Richmond Planet
Saturday, June 13, 1914
Richmond, Virginia
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PLANETAL
VOLUME X XXI. NO. 29
RICHMOND: VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. JUNE 13. 1914.
PRICE. FIVE CENTS.
GOV. BLEASE OF So. CAROLINA.
His Excellency's Chaulleur--No One Allowed to Interlere With Him--Making Constables. A Mother's Plea.
VOLUME X XXI, NO. 29
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I left Richmond Monday night, 1st inst. al-about one A. M. via Sembboard Air Line. I found the berth ready and even before the train crossed Main Street, I had stretched out to enter the "land of dreams" I awoke early in the morning and sat at a window closely observing the scenery in North Carolina. At Hamlet, I saw a party of colored men around a cook-shop. In a place adjoining a female stood in the doorway, while the sign told that it was a cleaning and pressing shop.
THAT TALL COOK.
A tall colored cook from the dining car, wearing a white jacket and gray colored pajamas talked with some of the men standing around while his companion looked on. Both wore white "skull caps" and as the train moved, they ambled aboard. A polite white steward approached me and enquired if I wanted breakfast. I had devoured a small sandwich, which I had brought, with me and I found that the breakfast which was later brought to me did not seem any the less appetizing.
WELL TREATED ON THE SEAOARD.
I was treated with every consideration and I thought of Dr. Booker T. Washington's railroad day and continued to observe conditions on the outside. I saw white farmers at work and I saw colored women at the same task. Humility was everywhere observable. The train crew soon found out from which point I hailed and the post-cards of the Mechanics' Savings Bank were distributed. I reached Columbia at 11:45 Tuesday morning and as I stepped from the Sleeper, I saw a tall, stately gentleman looking at the day coach, where colored passengers travelled.
DR. GOODWIN'S GREETING.
He looked in my direction and then I shook hands with Dr. J. H. Goodwin, who led the way to his Oakland automobile, where a smiling chauffeur greeted me and awaited the signal to go ahead. The lady was Dr. J. H. Goodwin's wife. She is an expert chauffeur and she proceeded to demonstrate her ability along that line. We stopped before an imposing mansion. The two tall pillars, extending some 24 feet to the caves of the roof made a picturesque appearance that I shall never forget. Entering, I found that the plan was most modern. Dr. Goodwin's office was on the right hand side.
LOST A STENOGRAPHER.
Ho laughingly told me that his Madame was a stenographer and type writer when he married her, but he had not observed her ability in this direction since that time. She was a skilled instructor in music and the automobile and the piano were her constant companions. Here I was in introduced to Mrs. Annie L. Dickson, of Orangoburg, S. C., who wore "widow's weeds" and Misses Eliza and Ruby Williams, who were reputed to be the daughter of one of the wealthiest colored farmers in South Carolina.
A FINE MANSION.
It was only a few mementes later that I was in the room assigned to me. I found this mansion furnished with all modern conveniences. Dr. Goodwin seemed to have learned a downward slide-pocket movement, for from this direction, he constantly "forked" up the money necessary to meet the demands being constantly made upon him. There was a twitch on his contenence every time, however, which was observable only to a close observer but he said "nothing" except during his unguarded moments.
IT "CAME HIGH."
His palatial style of living came
high, he admitted and he was paying
the price. I worked on my address
for the evening. Later, I enjoyed an automobile drive, with the Doctor at the wheel. The N. C. Mutual Insurance Company has a nice building here with Mr. J. E. Gilmer in charge. He is thoroughly qualified for his duties and he discussed insurance with the facility of a veteran in the business.
I met Attorney N. J. Frederick, who is principal of the school here. I visited Mr. Thomas Green's fine residence. He hesitated to state what it cost him. The price was so high that he evidently wished for some of the money expended in home comforts back again.
PROGRESSIVE COLORED FOLK8.
Mr. N. H. Collina conducts an "up-to-date" Department Store here, and met us with a glad hand. I wont to the Soaboard Air Line office to get my mileage exchange ticket and Fullman reservation. The ticket agent trace was a study. He looked at the engrayed plate card, announcing, "John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics Savings Bank." He told me that he would fix up the mileage exchange ticket, but the agent was out, at a barber shop and he handled the freight business.
AN AGENT'S EMBARRASSMENT.
He was not sure whether the lower berth thereon had been taken. I conversed with him familiarly and finally he said he would send the diagram up to the agent to see. The clerk came forward and when he saw the diagram, he said that there was no use to go there. The lower specified had not been taken. Rather than delay, I had informed him that an upper berth would be taken. Hesitating a moment, he looked up into my smiling countenance and then filled out the Pullman ticket.
THE PRICE OF A LOWER BERTI.
I parted with two and a half hard-earned dollars and went to the waltzing automobile, where Dr. Goodwin and Contractor T. J. Entzminger sat wondering what delay me. A few moments later, I was enjoying a drive again through the streets of Columbia. They showed me where Mr. I. J. Miller kept store before leaving for Richmond. He was making "plenty of money here," was the general verdict. The place is now occupied by a large fine new building as it is on one of the principal streets in Columbia.
Many were the enquiries about I. J. Miller and, some ventured the remark that he should come back to his friends there
THE NEXT MORNING.
I met Madame Nolson. I saw Mr. Thomas Butler, Grand Chancellor T. H. Henry. Mr. Thomas Jackson and many others. That afternoon, friends gathered at the Goodwin Mansion. The reception accorded me in Coppin Hall of Allen University was certainly gratifying. I awoke the next morning much refreshed and after breakfast and listening to the strains of sweet music under the bewitching touch of Madame Goodwin and the charming voices of her associates. I once more went for an automobile ride. I had been invited to dine with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson.
BLACKSMITH AND FARMER.
Mr. Jackson is a prosperous blacksmith and he modestly announces now that he is a farmer. He is the Manager as he styles himself of 2600 acres about eight miles from Columbia. There were so many rooms in his city mansion that he was unable to state the number. He has an automobile and he is in politics. I was much amused to hear every colored citizen in Columbia, with whom I came in contact praise. His Excellency, Cole L. Bloeza, Governor of South Carolina. His name is pronounced "Bloeza." Just the name as
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COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT VA
UNION UNIVERSITY
Marked By Gathering of Prominent Alumni and Termination of Successful Year.
The commencement exercises of Virginia Union University which began on Sunday, May 31st, with the Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. William G. Russell, of Philadelphia, came to a final close on Wednesday evening, June 2nd, with the graduating exercises of the college and theological departments.
These finals were marked by a return to the university of many of the old students of Wayland Seminary, Richmond Institute and the Richmond Theological Seminary. In the ranks here principally noticeable alumni and former students of Virginia Union University, the result of the union of the above named institutions.
Many very distinguished men from all walks of life were present to pay their loyal tributes to their Alma Mater and to pledge their support to the work of Virginia Union University. Each occasion of the week was characterized by enthusiasm and loyalty.
On Monday evening at the graduating exercises of the Academy, twenty-four young men received diplomas in certification of the completion of their college preparatory course. After nine addresses by certain of the graduates, Dr. D. S. Freeman made the address of the evening. He emphasized the essentials of a successful life.
Many alumni came from far and near to their annual reunion. The public literary exercises of Tuesday evening were much enjoyed. The occasion was followed by a banquet. At these meetings the work of the school and of the alumni and other pertinent relationships were discussed. From all accounts and observations, the alumni are coming into a true consciousness of their debt and proper attitude to their institution.
Wednesday was the crowning day of the week's activities. The Social Study Club, which met in the morning was favored by a paper on "The Social Evil," by Rev. J. B. Brown, of Petersburg. This paper, which was short, though conclusive and effective, was followed by many enlightening discussions from a viewpoint of fact, remedy and method.
The dedication of the King Gateway, a memorial of the former students of Dr. G. M. P. King took place at four o'clock. Wednesday afternoon. This dedication was visited by many prominent former students of the school, who came to pay their repects and to express their gratitude to their old teacher and lifelong friend, Dr. King. The King Gateway is situated at the entrance to the campus.
Wednesday evening was the time of the commencement program. After a number of addresses, eight college graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while four men from the Theological Department received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. There were also three to receive the degree of Bachelor of Theology.
Hon. Edwin P. Cox, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, made the address to the graduating classes. After the presentation of diplomas, the first prize for the best essay on "Self Help" was awarded to Mr. W. N. Colson, while the second was won by Mr. J. E. Briggs.
Those exercises ended a most successful year of Virginia Union. Three hundred and two students were enrolled and there was increased activity along every line.
The Armstrong High School Commencement exercise will take place next Tuesday night at the City Auditorium. Special preparations are being made for the event.
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Logan Park, Norfolk Co., Va. June 8.—This locality was acquired Saturday night when it was learned that Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. of Richmond was here to set up a club for a lodge of Knights of Pythias. He brought with him District Deputy Grand Chancellor C. G. Davis. Grand Lecturer T. J. Pree and other knights from Newport News, Va., together with Sir W. H. Willis, Grand Master-at-Arms, and Past Chancellor W. Henry Jones. They were located at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, who conduct a bus-
HON. ERNEST
Consul General of the Republic
the Citizens Wednesday, 8:3
Incess establishment here and who
are prospering.
OFFICERS INSTALLED.
Mr. Tucker is the Norfolk agent of the Southern Aid Society. Grand Medical Register Frans G. Elliott came from Nbrfolk accompanied by Sir Brown and Sir J. E. Williams. After the initiation the following officers of Titus Town Lodge, No. 197, were installed:
Chancellor Commander, J. E. Washington; Master of Work, A. Page; Vice Chancellor, E. F. Shaw; Prelate, J. T. Johnson; Keeper of Records and Seal, M. L. Poole; Master of Finance, W. M. Butcher; Master of Exchequer, C. C. Washington; Master-at-Arms, W. H. Dickerson; Inner Guard, Joseph Peyton; Outer Guard, Golden Keys; Trustees, W. S. Fisher, C. J. Cummings and Patrick Hill.
ADDRESSES DELIVERED.
Addresses were delivered by the visitors and refreshments were served. Grand Chancellor Mitchell and his party spent the night at Mr. and Mrs. Tucker's residence. They left yesterday morning for Newport News this lodge was the work of Sir C. G. Davis, District Deputy of Newport News, Va. Grand Chancellor Mitchell was much pleased.
Experienced Instructors at Christ
tianburg.
"Up in the Mountains.
Only experienced instructors are on the faculty of the Christianburg Summer School. The aim is to prepare teachers for the examination, which is held at the close of the Normal. Board is reasonable and Taliion is FREE. Write today.
Address E. A. LONG. Conductor.
Cambria-Va.
AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY—TO
Secure Two Good Homes on North
Fifth Street. See BRAGG BROS.
& CO.
Roanoke, Va., June 9 — Pyttalanism seems to hold sway here just now. District Deputy John H. Fowkes succeeded with his club and also with his Fythian Cadets. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. arrived here yesterday afternoon accompanied by Col. R. C., Mitchell. They were met at the train by Sir Fowkes and after dinner went to the True Reformers Hall where the boys were organized. Grand Medical Register Frank G. Elliott arrived here at 7:30 yesterday afternoon over the Virgin-
ST LYON, LL. D.,
mc of Liberla, Africa, will address
30 P. M. at City Auditorium.
The initiation commenced at 9:30 and 37 candidates were initiated. By 11:30 all work had been completed. There was a large attendance of visiting knights. The lodge will be known as Mountain View Lodge, No. 198. The following officers were installed:
Chancellor Commander, Rufus Lash: Master of Work, Rev. J. Y. King: Vice-Chancellor, John W. Card well: Prelate, William Holland: Keeper of Records and Seal, R. F. Tate: Master of Finance, Daniel Webb: Master of Exchequer, I. P. Williams: Master-at-Arms, Robert Saunders: Inner Guard, George Fowkes: Outer Guard, Eugene Stevens: Trustees, D. W. Harth, R. L. Clark, I. T. Morgan.
CADET OFFICERS.
The following are the officers of the ladet Company; Captain, Horsey Stoptoe; 1st Lieut, Royal Hayden; 2nd Lieut, Danie Burkaldle; 1st Sergt, Maxey Whitton; 2nd Sergt, Willie Archton; 3rd Sergt, Charlie Jefferson; 4th Sergt, Odell Howard; Corporals, George Gravely, Roger Simons, Emby Crosser, Robert Early; Sentelin, Dewy Thomas; Herald, Eugene Brown; Treasurer, Blair Ramey.
GRAND CHANCELLOR MITCHELL
ENDORSID.
Refreshments were served and addresses delivered. Grand Chancellor Mitchell expressed his pleasure at being present. On motion of Sir W. B. F. Crowell, after a ringing eulogy, the Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, J. was unanimously endorsed. Those who assisted in the initiation with others were: R. B. Banks, J. C. Eggleston, Granberry Lawson, Ed Wright, Herbert Wright, A. J. Cobb, W. A. Pinkard, James Daniels, Amos Motley, Rufus White, Charles McTaw, W. C. Taylor, L. E. Roard and W. B. F. Crowell.
Grand Chancellor Mitchell, and Col. Mitchell left at about midnight for the station and took the 12:42 train for Richmond. Dr. Frank G. Elliott will leave this morning for Portsmouth.
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge Meets Here Next Tuesday—Large Delegation Expected.
The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia, N. A., S. A., E. A., and A. will convene in this city next Tuesday morning 9 A. M. at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. The Grand Court will convene at 10 o'clock at the same place. The special features may be found in this issue in another column.
A fine programme has been arranged for the Grand Lodge, Grand Court and the public at the City Auditorium. Hon. Ernest Lyon, L.L. D., who is one of the best known platform orators in this country, and who now represents the Liberian Government as Consul General has consented to deliver an address.
LIVED IN AFRICA.
He resided in Africa many years as United States Minister and is now located at Baltimore, representing the Liberian Republic. He has the unique and unusual distinction of having represented two Republics. Hon. Harry S. Cummings, who entertained the people of this city and charmed them with his eloquence will return to us again and again deliver a message.
Attorney J. Thomas Newsome, the fervid orator will also speak. Special music will be furnished by the Second Baptist Church Choir, that rendered such high class music upon a former occasion and received such unstinted praise from the public.
HOME MELODIES.
Those who like home melodies with the mystic thrills which accompany the name will listen to the remarkable Sabbath Gloe Club, which has kindly consented to render selections. The public is also invited to the Hippodrome Theatre Tuesday night. A special programme for the visitors will be rendered. The admission fee to the public is only ten cents. The Grand Parade will take place Thursday, 1:00 P. M.
General Orders for Grand K. of P.
Parade, Thursday, June 18th,
1:30 P.M.
FIRST DIVISION
The First Brigade will form at the camp, military formation on University ground, marching down Leigh to Third.
SECOND DIVISION
Chief Marshall Robert Gray and staff on the North Side of Leigh St., between St. James and First Sts. All Aides report to him at one P. M. Sulordinate Lodges form in First, Second and Third Sts. right resting at Leigh, hended by each Chancellor Commander: lodges according tq seniority.
LINE OF MARCH
Out Lombardy to Leigh, down Leigh to Third, out Third to Broad, down Broad to Twelfth, from Twelfth to Governor, Governor to Main, Main to Fifth, Fifth to Franklin, Franklin to Davis Avenue, Davis Avenue to Broad and thence to the Camp. Each Chancellor Commander is urged to have his full number of members out with their proper regalia. If orders of GENERAL JOHN MITCHELL, JR, CAPT. B. H. PEYTON, Chairman, Military Committee
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BURGESS—GRAVES
Mrs. P. H. Graves of Frederick's Hall, Va. announces the marriage of her daughter, Edythe Mae to Mr. Harvey H. Burgess, Saturday, June 20th at 7:30 A. M. Friends are invited. No cards.
DE WITT—YANCEY.
The marriage of Miss Rosa B. Vancey to Mr. Alphonso DeWitt at Richmond, Va. is announced. They will be at home to their friends after June 15th, 1914, at 212 E. Clay St.
DR. NASH PASSES AWAY.
His Remains Brought Here.
Dr. Ira E. Nash, of Brunswick, Ga., son of Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Nash of this city died at Atlanta, Ga., where he had gone to recuperate. He was practicing medicine at Brunswick, Ga. His wife is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Brown. The remains reached the city last Tuesday afternoon and his funeral took place last Thursday afternoon from the Moore Street Baptist Church. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. officiated, assisted by Rev. S. C. Manuel, D. D.
The City Auditorium
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 17.
Eight O'clock.
HON. ERIEST LYON,
Consul General of the Republic of
Liberia.
HON. HARRY S. CUMMINGS,
of Baltimore, M.L., the Colored Orator
who Seconded the Nomination of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt at
Chicago, Ill.
and
ATTORNEY J. THOMAS NEWSOME
of Newport News, Va.
Will Address the Citizens of Rich-
mond. The Public is Invited.
Admission Free.
JOHN-MITCHELL, JR.,
Master of Ceremonies.
THE VOTING CONTEST.
Rev. L. Q. Morris Leads Again—Brilliant Spurt by the Henrico County Divine—Rev. Dr. Skip, with Will See Him Again.
