Richmond Planet

VOLUME XXXI, NO. 41 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. MOST POPULAR VOTING CONTEST ENDS. THE PRIZE WINNERS. MR8. K. W. BILLY, Newfield, Va. 32,255 Votes. REV. POPE'S PROPOSITION. To the Editor of The Richmond PLANET: Why not Dr. Graham, of Philadelphia, for the next President of the National Baptist Convention? This comes to me after reading your editorial of last week, which was timely and true of the conditions that exist at this time in nearly all of our race institutions. The time has come in the history of our race in church, state and fraternal institutions that the common people of ours, that pay the freight and have more real race pride must control the 20 p. c. of our big Negroes. We must either drop our selfish Jonahs overboard in order to save the ship for its future voyage, or prove to the world that the American Negro is not capable of self government. It is about time that we put our clean and unselfish men and women at the head of all our institutions. As a race we are over-run with man who have big names away from home, but stand for very little in their home town. Another misfortune with us is that we run most all of our institutions not on merit. but by rings and favoritism. It is no secret as to who gave the first dollar that started the Publishing House. That institution was not built up on name and windy resolutions. All we know is, It has been a success. Why not these leading men get together and settle their differences out of the newspapers? Since there must come a change, sooner or later, I now move that the Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., the editor of The PLANET, place in nomination this unselfish, honest, upright, true and moral man, minister of the gospel: who organized the first Negro Insurance Company of America; who has given employment to hundreds of our young men and women. This man has not only helped himself, but has also helped many struggling younm men and women and in his home in Philadelphia the humble preacher can always find entrance at his door. Therefore I move that you, John Mitchell, Jr., place in nomination the Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham as President. Very truly yours. H. CHAS. POPE. Woodbury, N. J. —Subscribe to The PLANET. Only $1.50 per year 'n advance. REV. W. N. SKIP WITH, Philadelphia, Pa. 24,785 Votes. LOAN SHARKS WANT $17.15 IN RETURN FOR $5 BILL Poor, Ignorant Colored Girl Has Paid $0.30, Bat Still Owes $10.85. Her Wages Garnished. The usurious proclivities of the average loan shark is demonstrated in the case of a poor ignorant. Negro servant girl who has just been warranted by the Legon Investment Company at 402 1-2 East Marshall Street. The Legon Investment Company appears in the city directory with L. E. Pope as manager. Myrtle Adams, a domestic in the employ of Dr. Moses D. Hoge called at the News Leader office Saturday evening and reported her experience with the Legon Investment Company. She said, her wages had been garnished that the total amount claimed was $10.85 which included the cost of the warrant and other court proceedings. She said she did not owe the money and produced receipts bearing out her claim. The servant girl said she borrowed $6. from the loan leader in October, 1913 agreeing to pay 90 cents a week for seven weeks. She had in her possession receipts amounting to 6.30 the last one being dated Dec. 15. The woman claims a collector attempted to make her pay $2.70 additional, which she refused to do and that she was waived for the mon- REV. W. N. SKIPWIT 24,735 ey, judgment being secured July 31. The garniahee was issued Aug. 29. The papers exhibited to the News Leader showed that the woman was warranted for $7.20. This morning a representative of the News Leader called to see the Logon Investment Company and was told that Myrtle Adams owed them $2.70. When asked why they warranted the woman for $7.20 the man in the office, who said he was the manager, admitted he did not know and said the man who attended to the court matters was out. He further said that if the woman had been warranted for the wrong amount, that the error would be corrected. When the Mgr. of the money leading office was told by the representative of The News Leader that Myrtle Adams claimed she agreed to pay $0 cents a week for seven weeks, or $6. 30, for the loan of $5. He made no claim, that this was a misstatement by the girl. It developed, that when The News Leader man called at the office of the high constable, he was shown papers of which judgment was occurred against Myrtle Adams. It was a note for $7.20, dated Nov. 13, 1913 for two months, and through the book of the note was written "to be paid 90 cents a week". The manager of the Legion Investment Company claimed he handed the . woman $5. on Nov. 10, $812. Apparently he took a note for $7.25 for this loan of $9. This was at the rate of about $60 per month. She then bought a second note. the case was called the woman did not appear and the judgment was rendered for $7.20 as claimed by the Legon Investment Company. While the manager of the Legon Investment admits that the woman owes him only $2.70 he has warranted her for $7.20 and garnisheed her wages for $10.85. Although the woman owes only $2.70 according to the claims of the loan office, Dr. Hoge has been restrained from paying his servant her wages. It is understood the matter will be referred to Commonwealth Attorney Minetree Folkes for action. A number of similar cases have been reported to the News Leader in the past, but upon investigation the loan sharks agreed to withdraw their claim if the party interested admitted that they were unable to pay. Upon investigation by the News Leader it was found, in a majority of instances that usurious rate of interest to an outrageous amount had been charged. The News Leader will gladly investigate and publish any similar cause that are reported. Richmond Virginia News Leader Aug. 21, 1914. We have a few very desirable Brick and Frame Properties for Homes cheap. See BRAGG BROS. AND COMPANY. WITH, Philadelphia, Pa. Voter. JONES—ROSS. Mr. John M. Ross, of South Richmond has the honor of announcing the marriage of his sister, Viola Heien, to Mr. Arthur W. Jones, which was recently celebrated at the residence of Rev. Mil Tarttie, Petersburg, Va. Reception, Thursday p. m., Sept. 10th at 11 North 2$rd Street, North Richmond. Friends are cordially invited. 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. --- CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS SUNDAY, Sept. 6th, 1914. ALL MINISTERS AND CHURCHES REQUESTED TO HAVE SPECIAL PRAYERS AND SERMONS FOR EQUAL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR COLORED AMERICANS Hillburn, N. Y. Aug. 22, 1914. To the Colored American churches and clergy of the United States of America: Greeting:--- "Righteousness Exalteth a nation" saith the scriptures. The main strength of the Afro-American in this land of color proscription has been their faith in God. When slavery was abolished it was as if in answer to the prayers of legions of black mothers. In the present unorganized condition of the race the enemy, color prejudice, is over-powering us. We must look to God Almighty for help. For these reasons I devoutly call upon all Afro-American churches and ministers to observe Sunday, Sept. 6, 1914, as Equal Citizenship Rights Sunday, offering up fervent prayers for this cause and for relief, and appealing to your congregation to realize the need of resisting the encroachments of segregation, the injury of disfranchisement, the horror of lynching. We ask that you ask God's blessing upon the Annual Meeting of our National Independent Political (Right) League, which meets the next day, September 7, for 3 days in Bethel Church, New York City. BYRON GUNNER, President LEFT MUCH MONEY THERE. Take Notice. When Mrs. Belle Christian, the former Secretary of the Supreme Grand Council, I. Order of St. Luke, resigned last August, 1913. There was a bank balance to the credit of the Order of $2,334.54 instead of $1800.00 as reported by some of its officers recently. All claims against the Order paid. A. Sudklen Death Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 26. George W. Lawson, one of our most respected citizens, died at his home on Fifth St., near Dice St. on Monday, August 24th. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Eagle Lodge, No. 53, Knights of Pythias. He has been the Superintendent of the Southern Aid Society for a number of years in our town. He was well liked by both white and colored. He leaves a wife and seven children. The funeral took place at the First Baptist Church on August 25th 3:30 p. m., and was largely attended. Scripture lesson was read by Rev. D. M. Lockett, the 7th chapter of Job. Sermon was delivered by Rev. C. M. Long from Hebrew 11:4. He preached a splendid sermon. The Rev. Terrell read a letter from the family. Rev. R. B. Hardy spoke of him as a life long friend and many other things. His body was interred at The Oakwood Cemetery Pleasant Time There. On Thursday, August 27th, the Fulton Athletic Social Club ran its private excursion to Buckroe Beach. They spent fourteen hours of pleasure in various parts of the East, and received the highest compliments of any excursion of the season. B. F. Fleming, President; W. H. Whiting, Chairman; M. H. Foster, Secretary. Services at First Presbyterian. Communion Service will be held at First Presbyterian Church, Monroe and Catherine streets, Sunday a. m., 11 o'clock. Rev. G. C. Camp ball, of Barkeville, Va. and Rev. E. W. Cobeth, of Martinsville, Va. will conduct the services. Members and friends are cordially invited to attend. $250 Cash and $12.50 per month to buy a nice two-story, four room detached frame house with two improvements on North Sewenth Road & Bargain. BRAGG BROS. The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a person, but no identifiable features or details can be discerned. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. MISS MARIETTA L. CHILES, Richmond, Va. 31,805 Votes. PERSONALS AND BRIEFN. Miss Marfetta L. Chiles left last Wednesday afternoon for Bay Shore Hotel. Mr. Thomas C. Glover, of Cambridge, Mass. has returned home after a pleasant stay in the city. Mrs. Susanna Holmes and Miss Mabel Holmes returned to the city last Thursday afternoon after a most enjoyable Northern trip. Mrs. M. E. Claiborne left the city Wednesday to visit her daughter Mrs. M. C. Toney, of Bristol, Pa. and will visit several other Northern cities before returning. Mrs. S. A. Cheatham and sister Miss Mary L. Brown, of Richmond, Va. are spending three weeks in Baltimore, Md. with their brother, Mr. Norman Brown. Mrs. Mary Miller, Mrs. Sarah Claiborne, Miss Eva Henry and Master Emmett Miller are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Loving, near Hot Springs, Va. Mrs. M. A. Hughes, formerly of South Richmond by now of Baltimore, Md. remains quite sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bortha Hatchett, 2026 Drudd Hill Avenue. Having completed four full summer sessions at Columbia University, New York, Prof. Nelson Williams, Jr. of Richmond Schools, has gained his Bachelor degree and matriculated during session of 1914 for the Master's or Doctor's degree. Will March to Ashland. The Uniform Rank, K. of P. of Richmond have arranged to march to Ashland, a distance by roadway of about 18 miles. The Uniform Rank Battalion and the Pythian Cadets will leave Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third street, Saturday night, at 2 o'clock. The first stop will be Yellow Tavern. Eatables and refreshments will be hauled with the command and the tent will be shipped by freight. Two days will be spent in camp at Ashland. The return march will be taken at about 6 o'clock the following Monday afternoon. In Memoriam. In sad but loving remembrance of Rosa Lipps Ferguson, who died six years ago, September 4, 1908: Home at last on Heavenly Mountain, She heard the call and entered in; Saved by life fair-flowing fountain, Home at last, home sweet home. Her devoted Mother, Sisters and Son. Dr. Miles B. Jones' Condition. Dr. Miles B. Jones' condition has not been so favorable. A consultation has been held on his case and the opinion expressed by the specialists is that he will ultimately recover. It is intimated though that it will be a long time before he will be able to resume his practice again. He is still at the Richmond Hospital. His wife is there also, more now in the capacity of a nurse for him than a patient herself. She has made rapid improvement. Miss Maud E. Mundin is up, but her right eye is still out of commission. Guest at Hotel Dale, Cape May, N. J. Miss Nellie B. Fisher, Balto.; Miss Charity Richards, Phila.; Miss Carne Daniels, Camden, N. J.; Miss Emily Morton, Phila.; Miss Gertrude Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Miss Alice Swann, New York City; Miss Elizabeth Smith, Jamaica, N. Y.; Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Trimble, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. H. Smith, Dr. Sinclair, Phila.; Mrs. J. W. Dean, N. Y. City; Mr. J. H. Banks, Phila.; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Baltimore, Wash., D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin, Cleveland, Ohio.; Mrs. Grace Wilson, Wash., D. C.; Mrs. T. H. Smith, Mrs. William L. Fitzgerald, Balto, Md.; Mr. Alec Scott, Richmond, Va.; Mrs. Della Fisher, Mrs. Anna R. Kell, Mrs. Wilson Taylor, Miss Nellie Collins, Mr. I. O. Milton, Phila., Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Boyer, Syracuse, N. Y.; Mark Robinson, Phila.; Mrs. W. H. Stewart; Miss Ella Gist, Ardmore, Pa. THE LIFE OF MARY JACKSON MARY JACKSON, born in 1735, was the daughter of John Jackson and Elizabeth Jackson. She was the second wife of John Jackson, the 1st President of the United States. Mary Jackson was known for her strong character and her love of music. She was also a member of the Wesleyan Church and a supporter of the United States Constitution. Mary Jackson was the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. She was also the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate. Mary Jackson was a pioneer in the field of women's rights and was a strong advocate for women's education. She was also a pioneer in the field of women's health. Mary Jackson was a pioneer in the field of women's health. The QUARRY By JOHN A. MOROSO Illustrated, MN, by LITTLE, BROWN & CO. SYNOPSIS Jason Montgomery, an innocent country man, is arrested for killing a bank worker. Bill Hawkins prints are taken by the Yellow River. Jason Montgomery is blind and pleads in vain for him. With Detective Michael Kearney, Montgomery is placed on trial for his blindness with murder. Convicted of murder in the second degree, he is sent to sing Slaan as a life preserver and enter the machine shop. His estimate, Bill Hawkins, a burger, plans to aid Montgomery in escaping from the prison. Bill makes Montgomery a suit of clothes. It is fitted. Montgomery crawls into a box of machinery that is to leave the prison. Bumping, he hides in the New Jersey marmoset and changes his clothing for that of a drowned man. Detective Kearney calmly questions Bill Hawkins concerning Montgomery's whereabouts. Montgomery becomes a thief and travels nightly. As John Nelsen, Montgomery enters a cell where he will remain until his oblivion. He meets Molly Bryan, a beautiful girl. They fall in love with each other. "Nelson" learns that Detective Kearney is still housing for him. He notifies Bill of his whereabouts. Bill is released from Sing Sing so that Kearney can shadow him and find Montauk. Hawkins cleverly gives Kearney the sift. Hawkins finds his wife and decides to start again in life as an honest man after Montauk. They meet at "Nelson" house, and "Nelson" admires Bill to find the real murderer of the bank watchman and supplies him with money. Two Potent Aids. A Nelson stood in the darkness of the room holding his breath he felt the weight of the pistol in his right hand and the thought came to him that should there be only that one man—Michael Kearney—he would be tempted to slay. On the blue nose of his weapon was screwed a Maxim silencer. The voice of death would be dropped to a whisper. The end of the sleuth would never be known by the outside world. Before him looked the began horror of a cell and sunless, skylines days. The heart of Molly Bryan would be broken as the heart of his mother had been broken. If he killed would it not be in self defense and in the highest and fullest meaning of the phrase? There are things worse than death. There was a slight sound against the side of the house beneath the window, he faced. Whatever this was, coming as a thief in the night, would soon show his head over the kill. The weight of the revolver in his hand. needed to increase. He was no man to take human life. He realised it suddenly. Moisture exuded from his fingers and blurred the steel of his weapon in the dark. He had said to himself that no one would know of the death of the relentless hound that had pursued him from a pit of despond to Arcady. God and his conscience, would know it! He crossed the room on his toes rapidly and replaced the weapon in his desk. The terrible injustice that had blunted his life at twenty-one, that had scarred and branded him forever, that had sent his sweet, patient little mother to a sorrowful death and that had penned him in a cage for the first five years of his maturity, had drawn him closer to his Maker. A sound came from the window sill and was repeated. It came steadily for a few seconds and ended with a snap as the latch over the window sash gave under the upward pressure of a jimmy. The sash was raised slowly, cautiously. Nelson's eyes, accustomed to the darkness, recognized the heavy about- dness and the squat figure as the man entered. "Bill" he whispered, repressing a cry of joy that rises from his heart. "Kid" came the answer. They strode to each other and clasped bands. "Is it safe, boy?" asked the old burglar. "Is there any one else in the house?" "Come to the top door. It will be even safer there." Nelson took the old man to the atic, drew the blinds and switched on a light. He looked at the old convict for a moment and then placed his arm about his shoulder as would a son embracing a father after long years of separation. Bill stood in the glare of the light, scanning the face of the younger man. "Boy," said the old probationer, "I come to you because I know you needed me. That bound at headquarters turned me loose so that he could follow me and get you." Nelson started. "But don't worry," Hawkins assured him, "for I'm an old for and hard to follow." "Why did you come in by the window?" "It was the safest way," explained JIL. "Although I felt correct that no one way shouldying me, I would have no reason to do it." " "I work with them every day and have changed my management," opined Nelson. "I am taller and heavier, and my arms and legs are longer." Hawkins nodded. "I doubt if they'd recognize you," he said. "How did you find me?" asked Nelson. "I was afraid to put a name in the personal." "After I reached Greenville it didn't take me long to bear about John Nelson," he replied. "I mingled with the machinists as a laborer, heard about your inventions and success and about your work with the poor people. When I found out where your place was I traveled on foot. I got a bed and lodging in a cabin two miles away. As soon as everybody was asleep I slipped out of the cabin, and here I am." Thay were both silent for a moment. "I know what you're thinking about, Kid," said Hawkins finally. "The guilty man," Nelson said slowly. "You want