toward the end of August he looked up from the table one evening. "Mrs. Hoskins," said he, "I'm afraid you're going to lose your star board." "I knew it," said "mother" calmly. "You been ichin" to get away for days." Obadiah argued and preached a sermon from the text of the rolling stone. The two men talked long and earnestly on the front porch. In the end it was settled that Brown was to leave on Saturday. He had refused an offer of $40 a month and his board. "I feel like I was losin' one of the family," said Mrs. Hoskins, wiping her eyes on the edge of her apron. The hired man had come into the kitchen to say goodbye. He was dressed in the brown suit in which he had made his appearance; he had shined his shoes and tied his new cravat with a smart twist which gave him a very clinked air. "Goodby, mother," said Henry W. Brown. "You've been very good to me, and I'm never going to forget you. Goodby, Mr. Hoskins. If I ever want another job I'll come to you." Then he shook hands quickly and walked out of the house. After he had gone Mrs. Hookins found a package upon the table in the kitchen with her name written upon the wrapping paper. It contained half a dozen silver knives and forks of a pattern to match her best spoons. Her eyes overloaded again as she looked at them. "Bless his heart!" she said. "Spend in' all that money on foolishness for an old woman! And didn't give me a chance to thank him!" Meanwhile the late Henry W. Brown tramped down the road, swinging his suit case at his side. His head was in the air, his shoulders were thrown back, and the light of freedom was in his eyes. It had been a fight to a finish, and he had won. September is the month when the close pennant races tighten up to a certainty and the baseball writers begin to talk about the home stretch. It is also the month when the writers who have been desperately supporting third and fourth place teams begin to write about "next season" and the strengthening of the pitching staff. The Nonpareilis finished August in third place, with a bare fighting chance depending upon the remaining games to be played with teams which were leading them. "Undoubtedly Kesner has had cost them a better position in the race." The Nonpareilis, playing at home, were to open September with a series against the leaders, that tough aggregation of fighters known as the Gumcoots. 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Here again cropped up the specter of the missing pitcher, for the baseball fans, with pencil and paper, were able to demonstrate to a mathematical certainty that this strange reversal was due entirely to Keene's absence from the pitching staff. The Gamococks had always been easy plucking for Keene. The opening day of the important series rolled around and the Nonpareils went to their dressing rooms in the clubhouse with the weight of responsibility heavy upon them. Fargo's arm was sore, for he had borne the brunt of the season's work, and it was beginning to tell on him. Delaney had been having a "bod inning" in his recent games. Powers was steady, but at best no better than an average pitcher, requiring hitting behind him in order to win a fair percentage of his games. The new pitcher had not turned out as well as had been expected—if new pitchers ever do as well as they are expected to do—and Kellner was the only one who was really available. McClunkey, an optimist on the surface, felt in his heart that he was "up against it good," but that did not keep him from trying to instill some ginger into his charges before he sent them out on the field. "It's all right to talk. Mike," said Fargo sourly, "but it's a shame to ask series with my arm as sore as a boll." There was an immediate chorus from the other pitchers. Evidently they were not anxious for the fling at the Gamecocks. Their turn would come, they knew that well enough. Finch buzzed in, as alert as a wasp. "Heaven knows," said he. "I ain't very heavy in the vest just now, but I'd give all the money you crap shooters owe me if we had Rick Keene to slip into this series. What had do to those hooers would be a shame!" "Ahh, shut up!" came the chorus. "Not that we won't kick 'em anyway," said Finch. "These fellows ain't no devils, you know. And the toughest bird in the world can be picked. Gee, but they're cocky! Listen to 'em singing!" The Gamecocks, dressing in the other wing of the clubhouse, were making merry. "Chieferful, ain't they?" said McCluskey. "Well, boys, we'll teach 'em to sing another tune." There came no enthusiastic response. The Nonpareils were sullen but not sanguine. They knew how, once start- 1 McCluskey Felt That He Was "Up Against It Good." [Posed by Connie Mack, Athletics.] ed, the Gamecocks marched down the batting order and a team with a tripped pitching staff was— "Hello, Mike." it said. "Got a uniform here that'll sit me." For the fraction of a second amusement held them dumb; then there came a yell that made the windows rattle, and the Nonparalea, as one man, threw themselves upon the tall stranger who stood just inside the door. "Rick Koehn!" they yelled. "Rick!" "Why, you old devil, where have you been?" The yelling swallowed until the Gapockaocks came running from their side of the house. They found their hand rivals—this to be considered purely in a professional sense—dancing and gelling around the tall young man who was doing his best to ward off the friendly assaults of Mike McClungy and Pipetrick, and the Gapockaocks passed in the doorway, their eyes beijing. Over in one corner, Mike Pitch was standing on his head and wiggling his feet, all other means of expression having left him. For two minutes the summonser uprear locked, and at last, there was a reasonable amount of glare. Karen Will Sidney the Lover on the