The voting contest is becoming interesting. Rev. William H. Skip, with has been making a remarkable "run," but hardly more so than the desperate effort of Rev. L. J. Morris, who seems determined to disappoint and surprise those people, who prophesied that he had "reached the end. of his tether" and "could not come back." He has made trips to Charles City county, Vn. and finally to Drakes Branch, Vn., which latter place seems to have given him, the votes he sought. He is again at the head and leading all contestants.
A HEAVY RALLY
Roy, L. J. Morris came into The PLANET Office last Wednesday and made a total of 1260 votes. This caused him to cross the ten thousand and line first and placed him in the list of prize winners. Can Rev. Morris increase this head? Rev. W. H. Skipwell will furnish the answer. Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham was in the city last week and called at the office. He gave a knowing nod and 150 votes were placed to his credit. Another candidate has entered the race in the person of Rev. J. Gay Grant of Charlotteville, Va.
MRS. KELLY INCREASES LEAD.
Mrs. Emma V. Kelly was in the city last week. She continues to maintain an easy lead and she has powerful friends working for her. The contest is both interesting and instructive. Dr. Albert A. Tennant is now the leading candidate in his class, but Dr. George R. Ferguson is holding his own. The contest lasts until September 1st and there may be many surprising developments before that time.
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—Prof. and Mrs. Samuel Bell passed through the city last Saturday from West Point, where Mrs. Bell had closed a very successful school term as teacher under Prof. B. Allen. They were enroute to their home in Emporia, Va.
Gaillcan Fishermen to Meet.
Galilean Fishermen, Old Dominion
State Grand Lodge will convoye at
Sharop Baptist Church, First and
Leigh St., Tuesday, June 16th at
10:30 A. M. A public meeting will
be held at 8:30 P. M. The public
is invited to attend.
A. W. E. BASSETT.
R. W. STATE, Grand Ruler.
3rd St. A. M. E. Church, Sunday
Rally Day.
Captains are requested to report all money for Building Fund Sunday A. M.
At 2:30 P. M. Hon. Jacob Umlauf will deliver an address. A special program has been prepared.
At 5:15, P. M. Mr. Marchant, of
Washington, D. C. will speak.
Mass Meeting Held In Interest of
Ashburn Brig. Shirt Mfg. Co.
Lynchburg, Va. - The Maan meeting held at Diamond Hill Baptist Church on June the 4th, in the interest of the Ashburn Brothers Shirt Manufacturing Company, Inc., were largely attended by many of the leading business men of the city. The public is manifesting deep interest in the movement and is now regarding it as a necessity. Several shares of stock were sold. The factory, is in initially operation doing creditable work. The next of the series of meetings will probably be held at Court, St. Baptist Church on the 29th of this present month.
NE'ER-DO-WELL
A Romance of the Panama Canal BY REX BEACH
SYNOPSIS.
Kirk Anthony, son of a rich man, with college friends for a week, New York resort. A detective is hurt. Jefferson Locke institutes himself into the college men's party.
Locke, aided by Kirk's friend Higginia, who thinks it a joke, drugs Kirk and puts him aboard a ship bound for Colon. Kirk is on the passenger list as Locke.
"Broke" and without baggage, aboard the ship Kirk makes the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cortlandt.
Cortlandt is in the American diplomatic service and is going to Panama on a mission. In Colon Kirk, as the son of a big railroad man, is taken up by Weeks, American consul.
Kirk's father rephidates him, and Weeks casts him out as an impostor. Kirk meets Allan, a Jamaican negro canal worker out of a job. The two are arrested by Colon police for helping to put out a fire.
Kirk and Allan are treated brunely in a Colon jail by young Alfares, commanded by the British consul. Weeks refuses to aid Kirk. Mrs. Cortlandt gets a phone call.
Mrs. Cortlandt obtains Kirk's release by using influence with Colonel Johnson, head of the canal. The Cortlandts are intriguing to make Alfareca's father president of Panama.
Kirk's father casts him off finally, and Mrs. Cortlandt obtains for him a position on the Panama railroad under Humphrey, master of transportation.
The girl tells him her name is "Chiquita." He learns later that that name only little one." Kirk begins his work. Mrs. Cortlandt has learned who Jefferson Locke is.
Luke (real name Weiland) is a swimmer and has disappeared. His description fits Kirk. The latter tries in vain in Panama to learn something of Chiquita and meets Alfareca again.
CHAPTER X.
A Night at Taboga.
ESPITE his great contentment in Mrs. Cortlandt's society Kirk found himself within with growing impatience for his active duties to begin. Curious enough, this feeling was somehow connected with the thought of Edith her self. Why this should be so he did not trouble to impquire. They had become the best of good friends, he told him self, a consummation for which he had devoutly wished, yet for some indesirable reason he was dissatisfied.
He decided that he needed exercise and determined to take a tramp through the country, but on the evening before the day he had set for his excursion his plans were upset by a note from Mrs. Cortlandt, which the clerk handed him. It ran:
Dear Kirk- Stephen has arranged an outing for all three of us, and we are counting on you for tomorrow. It will be a really truly pleasing, with all the delightful discomforts of such affairs. You are sure to be called for you at 8. Faithfully and masterfully yours, EDITH CORTLANDT.
The recipient of this kind invitation tossed it aside, with a gesture of impatience. For the moment he experienced a kind of boyish resentment at having his intentions thwarted that seemed out of proportion to the cause. But the emotion soon passed.
The next morning Edith appeared upon the hotel porch. She was alone.
"Where's Mr. Cortlandt?" he inquired.
"Oh, some men arrived last night from Bocas del Toro and telephoned that they must see him today on a matter of importance. I shall have to make up to you for his absence if I am able."
"Where is to be the scene of our revel?"
"Taboga," she said, with eyes sparkling. "You've never been there, but it's perfectly gorgeous. Please call a coach, our boat is waiting, and don't sit on the lunch."
Kirk obeyed, and they went clattering down the deserted brick street. Edith leaned back, with a sigh. "I'm so glad to get away from that hotel for a day. If you only knew it, Kirk, you've capsized the political calculations of the Panama Conservative party."
"I didn't know I had ever even rocked the boat."
"It runs back to your affair with Ramon."
"I really did that effect it?"
"Rather. At any rate it gave an excuse for setting things in motion. There had been some doubt about the matter for a long time, and I was only too glad to exert my influence in the right direction, but—this is a picnic to an enchanted island, and here we are talking politics. We mustn't be so serious. School is out, and it's vacation. I want to ramp and play and get my face dirty."
The landing was thronged, and at sight of the newcomers lollers gathered from all sides—a pirate throng, shouting a dozen dialects and forcing Kirk to battle lustily for his language. Stepping into a skiff, they were rowed to a launch, and a few moments later were gliding swiftly around the long rock rib that guards the barber; a copper hued bandit at the wheel; a Nubian giant, at the engine and an evil yellow faced desperado sprawling upon the forward deck.
Even before they had come to anchor
at Talbot Island a dwarf baltimore were racing for them and crying for their patronage. At the water's edge they saw a tiny village nestled close against the mountains its tiled roofs, rust red and grown to moss, its walls faded by wind and weather to delegate maunes and dove colors and greens impossible to describe. The launch, when it came to rest, seemed suspended in air, and beneath
A
Slowly He Picked His Way Ashore.
It lay on, entrancing sea garden, once the engine had stopped its catter a sleepy, peaceful silence settled over the harbor, unbroken by wheel or whistle, for in Tahoga no one works and there are no vehicles.
"What a wonderful place!" evaluated the young man fervently. "Why, it's like a dream-it can't be real."
Then, as the boatmen renewed their begging, "I wonder which large gent, them I'd better hire."
"Take the little boy, please." Edith called to an uncle who was mentally struggling with a pair of oats taken own length, where groups the older best men began to shove off with many crowls.
"Our choice has offended these gentle bandits." Kirk observed as he helped hot to a seat. "When shall we tell the lad to bring us off?"
"Four o'clock," answered Mrs. Cort
"I arranged with the captain
to be ready at that hour, so, you see
we have the whole day ahead of us."
Across the limpid shadows they gilded, bravely propelled by their nine-year-old carman, but when the show of their skiff grated upon the bottom they were still some yards from the shore.
"Looks as if we'd have to wade," said Kirk, then called to one of the nearby bonten to lend the child a hand. But the fellow gepolled gruntly in some unintelligible jargon.
"He says he carries his passengers ashore in his arms." Edith translated.
"Really? Competition is spiritual even on this heavenly Isle. Well, that's easy." Anthony pitted his low shoes, kicked them off and rolled up his trousers.
"Permit me to help you," he said, "without embarrassing our pilot."
She stood up and allowed him to gather her in his arms. Then for the first time she felt his strength as her body leamed to his. Slowly he picked his way ashore while she reclined in his embrace, her arms about his neck, her smooth cheek brushing his. When he deposited her gently upon her feet he saw her face and gone white and that she was trembling.
His own face was glowing as he waded back to fetch the lunch basket and his footwear. Under the circumstances he had done the only natural, the only possible thing, yet it had quietly perturbed them both.
The two visitors explored the village, even to the quaint, tawdry chapel, with its impossible blues and rusted gilt, and noon found them eager to investigate the contents of their lunch basket. Taking a random path up the hill, they came at last to a spring of cool water, and here they spread their meal under a mango tree bent beneath tons of fruit.
The afternoon sped quickly. If at times Kirk found his companion regarding him with a strangely timid, half defiant look, he refused to connect it with the episode of their landing. Promptly at 4 they came down the drunken little main street and out upon the beach. But no launch was in sight.
"Hello! Where's our boat?" exclaimed Kirk.
"The captain told me he'd be ready at 4. Perhaps he has run over to Tabequilla or"—She hesitated with a tron.
THE RICHMOND
"Distractly." Being an killer in the square above, she questioned him in Spanish. "This man says the launch left for Panama two hours ago. They went on a Sunday spree. He says they came ashore and bought a lot of liquor, and he board them quarreling later." "That means we'll have to get another boot." "I don't know where we shall find one." "Neither do I; but there, must be some sort of craft that piles back and forth regularly." "Only once or twice a week, I believe, and it belongs to the sanitarium. Perhaps we'd better wait awhile; our men may come back." At last, as the sun was dipping into a bed of gold, Kirk broke out:
"Gee whiz! We've got to do something. Mr. Cortlandt will be getting worried."
"In all probability he won't know anything about it until too late to come for us. He is diving with those people from Bosas, and may not get back to the Thvill before midnight."
"Nikki fix we're in!" remarked Anthony. "I'd like to lay hands on that captain."
"We may have to stay here all night."
"Well, at least we have a haven of refuge. They'll take us in at the hospital."
"I don't care to ask them. There's some one up there I don't wish to see. That's why I didn't go near the place today."
He hugged to hide his embarrassment. "I'm wondering - what people will say."
"Oh, you mustn't be troubled about that. It isn't your fault, you know, anyhow. Besides, people won't say anything because they won't know anything about it—if we stay away from that "dizziatium."
"It's getting along toward, dinner time," he said, "so let's see what we can find in the way of food."
They stumbled out into the unlight, ed street and began their search, but, seen close at hand, the cooking arrangements of Tabula provest most an attractive. But eventually they found a decent looking place, where they were taken in, and, after an internal mable wait, food was set before them—chicken, boiled with rice and coconut, black beans and coconut, fresh, warm milk and a wonderful assortment of hothouse fruits.
In spite of their epiphysical situation, Edith seemed fully to have regained her spirits. Even the prospect of spending the night in this place up apparently did not dismay her. They persuaded to the square again, stared at all the way through open doors and followed by a subdued murmur of comment: Then they sat for a long time watching the stars.
As if in despair over their impossible predicament, Edith gave way to a spirit of rockless vitality, and Kirk, with a man's somewhat exaggerated sympathy for a woman's sensitive feelings, loyalty strove to help her make the best of things in her own way. There was no real concession of her reserve no sacrifice of the feminine privilege of prompt and complete withdrawal. If he had struck a false note he knew that she would have grappled fright in an instant.
It was on their return to the house that the climax came, leaving him straightly shaken. Their course took them past a tiny caffain. Frightened by a drunken bravely within, she ginkgled up her skirts and fell into the darkness. Kirk stumbling along behind her. At last she stopped out of breath, and he overlook her.
"You mustn't run through these dark alleys," he cried sharply. "You'll break your neck." Half impatient at this hysterical behavior, he seized her by the arm.
"Oh, I'm so frightened!" she breathed, and he felt her tremble. She lifted her white face, and her eyes were luminous in the gloom.
Before he realized what he was doing his arms had closed around her and his lips had met hers. It may have been the romance of the night, the solitude, the intoxicating warmth of her breath. At any rate, he lost his head and knew nothing save that she was a woman and he a man. As for her, she offered no resistance, made no sign beyond a startled sigh as their lips came together.
But, impulsive as his action had been, it was no more sudden than his recall. He released her and stepped back, crying:
"Oh, my God! I—I didn't mean that. Forgive me. Please." She said nothing, and he stammered desperately again: "You'll hate me now, of course, but I don't know what alls me. I forgot myself—you—everything. It was unapparentable, and I ought to be shot." He started off down the blind street, his whole body cold with apprehension and self disgust.
"Do you intend to leave me here in the middle of this?"
"No, not. Of course not. I'm rattled, that's all. I've just got a cowardly desire to flee and butt my head against the nearest wall. That's what I ought to do. I don't know what possessed me. I don't know what you'll think of me."
"Wo won't speak of it now. Try to compose yourself and find our lodging place."
"Why, yes, of course. I'll see that you're fixed up comfortably, and then I'll get out."
"Oh, you mustn't leave me!" she cried in a panic. "I couldn't stay in that awful place alone." She drew a little nearer to him, as if demanding his protection. A wave of tenderness awept over him. She was just a girl, after all, be reflected.
"I-L won't leave you. I'll stay near you." he stammered.
"I won't believe that you could have taken me for the kind of woman wbo"—
"No, not." he cried in an anguish of self reproach. "I was a fool"—
"No," she said. "I don't. I couldn't bear to think that. Perhaps I was partly to blame. But I didn't think. I ought to have known that no man
can beola to grunt. But I doubt our friendship was so beautiful and new you would like it."
"Don't say that!" continued Mink. "they say they miss me so much."
But instead of answering him directly she presented in the same strain, probing his wounded self respect to the quick, making his offense seem bleaker every moment.
Although he assured her over and over that he had simply followed the irresponsible, unaccountable impulse of a moment—that he had regarded her only as the best of friends and respected her more than he could say—she showed him no mercy. The melancholy, regretful one she adopted was ten times worse than anger, and by the time they reached the inn where they had dined he was sunk in the depths of selfishment.
In reply to his knock an old woman came to the door and sleepily admitted them. Edith said good night and quietly entered closed the door behind her.
Kirk experienced a sudden desire to escape. To rejoin where he was simply prolonged his humiliation. But evidently he could not desert Edith. He sat down upon the doorstep and gave himself up to bitter thoughts.
She was such a wonderful woman, he told himself, he had been such a true friend to him that he had been worse than criminal to lose her respect. And Cortlandt had been so decent to him! It was staggered that this gave him the most discomfort of all. He had betrayed a friend's friendship, and the thought was unbearable. No punishment could be more severe for that!
When the first faint flush of dawn stole over the hill, crest behind him he rose to wander toward the water front. As the harbor assumed definite form he behold a laugh stealing toward the village and ten minutes later greeted Stephen Cortlandt as that gentleman stepped out of the tender. "Where's Edit?" eagerly demanded her husband. "She's asleep. I found a place for her"— "Not at the capitarium?" "No, no. One of these houses, Lord, I am glad to see you. We'd begin to feel like real costways. I've been up all night." "What happened?" It was plain that Mr. Cortlandt was deeply agitated. "Our boatmen evidently got drunk and pulled out" I tried to get a sailboat, but there wasn't any, and it was too rough to try crossing with a skiff. It took them but a moment to reach the house, and soon the three were back at the water front.
"What a miserable night!" Mist Cortlandt complains stifling a yawn. "I thought you'd never come, Stephen."
"I suppose they were alarmed at the hotel"
"I said nothing about it," he returned, quietly at which his wife's face disheated. Selting the first occasion, he exclaimed in a low voice: "Girl! How or fortune—at this time, Were you mad?" She looked at him and her eyes burned, but she said nothing.
THE next day Kirk borrowed a
t-shotgun and went hunting.
He wanted to get away some
where and collect his thoughts.
For the present, at least, he
wished to avoid an interview with Mrs.
Cortlandt.
At midday he poured in an open
glade against a hillide to eat his
lunch. Back of him the rising ground
was heavily timbered; beneath him a
confusion of thickets and groves and
cleared fields led out of a green plain
as clean as any golf lakes, upon which
were scattered dwellings.
Exactly this was the Savannas of
which he had heard so much and these
A
"You must look where you go," she admonished.
"You must look where you go," she admonished.
foreign looking bungalows were the country homes of the rich Panamanians.