me to try to get him." "Yes. I have plenty of money now, but I did not dare hire detectives." "They couldn't get him after ten years." "Can any one find him?" Bill felt the anxiety and eagerness, the hunger for a real hope, in Nelson's voice. "If any one can get him I'm the one," he replied slowly. "I'm gonna get him too. I gotta get him, boy. I owe you something more than a few years out of 'stir.'" His voice quivered with emotion. "You put a God in my brain and heart," he went on. "You made a soul come to life in my old body." In his sunken eyes there was a luster that made beneficent the deep lined face. "I found my old girl," he continued, after a pause in which he mastered his feelings. "You made me want to find her and, thank God, I found her a good and patient woman and glad to have her man back. I'm some different. Kid. I'm some different, and I owe it to you. I'm going after that man who let you be sent up for life, and I'm going to get him and drag him to the office of the district attorney, if I get there with my head caved in." Nelson took his wallet from his pocket. "Here is plenty of money. Bill," he said. "Take it and use it. It isn't a loan or a gift. What is mine is yours. Spend all that is necessary. I am a rich man. You were the means of my achieving, wealth." "Gusen I'll need some of it," the probationer said. "I'll take it, anyhow, and when all comes out right I'll account to you for it. Then my old woman and I will come down here and work for you." "Does a son let his father work for him? asked Nelson. "No! I'll work for you, Bill, many years, God willing." A storm springing from Caribbean had swept northward along the Florida and Georgia shores. Down from the north came the tail end of a big blizzard; the two met off the Carolina coast. In the wild rush of temperatures seeking normal levels, heat and cold mingled in the South Carolina mountains and a deluge of rain resulted. Mighty Caesar's Head, King's mountain and Paris mountain were washed clear of snow by the torrent. The wind skirted in leeches boughs and branches, howled through ravines and gores in mountainsides, and the flood made the Saluda pick up its bed and rush away even as did the man who lay ill and was made well by a miracle. The mountain roads were torn and ripped by the flood. They gave up the frost in them and the red clay was turned to a series of twisted ribbons. On the top of the mountain, standing in & rushout type of machine, a girl waited. She had torn a racing mask from her face, and it lay caked with red clay on the driver's seat behind her. Her abundant hair had fallen from its fastenings, and the wind played with it as a great cat would play with a loose bank of golden yarn. The oncoming motor made the crest of the mountain with a heavy larch of a great beast in attack, came to a stop and shivered, sending flocks of mud shooting to right and left as the driver pulled himself from the wheel beat. Molly Bryan lifted her right hand high in the air in the unconcious salute of ancient times. Stripping himself of great coat and goggles and toting them into his machine, John Nelson hurried to her. "I saw you when you started down Glassy mountain," she said. Her face was pale. "I did not know whether you would make it safely." Her left hand went to her heart. His board was splashed with clay. In his eyes was the effulgence of the stars. He had come, perilously coursing up and down the mountain, to set her aid in buying Christmas gifts, in the shape of the little city nesting below them, for the little children of the poor in the Dark Corner. He was the unconscious instrument of one of the beatitudes, "Blemed are the poor." The look in her eyes, the trembling of the hand she extended to him, the giver in her soft voice, the quick flame that replaced the paler of her cheeks as she read the love message in his look, gave him the hint that she expected his tongue to enter the thoughts that filled his mind. He he held back the words. He took my master of his thoughts and no more Now of his bark, she stumbled to build up a hand to his ear. He only seemed to say him that his best friend on the left had stumbled on and his friend and also his friend had by on the bark stumbled with the world the bark stumbled on the droplets levitating around him the bark in the air of the bark. With lady Besset's help he stumbled and preening by his the bark himself on the other side of the bark he had swink from with droplets in his bark. The thought that his opinion blinded the old coward, was put on the bark for the man he desired put himself next brought him a miniature of satisfaction for his still troubling condition. Then, too, Molyte took, right proportion of him and banqueted from his mind all concern except the mother's concern. He felt the warmth of her sweet woman's body and his soft pressure against his the burn and tingle of her finished cheeks. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were anxiously awaiting them when their machines swung into the broad road leading through the estate to the mansion which crowned it. "Here's Santa Claus," Molly shouted to her parents. "And I am Mrs. Santa Claus." She clasped his arm and clung to it as they made their way up the plaza steps. "Mother-father," she said. "John and I love each other. He has asked me to be his wife." "May I have her for better or for worse?" he asked the parents. Mr. Bryan's face had paled. "You must talk with her mother," he said. "Will you join me in the library after you have been to your room, Nelson?" The wind puffed down the great chimney and filled Mr. Bryan's library with the fragrance of burning peak and pine. The logs crackled above their deepening awn bed. The night had come, and the well shelved room was sung with the glow from the hearth. "Nelson," began Mr. Bryan, leaning forward in his armchair, "you are asking us for the best we have—our only daughter. Are you worthy?" "I have tried to be." "You must know that you have been the subject of gossip because you have lived as a hermit." "Yes." "And you have admitted that there is something in your own life which you do not feel that I. Molly's father, should share." "I know it." "Have you anything to hide from me now?" The eyes of the younger man stared into the fire. The dancing fames cast grotesque shadows on his bearded face. "I cannot give you my confidence," he replied. "I cannot, now." "Nelson, my measure of a man is by his integrity and his intelligence," Mr. Bryan urged. "You have brains and industry. Whether you were a founding at birth or a child of the streets in the north will not weigh heavily in my decision." His voice was kindly and assuring. "My boy," he said, "you must open your heart to me. I cannot let my daughter undertake to share your life with her eyes blindfolded. Tell her. Tell her everything. She is of the stamp of her dear mother. She is a young woman, but a brave and serious one. She would countenance nothing that would bring a touch of dishonor to her or to her parents." "Tell-her?" gasped Nelson. "Yes." Molly entered the library, coming from her mother, radiant with smiles. She paused as she saw the pallor of her lover's face and the serious look upon her father. "What is the matter?" she demanded. Mr. Bryan rose from his chair. With his name on her lips she went to him, and he took her in his arms and kissed her. "Let us go outside on the piazza," he said. "I feel as though I should choke in here. There is something I must tell you." She turned from him and flung wide a deep window. The night scowled at them as they left the warm and lighted room for the rain and the dark. "I have something to tell you," he repeated. That you love me? she asked. "Kove you?" he repeated. "My heart is torn with love for you." "Nothing else matters." She crept to his side and clasped, his hands in her. "Your father wants to know who I am," he told her. "I know who you are. You are John Nelson, my lover." "He wants to know whence I came." "From heaven—to me," she answered, with a little laugh of content as she kissed him. "From prison," he said, "I am an escaped convict. I was sent to prison in the north for life. I was convicted of— "I know what you were convicted of," she whispered, anothering his lips with her own. "You were convicted of being too kind and too good to your fellow man. Christ was so convicted." The words fell solemnly from her lips, and they startled Nelson. "I was convicted of murder," he said, "of murder in the second degree. I was innocent. I was entrusted, an innocent man, to life in prison. My name is James Montgomery, and the police took me." She fell back from him for a moment, the shadows unnaworthy her. But she did not leave him for long. Her arms were again about his neck, and her lips tarnished his hair. "I knew that you had been hurt by some one or something," she whispered, pressing her chest against him. "You do not need to tell me of your innocence. I shall share your answers and your joys until death do us part." "I have no moral right to many you," he said. "But you shall take me for your spirit," she owed. "I shall live in the company with you and never leave your side, and if they did leave for you they shall never take you as being in love or family of life." "I was convicted of murder." Have you, my sweetheart. You are mine until death." THE eyes of Mike Kearney's mother were becoming very dim with age. Her old "Key of Heaven" was now replaced by a volume of prayer in much heavier type, and she wore glasses during her almost constant devotions. As the detective captain in charge of the homicide burgee at headquarters, Kearney found even less time to turn his thoughts away from the business of man hunting. He had developed some excellent sleuths and was beginning to feel pleasure in watching them advance under his guidance and training. Kearney's only recreation was still his home, and the sound of his mother's voice, with its pleasing bit of brogue, was his only music. But as the burden of her years became heavier the strength of her mind was sapped slowly, gradually. She would forget, things that had happened only an hour before and remember things vividly and suddenly that had happened years and years best. Sometimes her tongue would wag. She would wander from subject to subject in seemingly interminable monologues. Her old cronies tried in vain to stop the flow of her garrullity, so that their own tongues might wag, but they had to give it up and so they called less frequently. But Mike, the apple of her eye, to whom she was all the world, never ceased to pretend to be interested as he sat with her in the sunny window of her spotless kitchen. "Now I remember very well," she droned with quavering voice one evening, without specific reference to any one in particular. "I remember very well that she was quite a fine lady wasn't she, Mike?" "She was that, mother," replied the son, dragging on his pipe. "She was a grand lady." "No, not at all grand," she protested. "for she wasn't of the rhyty kind. She was quiet and nice and dressed so simple, was the old lady whose son was stun up." The subject of her wandering gossip and reminiscence changed, and she babbled on. Kearney settled down to read his afternoon paper as she talked. Her voice and her constant loving kindness were all that he had in life besides his job. As he noticed that her mind was wandering to an unusual degree a touch of fear crept into his heart. He asked himself what would he do when she was gone. Could any other woman take her ber, place? He hunched himself in his chair, a sign of his unnessiness. Kearney had decided on spring for his vacation time. During pleasant weather murder, like hydrophobia, is rare. He told himself that after his vacation he would never leave his mother again. He had arranged for one of her cronies to care for her until his return. Kearney had made up his mind to take a trip south. He had a clew, after ten years of patient waiting, that was worth looking up. The change might do him good, and at the same time he would have something to occupy his mind. Some one had placed a headstone on the grave of the mother of James Montgomery. Some one was paying the keeper of the cemetery near Nysack to weed the little plot and keep it bright with sowns. Carpital inquiry had shown him that, save for her convict son, Mrs. Montgomery had left no relatives. The cemetery keeper had been cautiously questioned. He said that through the mails had come first $100 in cash with a typwritten note to the effect that a friend of the Montgomery family desired the grave marked. Afterward came other sums to pay for keeping up the plot. The postmark on these anonymous communications was "Greenville, N.C." Koarnay desired to go to Greenville and get in touch with the penal authorities there. Another letter would be mailed from that town to Nyack. He would take a glimpse of the man who mailed it. He would clear up the浸警案 case and he would hold the record of never having been sent out by a criminal. A few days later Michael Koarnay registered at the Minnesota Bureau Greenville best bank, at St. James Place. --- The man hunter knew from the old sound of the vulture he had sighted him that the owl value proved to be striking required. It would be glad for him to try the prize of a resurrection. So he hit it. He knew that he was a New Yorker, who wanted to live in the south and invest a limited amount of capital. Kenney left the hotel to look over the city. He counted in two or three business streets much as a building dog would range in its preliminary run over a field. He had not forgotten the testimony of Montgomery that he was an apprentice machinist, and he remembered the story of the boy's anxiety for his kit of tools. He drifted among the men who handed the machinery of the cotton mills with a story that he wanted to start up a small foundry with a partner who was an expert. All the while his keen little eyes studied closely the face of every man he met. After several days of preliminary scouting he visited the office of the United States district attorney for the Greenville district. He explained his mission and showed his credential. He asked the district attorney to extend to the police of New York his aid in intercepting a letter that would be mailed in Greenville to a certain address in Nyack: N. Y. Letters from one man had been mailed quarterly to Nyack from the mountain city. One should be mailed during the first days of June. If possible he desired to see the man who mailed it. If he could find nothing more than the point at which the letter was mailed that would help, for it would narrow his field of inquiry. The United States district attorney knew only that a search was being made for an escaped convict. The police of the great cities and the United States secret service generally work in harmony, so the district attorney turned over the detective to a postal inspector. Kearney determined to give his personal attention to the people who came and went from the postoffice building. He was back on the trail after eleven years. Indeed, eleven years were as eleven days to him. If his natural span of life had been seventy decades instead of seven he would have been patient through the whole 700 years. He had not been able to pick up the lost tracks of Hawkins, but Hawkins was skilled in the tricks of the underworld. The real man he was after had been but a country boy when he was sent up for life. In dodging the law he had big chances against him because of his inexperience. He would make many mistakes. He had made one—sending money to Nyack. It is a police axiom that even the most careful of criminals sometimes overlooks an important detail in covering himself. Kearney watched and waited, keeping his ears open all the time to catch the goosefed of a small city. There was one big topic that seemed to hold the attention of the people who socked to the postoffice at intervals during the day. It was the marriage of John Nelson to Molly Bryan, the daughter of the president of the Reedy River Cotton Mill company. From fragments of conversation Kearner learned that these two people were much beloved, the girl because of her beauty and her earnest work among the poor of the mill settlements and the man because of a salient life. At sunset on the evening of the third day in June, just as the postoffice was about to close and as the last of the idiots began to depart a man of serious men, wearing a beard touched with gray, stepped from an automobile in front of the building. He entered and went to one of the mail slots, dropping a letter therein. It had hardly touched the bottom of the little chute when three distinct knocks sounded on the glass window pane behind the detective. It was the signal agreed upon between the clerk within and the man on watch outside. A thrill of exultation that was worth waiting eleven years to experience shot through Kearney. His hands itched to close on the arm of this person. The mastering of this one emotion of which has nature was capable left him astonished, for he had not expected to come upon a man, of the type, before him. There was something so grave in the eyes of his quarry and in the cost of his countenance that one could easily have mistaken him for a preacher of the word of God. His carriage was dignified, and he was dressed neatly and without ornament. The people on the steps of the post office had drawn back respectfully before him, touching their hair. It was evident that he was widely known and that he was revered. Kearney, had not determined what step to take next when the man whose shadow he was to become was stopped by another. "Oh Mr. Nelson," cried the citizen accusing him, "I would like to wish you all the happiness in the world the day before your marriage." Nelson's face broke into a smile of pleasure. "Thank you, sir," he replied. "I could never hope to deserve all the good wishes that have been offered me." He looked embarrassed and returned to his machine outside. Kenny had studied him from the own of his head to his body. If that man was Jim. Mostunately the change was remarkable. He made no attempt to follow him. He felt sure that Nelson had not seen him. A man as presumptuous by the capability of Nelson was could be easily found on any boat of the day or night and then, to the surprise of his children she!. Kenny took the letter from the friend anywhere while and went to his bed. Then he sat aside for the long and long days we all knew, and went back. The course of the one time home business continued with the farm. From it had gone his latest destination. He improved knitting machines were already installed in a plumbing fixture for them. His company had been capitalized and set in motion. He was his president and chief stockholder. Scenes of women and girls from the mill country around and even from the backwoods were waiting for employment. Although his knitting mills could produce the same amount of finished product at half the operating expenses of any other mill, Nelson did not look forward to the accumulation of large profits. He and Molly decided that they would make the plant a model one, a place where labor would be paid in its highest figure. It would be an industry in which the profits would find a way to the workers as much as to the directors. The day was at hand for the opening of the new plant, and the two motored to Greentille to select their workers, instruct them in their tasks and start the machinery of a new industry. Mr. Bryan, his wife and his son were at the mill to witness the start of the new venture which promised so highly. June roses and nasturtiums were piled in a great bank on Nelson's