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PLAYER AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE Dr. Miles B. Jones Injured--His Wife and Miss Mundin Bruised. TROUBLE FOR A PLEASURE PARTY. VOLUME XXXI, NO. 40 AUTOMOBILE TURNS Dr. Miles B. Jo Wife and Miss M TROUBLE FOR A F Dr. Miles B. Jones had a narrow escape last Sunday morning at DoWit, Va. about 22 miles from Petersburg, Va. by roadway and about 20 miles by railway. It is 41.6 miles from Richmond, Va. via Seaboard Air Liner Railway. The time was about 7 o'clock and the accident happened right at the station with many of the residents of that place as witnesses. Funeral Director A. D. Price received a message about 11 o'clock to send his new Kline car-over to pull in the automobile of Dr. M. B. Jones. BUSINESS WAS DULL. Business being dull last Sunday he sent up to the Ebenezer Baptist Church for his son, Douglass, and with Chauffeur Fauntleroy at the wheel, the same Fauntleroy who has been up in a three revolution antic of a Stevena-Duracy, he started for Petersburg. When he reached Petersburg, he was surprised to learn that Dr. Miles B. Jones had been seriously injured and was unconscious while his wife and Miss Maud E. Mundin had been injured. EMBARRASSED AND SURPRISED They did not want an undertaker just then and Mr. Price was some what embarrassed as previous to that time, he knew absolutely nothing of the mishap. The story as told by Miss. Maud E. Mundin, of 635 N. 6th St. is intercasting. She was in bed under the care of her brother, Dr. Mundin. Her right eye was bandaged, there being a four inch gash just above it. The right side of her face was lacerated and swollen. Mrs. Myrtle Chiles was there and her sister too was affording her every attention. A TRAINED NURSE. Miss Mundin is a trained nurse, having recently graduated from the Freedman's hospital at Washington. She said, "We left Dr. D. A. Ferguson's residence, 107 E. Leigh St., at 4:30 last Sunday morning for National Medical Association. We in front being owned by Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey. In the leading car were Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey, Dr. D. A. Ferguson, these two being dentists, and Dr. George R. Ferguson of Charlotteville and Dr. Walter A. Alexander, of Orange, N. J. TURNED TURTLE. In Dr. Jones' car were Dr. Milton B. Jones, Dr. Janie Jones, his wife; Miss Viola Lucas, an invalid and myself. In crossing the Seaboard Air Line Railway tracks, the roadway is almost parallel with the track. The wheels of the Ford car failed to reach the rail and the car skidded and turned over, entirely reversing itself. Some say it turned twice, but I do not know about that. I know it turned, once. We were caught under the car. Dr. Jones' chauffeur was in the car, but Dr. Jones was driving it. COVERED WITH BLOOD. "I crawled out. My face was covered with blood. The doctors had failed to bring their satchels and although there were four of them, we had absolutely no emergency treatment at hand. The people at DeWit were very kind and we bathed our wounds with cold water. Dr. Jones was dragged out from under the car. Dr. Ramsey had a guide book and he led the way, raising his hands to advise us as we went along. They soon saw our predicament and returned to help us. They took the pennants off their car and loaded the injured people on the car. EMPI-CONSCIOUS AND HELPLESS Dr. Miles B. Jones was semi-concious and spoke in a dazed manner. Blood flowed from his nose and ear. He walked mechanically when assisted. Dr. Ramsey took him in his ear while the others remained at Dawit and carried him to Peterbury. He was carried in to Mr. Ponsonnerie's asking house and put to bed. His wife was found to be pregnant about the head and shoulder in the way of the opinion that she had been intimately. They are SLIGHTLY INJURED. The chauffeur was injured about the legs. He came to Richmond and went to the Richmond Hospital. I expect to be out in one or two days. Dr. Jones' automobile is badly smashed up. The wheel is injured, one tire being off two axles bent and the top smashed. Douglas Price can tell you all about it. He seemed to know all about it." Wo bid hor adieu. Mr. Price went in his six cylinder car to De Witt, after he found out that the party had been injured. CONTINUED THE JOURNEY Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey and his party continued on to Raleigh. It was some time before a surgeon could be obtained in Peterburg, but afterwards, everything possible was done for the injured. Mr. Price found that it was out of the question to pull the car in. It will be necessary to place it on a flat car and bring it into Richmond by the Sea-board. He returned to Petersburg and brought Miss Maud E. Mundin and Miss Viola Lucas to this city. TOO ILL TO TRAVEL. Dr. Miles R. Jones and his wife were too ill to travel and if Mrs. Jones had been able so to do, she would not leave her husband. Dr. Jones is improving rapidly and it is said, while being very ill, was taking the accident in a jocular manner. It will be remembered that his wife had a narrow escape in this same car, when the steering chain broke and the automobile ran into the plate glass front of the piano store at 103 E. Main Street, Wednesday, August 12th. OTHERS REACH RALEIGH Fortunately, no one was injured. At this writing, the Ford car is on the roadside, fifty-five miles from Richmond by road measurement as determined by the speedometer on the Price car. Chaufeur Fauntleroy knows all about it, for he is just out of a wreck a few weeks ago. The other members of the party reached Raleigh in safety, so they reported to anxious friends in this city. Should there be no rain, they will come back no worse for wear. The next time Dr. Miles B. Jones goes, he will take the "train for his n." MEDICAL HELP AT LAST. Dr. William H. Hughes, of Richmond went over to Peterburg and rendered service, although after some delay surgeons, including Dr. Alexander, were secured and rendered all of the aid needed. THE INJURED HERE. Dr. Miles B. Jones and his wife, Dr. Janie Jones arrived in this city from Petorburg last Tuesday night. They left Petorburg at 10:40 and reached this city at 11:30. He was able to walk and seemed to be much improved. He and his Madame were taken to the Hospital. The damaged car was brought over from Do Wilt last Monday afternoon under its own power. A blacksmith straightened the bent axle and made such other temporary repairs as to enable Dr. Jones' chauffeur to bring the car to this city. It was sent to the Ford Motor Car garage for repairs. DR. HUGHES' STATEMENT. Dr. William H. Hughes, who is attending Dr. Miles B. Jones and his wife, stated last Thursday: "When I first saw Dr.-M. B. Jones he showed signs of a fractured skull, hemorrhage from the nose, and ears, with concussion of the brain. He rallied afterwards and these signs lessened and there were no evidences of a fracture of the skull, but a concussion of the brain, which showed gradual improvement. OTHER BRUISES. There were bruises about the right arm and face. His right eye was closed, his teeth damaged and the drum of his left ear ruined. This does not necessarily mean that he will remain dead in the air. There was considerable injury of the posterior nares (back part of the nose.) "Mrs. Janie Jones' right shoulder was jammed but no bones were broken or dislocated. Her back and shoulder were wrenched and she had a brush wound on the forehead. Both ears improving. The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U Hold Great Conventions. The Thirteenth Annual Seasons of the B. Y. P. U. and State Baptist S. S. Convention of Virginia were held at the First Baptist and Pine Street Baptist Churches, Suffolk, Va., Aug. 19-21st. Fully one thousand delegates, visitors and friends attended these seasons, which were very enthusiastic, instructive and encouraging. Rev. J. H. Ashby, of Norfolk, preached the introductory sermon, which was very pleasing. Great sermons were also delivered by Rev. A. O. Bell, of Lynchburg and Dr. C. C. Scott, of Philadelphia, Pa. and Rev. J. G. St. Claire Drake. These were rare treats and electrified the many hearers. Great discussions as to Education, Foreign and Home Mission, Temperance and for the uplift of our people were well discussed and many good and helpful things brought out. The good people of Suffolk, both white and colored, did their very best to make the Convention a success and pleasant. The two Conventions raised nearly $1400.00, $600.00 of which was donated to Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Officers of the Sunday School Convention elected were: President, Prof. J. H. Lee, Newport News; Recording Secretary, Miss N. Taylor, Danville; Treasurer, W. H. Smith, Lynchburg; Statistical Secretary, R. H. Fauntleroy, Richmond; Corresponding Secretary, G. K. Trent, Roanoke. On the 8. Y. P. U. elected are also drawn: President, Rev. W. R. Ashle, D. D. 1st Vice, Prof. B. H. Peyton, Richmond; Recording Secretary, R. H. Fauntleroy, Aldh; mond; Corresponding Secretary, G. W. Giddings, Norfolk; Treasurer, Rev. Richard Ashle, Newport News; Musical Director, N. G. Booker, Richmond; Executive Board Headquarters, Richmond, Prof. B. H. Peyton, Chairman. The B. Y. P. U. held its closing session at the Pine Street Baptist Church. All delegates and friends of both Conventions met and amid handshaking and excellent expressions as to their treatment combined and closed at the First Baptist Church, Rev. J. H. Harold, pastor. Thus ended one of the finest conventions held in the history of the young Bantists of Virginia. Adjourned to meet August 1915, at Gordonville, Va. --The Astoria Beneficial Club will run its usual select excursion to Clarmont, on August 31st. Unusual Bargains in Real Estate. 2 lots, 25x250, 1 lot, 50x300, all adjoining the Bay Shore Hotel property; 12 acre farm. (Buckroo Beach) near electric ln., also C. and O. R. R. House on 9th St. extra cheap; house on 3rd St., extra cheap. Dostrable residence on Leigh Street, between 4th and 5th Sts. Vacant lots in old Jackson Ward. Will sell or trade any of the above. THOMAS H. WYATT, CO., Mechanics' Bank Building, corner 3rd and Clay Sts. In Memoriam. In sad but loving memory of our daughter, Irma V. Brown, who departed this life, August 29th, 1907: Farewoll, alas, our Irma, dear, Thy form lies cold and still, Thy death has caused a vacant place in our home This world can never fill. We love her, yes, we love her. But the angels love her more. And they sweetly called her To yonder shining shore. Partner Wanted. An experienced Undertaker and Embalmer, having New Jersey and Virginia License, desires a partner to operate in either State. Address, W. J. GREENE, care Bell, 70 West 133rd St., New York City. Life's Lessons (By Lucian B. Watkins) A touch of joy, a stab of pain; A peek of loss, a pinch of pain; A ray of love, a night of hate; A day of luck, a year of fate; A taste of death, a dream of life; A breath of peace, a heat of strife; A world of work, a bit of rest; A home to seek, a house poseet; A grain of faith, a ton of doubt; A fear within, a hope without; A trace of good; a weight of sin; A holl to shun, a heaven to win; A smile to give, a tear to share; A freedom here, a hondage there; A word of truth, a tone of lies; An aged fool, a moment wise; An inch to soar, a mile to plod; A prayer to pray, a glimpse of God. THE GREAT EVANGELIST COMING Rev. W. H. Skipwith at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Rev. W. H. Skipwith, who has been laboring in the Northern counties of Virginia will preach at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Sunday September 6th. At 11 A. M., his subject will be "Stendfastness." At 8 P. M. his subject will be "The Blessed People." This will be a rare opportunity to hear this noted evangelist at his best. All persons are requested to bring their song books, that is "The Jewel Song Book." The 6th Annual Session, Imperial Order of King David, at Richmond Va., September 1st, 1914. Hark! No Imperial. All Know you not that the St. Patrick's Session of our Order meets in the city of Richmond, Va., September 1st, 1914 in the beautiful Chapel Hall, of New Baptist Church? Session opens Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock. A fine and business meeting is expected. Delegates and their friends are amply provided for in pleasant abodes. Tuesday evening, Mrs. Fanny P. Clark will give a fine Charade and Mock Marriage. Admission, 10 cts. Crowd the hall. Come one, come all, A. G. THOMPSON, G. W. R., THE GREAT CONTEST Ends Tuesday, September 1st, 1914. The great contact which has been running in these column for so many weeks will end September 1st, 1914 at 12 o'clock midnight and all ballots should reach this office by that time. All settlements should be made in full. Each candidate who expects a prize must poll not less than ten thousand ballots. Rev. L. J. Morris, Rev. W. H. Skiftwath, Mrs Emma V. Kelly and Miss Martetta L. Chiles are the only ones now in the prize winning class at this writing. WILL ANNOUNCE WINNERS We hope to be able to announce the winners in our next issue. Read the list of prizes and the conditions and see what an opportunity has been given to those who have been persistent and energetic. The Boys and Girls' contest will have the first place after next week. We have been sending out over twenty thousand votes in the PLANET each week and there seems to be no reason why the candidates should not have been able to double the number actually cast. REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS The U. S. Government desires to ascertain the whereabouts of all original records, both military and naval, relating to the American Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1781. This is a matter of great importance to historical students, librarians, institutions of learning, patriotic societies, and all persons interested in their country's struggle for independence. It is believed that many such records are in the hands of private owners as well as in official archives and libraries. It is not desired to purchase these papers, but to obtain a complete list of them and their location, with a view to publication. Information in regard to all such papers will help complete the record of Virginia's part in the Revolution. The task of gathering this information in Virginia has been placed in the hands of Mr. Morgan P. Robinson of Richmond, and Mr. J. H. Lindeny of Charlottesville. All persons having knowledge of the existence of such records are requested to write to Morgan P. Robinson, Historian for War and Navy Departments, care State Library, Richmond, Virginia, giving a short description of the documents and the post-office address of their owner or custodian. THE GOOD SAMARITANS. OFFICERS DOING GRAND WORK: Richmond has long enjoyed the reputation of being the birthplace and cradle of more organizations than any city in this country. While the Order of Good Samaritans was not born in the city of Richmond, yet State Grand Lodge, No. 6, Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samarita, has its headquarters in this city and that Order is now forging its way to the topmost round of the ladder. You do not hear a great deal of the Order on the highway, yet it is a power in the fraternal councils of the State. The headquarters of the Order for the present time is at the residence of M. J. W. Thompson, 10th West Jackson Street. At the last annual session of State Grand Lodge held in Covington, Va. it was known that the growth of the Order for the past eighteen or twenty years has been so marvelous that it was necessary to purchase and maintain larger headquarters for the Order in the city of Richmond. With this end in view, the Order purchased from the Samaritan Builng Association, the piece of property known as "The Samaritan Hall" at the corner of Sixth and Duval Streets at the price of $6,000.00. This brings us to another bit of interesting history in connection with the Samaritans of the city of Richmond. We doubt whether there are an hundred citizens in Richmond, to-day who know the history of the Samaritan Hall. This piece of property C. F. HUBBARD, Grand Chief, I. O. G. S. and D. of S. VI. THOMPSON was bought immediately after the War by what was known as the Freedmen's Bureau. It was used by this Bureau as an educational and distributing point for books, clothes, and other articles of necessity amongst the emancipated slaves, hence it will be seen that this Hall occupies an important post in connection with the history of the colored people. The Trustees of the Freedmen's Bureau sold this property to the Trustees of ten Samaritan Lodges early in the seventies. In other words this piece of property was bought by ten Samaritan Lodges very soon after the War. These ten Samaritan Lodges continued to hold the property until the year 1908, when it was found that of the ten lodges that purchased this property, four of them had gone out of existence and the remaining six were composed of very aged members, and they did not feel disposed to be burdened with carrying the responsibility of the Hall upon their shoulders. The Hall through J. War by what was known as the Thiomna Hewin, Special Commission of the Court for the sum of $1,000.00. The Association held the property and improved it greatly since 1908 to the present