The wood was crowded with plant life utterly strange to him. Vines and creepers abounded, from the tiny honeynuckle that reared itself with feeble filaments, to the giant liana creeping through the forest like a python, throttling full grown trees in its embrace. On every side was the never ceasing battle for light and the struggle of the weak against the strong.
Tiring of the scene at last, Kirk stumbled out into a cleared space, where he passed with an exclamation of surprise.
A brook had been dammed and widened into a deep, limpid pool to which the clean, white sand of its bottom lent a golden hue. At the lower
Will is apprehended in a wilder field, the mingling death of which filled the globe. To stop suddenly out of an unseen wellhouse, into stab a stone was bewildering and made the American gaze with delight. The place had an air of strictest privacy. A spitting heard mirrored in the depths below invited one to plunge, a pair of iron gymnasium rings were swung by blades to a massive lance, a flight of stone steps led up the bank and into a hot artistically thatched and walled with palm leaves to harmonize with its setting.
After staring about him for a long time he took a lingering, farewell look and turned to retrace his steps, whereupon some one laughed at him softly. He paused abruptly, then turned around. Then with the sweetest foreign accent imaginable he heard some one say:
"You had better cross upon the waterfall, air. There is no bridge above." After an instant, during which he strained his eyes to find the owner of the voice, she laughed again.
"Hero I am in the tree across the pond."
"Oh!" Looking over the fork of a tree trunk, perhaps twice the height of his head above the ground, Antony behold a ravishing face and two very bright eyes. Without removing his gaze he leaned his gun carefully against a bush—freamers have an abominable effect upon hamdryads—and said, "How did you get up there?"
"I climbed up."
"Why didn't you hide under the waterfall?"
"I did not hide, senor. I am trying to reach my orchid."
A little hand appeared beside the face, and a finger pointed to one of the big air plants above her. Kirk behold a marvelous white, dove shaped flower madding upon a slender stalk.
"Do you wish to cross the stream?" she asked.
"Ll you please."
"Walt." The face disappeared. There was a sound behind the twisted tree trunk; a twig fell, then a piece of bark, and the next instant the girl herself stepped into view.
"I was afraid you'd gone for good." acknowledged the young man gravely. He took up his gun and stepped out upon the crest of the dam.
"You must look where you go," she admonished, "or you will fall—plash." She laughed delightfully at the thought.
"Will you promise not to whisk your self away if I look down?" he asked.
"Yes."
But even with this assurance he found it difficult to remove his eyes from her even for the brief instant necessary for a safe passage, and when at last he stood beside her he felt an irresistible desire to seize gently so that she could not escape.
"Well," she said at length, and he found he had been standing stock still staring at her for several seconds.
"Excuse me! I really took you for a wood nymph. I'm not sure yet. You see, the place is so well suited. It it was a natural mistake."
She dropped her eyes shyly and turned away at his look.
"It is only our swimming pool. There have been no fairies here since I was a very little girl. But once upon a time there were many—oh, a great many!" It was impossible to describe the odd, sweet sound her tongue gave to the English words. It was not a dialect, hardly an recent, just a delicious, hostile mannerism born of unfamiliarity.
"Did you ever see them?"
"Nine! I arrived always a little too late. But there are such things."
She pointed to a path, saying:
"This way will bring you to the road, sir, if you wish."
"But-I don't wish-not yet." He sought wildly for an excuse to stay and exclaimed: "Oh, the orchid. I must get it for you."
"That will be very nice of you, sir. For two years I have availed its blooming. If you had not arrived I would have got it anyhow."
"Girls shouldn't climb trees," he said severely. "It tears their dresses."
"Oh, one cannot tear a dress like this." She glanced down at her skirt. Allowing his eyes to leave her face for a moment, Kirk saw that she was elad, oddly enough, in a suit of denim which was buttoned singly clear to her neck.
He broke his gun and removed the shells; then, leaving it beside the bathhouse, went to the tree where he had first seen her. With one hand resting upon the trunk, he turned to say:
"Promise you won't disappear while I'm up there or change into a squirrel or a bird or anything like that."
Then instead of beginning his climb the young man lounged lily against the tree.
"Funny how I found you, wasn't it" he remarked. "I mean it's funny I should have stumbled right on you this way. There's only one of you and one of me, and—er—this country is so big!" "But the orchid, senor. Do you fear to climb so high?" she liquored, with the faintest gleam of amusement at his obvious effort to prolong the conversation.
"Oh, no!"
When he had reached the first fork he turned and scented himself comfortably, peering downward through the leaves for a sight of her.
"Not gone yet!" he exclaimed. "That's good."
"Are you out of breath that you stop, so soon!"
He nodded. "I need to rest a minute. Say, my name is Anthony—Kirk Anthony." Then, after a pause. "I'm an American."
"So am I, at least I am almost. My mother was an American."
"You don't say!" The young man's face lighted up with interest, and he started eagerly down the tree trunk, but she checked him promptly.
"The orchid!"
"Oh, yes!" He reacted himself.
"Well, well. I suppose your mother taught you to speak English!"
"I also attended school in Baltimore."
Now that the first surprise of meeting was over, Kirk began a really asti-
lively scrapping of this delightful young person, with first glimpse had told him she was vivaciously pretty, but it had failed to show how dandy and small she was. Her third shorn key in a certain white woven vivacity. Even now paws attached looked out of her eyes as she adorned:
"Have you rested enough to attack the orchid?
"Yes." He rounded himself from his trance, and with a strangely leaping heart proceeded carefully to detach the big air plant from its resting place.
"Don't break it." she cautioned as he came gingerly down the tree. "It is what we call 'Explirir Santa', the holy spirit' flower. See, it is like a white bird."
"May I rest a moment? I'm awfully tired."
"Certainly. You may-stay as long as you wish. When you are resisted the little path will bring you out." "But you mustn't go!" he exclaimed in a panic as she turned away. "Oh. I say, please! You wouldn't do a thing like that?" "I cannot speak to you this way, sit!" The young lady blushed prettily. "Why not. I'd like to know?" "Oh!" She rushed her hand and shook her head to express the also lute impossibility of such a thing. "Already I have been terrible. What will Stephanie say?" "You've been nothing of the sort, and who is Stephanie?"
"I'm so tired that I must sit down. I thought these country places were unoccupied at this season."
"So they are. But, you see. I am doing a penance. I am a bad girl. I am disobedient. Otherwise, I would not allow you to speak to me alone like this. You are the first gentleman I have ever been so long in the company with, Senior Antonio. For six months I must wear these garments—no pretty ones. I must not go out in public also, and I have been sent away from the city for a time to cure my rebellious spirit."
"These dresses must be hot."
"Oh, very uncomfortable! But, you see, I was bad."
"Not very bad?"
"Indeed. I disobeyed my father, my uncle, everybody." For the first time, her eyes grow bright with anger. "But I did not wish to be unmarried."
"Now I see. They wanted you to marry some fellow you don't like." It is awful to marry somebody you don't like," he declared, with such earnest conviction that she inquired quickly: "Ah, then are you married?"
that are you married?
"No. But everybody says it's positively criminal to marry without love."
"The gentleman is very handsome."
He shuddered. "Howare of shand some men. If you have any idea of marriage select a large, plain man with blue eyes and light hair."
"I do not know such a person."
"Not yet, of course--that is, not well enough to marry him."
"It is not nice to speak of such things," said the young lady grimly. "And it is not nice also to speak with strange gentlemen who come out of the forest when one is doing penance."
"Will you catch it for talking to me?"
"Oh, yes. It is not allowed."
"Then I suppose I'd better leave." Anthony settled himself more comfortably upon the bench. "And yet there is nothing really wrong about it, is there? Why, it's done every day in my country. Besides, who's going to know?"
"The padre. I tell him everything." "How does a fellow ever get acquainted with a girl down here? How does he get a chance to propose?" "One's people attend to that, of course," she unnaged to say at length, then changed the subject quickly. "What did you say is your whole name?"
"Kirk Anthony."
"Keerk! It has a funny sound, has it not?"
"I never noticed it. And yours?"
"My name is Chiquita."
He repeated it after her. "It's pretty. What is your last name?"
"That is it. If I told you my first name you could not use it. It would not be proper."
"It ought to be something like Ariel. That means 'spirit of the air and water,' I believe. Ariel Chiquita. No, they don't go together. See here, Miss Chiquita, may I call on you?"
"Oh! She lifted her brows in amazement. 'Such Ideas! Of a certainly not.'"
"Why?"
"You do not understand. Our young men do not do those things."
"Then I'll do whatever is customary—really I will—but I'm awfully anxious to see you again—and"
"I do not know you. My father"
"I'll look up Mr. Chiquita and be introduced."
At this the young lady began to rock back and forth in an abandon of merriment.
"For two weeks yet I must remain here alone with Stephanie. She regarded him mournfully. "Every day I must do my penance and think of my sins and—perhaps look for orchids."
"Tomorrow?" he inquired breathlessly.
"Do you intend to hunt orchids to tomorrow?"
Instead of answering she started to her feet with a little cry, and he did likewise. Back of them had sounded an exclamation—it was more like the snort of a wild animal than a spoken word—and there, ten feet away, stood a tall, copper colored negress, her green blasing, her nostrils dilated, a look of utmost tury upon her face.
"Stephanie," exclaimed the girl, "you frightened me!
The negress strode to her, speaking rapidly in Spanish, then turned upon Kirk.
"What do you want here?" she cried menactly. She had thrust her charge behind her and now pierced him with her eyes.
"Miss Chiquita"—he began, at which that young lady broke into another
PACER
peal of silvery lugater and chattered to her servant. But her words, instead of placating the black woman, only added to her fury. She pointed with quivering hand to the path along the creek bank and cried:
"Go! Go quick, you man!" They To her charge: "You had, bad: Go to the house!"
"Miss Chiquita hasn't done anything to make you baffy. I came out of the woods yonder, and she was good enough to direct me to the road."
But Stephanie was not to be apposed. She stamped her flat foot and repeated her command in so savage a tone that Kirk perceived the uselessness of trying to explain. He looked appealingly at the girl, but she merely nodded her head and motioned him to be gone.
That evening he sat for a long time aloud on the gallery of his hotel, his spirit uplifted with the joy of love, a thousand whispering voices in his ears. And when at last he fell asleep it was to dream of an olive, face with eyes like black panies.
[TO BE CONTINUED]
Burglar made the biggest haul on record in Schuylkill county when they looted the home of the late W. L. Sheafer, in Pottsville, Pa., of $10,000 worth of jewelry and many other articles.
Sheafer was a millionaire when he died, a year ago, and his handsome home is filled with costly brie-brane and jewels. The burglar was one of extreem audacity, the robbers breaking open a window in the full glare of electric lights to gain an entrance to the house.
Among the valuable jewels stolen were a $250 string of seed pearls, set in medallions, $800 diamond brooch, $300 ring set with three diamonds and rubles, $500 large amethyst pendant, set with diamonds, $500 lavalliere set with diamonds, pearl earrings, gold bangles, gold watches, diamond stickpins and necklaces.
The police have no clew to the robbers and it is believed that they have escaped from the region.
PUT DYNAMITE IN U. S. OFFICE
Watchman Confesses Placing Explosive to Win Promotion.
Five sticks of dynamite, with burning fuses attached, were found in the department of agriculture under the office of Secretary Houston in Washington. The fuses were extinguished before damage was done.
An employee of the department discovered the dynamite by accident and extinguished the fuses. The sticks were taken to police headquarters for examination.
The watchman who said he discovered the dynamite was hold pending investigation. Officers went in search of another employee, recently discharged, who had been making threats.
Later at police headquarters it was said that Jauck confessed he had put the dynamite under the secretary's office, hoping that by discovering it he would win a promotion. His home is in Springfield Ohio. Jauck, who formerly was a private in the army, is said to have been under treatment for nervous trouble recently at the National Soldier's Home hospital. Assistant Secretary B. T. Galloway was in his office adjoining that of the secretary at the time the explosive was found. Secretary Houston is in Missouri attending the commencement of the University of Missouri.
Anaient Gallantry
The respect and veneration paid to the fair sex formed an essential ingredient in chivalry. Plaintiff of female adoration no predominently displayed in every aspect of chivalry extended its influence to the laws of the times, for we find James II. of Angon ordering in this manner: "We will that every man, whether knight or no, who shall be in company with a lady pass safe and unmolested unless he be guilty of murder."
And Louis II., Duke of Bourbon, instituting the order of the Golden Shield, enjoins his knights to honor, above all, the ladies and not permit any one to shadder, sheen, "because," also be, "from them, after God, comes all the house that man can annuity."
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The Disastrous Result of a Streak of Enterprise.
That Idea to Draw Business Brings Unexpected Developments and Leads Heset Hans to Bawail the Avarious Side of Human Nature.
By M. QUAD.
[Copyright, 1914, by Associated Literary Press.]
PEESNESS vhns pad mit me when dot little tatter comes in und says:
"Hans, you vhns a good cobbler, but a poor peasen man, and if you don't do deferent you vhns a failure und der poorhouse."
"How can I do deferent?" I asks.
"It vhns all in offering attractions," he says.
"You must gif something to each and cafery customer. I gif avhay two brass collar buttons to cafery caller, and my tailor shop vhns full all der time."
For two days I don't know what to buy, but den I pallet it vina shoeblacking. I buy twenty boxes for 4 cents apiece and put 'em in the window, und der painter makes me a sign to read, "One Box Free to Eafery Customer." I look into dot window and vina pleased, und my wife says we shall be rich in two weeks. Purity soon a man comes in to get a patch on his shoe. He saw my sign and says:
"Maybe you take me for a cheap man who lives on der sixth floor?"
"But how vina it?" says I.
"How vina it? Vy, you had better go around among some cobbler shops and see how it vina. Don't you know dot der man on der next block is gifting avayah a shoebrush, a box of blacking and a pair of shoefrings to eafery customer? I will take my job down to him!"
He goes avyh, and I vhs hurt in
my feelings, and while I vhs trying to
figure out how a cobbler can gif
avhy 25 cents on a fifteen cent job
a woman comes in. She wants a child's
shoe fixed for 10 cents. She sees dot
sign and says:
"Do you polley I shall gif you my
work and take a box of blocking when
other cobblers are offering, granite
ware, tea and coffee pots? Gif me back
dot shoe?"
Der next caller was a man who
wants a pair of shoe strings. I make
shust a cent on dot pair, and I vhs
almost happy when der man sees dot
free blacking and says:
"Vhell, vhell, so it vhs a box free to
cafery customer! Vhell, it vhs a good
idea. I'll take a box along mit me, and
as my brother and sister will be in
some day dis week I'll take der boxes
now."
I lost shust 'leven cents by dot trade.
I vhs pegging avyh when in comes a
ONE BOX FREE TO EASY CUSTOMER
COBBLER
"I LOOK INTO DOT VINDOW."
man mit a twenty cent job, but he keeps der shoe in his hand und says:
"My friend, maype you wasn't long in America?"
"Only three years," says I.
"Und maype you believe you know der peoples und can deceive 'em?"
"I neffer deceive somebody."
"Oh, you don't! Look at dis sign und doe boxes und tell me you whas a square man. It whas a Cheap John trick to beat innocent peoples. Do you belief I leave a job for you und accept a fife cent box of blacking when some other cobbler whill gife me a gas stove or a refrigerator?"
"But how can he do it?" I says.
"Dot whas none of my peasants so long as he does it."
Der next caller whas a womans, and she whas mad because I don't gift avyah sowing machines. Dot earnings I goes by dot tailor und told him all about it. He says:
"Vhell, dot beats me. I know all der
womans will pay 10 cents car fare and
push and jam two hours to safe a cent
on a cake of soap."
"But maype it vhas der deference
between a store und a cobbler shop,
says I.
"By golly, Hans, dot vhas it! A cobbler
shop vhas not a store, and peoples
expect too much of it."
"I doan yet yet what I shall do mit
dot blacking when a man comes along
and begins to put der boxes in a bag.
"What is it? I says."
Grand Lodge,
Mayor of the City of Richmond will deliver a Welcome Address to the Order. Other Distinguished Speakers from All Over the State will take part in the Programme. Fine Music!
The Hippodrome Theatre
Has been Lea and the management Lodge and Grand Two Performances
Has been Leased for TUESDAY N and the management will give a Grand Lodge and Grand Court. Admission. Two Performances-8:15 and 10:00 P.
Has been Leased for TUESDAY NIGHT for the pleasure of our visitor and the management will give a Grand Entertainment in Honor of the Grand Lodge and Grand Court. Admission, 10 Cents; Reserved Seats, 20 Cents Two Performances—8:15 and 10:00 P. M.
City Auditorium. 8:30 P. M.
Grandest Public Auditorium, Wednesday General from the and display the Art Africa. Hon. Harold with his brilliant speech, March, will also issue News, Va., who will be on the pro- Leader; The Sabbatan will furnish music for take part. Ad
Thursday, June Gameall Bangq
The Grandest Monad will take place his Mounted Staff with First Regiment under command of various parts of the Grand Lift take place at the Bar will give a Display Lift
Base Ball Game 4:30 P.M. A
The Pythian Cave and Pleasure as to the season at the Anor money in endeavor gathering of people by others than invite The Uniform Riversity Grounds and going on every hour Dress-Parade at 600-tary Exercises can be Board and Lodge of Committee on Hitsiments will be made in Come to Richmond and see it lines. Come!