desk. Mr. Bryan had arranged another desk opposite for Molly, knowing her interest in the mill people who would be chosen as operatives. There were many little gifts of gold and silver office utensils hidden under flowers for the bride and bridegroom. Nelson had already instructed Molly in the handling of the machines he had built, and the two worked with the girls patiently, and taught them their simple duties. The first payrolls were drawn, the first day's work was under way. Through the wide, open windows of the building came the heavy fragrance of early summer in the country. The grounds about the plant were bright with perennials and beds of pansies, nasturtiums and poiesites. The pretty mountain girls, all in their freshest ginkgams and musilas, all happy in the possession of well paid tasks, stood by the knitting machines watching the flashing needles and the steady flow of the raw material that fed them. Molly Nelson paced the alesis, glied in her task as fewwoman for a day. Nelson's secretary brought him his first batch of mail in his own business. He trimmed the edges of the envelopes as he mused over his happiness and the roiness of the future. He had nothing to fear. Molly knew his secret, and there was no skeleton in their closet. Nothing could cheat them-of the taste, of heaven that they had had. Whatever disaster-> >was on the thwart the room. A stranger, was on the threshold. Nelson's secretary went to the visitor and inquired his business. He said that he would like to talk to Mr. Nelson and was offered a seat. Nelson glanced at the man and opened a letter. Fate was not playing any petty game with him. At the moment that the man hunted seated himself in his presence he received word from his old probationer friend. The letter miserably scrawled and blotted, read: Dear Kid-1 ain't losing that's why you did here from me, but got chance to see him. Do not sit on it to must but if the guy is living I'm going to take him to the D. A. office or die trying. BILL. The "D. A." office meant the office of the district attorney of the county and city of New York. GEN. POWELL CLAYTON DEAD Was Figure in Republican Circles for Fifty Years. General Powell Clayton, who for more than fifty years has been a figure in national politics as a Republican, died in his apartments in Washington after a long illness. He was 80 years old ad a native of Fennan. He served in the Civil War as an officer first as a captain of infantry. He was gradually promoted until he came out of the service as a brigadier general at the close of the war. Following the war he settled on a plantation near Pine Bluff, Ark, and from that day he ceased his activities in national politics he was recognized as the leader of the Republican party in that state. He was governor of Arkansas from 1888 to 1887, and then served as United States Senator until 1877. Death of the Rev. Dr. T. T. Everett Word was received in York, Punx aptitude of the death of the Rev Nelson Littleton Church尖城 city, at Green Guild, Pa, where he had met to rest. Dr. Everett was one of the most prominent ministers of the Luth ean Guild and was formerly private secretary to the late Governor Pattie en. French, English and Belgian troops moved to help depose those against the Hungary's invasion. The main French which was on Lansville, France where the Germans were bribed, French and English joined in the work on the Hungary's advance Race at Mt. Pleasant, France. Germany annexed Belgium as a German province and occupied military and civil government. Russia's commanded advance with a mighty force occupied central France continue to be the marvel of the military situation. Just as the aliens were captured a few days ago, Dalglum so are the Germans out numbered by the Russians. THURSDAY Russia advances in east Prussia on a prestrunged scale which calls for the siege of Berlin in three weeks continues unretarded, an official dispatch from Paris announces. The earl is invading Germany with 2,000,000 men, behind whom are three linet of reserves each of 2,000,000 men. Paris is rapidly being turned into a vast intrenched camp to resist any possible sledge by the Germans. Alex andre Millerand, the new minister of war, conferred with military chiefs in Paris and directed steps to meet all eventualities. France abandoned the fortified city of Lille, of 200,000 inhabitants, and Roubalx and Valenclenace, just inside the Belgian frontier, to the advancing Germans without striking a blow, a dispatch from Ostend says. FRIDAY Alarm is spreading throughout Germany at the speed of the Russian invasion. Emperor William, as king of Prussia, called on all Germans to aid the inhabitants of east Prussia. Germany reports victories for her forces at Longwy and Nancy, France and assists that the army under Crown Prince Wilhelm has captured the French towns of Villemont, Longyon, Jappecourt, Audanle-Romain and Briey. The battle of Manbeuge between the Germans and English was an overwhelming German victory Berlin declares. Russian troops attacked Lemberg the most important city of the Austrian province of Galicia. The coast artillery has done terrific damage, its fire being directed by aerial scouts who are signaling the positions of the Austrian troops and guns. SATURDAY Most significant is the official announcement by the French-war office that the military governor of Paris has ordered all residents within the zone of action of the forts around Paris to evacuate and raise their houses within four days. Another significant announcement from Paris is to the effect that the German forces are advancing in the direction of La Fere, which lies about eighty miles northeast of Paris. The right wing of the French troops operating in this region has driven back the Germans on the town of Guise, but the left wing was unable, to hold the advance of the German troops. British cruisers and destroyers that were in the engagement off Helgoland have arrived at various English ports and some members of the crew assert what at least eleven German vessels of various sizes were sunk. A German army, corps, which has been engaged along the line of the Mense, has been withdrawn and has proceeded, to the northeast, presumably to reinforce the troops striving to check the advance of the Russiar army through east Prusia. SUNDAY. French troops have resumed the of fensive against the Germans in the north of France, where both the British and French armies have been reinforced. An official statement announces that fresh troops have been sent to the British forces in France to more than doubly make up for the losses in battle. Turning of the fortunes of war the allies believe will come through the concentration of 3,000,000 soldiers or France's second line of defense and through the overwhelming successes of the Russians in East Prussia. The invasion of his eastern territory has forced the kaiser to withdraw nearly all the army left to occupy Belgium. Losses to the British army in fight between Aug. 23 and Aug. 26 were between 5000 and 6000 men killed. MONDAY France opened a desperate offensive movement against the Germans today with the right wing and center of her army. The object of the attack was to offset the reverses to the British and French troops in the north. The French right defeated the Germans and drove them into retreat. On the center a general engagement is being fought, so far without decisive result. German forces generally engaged the French on a nearly five-mile line from Villers, department of the Somme, to Monsieur, department of Ardennes. An official announcement declares that the allies are holding their own in this conflict. Reports of the staking of two German battalions were current in London. The rumors were not confirmed. French German troops have appeared in Nest French, an official discreet announcement, confirming reports that huge forces had been withdrawn from Belgium. Germany has acquired 30,000兵 planes, according to an official military report given out in Berlin. Three German states, Bavaria, Hamburg and Saxony-Anhalt, al- so all of which plan to possess their military assets, and all sup- port the war effort, are all subject to the German war effort. Are Now 38 Miles From Paris. ARMIES AGAIN BATTLE Invaders Said to Have Asked For an Armistice. LOSSES ARE EMORMOUS Another Aeroplane Drops Bombs on Paris. A German monoplane dropped two more bombs in the streets of Paris. The machine was discovered while circling above the Bank of France. A sentry at the foot of Columba Place fired at it, and other sentries also discharged their rifles at the machine. They were unsuccessful in hitting the aeroplane because of the immense height at which it was flying. Well founded, though unofficial, reports are current in Paris that the French have checked the German advance on the north. . . A chauffeur attached to the French general staff arrived in Paris from Oise and made the following statement: "The advance of the Germans has been checked by their terrible losses during the past few days. They even asked for an armistice to bury their dead." Allies Position Good. The position of the allied armies according to the opinion of French military experts, is good. The Germans, it is pointed out, are attempting a movement which, if it fails, will leave them in a dangerous situation, with their troops exhausted. The British army, fresh and rested, is about to engage the extreme German right and to support the French, who have been retiring slowly for several days. Several persons who have arrived in Paris from northern towns declared that they were much impressed by what they saw in the way. No Germans were observed, but the preparations of the allies for a defensive fight filled them with confidence. Novartheless, the advance of German scouts to Beauvais, which is only thirty-eight miles, in an air line, north of Paris, and fifty-four miles by rail, is causing disquiet. The strides made by the German right wing in the battle that has been raging for twenty-four hours is only partly admitted in an official communication issued, with ways: "On our left the Germans have gained some ground. In the center the fortunes of battle have not been decided. There has been no change in the situation there. In Lorraine we have gained new advantages." "Our line is holding out like a bulldog in the center," said Minister of War Millerand, as he left his office after a conference, with General Gallien, military governor of Paris. French Rush Fresh Troops to Front. Fresh troops reached the French front. Most of these were sent to the center. A member of the chamber of deputies for one of the northern departments of France, who came to Paris, says there are no Germans at Lille, Roubels or Tourcoing. These towns are in the department of Du Nord, and all within twenty miles of the Belgian frontier. Dispatches last week said that they had been occupied by German troops. Official announcement is made that the minister of war has decided to call out immediately all the reservists in the country who have not been previously called to the colors. The allied movement is described as the "wearing down" policy on the part of the allied armies, and it is claimed that the losses of the attacking forces have been enormously greater than have those of the defenders. French reports alone are available thus far and nothing is reaching the public in London to enable even, admitted experts to form an opinion of their real value. German Flower Fighting. The heaviest fighting appears to be taking place along a line from Parolane, in the department of Soimme, to Vervins, in the department of Alme. There the flower of Emperor William's army is trying to pierce the British defense. Further to the east the forces of the German crown prince still are attacking the French in the region about Mesterae, the capital of the department of Ardennes. The only points where the French claim to have gained successes are in the Vengo mountains and in Lorraine, where the Germans are said to be in retreat. The statement that Emperor William has gone to the Russian front cannot as yet be confirmed. Independent views of the Norse fighting now being on in Nest Prussia and in Galicia are probably lacking, so it is a case of and taking his choice between the German, Austrian and Russian versions of the battles. A German strong army has been fought up in southern Belgium, so WIRELESS IN THE FIELD British Army Breaking Station For Aeroplanes 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. coording to a news agency dispatch received from Ostend, and many soldiers are reported killed. A dispatch from Antwerp says that reports have been received of the destruction by the French General Paul of two German cavalry divisions near Perrone; east of Amlems. The date of this engagement is not given. Three German lines arrested within the French lines south of Amlems were mobbed when they were brought to Paris. The squad of soldiers guarding them had great difficulty in driving back the frenzied crowd of men and women that shouted "Death to the spies!" and tried to wrest the prisoners from their captors at the Gare du Nord. TURKS MASS ARMY TO AID GERMANY Balkan States Are Pledged to Oppose Move. A telegram received in Rome from Berlin announces the mobilization of the Turkish army. Following the advice of Field, Mar- shal Baron von der Goltz, it is stated that the Turkish government will form an army of the first line composed of 200,000 men, all Mohammedans. Seventy-two superior German officers, forming the German military mission at Constantinople, have been incorporated in the Turkish army and will participate in the war. The presence of the German officers in the army is interpreted to mean that Turkey will fight on the side of Germany. If Turkey decides to aid the German-Austrian cause by an onslaught upon the Balkan states, Greece, Romania, Servia, Montenegro and Bulgaria are pledged to join in a fight against Turkey. News from Constantinople that the German diplomatic representatives are attempting to induce Turkey to join in the war may have the unexpected result of uniting all the Balkan states in a common cause against her old enemy, Bulgaria, on the verge of war with Greece several times, is pledged to join with her old allies in defending the Balkans from Turkish attack. This was announced officially. BELGIAN QUEEN IN LONDON With Her Children, Flees From War Ridden Country. Fleeing from the horrors that war has inflicted on her country, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium arrived in Lon- don, and is an honored guest at the home of Lord Curzon, former viceroy of India. The fugitive queen was accompa- nied by her children, Crown Prince Leopold, aged thirteen; Prince Charles, aged eleven, and Princess Marie-Jose, aged eight. The party traveled on a yacht from Antwerp to Folkstone and thence by train to London, where the queen and her party were met by Belgian envoys and entorted to the home of Lord Curzon. Germans Say They Will Hold Belgium Flacards have been posted in Belgian towns saying that Belgium now belongs to Germany, reports an Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News agency. WE WELCOME SMALL ADVERTISERS BECAUSE THEY SOON GROW INTO BIG ONES. Like This. Like This "I don't want no rubbish, no fine sentiments, if you please," said the widow when she was asked what kind of an epitaph she desired for her late husband's residence. "Let it be short and simple—something like this: "William Johnson, aged seventy-five years. The good die young!"—Nittsburgh Press. THE GENERAL'S OFFICIALS Here are shown the German emperor (on the left) discussing plans for war with two of his trusted rear admirals. Bear Admiral von Tirpitz is shown in the center and Bear Admiral von Holtzendorf on the right. AIRCRAFT Here is always a type of the smaller size war, durable with which hosts Grammies and Preamble are similarly equipped. All kinds of aircraft will be presented into service in the war conflict in Europe, and their effective role as a means of warfare will be witnessed all over the world. Czar's Soldiers Inflict Irreparable Defeat on Lavaders in Russian Poland. A German victory near Allenstein, in which three Russian army corps were defeated and 70,000 prisoners, including two Russian commanding generals, were taken, was reported to the German embassy in Washington from Berlin by wireless to the Sayville, L. L. station. The dispatch says: "Official report of the victory at Allenstein shows, that it was even greater than known before. Two Russian army corps were annihilated. Seventy thousand prisoners were taken, including two commanding generals, 300 officers and three complete artillery of the Russian army." "In the west, General Von Kluk, it is reported, against the French anking attempt, advanced to Combles." (Here part, of the message could not be clearly deciphered). "General Von Bielow completely degested a superior French force near St. Quentin after having captured an English infantry battalion. General Von Hausen forced back the French upon the river.Rethel. "The Duke of Wurtemburg crossed the Meuse river, also advancing upon Alsace. The crown prince advanced beyond the Meuse after capturing the entire garrison of Montmedy, which tried to sortie. The fortress also was captured. "The crown prince of Bavaria and General Von Heeringen have been in continuous battle in French Lorraine. "Sedan day was celebrated here with jubilation because of the victorious news which arrived from the east and west. The Russian defeat at Ortsburg recalls Sedan by the huge number of prisoners taken. "The Times correspondent at Amlona reports that the Germans came over us like a seed raised by a No storm, During the first month of the war, more than 2,000,000 German volunteers came forward." Report Austrian Defect. The Messagaro in Rome has, perhaps, lished a telegram from Soca, Bulgaria which says that the Austrians have suffered irreparable defeat at Zamocz Russian Poland; fifty miles southeast of Lublin. Refugees Terror Stricken Geneva, Sept. 2. News received in this city from Berlin and Frankfurt, where refugees continue to arrive from East Prussia, is to the effect that the terror of the refugees is now spreading to the towns along the railroad lines and a great exodus from them is expected shortly. Refugees arriving from Danzig, in East Prussia, say the advance guard of the Russian Cossacks has been seen in that neighborhood: The general staff in St. Petersburg has admitted that the German troops opposing the Russian advance into East Prussia were "billing up a hard fight and inflicting serious losses on the troops of the car, but assert that though the progress of the invasion was slower than last week, it was still progressing favorably. "The German defense has stiffened," said the official statement issued at the war office, "and we have suffered heavily, but the foe has had serious losses. "The arrival of fresh troops has strengthened the German line, but it will be unable to withstand our attack. "Our successes in Galicia continue. The Austrians that invaded Russia have recrossed the Vistula, but not without heavy losses. The Russian cavalry surrounded an entire regiment and forced it to surrender. 