time. The Hall has been sold to State Grand Lodge, No. 6, I. O. Q. S, and D. O. S at the price of $6,000.00. Notwithstanding the fact that the Building Association spent more than $2,000.00 upon the Hall for improvements—in selling the Hall to State Grand Lodge, they were able to pay back every lodge owning stock in the Association every dollar which they paid in and more besides, in other words, for every dollar in (Continued On Fourth Page.) Don't forget, the boat leaves for Claremont at seven o'clock on August 31st. For Sale. SUIT FILED. J. Thomas Hewin. Esquire, was retained by the members of the six remaining lodges to institute legal proceedings in the Courts to subject this property to a sale, and also, to determine the rights and status of the members of those Lodges which contributed money to the purchase of the Hall, but had gone out of existence. Suit was filed in the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, by Attorney Hewin. The result was that the Court decreed a sale of the property amongst the six Lodges which remained, and gave no interest whatever to the other Lodges that had dragged out of the Order. nor to any of the surviving members of said lodges. The members of the Order in Richmond were determined not to let this piece of property get out of the hands of the Samaritans, accordingly they came together and formed what is known as the "Samaritan Building Association." J. W. Thompson, Grand Secretary of the Order, was elected President and J. Thomas Hewin, Esquire, was elected Secretary. The following persons composed the Board of Directors of the Samaritan Building Association: J. W. Thompson, J. Thomas Hewin, Lucie E. C. Scott, Isiah Mann, C. H. Munford, Emma Baylor, J. A. W. Jackson, Hainah L. Johnson, Alfred Courts, Fannie B. Hill, Alpheus Scott, Major Bland, A. E. White, Fannie Jones, W. H. Thompson, J. N. Myers, Harriet Thompson, H. L. Richardson, Fannie Dammals, R. P. Henderson, R. B. Johnson, Napoleon Jones, Pinkle Lewis, W. G. Jackson, Joshua Davis, B. R. Craddock, Watson Jordan, Salle White. With the above officers, the Samaritan Building Association set to work at once and began to raise money with the object in view of buying the Samaritan Hall whenever it was sold. The Chancery Court appointed J. Thomas Hewin, Special Commissioner to make a sale of the property and distribute the fund amongst the surviving Lodges. This Samaritan Building Association. J. W. THOMPSON, Grand Secty., I. O. G. S. and D. of S. tion bought the Hall through J. Thomas Hewin, Special Commissioner of the Court for the sum of $1,000.00. The Association held the property and improved it greatly, since 1908 to the present time. The Hall has been sold to State Grand Lodge, No. 6, I. O. G. S. and D. of S. at the price of $6,000.00. Notwithstanding the fact that the Building Association spent more than $2,000.00 upon the Hall for improvements—in selling the Hall to State Grand Lodge, they were able to pay back every lodge owning stock in the Association every dollar which they paid in and more besides, in other words, for every dollar invested on Fourth Page.) --- Don't forget, the boat leaves for Claremont at seven o'clock on August 31st. A very desirable brick dwelling on Fifth Street. This property is in A-1 condition and would make an elegant home. Price, $3,000. B. A. CEPHAS, cor. 2d and Leigh Special Program at 3rd St. Bethel. The Woman's Mite Missionary Society of, Third St. Bethel A. M. E. Church will render a special program Sunday evening. Friends invited. Mrs. M. I. Morris, President; Mrs. M. E. O. Taylor, Secretary. Miss Ethel Price has returned to her home in Ridgway, Va. For Sale PERSONALS AND BRIEF Mr. W. J. Gunnell, of Charlottesville, Va. called on us last week. Miss T. P. F. Whitting is spending her vacation in Caroline Co., Va. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Spottswood, of New York City were here this week. Attorney William H. Stanton, of Pittsburgh, Pa. was in the city last week. He was looking well. Mrs. Corn Epps Hill has returned to the city after visiting in Atlantic City, Phila, and Washington. Mrs. Callie D. Brown left the city last week for a visit to her friends and relatives in Charles City, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Isiah of Hampton Institute, Va. are visiting their relatives and friends in the city. Mrs. Victoria Seay and her aunt Mrs. Powell, have returned to the city after a pleasant stay in Milford, Washington and Baltimore. Mrs. Netta Lee returned to the city last week after a pleasant stay in Pittsburgh, Pa. She was accompanied by her daughter, Beatrice. The name of the lodge as published in our last issue should have been Mt. Erin Lodge, No. 1828, G. U. O. of Odd Fellows instead of Mt. Aaron Lodge. Miss Janie Scott, formerly of Richmond, Va., but now of Washington, D. C. is spending her vacation in Atlantic City, N. J., 1306 Baltic Avenue. Mr. G. B. Richardson, of Monongahla, Pa., often an absence of a number of years, passed through the city enroute to Charlotte Co. Va. to visit his relatives. Rev. A. S. Lomax, Brownsville, Pa., preached at the Westwood Bapt. Church last Sunday. Monday he was the guest of Rev. L. J. Morris, D. D. G. C. Miss Etta Hall, of Hartford, Conn., who has been visiting in our city was delightfully entertained at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hall, in Old Dominion St. last Thursday night. Miss Ruth E. Trent has returned to her home after a pleasant rest in Goochland county, where she was the guest of Miss Alice Lewis, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Addison Lewis. Miss Julia Pride, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Bryant, of Washington, D. C. has returned home after a delightful vacation spent in Richmond and Amelia county. — Mrs. Joseph E. Jeffress, of Norfolk, who has been the guest of Mrs. Mary E. Meade, 90s Abigail St., this city, for a week, has had a very pleasant stay and is now returning home. — Rev. S. S. Morris, Messrs. E. M. Turner, M. A. Norrell, C. E. Bryan, Misses M. Janie Royall, Sidna Mayo, and Robinette and Leola Lewis are attending the Allen C. E. League Convention in Newport News. — Rev. William P. Lawrence, D. D., pastor of Union Baptist Church, Orange, N. J., President of the New Jersey Baptist S. S. Convention and Vice-President, New England Baptist Missionary Convention called on us this week. — Miss Cora L. Wright, of Leeburg, Va. was in the past week. She left Wednesday for Abbeville, S. C. to spend her vacation with her mother and other relatives. — Mrs. Josio A. Graham, wife of the Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham and her daughter, Miss Otte, were in the city last week. Mrs. Graham attended the sessions of the R. W. G. Council, I. O. St. Luke. — Mrs. M. E. McCornick, District Deputy, I. O. St. Lake, Baltimore, Md. Miss Sarah R. Jackson, Mrs. Lovoy Husketh, Mrs. Lawrence S. Henry, clerk in the Afro-American Office, Baltimore, Md. visited our office while attending the session of the I. O. St. Luke. — Mrs. Martha V. Skipwith, the accomplished wife of Rev. W. H. Skipwith, has returned home after a most pleasant visit and stay with the following friends! Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson, Havelock, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Cupitt at Acorn, Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Fisher, Lotsham, Rev. and Mrs. S. C. Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bukridge and family and at Nutsville with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Roane. Copyright, 1931, by Little, Browne & Co. "DOE YE NEXTE THYNGE." From an old English personage, down by the sea. There came in the twilight a message to me. Its quiet Haxon legend, deeply engraven. Math, as it seems to me, teaching for heaven. And all through the house the quiet words ring. Like a low inspiration, "Doe ye next thynge." Many a questioning, many a fear. Many a doubt, hath its quieting here. Moment by moment, let down from heaven. Time, opportunity, guidance, are given. Fear not tomorrow, child of the king! Trust them with Jesus, "Doe ye next thynge." —Anonymous. SYNOPSIS James Montgomery, an innocent country lad, is arrested for killing a bank watchman. His finger prints are taken by the New York police. His old camera pleads in vain for him with Detective Michael Kearney. Montgomery is placed on trial for his life charged with murder. Convicted of murder in the second degree, he is sent to Sing Sing as a life prisoner and enters the machine shop. His calmate, Bill Hawkins, a burglar, plans to aid Montgomery in escaping from the prison. Bill makes Montgomery a suit of dobbie, but it is added. Montgomery lies in box of machinery that is to leave the prison. Recovering, he hides in the New Jersey marshes and changes his clothing for that of a drowned man. Detective Kearney vainly questions Bill Hawkins concerning Montgomery's whereabouts. Montgomery becomes a tinker and travels nights. As "John Nelson," Montgomery enters a mill and invents very valuable machinery. He meets Molly Bryan, a beautiful girl. They fall in love with each other. "Nelson" learns that Detective Kearney is at hunting for him. He notifies Bill of his whereabouts. Bill is released from Sing Sing so that Kearney can shadow him and find Montgomery. Hawkins cleverly gives Kearney the alp. Out For a Purpose THE silent influence of five years with a man who prayed to his God morning and night and kept a brave heart in his bosom, although he was suffering bitter injustice, had a lasting effect on Bill Hawkins. The old burglar had come to look upon James Montgomery as if he were his own son grown to manhood, and this affection, which had grown within him gradually, drove bitterness from his heart. It was as if the tragedy of his own life had beenelled by a kindly hand. As the days passed in Sing Sing and the boy was not brought back to his cell Bill found his spirits gradually brightening. He learned to conform to the prison regulations, and his new course of conduct was not without its good effect. His red disk was gone forever, of C. B. B. He Was Free! course, but he could still win chervons and turn them into stars of honor with each five years of exemplary behavior. In the cutting room "The Butcher" still kept a good record and received the benefits thereof in letters and newspapers. The message finally came and Bill was signaled by "The Butcher," sent by to receive it. He quickly comprehended the use of the numbers and knew that he would find Montgomery in Gainesville, H. C. As if fate had determined to make up for all the bad luck of the past with one happy surprise, Bill was summoned before the probation board that next day. "Wife old thought was now as white as brown. Two years after the mid-summer must leave heavy trauma. The occupation of cunning and faithlessness was gone from his footwear. The few was still burry and few was and the brow shagged, but there was the final light of regeneration in his face. "Mr. 60.110," he beamed the warden say, "he has been a spindled prisoner for the last four years. He is getting old, and it looks as if he might straighten out if given a chance." "If you are released on probation, will you try to be worthy of the chance given you and will you report to the board once every month by letter?" the chairman asked. "Yes, sir," he replied, his voice trembling as he began to realize that the prison garb was about to drop from him. "We have studied your case and think it worth while to give you a trial," the chairman told blim. "That is all." He was free! It was hard for him to understand. A miracle had been wrought, it seemed to him. Kindness, mercy, compassion, had been offered him, a thief. Dazed and spiritually troubled, the old man walked to his cell. He had not asked for mercy, and yet it was given him. What would be find outside? No one was interested in him. Yes, the boy Jim was. Did the boy bring about his deliverance? Surely with a life term hanging over his head he could not have reached out from his hiding place and opened the gates of Sing Sing. Perhaps it was the God the boy used to pray to morning and night. Perhaps Jim had been praying for him and he heard his prayers. The awakening soul of Bill Hawkins leaped to the beautiful thought. His knees, trembled, and he sank upon them beside his iron cot. His head fell in his hands, and he prayed. Indeed, he prayed, for his eyes were wet with the tears of gratitude. Hawkins had come to Sing Sing with nothing but his sibs and his sentence of fifteen years. He carried away with him a sense of thankfulness, a thing he had never experienced before, and the intention of living the life of a decent man. The warden shook his hand and made a proteine of learning upon him. He little knew what good had come from his base share in the plan of Detective Michael Kearney to use one friend to betray another. The probationer's gray suit was changed for a new black one, and a felt hat was pulled over his forehead, hiding the detective formation. In his pocket was enough money to take him whence he came—the morass of humanity, the underworld of New York. He would return there because no other world would have him, but he would return a different man. He was not going forth to evangelize. He was going to seek the woman who had been a pretty girl once, the woman who had suffered ten thousand times what he had suffered. At the Ossining station he bought a ticket 12 New York and boarded the first train. Two men of all the crowd seemed to notice him. One of these got aboard the train directly behind him, while the other entered the coach he had chosen by the opposite door. The train was an express and they were seen at Forty second street, where, in the swarm of thousands of men and women, many coaches were unloading to the station platforms. Shorter of stature than the average in the teeming crowd, the head of Hawkins disappeared in a sea of hats and bonnets, but the two men who had come with him from Ossining were never more than ten feet away from him. Leaving the Grand Central station, Hawkins struck to the east and boarded a downtown Third avenue elevated train. He went all the way to Park row. In one of the more widely read of the penny newspapers he sought a means of finding the woman he wanted. He entered the Dark row newspaper per office and, counting his cash, found that he had $2 and some odd change. He inquired of a clerk and found that a "personal" would cost him $1. He was given a penil and an advertisement blank. The personal was written and paid for, and Bill departed. As the protester reached the sidewalk the two men who had followed him separated. One kept on his heels and the other, with a look of triumph in his eyes, hurried inside and to the advertising clerk. He showed a police badge. "I'm Captain Kearney of central office," he said briefly, "and I want to A He showed a Police Badge. giftpepper (the personal the old man just left with you.) The clerk produced it. Kennay read it slowly: "Jennie Hawkins. Send address this office. Want you, my wife." The detective offered a gravel of his appointment as he handed back the slip of paper. problem. The detective broke when the pursuer bolted in the cuffed hand back his arms back of the cuffed hand. He turned to the check again. "Boon as you get an answer to that personal," he instructed the young man, "telephone headquarters and ask for Captain Kearnay. If I saint't there the message will be delivered to me. See?" Hawkins moved from the respectable newspaper end of Park row to that section of the same iron pillared and track covered highway which melts into the Bowery. He had but little money, and he was bungy. For 5 cents he could have entered one of a hundred and more saloons, had a glass of beer and his fill of beans, bread and corned beef. But he had learned his lesson from drink, and be passed these places, choosing a cheap restaurant after carefully studying the prices of its various dishes displayed on a frame of dirty white cilcloth in black letters. He found a seat in the rear of the place facing the door. Kearney's man had entered behind him and was seated with his back to him. But he faced a mirror, and he could see every more of the old probationer he was shadowing. The eyes of Hawkins shifted about the restaurant, taking in the dirty walls, tawdry pictures, faded artificial flowers and the little signs proclaiming special dishes and their prices. For only a second his eyes rested on the mirror, but it was long enough. "A bull," said Hawkins to himself. The glance at the mirrored face was enough to impress it on his mind. If this detective was shadowing him and not some other man Hawkins would know it in just a little while. He ordered a plate of ham and beans and a cup of coffee. Breed was served with it, three slices. He ate with a good appetite and paid the waiter 15 cents from his little store of money. It had been his intention to go to the Herald office and insert a reply to the personal from Montgomery. He left the restaurant and continued his way north on the Bowery to Third avenue. He went as far as Twenty-third street and turned west. At Fourth avenue he entered the Metropolitan building arcade, which runs through Madison avenue and Madison square. He had not as yet turned about to make an attempt to find the shadow, and Kearney's