High King of Schisman. Special Primer of Good Lives, of Good Lives, Olga, Oligra and Fubon, Ull and the Ua. Virginia surrounded by his old teammates—not less than ten of them had hold of him at the time—looked across at the Gamecocks grouped about the door. "I said I'd get you fellows the next time out," said Rick. "and by the seven gods of war I'm ready for you! You'll get a skinning in this series that your great-great-grandchildren will talk about in their sleep. Mike, leggo of my arm and fish me out a uniform. I want to show these league leaders where they get off." The Nonpareils laughed, but from the group at the door there came an answer to this bold defiance. It was the young Mr. Potta who spoke. "They never come back!" he said. "The prodigal son came back, didn't he?" demanded Rick. "Well, that's my middle name!" Passing over the most tremendous ovation ever given a, ball player and skipping all minor details, it is a pleasure to record that Rick Keene was correct in his diagnosis of the case. Not only did he show the league leaders where they got off, but he literally booted them from the steps. After he had pitched and won the opening game by a shutout score he rested and watched Fargo win the second game. He then demanded that he be allowed to pitch the third, which he won, and dulled by insisting that he was as fresh as green paint and must be sent in a third time on the fourth day. That is how the Nonparalle came to take the entire series, which placed them in the running for the pennant. Shortly after the close of the league season the mail carrier left a package for Mrs. Hookins. She examined the postmark carefully, untitled the string and took out the photograph of a young man in the uniform of a ball player. "Well, I declare!" said she. "Father, come here! He got a baseball job, after all!" "U-m-m-m!" said Obadiah. "He'd be better off here. They sporting characters never save any money. He'll be back some day, looking for his old job." President to Camp Out. In anticipation of a strenuous summer the president has made arrangements for a big open air tent just south of the White House, where he will transact business. The White House tent will be equipped with a telephone, push buttons, electric lights, and other conveniences. It will be the headquarters of the president in the afternoons and evenings, and probably Secretary Tumulty will have his desk there. While the president is in good health, Dr. Carey Grayson, his physician, advised that he remains in the open, air as much as possible, and for this reason the offices in the tent were planned. The president will not sleep in the tent. 10,000 West Virginia Miners Strike. Ten thousand miners in the Kanawha coal sold near Charleston, W. Va., quit work, and it is expected that the 2000 who remained at work will also go out. When negotiations between the union leaders and the operators began several weeks ago the men made twenty-four demands, which were later reduced to seven. Further discussion of the points at issue set this number to three, and on these the operators returned to yield, and the men declared they could go no further in the direction of peace. It is reported that many miners, of the Cabin Creek and Point Creek districts also will quit work. MOST OF THE WORLD'S KNOWLEDGE IS BASED ON NEWSPAPERS. YOU MUST READ THEM IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. United, Mexico Can Place 83,000 Soldiers In Field Forces Nearly Equality Divided Between Federals and Robes----How Principal Cities Are Held. Side Lights on Mexican Soldiers THE MAYFIELD public would put about 50,000 troops in the field. Perhaps this was estimated in view of heavy losses by the federalists and rebels in the fighting that culminated in the capture of Torreon by General Villa. It is true that Huerta in characteristic fashion had caused to be spread broadcast that he already had 150,000 men in the field and that he was soon to add another 50,000 to the number. Villa, the victorious bandit chieftain of the rebels of northern Mexico, repeatedly boasted an archa that varied in size according to his humor from 25,000 to 100,000. But from the best information in the possession Huerta is believed to have an armed force, that is still loyal to the government in Mexico City, of about Photos by American Press Association MEXICAN FEDERAL 60,000, while the combined forces of all the rebel chieftains now operating in the revolution cursed republic total perhaps 48,000. This means that in Mexico today are about 83,000 men, almost equally divided between the so called Huerta government and the rebels, most of the latter being pretty well concentrated in the north of Mexico under the leadership of Villa and the lesser of the rebel leaders in Chi- THE MISSING MAN Photo by American Press Association. PRESIDENT HUERTA AND ADVERTER. huahua, Sonora, Cochulla, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Durango. It is in the fact that their forces are more concentrated and accordingly more easily to be mobilised into a single army that the principal advantage of the rebels lies in the present struggle for the mastery of Mexico. What do these contending forces number? How many places of artillery have they? Where are the troops located? Sonora Rialto Strengthhold. At Harmostillo, the capital of Sonora, there is a rebel force of 2,000 men available for service at any moment and on a direct rail line with Gonymet, the single port in the state held by Haerta with 3,200 men. Between Harmostillo and Maytorena, and right at the gates of Gonymet is a rebel force of about 4,000 volunteers under General Obregon. Figures show that in Sonora the rebels have all held a force of about 12,000 troops. This rebel force there are well supplied