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After driving him almost frantic one evening with her conversation, she remarked: "Thaddena, I suppose when I die you'll have a mousoleum built in my memory? "I will do nothing of the sort," returned the exasperated Thaddena. "When you die I will have you cremated and your ashes placed in an hourglass. Then you can keep on going for ever." Woodside Inn and Thames Inn London, F. C. No. 440, F. C. No. 441 London, F. C. No. 440, F. C. No. 441 Artrie Bryd F. C. No. 440, F. C. No. 441 Artrie Mina F. C. No. 440, F. C. No. 441 *Daily, 1 Weekdays, 2 Weekdays, 3 Weekdays All travel must be booked in advance stop at Ekin. Time of arrival and departure not guaranteed. Read the menu. N. & W. NORFOLK ONLY ALL RAILLINE TO NORFOLK. Schedule in Effect December 3, 2018. Leave Byrd Street Station, Richmond, FOR NORFOLK: 9:00 A.M. 8:30 P.M. 8:420 P.M. CINCINNATI: 9:00 A.M. 8:30 P.M. 8:420 P.M. M. 9:00 A.M. M. 8:30 P.M. M. 8:420 P.M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: 7:140 A.M. P. M. 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M—Express with Atlantic Lighted Lights for Atlanta and Birmingham. 11:30 P.M. M—Express Week Day 3:00 P.M. M—Local. YORK RIVER LINE. 5:10 P.M. M—Local (car), except Sunday; no local stop; and 4:15 P.M. local—Connecting for Baltimore, daily, except Sunday. 7:35 A.M. M—Local, except Sunday. THE ARRIVEE RICHMOND. From the South: 7:05 A. M.; 1:05 A. M. :2:15 P. M.; 8:00 P. M.; daily; 2:00 P. M. From West Point: 8:45 A. M. (dealer tree); daily excursion; 9:00 A. M.; daily; 8:45 P. M.; event Sunday. H. I. BRHOP, D. P. A., 807 K. Main St., Phone Madison 572. C. & O. 7:00 A. - Local Daily - Newport News. 7:00 A. - Daily - Charlotteville. Exempt Sunday, Thursdays. 9:00 A.-Express-Daily-Nortfolk, Old Point. 9:30 A.-Local-Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Chicago, Foxes. 10:00 Noon-Express-Nortfolk, Old Point. 10:10 *P*-Express-Daily-Nortfolk, Old Point. 10:30 P.-Local-Newport News, Old Point. 10:40 P.-Local-Express-Bunday, Charlotte- ville. 10:50 P.-Local-Express-Bunday, Charlotte- ville. 10:60 P.-Express-Daily-Cincinnati, Louisville. 10:70 P.-Limited-Daily-Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis. 10:80 P.-Express-Daily-Cincinnati, Louisville. 10:90 P.-Limited-Daily-Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis. 11:00 P.-Express-Daily-Cincinnati, Louisville. Bleachers, Parker Carp. TRAINS ARRIVR BICOMD-Local from Bristol 9:20 A.M. 8:10 P.M. Through from East: 12:00 A.M. 8:25 P.M. 8:30 P.M. Local from West: 8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. Through: 8:30 A.M. 11:55 P.M. and 8:30 P.M. James River Line: **8:34 A. M. 8:25 P.M. Daily. **Daily except Sunday. SEABOARD AIR LINE Northbound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 9:00 A. M.-Local to Norfolk. 1:10 P. M.-Sleeper and coach. Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Jacksonville. 1:15 P. M.-Sleeper and coach. Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis. 1:30 A. M.-Sleeper and coach. Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Blackmond daily: 5:30 A. M., 7:40 A. M., 8:55 P. M., 8:50 P. M. Local. Subscribe to the Richmond Planet. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 2006 P St. Phone Mad. 225 Residence, 1015 St. James St. Phone, Mad. 6619 Paraphernalia, Material and Service of the Best, Reliable Service, Moderate Rates. MADAME SCOTT, Embalmer ten- for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. JOHN M. JOHN M. Higgins. CHOICE GROCHRIES WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street. (Near Old Burford) published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 311 N. 4th St. Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. . . EDITOR. All communication 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, SEPTEMBER 5, 1911. The German army is showing that it has not been studying military science all of these years for nothing. Teachers in the Richmond Public School seem to be all anxious to get out of the service, either by matrimony or by another job route. Colored folks, who do not know how to behave themselves and will not learn how to do so should "go w-a-y back and sit down" Some people waste all of their time, energy and money in riotous living when young and then expert hard working people to keep them out of the poor-house when they get old. Colored office-seekers are "mighty tired" waiting. Living on Wilson promises for more than twelve months is not a very pleasant performance and it does not satisfy the cravings of political hunger or of any other kind. Most parents who raise children do not succeed in instilling in them the principle of maternal and filial support. Few children recognize the fact that they owe any debt to their parents, who have reared and supported them to a point where they can look out for themselves. Gambling, whiskey and women lead to poverty, despair, the poor house, the grave and some people assert to the deepest hell. There are numbers of people trying hard to go to all of these places and they do not seem to know it. It seems strange that the English suffragettes, who were clamoring for war in England have suddenly become silent and none of them have offered to shoulder either the musket or the hatchet. Some women are peculiar beings just as some men are abominations. THE ISSUES IN NEW YORK. The meeting of the Progressives in New York and the endorsement of candidates to run in the primaries proved to be a most remarkable performance for a Party that had made the primary system an issue, insisting that the people should be left free to choose their candidates free from Party dictatorship or undue influences. Hon. William Sulzer is proving to be one of the most spectacular figures in the political arena and he promises to give the Progressive Party leaders much trouble. Col. Roosevelt's proposition to support a stalwart Republican, provided that Republican candidate went on record to oppose State Chairman William C. Barnes awakened a storm of protest from his own followers and he has been forced to abandon the policy previously announced. Mr. Hinman, by his outspoken declarations in favor of Republican principles forced upon the Progressive leaders this condition. Now Chairman Barnes has announced his retirement as Chairman of the Republican State Committee, preparing, as he is to press his suit of fifty thousand dollars for slander against Col. Theodore Roosevelt. This "flank movement" cannot fail to have a most beneficial effect upon the Republican campaign and aid in the election of the candidate. Col. Roosevelt is accredited with the statement that the issue is the same, but this will hardly be accepted by a large class of independent voters, who seek real reforms rather than a party advantage. The outlook at the present time preaches Republican victory. The lack of leaders, however, is seriously hampering the Party in its great struggle for supremacy. The best man went down under the avalanche of adverse criticism. THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEER. President Woodrow Wilson has unofficially announced that he shall be a candidate to succeed himself. The reason given is that he seeks an endorsement of his administration. He does not seem to take seriously the one term plank in the Democratic platform. We presume that it is applicable only when a constitutional amendment is adopted providing for a six-year term for a President of the United States. We have regarded with interest the achievements of the Wilson administration. No one can charge that it has not been a business one from start to finish. It has been noted for "doing things." It has had a "fair and square" "try-out" and it is for the electorate to say whether or not its ideals have been realized, the cost of living reduced, the trusts placed under control, the "money kings" robbed of their power and the common people given all of the rights and privileges guaranteed by law. For our past we fail to see that the panacea for our politicalills has been a success. It may be that no one else would have done better. Still, it is evident that the tariff revision plan so far as it benefited the people was a downright failure. Somebody got the benefit of the reductions, but they held to the profits accrued therefrom and the cost of living is as high as ever. The explanation of the army of the unemployed, who still remain unemployed has not been forthcoming. There can be no doubt, but, what Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan acted wisely in not permitting themselves to be drawn into the Mexican muddle to the extent of declaring war upon this unfortunate republic. Occupying Vera Cruz was a blunder and the declination of President Wilson and his advisers to advance beyond that point is unquestionably a cause for great rejoicing. Our country would now be in a most deplorable predicament had it listened to the voice of the militants. If President Wilson is nominated, he will have a chance to be reelected, but this chance will only exist if the warring Republicans fail to unite on a candidate other than Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York. Col. Roosevelt is still a power in politics, but his greatest forte now is in tuning himself and preventing the other candidate from being elected. If Hon. Charles S. Whittman is nominated by the Republicans and is elected by an overwhelming majority as Governor of New York, it may be that the knowing ones can cross the next President of the United States by writing his name in their diaries for future reference. --- REV. POPES$ PROPOSITION. Rev H. Charles Pope, of Montgomery, Ala., proposes that we place the name of Rev. W. P. Graham, D. D., pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist Church of Philadelphia in nomination for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention. If we were sure that all parties deemed a change necessary in the highest office of that great organization, we would have no hesitation in accepting the suggestion and pressing to a successful conclusion the election of this great churchman. As at present, advised, however, we do not see that a change in the official management is necessary or advisable. President E. C. Morris is a divine of commanding appearance and rare executive ability. His disagreement with the management of the publication house can be adjusted, if wise, conservative judgment is called into play and personal ambitions are subordinated to the general good. He is a gentleman of unimpeachable character and his motives are of the highest order. The success of the great organization has been largely due to his transcendant judgment. As to Rev. Dr. R. H. Boyd, he is without a peer among our people in the business world today. Men of this type and calibre always have their idiocyracies and notions and their associates can well afford, in a measure to humor them so long as they do not violate the laws of good society or transgress the rules of rectitude. Still, if Dr. Morris voluntarily retires and the National Baptist Convention accepts his retirement in good faith, there is no better man, for the position than our brilliant friend from Philadelphia. He possesses executive ability, rare judgment and is friendly with both sides to this unfortunate controversy. There may be some information which has not appeared in print, and which would change our opinion, but as at present advised, these colored folks had better keep Dr. Morris, President and Dr. Boyd in charge of that publishing house. The "War of Nations" in Europe seems to indicate that before the contest is ended, the dark races will come unto their own. It was announced sometime ago that the Republic of France was undertaking the experiment of mustering black men into its army. The present war with Germany has already amply demonstrated the wisdom of this policy. The battle line on which they appeared proved to be the only invulnerable part of the French army in the face of the assaults by the magnificent German army. Those black men have won fame and the admiration of the civilized world. So powerful were they that England has decided to call on its black colonial troops and the sibks from India will soon be in the forefront of the engagement. England did not stop there, but secured the services of Japan and that great nation has declared war against Germany and will make an attempt to force that Power from the Orient. Germany has seen the effect of all of this and in turn its agents are actively at work in Turkey and the indications are that Turkey will soon be ready to throw its dark legions against the armies of the allies. God's hand is in all of this. It was the same in this country. The valor of the dark troops has been sung in song and story and as a result, they are steadily securing all of the rights and privileges to when they are entitled. From South Carolina. FLORENCE, S. C. August 25- Mr. J. D. J. Thomas, of Caughle passed through the city on the 15th going to Sumter enroute for home. She stopped at Timmonsville and after a stay of 16 days at Sumter, will leave for Canden, August 29th. Mr. H. M. Manley, of Stillman, Ga. after visiting Mt. Olive, Wil- mington and Goldsboro, N. C. returned home on August 19th. Misses Darnella and Sarah Wall- ace left for Timmonsville on August 29th to spend about two weeks with relatives and friends. Miss Ellen Bostle of Society Hill is home again after spending several months at Goldsboro, N. C. with her brother. Mrs. Mary B. Presely of St. George S. C. and Miss Precoba Jones, also Master Eddie Presely passed through the city today enroute for home. They had been visiting Latta and Sellers, S. C. Mr. Presely is principal of the Gravel School at St. George, S. C. Mr. Silas G. Abrams, a contractor who had finished a big job at Rocky Mt. N. C. passed through the city today enroute for home. Miss Mattle Humbert, of Darlington is in the city visiting her uncle, Rev. W. D. Humbert. Rev D Robinson, pastor of Snowhill Baptist Church, conducted a successful revival this summer. 52 were added to the church. Rev. C. F. Taylor assisted him. Charles McClary, Chief of the Joint Stock Company, of South Carolina, presided at the Quarterly sessions, August 14th and 15th, at Florence and Darlington respectively. Bro. McClary is a fine man. Miss E. A. Sheffield, of Albany, Ga. in company with Mrs. Mamie Delmore and son, William, who had spent the Summer at Wilmington and Elizabethtown, N. C. passed through the city today enroute for home. Miss Sheffield is a teacher at Wavercross, Ga. Ernest W. Thomas, son of Mr. W. H. Thomas, living near the city was nearly drowned on Sunday, August 17th about 10 o'clock a.m. Ernest was in bathing with other boys. He is doing well to day. Miss Minkle Davis, of Sumter. Mr. John G. Gowers, from Willcoochie, Ga. is visiting his mother at Pamlico, S. C. He has visited Wilmington, N. C. and Timmonsville and Columbia. He is a taller and business man. On Tuesday afternoon August 15th I visited the home of Dr. E. R. Roberts. East Florence. I found Mrs. Roberts on the front porch, quite busy as usual. She told me that the Dr. had gone uptown and was expected at any minute. Upstairs I heard some little soft "amblies" after which I found them to be the young ladies. Misses S. B. Heiderson and Laura V. Roberts. I told Mrs. Roberts I wished to see Dr. Roberts and also the young ladies. Mrs. Roberts took me into her poultry yard and such fine acts of poultry. I was glad to see. She gave me a peach out of the garden—the early one had been used. I saw the girls the next day, and they told me they regretted to have me leave so early. They did not know that I came to see them. I promised to call again. Miss Henderson, of Columbia is attending the Summer with them. She is a teacher in Howard Graded School of that city. Miss Lange is a student of Benedict College, who will graduate, 1916. Mr. George Wilson, Mr. Alexander Hoff, of New Jersey and Mr. Joseph Reese, of Bennettville, S. C. spent Tuesday, August 11th visiting the Webstern. Robert J. Webster and Walter Lide and baby took an auto ride on the 18th of August. Rev. E. Ham, of Timmonsville, commenced his revival at Pleasant Grove, August 30th. Mr. Paul Reed is doing satisfactory work at the A. C. L. station. Mr. Paul Phillips was in town on Thursday on business. As soon as he saw me he squared up with a "ahinny" coke. The fashion public gives Ruth and Rubie Webster little time to rest. Wolf Bros. Giant Hair Straightener and Dryer Comb. 50c AGENTS WANTED. This Comb is solid brass and will hold heat longer than any other comb. Sold regularly for $1 50, but our price is 50c and we give you a LAMP ATTACHMENT FREE! Mail Orders Solicited. If Ordered by Mail, end see 5-2c Stamps. 1214 N. SENATE AVE., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. We are having one rains these days. We are thankful. Mr. E. G. Glasco and wife, Mrs. Carrie Glasco, son Edward, and baby Leah, passed through the city on the 25th inat. enroute for Kingstree to visit friends at Conway, S. C. Dr. M. M Edwards of Charleston passed through the city today enroute for home. He was returning from Washington, D. C. where he had been visiting friends and recuperating. Miss Mary N. Charlton, of Pulaski, Vp. passed through the city enroute for home. She was returning from Whitley, N. C., where she had served as Supervisor of Rural Schools for Columbus county. She had charge of demonstration work under the United States government, also for women and girls. She is a fine woman. I was very glad to see her. Rev. E. W. Smith of Vindland, N. C. had told her of me. Mr. F. Bronson, Guorline, B. C. passed through the city today enroute for Mayesville to bury his mother, Mrs Kato Robinson. Rev. C. T. Taylor guardian with Dr. W. F. Holmes, Joe Gates and B. B. Webster appraised the property of Mrs. Rebecca Muldrew, deceased. E. B. WEBTER After the Battle. A naval engagement with an odd sequel was the battle of Portland, Me. between the American ship Enterprise, 16 guns and 102 men, and the British ship Boxer, 14 guns and 100 men. The Enterprise was commanded by Lieutenant Burrows and the Boxer by Captain Blythe. The battle was on Sept. 4, 1812, in the bay not far from Portland, and resulted in the capture of the Boxer, both commanders being killed. The two vessels were brought into Portland on Sept. 7. The bodies of the two commanders were rowed ashore by sailors of both ships and after a public funeral service were buried side by side in the village cemetery. Philadelphia Press. Old Get-rich-quick Schemes About the year 1720 a great many Englishmen invested millions of money in companies which were organized for such objects as, "Wrecks to Be Flashed For on the Irish Coast," "For Making Oil From Sunflower Seeds," "For Importing a Number of Large Jack-asses From Spain," "For a Wheel of Perpetual Motion" and, most extraordinary of all, "For an Undertaking Which Shall In Due Time Be Revealed." The promoter of this last company received more than 1,000 subscriptions during the morning on which the offering was made, and disappeared the same afternoon with more than 2,000 gunnies—World's Work. The Joy That Killed. A senator was priling the humor of a certain congressman. "His humor, however," he concluded, "is rather grim. I told him the other day about a mutual acquaintance who had died, a man he had never liked. "And his wife is dead, too," I said. "He himself died on Monday; his wife died two days later. The papers didn't say what killed her." "She was killed to death, I guess," said the congressman grimly. All the Banke Fault- Mrs. Harrows was worried. That fact was evident to her husband, although she endeavored to maltain a cheerful manner. Before the evening meal was ever, however, he discovered the cause of her anxiety. "Well, it's very strange," replied Mrs. Harrows, still unimpressed. "They've just returned a check of mine for $66 marked 'No funds.'"