man was congratulating himself on having struck an easy job. Once in the arcade building Hawkins increased his gilt until he came to the wide Madison avenue entrance. Here the storm doors had been put up in readiness for coming winter and the heavy weather of the late fall. He pushed through the door, but instead of continuing into the avenue he completed the circle and was back in the arcade. He retrained his steps, passing and recognizing the shadow, went to a boothack stand and calmly took a chair. The shadow, surprised, at first thought that this was a ruse of the man he was stalking to avoid him, but when he saw Hawkins take the chair he steal off and under cover told him that his task was still a simple one. As a Greek boy rubbed and polished his shoes Hawkins pondered how best to proceed next. Had Kearney not uncovered his hand in the attempt to behelit him to betray his friend he would have been puzzled to fathom the meaning of this shadowing. Now he understood why he had been released from prison and why his steps were being dogged. It was not mercy and kindness that had been the motive of his deliverance. It was police craft. Nevertheless he was out on probation and to stay out as long as he violated no law. The problem before him was to gain that probation by his own honest effort and not by being made a Judas. His knowledge of detective methods, gained in civil days, now stood him in good stead for a good cause. He knew that some time during the late afternoon or night his shadow would be relieved by another. If necessary, the man following him would arrest him as a suspicious character, take him to a station and hold him just long enough to have his relief look him over from under cover and then follow him. That he would not be held for long, he knew very well. The police wanted him free so that he could make his way to his friend and guide them to their unary. He was concerned chiefly in getting in print the reply to Montgomery's personal. To manage this beet he would return to his old associates of the underworld. Unwritten, the words of the brief message would be passed along until they reached the Herald office and found their way to type and eventually to the man they were intended for. His aboos were pollished. He paid the Greek boy and returned to the Bowery with his shadow. Hawkins entered the "reading room" of a lodging house just north of Chatham square. One table, littered with canvett newspapers and three or four old and well thumbed magazines, was in the center of the room. Around the walls were ranged chairs placed as closely together as the seats on the average New York park bench. As he humbled among the papers his keen eyes swept the faces of the down and outs who had been able to pay for the abeater they would have during the coming night. Kearney's man followed him into the room after a minute, peiled a newspaper from his pocket and found a seat near a window. The probationer expected some one, but he was not among the men gathered here. He took a paper and found a seat in the same row with the detective. Without creating his neck and leaning forward the detective could not watch Riff's movements. Still, there was no way for Riff to have the room without being seen by him, and the detective was not satisfied with their notice. patience. "The Sentinel" broke when the pro- babilist and hurried in the courthouse, and suddenly to seek this spot it he heard a song. Concernably about now "The Sentinel" friend, "Bopper B" Palum, then there got his heel and read the present after breakfast. A part of Bopper's stories in life was to keep up the underground communication between the outside world and the convicts in Singapore. It was he who had sied in the cash with which Montgomery was stashed when he made his getaway. Bill would know him by a mathmark under his drooping left eye. The noon bear passed tediously for Kennaway's man, but comfortably for Bill. He read paper, after paper, enjoying every line of the news of the world from which he had been shut off so long. Toward 1 Sckock "Boston Ed," a middle aged man, dressed as a laborer, entered the room and went to the table, where he fumbled among the papers and sized up the other guests and "sponges" of the Chatham square lodging-house. He uncovered the headquarters man in a glance from under his heartily lidded eyes and flashed a signal with a book to Bill, whose eyes he saw peering knowingly at him from over his paper. Bill's fingers began to move, and without appearing to look his way "The Butcher's" birthnarked friend read a message in the deaf and dumb language, telling him to stand by for a talk. He chose a paper and a seat, placing the table between him and Kearney's man. With his hands in his lap, "Boston Ed" could work his fingers without the detective reading his messages, should he by chance know the sign code. "The Butch's sent me," signaled Bill, "I'm just out." "Is the bull shadow?" asked Ed's fingers. "Yes." "What's doing?" "It's following me to find and escape." "What you want?" "Get a personal in the Herald for me." "Shoot it." "Here it is: 'Kid.-O. K December- -Bill.'" "I got you." "Repent it." "Kid.-O. K. December.-Bill.'" "I'm broke." "I'll pay." "Thanks." "What you doing next?" "Try to shake the shadow." "Then what?" "Shunt for my wife, Jennie Hawkins. Advertised for her, but the bulls will watch the newspaper offices." "Jennie Hawkins?" "Yes." "Are you Bill Hawkins?" "Yes." The man with the birthmark smiled and pretended to read his paper for a moment. "Bill," he perumed. "Yes?" "Shake the bull and meet me in Corlears Hook park. I take you to her." Bill's hands dropped in his lap. He paled and then flushed. "How is she?" he asked. "Fine and a good woman." "Thank God," said Bill to himself and then, with his fingers: "I'll meet you in Jerry's saloon. When?" "Any night between 10 and 12." Bill rose from his seat and left the room, his shadow at his heels. CHAPTER XII. Losing the Shadow. HAWKINS in the entire afternoon in which to wear out the patience of his shadow. He made his way to West street and the North river wharves. Although he was old and bent, he still had abondant strength in his long arms and in his massive shoulders. He went from pier to pier looking for a chance to put in a couple of hours at work. He found the chance at the foot of Warren street, where he was given three hours' work unloading trucks. At half past 5 o'clock Hawkins was paid $1 by his foreman. He slipped into his cost and started away to give the hound behind him a chance to show his ability in shadowing. The rush hour was on and Manhattan's millions were packing subways, elevated and surface cars and crowding the bridges. The sky scraper gushed forth seemingly endless streams of humanity. To the space in front of the World and Tribune buildings, Hawkins made his way, dodging to right and left as he traveled across the northward current. His shadow had to close in on him to keep him in sight. They were not more than three feet apart when Hawkins entered the World building. The fox passed through the building to North William street and disappeared in the gloom of the third riverward arch of the old bridge. The bound plunged after him. They emerged from under the bridge at Rose street, and the fox turned south to Frankfort street. Turning to the east, he started as if for the river, hanging close to the bridge arches. Suddenly the fox disappeared. The bound had just left Rose street and had turned east also. Not seeing his quarry, he hurried his steps, keeping his eyes shifting from one side of Frankfort street to the other. The bound gave a last glance up and down Frankfort street and then plunged into Pearl street, twisting like a python, crowded with hopeward hurrying thymands and made darker in the dusk of falling evening because of the shadows of the elevated structure and the great bridge overhead. The fox was gone! He had dwubbed on his traps and was back in North William street, only a few hundred feet from his perimeter, but hopefully kept to him. In a short time he reached Corsica's Hook park. Here he found Daisy's saloon, so called because the owner was dead and death and his philosopher was from there shortly afterward. It was a piece of sturdy woodwork. The probably owner sat in the saloon by the Family's house. and took his suit at a table in a clay room book of the bar. In the sign language he ordered from a deaf and deaf waiter a bowl of stew and a cup of coffee. He found a newspaper and made himself comfortable in this room work until the count of "Tuesday 10." neck until the coming of "Boston Bl." Promptly at 11 o'clock the man with the birthmark under his left eye showed his face in the door of the little room back of Deddy's bar. "Bill," he whispered, a wide grin spreading over his homely and spotted cementation. "Tea." "Bee's cousin." Hawkins jumped to his feet. "Set still, Bill," commanded "Boston Ed." "I got is fixed with Deedy. You two can have the room all to yourselves for awhile. He understands. You can talk all you want. Bill. I'll keep an eye on the door and spit a couple of brainstorms." He withdrew his head, and in a few moments a woman was shoved into the little room and the door banged tight behind her. The sunken eyes of the old prob- bationer seemed to be suddenly covered C. Tears Flowed Down His Cheeks. with a haze. Tears flowed down his cheeks. His long arms wore out stretched. "Jennie!" The woman, a slender, tired creature, with the marks, of years of physical toll upon her, sobbed. She tried to advance to the outstretched arms, but her legs refused to move. "Bill! At last, at last!" The words came from her brokenly as the breast under her plain black waist heaved copulsively. Her body began to away, and be sprung to her and took her in his arms. When the joy of this world weary couple, sadly mingled with grief, had been spent they sat close together at the table, clashing each other's hands. "I'm a different man, Jennie," said Hawkins. "I'm a different man. The faith of God has come to me." "How did you get it, Bill?" she asked eagerly. "They sent up a boy for life, and he was innocent," he told her. "The boy meant, done a wrong thing. The cops put it on him. But he never kicked, and he prayed every morning and night. I helped him escape, and now he wants me. I'm going to find him and find out if he needs any more help." She pressed his hands in her own when he paused. "I thought of our own boy who wouldn't be his age," he went on. "I got to love him, he was that kind and gentle. He was always thinking of his own poor old mother, and she died without seeing him after they sent him up." "Poor lad." "Yes, but he was a brave one." "And they gave you a probation. Bill?" "Yes, but only so's they could follow me and get the boy." He suppressed a desire to rip out an oath against his old enemies. "But how about you, Jennie?" he asked. "I have been working right along, Bill," she replied. "One time I thought I would blow up, but somehow I got my strength and pulled out all right. There was plenty of men after me when I was still pretty, Bill, but I been true to you, old man. I been true to you, my Bill." He patted her thin shoulders. One of his long arms was about her shoulder. She rested her head in its bend. "You tired, Jennie?" he asked. "Yes, Bill." "You want to go home." "Yes, let's go home. I gotta place ready for you." His eyes glistened with love for the woman who was again to be his help meet. "I'm afraid to, Jennie," he told her after a pause. "The ball's been after me all day." "When you come, Bill?" "Soon!" I see the young man, I getta reach him first and then I'll send for you or come for you." "How you going to get there?" "Work my way." She loosened her waist and pulled out a roll of bills. "I brought this for you, Bill," she said. "I know'd you would want some. I got $000 in the bank now and there's $200." He beated about taking the money. "You gotta take it, Bill," she said. "It will bring you back to me sooner and you can pay it back in no time." He took $140 of the money. "Boston He" tapped on the door and then poked in his face. no. I gotta sleep over one of those" said Bob. Rumpand and wife emburied and the old patient shipped from the room, made his way through the gistle-ticking deaf and dumb patients of the saloon and disappeared into the night. In his mountain refuge there were hours of loneliness which beat John Nelson. He realized that the more he achieved in life and the greater grew his love for Molly Bryan the more terrible would be the reckoning for him should the police ever corner him. The oppositives of these houses became such that he looked about for a mental occupation that would serve to drive from his thoughts the fear that seemed to fasten on him with tighter grip as the weeks passed. In the Dark Corner he was the only man with money and sufficient warmth and food and shelter sound enough to make actual physical existence bearable in winter. The poverty of the mountain families was but little short of the poverty of despair. Many of them lived through the seasons with never the possession of money, getting their food from their patches of open ground and their clothes by trading. The majority of the people about him could not read. Some of them had never heard of Christ. As he had turned to the poor in the mill section of Greenville, he turned to the mountainers of the Dark Corner. With one of his negro servants he made excursions from his castle, going free cabin to cabin, finding out what needed most and giving free these Samaritan trips he can pocket Bible, and when he could an excuse for so doing he would re- to them the message that packs the book from Genesis to Revelation that the mercy of God shall endure forever. On the edge of his estate he built a pine church with a tiny spire tipping the tree line. Here he provided a pulpit for the mission priests and circuit riders who traveled the mountain paths. Here he made a place for the word of God and not for the word of a diet or a conference. The snow of the first winter in his mountain home began to fly, and Nelson made a trip into the city to secure the copies of the Herald he had commissioned a newsletter to save for him. That night, before a log fire in his study, he spread the copies of the Herald on a large table and arranged them in order of their issue. He covered the reply of Hawkins: Kid.-O. K. December- Hill The old convict had managed in some way to get his release from prison. He was coming to him, he of all the men who could help him, the only man he could trust with his secret. Into Bill's hands he would give the wealth he had acquired, give it freely, gladly, that he might spend it in the hunt for the man whose arrest and conviction would take from him the disgrace put upon him by the law that had worked abortively. Hope that had practical reason back of it filled him. Molly was nearer to him than she had ever been since the day he first saw her sweet face and heard her lovely voice. He felt as if he could go to her even then, for he was filled with confidence newly born. By early spring he would finish his most important invention, a new knitting machine that would replace those already made. He would put up a knitting mill in conjunction with the textile mills and have his own plant. He could bring Molly to his castle until the day came when Bill would bring in his quarry. Molly and her father had made the trip to his home and workshop once during the previous summer. Nelson had kept sacred the chair she had used. A handkerchief she had left on his work desk he allowed to remain the undisturbed save when he would pick it up and press it to his lips. He was still holding the paper in his hands and dreaming of love and happiness and content when the telephone rang. It was P o'clock. He picked up the receiver eagerly. "Yes," he said as he recognized her voice. "It is nearing Christmas time," she told him, a plaintive poto in her voice. "I must shop for the mountain children," he told her. "I had almost forgotten." "You are coming into Greenville, then?" "Yes. I must." "You will need more than a single day." He tried to protest that his work was pressing. "You are going to stay with us for a good part of the holidays," she told him decisively. "Father, mother, Jim and I all insist, and we will not take a refusal. You must start next Wednesday morning early, and I shall meet you in my motor on Paris mountain." The thought of being near her for an entire day, for two days or more, perhaps, thrilled him and tempted him to leave his hiding place. "Then if I must," he told her, "I shall be on Paris mountain next Wednesday." In every tone of every word she had spoken over the telephone there was a message of love that he could not mistake. Even a little sigh had come to him trembling through the thread of wire strung over the mountains. Her hand was his for the asking. Her heart was already his. Within his gramp, was the greatest happiness God could give a man. The sight to love and hold forever a pure and beautiful woman who loved him. He passed the floor of the room, his mind filled with an exquisite day dream. She would share this house with him, he is mistress, bring to it the subtle fragrance and sweetness which she alone possessed. In winter, and in times of storm, her smile would fill his home with a