JOHN MITCOT (MISS) M. L. CHILD
Grandest Public Meeting ever held
Auditorium, Wednesday night, June 16
General from the Republic of Liberia
and display the African Flag and some
Africa. Hon. Harry S. Cummings, who
with his brilliant speech and dignified be-
March, will also favor us again. Lawy-
News, Va., who was one of the K. of
will be on the program. Second Baptist
Leader; The Sabbath Glee Club and Col.
will furnish music for the occasion. Other
will take part. Admission Free! Public
Thursday, June 18th, 1914,
Gamell Banquet!!!
The Grandest Military Pageant that
mon will take place at 1:30 on Thursday.
his Mounted Staff will be followed by First
Regiment under command of Col. T.
under command of Col. Archer Drew,
various parts of the State are expected to
Grand Press Parade and Bright
take place at the Base Ball Park. The B
will give a Display Drill. A fine time to w
Base Ball Game between two
4:30 P.M. Admission to D.
BANQUET.10
The Pythian Castle, 727 North Thir-
dle and Pleasure as 1000 or 1200, people will
the season at the Annual Banquet. The
nor money in endeavoring to make this
gathering of people in the Historic City of
any others than invited guests, 50 Cents.
The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythia-
iversity Grounds and the Public is Coralis-
going on every hour. Special Features:
Dress Parade at 6:00 P.M. Company D
fairy Exercises can be witnessed every day.
Board and Lodging, $1.00 per day. W
of Committee on Homes, 121 W. Charity
ments will be made in advance.
Come to Richmond and have the gr
Richmond and see its business thrift and co-
ines. Come!
JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Chairm
(MISS) M. L. CHILES, Secretary, COL. 7
Grandest Public Meeting ever held by Colored People will be at the City Auditorium, Wednesday night, June 17, 1914. Hon. Ernest Lyon, Const. General from the Republic of Liberia, Africa will address the audience and display the African Flag and some other Souvenirs of the Continent of Africa. Hon. Harry S. Cummings, who captivated the people of Richmond with his brilliant speech and dignified bearing in the Anniversary Exercises in March, will also favor us again. Lawyer J. Thomas Newsome, of Newport News, Va., who was one of the K. of P. attorneys at the Baltimore session will be on the program. Second Baptist Church Choir, Col. T. M. Crump, Leader; The Sabbath Glee Club and Col. U. S. G. Patterson, of Lynchburg, Va. will furnish music for the occasion. Other distinguished members of the Order will take part. Admission Free! Public Invited!
Thursday, June 18th, 1914, Grand Parade, Baseball Game!! Banquet!!!
The Grandest Military Pageant that has ever graced the streets of Richmond will take place at 1:30 on Thursday. General John Mitchell, Jr. with his Mounted Staff will be followed by First Brigade, Uniform Rank, K. of P- First Regiment under command of Col. Thomas M. Crump; Second Regiment under command of Col. Archer Drew, of Norfolk, Va. 22 Companies in various parts of the State are expected to be in line.
Grand Press Parade and Brigade and Regimental Maneuvers will take place at the Base Ball Park. The Pythian Cadet Battalion of Richmond will give a Display Drill. A fine time to witness the display of Military Tactics.
Base Ball Game between two out of the city teams at 4:30 P.M. Admission to Drill and Game only 10cts:
The Pythian Castle, 727 North Third Street, will be the scene of Gayety and Pleasure as 1000 or 1200 people will be served with all the delicacies of the season at the Annual Banquet. The Committee has spared neither nor money in endeavoring to make this the finest banquet served to a large gathering of people in the Historic City of Richmond. Admission to Bangat by others than invited guests, 50 Cents.
The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias will encamp on the Va. Union University Grounds and the Public is cordially Invited Out. Something will be going on every hour. Special Features: Guard Mount at 7:00 A., M. and Dress Parade at 6:00 P.M. Company Drills, Battalion Drills and other Military Exercises can be witnessed every day.
Board and Lodging, $1.00 per day. Write to Sir S. M. Wilson, Chairman of Committee on Homes, 121 W. Charity Street, Richmond, Va. and assignments will be made in advance.
Come to Richmond and have the grandest time of your life! Come to Richmond and see its business thrift and evidences of racial progress along all lines. Come!
JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Chairman, Committee of Arrangements (MISS) M. L. CHILES, Secretary, COL. THOS. M. CRUMP, G. K. of R. & S.
"She this daz yellow peril, and I con
fascate her. One dollar, Mr. Cobbler."
"For what?"
"For my troubles."
Und he takes my dollar und all my
blacking and goes avail!
In a Dilemma.
One of London's charming young suf-
fragette said: "I want to get marri-
rid just to prove that I can, and I
don't want to get married just to prove
that I don't have to. If I don't they'll
say I can't; if I do they'll say I have
no more independence than any other
woman."—T. P.'s London Weekly.
All Is the Game.
Stern Parent—William, how did you
tear your trousers so? Future Star
(tearfully). I—I—I—was practicing the
fallaway slide. 8. P—Is that so? Well
you come out in the woodshed and I’ll
give you a demonstration of the hit and
run—Buffalo Express.
Improved.
"How do you like your alarm clock?"
naked the jeweler.
"First rate."
"You didn’t seem pleased with it at
sud."
"No, but it’s broken now."—London
Th. Bitts.
ced for TUESDAY NIGHT for the
ent will give a Grand Entertainment
Court. Admission, 10 Cents; Ra
--8:15 and 10:00 P. M.
The Meeting ever held by Colored People Tuesday night, June 17, 1914. Hire the Republic of Liberia, Africa with African Flag and some other Souvenirs. S. Cummings, who captivated the speech and dignified bearing in the favor us again, Lawyer J. Thomas was one of the K. of P. attorneys. Program. Second Baptist Church High Glee Club and Col. U. S. G. Patte for the occasion. Other distinguished mission Free! Public Invited!
June 18th, 1914, Grand Jubilee!!!
Military Pageant that has ever graced at 1:30 on Thursday. General will be followed by First Brigade, U.S. Command of Col. Thomas M. C. Col. Archer Drew, of Norfolk, W. State are expected to be in line. Press Parade and Brigade and Register Ball Park. The Pythianian Drill. A fine time to witness the dismine between two out of the admission to Drill and Clerk BANQUET 10:00 P.M. Castle, 727 North Third Street, will be 10 or 1200 people will be served with annual Banquet. The Committee is favoring to make this the finest banquet in the Historic City of Richmond-lived guests, 50 Cents, knight, Knights of Pythias will encamp and the Public is cordially Invited Mr. Special Features: Guard Mount P. M. Company Drills, Battalion we witnessed every day. Bring $1.00 per day. Write to Sir S. Homes, 721 W. Charity Street, Richmond advance. Send and have the grandest time of its business thrift and evidences of re
THELL., JR., Chairman, Committee, ES, Secretary, COL. THOS. M. CR.
Physical Energy
Perhaps you do not know it, but when you walk a distance of ten miles you expend enough force, could it be all collected, to raise 800 tons one foot from the ground. Of this enormous quantity of energy the legs are responsible, for 150 tons, the heart for 100, the lungs for twenty-two and the bulk of the remainder is wasted in the heat given off from the body. In severe athletic competitions, such as running, rowing and boxing, you must be in such a condition as to be able to exert, by your limbs alone, each minute as much force as would lift 5,800 pounds one foot above the ground.
When a powerful man works for twenty-four hours with all his might the energy he expends is equal to lifting a third class cruiser, and during his life he dispasses enough power to carry his body at death to the sun. These statements may at first sight seem extraordinary, but will not seem so when it is remembered that two ounces of bread contains the potential energy of 150 tons—Pearson's.
Buying on island.
The story of the settlement of Tanner island, in Champagne bay, as told by J. M. Church in his book about the island and its isolated timber, one
does that of the famous sale of Manhattan:
"You gentlemen ain't never heard how-Tangier got settled." It were by a man from the eastern shore settlements back in 1707- more'n 200 years ago. The island were the home of a tribe of Indians, and this hero man Post got the idea of raisin' stock on it. So he runs over and tells the Indians that the colonists are- gain' to come and massacre them and they'd better get out the way. That scared the Indians, all right, and they sailed over to the western shore of Virginia. But before they went Post said, as the island wasn't gain' to be any more use to 'em, be'd buy it off them. The chief agreed, so Post gave him two old overcrops, and the island was his. Then he brung over five families and a panel's horses and cows."
How to Use Muslin Sugar Books.
A practical housewife states that she has carefully cared for all muslin sugar sacks and has found them very useful during the summer to skip over dishes of cooked food when they could not be put in the cellar or a refrigerator and it was necessary to protect the food from heat or possible insects.
This is useful for the country housewife, who does not always have the modern improvements.
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First Anatomical Museum.
In the middle of the sixteenth century the first anatomical museum was founded in Wittenberg, Germany, by the talented Leonard Fox. In 1558 the faculty was given the power to dissect bodies of executed criminals. Over the door of the museum was this inscription:
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Commanded the Prince
As Prince of Wales the late King Edward attended the Guildhall to provide over the centenary banquet of the Iron and Metal Warc institution. The lord mayor, Sir John Knill, was also an invited guest. As the prince and the lord mayor reached the top table his royal highness made way and said, "My lord mayor, there is your sent." The lord mayor replied, "No, your royal highness."
The prince then said, "Excuse me you are king of the city, and that is your rightful place."
His lordship's reply to this was, "Well, your highness, if I am king of the city, then I command you, sir, to take the chair."-London Tit-Bita.
Knots In Harness
To loosen knots in harness, strap, coil, ropes, or even showwrings, hammer the knot on all sides with a mallet or a place of wood, turning the strap or rope around, then dip in boiling water, holding it there a minute or two, according to size of knot to be loosed. Before doing so add a little soap to the water, then with a sharply pointed instrument pick the knot loose. It can often be done with the fingers. Knaces that have been pulled in harness or ropes for months or years can be loosed readily—Exchange.
Directions:
It is related by Thoreau that a traveller once asked Wordsworth's service to show him, her mentor's study, to which request she replied, "Here is his library, but his study is out of order."
HE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR COLORED TEACHERS OF BOTH SEXES AT THE
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. Tuttup 25 cents per subject unless other arrangements have been made.
Limited accommodations. Send $1 and have room reserved in advance. For further information write at once to JAMES B. DUDLEY, President or D. J. JORDAN, Director, A. A. M. College, Greensboro, N. C.
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N. & W. NORFO
ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK.
Schedule in Effect December 1, 1913.
Leave Bird Street Station, NORFOLK,
9:20 A.M. M, 9:30 P.M. M, 10:00 P.M.
FOR LENNABURG AND THE WEST: 6:15 A.M.
M, 9:20 A.M. M, 9:30 P.M. M, 10:30 P.M.
M, Attending on Norfolk: 11:10 A.M.
M, 10:30 P.M. M, Attending on the West:
6:00 A.M. M, 8:10 P.M. M, 8:10 P.M.
M, 9:00 P.M. M
On Saturday E. Sun., Sunday Island Cly.
W. H. B. Train, Traffic Manager.
C. S. CANVAS, Va.
C. H. BOSLYS, D. P. A., Richmond, Va.
ATLANTIC COAST LINK
RICHMOND DAILY
For Florida and South A. M. and 6290
P. M. 12:50 A. M.
For Norfolk: 9:00 A. M, 3:00 P. M, 6:10 P. M,
For N. A. W. Rw. West: 6:15 A. M, 9:00 A. M,
3:00 P. M, 9:20 P. M
For New York: 12:00 A. M, 6:15 A. M, 6:18
A. M, 9:00 P. M, 9:50 A. M, 9:00 P. M,
6:10 P. M, 6:16 P. M, 6:35 P. M, 9:20 P. M,
11:45 P. M
For Goldstein and Favertille #410 P M
Training Air Service Daily: 8:30 A. M.
11:40 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 12:00 A. M. 10:45 A. M.
11:40 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 12:00 A. M. 10:45 A. M.
6:00 P. M. 6:35 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 9:00 P. M.
11:30 P. M
Airport Sunday: 6:35 daily only.
Type of aircraft and departure and connections
notated.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Premier Carrier of the South.
Trainee Lease Richmond: Main Street Station
published as information and not guaranteed.
For the South Dally: 5:55 A.M. M - Local 10:18
East Dally: 6:00 P.M. M - Express with Electric Lift: 6:00 P.M. M - Express for Atlanta and Richmond: 11:30 P.M. M - Express Week Days: 3:00 P.M. M - Local
YORK RIVER LINE.
5:30 P.M. M - steam train (park car), except Sunday; no local train. M - Hull, local. Connecting for Baltimore, daily, except Sunday. 7:55 A.M. M - except Sunday
TRAINS AIRLINE RICHMOND.
From York: 6:30 P.M. M and 8:55 A.M. M.
12:15 P.M. M dull day. Sunday.
From West Point: 6:45 A.M. M (steamer Sunday). daily except Monday: 9:40 A.M. daily; 6:45 P.M. except Sunday.
EAST DALLY.
East Dally: 6:00 P.M. M - Express with Electric Lift: 6:00 P.M. M - Express for Atlanta and Richmond: 11:30 P.M. M - Express Week Days: 3:00 P.M. M - Local
C. & O.
19 61 A - Express, Italy - Norfolk, Old Point,
19 61 A - Express, Italy - Lüburg, Luttonston,
19 61 A - Citizen Pigeon
B-10 North Express—Dally Norfolk, Old Point,
B-10 East Express—Dally Norfolk, Old Point,
B-10 Local—Dally Newport, Old Point,
B-10 Local—Except Sunday (Charleston, Ill),
B-10 Local—Except Sunday (Charleston, Ill),
B-10 Local—Except Sunday (Charleston, Ill)
Chelsea - Linden - Daily - Cincinnati, Louisville
6:00 P M - Daily - Cincinnati, Chicago,
St. Louis
*10:00 P - Dylan - Daily - Cincinnati, Louisville,
Shreveport - Tampa - Fair
THAUSS ARRIVE RICHMOND - From East: 11:50
9:20 A M - 10:00 P M. Through East: 11:50
9:20 A M - 10:00 P M. Local from West: 11:50
9:20 A M - 10:00 P M. Local from East: 11:50
9:20 A M - 10:00 P M. Local from West: 11:50
Jones River Linc: **10:00 A M, 10:00 P M
Daily
Daily except Sunday.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Southbend trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily 9:00 A.M.-Local to Norfolk 1:10 P.M.
M. Sisters and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Jacksonville, H155 P.M.-Joypers and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis 1:00 A.M. Sisters and coaches, Jacksonville.
Southbend trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily 8:35 A.M., 7:40 A.M., 8:05 P.M., 6:00 P.M. Local.
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SATURDAY.....JUNE 13, 1914.
THAT COAT OF WHITE-WASH.
The Board of Police Commissioners extended courteous treatment to the communication of the Colored Civic League. It cited instances where officers had been injured by colored disreputable elements and considered this as affording sufficient justification for the killing of Thomson. The man who did the injury were actually guilty. This colored man was known to be innocent and was not in possession of a deadly weapon. Even the man who killed him states that he threw rocks at him. He evidently became frightened and forgot that he was sent out to arrest a guilty man and not to kill an innocent one.
Of the number of policemen injured by white crooks during the past fifty years, we have not heard of the killing of one innocent white man as a result of it.
Everything indicates that Detective Sergeant Fred L. Krengle is sent to belong to an undertaking's establishment and not upon the police force of Richmond. It might be well to detail an undertaker to go around with him, when he is sent out to arrest people, who oblige to being hauled to and put in the lock-up when they have committed no crime.
General Villa in Mexico is anxious for recruits. For Gods sake, give Officer Krenz a chance, and let him go to Mexico. They are anxious down there for a few more Americans. They have to make sure that he is coming from Social Office in Mexico.
GOOD NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
The following telegraph report will prove to be interesting reading to those colored men, who followed the Democratic leaders in general and President Woodrow Wilson in particular during the last presidential campaign.
Washington, June 16. A threatened break between the president and members of his own party in the senate from the South was indicated today on account of the announced intention of the president to appoint a Negro as recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia. The other is now filled by a Negro appointee of President Taft. He hails from Georgia. Senator Hoise Smith pointed out to the president recently what he considered good reasons why the incumbent should be removed. He learned, to his surprise and disappointment, that if the president removed the incumbent he would appoint a Negro to fill the place.
This was strenuously objected to not only by Senator Smith, but by other Southern senators. The president is said to have informed some of the Southern senators who came to protest that he was under some commitment made for him by his managers in the last campaign, that Negroes should not be deprived of offices now enjoyed by the race and that when incumbents were put out their places should be filled by Negroes. In the event the president adheres to the program of redeeming pre-election pledges made to the Negroes by his managers, his nominations of Negroes for office will be held up in the senate indefinitely.