—Harper's Magazine. $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. Louden, 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 1914 Catalog, Showing the Latest Styles in Colored People's Hair. We are the largest importers and manufacturer of hair to stand combing and washing. Our prices are lower than the quoted elsewhere. We sell hair by the pound, also hair and hair products and all styles of hair. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed on money back. Send two cent or our beautiful catalog. Agente Wanted. . BOYS' AND GIRLS' CONTEST. The Planet Offers Many Prizes for the 'Bays and Girls. 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 vote 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 prices. 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. FOURTH PRIZE Hand Satchel, Automatic Toy or Engine. The winner of the fourth highest number of votes can choose any one of these prizes. FIFTH PRIZE Votes will be published in The PLANET. Votes may be obtained for each penny paid in subscriptions or job work or for PLANET's 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 19, 1914. All the above are wonderfully great productions, thrilling and sensational from start to finish. TREY 'O HEARTS Begins Sept. 14th. Coming Sept. 13th and 16th GHRMANIA, very latest European War Picture, in 5 reels. Coming. 22nd and 23rd. THE KAISER'S CHALLENGE, another big European War feature—right from the front. The Mechanics Savings Bank, North-West Cor. Third & Clay Streets. A woman sweeping the street. A woman writing at a desk. MADAM, how often you have COUNT in our bank! run down town during this fraternal dues or bills of some you start. Now, if you had a coin you could SAVE ALL THIS BOX THE NEW WAY MADAM, how often you have WISHED you had a CHECK ACCOUNT in our bank! Perhaps your husband has asked you to run down town during the day to pay his building and loan or his fraternal dues or bills of some kind. It RAINS HARD just when you start. Now, if you had a check account or your husband had one you could SAVE ALL THIS BOTHER. THE NEW WAY IS THE CHECK WAY! ```markdown ``` N, 537 BROOK AV The Vyver First Street, Rich d Night DAY SCHOOL oy, 9 a.m. to 2 th grade. St Every School Day, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Kindergarten to Eighth grade. Students prepared to teach. Classes in charge of the Franciscan Sisters,—715 North First Street. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Courses,—Stenography and Typewriting, Book-keeping, Dressmaking, Music, Automobiles The OLD WAY HENRY PECK'S COUSIN SALLY - - - By Gross THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. PEACE IN MEXICO NOW ASSURED Warring Factions Reach an Agreement NO DETAILS OF THE PACT Villa and Zapata Agree to Support Carranza, and it is Believed Stable Government is Assured. Peace throughout Mexico is the optimistic estimate of the situation in the republic expressed in a statement made public by the Constitutionallist agency in Washington. Even Emiliano Zapata, the incorrigible and irreconcilable leader of the rebel forces in southwestern Mexico has come into the fold. Generals Obregon and Villa have arranged a composition of the difficulties which recently arose in the state of Sonora and peace has been established among the warring factions. The Constitutionalist agency sums up the situation as follows: "Zapata's allegiance to the Constitutionalist government is of great moment. It means the end of all guerrilla warfare in southern Mexico and the institution of stable order and quiet in above greatly harrassed provinces. "The satisfactory settlement of the feud in Sonora between the follower of Governor Maytorena and Colonel Calles removes the possibility of the alteration growing into a war against the central government. He is now virtually established through the entire country." The message from Mexico City did not give any details of the agreement reached between Zapata and Carranzaz except that the former had pled himself to recognize the new government. It is known that Zapata has been fighting for years to obtain a Mexican reforms and it is thought that when he was convinced that Carranzaz was honestly determined to bring to same reforms to the people that he agreed readily to co-operate with him Zapata was in sympathy with Madero on this score, but reactionary influences succeeded in separating the two men. --- N. Y. Progressives Repudiate Sulzer The Progressives of Utica, New York, repudiated Sulzer cast of Hilman, renurrected the Armageddon spirit of two years ago and in the face of wild cries from a handful of Sulzer boomers that the primary law was being knifed and the party's goal profaned, nominated an all Pro- gressive ticket by "suggesting" that these men "announced their candid vies:" Governor, F. M. Davenport, Utica. Lieutenantgovernor, C. J. Hamlin Buffalo. United States senator, Bainbridge Colby, New York. Attorney general, Robert S. Udder Kings. Comptroller, John B. Burnham, Essex. Treasurer, Homon D. Call, Syracuse Secretary of state, Jeremiah H. Toomey, Mt. Vernon. State engineer, Leon Monself, New York. Court of appeals, Samuel Seabury New York. Long Session for Congress. Administration leaders now believe that congress will not adjourn before Nov. 1., at the earliest, and some of them are frank in saying that there will be no recess between the pres- ent congress and the following ses- sion, opening in December. Senator Kern, of Indiana major- ity, leader in the senate, asserted he would not be surprised if congress did HENRY WHO'S THAT TOO WHEN LOOKING YOUNG MOLLYCORDLE IN THERE WITH BILLY, I WONDER? DOMINO not adjourn until Now. / He said there was no basis whatsoever for believing that the senate and the house can leave Washington before that time. Although the trust legislation could be rushed if necessary, a large amount of legislation is necessitated by the war. Wayne. About Mt. Lassen That a close watch should be kept on Lassen peak was a warning given in San Francisco by professor J. S Diller, United States geologist, on his return from a visit to the California vocano. "The Lassen outbreak," he said, "is essentially volcanic, although no molten products have been found in connection with the eruptions. "Lassen may subside to its former quiescence, but we must, not forget that the blowing off of the top of old Vesuvius made mount Somme and the Vesuvius of today." Dynamite Wrecks Office The employment office of the Ana conda. Mining company at the Parrot mine in Butte, Mont, known to the miners as the "bustling office," was blown up with a terrific blast of dynamite that jarred all the buildings in Butte and rocked residences on the outskirts of the city. The structure was of brick and two stories high and one side was blown out and a great hole torn through the top. No one was killed as far as known but the aged night watchman is missing. The blast almost threw the city in to a panic and many persons rushed into the streets half dressed. The mining companies have issued an omcial warring to all the outsiders to keep away from the mines, the inference being that the properties were under guard ready to resist any attack. The national guard has been ordered out. Wilson Candidate For Second Term. President Wilson will be a candidate for a second presidential term. date for a second presidential term. Definite information that Mr. Wilson has expressed himself as believing it the duty of a chief executive to submit his administration to the people of the country so that they may express their approval or disapproval, became known from an authoritative source. It was before Mrs. Wilson's death that the president expressed himself to a friend on the subject of a second presidential term. Kicked to Death by Horse Charles Mayheffer, forty-five years old who resided in the year of 1416 N. Tenth street, Philadelphia, was fatally kicked by a horse at Second street and Girard. Mayheffer was trying to shoe the animal when it lashed out with its hoofs catching him under the chin. He died an hour later in the Roosevelt Hospital. Through Canal From 'Erlaco The first all-water voyage from San Francisco to New York by the way of the Panama canal was completed in New York upon the arrival of the Pleides, of the Luckenbach Steamship Company. The Pleides, which files an American flag, sailed from San Francisco on July 24, and passed through the canal August 16. The province of Ontario will make a contribution to imperial aid in the form of a quarter of a million bags of flour at a cost of $750,000. All Ontario millers will be given the privilege of contributing. England Denies Shooting, Spies Home Secretary McKenna said that no spies had been shot in England. There have been rumors that many in the secret employ of Germany had been executed. Relect Trust Jail Clause Senator Reed's motion to include a jail penalty in the "holding company" provision of the Chyton Trust bill, was defeated, 29 to 22, in the Senate. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; winter clear; $4.75@4.90; city mills; fancy; $6.75@7.7; RYE FLOUR firm, at $4.50@4.75 per bottle; WHEAT firm: No. 2 red; $1.09@ 1.14. FOULTRY: Live steady; hens, 17¢ 13¢; old roosters, 12¢f 13¢. Dressed arm; choice fowls, 20¢¢; old roosters, 13¢. BUTTER firm; fancy creamery, 34¢. EGGS steady; selected, 33¢ @ 35¢; nearby, 30¢.; western, 30¢. PECK'S GOOH! ALL IT NEEDS IS A SKIRT AND A WIG' GEE WANT A BIGSY! I The image provided is too blurry and pixelated to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a grayscale image with a silhouette of a person. Due to the low resolution, no text can be clearly read. Death Dealing Airshipeginning its Flight. THE TOWER An Ancient Leg of Mutton. There is a genuine antique leg of mutton to be seen in Bourne, in Lincolnshire. More than half a century ago a visitor called at a butcher's shop there and purchased a leg of mutton, saying he would take it away later. But the customer never returned, and year after year the joint has awaited him until, hanging from one of the rafters of the quality old shop, it has become one of the fixtures and has passed with the business from one proprietor to another. During the more than fifty years of waiting for its purchaser the leg has withered away and is now shrunk to the semblance of a club of knotted wood.—London Tutter. IF YOU HAVE A HOUSE TO RENT ADVERTISE COUSIN SALL OH! VES OSWALD, MY FATHER'S JUST CRAZY. ABOUT BASEBALL 1222Y> STARTLED HIS HOSTESS. One of Eugene Field's Practical Jokes in Two Acts. There are many stories incident to the career of the late Eugene Field, who not only wrote songs for the children, but who was at times fond of practical jokes, which illustrate his inimitable humor. On one occasion he played an unexpected part at a dinner given in honor of himself and his wife which, while it had its serious side, was made all the more enjoyable by the grave deportment of Mr. Field. The dinner was given by a leading Chicago family. When all were seated Mr., Field required to the pantry, only to return in a few moments with a dozen or more costly gold embroidered wineglasses, the property of the hostess, which to her silent unison- C. A. M. DRO PAD RT M THE PL OR ment, he proceeded to hand over to each guest one by one, a souvenir of the occasion. Great was the merriment when it was realized that the hostess had not contemplated parting with her cher- ished glasses. But Sir Fleet was not MITT ME, KIDDO: GAL'S JUST BEEN TELL IN ME YOU'RE A REGULAR GUY. DIDN'T THINK IT WAS IN YA! STOP THIEF! A Great Story Novelized From a Great Play Full of Snap and Go and a Thousand Laughs OUR NEXT SERIAL Watch For the First Install- Yel content. Returning them to the pantry by previous arrangement with the butler, he took up a tray of old bottles and other broken glassware and, pretending to stumble, dropped it on the floor, apparently shattering the valuable wineglasses. The feelings of the hostess may be imagined, for it was some time before the real situation was understood. Home Happiness A few more smiles of silent sympathy. a few more tender words, a little more restraint on temper, may make all the difference between happiness and half happiness to those with whom you live. His Own Was Too Much. The late Sir John Antley, affectionately remembered as "The Mate," was, now many years ago, standing for parliament. A tiresome "heckler" asked film, says the New Witness, what he thought of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's wine and spirits bill. "What do I think of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's wine and spirits bill?" cried indignant Sir John. "I don't think of it at all. That's his affair, not yours or mine. I can tell you if you like that my own last year was a jolly sight too big." Live Stock Prices. CHICAGO—HOGS strong; bulk of sales, $8.95@9.35; light, $9.95@9.55; mix- ed, $8.80@9.55; heavy, $8.65@9.55; rough, $8.80@8.80; pixa, $5.50@8.50. CATTLE steady; beeves, $6.70@ 10.90; steers, $6.35@9.35; stockers and feeders, $6.50@8.15; cowboys and heifers, $6.00@8.15; sheep, $4.70@5.50. SHEEP steady; sheep, $4.70@5.50; oarlings, $5.40@6.65; lambs, $5.75@ 7.75. 1914 SEPTEMBER 1914 S M T W T F S 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 The Better Way "That bathing suit of yours is cut rather low." "Can't help it. I want to get tanned this summer low enough to meet my evening gowns."—Kansas City Journal. A ment WHY WILLIE QUIT THE JOB His Part in the Making of a Cherry Pie Much Too Strenuous. WILLIE had resigned his position in the big bakery, where he labored in the pie department, and had gone to work in a carpenter's shop for smaller wages. The social investigator, having heard about Willie, questioned him. /"Aren't you sorry you left the bakery and come to this shop?" she asked kindly. "No, I'm." Willie answered quickly. "But you get less money." "Yes, I'm." "Well, what was the matter with the bakery?" " "Twuz this way," explained Willie. "It hurt my mouth." I wuz in de ple part, de cherry ple' part, an' I had to stone cherries. An' day've got a rule over there' dat all de boys has to whistle all de time dey's workin', so as to show dey ain't outlin no cherries." —Popular Magazine. Fun Ahead For Hubby "Have you any smokeless powder here?" she inquired as she made her blushing way to the cigar counter in the drug store. "No," replied the polite cigar clerk, "we don't keep smokeless powder here." "Oh dear! that's too bad." Do you know where I could get some? "At a gun store perhaps, but would you mind telling me what you want it for?" "I want to mix it with my husband's tobacco so he won't smoke up the house with that old pipe of his," she replied, with the air of one who had solved a great problem. -- Springfield Union So Happily Married. "You know, George, this is my birthday," said the wife. "Oh, is it, dear?" "Yes, and do you know, I never can remember how old I am." "Well, dear, when we were married you know you were just twenty-eight." "Oh, yes, so I was, George. That's near enough." "Precisely, dear. It doesn't really seem any time at all since we were married." Yousters Stateman. A. Comprensae. "Well, Geraldine," said the theatre manager, "what do you want now?" "Now is right!" answered the actress "I want a raise, and now is when." "Aw, now look here, Jerry," soothed the boss. "I'm willing to meet you half way. How'd it be if I'd raise you an other hundred a week in the press stories and only reduce your real pay $2,500 instead of $5? - Cleveland Plain Dealer." Asking Too Much Vear You Know. Thomas, you not the younger man of the parish, a bad example by going into public houses on Sunday. Why don't you take your gallon of beer home on Saturday nights? Thomas Ayser. A couldna gang't sleep wi a gallon of beer in the house - London Tatter Squire--What, johns the great ma- jority? Mrs. A. Oh, no, str. She was a good enough woman as far as I know. London Opinion. A Benham- Opportunity knocks once at every man's door. Mrs. Benham- There you are-nec show for the poor woman!-Chicago News. Tommy's idea of Encouragement. Mother-And you say this little girl played the violin, Tommie? Tommie-Yes, manma. FIVE mmu; nobody passed around Xonkers Stateman. "Don't you think the acoustic property of the restaurant are about perfect?" asked the proprietor. "Why, yes," replied the diner. "You can hear people taking their soup in any part of it."—Yonkers Statesman. use For Alarm. He-They say after marriage the husband and wife grow to look like each other. She-Then consider my refusal final- -Yale Record. Keep Salt on Hand. Racon-I are according to a Munich doctor heat prostrations are directly due to the reduction by the high temperature of the salts in the body to a point below the required normal. Egbert-One should never get too fresh.-Yonkers Statesman. No Doubt. "They say that parting is such sweet sorrow. I wonder who originated that saying? "Some wretch whose wife was going to the country for the summer. I have no doubt."—Louisville Courier-Journal. The Greedier Man Author a Snagging Wife—I wish you got a dollar for every word you write. Irritated Author—I wish I got half a cent for every word you speak—Judge Girl With the Green Hair. My sweetheart is a charming girl, In face a perfect queen. Her heart is fool, her eyes are bright Her lips are red, her teeth are white, But, oh, her hair is green! Her sildenafil sprinttime gift of hair Effects my summer cure Mint juleps foliage, swimming pools And every thought thatothes and cooos ... Vibrates from her collure! And so, though many people shriek With "Turt" and "Blow" and "Flesh" A colorful wist, though trifly raves The sound of waves In deep sea peace in my light laves And how it tarts the curt! Barber a man of strength. "I suppose that most people," said a barber, "would consider plying the shears and razor as comparatively easy work; they would not expect to find barbers men of muscle. "The fact is that standing all day and even in the easier parts of his work using his arms all day in various positions the barber keeps his muscles in constant exercise, while in such operations as shampooing and massage he is called upon for the exertion of downright strength. "He may not have the muscle of a man always in strict training, but I think you would find that, as a rule, the barber is no weakling."