radiance sweater and more biceps than the sunshine of spring. She would come tipping to the door as he worked with his maidship. She would look in and he would stop at his table, taking care to welcome her and to see of the sweeping of her hair and to hear the warmth of her love in his heart she made his mark. She would hear his laugh and marvel at the chief, his lips. Tun o'clock passed and 11 struck as he set in silent and happy dreaming, bodily the handkerchief dropped from his hands and his face showed white as a sheet of paper in the light of his student's lamp. He had heard some one moving outside the house. There had been the crackle of frozen snow. His three black servants were far off in their cottage for the night. Who was this manurder? Again came the sound. Some one was surely walking beneath his windows. Nelson dropped to his hands and knees, crept to the wall and turned an electric switch, plunging the house in darkness from cellar to attic. Against the many windows of his castle showed the snow laden boughs of the trees in a glow that came from the reflection of the white pall covering the earth. He felt for his wallet, which held the money he was to use in the event of flight becoming necessary. It was in his pocket, step and he was at his desk. He opened a drawer softly. In his right hand showed the dark outline of a blue steel revolver. His dreams of love had vanished. He was again the escaped convict making a fight for the liberty he had stolen. The snow was not deep enough to impede his motor. He hurried to the secret entrance to his garage, opened the masked door and stood wailing at the head of a flight of narrow stairs. Hard to Recognize Simon Ford was standing in the lobby of his Grand Union hotel when a tail, portly, well dressed man entered and leaned over the cigar stand, carefully examining the wares within before making a purchase. "I know that man," said Mr. Ford. "His face is perfectly familiar, but somehow I can't place him at the moment, and I'm supposed never to forget a guest after speaking to him once." Mr. Ford was evidently annoyed. He stepped across to the cigar stand, passed the time of day with the portly, well dressed man and came back again. "Did you identify him?" asked the acquaintance to whom Mr. Ford had been speaking. "Oh yes. He's the barber who has shaved me every other day for eight years. But this is the first time I ever saw him with his white coat off and his black derby on." New York Sun. A Hitch In the Plan A little girl of six just looking thoughtfully out the window of her home the other day. Her mother asked the cause of her seriousness. "Oh," she replied. "I was just thinking that when I grow up to be a big lady I again to get married and have three children." The parent was surprised and amused. "Well, you will be very fortunate, indeed," she said. Then the little girl again lapsed into thought. Finally she said: "But you can never tell; mother. I might marry a bachelor."—Philadelphia Ledger. Different. Disgusted Fisherman—You said this was a good pond for fish! Boy—It is, but I never see one in it." —Chicago News. No Worry. "Is that your mule?" asked the man going fishing. "Tassir," said the colored man, who was sitting on a log by the road. "Does he kick?" "Deed, mistuh, he ain't got no cause to kick. He's gittit' his own way right along. I'm do one dat's havin' do worry an' difficulty." "What's the reason? He comes of fighting stock." "That's the reason. He's soured on fighting. His grandmother is a colonial dame, his aunt is a H. A. R. and his mother is a miffant."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. No Use. "I admit that the architecture of this house is something fierce," said the agent, "but just see how handy the place is—only a stone's throw from the station." "I see it in," said Tompkins wearily. "But I'm such a rotten shot it wouldn't be any satisfaction to me." Anseriidae. "The impeccable nobleman who married the millionaire betreas, wore at the wedding a white carnation in his buttocks." "To be appropriate, his boutonniere ought to have been of marygold."—Baldwin American. GERMANS CAPTURE FIVE FORTS AT NAMUR German Armies Press On, With City of Paris as Goal. The city of Namur and five of its forts are in possession of - the Germans. The other four forts at the Belgian stronghold are still holding out, according to dispatches from German sources but Berlin declares that they are being subjected to a terrific bombardment and their fall seems imminent. In the meantime the kalsor's forces are pushing on the French frontier. That the attack upon the allies, which was so successful after three days of desperate fighting, has already been renewed is indicated by reports of heavy cannonading south of Mons. It is believed the Germans have already reached the intrenched line of allies and that the battle is raging, with the kalsor's army shelling the French and British positions. No official news to that effect has been given out by the government press bureau, however. Germans Take the Offensive. A dispatch from Paris says that the French war office announced that the German troops had taken the offensive and are engaged in battle with the allied French and British forces, that the Belgian army had made a sortie from Antwerp and that the reports of the recapture of Muelhanson by the Germans were untrue. An official statement issued said: "In the north, the Germans appear to have resumed the offensive, which had been arrested. They are engaged with our forces, who are united with the British troops. "The Bolgian army, making a sortie from Antwerp and taking by surprise the first lines of the Germans, throw them back past Malines. "In Lorraine, following the counter attacks our forces have taken up their position on the mountain which follows the course of the Muerthe from Luneville to Nancy. "In Alsace our troops have repulsed numerous counter attacks by the Germans directed toward Colmar. The report which has been current of the capture of Musselhaus by the Germans is denied. "The German offensive movement in the north, which was stopped Monday appears to have been resumed. "The enemy is, however, being held back by the French army, acting in conjunction with an English army and a Belgian army." Loss of Life Believed Enormous Advices from the field, both official and unofficial, say that the French are now upon the defensive having fallen back from their advanced position after three days of the most furious fighting known in modern warfare. The loss of life on both sides has undoubtedly been enormous, although no official figures have been issued. The fall of the Namur forts caused amusement and consternation in London and Paris. It had been believed that the troops massed around Namur would be able to put an effectual check to the headlong dash of the kalser's legions. One military expert referred to the Germans "capture of Namur as one of the inexplicable events that make war a gamble." Fighting around Namur and Charleroi was of the most terrific character, the onslaughts of the invaders being swiftly met by the infantry, cavalry and artillery of the allied forces. German Line's Mighty Sweep. The battle line of the mighty German army now stretches from the northwest to the southeast, beginning at a point near Mons and ending at a point near the northern boundary of Bursenburg. A separate engagement, however, is reported to be taking place at a point south of this great 300-mile battlefield in the region of the Voges mountains. The mighty German war machine, victorious in the heavy three-day battle against the French and English allies, has begun a forward move most of all its forces, stretching along the entire Franco-German and Belgian frontiers toward Paris. A message from Berlin stated that the Kaiser's arms proposed a move in which the four armies into which the great attacking force is divided are pushing forward along lines which some together at Paris. Three armies, each a host in Mosl make up the front of the German forces in northwestern Belgium. One lies between Mons and the Mone River; another lies between the east bank of the Mone and the Lesse River; the third is in position north of Lensburg along the Somols river. Both banks and the centre have been engaged in the conflict, which opened early Saturday. GERMAN ARTILLERY Long Line of Cannon Going Over Mountain Pass. 1814 by American Press Association This is the first picture received in American showing German troops marching to Belgium, shows the artillery in a mountain pass. Sit indicate that German strategy, coupled with the immense strength of the greater army, completely upset the plan of attack conceived by General Joffre, the French commander-in-chief. Special mention is made of the gallantry of the British forces, commanded by Field Marshal Sir John French, that met the German assault between the French frontier and the west bank of the Meuse. So powerful was the drive of the German army against the main force of allies that French troops stationed in the department of Nord were rushed southward to reinforce the left flank leaving only a body of territorials in the district around Dubaix to resist the attack of the Uhlans which penetrated that region. From all indications the Germans now control all of Belgium except the extreme northern and northeastern parts, but military experts agree that the kaiser must fight out a decisive engagement at once if he is to use any part of his army in Belgium to attempt to storm the advance of the Russians through East Prussia. Some of the exports have advanced the theory that the Franco-British allies fell back purposely to lure the Germans onward and farther away from Berlin. Relative of Former Executive of State Is Killed in Pittsburgh. Daniel Stuart, a cousin of former Governor Edward S. Stuart, of Philadelphia, and father of Mrs. Lonnel V. Rockwell, of Ardmore, was fatally shot in Pittsburgh when he attempted to overtake an Italian who had just killed another man during an argument. According to the Pittsburgh police Mr. Stuart chased the Italian several blocks and was about to catch him when the assailant turned sharply and fired a shot which pierced his pursuer's chest. Mr. Stuart died later in the Pittsburgh Hospital. The other victim was Paul Rieger forty-five years old, a carpenter. He and Edward Vocarri were arguing on the street. The argument grew into an altercation, and as Mr. Stuart, on his way home, approached the two the Italian pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot Rieger. He then ran down the street. Mr. Stuart, who was the only witless to the shooting, gave chase. He ran after the Italian for several blocks. Vocarri turned suddenly and fired again. Mr. Stuart fell to the ground fatally wounded. He was later picked up and sent to the hospital where he died shortly after being admitted. During a force electrical storm in Cape May, N. J. the tall steepe of the First Baptist Church was struck by lightning, which ignited the buildings and caused damage of about $3,000. Trettle Kills Box Car Rider. Louis Woler, 22 years old, formerly a merchant at Magnolia, V. Va., while riding on top of a box car on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was struck by an overhead trentle near Broad Ford, Pa., and instantly killed. German Cruiser Raids Canadian Town The Grand Trunk Pacific officials in Winnipeg, received a report that the German cruiser Nerburg entered the harbor of Prince Report, B. C., filled her baskets from the Grand Trunk Pacific railway supply, took all the gold in the banks and soiled swamps. Pleigues Turkish Nostrury. The Turkish Ambassador in London entered the British Foreign office that Turkey will remote neutral. THE King George Reviewing Sailors The above picture of the king of England was taken during the recent review of the home fleet of England at Portland, where there were 425 ship assembled. England taken great pride in her navy, and the prospects of a clash between her fleet and that of Germany was fraught with awe inspiring possibilities. THE SEA IS A LAND OF MARITIME. THE SEA IS A LAND OF MARITIME. THE SEA IS A LAND OF MARITIME. Kaiser Takes Great Pride In His Peerless Navy The accompanying photograph was taken from the warship Deutschland of the German navy. The German navy is the apple of the kaiser's eye and was expected to give a splendid account of itself against its foes. THE CARTS OF THE CAVALRY German and French Artillerymen Artillery plays a big part in the great European war, Germany and France have devoted a great deal of attention to this development of their respective armies. Artillerymen of the German army are shown at the top and French artillerymen at the bottom. Photo by American Press Association King George Rev. The above picture of the king of England review of the home fleet of England at assembled. England takes great pride in chash between her fleet and that of Germany possibilities. Photo by American Press Association. Kaiser Takes Great Pride The accompanying photograph was taken of the German navy. 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All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second-class matter. SATURDAY AUGUST 29, 1914 Mr William Monroe Trotter, the redoubtable editor of the Boston Mass. Guardian and Corresponding Secretary of the National Independent Political League in conjunction with his colleagues has arranged for a three days' conference of colored Americans against proscription as practiced in this country. The meeting will be called to order in the Bethel Church, New York City, September 21, 1914. Each State is urged to致信 a delegation to attend these demonstrations. The race activists will be there in full force and in view of the present political conditions in the Empire State a brevity that is expected. Colored men should rally now as never before. The issues and the times demand it. Gov. Cole I. Please, of South Carolina has been declared in the Democratic primaries for United States Senator and will accordingly soon go out of office as another Democrat has been nominated for Governor of that State. It was predicted that if this result was obtained, Gov. Please would lead an independent movement in South Carolina. Many colored people honestly believed this and hoped that the result would be brought about. We have never shared that opinion. It begins to look, though, that the era of demagoguism is on the wane and that the better class of people are again coming into control of the government in many of the Southern States. THE NEW YORK SITUATION. The New York situation is interesting. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who had endorsed the candidacy of Hon Harvey D. Hinman, who is running on an anti-boss platform in the Republican primaries for Governor, has now yielded to the importance of his supporters and withdrawn his support of that gentleman. He is now in favor of a straight-out Progressive candidate standing upon a straight-out Progressive platform. Just what effect this will have on the situation is not known. Hon. Charles S. Whitman, the present District Attorney of New York City seems to be in the lead for the nomination and should be win a large independent vote will undoubtedly be cast for him. The vote in New York State will determine the future usefulness of the Progressive Party in the affairs of the nation and emphasize the fact as to whether or not it is to be reckoned with by each of the great national political parties. Ex-President Roosevelt's action has caused much comment among all party leaders, not excepting his own. His bid for Republican support did not call forth the hearty response that he had anticipated. Viewed from any angle, colored citizens can regard the political situation as entirely satisfactory. God has a hand in all of this and he will work it out in His own time. BLACK TROOPS' BRAVERY. France tried the experiment of enlisting black troops in its regular army. Reports from the front show that the Republic made no mistake along this line. The feats of bravery rival any as told in the world's history. In speaking of it, a correspondent says: Near Charleroi I heard some stories of the bravery of the French soldier. The Germans were bombarding the city. The French troops made what amounted to a medieval fortite, but, finding the enemy in much greater force than was expected, were compelled to withdraw. The bombardment continued relentlessly, whereupon the French Turcos, gliding troops from Algiers deboned from the town and, with a gallantry --- which must surely live in history, charged the German battery, bay-cometing all the German gunners. Their losses are sold-to exceed those of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. Of a battalion, only 100 men, it is reported; returned unscathed. Their bravery, however, was powerless against the German advance, which crept foot by foot through the outskirts of Charlled to the very heart of the town. There, in the narrow streets, the carnage was indiscribable. The French infantry told me that the roads became so jammed with dead that the killed remained standing upright where they had been shot, supported by their dead comrades. The last stand of the French was made before the railway station in front of which passes the canal. Here the Germans fought for two hours to take the