This means that the distinguished occupant of the White House, whose remarkable leadership has surprised the world in now ready and willing to "keep the faith" with that large body of colored men, who risked their all in the support of the Democratic Party and its principles.
The Chief Executive has taken high ground. Certainly with the tens of thousands of officers now being held by white men, there could be naught else but simple justice to supplant colored office-holders with colored office-holders.
The nomination and confirmation of Judge Robert H. Terrell showed conclusively that President Roosevelt would recognise ability and sterling integrity even in a citizen
of color. The man who would wilfully deny to deserving colored Democrats simple justice are now receiving information which will tend to show them that a statesman is in the White House rather than a designing politician.
Who will be nominated for the position? As we before proposed, if a colored man cannot be confirmed, let the colored man who has been confirmed by a former United States Senate hold the office.
Notes From Leesburg (Ya.)
Mr. William Holmes, of Middleburg spent the week end in Leesburg.
Mr. Gransville Wetherall of Warrenton spent the week end in Leesburg.
Mr. George Dawson, of Middleburg spent the week end in town on business.
Mr. George Glover of Washington, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson on Waverly Height.
Mr. Daniel Berry is much improved Miss Phenice Dawson, of Washington was the guest of Mrs. Robert Williams for two weeks. On Wednesday she entertained at her residence at Ashburn. Miss Howard of Washington poured the tea and to meet her were Miss Beckle Monroe, Miss Battle Harper, Miss Ida Guskine, Miss Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Rogue, Mr. Ernest Cravens, Mr. Guskine, Mrs. Lester Johnson, Mrs. Fowes.
Mrs. Henry Blue, of Washington was the guest of her mother, Sunday.
Mrs. John Alexander of Philippburg. Pa. is the guest of her brother, Mr. George W. Jackson, this week. She will leave Monday for home.
Mrs. Henry Jackson, of Mt. Vernon Va. was the guest of her laughter Sunday.
Mrs. Lula Woodzen has a fine son at last.
Mrs. Mary Davis is suffering from a slight stroke of paralysis.
Roy. W. R. Manley preached for us Sunday night, a very exceptional sermon from Gal. 4.5
Bro. Grandson of Falla Church, will take charge of Children's day. He will make things hum new Sunday. Dr. E. D. Tyler will be at his post of date.
Mr. Willie Spiller, of New York is visiting his parents the week end.
Mrs. Thompson, of Washington and two friends were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Hieles on Sunday.
Our sign are improving.
Mr. James Sewell will leave this week for Athletic City, where she will remain for the Summer.
Prof. K. H. Tyler is still on the sign.
Larvalle (Va.) News.
Farmville, Va. June 5. The dry spell has affected the financial interest in this entire section. We have not had rain here to amount to much in six or eight weeks. The garden and crops in this section are suffering much. Unless a deeply change the future has in store much suffering for the people. It is important the two white conglomerations. Not only and Presbyterians prayed for rain. The good Baptists of course are sending up their petition really. They will do more.
I have A. C. Kirriss practiced a
saint's work in South Africa, but
at First Baptist Church in conditi-
nation to church members go-
ing land in East with the world. Have
of T. C. Walker be present, in de-
fensive remarks, in which he spouses
of the large number of other man and
woman after leaving the various instruc-
tions of learning tabbed to help
left the masses of our people, to
their training in many instances,
a culture. Mr. Walker further add,
that public school teachers who were
just teaching for 'the money and
would not take a part in Sunday
School and Church work ought to
put out of the public schools. This
language spoken for itself.
On Sunday morning, June 31, Rev. R. G. Adams preached a special sermon "He've not usually yielded together." There has not been a sermon preached by the Rev. during his six years' pastorate here whereso much comment has been indulged in and a stronger sentiment created against deception practiced among the young people, confusion in the homes and the divorce law.
At 9:00 P. M. an address was delivered by Rev. R. Beecher Taylor, of Richmond, Na. to the Household of Ruth and the Odd Fellows. Mr. Taylor did not surprise us in his manner of entertaining the people. He kept up an interest from start to finish. The members of the fraternity are delighted to have had such wholesome instruction on the principles of the Order. Mr. Taylor is expected to return in the future and repeat the dose.
The K. of P.'s, and Courts of Calanthe are looking forward to the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Virginia in the city of Richmond, which convenes June 16, 17, 18 and 19th. In company with the delegates from this institution there will be quite a number of visitors to the Grand Lodge. Owing to the contention between the Supreme and the Grand Lodge of Virginia, also the victory already achieved by the Grand Lodge through her gallant leader, John Mitchell, Jr., we learn the chairman of the Southwestern district, R. G. Adams, of Farmville, Va., has said "The Southwest, man to man, is for the Grand Lodge of Virginia and John Mitchell, Jr. and will contend for justice to the water's edge."
Doing Around the Breakers.
Hismpton, Va.—Queen St. Baptist Church, Rev. T. H. Shorta, D. D. pastor—We are being, most wonderfully blessed by having with us "Evangelist" Rev. W. H. Skipwith, one of the most remarkable soulwinners for God I have ever listened to. Our church and community are being revived and the speaker is not wanting for an audience, but the best
of all, souls are being born into the Kingdom of God. The only regret we have is, our brother's short stay. After this week we will be able to say more.
Investment Property For Sale.
2 brick tenements on Second St. rental, $480.00; price, $4,200.00.
2 detached brick buildings on 3rd St. rental, $720.00; price, $7,200.
Detached frame store and dwelling fronting two streets, Leigh, and Williams, rental, $132.00; price, $4,500.00.
Three 4 room frame tenements on Cabell St., corner property, rental, $362.00; price, $2,500.00.
Corner store and dwelling on Moore St. with modern improvements, rental, $480.00; price, $3,500.00.
We have other properties that we will sell or trade.
B. A. CEPHAS, Corner Second and Leigh Streets.
MOUNTAIN EXCURSION
VIA SOUTHERN KAILAWAN
To Asheville, Black Mountain, Hendersonville, Hot Springs, Lake Toxaway and Waynesville, North Carolina.
Tuesday, June 10th, 1911.
Ten Days in "The Land of the Sky," "Sapphire Country," "The Balsams" At Minimum Cost.
Tickets on sale for all regular trains of Tuesday, June 16th, from Richmond West Point, South Boston, Danville, Chase City and intermediate stations; good returning leaving destinations not later than June 26th, 1911.
Fare Round Trip, from Richmond to Danville, $5.00, from Danville, $5.00 from South Boston, $5.50 from Danville, $5.25 from West Point, $5.00, Proportional terms to other reports named and from all intermediate stations West Point to Danville and Chase City.
For detailed information booklets on the Western North Carolina Country, Pullman reservations, or write H. L. Bliss(01), D. P. A. Southern Railway Richmond, Va.
Summer Normal at V. U. U.—Reg
istration—Additional Courses
Large Attendance Anticipated.
All Richmond teachers and others who can do so are urged to register and be assigned to classes on Saturday June 20th so that regular class work can begin at 10 o'clock Monday morning, June 22nd. Those who cannot register Saturday will do so Monday morning as soon after 9 o'clock as possible. By beginning class work Monday the necessity of holding classes on a second Saturday will be avoided.
The Palmer System of Penmanship will be taught by Miss Della Casale who has taken special courses in that system. Advanced Basket Work will be given this year by Mrs. Howser. Other subjects, not often offered, will be offered as requested.
A larger number of applications for a mission have been received the previous week and the principal and committee to apply the previous records.
Thorogood Church Delegate
Norfolk, Va. June 11, W. M.
T. Tormond was elected a delegate
from St. Louis, A. W. W. Church to
the electoral colony in Missouri in
Dallasville, Va. In September at
a meeting of the electorate congrat-
lation held Wednesday night. Thorougd
decorated Christmas Palmer by 22 votes
and the election was made unanim-
ous. At the session of the elector-
al colony in St. Louis, the delega-
tors will be elected to represent Vir-
tiana at the election opened to the public in Philadelphia in 1970.
The Palmetto Koolin Co. of Connellin, S.C., J. H. Johnson, Press is shipping large quantities of crude koolin out of the State. This product is used in the manufacture of pottery and chintz are. It is also used in paints and is known as ochre. The plant in South Carolina is controlled by colored men, who seem thoroughly qualified to handle the business.
The Magic City Co. No. 26 was made glad to receive ($25,000) Twenty-five dollars from the Grand Lodge of Virginia for their full appearance in Newport News, Va. 1913, J. H. Fowkes, Captain.
The Old Boys Outing to Princeton, W. Va. was much enjoyed by all who went on June the 10th, 1914, so look for us some time in July.
The Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. was in Roanoke, June the 10th accompanied by Col. R. C. Mitchell and Dr. Frank G. Elliott, Grand Medical Register, to set up a lodge of 37 men and a company of Cadet boys, 32 strong, which were work-up by J. H. Fowkes, District Deputy, assisted by Sir H. L. Shelton, Sir Matron Stainfield and Sir C. R. Hale.
Wise Carter shot and killed his wife, Viola, at No. 312 Height St., June 8, 1914, at 12:30 P. M.
Sir John Chapell is quite ill at his home, 602 Second St. N. E.
James Ferguson has returned to his home from Portsmouth, Va. on account of sickness. Miss Mackle Hart has returned from a visit, from Richmond, Petersburg and Farmville, Va. and expresses her enjoyment of visiting many friends.
God intends that you have continual happiness. You should have it. I want to tell you something. You can be happy. Write. W. C. SPENCER Letter W. Ye
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THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.
I had been shown the Executive Mansion, a qualit structure, the blinds being closed and I was advised that while the previous occupant of that mansion had made it a scene of galaxy, few people visited there now of the aristocratic type. Gov. Blease was as absolutely ostracised as though he was a Republican. He cared little for this isolation. Being of a vindictive spirit, he loses no opportunity to do something that will anger and embarrass his enemies. He is a lawyer by profession and his admiring supporter Blacksmith Thomas Jackson declared that he was one of the best friends, the colored people of South Carolina ever had. "He abuses us," he said, and says hard things about us, but he is all right. This was done for campaign purposes, but no colored man, who is deserving ever goes to blim for aid, but what he gets it."
STAOGERED BY THE STATEMENT
I must admit that, I was staggered, as I sat in the fine residence of Tom Jackson, as he is familiarly called and heard him discourse upon the many fine qualities of the most round hated Southerner, by both white and colored people of any citizen in the country.
His assertions were confirmed by F. E. Gilmer and by Dr. F. H. Goodwin. The colored citizens of Columbia had already organized to support him. They had been a potent factor in electing the present Democratic Mayor of Columbia and now they were lined up for Hof. Cole L. Blegse the reputed Negro-hater of the Southland, who exceeded even Senator Ben Tillman and Senator James K. Vardaman in his antipathy to the black race.
COLORED MEN OUTSPOKEN.
There could be no doubts about it. I was talking to colored men, yes, face to face with colored citizens, who believed in this political leader, who among the masses of the colored people elsewhere is now regarded as the arch-angel of the Devil, if not the Devil himself, so far as questions affecting the race are concerned.
"What about Gov. Blease's chauffeur?" I asked. I had heard of the city officials arresting him for speecling in Columbia, of their tiring him, of Gov. Blease giving bond for the blue and then of his going to the State House and issuing a pardon.
SENT FOR THE CHAUFFEUR.
Tom Jackson was ready in an instant. "Oh!" he said, "that's Harrison Neely. He is right up yonder at the Governor's Mansion. He is a special friend of mine. I will have him here in a few minutes. He called one of his employees and told him to tell Harrison to come down there at once. He wanted to see him. "He'll come," he said confidently. "Why?" said he, "they tied Harrison for speeding and what did Gov. Please do?" He released him and made him drive right over the same course again at the same speed and dared any one to interfere with him.
HOW THE GOVERNOR GOT EVEN.
"For every time, they fined Harrison, he appointed a constable and the city of Columbia had to pay them their salary. He has two on now, drawing salary as a result of the two fines and he threatened to appoint one for every time hereafter that they fine his chauffeur." It was not long before I saw a slender brown skin colored man making his way into the Jackson residence. He had an inquisitive look on his countenance as I stood face to face with what is known in Columbia. South Carolina as "Cole Blease's nigger."
"BLEASE'S NIGGER."
He smiled pleasantly as he stated
that he had been, living with Hon.
Colle B. Please for about seven or
eight years and that he used to drive
his horses. When he got the
automobile, he became his chauffeur.
"How does he treat you." I asked.
"All right," was the response. "He
is good to colored people."
Harrison is a man of dark complexion
and he has a wife and one child.
Here was the situation. A colored man, a member of the down-trodden race, close to the presumed arch Negro-hater. and he, too, was singing his praises, so to speak.
WOULD OBEY THE SOUTH CAROLINIAN.
That he would do what Gov. Cole Blease told him to do, went without saying. He would drive that can just as His Excellency told him to drive it, even if he'dowed all South Carolina in so doing and Gov. Blease would see to it that no harm came to his "niggor." Harrison Neely was safer in South Carolina as "Blease's nigger" than he would be in the same state as his own boss, and as a freeman. This was true all through slavery and this was a continuation of the custom. But Neely had to leave and return to his work. In response to the query, he said that the Governor was at the State House and would leave the city between four and five o'clock.
SOUTHERN PECULIARITIES
Like the average Southern gentleman, if he is your friend nothing is too good for you. If he is your enemy, nothing is too bad for you. Then Tom Jackson got eloquent.
"Why," said he, "a colored woman went to the Executive offices and asked the Secretary there about seeing the Governor. The Governor heard her and had her come in. She asked him for her son, who was in the penthouse. She was borne down with grief. Her plea deeply affected the Governor. He told her he would consider the case.
DECIDED TO RELEASE HIM.
"He thought of it that night app while out in his automobile, he said, 'By God, I am going to give that old woman her son.' He directed that the papers he made out and that the colored woman he sent for. He directed that the convict he brought to his office and he delivered him to his mother. She wont out rejoicing. In explanation of it, he said, 'Do you believe that if that old woman had asked God Almighty for her son, He would have refused her or restored him to her?'
A COLORED MAN BENEFITED-
"A colored man was working on the read, when Gov. Please passed. The Governor spoke to him and found out that he had been in the penitentiary for twenty years for killing a man about his wife. He went to his office and pardoned this colored man. The man came to my shop," said Mr. Jackson. "and I gave him some money to help Him. He was praying God's blessing upon Gov. Please. Much that Gov. Please says is for political effect. He is one of the best men in the world at heart," solemnly asserted Tom Jackson.
I had listened with a sort of awe, broken now and then by questions. I had seen Harrison Needy disappear in the block above and I felt as though I would like to be left alone for awhile and think over the situation, this seeming paradoxical condition, where a man could be for you, and against you at the same time.
Certain it has that these colored men believed in the Hon. Cole E. Blease, Governor of South Carolina. I was being called. I had dined with Mr. Tom Jackson and his Madness and the accomplished Miss of the mansion and so now I wended my way to the residence of Rev. A. P. Dunbar, P. D., and wife, winding up my social engagements in Columbia, South Carolina.
REV. DR. DUNBAR'S CONDITION.
After leaving the residence of Mr. Toma Jackson, I was soon at the home of Rev. A. P. Dunbar and his accomplished Madame. Dinner was being served and with Dr. J. H. Goodwin, we soon again joined in a repast. I met Miss Aberlerea Harris, Miss Sylvester Hairston and Mrs. Emmn Young there.
The residence is well furnished with every convenience. But Rev. Dr. Dunbar was sick and a few moments later, I went upstairs and saw him lying full length on a couch. His arm was bandaged and it was later explained to me that the surgeons had operated to relieve the blood-pressure.
REV. SCOTT'S RESIDENCE.
He expected to be up again soon.
although he looked as though he was indoors for a long stay. I had a long conversation with him and after propheying that he would live to be ninety years of age if no complications met him. I left him for Rev. Dr. C. C. Scott's residence. His son met me at the door and after leaving my card. I was soon again at Dr. Goodwin's residence where I prepared to leave for the station. Mrs. Goodwin was our chauffeur and as we had some spare time, we went through the grounds of Allen University.
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PRESIDENT LEWIE'S FAREWELL
I met, also Grand Keeper of Records and Seal J. A. Lewie, on whose invitation I came to South Carolina and saw, too, soon after where the two rivers came together to form the third river. I had enjoyed the trip. I found that Mr. Entzinger, the Contractor, had under way many magnificent mansions on the most improved plans and I was much interested in his explanations. But space forbids further comment.
I soon boarded the Pullman and as I waved good-bye to my new found friends, went back to my seat and gave myself up to a prolonged reverie. The changing scenes in this life are a study and the surprising conditions presented convinced me that God's hand is still in history and His ways are past finding out. Seeming mysteries are but a demonstration of His all wise power, and practical observations show that He holds the destiny of both races and nations in His hands.
JOHN MITCHELL, JR.
Henry Randolph, 805 Catherine St.
Willmot Puryear, 502 1-2 N. 2nd St.