—New York Sun. Not Much of It. She-What did you think of Mrs. B's ball gown? He-She must be a great economist-Vermont Crabbe. WANTED—A RELIGIOUS LADY, with moral principles, that will take charge of everything as her own. I have a good home. My house is brick, a story and a half high and uses all natural gas. For any information apply to REV. C. THOMPSON, Hondeau. Ont., Can. Something New. Readers of The Richmond PLANET can always find copies of the paper on sale. Subscriptions and advertisements and local news are taken at office rates. THE STANDARD NEWS CO., Chas. Gary, President and General Manager, 131 W. 53rd St., New York. FREE CATALOGUE NEW STYLES We manufacture all the Latest Styles of Crooks Hair Goods, Electric Combs Raw Hair, Etc. We are the largest Hair Dealers, and show a in Denters, and show a larger variety of styles, and sell more Fine Creole Wife than any other major manufacturers in the United States. Write for New Catalogue. It is FREE larger variety of styles and sell more Fine Creations Wigs than any other man structurers in the United States. Write for New Catalogue. It is FREE AGENTS WANTED Sam Willer Human Hair Goods Co. P. O. Box 298 SHREVEPORT, LA --Subscribe to The PLANET. Things We Never See A BOARD-WALK GERMANY'S ARMY AND NAVY. MAN ARMY ALWAYS READY Most Powerful of World's Land Fighting Machines. AUSER IS SUPREME CHIEF. ```markdown ``` Who Right Hand-Man, Field Marshal von Moltkau, Chief of Staff, in Nephew of Famous Strategist Who Planned Successful Franço-Proustian War, Field Force, First Line of Battle, Consists of 1250,000 Men-Staff Officers All Specialists in Warfare. Some of the Leading Generals. REATEST in organization, drill and preparedness for war and probably in the number of men immediately ready for active field service, as well as in leadership, and second only to the Russian army in point of size, the army of the German empire is the world's most powerful land fighting machine. Military experts assert that even divided, with one-half concentrated against Russia and the other half sent against France, the kaiser's army is able to overwhelm any force that could be brought to oppose its advance. The first report of the declaration by the kaiser of a state of war in Germany brought forth many predictions of a repetition of the war of 1870-1, when Germany's forces almost literally walked over those of France. Then, as now, preparedness for active war was accounted the prime factor in the situation. There is no reason to think that the present Von Moltke, chief of staff of the German army and nephew of the famous field marshal, is inferior to his predecessor and namesake. The old Von Moltke had all his plans for the invasion of France contained in a single drawer of his desk. The present day Von Moltke has been working for many years on methods of invading France and Russia. Germany has prepared itself against war with France since 1871. In 1875 such a war was averted by the narrowest of margins. Since then Germany has striven with might and main to perfect her military power to a degree unknown until the genius of Moltke made Germany a national unit. The frontier between Germany and Russia, which both nations have fortified at short intervals, covers 843 miles. The various fortresses are connected with each other by underground telegraph and telephone, while strategic military railroads lead to the principal military centers in the interior. German a Born Soldier The German is a soldier of the highest type—born a soldier, nurtured as one—developed to the highest degree of efficiency. The German army consists of the first line, landwehr and landsturm, the last a home defense reserve. Two restraints of infantry, six battalions, form ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL VON MOLTEK, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE GERMAN ARMY. a brigade; two brigades in a division and two divisions in an army corps. In war all corps will be constituted of thirty-six battalions. To each infantry division is attached an artillery brigade (twelve batteries) and a regiment of cavalry (four squadrons); to each army corps four batteries of howitzers, a battalion of rifles and an engineer battalion. The war strength of a complete division of two brigades is about 14,000 and of an army corps of two divisions 30,000. There are altogether twenty-five army corps of two divisions each. There is only one permanent cavalry division—that of the guard—but in war eight divisions are formed from the nine regiments. The normal strength of a cavalry division is three brigades of two regiments each, with three batteries of before artillery, in all twenty-four squadrons of twelve guns. Total Field Army of 1,000,000. The total of the field army is 1,000,000, to which must be added the mobile landwehr of 600,000. In addition it is estimated that there are at least 1,000,000 trained men to supply wagons of war. The landsturm is not included. OVER Photo by American Press Association GERMAN UHLANS. ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY. ed in this number. The peace footing is 30,304 officers and 75,491 men. in the number. The place record is 30,504 officers and 754,041 men. The army is armed with Mauser magazines rifles and the cavalry with Mauser carbines. The field and horse artillery have Krupp guns, being a fifteen pound shell. There are seventeen aeroplane companies, with 173 officers and 4,440 men. The intended employment of the reserve troops in war has not been divulged by the German general staff, but the plans show that most of the two brigade divisions will be augmented by a reserve brigade in war and that all army corps in the German army can take the field with six brigades, the artillery being increased proportionately by reserve regiments. To each infantry division is attached in war an artillery brigade of twelve batteries. There are eighteen cyclist companies in the German army. The German field batteries are equipped with six guns each, and the horse batteries have four guns each. Pruskin, with Baden and House, is divided into sixteen military districts, each of which furnishes a complete army corps. There is also a Pruskan guard corps drawn from the whole Photo by American Press Association GERMAN UHLANS, ARTIL kingdom. Baxony, Wurttemberg and Reichsalz furnish fire army corps. In the German army are 217 regiments of infantry containing 471,706 men, 110 regiments of cavalry with 82,097 men, 100 regiments of field artillery with 86,000 men and 24 regiments of foot artillery with 33,000 men. The German army uses 157,000 horses, of which over 80,000 are for the cavalry alone. Take Lessons From Napoleon. In January, 1914, the German war office ordered a translation to be prepared of "Preceptes et Jugments de Napoleon," collected and classified by Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Picard of the French army. Thus after thirty-four years, the Germans seem to have taken the advice of Von Moltke to study the campaigns of Napoleon. But this is not all. As everybody knows, Napoleon's favorite arm was artillery, and in that arm there are to be widespread reforms and reorganization, particularly with the object of obtaining the greatest mobility, if not interrupted by war. Eleven divisions of artillery have been changed from "riding" batteries to "driven" batteries. That is the official description of the change, which—officially again—was defended on the ground that there would be a large saving in men and horses without any proportionate loss in fighting force, since it was practically useless to have the riding batteries unless they were always working in collaboration with cavalry, and for this purpose there were already enough. The most important part of the change, however, lies in the fact that the batteries are now only four guns each in place of the regular German six. This meaples a striking vindication of the French artillery principles, such as were proposed by General Langlois, and no doubt the teachings of the Balkan wars have had something to do with the innovation. Hitherto the German critics have criticized the French four gun battery on the ground, that, if more mobile, it was for less forceful. Now, however, artillery experts here have come around to quite another point of view. One of the most experienced reported the other day that the smaller batteries were both easier and quicker to handle on the march, and far easier to bring into action. Positions useful for a four gun battery were twice as easy to find, and they were generally far better than those for a six gun battery. The principle is now so generally be captured and approved that the idea of adopting it for the whole army is being actionally discussed. The 163 grunts of each army corps would then become thirty-six batteries in place of the present twenty-four. For the time being this plan was vetoed. The chief reason against the change was the effect it would have on the line of march, as it would lengthen out the march column very considerably. The tactical value of the four gun battery in the field was not disputed. Another artillery reform which was not by any means clearly indicated in the new military law was the great increase of howitzer. Some of the riding batteries have been quietly changed into howitzer batteries, and now where every army corps had its complement of howitzer every division possesses the same force. The howitzer, indeed, in the opinion of many German critics, is "the weapon of the future." The Spirit of the Army. It is a super eight to see a German manifern on parade drill, perfect in equipment to the uttermost button, and Fritz in the ranks apprehenses it and cruises in it as well as the field marshal or even the sub-lieutenant MILLEY AND INFANTRY. But if Fritz is locked in jail for a week or two because a single button on the coat appeared to the eye of Baron von Martinet to be not absolutely free from tarnish by the acid test why, then, the other Fritzes frown behind their placid masks and welcome the propaganda of democracy. It must be borne in mind that as the social democracy is the most numerous of all the political parties in the empire so the great majority of that party consists of men who have served their time with the colors under the conscription law. That fact gives added force to the popular disapproval of military abuses. It is not the army, per se, to which even radical social democrats object so much as to the tyrannous exaggerations of the spirit of military cause. There is arising a demand that the army shall be considered, and shall consider itself, a part of the citizen body of the nation, amenable in time of peace like all the rest to the common civil law. But in time of war all other considerations are overthrown. Kaiser the Supreme General. Kaiser the Supreme General. Emperor William is of course generalissimo of the German armies, both of the kingdom of Prussia, of which he is king, and of the other kingdoms, duches and principalities making up the German empire. With him are associated as leaders of their armies the kings of Saxony, Wurtemberg, Bavaria, etc., all of whom are trained soldiers. The heads of the other smaller German states are also military men and for the most part capable leaders of the forces of their states: Next to Emperor William comes the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Count Helmuth von Moltke, nephew of the famous Von Moltke, who was accounted the greatest strategist of the nineteenth century save only Napoleon Bonaparte. Count von Haeuser holds the rank of field marshal general, the highest in the German or any other army. Other officers high in rank are Generals Von Goltz, 'Von Lindequist, Von Pleisen, 'Von Kessel, Von Born, Von Browow, Von Scholl and von Prittwitz—all these in addition to the numerous royalties, Prussian and non-Prussian, who hold high rank in the German army. In some cases the titles of these last named are purely honorary and they cannot be called upon for active field service, but in others as has been stated, the royalties are trained soldiers and able to give good accounts of themselves as masters of large bodies of fighting men. War always finds them in the forefront of the German forces. --- Kaiser's Greatest Fighting Craft Companion to Monsters of British and American Sea Forces—They Carry Fifteen Inch Guns, Like English Vessels Built About Same Time—Five Big Shipe Launched in 1918, of Which Four Are Now in Commission. THE German navy is a most important factor in the present European immigroli. The aggressive militant policy of Kaiser Wilhelm has resulted in the creation of a fleet of armed ships almost riveting the British navy in strength and which safely secures the empire in second place as to naval strength among the world's powers. Britain ranks first, the United States third, France fourth, Japan fifth, Russia sixth. Italy seventh and Austria eighth. Great Britain and Germany have been competing with each other in building new fighting ships of the Dreadnought type, and the latter country has been steadily drawing closer to her rival in marine armament. Germany has now seventeen warships of 18,000 tons or over, with two more huge battleships in course of construction. Her latest son monster, the K. I. has a displacement of 30,000 tons and carries a main battery of ten eleven-inch guns. Her secondary battery consists of twelve guns of the 5.9 inch ere. The Naval List The number and displacement of German warships of 1,500 or more tons and of terpedo craft of fifty or more tons, built and building, are as follows: Direndoughts (battleships having a main battery of all big guns; that is, 14 or more inches in caliber), built, 13, of a total of 255,670 tons; building, 6, of a total of 162,300 tons. Pre-Direndoughts (battleships of about 10,000 or more tons, whose main batteries are of more than 1 caliber), bulk, 20, of a total of 242,800 tons; building, none. Coasting defense vessels (including smaller battleships and monitors), built, 2, of a total of 8,168 tons; building, none. Battle cruisers (armored cruisers having guns of largest caliber in main battery and capable of taking their place in line of battle with the battleships, built, 4, of a total of 88,074 tons; building, 3, of a total of 84,000 tons. Armored cruisers, built, 9, of a total of 94,245 tons; building, none. Cruisers (armored warships of 1,500 or more tons), built, 40, of a total of 145,847 tons; building, 4, of a total of 21,836 tons. Torpedo boat destroyers, built, 180, of a total of 67,004 tons; building, 12, of a total of 7,200 tons. Torpedo boats, none built or building. Submarines, built, 24, of a total of 10,540 tons; building, 12, of a total of 9,484 tons. Total tonnage, built, 948,388; building, 248,870. Officers and Men. The officers and men number about 74,000, including 2 admirals of the fleet, 5 admirals, 11 vice admirals, 22 rear admirals, 350 captains and commanders and 1,881 other line officers. Of the thirteen Dreadnoughts built two were completed in 1908, two in FRANCE HENRY, CHIEF ADMIRAL OF THE GERMAN HAVL. 1910, three in 1911, three in 1912 and three in 1913. Those completed in 1913 are the Kaiserst, Konig Albert and Prinz Regent Luitpalt: Those ships like the Haiser, finished in 1912 carry a main battery of ten twelve-inch guns all of which may be fired on either broadside. Of the six Dreadnoughts building three were launched in 1913, the Konig on March 1 at the imperial yard, Wilhelmhaven; the Grosse Kürfürst on May 5 at Hamburg and the Markgrat on June 4 at Bremen. Of the battle cruisers built one, the Seydlitz, was completed for service in October, 1918. Of the three building the Delfiner was launched at Hamburg on July 1, 1912. Germany has held that the aircraft and twelve inch Krupp guns were equal to the English 12.5 inch and fourteen inch gun of the same date for all practical battle purposes. After Man Photo by American Press Association. BATTLESHIP POSEM, GERMAN SAILORS AND DREADMOUGH land adopted the fifteen inch gun German was forced to take the same step and decided to give the two German battleships of the year 1918 the same armament as that of the five British ships of the year 1912—that is, eight fifteen-inch and sixteen six-inch. The torpedo armament of the latest ships consisted of twenty inch torpedo tubes. New Construction Five big warships were launched in 1913 (Kongk, Grosseer Kurfurte, Markgraf, Lutswon and Derfflinger), and four were commissioned (Kongk Albert, Prinzip Luitpelt, Kaiserin and Seydlitz). The protected cruiser Grandens (5,500 tons) was launched and the protected cruisers Karikurte and Rostok (4,000 tons) completed. The 1914 budget provides for twelve more torpedo boats. There are twenty-seven submarines completed and several building, one of them at the Fiat San Giorgio works, Spania, and the 1914 budget provided 10,000,000 marks for submarine construction. All the new protected cruisers have a four inch armor belt and a designed speed of not less than twenty-seven knots. It is stated that those of the current program have a main battery of improved 5.9 inch guns and a coal capacity of about 1,500 tons. The displacement of the latest submarines averaged about 800 tons, with a surface speed of sixteen knots. The twelve destroyers of the 1912 Photo by American Press Association. BATTLESHIF POSEN, GERMAN S. KAISERI program (513, 524) were completed in 1913. Twelve more are now building. The standard contract speed seemed to be fixed at 32.5 knots. Six torpedo tubes and two 3.4 inch guns will represent the new armament of these craft. Germany on "the Wave." It is a curious fact that the navy which is rapidly coming to rank as the most-powerful in the world, after Great Britain's, is an untrained quantity. Unlike the vessels and personnel of our own navy and that of most of the European powers, the German navy has never tried its new found strength. Its officers and men have never faced an enemy, and the ponderous guns that bear down its cruisers and battleships have never been trained upon anything save targets. The whole history of Germany is singularly barren of naval battles, and stories of naval heroes, especially when we compare it with the history of England and the United States. Germany has no Jones or Nelson. Despite its long coastline, it has fought its great battles and won its great victories with land forces. For centuries the army, has been the backbone of Prussia and the backbone of every German schoolboy. Such few armed vessels as Prussia had were governed from the war office, under the direction of army officers. The first imperial minister of the German navy, appointed after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war, grasst an army general, and it was not until 1807 that the appointment of Admiral Trippis placed at the head of the German navy a man who had been bred a seaman. Thus the events of the last decade, most which have placed Germany ahead of boast all its rivals, may one, in the matter of naval equipment, represent some thing of a revolution in German history and policy. It is only a little long over fourteen years ago that Emperor new William uttered the words which to me crystallized the new doctrine: "Unfurnished Zakim fleet and dem Wannert" (Our future lies upon the water"). They were inscribed over the water. entrance of Germany's handsome pavilion at the Paris fair of 1900, and served notice to the world that Germany had entered upon a new epoch in her development. Her expanding colonial ambitions and the unprecedented scale of naval expenditures with which she is backing them up indicate that she takes these new ambitions very seriously. The Kaiser's One Ambition. But it is not alone jingoism that has urged the present policy. There is a well justified feeling in Germany that she has, carried intensive cultivation in industry, as well as in agriculture to the point of diminishing returns and that henceforth she must look to her colonies and to her foreign trade to assure her continued commercial prosperity. This belief, which is shared by some of Germany's shrewd statesmen and scientists, has led to the formation of the Fluttenversoh, which has done such remarkable work in popularizing the navy and secure public support for the naval budget. This verenl issues a magazine, publishes books, conducts a press bureau, organizes meetings, engages speakers, does everything that one of the big parties does in this country during a presidential campaign, with the sole view of helping the growth to power and efficiency of the German navy. It is headed by men of the highest standing, and its unselfish devotion has N SAILORS AND DREADHOUGHT SERIN. served as a mighty stimulus to German ambition and German patriot A Great See Power. From the moment he came to the throne the German navy has been the kaiser's constant preoccupation. He has as deliberately set himself to make Germany a great se power as did his grandfather and Blasmarck to the blubing up of the Prussian army. Captain Mahan's dictum that "no modern state has long maintained a supremacy by land and by sea" has no terrors for him. He has hastened on the growth of the navy with the deftness of the most astute electoronoming