bridge. After they had captured the station, with heavy casualties, the Germans moved rapidly ahead, taking various suburban villages. Charlerol was taken and retaken five times in the fighting between the French and Germans on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The French Turcos are Africans. This tells the whole story. The most desplaced race has proven itself repeatedly to be among the bravest. TWO BAPTIST LEADERS WRATHY The National Baptist Convention holds its annual session in Philadelphia, Pa., September 9th, 1914. The indications are that it will be one of the stormiest sessions in the history of the denomination. The cause of it all is a disagreement between two of the brainstem pulpit orators in the country to-day. One is the President, Rev. E. C. Morris, D. D., of Helena, Arkansas, and the other is Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D., Chairman of the Publication Board and Manager of the mammoth Baptist Publishing House at Nasaville, Tennessee. We have read with interest the statement of both of these great men and it seems to us that both have presented their side of the controversy with consummate ability. One has charged the other with misstatements and vice versa. It seems that both have resented the attitude of the other. President Morris cannot understand why he should not be able to pass an opinion and take an official interest in the actual work of the Nat'l Baptist Publishing Board, which is pursued to an insufficiency to the National Baptist convention, which he is an official head. Manager Boyd, who by his mastery management has built up the great publishing house at a great personal financial savvice to himself, intends to respect this interfer- square with his department by persons, no matter who they are, who cannot comprehend the inner workings and troubles of a large publication business. President Morris has shown by two records that he has not profited by the £200 on a preparated annual for the editorial department, of which he was the official head, but has paid the money out to others for services rendered. Dr. Boyd insists in the face of these facts that Dr. Morris' opposition is due to his desire for more money and not being able to obtain it. he makes sturder attacks upon this department through his friends in the Convention and by direct attacks upon him. This controversy reminds us of the one in which Rev. Dr. Isaacs figured many years ago. It is charged, too, that Rev. Dr. Boyd holds mortgages upon the plant of the Nat Rap Publishing Board, that the officesal Board is incorporated and is in a measure independent of the National Baptist Convention, on the membership or rathtp the church membership, it is dependent for its support. This controversy is unfortunate and can only be settled by a strict adherence to $^{15}$ business principles. This great publishing house is the hite's work of Rev. Dr. K. H. Boyd and it is so interwoven with the National Baptist Convention that he is supposed to be subject to its commands, while as a legal proposition and under its charter, he is at liberty to steer practically an independent course in the field of legitimate business. The management of the National Baptist Convention has discovered this and they now hope to place it absolutely under the supervision of officers, who are not well posted on the business' part of the affair although they are "past masters" with reference to the editorial handling of the periodicals of this great publishing concern. As a matter of fact, the concern can succeed with the proper business management and without an excellent editorial department, while the excellent editorial department cannot succeed without the proper business management. 'And there you're.' It is a case for delicate adjustment and a better understanding. To be plain, the National Baptist Publishing Board or rather Dr. Boyd can run the publishing house without the National Baptist Convention, but we doubt if the National Baptist Convention can run the publishing house without Dr. Boy! What is the logical conclusion, then" Both President Morris and Manager Boyd should be retained, but an amicable understanding should be reached. If President Boyd is head of the National Baptist Convention and over the National Baptist Publishing Board, no matter reflecting upon either President Morris or Manager Boyd should be permitted to the publications of the demonstration. eronagé of the police. The Houtenant called four detectives and told them to spend the day getting the wretch who had left the Hartman coop desolate. Last night they reported that there was absolutely nothing doing. Pollard was then assigned to the case. He returned in an hour with a white man, e.rising a bag of "chanckens." "He had a girl-ten mouth and a bag of chickens," said Pollard, "and I knew I couldn't go wrong." This is an amusing situation and We are of the opinion that Dr. Boyd claims that much money is due him for his services and that he has taken steps to prevent the years of labor and toil from passing into other hands without first compensating him. This is reasonable and it seems to us that if there is a mortgage, the national body should proceed to pay it off even should the money go to Dr. Boyd. If the National Baptist Convention has not put up the money in cold cash for the machinery, building, etc. at Nashville, Team, some body did put it up and this money should be paid and then the national organization should take over the publishing house in its own right and, having had his pocket filled for his lifetime service, Dr. Boyd would have no other recourse but to give his good will, ability and support to his successor. This is the way it looks to us. If we have misunderstood the facts, we stand corrected. It does seem though that in issuing a circular to the denomination Dr. Morris, President, of the Convention was barred from the publications of his own Convention and in publishing his statements in the periodicals of the National Baptist Publishing Board. Manager Boyd had free and full access to these same publications. There is a weak place somewhere and we regret to see the blunders of the A. M. E. Christian Recorder at Philadelphia. Fa. duplicated when the editor of that journal and the manager were fighting each other in the same journal. Let us have care. The police department of Chicago seems to have "marked up the wrong tree" in the effort to locate and apprehend a chicken thief. It has become to be proverbial that colored folks that steal will take a chicken in preference to anything else, at least this is the general belief, although it is known of all the world that a white man who steals will steal anything from a pen point up to a million dollar bank. This white citizen kept on losing chickens and he could not locate the chicken thief. The detectives were traffled and puzzled, so a colored detective on the force was selected for the task of apprehending the thief. He did not follow the plan of his white associates, who were looking only for a Negro thief. He went at the task with an "open mind." But the telegraphic report tells the story, much better than we can tell it. Here it is: Chicago, Ill. Aug. 26.—The mouth of the chicken thief is an soft as the way of the transgressor is hard, and as long as this obvious peculiarity of roost footers remains, and David Pollard, colored, is a member of the Chicago police force this city will be no place for a bandit chicken fander. Detective Pollard today added to a long list of feathery conquests when he brought in the man who had been taking all but the feed from the chicken coop of Joseph Hartman. Mr. Hartman rushed into the station house yesterday, which is a block from his home, and reported that the last of the leghorns had vanished. He had made eight previous reports regarding the gradual decline of his cooped interests, and he wanted to know what in the name of the warring nations, he got in exchange for his taxes if he couldn't even keep chickens under the chap. eronage of the police The Houston called four detectives and told them to spend the day getting the wretch who had left the fartman coop desolate. Lark night they reported that there was absolutely nothing doing. Pollard was then assigned to the case. He returned in an hour with a white man, crying a bag of "chanckens." "He had a chicken mouth and a bag of chickens," said Pollard, "and I knew I couldn't go wrong." This is an amusing situation and the colored detective is "the hero of the hour." The biggest chicken stealing raid ever made in this state was by a white man and he used a wagon in making his hauls. Some people said that the thief was an itinerant preacher, but we will lot that pass. One thing we know when it comes to chicken-stealing, turkey-stealing, hog-stealing and bank-stealing the average white thief has no equal in the world. Wake me early on August 31st as I may go to Claremont with A. B. C. WANTED — AN EXPERIENCED Shoemaker (colored) to work in a first class Shoemaking and Repair Shop. Terms made known on application. Address ELJJAH JOIDSON, *E. E.* Market St. Harrisonburg, Va. The Second Annual Session of the National Ideal Beauty Society at Newport News, Va. Tuesday September 1st, 1911. To the Officers and Members of the National Ideal Benefit Society—Greeting: You are hereby notified that: the Second Annual Session of the Supreme Lodge, will convene in Newport News at the Trinity Baptist Church, Tuesday, September first, 1914 at ten o'clock A. M. This will be an important Convention and every arrangement is being made for the convenience and comfort of Delegates and friends that will be in attendance. Four Great Concerts will be given by The National Ideal Choir, Tuesday night, Concert at Taborian Hall, Newport News, Va.; Wednesday night at Bassett Academy, Hampton, Va.; Thursday night at Queen St. Baptist Church, Norfolk, Va.; Friday night at Third Baptist Church, Portsmouth Va. The Ideal Members who are giving these entertainments, cordially invite the public to attend. The Richmond Delegates will leave in a special car over the C. and O. R. R. Monday afternoon at four. — Subscribe to The PLANET. Only $1.50 per year in advance. $25.00 Reward for Information. A reward of $25.00 is hereby offered to the first person giving information leading to the whereabouts of Mr. Joseph B. London, who left his home here in the Spring of 1905. ATTY. GEORGE W. MILFORD, 471 Florida Ave., N. W., Wash., D. C. FREE FREE FREE COLORED PEOPLE'S HAIR. Our New 1944 Catalog, showing the Latest Styles in Colored People's Hair. We are the largest importers of mannequin faces of colored people's hair. We guarantee our hair to stand combing and wagging. Our prices are lower than three quoted prices, by the power of a dollar and a hundred cents, and all styles of hair. Perfect substitute for our beautiful enamel. Agents wanted. MUMARIA HAIR COMPANY, Department D, 63 Duane Street. New York City vested in the Hall by each lodge, they received $1.20 in return per dollar invested. The lodges of Richmond were delighted at this splendid return from the r investment. Many expressed the idea that this was the first time in their history that an organization chartered and run by our people had disbanded and paid back every dollar put into the organization and some dividend besides. This was true of the Bamaritan Bulld.ng Association which now goes out of existence when the Grand Lodge becomes the owner of the property. TO OPEN OFFICE. Since the Grand Lodge of the Order of Good Samaritans has become the owner of this property, Mr. J. W. Thompson, Grand Secretary, of Richmond, Va. and G. F. Hubbard, of Lynchburg, Va. were in Richmond a few days ago, at which time an inspection of this building was made for the purpose of locating and fitting up the office of the State Grand Lodge, which will be done in a very short time. The headquarters of the Order will be moved from Mr. Thompson's residence on Jackson St. to this building, corner Sixth and Duval Sts. Along with this bit of history, we present our readers with the cuts of C. F. Iubbard, Grand Chief, and J. W. Thompson, Grand Secretary, both of whom have long served the Order in their respective offices. At the time when these gentlemen assumed the responsibility of running the Order of Good Samaritans, the Grand Lodge was unable to pay the travelling expenses of these officers to and from the Grand Lodge Sessions home. To-day, State Grand Lodge, No. 5, J. O. O. S. and D. of S. has grown to 10,000 or more members and has assets close to $20,000.00 in value. In making this splendid showing, the Order has shown no small degree of what can be accomplished by honest, conscientious leadership. The Samaritans of Richmond district are delighted at the prospects of having the property recently bought by State Grand Lodge, equipped and opened as their general office. They are working very hard this year to make an excellent showing in this district. The next Grand Lodge Session of the Order for 1915 will be held in Norfolk, Va. Grand Chief C. F. Hub hard, is also a field organizer for the Order and he is bonding every energy there, is in help to make the session at Norfolk one of the greatest showings the Order has ever made. With this end in view he is travelling in every section of the State this year to arouse the interest in the District Deputies. The usefulness of a battleship is not to be determined by its size, but it is to be determined by the men who are behind the guns. This same rule may well be said to apply to a society. A society is good or bad according to the men who are behind the guns, and the men who are behind the guns in a society are the officers and Board of Directors. The following are the officers and members of State Grand Lodge, No. 6, Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samarita. They are the men who have lead the Order to success during its whole constructive period and they are the men who are behind the guns today: Grand Chief, C. F. Hubbard, Lynchburg, Va.; Grand Secretary, J. W. Thompson, Richmond, Va.; Grand Treasurer, J. M. Clarke Danville Va. The Board of Directors is composed of the above named persons with the following added: C. W. Jordan, Suffolk, Va.; C. H. Munford, South Richmond, Va.; Mrs. M. C. Stewart, Hampton, Va.; Sandy Miller, Norfolk, Va.; Roschee Mosby, Richmond, Va.; Dr. P. A. Scott, Newport News, Va. To say that the above officers and directors of State Grand Lodge have the confidence of the people, goes without saying, because they have been elected and re-elected for a decade or more of years. The affairs of the Order have been regularly examined and audited by the Insurance Department at Richmond and every time they have come out with a clean sheet. Any persons who may desire information as to the organization of Subordinate Lodges in connection with the Order of Good Samaritans, address all communications to, J. W. Thompson, Grand Secretary, 104 W. Jackson Street, Richmond, Va. ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT That which gives health to the human body is blood. A strong, healthy body canable of doing work and having the power to resist diseases must have a plenty of strong, fresh, pure blood. A society to do business of drawing others to it, and to hold them after they come, must have money to meet its obligations. The present corps of officers of State Grand, Lodge forewax this fact many years ago. This is proven by the strength of the Endowment Department. This department had its birth in the mind and brain of the present Grand Secretary, J. W. Thompson. He organized it October 1, 1601 and has been its manager ever since. When this Department first began, the face value of its policies was $50.00, but to-day, the face value of all policies issued by it is $100.00. Since the organization of this Department by Mr. Thompson, nearly 1000 death claims have been paid in 12 years. Every claim is paid promptly. You don't have to threaten them with a law-suit to get the payment of a death claim. Now, anyone can see what is the secret of this Order's success. It is not advertisement in the newspapers; it is not the beating of dreams on the highway; but is the prompt payment of your obligations to your members. This is what State Grand Lodge has done and what State Grand Lodge is doing to-day. Join the nearest lodge in your community. FINE, SOFT, SILKY HAIR IS YOUNG by the use of the New Wonderful Cocolatum Made of Coconut Oil and Lily-White Petrolatum Combined with a well-known skin fluid, it is the finest amp massage ever offered for the growing and preservation of the hair. 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Ges . a Te . e it s . ‘econ: Nees ae HENRY PECK’S COUSIN SALLY - - - -: By BODY OF POPE IS ENTOMBED Placed In Crypt Among Tombs of Other Popes, CONCLAVE TO MEFT AUG 31 One Thousand Persons, Present by Special Invitation, Witnessed ‘the Ceremony of Entombment. Tho entumbinent of the late Pope Plux X took place at sunset in Rome, The great Qusilica of St Peter's wits fy semi-dorksess. Ay fickering Meat came from the perpetuaily burning tapers about the Shrine of the Apo.