Willie Lawrence; Elizabeth Ribbinson,
1307 W. Leigh St.; Arthur Brown,
108 E. Baker St.; Theodore Jackson, 915 Denny St.; Leroy James
111 S. 2nd St.; Willie Johnson, 411 W. Duval St.; Corene Bates, 1722 Jacquelin St.; Adda Jones, 1221 N. 17th St.; Elsie Lyon, 1432 Brown St.; James Ruffin, 13 W. Jackson St.; Alfrus Ivory, 1217 W. Leigh St.
Charles Winfree, 1410 W. Moore St.
Vester Jackson, 729 W. Catherine St.
Idn. Smither, 1014 Catherine St.; Melvin Dunn, 4 E. Canal St.; Leroy Wood, 812 N. 5th St.; Estelle Brown, 113 W. Duval St.; Mildred Woodson, 612 N. 8th St.; Daisy Winston, West Leigh St.; Mable Hull, 506 Gordon St.; Willie Smith, 403 N. 14th St.; Casle Thurston, 529 N. 2nd St.; Preston Johnson, N12 N. 6th St.; Louise Ballou, 109 N. 4th St.; Carroll Muse, 1408 Ross St.; Chesterfield Wyatt, 14 E. Canal St.; Ariene Johnson, 1098 Brook St.; Pearl Lincey, 1816 W. Grace St.; Irene Branle, 1228 W. 6th St.; Martha Owens, 1233 Pullam St.; Henry Layne, 755 N. 2nd St.; Aubrey James, 414 W. Baker St.; James Marl, 141 W. Duval St.; Ruble Honey, 206 Richard St.; Russel Rooker, 206 N. 4th St.; Alfonsa Williams, 103 S. Richard St.; John Henry Strayhorne, 202 E. Clay St.; Katie Pleasen, 1227 W. Jackson St.; Annie Jendings, 2107 E. Broad St.; Clara Nelson, 3202 Grove Ave.; Florence Smith, 312 W. Leigh St.; Norval Coole, 715 N. 5th St.; William Walker, 1092 North Fifth Street; Grace Williams, 818 West Leigh Street; Sister Goodman, 526 N. Adams St.; James Perkins, 409 N. Madison St.; Thelma Thomas, 613 Catherine St.; William Paye, 203 Chaffin St.; Russell Mitchell, 121 N. Madison St.; Laura Banks, 82 E. 22nd St.; Ernest Taylor, 12 W. Federal St.; Joseph Spurck, 813 S. James St.; Carrie Poyton, 714 N. 4th St.; Jessie Loe, 717 N. 2nd St.; Minnie Cunningham, 703 W. Leigh St.; Grace Loney, 252 Printer St.; Susie Birettch, 406 E. Canal St.; Verne Sales, 124 Pullam St.; Lucie Eazer, 1223 W. Moore St.; Gladys Haley, 1108 St. Paul St.; John Harvey, 1501 Taylor St.; Oliver Johnson, 4 E. Jackson St.; Irma Denny, 610 N. 2nd St.; Herbert Ellis, 526 N. 2nd St.
Sheffield (Ma.) Notes.
Sheffield, Alk., June 8, 1914.
Dear Editor: Allow space in this valuable paper to say a few words of the annual sermon of the Mosaic Templars of America, one of the best of the season. Grand Master, Mr. Joe Hines handled the gavel with patience. A beautiful program was rendered. Mrs. Belle Ronch lectured. Mrs. Zeller E. Price sang a solo; paper read by little Annie Coffee, also a paper by Mrs. Amanda Thomas; lecture on Growth of the Order by Mrs. Fannie Grant. The sermon was delivered by Rev. William Gaston. The number present were held spellbound until all adjourned.
ZELL, E. PRICE.
THE MOST POPULAR MINISTER.
"It Costs You Nothing to Vote."
Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A.M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday.
Rev. L. J. Morris. 10,040
Rev. W. H. Skipwith, Phila. 9,645
Rev. W. F. Graham, Phila. 3,830
Rev. S. C. Manuel. 1,380
Rev. W. T. Johnson. 445
Rev. E. M. Mitchell. 200
Rev. W. P. Curl, Norfolk, Va. 175
Rev. R. G. Adams, Farmville 175
Rev. S. S. Morris. 130
Rev. Irving H. Carpenter, Harrisburg, Pa. 100
Rev. W. H. Stokes. 95
Rev. A. S. Thomas. 75
Rev. J. Gay. Grant, Charlotteville, Va. 40
Only the names of those who have had more than 25 ballots cast for them will be published in the voting contest.
U. S. AUTHORITY ABOVE STATE'S
Federal Power Over Interstate Railroads Upheld.
STATE BOARD BEATEN
Interstate Commerce Commission Is Paramount Where There Is Conflict, Court Rules.
The supreme court of the United states upheld the interstate commerce commission's orders in the Shreveport rate case, thus placing interstate railroads more under the commission and less under state commissions.
In holding that the rate making powers of the interstate commerce Commission takes precedence over the jurisdiction of state commission in situations where the reasonableness of interstate rates is called into question, the decision is believed to be one of the most sweeping declarations in favor of the dominant authority of the federal government that the supreme court has yet made.
The interstate commerce commission found that class and other rates from Shreveport to Texas points were unreasonable and ordered rates to be equalized, so that Shreveport would not be discriminated against in favor of Dallas and Houston.
Justice Hughes announced the decision of the court. He spoke of the unrestricted power of the interstate commerce commission over interstate commerce, saying the commission was expressly created to prevent conflicting state legislation.
Justice Hughes pointed out that congress and not the states had the power to prevent the instruments of interstate commerce from being used so as to injure interstate commerce.
Justice Hughes said that congress, not the states, might prescribe the rule when state and national interests conflict. "Congress is entitled to keep open the highways of interstate commerce in the interest of fair treatment to all persons," said Justice Hughes. He indicated the government must control rates in the interest of interstate commerce. Whether congress reduces intrastate rates to conform with interstate rates, was not material, the court said.
Referring to the United Minnesota rate case, Justice Hurley said that decision was expressly reserved in those cases as to what the outcome would have been had the interstate commerce commission found that the Minnesota rates discriminated against interstate commerce.
The supreme court affirmed the decision of the commerce court upholding the commission's orders.
The far-reaching effect of the decision lies in the fact that rates which the interstate commerce commission ordered indirectly increased to remove the discriminations were prescribed by the Texas state railroad commission. Under the federal commission's orders the only-way the railroads may escape conflict with the Texas commission is to reduce the interstate rates from Shreveport to Texas cities so as to put the Louisiana city on a competitive ba
SALLY - FOR THE WHERE
POPULAR THE MOST POPULAR LADY.
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Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A.M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday.
Mrs. E. V. Kelly, Nortfolk, Va. 7030
Miss Marletta L. Chiles. 5850
Mrs. Ella O. Waller. 8900
Mrs. Patty Whiteburn, Pulaski 610
Mrs. Eva B. Evans. 385
Mrs. Floyd Ross. 225
Only the names of those who have had more than 25 ballots cast for them will be published in the voting contest.
Should the railroads elect, to increase the Texas rates as the commerce court had declared they must, a new chapter in the novel situation would develop. The laws of Texas would make the railroads liable to a penalty of $10,000 to the state and $500 to each shipper, for each shipment on which the low state rates were disregarded.
Policeman Shoots Robber.
Caught in the act of robbing Focht & Lacey's hardware store at Birdsboro, near Reading, Pa., a man was shot and killed by Lloyd, a policeman.
The body fell into a creek from the second-story window and lay there with the loot. The man was later identified as Daniel X. Bressler, of Reading, who had no regular home.
The police got a tip that robbers were in the store. A search was made, but no trace of the intruders could be found. Later a citizen living near the store telephoned to the police that they again saw burglars in the building.
When Lloyd neared the place he discovered the man leaning out of the second-story with a pistol in his hand. The robber fired and missed the policeman. The latter returned the shot and it pierced the intruder's heart. The body dropped into Hay creek.
Thinking that the robber was shamming, the policeman made no attempt to go near the creek. Some of the loot, including revolvers and razors, were found on the body.
A series of robberies have been going on in the borough for the past two weeks. It is believed the man who was killed was a member of the gang that is supposed to have committed the robberies.
The high cost of living was given another knockout punch by a government report promising a record combined wheat yield of compromised bush-
In addition to the estimated yield of 625,000 bushels for winter wheat; the report shows a condition of 95.5 per cent for spring wheat on an average of 17,000 bushels.
This is a particularly good start for the spring crop.
The estimated output for spring bushels, making the predicted crop of 17,000 bushels,
James A. L. has in recent a month ago was the first to report with such a prediction. He would not be surprised at the yield reached by 1,000,000 bushels.
The deterioration of about 3 per cent in winter wheat since last month is not especially bearish, as harvest time is so near.
The indicated yield of spring wheat per acre is 14.6 bushels and of winter wheat 16.9 bushels.
Killis Husband, Hides Body, Surrenders
"I have killed my husband and I am
willing to pay the penalty," quietly rem-
marked Mrs. Dollie McSurley, as she
walked into the office of Sheriff Banner
Hill in Charleston, W. Va.
Prosecuting Attorney Townsend was
quickly summoned, and Mrs. McSurley
made a detailed statement to him. She
said her husband, Serrt McSurley, had
come to their home at Sarensbury,
near Charleston, last Saturday afternoon after he had been drinking, that he mistreated one of their children and tried to kill her with a butcher knife.
She seized a hatchet, hit him on the head with it and when he was down
By
THEY ARE NOT NO SWEDISH
SAILORS,
THE RIVER SHANNON
FLOWS!
Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday.
Dr. Albert A. Tennant..... 1125
Dr. George R. Ferguson, Charlottesville, Va. ..... 1190
Dr. E. R. Jefferson..... 775
Dr. James E. Jackson..... 130
Dr. J. O. Dawson..... 100
Dr. R. O. Mundin..... 65
Only the names of those who have had more than 25 ballots cast for them will be published in the voting content.
She bid the body in the cellar,
where she kept it until Monday. She
then dragged it 200 feet to the tracks
of the Kinawin & Michigan railroad,
where it was struck by a train.
Given $22,629 Heart Balm.
Given $2,000 Heart Balm.
A verdict awarding $2,000 damages to Miss Georgia Jay against Hester Rodeheaver, chairmaster for "Billy" Sunday, the evangelist, for breach of promise to marry, was rendered by a jury in the circuit court in Calaico.
Miss Jay affirms that she met Rodeheaver in Iowa, that they became derm friends and that he proposed marriage to her and was accepted. Later, she declared, he returned to marry her "because marriage would interfere with his career."
Taxicab rules, long strolls and discussion of future plans figured largely in the testimony of Miss Jay, and evidence was presented showing that Rodeheaver was paid $100 a week and traveling expenses.
Duryea Sent to Matteawan.
Chester I. Duryea, who on May 5 shot and killed his father, Iliam Duryea, the well-known starch manufacturer, in Brooklyn, was committed to the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan. The commitment was skipped after several physicians and bestified that Duryea was the victim of hallucinations and a paranoidas.
Tries Triple Suicide.
After taking four pieces of broken glass, draining a bottle of iodine and stabbing himself in the stomach, all within fifteen minutes, James Hicks, a farmer of Half Way, near Hagentown, Md., is lying in the Washington county hospital, with small chance for his recovery.
Holsted Overboard, Drowna.
Harry Slaw, twenty five years old, whose home was at Woodbury, N. J., was working on a holding machine at Cooper's Delft wharf in Caldwell, when his children could in a book of the cable and he was drawn to the top of the crutch, thrown into the Delaware river and drowned.
Wilson Names Chief Justice.
Representative L. Harry Cowington, of Easton, Md., was nominated by President Wilson to be chief judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He is a Democrat and has taken a leading part in framing the trust legislative program.
Woodward W. Duke Killed.
Woodward W. Duke, son of J. B.
Duke, president of the American Tobacco company, was drowned under his overturned automobile in a mountain creek near Park City, Utah. The four other members of the party were not injured.
Mother Away: Babies Burn.
Three little children of Willey Belcher, a miner, were burned to death when fire destroyed their home near Simmons, W. Va. The mother had left the babies alone to visit a neighbor a mile away.
Build Stile to Steal Horse.
Build Site to Steal Horse.
Thleves stole a horse owned by
Roderick Robertson from a wifefenced pasture near Middletown, N.Y.
by piling stones on each side of the fence until the horse could step
to the top strand.
Ballots reaching this
Office by Thursday, 9 A.
M. will appear in The
Planet of the following
Saturday.
Robert C. Scott..... 325
G. W. Peace, Waverly, Va..... 115
A. D. Price..... 55
W. I. Johnson..... 45
UNOFFICIAL LIST.
Only the names of those who have had more than 26 ballots cast for them will be published in the voting
346 Men Killed In Coal Mines In April
Men. killed
in the Uni-
bered 246,
April, 1913.
due to an e-
which killed
months end
total was
918 killed
year.
Men killed in and about coal mines in the United States in April numbered 246, as compared with 285*4 in April, 1913. This large increase was due to an explosion at Eccles, W. Va., which killed 180 men. For the four months ending with April this year's total was 917 killed, compared with 918 killed in the same period last year.
Gata First Mexican Pension.
Gets First Mexican Pension.
The first pension resulting from the troubles in Mexico was granted to the mother of Charles Smith, a marine, of Philadelphia, killed at Vera Cruz on April 22.
Representative J. Hampton Moore made an application for a pension for the mother, Mrs. Jennie Smith, on April 27. She receives $12 a month, this amount having been forwarded to her on Friday.
Escort Saves Drowning Girl.
Miss Marie Cannon, nineteen years of age, was rescued from Harvey's lake, near Wilkie-Harre, Pa., by her escort, Jerome Malloy, when their boat capsized fifty yards from the shore. The swell from a passing steamer turned the rowboat over.
Seamstress Gives $10,000 to Missions.
The board of titonian missions of the Methodist Episcopal church in New York announced that Miss Nottle Yoo ward, of Sterline, Ill., has given $10,000 for the board's work. She earned the money working as a seamstress.
GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR dull;
winter chief, 5.5 g 4.10; city mills,
fancy, 5.6 g;
RYE FLOUR firm, at $3.60 g 3.70 per
barrel;
WHEAT quiet, No. 2 reel, $1.01 g
1.0 g;
CORN firm, No. 2 yellow, $1.4 g 25.
OATS spelt, No. 2 white, 47 g 47 g;
lower gravel, 41 g;
POTATOES steady, at 70 g, bush;
now, 61 g 3.25 g bagel.
POTATOES live, very heavy, 17 g
17 g, cold, 17 g, hot 17 g, raw 1
firm, double, 17 g, cold, 17 g to 17
ers.
BUTTER firm, fancy creamery, 29.
FIGS stead, selected 25 g 27 g,
accentry, 24 g, yellow, 16 g.
Live Stock Prices
CHICAGO HOGS native; bulk of
calves, $ 1.10; NZ; light, $ 7.50;
$ 2.11; mixed, $ 8.25; heaves, $ 7.71;
$ 8.25; rough, $ 7.75; plks, $ 7.10
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fooders, $ 6.50; NZ; cows and buffers,
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cows, sheep, $ 5.50; NZ; 4.15;
yearlings, $ 7.75; NZ; umbrella, $ 6.50;
no. sprinks, $ 7.50; NZ
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BOXERS OF TODAY
. LACK REAL CLASS
McFarland Only Eaual of Old
Timers, Says Frank Eme, |
PUBLIC 1S UNAPPREGIATIVE:|
Fight Fans Think Scrapper te Stall-
ing When He Uses His Braind—Short,
Na Decision Bouts to Blame Fer De:
eadence of the Game. Says Former
Champion.
2 When Frank Tene wis taanapien
Inghrwelet he wis iow ty Qe tiost
brudy gloves af tis teine, sod Kee
SHoutistiel whet great Kahtwebshte
were plentiful, ‘Theteture, whew te
Speaks of being, whut de Ses tite
weiglt and ts ote Westy interstate
Well Esme was discnssiant thie tty
Bens ttewinnd bet satel fie abostaily
cotntaentesd ott the doxsese station ta
kone
HE wee UAL they sai Gtttons wae
wtatlins."” reunuthed Kram tt dudin't
Appear teat way to iwe GH etre te a
etudent of bet. Hie te toe wt shang
er DP tink Mat hose whee otitheoseed
Bis taetion Ware deidediy) wrstue. Hee
menty used gent keer sistas ts Chats
tug the, pare from tae te Gre, But
Eeneralshlys 1S ney longer Gaoterstind. Mt
meetin to tHe, o
SIU dy proabiy Lesatise af that tart
thnt tier ite few ead eters at pr
ent. When ate af thet. stews tei
tlitng really cover It fs asuully eitsun,
dlemtins, Jimt—xt Glltene, ws tls,
ersten when Wor (rhe tor make Howe
ard epen up indtead of attempting te
Went hit dew by mau stronsttet
“lew does Gitdhons esnypsare with
the middieweights of sour thie? ot
Well, ta'n at agen than, 9 Very smal
man, but T weahtn't say that he could
‘ee
a an
Ee a
Fj Bs. *
g a
ssa er ainctaeeee eumasiat ||
RES eR eens ee eee
Day PCat,
have beid Me own with Tommy Ryan
and Kid Meoy. (Pues were more sea
kone). They had ter much experience.