agent. Hardly anything happens anywhere that he cannot convert into an argument for more ships. Now it is the striking expansion of German commerce that is made to serve as an excuse. Now it is the growth of German shipping, which has more than doubled its tonnage and quadruped its carrying power in the last twenty years, easily outdistancing the mercantile marine of France and the United States. Whatever it may be, the kaiser fastens upon it with admirable smartness as a handle to be used in crushing the Socialists to a new navy bill. German "Jackie" at Drill. A spectacle full of interest even to laymen may often be witnessed in Kiel or in the vicinity of any of the naval stations of the Baltic, both during the buoy preparations before landing and at the maneuvers on terra firma. Every detail is conducted with scrupulous precision, especially the actious previous to the regimental movements—I.e. the manning of the boats, the drill on the water and the disembarkation. The paraphernalia of a modern warship requires too intricate and technological a description for the average newspaper reader. Let it suffice here to note that all the German vessels are furnished with the most approved appliances and with all that twentieth century science has thus far adduced to increase their efficiency and strength. Scrap Book Suggested on Senate No. If the kingishman has dug record corresponding regarding the "witnesses" of the lives the floor has himself to blame, for he cannot be delighted in not- ning more than plaining faint at this al- leged characteristic of his race or, at any rate, at a canny quality which is often confused with mechness. Sergeant Sandy Lawrence, a ballist of the historic burgh of Dumbarton, tells an amusing story of the time when he won the queen's prize in 1882. Sandy expected that his £30 would be presented two days later, along with the other prizes, by the Duchess of Teck and received with surprise the advice that he should proceed forth- with to the cashier. He went, and, finding he had to deal with a genial old compatriot, he inquired why he was not to receive his money from the hands of her royal highness. "They used to do that," said Sandy. "Why don't they do it now?" A twinkle came into the old man's eyes as he replied: "Successful Scobben used to stop and count it." Pearson's. Fate. The sky is clouded, the rocks are bare. The spray of the tempest is white in air, The winds are out with the waves at play, And I shall not tempt the sea today. The trail is narrow, the wood is dim It is like a silo to the Lion's whelps are abroad at play, And I shall not join in the chase today. But the船 sailed safely over the sea. And the hunters came from the chase in glee. And the town that was built upon a rock. Was followed up in an earthquake shock. The Railey Drive The late Pete Dalley, whose memory is still green wherever theatrical people gather, was a great hand for staying up late. He never went to bed as long as there was anywhere else to go. In the soft dawn of a June morning he emerged from an all night cafe on lower Broadway and climbed into a handson, filling it to overflowing, for he was a very large man. "Where do you want to go, Mr. Dalley?" Inquired the cabby. All Broadway cabbies knew the big comedian. "Anywhere," murmured Dalley drolally. Then an idea struck him. "Drive me to the Polo grounds," he said. The cab jogged north, bound for the ball park, six miles away. An hour later the driver halted his horse outside a high board fence, climbed down from his perch and shook his ulbering fare by the elbow. "Here we are," he said. "Where?" Inquired Dalley, half opening one eye. "At the Polo grounds. Where'll I drive you now?" "Drive me round the barns," said Dalley, and went back to sleep.—Saturday Evening Post. Their First Meeting: Mr. Harry Furmis tells a funny story, of a high legal dignitary, who when solicitor general, had to appear before Queen Victoria to receive the honor of knighthood. "What am I to do?" he asked nervously of the official at the door. "Kneel, kneel!" Suiting the action to the word, he immediately fell on his knees, and, like the funny man at a child's tea party, propelled himself along the door on his knees. Her late majesty was overcome by laughter, all the more as when she retreated "the little man followed." And yet the little man rose to the highest post in his profession, and stood by her majesty's side as lord chancellor of England to read her address to the house of lords.—London Globe. A Real Jolly Evening. A study of Robert May's "Accomplish Cook," published in 1865, will serve to dispel the delusion fostered by many foreign critics that English cookery lacks variety. One of May's recipes is for the construction of a ship of confectionery, with guns charged with actual powder, and a castle of plas, containing live frogs and birds. After giving directions as to the tiring of the guns, he proceeds: This done, to sweeten the stench of the powder let the ladies take the eggshell full of sweet waters and throw them at each other. All danger being seemingly, over, by this time you may suppose they will desire to see what is in the pyes; when, lifting first, the lid off one pye, out skip some frogs, which makes the ladies to skip and shriek; next after the other pye, whence come out the birds, who, by a natural instinct, flying in the light will put out the candies; so that, what with the flying birds and skipping frogs, the one above, the other beneath, will cause much delight and pleasure to the whole company." Klem Had the Correct Dose Klem Had the Correct Dope. Here is a good yarn concerning an incident of the Glastus White Sox tour around the world. Umpire Klem was judging a game at Sydney, N. S. W., and Sam Crawford was at bat when a fast ball cut low across the plate. "Strike one." sang out the indicator holder. "That was below my knees," said Sam with spirit. "No," replied Klem, "your knees didn't come up when you were sacking; you only imagine they did."—Lakela. Big Oitch Gee Hold Float Big Oitch Can Hold Fist. The entire United Sea Fleet beck including the heaviest dreadnoughts, will be able to pass through the Panama Canal by the middle of September April by the ship in St Eugnest, director of the Panama Union upon his arrival in New York from Panama. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5. 1914. BROOKLYN LABERNACLE BROOKLYN STUDY ON THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS. Mark. 12:28-44. Sept. 6. "Then shall love the Lord the God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as behold."—Luke 12:31. N the question day when the Doctors of Divinity sought to entrap our Lord many questions were asked. A week ago N the question day when the Doctors of Divinity sought to entrap our Lord may questions were asked. A week ago we considered one. The final question constitutes today's Study. A Scribe, a man of more than average education, had heard the various questions propounded and had perceived how well our Lord had answered them. Then he assayed a question—quite probably with all sincerity, and not with a view to entrap Jesus. He asked, "Which is the chief commandment of all?"—doubtless referring to the Decalogue. Jesus replied that the first, the chief, of all the commandments is, "Hear, O or all the command Israeet; The Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shall love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; this is the chief commandment." A Our Lord here made a quotation from the Old Testament. (Deuteronomy 6:4, 5) How wonderfully comprehensive the statement! Who today, centuries afterward, could more completely epitomize the great truth of this text? Heavenly Wisdom is manifested both in the first statement and in our Lord's reference to it. He added nothing because nothing could be added. In times gone by, we were told that the Almighty God of the Universe had a great hell of torture prepared from before man's creation, in which He purposed that the great majority of humanity should be eternally tormented. But that was in the creeds. The Bible stands out distinctly separate from all human creeds and apparitions, and tells us that God is Love, that He is the Father of Light and Mercy, from whom cometh every good and perfect gift—James 1:17. The Second Commandment. Proceeding beyond the question, Jesus declared that the second commandment stands related to the first; namely, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Again we stand astonished. No other religion than that of the Bible reveals such a God of mercy and compassion, as manifested by His loving provision for the welfare of His creatures. No other religion suggests so high a standard of dealing with our fellow men. This Law, of God, now nearly four thousand years old, was probably made more or less known through the Jews to other nations and peoples (Denatemethon 4.6-8), but none of them grasped its true import. The closest approach to this sentiment is probably found in the writings of Confacius, to the effect that one should not do to others what he would not have others do to him. But oh, what a contrast! One is merely a negative statement; the other is positive—Thou shalt leave thy neighbor as thyself." The Scribe was impressed, and conceived the truth of Jesus' reply. The Master said to him, "Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God." By this Jesus meant that the Scribe was very near to the point where he might become a disciple—one of those waiting for the Kingdom. It was such "Israelites indeed," in whom was no guille, that Jesus especially sought to gather from amongst the Jewish people, preparatory to throwing open to the Gentiles the door of Kingdom privileges. The Jews understood that at Messiah's coming He would select a Kingdom class, to which would be granted Divine power. This was just what Jesus was doing. His words, His teachings, were drawing some and repelling others. "Bed Leakth on the Heart." The Temple at Jerusalem was still new, and money was needed for its maintenance, etc. The people were privileged to contribute, and apparently did so with willing hearts, casting their contributions into the treasure boxes of the Temple, which stood near its doorway. Jesus was sitting opposite these boxes, and noted how all classes contributed. A There came along a poor widow, who put into the box two mites—each worth about one-eighth of a cent. Probably by Divine power Jesus knew of her circumstances and her gift. He made it a test for a little sermon to the Apothecary. He declared that she had made a larger contribution in God's sight than had any one else; for practically she had cast in all she had, while others had merely contributed out of their abundance what they would perage not certainly miss. This little incident shows the Lord's supplication of mercy. It is not the great things that we do, or attempt to do, that he highly付诸. The very small medicines and self-diminishing in the world's night would be nothing, in the Master's night would be great if they denote love, devotion and self-memory to the Lord and God. Omnipotent is it of just such self-encumbering mate, that the Lord makes disciples—the ones that do what they can. He Is Strong on All the Big Political Questions. MRS. B. WOEFULLY IGNORANT At Least He So Assumes and Cender-scordingly Offers the Benefit of His Superior Knowledge—But Mrs. B Again Knecks His Consent Sky High By M..QUAD. [Copyright, 1914, by Associated Literary Press.] MRS. BOWSER drew a long breath. She knew it was coming. She knew it was coming. Even the cat got up and turned around seven times before lying down again. Mr. Bowser had smoked only half his after dinner cigar when he began to hitch around in a way to prove to Mrs. Bowser that he had something on his mind. She waited for him to begin, and presently he said: "Mrs. Bowser, I want to say a few words to you this evening in good nature, and it will be entirely your fault if there is any hard feeling." "Well, what is it?" she asked. "I don't like a mannish woman, as you very well know, and all this talk about woman's rights makes me very tired. I believe, however, that a woman should pay attention to some few things beyond bargain sales and test parties." "You are very kind," she answered. "I would like to know what is going on in the political world. What are the issues at stake this year?" "The issue, Mrs. Bowner," he replied as he wilted around—the issues are BARBARA "I DON'T LIKE A MANNISH WOMAN." mendous. There is our foreign policy, for one thing." "Just what is that?" "What is it? What is it? Why it's our foreign policy, of course. You know what foreign means, I suppose? We have a policy toward all foreign countries, and it's a mighty good thing we have." "But what is the policy?" Mr. Beaver Flabbermasted. Mr. Bowser was stumped. He fushed up and looked around unceasing, and when the family cat came over to him and wanted to rub against his leg he lifted his foot so menacingly that she jumped six feet. "It refers, of course, to our general and particular attitude on general and particular questions," said Mrs. Bowser in answer to her own question. "There is the Philippine question, for instance." "What—what do you know about the Philippine question?" he asked. "Not much. There are those who claim that under the Monroe doctrine we have no right to hold the islands, but others are with the president in his policy to retain possession. You understand it that way, I presume." He didn't reply. He simply glared at her and kicked himself for having opened the subject. "And we have a Chinese policy," she went on. "We have treaty rights there, and we are bound to make Russia, France, Germany and England respect them in their grabbing of territory. Yes, Mr. Bower, I think I have a dim perception as to what a foreign policy means, but I'd be glad to have you enlighten me all you can." In an Embarrassing Position. He stood with his hands crossed under his coatalls and glared at her, and the cat walked around on tiptoe and scented a family row in the distance. "What are the other prominent issues, Mr. Bower?" queried Mrs. Bower without appearing to notice his embarrassment. "You have heard of the currency question, perhaps?" he half sneered. "I-I think I have, but I'd like to be fully posted. Isn't our currency all right?" "They may revive the silver question again, but I don't think we need do any worrying. We will pass on to something else." "But I have heard so much about the currency that I'd like to know more," she protested. "I said we would pass on," he growled, knowing that he wasn't posted and would meet with a fall. "In a minute, Mr. Bowner. As I understand it, in our monetary system we have so much silver to so much gold. A portion of the people want to raise the ratio of silver, or, indeed, to coin it almost without limit. There are called free silver men." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Men Admire Women with Beautiful Hair! NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING will make you proud of your hair It is unsurpassed for making hair, kinky and stubborn hair—soft, glossy and luxurious. It not only beautifies the hair—but also keeps it in good condition. 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Do you listen and get posted or do you interrupt me with someone?" "Well, then, go ahead with other issues. Don't you think this country was overreached in the Hay-Panuncio-tote treaty regarding the Panama canal?" "Treaty? Treaty? I never heard of my treaty." "But you must have" "And you have been reading treaties when, you should have been overlooking the housel." "Can't you overlook your office and do the same thing? We wanted a canal to connect the Caribbean sea with the Pacific and save us the long voyage around Cape Horn. We wanted it to be an American canal and to control it ourselves. England for one would like it to be an international affair. The canal was a government undertaking. Isn't that the way you understand it?" "Never!" he shouted as he jumped at the cat. "Then how is it?" But BluFling Fails of its Purpose. "I refuse to say! If you think you know it all—and you accidentally do go ahead and have it your own way. What a fool a husband is to ever talk to his wife about anything beyond clothes and novels!" "Why, I don't see anything to get mad at;" she replied. "I just asked if you understood the canal question the way I did. We will drop it, of course, but I want to ask you about the issues put forward by Mr. Bryan hence he became secretary of state." "He's for America, of course," replied Mr. Bowser, being unable to think of any other issues. "Or he wouldn't be where he is, of course. What is his general policy toward other nations?" Mr. Bowser couldn't say. He hadn't read much about recent developments. As she waited for him to reply he decided that he must raise a row to save his prestige. Mr. Bowser Goes Up In the Air. "Woman," he shouted. "I have been insulted in my own house and by own wife, and don't propose to stand it. Instead of going to the club this evening and enjoying myself I stayed home to give you a few pointers to hide your ignorance, and this is my reward—this—this—this"— And he kicked over a chair, scared the cat half to death and sat down heavily on the divan. "Will you tell me what I have done?" quietly asked Mrs. Bower. "You have tried to make out that you—you"— "That I know more about the political situation than you?"— "That's it—that's your, old trick! While you don't actually know whether Woodrow Wilson or Jim Jones is president, you go on as gibb as if you'd read every line of politics for the last twenty years. Mrs. Bower—woman—you mark what I tell you when I say"— But he didn't finish. The doorbell rang, and, delighted at the interruption, he hastened down the hall to open the door. "Does Mr. Bowser live here?" queried a man who stood on the steps. "He does, but you can't gum game him for a cent. No cold victims, no old clothes, no cash. You'd better hump right out of this." 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MICRODON, VIRGINIA. $49,025.00 PAID OUT FROM Jan. 1, 1912 to Aug. 18, 1914 FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CONSIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK Brought Forward.....1914 326,300.00 January 19—John Adam, Sheffey, Summit Lodge, No. 80.4 January 19—Joseph Logan, Ebenezer Lodge, No. 116. January 19—John H. Kidd, Rescue Lodge, No. 4. January 26—Joe Fountain, Douglas Lodge, No. 69. Feb. 3—E. H. Armfield, Friendship Lodge, No. 3. Feb. 3—W. Kee, Lovely M. Lodge, No. 57. Feb. 4—Daniel Reil, Jonathan Lodge, No. 20. Feb. 7—Andrew McClannan, King David Lodge, 192. February 16—D. W. Davis, Plane Lodge, No. 23. February 17—Andrew William Jackson, Pride of Dante, 187 March 6—Henry Williams, Venus Lodge, No. 46. March 7—Alexander Brown, Benevolent Lodge, No. 34. March 10—James T. Brown, Myrtle Lodge, No. 17. March 16—W. A. Walker, Flying Eagle Lodge, No. 130. March 17—R. A. Shelton, Moravian Lodge, No. 13. March 17—Thomas A. Richardson, Golden Seal, No. 39. March 31—D. 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July 1—Albert Hughes, Macedonia Lodge, No. 59. July 1—Christopher Archer, Magic City Lodge, No. 181. July 8—John A. Walker, Capital Lodge, No. 81. July 20—Charles Manning, Pride of the East Lodge, 33. July 27—W. H. Burke, Rescue Lodge, No. 4. July 27—Moses Drew, Pride of the East Lodge, No. 33. July 30—Graves Walker, Morning Glory Lodge, No. 97. Aug. 1—A. S. Thompson, Pocahontag Lodge, No. 41. Aug. 8—William Taylor, Union Lodge, No. 92. Aug. 11—Fred. McGourel, Suffolk Lodge, No. 5. Aug. 11—Frank Chappell, Rising Star Lodge, No. 106. Aug. 11—Albert Roquomore, Langaton Lodge, No. 182. Aug. 18—Allen Booth, Magic City Lodge, No. 181. Brought Forward..... $13,475.00 1914 January 26—Clarkie Ball, Victoria Court, No. 22. $ Jan. 31—Josephine Western, Christian Light, No. 157 Feb. 3—Ola Wagstaff, Zion Travelers Court, No. 96. Feb. 2—Frances Carter, White Rose Court, No. 118. Feb. 2—Annie Clegg, Magic City Court, No. 82. February 17—Bottie Stewart, Randolph Curt, No. 150. 