- tles And tie candles on the chapvi where the catufalque stood. Ti.s: who witiexsed’ the ceremony, num bering Iv, came by special invi.a tlon ant facluded the diplomatic rep resentatives accredited to. the Hels See, the prelates and members of tie Roman iristocracy. The processton formed in the chap al of the Hesxed Sacrament, wher for hours the body of Pdas X Iny fa state, ‘The catafalque was surround: ed by the triple crows, and the body of the Pope was clad tn the Pontifeal robes and surrounded by the emblenn of bis sacre} oitice, During the course of the day many thousands of per sons paxnet by the bier, The bier was removed and placed on a low | platform er wheels, At the rater of the chapel the arebpriest ‘of the Haw Mea, In vt et robes and aurrainded by the ehiipter, fatned tie processton Firet came a seweted cree held wots then the Cartiauls any ich predates, each carrying a candie. In the centre cf the provesston was Cie Her, tae] cortage passtas amit ie kuecet =| crown, whie (rough Ui vast soit sf tent chureh was heard the Mit ccers | sung by the Sisttne «hort, The solean cortexe marched tate the sryp where te boty af Vir N will bave ff tinal resting place. Here the roof {4 very tow, and the Mixerere had a pecullarly weird and melah choly effect. The tomb of the late Ponti! in on thorright at the ea- trance to the subterranean = chapel, close to that of several other Poper. At this point reveral: anclent marble tablen were removed to Ynake room for the tomb of Plus, which, while partly within the wall, -also projocts into the passage, The body of the Ponti Hes in x cypress wood cofin, on which rests a gold cross, This {s enclosed tn zine, and finally tn an oak casket, On the cashet {x the {nseription “Here Itex the boty of Pius X, bora June 2, 1855, dfed Ancunt co, 1914." The comm was placed within tho tomb, white Cardia’ Della Volver] ted prayers for the dead, accompan: led ts atl present kneeling, A monu: ment to Minn X wih be erected tn he eyrp. . wt The Congregation of the Cardinals} | met for the recond tine. “The con ave of car iinals to lect a siecessor | | © Pope Pius X will convene on Aug: Int 21, The announcement was mae} 'y Cardinal Chamberiain Della Votps.| | tts generally belleved the cardinals} WII be able to declde on a now pope} | a abont four aya. * ' Cardinal Delia Volpe has instructed] | he commanicrs of the Papal and oth-| 1 rarme| badiex to guard every corn: T of the Vatican, to prevent any In- Ident which might disturb the, work (the Caftinals, especially during the)» onclave. Monsignor Gall, director of tho} encral Vatican Museums, took a] ¥ ath mask of Pius X. The Congretc ation of Cardinals has dacided to Is-f¢ ue a special medal commemorative | ¢ f the interregnum. The, cardinals} , ave aclected Monstgoar Gallf to do-| > ver ‘the funeral oration, , eulogizing | | Soe mate Paph, Delete the Seared ‘Sey lege. Ss he ae ’ “The Trivank sayB that’ the approact fog conclave will not be split iato s German party anda Freach ‘party. Rather will it have the religions die- cretion of the Papacy, Pius X hay: fag pat politics aside. MoReynolds-for U. & Supreme Court The nomination of James C. McRey- nolds, attorney-general of the United States to the supreme court to SM the vacancy caused by the death of Asso- cite Jestize Lurton, was sent to the senxto by President “Wilson. . Thomas Watt Gregory, of «Texas, who for the last. year has been em- ployod ds 9 spacial assiatant attorney- general in charge of the New Haves, case bas beon named as the succes- wor to Mr. McReynolds tn the preat- dent’s cadinet. There are some tndications of op- position to Mr. McReynolda’ canfirma- tion by fous senators. Administration, leaders, however, havo no doubt. of his confirmation. 7 Oother nominations of importance) sent in are those of Frederick C. Howo, of New York, to be {mmigrant commissioner at the port of New York and Houtenant-colonol Eugene F. Ladd o be adjutant-seneral, with the rank xf colonel. Falls 1,000. Feet and Lives. WE gate ean ean pein yee eng / albert Filenx, of New York city, at aviator, fell 1000 fect in’ bis mono plano to the Hempatead aviation fleld at Mincola, N.Y. and still vos, Tho dirdman was badly bruised and lacerated, but the surgeons at the Nassau hospital nald that he was suf- foring ahiefly, from shock. Filoux fell while looptag the loap. He had completed the circles and the nose of his acroplane was potnted atraight downward for the earth, pre- parttory to making ‘a tong glide, when bis engine went dead. Tho machine fell Ske a plummet. Onlookers watching tho flight sew the frantic cfforta of Fileux to right be aeroplane, and when theae failed sa\ him swing himself Into tho cockpit of the mathine so that he would not be- caught bencath the beavy engine. As he climbed back ils wetght so disturbed the balance of the mono plane that Instead of falling nose down | iy turned when « hundred feet from the earth and hit tho ground on the front wheels. Tho wheels collaprod and the mm, chine somersaulted, The hangar at-| tendants, who rushed! out expecting to pick up his mangied body, found Fe leux consclous and without a broken aie: ' Te at ee ee Or ae | ‘The firat forelsn ship to make applt- cation for Ameriian rexistery under the new law was the steamship Oce- ana, lying at the Brookijn xhtpyard, of the Morse. Dry Dock Company. Tho Ocena fs owned outright by Ameri: cans. W.R. Grace & Co. who have humerous freight steamers on the at fantie and the Paetile have also ‘ane Rounced that they wilt take advantage of the new Inw und put a number of thelr shipa under the American flag. Bullding Falls: Forty Kilted. Forty Briteh and American work: amen were kitied in the collapse of the pew concrete ctiatoms house at Ceiba, Honduras, according to a despatch to the state department. * ! D. G. Kod, formeris of fan Anto nto, Texas, was the only nkme given of those Killed. Many workmen were buried under the ruins and smoth- ered. A fire enveloped the structure after Its collapse. No further detatls Were given. ! Aerial Amazonas Now. | French gendarmes ut Dijon, France, stopped. ay oune girl, who, dis: Fulse as a oman, had left with a group of Pau avtators ‘for the war, She was wearing a mullitary aviator's ualform and had cut her hair short, It was found shat sho waa an Eng: Mstr girl, 26 yearn old. She will be sent back to her parents. "Wedding Neari Man Kills Himself. Shooting’ himself fn the head tn a hotel at Nantysto, Cambria county Rear Altoona, Pa... C. A. Brice, twen- ty-nine a mashine agent was dead when personn reached fils room. He was to have been married in Septem, ber to Misx Vanmitchell, of Altoona, ‘Who fs visiting at Nantygto. Cloven Hoof and Red Herring. During a debate jo tie Australian bouxe of repreveniatives a Inbor men ber charged the ministry with “hiding uader the garments of their purity the cloven hoof which Iv to undermine the democratic inatitutions of tits coun- (ry.” Another inember utuuted an op- ponent with “buviug ciinbed down the , back of a red berring.”"—London Mall : “a ' AGreat Story Nov- i ; elized From a i Great: Play * “Pull of Snapand Go : _ anda Thousand : = Laughs -OUR NEXT |” SERIAL | ‘Watch For the . First Install- ¢ ment | GENERAL JOFFRE | Leader of all the Ailled a ; tn Belgium, © . - f ieee Pn <tr bene pase ar ’ {5 RAS ey CAB ee oe a valor 8 eg “ eS Lp ~ 2 : Bheindigsamreican }travacameartnnton: 1 Had to Smile. The xenawr and the wasor were walking up the avenue. The senator wax more than mkldle aged and con- siderably more than fat, and, denriy as the major loved hin», he alyo loved bis joke. * . ~The wenator turned with a plenrcd expresxion on hits bentsn countenance ‘and «aid. “Major, did you sec that pretty girl amile at me?" | “Ob, that's nothing.” repticd his friend. “The text time 1 naw yout loughed out loud!’—larpers Maga- zine. - 2 Wt. Was and Did. Jim Brown Uvex tn a community noted for the corruption of tts politics Re drove into town the other day with an old horse, ‘ “Holo! nald bis friond BIN, That horne of sours looks altust olf enungh to ote.” “Year” drawicd Jim, “Fe has Foted two of three times.” — Every body's. . i. ; 4 i “4 , = | ee 7 6 > | Sac. Mae \ a | om = : on Wwe — “? Ps ae a ea aes avy emmy They Figure In the Battles in the Air .- At top i< shown a lrench armored aeroplane. In the lower picture ta a wniqae gun uted by the Germans to deatroy aeroplanes. It ta mountet on 2 truck, and !t ts claime| thar ft can be timed and almed accurately exough fo destroy the swiftest Nytug wircraft. . . Photus by Arieiican ttees Associaton, They Figure In the. | At top i« shown a Irench armored 1 wnlqae gun uted by the Germans to dea truck, and ft is claime| that it can be ) fo Gestroy the swiftest Nylug ulrcraft. ; I Rereichtened Out the Blunder. 2] BPS AME OMNI eae: oot on re: reef was very scarce In Ludssmith Goring the «ice, but General Sir Tan Tlamitton, then colone!, insisted that “horse fx net balf bad when properly cooked and when one is used to It In fact.” he sald, concluding a dixcus- ston, “I hnve a joint cooked tonight. which | hope you will all sample, Of coure, “there'x beat. too—tanight!” Every one at the tabi preferred the beef, with the exception of Colonels Ward and fan Hamilton, who ostenta- ously carved generous slices from the “borseticsh."” The Ginner wan nearly over when one of the servant whtpered a communtc:tion to Ward, Tp be spring. “I'm distressed, Ken: tlemen,” he announced to the rtartled company. “A ails mistake has been made, Thow joints were mixed up somehow, nn you hate been cating the horve. Um really annoyed. But f hope you'll be convinced néw that the meat tx wplendid enting. I'm aure you all ecemed to enjoy it.” Glances were exchanged; mustaches were twirled. Nobody nevined ready with a reaponxe Theo a volce from the bottom of the table piped up: “Oh, don't distress yourself, Wart! I thought some min- take had tren made, so I Just changed. those dinhen nx they stood on the side- board.. It was sau and Hamilton who had the horsetiesh all right!" ieee REET EIT ee ll : Mrs. Robert Walker left Tuesda for Alexandria, Va. to visit her sich brother, returning Friday. 7 Mius ‘Cora Wright loft for Wash: temic on Thureday returning Fri. iday. Mina Cora Wright left Saturday for South Carolina to visit her mother. Sho will rotuen Septembor 15th, in company with Mrs. John Carpenter. who will atop over In Richmond, where sho will visit ber son, John, . Mrs. Frank Davis dropped dead to-day, Saturday. Tho funoral will ve held on Monday, 2:30. She had been a Christian for many yoars, We left Leesburg Tuesday 2:20 for Midland. . We stopped over .in Washington, D. C. Wednesday, 8:20, Arrive! at tho Ausociation 12:30, whera we Ustenct to the Introduc- tory Sermon, preached by Rov. D. G. Henderson, D. 1. of Alexandria, from the subject, Religious Exper- fence. Text, John 9:30, from’ which he preached a great sermon, 7 Second day, Rex. J. D. Palr hav. Ing been appointed to preach, he took the stand and proceoded to preach from tho subject, The Infu- ence of the Church in the a ty. Text, Inaiah 54:2. He gave us one of the grandest sermons, of his life to the delight of all ‘present. We had a grand seaston owing 0 | the hich cost of lving, our finance Md not run up to tte high stantard compared. With hast) year, crated home Friday, Sunday the folks all went p> the) ‘amp at Hamilton though owe hid put a xoodts number, Rev, ELD, Trier, 2. DL mounted the rostrum Piz:1S. using as a teat, Ist Thmothy Hoh, wabject. The Gala of the Love f Godiness, from which he preached \oxTeat serinon. Sunday School at re At eight o'clock the Dr, wis MOMIS heat. wsingc as a text, intl Hvision Praline, Subject, The Foun ain of Lite ‘he funeral of Mrs Frank Davis MM take place at the Mapttee Clurrett it three o'clock Moda; Rev. Dr Pyler will offerte, Joterment fn the emetery here, John L. Thoma. was paintutts { Hehed by a horse last week dexsle BL Baller Ison the alek tst. {| There Wi a lawn fete gtven on he church fawn Saturday Avcening, |. “th. vt Min Neley Hegme. of Waning: on pald her parent noviet Sunday. 4 Mr. Jobn Helis and litte dangh- | peo tett: Washteten Saturfay ces inning Suted.cs eventing \ Hiadirion, fe Honneke (Vin) News, Miex Marietta 1. Chiles, of Rich: mon! arrived in Reanoke, Tuesday August 2201 fret Lynchburg, Va While tn the city she will he the sucst ef Mrs 1 1) Murrett and Mrs Millie Paxton Col Ul SoG. Hattersen, of Lynet dre fs Vetta: Hounehe and Salem, Va nhs Mrs dimmersen, ef Danville, Va Ie uisitine Men Millie BO Paxton, 125 High Street Messr-, Franklin and Bella,” the Keneral (nepectars of the Southern Ald Soelety of Vie are in town tne apecting the work. They are xtop- ping with Mr. Willem Bldricge, the Manager. 7 AML of the Lodges of Knisite of VPythias gre requests. to he present Monday. Aagast 31st ag e'ght PM. Duxiness of vitul fmportance Done by order, J. HL Fowlkes, DDG. Co: L. Hoard, 8. 2: The Ol Boys whi ran their Sixth Outing Excursion to Alte Vint, Va. a Wistanes of forty miles east on the Virginian = Rowd, September ord. Train eaves Virginian Station at SoSea’m., leaves Alta Vista. § p.m Mr Sanmel Clarke, of 22-4th Ave. Ieaitite eK at this writhne , Miss Virgie Johnson, of Fort Vale ley, Ga. the sister of Mrs E.R Dudey and Mrs George Calloway: spending her vacation with hee! cater, Mrs. B. Ro Dadley : Come and enjoy a day with the Okt Ross and the Roy Scouts at Alta Vista, Where you will find plenty (hede. fretstoné water may be xe ‘ured from beth pump amd vel! Nduits, $1ee, Children under 12 roure, Sth cents. Misa Hortence Grav, of Richmand, va. fs the guest of Mra. MoH, Barrell : Farmiitie (Val) News, : \ Farmville, Va. August 2 The ary weather and the war tn Europe have given ovr people in thin sections much — aneasi- ness. The crops tinving been ent bleh price of. food, foreshwlows a high. -priceof ofod, foreshadows a future pregnant with much suffering The Pape, at Rome, who has beet controling more people than any one man in the world, died heart-broken when he xaw he lost control of hin "}351)ous of subjecta who plunged tx to war against his advice. \-. ]. When we think of how quickly the Jnations. rose up, one against the other and how soen the Pope lost Jcontrol of his qubjecta this ‘World's War scoms to be Provideatial. Fam- line and war have been instruments Jusud through all the ages to purge tho nations while Christianity, the workt’s greatest civilizer has - fol- lowed {n tho tread. Peace and pros- perity huve been the crowning polnt and tho roligion of Jesus Chrizt in {tx onward wnarch has conquered ber millions, Wo are willing to trust God and await the result. Rev. R. G. Adams returnod from Richmond, where ho attended the Grand Councit of Independent Order ‘of St. Luke. Mensrs. A. W. Lancastor, A, F, Far rar, Charles Roblnxon, Misces Cas- sandra Branch and Blanche Paige. wore sent by us ax delegates to tho SS. Convention, which convened at Portsmouth, Va. Our town has been a Summer re- kort for many of our friends this season and a home coming for mapy who have been Hving in other nde- ona of the country. / Mist Anna Jardan, of Springfield, Mann. {x visiting parents, Sho hax with hor, her friend, Miss Randolpa. | Mixa Margarette Redd, of Plain- fold, N.J. fs home spending-several weeks with celatives ahd friends. Mrs, A. W. Lancaster on her ro- turn from Charles City, Va. at the station here xprained her ankle and fs now on her eruten. Master Walter Steward Jackson, better known ay “little brother” who has been spending the Summer at the home of Mr. and Mre. R. G. Adana of Virginin Street, was taken to Richmond last week, Minx Lottle Page has returned from Clifton Forse, Va. Mr. Mary Paige tx home, having Apent xeveral weeks wita her daugh- ter, Mre Ehee Pogue, of Bedford City, Va, Misa Violet) Moore ts Viaiting friends in Danville, Va. Mra, Balter 1. Brown has returned from Amela Cb. Val her old home. Mra, Margarete Evans, of Chim- perk Street haw returned from vinit- ne friends at Pamplin, Va. Mr.Walter Jacknon and danghter, sf Richmond, Va. ate viniting rela- Ivex here, Mias Hunter. of Lynchburg, Va. te dniting Mr. and Mrs. George Varghn f Main Street. Mre. Ide Rowling, of Ely Street tn ixiting relatives and friends in Roan- ke, Vi. ‘ : Mr Ko 1, Paige was looking quite leaning the other day when he was nform=d the stork broyght to his omen bouncing bab: boy, Van Litcar su bace. Mr. John Fulwks, of Ely Street. he has hen spmewhat unbalanced or oxeveral days stabbed hix wife and ja 'e wevernl gashes of the taroat ni broke tis mether's arm whilo ima to stop him hi bbs yaad fit. Sisters Doggie Scott, Ann’ Reynolds pSouth St, Eliza Fowlkes, Ola Wat- Ins, of Bly Stare on Che atek Hxt. —Go with the Astoria Beneficial Club to Claremont, August 31st. 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Things WeNever See * ; THE WORLD'S GREATEST POWERS Lineup of British and French Fleets Lineup of Germany's Big War Fleet BRITISH ISLES HEBRIDES SANDRO Minsh SCOTLAND INVERNESS ABERDEEN T LAND DUNDEE PERTH EDINBURGH ASGOW NEWCASTLE ON-TIME SUNDERLAND BELFAST DUBLIN IRISH Liverpool SEA Bristol CHANNEL STOKE ON TRENT NOTTINGHAM LEICESTER Birmingham St GEORGE SWANSEA CARDIFF BRISTOL SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH OXFORD LONDON CANTERBURY HARWICH SWANSEA CARDIFF BRISTOL SOUTHAMPTON PORTSMOUTH LILLE AMIENS LE MAVRE ST. QUENTIN BREST CHERBOURG PARIS ST DENIS BRITISH WAR FLEET In the map A indicates Dreadnoughts, B Battleships and C Battle Cruisers and Armored Cruisers. WAR FLEET OF GREAT BRITAIN In addition to the fighting in D. Dreadnought; I. H. First Class Battleship; Russell 1400 118 4 12 in enumerated above the British ship; B. C. Battleship; A. C. A. Cornwallis 1400 118 4 12 in maintains a proportionately large mored Cruiser; P. C. Protected Cruiser Albermarie 1400 118 4 12 in of smaller fighting vessels, tor THIRD HOME FLEET. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) (63) (64) (65) (66) (67) (68) (69) (70) (71) (72) (73) (74) (75) (76) (77) (78) (79) (80) (81) (82) (83) (84) (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) (90) (91) (92) (93) (94) (95) (96) (97) (98) (99) (100) (101) (102) (103) (104) (105) (106) (107) (108) (109) (110) (111) (112) (113) (114) (115) (116) (117) (118) (119) (120) (121) (122) (123) (124) (125) (126) (127) (128) (129) (130) (131) (132) (133) (134) (135) (136) (137) (138) (139) (140) (141) (142) (143) (144) (145) (146) (147) (148) (149) (150) (151) (152) (153) (154) (155) (156) (157) (158) (159) (160) (161) (162) (163) (164) (165) (166) (167) (168) (169) (170) (171) (172) (173) (174) (175) (176) (177) (178) (179) (180) (181) (182) (183) (184) (185) (186) (187) (1 Total ..... 10,60 SECOND SQUADRION Defence ..... 14,00 A.C. 4 22 in Black Prince ..... 13,50 A.C. 6 22 in Duke of Edigh ..... 13,50 A.C. 6 22 in Warrior ..... 12,50 A.C. 6 22 in Total ..... 62,20 THIRD SQUADRION Gloucester ..... 4,80 P.C. 4 6 in Chatham ..... 4,80 P.C. 4 6 in Dublin ..... 4,80 P.C. 4 6 in Weymouth ..... 4,50 P.C. 4 6 in Total ..... 20,60 [Normally part of first fleet] Epax ..... 8,200 A.C. 14 $ in. Buffolk ..... 8,200 A.C. 14 $ in. Berkwick ..... 8,200 A.C. 14 $ in. Lancaster ..... 8,200 A.C. 14 $ in. Total ..... 28,200 54 TOTAL ALL BRITISH FLEET. Tennage. First Home ..... 277,600 Second Home ..... 290,150 Third Home ..... 294,800 Mediterranean ..... 164,600 American waders ..... 28,200 Total ..... 1,621,200 In addition to the fighting ships enumerated above the British navy maintains a proportionately large fleet of smaller fighting vessels, torpedo boat destroyers, torpedo boats, gunboats, coast defense ships, coaling ships and oil tank vessels, mine layers, submarines, etc. Of torpedo boat destroyers, small speed vessels good for fighting off torpedo boat attacks on the larger units of the fleet and for expeditionary work, she has 191, with thirty-eight more building at the beginning of 1914. She has 109 torpedo boats, with none under construction; twenty-eight torpedo vessels and one building. Fight squad ships are in commission. In submarines now in active service she has fifty four, nine less than France, but the latter power, in alliance with Great Britain, has only eight under way while the British have begun twenty-two. FIRST SQUADRON Name of ship: No. 1 Type of ship: Bs. Number of ships: 12 Model: 12 Type of ship: 12 Number of ships: 12 Vehicles: 10000000000 Number of ships: 10000000000 Vehicles: 10000000000 Total: 10000000000 SECOND SQUADRON. Patrols: 10000000000 Republics: 10000000000 Verite: 10000000000 Justice: 10000000000 Democratic: 10000000000 Total: 10000000000 CRUISER SQUADRON. Walt's Houseau 1700 A.C. 14 1.6 m. Edgar Quinole... 1780 A.C. 14 7.6 m. Ernest Renan... 1627 A.C. 4 1.6 m. Julia Perry... 1261 A.C. 4 7.6 m. Leon Gambetta... 121 A.C. 4 7.6 m. Victor Hugo... 1231 A.C. 4 7.6 m. Total 11000 44 RESERVE SQUADRON. St. Louis... 1108 1 B. 4 13 m. Gaulois... 1136 1 B. 4 13 m. Charlemagne... 1104 1 B. 4 13 m. Carrot... 1164 1 H. 4 12 m. Hrenna... 1100 1 B. 4 13 m. Suffren... 1237 1 P. 4 25 m. Massana... 1175 1 H. 4 13 m. Jaurguberry... 1167 1 B. 4 12 m. Jeanne d'Arc... 1102 A.C. 2 1.6 m. Jules Michels... 1270 A.C. 4 1.6 m. Charles Martel... 1108 A.C. 2 12 m. Marseille... 1166 A.C. 2 1.6 m. Gloire... 1166 A.C. 3 12 m. PLETT TOTALS. No. Ti prod. Tumana gana. weights. First squadron... 34,000 41 40,000 Second squadron... 34,000 41 40,000 Crusher squadron... 18,400 41 40,000 Reserve squadron... 16,124 41 40,000 Total... 64,472 100 57,000 CHRISTIANIA STAVANGER THE MAZE B GERMAN WAR FLEET Skager Rak CATTEGAT CODENHAGEN DENMARK LAALAND KIEL LÜDECH HAMBURG GRONINGEN ZUIDER LEE AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS BREMEN WESBUR ELBE HANOVER POTSDAM MAGDEBURG N ANTWERR BRUSSELS LIEGE cologne GERM KOBLENZ MAINZ FRANKFORT Leipzig LUXEM- BURG LUXEMBURG KARLSBAD In the map A indicates Dreadnoughts, B Battleships and C Battle Cruisers and Armored Cruisers. WAR FLEET OF GERMANY. D. Dreadnought, I. K. First Class Battl- ship, B. C. Battle Cruiser. rube and Rostock, forty-three protect- ed cruisers in all. Unprotected Cruisers—Socadler, Gey- rons battle cruisers like the Von- Tann and Molthe and swift Dr- noughts like the Oldenburg. In addition to the above, the following have been assigned to the different squadrons: rube and Rostock, forty-three protected cruisers in all. Unprotected Cruisers—Seadler, Geyer, Conder, Cormotan, Illit, Jaguar, Lucha, Tiger, Panther and Eber. River Ganebats—Tsingtao, Vaterland and Otter; also ninety-nine destroyers ready at the close of 1813. FLEET TOTALS. Ton. No. Total mage. gage. weight. High sea fleet.....66,723 254 117,900 Reserve squadron. 62,246 16 9,600 Total.....64,277 122,640 Germany has been building ships rapidly during the past ten years. In 1904 she had only 10 battlecruisers as against 35 today; 4 battle cruisers in 1904 and 13 of this class now; 17 protected cruisers ten years ago as against 43 of this class today. In 1904 Germany had only 87 destroyers, but now has 141 of this class of vessel. In 1904 the personnel of the kaisers are force numbered 38,000 men and today numbers nearly 70,000 active and 110, 000 reserves. Three new battlecruisers and two battle cruisers have been launched within the year and will shortly be in commission. The visit to American waters in 1911 of a German fleet, led by the great battle the crusader Molten, said by Germans to be the fastest armored craft in the world, directed the attention of Americans to the navy of the fatherland, a navy which had been built up out of practically nothing to a place among the first three navies of the world, but which had never been called upon to withstand the test of battle. Exactly what is the German navy worth? That question has long been the principal preoccupation of the admiralty of every country in Europe and of sea fighting experts in Washington hardly less. It has been racking the brains of the persons who are supposed to keep track of the balance of sea power ever since the German warships building program caught the attention of rival powers some years ago. At that time the German fleet rested for war in the list. But it was a very short time before the infantry naval program, as thoroughly developed in its rigid ordnance and composite systems as the organization of the army corps, planned Germany ahead, of all countries except Great Britain and the United States. Slowly, steadily, the German fleet must forward toward the first main enemy the world's garrison. It is thus built up to within a couple of years after Attribution battles were in full-fledged power probably equivalent to those of Germany, but Germany, with fidelity turned on her principal maritime rival, England, saw the signs of the times and set out to battle them. the battle crudgers like the Von der Tann and Moltke and swift Dread- noughts like the Oldenburg. An early as 1867 the German war of fire had mapped out a scheme for a fleet of sixteen ironclads and fifty smaller vessels, to cost $25,000,000. But this scheme was hardly more than started when the hostilities of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 broke out. Such ships as were in the waters were wholly unable to face the strong French sea force, though in the one or two small actions that were fought the Germans did not discredit themselves. From this time on the German navy expanded very slowly. The first modern first warships were laid down in 1800, about the same time the United States was beginning to experiment with battleships. These early battleships of the German navy were known as the Brandenburg class. They had about the same displacement as our Oregon, and they were, in a sense, an anticipation of the all big gun type of line of battle ship in use today, inasmuch as they carried main batteries of six eleven-inch guns, two more big guns than were carried by warships in other navies. Apparently the all big gun battle ship did not appeal to the German naval authorities of the early nineteen for in the next class of battleship to be built, the Kaiser class, the armament was shifted to a lighter basis, consisting of four 9.4 inch guns and eight six-inch. From this time until about a year ago there was not a battleship in the German navy that carried a heavier gun than one of eleven inch bore. Although other navies were arming their ships with the twelve inch and in our navy the thirteen inch gun was used twelve years and more ago, the Germans stuck to the eleven inch. Even their first Dreadnoughts of the Nassau type were equipped with eleven inch guns. The first ships to carry the heavier pieces were the super-Dreadnoughts of the Outfriedland class. It was in 1800 that the present progressive building program for the navy was instituted in Germany, partly in consequence of the anger around Germans by the nature of the German community Bendornath by a British officer on the coast of Africa on a ship of carrying contraband of war to the Bomb. Under the spur of the public imagination and the appeal of the destroyer the retreating pennant on extended naval defense art, under the terms of which it was proposed to spend 180,000,000 on construction and 180,000,000 on dockyards. With this victory, it was estimated, Germany should have in 1837 a bank of thirty eight first vision battleships, with a proportionate number of cruisers and other smaller vessels. Robertus Lore does good stuff for the Republic in St. Louis. We hope on the side that the St. Louis one is an exception to the powerful ungratefulness of republics. But recently Robertus took a friendly fall out of us in the matter of the briefest poem possible. The "briefest possible" referred to was our long lyric entitled "The Antiquity of Microbea," and the poem itself was: Adam Hal 'em Robertus speaks kindly of this epic and refers at much length to the unsuccessful efforts that have been made to write a shorter one. Then in closing he sums up thus: "Lines on the Effort to Shorten the Shortest Poem." And his poem on that theme is: 1 Try Robertus, it is too easy to beat that. Here are the title and the poem, "Our Opinion as to Whether Robertus Love Has Written a Shorter One;" Strikkland Gillilian in Indianapolis Star. Don't Worry. Do. A fortune seems burdened with spite Don't give way to grieving, all dlamal and blue- That never set anything right- But cheerfully face what the day may Make the best of whatever befall. Since the more that you worry the worse you must feel YOU WANT TO! Why waste time in worry at all? We all have our troubles, some more and some less. And this is the knowledge we gain: It's work and a brave heart that lightens the stress Of this alone of sorrow and pain. Then face with this knowledge fattes cruseless deal. Too plucky to faint or to fail. Since the more that you worry the worse you must feel. In this case you will fail. His Montenegro Restart A journalist who wanted to go from Cattaro, in Austria, to Montenegro recently had no passport, but solved the difficulty in an amusing fashion. At a hotel where he was lunching, the story runs, he explained his difficulty to the head waiter. The latter picked up the hotel menu and said: "This is the only passport you will need. Every time you are asked to produce it just hand the officials a packet of tobacco." Armed with his menu passport, says the Paris correspondent of the London Mall, the journalist did as he had been advised. The Montenegro customs officers gravely went through the menu, grancing at the traveler from time to time to see if the "description" tallied, and then with a bow restored the document and told him to proceed. The first dishes on the hotel menu were: "Calf's head, pig's trotters, shoulder of mutton." He Knew the Crowd. A Sunday school teacher was quizzing her class of boys on the strength of their desire for righteousness. "All those who wish to go to heaven," she said, "please stand." All got to their feet but one small boy. "Why, Johnny," exclaimed the shocked teacher, "do you mean to say that you don't want to go to heaven?" "No, am'm," replied Johnny promptly. "Not if that bunch is going." Price of a Laugh Harry Sutphin of Jamala, former deputy public works commissioner of Queens borough, related an apocrite of the late Mayor Gaynor lithorto unpublished: "I said to Mayor (Gaynor) one day, about two or three months before he died," said Mr. Sutphin, "after he had complained of some of the difficulty of his office: "What in the world does a man worth $4,000,000 want of no trying a job as that of mayor of New York, anyway?" "I'ts the fun I get out of it, my boy, the fun," was his reply. "Last week I entertained some European dignitaries, and then came along a Japanese admiral. Well, air, I tried for three days to make that man crack a smile, and neither stories nor descriptions of ludicrous incidents connected with my office appeared to get a rise from him. I gave him a dinner, costing me over $2,000, at which some of the speeches were very humorous. His fape remained a mask. Then, in desperation, I turned to him and asked: "Admiral; were you ever smarter and he throw back his head and roared. That laugh cost me just about $2,500, but it was well worth it."—New York Times. What Forty Petes, Maka A good story is told about a certain professor whose business it was to lecture to a number of students on surveying. During one of the lectures the professor said that in his opinion the pole was of little or no value. To the astonishment of those present a Polish gentleman arose and after accusing the professor of insulting his countrymen demanded air apology. The professor thereupon explained that the pole to which he referred was merely a term of measurement. The Polish gentleman, seeing his mistake asked the professor to forgive his ap parent rudeness. To this the professor smartly replied: "You could not be rude, air, even if you tried, for it takes forty pence to make one road!" -London Mail. Night Difference "I didn't know you were an accomplished a linguist," he remarked as he glanced at the paper also was reading. "I don't make any pretensions in that direction," she answered. "But that is a Russian newspaper you have picked up." "Why, so it is," she answered in surprise. "I thought it was a dialect book." French Navy Ranks Fourth Among Powers of the World Only Two Breadsoughts, but Eighteen Secondary Battleships In Her Marine—Many Recent Improvements. THE MISSING MISSILES 1. TYPE OF NEW FRENCH BATTLESHIP; 2. LOADING BIG GUN IN 'TURRET OF FRENCH' BATTLESHIP. The navy of France makes fourth among the world powers and third among the nations involved in the present trouble in the amount of warship storage built and also the aggregate of ammunage built and building. The number and displacement of warships of 1,500 or more tons and of torpedo craft of more than 50 tons are as follows: Two battleships (Dreadnought type) having a main battery THE Photos by American Press Association of all big guns (eleven inches or more in caliber) of 46,184 tons (and 9 of 214,100 tons, building); 18 battleships (pre-Dreadnought type) of (about) 10,000 or more tons displacement each and with main batteries of more than one caliber of 282,075 tons; 1 coast defense ship of 8,500 tons; 20 armored cruisers of 201,724 tons; 10 cruisers (unarmored warships of more than 1,500 tons) of 49,978 tons; 81 torpedo boat destroyers of 34,390 tons (and 5 of 3,974 tons, building); 139 torpedo boats of 13,920 tons; 75 submarines of 29,224 tons (and 12,120 tons, building). Total built, 346 vessels of 645,291 tons; total building, 32 of 200,264 tons; in all, 378 vessels of 876,155 tons. Excluded from the foregoing are ships over twenty years old, unless reconstructed and rearmed within five years; torpedo craft over fifteen years old, transports, collers, repair ships, torpedo depot ships and other auxiliary aircraft. Air craft up to July, 1914, included thirteen military dirigibles on hand and 7 ordered, and 1,000 military aeroplanes on hand, including monoplanes, biplanes and hydroaeroplanes. Two Biggest French Ships. The two Dreadnought type battleships completed in 1913, the Jean Bart and the Courtet, were launched in 1911. The Courtet was the first French ship of this class to be completed, and she was the vessel that carried M. Polincorne on his presidential visit to England in June, 1913. In addition to the nine building, another vessel of this type is to be laid down early in 1915, to be called the Vendee. Two of those building, the France and the Paris, were launched in 1912 and may be completed this year. Three others—the Bretagne, launched April 12, 1913; the Provence, April 20, and the Lorraine, Sept. 30—will be completed in 1915. Of the remaining four, They will exhibit a new departure in armament, in that their guns are to be mounted four in a turret. In three turrets they will carry twelve 13.4-inch guns, whereas earlier types had twin turrets. The chief advantages of the new method are said to be simplicity of plan, economy of weight and concentration of fire. Three