“el tell you why tthe old timers were
Detter than the present met. In wut
UUme we fought twenty nd twenty tye
rounds, and jolt hive to be a generat
to box over ten, We used to think
nothing of the titst ten. It way alos
About the Bfteenth Unt the wtrain bee
gan (o tell, ‘Thon headwork counted
and Wie pan with brains came to the
front. ae
“You don't have t9"think to box ten
roundn, We would have thought that
8 Joke, Tut twents.tive inn different
thing. The Inst dve rounds were Wr
ture, The mental strain wax territic
an well ax the muscolar effort. When
yoo are Ure! nnd exhauwted It ts much
harder, ax well ax mare ‘uecemary, 10
‘think and.plan. That's why the Tong
fightin made prod generals of ux,
“Packy McFarland 3x the peer of all
boxers in the ring, todsy. principally
Decause he underntinds felnting. His
feinting ta remarkable. Feinting is
the real art of boxing. Why. in our
day we nevor took an opening that
was givon us. We thought it a trap.
We only took advantage of the open-
ings that we. made for ourselven by
our felnting. ‘There were, real hitters
in those dass, and one mintake was
usually fatal.
“Ton, boring was decldedty different
fo those days. For one thing, there
was more at stake. Aa a rule the
porse' was cot two-thirds’ to the win-
ner and onethird to the loser, and
thet made the strain mach greater. |
“Another difference was tbe way we
trained. Some Of the lightweights. of
my ume were almost as big us the
ihiddleweights of today, yet they made
‘the weight by 2 long course of special:
pewparation. For instance, weeks be
fore 2 bout we would go ont into the
country where we had.pleaty of freah
alr. Every wérsing we coll. 6o ten
or twelve miles on thy road, and that
brought down the: weight. We were
gipe pet op 2_mtrict Git. “A full cw)
‘of ten with our menix was xometbing
not to he thunght of. We were only
allowed qnengh water for a gargte nft-
er exercising, There 4 nine of that
torture new. IIe net necemmry tn or:
der to tate thrush ten miunde with
not even a dee inion wt take.”
NEW PITCHING DEVICE.
This One Hay Arms of Steo! and Fin-
cate te Levan Gi 4
A deviee for pitehing a baseball t
f batter, hatit Inte a system of, planes
Whetehy he bette! tell, tne taut:
where Jt ts tained, witl return ute
matleally to the pitcher, tis leet In
Fented aunt set ope at Petnicton by AL
exnier Marailinn, sin af Professor
Charter MacMillan wf the Princeton
al Sree Gaetias | 1G SAG UR the
fmventhes shes the pride whtel
confronts baseball iaunasers wth
in tieretoforw reautred theqa tbe
fo rvailar tina pitcher with sme
Dat chasers in the field before thes
coud ive Chece team batting prrastten,
‘Tie tncehliw dellvere to the latter
any anuutet +f rweutatlon tele, ty Cast
fe owe tie every what seconde IE te
Inter wots them (hat Gast. Evers
dynes passes ite tty wer the plate, 08
the fiedgtt stad scwwd at which thes
ean be thrown: fe regulated ty the
Hever whieh a tow Werks Belin Qe
Chatter en the Sante prineistes ay the
stay pice Tigi miehite The
which Is tiecsed with mele wn three,
sting, ated ay thee foourth, that nasal |
ately’ hebltid the Vatter, bya ennvae|
strefetiag fev te evwueud fe te
Reishi of tari tees he pinot a
Paratiis. te stathwst lngnetiateds
Front ef thie tetera alistani es amy)
sist ty beef that sepueratiner the sti
dary pitetier Greta the batter tt is!
conigoseed of A tioning att of sted,
Meeted me oe ieatie, With Bagets at
tached too tie God-inud 0 strpene spel
tothe ether Jet tela the tinue be,
fevtitete sual tricset, the fatter pref
(riding trou) i wie way oat!
Mien tha Maree foe a cas tee
Iheelbitely tect the tragzer It totes
ther snare aad" heesiianes ince Def
farts te ente the tal and hue teh
hopes the plate A fever directly tien!
Vif thon tuattow tina. the aes tbe feral
tie atid for te tevedge ned deddveey
ef tether fant Whete the tall fs bit!
fate ito gees tute thee olnene play tis
felt Whoele ts nathed eff Gor ene tee, *
Bite Tho fat gets onsen this wane
after Mt fine doct Me Imngwetts stud fal
Inwessthe stor tee a ett atzoettp be
beth Che tarteliae aeehtne Pont
Baie aie fail oe ot plane converter
tewant (tls shite, sed a whinge eae ,
Fles tie fail froin the entertag elite
at the tettats of the gilt hing machine
(0 the Chet at fos te theeengh whtet
the tril falls en te the peltetlie sre
for Mvlivery bs tte batter {
Tie teutter te wtsted te sem the
ectinige oot the gutetor alee, tease
eat Sew tte Pe oat by he oie
ates the lt hig aft sent knows
(on se seeds se HE dregs Twill Be
ate diont | .
GIANTS’ GREAT “BACKSTOPS.
Meyers and McLean Form Best Com:
Dinetinn 19 the Game
fiom bes Ccrmnte ane ernie fe
thet eter toe a ae, on whe eo
thos kee od aE the Aleem
. er
Se:
ae |
Cay ip
Me ® in
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Photo by American Preas Ampuclation,
casinee senate '
the battery they seo one of the grent
ext recedting departinents fn the bust
hess Meyers and MeTaan beth tank
next ta Archie and Atuswlth Inthe
ranking of “leat entehers” and bott
hut mal threw extremely well,”
“Previous tw the fumplng of Hartley
and Wilkon, these two mamumoths: ba!
very Uttle to do, Int now that every
kame has te be taken care of by ope
for the ather, there nm great race oF
hetiesen them for premium bovors.
‘Gusaniin Theat: Gaanned,
& great many awords were brought
home.ofter the war between the ataten
welded fp the imldife, because the
young officers who owned them dad
Draaxed about their elasticity and bad
broken theni in trying to ‘demountrate
it. The tragedy happened in this way:
The young officer jo xetting oft for
the war bad been given « One swont
by his admiring friends at home. Ie
was told and made to beliere that bis
eword was of trted Damascus or Toledo
tee] and that ft would bend double
without breaking. In camp somewbere
the young captaioa anid Voutensnts
would .fall to vacnting their. truxty
blades, and on @ bet one of them woald
stick the point’ of bu sword intu a
tree and begin to bend the biit around
to meet the point. Awd just as the hilt
came around the biedé anapped in two
ia the middle. (Very few of these pree-
entation swords wore as Damascus or
aa ‘Toledo an they wero supposed to be)
_ Attar that the two parts of the sword
hid to be welded, and the weapon
shows the welding to this day—New
York Mail. . a
"__* THE RICHMOND. PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Sa aT TE SSOP
AUSTRALIAN NET {¥ -vounos aomite’-He .
TEAM STRONGEST § secures | eu
$ cane’ poncive the ete day's the |
oe des *$ fne'gera tute one snd'at. 9
Wilding, Brookes, Duslap and roe, only ie eowine ote i I" is, depora
Doust Formidable Quartet, $ te the -reatget’ PREGer on 3 mee a
Seaton : ieee wt ne eo kd ee churchgoers.‘
. dead tetorvtice, where. ene of 3 | ChUrelgoets.
SHOULD BE THE-CHALLENGER $ tte tuners rectors of defunct ¢ |] Breut commones
| tween Different Countries Meot
|| Amercan‘Feam For the Trophy t+
the Late. Summer—Antipodeans. an
Canadians May Play tn: Watt
‘Tenants players representing Che crednul
at neve nothing will contest nth
JO Duis exp machen to be Dold I
Able country and abronid, aid dette
arrangiwents sre ew underway’ te
ake thie the beat Keasn ever expert
ence in international competion.
Rechant, Avstralin, Germany, Cxn-
aia, France, Retgluin and the Cult
State will be repsrenetited i thls sent
Davis cop mate, the frat slx -belng
the rhaltenglug nations
Tens Reweratly Monsht that Austen
ta wilt be challenger foe the cup when
tiie tinal: renwel be Fenced, But there
may ten few surpeixes i store, Cane
ada drew Australia in the preiwlnary
tle, hut thi} northern payers are not
Akkowiraced nid Chey bak forward to
the mated mith pleasure. Chnnde dl
posed wf toothy Hsin nnd Seth Ate
ca taet see atid Fest hee anateties elb
the tated States
isi five nf the star Canaudlaus Bes on
the Paetic eomst an effort iy being
pikde UF choada ta have tok (ede
Ace oa oy
-
Photo By American Mena Ananctation.
asians: sean ure
ary Ue playwit fn (hat section, AL
Vowel, one uf the best of the Cana.
Alan micker whetders, and, 18, 1. Sehwen
ger both favor Vancouver of Vletorts
for tte matelo
Austmlin fas offelally nated to Da:
Vis cup tents oun ay the players ary
G8 thelr way abroad, and a number ary
on thelr Way to the meets of the Davis
cup uuitches, Mean Afeibourie comes
the report that Antony B. Wilding,
the world's greatest player; Norman B.
Hrmkes, Aiffiad W, Dunlep.and Stan:
Jey S"Tomat wit) Sigke up the fem,
‘The sailing of A.W. Duntop was to
have been delayed, owing to the burn:
ing of the Colosseuin, one of the dene
pery stores owned by the company In
Which Dunlop is a director, But al
most at thy fast minute Dunlop deeided
to mall on the original date and dla no.
Among the leading glayere In the
IOLA matches will bo JC, Parke, Eng.
Jad, the grent Ielai player, who hax
beet ranked Hy many ns being on a
par with onr ows Maurice E, Me:
Lougtlin, champlon uf the United
Suites; TH. Kletuwroth, the German;
Amhouy Wilding and Suintey” Doust,
Auntrultn: It. B. Powell, Canada, ond
our own Davin cup stare, Maurice Sfe-
Loughita, R. Nerrin Williaros aud Wale
lace E. Johnston.
‘Tho players who will probably-be ac.
Iweted to reprewent tho various nations
are nx‘ follows:
United, Statea— McLoughlin, Wik
Hams, Johnaton, Hackett.
Fngland — Dixon, Lowe, Barrett,
Parke,
Cannda~Schwengers. Powstl, Mazon,
Foulkes. * ia
Australia—Wilding, Brookes, Dunlap,
Dount: :
Germany—Rahe, Kléinsroth, Frelty-
nelm, Kreatzer.
France-Decougis, Gobert. Laurents,
Germot. “ {
SETS SPEEDWAY RECORD.
Boiilot Cirgles Indianapolis Track In
1 Minute 354-5 Seconds,
Georges Rolllot; the.French automs-
bile race driver, set _ now record for
one lap at the Speedway, Indranapolie,
when he circled the two and one-half
mile track ia ‘1 minute 35 45 seconde,
This {a the second time that the rec-
ord has been broken In three days.
‘The old record of 1 minute 37 sec
onds, made ta 1010, was lowered by.
Joe Dawson, who circled the track in
1 mipate 96 25 seconds. Later Beiliot
equaled Dawson's mark and afterward
tircled the conres in three-Mfths of =
vooond leas time. .
HAVE BALLOONS ENTERED.
Awstria add Belgium Will ‘Be Repre-
sented in Big Race. ‘
+ dcemeria and Beigtom each wil 'bive
‘two ballodns entered in the interna.
Gewal rece, for the James Gordon Ben-
mett trophy, to start from Kanes City
Oct. 6 mext, according to am announce
Mant byGeorge M. Mazers,. president
-YOUN@OK ADMITS -HE
1 GREATEST PITCHER. |
q ‘There wr: received 6 the Chi- §
cago, puatehve the other day a |
iQ sourenic ptt card Dearing, tn |
Meu of. a y.1ulte pase and ad- {
dross, only the following Laverty»
ton: ‘
“To the ssrentent PREGer on |
Earth.” x ‘
The post sl wis sent to the
dead letter vitice, Where one of §
the funers: -lrcctors of defunct 4
cotrespond i Wan quick to 3
sranp the s:vutlon. She prompt. 3
Iy forwant.-| tho card to Walter 3
Berry Jol: -o of the Waxhing- 3
ton Amer. os He haw fled tt
Site remari.-- i career. 3
Senaesagi | neeniaenaees
COBB HITS ALL BOX MEN ALIKE
. Re ee eee ee
| “One reawon 3 ‘Ty Cobb leada Jo
| 2acknon fu the, iting averages cac’
ear fy that C. "tts all pltetern wht
Hmpartiat vig: while Jackson play
favorites” de cet Prod Blanding, th
Nap piteber, sce mtn fanning be
jf Cleveland ¢ - other day.
PoWhen Cole eis Mike hitting ther
ixp't a pitcher. the American lean
with xpend or eves enouzl to sto
Ihita. Chfet t+ ter awd Sack Warh
both have Jn. on’ grome, He en’
hit elther of
“Another re fy Chiat Sachwon ten!
fa fae man fs ew tor fiEMt bse
We In thrown ote sang: It tha
any ontiunry © yaw rinier woth
bent out. Ue 4 tightfiested pares
after he baw te cost fret: not even Cull
Rinself wil store teases ott a long
drive, But sour hn tite Go Ze
started, Hy o~ time te te reundinns
pecond Bane +o tele say, OF 8 pom
Mile bower, The ts Just soley
bout mw fant sty man hn the Tice
cotlengue ¢A> ser ground, tut that
doen't Wai ho. sey stinsto,
PC hanes,” than. toa, an Base
Tamer, dies o tooke ty be a lone
way a rt tf the tine, and ke
Wp Mut heer sory often tte the rite
Pesition ty be. Cabby soni stratehs
Hearn the Hn Sitther tet ang ottet
hin tn en he ew Mes eta gee 20 or 3
feet and not. of babe. lie fe never
wf hie Bailie Bat steksen, temte
tar neon to Cle vette tty the atte» G4
Vas ell Milas Sevan served, Is gen
erally: way’ to af Mie tease cand peslly
tint ene Ute = Gar dawn as Coby |
SHé never ho Seen alee te Wit ether
Render oF Wop. thine hie dees
sant aie qed octet Walle doetitcson
a Cobbs ever We stent get ty mee
Cotes HMLEEBE 2 rast dottisit, Latta
what higar ‘F. stocau't ator lily tye
iiatwrtally whe i fe faves Waits, We
Rr dawkwent Soest. Mee srl ils bat
Just AM clome fi thie nda ae When Whitin
vcifust the Mbesest peta tte the: feast
Aunt he gete bin es ft Walter Just
“Heater and Warhep, thonzh, have
vonuethine ay Whit os hen thes are pitels
nz is to form, ‘They have bin pep
fins mp nator the oy = Hike tay bustier
pent aww why {4 Bat we kson eon,
Iiiers himwlf a preity iueky fel play
rE nuny the Re Bets Gif wth etther a,
en. te |
BENDER STILL ON DECK.
Mack's Great tndian Twirler Going
Graat Guna.
Many of the wise ones thenred that
CMef Tecaters! days se a stir Were
about Der. but te Chiews hae gly.
en them the laugh ond ds StL twist:
trian: ict astitienk tlhe hiitackha eaten enol:
= ae 4
=\
+ F qu 2 Py
aia
ee
IK al
ui Zi
eee
’ cae? Sanee.
| Mack has had tromble in the past
making the Indian get down to Dusl-
Deas at the start of the season, but this
year he wont to work in enrnent and
has prejared bimself thoroughly tor
the long pall next September.
. A Challenge.
A whito haired Indy, who bad been
awarded £160 for the death of her hus
band, appited for {t to be paid out to
her tn the Bow county court. .~
Judge Smyly—Will’ you have a
crosect check. to save trouble tf you
havo sour pocket picked? >
‘The Lndy-Certainty not. I've looked
after rhyseif all these years and think
I can do tt mew. (Looking round tha
court)-Whe js'ft that thinks he can
pick my pocket h-Loedon Tit-Bits, |
‘Treeble Kither Way.
“Who are those two weary looking
men who beth admit they-are afraid
go home? .
Nive,” replied Mies Cayenne, "i the
peuseenamneset
Ja the hoebasd af an =
‘Wastingwa Gier. -- s eS
Big Men of Nation Go to Church. Get
-. the Habit! Join the Procession!
I" is, deplorable, but.nevertheless true, that there are men: who
think it savors of effeminacy to.be seen often in church. ° These
-men #hould awaken to the error of their ways.