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That means agents al cover the field are hustling and ere ever ready to receive applica tons from the friends of thelr mnns ‘Mra. May Jordon, of South Boston - Righty appreciates and thanks the Company for paying hor claim. { The. Secretary and Genera! Man- “ager, Prof. B. H. Peyton has just returned from a successful trip tm ‘Trtewater and the following poople gounded the praises of the American throngh letters: Mrs. Rosa E. Par ham. of Suffolk, Mra. Martha T. Tate. of Suffolk, Mrs. Annie Chap- Dell, of Suffolk, Mr. Nelson Taylor. of Suffolk, Mrx. Bottle Wood, of Nor- folk, Va., Mra. Mamte Neal. of Ports mouth, Va. and Mrs. Mary Hoyett, tles expressed thelr great” pleamure and wished the Company greater success. » Mr. R. Ja Cox, of Lynchburg har not left a stone unturned in pushing Bis branch to the front, wid “Mrs. Anna Perrow and Mrs, Maria Smith extend to the American throuch him many thanks ant wish the pxblic to know that the American ix the Com- pany to Join. Mrs, Julia Berkley ‘now of New York extenda to ‘the American through a totter her kindest recardn and asks that tlie. putlic should know that this is the Company to pince their insurance. they having pald her mother so nicely during her sick- Hess and the death claim. Mr. §. Alexander. of South Rich- mond regelved many thanks fro:n palley holdera who have been pald nicely during sicknons and received their death claims, smong whont Mra Lena Mason thanks the com- pany for the denttr cinim of Minn Rens Maton. : "President, Dr. W. F. Grahkm paid a successful visit to Fredericksburs. spoke of the rood work the American 4s doing and our Manager, Mr. W. H. Hart received complimentary r- pulta therefrom. ‘The Gencral Superintendent. Mr. John W. Howard hax jost returned from Newport News aad Hampton where the people are speaking of |. he reat work of the American In hat section, and with the Rettins |: round among the many friende:. ‘there, the ‘agente will roach the | pany anxious callers. . ‘Mrs. ‘Aupa H. Brown called at the ice and received check for the |: jeath claim of her busband, Mr Zobert Brown, deceased, alno 3tre |: \ddie Wilson in scttlement of the « laim of Mr. Jacob Hickman. * They | oth wished the Company well and reater success. Mrs, Leanna: Williama roturos|t pany thanks to the Company for)t ho death claim of her daughter, (iss Lucy R, Willams, ‘ t Teenburg (Va.) Items. ‘Mr, Allen Valentine and his lads friend of Alexandria are visiting Mrr Henry Jackson, Sunday. Mra. Douglos Fisher, of Washing ton.is the guest of Mra, William Ro. derts the week end. We wore sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Charles Cravens, whoso funeral took place today at Ashburn, Va. An amiable lady much loved by all who knew her. We are sorrs to hear pf the Mnoss of Mrs. Mary Davis. Mr. Charles H. Ash and Malamo are all smiles. A fine baby boy has been born to them. . Mrs. Mary N. Scroggina made a flytng trip to Washington Th, raday. returning Friday. Quick, quick. a doctor! I have Just swallowed a penny. What. apend four to save a penny. That's the way with you women. > Misa Lizzie Blue. of Washington, pent the week end in town visiting hor -relativer. While here she was company with Mr. Richard Groy. Sho returned to Weshingtin Monday. Miss Oclo Grey. of Aldic, Va. is visiting Mw, John Helms, the week ond. -—Reportez. 7 Roanoke’ (Va.) News, Mr. and Mrs. Green Henn have rettirned home from Patrick county, where they have been visiting thoir relatives and old friends. Mra. Sarah Calloway, of 134-9th Avenue, N, W. met with « serious accident by falling from her wagon and dislocating her shoulder. ~ Little Holen Clarke, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clarke met with a painfol ncc!aeat Monday. August 21st, by falling from a stone wall, cutting herself severely. ‘Mr> George -W. Coleman, the Dir- trict Depnty of the St. Lakes, has retumed to tho city after visiting tho Grand Lodge of St. Lake, Milton N._C., South Boston, Norfoik, Va. ‘Wo are giad to see Mr. J. W. Beasley back in the city. ; Mrs. Cordelia Halltn, of New Yor visited her sister, Mrs. Nettle, Fer- guacn, of High street, Mra, Bam Clarke, of Christians- burg was called to the city on: ac- count ¢ the fliness of hor husband, Mr. Samuel Clarke: _ ‘Farmville (Va) News, ° Farmvild, Va. Aug. 31.—The abe oe mee eae ©... ot doves 6... and at, 5 3 , x geo... a . ie gS Hippodrome Theatre: : 4 —4 3 : Special Attraction. : #4-Four Days-4: Commences ‘Mon. Sept. 7: Matinee Mon. Labor Day? America’s most famous Play. : : Gh fades 3 INCE weg aM 3 * Om: S a a : $i es it + a ; an : ’ ‘| <r, 2 ‘Cabin. —_—_ : < : 0 eee 4 < 3 : In 5 Reels and 5 Acts. $ This Wonde rful Picture Will be Run 4 Days In addition 3 3s tolour regular Mutual Program. DON'T FORGET, + ~ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, % ‘< SEPTEMBER . z 2 7th--——— 8th —— 9th—-—. 11th & Sept. 10th. ‘THURSDAY Sept 10th $ : “THE $ *Milnon Dollar Mystery." Sa Rechs. “farm Reseanrs fait Rail“ sttronchee S Reeds und eaters, - FRIDAY & SATURDAY ¢ ” TWO NEW NIG FEATURES. | Watel for Maneuncement. aod 4 Rain or Shine tm. sw. nan xigtt, Rain or Shine $ g Hox Onice Opens at in staan, Yale’ Promptiy ats. M. x S anatisnion always” TU ant a0 eats. [tented fn larké numiters The Rev seemed to Lave been at his bee thraugh the dav The Mfth Sunday, Gwe day fer Mix fons, was henered by a liberal eon: trihutlon of cunemunteants — and trlends. Hey. Aduime will attend the Jot Carey Forefgo Miaxioy Convention, which convenes at Raleigh, N.C. and In expected to attend the National Baptist Convention, Mhlladel phis, Pa. the following wack Hey, Adame con fucted a revival at First Nottoway Baptiet Chureh, Nottowny county, Va. Twenty-one communicants were added to the church The revival meeting will besin In are Baptlat Church here the latter part of September or urine the morth of October, | Mrs Clara B. Mathews Rarnett. of Huntington, W. Va. after three yeurs absence, returned home accom: panied by her husband, Dr. Barnett The solo rendered by Mrs. Barnett and address delivered by the Doctor Sunday night at Firat Church were quite m treat to the congregation. Misa Evelyn Hairston “har hicen \isiting friends In Washington, D. C. and Warrenton, Va. She te ox- pecterl hothe In n few days, Mra, Kate Hairston ts expected to vialt Mra. Louisa Fifeks, of Cum herland county, Va. , Mex, Olle Gunn and Roberta Hig- xinbotham, of Lynchburg, Va. are visiting Mr. and Mex. Booker Fos- ter. of Grove street. Mr. Danfel Evans. of Washington. D.C. who has heen visiting mother and relatives, left for home this woek. « E Prof. R. I. Paige lett for A. and M. College. Greensboro, X. C. Minn ‘Addic Gatewood, of Riob- mond. Va. in visiting the Mixses Cousins, of Radford street. Mra. Alice and daughter, .Early Glover, of Boston, Mass. are visiting relations and friendx., Mrs. Edline Hatcher Fllpping, formerly of Danville, Va.. now of Brookiyn, X.Y. ie wiaiting Mr. and Mr. James Auntin, 7 Chambern St. +Mien Violet Moore hag returned from her visit.to Danville, Va. Mrs. Jennie Watson and baby, Vivien, are visiting fefends of Chare nity, Va. Mrs. Lacy Jeffrons in visiting lends at Charlotte.C. I, Va. Mr. Philip Hilton, late graduate of Lincoln University, is now in joxa City to enter Medical Echoot. Mra, Matitde Batter, of North trect had’ n fall several days ago. she in improving slo-viy. Mr. Charlie Evans, of Newark, N. an old Farmville boy, after 18° ears, has returved home looking he picturh of health. Miss Ethel Bowler, of Richmond, ‘a. hag returned Lome after revoral reeks’ ‘visiting friends here. . Drakes Branch (Wa.) Notes. Drakes Branct, Wa... Sept. 3,—The ordination of Mr. PhUlip Gum was a Driltient a@hir at St. Miieheel Cherch Suntey and breegki ont a larye pamber of peegts, Tie Cocadii ass THE RICHMOND PLANST; RIQHMOND: VIRGINIA; SATERDAY. taloed Res Bo. Untl Moderater Rev i Bo Ardecson, Catechiser: Rev JX Tanner. Secr'tiry , Others of the Coane! were Key, Edward) Dan- fel, Deaenn Clem Breen, Hewes De Miner and T.*H. Dally and A. HH. Keston. Mr. Gun via called by the Virst Baptist Chaich, of Elmont, Va. whore Deacon, Chestine Harris was present. The (au cidate passed with recommendation to attend school, Another candidate, L. G. Gaimer, wax present to take the examination, hat was met at the church by a letter which caused him or rather the chureh not to recejve him. The hatuce of the letter or tte writer wux mot learn. d. N wuatber of cases are on docket for Court, whieh js Monday | ig Notes From the Field. | + Of last ‘Thuraday ft was our pleaa- ure te be at Sunbury, N. C.. being resival serviews at the St. John A. Mo OR, Zen Chureh, Rev. F. R- Smith. pastor, Rev. Smith was alck In ved. The dutien of the pastor were performed by Rev. E, M. Gat- ing. Rev, Frank 1. Jones preached in the morning and evening. Our old friend. Rev. M. R. Roscoe, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa. was present. We hada nice time. Wo desire to congratulate the good people of Sun- bury on. the nice church building. On Saturday we were at our church viz, Lebanon Grove Raptiat. to 2 S. 8. outing or picnic. A large num- bor of people were present. ® Free dinner ‘was served, after which ‘a nice program wan rendered by atu- denta of the school and Miss Har- rell of Hinton Grovo 8. &.: Mr. W. Hf. Hoskins, of Center Hill 8. S. and Mine &. A. Savage, Mra. 8. D. Stall- ings and Mr. J. F. Beaman, of Reid's Grove S. 8. Wo had the service of a nice brass band. A aplendid time was enjoyed by ally Mr. John T. Ferguson, Supt. in ® grand young man. : . The fact that we have not been well for nome time accounts for the AMAT! sucenss of The PLANET. but help ue bulld a future succers. —J. F. B.. Arent. Partner Wanted. AN experienced Undertaker and Embalmer, having New Jersey and Virginia Ticense, destres_a partner to operate in either State. Address. W. J. GREENE, care Bell, 70 Weat 122r4 t., New York City. Do You Ksow Him? T' would like fo know the where- abouta of my son, Charlie Jackson, about 23 yosrs old. ‘Left home Jone 1910. Any information will be gratetally received by his mother, fe SUSAN JACKSON, Newwiett P. 0., z “i =» Joemever Os., Va. DDO FDESCSSOSEOSSOSS EP OOSSIPOUSSEOHGS FOO OHEY PE : i ‘ee eee Ret PIR Rare tt ese Ce ee ROS. ge ak i, + Sigh Re Ba RE + Boys’ and Girls’ Contest ir Than <titeis ieee bine a PRR eb es i ER Ne Es : . ' ‘ ol Ee Uc = a E TS: re = -READ THE INDUCEMENTS = * 3 3 _ and Goverg Yourselves. Accordingly.." ¢ = Open to All Children W 6 3 Open to All Children Under 16 Wears. 3 The Voting Ends Dec. 1st, 1914... 3 > ge x - . a . a ; At 12 o’ clock Midnight. . tno o SEES . a de 7 , . “3 so THE PRIZES: ; fo . . e 4 : FIRST PRIZE...Diamond Ring, Gold Watch or Boy’s or Giri’s Bicycie. The winner can $ a chocse any one of these prizes. [ee . a SECOND PRIZE -(loving Picture Lantern, Large Doli, Doi! Carriage, or Chiid’s Auto- 9 ~ moziie. The one receiving the second highest number of votes can choose any one of these ¥ prizes. Be x a . / $ THIRD PRIZE. Nit, Baii and Bat; Rolier Skates or Footdaii. The winner receiving the & a third highest number of votes can choose any one of these prizes. : s : & ig POURTH PRIZE «Hand Satchel, Automatic Toy or Engine. The winner of the fourth ? niguest number of votes can choose any one of these prizes. . o. ¢ BUEPTIL PRIZE. Electric Search Light. - . , o 2 “Por every advénce paying yeariy subscriber, a child wiii be aliowed 225 votes. For every % & Savence paying & months’ subscriber, a chiSd wil! be allowed £35 votes. For every advance ; & Paying 4 months’ subscriber. a child wili be allowed 45 votes.. For every advance paying 2 4 @ Mmor.ihs' subscriber, 2 chiid will be allowed {Svotes. For each back paying subscriber, a d, Chil wit be allowed one vote for each cent paid. 50 cents collected means 50 votes and soon. 4,, . For each job brought and paid for, the same allowance will be made. This includes 4, morey for job work, notices of any kind and advertisements. Votes will be published from 4 4 time to time. A fair race and no favors. Persons already listed at The PLANET Office wiki 2, be entered. . . = , Seeeceueemenina : ¢ THE PLANET 2 ° ; 3. 4 . : 4 , 3ll N. Ath St., Richmond, Va. 3: 5 git o The coupon will be found in another column of this. paper. ee Fi i a Bc Slo Bie hc Swichers Maia cases pecs rem aspera ied sarge ag, was devi, ees atin, at ics sees eas cas tz oz OM THE MOST POPULAR MINISTER... Rev W. oH. Sidpwith, Phjla.. 24,755 Rev, 1. J. Morris. ........ 624,620 Rev WP Graham, Phila... 8,165 Rov. S.C. Manuel Springnetd NMBA eee ee eee eee ee BMD Rev. W. T, Jofuron....,... 660 Rev. EM. Miteholl..2..522. 325 Rov. J. Gay Grant, Char- lattesville, Wa. cee ce eee ee 210 Rov. Irving HL Carpenter, far-, TinbUrE, Pa, wees eeeecee | 185 Rov. 8. S. Mortin..........+. 280 Rev. W. P. Carl, Norfolk..... 175 Rev. R. ( Adams, Farmville 176 Rev. A. S. Thomas.......... 148 Rey. WOH, Btokem. 0.50... 9B THE MOST POPULAR cw LADY. ; Mrs. E. V. Kelly, Norfolk. .732,255! Misw Marietta L. Chiles. .... 31.805 Mrs, Elin O. Wallesy....2.. -4,925 ‘Mrs. Eva B. Evans>.,.....,.. 1,405 ‘Min. Patsy Whitenburg, Po- Waaki, Va. cee ce eee tee ee 970 Mrs, Floyd Roas.......-+,++ 500 THE MOST POPULAR PHYSICIAN or DENTIST Dr. Albert ATennant,.....10,405 IME. R. Jefferson. .......- 4,726 Dr. George R. Ferguson, Char- lottonvitle; Va... ... 0.0% -2,670 Dr. Jamos B. Jacknor........ 230 Dr. J... Dawson... sseeee+ + 165) Dr. R. O. Mundin, .....+-.006 i THE MOST POPULAR FUNERAL DIRECTOR. A.D. Prica, +. - cc Robert C. Beott....seseeeeee $10 BOW, Murray. 0. 88K Tatar Maa oe. cs eseee ees 2968 G, W. Peace, Waverly. Va... 118: WT Jonnsop-......eeeee es 80 Lawser J. Thomas Hawa... - 160, el Uncle Tom‘n Cable. sal | ‘The Hippodrome Theatre, Second atreat, near Telgh street, has ob- tained -the: right to. exkfelt Unele Tom's Cabis. commencing, neat week with Matinee, Labor Day. The story 1s too well Kown to need repetition ere, This pone ae hee been on boards in poling. area eae , wet mae Real Estate Fur Sale. ~~" SRE es oe 4 room houne, N. 7th St. price, $800 9 room houre, N. Gth St:, price $3000 * room house, Catherine St. price $2500. 4S reom houxe, N. Sth St.,.price, $3000 § room house, N. 3rd St. price, 32000. 2 brick tenements, N. 2nd St.. price $5.00," 5 2 frame tenements, W. Leigh SF, price, $3500. 2 mmall houses, Witlamsburg Ave., price $2400, 7 Wo invite inquiries. » Prospective purcianers would’ do well to consult ux before buying. R.A. CEPHAS, cor, 2nd & Leigh Sts. eam, Do You Know Them? 1 would like to locate my aunts, Mra. Lucy Byrd and Mra. Kitty Ro- dernon, also Miss Sadie Roberts. Mrs. Dyrd lived at one time at 928 Weat Leigh 8t., Richmond, Va. and Mrs. Roberson at 1114 1-2 W. Moore &t. Minx Sadie Roberts lived near Second and “Byrd Sts. In 1899 she lived fp Newport News, Va. I think she married a Mr, Prank Sampson. of Newport News, Va. - 1 was born and reared in Rich- mond, Va., attended Baker School. Mins Litlian Hfarris- was my teacher. Having served a lurg time In the Army of the United States, I have Jost all trace of my kindred and friends and would be very grateful for any information concerning them. Address, ROXY GARNET, Co. G, 25th U. 8. Inf.” Lefishua, Oahu, Hawallan Islands. + a ‘ a Invitation to tho Htace-loyal Colored RRR - wd fen and Women of Virginia. |. Aw the representative of tho’ Na- onal. Independent Political Rights League for Virginia, it hecomes my duty to announce that the 7th an- ‘Aual meeting of the Leaguo will bo held fn the now odifice of the Bothel A. M. E. Chureh, New York City, Monday, “Tuceday'and Wodnesday, Sopt. 7, 8 ‘and 9, and degins Monday at two p. m. : . ‘Tho motive is to secure national Colored American organization for dofense of our rights, lives ‘and: H- berties. Any individual believing tn thiz effort is fovited to attend. Also ahy qroup of seven or more persons can send @ group delegate. Reduced. rates can. de sectred to Philadelphia ‘for ‘Nations! Baptiet genvention starting Sept. 6. Let sataba' of Virgintn be weil repre. Fer further ‘intermatjon write te zehe Mitesh, Jr. 311.6: ith M.; ‘Vi, Member of the Bee ettve Camméitses;: ~*~ - . Children's Free Matinee Ticket. SSeS TO EACH CHILD age . Presenting ONE of these COUPONS at BOX. OFFICE will be given a FREE TICKET to any Saturday Matinee. a = , : DIXIE THEATRE. It Was Good Advice. =“ A wildly turbulent peasant was once & witness in n trial before Chief Baron O'Grady, ‘Tlic counsel, after peatering him for some time, put a question to him which reflected on the witness’ character. } "Tf yo ax me that again I'll give ye a kick in the gob!” was the answer. | ‘Tha.counsel appealed to the court, stating that an answer-Wwas naceasary to his client's case, ending up with the query, “What would your lordship. advise me to do?” “If sod aro resolred to repeat the rent replied the court, "T'd advise you to more m little from the witness.” —Tondon Sail ‘The Mystified Father.. “Your son,” aid the schoolteacher, “ts very backward in bis studies.” vThat's funny,” mused the father. “At home, in conversation with me, he Seems to know it all.”—Philadelphia Nerth American. Kaiser Goes té Russian Front. The correspondent -of the London Express at The Hague wires to hir paper that Emperor William has gone to the Rossian front. “A dispatch to the Daily News from Romo declaros that news has been re- Ceives there for Bucharest. Ron manta, setting forth that the Russlans have-inflcted's crusbing defeat on the Austrians {0 Galicia, The Russians tn filcted ‘a loss of 20,000 on the enemy, who sought to cross the Vistula. Reports from Konigsberg indicate ghat the fortress still fs in Germso eae aeaeeaeaeReeRTa USES ALRERASAUNNNNITE Children's Free | See TO EACH CHILD ~agy Presenting ONE of t OFFICE will be given Saturday Matinee. : DIX REPS ITT TE EA ER EAE ES OES Marie's Princess itty OF Madame, On ressigt of $1.09, I will wall you, " A Boitte Marie's. Princess Hair On. 4 Rovtie Barte’s Vielst or Léine Weter A Jar of Barte’s Prinews er Cold Geode shipped by zetern mail. ” JAMES T, BASER Y. ©, Rex 900, . RUB . hands, slthough some of the Russian forces are sald to have rashed io on the heels of refugees and ‘occupied Darts of the city. : The tepror of the Berlin reatdents has been added to ty a report that Russians have declared that if they ever enter Berlin they will avonge the Belgians by doing to Berlin what the Germans d{¢ to beautifal, Louvain— Back it ayd then apply the torch. THY BETTER SELF. Be tree to thy better self. The noblest thing you ever did. the noblest emotion you ever felt, the Tove ever in your soul, that is your truc self still through all the baser life into. which . you may’ heve falls. —Phillps Brooks. Big Ones For Little Ones. sa Years ago there Hved a certain backwoods farmer who had « singular faculty for overiobking the most ob- ‘Yious things. Once .te swam his horse across a river and stopped at a house near by to borrow » buckst.- “I want to water my hoes down here at the river,” he explained. On another occasion he approached @ nelghbor aod surprised kim with the offer of a trade. : ; “Td like to swap my three big pigs.” bé sald. “for three Hetle pigs.” “What's that? demanded the as toniahed: neighbor. 5 “Well. you see,” answered the other, “my pige have got too big for thetr pen.”