with ammunition. Adjacently situated in the east is the old greater state of Guadalupe, the Note that witnessed the culmination of Madero's triumphs and the state that gave to the rebel cause the notorious Villa and a host of other and less important leaders. Chihuahua from and to end is absolutely in the hands of the rebels under, Carranza and Villa. Figures indicate a force of between 12,000 and 18,000 soldiers in that state, all fighting under the banner of the revolution. At Mazatlan, the principal seaport on the west coast, is a rebel army of about 4,000 men, while in various other parts of Sinaloa are small rebel detachments that, if concentrated, would probably add another 1,000 to the above total. Durango is another rebel, controlled state. In Durango City is a rebel force of 3,000 men under General Cortesas, at Velardena are 1,000 rebels, while at Laredo is an advance guard of about 500 men. RALS AND REBELS AS THEY APPRE 1—Type of federals. 2—Type of rebels. Huerta's Foothold in North. Coahuila, the northern boundary of which touches the United States for its entire length from east to west, is the single northern state where the Huerta forces retain a foothold. At Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, opposite Eagle Pass, Tex., is a force of 400, federals under Colonel Castro, included in which is a battery of artillery with four modern guns. Around Torreon, which is one of the principal railroad centers in Mexico and which is just a few miles east of the city of Laredo in Durango, was a federal force estimated to number about 6,000 men until it was driven out recently by Villa. In Coahulla and at Monclova is another federal force of 1,000 men; at Saltillo, another big railroad point, are 3,000 more loyalists; at Hipolite are 1,800 men who remain faithful to Huerta. In Nuevo Leon, the state a little piece of, which in tongue-like fashion heks its way north between the border lines of Coahulla on the west and Tamaulipas on the east until it touches the Rio Grande, just west of Nuevo Laredo, there is a Huerta force of about 1,200 men at Monterey. In Tampico the government has about 1,200 men under General Zaragosa. In the city of San Luis Potosí, the principal town between Saltillo in Coahulla and the City of Mexico, the dictator has about 2,500 men. In Mexico City the government is backed by a small army variously estimated to number anywhere between 4,000 and 6,000 men under the personal direction of Huerta. In Vera Cruz, off which the American super-Dreadnoughts are on duty, the government has 1,000 men, with an artillery detachment of six guns. Pueblo is another state still loyal to Huerta. In Pueblo City he has 1,000 men. Mexican Hardly Modern Fighters. So much for figures. The Mexican is hardly a modern fighter. Until recent- lly there was scarcely a modern high powered rifle in his army. There are many rifles in the Mexican army more than twenty years old. Some are the old black powder, large bore guns. An American officer who has been watching Mexican soldiers for two or three years has said that he has yet to see one of the modern needle pointed bullets, which carry 1,000 yards further than the round needled affair of old times and which have a flat trajectory that enables the soldier to set his battle sights and shoot on the level at 1,500 yards. Munera's artillery, however, is largely modern. He has in all 801 pieces. He has not had that many a few. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. northeast age. It is a curious fact, but there are more field guns in Mexico than in the United States. The superiority of American fire, however, is a big factor. there are more field guns in Mexico than in the United States. The superiority of American fire, however, is a big factor. The Mexican regular army has no army service corps, no medical department to speak of. It carries no camp equipment, no supplies. Watch a field force boak camp at dawn. First there go pattering off a horde of women laden with pots and pans, blankets, sometimes babies. There are the soldieren, the camp followers, the commander of the force. That they move as quickly as they do is a miracle. Whatater the day's march may be, they are always on the camping ground before the men arrive. They rig up shutters, they cook textiles and frjoles (makes cakes and beans), they make coffee. You see them mending their husbands' coats, washing their shirts, roughly tending fish wounds. Without these soldieren the army could not move. While President Huerta was solving hundreds of men by night in the City of Mexico and other cities in order to swell his forces to 100,000, he also had women "presumed" to go with the new soldiers and take care of them. The rebels are better soldiers, and mostly mounted. Villa has proved a resourceful general. The Indians and peons are also to be reckoned with. Then there is the danger of guerrilla warfare in the mountains. Not Easy For United States. In case the United States army takes possession of Mexico it will and no easy task confronting it in completely subjugating the country. With the army from the north in With the armies from the north in PEAR IN ACTION. touch with that holding the capital some 2,500 miles of communication would have to be kept open-a tremendous task, requiring the service of at least 125,000 men-fifty men to the THE Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL VILLA. mile. This would leave an equal number for further operations and for the occupation of strategic points. The territory so far effectively occupied would not exceed twenty miles on each side of the railroad track, and Kitchener's blockhouse system might have to be employed to keep even that much. 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