‘The renlly strong men,.the men of the nation, are constant
churchgoers. They rarely miss‘a Sunday. The story is told of
great comporet who, of one oceasion was accorded x magnificent
ovation, ‘The audience cheered him for fully fire minutes.” It was
4 tribure caleufoted to turn uny man’s head. ‘Then thers came criex
fora speech, ‘The composer faced the great multitude of his ad-
mirera and said: > : :
“WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN TO.GAIN THE
WHOLE WORLD AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?”
mR a
_ THAT WAS ALL. THE AUDIENCE WAS ELECTRIFIED. THEY
KNEW THE DERP RELIGION OF THE MAN AND GRASPED THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF'HIg REMARKS, THE OVATION THAT WENT
BEFORE WAS AS NOTHING COMPARED TO THAT WHICH FOL-
LOWED, THAT GREAT AUDIENCE DION'T THINK THIS MAN
EFFEMINATE. HE WAS BIG ENOUGH TO PROCLAIM PUBLICLY
HIS FAITH IN GOD AND A HEREAFTER. ‘IT 18 THE WEAK
RATHER THAN THE STRONG MAN WHO, WHILE -PROFESSING
A BELIEF IN.QOD, REMAINS AWAY FROM CHURCH. IF YOU BE-
LIEVE IN-GOD, PRACTICE YOUR BELIEF BY GOING TO CHURCH. —
GOD DOESN'T ASK! MUCH OF YOUR TIME.
; ee
Don't delay GOING ‘TO CHURCH, Start in.next Sunday.
Get the habit! You'll find it is nota hard task, Join the pro
cession. Hy going to church you set n good example to your neigh:
hor, It will <et hitw thinking. You will please your wife. your
mother, your sister. It will fl them with happiness to see that
yon are on the read te righteousness, “And he honest with yeur-
self. Dan't you know you are alot happier after an hour with God?
Go TO CHURCH! .
; WHY COBB 1S CALLED
—RING PIN OF PLAYERS.
"You may sny what you please
about Ty Cab being xwell hend
ed and all that, hae te made two
plays tna recent game that en
tied hin to the reputation of
velmg the bent bull player tn the
work). With a anan on third atid
second ber HC to Che faite, Phe
ninner wax caught 4t the plate,
awl ‘Ty, teuring that the play
woud be nde that was, pur.
porely ran om At te dew a
throw to recond. While they
were trying to get i
man dashed for the Afate and
second. Cobly therexfan ran all
the way to third whily the Uall
wax being thrown Jhoine, » Such
pinys have wade bin famous
PLE Ean re boa tei Od
LET THEM ALONE.
1 To parents of children who are pas
the babybood staxe—
[ee iea alone mary. Let them 4
things for thennelvex. Dotng thing
| tog ones ty the srcitest doveloner 0
abitity that Is known to man, ‘Thin ap
Biles to chityren ax well ns to adults
To hari by dolng—that te one of th
prime principles of modern education
j The teacher tw the director, not the
| performer. So xtwuld be the arnt
sho tx the bent Inxtructor.
I making mistakes. You do Ui same,
Fou kiiow, tn splte" of sone longer ex
perience. And you are theré to prevent
/the little feet from continuing lonig or
the scrung path. ‘That tn your duty and
privilege.
| Glve the children the opportunity of
evelping: the xpirit of initiative
which Inn posxemslon net to be DOF.
fchaxnt in the mmrket placo or in
achools It must be acquired by tort
by exjieriment, by action,-not by pre-
cept and instruction, ‘The Intter are
Kool, of courne, ax they reprexent the
sceumnulated windom of heredity. ‘Tho
former in“better, for It reprexcuts the
wilt and abillty to carry on the life of
tho agen. :
. Chilitren aro natarally tmitative and
‘Eregarious—that in, Uiey posses the 1n-
atinct af Mocking togetiier. Tho noth
tary child fa the exception. Boys want
to get together In games of ball or fol-
low my leader or prisoner's base or
other prstiines ‘io which many can
Join, Girls love to play house and
school.
The young of the rpecles wopo if
they aro sexregnted. That fe a natural
instinct Yet it may be overatimulated,
for the invaluable spirit of initiative
and leadership ts often developed by
volltary thinking away from the
crowd. Bonaparte, probably the great-
eat oramplo of command of others the
world bas ever known, was « solitary
Boy. i :
If your child shows aby signs at all
of thinking out thinks for himself and
by himself, encourage him tn it It
splendid montal exercise. |
Tere ia tho testimony of an experton
this point: .
~The groop activities of the young
today are vastly moro inclusive and
elaborate then they wero formerly,”
says Trotessor M. V. O'Shea of the
University of Wisconsin. “Parents tee
tity that-thelr children are often not
alone at all. :
“These changes 10 social life have al-
ready produced a propounced infivesce
apon pur people. The tendency of thie
pew life ts to make Foaug people more
alert, more self rellant in the presence
of others, perhape even more ‘ymert’
chan was troe in the old order.
- “But at the same time young peoplh
do not’ have training .outeide of the
school in long continved apptication te
any tek. They sre not trained im
workiag independently and in issle-
ou.” ~ *
‘The Serious Posys.
+ We are too apt to forget thet te his
orn generation there was Bo sech per-
non'se the Gariet.” Ams the alike and
Deduasey of ‘the. diary, its. dare -ot
cheer and Me nights st the play, Me
Samily mpenees nnd Hs personal éointha,
PT et Deny aaa Pee ae pe
coaled from all the world beside Into
Uw ante cipher of bis only, contdnnt
An we go through the mines of corre
apondence, an we read the endlenn nt
of onders and memoranda, ‘catalogues
of milps, reports, recommendations,
xtatentents of recount, and obrerre
the operation and results of his ndmain-
{stration we perceive the petty. child-
inh, almple Neure evoked by literary
critica frotb the diary trapwformed Into
the truer character of the hixtorian—n
man stirewd. cautiour, able, consclen:
tlouy, bonest. brave, wholly devoted to
bis nervicw and bis gevernment.—WI-
dur C. Abbott In Yale Keriow.
THE WAYS OF A MAN.
SSRE PR: TORS PERN SORRE Sy RaOTa Ie
| ‘at Every Woman Knows.
J QD carried fowers and dinmon
rings te please that dazzites
} Welle, wnt cammels and othe
| thingn that danixels love ao well, Te
alt.for hour upon a chalr and bold ties
on his knot; lhe blaw bie money’ hore
Land there ax though it grew on tegen
[HE T hind half vent you are worth,” he
ured te ray, “my xweet, Fd pot 8
ahawl xteap round the earth’ aud Iny ft
at your feet.”
j Ue tad no other thought, It Keemued,
than just te chowr her heart, atid every
thing of which she dreanted hy pur:
chased tn the mart, ,
SAVhen we are xpliced” the used. te
say. “yw have all you desire gold
thine oF a jond of hay, n dachshund ot
a lyre My one genat ata will be te
make your life a thing af Joy, wo haste
and to the altar tuke your ittle Char.
ence boy." :
And so she thought whe drew a peach
when they wer wed tn June. Alas,
how oft for-plums we reach snd only
get a prune? s
“And au Sou want ‘another hat?" he
thundered to his fray. “Just tell me
what ke wrong with thatthe enc
gou're weartng now! No wonder that T
have the blues, the way the money
goes, Tant weok you blew yourself for
ahoes: next week you'll want new
elothien! =
“E winh you wer Ike other wiver,
and would Ike them behave; it In the
object of their Hives: te help thelr hus
Danda save. Altdus Tn tn the business
fight'nnd «train my heart and Kon, and
when I Journey bome at night’ yor
touch me for‘my roll, You wont «
twenty dollar hat to-hold your topknot
down or elve a new Angora cnt, m lop:
dog of a gown. You He awake nt night
and think of things you'd Iike'to buy.
and when I draw a Ite chink you
surely make it fly.
+ “With much wife as sou, Cans, &
hosband han no chance. You pall bis
starboard mb by day: by night you
rob hia pants.
_ “My sninted mother. when abe dwelt
in thin sad vaio of tearm, had ‘ono old
Md, of ¢loth or felt, ahe wore for thirty
Sears. She helped my father all the
time, she pickled every: bone, and It
she had to blow a dime it made ber
‘weep and monn. ‘ :
_ “The -hat you weer ts good as new:
‘twill do another yoar.. Bo don't stand
round. the rag to chew—I'm bury now,
my deer."—Walt Mason in Jodge.
| The Bulclde Symphony.
The 1dea that music may be barm
fal—tbat it can create a fever in the
Blood dangerous t0. life «nd reason—
will come as a revelation to many.
Friedrich Nietzsche, the well known
German philosopher, declared - that
there is something in somp muale, most
‘notable in Wagner and Tachalkowsky,
which acts unfavorably'on the breis
and nerves of many people, Tochat-
kowsky's baleful infuence cannot be
denied. He destroyed dmeelf after
composing’ his famous “Sixth Bym-
phony,” an6.as several have died by
their own bands after playing ft i has
come to be known as the “wukcide sym.
phony.” t
++ The Homeria Pesme.
No one of any literary prevenstous be-
Bates apy louger In the one toe prev-
alest opinion, that the’ “Iliad” and
‘“Oayaeey” were composed by. 1 stagte
ost, be he Hower’ or some ote else.
Wott evray, back in 1706 peeved teat
the poems are the revs of many’
e Devieds sad it
sanz =
eat wrreaged by Fetutrater shew} B.
@e—New York Amoriens >. ied
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By the Professor.
Professor Jonex and Mrs, Janes were
doth of the tne cullequlally known x6
strawberry blonds, In necordance with
the immeniorin} cuxten of profensore
fatntiles on email xainrien nt thin par-
ticular nouthern college, the Jones fatit
ily grew apnee, Mary, thetrt, wae
born, and her hair came perilously
near te being eerie. ‘The twlnn Toxt to
Mary tn respect of rot bale by Just 2
abnde. Jolnny, the next,{bade fate at
three monte fo make Mary neem a
neatral color. Now, Mow. Jouex longed
for Just one hinek haired one. When
the Ienened peontwwor of ology from the
sclentitic department dropped tn for
supper Mrx Jones almost tearfully
propounded to hin quextlon.
“Of, doctors! she axkel, “de you
think te muse ntways be hortitury 2
‘Tho doctor looke! from the auteolex
of Profesor and Mr. Jones to the nur-
ceualve four alaring of tire rod hale on
the Iittle Joneses,
“Not so tineh that.” he assured ber
at Inst, “ax redteditary.”-New York
Post.
Caveitatiaie|
oo There“a something Che matter with
“that man, 1 knowdlt."
“What do you iean
“There's somethlig about hi charne
ter that ts bad" *
“How ent you aay that? e's q man
of xtaniding in thix community." =”
“don't care, J wouldn't trust hin.”
“What A allly Idea! lg honor baw
never been questioned.”
“Oh, yea, tt han, and that’s hy: I any
tbat with all his fine outward alow
there's xoinetbing bad bebind hin.”
+“ don't nee what makes you Kay
that. Everybody knows he's allright.”
“My suspicions have been confirmed.
‘Wasn't be drawn on a jury the other
day and didn't the Inwyer for tho de-
fense. peremptorily discbarge | bim?
That iawyor wouldn't baye him in the
ease for nnything."—Detrolt Free Press,
Lost Her Place.
Gertrade, aged three, nat In her bigh
cchair at the dinnér table turning about.
4m her flogers a amaail car of corn, from
‘which abe had been nibbling a row at
atime Suddenly she barat fato tearn
“What ts the matter, dear?’ asked
ber mother. 2
“I've loat ms. placo:” sobbed the Uttle
one.—Delineator.
+ —— ~~ =
“I anderstand that you are going to
retire from politics,” aald the friend.
“Well,” repited Senator Sorghum, “I
pot that rumor out among my constitu-
ents as a sort of feoler. It was recetr-
‘ed with so much enthusiaem that I'm
afraid it's going to come tree.”"—Wash-
ington ‘Star.
¥ On @. Commen Level.
} Consoling Friend—Cheer up, old chap!
At best the only ulderence between
Doetry and poverty is a “v."
Despondent Post—Yeu; I kgow. The
twa) in Just the same ia both of them,
Jeter. _ -
P ‘Truthful.
“I Bada’t been-talkieg with bir
@rve. minutes before be called we an
fe. What sort of's pereen ts bet”
“Well, I never keew him to tell s
mr : z.. #
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CARRANZA REPLY ON WAY
U. S. to Demand No Indemnity, Despite Great Cost of Vera Cruz Occupation.
Plans for the pacification of Mexico took a spurt in the mediation race and a working agreement between the Huerta representatives and the American delegates in the "A. B. C." conferences at Niagara Falls, Ont., is expected within a few days.
Optimism was as prevalent as was the gloom before Huerta countermand his order for the blockade of Tampa and the halting of the rebel ammunition on the steamship Antilla.
That affairs were actually "progressing satisfactorily," as Secretary of State Bryan has been accustomed to describing the situation, was indicated by a statement made by Frederick W. Lehmann, one of the American delegates, after a private conference with Ambassador Da Gama, of Brazil, chief of the mediation envoy.
"We are getting down to the definite things in our discussions," said Mr Lehmann. "Minister Naon has said that he thought we could get through within a few days. I hope that we shall."
Several developments have contributed to this feeling that mediation may yet prove successful. First, of course, was the claring away of the war clouds that overhung the harbor of Tampico.
Now comes the delivery of the American pacification plan to the Huerta delegates, with the forecast that it will be welded with the plan already outlined by the Mexican delegates into a substantial form of agreement.
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After a long conference between the mediators and the Mexican delegates it was learned that the counter proposals of the United States were not entirely satisfactory, but the Mexican delegates expressed confidence that in a few more conversations the points of disagreement would be adjusted. It was generally predicted that the peace plan would be virtually agreed upon by the Mexican and the American delegates by the end of the week. The American proposals provide the method of transforming the executive power in Mexico City from the present regime to a new provisional government which shall in a few months conduct elections for president, vice president and members of congress.
The correspondence between the mediators and the Constitutionalists is expected to be brought to an end is another day or two. The mediators are insistent on their original terms—declaration of an armistice and broadening the discussion from international to internal questions. The Constitutionalists are willing to meet the mediators on a satisfactory basis as to the latter point, but they are also lately determined against declaring any armistice.
The Constitutionalists undoubtedly will have a voice in the selection of the man to be provisional president and at least two of their number would occupy the principal portfolios of the new cabinet.
The land and educational questions are simply declarations of principles on which reforms later may be under taken and do not commit the new government to any definite program.
Marine Reported Drowned
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Samuel Henton, private of marines
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Edward M. Pattison, of German
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of whisky as security for a loan of
$5500 claimed by trustees in bank
rupture of David Rohrer, a German
town distiller, who borrowed from
Pattison and failed.
Troops to Stay in Colorado.
Federal troops will remain in Colorado for the present, according to President Wilson. He had no other comment to make on the strike situation.
GENERAA VILLA:
Latest Picture of Leader of Mexican Rebels.
[Image of a man with a mustache and a high collar, possibly a soldier or a military officer].
General Villa is gradually pushing his way to Mexico City. This is his most recent picture, having been taken at Haltillo immediately after the capture of that town. It shows a characteristic expression of the rebel chief-
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Bloodhounds Trail Murderer.
Four big posses, two of them with bloodhounds, are out searching the hills west of Danbury, Conn., and in Putnam county, N. Y., for the negro who shot and killed Mrs. John Harrison and mortally wounded her husband on their farm at Patterson, N. Y.
Samuel Haynes, a negro, had been working for Harrison for a month. In that time, he had insulted Mrs. Harrison, who was only twenty-one years old and exceptionally pretty. Harrison had ordered him to keep away from the house.
Haynes had been to the village and had been drinking. When he returned to the farm Harrison was in the barn milking the cows. The negro went to the house, and while the young wife was preparing supper he attacked her. She ran from the house, screaming, with her little boy, two years old, toddling after her.
The negro pursued them, and as Mrs. Harrison reached the barn her husband, who had heard the screams, appeared in the door.
Haynes then had drawn a pistol and he fired four times at Harrison. Each bullet struck the farmer's body. Mrs. Harrison ran forward to aid her husband, who was then staggering, and as she did the negro fired his last bullet at her. It went through her abdomen. She dropped beside her husband and the negro ran.
8000 Go. Out On Strike.
Declaring that they would not return to their places in the factories of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company and the Westinghouse Machine company in Pittsburgh, Pa., until their working conditions were improved, approximately 5000 men and women, members of the Allegheny Congenial Industrial Union, struck.
Several hundred girls, each with a tin horn, paraded through East Pittsburgh, cheered by crowds of strikers on the sidewalks.
Acquired of Killing Father
Acquisition of Nining Punjab
Lee Hoyt, twenty years old, was
found not guilty in Chillicothe, Mo.
of murdering his father, Edward Hoyt,
a wealthy goodman, who was beaten
to death with an axe in his barn on
Nov. 28, 1812.
Penney Bridge Go On Full Time.
Orders were issued placing the 2006
men in the Pennsylvania railroad's
Juniata shops in Altoona, Pa., on full
time, fifty-two hours a week. They
have been working forty-five.
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"Never mind, dear," he said reassuringly as she raised her sweet face from his shoulder and they both saw the white blur on his coat; it will all brush off."
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