projected scout cruisers to have been begun in 1919 have been forwarded to 1934. The scouters building will use oil fuel and attain a speed of thirty-one knots. The largest of the new submarines, the Gustave Zede, has a displacement of 1,000 tons submerged and 800 tons when at the surface. She was launched May 30, 1918. It is in the Mediterranean that the main fleet is stationed under Vice Admiral Bone de Lapeyre. Three armored cruisers and torpedo and submarine motifiles lie in the English channel. The navy is manned partly by description and partly by volunteers. The personnel in 1913 comprised 68,500 officers and men (60,621 in 1912 and 61,524 in 1911), including 15 vice admirals, 30 rear admirals, 30 captains and commanders and 1,407 other line officers. In June M. Crombie became minister of finance. According to the present plan, the Treasury Trust would consist of 50 Philadelphia, 6 named civilians and 30 protected civilians in 2014. legions are being made in administration and personnel. Among these responses are the creation of military directors and of an admiralty from a technical point of view, an enlistment law, a systematic effort to increase enlistments by making the navy better known throughout the country, increased admissions to the Naval school, a law to increase the pay of officers and petty officers. Introduced July 1, and a law organizing the corps of line off- BATTLESHIP; 2, LOADING BIG GUN FRENCH BATTLESHIP. cars, petty officers and enlisted men. New Construction. The 1914 budget provided for 5 battal- ships, 3 scouts, 5 torpedo boats, 2 submarines and other small craft. Six- tern vessels were to be commissioned Photo by American Press Association. FRENCH ARMORED CR THE SHIP in 1914: The battleships France and Paris, 2 thirty knot torpedo boats and 12 submarines, 8 of 410 tons and 3 of 520 tons, and 1, Gustave Zede, of 800 tons and a speed of twenty knots. The battleships under construction are the Bretagne and Provence, the Lorraine, Flandern, Gascogno, Languedoc and Normandie. Ten ships were to be laid down in 1914, the most important being the battleship Bearn (25,200 tons) of the Normandie type. Compared with their predecessors of the Jean Bart and the Bretagne types and with their foreign rivals of similar displacements the Normandie seem to be fine all around fighting units and, as one critic declares, "to be without weak points and to contribute one of the best investments the republic has ever made." M. Delcassio, the minister seemed to cause special of the Point that Delcassio was the high standard of which had been reached in naval force. He did not aggregate the force itself, that it was animated by the bitton to be as genuinely the French army to ream moment to the country's. The German press to notwithstanding, the French play at Toulon was very Absolutely no "lame ducked and no new vessels not complete and in complete in line. The warships were ninety in number, 18,500 ton battleships of class. All were tuned up to The panes of four new Dreadnoughts, Normandle, Gascogne, Languedoc and Flandre, are all filled with a fine flavor of romance and historic achievement and much superior to the designations with which so many of the former battleships were burdened. The dimensions of the class are as follows: Length, 574 feet; beam, 91 feet 10 inches; draft, 28 feet 3 inches; on a displacement of 25,000 tons. The 1912 program provided for two battleships to be laid down in the lat- bar half of 1914. The recent naval members having shown the impar- tive need of squadrons soots, three accounts were to be laid down before the second battleship of the 1912 program, and the date of the first (The Burn) was put forward from July to January. Five submarines of the time and speed of twenty knots were also to be laid down. The seals leper Philew was inscribed on March 10, her sister city, the Coupon, to nearly completed, the government 500 tons, horsepower 6,000, and twenty knots, settlement on three-mast gun. They are fitted to carry 120 miles. Maps of the navy now carry new powder for the big guns. The old powder which had ceased so many accidents was still used for guns of smaller caliber and for the reserve stock on land. Only one-half of the powder required during 1914 could be made with the staff actually employed. The commanders of the squadrons and divisions of the French navy are Admiral Bone de Lapayre, first; Vice Admiral Marloes, second; Vice Admiral Marin-Darbel, third; cruiser squadron, Vice Admiral Auvert; squad of extreme orient, Rear Admiral Magnet de Kerrill; naval division of Marseus, Captain Simon. The French and British Flora. During the cordial understanding that has now existed for some years between the British and French nations their respective navies in European waters have been stationed in massed fleets, so as to complement each other and with a view to the greatest effectiveness in the event of war. Formerly the British navy maintained a strong battleship fleet in the Mediterranean. All British battleships have now been withdrawn from the waters of that sea, and only four powerful battle cruisers of the Inflexible type have been stationed there. This is because the British admiralty has been depending upon the powerful French fleet in the Mediterranean to look after their joint interests there in a naval war. Under this arrangement France, which used to have fleets based on Brest and operating in the channel and Atlantic waters, now has no fleet in northern Europe and has concentrated her fleet in the Mediterranean. Hero is the French fleet in the Mediterranean: BATTLESHIPS (10). First squadron (3)— Tons. Ocourbet 23,100 Jean Bart 23,100 Condorcet 18,038 Danton 18,038 Diderot 18,038 Mirabeau 18,038 Vergniaud 18,028 Voltaire 18,028 Second squadron (5)— Patrie 14,638 Democratie 14,638 Justice 14,638 Republique 14,638 Vartis 14,638 Reserve squadron (3)— Bouvet 12,007 Gaulois 11,040 St. Louis 11,000 ARMORED CRUISERS. Waldeck Housgeau 12,780 Edgard Quinet 12,740 Ernest Reman 12,477 Julien Perry 12,351 Leon Gambetta 12,351 Victor Hugo 12,351 In 1011 France was aroused to a huge burst of enthusiasm over its navy by the great naval review at Toulon. The enthusiasm brought out an extraordinary display of acerbity in the German press. It has long been the fashion with the German press to belittle the French navy, and this time the papera seemed to have regarded it as an affront to Germany that the French themselves should take any pride in their warships. The apaches of Providence Falleres and CRUISER MONTCALM. M. Delcasse, the minister of marine, seemed to cause special offense. The point that Delcasse dwelt on was the high standard of preparedness which had been reached by the French naval force. He did not unduly exaggerate the force itself, but he said that it was animated by the single ambition to be as genuinely ready as was the French army to respond at any moment to the country's call. The German press to the contrary notwithstanding, the French naval display at Toulon was very impressive. Absolutely no "lame ducks" were paraded and no new rescuals which were not complete and in commission were placed in line. The warships mustered were ninety in number, including five 18,500 ton battleships of the Danton class. All were tuned up to battle pitch. As the train was moving out of a Scotch station a man in one of the compartments noticed that the porter in whose charge he had given his luggage had not put it into the van and so abducted to him and said: "I'll, you old fool! What do you mean by not putting my luggage in the van!" "To which the porter replied: 'Eh, man! Yer luggage is noe such a fedi as perseer.' Yer l' the wrong train!"—New York Globe. 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Troy, N. Y., Aug. 23.—Rev. J. A. Taylor spent the whole day Sunday, August 23, having meetings at Selkirk and at the Second Baptist Church in Catkill. He left home be We are very sorry to hear the fore 6 a. m. and did not get back until 11:45 p. m. Mrs. Henry Cashburn, Mr. Ruenews of Mrs. Bowlden, of our city who is visiting her daughter in Hampton, Va. and is very ill there. Mrs. Henry Cashburn, Mr. Rueben Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Portwonder were up to Troy from N. Y. City to the M. E. Zion Church excursion from the above named church of Troy, August 13th. All had a delightful time, notwithstand ing the boat and everything were so high these hard times. The excursion was a success. The church pleased $118.12. LAST GRAND MOUNTAIN EXCURSION VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY To ASHEVILLE, BLACK MOUNTAIN, WAYNESVILLE, HENDERSONVILLE, LAKE TOXAWAY, HOT SPRINGS, BREVARD, Friday, September 4th, 1916, 15 days in the "Land of the City," "Sapphire Country," "Bahamas," at a minimum cost. Tickets on sale for all regular trains THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1914. FIRST PRIZES. We Offer a Suit of Clothes or a Gold Watch to the Mint offer of votes. We Offer a Suit of Clothes or a Gold Watch to the Phy- last number of votes. We Offer a Suit of Clothes or a Gold Watch to the Fun- last number of votes. We Offer a Round Trip Ticket francisco to the Lady recen- Use this Blank in send- SUBSCRIPTION W DATE PLANET, North Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia. I enclosed $ . . . for w to and No... Votes to. Rev., Dr., F PLANET PR Use this Blank in sending in subscription SUBSCRIPTION VOTING BLANK. Leave Richmond: 5.55 a. m. 10:15 a. m., 6:40 p. m., 11:30 p. m. First-class touches and through Sleeping cars. Return Limit September 19th, 1911. Round Trip fares from Richmond to Ashville and Black Mountain. $9.00. Hendersonville, Waynesville, and hot Springs, $10.00; Lake Toxaway and Brevard, $11.00. For detailed information call on nearest ticket agent or write H. L. BISHOP, D. P. A., 367 E. Main St. Richmond, Va. Madison 272. Drake Branch (Va.) News The G. H. O. of Moses is in session this week at Charlotte C. H., Va. Mrs. Eugene Cooper and her children, of 4027 Samson St. Philadelphia, Pa. are visiting their father, Theo. Chapman. Mrs. Nannie Barnes, of Petersburg, Va. is visiting her mother. Mrs. Spencer Lee: Miss Mary Harris, of New York City is called to the bedside of her sick brother. Thomas Harris, of Cullen, Va. Mrs. Willie Holcombe, of Baltimore is spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. J. A. Barnes. Miss Mattle Gaines, of Charlotte C. H. became the bride of John Johnson, Wednesday night. Mrs. Bettie Shepperson, of Washington, D. C. is visiting her husband C. M. Shepperson. Mrs. Amelia Mans, of Baltimore spent a few days with her mother, Mrs. Goode, of Bailey's Store. Do You Know Them? My brother and sister Thomas Jones and Matilda Jones were sold out. before freedom was introduced She was a Mimi Jones but she married a gentleman by the name of Mr. New man she was taken from her husband and sold by Colonel Miller and Jane Miller. Their parents were named Alfred Jones and Mila Jones belonging to Edmund Parry. They had a sister named Sarah Ann and brother named Alfred Jones This is your youngest sister inquiring for you name Mr. Julia Price Hill Top Chas. Co. Md. iss, made to order, a Silv minister who receives the iss, made to order, a Silv physician or Dentist, who re iss, made to order, a Silv general Director, who re ocket to the Panama Exp receiving the Highest number holding in subscription: VOTING BLANK. which send The Planet for State Fun. Dir. or Lady PRIZES PLANET PRIZES . BOYS' AND GIRLS' CONTEST. The Dixie Theatre management has had some misunderstanding with the Dunlap Pony people and accordingly, the pony prize has been discontinued. They were offering this prize and not the PLANET. For this reason the advertisement has been dropped. We have decided however to substitute prizes for those who have voted at The PLANET Office and all ballots deposited here will count. We are extending the time to November 1st and the prizes which will be given to the boy or girl receiving the highest number of votes will be as follows: FIRST PRIZE Diamond Ring, Gold Watch or Boy's or Girl's Bicycle. The winner can choose any one of these prizes. SECOND PRIZE Moving Picture Lantern, Large Doll, Doll Carriage or Child's Automobile. The one receiving the second highest number of votes can choose any one of these prizes. THIRD PRIZE Mit, Ball and Bat: Roller Skates or Football. The winner receiving the third highest number of votes can choose any one of these prizes. FOURTI PRIZE Hand Satchel, Automatic Toy or Engine. The winner of the fourth highest number of votes can choose any on; of these prizes. Votes will be published in The PLANET. Votes may be obtained for each penny paid on subscriptions or job work or for PLANETS sold. These prizes are guaranteed by The PLANET. Ballots obtained at Dixie Theatre will not be good in the ballot box at the PLANET Office unless they were cast prior to July 15, 1914. Rev. Dr. Manuel's Wife Dead. News reached. this city last Wednesday that the wife of Rev. Dr. B. C. Manuel died after her protracted illness. Rev. Dr. Manuel is now located in Springfield, Ill. He has the sympathy of his many friends here. We Offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Minister receiving the Second Highest number of votes We Offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Physician or Dentist receiving the Second Highest number of votes. We Offer a Gold-headed Cane to the Funeral Director receiving the Second Highest number of votes. We Offer a Silver Service to the Lady who receives the Second Highest number of votes. (State whether a Minister, Physician Dentist, Funeral Director or Lady.) This Coupon is good for Five Votes and will not be good after Sept. 1, 1914. Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday. Rev. I. J. Morris.....21,860 Rev. W. H. Skipwith, Phila.....21,360 Rev. W. F. Graham, Phila.....7,775 Rev. S. C. Manuel, Springfield Illinois.....1,825 Rev. W. T. Jolson.....560 Rev. E. M. Mitchell.....325 Rev. Irving IL Carpenter, Har-risburg, Pa.....185 Rev. S. S. Morris.....180 Rev. J. Gay Grant, Char-lottesville, Va.....180 Rev. W. P. Curl, Norfolk.....175 Rev. R. G. Adams, Farmville.....175 Rev. A. S. Thomas.....145 Rev. W. H. Stokes.....95 Only the names of those who have had more than 25 ballots cast for them will be published in the voting context. Do You Know Them? I would like to locate my aunts, Mrs. Lucy Byrd and Mrs. Kitty Robertson, also Miss Sadie Roberts. Mrs. Byrd lived at one time at 928 West Leigh St., Richmond, Va. and Mrs. Robertson at 1114 1-2 W. Moore St. Miss Sadie Roberts lived near Second and Byrd Sts. In 1899 she lived in Newport News, Va. I think she married a Mr. Frank Sampson, of Newport News, Va. I was born and reared in Richmond, Va., attended Baker School: Miss Lillian Harris was my teacher. Having served a long time in the Army of the United States, I have lost all trace of my kindred and friends and would be very grateful for any information concerning them. Address ROXY GARNET. Co. G. 26th U. S. Inf. Lelahua, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. —Yeah, I'm going to Clarent. SECOND PRIZES. THE PLANET VOTING CONTEST. COUPON OR BALLOT. FOR THE MOST POPULAR ONE. for vision whether a Minister, Physician coupon is good for Five Votes a PLANET PRIZES PLANET FOR THE MOST POPULAR LADY. "It Costs You Nothing" (Namô) Minister, Physician Dentist, Funeral Director for Five Votes and will not be good after Se PRIZES PLANET PRIZES ST POPULAR THE MOST POPULAR LADY. PHYSICIAN or DENTIST You Nothing "It Costs You Nothing to Vote." 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As the representative of the National Independent Political Rights League for Virginia, it becomes my duty to announce that the 7th annual meeting of the League will be held in the new edifice of the Bethel A. M. E. Church, New York City, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 7, 8 and 9, and begins Monday at two p. m. The motive is to secure national Colored American organization for defense of our rights, lives and liberties. Any individual believing in this effort is invited to attend. Also any group of seven or more persons can send a group delegate. Reduced rates can be secured to Philadelphia for National Baptist Convention starting Sept. 6. Let our state of Virginia be well represented. For further information write to John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va., Member of the Executive Committee. --- to Vote." Children's Free Matinee Ticket. TO EACH CHILD Presenting ONE of these COUPONS at BOX OFFICE will be given a FREE TICKET to any Saturday Matinee. DIXIE THEATRE. (Namè) Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday. Only the names of those who have had more than 25 ballots cast for them will be published in the voting content. Ballots reaching this Office by Thursday, 9 A. M. will appear in The Planet of the following Saturday. Robert C. Scott . 410 E. W. Murray . 335 Isham Mann . 275 G. W. Peace, Waverly, Va. 115 W. I. Johnson . 60 A. D. Price . 56 UNOFFICIAL LIST. Lawyer J. Thomas Howin..... 150 Only the names of those who have had more than five ballots cast for them will be published in the voting Matinee Ticket. COUPONS at BOX a FREE TICKET to any THE THEATRE. SUBSCRIBE TO THE RICHMOND PLANET. W. M. Robinson WASHINGTON & BROOKLYN, WASHINGTON Fish, Oysters and Game.